(Short Voice Only) #1593 Let me bore you to sleep Jason Newland 14th April 2026

Hello, hello, hi, how are you? Oh, hello. Welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And my name is Jason Newland.

And please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And the point of this podcast. Yep, there is a point.

The point of this podcast is, it's kind of more than just one thing. It's yeah, it's a, it's a sleep podcast. So you can listen in bed or you can listen, you know, sitting in a chair that supports your body and just drift off to sleep listening to my super exciting tones.

Or you can just listen to relax. Just you know, to chill out. You could listen.

So that your chronic pain reduces. Which is something that I don't normally mention, but that's also part of what I do. It's part of why I do this.

And I've done my let me bore your pain away. And they're practically the same as these recordings. The only difference is I focus perhaps on the part of the body that maybe was causing discomfort at the beginning of the recording.

And then noticing, you know, how does it feel now near the end? Noticing how it feels and how it becomes more relaxed. I'd like to think that actually, anyone with chronic pain conditions listening to my recordings will find benefit. It's just it's hard to put into one title, everything that I'm trying to cover.

I'm trying to cover relaxation. I'm trying to cover falling asleep. I'm trying to cover chronic pain relief.

I'm trying to cover like, I don't know, self forgiveness, a bit of positivity, maybe offer a friendly voice that you can listen to regularly. Now I've realized how important that can be. Over the last few years.

I remember when I went abroad and I was in this, I was in a country that everyone was speaking a different language. And which is normal when you go abroad. And I turned the radio on, I turned my phone on and there was a radio station.

And I was sitting on the veranda. Is it veranda balcony eating my cornflakes out of a like a paper. Yeah, a paper dish and a plastic spoon and some milk.

That was out of a like a coffee milk thing, you know, little sachets of milk, having that and a cup of coffee. And I bought some little boxes of cornflakes and add some sugar. So I was putting on there as well.

That's when I used to have sugar on the breakfast cereal. Now I'm going to come to, I'm going to come over the subject of sugar at some point during this recording, because it's valid for what I've been doing today. You've been doing what over sugar? No, it's about, yeah, I had a dentist appointment.

So I'll talk about that. Why would anyone want to hear about a dentist appointment? Is it supposed to be relaxing? Okay, but it's not really focused on the dentist. It's just focused on the journey, the, you know, I'm not going to go into any detail.

How can you hear the shouting in the garden? Bless. The kid's only about four, he should be in bed by now, shouldn't he? Half past seven in the afternoon, in the evening. Oh, well, I've closed the windows.

I pulled the curtains over. I've moved as far away from the window as I can get without, you know, knocking through the wall. I can't do any more than that.

So if there's any background sounds, I'm sorry, I can't, I can't make it vanish. I wasn't able to make a recording today during the day because I've been busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. And yes, I'm standing, I'm sitting on this balcony and all these amazing smells all around.

And like lush forests and sounds of animals I've never heard of before. I've never heard those sounds before. Outside of a like Tarzan movie.

And then I turned the radio on and it's Steve Allen. He used to be on LBC between four and seven in the morning. He's not on anymore.

And but at that time, he still was on. This is like six years ago or something. And it felt so comfortable because he was on between four and seven.

I was up. I don't know what time I was up, but it was like six o'clock in the morning in the UK. I was just so comfortable, comforting just to have that little bit of home with me, you know.

I mean, having a cornflakes was useful as well and a cup of coffee. And then he's hassling me. He's actually hassling me again.

And I don't know why. He's had a really good day. I would argue that he has had all his needs fulfilled today.

Well, pretty much he's had a good day. Yet he's he seems to be unsatisfied at this particular moment. And I'm not sure why.

I'm not. I'm really, really confused. Are you trying to get into my lap? Well, don't just settle down then.

Chill out. Relax. Just calm down, baby boy.

My little baby boy. He calmed down. His tail's wagging.

Clearly, you're happy, aren't you? You're happy, aren't you? You've had a good day, haven't you? Yes, you have, Mr. Permanent Frowny. Permanent Frowny's got on his face. Those eyebrows.

Always like, no, no. Frowning. What are you worried about, Vin? You've got nothing to be worried about.

You've got people that love you. Everyone loves him. He can't go anywhere, hardly with anyone without people like, oh, he's so cute.

He's so lovely. If they say, oh, what's her name? And I say, Sandra. And he looks at me, Vinnie looks at me, he gets so angry.

Because he can't say anything, can he? So I'm like, yeah, well, Vicky. Vicky. His name's Vicky.

Her name's Vicky, sorry. He doesn't like being misgendered. You wouldn't think dogs would be that bothered, would you? But he is.

He has an issue with it. I don't care. Someone can call me a woman, a man, call me anything.

I really don't care. I've got no... Call me he, she, call me they, whatever. I don't care, man.

Man, I don't care. Yo, I'm just, I'm just me. I don't class myself.

I think my days of wanting to be a man, I don't really feel like a man. I'm just, I don't know. I'm a man, but I don't feel manly.

I don't, I don't feel like I'm full of testosterone walking down the street. Yeah, football. Booze.

More football. Rugby. I don't have that.

Oh, I want to win. I want to be the best. I want to be first.

No, mortgages. No, I don't. What are you doing, Vinnie? Leave my stuff alone, please.

Thank you. That's my impression of someone with testosterone in them. Oh, so ridiculous.

So yeah, I don't reckon I've got any testosterone. I've never got any at all. I'm still producing male, male, um, I don't know how to, how to say that without sounding rude, but I'm still, you know, I'm still a male.

I mean, the stuff that, you know, I'm still produced just, um, um, I still stand up when I do wee-wees. That's it. That's what I was thinking of.

Yeah, still stand up when I do a wee. Mind you, I've met a couple of women that could do that as well. Very impressive.

