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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com, my name is Jason Newland, Jason Groovy Nuland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Today is Tuesday the 4th of March, 2025.

Vinnie is trying to decide whether or not to eat his dinner, I think he's going to. I've enticed him by giving him some little bits of sausage, and he prefers the sausage than the food, which you know makes sense, but he's been a little bit fussy as late. Yeah, a bit annoying, a bit annoying, because you know he's got to eat, I don't think he even went to the toilet this morning, or last night, but it doesn't stop him eating sausages, so I don't think there's anything wrong with his tummy if he still eats sausages.

How many more times do you think I can say the word sausages during this recording? So, so, so. I always start off tired when I do these recordings, it always used to be the case, even when I did group sessions, group relaxation sessions back in 2006, I always used to yawn before I started, and whenever I did a one on one hypnosis session, I always yawned beforehand, like in front of the client, and then I started counselling, and I had to kind of hold the yawns in, because it doesn't always look very good, not a great response when someone's telling you about all their problems and you start yawning,

but it's never through boredom, I don't yawn through boredom, it's just one of those things, sometimes I yawn, but once the yawns are out, I'm okay, it's, I suppose it's a bit like Vinnie when he does a poo, suddenly he has lots of energy, he jumps around and plays, and you know, I'm a bit like that, I guess a yawn is like a poo, in a way, once it's out, I've got a bit more energy, a bit more focus, yeah, never really thought about it that way before,

and perhaps I should never have thought about it that way, and perhaps even more so, I shouldn't have verbalised it, oh well, too late, too late now, oh my back, oh, so, another really nice day, sunny, blue skies, but very frosty on the grass, and I took video about, I don't know, half nine, quarter to ten this morning, and the grass that wasn't wet, was still frosty, so basically the grass that was in the shade was still frosty, so it wasn't, it hadn't, clearly it hadn't been particularly warm first thing this morning,

or during the night, but then it's rarely warm at night in this country, I mean sometimes it is, but you know, even a lot of the summer is cold at night, even when it's warm during the day, although there are some nights when it is warm, it depends, so what a lot of people don't, or what a lot of people may not know, that live around the world, they may not know how unusual the weather is in England, you may think, what do you mean unusual?

Well, we can actually have like three seasons in one day, it might seem strange, but you know, it can snow in April, which is spring, like and you can also, like in one month in April, but you said one day, come on, just don't give me a hard time, so in April we could literally have snow, then we could have a heat wave, then we could have like floods, a tremendous amount of rain, it can be really hot and really cold, it's just weird, and we have days when even in the winter,

when it's really, really lovely, like really warm sunshine, and then, you know, a couple of hours later, cold, very, very cold, and then, you know, and then maybe it'll be snowing later, or raining, or sleet, I've seen sleet in the middle of summer before, not sleet, hail, hail rather, hail, proper hailstones, in the middle of summer, on a hot summer's day, yeah, it was 1979, but I remember it, because it's an unusual thing to happen, it might be 1978, I was just thinking, what was the best year of my life,

best year of my life as a child, because I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna give a year for as an adult, because I'm still here, but as a child, I think my best year in memory, because, you know, bear in mind, there's a lot, I don't remember every single thing that happened, thankfully, but I, I would say 1977 summer, till 1988 summer, and I realise that's over two years, but that period, the summer 1977, until the summer 1978, best 12 months of my life as a child,

it's a few weird things happened, a few things that weren't great, but that's just life, but it was a good year, generally, and then my little brother was born, it all went, it all went downhill, it kind of did actually, family wise, but it wasn't his fault, and you know, it kind of, you can't go back, you can't go back, but I think it would have been so cool if we did, I mean, it probably would have been pretty much impossible to do it, but if we'd have been able to stay in that little house,

no more kids, just the three of us and the parents, and but then it wouldn't really have been fair, because I had my own bedroom, which was very, very cool, but my older brothers, they had bunk beds, so that wouldn't have really suited them once they became teenagers, they didn't get on anyway, so as long as I had my room, that wouldn't have really bothered me too much, because it's all about me, and yeah, I liked that house, because it was a council house, it was a new build,

when we moved in, it was still a building site, like they were still building other houses, I just hear people shout, we know what a building site is, all right, don't have a go, but the ground hadn't even settled, like in the garden, it was like quicksand, and trust me, my dad tested it out on me first, for some reason, like just walk to the end of the garden, can you just get me that bucket, please, yeah, that's it, and don't worry about shoes or anything, but I only went up to my waist,

it failed, but it was really fun, it was just, it was nice, nice times, first time we'd ever, in my memory as a human, living in a human lifestyle, I never actually really lived like that, like as a family, in a nice safe environment, having my own room, my own room with, what was it, Bruce Lee poster on the wall, I was, yeah, every week we used to, I used to get pocket money, and I would exchange that pocket money, I think, well, we used to get comics as well,

so I used to get the Dandy, and I used to get Lookin' magazine, so they were my two comics I got every week, my other brother, who was two years older than me, used to get, I think he used to get Wizarding Chips and The Beano, and my oldest brother, I think he got a war magazine, a war comic, which they were still quite popular back then, and a football one as well, because he was a big football fan, that's the one thing I didn't take after him with,

I took after his love for Elvis Presley, and I still love Elvis Presley, love his songs, I've never heard an Elvis Presley song that I didn't like, to be honest with you, just, it's his voice, just, yeah, big fan, I've never been a bigger fan as my brother, I mean, he was fanatical about him, and I guess growing up during that period of my life, from the ages of seven to 15, I suppose, listening to Elvis songs being played continuously by my oldest brother, I, it was kind of a subliminal thing,

