(no music) #1103 - Q&A Friday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (26th April 2024)

Hmm, I wonder, I wonder if King Charles, King Charles, I wonder if he ever misses singing the national anthem. Welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep, my name is Jason Newland. This is Q&A number three or four, I can't remember.

This is Q&A Friday. This is Q&A Friday. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Hello, everyone. Hi. Hello.

Hmm. So as I as I talk to you, instantly, in comes Vinnie. Yeah, any second now.

Any second now and see his little face. Here he comes. Yeah.

Guaranteed every time. Every time. Hello, darling.

Hello, darling. Hello, darling. I'll tell you what I'll do.

Hold on two seconds. I want to get him a bone. Do you want a bone? Do you want a bone? Get your bones.

I think you want a bone. I think you want a bone. Yes, you do.

Do you want it? You don't want it, do you? You don't want it. You do want it? No, you don't. You don't want it.

Do you want it? No, you don't want it. Oh, you do want it. No, you don't.

No, you don't. Oh, you do. There you go.

Oh. I should keep him happy for a little while. Yeah, he's now at my feet.

I'm chewing on his bone. That isn't a euphemism. It actually is a bone.

Well, it's not rawhide or something. I don't know. Rawhide.

Ah, deep breath. So, um, yeah, Q&A Friday. This is.

Is it a third? I don't know. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I'm just going to.

I'm probably not going to give it a name. I'm just going to give it Q&A Friday. I don't know if I'll give it because I don't remember.

I don't just just get on with it. No, I'm not. Just generally.

I don't remember. Q&A Friday. Let's have a look.

I'm thinking of what happened. So if I go into the Let Me Boyd Asleep podcast. Here we go.

Here we go. Just swapping over. This is the one on SoundCloud, although I've got some news for you.

It's not as exciting, don't we? Right, going to 2000 plays on Let Me Boyd Asleep today. That's nice. So.

Molly, Molly, Molly. Oh, that was yesterday. I did a did a recording.

OK, cool. Let's have a look. Let's have a look.

Let's have a look. I did Q&A Friday number three last Friday. And Q&A Friday.

Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday.

Blimey. It's I can't find it. Right.

Q&A part two. So Q&A part two. That was that was the the 11th of April.

And Q&A Friday. So what I'm probably going to do is just change the titles a little bit. So Q&A Friday.

One, part one, part two, just because that way this can be Q&A part three. Really? Well, that really matters that much, but it's just Q&A Friday three Q&A. So technically, it was the third one, the third recording, but it wasn't really the third Q&A because the other one was in two parts.

Although I did record them separately because there's so many questions. So many. So, so many.

But there isn't quite as many questions this week. So I shouldn't need to do more than one recording. So the time is 7.38pm Friday the 26th of April 2020.

And I'm just going to close down some of the tabs on my computer. So, OK, good stuff I don't need on just to reduce the outlay outlay. So I'll give you a bit of before I start the questions.

And just give you a little bit of an update. As some of you may be aware, because I keep mentioning it, the my podcast, I had problems with my podcast in October. And where they said no more music not allowed.

And then said I had to take off the all the music recordings any anyone's with music, even though they weren't just music, it was background music, free to use copyright free. But they said no, not allowed. So I started deleting them.

And even I didn't delete quick enough, because they actually deleted, I think two of my podcasts, that let me boil asleep being one, just deleted the whole thing. Which was yeah, not not great. But there you go.

So I have, I opened up SoundCloud, I went back to SoundCloud, that's what I used to use years ago. And I did the let me boil asleep on SoundCloud, and the sleep insomnia one on SoundCloud as well. And also the deep sleep whisper hypnosis one.

And I've had problems with that one sinking for some reason. Anyway, so I've had all my other podcasts on Spreaker. Even though Spreaker did that is you know, like I like Spreaker there was there a good service.

It's just it's one of those things that I guess the people that pay them the like Spotify place like that. We weren't I wasn't fulfilling or I don't know, abiding by their guidelines or whatever. So because I've got so many different podcasts.

I didn't want to lose all of my podcasts. I didn't you know, I didn't want to lose for those people that enjoyed or that used the, for example, the stop smoking podcast or the chronic pain relief podcast. So I've got 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14 14 different podcasts.

I had more than that, but I got rid of some of those because it was just old recordings, which the quality was just pretty awful. So I just thought, well, let's just wave goodbye to those. So I've been looking, been looking, looking, looking, looking for because these are all connected online, connected to Apple podcasts.

But none of them, they're all just like without music, which means I get hardly any plays. You know, I had 67 plays today between all 14. It's just kind of sad, really sad.

So I found another podcast host called, where is it? I've been looking around for ages, just kind of weighing out whether or not it's worth doing it. But this one's called Zencast, Z-E-N-C-A-S-T. And they have unlimited podcasts.

So it is, unfortunately, a cost. Nothing's free. And because of what I need, in order for me to actually have the podcast back in their proper state, with the various different recordings, you know, background music, which means I'll be hopefully getting back to giving the audience what they used to get before.

So I am my profile, your profile, team members. Right. I'm on the, what plan am I on? Blimey.

What do they call it? Choose, change plan, update, choose plan. So I'm on the plus plan, monthly, which is $99 a month. And what it gives me is the ability to add all of my recordings with music on there.

I'm not going to do the, let me boyd you sleep one yet. I'm not going to do the deep sleep whisper hypnosis one. And I'm going to, so I'm going to keep the three SoundCloud ones.

Because I'm not going to put all my baskets in one hat, if you know what I mean. So I want to but if I can get some of the smaller podcasts, actually get some plays again, that'd be nice. It might not work, it might work.

But you know, as soon as the music went, the interest went. Which is not with all podcasts, with all the ones that are on Spreaker. I mean, it is, yeah, I mean, it's amazing, really, it does surprise me.

Because even on here, I've got deep sleep whisper. Yeah. Okay, I don't really get that's now changed.

So that's not, that's not valid. But when it's on, when it when it's when the one without music is available on Apple Music, podcasts, rubber, I get no 3-400 plays a day on the deep sleep whisper. That's the one, there's no music ones on there.

And so that's, but I've transferred that anyway to SoundCloud. But things that surprised me is relax and sleep hypnosis daily. And there's 207 or 206 recordings.

And I get like 20 a day, 20 plays. And that used to be one of my more successful podcasts. Anyway, so I realized I've not been quick on this.

I've talked for an hour already. But that was it. That's what I've done.

So I've got Zencast. I spend all day today and uploading and producing the ASMR whisper. Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Big ass lovely. I've even got a new image for the podcast. I've created new images for each podcast episode, because I lost a lot of that stuff in the past.

There's only 10 recordings, but they're all been uploaded. And all the different versions of them. So there's 39 episodes all in all.

There's one missing, which is just gone. So I'll do it just this doesn't matter really. So and I've got descriptions of them as well.

So it's taken quite a few hours to put that together. And tomorrow I'll work on another one. I don't know which one I'll do next.

Maybe the chronic pain relief one. So yeah, and I'll just do that over the next. It's going to take me probably about a month, maybe longer to get probably longer, actually, because some of the big ones, especially Yeah, it's going to take a while.

But once it's done, it's done. And I'll see how it goes. And if after you know, if it goes, well, what I might do is look at transferring the Let Me Bore You To Sleep to there.

The only issue I had is because it allowed me to actually transfer via RSS feed. But it only allows five were only but 500 recordings on the podcast. And that will show to the public, which is not, I mean, it's for most people, it'd be quite okay.

You know, for those that make one recording a week. 500 is quite substantial, isn't it? What's that like 10 years worth of recordings nearly. But 500 doesn't cover much for me.

Because of the different versions I do and a different kind of stuff I do. So I'm gonna I might keep the big the big podcasts, but Let Me Bore You To Sleep or the insomnia one, and the deep sleep whisper hypnosis. ASMR thing, I might keep them separate, keep them on, on, on soundcloud.

I don't know, maybe, maybe not. Right? Should I put a thing at the beginning to skip to skip to like 72 minutes in when the actual podcast actually really starts. So in the background, I've got Vinnie at my feet, happily munching on a bone.

I've got a TV on, on mute. And otherwise you'd hear it wouldn't you I guess. And it's on YouTube, playing a boxing channel called box nation.

And I'm not really watching it, which is a lie because I am watching it right now. And, but it's not distracting me. Get out of court, get out of the corner.

Blimey. They can't be the same way. We're sure they're not the same way.

But ones they're both heavyweight sure. One's huge, is about four inches taller. And if well, he's absolutely massive.

Nothing the other blokes really big as well. He just because referee is, I don't know. Mind you is so deceiving because the other bloke doesn't look like a heavyweight.

But then I would be a heavyweight if I was a boxer. So it's a hard one, isn't it? It's like is some of the heavyweights today are just absolutely huge. Okay.

You may wonder why I mentioned that is because I will be talking about boxing. Yes, yes, I will. Because, because, because of the wonderful things he does.

Analytics. So far, 11 and ASMR whisper about 11 plays. Wow.

So yes, not the biggest amount. So okay, I'm going to go to my Facebook page now. Let's have a look.

By the way, if you haven't joined my Facebook group, it's called Jason Newlands, a boring group. Currently got 159 members did have 160. I'm not sure what happened to the one that left.

Or I don't know. But there you go. So I've got some questions.

If, if perchance I miss out a question, please forgive me. And there isn't many questions to answer. So which is I should be fine.

Do have a question from last week that I'm going to try and find By the way, thank you to everyone that posted pictures of your, of your puppies and your kittens onto the page. And welcome to Martha Rose, who's a new member, which means we basically lost two members, because it's now 159. We had 160.

And we've got a new member, Martha. Not sure if you're related to Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly. Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly.

And okay, right, I had a message left over from last week. It was a bit of a bit of a strange question, actually, to be honest, thinking about it. I might I don't even know if I answered five days ago.

