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00:00But I felt that, I had a look at a few of his other jobs, he was a janitor, he was a bouncer at the doors, he also worked in a laboratory, and was a complete football fan.
00:09And sometimes you don't imagine someone as high up as a pope to have had a normal life, but it does make you realise, gosh, he was really a man who knew what it was like to be normal, I guess.
00:19And there is, as I've mentioned this when we chatted before, there's a tremendous Netflix show, a Netflix movie that's out there called The Two Popes, where you get an insight into Georges Borgoglio's life before he was Pope Francis.
00:30Because behind that cassock, behind the papal attire, is a man who was really deeply, before he entered the seminary, involved in the community, and he has himself referenced that his experience as a bouncer on the door, in fact gave him somewhat of an ability to be able to deal with people on a better level.
00:49So before he metaphorically guarded the gates of heaven, it seems like he was just manning the gates of a nightclub door in Argentina, but wonderful to hear these stories, and many people sharing these stories from the clerical world, but also from his personal life, who have known the man to be who he was before he was Pope Francis.