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Hello. All right, they've got to jump off just because I start talking. Hey, come on, give me your cuddles.
Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. This is Monday's Boring Objects.
I'm not quite sure what Davinster is up to. He's... something on the desk he wants. What is it you're after, you little rascal? So, it is Monday.
It's nine minutes to seven. What day is it? It's the 30th of September 2024. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes if I haven't already said it.
I don't even know when I said it. Vinnie's been a bit off his food lately. It'll eat it if I hand it to him.
If I, you know, hand feed him. I'm not sure what that's all about. I mean, it could be laziness, but it's super lazy, isn't it? I mean, I understand that maybe he'd want to be babied every now and then.
And I like babying him. You know, it's quite nice. Put him in a high chair.
He gives him a dummy to suck on. Yeah, it's nice. He's got a little pram.
I push him around in. So, I don't mind that, but not every dinner time. Oh, settle down, Vinnie.
Settle down, baby. Baby, settle down. You settle down.
You good girl. So, I, oh yeah, I've got, my website's coming along really nicely. It's now up to date with the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts.
So, every single recording from number one all the way up to one thousand two hundred and two, I think. Yeah, I think it's, which was yesterday's one, was it two hundred and two, which I uploaded today. Yeah.
So, this is number one thousand two hundred and three. Every single one of those recordings is available to download for free. And not all of them have got four recordings.
Some of them are just the recording without music. But the latest ones, pretty much anything over a thousand mark, is you can download all four versions at the same time for free. And yeah, it's on my website, so it's easy to find.
Also, every day when I, there's a list, there's like a playlist on my website, the first page, and it's got the latest recordings on there. I update that every day. And also, there's also, also, also a video which I create.
It's a 10 hour video that I post, I upload to YouTube of that day's recording. With 10 hours of affirmations, counting down, body scan, positivity, all stuff like that. And there's no music.
It's all completely music free, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to put it onto YouTube. I post that not only on YouTube, but I also, hey, calm down now. I post it on the main page of the website, and also embed it into the recording itself.
You know, so if you're just going to click on to download, because it's, you know, big, basically it's a playlist, you click on it, you'll have, not only can you download it, but it'll also be a video that you can stream, 10 hours long, no music. And there will be an audio player that you can stream on the website, which would just be the length of the recording.
So it won't be 10 hours, but just be the length, it'll be just like, however long the recording lasts, let's say an hour or something.
So that's good. That's coming along. I'm in the process now of embedding my YouTube videos into all the different pages.
So I'm going down and doing the let me fall asleep ones. So it's still a fair bit of work to do. But I'm pleased I've got this section done, because what the main part of it, which is the downloads and what else out my Facebook group is Jason Newland's boring group, which you can join if you want.
And it's a good place to contact me, although you can contact me on my website. You can also leave reviews on the website. If you'd like to help me, you can share these recordings, share on Facebook, share the videos on Facebook, just let other people, you know, I suppose, instead of being a secret, maybe let other people know about me, possibly.
So that's it. The only other thing is to wish Molly well. For those that don't know the latest, I will let you know because Molly did post it on her Facebook.
So just let you know that I won't go into details. But the operation that was due, she was due to have today was cancelled. So she's just waiting on test results before proceeding with treatment.
That's all I can really say. And it's all I really know, to be honest. But, you know, just hope hope you're getting on okay, Molly.
Yeah, so that's, that's all I'll say. I don't want to say anything more than what she would want me to say, because it is personal, isn't it? But and that's only really for the listeners that this is really more for the the Facebook group, the Jason Newlands boring group, because she's the admin. She's the boss of the group.
She's in charge of the group. So that's why I'm kind of it's like letting you know, those of you on the group, right? You know, okay, this is really strange. When we get new people added, there's Molly sends a message saying welcome to the group.
Okay, so welcome Robin or Bobby or Lazika or whoever the person is. And I post like a thing underneath it saying, you know, welcome. And this is totally true.
The other day I did that. And I thought, I don't know who I am. Which is kind of weird considerance.
My group, it just it's weird doesn't feel like my group. Like, like something that I own. It's not it's just a it's, it's private, but it's for other people.
But the idea that someone would be joining a group and not know who I am. Not not know who I am. You know, like, you think you're famous now, don't you? You've now got 15 people on your group, you think you're a superstar? No, no.
It's 17 or 15. That's weird. Like, why would I just obviously gonna know who I am, because I've just joined a group.
So if you want to join if you are an avid listener, a regular listener, that's place to be, basically. And I do sometimes put polls on there. Just ask a question, you know, if I've got, especially for the Q&A Friday, I ask a question every usually on a Wednesday, I post it.
What questions do you have for Q&A Friday? Admittedly, I'm happy to do on YouTube as well. Okay, so if you if you're watching this video, or that will be when I post the videos on YouTube, they are black screen, apart from the first 10 seconds. So it's so you can listen in a dark room and just have complete darkness and you know, so that's quite handy.
And but if you want to post the question, you're welcome to do that on YouTube, if you'd prefer that over than the group. But the group is for one of the best places to do it. Because it's all in one place then.
Right. Today. Wow, it's been raining.
Wow. Rain is not the word what is the word but the word is the word I could feel in. I love that film, Greece.
I really like the songs. And Olivia Newton-John had such an amazing voice. There's something really special about her voice.
And I know that's obviously why she got a record contract and she was in a big movie and became famous. You know, I get that, you know, there's a reason why she was successful because she was a special singer. But it's just sometimes I forget how good she was.
Until I listened to the songs like, like, totally devoted to you as one of my favorite ones. I do like Xanadu as well. But my favorite song was probably pretty much the Greece songs.
And that was kind of just my time. I'm gonna talk about the Greece movie that this is my boring object today. The Greece movie.
Okay. Greece is the word is the word I've decided. I was going to talk about Wellington boots, but I'm gonna talk about Greece.
