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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
What are you doing? What are you doing? Vinnie's trying to get treats out of my pocket. Bless him. There you go, they're in there.
Look at that. So, I do have a YouTube channel which you can, well you've got links from my website there, but you can just search for me. If I search for my name, there's a few videos on there.
I have a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group. Had about three new people join since yesterday's recording, so welcome. In fact, I'm going to say your names.
I need your first names, of course. I have to check it out. Or is it? Or is it two? No, I had 132 members yesterday, now I've got 135.
So, I just want to say welcome to Mike. Nope, not Mike. Welcome to Nicole.
Welcome to Mary Jo. I might have pronounced that incorrectly, but it's Mary Jo. M-A-R-Y-J-O.
And thirdly, Matthew. So, welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
So, Jason Newland's Boring Group. If you're a regular listener of my podcasts, then you're welcome to join. It's a private group, but just ask to join and you'll be accepted.
It's just, it's kind of one of those Facebook groups. It's not, you know, there's a lot of Facebook groups. There's a lot of Facebook groups that I've joined and I've had no activity on there in the past.
I've joined to kind of promote my stuff or whatever. It's not that kind of group. It's just, it's a place only for people who are actively listening or watching the videos.
And that's what it's there for. So, you can get to know other people. Maybe you can get to, you know, leave me messages or let me know what questions you have for Q&A Friday.
Which brings me to the next thing. Q&A Friday is tomorrow. So, it's Thursday today.
So, if you have any questions for Q&A Friday, please go on to the group on Facebook and leave me a question. Alternatively, you could go to my website, jasonnewland.com and you could send me a message on there with a question. I've got, I think about three questions already.
But generally, it's good to have a few more if possible. So, or you can send me a message on Facebook if you want. Yeah, it's up to you.
Yes, it is, isn't it VinVin? Yes, it is. So yeah, today, I have mainly been working on, what am I doing today, working on a website. I'm now for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings that you can download.
I've now got up to about 100, 1101, I think. So we're getting there. It was 1080 yesterday.
So it takes a while because they're big files as it, you know, they're some of them are a few gigabytes, because it's all four, all four versions of the recording, you know, without music, with music, five hours and 10 hours on the later ones. So I'm also been working on the Spreaker podcast, uploading stuff on there. So it's a very slow process, as well as making new videos for my YouTube channel.
So I've now uploaded up to 210, the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, number 210. I'm not sure, I don't think I've actually released them yet. But they've been uploaded, so I'll release them later.
I'm also in the process of testing out a new video software online called CapCut. So I've got a seven day free trial. And the reason I'm looking to use that is because at the moment, what you're doing is he's just fidgeting, just lay down, just lay down Finn, I'm gonna fidget all the time.
The Yeah, I use Canva for on my laptop, I use Canva to make videos at the moment for YouTube. And that's just like an image and then the audio, you know, just to create video. But there is a limit of two hours on Canva.
So I can't do the five hour or the 10 hour ones. And I'm planning from now on, what are you doing? I just realized, yeah, it's got to be 10 hours without music. Five hours without music 10 hours.
Yeah. I just realized Yeah, so I did the five hours. So basically, going back, all I've done is a bit of research to find out which is the most suitable video editing software that I can use online.
I mean, there's one called Oh, is it DaVinci or DaVinci, I think, where you pay like $300. And it's a one off payment. And then you download the software to your laptop.
And I think you can also use it on Apple as well. But I think it's best used on a laptop. And then it's got all these really great things you can do on it.
But the other there was like, I looked at reviews and CapCut and I don't know what you're doing Vinnie, he's literally he's on the chair, he's on the settee with me to the left of me. And he's, he's on the armrest and he keeps moving around. I think he's, he's trying to find a way to get comfortable.
Is that what you're doing Vin? Trying to get away to CapCut. Do you want me to just leave you alone so you can get comfortable? So I looked at DaVinci, I might have the wrong name. I think it's DaVinci.
I didn't really I thought it'd be like a monthly payment, like a lot of things are, but it's no, you know, $300. That was a that was a no no straight away. And I actually set up a free account on there.
I went to upload stuff and said, no, you can't upload anything. What do you mean I want to upload audio to turn into a video? No, you can't do that you have to. And it just the free version wasn't really much good.
To me. But so what I did is I looked at CapCut. And I'm using that and I've just made my first video.
It's basically yesterday's recording, but the five hour version. And everything I do has to be without music that I upload on YouTube. So it's a five hour version without music.
Also have to change the image. So it's five hours, and then black screen. So I've got the image, a logo saying black screen.
So after the first 10 seconds, it goes to a black screen. So anybody watching on TV, or watching on a computer or on phone or whatever, they'd no longer have that shine light, you know, of the computer screen, or the phone or the I mean, to be fair, you could probably just put your phone face down. That'd probably be a solution.
Perhaps. I don't know. I'm not sure if Yeah, I'm not sure.
But with the TV, that definitely be good because it just go to a black screen for five hours. So that's that's what I've done. I've actually it took a while to process.
