(no music) #1234 Still not studied - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (14th November 2024)

Hello, welcome to Jason Newland. Start again. Hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland.

I think he's eating his dinner and he's got his bum stuck right in the air. And yeah, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep and it's Thursday.

You know what I thought I might do? Because I had like a thing, a healing Thursday thing going on. And that's before I got a little bit... I don't know what the right word... I kind of lost my motivation for for about a week. And now I'm back.

I'm still waiting to get my motivation for the the study, the study. So anyway. I've got a Facebook group, Jason's Boring Group or Jason Newland's Boring Group.

You can join if you like. A good place, it's a good place to ask me questions, especially for the Q&A Friday. I have been upgrading the website again today.

And I've got a new design. It's not a new design, it's still the same, but it is a new design. What I'm going to do whenever I get a new recording, when I release a new recording, I'm going to put that on the first page on the front page of my website.

So at the moment you've got yesterday's recording 1233. So Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So that was the title.

So so there's a picture of the podcast. It's a monkey studying in a library. That's supposed to be me.

And then there are there's a playlist, there's actually embedded recordings that you can listen to on the actual website. There is one without music, five hours, 10 hours, then you've got, oh, I just realized it doesn't. I need to put a, yeah, I need to change that.

I didn't realize on the mobile phone, it's not given all the information. So you got one with music, one, five hours of music, 10 hours of music. And then below that, you got the links, which perhaps that's what I should do, put those links above the recording.

Yeah, I think I'll do that. I'll rechange it. So they're direct links.

And then below that you've got the playlist of all the latest recordings. Right? I've got the window open, but Vinnie's decided to start barking. So hopefully, he will calm down.

And I'll be able to get on with the recording. And hopefully there's no one outside the front door, knocking once you get in, so they can wait for someone to turn up. I don't need that tonight.

I don't want to be disturbed. Mind you, I don't know what time that was yesterday that happened. Let's have a look.

Look at my phone camera, not my phone camera, my door camera. Yeah, that's really weird. I got this thing.

Oh, that's weird. Blimey. Just look at the side of my face.

It's not good. Just look at the camera. It's like what's going on with my... I'll get rid of the sound.

Yeah, that's weird. Just a strange kind of look. Okay, I'll take a picture.

I wonder what that is. Vinnie? Oh, sorry. Sorry, mate.

Why did you hit the phone? Strange. Oh, no, it's just my beard. It's weird because now my beard.

So there's a side. My hair is dark. Not completely dark, but it is dark.

Not totally dark, but it's, you know, it's dark. It's getting grayer at the sides. But my beard is definitely getting grayer than my hair.

And you could argue, but that is hair, isn't it? I know it's hair, but the hair on my head. Well, the beard's on your head also, isn't it? I know. Let's just not get too pedantic.

You're pedantic. So maybe it's time to go bald again. I've got quite a few questions for Q&A Friday, which is tomorrow.

So I've got quite a few questions to answer. If you've got any other questions, please do ask. Because tomorrow is quite a big day.

It's the Tyson, Mike Tyson, Jake Paul boxing early hours of the morning Saturday. You know, I really want Mike Tyson to win. But I don't see how he could.

I think the only way that it's going to be palatable is if they fix it. And they just decide to, Jake Paul decides to just like, not get too involved. Because when, when Tyson, when Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones a few years back, part of their deal was Mike Tyson wasn't really supposed to punch Roy Jones in the face.

He punched him in the stomach, in the body and he hurt him. But it, you know, it was Roy Jones punched Tyson in the face and couldn't hurt him. He's like just bounced off his head, didn't hurt him at all.

But he was hurting Roy Jones with the body punches. I think he broke a couple of ribs if I remember rightly. I mean, I didn't have my x-ray machine pointing at the television.

But that's what I remember, if I remember. But that was an exhibition. And I'm thinking this should be an exhibition, not an actual proper fight.

Because a 59 year old against a 27 year old. It's just it doesn't matter what the 59 year old did previously. It's just, it's not fair.

Because you got, there's a lot of people online going, Mike Tyson, he's gonna win, he's gonna knock it, it's like he's gonna win so easily. He's, it doesn't work like that, I don't think. Now, guaranteed, anyone, you know, if anyone started on Mike Tyson at any age in his life, even when he's 70, 80 even, if they didn't know who Mike Tyson was, and they were being rude to him, he could knock out anyone.

You know, if they were standing there, he could knock them out. But if the person's prepared, that that's a different thing. Because, I mean, my granddad, he was a boxer in the army.

Won multiple medals, he was a champion in the army. Because he was in the army, I think, from the age of 16 to 16 to 28. But he did 12 years.

And then he left the army. And then a year later, the war started, the second world war. And he, he never, he never kind of carried on the boxing when he left the army.

As far as I know, I don't think, because he went straight into family. And then he was, when he got out of the war in 45. He had a one year old boy, and then ended up having two, two daughters and two more boys.

Yeah, therefore he was trying to not say so now. So he he didn't really have time. Apparently, he tried to take up smoking a pipe, but couldn't afford it.

Yeah, he smoked a pipe for about a week. And it was too expensive. And that's when tobacco didn't cost nothing, hardly.

