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Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep My name's Jason Newland Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes This is Trivia Tuesday Trivia T-t-t-t-trivia Trivia T-t-t-t-t-trivia Tuesday So yeah, that's another Another little jingle, hope you liked it My website is jasonnewland.com.

As well as Thousands of my Old recordings, or my past recordings I also add each new recording On there Including, also I make six versions Of each recording Three without music, there's one without music Five hours and ten hours Then there's one with music And then five and ten hours with music And So they're all available to download for free On my website My YouTube channel I have all my videos on there There's a couple of thousand videos on there Every time I make a new recording I create a video from it And it lasts for ten hours So you can listen to me Basically it's five,

ten seconds of an image And then the next Ten hours, or just under ten hours Is of me talking So there's the recording And after that there's Positive affirmations Counting down Body scan Or relaxing stuff To help you to Stay asleep And the volume gradually goes down During that period as well So the last hour or whatever Is hardly any sound Maybe the last couple of hours So to help you to go to sleep And it's a black screen So you can watch YouTube And not be Disturbed by the screen

being on Which is something that people Would say to me So I try to I do try to accommodate Requests Apart from the ones when people Just tell me to shut up and go away Other than that I try to Have a bath, that's another one So I That's it really, that's all the information I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group If you Would like to be part of this group Please join You're free to join It would be brilliant to see you there It's a small group

but it's For people that really Enjoy what I do And it's a place Where you can also ask questions For Q&A Friday And give me ideas For the Monday Boring Objects And stuff like that So you can give a bit of feedback Be part Of the Part of the whole Adventure Which this is And then he's On the floor, chomping on a bone So he seems quite happy He had quite a long Walk this morning I just have to,

this time of year Especially when it's kind of Raining on and off I need to Make the best of the moment So if there's like an hour Or so when there's no rain I'll just stay out Just walk around and just follow him For an hour And he seems happy When he's done that He woke me up again this morning This time it was like Half past three I wake up And he's just staring at me Right in my face, just staring Like what?

What do you want? I think I might have taken him To do a wee in the garden Or something but It's just I don't know, I think he just gets bored And he wants to play A lot of the time It's just he wants to do something And he's awake Therefore I should be awake And The thing is I don't know if he's Woken me up But I wake up to his face in my face Just staring at me Now Knowing what he's like,

what I know he does When I'm awake with my eyes closed He will lick my face And he'll like Nudge me with his hand And he'll make some weird noises So I'm guessing that's probably What he's doing but I don't know Maybe he's doing it because I'm asleep He's a proper little monkey So So I'll give you the latest On Molly Molly has an operation Friday So for those that Would like to wish her well And Molly's the boss of the group The Facebook group So She's having I think it's

in the afternoon One o'clock or something I don't know what time that would be In this country Probably one in the morning Be one in the morning I think Here So What else Yeah that's it So I got back to My routine of doing A different recording each day The Yeah Sunday papers Did a Q&A Friday I didn't do a recording Saturday I don't think But I did Or I might have done I can't remember Sunday's papers Monday boring objects This is Tuesday Trivia So I'm not sure about Wednesday's now

But I will do Thursday healing Or healing Thursday And then Q&A Friday So they're the ones That I'm going to try and stick to So you got the Monday boring objects Trivia Tuesday Healing Thursday Q&A Friday And Sunday papers So that's five out of seven I think if I counted it right The only ones I've not Yeah Wednesday and Saturday Are the only ones That I'm not going to give a A specific thing for So Saying that I need to get I need to do something I'm just trying to think

What trivia facts I mean I could give you trivia about my own life But I kind of do that anyway don't I Most of what I talk about is trivia It's all trivial stuff Most of it anyway Or I've been studying Or I did my first Online tutorial Yesterday It was 7 in the evening until 8.30 Or 8.33 actually Oh man It was weird This is for the Open University Degree course and The first of many I guess Because six years is going to be a lot So I'm trying to

Well not trying to I am embracing it I'm embracing the whole thing It's just Umm Hmm It's a lot It's just a lot And there are deadlines And that's something that I'm not really I'm not comfortable with that if I'm honest You know Not just Deadlines but actual times So for an online tutorial I mean I can Listen to it afterwards If they're being recorded But not all of them are recorded I don't know why they're not All recorded But I just I'm listening to the book The chapter of the

book That I'm supposed to be reading I'm listening to it over and over again Using Speechify Which is an app that I've found Well I didn't discover it I mean it's used by probably millions Of people It's really good It reads It reads the book, it reads the words And I seem to find that That is my Optimum way to learn And I've been listening to audiobooks For years, well blimey Decades actually But I was never listening to books I was never listening to Audiobooks with the intention Of remembering anything You know if I remembered it good If I didn't, fine That wasn't really I was just more I guess absorbing it rather than Learning it Does that make sense?

I wasn't going to be tested On anything that I listened to But now I am I am Going to be So I've already listened to the chapters Probably 10 times Already Since the beginning of last week I've not I've probably listened to half Probably a third of the book as well Because the book's quite a big book And I've listened to like 5, 6 hours in a row So you know Hopefully it's absorbed And I think a clue Maybe it's a clue that I am learning Some of it is because when I listen to it I almost know what's going to be Said next,

I remember What was said And what I've been doing now because Part of the first Chapter I've got to be careful because I can't like read Read stuff Out of the book because it's you know It's a I get in trouble If I start telling people about the course I suppose too much information I don't know I'm just thinking copyright or I don't want to get kicked off the degree Because I'm telling everyone You know All the information from the degree and Stuff like that But the tutor's name is George

Porter And he lives at 42 Sycamore Drive Glasgow And telephone number 0139 247 64314 Email G sexyporter Dash Upside down Fanny At openuniversity Dot Whoops dot com And I don't know It's I don't want to give too much information But at the same time I would like to talk about it Because that's Kind of the only thing that's going on in my life Right now Other than my day to day adventures with Vinnie And There's not a lot else going on to be fair Which Most Of the time I'm okay

With Most of the time You know I don't want drama You know I really don't But it would be I don't necessarily Want excitement Not in a Yeah I've had enough excitement To last me forever You know over the years There's so much going on But none of it good Not really any Not nice Drama basically not nice excitement And I'd like I don't know If I'm a particularly Excitable person Really I'll give you an example I did A my friend Noel Gave me Like as a gift Tickets to go

And see Anthony Robbins And I think it was 4 days Might be 5 days Might be 3 days but it was for I think about 4 days To go and see him At the I don't know where it was It was in London huge event 10,000 people there And He You know so I went there And I was there for the whole time At the end of it we did A fire walk Now first of all While I was there I enjoyed it I did the atmosphere was really Good And