I was kind of surprised at how long it took. Probably, maybe up to an hour to process a five hour maybe a little bit less, but perhaps about an hour. So the 10 hour one, I'm gonna be doubling that.
That's a long time. I'm not going to be able to produce too many videos in a day using CapCut. Hmm.
But it's okay. I'll just see how it turns out. It's all it's all experimental really is just testing things, seeing what works, what works best.
I need things that are easy, easy to use really. Because I'm not looking to do anything particularly high tech, especially at the moment with just having a static image. I might, you know, when I do maybe some future hypnosis stuff, I'm perhaps going to have more animation, spirals and stuff like I've had before.
But then I don't know. I'm just I'm just playing around with the ideas at the moment. I don't mind.
I don't mind playing around. And even if I don't get a huge amount done, as long as I get something done. And if I get a recording completed, even if it's not uploaded, if it's at least recorded, then the day is being fruitful kind of, you know.
So I've not made a huge amount of create a huge amount of new recordings to upload to Spreaker. So I'm making longer versions of old recordings, but five hour long and 10 hour long without music, which is taking is quite time consuming. It's gonna take months, to be fair.
But it's okay, I don't mind. Just see something on the floor. So he's asleep now.
Or he's lying down on the half on me, and half on the armrest to the left of the settee. Now he doesn't normally do that. When I'm on the other side, he doesn't doesn't really, he rarely gets on to the armrest.
Not sure why. Maybe because there's a little table next to it. This is nice because he can just lean over and there's nothing there.
I'm just stroking his back and he seems quite happy. Yeah, yeah, there's not a lot really happening today. I've got a neighbor coming around tomorrow.
I don't know if I mentioned this, I might have mentioned it yesterday. Basically her little girl, so she's coming around with her daughter. And I've known the little girl since she was born, before she was born, because the neighbor was pregnant with her when I moved in.
And she was going to go and see Matilda the musical in London, in the theater. But it got cancelled. I don't know if the trip got cancelled or they cancelled it, I'm not sure.
But anyway, the event, they didn't go. And they came around the other day. And I thought, okay, so I thought I'd have a look.
So I already looked online to see if there is a version. I couldn't see it in London, to be fair, trying to look for it in London, and it didn't seem to be anywhere. So maybe it's not on there no more.
This is a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago. But there's Matilda, the on Netflix, it's a musical, which is not the original Matilda movie, but it's the musical version, which was, I don't know, a year or two ago. Now, I don't know whether or not it is, if it's filmed live, or it but to be fair, I don't think it was filmed live, but it's still a musical.
So I just assumed that Matilda was originally a musical, but I guess it wasn't. But I found on Netflix, Matilda, musical, musical. Okay, London Theatre Direct.
So that's a stage, but you can Matilda, the musical, tickets, tickets. Oh, but on Netflix, watch a rolled Ronald Dahls, Matilda, the musical. It's got Emma Thompson.
Yes, it's not, it's not actually live, as it were, if you know what I mean. It's not the, it's not from a live stage, like as if she was in the audience, but it is still the closest thing she's going to get, I guess. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Is the new Matilda on Netflix? Yes.
Minchin added that the deal between Sony and Netflix might be disappointing, but it makes sense and is one of the reasons the film is so good. Matilda, the musical is now available to watch on Netflix. Okay, is it? Yeah, only Netflix, not on, it's not on Disney Plus.
Or you can rent or purchase it on Google Play Movies, Apple TV, and Fandango, whatever the heck that is. I don't know what Fandango is, do you? Do the Fandango. I mean, what is, what is it? Isn't it a cocktail or something? I remember years ago, or when I used to be in the comedy club with, that had a bar and a nightclub and everything.
And people used to come up and ask for cocktails. And the names of the cocktails were rude. But they were real cocktails, but they kind of like, like, like slippery nipple, or six on the beach.
Or now I can't remember, a bum job, not a bum job, that wasn't it. And I'm sure there was another one. And yeah, another one below something.
It's like they're actually, they're actually real cocktail names. Let me just have a look. So I need to remind myself, I don't want to be saying stuff that's not true.
Naughty, naughty cocktail names. Right. At what? Crazy and funny drink names.
Okay, I'm not reading that one out because that is rude. Yeah, the blow. Yeah, that is definitely one, I thought so.
Can I have a whatever, like, duck fart? That suits me better. Because I'm a child, obviously. Pink Panty Dropper.
Blimey. These are real names, by the way, for drinks. Pink Panty Dropper.
What's number one then? Adios Mother Tickler Cocktail. Pink Panty. Liquid Marrow.
Okay, drink shot. But that might actually be really, I don't know. Duck fart.
Oh, dear. That, that appeals to me. Duck.
Looked at the drink. It looks okay. Not sure about the bottom bit.
But yeah. Below. Okay, so there's a one something job shot.
Red headed SLUT shot. Wow. Blimey, that was like a medical thing.
I don't want to read that one out. Liquid Coca Cola shot. Not really Coca Cola.
Chuck Norris shot. Wow. I just imagine that's a very powerful one.
