(no music) House names | LMBYTS #1359 | 25th May 2025

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

I thought today, today, today, today, which is Sunday the 25th of May 2025, I'd go through some of, I'd kind of do a little bit of work on my website whilst talking to you. I'll give you a little bit of an insight into how the website, you know, building stuff works. So I use, um, trying to think if anything's happened before I, was it raining this morning?

A bit rainy.

Anything else happening? It's not a lot, not much happened really. I didn't do a recording yesterday, but I did work on my website. That's kind of the reason why I wanted to sort of do this, just so you get an idea.

The, it takes time, it takes, it does, takes a bit of time to go through the process. Now, it's not just, I hope you are by the way, it's not just, I feel like I'm just talking at you instead of with you, and all the little birdies singing joyfully. We say that, don't we? Oh, they're so, so happy singing.

You see the little birds in their nest, the little, the little pups or chicks, whatever they are, singing happily, joyfully in springtime. The reality, they might be screaming, I'm starving. Get me some food.

I need, I need changing. I need, I need my nappy changing. You know, they might be worse than Vinnie.

I mean, he can't go more than 10 seconds without seeing me. Yeah, he pretends he doesn't even like me. You just shout out, I'm not pretending.

So, let's have a look. I had a weird dream last night. Weird dream, I talked through it.

Oh, yeah, maybe I'm still asleep. So, I'm in this place that looks familiar to me. And I'm telling everybody, it looks familiar.

I've been here before. I might not have said before like that. I might have said before, but in my memory, it was before.

I've been here before. That's my accent I had back then. But it was kind of me now talking about how I'd been there when it could have been when I was two or three or four.

So, I don't remember, but I just remember the place. And I'm asking everyone, were you here in 1973? Was you about then? I was going around places with shops. I said, was you there? And people were saying, I wasn't, but my granddad was.

I said, well, go and get him then. He said, have you got a shovel? I said, why? And then I realized that he was being funny and actually wasn't very funny and a bit rude, really. And so like, I'm not digging him up.

I mean, it's just rude. Anyway, I did have a shovel, but he kind of, the joke was on him, really. Anyway, nobody knew.

I said, has anyone got any pictures? You got any pictures of this place when, you know, 1973, 1974, maybe 1972, maybe 1975. I don't know, just around that time. And I go into this kebab place.

I think it's like a kebab place or they sold food. I must have been thinking about food. Maybe I was hungry in my sleep.

Cakes or food, some kind of food, not food as in stuff you get from groceries that you have to like mix together and cook. I mean, stuff you just put in your mouth and chew it like yum, yum, yum, that kind of food. Cakes, sausage rolls, bits of pizza.

Why is my question, this is not really related, but why in some countries do they call pizza pie? How on earth did that come about? Pizza pie, a little bit of pie. No, a pie is pastry with a filling. Doesn't have to be savoury, doesn't have to be meat.

It can be vegetables, vegetables. I like to feed vegetables to my tortoise. It doesn't have to be, it can be fruit, it can be apple, it can be, I know apple is a fruit, but you know, a pie is pastry underneath and pastry on top and inside is a filling of some kind.

Doesn't really matter what it is. It can't be a pie unless it's, mind you, some people class it as a pie if it's just got a covering on a pastry. No, it has to have the bottom pastry as well because technically you should be able to eat it whole, you know, just have the pie in your hand.

Unless it's a really big pie, then maybe, I mean, I guess in the past people would just eat a bit and then just share it around and everyone would have a hole that they'd suck on. I don't know, it sounds weird, but you know, it depends how big the holes were.

And I suppose technically, maybe on a construction site or something, the people in the canteen, because they couldn't necessarily get to the construction people, so they'd maybe just have a wall and they'd put parts of the pie through the wall, have a little hole and they'd put the parts of the pie through the hole and then they could just feed the workmen and women and people, people, work people.

It's really weird because I've been technically raised, but I've been brought up to just say the word workman, postman, milkman, you know, just, it's not about men, it's just the term. And that's what I grew up learning, those terms. And when I was a kid, I never saw a female delivering post, never saw a female delivering milk, never saw a female on a building site, never saw a female welder, never saw a female in fixing cars.

And it was just the way society was back then. I'm not saying that there wasn't any, there probably was one or two in the world. But it's not, it's not being rude or dismissive by using that term, although some people might think it is.

And I would, yeah, it's just, it's very difficult. I feel sorry a little bit for people that care about stuff like that, because I kind of don't. And I know that I'm not out to, you know, upset people, generally.

It's got to be very hard for especially black politicians and celebrities to constantly have to watch what they say in order so they don't get cancelled because they've said the wrong thing, or they've used the wrong pronoun. I mean, I couldn't give two hoots about pronouns. I don't care.

I call Vinnie a girl constantly, it confuses a lot of the other dog walkers. I say, come on, girl. Good girl.

And I remember one said, but he's a boy. Yeah. But you called him girl.

Like I didn't know I'd called him a girl. Yeah, I do know what I say. I'm aware of the words I'm using.

I'm not always. I'm not always pleased with the words I use. And I'm often surprised.

But I'm aware of the words that are coming out of my mouth. I just not always aware of what's going to come out of my mouth. Word wise, that is.

But often I am. And if I say, come on, it's good girl, it's because I'm just calling him a girl because it's fun for me. So misgendering is something that I have a lot of deep seated pleasure being involved with.

And I've been doing it with humans for a long time, going back since I was a kid, calling the boy a girl and she and calling a girl he and calling the teacher, the male teacher, Mrs. or Miss, and the female teacher, Sir. I enjoyed doing stuff like that because it amused me past the time. But now it's a little bit more serious.

So I don't, I don't, I wouldn't purposely, you know, out to, I used to be out to upset. No, I didn't, I wasn't, I was out to upset people. I just, I like making people laugh.

Because it was what I did, and this hasn't got a lot to do with the original subject that I was talking about, which was what, building my website. I ended up talking about a building site with some glorious ways of passing the food to the construction workers. Very glorious it was.

And it's the weirdest, the weirdest way to call it glorious, because actually, both of the ladies, and they were ladies for some reason, but the canteen staff, they were ladies. I'm sure, you know, in the 70s and 80s, there was also lots of male canteen staff and dinner men. I'm sure there's lots of them.

There wasn't. So it was, they were both called Gloria. They were passing this food through these holes to the, to the, to the, to the work, people, construction workers.

And it's weird, because I've worked with a Gloria in a canteen. And also Gloria worked, a different Gloria worked in a canteen that I, it was Gloria and Brenda that worked in this canteen that I used to eat in as well. It's really weird.

But yeah, so they had Gloria and they just, they just like, right, Gloria, right, Gloria. I don't know why short, Gloria is not a long name, is it? Gloria. So why Jason, it's not long, but Jay, right, Jay, around here, no one knows me as Jason.

Jay. I phoned someone up. Literally someone phoned me up.

I phoned them back five minutes later to see what they want, because I don't answer my phone. And hello. I said, yeah, hi, it's, it's, it's Jason.

Who? Jason. Mum, do you know anyone called Jason? No. Dad, do you know anyone called Jason? No.

Bob, do you know anyone called Jason? No. And you hear them go out the front, out the door, shout to the neighbour, do you know anyone called Jason? And I said, Jason, Vinnie's dad. Oh, Jay.

And then he said, Mum, it's Jay. Oh, Jay. Dad, it's Jay.

