#831 Let me bore you to sleep - BIG DADDY - Jason Newland (3rd MAY 2022)

Good morning, good evening and good afternoon. Happy holidays and other sentences. Hello, hello and welcome, welcome.

You really are welcome to let me bore you to sleep. My name, my name is Jason Newland, Newland and my website is jasonnewland.com. Please, please, please, ever so please only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes. Yes, only when you can close your eyes, that's nice.

So hey, how's it going? Is it going well? Is things going okay for you? Oh, I hope so, I really do. I'm recording this, oh man, 4.37 in the morning. Wow, but this isn't me, I'm not still up, this is me, I've gotten up.

This is my rising time today. Not just today, not just today, regularly for quite a while I've been waking up about four in the morning. Yeah, regularly.

I'm in bed, last night I was in bed before 11 and sometimes after there's been days I've got to bed at eight or nine. Because if I get up at four, by eight in the evening, I'm tired man, I'm tired. I want to go buh-byes.

So, you know, that's sort of what I do. But I do have a tendency of going back for a little nap. I'm tired, I'm tired.

The weird thing about it is, when I wake up in the morning, I'm hungry. Which is kind of normal, I think. It's kind of normal to feel hungry.

Yet, because I have like acid reflux thing like my stomach, I take a little tablet every day. And I take it about an hour, half an hour at least before I eat. So, I kind of, it's not that I'm sitting here thinking I want to eat, I want to eat, I want to eat.

Although I am now, now I've just started saying I want to eat, I want to eat, I want to eat. Now all I want to do is eat. Yeah, that didn't really help me.

That's a bit silly. Why did I do that then? I don't know. So yeah, I take these Lempizol or I don't know whatever the tablets are called.

And I thought, well, you know what? As I've got to wait half an hour or an hour before I take, you know, between the tablets and eating, I usually don't need it more than half an hour, but I try and do an hour. I'm trying, you know, give my body time to, I don't know, do what it needs to do with that particular medication. And I thought, you know what? I could make a recording.

I could make a recording. So here I am. Here I is.

Oh, I did a deep sleep whisper hypnosis recording yesterday. It was early evening. So that's, that's something just in case you, I think I bing, bing, bing.

Yesterday, I can't say that word without wanting to sing. Yesterday, I, actually I got, what did I get? Oh, I had a missed call. Had a missed phone call from a friend.

And I was going to contact him because I realized I've got this issue going on. I don't know kind of why, but I'm still receiving text messages to my old phone instead of my new phone. Now I changed over to a different network for my new phone.

The old phone has the SIM card still in there. So maybe that's the issue. I need to get rid of the SIM card of the old thing.

I swapped the telephone number over. So, you know, it's still the same telephone number now with the new contract. It's not a contract.

It's a pay as you go monthly, but it's a unlimited one. And I use it, I actually use that phone to upload the podcast episodes. Yeah, I do, I do.

So I do all the editing and stuff, and I use the internet on the iPad. Because the recordings have to be transferred to the, um, the iCloud. Excuse me.

And then, I mean, I don't always do it on my phone, but if there's just one recording, one episode, uh, I will, I'll upload it all on my phone once it's all downloaded. So I need the internet to download it and everything and edit it. And then, uh, yeah, I do that while I'm sort of watching telly.

Rather than just sit here staring at a computer waiting for it, watching it upload. It's like, nah, unless I've got a lot going on. So then I will, you know, there's been times when I've used four different devices to upload at the same time.

But I don't, I'm not in that situation now. That was just when I was replacing stuff that I had to delete, you know, and I had to get rid of the one sort of music only and replace that with ones with talking and music. So that was like end of the year or beginning of this year time.

Oh, my throat. I don't understand what that is, but that's kind of like scratching your throat, isn't it? It's like internally scratching an itch. Weird noise.

The birds are out. I think that's possibly what wakes me up. Because they're quite loud, actually.

They're quite a bit bulgy bit. Everyone wake up, we're awake, you can be awake too. And I love the birds.

I do. I don't know why. But I love the sounds of birds.

Pigeons, not so much. I got no issue with pigeons themselves. I just, they're inconsiderate.

You know, I like pigeons. I mean, basically pigeons. You know, they used to be our mobile phones, didn't they? That was the original mobile phone.

They were the original smartphones pigeons were. They replaced smoke signals. And so yeah, I carry pigeons, put a little message, send it to the person, you know.