Because I'm suddenly excited about it. I watched it recently. And it was unfortunately after she passed away.
So it was a little bit sad. Like, oh, but yeah, it was. It's that that movie affected me like my sense sound weird, like, okay, I just make it up because you want to talk for an hour about Greece.
Because you don't want to talk about Wellington boots. I don't mind talking about Wellington boots. I can talk about I can talk about any subject you give me for an hour.
There's nothing apart from subjects. I don't know what they are. But then I can make it up.
It won't be a factual thing. So if you say tell me about black holes. My only reference is that they're black.
And they're a whole bit holy. And there was a movie. And it had something to do with time travel, I think.
And not robot man. Hawkins did that book didn't hear a brief introduction to brief history of time. I read that book when I was about 18.
About three words. That's how many words I understood. I did not understand a single in most people don't admit to stuff like that.
I genuinely did not know what he was talking about. And, you know, I felt it was a bit of fraud. Not what it was not not the books or anything like that.
Not his education, not him being like the one of the top scientists of space in the world. But when I found out he was an American, all those years of him having an American accent, when actually he was English. That just I felt that a bit fake, a bit fake.
But I didn't, you know, I did. I can't watch about him. There was a movie about him and I can't watch it because a friend of mine had that.
That thing that he had, except his teeth didn't, you know, his didn't last very long. And yeah, so I can't really can't watch can't watch the movie about him. I'd be interested in what happened before he got ill.
You know, that's the bit I'd be interested in. But afterwards, no. Because it's a bit too still hits a nerve even now, after many, many years.
So Greece, I remember my brother coming home with the album. And it was a double sleeved album. I don't know if it had two albums in it.
But it's definitely a double sleeved because he opened it up. And there was like all this writing and graffiti and stuff on the inside. And it was a work of art, the album.
So I wonder if I can get a look at it. The Greece, Greece album, album cover, cover. So Greece album cover 1978.
Yeah, yeah, because it was 1978 still because it was a soundtrack. Yeah, that's six is you can see it's got a crease down a thing. So it was, it might even be more than one.
Vintage. Blimey, is it? No, it was just one is just that. Yeah, it definitely opened up.
I'm just looking at it now. Oh, I turned it around and it's moved. So you got Greece and you got photographs of the from the movie on there.
Okay, cool. Wonder how much that would be worth now. If my brother still had it.
Oh, it did have to out it had two discs in it. With two discs to LPs. So I did notice that when I watched the movie, no, when I listened to the album, the Greece album on Amazon Music.
Yeah, Amazon Music. There was a lot more songs than I even remember being in the movie. Beauty school dropout.
I know that was in the movie. I know what songs was in the movie. So do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do that one.
Right start was is the word is the word I grew up feeling to do to do. So that's first song isn't it's the introduction song with like hair grease, you know, gel stuff. Brew cream possibly.
I used to use I used to use brew cream. I did I started using brew cream back in. But I just kind of transformation I need to do another transformation.
I'm kind of trying to transform my body by doing weights and stuff. But it's not a quick process. But the yeah, I was did.
Yeah, I was a DJ. And what happened is, you know, kind of things before that point had not been going too well for me. The various various different things had happened major life events.
At the time, it felt like it one was definitely a major life event, but others were just really struggling, you know? Well, I managed to drop all that stuff on the floor. And then my friend said, Oh, you can be a DJ if you want. So I did.
And that was kind of Yeah, it's kind of quite amazing. So I did that. I just did it for beer money, really, just you know, so I could get beers got free lunch, free dinner and stuff.
And you know, he was I just loved love being there. I love the comedy club. And, you know, that's all it was.
It was it was a social, the social side of it. The comedian started to give me a little bit of respect. Compared to before when I was just a comedian, and they didn't like me or didn't like my act.
Some people like me, they thought I was okay, but didn't like my act. I was quite hard to follow. Especially when half the audience has walked out.
So I or the landlord is closed. The function room that that happened once. So I Yes, I was in the DJ booth.
And during this period, I was having women come up and asking for songs and I okay, cool. I didn't even attempt to really talk to anyone. I was just happy to be out.
You know, it's just nice to be out be be outside outside but to be having a social activity and being in being able to watch the comedy and yeah, it was good. But I didn't have any self esteem. As such, I didn't really have any self belief.
As far as and from a romantic perspective. And there was this hatch the DJ hatch. And one night during near the end of the year.
So I'd only been doing it for a couple of months. This woman just she started talking to me. And she literally hurled herself.
Held that was before we go and do that. Didn't hurl. She jumped through the hatch.
Literally, I don't know how she did it. She jumped through it. I think it's the only time anyone ever did that.
And she starts kissing me. And I'm not pushing her off. So what are we doing? She said, Why? What's wrong with you? Hey, come on, mate.
No, if you're gonna do that, you might as well just you might as well go to bed then. If you're going to be barking, you might as well go to bed. You're gonna be good.
So then he started barking. But he wasn't proper barking. It's like, like, he could hear something.
He was prepared. He's listening. Then he stopped.
That's the thing because when I do these, I can't have any music playing. When I got music playing, it drowns out the background, like sounds from outside in the garden. One of the neighbors downstairs has got a dog.
So he's kind of noticing that of course, there's people coming and going, just doing their thing. And he's always listening, always listening. All right, so this this lady, she jumps through the hatch of the DJ, it's basically the cleaning room.
But I had the equipment in there for the day. I was basically standing with the mops. That's that's the truth.
Actually, the cleaning machine was to the left of me. But she jumped through the hatch and started kissing me. I was like, so I'm pushing away.
What's going on here? And she said, I said, What are you doing? She said, I said, Why are you kissing me? That's something like that. Yeah. She said, Why? What's wrong with you? And it caught me off guard that question.
What's wrong with me? Not like what's wrong with you? Why don't you want to kiss me? It wasn't like that. It was like, why wouldn't I want to kiss you? That was that's how I interpreted it. I might have been delusional.
