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Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep Sunday papers no Sundays is it Sunday newspapers or Sunday's newspapers one of them do you want a bone there you go then truffle oh that was a weird noise so welcome my name is Jason Newland my website is jasonnewland.com it's almost becoming a website it's almost becoming useful I'll tell you I'll tell you about that in a second and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes so I do me thank yous like I do first of all I
want to just say a big thank you to everybody that's listening because without you listening there'd be no point me doing this and I could go even further without you listening there wouldn't be much point to me these days this is kind of my this is what I get out of bed for I mean I'm just got out of bed to do this I'm not quite that lazy considering it's half past six in the evening but this is this is my my purpose this is my my reason my I don't
know I forget what's what's the proper word what's that that yeah this is this is what why I do what I do for you I mean to be fair I probably would still I'd still be sitting here talking to myself even if no one listened but you know if I suddenly just had a few hundred people listening I would I don't know I might yeah I get a little bit disgruntled so it's lovely that you know I've got the people listening that I do and I do to be honest I
know this might sound insincere right I've got the best audience I really have no this might this might sound insincere but I'm seriously I do believe I do have the best audience like of anyone and I mean of anyone I don't think any podcast any podcaster whatever you want to call me let's say for this Let Me Bore You To Sleep it's a podcast so I don't think anybody's got a better audience than me there's so much kindness and lovely people so yeah what am I doing I'm trying to get
out of this trying trying to close okay I'm trying to open up the Readly app so I can do the papers so yeah thank you I need to say another thank you to d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d mary jennifer and heath thank you for your paypal gifts I'm really very much appreciated thank you um I've contacted two so I need to contact the other person you know personally say thank you so just wanted to publicly say thank you didn't
do a recording yesterday because it was boxing from three o'clock till about 11 and or 11 30 I'm not sure and no 11 I think it was 11 10 30 11 so I am yeah I was a bit tired and you know I was kind of planning to do something but what I've noticed and I need to kind of probably address this at some point is now that I've started naming days okay I wasn't okay I've not named days because the days are already named but you know given a particular
recording for a particular day such as today sunday newspapers monday's boring objects tuesday trivia tuesday and wednesday whisper I can't even remember what thursday was what was thursday people anyway does anyone remember I don't remember I can't remember what was thursday let's have a look thursday what was thursday thursday it's really weird the uh get less people listening at the weekend than during the week so thursday healing third how could I forget that healing thursday and now I've got a big oh sorry mate I'm angry with Vinnie at the moment
we've just been out for a walk I'm just cleaning my glasses I've just been out for a walk and he was off the lead playing with his friend Archie so I'm there talking to Archie's mum and we just had a nice little conversation and she looks over to the entrance I thought Vinnie like was running away again as well oh but he wasn't he was going over to see a dog that was just walking into the park now I took attention that I made it you know he got my attention
because I know that after watching because he's just a little bit temperamental sometimes but on this occasion no Vinnie come on mate there's no reason to be barking there's no reason for me to make this much noise this is me cleaning the glasses right done I bet you're wondering what was I cleaning the glasses with whatever I did it made them all smudgy it's made them worse than before I'd actually better if I just I had this weirdest dream last night anyway um yeah he went for the dog it wasn't
a big dog either it was bigger than most dogs are but he was like really like aggressive so I shout at him and he lays down and I get him put him in the lead I apologize to the people it's just like embarrassing but I just felt for the dog the dog was looking looked upset and like I just I just wanted to give the the other dog a big cuddle because it didn't deserve he or she didn't deserve to be yelled at like he did and it's like yeah I'm
not going to be able to let him off the lead anymore it's such a shame because he goes he's so temperamental some days he's fine other days he's not so fine but on the same side he's actually getting more he's getting better behaved with me so when I say lay down he lays down when I say stay he stays now if I say it in the right way yeah I might have to say it 15 times but eventually he listens if I say it I say it once in the correct
way and he listens um but I'm not really a shouter just generally in life I'm not a shouter I have to take care of my silky vocal cords ah however he was with a dog off the lead two weeks ago I think it was and they both ran out of the park towards the main road he's never done that before like he I think he basically said to the other dog come on let's go to the sweet shop which is across two roads one road which isn't particularly busy but you
know you never know the other one is a very busy road which leads to a motorway now it's quite a distance I just got to tell you this there's a there's like a whole separate like parky bit between the park and that road and I shouted at him and he stopped and the other dog stopped and they both came back the other dog came all the way back to his owner then he came back and then hid in the grass like it's a long grass and he just laid down there
and didn't move so I don't know what kind of vibe I gave off but I was so concerned I don't like shouting I'm not I can shout that's the weird thing about it I mean you know if you if you grow up with three brothers you kind of have to learn to speak loudly sometimes but I'm not a shouter I'm not really I'm a calm chilled most of the time person it's quite weird because I was the same kind of thing I said uh I was saying to this lady I
think Friday maybe it was Saturday uh Vinnie I said well he can be a little bit you know he's saying hello to this dog he was on the lead and I said he can be a bit temperamental she said really I said yeah he's uh must take after me and she said I was just having a mood I said yeah it takes after me he's moody and she said to me you seem so nice well yeah I still I said I'm not I'm clinically moody but I'm not I'm not doesn't
mean I'm a bad bad person you know I don't I don't go out shouting at people and I know there are people that do do that I don't go out causing trouble or whatever I just it's some people don't they don't know they I think if you was going to ask people what I'm like apart from being super sexy they would probably say is friendly probably like the locals I mean they probably say fairly friendly person and they wouldn't imagine that maybe I ever get weird you know um or moody
or whatever but I don't take that I don't I leave that inside I don't or I stay inside when I'm like that but if I have to take him out I leave it inside the same as I leave my wallet or I leave my phone or whatever else I leave inside I just leave it there leave it in here I go out if I know I'm not can't really talk to people I just keep away from people but you know it's only for like 10 minutes so I can I can