Oh, Jay, why didn't you say Jay then? Bob, it's Jay. Who's Jay? I don't know. Why are you telling me? Well, I just thought you might be interested in, in hearing about it.

Well, I'm just a plumber. I'm trying to fix your toilet. Okay.

I haven't got to be rude. Okay. All right.

You're going to go and tell your neighbour? Nah, I can't be bothered. But you're being rude then, aren't you? Now, if you're not going to tell your, your neighbour might be worried. Just concerned, like, you know, talking to their family.

Who's Jason? Who's this Jason? Why didn't you let them know it's Jay? It's so, it's just like, it's not a hard name to remember. Jason. Among the most important names on the planet.

Arguably. I've got a neighbour who's called Jason. I didn't know, he was a dog walker.

But he doesn't go by that name. He uses his middle name. And I said to him, why? Because another neighbour told me.

She said, I know someone called Jason. I said, do you? I said, yes. I said, I thought she was going to say you.

And we'd both roll around. And she said, no, him next door. I said, that's not his name.

She said, it is. I said, no, he told me his name was whatever it is. She said, no, that's his middle name.

His real name's Jason. His proper name's Jason. I said, why doesn't he use it? He said, I don't know, but don't mention it.

He's a bit touchy about it. So the next day I see him in the park. And for some reason, the first thing I say is, you're right, Jason.

I don't know. Now, to me, if his name, for example, was, I don't know, if his first name was whatever, a name that he didn't like, I was going to say Diddy, but like a name that he didn't like, that was obviously, you know, quite an unpleasant name or I don't know, or a name that I've, you know, any other name, I could kind of go along with it.

But that's my name.

And there's nothing unpleasant about my name. It's quite a cool, it's quite a cool name, actually, it means healer. In Greek mythology, healer or healing hands.

That healing hands description does not work in court, by the way. But my name is healing hands. I was just testing.

No, it doesn't work. But healer, I'm a healer. With my tongue.

I used to use that as a stop. When I was younger. Yes, I'm a healer.

I have he, I used to do it when I found out I was probably in my 20s. And I'd say to when I was talking to ladies, you know, when I had still had testosterone inside me. Like, yeah, my name's Jason.

Healer, healing hands. I rub my hands together. And they would walk away.

So it wasn't a very good chat up line, really, to be fair. I think that probably one of the best chat up lines I had, or beginner, beginning, I don't know the term chat up line. It sounds a bit dodgy, really.

But the a beginner to a conversation or beginner to a, to a kind of interaction used to be my tattoo on my forearm. So I'd be in a nightclub or be in a comedy club. And the amount of women that would come up to me and say, what's, what's that? And I'd be hilarious.

And so it's an arm. And then of course, I would walk away. But then I realized, well, that's not working, is it? After about 10 years of doing that, I thought, it's time to start learning.

So I thought, okay, I'll do something different. And I'd say, what's that? It's a tattoo, isn't it? So that was another waste of 10 years. And then when I got to my 40s, I thought, like, I realized they didn't really want me to say it's an arm or it's a tattoo.

Because that just made me look a bit just, for some reason, it wasn't, wasn't creating the desired effect. There was no, there was no emotional attraction being kind of created or molded by saying that. You know, I mean, I once had someone come to me after a gig, knocked on the door, not where I live, but they had this like chain, it was like a cot, it was a room up above the place.

And I was in there with the other comedians, hoping that they'd one day accept me, or at least acknowledge my existence. And then I knock on the door and one of the other comics opened the door and because he had seniority. And he came and said, Oi, is there someone out there want to speak to you? I thought, oh, who have I upset now? And it was a woman.

And she said, she said, Hello. I said, Hello. I liked your performance.

I thought, okay. I didn't know what to say because I've never heard anyone say that to me before. He said, Can I buy you a drink? I said, No, it's all right.

I got one. See ya. And I think for the next five years, I cried every night over that.

Just like why? She went out of her way. Not only did she she had to go upstairs, she she would have had to ask where the room was. Go upstairs.

And ask for me and go through that knocking on the door. That was quite a, it could have been a degree of bravery involved in doing that, you know. So maybe she liked me.

Maybe she could have been the wife I never wanted. You know, it could have been like a fairy tale. I could have got married and had lots of kids and so yeah, I don't know.

I just can't. I said, No, I've got to just being honest. I had a drink.

I didn't drink back then. I just used to have a drink of coke. That was it.

As I got a drink, thanks. And she just turned away. I'm pretty sure she said, Are you sure? I said, Yeah, can't you see? Can you see my hand? And I did.

It's like, yeah. The thing is, the door was open. When I turn around to go back into the room, with the other comics, they were just looking at me, like really in astonishment.

For the first time in some kind of amazement, in wonder, like what, what is wrong with you? I mean, I always got that look from the other comedians anyway, what's wrong with you, but more generally because of my act. And other times because of my personality. But this one was because of almost the stupidity of the situation.

Because there was no harm in letting somebody buy me a drink. The first person ever in an audience member at that point ever offered to buy me a drink. It happened once one other time later on at the Hackney Empire.

And that turned into a little adventure. So that was good. But other than that, I didn't have a lot of a lot of success really during that time.

And the two, the two glory, what are called glories, but the two that the the workers on the building site, they decided to give the whole a name, but they didn't know what to call it. And they'll kind of come up and say, let's call it the glorious, the glories whole, because the glorious whole could both the ladies behind it were called Gloria. So yeah, there's someone shouted, why don't you shorten it?

I shortened it.

I said to this bloke, I said to in the park. So your name is Jason. Why? Why? I said, that's my name, by the way.

I said, why did why don't you use it? And he just he told me why I said, okay. So don't answer to it. We just did that, didn't you? He said, no, I didn't.

To be fair, he didn't. But he did look over. But then, you know, a lot of people look over when I'm not wearing any trousers.

So it's, it's kind of it's easier not to call him that. Well, I don't call people by their names anyway, generally, but it's easier if I don't, I never knew it was his name. So I kind of knew what his name was from the other lady, because she's his neighbour and she adores him.

He looks after her because she's quite elderly. So there's a problem with that, though. Okay.

I was visiting my step granddad in hospital, which is my step mum, my second step mum's father when he was alive. And so I was visiting him in hospital, he had, I can't remember what was going on at that time. So go over there.

And there's no one with that name. Okay. There's no one with that name.

No. But he's here. He's she starts looking under the desk.

I don't know. He's not here, here. But he's in this building.

She said that person's not in this building. I said they are. He said they're not.

I said she is. She said what? I said she is here. I thought he said it was a man.

Yeah, Harry could be a man, could be a woman. Well, is it Harriet then? So I'll check on that one. I said, okay.

So I checked on Harriet. And she said, Oh, there is a Harriet. She said that start with is Harriet.

And in fact, their family's just over there. Do you want me to call them over? I said, No, no, no, no, it's okay. It's not Harriet.

She said, Why did you say it was then? I said, I didn't know it was going to go this far. Why are you wasting my time? I've got a big queue here. I said there's not six people.

It's not a big queue, is it? She said, it's a fairly large queue. I said it's six people. She said, but if you look at how much distance there is really for people to queue, there's not a lot.

You couldn't get more than about another three people on the end of the queue before they'd have to start standing like next to each other. And that'd be chaos. I said, I don't know about chaos.

It's not really chaos, is it? Trying to light a cigarette and a hurricane, that's chaotic. That's a different, that's, you know, we'll try to light a candle in a room full of people that have farted. I don't know, a room full of farts.

