(no music) #1235 Q&A Friday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (15th November 2024)

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's Q&A Friday. Q, Q, Q, Q, Q&A Friday. okay I'll keep working on it eventually I'll get a good jingle hi hi everyone hello it's me again me and Vinnie Vinnie oh wow he's just been barking screaming at the top of his lungs because there was something outside and he's still listening aren't you come here and give me a cuddle he's listening to every single sound and it's difficult really because I can either have the window closed or the door closed I can't have both so hopefully I'm blocking off the sounds of the

hallway outside my front door where you know people are kind of coming and going inside their flats which they should be allowed to do without hearing him screaming but the window being open means that if anyone does anything if a snail farts in the garden that will start him off any little thing and he's still listening Vinnie stop listening for things give me cuddles come on come come cuddles come come and chill out come and relax come on Vinnie Vin come on Vindaloo come on ah so yeah it's Q&A Friday

it is Friday the 15th of November 2024 it's two minutes past five my website is jasonnewland.com and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes this recording will be available in six varieties six different flavors one without music five hours and ten hours about music one with music and five and ten hours with music and what I do now is I will make a make a page on my website and I embed them into the website each recording I also have a link to directly to the page to

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the Tyson against Jake Paul Mike Tyson against Jake Paul it's free as well well it's not free but if you're a you if you're a Netflix member it doesn't cost anything and then tomorrow at 5 p.m. there is a Saudi Arabia Latin night of boxing which is I think there's a couple of world title fights that starts at 5 p.m. so tomorrow is gonna be the next yeah and I'll probably go on till like midnight or something so it's not gonna be a lot of time to do much other than

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are without music and I have a Facebook group Jason Newland's boring group please join if you'd like to contribute to the questions the Q&A Friday it's a good place to be and this Friday or today and what I posted on Wednesday any any questions for Q&A Friday this week and I've had more response this week than I've had for ages so I'm gonna have a look and go through it no if you're gonna bark Vinnie you can have to go into the bedroom and I don't think you want to go

into the bedroom do you I don't think you do why would you want to go into the bedroom and have that big double bed all to yourself not really a punishment is it to be fair although it's not supposed to be punishment it's just supposed to be a way for me not to have you barking oh right you just bark in there he's gonna keep doing that he will go into the bedroom I hope he doesn't because I like it I do I like having here with me but I can't

be putting up with that so I've got quite a few questions there are lots of questions to get through don't know how I'm gonna get through them all and there's 18 comments on that one there's another question separate and then there's another question separate to that which is on I don't know where it is blimey it's on where is it oh I know where it is it's on Instagram now I don't normally really check on Instagram so luckily I saw it it's Shana so I'm gonna do this question first I'm

gonna do Shana first and just go through the yeah because otherwise if I don't know Shana if you're on Facebook if you can if you can add the question on Facebook next time not I'm not moaning I just I don't want to miss the questions you see what I mean I don't go on Instagram too often because people don't seem to be doesn't seem to be very good place to post stuff necessarily but I saw your message for I shall answer your question first is Shana asks if it's not a

personal question I was wondering why you were in the children's home when you were a little boy what happened in your life to end up there again if too personal I understand no I don't mind going for it I mean for me it is I probably I probably have talked about it before probably what am I doing I'm clicking pressing buttons okay I probably have mentioned it but I'm not sure I might not have done I think I have the honest truth is I guess you don't really need to have

need honest and truth in one sentence do you but the non-lie is I don't know 100% why or how I ended up there or in fact how long I was there because in my memory bearing in mind I was little it felt like I was there for a long time but I don't think I was and the I was at the children's home in Southend but I was told that they moved us to Southend because that was closer to where my dad lived I was told that after the event I

think my stepmom told me like later on you know when I was older because we lived in Newcastle so we was in a Nazareth house which is a I guess it's orphanage isn't it it's an orphanage run by Catholic nuns and we was in Newcastle one to start with and then we went to we moved to Southend and I remember the journey because my social worker I've had two social workers in my lifetime one is a child and one is an adult it's weird isn't it my last one was when

I had I seen a social worker when I was had my when I was diagnosed with bipolar the second time and yeah it was quite nice to actually have some help the problem is eventually they don't have any choice but they just say goodbye and that's it and leave you on your own or leave me on my own and it'd be nice to be able to have a bit more support sometimes but anyway that's not that wasn't the question was it I'm just moaning I'm remember the journey from Newcastle to Southend on the train because it was a long journey it's quite a distance and my social worker Mr.

Wright I'm guessing it's spelled W R I G H T he was lovely but I don't know I don't remember being with anyone else I just remember going up with him just me and him I don't recall my other brothers being with me and they were both with me at both of the children's homes my both my older brothers they were both older that they were older than me when I was born and I don't know maybe we did all travel up together but I don't think we did which doesn't

make sense to me unless they went first to kind of settle in and then I really don't know I'm not sure I do remember my first day at Southend Children's Home there's a specific thing happened that has just stayed in my mind so we travel all the way from Newcastle let me see how long would that last I mean it probably quicker now than it used to be back then but say Newcastle to Southend by train you're looking at Wow yeah it's oh it's not that bad it's not a huge

journey it's like about five hours but roughly five hours so that's a heck of a journey for a six-year-old that's a long journey isn't it but I was yeah so five hours and let me just have a look see Newcastle Nazareth house I have looked this up in the past Wow Sandyford house Tyne and Wear that's where it was Tyne and Wear the house was originally called Villa Rill and later Nazareth house a local has bought their dream home overlooking the ocean in Marewevy Mareweather for more than 11 million now

I can't be there that's a different thing that's the most expensive house in Newcastle look at this Sandy house is now called Sandy house was Villa Rill then it was Nazareth house so it's in Sandyford wherever that is and Sandyford Newcastle district Newcastle class domestic broad house the house was originally called Villa Rill and later Nazareth house was built by John Dobson in 1817 the main front had large bow windows and a tusk Tuscan column supported the entrance porch I just want to see if it's right so it was owned by Dr.

Gribb a surgeon but when he passed away in 1916 the property was owned by the poor sisters of Nazareth for nearly 80 years and was known as Nazareth house 80 years blimey in 1996 the sisters transferred to London and for a while the house was managed by Catholic Care North East I wonder if there's any it says how many rooms there was any pictures any pictures I'd like to see that so that's where I lived I don't know I really don't know kind of God blimey it's not the right place

to talk about it here but if you want to find out more about Nazareth house and get more get an idea it's not funny at all but get an idea what it was all about go online not not now do it during the day when you but I mean you don't even do it if it's if you it's not a nice read to be fair but the history and all through the like 40s 50s 60s 70s it was a pretty awful place so I don't necessarily remember anything too bad about

the Newcastle one but the south end one wasn't great so anyway I don't know how I ended up in the Newcastle Nazareth house children's home it was one of two two I just figure it's one of two reasons one was my mum just put us in there for whatever reason couldn't cope or didn't want us or I don't know whatever the reason was the other reason would be I'm guessing that we were taken away from her via social services again it's guessing it's a guess guessing job because I don't know

