(no music) #1117 - Q&A Friday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (10th May 2024)

Now, the microphone wouldn't have picked that up, too far away. Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com and LetMeBoreYou.com, two websites. My name's Jason Newland, this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

And today, is Q&A Friday, yes, it's come around quickly, hasn't it? It's been a long, long time since I did any kind of regular thing, you know like a regular day, kind of once a week, in fact, I'm not sure if I ever have. I think I might have done, I used to do a daily, a Saturday Jason Chats, I used to do for a while, back in the day, I heard a ten year old say that once.

Back in the day, like, you're still a fetus, what do you mean, back in the day? Back in the day, when I was four, the life was much easier.

Yeah, okay. So, a quick update, so it's Friday, the 10th of May, 2024, it is 4.56pm in the afternoon. P.M., is that post-modern or something? I don't know.

A.M., P.M., past midday, A.M., after midday. Technically, it's all after and past, isn't it? Continuously. I don't know.

So, I met the new neighbour who moved into Luke's flat, my friend's flat, and he had some family with her as well, and Vinnie ran right out the front door, because they were still unpacking stuff, and jumped into their car. He made themselves very familiar. They're lovely, really friendly, so it's nice.

I saw the lady that moved in briefly the other night, but all the lights were off, so she had a torch. I thought someone was at the door, because Vinnie was barking, but there was no one at the door. But she did shout out, hello.

I couldn't see anything. I could just see the light. I saw the light, ladies and gentlemen, eventually.

So, yeah, she's a perfectly pleasant lady. Very perfectly pleasant. It's very posh, isn't it? She's got a dog.

She's got an Excel Bully. Big old thing. Well, it's a young thing.

And Vinnie, I didn't realize, I knew she was, because I spoke to her, then I took Vinnie for a walk. Came back, didn't know that she was going to be, her dog would be there. Vinnie ran right into the garden, and there was a scream.

Not a scream of like, well, it wasn't a scream of horror, but it wasn't a scream of delight either. It wasn't like, ah, or, oh. You know, that's me, that's my version of a scream of delight, because I've never actually heard one, so I wouldn't know what it sounds like.

And no sounds of delight, really, never. No. This is going in a different direction.

Let's bring it back. Vinnie's tromping on a bone. He still hasn't eaten any food today.

He had some food yesterday, I put some out for him as well after that, and he didn't eat it. So I ended up chucking that away, and he's got a bowl of food that's been there for hours and he hasn't touched it. I'm not backing down now.

But he has done about four poos today, so I'm guessing he did three yesterday, and I think he's already done a few today already, so he's probably got a bit of a bad stomach. So you might be thinking, just get on with the questions, will you? Alright, blimey. Okay, so I've got a few questions.

Did I say only listen when you can safely close your eyes? Let me just have a look at questions. First of all, on my normal Facebook page, just in case, just in case I missed anything, so I'll do that one first. Q&A Friday.

Oh, yes I do. Let's have a look. Most relevant, all comments.

Oh, I've got a question from Susie. So many. She's my cousin, but she didn't send any questions.

So Diana asks me. And this is the first question. I'm not choosing this one.

This is just the first one that came up. Do you get how genuinely appreciated you are? Says Diana, or asks Diana. I'm not sure, to be honest.

I do sometimes feel appreciated. I don't know. It's a very difficult question to answer, to be honest with you.

I mean, I do get messages from people telling me that what I do is useful. I get PayPal gifts sometimes. So that, you know, it's also shows.

I've got a painting coming on its way here from Cara. So that's, I'm not saying that gifts are the only way, obviously. But I get, yeah, I get messages.

It's hard to know what other people, it's impossible to know what other people are thinking. Unless they tell me. Does that make sense? I don't.

I like to think. Because, okay, I listen to, I like to listen to classical music. Like violin music, piano music.

You know what classical music is, Jason? Yeah. But. I quite like it when it's just one of those.

And there's usually some backing stuff as well. But that's the kind of stuff that I like to listen to. There's three things I like to listen to.

I can't listen to my own voice. Although I have, I do sometimes listen to myself to see if it's, if I've still got it. You know, if I've still got the oomph.

There's still the power to be boring. And I do. I definitely have that.

I don't mean to. It's accidental, by the way. I think I'm super interested.

And then I listen back to it. And it's just. It's all over the place, isn't it? I actually think I'm being quite concise and to the point and sticking to the subject.

In my mind, I am. And then as I listen back, because I don't listen to the whole thing. But sometimes if he barks a lot through the recording, I have to listen to way more than I want to.

And I'm like, I've only forwarded. I was talking about fish and chips. I've only forwarded like a minute.

And now I'm talking about space shuttles. How did I get that jump? And so I really listen to it and I try to figure out how I got there. And then I ended up talking about the Olympics.

It's a very strange, strange kind of thing. I don't know quite what's going on. But hey, so the three things that I like to do, which wasn't the question, I realized.

But the reason I mentioned it, OK, I'll just stick to the music. I listen to the music and without being rude, I don't really think about the person that's created the music. And I guess it's different if someone's playing music compared to if you get to know them.

I suppose you can feel you can get to know me because I talk about my life and all the lies and stuff that I tell. You know, you get to, you know, the pants, pants, liar, liar, pants on fire version of me. And I appreciate the music, but quite often the music is a copy of something else that's been written.

And it's I appreciate it. But at the same time, I'm kind of not perhaps showing any kind of appreciation. I don't know.

I'm not sure why I won't go with this. But I imagine there's quite a few people that maybe listen to my podcasts and possibly don't think of me as being an actual human. I think, you know, maybe think of me as just this caricature of a or just just just this weird, weird English voice.

And but then there's other people that do too. I don't know. The answer is Diana.