But that's how I kind of got it from the way she said, What's wrong with you? Why wouldn't I want to? And I thought, so I gave her a list of things. And she left. Luckily, I had them written down.
No, I just, it's like, Oh, I kind of, because previously, I'd had a, I had, I have little moments where my mojo is, that, well, was, well, I used to have a mojo. And sometimes my mojo was working, worked, like completely became active. And for some reason, I was, maybe I was just confident.
I don't know. I'm not sure quite what it was. But it's, yeah, maybe.
But at this point, I wasn't. Even though I was surrounded by people. I just didn't really, I wasn't really in the mood, to be honest, I wasn't interested.
And she piqued my interest. Something stirred, something within me, something, something shifted, something. And I thought, then I thought, again, and it was playing on my mind, that question, what's wrong with you? And I realised that there's nothing wrong with me.
This is a long time ago. There's, there's no reason, is there really, why someone wouldn't want to get to know me. So what I did that January, had a haircut, tidied myself up a bit, started using real cream.
That's the whole reason for this story. I'm going back to Greasycase. See, I always, these boring objects, videos, videos, recorded videos, whatever you want to call them, podcasts, they always come back to the subject.
See, that's the difference with this and some of the other stuff I do, is I always pull it back. Always, eventually, usually, sometimes, never. I don't know, I do generally bring it back.
So I had real cream. Now, back in them days, I had no grey hair. I did, I started getting a couple of greys probably when I was reached 30, late 20s, 30, but like minimal, a couple, you know, a couple, that's it.
And I was pretty much had dark hair until, yeah, even, yeah, pretty much even when I was up to 40, I think I had pretty much dark hair. Had a few greys, but nothing. Now, I've still got dark hair, but not quite so much.
But with the real cream, it made my hair darker, which is not why I used it, because I didn't need to make my hair darker. So I've got brown hair, I don't have black hair, I've got brown hair. But with the real cream, it kind of makes my hair look black.
And I might start to use real cream again. But it's hard to use when you've got pretty much no hair. I mean, I mean, I do have hair, it's just it's very short.
That's what I mean. The bits that grow haven't grown very long. Yet.
Hmm, so I might, I do have some real cream. I was, my plan, this is my plan, I was going to grow my hair long, like long, long, long, long, long. Because I haven't, you know, I used to grow my hair long.
Well, I did grow my hair long in, I think I decided 1991, beginning of the year, it might have been February, maybe March, I decided to grow my hair long. It was a decision. And I stuck to it.
And I went through, I mean, there's anyone that's grown their hair long, especially if you've got curly hair like mine. It's, it's a challenge to go through that period. It's just, I had to get to the period where I was able to tie it into a ponytail, like even a small ponytail.
Once I could do that, I was okay. Before that, my hair was just, it was just all over the place. You know, it really would, it, it set fire extinguishers off.
It doesn't make any sense, does it? I don't know why I said that. It was really springy. Like stick out.
It was like, honestly, it wasn't safe for people on bikes. Again, that doesn't make sense. But then you think maybe if it's sticking out, could knock them off the bike.
So I suppose, yeah, from that, from that perspective. And yeah, it was, honestly, it was, see, if you see me, if you see me on video, then you'll see that my hair's, it probably looks quite straight. There are some videos where my hair is quite curly, but it's straight until it's not, you know, it goes from being straight.
There's a certain length it's straight for. And it goes curlier and curlier and curlier until a point where it's just one big muff, muffle, muff. I don't know what the right word is, you know, tangled knot.
Is that a muff? A big tangled knot thing. That's kind of what it ends up, which is why I got it cut. It is like 91, I started growing it.
And summer 94, I got it cut off. So it's down to the back of my, yeah, the middle of my back, pretty much, maybe near in the bottom of my back, but that's how long it got. But I had to have it in a, I didn't know about hair, I don't know what the correct word is.
Is it hair straightener? Can you get hair straighteners or stuff that you can put in your hair to make it straight? If I'd have done that, I think I'd have looked groovy. Unfortunately, I didn't. So I didn't.
As I was growing it, actually, I did look like a young Bob Dylan. There's a few photographs taken of me back then. I did look like Bob Dylan looked, you know, when he first became famous in what, 64, I think it was.
It's yeah, look, just a little bit like him, because he had really curly hair. And I'm not sure if he ever grew it long, long, but he's, there was a time when my hair was like his, and it'd fall out of the ponytail and they just start sticking up and going all over the place. It's, I'm trying to think, you know, do you know how, what's that thing that grow, popcorn, you know, when you put popcorn in the microwave or in a dish or whatever, and it starts growing and popping.
And if you put too many in, they'll start bouncing all over the place and end up filling the whole room. That was my hair. It was, yeah, but it looked like it filled up stuff.
Yeah, it kind of grew like that once it like gradually got out of the ponytail, but it looked like black candy floss or brown candy floss. Very weird, very weird hair. And I had a ginger beard.
Yep. Ginger beard. Most of my most of my beard was ginger, especially around the chin area.
And it's the ginger that turned gray first. Weird. I mean, it's like, oh, a bit warm in here now.
It's like double punishment, isn't it? It's like one thing, oh good, the ginger's gone. But now it's gray. It's like there's no winning.
The in-between would be nice. Go from ginger to maybe blonde or brown. What other color hair is there? There's not many, is there really? Blonde, brown, black.
That's it, isn't it really? There's no other kind of, or gray, white. So my dad's hair's white, white like snow. I keep saying this, I don't know.
I just, so I haven't, my dad was grayer than me when he was my age. But I think I'll be happy. I'll just be happy to have as much hair as he's got.
Just to have that white hair, that'd be cool when I'm in my nineties. That'd be nice. But Greece, right, Greece, Greece.
What other songs was there? So Greece is the word, the word, word. I keep grooving, feeling, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. What's that? Sunny Valley High.
