(Overnight Music) #1595 Let me bore you to sleep Jason Newland 16th April 2026

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. This is really... oh okay.

Vinnie's uh scratching at the settee to get to a biscuit. Yeah this is Q&A Friday. Q&A Q&A Q&A Friday.

Um oh I like last week. Well I had no questions. I actually have a bunch of questions which is good.

I also have to remember I've got questions from Mary as well, so I have to add that. She sent me a question via email. So before I continue, I just need to go to Facebook.

I'd like to say a big thank you to Nicole for your kind PayPal gift. Thank you. Just let you know if you'd like to support this free service, help cover the costs, buy me a cup of coffee, or a spring roll.

A spring roll? What's a spring roll? Anyway, my PayPal is on my, somewhere, it's on my website and stuff. I've got two websites, jasonnewland.com, which is my podcast website, and I have jasonnewland.store, which is where my recordings are available to download for free. I'm still in the process of uploading to that.

It's a very, very, very, very long process. Currently, I am doing the podcast. What am I doing? I'm doing the collections, sleep hypnosis.

So I've done the short voice only sleep hypnosis, the long voice only sleep hypnosis. So all of those available to download for free, and I'm now in the process of doing an overnight voice only. So let me see how many there are available on each one, 30.

So these are pretty much the latest and potentially probably the best sleep hypnosis recordings I've got. And so there's 30, I could probably go back in time and get more, but I'm just going to stick with the most recent ones over the last kind of year, well, six months or whatever. And because of the, yes, yeah, so that's what I'm going to do.

So I've got 30 in each one, and there's six different versions. So I'm currently in the process of doing the overnight voice only. And then I will do the short music, long music and overnight music.

It's very, very, very, very, very time consuming. But that's okay. I'm all right with that.

All my code with that. It's just one of those things, isn't it? So what else? I've got a YouTube channel. I do YouTube channel.

I've also, that's all my recordings get uploaded. Basically, it's a podcast. My YouTube channel is now all my recordings get uploaded there.

All six versions. I've also upload my videos onto X, Instagram and TikTok. So, yeah, you can listen to the first 59 minutes of the video or watch on there.

I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group. And also welcome Nicole, who joined yesterday or this morning. So welcome to use a new member.

And that I do believe is all the boring parts that I've got to read out. Not the boring parts, not saying thank you, but the boring parts of like telling you what my website is. And I've been doing this for years and years.

I need to get like a little recording for the beginning. You know, a little like electronic voice. Hello, my name is Jason Newland.

My website is jasonnewland.com. And maybe there was a time in the 90s, which is quite funny or the 80s, even when people first got the answer machines for their phones. I'm talking landlines, but long before mobile phones were around, they wouldn't just talk normally to leave a message that they'd leave a message like record a message on the answer machine for callers to listen to. So like, hey, Jason, leave a message.

But people didn't do do that. For some reason, people felt the need to talk like a robot. So hello, you are through to Jason Newland.

Please leave a message after the tone. It is that kind of thing people are doing now, like I just don't just talk normally. I can't talk normally when I make a recording.

Why not? It is very difficult for me to be natural when I am leaving a recording for my phone message. It's just, yeah, it's weird. I don't know if you remember that, but it was very strange.

I mean, some people played around with it, and I think probably younger people just, you know, just normal. But I say younger people don't blind me. Even old people were younger back then.

It's true. Even old people were young in the 80s. It's a long time ago now.

Wow. So it's a little while ago, it's a little while ago. A little while ago.

So, yeah, Q&A Friday. So if I go to my, in fact, I need to, OK, if I go to the Jason Newland's Boring Group. Jason Newland's Boring Group.

Yes, that's what it's called. Good. I've got 245 members and I've got one new member in about the last 10 years.

Honestly, it's kind of strange. It's hidden, I suppose, it's a bit hidden. Can you imagine how many groups there are on Facebook? Lots and lots and lots.

However, if I go to the member section, guaranteed. OK, three weeks ago was the last one, Nancy, and then a month ago, Adam, about a month ago, Shanthi, and, and, yeah. This is what I don't understand.

This is invited by Jason Newland, hypnotist about a month ago. I haven't invited anyone. I mean, you're welcome to join, but I think if people join, if I've sent an invite out and they join, it doesn't come down as being a member.

But I don't understand that because I've not sent out any requests to anybody. Maybe Facebook just does it itself. It's possible, isn't it? I don't know.

Bethany. Hi, Bethany. I'm looking at people, I don't just don't know who, Bethany, Bethany, Bethany.

So there's quite a few people that I've joined and I didn't even, I'm not sure if Bethany's one, but that I didn't, I don't know. Yeah, I can't keep track of it, to be honest with you. But the last one, two, three, four people have joined.

But after that, it's people that have like been invited. I'm confused, ever so confused. Right.

Anyway. Now that's extremely boring. Open questions.

There's a thing on here for open questions. Jason. Oh.

Oh. When was this? 23rd of March. Oh.

Right. He had a few problems with the podcast. Hopefully.

Hope, hope, hope, hope, hopefully. Everything's up to date and fine. Here's something interesting.

It's not, but it is, but it's not, but it is. It kind of is. Today, my stats, don't worry, I'm only going to briefly mention it.

No one from Vietnam has listened to me today so far. Yet the last week or two, Vietnam have been like near the top. But today, the top listeners is United States, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Canada, United Kingdom.

In that order. Yesterday, the top countries, I mean, I'm only halfway through the day. It's only like half 12 in the afternoon.