So I went to see my grandad, my step grandad. His name wasn't on the register. This is a true story.

His name was not there. So I phoned my step brother up. I said, listen, what's going on? I'm asking for him.

He's not here. And all the family were meeting up there because he was very ill. And we were meeting there.

And he said, no, he is. I said, he's not here. The man behind the receptionist, he just said that he's not here.

And the woman behind the receptionist gave me a funny look. See, I was just, I couldn't help myself. And this is before it was illegal.

Okay, just let you know that this is before it was, there was a deadly sin. And, you know, it was just, it was like a silly thing to do. But it wasn't, it wasn't morally wrong to do it back then.

It was just a bit dumb. So I wasn't being, you know, now, I wouldn't dare. I wouldn't dare, apart from with Vinnie.

I'll call him a girl all the time. I never thought that something, I mean, I started the whole trend of calling people misgendering. It was just like a joke messing around, you know, it was never supposed to be taken seriously.

And it's definitely not supposed to be used to upset people. You know, some people take it, take it, they like use the tool in the wrong way. It was just supposed to be light jabbering or light, light ribbing, light poking.

You know, like a little tender, a tender little tickle with a feather. You know, it wasn't supposed to be about upsetting people. It was about just joviality.

Or, I mean, when I lived in a place where I lived, when I was at college, I was talking to this, the landlady and I said, Oh, I wanted to get away. It was a conversation going on too long. So I said, Oh, I just got popped in a little girl's room.

I turn around and she says, Don't you mean the little boy's room? I said, What? You said the little girl's room, don't you mean? She didn't talk like that. Didn't you mean the little boy's room? I'm confused. Sparks were shooting out of her ears.

I said, No, no, I meant to say it. Why? Why would you say something like that? Why not? How am I going to accidentally say, I'm going to the little girl's room? How do you ask? Mind you, someone said, How do I accidentally walk out with underpants on my head? When I go shopping? So you know, this was our accidents. But yeah, we all have accidents sometimes.

Ask my bed. So I anyway. Oh, he's a little motorbike head over there.

He's got his motorbike going. And if he does that, it means he's probably going to have it going all afternoon. And he likes to play with it.

He's a little motorbike fiddler. He likes to play around with it. And I don't know.

Or it might be a lawnmower. Which would be Oh, no, don't tell me lawnmower man's back. He's come back to mow the lawns.

He's coming back for all day just mowing one one little bit of grass. And they'll be out painting people's windowsills. I'm painting the world, a little world here for you.

So this this this man in the park by Jason. I said, Why don't you call yourself Jason? It's the best name in the world. And he said, It's not.

I said, Okay. Why? You know, I said, Why? He said, Oh, I can't remember what you said something serious. So I I wasn't listening.

I asked a question. But you ever do that you ask a question, but then you just you don't listen. You just go in internally.

Like your fingers in your ear. At least you hope it's internally. I asked someone questions once.

I was a policeman. And I said, Excuse me, madam. Can you tell me where the Tower of London is? Because I was trying to find and he said, Call him call Madam again and you'll be living in the Tower of London.

We actually actually cuddle each other to stop from falling over. It was very funny moment. And it's then that I realized that I had a thing for the uniformed men dressed as little police people.

Oh, no, that didn't happen. And so I I did ask, I think it was a bus driver got on asked the bus driver. Where is this bus go to where I was going? He said, No.

I said, Could you tell me which bus it is? And as he started to talk, I was going in my head just for some reason. But for some reason, I thought it was in my head. I actually looked up, I saw in the mirror, my fingers in my ears, and loudly.

Which was weird, because I didn't realize I was doing it. And I started to think, started to wonder, what other things am I doing out loud that I thought I was doing internally? And then I started thinking, how do people perceive me? People around where I live? Am I perceived in a? What kind of way am I perceived? And how in touch with reality? Am I actually?

Did my friend downstairs ever really exist? Or did I make him up? And everyone's just going away, going along with the story? Like? I don't know. It's weird.

Sometimes I can't think. Am I? How much of this is real? And the reason I think about that sometimes, I know it kind of is, but the reason I think about it is because when I was a kid, I didn't know the difference between real and not real. But when I was very young, I didn't know, genuinely did not know.

I used to see things. I used to hear things. And I didn't know the difference between reality and non-reality when I was quite young.

And I thought that was, I kind of knew it wasn't normal, but I thought it was normal. But I just, you know, at the same time, I operated better when I was on my own. You know, in a crowd as well sometimes, because I could just like melt into the background and had to study how people were so that I could act like them.

But the problem with that is a lot of the behavior I saw I didn't like, especially at school. You know, I liked the chilled out people, the calm people and the funny people, but I didn't like the braggart, the braggarts, the always showing off. I've got this, I've got that, I've got the best this, I've got the best that, and I'm brilliant at this.

I used to, I thought, I don't want to be like that. But they seem to be the popular ones quite often, and the most successful ones. And I didn't want to be like that.

But in another way, again, when I was at school, I had, in the first year of school, it's kind of strange because I was, I was put into the middle part of everything. I think in junior school, I did the 11 plus exam or whatever test. They didn't know what to do with me.

I think they must have thought, well, we're not really sure what he is. Because I was very behind in pretty much everything. And it was, this is true, I don't know why I'm telling you this.

Remember my first step mum said that the teachers and everything they said it was partly because I've moved around so much as a little kid that I hadn't had like proper schooling, like I had not been in the same place, hadn't had the proper foundations of school that most kids have had by the age of seven. I know seven still young. But then when I was eight, I was told that my educational was my lack of knowledge or my lack of education, or whatever you want to call it, was also due to having being partially deaf in one ear.

And I discovered that when I was eight. So it wasn't really till I got to nine, that I was kind of working on, I'm going to say all cylinders, I'm going to be very generous with that one. But you know, my ears were working, I was I had stability in one school for at least two years, my last junior school.

So nine and 10. Made friends, you know, and kind of, and they didn't know what to do with me. As far as you know, what, what classroom to put me in.

But they didn't put me in the lowest one. Which I was surprised that I was pleased. Because it was, they had it by a name.

Every year, they'd have a name by, like, I don't know if it was, it was, I don't know if it was every year was the same, but mine was Osprey. So O-S-P-R-E-Y. So O was the top.

Y was the bottom. S was near the top. So S-P-R-O-S-P-R-E-Y.

I was R. So I was sort of, you could possibly, I suppose, bang in the middle, I guess. I think P and R were kind of similar. But R was, you know, closer to the bottom.

But I wasn't the bottom, I wasn't Y. Although I had a lot of friends that were. So in the first year of high school, I was in the people that ended up being in the top classes as well. And they're the ones I got on with, the intellectual ones, the really, really clever ones that were way cleverer than me.

But I just loved spending time with them because we had, I could hold a conversation with them. I did not have their knowledge, I did not have their academic abilities, but I could communicate with them on a more serious, it was almost like a more of an adult conversation. And I liked it because they were respectful.

And they were, they were seen a bit more advanced, not socially, because they were a bit kind of, I suppose, a bit like me. Very, you know, they were book readers and played musical instruments, and they weren't necessarily into sports or anything like that. Kind of a cliche, I know.

But I liked them. There was two, two together. In fact, there was four of us in the first year of high school.

Me, tall bloke, I can't remember his name. Because after the first year, hardly saw them again. I'd still see them say hello.