I'm not going to explain it if you don't know about pigeons. Do you know about pigeons? You don't know about pigeons? Wow. Okay.

No, it's not about KFC. No, no, you can't be saying stuff like that. Blimey, you get sued.

KFC is chicken. Wow. Why would you even inflict that? Infringe that? Infuge that? I don't know what the word is.

Rats? No, it's chicken. Blimey. How? How? No.

Wow. No, it's, it's chicken. Seagull? What? What? People say that sometimes about like a takeaway, not a well known branded takeaway that has lawyers, but maybe a takeaway where there's only, you know, one, and it's the other side of the world.

So I never hear this. And I've heard some people say, this is too big for a chicken. And have you noticed that there's not as many seagulls around lately, since that takeaway opened? And people always lie.

There's always like, it's the same thing. It's ridiculous, really. But whenever like a Chinese or an Indian take or restaurant closes, you hear the rumors.

They found a cat in the fridge. Like no, they bet they didn't. They found a dog in the freezer.

No, I bet you they didn't. I bet you they didn't. I didn't know that people lied.

When I was a kid, I knew my brother lied. But he was my brother. I just didn't, you know, it's as I got older, I realized people did lie.

But I didn't realize that older people, bullshit, younger people, like really. And sometimes it's not a lie, because they believe it themselves. And that's another thing I didn't realize when I was young, that people are willing to believe practically anything.

I say people, I'm just like the general population. Okay, some people, that's the better way to put it. Some people are willing to believe anything.

I find that quite strange. I mean, it's good to have an open mind. But isn't it weird how some of these people who are willing to believe anything, always seem to look for the worst in people.

Always willing to believe the worst. I had a friend who he was accused of something pretty awful. And his family, his friends, everyone all believed the allegation that was later retracted.

And I said to him, or her, don't you find it interesting that all these people that apparently care for you deeply, have known you all your life, are willing to so easily believe the worst possible thing about you. They're willing to believe that like instantly without even questioning it. So that would, you know, I've never been in that situation.

And this person is a lovely person. Now, personally, I, you know, I'm not, maybe I am in that way. Maybe I do.

Maybe I've done that myself. I probably have actually. I probably have done that myself.

Gone and like believed a rumour, or like believed gossip and stuff. Yeah, 100% I must have done. In fact, I say I have probably many times in my life.

And not something I'm pleased or proud about. But then I'm not proud about anything. I, I think, yeah, probably have.

It's weird, isn't it? As we get talking about this, blimey. Bit of light relief, please, JJ. Okay, I've got hemorrhoids again.

Hey, hey. Hey. Make you feel better do it.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. So yeah, I woke up early. I don't know if you can actually hear the birds, but I think you can probably hear them a little bit on a microphone, especially when I'm being quiet.

Because then there's nothing else for the microphone to pick up, apart from my stomach grumbling, because it needs to be fed. It needs food. I need some food, please.

Some food, food, food, food. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Oh, pigeons.

Yeah. In the old days, during the war, in the old days, and during the war, in the carrier pigeons used to be used to basically, like go from one place to another, and then back to the same place and back and forth like that. They'd put in notes.

So I guess, for example, from one, think of it as a post office. So from one post office, so let's say you live in Dallas, okay? And then, okay, where's two places that are quite close to each other? Boston and New York? Are they fairly close? I don't know. So you've got a Boston post office and New York post office.

And I know that a city, they're probably multiple post offices. I'm just saying, as an example, please don't judge me and pick me up on every single detail. I've had enough.

I've had enough of you judging me. So the Boston post office and the New York post office. Okay, so the pigeon would live, would like travel between the two.

So if he was in Boston, you would put a note, like he'd have a little thing around his ankle, and you put a little note in there. You couldn't deliver packages. I'm saying it was quite limited at the time.

But I was saying as far as the your smartphone, text messages only. I guess it was in or it was the internet, Twitter, limited text. And not a big long essay that some people post on Facebook, with trigger warning at the top.

Or, you know, you couldn't send a post saying something. And then the end saying, like, it looks like you're writing about yourself. But at the end saying, oh, yeah, I copied this from a friend.

Now, if you care about people, then you will post this on your Facebook page. Because if you don't post it, it means you don't care about people. And you're a bad person.

Bad person, even though I tricked you into thinking that I'm the one with this disease. When he was reading it, thinking, oh, no, my friend's got this disease. But then at the end, I say it's not, it's not me, really.