Yesterday, it was United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Canada, Australia, Philippines. And New Zealand. Then Ireland, Venezuela, Iraq, Norway, Colombia.

So. It's kind of like the countries that didn't used to get many listens from have started to increase. Not just Vietnam, but other countries.

I seem to get more people from. I mean, if I look through the last seven days, it gives you an idea. So it gives me an idea.

Bangladesh and Pakistan, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal. These are places that I'd get, I'd get listeners all around the world. I have done for decades.

Decades. But not as many as I'm getting now. I mean.

I've got nearly as many people listening in Iraq the last seven days as I have in Canada. And I had more people listening in Iraq than I did Australia the last seven days. You see what I mean? I'm grateful for anyone that listens.

Thank you. Seriously, I'm very grateful. I'm just trying to figure it out and I can't really.

If I'm doing something right. Or if I'm doing something wrong, I kind of want to know. So I can learn from it and, you know, change.

You know, I'm like a. I don't want to use the word missile, but I'm kind of like a. Something is just like changing course to try and. Get to the correct destination that maybe is continuously changing itself and. You know, I feel I must have done something right to have Vietnam.

But then. Is yeah, I'm doing something. I don't know.

I mean, I'd say what would be a good idea, and I don't know if it's a thing yet. To have podcasts that could be translated. OK, let's say it's an app, right? And.

You listen to let's say you listen to my podcast. Let Me Bore You To Sleep number. I don't know whatever this is one, whatever this is and.

You're from say from Denmark. Or let's say from Argentina. And you can actually put the country.

The language do you want to listen to the recording in? But it doesn't do like a robotic voice. It doesn't even do. I mean, it could do.

A different voice, you know, like and translate it and talk through everything I say, but in. That different language. At the same pace that I sort of talk.

Or if we go more advanced than that. In my voice. And that's something that I'd like as an app to do.

Because I do believe that I'd get a. A much larger audience. If I was able to have an app where people could listen. Just clone in my voice.

My voice is already cloned. I've got it cloned already, but I don't use it. Because it's so expensive.

But if there was a way of doing that, so my voice can be. You know, into any language. Or start off with 10 languages and build from there.

But just, you know, an app where people could listen to me from anywhere in the world, which they are anyway. And just have it automatically. Translate it.

Or dub it. Dubbing would be the word. Dubbing in my voice and translate it in their language.

Or your language if you're listening. And. I reckon.

There's potential. Potential of like an app. Being built professionally, having a bit of money invested into it to put it all together.

And it's not something I can do myself. But that looks like it could be quite a good thing, because I do these regularly. I'm going to continue to do them regularly as long as I can.

And just to be able to be available for everyone in their own language with my voice. Because apparently I've gone into chat GP. I talked about this to my best friend now.

And. I was querying why our people in other countries are listening. I mean, obviously, there's there's millions and millions of.

English speaking people around the world. You know, in other countries, just like this, there is here. There's so there's going to it might just be English people.

That have moved away, that are listening. But it might not be. And the other the other potential it could be is.

The even people that don't necessarily speak the language, my language. May benefit from. The tone from the.

The calmness. Potentially, so I don't know. I'd love to know the answer.

I'll be honest, I would. And I kind of shouted out saying, you know, if you're in Vietnam, can let me know. If you're in Bangladesh, if you're in.

Pakistan or, you know. It's just so I know that. It's like a shout out, really, just like it's an acknowledgement, I suppose.

And also a thank you for me for listening. Because without listeners, there'd be. Zero zero point in me making these recordings or spending all the time I do on.

Building the websites and all that stuff. Anyway, so thank you. And I should get on with the record and the.

Q&A Friday. Where is it? It's today. It's not it's not Friday today.

It's Thursday. Sorry, Q&A Friday is not happening. It's not Friday.

Friday is tomorrow. Wow. Can you believe it? I actually thought.

It was Friday today. What is going on? I tell you what's going on. Do you want to know? I'll tell you.

So. I had. Yeah, I went to a dentist the other day and I got given anti.

Oh, is it penicillin? You gave me penicillin. So this is a second day of taking penicillin. Was it the third day? Wednesday.

So Wednesday today. And it's given me. I don't know what the.

It's given me. I don't want to say she said a word, but it rhymes with by her ear. And.

I really I'm really feeling feeling sorry for the toilet at the moment. But. You know, I kind of like what would I prefer that or a toothache? So I'm going to go for that.

It's just a short term thing. I've got I think five days worth of tablets to take. And then I have to make an appointment and get the thing.

Extracted. To say distracted extracted. I just don't know if the person at the dentist has the strength to take it out.

Because I'm pretty sure she's the one that was there before. So I used to be at that dental surgery. And she couldn't get my tooth out.

She left part of it in the gum. And as you saw on the x-ray the other day, it's still in the gum. But it's not connected to the root.

So it's not an issue. But at the time she made a proper mess. It's like she just.

She couldn't physically do it. Now. I'm just for me, right? Don't don't do if you can't do the job.

Don't do the job. I don't I don't mean don't be a dentist, but if she's if she can't do extractions. From a like from a back to just get someone else to do it.

This is like a quite a big practice that they do all these kind of it's more cosmetic now than actual dentists. Because that's where the money is, isn't it? Getting people to spend 10 grand on teeth. White teeth.

False teeth or whatever you want to call them. So I. I'm a little bit concerned about going back to her to have the two taken out by her. Because I don't think she's got the because.

I wouldn't have thought it would take any physical energy, but it does. They literally do have to pull it out. You know, it's like I don't think she's got the strength.