You know, so I think, oh, yeah, the reason I'm talking about him is when when he was about, he was 70, about 70, maybe 75. And he was on his bike. And I'm not quite sure what happened to my nan told me.

But he came, he, I think the the car, I think there might have been like a near a near crash between my granddad on his bike and a man in his car, some young man. So the man got out of the car and started being aggressive towards my granddad. And my granddad flattened him, just knocked him spark out.

So my granddad was a man of few words, he wouldn't say that happened if it hadn't happened. You know, it wasn't really one of those wasn't flash. He told my nan probably hoping that she wouldn't she wouldn't tell anyone else.

Just in case, perhaps the police turned up or something. He never mentioned it. He never he only said, I had two conversations with him.

I think the whole time I knew him. He didn't didn't really have conversations with me. Which is a shame because I love boxing and he could have taught me to box when I was a kid.

And we used to play on his get this stand up boxing, boxing bag, like a boxing ball, and you'd stand on it and it'd come back to you. So it's I've got one in my bedroom, but it's different. It's got a big weight with water inside.

But he had that and he had proper leather boxing gloves as well. Big old brown ones. We never talked about it.

And it is only after he passed away, my nan got out all of his stuff, you know, his medals, the cups, the pictures, photographs and stuff of him, you know, with his costume, not costume with boxing stuff on. And he was he probably would have been about a welterweight. About 10 stone, I imagine.

I think he was about 11 stone. When I was when I was older when I was a kid. But I think he probably might have been lighter than that if he was training.

I don't know. lightweight welterweight lightweight. So a boxer, there's something I learned this years ago.

I forget what it's called. There's something where you've got them. It's not just about muscle memory.

But I did this part of my first degree I did an essay on Oh, what's the name of it? I forget the name of it. But it's it was about Oh, was about dementia, but it was about having certain memories that were just there, that stayed with you. That were just automatic memories.

So things like if you've been doing something the same day, you know, every day for years and years and years, like doing your shoelaces up, turning the light off doing maybe even making the bed, just things that sometimes people would that didn't have their full mental faculties anymore, was still able to do because it was just automatic. There's a word for it. I can't remember what the word is.

And when I look it up, I wonder if it's available. Okay, just see if it's if I can think what it is. No, nope.

No, no, no, no. Well, one of the things there was a story and it was about an ex boxer. And he was in a dementia ward.

Lovely bloke, calm, you know, wasn't aggressive at all. But it's true, you know, he was previously been whether a professional or an amateur, or whatever, but he'd previously been a boxer for quite a long time. Training at least.

And a new member of staff started, it was it was like in a care care facility. So this new member of staff was being introduced to Reggie or whatever his name was, he said, this is Reggie. And so I'm Tom.

And the other the other care worker said, Oh, Reggie used to be a boxer. So Tom went, Oh, you feel a boxer and he kind of put his hands up, like pretending to box and Reggie just knocked him flat out. Because that was just his automatic response.

Didn't even know he'd done it, which is automatically did it. So that could be what happens with Mike Tyson. It could automatically you might automatically buy it by Jake's ear off.

So you could go either way. I'm pretty sure it's going to be controversial, whatever happens, it'll be controversy. Because you got what there's no bigger, no more controversial boxer than Mike Tyson.

Back in the day, he was, you know, one of the most controversial boxers ever. And Jake Paul, arguably, you could say he's the most controversial boxer now, because of how he is building up to fights and the stuff he's done outside of the ring and that. So maybe Yeah, I reckon it's gonna be controversial.

Then he's munching on a bone, so he's happy. Oh, what was I gonna say? I was gonna say something, but I forget what it was. So when I first started this, like right now, I mean, I went to press the timer, or the stopwatch, I just like to keep track of roughly how long I'm doing.

But I didn't turn off yesterday. So it was over 50 hours since I last made a recording. But that doesn't make sense.

Because I did one. I couldn't have timed it yesterday, could I? It must have been the day before that I timed it. Yeah, yeah.

Otherwise, it'd be 24 hours. And I definitely did one yesterday. So I'm quite pleased with the website, kind of.

I'm not sure. I'm still listening to audio books, psychology, audio books. Oh, I tell you what.

This bugged me today. I don't know if you remember, I mentioned I've been watching The Last Man on Earth. It's a TV show kind of comedy show that's been on.

It was on between 2014 and 2017. And it's four seasons. Now I knew I was getting near the end.

So I watched, I watched all four seasons back to back, pretty much. I knew it was coming to the end, but I didn't realize it was at the end. And they left it on a cliffhanger.

I'm so annoyed. Honestly, they left it on a cliffhanger where anyone that was enjoying watching it wants to know what happens next. And I don't like that.

And I realize that sometimes TV shows end on a a little bit too much of a closing. You know, I mean, some of the biggest shows of the last 20 years, let's say, have ended with the same, you could say the same thing. Everyone dies, you know.

Everyone kind of gets killed in the show, pretty much. Not everyone, but a hell of a lot. I don't want to spoil the plots for any of the shows that you might not have seen that I'm talking about, so I won't.

So you got Game of Thrones, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire. And there's a lot of shows that are classed as some of the biggest shows in the, you know, the most, the best shows that have ever been made. I also class True Blood as well, because I love that, love True Blood.