I posted it from a friend on Facebook. And they're the one with the disease. But they haven't got the disease either, because they posted it from another friend.

So basically, no one knows who the person is that has the disease. But we're all pretending like we got it until right at the end. It's like a little trick.

It's like a little trick. And then we say, well, we haven't really got this. I just reposted it from another friend on Facebook.

And now that you've read it, you have to do it. You have to, you have to repost it. Because if you don't, it means you don't care about the disease.

It means you're a bad person. You're not nice at all. Not nice at all.

If you, you're evil. Evil, evil, evil, evil. If you don't repost this post on Facebook, oh my goodness, you don't care about anybody.

Wow. Yeah, so what was that I was talking about? Yeah, probably limited to Texas, because that that just weighs the pigeon now, wouldn't it? All of that nonsense. And I wonder, I do wonder though, because you know, in 50 years time, 100 years time, yeah, I'm not going to be around.

But in 100 years to 50 years time, I'll still be around. But in 100 years time, yeah, unless science has changed. And I'm suddenly become the oldest person in the history of the world.

You know, I'll be I'll be gone in 100 years time. And I wonder, you know, get maybe time, get a time machine or whatever, or maybe people will be sitting around that, you know, it's life will be so different. And people will be in medical school.

And the teacher will be there. The tutor, maybe their nurses, student nurses, student doctors, even. And the doctors will be talking, you know, so you'll go through the different illnesses and everything like that.

All the different how the brain works, how the body works. Imagine how great the body, that the brain will be understood in 100 years time. They're only almost they whoever they are.

The people that deliver milk and orange juice, they are just starting to tap into the brain, like what the brain does and how the brain does it. It's almost like a new science, which is kind of ridiculous. That is new.

And so much of it has been guesswork up until now. But now they can actually see, they can see inside the brain, they can see which bits light up when you do certain things. And it's amazing.

Anyway, so that's going to be pretty phenomenal. And now that I think the reason the brain will be discovered more and more will be discovered about the brain is because there's money in it. Games, entertainment, they want to be able to have access to our brains, so that we can, we don't need televisions anymore.

We just close our eyes and watch a movie. That's the future. That's what they want.

They want virtual reality. But they want to be able to stimulate the brain. So eventually, you don't need to put on a pair of glasses for virtual reality.

You can just close your eyes. And it stimulates a part of your brain that activates this imaginary world. So you know, so because there's money, I'm talking, whoever manages to do it first, will be the richest person on the planet.

Whoever manages to really activate the brain in a way where we can control everything by thinking about it. Like telekinesis, but you know, real, not real, but you know, just whether it's a bracelet, or a headband or whatever. So I want the light to switch on.

Let me just think of it and the light comes on, or the microwave sets itself, or the heating readjusts, or just by thinking about it, not doing anything. But thinking, not having to touch anything. And the amazing thing about that, imagine how brilliant that will be for, I mean, it may almost make everybody equal.

Or on a certain level. And you know, I say, you know, so with you in a wheelchair, whether you can use your arms or your legs, or everyone to a certain degree will be equal. As far as, you know, being able to do stuff.

I don't mean physically, but you know, be able to, as I said, turn the light on, turn the TV on, mind you, but by then you won't need a TV, but or be on a laptop or write a letter, or text, just think it. And it happens because it's just, that will happen. I do believe that is the future.

And it's not that far off. I'd say, maybe, maybe not in my lifetime, but definitely it's going to happen. Well, you know, providing, providing little countries like mine can keep out of world affairs.

That that may be. It's, it's, what do they call it? Well, Boris Johnson, Mr. Big bollocks, you know, the big and come on then. He's a little bit it's, it's weird.

It's weird. It's weird. I don't try not to get into politics, but blimey.

You know, pick pick your fights carefully. Yes, this. Oh, man.

It's, if you look at a map of the world, my country is practically invisible. We're a dot a dot on the landscape. We're so tiny.

And we're like scrappy do come on, let me let me in. It's just no, I prefer the idea of being neutral. That's kind of my, just my personal preference in life.

I try and I try and maintain a degree of neutrality. You know, I know people that don't get on with each other. And I get on with them.

You know, both of the people, but for example, I get on. But they don't get on with each other. So you know, I try not to take sides.

And it's, it's not always easy. It's not always easy to not take sides because taking sides is a lot of fun. Get the best of both worlds, get the slag both of them off.