All right, this is the first song where they get together. Oh yeah, they all meet up. And there's Summer Lovin'.
Summer lovin' had me a blast. Summer lovin' happened so fast. I met a girl crazy for me.
I met a boy cute as can be. Summer dreams, these are the dreams. Oh, oh, oh, this summer night.
Tell me more, tell me more. So there's, there's that bit. So there's that song.
And then isn't that where Sandy gets introduced to Danny and then Danny acts like he doesn't care to, you know, to show off to his friends. And I'm trying to think what happens then? What's, what's the next song? Is it Sandra Dee? Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee. I ain't a virgin.
Won't go to bed until I'm legally wed. I can't. I'm trying to swallow.
I'm Sandra Dee. Elvis, Elvis. So that song.
And then you've got Beauty still drop out. That's a cruel song. That's not the lyrics of that song.
It's not nice. I was, I was a little bit surprised. A little bit surprised.
About the, the sound of, the words rather. Because I, I guess I not too much notice. I just think it's a very nice tune.
But yeah, it's a little bit rude. It's a little, Vince Valli, Valli, something, whatever his name is. He was being very rude to her.
And I'm not, yeah, I wasn't pleased. I only noticed 50 years after the film was made. It is nearly 50 years.
Blimey. You think about it. 1978, they probably, they probably filmed it in 1977.
So in, what was it? Three years time, I'll be 50 years old. Wow. So then you've got Sandy, Sandy singing totally.
Maybe I, what was it? Maybe totally devoted to you. Maybe I did it too. Oh yes.
There's no getting over you. Hopelessly devoted to you. One night, I remember.
Now, two songs I used to sing when I was walking around the playground, or the play, the field, playing field at school. I did this at the junior school. And I also did it in high school.
So bearing in mind, 1978, the film came out and I was still singing those two songs in 1981. I was walking around the playing field on my own, just singing to myself. And it comforted me.
It did, it comforted me. So I'd be singing, Sandy, can't you see I'm in misery. All along, I said, I wonder why.
So I did that. You should sing that. I'm trying to think what other songs there was.
I was like, you're the one that I want, one that I want for. So that was a big song. What other ones? I'll tell you one of my favourite songs of Greece is, and I started kind of singing this to myself.
When I, I started getting involved in Buddhism, early 2000s, quite deeply, really. And I noticed that I felt more judged than I think I'd ever felt in my life. Because there's a real, a lot of judge, a lot of judginess going on in that particular, at that time, in that place.
And I guess it's everyone's trying to progress spiritually. And I was never a good fit in any, any place, never really been a good fit. So I, I had to jump through hoops to try and fit in and sometimes I didn't want to.
And yeah, so I was being judged. I had a couple of people apologise to me, sometimes, for how they used to sort of talk to me. But this song, what's her name when she thinks she's pregnant? And she sings, there's worse things I could do.
So, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do... Nice, totally devoted to you. There are worse things I could do. And it nicely devoted to you was... There are worst things I could do... That's Sandy.
And there are worse things that I could do like grease lighting is another one isn't it I forgot about that one or is that grease like I got chills they're multiplying and I'm losing control all the power you're supplying it's electrifying that had a naughty word in it in that yeah naughty word oh yes so I remember that time because I was living in the little house on the prairie that's a little house on a council estate in the council house two and a half bedrooms I mean the third one
was a bedroom it's very small no so let's say three bedrooms and our garden and my nan and granddad ended up moving there from London when we moved out which would have been maybe 1979 and yeah or maybe 78 79 something like that maybe like before Christmas I can't remember exactly yeah so I remember that that time that period I still remember a lot of brother coming home putting the album on the table chuffed the bits he spent his pocket money because even then he wouldn't have been old enough to
to work because he was two years older than me and I was let's say eight seven or eight so he would have been eight nine ten yes he wouldn't been old enough so it must have been pocket money saved up or maybe Christmas money or birthday money something like that and he was really happy to get it and I think we all listened to it and those are the days where albums there was no CDs and it was tape recorders tape recorders tape tapes that you play or albums tapes were
I guess more portable because it was hard to like carry around a record player on the bus so you can listen to tape recorders with headphones and stuff but it was I'm not sure if I even had my I think my first record player I got was when I was about wow I'm feeling really nostalgic about this and I forgot all about it until just this second I think it was it wasn't new but I got given it and it was a record player it was like an old one with
a lid I think it was blue and I'd open it up and it was you put the record on the thing and then you is or you put it to the top and then you put this plastic thing over that used to go down on top and then you press the button down and it start the wheel it drop it down and then the stylist with the arm would come out and go I don't know what that record was that was just on there came with the record player didn't listen
to that again okay a few times still listen to it I don't know what it's called though I'll call it the do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do song and so I started listening to stuff and that's when I started to get records for Christmas and birthdays so there's not many that I remember one was and I still I've had this album in the past back in the late 90s I managed to get it again but can't even buy it on their website it's the baronites and I forget what it's called but it's got a brown
cover and I loved every single song on there the baronites were like comedy they'd make fun of an actual song to do this and they'd also do originals as well and one of their songs was like I got a cold in my nose ah and should have chose ah and did it did it did it did I got it in my head hmm okay that wasn't a good example I can't remember the words there's one about Frank Spencer this is that because granddaddy stuff in there was a song that was
popular so it kind of basically make fun of songs and they're very very very popular in the 70s maybe 80s as well maybe the 60s and I had some I had some hits in the charts stick stick men sticks and stones sticks and dogs that might not be the song it was a song I don't know it might have been the best of the baronites but it was a brilliant album and I wish I still had it I can't even listen to it because it's nowhere it's like it didn't it's
like it didn't exist I've searched on all the streaming platforms they don't even sell it on their own website I definitely had it in fact I had it twice I had it new to start with oh another thing that used to be a thing before do you know the now now that's what I call music before that started and I don't know if anyone knows what that is because in this country we have it but I don't know if they still do it and it's basically just the the greatest hits
