#760 Let me bore you to sleep - I AM SOOO WOKE - Jason Newland (2nd NOVEMBER 2021)

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome to Let Me Bore You to Sleep. My name's Jason Newland and I'm here as your servant for the next hour. I'm going to serve you up many, many delicious trays of various delicacies.

Maybe the odd memory here, the odd idea there, maybe something that I wish could happen in the future, maybe something like that, or just how I am in the moment. It could be a variety of different things. So please relax and settle down and just allow yourself to enjoy the pointlessness of the next hour.

Thank you very much. Only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And yeah, I'm sorry that was not a stupid introduction.

I come on up, I've done nearly 800 of these, I've got to think up different introductions. I can't even be bothered to sell my website anymore. If you don't know my website by now, the only people that shouldn't, that really have an excuse not to know what my main website is, are people that haven't been listening for long.

Because if you've been listening for, I don't know, a few weeks, a few months, I say the website at the beginning of every single recording, every single, since 2006. I don't want to say it anymore. I don't know.

Anyway, hello. I'm speaking probably louder than I normally do because I can't hear myself still. Not really.

I can't hear what I sound like. And I'm used to being able to hear how I sound. And I don't sound how I sound on a recording.

So when I play it back with headphones and edit it, it doesn't sound how I'm hearing it now. Normally it does. I'm very in tune with how I sound.

But at the moment with my ears, both my ears are at half power still. It's been like that since Wednesday. It's now Tuesday.

That's a long time, isn't it? To be heary. Heary? I don't know what the right word is. I've got to be emotional earlier.

I don't usually tell you about stuff like this. I like you to think that I'm big and tough, but I'm just big, big and fat, not big and tough. I just thought, so I play down things, you know, like, oh, if I lost my hearing or if it stayed like this, which would be major hearing loss, I'll be all right and it wouldn't bother me.

But I don't think that's actually the case. Because today, I was just sitting here and there was something going on outside. I couldn't hear what it was.

And I really felt, I don't know, for me, part of my self safety, I guess, is to be aware of my surroundings. Not in a like a nosy, busybody, neighbourly kind of way, but just just to make sure that everything's fine and I'm okay. And maybe a couple of people that I live near that live near here that are friends of mine, make sure they're okay.

But earlier I was hearing a commotion, it sounded like shouting. But I couldn't, it was just distortion. It was just distortion.

And it's really, I guess for a auditory person, which is what I am. I'm visual in certain circumstances and I like watching movies and looking at pretty things, but I'm not necessarily visual in a sense of appreciative of art. It might just be lack of intelligence, but I don't necessarily appreciate art in the way that a visual person would.

I don't do art, I don't draw, I can't really paint or draw, really. Although I used to love drawing. I don't know what happened there.

Not just now, I mean, but I don't know why I stopped loving drawing. I used to love it. I'm sit for hours, but I would draw things.

So I'd like a picture of that out of a magazine, like there'd be a Buck Rogers and it says my age, Buck Rogers TV show in the 80s or late 70s, early 80s. So I'd sit there and I remember one of my happiest memories as a child. And I'm going to, I'm going to get a little book and start writing down happy memories because I'm so prone to negative stuff, like remembering negative things.

And then that's, that's an outlook and that's the way the brain works. That's why my brain seems to work. But it's not very helpful.

I don't think I'm going to be able to remember more nice things because I can't really remember that many things in life, really, that I can think back and think, oh, that was great. I really loved that. But there must have been.

I started looking, maybe I'm going to start. Yeah, I might start doing that. Actually.

Yeah, that'd be a good, a little bit of a positive exercise for me to start doing. Anyway, that's that was just an aside. This memory of mine is.

Okay. Okay. It involves suffering.

So I kind of quite like that other people suffering so that you might think I scroll it's horrible, but it's okay. It was some brothers. So it doesn't count.

With me and my brothers, I had three brothers, two older, one younger. And whenever there was an illness, tonsillitis, et cetera, a cold, whatever, we'd all get it. It literally would be like dominoes, you know, like my oldest brother would get it.

My other brother would get it. I'd get it. And then my little brother would get it.

Eventually, whatever it took, I'd make sure he got it. And it's amazing. You can actually force yourself to sneeze.

You know, you can work it. So I'd make sure I sneezed in his direction as much as often as possible. If I had a cold, I was a kid.

Don't I'm not. I wouldn't do it now. I'm an adult, but I was, I was a little kid.

I didn't know any better. I'm joking. I didn't know that.

Anyway, so we all had chicken pox and having chicken pox was one of my favorite times of my childhood because I wasn't at school and I didn't like going to school. I was probably 11, 12, probably 12, 12 ish, maybe 13, 12, something like that. Might be even younger, but it's hard to remember.