But you know, and that fizzled out to almost probably not even saying hello to them near the end of the period. But for the first year, I was quite close to them. And because my best friend Dean was never in his class.

I think I was in his class for a couple of lessons, but I was never in his form room. So I was in these two's form room, because we was in the English room, that was our form room, which was a place that we went to the beginning of the day. And then I think at the the beginning before just after lunchtime, and then back before we left for the day.

And my my form room was, I guess 1R was the name of the thing. 1R. Yeah, for Romeo or for Osprey.

But it's behind those two rooms that were behind the library. So you could get into the library through the back, which is quite cool. You couldn't really walk, you're not supposed to walk through there to get into the library.

You had to walk all the way around. But because that was my form room, I could just go in, go in and out of the library. And in in the library bit, there was the bit where the teachers lived.

The library, you know, the English teachers had their room. And yeah, I used to use the library a lot. I used to read a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff in there.

And I've talked about this before, but this was such a big turning point in my academic or my non academic life. Just needed a little bit of encouragement, I think. Because I don't know, I didn't have any really much in the way of self belief when it came to, I felt good about reading, loved reading.

That was my favourite thing really in the world. Other than watching television, reading was my favourite thing. When I was a kid, loved reading.

I like playing, I like doing stuff, you know, like a lot of other kids like doing. But I had no interest in sports until I started doing karate. And then I was just absolutely fanatical about it.

But before that, you know, I didn't really, I wasn't interested in sports. I didn't class karate as sports. For me, it was more, more than that.

But then, hmm. So these three kids, there's a tall one, and there was a shorter one. I'm sure one of them had a, yeah.

I'm sure one of them had a violin. Maybe there's only three of us. And maybe he's the one that left.

But I'm pretty sure it was four of us. And one of them lived around the corner from me, literally around the corner. It was a five minute walk.

And his house was like a music shop. The front window, all you could see was musical instruments. And both of his parents were musicians.

They lived in a big house. And we, so I was allowed in there. That was a good thing.

Because I wasn't always very popular with the parents, for some reason. But we used to meet up and go upstairs right to the top of the stairs. And my friend's room had a desk.

And we had a detective agency and they let me join. Their detective agency. And we had guns.

I mean, they're not real guns. They were pretend guns. Well, they were guns, but they were pretend, you know, plastic or whatever.

And we'd just play detective. And it was brilliant. And it was probably, in some ways, my happiest little period.

One of my happiest little periods as a kid. Because I suddenly had, I've never had a group before. Like a group of friends.

This is the first time. And not only that, I had a group in the children's home. We were all, it was more like family.

You sleep in a room with 12 other kids. They're your, they're basically your brothers. You know, I don't think they, I'm not sure if the girls slept separate, I can't remember.

But it's your family. You know, if you live with someone, you live and sleep in the same room as them. You go with them all the time, pretty much.

They're your family, really, aren't they, at the end of it. So this is the first time that I felt like I was part of a little group, like a tiny little detective agency in the music house. And it was, I just remember that Christmas, because there was this, like a toy shop.

I can't remember the name of it now. Not Girling's. It was, it was, it was one of those, because I lived in a little town.

And probably the same as a lot of other little towns back then, maybe now as well, I don't know. But there was one shop was where Father Christmas would be. One shop that had the best toys, like it just had a bit of room, you know, a bit of space.

But that isn't where we used to buy our toys, because Woolworths was the main place. In the 70s, and even in the 80s, Woolworths was the, and probably Boots as well, and WHSmiths. Those were the three shops.

Tesco's as well, but generally as far as, the problem with Tesco is like, just groceries as well, I couldn't be bothered to queue up. And sometimes I buy stuff and go to the counter, that cigarette counter and pay for my stuff there. But I think WHSmiths, Woolworths, or Woolies, we used to call it Woolies.

And Boots as well, because when when I was a kid, Boots, which is, we used to call them chemists back then. Now they're called pharmacies, pharmacies. But we used to call them chemists.

And they actually have the word chemist on the, you know, on their display. So I had to check that out. I thought, am I imagining things wrongly? Yeah, it was chemists.

And because it was a little town, everything was very close to each other. And Boots used to sell, although it was a chemist, and it had a, you know, pharmacy part where you could get your, or chemist part where you get your medication and all that stuff. They also had other stuff, like they'd have a record, had a record section.

I remember that because that's where I used to buy my records from. And because it used to be right opposite a chip shop. And I got Stevie Wonder's Characters from over there, about 1987.

They're the album Characters. It was on tape, but it was, yeah, I remember that. The thing is, what is weird, okay, so you have all these memories, and I have this memory of doobie dee dee dee dee dee, what's his name? Bross.

Bross. Bross. Okay.

So my memory is I saw Bross when they released their album 28th of March 1988. Okay, so I remember buying that album, walking past the chip shop, and showing that album to the people in the chip shop. But I also left that chip shop around that time as well.

That was released on the 28th of March. 1988. The chances of me actually buying it on that exact date is quite rare.

Unlikely, to be fair. But it's called Push. Push.

Yeah, I love Bross. So it's like one of those memories that doesn't really fit together. Because there's no way I'd be walking in there after leaving because it was a bit of a sour moment when me and my former boss departed ways.

It's, yeah, it was, it wasn't a good, it was a, it wasn't a nice breakup. So it's very unlikely that I would have just walked in there afterwards and shown that I'd got an album. Strange, strange.

You never know though with me, who knows. So my step, my stepbrother says, he is in the hospital. He's there.

I said, well he's not because I've just spoken to and the lady's looking at me from behind the counter in the hospital. I've spoken to the lovely person behind the counter in the reception. And I've been told, making sure I didn't say he, she, them or anything.

I've been told that Grandad is not, Grandad Harry is not there. His name is Harry. And he said, and then then he said, oh, I know what it is.

I said, is it because he's not here? Or is it, he said, no, is it because he's at a different hospital? He said, no, that would be because he's not, that would be the same as he's not being here, wouldn't it? I said, yeah, I suppose. I just, because that has happened before. I went and visited my nan.

My dad told me that my nan was in hospital. So I went, left work. I wasn't going to go to work.

I wasn't going to leave work because I got, you know, when you get a text, like, can you phone or whatever, it might just, so I phoned her and I went to her toilet, phoned my dad. Oh, she's in hospital. She's, yeah, she was very poorly at that time.

It was, um, yeah, and it was a couple of years, about a year and a half or before she, she left. So I go back to my desk. This is in the office.

And I start crying, like I kind of, not externally. It's a weird one. It's not like I was, um, I wasn't, like, squirting tears over everyone.

It wasn't that kind of situation. I didn't, like, my colleagues weren't sort of sitting there with umbrellas. But I just, I could not just continue like, like normal.

Because, you know, the idea was I was going to perhaps go and see her after work. But I went to my boss and I said, like, I've got to go. Like, I know.

And he said, he said, well, I can see whether or not we can let you go. I'll go and speak to the other manager. I said, no, no, you're going to misunderstand me.

I'm not asking for permission. I said, I got to go. And, you know, with respect, which I was, but I'm going anyway.

Just letting you know. And he said he understood. So it was cool.

I didn't get disciplined or anything. But second time that's happened, actually, happened when I was in London. This was delayed, though, because I found out my nan broke her hip on the Sunday evening.

So I'm thinking, I've got to go to work on a Monday. Or no, I think it was, no, it was, no, I think it was Wednesday evening. I get this phone call.

So I contact my dad. She's in hospital. She's in, she, it happened like two weeks or three weeks ago.

