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#356 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (22nd March 2020)

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Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I don't know what that noise was.

It's my table squeaking. Or the chair is. I don't tell them the chair's about to collapse underneath me.

It might be. I hope not. Strange.

So what I thought I would do today is a couple of things. I'm going to keep it light hearted. I do generally keep things light hearted if I can.

And I wanted to say a few thank you's to... I got a message. Rachel says, I keep trying to listen to your podcast and then I fall asleep and miss them. Well, it's kind of the point.

It's kind of the point. Kind of the point, you know, I suppose. I had my internet was going slow earlier.

And Netflix was basically standing still. Just wasn't working. It was working on my telly, on my phone rather, but it wasn't working on the telly.

So I don't know quite what was going on. There was obviously a Netflix issue and eventually it came back to life after probably the whole day really. It wasn't working the whole day until this evening or a few hours ago.

And apparently Netflix has reduced their bandwidth availability to the UK. Something like that. So they're no longer providing HD.

Why do we need HD anyway? I can imagine, I can see why if you've got like a huge massive television that's like a thousand foot long, you probably would need high definition because otherwise it wouldn't look great. But, and I never thought I'd ever say this out loud, mine's only 36 inches long. Only.

So yeah, I've got a 36 inch one. It's not, it's not huge, but even with a 50 inch or 60 inch, I wouldn't need, I don't think I'd need high definition. But then I've never had high definition, so I guess I don't really know whether or not it would be useful or not.

I don't know. So I'm just, I'm looking online and I, I have to make my podcasts a coronavirus free zone. You know, the, let me bore you to sleep.

So I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff. How can you do it? And if you want to listen or read about that stuff, you probably, if you really try hard enough, you might be able to find a TV station or a radio station or, you know, a Facebook post or Twitter post that may mention that particular subject. Possibly, you might have to search for quite some time, but you may be able to get an update on it.

It's there, but not here, but we'll give you an update on something else. It's, oh, excuse me. I suppose it's useful, you know, with the, we're getting quite a few stats these days, aren't we? Stats, statistics.

I know not everyone's a fan of statistics. But it might be worth remembering. Oh, that's interesting.

What does it make sense? Oh, yeah. We have a population growth so far this year of over 18 million in the world. Population growth, that's taken into considering the births and the deaths.

Population growth of 18 million so far in less than three months. Today, in the last hour and 45 minutes, we've had over 28,000 births. And so the population's growing by over 16,000 just in the last hour and a half.

And the reason I mention this is because I think it's kind of useful to remember that the population's still going up constantly, which is, I find quite fascinating. There's a website that actually keeps a track of all of the stuff going on in the world. All the births, deaths, population growth by country, you know.

Because I live in the 21st biggest country population-wise, and one of the smallest countries worldwide, landmass-wise. So the biggest population is China. And let's have a quick look.

Let's look at the... Oh, actually, this will be interesting. So the population... Okay. The population is... All right.

Population growth did slow down in China in the sixth... Oh, no. It slowed down in the 60s. Then it went up in about 70.

Then it went down again. Then it was a big 90. There was a bit of a jump.

So the population is still going down, but it's still going up. So that's the rise. Yearly population rate is going down.

But the China population is going up as we speak. So they've got 1,437,893,295,296. So yeah, it's going up pretty much every second another baby is born in China.

Or the population is going up. So that takes into consideration the births and the deaths. So one population goes up by one about every second.

So, yeah, in 2000, the population was 1,439,323... 1,439,323,776. And it's now 1,000,000,000... Was it 2000? Oh, no, it's 2020 now. Last year.

So it's 33,4,5,6,7,8,9. It's gone up by about 6,000,000,000 since last year. Yeah, that's it.

4,39. Okay. So Shanghai has got the biggest population at 22,000,000.

Huawei is Huawei. Tiananmen? No, Tiananmen? Tangstan? I'm not going to try and pronounce them. But India has the second biggest country.

