#797 Let me bore you to sleep - A VERY WIERD DAY - Jason Newland (9th FEBRUARY 2022)

Hello and welcome to Jason Newland dot com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

So, hmm, where to start? Hmm, hmm, so I'm looking after my friend's dog at the moment. He's asleep on the sofa. He takes up the whole sofa.

He's such a lump. Did I say only listen when you can safely close your eyes? If I have then I've said it twice. Never mind.

I've been having problems. I've got a lot of problems. I've been having problems with the podcast recording.

For some reason, two nights ago, all of the equipment, my equipment stopped working. All of the equipment stopped working. Like the editing software or the recording software stopped working on the iPads.

The microphone and the audio interface, it was not connecting together. Couldn't get the microphone to work. Couldn't get anything to work.

And then the headphones stopped working. So I can't hear to listen to see whether or not the headphones and the audio is okay. So I have to play it by, I have to almost guess, like a little guesswork, which is weird.

I don't like that. And so what I've got now is a different process. I'm recording it on my iPad and then I'm going to edit it on my laptop using different software.

That's weird. It's a weird process. In it.

Yeah. And then, then I'll make the different versions with music in the background. So it's just, it's a longer way of doing it.

But for some reason, even using the laptop to make recordings, I just can't seem to get the microphone set up right. And I've got all this equipment and it's just not working the way that I think it should. And even a couple of weeks, well, a few days ago, when I last made a recording, everything was fine.

And then it just went to jelly went to poo. It just thought what's going on? I don't know. I've been thinking about trying to get a professional audio engineer recorder to come here and help set this stuff up.

And maybe make changes and if different equipment is required, then, you know, point me in the direction of getting what's needed. So this is all ready every day for me to make new recordings. That's all I need.

Oh, excuse me. That's a dog burping. So it's been a weird day, but I'm not going to go into it.

It's some weird things have happened involving the police. Not, not me. It wasn't me.

I didn't do nothing. But a friend of mine got into trouble this morning and I ended up I ended up getting involved at the end, but just in order to make sure that my friend wasn't hurt by the police during the arrest. I'm not going to go into any more details than that.

Because, you know, it's personal information for my friend. But anyone listening to this wouldn't know who the person is anyway. But it was a weird, weird situation.

I was just shocked. Firstly, how the police were quite cool with me, because I told them, don't hurt him. Because I was with him, I was like trying to help him up and they were putting handcuffs on.

I said, don't hurt him. Because they can get a bit heavy handed sometimes. He's not going to do anything.

He's not going to resist arrest. He's not anything like that. And this is because my friend was trying to help someone else.

And it all went, went pear shaped, basically went wrong. And one of the people involved was a plainclothes policeman. So, you know, got a bit, a bit crazy.

But the weird thing about it, they were fairly cool. You know, still doing their job, still a degree of grumpiness that you get from police. But when I went to the actual police, the, not the prison, the police station, a couple of hours later, to take my friend's medication in for him.

The police were just, I don't know, rude, kind of rude to me. I said, how's it getting on? We can't do it. Yeah, you can.

It's easy. You just move your mouth. Your tongue generally moves automatically to make the words if you've been using words and speaking all your life, it's not that hard.

He's okay. You know, something like that. Is he okay? I can't tell you.

Don't make, it's just, it's a very difficult situation because you can't win with them. I wanted to say to this police person sitting behind the counter, when you, when you get trained to be on the counter, on the, you know, you're, you're publicly facing, you're dealing with a public and you're supposed to be courteous and friendly and helpful. To the members of the public, that surely is part of the job.

You know, he gets to wear his little costume and just like, come on, just because you've got the costume on doesn't mean that you're, you know, don't have to be rude. Cause I was really friendly. I went out my way to just be calm and say, just, I don't know if I can ask how he's getting on.

Can't tell you that. And that's it. It was like completely blanked after that.

Turned her back on me like, oh, wait, wait, come, come back, come back. I said, is it worth waiting? No. Well, I might do anyway.

Up to you. Like really, if it was a human, if there was a human being talking to you like that, you'd have something to say to them. It was, it's quite weird.

I don't quite, I don't, I mean, I kind of get it in a way of if your job entails seeing the, the worst part of humanity, you know, the, cause you know, they, they don't get called because things are going well. You know, don't call the police up because, you know, you have a great birthday party. You surely should see this cake.

It's really nice. You should have a bit. No, they get called for basically just horrible stuff.

So I know that they get, you know, it's just human that they would get disenchanted with human beings because all they see is the horrible side. But not every, not everybody's horrible. Not everybody does horrible things.

There's lots of people do lovely things and they're living their life. I mean, I don't, I don't do horrible things. I don't, you know, I don't know if I'm a particularly good example for anything, but the most people I think in society is just, they're trying to get by best they can.

You know, we all have a little moods. We have a little tantrums now and then, you know, when things don't go our way or we, we just want to be right, even though we can't always be right, but we want it. We want it so bad to be right.

I must be right. How dare you? How dare you go against me? I am all knowing. No one is.

No one's right all the time. So yeah, yeah, that's my, that's my verbal, that's my final word on the subject. So that took up a bit of the day and I come home and another neighbor, another like is waiting for me.

He'd locked himself out of his flat. So I don't know, he just come outside and the door slammed and he couldn't get back in. Didn't have his keys, didn't have anything.

He couldn't get in, didn't have his wallet, phone or anything like that. So he was waiting for me to go home and so I organized, I phoned the, first of all tried to break in, but just there's a few little things you can do that I learned from the locksmith actually. And if you watch them, if you just get them out, you watch them, you see what they do and you know, it's, it's only about three different things.

So they'll try sometimes only one or two and then they just basically drill the lock through. That's it. And then put in a new lock.

So it's not, you know, besides the lock changing, changing this, you know, I guess the skill comes in, um, you know, trying to say the keys in the lock, in the key hole, but it's inside the door, the other side of the door. So to find a way to turn that key from outside the door through the letterbox using a mirror and a long stick or whatever they use, that's very technical and very, I would say, I don't know, almost impossible to do. It can be done.

I've seen it be done, but it's very, very time consuming. And I don't feel the success rate is all that good, but they try that stuff first before drilling through and just changing the lock. So, so I phoned, you know, I phoned the bloke up and said, hi.

He said, oh, all right. Cause I've used him probably about six times, not for me, but for different people in the building. So I think six, probably two for me, two for my friend and two for the other one.

Oh yeah. Third one. So maybe six times another one for the other one, but he couldn't get in there because it was two, two locks.

And so I think it would have been a case of breaking through both of those locks, which would have left a big hole in the door. So he never did it. So, but yeah, man, he managed to get in himself, which is amazing.

I think I locked myself out three times, but the third time I realized that the door could just be pushed open. The door wasn't closing properly. It wasn't locking properly.

And it was so loose, the actual door way, I don't know the door, but the, what do you call it? The, the, the inner part of the door door frame, I guess it was so loose at the point where the, um, but the bolt lock thing was, they just opened. He's snoring. The dog is snoring.

Can you hear that? He's snoring. He's listening to me and he just, I've had enough of that. He's just gone to sleep.

I bought him to sleep. I bought a dog to sleep. That's amazing.

So today I said, today's been weird. Um, I don't even remember yesterday. Oh yeah.

I went to the doctors with my friend. Um, I looked after the dog while he was in there. So, and that was kind of afternoon time.

So we ended up getting out there. He's such a snorer. Can you hear that? Can you hear that? It turns out a dog's useless when it comes to protecting you.

He doesn't because his owner, as they got in a scuffle, let's use that word scuffle and the dog did nothing. If anything, he was licking, trying to lick the people that was, um, not saying he should have been biting because obviously if he had it, he would be in a different place right now because certain people, dogs aren't allowed to bite. You hear that? That's a stupid dog yap.

I mean, it's probably a little bit early for me to be making a podcast. It's half past, nearly half past seven in the evening and there is activity still. There's still people around.

There's still people slamming doors and no lawnmowers thankfully, but people in the garden shouting at each other. Not right now either, which is good. There was.

And I got this big giant dog snoring. I've never heard him do that before. He's usually a really quiet sleeper, but in this case, he's been a really, really noisy, noisy sleeper.

Noisy. I tell you proper noisy, which is okay. I don't mind.

I don't bother to be honest. This is kind of funny. Really noisy, noisy, noisy, noisy.

So basically, um, still trying to fit. Hmm. Still trying to figure out what's gone wrong with the whole podcast in editing software because I've got a decent microphone.

I've got a decent uplift, a decent, um, I don't even know what they're called. Power charge, power, um, audio interface. That's it.

But it's still, for some reason, just stopped working. I mean, the iPad just froze and that's rare for an iPad to freeze. That doesn't happen very often.

I also just found out that, um, oh, in the garage, when this, this all kicked off, I said, I'm not going to details, but afterwards I apologized to the staff because I, I've been a bit rude to them, I think, because my friend was on the floor being held down, uh, which I don't think he should have been. And I told, I told one of them to get off him. And he did.

He was holding his leg. I said, let, let go of his legs. And the other bloke that was holding onto his upper body, I said, get off him now.

And he said, Oh, but I've got, I'm restraining because he don't need to restrain him. You know, he's, it'll be calm with me. It's fine.

Just let go. He's not gonna do anything. Just let go.

But he couldn't because my friend was holding him. He was holding his hand gripped so he couldn't get off. Now, eventually he let go and he was just kind of just not on him because he was a plainclothes policeman.

So I didn't know that at the time, to be honest. So I was like telling him what to do, which I guess I shouldn't have been doing. But then the staff were coming out of the garage saying, move away, get away.

I was telling them where to go. I was telling him to, you know, because I, I didn't, I didn't want to, I knew that I could calm him down. I knew what to say and how to say it.

And I knew that he'd feel safe with me being there. And I also knew that I was not going to let anyone hurt him. Because, well, that's it.

I don't want to say any more on that. But he was not gonna let anybody hurt him while I was there, civilians or, or police or anyone. So he, I was a bit rude to the staff.

I went and apologized afterwards because I didn't, you know, I said, sorry, I was just, I might have swore at some of you. Sorry about that. So I didn't want to get banned.

You see, I don't want to get banned from the shop because that's my local and that's where I get. So, you know, when I run out of things like milk or breakfast cereal or whatever, that's sort of the place I go. And they were cool.

They said, oh, it's all right. It's understandable. You know, it got heated and that.

And they, they were, they were almost, they said, we were trying to warn you away from him because we didn't want you getting hurt. I said, no, I was not a threat. I was never in danger.

And it was a case of, I needed other people to get away. Cause I felt a little bit crowded as well, you know, like just as he's going to be fine. And I saw like, look at me, look at me, you know, keep contact, eye contact with me.

It's me, remember? And he did calm down for a while anyway. And then something else happened, but it was, I found out, I found out that the lady that I really liked is no longer working there. And according to them, she's no longer got a boyfriend either.

I don't know. They were talking about that. Like it was like an in-joke.

So, or, you know, inside information. So I don't know if it's related to her not working there anymore. I don't, I don't know how, I mean, I know how I've got my imagination kicks in and I can imagine lots of different varieties of possibilities, why she's not working there anymore.

And she's no longer got a boyfriend. I can think of lots of different reasons. Some of which makes me think, I wish I'd told her how I felt for her.

Cause if she's not going to have a boyfriend in two weeks time anyway, what does it matter? Cause you know, I didn't want to, I mean, it's hard for women to resist me, as you can imagine. Oh dear. So yeah, that's, that's how I really liked her.

But I purposely didn't go in there for the last probably two or three weeks because, not, actually I have been in there, but that's a bit of a lie. She hasn't, she hasn't been there for the last couple of weeks on the days that I go. And I kind of spent about a week not going in there purposely because I really liked her and I just, yeah, it's almost like it's a no go, a no go situation.

And well, I put myself through that. So I really liked her. I mean, really, really liked her.

A lot. I'm not just saying that for the sake of it. I mean, I really, really, I mentioned this before, so this is nothing new, but I don't, I don't meet, I don't meet many women anyway, but I don't meet many that I like in that way.

There's plenty of lovely women that I've met, plenty of lovely men, you know, I meet people that are nice sometimes, friendly and that, but you know what I mean? That's, it's a difference, isn't it? Someone that could be friendly and everything. And then there's ones that are just, yeah, it's like an oldie, old seventies, raunchy comedy film. So the thing is the dog keeps farting.

See, even he looked up then, what the hell was that? He has farted and just jumped up and left the room sometimes. But what he does for some reason, he always lays with his bum facing towards me or towards someone that's in the room. So that when he lets one rip, he's got a target to aim at.

And I don't understand it because aren't dogs supposed to have smelling sensations like 10,000 times stronger than humans? You know, it's a lie because they wouldn't be able to stay not only in the same room, but even in the same country as their own farts. If their smelling sensation was 10,000 times more than a human, that would be impossible to handle. Let me just check if that's right or not.

Dog smelling senses. And I know it's different for different dogs. Which dog, how far away could... Okay, right.

Really? Did you really, was there any need for that? A part of a dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is about 40 times greater than ours. That's the brain part. Okay.

But what about the... Dogs possess a sense of smell many times more sensitive than even the most advanced man-made instrument. Powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion. So a single drop of liquid in 20 Olympic sized swimming pools.

With training, dogs can sniff out bombs and drugs, also diseases and stuff. Wow. Blimey.

I didn't have a swimming pool. We still want to see what the sense of smell, why does... They keep saying immeasurably better. This is the Britannica.

Accept all this stupid... Do you accept this virus before we go any further? Yes, I do. Dogs have the same five senses as us. Blah, blah, blah.

And that was not me. I can't do that. He wants to go out.

You want to go out, don't you? Okay, all right. I'm going to pause this. I'm going to pause this recording and take him out for a walk and I'm going to come back.

Oh, he's just farted. How can a dog smell like a wet dog when he hasn't been out in the rain? He's got that wet dog smell. It doesn't make sense, does it? Anyway, I'm going to take a little miniature break and I'm going to come back.

So I'm going to take him for a walk. I need to, I need to eat as well. I haven't had any food for a while before 12 o'clock and it's now half past, now they're what, 20 to eight? So it's been eight hours since I've eaten, so I need to eat.

Hey, I'm back. I'm back. I'm also front.

So I had to do a couple of quick things there. I don't normally interrupt my podcasts when I'm making one, but hey, I had to feed the dog. I had to take the dog for a walk even, but he just did wee-wees, did no poo-poos.

He's got a thing that he likes to do to make sure that there's no possibility of me not picking up his poo. He always goes and finds the brightest part of the park underneath one of the street lamps, you know, streetlights, but not just anyone. He'll do it right at a streetlight, underneath a streetlight, where probably at least five houses can overlook and see.

So I have to pick it up. Some people might say, well, of course you have to pick it up. That's the law.

You're supposed to pick it up. Yeah, I'm not saying I don't, but isn't it disgusting? I've never had, I've not really ever had my own dog. I had a dog, we had a dog for the last couple of years of when my family was together.

It was a St Bernard and it was huge. And so much fun when he was a puppy, when she was a puppy. Her name was Misty.

So much fun. I mean, just endless joy, you know, the energy she had and she was tiny and, you know, she's just beautiful. But she was a St Bernard and she didn't stay small for very long.

And she basically became too big, too big for the house. So she ended up sleeping in a kennel outside. So my dad, I don't know if he built it or he bought it, but this big old kennel and she could go in.

And bit by bit, she started to get neglected. And she didn't get walks because we couldn't walk her. I wasn't strong enough to walk her.

And the family was starting to disintegrate. You know, one of my brothers moved out, I think one of mine moved out as well. I couldn't, the dog was heavier than I was.

The dog was probably about 12 stone, maybe heavier. And I was about eight stone. So you see, you know, it's, and dogs are stronger anyway.

So a dog, that dog would be stronger than a 12 stone man. That St Bernard would be stronger than a 12 stone man, even though they're the same weight. So that's, that dog must have been equivalent to about an 18, 19 stone man or woman strength.

So it was, I couldn't, she just dragged me along the floor. Couldn't control her or nothing. And there was no training, no one trained her.

They, all dogs, I think need training very early on. And I mean, even this dog here has got practically no training. It's a rescue dog.

So we don't know where he originally came from. But he's clearly had some issues with other dogs when he was little, because he attacks dogs. Or he goes to, he wants to attack dogs or whatever.

So you can't leave him off the lead, has to be on the lead all the time. But I think it's due to his, he's scared of other dogs. And he's, his defense is attack.

Now I'm in this little village where they're, I don't know if people that live in villages are a bit, a bit simple, but I'm sure it's not the case, but here, and I think we're all simple, we're all a bit dumb in different ways, aren't we? I think, I don't think like everyone's dumb for everything, but some people are just a bit dumb in certain aspects of their life. So there might be a professor and the nicest, cleverest person in the world, but they'll take the dog off the lead and let it run around in a park. When every dog owner knows that not all dogs get on.

You don't have to be clever to know that, just like humans don't all get on. But dogs don't have that self-control that humans are supposed to have. And, and I, I could, I, I had the arguments from various angles.

Well, I want my dog to be able to run around. Yeah, of course you do. Because it's a beautiful thing.

It's wonderful seeing your dog run around because the dog loves it. You feel good watching it. Also means you haven't got a walk so far because the dog is doing its own exercise, you know, running up and down around the park, sort of five, six, seven times.

Then you can just get in the car, you can drive to the park and then drive back home and you haven't had to do anything. Which you put no physical energy. So I see why people like it.

And it's lovely to see them run around because they have the time of their life, don't they? However, there are other dogs that also want to run around and some of those dogs don't like other dogs. But this, this dog here loves humans. Absolutely loves humans, loves human company, loves being touched.

He has to be touching you, even if it's just his tail. Sometimes he has to have that physical contact. And he's a daddy's boy.

He absolutely loves his dad. If we were in the garage or in a shop, he goes in the shop. I'll look after the dog outside and he's always, the dog's always like looking through the window.

Where's my daddy? Where's my daddy? Where is he? Where's he gone? Where's he gone, Uncle Jay? Where's he gone? Even in the doctor's surgery, yesterday, I was looking after the dog outside in the outside waiting area, not inside the waiting room itself. So my friend was in there waiting and the dog like, just like, where is he? Where is he? Where is he? What's he doing? Where is he? And also yesterday, he was, we had a, well, according to their phone app, we had five minutes to the bus, the next bus, and maybe half an hour supposedly. So we need to catch it or we can, you know, I've never caught a bus ever.

I generally wait for it to turn up and stick my hand out. That's another thing. Some people don't do that.

I've seen buses go straight past people who are waiting at the bus stop and they don't put their hand out to stop the bus. How do they not know to do that? How do they, how can they not know that you need to have to put your hand out to stop the bus? Well, the bus should stop anyway. Why would they, obviously they're waiting for that bus.

No, because a lot of bus stops have various different buses go past. I mean, some bus stops I wait at, there's might be three or four different numbered buses that go past. So you have to put your hand out to stop the one that you're waiting for.

So there's that little dumb part of people's brains. I think we've all, we've all got it. Maybe I've got more than most actually.

I'm so dumb when it comes to certain things. Yeah. Almost in other ways, I'm almost, almost intelligent or just not quite, but almost in some ways.

Oh, listen, what are you doing? Sorry about that. Ah, that dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, but he's, um, he's all right. He's okay.

A little bit tired. A little bit tired. It's been a very strange day today.

I can't say I've enjoyed it, if I'm honest. Um, I would have liked to relax a little bit, you know, a little, a little bit. I will do tomorrow because it's Thursday, tomorrow, Wednesday, the 9th of February today.

And I'll, yeah, I'm gonna, oh, I forgot I was going to get some food in. You know what I've been doing? I've been cooking for myself. So I'm a squeaky chair.

This is my new chair. Now it's squeaking. You hear that? Um, a couple of weeks ago, I bought, and it is processed food, you know, but you know, never, nevermind.

There's, I've also bought some frozen veg and potatoes and stuff. Maybe it wasn't two weeks ago. Maybe it's less, but I started, you know, I was hungry and I've been getting hungry and like, I don't want to do anything.

I want to cook, but I found a way to do it quite, quite quickly. So I turn the oven on. It takes a while to heat up because it's electric and I will peel the potatoes.

So I'm heating up the, the ring on the hob and then, you know, put the, put the potatoes, cut them up fairly small, put them, put water over them, rinse them a few, cut a little bit, then, then put them onto the hob. I leave the room, do something in here for, I don't know, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. And then I go back in there.

I take the potatoes off the hob, put them, turn that hob off, just put them onto a cold hob. The water's boiled, you know, boiling or whatever, and it's covering them. I then put whatever's going to go into the oven for 30 minutes or whatever.

So I put that into the oven and then I'll do something else. But earlier I went, took the dog for a walk, had the timer on my phone to make sure that I didn't, you know, go over. They want to come home to a bunch of smoke.

And when that's ready, then I'll be, I've got quite a few different packets of different veg, but I've got, I'm eating the mixed veg first. So I've got put some mixed veg into a, like a breakfast bowl, soup bowl, whatever you want to call it. Put some water onto it to cover it.

And I put it in the microwave for five minutes. So while that's being done, I take the potatoes and I mash the potatoes up and put them onto a plate or get a plate ready, you know, just the basic stuff. And then I put the, like today it was a pie.

And then a couple of minutes later, bing! The veg is ready. So I kind of, I just, what I do with a fork, I just sort of get the bits of veg out and put it onto the plate. It's easy to do with cauliflower, easy to do with carrots, not so easy with peas, not so easy with peas.

But by then I can empty more of the water out as well, without losing the stuff down. So that's annoying, isn't it? You know, when you cook something like potatoes or whatever, and you're trying to rinse the water out and the potatoes start falling into the washing up bowl. Yes, I've done it many times.

What's even more annoying is when you, you start tipping it and use a bowl or something, you know, use a plate or something so you don't, but the steam shoots up and burns your thumb. Yeah, so that didn't happen today. But it has happened.

Oh yes, it has, has, has, has, has, has happened. So what am I going to say? Yeah, so I'm quite, quite pleased with the, being able to like put a nice little meal together for myself and eat it. And it's all right, you know, it's all right.

