#934 The pizza Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (5th December 2022)

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and I'm here with Vinnie Newland. Vinnie! So he's giving me a little bit of a cuddle against his will.

What are you doing? What are you doing? So please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. This is my third day of having this little monkey with me and he's a little monkey. This is the floor.

I mean I'm not the tidiest person. I'll never admit to that. I can never pretend.

I'm very very messy, kind of. But he is a different scale of messiness. There's a cardboard box on the floor which is supposed to go out for the rubbish and he has started to eat it and tear it apart.

Are you biting my fingers? Apparently that's supposed to stop him. It hasn't stopped him. His mum visited about an hour ago.

So the lady that had him before, she had him for three about three months. I said he was five months. He's actually nine months old, not five months old.

He's still a baby. So I was going to say that makes five months to be in three different homes in their times a lot. But he went absolutely frantic when she came.

Didn't you? He didn't want to go. I just really felt bad for him. You know what I mean? Just stuck here with me, eh? Stuck here with me.

Must be annoying, eh? He's ignoring me. So I did a recording yesterday. Do you want to get down or do you want to stay up here? Do you want to cuddle? Oh he seems to be okay.

I did a recording last night and then I went to bed. He got on the bed with me. Everything was absolutely fine.

And then he heard something. I don't even know what it was. I think it was just the central heat and clicking over.

And he went just, I don't know what the right word is, but it was out of his mind. Barking, barking, really like the thing is I fell asleep and it woke me up. Not a nice way to wake up to have this little thing screeching in your ear.

Because it's not like a woof. It's really high pitched and I don't like, can't say I enjoyed. Do you want to get down? Or do you just want to lay down on my lap? Okay.

I can do that. He, yeah, I didn't enjoy getting woken up like that. I really didn't.

It was not fun. But, you know, it's all new, isn't it? It's all new to him. Every time he hears a noise, he hears the gate go, or he hears someone out the front, you know, parking their car or slamming a car door, or he hears someone knocking at a neighbor's door.

He goes like. But then for hours, he doesn't make a peep. Doesn't make a sound.

But once he starts, it's almost like he, he gets wound up and he can't stop. That's a yawn, apparently. Is that a yawn? Well, can you imagine living with me be yawning a lot? Especially when I'm talking.

So last night, we ended up stop yawning. Don't make fun of me. I'm not that boring.

I went to, in the end, I got out of bed. I thought, okay, I'll sit up. I sat up for an hour, cuddled him, watched television, found some old movie on.

It was a old, I think, Hammer House horror movie. And watched that for a little bit. And then I went back to bed and I decided, no, he's not coming back.

So I left him in here, turned the light off, closed the door, because he's got, yes, the whole room. He's got his food. He's got his water.

He's got all his toys. He's got the settee, the sofa to sleep on, which he likes. He likes, he likes being on my seat, for some reason.

And I just closed the door and I closed my door and I went to my bedroom, closed my door. Not one sound from him for the next sort of five hours. Nothing.

So when he's on his own, he's not bothered by the sounds, it seems. I was resting his chin on the table while I stroke his head. Oh, I don't know how long it's going to take for him to get used to me because, let's face it, first of all, he's older than I thought.

Secondly, he was with the lady before me for much longer than I realised. I thought it was just for a few weeks, but three months. That's a long time in a nine-month-old puppy's life.

So I don't know. He must be all over the place. Doesn't know where he is, what's going on.

Why am I here? Why aren't I over there? Who is this fat man? What does he want? I don't know. It must be strange for him. Very strange.

I hope he gets used to me. I guess he will. He was frantic earlier.

I took him for a walk in the field and he was so good, honestly. There was no one else around, so I let him off the lead just to see how he is. And I was far into the field, so there's no one for miles.

And he ran ahead for a little bit. And then he kept looking back and he'd stop and wait for me. And he was a really good, really good boy.

And there's one point where I decided I'm turning back and he kept running forward and he didn't realize. And he looked around and he saw that I was like quite a bit away away and he ran so fast to get to me. Didn't you? So I thought that long walk... What's that on there? It's like you're... I hope you're not doing a wee-wee on me.

That would be weird. I don't really want... Yeah, this is poor, I hope. The... What's it? Yeah, so we went for this long walk in the field.

A bit cold, to be honest, a bit cold. But then it's December, supposed to be cold. Unless, of course, you're in Australia or Thailand or some other country, the Middle East, where it's really sunny.