I did, I've got a little, there's a little, it's vampires. I can't help it. I loved, I loved it.

But some of these shows, they go, what I've noticed is they start to go off after like third, fourth season. They tend to go in a weird direction. I mean, Lost started to introduce things like polar bears in the jungle and underground bunkers and a steering wheel that can turn an island round.

It got a little bit, it got a little bit weird, a little bit weird. It was weird to start with, but it got a little bit weird. I hope I haven't spoiled it.

I won't have done, because by the time you get to those bits, you'll have forgotten what I'd said. Unless you're about to just watch that episode and like, oh my God, I didn't know there was a steering wheel. I didn't know there was, it was all controlled by, out of a car, out of a mini.

The same with Breaking Bad. It's, it's almost, you could see if you watched them, in hindsight, you can almost see that they had a really good idea. And they put a lot into the first season.

And then they got, you know, it was popular. So they got another, a contract for another season, or maybe another two seasons. And they had more money, the bigger budget, and they could be more creative.

And yes, so they did even more bigger things. And then they got a contract for another three years, or three seasons. And I imagine at some point, all of these shows were sitting in a room, you know, the writers are sitting in a room thinking, what do we do now? What do we do now? Is it like, we have to, we've just been offered 10 times more money.

And we've got a budget as big as a blockbuster movie. We can do anything we want. But we're running out of ideas.

It's got, yeah, that's kind of seems like that. They do come up with the ideas in the end. But I just wonder.

Well, that's why Ricky Gervais said that he only ever did two or three seasons of what is his shows doesn't overdo them. And he doesn't leave cliffhangers either. Don't leave a cliffhanger.

I mean, you could, I'm not going to say what happened with the ending of Sopranos. Although it did end like, well, what 15 years ago, 13 years ago. So I'm not going to spoil that by talking about that.

But I guess that was a cliffhanger. Kind of. How did Game of Thrones end? I'm not going to, I'm not going to say how it ended.

I mean, definitely. There was no like, you know, the Sopranos, I was like, it's a midnight to living in a round the world. You're going on and on and on and on.

That one, that song. I love that song ever since that, that show. It's weird.

I mean, I don't remember hearing that song previously. I had heard it, but I don't remember it ever meaning anything. And then it became meaningful to me.

I don't know why. I don't know why. It's a Game of Thrones.

Yeah, that was a good ending. I like the Game of Thrones one. Breaking Bad.

I was disappointed though, to be fair, with the Game of Thrones, I was disappointed. I was. I wasn't angry.

For those that know what happened, I wasn't angry with her. I was just disappointed. That stupid saying.

I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed. Yeah.

Okay. So I don't know. What else? Breaking Bad.

Yeah. Yeah. That was only that was never going to end well, was it? Let's face it.

I mean, if you just look at the premise of the TV show, it was never going to end with a smile. Yeah. It was, again, without spoiling it.

It just, you know, it was grim. It was a grim show. Very clever, but very grim.

Very, very dark, really. Oh, there was there was things in that show that I just didn't like. Just, just I didn't like what they did to the characters sometimes.

Oh, and what other ones? I thought I was thinking with my sleepy boring objects on Monday, maybe I will talk about The Last Man on Earth and give you a synopsis and there'll be a spoiler episode. So I will spoil the entire show if you haven't watched it yet. I don't know.

Tell me what you think. Hmm. Trying to see what other shows you got The Wire.

The Wire is quite clever the way they kind of turned it around. So yeah, I did. So I watched all these shows back to back.

I was watching. There was a period, I think we're talking probably during my university years. So three years where I didn't really have much in the way of a social life.

I haven't done for since 2001. So last time I had any kind of real social life. As far as going out and but that's not true.

I did used to go out 2002 2003. Yeah, I used to go out with sort of work colleagues and stuff in the evening and things like that at the weekend. But yeah, sort of this maybe since 2004.

I haven't really had a like a social life. I would sit in a pub. So I guess that was kind of social life.

But I think you should talk to the other people in the pub. I just sit there on my own. I mean, I remember I used to hear people talking about I got to know some of the people via listening to them chatting about other people like the gossip, you know.

And so there was there was some bloke that worked on the railways. I don't know who it was, but someone was talking about it. And then there was Oh, someone had a tag.

I'd like to see how to leave the pub at a certain time every day. Because he had a like a tag on him. Because it was like instead of going to prison, they put a tag on his ankle.

Because that's kind of the equivalent, I suppose. And then other people talk about, I think there was a gardener. And there's some weirdo.

I was talking about this weirdo, some weird man that would just be sitting on his own. Just in there every day sitting on his own drinking, like four or five, six pints and not talking to anyone. Anyway, so I hmm.

So what was I talking about? Oh, I was bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. What other TV show? Oh, yeah. I used to go to blockbusters and get the box sets.

And the last year of university. I think it was the last year. I got the entire box set for the Sopranos and the Wire.

And I'm thinking I might do that again. In the future. Instead of streaming, maybe start getting a collection, DVD collection.

I know it's old school, but maybe it's because I've watched Last Man in the World. And realized that there was no streaming. They had to rely on DVDs.