Named after the infamous action hero hero. This unexpected Chuck Norris shot is sweet, spicy, and packs a punch. Yeah.
Buttery Nipple Cocktail. That might be the same. It might maybe that's in America.
But in England, used to one be called the Slippery Nipple. And I don't know that used to make me laugh. Pornstar Shooter.
Oh, Slippery Nipple Cocktail. Yep. Oh, that's it.
Yeah. Another video. Irish, Irish cream on top of Sambuca with grenadine, grenadine sinking below.
Okay. I don't really know why it's called that though. Oh, okay.
Fair enough. I've just seen a visual. Maybe that's it.
Slap Your Mama Cocktail. What? Big O Cocktail. I don't know why that's rude.
G-spot Cocktail. And then there's the A-spot, B-spot, C-spot. This is something this is one that I thought, why would you even drink this one? It's the name of it.
Okay. The first word begins with S, ends in T and then on the grass shot. S-H-I-T on the grass shot.
Poo on the grass shot. How is that appealing? There's another one. Oh, no.
Sex on the beach. I mean, that's mild compared to some of the others now. Blue Ball, Blue Balls shot.
Now, not everyone's going to know what that, what, last time I had the equivalent to that drink. Oh, man. Yeah.
So let me see what it says about the comedy club because it might still be information on there. You don't know. It's possible.
One of London and UK's best-loving young and longest-standing comedy clubs based in the hard east end. It's still up. It's not there.
Hasn't been there for years. Even got the telephone number. Wow.
Hasn't been there for years and years and years. Blimey. What was that one then? Production book comedy.
1999. What is that? Right. Okay.
It's a TV show apparently, but I don't remember that. I would have remembered that surely. Nope.
That's it. I bet you though. Okay.
Shoreditch comedy club. Here we go. Skyrocketing.
This is from December 9th of December 2016. Eight years ago nearly. Skyrocketing rents means that the club has helped.
The club that has helped big names learn their craft can't afford to stay open. A comedy club that helped launch the career of Jimmy Carr, Eddie Izzard, Simon Amstell, Joe Brand has been forced out of business because of rising rents. It's closing its doors to the public after 26 years following a party on New Year's Eve.
The owner said that a near doubling of rent from $120,000 to $230,000 a year. Just a rent. $120,000 put up to $230,000 a year.
Made it impossible to continue in the present location. He told the standard, it's devastating. It's like your girlfriend's left you and you see her walking around town with another guy.
It's because someone else has now got it. Although they didn't use it as a comedy club anymore. When we opened here people thought we were insane.
There was nothing but printing presses and street stuff going on. Shoreditch became an area for artists and rent went up. Then the IT crowd came in and rents skyrocketed.
Now it'll become just another overpriced bar for Shoreditch people. That's not the word they used. With their big beards and skinny jeans who think they they're too cool for comedy.
Looking for new premises. Huge rise in business. So also business rates as well.
So it's not just the rent faces huge rights. So that area had the biggest rise in business rates. Blimey.
So it looks like I'm going to talk about the comedy club again. I've talked about it enough haven't I? But hey I'm going to talk about it again. That particular comedy cafe.
Now I've talked about it but I thought I'd just thinking about the what are my memories of that place. I've got so many memories. That was my favorite comedy club out of all of them.
I loved the comedy store. There was a lot of really really really lovely comedy clubs. Most of them were just rooms in pubs or a room behind a pub like big room or you know a function room which held a few hundred people.
There wasn't many purposely built or comedy clubs that were just comedy clubs and nothing else. And the comedy store pretty much was the first one. And then you had Jonglers.
There was the comedy cafe. I think that was there before Jonglers. I the comedy cafe then Jonglers because they started building comedy clubs around the country I think.
And then the backyard comedy club was built by Lee Hurst in about 1999-2000 time ish. And it was just up the road. So my friend wasn't hugely impressed with that because Lee Hurst was famous.
He was on a tv show was it they think it's all over but I think it's all over I think it was the name of the show. Really popular and he was one of the team captains and he became proper famous. Very wealthy and he's a nice guy.
I really liked him actually but I think my and he was friends of he was friends with my friend as well who owned the club here. But he didn't he wasn't I don't think he was like hugely happy that someone was building a comedy club around the corner. It wasn't literally around the corner but it wasn't far away.
You know really wasn't that far from where we was or where in Shoreditch. But it come in the thing about Lee Hurst is I don't know why but he always remembered my name. He was like oh Mr Jason Newland.
Well I don't mean he just said all right Jay or Jase or Jason or whatever. But wow and I was taken back because just remember there's a chip van. Chip van night which means that Vinnie will be barking a bit because the neighbor opposite goes down there but he comes he comes out a few times waiting for the chip van to arrive.
It takes him a little while to get down the stairs so I'm not you know it's not an issue. I don't care. I don't hear him.
Vinnie hears him. I don't hear him at all. He comes in now of his front door so quietly but Vinnie hears everything and he barks also because he likes him.
