(music) #1290 Q&A Friday - Let me bore you to sleep (14th February 2025)

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It's I hadn't Yeah, it's good. It's not like super, super big or super fast or anything, but it's not growing. But it's, you know, it's like students gradually, gradually.

So yeah, I'm okay with that. The last 28 days, I've had 1.2 1000 watch time hours. And I've gained 57 subscribers.

I know that's not a lot. Okay, but for me, it's huge. So very huge amount.

And so yeah, I'm just going to keep doing it. I've made quite a few recordings this week. Quite a few.

Probably one of my busiest weeks, actually, thinking about it. So look, it's not speaker, it's speaker. Speaker, it's not speakers, it's speaker.

That's kind of where my podcast is hosted. Although my website is the place to find my all my latest recordings. Let's have a look.

I think last time, so I didn't do recording. This should have been done Friday, Q&A Friday. But there was drama, drama in my home, not in my but in the building.

Someone broke into the neighbor's flat downstairs, and had to call the police. And this was at half 12. And then didn't really leave the situation till three.

And I'd gone to bed at nine with the hope of maybe waking up about two or three, so I could watch the boxing. Instead, I thought, well, I'll just stay awake. Which wasn't a good, wasn't a good idea, really.

And I fell asleep watching the boxing and I woke up. And I was completely, completely knackered. But you know, that's okay.

It is it is what it is. It is what it is what it is. So, so far quickly.

This week, I do believe, right, the deep sleep whisper hypnosis is just creeping up on the hypnosis for sleep and deeply podcast. There's about 500 in between them in the stats for this week. So I'm kind of like, Oh, okay.

I mean, yesterday, deep sleep whisper hypnosis was 500 more just in the day than anything else. So it just seems to be the way things are at the moment. So I'll move on from all that.

The I said the police were here and it's quite weird because I'm down there in a t shirt. It's cold. I don't know why I didn't wrap up.

I guess I didn't expect to be down there for long. So we were chatting amongst the neighbours and stuff and I was trying to make the police laugh and that didn't go very well. And then the police eventually went outside and said we're gonna, we're gonna go in a minute.

And I saw my opportunity to let out some wind. So I stuck my bum out the door, the main door, the you know, I thought it was just going to be like a little silent one, but it shook the building. And the other neighbours were still there.

I just thought I'd be able to just ease out like that. But it was and the police came running in, came running in. Is everything okay? And yeah, that's one of those things.

What else? That's it really. I mean, there's a whole I could probably talk for about an hour about that. Just on itself, not the fart.

But I've been invited to join the citizens against ever source. I don't even know what that is. Don't even know.

I've had a comment. Cara says don't worry if it's Oh, yeah, I posted yesterday. Q&A Friday will be late this week due to lots of neighbourhood drama.

That was nine hours ago. Any other questions? It was Monday that was there. It's now 245 in the afternoon on Saturday, the 15th of February 2025.

Cara writes don't worry if it's late, or you skip this one. And time that's okay. I look forward to learning hearing about the neighbourhood drama.

There's nothing like real life to give us fodder for interesting stories. If you're well, hope you're well. Thanks.

I might talk about it maybe next week. Or if I do a recording tomorrow, I try and do a Sunday summing up the week like just roughly talking about what's happened that week. So maybe I'll try and do that tomorrow.

Right, so I will do the questions Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday, I don't have many questions to answer. It's not warm in here for some reason.

I'm sure I closed the window. Did I close a window? I think I did. Right, so there's only a few questions.

Let's have a look. Why didn't you do Q&A Friday last Friday? From Chris, why actually apply this in the actual message? I did, I did do one. I think maybe because I've been I don't know what the right word is.

Very active this week with my recordings. So I think they might get lost. So I've been doing quite a few recordings.

I mean, this week. What date was last week? So the I don't know. Q&A Friday.

So since last Q&A Friday, Q&A Friday, Q&A Friday, Q&A Friday, Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday. Or maybe not that many.

Q13. Increase comfort. Okay, yeah, I've done quite a few.

Q&A Friday. So I did Q&A Friday. Okay, on the 7th.

So that was the 7th last Friday. So oh, I also released another I did a deep sleep whisper confused to sleep on the same day. So maybe it got a little bit lost.

Since last week's Q&A Friday, I've done 12345678910. Yes, I've done 10 recordings, 10 videos, 10 recordings, audio recordings. So that's 60 60 podcast episodes, you know, with the different lengths and stuff.

Blimey. So yeah, I did Q&A Friday. And then I did let me bore your pain away on the eighth.

So that would have been Saturday, I suppose. And I did. Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

1286 BJJJ. Then I did deep sleep whisper non sequential body scan on the 10th. And I did the 11th.

Try and keep your eyes open challenge. Deep sleep whisper number 521. On the 11th, I did cold neighbors, which was 1287.

Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And then on the 12th, increased comfort deep sleep whisper number 522. And then on 12th, I did 18 years on YouTube, which was number 21288.

Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Blimey, that's a lot. Being here now, which was number 523 deep sleep whisper on the 13th.

And again, on the 13th, I fitted a shower number 1289. Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And then lastly, on the 14th, which was yesterday, okay, is windy body scan number 524 deep sleep whisper.

So I did do something yesterday. I just didn't do I didn't do Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I can't remember doing I do vaguely remember doing that.

Oh, well. So things are going pretty well. Yesterday's quite a busy, busy day actually, with the podcast.

But once I hit the afternoon, I was a little bit bombarded with people. And three different things happened with the neighbors. And it just left me a little bit a little bit of a crumple.

A little bit. And it carried on till three o'clock. And the reason I didn't do a recording, this recording was because of what happened previously in the day, not because of the breaking.

So I went to bed at nine, I couldn't really focus on anything. I just want to go back to bed. Because there was some domestic thing going on in one of the neighbors place.

Another one asked to borrow money. I was like just Yeah, and then that happened to me like 1230. So yeah, all in all, I'm gonna write yesterday off, but I did make a recording.

So that's good. So I've got three questions, Hillary, Cindy and Inga. So start with Hillary.

Have you seen baby reindeer? If so, did you ever meet the bloke from it on the comedy circuit in London? Also, was he really that unfunny? Well, no, he was funnier than me. Probably. I don't know.

I think he was after my time. Because I although I was still involved in the comedy circuit as far as with the comedy club, up till 2010. I think it was.

I didn't. I wasn't really involved that much. Between 2001 and 2010.

There was periods when I was, but I wasn't involved is like performing or anything. So I don't know. I might have met him.

I don't know. Yeah, I see it. If anyone doesn't know what baby reindeer is, it's a TV show that was on Netflix or still is on Netflix.

And it was very controversial at the time. It was about stalking. And for me, that wasn't the bit that was most distressing of the whole thing.

To be fair. And there was pretty awful stuff in it. It was interesting as well put together, well written, well performed.

But it's it wasn't a particularly nice show, to be honest. It was I mean, from a comedian, like from a being on a comedy circuit perspective, there were some things that were very true to life, you know. But yeah, I don't know, there was bits in it that didn't seem to get much attention from the press, which I found a little bit disturbing.

I watched it because it was so publicized. And I thought, okay. And I did, I thought it was good.

But it wasn't uplifting. It didn't. I didn't like I didn't feel motivated afterwards.

But I'm quite when I start something I generally finish like with a TV show. If I start, if I get through, if there's only eight episodes, and I get through maybe three or four, even if it starts to kind of go a little bit downhill, generally, I will stick it to the end. Not always.

But, you know, and with that, it was it was interesting, entertaining in an interesting way, I guess. And I don't think I think he he really only focused on the comedy. I don't know if he was a successful comedian or not.

I don't know. I know I wasn't. But I don't know about him.

But you know what? Because he was a comedian, maybe he still is. To show himself getting booed, and they call it dying on stage to show that just, in a way shows his lack of ego. Because not many comedians would actually pretend to do really badly on stage.

You know, because it's, it's such a horrible experience to die on stage as a, as a performer. And, and I did it many times. I mean, I had many, many really bad gigs, because I wasn't very good.

That's the fact of it. I had a few good gigs. But I didn't I was I was, I was young.

I was trying to be something I wasn't. And I didn't know, I guess I didn't really know who I was. I didn't know who I was, but I couldn't express it.

Does that make sense? I hadn't found my voice. And I don't think I really found my voice until I started doing this stuff. And I wish I hadn't.

Because I don't like it. No, I can be myself doing this. There's the only time I can actually really be myself.

And it's weird, because yeah, I guess I'm open myself up to be judged. But I don't feel judged. There's going to be people that are going to judge it's normal, isn't it? But it's kind of doesn't matter, in a way.

And but at the same time, if I had a gig filmed, which I could have done, I could have had, there was, there was at least one club that used to film gigs if you wanted them to. And you pay them like 10 pound or 20 pound for the videotape. If I had a gig, which was really bad, I would not post it on YouTube for people to see, or on Facebook, I wouldn't, because I still don't want anyone to see me like that.

It'd be nice to see it in a sense of just see me as a young person, just literally turned 20. And turned 20 in August and started comedy in December, no in January. It would be interesting, it'd be kind of, I mean, the only real record of me doing comedy is is met three things, really, I would say three things, four things.

Timeout magazine in the listings in the comedy or variety or whatever they used to call it section. I would be listed as Jason that was it I didn't ever, I never gave my surname, Jason. And I would be generally in the open spot or occasionally I'd be, I'd do a paid gig on 10 minutes.

And when I say occasionally, I do mean o-casionally, like not very often. So I was listed hundreds of times, probably over that time. I mean, I did, I didn't do that many gigs, I think I did about 200 and 250 I think I worked out, maybe a little bit more.

So it's about 250 gigs altogether. And it's it pan it started to slow down as the years went by. So once I get part once I got past to 1993, things start to slow down a bit.

But I started to get better. But unfortunately, I'd I'd burnt a lot of bridges in my younger years. And some people, it wouldn't matter if I'd gone on and being the funniest comedian anyone had ever seen.

I think a lot of the, the promoters or the comedy club owners, whatever, would have still not given me a paid gig, even if I was really good. Because they just keep remembering, they'd remember me as I was. So I think sometimes hard for people to see how you are now.

You know, I've even reminds me when I was, I was training to do to become a hoping I haven't got a car because I was outside. Well, I was downstairs, which pretty much being outside for about what two hours with just a t shirt on not this one. And just hope the cold hasn't got on me.

So yeah, I are saying about people not being able to my train of thought is gone. It's there, I nearly got it nearly got it. I watched the Cadbury's.

I don't like really watching adverts on TV. I don't watch much live television. But in the morning, early hours, Frasier on, I like to watch Frasier while I'm eating my breakfast.

It's just a nice little thing. So there's adverts between, you know, in between the episodes or the break. I saw an advert for Cadbury's chocolate.

And it had someone I found it's very strange. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. But it had someone that had clearly a very serious, serious medical disorder, talking to his daughter, and doesn't know who his daughter is.

So talking about his daughter, but it's his daughter there. I'm not going to say the name of the thing. I think it's kind of obvious from when I described it.

But I found it weird that they would use that advertise chocolate. It seems, would they do that with anything else of any other illness or disease? It just seemed a bit very distasteful. And I should know I'm an expert on distaste.

I don't know just like, it's unique. Maybe you haven't seen it. If you're in the UK, you may well have seen it.

I don't know if it's a worldwide thing. There might be different versions in other countries. But yeah, I'd be surprised if that's not taken off.

Because, I mean, there was no I didn't see anything where we're going to give our proceeds toward to the this particular disorder or anything like that on there unless I missed it. So it's like, oh, that was very, very weird. Anyway.

As far as my see got look. Timeout magazine, which used to come out I think every Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday, Tuesday, I think Thursday. And maybe Tuesday.

And it's in London. And it was basically, it was all about cabaret and, you know, theatre shows, cinemas, book releases, concerts, it's like basically things to do in London. Really good magazine.

I used to get it just for the comedy so I could see who was on and who was. What it was is weird, you know, we've got social media now. And people post what I'm going to be where they're going to be.

And if you wanted to go and see a comedian, you'd go perhaps to their website now or you'd go to their Facebook page to see where they're going to be performing, or if they're a musician. Back in them days, you'd go to timeout. And because I had quite I had a few friends on the circuit that were, that I'd hang out with.

Some of them were performing. Some of them, they're all comedians. But some of them generally, some of them might be performing, some of them might not.

So there's certain clubs I could go to, and I would see other comedians that weren't performing, that would be there on that night, and I could just hang out with them. And there'd be other comedians that I'd know, and they'd be performing. So I'd go along, and I wouldn't pay to get in.

I hardly ever paid to get into a comedy club the whole time I was in London. A few, I think I paid to get into the comedy store a couple of times. But generally, I managed to, I knew everyone.

I knew the door because I performed there. So I knew the promoter, and I just walk in and that's fine. It was good.

And so if I wanted to go and see me up with someone, I wouldn't phone them. I just look and see where they were performing and just go along to the club they were at and just hang out with them afterwards. So that was quite good.

And then there is, I think there's a couple of places where comedians would hang out, the comedy store, possibly junglers as well, and the comedy cafe. And the comedy cafe had a comics room, which had a pool table, loads of sofas and stuff like that, darts and darts table and stuff, a jukebox, I think. So quite a few of the comedians, some of the big names would come and hang out there after the, when the evening's finished.

And they'd be there all night sometimes. Anyway, what was the other? Oh, yeah. So you could look in the Time Out magazine.

If you're able to get any copies from London, I don't know if that Time Out magazine version for Manchester or Liverpool or you know, any other cities, I don't know. Leeds, Newcastle, I'm trying to think of cities. There's a lot of them in Nottingham, lots, lots of different ones.

So I don't know, they might have had Time Out version for these different places. But the London one, if you can get hold of a copy of Time Out from 1991. They're like from, especially during the summer, you may well find my name in there.

But it'd just be Jason. The other thing is I was on the front cover, not front, no, was on the front cover. I was on the in the independent newspaper.

There was an article about me and another comedian. And they described, they weren't talking about me, but they did describe me, it looked like they were, meet Britain's worst comedian. I never lived that down, to be honest.

Well, I have now, but you know, back then. I actually had a promoter who was supposed to be on my friend. And he came up to me with Alfie from EastEnders, the character, the actor that plays Alfie.

This is before he was like, famous, really, I think he'd been on TV a bit. And he introduced me. He said, Shane Richie, said, Hi, Shane, meet Jason, the worst, Britain's worst comedian.

This was probably about 94, 93. So it was a while after it was 93 that the article was in the paper, I think about September time, maybe February. A little bit of a difference between those two months, isn't it? But it was uncalled for.

I didn't like come on. There's a whole backstory to that thing. I'll briefly I've talked about it before.

But that that's another place you can find me. There's a picture of me. There's, you know, where they put like a teaser things that does meet Britain's worst comedian.

And that's on the front page, just a little thing. I don't know if it's a picture of me or not. I don't think so.

I think it's just image the words, go to page 12 or whatever. And then there's half a page. I think half of a page because these are like the broadsheets.

So half a page about me and another comedian called something bland, his name was, who was my friend, he was like, we got on really well. And it was just this basically, this lady came up to us after a gig, and said, Would you like to do an interview? And said, Yeah, I said, Well, what we'll do is, when's your next gig, and we'll come and see you.

Her the photographer.

So we did that we just said, Oh, we're going to be at this place next Thursday or Wednesday or whatever. So they came along, interviewed us, and took photographs and stuff. And I was excited thinking, Oh, I'm gonna be famous.

But the weird thing about it, and if it if this is the reality of it. And you know, I think if it wasn't, I think I would want to turn it because I just tell the truth. I'm not saying I was good at that on that night.

But the audience, you know, this is what the lady said about me. She said, she talked about the other one, how awful he was. And then underneath, she says, and Jason comes on.

And what he's saying is, he's awful. He's horrible. What he's saying is horrible, but he's funny.

I'm laughing and so is the audience. That's what how I suppose she wrote. And there's a picture of me full length picture of me standing there.

I think I was holding a cigarette. I had long hair at the time in a ponytail or maybe it was out. I don't know.

And I was what 2220 Yeah, pretty 22. And I kept that newspaper for years. And what's really weird, this is a weird thing, is I actually went for a job interview.

On the day that the newspaper was being released. I think it's like maybe a Thursday or something like that. So I grabbed the newspaper on the way.

So I grabbed an independent on the way to the job interview. And so I just put it in my bag, my carrier bag, probably known me. And I got to the reception of the place I'm in interviewing for.

I don't know what the job was for. I didn't get it. So probably some kind of sales job.

And I was trying to impress. I don't know about impress, but you know, I was, I was, I was kind of elevated. I was feeling really good.

And I was in a national newspaper for my comedy, you know, that was like, what a great opportunity. It could open up doors. And I was super excited.

And also, because the lady that was interviewing me said that she really enjoyed she liked my set. I don't know, she said she really enjoyed it. But she said she liked it.

And why do I say such horrible things? And, and I just like just jokes, just, you know, sort of is just jokes, man. And she used my picture. It was black and white.

And my picture was in there. She didn't show a picture. I don't know if there might be a picture of the other one, but mine was like, I'll tell you what this was.

This is during a period when there was an article article on the on the other side of the paper about Mike Tyson. Yeah. So I'm at the reception waiting to be seen for my job interview.

And I'm excited. And I'm showing off a little bit. I say to the lady behind the receptionist, the receptionist said, I'm the newspaper today.

You know, she said, Really? I said, Yeah. Which one? I said, the independent, pretty highbrow, you know, compared to some of the others. So really? I said, Oh, we don't have that here.

I said, Oh, I've got it in my bag. Well, let's have a look. I said, Well, I've not looked at it yet.

But as I get it out, and show her the page, and it just says meet Britain's worst comedian. I said, That's me. Oh, and, yeah, it kind of went down from there, really.

But when I read it, I mean, so she wasn't particularly impressed because, you know, when I read it, I could see through the title. Because I knew the title wasn't about me. But no one else seemed to be able to read through that, including every other comedian.

It's almost like every comedian on the circuit read that article. Every promoter, everyone connected with comedy read that article. And those that didn't heard about it from someone else.

Honestly, it was, it went viral. But then anything like that would do on a comedy circuit, you know, when Eddie Izzard came out as being as, I don't know what the correct term was at the time, but he'd like to dress up in different genders, clothes and stuff. That was a huge deal.

Because he was one of the he was almost like a god of comedy in London at that time. And, you know, things like that used to get promoted, you know, if it just did. So this is one of those things.