manage it or I take him in the garden in it really surprised a neighbor someone that I got quite close to since my friend passed away downstairs she was friends with him I was friends with him it's Finney's mum and we kind of just we helped each other helped you up helped each other a little bit through through that period and she called me up one day and I wasn't in a in a particularly good mood and she couldn't believe it but first when I said to her so I'm not
in a good mood and I said I have to speak to a different time you know and she's tried to have a conversation with me while I was like that and even though I wasn't I wasn't rude I wasn't I know I wasn't but it to her felt like I was being rude even though I wasn't if does that make sense I wasn't being I was just being honest but not horrible I was just I suppose cold cold and it really threw her off even though I told her that I
could be like that and even though I told her beforehand like right straight away this is how I am it's not okay and I it's just one of those days one of those days and uh yeah why am I telling you this I make myself look really bad don't I but that's why I'm on medication oh yes it's my disability be the moody old git so thanks for listening right so what what are we what are we grateful for ladies and gents what are we grateful for today okay wow I
didn't think this through I don't think through what I'm going to say perhaps I should uh what am I grateful for I don't want to keep saying you the listeners but that is quite often a thing that gets me through the you know the the support and stuff so anyway so what am I grateful for I am grateful for it shouldn't be this complicated should it what are you grateful for I'll let you think of something while I try and think of something what am I grateful for well I'm actually
looking forward so I say boxing I was grateful for yesterday's boxing and I'm grateful for that I've got something to look forward to I mean generally not just the boxing because we've got two three or two really big events coming up one in October one in December there's others as well but these particularly two big nights I'm also looking forward to Big Brother starting in October I'm looking forward to eventually getting to watch the New Deadpool movie I am looking forward to starting my university course so yeah there's a few
things I'm looking forward to which will be coming up soon in the next you know between now and the end of the year so with the boxing there's more than just two events but two big big big ones and then there's others as well so it's there's lots lots to look forward to with the boxing and yeah I'm looking forward to that another thing I'm looking forward to is I'm grateful for in a way I feel quite grateful for the for the health stuff it might sound weird but getting that
warning of my high blood sugar level I'm grateful that I got that because it it caused me to make some changes there's still there's still quite a fair bit to go you know but I've you know lost a fair bit of weight I've reduced my sugar level down to a good level and everything you know so this I still got the high cholesterol so I need to work on that so that's that's more of a diet thing diet and exercise now but not so much cutting down on sugar because I've
already done that so I don't need to worry about my sugar level anymore but it's more saturated fats and stuff like that so I'm kind of grateful for finding that stuff out before it was too late if you know what I mean to to be able to reverse the to being on on just on the cusp of diabetes to reverse it so I'm back down to way off of that and although it's not been easy because I do have a well I used to have a used to I still do
have a sweet tooth I've managed to it took effort and I quite like the fact that it took effort I don't think I'd have really appreciated it if I'd have took a tablet and lost the weight and got my blood sugar level down if that's all it took I don't think I'd have really appreciated the results I kind of appreciate it more because I've had to work at it and made sacrifices I guess and by that I don't mean I'm not sacrificing things like on a big slab of concrete really
I'm just I'm just generally you know it's not I'm not in the middle of the woods um I'm not a witch I mean there's nothing wrong being a witch but you know that kind of sacrifice I used to be a witch years ago I was also a Roman once isn't it weird that I know this isn't even my it's like oh you're not doing original material but it's true though isn't it you know anyone ever gets goes to does a reset um not recession what do they call it they go
back in time they do like a past life uh thingy whatever it is and they find out who they were in the past you never get anyone say oh I was Jack the Ripper do you like oh no one you don't get anyone like oh yeah I was a poo collector yeah I used to collect poo from people's houses that was my job Jason Poohead that was that was my surname Poohead because I used to have poo everywhere like no one ever that no one ever says that today it's always
like yeah I was Napoleon I was uh I do believe I was a Roman emperor what you know well actually I was uh yeah I uh I used to paint houses you know used to paint houses with well he used to be uh duck poo and I got a thing like poo duck poo because we did have paint back then so it was duck poo uh we used to paint houses with that this is like 900 years ago it was all right the problem is getting the duck poo where'd you
get it from so and the thing is that people like moaned or we want I don't want if is that the only color you got the only color you got I said like well no it's not the only color we got cow poo like what color is that because it's brown well why why is it brown anyway that's that's what I was wanting to say no one's always had to be someone famous or someone esteemed like a great inventor you know you imagine like 2000 years time so I'm going back
in time no one's gonna no one's gonna like do a go back do a past life regression or whatever and come back and said yeah I was a podcaster called Jason I used to talk into the microphone about nothing every day and you had a dog oh because you wouldn't leave the room having paid 50 quid or ever like really happy like oh mind you after that you'd probably be excited that you weren't me right well at least I'm not that now I'm now a poo collector I don't know where
am I going with this so healing Thursday and then Friday Q&A Friday oops and then whisper Wednesday trivia Tuesday see so what did I have here did have a suggestion but we already have them Wednesday uh Ben I keep hearing this person called Bidham keeps sending me stuff keeps calling me boss boss your YouTube channel content is good but video very very poor video view very poor you can increase views on your channel if you want well thanks you can see samples of my work and can discuss about channel growth
by doing zoom meeting directly thanks boss oh the idea of doing zoom meetings boss is another one now that was at two o'clock now it's 4 34 boss each video can get one 1.5 or 2000 views and it and its views will increase every day I mean yeah you can do this for free are you no you're not I can't I mean I do have the oh Ben what about roulette Wednesday when you random choose through the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and pick your episode so I don't know
just um it's already got Wednesday whisper Wednesday does no one like whisper Wednesday I like whisper Wednesday the thing is I've got quite a big well big audience quite a lot of my audience in the past liked the whisper recordings like above everything else so the deep sleep whisper podcast was the most popular podcast that I ever had so I guess I kind of trying to appease is that the right word that part of the audience so by doing a you know ASMR deep whisper but Let Me Bore You To