But now she was in convalescence. It was a weird one. They couldn't, they couldn't contact me or something.

Because I'd basically been kicked out where I was living. So I didn't have anywhere to live for a while. And it was all a little bit up in the air.

So I wasn't able to be contacted. Anyway, the I went to work the next day. Because I had, I think it was Thursday, Friday.

I'll just do Thursday, Friday, and I'll go up there the weekend and see her. I realised that she was going to be okay. And that she'd gone through everything and she was convalescing.

I think she had a couple of weeks or three weeks in convalescence. And then she was going to go back to where she lived. Went to work, couldn't.

Couldn't just, I just couldn't. Again, I said, I've got to go. I went, I went downstairs into the toilet and I cried.

Now, I don't know what the person in the, in the, the stall or the toilet next to me was thinking. All he could hear me was going, oh, that's how I cry. Oh, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Some people think it's a weird way to cry. But, oh my goodness.

So yeah, I left on that occasion as well. So I went, you know, went straight there. And yeah, weird because I never went back to work.

I stayed there for a few days. And I found a job because I wanted to be closer to my nan. After that, I realized that, oh, oh, you know, because I hadn't, because I was living in London, I didn't get to see her as often.

And I thought, no, got to make changes. So I did. So I ended up moving, not to the same town, but just outside because I've got a job that was in a different town.

And that traveling would have been harsh. So I got somewhere close to where I was living. Technically, I probably temporarily could have perhaps stayed with my nan.

You know, just for the, just until I found somewhere to live in that town and being a bit closer. But there was one time, actually, when I was, when I just started college, 2007, and I was looking for somewhere to live. I found somewhere in the town that she was living.

But I was going to have to travel for about two hours a day to get to university. It wasn't going to be an easy, easy trip, you know, it's a long journey. Plus, there was so much involved in being there and where I was going to have to go.

And I managed to find somewhere a bit closer in the actual town or on the outskirts of that town. Plus, I didn't know something about the lady that I was going to rent from this didn't quite seem I don't know, didn't get a good vibe from the place. But I did give a deposit because I needed somewhere I was desperate to find somewhere to live because I was, I was homeless, pretty much.

I didn't have anywhere to go. And I didn't realize when I told my nan, oh, I won't be I'm not moving to your town now move I found somewhere closer to the to the university. She hung up on me.

She didn't she didn't. And she but she was upset. Disappointed.

I didn't realize I just Yeah, boost by then it was like too late. I went back to get a deposit from the lady. She wouldn't give it back.

He'd only had it for a day. I said, Well, can I get some of it back? No. I said, Are you sure? I said, Yep, you're not getting it back.

So I said, So for one day, you're gonna you're gonna have 100 pound for just keeping a room open for one day you're gonna have 100 something there's about 100 pound deposit or something. 100 pound. She said, Yeah.

Oh, wow. I had to let it go. It's like, okay.

Weird. But I said to her, Why don't you like being called Jason? It's the best name. He said, I just don't like the name.

I just don't like it. Just prefer the one I've got. He said, My family called me Jason, but at home.

But everyone else, all my friends all call me the name that you know me as. Okay, fair enough. It was weird.

It's like, I don't. I try you know, if someone there was once years ago when I was working at a Buddhist shop. There was someone turned up.

I haven't met the bloke. I became friends with him. But I didn't know him.

And I was told, Oh, we've got someone new working here. Starting today. I said, Okay.

He said, I'll just let you know his name. I said, Okay, I really building up something like, you know, why are you making a big deal about his name? I said, Well, his name is free spirit. I said, Okay, what's his real name? They said, Yeah, that's his real name.

I said, Oh, what's his actual name? Right, I was just interrupted by Vinnie barking. Come in while I was talking about them. So it's annoying.

He just said someone slammed the door and suddenly he's broke. But I don't know what it was. I was discussing I'm sure it was interesting.

Oh, yeah, free spirit. So what's his real name? It's that's his name. That's his name on his passport.

I said, I was just about to ask that. And they said, Yeah, I thought you were. Okay, I said, Well, I'm not calling free spirit.

That's his name. No, it's ridiculous. This is back in 2004.

So I was a little bit more. And I don't know what the word be. Less.

Less. I don't have to nice maybe I don't know what the word is. But I just thought it was ridiculous.

I was never in a big, big fan of people changing their names. Just have the name if you don't like it. It just just you know, it's like people introduce themselves as Jay.

But people with my name or people you get people called Jason, Jamie introduce themselves as Jay. No, it's not your name is it? It's Jason or it's it's James or it's Jamie. No, my name's Jay.

That's not your name though, is it? So I would never ever. I mean, I get called I'll answer to anything I don't care. And everyone around here calls me Jay.

People I've got girlfriends call me Jace. JC. I like to call myself Juicy JJ, as you possibly know.

But, you know, I never would never introduce myself like I don't know if I met someone who said, Oh, you know, I've been seeing you with Vinnie and I know Vinnie's name and you know my dog's name. But what's your name? Oh, I'm Juicy JJ. No, I'm Jay.

No, I've never called myself Jay. But they're both my brothers. I'm getting excited now.

Both my brothers, my older brothers. No, all three of my brothers. I've got shortened names.

And I've never called them by their shortened names. Admittedly, I haven't seen one since for 31 years, but 30 years. So apart from that, but his name shortened, my other name shortened, the other one's shortened, everyone calls him instead of, you know, and then the other one, the short, the younger one, everyone calls him.

It's not, you know, I'm just I'm not gonna say their names, but I can't do that. I've known them as their names. I'm not going to call them by a nickname or shortened version.

Because they're not my friends. They're my brothers. You know, another thing I never used to understand.

Why would someone called Simon changed his name to Si? I don't mind that actually. I knew someone called Simon, he was like an older brother to me and he left the world too early. So yeah, I don't mind that.

Si is fine. But Steve, Steve, and then Stee. But Si works.

I still think it's awesome. You're shortening a very short name. Simon is a short name.

But Si, fair enough. It's quite a good name, Si. Steve, like Stephen.

Steve is short for Stephen. But these days, I'm saying that like I'm an old fart when I say that. Quite often, the they're not named, don't seem to do those long names anymore.

So someone would just be called Steve. Now, back in my day when I was born, I don't think anyone would be born Steve. They'd be born Stephen.

S T E P H E N. Or maybe Stefan. S T E P F F E N. And then it'd be shortened to Steve. But now, you know, the last 30 years or whatever, it seems to have changed 20 years.

It seems to change and people are just giving their names. Like Debbie, Debbie used to be short for Deborah. But now, not just now, I mean, for the last four years, people calling their kids Debbie.

Like, it's a shortened version of Deborah. It's Deborah. Don't ever say that to someone called Debbie.

You're right, Deborah. It's not my name. My name's Debbie.

And or send the birthday cards that says Deborah or Christmas cards. Don't do it for 30 years. I've been doing that to my stepsister.

I decided she said it's Debbie, not Deborah. She was seven when she said it and it just made me laugh. So since then, I've just called her Deborah.

It's Debbie. All right, Deborah. It's Debbie.

It was a bit childish of me. I was like 21, 22 at the time. And yeah, a bit childish.

She's now in her 50s. Steve. I mean, Steve is such a short name anyway.

And to say it, Steve takes just as much effort and it lasts just as long as Steve. The good thing about Steve is there's a beginning and an end. Steve.