Oh, you want to get down? Come on, get down there. Good boy. Oh, dear.

What I'll do, Vinnie, I'll make this recording and then we'll take you for a little walk and then we'll go to bed. So it's half past 10. No, it's... Yeah, it's just 10.33. A little bit late, really, to make it a recording.

I'm normally in bed by now. That's weird. Who'd have thought? I'm an adult and I'm in bed at 10 o'clock sometimes.

Sometimes I go to bed at seven. That's rare. That's a rarity.

But I like an early night now. I do. I like an early night.

It's nice. Especially this time of year. Oh, this time of year.

There's something about... Because it's dark outside so early. You know, it starts getting... It's dark by four o'clock now at the moment where I am. Four o'clock in the afternoon, it's dark.

Now, it's only temporary because it won't be long and it'll start getting light again. It's weird, isn't it? A few more weeks and it'll start to get light. In fact, I think... When is the longest day? Longest day.

The longest... Oh, no. Shortest day. It's not longest, is it? It's shortest day.

Shortest. What am I like? Shortest day is Wednesday. Most... Every chair I sit in squeaks.

I'm beginning to think it's not the chairs. Wednesday, 21st of December. So, after the 21st of December, it starts to get light.

Like, really quite quickly, in fact. Which is very strange. I notice it more... Well, I have noticed it more because I've been up at night for most of the last few years.

The last, I don't know, five years? I've been up at night. Not anymore. But I'd be up at night and I'd see how the day was starting earlier and earlier by a few minutes every day.

It seemed. It's like, wow. It's phenomenal to the point where it's lighter.

Like, it starts getting light at three in the morning and it doesn't get dark till like midnight or one. You know, it's just... That's an exaggeration, I think. It might not be, though.

So, I took him for this walk today. Long walk. Came back.

We've gone... We walked a few miles. Good few miles. We must have been out for an hour, at least.

We got home. He just started barking. Just that moment.

I can't... I can't read him. I can't yet figure out what it is he wants. Just, you know, he was barking.

There's no one at the door. There was not even any sounds, really, that I could hear. The light's making a sound, but that's because the normal bulb's broken or broke, or whatever, stopped working.

And I've got one of the lamps on. It's got a humming sound the whole time. I don't know what he's listening for.

Maybe he can hear the movement in the loft. All the various zoo animals that are up there. There's a few different things up there, I'll tell you.

There's definitely mice. There's definitely birds. I reckon it's really bats up there.

Probably some wasps, and bees, nests, and stuff like that. Yeah, it's a wonderful world of beings. Beings.

Yeah, so, when I got him back from the walk today, this afternoon, he went absolutely nutty. He was running around, backwards and forwards, from room to room. Just, just, I've never seen him like that before.

He was just, well, just being a puppy. Just, absolutely, just. I thought there was something wrong with him, honestly.

I thought, he's gone. He's gone. His mind's just gone.

But, apparently, that's how it gets. I thought walking for miles, bearing in mind he's tiny, tiny little legs, I thought walking for miles would actually knacker him out. Well, all it did, in fact, was just warm him up.

Hmm. So, so, the main story, if I'm honest, is last night. Last night, I was... I just had a pizza.

Was it last? Yeah, last night, I had a pizza. I cooked the pizza, and it was the World Cup. The, the England were playing Senegal, and they won 3-0.

So, I just basically sat down with my pizza, and he was looking at me, and I thought, well, okay, I'll give him a crust. I'm not going to give him the actual pizza, but just give him a little bit of crust, just to chew on, you know. So, I said, come on, get up, then.

Which he did. He got onto the other, other chair. I've got the pizza on my lap.

It's on a plate. Banging stuff. And I think, well, I'm not going to, also, I'm not going to give it to, give him the food off the plate.

I'm just going to hand it to him. So, well, he wouldn't take it out of my hands. So, what I did is, I put it, put it onto the chair, the other chair next to me.

And I thought, just let him, he can just eat that. And he did. He turned his back on me, and he sat on the pizza.

Eating. So, basically, he picked up his mouth, and he sat down on my pizza. Completely unaware that he was sitting on what he is.

He got fleas. I hope you haven't. Don't want them again.

I just got rid of the herpes. So, yeah, so I really couldn't believe he sat on it. He only sat on half of it.