So you need DVDs just as a backup. Plus, can you get those DVD players that have multiple discs, so you don't have to keep getting up and changing the disc every, you know, like six hours. Hmm.

Wow. I might do that in the future. CD players or DVD players are really cheap.

Now you can get them for like 30 quid. I haven't had one for. Wow.

I don't remember. I think I might have had a TV DVD player when I moved in here. It's possible.

It's very likely that I did. I don't completely remember. Yeah, because it was a portable TV.

It wasn't a big one. Or did I? Did I? No, I had a flat TV. That wouldn't have come with a DVD player.

Maybe I had a DVD player separate. Maybe. I wonder if the DVD players can be attached via the internet.

So I could have the DVD player here. That way I could put the discs in without having to move. I mean, you could argue that's what remote control's for.

You could argue that having to get up every six hours isn't so bad. Just trying to think what other shows I've seen. So there's The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire.

There is True Blood. There is the Game of Thrones. There is Boardwalk Empire.

That was quite a good ending Boardwalk Empire. Yeah, I don't not sure if I saw that coming. It's kind of often I predict what's going to happen next.

It's not like predicting as in some kind of spiritual power. I just, it just, all those years, I mean, I've had 50, 50 odd years of watching television. And it's rare to see something completely unique.

It's I mean, sometimes I'm surprised. I'm really surprised. And I love it when that happens.

And sometimes exactly what I think is going to happen happens. And it's still delightful because it's done in a way that perhaps is delightful, maybe, or it's funny. And it's just little things.

This is I like comedy. So I like the little, the little touches that really make a difference. For example, what's one of the it was just a chuck away line.

But it's very funny. In Last Man on Earth, his wife, Tandy, his wife says, they were talking about fears. About being scared.

Yeah, what's your biggest fear? And she said, my biggest fear is being scared. It's just like, my biggest fear is being scared. It's such a great line is just bang.

And it wasn't even it was just like she said it and then they moved on with the next thing. I like that stuff like that makes me it makes I think it makes it easier to watch it again in the future. Because I might have missed some of the stuff that was said.

It's possible. I remember when I watched Airplane, had to watch it a few times to get all the jokes. And even Life of Brian sort of similar thing.

And you might wonder why am I putting those two films together? Well, let me tell you. I watched them the same day. I was at my uncle's house.

And it was I don't know what day of the week it was to be fair. It was might be in a Saturday. I don't know.

But we'd been out the night before and I got drunk on red wine. And by drunk, I probably had a small amount of red wine to be fair. I was probably 12 maybe 13.

And I absolutely I was ill, like really ill with it. When I got home and I woke up and it was I had a hangover, probably the first hangover I'd ever had in my life. So I was just drinking lots of water.

And I was Yeah, because my uncle, he had this really big house, he was successful, had a shipping company. And it is big house that was just near the beach. It's like a dirt track, and you run over that and then the beach was there.

It was Yeah, it's really lovely place. And it was lovely. And we was when you went into the house.

I don't know if there was steps going up or not. I can't remember. But I know as you went in to the right hand side, there is the living room.

And if you turn in straight ahead was the stairs that went up, up, turn left, there was a room like another living room small, but not small, but it's a living room. But also pool table with a hat, a hatch is a hatch like a hole in the wall, which led to the kitchen, the big old kitchen. And I think the snooker table turned into a dinner table.

It's like a dining table slash snooker table. And there was a jukebox in there as well. I might get that wrong, there might be a snooker table and a dining table separate, but I'm pretty sure it's the same, same place, the same thing.

It's kind of a little bit like Transformers. But instead of going from a robot to car, I went from a snooker table to a table where you could eat very much like the Transformers didn't talk. And I I just remember because we used to go there every now and then visit.

And on this occasion, I just went with my stepmom and my little brother, just three of us. And we was there for about a week. It was brilliant.

I was pulled out of school. And if I'm correct, it was the last. Yeah, man, it was like the last was the last week of term or the last two weeks of term, something like that.

And I was about to do a cake decorating course. It was some weird thing the school were doing, where we could choose what we wanted to do. And we did it for a week.

And I chose cake decorating. And my friend was doing it. And I was doing it.

And it was all not saying there's a reason why all girls but it was all girls, except me and my friend. And we thought, yeah, we get to eat lots of cakes. That's probably what we thought.

But for some reason, and I think there was a girl in in the class that I liked. So we were looking forward to doing it. I was more interested in the cake decorating, if I'm honest.

I thought it'd be really interesting to do. And I got pulled out of school. And I had to go and tell them that.

Because there was like a family thing. And I had to go. We literally I think my stepmom came and got me.

That was the only time I was called out of school. Your mom there, okay. And so I'll either go I'm going to get suspended or something.

Expended, suspelled. And no, there was I don't know what it was. But we went off.

And so we went there. That was her brother. That was my uncle, her brother.

So that day, I come downstairs. No, I was downstairs. I was in the basement.

That's where I was sleeping. And there was a bed down there. So I slept down there.

Did I? Yeah, I did. Yeah. And my uncle had all this stuff.

He had loads of toys, loads of like Meccano, because he had he had a couple of kids or he had one, at least one kid. Maybe he had two, I think he had one. But he also had computers.

He's really into computers. Even then, he had Apple, Apple computers. And this is what, 83? 83 time? I mean, blimey.

So yeah, maybe 84, 83, 84. And he's really into computer games. He was very, very young at heart.

He just like he enjoyed himself. He had liked to have fun, worked hard, liked to have fun. And he had all these computers, so high tech, compared to anything I'd ever seen before.

Because I've never really had a lot of contact with computers. My dad did get a computer. He got a, what was this? It was a top, it was the newest one at the time.

But I had no interest in computers. I looked at it, I just thought, what's the point in this? And my other brother, my older brother, really took to it. And he started writing code.

And it was because that's, that's in the day where you had to learn code, just to get something on the screen. You know, you couldn't just like now everything's there. It was, yeah, it was very different.

Now, I remember my uncle had this game that was like a helicopter game. And you had to go and save people. And you had to use joysticks that I've never seen anything like it before.

And yeah, it was really cool. But I remember we were in the, I was in the, as you go into the front door, turn left. If you turn right, that's where his daughter, she kept watching the Jungle Book over and over and over and over again, like, could not watch it enough.

And I don't know how old she was. Probably about the same age as my little brother, maybe even younger. Because at that time, my brother would have been about six.

So she may be about five, obsessed with the Jungle Book, had to watch it over and over again. My little brother was a bit like that with Animalympics, which we had it was we had on tape. If you've never seen it, you probably can watch it on YouTube.

And it's just basically a bunch of animals do the Olympic games, a cartoon. And there's this big box of videos, videotapes. And because I love videos, always loved movies, right from not always, but pretty much when I was a kid, movie night was a thing that me and my family did.

It's one of the things that I enjoyed most when I was a kid. When the whole family was together. I say that because my oldest brother was four years older than me.

And he pretty much moved out when I was 14. I think 13, 14, 14. My other brother moved out when I was about 14.

Because he was two years older, or maybe 14 and a half. So maybe 15. No, 14 and a half, 14.

It got to the point where I was the only one that's on the top floor. There was no one there anymore. It was just both the rooms were empty.

My room was the only other room and that's I was just there on my own. And then downstairs was the parents and my little brother had his room. It's very empty once the two of my brothers moved out.

I kind of thought I'd like them not being there. Not in a bad way, just because I hated them. No, I didn't.

It's just, you know, just as a kid, I thought, well, I'll be not so much of a wait for the toilet or for the bathroom and less noise, you know, generally. But it was weird. Because I've been with them my whole life.

And I've been through so much and it was just, it was strange for them suddenly not there. Especially like there was like a couple of years when I wasn't with my oldest brother. He lived with my nan and granddad.

I lived in foster care with my other brother. So my brother, the one that was two years older than me, we were together all the way out to his 16th birthday. Or when he was 16 and a half or whatever.

So that's a long time. And my other brother, other than, you know, so for 14 years of my life, I've been with him. And for 12 years of my life, I've been with the other one.

Yeah, when they were gone, when they moved out. One I didn't see again for a long, long time. The other one I saw occasionally, I did see him around.

And then I didn't see him again for a long, even longer. Yeah. I don't know what point it is.

Oh, yeah, the airplane and the life of Brian. So I love movies. So even when I went to Ireland, went to Ireland and Andre is my friend, I went to stay with him in his family home.

When I first got there, I didn't go to his family home. I stayed with his sister and his sister's husband. I'm not even sure why.

I think that was just a closer place to stay at. And then I went to his parents the next day. So me and him stayed there in the spare bedroom and shared a bed, which was weird.

Because normally we used to make love in the floor. No, we shared a bed and it was it was strange. I mean, the only men I've shared a bed with two men in the past.

Or two males. The only males generally is my my brothers. When I was younger, I used to share beds with them.

But I shared a bed once with Andre because it was either that or sleeping on the floor. He was awkward at times but hey. And then I went to visit a friend in Wales.

And he got kicked out of his his wife kicked him out of the bed. And I was in the spare bed. So he just said, well, it's up to you.

I'm sleeping there. You can stay in the bed or you could go and sleep on the floor. So I stayed in the bed.

It was very funny. I was just couldn't stop laughing. It was awkward.

This is a weird thing really. It's hard to it's hard to laugh and be passionate at the same time. And I forget his name, but his his sister's husband.

Benny, I think it was. I don't know why I get that name from. He had this big box.

I mean, the actual cardboard box in a big box full of videos, videotapes. And he said, oh, choose one if you want to watch it. And there was a must have been at least 200 videos in this box.

Oh, it was lovely. It was just a beautiful moment. Looking, I don't think I even got to watch any of them, but I got to look at all the different covers.

And yeah, it was lovely. I really enjoyed that. And my uncle had the same kind of thing going on.

But the difference with him is he had huge amounts of videos. He had like a whole library of videotapes. So what I did is I chose a couple, I think, I think he also had some in the other room.

And The Life of Brian and Airplane. I didn't know either of those movies, which is weird. How would I, how did I not know about them? Bearing in mind, I used to go, we used to go to the video shop every weekend on a Saturday night, pretty much for quite a long period of time.

