(no music) Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1411 | Jason Newland | 12th August 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com my name is Jason Newland and end end end end it's time for Trivia Tuesday and Vinnie going it's a bit warm today a little bit hot isn't it Vin hey we went in the garden all he wanted to do was he wanted there's this one of the neighbors has got a one of those like disability buggy things and it's kind of new to the garden so and it's got a cover on it and Vinnie is absolutely absolutely enthralled he is it's like wow it's like a

new kind of play box or something he wants to go inside and he wants to see what's underneath the cover and it's really it gets excited and he just he's been out every three times in a row I took him out then he's tried to get in there trying to get underneath the cover but it's too hot out there a bit too hot to be spending time out there I got one window open so there might be background sounds which um just the way it is unfortunately I can't do too

much about that someone in the garden coughing um not really much going on just uh drinking me water keeping hydrated and all that good stuff so please only listen when you can safely close your eyes this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep and Vinnie is here by my side by my side just chilling out so what I'm going to do today is what am I going to focus on Vikings that's a bit random isn't it a little bit random Vikings so just to let you know before I continue I

have been doing a few hypnosis recordings lately which you might be interested in I did one yesterday for tinnitus relief a day before bruxism I did one for lupus severe menstrual cramp um fibromyalgia and dealing with noisy neighbors I did one for grief and I did one for depression so what's that one two three four five six seven eight different subjects as well as doing a one for sleep as well so I've been quite busy I mean what's that 12th 11th 10th 9th 8th and okay so yeah did quite a

few in a row just let you know they're available I've also got a Facebook group which is Jason Newland's boring group which you could join if you like there are oh I don't want that what am I doing the there's a link on my website jasonnewland.com which will take you directly to the group and that my dears my darlings my sweethearts my tootie kabootie bidoodie is uh that's that's done right someone asked me a few people have asked me if I would consider doing um erotic hypnosis recordings I don't know

what you think about that uh yeah a few people have actually contacted me over time saying that they don't necessarily always listen to my recordings for relaxation or for sleep I was like okay anyway Vikings I'll be honest with you I'm kind of running out of ideas well not ideas and everyone have ideas but just subjects for these uh trivia Tuesday but Vikings is today if you have any like particular uh ideas that I could do a trivia Tuesday on a subject then you know let me know there is a

a contact form on my website if you like so Vikings came from Scandinavia oh I just want to just say I watched I think about three years ago I watched the Vikings TV show like I loved it honestly I watched like every single episode from the beginning to the end absolutely loved it now like all TV shows no matter how good they are they have a tendency I find of stretching out a little bit you know really um yeah starting to add a bit more filler and this does that a

little bit near the end but it's okay or dog in the background that's fine so I think I learned quite a lot about the Vikings but I don't know how much of it was true and I think it was made on the History Channel or they it was was it was shown on History Channel so I don't know how much truth there is and I also do not know if these 100 fascinating Viking facts are indeed facts so you know try not to get into an argument with anyone and never

use the words but Jason said so that won't hold any gravy I'm afraid so Vikings I wouldn't even trust myself with a fact I don't even believe my I don't even believe myself now Vikings came from Scandinavia modern-day Denmark Norway and Sweden so does Scandinavia not exist anymore then I know Denmark and Norway and Sweden do was it all just one place see I don't know these things I wasn't around then in Old Norse Viking originally meant pirate raid or expedition now there was a TV show on Netflix probably still

on there which makes fun of the Vikings and we see funny Viking Viking show okay Norsemen so Norsemen n-o-r-s-e-m-e-n on Netflix three seasons I know comedy obviously is we'll get our own idea what what we like but I found it very funny however at the same time there's parts of it that are really horrible because they still try to stick to the to the real mythology of the Vikings lifestyle and behavior but the dialogue is very funny so it's worth watching if you like funny things and maybe if you've not

seen because this is something my friend Luke we didn't really have the same sense of comedy when it what came to watching TV shows I'm quite I'm a bit more wider I like to I'm a bit more wider that's that sounds weird yeah I like all kinds of comedy he he was very much more into British comedy what didn't really like American sitcoms I've never understood that way of thinking but you know it's just how he was so which is fine I I like all kinds of comedy so I like

some stuff that he liked but I said to him you like this this Viking this Norseman and I got it up he was sitting there with me and I got it up on the TV this is like about five years ago four years ago and um he just said looks like a pile of crap to me that's what he said like no I'm watching that I said it's not American he said why have you got the idea that I don't like American comedy I said because you don't seem to like

anything that's American he said well I'd I'd I'd like only fools and horses I said yeah which is not American he said yeah I didn't say it was he really used to try and wind me up and I just said like okay well you just just watch it what just have a well I showed him a little bit at the very beginning it's a really funny bit even if it was just a sketch in a comedy show it's funny because of the dialogue I mean I find it funny because of

the dialogue because it's just absurd and I love absurdity and also almost um introducing reality to a situation which makes it kind of takes the blinkers off a bit like look what we're doing this is ridiculous this is really really silly so and he smiled but he said nah can't bother with that I didn't see him for the weekend he'd watched the whole two series of it over the weekend he loved it absolutely loved it and he kept watching it back like over the years he was watching it he absolutely

loved it because it was it was funny really and he introduced all his friends to it and none of them wanted to watch it is it's weird it's like trying to get someone to like something that I like I don't know why I even bother really because we all like our own things don't we however I do I don't want someone to tell me oh you've got to watch this you should watch this because this is brilliant I don't mind people doing that but in fact I quite like that because