I was at the back because that's my Place The seat The seat wasn't at the back it didn't have seat name Seat number or anything It's just I prefer to just Sit at the back Because then if I need the toilet or I need to get out I can just get out easy You know without kind of Disrupting anything You know I don't want to be at the front of the Front of the thing and Suddenly need the toilet And I Everyone's going to remember that event Because of the farting

man Running down the alleyway To try and get to the toilet So I was going to say the farting fat man But I wasn't fat back then So I don't know I just Although the atmosphere was really good Anthony Robbins I've never ever ever In my life Seen Anyone that could do what he does And the man can literally Talk Solidly Probably for a whole week Without a break I've never known anyone That had that much energy To be able to just Talk and talk And talk and go on And

on and not in a bad way He had just so much energy And I think he was a hundred Years old then And so it was Quite impressive There was a lot of whooping And cheering from the audience And I know there was people in the audience That were part of his crew And there was It's a very It's a very Manipulated environment Because ultimately They're trying to get you to buy stuff Trying to get you To get people to sign up for courses And that's the whole Point of it really They make money from the event but They want to sell books,

they want to sell CDs, they want to sell t-shirts And whatever And get people Booked onto courses which wasn't really What I was there for Besides I didn't I couldn't do that anyway because My friend gave it to me Blimey when did he give it to me It was probably Two thousand and Eleven Two thousand ten, two thousand eleven Two thousand twelve Maybe it was earlier than that Maybe it was two thousand And five,

two thousand and four But it was a long time ago Because I wasn't living in London anymore And I stayed At my friends while I was there So I stayed with him for the Time I was there And At the end There's all this Hollering And every two seconds He'd say something Say I And you go I And That wasn't really My thing, I guess I'm just not a very Excitable person Just It's hard to explain Because I kind of wish I was I can get excited I really can But Not Not at will Not I can't externally be switched on Or Internally switch on It's a natural thing,

if it doesn't happen naturally It doesn't happen at all And But I can still enjoy myself and still enjoy Watching something And whatever It's a really nice experience One that I'll Mildly remember And Yeah I'm starting to remember it now Blimey So yeah, and I went there And The At the end Of the I think it was three days At the end of the three days There was a fire walk You know,

hot coals So these 10,000 people All sort of getting into different Groups and massive Long queue that I mean I don't know where on earth they did it There must have been some kind of Some big field Out the back of the venue Might have been a football field I really don't know Anyway, they had these huge Huge Big fires With coals and stuff And We were supposed to just go over them Run over them and I think say the words Wet grass, wet grass,

wet grass Something like that As we walked across the coals And I did it The thing is People were Some of the people that did it were almost wetting themselves With delight And screaming And Absolutely kind of I wanted that But I've never had that, it's never happened Didn't happen then There's Nothing's ever happened which has given me That much delight And it's a shame I kind of feel I'm missing out A little bit To be that excited And to I don't know,

mind you I did have If you Listen regularly I've been Cutting out sugar Well pretty much cut all sugar out of my Diet for the last Five months probably now Tea still tastes disgusting without sugar My step mum said Oh you get used to it Yeah I get used to it It's tasting crap It's true, I've got used to it but it tastes I can drink tea But with something So if I'm having my breakfast cereal I can drink tea If I'm eating my dinner I'll have a cup of tea with my dinner Because it's liquid And it's I don't know,

it's even out of water Or juice, that's like three options I don't drink alcohol I don't really I can't drink fizzy drinks anymore And So yeah It was Or pop, I can't drink pop anymore So yeah It's What was the point of me having the sugar Oh yeah, I got this Little Bakewell It wasn't a Bakewell tart Because that's a cake And I don't eat cakes But I found this It was Kind of a healthy bar But with Bakewell Icing and a cherry on top And I thought You know what Well okay,

I say healthy Kind of It's like muesli You know, it was Kind of An energy Slash Thingy It wasn't cheap either It was like £3.50 or something, or £2.20 Which is quite a lot I think for just a little It wasn't big Anyway, I got it home I needed help to get it home It was a tiny little thing I got it home like it was a chore I managed to get it home Eventually It took six weeks And so I got it I got it home I thought about it I put it in the cupboard And then,

I forget about it actually Because I'm so used to Not eating sugar That I forgot that I had a cake In there And so Five minutes after I got home I thought about it again So I went and got it And I ate it with a cup of tea I might as well I might as well have had Sugar in my tea Because the tea tasted nice The icing Was spectacular It was Oh It was just So nice And the rest of it Was nice as well, it was damp It was like,

I thought it was going to be dry But it wasn't It was perfect I've not had another one since though Shows how good I am I just don't like going out And I have to go out to get it But, oh, so nice But you know I'm trying I'm trying To stick to it And I think I'm getting slimmer I looked at myself in the mirror It's better to do it with clothes on It is Especially if you're in a public toilet It's better to do I think It's better to

I look slimmer with clothes on Because there's It just Because I remember what I used to look like With this exact top on And I'd be I could be pregnant It was ridiculous Now, it's It's not flat I'm not going to pretend That I've got a tiny waist now Because I don't I may never have a tiny waist But It's so much I'm a lot slimmer Than I used to be It's noticeable to me Now Vinnie Seems to think it's funny to keep calling me fat So He's a bit rude, this one I said to him I've lost weight He said, where?

He said, from my belly, it's gone down He said, now you need to work on your bum It's like, Vin, come on It's rude He said, you're rude That's his comeback, every time You're rude So we did this I did the walk The what's it walk Across the The coals, the hot coals And I thought, is this going to burn?

Seems a bit of a silly thing to do But I thought It would be a shame not to You know So It's kind of okay, if you go up in a plane To jump out of the plane With a parachute And you don't jump out It's okay It's not been a big adventure Is it?

It's not been a big journey to that point But if you spend three days Of your life Preparing For that jump out of the plane You might as well Just jump out of the plane You know, if all you've done is just had a little tutorial You know, remember Just hold on to this You're just holding on to someone Who's also got a parachute on And Maybe they're the only one with a parachute I don't know My worry would be this Is What If The person If someone's If I'm holding

on to someone And they're the instructor And they're the ones who are going to pull the parachute You know What happens if They don't get a chance to pull the parachute Before I crush them Because guaranteed If I I would be so scared I would probably Crush All of their internal organs Not meaning to But You know I remember I was on a plane when I was about 18 And I left a mark In the The headboard Because I was holding on to the headboard And holding on to this lady's

hand As we came to land And Before she held my hand She was so sweet Because I told her I was scared She told She could see I was scared Because I was scared So she held my hand Which was lovely Now As we're landing I'm screaming but so is she And I'm thinking well you're not much comfort to me are you I didn't realise she wasn't scared It was her hand I mean I hurt her hand I didn't mean to It wasn't because I was strong It's just because That

was I was almost like hanging on from a cliff And that was the last bit of Weed that I was holding on to Which was her hand I'm not comparing her hand to a weed That would be rude Or a plane to a cliff That would be Strange I suppose But I left a hand indent In the headrest There was no one in there Well I didn't think there was anyone In the seat In front of me That turned out I also left a hand indenture in their forehead Ah never