We'd all as a family would go and get probably three videos. And we'd watch them. And it was brilliant.

It was the only, the only, I don't want to say the only good thing that ever happened, but it was the only like, time that the family got on. Or us kids seem to get on, generally. Yeah.

So I watched, I don't know which order I watched it. So I had a hangover. I don't know if I watched Airplane first or Life of Brian.

But I honestly, it's probably the most I've ever laughed in my life. I mean, I might have still had some alcohol in my system, to be fair. I laughed and laughed and laughed.

And I don't know if I was with anyone. I can't remember. I think I was on my own.

And I was watching it in that room. And there was a TV in there. And I was just in a chair watching it.

And it was so funny. So funny. It was ridiculously hilarious.

And that's when I realized that I kind of realized what I liked. I knew what I liked. I've always liked comedy.

But that was a different type of comedy. There's absurd, I quite like the absurdness, especially of Monty Python. A lot of it was just, you know, really silly.

And then there was Airplane was a lot of that. Well, most of it's silly, isn't it? It's funny. Yeah.

Wow. I don't know why I'm thinking of that. There was something I was thinking about doing, like keeping track of memories.

Because the other day, I remembered something that I'd forgotten. But I didn't know I'd forgotten it. I suppose you don't know when you've forgotten something, do you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have forgotten it.

But I didn't, you know, it's one of those things that I can't remember thinking about before. I just came to my mind, like, Oh, I remember when that spaceship landed on my house. I forgot about that.

You know, it's weird. Weird. I think it's possibly because when I do the Q&A Friday, I get asked questions and I don't always have the answers to be honest.

I think that's kind of evident. And kind of wish I did. I'd like to be able to be a bit more I don't know what the right word is.

Yeah, I'd quite like to. I mean, it'd be ridiculous to think that I could remember every single thing that's ever happened because it's too long a period. It just is.

54 years. I've got a few memories from when I was little. I mean, like little, little.

But not many. Not really. Now I'm thinking I don't want to know.

But then I'm thinking, okay, well, I don't really want to remember stuff. I do. I've got a vague memory of my auntie.

There was the period when my dad and his new wife, they came to the children's home, and they started taking us back to their house for the weekend. And we did that for I think a couple of months before we moved in, but permanently. I don't know how long we did it for.

It seemed like ages, but that's because I was tiny. I was only seven. So we, there was one weekend where my aunt picked us up instead of my dad and his wife, because my dad's wife was ill that weekend.

So my aunt picked us up and took us to London, and we stayed with her and her boyfriend, who had a big beard as well. Unless that was my dad, because he had a big beard. No.

No, I'm pretty sure it was her boyfriend. And my aunt, she took us, she gave us a real proper tourist weekend away. It was great.

She took us everywhere. Madame Tussauds, to the museums, to probably the art galleries. I don't know.

But all the places that you go, the zoo probably. It just took us to all the main attractions in the centre of London. I even remember there was cock, there was people selling cockles, like can you eat them out with a little stick? And I remember my aunt saying, do I want one? And I said, no, thanks.

See, that's a memory, but it doesn't make a great story, does it? Necessarily. And there was that time where we was on the bus, and we were coming back from the Tower of London. And my aunt says, Jason, your shoelace is undone.

So I did my lace up. Again, not a great story. It happened, but is it worth telling you? I don't know.

Was it the waxworks? Or was that Madame Tussauds, Tower of London? I'm trying to think what other places there was. It was a great weekend though, really was. And the weird thing, I've got this memory, it's a very strange memory.

On a Sunday afternoon, during that period of us spending the weekend with my dad and his new wife, or our new mum, we would always travel back just after Rent-A-Ghost, or while Rent-A-Ghost was on TV. And that just shows you how long ago that was. Rent-A-Ghost.

It was on a Sunday afternoon, maybe it was in the evening, maybe it was late afternoon, I've got no idea. I don't know what time we got back. And it seemed like a really, really long journey.

But in reality, it wasn't at all. I can tell you how many miles it was. What have I got there? Wow, I've got more.

What is that? This? I don't know what on earth that means. Ken posted, slippery little rattler. So I don't know what that was in reference to.

I'm a little bit unsure about that. So I don't know. So let's have a look.

So you've got one hour and 15 minutes driving. Seven hours and 23 minutes on a train? No. Was that a bus? Really? No, it's because of this time of night.

That's why. It wouldn't be otherwise. Because it's eight minutes past 10.

The last train's probably gone. So you'd have to wait till six in the morning to get the next one or something like that. So it's an hour and 15 minutes.

This is 1977. So the speed limits. Things were different back then.

You know, like the idea of wearing seatbelts was almost laughable, which is crazy when you think about it. But yeah, don't think we wore seatbelts. It was my dad.

Now he won't even leave the driveway until everybody's got their seatbelts on. Honestly, sometimes I just have to like say to him, Dad, I'm on the phone. I'm not even in your town.

Just hang the phone up and go. I can't put the seatbelt on. I think he might have problems.

No, honestly, he won't. It's been like that for years. It used to annoy me when I was younger.

Like, I don't want the seatbelt on. We're literally going. Just there, we're just driving around because it's a little town.