I haven't spoken to her since I was seven so I don't know I haven't seen her since I was seven so I don't know what I'm not I had that conversation to find out exactly what happened and no one knows I mean someone I mean I've really liked to get hold of the the documents the social service documents from those years to find out exactly what happened and what was in the case and yeah I mean there's there's a few things I remember living in Newcastle in a tower block and

my mum got remarried to a man from Newcastle my biological mother she remarried and we lived with him and her together bearing in mind what I can remember of those times I'm probably guessing we were taken away taken out of that place that environment but I don't know I'm not 100% I'm not I'm not even I'm not even one percent I don't know it just would be guesswork I don't have the memory of it or maybe I do it's just locked away hidden so I don't really know how I ended

up there but it would have been one of those that's the only I suppose the only other reason maybe if she was ill and she was and we were yeah and she was ill so we were being looked after temporarily and then it maybe she was ill for too long and they decided to and my dad found out where we were or whatever I don't know so I suppose there could be more than two reasons in reality I mean I'm being very very simplistic about it but it seems to me

that the two two options really I remember there was see I'd like to talk about it but this isn't really the right place to do that there's a lot of stuff maybe I'll make a serious podcast one day or maybe that'll just be have to be stuff that's in my book you know I think I have talked about it in previous podcasts little snippets here and there you know but there's one memory I've got it's a strange memory it's not a bad memory I mean it kind of it's not a

positive one but we used to constantly be running away not I mean like my mum and my two brothers and me bags packed suitcases packed or whatever and you know I remember standing on a platform station you know waiting for a train to turn up in them days there was a certain smell they weren't all I don't know it just smelled different maybe I mean there couldn't have been like coal coal trains in the 70s could they but there was a definite smell in the air that I'm pretty sure we

still had that kind of smell in the 90s because I remember waiting on a platform and I got that memory back kind of just hit me like oh and maybe that was the exact platform that I'd been standing on when I was you know five it's just hard to know and the two memories I had is one where the I don't know a man anyway in a van was taking us back home after we'd run away like after she'd run away with us and he was saying oh you don't want

to run away do you you want to stay with me and and I don't know what I said probably said yes all was about keeping the peace me and I remember that sitting in the back of a van and then there was another time that I remember we was in a police station and we were staying or it was a halfway house I think it was a police station and we stayed in there and we stayed in the bunk beds or something and I don't know why though I mean we

were little I hadn't broken any laws I was too young well not too young but I hadn't anyway but we were with her whether she'd got arrested I don't know really don't know but we stayed in this I'm pretty sure it was a police station maybe it was a halfway house but I just remember there being police it's a very vague memory so yeah I don't really know how I ended up there I know more about what happened after than what happened before does that make sense I remember what happened

once I left south end Nazareth house the home of the nuns I know what happened when we left there and my dad saved us basically but how we ended up in there I was just a bit too young there's certain things I remember previous to that and but there's not a huge amount there's bits and bobs flashes here and there and not like flashes like not that kind of flash but just there were a few bits and bobs that I remember and yeah so that's it it's not a very exciting

story but that's it really that's I don't know exactly how I ended up there but I mean the good thing is I was with my brothers which it makes a difference I mean my oldest brother he was off doing his own thing anyway because he was he was too old to sort of hang around with me because I was just tiny and he was four years older so he was he was with his friends but he all lived in the same place but I think he lived in a different dormitory

to me I think because he was older I think he did maybe I don't know but it was mixed it wasn't just a boy's dormitory well it was a boy's dormitory but it was a mixed children's home so there's girls there as well and I there was one memory in where we were told well my my oldest brother came up to me and my other brother and he called us under the bed so we all congregate underneath the bed like climbed under this bed I don't understand how we fit underneath

this bed bearing in mind my brother was like 11 years old seven yeah nearly 11 so he wasn't and he was tall as well so I don't know how we fit I mean it couldn't it wouldn't have been a double bed that wouldn't have made sense so anyway we climbed under the bed maybe our legs would just stick well his legs were sticking out mine wouldn't have been because I was about two inches tall and he told us that our dad was coming to see us and we thought that meant

the second husband of my wife of my wife oh that was weird second husband of my biological mother and we decided I went along with it but we decided to it's really hard to say but we decided to do something so we all got cutlery knives from the cutlery drawer and had one of them in our pockets each or behind our backs we thought it was the bloke you know but it wasn't it was this big bearded man who was my actual real dad and weird it's like really because I

was I was I didn't know what to do I was just following along like okay but that was both my older brothers decided they were going to get rid of him but then they saw him and my oldest brother knew him he kind of knew him he hadn't seen him since he was probably six years old but he remembered him see I didn't remember him at all I I was with him for the first six months of my life and then I was in foster care for I need a year

and a half so I don't know why I was in foster care but I was with my other brother but my oldest brother lived with my nan and granddad and my nan said she used to say to me he was like he was her her sixth son not sixth son sixth as in th so she had no not sixth son she had three sons a fourth son and two daughters and a few others so because because he was with her from the age of four and a half till six and

a half or seven four and a half well it's two yeah four and a half till he was six but she was she knew him once she knew him from birth so she was very very close to him and what happened is my foster parents apparently this is what I was told she he wanted they wanted to adopt me and my other brother but they had to get permission from my biological mother apparently well whether they did or not they contacted her or someone contacted her because she came and she

got my brother both my other brothers and me and took us away took us to Newcastle or somewhere I don't know but my oldest brother said we lived in Scotland for a while yeah so that's how we ended up there I mean she took off when I was about six months old not quite sure what happened there but she my dad came home so I was six months my other brother was two and a half years old and my oldest brother was four and a half years old I guess and

we're all upstairs in the house all electricity was off gas was off apparently this is what I've been told I mean could be a pack of lies but my dad came home and we were just all in there on our own and he they were married him and her got married they got got married in 65 and my brother was born in 66 1966 and I'm assuming we was in a council house I assume my dad was working and yeah she took off she left didn't see her for a year

and a half probably and I don't know how we ended up maybe it was just too much for my dad to deal with I've never had a conversation with him about it but what I did find out from my auntie who was best friends with my mom funny enough that's how my dad got together with her because they were at school together and my dad was I think he was only like a year older than my aunt something like that maybe a couple of years and they met he met her

through my through his sister and they started dating and then they got married so they were best friends my auntie and her well I found out about five years ago I was talking to my auntie that her and my uncle my dad's brother as well he they both wanted to they were going to get together and buy a big house because he had some kids she had a couple of kids and then there was three of us so what they were going to do get together and they were going to

adopt us and all live in one big huge place together or join in houses or something where we can bring help bring us up and they were going to adopt us and again I don't know where my dad was at this time I'm not really not sure this might have been the period when he just had his car crash so that might be he was in a really serious accident like really serious in I'm not sure how old he was but this might have been around that time that explains why

he wasn't around because they didn't know if he was going to survive he got crushed between two lorries he was in a mini and so he wasn't yeah I think they they were trying to make plans it's all coming together now like a jigsaw puzzle anyway so my auntie and my uncle who passed away a couple years ago and they I never got a chance to thank him because I didn't know about it and me and him hardly ever had a conversation he just didn't really talk to me if I'd

known he basically tried to save my life you know I mean like by adopting me and give me a good home so I wouldn't have I wouldn't have had to go through all the stuff I went through but the social services said no they said no you got too many kids that was that was their final decision so the idea that that it was going to be like a big I suppose like a commune I guess I don't know but my uncle was very successful as a plumber and he was

very you know just like my dad my other uncle they were all kind of could do everything my dad's an electrician my other uncle's a carpenter and my other uncle who passed away is a plumber and then he became a heating engineer so they all they could pretty much build a house if they needed to but the social services said no they didn't want us all living together I mean maybe my oldest brother might have stayed with my nan and granddad so it might just be me and my other brother

that they were going to adopt so I think I think my nanny I think my nan loved having I'm sure what granddad did as well loved having him there and she said it was like another like another son to her but I did become her favorite grandson that's what I think I'm going to keep saying it to myself whether it's true or not she's one of these people she loved everyone she loved everyone she had a lot of love in her heart she really did it was she's a really lovely

person so yeah that would have been really weird not not bad weird but you imagine I'd have had such a close relationship with my uncle now I do get on really well with my auntie my uncle never had hardly a conversation with him the other uncle hardly ever really spoken to him so I would have had a close relationship with all of them so I'd have seen them wouldn't I regularly and I literally would have been growing up with them the I'd my I have my cousins that I'd have had