mind So A very flat head So I don't know I just think I'd like to have Been really excited By the The walk that I did But I just didn't It just Didn't seem to have it in me I I'd like to be able to Tune in to what other people are feeling So that I could be like them And act like them Get all excited Like at a football match And To be able to get that excited Over A sporting event Would I'd love it But I can't I just

don't It doesn't happen And Even when I watch boxing Occasionally I will shout Occasionally Like every few years Literally And I watch a fair bit of boxing Every few years there will be that Fight where I will literally Almost be standing up Or I might be standing up Like You know it's the last few seconds of a Fight or whatever It's just like wow So Very rare But I won't be shouting all the way through The best fight I ever Went I didn't go to it live But I watched it

with a pub Full of people And that was probably one of the best Probably the best boxing I've watched because of The environment The energy it was really good I was with some friends And everyone in the pub Was just Rooting Bruno on because that was when he Fought for and won The world title in 1995 I do believe Against The bloke that beat The bloke that knocked out Lennox Lewis Yeah so him So he Bruno won his world title And then I think the next year Or maybe I don't

know if it was A year later but not long after Lennox Lewis fought him again I think this might have been for a Non title fight And Lennox Lewis He actually McCullum Not McCullum He just started Crying in the ring And the referee didn't know what to do So in the end They stopped The fight So yeah that was a very very strange Strange situation And He Yeah but the actual fight With Bruno when he won the world title on points Great Great to watch But I wasn't like Doing what

everyone else Was doing you know I wasn't shouting out Bruno Bruno Bruno Bruno It's because I just Didn't have enough time to learn the words So I just You know I had to just Mime like Yes Yeah Penguin sir Hopefully people wouldn't know Notice what I was actually saying But it was a great atmosphere And you know I did get excited At the end Especially when We didn't know if he had won or not But we thought he had And then he had and I was excited And You know I

kissed a few people But it was fine Because it was Manly kisses And we were watching boxing So you know It wasn't anything I didn't kiss anyone I don't know why I say stuff like that But it was good Really nice Really good But I wasn't Shouting and screaming With ecstasy Or excitement And I don't know Just never Never had that Okay I've had my My moments where I'm excited About stuff that Is kind of just Exciting to me But I tend To not share that excitement You know I'm excited

about something And no one else kind of maybe Knows what it is or they don't really Understand why I'm excited Yeah It's a strange one I just want to be a real boy I want to be a real boy That's kind of Yeah I want to be hooman I had a counsellor that used to speak like that Hooman Like not human She was lovely But she had a proper Suffolk accent Hooman Or it might be Norfolk actually It's a very similar accent Which is going to cause a lot of friction

between People from Ipswich and Norwich They've got A lot of football Adversities or Whatever Two football teams That are kind of Against each other A little bit like Man City and Man United Which is weird considering What are they 10 minutes away from each other You only need one Football team Per city Or per town But London How many has London got Loads Just one football team London United Liverpool United Manchester United City Just one team Why do you need more than one team Liverpool Has got two teams Is it

like Liverpool And Aston Villa Or I don't know Swansea Something like that But most places have got one team Per town Or city Like Luton I'm sure it's just got one team Nottingham Nottingham Forest One team What other ones This is trivia This is the trivia part This is the trivia part So let's see What trivia can we do I'm going to get a little bit of help From my mate ChatGPT So give me Trivia Trivia On What subject Trivia On I'm quite interested In countries Ooh Give me some trivia

on Scientific Psychological Research Should we do that Psychological Research Here we go Give me some trivia On psychological So here we go Now I'm not going to fact check This so it might not be right Ok Ok So I'm not going to Check any of these weird things So it might be wrong This is Trivia The halo effect People tend to Attribute Positive traits to individuals They find attractive Wow I didn't know that was called a halo effect I thought it was called the Jason effect He he he he he

This Cognitive bias leads people to Assume that a physically Attractive person is Also intelligent Kind or competent Even when there's no evidence to support These traits Now that doesn't make sense To me Only because There is the cliche A wrong cliche must I add You know I'm not saying this is a Truism but it's something that Was Pushed around in the newspapers And in the media That all models are dumb And unintelligent So this is saying The opposite that people automatically See someone super Attractive and they Consider them to be

intelligent When That probably That was the whole kind of Cliche was that Pretty people don't have to Attractive people Don't have to be intelligent And they don't have The dumb blonde kind of thing Which is weird And Again not my words this is like The forties and fifties The cliche of Blonde Hollywood stars Just being simple Just being really not very Intelligent when Two of the most famous Hollywood stars of the time Marilyn Monroe And Jane Mansfield Were two Very highly intelligent People Like really intelligent And You've only got to

hear them talk Okay maybe not Marilyn but Jane Mansfield You hear what they say I think with Marilyn it was like Oh yes let me tell you About this If you talk Like this I think that's why people Maybe don't think that I'm very Intelligent because of the way I talk I'm just so good looking It's that you know it's a cliche I've never had to try To learn to have a personality I've never needed a personality because I'm just so Hot and gorgeous And that's not fair It's true But it's not fair because I do have A kind of Education Kind of I don't know How many 9 4's are I do actually Wait a minute 1,

2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11 12, 13, 14 16, 17, 18 19, 20 21, 22 23, 24 25, 26 27, 28 29, 30 31, 32 33, 34, 35 36 See You can't say that that's not intelligent So What else is there Do you think that is I tell you what I noticed Over the years And I've seen Attractive people I'm talking like It's what is Attractive anyway it's all subjective Isn't it It's subjective Oh it's subjective Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Etc But I've

met people In the past Men and women Who Seem to attract Everybody You know Men that everybody wants to be his Friend and all the women want to be his Friend as well and I've met women That all the men Want to be a friend and all the women hate her It's No I've met people that are just Literally Ironically more Men It's probably because I've known men that I've seen Andre was one of them the original Andre Not my little furry My little furry friend Andre Andre Women used to

follow him around In a nightclub Begging him to take her home Or to go home with her I've never seen that in my life Until that time He had something There was something about him that women Just liked Not all women obviously but just In nightclubs He really Was successful A bloke I worked with in the insurance Just He actually got He got He was a Supervisor He became a team leader He was pulled into the managers office Right He told me this because I was really good friends with him