But what I do remember is we were all stuck in the house me and my, my brothers. My dad was out at work and the, his wife was there looking after us. Was she? Yeah.

Looking after us. And we were all just chilling out. There's no arguments.

It was, I don't know what everyone just did their own thing. It was nice. Uh, and the good thing about it is I hadn't even got chicken pox yet, but I was kept in because both my older brothers had it and the school didn't want me going there because they, I needed to be isolated or something like that.

Yeah. So I, whenever I got bored, I could just look at my brothers and see them scratching and itching themselves. And it just cheered me up.

It was really a good time. It was one of my happiest memories. And also it was snowing.

Weird times to have chicken pox. It's you'd think it doesn't sound like a kind of a snowy kind of illness, does it? Maybe, but it was snowing outside and it's really nice and warm inside. So I think the fire was on and everything.

And it was just a really nice time. So I was reading lots, maybe watching television and, um, I decided my, my step mom was in the other room drawing and she was a brilliant artist, like drawer. Um, I don't know.

I can't remember if artistry extended to paintings. I don't remember. But as a drawer, she was amazing, amazing drawer, like with a pencil and paper and that sketch.

Is it sketching? I don't know. Drawer. Anyway, she's brilliant drawer.

And she did a level art when she was at school. So she, she was obviously good right from an early age. Anyway, she was doing it.

So I decided I wanted to do it. I wanted a copy. I already had my own pens and paper and whatever.

So I decided to draw and this is a story I've told before. So if you heard this before, you're going to hear it again. And I used to have this magazine that I'd get every, I think it was every week called Looking.

So I would all have two magazines or comics a week each. I'd get Looking and the Dandy. My other brother, a bit older than me, he'd get Whizzer and Chips and the Beano.

That's it. Yeah, the Beano and Whizzer and Chips. And my older brother, he'd get more older thing, like he'd get Razzle and Biggins.

No, no, no. He'd get Mayfair. No, not Mayfair.

I don't know what they're like. Roy, Roy of the Rogers or something. There was a football comic that older kids used to buy.

Roy of the Rangers or something. And another one which was all about war for some reason. And they were really popular back in those days.

So I used to read my brother's comics as well because he used to read mine. I used to read his. So I used to read Whizzer and Chips and the Beano.

I'm pretty sure, and this is the most irrelevant information you'll ever have. I'm going to check to see if it's true. I'm going to Google it.

I'm pretty sure Whizzer and Chips joined up with the Beano and got together as just one comic in the early 80s. Now, these are comics that have been around since probably before the war, the last war, Second World War. Let me check.

So let's just check. Oh, I'm so excited. Whizzer and Chips.

I don't even know if it's still around anymore. Whizzer and Chips. Oh, stopped in 1990.

So it's around from 1969 to 1990. Oh, blimey. Considering it was a comic around for that long.

The Wikipedia information about it is very limited. There's quite a few links, which is good, but some of the strips was Bell's Tent, Champ Duke. Again, I don't remember much of them because I didn't really take much notice.

Because for me, my one was the Dandy. And the Beano is the other one. I think the Beano is probably the most famous out of all the comics for boys.

You can't say that they were for boys. I'm sorry. Boys and girls had different comics in those days.

They were specifically looking was unisex. You know, it was aimed at if it might be aimed at girls, there's a hell of a lot of pick pinups of young men and boy bands and stuff, which I liked. So but Beano, because for the girl comics, girls comics, I like the idea that people get really angry.

Comics just for girls. Comics. Oh, wow.

Yeah, I think you got to go back. Girls comics of yesteryear. Here we go.

Here we go, Bunty. See, for those above the ages of probably 40, maybe 30 even. I don't know about 30.

I don't know how long ago they kind of stopped. Diana. Blimey, I don't remember that.

And it wasn't Diana, Diana, Princess Diana. I don't think it was. So look, this is like the 1960s or 1950s or so.

It was just good luck that Nikki, M and J spellbound. Oh, I remember Bunty. Why annuals, blog post stories, picture libraries, specials, creators, annuals, Bunty, Debbie, Diana, Judy, Mandy.

Wow. So it was named after girls names, female names. Not necessarily.

Man can be called Diana. Yeah, sure. Okay.

There is an actor called Susie Q. Nikki for girls actually says it on there for girls. It says on the comic. Yeah.

Don't ever go at me. It says it on the comic. It says for girls.

Blimey. Stop writing in. I can't help it.

It's not my fault. I mean, I'm as angry as you are. I've never been angrier.

I'd love to really get angry about stuff like that. Can you imagine if he was if he was going to live long enough to have time to get angry about everything? You didn't use the right pronoun. I imagine if you're really going to live long enough to get that to have that time to Tammy Rusty Staples.

Hell is that? Rusty Staples. Wow. So you got that boys comics.