So he's excited. He wants to go and say hello. So that's one of the things I've got with the neighbors because everyone's most of the neighbors like give him a lot of attention.
One downstairs says hello but she's never really been particularly bothered. She says hello but she doesn't like go gushy for him. But another neighbor downstairs goes really gushy for him like proper.
He's I think he's in love with her and then the other one's really nice to her but I don't know nice to him but I don't see her very often and another bloke who on the top landing he he doesn't really give much attention to to Vinnie. I don't think he's really a dog person but he's nice to me so I don't care. He's not horrible to Vinnie just he's not that interested you know.
So yeah Lee Hurst he came in. I want to tell you one of these jokes. I'm not going to tell you.
I remember seeing him so he was a headliner early 90s. He was already a headliner but I saw him doing like a 10 minute spot at the open at the comedy store which is like you do an open spot which is free. Now I'm going back so I don't know what the rules are now.
That's how everything used to be. So you do I mean okay once you get to a level you don't do open spots anymore especially if you've got your own management then then I guess you'd you know you'd be put into you don't have to audition for every single gig you do but you you kind of do to start with and what you what used to happen not for me but for other comedians promoters would turn up at these open nights.
They're new act nights where you get new comedians.
There'll be three three different types of people come in. Three types of comedians there'd be I was two of them two of those types and I wasn't the third.
So the the first type I say the third time for the third type first so the third type is established comedians just trying out new material that's it so you get um Lee Evans turning up or um Harry Hill or I'm just trying to think of the big names at the time back then it's quite a while but you know you get like well-known even TV people that you see on TV turning up at quite a small gig because they just want to test out their new material and they might
be normally performing in theaters you know to two two thousand people three thousand people so you know so you get those people or just headliners who only live in doing it but they want to try a new material rather than try it out on a Saturday night when they're getting paid good money so they'll just go in go on stage for five minutes or ten minutes they can they can kind of do what they want really you know if I'm pretty sure if Jimmy Carr or any of the you know
the current famous comedians or Ricky Gervais turned up at an open night a new act night and said can I go on stage I'd like to do an hour there isn't a promoter on the planet that would say no is there let's face it and there's no audience that would say no either in fact there'd be no comedian who would say no because they'd be so probably excited to see and probably meet Ricky Gervais or Lee Evans I know he's Lee Evans is retired now but or Harry Hill or there's
so many for me my favorite Stuart Lee so there's those you know where you get I've actually seen I remember I watched this documentary about the comedy store in America and they did it first I think they started a couple of years before the London one and Paulie Shaw's mum is it Missy I think it was Missy Missy Shaw but Paul is Paulie Shaw's mum was the owner of the comedy store so Paulie Shaw was born into comedy he was he grew up grew up around famous comedians so you know
if you might if you don't know who Paulie Shaw is just google I guess I don't know I'm not sure did he take over the comedy store from his mum his mum his mum did pass away but I've seen famous comedians who who said that they they were all getting really excited they managed to get a slot at the comedy store in America and they finally like an American like a big film started might have been Kevin Kevin whatever his name is but he said he was standing there ready to
go on and he was just going to do a short spot and it's going to be free wasn't going to get paid but if it went well then he could get paid work you know and suddenly he heard someone shout so whispering Robin Williams is here and he wants to go on stage and try some new stuff out so Robin Williams went on and took over the night so there was no more comedians on that night because no one's going to say no to that no we don't want to we
don't want to um one of the famous most famous comedians in the world going on stage of course not you we want the new people so but it might have been Chris Rock or someone like that but it's like it didn't didn't affect his career it did it really let's face it he still went on to be a huge star himself it might not have been Chris Rock but it was someone of that caliber someone of that kind of level of fame and he got kaplunked is it kaplunked what do
they call it when you go to buy a house but you have to have your house sold so you think your house is being sold then you put an offering for another house but then your house the person that's buying your house doesn't and therefore you're unable to buy that house there's a like a break in the chain is it kaplunk monopoly frustration definitely frustrating kapunked labunked but don't but the plunk bunk jump on monk monk monk i don't know something like that so that would that would happen and it
would happen i'll tell you something though it's quite ironic because you have both sides so you'd have a headliner at the comedy club and people would turn up and ask to go on so you get like a like on a normal night even harry hill might turn up say can i just i want to just do 10 minutes can i do 10 minutes i just want to try some stuff out and the answer is always going to be yes isn't it always like it's never going to be no and so
and that was cool but what i noticed is those comedians that were up and coming that were trying to move into television would basically cancel at the last minute so they'd have there'd be the headliner to perform at the comedy club so i was where i was on a friday and saturday night and their management call up would call up maybe in the afternoon or even early evening to say oh we can't make it he's got a tv offer to go on a tv panel show or something like that so
that it's my boss my friend would have to phone around to find one of the comedians that's doing gigs locally to see if they can come up and you know finish the night uh you know do the last the last slot of the night is and it would happen so often there was one particular comedian that would do it i think i better not say their name because it's true but i don't want to get sued because it wasn't their fault it was just they were a brilliant brilliant comedian and