It's lush. So see, yeah, what was I talking about carrier pigeons? I'm not I think I've, I've been very fortunate to have been born in this country. Because I mean, it's, I think it's gone downhill since I was born.

I think you know, as a country generally, in some ways, it's gone downhill. That's what people keep telling me. That's what I keep hearing.

You know, pretty much everywhere on the news, everything has gone downhill and and overpopulated. And it's always always makes me makes me sort of laugh a little bit, because you know, technically, the overpopulation is lack of resources. We don't have a mental, not mental, well, we don't have a health service that can cope with the amount of people that live in this country.

And it depends on where you live. It's the more often more congested you live like in London or in a city. And you know, it's, it's probably more, it's just busier, I guess.

My living, it's not even a little village that I live in. It's always just fields and a housing estate surrounded with fields. And there's a motorway up the road, quite a long way up the road.

And that's it. And this, you know, half an hour up the road walking, there's some shops. That's it.

That is, you know, pretty much all there is here. So I hear about how it's how overpopulated this country is. You know, people going on about, we're full, we can't have any more people here.

And then I go outside. And I can't see anyone. I mean, why am I not banging into people? Surely if we're full, I should be like struggling to get on the pavement, which is kind of quite normal in the towns.

In this town, it can be quite busy. But even then, it's not, I don't think it's as busy as it used to be here in town. Not that I get to town that often.

I don't know. When I was in London at the weekend, well on Sunday, it's busy, but full. I just didn't look full to me.

Full, I think, in a sense, would be, I know, wouldn't it just be like, there's no room to manoeuvre, there's no room to move around. Well, that's another word for manoeuvre, isn't it? Well, technically, it's not a word as it is a phrase. Move around isn't a word, is it? It's two words.

I win. It's so childish. I know.

I know. Thank you. That was kind of you.

So I, yeah, it's like we're full. I've watched, um, I think a big crowd, I've seen big crowds before. I remember I used to work at, I used to live in a place called Green Street, which was, I'm sorry, I've got, I can't say that anymore, I've got a frog in my throat.

That's what I used to say when I was a kid, but that's probably wrong. In fact, that's why I'm going to keep saying it now. Frog, frog, frog in my throat.

Frog, frog, frog in my throat. It's only because it's like, it's, uh, doesn't really make sense, does it? Because the frog doesn't have a frog in their throat, do they? That's just the way they talk. So me sounding like a frog, but how can, that doesn't mean I've got a frog in my throat.

It means I sound like a frog, because a frog doesn't have a frog in its throat, which makes, you know, it doesn't sound like that because it's got a little tiny frog in its throat. That's how it's, maybe that's how it reproduces. Yeah, I'll leave that alone.

I don't know. No, I'm pretty sure they don't produce that way. I've seen frogs reproduce.

It's a specialist website. No, there's a, there's a place around the corner. You know, I live in the countryside.

I've mentioned that a few times and there's a ditch. There's these ditches, they're kind of irrigation. Is that the right word? Ditches, basically part of the, I think they are not slags, not whores.

What are they called? Oh, what's the name of them? Not bitches. There's a word. Tramp.

What was the word of the ditches? Oh man, that's going to bug me now. I have to look it up. Field ditches, field ditches, ditches.

What is a ditch in a called? Narrow channel. No. Oh, uh, why is it that I've lost it? Ditches.

Clearing it. I think I might got it wrong then. Field drainage.

Oh, it's now taking me to like the smallest. Yeah, it's like a field drainage thing. To drain water from the thing.

Open ditch. There's a name for it. I forget.

Why is the name not coming up? Drainage. Dykes. Dykes.

So I knew, I don't know why they're not coming up with that name. So basically it's a drainage. There's a lot of these dykes that are, I couldn't think of the word.

I genuinely like to sort of, I knew it was, obviously it's a word that has, uh, you know, it's, it's, you know, it has different meanings, but in this case, it's the correct meaning of a dyke. A dyke is the, it's like a drainage system. And in the fields, every single, pretty much all the different fields have these dykes going in between them.

And some of them are quite big, like really, you know, there's a big sort of separation and they turn into almost like ponds, like really long ponds. And in the winter or when, when it rains, which could be summer or winter, they can get quite full. Sometimes they overflow.

There's one particular, well actually the duck pond, although there's never been any ducks there, which is further into the fields. At least once a year it overflows. But that duck pond is connected to all the dykes.

Okay. So this big long dyke that goes on for miles then ends in a pond and then carries on further up down another dyke. So there's a few dykes in the field and this is like this irrigation system.