Now, you might say, well, I could, no, trust me, I, I removed him very quickly. He sat on my pizza. I couldn't believe it.

Now, some people would probably get upset with that. But I just found it so funny. In fact, I almost wish that I could have had a picture of it.

Just use that as a, you know, just, you can't, like, after the event, you can't coax him, like, go and sit down. You know, I don't really want him to get into those habits. And every time he sees a plate of food, thinking, oh, that's a nice seat for me.

No, no. I just uploaded, I made a new video for sat on my pizza. But I made a video for my, that's him, by the way, that noise, that I made a video on YouTube for my making friends with stress podcast that I did yesterday or the day before.

And 185 relax, and relaxation and whatever. Relax and sleep hypnosis daily. That's it.

I forget my own podcasts. So I've uploaded that I haven't uploaded one since the 27th of November. So I thought I'd make an effort, make a little bit of an effort, you know.

So weird sometimes, like podcasting, because it's almost, almost use there needs to be constant, new episodes. Well, I still went with that. Like I need to make constantly new episodes.

And it's kind of a shame, in some ways. That's weird. Oh, scheduled.

Okay, fair enough. To say this that my stomach's made some weird noises. And so sorry, it'd be nice if I could, I don't want to just say it, but I don't want to just do one podcast a week.

But that'd be nice if that was enough. But it's not. So deep sleep whisper.

Did I do a recording today for that? Yeah, I did. Yeah, that's it. That's the ones.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So that's given me a boost on that.

Yeah. It's weird, because that's one of the podcasts, even if I don't make a new one every day, people still listen to that podcast. You know, 34,000 this month, like in the last month.

I mean, all of them get people listening, but like this one, I got one day 194 downloads on my Let Me Boy To Sleep podcast. I clearly didn't make a recording that day. So fickle, so fickle.

So yeah. Oh, well, never mind. It variates.

They really do vary. In about another 10 years, I should get to the million on that. Do you mean a million pounds? No.

This chair is falling apart. It's almost like I'm too heavy for the chair. Obviously, we all know that's not true.

How could it be? But wow, how weird. I wonder if anyone's watching the Jason's Bedtime Story time. Nope.

Hmm. Seven and a half thousand people all in all. What about the... See, even that, like, you know, relax and sleep hypnosis daily, yeah? Release 317 downloads on the day that I release a new recording.

Next day, 79. Today, 101. Someday, a few days ago, hunt 1,441.

Like, come on. How am I supposed to know what to do with this? I can't gauge it. I can't gauge it.

No. Then I stopped smoking one. That's risen by quite a huge amount today.

I don't know why. I never know. I just don't know.

It's weird. It's a weird, weird world. It's a weird, weird, weirdy, weirdy, weirdy.

Never mind. So, that's it, really. I've got this little thing, this little fella.

It's a weird... I know, everything's weird today, isn't it? It's a... I've got a cup of tea there. It's just a bit strange having him here. He's not sure what to make of me.

I'm not sure what to make of him. You know, we're starting to get used to each other. But he would rather be somewhere else.

I know he would. He'd rather be back with the lady that he was with. And why wouldn't he? I mean, he was with her for three months.

That's his mum. He probably doesn't even remember anyone before her. And now he's stuck with me.

And now he's just spent half an hour with her earlier. He really doesn't want to be here. Do you? He's very confused.

I hope he works. I just want you to be happy, man. I just want you to be happy.

That's all I want. I want you to smile and I want you to just... I don't know. I think he's a little bit... I don't know if he's happy or not.

I mean, he seemed perfectly happy when he's out for a walk. You know, he couldn't be happier. So he's very happy doing that.

Very happy when he's eating his bones, when he's ripping up the box. He's quite happy when he's playing, he's fighting and, you know, just having fun. He seems pretty happy when he's just lazing around, you know, half asleep.

But times like this when he's just... he's sitting on my feet. So he's not... he's not ignoring me. I mean, he's touching my feet and he's... he's definitely... I don't know if he's attached to me though.

I don't know if he's... if he... if he's attached himself to me yet or if I'm just... I know that, you know, dogs wouldn't think in this way particularly. But am I just a temporary... another temporary person? Or is this, as they like to say, his forever home? A bit of stability for the little boy. I love to say, you know, he tries to keep his eyes open and he's... because obviously I'm so boring and I talk to him and his eyes start to close and he keeps trying to pull them open and they start to close again and he... he's trying to force them open but they keep closing and it's so funny to watch.