Okay. Right. I've had a few questions on that one as well.

So if I'm just gonna what I do is just all of them. So this is from last week, but this from a few days ago. I didn't.

Okay, this is from Christine. Right. I think I answered Cindy's Hindi.

What's been your favorite holiday? What superpower do you wish you had? What's the question you wish more people asked you? Do you want to? Would you like a? I don't know. I don't know. I think I'll answer those anyway.

So Christine, I mean, this is this is a little bit of a the happiest start to the questions. Defro ain't gonna happen meal. Okay, so it's a very condensed, very condensed question.

Basically, if I what would what would be my last meal? If I had to choose a last meal? Well, I mean, it ain't gonna happen because we don't have we don't have that in this country. So the I think even even in America, they although they do have it is still quite rare, isn't it? After the wait years? Terrible service. And last meal.

I get a pizza, sweet corn and pineapple pizza, probably some ice cream. The thing is, I mean, realistically, I know, you know, I should just answer the question and move on. But How are you going to enjoy a meal? I mean, it's I, I don't like to be rushed.

I'm just saying, and there's kind of a time limit, isn't there? And I don't necessarily want to eat a big meal when I need to get up in the morning. Or if I have to go to bed, you know, soon. So it can be a little bit inconvenient.

I don't know. I'm not a big fan. I don't know.

Sweet corn, pineapple pizza, maybe, maybe some KFC stuff. Popcorn, chicken, maybe a couple of, you know, chicken legs, perhaps some McDonald's. Just a mixture of bits and bobs, you know, just like everything really.

And I guess, you know, based on if I was in that position meant that I'd done something pretty bad. If I was rightly accused, that is, um, I guess a can of Red Bull as well, because as we all know, Red Bull gives you wings. And it's the only way I'm going to get wings, isn't it? Really? If I've been a naughty one, death row.

Yeah, I see. Yeah, I think bomber brown. It's a heavyweight.

It's weird. bomber brown. That sounds like a real throwback name, isn't it? Okay, here we go.

Christian. Sorry, got this too late. We'll answer the to answer the podcast.

That's me. No problems. Oh, is that it? I thought there's more, more, more people that asked questions.

That's what I saw. I saw more. But I was wrong.

I was wrong. Yeah, there was another one. That's weird.

So I'll know. I answered these last week. Well, I'll move on.

I'll move on. So the third blimey, I just had some breakfast cereal. I will guess which isn't a great thing to do on a podcast.

I've done worse. But you know, you Okay, it's that time again. Q&A Friday, please post please post your questions.

I will try and answer. So here's the first lot of questions. I did mention them yesterday.

But Christine says, What do you do to relax? I have a walk. No, I did. Some of the things I like to do to relax is quite like walking in the countryside.

I do like it when it's a bit breezy and got the breeze in my face and quite like although I don't do it anymore. But when I used to live near a beach, I still like to walk on the beach. I walk for hours just walking on the beach.

I like to look out at the sea. And sometimes it's the when I was a kid, well kid when I was young, a young younger man, teenager, whatever I remember looking out and see and realizing it was the only time I could I ever got to look straight and not have something and not see something apart from the sea. And providing there was no ships or anything in going past.

So I couldn't see France, or Belgium, which is across the sea from here. And it was quite nice to be able to just have that continuous visual experience of not having anything there. So I found that quite meditative.

Although I didn't know what meditative meant, this is then. But I still don't. It's not a real word, is it? But it felt quite relaxing.

It did. And other things I do on a day to day basis is, I like to listen to classical music. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair, it reclines, I'll sit there and won't always be classical music.

Sometimes I listen to an audio book. Sometimes I listen to an album like a music album, such as, I don't know, Michael Jackson, or Tracy Chapman, or Terence Rendarby, or Madonna, or whatever album from the 80s. I'm stuck in the 80s, man, I want to move out.

But I'm stuck there. Oh, that was loud. That's a bit like a car fart.

Hmm. So yeah, whatever it might be. I like listening to, there's this, I don't know what it's called.

It's a YouTube channel, and they read, I think they're outer copyright books. But they're all, the books they read generally are motivational, self help, those kinds of books. And yeah, I quite like listening to them, because it's educational, but also I've been into that stuff for such a long time.

And it kind of reminds me of some stuff that perhaps I've forgotten, but just not been thinking about. And sometimes it's new information to add, or perhaps I'll hear the same thing. What I notice is sometimes I can hear the same thing 100 times.

And then the 100th time, it still doesn't go in. I don't know, I might read the same thing a few times. And then like, oh, oh, oh, oh.

And you know, that kind of moment, an oh moment. And that's kind of it at the moment. I mean, in the past.

Yeah, I admit, I used to drink, I used to drink that. I thought that was relaxing, but it really wasn't. But I don't drink alcohol ever anymore.

So yeah, that's about it really just listening to music. Sometimes I like to just, especially if it's like really windy outside, or it's particularly rainy, and it's splashing against the window. I like to just sit there and listen.

Now I don't get really the pleasure of listening that I used to since I've had Vinnie, because he's prone to bark at any second. And so it's, I've noticed that my, my level of relaxation has gone down since I've had him at times. Because if he doesn't have a continuous sensory experience, auditorily, he seems to, he's very, you know, very easily, not distracted, I guess, probably not just stimulated, not upset, probably stimulated.

So someone opens the door downstairs, he just starts barking. And it's not good for me if I'm in bed, because it is just too much of a shock to my system. And that is the one thing that I really struggle with, with him, really.

But there you go. But he tends to relax. I'll tell you what I do like relaxing.

I like it when I'm sitting on a chair with my feet up, and he's cuddling next to me, which he's doing more and more often now. He didn't, you know, he tried to do it when he first moved in there. So I'm guessing he perhaps he used to do that with his mum.

And he went to cuddle me, and it just didn't feel right to him. He looked up at me like, and just just jumped off. And I've seen him look like he's tried to get close to me over the time, because I've had him for quite a while now.

And we've lived here quite a while now. I don't really feel like I'm his owner. If anything, yes, the other way around.

So I, I like that. Because he cuddles up to me. And he's been sitting sits on the the part where my feet go, lays on that.

He's been doing that since we got here, since he got here. But he's gradually moving further and further closer to me. So he's now like where my legs are, sort of not my bottom legs, but the top thigh bit.

So he's cuddling, cuddling up to me. And he's going to sleep in my, my hands on him, and I'm kind of maybe stroking him or whatever. And he's, he's cool.

Because there was a time even when he had his legs, he was down there where my legs were, where my legs were the bottoms of my legs, you know, the, the knee bit, I put my hands on him and they jump off, I wouldn't even be able to touch, touch the back, his back by him jumping off. This I don't know why. But hey, he's, he's kind of got used to me after a while, I suppose.

Look at his box and there's two blokes behind the referee, the announcer. And they look like twins. But they're in the audience.

So and there's one, I wonder if it's the same person. Oh God, isn't it weird? You want to go, I want to go back. Never ever wanted to see those people before.

And now seeing them, I want to see him again. And I can't because I won't. Oh, come on, please.

Oh, damn you. So I wish I had a, I wish I had a question about boxing. So I'd just be really perfect, considering I've got boxing being played.

Just for me. So that's it really relaxing. I'd like to read more.

And I find there's a, there's a lot of distractions. Just just part of it is because there's always something to do. It's always something to do, you know, with the podcast with the just whether it's making images, whether it's editing, processing, it's just, it's, it's a never ending thing.

And as well as that, there's all these streaming channels like Netflix, with more programs and I will ever, ever be able to watch in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes. I just couldn't. It's just not enough time.

And that's annoying. Because there was something about live television, where I suppose for the first for the first 10 years of my life, there was three channels. That was it three terrestrial channels.

There was no internet back then. There was no satellite television in this country. There was no cable, there was none of that stuff.

It was just three terrestrial channels, BBC One, BBC Two, IT3, ITV, ITV. Yeah. And then about 1980, 81, maybe 82, I don't know, channel four came in.

So there's four channels. And then in 1997, channel five came in, five channels. And then in the early 2000s, things started to change.

In fact, no, the late 90s. Well, the before that, Sky had all these different channels and changed the way things were. And then we had this thing, Freeview came out with all these different channels on.

And so we suddenly we had ITV. Instead of just ITV, we had ITV1, ITV2, ITV3. And there was channel four, I don't know, four gold or something.

I think there was once and Babe Station. There's lots of different channels. There used to be a Oh, what was it called? What was it called? It was live TV.

It was a whole channel, live TV. And I used to work there as a security guard. I didn't work for live TV.

But I was a security guard in the Canary Wharf, 1996. And the I was, yeah, our insurance, our insurance, our, my security company was employed or hired out by the Mirror, the Mirror newspaper group. And at the time, Kelvin McKenzie was in charge of the Mirror.

He had a booming voice, booming voice. See Montelli now. So yeah, so that was that was there then.

And they had, I don't know how many, how many floors they had. Because if I remember, there was the Mirror, there was a Sunday Mirror. I think they had the People, which was a Sunday newspaper.

The Racing Post as well, I think was by the same group. And then they had live TV, which was a television channel. So it and that was on Freeview or was on Sky or whatever.

I don't know. Can't remember. Yes, it was on Sky.

So I wasn't necessarily on any particular floor. But I managed to wiggle me away onto the live TV channel, the TV channel floor, because I liked up there. And I got to know the staff and that helped.

Actually, if you get to know who's coming and going, then you know who's who. It just makes it a lot easier when it comes to securing a place. If you, if you, if you know who's who, you know.

So let's say Kelvin McKenzie came in and I'd open the door for him. I wouldn't stop him and ask him to see his ID or check his bag, because it was he was the boss. And the same way as, you know, because at that time, the reason behind having security or extra security there was because a bomb had just gone off about two weeks earlier.

A week earlier, two weeks earlier, I don't know how long it took them to get me there. And basically what happened is I applied for a job as a security guard for this company. I forget the name of the insurance of the keep saying insurance.