So no one can moan and say, well, you're talking about stats again. Yeah, but they're not my stats. It's not my stats, not my stats.

So India's population has gone up from 1,366,000,000 to 1,380,000,000. Since last year, which is pretty, pretty... It's growth, isn't it? And they're currently got 1,376,264,972,73,74,75,76. So it's growing.

It's growing. And that's the population growth. It's not just the babies born.

It's actually the population growth, including everything. USA is the third biggest country. There's one hell of a difference.

There's a big drop in population between the first two and the third. It's 330,470,113 in the United States. And it's gone up by about just over 2,000,000 since last year.

So the population, yearly population growth by percentage is still going down. Just generally, there was a big spike in 1998. In 1998, a big spike, a growth of 1.27%. And the spike before that was 1956, 1.76%. But it's basically going down.

But it's run down space, I suppose. So that's the United States. So that's got a big population.

So the other countries, Indonesia is number four, 272,000,000. Pakistan, 219,000,000 and a few thousand. Brazil, 212,000,000.

Nigeria, 204,000,000. Bangladesh, 164,000,000. Russia, 145,000,000.

Mexico, 128,000,000. Japan, 126,000,000. Ethiopia, 114,000,000.

Philippines, 109,000,000. Egypt, 101,000,000. Vietnam, 97,000,000.

Dr. Congo, 88,000,000. Turkey, 84,000,000. Germany, I didn't think Germany was very big.

Blimey, it's quite big, isn't it? 83,000,000. Wow, surprised they're not more of a military force, you know, for that amount of people. They could take over Europe.

Iran, 83,000,000. Thailand, 69,000,000. Now we, UK, are the 21st country, at least we was last time I looked.

Yes, we are. 67.8,000,000. France, 65,000,000. Italy, 60,000,000.

Tanzania, 59,000,000. I've got no idea where Tanzania is. Sounds like so, doesn't it? Sounds a bit like tangerine.

Tanzania, Tanzania. I've got no idea. South Africa, 59,000,000.

So look at the size we've got. So we're above all these countries. France, I'm sure it's got an interesting density.

Land area. Okay, land area. Let's have a look at land area.

Come on. Land area. What are you doing? Oh, okay.

Yeah, I've got it. I've got it. I've got it.

So let's see where we're at. See all countries by land area. Kilometers, whatever that is.

Where is Unite Ireland? 180. Our land area is kilometers, 260 miles, 650, I think. 260 miles.

I know people listening to this probably travel further than that just to go to work. Blimey, 260 miles. I can't be right, surely.

Yeah. No, it's not. Land area, kilometers.

241.930 miles. It's not that small, that square kilometers. Germany's not very big either.

348 miles, 5560. I thought Germany was huge. Oh, not that small then, really.

United Kingdom to France, 547 square mile. Italy, 294 square mile. Tanzania, who no one's ever heard of, 885 square mile.

South Africa, 1,213,000. No, 1,213 square mile. Colombia, 1,109.

I don't know what I'm reading there. I'm not sure. Let's look at the median age of the countries.

In China, it's 38. Italy's 47. The UK is 1.0. The UK is 40.

So it's kind of the average age of the population is 40. But Dr. Hongo, it's 17. Egypt, 25.

That's a young country, isn't it? Tanzania, 18. Uganda, 17. Wow.

Sudan, 20. Algeria, 29. Dominican Republic, 28.

South Sudan, 19. Cuba, 42. Haiti, 24.

Where's Russia? Russia is 40. Nigeria's 18. India's 28.

United States is 38. So United Kingdom, 40 being the average age. Not sure if that's true or not.

Here's a story for you. Breastfeeding baby's face covered in mum's fake tan. Five-month-old Raf looks like his face is covered in chocolate after being breastfed by his mum.

Here's a picture. A new mum says her son was left looking like Homer Simpson when she breastfed him and forgot that she was covered in fake tan. Here's a picture of a woman.