I mean, literally, it's just hypnotizing a little dog is... it's a weird experience. Just looking in his eyes. I think it's an eye... they don't eye contact or maybe it's... it's a weird experience for them.

It's a weird experience. I wanted to call him Scrappy-Doo. Actually, I wanted to call him Noel because I got him on the 1st of December.

No, I didn't. The 2nd of December. This January.

This... Yes, Saturday is the 2nd, wasn't it? It's the 5th today. Monday. Saturday.

4th. 3rd. No, 3rd.

Saturday the 3rd. Anyway, I wanted to call him Noel after my friend and the lady that had him said, no, his name's Vinnie. Now, I thought he was five months old, not nine months.

You can't change someone's name after nine months really but in five months, it's still quite a long time. I thought, yeah, fair enough. That's his name.

That's his name. Also, I said I wanted to call him Scrappy-Doo because he reminds me of Scrappy-Doo from the Scooby-Doo cartoons. Let me at him.

Let me at him. I think he was... What kind of dog he was? Okay, Scrappy-Doo is a fictional Great Dane puppy. With the catchphrase, Scrappy-Dappy-Doo and let me at him.

Yeah, see, I remember that one. I don't remember the Scrappy-Dappy-Doo but I'm a Scooby-Dooby-Doo. 1979.

Really? I don't remember being late 70s. I thought it was the 80s. Oh, my stomach's really made some weird noises.

Apparently, I brought him in to save the show because the Scooby-Doo show wasn't doing so well. And this is 1979. So, wow, how weird but I don't remember because... Okay, he was voiced by Lenny Wenrib 1979 to 1980 and then Don Messick from 1980 to 88 and then Scott Innes from 1999 to the present day.

I wonder why Lenny stopped doing it. I don't know. What about Scott Innes? Or no, Don Messick.

Why did he stop doing it? 1997. No, I don't know. Perhaps that's when they stopped making the show.

88 and then they brought it back in 99. I don't know. Scrappy-Dappy-Doo.

I just remember it. I don't know. I mean, to be fair, I'm not always sure what is the early 80s and what is the late 70s.

Because I don't recall. With my memory, I don't recall. Plus, you know, I was a fairly young lad at the time.

I don't recall getting excited about a new decade. I'm pretty sure it probably mentioned to me but I don't recall. Now, I remember 1990.

I remember 2000, probably more than any of them. I remember New Year's Eve 2000 because we were supposed to, everything was supposed to turn off. We were supposed to, you know, it was supposed to be this big, I forget what they called it, this big catastrophe and, you know.

They had a name for it. It was the Millennium Bug or something. Millennium.

In fact, it's not come, that's my name. They didn't give it that name. The Year 2000 Problem, also known as the Y2K.

Y2K Problems. Oh, the Millennium Bug, it is, yeah. The Potential Computer Issues.

What was known as the Millennium Bug? Y2K Bug, also called Year 2000 Bug. Or Millennium. A problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000.

But it didn't. Oh, so they basically did what? So, it did cause some problems but apparently they sorted it out quite easily. But it wasn't, you know, catastrophific like they said that it was going to be.

My friend who owned the club, who owned a club, he actually closed on New Year's Eve that year because all the clubs around were charging extortionate amounts of money. And he didn't like it. He didn't like how everyone was sort of getting on the bandwagon charging such a huge amounts so that people could just have their normal New Year's Eve fix of going out and celebrating the New Year.

But because it was a Millennium, it was absolutely, I wonder if it has anything on the internet about that. Millennium New Year's Eve costs. So, even the New Year's Eve on the 10s was, oh blimey.

It's, yeah. Did the Millennium kill New Year's Eve celebrations? This is, yeah, this is, it's honestly, someone's written this on Digital Spy. Remembering during 1999 when pubs and clubs were trying to charge ridiculous prices for New Year's Eve because it was the Millennium.

I remember some pubs were charging between 20 and 40 pound for a ticket, where other years they would charge between 5 and 10 pound. Anyway, it all backfired as people refused to pay and a lot of places had to drop their prices as the day approached. A pub near me was charged, this is what's written here, Jeff 62.

This is from 30th of the 12th, 2011. Anyway, since then I've found it's never quite been the same. Last year we went to a couple of local pubs and there was zero atmosphere.