I mean, technically, I wasn't, shouldn't have, I was looking for the keyhole, but I, I, I've known people that always sit down when they do a wee, always, always sit down when they do a wee. I've never, I mean, I've sat down, I've done a wee-wee, but not to sit down to do a wee, you know? No, Phinny, no. I know what you want.

You want to do something that's going to make the most possible noise, don't you? Don't give me the side eye. That's a very new term, isn't it? Side eye. You give me, you give me the side eye, looking at me.

Make it make sense. I've heard a lot of these terms now from watching people debating on TikTok. Make it make sense is one that I hear quite often.

Let me land is when someone's being interrupted and they want to finish what they're saying. Let me land. Let me land.

And what's the other thing? Oh yeah, if someone says something and it feels a bit half-hearted, someone will shout out, say it with chest, say it with chest. And what's weird about this is the people saying this stuff, okay, they're adults. No, stop it.

If you do that again, I'm going to say the same thing to you that I've said repeatedly. It's not really a threat, is it? They're actual adults that say this out loud. And I realize, you know, they're not showing their faces because I'd be embarrassed.

I'd be embarrassed to shout out, say it with chest and actually have my, imagine saying it and you can see someone's face saying that out loud and they're an adult. They're not like a 10 year old. Or shouting, allow it, allow it.

Say it with chest. I genuinely don't. I've looked it up.

Say it with chest where it comes from. I think it might be like a military thing, you know, like stick your chest out, you know, say it with chest, say it with chest. I mean, it might be really old, old thing.

Say it with chest meaning. Okay. The front surface of a person's or at, I'm not chest.

Why are they telling me what chest is? See, I says, say it with chest meaning. And then it says chest telling me what chest is. Blimey.

Oh, it's a Kevin Hart thing. Seven most memorable catchphrases. Oh, dear.

Oh, dear. So this is an urban, the urban dictionary, which won't let me in for some reason. So apparently, Kevin Hart, say it with your chest.

I'll be honest, I've never watched a Kevin Hart stand up special. I've seen his movies. I like his movies.

He's a guy. If nothing else, you gotta give him props for like the hardest working actor, comedian, like in the world for, you know, a certain period of time. He was everywhere.

Everywhere. He was doing like a Netflix special every year. He was in a movie every three weeks.

It's just like everywhere. So good, good, good for him. He's really made his mark.

But I haven't seen not even one of his comedy specials. And I need to watch the first one. Apparently, the early ones are the best ones.

And. Yeah, I need to watch it. The thing is, because I know where the history comes from, because I know that any, any comedian, basically.

So you got Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, they're kind of they're not the top, but they pretty much are at the top of the stand up tree, regardless of colour. Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. And then you've got, I'd say for me, George Carlin.

Four comedians started out in the 50s. Okay, so they're, they're the ones, there's a loads of others, but they're the ones that they all became. I mean, Richard Pryor, huge star, Bill Cosby, bigger star.

Because of TV, but he was a bigger star on stage as well. And I've talked about this before, but I was surprised at just how popular Bill Cosby was in the 60s and the 70s, long before he did anything on TV. Like, you know, TV sitcoms and stuff.

He was the biggest comedy, comedy, comedian in America, which means the biggest comedian in the world, really. So he, so Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and then of course, you've got Steve Martin, and you've got quite a few from the 70s. You know, the Saturday Night Live lot and that stuff.

But the stand up has kind of come down from Richard Pryor. Even though Bill Cosby was huge. In fact, Richard Pryor said at one point, I think he did an autobiography or did an interview, he said, he earned a lot of money playing, being Bill Cosby for about four years.

So he basically just, he acted like Bill Cosby, went on stage in a suit, did Bill Cosby kind of material. And he earned a living. He was on TV and he was popular.

And then he went and he changed his, his act. Apparently, he went on stage and he was doing a fundraiser for, for, it was a fundraiser for, Philly, stop it. A fundraiser for gay rights, something like that.

And the, yeah, the dancers, the black dancers had to be in a separate place to the white dancers. This is the early 70s. And Richard Pryor heard that.

He heard about it afterwards. You know, before he got on stage, he heard that the black dancers were not being treated equally to the white dancers. So he gets on stage.

This is, I don't know if there's any footage of this, but this is what I've heard happened. Bearing in mind, he was coming on stage. Now, bearing in mind, this was the early 70s.

It might be late 60s, but I think it was early 70s. Richard Pryor had been on TV. So he was a well-known comedian in America.

He hadn't had his big break on movies or anything like that. So he, so he was actually like a minority in America, supporting another group of minority people, you know, gay rights, which there weren't such a thing back then in America. So when he found out that his, the dancers were being mistreated, considering like the whole point of the whole event was about equality.

I don't really need to explain this to why we all can figure that one out, can't we? So, so what he did, he got on stage. He said a few words. I don't know what it was, but, you know, wasn't nice.

And then he turned around, pulled his trousers down and said, shouted out, kiss my big black ass. And then just left the stage. And he, he basically, he didn't return to the limelight for a few years, by a couple of years or something.

And he completely reinvented himself. No longer was he going on in those suits and trying to be Bill Cosby. He just wanted his own voice.

And he, yeah, because he just like didn't want any part of that, that kind of, yeah, I can understand it. I'm not explaining it very well, but I do understand where he's coming from, you know. So he, and then he came back and he became what such a star, such a star.

Ironically, Bill Cosby was the biggest stand up star when he was doing stand up. But then when Richard Pryor came back, he was the biggest star as a stand up. Bill Cosby did some movies.

Richard Pryor did some movies. I think one of them, they were in the same movie. Was it Caddyshack or one of them.

And Bill Cosby didn't really have much success in movies. But huge, obviously huge success on TV. Richard Pryor did get his own TV show, which was cancelled before it finished.

Not the first episode, but he did some dodgy, he did some things that he shouldn't have done or whatever. And the censors didn't like it. So they pulled it off the air.

But his movie career took off. And at one point, he was the Hollywood's highest paid actor in the early 80s. So when he was in Superman 3, that was when he was at his biggest fame.

That was when he, I think he signed something like a $10 million contract with Hollywood. And I think he possibly even got paid more than anyone else on Superman 3 movie, because he was the big star. Even though Superman and Lewis Lane should be the star, because it wasn't like their first movie, was it? But Richard Pryor was the big, you know, the big attraction of the movie.

So from that, that's the lineage. It's not that I mean, this lineage before that, you got Lenny Bruce, and you got a lot of other like black comedians from the 50s, that were like, that paved the way for Richard Pryor, that paved the way, and was saying stuff that he shouldn't have been saying. You got Redd Foxx, for example.

He, I had quite a few of his albums when I was younger. And it was jazz, he used to do albums with jazz. So there'd be jazz playing.

And I guess it just being a live recording. And he'd just talk just talk at his really gravelly voice, and just talk about stuff. And it's funny.

But interesting as well, not always just funny, but, you know, it's interesting stuff, telling people not to pay any taxes. And so, you know, just, it's just funny. Just remember that one.

But from that, the next big comedian that came out of America, like huge would be Eddie Murphy. But Steve Martin was massive in America during the 70s. The late 70s, early 80s.

He was massive as a stand up, he was doing arenas and stuff. And then he, you know, he started his movie career, and he was he was big in America. But nobody, nobody touched Eddie Murphy.

During his height, during pop play, how many movies was he in? 48 hours? What's that cop? Whatever it's called cop. I just can't remember how many he was in so many movies, only comedy movies in the early 80s. But he also had the largest, the biggest selling comedy or stand up movie of all time.

Because Richard Pryor did a stand up movie, which was released at cinemas. But Eddie Murphy's Delirious, I do believe was the biggest that ever's ever been. And Raw, which was a couple of years later.

I don't know where that stood like in the rankings. But there haven't been that many. I'm kind of surprised really that Ricky Gervais, I suppose now streaming, he gets a bigger audience, but I'd have thought something like Jimmy Carr stand up show being shown in cinemas would potentially get a big audience.

You know, people go along because it's funny, because I know not everyone likes it, but they wouldn't go if they didn't like it. So I'm guessing I'm thinking that would be quite a good place to watch a stand up movie or stand up concert in a cinema. So I've never done it.

I've never I didn't watch Delirious because I was too young to go to the cinema, watch 18. I watched it on. It must have been out about 84 because I watched it in 87 on video.

Now 88 on a video, so I don't know when it came out in the cinemas. So I watched Delirious and it was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen ever, like as far as stand up. But I hadn't seen much stand up comedy at that point in my life.

Not like a whole full concert, like an hour or an hour and a half of someone standing there watching it on a screen. I'd seen it on stage once. And I'd seen, you know, when I was a kid on TV, there'd be comedians coming on for five minutes and, you know, on TV, Saturday night TV shows and stuff.

I've never seen someone perform like for an hour and a half, especially a movie star, someone that was in, what was it called? The cop movie. Oh man. The Hawaii cop.

I keep thinking the Shanghai cop. Something cop. Anyway, it was Eddie Murphy.

He was in everything, wasn't he? He was in so many movies and I couldn't believe how funny it was. And it really had me, you know, it was 88, I think. And really, it might have been 89.

Might have been 89. I'm thinking about it. But yeah, I'm thinking it was 89 now because just thinking where I was living.

I think I was living with my friend's mum and I watched it there. Yeah. Which means I must have had a video recorder.

And I must have had a colour TV, because why would I watch it on black and white TV? That would be weird. Watching a video on a black and white TV. The strange thing is when I moved from London and I lived in this studio apartment and I was working full time in an insurance company earning okay money, actually.

Okay. You know, more than I'd before. And I still had a portable black and white television.

I think that my dad gave me. And I didn't change it. I literally didn't change it for colour television until 2004.

Four. So June 2002 and 2003. This doesn't make sense to me.

No, it can't have been because I had a video recorder. I had a video recorder and I was I used to I used to buy loads of videos. I must have had a colour TV.

I think is I got a TV with a video recorder all in one in 2004. That's the first time I had that. So no, I did have a colour TV but I didn't for the first few months.

The weird thing about it, I could have had I could have had like a massive TV on the wall. If I wanted back then. I mean, compared to now, I was rich back then.

During that period. I mean, yeah, it is. But I didn't know what to spend my money on because I was bored.

Because no longer in London. There was no longer anything to do. So I was in this little town.

Yeah, I could go out drinking, but that got boring. I had a few friends from work that I'd hang around with. So that was okay.

But I was normally kind of after work rather than at the weekends. Friday night, but not generally like on a Saturday or Sunday. And I'd have I'd be walking through the town.

And I'd be in HMV. I think it was HMV either that or Virgin. I think it was HMV.

And I'd be looking at the videos, the video selections on there and just so I wasn't allowed to join. I couldn't join. I can't remember the name of it now.

The video, the video blockbusters. That's it. I wasn't able to join blockbusters because of where I lived.

They wouldn't let me join because I lived in the YMCA. So so I was I'd buy videos just for the sake of buying videos. Video videotapes, those.

So I'd like videos from the MMA, you know, the original MMA days, going back to probably the 90s. I'd have just movies. I'd just buy them, watch them.

And I probably had probably had 100 or 200 films, videotapes. And then one day I just they're in the way. So I donated them to the to the hostel, because in the YMCA, you had the hostel to the side, which is for the homeless hostel.

And then there was the main big building which they rented the flats out, the studio apartments out to members of the public. When I was there, it was a lot of refugees. It was kind of like an asylum hotel for the period that I was there.

And also they'd move people from the homeless hostel into one of the studio apartments with support. And if they were able to deal with that, they were able to kind of support themselves, then eventually they'd end up getting their own council flat, which probably happened to it could I could have Yeah, I could have gone that way as well. But I didn't.

Because I was working. I didn't realize the resources that were there for me. And I even when I stopped working, I I still worked so I didn't sign on.

If I'd have signed on, my rent would have gone up from £65 a week to I think £150 a week or something like that. Because that's how much the government would pay for those or maybe more. That's how much the government would pay for those studio apartments for people.

Which or even 200 a week, it was a lot of money, because they had asylum seekers there. So they were you know, they were making, they were really making as much money from the government as they could. But on the same side, the government didn't want to pay that amount of money to the YMCA.

So as soon as they could, they'd they'd get fast tracked into housing, like council housing. Because a council, it just, they wouldn't have to pay that person's rent. Of that amount, it'd only be like if they move someone to a one bedroom flat back then.

I mean, think how long ago that was, a one bedroom flat back then in a council would have been probably £70, £80 a week, not £150 or £200 a week. So it just kind of, it makes it kind of help to fast track people out. I'm not sure if that's why they did it.

I don't know. But I spoke to the councillor there. And I had a couple of sessions with her.

And she did, because when I lost my job, because I wasn't well, and she did say to me that if I signed on, I could, I would then be put on the list. And I would be higher up the list of being able to get a council flat. And I probably wouldn't have to wait a huge amount of time.

But I didn't want to not work. Even though I could only do part time, I got a job in a shop, a gift shop. And I just lived off savings.

And got into more debt. But I mean, it all worked out. In the end, I suppose, you know, technically, technically, it worked out in the end.

I think he's asleep now. He's calmed down. He was so moany a little while ago.

So it's eight o'clock, right? It's still light outside. I don't know why that excites me. I don't know.

I don't I feel incredibly, I was gonna say aroused. No, I don't feel aroused. I just find it interesting.

Just I love I love it when it's light. I'm not. When I was younger, probably in my 20s.

I was probably more of a night person. And when I first moved in here, for the first probably, yeah, for quite a few years. I would be up all night long, and then go to bed about between four and seven in the morning.

That's when I got to listen to LBC, Steve Allen. Because sometimes I'd listen to him for maybe an hour. And sometimes I listen to maybe all the way to seven o'clock, then go to bed.

But back then, I didn't need to have the radio on or anything, because I didn't have Vinnie, who's always listening. Because I had Andre and he nothing bothered him. Vinnie's very much his ears are flat.

If you watch him, his ears flap even when he's asleep. His ears always like listening, it's like a radar. Something to get him to go start barking and stuff.

He's got to be happy today because it's really weird. I'm going to stop now. 40 minutes in and I couldn't tell you one thing I've talked about.

Not one thing. What have I actually discussed? Comedy? Oh, right. And then Sir Richard Pryor led to Eddie Murphy, who wanted to be like Richard Pryor.

But Eddie Murphy's on a different level. Not not greater, just a different type of comedian. I mean, great, great mimic, great comedy actor.

Way more versatile than Richard Pryor ever was. Way more versatile, I'd say than pretty much hardly any I don't I can't think of anyone in the movie business or the comedy business that's as versatile as Eddie Murphy. If you look at all the different things he's done.

I mean, you could say Jim Carrey, but because he's done a lot of different things. But it's. I think with Eddie Murphy, OK, he was, you know, you've got like Jim Carrey saying, well, all right, then he's hassling me again, go back to bed, go to sleep.

Good girl. With Eddie Murphy, he was. You could say like in the 90s, in the 80s and the 90s, he was characterized or he was kind of like a huh, huh, huh, huh, like that because he'd laugh.

But ultimately, since he done Shrek, he did the blubber, he did all these different things in the 90s and the 2000s. And he's still he's still doing stuff now. And he's he's yeah, I just think he's he's going to be down as one of the greatest there ever was old Eddie.

And he still looks amazing. It's like the bloke's got to be about 103 and he's still he did an impression of Bill Cosby recently. I think he went to collect an award and he said, did Bill Cosby have to give his one back? What the fuck do you want, Vinnie? What the fuck do you want? Seriously, what do you want? Yeah, Vinnie's back into hassling me again.

I don't know what it is. I've just given him a big tin of food. He had some sausage roll earlier.

He's had multiple treats since his food and he's still begging for more. No, I want more. So then you got like Chris Rock, you got a lot of comedians have come out and have kind of not copied Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy, but we kind of have come from that lineage.

And Chris Rock. And you've got Richard, Richard Kevin Hart, one of the most recent. And sometimes I watch and I think, oh, I can just see without being, you know, it's like a bit of mimicry, a mimicry there, a bit of kind of trying to copy something that's in some ways outdated.

You know, Richard Pryor is outdated now. He's he was funny, but it was the 70s when he was doing his stand up. He did it in the 80s as well, but he's like his his main period was in the 70s.

And that kind of comedy is not really it. But the ghetto language and it's not it's not really a novelty anymore. And Chris Rock did a whole thing, didn't he, about being a father and instead of like, you know, just it's that's the stuff that Eddie Murphy was talking about in the 80s.

And Kevin Hart, I don't know what he's talking about now. So I can't really comment on what he does in his stand up. I imagine he makes fun of himself for being so tiny.

I don't know. Will Smith. That's another one.

I really thought that he was going to be a huge star. Stay with me because you're going to. Well, yeah, he is.

No, I thought he was going to be a huge comedy star. He didn't go down that line, did he? He did Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which I found very funny. And he was great.

But then so was his cousin doing dancing to Tom Jones. That was funny. He was great.

How he didn't go on to get his own show or to do big movies. I don't know. Because he was great.

He had he had the charisma to go on and do big things as well. But for some reason, he didn't. Unless he did.

And I don't know about it. Will Smith, I thought he was. I just thought he was going to be a comedy star, because he's so the animation is animated, very animated.

