(Long | Voice Only) #1587 Let me bore you to sleep | Jason Newland | 5th April 2026

Hello, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. This is Sunday the 5th of April and it is Easter day.

Chocolate egg day. It's a high. The year is 2026, just in case you're wondering, in the future.

I started watching this program, it's a TV show, it's on Is it on Netflix? Or is it on Prime? It's called The Bunker. And yeah, it's good. I like it.

It's basically, it's called The Billionaire's Bunker. Now, it's not English, but it's dubbed. But it's good.

It's actually really good. So I've watched two episodes so far. I think it's only one season, one series so far, but I might be wrong.

But what I am looking forward to is in three days time on the 8th of April, The Boys, the last series of The Boys is coming on Prime. So I've been looking forward to that for ages and ages. Yes, I'm looking forward to that.

I should do my little introduction, shouldn't I? So please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I do have a YouTube channel, which you can find. I've got two websites, jasonnewland.com, which is my podcast website, and jasonnewland.store. So jasonnewland.com, you can stream all my recordings and the store, you can download everything for free.

All my podcasts, I do six versions each, short, overnight, and long. Though the short ones are sometimes an hour and a half, but the long ones about five hours, and overnights about 10 hours, with and without music. They're shared on all the major podcast apps.

Although you can find the links on my websites. And I've got a Jason Newlands Boring Group, that's it, on Facebook, which you can join if you want to. And pretty much all day, it's been quiet in the garden until now.

Just as I start to do a recording. So I've got the window closed. And although they're doing the shouty talking, because they don't know how to talk, but they're not screaming.

So that's good. So it should be hopefully okay. Ah, glorious.

So I was watching the boxing last night. I didn't get a lot done yesterday, to be fair. And the boxing was on, it was Wada against Chizora.

I won't say the results, just... Really? Any? Okay, sorry. I'm not judging you, I'm just like... Okay, they just found something to chew on. And yeah, so that was good.

It was a good night's boxing. It was also other boxing on BBC Two at the same time. There's also boxing early hours of the morning, this morning, which I've not watched.

And so I'll watch that sometime. There's only so much I can watch in one point, you know, even though there's been some amazing shows over the last three years, especially in Dubai, back in about two years ago. They had like huge fights, one after another, all on one billboard.

Like headlining acts. Headlining acts? Headlining fights on each, you know. But it was like six or seven hours worth of it.

And it was too much, you know, three o'clock in the afternoon until about midnight. It was like, wow. It is, yeah, I couldn't really hack the pace, if I'm honest.

But at the same time, I've never seen a bill that was so jam-packed of like heavyweight fights or world title fights. It was because that's what Dubai did. It was part of their promotion to make Dubai a holiday destination.

They spent billions in Dubai promoting the area for foreign travellers to come and visit and stay in the top, world's best hotels and all that stuff. And that's what they were doing. They sort of, they entered into the world of boxing.

They've also got other kind of sports as well. They've got their own racetrack for F1, I think. So, yeah, it's really gotten into, you know, into the whole sports world.

It's, yeah, I think it's a temporary. I can't imagine there'll be anything there for a little while. As far as I know, I'm sure there was one coming up, but I don't know if it's been cancelled.

It's, yeah, I definitely wouldn't go and watch a boxing match there. Anytime soon, unless it was on deep underground, I don't think. In a bunker, probably.

So, but the boxing's, there's a lot, quite a lot of boxing on at the moment, which is good. You know, there's boxing on next week. Tyson Fury's on.

Where is he fighting? Oh, he's, oh yeah, he's on Netflix. And then I think the following week, I might be wrong, but I think the following week is Usyk is fighting some kickboxer. I've no idea what that's about.

I just don't see the, that makes no sense to me. You know, as an exhibition, yeah, but as a, like an actual world, a defense for his worldwide title, makes no, there's no logic outside of money or novelty. But yeah, it's quite funny because I saw the bloke that's being, I think his name's Castro or Carlo or something.

And he was being interviewed and he was joking that he hopes he remembers that it's just boxing. Otherwise, the fight will be over very quickly because it was just, as soon as he kicked Usyk in the face, that that'll be the end of the fight, which, well, I guess it would be, wouldn't it really? But yeah, I'm pretty sure he'll remember. And apparently he's been training.

Who's he been training with? He's been training with, has he been training with Fabio Hordley? He's training with someone. No, I think he's, he might have been training with Tyson Fury. He's training with some, like a really big British trainer.

So I guess he's sort of in this country. And so he's been training in boxing. I mean, I think he has had a couple of boxing matches, but not like, he's not ranked in any, in any of the, the world, you know, governs in boxing.

But I'm sure if he wanted to, you know, if he got like, if he went to get into boxing, he could very much quickly go up into the top 10 with his experience. But he's fast-tracked somehow. I'm not quite sure how that happened.

Yeah, I started to kind of get my head around it. It's, it's like the rules have really been just ignored. The normal protocol of boxing, you know.

Anyway, I do have to say a quick thank you. Let me get it up. Let me say a quick thank you to Kim.

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And yeah, I'm just a bit confused about the whole boxing thing. What's going on there? So I'm going to keep quiet for a second. How, how, how disruptive is that background sound? Because come, come the, you know, summer's coming up, there's going to be more of it in the summer.

I'm very limited to what I can block out, living here. Because it's, what it is, is, is like a, like an echo, not an echo chamber, but it's quite echoey in the gardens. And I seem to be the only, me and downstairs are the only flats that really pick it up.

Although I don't know, I haven't spoken to the other people. But the people that live on that block, where they live is in the front of the building. They're in the back of the building, in the garden.

So people's living rooms and bedrooms, because it's studio, are at the front of the building. So they don't really hear it as much. My living bedroom, my living and whatever is at the back.