Let's have a look at boys comics, boys comics. So there were ones that I didn't read. But never mind.

Let's have a look. Boys, boys. Okay, if I just put images, I'll come up on it.

The boys. Okay, right. It's so it's amazing.

These days, like if you put boys comics four years ago, it would have come up with lots of different things. Now there's an actual TV show called the boys which is made for comics, which is very popular. And now that's all you get.

Banana Man. I just don't remember that. I remember Banana Man.

I just don't remember being in the cat in the comic. Nasha was obviously friends with Dennis. So you're Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx.

She also wore the same sort of clothes. The Bash Street Kids. Billy Whiz.

Plug. Pie Face. I don't remember Pie Face.

Some of these characters would be added. Added. And, you know, probably later on, past my reading the comic times.

Walter. So I don't remember Walter. Meet the Beano Superstar.

No, it's a meet Cuffbert. Yeah, Cuffbert. I remember Cuffbert.

Why are they not Cuffbert? He was the teacher, wasn't he? The Bash Street Kid who just wants to be teacher's pet. Cuffbert. That's so funny.

Blimey. Okay, so that's the Beano. You're interested in the dandy, aren't you? That's what you're interested in.

I don't know why I'm going on. So, okay. Here we go.

You ready? Because it's basically comic strips. You had a different story each week. And with the dandy.

Corky the Cat from 1937 to 2005. Wow. Keyhole Kate.

Ah, now that wasn't in it when I was next. It says original run from 37 to 55 later ran from 89 to 93. So I didn't never got to sue that because my period would have been I started reading it what 19 probably 77 78 when I was about eight years old and stopped reading it probably 2014.

So yes. I don't know what year 85 84. I should really say 80 shouldn't I but it did go on longer.

84 83 82 83. I don't know. I'm not sure.

I can't honestly. I'm not sure. All I know is I had years and years and years worth of magazines and I had them all in order all in order.

So I remember once it was the FA Cup final and there was me and my oldest brother in the house. It's all just me and him. I don't know where everyone else was.

It was a Saturday afternoon. He was watching it. I was watching it as well.

I wanted to be like him but my oldest brother was like my hero for some reason. I don't know why but I just wanted to be like him. I did.

I did. I just did. That's just the way it is.

And so I used to there was quite a period of time when especially there was such an age difference that he didn't really want anything to do with me because I was I couldn't hang around with him and his friends. I couldn't hang around with my other brother and his friends. They didn't want me around.

Even my own friends didn't want me around. So I kind of took any opportunity I could to spend a bit of time with him when I could. So this is that one of those times no one else around and so I figured you could watch you could sit in there if you don't make any noise.

So okay so what I ended up doing I got a bit bored actually because just I just didn't wasn't really interested in football. So I got all my comics and brought them down from my bedroom into the toilet into the toilet downstairs on the bottom floor and I probably spent about an hour and a half organizing them all. Longest poo ever and yeah I just remember that.

I don't know why. Keyhole Kate. So Keyhole Kate not relevant.

Desperate Dan. The for me probably the most famous character above Corky the cat but equal billing. Jimmy and his grockle.

What? No I don't remember that. I don't remember that. The tricks of Tommy.

Again these are ones that were only around for a few years that were never Jimmy and his crockle was 1937 to 1946. Nope. Our gang 37 to 47.

So that's a bit rubbish. This is like I want to know what was going on in the 80s. I don't want to they're going through every single character they ever had ever which to me it's not really what I want.

I want the cover stars. Maybe that'll give me. Nope.

Excuse me. Corky the cover stars. Corky the cat.

Desperate Dan. Cuddles and dimples. Jack.

Harry Hill's real life adventure in TV land. 2010 to 2011. Again I don't know if I could read it now.

I know it's not really aimed at me but I don't think it ever was really aimed at me. Freddy the fearless fly. I don't know why that again it wasn't on there when I used to read it.

Magic Mike and his magic shop. 1937 to 38. Smarty grandpa.

Nope. I'm just going to go down to play ones that were around when I was around because this is crazy. This is like going back to 1950.

This is during the war. During the war. During the war.

Derek. Hotel boy. Rodney.

You scoundrel. I just said I didn't want an Impa Burger. The only credit got me an Impa Burger.

Sorry I'm just. It's going through years so I'm going to go down to the years I was watching. Reading.

75. Peter's pocket grandpa. Tom tin and muster brass.

Buster brass. Ra ra randall. Okay this is 78.

Tom tum. I don't remember that. Bertie Buncey and his chemical uncle.

Harry and his hippo. Dave the brave. Dumbbell.

Remember Dumbbell. The hairy gang of robbers. Big chief itchy snitch.

Mickey the mouth. And the bird. Dynamo.

I remember Dynamo. And that's from 83 onwards. Wow I'm still reading it in 83.