And it's not an excuse, but it's like we're just literally just crossing the road. Put a seatbelt on. I think it was the way he said it used to annoy me.

He used to wind me up the wrong way because I never really enjoyed being told what to do. Yeah, talking about that, Mr. Submissive here. He used to be submissive to every single dog that came his way.

Now, never. Well, I say never. Rarely.

He doesn't do submissive anymore. He's changed. As he's got older, he's got an attitude now.

And being submissive is not part of his little plan. I don't understand why. Why? I mean, it's been two years nearly since I've had him.

But he was submissive earlier this year. It's not like it's like it's happened gradually. It feels like it's happened.

Well, maybe it has happened gradually. Thinking about it, I suppose. It just doesn't seem that long ago that he was laying on his back.

Being all gentle, and now he's snappy and growling at other dogs sometimes. He never used to be like that. He's very moody.

And I don't know, is that possible? Could he be getting that from me? Is that possible? I don't know. We spend pretty much every second of the day together. So I wonder, is my moodiness rubbing off on him? Rubbing on off of him? Rubbing up him? Not in him.

Rubbing off on him, that's it. Rubbing off on him. The thing is, I know how to control it.

So if I'm not in a like, maybe a great space, I'll take him out for a walk. I'm not going to be shouting at people in the street. But he does.

He has a proper go at people sometimes. Not people dogs. He loves people.

But one of the things I like most about him was how dog friendly he was. He's always been people friendly. I don't think he's ever met a person he didn't like, ever.

But dogs, he was pretty much the same with dogs at the start. And then, and that has definitely gradually, he's lost interest in large dogs. And now he's not a big fan of black dogs.

Generally big black dogs. The problem is that nearly all dogs are bigger than him. Apart from the ones that aren't.

And today he even lunged and was acting all, I don't know what the right word is, naughty, I think, towards another little dog. But then there's another dog that's kind of similar to him. It's a similar breed, but it's a mixture.

And it's bigger, like heavier, same face though. Same eyebrows. Same frown.

Same tail sticking up. Proud in the air. And they both take turns at growling at each other.

They're kind of funny to watch. How did I get onto that? I wonder how many memories there are. How many memories are there? I wonder.

I don't know. Some of the memories do get a bit muddled. And I know that's natural for that to happen.

It's a psychological thing that we just, things get mixed together. Memories get mixed together sometimes. And that's why I don't argue with people when it comes to something.

And they'll say that this happened and that happened. And it's no point. It's like, okay, believe what you want.

That's cool. Even though I'm right, of course. Always, always right me.

I do remember my friend downstairs. I said to him, I said to him something. I can't remember what it was.

I was giving him some information. And he said to me, Jason, I told you that. And I started laughing.

He might not say Jason because he was in the room with me. There's no one else there. So he didn't need to say my name, did he really? But it's like I told him something that I'd got from him.

And I was making out that I was saying it. And it was mine. And it was funny.

I can't remember what it was. It might be funny if I could remember what the actual thing was. Was it to do with soup? Probably not.

I've got soup cans that were in the cupboard so long that they opened on their own. Did you know that's what happens to soup cans that open on their own? How weird is that? I had this idea that, you know, if you went to the Antarctic, or if you went into a log cabin in the middle of the woods, you could find stuff that had been in there for 20 years, canned goods, and you could just open it up and eat it.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.

Well, I don't think that's the case. There's an expiry date for eight reason. That's what I remember B&M, B&M foods or B&M, is it like a supermarket, like a cheap place where you get cheap stuff.

And they sell out of date food, but they don't sell out of date, it's sell before, they sell it, it's out of date as far as the sell before date, but it's not used before date. Does that make sense? So I didn't even realize there was a until that point, I don't think. So sell before the 1st of December, use before the 5th of December.

So they'd sell it, they'll sell it on the 2nd of December. And it had all kinds of milk, they had all kinds of stuff in there. There was parts, it wasn't past its use by date, but it was past its sell by date.

And I always thought sell by date meant use by date, but apparently it doesn't necessarily mean that. We learn something new every day. La la la la la la la, my sides are going grey.

I wonder how long before I'm completely grey? I'm not really looking forward to it. Still haven't received my DNA test results. What's it been like 7 weeks now? 8 weeks? It's crazy, I don't understand.

Weird. I want to know what I am. I want to know, I mean I'm a Mongol, we're all Mongols aren't we, but I want to know what kind of Mongol I am.

What kind of mix? We're all a mix. I'm pure. No, ain't no such thing.

Ain't no such thing as pure. I'm a pure breed. No, you ain't.

No, no, no, no, no. There's no such thing as pure breed. I mean think about it, we're all... Originally, if you go back far enough, we all come from the same place.

And I don't mean my dad's balls, I mean we all come from the same place. I said that really quickly so no one heard it. We all come from the same place is... My dad's got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

So you've got, if you go far enough back, that's the thing that I can't really wrap my head around. If you keep going back, you keep going back, you keep going back, you keep going back. Where does it end when you go backwards? My dad.

My dad's dad. My dad's dad's dad. My dad's dad's dad.