So I'm more hearing it. At least I'm not falling asleep today. Blimey, yesterday or Friday, I literally was falling asleep while I was talking.

So I have to keep my eyes open. I was like, So yeah, it's April. Blimey, April, April, April.

I always kind of liked April. It's not, not because of Easter, although I used to like Easter when I was a kid. Easter eggs, wow, I loved them.

I used to get them, I mean in them days when I was like little, I say little, like 10, 11, 12, whatever. I used to get big Easter egg from my dad, my parents. I used to get an Easter egg from each of my brothers.

So that's another four, another three. So that's four all together. I used to get an Easter egg from my step mum's mum.

So that's five. I used to get an Easter egg from my nanny granddad. So that's six.

I'd also, yeah, when my auntie was living around the corner, I'd get an Easter egg from her. So that's seven. So I get seven Easter eggs.

It's not bad, is it? Seven Easter eggs. Oh yes, that was nice. I haven't had an Easter egg for years other than the ones I bought for myself.

I don't even recognise it. Although I did have someone sent me a text saying happy Easter, but I don't, yeah, I've not. I was trying to think earlier.

When I was a kid, did we celebrate Easter as in like Sunday lunch and stuff? And perhaps we did. I genuinely can't really remember. I know we used to go to, it was the only, I think Easter day was the only day of the year when we used to get sent off to Sunday school, which is up the end of the road in a hut or in some like town hall church thing.

Or maybe it was a church, I don't know. And that was it. So I don't know why we were kind of sent up there and then we come home and it was the only Sunday the whole of the year that we, I say we, I'm talking about me and probably my brother that's a little bit older than me.

My oldest brother was too old. He just did his own thing anyway. Yeah, so it's me and my brother just above me.

Maybe my little brother as well, took him along. And then we went to Sunday school for a couple of hours and came back. I don't know what that, I think it might have been an opportunity for the parents to have some time to themselves, a bit of space, you know, a bit of alone time, which I'm pretty sure they needed because they probably didn't get much of it with us being there.

I mean, four kids, that's a lot, isn't it? So four kids, just four, one, two, three, four, yeah, four. And then a mother-in-law that was always there. Well, a lot of times she was there.

And then my nan and grandad were coming and going. So they didn't really have a lot of space, a lot of time to just be together on their own. I imagine.

I don't know. I mean, for all I know, my dad might have gone to work and it's, you know, half seven in the morning or whatever. And as soon as we'd all left for school, he'd come back, spend the rest of the day at home.

I know he didn't, but he might have done. I think he used to come home for lunch because we lived in a little town. So everything was kind of travelable, too, if that makes sense.

Yeah. I was thinking whether or not I'd like to live in a mansion. These are kind of weird things to think about, really, considering my lifestyle.

But I was watching this deserted mansion thing on YouTube, you know, where they go into houses and just look around places that have just been deserted. I feel it might just be called deserted mansions. And there's still stuff there.

Photographs and belongings still there left. And that's something I kind of not, makes me wonder what. Maybe that's just a rich thing.

Maybe if you're super wealthy and you've got multiple houses and you decide to just don't visit one again, you forget what you got there. I don't know. I've always just lived in one place.

So I take my stuff with me when I move. I don't know. But I saw this place and it's massive.

And I thought. I don't know why, but it'd be quite nice to live somewhere like that. Now, I wouldn't need all those rooms.

So I was thinking maybe. Because, you know, I'd like to start my harem at some point. So I mean, I know I can't officially, you know, get married to more than one person, but it doesn't stop you having a harem.

So I have my harem and I don't feel I'm not greedy. I don't want more than 100 wives. So I'm not greedy, but.

Always a bit shouting now in the garden. And that's one of the downsides of it getting lighter in the evening. I'm really pleased at now.

It's half past six and it's light outside, which it wasn't, you know, a few weeks ago. It was dark at four in the afternoon. But the downside is the shouty people come out.

They're out for longer. And I think they're everywhere though, aren't they? I don't know what creates a shouty person. You know, when I say that, a shouty person is someone that doesn't seem to have the ability to talk quietly or at a normal.

You know, it's an old thing is like when you say to a kid, use your inside voice. You know, when you say to a kid, use your inside voice, not your outside voice. Well, they don't have an inside voice.

And their outside voice is an outside voice while a helicopter is landing. You know, it's kind of like that shouty almost trying to shout above the helicopter so they can hear each other. It's and I wonder, because I've met a few people like that and it's not I've got nothing against them.

I mean, I've been trying to figure it out, though. I've noticed that they seem to create offspring that are similar. And it's not the offspring's fault, either.

Because the offspring, they're born into a house that's very, very loud. Everyone's shouting. So they have to shout to be heard.

And even though they're not really shouting, they just talk shouting. They become very loud and. Probably annoying to some people.

But they don't know it because they don't realize that they're talking or that they're being so loud. But it's the same way. I've met people that are really, really quiet.

There's one woman I used to know and she's like, it could hardly, well two I've met in the past that's so quiet, couldn't hear them. I could see their lips moving, but it was like, I said, what is it if you ever noticed that when someone mumbles or you mishear them because they're mumbling because they just, you know, they're not for whatever reason, have not really kind of pronounced their words properly or maybe they've got a very strong accent.

And you're like, oh, sorry.

So what did you say? Sorry. And they repeat it exactly the same way as they did before. Even if you say, I didn't understand what you said.

Could you say a bit clearer, please? And slower. So someone says, I haven't gone for a walk and I don't know. I take on any man.

That's right. I see. Can you say a little bit slower? Because I couldn't quite grasp it.

I'm really interested in what you're saying. And I'm really, I can't believe, can't even explain to you how excited I am to hear the next sentence. But it was just too fast and I couldn't quite grasp it.

Would you mind very kindly, I'll pay you £20 cash if you'd just repeat it a bit slower and more concisely so that I can really feel as though we're. In tune with each other, you know. And then they say, I take on any man.