I'm always looking for something new to sort of get addicted to when it comes to tv or movies and stuff a tv show you know something I can really get my teeth into and watch every single episode of all 10 seasons or whatever that that to me that gives me a lot of happiness which is very strange I think but I get more from that than from being around people it's it's almost like I've got something to look forward to I get really into it so he I don't know what

this is not funny I was laughing for the sake of it hey we should laugh laugh more come on I had a girlfriend once it's true it's hard to believe I did this is 10 20 years ago and I mean I was making a laugh I'm quite a quite funny boyfriend um I would say probably you're not you might not wake up the next morning feeling physically and emotionally satisfied but I will make you laugh okay you won't feel fulfilled but I will make you'll have a giggle even if it's

just me taking off my shirt or whatever my gloves my um Vinnie started to notice all the screaming out of out the back it sounds to me which I hope it is to be fair it sounds like it's like kids having a party probably in a garden over the over the road or whatever and they're all like jumping into swimming pools and stuff like you know paddling pool and having a great time I hope that's why they're screaming because sometimes it puts me on guard a little bit like are they

okay so I'm hoping that's the reason because you know that's the thing I try not to moan about hearing kids scream and being noisy because I was the same I was a kid once believe it or not and I had four brothers or three brothers so we made a lot of noise in that garden and I probably screamed a lot as well I still do sometimes especially there's a dog in the in the park called Minnie and she's off the lead and she always runs up to me because she gets

excited because I give her treats so she runs up to me but she does it from behind quite often and I scream because it just makes me jump the other day actually I came out of my front door because I was going to meet someone and they were already there honestly like ah what are you doing and I said to him how long you been standing there because he phoned me up and then I went you know said I'm on my way I said okay I was going to meet him

downstairs and he said no I've just got it and I thought you're lying to me you've just been standing there the whole time but actually I looked on the camera and he literally just got to the front door as I opened it weird I tell you what stranger which has got probably not so much to do with vikings as you'd think but I used to live in before when I was at college there was this yeah I lived in this bungalow it actually wasn't a bungalow it was a cottage and

I lived downstairs in the kind of I guess it was some kind of extension that I lived in but I lived in one of the rooms and I moved in November 2007 and I moved out January 2011 so I was there for over three years yeah it is isn't it eight nine so I was over over three years I was there no was it January or was it January February March maybe April March April time 2011 and what was I going to say I'm distracted by the sounds outside yes I

was there for three years over three years I mean what November December January February so two but two and a quarter three and a quarter years quite a long time and the daughter that lived there and she was blimey probably 30 because I was what 40 40 by time I moved out so she was probably about 30 so I was like 27 28 29 30 when I was 37 38 39 40 and the amount of times that I'd walk in from the back that's where the where my room was in

the bathroom and walk into the kitchen because I shared the kitchen with them I'd walk in and she'd jump or she'd walk into the room and I'd have my back to her just using the microwave or whatever and she'd jump but she like sort of scream not scream scream but like ah you made me jump I said I've lived there for 45 years get used to me man okay I didn't say that but I did say look I've lived there for years now like two and a half years why are

you still jumping when you see me she said because you're naked no she didn't say that um but she did constantly like jump I don't know why considering they had lodges I think for decades on and off that was a little way of them making getting a little bit of money coming in they had two rooms and they only rented out to students generally so they had that extra income coming in which I imagine really helped quite a bit actually over the years because what was I paying 65 pound a

week so it's 100 and 630 pound a week between the two rooms um so yeah that's that's like 60 grand over 10 year period or so you know it's probably paid for paid for holidays and stuff I don't know none of my business is it really why keep up the stock I'm playing on my belly button I shouldn't really tell you that but I don't know why I'm just amazed at some of the things I find down there so um but check that tv show out Norseman if you want to

or let me know if there's any really really good like really good tv shows which have now completed that I can watch from start to finish I've watched a lot but I'm kind of in in that midway now of like well I don't know what to watch next and the last thing I really got into I really got into was um silo and there was only two two two series of that I don't know if they're going to do another one but I really got into that and yeah absolutely loved

that show I would have been much happier if they'd been six or eight series so I could have watched the whole you know from start to finish but it's okay apparently here it says they didn't usually call themselves vikings they identified by their homeland or clan okay because Norse I suppose because it was Denmark Norway Norse is is it's Norway Norse are you are you a Norse if you live in Norway or if you're born in Norway so vikings Viking society included influences from Slavic and other neighbouring cultures I get

the impression that unlike the Romans who seemed to just pretty much take over where they went the vikings would just visit temporarily not all the time but they'd just they'd be they'd take what they wanted and maybe stick around for a while and learn some new stuff and you know introduce it to their own kind of way of life and I'm talking about that without any knowledge whatsoever about anything ships were clink built clinker built planks overlapped for flexibility and strength does anyone know what the word clinker built means because

I don't uh long ships had shallow draughts allowing beach landings and river travel anyone no okay nar cargo ships could carry up to 24 tons this is very I know it's trivia but this this this seems to me like very factual I'm getting bored reading it out so here we go large long ships could carry 60 or more warriors ships ship types including skeeds and neckers for warfare famous finds include gockstad and osberg ships dragon heads on ship prowls were meant to intimidate enemies and ships were status symbols as much

as a tool of war or trade this none of this is funny I wanted some funny stuff maybe there's nothing funny about let's see if I've got any other stuff let's have a look viking may also derive from a term meaning sea mile or work related to ships okay I'm going to change this right okay well the internet doesn't need to like that I said find me some funny stuff and it's not fair enough funny facts right okay viking this is what I want these are 10 funny and odd viking

facts this is what I want and I want to know about women could own property and divorce their husbands so that's the vikings that wasn't even allowed in this country till about 50 years ago that's crazy isn't it no just how slow we are I mean some viking women traveled on raids or trades they do have that on the show it seemed to be that there was two type of vikings just this is going to be me based on what I remember there was the the farmers and the warriors so

the ones that had a farm and that seemed to be the way to um if you did really well you'd be you'd be get given a bit of land and you could you know you could have a farm there and retire doing that or maybe you'd be born into farming and that's what you'd do children learned farming adoption was a common practice to strengthen alliances I'm sure that you should adopt from another other tribes or other other people so to sort of almost like marrying in to the you know like

um France the the king of France marrying uh a princess of Germany or something like that that kind of things that used to go on I think it was a little bit like that so it kind of kept the peace between them so they would perhaps adopt wealth was measured in livestock as well as silver jewelry often served as currency and they told epic poems to preserve history which is why so much of it is probably lies made up I love the way do you know so many of the most

classed as the most important books and stuff in in human society were from like thousands of years ago and the books weren't written thousands of years ago they were passed down verbally for thousands of years and people take it as verbatim that it's correct yeah if you put 12 people in a circle and whisper to each other something and say pass it on you'll get a different message at the end of it you know it's just a paragraph let's say you know not just like boobie or hazelnuts you know if

it's it's you know that you could probably remember that but if it was like an actual um um he had green hair and he came down from the mountain and he said everyone must now have green hair in order to be reborn as a fresh goblin I don't know something you know magical like that and you just pass that on whether it's 12 I mean you think okay one person there's 12 people one person equals what 100 years in in in you know 100 years or one generation of person passing

it down to the next generation how many generations would there be from two two and a half thousand years quite a few it's going to be something different you're going to get a different story at the end of it hopefully maybe you'll get the same meaning of the story I don't know but things weren't written down there wasn't anyone there taking notes like can you stop wait a minute what did you just say can you say it again you're speaking too quick it wasn't someone with a typewriter that'd be annoying

wouldn't it typewriters were so loud the viking age ended around a 1066 marked by the battle of stemford bridge okie doke all right let's go back let's go and find some so vikings bleached their beards green of course I don't know if it's green not for fashion week but to kill lice oh all right so they they I suppose bleach is a bleacher disinfectant I don't know they used to name their swords okay that's uh that makes sense that doesn't it come here peewee come here peewee I suppose what kind

of sword it is I suppose Excalibur I never understood why they named it Excalibur because I found that a difficult word to say when I was a kid and I realized the book you know the story of King whatever his name was wasn't written just for me King Charles but come on Excalibur it was a real mouthful I can say it now perhaps I've always been able to say it maybe that wasn't the word I was thinking of Thesaurus Thesaurus what that's a hard word Thetholeth it's it's a weird word

I don't know dictionary that's that's where do they come up with these words goat powered alarm systems farms sometimes sometimes tied goats near their house so that if raiders came at night the goats would panic and bleat effectively making them viking burglar alarms which is true isn't it isn't that what people do when they're camping in a place where there's bears why would you but hey some people would go camping in a place where there's wild bears roaming around why would you I repeat again and they put like bells and

tins and stuff around the around the the tent as if hearing it coming is going to help you in some way I mean why one more time why why would you that's one of the good things about living in this country is we don't have bears we don't have lions other than in the zoo we don't we don't have that stuff in the wild I mean we do I suppose there are there are wild cats that are probably well that are a bit bigger than the average and I think it

was parts of Scotland or was it Wales I think it was Scotland where the government were intending to reintroduce wolves okay I didn't really understand I mean that's that's like let's introduce poisonous snakes as well I mean what's why I mean this is a relatively safe country when it comes to wildlife I think the only the only animals really got to be care a little bit careful of well probably a lot careful of is cattle because they can be you know if you're going through a field and there's a cow

or bull or even a horse I know horses and cattle but you know if they decide they take a dislike to you being in their in their home in their place then you know it's not not a great place the situation for you to be in I think I got chased by a bull once I can't remember yeah I think I was a little bit too fast for it though and I was very close I kind of climbed over the fence and I saw it and I claimed back I claimed

back claimed I climbed back over the fence again and I'm not sure how fast I could move these days but I was only a kid and I went home and told everyone that I just won against a bull and they came and saw it everyone was like excited to see this bull that I defeated and turned out it was a rabbit but it doesn't matter you know still won they used a poop based insult no I can't stand that kind of uh insulting people using poo based stuff so in sagas

calling someone annoyingly cowardly was bad but skit cast literally meaning throwing poop was worse yes poo flinging was both a really a reality and an insult they used to chuck poo whose poo their poo did they have it already in a bag walk around with bags of poo that's weird god they must have stunk they had a game called Natsuzoku and the rules are unclear but shoving tackling and accidentally bone breaking were apparently part of the part of it basically viking rugby rugby without a ball well what so basically a