At no point could he not have had a father. And I mean like even if it was just a donor, it was still a father, you know, still like a biological father. So there's no point could there not be a biological father going backwards.

As far back as time for the existence of human beings, we have to go back all the way to the existence of humans. So my lineage, it may stop here because I've not had no kids that I know of. It might stop other than Andre and Vinnie.

So my lineage stops when I stop. But going back, my lineage is thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of years old, maybe more. And so is yours, and so is yours, and so is yours, and so is yours.

And some of you might, your lineage might carry on for thousands of years. Mine ends. I didn't reproduce.

But for those that have, they may reproduce, they may reproduce, and that might carry on for thousands of more years. But going back, although some of us go on longer than others with the lineage, ultimately, everyone goes back to the same place. It kind of, there's, how else could it be? You know, if you keep going back, you keep going back, you keep going back, keep going back.

It's like, okay, well, you've got, you've got 20 people in that part of the world, 20 people in that part of the world. I mean, the whole world was just one continent at one point. So there might be people that never met each other.

But if you go back in their history, their father, then their father, then their father, then their father. I'm going father, then you can go mother, you do the same that way. But just thinking from that perspective, don't be somehow connected.

Kind of had to be. And it's a mind boggle, isn't it? That we all have a lineage. We all have the same lineage, really.

Okay, different, different, but it all is kind of like, if you look at a field, or look at a look at a tree, one seed can create a tree, which then has branches, and produces lots more seeds. And those seeds are used to build more trees and build more trees. And you can end up with a whole forest from one seed.

And you can end up with a billion trees. And you've got the youngest tree out of those billions of the youngest one. And you know that even if that youngest tree doesn't produce anything, its lineage goes back to the very first seed.

And then you might think, okay, well, but yeah, you got that forest. But what about where that seed came from? And that's the thing, the net goes back to that. It's like the very first seed produced, maybe two seeds, and then it produced four.

It's, I think it's fascinating. Especially as I've got no idea what I'm talking about. It makes it even more fascinating.

It's a bit like perpetual motion. Is it perpetual motion? It's fascinating. So I'd love to know where I, how far I could go back.

That'd be interesting. That's why in a way, Adam and Eve kind of made sense. Don't worry, I'm not getting all religious.

But I'm just saying it kind of makes sense in a in a kind of weird kind of a way to people. Because I mean, it's grim when you think of the reality of it. You know, their kids, you know, their son and their daughter, you know, I'm just saying it's, I remember saying that to some Jehovah's Witnesses years ago, when I was a kid myself.

And their argument was, yeah, that was only to start with. And then no, I had the incest to start with. It's like, no, but it was only to start with and then it's like, okay, fair enough.

I had a friend, one of my best friends was a Jehovah's Witness. I didn't know. I didn't know when I knew him, when I was like, well, I was friends with him for a long time, but we kind of drifted a bit.

But he lived just up the road from where my nan lived. So I was friends with him and I went to school with him when I was about eight. And his name was Andrew.

So I had two friends, Andrew and Ian. Ian was kind of my best friend. And Andrew was, he was ill a lot of the time because he had, I think he had one kidney or something like that.

So he was quite poorly, had a lot of time off school. And so I used to look out for him and sort of see him go around his house and stuff. And I kept in contact with him for a while after I moved out.

In fact, I even, his mum was a supervisor at a job I had, the cleaning job when I was about, I don't know how old I was, 19. So yeah, like 11 years later, I was doing a cleaning job and his mum was my supervisor and she kept telling me off for laughing. Wow.

Anyway, I've waffled on too much. It's time to end the recording and I've not really said anything. I mean, normally I say so much and it all makes just such, I don't know.

Just looking at the tail of the tape for Tyson against Jake Paul. 57 against 27. I thought it was 59.

Okay. Fights 58 against 10. Wins 50 against none, no against nine.

It's a very small screen. Losses six against one. No contests two against none.

Knockouts 44 knockouts for Mike Tyson out of 50 wins. And six, no contest, six for Jake Paul. 44 out of 58.

44 knockouts out of 50. So he had six fights that went the distance and he won those. Oh, I can only remember three fights he went the distance with.

So he went a distance six times. I don't remember him going the distance that many times. I need to check that.

Let's have a look. I can't remember everything, but I don't remember going the distance. Right.

So professional boxing record. He got five wins by decision. And one by disqualification.

Okay. So is that classed as decision? Because it's not, is it? Go in the distance. If it's a disqualification.

Because his last fight he lost. He was just under 39 years old. So it's sort of 19, 18, 19 years ago.

Kevin McBride knocked him out. Danny Williams knocked him out the year before. And then Lennox Lewis knocked him out in 2002.

Evander Holyfield knocked him out in 97. In 96, then he disqualified in 97. Buster Douglas knocked him out in 1990.

So that's it. I will edit this in the morning. I will upload it in the afternoon.

In the morning. And that's it. So I'm going to go to bed in a minute.

If we go bed, bed. If we go bed, bed. Little grumpy bum.

He's such a grumpy bum. Thank you for listening. This has been just nonsense, hasn't it? I'm going to call this nonsense.

Utter nonsense. Thank you for calling. Thank you for calling.

Thank you for listening. And remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye, bye, bye.