When I was 12 or 13 depending. The bird. Jolly Roger.

Yep. Jolly Roger. Ham and egghead.

Mitch and his mummy. Cuddles and dimples. Okay so there's quite a few that started many years earlier and carried on for years and years.

I'm only interested in the main characters. Oh and the next question is answered on here. Who were.

Who is the main character in the dandy? Desperate Dan. The main characters is what I want. Comic book the dandy.

TV tropes. Isn't tropes a word that people use negatively? Isn't it? Tropes. Okay.

A word or expression used in a figurative sense. Figure of speech. A common or overused theme or device.

Cliché. The usual horror movie tropes. A phrase or verse added as an embellishment or interpolation to the sung parts of the mess in the middle.

What? An example of a trope. The phrase stop and smell the roses. And the meme we take from it is an example of a trope.

Okay. So I've not used tropes. I've not really heard the word trope used until recently.

I just remember one of the. Oh it's loud isn't it? My. One of the things I did.

I copied my brother when I was 16. I might be 15 or 16 and I. He started wearing a trilby hat. So I copied him.

I started wearing a trilby hat as well. And it's quite weird. That as I saw him wearing it.

Not one part of me could. Not one part of me looking at him thought. How ridiculous he looked.

And I wanted to look like that. Now I personally don't think he looked ridiculous. But I know I did.

Now if I'd have seen him. If I'd have looked at him and thought that's ridiculous. Then I wouldn't have bought it.

But I think he had more of the clobbering hair. I think he had long hair by then. And he.

He was tall. I think he's. I don't know how tall.

A hell of a lot taller than me. I'm probably. Is.

I'm around his chest neck area. Like the bottom of his neck. That's about my head height on him.

So he's a lot taller than me. Yeah I don't know how tall he is. Probably not that tall.

But a lot more. 6'3". Maybe 6'4".

I don't know. All my uncles had kids that were really tall. Like good 6'5".

6'6". Some of them. Both my uncles.

One passed away last year. He was well over 6'0". As was the other one.

Is the other one. But my dad is about 5'10". I'd say.

Maybe 5'11". 5'10". Something like that.

Though he has shrunk he's told me. Yeah I started hearing tropes used quite a lot during. There was this thing in the Labour Party about anti-smiting or something.

Anti-smiting each other. And anti-Semolina. Something I don't know.

But they kept talking about tropes. And for some reason in this country. And I don't know why.

Broadcasters. Politicians. Anyone that gets a chance to be on radio or television.

Likes to reuse the same words. Use the same words in the same sentences. You could say the same tropes.

In fact. And for a while using the word tropes was constantly being used. For you know quite a few months.

And because it was always being used in connection with negative conversations such as racism and stuff like that. Then it was a negative term. But tropes is not a negative term.

As I said it's just an example of a cliche. A cliche is not a negative. Stop and smell the roses.

It's not negative is it? If anything it's probably one of the first really positive things. I mean you could say that anything's a trope. If it's used enough.

By definition. I'm drinking an orange juice. Oh trope-a-licious.

So yeah there's a lot more to do with troping. But I can't be bothered because I'm not interested. Well I am kind of interested actually.

I do actually want to talk about it. But I'm going to keep talking about the comics. The thing that I liked.

The thing that I liked the most. Is. Look in magazine.

Because it was. It was. It was like a. A lifestyle magazine really for children.

In a sense of. It had. I think it actually had the TV listings in it at some point.

I think. But they would talk. They'd have.

They'd talk about movies. The charts. The songs in the charts.

Stuff that's on television that's popular. As well as popular sports. Celebrities.

All that kind of stuff. I would say. I would say that look in magazine was well ahead of its time.

That's what I would say. It's very educational. Informative.

And a damn good read. Plus you could have pictures and pull them out. Of.

Celebrities and stuff so. For example Sharon Davis. The Olympic swimmer.

Had her on my wall. I'm trying to think what else. No I think it was just her.

No I didn't. I had. Ants.

Oh other things I had in there. The lyrics to songs. So Adam the Ants would bring out Prince Charming.

In whatever year it was. 82 or whatever. And so there'd be a whole big article on it.

There'd be a poster that you could take out. That you could put on your wall. But also there'd be the lyrics of the song.

There'd be a huge promotion for people to. For the kids to buy the songs I guess. There'd be an interview with the band or with the singer.

And all the lyrics to the song. And I used to walk around. Yeah especially when I was young.

So probably. 9, 10 ish. So it'd be like 79, 80 area.

And I'd walk around the park. Around the school yard. We had a big field.

So I'd walk around a big field. Playing field. Not just a random field.

With tractors. It was a field connected to the school. By ground.

I mean. We even had a swimming pool in that school. Really good school.