But it's still the same. It was, you don't want to say to him, it's just noise because it does sound like just noise and that's not really an insult, because if something doesn't make sense. It's just noise, isn't it? So if you hear someone that speaks a different language.

It is noise to the person that doesn't understand the language. It's just sound. It's just blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's just, it doesn't. You know, that's not an insult. Some people say that's an insult.

I can't say that's an insult. It's not an insult. So English is completely, it's just noise to someone that's never met an English person.

To someone in India that's never met an English person and they hear the English people speak and they're going to think, what the hell is that noise? It's just, it's hurting my ears. Well, what is that? It's just, you know what I mean? So it's just noise. I think with some of the European languages.

Especially with Spanish, I can pick out some words like familia, family. And some of, that's the only one actually, I was going to show off and give you lots of ones, but amore, is that Italian? Pronto. Now pronto, I saw a movie where someone answered it by just, they answered the telephone by saying pronto.

Okay, so pronto, pronto. What does pronto mean? Why do Italians say pronto? Yeah, okay, I just got it here. When Italians answer the phone, Italians use pronto to let the person on the other end know that they're ready to talk.

Okay. In this country, pronto means hurry up. It's basically people that are impatient, use the word pronto.

And that's not what it's supposed to be. I mean, here it's like promptly or quickly, get on with it quickly, pronto, pronto, amoeba, amoeba. And that's not what it really means in other countries.

So in Italy, it just means ready. Ready when you are. Pronto.

So stuff like that I find interesting. If I'd have had that kind of interest in languages when I was a kid, I might have kind of, I just might have found interest, I might have learned a language. Because I do find if there's, to find the reason for the words, as opposed to just trying to copy someone else speaking, to find the connection between the English version and I suppose it's Latin, isn't it?

It's all based upon Latin.

Like Anglo-Saxon, whatever. So, yeah, okay, they're the only two words I know, pronto and familia, so family. Then you can think, well, you know what? Familia, fam, familia is, is familiar to family, isn't it? Familia, you know, family, family, family, family, family, family, family.

Ah, and I know sometimes Italians like they go, ah, don't they? When they're talking and it's, it's like, I suppose English people talk with like a downward inflection. Australians might talk some, the ones on TV anyway, might talk with a more of an upward inflection. There's no right or wrong, is there? It's just, it is what it is.

Ah, this is a woman that does on YouTube and she, she does, ah, every now and then when she's just talking, so I'm going down the road, ah, and I'm thinking, maybe she, is she grunting? Maybe she's just, she just feels nice when she says those words. Or maybe she's just thinking what to say next, ah, instead of, um, and then, but it's not, it's like, no, I went down the road, ah, instead of, ah, and you know, maybe it's like a shortcut.

I don't know.

I think it's, uh, it's cute. It's all, it's just an idiosyncrasy, isn't it? I guess, but I don't know any language really. I tried to learn a bit of, not Croatian, um, Bulgarian.

I really couldn't be bothered with French, because it seemed like, it's a whole, it's like they're saying everything wrong, you know? This was my attitude when I was about nine, when the school first started trying to teach me French. Well, not just me, but like the whole, everyone. And my attitude then was, why? What possible reason could I need to know this? I'm still not really very good at English.

I'm still learning English. Why am I, why are you trying to teach me another language? And somewhere that isn't even, I mean, if you're going to go on holiday, I've never done anyone to kind of really pick French as a holiday destination. For France, it's more like go to Spain, or want to go to America, or go to New York, or go to, you know, one of those countries.

But France, I know there's a lot of people live there, and it's a popular place to go to. But it had this, um, I don't know if it's true, but there was this whole thing saying that everyone I knew when I grew up said, not everybody, because not everybody I knew used to talk about France. It never came up sometimes.

Yeah, my geography teacher never really mentioned, mentioned France as in like the country, but never the language. That's what I found weird, because you got, you got, um, geography and history, and they're so interconnected, aren't they? Because they're talking about the history of the country. You can't have a history about a country.

You can't have a country about a history. Yeah, it's two different languages, or two different subjects, sorry. And yeah, I don't know what point on that was, I don't know.

I was really talking about how people got to be so gobby, so loud. So really loud people created, or is it an accident? Is it a chromosome thing? I mean, is it like a brain, is it some kind of, like I've got bipolar, it's a brain disorder. So is, is being really, really, really loud is a brain thing? I don't mean disorder, but just a brain thing, you know, it's a part of the brain.

And if you're born with that part of brain, maybe, maybe overactive, you know, maybe the, the thing is, I can talk. So I can't, I can't, definitely can't judge other people that have the ability to talk for hours, but they will sit out there to talk. It just doesn't stop.

Like, take a breath. How can you do that without breathing? Talk continuously. What's going on? But then it's not talking, it's shouting.

And I've noticed that those people that shout a lot got really gravelly voices. Have you noticed that? They talk like that, you know, you know, I'm not gentle, calm, soft, like me. That's why I don't shout.

Because I don't want to have the, the gravelly, the real, I'm trying to think like I get Rod Stewart kind of voice, you know, it's not, I mean, it's great for him. But yeah, it's, it's, it just sounds like someone was born with a pipe in their mouth. It's, you know, like, it's the voice, just like, it's like they've spent their whole life shouting and maybe they have, maybe, I don't know, but then I've never had kids.

So I had brothers though, I used to shout at my brothers. I'm looking for answers that don't need to be questioned, really, don't I? That's what I do. I said to someone, a neighbour the other day, I said, I'm not at war with anyone.

She said, no, no one except yourself. And I thought, wow. Bit of truth in that one, maybe.