now they're moved their films like in loads of movies and stuff just very very really funny but anyway this person just more and more was cancelling to the point where my friend just like now i'm not booking them anymore it's like it's no point and they weren't at the level of being famous at that point so they this person hadn't they weren't they weren't known publicly like nationwide i'd say they probably are now maybe not as a comedian probably more as an actor i'd say but really been in some huge
movies and but this person was like so funny i used to look forward i was so disappointed when they didn't come because i used to love seeing him or her see see what i did i remember once i went to the comedy store and linda smith who was supposed to be headlining and she was she was one of the top comedians but she she she cancelled because she'd lost she couldn't find her eye contact or contact lens for her eye and they they the compere came on and just spent about
20 minutes making fun of her and for not for cancelling because of something as silly as that and i don't know if it's a silly excuse or not i've got no i've never worn contacts and i mean it depends where she lost it i guess in it i guess i imagine people with contacts would still have glasses but yeah i remember joe brand see joe brand was the first famous person i ever met in the comedy world and she was proper down-to-earth like really there was no no sense of her
being famous at all she was just sitting around she used to they used to have chairs near the bar and there's a fireplace and she'd like sit down and it didn't it didn't have a problem with talking didn't didn't care who she talked to it's you know there was a comedy comics room upstairs where the comics could go especially if they were performing but she she didn't used to perform there she was already doing theatres and stuff she was famous well before she was famous late 80s so she used to
be on like friday night live with um who did friday night oh ben elton ben elton that's it so that was what 88 86 87 88 well i was super excited to meet her but i don't know what i said i might have said something well i said something upset her and she never spoke to me again and she let me know it upset her but i didn't know what it was she even told me but i couldn't understand why she was upset and i might have been just trying to
make her laugh i don't know the weird thing about it is i got on really well with a boyfriend he didn't seem to be bothered because i always got on with him really and he was he was a boyfriend and then he he was a really good comedian and he used to write comedy as well so i got on with him i'm talking right the way for like i knew him for about 10 years probably and jim macabre was it jim no jim macabre something like that he was such a
nice bloke used to like uh when i first met him he used to like a teddy boy hairstyle he's very funny i remember seeing him and him just he still used to chat to me just like say hello and just have a chat it was no there was no bells and whistles with him you know he was just nice a nice bloke and he forgave me for whatever i said to joe brand i don't know what it was i said and i didn't mean to upset her because i was in
awe of being being near her because i'd never i'd never really spoken to a famous person before so yeah i mean she is if you're in another country you might not know who she is but really she's one of the the longest running not just female comedians but comedians stand-up comedians is one of the first original alternative stand-ups like in the country but i'm like you know from london from the comedy store kind of era and yeah wow i don't know she still tours i know she's she's written some books
she's been in tv shows and stuff like that but she's you know well known in this country still i would say i don't know how active she is she might have retired to be honest because i'm guessing she's probably a fair bit older than me and i'm old she may well have retired by now mind you she might not be that much older than me maybe 10 years i'd say i might be wrong let me have a look just look jo brand jo brand she's 67 so yeah she's definitely retirement
age whether or not she's retired i don't know but so she was 67 57 47 37 37 she was about 34 34 33 34 when i met her crazy crazy times it goes so quicker lee huh but anyway i remember seeing the her that the bloke that used to write for her and he used to i think he used to write for her but he used to write comedy for people and he also used to perform and i think at one point he was dating jo a long time ago and
at this point i think i was more involved with the comedy club like at the weekends and we were just chatting it might have been a party it might have been a comedy party or something a birthday party or just a something you know where all the comedians got together and at that stage i wasn't really part i was part of the comedy scene but just as a in connection with the comedy club not really in connection with being a comedian but or wannabe comedian so i i don't think come
out to me we're just chatting and he said i'm quitting and i said what he said yeah i'm quitting comedy i said no i didn't believe him because he was really really good it was really funny and i liked him as well but that's not really relevant to him quitting or not but it's like why would you quit when you just knowing i i just couldn't understand why someone that had talent comedic talent that i would have at that point probably sold i'd have given anything for to be able just
to have like five percent of what he had because i could have been a successful comedian you know just five percent of the talent he had i could have earned money from being a comedian but and he said something i've never ever heard anyone ever say before and he said and i thought no he said he said to me i said why are you quitting why would you mean you're quitting so i'm not doing anymore so why is it because i'm never going to be the best i said what is
the other i'm never going to be the best so i'm not going to do it not do it anymore because i'll never be the best but and i said i kind of tried to talk him out of it which is weird and because you know i didn't have any sway over his or anyone else's choices in their life at that time or at any time really but what do you mean you you don't you you because you will never be the best i said but you're a brilliant comedian you're brilliant
writer you're successful you've got everything going for you and and there is no best it's not it's like who's the best footballer there is no best footballer you can say well you know it's rihanna whatever his name is or um you know the other one and you know whatever i don't really follow football pele and keegan or whatever george best good name for him and but i'm going back like 50 years so maybe i should look at some more up-to-date names paul gascoigne he was good he was brilliant but you
know it's like even in boxing there's no best because everyone keeps even if soul wins all of the belts in a division a weight division they usually end up getting beaten or they retire unbeaten which is rare it happens sometimes so they retire but even while they were champion doesn't mean that they were best because it didn't fight everyone they'd have to fight everyone in order to prove that they were the best and they never do fight everyone and you could argue oh yeah but we fought all the top contenders
but not all the up and coming there's because you think about it mike i'm trying to think there's someone like mayweather when he was 20 there there were world title champions world champions that he could have beaten but he wasn't in their weight division he probably still could have beaten him if he'd gone up in weight but maybe he wasn't able to he wasn't quite you know big enough to do that he wasn't he didn't have the the popularity or the sway to get those big fights because he was starting
out but he was brilliant sugar ray leonard brilliant but sugar ray leonard had much bigger profile because he was olympic champion olympic gold champion it's weird though isn't it you think um classiest clay winning the gold in the olympics vinny okay muhammad ali i'm sorry i'm using classes clay because that was his name at the time all right so finny calm yourself down otherwise me and you are gonna have a big long conversation over some noodles and not over noodles that's one of his friends called noodles i was through what
he said what you having for dinner today dad or something have noodles he screamed no not noodles i said no no no i'm gonna have a pack of noodles in the microwave no not in the microwave i love noodles and uh it's like trying to get i don't say the word noodles anymore when it comes to eating so um yeah so he was cash's clay he won the gold medal he came back to america because i think it was in seoul the olympics and it's weird that i would remember that
why would i remember that why would i remember that seoul olympics i'm just going to check rome it was rome the rome olympics good boy stop with the barking please mate good boy so it was rome 1960 rome olympics where cassius clay won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division now back then light heavyweight yeah it was different because now you got heavyweight and super heavyweight in the olympics so the i guess you still got light heavyweight but basically what the heavyweight now is cruiserweight so if someone if you
win the heavyweight um olympic gold and then you become professional you generally be will be a cruiserweight as a professional although put a few pounds on you can fight as heavyweight but if you win the super heavyweight gold in olympics or medal in olympics that means you when you turn professional be you'll be a heavyweight it's weird i don't know why they don't have the same i don't know why they have so many different weight classes to be honest with you i mean why don't you just have a super heavyweight
for the really big guys so anyone over i don't know so just have like like maybe that will be the next thing maybe that would be the next thing they'll have a super heavyweight because there'll be a way of making some money so tyson fury can then go into a win a world title at a different weight another weight because he's limited to just one weight class because he's so big but anyway cassius clay as he was back then he came he didn't come home to a hero's welcome he as
far as i'm aware and he let's have a quick look why did and this what happened yeah okay according to the commonly told story he was 18 years old so muhammad ali 18 and still going by the name of cassius clay he tossed the medal he won at the as a boxer so he tossed his gold medal for the 1960s 60s summers olympics in disgust in disgust if i can learn to my eyesight read i'm struggling to see the words after louis louisville restaurant discriminated against him by denying him service
wow it's just yeah i mean now if you win a gold medal you're a hero whatever country you're from you're a hero right and he wasn't classed as a he's 18 year old i mean blimey but hey then he went on to be some would argue quite successful quite successful why am i talking about muhammad ali i don't got no idea olympic gold medals for some reason how do we get from joe brand to muhammad ali there's got to be a way we did it some kind of weird canoe ride
that got us there but i remember saying to jim because that wasn't his real name name either let's have a look what his real name was i think it was paul or john jim jim miller okay so comic jim miller aka james macabre so he passed away in 2018 fellow stand-ups pay tribute and to a former circuit manager that's all former circuit comedian jim miller so he always used to his um jim macabre he started off as a punk musician but became active as stand-up in the london clubs in the
80s and 90s performing a deadpan act under the stage name james macabre he was one of the founders of the mccarno club in islington i did not know that initially in pub where the likes of eddie azad phil jupiters matt lucas joe brand and harry hill plied their trade miller dated brand for a while and co-wrote with her see i wasn't reading this off when i told you this is just my memory i'm reading this now but out of my memory i'm glad it's true because i've always it's what i
remember from a long time ago uh he dated brand for a while and co-wrote with her including her heart her breakthrough channel four series through the cake hole millers his sister confirmed he passed away on Facebook after james penn out of the bear cat comedy club broke the news um okay fellow comics also took to social media to pay tribute david baddiel said he was weird and funny and very much like the very much the kind of thing comedy produced below the mainstream radar back in the day andre vincent posted
a message to miller saying you're one of my inspiration and close friends incredibly intelligent superbly funny ugly drunk great cook and scarf collector mark beyer said it was horrible new horrible horribly sad news brian higgins said he was a lovely lovely human phil nickel told him safe travels to where it is we go so this was 21st october 2018 i just i just found that it touched me when he said that to me though like i'm never going to be the best how how did he come to that i mean
in 2018 he was 58 so he was probably again i don't know try and work that out i bought in 1960 i guess because i was 48 in 90 2018 yeah so he's born in 1960 susan is probably last time i spoke to him he's probably nearly 40 maybe 40 so he wasn't wasn't old i mean if you look at see i want to tell you a story and how would i know this but i do and i'm going to read it again i'm going to check it on google to
make sure i've got it correct okay the reason i'm just getting nostalgic now i want to do comedy again oh i want to go back on stage but i'm too old now too old too old you know i was the youngest well i wasn't not forever but i was the youngest when i started um doing comedy i was the youngest person on the circuit i was 20 years old however um i think it's simon anstall but he used to turn up and he was about 14 and he used to come
along he wasn't allowed to perform but he was allowed to sort of stay and watch the show and i don't know if it was him but it was definitely it was a kid that used to come along to the wednesday nights and he was obsessed with comedy and i think they let him on once on a wednesday night when it was a small audience because technically i think you had to be at least 16 to be there but yeah i don't know if it was simon and still or anstis and
still i can't remember but anyway this is a story about roger dangerfield rodney dangerfield not roger rodney dangerfield he got his success when he was older because he started out as a comedian they used to call like hack comedians so he was um there's a lot of comedians that are very similar back in the 50s and the 60s in america where they'd all like wear suits and have the same kind of hairstyles haircuts if you look at lenny bruce look at um he wasn't a hack but i'm just saying they
all kind of had the same sort of style even if they were being irreverent on stage they'd all be dressed nicely george carlin was like that before he became a hippie and richard pryor was basically one of his famous sayings or a saying he said is he earned a really good living being uh bill cosby for a few years he was on tv and he did really well it was basically just a carbon copy of bill cosby because what a lot of some people listening to this might not realize forgetting
any controversial stuff regarding the man bill cosby was a superstar and i don't mean like oh you remember i remember he was on tv of course he was everyone no i don't mean that as a comedian long before television these television shows he was in america he was the top comedian he was filling out stadiums in america with his stand-up shows he had albums number one albums in the charts were his comedy albums he was the biggest comedian i say biggest i mean maybe jerry lewis was i can't imagine many
people were more famous than jerry lewis in the 60s but bill cosby like maybe in the 70s maybe that was his period steve martin was also huge as well but anyway rodney dangerfield there used to be all these like these cafes in the 50s and the 60s where people used to go along and they'd just try and earn a living clip joints and stuff like that whatever that means and to try and get a bit of money and it'd just be you know it was kind of um yeah it sounds
romantic when i read about it but it probably wasn't but it still sounds like it'd be a lot of fun you know everyone was just trying to get enough money to eat basically so he he didn't do very well he yeah he went at it for ages and ages and ages and didn't do very well and then he then he started doing well i'm not sure if he went away and came back and he started doing okay and then he got a slot on the ed sullivan show and he did
something that ed sullivan didn't like and he basically got blackballed or blacklisted or cancelled or whatever before he even got going and it set him back years and then he came back when he was older and he became a big star but he didn't you know he i've seen i've seen him on tv the old clips from the 60s i think maybe 70s but let's have a look let's see if what i'm saying is correct because i've not looked at so rodney dangerfield just tested my memory really rodney dangerfield born
1921 wow 20 years ago he passed away blimey so 21 31 41 51 yes it was he he very much could have been around um let's have a look oh come on come on where am i why is he not showing me rodney dangerfield here we go his name was jacob cohen jack roy born jacob but then he changed it rodney dangerfield stand-up comedian so born 1922 he began his career work this is a wikipedia by the way he began his career working as a stand-up comedy comic at the fantasy
lounge in new york city see this is just absolutely rough they're not they're completely missing out a huge bit maybe they're just saying nice things because he's passed away possibly and i'm not saying anything nasty anyway i'm just saying just telling the story because it's interesting what happened his act grew in popularity became a mainstay in late night talk shows throughout the 60s and 70s eventually developing into a headline act on the las vegas casino circuit he appeared in a few bit parts in films such as the projectionist throughout the
70s but his breakthrough film roles came in 1980 like caddyshack and things like that back to school career so his career at the age of 15 he began to write for stand-up comedians while performing uh right at the age of 19 he legally changed the name to jack roy that's the name he used to perform on stage with i think he struggled financially for nine years at one point performing as performing as a singer waiter until he was fired before taking a job selling aluminium siding in the mid 50s to
support his wife and family he later quipped that he was so little known that he gave up show business so business he was i remember this is a funny line he later quipped that he was so little known that when he gave up show business he was the only one who knew he'd quit i was the only one who knew i'd quit that's funny there's a bit like me when i quit no one knew no one even knows in the early 60s he started reviving his career as an entertainer so
i was correct he quit but that was um it wasn't going well so like he did it for nine years struggled for nine years and then he quit and he went to basically got a job as a salesman i imagine he was very good at it as well and then he started then he went back in the early 60s continued as a salesman but did performing in the evenings and finding a little bit of success fell into debt around 20 000 by his own estimate he couldn't get booked he later
joked i played one club it was so far out my act was reviewed in field and stream i don't know what his magazine oops danishville came to realize that what he lacked was an image a well-defined on-stage persona that audiences would relate to one that would distinguish him from other comics after being shunned by some premier comedy venues who returned home where he began developing a character for whom nothing goes right so he took the name rodney danishfield from an episode of jack benny on his radio program okay the name
resurfaced again in december okay so danishville reached national prominence appearing the ed sullivan show in march 1967 seven see this is it the ed sullivan show 1967 now i'm pretty sure he had issues there and then he said soon began headlining shows in las vegas and continued making frequent appearances on the ed sullivan show so it couldn't have been the ed sullivan show must have been a different show steve allen maybe right okay so i'm gonna have a look rodney danishfield steve allen show let's uh look allen let's uh place
rodney danishfield steve allen show why this okay why did steve allen leave it wooteko okay right so there's gonna be so steve allen okay what we'll do dodden rodney danishfield blackboard why rodney danishfield was banned from i'll turn his phone down so it doesn't disturb me okay why bernie danishfield was banned from the johnny carson show and how they made up so rodney danishfield was one of johnny carson's most popular guests in the 70s and 80s it was his performances of carson that led to his little getting a lead role
in caddyshack things weren't always so rosy um with carson refusing to have danishfield on his show early on um right there was more there was it was different it was more there's more there's more okay let's have a look please oh rodney danishfield blacklisted comedian trimstone america's saviour okay i can't find it i read it i read it in a book so it doesn't mean it's true does it i guess so it's saying why rodney danishfield was banned from the johnny carson show see i remember it was something about he
made a finger signal or hand signal that the host didn't like my memory was that it actually put him back put his career back but from wikipedia it didn't so i don't know but he definitely was successful but it took a long time he didn't quit kept going that's where i went wrong man let me think about it he started doing well in the 70s he was born in 1921 so he was in his 50s before he started gaining any kind success so he's around my age probably and what was
he when he he was 82 um so 50 67 so he had he had like 30 years of fame 30 years of success let's say i mean he's already successful because he was i reckon he's very successful at sales imagine what how good he would have been you know people would probably look forward to him turning up to take their order because or to sell them something because he was just funny i reckon he was enjoyable person to be around maybe i don't know hmm where did i get talking oh
i've got my book i got my book so i mentioned this yesterday an introduction to childhood and youth studies and psychology so this is the open university book i need better lighting though because i can't i don't i'm still trying to look at it and i can't read it in this light yeah i can't read it in this light don't worry i'm not going to start talking about getting glasses again although i do need to get some glasses some new glasses what i want to do what i need to do
is start trying to find resources online basically looking at the book i already tried i started this today actually but looking at the chapters so the first chapter is called what is childhood and youth studies so that's the first introduction and then the second chapter is the psychology of childhood and youth number three chapter three is children's bodies chapter four is making sense of the self chapter five is diverse families chapter six is young people's mental health chapter seven is education schools and learning chapter eight is models of disability and
their effects on children's lives chapter nine racism and ethnicity ethnicity 10 global childhoods 11 gender in childhood and youth 12 chart digital childhood and youth life with screens i don't know what that means oh yes screens i guess computer screens 13 or telephone screens adolescence teenagers and youth a time of change and lastly chapter 14 transitions to adulthood so this book as far as i'm aware covers everything that i'm going to be studying over the next year between october and i guess the end of the academic year which is probably
june i suppose may june maybe july probably june or july one of them so i'd like to try and see if there's any audio resources that i can listen to lectures and stuff like that on the individual topics that are covered in the book or on the course and i suppose the best thing to do would just go on to the open university website and see what they suggest but i do quite enjoy listening to audiobooks i like the idea that it's going to sink in you know if i keep
listening to the same material keep listening to the same book then it will the information the knowledge will sort of stay inside my memory and you know my main goal for this not just this year for the end of this academic year but also for the end of the whole degree is to get first i need to get a first degree like a first mark i mean like top mark i don't know if first is a top or is it i think it is so that's what i need to do
maybe they do a distinction i don't know but i want to get i need to get first i need to get top mark that's just something that has to happen it has to happen man it's just my plan that's why i'm doing it not the only reason i'm doing it but it is a reason because i wasn't able to achieve that last time and i could have done had i done things a bit different had i been on medication probably to be honest had i known had i known what i
knew now so yeah um so that's something that's coming up so we're moving towards it it's uh blimey it's amazing it's nearly here october it's nearly here it's just i mean what is it the fourth or fifth of september already like wow so yep and that's it really finley's now fast asleep to the side of me didn't even realize he was there i don't know when he climbed up i stroke him but i don't realize i'm stroking him i just i guess i'm just used to him being around so i
don't really notice him so i don't know how long i've been talking probably he doesn't seem like very long at all really but i'm gonna go and so now three minutes past seven i don't know what time it was when i started this probably six o'clock maybe so i'm gonna go now and tomorrow is q a friday so you know how focused i am on those days oh yeah never get distracted me never never never never get distracted so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself remember to be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to be happy lots of love bye
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