a really close relationship with although I get on really well with one of my cousins my auntie's daughter so one of them I get on really well with and we used to see them quite regularly when we moved back in with my dad we're in like when I was seven we used to see my auntie and her kids didn't see me other uncles so often I don't even remember what their kids names are really is kind of weird but they're all cool they're very tall very tall both my uncles were

tall well are tall one was tall one is tall and their kids are even taller they're like six six it's just and here's me look at me like five foot two it's not fair yeah so that that that's kind of a weird one that's kind of how that all worked is I realized I told the story back to front a little bit bit flippy floppy but yeah yeah I mean it's quite weird it's amazing that my dad got through what he got through because he was told with his parents were

told that he wasn't going to survive then it was well he might survive but he's never gonna he's never gonna be able to do anything he's gonna be pretty much just in the hospital bed for the rest of his life and then they said well he's he's gonna recover but he's never gonna walk again and they changed that I think he was in hospital for months and months and months and they said oh he's gonna he's gonna survive he's gonna walk again well he proved he could walk and but he's

never gonna work again and he defied all the odds I mean honestly I think he had a broken back and a broken neck how he survived that and multiple it's awful so but I was I was too young I wasn't around to see to really know what was going on but and he survived it it's amazing it just shows you human beings and this is the 70s this is like the early 70s technology wasn't great back then is and I've seen I know someone had a broken back and what they

went through and they were in hospital for about six to eight weeks and the bed gradually they moved the bed up a little bit every few days or whatever just in order to kind of get the back working it was I used to visit him it was he lived in the same house as what I lived in this bloke so yeah mind you I think part of the reason is is his back went well it's not the reason but he had osteoporosis which meant his bones were not very strong which

might have been why he ended up because he got mugged so that might be what happened yeah so yeah that that's kind of how I got there probably not a happy story I'm not sure I forget if but Shana thanks for the questions I try and answer every question so that I get so what happened my life to get there it I suppose really just my mum leaving then coming back and taking us because someone told my mum that I was me and my brother were going to get adopted and

for some reason my biological mother didn't want that to happen so she came and swooped in and took us all and disappeared into the mist the Newcastle mist and back then we didn't have social media we didn't have it was it wasn't obviously it was 70s but it just wasn't you could hide quite easily the other side of the country now it be you know there wasn't cameras everywhere I mean you know it's just it's it was difficult to find someone I guess so my my dad didn't know where where

he was but he was clearly looking for us because you know he had a social worker and he's involved with the social services because they wouldn't have just contacted him randomly because they would you know there must have been a reason for them to know where he was yeah so that's it really that was a happy story we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas oh right so let's have a look where are we going Facebook my group so I want to answer ben's question next uh

okay q and a question this is ben do you think you're going to stick at the course or you're just not in the right mindset that's such a big challenge also do you know how logi got on and final question did that lady ever sort you back all right yeah did I ever get their money back for the kitchen items and are you still friends no it's a bit personal um but I'd like to know people aren't taking mimic with such a nice bloke thank you ben um I'll answer the

last question first no it's it's a neighbor so I can't I'm not like not friends but I'm not you know still ask for stuff but hasn't asked for any money for a while and won't get anything from me and I'll go back did she pay anything but no not a penny not even not even approach the subject I'm not neither of high to be honest so you know yeah I think I just have to accept that it was I was very I was in a very vulnerable situation and I was

just because I got the stuff on the catalog so it's not like I paid obviously I'm still I'm still paying for it now but it was kind of free and I was going through a I think I'm going through a bit of a manic period and she just moved in she didn't have anything and she just if she had moved into a different flat I probably wouldn't have even talked to her other than to say hello but she was in my friend's flat and the one that passed away so I

just had this connection with that flat I mean in and out of there for the last 10 years nearly so for her to be in there and not have anything not not have a fridge not have anything at all so and she asked me about I don't know what she asked me for if there's any does she know any fridges second-hand fridges going for sale or anything like that and I just thought you know what I'll just get her a fridge and she didn't even have a cooker she she literally

had just an empty flat didn't have anything she had a bed so she had something she had a bed in fact I don't think she even had a bed I think she was sleeping on the sofa or did she have a bed I think she might have had a bed but she didn't have a cooker didn't have a microwave didn't have a fridge or freezer didn't have a toaster didn't even have a kettle so I just ordered all that stuff for her so in a way I can't really ask for

the money for that back because she didn't ask for it I just got I just gave it to her I ordered it thinking it'd just be a nice thing to do and because I got carried away she seemed like a nice person and I wanted to help her and I was kind of primed to help the person that lived in that flat I just I don't know I'm trying to think of excuses but it's just what happened that's what happened so I ordered all this stuff online on the catalogue and

then so that came through so yeah so I got a cooker fridge freezer it's all stuff that's better than what I've got in my own flat funny enough and then I got a microwave for her a toaster and a kettle and then she asked for a television so I got her a television and then she asked for a sofa and I didn't get her a sofa I was looking but so at this point I'd spent with money I'd lent her probably about a thousand over a thousand pound so the only

thing I could ask back from her would be the money that she said she was going to give back to me which she never did and the money for the tv she said she was going to give me the money for the tv I mean she did say she was going to give the money for everything I got but you know that if that went to court I wouldn't stand a hope because I got it for her she didn't ask for it and you know morally she's in she doesn't need

to pay that back really because I got it for her don't be barking minnie really think twice think twice before you do that but for the tv yeah and so I'm never going to see any of that so I think I've just accepted that I was I was taking for a ride that's pretty certain but at the same time I put myself into that situation therefore it doesn't really matter anymore I'm still paying off it's going to take me till I think March 2028 before I've paid off everything I still

owed money I still owed about are you gonna calm down vin seriously I don't know what's wrong with this dog he just can't stop it like he has to bark what calm down there's nothing of interest out in the garden or in this building only me and you we're the only interesting things here yes so yeah it's this it's just one of those things so I still owe about a thousand pound for my laptop which I bought a couple of years ago but then there's the other money on top so

it's going to take me till the 20 2028 before that's all paid off yeah so that I'm answering these questions quite quickly aren't I so that was that it's just it just is what it is really it's one of those I was vulnerable and I kind of in some ways took advantage of myself in a way that makes sense I just I got carried away trying to help her and in reality I probably would have done it for anyone but also yeah there's more it doesn't matter anymore don't matter so

Logie good news about Logie he has a new home I'm gonna say he's happy because I know he is you know the the RSPCA they don't they're very very very strict and careful about who they rehome a dog to and they'll they'll hold on to a dog for ages before you know until they find someone so I'm pretty certain that he's a very happy dog and he's enjoying his retirement that's what I reckon I don't know where he's living it might be weird one day I might see him might be

in town and suddenly this this cute face looks at me he's gonna remember me I guess he's known me for a long time but yeah he's happy so he's uh he was in there for quite a while but now he's got a new home so it's a happy ending really I mean it's been nearly a year since he was orphaned as it were and I had him for the first two months so I had him from November 24th until the end of January he went and his new home was with

one of my friend's friends she took him and I thought that would be it and then I found out in the summer I think it was that he was in the RSPCA shelter so I've got no idea how he got there knowing him he probably escaped he was an escape artist he loved running away he was never happier than when he was in the field just doing his own thing trotting along like a horse just doing his own he didn't he didn't like being restricted and my friend used to think

that maybe he had a girlfriend somewhere he'd go and visit her she used to come home and just plop down on the floor he could let himself in as well he could put the handle down and let himself in listen hey how you doing what what what what what what yeah Vinnie just growled at me calm yourself down Vin oh I just where is it I just come out of it new post likes 27 minutes was there any other questions to oh okay the course it's a weird one it's a

weird one because I've not done anything towards the course see I know that I can do I can do the TMA which is the tutored mark assignment I could do it and I can pass it yeah I know that 100% it's just and the thing is I am interested in psychology I listen to audio books on the subject maybe I'm more interested in the more advanced stuff perhaps that's what it is I mean it's a developmental side it's interesting but it's it's it's like there's a lot goes on between impregnation