I mean, I did discover, I kind of figured it out with the noise people is, I thought it was a hearing issue, potentially, that they just, their hearing was perhaps, they had hearing issues and they didn't realise it. So therefore they shouted, thinking, because they couldn't hear their own voice. So that's why they were shouting instead of talking.

And then I thought, maybe it's not the hearing, it's the eyesight. So they're in the garden talking to each other. They're like maybe a foot away from each other, two foot away.

But they think that there may be, they're the opposite, the other side of the field. So they think there may be like 500 yards away. So that's why they're like, but actually only three foot away.

So, well, they just can't judge distances. It could be. I mean, there's a three generation of shouters.

And I suppose it's just the way it is, isn't it? I used to know someone that shouted all the time, always shouting. And she had kids and they shout, and their kids shout. It's just like, I mean, I can understand a little bit because, you know, I had four brothers.

There was a definitely a degree of shouting over each other to be heard. But I think as I got older, I realized I didn't really care if I was heard. I realized it wasn't important.

I also realized that I was very rarely interested in what they were talking about. Or if I was, I just listened. I didn't need to contribute.

Because I didn't really have a friendly relationship with my brothers in a way of. Not really, I don't remember really like making fun of each other, you know, like in a gentle, jovial, humorous way. Maybe we did, but I don't remember it.

I don't know, it really being much fun. Like in that way. But maybe because I was the youngest, but then my little brother was the youngest, he was eight years younger than me.

So imagine he was born and my oldest brother was. 12 years old. So when my brother was eight, he was in his 20s.

So yeah, it was kind of. Yeah, I was kind of the little one. Like the youngest, as far as my brothers were concerned in that sense, I suppose.

Never let me win anything they didn't. Honestly, we had a snooker table, table tennis table that went over the snooker table fitted on the top. And they never let me win.

Very competitive, they played each other. And, you know, that because there's only two years between them. But me, I don't feel I ever won a game ever.

And I think if you're little, if you're a little kid, you need to win a game. To get a little bit of confidence. It's not about being let you don't, if someone lets you win all the time, then you're not going to learn anything.

If they let you win every now and then, or they go easy on you, then there's that little bit of confidence and it keeps the interest going, doesn't it? Because that's why with the lottery, but you know, I never continued with the lottery. Because I didn't win anything. If I'd won like a fiver every three months, I would probably be doing it every week.

And it costs two pound a week. So if you think about it, if they give me 10 pound every three months, yeah, I'm paying two, four, six, eight, 16, six, 34, 34 pound. So I'm paying 34 pound in three months.

They let me win 10 pound. They've still got 24 pound out of me, haven't they? And I'm going to be thinking, wow, I've got 10 pound there. And then maybe in the next three months, they'll let me win three.

Maybe the next three months, they let me win 30. But they're still up, aren't they? They're always going to be up. But imagine the more people that win like 30, 40, 50 quid on the lottery, they're going to be doing it for, it's like a, a guarantee they're going to keep doing it.

Someone that wins 50 quid or even 10 quid on the lottery, I think it's a pretty guarantee they're going to buy the lottery ticket the next week. Now I realise they can't really do that because that would be manipulating the lottery, I guess. Maybe just do like a random thing, you say, well, actually, we're going to do a lucky, a lucky draw.

No, it's going to go, maybe to go through the alphabet. I don't know. Do it so that it, you know, so we're going to give 1000, let 1000 people every week, let 1000 people win 10 pound.

Let 500 win 20 pound, let 250 people win 30 pound, let 125 people win 50 pound, let 100 people win 100 pound, I don't know, you know what I mean, and just spread that around the country. So that 1000 people, even though they've given out a bit of money, they're going to, they're pretty much guaranteed going to be buying tickets every week for a year. Even if it's only 10 pound they've won, or 20 pound.

I don't know, perhaps put me in charge of the lottery. I don't know why they had to put it up to two pound though, because one pound was enough. It was almost like enough that you could lose.

You know, if you dropped a pound down the drain by accident, you know, it's annoying. It's like, okay, no, no one wants to drop a pound down the drain. You can probably, it's like, okay, fair enough.

The likelihood of it happening again, you know, it's just a one-off like, okay, unless you needed that pound and literally that was all you had, then of course, it's a different situation. But you're not going to, you know, it's a different matter. If it's a two pound coin, then you're digging that road up on you to get that two pound back.

You're getting it no matter what happens. No, one pound. Oh, it's annoying.

But then my two pound. No, that drain is coming up and I'm going in that drain somehow. I'm getting that two pound back.

That's a lottery ticket. That is, that's a sausage roll at Greg's. I don't know if it is or not.

I'm not sure. You know, something like my boss at the chip shop used to like to do. And it was cruel.

It's funny, but it was at the same time, you know, like in, in heterospect or whatever you call it, I kind of, you know, maybe not, shouldn't have done it, but he would glue a pound coin to the to the floor outside the chip shop. Onto the, he did it in the road once, and that wasn't a good idea because anyway, he did it on the pavement and we'd watch people go to pick it up and he couldn't.

Now, some people would not give up.

Some people were pulling out knives, trying to get it off like that. One bloke came back with a screwdriver and a hammer, like he went home. Is this true? He went home, came back with a hammer and a chisel, probably a chisel, not a screwdriver to get that one pound out of the pavement.

They did work. And I thought, wow, that's a lot of energy for a pound coin. And it's, and it was mainly for some reason, elderly people.

Like a young person to try and pick up and there's walk on the elderly people really kind of, I mean, maybe, I mean, back then, if the soul was in their 90s, in the early 80s, in like 85, 86, maybe to them, they would have a flashback and realise, oh, if I get that pound coin off of the pavement, I can buy myself a house. Because maybe that's how much houses used to be when they were young, a pound.

They used to be able to buy houses for a few hundred quid back then.

I don't know if that's true, but I believe it might be. I believe it. I do.