fight really um they loved combs about any vikings archaeologists keep finding combs in viking graves suggesting that grooming was serious business so I suppose I mean I had long hair I used to have long hair a comb was almost impossible for me to put through it I used a brush but putting a comb through my hair was very because I had such curly hair if they had fine hair although I suppose when the hair's wet it's easier for the comb to go through but quite often what I'd have to do

is I'd have to crunch up my hair and put a comb through the end you know so that it didn't pull on the the roots and it didn't hurt one saga tells of a berserker berserker deserter or berserker berserker biting his own shield supposedly to psych himself up I don't know I mean the shields were probably made of wood weren't they not metal I tell you what I noticed when I was at school no oh yeah when I was a kid went into some of these places to see vikings the

normans the the romans the the various different people that basically raided and invaded my country over history lots and lots of places lots and lots of people and I actually live in a roman a roman town this was this used to be the capital of the country this town well it's it's now a city but there's no different it when they when they they I get the words out in a minute when the government decide a town is a city do you know what happens nothing nothing happens nothing at all

it makes no difference I don't know if they do it based on the amount of people that live there but there's a big difference between cities in this country so there's one big city in the whole of this country and that's London there's lots of other cities but that's you know no other city has what London has I'm not saying it's better than anywhere else because obviously it's not because I know for a fact that so many of my listeners are from other parts of the country so and I love

you I love you so much especially in fact I'm going to do this I'm just going to have a quick stat statistic break okay you might think oh but don't worry about it stop moaning right look at this right geolocation United Kingdom just the last 30 days Newcastle upon Tyne 554 downloads just in the last 30 days from Newcastle upon Tyne 547 in Bristol 186 in Birmingham London 82 so you know I'm definitely not sort of like all London so great even though I did live there for 12 years when

I was born there but I'm not saying that because Bristol's also a city as is Birmingham as is as is Leeds as is Nottingham as is Hull I think and where else have we got a city for some reason Manchester's not on here no one in Manchester likes me I'm upset about that just love me I just want to be loved can't you love me Manchester not only Manchester listens to my recordings according to this that's weird Southampton that's a city as well I think Chester I think that's a city

Chiswick Bolton Bolton's a city isn't it actually I've got people in London it's just different parts of London so Hackney Greenwich Newham Camden so there's quite a few parts of London that people are listening to me Wembley that's one of my biggest yeah so it's just I don't know why it's got London on its own I guess that must be the city of London maybe I don't know Scotland my biggest place listener is Glasgow so who in Newcastle listens to me send me some messages come on give me some messages

some comments you don't have to post them on Facebook we don't have to do anything but you can post them on my website if you want just send me a contact message and just say who you are and where you're listening from how wonderful I am Glasgow Edinburgh Grangemouth Dundee so what about Wales where are we with Wales Caldecott that's the most popular place in Wales people listening to me Wrexham Barry Chepstow Northern Ireland Belfast Ballymena Dungannon and if we go to America so California there's a top and the top

of California is Los Angeles and then Mountain View so if you're in Los Angeles and you listen to me let me know if you're in Mountain View let me know Mrs T and Santa Ana Santa Ana yeah Santa Ana Napa why have I heard of Napa Napa what does Napa do is that where they launched the um spaceships into space Napa is it oh I don't know I don't know why I've got that in my brain so what other places so that's that's California Texas San Antonio and North Richland Hills

so if you're in them places maybe let us know Houston Houston Waxhatchee Waxhatchee Waxhatchee okay and that's the fourth most popular place in Texas to people watching me listen to me rather you got Dallas Alice there's a lot of places I'll tell you what El Paso um isn't that where they did Breaking Bad El Paso I've got to visit America I need some security but I've got to visit because you know I'm I'm going to be going there from a place where we don't have any protection here we don't have

any guns or anything and I'll be going to a place with lots of guns I want to I need someone that can be my bodyguard we've got Maryland got Potomac anyone in Potomac so if you're in America Bel Air five oh so wow where else Utah Florida I thought California was Florida that just shows how ignorant I am doesn't it my ignorance astonishes me I don't know what to do myself sometimes so Florida Plant City that's the main one Miami Jacksonville Venice is Florida near California it is isn't it you

got New Jersey New York New York Syracuse in New York Floral Park Brooklyn New York why is there a New York in New York now this might sound like a silly question it's a genuine question why is there a New York in New York when New York is New York so in New York you've got I got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 20 22 24 26 28 29 so 29 places in New York I don't know if they're cities or towns but

you know Futon Staten Island people listen to me from Clifton Park the Bronx Rochester Newark Queens Buffalo but New York New York is New York is that why this song is New York New York so good they named it twice I don't know someone educate me please Nevada Las Vegas oh I've got I've got someone I got a fan in Las Vegas someone listens to me regularly there hello whoever you are and then what other place is there South Dakota hello Wyoming few people Vermont Rhode Island Idaho Alaska Alaska isn't

that where it's the North Pole Idaho Kansas New Mexico Hawaii one of the greatest theme tunes ever I think absolutely loved that do-do-do-do-do-do I've got to stop because I'll keep doing it Indianapolis Indiana Georgia Richmond Hill Alabama Abbottville Tuscaloosa Birmingham loads of places wow Kentucky Louis Louisville I've got a regular listen to me from there Massachusetts Cambridge South Carolina South Carolina Lexington okay Ohio West Cheshire Chester Arizona here we go Phoenix so I've got a regular listener in Phoenix Gilbert Mesa Tuscon Scottsdale Page Tolleson Queen Creek Yuma Goodyear so if

you're listening from that areas that I'm mentioning give me a cheer yay I just find it interesting where people are from what other country should go to a different country now let's go to so the United States I get the most listens then United Kingdom then Australia so Victoria Victoria is Melbourne I get the most in Victoria New South Wales Sydney also got Central Coast Albury etc Queensland I got Brisbane which is the most place people the most listens you got Rosalie Plains Sunshine Coast South Australia Adelaide that's the most

there Tasmania is Hobart and Launceston and then Western Australia Perth is the main one okay cool so after that we've got Canada Ontario so Toronto if you're in Canada give me a shout out maybe send me a message uh that's yeah that's the the most listened place it's in Toronto then you got Hamilton Pickering St Thomas Baden Niagara Falls I thought Niagara Falls was that's loud wasn't it I thought Niagara Falls is in America this is a genuine question does Niagara Falls kind of meet with America is that kind of

where you just you can walk through and go to Niagara Falls but it's part of America and part of Canada it's kind of like a always in a completely different place the reason I asked that is because my only real experience of Niagara Falls was the Superman movie I don't know if it was the first one or the second one I think it was the first one and the very first Superman movie and with Christopher Reeve yeah and the the and yeah so they were at Niagara Falls now I just

assumed that at the time because you know I was only I was only a youngster at the time I assumed it was in America and then just now I realized I found out I was in Canada I don't know I didn't I'm not saying I've always thought it was in America but I did no I did I kind of knew where it was now but I just wonder if it's kind of on the threshold because like in Scotland so you've got Wales and you've got other parts so I'll give you

an example oh wait a minute have I have I done all the I'll just go British Columbia Campbell River okay I know quite a few Alberta Calgary so if you're in Alberta anywhere Quebec wow Montreal I've got people listening in Montreal hey loads of places honestly hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of different places where people are listening to me from Winnipeg Winnipeg New Brunswick Ed Edmonston Saskatchewan wasn't there a place called Saskatchewan in America I'm thinking there was I really am thinking there was so I'm thinking oh okay that's confusing

New Brunswick Edmonston St John okay Saskatchewan see that's confusing right it's a New Brunswick so Saskatchewan okay right great where did I see Saskatchewan in Quebec no Winnipeg oh I'm getting confused now so in yeah in Scotland there's a part or no in Wales sorry there's a part which is kind of English and Wales there's like places that are just kind of on the border because because we're a tiny in this country we're a tiny little country tiny little island can't call ourself a country can we but England's a country

Scotland's a country Wales is a country Northern Ireland and um quite a few other like islands and stuff all part of the UK so so but we're a little island and so the border is almost invisible between Scotland and Wales or Scotland and England and then England and Wales it's I mean borders are invisible aren't they really generally unless you've got a big wall we're gonna build a big wall unless you've got a big wall it's um yeah strange what we're doing okay so that's I mean also it's not just

there I've got Canada I've got Malta Ireland Malta's the so one two three four four Malta's my fourth most listened to so people in Malta listen to me Jazira Jazira what's Jazira wow okay so hello anyone in Malta and there are people Jazira and Kwame are listening to me regularly so welcome thank you for listening um let me know Ireland France wow loads of people in France listening to me that's it's like I guess I mean literally Paris there there's so many people I'm not saying this to brag although I'm

quite pleasing myself today for some reason and if nothing else I've got quite my I've emptied most of my belly button during this recording that's just wrong I haven't I've left some in there um Stockholm county Sweden so I've got loads quite a few places in Sweden where people listen to me Denmark you got Czechia so anyone that's in Czechia especially Prague hello if you're listening thank you for listening thank you to everyone for listening let's see New Zealand used to be like fourth on the list it used to be

I'm sort of over the years I mean I've been doing this nearly 20 years now but over it used to be kind of America's always been at the top they've always been the most because it's I mean it's a much bigger country like especially English speaking country out of everywhere else like as far as population goes I know Canada's a bigger country but population wise America's got what 360 million we got about 70 odd million here Canada's got I think about 40 million um I might be wrong on that one

but it's Australia probably what 60 million New Zealand um I'm guessing I don't know how many people in New Zealand but New Zealand used to be like fourth because it was predominantly English speaking countries that would be listening to me or watching me on YouTube but I think it's really groovy that um people from other countries are actually learning English so they can listen to me so that's the that's devotion that people from all over the world have learned a completely different language just so they could listen to me that's

amazing isn't it oh dear do you think anyone actually believes me that I believe that um but thank I really I do appreciate everyone who listens genuinely I got bored of the Viking stuff I'm sorry it was there wasn't a lot coming up with that Dubai and our United Arab Emirates so um so you got Dubai so if you're in Dubai hello hi Abu Dhabi I'd like to come visit Dubai I have actually visited once but I only got as far as the airport because it was a stopover um I

mean legally I wasn't allowed out of the airport so I wasn't going to be getting out but it's I don't think I don't know if you get to a stopover at an airport let's say you're on the way to Thailand from England and your stopover and you stop off at Sweden for example or Dubai if you ask permission and say I've decided to I want to stay here for a bit again in a hotel or and I want to sort of perhaps travel around Sweden and because I've heard that there

it's an amazing place or I want to stop and hang around we're in Dubai and meet the the amazing people there whatever um would they allow it I don't know I suppose it depends upon visas doesn't it I wonder if anyone's ever done that I wonder if you could just walk out because if you didn't have any if all you had was your hand luggage which is what I do I don't take luggage on a if I go on a plane I just take my hand luggage so if you've all

only got your hand luggage then I wonder if you could just leave the airport and just I don't know just go go and have a look around that way because on the way back from Thailand like many years back the stopover coming back was Sweden yeah it was Sweden and it's really I've never seen so many blonde people before it was really weird it's like just we have blonde people in England but they don't normally congregate they don't we keep them apart no we don't um it's it was just weird

like every single person that worked in that I saw in the airport very small airport for the bit that I was in and all blonde it was like wow so I haven't I'm not sure if I've really met many Swedish people I probably have met a couple I've met a lot of people from different countries this is when I lived in London I've met people from pretty much every country in the world I reckon at some point and worked with them as well because I've you know I had so many

different jobs over the years so I've worked with people from every every everywhere even if it was just for a day I don't remember and I've dated quite a few people a long time ago but they were people from ladies from I think let's have a look what countries have I dated women ladies from when I was a younger man the United Kingdom never dated anyone from Australia although I did kind of go on a date with someone from Australia but that was as far as it got not Canada not

Malta Ireland I dated someone from Ireland never dated anyone from France or Sweden Denmark I did Chechya I don't think so New Zealand no United Arab Emirates no Spain kind of dated a lady from Spain in the 90s Norway yes Russia no but I had a couple of quite good friends from Russia a man and his he was a professor he was a psychiatrist and his wife and they came over and they were working in a comedy club just waiter in and stuff and I've gone really well with them like

really well lovely people and I was supposed to visit them but just never got around to it Greece I kind of dated someone that was from Greece once Germany yeah dated someone from Germany Mexico not that I know of and I don't think so no South Korea no Israel no I don't think so Japan no South Africa yes Nyanmar um Nyanmar what did that used to be it was I used to have a different name didn't it I don't know what I'm confused now Algeria I don't think so I'm not

sure Malaysia no Thailand yeah um the thing is I know that people there are people listening right now that are living in China so everyone say hi it's a big a big shout out if you're from China now it's not going to be listed on here because um the only way people from China can listen to me is by using a one of those what I don't know what they call them DNS things which is it DNS it basically allows you to um use the internet and put in it makes

it out that you're from a different country yeah because I think the well clearly Russian don't have an issue they their internet's fine I've got people from all over Russia listening to me but I think China their their internet doesn't I've been told that I've actually had people contact me and tell me that they listen through a what's it called it's like an internet thing where it it you change it so it looks like you're based in America or in Canada or somewhere which means then you can view stuff in

America or in the UK or maybe they put down there in London and they can then listen to my recordings and it just feels nice that people are going to all that effort in order to listen to me so I appreciate I'm not sure if there is anyone but yeah I do appreciate anyone that's uh listening to me it's been a while since I did the stats I'm quite excited by it but what I don't what I haven't done though is SoundCloud see that's I've done the Spreaker stats I don't

know what the stats are on my website because I don't get stats on there for some reason and the stats for my website for of my SoundCloud sorry if I look at the top locations Melbourne the countries United States of America is number one this is on my SoundCloud thing Australia is number two then United Kingdom's number three Germany Canada Mexico Czech Republic Philippines New Zealand Singapore Spain France India Ukraine Netherlands Micronesia federal states of Portugal Vietnam Italy Japan Turkey Ethiopia Belgium Norway Brazil Hong Kong Kosovo Egypt Russian Russian Federation

Ireland Georgia Sweden Morocco Kuwait Panama Israel Indonesia Iraq Lithuania Lithuania Chile Sudan Mongolia Latvia Lao People's Democratic Republic Poland South Africa Taiwan Province of China oh look Virgin Islands US Greece and and the top I mean this is like the last 30 days so um if I go for the top ones Melbourne I'm gonna guess Mollie does Mollie Mollie do you live in Melbourne Mollie Mollie's the boss of the um Facebook group Jason Newland's polling group this has turned into a real chat hasn't it it's been quite nice just a

real chit chat I know you know started off all let's all talk about vikings and I know you was probably really excited like oh you waited your whole life to hear me talk about vikings but I don't know and then I moved into stats and went oh but I think it's been a bit more interactive I feel like I've included you instead of just talking at you maybe I haven't maybe it's all in my mind like so many other things Melbourne so I think Mollie but it won't just be Mollie

because there's been way too many unless Mollie is playing my recordings um continuously 24 hours a day on about 50 different um mechanical things you know then it wouldn't just be Mollie but I'm thinking that seems to be the top so Melbourne these are the cities Boardman Phoenix the Boardman's second it's in America Phoenix is third Chicago's fourth Falkenstein which is Germany um that might be Sebastian I don't know Toronto and Oakland so Toronto's Canada Oakland and Portland then as America then Ensenada and which is Mexico then Prague which is

Czech Republic then then the rest these was America so Stirling New York Ashburn Portage Minooka Minooka isn't that a honey Alfaprita is that where the honey's from maybe I don't know Columbus and Kingsport Kingsport then you got Bradford wow all those until we get suddenly we get to somewhere from England so Soundcloud doesn't seem to be listened to by people from England so much Bradford then Turang Turanga which I do believe is New Zealand yes New Zealand yeah New Zealand commerce so here's a bit of a weird fact about me

I did used to study flags I got quite excited by them it was a short period of my life but it happened I basically had a book of flags and for some reason it stimulated my brain Turanga so that's then you've got commerce Ticina City that is oh Ticina City I'm trying to memorize the flag for some reason it's hiding from me Philippines no to see that Lucena City is the Philippines it is the Philippines cool Camden which is America not the UK Camden Las Cruces and Arlington America London then

America again San Jose and Kalamazoo Kalamazoo wasn't that a name of a band in the 80s Kalamazoo then you got Luton and Altridge in England Fresno in America Oldham in the UK there's so many so many Frankfurt and Maine which I'm pretty sure is Germany just the fact it says Frankfurt is a clue isn't it and then you've got is that a sausage isn't it Frankfurt that's what it stands for sausage Texarkana Richardson Dublin Stockton Morristown and Denton that's all America Manchester is England Milwaukee and Yonkers is America and you've

got North York which is Canada Canada yeah North York oh Amman Amman don't know let's have a look that's uh that is Jordan it's in Jordan Amman is in Jordan if it's not please forgive me but I'm trying to skip around and find the different flags then you've got Leeds and Chipping Norton Aurora Aurora Aurora Aureola I don't know Liverpool Paris and Olympia Olympia that's where Zeus lives so yeah I've got quite a few places Wow and that's just SoundCloud so there's quite a few different um I mean in Russia

I've got Murnmansk Moscow Archangelsk I'm not going to try and pronounce it I don't want to upset anyone Chelybanksinsk Oblast Kermerovo Komovo Oblast Samarat Oblast Amur Oblast Buryatia Republic Bras Noyark Cray Novosibirsk Oblast Vyvoblast Saint Petersburg I think that's where my dad went my dad went and visited Russia many many many many many many years ago Sverdlovsk Oblast Yaroslav Oblast Other See what my dad's done is as he's retired or when he retired he decided he wanted to travel because he didn't really get a chance to travel when he was

because he went from raising us to then he got he basically his first marriage he had three kids and then his second marriage he had another kid and then his third marriage he had two young kids um already there if you know what I mean so he was sort of couldn't really sort of get away I suppose like go on um abroad holidays until he retired and yeah he's really made the most of it he's been been quite a lot of places I think it's brilliant kind of I'm starting to

think for myself about how I'd like to proceed in the future for my you know my own kind of life I really fancy going on cruises because I think I could do it and do my recordings while I was on the cruise and then I have I'd have something to talk about as well because I'd be going on excursions and um there'd be all kinds of weird things happen I suppose over time it'd just be nice to go on a few cruises a year travel the world and have you know

take my microphone with me and just you know just talk and go through what's happening and it it'd be brilliant I'd love to do that I mean I know I couldn't do it all the time because of the the little one here but I've got someone he's got his mummy he can stay with uh for a couple you know a week or two at a time you know so I could go away a couple of times a year on a cruise even if it was just around these shores just be

nice to have something to I've always liked um cruise ships or ships you know going across the the channel and that's as far as I've done on a ship is just go to France or to Amsterdam or to Belgium or to Ireland that's the four places I've been on ships but I did Belgium like I did that trip like three times I think I did the Ireland trip twice I went to I went to Paris as well France what it was what did I say so um Belgium what's the next

one France the next one Amsterdam the next one Ireland that was it isn't it it's only four did I say number one before that I can't remember I don't think I've been anywhere else oh no Isle of Man Isle of Man so it was still a ferry it was still so Isle of Man I'm trying to think if I've ever been anywhere else I think that's it Ireland I include Ireland and I says five I've been on five ferries like five ferry journeys um different destinations that is so Belgium France

Ireland in order I'm just trying to think Ireland Amsterdam Ireland I haven't been on a ferry in 21 years I don't think have I no I don't think I have I mean yeah I know so it's five different destinations on a ferry and what have I been on a plane Spain I've been on a plane Bulgaria Thailand anywhere else that's it so basically I have technically been to I mean Isle of Man isn't a different country because it's part of the UK mind you Scotland's a different country and that's part

of the UK so I'm confused is Isle of Man a different country because it's a different island there is sea between us as there is with Ireland and I don't think the news say the island of Ireland anymore they went through a period when they kept saying the island of Ireland and I love the I don't love it actually but the way the news tries to educate the population for years and I'm talking years and years and years you know as far back as I remember Kiev like chicken Kiev the

you know the food the people you have and the place was called the same we called it Kiev and then a couple of years ago three years ago maybe I don't know the news channels decided they started off calling it Kiev and then they changed it said Kiev it's Kiev like they've done with Hyundai it took years to learn that word now it's or something it's like no at least Lidl gave up on it they gave up on us because this country we are very proud of our ignorance and we

don't like getting told what to say or how to pronounce words we don't like getting told what to do and we we're not going to change it's it's one of our idiosyncrasies maybe idiosyncrasies idiosyncrasies so when Lidl came along well Lidl they kept trying to tell Lidl no no ain't doing it we refused and it's really weird because we didn't have to get together as a country we just instinctively knew that we were never going to use the term Lidl it was going to be Lidl sorry Lidl not Lidl Lidl

and eventually after about 25 years they gave up they really went on for years and years calling it Lidl and eventually they just had to give up and now they call it Lidl themselves on the adverts Lidl it costs little at Lidl see they've even rhymed it now in the adverts not that I see a lot of adverts luckily yeah Lidl that's complicated we can't learn I mean I don't know if it's just the way that English people's tongues move but it seems to be difficult as an English person to

pronounce long names I don't know why that is it's not through lack of attempting to well a little bit but it's so you've got some countries where the names are really long like the surname but it's really easy for them to pronounce it I mean you could argue well it's their name but it's it's not just that it's just they're used to big long why don't they're not probably long to them but they are long names long surnames and if I see a name it's basically like a to me it

looks like a sentence that's been squashed together that has had all the gaps taken out and I'm like how am I supposed to say that because you know I don't want to say it I don't want to say it wrongly but I'm okay because I'm in a position where I don't learn people's names anyway so I still call people mate you all right mate 20 years I mean I've not been around here 10 years and I probably know five names and I don't know the names I know the name of

one or two people who walk dogs two people and some people have like they saw me for a year and a half and then they talk to me and then they say oh by the way what's your name so I tell them they can't say they call me by my name I don't I can't remember what they told me their name was because I don't as soon as someone says oh my name is my ears just tightly shut I don't know why I wish they wouldn't but they do they just

it's almost like an invisible finger goes into each ear and I don't it doesn't register and I'm not talking about people that I'm not interested in or people I don't like because generally I don't talk to people I don't like it's people I like I mean if I meet someone that I really like and they tell me their name it's gone I don't remember it it's just gone it goes is there something about remembering people's names it just disappears when I first meet them I mean it happened it was really

embarrassing this is years ago long long time ago and I had this date with a lady that worked in the supermarket she was on a cash on the what cash counter that's it she worked on the counter and we went on a date and we went straight from her work so I picked her up I didn't pick her up I mean I met her I didn't I didn't have a car I mean I picked her up but then I put it down again and she said can put me down I

said okay sorry and we got a bus or something so I know how to show a lady a good time and we went out and everything like that and we'd been chatting for ages and eventually kind of I built up the the courage to do you know to ask her out and stuff and didn't want to put her on the spot so I made sure I didn't want to embarrass her basically so I made sure that the the song I sung I was pretty short you know and had my guitar

and I thought well it's gonna embarrass her if it's over 10 minutes long so I you know did that and seemed to work quite well and I remember her saying to me I will go out with you if you just stop this now and leave I said okay so yeah it worked she seemed surprised when I turned up though hmm anyway and it went quite well in fact you could say it went as well as it could possibly have gone and the next morning we were waking up and I could

not it was weird right is we were both kind of in bed and she said well I gotta go to work I said okay she said shall we swap numbers and I said cool brilliant and so she took my number this is um yeah she said this when mobile phones were around so it was obviously it's still a while ago but and so I've she I gave her my number but this this is before we used to phone each other you know like you give someone your number and then they

call you I was literally putting a number in we hadn't figured out that you could call someone but maybe that's because back then it cost too much money to phone people but I don't know I'm not sure and then so I gave her my number and I said do you remember my name she said of course I do Elvis but anyway she did she remember my name I thought good and she said you remember my name I said yeah of course I do and I couldn't remember what her name was

I had no idea just it just went out of my head I don't think it ever went into my head but it definitely wasn't in my head at that point and so we was just luckily I managed to change a subject um I think I opened the window and farted so that yeah that definitely distracted her so we're getting ready she has to go out and I'm thinking she said well do you want to take my number so I did so she's got her back to the door to her door

I'm looking at her and she says okay there's my number I said cool thanks she said aren't you going to put your name put my name into it I said yeah she said you forgot my name haven't you luckily on the back of her door was her uniform her um supermarket uniform where she worked and it was there was a tag wasn't there on there uh like a badge on it and I thought thank goodness for that it really saved me honestly um I'm not proud of myself but I said

of course I know what your name is she said what is it then and she really thought right she had me and I said listen of course I look we just spent a really wonderful date together last night and I've liked you for a long time I've been coming into the shop uh you know and we've been getting on and you know I'm hoping I get to see you again and we just you know we've clicked and it's been a nice time hasn't it she said yeah I said of course

I know what your name is I wouldn't I don't get I don't do these kinds of things um unless I know someone's name I mean come on what kind of person do you think I am and she said well what's my name then she wasn't giving up on it so I looked at the tag and I said of course it's Sainsbury's I know your name is Sainsbury's I continue to put it into my phone and she's she laughs and then she looks at my phone and she sees that I'm actually

putting in Sainsbury's into the phone and yeah never saw her again for some reason she didn't call me I don't know why so yeah that's the end of this trivia Tuesday which really had the only real trivia was just my life wasn't it let's see if there's any other virk virkings vikings the world's first helmet hair problem they love practical jokes apparently saga account mentions swapping people's weapons for blunt ones and there's a prank wow can you imagine that get you're in battle and you have to actually put your sword

out and it's just blunt mind you they're heavy swords I don't know I mean I've never never really the only thing I used to have a sword I used to have a samurai sword and that had a bit of weight on it but that was blunt that's it really I could have sharpened it but I didn't luckily for me and and that's it so I'm gonna go now thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe lots of love bye