Because I'm pretty sure it's the same ladies last time. And. I actually had to help her.

I actually like had to crack. No, I didn't. I was thinking it'd be easier just to get some gets if you got some string.

I can just tie it to the doorknob and you just slam the door. That'll be easier. It was ridiculous.

So I might have to go elsewhere and get her. Get a tooth out. Also be cheaper.

Yeah. Because she's saying she's saying I could be anything from 350 to 500 pound. And last time I got tooth extracted, which was two years ago.

The person charged me a hundred ninety. And that was with the exam beforehand and everything. So which is still way too much, but.

Anyway, so yes, it's kind of left me with a bit of a tum. A rummy tum. A runny tum.

And. It's. Can't go far away from their house.

Which brings up issues about the weekend birthday sort of celebrations at my dad's. Whether or not I'm going to be able to go because I won't be able to go out with this. This is still occurring.

This time tomorrow, I'm going to have to cancel going. And I know that you'll be upset. But.

What, what, what, what, what, what can I do? What, what, what, what, what can I do? I mean, genuinely. I can't. Yeah, this is one of those things.

But it's just bad timing. I didn't know that I was going to. You know, I'd had a toothache for a couple of weeks, but it was just on and off.

And I thought, no, I need to get it sorted. So, you know, I went on Tuesday. I thought they were going to just take it out because that's what they bloke on the phone said to me.

If you need treatment, we'll do it. But they didn't. So it's kind of.

Yeah. You know, I mean. It's one of those things.

So if I don't, if I don't go to my dad's birthday. He'll probably. Potentially disown me.

Which I don't know. Also, I don't want that to happen. Seems a little bit overboard, but it will be very.

I know that I'll be the. I'll be the black sheep of the family, as it were. I think I already am.

But, you know, they'll be all couldn't even turn up for his dad's 80th. You know. When, in fact.

It's not really that. I mean, I have to take him out for he's been out already today. And I wasn't I wasn't going far from home.

I was prepared to run back if I had to. Because. So I don't want to go to details, but, you know, sometimes.

And. When you need to do something. You kind of get this like a little alarm.

Okay, let's imagine it's a little alarm that says, hey. Probably going to need to do this thing soon. And.

Well, let's say, okay, you. You got to go to work and you got to be at work at nine. And, you know, you have to leave the house at half eight to get to work.

That's the latest you can get there to be at work on the dot. And so generally you're going to get up at half seven, which gives you enough time to have a shower. And have some breakfast.

And then leave at half eight on the dot. Ideally, twenty past eight, because then it gives you. So you're not, you know, gives you a little bit of space, a bit of time to just chill out without rushing around.

And you can get to work and not have to start straight away. So you set your alarm for half past seven in the morning. Now.

This alarm. Is like the alarm has been set for twenty five past eight. You know, as an example, I'm saying it's like twenty five, maybe twenty six minutes past eight.

And. I have to have a shower and get dressed and have my breakfast in three minutes. I'm trying to give an analogy just to give an example of the.

Finny's just moaning again. He's proper. He does that so much lately.

Do all dogs do that? I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know why.

Apparently, Justin Bieber got away with a lazy ten million Coachella set. As fans call out double standards. I don't know what is Coachella.

I don't know what it is. Anybody. Coachella.

Oh, this is interesting. Val Kilmer, Val Kilmer. AI replica debits.

In a first trailer for controversial movie. So. I was actually thinking about this the other day.

Well, early today, actually. It won't be long before, you know, like the episodes of Cheers or episodes of Frasier or episodes of Friends. That they can actually.

Make new episodes. Without the actual actors. Just using AI.

Write the scripts. Put together. Potentially hundreds of new episodes.

For people to enjoy watching. Because with some of those shows, which I find with. Frasier.

It's just there's kind of a nice feeling watching them. I'd quite like there to suddenly be another hundred. Frasier episodes.

That I've not seen before. And there's always kind of because it's character based. There's not a huge amount happens in them.

In the episodes. But it is kind of be like you had a whole idea of Seinfeld saying was the sitcom about nothing. But in a way most sitcoms kind of are about nothing and they like the good ones.

It's just like a day-to-day living. And. Yeah, there might be like something happening, but it's not.

Generally particularly. Exciting stuff. It's not an action movie, is it? You know, like with friends, they always said the one where Bob's hat falls on the floor.

The one where Phoebe farts. Yeah, farts in the bath or something, you know. It's because that's how all the titles were the one where the one this the one where this happens.

And I think Frasier could do the same kind of thing. You know, it's like maybe or maybe just come up with some new bloody dog out there. I've closed the window.

I don't know what else I can do close the window pulled the thing. Just trying to wait for the dog to stop barking, but it's. It's not.

I suppose that's a difference between. Dogs bark. But then if you wow, here's a question.

Would you have a tattoo on your forehead? I mean, I my answer is no. I mean this tattoo, I'd say it's more probably a transfer, but apparently it's supposed to be a tattoo. Oh, no, it was a transfer then turned into a tattoo.

I don't. I don't know. I mean, I suppose.

Oh, it wasn't a tattoo. I'm just I'm watching a thing on mute and just it's not a video on mute people, but it says it's a video on me. And this woman pretended to do a tattoo on her face while on a forehead.

And I think they were tattoos on faces used to be called job avoidance. Because there was a time in this country where pretty much unless you wanted to be a tattoo artist. You weren't going to get a job.

It's almost having a tattoo on your face stopped yourself being employed. And it's not the case anymore, but it used to be is I suppose there's always been some jobs like I suppose if you was working in a hairdresser. Tattoos on the face wouldn't be an issue.

If he was a pop artist or you know a singer. Yeah, I'm trying to think I mean, I worked in a call center and some bloke had tattoos on his face there. But then the customers couldn't see him.

I'm not sure how much insurance he would have sold if they could see him with all the earrings and he had those earrings it's stretchy ones. And his ears literally were on the floor. And they don't grow back, you know, they don't go back to normal.

I thought they would just go, you know, you wouldn't no one would do that unless it goes back to normal. I mean, is it a nice feeling? Having the ears being stretched because I understand it's it was a fashion. But I don't know my opinion was always what if rolling around in pig poo was fashionable.

I wouldn't do it. And that's that was my opinion around fashion like if something looks uncomfortable like walking around with trousers that are almost falling down or jeans are almost falling down. And I wouldn't feel safe to be able to defend myself if I needed to.

I mean, I can't run away anymore anyway, so I have to sort of stand there and protect myself. But if your trousers are falling down. It's just silly, isn't it? And Eminem has been wearing that stuff since what to 25 years.

So it used to be fashionable, but I still see people wearing stuff like that. And like since when does a fashion last 25 years? What's going on? So I would never wear that. I understand why maybe some of the young people do because they want to attract attention.

Maybe they want to, you know. Find someone that's going to. I don't know.

Get in. I don't know. The dog started barking again.

It gets you noticed, I suppose, isn't it? If I say young people, I mean people of all ages would be trying to get fashionable, but. It generally seems to start fairly young, doesn't it? With like tattoos and piercings and all that stuff. Why is the dog still barking? So now showing someone having their tattoos being lasered off.

Wow. My friend was really into tattoos proper. And.

Yes, not not really my thing. I got one tattoo on my right arm. And.

Yeah, I imagine I don't know. It's got to be. There is someone is there is a tattoo that I quite like.

And there's the lady. She's a model. I've seen just once or.

A few thousand times on Instagram and she's got a. A tattoo above her eyebrow. Now I'm not sure if it's the right eyebrow or the left eyebrow because. It's hard to know which.

Which. What kind of cameras being used if it's a back to front one or you know. But she's got this.

This tattoo above her eyebrow. That's quite nice. I quite like it.

I'm not sure she'd love it when she's in her 40s and 50s. I don't know. But then makeup can cover that stuff up anyway, can't it? I don't think I've ever really wanted to be like somebody.

In a sense of wanting to. I just realized that's absolutely that's not true. Yeah, I didn't even finish a sentence.

When I was 17. Or was I 18? I got my hair bleached and both of my eyes. Both of my ears pierced.

To look like bros. It was like the big group at the time. Like a little boy band.

I did not look like bros. And my hair was yellow wasn't blonde. It was yellow.

And so is my scalp and so is my ears. And so is my forehead. I think even my eyebrows were dyed they dripped down.

And my back of my neck. The ears I think they got this they got infected. So it wasn't a good look.

I looked very very silly. And. So basically as soon as I could.

I had to wait probably a few weeks. I shaved my head. As soon as I had the roots growing back out, you know, so maybe an inch or two.

Of my normal like dark hair. I shaved it all off. Got rid of the earrings.

And also because I went into a. My friend took me into a gay club was a gay pub it wasn't officially a gay pub. But it was the only nice pub in the town. Which is weird I don't know why it was the only nice place.

It was friendly it was bright. There was like a bar that was all the way around bit like Cheers. Cheers bar.

And the staff were nice. And every there was no arguments there's no people acting all tough nothing of that stuff. And I really liked it.

And my friend was. Introducing me to the bar manager. It turned out to be the owner.

And he invited us upstairs into his flat above the club. Afterwards. And.

He took some convincing. That I wasn't gay. He actually thought I was gay he thought that's why I got into that place.

My friend found it hilarious. But that's not why I went in there. I liked it because it was a good vibe.

I just went in there because my friend went in there. He said come on have a look at this it's nice in there. So it was friendly.

And it was I mean you know he invited us upstairs and. Had a few drinks and. Anyway I don't want to talk about that but no it was a nice bloke.

I just. I think he thought I was a bit of a tease. But I genuinely wasn't meaning to be.

Yeah I think that's the next day that I shaved it off. I shaved my hair off. Because.

Well basically. I wanted to kind of have a girlfriend. That was the main thing I wanted wasn't really about like anything else just.

If everyone thinks. That you're not into women then the women might not. Be into you.

I don't know what that means. I really don't. However.

It was definitely an unusual situation to be in. And. Ever since then I would have had a little bit of a. A liking for gay clubs.

And. And when I was in London. I used to frequent frequent I used to go into gay clubs in London.

And there's one in Stratford that I used to go into with Andre. And it was just nice atmosphere a little bit more. Because it wasn't just a gay pub that was secretly gay you know.

This was like full on gay gay nightclub. So. It was a little bit hardcore you know people dressed up and.

People dancing and some of the women. Gave me some weird looks. Because apparently you're not supposed to look at anyone.

Yeah I'm only allowed to look at the men if I'm in a gay club. So. That was a strange vibe with from the you know.

In some ways but it's still I quite liked it because it was not. There was it's not really aggressive and. Andre spent the whole night being chatted up by the bartender.

And he was getting free drinks all night. He was I wasn't he was. And then we left.

And the bar I'm not saying the bartender was crying but he was like. What do you mean you're going. So he really he just.

He was a tease. He was ever ever ever a tease. When I say Andre I'm not talking about my favourite.

That would make a very unusual. Yeah it changes the whole storyline doesn't it really. And.

There was another gay club around the corner. From the comedy club or two corners one just around the corner I used to go in there. That used to be open till about six in the morning.

The first the front part of it or the upstairs part of it was very much kind of like a cafe. With a bar. No a cafe I think maybe the bar was downstairs but it was very much like a cafe and.

A lot of the comedians used to go in there after the comedy club sort of closed. And just have a coffee or just have a drink or whatever. But.

I. I do I went. Yeah I met someone there once. I didn't meet her there I met her in the comedy club and then we went there after.

And. I think she fell in love with me. For a few hours.

Yeah that was weird because I remember I went to the toilet and I had a. Had a bad stomach. And I must have been in there for about half an hour and when I came out. I think she was so grateful that I hadn't just stood her up and left her.

That. Yeah she proposed and we got married. It was lovely.

So who else. Who else. Oh there's another gay club around the corner so turn left out of the club go down the end.

Turn right and cross over. Heading towards the. Er.

It was a eye hospital very famous eye hospital in London. Old like near old street tube station not far from there. Moorfields.

I think it's Moorfields Eye Hospital which is weird if I've got that right. Should I check it to see if it's a real place. See if I have.

I would say that's pretty impressive. That I would remember. Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Moorfields. Eye oh I just put in Moorfields and Eye Hospital came up. Hospital in Finsbury London.

Oh there's quite a few. That's interesting. There's quite a few different Moorfields.

Moorfields. Erm. Hmm.

So if I put in I'm sure it's not Finsbury Park that one so if I put in old street. Oh yep old street. Moorfields Eye Hospital 162 City Road.

London EC1V2PD. And if it goes for directions. So if you drive in.

Drive in drive in drive in. Drive in along in your big fat car. Erm.

Moorfields Old Street well yep. So you got it Old Street round about. Odd isn't Argos in Old Street didn't know it didn't used to be I don't think.

And it's just up the road Moorfields Eye Hospital. I'm pretty sure City University is up that direction. So if I go from City University.

City University which I used to go to. For a while. City University.

It is just up the road. Wow. OK it's not just up the road but it's er.

If you look at Old Street. Where's Old Street? I was just 7 minutes in a car. So it's pretty pretty close.

Erm I probably would have walked it so maybe 40 minutes. I never went to Moores Eye Hospital Moorfields Eye Hospital. But I did used to go to City University.

To Shoreditch. If I go to Shoreditch. Shoreditch London.

City University. City University. So if I go Shoreditch.

Highs. OK I've got another idea. Here we go.

Walking down the street. Right here we go. Here we go.

Right. According to this 13 minutes. Via E15? No.

That doesn't make sense. It's not Hoxton but it is Hoxton but. Maybe I used to get a bus then.

I'm sure I used to walk. Walk to City University to the Comedy Club. This was back in 1998.

Because I was doing an evening course on NLP. Ah. So it's 11 minutes.

It's 1 mile. So it's 11 minutes in a car. 1 mile.

Erm. It wouldn't take 11 minutes. A 1 mile wouldn't take 11 minutes would it? Maybe.

I'm just thinking 30 miles an hour. Means you get to 30 miles an hour. But if you're going 1 mile in 11 minutes.

You're basically going 6 miles an hour. Less than 6 miles an hour. Which maybe is what you would do.

In that part of London. You wouldn't get you know. Yeah you probably wouldn't be able to get any kind of speed up.

So I walked it. Probably took me about half an hour to walk it. It's just one road.

One single road. Yeah. City University of London.

Yep. I'd like to go back to University. I think.

I'd also like to go on a cruise. Hmm. Hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Why was I talking about that? Anyone? Anyone got any ideas? Oh yeah tattoos. No gay clubs. So yeah the next gay club I went to was.

In. Yeah turn left. Out of the comedy club.

Go to the end. And yeah so go up. A little bit.

And. That was. That was OK.

It was bigger. It was the biggest one I've been in I would say. Or maybe about the same size as the one in Stratford.

Maybe a bit bigger. But it was nice. Good atmosphere.

And I used to go there with people from the. From like staff from the club. From the comedy club.

And. Because quite a few of the staff there were gay. So I. At one time.

So used to go in there and. Yeah it was quite. Quite good.

I think they used to play like 80s and 90s. 80s music yeah. Because it was the 90s.

Bear in mind so I was going to say they. They couldn't have been playing 2000s music. Could they? I wish I could say a sentence.

Without mumbling. Mumbling. Trying to think.

In the last town that I used to live. There is a gay pub. And I didn't know it was a gay pub.

Until I went in there. And. I'm not.

I'm not saying everyone would stand around wearing leather and. Chains and stuff. It wasn't that kind of thing.

It's a pub. And it wasn't an official. Anything it was just a pub.

But that's where. It was kind of well known to be somewhere where gay people would go. And meet up.

And I think the landlord was gay and you know. That's like cool. And I went in there and it's like.

What was weird is normally. If I go into a pub. I'm left alone.

I haven't been in a pub for years. But you know in the old days. I'd go into a pub and I'd just have a. I'd like pretty much just be on my own.

For a couple of hours. If I was on my own. Very.

Well I generally wouldn't have anyone walk up to me. Yeah. I don't think I've ever had a woman.

Come and sit down. Next to me or opposite me. Ever.

My whole life. I've been in a pub. So I might come and ask.

Can I take the chair. And I'll say yeah. But only the one that I'm not sitting in.

We always laugh at that one. And. But on this occasion.

I suddenly had like. A bunch of men sitting around me. One sitting opposite me.

Two sitting next to me. Chatting. And I'm like.

It's quite nice. But at the same time. I was just wondering.

I don't like to feel like a tease. You know I mean. Like I'm just a piece of meat.

I don't. I want to be respected. So yeah.

I went in there a couple of times. And. I was looking for somewhere new to drink.

That was kind of on my way home from work. This was like in my last place where I lived and worked. And I thought.

I'm not going to meet any women here am I. Not that I was expecting to. But there's one thing between. You know like.

Not meeting a female. Just because you know. This just this doesn't happen.

But if you go into a gay club. Or gay pub. The chances of meeting a woman full stop.

That wants to kind of get to know me. And be and marry me. And that is.

It's less likely. Less likely. Mind you.

I go into. I used to go to gay clubs and I wasn't gay. So I'm pretty sure.

There's other women who go into gay clubs. And they weren't gay. In fact I met a few.

When I was in London that is. Not here. Not sort of since I moved away.

I remember once in London. I was in the club. This lady was talking to me.

I was just clearing up behind the bar. And we closed. And she was.

I think she was with someone. She was friends with one of the waitresses. Or something.

And the waitress said to me. I wouldn't bother chatting her up. She's gay.

She's in a relationship. She's got no interest in men. Never been with a man.

She's gay. And I thought okay. But then I thought.

Why is she flirting with me then. Ten minutes later. She grabbed me.

And pulled me into the toilet. And she was kissing me. So.

You know. I don't know. I just take things as they come.

Apparently. You know. She got married a couple of weeks later.

To her girlfriend. And. Maybe she was having doubts.

And I corrected those doubts. Maybe like. Well maybe I could like a man.

And then she realised. No. I could never be with one of them.

Those horrible things. No. But she literally grabbed me.

In fact. I felt very used. Very used indeed.

I nearly met a woman. In a pub that I used to go to regularly. When I was living.

In the other town. And I was. I got on really well with the landlord.

And the landlady. Because I was in there. Pretty much every day.

After work. Or the weekends. I'd go in there.

Have four or five pints and go home. I'd just sit on my own. Listen to music.

Maybe read the paper. I spent a bit too much time in there. To be fair.

But I just didn't want to. I just wanted to be. Yeah.

That's what I was doing at the time. And. The lady in the bar.

So this is about 2006. Yes. Definitely 2006.

2007. The lady in the bar. The landlady.

She was Russian. So she was married to the landlady. The landlord.

And she was Russian. And you think. What's that got to do with anything? Well it has.

If you listen to the story. This is just the precursor. The.

You know it's like. What does it matter where she comes from? Can't you just accept people for who they are? It's not about that. I'm not going to say anything bad about her.

Like. This is. It's part of the story.

God. Anyway. She's Russian.

And I got on really well with her and him. And I used to speak to them both. Separately like.

Have long conversations with them. I suppose I got on better with her than him. But I've always gotten better with women.

Anyway. But I also got on well with him. He was a good bloke.

So. I go in there one day. I'm sitting there.

And. She's got these two Russian. Young women with her.

That she's brought over. And. They're staying with her.

But they're I mean one. She literally. She started talking to me.

She sat down on a different table. And started talking to me and she was you know. I found her to be very in chart.

Enchanting. Should we say. Massive.

And I just thought. Just. She seemed nice.

But then she started asking me questions like. Do I own my own house? Have I got any money? Have I got a good job? How much do I earn? And I thought. This probably isn't the one for me.

Bearing in mind at the time I was working part time. So the money I was earning was probably. Wasn't a lot.

It was not a lot. I mean. Yeah was.

I don't know 150 pound a week. Something like that. So.

And I thought it's such a shame. Because. You know she just only got into the country.

She might actually think that I'm normal. If I'm the only human. Like in.

If I'm the only English person she's ever met. Apart from her. Her.

Friend's husband. Because he used to go to Russia like once a year. But she might think that I'm kind of like.

How English people are. And she might be thinking. It's normal.

I'm a normal person. And. You know is she.

If we just dated. She might like me. But she was.

It's almost like she was planning. For her husband. And it's.

You know. If you're in a supermarket. Buying toilet paper.

You're not thinking about using the toilet paper are you. When you're buying it. Well I can't wait to get home.

And use this. Just like. You know.

And it seemed. I guess there's nothing like that. It's not a good analogy.

But. You buy some peanut butter. And you're thinking I can't wait to.

Spread this all over. Maybe that's not a good analogy either. Ah.

It just seems. A bit. Forward thinking.

A bit too far ahead. A little bit. I mean.

I immediately didn't like her. Because of that. Just I didn't really take to her.

It's like. How much do you earn. Have you got a job.

Have you got your own house. Have you got a car. And I was like no to all of those things.

I'm a free spirit man. I'm a free spirit and I've just. I'm young at heart.

And I'm just trying to just. Well I was young. You know I was only 30.

35 then. I'm just. I'm just trying to be groovy.

And I don't think she understood what that meant. I suppose I could have offered to buy her a drink. Couldn't I. That would have been a start.

Maybe she. If she. If I open my wallet up.

And she saw that I had like 30 pound. Maybe she'd think that I was rich. I don't know.

I mean it depends what she's come from. Like she might have lived in a lovely place. But if she lived.

In a really. If she had a really good lifestyle. Chances are she wouldn't want to come here.

And. Be concerned about someone having a house. And a car.

And wanting to get married. That stuff wouldn't be important probably. Maybe.

She's got her own stuff. But if she's not living. If she wasn't living in a good lifestyle.