And that's why I thought I was for that was the journey he was going to take. Now, I'm pretty sure other than the odd mishap, he's probably very pleased with the journey he's made, apart from the odd mishap. But because he's clearly a very successful, successful, multi decade career.

I just I really just I was surprised, though. I was surprised that he didn't go on to just he didn't do more comedy stuff. He seems to be quite serious.

In a lot of his movies, I like a lot of his movies. Some of them are really like a lot. And but then when I remember watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in 1990.

I love that movie. And I thought to be fair, I thought both of them were going to go on to be big stars. Only one of them did, Keanu.

But I thought he was going to be a comedy actor. Because of how he was in that movie. Again, he didn't really go down the comedy line, did he? Although his latest movie where he's an angel is funny.

There's some really funny bits in that, which did have me laughing, like really laughing, caught me off guard a bit. And I think with that movie, I forget what it's called, but he plays he plays an angel with tiny little wings. And he's really, really rubbish at his job.

So he's not a proper angel yet, you know, and he's, I think he's, he's, his assignment, day to day assignment is to stop people from driving and looking at their mobile phones, texting and driving. I think that's his thing, is to stop people from having accidents and that. And he doesn't feel very satisfied with that.

And he's got his boss and he's saying, I want to do something substantial. I want to help someone but change the whole direction of their life. And rather than just stopping someone from crashing into a stop sign or something.

And, and eventually, yeah, and that's it. I don't want to spoil the movie and I've not spoiled any of it by telling you that. But it's funny, because the three main characters are all individually funny.

We've got Ref, Ref Rogan. I don't know what his name is, Steph Rogan. And there's the other bloke.

It's really, I just find it funny. He's, he's very, let me have a look if I can find it. Because it is Seth Rogan, Seth isn't it, not Steph, Seth Rogan.

Yeah. So if we go Seth Rogan, I'll find his details from there. Seth Rogan, Rogan.

So he's only 43. How can he only be 43? I'd have thought he'd be in his 50s. I really didn't think he was only 43.

It's not that he looks older. It's just, it seems to have been around for absolutely ever and ever and ever. Apparently his first movie was 1999.

Blimey. Okay. So we're gonna have a look at his movies.

Unless, oh, don't tell me they've hidden the movies. Brilliant. Filmography.

Okay, here we go. So his first movie. No.

According to this, his acting roles, first movie was Donnie Darko. And then he was in Anchorman, the legend of Ron Burgundy. The 40 year old virgin.

You, me and Dupree. Shrek the third. They've missed out a lot.

There was more. He was in that movie. With, oh, Superbad.

Was that 2007? Fair enough. I really, really, really didn't, didn't realize. So it was Donnie Darko is another really good movie.

Freaky, but very good. I remember seeing that. I was visiting my friend in, in Nottingham.

Yeah. So his latest movie, to be fair, he gets around quite a lot. So good fortune.

How can you do so? He does. He's done two movies this year. Three movies this year, two are out and one's not out yet.

Oh, two are, one's out, two are yet to be released. But he did a movie last year called Good Fortune. He did, also did a movie called Animal Farm in 2025.

I remember seeing the original one of that. Yeah, I didn't get any sleep for a while. Good Fortune.

So it's got Keanu, Keanu Reeves. Ironically, he's not even at the top of the list of actors, which is kind of weird because he is the star. I mean, anything that Keanu Reeves is in, he's going to be the star, isn't he? But he's listed last.

But then, oh, it's written and directed by Aziz Ansari, who is the co-star. So clearly, Keanu didn't care. And in the video poster, Keanu is center stage.

But the supporting actors are good. I mean, I was going to say, actually, one of my favorite people is Aziz Ansari. He's just funny.

He's just, he's so very dry. You know, he's no performance, really. It's just, he just, it's almost like he's just acting himself.

I don't know what his self is, but he got Sandra Oh. No, it's her name, Sandra Oh. Before I was concerned about something, didn't you know, Sandra Oh, Keke Palmer, Keke Palmer.

She was in, I do believe, the hospital TV show. She, no, Keke is a different person. I'm looking at the pictures.

So I'm thinking Sandra Oh then. So Sandra Oh was in Grey's Anatomy. Yes.

I was absolutely enthralled with Grey's Anatomy in 2008. When I was doing my degree, I became very obsessed with box sets from blockbusters. And I would get whole seasons and watch them over the weekend.

I did that with Sopranos. I did it with, in fact, with the, at one point, I think 2009, I bought the box set of Sopranos and The Wire. All, all of the episodes, the whole series of the whole thing, everything, the whole thing.

And yeah, I try to think, I had a friend lent me. Oh, what's that TV show called? Not useless. Shameless.

That's it. Shameless. And I watched every episode of that back to front, back to front, stop, you know, from start to finish.

And I also watched what was it called? Something to Mars. Journey to Mars, Life on Mars. That was phenomenal.

I've never seen anything like that before. And then when I was recording my stop smoking session, this is always weird now that I had spent, I think over 10 days working on just four recordings, half an hour each, supposed to be listened to for seven days each for a month. Yeah.

And I had the house to myself because a landlady and landlord was on holiday. So I basically brought my TV into the, to the kitchen area. And I was working on this recording, trying to get it as perfect as I could.

It was windy outside, which was not helpful at all. Trying to edit it so that it was no background sound and it sounded at the time as perfect as I could get it. As I had all my stuff laid out, I worked out all the, what I was going to say and, and then I'd have breaks because it was hard going.

And I'd watch an episode of Prisoner Break or Prison Break. And I watched every single episode of that over those 10 days. And I can't believe I spent so much time recording that stop smoking session.

I mean, it, I just can't, it's hard to comprehend that I did that. When I could produce a better sounding recording now, just off the top of my head without any, any preparation or editing, or minimal editing of maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes. So that, that whole process that took me 10 days with breaks, I mean, I was watching, you know, box sets as well.

But those 10 days, I could do in two hours. Is now I just not saying, Oh, aren't I great. I'm just, just the quality of everything so much better.

The microphone is better that I suppose, you know, I've got now it's 2009 or 2008. It was 2008. So what's that 18 years ago, I got a little bit more experience now.

A little bit, a little bit. Oh, is it 2009? I think it's 2008. Pretty sure it was.

I'm pretty sure it was 2008. I've got to put my rubbish out. And here's the weird thing.

I've not got to talk about anything that I'm supposed to talk about. It's so frustrating. Why can't I just get on with it? So here we are.

Today. Yesterday, I made an appointment with a dentist. And I didn't want to go.

Of course, I didn't want it would, it would. But I figured, I might as well go before it gets too bad. You know, instead of leaving it too late, I'll go now do it while I can.

So I did. I ended up paying £38 for an appointment because there's no NHS couldn't get any NHS. So I had to go private.

What I noticed right from the start of talking to them on the phone, and then seeing them in person is none of them seem to know what they're doing. When it comes to they're not on the same page. I'm sure the dentist knows what she's doing.

But the admin people, the people just they're saying different things. So the man on the phone said to me yesterday, I spoke to a lady on the phone. And she put me on someone else because the communication wasn't working.

Or I wasn't understanding what she was telling me. Well, I think I was just asking too many questions, really. And eventually, the bloke came on and said, Why are you asking about what car she has? I just just felt an inquisitive mood.

He said, Okay, fair enough. But what do you want? And I said, Okay, so he explained that I wasn't I couldn't be on NHS. I had been with them before, but it was a long time ago because I used to live around the corner from there.

And I had to pay private. So I paid I paid the £38 to get an appointment. This morning, what is our Yeah, it was like quarter to one.

And I got a taxi there. So that was 15 pounds added on. So I couldn't really I literally left myself 10 minutes to get ready.

So I kept putting it off, kept putting it off. And in the end, I thought, Well, I'm not going to get that £38 back. And I just, you know, simple as that.

I've got to go out. I have to go out on Saturday. Anyway, I've got no choice.

So I kind of got to go out today. It's better to get it done. And I pushed myself got a taxi, got there, got there early, actually.

But if I got there, and I went, I got there at 10 minutes early, went in just a few minutes before the time. And then they had me waiting for 20 minutes anyway. So that didn't really work out perfectly.

So then I did an x ray. And I figured a way because I've always, I, I'm not a big fan of having things in my mouth. So well, not all things, but just generally, you know, I mean, just for the x ray, I didn't never really enjoyed it.

And so what I did is I just counted down from 15 downwards, in my mind, and slowly, and I just imagined that I was going to get a lovely gift and imagine something really, really nice that I was going to get at the end, when I got down to zero. But by by the time we got down to 11, the whole thing was done. So I use that little distraction technique, because that's one of the things that's one of the parts of the dentist stuff I don't not a big fan of the old, you know, bite down on this like it's bigger than my mouth.

Anyway, I did an x ray. And it turns out that there's there was an infection in the roots of that tooth. So they've given me antibiotics.

And they said the thing I need to do either have root canal or have the tooth removed, and I still have the tooth removed. And she said, Don't you want? Don't you want? Why don't you want to save it? It's the only one left in that part of your mouth in the corner of mouth. Sounds like I've got no teeth, but just in that bit of the mouth.

He said, I said, No, I don't fancy root canal. She said, No, it's pretty grim. I said, You're already selling it to me.

And she just like, Is it? Well, yeah, you can have it extracted if you want. It's gonna cost 350 pound minimum. If it's if it's a hard job, if it breaks, or you know, if there's more involved than it could go up to 500.

And I said, Well, the last time I had a tooth that was 190 pound. She said, When was that? I said, A couple of years ago. She said, Was that here? I said, No.

There you are, then was her response. I was like, There we go. There we are.

There I am then. And she said, Well, these are those are the prices. I said, Okay, well, the and then she said, And you can't have it done now.

So apparently, they'll give you that give me credit. So they'll let me have it. So it's 350 pound.

They let me have the treatment, then pay it monthly. Afterwards, zero interest apparently. If I had root canal, it'd be 1000 plus pound.

And they'll have to go somewhere else to do get it done. And she said, Oh, you can't have it. You can't have the tooth out now.

I said, The man on the phone last night told me that the whole point of an emergency, you know, to come and get seen, is to have treatment to have whatever treatment I'm needed. And she said, Yeah, well, you can't because it's 40 minutes it's going to take to to take your tooth out, at least and we don't have that time. Why would it take 40 minutes?

I suppose there's the there's the yeah, there's the numbing part, isn't there? But they can numb you see someone else and then see you after them, can't they? Unless they like to have a little rest, which is deserved, I mean, should be allowed to have a coffee, shouldn't they? Anyway, I just like, and then she said, Well, besides, you can't have you can't have a tooth out because the the the injection, you won't feel you won't feel the euthanization or whatever it is, the anesthetic, you won't feel the anesthetic.

That's what I'm trying to think of. So you won't feel the anesthetic because of the infection. I said, Isn't that the point of anesthetic not to feel it? And she looked at me for a couple of seconds a little bit quizzed.

And I looked back at her quizzed. And if it's that point, then we realized that we're in love. And we ran off and got married.

See, that's pretty much ended that story. Anyway, she she gave me a prescription, refused to budge on the doing it now. And I said, You realize the first time I've been out of my little area where I live since the summer.

And she said, How would I know that? I said, That's a good point. There's no reason you would know that is. But just trying to explain that getting out is not the it's not always my easiest thing to be around people.

And she said, Well, you got out today. Yeah, don't stick to the dentistry. I think being a counselor is not going to be your job.

Not your you go out today, pull your socks up, pull yourself together. Other people get through it. Other people have it worse.

Plenty more fish in the sea. Blimey. And so and I said, Well, so I'm gonna you're gonna give me a prescription for the antibiotics or whatever they are penicillin, I don't know whatever they are to help to get rid of the thing, the infection, which is not too bad.

Now it's actually gone down. It's not even hurting today. It's a little bit tender underneath my chin.

I mean, it was a little bit like lumpy, but I just figured out just that some food being collected. You know, because I'm a little bit like a squirrel. I like to kind of just have food in my cheeks, just if I get hungry during the day, you know, when I'm out.

And she she said, Oh, yes, we'll do this prescription in a minute. And they printed one out. It's literally a print off.

And it's this. So I'm talking to the dentist and this lady, the reception came in and said, Are these the right details? So I'm looking at I'm thinking she's talking about my details for the registering of to be on the NHS list, which I'd registered online, the two year waiting list, apparently. And I said, No, that's not my date of birth.

That's not even my address. And then I realized it was it was their address. And it was a date, the date was today's date, and it was a prescription.

That's why I felt a little bit embarrassed. A little bit, just a little bit like, Oh, because I wasn't really on the ball. I wasn't, you know, I was a little bit distracted.

I'm not used to being around people and talking to people that I don't know. And there's a yeah. Anyway, I said, Well, I have to pay for this prescription.

And she said, Do you normally pay? I said, No, I'm on universal credit. I don't have to pay for prescriptions. Because of the low money I get.

So okay. So I took the prescription, took it into the local pharmacy. And I'm queuing, right, I'm queuing about five minutes.

And I realized I'm in the wrong queue. I'm in the wrong part of the queue. So I walked through to get to the end, realizing that I've actually been there longer than the people that are already waiting.

Because they've just come in the other side. So I just walked through. And as I walked through, another person comes in from the other side.

And she looks at me, and I look at her. And I really got the sense that she thought I was butting into the queue. But I wasn't, I was actually there before the two people that were ahead of me.

I just didn't realize there was a queuing system. So anyway, I, that wasn't really much of a story. I got seen pretty quick in that pharmacy.

And they said no, it's good about half an hour for the medication because the, I don't know, the person in charge is in a consultation. I said, I don't want it, I'll go and get it somewhere else then. She said, okay, then dear.

She's like, probably about 20 years younger than me calling me dear. You don't think she's talking to me like I'm an old person, do you? Okay, then dear. You're right then, dear.

Are you okay to go into the bus, need a hand? Is that how people see me now? Like an old, like really old todger? Proper? No. Oh, you know what? Weird as it may seem, one of my biggest fears, right, is I'll get on the train, right? I'll get on the train on Saturday and someone will give me their seat. Someone will actually stand up and say, there you go, there you go, dear.

Do you want to sit down? It's a young person, but they're not going to be young. They're probably going to look older than me in my brain. They're probably going to look in their 30s, which isn't young.

Well, it is, but you know, it's like technically I see someone in their 30s and I think the same as me and they're going to be giving their seat up to me and I'm thinking, oh, it's because I'm so, so sexy and clearly need preferential treatment, but it isn't. Because I'm a smelly old man. That's what it is.

Oh, thank you, dear. Thank you. Thank you for letting me sit down.

Oh, I'm 55, you know, 55. Yeah. I remember watching the last war on television.

So, yeah, I, that frightens me a little bit and I know it's going to happen if I'm lucky, because only lucky people get to be old. So if I'm lucky, I will get to that position where I'm standing on a bus and someone gives me their seat. And maybe I'll be grateful.

You know, maybe I'll be grateful. Maybe I'll just have to swallow my pride and think, well, you know what? I need to rest me back. So it's good.

I can sit down. But it's a big part of me that just crumbles as well. A little part of my, my psyche probably just like, oh, that's how I'm seen now.

But then I suppose it's better than not being seen. I think I'm invisible now to females. I'm pretty invisible to females.

Yeah. Apart from females in their 70s, they normally kind of notice me. So I've got a lot of elderly people that I walk, you know, that I walk dogs with and they're probably in their 70s.

I've gotten really, really well with. But then I've always gotten well with elderly ladies, which might sound weird, but it's a, it's a grandmother thing. I grew up being absolutely adoring an elderly lady who was my grandmother.

And she was elderly and old my whole life from the age of seven, all the way up to the age of 44. When she, she left, she was old. I mean, she was 96, you know, when she, when I was 44.

So she was never young during my lifetime, really. She was, but she was young. But was that 40? So she was in a, she wasn't, to be fair, what she'd make her in her 50s.

Which she'd be in her 50s when I was born. She was 96. She was 96.

When she, she left, I was 44. So when I was born, she would be in 52. Is that right? Yeah, I think, I think I'm right.

So 52. So she was 60. Well, basically, they were both retired.

So she, I think females could get retired at 50 or 55 back in them days in the late 70s, early 70s. Women could retire at 50 or 55. Men, I think men could retire at 60, I think.

But it might be 65. I don't know. It's a little bit confused, to be honest with you.

It's just, I hear different things. Right. See, my granddad, 75, 65, 78.

I don't know. I'm not sure. But I think my dad, my granddad, retired either at 60 or 65.

But I think that the age was 60, 60 in like the 70s. I might have it wrong. Now it's 67.

I think for younger people, it's 68. For me, it's, I retire. It's really sad.

This is really sad. You know, the amount of time that I've been living here, right, the amount of time that I've been living here, in this flat, at that time again, I'll be retired. I will officially be an old age pensioner.

In the same amount of time that I've lived here, 11 years, I've been old aged pensioner. Oh my goodness. The thing is, I know I don't sound it.

I don't think I look it. Maybe I do sound it. Do I sound really old? The thing is, old people don't sound like that today.

I don't. I've always gone, I've always quite liked elderly people. And I think partly because there's no nonsense with them.

I mean, I am of some generalizing. But I've met a lot over the years. And I've not gone with all of them.

But I've gone with a lot of gone. Yeah, I've got a lot of gone with a lot of old people, or people. I can't really call them old anymore.

Can I when they're only like 15 years older than me? Yeah, because it's only 15 years away from being 70. Nearly just over 14 years, because it's August. What the heck? That's why I want to go and do stuff.

That's why I went to the dentist. I want to get out and have fun. Anyway, I take the prescription.

I wait for a bus. The bus doesn't come. In fact, I go to the bus stop where the buses are.

You always used to get the buses, which is just outside McDonald's. Ain't no buses. I considered going to get McDonald's.

I thought no. Just like, I need to get home. And also, I just like I spent so much money.

So I get back. I had to walk all the way around and wait for another bus. And it did turn up after about 15 minutes.

Took me to the pharmacy. I took me to near the pharmacy. I walked up and I collected my neighbor's prescription and I collected my prescription, you know, my dentist prescription.

And then they said, Oh, yeah, I said, Well, I don't, I don't pay for my prescription. They said, Yeah, you do. I said, What do you mean? They said, This is a private prescription.

This has to be paid for. So that was another £16 that I had to pay out. And I was like, I just like, I felt like money was just falling out of my pockets.

Like, so what was that? £70, £38, nearly £40 for the appointment, £15 for the taxi, and £16 for the prescription. And then I speak to my friend because I hadn't, I collected her prescription, but they took like five, 10 minutes to get mine done, which is fine. But I got a phone call and I was told, the bus is going to come past you in five minutes will pass me, I'd have to get to the train station or get over the bridge.

And I just like, I couldn't get there in five minutes now, even if I left right now, without like running. And my prescription is not even ready yet. So I said, I'm just gonna walk, I'm just gonna walk it.

I don't care how long it takes. If I have to sit down, and you know, I'll just, obviously, if I have to sit down, I'm not gonna get very far am I? Unless I'm sitting on a skateboard or something. And with a motor.

And I just, I walked back very slowly. I got out of the way of a few pedestrians so they could get past because I was walking way too slow for most people. I get home, I get back, I visit because the, it was Vinnie's mum that was looking after him.

So I went and collected him. But we had a sausage roll, and a cake. And then I brought him back.

No, not a sausage roll, I had a cake to eat here with a cup of tea, brought him back. And that's it. I just chilled out to some music just last about an hour, watched a bit of TV, not much really.

And I got back here at three, probably got in here about half three, four. And started this, I took him out about just after, you know, I did a bit of internet stuff. Yeah, that's it was about quarter to six of 10 to six.

When I listened to some music on Handle, I was listening to Handle music, classical music. And I woke up about quarter to six. So just sitting on a seat, just relaxing with him, with the Vin, the Vin man.

And then I, I, that's pretty much it, you know. I did a little bit of internet stuff. Then about 10 past six, I took him out.

He went to the toilet, he didn't really want to be out. He was, it's a lovely evening, but he's, he was quite happy just to have a little sniff around. And then come home.

Because he'd been in and out of the garden at his mum's for those few hours I was away because when I got back at three, I called the taxi at midday to take me there. Because the appointment is 1245. And by the time the taxi got here, by the time he got here, it took a little while, not a long time to get here, but it got there about just, it was 1233.

For some reason, I remember that. 1233. And then I went in probably 1240.

So I had a little bit stood outside for a little bit. And then I went in about five minutes before the appointment was due. And then I got seen about 10 past one, probably quarter past one.

And then from that, it took me from quarter past one till three o'clock to get home. So, wow, no, not quarter past one. I was probably in there for about quarter of an hour.

Yes, I saw about half one, I probably left. So from half one to an hour and a half to get home. And now it is 849.

And what I'm going to do in the next 10 minutes is is I'm going to bag up my rubbish for tomorrow, for tomorrow's rubbish day. And then I'm just gonna have a bowl of cereal, I think. Bowl of cereal.

Yeah, so I feel like actually just a bowl of cereal. And just chill out. Maybe watch.

I'm gonna watch Minder on telly. I'm not really hungry. I think that's sausage.

I ate a very big sausage roll, a very big iced bun. And it filled me up to be honest, it's quite a lot. And yeah, I guess I'll, I'll have to look at taking that medication.

But that's it, I think. So the next 10 minutes, I'm just going to put my rubbish out, get myself something to eat, get the kettle boiled, you know, have a cup of tea, sit down, watch Minder till 10. And then probably just, you know, edit this, upload it and all that stuff.

Probably going to go to bed about 11. Probably. It's been, even though it might not sound it, it's been a really busy day for me.

This is something, it's a lot more than I normally do. And it energised wise, it's trained me a little bit, gives me a bit of a lift, I'll be honest, a little bit lifted up by being around people. But I've noticed that I feel it's kind of strange.

And yeah, I feel a little bit odd when I'm out of my, of this like little area that I'm in, because I normally go further than the park and the parks literally across the road. It's just for him to go to the toilet. And there's seats in there so I can sit down if I need to as well.

So I really do sound ancient and I need to rest my, my withering bones. I can just sit down. Anyway, so thank you.

Thank you very much for listening. Thank you for your comments. Actually, some lovely comments on YouTube.

I had someone say to me that they've been listening to one of my recordings for 10 years. 10 years, they'd be coming back every week and listen to a particular recording. How amazing is that? And yeah, it's just, you know, I've got some lovely comments.

Someone said that yesterday's recording was very uplifting. And it was nice to hear about the things I'm grateful for. And yeah, it's, you know, I do appreciate hearing, getting messages like that.

Yeah, it's nice. And I also do have some questions for Q&A Friday. But I'm happy to get some more if you go to my Facebook group, Jason Newland's Boring Group.

And we can make this Friday an epic Q&A Friday to make up for the previous one not really happening. And on that note, I'm gonna say goodbye. So thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. And be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe.

Lots of love. Bye