I forget the name of the security company. But they said no. I had the interview.

Spoke to them on the phone the next day. They said, No, no, no, no, you're not suitable. I said, Really? They said, Yeah, yeah, no, no, thanks.

Didn't like my attitude. I'm partly making it up, but it's probably true. Anyway, the bomb went off.

I remember I was in Stratford. She isn't very relaxed. He's talking about bombs.

No, this is not a tool that I'm just going to just this is what led to it. I'm going to leave I'm going to talk about what led to the bomb just so canary wharf was bombed. It bombed off and it was in the afternoon or early.

Yeah, late afternoon, whatever. Early evening. It was in the summer and or springtime shook the house never felt anything like it.

And I was living in Stratford, which isn't that far from the docklands, which is where the which is kind of more is it my land kind of area. So I honestly with it, the whole house shook. We've had a whole street, the whole of East London shook.

I imagine. And people just come out of the houses like what the hell just happened. And I don't know, everybody came out there out of the house because not everyone was in their house.

But it was very, very unsettling, I would say. And we go outside and said to neighbor, did you feel that? And she said, Yeah, what do you think I'm standing in the street? I didn't come out. So I wanted to talk to you.

Did I? With that ongoing relationship? See, she she lived next door. When she saw me in the street, she jumped behind a car that was parked. And so she jumped in front of a car.

But she jumped in, she basically jumped in the hide from me. And I started doing the same. It's like, you know, it's a joke.

And she did. Unfortunately, you know, it's like, we just did that for a couple of years, actually. And she passed away.

And I remember speaking to her son. And I said, you know, about a funeral, he said, Well, you're not invited. I said, What? He said, You're not invited.

I said, Well, what do you mean? I said, We've gone great. We were good friends. He said, No, no, you weren't.

She was always hiding from me. She couldn't. She didn't want to speak to you.

She just, you're so boring. I said, No, she was joking. He said, And also, you started jumping out, you know, behind cars and stuff, which is weird behavior.

I said, Well, she was doing it. And he said, Yeah, but that was because you were so boring. And she didn't realize you'd seen her.

She would have done it. She'd thought you'd seen her. But you you waved, waved, shouted hello, and then jumped behind a car.

And that's, that's weird behavior. So she wasn't my best friend. No.

Okay. So yeah. But they say so basically, the security job was like, Nope.

Go away. Two days later, literally. The bomb went off.

The day after the bomb. A phone call. Hello, can I speak to Mr. Newland, please? Hello.

Are you still interested in doing security work? We're not fussy anymore. We need lots of staff really quickly. So and this was on a I think a Wednesday or Thursday.

Yeah, you can start Monday. Well, it might even been Saturdays like they needed me to start zero training. Like nothing.

No kind of and I kept saying I was I did the job for quite a while. I said a while I was there for into 2007 as well. 1997.

So they said to me, Oh, we do some some kind of self defense training and everything because after all you are in quite a a vulnerable position. Sometimes you're on your own in the middle of nowhere and you're securing a place and I said, Okay, nothing ever happened. I'll get you some first aid training because you know, you're it's not just you on your own.

Like, I'd be looking after or not looking after, securing a building full of young people, but not all young, but mostly young trainee nurses. So you'd think that give me some first aid training in case someone needed help. Because they were all going out drinking and, you know, having fun and they would come back sometimes a bit worse aware or maybe falling over and stuff.

But the my supervisor, security supervisor pointed out the trainee nurses, they don't need medical care from you. They live in a hospital. They literally live connected to a hospital.

That's where the nurses home is. Yeah, but what if they need help there and then like they're trainee nurses. The other trainee nurses that aren't having problems can help the ones that are.

I said, can I not even have a have a bandage or like a little kit or something? Just a little first aid kit with some scissors and some plasters and maybe parathetamol. I don't know, something. He said, no.

What if I bite myself? You can bite yourself. Yeah, you can do that if you bite yourself. Really? Yeah.

Are you going to buy one of you? No. What was the point in this conversation then? I don't know. I just trying to flesh out the podcast.

Are you doing those Q&A Fridays again? Yeah. So I, I don't know what the point of that telling you about a security job was. I can't remember.

How did I get there from how do you relax? And I ended up talking about security. Okay. Next question from Matthew.

Is there any recordings video of your stand up comedy? Ah. And it's that questions from both Matthew and Ken. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, there's no video.

Although, you know, just talking about live TV. So I was there in 1996. Until the threat went down and we all got basically moved on to different places.

So I was there for about three months, three months. Yeah. If that I might have only two months, maybe six weeks.

It seems like quite a lot because I didn't have a day off. I was there every single day for about six weeks. So it seemed like I was doing 12 hour shifts, sometimes 24 hour shifts.

Um, I say sometimes it happened once and I got sacked because I fell asleep. Even though, even though I'd just done a 12 hour shift. Well, I'd done an 11 and a half hour shift, had half an hour left in them.

Supervisor came and spoke to me. This is one of the directors of the company. So it wasn't, you know, it's like he should be in the know.

He said, look, really need your help. I said, look, you can go to, you can go to the toilet by yourself. You don't need me.

He said, no, no, not this time. You, can you stay on and do an extra shift? And I wasn't really thinking straight. I thought he meant like just until the next guard comes, because that's what would happen is the rule was you'd be on a 12 hour shift.

If the place is being secured 24 hours a day, which a lot of places were, especially at the weekends, you know, some places will be closed at the weekends and there'd be 24 hour security. So you couldn't leave until your replacement had come in. So if you was doing six in the morning till six in the evening, you had to stay there until the other, I don't know why I'm just, I don't have to explain it lots of different times.

So it's, you know, it's until the replacement's there. And if the replacement doesn't come, you have to wait there until they find someone else to replace the replacement. And if they don't come at all, you either stay on and do another shift, which means they have to replace you for the next day.

Or sometimes the, the, I don't know, what do they call it? It was the supervisor, the mobile guard, basically is they have mobile guards that would travel around in their cars and check on the different sites to make sure pretty much that no one's falling asleep. That's pretty much all their job was. And to make sure everything's okay.

And if there was a problem, they'd go there. If someone didn't turn up, sometimes their job would, for the day would, or for the night would just be that. Staying there for the rest of the night to cover that shift, which is good for the rest of the people, because then we could all go to sleep and then we weren't going to be interrupted.

Although there was this one bloke who used to come and see me. Yeah, two different places I worked at. He'd come and see me and he took a shine to me.

Like he was a nice bloke and he was known for being really tough. And he had a reputation for, you know, getting people sacked and for catching people asleep and stuff like that. But for some reason he liked me and he wanted to sit and talk to me.

And I wanted to go back to sleep because I had ways of knowing when people would come in and, you know, there's alarms and stuff went off. So I was always there. I was always like fresh, fresh as a daisy whenever he actually entered the building.

But then sometimes he'd have to ring, because I was on a patrol, he'd have to ring the doorbell in order for me to answer the door, because he wouldn't have keys to get into the building. Although he probably did, but they were probably in his car. You know, he'd have to go back and get them and he would ultimately be able to get in if he had to.

But he didn't carry around a big, massive... I mean, there'd be like a lot of different keys. Anyway, he said to me once, he said, how come you're always on patrol whenever I call? Whenever I come round and ring the doorbell, you always have to come and let me in. You're never at the reception, which is where my main job was at the reception.

It was a printer's and the other place was a nurse's home. And he said, you're always on patrol. What he didn't realise is, as you went through, just through the doors of the reception, where the lifts were, that's where I used to go to sleep.

So it was just a nice place to lay down. I used to... I can't remember what I used to... what did I used to get something to lay down on? I can't remember if there was something, but there was quite a few different... Wow, I'm just remembering some of the sites I was on. I should talk about my security job one day.

Tell you about the different things that happened. Wow. Anyway, are there any recordings of my stand-up comedy? How did I end up talking about security jobs? Oh, yeah.

Live, live TV, they had a contest. It was like a talent show. And even though... I got on really well with this young lad, I say young and I was young as well, but he was an apprentice and he was excited because I told my... because at the time I was actually actively doing comedy, although I had to take a break when I was doing security because I was just working all the time.

And he was sort of saying, oh, wow. And he found a tape of me when I performed at live TV in the studio in 1995. So I actually performed on their talent show the previous year to when I was working actually at the studio.

Well, working, you know, not in the studio, but working as security there. And it was... he was so excited. It's like... and it wasn't a bad gig either.

It was... there was only a very handful of people and some of them did laugh. But I don't know where that is. And it'd be really weird, really weird to find that.

I mean, it might be on YouTube. I might have to check that out. Very strange because I was... wow.

1995, I was at the time... yeah, I'd just turned 25. Just turned 25. So... and I was still 25 when I was doing security there as well.

So I was... I put on a bit of weight. So I was a little bit heavier than I had been. So I was slim.

Just started taking antidepressants actually. And I put some weight on. Quite quickly.

So... and I was in a new relationship, romantic relationship, which was among the best I've ever had actually, to be honest. Relationship that is. And really, really liked her a lot.

But hey. And so yeah, I'm not sure if he actually was able to make a copy for me. I can't remember.

I really don't remember. I think I might have had a tape of it somewhere and just lost it along the way. So... Recordings, I've got probably a few hours worth of me.

Maybe more of me doing gigs. I used to use a little Dictaphone thing, you know, recorder, in 1991 when I started. I was recording right from the beginning.

I might not have been... just thinking about it. It might... I think I copied someone else that was recording. I think it's Nick Royalty.

He used to record. So I think I copied him. Yeah.

So, but at least like a few weeks into doing it, I started using a Dictaphone. Dictaphone. I think that was called.

It's like tiny little things and little tapes. And I then transferred them onto bigger tapes later on in whatever. So yeah, I've still got the little tapes and the big tapes.

And I do have the... I think I still have the ability to transfer the audio tape onto digital. I think. But I'm going to have to look into that.

Now, I think the real question, I'm guessing the real question is, do I have anything worth listening to? Probably not. I mean, it is possibly... it's potentially interesting in a sense of, I don't know, kind of like digging up an egg that's like thousands of years old. Like it's just, it's a duck's egg.

And it doesn't mean anything, but you know, it's like, oh, it's a duck's egg. You know, just interesting from that perspective. It's not I'm not going to find out anything about the world, but a duck laid an egg.

You know, I mean, perhaps not doing myself a service here, but I don't know. It's not really... I'll have to listen. There might be some, there might, there might be something fairly decent on there.

There might be, if I do, if I find anything that's okay, I might upload it. The problem is, some of my comedy was a little bit rude. It was all rude.

Yeah, it was all rude to start with anyway. So I don't know. Yeah.

We'll see. We'll see. So I got a message from, so that was from Ken as well, as well as... Yeah.

Sky writes, I know you're a boxing fan, but do you watch any other combat sports? MMA, for instance. I know you used to practice karate, so I thought I'd ask. Well, thank you for that.

Generally, no. I do. I like the original MMA more than the UFC, and this is going to, this is going to contradict what I say later.

And it's, I'm not, I mean, it's the same with boxing. I don't like hugging. I don't, I really don't like hugging.

I don't like wrestling. It's very, very effective, you know. So I'm not, unless it's more than one person, then it's not.

Because, you know, if you've got three opponents or two opponents, you're, you know, you can't go onto the ground with one of them because you're going to be, I'm just saying, if you, I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about somebody that's into having punch-ups and stuff. That's not me.

But they, a person will put themselves in harm's way if they was to go on the floor with the other person, because then it's basically the other person, you know, they couldn't defend themselves against more than one person if they're on the floor. Unless, of course, they could, and then they would. But I like the original idea behind MMA, which was simply, you know how it all started?

I could even turn this into something boring.

Wow. Okay, here we go. Here we go.

So I don't know if you know the origins of MMA, so Mixed Martial Arts. So you might say, well, yeah, obviously, it's martial arts and doing Mixed Martial Arts is doing lots of different things. Ah, it didn't start out like that.

See, now, if you want to be doing Mixed Martial Arts professionally, especially with the UFC, as far as I'm aware, you have to know Jiu-Jitsu. You have to be proficient in that, and like wrestling, and you have to have proficiency in the groundwork, which a boxer wouldn't have. Like a box, I'm not saying they wouldn't have it, they might have it, but you know, a professional boxer, boxes, they're on their feet, they move around, you know, they evade the punches, and they punch, they don't wrestle.

I don't know why I'm stressing this, but basically, that's kind of where things are now. Because of that, I don't really enjoy watching a lot of the MMA or the UFC, because sometimes, apart from the very beginning, when they're on their feet, some never try and win on their feet, they always try and take the opponent down, and I don't find it interesting.

Now, I would, if I was a wrestler, or if I was into Jiu-Jitsu, I would find it fascinating and instructional, and you know, I'd appreciate it more, but because I'm not, I just, to me, it's just a couple of sweaty people, you know, men and women, whatever, basically rolling around on the floor, which isn't always a bad thing, I'm just, you know, just, I didn't, it's just not my thing, so I just, just, it's just, I find it, because I like boxing, and I like, I've liked martial arts,

I like to see, I quite like to see people doing the same style, whether it's Karate, whether it's Kung Fu, whether it's Jiu-Jitsu, whether it's Judo, whatever, two Judo people together, I find more interesting than two MMA people doing Judo, for some reason, I don't know, just because it's the skill set, I guess, it's even, it's an even matched kind of fight, and I don't know really what I'm saying, but did you know, how it started, here's something you might not know, so I've not told, I've not said anything you don't know,

there is something you might not know, where did it all come about, where did it all start, well, I don't know if, if it started right in where I'm going to say, but generally, there was a conversation went on in the 70s, where people would say, bearing in mind, Bruce Lee was a superstar, but he did, he passed away very early in the 70s, and I think he was 75 or something, and who was the other most famous fighting star, Muhammad Ali, and of course, you had wrestling in that,

but the thing is, Bruce Lee, he made martial arts movies popular, like worldwide, really popular, and he's still the biggest martial arts star of all time, even though loads of stars have come along and made way more movies than him, potentially pretty much better movies than he did, but Bruce Lee's still the king, he's the king of Kung Fu, and there's not one, I don't think there's one martial artist in the world that doesn't agree, even the greatest martial artists ever, will pretty much say that Bruce Lee is their hero,

it's a rite of passage, rite of passage, if you get into martial arts, Bruce Lee is the focus, now I'm not sure if it's the case now, but I'm pretty sure it probably would be, even now, young people would be more, I don't know who the martial arts people are now, but you know, when I was, let's say in the 90s, Van Damme, or Jet Li, or a few different people that were on back, but were great martial artists, made brilliant films, that might be how like a little kid would want to get into martial arts,

but once they got into it, they'd discover Bruce Lee, and they would realize that Bruce Lee is the king, not only would they be told that Bruce Lee is a king, but once seeing him, realizing, you know, because Bruce Lee wrote books, he did training, he used to train the stars, he used to choreograph, he was a dancer as well, so choreograph, he would choreograph the whole thing, as well as, I think he'd write the movies as well, write the scripts, so he, a lot of people don't,

might not realize that he was a child actor, like from a little kid, he was acting all the way up, and he was a dancer, and he could do all the acrobatics, and Jackie Chan's probably the most famous martial arts movie star, in the last 40 years, arguably, although he kind of went more down the line of, I don't know, because you got, I think you got different types of Jackie Chan fans, the ones that enjoy watching him in his films in the 90s, 2000s, and you know,

where he did all the stunts, and you could like, and he's such a likable person, and he's made huge amounts of movies, and then you've got fans, the martial art fans, who would watch the movies from the 70s, maybe early 80s, like, I can't show you, I'm gonna have to look them up, but there's one, Snake Fist, Jackie Chan movies, he had, Drunken Master was one of them, so I'm just going back to which year, okay, he's still making movies now, 1962, Jackie Chan was making movies as a child, wow,

so if I move there, actor, producer, no, no, no, no, so I'm just going to move to Fist of Fury, he was in, Jackie Chan was in Fist of Fury, which was a Bruce Lee movie, so he was just a stuntman in that, I think there's a scene in Fist of Fury, where Bruce Lee goes down into like a cellar bit, where they've got these people in like little offices and stuff, and that's where he does all his nunchucks, and stuff like that, and I think one of the stuntmen is,

he chucks a snake into a room, and they jump out the window, I think that one of them was him, oh, wait a minute, one of the hands, prison security guards, also stuntman, okay, now that was Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, different movie, Game of Death, blimey, so Jackie Chan was in Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and Enter the Dragon, blimey, I was thinking of Enter the Dragon then, wow, so they must have known each other, Fist of Fist, all in the family, so I'm just going through,

Enter the Dragon was 1973, and Bruce Lee passed away before the movie was released, so it's probably, I guess, made in 1972, so I'm going to say, where was his first, oh, here we go, 1978, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, that is one of his great, very funny movies, really good, and Snake and Cranar Shaolin, I'm not sure about that one, Drunken Master, brilliant movie, again, it was, he, it was kind of similar, similar kind of movie, really, similar kind of movie, but really good, Drunken Master,

and it was like a drunken style of kung fu, I'm just having a look, The Young Master, another one, that was 1970, no, it's 1980, I remember that one, really good, he also was a director of that one, he was in the Cannonball Run, blimey, I remember that, you know who he was with, does anyone remember the Cannonball Run?

OK, the Cannonball Run, if you don't know what it is, it was basically like a race across America, an illegal race across America, and I think Burt Reynolds was the star, but it had huge amounts of stars in it, seriously, huge amounts, huge amounts, I mean, we're talking, blimey, Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Pharrell Fawcett, Tom DeLuz, I think that was Burt Reynolds partner in it, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Adrian Babu, James Farr, Terry Bradshaw, Mel Tillis, Jackie Chan, Michael Hu, and Jackie Chan was in a car with Jaws,

was it Richard Keel, remember Jaws from James Bond, Jaws, big huge man, so he was with him, because there was a bit in it, I remember, I got so excited, because this is 1981, and I wasn't quite into, I was into martial arts, so I wasn't, I wasn't doing any karate at that time, and I remember seeing it for the first time, and Jackie Chan does all this kung fu, and it's wow, really good, now I'm just thinking Cannonball Run 2 came out, and I just realized that Richard Keel was in that one,

so maybe Richard Keel wasn't in the first one, oh, this is confusing, let's have a look, when was Cannonball Run, no, Cannonball Run, he wasn't in the first one, oh, okay, so in Cannonball Run 2, Richard Keel was with Jackie Chan, but Jackie Chan was in both of them, he played Jaws in only, he played Jaws in two movies, two of the James Bond movies, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker, oh, sure it was, wow, isn't it weird, so he put, he in 1976, he was in a movie called Gus,

and he played large man, isn't that weird, so he plays the same character twice, 1977, 1979, and it etched him in the, for those, you know, around at that time, what year was that, 1979, yeah, I mean literally, he was so really famous, really, The Spy Who Loved Me, wait a minute, James Bond film producer spotted Keel, and thought he was ideal for the role of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me, and also in Moonraker, wow, so yeah, the main thing was the question,

who would win in a fight between Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali, now the obvious answer is obvious from both sides, the obvious answer is well Bruce Lee, because he was, he could kick people, and super fast, and they wouldn't stand a chance, and the other answer is obviously Muhammad Ali, because he could punch super quick, and he was a heavyweight world champion, you know, he was a much, much bigger guy, however, it did get tested a bit, because it was Muhammad Ali, non-boxing fights, because he did that, like showboating,

not showboating, but he had, where is it, right, Muhammad Ali, right, I've got to get rid of that, so basically, he was, he fought, I'm going to turn the volume down, so I can watch it, because I've seen this before, basically, he fought, Ali fought, what, now it's talking, Ali fought Antonio Inoki, and he was a martial artist, so they had a, had a exhibition fight, just have a look, wow, and straight away, he's just showing it, straight away, the bloke comes lunging at Ali to kick him,

and Ali moves out of the way, and he ends up being on the floor, but what does happen, if I'm correct, is Ali gets kicked in the legs a lot of times, and got, yeah, he's being kicked and stuff, and he said he didn't like it, sorry, I'm just watching it, it's weird, he's basically got him, and now he's kicking him, okay, fair enough, and he also wrestled, I think he fought a wrestler, and he got, and that didn't go too well, so I don't know, that was the question,

who would win in between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee, in a fight, you know, in a controlled sporting event, not a real fight, in a real fight, it would be whoever landed the first punch, or the first blow, because let's face it, if Ali punched anyone on the chin, in a real fight, they're gonna probably, speed and everything, you know, and being a big bloke, that's gonna be it, however, Bruce Lee always said that, he showed off for the camera, it looked good, all the head kicks and stuff,

and all the somersaults, but in reality, it'd go for the knees, it'd go for the ankle, go for the groin, like kicks wise, it wouldn't mess around, there'd be no head kicks, it'd be over in seconds, the person would be on the floor, which, you know, makes sense, so that's how it started, MMA, from that idea, and what happened is, I don't know when it started, in the 90s it was, I think, late 90s, different martial artists would come together, so you had sumo wrestlers against boxers, karate people against jiu-jitsu,

and you'd have different styles against each other, you know, and that was fascinating, that was kind of the whole point of it, you know, like a boxer against, you know, a boxer against a wrestler, or stuff like that, it was like interesting, so, and then they started to realize that whoever could go to the floor, and be best at the floor, generally became the winner, and it was the Gracies, the jiu-jitsu people, the very famous jiu-jitsu family in Brazil, I think, they actually, they dominated, and everyone that did MMA started to learn jiu-jitsu,

or judo, or some kind of groundwork, because, you know, a boxer would be fine if he was facing someone who was going to stand toe-to-toe, but if that person got them on the floor, and choked them, that was it, or got them into an arm lock, or whatever, anyway, so that's, that was my answer to that question, yeah, I, no, boxing is the only thing I really like now, I will watch, I mean, you know, occasionally, I'll watch something, so, for example, there are some absolute stars, like John Jones,

or John Bones Jones, who is phenomenal, so, you know, he's, even if you don't like MMA, you could not like watching him, because he is, he is on a level, just phenomenal level, he's absolutely amazing, so, and there's a few like that, but I'm not so up-to-date, so, yeah, I would probably watch McGregor, his return fight, just out of interest, yeah, I'd probably watch that, the events are good, it's, it's very well put together, the audiences are really into it, and the, even the, the announcer, it's Michael Buffer's brother,

does the UFC announcing, and apparently, they didn't even know each other, until they were in their 40s, or something, they're like, same dad, but, or same mother, but different dads, whatever, no, I don't know, anyway, they hadn't met each other for 40 odd years, I'm making part of that up, but some of it's true, I think, and the style, because Michael Buffer, the one, he's one that says, let's get ready to rumble, and outside of Mayweather and George Foreman, I think he's made the most money out of boxing,

because he copyrighted, trademarked that, that, let's get ready to rumble, and he's made hundreds of millions, it's amazing, isn't it, wow, so, his brother, I forget his name, it's Buffer, I forget his first name, he actually really gets into it, and when he's introducing the, I don't know, the fighter, he looks at them, the fighter he's introducing, and he like, like he's egging them on to get ready, and it's quite, quite good to watch, so yeah, boxing, that's, that's the thing I like, which brings me probably to the next question,

here we go, here we go, here's the one, um, thank you for that Sky, um, ah, right, I'll end that, I'll do this one first, and I'll do that first, and I'll go back to, how do you reconcile your non-violent philosophy with your love of boxing, this is from Jen, well, well, well, well, well, well, um, Sky also said, that's an interesting question, I know how I would answer it, but I'd like to see what he thinks, sorry, I just had to say, this is a good, good one,

I'd like to hear what you have to say Sky, then that will help me out, um, two comments, oh, someone else's comment as well, and Rick, Rick says, I agree, okay, um, for me, boxing is, it's going to sound silly, and I do realize, it's not completely true either, um, from other people's perspective, including the boxers, but from my perspective, it's not violent, it's a sport, and you might think, yeah, but they're, look what they're doing, I said, yeah, okay, fair enough, so I do understand that it, so for me,

when I used to, so I've done karate, taekwondo, boxing, and Wing Chun Kung Fu, and Jeet Kune Do, so I wasn't allowed to spar in boxing, but we did spar when I was a kid in karate, and I did spar with taekwondo a little bit, Wing Chun Kung Fu sparred a lot, it was very physical, I actually had my rib broke doing that, and we used to have a thing called leg spar every Friday evening, and you had to not only attack, as well as defend yourself with your legs,

and I suppose the point, what I'm trying to say, I've not said it yet, but what I'm trying, the point I'm trying to get to is, there's no aggressive, for me, there's no aggression, it's just fun, well, it was fun, I haven't done it for a long time, I had to stop doing the taekwondo because of my arthritis in my But I've got a punch bag here, I've got a punch bag, a punch ball and a punch bag, and even when I'm punching a punch bag,

I'm not thinking of it as being a human being, there's not really any aggression, it's just fun to punch, if that makes sense, I'm not imagining that there's a human being there, because I don't want to punch a human being, I've got no reason to do that, I'm not saying I've never wanted to, and I think anyone that says they've never wanted to punch someone is potentially lying, I think we've all wanted to at least once, but it's not something that's in my mind, and when I was sparring,

I remember when I sparred doing karate when I was at school, and I wasn't, I was little, and the kids that were the same size as me were a lot younger than me, so the kids the same age as me were bigger, and there's also much older kids and there's some adults as well, and apart from one person, I got on with everyone, when it came to sparring, they wouldn't give me a hard time, they'd push me around and knock me down and all that stuff, including the instructor,

but he'd never hurt me, never, because he could have done, and he chose not to, which I'm very grateful for, because he was like six foot six, and I was about five foot three, and if he had hurt me, I mean if he'd have hurt me, I probably wouldn't want to go back, I have to edit this, he started barking, there was this kid, I said he was a kid, he was, I was in what third year, when I started doing karate, and he was already in the,

I think he was in the sixth form, so he was about three years older than me, yeah, he was like 16 or 17, and he was really, he was, he was really tall, he was probably good six, six, six, seven, slim, but really tall, and he used to take advantage of his size, he was, he wasn't a black belt yet, but he was a brown belt, so he was not far off getting black, and he tried to bully me, and for some reason he found that funny, so, and I,

I couldn't match him skill-wise, because he was well, well ahead of me, in just in every situation, he was stronger, he was far, everything, he was better than me in every way, like, as far as that went, and he kept pushing me over, kept kicking me over, and sometimes it even, because you know, part of it is you kick people when they're on the floor, but you don't actually kick them, it's, it's like a, a shot, a scoring shot, you know, you go down on your, on your foot into their stomach,

and it's a scoring shot, you don't actually really kick them, like when you're sparring, especially not with a kid, when you're like an adult, well, when I started enough for this, so I decided, I decided to use some of my own, my own style of technique, and he didn't want to spar with me after a while, because I kept accidentally hitting him in the groin, or kicking him in the knee, and I just said, like, I can't help it, you're just, you're so tall and manly, I can't, you know,

basically his groin was almost where my head was, like, it was that tall, I'm not even, like, literally, it was that tall, and it'd be on the floor, like, ah, like that, and it'd be, and I'd have to stop myself from laughing, because he was, he couldn't do anything, because he couldn't go off on me, like, get really, like, angry, because, you know, he was one of the assistant instructors at this point, because he was one of the higher grades there, I think he was only, there was only, I think,

at that time, there's only one black belt, everyone else, the highest one was brown, other than that, he did get a black belt, but he was very skillful anyways, but I just, like, had to do something, so after that, he didn't seem to really want to pair up with me after that, I did it a couple of times, and I just put him on the floor, because it's very easy to do that with someone, because our whole legs and bodies made up of very weak parts, it's like the joints,

the joint, the, it's, the joint of your arm, it's like, that's why jiu-jitsu does so well, because it uses those weak parts, and anyway, I was quite pleased with that, and at the time, I was very young, I wouldn't do anything like that now, so, but, you know, generally, I enjoyed doing it, because it was fun, I enjoyed sparring, because it was fun, and I wasn't, had no intention of trying to hurt anyone, and I expected people not to have that intention for me either, so it was a sport,

it wasn't about violence, with the Wing Chun, I, someone accidentally, well, basically, we were practicing elbowing into the, into the chest, and somebody, I got my rib broke, by this huge man, now, he didn't mean to hurt me, but he didn't need, also, at the same time, he didn't need to do as hard as he did, I mean, I never, ever, never, whenever I sparred, or practiced any movement, I never punched my hardest, or hit my hardest, or kicked my hardest, ever, it was all about just practicing the movements,

and practicing the blocking, and that, I put more effort into the blocking than I would with the punches, and the kicks, never wanted to hurt anyone, because these were my friends, these were, this was like, you know, if you go to anything, whether it's bowls, or a book club, or whatever you do, it's a social thing, isn't it, it's, it's not just about reading a book, or it's that you make, you're making friends, and it's, if you do, like a martial arts, you don't want to get,

don't want to be hurting each other, and I suppose it's, maybe, if young people with boxing, maybe they do get into that, and get carried away, but with the wing, with the Wing Chun, I did say, like, because I didn't know it was broken at the time, but I knew it was really painful, but it didn't stop me carrying on, and I had to have a rest, and I went back, and I had the pad on, and everything, and I was opposite someone, and we're doing it again, but I said,