I bored myself with that story. Oh, what a tedious subject, cooking. For me, it's tedious.

For some people, it's probably some people's lives, isn't it? They love cooking. I've met a couple of people like that. It's a bloke at work, my last job.

He loved cooking, like it was, I think, his favourite thing. By the looks of me, he enjoyed eating it as well. And it's weird because he used to be so generous and kind, even like bring off, he'd invite people to go around and eat at his.

I think sometimes he even brought some food in to share. But a couple of people in my team started complaining about him to other members, saying that he, basically what they wanted was for the manager to ban him from eating garlic before coming into work. And because garlic stinks, doesn't it? So it was, I think that was an awkward conversation, but they did.

I got took into a room and thought, well, how can you tell someone not to eat garlic? I mean, it's, it's almost kind of along the lines of prejudice, isn't it? Against someone for their religious beliefs. Because I'm not saying that every religious person eats garlic. I'm sure some of them may do.

I don't know. I mean, garlic bread, for one. I just saw that.

Hmm. I saw something moving. Better not be.

Did you ever fall in love? Blimey, mate. Dabba dabba doo doo ba ba ba. This is Wednesday today.

I don't know why. Do you ever get those times when it's like, oh, is it really Wednesday? Is it? Hmm. I think one of the issues I have with police, rude police, is, unlike a lot of people, I haven't really had a bad experience with police.

Not particularly, like in younger life. It's almost the opposite. I had a very positive experience with police when I was a young child.

Because when I was probably about four, it's weird though to remember there's certain things I remember. And we used to, my mum used to run away from home. And we'd end up sleeping at a police station.

She'd like, you know, because of domestic stuff. And the police were always lovely. So lovely.

And we'd end up sleeping. I don't know if it was in a cell or whatever. I'm not sure.

But it was like a little adventure for us. And so they were always really kind and they'd bring us cups of teas and biscuits and cakes and whatever we wanted. So I had a very, quite a positive, even though it was a, it wasn't a positive situation.

But I had a fairly positive view about the police. But as an adult, you know, because I'm a law-abiding citizen generally, and I've never, I've never even had a caution, never mind being arrested. I don't, I just, I tow the line as it were.

And the few instances I've seen the police in action, I've just been quite shocked at how heavy handed they are. And there's once where in the nightclub, the comedy club I worked, and across from where the club was, there was like a residential area, it's like the alleyway. And there was, then there was like some flats, apartments or whatever you want to call them.

And they were really cool with the club being open till two o'clock in the morning on weekends, blaring music out, and the comedy and stuff. So they never complained. So in the same, and they were quite good friends with my boss.

So he, he looked out for them as well. Made sure no one parked in front of their, on their driveway bit, you know, during, make sure the security guards wouldn't let anyone park and, you know, just little things like that. And one night, the alarm went off in one of the apartments, the block, the whole block, the alarm went off.

Someone had forced the main door in or whatever. So one of the doorman, bouncers, whatever you want to call them, went in just to check on it. Because as I said, there was a friendliness between the nightclub and the people who lived there, you know, ongoing truce, maybe.

I think there was issues a few years earlier, but they kind of came to a truce. I might be making this up. And anyway, there was someone in there.

And they went for the doorman and the doorman knocked him out by cold man. You know, so anyway, that's, that's not really the big story. But when the police turned up, because they called the police, they called an ambulance as well for the bloke.

Who do you think the police arrested? Me, because I was naked. Now, who do you think the police, you know, who they arrested from? Obviously, from what I'm saying. They arrested my friend, the doorman.

Didn't arrest, didn't arrest the other bloke. He got taken to hospital with a sore jaw. Another time.

And this is, I don't mean this to be heavy, but it's real stuff that happened. But I'm not going to go into any graphic details. But I give you the outline.

There is again, the my boss, my friend, he'd look out for the staff, especially, not especially, but he would take care of the females, make sure they got home safely. You know, sometimes I'd actually go out and I'd wait for her. I'd wait at the bus stop with one of the waitresses until the bus got there, or he'd make sure the taxis took the staff home, you know.

Sue's tried to take care of the young, because some were quite young, early 20s, sometimes even like late teens. And one of the, I forget her name now, but one of the waitresses, so this is over 20 years ago. So, but she, she got a taxi from the club.

And she decided to go on to a club to go clubbing with, meet up with her friends, you know, a nightclub in the West End, instead of going home. So she left, she might have left a bit early, so she might have left at midnight. And, you know, went to a club.