I'm not comparing myself to Eddie Izzard. It's just it was. I guess it was funny, people found it hilarious that I'd been mocked in such a way, maybe.

Well, I know some did, because they actually told me. Well, even though I could see it, right, because all I focused on was, I was laughing. He was what he was saying was horrible, but I was laughing and so were the audience.

That's the bit I focused on. I was laughing and so were the audience. And there was other comedians around like Dennis Leary, and that was saying horrible stuff.

And I don't do that anymore. But I used to. And, you know, that's, I didn't know who I was, from a performance perspective.

And I didn't, I mean, really, I was much worse offstage than I was onstage. Because offstage, I had no filter. Onstage, I was trying to do an act.

Now, if I'd have been what I was like offstage, onstage, I might have actually been successful. Because I could have just heckled people. And I was pretty quick.

And, you know, pretty quick comebacks. And I'd say the wrong things. But you know, I think I might have.

It wasn't just that, though, because I had a mood. My mood disorder has always been with me. I've had this since I was a kid.

I got diagnosed when I was 40, 41, 41, as bipolar. But I've had the mood disorder since I was a child. So I've never, never had stability, mental stability.

So, you know, it depended on what mood I was in, depend, which would be the result of the, of the act. Because if I was in a good mood, sometimes it didn't matter what I said. And it was a good gig.

I don't mean I think it was good, but the audience would sort of like me. But other times, I perhaps wasn't in the best frame of mind. And the audience didn't take me to their bosom so much.

I do sometimes wonder if it'd be worth going back just to do a just to do a one off little open spot performance, put a little act together. I don't know. But I want to do an act as maybe some jokes.

I don't know. I just I'd rather just be honest and talk about real things. And then so is that the other thing that I I've got a radio interview.

So I went into the comedy cafe. And Jeff, who was the compare and he was, it was the regular compare in there. I think I was in and I came out and people chasing me outside of the club.

So I'll start running. They said, No, wait, wait. And the BBC had contacted the comedy cafe trying to get hold of me.

Now I was associated with the comedy cafe because it's somewhere that I used to frequent. You know, it's everyone knew that I was there. I'd be there nearly every Wednesday for quite a while, quite a few years.

I was there very regularly. And I'd be there at the weekend as well. So people knew who I was in that sense.

So the BBC left a message with the comedy cafe for me to contact them. And I thought, TV show, here I come. No, which is kind of ironic, because I had an opportunity to do a TV show.

And I didn't go for it. Yeah, I've talked about that before, I think. But I had a friend who was a BBC producer.

And she was also a comedian. And she took a liking to me as a person. And as she liked my act as well.

And she wanted to do like a fly on the wall camera thing, just follow me around in my day to day life. At work, at home, going to gigs. And I mean, she had to go ahead, she had to go ahead everything, everything was there.

She just needed me to say yes. And I said no. And the reason I said no, twofold.

Firstly, I don't I didn't really want my family seeing me like that. I didn't want my nan seeing me doing those jokes on stage. And if it was going to be be, it might be on BBC two, but it would have been on BBC something.

They didn't have all the different channels back then it was BBC one, BBC two, ITV and channel four, that was it four channels. So we had in this country, there was sky but that was satellite dishes and stuff. So it could have got a nice audience.

And I don't know if it had been a one off or it'd be a series. I don't know. Anyway, I turned it down because I didn't want my nan seeing me doing that.

I didn't want also didn't want my family or the public see me how I was living. I had a horrible job and had a horrible lifestyle. I was living in this grotty grotty room.

I had no money to speak of. I was, you know, just living a really I was earning 100 pound a week, which even then was really rubbish. That's like five grand a year.

So I was earning 100 pound a week in the early 90s. And it was ridiculously bad. It was, you know, and I was embarrassed, to be honest with you.

So I didn't didn't go for it. But I did get to be on TV once. And that was on twice actually.

But as a comedian, I was on the live, I think it was live channel, which was a satellite channel, live TV. And they had a this is in 1995, around about October, November time. And there was basically it was in Canary Wharf, the live TV channel, that was owned by the Mirror Group, the newspaper group.

And it was just a talent show. And the only audience was the other comedians and a few crew that were filming. So I went on there.

And I got a film of it. I got a video tape of it. I don't know what happened to the video tape.

I think my I think I left it with a girlfriend at the time. And I don't think I ever got it back. I probably destroyed it.

And so that was weird to see myself on the on the screen. Because I did look I noticed with the camera, I just looked I looked bigger, looked heavier than I was. So I like that.

And it wasn't a bad little set I did, to be honest. So there's that's that's around somewhere. The next year, ironically, I actually worked as a security guard in the exact same place that I'd done the recording.

So it was the Mirror Group, and I'd move around. But quite often, I'd end up on the live TV station floor. And one of the young lads that was working there, he said he was going to try and find find the video and get get me a copy.

And I was on that TV show once as well. They had a TV show which was like a soap. I think it was just called Canary Wharf to be honest.

And Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon was starring in it. And there was a lady who ended up working in Coronation Street as a lady something or other. She was blonde.

She was lovely. Richard Bacon was lovely as well. So they were always really friendly to everyone.

And I think you can get an idea about someone when they say hello to the security. It's yeah, it's quite nice. And they they went out of their way.

And it was nice. Anyway, once Richard said, Can you do me a favor? We want to do a scene where we film but you're trying to stop me from getting getting into the building, or getting into the studio. So I'm standing like that.

And I think he like pushes me over or something like that. And so I've got my security uniform on. So I'm on there.

I very much doubt any of that stuff is stored. But yeah, that was me. I was I was 25 at the time.

So that's the only things where the comedy from a comedy perspective that I was recorded that there's any, you know, there's my name in timeout. That's not the question, is it you asked? Sorry. And although I have, I was in a local paper in 2006.

I still got it. And it was about my free pain relief service that I was offering. And yeah, it was good.

As a newspaper article, a new reporter came around with a camera person, and they took pictures of me doing relaxing pain relief hypnosis with a gentleman that had arthritis. And he interviewed him as well, and me. And she went through his really nice article.

There was a picture of me that didn't look great. Yeah, I just didn't look. Yeah.

2000s. Yeah, I didn't. It wasn't a good picture that I've never had a good picture took ever.

Maybe that black and white one in the independent that was quite a good picture. But I think I look better in black and white. Yeah.

It's the equivalent of like, I've got a face for radio. Yeah. So I was in a newspaper there.

And then from that, I got another radio interview. And but that was like a year or so. Or did I get to I think I got to radio interviews, just asking me about the free pain service.

And that was it. It's like there's not wasn't really a lot to say. So yeah, so that I got a couple of a couple of radio interviews and didn't seem to really.

My website got a bit of traffic, and I was getting people contacting me. So that was good. From that perspective.

That was the point of it really. But baby reindeer. I don't know, I never met a bloke I might have done.

But I think he's quite a lot younger than me. So he probably wasn't even I mean, let's have a look. What's his name? Baby rain deer.

So baby reindeer. His name was Richard Gadd. Richard Gadd.

So he's 35 now was born in 1989. So he was two years old. When I started doing comedy.

Which meant it'd be I stopped doing stand up in about 1998. Which means he would have been nine years old. So yeah, no.

And even during the 20s 919. So no, I never I wouldn't have even seen him in the 2000s. No.

So no, I didn't didn't. I didn't have much to do with the comedy circuit after 2010. And I'd go back and help out in the office, my friend who owned the comedy club in 2009 2010.

And then I did help out with another comedy club in about 2015. I think for a bit going up to London. But I just struggled with that.

So I had to stop. But my friend just asked me to go and help out just before be nice to me to do something, you know, do something different and to be involved in something away from here and away from this life. And he was right.

And I wish I kind of stuck at it. But there you go. What other questions are there? What is the most useful app on your phone from Cindy? I'm going to go from what I use the most would be it would be on grab my phone.

Probably Apple Music. So I listen to that every day. And audible.

I listen to that every day. So I use that every day. I do go on to messenger.

Is there any messages on messenger? It's not opening up in the internet is going slow. Facebook, I'll go on just to sort of check stuff, but I don't really use it that often. And mainly I got Facebook to post my latest recordings.

YouTube, I suppose, if I want to listen to like an audio book or a lecture or something like that. Because I've got it so that I don't get any disturbing. No one can phone me or contact me when I'm on YouTube.

Although I do have my phone on mute anyway, when I'm in bed. So audible. I would say audible and Apple Music.

There's a couple that I use regularly, but it's like once a month. So the NHS app, I use once a month, just to reorder my prescriptions. Other than that, no, not really anything that I use regularly.

So yeah, that I'd say that I can't believe I answered that so quickly. So yeah, Apple Music. I listen to Apple Music every day.

I listen to audible every day. Other than that, I don't really can't think of any other apps. The global radio player.

So if I listen to LBC, I listen on the global player. There's also a radio BBC radio app that I listen to sometimes as well. I can't see where it is.

I've got too many things here. Radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio. I can't find it.

Oh, yeah, BBC sounds. I'll make sure to turn it down so it doesn't come up. Radio BBC sounds.

And so my favourite one on there would be Radio 3. Because there's lots of classical music on Radio 3. And it's one of the things I like to listen to. But at the moment, I'm listening to, yeah, audible. Yeah, so Apple Music, that's it.

I can't, no other apps I really use regularly. That's the main two. Yeah, my dad loves WhatsApp.

I don't like WhatsApp necessarily. But I do get occasionally people contacted me on WhatsApp. It is handy to send videos and stuff like that.

So that's pretty good. And so that's, yeah, that's one of the good things for WhatsApp. And also it's, I mean, technically, if you've got data on your phone, it's free to talk, you know, so there's that I don't, I've got unlimited calls on my phone anyway.

So that stuff doesn't really bother me doesn't affect me. Although I do have a friend that is sometimes calls me when he's out of the country, or he lives out of the country. But sometimes when he's on his boat, in Spain or whatever, and he'll, he'll call me on WhatsApp, because it would cost a fortune to call on his phone.

And I think it's just, I think sometimes it works better if you've got if you've got broadband, or if you've got, you know, it works better than the actual signal for a phone signal. I'm making part of that up. But yeah, it does sometimes do that.

Ng asks, if I remember correctly, you've been to Thailand. What did you like best about your vacation there? I had a very weird time when I went there because I was ill. I broke my rib and I was ill.

I had a chest infection. So it didn't go particularly well for me. But one of the things that I really remember is it smells nice.

See, it doesn't smell nice here. I don't mean just in my flat flatulence. It's not just that.

But it's where I was staying. I mean, I didn't travel the whole country, but where I was staying, just smelled nice. I mean, you've either got the food that's being cooked on the streets.

So there's that smell, which smells nice. But you've also got the incense being burned, because there's lots of statues of the Buddha dotted around so people pray and give offerings, flowers and stuff like that. And there's incense being burning.

So it's a very fragrant place. Again, I don't know what it's like other places. And I'm sure it smells really is a lovely smell in the forests.

Because you know, all the trees and all the different plants and stuff. But they also have wild animals, so I wouldn't want to go into the forest. Or the jungles.

I did have jungles in Vietnam in Thailand. And they do, don't they? They have jungles, they have forests, I don't have jungles. What do I like best about being there? I think the best thing about going anywhere is not being here.

And I don't mean here specifically, I just mean, just it's being somewhere else is is kind of the benefit of that is not being is being away from like normal life. And that was nice. Just to get away to be away from the all the I mean, there's been a lot of drama in this building for years now.

And it seems to start a bit more recently. And I'm hoping it goes away. But you know, I needed to get away from that.

That's why I went. And I went during lockdown. The last year of lockdown, which meant I had to have a pass and had to go for all these things to go.

But I was desperate to get away from this building. So that's kind of what I did. The best thing about it is I tell you what I did learn and it's not this isn't necessarily it's not positive.

It's not negative. It's just true. I realized I took myself wherever I go.

Didn't change as a person. I didn't I didn't go out there and suddenly be a different person and be all excitable or I was exactly the same. There is why I am here.

And that surprised me because I thought being in a nice place, being in a much friend is much friendlier than here. I mean, on a different level of friendliness, just people say hello, people are nice. The people will help you.

This is I'm not saying that doesn't happen here. But it's Yeah. It's not as Yes, it's different.

It's a different energy. The I noticed is even when I got to the airport, and I needed a SIM card for my phone. Because it was if I use my own phone SIM card, it would have cost me money.

But this SIM card was like 20 quid or something for a month. And it allowed me to phone. I couldn't phone abroad, but I could phone anywhere in that country, text and stuff like that.

And it gave me internet like mobile, unlimited mobile for 30 days or something like maybe it was two weeks. And the lady behind the counter, put the SIM card in for me. She set it up, she triggered it and got it.

So it was working. She didn't have to do that. She just offered to do it.

Didn't ask didn't have to ask her. Now, I'm just guessing. But if someone came over to the UK from another country, and was in the same situation, and bought a SIM card, would the person behind the counter offer to put the SIM card into their phone for them? Maybe they would.

And you know, I should be stop being so judgy. But I I've, I just found that they went way over there, you know, what they would need to do. It's like, because naturally seems to be a bit friendlier without needing to know the person.

And I don't know, I think, see what I broke my, I've broke my, my rib. And the lady behind the counter at the hotel offered me some medication. Now, I was a little bit worried because, you know, in Thailand, as in some of those countries, if you get caught with the wrong medication, you can go to prison.

So, and she didn't, I wasn't, because I take cocodamol for my arthritis in my back. Illegal. Can't have cocodamol in Thailand.

So I couldn't take it with me. And so that was a little bit of a problem. But being in a warm country really helped.

It didn't hurt the way it does here. Because they're having a cold, such a cold place here and it's damp over there. It's very, actually it can be quite, it's a weird kind of, it's hot.

I just makes a difference. I think it's, I think it, yeah, made it easier for me to walk around and stuff without any medication, but with a broken rib, I was like, okay, I don't know what to do now because I haven't got my cocodamol, which would be helpful right now. And they do have chemists at their pharmacies, but I didn't know, didn't know what to take.

And I thought, well, if this is going to be an aspirin, there's hardly any point really. And the lady said, well, I've got tablets for you. And she didn't, she didn't ask, didn't want any money.

She just gave them to me, but she gave them to me in like, there was no labels, just gave me a cup, like six or something. I don't know if it was in her hand or on a piece of paper. So I didn't know what they were.

And gone are the days when I put anything in my mouth that I don't know where it came from. I need to know what, what they were, what is the medication? And also the fact that I had it on me, and I was concerned it, what if this is, see what it is. It might be the same for other countries as well.

But in Thailand, there's a two tier system. Things are okay for the Thai, the Thai populace, people that live there and you know, born there. It's different from the rules for the tourists.

And so they're much more stricter with the friends, you know, with the tourists. For example, vaping is illegal in public. In fact, I don't think you're allowed to even vape at all.

But you can buy it, you can buy it, you can buy it, you can buy it, you can buy it, and you can vape them in public. If you live there, you see people and the police don't do nothing. But if they decide they would they need to make a bit of money, the police, they will fine the Westerner or a visitor holiday maker and give them a big fine and get some money.

But they don't seem to find the locals. So it's like one law for us one law for them. Another thing is riding without a motorbike helmet, supposed to wear a motorbike helmet.

But they don't the police don't seem to do anything about the locals riding around without helmets on. Even to the point where the bike taxis, they will stop the bike taxis and find the passenger for not wearing a helmet. But not the driver for not wearing a helmet.

Yeah, it's kind of weird. Why anyone would want to be on a moped. Either the passenger or the driver without a helmet on is beyond me.

Be on me. Why? Why would you this is no, I mean, I used to have a moped when I was about 15. I wasn't old enough to ride it.

But I had about two or three in the garage in because I lived in a council flat with my step grandmother. And there was a garage downstairs. So I had these are not just it's a thing.

It's a little phase I went through. And I wanted to I wanted my moped. So I bought a couple or I got given them they were cheap as anything.

And we used to my friends, my friends used to come around would ride up and down the slope, which used to annoy people. But those things even though they don't go fast, they do go fast. Because if you're in your when you 1516, whatever, okay, 16 legally, I think was the age back then.

The fastest you've ever really gone generally would be on a bicycle, a pedal bike, and unless you're going down a hill, you're probably not going to be going particularly fast. So when you got on one of those little mopeds, and you're going 30 miles an hour, that's like lightning. And you have or if you want to make it go faster, you have to put have to push forward with your body because that makes it goes far.

It doesn't. Yeah, no, it doesn't. So but everyone does it.

Kids, you know, make it go faster. No. That is not how the thing works, really.

I mean, you don't see anyone in the car doing that today. They've got 90 only get to 100. If I just push forward, maybe that'll get faster.

No. Maybe it works. Maybe I'm wrong.

And back to Thailand, which is what we were talking about. I like the friendliness. I like the fact that it's a Buddhist country, which is one of the reasons I went there.

Because I've been very interested in Buddhism since I was about 15. 14, rather, sorry, 14. And the idea because I live in a I mean, when I was when I grew up, this was classed as a Christian country.

So when I was at school, we had hymns, Christian hymns, singing every day, every morning before, you know, at the beginning of the day, we would re would be religious education would be a standard thing. And it'd be pretty much based on Christianity. And I think they used to do praying, I think maybe as well.

Before lunch, I don't know, I might be making a bit up. But it was definitely a you know, it was about Christians. I mean, it was Catholicism.

There was also other religions were here as well. But basically, it was pretty much classed as a Christian country. So even people that didn't go to church or didn't have no like regular thing, they'd still class themselves as Christians, maybe.

So a lot of festivals like Christmas, Easter, everyone pretty much, I say, well, most people in this country used to celebrate those things, whether or not they were religious or not, because it was part of our culture. Thailand is the same, but with Buddhism. So their culture is Buddhism, even if they've never, ever.

I mean, they're brought up to learn Buddhism, they're brought up to as Buddhists, they're brought up to believe in that doctrine that was not really a doctrine, but I guess it is. But they, you know, it's underpinning their personalities and how they live. I'll give you an example.

So sometimes you see someone, and they're pouring, they'll have a drink, a bottle, and they pour some of the water into the street, some of the beer into the street from the bottle. And they do an act, it's an offering to the Buddha. And instead of, Oh, my God, they say, Oh, my Buddha.

So which is saying, Oh, my God, is blasphemous anyway, isn't it? But so it's very, I think, having that as an underpinning is why they are, there's a kindness there, a softness, that comes with being a Buddhist culture. It's not they're not all soft, but there's a softness that's there that I think you're probably only going to really get with Buddhism. There's a certain way and there's a, there's the same kind of softness, a different kind of softness, caringness that you will get for different religions.

But it's just, it's a bit different. I just, yeah, it's hard to, I'm not saying it's better than anything else, because I know people watching this or listen to this, they have their own religions, it's cool. But for me, coming from a kind of a Buddhist perspective, originally Catholic, then edging towards more Christianity, you know, Jesus and that, and then getting interested in, to be in, I was interested in spirituality for a while, very interested in all that stuff.

And the occult, when I was when I was a kid, that is, and and then I kind of moved towards Christianity, then I moved to Buddhism. And Buddhists was probably the biggest part of my life. But when I was a kid, all I was brought up as a Catholic is my, my nan, my nan was a Catholic.

So her, all her kids, my dad and my uncles and aunts, all went to a Catholic school. They all went to church and all that stuff. Catholic weddings, you know, the whole Catholic thing.

Although my granddad wasn't. I don't know if my mum's side was Catholic. And that's probably to do with the Irish side.

To be fair, so the, my, my whole nan's side was Irish. And because I'm 48% Irish, according to my DNA tests, so I've also got Irish on the other side of my family, my mum's side. And then I, when I was in the children's homes, the second children's home in Southend, when I was five to seven or whatever, what age is I don't know, there was a church in the garden, Nazareth House, it's not there anymore.

I think it's been knocked down. I think they built flats or something. It was there for a good 100 years, 150 years.

And I wasn't there the whole time. And it went from being a children's home, I think it was an all, like an orphanage, basically. And then it became like a nursing home for elderly people, the last like 10 or 20 years.

So I, we used to, there was a lot of praying, going to church twice a day, in the morning, in the evening. And Vinnie, you see him, why is he doing that? He was asleep. I must have done something that woke him up.

And now he's like, oh, restless. You've been restless. Winnie, are you ready? And yeah, so we had the church and I was not really big into it.

To be honest, I had no choice. I was a kid. It's got to do, you know, we had nuns, basically nuns run the orphanage.

So living with nuns is not, it wasn't a picnic. It really wasn't. And I, apart from when we had picnics, then it was a picnic.

One of the things I did like to do, though, is putting out the candles. So I had these little snuff things that used to, they're like little bells, like a little bell, but without the bell. But they're on the end, and they'd like put and they just, you put it over the candles and put the candle out.

But the candles would be really high up. How they lit them, I don't know. I can't remember.

How did they light them? Maybe someone used to come with a ladder and light them. But I used to put them out. I used to be allowed to hold it with a stick, or big metal rod or whatever and just like aim it and put it out the candles.

That was my treat if I was good. And I enjoyed doing it. I don't know why.

I guess I was the opposite to an arsonist. I like putting fires out. And yeah.

He's a fire put out. That was me. Yeah.

What was the question? Thailand. What did I like best about it? The people probably. I mean, for me, my best experience was giving out food.

It was an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do. I mean, I'd given food out here in the UK before. I sort of did volunteer a little bit at the soup kitchen and worked at the food bank or volunteered at the food bank.

In two different towns. No one town. Yeah.

But I like the idea of just doing a big give out. So I found this place which sold it was like a little, it was a bar but they also did food. And I got them to make hundreds of meals and I gave them out to the locals.

And this was during a period as I said, it was like semi lockdown still there. A lot of them hadn't worked for over a year and still weren't really working so they didn't have much. So they came from far and wide, seriously, to collect these and they were taking bundles of them for the whole family.

So I don't know what it was, some kind of chicken, rice, egg on top. And a bottle of water. And they were in these polythene, you know, like the things that you use, I don't know, you used to get with McDonald's, or, you know, like, didn't used to be yellow, and they'd fold and the burger would be in there.

Those kinds of things but a little bit bigger because they had food in, they were long. So we gave out, we did it two days in a row. And I gave out, I don't know how many meals there was.

A few hundred, few hundred meals. And so that was actually one of the highlights of my life. And I'm not telling, I'm not saying it because, oh, there's a hero.

If you look inside your pants, I'm not I'm not saying that just, it's just a reality. And I did, I've actually got a picture of me doing it somewhere. And someone there was filming it.

So I don't know if he got around Thailand or ever, but I never see anything on online about it. But it was just cool. It was, it's something that I'd like to do every day.

Give out food to people that are hungry. Every day. I mean, it was like a lunchtime thing every for two, two hours a day.

Go somewhere and just give food out to people that are hungry. That is a feeling that I've never, yeah, it's one of the best feelings I've ever had, I would say. And I still, I think the difference between, because I've, you know, helped out the soup kitchens, I've helped out the food bank and stuff.

And it was different because this was, I'm not saying the people that go to the soup kitchen aren't regular people. I'm not saying anything detrimental, just, these were just working. I don't know how to explain it, just taxi drivers, and people that work in shops, and they just weren't getting paid hardly anything, because there was no customers.

And so it wasn't homeless people turning up. It was because I'd have to travel to them, because they wouldn't be able to get into where I was. So it wasn't people that were, they were just down on their luck in the sense of they didn't have any, because they, they were relied, they relied on tourism.

And because the borders were closed, or to start with for a year, no one could travel for a year. And then the second year, it was very, they still had their lockdown, semi lockdown. So you could travel, but you had to jump through a lot of hoops to do it, had to have all the different documents to prove that you had, that you were covered, and whatever.

The, yeah, I don't even want to say the words, but it was, it was kind of weird. So I didn't go there at a busy time when it was, which suited me, because I'm not really into like really busy, busy areas anyway. But that was probably one of the best experiences I've had.

And I do still think like, how cool would that be to be able to do that every day, just go out for two hours a day, and just give out food. But I'd have to pay for it, and give it out. And then spend the rest of my time, do whatever I do, making recordings or whatever.

So we'll see. But I enjoyed, I'm glad I got to do it. I just, yeah, I've got nothing more to say really on that one.

I just, it was a great experience. And there was a lot of real gratitude. I felt the gratitude.

I kind of just felt the, even though different language, you know, I can kind of felt the energy, the smiles, and a place where you could be kind to people and give gifts about them thinking it's something weird. So at one point of one day, because the whole whole of the town road was being dug up. So there was lots of workers there in the heat and it's proper hot.

So I grabbed this coffee place that made coffee and gave out drinks and stuff. That was like a, he had a moped. And it was on the back of a moped and he just he was going down the road.

So I stopped him and said, I just want to give stuff out free. And he said, all right. So he said how much whatever.

And so we went down the road. And we just gave out drinks to everyone that wanted them to work in. And they took them and they were grateful.

And it wasn't like, Oh, because he did that. He'll give me a free drink for I'm not going to afford to pay for my own drink. That might be the thing that you might get in this country.

Because they weren't, it's not like they were begging or they weren't, they were just working, but they weren't getting paid hardly anything for doing the job. And also, even if they were, it's really, really hot. Which surprised me how many of them had coffee.

While you drink coffee in that heat, but hey. So that was another thing I enjoyed doing. Another thing I liked was we did the same further down near the beach, there was a I said we because I had had this person that was showing me around and she'd helped me with some stuff with communication that and we went and got these as a whole store making these sticks of meat thing that went into bags and they just, you know, bought loads of them.

I thought I'd ended the store. We went to the beach and gave them out to people. So she helped me it was good because she could communicate.

And she said, No, don't don't approach that person. Don't you know, some people didn't want to be given stuff to and some of them didn't like foreigners and stuff. So it's cool to know that.

And then we go and I'm thinking of I've helped them but I've also helped the bloke out so he can have an early night because I've went back, he's completely full again. He's like, where'd you get all this stuff from? So he's constantly got a supply is never going to run out. Another thing I quite enjoyed is feeding the dogs.

Because there's a lot of wild dogs just walking around and there was this big massive gate and there was I don't know how many dogs 30, 40, 50 dogs all in and out of there. So I kind of put some water, I think we filled some water up for them, and then chucked food. Some of them would come and take it off the stick.

Others would just wouldn't, they'd have to wait and chuck it over or through the gates and stuff. So that was good as well. I do you know, like, like animals.

I used to like dogs before I got Vinnie. Now I'm not so keen. It was weird.

I've never seen wild dogs before. And generally they don't bother you if you don't bother them. But they're wild, they're not pets.

Although I've never really been like a dog person. I didn't have Vinnie at this point. And I'm on the beach.

I think I'm just sitting on the prom, on a promenade that you know, and this little lump comes walking towards me. And it's nothing like a labrador. It's a baby, really tiny.

It's really taken a shine to me. And I'll be honest, I wanted to take it home with me. I wanted to just cutest love because he never wanted to eat even now he's not interested in me.

You know, he's so like, just does his own thing. This puppy chose me, he didn't choose me, I chose him. Just circumstances kind of chose, you know, put us together.

And he wasn't a puppy was 10 months old when I got him. But this puppy is so cute. And the mother was nowhere to be seen.

I knew I had to be careful because apart from the thing that labradors are big dogs. And it's wild. So if the if they thought I was messing with his child and might attack me, so I thought, Oh, okay, keep my distance.

But in the end, I ended up like just kneeling in the sand and playing with this little dog. So cute. And if I was living in Thailand, I probably would have took the dog home with me.

Probably would have carried it home and had it living with me. But I don't live there. So I didn't.

And it was hard just let it go. I had to just walk away. And looking at me like just following me for a little bit.

And it's so cute. Such a cute animal. But I think it was the smell.

That's what I really noticed. Also, the first day I woke up, I was sitting on the balcony. I was having some cornflakes and a cup of coffee, listening to LBC radio.

And it was a show. Steve Allen is he's doesn't he's not on there anymore. But he used to do the four to seven slot 4am to 7am slot.

So I was listening to the radio at like 11 o'clock or something. Or maybe it was 12 maybe one in the morning, one in the afternoon, I don't know whenever it was, but the radio would be on. Steve Allen would be on at like four or five in the morning in the UK.

And you can hear music in the background and bit of traffic. And it was the heat and there was a smell. And it was a unique experience.

Yeah, very unique experience. But it was nice to have that little touch of home that little feeling of being connected back here by listening to the radio. That was nice.

But I did notice that I just was still myself. So things that would bug me here bugged me there. Which I was surprised I thought I'd be a bit more easygoing.

Not that I'm not easygoing. But just there was one point when I got absolutely soaked. Like drenched.

And I'm so annoyed. I was on the beach and there wasn't time to get home, back to the hotel. And I was in it was during a rainy season.

So I completely drenched in a way that I've never been drenched before. I was walking and walk past a bar and people were saying to come in, come in for a drink like really? Can you see I'm drenched and cars driving past spraying me. And I was just getting wound up and I feel like I got back to the hotel and I was just remembered I was on a holiday.

But it didn't stop me from being annoyed. It was weird. Yeah.

So yeah, I was still still grumpy. I have my little grumpy moments, you know. Little growly bear sometimes.

So that's all the questions asked and answered. Three questions. Thank you, Hillary, Cindy and Ing.

I'm gonna go. Vinnie's gonna start barking. It sounds like there's someone shouting in one of the buildings, one of the flats.

Is it me or is it starting to get dark outside? What's the time? Quarter past four. Yeah, that'll do it. Although it's still light at five o'clock now, which is beautiful.

But I think by six o'clock it's dark. Which brings me to my next thing is I'm going. I'm gonna hopefully get this uploaded in the next hour or so.

Edited, uploaded. I haven't had huge amounts of distractions or interruptions or interventions or anything like that. So it should be fairly straightforward to process, edit and process the video and the audio.

So that's good. I'm still doing that thing. So if there's an interruption, I stop recording and I'd deal with the situation.

I had to go to the toilet earlier and then I come back and it's just easier, which means I don't have to edit. I have to put them together and edit it, but I don't have to edit any of that recording apart from the very beginning and the end. Everything in between is fine as long as I stop the recording any time that he barks or anything like someone knocks at the door, anything like that.

So that's me done. I'm not going to make a hypnosis recording today because boxing will be starting in a couple of hours. So what I'm going to do now is probably have a cup of tea, have a cup of tea cakes and then do the editing here.

Get that done by about seven. And I'll start watching the boxing and I'll have a pizza hopefully, maybe about eight o'clock. Have a pizza while I watch the boxing.

So thank you. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

Bye.