look, you just need to be careful, just go gentle with me, my rib is really sore, go gentle, and he did it, and it hurt me, he did, like, he did it too hard, I said, look, seriously, please, just go gentle, and he didn't take me seriously, I said, if you don't, if you don't go gentle, well, just, you know, and he didn't listen, so I put him down, I didn't inject him, I'm saying, I did the same to him, but, because I was always gentle, I always did it,

so I thought, okay, you do it to me, I'll do it to you, and he was on the floor, like, with his rib, I said, I didn't feel good about that, but I'm just saying, he, I asked twice, like, just be gentle, man, you know, when I had it done the first time, it was an accident, I was with a different person a second time, like, just be, just go slowly, I, in reality, I should have just gone home, because it was broken, and I needed to have six weeks recuperation,

so I couldn't do anything for nearly two months, actually, but when I got hurt, it kind of, something kicked in, so that, like, friendly kind of sparring went out the window, and the thing is, if you teach people how to cause harm, how to cause, you know, it's, it's there if you need it, and it's, I said, I don't feel good about it, but that's what I did, so I accidentally went too hard, and then, see me talking about being a non-violent, I'm a very non-violent, there's a reason for that as well,

which I never talk about, so, because then this recording will become very serious, and I don't want it to do that, I, when I was doing Taekwondo, the, so in boxing, no sparring, we did, we practiced, like, pad work, and, you know, but that was it, there was no sparring, so there was no, I'd have loved to spar, it would have been brilliant, but I never got a chance, I did do kickboxing briefly when I was a kid, before I did karate, and that was like full padded, all geared up,

and just beating each other up, but with so much, so much gear on us, it was just like, what was those big things, you know, where they like big, like, it's almost like having a, I don't know, one of those bouncy ball castle things, just wrapped around you, couldn't have got hurt if we tried, it was just impossible, so, the Taekwondo, there's this, this bloke, he was, I think, not that it makes any difference, he was German, but, I say, it makes no difference, I just remember, and I didn't,

there was a little bit of a communication issue, and he was trying to show me how to hold a fist, like, I'm sorry, anyone over the age of 12 knows how to hold a fist, it's, you know, it's not, it's not complicated, you got to put your thumb there, like, I mean, trying to tell me how, and he was saying, oh, you know, you have to have your, and he was trying to say, I need to have your thumb in a certain way, like, no, what are you talking about,

he was trying to tell me, he was so excited, right, I shouldn't really be moaning about him, he went to a contest, Taekwondo contest, yeah, competition, he came back, and it was a kata, or form, it's basically, it's where you just do a bunch of moves, it's the practice in the moves, the blocking, punching, kicking, there's no one there, but it's almost like a pretend opponent, and as you go up the grades, the form, or the kata, or the kata, becomes more sophisticated, and complicated, and it's, it's quite beautiful to watch,

especially the higher ones, it's very like a dance, really, and so he went to this competition, he was a higher grade than me, and he came back, and he was all excited, because he'd won first place in the contest, for the kata, for his grade, and we were all like, yeah, well done, you know, good, good on you, turns out he was the only entry, he was the only, he was the only person of his grade, which is probably green belt, or blue belt, he was the only one that actually applied in his grade,

of his age group, or whatever, his weight, weight, I don't know, whatever, not weight, but no one else, so he wasn't, I don't know why I'm explaining this, it's self-explanatory, isn't it, but he was so proud that he came first, but there was no competition, there was no one else, you literally could have just gone into the middle, and just sat, and done a big poo, and you still would have come first, you know, well maybe not, he probably would have got kicked out, but I'm just, you know what I mean,

just generally, always has to come down to pooing, doesn't it, yeah, true, well anyway, he, he used to do this thing, right, okay, now again, with sparring, we used to sometimes just practice blocking, so it wouldn't be sparring, necessarily, just blocking, so someone punch, but it wouldn't be fast, it'd just be a nice speed, and even if it's a fast punch, you haven't got to block hard, because you know what they're do, you know what I mean, it's like we're practicing blocking a front punch, or back fist, I don't know,

whatever they were called, so you knew what was coming, so you didn't need to do it hard, you did it fast, but you didn't need to do it hard, he was doing it hard, which is what is why I learned in Wing Chun, is you don't block, you hurt the opponent's arm, so you end up, so if someone goes to throw a punch, you, you block it, but you damage their arm in the process, and if someone goes to kick you, you damage their leg in the process of blocking it,

well, Taekwondo wasn't really like that, it wasn't, unless, unless it was, and they never told me anyway, never told me to do that, so I was just practicing, and he was banging my arm out the way, like really bruising my arm, what hurt in it, like only temporarily, but it's like ow, what are you doing that for, I said stop it, he said no, it's supposed to do this, we are supposed to do this, because that's a, is that a German accent, you've got to do this, and if you're,

oh shut up, I'm stopping, and so I did the same to him, he didn't like it, he didn't like it, he liked doing it to me, but he didn't like me doing it to him, so I blocked him, he's like ow, ow, like we can all do that you know, it's not complicated, we can all go like that, hard, and you know, especially when you know what the person's about to do anyway, it's not complicated, we are just practicing the movements my friend, we're not supposed to be hurting each other,

so a couple of times I got a little bit, just a little bit aggressive a couple of times during the years of doing things, but it's very, very rare, but it was supposed to be for fun, you know, these are my friends, I don't want to, I don't want to get hurt by them or hurt them, I don't want to get hurt by them more than anything, but yeah, the first thing that I remember I've spoken about this, my neighbor across the road, he was, he worked in the,

he was in the American Army, so he, he worked on the base, the American base near where I lived, and my next door neighbor was, I think he was two years younger than me, but he was bigger than me, or just a bit bigger, but he was like a tough kid at school, like toughest in his year or whatever, but I was, it was like, but I was, he was my neighbor, so I always got on with him and everything, and he knocked on my door, he said, do you want to, do you want to have a fight?

I said, no thanks, I'm reading The Dandy and The Beano today, I'm going to be picking flowers in the garden, he said, no, do you want to, I said, no, Horace, or whatever his name was, John Wayne across the road, he does kickboxing and he wants to, he wants to see if you will join in, because I need someone to spar with, and I said, oh, okay, I had to ask permission, my dad, he said, I don't know, he phoned up, he didn't fight yet, no, he went,

because the bloke was outside his house, so he went out, my dad came outside, and he said, I'm not sure if you should do this or not, I need to ask some questions first, so he said to the neighbor opposite, the man, he said, so you want, you want to teach, train Bert next door and Jason, my Jason, to do kickboxing, and the bloke said, yeah, he said, okay, is, is there a chance that Jason could get hurt?

He said, yeah, he said, well, go ahead then, take him, so, yeah, brilliant, and the annoying thing about it is, this bloke, the neighbor across the road, so we, me and Bert next door, I forget his name, we were both, he was two years younger than me, I mean, he's now 51, blimey, we were both padded up, we've got all this stuff on, I'd never done kickboxing before, never done any, anything like that before, and I don't think he had either, but the bloke, who was training us,

so we did all the stretches, all the warm-ups, all that, and then he said, come on, just beat each other up, basically, and he was on the other kid's side, like, egging him on, come on, Bert, you can do him, but, like, I stopped, like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Why, why are you egging him on?

Surely, this should be a partisan decision, or, if that's the right word, why was he, you can't take sides, and that annoyed me, in fact, it annoyed me so much, I didn't want to go back, now, I would have gone back, because I enjoyed it, I did enjoy it, oh, I really felt the stretches the day after, though, I'd never stretched before, and doing the whole split thing, well, not splits, but, like, the proper thigh stretches, oh, it was, that was a shock to the system, and a couple of weeks later,

I started doing karate, or, in fact, no, I think I did the kickboxing for a few weeks, I did karate shortly after the kickboxing, and I decided to stay with the box, the kick, with the karate, because I preferred it, partly because there was just more than one person doing it, you know, it's, it's nice to be, just, I quite like being in a group, and I didn't enjoy being in a group, but it kind of forced me to do it, yeah, and how do I reconcile non, my non-violent philosophy with love of boxing,

it's a sport, I think, really, that's it, it's not violence to me, it's, it's controlled, yeah, some people do get hurt, okay, that's a fact, but generally, if the referee's doing his job, it, and also, it's two willing parties, it's not one person against another person that doesn't want to, because as soon as the, as soon as one of them doesn't want to do it anymore, it finishes, it's over, and that doesn't happen in a violent situation, you see, so as soon as, so if one of the boxers decides he's had enough,

or she's had enough, it's finished, and everyone goes home, if the corner person of the boxer knows their boxer really well, cares about the boxer, then they will do everything to keep them safe, and if the referee has eyes in his head, or her head, they can see, although sometimes they don't, to be honest, I can see when a boxer's had too much, and a referee's like, almost oblivious, like, come on, and I've even seen some fights where, I can think one particular one, Lomachenko, he kept stopping, and saying to the referee,

are you going to stop this, or what, because he was beating the other bloke so, so easily, and he kept saying, look, in any end, he just knocked the bloke out, because he thought he'd better get it done quick, quicker than putting him, making it last longer than it needed to, I think there was one boxer actually got, he got, he lost the fight, because he wouldn't punch the other person anymore, this might be an MMA, to be honest with you, it might not have been boxing, might have been kickboxing,

but it was definitely a fight, professional fight, where the referee wouldn't stop it, and the, the one that was winning, was winning so easily, and he didn't like the punishment that the other one was taking, he even started, like, just doing little punches, and because his opponent wouldn't quit, which is kind of normal, he decided, like, he was going to quit himself, because he didn't want to hurt the other person, and that was a loss on their record, that's a rarity, I don't think it's happened very often, but it has happened,

happened once that I know of, yeah, wow, so it's not, I remember when Conor McGregor and Mayweather were fighting, and there was people on Facebook, because, yeah, so that's it really, that's my answer to that, I don't have a better answer, to be honest, to me, when I was doing this stuff, and I was never particularly good at any of the things I've done, so I'm not going to try and pretend that I was some super duper martial artist, I never was, I mean,

I did get a first class pass in every single grading I ever did, from childhood all the way up to my 40s, but, or early 40s, 43, so, what's that, 13, 23, 30, so 30 years, but, I didn't get very far with the gradings, never got to black belt, never got anywhere close, and, yeah, I don't know, just, I just love martial arts, I like the, the fun, like, bit of movement, bit of, it, I think I liked it, because it, there was a purpose behind it, it's like, okay, well,

this, this might be useful one day, you know, maybe, so, it hasn't been, but it might have been, so, I don't know, so, to me, it was never violent, personally, I don't like the way it's saying the word violent, but, it's, it was, it was just, never aggression, it was just, fun, it's a sport, that's, that's all it ever was, really, as far as watching boxing, which really what the question was, wasn't it, I, I don't know, I just, just, I love the blood, no, I, I,

I've been watching it since I was very little, you know, I remember the first, the first fight I remember was probably Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, which was, I think, 1980, I think, and that was, I was, I'd be like 10 then, so, Larry Holmes, might have been 81, Larry Holmes, Ali fight, when was it, when was it, October the 2nd, 1980, so, I watched that on TV with my dad, and again, even then, I wasn't really into boxing so much, but it was such a big fight, it was a huge,

huge fight at the time, and some people say, oh, but Muhammad Ali was, he was past his prime, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, okay, let's have a, let me just, let me just show you something, let me just show you something, okay, the problem with Muhammad Ali is, he did too many things, go to his Wikipedia page, and you have to find where his fights are, because they're not listed on that page, oh, yes, they are, okay, take that back, God, I talk some rubbish, don't I, so, you say, okay,

Larry Holmes, it was, it was 1980, well, two years earlier, he won back the WBA and ring heavyweight title from Leon Spinks, who won it off him earlier in the year, and, and he'd retained, wow, wow, he retained his heavyweight championship from 1974, this is the second time, all the way to 1977, and he lost it for a few months, and he took it back, so he'd only, okay, been out of the ring for two years, so, I mean, yeah, he wasn't, clearly, he wasn't able to, he didn't have what he once had,

but I think if the Larry, if the, if the Muhammad Ali that went in against Leon Spinks, went in against Larry Holmes, that, you know, the Muhammad Ali two years earlier, Larry Holmes would have won, if the Muhammad Ali that went in against, probably, anyone in the previous five fights, within the previous five years, four years even, I think Larry Holmes may have won, so, this has gone on for quite a while, Vinnie's barking again, yeah, brilliant, hmm, basically, I phoned my neighbor downstairs, because I thought I heard her pussy,

and purring, but it wasn't, it was probably another neighbor's one, because it sounded like it was on my windowsill, but it wasn't, because she knocked on the door, was like, no, he's indoors, okay, but I was a little, because he did get out once before, and because it's pitch black outside, out the back, it's like, oh, he's got to be, with cats, they can kind of, they're quite quiet, aren't they, and they can kind of get around, with a dog, they just bang into things, if he, if he ran in the garden,

he'd just be banging into things, and barking, and chasing stuff, and I'd know he was there, anyway, but anyway, there's no, there's no lights, the light in the hallway went again, so there's no lights at all, upstairs or downstairs, so yeah, lights gone again, so it's pitch black, I mean, it's 10 o'clock now, I started this about three this afternoon, a lot of editing is going to be needed, I'm not going to edit anything that I said, although perhaps I should, you know, the boxing, I didn't do very well with that question,

did someone ask me a question about biscuits, that's, that's a question I like to answer, let's have a look, anyway, so I've done that, I asked, I answered that question, it's for me, boxing isn't violent, I've got two other questions, no, really, um, what, okay, right, I've still got a few more questions, right, I'm just not saying now, really, so Molly, are you still wanting to move?

Yeah, I do, but, you know, I don't know, I'm kind of stuck, um, kind of, yeah, it just, yeah, kind of here at the moment, I'd like to live somewhere different, hopefully I will in the future, I hope, um, listen, I've got a few questions for Molly, uh, does the grumpy guy who knew you had Andre hidden under your jacket still work at the garage?

I can't have answered that yesterday, it's not by accident, um, yeah, he does, and we're friends now, he loves boxing, I love boxing, and I couldn't figure out, because he was, he used to annoy me, but we annoyed each other, and my friend downstairs said, because he was always friendly to him, he said, you know, he loves boxing, I said, really, so I went in, and I didn't even do it calmly, or, um, discreetly, into, I didn't, I didn't start talking about boxing, kind of, gradually, I just said, walked up to him,

he was behind a can, and I said, I hear you like boxing, he said, yeah, and then we started talking about boxing, and since then, that's pretty much what we talk about, and we've got on for years now, I mean, what's it been, four years, three or four years now, since we've got on, and have you got tea cakes at the moment?

I did answer that yesterday as well, I do, I've got some new ones coming today as well, so yes, I do, I like my tea cakes, just once a day, tea cakes and a cup of tea, I used to have tea cakes and a can of coke, but I don't drink coke anymore, so I do like my tea cakes, just, just, I don't have them every day, it's one of the things that I might get every few weeks, to be honest, so I don't like to be honest, but sometimes, and the next question, do you remember when you melted a Mars bar in your ice cream, or something like that?

I've been talking for too long, I can't quite remember, I did, I melted ice cream, I melted a Mars bar in a saucepan, I think, and I mixed it into some ice cream, and it went hard straight away, like it set straight away, and it wasn't as wonderful as I thought it would be, to be honest, it was nice, but it was, I was surprised at how quickly it set, and so yeah, I did do that, do the birds still live around your flat, or is your recording set up so fancy now,

that we can't hear them, well that, that surprises me, because I did, it doesn't surprise me, but it surprised me that more isn't heard on the microphone, so I thought the better the microphone, the more it would pick it up, I think it's just coming with a bone, that is found, where did you find that, and I, sometimes I used to get complaints from people saying, oh can't stand listening to the birds, it's really putting me off relaxing, like what, I mean I couldn't quite understand that, what, for me,

there's almost nothing more beautiful than listening to birds, and when I say that, I don't mean all birds, and maybe not seagulls or pigeons, they're a little bit, with seagulls, it's not the most pleasant sound, and pigeons are a little bit too insistent, they just don't shut up, they just keep going, and then you hear another one, another tree, why they can't just get mobile phones, I don't know, it's, maybe that's how we used to communicate in the old days, you know, before telephones, hmm, in fact, I still know,

I know people that still communicate like that, so yes, I think, I still do make recordings when there's birds singing, I mean this time of night, it's not much in the way of birds, but I make recordings when there's people in the garden talking quite loudly, and that doesn't seem to show up too much on the recordings, which is quite good, because I can hear it very clearly, but the microphone doesn't seem to really be interested in picking anything up, other than what's in front of it, which is my gob,

which is handy, I guess, I'm running out of steam here, Kate asks me, so thank you Molly, thank you everyone for all your messages, or your questions rather, Kate says, have you ever collected anything for a hobby, comic books, stamps, coins, etc, I'm not sure if you talked about this before, and I can't remember, or I've fallen asleep, I used to, books, that's the quick answer on that one, books, not so much a hobby, but I just, I've loved books since I was a kid, and although my book collection is,

it's not a bad book collection, but it's not a large book collection, I've got, I don't know, three, four hundred books, maybe, I used to have over a thousand books, and it was all mainly psychologically based, like hypnosis, philosophy, maybe religion, psychology, all kinds of things like that, so I would quite like to get back to my collecting of books, because that is kind of the only thing, I mean, not the only thing, I used to collect anything to do with hypnosis, so I used to record in videos, recording tapes,

you know, training tapes, training courses, things like that as well, I used to have a lot of that kind of stuff, when I was younger, I tried to do hobbies such as collecting stamps, collecting postcards, I tried to do, what's another thing I used to do, train spotting, I tried to do train spotting, and there was, it was quite a bit of a fad at the time, and you used to be able to buy a train spotting book with the serial numbers, or the, I guess, like registration numbers of all the different trains,

and you just wait along, cross it out basically, or highlight it, and say that you've seen it, and I gave it a go, but it didn't grip me, now I've been very, very, I think, vocal in the past to say that I do not disparage, or I do not make fun of people that have hobbies, whatever they are, whether it's train spotting, or stamp collecting, whatever it might be, because in my experience, those people are happy, they're doing something they love doing, whether it's, you know, building, like image of soldiers,

and armies, and stuff, or train tracks, and railways, and whatever it is they're doing, they seem to really be happy doing it, and I think if you can do something, regardless of it's, if it's your job, or as a hobby, if you can do something that you enjoy doing, it gives you pleasure, and it doesn't cause harm to anybody, then that's got to be a win-win, you know, that's just kind of my philosophy on that one, and really, I would say my hobbies, I can go for all the different hobbies I've really got into,

things that were interesting to me since a kid, I've gone through periods when I wanted to be a writer, a singer, like singer-songwriter, that was kind of my hobby for quite a while, I don't really have hobbies, I have passions, things that I get completely transfixed with, martial arts was definitely a thing for, when I was a kid, when I did it as an adult, I wasn't obsessed with it, it was just something that I did, that I enjoyed doing it, and that was it, but when I was a kid,

I was obsessed, you know, I was 13, 14, 15, I was absolutely, that was my whole world, was martial arts, karate, martial arts, anything martial arts, I had so many books on different styles of kung fu, and different exercises, and you know, just that was all I used to think about, apart from songwriting, I also like to write songs as well, so the two things kind of didn't really mix together very well, loved the martial arts, but I fell in love with a girl, and that brought out the songwriter in me,

and I would say after that, comedy, anything comedy, like especially a stand-up comedy, that was my big passion during the 90s, and then late 90s, hypnosis, during the 90s also, Buddhism, so I kind of, you know, it wasn't just one thing that I was into, but generally, you know, the big things were the stand-up comedy, then the hypnosis, and then early 2000s, I got very into Buddhism, like really into it, and then still really into the hypnosis, and everything as well, and then 2006, pretty much until now, it's just been this,

everything connected to this, you know, whether it was the free pain release service I used to do in the town I used to live in before, the volunteering in the rehab drug and alcohol rehab places, whether it was the website, or the podcast, YouTube, all that stuff, and this is what it's been really for the last 18 years, yeah, this has been, yeah, I guess, yeah, that's it, this is what I've been doing, this is what I've been mainly focused on, even when I was doing my degree in counselling,

this was still number one to me, this is still more important to me than that, the one I was training in that, so, I used to love reading, I haven't been much of a reader lately, but I do listen to audiobooks, but it's not the same, to me, it's not the same, it doesn't feel the same, so, yeah, that's it, have you ever grown your own vegetable garden, and if so, what did you try growing, oh no, wait a minute, have you tried picket ball, I don't know what picket ball is,

I said that yesterday, and I still don't know what picket ball is, pickleball, and if I were to come over to England, what is the one thing I must do or see in your opinion, of course, ah, first of all, this is from Kate, let me look and see what picket ball is, pickleball, pickleball, pickleball, pickleball, never heard of it until now, ah, so, according to this, basically, pickleball is tennis and table tennis mixed together, so, it's on a, like a, kind of like a tennis court,

but I think a smaller version, maybe, but you're using bats, like table tennis bats, or paddles, it doesn't say what kind of ball it is, I can't see, oh yeah, I can see the ball, so the balls have got holes in them, pickleball paddle with 26 holes in them, so we, I used to have those when I was a kid, we used to have those kind of balls, I used to have balls like that when I was a kid, um, maybe they were called pickleballs, never, I never remember ever hearing that before,

genuinely, it's popular in the pacific northwest of the United States, what I'm going to do, picketball in England, wow, there is pickleball in England, tournament, oh, wow, blimey, this is a whole new world to me, blimey, oh, well, that's interesting, that's, that's something I didn't know, um, well, if I were to come to England, what is the one thing I must do or see, okay, um, if you were to come to England, depending how long you're here for, and depending where you're coming from, I would, there's the standard stuff,

like if you came here, there'd be the standard things, like going to London and, you know, Madame Tussauds and, you know, Tower of London and the museums and stuff, so if you want to do a, if that's something you're interested in, and there are, they're nice places to go to, and to be honest, the average person that lives here doesn't go to those places, it's, well, I did when I, when I first, I think in the early 90s, I used to sometimes visit places, because, you know, I didn't know anyone,

I just, on my day off, I'd go and, go and have a look around and that, but if you're willing to travel around the country, there's lots of really nice places, lots of nice seaside places, and if you're going to come to England or to the UK, I definitely recommend going to Wales and going to Scotland, two very beautiful places, Wales, you've got, Mount Snowdon, I was going to say Mount Everest, Mount Snowdon, and they've got quite a few slate mines that were absolutely huge, huge,

and you used to be able to go down them, I don't know if you can anymore, I went to Wales many times when I was a kid, Scotland, and if you time it, come down during the Edinburgh Festival, lots of comedy, lots of fringe stuff, lots of everything, so it's definitely a good time to come down if you come during August, but I would say, I keep coming back to comedy, I would say go to the comedy store, go to Leicester Square, Leicester Square, Covent Garden,

I haven't been to either of those places in a long time, like many years, but it was one of my favourite places to go to, Leicester Square, nearly every weekend, for years I'd go, and I'd be there till early hours of the morning, because it's just, it was almost like being there in the afternoon, so many people around, and it felt safe to me, and it was just, you get on the night bus, the buses were always going home to where I lived, you know, pretty much every half an hour or something,

and it's easy, so there's always, stuff was open all night, even some cinemas, they'd like be open all night so you can go and watch a movie, and depending on whether you're fussy about who you sit next to, so I suppose Buckingham Palace, I've done the whole, see my most enjoyable part of going to London was when I was little, before I lived there, so I was born in London, but I moved away when I was about two, and then when I was, I don't know, just before I was seven,

I started going to London, and my nan and gran had lived there, so we used to visit, and we'd go to some of the places, you know, Madame Tussauds, and all the different places that were around, so I probably visited, probably visited everywhere that there was to visit, like the kids could visit anyway, so yeah, I probably visited most places, where would I recommend? I'd probably recommend a different country to be honest, that's not good is it?

I shouldn't, I shouldn't really say that, go somewhere nice, I don't know, is, is, where would I recommend? I don't know, I'm just trying to think, what would I recommend?

It's got to be what are you interested in, that would be the thing, what, what are you interested in, what do you like to do, and see, for me, if you're, so let's say you're interested in bridges, just, just as an example, you know, and you, or you're interested in mountains, or you, you've got a real thing for architecture, then where I live would be a place to come to, because this is one of the first Roman settlements, and so, you know, there's lots of that kind of stuff here,

some of the, because, you know, we were a very, very old country, like England, Scotland, Wales, this, this land mass, I mean, I guess all, all the land mass of the world is pretty much the same kind of age, and pretty much, but we was all connected at some point, weren't we?

But I just thinking, because this, even though compared to America, or Canada, or some of the, some of the bigger countries, and most countries are bigger than this country, the land mass isn't a lot, it's not a big space, but there is a lot to see in a short period of time, you know, if you're here for a week, for example, or two weeks, you could end up, he's now whining, so I have to, I have to wind this up, because he's whining, he wants to go to do wee-wees,

you want to go do wee-wees, or go to bed, blimey, I've been doing this for over three hours, I think, nearly three hours, although there's been breaks, so that's a question I have to give a bit more thought to, but yeah, I would say, if this, what you're interested in, and then look for that, that's what I would say, is there's lots of things that are kind of generic, in the sense of what the average tourist would go to, just I'm sure there is the same in America, like if we went to,

if I went to New York, for example, I bet there's like, if you live in America, you could probably name 10 things straight away that you'd recommend that I go to, that I might not know about, so it's kind of the same here, but that might not be what you want to do, because if you may want to go to the, what's that place, the biological place, where they've got the growing, it's a huge dome thing, where they grow stuff, and that's a really big greenhouse, basically,

but it's like one of the biggest places, it's state-of-the-art, I forget where it is, and those kinds of things, we've got some roller coasters, big old amusement parks, and there's so many different things that I've not been to, and there's a town that's, or a village or town, that's full of bookshops, I forget where it is, yeah, so there's lots of, it's Shropshire or something, I think it is, but there's lots of places, I mean, I'd say some of the nicest parts of the country that I've been to,

it would be Torquay's still near the top of my list, but then in the summer, because bearing in mind that this country is basically countryside, once you get out of the city, and the city, none of the cities are particularly big, London's, it seems really big, but it doesn't, it's not far before you get to a park or green park or, or, you know, countryside.

Countryside's never that far away, it is if you're walking, maybe, not for me because it's at the end of the road, but the countryside is literally, it's, you'll see it as you fly over this country, heading towards Stansted or Heathrow airport, you'll just see green, green, green, green, green, green, and little bits, little bits of like brown where houses are, a few little bits there and there, like it's a heck of a lot of, of greenery in this country.

So in the summer, it's fairly nice wherever you are, can be, but yeah, I probably didn't answer that one very well, did I? I'm getting tired now. What's my favourite biscuit? Jenny, what's my favourite biscuit? Okay, ginger nut.

If I was going to just choose one biscuit out of all of them, ginger nut probably. Yeah, keep going back to the, keep going back to the ginger nut. I do like a ginger nut, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.

Yeah, ginger nut, that'd be it. Jenny, shush, ginger nut, yeah. Have you ever grown your own vegetable garden and if so, what did you try growing? I grew cress when I was at school.

I did, I grew cress and I think bought some home. It was in this little polythene thing and I did try growing carrots as well. One of the places I live though, this little, I don't know if I had it on a windowsill, I'm not sure.

He's getting, he's getting disruptive now Vinnie is. He's getting annoyed with me because I'm taking way too long to take him out. So I'm gonna have to take him out.

So thanks for listening. I'm not, I'm not going to be able to release this Friday, which is today because I have to do a lot of editing and it's going to take me probably a good hour or so, two hours. Maybe, I don't know, it's going to probably take two or three hours from editing to processing to uploading, all that stuff.

So it's going to take a while. So I'm going to do that tomorrow morning. Please forgive me.

I've answered most of the questions, I do believe, and I'm tired. I'm tired now. Wow.

So seven, eight, nine, ten, four, five, six, seven, three hours is a long time. I know that this will only be about two hours, I suppose, after I've taken all the bits out. But I've been sitting here for three hours, man.

And a few little having to get up and do stuff, things, a couple of phone calls, a couple of interruptions, him barking. Other than that, it's been me talking. So, yeah, what I'll do is I won't do a version with with music.

I'll do a version. No, blimey, I don't know how I'm going to do that. I'll figure it out.

It's fine. I'll figure it out. So I'm going to take this little one out to do a poo or a wee wee.

And then I will go to bed. And funny enough, there's boxing on at one o'clock. So I'm going to have about two hours sleep and I'll get up.

Yes, I will. And then tomorrow night, boxes on again and boxes on also early hours of the morning, Sunday. So.

So I'm going to go. Thanks for listening. My voice is getting croaky now.

Too much talking. I think an hour is enough. Three hours is slightly too long, maybe.

Without a cup of tea. I needed I needed a cup of tea. Nice cup of tea.

So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. So lots of love.

And as I said, this will be released tomorrow morning. Bye bye. Bye bye.

Bye bye.