Josiah Kozowiek, 20, was getting ready to go out with her meal with her boyfriend, Jane Smith, 21. Lucky man. When five-month-old Raf needed feeding, she said she went into autopilot and started feeding them without realising she was... Why have fake tan on your bosoms? Oh dear.

The thing is, the picture of the kid, the little boy, looks very happy. I mean, why wouldn't he be? But he just looks happy enough. That wasn't as fun as I thought it was going to be.

They got the picture in the paper, so that's probably the main thing. To be fair, it probably was really funny. I use baby oil and baby wipes and he looks shiny and clean after.

Fortunately, Bondi Sand's tan is really good for your skin. Is it though? But is it good for our eyes to see it? He said it took a solid hour to get the tan off his face properly. Well, I wonder why people tan.

Why, anyone? Why do people fake tan? Just the word fake would be enough to not do it, surely. I don't know. I don't know why.

I actually, I went in the solarium once. I was about 16, 17. And it was my local gym.

I used to go in there a few times a week. And they had a solarium, like a new thing. And I thought, oh.

And they said, what does that mean? I said, well, no, I'm just going there. That's interesting. He said, well, you can have a go if you want.

It's only 50 pence. So I sat in there and I gave myself a sunstroke. Really, I was just, I didn't know, I thought it's like being out in the sun.

You sit out there for like half an hour one side, half an hour the other side, instead of being like five or ten minutes. Never been in one since. Admittedly, it wasn't the best story I've ever been told.

But, uh, hey, hey, hey. By the way, does anybody want to buy a toilet roll? Only a hundred pounds. A hundred pounds.

Or $94. Come on, just let me know and I'll send it to you. $94 for a toilet roll.

There's got to be some other funny stuff online, surely. Come on, give me some funny stories, baby boy. Come on.

Someone's going online looking for some stuff that might be mildly amusing. It says here guilt-ridden people wish they hadn't wasted loo rolls decorating Christmas trees. Why would anyone use a loo roll to decorate a Christmas tree? You might as well not have a Christmas tree if you're going to put bog roll on it, surely.

Hi, uh, okay, just going to look through. Apparently, people are putting Christmas lights up to spread positivity. They're not doing it around here, so I don't know if it's, uh, I don't know whereabouts in the country.

And to be fair, this is in the mirror, so it might not actually be happening at all, but they decided they want people to start doing it. So they're telling people and their readers that people are doing it so that they'll just follow and do it. Therefore, they've kind of started a trend.

I'm not being cynical, but you know. Ah, just looking, I wish, uh, this looks like it might be slightly, uh, hilarious. The pop-ups that come on these websites.

Okay, a woman goes to a spa. This is the most embarrassing moment of her life. She went to a spa in Germany with her boyfriend.

They were quickly told that the sites were always meant that while swimming suits were allowed in the pool, in a sauna you had to be naked. I imagine that's what I would tell customers if I worked there. So she went to get undressed and grabbed a towel on the way to meet her boyfriend in the sauna.

All fine so far, he says, but she ended up going in through the wrong door and finding herself locked in the fire escape area, which is a tiny towel to cover her dignity. Cover her dignity. But that's not even the worst part.

In an attempt to get a passer-by's attention, she banged on the door and yelled for help, but it was of no use. And then she's got this in explanation marks. Fully crying, I run downstairs trying to work out which part of me I should cover with the little towel.

So she's using the word little, not little. I don't think I've ever met anyone who uses the word little towel. And then it goes my face, a single buttock.

After another failed attempt on the floor below, she reached the ground floor and found an open door into a terrifying machine room with massive fans and pumps and electrocution symbols on everything. And they've got a picture of an empty sauna. That's for the mirror-readers so they know what a sauna is.

She said, Friends, there's nothing quite like running naked and crying around in an industrial machine room. I spot a service lift. Out of sheer panic, I run into the lift, covering each boob in turn, mashing the buttons.

She notices a security camera in the lift and is torn between, I don't want anyone to see this and I really, really want someone to see this and rescue me. Right, they haven't spelt really, R-E-A-L-L-Y, it's R-L-L-Y, R-L-L-Y, really, really. So that's, that's a new kind of, and it's just saying she doesn't speak German, so it's not a German word.

Finally, a German man starts speaking on the loudspeaker, which since she doesn't speak German, she assumes he's saying the naked girl in the fire scope, please stop mashing the buttons. Bet that's not what he was saying. He's probably shouting to his friends, you gotta see this.

When the lift doors eventually open, a spa employee, which she describes as the most dressed man to, the most dressed man to ever be wearing clothes. When the lift doors eventually open, a spa employee, which he describes as the most dressed man to ever be wearing clothes, is standing there with no towel, no towel in his hands. She starts following him through the fire escape passage, but realises the only way to get back to the spa is to leave the building, walk down the street, around the corner, through the reception where a queue of people wait.

At this point she's crying hysterically and cowering at the side of the pavement. I now have an out-of-body experience, a shame blackout, I have reached my max, I go fully through embarrassment out the other side, time slows down, I can hear music off the spheres. I don't know what that means.

With nothing to lose, she drops the washcloth, puts her shoulders back, her head high and follows her saviour down the street whilst ignoring the people staring and pointing. I am transcendent with shame, untouchable, she says. When she reaches the reception, it's busy, so busy in fact that the employee has to yell at people so she can get through the crowd.

As she waits at the reception desk for him to explain the situation, she assumes an elderly lady, an elderly lady hands her a lobster-shaped pool float to cover her modesty. She continued, ah this is a this is a classic line, the receptionist asks me for my ID, I'm wearing only a lobster, where friends would I keep my... Wow, it's a naughty word, I didn't know the mirror, I suppose it's the website, they don't normally swear in the newspaper. When she finally found a boyfriend in the cafe, she was relieved and went to him sobbing, but instead of asking if she was okay, he was grumpy because he'd been left waiting for an hour.

Now let's see what comments. Blade6971 or 6791 says shame, shame, shame. Seal6 says hope she's shaved.

Tracy G, ha I thought of that too. Pedro83, typical boyfriend reply, dash dash, ha ha ha. And Gypsy101, why all the fuss, Germans would bat an eyelid at her being naked at a spa.

Apparently that got the most thumbs up. So yeah, I guess that was the whole story. I kind of, I don't know what she looked like, when I'm going, this is, I was thinking the person that found her in the back of the resort, why didn't he give her something to wear off of his own clothes.

And, but they don't have a picture of her, so she might have been a different size to the man. They're not even putting a picture of her on there, they're just using stock images from Getty. They're not even trying to stick it together, like in one picture she's got dark curly hair, another picture she's got straight hair, and even more, another picture she's got blonde hair.

Completely different people. How about some consistency, huh? Wow, so I was distracted by a picture. I've moved on, I've moved on, I'm back, I am back.

Hmm, okay let's have a look at this one, see if it's, I'm just having a look, see what this one is. So Aldi is restricting all items in stores to four per item, but it seems that some parents from Australia have found a way to hack the system. So let's see what they are.

To get past the rule, parents were getting their children to line up and buy toilet paper on their own, and it wasn't long before Australian Aldi shoppers caught on with the sneaky act. Unsurprisingly, people are furious. These people are greedy and selfish.

Another shopper who saw it happen in claims, she called them out saying, that's un-Australian, there'll be nothing left. Un-Australian. I mean, I'd go as far as to say it wasn't Australian or un-Australian.

I don't think buying toilet rolls really has anything to do with being an Australian. Just, just, just guessing. Oh dear.

I thought it was going to be an interesting story, but it wasn't. Um, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Stubborn Grime. Well this is interesting, because I've got that online.

Let's see if this works. If you think you're the only one who can't seem to make the draining board sparkle, you'd be wrong. Okay, I thought I was the only one, but apparently I'm wrong.

Okay, tell me more. It's not uncommon, uncommon, uncommon, uncommon, for your draining board to look dull and watermarked after some time. No matter how often you clean it, I actually inherited a draining board that looked like that.

Just looks a bit manky. Nothing I can do. But before you go to drastic measures, well that's what I thought until I saw this.

Maybe there is something I can do. But before you go to drastic measures to revamp your sink, one woman claims she's found a way to make it look good as new. And the best part is you don't have to go out and spend a fortune on cleaning supplies either, since you probably have everything you need at home already.

So all you need is two bottles of hand disinfectant and 45 toilet rolls and you can get the cleanest draining board. Sophie Darragh posted before and after pictures to the Facebook group Hinch Army Cleaning Tips and the difference between them was astonishing. And there's basically... Alright, so I'm just wondering what I'd do.

The first photo shows the metal top covered in watermarks. But when she was finished with it, it looked good enough to eat off. Not that we recommend it.

She said hot water, very liquid and tin foil. Tear a bit off and scrunch it up and scrub. It gets everything off and won't scratch.

Really? No. Great for things like around your taps as you can mould the foil how you want and get into little gaps. Gaps.

Then just anti-back after and it's clean. It's simple and cheap and something everyone already has at home. A little bit presumptuous that everybody's got that.

Not everybody's got a sink, have they? Sophie even tested the back on the the hack rather, on the bottom of her kitchen stalls which came up gleaming too. And a number of people, a number of people praised her smart thinking. What if it works? So shall I. I shall also be spreading the good word.

I'm gonna try it out. Probably after this. Well, sometime this year maybe.

One person said if I can stop reading the Hinch Army cleaning tips long enough, I'm gonna give this a try. LOL. So I guess that means lots of love.

Another added, it's good for rust too and bottom pans. Wow. I have to give this a go.

And a third said always do this to clean the BBQ. I don't know what BBQ is. I think that's someone that's too lazy to actually write the whole word.

A fourth suggested using chicken foil instead of the usual foil you use to wrap your food for best results. Don't ruin it. Don't ruin it by saying it's better with something else.

Can't we just enjoy the moment? Always someone has to try and outshine, don't they, outshine the shiner. Mrs. Hinch recently shared a hack on how she keeps her mattress smelling clean for weeks. I've never had a mattress that smelled clean for minutes, never mind weeks.

And it's ridiculously simple. All she did was sprinkle bicarbonate of soda all over her mattress after removing the sheets using a sieve. It's like icing a big cake or not icing but you know icing sugar.

After about an hour come back to it and hoover up the excess product. And that's it. Sweet smelling sheets.

Right so let me see what comments are on this one. Canis K says why did you let it get into such a state? I wipe down everything in my kitchen at least once a day and wash my own board. My own board? My drain board.

And Guinea Mini Miney Mo says imagine what a snatch is like, never mind the draining board. What? That's just rude. Stuart J Smith says today woman bleaches the toilet then flushes just by using water.

Or women bleaches the toilet. I've got no idea what that. Women remove stubborn grime from draining board using just tin foil and soap and water.

They clean most things. That's the Grin Reaper one. Cat Woman 21 she puts.

She'll be Mrs. Judgmental I think. Why is her draining board so gross in the first place? So that was that story. I'm gonna give it a go because that first picture looks just like mine even when it's clean.

I mean genuinely I can't get the stains out. It's like looking at me underpants sometimes. Sometimes by accident I try and put the draining board on before I put my trousers on.

I get muddled up. So I can't. Oh my goodness.

So let's have a look where I was. Right this one is man transforms a prison van, a prison van into stunning summer house for his wife. A retired man who couldn't believe his eyes when he saw how much a new conservatory or outer building would cost so decided to take matters into his own hands.

Okay now they like to state the obvious sometimes. The mirror. But there you go.

When you think of a summer house you probably don't picture an old prison van. Well I didn't but now I do. But one man has completely transformed that very vehicle into a unique space for he and his wife to relax in.

Retired Graham Skidmore. Again reminded me of my underpants. 74 from Barrow Hill Woolcester Shire bought the van, the police van, which was used to transport prison inmates to court for £250.

He then transformed the inside and furnished it with the total cost of the project setting him back £750. And he says this is a massive saving compared with the £24,000 he was quoted for a conservatory or the £12,000 it would have set him back for a new outer building. They've actually got this is a massive saving and I've got it underlinked with a hyperlink so if you click on it it actually takes you to another page with deals where you can save money.

Can't do that in the newspapers can they? It actually shows you the police van when he bought it and it's basically a police van it's just a prison on wheels isn't it? Upon seeing his handiwork Graham's wife Sandra joked I hope he doesn't lock me and throw away lock me and throw away the key. The father of four is very happy with the summer house admitting that it offers better views than from their house. Oh it does look nice doesn't look anything like the the van I mean basically yeah they have transformed it.

What a great idea. Wow the father of four yeah he said the position is superb which is something that only someone of 74 would probably say. The position is super that inner was superb the weather was superb.

Those views are more open than the views we get from the windows in the house. They're superb. Ding dong me I go out there now and with half an hour Sun in the winter the place is warm and I've fallen asleep in there three times.

He's counted the amount of times he's fallen asleep. He's got little balls that he just like ticks off. Before starting this DIY project the van had five cells inside.

Five more than his brain. Oops no I didn't say that. And a latrine running down the middle.

A latrine. A toilet. Isn't that a toilet? A latrine.

Who uses the word latrine? Let me just check what the word latrine means. I know it means toilet but let's just have a look. What's the official latrine? Let's have a look.

Latrine. Latrine it's a toilet or it can be like a simple version simpler version of a toilet and you can use for camping. It's still a toilet.

Why not just say toilet? Mind you running down the middle maybe it was one of those stand-up things. Mind you not all people that commit crimes have got willies. Some women go to prison don't they? So I suppose they'd need to sit down once.

Well or I don't know a little notice that says aim here. I don't know. Graham stripped the whole thing bare over five months keeping a few of the original features.

The latrine including heavy-duty prison doors. Wow and a hatch the prison guard driver would have used to speak to the prisoners. He recalls how he initially planned to make the space out of a horse box.

So as he used to work in that industry I rang a few friends to try and get one of those glassonite containers. They are built very lightly to take more weight than when they are carrying horses. Everyone I spoke to said they didn't have any of the size I wanted.

They were all about 20 foot long. I would have to cut it down and a lot more work. He continued.

But one guy said I'll tell you what I've got. I've got a prison van container. Yeah I've got a prison van container just for the road.

Just just up the road. Just just for you. Do you want a prison van container? Only 250 quid.

Do you want a prison van container just up the road from you? I thought that's going to be dreadful. That's not going to be delightful. That's going to be dreadful.

That's not going to be superb. It's going to be that's going to be awful. And when I went down there there was 20 all in a row.

I thought that that's exactly what I want. I bought it there and then. My question would be where did they all come from? That's just me.

He then went on a mission to complete the job cheaply. He haggled and found bargains. Added his son's old patio doors.

Reduced furniture from a garden center and a sofa a neighbor was throwing out. It's not it's not been easy. It's not been easy but has has quite amazed me.

He said of the process. Sandra added it's absolutely stunning. I never thought it would turn out like this.

I'm sure she doesn't sound like that. Okay Sandra added it's absolutely stunning. I never thought it would turn out like this.

No. Anyway. Here's the comments.

There's only four comments. CRNG exceptional work. Best idea and completely out-of-the-box design.

John Lomax a good bit of recycling. Salford read one. He bought a prison van for his wife.

And bill bill s 7718. Great idea. Where do I get one? No one's replied to him.

I wonder if he's lonely. Well that's the end of all the stories really. I don't think there's any more data.

I thought I might find something mildly interesting. I know this is not supposed to be interesting but. So that's pretty much the recording done.

It's a recording done. Yes it is. Yes it is.

Yes it is. I think I know what the sound is. I think it's my belly rubbing up against the side of the table.

I wonder what that's about. I might actually have some sponge and ice cream. I wonder what that's about.

Sponge and ice cream. Yes. Oh yes.

Oh yes. Wow. Duh Wow.

So some of these stories are really fascinating but I. It's not always. Oh here's an interesting one. A lost mixed tape washed up on beach 25 years later and it still works.

Stella Waddell was eventually reunited with her beloved compilation when she saw the tape in an art exhibition in Stockholm. Wow. How did she recognize it? That's what I've got to wonder.

Stella Waddell was 12 when she took the tape to listen to her favorite songs on her Walkman while in the Costa Brava and Mallorca in 1993. The cassette features kits by artists such as Petshop Boys, Bob Marley and Shaggy went missing. I don't remember Shaggy even being in 93.

That was later wasn't it? Let's do some fact finding. Some fact checking. Shaggy.

It wasn't me. I'm sure that was late 90s. I might be wrong.

I might be wrong. I might be wrong. Maybe not.

Shaggy. Oh he did O'Carolina didn't he in 1993. O'Carolina.

O'Carolina. And then he did It Wasn't Me but that was later on wasn't it? Where's the single? Discography. Yeah so he was around in 93 so I'll take that back.

Anyway Andres just popped out of his little nest. During a holiday she was stunned to spot the mixtape. How? Oh so basically a lady called Mandy Barker found it.

She got it restored by a professional audio restorer who managed to listen to all of the tracks and she listed the tracks. I guess put it on the wall next to the tape and then Stella Wendell read the list and thought oh because if she yeah if it's a mixtape she would have made those songs herself in that order so it would have been unique to her. I took a picture of it and compared it with the original CD from 1993 which I still have.

They're exactly the same track list but I started with track three. Also it wasn't a personal thing it was actually a mixtape that was already that she bought. I remember that I didn't like the first two songs on the CD because I felt they were too old so I wouldn't have included them when I recorded the mixtape age 12.

No. Oh okay so she recorded. I'm confused now.

I also have an association with the Jungle Book song and this was almost the third track. I always made tapes from my CDs at this time to listen to them with my Walkman especially for holidays and to think that a tape could have lost could have lost more than 20 that I could have lost more than 20 years ago had been found was incredible. Miss Wendell.

Who was Wendell? Wendell, a miss who lives in Berlin has been on a holiday in the Costa Brava resort of Emporia Brava on the island of Majorca when she lost a tape. Wow. Here's a track list.

Somebody dance with me radio mix DJ Bobo. Would I lie to you Charles Eddie. The Jungle Book groove Disney cast.

Rock with you in a circle. Do you see the light? Snap. One love radio version Dr. Alban.

More and more Captain Hollywood Project. All Carolina radio version of Shaggy. The key.

The secrets. Urban Cookie Collective. It keeps raining.

Tears from my eyes. Bitty McLean. Summer.

Summer. Radio. Edit.

Loft. Never let her slip away. Undercover.

Power of American Natives. Dance to Trance. Iron Lion Zion.

Seven-inch mix by Bob Marley and the Whalers. Sweet Harmony. The Beloved.

Give it up. Cut and move. Go West.

Pet shop. Boys. Runaway.

Train. Sewell. Asylum.

I can't help falling in love with you. UB40. Mr. Vane.

Culture Beat. Is that Carmen, Mr. Lover. Carmen, Mr. Vane.

Anyway that's the end of this recording. Thank you very much for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.

Paragraph spacing and recurring name or title errors have been tidied. Because this began as a voice transcription, an occasional word or piece of punctuation may still be incorrect.