Steve. In fact, it could last longer than Steve. So in some ways, you're elongating it.

Steve. Steve. Steve.

Steve. Steve. I don't see the point in it.

I've never, I've known a few people called that. I just don't get it. Just it's Steve.

But then Steve used to be short for Stephen. I'm sure people are now called Steve. I don't realise they're named after the bionic man, Steve Austin.

If only they knew. Steve. Steve.

Jay. Jay. Jason is actually shorter than Jay.

I guess it depends on how long you keep the A going. Jay. Jason.

Jay. Juicy. Juicy JJ.

Juicy. I can't introduce myself to people as Juicy, can I? You know what I mean? It's like, that's probably, it's not a good introduction at a job interview, is it? It's, I suppose, you know, Jason. You know, the amount of people that correct my surname.

I go in and say, so can I take your name? So when I collect the pharmacy prescriptions, or when I phone up the doctor's surgery, in the days when we were allowed to phone them up, now we have to do everything online. Can't just book an appointment anymore. I'm just going to start moaning, so I'll stop.

So in the past, I phoned up the doctor's surgery and said, yeah, they said, who is it? I said, can I take your name, please? You're not there when you say, who is it? Who is it? What do you want? I said, it's Jason Newland. Oh, Jason Newland. They correct me.

And the pharmacy the same. Oh, Jason Newland. There's Vinnie.

Do you hear that? He's a little bit of barking. Seriously, Vinnie, think twice. Think twice.

Don't stick your ears down like you're scared. Blimey. I'm just saying, just be quiet.

Be calm. Just a little bit calm for daddy whaddy while I do my little podcasty wasty. Okay.

Good girl. So it turned out, I'm speaking to my step, my step brother, that Harry was my step granddad's middle name. After all that, it was his middle name.

And his first name was, I don't even remember what it was, like Roger or something. So it's like, okay. And apparently, when he was in hospital, it did cause problems with the prescriptions and with the nurses because they didn't know who he was.

Because someone put down Harry, and then no one knew who Harry was. They put it on the board, Harry, because they have a little whiteboard that they write on. It's very, it's almost like, use the name that you've got on your birth certificate, especially when it comes to medical stuff.

Just use that name. My dad, when he moved in, I'm not moaning about my dad all the time. No, I'm just, this is a thing that a little bit bugbear that I've got is people that name their houses.

Now, it started off as being something that just annoyed me. But now I've seen in action why I could foresee why it was a problem. And then I saw twice why it can actually more than twice why it can be a problem.

So my dad moved into this house. I lived there for about a month when he moved in. It's about 1990 and September.

And he, he called the name, he named the house. I don't know, it had a number of the road, but he named it as well. I can't even remember the name of it.

And whenever I sent a letter or a card, I would always ignore the name of the house. And he would question me. Why don't you put the name of the house? I said because all we need is a number.

Yeah, but it's got a name. He had a plaque and everything, like lights pointing towards it. And planes going past saying, use the name.

But I just like, yeah, what's the point? Just give it, it's got, it's a number. So I never used that. But it was something that's like, this was, you know, 1990, 91, 92, couldn't just didn't see any point in it.

And then when I was in my 30s, a couple of times, I saw ambulances literally stopped me. Because I lived in this area and it was full of houses, cottages with names. They also had numbers, but they had names on there.

So they were looking for the address. So somebody had called an ambulance, which meant they were in need of immediate medical care. It's kind of obvious, I guess.

You know, given some silly name for a house, instead of giving a number, which is much easier to find, because there's not always, but quite often, there's a degree of numeral congruence when it came, you know, like number one, the number three, the number five, the other side, two, four, six, not always, but it's a lot easier. If you if you can, if you're looking for number nine, if you can find number five, then you've only got got two doors either side, and you're going to find the house.

And this is at night, so they couldn't see they couldn't see the house names.

But they could see the numbers. Because a lot of the things have numbers outside the front on the like the gates and stuff or the postal boxes things. I really like twice I saw that.

People like I can't, I think it happened here again, but that's three times we're looking around and they couldn't find it. But that was more to do with not the house, but just the lighting is so bad now. Now, now.

When I moved in here, the light streetlights were on. I think they were on all night. And then they turned them off at one o'clock.

And then they changed all the lights. So there's almost probably half the light that it used to be. So I can hardly even see the ground, or where I'm stepping anymore at night.

Because it's so dull. You won't be able to read a book underneath, standing underneath one of them, I don't think I wouldn't. And before they used to be bright.

So I realized it's just cost cost cost cutting, cost cutting. But once one o'clock comes, or even before that, even when it's in the nighttime, even at like seven o'clock in the winter, you can't people drive and they can't see the numbers. I know they've got sat nav and stuff, but it's still quite difficult to find places.

There's not it's easier for the ambulance to find this place because they've come here so often. This building has been regularly visited by police and ambulance. And over the years, this whole little estate that I live on, it's very well known by the police and the ambulance.

So that's it. I mean, not necessarily a good thing for them, but it's definitely handy. And I've also seen the same kind of problem with people have house names, where they get deliveries, food deliveries, maybe Amazon or pizzas and stuff.

I saw this, especially at night when they can't see again, can't see the houses, or these cottages that have the house name in the porch, but the house number outside the gate. And it'd be so grown over like, because I'm not growing over in a bad way, but lots of plants and trees and flowers. So you couldn't see the sign anyway, unless you could see it, I suppose.

I suppose that's a time when you could see it. I don't know why I'm talking about house names. It's probably not something to get too worked up about.

Damn. I mean, he started, he ended up being a good friend of mine, Free Spirit. But I was really adamant, I'm not calling him Free Spirit.

I ended up not calling him Free Spirit, I called him Free. And it's weird, even what I would have classed as a really silly name back then, you know, before I got to know him, but it became normal. Talk about Free Spirit.

The word itself, the two words together no longer had the same meaning as they did before. It was him, his face, him. And I cared about him, so he was a good bloke.

And yeah, it's weird. However, he, someone told me that he was in trouble. He'd moved out.

He'd gone to live with, he was really wanting to have a girlfriend. And which is fine, but he used to do a lot of online dating and stuff like that. And he moved away to be with someone that lived, I think in Scotland or somewhere like long, long, long way away.

And someone told me, oh, I heard in the grapevine that Free Spirit's in trouble. I said, what do you mean? He said, I think he's homeless. I said, what? So I phoned him up.

So at this time, I'm still living in the Buddhist community. He'd moved out of the Buddhist community probably four months earlier, five months earlier. I phoned him up.

I said, are you all right? He said, no. So I thought I'm going to lose two of my feet, two of my feet, two of my toes. I said, why? He said, I'm on a mountain in Scotland camping and I've got nothing.

He still had his motorbike, but he didn't have any income or anything. And I said, we'll just come back here. He said, I've got nowhere to stay.

I said, we stay here. And he said, but what if the others don't want me to stay there? I said, you'll stay here as my guest, regardless of what they want. And it was very forceful.

I was ever so proud of myself. And so I said, just get yourself here. Which he did.

He, I think he managed to find someone to borrow money off to get petrol and he came back. And he went back into the same room as he was before. And, but before he got back, we just basically fed him and made sure he's okay until he, because he was a courier, so he could get work quite easily.

Just got him back to health a bit. He didn't lose his toes, but he was, he was definitely, it was the middle of winter. It wasn't a good time to be sleeping outdoors.