Sleep version of that maybe it seems to be I don't know but then yesterday I just didn't want to make a recording I've just excited today was so busy I thought about doing one that I thought oh I got so stuck in my head I've got to give it a name I've got to give it something Saturday I don't know sugar Saturday what was beginning of S sandpaper Saturday sandbagging Saturday simple Saturday supreme Saturday that's all the S's I know it's not bad though is it it's pretty good so yeah
I didn't really have I don't know what do you think is was this a good idea to give names to every day you know so the what is this Q&A Friday so that's that's oops I just pressed on that one Sunday papers so uh-huh I guess Sunday papers is all right that's a the Q&A Friday is established to Sunday papers maybe that's what I should have done maybe I'll just introduce one and establish that over the next three or four months and then introduce another one and you know but Monday's
boring objects seems to be fairly popular kind of you got the trivia Tuesday also fairly okay whisper Wednesday's maybe not as popular as the other ones healing Thursday okay that one's very close to my heart actually so even if I didn't do a healing Thursday I would look to do an equivalent of that does that make sense and so heading Q&A Friday I'll continue the Q&A Friday so I don't know I don't know I suppose I could just get on with the actual recording but why what why just trying to
think what's coming up this week so I'm gonna do this recording then I'm going to I'll edit it in the morning when I wake up I'm probably going to have a pizza because I've got a pizza in the oven I'm gonna have a pizza just Sunday in it why not I'll get up tomorrow probably I've got a doctor's appointment at the end of the week this week coming and that is a mental health review and I couldn't do on the phone apparently they wanted to also take my blood pressure and
stuff like that it's like a yearly thing so even though I just had my blood pressure done two weeks ago or last week two weeks ago I don't know yeah it was two well no it wasn't last week it was a week before and what I'm now thinking is to look at doing what so I'm doing weights every day I do exercise I do a lot I do these exercises the first one I do it before I go out with him and I go out with him four times or five
times a day so I do a different exercise with the weights every time uh like during the day I mean so I do crouch crunches with weights so I do the crunches with weights that's more to exercise my lower back and today I've done that then I did bicep curls then I did tricep curls so I've done that so far and then I'll do some um push up with the weights whatever for my shoulders and my back that'll probably be the last one I do today or maybe if I maybe
I'll do another one but yeah that's it what I do at the moment I don't do sets so I don't do 10 have a rest 10 have a rest 10 and that's it I do that what I do is I just do as many as I can until it really burns until I'm kind of I don't do it until I can't do it anymore I'm you know I'm trying to take it a little bit easier myself because I did I hurt my back a couple of months back back back that's
when I hurt my back a couple months back and it took a while for that to heal so I don't want to push myself too much I want to just do it gradually light light training and it seems to be working you know I feel feel better for it and then once I've got used to that I'll start to maybe be a bit more intense but at the same time I don't I don't want to I don't want to be grunting you know I don't I don't want it like that
stuff I'm not I'm not really into that I'm not you know I just if I can burn some calories off but at the same time just reshape my body so it's so I at least look like a human from a distance that'd be nice and I've got my exercise bike which I'm thinking of moving into the living room so I can use it when I watch telly and maybe use that every day it's it's it's possible it's possible but it's a case of just you know I don't really enjoy cycling
but if I did that every day for half an hour or an hour let's say I could do it for half an hour easy now but if I kind of built up to cycling for an hour every day then like not super strenuously but definitely some kind of out of breath and that that will improve my health quite a bit and I may also burn off some calories and get rid of some of that saturated fatty cholesterol stuff or whatever so yeah that's just so you know that's what I'm planning
to do with the diet I need to be looking at what I'm going to do with that so that's something I need to do a little bit of research into what I can I kind of know what I can eat and so yeah I just just need to look into it I'm not sure quite what I'm gonna there's a degree of laziness if I'm honest and you know processed food is kind of out the window but you're having a pizza yeah but not every day and not three times a day
so we'll just have to wait I'll just figure it out I'll figure it out I'll tell you about it probably because I always do don't I maybe I'll look into getting some food in some shopping in tomorrow and starting it or maybe I'll wait till Wednesday I'll probably wait till Wednesday to be fair and then I will no that's the wrong thing some of these apps honestly some of these apps I'll get into them and then it just won't let me out no I want to get out stop it I'm
on the iPad I'm not into the app but it won't let me out why won't you let me out of the app it's keeping me hostage I noticed that with the okay right I'm good blimey what the heck's that oh true trivia Tuesday yeah October birthdays are coming up I don't know anyone has got a birthday in October no I did get a lovely comment from Christine on the healing Thursday so thank you for Christine for this I need to comment put a thank you a reply that was very special
it was uplifting and touching the story of your friend was personal honest and real it has changed my perspective of illness and recovery in a good way thank you oh thank you very much that's very kind of you and oh it's okay um let me just turn this volume down volume down volume down where's the volume okay so I don't know what this is it's like a Benidorm okay oh Benidorm there's this people in Benidorm riding on a um a bull like one of those mechanical bulls and it's on uh
YouTube yeah well is it nice weather in Benidorm is it this time of year this is yeah it's fairly nice here it's not warm but it's it's not like cold it's cool yeah um what was that oh yeah so got this I was on my phone and I wanted to use Google Maps because I've been looking for a martial arts club to join and I can't find anything close by it's really what you want to know when I'm going to start reading the newspapers I don't know I don't know I
don't have the answer to that I because for me I don't I don't personally enjoy like going to the gym I like doing a bit of weights when I'm at home getting stronger and stuff like that that's good but for me as far as exercise goes I'd much rather do it as a sport but in a like a fighting sport like boxing or karate taekwondo wing chun the various different things I've done over the years but now starting to think well I want to do something that will be good for
my fitness but also something that'll be good for my confidence as well plus is it there's one an achievement that I've not matched I've not managed to get and that's a black belt I've done various different martial arts over the years and you know if I'm honest I don't feel particularly being good at any of them but I just enjoy doing it I never got my black belt I think I managed I got four gradings in one so I kind of got maybe halfway there so I don't know if I