and birth right huge amounts goes on I'm not talking from a psychological perspective although there would be but just you know there's a huge amount goes on inside a mummy's tummy going from you know imprint from from the the squirt to the birth so but I've got no interest in that whole process I was my used to be interested in the first bit but nowadays you know I just I'm interested what happens when they're born and you know going from there but in the same way I'm interested in how the

brain works I'm not hugely interested in the developmental side as much as the the social side maybe the why someone's like they are the I'm trying I'm not probably explaining it very well but in order for me to progress I need to um do the course so what I'm gonna do is I won't be doing it tomorrow because it's boxing weekend Sunday I'll I'll get on it and try and sort of figure out what to do that's what I'm gonna do maybe even put together all the coursework so I can

listen to it in bed but then I like to listen to the radio in bed on a Friday night how on earth am I going to get up I mean literally it's nearly time if I'm going to get up at two it's six o'clock now so I need to be going to bed about eight to get up at two how am I going to do that and because it's live I don't know if they'll will they allow playback I don't know if they do allow playback I could get up at

seven or six in the morning and just watch it but how do I know oh perhaps I could look into it so yeah I don't know it is a it's a big challenge I think one of the problems I've been making is thinking of it like a six-year thing and realistically I don't even know if I'm going to be around in six years I'm 54 I don't know what's going to happen and but on the other side I'm thinking doing something that is stimulating my brain is so important and the

more I go down the road of education like the more books I read the more stuff I learn the more I move away from the idea that I am really dumb because that's what I used to think about myself because that's what I was told I was dumb I was backwards I was behind I was stupid blah blah all that you know the dunce that's what I was told and that was just for me teachers so it is I didn't have a lot of self-confidence I had none I had a

little bit of confidence when I started doing karate but not in my mental ability and I was starting even when I did the degree before the first degree I did it was I put very little effort into the actual academic side I just know I'm just thinking to complete this would give me maybe a bit of closure on the idea that I'm super dumb you know that I'm really unintelligent if I can do a degree a proper academic degree the other degree was proper it's just this is there's a lot

of practical to it as well this is all academic so I think completing this course I would I mean who knows six years time blimey I know six years goes quickly I'm aware of that you know I'll be 60 before I know it and it's well not before I know it I probably will know it hopefully I will know it but how many people do you think who's listening to this now that I haven't angered during this recording how many people do you think was how many of you do you

think will still be listening to me making these recordings in six years time do you make it's just weird isn't it you think about it I've been doing this for this Let Me Bore You To Sleep since the beginning of 2018 of course that 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 nearly seven well be seven years in about three months so add another five years on to that 8 9 10 11 12 that's over nine years so I've been doing this recording for over a decade this this podcast is one

podcast and we'll all be getting old together together yeah strange one me and Vinnie I'll be 60 Vinnie will be about 90 how old will Vinnie be he's seven years per year isn't it so six years times by seven so 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 42 plus 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 45 56 he'll be

about 60 as well it'll be roughly 60 so when I'm 60 he'll have reached my age in his years he'll be six seven eight eight or nine years old I suppose by then wow I wonder if he'll be a bit more chilled out by then I wonder if he'll be more relaxed a bit less barky a bit less yappy a bit less reactive maybe I'll be a bit less reactive and a bit less yappy and a bit less barky maybe so in answer to your question Ben I'm not sure I

intend to do it I feel quite positive about it I just I have to do it I almost wish that it wasn't starting until February which I could have done I could have started in February instead of October and but then it's like anything like oh I'm very much procrastination is something that I do I'm very good at yeah and then I think I might do a maths degree what do you reckon counting your fingers okay for maths it's kind of ironic isn't it is that ironic or just silly me

talking about how I now know that I'm actually intelligent and then I start counting on my fingers so these are the rest of the questions that I've got there's quite a few Barry asks drawing pins or blu-tack and I did answer that question saying I wonder how long it would take me to answer this one and I got an answer from Barry saying that was what I was thinking well you know what it's quite a simple one to answer I think let's have a quick drink of water I would say

I do have an answer it's blu-tack and if you looked at my walls you could see that because there's there's blu-tack everywhere I think the problem with drawing pins is they're not always easy to put in I mean they're good for like those oak what they call them you know those boards where you can almost like cork boards and you can like notice boards I'd like to get some of those the drawing pins are quite good for that I used to use drawing pins in the door my living room door

for appointments now I use blu-tack and I've got quite a few packets of blu-tack still so if I've got a doctor's appointment or a dentist appointment or uh someone's coming around or whatever I put it on the door because I have that door open most of the time although the last couple of days I've been closing it during the day as well with the window open to try and stop Vinnie from barking because he's been a little bit a little bit too barky recently it goes through periods so I answered

that quite quickly I'm pretty pleased although they do have a tendency of pulling the paint off if you leave them on too long the blu-tack I actually put blu-tack over the knocker on my door which is a sign just saying leave leave parcels on the floor but I put it over over the knocker because a neighbor almost almost knocked the door down banging on the knocker so I put this piece of paper over the knocker the next day bang bang bang on the knocker she literally pulled the paper down to

use the knocker and I think I might have been reactive in fact I was but anyway what I did after she left is I felt I must have used like a whole packet of blu-tack and I you can't get the thing off now yeah the doors needs to be you'd have to actually remove the whole door if you want that sign off it's stuck so much blu-tack used and no one could ever use that knocker again I don't want people using the knocker why why what's the point having something like

that in a little flat I understand it if you're in a mansion you're in a mansion you need a big door knocker you know I'm not knocking a big big knocker I mean you might even need a pair of knockers in a in a mansion sometimes they have like two knockers that are like connected together but I don't I don't need that here besides I've got my doorbell here anyone even enters the building finish starts barking so Brittany hi Brittany asks me what was the best date you've ever had details

details details the best date I've ever had it's a long time ago um I had less gray hair I don't know I'm not sure if I've ever had a really good date sure I must have done um I mean I've not none of them have been bad well some of them have been bad but generally best date in a way probably my best date was when I was eight I talked about it a few weeks ago and I don't know why I remember it it was I feel like the first

date I ever had and I went around I don't know if I went around her house or we went I met her at the cinema but we went to the cinema anyway watched two movies the matinee matinee show and then went back to her house I took a flout no I took a box of chocolates and then I went back to her house we had some chips and we had a kiss under the table a peck on the cheek probably but yeah so I don't remember it but I kind of

got fond feelings about it it's just that I remember waking up and giving my dad a massive hug she woke me up to get up but so that's why you would wake someone up isn't it but he wouldn't normally wake me up on a Saturday but I did ask to be woken up specifically because I had this date and I was so excited and I'm not sure if I've had any exciting dates I might have done I just can't really remember any good dates what's my best date that's the question

isn't it best date I've ever had it's not happened yet not happened yet um no nothing really stands out I think the problem is I never really never really dated the person I wanted to date I dated people I wanted to date but I just didn't there was never there's never really hugely exciting sounds bad isn't it but I think it's because quite often I'd get to know the person first so it wasn't as like meeting someone for the first time asking them out and then going out meeting them in

a pub or in a going to a restaurant or to the cinema and not knowing anything about them you know I haven't really done that too often I did it in Ireland I met someone and that was the situation met out to have a drink and then we went we went to the cinema and stuff that was all right um no I can't remember anything that was particularly memorable otherwise I'd remember it I guess I'm not saying that there wasn't anything memorable happening yeah yeah it hasn't happened yet should we

say that is that uh it's a bit of a cop out but yeah hmm I don't know I mean all all the dates have been nice I guess it's well not all that are blimey not all I've had a few just yeah just some pretty awful ones actually like it just it was just wrong I remember years ago there was someone I I got on really well with her on the phone she was a customer and she came in and and I met her and us and we decided to have

it in a meal in evening in the club and we did and I just wanted her to go I just it wasn't it's like she was picking on me um just picking apart everything I was saying and really it or making fun of me I don't know what it was but yeah I didn't enjoy that that date and she wouldn't leave and she's like then she just kept staying as he said well I need you walk me to the train station I said oh but she she insisted so I did

walk to the sort of train station and made sure she got on a train or she got a taxi I think in the end but she's it's almost like she didn't want me to go and I just I was trying not get rid of her but I was I wasn't enjoying myself but this wasn't about what the worst dates are so I shouldn't have mentioned that so I'm trying to think I can't remember I've had lots of nice moments dates there weren't so much dates they were more kind of just

meeting up I mean a good date would be where I was laughing a lot but I can't remember doing that there must have been someone I laughed with but I went out with I mean I've had girlfriends where I never went out with them I was dating them but never actually went out not like out out might go out for the day but never actually went to a restaurant or to the cinema or anything like that I had a girlfriend once we did used to go out and stuff but oh