And which wasn't his, that wasn't his first choice, to be fair. And so that night I got everyone together in the Buddhist community. There was one, two, three people living there, I think at the time, and me.

And I said, Free's just contacted Free, he's in Scotland and he's in a really bad way. So I've told him to come back here. And a couple of them said, oh yeah, we haven't taken a vote on that.

We have to talk about this. I said, no, there's no conversation. I said, he's coming back here.

That's it. And because normally there's, I have to have a big long conversation, maybe spend the next three months discussing whether or not we want him to have him back. And what's he going to bring to the community? And, you know, he left before, so maybe he wasn't happy before.

And were we happy with him before? And what could he do to change? I said, none of that. He's coming back here. And if you kick him out, you kick me out as well.

Because he's our friend. And I kind of put my foot down, I don't put my foot down very often and stuff like this. But I said, he's homeless, and he's hungry.

And he's, you know, he's in a bad way. He needs somewhere to stay. So he's going to stay here as my guest.

You know, going forward, if you want to have a big conversation about whether he stays here or not, you know, we can do that later on. But right now, he's staying as my guest. And I'm going to put him up in a room downstairs.

You know, if you find someone else that wants to live here, if someone else that needs that room, then we can discuss it, you know, whether he wants to stay or but he ended up living there more longer than I did then. So I ended up moving out and he stayed. But it's weird because I moved in there and me and Free, we used to have a bit of a weird friendship.

We used to sometimes moan at each other, because we, you know, we got on really, really well. But sometimes I'd moan at him, and he'd moan at me. But what he'd do though, when I moaned at him, he'd just stand there.

And there was someone else who has just moved in and they came to his rescue. He didn't need rescuing. It wasn't that.

That's a younger person would say it wasn't that deep. You know, it wasn't it was just me having a moan. But it wasn't serious.

It wasn't anything. But this person decided they like, you shouldn't shouldn't shouldn't shouldn't talk like that. But me and him were close.

We had that relationship where we could, you know, good, quite humorous connection. And we stayed friends for years afterwards as well. But anyway, this caused a big problem between me and another person.

And in the end, I had to move out. It was Yeah, it was difficult. My friend was he used to get a lot of problems when he'd go traveling, because his name was free spirit.

And they didn't believe it. What's your real name? What if he got stopped on his motorbike? What's your name? It's free spirit. By the place like, what's your real name? It's free spirit.

Have you got your passport? No. But he was on his driving license. So he did change everything by depot.

You think he even had a credit card or debit card with it. But he still used to get stopped when he went abroad because a bit of a traveler and stuff and still used to appear like interrogate him. What's your real name? So that was it really.

That's the thing that I liked. I've sort of talked about this before. But the three lads, the detective agency, we there's something about I liked being around people that were cleverer than me.

Because not okay, it's not about being around people who are cleverer than me. If they're talking down to me, if they're making fun of me. I didn't feel that they might have been, but I didn't feel that they were.

Like I was being treated as an equal. And it's very sad because one of them, the one that lived in the house, the musical house, he lived upstairs and he had that's where the office was, where the detective agency office was. And he had all paperwork and all kind of, it was like so impressive.

And I used to go up and see him even without the other kids. So I really liked him. He was organized and he was intellectual and he, you know, he was just had loads of books.

And I don't know, we technically didn't have much in common in a sense, really. But on the other side, we kind of did as well, you know, and he broke it to me. It's like he said, Oh, I've got some bad news for you.

It was almost, I mean, this is in the first year of high school. So I was like 11. And he said, we're moving away.

I said, is it because of me? I said, what do you mean? He said, is it because your parents don't like me and they want to move you away so you don't have to be badly influenced by me? He said, no, it's not the only reason. I said, okay. And I don't know, I don't know where they moved, but it was out of town to a different place.

So never saw him again. But I was sad. And he seemed quite sad as well.

And that was it. He was gone. And a similar situation with the girl that worked, that lived in a, not a monastery, a vicarage.

And her dad, she invited me to a birthday party, the only birthday party I ever got invited to. And she told me that she was moving away as well. There was a teacher that said they were moving away.

There's a bit of a pan here, isn't there? Do you ever wonder if one day you can just go traveling or I might go to a different town, different part of the country and you go somewhere and you start seeing people that look familiar. Wherever you go, there's someone that's familiar and you realize all those people, the town is full of people that moved away from where you lived.

Just happened to end up in the same place, almost like they moved away to get away from me.

Like a whole town's worth of people. The fake their death and yeah, wow. Maybe not.

So I haven't really got down to much of the website stuff. What I have done is on the first page of the website of the website homepage. There is now like a little index or not index, what's the right word navigation thing.

There's four things you can click on right at the top of the homepage. So podcasts, playlists, podcast apps, and contact form. Not sure if I really need the contact form.

Maybe I might change that something else later down the road. But click on podcasts. And that's all the podcasts I've got.

Then you click on there. And it goes to the podcast. So it's quite easy.

And playlists, click on the playlists. It lists at the moment it's only four podcasts. Let Me Bore You To Sleep, ASMR, deep sleep, whisper, hypnosis, relaxing sleep, hypnosis daily, and relaxation for stress and panic attacks.

So there's four, they're all up to date, as far as the without music ones. So they're all done. And so there's them.

Then you've got podcast apps. So that's all the different podcast apps that I'm on that I could find. So Apple Podcasts, All The Ball, Amazon Music, podcast app, Castbox, Deezer, Luminary, Podcast Republic, Player FM, Podcast Addict, Podcast Index, Podchaser, Podfriend, Podverse, Podbean, Spreaker, Spotify, and SoundCloud.

So if you click on any of those, it then brings up the images of all the different podcasts I've got to choose from the ones that are like faded out. So you can hardly see them. That means there's no there's no link there.

And then for example, let me bore your pain away, click on that one. This is on Apple Podcasts. And that podcast comes up.

So you know, it's the same with all of them. So it's pretty good. I'm quite pleased with actually.

Let's go for another one. Podchaser, Podchaser. And let's look for Q&A Friday.

Click on Q&A Friday on Podchaser. Where is it? Recent episodes, why is it not updated it? 16th of May hasn't been updated for some reason. I don't know why.

I wonder if there's a way of updating it. Maybe just taking its time. So 16th of May was the last one that's on there.

But the last Q&A Friday was the 23rd of May. How unusual. So anyway, we go to a different one.

And let me see. Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Hopefully that's up to date.

Q&A Friday, 23rd of May. So that's up to date. I don't know.

So sometimes they update themselves. Sometimes it's a little bit of difference. You know, takes a while.

And let's go down to Podbean. Podbean. And let's click on Jason's bedtime story time.

And 96 episodes. Wow. Okay, because it's a few with all six versions.

The last one I did was number 31. Alice needs a poo. 14th of January, 4th of January, 2025.

Possibly a time to do a new one. I imagine there's at least one person listening that's thinking, yeah, that's a good idea. At least one person.

I know who that person is. I don't know who the person is. No idea.

So yeah, this is, I think, maybe there's another way of doing this though. I'm just thinking. So if I'm searching podcasts, then I've got podcast apps.

Podcasts in a way that'd be wouldn't be. Would it be? No, it's all right. And then playlists.

Playlists is definitely that's cool. So playlists. Yeah.

It seems to work okay for me. I think it's all right. And it works on the mobile phone, or the mobile phone, if you call it that.

The mobile. So yeah, it's it takes a fair bit. So I'm using code.