But anyway, she came in the next day, so came in the Saturday evening, telling the staff, because I wasn't really aware of it, that the taxi driver was being a creep, basically. He was overstepped, if you know what I mean. So nothing like serious, but he overstepped.

But this would be classed as serious these days, because, you know, there's a lot more awareness of weirdos. I'm a weirdo, but I'm not that kind of a weirdo. Anyway, he followed her into nightclub, and was like, kind of harassing her.

So he was, he was a taxi driver. So his job was to, we use that firm specifically for the safety of the staff, you know, they were there every single Friday, Saturday night, and Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, the taxi drivers were there. And it was a regular income for them, they had, it was a good old earner for them.

Because it wasn't just the staff, they were there all night. So they take home the customers. So sometimes they'd get a fare going all the way to Dover, which would probably be worth like 50 60 good.

So you know, they, there was a good, and that was back then. Anyway, this, this bloke, this taxi driver really freaked out the girl, the waitress, and she's very upset because she didn't feel safe and he was harassing her. Luckily, she had some friends in the club.

And eventually, he went away. Well, when my boss found out about this, he wasn't happy. Because you know, the taxi drivers were there as a service.

I mean, the taxi drivers are a service, aren't they? And he, he basically did some stuff, including ripping the the registration plate off the car and using that for certain things. So he got arrested, he spent a night in a cell. The other bloke didn't get arrested, even though when the police came, they reported nothing.

Was another time something happened. There wasn't many to be fair, there was, there's always like the police into go for the wrong people. But the metropolitan police are among the worst in the country for being heavy handed and bullies.

And it's kind of like the, not literally, but like shoot first, ask questions afterwards. Now, we don't, we're not really, we don't have guns as such. I mean, the police do, but they don't all walk around with them on their holsters.

But there's quite a few in metropolitan police that do walk around with guns in a in a holster, like in America. So it's, so if anyone says, oh, the police, police don't carry guns. And if you're a tourist, and you come here, you may be surprised if you're in London, because you'll see a lot of police with guns.

Especially some, like if you go to Buckingham Palace, they got machine guns. If you go anywhere near Parliament, machine guns. Outside of the walls of military places, machine guns again.

So in London, there's a lot of, a lot of, a lot of cars that have guns in the back in the boot. And again, there's also, I don't know how many, but there are police that walk around with guns in a holster on this side. I just remember because I was in a garage petrol station once, 20, 20 odd years ago.

And there was this giant of a man, two of them actually, a huge with police guns, you know, holsters on their side. And all I wanted to do is just grab it. I don't know why.

Because it'd be, well, it would be the last thing I ever did. That'd be it, you know, the other policeman and KSP shooter out and shoot me with it, you know, so but I wanted, I had the real urge, a real urge to just grab it off him and I don't know what, I don't know what I was going to do. I just, I don't know why.

Just had that weird urge. I didn't, obviously I didn't do it because I wouldn't be here. I mean, talking about being dumb, we're all, we've all, because I would never call someone dumb.

Not dumb, like, like, infinitely, you're dumb, or I'm dumb, because that's just cruel. And unnecessarily and also wrong. But we're all dumb.

In certain ways, we've all got a little dumb. How that comes across what I'm saying is we're all a little bit dumb sometimes. And I know I am.

We all do dumb things, or we have a little, everything else in our life is really kind of together and we're really bright, maybe. But it's that one little dumb thing. With some people, it's politics.

They can't get their head, their logical, clever brain around certain aspects when it comes to politics, or social issues or race or, you know, sociology or sexuality or I can't think of what else, you know, just stuff like that. But they've been nice. You know, I've met people that were, you know, you wouldn't, if you heard them talk about a certain subject, you wouldn't really want to sit in the same room as them.

But if you take that subject away and their opinions on that specific subject, they're lovely people. Really a pleasure to be around. Funny, caring, you know, giving, generous, you know, do anything for you.

Until you talk about maybe, you know, a certain subject. Again, I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not even going to name the subjects.

We all know there's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And then they become dumb. It's like they just suddenly become really dim and really I don't like the word thick, but yeah, kind of in that particular way.

And I find it quite amusing, really, because those people, whether it's politics, whether it's let's say politics, but whatever it is, it's almost like they must read the same book, or everyone must get a little monthly magazine or something, which tells them what to think and what, how to explain, you know, in the event of an argument, how to explain why they think the way they do. Because they always come out with the same stuff. Whether it's a vegetarian, whether it's someone, you know, that's a certain political party fan or otherwise, whether it's a meat eater, I'll go both ways.

It's like everyone's got their own opinion, which is usually not their own opinion, it's someone else's opinion, just regurgitated. And I just find that it can be frustrating, but it's also kind of funny in a weird way. Because maybe every other aspect of life, they can think for themselves, apart from that one thing.

And when they squirt that stuff out of their mouth, well actually, some of my best friends are, or one example is, I don't want to say the word, but the leaving the European Union back a couple of years ago, when that all started, or 2019, wasn't it, I think. And then, you know, carried on for a couple of years. That, or was it 2018, blind me, I think it was.

Or was it 2016? Anyway, I've forgotten what I was talking about now. Damn. Couldn't have been important.

It couldn't have been, could it? If it was important, I'd remember it. And I haven't remembered it, therefore it can't be important. You get me? In it.

Yeah. I moved in a friend of mine, let me stay with him, when I had nowhere to live for a little while, and didn't ask, well, to be fair, couldn't ask for any rent really, because I was sleeping in the same room as him. He had a bed set.

So he had one room, which he lived in and slept. And then there was, there was two beds, two separate beds. And then there was a kitchen, bathroom.

Yeah, that was it. And it was so nice. And then suddenly, he, he pulled out these magazines, and I thought, okay, you do, you know, if you've, if you've forgotten, I'm in the room with you.

It's a little bit inappropriate, mate. Well, I had no idea how inappropriate, it was much more inappropriate than I thought. Because these magazines, again, I'm not going to say it out loud, but they were, um, how to word it? What he kept going on about, I'm not a what's it? I'm a racialist.

It's different. That's what I used to say. I'm a racialist.

And the articles, I looked through them, because I was interested. Just intrigued, really. Because these magazines, they were underground, not sort of magazines you could buy in a shop.

And they were there specifically for the non love groups, groups that weren't about love and acceptance. There's a lot of those all around the world, I guess, but a lot of them in this country still are actually, I think. And, you know, I just find some of that stuff weird, because he was so nice, so helpful, so caring and kind to me.

And it's, it's hard to know what to do next, because I was almost depending, well, I was depending upon him for somewhere to sleep. I didn't have anywhere else. And these magazines were just absolutely ridiculous.

They were, but I can't even tell you. I mean, I could probably get some of these magazines up if I knew what they were called, but I don't remember. I could get them up.

I mean, on the internet. Absolutely ridiculous. How come? What was the, what was the thingy? Surely it was something I was going to talk about.

Oh, I don't know. I can't remember. Which doesn't matter.

I just, I just can't remember. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anywhere? Remember this? Do you remember? I don't remember. Does anybody remember? I don't know.

I really don't know. No, I can't remember. I just hope that I've had a few messages.

Let's see if I can read them out to you. I know it's a little bit late, so maybe I'll read them out tomorrow. Help wanted.

Postal worker in your area. Let's have a look. Postal worker.

Why? See, I just, I went online to see a couple of job sites, and since then they've been bombarding me with jobs. But they're weird, because it says there, postal workers jobs. That's the headline on the page.

So now it's, you've got MET technician. So, nope. That's not a postal worker.

Oh, now the page has disappeared. Yeah. How lovely.

What a wonderful thing. Wonderful. I'll tell you a job that I would quite like to do.

I'd like to be, if I say this, you're going to think, well, yeah, you just said it. I like the idea of being a postman. But not, I don't drive.

So not driving. But the idea of being a postman where I could just have like a set route and do that. So like, do a village.

You know, where you can walk everywhere. Either with a bike or one of those trolleys that some of them carry or push along. So I don't know, but that's something I'd be fairly interested.

I don't know why. I mean, I've always, for years, I had a bit of a fascination with that job. And the other one would be a hospital porter, taking people to the, wherever they need to go really.

Whether it's to the operating theatre or to get x-rays, or maybe to the canteen to get some food. I don't know. That's it.

It kind of suited me. It suited my little idea of what would be a good thing to do, because both those jobs, you're helping people. Postal worker is helping people.

I mean, it's getting their mail to them. It's a hugely important service, less than it used to be. Of course, we've got the internet now, emails and the such.

But, you know, I still use the post office, still receive letters. I've not gone paperless for everything. I only go paperless when I'm forced to.

Because, you know, if you need to get an ID done, one of the forms of ID is a utility form, utility bill rather, or bank statement. Now, as they're all gradually all going paperless, you can't get hold of that stuff. And who has a printer to print off stuff on the internet? I mean, I do, but it doesn't work.

It don't work. It used to work, but now it doesn't work. I can't connect the two together for some reason.

Anyway, I'm going to go take care. I'll speak to you soon. Bye.