He said The manager Asked him to stop sleeping with the staff He said You're sleeping with too many staff You're getting through them Too quickly He said you can't tell me that You can't tell me not to do that It's like He's a young man They're all young people there And Like can you just stop He said no And I'd go out with him Be in a nightclub or be in a pub And literally Women would just walk up Push me out of the way And start talking to him Or

they'd come up to me And say can you introduce me to your friend And I'd say no I'd say you want to see my little friend I want to introduce you to my little friend So no Go away No I'm not his pimp I'm not sure why I mentioned that I read something People with Oh yeah I've seen These supposedly like beautiful people Talking Saying something that isn't It's not even mildly humorous And the person next to them Was laughing Laughing hysterically So I've been there My friend He hasn't even

said any It's not that he couldn't say funny stuff He wasn't saying anything particularly funny He was putting very little effort And she was laughing This woman Absolutely like hysterically I said something Nothing Without bragging I do have the ability to say the Occasional humorous thing Nothing I even used one of my best lines on there Not lines, one of my best jokes At the time I can't remember what it was I think it involved Tomato ketchup or something But anyway She didn't find that Oh is it Something about fish I went through a phase Where I just kept talking about pork And I just said this thing about Pork,

don't eat pork because it's dirty I think she might have said that I think off of the sausage And she said I don't eat pork Because it's, it's a weird conversation to have In a nightclub, but she said I don't eat pork because it's a dirty animal So I go into my thing Back then, it's like, what do you mean it's a dirty animal Name me a clean one Name one clean animal In the world She said I said I'll tell you what How about a fish A fish lives in water It's got to be clean,

hasn't it Have you ever smelt a fish And Nothing, didn't make her laugh Nothing, I mean perhaps it wasn't Very funny, but to me The idea that Something lives in water, it should smell Quite good, should be quite clean And fish I don't, there's enough for everyone to smell A fish, I'm not saying that Where am I going with that I used to work With fish I didn't work with fish They weren't my colleagues At the bottom of the ocean Digging up Pearls But I Laying cable I did Work in

a chip shop So I did work with fish for two years I handled fish And according to a lot Of people in the local supermarket I smelt a fish As well I'd walk into Tesco's or Boots And they're like, what's that smell What's that I can smell fish Well where's some I'll stop the sentence Because it was Rude, but I used to Sometimes I'm not sure if I said it,

but I think it You know Anyway I used to find that Quite Strange How someone would laugh hysterically At something that somebody Said that isn't funny Or it could be rude as well So if I said it It would be rude or offensive But this person says that Because they fancy them It's not offensive and it's not rude It's not inappropriate at all When actually You know, all said and done,

it probably was inappropriate I was That kind of double standard So I struggled with that a little bit So I don't have those I don't really have those double standards If someone says something rude I don't kind of care usually Unless it's hostile, then it's different But If it's just Kind of funny Then, yeah Mind you I do understand the being loved up thing When someone Because I remember I went to I had a girlfriend Believe it or not,

I did once And we came back And stayed at my dad's for a couple of days And I was just laughing The whole time We visited a few people And I was just Just being with her, kind of I guess it's Yeah I was probably in a good mood Or maybe a bit hyper Maybe, but Yeah What are you doing?

Stop shaking So I remember reading I watched an interview with Jane Mansfield She's one of my favourite actresses Something about her I think it's She was intelligent She was very articulate When she talked It was a lot of When she was being interviewed It was Just Just like someone I'd like to have met Just, yeah Lovely I don't see much interviews with Marilyn But Jane She had a very high IQ Apparently And She had So the next one is Cognitive dissonance This theory Proposed by Leon Festinger Suggests that people Experience

discomfort When they hold too contradictory beliefs Or when their actions Contradict their beliefs To reduce the discomfort People often change their belief To align with their actions I get that I relate to that completely And it makes sense doesn't it I've done Stuff in the past that I didn't believe I should do Things where I haven't stood up for my beliefs And other times when I have I give an example of When I I'm trying To think One where I did stand up for my beliefs And it didn't go so

well When I worked for the Children's charity We moved into this new building I was working on a reception I ended up having to leave the job Because I was being bullied by the woman Who was the manager One of her favourite Sayings was To the other staff, do you want me to bully her now Or do you want me to bully her out If there was a member of staff That was not liked By the other people And Yeah There was a Time,

I should have kind of Took it further at the time but I was not well So I didn't But she said to me Yeah I'm not going to go through it I've talked about it before, I won't go through it But anyway There was a fox in the garden Now I understand they were Worried, kids were going to be In the garden, there was a fox in there And But this isn't London The foxes hide here They're not quite as Even in London they pretty much come out at night They're

not brazen As brazen though As they are in London You would never see a fox walking down a street Eating an ice lolly Not here Okay But the manager The evil one She was She said I've got to get rid of the fox I thought okay fair enough I said I need your help There was a meeting, I need your help to do this Jason And I said okay So I didn't think anything of it really What I thought What she wanted me to do Was to Find some kind of

Deterrent or something No That's not what she wanted She wanted me to find someone to come and shoot it That's what she wanted And I said no She said I will put poison down And I said no I said I'm not having Any involvement with Killing an animal Like that, sorry And this is during my days when I was really Much more into Buddhism as well back then And I still wouldn't do it now either To be honest And That was the cut off As soon as I did that,

that's when she started picking on me And She She decided To, we ended up putting Down This spray stuff that was supposed to Deter Which is what I Thought she was going to kind of do to start with To be honest And she had me out there Doing it because it was Dangerous chemicals So she had me doing it Of course And It's weird because I left that job I Very few people that I've Not Been particularly pleased with In my life, just a few Not a lot,

she's one of those people And A few years later I was volunteering In The local Theatre And she comes in Just didn't expect to see her again I hoped I wouldn't see her again She comes in with her boyfriend Or some man or whatever What do I do?

She says hello, I give her a hug I mean how, it's just I mean I know There's Yeah I mean I'm not going to start like being horrible To her but Giving her a hug Just a hello would have been enough wouldn't it Hello Hello Hello I did that To someone years ago Well this was years ago Even years before that Someone that I used to work with That I didn't really get on with And she didn't like me I didn't really have an issue with her But she just took a dislike to me It happens Believe it or not,

it does happen And Occasionally So she leaves I see her about a year later In the street And I'm like oh are you alright I gave her a hug as well Are you alright, is she ok, good good Now I might not have given her a hug I might not have given the other one a hug But I was definitely friendly I'm just thinking hugging I'm not supposed to really hug I don't know,

I didn't do anything inappropriate As far as I know The thing is with the Buddhists There's a lot of hugging going on So I kind of I got sort of used to that And I'll even hug my friends Male or female I'll hug my dad When I see him, kiss him on the cheek When we're in public I don't care He's my dad I'll sit there holding hands with him if I want No one else's business,

he's my dad isn't he So I don't care what people think really But as long as the person Obviously I don't want to hug someone if they don't want me to hug them Because that's inappropriate And I don't That's the kind of inappropriateness That I don't want to do I don't mind some inappropriate Verbal inappropriateness Provided no one's Getting hurt or anything If it's funny Anyway for this I reckon everyone's done this Like in the past Maybe not everyone's done it but It makes sense that if you have a belief

system Or Maybe you don't even realise it's there But someone asks you to do Something And you realise that it doesn't fit And then It's gonna feel You know I've done that in the past and I've ended up feeling Angry at myself But also angry at the other person Even though it's not the other person's fault Because they didn't know it was something that I didn't want to do When we first moved into this building The same charity that I was talking about The manager gave me a job We got

on really well before that point She gave me a job Because I was volunteering in there For a year and a half Probably So I was a volunteer So I was well liked By everyone as far as I knew Moved into this new building Gave me a job Part time And I was counselling part time And she said Alright so I'll see you whatever day We need to start painting the place And My whole inside's just Turned inside out I don't paint I'm sorry We It's something that I don't like

It's one of those things I don't like I was forced to paint when I was a kid The house was like a building site For a lot of my childhood And we were constantly Painting and I was kind of Had to do that stuff and I didn't like it And also Although I've done a bit of painting Decorating as an adult The smell makes me feel I don't like the smell of it and stuff And I just don't I don't like someone Telling me to paint She didn't ask You're going

to paint this And I got the real Right up with her Like no In the end I did it Because she was paying So I had to If I wanted the job But yeah It was It didn't sit well because I don't like painting I've got a real Issue with it And I think that's why I've got an issue with soup And I joke about I've joked about soup in the past It's not a real meal And I'll go on for an hour about that But I remembered Something that happened

when I was a kid And it involved soup The soup wasn't Really the issue Or the thing that I remember But it was kind of based around Me not eating my soup Or drinking my soup Because I wanted to watch Handy Pandy on television And soup isn't a real meal It wasn't going to fill me up It wasn't like food It was a drink So I didn't want it And Some stuff happened Although I've always remembered The occasion I've never really thought about The soup part of it And I don't

dislike soup Generally A nice bowl of tomato soup With some toast Although I don't really eat bread anymore But it is pretty Glorious On a cold day It can really be The difference that makes the difference Maybe Maybe baby But to go to a restaurant Which I've done With my dad in the past And we just all had soup That's the meal Soup I say restaurant Somewhere you can buy food to eat Not in a top class restaurant Because soup is a start isn't it That's all soup is Is a

start Unless you just want a snack It's great for people If you've got a cold or something Soup is Liquid It's perfect Perfect for that And I even had a date once Where we I went back to hers I met her at her place before going out And she said Dinner I said oh brilliant So I come round Thinking Well I bought some toilet roll just in case she didn't have any Herself Because I was planning to eat a lot Soup Soup I mean as it turned out I didn't even

have to have a poo To make room I took the toilet roll for no reason It's soup And a slice of bread No butter Just a slice of plain bread I mean I said to her Did you used to be a prison warden Or something She laughed I don't know why she laughed It was a serious question Soup and bread Is this I'm not a prisoner of war Is this supposed to be a date So yeah I can see why Holding two Contradictory beliefs I don't know if I hold two

Contradictory beliefs Maybe I do but I can see two sides Of a story Two sides of an opinion I don't necessarily Hold those Opinions But I can Understand Why a person Would have Either of those opinions You know how one side Is saying this the other side is saying this And yeah They can kind of both be right In a way Because I'm not one of those I don't necessarily Buy into Having a belief system that's Unbreakable And you know I'm going to believe it My parents taught me this and

I'm going to believe it forever My friend Used to say that to me My mum said it's true so it's true You're 47 years old Mate My mum told me that so it's true 47 I mean come on I said that to my friend I said do you realise I don't know if you've realised that about your son Anything you told him He believed Seriously Anything If she had told him today was Wednesday She would believe her He would believe her that it's Wednesday Even though it's Tuesday He wouldn't question

anything she said I've never been like that with anybody Ever It's not that I've never believed anybody But I just I like to fact check I like to kind of I won't say anything at the moment In the moment If someone says to me This is this Especially if I'm corrected But if I'm corrected by a person It doesn't happen that often Not because I'm always right It's just I don't always react particularly well When I'm corrected My mouth starts But I will double check And I'll spend 10 hours if

I have to To research To make sure To see what's true You know Fact check after fact check After fact check Especially if it's something that I knew I knew I knew Then I started to doubt whether I knew it Because the other person told me Something different Especially if it's unimportant as well If it's completely irreverent Irrelevant Irreverent Irreverent Irrelevant If it's irrelevant I would Get a little bit upset with myself Why did I spend so much time Never going to get it back I mean it's like Why did

I do that And then I remember I just love the drama baby Okay that's that trivia Stanford Prison Experiment This is conducted By Philip Zimbardo Very very famous There was a movie made about this 1971 The controversial experiment Showed how quickly people could Conform to roles Of authority And subservience So college students Assigned to be guards In a simulated prison Setting The prison quickly Became unpleasant That's not the word they used But I'm going to put unpleasant While the prisoners became Submissive and stressed And they were just students It was

a game Well it was a study But an experiment And they had to stop it Is my memory of it Because the The students That took on the role as prison guards Were being Very bad Towards the Students That were pretending to be Prisoners I keep remembering the fact that they're students Just to make sense a bit more Yeah I think the movie Probably went Possibly a bit over the top Which they like to do But It really did happen And it's quite amazing To think it Yeah Things like that

just fascinate me Has done for decades There's the bystander effect And This is based on The phenomenon that was Famously demonstrated In 1964 A really serious Crime And supposedly had 38 Witnesses but no one intervened And The same thing happened to my friend's Mum, she was attacked on a bus No one did anything This was in London I think No one did, people were just Did nothing, just sat there And There was A I heard of a I know a story where there was someone being attacked On the stairwell of

a Set of flats And people were just stepping over The person Doing it It's like Just I understand The fear of not getting involved Trust me I'm part human But at the same time Generally You can't Just ignore it You know There's a few things Over the years I've just been amazed Where people are ignoring it There was this really high wind A lot of people listening to this Have had some quite Big weather recently And There was this big high wind There's a lot of noise over there Sounds like

Things being smashed Anyway It's this big high wind And there was this woman rolling around In the wind Literally she'd fallen over Don't laugh You know She wasn't hurt So I suppose you can laugh a little bit She wasn't hurt But people walking People walking past Didn't No one Why are people walking past I mean the thing is There was no cameras in them days So I couldn't film her and stick it on YouTube So I thought I'd go and help So I went over,

helped her up And she was fine after that But nobody Nobody intervened I was like why This is a Quite elderly lady I don't think it should matter what age you are It doesn't matter if you're 2 Or 200 You know, just help the person The other day There was a kid went missing Locally And the grandparents Were distraught I thought they'd lost a dog And I said are you ok Has your dog gone missing or escaped No it's my grandson Thomas or something It's etched in my brain now And

I'm like oh Ok We were all kind of a bit worried Looking for this kid Not looking but Where's he gone I go into the field With someone I'm talking to And I start asking the kids playing football Do you know where he went The grandparents are absolutely Besides themselves They're really upset They said he went for a walk I said yeah but do you know where he went I don't know I don't know mate And just turned his back on me And another kid came up And said no it's fine He went for a walk I said yeah but the grandparents are over there And they're really upset And they weren't,

they were smiling And laughing And the kid just talked to me And said that's Thomas over there Thomas was standing there the whole time Didn't say anything to me Like I'm Thomas, no So I'm asking these kids do you know where Thomas Maybe that's why because some weird man Was asking where he was But I was In some ways I was more concerned about the grandparents Because they're very elderly And I didn't I thought well the stress That could not be good for them You know I'm pretty sure The kid

would be okay but The grandparents you know it's a shock To like Lose a kid and stuff I mean temporarily So I said I'm so sorry I apologize to all the kids And they were like don't worry it's fine Because I wasn't being aggressive but I was being Firm Not firm I suppose I was just Annoying them Because I was like We need to find out where this kid Has gone for the sake of their grandparents Who are over there Laughing Oh I said maybe they didn't like him But yeah

anyway So that was strange No one was interested me and the bloke That I was talking to We didn't even know The grandparents didn't like shout Let us know that they'd found him We were like really like Where is he Concerned Another time There was this lady Lying on the floor With a Elderly lady and an elderly Man And people just walking past her And not everyone Had ignored her to be honest right The people I didn't realize but the people Inside the shop had gone to get A cushion To

put underneath her Her head And So I said has anyone called an ambulance They said no not sure what to do I said you need to call an ambulance So I called an ambulance And I'm sort of talking to her He couldn't he couldn't get that He basically was struggling so he had to Sit on a seat and they got him a chair She couldn't get up And I'm thinking I'm talking to her I said well we need to get you an ambulance Because we don't know you might hurt yourself

But she couldn't move You know it was a weird one She'd hurt herself but she didn't know What level she'd hurt herself She might have done a hip Or a leg or something I think her arm was hurting So She was Laying flat on her back Had a cushion underneath her head So the people There was a lady who came from out of the shop Happened to be a cushion shop which was handy If he hadn't put the cushions On the ground first then she wouldn't have hurt herself When she

fell but then she probably would have tripped Over the cushions So maybe that wasn't a good idea I thought we should have had like a A trampoline shop Because then they could have She could have Her husband could have played on the trampoline while I waited For the ambulance But I looked at her and I saw all these people Walking past A couple of people did stop me And I understand that you don't want a crowd Of people around you Because She was embarrassed clearly And well she said she was

That's why I said clearly Because she told me She didn't say it clearly She mumbled it I'm trying to help you here At least speak clearly And she said I said what She said And I said do you understand what she's saying He said no that's why we stayed together so long If we knew She didn't know what I was saying either Otherwise we would have split up years ago probably I was like what That's a weird thing to say And he said You're weird I said well thanks So what

I did is I looked around and I thought From her perspective Looking up all these people Walking past All she could kind of see was their legs And it's a very vulnerable Position to be in Even though she was safe And Unlikely that anyone would do anything Ridiculous anyway especially in such a public Environment There was hundreds of people walking past It was a busy time So what I did is I lied down next to her On the ground Yes this is one of those heroic stories That I like to

tell Yes We can sing I'm a Hero if you want But we don't need to I can just tell you it We all know it so I laid down next to her Because I didn't want her to feel Like she was on her own Not just not on her own as in Her husband was there But not on her own as in being the only one Lying down At one point she said Look this is my glory moment I don't,

well you're taking the shine off I want people to see me lying down here You lying down here and it's not No one's going to remember me I said well now you can speak clearly She said Yeah I just didn't You didn't look like someone I'd want to talk to I said ok Fair enough But we actually While we were waiting for the ambulance We talked and I made her laugh I had a giggling And That was one of my little highlights My little highlight reels Because she You know she's

To be in that situation It was embarrassing She was probably in her 80's I'd say And To be able to make someone laugh When on the floor after having a fall Waiting for an ambulance In a very public place And by just She found it funny that I laid down next to her She found that hilarious Like this is The most ridiculous thing That she's ever seen anyone do And It took her mind off What she was going through I think And So the good thing is The ambulance turned up

and took her away I don't know what the result was And So the benefit was You know for me I felt good And also I managed to steal her wallet Her purse so that was good So I didn't I didn't do that What other ones, there was another one There was these two men fighting In the street And there was literally like probably 30 people The other side of the road watching Some people filming it I think Or taking pictures This was blimey about 8 years ago 7,

8 years ago It was like, it was weird But then one of them Hit the other one with a mobile phone And the eye went up And busted open This is not going anywhere nice This is not going to end well So I went over By the time I got over the road Because I really took my time 3 days in fact By the time I got over the road They were Basically gripped That sounds weird,

sounds like some kind Of movie They were gripped together They They They had this One was against the wall And the other one was like pushing him But the other one was holding on to him And I just said look You need to just let go of each other And he was saying no he won't He's going to hit me again I said he won't, I'm here it's fine You're not going to hit So eventually they Just let go of each other Partied a little bit And then About a million police cars turned up Turned out that one of them Was a policeman The one that attacked the other one With a phone,

funny enough No one questioned me I was right close and I saw I just walked off and that was it But I just separated them so no more Stuff could happen Because you know That was, you know when you see Something's moving in the wrong direction That's where that was going But To be fair the police were there pretty quick So it probably wouldn't have made too much difference But then my friend downstairs He Went to the Went to the petrol station with my friend He went with his cousin His

cousin went in there and stole Two big packs of beer Walked out with it He walked out of it My friend didn't know he'd stolen it He just walked out of it And my friend was outside We're regulars in that petrol station We don't steal stuff But the manager of the petrol station Comes running out saying You know you've got to bring that stuff back in And He starts struggling and pulling away Because I think he grabs hold of the stuff Falls on the floor You know Popped,

they burst and go everywhere And someone gets out of their car And I saw the actual film footage In The solicitor So my friend ended up getting arrested And found guilty Of Some things Because basically what happened is My friend came So his nephew Was being pushed into the road by this bloke He wouldn't Engage in Fisticuffs or anything like that He put his hands up in the air And was laughing at the bloke He said you can't hurt me You can't push me over But the bloke was pushing him

Into the middle of the road Like a really busy road Now this was the bottom line of my friend Who went over And I saw the film footage And he left it He didn't get involved at all until this last minute He tripped You could see he tripped And it looked like The bloke said he got headbutted by him Which was ridiculous But anyway he tripped So his head did go a little bit forward And then it went Then he grabbed my friend And ended up The first thing I knew

about it is His nephew Knocks on my door here Talks about my friend He's saying He's at a petrol station There's people sitting on him I'm thinking well why are you here Why aren't you there helping him But you know He said don't go there You'll get in trouble I said well I've got no choice But to go there now have I If he hadn't told me I could have continued Watching Play School But now Is Play School even on anymore Sesame Street So I went there And when I got

there there was Two people sitting on him One on his legs and the other one on his chest Holding him So I got involved in that But again The bloke on his legs Got off He got off Which was good He was about seven foot tall But I didn't know the bloke that was Kneeling on his chest Was a police, off-duty police person And I was saying to him You need to let go of him now he can't breathe And he said I'm trying to But he's holding on to me

Which he was so that was a bit of a weird situation So I was trying to calm them down And The police turned up pretty quick And that was Kind of Went on from there But you can't just It's hard to ignore isn't it I'm supposed to just ignore it Because That would be against Again that would be against The police system to just Not do something to help That's why I struggle To say no to people Because That's another thing There's people around here know that And they take advantage

of it Because they ask me for stuff One neighbour is constantly asking me Like Not happy unless they've asked me for At least one thing every couple of days It might just be For a bin bag Or For some newspaper To put on the floor for the puppy or whatever It's like always something It's continuous But But but but but but Every time I try and Turn what I'm doing Into some kind of Financial A way to maybe earn a living It always feels wrong And I just Revert back to

how I am Because I want this to be free And It just seems a shame that The effort I put in That I have put in over the last Nearly 19 years Is that I'm never going to be able To have a Have any kind of like decent lifestyle from it And But I don't want it to be I need it to be free It needs to be free It just has to be It's a free service And every time Even if it's still free And I try and do a

Like I'll do a Patreon or Anything like that It just feels wrong It goes against what I'm Trying to achieve Or what I have been trying to achieve And part of that was the The old cliche I like cliches today Is that if it's free People don't Appreciate it People don't appreciate or value Something that's free And that upset me When I got told that a long time ago That upset me Because I was told that just after Going into hospital,

helping someone To get through A medical procedure And I didn't charge that Person But I know that they Appreciated what I did And the idea that Being told literally The day after I did that People don't appreciate stuff unless they Pay for it Which is just an old, I mean it might be true For a lot of people, I don't know But it's almost that That stuck a thorn in my foot And I've never got it out I am Mr.

Cliche Today Okay, placebo effect I think we all know about placebo effect The well known phenomenon occurs When a patient experiences Improvement in symptoms Simply because they believe they are Receiving treatment Even when the treatment is an inert Substance like a sugar pill Well It goes back to belief Belief is So powerful And I'm not Talking about religion I'm just talking About belief Belief If you ask any Top Performer Let's go In sports Olympics for example You'd be Very hard to find One Olympic Gold medalist That didn't believe In themselves

I would say that's the common thread you've got Between Every gold medalist Ever In the history of the Olympics Or the world games Or whichever Athletic event They believe In themselves Because they have to Because that's the only way to really be The most successful you can be Is Especially in those kinds of things You can't do it half-hearted Well I suppose some people might do it But they're the ones that don't get the medals But I don't believe that anyone That enters the Olympics Has anything But self-belief I don't

think anyone would reach the Olympics Even to be Able to Apply To compete Or even get into the trials To be in the Olympics Unless they had full belief In themselves So belief is hugely Powerful Much more than It's just not given a lot of Belief is almost The only two places It seems to be Is in the kind of self-help movement And maybe in religion Outside of that Belief doesn't seem to be Taken very seriously When it's actually One of the most Powerful things That any of us have And it goes both sides as well Not just positively also The door in the face Technique,

I don't know what this is I'm guessing it involves a door And a face Research Social In social Research in social Psychology shows that people Are more likely to agree to a smaller Request after First refusing a larger one Ah yeah I had people do that with me For example if someone asks For a big favour and is turned down They might follow up with a smaller Request which is more likely To be accepted I don't know why it's called the door in the face technique I suppose it's kind of a sales Analogy Like a door to door salesman I've found it to be The other way sometimes Where people have asked Can you lend me,

I had the other day Can you lend me £20 Okay No actually she No she did do that, she said Lend me £20, oh can you lend me £80, I said yeah yeah sure Yeah okay Okay I'm going to borrow money off someone else to lend you And she said I suppose you could make it £25 could you What about £30 So it's like Went low then went really high Then went low And Yeah I've had that It's amazing, I think Shameless is the word For some people Not everyone,

this is someone I actually like but this I've had some people They're just shameless Literally no shame And they'll happily ask anyone For anything they want It's a whole adage isn't it Like you don't ask you don't get You don't have to keep Asking people For I know people, they literally If they see something on someone's doorstep They will take it So In this building we get We get 12 12 rolls of recycling Bags, just the clear recycling Bags,

2 for each flat They're just dumped in the hallway Sometimes outside The front door but Dumped in the hallway usually Guaranteed Within A couple of hours There'll be maybe 6 left And it won't be anyone In the block of flats took them It's just like what It's honestly I put I took some upstairs For my friend's flat because that was Empty because he wasn't there anymore And they hadn't moved in yet So I took 2 rolls upstairs Turned out to be For a lady I put 2 rolls Outside of each

door Took 2 rolls for myself So everyone got Their 2 rolls each Because the year before We had Ones go missing Just in the time it took me to take I think Vinnie for A trip Outside Got back and there was stuff missing So I thought I'd make sure everyone got their 2 rolls each 2 people Out Downstairs It turned out That my neighbour right downstairs She didn't get hers No Someone came in and stole Her 2 rolls of Recycled paper And we get them once a year It's like why

Why Why Why am I talking about that I don't know but why I suppose because the word door was in the sentence And I just thought that reminds me of a door What happened with doors Oh yeah recycling paper Or recycling bags rather There's the Marshmallow test This is trivia for the psychological testing Conducted by Walter Mitchell In the 1960s This study tested children's ability to Delay gratification This is something that we're studying At the moment actually The children who could wait for a bigger Reward,

2 marshmallows instead Of one tended to have better Life outcomes in terms of academic Success, health and social Skills The thing is I just thought There's so many different Yeah I think it would have been More interesting if it was done on a Huge scale You know if it was almost But maybe also done With people older Like teenage years When someone's like Maybe 14, 15 Do that test But then I guess it would A 15 year old would be quite easy Just to sit there without taking it Maybe Yeah

I think that like A version of it And But then there's that whole thing There was a test where it said Don't press the red buzzer Don't press the red button Whatever you do don't press the red button They'd leave a kid in the room And just suddenly they have to leave the room To go and do something And you film And you see the kids like Wanting to press the buzzer Just to see what happens But that was a different thing I just realised Yeah the marshmallow test Wouldn't really

work Because I said on the online tutorial Perhaps it would be better Doing it with teenagers But yeah I'm pretty sure a teenager Would be able to just sit there For 10 minutes without eating a marshmallow A 3 year old, a 4 year old Maybe not But the idea of I don't know Just the idea of It's almost like that A person's Moral compass Is already developed At the age of 3 or 4 Which is not true So yeah False memories This is interesting because I know a bit about this

Research by Elizabeth Loftus Demonstrates how easily Memories can be distorted or even Fabricated People can be led to remember Events that never happened Especially if they're My stomach's growling Especially if they're influenced by suggestive Information There's also more to that Our memories mix together So I don't have like a Mind you My last grocery delivery The lady said Because I had to give my date of birth For For the delivery To prove it was me Because I moaned Because I had some stuff stolen So She said She gave me the date of birth She remembered it From like 2 weeks ago And I said What?

She said yeah I've got I remember things I hear And also I've got Whatever memory Like a photographic memory I can honestly say I don't think I've ever been more interested In a female in my life In that point I was so interested It wasn't because she was female I was just interested Because I don't think I've ever met Someone with a Didactic With a photographic Photographic memory I don't think I've ever met anyone I've heard about them I wasn't Really sure if it was true or not You know I

kind of You remember every single thing That's ever happened Surely not Where does it go But Yeah she did remember my date of birth Like And it's not on her phone Because they're not allowed to store that by law You know She actually has to put it into the phone As I say it to her And then it says correct or not And that's it It's not like it's on the screen And I have to tell her Because it's a bit like The last three numbers On your credit card It's

not anything like that at all I don't know why I said that But we get our memories Mixed together as well apparently Over time So You know Especially if we do the same thing Might have done the same thing Hundreds of times And that memory Because I've got memories And they're wrong They're in the wrong year And I think wow That didn't happen It might happen It just didn't happen when I remember it happening And you've got the next one This is the last one The over justification effect The over

justification effect When people are given External rewards For activities they already enjoy Their intrinsic motivation Tends to decrease For instance If a child Enjoys drawing And then starts receiving money for it They may enjoy Drawing less over time Wow Wow That's interesting isn't it Maybe that's part of the reason why It's not just about Beliefs but also If you love doing something Maybe getting paid doing it Takes away the love Or reduces the love of doing it Maybe Wow I've not heard that one before I've not read that one before So blimey You'd think it would be the other way Wouldn't you?

I suppose it depends Because if suddenly You have a paymaster Technically If someone's paying you money They can influence or manipulate What you're doing They can start saying I want you to draw this And I imagine An artist would feel almost Like that's what they need to do Because Even though They can do what they want The fact is that person's Giving them money I used to, when I worked at Insurance the second time There was a bloke and he was the Underwriter He'd work in the evenings,

part time He didn't like me When I first started working there But we ended up Being friends He was constantly drawing Because he was an artist That was his passion And he'd draw And he'd do caricatures and drawings Of the other members of staff To make me laugh And would pick images of me With a flute So And he said to me I got offered a job In an animation Studio in London Which is like his Extreme job basically He wanted to be an animator And He wasn't sure whether to

take it or not Because he loves doing it And he didn't know if he'd still love doing it If he took the money If he did it for a living Would he still be able to Would it still be fun I had a similar thing As well with a footballer He was I think he'd been a semi-professional footballer I've known three Semi-professional footballers But this one He was no longer that But he'd actually sit Right next to me But he was a coach For the children's team Or the youth team

At the local football ground Which was a It's the biggest football Team in this area It's like the national Not national But you know what I mean It's the main team So he did it for nothing I think he might have got paid part time I think But he might have volunteered I'm not sure Well he was offered a job To do it To be the coach To be the actual I think assistant coach So instead of just volunteering He got offered an actual job With the I think he was

doing The kids and then he went up to the youth The ones that were kind of Closer to the age of Being professional footballers They were kind of semi-professional Or maybe they were trainees I don't know But anyway he got offered a job to work there It wasn't a lot of money It was probably still more money than what he was getting But it wasn't a lot of money And it was a six month contract And he said he didn't know if he should do it or not And I said

what have you always wanted to do Because he'd already told me What his dream was I want to be a football coach Yeah And what job have you just been offered Football coach He said But it's only for six months I said look If I If I think I had a holiday I had a week off I said if I come back from my holiday and you're still here Then I don't want to talk to you Seriously If you don't take this It's an opportunity A once in a lifetime opportunity

To get a chance to do what you love doing You do it for free Already And they're willing to pay you to do it In the biggest club Within You know 50 miles Okay Not 50 miles 20 miles Maybe There's big clubs Yeah it's not far away But it's It's still a big club It's like a league club I don't know if it's first division or second division Now but And I was like Take it It doesn't matter if it's just for six months It's not going to be hard to get another job Doing this Because it was good at what you did here Like in the sales,

the insurance And let's face it How good would that be Imagine going into a job interview And the interviewer is all day talking to people Interviewing people Like why did you leave your last job So if he says well actually I left To become a football coach On a six month contract Even for a non football fan That's going to be interesting That's going to stand out So yeah He did I took a week off holiday Came back And he was gone He left Took the job,

never saw him again Don't know how he got on But He used to wind me up though He used to keep telling me the wrong information It was a little bit Annoying Because I was new Well newish really I wasn't there long I'd probably only been there for Six months When I told him He should just go But he kept telling me The wrong thing I'd ask him What do I need to do for this thing It's a van Can we insure a van He said yeah it's fine We can't

insure vans He just wind me up Constantly But my attitude was You can't give up on an opportunity like that It's one of the most Amazing opportunities That anyone In his position will ever get To be a football coach And his dream was to be a football coach Since he was a little boy Loves football He lived for football that was his whole life And There are millions There's not many jobs Where there are millions of people Would love to do that job I'd like to be the king But you

know Football wise There are multi multi millions Probably billions Of Football fans Around the world That would love to be a football coach There are probably millions And millions that think That they could do a lot better job than The current football coach of their local team Probably And he had an opportunity to prove himself That he could be good Or that he is good I mean he wouldn't have been offered the job If he hadn't been good to start with So yeah That was years ago I mean this is

back 2013 So I don't know Where he is Or what he's doing How cool would it be if he's He might be a manager of a team now somewhere I don't follow football so I don't know He might be a big name in football Good for him If he is So Okay As far as trivia goes I gave you 10 trivial trivia facts It wasn't a lot And what was I talking for Talking for a little while Okay I'll say a while But You know You know what I mean It's

It's a start It's a start And maybe next week Next Tuesday when I do another trivia Tuesday I will Possibly plan Ahead Unlikely Highly unlikely That I plan Although I do plan for the Q&A Fridays As far as You know I ask On Facebook group Does anyone have any questions for this week's Q&A Friday And every week I get questions And I usually post it on there on a Wednesday I think It's good to have a couple of days notice You know I suppose I could do that For the For

this For the trivia Tuesday Any subjects Trivia subjects you'd like me to To talk about Yeah maybe I'll do that Maybe I'll post that on a Sunday Any Trivia subjects you'd like me to To talk about On trivia Tuesday But at the same time I don't want to like Put too much on people To like you know You might start thinking well we might as well just make our own Recordings You know what I mean If we have to give you all the suggestions If you can't think for yourself I

can think for myself It's just You might not get anything that makes sense If I say it But Yeah So that's the end of this recording I've kind of done it I've talked a little bit About something Can't remember quite why or what Or when I'm feeling the urge to go To the toilet so I'm probably going to go and treat Myself to that So please remember to be Kind to yourself Be gentle With yourself Because you do deserve to be happy Lots of love Bye