of the year or part of the year they used to be a thing that I don't know why anyone would want to buy them there was a this isn't it's a different thing in the early 80s late 70s maybe earlier yeah early 80s where you could buy an album of all the latest hits recorded by someone else what is the point in that people bought these albums I can't I can't get my head around it I mean I can understand wanting to hear your favorite singer sing a different song like
George Michael recorded Let Her Down Easily which was a Terrence Trent Darby song and he did it lovely and I'm sure George Michael's fans loved it but that's a different kind of situation it's a Terrence Trent Darby sung the honey don't leave me now it's a different one he did a song that Michael Jackson did when I had you when I had you so he did that on his first album the hard line according to Terrence Trent Darby one of my favorite songs of his was Billy it was all about
his gay friend falling in love with him and yeah it really tells a story it's good I personally think that Terrence Trent Darby was I think he was ahead of his time musically and maybe there just wasn't enough room for him because of Prince Michael Jackson I think he if I don't know even though for me they were very different artists all three of them but he could he wasn't he didn't seem Terrence Trent Darby didn't seem so interested in being a chart success he was an artist and Prince was
a kind of bit like that but he also had lots of chart hits as well because he realized so that's the only way to you have to keep relevant and he was a superstar but he was always recording new new tracks wasn't he and I think that's part he got into a problem with his record company because they would they refused to release his albums because he was you know it's like Prince you just you've released four albums already this week you're produced and we can't release that many albums you're
just doing too quick and I think he left the office and they I think he sued them and he he stopped producing recordings for them and I think bought his way out of the contract or something and before he left the the office of all these executives he said one more thing they said what Prince he said here's another two albums I wrote while I was here there you go and he ran off so it's very prolific he just I think he just loved loved recording loved producing loved writing that
was his whole life I think I do wonder though like Michael Jackson it's a weird one but like when was he focally at his best when was Mikey Jacko at his singing peak what age so I'm thinking probably between probably 18 to 25 when he was just like there was nothing he couldn't do vocally he was fun like on a different level you know he was you know when he got older his vocals it because he had a certain style of singing didn't he that he very much stuck to that
style with his later albums but all his earlier albums before off the wall even like with the Jackson 5 or the Jacksons he was very very experimental with his vocals very solely very can't really explain it but there's a really good video to watch on YouTube it's from the whiz so Michael Jackson was in that so was what's the name that he used to apparently wanted to look like I can't remember he was anyway and there's a bit where he's because he plays a scarecrow I think yeah he does and
there's a song does he play this yeah I think he plays a scarecrow anyway because he was quite young in that but he was an adult but young probably 18 I think maybe 19 20 maybe and he had the he was singing about newspapers and stuff I forget but the the vocals phenomenal vocals like really really brilliant vocals and it's not a song I don't think he ever released okay I'm not gonna play it but what's it Michael Jackson whiz songs okay let's have a look so here we go these
are the songs on the album main title Overture or I don't know if they did an album but they definitely did a I think it did but there was Diana Ross they did the movie anyway can I go on Glinda steam he's the wizard Michael Jackson you can't win that's it you can't win it did it did it did it do there's like a lot of that it's really good you can't win you can't win and then you got he's on down the road got it he's on down the road
he's he released that didn't he pretty sure he did he's he's on down the road he's on down the road so that's we were to see the wizard the wonderful wizard of us because because because because because because because of the wonderful things he does so that and he's on down the road he's on down the road it's probably the couldn't to that because he sings it three times so that must be unless he plays Dorothy does he play Dorothy well a Nipsey Russell what would I do if I could
slide some oil to me Ted Ross mean old lion poppy girls Quincy Jones I didn't know Quincy Jones was a singer I knew he was a producer because he produced I think he produced off the wall thriller and bad I think he produced all three of those albums Quincy Jones end of the yellow brick road Emerald yeah Richard Pryor was in that I thought he was Emerald City sequence Richard Pryor sings I have to watch this movie a brand new day Michael Jackson believe in yourself wonder what um what character
did Richard Pryor play yeah the good thing is with the the Tin Man that was quite good that you know how I always like to get back to the subject what does the Tin Man used to because he freezes up doesn't he what does Dorothy used to get Tin Man back up Grease and we're back so yeah Grease was yeah that that um song there were things I could do I went through a period when I was singing that to myself because I was being judged for just being me or
that version of me I was back then and and every time I've kind of been in a similar kind of position where I kind of think you know there's worse things I could do I don't you know when I was singing it it doesn't really make sense to my predicament there's worse things I could do then kiss boy or two like okay it's not quite my situation but it's still I like the idea of it I did I mean that of the idea of not giving myself a hard time that's
kind of what I'm saying yeah yeah so there my tummy is rumbling it really is rumbling I don't know why traffic's a grease in the 90s Grease the West End show came out which was kind of how the movie came the movie came from a from a show that was in what's equivalent to the West End in America New York possibly so it was a big hit in America I remember yeah I saw an interview with John Travolta and he was being asked if he's being considered for the movie because
he was playing Danny in the in the musical play whatever you want to call it in a you know in theatres and he was like I don't know I'm not sure because he was already a star wasn't he he was a teen idol did you know that John Travolta wasn't just famous in this country was no one knew who he was here John Travolta Travolta was already a teen idol he's 70 years old now blimey Travolta where are you okay let's have a look I know a couple of movies he
was in now one movie I remember he was in he was in Carrie I remember that because he was a good bloke in Carrie he was he took Carrie to the prom I think and that was one of his first acting bits because I remember seeing that and thinking that's Danny Danny right filmography let's have a look filmography come on 1975 The Devil's Reign that was his first one 76 Carrie 1977 Saturday Night Fever well he was already a star then wasn't he before Greece I thought Saturday Night Fever was
after Greece okay Urban Cowboy that was a big movie wasn't it Staying Alive I don't know did anyone go to see that because that was I didn't like Saturday Night Fever I like the music the movie mmm not so much but it wasn't really aimed at me see I tell you what annoys me about not annoys me about him because I like John Travolta but there was all this thing saying um he didn't have a his career was kind of over you know he hasn't done anything until he got the
part in Pulp Fiction in his whole you know that reinvented his career now I'll agree that it put him it it pushed him up to being at the top again and he did some good good movies after Pulp Fiction the fact is though what was he doing Look Who's Talking 1989 did three of those movies they were big movies the first one especially in a second one I don't know how successful Look Who's Talking now was but that was 93 Pulp Fiction was 94 then 95 Get Shorty Michael Phenomenon in
96 did Michael Phenomenon Broken Arrow three big movies and in 97 face-off 98 2000 okay 2001 I was trying to find something come on Vin don't he played Bolt in Bolt did you know that see Bolt was a big movie wasn't it pretty sure yeah it was that was a big movie that was a successful movie that was so yeah good on him but the idea that he like he didn't do anything like he literally was in a hit movie the year before Pulp Fiction now I don't know if it's
true or not I'm gonna check this out because otherwise it will be untrue but Look Who's Talking 2 Look Who's Talking now let's have a look was it a hit okay there's a loss but he got paid there's this dog that we walk when I'm walking him there's this dog that is very similar to him but it's sticker it's not it's not the same breed but it's got a curly tail the same color in same kind of face same frown same eyebrows but it's just like a bigger bigger version than
him because he's he's slim he's you know this one is quite robust rebound I don't know like naturally that's kind of breed so I guess it's one of the breeds that he was from because Jack Russell's are a mixed breed anyway they were they were created for hunting like a hundred years ago or something Vinnie you're a hundred years old yes you are yes you are a hundred years you have a very fond memories of Grace but don't I couldn't honestly tell you if I went to see at the cinema
or not probably did because it took so long for films to come out on TV back then like a long time so I'm thinking probably I probably did see at the cinema because it was it was suitable for kids I think which is weird I just find it strange that the other day I think I saw in the morning a horror movie you know it's an old horror movie but still it was a horror movie from like Frankenstein or Dracula or something like that it was on in the morning like
it was suitable for everyone and it's not sometimes I get it wrong though it makes me laugh because I saw a film once and it was on early afternoon not seen it since I was around my Nan's and she was making a cup of tea and this movie it was kind of like probably 1960s maybe 70s but there's all these characters running around in practically no clothes and at one point it was kind of no clothes but you know whoever was directing it didn't seem to notice and I'm guessing it
was a movie that never really hit the big screen so it kind of got lost and someone just stuck it on TV and played it and it was quite funny quite a good comedy it was well it was alright this is a long time the cast saw this it was like how did this get on TV in the afternoon because it's adult you know it wasn't in the same league as Confessions of a Taxi Driver whoever if anyone knows what that is Timothy Lee Confessions of a Taxi Driver Confessions of
a pop performer was it Confessions of a Driving Instructor I think those were the three I think I actually read the books quite funny by Robin Asquith played Timothy Lee the main character and you ready for this it's about Connections the bloke that played his brother was also in the original Encyclo-Selen Health with Alf Garnett and his Alf Garnett's daughter in that was caught was Eunice Stubbs and Eunice Stubbs's boyfriend or husband was the same person who played the brother of Lee whatever his name was Timothy Lee in the in
the Confessions of a Driving Instructor and there were comedies but they were rude comedies adult comedies well that man who was both Alf Garnett's son-in-law or Eunice Stubbs's husband and the Timothy Lee's or Robin Asquith's brother he in real life got married had a daughter guess who she married Tony Blair the Prime Minister yes like before he was Prime Minister that's a bit of a random pointlessness isn't it so what's that got to do with Grease the musical that you know there was a time probably late 80s early 90s and
every the amount of Australian soap actors from Home and Away and Neighbours that were launching careers in this country as musicians like loads late 80s early 90s I mean I think you know Kylie Minogue was the first and then Jason Donovan followed and who else was there Craig McLaughlin I think he was he might be in late 80s but he was Home and Away was he Home and Away I think he was Home and Away he might have been in both actually I thought he played Kylie Minogue's brother but that
was Neighbours so he yeah he had a music career and then he he starred in the the new Grease revival in the West End in London and he was Danny and one of the assistants one of the men that was one of the friends you know was Shane Ritchie and then Shane Ritchie was a comedian and he went on to run the show basically he went on to become Danny and it became a sing-along and it became that you know the biggest show in town because he kind of made it
his own and I think who was who was Sandy I think it's the what's the name who then starred in EastEnders Shane Ritchie then became he starred in EastEnders but during that period about mid 90s Shane Ritchie was with his manager in the comedy club I knew I didn't know Shane Ritchie but I knew his manager because he used to come into the club a lot and I just knew him and he was he was kind of a budding writer you know comedy writer I didn't know that he was he
was gonna get into the like management side of things so he walked up to me brought Shane Ritchie said I'll meet Jason the worst comedian in Britain I was so proud to be introduced like that there's a reason for it because I was really bad I think you wouldn't have done it wouldn't do it to me now that's a weird thing about I don't know back when people thought they could do stuff like that but it's because of a newspaper article I had written about me in the Independent in 1993
and all it was is there was a review a review about me and another comedian right this is true it might sound like I'm making it up it's true and this person who she turned up at a gig and said she was a reporter said well I'd like to come and see you at a different gig where will you be when you you know another kind of open spot thing and I said well I'll be Thursday I'll be at downstairs at the Kingshead so she said all right see you then
she turned up had a had a photographer with her and took a photograph of me is actually a picture of me in the archives and I was the article was like yes I think it was like half a page of the Independent but the other half was about Michael that was about Mike Tyson or something and there's a picture of me black and white because I didn't have color in newspapers back then it was black and white in this country anyway I don't know about other countries there was oh what
was it what was the newspaper that was launched and no one liked it and it was all color was it today today I gotta look this up cuz gonna bug me but no one it's like it was a complete it closed anyway first color I'll be careful our word this colored newspaper newspaper that's when I get correct first colored newspaper okay what's the first newspaper color in the UK the Illustrated News 1855 no that's not the what when did news start using color the 1990s I can't find it when did
so when it brings oh that's so annoying today it was today I got it right today today was the first UK colored newspaper 4th of March 1986 was the first edition today yeah I don't think it even does it exist anymore today today blimey I'm glad that was not completely untrue so yeah this article is about me and another comedian and in the article she says what Jason's standing there with long hair and he's it's quite a broody photographs quite a good quite a good photograph but she said what he's
saying is horrible which is true I guess but the audience are laughing and so am I that was a direct quote that's etched in my brain okay then she talks about the other bloke and how bad he was okay okay the headlines meet Britain's worst comedians or worst comedian with a picture of me so it's the newspaper wasn't even saying that I was the worst they were saying you know what I was saying was horrible and controversial but you know people were laughing and so was she that's quite good apart
from what he's saying is horrible I don't think it was horrible but at the time I guess maybe it was I can't remember I was just trying to be funny yes just to be honest but you know I wasn't she she was friendly to me but she wasn't actually being horrible to me in the in the article but because the headlines and then a picture of me that's all the whole circuit were laughing at me which you know technically I wanted people to laugh but not for that and then I
turned up at the club probably that Wednesday because I think was probably released maybe the following ways though it's released on a Thursday I think I went to follow on Wednesday I actually had a job interview that Thursday and I said I suppose you could be and it was in an office and I saw a pile of newspapers in a reception I said I suppose you've got the independent she said yeah it's over there and I opened it up and I said look it's an article about me and I pointed
to it and I realized I should have read it first read the headlines before I pointed it I was trying to show off it didn't work I thought at last a bit of fame and I could use that and maybe I can impress her and then we can get married but no so the next week I go into the club I might be in a Saturday night I don't know and I'm walking out and somebody runs out after me shouting Jason Jason well it's my name anyway and I said well
the BBC have been trying to get hold of you all week I did a little dance inside the BBC okay well it turned out that it was just Radio Ulster wanted to do an interview with me I had all these ideas I've got my own TV show gonna be famous I'm gonna be able to live in a place with my own toilet yeah no so I did the interview but they kept saying or tell us a joke and I'm so lucky I didn't because first of all none of my material
was suitable to be on radio and secondly the stuff I wanted to say could bear in mind I was quite controversial would have been very controversial and possibly would have got me into a lot of trouble because I just I would have just said something rude for the sake of it back then and it wouldn't have done me any favors ironically though after that or maybe even before that I met a BBC producer who wanted to do a documentary on me it sounds like lies doesn't it's true her name is
Helen she's lovely absolutely lovely she was also starting out as a comedian and she'd been a TV producer for quite a while she wasn't old she finished in her 30s but she'd done a documentary on the Bee Gees and some other stuff and I went to lunch with her we ended up having lunch with what's the famous singer it was this town ah you want to go to ghost town all the things are that singer what's his name ghost town ghost town ghost town so that ghost town the song the
specials so let's have a look the specials the artist the specials it was Terry Hall okay so he's he's not with us anymore but this was early 90s 93 94 maybe 92 but probably more like 94 95 maybe 93 and it's weird because the ghost town was a number one I remember I didn't know who he was so he's sitting in this restaurant we meet in there I don't know why she took me along and she there was no romantic thing at all she was not interested in me in that
way she had a boyfriend and she made it there I kind of thought maybe she was and I struggled to be friends of women without kind of I just struggled like is this a relationship are we you know she she bought me a meal does that mean we're now engaged I just didn't know but she just enjoyed my company which I never quite understood and she we went to yeah we went to this mill and Terry Hall was there and they would talk a business because they knew each other and
I think she'd maybe done a documentary that was her thing really doing documentaries and she did something with him in the past and they were friends the thing is before we got there she said it's Terry Hall I said oh she said Terry you don't know Terry Hall that's from the specials I said I had no idea it's only afterwards that I realized it's like ghost town which was a huge hit this town ah they're gonna go to ghost town burning underground really big song in the 80s early 80s so
he yeah he was a big a big name and he was in lots of different bands and he was quite well known for having lots of really multicultural bands as well so that was I think quite new at the time when he was doing that and a big band lots of people in his bands it wasn't just like four people I'm not I don't know if he ever made any money because having to share that money between all the different people but it was a nice bloke and that was I
didn't really like oh I kind of saw how the other lived other people lived in a way in a strange kind of way and not the other people like super rich people but just people that have an interest in life you know let's face it if you're if you're a producer a TV producer your your life is going to be interesting a lot of the time because especially if you're doing documentaries you're traveling around the world perhaps meeting becoming you living even with people famous people or politicians or you know
stuff like that so yeah she's and she had more books than me I went around her flat and she had this well she had a flat and it was a really nice part of London but she had books everywhere I'm talking every like there was not enough room for her books and I loved it it's like oh this is this is perfection there's like books every ah because I love books I used to I still love them but I want to get my love back I want to rekindle my relationship
with books yeah I would so another thing we did together we went to see a concert went to a concert went to a couple of things it's weird so I must have known her for quite a while I know last time I spoke to was probably 97 and this is really just ridiculous okay she offered me first of all she offered me a chance I mean she didn't it wasn't like a definite thing like yeah you got a documentary but she wanted to follow me around like fly on a wall
because she was fascinated with me I don't know why I can't really figure that out but but she didn't because she was friends with me I didn't feel that she was out to mug me off you know to make me look bad she didn't because we were friends I mean I didn't it's not like she befriended me to do that because she still friends me when I said no to the documentary so but she did say that she'd already kind of talked it through with someone and it was a go
it wasn't it was going to be her making it and a cameraman or camera woman or whatever and that would be it and they'd follow me go to work with me they'd go to my home follow me to gigs just see my life what it's like to you know for someone like me to you know what kind of life I led led and I'd said no because I was scared because I first of all didn't want my nan to see me being naughty because I was I was doing naughty things
I was you know in my early 20s I was doing things that maybe my nan wouldn't want me I don't want her to see me do especially on stage I was saying things that I shouldn't I wouldn't want anyone really family wise to see me do or say because it was just jokes I was just saying stuff and some of it was rude all of it was rude mainly but I didn't really have anything to lose because I know that my nan would have stuck with me anyway I know that
for a fact because she was tested by another person in the family in a much bigger way and she's stuck by him so my nan never gave up on anyone ever like ever ever ever ever ever she's probably the most loyalist person not loyalist as in paramilitary but loyal loyal loyal loyal yeah the most loyal person that I've probably ever met actually so I she wouldn't she might have told me off but she wouldn't have um you know got super angry I don't think she might have even laughed at some
of it so she did actually I used to tell her I used to be quite rude of her and she used to laugh like all you or Jason she's not say stuff that was not not rude rude but maybe a little bit rude and she had a good sense of humor then my nan did I could only do it when it's just me and her together you know it's kind of it's like we had our own relationship our own like special bond when she when other people was around you know
I kind of because she was the the matriarch of the family kind of she was my granddad wasn't around anymore so she was the head of the family with five kids and then all of their grandkids and then all of their grandkids kids and you know so she was kind of the top so she I guess she had to put on not behave herself but just you know she didn't have to do that when she was with me we could just laugh at people and do you know yeah I miss
her you know it's weird it's been 10 years soon strange how'd I get from watching Grease the movie see still come back to it talking about me then oh yeah so this producer Helen possibly one of the best opportunities potentially that I've ever had in my life and I squandered it not once not twice but three times with her seriously three times three different things she offered me first of all she offered me the documentary and I said no because I was worried about my nan and also I was I
was living such a horrible lifestyle that I was embarrassed I didn't want people I didn't want the general public to see where I was living or where I was working or how I was living or the lack of money and all that stuff I mean I don't even know what kind of payment was even available for doing the documentary I really don't know I think it's one of those that would have to be sold they'd do it and then try and sell it on I don't know but it would be
no point she didn't you know if suddenly I had money she sort of paid me loads of money to do this documentary so I moved into a nice flat and didn't have to work in a horrible job that would defeat the object of the documentary because it's all about real what was really happening so anyway so I kind of said no to that we still hung out together still spent time together still talked on the phone good friends actually I didn't have many good friends so she was one of those
that I just got on really well with and then she she wrote a sitcom that she wanted to produce herself but she wrote it and she what she wanted me to do was to read it and add stuff you know make it funnier add stuff change stuff give feedback I didn't she gave it to me and I think to be honest I didn't believe in myself that that's the honest truth I don't think I believed that I would be able to bring anything to the table what an opportunity and I
don't know if it got made into a sitcom a version of it might have done to be fair a version of it might have actually made it to something might have ended up being a play it might have something because she was a definitely go-getter and she knew lots of people but I had the opportunity and I just like didn't take it I had the script had it for months and I just didn't do anything she still forgave that she forgave it honestly the third thing oh man she offered to
do and it was an idea that me and my friend we we'd it's already done it's done now but it hadn't really been done before a thing called goggle box is on where they just show people watching tv that's all it was going to be but this was in 97 and because we used to watch tv together movies tv and we just chat and it was funny for quite a good dialogue going on between us and she I think she came and she thought it was quite funny and thought it'd
be quite good like a pilot just to see whether or not it'd be usable you know and she came around on her own though but she she brought a camera camera was huge and she was just filming us but she filmed him rolling a joint and I don't know it was something I think I wanted to be honest I think I wanted it to be all about me I don't think I wanted to share it because it was natural when we were together on our own together just watching tv but
suddenly when it became a little bit scripted because she said well you could write something and she gave us a task and said well you could write something and it could you know so she got basically had a fourth opportunity and then we just ended up arguing yeah the proper argument was in a public place a pen and paper and he didn't he didn't like any of my ideas I didn't like any of his ideas and yeah we we almost nearly got divorced for a while so yeah that was a
nothing to do with grace but very strange I mean it's opportunities that are once in a lifetime and here I am 500 years later I could have been a contender I could have been famous never mind I can't remember the singer that we went to see we went to see this like she used to get freebies basically she'd get sent concert tickets theater tickets cinema to all all kinds of stuff she just used to get because she knew so many people in the showbiz industry and she just said you want
to come along to the theater I said what we're watching what is it he said it was um waiting for Godot is it Godot or Godot and it had Rick Mow and Adrian yeah Rick Mow and Ade Edmondson in it but it didn't start because they were waiting for Rick Mow to turn up it was like about an hour wait for him to turn up they said and then when it turned when it's then it started it was really good I'd never seen either of them before on stage and there
was another we went to a concert and it was someone had had a big hit and the place was pretty much full he started singing and then he then he sort of stopped singing for a second he said it's totally true I'm not making this up he said um I would to the to the any women or what if you want you can all come to the front and scream at the front if you like he invited the females to to run and come to the front to the stage and
start screaming and you shouldn't need to have to invite that should you as I found it very funny but there was only one song that I liked that he did and he he hadn't played it yet I think he was going to play at the the last you know the end and we left we didn't watch the whole thing I'm trying to think what else we went to I probably remember something but I can't remember now you know then you are such a good little monkey oh you know he falls
asleep when he's got his eyes open and he looks like he's awake so I'm stroking him and maybe some I like to say something and he'll like jump up like what what what he was fast asleep wasn't he sorry really I've got to go see that's my boring objects grease thank you so thanks for listening please remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself lots of love bye
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