I've got it probably my best date was in the cinema with my first not my first girlfriend but kind of one of my first girlfriends this is in 1991 and yeah we made love in the cemetery it was brilliant no I'd maybe but no we went to the cinema and we watched the cable guy isn't that weird I remember just remembered that we watched the cable guy together that was quite a nice date and we I think we just hung out and went into the west end and actually one of

my best dates it wasn't really a date but it ended up being a date was someone that I'd met when I was working at the Elephant and Castle and I just bumped into her when I was visiting my friend a few months later it's like probably springtime 92 and we hit it off in a big way and we spent the entire day together and all evening and she went home you know at the end of the day that went we went basically we spent eight we spent having eating in a

restaurant or a diner place and then we went to the comedy club and we just spent the evening I really enjoyed spending time with her I'm not quite sure what happened there she went home and never saw her again she got a train home and or the bus home and I went my way she went her way and the problem I had at the time is I wasn't allowed to not allowed can you believe that but I wasn't it wasn't yeah I wasn't allowed to have people back so I was

paying 40 pound a week in 91 for a room and I wasn't allowed to have guests female guests when I was 20 years old and the only thing I wanted in life was female guests that was the most important thing in the world to me at the time other than comedy you know the idea that's all I wanted was a girlfriend I think really but I wasn't allowed to have anyone back there yeah it wasn't good if I could have my time again so yeah I don't really remember any particular

spectacular dates no I can't think of any there might have been I just don't remember any particular ones I'm sure the ones apart from that one was when I was eight years old that was nice but that was a novelty because that was like the first date when I was going out I'd never been to a cinema on my own before and you know there's a lot of firsts on that one I did date a girl when I was probably 15 maybe I turned 16 but I think I was probably

still 15 she was I don't know about the same age and we went to that's when I was in a chip shop we went I might have been 16 but we went into the Indian takeaway I think it was I'd never been in a restaurant before so I didn't know what to do so but we I didn't know whether to pull the chair out for the lady pull it out when she went going to sit down or push it in when she was going to sit down or just push her

off I didn't I didn't know I didn't know what the etiquette was and back then there was a degree of etiquette when it came to dating I don't know if there is anymore I've got no idea yeah I don't remember blimey yeah sorry that's not a very good answer so when you're looking at a woman's chest what's the first thing that you notice no sorry I read that wrong so when you when you see or are talking to a woman what's the first thing you notice clothing hair teeth tna eyes

etc now Dimitri asks I apologize for meddling but if I may ask what is tna and then in brackets is it temper and appearance well I'm going to give you the answer but it's going to be a much more sanitized version it's um yeah it's going to be a a much more like family friendly version so tna stands for teeth and anus I don't know I do know um teeth I don't know it depends on each person because some people have everyone's got their own unique thing haven't they I mean

there's certain things that I would always notice but I like facial expressions is a smile I don't know just sometimes I know it can be deceiving you can't really judge a person on how they smile but physical appearance it depends I've dated all kinds and it's been a long time since I've dated anyone so I've got no idea even if I would I can't really be fussy these these days anything really no that sounds bad doesn't it as long as when you're talking straw doesn't fall out your mouth I'm happy

I think okay if I go back in the past I always liked nice eyes but then I never used to really go for girls with glasses now I don't doesn't bother me at all just never used to find girls with glasses particularly attractive and I think that might have been because my mum had glasses and I don't know I just wasn't wasn't what I wanted and I always used to be a bit rude about it not not to the women but just generally dating someone with glasses like dating someone for

a windowpane but it's not is it because I wear glasses and I've also dated someone for a windowpane and it's very different very different I mean glasses are a lot easier to carry around for one thing so yeah yeah I'd it's lots of things I like I mean I like really pale girl females but also like dark females you know it's it's it's it's not like one thing or another just it is I like red hair I like dark hair blonde hair I'm not bothered it's about the person really and

personality means more now than I ever did and someone that can tolerate me if I could find someone that actually wants to be with me and is willing to put up with me that in itself is a miracle and I haven't yet although I've not been looking and I never hardly go out so the chances of meeting someone is very slim I don't do dating online or anything like that stern yeah I don't know just someone nice no drama no drama no drama no drama no drama that's it someone that

doesn't have drama or doesn't want drama but physical details I mean it's a bit of a lie isn't it if I say when I meet someone I don't even notice what they look like well it's not true is it it's a lie if I don't notice what they look like necessarily if I'm just talking to them but I do notice what someone looks like if I'm attracted to them does that make sense and I'm not attracted to many people so um if I'm talking to someone yeah but if I'm talking

to someone that has really amazing eyes or really amazing smile or a great um set of feet whatever it's just like I notice it I might notice that just like anyone does but I notice that with men as well I notice it if I see a man with muscles or um a sexy beard you know I notice it it doesn't mean that I want to have a relationship with them but I notice it like my dad's got the best beard in the world I don't want to date him that's not

a good example is it so yeah I think I probably answer that question if it was just me and you on in person I'd probably answer a bit more honestly that's that's terrible isn't it that I can't just be honest there's certain things we've all got things we like and anyone that says they haven't is I think telling fibs we've all got things that we like certain things for you some people it's that and other people it's this and I do like voices not the ones in my head they annoy

me I like voices I like I'm quite good at remembering voices so in the dark if someone says hello to me I can quite often know who it is like when I'm outside with this one this little vini vini and I can see the figure but I can't see their face but I can like okay I recognize their voice so I'm quite good with voices now not everyone believes me I remember years ago I was in the call center and I said to this person oh you yeah you phoned up

a few months ago and he said you don't remember me how can you remember me you speak to hundreds of people thousands of people in a month or whatever I said yeah I know but I just remember your voice and the customer didn't believe me and my colleagues didn't believe me but I did remember the voice so yeah I'm quite good at remembering voices not faces so much perhaps I should start looking at the faces some things yeah I mean I've dated people in the past all shapes and sizes nationalities

it's yeah it's it's all about individual isn't it everyone's different it's all yeah everyone's different I mean I have my type but my type is a few different varieties of my type but I try not to have to be too caught up in my type because it turns out I don't think I'm anyone else's type so I need to figure that way I might if I'm single for much longer I might have to develop some kind of a personality and maybe use that to try and get people to like me

I don't know maybe maybe oh yeah Ken says teeth temper and appearance teeth lol so um and what does Dimitri say oops of course it's none of my business but I thought you were taking a break from recording videos to concentrate on your studies good to know you're back okay I'll answer that in a second uh so t so um thanks for your question Brittany Dimitri matching okay okay Dimitri you're wondering yeah I did didn't I did say last week that I wasn't going to make any recordings after the Q&A

Friday last week until December and I got through the weekend and I did nothing I mean I did nothing like literally I think I just slept watch TV and slept and I didn't feel particularly good about it to be honest and then Monday all day long I did nothing and I started thinking I got the urge to make a a boring object sleepy boring objects recording you know for my Monday recording and I don't know why I was getting that I was just like I just want to do that so

I did it and then I did Tuesday and then I did Wednesday and I did Thursday have I done one every week every day this week haven't I think Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday I think I know I did one last night I did I know I did a Monday I did Tuesday the Tuesday trivia and I think I did on Wednesday I definitely did one last night so yeah and Chris said I thought the same thing so that's pretty much what happened I I was gonna do that but

as Dimitri says his plans sometimes change maybe Jason has changed for a little has changes for a little while yeah I just there's no real kind of reason other than I didn't see the point in spending the next two weeks doing nothing and then having lost the course and having nothing to show for it so I might as well even if I if for whatever reason I stopped doing a course at least I've done made some recordings I guess so thank you for that and Anne asks me if you won

the lottery what is the first thing you would do depending how much it was but let's face it it's going to be more than what I've got I think what I would have to do is take a break not from this but from here I would go and rent somewhere a cottage or something in Wales or maybe Scotland I don't know somewhere in this country probably because I've got Vinnie so I can't leave him so I can't really be going abroad I'd go rent yeah rent a thing rent a place

for a year and then figure out what I want to do so I can do my degree maybe I decide I don't want to do the degree because I want to do other things who knows but I would take a year off or not a year off but I would take a year to kind of I'd sit on the money I wouldn't spend anything to start with I might you know if it was a huge amount of money I'd chuck a few quid to my dad and friends and family but

not huge amounts just it depends on what it was just just to kind of give them a treat so they could do something so maybe give my dad give him some money so he can go on some kind of holiday or something like that and I would I'll probably buy this flat as well maybe I don't know but I definitely what my plan and this is something I've thought about in the past I would initially my idea was I'm going to do this I'm going to help this person I'm going

to help that person but what I realize I'll end up doing is giving all the money away and then ending up after six months or a year or two years three years maybe and have nothing and I don't really want to do that because it's an opportunity that I'd be wasting I would yeah so I'd go stay rent a cottage somewhere or house somewhere nice and I'd spend a year just figuring out what I want to do next I could take all my equipment with me and I'd be still be

doing my recordings from there I'd make sure the rent was paid on this place give the keys to a neighbor so they could check the mail and let anyone in that needs to come in to check the boiler and stuff like that and then I'd just give it some thought so I wouldn't like go go completely off the rails you know I thought let's say I had a million I won a million pound I think maybe I'd spend 50 grand in the first year and leave everything else in in the

bank or maybe put 800 grand in a high interest account I'm not really sure but I definitely would need some space and some time to think about what I was going to do because I know just knowing myself it'd be easy to get through it very quickly I know a million pounds a huge amount of money to someone like me and possibly you as well but the fact is you can spend a million pound in 10 minutes if you go to the right place there's a lot of things that a

million pound you'd need that just to put deposit on something you know it'd be easier it's you could buy a house a million pound to buy you a house in London not even a particularly big house necessarily and then I'd do that and I wouldn't have any money to cover the costs of the ground rent and the rates and the bills you know so just be a pointless pointless thing so I'd have to figure a way to make that money last me for the next however many years till I'm you

know 140 or whatever so next 93 years maybe invest some of it but yeah that's what I would do and my initial my initial answer is give it away give it away give I like the idea of having a big party and inviting my family having it somewhere nice like a in a restaurant but just rent the whole restaurant out so it's just us and invite all members of the family all friends that I care about that's about three people and literally just give them all a present they'll be stuck

underneath the chair they won't know it's there until I press the button they will explode no so I just I just be nice a nice thing to do yet at the same time imagine how much money you get through so if I had like 20 or 30 or 50 million 100 million well you know I could do a lot more but I think what I'd like to do something I really enjoyed when I was in Thailand giving food away giving cooked food to people who are hungry that was pretty much

my favorite thing that I've ever done in my life therefore I reckon see I'm really trying to get rid of the so so I reckon that would probably be one of the first things I'd do if I didn't have Vinnie I'd go traveling but I can't I can't leave this little boy on his own no matter how annoying he is sometimes growling at me so yeah I just have to you know take a year I wouldn't I wouldn't live like a monk for a year at all I'd definitely have some

fun and I would have to you know give some money to my dad and maybe my brother or whatever I don't know but I wouldn't would I go on a spending spree I probably would there's a few things I'd like to have I mean if I was gonna keep this flat apart from buying it it needs to be shelled completely gutted and rebuilt from the inside out you know as far as like the just the whole thing needs redoing a really nice carpet get the whole place soundproofed but the reality

is I wouldn't want to live here I don't think if I had any kind of money I wouldn't feel too bad just packing up and leaving and never coming back here again yeah I'll be all right with that but I don't think I'd do that straight away so I think that year just to just have some space some time to not it's like don't go shopping when you're hungry don't go grocery shopping when you're hungry that's the same kind of thing don't it's don't don't go shopping when you've haven't had

any money so if you haven't had any money for a long time suddenly you've got some money that's not the right time to go shopping it's probably the most fun time to go shopping but it's not necessarily the best time so yeah I think if there was enough money I'd do both so I'd have the party have family and friends and give them all something I mean I like the idea maybe buying presents but let them buy their own thing give them some cash let them do their own thing so

yeah even if it was just a few grand each I mean if I won like a big big big big big amount you know I did the lottery and I won and a hundred million then I'll probably give my dad like 500 pound so that'd be good that's you know I'll be a bit more generous yeah I'd probably just chuck him a mil isn't it chuck him a mil that's probably what I start calling millions just a mil if you've got that much but then you know what if you've got

a hundred million if you had a hundred pound all you had was a hundred pound in the world you dropped a pound on the floor would you leave it on the floor you'd be careful with it even though it's only a pound but if you got a hundred of them like okay you drop too many you're gonna end up with none so although a hundred million is a lot of cash if you drop too many of those millions those millis you end up with less I like the idea of getting

health insurance for everyone not in the world that would be nice but get health insurance to cover my whole family private health insurance so they get instant help no waiting list I'm not really sure how it all works with private insurance but like top notch level so I think that would be quite cool especially for my dad yeah so I'd get the that'd be something so I'd probably chuck my dad's he'd get the most amount of money out of my family because he's retired now and so I'd make sure him

and my step-mom was sorted they're there I think they're quite they're doing all right but it'd be you know if I could chuck them a million a milli than I would a mil and then yeah put give some money to my brother my brothers if I can find them my step-brother step-sister maybe set up a trust fund for their kids or just give them money let them do it for themselves I don't need to get involved in that do I and but I think other than maybe chucking a few quid

towards my nearest and dearest as they as they are kind of probably chucking a few quid to them I just go away for a while and figure out what to do rather than making any big decisions yeah I mean maybe if I had a good amount of money maybe buy buy a cottage in the middle of nowhere not in the middle of nowhere but somewhere nice instead of renting maybe just buy something and live there for a year and then decide what to do next me and Vinnie hmm I like

the idea of starting some kind of soup kitchen free food for people that need it that that seems like something that would be quite cool I saw that Bruce Springsteen does that he's got a couple of soup kitchen restaurants or whatever they call them and he gives he gives out free food to whoever needs it like they come and eat like cooked meals I thought that was really cool so that that appeals to me right darling you right so again I've probably not answered it uh this right so that's Anne

thank you Anne um Nicole asked me I'm so happy you're doing Q&A Friday this week I've been saving these questions in my phone as I was not sure when the next Q&A Friday recording will be so number one of all the vacations holidays you have been on in your life which one was your favorite and why hmm I'm probably gonna say hmm hmm I quite enjoyed going to Torquay so I spent I got a bed and breakfast or a hotel or I forget what it was for about three days or

four days I was there in the summer in 2002 I think it was maybe 2003 2003 it was yeah and that was quite nice really nice weather yeah that was good when I went to Bulgaria I enjoyed parts of it and didn't like other parts when I went to Amsterdam yes some of it was good but it's the first time I've been away where I actually felt a bit lonely it's not really a place to go on your own Amsterdam I mean there's things to see there's obviously I did a

bit of window shopping but it's I don't know I felt a bit lonely there for some reason I don't generally feel lonely uh yeah so what is that other thing where to go France that's possibly one of my holidays when I went to France although it wasn't really holiday I was traveling hitching hitchhiking and walking through France and that was in 1989 so I was 18 that was yeah that's one of my favorite ones Spain well I only went to Spain for the afternoon so it wasn't really much of a

holiday but I quite enjoyed the process apart from the flying part Belgium I went to Belgium twice as a kid and once as a older like 18 year old and I enjoyed both all three trips yeah that was that was all right I'm trying to think it's very flat if you've got any mobility issues Belgium's a good place to live it's just it's like really kind of because where I live like it's always been hills and stuff it's nice to just be able to to just walk and not have to use any energy and where else I mean literally you could stand on roller skates and hold up a blanket and just wait for the wind what else Bulgaria,

Amsterdam, France, Spain have I been anywhere else I mean Thailand was again both those holidays it's like kind of where one I broke my rib and the next one I had a chest infection but my favorite part was giving out the food and that was during the first one yeah and I gave out did it over two days I gave hundreds of meals away and that was brilliant and yeah I loved that was my favorite one of the most favorite things I've ever done so I guess that holiday really although

I was in so much pain from my rib that it wasn't much fun most of the time but it's that particular moment of giving away food that was great absolutely loved that and then going around I got this coffee person who was like a coffee vendor like street vendor and had this like a motorbike with this big thing on the side of it and they'd be making coffees and drinks for people and because part of the area was being rebuilt I just got into we just went up the whole of

the road and were giving coffees and drinks to all the workers so that was a lot of fun as well and then walking on the beach I had a company a person that accompanied me showed me around a little bit and we walked on the beach and gave out all these what it is they were kind of like on sticks food that was cooked I don't know what it was like meat and stuff and salad or whatever but we'd be giving these packets out to people all over the beach that

was cool as well and the dogs feeding dogs just basically feeding people it's just nice brilliant just loved it trying to think what other holidays I don't think I think that's it I don't know if I've had any other holidays no I can't remember any others there might have been France Isle of Man that was a holiday but that was nice but it was just yeah that was 2004 2005 2006 and it wasn't a holiday but I did go to on a on a um a retreat and it was in

the summer and the I was there on my birthday and they all sung happy birthday so that was quite a nice moment to be fair that was nice 7 8 9 10 no I think that's all the holidays so probably the favorite one would be probably Thailand as far as it was the most I don't know because being ill and having a broken rib wasn't great but it was it offered me a great opportunity and experience that I've never had before and always kind of wanted and I've worked I've you

know volunteered in a soup kitchen and I volunteered in the food the food place in the past but this was on a different level it was just yeah absolutely amazing so I love that so I'm going to say that holiday so if you were forced to move out of England entirely but could choose any other place to live on the planet for free where would you choose to live I'd like to travel I know it's not really answering your question but I'd like to test places out you know I'd like

to go to America I'd like to go to Canada I'd like to go to China I'd like to go to Russia I'd like to go to Denmark different parts of Europe I would like to go to Australia I'd like to go to New Zealand I'd like to go to I think other places even like Greenland or somewhere like that it'd be interesting to visit those places I'm not necessarily a really big fan of hot countries haven't been to one and it's I don't know if I could really deal with super

hot countries I don't think I've got the right the right body for that I don't know not body but just I've lived my whole life in a cold country or cool country it gets hot sometimes in the summer every now and then but generally England is not a hot country by any standards compared to the world is it it's not the coldest but it's definitely not hot so to go somewhere that's really warm would be it'd be strange and maybe living in somewhere like Malta or Portugal I've heard Portugal is

a good place to live so I don't have an answer I'm not sure somewhere nice hmm you got me thinking all this like win the lottery and where would I like to live it's got me wanting to move and I'm stuck here so yeah that that's I think I quite like the idea of traveling I'll be honest with you I like I don't necessarily want to be a nomad but it doesn't appall me the idea of it as long as I've got I'm financially okay and I mean with Vinnie I

mean I could travel to another country and take with me Japan is a place that seems like quite a decent place to live so I kind of yeah I'd be interested maybe living in Japan yeah I'm really not sure I mean Thailand possibly but I'd have to have that have to be a way to keep cool so the next question is what exactly is a digestive biscuit I've heard you talk about them in several of your podcasts now and we don't have those here in the US you probably have an

equivalent to it but it's possibly called something different because there's a few things in America that have a different name to what we call them here and digestive biscuit it's basically there's two types of biscuit which we use for tea that are well known for like dipping into tea I mean some would argue any anything is usable for tea which is true it could be even chocolate can if you want I used to dip Kit Kats into tea some would say that's grim some would say oh so digestive biscuits and

rich tea biscuits are the two that are quite well known I mean you've got Hobnobs as well now as well but the good thing about these biscuits is you dip them in providing you don't it's a certain it's a certain skill involved I'm like Liam Neeson I have a certain skill set except mine involves dipping biscuits into tea just long enough so they they get soggier but not soggy enough to break and fall into your tea because you never get that back and you can eat it and it's all yummy

yum yum yum especially if you don't have sugar in your tea because it sweetens the tea so the McVitie's make them but you can get a home brand they're kind of like oatmeal is it oatmeal oatmeal kind of kind of crunchy they fall apart flake is I'm not sure how to explain it but they're yummy they're a little bit dry without liquid you can if you've been adventurous you can eat them with cheese on cheese on top or even spread jam or marmalade or honey you know there's there's different things

you can do but you need to be careful because they do break quite easily they're they're not the sturdiest things in the world you wouldn't you wouldn't build a house on one that's what I'm saying would you build a house on a biscuit that's got to be the most stupid thing I've said for a while wow my favorite is tea thanks for so much I've adored your podcast for years now but it is really helping me get through some very okay I'm going to read this out because you did post

it here and so thank you so much I've adored your podcast for years now but it's really helped me get through some very tough times at the moment I really appreciate all the hard work you do I truly can't put into words how much it helps me each night when I try to shut my mind off or my mind down to fall asleep thank you um Nicola it's very very kind of you to say those words thank you very much and oh blimey there's so many questions so many nice things

people say thank you so Chris is the next question are you addicted to making recordings am I addicted to it I don't I don't know if it's so much making recordings because it might not seem like it but I am doing these in the hope that it's helping people so you could say I'm addicted to helping people maybe but if there was no if there was no point but if I was doing this in a sense I know you didn't ask me that I know you that wasn't what you asked

really um but for me it's hopefully I'm helping people and maybe I'm addicted to that or I don't know I'm not sure really it's more this is my purpose this is what I get out of bed for not that I was in bed before this but I mean yeah generally this is what I look forward to you know when I go to bed I look forward to getting up the next day to get started and to edit the recording and you know things like that so I'm kind of it keeps

me going and it's a little bit more structured now than it used to be because when I started in 2006 it was just random recordings here and there and I did loads I did hundreds and hundreds of recordings I lost most of them but I probably had well over a thousand recordings before 2018 and most of them are just either missing or stored away never to be seen again but in 2018 I started to get more structured a little bit and you know I've stuck to this podcast for nearly seven

years that Let Me Bore You To Sleep there's 2,200 recordings 2,000 or was it 1,000 1,200 I don't know how many recordings are there it can't be 2,000 1,234 that's it blimey I added a few there oh now I'm gonna have to go back okay got it all all comments so Chris right I don't think I'm addicted to making recordings but I am dedicated to it does that make sense I think dedicated rather than addicted as long as it feels that what I'm doing is worthwhile and has a purpose otherwise

there's no point doing it I think if it was just for my own fun I'd make the odd video probably the odd Jason chats just chatting about what's going on and I'd do that maybe every few weeks maybe every few months maybe a few days in a row and then nothing for weeks and weeks and weeks so yeah this is I think it was dedication rather than anything else I think thank you for that so Ken asks what your what's your favorite beverage favorite beverage water really I guess yeah water

potato crisp or chocolate these are the real questions well neither because I don't really eat that stuff anymore but if I had to choose between the two and I could eat anything I wanted chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate all the time I don't eat chocolate anymore I have oh that was loud isn't it I have probably once a week I might have biscuits or something that has chocolate in it but I don't actually eat bars of chocolate and that'll be like once a week once every two weeks it's rare my I've

got my sugar level way down Ken then writes slippery little rattler so no idea what that meant uh tuba without the n tuba without the n what I got no idea what are you talking about slippery little rattler I don't know what that is and then tuba without the n tuba without the n am I being slow here possibly I mean tuba without the n nuba buta tuna boona I don't know uh the next question this is all from Ken here the next one is the best date I ever had

was during the Christmas of 1982 cool 1982 that was a good year for music wasn't that the old music the Brits we go we dominated the old the old British bands and singers we did very well in the early 80s I loved the 80s the early 80s music um Joanne asks me but thanks for the the the random the random thing there Ken a few random bits there uh Joanne asks what do you think is going to who do you think is going to win Paul or Tyson I would love

Mike Tyson to win I'd love it I'm gonna watch it and I hope that he does but unless it's fixed which it might be I don't know it might it might be like a wrestling you know it might just just they might have been rehearsing it for weeks and apparently Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul today or yesterday and Jake Paul just stood there laughing now if Mike Tyson put his full power behind a slap and Jake Paul didn't know it was coming he very likely because he didn't block it so

very likely would have actually been possibly knocked down or at least dazed a bit like if any 15 stone person slaps you like a proper slap not like a just a slap but like a proper um I don't know like put some effort in it's gonna hurt it's gonna stun and it didn't he just laughed it didn't seem to affect him at all so I'm thinking and it was right on his jawline as well so I'm thinking yeah this might just be a WWE moment which will be fun we've got

to think of it as fun because the most important thing to me it might sound weird but the most important thing is that no one gets hurt that is always the most important thing I think in all sports regardless of what it is that no one gets hurt you know if we're gonna be serious it's but in boxing it's a bit of a stupid sport people punching each other I love it but it is I understand it's really ridiculous and for someone in their 50 and he's only a few years

older than me Mike Tyson and I was 16 when he won the world title and he was 20 so he's only four years older than me he I just want him to I want him to I think I want it to be fun and I want him to leave the ring fine if it's a real fight I think Mike Tyson is going to get knocked down but because of the situation I'm pretty certain that the referee will not allow anyone to get hurt won't be one of those moments where someone

takes lots of punches the referee won't allow that because firstly it's being shown on Netflix there's no age limit people can watch it you know of all ages I would argue Netflix is probably quite a family-friendly platform and they won't want that attention they won't want to be showing something that was negative I'm guessing I might be wrong I might be wrong just thinking about someone a stand-up specials they have on there so if it's if it's all fair and fair and on the level Jake Paul is Jake Paul can

just run ring run ring run rings around Mike Tyson if he wants to simply because it is a as is I'll be able to talk in a minute maybe I've been talking too long his athleticism his athleticism he's in his peak Mike Tyson was in his peak at 20 which was nearly 40 years ago Jake Paul's in his peak now and Jake Paul has been training for about five years pretty much full time as a boxer for five years four or five years Mike Tyson's been practicing he's been preparing for

this for what six months no but what about when he was young yeah he hasn't been in the ring for over 20 years not okay he was in the he was entering a few years ago with Roy Jones but like with a proper fight with a proper preparation and that so I'd love to see Mike Tyson just come in and just tap him and he and it's over it's like and Tyson is the winner but then I saw something recently online with Mike Tyson saying when I've done this I want

to I want to start I want to make a comeback professionally and I want to take on the world champions it's just ridiculous I mean come on it even the worst world champion the worst heavyweight champion which I won't say his name but is he got beaten by Anthony Joshua to win the world title the IBF title he's one of the worst heavyweight champions even he would beat Mike Tyson Charles Martin now no offense to Charles Martin I mean he obviously is a good fighter and everything but blimey Anthony Joshua

touched him three times and he went down all three times and it was stopped it was one of the worst title fights I've ever seen it's quite a few years ago and you know how Charles Martin won the world title his opponent they were both fighting for the world title as vacant his opponent twisted his knee or his ankle or something rotary calf or something and he couldn't continue so it's classed as a knockout yeah which is ridiculous they were both unbeaten Charles Martin was the world champion the IBF champion

for a few months then he lost it to Anthony Joshua and he's come back and he's got some wins and he's got some losses the man that got beaten by Charles Martin for the world title because he injured himself he never recovered from that injury he had to retire for boxing I think it was knee I'm not sure but he possibly would have gone on to be one of the greats because he was really good but Charles Martin oh man he's he wouldn't have won the world title I mean he

got stopped he was ahead on points so technically you could say well yeah did it work out well or just if he quit he couldn't go on then they stopped it I'm not sure so I'm I'm gonna say Jake Paul's gonna win it's gonna be interesting to see Tyson but how many rounds has Tyson got in him I think it's six two minute rounds was it eight two minute rounds but the rounds are two minutes I remember hearing that I think it's either six or eight rounds I don't think Mike

Tyson can do six rounds without gassing out and it's no offense to him it's just it's simple physics his lung capacity just because of his age is going to be a lot less plus he smokes he smokes cigars and he smokes weed like regularly so he's not going to have the lung capacity that he would have if he was a fit 57 year old he might look fit on the outside but on the inside he's not as fit as he looks oh he looks amazing his body's I'm wondering if he's

had any help from the uh the you know help with getting his body like that I'm not sure what kind of help but something like that and I'm wondering because he does look particularly amazing but I wish him well I hope he's okay I just don't I can't see him being able to win at all not even not even as a joke I just don't see it but I hope he does so that's my answer to that uh Christie are you having the traditional pineapple and sweet corn pizza to have

when watching the boxing tonight the answer to that is no I'll tell you why because it doesn't start till early hours of the morning so although I can't really afford to get delivery but even if I could it they don't deliver that time I think they stop after 10 so that's a little bit you know it'd be quite nice god remember the old days I'd have a sweet corn and pineapple pizza delivered to me from Domino's I'd have six cans of coke all in the fridge waiting to eat I'd have

chocolate bars biscuits you name it all waiting to be stuck in my mouth while I was watching the boxing none of that happens anymore not one of those maybe the pizza sometimes but yeah wow so that is all the questions I answered all the questions I did it I did it dad I did it I only went and did it I don't oh Christine answered the question Christine Christine oh this was 57 minutes ago so Christine sent that message while I was actually making a recording so that was handy wasn't

it oh I've got another one just coming I know okay done it's all done I done did it done done done done so that's all of the questions answered I do believe and I'm very pleased with myself I really am pleased so what I would say now is thank you for listening I'll probably do my next recording on Monday which will be the uh sleepy boring objects if you've got any suggestions for a boring object or a boring topic maybe post something on the group to let me know what you

feel what you are your idea is so now I need to go to a toilet so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy lots of love bye see what happens when you when I do this this sound oh no do you ever need to fart but then realize you also need to do a wee wee as well and you then do both you then then fart in case I'm just I've never happened to me but I'm just bye