And she wasn't happy. And. Then surely.

My lifestyle would be quite. I mean as it is now. Yeah.

I got my own flat. Got my own home. Kind of.

It's not mine but it's. It's a council. Got a little doggy.

I didn't. You know this is back then. But.

I mean it's because it's a little while ago isn't it. If I phone them up. Phone up the pub.

Say hi. It's Jason. Who? Jason.

Who? I said oh I used to drink in there. I used to be a regular. When was that? Oh 2007.

What? 19 years ago. No but that's not the year I'm thinking about. I'm talking about 2006.

So 20 years ago. You want to talk about something that happened 20 years ago. Yeah.

You had. A couple of. Females that you bought back from.

Russia. And one of them was blonde. And I didn't see the other one.

Because she was hiding. And. I'm just wondering if did they get married.

Who is this? It's Jason. 2006. I wasn't even working in 2006.

Oh. Yeah. The pub got handed over.

In. 2009. December.

So who. We talk like German. Russian people.

I said I didn't mention German people. But Russian yeah. A couple of Russian.

It was run by a Russian lady. And her husband. Who is this? Oh forget it.

So you don't know what happened to them then? How would I know what happened to them? I'm just asking. I mean. I don't need to be rude.

Well I'm not being rude. But you just. Phoned me up out of nowhere.

Talking about. Being a regular drinker here. 20 years ago.

20 years ago. Do you know how old I was 20 years ago? No. 13.

I was 13 years old 20 years ago. I said. What's that got to do with anything? She said.

I'm just saying it's a long time ago. So you're 33 now. She said.

I'm 32 but I'm nearly 33. So you weren't. 13.

20 years ago. She said I was roughly 13. Does it matter if it's correct or not? I said.

No not really. But you know if you're going to like make an argument. You might as well just.

Be truthful. But to be fair. I don't really know what the argument was.

Saying how old you were 20 years ago. Do you know how old I was 20 years ago? No. Why not? Why would I want to know how old you were 20 years ago? I don't even know who you are.

You're just a voice on a phone. Phone. I wonder.

If I did turn up. And they were still there. They might still be there.

They'd remember me. I think they'd remember me. They'd remember me.

That's something I. I struggle with. How people can't remember me. It's almost like I don't leave an impression.

And. Bearing in mind I was in there. A lot.

For you know a good two or three years. And. I remember them.

I mean they're going to be of course their age now. As we all have but. Will they remember me.

Is the pub still there or is it now an office block. Or a block of flats. Or a shop.

It was never that busy in there you know. Wasn't the busiest pub. So.

It was on like a little bit. It was further up my road. Nearer to the.

End of the road which then turned off to lead to town. But it was like an estate. Which is a little bit rough.

So it was like the rough. A little bit. A little bit rough.

So it was like a rough estates pub. So I used to go in there and. I got my jacket stolen once.

Next day they handed it back. I said you handed it back because you. Because you realize who it was and you're scared.

And he said no I just didn't realize. How little it was worth. Here's your wallet as well.

Hmm. Bit rude. I was one funny bit.

There was a car outside in the car park out the back. And had been in there. Been there for weeks.

And. He. Basically they got.

There was a few of them. The landlord and a few of the local drinkers. Were out there.

Deciding what to do with it. So someone said why don't we break in and have a look. Maybe it's got some ID in there.

And we find out whose it is. And some lad there. He's got a. He had a tag on his ankle.

He said I'll do it. But it got me quick. Because I've got to be in by five.

He was proud of the tag. He was always. Like he's have his.

He'd have his leg rolled up. Not his leg rolled up. But he's like his trousers rolled up.

So one could see the tag. Very proud of it. I guess it was like a degree certificate for him.

Degree diploma. And. What he did he got a rock.

Always a brick half a brick. So anyway. He chucked it at the side window.

Bounced back and hit him in the face. Knocked him out. Yeah.

I mean that was a sad funeral. But other than that was interesting. No.

He'd come back. He wasn't injured. But.

It was like because he was only. He couldn't have been more injured. He was more than.

Three foot away from the door. From the window. And he just like.

Personally if I was going to chuck. A brick for a window. I would do it from a distance.

Because first of all it's going to gain some speed. Secondly. It's not going to bounce back and hit me.

And fourthly. Ideally I would hide. So.

I'd get out of the way. But he did it. And it bounced and it hit him back in the face.

And he's like on the floor. And everyone was just laughing. And.

I said perhaps we. Check if he's OK. And he got up.

Oh what happened. And he got up again. He was going to do it again.

No no just. Maybe you should let someone else do it. I think someone else came along.

And said oh wait a minute. That's my car. And he just left it there.

Because he lives across the road. He just drove there one day. And he just didn't bother taking it home.

I added that at the end. It's not true. It might be true.

It might not be. I don't know. Bless.

I used to quite like the solitude. Because I. They would be in the. The nice part of the pub.

I'd be in the part was just. Tables and chairs. And I'd just sit at a table.

For hours. Listen to the music and stuff. But they'd be in the.

The nice part. Sitting around talking and. Occasionally I'd sit at the bar.

Everyone knew me. Because they all had to walk past me to get to the toilet. So I was like a face.

Not a face. I was known. Like.

So people used to say hello to me and stuff. Because I was there. I seemed to be there all the time.

Although I wasn't really. Yeah. And when I moved out of there.

And I moved to this town. Not here. But to the local.

The overall town. In November 2007. I actually moved.

To a place that lived opposite a pub. There was literally a pub across the road. It wasn't even a road.

It was more of a dirt track. That led from one road to another. And the pub was there on its own.

By standing alone. You know. With a bit of greens and like.

Swings and stuff for kids and. A couple of tables at the front. Two parts of the bar.

It wasn't a big pub. But it was you know. It's definitely.

Yeah it's fairly busy. And apparently my landlord. One day he got so drunk.

He ordered a taxi. To drive him from the pub. To his.

To his house. Which was literally across the road. It was.

I reckon from that pub. One, two, three, four. Fifteen steps.

I would say probably. Fifteen steps to get to the front gate. From the pub.

He actually ordered a. Ordered a taxi to take him. It was quite funny. Yeah.

I used to take my coursework in there. And. You know.

Do some paperwork and do some. College stuff. On a Saturday or.

Yeah Saturday afternoon. So that was alright. Just.

The only time it was really busy in that part of the pub. Like the. Where the tables were.

Because again I kept out of the. The old timers were kind of in my part. And all the young people.

Were in the other part. Even though at that time I was fairly young. I was only thirty.

Was I thirty seven. But I just stayed in the older part. And.

They'd mix between. But. Most of the people in my part would be around the bar.

Maybe a couple of tables. So I'd have a. The furthest away table from the bar. And I'd be there and.

I'd go up and I'd just buy my landlord and landlady a drink. If they were there. Which they were.

At weekends and that. And. It did actually.

The landlord offered me a job. As behind the bar. On a. It was just like obviously part time.

Because I was still at university. So he said. Yeah yeah.

So. I think this was. Saturday night.

And the landlady. The landlord said. Well you can have a job here if you want.

I said really. He said how are you behind the bar. And I said.

I lied I said yeah. I had a couple of bar jobs. So that wasn't a lie.

But he didn't want to know. He wanted to know if I was any good. And I was never any good at that job.

So he said come around see if you can pour a pint. Which I can. I've poured thousands.

And. He was impressed with that. I said do you want me to do a. Do you want me to.

Make it go fuzzier. He said OK. Because the beer was a little bit flat.

So like I've got another glass and. Scraped it around the rim. And then just tapped it.

Which made it go fizzy. A little trick I learned when I was. 18.

And. He wasn't as impressed as I thought he would be. And I said how did I get on.

He said it's good. I said anything you know. He said I need to come back tomorrow.

For lunchtime. Because they used to do Sunday lunches. It was very busy.

Very busy on a Sunday. And I said was there anything. I mean.

Can I come as I am. I mean I don't have to wear a uniform or anything do I. He said no but. Tomorrow is there any chance you can.

When you come in you can wear some trousers. I said okay. He said yeah.

It's pretty unhygienic walking around. Without anything on. I said okay.

He said the foods you know. Pubes and a Sunday lunch. It's not a good mix.

I said okay. I heard you the first time. He said oy.

Watch your attitude baby. I had to melt when he said that. I had a little cuddle.

So. In the morning. Sunday morning.

I had to be in there about 10 o'clock. I woke up about 8. And I didn't want to go in. I really didn't want to go in.

I didn't want to work beyond the bar. I really didn't want to work beyond the bar. So anyway I phoned in ill.

On my very first day. Now you might think that was quite cheeky. Which it was.

But I couldn't face doing it. Sunday. Probably about.

7 o'clock. I went in there for a drink. And.

My landlord. The landlady. Their friends.

I think my landlord's son was there. His daughter. The landlord.

My landlord. The landlord of the pub rather. My landlord where I lived.

The landlord of the pub was standing behind the bar. And they all looked at me. And I sat down and said.

Pint a lager please. And they couldn't believe. That I just.

Turned up. Walked in the pub. And acted like everything was normal when I phoned in ill.

A few hours earlier. For my very first day of work. And.

They just started laughing. Like they just like. The cheek.

Kind of the cheek of you. But at the same time. I was a good customer.

Because I was in there fairly regularly. And I'd always buy the landlord. My landlord a drink.

But I'd buy the pub landlord a drink. So he knew. That I was a good customer.

So. He didn't give me a hard time. He gave me a little of a hard time.

When I said. When's the next shift. When do you want me to work next.

And he like looked at me. So I thought okay. I better get out of here.

Before he explodes. But yeah we never talked about it. Well I never talked about it again.

But it was brought up. When everyone was really drunk. Like do you remember that.

Remember that Sunday. When you were supposed to come in. To work.

And the pub was short staffed. And we all had to wait for hours. For our Sunday dinners to come out.

Because there wasn't enough staff to serve the drinks. And you just turn up. You phone in there.

And you just turn up at 7. Rolled in. I was wearing roller skates I suppose. That was the correct term.

Rolled in on your roller skates. And sat down. And just asked for a pint.

Calmly like nothing. A little bit like Clint Eastwood. But without the cigar.

There's nothing like Clint Eastwood. Really. I'm going to get a pint.

A pint. That's my impression of Clint Eastwood. I'm going to get a pint punk.

You want to give me a pint. I'll make my day. Yeah.

What's Clint Eastwood remembered for most do you think? Dirty Harry or The man with no name. From the westerns. But he did also play Every bit way but loose.

The character there twice. So he's played the same character twice. Three times.

That I can think of. Is there any other movies that he was in That he was in a lot? Dirty Harry was the biggest one wasn't it I think. Hmm.

Anyway on that note I'm going to go I'm going to take the little one out for a walk. There was a time when I'd say the word walk And he'd look at me. Now he's just ignoring me.

So I'm going to go Thank you for listening. Tomorrow is Q&A Friday. So thanks 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.