I suppose, and back in them days, I remember, yeah, the Elvis Presley films used to be on the television quite a lot, especially in the late 80s, the late 80s, the late 70s, yeah, there's one particular occasion, I remember there was, we were in the living room, and I think we were getting ready to move, getting ready to move to the bigger house, and so half the, half the house was kind of already packed up, and we were watching an Elvis Presley movie on television on a Saturday early evening,

and my nanny Waker, who was supposed to be traveling down with my nan and granddad, who were going to be taking over the house, they were sort of changing tenancies, she wasn't able to make it due to, you know, passing away, so she was determined not to come, like genuinely, she was not going to come, and she didn't, she said I'm not moving, and she stuck to her word, it was, she really didn't want to leave London, so my nan and granddad came anyway, and I just remember that,

because it was weird, because I like my nanny, my nanny Waker, because she used to give me money, but she was, she was bedridden, bedridden, she was in a bed a whole, bedridden is not a nice word, is it, bedridden, bedridden, she was in bed every time I came around, I mean, I don't think she ever got out of bed, and my nan cared for her, and it was my granddad's mum, and she was always so nice to us, it was great, because up to that point,

I never had a great grandmother, never had a grandmother, so in 1977, suddenly I got reintroduced to my biological grandmother, my nan, nanny Newland, who, I didn't know who she was, I mean, she knew who I was, and I had met her when I was a baby, but I didn't, didn't know who she was, until I met her, when I was, just before I was seven years old, so suddenly I had a nanny granddad, I had on my stepmum's side, a nanny, but that was a different nanny,

but she had a different name, and so one was nanny Newland, and the other one was nanny, what her name was, and I had, yeah, a great, well, nanny Waker was my great, great, was it great nanny, great grandma, so my granddad's mother, that great grandmother, isn't it, but she was lovely, so happy to see us, and I used to look forward to seeing her, I didn't see her much, even when we visited, because we, really, what are you doing, because when we first moved there, with my dad and his new wife,

we were visiting London quite a lot, you know, it was, while they were down visiting us, it was, it was a lot of, I had a lot of contact with my nan, and my nanny granddad, and my granddad didn't hardly say a word to me anyway, but my nan was always, my nanny Newland was always super friendly, like always, from then right the way up to the last time I saw her, always happy to see me, the only person I've ever met in my life that's been happy to see me,

like every time, unless she wasn't, and I just didn't read it very well, but she always, always seemed happy to see me, and she would drop whatever she was doing, to make time for me, now I wouldn't even do that, you know, which says something probably about me, but if I'm watching something on telly, and the phone rings, and I don't want to answer it, then I won't answer it, I'll call them back, but you know, if it's a game show, and it's on live TV, and like Deal or No Deal,

for example, and you've watched like 50 minutes of it, and now they get into the last box, like okay, what am I just now going to ignore, and waste the last 50 minutes of my life, for a conversation that I can have in 10 minutes time, now he's eating his bone, still hasn't had his dinner, I don't know what to do, I keep chucking food away, not keep chucking food away, it's an exaggeration, but yeah, it's weird, because that's the food over there, it's been in a bowl for a few days,

it's, you know, I think it's going moldy, I think I need to chuck it out, not the food that I'm trying to get him to eat, there's a different bowl that's on top of the desk, that's, I'm not sure, yeah, it's definitely got a fishy smell about it, but anyway, let's not focus on that, or the fact that that's his metal thing, needs to get out of my desk, keep banging into it, have I had any comments on my thing, no, Jason Newland's boring group, nothing, YouTube, any comments, nothing,

I've now got 1498 subscribers on my thing, I did have 1999, I thought, but clearly not, 198, 198, oh no, 197, it's now 198, right, fair enough, I did a video yesterday, and it was counting down to sleep, and it was number 527, deep sleep whisper hypnosis, and it hasn't even had many views, normally the deep sleep ones get quite, quite big views quite quickly, compared to the other videos, but this one, yeah, oh well, I'm not making a video with this recording though, this is just me on the cam,

on the camera, on a microphone, because this suits me better, I can't, I don't like being on camera anymore, this don't, I like to be able to just, I could be more myself like this, just how it is, so there, what can you, you know, it's just how it is, I don't know why I'm thinking about 1977 for, I wonder why, I suppose I was thinking about it the other day, like what would be the best year of my life, and then I thought, okay, that's a hard one,

it's a lot of years, best year of my childhood, and I would say, yeah, that period living in that house, so moving out of, wherever we moved out of, because initially, is he being annoying, that's really noisy, he stopped, you notice he's going quiet now, now he's going back again, when we moved from South End Children's Home, me and my three brothers, no two brothers, we moved into this house, which was a council house, I think it was a council house that my, my new step mum, my first step mum,

her mum lived there, and I think that they were both living there as well, so we moved in to there, now I generally have no memory of where we slept, and I've never tried to remember it, I remember parts of being there, living there, so he does that, you don't want to try and do a deep sleep whisper or hypnosis, he does that, so I have to kick him into the bedroom, not kick him, but move him into the bedroom, he doesn't like that, and at least with these recordings,

he can pretty much do what he wants, be himself, I can be myself, and if I'm honest, which I don't like to be of course, if I was to be, pretend to be honest, I would probably say that maybe, and I've said this before, and I'm thinking maybe this is what I need to do, just focus on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, do one every day when I can, and instead of trying to please everyone, perhaps this would be a better use of my time,

and with the hope that maybe even people listening with chronic pain, or with anxiety, or stress issues, or other things, can benefit from listening to my boring voice, rabbit in on about nothing for an hour or so every day, that's annoying me now, stop it, I don't know what he's doing with it, it feels like, it sounds like he's like squeezing and bending it or something, I don't know if he stops, he knows I'm talking about him, you know I'm talking about you don't you, yes you do, he was looking up at me,

so I think what it is, is when he gets his bone things, he'll pick it up and he'll bring it over to where I am, and he likes to sit right next to me, usually like laying on my foot, or leaning against me, or being very close, which is why we hear it all, because he doesn't generally like when I'm making recordings anyway, sometimes it's fine to be away from me when I'm just on the computer, although he does sit next to me quite a lot then as well,

but yeah he seems to like to be near me, I don't know why, I don't get it, I don't understand it, but hey I may just not question it, what's going on in the news today, news today UK, let's have a look, is there any nice stories, okay should we put in, should we google nice stories, nice stories, let's see if anything comes up, nice stories, nope that is nice news stories, sign up for night, oh this is called nice news, I like that, that's a nice title,