It's amazing, really. It might, you know what, this might have been there since Roman days because I think they were the ones, they're quite into dykes and they like, didn't Romans start like the sewage system and irrigation and the whole kind of, sort of the movement of water, you know, through tunnels and I guess dykes, you know, like holes in the ground and stuff like that. So it's been going for, you know, is it thousands of years? I don't know, Romans are thousands of years ago, two and a half thousand years ago, which is just phenomenal, really, you know, if you think about it.

So thousands of years of poo. So I, round the corner, some of these dykes have actually been almost turned into, they've been, I don't know what the right word is, they've been adapted. So there's, at the end of my road, if I turn right, or turn right, if I was basically, if I get to the end of the road, across the road is fields.

But there's, there are roads, like where people live, to the left and to the right. But on the other side of the road, it's fields, you know. Now, on the left, it's, you know, more fieldy than on the right.

On the right, there's, there's fields and then it leads to like a motorway. So there's less of the fields. So what happens is, and it's almost like a slant, so it goes down a bit towards, so that part, the right part gets flooded.

So when the dyke gets full, it floods over. It's got nowhere else to go. So that bit doesn't happen further up.

And they've, and it looks like they've almost decorated the dykes. So the dykes are there, but instead of being empty like they should be, you know, in order to, but really they need to be deep, deeper, in order to stop the flooding. Because they're not going anywhere, they're not drained, no drainage there, for in the dykes themselves.

So the deeper they were, and they're quite safe in a sense of, well, I imagine if it was really dark outside, you might not see, see it, but they've got like coverings on some of them. And it's, they've got it in a way that it'd be quite difficult to fall in. But I guess it's possible, you know, if you don't know it's there.

And, you know, it gets full of water, and it's not very deep, it's probably, I don't know, five foot. If I actually got in there myself, maybe it'd be nearly my height, but it doesn't look that, no, not that, no, probably four foot. I've never done it, because I don't, I don't know, because even when it's dry, even when it looks dry, sometimes there's water in there.

But as I said, they don't empty it, they don't, of the stuff, there's loads of grass and bushes and weeds and all stuff in there. And so it's turned from being, it's not just these places, not just dykes, they're, they're, they habitat nature. So not just draining the water, so they're being useful for that.

But they create life. And there's one particular place that this place, the different dykes produce different things. So somewhere in the, in the field, one of the really long one that leads to the duck pond, there's all kinds of trees and vegetation that's sort of grown and produced probably over the last maybe hundreds of years in that area.

And this one I was talking about around the corner, frogs get born there. The frogs come together and party and stuff, parto, and, you know, give birth to, to lots of little, I'm going to say lots, thousands and thousands of frogs. There's a specific time of year.

And we went around there once, and there was everywhere. They were like popping, popping out. And I've never seen anything like it in my life.

There's just thousands of them. And then there's another ditch further up that seems to produce empty beer cans. So yeah, it's just weird how these, these dykes that produce things out of them, or should I say cultivate things inside them? I don't know what the right terminology is.

It's a bit tired. But it's okay. I don't mind.

I don't mind being tired. I mean, it's five, 524 in the morning. I should be tired.

I should be should be. I watched hardly any television yesterday. Oh, yeah, I was gonna say I got I got a phone call from my friend who phoned me then sent a text saying, do you want to go for a coffee today? So I phoned him back.

He didn't answer. Then he phoned me back. And he said, do you want to go for a coffee today? And I said, yes, please.

And we went for a coffee. It was good. It was nice.

I haven't seen him in a little while. He's one of these friends that I don't see. So often, you know, go through periods, known him for nearly 20 years.

And he's a Buddhist friend. And as I go through periods when I see him, like a lot, and then I go through periods when I don't see him for ages, sometimes years. But because we're friends, and we've, we've, I don't know, we've got that bond, I guess.

But no, I don't guess I know, we've got that bond, that connection, and I don't have to see him. Hardly ever. When I do see him.

Pretty much no different from the last time I saw him. Yeah, things have changed. Life has changed him.

And me and you know, things are different, but the kind of core of him is, it's him. Does that make sense? I don't know if that makes sense. But we've not changed so much as to not be able to communicate with each other.

For some reason, it's just easy. And yeah, he's, he's really an amazing person. One of the nicest people I've ever known in my life.

And I'm not crying, by the way, it might sound, he's one of the nicest people I've ever known. Might sound like I'm like getting teary. I'm not.

It's just my throat. I'm not getting teary at all. I was his groomsman.

It's me and one other person at his wedding. So that was quite cool. It's sort of the closest thing to being a best man, kind of, except there was two of us.

And I did absolutely nothing. Pretty much. So yeah, and it was still nice.

But I didn't, I didn't do anything. But my other friend, who's the other groomsman, I think he did a little bit more, did a bit more. But that's ages ago.

Ages, I was still at university back then. So we're talking what, 2009, maybe? 2010, 2009. I'd say about 2009.

Wow. Maybe 2008. But I think 2009.

But I don't know, one of them. Time, time goes so quickly. I saw, I saw a clip of something the other day.

And it was snooker. I mean, I'm not a huge, big, massive snooker fanatic. You know, you know, my, if you listen to my, these things, you'd know that I'm a, I'm a big boxing fan.

Like proper. I watch hundreds of fights a year. Boxing matches.

Yeah, I think boxing matches better than fight, because it sounds aggressive. Or, although someone did point out yesterday that, or the other day when I was watching boxing, the referee was telling the boxers off for talking to each other. And the commentator started laughing.

He said, like he's an ex-boxer himself. And he said, it's okay for them to punch each other in the head, but not talk to each other. And it was the irony is, yeah, that is kind of stupid, isn't it? To tell someone, because in reality, in real life, it's the opposite, isn't it? Like talk, don't hit each other, talk to each other.

But in the ring, stop talking. Get back to punching each other again. So yeah, it's, that was kind of funny.

But anyway, I was watching, because it was the world snooker championship yesterday, the final. And Ronnie O'Sullivan won it for the seventh time. And he's now equaled with Hendry, Stephen Hendry.

So, so that was, I mean, I got a friend who's really, that's his favorite sport is snooker. And I can, I can watch snooker. Because when I was a kid, I'm not quite sure what age time, probably early 80s, snooker was really popular.

When Steve Davis was around, he was a superstar in this country. I mean, I imagine around the world, like in the boxing world, he was a superstar, because he, he won the world championship six times. So he held the record until Stephen Hendry won it.

But Stephen Hendry basically took over from him. And then Ronnie O'Sullivan took over from Stephen Hendry, as far as winning the most world records. And yeah, anyway, snooker used to be really popular.

And some of, you know, tennis as well. Those that watch tennis now, like people that love tennis, love tennis. It doesn't make any difference who is playing, you know, I guess it does.

But it's about the game. And no one person is bigger than the game of tennis. But in the early 80s, let's say late 70s, early 80s, McEnroe was, I hate to say it, but he was bigger than tennis, because of his personality and his, he became an absolute superstar, bigger than people.

He was, it was almost like, I don't know, WWF or WWE. With him, you know, people, people that weren't even interested in tennis would watch because of him. Because of what will he do next? I don't believe it.

And you see, you, was it you cannot be serious. That's what he used to say. They made dolls.

Now I don't know if this is true. But in my memory, there were dolls of him. The McEnroe dolls, where you'd pull a thing, pull a little wire out of the back, and it would say, you cannot be serious.

And it'd be like holding a tennis racket. Now, I can't be bothered to Google it, because it means stretching over to the table and picking up the phone. And that's more effort than I want to put in.

But I reckon if you Google that, you'll find that there were McEnroe McEnroe dolls that you could buy. Now any sports person that has a doll, has merchandise that you can buy, like that, is pretty, you know, that's, that's quite a big deal. And he did.

So yeah, Stephen Hendry. I don't know if he had a doll made after him, but he was, he was an absolute legend. And then you had like the world's strongest man, Jeff Capes.

Now I'm limited, I'm limiting this to England or the UK. Because I don't know what was going on in America back then or other countries. I don't know who, I don't know if they knew who Jeff Capes was, obviously McEnroe, they knew because he was American.

But some of the sports people were just absolute. Some of the Olympic Games winners, they went on to be big TV stars. And it was just, I don't know, just different.

How big they were. Like snooker, tennis. I mean, I'd love to see the stats for how many people watched McEnroe against Connors, for example.

And in his heyday in his, you know, his top Wimbledon, I can't, I'm talking about England. So if Wimbledon days, or how many people watch Stephen, Steve Davis, playing snooker in the world final world, you know, trophy, whatever. Or how many people watched the world's strongest man? You know, there's one of the biggest, again, in in the sort of late 70s, early 80s.

Two of the biggest sporting names in this country were two huge fat men. And if you say, Oh, no, you can't body shape, have a look. Okay, so giant haystacks and Big Daddy.

Both English wrestlers. Now check out a picture of them before you say that I'm body shaming them. Okay.

Tell me that they're not fat without laughing. Huge, purposely huge. They, they got like that on purpose.

And they both came a cropper to be fair. And from all the from all accounts, they were both lovely people. And they, they were eating, you know, three chickens for breakfast that kind of not seagulls, not pigeons, chickens, and huge used to show their diets, and they're always in the paper.

And they were rivals. And they're pretty much both of them about the same kind of site. They were you couldn't you couldn't measure them on a scale, you'd have to on normal scales, you know, the, the scales were the way lorries, and the loads on a lorry, you know, the containers, they'd have to be weighed on one of them.

Because they were so heavy. Like, you know, 40 stone or, I don't know, 300 kilos or something like that. Honestly, it's just absolutely immense, huge, huge, huge men.

And they were heroes. Even like Big Daddy was the hero. And giant haystacks was like the baddie.

But then it turned out he wasn't a baddie, not really. And then he almost became a hero. You know, because he realized everyone realized that he wasn't a baddie played that part.

And Big Daddy was the same was like Big Daddy. Big Daddy was the hero he was, you know, and huge, huge men, huge men. But to be fair, to be that big and to be able to even walk is an is an amazing accomplishment.

Because most people that big would not be able to walk their legs. This shows you how physically fit or how strong they were. Anyway, I think the word fitness goes out the window once you once you you know, what is a certain size that fitness, it can't really be available to you without losing weight.

And that was they were they were that they were too big to be physically fit. But they did have strength. And maybe their cardio was, but they were just much fitter than anyone else would be at that size.

Most people would have to be in a scooter driving around in a mobility thing, because their legs wouldn't be able to take the weight. So they must have had very, very strong legs. And so they and they were able to pick huge grown men up above their head, and fling them around and fling them out of the ring.

So they must have been training doing some very strong, strong men. They started off being strong, and then they became bigger. And then, you know, they purposely made themselves big.

They were big anyway. But not the size they became, it was almost like a contest to see who could become the biggest. And there wasn't much in it.

I think giant haystacks may have won the biggest, he might be the biggest out of the two. But there was not much it honestly, they were both absolutely huge. In fact, I'm gonna just to end this, I'm gonna look it up and give you the exact weights.

Big Daddy. Oh, the movie comes up. The movie with what's his name? Adam Sandler.

Okay, so there was a time when you put Big Daddy in and only one thing wrestler, okay. Big Daddy wrestler. Full name is actually real name was Shirley Crabtree Jr. People used to say that, that used to be one of their things they said.

I think if anyone was called Shirley, so I said that's not a man's name. We're going to tell Big Daddy that, that was one of the things that people used to say. Mind you, I never knew anyone called Shirley.

Full name, weight. Well, it says he was 169 kilos. I'm 100 kilos.

So 169 kilos is huge. It's maybe not as big as wow, giant haystacks was way bigger. Isn't it weird in your memory like they were in my memory.

They were both pretty much the same size. Giant haystacks is huge compared to him. Compared to Big Daddy.

Wow. He's literally the difference. I mean, he's up to his he's up to about his mouth.

So he's a good. Wow. Blimey.

But they're posing together. They didn't dislike each other at all. But he Big Daddy won quite often.

Wow. So this is the early I mean, they, he was around for years. Passed away in 97.

Born in 1930. So 67 years. Shirley Crabtree.

Giant haystacks. Wow. And it'd be on a Saturday afternoon.

And it was huge. Honestly, it was a we're named to four in the ring. Absolutely massive.

Millions upon millions of people watched it. So saying here. And he's saying the heroic Big Daddy's victory over the villainous giant haystacks.

Yeah, 1983. Blimey. Wow.

Brilliant. Brilliant. So yeah, it's, it's just okay, I'll stop looking at that.

I've got carried away. I'm starting to read it and be interested. But that's no good.

I have things to do. I have breakfast to eat. So hey, I hope this has been very informative for you.

Yes, it's information I never needed to hear. And hope to never hear again. But thanks anyway.

No problem. I want to go now. So please remember, remember to be kind to yourself.

You deserve to be happy. Do something nice for yourself today. And remember, be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye