(no music) (ASMR) #6 Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is ASMR whisper Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So this is just a, I guess, a softly spoken whisper version of the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts that I've been doing for about four years. By the way that's my cardigan I'm unzipping in case you think something weird's happening.

I've actually got about 911 of those Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts. I think this is number six of the ASMR whisper ones so there's a few I've got a little bit catching up to do. So what I thought I would do is kind of, oh yeah, only listen when you can safely close your eyes and I think I'm going to kind of do what I did yesterday and go through the news, try and find some nice stories, nice stories.

So if I go to Fox News because I did the BBC news yesterday. Let me see if there's any nice stories on the Fox News website. Nope, that's negative.

The amount of negative titles is phenomenal and just weird. I can't really figure it out because I would have thought that people would enjoy reading nice things, you know, like nice stories, happy things, you know, good news. I thought that that would just make sense to me that that would be something that would be interesting, you know, hearing about, you know, I do like hearing about medical advances or scientific discoveries, things like that, but you know, also on a human level it's nice to hear about something that's just, you know, almost life affirming, you know, but hey, we'll find something.

So, nothing so far. It's a bit hot in here. It's a weird, it's a weird time of year.

It's the end of October and it is, you know, it's a really bright day today. I'm going to go for a walk after this, but the temperature sort of, it just changes so quickly. It's, you know, the heating's on automatic, so it comes on when it needs to.

Sometimes it comes on when I don't think it is needed and other times it doesn't come on when I've got icicles, you know, hanging off my ears. Cool, is that okay? Banned Halloween costumes. There's literally, I'm waiting.

Well, this is quite funny. Okay, I'm going to read this. Biden makes fun of reporters with faces, imitations in latest incident, insulting the press.

For me, that's a positive thing, surely. I mean, the press have got so much to answer for. Even for me, you wouldn't believe it, honestly.

Um, you might think, well, who are you? I'm Jason, hi. In 1993, I was doing this comedy gig and it was downstairs at the King's Head. I remember it very well.

And this, I think it was after we got off, after I got off stage and it was like the end of evening. This, I think it was a lady, a lady came up to us, to me and to another comedian and said, and introduced herself and said, I'd like to do a newspaper article on you both. And I said, okay.

And she'd already taken pictures of us on stage. So I didn't, you know, I didn't mind that. I didn't really care.

Well, she was really friendly and she said that she liked what I did and all that stuff. And then she told me what day the article would be in and it was indeed independent. So it wasn't like a tabloid.

It was a proper, you know, well, what we class as a kind of a serious paper. And it was, it was a newspaper that I used to read. I used to like the independent, didn't understand all the words, but, but I used to feel kind of clever reading it, I think.

Anyway, I was all excited about this newspaper article coming out because I thought, ah, this could, this could, you know, enhance or even create my career. Because at that point, things weren't going great. It was, I was just plodding along doing open spots and getting the occasional paid gig and just travelling around London and outskirts of London for three years up to that point.

And when it came out, it was a Wednesday, I'm pretty sure it's a Wednesday, 1993, I think about September. I don't know, I used to have the newspaper, I kept it for about 20 years and then I, I don't know, I must have chucked it away. Anyway, the headline, actually had a headline on the first, on the front cover of the newspaper.

It was like a small headline in the corner, you know, go to page, I think it was the centre pages, I was actually on centre pages. So go to the, go to page 42 or whatever, meet Britain's worst comedian. That's what it said.

Seriously. Now, I wasn't the best comedian, but I wasn't the worst comedian. I had some pretty bad gigs, but at that point, I was starting to get okay.

I was starting to, it was, you know, just things were starting to sort of turn around. Anyway, I laugh now, but it wasn't, you know, funny, really. Oops, banging stuff.

And she, yeah, anyway, I got the newspaper. Inside, there was a picture of me standing there with my long hair, smoking a cigarette, black and white picture of a cool picture. It was actually quite a good picture.

And it took up pretty much the whole of half of the middle for this article. On the other side, there was a newspaper article about Mike Tyson going to prison or something. So that's kind of that period, 93.

And that's when he went to prison. Yeah, I think it was 93. Anyway, so I, I read the article.

And at no bit, no point in the article did it say anything bad about me. But it did about the other comedian that they were reviewing. And she, she did talk about me and she said, what Jason is saying is horrible.

But it's funny. You know, the audience are laughing and so am I. That was her words. Yet, I'd never lived well, you know, for quite a while, I didn't live that down.

It's almost like every single comedian on the circuit read that article. And I was a laughing stock for all the wrong reasons. People were laughing for the first time.

It was just, just ridiculous. I mean, it was horrible. It was really, you know, I wasn't the best.

I didn't enjoy the process. I didn't enjoy that. And that was tiny, a tiny thing.

And I remember, there was this, I only have a real example. I've been in the newspaper since then, for when I was doing a free pain relief service. But that was in 2006.

So yeah, 11 years, no, 13 years later. But that was positive. That's a very positive.

The only thing I didn't like about it is, I don't know why. Why do photographers in newspapers and even television shows choose to do such close up pictures? Very few people look good, really close up on a camera, especially like a really good camera, like a television camera. You know, it's really unflattering angles they do.

And they did a picture of me and I just looked absolutely awful in this, you know, but never mind. Anyway, it was a good article. I've still got the paper, I think, I think I have somewhere.

So I, oh yeah, in 1990, I think it was in the 90s, early 90s. There was a lady who, she had a relationship with a married politician, who was very famous at that point, became more famous because of that. But he was in the cabinet on the front bench, you know.

And the thing is, apparently, she used to wear a Chelsea, Antonio DeSantis, I think her name was. And she used to wear a Chelsea football t-shirt when they were together. And it was this huge story.

And she was encouraged to sell the story to the tabloid press. And I think he lost his job. And it was huge news in this country.

It was ridiculously huge. I could understand why. But she was hated.

I think it was that football connection. I don't know. But she really, for some reason, the public didn't like her because of it.

Now, I didn't realize how bad it was, until it was 90, probably early, early in 1998. I had lunch with her, or an evening meal with her. Because she came, she was she was with her, she was with her boyfriend, who was friends with a friend of my friend, if that makes sense.

So they came in and they invited me to have dinner with them in the club. So I did. And I was sitting opposite her.

And the other lady, I'd known her for years. She was a fashion designer in London. And she just happened to be a friend of my friend.

And she was always friendly to me from 91. You know, so I always saw her every now and then. I didn't know her well, but like, you know, she was just nice.

Apparently quite, quite a well known fashion designer. But since the 60s, I didn't, I didn't know what her name was. Didn't learn it.

But she was always friendly. And she was always, always like dressed really outlandishly as well. So, yeah, I still actually, yeah, I did.

Just remember, I did actually know her fairly well. Because she used to tell me about her business. And she had a shop just around the corner, I think, in Shoreditch, or some studio or something.

Anyway, she was friends with Antonio de Santa's boyfriend at the time. I don't know, they might be married now. I don't know.

And he was a genius with like, in an artistic way, did some kind of renovating, expensive cars, but apparently he was like, just on a different level. So him and the other lady, this is getting all confusing, isn't it? I end up sitting opposite Antonio, the lady from the newspaper. And she was, I don't know, I don't normally use this word, but she was delightful.

It's a very posh word, isn't it? She was very delightful. She was lovely. Absolutely lovely.

I'm not talking, I'm not talking about how she looked. I'm talking about her personality. She was funny.

She was friendly. She was open. She told me all about the stuff that happened, you know, how it happened.

And she also told me that she'd had to move out of the country, her own country, where she was born and lived. She moved to Australia to get away, because people were being aggressive to her, like in the street. She couldn't get away from it.

So she moved to Australia, and I think that's where she met this man, because I think he might have been Australian. I made that last bit up. I've got no idea if it's true.

Sounds good, though. Well, it sounds, it sounds like it fits together with the story. Anyway, so I'm sitting there with Antonio, and she is absolutely lovely.

You know, she's, you couldn't wish for a nicer, friendlier dinner companion. And I know she wasn't my dinner companion. You know, she was with a boyfriend, and we were just there together.

But she was funny, very funny. And I enjoyed it, enjoyed her company. She went for a poo or a wee or something, went to a toilet.

I didn't ask her which. Actually, I probably did when she got back, because that's kind of the kind of thing that I would do. And she was really upset.

And I was like, what's going on? And she said that a couple of the women had a go at her. Not physically, but they were verbally abusive to her. Still, like this is five years after the event, that we still remembered her.

And at one point, she came back, sat down. I imagine the women went back to their table, because it was on a Thursday night in the comedy club. And I was, I was associated with a comedy club.

And some blokes stood up and started shouting that there was like a football song that had been made up about her. And they started singing it. So I kind of stood up and said, stop.

And I'm not sure if I went over there and told them to sit down. I can't remember. But because I was part of the club, so I had authority, but I wasn't going to put up with that.

You know, I've always had this thing, yeah, when it comes to, if it's a comedy club, it should be a friendly environment. I think everywhere should be a weird brain, my naivety. But a comedy club, people go to have a laugh, to have fun, without aggression, without any of that stuff.

I didn't realize that when I was doing comedy, because I was quite aggressive. When I first started, I used to shout at the audiences. This is back in 1991.

I stopped doing that after the first year. But I used to really be quite insulting. Because that's the kind of comedy that I liked.

But I was only 20. So I was quite young. I was only 42.

I was fairly, fairly young. I had and I was very immature back then. I'm still very immature as well.

So I kind of seen firsthand from a personal experience and also from hearing what someone else has told me from a much, much, much bigger version of events, you know, someone that's been in the tabloids, and became famous or infamous overnight. And millions and millions of people knew her name. Now I had, I don't know, cut 100,000 people might have seen my picture.

Some of them might have read the article. Most probably would have just forgotten it as soon as they'd read it. Because it was meaningless.

It didn't have any, anything to it. It wasn't interesting, really, I don't think. But the wrong people read it.

For me, like every single, every comedy promoter, owner or, you know, of a comedy club, probably every comedian. It's just, it's almost like everybody read it. And this is before the internet.

Blimey, if that had been on the internet, that would have ruined, it would have ruined it all. Who knows, it might have created a buzz. You don't know, who knows? I mean, if I'd have been posting videos of myself on YouTube from my videos, you know, if I'd have videoed myself on stage and posted them on YouTube, you know, if it had been now, and I was a 20 year old, I might have gained a following, you know, for being notorious or something, I don't know.

But by 2003, the thing is, by 2000, no, 1993, sorry, I wasn't like that anymore. I wasn't aggressive. I was doing kind of political humor.

A few dirty jokes chucked in, but I was starting to develop my own voice, I guess. And my voice is very well developed now. But it's, you know, it's just me.

And that's the one thing, one of the, probably one of the benefits of doing regular podcasts, or I guess videos, you know, vlogging, stuff like that, you kind of get to sort out who you are as a person. Because almost, if you take away the filter, and just allow yourself to just be you, or I'll talk from my own perspective, just allow myself to just be myself for what I do.

I'm not a terrible person, really, you know, I make these silly podcasts, and I talk about absolute rubbish sometimes.

But I don't think I come across as a, well, to me, I don't, I don't, maybe to others I do. But I don't think I come across too bad, really, as a, as far as being a human, a hooman. So, yeah.

Anyway, I don't know how I got into that. Let's talk about President Biden. President Biden, this is on foxnews.com. President Biden appeared to mock reporters as they shouted questions at him during a meeting with Israel President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Wednesday.

By the way, those listening, President Biden, he's the US, United States President. Not everybody might know that. Some people might be listening to this and thinking, why did you, why did you say Israeli President, but you didn't say what President Biden was? See, there might be people in other countries that don't know.

I don't know. I don't know who knows what knows when and how much, you know. That wasn't even a sentence, was it? So Biden hosted the Israeli President to announce a new agreement between Israel and Lebanon during a bilateral meeting in Washington.

Let's have a look. Okay. It says at the conclusion of the meeting, both leaders who are seated opposite each other turned their attention to reporters in the back of the room.

The two men sat in silence as a raucous press corpse shouted questions at them. Biden could be seen imitating, imitating reporters, raising his eyebrows and moving his mouth to silently mimic talking. He was also seen laughing and slapping his knee before reporters were escorted out of the room.

I've seen so many of these situations where politicians are being shouted at by reporters and journalists. And some of the things that the journalists shout out are so rude. I don't mean like sweary, but just rude and obnoxious.

And I'm surprised because I don't think I'd have the calmness to keep quiet. The ability to not shout stuff out. That's why regardless of what anyone thinks about former President, before Biden, if there was, if there was a journalist or reporter that was rude, he'd kick them out of the room.

I respect that. I do. If someone's going to come in and just be rude and obnoxious and just basically try and cause trouble, kick them out.

I mean, you would, wouldn't you? If it was in your, if you had a party, if you had a party and someone came in, I don't know, doing something that's just absolutely irreversibly unforgivable. I don't know, like wearing a cowboy hat. You'd have to kick them out.

You'd have to say, get out. That's it. Don't come back.

You know, what do you mean wearing a cowboy hat? There's nothing wrong wearing a cowboy hat. It's everything wrong with wearing a cowboy hat in public, like it's normal. It's not normal.

It's not. Yeah, 200 years ago, but not now. Come on.

You don't see the indigenous population walking around with headgear and bows and arrows. That's not racist. That's, that is, you know, Apache used to, you know, that's how things were back then.

Just like, you know, walk around with holsters and stirrups on your boots and stuff like that. In this country, we don't walk around with bows and arrows like Robin Hood anymore. We don't.

Little hats with feathers sticking out, dressed in green. I rarely dress like that. But that's our tradition.

That's, you know, if you go far enough back, just like you go to, if you go to Italy, they're not all dressed like Romans. They used to be, not all of them, but you know, a lot of them used to be dressed like Romans with all the, you know, the gear, the Roman costumes. They're not dressed like that now.

I walk around with shields and my big feathery shoulders. You know, you go to Japan, you got people walking around dressed as ninjas. You see what I mean? It's, you know, get with the times, baby.

See, I think I covered myself with that, with something, I don't know what, I don't care. I do the gear. I just think the cowboy, it is so big.

The cowboy hats are so big. They're like twice the size. They're like sombreros.

And if you walked into a bar in Mexico wearing a sombrero, I imagine you'd be escorted out of that bar. Why you don't let me in? I want to drink. That's my Spanish.

English. I can't speak Mexican. I don't know how to.

I see this something. I'm a boxing fan, right? And I don't know why. Why? This has been not bugging me, but just it's a curiosity I have.

Boxing announcers, you know, the man or woman in the ring. I say woman. I've only ever seen one woman in the ring announce a boxing match.

But no, that was a woman referee. I don't think I've ever heard a woman announce a boxing match ever so far. It will happen.

I've just never seen it. It probably has happened loads of times. I just, they don't show it on television.

So the ring announcer announcing the boxes. And when it comes to Mexican fighters, they pronounce the Mexicans name and where the mix where they're from, with an American with a Mexican accent. They try and say in Mexican, not in a Mexican, but with an American with a Mexican accent.

Yeah, if the boxers from Africa, or the boxers from France, or the boxers from Italy, or the boxers from Iran, or wherever, they don't do it then. You don't have the boxers from, I don't know, from, and now, Antoine Nicodemus, that's Italian, Francisco Sabon, from Calais, Francois, they don't do that. They say, Bobby, whatever, from France.

They don't even try and do an accent, or try and pronounce the boxer's name with an African accent, or with a Dutch accent, or with a German accent. They don't do it. But for some reason, when it comes to Mexican, they do.

And I kind of, I don't understand. Why don't they do it with all? And I'd love to see it, because it'd be funny to watch. Especially if they get it wrong, which they will, because there's no one out, well, I bet there's very few people in the world, who have this skill, and the linguistic ability, to do like every accent, and pronounce every name correctly.

You know, and every town, and every, you know, there might be a couple of people in the world that can do that, but I can't imagine there's many, I can't imagine many people that would want to, and why would they need to, but it'd have to be a, a chore of love, I guess. But yeah, it's, this is something that I've wondered, because you see the Americans, like they're, because it's a big American fight, and they got someone fighting from Mexico, let's say, because Canelo, for example, he's a huge star, and all his fights are in America, pretty much.

He does, he comes to England as well.

So, if he fought an English fighter in America, let's say an English fighter went out there, the announcer would say, and it's, so, Canelo, Alvarez, you know, putting on a Spanish accent, and pronouncing his name with a Spanish accent, and you know, where he's from, and all that stuff, yeah. But when they came to the English person, let's say they're from Liverpool, or from Scotland, let's say from Scotland, they wouldn't say, and now, Paddy McDavis, you know, it's like, now, Paddy McDavis from Scotland, that's it, not, hey, Paddy McDavis, they wouldn't say, now, Paddy McDavis from Scotland.

They don't put an accent, it's a very bad accent, but they don't even attempt it.

Why do they do it with, why do they do it with Mexican? Why do they, you know, why do they do it, why do they do it French? Why don't they do it, you know, that's my thing, why do they do it everywhere? It's very strange, and it's very pretentious. This is my, I watch a lot of boxing, so I know of what I talk. There's got to be another thing, I don't know if it's just America that do this, because most of the fights I watch are either American or English, in England or America, very few big fights.

I saw recently there's one in Australia, but in America, because it's such a multicultural place, quite often they'll have, they'll have, for example, a non-English boxer fighting another, like a non-American boxer fighting another non-American boxer, like for example, Triple G, Golovkin, he's a huge star, or Lomachenko, another huge star, or Canelo, another huge star. So they're all from other countries and they might fight someone from Trinidad, or they might fight someone from Colombia, you know, as an example.

So it's a huge fight.

Both of the fighters from other countries, so they do, if it's, it'd be a world title fight generally. So they play the national anthems, first of all of the opponent, you know, the challenger, they'll play their national anthem first, then they play the national anthem of the champion who is defending their title. I'll say his title because there's women boxers as well, so it's him or her, whatever.

In America, they also have to play their own national anthem afterwards. But why? I never understood that. It's just, why? We don't need three.

It's bad enough we have to listen to two. We don't need three national anthems. I don't think we need any national anthems.

This is a boxing match. This is not a declaration of war, you know, this is just people, this is a sport. I know they do it in football, they do it in rugby, I think.

So, but that's countries against each other. Boxing's not countries against each other. It's just two individuals who happen to be from different countries on this occasion.

That's it. They don't do it at Wimbledon, they don't do it in tennis, they don't do it in golf, they don't do it in, um, I don't know if they do it in a UFC, do they? MMA? I don't, you know, why, why in boxing? I don't really get it. It just holds proceedings up.

And then they get someone to sing really badly. Or, okay, but it's hard for them to sing it because quite often they do it a cappella. And it's hard to do that when there's a lot of people, they probably can't even hear themselves singing.

I mean, it's very difficult, I imagine, to do that. So they do get out of tune sometimes and so I'm not judging that. I am, but I'm not, but I am, but I'm not, but I'm not, I'm not really, I'm not really judging it.

But just, it just takes time. I don't think it's necessary. I just don't, like, just get on with the boxing.

And then they change things depending on who's fighting. So, giving an example, Canelo Alvarez. He's a huge star in America, well worldwide boxing.

He was the number one. Not sure if he's number one anymore in the pound for pound. Anyway, his recent fights, even when he's the challenger, the challenger for someone else's world title, he gets star billing and he shouldn't.

It's not, it's not necessary. It's not like they're going to get more people come and watch it. People are watching it, fans of his will watch it regardless of if he's first or second on the poster, you know, as far as names.

But they have him go into the ring second. And tradition, tradition states that the challenger goes into the ring first, you know, before the fight starts. And then the champion steps into the ring second.

It's tradition, it's respect. The challenger's national anthem or the challenger gets read out first. And the champion, you know, details like their name and their boxing record.

The champion gets read out second. And then if there's a national anthem, the national anthem of the challenger gets sung first, then the national anthem of the champion. And depending on which country you're in, the national anthem of the country themselves, for some reason, again, regardless if it's England, or if it's China, or if it's Spain, I don't understand why they do that.

It's got nothing to do with like, well, if people need a national anthem to hear that, to know where they are, then they really shouldn't be leaving the house on their own, should they? You know, if you need to hear the national anthem to know what country you're in, then there's something wrong. There's something wrong there. It's like, no, they played their national anthem, so we have to play our national anthem.

Yeah, he's, he's had a burger, so I've got to have a burger. He's got a new car, so I've got to have a new car. It's that kind of mentality.

It's just, it's not a competition. We all know where we are. We don't need to put flags up.

We don't have to have this couple of neighbours got English flags. Like, don't you know what country you're in? To be fair, it probably helps them find their way home when they're drunk, maybe, I don't know. Oh, it's the one with the flag.

I live, I live in the flag. I live there. I'm glad I put that flag up.

I don't know the words to my national anthem. And I think part of the reason for that is because I didn't have to stand up in my classroom every single day of school and sing it. If I had, it would be etched in my mind.

You know, that would have been, but there are songs that are in my mind, some of the, because in English schools, well, it used to be the case, you know, I'm talking about back in the 80s. I don't know about now. We used to have assembly.

So what that was, was the whole school would get together in one big hall. And we would, the head teacher or deputy head would just blur on about some crap. And then we would then sing songs, hymns, religious, Christian songs.

That was normal. I didn't go to a Christian school, because pretty much all schools were Christian schools, apart from those that weren't. Well, it's kind of obvious, isn't it? And what I mean by that is there were Catholic schools that were, you know, like my dad went to a Catholic school.

And so I didn't go to, I used to live with Catholic nuns. So I used to be a Catholic when I was very little. But then all schools, pretty much most just general schools were classes Christians, because, you know, your first name used to be your Christian name.

That's how things were back then, in the 70s and even in the 80s. The idea of what's your first name? That that's quite a recent thing. It used to be Christian name.

But then of course, you know, things, things change. And all for the better, I'm sure. And there's other belief systems and is I don't know, I don't know what this country is anymore when it comes to religion.

Lots of different religions. I'm a Buddhist really now. So I'm not really a Christian, although I'm kind of, I don't want to talk about religion, blimey.

I don't want to talk about religion. But yeah, I do. I still love Jesus, I can't help it.

It's hard not to, but still, I still love reading about him. But I am a Buddhist, from the Buddhist philosophy. I love Buddhist philosophy, the Buddhist teachings.

And a lot of it does not fit into today's society. But a lot of things really do. So I think with things like that, it's choosing.

Some people say no, it's not. If you're going to be in that religion, you need to do everything and take everything, you know, for its word, you need to believe everything that's been written. Which to me is a little bit dumb.

Because a lot of things are very outdated. You know, they're not valid anymore. Not valid.

And if you completely ignore the times we're in, I don't know, it just seems that it's causing problems for ourselves, making things harder than they need to be. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. What am I talking about? This is supposed to be light-hearted.

While the question-shouting practice is common for public appearances involving the President, Biden has expressed his frustration with the dynamic in the past. I don't blame him. I think it's annoying.

And I think if he's making fun of them, good, good, good, good on him. In fact, go further and kick him out. If someone's being obnoxious and rude, and let's face it, if you hold the highest position in your country of, let's say, 360 million people, you kind of deserve a bit of respect from the press, you know? Just generally, a little bit of courtesy, not to be mistreated verbally, you know, whoever you are.

Just, it seems to be fair, whoever you are, even if you're not an important politician, just as a human being, doesn't everyone deserve a little, just a bit of respect, not to be shouted at, and to have people ask questions that they already know the answers to, and they're just shouting the questions out in order to antagonize the person that they're shouting at. That's another thing, you know, politicians get a hard time because they don't answer questions yes or no.

But the reason they don't answer questions yes or no is because the questioner tries to be clever, so that either way they answer, they're going to come out looking bad.

They do it purposely, they ask questions in such a way, and quite often it's, do you agree that, and, you know, or they ask a question that's so multi-layered that there is no yes or no answer. And when you get a politician that does answer yes or no, there's usually that like, oh, it's so fresh, but they don't last. They get themselves in trouble, because if you just answer yes or no to a question that's been asked in such a way, the question's been asked in such a way that there's no winning.

It can be interpreted in different ways. The answer can be interpreted in different ways, which means someone's going to get upset, someone's going to read more into it. So it's not that I feel sorry for politicians, but they're on a losing streak in a sense of they can't win.

They might be ahead for a little while, like Tony Blair was ahead for a little while, you know, people loved him for a few months when he first became Prime Minister, and now he's not remembered very fondly by a lot of people. It's kind of Churchill, although, you know, old Churchill the saint and white stuff, people go on about how wonderful he is or was, but during his premiership, the second time, he was not liked.

They kicked him out.

And before he became Prime Minister the first time, he was not liked. He wasn't even liked by his own colleagues. People forget that.

Oh, he's the saviour of the world. And he was an amazing man. And I'm not going to say anything bad about him, obviously, because he, if it wasn't, well, he saved my granddad's life, because he managed to end the war.

And my granddad was imprisoned by the war. So if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't exist, because my granddad wouldn't have been released from the camp that he was being held by the Germans. So he wouldn't have had my dad, and my dad wouldn't have had me.

So I've got Churchill to thank for that. Partly, and that wasn't just him, it was lots involved. But, you know, if you're going to sort of, let's say, thank one man, which is impossible to do, really, to thank just one person for an outcome.

You know, ultimately, it was the soldiers, it was the public, it was, you know, it wasn't just one person's decision, one person in charge of everything. But he was at the top. So if it hadn't been for whatever, I don't know that much about what Churchill did, but if it hadn't been for what he did, and, you know, to end things, to end the Second World thing, I wouldn't be here.

So I owe a debt to that man. So people like to like, you know, push down statues and stuff like that. When you realize you wouldn't be here, mind you, a lot of those people might have been here because they might not have been affected by what happened in the past.

But I definitely wouldn't have been here because my granddad would not have got out of that camp. He probably wouldn't have survived a few more months, to be honest. So I'm here because of Churchill.

I mean, I'm alive because of Churchill, because, you know, he saved my granddad. My granddad had my dad, and I don't have to go into that much detail. My nanny and granddad, they did a thing together.

And then they had a baby. And then that baby got older, and then that was my daddy, and he did a thing with another person. They had a baby, and it was me.

It was me. Yeah. Yeah, me.

Me. Little baby Jason. And now I'm 100 years old.

Wow. There's literally, there's, there's not one. What's this here? Nicole Kidman wishes husband Keith Urban a happy birthday in loved up photo.

I mean, that's not a story, really. But you know what? It's a picture of them both looking happy. And lots and lots of people behind them in uniform looking happy as well.

One particular one that I've just fallen in love with. Wow. So I've got no idea.

I'm not gonna read the article, but at least it's positive. It's a nice article. I mean, I can't say that Fox News website is any more negative than the BBC.

It's on par. Oh, what are the what are the odds of a white Halloween? I hope they're talking about snow. Yeah, they are.

And apparently in the US, the odds have changed about having snow on Halloween. There's an Alaskan based climatologist, Dr. Brian Brettscheider, or Schneider. And he says that there's a probability of a white Halloween, which is October the 31st.

It's always, it's always October the 31st. It's like Christmas is December the 25th. When is Easter? It's always like a random day, which is weird.

Because Easter for some reason, for some reason, in this country anyway, I don't know about others. I say that all the time because I generally don't. I mean, look, China have their different New Year's Eve, don't they? New Year's Eve is a different time of the year.

And they close on Tuesdays. Do they do that where you are? They close their restaurants, Chinese restaurants close on a Tuesday. All through my life, they've been closed on a Tuesday.

Why? What's what happens on a Tuesday? That's my question. What happens? Does the whole of China close on a Tuesday? I could just Google it. I don't know why I can't be bothered though.

So is Thanksgiving Day the same day in November every year? Like 22nd of November or something? I don't know. Is it the same date? But yeah, Easter has to be on Sunday in this country. So like Easter 25th, it doesn't matter what day of the month, what day of the week it lands on, it's the 25th regardless.

And then the same as with New Year's Eve, whatever dates, whatever day it's on, New Year's Day the same. But Easter always has to be on a Sunday. I don't know how that came about.

So which means Easter arrives on a different day each year. Unless you know what day it's going to be, you can't necessarily predict it. So what date's Easter? 25th.

That's it. February, is it February the 14th is Valentine's Day. Now in England, we have November the 5th, which is Bonfire's Night.

So you don't have that. I think anywhere else, but in England, maybe Scotland as well, I don't know, Wales. And that was a celebration of a terrorist attack.

Well, an evaded and avoided terrorist attack on the House of Parliament, I think. Apparently, if I remember rightly, the gunpowder, they had to put these gunpowder barrels underneath the House of Parliament. I think they all got moldy, or got wet, and they wouldn't have gone off anyway.

But they were discovered or something. That's my memory of it. But it kind of might have been partly made up as well.

I'm known to do that sometimes. I don't know. It seems a bit weird, though, to celebrate a failed terrorist attack, which at the time would have been one of the biggest terrorist attacks in this country, history.

Blown up the House of Parliament, where all the Prime Minister and the, you know, all the Parliament live, or, you know, not live, but go. That would have been absolutely, it would have changed history. We're looking to change history, but it would change the future from that point onwards.

You can't change your future, can you? You know what I mean? It would have changed. Things would probably be different now than they would otherwise have been, you know, in a way that it might be unrecognisable. So Guy Fawkes or Guy Fawkes Night, so Guy Fawkes was the man who was the naughty man.

But it's weird that we celebrate it, first of all, by having bonfires, which is how Guy Fawkes got, I think he got burnt. That was his, so he put on a fire. So we get Guy Fawkes, we have these little made up figures of humans and we put them on it.

And that's just kind of a bit secret, isn't it? And then, if the terrorist attack on the House of Parliament had been successful, it would have caused complete, you know, things going everywhere, all that stuff. So we celebrate it not happening by, we're having fireworks, which is basically mimicking what would have happened had it been successful. I mean, why not just go the whole hog and just have a miniature version of the House of Parliament and just blow it up, you know?

It's weird.

You know, we're mimicking what would have happened if it had been successful by having fireworks. A very strange way to, and how did it become a celebration, like a firm date in the English calendar? I mean, there must have been other things that happened that were equally as important, but didn't get in the calendar. Why that one? I don't know.

I don't know why. It surprises me. I just don't get it.

It's got to be, I don't know. It's very surprising. It even surprises me.

But yeah, that's the history behind Guy Fawkes and November the 5th. Then, of course, you've got Christmas, Halloween, 31st. So, I mean, that tradition comes from us anyway, from England, as does cricket, as does football, as does many things.

Because, let's face it, most countries were us. Well, not most, but a lot of countries were us. America, Australia, India, for how many hundreds of years, 200 years was it, were owned.

But, you know, we just, we owned half the world at one point. So, I say we, not me, not me, not me. I didn't do anything, don't blame me.

I had nothing to do with it. I don't own anything. I don't own countries, but the country I'm in used to.

The only problem we had really is we didn't have enough, well, there's lots of problems, but we didn't have enough people. You've got to have more employees. If you can have lots of companies and branches all around the world, you've got to have employees in there to keep it going.

We just didn't seem to. I think they rested on their laurels a bit. It's a shame.

It's so nice to, it's so nice to have places to go on holiday. You know, I'll go to, go to America, stay in my holiday home. Don't need a passport because it's part of my own country.

That's handy. If I go to Australia, Hong Kong, in my lifetime, in my lifetime, just in this short period in the last 30 or 40 years, Hong Kong and Australia have been handed back. I think we still owned Australia.

That might not be true, but they were definitely part of the commonwealth. Commonwealth or something, but we owned Hong Kong. We owned, or we were in charge of Hong Kong.

We ran Hong Kong. We were the boss. We handed it over because I think we had it for a hundred years.

I don't know why. Blimey, I've got no idea why. And you know what? I don't care.

It's weird. I wish I did, but I don't. I really don't.

I mean, for me, telling the truth and just making stuff up, it's the same. It's all the same. It's just a bunch of words, just a bunch of words.

I don't care. No, I'm just messing around. So I'm going to go.

So, yeah, I kind of find it interesting how things got to where they are. How, I'm quite interested in how America became so, or how, okay, how Halloween became so important in America. It's a big deal as far as I've been told.

I mean, I've got quite a few American friends online and they've told me Halloween is huge, bigger than it is here, much bigger than it is here. But then if you go to Mexico, is it Mexico? They've got the Festival of the Dead or something, haven't they? Which is just huge as well. It's like, and then you've got other countries where they walk around that big religious wall thing, like millions of people go every year and walk around it.

It's, I know it's not the same as Halloween, obviously, I'm not comparing the two, but it's just, I think it's kind of fascinating how we ended up with these traditions. That's all, that's all I'm saying. It's just, I find it quite fascinating how, yeah, I guess it's just, just sociology, isn't it really? It's just, I suppose if I could find out, couldn't I? I could just do a little bit of research and maybe study the subjects, but I'd rather just talk from ignorance though, you know, it's just easier.

I'm not that bothered of what the facts are. I'm interested, but not interested enough to actually type into Google. It's weird, isn't it? And I've got the laptop in front of me, or the iPad, and I could search, but I just can't be bothered.

It's almost like lifting my hand and just, no, I haven't, yeah, it's just, no, my hand's not moving. It's just weird, isn't it? It's just, I don't mind, I don't mind made-up stuff, it's fine, because it doesn't mean anything. I can't be wrong if I make it up.

I can be wrong, but, yeah, I can be wrong, obviously. Anyway, I'm gonna go. Thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself. Lots of love. Bye.