So I'm putting in my own code in order to make things work. There's a lot of testing or testing a lot of so I'm quite because I've got the background of known HTML code for websites. Although I didn't I'm really sort of built stuff by code on my own for a long, long time.

I'm able to tinker around with it and figure out what's wrong. Sometimes, not all the time. But on this occasion, I was a lot of problem with getting both together and having them linking up to where I wanted them to link.

But I could do it so I could look at the code and see, oh, wait a minute, that needs to be changed. And I changed them. And it works perfectly.

I'm saying that now, hopefully, it's going to continue to work perfectly. But at the moment, if I just click on home, yeah, podcasts, playlists, podcasts, apps, and contact. And down below that is there's small, small images, small little buttons to press.

And then below that is where is it? Oops, please support my free service. There's a PayPal link and join Jason Newland's group on Facebook. Join there's a little little picture of mini pointing towards the point into it.

Yeah. So that'll take you to that group as well. So there's still a fair bit to do.

But yeah, it's all right. I watched the boxing last night. And Moses Atuma, Atuma, Moses Atuma.

It's so good. I kind of see now why they're building him up gradually and not putting him in deep waters straight away. Because I can kind of see it now he he was destined potentially to be to beat Mike Tyson's record for the youngest heavyweight champion ever.

But he's too late now he'd have to win a world title this next month, I think, or this month, in order to beat Mike Tyson's record. So he's not gonna be doing actually just had a fight on last night. But so I can kind of see what they're doing now.

But it's so spectacular. It's, it's, it's spectacular. If he can do what he does with because he hasn't fought anyone, a big name yet.

But yeah, it's just he hasn't. He's not even he hasn't fought at. He's not even fought a British level yet.

Not really. You know, so I don't know if he's gonna bother going down that route. Because he's possibly gonna have a world title fight at the end of the year, according to his manager.

But he needs to go in with a name, like a bigger name, someone that's one of the best in this country. Yes, that's kind of the normal kind of routine, often routine route rather, for boxers in this country, you know, they win the English title, then they win the British title, then they win the European title, then they win the Commonwealth title, and then they go on to fight for a world title.

So it's not always the case, but it's kind of, it can often be that kind of process.

So, you know, they become the best in England, in their weight category. Technically, I suppose, if they hold the belt, then they become the best in Britain, then they become the best in Europe, and then the best in the Commonwealth. And they're ready for taking on the best in the world.

It's a sort of a natural progression. He's doesn't seem to be going down that route. But apparently, he's going to fight again in two months.

So I'm looking forward to that. I don't have to wait another five months or six months between fights. If he's not going to fight anyone, that's going to give him I don't know, he needs, I'd love to see him against a big name.

Not, I don't mean like a anyone at the top, but just a name that everyone knows of, like Zilig Zang or Cesaro, or Dillian White, or Dave Allen, even. That'd be interesting. Well, the only person I don't want to see him fight is, I don't want to see him fight Fabio Wardley, because I love Fabio Wardley.

And I love Moses. I don't, both of them, I don't want them to fight. I want them to let them both be world champions.

Plus, they're stable mates. It doesn't mean they can't fight each other, but it's, they're kind of, you know, they've discussed it. But I'm a fan of both.

In the same way with Frank Bruno, when he fought Lennox Lewis. I like both. I love Frank Bruno, and I was a big fan of Lennox Lewis, because it was clear to me that he was going to be, you know, champion.

In that fact, and I think at that point, he was champion when he fought Bruno, but I'd followed Lennox Lewis right from the very start. Frank Bruno, he'd already started before I followed him, because I was very young, but I'd followed him for years. I was a huge fan of Frank Bruno.

So when Frank Bruno fought Lennox Lewis, I wanted Frank to win, but I didn't really want them to fight. You know, I'd rather Frank fight someone else for a world title. I didn't want to see Lennox Lewis have to, and it was a shame because it put a dent in Lennox Lewis's career.

Not career, but his reputation, because Frank Bruno was the darling. He was the the hero of this country, boxing-wise. And a similar thing happened with Henry Cooper and Joe Bugner.

So Henry Cooper was an absolute hero, because he knocked down Ali when Ali was Cassius Clay. He didn't win, but he knocked him out. Anyway, Henry Cooper was a big hero, and then Joe Bugner came along, a much younger man, and people didn't seem to forgive him for beating up Henry Cooper in this country.

And a similar thing with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes. A lot of people didn't forgive Larry Holmes for winning against Ali when Ali was not able to really do it anymore. It wasn't his fault, was it? Blimey.

So I'm looking forward to what happens between them, but I don't want them really fighting each other. I want to see Fabio win a world title, and I want to see Moses, I mean, even if he does come unstuck against someone, you know, they put him in a someone too good too soon. The skill and the power he's got, he can come back and still win a world title.

It's almost definite that he's going to win a world title. I know there's nothing definite, but it's to me, I would put it in the same category as definite as Mike Tyson winning a world title, when I used to watch him before he won a world title, before he fought for one, and Nigel Benn as well. It's almost like they're definitely going to win a world title.

Anthony Joshua is going to win a world title. There's no two ways about it. It just almost just looks like that's Lennox Lewis.

He was going to be world champion. There was no way he wasn't going to be. Frank Bruno, I believe that, but after a few attempts, I kind of wasn't sure, to be honest, but then he did get it in 95.

So, with Moses Otuma, I believe he's going to be a world champion, and because he's 20, they do make a big deal about him being so young, which I kind of understand, but he might be doing what Mike Tyson did and peaked, because I'm sure they're going to be, I want to hear some of the commentators during one of his fights saying, oh wait till he gets his man strength, which is such a silly thing to say.

No one said that about Mike Tyson, when he was knocking out people twice his size. No one, when he won the world title at 20, no one was saying, oh well wait till Mike Tyson gets his man strength.

I don't remember once ever hearing, you know, later on when he was like 25, 26, oh he's got his man strength now. No, he's always, he developed early, he was at his peak at the age of 19, Mike Tyson. 20, 21, after that, he was never that good again.

He was still great, but he wasn't, he was still good, but he wasn't at the same level. After 1990, he never got that back. You know, it was, it was, oops, I have to get rid of that metal thing.

It's got this metal thing underneath the desk. I don't even know why it's on there. I mean, what, what, what, what use is it, other than just to bang my hand on.

So I watched that last night. That was, it was weird. Also, I won't spoil, there was another fight on and the commentators were talking as if one person had obviously won.

And then the, I, I just skipped through to the end and the other person won. Okay, but one, one of the judge, one of the, not commentator, but he was kind of one of the kind of commentators in the background said, well, I think the other one might've won it. And they were no, no, no, no.

And he had won it. So I skipped back and just watched through it. And the other, the other boxer, it wasn't like one sided, but he was, it was definitely, you'd have thought it was one sided the other way from the way the commentators were talking.

It's the bias, isn't it? I guess. Anyway, I might've been talking for a long time tonight, or today, just now three o'clock and it was about one o'clock, wasn't it? Let me have a look. Freaky chair.

Right. One hour and 50 minutes. I didn't really get to talk much about the website.

Oh, well. So I'm going to go thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself because you deserve flappy ears. You don't deserve flappy ears. He's just flat ears.

And be, be, be, be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye.

What do you want? What do you want? You smell like a little doggie. You smell like a little doggie. A little doggie.

You little doggie. I don't know what he, I know what he does want, but I haven't got anything to give him. Maybe give you a bit of pizza later.

Meow. Okay, so I'm going. Bye.