That's why I believe it might be wrong. It might be right. It doesn't matter.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, I tell you what I used to notice is I didn't understand why people used to run across the road. Like it was only a short way.

I think it was a one way, it was a one, one way road. In the town. And I lived, well, I worked opposite Boots, which is a pharmacy.

Used to call them chemists back then. And I was, you know, we'd be able to watch people crossing the road. And if you looked, if you turn your head a little bit, Tesco's was there.

Then you turn your head around even more. Then there was the like the triangle area where there was a little hut where people used to urinate. I say people, I mean me and.

The amount of people that would just run across the road for no reason. Obviously, they wanted to get across the road, but. What was the hurry? You know what? Why did they need to run? And again, I mean, it was basically either really young kids or really old people.

Seem to be the predominant ones are little kids. It's a standard. Unfortunately, I did it myself when I was little, but I remember I was about eight.

I was still a teenager. I think I was about 17. And my nan held my hand.

She used to hold my hand to cross the road. Now, it's different when she was older. When I was in my 40s, I'd hold her hand across the road to keep her safe, you know.

Or in my 30s. But in my teens, she'd hold my hand to keep me safe. So there I am like 18, 19.

She's holding my hand. And not only would she hold my hand, she did she hold my hand on the pavement. She didn't hold it on the pavement.

Both standing up on the pavement. So she would hold my hand. And she'd look at me and she said, go.

And she'd start running. One and the other hand holding up a skirt. She'd run like, Nan, what are you doing? What's the other side of the road that's so important that you're willing to risk yourself for? She said, what do you mean risk myself? I said, look, this car's coming.

She said, yeah, it's going to hit you first. I thought, whoa. I was like, wow.

But she was so embarrassed in holding my hand. And because I was embarrassed by it. As soon as we got onto the other side of the road, I'd like shake her hand away.

Get off me. It's embarrassing. Although I do remember once I was walking.

I think it was my stepmum. I think that might happen when I was really young. But I was holding her hand in the supermarket.

And I'm just talking to her. And you know, then you go occasionally, you have to get out of people's way and let go of the hand and go back. Well, the next time I looked up, it was a different woman.

Yet she was holding my hand. I'm like, what are you doing? I just, just like, see ya. Well, first of all, I asked her what kind of house she lived in.

I just wanted to see whether it was worth upgrading, you know. But yeah, generally, just how many other kids have you got? Because if I'm going to be the only kid, I will consider coming home with you. No brothers or sisters, thanks.

I wonder what that would have been like to be a, an only child. I used to dream, dream about that. Oh, how lovely that would have been.

I mean, it might not have been, but just, just the idea of it. No brothers, being the only kid, being. But then I don't think I'd want to be center of attention.

You know, I'd quite like, I like being left alone and you can, you can get away sometimes a bit more with being left alone if there's a few of you. Because the parents can't focus on everyone at the same time, no matter how much they try. So I like to, I think I was quite reliable to just be in my room and not be distracted.

Listening to music or sit in front of the telly, watching it. You know, I wasn't, I wasn't hard to predict. I wasn't out getting in trouble ever really, generally.

I wasn't, you know, you might find it hard to believe, but it's true. Outside of school, like when I was at school, outside of school, I really didn't generally get into trouble. I did a few things that I shouldn't have done.

Few things I wasn't caught, you know, and get caught for, but nothing like serious and, you know, just a few bank jobs, nothing, nothing big, nothing big. A couple of jewellers, nothing, I didn't do stuff like that. Although, I did have a friend come up to me, it was a mid 80s, I don't know what year it was, it might have been 85, I think I was still at school, I'm not sure, and a friend of mine turned up and he had a black bag, black bin bag, full of cigarettes, like full, there must have been about 100 packs of cigarettes, and they weren't duty free.

Now he didn't, he told me he didn't know where they were from. He said he had a friend asked him if he wanted them to sell, if he could try and sell them. So I, then he brought to me, I looked after them.

And then I think the next day, he came back to me saying, yeah, they are dodgy, and they need to be gone. So we spent the rest of the evening, or the rest of the day, getting rid of these cigarettes. Just all around the town, it was silly, really, we should have just dumped them in a bin.

But we were just, yeah, we're getting rid of them individually, down a drain and in little bins here and just crumpling them up and putting into the dirt and stuff. It's like, I hadn't done anything. I'd literally just been given them by someone, and he'd been given them by someone.

So technically, if I'd known where they'd come from, the best thing to have done was just to stick them back through the letterbox of the shop, if they'd come from a shop that is, or wherever, is to give them back to where they originally came from. But I didn't think about that. In fact, I don't think I knew where they came from.

I might have done, but I was not involved in that because I didn't, never did stuff like that. All I thought is, oh, I go to prison forever for this. Oh no, oh no.

And I realised then that maybe being a gangster wasn't for me. I think a lot of kids grew up considering being a gangster when they were little, in my kind of period of life. And I think a lot of that might have been because of, like, The Godfather, those kinds of movies, and Al Capino, Al Pacino, Al Capone, Goodfellas, no the Untouchables, that's it, the Untouchables.

Then of course you had the Goodfellas, but that was the 90s, wasn't it? But there was that kind of, very much like, gangster-ish thing, quite a few gangster movies around those times. Even like the James Cagney gangster movies were still on TV, the black and white ones from probably the 40s or 50s. Who loves you, baby? I don't know if that's a proper thing.

Is it James Cagney? I do like some of those old movies. I do. I saw a movie the other day, and it's very, very, very, very strange.

I'll tell you what it is, because I've got to look at it. I'm looking on my phone because my laptop's closed. Movie.

It's got a long title. Okay, nope. No.

Right, okay. Have fun. Right, there's a movie from 2025 called Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die.

And it is a very, very, very, very strange movie. Like, very strange. It was two hours and 15 minutes.

I liked it. But it's very, it stars Sam Rockwell. What was Sam Rockwell in? Is it a Green Mile? Really? Wow.

I mean, he was the way they dressed up. He didn't really look like he looks similar to someone that I was a TV show. Last man on the last man in the world.

He looked a bit like him. But yeah, Sam Rockwell. It's a good movie.

It's worth watching. I think it's very, very unusual. Very unusual.

It's yeah, it's probably the most original movie. Most original movie that I've seen in a while. Yeah, I would.

Yeah, I'll definitely say that. Definitely original. Kind of strange.

Little bit weird, little bit, little bit, little bit weird. Probably a little bit more than a little bit weird. Very, very weird.

Hmm. Was it a movie that I watched recently that was quite good? Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. I can't think what it is offhand.

Oh, wait a minute. I know what I'll do. If I turn the TV on, turn the volume down, and I'll tell you some of the movies I've seen.

I mean, this is not recently. This is, I mean, not like this week, but over the last few weeks. So if I go to watch list, watch list.

No, watch list. No. Okay.

So if I go to latest movies. Right. Some of the recently watched movies.

Right. There's a movie called Send Help. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien.

If yeah, it's a very unusual movie. Again, a very unusual. And.

But I recommend watching it. It's good. It's basically about.

Yeah, it's a shipwrecked on an island scenario. But it doesn't go the way you expect it, which is good. It's kind of, yeah, it's not quite how it's.

Yeah, it's a different take. And another movie I watched called Giant, which was about. Prince Nassim Hamid.

He was a boxer in the 90s and early 2000s. And he was one of the best. One of the best that we've ever produced in this country is phenomenal.

Big, big fan of his. Oh, this is the movie I was trying to think about the other day. Reckless.

Do you remember I was talking about Scott Adkins? You might not remember this Scott Adkins. And I was saying that there was this that had Gaffney in it from EastEnders. And he was playing a tough guy.

And basically Vinnie Jones was the he was the mobster, if my voice doesn't go. And Dean Gaffney was the. Like his sergeant, I guess.

That's what made it funny. It just did. I don't know, can't help it.

So yeah, Reckless is quite a funny movie as well. I am a fan of Scott Adkins. And The Housemaid, Sidney Sweeney.

I watched that. I like that movie. And it's not just because because Sidney Sweeney's in it.

I don't know why people go on about her. I mean, it's not quite sure what it is. Yeah, right.

The Running Man. Now, I don't think I ever saw the original, which I think was probably good because I liked it. But I don't know if I'd have enjoyed it had I seen the original one with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But I like this one. So yeah, that was cool. Keanu Reeves.

Good Fortune. That's a good movie. It's some really funny parts in it as well.

It's really just quite gentle. It's got R, can't be R rated. Maybe it is.

But it's good. It's a good movie. It's going to be one that it's probably forgotten about.

You know, I mean, I don't think it's going to be when people think back on Keanu Reeves his career, they're probably not even going to mention or remember Good Fortune. Like probably quite a few of his movies, they're not going to remember because he's done so many, but he's also known for particular movies, isn't he? But it's a good one. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a bad Keanu Reeves movie.

I watched Sinners, but I didn't like it, really. I didn't dislike it. I just, I thought it was all right.

But I've talked about this the other day. It's a little bit like From Dusk Till Dawn. You got two, two parts and the second part's vampires.

And again, with From Dusk Till Dawn, the second part is vampires. I prefer the first part where there was no vampires. And it was gritty.

And it was, you know, yeah, it's just me. But I preferred that part. And if you didn't know, maybe that's what it was because people didn't know the way to see it, that it was going to have vampires in it.

Because there was no clue, really. If you watch it. And building up to it, there was, there was, I would say there was no clue that vampires were going to be involved until they were.

Yeah, if that made sense. But it did win lots of Oscars. So I'll have to accept that I'm possibly the odd one out.

But I didn't, it was a good movie. I just didn't think it was a great movie. Just, it was okay.

It was good. But maybe I need to watch it again. Because I don't always watch movies all in one go.

So I'll watch a little bit, then I'll watch another little bit. And maybe that's one of the ones I did that with because I tried to watch the beginning about three times and I found it boring. So, in the end, I watched it.

This is, yeah, that's before I realized it was a big movie. Because I like the actors in it. What's his name? Michael B. Jordan.

Anyway, the next one's Megan 2.0. It's good. It's not the same as the first one. And they can't match the first one.

Simply because it was such a one-off thing. What are you doing? Are you hungry? Do you want your num-nums? Do you want your num-nums? Get some dinner. All right, I've just got to get that and I'll be right back.

Do you want your num-nums? So, yeah, I've just gotten some dinner. He's tucking into it, so he's happy. He's got this thing where he licks his lips.

And it's kind of to let me know that he's hungry. One More Shot is another movie. And it's one of those time-traveling movies.

It's one of those almost Groundhog Day types. But it's entertaining. Then there's a freaky movie called Weapons.

It's very freaky. It's a horror movie. But, yeah, it's strange.

It's a little, yeah. Well, then we've got another Scott Atkins movie, Prisoner of War, which is... It was silly, but it was good. It was fun.

Yeah, a bit of martial arts and stuff. Right, there's another one called Court Stealing that I watched, which was Austin Butler. Austin Butler.

So that's Elvis, isn't it? Elvis's bloke. The one that played Elvis. And that was all right as well.

I can't remember what. Oh, the next one, Code 3. This is a good movie. I would recommend this movie.

It's got a Rianne or Ron Wilson from the office in America. And I thought it was going to be a bit poo, if I'm honest. I just didn't know.

I watched it anyway. I thought I'd give it a go. It's really good.

It's really good. And, yeah, that's all I can say, really. It's really, really worth a watch because it's got a meaning to it as well.

There's funny bits, but it's pretty much non-stop action, really. But it's, yeah, it's, it's kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's worth a watch. What's the next one is the Fantastic Four.

First Steps. I mean, I, I don't know, really. I might have to watch it again to really get the, to get the, the full benefits of it.

But I didn't understand why it was based in, I don't know what he's doing. He's trying to find something to eat. A little extra.

With the Fantastic Four. The new one or last year's one. It was based in the 60s.

I didn't really understand why that was because bearing in mind the technology that they have. Didn't, just didn't fit in with the era it was based in. At all.

Like the Fantastic Four, the ones that wanted like movies a while back, the first kind of big movies that came out was in the 2000s. And then there was that one off movie that I don't think it did too well. But I do believe the Fantastic Four here are going to be in the, the Marvel movie.

It's releasing in December, which is going to be with like Captain America and all that stuff. So, um, yeah, I'm a little bit, that just. It distracted me a little bit, I think.

Right, the Amateur, I don't even remember watching that. 28 days later, I didn't finish that one. I don't think I finished the Amateur either.

Final Destination. Yeah, I watched that. That was all right, you know.

And like the original Final Destination, that first came out in, I guess, the 90s. It was so unlike anything I'd seen before. But after.

You know, about 15 different movies. You kind of know where you're going, don't you? You know. Right, Until Dawn, that's another one.

That's like a horror one. The Monkey's a horror one. See, I watched them too.

They were good, good movies. Death of a Unicorn. See, that's kind of comedy slash horror.

And it's got Jenny Ortega and Paul Rudd. So a couple of famous people in there. So that was okay.

The Drop. This is a really unusual movie. It's worth watching.

It's a woman's on a date. So she's on a date. I don't know if it's an anonymous date, but she's on a date in a restaurant.

And she keeps getting bombarded with text messages telling her what to do. And it's basically, it's like she's been held hostage by an anonymous person in a public space. And it's a good movie.

And you don't know where it's coming from. You don't know where the, you know, and they do a lot of misdirection. Companion.

It's kind of... Yeah, I'm surprised that that was allowed to be out because it fits in with some stuff. But it's basically... Yeah, I'd recommend watching it. It's just really not what you think.

Now the next one, I think I've watched too many movies, blimey. There's a movie called Locked and it's got Bill Skard and then Anthony Hopkins. And it's basically a man breaks into a car.

I don't think I'm going to spoil it by saying this because that's what it is. He's locked in the car. He can't get out.

The whole movie, that's all it is. It's really good. It's really good.

A working man. It's a Jason Statham movie. You know what you're getting was Jason Statham.

It's going to be all that action and he's going to win in the end. What more do you need, really? Novocaine. So again, it's got the... So it's got the bloke from what's his name? Why is it a cast? Jack Quaid.

So he's in The Boys. So he's clearly now doing like movies now as well. And he did two movies in 2025.

The Companion that I mentioned earlier. And he did a movie called Novocaine. And it's a very similar premise to Kick-Ass.

I don't want to spoil it. But it's a good movie. It is good.

And then you got The Gorge. Which is pretty much a love story. But it's a lot more.

That's a good movie as well. Crave and the Hunter. I might revisit that one because... Yeah, that was good.

I only watched it once. I think maybe I need to watch The Fantastic Four again. Because perhaps I didn't really appreciate it the first time.

And it also depends on what mood I'm in when I'm watching them, I guess. And this next one. 100% recommend.

It's called The Heretic. And it's got blah, blah, blah. Hugh Grant.

I mentioned Hugh Grant the other day. He's turned into a movie review, isn't it? Do you think I should do movie reviews? I will. I don't mind.

I literally can watch a movie, sit here, watch it, and then just stop the video and start talking about the part of the movie. And I can do that. I'd have to edit out the parts where the movie's being played because that's copyright, isn't it? But if anyone's interested, I could do that.

In fact, I could even have headphones on while watching the movie and just talking literally while I'm watching it. Let me know if you think that's a good idea. It kind of forced me to take more of an interest in what's going on.

But The Heretic. I never thought that I would be a bigger fan of Hugh Grant than I was before. I liked him before.

His character was lovely and he was funny. But I prefer his character now. I prefer the stuff he's doing now because he ain't nice.

It's really weird. It just surprised me because I didn't... No offense to him. I just didn't think that he seemed quite one-dimensional as an actor.

But he clearly isn't. He's just a really good actor. And maybe because he got stereotyped as being this bumbling person who is lovable.

And he made huge amounts of money being that character on screen. And he was in some big movies. Maybe it made sense to be that character, didn't it? But now he ain't that character anymore.

And I think that's what makes it even more fun. Because you know it's him. Obviously it's the same face and everything.

But it's not him anymore. It's really good. Now Vinnie, why do you want a treat? Is that why you're bothering me? Is that what you want? You want more food? Do you need more food? I think he needs some more food.

Let's see whether or not this does the trick. Let's go and see if I get him some more. Right.

That's where he wanted more food. I gave him half a tin. Because sometimes he just won't eat it.

Excuse me. He wanted the other half. He's just stuffed that all down as well.

Sometimes he just won't eat anything for like a day or so. And then he'll be like, oh, I'm so full. He'll just eat every single thing I can give him.

He's very temperamental when it comes to food. Let me see if I can find out what that TV show is on. If it's Netflix or if it's Prime.

It might be Prime. Continue watching. No, it's definitely not Prime.

Must be Netflix then. Because there's only two I've got. Oh, yeah.

Billionaire's Bunker. It's on Netflix. And so here's the TV shows that I've been watching on Netflix.

You know, because you've got to continue watching. Sexy Jason. That's my name on there for some reason.

They know me, obviously. Amanda Land. Then you've got The Haunting of Hill House.

Beef. The Sidemen Inside. So that's, I watched this because it was kind of like a Big Brother show.