so let's have a look what this is, news but only the good stuff, okay so let's have a look, margaret morse, so this is this is nice news.com, so let's have a look, should we look at, I don't know, the US metropolis was built atop an abandoned city that you can still tour today, did you know that, I didn't know that, did you know that Vinnie, doesn't care, a trip to Seattle Washington might take you past several interesting above ground attractions like the Space Needle Pike Place Market and Seattle Great Wheel,

but what if we told you there was a place actually takes you under the city and sidewalks, an abandoned city, just minutes from Seattle's waterfront district, beneath the tree-lined streets and cobblestone walkways of the historic Pioneer Square is a subterranean web of sidewalks, alleyways, abandoned storefronts and other relics from Seattle's 19th century past, it's kind of funny really, I mean I know technically that's a long time ago maybe in America, but when you go in this country, you go back, you've got stuff that's like thousands and thousands of years old and or hundreds of years old,

this they're talking about going back like 50, 60, 60 years or something, I mean you can do that, it's going to any warehouse in London or Docklands, I remember being in a where the comedy club used to be, upstairs it was all mills and they had these pulley rope, pulley things outside and upstairs is the same as it probably been for hundreds of years, it's weird, I don't know, I know America is what about 300 years old now is it, or is it 400 years old, I lose track,

how old is America as we know it, I don't mean obviously it's been there for millions of years but 248 years old, so yeah you can go into bookstores and get books older than that, it's still quite you know, it's not old is it, not for a country, it's still a young country, founded in 7076, yeah Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I don't know why I came up, when that came into my head, how old is the American map, didn't they, has the American map changed recently,

5,000 year old map of America discovered in Egypt, let's have a look, I Gipped, Y Gipped, the archaeologist, go away, you go on these pages, do you consent, consent to what, I say yes, a 5,000 year old map of America discovered in Egypt, a mystery waiting to be solved, April 22nd 2024, for centuries historians and archaeologists have pieced together the story of human civilization, but every now and then a discovery emerges that challenges everything we think we know, recently rumors have surfaced about an ancient map, allegedly over 5,000 years old,

discovered in Egypt, that appears to depict the American continents, if true this find could rewrite history as we can know it, and if proven authentic, the 5,000 year old map of America would force historians to reconsider many established theories about early exploration and navigation, it could suggest that the ancient civilizations had more advanced knowledge of geography than previously believed, also it proves that the land was not discovered by who we're told it was discovered by, I mean technically it's discovered multiple times isn't it, just like England,

I'm sure quite a few different countries came over this land by accident in their boats and thought oh we've discovered a new land, because I imagine in those days you know go back a few thousand years, and boat travel was the same as space travel, they were spaceships weren't they really, they were traveling through space, which the ocean was, what do you mean traveling through space, well they were exploring, they were basically like Star Trek, the first Star Trek series, they didn't know where they were going,

they didn't know what they were going to find, they might have had telescopes and you know handheld telescopes and things like that, but they weren't powerful enough to see other countries, I'm guessing, everything's a guess really, so coming here, I don't know the history of how many of them got here by accident, but and we had Romans, we had the Vikings, we had the Normans, and where else did we have, we had a lot of people come in and trying to take control of the country,

in fact the Romans were here for hundreds of years, how, it's just mind-blowing isn't it, hundreds of years, I think it's like 400 years, the Romans lived and ruled this country, England, hundreds of years, people didn't know any different, they're people born and had kids, they had kids, they had kids, they had kids, they had kids, and no one knew any different, it's all they ever knew, it's just weird isn't it, and they didn't even have books back then, thousands and thousands of years ago, it was all word of mouth,

that's why you can't trust anything like verbatim from anything that happened, you know, 5,000, 3,000, 2,000 years ago, because it wasn't written down at the time, so anyone like, oh this was said, you don't know if it was said or not, I mean you try and, this has been tested many times, just passing a message around a circle, a circle of 10 people or 12 people, and that story or that message can change significantly by the time it gets to the last person, you know, it's like, would you like,

can you pass this on to the last persons, pass it on, would you like to go for a meal with me at the Indian restaurant, which is just outside the library at one o'clock on our lunch break, pass it on, and they'll pass it on, then they'll whisper it in the next person's ear, they'll whisper it in the next person's ear, when it gets to the last person, Julie or whatever her name is, she'll say it to the last person, Jason wants to know if he can move into your house and live on the roof,

like how did you get to that, how did you get, how, and he also used to be a dinosaur, I didn't say, okay, I might have mentioned being a dinosaur, but you can imagine actually trusting a human being, a human, to keep a story exactly the same, not just in a group, but over decades and centuries, come on, come on, come on, we all know that's not possible, I think there'll be a little bit of stuff added, I can make this more interesting, that's not enough fish, I'll add a few more,

so I think, I think that's interesting, I don't like to hear that, but I'll say, no, everything, everything we ever read is true, it must be, oh, they didn't have, they didn't have, they didn't have the ability to write or any books back then, but you're telling us something that happened, yeah, really, okay, all right then, it's like this, I'm actually, I talk about my own life and it's not going to be true, what do you want Vinnie, what do you want babe, what do you want darling,

what do you want sweetheart, uh, what is it, you're looking at me, what is it you want, I don't know what you want, all I know is you're being annoying, that's all I know, I don't know what you want Vin, I know what I want though, I want you, it's something he wants from the windowsill, what do you want from the windowsill, what, there's nothing there, you want that, you want the sock, you don't want the sock, you could grab the sock anyway, you don't need me, you don't need my help,

you want that, you want the box to play with, there's nothing on here Vinnie, there's literally nothing on here, there's no food, there's no nothing that you would, that I can see you'd want to play with, I guess it's this, you want that, I don't know, maybe that's what he wants, see I talk about my own life, and it's still not going to be correct, what do you want Vinnie, what do you want, stop it, I really don't know, he started begging me like, I don't know what it is he wants,

I don't know, so he's looking at the window and he's like he wants to get to the window, you want me to put you on the windowsill, but there's no room on the windowsill because I'm not the windowsill in the bedroom, you've got a chair to get up there haven't you, but if I let him out there he will start barking, that's why you're not allowed out there, he barks at every single sound, when he's in here he still will bark at stuff, like in the garden that, but I don't know,

Vinnie you've got your food there, if you don't eat your food, you don't know, eat your dindins, eat your dindins, eat your dindins, you know what I mean, he's got to know some words hasn't he, he turned three last week by the way, just in case you wondered, you turned three didn't you, you're a big boy now, you're three years old, or in dog's years, three, he's still three, there are no dog years, oh he's 21, no he's not 21, he's three, seven years, no he's three, you're three aren't you,

yeah, what am I in human years, old, I'm old in human years, so I can talk about what happened last week and it still won't be true, I'm going to miss stuff out, I'm going to forget certain aspects of it, I'm going to manipulate the truth a little bit, just for the sake of it, it's so, and that's my life, this is something you know, imagine someone else that's not invested in the story, that wasn't there when it happened, wasn't even alive when it happened, their parents weren't alive when it happened,

his parents, parents, parents, parents, parents, parents weren't alive when it happened, but he's going to pass that story on exactly, so that one day it'll be written down, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh back to the happy news, happy, nice news, okay, off the soapbox, Mardi Gras beads that grow flowers, that grow flowers, artist nature inspired mural, these old ladies dive into Massachusetts ponds, come up bearing pounds of garbage, okay, I'm beginning to think that this, although it's nice news, I think it's going to be very,

I don't know what the right word is, uninteresting, maybe that's a good thing, oh look at this, this is interesting, um this is the sports section, here we go, here we go, like braille for sports, this handheld, this handheld tool lets blind fans watch a game through their fingers, okay, attending a sporting event is quite the multi-century experience, there's a sound of cheering fans, the smell of soft pretzels and hot dogs, depends what country you live in, I don't think we don't have that here, um, yeah, I don't think,

well maybe pretzels, it's not really a thing here, um, the sight of athletes making complex plays, but not everyone can experience all those elements, and for people who are blind or who have low vision, keeping up with the ins and outs of a game can be particularly challenging, enter one court, an innovative tablet making it easier for fans of impaired eyesight to enjoy sports, on February 24th, the Sacramento Kings, whoever they are, announced that the devices would be available at every home game this NBA season, I was ice hockey, okay,

um, following in the footsteps of the Portland Trailblazers, and I suppose that's basketball, which put the tech into play in January, and this past summer the MLB handed them out at the all-star game, described as braille for sports, the tablet pairs audio with haptic feedback, so users can track the actions right as it happens, I don't really get it to be honest, its surface is a representation of the sports court or field, and different kinds of play vibrate in different patterns, in a recent viral video, social media users, Anthony S Ferraro,

demonstrates the tech proclaiming, I'm about to watch the entire game through my fingers, and the ball is vibrating in real time, and I can show it on the court here, and oh yeah cool, it reminds me a little bit of the, yeah I guess I can kind of get my head around it a little bit, it's, wow, yeah, I mean I don't, it, I mean, I mean, I don't know, I mean I don't know, I don't know if I'd want to go to a sporting event if I couldn't see what was going on,

but then I have listened to boxing on the radio, and not recently, and as rarely as possible, because I don't like it, but there have been times when I've had no other option, if I wanted to, at least, you know, if it was an important fight, and I wasn't able to watch it on TV, or there was no one screening it, or showing it, or I wasn't, whatever, for whatever reason, I would listen on the radio, and yeah, it can still be exciting, but it's not, it was not my choice,

it's not how I would choose to do it, I've actually got, I know someone that, I had this conversation, I said, well, why don't you, you're talking about watching, I'm talking about a big fight coming up, and he said, I said, why don't you watch it on the TV, he said, no, no, I like listening to the radio, I like listening to it on the radio, okay, fair enough, but there's no point in it, really, I mean, if you've got no other option, but not regularly, to me, it's like,

boxing is a visual thing, to, but then, I suppose, it would be different if I wasn't visual, if I didn't, you know, if I didn't have eyesight, but he has eyesight, and in fact, his eyesight is better than mine, and we had, it wasn't an argument, but it was a discussion, and I was like, well, I don't really, I couldn't really see his point of view, and he, why he would want to listen to it on the radio, I mean, choose to listen to it on the radio,

because you can't know what's happening, really, you're so dependent upon the presenters, the commentators, and the commentators go off script, they start talking about rubbish that's not even relevant, I mean, the amount of times that I've watched fights on TV, and the commentators are just babbling on, and on, and on, about absolute rubbish during the break, you know, while the one-minute break, and the boxers, like the whole thing is finished, like, you know, they've called the fight off, because one of the boxers couldn't get up for the next round,

and the commentators haven't even noticed it, so they're all running around, in this, you know, celebrating his win, and everything, and the commentators are still talking about ice cream, and easter eggs, or something, like, come on, don't stop taking, making attention, paying attention, just because it's the break, a lot happens in the break time, anyway, but do you ever have these, like, it wasn't an argument, it was a discussion, but I wanted to be right, and I got to be right, and it was, I don't know, wasn't the worst feeling in the world,

because we were actually discussing this particular fight that was going on at the weekend, and I said, well, why don't you watch it on TV, watch it, no, or listen to it on the radio, okay, fair enough, I don't see the point, but if that's what you choose to do, because you don't know what's happened, really, never once has it been the same, if I get to watch, so if I do listen, have to listen to a radio, it's not, it's not often, but when it happens,

I'll watch it on YouTube as soon as possible, afterwards, it's never the same, I mean, the same stuff happens, but it's not the same, to me, personally, it's, yeah, it's different on the radio, if anything, it could be a little bit more exciting, I suppose, so that's, maybe that's a good thing, maybe a mixture of the radio commentary and the actual TV image is, it'd be a nice mix, because I think the radio commentators are a little bit more attentive to what's going on, the amount of times I see a cut on one of the boxes,

or an injury, they're clearly like, they've hurt themselves, and the commentators have not even noticed it, because they're too busy talking about ice cream, and whether or not one of them needs to cut their toenails, but make a bit more noise, please, Finn, thanks, cheers, thanks, thank you very much, but anyway, we had this whole thing about the boxing, and he said to me, well, I'm going to watch it, I'm going to listen to it on the radio, it's just as good, if not better than watching it on TV,

I said, but there's no, you can't know what's happening, he said, yeah, I do, okay, we left it at that, I spoke to him on a Sunday, or maybe it was a Monday afterwards, he said, did you like the fight, I said, yeah, I said, I watched it, he said, I said, he said, oh, he listened to it, and he said, I can't believe, I can't believe he, and he was talking about it, and I can't believe he, he lost, I mean, the one he was supporting lost, and I said,

who are you supporting, I knew who he was supporting, but that's why it didn't make sense, he didn't even know who had lost, so he was following on the radio, he didn't even know who, who, who had won, and who had lost, so that doesn't show me that listening on the radio is a good idea, if you actually, and he was excited about the fight, because the one he wanted to win, who did win, was from his, like, hometown or something, yet he thought that he'd lost on points,

but it was the other one that lost on points, and I said, you don't even know who's, who won, you didn't know what you were listening to, and he said, that's enough now, I don't want any more of your cheek, I said, what do you mean, you've been cheeky enough, talking about countries, not only being really small, about really very young countries, and talking about all kinds of stuff, that's been very, very, very offensive, very offensive, very, very, very offensive, what do you keep talking about Romans for, always on about Romans,

all the time, Romans this, Romans that, it's not Romans, it's Vikings, it's not Vikings, it's the no man, no, no, Normans, you said Nomads, yeah, I meant Normans, yeah, but you said Nomads though, didn't you, it's what you said, it's not the same thing, is it, I don't know, I don't know what Nomads is, you're the one that said it, you said it, you said it first, so it looks like quite a good thing for people, and I don't, I mean, I don't, yeah, I don't think I would necessarily,

I know the energy can be good, I think, I've only been to one sporting event in my life, and that was a football match, and it was in the evening, and there was hardly anyone there, and I couldn't have cared more, or less, or at all, about who won, and how they won, I just went, because I've never been to a football match before, and yeah, I mean, I can understand a shared interest, you know, having that kind of, I guess, like an extension to a family, I suppose, but yeah,

it's never really been, for me, I mean, I've not even been to a boxing match, I've been, well, I've been to a karate tournament, but that was a long, long time ago, but I've never been to a boxing, and if I did go to boxing, I want to be in the front row, or like in the front kind of area, ring side, I don't want to be at the back, where I can't, I'd struggle to even see the screens that they have, I mean, what's the point in that,

but it's a lovely atmosphere, okay, so maybe it is worth it for the atmosphere, but personally, might as well just go down the pub, and watch it, if it's a big, especially if it's a British fight, like a big, you know, big one like that, like the, the upcoming Chris Eubank Jr. and Connor Ben, that'll be, that'll be a good one to watch in a pub, I don't go in pubs anymore, but, you know, that's the kind of thing that I would have done in the 90s, possibly,

gone to the pub with my friends, and watched it on the TV, just a good atmosphere, I imagine, than being in a stadium of 80,000 people, different, but not so far to travel home, and much easier to do a wee-wee, when you need one, I'm guessing, um, team most planned, um, um, um, um, volleyball star three, I'm trying to find something, boxing, boxing, after boxer, Cindy Ngamba's victory, the Olympic refugee team, team, the Olympic Refugee Team will win its first ever medal."

Ah, there's an Olympic Refugee Team. I didn't know that.

How cool is that? Unless I've just not put it correct. The Olympics Refugee Team. So, she shattered a glass ceiling for the International Olympic Committee's Refugee Olympic Team on Sunday, securing her first medal at any Olympic Games since the team's formation in Rio 2016.

Okay, this is from last year, April 2, no. I'll tell you what, how is this supposed to be peace in the world if we do our dates different? It says 8th of the 4th, 24th. It should be 4th of the 8th, 24.

The days first, then the month, then the year. But no, no, no, no, no. That's why there can never be peace.

Just the littlest things, you know. Spelling things the same. You know, if it's the same language, spell things the same.

Color. C-O-L-O-U-R. Not C-O-L-O-O-R-E.

Blimey! So, I didn't know about this actually. I didn't know about the whole highly publicized Sunday call. I don't know.

It's not giving me much information. I'll tell you what is good. This weekend coming, actually it's Friday for some reason, there's boxing.

It's the second time I would say that I'm genuinely excited to see a female boxing match. Like genuinely looking forward to it. Because, and again, it's not sexist or anything.

It's just, even though some of the female boxers are just really amazing. I still haven't, up to this point, found anyone that quite grasps me or my interest the way that the top male boxers do. Until now.

And you're thinking, what about Katie Taylor? Katie Taylor is great. She's brilliant. But I've just, and she is great.

I mean, blimey, what a fighter. But I just, I don't know, just never really grasped me. There was, what's her name? Boxer.

There's a couple that I like. Chantelle Cameron. I like Chantelle Cameron.

But again, I wouldn't necessarily get super excited about watching her. I've never been particularly excited about watching Katie Taylor, even though she is great. And I've watched a lot of her fights.

But I don't necessarily, I don't know, it's hard to say, but you're not like, ooh. But there's a lot of, a lot of female fighters, boxers that I do like. I mean, Katie Taylor is, I mean, she's phenomenal, what she's done.

It's because of her that this next person was able to really come through. Another person I really, really like, I mean, people like Amanda Serrano, Chantelle Cameron, Tasha Jonas. You know, there's loads of really, really, really good people, good names.

But then you've got Serrano. What's her name? What's her name? What's her name? What's her name? Erica Cruz is another really good fighter. And there's a few that come along that I liked.

But there's Stephen Morgan. That's a nice 47 wins, two losses, one. That's that's a lot.

Katie Taylor's had 47 wins, three losses, and one draw. I didn't think she'd had that many losses. Really? She hasn't had that many losses.

No, that's the draws. Blimey. She's had one loss.

Why did they put that then? They put it in the wrong. Katie Taylor. Oh, no, that's the record of her.

Sorry. No, I'll just forget what I said about Stephen Morgan and 47 wins. This is Serrano.

Serrano, Amanda Serrano Bergerac. It's 47 fights. Katie Taylor has not had 47 fights.

He's had a few though. I don't know how many. Probably about 32.

I reckon. 32. No, 24.

She's lost one. That was by his decision against Shantel Cameron. I can't even remember the name of the one.

There's one that's like, there's two other ones. Really famous. Oh, what's her name? What's her name? Clarissa Shields.

She's unbeaten two time Olympic gold champion. Multiple world titles. Currently the heavyweight champion.

I mean, hard to argue. She's the best. She's the top of the pile.

But saying that, there's someone I'm even more excited about. Savannah Marshall is another one that I really like because she's a bit of a knockout artist. So I like that.

She's 10 by knockout, three by decision. She lost to Clarissa Shields. But she is really good.

And she's multiple world title winner. But my favorite now. And it's not my favorite female boxer.

It's one of my favorite boxers over both male and female. Is what's her name? What's her name? What's her name? What's her name? I knew her name until I did. Right.

Natasha Jonas is fighting Lauren Price. On Friday. Lauren Price was the gold.

She won the gold at the last Olympics. And I just think she's the best female boxer I've seen. Since I've been watching boxing.

There's something different about her. She's there's just. I mean, I don't doubt she's going to win a fight against anyone, really.

The only problem is she's 30. And I suppose because she was there wasn't, you know, it wasn't easy to be a professional boxer, or to even compete in Olympic Games. A few years back, I mean, I think the first time females were allowed to be in Olympic Games as boxers was 2012.

That's when Katie Taylor became the gold champion, you know, the gold medal winner. I think I think I've got those dates right. Or was it 2016? And the Olympics 2020, which was actually 2021, was Lauren Price won the gold as a middleweight.

And there's something about her. She is just phenomenal. I don't know how to explain.

I mean, she's only had two knockouts out of eight wins. The six by decision. But she is tough, like tough.

And she's got skills. And I would, I wouldn't. I mean, I don't know how to this.

She's exciting. She's an exciting fighter. And I think that she compares with just as equally with some of the other really top world champions in the men's division.

And you might some people say, well, yeah, of course, of course, of course, of course, not really course, because men have got the advantage. They've been doing it for a long time. This is a relatively new thing for females to be having the stage to fight to box.

I mean, it's not it's not new, new. It's not new, new, new, new. But it is kind of new.

And I know that Laila Ali, Muhammad Ali's daughter used to be a professional boxer. But it wasn't like now back then it was it was I don't mean it horribly, but it was a novelty. And it was Muhammad Ali's daughter.

And let's face it, who wouldn't want to see Muhammad Ali's any of Muhammad Ali's siblings, not siblings, children, rather, in the ring, whether it's his son or his daughter is his grandson is a boxer. And he's, he's treated like royalty in America. Ali grandson, okay, and I forget his name, but he's, he's actually taken on a got a double barreled name.

Nico Ali wash, Nico Ali wash. And he's born in 2000. So what's that make him 2024 2524.

He's treated, he's already lost twice. Okay, he's lost twice. But he's treated was honestly, with complete reverence, because of who he's related to, which I think is quite nice, actually.

But he's not. He's not his granddad. It's simple as that.

And I just imagine there's a lot of pressure that must have been put on him. What's that? I know, because I've watched all his fights. So I remember when he first, his first fight was 2021.

Muhammad Ali's grandson. And I saw that, and they were building him up, which you're not going to not are you. And to be fair, if he doesn't want anyone to know who he is, he probably wouldn't have the name Ali.

Although he's got Walsh, because that was his stepdad's name. But I think I don't know. I don't know.

But he's anyways, Muhammad Ali's grandson. He's lost twice. He's, he's like nearly 5050 knockout decision.

So five knockouts, six decision, and two losses by decision and one no contest, which was originally a split decision draw, overturned due to Rosenberger testing positive for illegal substances. Okay. It's just difficult for someone that I mean, it says really, at this stage, there's no one this even now, there's no more famous name in the world of boxing than Muhammad Ali.

Even now. It's like decades and decades and decades of other world champions, heavyweight champions. And Muhammad Ali still remembered and revered twice I said that word, above everyone else.

Anything that Mike Tyson did, anything that Lennox Lewis did, Larry Holmes, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. And he just shrinking to almost obscurity next to Muhammad Ali and his legacy. I mean, the two most famous heavyweights of really, probably you could argue if you went around to the people who are alive today, Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.

But then a lot of the younger people wouldn't have even known who Mike Tyson was until recently, when he had that, that entertain that entertainment thing with one of the Watson and brothers. So Paul, is it Paul or one of them was called Paul and they or they're both called Paul. It's got to be difficult to come from that, you know, to come with that name.

Because you imagine actually similar things happening now, with Nassim, Prince Nassim's sons have turned into boxers. So they're getting a lot of preferential treatment in Dubai, or in sort of some of the places and a much larger audience when they first started the most people get. The same thing happened with Ricky Hatton's son.

And it's, it's a great opportunity. But most boxers start out in little halls. And they, they build their craft, they learn their craft and they build and on these small shows, without really much pressure.

Like, they've got the world watching them. That's what I mean. And they can almost go unnoticed as far as their name.

But if you're on a main event, a heavyweight champion of the world event, and you're on the undercard of that millions of people watching. And the only thing they're going to want to talk about is how your your dad was a world champion, former world champion is hard to live up to. It'd be like me, you know, just deciding to do a course in electronics.

Maybe do a do a course on and go to the local educational center or whatever it is and learn how to wire a plug, how to change a fuse box or something like that. And I'm introduced as the son of a an electrician who sort of spent 40 years working as an electrician. I can't compete with that.

Can I? You know? I mean, I don't know how famous he is. But it's like, um, there's an expectation that I should know a bit more about electrics than I do. And I know now about it.

Now, zilch. That's how much I know. I know about plugs.

And yeah. What other things are in the news? Oh, look, I've got a message. What is this? Woke up this morning to 96 registrants to my goal whisperers event with Laurie Hammond.

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I don't like Facebook. No. Let's get rid of that.

Whatever got any more subscribers since last look? No. I'm sure went up to 1498. Seriously, I thought it did.

But apparently not. I got any no, no listeners today. Humanity.

What's humanity? Humanity or that would come up? This is nice news.com. The muffin is a metaphor for kindness. Okay. National Movement rallies volunteers to bake muffins for homeless people.

Cool. I like a muffin. There was the same like muffins.

There are a lot of whimsical food holidays celebrated in the United States. This is what it's saying here. You've got National hot pastrami sandwich day held January the 14th.

Really? National caramel popcorn day. Six of April. National cheese pizza day.

Cheese pizza day. Isn't all pizza cheese? Either pizza has to have cheese. Otherwise, it's not pizza, is it? I'm not saying it has to only have cheese.

But that is part of the framework of the building, isn't it? It is the foundations of a pizza is the cheese, is it not? Cool. But one is particularly sweet and we're not referring to sugar content. National Muffin Day is a grassroots, pilanthropic movement that rallies volunteers to bake muffins for people experiencing homelessness.

It was founded by Jacob Kaufman, aka the Muffin Man. That's not why he calls. Do you think maybe people call him Muffin Man? He thought I need to start making some muffins just so people will be distracted.

And I think that's the reason. Julia Levy, Levi or Levi, Levy, the Muffin Lady. And since its inception, 2015, more than 25,000 muffins have been donated by nearly 3,000 muffin eaters.

Muffin, no muffin tears, muffin eaters, muffin tears in over 50 cities. Okay, the celebration is held only on the Sunday after the official version of the holiday, the one recognized by the National Day calendar, which are on board with this. Before we get into how to participate, there's a little background.

Over a decade ago, Kaufman stopped by his aunt's and uncle's house in San Francisco for a visit. His uncle was whipping up some muffins and despite having never really tried his hand at baking, Kaufman was struck by inspiration. The next day, he was pulling his own batch of apple cinnamon muffins out of his oven.

Aunt ate one and it was good. But what to do with the other 11? Well, you eat them. I mean, you don't have to eat them all at the same time, do you? You're not going to cook 12 muffins just so you can have one.

Otherwise, you might as well just cook one. They don't have to be eaten all together. They can be, especially if they're warm, all nice warm muffin.

Kaufman recounted to Nice News, the following morning, as he walked down Market Street, he realized he was passing a fair number of homeless people who were likely hungry, and he had his answer. Okay, what's the answer? I don't know. I should read on.

He baked another batch of batch the week after and handed those out. So he waited a week. And then he got home.

And he thought, I'm hungry. I have a muffin. And he thought, well, I was going to give these to the people.

And now I'm stating myself, I'll make some next week. He baked another batch the week after and handed those out. He handed 11.

I bet he didn't handle 12 out. Because he wanted one for himself. I would have had one.

Then continued week after week trying to add new trying out new flavors. And up in the number to two dozen each bake day. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country in New York City, Julia Levi was running a blog where she shared stories of ordinary people given back to their communities.

That's when I heard was when I learned about Jacob, the muffin man Kaufman. Levi shared adding, I knew that I couldn't just publish Jacob story. I had to participate in it.

So I called him back and asked if we could create one day where we invited our friends, family and strangers to bake together. To sweeten she called him back. What do you call her first? I'm not sure.

To sweeten the deal, as Levi puts it, Kaufman decided to donate up to 10 pound to an aligned cause for every volunteer who got in on the baking that first year. And he's continued to do so anally ever since. The muffin is a metaphor for kindness, said Levi, and its impact is reflected both in those who give and those who receive.

For givers, isn't it weird? So for givers, the muffin builds community or for givers. The muffin builds community through baking parties while bringing awareness to neighbors around us, whether it's people in need of food or shelter or local heroes like firefighters and police. As muffin tears have thoughtfully recognized recently, bakers can donate their muffins directly by handing them out to unhoused neighbors.

Are they allowed to give them out themselves? That's good. Or indirectly by dropping them off at a shelter or food kitchen. It's an opportunity to safely interact with strangers with care rather than walking by on the street, she explained.

For the receivers, it's a nice unexpected moment of care. And it's the volunteers who inspire Kaufman and Levi to keep the tradition alive. So in Baltimore, a muffin tear named Dina or Dena introduced a duo, a duo? It's two people, it's not a duo.

Oh, it is a duo, isn't it a duo? Trios three. Oh, we're getting muddled up. The duo to a group of teens who convene every year to bake muffins and meet with homeless community leaders.

So someone else is kind of already doing it. Something about muffins, isn't it? Something about muffins that make people generous and caring. Maybe it's the ingredients.

Do you reckon? I don't know, whatever it is. It's nice. I don't actually mind a savory muffin, cheese.

It's all right. A cheesy muffin. I've never had, I don't know what different kinds of savory, I mean, a bacon muffin doesn't sound very appealing.

Or chicken muffin. No, that's not it. No.

But maybe cheese muffin. I've had those. Pretty sure.

And yeah, I mean, my Nan, my Nanny Newland, Nanny Newland, was, she used to make a lot of cakes and I used to bake with her. Even as a an adult, I used to sometimes bake with her and stuff. And she'd make rock cakes, which were my favourite.

She made lots of different cakes. She's very, very, very good at making cakes. But rock cakes, they were the best.

And oh, I don't know if you've ever had a rock cake, but they're lovely. Really nice. And then they're nice, cold or warm.

And it's I think of all cakes, it's nice to have have one when they're just cooked. Well, not just get out of the oven because they're a little bit too ouch, bit ouchy. But once they've cooled down, or just enough so you can eat them, they taste different.

There's a different taste when they're warm and when they're cold. And equally delicious. We have muffin tier families who tell us that their kids don't know a world without National Muffin Day as a holiday.

Like Grant and Elizabeth in Rockville, Maryland, whose kids have grown up baking with us every year. Kaufman shared Sarah in Granger, Indiana, has made Muffin Day a way to talk about important issues like homelessness with her children and instill empathy. Yay.

So yeah, it's a pass. I shouldn't have done a silly voice for that one. And this year for every muffin tier who bakes and shares a public photo of their handiwork on social media with the hashtag give muffins up to £10 will be donated to the California Community Foundation, or beloved Asheville.

I don't know what either of those are, but I guess they're charities or muffins. Ready to get in for blimey, this is a very long, it's even telling you how to make it. A classic muffin recipe, dry ingredients, two cups of flour, half to two thirds cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoon of baking soda, half a teaspoon of salt, wet ingredients, half a third of a cup of butter, melted and chilled to room temperature, a third of a cup.

Wow, that's a lot of butter, isn't it? One egg, half a cup of milk, one teaspoon vanilla, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. My oven doesn't go to 350 degrees. Mix together the wet and dry ingredients in separate bowls.

Okay, fold the dry into the wet and stir more than no more than 10 times. Even if the batter is a little lumpy, that's okay. If you make it too smooth, it will bake too dense.

Ah, ah, I want to make a muffin. Anyone? So what do I need? I need flour, sugar. I don't have any of these ingredients.

I do have some salt. Flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, egg, I've got milk, one teaspoon of vanilla. After the sixth stir, add in berries, chocolates, you know, don't do chocolate, chopped up fruit or whatever you want.

Once you've done stirring, pour into muffin cups. It should take 12 decent sized muffins and sprinkled Terminado sugar on top. What's Terminado sugar? Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out dry.

What? Where's the toothpick? So you put it in there and after 15 to 20 minutes, you should be able to pull out a dry toothpick from from where? What, it just appears, does it? The muffin turns into a toothpick. Needs some clarity. I don't know why I think it has to be so complicated.

Look, I like this. This is a story that I do like. Meet Officer Percy.

Adorable rescue bunny joins California Police Department to offer emotional support and to reduce stress. It says police canine, he's got a little thing on him. Move aside, Turner and Hooch.

This is from 2023. It's rabbit season. While it may sound like a storyline out of a Looney Tunes episode, a rescued rabbit has joined the police force in California, becoming an unofficial officer.

I don't know, he's got police canine. That still looks quite official to me. A ginger and white coloured bunny who might just be the cutest cop you'll ever see.

He even has his own blue vest. Okay. Having a bunny as a police officer makes for an adorable story, but Percy actually plays a vital role at the Yuba City Police Department.

The rabbit serves as wellness officer for the Law Enforcement Agency's wellness program. According to a Facebook post from the department, the program promotes the importance of prioritizing mental and physical health, providing tools and resources to reduce stress and create a positive foundation for well-being. The post goes on to explain that Percy is there to offer support to anyone who needs it.

Wow. Yeah, it's nice, isn't it? So I've never had a rabbit. I knew someone had a rabbit and it terrorized the neighborhood.

It literally took control of the whole house. So it wasn't the most placid, calm little thing. I wish Vinnie would sit on my lap.

He doesn't. He does sit on my lap. He sits next to my lap, cuddles up and goes to sleep.

He doesn't sit on my lap. Not on my lap. And I just don't know why.

What about science? What's in science today? Let's have a little look at this. This is old. There's nothing new.

I want updated stuff. Today's edition. OK, that's why.

Today's edition. It's Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday.

What? The occasion is traditionally celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday. It's the day before Ash Wednesday. It's the day before a holy day for fasting for Catholics.

But the holiday has spread beyond the church to become a wider cultural phenomenon, one often associated with regional treats like New Orleans king cake and Polish pasty donuts with a detectable, delectable, sweet filling that are abundant in the Midwest this time of year. You know what? It's actually Strove Tuesday in this country, Pancake Day. And that is, that is what this is.

It's the day before Ash Wednesday. So it's a bit of a pig out, I think. Basically just eat lots and lots and lots and lots.

And then on tomorrow, it's cutting down. What does F? Look at this. Humanity struggling to make decisions might be a sign of F-O-B-O, FOBO, which means fear of a better option.

Yeah, I can understand that. I can understand it. Together we're that way.

OK. Oh, look, 23,000 year old fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known hand carts. 23,000 years.

A bubble tea chain that's bigger than Starbucks saw its shares jump by over 40% in its market debut. A bubble tea chain. What's a bubble tea chain? I don't know what that is.

Do you? Bubble tea chain bigger than Starbucks. Mixed ice cream and tea may be unfamiliar to many of us, but the Chinese firm has more outlets than McDonald's and Starbucks. On Monday, the bubble tea chain shares jumped up by more than 40% in their Hong Kong stock stock exchange.

The company raised $440 million in the financial hub's biggest initial public offering. Mixed shoes popularity comes as many people in China are grappling with the country's economic challenges, including property and bubbler. The company was founded in 1997 by Jiang Hongqiao, a student at Henan University of Finance and Economics, as a part time job to help his family's finances.

That's a long sentence. Its full name, Mixu Mingjing, means Honey Snow Ice City, with its stores adorned with its snow king mascot and playing the firm's official theme tune on a loop. Wow, that's got to be popular.

No one's going to want to sit in, are they? The same tune over and over again. According to Mixu, it has more than 45,000 stores across China and 11 other countries, including Singapore and Thailand. The firm has also said it plans to continue expanding.

Wow. While it's often seen as China's biggest bubble tea, ice drinks and ice cream chain, it operates more like a raw materials supplier than a traditional brand. Unlike Starbucks, which operates more than half of its stores directly, almost all of Mixu's outlets are run by franchises.

I think that's the same with McDonald's as well, I think. Mixu's strong market debut contrasts with small rival Gumming, which saw shares slide on its first day of trading in February. Last year, the shares in the owner of bubble tea chain Chubby Yardoo also fell on their market debut.

Oh, cool. So that is all that was from the BBC. That's it.

I think I've talked enough. I've given you a lot of interesting stories from around the world. Ah, probably time to, I don't know, it might be time to eat again.

It might be. I'm not sure. Let's have a look.

When did I last? We're going to get back in from taking them out earlier. Let's have a look. All right, 10 o'clock.

It's now two o'clock. So it's four hours ago. Hello, darling.

Are you going to eat your dinner? Are you going to eat your dinner? He's just staring at me. Are you going to eat your din-dins, Vin? Well, thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself. Lots of love. Bye.