(no music) #1173 - Q&A Friday (18) - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (2nd August 2024)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

So this is Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday. Welcome everybody.

So I'd like to say a big thank you. Blimey. That wasn't what was supposed to happen.

Go away. Okay. Right.

Let's say a big thank you to Maureen and Paul for your PayPal gifts. Thank you very much. Very helpful at the moment.

So I do appreciate that. Thank you. And I'd also like to say a big thank you to Molly, the boss, for being the boss.

Bossing everyone around. So thank you to Molly for helping, well basically for running the Jason Newland's Boring Group on Facebook. Let's have a look.

Right. So I'm just going on to Facebook to... Also want to say a big welcome to new members of the group. Thank you for joining.

We've now got 177. I know that's not like a huge amount of people, but it's still nice to have. If nothing else, it's nice to have a name to some of the people that are listening or watching my videos and podcasts.

So that's nice. I haven't got an awful lot of energy. I haven't got a lot of questions to answer.

So this is not going to be a long recording as far as it's going to be 10 hours long. If you're listening to the 10 hour version, it will still be 10 hours long. And so also a shout out to Boston Chicky, who's joined the group as well.

She's an old friend of mine that I've known for since I was a youngster. I was a young'un. And she's actually known, her name's Andrea, but I've never called her Andrea.

I've always called her Boston. So welcome to Boston. And what other bits of thing is there? That's it.

It's very warm. I'm going to have to take my top off I think. Don't get too excited.

Oh, that's a bit cold. Ah, you know, the good thing about this is this is something I can't do anywhere else in the world. Just take my top off and just enjoy being topless.

All right. As I said, it's getting hotter. I'm gonna have to take my bra off as well.

So what questions do I have for today? Oh, right. Right, so I've only got two, which is okay. So I'll answer them as quick as possible.

As you know, I normally do a very quick answer. But one from Diana and one from Hillary. Although I did also, I had, so I posted this posted it twice so that I posted Thursday, I think it's Q&A time anyway, again, any questions? So I've got Tammy put this isn't a question, but rather an expression of deep gratitude.

For those who might still have doubts about hypnosis. I want to share my experience. Oh, cool.

I've not replied to this blind. I'm sorry. Sorry, I've not replied to this one.

I should I need to reply. I'll reply now. But I'll reply on on Facebook as well.

What's it say? I want to share my experience. It's been over 14 months since I listened to your stop smoking podcast. And the impact has been lasting.

I occasionally visit it for a refresher, but it continues to work effectively. Thank you sincerely. It's just I can't even say the words today.

Sincerely, sincerely. Thank you, Tammy. And this is I would be interested, which is a specific recording out of the stop smoking ones because I've got a few there is a specific one that you found most useful.

Because I've got a few. Yeah, there's a few on there. So that'd be interesting to know.

And Joanne says, I thought of a really good question to ask last night, while I was listening to you, but I fell asleep and I can't remember what the question was. That's brilliant. The amount of times that that's happened to me, where I'm just like, I got an idea.

And I fall asleep. And it's probably the best idea I've ever had in my entire life. You know, you know, like, I got this, this idea that's going to change the world.

And I fall asleep and I wake up usually, well, I say usually quite often, I never remember it. But occasionally, I like will wake up and I'll like, Oh, what was it? What was it? And then later in the day, like, it'll just pop like, oh, invent the light bulb. And it's like, Oh, I can't remember it now.

And then I maybe that wasn't such a good idea. Maybe 200 years ago would have been a good idea. So Tammy says, I was stupid.

Thank you. Thank you for your kind words. So I would be interested to hear what if there was a specific recording? No, that'd be cool.

Okay, so the questions I've got, if I can find it again, posting quite a lot of stuff lately. Where Okay, Diana and Hillary. Diana says, What are some weird things that Vinnie does? My girl chases shadows inside and out.

Wow, I mean, yes, he's never done that. Do you know that thing where people, they shine a light like you can get those light pointer lights, not the dangerous ones that can blind planes. But the you know, the ones that you can shine against the wall.

And I think sometimes he's in for cats and some dogs will like try and chase it. Vinnie, no interest. Just for some reason it doesn't doesn't really bother him.

He's doesn't doesn't like not interested in stuff like that. The weird things he does. He's got definitely got some some unusual things.

So like, every time I turn on the recorder, to make a podcast, he just appears. He's in the bed asleep or if he wherever he just wake up instantly running. I don't even know why.

I don't get it. I mean, he's standing just always sit and stare at me. Whenever I start talking into the microphone, he just you know, he just like stares at me.

So if he's already in here, and I turn on the recorder, he's watching me anyway. So he knows I'm doing that. But as soon as I start talking, he's there just staring at me.

But now a little bit less for less time. Right now is under the table. He's chewing on a bone and he's happy again.

He just I have to kind of ignore him. So if I make a fuss like you all right, what do you want? What do you want? He doesn't. He doesn't leave me alone.

But if I just ignore it, or ignore it in or ignore him to the point of like, just get on with a podcast. He's happy enough to be under the table. As long as he's with me.

He's happy I think. Weird things does he do? Is bungee jumping weird? I don't know. I don't know really.

He's a sleepyhead. I know that much. He sleeps way more than me.

So we go to bed at 10 o'clock. So I'm quite an early sleeper these days. Early to bed early to rise.

Okay, good boy. That's enough now. Don't you fart at me.

Right, he just started barking. I might have to close that door. And I'm not making a video of this.

I will make a video version of this recording. But it's too hot. I want to be top off and I can't do that on a video because that would probably be classes x rated on YouTube.

And you know, the idea is for people to listen to relax not to be getting excited. Or, or being made to feel sick. So yeah, talking about that I felt ill the other day.

Oh, I don't know if you remember I talked probably about too much a little bit too much about what I was going to have for my evening meal. So I was gonna have a cooked breakfast. Which I did.

It was all in the oven. It wasn't there's no fried food or the vegetarian sausages only had three little sausages. Two eggs poached.

That's a weird word. poached and some beans just you know, and also one tomato sliced up also in the oven and just like cooked that a little bit. Didn't have any bread.

I had a a protein shake as well. So I don't know what it was but I felt ill afterwards. Ill, ill, ill.

Like to the point of I'm not sure where this is going. You know. Yes, I went to the park, took him for a walk but I was walking around the park for about half an hour slowly just trying to kind of in a way I felt I feel like I needed burping.

Either I needed an ambulance or I needed burping. It was one of them two. Because I really I'm serious I was worried.

I didn't know what the hell. I was having no no trouble breathing but I was having pains in my chest and my stomach. Which I get when I get indigestion and I am on tablets for acid reflux.

So you know indigestion is something that happens sometimes much it's really depend upon food rather than anything else. That's what I mean. That's why it was quite easy to well that's why I stopped drinking coke.

I didn't stop drinking coke for the sugar content so much. It was more to the fact that I was getting indigestion if I drank a lot of coke. So I stopped the coke a long time ago.

The coke the coke coca-cola and I stopped that quite a long time ago. Long before I was told by the doctor that I needed to that I was like pre-diabetic. So I seriously needed to change my diet.

So in a way stopping a coke still didn't affect my blood sugar levels. Unless my blood sugar levels were even higher then. Which I kind of hope they were.

Which means it did help. Because if they're the same if my blood sugar levels now are the same as they were when I was drinking six cans of coke a day then I think I'm pretty much guaranteed to be going the diabetic route. Because it's like I think maybe the damage is done.

I really hope not. I'll find out in September when I have my bloods done again. But I have you know I haven't had any sugar.

I've had no sugar in my tea. I've had no cakes really. I said really.

A neighbor brought some cakes gave me some cakes a few couple of weeks back and I added a little they're little cakes and I had a couple. I did. I didn't like stuff them all down but over a week I had a couple of cakes.

So I got my hands up. I didn't have to tell you. I didn't have to tell you.

16 bars of chocolate yesterday. Apart from that nothing else. I had five pints of lager the day before.

But apart from that everything fine. I don't and there was that 17 burgers I had on Wednesday. No I haven't.

I've been really I don't know if good is the right word but careful with that stuff. So apart from those kind of tiny little cakes that one neighbor gave me. It was just a thank you for helping him out.

I can't remember what I did. And he let me keep the plastic container which was good. So I put stuff in there and yeah.

So I had no cakes. I can't even remember. I can't remember the last time I had chocolate.

Genuinely. It's been that long. Although I've got a chocolate bar.

I've got a crunchy bar in my fridge that a neighbor put through the door. A different neighbor. Put through the letterbox for me.

Not eating it. It's just there. I don't even want to eat it which is the biggest lie I've told ever since I've been making podcasts.

Because I do want to eat it and want to eat it right now. But I'm not going to. Oh it's calling my name.

To be fair I don't care if it's calling Susie or Darrell. I'd still be in there to get it. It doesn't have to be called my name.

Just it'd be a race against all my invisible friends. Yeah. So who's watching the Olympics anyone? Anyone watching the Paris Olympics? I've not really watched it.

What on earth was that sound? It literally sounded like one of my books just moved on their own. It's very strange. But he didn't notice that.

Anyone turns their door handle downstairs he's like rah rah rah rah rah. The book moved by itself. Two foot away from where he's lying.

He doesn't notice it. Apparently we're supposed to have a thunderstorm soon. But it's a lot cooler today.

It's still warm in here. Because the TV lets off a lot of heat. Even though the TV hasn't been on for a couple of hours.

But still it's off quite a bit of heat. And it's a warm day. But I'm not going to complain.

Because you know. Blimey. It'll be chilly soon.

So I'm not going to get too worried about it being too hot. Because the thing is I'm not that bothered about the cold. Because in the winter it's supposed to be cold.

It's just that's how it's supposed to be. And the lead up to winter is not usually that bad anyways. It's colder.

Like I'm old. It's cold. But it's just normal.

And when it's freezing cold we don't even get that many days where it's below minus. In this country. Like where I live anyway.

I can't talk about other parts of the country. Because there's parts of the country where it gets really really cold for a long time. Then you've got parts of the island I live on.

Like Wales and Scotland. They get super cold in the winter. Like really like minus minus minus minus degrees.

Some places. But we don't get like it does get cold. But it doesn't get as cold as it doesn't get like super duper cold for months on end.

As far as like minus 10 or like New York. Doesn't it get like minus 70 or something ridiculous like that. In Russia.

I'll have to close the window in a minute because the screaming kids have come back. It's been so nice. I really thought it was a little bit of peace and quiet to make a podcast.

Well if you can hear any background sounds and it's disturbing you just turn the recording off. That's all I can really say because it's it annoys me. But you can't hear as much as me because of the microphone.

It's more the microphone really only picks up my voice or what's in front of it. And it might pick up a little bit of the background sound with screaming humans and stuff. But outside of that it shouldn't shouldn't be particularly loud.

But I can hear it a lot clearer. So and I've got to stop talking about it. I don't mind.

That's just what I like. I like hearing people shouting. That's good.

Makes me happy. So. So.

Say. Say. Say.

Am I going to actually answer the question that Diana asked. All right. Blimey.

OK. So what are some of the weird things that Vinnie does. I don't know if it's weird.

He's got a thing of biting the lead just for no reason. He wants to play because I've got a new lead now and it's a thick one. So it's even better because it's like a rope really for him and he can really bite hold of it and he likes to play tug of war.

And so he likes this new rope or this new lead I've got. It's not a long lead. It's not one of those extendable ones because the local shop didn't have one.

The pet shop didn't have one. And I just thought, well, this cost me about eight pounds, nine pounds. So it was a lot cheaper than getting one of the expendable expendable extendable ones.

So this makes more sense for now. Although I will when I got the money, I think I'll get another one of those and maybe alternate depending on what I'm doing. So if I'm going to if I'm just going to the park, I can use the extendable one so we can go into the grass and stuff like that.

But if I'm going to the, let's say I'm going to the shop or I'm going to the pet shop or the sweet shop that he calls it, I can put on the shorter lead, which means I've got more control over him where he is because the extendable lady just although there is a lock on it, it's very thin lead and it's this just having the thick lead.

Although it's not like really short, he can walk a fair bit ahead of me, but I can just wrap it around so that he's at my feet. And I prefer that when we are walking on a very small bit of pavement on which would basically a motorway now.

It's not a motorway, but it leads to a motorway. So you've got the same traffic going on to and yeah, not coming off but going on to maybe going on to it. Yeah, going on to and coming off a motorway.

That's it. Yeah. So it's, it's a lot of traffic.

But unlike a motorway, it's just like both sides of the road come going each way. But this is not big, they're not big roads, just a normal, small road big enough for cars and I suppose lorries and stuff. But there's, there's literally inches between the cars going one way and going the other way.

Divided by a white line. They're powerful, them white lines, aren't they? I don't know whose idea that was. I think they should be divided by a wall.

All roads divided by walls. Or maybe a glass wall, indestructible glass wall so that people could see what's going the other way but they can keeps them on their side. Or maybe I was thinking of this what would be good if you could get a magnet.

So a magnet, so like a backward magnet that pushes stuff away on the pavement and on the wall, the middle wall bit, which means the car will have no choice but to be in the middle and will stay there. Not powerful enough to keep it there forever. But you know, so it could still drive, go forward, but it would be stuck in the middle.

And I might have, this might either be a bit of genius or it might have shown my lack of knowledge about how magnets work. But you know, it's one of them. It's a toss up, isn't it? So it's going to be one.

So Diana, my girl, did you know? Did you know, Diana and anyone else listening? And this is something that you might know but you might not know. It's a true, very truthful thing. Is the in 1988, when Michael Jackson brought his bad tour to London, or to England, but he was performing at the BBB BBB BBB BBB Wembley, I imagine.

Probably Wembley Stadium, not the arena. Because, yeah, probably it might be in this stadium, but I imagine it was the arena. I can't imagine there was one venue in the entire world that Michael Jackson could not fill.

Just like there's not a venue in the whole world that Billie Eilish or Beyonce or any of the Justin Bieber or Harry Styles or any of the stars of today could fill. They'd all fill whatever arena was available. You know, if you had 30,000 or 200,000, they'd fill it.

But we just don't have stadiums with 200,000 people in them. I don't think such a stadium even exists in the world. I don't think I think the maximum for Wembley in in London is 92,000 something.

It used to, they used to fit more people when we were people allowed to stand. So for things like football matches, people in the styles, this is style not styles, in the audience. And the audience used to be able to stand and you can fit like two, three times the amount of people.

Maybe four times amount of people standing as you can seated, because the amount of rooms of seats take rows of seats and stuff. But, you know, from a health and safety perspective, seated is better, I guess. And more comfortable as well.

But there's been concerts and stuff in some countries like Brazil, where they had over 100,000 people. So I'm just saying what's the largest? Largest good, but it's outside though. Largest outside concert, concert, the largest seats unique official site, Rod Stewart.

Rod Stewart 1995. New York Eve concert Copacabana, Copacabana, Copacabana Beach, Copacabana. He was lovely.

What's his name? Mandy. Although I also had a song called Mandy. I like the songs and make the whole world sing.

I write the songs for everything. I can't remember his name. Barry Manilow.

Barry Manilow. Oh, beautiful man. Beautiful.

And yeah, I don't know why he waited to become gay. Why did he wait so long to become gay? Why didn't he just? He was revered. He was absolutely loved by his audience.

And would anyone have cared? I mean, I know it's personal. It's got nothing to do with anyone else anyway. But just generally like, well, he's, it's like, I just don't like Elton John.

I haven't even got married to try and put people off the scent. I would have argued or change the things you were wearing on stage. And maybe, but he's, you know, it's like, okay, I suppose some people care, but I'm talking about it.

Does that mean I care? No, no. Liberace. Liberace died and no one knew he was gay.

Really? It's like, it doesn't matter. Liberace was great because of his performance and Elton John's great because of his songs and his stage performance and I don't know. What does that matter what they do in there? Who they do that with, you know? What does it matter, man? Rod Stewart's 1994 New Year's Eve concert.

Did you know he's a bit gossip about Rod Stewart? Rod Stewart. I used, I've met his wife. Yeah, I did.

I did. You might think you met Penny. See, how would I know her name's Penny? How did you meet Penny? Ah, do you want to know? Do you really want to know? Well, here we go.

One of my, I had a friend, or she was a colleague or friend at the comedy club. She was the manager there. Not Penny, but my friend was.

She was close friends with Penny. Because they were both going to college or university together, studying photography. I think it was photography, photography or fashion.

It was either one of them, either photography or fashion. I think it was photography. It might have been fashion.

And so they were friends and Rod Stewart was dating her then. And this was the 90s. Yeah, I never got to meet him, I don't think.

I met her just because she used to come and come drinking with her and, well not drink, but meet up at the club and stuff. I saw her a couple of times. Not to talk to, I don't think.

But she, yeah. Rod Stewart's a really nice bloke. So he holds the top spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest open air concert in history in Rio de Janeiro.

4.2 million people. And it was free. Wow.

Wow. 4.2 million people. You think about it though, if you did a concert and everywhere you went you did the concert for free.

Never charge nothing for no one, like for the concerts I mean. You would sell so many records wouldn't you? You'd make that money up at treble just by the records itself, the merchandise. It's a free concert.

You'd buy a t-shirt wouldn't you? I kissed Rod Stewart or whatever it says on on the on the t-shirt. It's just, I mean, I didn't kiss Rod Stewart. He refused.

He said no. He liked me as a friend. So attending music concerts.

Right, here we go. So Rod Stewart says to 4.2 million people. My question, it's just a question.

It's not a big question. It's not a large question. It's not a long sentence but it is a question.

4.2 million people. And there is a picture. 4.2 million people.

Looks like ants. That was a very saliva filled word then wasn't it? And how could people even hear? And I'm surprised. How can you fit 4.2 million people on a beach? Because that's what it was.

It was a beach. It just seems like a lot of people. I mean, that's like three percent of this country's population or something like that.

No, three percent. 4.2 million. We've got, that'd be 10 percent.

We have 42 million there. We've got 70 million people in this country. So that's what? 5, 70 million would be 7 million.

So it's literally six percent of the population. Wow. Right.

The second is John Michael Jarre. 850th anniversary of the Moscow concert. 850th anniversary? How? He's not that old, is he? But he had 3.5 million.

And where was it though? Oh, was it Moscow? It was 1997. Oh, blimey. And you've got George Ben Jarre's New York Eve concert.

3 million. And that was, where was that? It doesn't say. Oh, Copacabana Beach.

So why did they say that? They said that it's Copacabana Beach. Didn't they say that at the beginning with Rod Stewart? Oh, they're making it up now. So yeah.

New Year's Eve, George Ben, Michael John Barr. Love Paradise Festival, 2008. 1.6 million.

Doesn't say that where it was from. Australia, I think. They're very squashed together.

Oh, I wouldn't like that. Monsters of Rock concert, 1991. 1.6 million.

Wow. Wow. Blimey.

The Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang concert, 2006. 1.5 million. See, that's what I don't understand.

Like that, obviously, it's huge. But it doesn't, it looks like just as many if not more than the 4.6 million. Gene Michael Jarre's Rendezvous Houston concert, 1.3 million.

Gene Michael Jarre. Was he, didn't he do one of the other ones as well? Gene Michael Jarre as well. Blimey.

So he's got number two and number four and number seven and number eight. Guy gets around. Who is he? Is he, does he? I don't know what he does.

I don't know. What songs has he got? Diana Ross for one and for all, 1983. Number 10 is Paz Sin Fonteros concert 2, 2009.

1.1 million. And you get Jean Michael Jarre's Bastille Day concert, 1979. Who is this bloke? He's like, mate, he's in the world record like five times.

1 million. It was his first performance was during the Bastille Day. Who is he? So Michael Jackson, 1988.

Because I had tickets to go and see the Michael Jackson concert at Wembley Stadium. And I got given to me, it's my 18th birthday. I got given.

So I mean, I think the, the, yeah, I just, I'd only just started. After my birthday, I started working. Probably a couple of weeks later, I started working in a job in a factory.

And the concert was midweek, it was like a Wednesday or something. And I didn't want to have time off on the first week of my work. So I kind of just gave the tickets back to whoever got them for me.

It was a family member. I didn't go. Crazy, really.

I should have just gone. I just don't. In a situation like that.

I mean, if I'd been like a nurse, or it was a job where people, I mean, of course, they would have depended on me to go, but it wasn't. It wouldn't have been a huge thing if I hadn't been there that day. To be honest, you know, it wouldn't have made a huge difference.

You know, it wasn't it wasn't like a brain surgery was going to get missed. It was just some, you know, someone else would have just come and done the job. So yeah, that was a mistake.

But during that concert, there is, you know, how the how the newspapers try and make out something's a big deal when it isn't. And it was, they were trying to try to make out that Michael Jackson might get into trouble if he sings his Dirty Diana song at the first concert they played at Wembley because Princess Diana was actually going to be in the concert, not in the concert, but watching it in the Royal Box.

I thought she was the Royal Box in the Royal Box.

So she was with Prince Charles, well, King Charles now, but with Prince Charles. So Princess Diana was there. And the idea that she would get offended because he was singing a song called Dirty Diana.

And clearly, it wasn't going to change the words of the song. But yeah, I was just I remember seeing that and thinking this is silly. It's silly.

She's got a problem, kick her out. Don't you know, she could just go go go do a poo during that song, and come back and enjoy the rest of the show. It's just or just do the poo in while you're sitting down and the song will actually be relevant.

Dirty Diana. But yeah, it was. What's my favourite song? I'm going back to the questions now.

What is your favourite joke? Oh dear. I do have a favourite joke, but it's wrong. It's just really wrong.

So I can't tell you the original version. But I can do a version of it. Don't worry, it's not the aristocrats.

It is. Okay, I've got to do a version of it. Right.

So this is 21 year old girl, female. And she is. She's gone into basically it's Halloween night.

She's decided she dressed up all of her friends, they all work in a garage, her and her friends are all going out to a fancy dress party. But they all work in and this I can mechanical. I think it was fixing buses to be honest.

So they all went in this like versions of what they did as a job. And she was a bus driver. But they all kind of like they just wanted to do do different versions that someone was a bus.

I think someone went and dressed as a tire. Another person went in dressed as a bus stop. And then I think someone went in and she went dressed as a welder.

Because they had welders working in the yard, you know, to to fix the buses when they broke down stuff like that. That wasn't what she did. But so they all arranged to meet there was Tommy, who is I think he was the tire.

And she wasn't the only woman that worked there was but it was mainly men that worked there but it was a few there's about five women to two of the drivers were women and three of the drivers were men. And it wasn't like that's that's not all the drivers they had in the world. It's just that was their particular shift that they did like the route that they did.

So she arranged to meet our friends does like Tommy with a tire dress as a tire. There was Sue who is dressed as a bus pass or something. I think she was dressed as a bus pass.

How do you dress as a bus pass? And then there was a Paul who's dressed as a ticket machine. And then there was Robbie who is trying to think. Yeah, I think he might have been dressed as a pump, you know, to pump up tires.

So I think you might be like that. So they all did their individual dresses. Even though it's Halloween.

It was not scary, but it was fun. You know, we're young and they're just ready to have some fun. So a couple of the couple of our friends, the tire and the they stuck him in the back in the boot.

There was the or is it the someone did dress as a ladder but he was on top of the car. They stuck him on top. And I know it's getting silly, don't worry about it.

And trust me, this is much more tasteful than the original, the original joke. And it goes on a lot longer this one than the original one. The Anyway, and the yeah, the car was full.

And this this lady, she was called Madonna. And so she was she was named after I think it was one of our aunties or something. And they so she she said, I'm just going to go and get him go to the shop.

Is there anything you need to our friends? And the friends in this in this car said, I don't know, we'll get some alcohol and we go there. So if you can get me some cans of lager and get and what do you want? Oh, well, I could do with some probably signed to eat. And if you've got some what's it's got some what's it's maybe a sausage roll.

And I have a friend as he said, What about you to the ladder? And he's, he said, I don't know really. We'll see. She got calm was looking up at the roof of the car.

He said something a coat probably because a bit cold up here. And she laughed. She said, No, I haven't got any coats.

But anything you want from the shop? He said, No, just like just get where we're going really. And then she shouted, What about you? Do you need anything to the tire? He said, I don't know. He said, Well, so as anyone would do, in that situation, of course, she rang him.

And she asked him so he answered the phone in the boot and said, Yeah, just passion get me a can of coke. She said, Oh, okay. And maybe a bit more oxygen.

That'd be nice. He said, Oh, no, seriously, it's really, really stuffy in there. She said, Oh, good one.

And put the phone down. So she didn't put the phone down. She just pressed the off button and put the phone into a pocket.

Because there was nowhere to put the phone down. There was no tables, there was nothing. So she went into the shop, it was like an off license, the news agents sort of thing.

So she went in there. And she got the bits she needed to get. And this, she was just bending over getting the don't worry, it's not going anywhere weird.

Getting a can and it was one of those, you know, you get the fridges, the stand up fridges. And then you get the in the summer, sometimes they put them sometimes when I put the drinks into the freezer as well just to get them cold. Well, she got one out of the freezer.

So she had to bend over to get it. And which wasn't good because she'd hurt her knee. Her knee like it was a left knee.

But what's weird is she didn't know how she'd done it. So like, why why is it hurting? And then it she noticed that her right knee was hurting. But it was just like an ache.

Not just any hurt when she walked, but she thought, well, I can't stop walking. I've got things to do. And just, but you know, it wasn't like, it wasn't worrying her.

But it was like, Oh, that's weird. Wonder how that happened. And then she remembered just as she was bending over and why just as she was getting up and bending over.

She remembered that she did it when she was trying to get something out of the freezer at home. Oh, this is how I did it. Perhaps I should stop doing this.

So she stands up and she turns around and she bumps into someone. She bumps into a lamppost. And she's all and the lamppost says, What are you doing? Which way are you going, man? And I Oh, and it was a fancy dress person dressed as a lamppost.

I said, she said, Sir, why are you dressed as a lamppost? He said, What do you mean? He said, You're just all like, just dressed a lamppost. I don't understand. What do you mean? Not just my normal clothes.

And she thought, Oh, gotta be careful there. Strange. So she said, Oh, no, don't worry.

So she walks away. And he goes into the pay for stuff that she's got. And there's a lad over the counter.

And he's probably about 25. She's not seen him before. He's quite new.

She said today, you know, he said, Yeah. Well, I'm 25. I've been around for 25 years, but I'm new in this job.

She said, That's what I meant. Said, Yeah. And she's all went to pay, she's paid for the stuff and everything.

So she paid, paid for it. There's a queue, queue waiting. It was going on a bit too long sometimes.

I think some of the people queuing would think. And he started, he said, Can I ask you a question? She said, What? He said to her, Have you ever, have you ever, ever danced naked in front of a fridge, an open fridge? She said, No. No.

He said, Okay. She said, Can I go now? He said, Can I ask you another question? He said, Okay. He said, Have you ever kissed a fish, like kissed a fish on the mouth? She said, No, I haven't.

He said, Can I go now? She said, Well, yeah, of course you can go do what you want. But I just don't know if I can ask you another question. She said, What? What now? He said to her, Have you ever held hands with a giraffe? And she said, Oh, I get it.

I get it. I got to stop you there. Sorry.

I just got to let you know, I'm not really a welder. And she left. Now that, that, she was dressed as a welder, and he's asking stupid questions.

It's much, it's a better joke, the original one. It doesn't go. Well, maybe it's it, but the original was very rude.

I mean, you could argue that one was a little bit rude, but it wasn't really it was, it was like, gentle, rude. The other one was more. The original version was much more explicit.

And it didn't involve pretty much any of the other stuff that I added on to it. None of the stuff apart from the costume, that was it. So yeah, I apologize.

I am I feel I just just I feel I feel so, so, so sorry. Okay. Michael Jackson, Jackson, Dirty Diana, Dirty Diana, Wembley, newspaper headlines.

I wonder, will it say anything 1988? Are you ready? You think I lie all the time, which I do generally? You ready for this? Wink Wikipedia, Wikipedia says, live at Wembley, July 16 1988. And I, to be fair, I didn't, I wasn't 18 until the August. So I don't know when on earth it was.

Unless I got it my 17th birthday. No, the 18th birthday. Wonder when? Anyway, so he told you he I guess he must have come back to Wembley later on.

So this is live at Wembley, 16th of July 1988. The particular concert, okay, says it here. This particular concert took place on July 16 1988 at Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London in to a sold out crowd of 72,000, which included Diana, Princess of Wales, and Charles, Prince of Wales.

Okay, you ready for this? I mean, what year is it now? 2024 8898 28 to 8898 2008 2018. It's over over 22 years. So he, it says here, right? Jackson, I'm guessing they're talking about Michael, originally removed dirty Diana from this night's performance, worried that he would offend Princess Diana, or the royal family.

However, the princess informed Jackson it was her favorite song. Makes sense, doesn't it? Like you've got a note, you've got your name in a song. The most famous man list.

I mean, we've got to argue that she was at that time, one of the most, if not the one of the most famous females or even people in the entire world. You know, Princess Diana. There wasn't many places in the planet that didn't know who she was.

Super famous. And she was the most famous rule member to rule family, really. I know you've got the Queen, but as far as popularity, and yeah, so how cool is that, that he, I guess, he must have somehow the message got to us, because it was in the papers saying, Oh, he's going to remove it.

Because he didn't want to upset them, which is why I said at the beginning, because my memory is so good sometimes and so awful other times. Jackson stated that he was unable to put the song into the set, which led some fans to believe was not performed on July 16. However, leaked audio snippets proved that the song was re added to the set list.

Okay, okay, I don't really know what that's something that's talking about something controversial video controversy. According to the video, some fans are taking concern of the video quality of the portion Jason told her. I don't know what's taught about something.

So yeah, I missed out. I mean, that could have been transformational. Seeing Michael Jackson in concert, CNN perform.

He was my favorite singer at the time. And continue, you know, if I had to choose like one singer at the top of my list of, okay, if, if it went from if it was like a truth serum, you know, if I had to tell you had to tell the truth, and instead of listening to my words, you actually had access to all the songs that I've ever played in my life.

Like on albums, take cassettes, CDs, like from watching movies, to streaming, who's the person I've listened to the most, that's going to be Michael Jackson.

Simple as that. You know, so I mean, Stevie Wonder is going to be up there as well. But Michael Jackson is, I think it's because I didn't really discover him.

I must have heard his songs when I was growing up, like, during the 70s, because he was famous, I think 1972, I think was his first hit. So I'd have grown up listening to him without necessarily knowing who he was, or who the Jacksons were. I don't remember off the wall coming out.

Because that was like 1979. But I do remember Thriller, because that was a huge deal. Thriller and E.T. And there's certain some things I remember, when they were being launched, like Star Wars, E.T., Superman, although Superman, I was very young when the first Superman came out.

But there was, you know, I remember, Thriller was such a huge deal. Such a huge deal. And I saw Thriller, was it the video of Thriller, and they showed on channel four, quite late at night, so maybe like 10 o'clock or something.

It was late for me when I was a kid. And I was allowed to sit up to watch it. And the reason we liked it, because John Landis was the one who made the video.

And he's the same person that did the American Wealth in London movie, which me and my brothers were all big fans of, even though we should never have watched stuff like that when I was like 11. But I did. And I loved it.

I loved that movie. And that was Luke's favorite movie. Actually, my friend, his absolute favorite movie, and he used to watch it with his sisters.

And at his, at his funeral, I mentioned it. And they were like, wow, it's not they'd forgotten, but like, he told you that. I think that kind of maybe is one of those big memories that they'd not thought of for a long time.

And yeah, so I didn't really get into Michael Jackson probably until Thriller. And then when Bad came along, like 1987. I think that's probably when I really became like a massive, massive fan when I was listening to Michael Jackson like all the time.

And I was listening to Off the Wall, loved the album. I was listening to Thriller and Bad. I just lied.

Wow. Someone gave me the Thriller album. Who was it? Oh, no, I didn't lie.

But someone did give me a Thriller album when I was 17. And I was working in so I didn't have the Thriller album. How weird.

Anyway, I used to listen to Off the Wall and Bad. Because I remember I used to, especially on a Sunday, I was up in the chip shop and I'd go on a Sunday, I'd just crash. So I'd be working fairly long hours.

I wasn't necessarily getting a huge amount of sleep at night. Just because I was always like planning stuff and trying to build a life that never happened. But I was always like, oh, I'll do a business, business idea.

And I can do this and do this and do this. And yeah, it didn't, it didn't really occur. But I used to listen to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.

And Terrence Strange Darby as well. It's another album I used to listen to, like constantly. So on a Sunday, because I always had a Sunday off, I'd go and get, I'd go to the newsagents and I'd get myself all the papers.

So all like, like the tabloids that is. So the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily, the News of the World. And I don't know, maybe that was it, maybe three or four.

So I'd take them home and I'd read them all. And I'd have my breakfast. And then quite often, I just go back to bed.

And I'd just be in bed nearly all day long. And listening to, you know, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder. And I'd have, I basically have the, in fact, I don't not sure if I even had a bed anymore.

I just had a mattress on the floor. And I had the tape recorder next to my bed. And I just keep turning it over.

And that's what I did on Sundays. That was my, my days, my Sundays. Because back then, there wasn't a lot to do.

No shops open. Nothing really was open. Didn't have any library, although I don't think the libraries were open Sundays anyway now.

But there wasn't anything really around during the day. And I didn't really have any money to go and do anything. So it's really, it's kind of boring, really.

Plus, in a way, I saw so many people like all when I was working, all the customers and the people I was working with. I didn't feel the need to see human beings on a Sunday, generally. Unless there was like a family lunch or something like that.

Then I'd go and see my nan or you know, something like that. So really, really became a bit obsessed with Michael Jackson's albums. And then when I was 18, no, I was 17.

17 I got given the Thriller album from someone I worked with. So I don't think I had the Thriller album. Or like, I don't know why I thought I would have had it.

Unless, unless, unless, I don't know, it's hard to remember. But I know that a lady that worked in the co-op supermarket gave me a Thriller album. I don't know why she gave it to me.

But she did. So that was lovely. And there was a, I used to love Elvis when I was a kid as well.

And one of the lady, dinner ladies gave me Elvis Presley's Greatest Hits. And we were talking about it at the dinner table. And she said, Oh, I've got an album you can have.

I don't know why. And I just I didn't think anything of it. And she came back the next day and she brought me this, his 50 greatest hits.

And it was I think I had a red, red cover. How lovely is that? And it was like double, double album. Just gave it to me.

So yeah, from that from then on, you know, if it was regarding 87, 86, 87, 88. And then I just loved I went through a period that was like always bad, listening to bad all the time. The album.

And then 91 Dangerous came out. It was like November. I think it was like, yeah, it was around that time.

I think it's winter, maybe it was autumn, but it was near the end of 91. I do believe I listened to that album. I loved it.

It was like every single song, the same as I did with bad, every single song, the way as I did with Thriller, the way I did with Off The Wall. And I think the reason that is, it's the only singer who I've bought an album. It's not the only singer that bought an album that I liked every single song.

So I've got a few albums like that. But it's never been one singer that's produced as many albums as that, that I liked all the songs on. So I loved all the songs on Off The Wall.

I loved all the songs off of Thriller, all the songs off of bad, all the songs off of Dangerous. And all the songs off of History. And all the songs off of Invincible.

Invincible, which was about 2001. It was, I loved it, but I didn't, I like it more now than I did back then. When it first came out, it was, it wasn't quite, it was a different kind of level to the others.

I'm not sure how to explain it, but and the excitement wasn't there the way it was in his previous, his last recording previous to that, which was History, which was 1995. And I remember listening to it for the first time. I've got the tape, stuck it in my recorder.

So I think I bought the tape and I went and I had to get some batteries from my tape recorder, like my headphones, whatever, or the batteries for the recorder. And it wasn't like a snazzy thing, just a general tape player, you know. Although I did once have a sport tape, tape player.

What did they used to call them? They were yellow ones. But they were really good quality. Yellow sport tape players.

All yellow sports, Sony Walkman. Blimey, you can still buy them. Now, yellow tape, so it's a sports Walkman, that's it.

And they were really good. So I was just seeing pictures of them now. They were the best quality ones you could buy at the time.

And I think I might have got one in the 90s. Yeah, I don't know what happened to it, probably got stolen or something. But yeah, wow.

Such good quality. And the headphones weren't particularly good. They were still like little, little headphones, little phones, you know, didn't cover your ear or anything.

But the quality was so much better than the other, the other, you know, tape players. But I didn't have one of them at the time. But I did get one eventually.

Maybe it was late 90s when I got one of them. So it was and I was also, it might have also had a radio player. Just from the looks of this, it had a radio player as well.

FM and AM. But they were never great quality sound for the radio. Because unless if you were static, then maybe if you like not static as in I mean, like if you were in one place.

So I used to do that. I just remember what I don't know if I was on the way to work or I was on the way somewhere. Anyway, I remember leaving the house and listening to history.

The first or is it dangerous? No, it's history. History and listening to it. And I think I thought, wow, it was so good.

But the first side was all a lot lower is old stuff. So what I had to do, I think if I remember rightly, I read, I fast forwarded it. So I could listen to the second side first, because that was all his new music.

And I was like, whoa, dangerous. No, I'm only dangerous. Oh, it's great.

And you are not alone was my favourite song off of that album. And I had a girlfriend who had a little kid, a baby actually. And this baby was, I don't know, how old, still in a car.

Like, couldn't walk yet. So is that age, like, really little still toddler kind of, but I don't know, a year old, maybe. And whenever he cried, I'd sing sing to him.

I sing the Michael Jackson song, and he'd cry even more. He stopped crying. And we had this connection.

I don't know why it's very strange. Not just that, but he just I'd hold him and he stopped crying. He really liked me a lot.

We kind of bonded. I don't understand why, but there was a real connection there. And I remember my girlfriend's dad phoned me up once and said that the little boy, her, my girlfriend's son was in hospital, had an asthma attack.

So and she was with him. So and this was in Whitechapel, I think hospital. So I made my way there.

I get there. I don't know what time it was in the evening, I think I got there. And she she's knackered because she's been there for ages.

And, and he looks up at me. And he's put his arms out for me to pick him up. So and I sent her home when it send a home, I said just go get some rest.

And she's like, well, no, someone needs to watch him. And I know the nurses were there. But I said, look, I'll just watch him all night.

You come back tomorrow morning, get some sleep, get some food. I'll stay with him tonight. And I'll just watch him all night and you come back and then I'll then I'll go home and get some sleep.

It was what I did. So I was there from about, I don't know, early evening, she went home, came back three weeks later. And she came back the next day.

She was Yeah, it was really weird. Very, very weird. It was to be honest, come there, watching this little baby, and it's still a baby, a year old, maybe 10 months old.

Just Yeah, never forget that actually, he was fine. He came out the next day, came home and everything. But just Yeah, it was very, it's quite a moving experience.

Actually, I don't know why I'm talking about that, to be honest. It might be because she was one of the only one of the main people in my life, like girlfriends, I could have actually had a life with. But unfortunately, there's problems with her husband.

Before you judge, they were separated. They weren't with each other. But he was causing so much problems that she had to move away.

And it just got in the way of our relationship. I mean, I was, I would have probably married her, to be honest with you. But hey, it's quite weird to think that that child would be now.

You think was that? So he was a year old, at the beginning of 96 2006 2016 1718 1920 2120 2324. So it's going to be like 2096 2006 2016 1718 1920 2120 2324. So yeah, it's gonna be a lot older now.

It's amazing. I just think this, like this. Wow.

Nearly 30 or 2728. How? How? How? Yeah. Imagine how old I'll be in 2024.

So I think I don't know. I'm thinking I might have answered your questions. I don't know.

I think I might have done. I hope I did. I know that maybe this is a I haven't taken quite as long to answer as I normally do.

But yeah, I've answered. As far as quirky things on Vinnie does keep calling him Andre. It's the weird things that Vinnie does.

I don't. He's just really. I was thinking about this.

The amount of things that he does that are similar to Andre. You know, even walking up the stairs exactly the same way that Andre did right against the wall. And he said, well, all dogs do that.

No, not all dogs. Logie, he used to, he used to run up in the middle of the stairs. Andre used to go right against the edge of the wall, which is quite normal for a ferret to do because they they generally like to walk along the wall.

But not along the wall, but like against the wall. And Vinnie does the same thing. And it's actually he you can see his feet prints where he walks up and down every day.

It's worn out, not worn out, but it's like it's just clean. It doesn't make any difference. He's just he's left his mark on the stairs for the last blimey.

What is it now? It's August now, September, October, September, October, November, December, four months time. It will be nearly two years. I've had that little beautiful boy.

Nearly two years. Wow. And you know what else? Two months time.

September, October, I start my university degree. So I've kind of got things to look forward to. Not not I mean, yeah, I have.

That's something to look forward to. And someone did ask, am I whether or not I was going to stop doing these recordings. I must have said something in the recording where I might have implied that perhaps I was going to stop doing them.

I don't know, maybe. But I don't have any intention of continuing. No, I don't have any intention of stopping.

I mean, because it seems that some people like them, like these, whatever they are, I don't think this is like anything else that anyone else does. It might be exactly the same as what lots of people do. I don't know.

I've not done the research to be honest with you. But it is. I guess it feels different to anything that I've seen or heard.

Apart from all the other recordings I've done, which are probably quite similar. Yeah. So that's it really.

I got now else to see. So I'm going to go boxing on this weekend. So I'm going to be a boxer starts on Saturday at 10 o'clock.

Yeah, 10 o'clock in the evening. And it goes on all night long. Probably for about, yeah, till about six, maybe seven in the morning.

It's a marathon, literally a marathon. So I don't know how I'm going to get, it's going to be an endurance test, really. But it's okay.

I just, I'm so used to going to bed early. Like going to bed at 10 and getting up at maybe four or five or six. So to stay up at exactly the same time as I'm normally asleep will be a little bit different.

A little bit. But sometimes, yeah, I just just see. Hopefully it'll be it'll be fine.

I know it will be. So I'm going to go. Thank you for listening.

Thank you for um, because you're part of this, you're part of this recording. So I appreciate yeah, being part of it for watching the videos or listening to the recordings. Thank you.

And you're the reason I do this. So remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye. Treat myself to a poo.