#822 Let me bore you to sleep - BRUCE LEE & OTHER TOPICAL NEWS - Jason Newland (17th APRIL 2022)

Hello, hi and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My name is Jason Newland and you can find all of my recordings from the past on jasonnewland.com. That's with the three W's beforehand, or rather, it's kind of a ghost website.

Yeah, so hi, hope you're well, hope everything's fine and uh, today is Sunday the 17th of April 2022. I'm recording this at 9.58pm. Well I'm starting the recording at 9.58pm. So I'll finish about 11 and I'll upload it. So it should be all uploaded by, edited and uploaded by about half 11, maybe 12, you know, before midday, midday, midnight.

Yeah, that's it. So I'm just have a look on my YouTube channel. Wow, the last video I did was 10 days ago, would you believe, on YouTube.

Blimey, 44 views. I'm a superstar. Yeah, so it's Easter Day today, Easter Sunday, and tomorrow is Bank Holiday Monday, Easter Monday.

And not to the exact date, but um, eight years ago today on Easter Sunday, I mean Easter Sunday is different days every, every year. It's not the same date every year, unlike, you know, Christmas Day being the 25th of October or whatever. So this is, it's a different Sunday, but this Bank Holiday weekend, I think it was the, I think Thursday, well okay, basically the Tuesday, which would be this coming Tuesday, after the Bank Holiday, I viewed this flat for the first time.

I viewed it and accepted it, you know, to be my new home. Eight, yes, eight years ago, eight, eight. Let me repeat.

No, really? Or was it seven? You know what, I think I've got the wrong, that the wrong amount. I think it's seven years. No, it's not eight years, is it? Blimey.

It was 2015. Wow, why am I thinking eight years then? I know why, because it's a different thing I had in my head. No, it's seven years.

Is that right? So 2015, the Tuesday after Easter, I came and looked at this flat, and it's now Sunday, so tomorrow will be Monday after Easter, and then it's Tuesday. So it's seven years, not eight years. I'm glad about that, because I just feel a year younger for some reason.

There's no logic behind it, but I just, oh, it's only seven years, not eight. So 2015, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Okay, so seven years.

Still a fair amount of time has passed. Seven years? I mean, seven years is a lot. When you consider you look like an 11 year old, or a 12 year old, like child, and then you look, you see them in seven years time, and they're a fully grown adult.

So seven years is a long time. Or you look at a baby, then you look at a seven year old child. A big difference, isn't there? Or if you look at a banana, now and in seven years time, I mean, I'm just saying change occurs.

That's what I'm saying. Or if you look at a picture of me, or if you go on YouTube, or Facebook, and look at a video of me from seven years ago, and look at me now. I mean, yeah, I don't, I don't.

Don't do that. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that causes nightmares, I think. Don't be doing that.

Yes, seven years. And it was weird, because a few strange things happened at that time. Yep, it seems like I'm talking about that.

Yep, that's that seems to be the subject of the day. This flat and viewing it. Or seven years ago.

It was seven years ago today. I've been watching Vikings. Not sure if I mentioned that.

And I got the windows open. So you might hear the odd shouty person in the garden. Nothing.

Well, I'm not gonna if it's really loud, I will edit it out or close the window. But there might be the background sound shouldn't be too much at this time of night. But with this, the summer, the you know, the later nights coming in, and it's people are out a bit more, especially bank holidays and weekends and that.

I mean, it's Easter today, I was in bed. So I was up all night watching a boxing. And there was there's a couple of anyway, the other side of the fence, and they were just making so much noise.

And they weren't doing anything bad. It was just this very, very is an old joke. This this person, this particular person was taught how to whisper in a helicopter.

It was that, that kind of some, it's not my joke. So that's an old, well, it's an old old joke I heard about 20 years ago. But the person's very loud.

And I was in bed and I was trying, I just trying to sleep is one of those where normally I don't care. I don't care for sleep or not. I always fall asleep.

I don't put that much pressure on myself to be asleep by a certain time. I must go to sleep. Because that doesn't work.

You know, lying in bed. Trying to force myself to sleep. It doesn't work never has never will.

And it's pointless. It's, it's like me staring at a bowl of custard with peanut butter and Marmite floating on top. And force myself saying, I really want to eat that.

Oh, it's delicious. I really want to eat it like I could do that for 1000 years and it will make no difference. Oh, I'm not gonna want to eat it.

That's that's my point. There are three things I don't like custard pine custard. Peanut butter and Marmite.

Although peanut butter is because it looks like poo. I mean, I can't I can't be anymore. I can't it's no point in vague.

I don't think something should look the same going out as it does going in. It shouldn't come out the same. You know, in fact, if anything, peanut butter looks nicer coming out than it did going in.

It's just no, it's just wrong. And it's fine if you love peanut butter brilliant, because peanut butter tastes nice. I kind of I have had it.

But I just I just can't. It's the kind of food that I need to be blindfolded to eat it. And I know it's supposed to be lovely with bananas, you know, peanut butter and banana and peanut toast, banana and peanut, banana and peanut butter, toasted sandwiches, the Elvis diet.

And I probably used to love that. But I think it's because he loved Elvis and you know, I love Bruce Lee, but I wonder I don't eat noodles. I'm not saying all Bruce Bruce Lee just ate noodles all the time.

But I'm just saying, you know, just because you're a big fan of someone doesn't mean you gotta have their diet and eat the food they ate. Are you saying that all Chinese people eat noodles? No, I'm not. I'm just saying as an example or rice or racist.

I mean it. Look, I love Bruce Lee. You're not honestly.

I am. There's no bigger fan of Bruce Lee than me. Like from a from an before I even knew who Bruce Lee was.

I loved Bruce Lee. I had no choice. That doesn't make sense.

Well, I'll explain it to you. Let me tell you, you know, if you're born into a religion, that's your religion, you can move and do a different religion, but it's part of you. It kind of stays part of you forever.

Like there's a part of me that's always going to be Catholic. Because you know, as a small child, I live with Catholic nuns in a with a church in the garden. I was at church every single day for years.

It's part of my psyche, you know. And even though I'm a Buddhist in my heart, and that's, you know, but I'm also a Christian at the same time, I guess. But also a Catholic at the same time.

I'm kind of three different religions. But Catholicism and Christianity isn't a different religion. Well, if you've been to the it is.

Sorry, it is. No, it's not. Yeah.

It's very it's a different it's a it's a different way of that. Let me explain it to you. This is a thing.

It's not the same thing. It's the same thing. Anyway, um, I mean, I quite like Christianity, I think, because I feel after being a Catholic for so kind of being brought up as a Catholic.

When I discovered Christianity, I kind of when I was about well, I got I was given a Gideon's Bible when I was a kid when I was about 11, I think. And I've probably mentioned this a few times. Sorry.

Well, I mean, I've been doing this podcast for 1010 or 12 years. So I got my might repeat myself occasionally. Sorry about that.

This is number 2043. And when I got given I'd already seen it, you know, the the movies and stuff. And I kind of had skipped I kind of had read read it before.

But when I got the Gideon's Bible, I kind of looked at it through new eyes almost. And I was devout, like proper devout Christian for a while. And I was all I did was read it, read the Bible.

That was all I did. Literally, I was at school break times reading the Bible, at home reading the Bible at night in the morning, you know, seriously, is you might not believe me, but it's true. I couldn't I couldn't quote anything from it.

You know, as people are that, yes, it's, and they give an actual, not just the the book, you know, sort of, I don't know, Boris, whatever book of the Bible, but they give like the page and they give you the number, like palm 63 slash four or five, like give you the number and give you the paragraph like, blimey. I mean, that's that's a good memory. I don't remember any of that stuff.

I just say, yeah, it was in the Bible. I mean, blimey, I didn't study it in that way. I don't think I've ever been able to study anything in that way, where I could quote the page that something's from.

And that's, I guess that's much more devoted to them. I was back then, there was only a child as a small child. But at the same time, my dad, this is a what I'm about to tell you, it was a success.

It was a happy ending. Okay. I'm not talking about a massage parlours.

I'm saying it was a it was a happy ending. That's what I'm saying. So this is the little story I'm about to tell you.

So I must have been 11. And my dad had a lump on his neck. And it was a tumour.

Okay. So that's what I'm telling you. It's a happy ending.

So it's nothing to it's not horrible ending. And it's, it's I think it turned out it was he had an autopsy, not an autopsy. Or what? He didn't have an autopsy.

Blimey. That's the wrong word, isn't it? But anyway, he had a biopsy and it came out non malignant, which is brilliant. I didn't really understand that.

But unfortunately, because of where it was, it was in order for him to remove it, because it was wrapped around his artery in his neck. So it was an extremely serious operation to have. But it was, I think it was strangling him a little bit, you know, it was kind of cutting off the oxygen and stuff.

I'm making part of this up because I'm assuming, because he needed to have it removed. It was a problem. It wasn't cosmetic.

It was, you know, so it was a very serious situation. My step mum, bless her told me that he might die in the operating theatre. Why she would tell me that astonishes me some of the things I hear and heard in the past that adults tell their children amazes me.

And honestly, and that's one of the things like why would you tell a small child that, you know, it should be, I don't know, for me, like, everything's going to be fine. And if it weren't, and if it isn't, then deal with that later. But so I went to school.

I still had to go to school knowing that he was in the operating theatre. I knew what time he was in. It was like one o'clock in the afternoon or something.

And I was at school. And she was at the hospital with him and all that stuff. And all I could think about was him or I was I was worried, like proper, and the lead up to it because this wasn't a quick thing.

This was this took weeks and weeks from, you know, the lump to to actually get in the operation. And there's a big operation. And just not long before the operation.

And we had a date for it. That's when I got given the Gideon's Bible. So I really embraced and I was praying and praying and praying and praying like all the time for him to get through it, and then for it to recover for him to recover.

I might have even had it just in order to pray for him to come back negative and, you know, whatever. So you know, it's that whole period. And that's why I remember it.

That's why I remember the old Gideon's Bible. It was like a little red book. I've got one here, actually.

I don't know where it is. It's I think it's in the it's in the storage cupboard. It's it's with it's with my religious books.

I've got my Buddhist books and stuff like that. So it's in there. So it's in a bookcase.

Anyway, I, I was really, really, really into it. But not so much for me, but for him, I wanted to just like, just please survive and everything. And he did.

So it was a happy ending. He's still alive now. And this was, this was what, 1981, 82.

And he's now 76 in good health. So you know, it's that's why I said at the beginning before I talk about such a thing that he, he is well and he and it was a positive, happy ending, you know, to the story. Because yeah, I'm not I don't really like to talk about bad things in this podcast.

But that although it was a bad, it was a horrible thing. It was a success. And I remember because he was in the hospital for quite a while.

In those days. I don't know about where you are, where you live. But in England, we don't keep people in hospital as long as they used to.

When I was a kid, have a pen, like when I had my appendix out, I was in hospital for about five days, I think four to five days, yeah, maybe even a week, but at least I'd say at least five days. So I went in on probably the Tuesday and I was out on the Sunday, something, it was something like that. So it was about five, maybe it was a week, but it was, you know, a few days in there the day before I had the operation.

And then one of the best times of my life that was having my appendix out was one of the happiest times of my life. Now I realize it might be the morphine. I didn't know I didn't know about stuff like that.

But I was laughing. I was like I was so happy. And I wasn't at home, which was brilliant.

I didn't have to deal with brothers. And you know, there's always arguments and that kind of crap. Just two older brothers, one younger brother.

And it was just it was wasn't fun for me. I just didn't enjoy it. It is.

I'm not really into arguments never have been. I can argue. And I can I can win arguments.

But and part of the reason that is probably because I grew up around arguing constantly. You get to you, you learn a skill that you are learning a skill rather that perhaps I didn't want to have. You know, when you've got two older brothers, they're always at each other.

And then when they got bored of each other, they'd aim at me. It's how it seemed, you know, it's just like, okay. But because I perhaps couldn't, they always came up.

They always came on top against me, because they're a lot bigger, a lot older. But when I when it came to my turn to do other people, my own age, I could match them. I could because I was used to it.

So I could like, be verbal and I used to get in trouble sometimes. Hard to believe you won't believe this, but sometimes don't tell anyone, don't tell anyone, it's a secret. Sometimes, I in the past, I'm looking around, I don't want anyone to hear.

Sometimes I've said the wrong thing. I've honestly, it's like, oh, I know. I mean, sometimes I've meant it sometimes, you know, I've done it on purpose.

But a lot of time I didn't. I think that's part of the reason why I decided sort of to start. Well, this is going in a different direction.

But now that's a surprise. I, when I was younger, I can't remember what age it was that I started realizing that people were laughing at what I was saying. And part of me liked it.

Part of me didn't like it, because I wasn't trying to be funny. Sometimes, you know, I was, but it wasn't, you know, they'd laugh. And I thought, well, if they're just gonna laugh at me anyway, I might as well, at least take control of the situation, so that I choose what they laugh at.

So I choose when they laugh at me, rather than they may think they're laughing at me. Where, but they don't realize that I'm, I know what I'm doing, and I know what I'm saying. And even though they might be laughing at me thinking that I'm not aware of what I've just said, that I am.

Now, I didn't really become that self aware until probably early teens, probably, I'd say maybe, maybe earlier, I can't really remember. But I remember once, there's one one memory I have is, we were in this auditorium at a school. And I don't know what the lesson was.

But the teacher was trying to talk. And I shouted out something. And the teacher said something, and I shouted something back.

And it made everyone laugh. And the teacher daddy got me and I said something back, and it made everyone laugh again. And this girl, who, I mean, I'm talking this is probably when I was about 14.

So it wasn't long before I left school. This girl, one of the top girls in the school, you know, one of the ones that she's never spoken to me ever. I probably been going to school with her being in the same year, maybe even in the same class many times over the last like seven years, and she'd never even looked at me.

And she looked over at me and she said, keep going, it's funny. And that's probably the worst thing ever. The worst thing that could have happened to because straight after that, I suddenly thought, ah, because I'll be honest, I would have run around naked and jumped through a window if I thought that I'd get some female attention, especially from her, someone because it wasn't her particularly, but she was in the the I guess a popular girl, she was a popular one.

And the idea of someone like her even noticing me was, you know, it's a big, big deal to me. So all I got to do is just shout out stupid things and be rude. And admittedly, I've been doing it probably all along, but I didn't take any notice of anyone else.

I was not when I was at school, I'd be rude and shout stuff out. But I didn't care about making anyone laugh. I always, it really was a one on one battle between me and the teacher, and no one else was involved.

And it might sound bad, but I wasn't a very good student back then. Nor am I now, I suppose. But I didn't like, I only liked, as I've said before, three teachers I ever had in high school.

And if I had a teacher who was rude to me, I'd be rude back. And I was, yeah, I was a problem. And, but I was one of the problem kids, because I would, I would be, if I was at school now, I would be in the special class, I was in a special class then, but I would be probably in the special needs.

But back then it was called the dunce class, the remedial class or something. So I was, in English, I was normal, not normal, but I was classed as normal. Average, I was average in English.

Maths, I was a dunce. And just to start with, they put me in the lowest class of maths, but I was below that. And eventually they took me out of the class.

And they took me out of a couple of classes and put me in with the dunces. And this might, you might think, so if you get offended by the word dunce, that's, that isn't technically what the class, that's not what the teachers called us. Like they'd make us wear dunce hats.

But that used to happen, I think in my dad's era. But I think if you'd have heard the teachers in the, in the, in this staff room talking about us, that is probably what they would have called us, probably worse actually. So what they did is there was a special room that had toys, yeah, board games and stuff like that.

I don't know why I'm laughing. And, and they basically, me, probably about, there's usually about 12, maybe 15 of us, maybe 10. I don't know, there was, there was a, it was enough, boys and girls.

And it was the same people, same ones all the way through. And we would get put into that class. Because we, there was those that were in there because they refused to do any work.

Those were in there because they kept getting into fights, or, or they'd, they, you know, they're always in detention. And so basically, we were the group of people, the group of kids, where the teachers gave up on. So we no longer sent us to detention.

If we were naughty, it was almost, unless you did something really bad, we were just almost ignored. So after it was, I was kind of painted with that brush. It was a big brush.

And it was yellow, and green and blue. I was basically a rainbow, long before rainbows were popular. And all that noise.

It sounds like a group of people all walking down the street shouting, quick hide. Yes, I was in that group. And I made friends.

I made friends with people for the rest of the next four years. Well, I was in high school for five years. Not five full years, but it was five years, you know, kind of.

And so started in September 1981. And I left April 1986. So yeah, so I made friends with these people and some of the girls.

So I think I dated a couple of them while I was at school. And I mean, some of my already knew, but got to know them better, because we'd be spending a few hours together, like just in this room. No teacher, just used to let us just do whatever we wanted to do, as long as we didn't disturb anyone else.

So we used to have like fake marriages and do stuff like that and get off with each other. I don't know, whatever, just, just play, just do whatever we wanted to do. And it was probably my favorite class, actually.

Yep. So I was, I was one of the dunces. And I don't know what category I would have come under.

I wasn't dyslexic. Dyslexia wasn't, although it was known of in those days. Dyslexia is not a new thing.

But it wasn't, I'd never heard of it at that time. And I'm guessing the teachers at my school probably had never heard of it. I mean, I'll give you an idea of the mentality of that period.

And it can't just be the little town I lived in. It can't just be those particular teachers. I'm guessing there's more, you know, there's, there's more to it.

But I remember seeing one, one of my friends getting told he was, his handwriting, he was writing, he was left handed. And his handwriting wasn't particularly good. And the teacher said, Have you tried using your right hand? And the kid said, I'm left handed.

He said, Yeah, but your handwriting is terrible. Maybe if you used the right hand, which is the correct hand to use to write with, maybe your handwriting would be better. Now, you know, it's some people that like that make you absolutely what funny thing is, it was it worked.

He turned out he was right handed. His parents just played a trick on him. So that's not true.

But this did happen. I remember getting angry. You're right.

I'm left handed. What what part of that are you struggling with? Jason, can you please tell us about Bruce Lee? I mean, I'm waiting to hear about Bruce Lee and you're going on about left handed writing and dance classes and okay. When I was about eight.

Well, basically, when I was when I moved from the children's home to my dad's when he saved us, we went lived with him and his new wife, and her mum. And we lived in this White House, not the White House. A White House that was completely covered in ants.

It was like a million honestly, it was a I think the had to be we had to what do they call it when it was basically it was put out commission house. It was just wrong. It couldn't be lived in anymore.

So we had to move out. So we only lived there for a little while that summer 77 1977 summer. And then we moved to into a new council house, three bedroom council house, two bedrooms and a box room.

Basically, I lived in a box room. It was a bedroom is bigger than it's a box room, but it was big enough for bed and as a little bedroom. And in fact, that's the bedroom I used to stay in when I used to visit my nan.

And I used to stay at her house, because she lived in that house afterwards. So I had this bed. I was in there and my other two brothers had bunk beds in the other room and parents in the other bedroom.

And that's before my little brother was born. And he was born in 1980. So no, he was born in 1978.

Sorry, when I was eight. So literally just for that little period, you know, so I was in there. I don't know a year or something.

But on the wall, there was a picture of Bruce Lee. Now I was seven years old. I had never seen enter the dragon or any other Bruce Lee movie.

And when there were 18 certificates anyway. So I didn't know who he was. I do believe at the time, there was an advert that he was in as weird as only just come to my brain.

It's not weird. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to search for that now advert that had Bruce Lee.

1970s. 1977. The real Bruce Lee.

I trained Bruce Lee. And if you know, that's not the one. Bruce Lee, to be fair, might have been the advert for the movie.

That that that kind of explains some stuff, doesn't it? I didn't think about that. That does explain it because and the dragon was here event and the dragon dragon. Yeah.

No. Blimey. Wow.

1973. Okay. That doesn't make sense.

But I thought he died before the end of the dragon even was released. What? 1973. He died in 1973.

Shows what I know. Here's me the biggest Bruce Lee fan. I'm not the biggest Bruce Lee fan.

But it's I've always been a huge Bruce Lee fan long before I even knew who he was or what he did or why he was on my wall. But 1973. So he died.

He died when I was two years old. Blimey. Honestly, because I was I was still two or three in the August.

I thought the end of the dragon came out about 1979. And I know that he died before the release of the movie. I think because he never got to see it released.

Because it was released in August and he died in July. You know, it grossed $350 million worldwide, which estimated to be 2 billion adjusted for inflation for now. 2 billion.

Yeah. How many movies make 2 billion? How many million how many movies make 350 million even? Like imagine 1973 $350 million it made. Let me repeat.

Wow. It's one of the most profitable, profitable films of all time. Oh, man.

Anyway, so I had a picture of him on the wall. It was a poster is a two sided poster. So one side was him.

If you've seen the movie, if you have, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, then you won't know what I mean. But I'll explain it a little bit.

Right at the beginning of End of the Dragon and this will not spoil the movie. I mean, if you haven't seen it yet, I mean, you've had 50, no, 40, 49 years to see it. So if you haven't seen it yet, you've had 49 years.

So I don't want to spoil it, though, for you. You might say, yeah, but I'm only 22. Of course, I haven't had 49 years to watch it.

Yeah, that's a good point. Tell me more about the marmalade. Anyway, I yeah, there was this picture.

One side, it had the beginning where he's, he's got the big pads on his hands and he's fighting another person. And he does his backflips and stuff like that. And they wrestle when he the book taps out.

And which again, is what you have in the MMA and UFC people tap out on that. So that's the first time I ever saw that. But you know, there was in the movie, it was a picture of the movie.

So I'd never seen the movie at this point. On the flip side, the other side was him. Which is a picture from, I think there's two pictures, one with his nunchucks.

And then he's, he's got the the cut across his stomach, and I think on his chest from the claws. Anyway, I'm told to ruin it. But that's something that happens near the end of the movie.

Again, 49 years. I don't think anyone's gonna get too upset if I spoil it. But he wins anyway.

So I spoil it, he wins. Just in case you think you're gonna watch a Bruce Lee film. And Bruce Lee doesn't win in the end, he wins.

In fact, I don't really don't want to spoil it for you. He wins every movie. Yeah, he wins.

He wins, he wins all the fights. And so I had that almost ingrained into me. And I don't know why.

Who watched Bruce Lee? Who? I'm gonna have to ask my dad this. Where did that poster come from? It didn't come from me. I mean, it came from somewhere, someone been, unless it was just on the wall anyway.

But it wasn't just on the wall, because it was a brand new house. It was a council house. And on that state, there was a new council estate in a little, basically, it was a council estate just off of a little village, which was part of a town.

So it was a little bit out way, not far, you could walk in about half an hour from town. And when we moved in, there was houses still being built. To the point where I remember my dad and we went into the garden, and the garden was still mud.

And we were up to our waists in mud. Because the ground hadn't settled. And yeah, I just remember that.

So there was other houses still being built. That was nice. I liked it.

I liked it a lot. It was brilliant. I really liked that.

That house was nice. First of all, I mean, definitely the benefits of being in a house like that, compared to the house we ended up moving to, is everything was done. There was nothing to do.

There's no building work to do. And you might think, well, why would that affect you as a little kid? Because my dad liked to enjoy watching us help him. And none of us wanted to.

So yeah, I didn't want to be wallpapering and painting. And, you know, as a little kid, I didn't, I had no interest in that stuff. I wanted to be outside playing and building dens and playing with my friends outside, you know, in the fields and that.

In the fields. That's what I like to do. Playing and riding my bike.

Like most kids in those days, we didn't have, we didn't have television back then. No, we did have television. We did three channels.

Yeah, serious. Three channels. Late 70s.

Three. There's BBC One, BBC Two and ITV. Now they call it ITV One.

And then Channel 4 came along, I think 1980 or 1981. Channel 5 came along in 19... I think it might have been the end of 96. Like, kind of New Year's Eve, kind of 96 or right at the beginning of 97.

I remember because I watched it being launched. Because one of the people that launched it was Tim Vine, who's a comedian that I know. Well, I used to know.

I haven't seen him for years. Last time I seen him was at a funeral. Funny enough.

Well, not funny enough. But yeah, I haven't seen him for a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time. Over 20 years.

But yeah, that bit was brilliant. It's just, I don't know, I got excited just seeing someone that I knew on telly. Like, and he was the face of Channel 5 for a while.

Tim Vine. He had a few game shows and all kinds of stuff. And yeah, see.

If you don't believe me, Google it. So there. So what else? Yes, we only had three channels.

I don't remember much about the children's programs during the week at that time. I don't remember. I know they used to be like Play School and Jackanory and maybe Rainbow and stuff like that.

I think. But I don't really remember so much. I remember more later on when I was more like 10, like 9, 10, you know, but not before that.

Yeah, I think because there was a period that was quite good for me in a way, because once I was, when I was about 10, one brother was 14, the other one was 12. So they were both a bit too old to watch, or they weren't really interested in watching children's TV, which meant I got a chance just to watch it on my own. I could always watch what I wanted.

So I'd come home from school and I'd just watch TV for a couple of hours. And I'd be, I'd be in the living room on my own, no one else would be about and it'd be nice. Because my other brothers would be busy.

They'd be out with their friends or they'd be at work if they had part time jobs. I wasn't allowed to work yet. So I didn't have a paper round or anything until I was I think 13.

Might have been 12. I think it was 13. But it might have been 12.

There was a legal age back then. It had to be a certain age. Should I Google it? Legal age to work part time in the UK.

13. But when did that start though? When did that? When? I want to know when, when did the law start? During school holidays, 13 to 14 year olds were only allowed to work a maximum of 25 hours a week. Child employment law.

What? The general rule is a young person under school leaving age 16 can get a part time job from the age of 14. Blimey, that's this is saying a completely different thing. Why do they have to lie? However, they can only be employed in what is considered light work.

This means that what like holding lamps or what? This means they can only do cannot do any job that may affect their health and safety or interfere with their education. Imagine if we cared about adults like that. You can't do that job because it might affect your health and safety.

Okay, so this is weird. So the saying here, right? Young people over 14 can deliver newspapers and leaflets, work in a shop, including stacking shelves, working in office. And that's strange because I well, it was never such work when I was a kid.

Couldn't work in an office as a kid. It was newspapers or local restaurant. Well, you could lose, you could deliver leaflets, or you could deliver the local paper, you know, the used to be called the town crier, I think.

And then there was a bi-weekly local newspaper. And then there was, yeah, work in a cafe or restaurant, but not in the kitchen. Ah, I used to work in a kitchen, work in hotels and other places offering accommodation.

Now, so I used to work in a kitchen, I used to do the washing up, plates and stuff. Other kids used to work in the kitchen, sometimes cutting vegetables and preparation and stuff like that. Other kids working, they do waiting, you know, basically this restaurant used to sort of employ loads of kids.

And I'm not going to moan about the place because I kind of feel I have quite fond memories of it, if I'm honest. And the family that ran it were cool. I used to get on really well with one of the bosses, because he was in charge of the bakehouse, which was the bakery at the back.

Didn't get on with his sister, she was in charge of the kitchen. And she used to swear at me, and I used to swear back at her. And she'd always threaten me with a sack, and I used to laugh at her.

It's weird. Never got a sack though, for some reason. I think she probably enjoyed it.

She probably just enjoyed the fact that I gave it back to her. Gave her as good as she gave herself. And the boss I liked his his wife was in charge of the restaurant upstairs.

She was beautiful. Really beautiful, but just really lovely as well. Just, I just remember how lovely she was.

And then their son worked in a bakehouse, and I worked with him. And he was like, like an older brother to me in a way. He used to tease me, but always nice, you know, he'd tease me.

But it was, it was, it's called Simon. And he was about my brother's age, probably maybe a little bit older. Because my brother worked there as well, actually.

So I think he knew my brother as well. It might have been a couple of years older than my brother. Not much, not a lot of difference.

And he's, yeah, he was really cool. I liked him a lot. In fact, I would have swapped him for my brother if I could.

Because he's, you know, he was, although he was rude to me, and but he was, he did it a nice way. He wasn't. But then my brother had to live with me.

You know, I suppose living with me be quite, it adds a different dimension, doesn't it? You know, if you imagine, if you every day of your life, you've lived with this person, and you've seen them grow up from a baby to this. Actually, to be fair, we didn't live, I didn't live with them every day. There was about a year and a half where no, about two, two years, year and a half, two years, we didn't live together.

So yeah, but you know, it's still quite a few years worth of living together. Probably got annoyed with me. Right, so this is contradicting itself.

This is child employment. This is child law advice. So it's saying, what age can a child or young person work? The general is a young person under school age 16, can get a part time from the age of 14.

And then during school term time, 13 to 14 year olds make this contradicted yourself. And this is supposed to be child law. Yeah.

Okay. Jobs for 14 year olds. What hours can a 16 can How many hours can a 14 or 13? Okay, 12.

Can a 12 year old work? Wow. In the UK, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 13 to have a job. However, if you're turning 13 soon, why don't you register register with us is this student job? Don't worry, we have plenty of jobs for 12 year olds ideas for you that you can earn some extra pocket money.

What jobs can a 12 year old get? Even though it's illegal? Again, it's this is so this is the internet is just so full of crap. How do you know what's real and what's what's true? This, this is the same website. No, it's not the web.

No. Yeah, I think it's the same website. Okay.

But bits of it are now on Google. They're just showing you a little bits. Okay.

So the question is, can a 12 year old work? In the UK, in the UK, it's illegal for anyone under the age of 13 to have a job. Okay, that's what it says there. studentjobs.co.uk. And then the next question, what jobs can a 12 year old get? Here are eight of the best jobs for 12 year olds paper round, babysitting, pet sitting, dog walking, car washing, gardening, cleaning, sports paper round is out of all those, you could say, you know, cleaning, they might not be an actual job might be helping someone out.

But paper round is a job. That's you know, you get paid for that. Like a job job.

How? What can you do at 12 years in the UK? This has gone in a different direction, this question. So therefore, well, fed up talking about jobs. Let's let's go a different direction.

So what things you can do at 12 in the UK, at 12, you can make a will, consult a solicitor and take a case to court. At 12 years old, ready? Have the right to decide on your own adoption. IE, the adoption cannot go ahead without your agreement.

Well, that seems fair. I mean, at any age, really, you know, if the child kind of, it's one of the biggest decisions ever made on behalf of another human being. It's yeah.

Haven't been adopted. I'm one of those. My stepmom adopted us.

When I was six, and I'm pretty sure she asked us if we want if we wanted her to adopt us. I said, How much do we get paid? What's in it for me? Yeah. Wow.

Anyway, and it's I mean, I know normally my podcasts very succinct. And to the point, very specific and always stay on topic. I fear that might not have happened today.

Anyway, you take care. Remember to be kind to yourself, because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

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