Diana. Oh, no. The answer.

Did you know, Diana, in 1988, 1988, Michael Jackson was touring and he was coming to London. It might have been early 1989, but he was booked to come to England and perform at Wembley, I do believe. I was actually given tickets to go and see him for my 18th birthday, but I never went.

I should have went. I didn't go because I just started a new job and I didn't want to have time off on my first. It was literally would have been my first week because it was a surprise.

Yeah. And, you know, now I would have just said, look, what would you do if you go to imagine you go to your boss? So I've just I've just turned 18. My family all got together to buy me tickets to go and see Michael Jackson, my biggest, you know, my my.

I'm not his biggest fan, but, you know, I was huge fan had been my whole life since a kid. And. And when you think that his first hits were like when I was a toddler, like 1972 or whatever.

And if I said to my manager, I said, hey, hey, Tony. What would you do? Would you would you would you take the tickets or what should I do? I reckon a lot of people just say just go. But I don't know.

Anyway, I didn't. But the thing is, the reason I'm telling you this, the reason is there's this big deal in the press because of the Dirty Diana song. And because Princess Diana was.

Well, she was the nation's sweetheart. I mean, everyone loved Princess Diana. So the press were going on about, oh, he might not be able to sing that song because the royal family were going to be there.

I think Prince Prince King Charles now. But at the time, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were going to be in the audience on the first night of his performing at Wembley. And Dirty Diana was one of his big hits from the Bad album.

I don't know. I remember that all anyway. And do you know how genuinely appreciate you are? I think the answer is no to that one.

I don't really. Sometimes I feel sometimes I don't. You know, it's it depends.

Sometimes I really do feel appreciated. Sometimes I don't. I think it's part of just, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know.

So thank you for that. So that's that question. Let me just have a look and see if there's any other questions posted on any of the other Facebook pages before going to the Jason Newland's boring group.

Wee wee wee. Nothing on that one. And lastly, this one.

Come on. That's it. Nothing, nothing on this one, not even a no, no one's even noticed it.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Oh, yes.

So I'll come out of there, go back into the normal page. Now I'm going to go into the Jason Newland's boring group. So I'm going to go to the original post, which I posted on three days ago.

Any questions for this week's Q&A Friday requested by Cara. So here we go. And there was, I think, another question added today.

All comments. First comment from Barry. Hi, what's your earliest memory? Well, my.

I've got a few. I'm just going to stick to the nice. Well, it's a it's not it's a weird one.

You kind of understand if you if you know about this. It's just a weird memory. I was laying in my car.

So I don't know how old I was. So I guess I was well, I was laying in a car. Maybe I was too.

I don't know. 20. I'm not sure.

And I was listening to radio and it was Gary Glitter singing. I love you, love. Now, I don't know what year that came out.

I love you, love. What year did it come out? That's weird. 1973.

So I would have been to. See what year. That's where you can't get so much information about the song.

These days, for some reason. I love you, love Wiki. To see when it was.

Oh, I love you, Billie Eilish. I love you. Nope.

OK, anyway, it's it's not played quite so often these days on the radio. Because of the he's not the it's not the hero he once was. But he was a huge star in the 70s.

The man that wrote or sung that song. And I love that song. I don't know what it was.

I don't know why. But I love that song. And.

I'm not going to sing it. But just, you know, at the time, I really liked it. That's one of my earliest memories, which is a bit sad, isn't it? Really? Let's see if I can think of another memory.

I've got another memory, but again, that wasn't. OK. Trying to think of something nice.

I can't think of a nice memory. I mean, I can think, but not like really early ones. And.

But. Even. I mean, there's even a memory of being rescued by a man because there was a farmer pointing a shotgun at me and my brothers in a farm to run around, and he came and rescued us.

But that's. It's a happy ending story, but it's still not positive, is it? And I want to come up with something nice. And.

No. Earliest memories, they're they're all they're none of them particularly. Pleasant, to be honest.

There's no like outstanding things. I've got. I mean, if I go back to a pleasant memory, I'll tell you a pleasant memory.

But I was late. It was like seven or eight. And was quite a few.

So I'm going to change the question, Barry, if that's all right. So my earliest memories are not necessarily pleasant. Like when I was little, little.

But when I was about seven. And we got we moved out of children's home with my dad and his new wife. And it was like.

It might sound weird, but in my memory, it was very fairytale is very Disney. Very. Lovely.

Fluffy. And my dad was this beautiful, big mountain of a man. And my new mom was perfect in every single way.

And it's you know, he we were learning to do things that we should have learned years ago. So I was learning to ride a bike for the first time. And so was my older brother, who was nine.

It's like we were learning to ride bikes, which we should have. Most kids have done by the time about five. And it's just even a little bit.

So we moved into the house, the new house, which was a council house. And the ground hadn't settled yet. It was still a building site.

We moved in, but it's still other houses being built. And it hadn't settled the ground. And it was like quicksand.

And we were, but it wasn't deep, if that makes sense. So I just remember that we're all stuck in the mud. It was hilarious.

It was really, really fun. And even things like it snowed. It snowed and we got snowed in a blizzard and it blocked us in.

We were all schools were closed. It was up to my waist, but I was about three inches tall at the time. So it wasn't really that deep.

And that was brilliant. We went slaying because we lived right near a motorway and the motorway was up. If that makes sense, there was basically was a bridge that went over and we, we used to, we slid down that bridge, the side of the bridge, rather.

And I realized then that I'm not really a team player as much as I didn't enjoy that. I didn't enjoy participating in things like that. I don't know why I just didn't, didn't like it.

Yeah. But what I did like doing, I like to watch the snow and I didn't like playing snowball fights. That wasn't the thing for me.

But I got a very, very fond memory of building an igloo and literally chopping up the snow, squashing together with a, with a trowel, really compacting it. So it was like turned into ice and making bricks and then using mud and ice mud and snow mixed together as concrete, you know, in between. And it's great.

It was so good. My dad decided to use it as an extension for the rest of the year. It was, that's a lie, but it was good.

I could fit into it, but I mean, I was the size of a squirrel, to be honest. I loved it. I spent hours doing that.

And it was there long after the snow finished. Do you know, you ever go on to go past a field, maybe on a train or a motorway or whatever. And you see ice or you see snow like a snowman or something.

And it's literally been two weeks since the snow melted, but it's still there. No, you should take more notice of these things. It's kind of one of those things.

It was just so untouched that it stayed there. So thank you, Barry. There's some of my happy memories.

My happy memories started when I was seven. I talked about this a few weeks ago. I had a date.

I think it was one of my first dates when I was eight. And my dad woke me up because I had to go to pick her up. He might have driven me there, I don't know.

And then we went to the cinema and then back to hers for some chips. And he woke me up and I was so full of happiness. I mean, that feeling hasn't really filled me very often in my life.

So I remember it. It was so strong. I grabbed him and I was like, oh, I had so much love for him.

Which is weird that I remember that. It's strange. So that was a nice memory.

Getting chickenpox was a very happy memory. But I was a little bit older. I was about 12.

Because I had three brothers. Whatever we got, we all got. And it got to the point where we just stay in.

Like, well, you've got that, he's got it. You're going to get it, so you might as well stay here and get it. Rather than go to school and give it to someone else.

So the chickenpox, I think we got chickenpox. I don't remember if I got more than once. And I'm sure there's a whole thing, you can't get chickenpox more than once.

But you can. I know people have had chickenpox thousands of times. Which is not true.

So when I got chickenpox, I loved it. Absolutely loved it. Sitting around, it was freezing cold outside.

We had a fire on, open fires as well. And wrapped up, so I had my jumpers and everything on. Cardigans and drinking soup and watching telly.

And drawing pictures and had music playing. Great, loved it. I did, absolutely loved it.

It was one of my happiest moments. I would say Christmas was the best time of the year. For us, like our family.

Christmas. We had some events that were nice, like Guy Fawkes Night. We always celebrated that.

It was a firework night. And my step mum would make food. Cook pizzas and sausage rolls and cakes.

And we'd have a buffet. And we'd have a big firework display in the garden. And those, not sizzlers, sparklers.

We used to hold the sparklers and then get third degree burns on our fingers. Brilliant. And what other things? Easter, we didn't really, we had Easter eggs.

Definitely had Easter eggs. But for some reason, we went for a little period where we were sent to Sunday school. Just on an Easter.

There was a Sunday school just down the road from where we lived. Like a church hall. And for some reason, obviously the only time they wanted us to go to Sunday school.

Easter morning. So I'm thinking that might have been their time to play chess or something, I don't know. And we'd get back and get all ready for our Easter eggs.

My dad would look really tired and exhausted and sweaty, I don't know. I mean, I guess chess, maybe because it was quite a big, big game board and you had to get it from the loft. So that's maybe what it is.

And sometimes he'd put stuff into the conservatory, which meant he'd have to carry it through the back door and he's, I don't know, he's never a big fan of the back door. Because it was that step which used to trip him up. And especially when it was full.

So he's just trying to, like, he couldn't always, his things, it's just not big enough. Can't always fit in. And especially when you've got, because that's where he used to keep the board games.

So like Christmas time or, you know, or sometimes Sundays, because in England, you might not realise this, but everything shut down, shut down? Shut down on a Sunday. Pretty much everything just closed. No shops open, even pubs, they were allowed to open in the evening, but they had to close by one o'clock or something in the afternoon.

Something like that. It was like ghost town. So there wasn't a lot to do on a Sunday.

So what we used to do sometimes play board games, Monopoly, things like that. So I think I've answered that question more than I needed to. Sorry.

So thanks, Barry. I've gone over the top with all my answers. I always wanted to think of some positive stuff.

I want this to be kind of lighthearted, if at all possible. Right. Squeaky chair.

Have a drink of water. Right. The next question is from Mike.

What's your favourite meal? Curry, pizza, shepherd's pie, ham and cheese sandwich? Well, I know I'm boring, but ham and cheese sandwich. If that was my favourite ever meal, like my favouritest thing I could ever eat, and it was a ham and cheese sandwich. I would be a little bit worried, to be honest.

I mean, ham and cheese sandwiches. There's nothing wrong with it. Although I don't like it.

I don't like ham really. What's weird? I'm not really a big meat eater. Yeah, not really a big... I do like... Okay, I should just answer the question.

Oh, if only I could just be normal. Answer the question. Okay.

My favourite meal. Okay, I'm going to split this up into two different sections. Okay.

There's my favourite cooked meal, and my favourite takeaway meal. Or delivery meal. Okay.

They're two different things. To me. So, probably my favourite meal, meal, meal, meal, meal, would be a roast dinner.

So that would be my favourite meal. When it... Because I just love all the different roast potatoes, maybe mashed potatoes as well. Oh.

And... Brussels sprouts. Mmm, mmm, mmm. I do, I love my Brussels sprouts.

I do. I don't know why. Just do, I do.

I like carrots. I like vegetables. If they're cooked nicely.

And what else? Yorkshire pudding is my favourite thing. And also, I like the stuffing. So, yeah, that's... I mean, I can eat a Yorkshire... I can actually eat a cooked dinner, like a roast dinner without the meat, and still be satisfied.

It's all the other stuff that I like, probably more than the meat. The meat's kind of just a little side bit, you know? And it's all... It's a small portion of the plate, isn't it? You think the meat... It depends on how much meat you have, if you eat it, but... The meat is probably, what, 10% of the meal? So, that's what I would choose. I'd choose a roast dinner for my favourite meal, like, generally.

And... So, we go to the other side. Sweet corn and pineapple pizza. That's my favourite... That's my favourite delivery take-out meal.

I used to love McDonald's. I mean... I used to love, love McDonald's. When I was probably... When I first discovered McDonald's, when I was... Well, I had my first McDonald's when I was about 14.

We came to London on a trip, a school trip, and visited various religious buildings. You know, like a mosque, a Jewish place, a Catholic church, I say Jewish place, because I'm not sure what they're called, a Buddhist centre, and a Sikh place as well. So, we visited all these different places in a day.

They were all quite close to each other, because we went to East London, I think, which is kind of where everything is. Everything is within a walking distance, pretty much. And... We... Yeah.

So, we did that, and then we went to a McDonald's. I knew about McDonald's, because I'd seen the adverts. Didn't have one where I lived.

And I had my very first milkshake. They used to call them thick shakes back then. Not milkshakes, thick shakes.

And they were thick. And I don't know if I had a strawberry one, or a... banana one. I didn't have the money to get it, because I had no money on me.

And I might have even... I don't know if I had a burger, or if someone lent me the money to get myself a cheeseburger. But I didn't have enough to get a quarter pound of a cheese. And then, in 1986, I started going to college.

One day release part of my YTS scheme at the chip shop. So, I was going to college on a Wednesday every week. And... that was in the next town, and they had a McDonald's there.

And you know what? I realise... now... that... McDonald's tastes better when you've got spots. There was something about it. The greasier it was, the more... it was like it... I don't know what it... I can't explain it, while I'm trying.

Back in them days, maybe because it was a new thing. But I just found McDonald's tasted... phenomenal. You know, quarter pound of a cheese, that was the thing that I liked.

That was the thing that I liked. That's the only one I really liked. Big Mac was cool, but messy.

Very... I'm a messy eater. Well, yeah I am. I mean, I can't... I can't wear anything I wear.

Let's say, if I was going to get ready to go out, yeah, that's going to happen these days. But you know, in the past, I used to go outside. And... I would never, ever put my top on.

Or even risk putting my trousers on. Until after I'd eaten. Because, guaranteed, I'd be there in my nude, just eating my dinner, because it was going to go all over me.

And I'd be scraping out my chest hair to get the cheese out. Realising I didn't eat anything with cheese. Very strange.

So, Big Macs I found very messy. Very, very, very, very messy. All that sauce.

But a quarter pounder of cheese. And there was something about the taste. Don't taste like that no more.

To me, anyway. It might just be that my tastes have changed. I'm not going to say anything bad about McDonalds, because they've got a little bit more money than me to sue, if they want to.

So, I don't have to pay them a pound a week. Or a pound a month. Forever.

If I lost. So, don't taste the same. There was nothing that tasted as good as a quarter pounder of cheese at McDonalds, back in 1986.

Nothing. But I don't feel that way any more. For me, a quarter pounder of cheese would be, I like it every now and then, but we're talking once or twice a year, if that.

Sometimes I've gone years, I've gone years, literally, without having any McDonalds. I used to have one every week, at least, when I was in London. So, but sweet corn and pineapple pizza is my favourite.

Although, although, okay, and this is something that I've not had, but I went for a little period, not had for a long time, 20 odd years. I went for a little period when I used to go into this tapas bar, Spanish bar and, or Spanish restaurant, and they just put all these things out on the table, and it was, actually we had them on a bar, we were drinking, me and my cousin, and everything was beautiful, everything, the sausage, everything was just like, and that's, that's my ideal way to eat.

Have a little bit of everything.

Perfect. So, I really enjoyed that. And, but I haven't had that for years.

So, if you do take me on a date, anyone, any of the ladies listening to this, tapas, Spanish restaurant would be nice. Of course, you pay, obviously. So, curries, I do like curry, but you know what, and again, it's not, I prefer a vegetarian curry, and it's not, an issue with meat, although I do, if I think about it, I do have a big issue with meat, but I try not to think about it.

I, just really prefer, a mild, mild curry, vegetable, because the potatoes really, do the job. It's for me, because it makes it fill in, and in a way, the best part of a curry is the pita bread, not the pita bread, yeah, naan bread, not the crispy things, they're okay, but I like the naan bread, really, really like the naan bread.

Mike, you mentioned shepherd's pie, you know what, I do like a shepherd's pie, I do, especially, when it's, crispy on top, with beans, with baked beans, Heinz baked beans, no other kind, I mean, I haven't tasted, every single type of baked beans, so you might, you might be in a country, you might live in a country, where the favourite beans, are not Heinz, and, they may actually, they may be nicer, but I've never tasted beans, that were nicer than Heinz, I don't eat beans, I used to eat them all the time,

I don't, baked beans, I hardly ever eat them now, I really should get back to it, because they cause some really, really amazing amounts of, gas, that can be used, creatively, Ruth, has got a question, if you could, attend a dinner party, with three, other guests, dead or alive, who would you choose and why, now Ruth, this is, I think this is similar to a similar question, I had before, but I'm still going to answer it, because I can't remember what answer I gave, in fact, after I answered that,

who would you attend to, who would you, get to go to a dinner, and I realised I'd missed some important people out, so again this question, okay, I've got, there's part of me thinking I've got a group of people, but then, they're not necessarily going to get on, you know, they're not necessarily going to have anything in common, to talk about, so, for me, let's say if I wanted to, invite, Muhammad Ali, for example, or I wanted to invite, just some hero boxer, like Lennox Lewis, or, there's so many, this,

the list for boxers, I like boxing, so the list is just practically endless, so I said I want to invite, I want to invite Rocky Marciano, because he was very articulate, if you've ever listened, if you go on YouTube, so Rocky Marciano, he's famous for, being a heavyweight champion, he's American, and he won all 49 of his fights, and no one's beaten that record as a heavyweight, no one's gone undefeated for 49, fights and then retired, as a heavyweight champion, so he's held that record, he, when I first heard him talk,

I thought he was going to be, sound, without being disrespectful, maybe slurring and stuff, because he really, he really went to battle, when he was in the ring, he was so articulate, very, pleasant to listen to, really respectful, the way he used to conduct himself, in interviews and that, so, I think it would be lovely to meet him, to have him, but I don't know if having him there, and then, having someone like Peter Sellers, would be a good combination, because, they're just very different characters, and maybe,

I don't know how much of a laugh, Rocky Marciano would be, or want to have, or I don't know how much of a laugh, Peter Sellers would want to have, I imagine he was fairly serious, outside of his work, quite often comedians are, or comedy actors, but, so I think I'd like to, have a different group, where all boxers, all personal, all, do you know the, comedians for example, just all comedians, so, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Sean Locke, George Carlin, you know, so those kinds of people, would be great to just, in a way, I don't know if you can hear that, can you hear that in the background?

In a way, I wouldn't even necessarily need to say anything, I'd just be so enthralled, in hearing what they've got to say, which would be kind of enough, you know, I've watched, I've watched things like that, where comedians all got together, or boxers all got together, talking around a table, and it's just fascinating to listen to it, and, yeah, so, I don't know, it's really hard to pick three, three, just if I was going to say just three, there's people I've got questions for, there's people that have been, that I just,

okay, it'd be a different, if I could do, can I do it every week, can I have three different people every week, so then I can, so, it's such a hard one, but it's also weird, because, I kind of like, my, biological parents, to be around the table, and me, and my nan, to, keep everything, you know, that'd be, so then I can find out some stuff, that I'm probably never going to know, another one would be, my three brothers, and me, which again, is probably never going to happen, so,

that would, so you see what I mean, I struggle to just choose one thing, so these are situations, that are very unlikely ever to happen, but it would be, in some ways, more important than, celebrities, and people in the past, but, there are definitely people from the past, I'd love to meet, and, Milton Erickson, being one of them, but Lenny Bruce, as I said, Richard Pryor, I mean, there's a lot of people, that have had a big influence on my life, Charles Bukowski is another one, and, yeah,

I think it's someone trying to get their dog to be, behave, we've got a new dog downstairs, Loogie, Loogie I think, if it's Loogie, Loogie, how weird is that, Loogoo, I forget, so, and, three people, I'm going to choose, three people, I'm going to choose, is going to be, okay this is my final choice, Andre, I'm going to choose four, sorry I'm going to change the rules, I'm going to choose four, Andre my friend, from Ireland, four people that are no longer alive, so Andre, my Andre, the ferret,

Andre the ferret him, my Nan, and my friend downstairs Luke, I'd have those four, so if I had to get rid of one, I think I'd rather get rid of myself, I'd rather not be there, and I can just watch, so I'll serve the food, so they can be there, so three people, at the head of the table, both Andre's either side of the table, then my Nan and Luke's either side, because they'd got on really well, he was really close to his Nan, and, yeah, and then I could serve them food,

and I could kind of just eavesdrop, yeah that'd be cool, got a lot of questions for all of them, not so much for my Nan, I feel that, I feel, yeah I feel kind of, we said what we needed to say, I saw her, and you know it was, nothing that happened after I last saw her, was really a huge surprise, still upsetting, but it wasn't her, because she was, you know very poorly and very elderly, but, I didn't get to say goodbye to my friend Luke,

I didn't get to say goodbye to Andre, the human Andre, and I don't really feel I got to say goodbye to, my Andre either, not really, and, and in this scenario Andre, would be able to talk, instead of going, like that, what's weird is I actually had a dream, a while back, where Andre, the human Andre, who I called Andre after, he turned up, I'm alive, and he said yeah yeah, it was a mistake, that's weird, really weird dream, and Hilary says, I hope I've answered that one, I hope, Hilary says where in Ireland did you live?

I lived in Carlo, which is the south I think of Ireland, and County Carlo, near Kildare I think, or Kilpatrick, Kildare, and, it was a little town, well it was, I mean to be fair it was quite a big area, because, the walk to town was about three hours, or two or three hours, two hours or whatever, all the way through countryside, to get to the town, and, so yeah it was, it wasn't a big area but it was, if you're on foot it's a big area, very beautiful, very green,

very green area, itchy, and, yeah that's where I lived, for a little while, I've got two friends that live in Ireland now, so I'd like to go, I'd like to visit, although one's now, travelling at the moment, but I'd like to, like to go and visit, again, I'd like to go back to that town, and pay a little homage, kind of to my friend Andre, go and visit his grave and stuff, you know, so, Kara has got a message, good heavens, I was going to dream up a question for you,

but you've got a bushel of questions to answer this week, brilliant, I'll save my question for a sleepier week, okay, I actually thought that was a question for a minute, all right, cool, blimey, Leah says, did you binge watch the apocalyptic TV series Fallout yet, it's awesome, if you liked The Walking Dead, well, I started watching it, thank you for the question, I started watching it, but I have found, because I've been quite busy, doing stuff, especially with the podcast, and, there always seems to be stuff to do,

that I never, I've not really done much in the way of binge watching anything, it's, and there's a few programs that I quite like, the last thing I watched, really, where I did watch back to back programs, was, is it Little Reindeer, and, then, there's a couple of programs, a couple of shows, I'll tell you one that I do like at the moment, called Loudermilk, it's very funny, and, it's worth checking it out, Loudermilk, but I've watched a couple of episodes of that, I need to watch it all,

I need to just like stop getting distracted, and watching different things, but, you know, there's so much, even though technically I don't have to do anything, all the time, not really, I like the idea that, I am, because, like this morning for example, between, all the editing and everything of the podcast, the uploading, downloading, image making, writing a description, all that stuff, and then just promoting it, posting it, which I did as well, I watched a bit of TV, while stuff was being uploaded, but it was like nearly three hours,

to go from, taking the disc out of the, out of the recording studio, and starting to edit, all the way through to, even then, not all the recordings were uploaded, most of them were, so, it's, but I like the fact that I've done that, it's something that's three hours worth, worth of, having done something, and then there's the period it takes to, make the recordings, and then I'm trying to put together, all the playlists, and getting them organised as well, on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast,

because I didn't realise that I didn't have, a lot of the, er, so the Jason's, what was it, Story Time, and the, boring, sleepy, Sleepy Boring Objects, whatever it's called, that, those ones, I didn't have the ones with music on there, and I didn't have playlists, so I've uploaded them, put them in playlists, made the playlist images, made sure that, well at the moment they're not all done, but most of the recordings have the images on as well, so there's, there's always stuff to do, so, what do I find if,

if I'm going to be doing something, staring at the computer, I like to have music on, so I listen to Amazon Music, and, or that's generally what I do, I listen to an album or something, while I do this, providing I don't have to listen to anything, like on the computer, so yeah, I watch the rest of it, and, because it just reminds me, years ago, I used to buy, I used to rent out rather, box sets, from blockbusters, and I'd have the weekend to watch them, yeah a whole season,

I'd have to get it done, you know, I'd have like two days to watch it, like Friday till Monday or something, and, I watched all 12 episodes, in that period, and it was brilliant, it was, because I wanted to watch all 12 episodes, of the Sopranos, or, oh that was weird, turn the volume down so it doesn't do that again, I'm trying to think what other shows I used to watch, I used to watch lots of different ones, so, so in answer, I've not, I've not binge watched Fallout,

or the rest of them, and, I think the problem is, there's just too much choice, although at the moment now, for viewing pleasure, or, viewing enjoyment, Netflix is the best service, just to me personally, because there's no adverts, if you get the cheapest one there's adverts on there, but I don't, I don't want to have adverts, but Amazon now has adverts, now TV has adverts, which is the Sky thing, and, so yeah, that's where I'm with that, I just, not a big fan of all the adverts, having to wait,

it's just like with the boxing, I watch boxing, pay for it if it's like a really big fight, and then there's adverts, in between the rounds, so, as a boxing fan, I want to hear, what's being said in the corner, between rounds, it's really important actually, you want to hear, see what they're saying to the fighter, what the fighter is saying, and you want to kind of get an idea, what both of them are, what's going on, but, the amount of times just clicks to an advert, and you might get maybe, four, five rounds out

of the 12, where there's no adverts, if you're lucky, and that's on a premium paid, where you pay extra for the actual fight, it's just, I'm just moaning now, aren't I?

So, thanks for that, I hope I answered that one, see I'm getting through these, Jenny says, what's your most favourite TV comedy series, of all time?

I've answered this question differently, at different times, when I was a kid, I would have 100% said, Fawlty Towers, Fawlty Towers, even in my 20s, I would have said Fawlty Towers, without a doubt, Fawlty Towers, it was perfection, two series, or seasons, and it just had everything, but now, I'm an older, young lady, I think, for nostalgic reasons, for, yeah, I'd say Only Fools and Horses, but saying that, I don't really watch it, if you go for a TV show, that I like to watch, comedy shows that I like to watch,

there isn't many, I like the 70s shows, or the early 80s, George and Mildred, and I was a big fan of Terry and June, and, I used to like those, even though they were just, good feeling kind of shows, comedy wise, my favourite comedy show of all time, I'm probably going to stick with Only Fools and Horses, because it was such a big, part of my youth, as it were, you know, the 80s, through the 90s, but then there's been some really good shows since, I mean, Extras was great,

it was such a good show, so funny, parts of it were just hilarious, that's Ricky Gervais, and, yeah, there's so many shows that I've liked, but I think of all time, Only Fools and Horses, between English shows, English comedy shows, and American comedy shows, that gives me more options, so, Only Fools and Horses, UK, American would be Cheers, but again, it's not, you know, I laughed when I first watched the shows, because I've seen them so many times, it's still funny, but it's still not the way it used to be, but there's a sense, a certain feeling that, I know that, millions of people still, will probably get, when they watch old episodes of Seinfeld, Seinfeld?

Seinfeld, or Friends, especially Seinfeld in America, but Friends was absolutely huge here as well, so I know people that watch Friends all the time, and they love it, because it's on all the time, it's on, you can watch it throughout the day here as well, which I'm sure it is in America, and, I didn't, I did watch Friends, Seinfeld I didn't really watch so much, it wasn't really, it wasn't much of a thing here, I don't know why, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time, and England,

they used to put it on at a really silly time of night, like 11.30 or something, in the late 80's, I remember, I discovered it in 1990, because I had this studio apartment, I mean even things like The Golden Girls, I used to love, Roseanne, I'll tell you one of my favourite shows of the, about 1987, oh, what was it called, Sledgehammer, Sledgehammer, does anyone remember that, Sledgehammer, again it used to be on really late at night in the UK, Sledgehammer TV show, and, it was about, an American cop,

an American satirical police sitcom, very funny, from 1986 to 1988, it was produced, I don't know why it didn't keep going, because it was, really funny, like really funny, like laugh out loud funny, I just remembered, Police Squad, the TV show, before it was Naked Gun, it was the, I don't know, American Police Squad or something, with Leslie Nielsen, that TV show was absolutely hilarious, not seen it on TV for decades, and that was on, that was before, the, Naked Gun came out, so it was like pretty much between, Airplane,

the movies and Naked Gun, Police Squad, absolutely, I mean it's, it is, if you've watched Naked Gun you know, that it was just really, that was a great, it wasn't a sitcom but it was a great comedy show, so that was one of them as well, so I've struggled to say just one thing, but I'm going to stick with, Only Fools and Horses, okay there you go, I'm going to stick with that, but I'm a big fan of comedy, so, it's difficult for me to just to stick with one,

I'm doing quite well, I've only got one question left, wow, this is the quickest Q&A Friday I've ever done, but I'm not trying to rush through it, I'm just, just amazed that I managed to answer the questions, so Kate asked the question, please list, a thousand things that you did, before you were 20, okay maybe it's not going to be a quick recording, no it shouldn't, when you were younger, what did you want to be, when you grew up, I wanted to be free, I wanted to, again, it changed,

it changed, it changed with time, so there was a period, when I wanted to be a policeman, we used to call policeman, policeman back then, and policewomen, now I guess the correct term is police officer, but I wanted to be, a police officer then, yeah, and everyone thought it was funny, for some reason, and, see my step mum said, you just might not be tall enough, there was a height limit, or height minimum, I think it was 5 foot 10, or 5 foot 11, something like that,

now I don't think there's any limit, you can go in at any height, I don't know if it's, yeah, anyway, I'm not sure if that's a good idea, but it's, so she was kind of being nice to me, you know, you're 13 years old, and you're only 2 foot, you might not hit the 5 foot 11, by the time you're 18, it's just like, just saying it's a possibility, so, but the teacher just said, you're too thick, you need to have good qualifications to become a policeman, you're not going to be a policeman,

you'll never amount to anything, it's like, ha ha, now look at me, oh wait a minute, never mind, so yeah, a policeman was there, I'm trying to think, I quite like the idea of maybe this is true, this bitch is true, being a vampire hunter, went through a little period then, a phrase, phase, professional witch, then, that's what, I'd quite like to be a vampire, oh no, we were talking about younger, that was in my 30s, I quite like the idea of being a writer, because I always, I always enjoyed,

I enjoyed reading, had a real, real love for reading, that's one of the only things that gave me the most pleasure I would say, is reading, loved, loved to read, and, one of the things I think, when I got involved in the martial arts, when I was 14, or was I 13, I don't know, whatever age I was, I started fantasising, about, like being a, a professional trainer, I mean there was a time I wanted to go to Australia, and become a monkey boxer, now it's not as bad as it sounds,

you don't actually, box monkeys, because, a human wouldn't stand a chance, against a monkey obviously, but it was, it's just a style of Kung Fu, and I really, got this book, and I was learning the different movements, from the book, and I thought, yeah I want to do this, I want to learn this, but, I also like the idea of maybe being a monk, the idea of perhaps, you know, I suppose really, I wanted to be Kung Fu, you know from the TV show Kung Fu, I wanted to be him,

like travelling around, being an expert at Kung Fu, but also being, spiritually, advanced, and, I kind of done, some of that, I achieved some of that, I didn't become spiritually advanced, or good at Kung Fu, but I did travel around a lot, like, from town to town, sometimes, so, I'm pretty sure I moved three times in one week once, what did I want to do, I'm trying to get into that mindset of when I was little, okay, here's a good answer, well here's another truthful answer, I wanted to be a singer,

singer songwriter, I wanted to be a singer, I, I, I joined the choir, at school when I was about, hmm, nine, and, I was in the choir in high school, I did drama, I, you know I learnt, a few different instruments, three of them was, one, three different instruments were the Sea Cadets, glockenspiel, bugle and drums, but I did violin lessons, when I was in junior school for about a year and a half, maybe two years, I can't remember, and, I, I wanted to be a singer, I had a guitar,

but I bought the wrong one, I bought a bass guitar, which has got four strings instead of six strings, and it's not the kind of guitar you learn, how to play songs on, unless you want to be a bass guitarist, so, I had this, old, well it wasn't old it was new, but it's the old style, tape recorders, you know the ones you have to press to play and record at the same time, and you used to put the big tapes in, not, not the 1960s tapes but the ones in the early 80s,

which I don't know if you can buy them anymore, and I used to record myself, I used to write songs, I used to sing other people's songs, that's what I wanted to do, I wanted to be a singer, and, I think basically what happened is when I was 15, the family split up, and, the daydreaming and the fantasy was gone, I couldn't really fantasize about doing stuff anymore, because, you know I'd left school, everything was going a bit weird, generally, I mean I was 15, and, still had 6 months till I was 16,

and, you know life was weird, life was strange, and, a bit too much reality, too quick, I mean I knew reality anyway, long before that but, it was just a little bit too much, so I think my dreams kind of got dropped, I didn't have much in the way of fantasy about, what I could do, or had any, I can do this, I can accomplish this, when the reality is, I could have, gone in any direction I chose, with some help, with some support, I could have, chosen a direction to go in,

but I didn't know I had any choice, back then, and I just settled for whatever I could get, because you know realistically at 16, well 15 but, I could have got a job, pretty much anywhere, not good wages, but it still would have been a lot more than what I was getting, after I reached 16, and I was on the YTS, so I could have got, you know £60 a week, I could have got help with my rent, I don't even know that was available, and all those things,

I guess it's just that I didn't know, it's not always what you do know, it's what you don't know, sometimes it's what you do know, it's what you don't know you do know, what you know you don't know, I'm trying to sound clever but it didn't work did it, never mind, so yeah what did I want to do, I didn't have a set thing, I suppose the most powerful thing, was I wanted to be a singer, and other than doing karaoke, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times, over the years,

that's as far as I got with singing, yeah, I mean technically, the thing is, when I was a kid I couldn't have thought to myself, I want to make podcasts, because they didn't exist, I couldn't have really had, I didn't know what hypnosis was, I'd heard about it, I'd seen Paul McKenna on TV, but I didn't know of any books that taught it, I didn't know about, there was no computer, well there was computers, but there was no internet, when I was a kid, there's so many, well when I left school I mean,

so if all this had been around, then I might have actually said, you know what I want to do, I want to make podcasts, I want to just talk, I mean it would have been a very, it would have been a very different conversation, the 16, 17, 18 year old version of me, than now, I have no idea what I would have talked about, but this is me now, I mean maybe, maybe, maybe me now is different from me 6 years ago, when I was doing these, maybe it's a different,

it's very different maybe, I don't know, so what did I want to do, I wanted to be happy, I wanted to, I wanted to do something that, got me excited, that you know, that I could really, want to do, something I was interested in, I gravitated towards, something to do with martial arts, or singing, or you know, those kinds of things, because those are the things I enjoyed, but yeah, stopped the martial arts, because I was working nearly every night, so I didn't even do that, again for, blimey,

I didn't get back into martial arts until, I did a bit of Wing Chun Kung Fu, in the 90s, then 2004, I did the, not Wing Chun, I did, Pray Mantis Kung Fu, in Stratford, and then I did Wing Chun Kung Fu, in 2004, so I kind of, got back into it, but it was a big long lay off, I haven't done anything for years now, it's got to be, blimey, 10 years, over 9 years now, since, I had to come home, because my back was hurting too much, blimey,

time just goes so quickly man, where does it all go, I don't know, I'm just flummoxed, so, yeah, what did you want to be when you grew up, yeah definitely a vampire hunter, so we stick with that, I don't know, singer, martial arts, the king, an actor, I don't know, part of me wanted to be an actor as well, but singer, yeah I could see myself as a singer, for those really, really elderly people out there, I'm not referring to a sewing machine, that's an inside joke for sewers, singers,

that's the name of the company, the branded name of the company that used to produce sewing machines, and you might think, how the heck do I know that, well let me tell you, in 1995, well 94 and 95, I lived in this house, and my friend, who I worked with, he, he had, he lived in his mum and dad's house, and they moved, and he stayed in it, it was a council house, and I had the other bedroom, he had a bedroom, I had a bedroom, and in that bedroom was,

there was a desk, a table and I used to sit, lean on it, and write and stuff, and then one day I realised, I pressed a button and it tipped over, and it was a sewing machine, basically it was a sewing machine that turned upside down, you could use it as a, probably to do knitting or something, but, I was like oh, and it had the word singer, so I used to look at that sign every day, every day for quite some time, yeah, so, I do believe I've answered most of the questions,

and, you didn't have to listen forever for me to do it, so I'm going to do another one next week, I don't feel as tired as I normally do when I do these, because normally they last for about 6 hours, and, I still have a fair bit of editing, because Vinnie has barked quite a lot through this, so I have to edit it, it's going to take me, it's probably going to take me quite a bit longer to edit it tomorrow morning, but it will still be out,

it will be available, fairly early, tomorrow morning, well, when you listen to it it will be, Saturday, it's Friday now, and it's half past 6, so I'm doing quite good for time, and I've got, on a watch, I listen to the radio at 10, so, I always listen to a radio show at 10 o'clock, on LBC, on a Friday and Saturday night, so, Nick Abbott, I listen to, he's funny, so he just, he makes fun of people and stuff, so it's good, so, yeah, I will watch, do that, so I've got 6,

7, 7, 8, 9, so 3 and a half hours, before I go, so what I'll do, I'm going to take, the little monkey out, and, then I'll come back, have something to eat, and then, I'll take him out one last time, just to do a wee wee, then I'll go to bed, and then I'll wake up, tomorrow, and I'll edit this, and make it wonderfully, and tidy, and, seamless, it will be seamless, like, you'll be listening to thinking, listen to thinking, listen to it thinking, now surely Vinnie didn't bark through this,

because I can't, it's edited so, perfectly, yeah, trust me, sometimes he barks, and I have to repeat, the previous, sentence, and I have to collect, I collect my hands, between each time he barks, I collect my hands, and I collect my hands again, when I start again, as a marker, for the audio, other than that, everything's groovy, so, remember to be kind to yourself, because, you do deserve to be happy, be gentle with yourself, okay, and you know what I wrote, in marker, marker pen, on the door frame,

above the living room door, like facing me, you know, if I'm inside the door, but it's not on the door, but it's on the door frame, just above the door, I wrote this in capital letters, when I moved in here, and it says, I deserve to be happy, kiss mark, so, I had that there, years, before I started saying it on here, I've been saying it on here, since 2000, since, six years ago, I've been looking at it, I forgot it was up there, so I see it every day,

I deserve to be happy, and, I've got something written, on my toilet, wall opposite the toilet, when I'm sitting on the toilet, I can't remember what it is, but I see it every day, let's go and see, see what it says, I can't remember, I'm going to have a quick look, and I'm going to tell you, oh yeah, don't forget to wipe, no, it says, life is for loving, isn't that nice, it's almost like, it's a nice version of me, running around, putting nice notes up, and then forgetting they're there, so, take care, I will make another recording, tomorrow, so, have a great weekend, lots of love, and thank you everyone, for your questions, bye.