You wouldn't know it was the biggest party night of the year. We actually got the last bus home at 11pm and saw it in indoors instead. Saved on a double price taxi fare.

Not sure what to do tomorrow night. Anyone else planning to go out or do you think the same? Did the Millennium rip off, kill or kill New Year's Eve? 30th of the 12th, 2011. Yeah, it's quite a long time ago.

I remember that. You know, a pub, this is a pub that you go into, you go into your local pub all year round. They rely, they rely on the locals coming in there and meeting up and drinking and whatever, playing pool and however else they make their money.

So that's what they rely on. And then once a year, the public aren't allowed in unless they pay. Like 20 quid, 30 quid, whatever.

If anything, if anything, not these days, but you know, forget in the last couple of years because things have changed a lot. But if anything, like in the old times even, you'd think New Year's Eve would be a lock, a lockdown where they only let in the regulars and they get to drink for free all night. Just to say thank you for being here all year, for actually giving, allowing us to earn a living.

People don't think like that, do they? People don't think like that. People, those people, they're everywhere. That makes sense to me.

Can you imagine how loyal, how loyal would, you know, you've got like maybe 50 people and yeah, it's an expensive night. But, you know, you're given it free, you don't have to go through the brewery, you just get a lot of stuff in a cash and carry, you know, cheap beer from a cash and carry and just do it like that. I'm an expert on this, by the way, just suddenly I'm an expert out of the blue for some reason.

I don't know why. And treat these people, treat your loyal customers. They're going to come back.

I bet you'll spend more money in the coming year after giving them a night out for free. Disco stripper, I mean, it's up to you. I don't, I'm not, I'm not saying what's right and what's wrong.

I'm not a judge. I mean, if you, if you're that way inclined, if it's disgusting, if you, if you demand a stripper, I will turn up and I will do the job. I'm, I'm, I'm fine.

I mean, my little thong, I want to say little. Oh, yes. You could fit it on one of my ears.

So not sure where I was going with that. Oh, yeah. So millennium, I stayed in and I saw the new year in with my cousin's boyfriend.

It was just me and him. I don't know where the rest of them were. I think they might have perhaps gone to the pub or gone out clubbing or something.

Weren't there anyway. So I don't know where, I don't know where they went. And I was sitting there and we watched the fireworks.

It's a really good firework display on the Thames. Always every year. Well, most years on the Thames.

Really good firework display. A year to see different countries as well. I think Australia already had theirs about six hours before because they're about six hours ahead of us.

Was it three hours? Six hours, something, six hours, something like that. Or was it 12 hours? Is it a year? I don't know. But they, they have theirs.

And so what we watched theirs, we watched the Hong Kong ones. We watched the various different ones, but also the ones here as well. So that was on telly.

It's to be fair, to be fair, I've said that about 10 times today. New Year's Eve television is not really up to much. I guess that's because the TV stations expect most people to be out.

But they're not. Not everyone's out on New Year's Eve. I mean, what about the, well, not all the elderly people because I'm sure a lot of elderly people go out as well.

But people in this 80s or 90s and 100s and 120s and the very young people under 10, possibly not allowed out, you know, clubbing. I don't know what the age of consent is for clubbing going into nightclubs. Is it nine, 10? I don't know, 11.

So I don't know what, it's got to be good millions and millions of people at home on New Year's Eve. Watching the old television. I mean, some people must still watch television.

They must do, they must, they must, they must. I'm pretty sure they do. They must do.

Surely, surely. So yeah, I remember that. I remember that year because 2000 was, 98, 99, 2000.

2000 was a year that I discovered websites, you know, like building websites. I got really into it. I also remember I went to the Millennium Dome that was just built.

But was it built in 99 or was it built in 2000? But I went to see it anyway. I went to see it either that year or the year after. It was just being built.

It'd just been opened. Went there with someone that I'd just met. I got two free tickets because one of the people that, yeah, I knew someone that worked there.

They'd, they'd worked there, you know, building place. So I got three, two free tickets to go along and I went on a bank holiday Monday. Monday.

And now it's the O2 arena. Is it the O2 arena? Yeah, O2. But what happens if O2 close? Because you see in America, isn't there T-Mobile arena? Does T-Mobile even exist anymore? Doesn't in this country.

T-Mobile, T-Mobile. Ah, ah, okay. T-Mobile in America is around.

T-Mobile and Sprint merged to create, to create American's 5G leader. Leader. T-Mobile UK.

UK. My T-Mobile. We don't have T-Mobile here.

Why does it even do that? Why does it say T-Mobile? I click on it, right? Orange and T-Mobile. There is no T-Mobile. Why is it even saying that there is when there isn't? I know.

Is T-Mobile available in the UK? Looking to upgrade as an existing T-Mobile customer, you're in the right place to get the best deal on the UK's fastest modular. Log into my T-Mobile to check your upgrade. So it looks like what happened to T-Mobile UK? Founded 1993.

Defunct 2010. It merged with Orange UK. So it merged with Orange and then Orange changed to EE.

That's what happened. T-Mobile was, was, T-Mobile UK was a mobile network operator in the UK. First, everybody had a T-Mobile contract or T-Mobile pay-as-you-go SIM card.

Seriously, T-Mobile are, they were the leaders, the absolute leaders of mobile phones in this country in the 90s and early 2000s. Seriously, such a huge, huge, or is it founded one-to-one and then T-Mobile? Yeah, I think it's one-to-one to start with and then turned into T-Mobile. Anyway, it first launches one-to-one on 7th of January 1993 and then the network was initially, initially operated by Mercury Communications.

One-to-one was purchased by Duchi Telecom 1999 who reprinted it with the global T-Mobile brand name 2002. Ah, so yeah, one-to-one was reprinted in 2002. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I used to use T-Mobile before that.

Yeah, maybe it was one-to-one. What they did, I'll tell you this and then I'll search it. Okay, all right, I'm going to tell you something and you won't even believe me.

You won't even believe me. And then I'm going to search and prove. I'm going to prove to you, okay, that it's true.

I might get some of the facts wrong. So, here we go. In the late 90s, maybe even the middle 90s, one-to-one slash T-Mobile, but maybe it is one-to-one, offered people a contract, a lifetime contract of everything.

Basically, unlimited data, unlimited calls, unlimited texts. Now, I think the data, we had a thing called WAP, which is the internet, which was the mobile phone internet, which was just awful. But it used to be called WAP, we didn't have actually proper internet.

We didn't really have proper internet in 1999, not really. We did have internet, a version, compared to today's internet. But it was unlimited phone calls.

And I think it was unlimited anywhere, like anywhere you called. And also phone, mobile to mobile, as well as landlines. And some people, you know, a lot of people jumped onto that one and thought, this is good, and started using them, like really rinsing, rinsing the heck out of these phones, you know, passing them around their friends, letting their friends use them.

And, you know, one-to-one started not liking it, because they realized that they didn't want other people, they didn't want to really keep this promise. So I'm going to do T-Mobile UK, which was a unlimited plan back in the 90s. 30 years ago.

So I thought, anything everywhere, I think it was called, I don't remember that. Preach, was it Great Plan? Was it T-Mobile? Maybe it was one-to-one, one-to-one. One-to-one, one-to-one unlimited plans, 90s.

It's because, I can't find it. This is a true thing. Honestly, people, what happened is, the people started, the company started contacting people, offering to buy their contract back for quite good sums of money, hundreds and hundreds of pounds.

And then people started saying, yeah, they just offered me 10 grand. It probably didn't, probably wasn't true. But let me just look, I want to just find out, I'm sorry, I have to find out.

One-to-one buying back, buying back phone contracts. It's got to be something. History of pay, returning your device.

The thing is, they might have taken it off the internet. You see what I mean? They might have like, well, we don't want people to remember that. So, maybe they, they didn't want, they want to keep that little history gone.

Compare how to choose the amount of trading. Oh, that's a shame. There's got to be somewhere.

It's, there's got a one-to-one buying back phone contracts. Is it T-Mobile? T-Mobile. I think it was T-Mobile.

I don't know. No. Buying back phone contracts.

No, no, no, no, no, no. 2000. 1999.

Nope. Can't see nothing. I just, I can't, I can't prove this is true though.

I can't, although it's true, I can't prove it. Not in this moment. I'm pretty sure I could find a little bit of a dabbling, a little bit of searching, a little bit of tap dancing.

I could probably find some stories. But I'm thinking that some of the, there was some exaggerations along the way. It's a little bit like if you, if you lived, like I lived in East London, in East London in the 90s, and I got to meet a lot of people that were around when the Krays were in charge of East London, the Kray Twins.

They're notorious gangsters that were very, very famous in this country. Very famous. And very, very famous.

And there was this event, very famous event that happened in the, what was the name of the pub? Kray's pub. See all I've got to do is put Kray's pub and it's going to come up. Kray's pub.

Whitechapel. Carpenter's Arms. No.

The Blind Beggar. That's it. The Blind Beggar.

So that was the name of the pub. This really famous thing happened. Anyway, I, if you talk to people, there's, everyone was there that night.

There, if you added up the amount of people that bragged to being there, you could fill Wembley Stadium. Probably twice over the amount of people that were there. This says that, yeah, I was there that night.

Now, in 19, no, 2005, I went to the Blind Beggar pub. Never been there before. This is, I've moved out of it, London at that point.

But I thought, I'm going to go up there, just have a little look. So I did. Went in there, had a pint of lager.

Now it's not, it's not a tiny pub. It's a good-sized pub. It's a very old building.

It's, I imagine it's probably listed. It's a, it's a monumental building. It's, apart from steeped in the history of the East End and, you know, all the stuff that happened in the past, in the 60s and before that, it's, it's also like a, it's a nice place.

It's nice in there. It's big, airy, but it's not huge. It's not, unless there's like a, a, you know, a huge space out the back, you know, the size of about 15 football pitches.

I, I don't know where everyone would have stood. You know, it's, it's, it's, you know what I mean? It's like, oh, I went in there, it was the, I was the only customer when I went in there. I went in at a really weird time.

It was probably like three o'clock in the afternoon. There wasn't a lot going on and I went in there and then some famous, another like famous gangster, like that's written books, came in and he was being interviewed and stuff. And I just carried on with my drink and then I left.

I knew, actually, I went to, I needed a toilet and I ended up going to the bookies and to, and going to the toilet in there. I don't know why I remember that, but there was not enough room in that pub for all those people. All those millions of people.

I was there that night. Yeah, you weren't. Yeah, I was, I was there that night.

Yeah, I was. Yeah. Apparently, on the actual night, I don't think there's many people there at all.

Hmm. Victorian East End pub, infamous as site where, okay, the thing happened with Ronnie Cray. Service options, dine-in, curbside pickup, no delivery.

Whitechapel Road, London, E1, 1BU. Opens 12pm to, oh, it's tomorrow, 12pm. I don't know what time, I guess I close at 11, I suppose.

Some of the questions, can you believe this is... Blimey. Okay, here's something, this is Google, right? This is Google. The Blind Beggar.

So this is people asking the pub questions about their services and what's available. The first thing, is it okay to spark up a spliff in the beer garden? Answer, absolutely not, I'm afraid. Not in a public place.

Thank you for understanding. Like, one more answer. What's the other answer? Nothing, okay.

That's a ridiculous question. Okay. Is there only two questions? Was this a pub where Salvation Army started charity work? Or is it somehow related to first steps of Salvation Army? The answer says, William Booth preached his first sermon outside the pub.

Okay. Ask a question. See all questions, 20.

I want to see all, but it's only showing me two. Why is that? Do you know why? Do you know why? I want to see all 20. I want to see all 20 questions.

Come on. Reviews. Great location, atmosphere, good selection of beers and food.

The burger was small but nice. The hotdog pretty bad and fries terrible. Please, please don't find out where I live.

Clean, spacious, Spanish beer, brewed in the UK, Latin music, French design table. These are the reviews. Reviews are not... Okay.

All right. Reviews. The only positive about it is that there is no catalysis.

Why is it not allowing me to scroll? What I want to do is scroll. Why would it not let me scroll? All, history, 129. It's not allowing me to scroll up or down.

It's almost like it's not working anymore. The iPad stopped working. Why? I treated it like a, like my own child, but I mean, I put it in a cupboard for days on end.

No, I just, I just, why? Why are you not working? Come on, baby. Work for me. Obviously a busy pub on the high street as it has a huge bar.

So there's, it's got a big bar. It's not, you know, but not for like a hundred thousand people. That's kind of my point.

It's not a small pub. It's a big, you could probably get a couple hundred people in there. Like if everyone was standing up, I reckon squashed together, couple hundred, I reckon.

It's a brilliant pub. I like it. I've not been in there.

I've been in there once. What I'm saying, it's a nice pub. It was, it was a long time ago I went in there, but it was kind of exciting to go into a place that was so, I don't know, famous, I suppose.

I don't want to use the word infamous because the pub didn't do anything. You know, the pub just happened to be a place where this happened, but the pub was, has been known for being like a meeting place for a lot of people that, that like to go there. Very friendly, chatty staff, very good service.

Intriguing place to be if you're interested in the history. Loads of history that goes with the pub. Lovely place.

Nice, nice garden for smokers. Okay. I did see the garden.

A really lovely East End boozer with an interest in history. If you're a Craze fan. Nice outdoor space.

Thanks for that, Vinnie. Lovely, lovely sound effects. Nice outdoor space for relaxing in the friendly and polite staff and a gorgeous bar cap too.

Oh, why is it still not scrolling? What's the point? What's the point in anything if it won't scroll? See, this is weird. The Carpenter's Arms was the most notorious pub in London, owned by the gangster twins Reggie and Ronnie Cray. So the Carpenter's Arms actually is more notorious than the Blind Beggar.

The Carpenter's Arms is a Victorian public free house at 73 Cheshire Street in Bethnal Green, East London, England, a few feet from Brick Lane. The Carpenter's Arms. The Carpenter's Arms.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Surely it's not. It's not the one I used to go to.

19. The Carpenter's Arms. Cheshire Street, Bethnal Green.

The Carpenter's Arms. I remember the Carpenter's. The Carpenter's Arms.

Shoreditch. Okay, I'm gonna. Carpenter's Arms.

Shoreditch. The Carpenter's Arms. Map.

Get directions. Get directions, baby. Rivington Street.

Rivington Street. Okay, let's have a look. Shoreditch.

Commercial. Brick Lane. Open this up a bit.

Rivington. Brick Lane. Okay, where is it? Carpenter's Arms.

Grimsby. That's weird. Grimsby Street.

Rivington Street. Is that Rivington Street? Great Frog East. Where is it? Come on, baby.

Shoreditch. Shoreditch House. The Owl and the Pussycat.

Okay. London Shuffle Club. Great Pizzeria.

Okay, went there with a friend. Reformation Ladies Clothes Shop. Great Frog East.

The Owl and the Pussycat. Oh, that sounds familiar to me. Shoreditch.

Skia. Rivington Street. Rivington Street.

Where's... Why is that not coming up? Oh, okay. That's why. Because Rivington Street is hidden.

Hidden. There it is. Brick Lane.

Brick Lane. Carpenter's Arms. Unless there was a pub called Carpenter's Arms that I've been in before and it's zero, you know, nothing to do with that one.

Or it might just be that I've just gone past it so many times on a bus that it's almost like I know it. I know the pub, but I don't know if it would be in there. That could be the answer to that question.

Oh, I found Rivington Street. So the Carpenter's Arms. Carpenter's Arms.

There we are. Right, yeah. Nowhere near where I thought it was.

I mean, like, nowhere near. Not even close. So what's near it? Matthews Row.

William Davies Prime. Shoreditch Hair Salon. No, I genuinely don't know.

Isn't that weird? Never mind. It's not that important, really. I don't know why I was even looking.

I just got excited. Sometimes I get excited about things and it's not that I regret getting excited, but I just wonder why I did get excited. You're like, really? Why? Why? Anyway.

You know, sometimes I'll start these podcasts and I think, will I actually have anything to talk about for an hour? And I always do. I don't know how. With the little help of my little friend, the internet.

I'll tell you what, this little bugbear of mine or whatever, is I like to tell the truth. Not when I'm making stuff up. You know, that's different.

That's just me being silly. But if it's... I like to try and be factual, if at all possible. Which means I like to... well, what I like to... what I do do is I fact check.

I go online. So, you know, if I say something to someone and they say, are you sure? And I'll think, well, maybe not. Maybe I'm not sure.

So I check it. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes it's a bit of both.

It's like, okay, I was right, but I got the wrong date. It was the wrong decade or, you know, it's like, okay, it was the right decade, but it was a man or it wasn't a plane. You know, it could be weird, any kind of strange thing.

You know, right ocean, wrong vehicle. I don't... whatever it could be. I'm not currently thinking of an example.

He's asleep now in the city. I think I've sent him to sleep. He's been listening to me.

He's just like completely gone. Anyway, I'm going to go. Thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself. Lots of love.

Bye.