could do the kicking anymore because I thought I could go back to taekwondo but I'd have to I think I start at white belt again or start at no belt because I've not done it for a long time but then will the kicking still be a problem because even though I'm potentially stronger now than I was back then like my back rather because I've done exercises on my lower back because that was the problem I had back then because I didn't know I had arthritis I'm also 10 years older and
I genuinely genuinely don't know if I could yeah I don't know if yeah I don't know if it'd be right thing for me to do and also going back I think I'd be a little bit embarrassed to go back mind you all the kids are probably now be driving around in cars and have their own kids now probably by now and there'll be a couple of adults that were still there the instructor is still there and the assistant instructor is still there one's a fifth dan black belt and the other
one's a fourth dan I mean if I remember rightly the one that's a fourth dan was he wasn't even a black belt when I started I think he got his black belt while I was there yeah yeah I'm pretty sure so one of the things I liked about that place is there were people with black belts that weren't super fit super slim super young they you know taekwondo kind of it it catered for all types of people so there were people there that are much older than me the instructor was
a lot older than me well probably at 10 years I wasn't a lot older than me but probably over 10 years older than me so he'd kind of be my age now no he'd be he'd be he'd probably be my age back then that I am that he was but I wasn't because I was younger so I was 44 he was probably early 50s so I think he started when he was 40 and that I find that quite motivating because I mean in a way I didn't feel like I was
starting but you know because I've done other stuff before but what I've always tried to have is when I start a new thing whether it's when I was doing Wing Chun Taekwondo or boxing even though I've done previous things I always took on the always took it as like learning it for the first time even though a lot of the the things with Taekwondo is very similar to karate and the I've done some kickboxing when I was at school and of course that's very similar the kicks are very similar to
karate or Taekwondo the the punchings same as boxing and then doing Wing Chun again similar thing with kicks so it's kind of I like the I guess I quite like starting things yeah I think I can definitely argue I do like starting things so maybe that's why I quite like building websites because it's like a new thing or maybe that's why I like making a recording because it's it's never really it's kind of like a continuation but it's not really is it kind of do you know what I mean it's
not not really a continuation but it is but each recording stand on its side stands on its own however it's separate I know it's it stands on its own and it stands on its own now it stands on its own and it's also you know it shares like the continuation continuity I think the correct word is so I don't know I'm thinking jiu-jitsu because I had a bad experience learning jiu-jitsu before I went to two or three lessons when I was we're talking probably 2006 2005 time and the instructor was
he was a bit of a bully to be honest there was only two students and it was on a Saturday class and he just basically was throwing us all around and he was enjoying enjoying sort of hurting us and I didn't I didn't enjoy that myself didn't like it now I know that part of jiu-jitsu is or any martial arts you know there's chances of you know getting hurt stuff which is fine but I don't want someone to purposely try to try to do it and that's what he was doing
and it's yeah and also wherever I go now because you know I'm realistic I'm because of my age I need to take things a little bit easier need to be a bit more gentle with myself not just mentally and emotionally but also physically you know I couldn't just I'm gonna run go running for an hour no I can't just do that without potentially well without warming up anyway I could attempt to do an hour running realistically ain't gonna happen without you know quite a lot of training can you hear that
that's my tummy wummy my tummy wummy I'm hungry what could I eat thing is do you know in the past I always had stuff to eat when I had little grumbles of the tummy I have a biscuit that would tide me over to dim dins but nope I used to go there was times when I'd go in the fridge and it was just chocolate and cakes I had a cupboard full of chocolate I did have I actually had a cake cupboard that was before Vinnie so before Vinnie that was my
cake cupboard now his food goes in there but I used to have so much stuff and it'd just be it'd just be nice just to have a couple of sponge cakes like little ones you know and or maybe a chocolate roll thing or anyway that's not helping me is it cookies cookies especially like smarties cookies or chocolate brownies oh yeah but anyway it doesn't matter so I can't have that because I don't I don't even have any biscuits not even a biscuit not even a cream cracker nothing there's nothing well
a banana I do have a banana yeah I could eat a banana and that would probably tide me over so I might if my stomach keeps then I might go and get myself a banana but Vinnie seems very comfortable right now he's lying down he's I think he might have fallen asleep so my question is oh yeah I was I was using Google Maps because I was looking for a martial arts place and every time I look at a place and I think okay I then want to search on Google
Maps to see how far it and I kept getting stuck in Google Maps and I was trying to go back to the website I was on and it wouldn't let me back and I just why so if I put in um what is it jeet kundu I used to do jeet kundu but that was part of the Wing Chun it wasn't I mean it was a different um it was a different evening you know that so I used to go to this uh Master Wong he was that's it that was
really his name Master Wong he was uh or Sif no see it was Master he had this huge hall which was went to big big big place really tall I'm talking I don't know how it managed to be so tall and we used to train there and it was he had this all like sell sold stuff places to to change and it was like really really nice place and he did Wing Chun he trained in Wing Chun but he also trained in jeet kundu as well which was Bruce Lee's style
of kung fu which he adapted from Wing things as well and I think he also taught like uh butterfly knife fighting and stuff like that which I never got into jeet kundu near me right apparently it's near me and I live in Bath or Bristol New Zealand okay did I just tell you where I live all these years you thought I was in England no New Zealand I live in New Zealand apparently it's the same kind of weather as what we have here I find it hard to believe I find
it hard to believe that anywhere has this kind of weather black belt oh what's this one I just found one that might be looking for Jun Fang Kung Fu JKD classes uh timetable okay timetable Tuesdays 18 okay six to seven Wednesday SSG can do also do Brazilian jiu-jitsu eight or nine uh jeet kundu Thursdays six to seven but where is it classes let's have a look at the classes Brazilian jiu-jitsu jeet kundu okay right I'm still thinking Brazilian jiu-jitsu uh Brazilian jiu-jitsu Gracie bro is very very very funny funny famous
I mean blimey don't tell him I said funny I don't want him to put me in a headlock are you searching for martial arts in a form of self-defense where size doesn't matter I'm looking for a girlfriend where size doesn't matter I'd like to date but yeah why would size matter when it comes to doing oh they mean physical strength and stuff like height in that okay then Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes at Lawrence what where is it though where is it that's what I need to know and why haven't I talked
about the news yet I don't know where is it see okay let's right so I'm going to do now let's see if this happens now I want to do directions because they're mapping their directions okay Google Maps directions from Kentucky Drive Mississippi okay here we go wow oh it's not that far it's 17 miles no 17 minutes in a car 17 minutes in a car how long would it take to walk do you reckon uh what's that going what's it what are you doing that for ah okay London right I
don't think walking is even an issue to be fair three hours and 27 minutes 17 minutes in a car three hours and 27 minutes walking which makes me think that it's a motorway yes it is it's a motorway journey so if that was in a normal road it would take a lot longer than that it's 11.1 miles uh because I'm gonna have to get a taxi you see that's why I'm like I don't know how I'm gonna get there otherwise the bus is so if I look at the bus route
yeah there's no no buses go anywhere near it um according to this there's two buses but still you gotta walk and you get a bus then you get another bus and then you walk in so yeah it's not not it's yeah I suppose I wonder if it's near anything so I'm trying to think I mean it's possible okay right let's go back oh that's why it didn't take me out on the phone it takes me out but on the iPad it doesn't it just opens up a new page so that's
what I'm kind of looking at maybe doing jiu-jitsu because then I can gain my black belt because that that's in my I don't want to use the word bucket list really but it's kind of that is something that I've something I've dreamt about since I was a child since I was you know like a little kid really even before I even started doing karate at 13 or 12 whatever I was 13 probably so even before I started doing karate I dreamt of being like a black belt because you know I'd
watch enter the dragon and I'd see these black belts and I wanted to be like that and um and I asked to go to karate and my dad wouldn't let me when I was young when I was like 10, 9, 10 whatever and he wouldn't he said no no so I didn't have a chance to do it when I was little but as soon as I was old enough to pay for it myself I might have you know had a paper round I didn't have to ask any permission because I
was paying for it so just yeah it's a shame because I might have but to to be honest though I don't know being honest as you know to be I think it would have been there was no karate club that would have taken me as a kid in our town but there was one in the next town but when I was 10 I would have had to be taken there so I think maybe 11 maybe I was able to do 11 11 but it was 11 or 12 was the the
age you had to be to do karate in yeah and then I changed I changed that did I tell you that the changes I've made to the planet the difference the difference I've made so this is totally true I know a lot of stuff I could talk about is you know 99.3% of what I say is lies obviously but this is true just like everyone and everything else I say this is true and my little brother was eight years younger than me so I was doing karate when I was starting
when I was 13 how old does that make him then when I was 13 9 10 11 12 5 he's five years old I wanted to I started teaching him karate when he was five and six and seven so we did it we used to play around and so at five so let's say 2013 or maybe it was when I was 14 13 14 and I was probably still 13 so we're probably looking at 1984 so I was 13 8 9 10 11 12 13 so he was five five and
a half maybe so he I was teaching him a little bit of like you know kicking and punching and stuff like that just just for fun you know because I was really into it honestly honestly it's an understatement just to tell you that it was my entire life it was everything I was phonetical phonetical it's weird whenever I say the word phonetical that happens that's I just stopped saying it so I was quite interested and I taught him a few moves I was in no position to teach anyone anything I
never have been but it hasn't stopped me so I there was this point where he I don't know if this is in the correct order but there was a group of kids all around in the alleyway they're all like my brother's age somewhat older and this older kid was picking on my little brother and my little brother kicked him and punched him and put him on the floor and he was crying now this this kid was probably two years older than my brother trying to bully him yeah so it was
it was quite good so no violence is horrible but it he never got bullied the whole of his life you know he didn't get bullied because he just he had a he had that confidence but not just from what I taught him but also probably having three older brothers probably having like a big strong father perhaps I don't know and he's quite my little brother's quite big it's like not not like me not fat but he's like big and muscular and it sort of takes after my dad I guess I
take after my mum with the boobs and he the beard he anyway what I did is I went to my instructor my karate instructor Paul his name was he still is I love that man honestly I really really looked up to him I mean he was six foot seven so I had no choice but he was the coolest dude on the planet and I kept saying to him can you do karate for younger kids and he kept saying but you're already here I said no not for me it's not for
me he said unless you get a time machine it's not going to help you is it I said it's not for me I said it's my little brother he said how old is he I said he hasn't been born yet I said well let's just come back when he's born so I went back and he's how old is he now I said five he said really I said well we I think I said no he's six now I think he's turned six he said all right all right all right then
if he's six he can come along but what he said is what we'll do because I went on and on and on him for months until he gave up like not in a horrible way not because I was too scared to to be too demanding but I kept sort of going oh my brother would love to do this and he said okay well what we'll do we'll do a Saturday morning class he said I've been wanting to do a Saturday morning class for the adults anyway because you can do a
bit of extra training and preparation for gradings and also for competitions and things like that plus some people struggle to get here in the evenings so we're going to have a we're going to put on a a weekly class on a Saturday morning as well as the two you know Tuesday and Thursday evenings I said okay that's a lot of information can you just get to the point please and because that's how I would talk to him no I said that from with a loud speaker and I was in a
helicopter because I wouldn't want to be I'd have to leave the country so he said what you can do you can be at the back of the group the back of the hall and you can teach the kids the basics so the little kids being because I was what probably 14 by then you can teach the your little brother and any other kids that could come along so I promoted it I promoted it they put them like come on you know tell me telling everyone in the club that we're now
going to teach little kids as well and telling the parents you know sort of and I I'm not sure what I did but I was very invested in it because I knew it wasn't going to work if just my little brother was there so I think I got some of my little brother's friends to come along and it grew from there so I started off I was teaching them just the very basic you know kicks and punches and stuff like that and then I don't I can't remember the exact thing
oh my brother didn't want to do it anymore that's it he didn't want to do it anymore he got he got fed up with it but by that point there was another 10 or 12 kids that loved it and I said this was back in 1984 85 84 maybe 85 to be fair it might be an 85 84 something like that I can't remember the exact date now I thought oh if it's you know being ego central eccentric whatever I thought if my brother stopped going they'd stop it well no
we started it for my brother we started it for me you know to I started it and I got it started and obviously with the with the boss who was the you know the instructor but it didn't need my little brother anymore and it didn't need me either because all I was doing was helping with the basics I was like a green belt I didn't I wasn't an instructor but they didn't need an instructor because it was low little kids and then when I got a job in a chip shop
I kind of stopped going to karate before that I kind of I did lose a little bit of interest because there was quite a lot going on at home and like things weren't things weren't going so well you know just generally and when I was it was like coming up to the end of my schooling and I was more interested in misbehaving really to be honest you know hanging around my friends doing things I shouldn't do you know just being a teenager I guess so I wasn't so focused on the
karate for a little while and then I got that job in a chip shop and then I didn't have my evenings free anymore which was my my decision it was my decision and I used to see the instructor every now and then in the supermarket and he'd say to me when you coming back he said it to me for years when you coming back I said soon sir I'll be there soon I promise never did never went back but now we have decades there are now literally middle-aged men and women
that were when I was 46 now there are kids like nearly 50 well not 50 they're not kids are they but people now people humans now nearly 50 years old who started there doing their karate whether they've kept it up I don't know still the same instructor he's got to be about 103 I'm sure he must have been in his 30s when I was there so what does that make yeah I don't know how I was so my dear he's probably in his 70s but you imagine how fit he is
though he's amazing but yeah so there's generations of people that come through starting at a young age you know like five or six that could never do it before they'd have to go into this to a different town which was because I lived in this little town it was really quite isolated unless you had a car so yeah I felt I felt quite good about that it's like oh how many people's lives were affected in a positive way because it's my little brother and me nagging the the instructor oh please
my little brother wants a train he's too young he wants to train he's too young he's only two months old he wants a train and my little brother wasn't as enthusiastic as I was about him going but I don't know I suppose I wanted to include him I was pretty close to him I suppose I wanted to give him what I didn't have a chance to do to do because I was there even though I was still young didn't feel young back then so even though I was 14 or whatever
I kind of felt that I'd missed out on doing it when I was younger which I'd started when I was eight I'd be a black belt by now was kind of my thinking and it would have changed the way that I just had a different life just generally had a different childhood from that during those years not that I had really much to worry about but just like as far as you know protecting myself I was fairly okay didn't have a huge huge amount of problems but it's just it would
have been I'd have had more confidence I didn't have I didn't have any confidence really when I was a kid I had a bit more when I started doing karate but yeah not when I was sort of eight or nine or ten or eleven or twelve I was I was cheeky but confidence perhaps I'd have pretend to be confident maybe there's a difference between not caring and being confident I guess I don't know so I'm not sure it's jeet kune do Brazilian jiu-jitsu so I'm thinking maybe there must be a
I want to go to if I want to go to a place I'd like to go somewhere that was close to where I live now jeet kune do no what's his name not jeet kune do jiu-jitsu jiu-jitsu so there's another one called it's very so you've got jiu-jitsu and you've got the the Israel army do a special martial arts it's not jiu-jitsu it's um mag crav mag craver crav maga and it's like unarmed and it's one of the most uh supposed to be one of the most effective um I went
to a lesson once and the instructor had one ear and I and I'm like oh and they were teaching you how to like you know you should grab people's ears and stuff as far as sort of defense and I just I don't know I'm a bit attached to mine I just I wasn't sure it was it was fun but at the same time it was it was the real deal if you know what I mean it was yeah my my stepbrother got into that for a while here's a weird thing
we I went to when I did Wing Chun my stepbrother turned up he was there like what's he didn't know I was doing it I didn't know he was interested in it we both ended up being in the same training and he didn't even live in that town what's the chances and jiu-jitsu website I also want to I want to train with someone that's overweight because because it's a little bit annoying if you go training and everyone's super fit and slim and I want to I want to do a chubby
version of jiu-jitsu Brazilian jiu-jitsu train with world champions really blimey few membership our faculties online parking quality mats that's good I can't it's one thing he's annoying me go to a martial arts place and the mats are just such bad quality you know little bits of fabric hanging out okay this is our class schedule or schedule Monday what oh my goodness they have classes during the day they have classes during the day baby no that's perfect for me because I don't want to go out in the evening what all right
here we go where are they where are they based they're probably based in London or something nowhere near they're not even that far away ladies and gentlemen boys and girls puppies and kittens I do believe we have found the one and I've been searching for that two weeks I'll be going online keep going through all the bits and bobs like no I like this but I'm not sure about that part of it and I'm or some are like just so expensive this looks like I can get there by bus I
might have to get a taxi home but I can get there by bus so it's only a taxi one way some other places are so far away from anything I have to get a taxi there and enzo jiu-jitsu called ping pong jiu-jitsu Elmstead jiu-jitsu Wing Wong so where am I okay so I wonder if I can do uh okay so there's a map here but it's not giving me a chance to two fingers to oh I'm semi-excited I'm gonna remember the name because membership okay it I know where it is
now so even if it is oh okay I wonder if I can get student rates because technically well not technically I am a student now aren't I but I'm not I'm part-time student so I don't know if I can get I'll ask them I'll ask them so unlimited access to classes kids no pay they've got like they've got a special they've got adult monthly then they've got blue lights so that's emergency services or armed forces that's a discount students and teens so I am a student I'm not a teen it's
been a little while since I was a teen but I'm a student I mean technically aren't I I'm doing a degree course I've got a student loan I'm going to a worldwide official respected university this is online it's open university it used to be what do they call it distance learning because it used to be like you know they'd send you the stuff in the post well they did send me a book pay single pay as you go for a member of another zr team affiliate I don't know what that
means zr team pay-as-you-go non-members non-affiliate members single session kids pay-as-you-go and a beginners course oh what access to beginners classes for one month on Tuesday and Thursdays at 6 30 and a free gi but then it says um a certain amount of money per session mind you that's for the gi so I want to go during the week like during the daytime that's that actually does appear to me like quite a nice idea it do it really do but then it's not saying okay oh blimey okay so Monday at 11
a.m till noon open mat so six to seven so mixed levels no gi 12 30 to 1 30 so I'd have to that's for that's not for beginners is it so that would be ideal but not for beginners under nines five to six well I can't pull off being under nine anymore 6 p.m to 7 p.m over nines 7 p.m to 9 p.m no gi mixed levels so I think the beginners is six to seven and then I suppose once you get above um again once you get above beginner whatever
that level is maybe first belt I don't know and then I'll be going at seven to nine I like the idea of going yeah I like the idea of going during the day but there is the 12 30 to 1 30 once I get to mixed level so that's Monday 6 a.m to 7 a.m that's not good to me 6 a.m to 7 a.m no I can't get anywhere that time in the morning not from here and 12 30 to 1 30 mixed level 6 30 to 7 30 all right
so the beginners begin the beginners is only available to yeah it's only available on Tuesday beginners and a Thursday so when it said that it meant you can only go Tuesday and Thursday 6 30 to 7 30 Tuesday 6 30 to 7 30 okay again it's not like super late I can get there coming back I have to get a taxi because the buses stop pretty much Tuesday Thursday and Friday Saturday so yeah so to start with it'll be Tuesday and Thursday beginners so I'd need to really sign up for
beginners course then I would then I would then be available to do mixed levels maybe I could just then go to 12 to 1 in the afternoon maybe do that I don't know we'll see what they say so oh I'm proper excited now I've never been more excited so contact does this do I sound excited let me have a look so I've still got google maps on so let's have a look I'll paste that paste da da da da da da yeah got that oh right 19 minutes in a car
but there's no motorway yeah there's no motorway oh wait a minute it's saying 21 minutes in a car how can it be 19 minutes or 21 minutes how how it's either 19 minutes or 21 it's saying 9.3 minutes 9.3 miles or 9.6 miles that doesn't make sense to me okay it's saying 19 minutes now it's saying 21 minutes again I think it depends which route you go it's the thing is I can get there quite easily by bus yeah I can get there fairly easily so it's just getting into town
town and then let's have a look yeah get into town and then go down which way is that and then it's it's basically two bus journeys two bus journeys and then it's in a really dodgy part oh dear so uh ah okay it's not so bad I know where it is now potentially I could get a train there but it's still a fair walk like one yeah still just quite a long way so it's going to be a taxi I mean you never know I might meet someone that lives here
that's going there and like catch a lift back it's always possible isn't it so it's just one of those things I live in the middle of I know it's an old saying is I live in the middle of nowhere but literally the middle of nowt there's no buses right now I couldn't get anywhere unless like the only way I could get anywhere right now walk it I'll call a taxi to walk to town would take me over three hours it's a long you know it's a long journey isn't it and
it's 40 minutes really 30 to 40 minutes just to local shops I mean I know I don't walk particularly fast so some people could probably do it in 25 minutes but for me it's 30 30 30 40 minutes if I've got this one Vinnie it's a little bit quicker because he walks faster than me so yeah this doesn't look like it's going to be a Sunday Papers does it I think we've kind of uh I'll be honest with you I'll be very honest in this recording I'm not I don't think
I particularly like looking at the newspapers because I'm looking on I'm looking at the papers to try and find some funny stuff or mildly amusing stuff but to get to it I have to sift through a lot of other stuff and yeah you know what I mean right what I have to do let's have a look let's go into the store let's go in and look readly readly open so it's there why can't I find it then it's on it's on my desk oh there it is I thought it was
green it's not invite friend account information account information manage subscription okay I don't know if I'm subscribed except all cookies status 25th to 7th they gave it to me free so manage subscription so there's 6 000 plus available magazines but that's not 6 000 different like publications it's just six maybe it is no is it but then there's 180 plus newspapers if you cancel you'll lose act you'll lose access to your favorite magazines and bookmarks the thing is I don't really why is it not giving me information okay go to
my account give one month get one free so if I get someone else to join I'll get a free month myself right so 25th of the 9th when's it okay so I got it free so I've not paid anything I got it free for two months and then the next payment is due so if I go and cancel it continue to cancel oh there we go other optional oh I made him jump after your free trial ends we'll not be able to continue reading and we'll lose access to your downloaded
content okay oh see this is worth remembering unless you don't know unless you do know unless you never knew it's doing it here it's give me option to save 40 percent for six months so instead of 12 pound a month it's offering me 779 a month why don't you do that to start with just offer me 779 a month but if I say yes they'll lock me into the set to the six months oh I just pressed oh no I just pressed the wrong button continue to cancel confirm cancel your
subscription was cancelled oh I think I just don't I can't be bold with it really yeah I think Sunday papers it's not gonna happen it's just gonna just be a be talking really because I mean it's nice to have the iPad in front of me so I can do a little bit of research like I've just done because this looks like it might be my next little journey as yeah jujitsu so it's actual it's an actual academy specifically just for jujitsu which is good in itself because it means because you
get these places and they've done multiple multiple different um things that they teach like karate kickboxing uh jujitsu I don't know kickbox what various different things boxing maybe as well crab mega and I just I'd rather just go to one place that teaches just one thing somewhere where I can get me black belt eventually I don't know if it's a I think it's is it black belt maybe it's not black belt in jujitsu yeah it is I don't know how long it takes but see my uncle he passed away unfortunately
a couple years ago he was an instructor jujitsu instructor black belt I didn't even I didn't find out that he was even did that until probably 10 years before that he'd been doing it you know pretty much his whole life as far as I know but not a long long time because he was an instructor and he'd he had to stop probably yeah he hadn't done it for quite a while because it'd been unwell but he was an instructor so it's really weird all those years we had something that we
could have talked about like martial arts we could have discussed it but he never I didn't see him very often but he never mentioned it hardly really had a conversation with him yet we had quite a bit in common actually apart from genes and genetics being you know blood relative my dad was a brown belt in judo when he was young and that's the one just below black belt so yeah my brother did martial arts as well my one of my older brothers he was he did a more advanced level
than me uh so yeah it's I'll get a little bit of excitement going on here I just wonder I have to take it easy I have to be really careful though so the instructors he's trained full-time for 12 years wow so he's a European champion a world champion blimey European medalist five times 14 times national champion what blimey right okay can't really argue with that and so he's so he's the head coach and the net coach down is a third degree black belt who's one of the first to teach and
promote jiu-jitsu in the UK and has been he's oh blimey the two since 2008 in this town he's awarded over 60 black belts many of whom are world-class athletes and the other coach is black belt he's trained since 2015 that's when I stopped an active competitor is competed over 200 times blimey that's a lot so you got an early morning coach but I won't be going to that and you got the kids coach probably what I need to be honest that's probably about the level I'll be at just need to
be treated very gently at my elderly age she's trained jiu-jitsu since 2018 cool um and then okay so there's a young a young person there she's assistant coach and has won loads of stuff as well blimey so this seems as if this is possibly where I'm going to be going world-class is what we say what we offer world-class instructors is world-class instructors is a great place to start okay that's about us okay good all our coaches are competition proven with their jiu-jitsu we offer a personalized approach to our training and
therefore welcome all levels from complete beginners to advanced competitors our brand new facilities include a custom layout with raised mats and changing areas with plenty of mat space and well-maintained stomach gurgles well-maintained amenities so I guess that means somewhere to do a poo there is nowhere better for your jiu-jitsu journey we are passionate about jiu-jitsu and will provide the highest quality teaching in a positive and supportive environment so come train with us blimey it's hard to argue with that you know that's a really good website it's really it's good and
there's parking you can't ask for more than that a lot of these places like the martial arts places are on industrial estates so that's one of the good things they're usually quite good for parking that's that's a definite thing but it's I wonder how many people have got going there wow so membership I've gone through everything now haven't I we'll go through the gallery I've not gone to the gallery yet the gallery the gallery so they're all holding medals and trophies and competitions first December 2022 winner so that is they've
got the tapes all taped together the fingers taped together is that part of the jiu-jitsu blimey see the only I suppose the only concern is can my body take it but then if a little kid can do it then surely I can you know I mean as far as I don't have to push myself any more than needs to be pushed do I just because these young people are doing like 10 somersaults and stuff maybe I'll just stick three somersaults you know I mean wow or maybe I'll just eat some
cake just class schedule so yeah all membership so I'll have to sign up if I sign up for the beginners course access to beginners classes for one month there's a proper need to eat I'll be honest with you I'll be very honest today haven't I I'll be honest with you I've been honest mildly honest students and teens so okay so what I might do I'd rather visit and have a look because that looks to me like oh so I guess it's I mean maybe for a beginner's course it's like a
separate course and they it perhaps have two instructors they might it might be a bit more I have to put a bit more effort into it than people that are coming regularly and I guess they know what to do maybe maybe that's what it is so it's sort of a separate thing um I don't know class I don't know okay so no gi next Tuesday beginners oh gurgle gurgle gurgle let's have a look who's the what's his name coaches Taylor okay right he looks different in that picture you know when
people look different just looks different I don't know why no he doesn't at all it's just a smaller picture it's just a smaller one that's so right how do I save this save add to favorites save right I'm not going to forget it I'm going to leave open anyway leave open yeah well that's kind of exciting don't you think it's like so I'm gonna need very much require myself to go and create some food oh yes oh okay uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh just have a look right
what's going on oh it's just let me know that my cancellation for the readly yeah I don't know I can always add it on again at another time but we'll see we'll see so for now you know I was going to do I was going to try and go through this week's recordings since last Sunday and edit them and do kind of like a best bits recording I couldn't find any good bits so I just I feel I'm going to give that one a miss I've really thought it would just
I just you know I did but it just hasn't uh I might give it another go but then it's so subjective because I don't know what a good bit is what's what's what what would be classed as a good bit I just I just don't know what I might try and do maybe maybe just do one long recording of the entire week's stuff so you can just listen to them back to back uh so it'd be about 10 hours at the end of the week eight nine ten hours whatever of
just you know Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday and then just having a more back-to-back recordings without music and then with music maybe perhaps possibly so that might be something I could do which would be fairly I'm not sure about easy but it's definitely doable I think I say I think so I should know because I do have 10 hour recordings but it's not particularly easy just calm down Vinnie blimey calm down it's always so fidgety so like what what what what what what what calm down baby calm down
so that's it I think for me I don't know how long I've been talking for about an hour I guess I'm tired I didn't even get up early today but just yeah I've had a I've been working on some of the stuff online I was going to say that the websites come along quite nicely now quite a few the podcasts I've done that I've got uploaded on there where you can download the all of the recordings for each one you know without music with music five hours ten hours but also
when you go onto the page you click on the image of whichever one there's the video so you can watch the video on the website or you can go to YouTube if you choose or you can stream the recording without music so it's there for people that haven't heard it they can listen to it see whether or not they want to download it or listen to it on YouTube you know but the play is embedded into the website so I've done that for all of the podcasts except I just started
doing it with the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and I think the deep sleep whisper I've not done it for either that's going to take you know it'll still be till the end of the year probably before they're completed but they're getting there they're getting there eventually and yeah I'm kind of pleased how it's very gradually progressing so I'm going to go thank you very much for listening and remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself be gentle with the words that you say to yourself and I will be oh Vinnie hello mate I was yawning now I will be back again tomorrow lots of love bye
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