Best school I ever went to was that one. It was called Deben. No it wasn't called Deben.

It was called. Oh my heart. No it's called.

I've forgotten the name of it. I think the schools I went to. Langer.

Causton. How could it have gone out of my head? So in that town I went to 1, 2, 3, 4 schools. From the ages of 7 to whatever 15.

So I moved. So I went there. And then I moved.

And I went there to a different one. And then I went to a different one. The next year.

So I didn't really stay in one school for long. And then I stayed in that one. Damn it.

The best damn junior. To be fair. All the junior schools were good.

They were. I can't complain. It's only when I went to high school that I hated school.

Before that I was happy with school. Honestly I had no issues with school. It was fun.

Just messing around. I wasn't great with other kids maybe sometimes. But maybe said the wrong thing.

Did the wrong thing. But I think you can kind of get away with being a weird. Easier when you're little.

Then once you start. I think once the pubes start growing. You almost.

Especially when they're kind of growing out of your head. And out of your ears. And you're like 12.

And you're like. Oh god. What am I going to do? I'm going to look like a pineapple.

But no. I think once. There's a certain way that we should act and behave.

Once you get to high school. There's a much more pressure I think. To behave in a certain way.

And oh. It's never going to do that. Never have.

Never will. Really. I pretend.

I learn how to. But you know. Not really my thing.

Junior school. If you weren't academically minded. Or weren't interested in academic stuff.

The schools I went to seemed to be fine with that. Just. As long as you make a little bit of an effort.

And they were all kind. All the teachers were nice. I don't remember a horrible teacher.

And I would. That's the thing. If I. There's only one horrible teacher.

And that was a headmaster in the last school. Not the high school. The junior school I was in.

And never had a run in with him. And then one day. For some reason.

I was just wandering around. I can't remember where I was going. To be fair.

I probably went to the toilet. And I got distracted by a fly. Or a moth.

And was just following around. Or something like that. Anyway.

The teacher. Must have. Had to be in a bad mood.

Grabbed me. Pulled me into his office. And started hitting me with a slipper.

I ask you. Who takes their slippers to school with them? Weird. And.

But yeah. It's like. Forget.

And I never. Ever got the cane. Or anything.

When I was at high school. No matter what I did. No matter what I said.

No matter how rude I was. Or disruptive. I never got the cane.

So. That was the only time. That I remember a teacher.

Ever. Striking me. And.

It didn't hurt. So it didn't bother me that much. But it bothered me like.

Why? It's just one of those weird things that happen. And I don't know if the teacher was getting their rocks off. And getting a quick fix.

And then locking the door. I don't know. Who knows.

Why adults like to hurt children. I don't know. But.

That was weird. Because I hadn't done anything. Now.

And I was pretty good at them when I was in junior school. I was a good boy. I didn't cause trouble for no one.

I got into fights. And everyone gets into a few scrapes and stuff. But I didn't do anything.

I was never rude to a teacher. I didn't know I could be. That's the only reason.

Didn't know I had permission. To be rude to a teacher. Honestly.

Didn't know. Didn't even think about it. Didn't feel the need.

None of the teachers wound me up. Even the ones that were. A little bit stuck up themselves.

Even them didn't bother me. There was one teacher. And he was always going on about.

This is in junior school. This is when I was. Up to the age of 11.

So I left there when I was 10. And then when I turned 11. I went to high school.

So that's the age. That was then at 10. And he kept going on about buying British.

Honestly. This is like 1979. 1980.

Buy British. Don't want to buy from those horrible French people. Honestly.

How did he get away with saying stuff like that? He wouldn't now. I don't think. Mind you.

Back in those days. It was acceptable to be racist. So it was just normal.

Socially acceptable. Teachers could be. Parents were.

Not all of them I guess. But you know. It's just that TV was racist.

It's just those all. Homophobic. Sexist.

Oh that's what the 70s was. Maybe not in your country. But in England.

On our TV. It was. It was.

Everything. It was. Honestly.

The amount of stuff that they won't show anymore. On TV. Because of the time.

It was the times. That's what. That's what it was like back then.

It's true. It was what it was like back then. But.

I don't know what it would be like. Because. I've never been.

I don't really. I guess being a marginalized person. You know.

I've never been brought in. Lived in a predominantly white country. I have lived in predominantly non-white areas of the country in the past.

Non-English places. Like East London. That was.

You can't say that here. No statistically. Statistically.

When I lived there. I think white English under the. Because they do.

The what's it's don't they. The general consensus things. I think we were something like 14 percent of the people living in the area that I was living in.

Were actually English. Like born English. So yeah.

But that's not where I was born. Well it was where I was born. But that's not where I grew up.

So I grew up. When I grew up in the 70s. Let's say 77 onwards.

I was in a predominantly white area. Predominantly English. I never didn't know any foreigners.

And so I didn't have that. I didn't know what it was like to have that. That.

I don't know what it is. The. That kind of.

To feel marginalized. To feel an outcast. To see be it myself being mocked on a television.

You know. Because. It must have been horrible.

You know. I don't give it much thought. But.

It must just. Yeah. However.

There was a lot of very clever stuff. Where the characters were being educated. Let me have a drink.

Sometimes only water shall do. There was a TV program. It was a comedy.

A sitcom called Love Thy Neighbor. And it was. From the outlook.

If you looked at it from the outlook. It was out and out racist. Horrible to watch.

But. So there was a black couple moved in next door to a white couple. And he's Jamaican or something like that I think.

They're Jamaican. And the character next door is like racist to him. I think they might even work in the same place.

I'm not sure. But they end up being friends. So although he's racist to him.

And he's all horrible to him. When he first gets to know him. And they're arguing.

And as it goes on. When he sees other people being horrible to his neighbor. He stands up for his neighbor.

Now that's. I think that's lost in translation. Because all people are going to see is the initial.

The words that are being used to start with. Which is unacceptable. So you know.

But. Although. Therefore.

It could be. It could still be done without those words being used. You know.

You don't need to have. Out and out. But that's what it was like.

That's what the 70s sitcoms did. A lot of them. It was.

There is one. It ain't half hot mum. It ain't half hot mum.

Which was a huge success in the early 80s. Late 70s. Early 80s.

I'm not sure. And it's basically. A sergeant major.

In charge of. A bunch of. Army people from.

I think they're stationed in India. And they're like a cabaret band or something. Well.

The language that's used in that. I mean. That's a show you'll never see again.

They'll never show it. Ever. And it was massive.

Just to. Just to think. 40 years ago.

I know that's a long time to some people. But it's quite a long time to me really. But.

40 years ago. That was. It wasn't just acceptable.

It was. Encouraged. Now that hasn't been acceptable for.

You know. For a long time. That kind of.

Stuff. Really since the 90s. See the 90s still had quite a bit.

But. The main one was. Till death do us apart.

With Alf Garnett. I've talked about him before. And.

Again that was. In the first. It was.

Till death do us apart. And the other one was. There was two shows.

Both the same character and his wife. One was in the 60s. And the next one was in the 80s.

And the one in the 80s. Basically. He was old.

He was old in the first one. But in the second one. He was a lot older.

His wife was elderly. Needed care. You know.

Health care. And the health carer was a black man. Who happened to also starred in.

Oz. You know. TV show Oz.

In the prison. He's one of the stars in that. So.

They put him in a situation. Like the worst possible situation. For.

A bigot. Is. This.

You know. To have a carer. From.

With. You know. In that situation.

But. And he just took it. It kept flipping on its side.

And again. He defended him. When someone else attacked his carer.

He like at one point. You leave my carer alone. And it came to his defence.

And. I don't know. I think some people.

Will. Some people. Can really learn.

From watching stuff like that. Can learn. I don't know why.

I'm talking as my voice is going. Because my voice is basically going. I've done too much talking.

An hour a day of talking is too much. Can't do it. Oh man.

Yeah. It's very strange. That show.

Very strange. What I feel always came across to me. Is.

All he wanted. Like Alf Garnett. He wanted someone to agree with him.

That's all he really wanted. He was angry. He was an angry person.

And he wanted someone to blame. And. You know.

As we all know. It's easy to blame someone that. Someone else.

Basically. It was one of those people that needed someone to blame. Now if you're able to get to a point where you don't need to blame anyone.

Then. That kind of hatred does seems to. Drop off a little bit.

I guess. But yeah. It's a very strange show.

I watched it. I used to like it. Like.

Oh. You just said it's racist. Now you say you used to like it.

Yeah but. You don't understand. The person that wrote it.

It was laughing at him. Now a lot of people would watch it. Because of what he was saying.

But in a sense. That was funny. Hearing someone.

Raging on and on about complete nonsense. Is funny. To me.

And to a lot of people. Regardless of what they're saying. Or how horrible it is.

It's hilarious. Because the more they go on. The more stupid they sound.

If you hear a racist person spout on. About. Let's say Brexit for example.

Or something like that. It's the funniest. Most.

Dumbest thing you'll ever hear. And so. Let's go back to the word tropes.

It's almost like. They just press play. And they've got this little tape recorder.

It's just regurgitating the same stuff. That they've heard other people say. And it's like almost verbatim.

Word for word. That's what verbatim means. I know.

And it's just. I think it's funny sometimes. Just ridiculous.

Absurd. I hope this chest infection or whatever it is. Goes soon.

I woke up this morning at six. Got up. Had me breakfast.

I went to bed about 11 or 12. I think yesterday. And.

I was up for about an hour. Hour and a half maybe. And then.

I went back to bed. Woke up at three thirty. Three thirty.

In the afternoon. I thought what the hell. That's the most I've slept in one go.

I know I've spent a lot of time in bed. But I'm never asleep for long. I've been like just.

More days of just. Days and nights of just lay in there sweating. Lovely.

But this is weird. I had a proper fell asleep. And I woke up and I felt awful.

And I thought no. I don't want to wake up feeling worse than the day before. That's.

It's going in the wrong direction. No. So I had a cup of tea and had something a little bit to eat.

Again. I haven't had a meal at all for over a week. And actually I just had bits.

Bits of toast and breakfast cereal. And you know just whatever. Bits of pizza here and there.

Well tonight. I had a. A frozen lasagna. And I gobbled the whole thing up.

Didn't even cook it. I just. No no no no no.

I did cook it. That would explain why I keep getting ill. And I ate it.

So it was my first. It wasn't a big meal. It was a Weight Watchers one.

And I couldn't taste it very much. Because my taste buds are still. Not really back.

Haven't got coronavirus so. Apparently. But hey.

There you go. But I'm not asking for advice. Because everyone's a doctor these days.

Everyone's got advice haven't they. Like. Oh you should get.

Get yourself a test. Get yourself a test. Or if you don't get a test.

Then you might give it to other people. Guilt trip. Guilt trip.

So you get a test. Oh it's negative. But you can't.

You can't believe the tests. Tests was wrong anyway. Government's rubbish isn't it.

I can't win. What was the point. What are you telling me.

It's like whichever direction you go. People have got an answer for it haven't they. But just stop with your opinions.

You're not doctors. Leave me alone. Honestly I had about five people telling me.

Oh you should get a test. Or don't bother with that test. Do a different test.

No you don't. Tests are wrong anyway. You should do five of them.

You know there's other. There's lots of bugs going around at the moment. Why do people bother saying that.

I saw a mill. Yeah there's people. Other people are real as well.

Yeah I'm guessing they are. I'm not focusing on them right now. If you don't mind.

I'm focusing on me. It's like. What's the point.

I fell down the stairs. I bet other people have fallen down the stairs today as well. It's that useful information to me right now Mr Paramedic.

No. Anyway. That's it.

I'm gonna go and be watching something on telly. I'll tell you what it's called. The Outlaws.

It's on BBC One. It's on a BBC One player. iPlayer.

And it's written by Stephen Merchant and someone else I don't know. Not that I actually know Stephen Merchant. But you know I know of him.

I'm a fan of his. It's really good. Good show.

It's very good. Never seen anything like it before. Which is what I like.

I like stuff that's a bit unique. Yeah before you go Jason can we just hear the contents of your nasal passage please. Yeah.

Is that nice. Thanks. Thanks.

Yeah. Now we can all throw up. Lovely.

Brilliant. Sorry everyone. I got a bit of a cold.

I don't know if I mentioned it. This ain't a cold. This is something else.

This is something else. Altogether. But hopefully I'll feel a bit better tomorrow.

And then the next day. And then by the month. End of the week.

Not the month but end of the week. I should feel much better. I should be very happy.

And then perhaps I can get back to proper proper work. Not work but you know get back to doing a bit a few more new recordings. New new new recordings.

I've been doing some revamped old archived recordings that a lot of people would never would have heard of. Never heard before. But I did music.

So they'd never been heard of music before. So I've been doing that. Been uploading a few of those a day.

And it's I mean if you go on the player the podcast player you won't even have access to those old recordings. You do if you go to my website you can. Everything goes way back way way way back.

But it's a case of if you're willing to do the the whole of that big leap to typing in Jason Newland dot com it's a if you are then you can find early episodes of this podcast to let me bore you to sleep. Like the very first one where it's more of a hypnosis recording than anything else. And then gradually I just start talking crap for no reason.

And here we are 100 years later number 700 and blimey I don't know 700 and how many 48 was it 748 749 7 this is 760 number 760. So that's not too bad is it. Mustn't complain.

760 Wow. Right. That's it.

I want to go. So remember to check out all those racist TV shows from the 70s and the 80s. Blimey.

I don't know what it is. I just I find it. I find interest in all that stuff in a social side of things and how things have changed because I'm not really as aware of the woke stuff like they used to call themselves woke.

Actually on the last night of the comedy club closing the very last night my friend who owns the club invited me to come along and it was basically a free bar which guaranteed all the comedians in London turning up and I saw faces from the past faces from people that you know I used to know in the early 90s people that I used to work with even and then there was I met a few new people and one comedian was talking to me and he introduced me and let's say what kind of what kind of

comedy do you do because it's different styles of comedy some people are political some people it's just that I think I might have asked something I think he might have just told me that I'm a woke comedian I said oh okay cool I had no idea what it meant I genuinely didn't know what it meant like I'm a woke comedian and this was blimey five years ago so you know he was he was ahead of the game baby this is long before you know it's the word woke was used in mainstream and it is used

as an insult generally by a majority of you know calling someone woke it's not a compliment generally is it by the majority of people in the country for some reason I don't understand it I don't understand so therefore I can't comment but I think I would have had more to say about it if I was in my 20s I would have ranted on about it I really would I was uh it would have bothered me it's just hard to remember imagine if every single person that you meet says yeah I'd like to be referred as

he he him and it or it's what and shat or whatever whatever pronouns you want to be referred to as how are we supposed to remember each and every person if you're going to meet them again you'd have to actually have a book and write down if you cared that much I don't but if someone cared that much to not offend another person by using the correct pronouns for that person's individual um happiness I suppose but it's got to be really complicated and I've had to it's taken years there's still words that I go to

use and remember I can't you know I'm pretty good I'm pretty good I am I'm I'm better I'm I reckon I'm above average with and that probably a lot of that was to do with you know being a Buddhist for so long and I had a lot of my uh normal vocabulary kicked out of me spiritually you know you cannot use that word here you cannot use we do not like that language here like oh okay okay didn't realize um so you know over the years I've kind of got a bit better a little less

aggressive than that but nah just I can see how it's difficult for the older generation older than me to be told suddenly uh you know you can't use the word midget if you use that word all their lives and it's never been derogatory not really unless you cause if you call someone that isn't a midget a midget then that's when it's derogatory not calling a midget a midget although it's little people isn't it or is it dwarfs now to me that's derogatory Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs calling someone a name from a cartoon you

know but I'm not I'm not the the police of that I don't police it or make up the rules I just ignore them but other words um I'm trying to think of some words that what was it igloo people igloo people lived at igloos what are they called or what did they used to be called now they've got a different name ain't they so luckily I can't remember the original name so it's okay this is that this is so much correction going on all the time and most people that use the maybe politically incorrect terms

I'm not doing it out of any kind of malice or anything just doing it because I ain't got the time or the energy to learn all these new phrases because they're busy working living raising a family well it's an excuse not to educate yourself is it educating yourself though pleasing a bunch of people it's that education because those words will probably change in 20 years someone will come along and say well that's actually offensive as well the world's never going to run out of people to be offended there's always going to be offended people always

which means I'll always have a job because I love offending okay I wonder what my life must be must be very difficult for someone who I saw that I can't really tell you this if there's a scene I saw and it's in this film I I've never seen the film before I can't tell you really it was funny but it was at the same time it was wrong so it's like well you can't do you can vote you condone what happened or I don't condone anything I'm not responsible for anything anyone does including myself but

this woman was this having a go at a man in a graveyard and everything he said to her she came back like don't mansplain to me don't really it was just it was like it was a bombardment and it was a very awkward but very kind of laugh out loud funny and something that isn't normally funny I just found it I don't know it was some random film that you'll probably never see so don't worry but it was just like wow that's that's one way to go it's not a way I would choose to go

in that situation but it's like wow she's yeah that was a very just very unusual scene I've never seen anything like that in a film before but there you go it's a bit annoying I can't really tell you exactly what because it almost sounds like I thought it was good but it wasn't I thought it was good I just I thought it was quite realistic to be fair because you know if you get someone on the right if you get someone on the wrong occasion and start blurting out that stuff and being that awkward and

confrontational it's gonna not get you in a it's not gonna win your friends necessarily I don't know because I'm an expert on winning friends me yeah Jason can you please get back to talking about the dandy we're waiting I want to know what happened next what happened what about the picture you're gonna did you did you draw a picture did that happen does anything ever end you don't ever end the story any centre you just go on and on and you go off somewhere else why can't you complete a story just once okay I will

complete this story the picture it's snowing we've got you know um not the measles the scabs anyway we were scratching the scabs and stuff and I decided to draw a picture of Buck Rogers in the 25th century out of looking magazine and I drew it I spent about three hours drawing it laying on the floor those are the days when I could get out from the floor took it to my stepmother and she said that's nice I said can you tell who it is she said it's Elvis from then on I didn't draw another picture

that was it after all that energy and effort it looked nothing like Elvis I said look where's the toilet can you see a toilet anywhere she said what are you talking about I said you know nothing you know nothing about the art and I walked out I was wearing a nice little pink dress it was lovely should have seen it I had to take it off when my dad got home because he wasn't um quite as open-minded but hey anyway I'm gonna go thank you very much everyone for listening have a lovely lovely woke sleep

everybody and I'll speak to you awoke sleep that's that's the opposite isn't it um have a I'll speak to you soon remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy lots of love bye