But I watched one episode and yeah, I'm not sure I'm going to watch it. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Titans.

So I've gone through just looking at these briefly. So they still stay as I'm, you know, about to watch them. A Prayer Before Dawn.

So there's a... Billy, I forget his surname now. There's a YouTuber, Auditor called Billy. And he goes around like interviewing people and stuff like that.

And there's this is a movie about his life. When he was in a Thailand prison. So there's another thing, The Guardians of Justice.

It was weird because it was good. It was good and bad at the same time. So yeah, person of interest as the pilot never really got any further than that.

I swear. I got about a third of the way into that. I need to watch the rest of that.

Something I've got a habit of doing. I'll watch a movie and then I'll just half an hour in just decide to do something else. There's a couple of funny bits.

But it's all I think really the Oscars, not the Oscars, the BAFTAs. Because of that whole hoo-ha over the man who the movie's about. I think it probably helped him to sell the movie.

I mean, the lads, the bloke says this in the movie was nominated for Best Actor. I think he might have won it with the BAFTAs. Did he win it? Yeah, I think he might have won it.

But I think all the talking about it probably got it more, sold it more. So it's number seven in films now. I think it was number one last week or the week before.

And then the next one is Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere. So I'll watch a bit of that. What is this Vikings of Valhalla? Oh, OK.

So this is the... I watched Vikings a few years back. And in Vikings of Valhalla is like it's a new kind of one. Was not new, but it's too many shows.

That's the problem. Too many, too many. Trailer Park Boys.

I actually did watch the first one. I thought it was quite funny. So these are stuff I haven't seen for ages.

Tell No Lies. Was it One Piece, Netflix, Falling Skies. Inglourious Basterds.

Free Bird. That was good. I should get back to that.

Because that's a good sitcom. Men on the Inside. Because it's got Sam from Cheers is in that.

And yeah, it's a good show. I watched the first season. Again, why did I start watching it and then I stopped? Adolescence.

I watched it and then I kind of don't know. Frankenstein. And an Academy Award winner.

And I've still got one hour 46 minutes left. And it is a good movie. It's there's no reason for me to stop watching it.

But perhaps I needed a toilet or something. I was looking Snowpiercer. So this is the series.

Supposed to be really good. But I've only I've watched about half of it. I've not watched enough to get into it.

I watched half of one episode. I mean, the first episode. And then you got Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I've watched four episodes and it is funny. But what I need to do really is watch every episode back to back. I don't mean all day long.

Just just watch the whole thing. So I can really, you know, get into it and enjoy it. The Irishman.

I mean, I got I didn't get very far with that one because there's three hours and 25 minutes left. And when I see that three hours and 25 minutes left of a movie. I don't think there's anything on the planet that I would want to do for three hours and 25 minutes.

It's too long, too long. Another TV show called Dark. Again, it's supposed to be really good.

But I've watched a little bit of it. So that that's why I continue watching. On things is quite a few that I've started watching and like Lucifer.

So I've got I've got up to series four, episode four for Lucifer. Weeds, apparently weeds are supposed to be really good. It's really funny, apparently.

So I might try and give that a go. I just need to figure out what I want to watch. Just stick to it.

But yeah, so that is what was that? See some of the really good shows I enjoyed like knock knock us knock us knock us. Love that show. So good.

And Lily Hammer loved it. These were like foreign. Foreign TV show.

Well, kind of semi foreign because Lily Hammer, he goes to Norway. So some of it's in like subtitled Norwegian, some's not. And it's got the bloke from the Sopranos in there.

It's really good show. And then you've got Narcos, which is you got English and Colombian being spoken. So it's a mixture.

Spartacus. Now I watched it first time around. I love that show.

But I'm not going to watch it again. I would have watched anything that was like taken from it, but there was, I tell you what did me though, Lucy Lawless was in Spartacus, one of the main characters. I was watching her thinking, she looks familiar, she looks familiar, but she was really good like proper strong character.

I thought, where is she? Where do I know her from? And it turned out she was the, what's her name? You know, you had Hercules and then you had the lady, the way she'd go. And she'd be riding through the forest on a horse. And Ben, she had a Benchie, she'd like scream out and she'd be like a swordstress.

And she was friends with Hercules. Remember the Hercules TV show. Do I need to look it up for you? I do, don't I? Lucy Lawless.

Lucy Lawless. Yeah, she's from New Zealand. I know she was from New Zealand.

It's really weird. She was, best known for Xena, Warrior Princess. Also, she was in Battlestar Galactica series and Lucretia in the television series, Spartacus.

Yeah, so, very different character, very different character. She's actually about 70 now. She's 58.

She's older than me, blimey. I didn't think there was anyone older than me in the world. I think he's just sitting on a chair, staring at me.

I don't know why, really, really don't know why. Genuinely, what have I, what am I in the middle of watching on Prime? Does it have, I'll continue watching, right. The Boys.

So, I've got to wait for three days till that starts again. Hotel Cocaine. I thought, Vinnie, shush mate, please.

Last one, last one laughed in number two. He just did a big sigh. What's that? What is it, Vinnie? You've had your dinner.

We've been out three times. The last time was only about an hour ago. What is it you want? He's staring right through me.

Minder. The Black Cells. Young Sherlock.

Them. It's just a mixture. Dating Naked UK.

I wonder why that's up there. I've never watched anything like that. What is it, Vin? I genuinely don't know.

What is it? Vinnie, Vinnie, Minilly. What? What? He's sitting in his bums halfway up the chair. They can't be comfortable.

So, I'm going to, oh, Godfather of Harlem is another one. I've been watching that, that's good. So, that brings me to the end of this here recording, because Vinnie is actually really staring at me.

He hasn't really hassled me throughout the recording, so it's something he wants. Maybe he doesn't need a garden or something. So, thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be loved. You do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye.