#959 Vinnie keeps eating my underpants Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (22nd January 2023)

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My name is Jason Newland.

My website is jasonnewland.com So yeah, it is 8.31 on Sunday the 22nd of January 2023, so it's in the evening, 2031 in the evening. I've got little Vinnie sitting at my feet and I'm sitting at my desk. Now for some reason he's, well at the moment he's being quiet, but that doesn't mean that that will continue for any length of time.

But you never know. He's a little bit unpredictable. That was a bit squeaky, wasn't it? A little bit.

He's a little bit unpredictable. I still haven't figured him out. Over five weeks I've still not figured him out.

He's, what do they say, a law unto himself. I really don't, I can't just, yeah, I don't know. I've just got to take him as he is, I guess.

I might just accept that's how he is and stay with it. Hopefully he will come round. But he's now ripped.

When I take him walking, now not every time, but every now and then he decides to start biting my, the bottoms of my trousers. These are tracksuit bottoms or sweatpants, whatever you want to call them. And so I've now got holes in at least three pairs now.

Because he grabs it and he just rips at it, you know, shakes his head and everything and it's not ideal, if I'm honest. Not ideal. I found out that he used to do that before, before he came to me.

Oh yeah, he likes to, likes to bite onto trousers. Well, shouldn't he have been taught not to do that by now? Yeah, it'll be, it'll be a year old in, literally a month. It's 22nd of February.

So it's the 22nd today. So in a month, he's 11 months old. Yeah, he's still doing stuff like that.

Still biting the lead. I'm finding a way to get him to stop doing that. And, but, and also I counted on my floor, five pairs of underpants he's destroyed.

Another five pairs on top of the three pairs he'd already destroyed. I chucked them away. So I bought some new underpants and he's destroyed five of those pairs of those.

Five of those pairs of those. Yeah. So I have to figure a way of hiding my underwear from him.

As we speak, he is behind me, ripping to pieces one of my shoes. And he brought it in the other day and I've got two pairs of shoes that are pretty much identical. One's blue, one's black.

Now in, in the kind of, I don't know, the lighting, I couldn't tell which was which. I thought, no, because if you really want, can you hear him? He's ripping it bit to bits. If he wants to, he could get hold of the other shoes.

They're, they're on my exercise bench. I've put them up. But you know, if he really wanted, he could get to them.

But he seems to be satisfied with what's on the floor for now. Now I, I've had to put my boots on the shelf of the bedroom because the kit, the window shelf, because if he gets hold of them, they, they cost me 120 pound a couple of years ago. And I don't think I've ever spent that much money on footwear ever.

So I got those from the catalogue. And they're really good boots, but I do not want him destroying them. And they're the kind of boots that could potentially last me for a long time, because they're really, really well made and they're hiking boots.

Because you know, I like to hike. Yeah. No, not really.

Not really. I was lying. So what's the latest? YouTube.

What's on YouTube? YouTube. The internet's going very slow. I don't understand why 839 subscribers is what I've got on YouTube.

I've now got 154 videos. But there's 12345. Five, five left to they're scheduled to not been released yet.

And one that's on private, because it's a it's a, I'm basically putting together some videos in order to then make it easier to make videos. So I've got this spiraling. And it's almost like a firework spiraling.

And I had one that was it was 10 seconds long. I've created it into an hour long. And now my computers in the process of creating a 10 hour long one.

So I uploaded the hour long one just to see how it looked on YouTube. And if it uploaded, okay, how long it took. It did take a while.

But it's it plays nice. So I've made a 10 hour version. I'll also upload that just to test it.

And then I'll be doing that with doing lots of versions of those. Because I'm thinking this is what I'm thinking. On the YouTube videos do what I do with the 10 hour recordings for the podcasts.

Because at the moment, all of my recordings, all of my videos of my recordings on YouTube, are just the length of me talking. Can you hear if you can hear that in the background? It's literally destroying a trainer or a sneaker, whatever you call them, a foot footwear. He's ripping it to bits.

And so I'm thinking of doing 10 hour long recordings on video. Once I've got a few videos sorted out, ready, and it'll take might take a couple of weeks or whatever to get an assortment. And then it'll be a lot easier to make the videos.

Although it will be quite time consuming. And there's a problem is you need a really, really good laptop or really good processor and energy and all that stuff to to make a 10 hour video, which I do have. I do have that all in that laptop.

But I can't use it for anything else. At the moment, it's using all its energy to produce that video. So I'm using the Adobe Premiere Pro.

That's particularly noisy in the background, isn't it? I do apologize. I don't think you'll be doing that for the whole hour. But you might, there's a chance he might.

So I'm thinking once I've done that, once I've, it's kind of like getting a I don't know what the right word would be a template, I guess. So making templates for videos, and then I can just add the audio. That that that's kind of where I'm aiming to what I'm aiming to do.

And then upload them to YouTube. So to process them and upload them to YouTube is going to take a long time. A 10 hour video is going to take probably maybe in a few hours to upload to YouTube.

And it's going to take a few hours to process. Really, what are you doing? I don't want to look at him because then he might think that I want his attention. And they'll start going making those weird noises.

So I'm figuring by the beginning of February, I'll be doing 10 hour videos on YouTube. He's now behind me. I mean, he might go to sleep, but he's not he's looking over at me, I can see with my peripheral, he's just jumped onto the settee.

And he's staring at me. Trying to he wants my attention. Now he's down at my left foot, and he's, he's on two feet looking at me, wanting me to look at him, but I'm not.

So hopefully, he will just go back to what he was doing before. But it doesn't look like now he's now he's licking my hand. He definitely wants my attention.

I can have my attention if he doesn't want my attention. Most of the time, when I make a podcast, suddenly, I don't know if it's having a microphone here. I don't know if it's me sitting at this chair at this table, talking, perhaps because I'm not talking to him.

But he just suddenly starts to play up. And he's, I mean, he's now just gone to the door, but he's come back in again. I'm still not looking at him.

As soon as I do here, he just that will be it. I'll have to put him into the bedroom. I mean, hopefully, he'll get distracted again.

And find something else to focus on. So it's Sunday today. Last night, I watched the boxing and it was good as a couple of fights that I wasn't really that interested in funny enough, but the some of the a couple of the like early undercards were good.

Heavyweight fights, a couple of new heavyweights. One being an Olympian, British Olympian. He was what was it? I think he was bronze, bronze heavyweight.

The same as Deontay Wilder, because he calls himself the bronze bomber because he won bronze in the Olympics. So I I'm thinking, you know, I was it was fun. I was enjoying it.

And then the final fight was Chris Eubank Jr. against Liam Smith. Liam Smith is a former world champion. Chris Eubank Jr. has been around for quite a while now.

He's he's held the interim world championship. He's held the IBO, which is it's not really a world title. They call it a world title themselves, but it's not really recognized.

But he is very talented. He's lost twice before. Once to Billy Joe Saunders.

I think that was in a British title fight. And then Billy Joe Saunders and his own points. Saunders went on to win two world titles.

And then he got his last fight was against Canelo Alvarez. And he got stopped. Like most people that fight Canelo Alvarez.

Most, not all, but a lot. And that was when he was on his winning streak. I think like a 10 year winning streak or something.

And then Chris Eubank Jr. fought in the, it's like a tournament, where all the belts are on the line and people, different fighters fight each other. And he got through to the semi final of it. And he fought for a world title.

And he lost again on points. And he's been well known for having a really, almost indestructible jaw. Indestructible? It's tough.

That's what I'm trying to say. No one's ever knocked him down as far as I know. And so he was kind of... Liam Smith, I would say, is the superior boxer.

He's also had the experience. You know, he's been in with some really top level. Also, he's been a world champion.

And so he, there was a chance maybe that he'd win on points, the way both of Chris Eubank Jr.'s two defeats have been. I don't, well, I don't think many people really believe that it was going to go any other way. Like that Chris Eubank could be stopped or anything like that.

So it was kind of, you know, that wasn't even, I think it was a 100 to 1 bet that Chris Eubank could be knocked out or stopped. And he was. Liam Smith stopped him in round four.

And it was a very, very spectacular stoppage. And if I'd have been the referee, it's easier to say that, isn't it? But, and things, I guess things look different. Things look different.

I should finish the sentence. If I was a referee, I would have stopped it earlier. But when you're there, you don't see things, I guess, the same way as when you're watching it on television.

Because on television, you could, well, I could see, and I think anybody that was watching could see that Chris Eubank was wobbling. He was completely all over the place. Yeah, the referee gave him his 10 count and let it carry on.

And then Liam Smith, oh, he started now. I'm going to put him into the bedroom. Put him into the bedroom.

Right, he's in the bedroom. And I just know the signs as soon as he starts. That's it.

I know that it's just going to get louder and it's going to turn into barking. Which is fine. It's not fine at all.

But it's, you know, it is what it is. And he's in the bedroom. So he's happy.

He can sleep in there for a little while. It's only going to be for an hour or something. And quite often, he'll go in there and sleep on the bed anyway, when I'm in here.

He just doesn't want to do it when I want him to do it. You know, it's a tug of war going on. And I don't want to control everything he does.

I don't want to control him. I don't want to control anybody. But I would like him to just behave a little bit just to you know.

I think he's got anxiety. Well, I don't think I'm pretty certain. He's got anxiety issues.

He's got a constant frown on his face. But that's hereditary. You know, he looked, he looks identical as to his dad.

Same face. His dad's got a different colour body, but he's got the same face. And what I might do is stick the pictures somewhere so you can see them of him as a little baby.

Now, I wish I had him as a baby, because I know that he'd be different. It's not a different personality. But just, I think it'd be more relaxed, be calmer, because I'm a calm person.

And I just think he'd, I think that will have an effect on him over time. I hope so. But if I'd have had him as a baby, and you know, he'd know, he'd know, he wouldn't know anything else.

But as it is, he's known three different families. And it's just, it's got to still be confusing. And he still sees people from his previous family.

So he sees his, his foster mum that had him for three months before me, because she lives across the road. And it was her daughter that bred him. So she still sees her daughter because her daughter comes around, still sees her daughter, still sees her son-in-law, who was the breeder himself, who actually helped with the birth.

It's his hands that are holding him when he's a baby. The only person he doesn't see is his first home, you know, his first official home, after the breeders sold him. I don't know where she lives, but he doesn't see her.

I'll probably find out she lives across the road as well. So he hasn't, he's not had a chance to forget about those people because they're still around. I say those people, they're nice people.

And his former mum's lovely, very friendly. And she actually gave me a lift the other day. So I'm forever in her debt.

The thing is, he absolutely adores her. Honestly, he just, just loves her so much. And the thing is, I left him here.

When did I leave him here? I don't know when. I think it was this morning. I left him here this morning.

I left him with my friends and took, no, maybe it was last night. Anyway, I left him at his and took the dog for a walk, his dog for a walk, for him because he can't get out at the moment. And he said to me today that he was standing at the door waiting for me to come back.

So, so maybe he, there's, he's got a little bit of attachment to me now. Maybe. I don't know.

I just, isn't it amazing how quickly time goes though? Because I don't normally take too much notice of the actual weeks. Unless it's something I'm looking forward to and there never is. I don't, you know, it's nothing that I'm looking forward to in the future, particularly.

Apart from every day, I always look forward to waking up in the morning. I know it sounds weird, but that's not a bad thing, is it? You might ask why? Well, here's my answer. And you know, I, I laugh about the stats and I kind of, because I've had a few people, a couple of people in the past moment have been about me talking about the stats.

This thing that I do, whatever you want to call it, um, hypnosis, because you know, I make hypnosis recordings. I make boring recordings. I do this, I do, you know, quite a few different podcasts.

This is the most regular one that I do. But I do also do the, I suppose the other, the other two most regular ones would probably be Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis and Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily, those two podcasts. And then I started again doing the sleepy, boring objects.

Yeah, so, as far as individual podcasts, but I've got other podcasts that have all of the different things on them. So, I kind of, when I wake up, I look forward to getting out of bed, to coming in here. And I have a little routine.

My routine has changed quite a lot because of Vinnie. So it's, you know, he's the priority in as far as when I first wake up, I take him for a walk. I have a wee wee.

And I have to have a drink of water. I didn't check my stats. So I checked the YouTube stats.

I don't expect too much happening there. You know, it's the subscribers go up gradually. But one a day, sometimes two.

And it's fine. It's a spy check anyway, because I like, quite a believer in the energy of positive energy is focusing on it, and being interested in it, which I am. But my main focus, my main moan, my main focus is the podcasts.

And I look at the stats, and it gives me, first of all, a reason to get out of bed. But I just get a little bit of a buzz when I get up and I see that I've been getting up later lately. So I've been later lately, blimey, very too very sick.

Similar words. So I've been waking up about, I think it was about seven o'clock today. And I think if I'm correct, I already had nearly 8000 downloads when I woke up, which is like really good.

For me, it's really good. The last few days, I'll open up my iPad. Let me have a look.

Just the last few days, things have really changed a bit, you know. And it works. See, today I've had just under 19,000 so far.

That's nine o'clock. That's four hours left of the day, because the stats go to one o'clock in the morning. Yesterday, nearly 21,000.

The day before, nearly 21,000. So was that Sunday? No, Saturday, Friday. Thursday, I had 17,000.

But I didn't make any recordings that day, I don't think. The day before, 20,300. The day before that, 22,000.

And, you know, it's, to get over 20,000, like starting to be regular, is, it's exciting for me. I'm not even joking, it's actually exciting. So I've had one, two, three, four, five, six, six days out of this month.

Nope, that's not right. I'm lying. This current month.

One, one, one, two, three, four, five. Five days out of this current month that I've had over 20,000. One day, I had 19,500.

And today, it's, well, it's nearly 19,000. So it's going to be over 20,000 before the end of the day, probably. So that's, that's, the thing is, it doesn't compare to last January, where I had, I think, over 800,000.

But last January, I had to take down all of my recordings that had music that went on for 10 hours and five hours, and then replace them with me talking in the background with music. So I wasn't allowed to have just music on its own. So I was re-uploading, re-recording, re-uploading lots and lots, hundreds and hundreds of recordings during January, which would explain why I was getting so many downloads.

I mean, seriously, it was, if that had just been a normal month, like a, you know, just a normal month, and I was getting those stats, I would have been proper happy. Oh, yeah, January, 773,500. And some days, yeah, I got over 40,000 one day.

And another day, I got just under 40, just under 40, 35. So, yeah. So I had quite a few really large days last January.

But the way it's going for the current month, how many days we got? 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. So that's 900. No, 21.

21, 210,000. Yeah, 210. No, no, wait a minute.

23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31. So 90 times by 10,000, it's 900,000. No, 90,000.

So 180,000. So 180,000, 300. So at the moment, I've got 368 and a half 1000 downloads for this month.

368. So 468. 548.

So yeah, it's not bad as I'll be rich and hitting over half a million. Half millions, it's a nice number. It sounds nice, doesn't it? But just, I don't know, just there's something about that, the million.

It's probably because I grew up thinking that a million was, I think, probably the six million dollar man. That's what it was. The six million dollar man.

And it was almost an infinite amount of money. It was more money than really existed at that time, you know, in the late 70s. And it's not obviously it's not but to the average person, six million, six million dollars.

That's, that's more than a house is worth. I mean, if you think about it, it's a six million dollars average house price in 1970, should we say 75? In the USA, USA. Average house price in the USA.

In the 1970s, you're looking at like 25 grand. In the UK, you're looking 10 grand. I mean, I mean, that's an average, I don't know, average price.

Of course, it's going to depend upon the area and how many bedrooms there are. Rooms with beds in, the size of the garden, what other things affect the price of a property? I suppose planning permission, if you have planning, planning permission to extend, then that definitely put the price up, wouldn't it? If you're the lease owner, and you have like 100 year lease or ever, so yeah, maybe that would make a difference. So it just gives you an idea.

So in those days, you could buy a house for, let's say 20 grand. 15, 20 grand. Six million is an almost impossible number.

Yet, you know, I know someone that sold their house for a few, a couple, about two or three years ago, for 1.5 million pounds. And that was just a house in London. It was a lovely house.

But because of where it was situated, you know, it's, I mean, it's, that's not what 1.3, that's a quarter, one quarter of six million, the bionic man's body. And it's a quarter of his body. Then you could argue saying, yeah, but not all of his body was bionic.

Was it both legs and one arm and his eye? I'm pretty sure it was. I'll check that. What parts of bionic man were bionic? What parts of bionic man were bionic? What? Okay, here we go.

His right arm, both legs and left eye. See? Okay, I didn't say right arm, did I? I'm not sure if I'd want my right arm bionic. I mean, what if you had an accident? You see those things, you see, I don't know if you've seen it on TV shows, you know, technology, yeah, technology shows, or, you know, futuristic shows, maybe YouTube videos of experiments using bionic arms, where they, you know, go to pick up an orange and just completely squash it or pick up a brick and crush it.

Now, if you're right handed, you might not want that possibility of an accident happening. So yeah, both legs. So I remember that because the thing is, it wouldn't work with just one leg, would it? You won't be able to, you won't be able to run faster, you could hop faster, but you won't, you won't be able to run faster.

If only one leg was bionic. Because you'd be running in circles, I guess. So I guess they had to, I'm sure they thought this through when they were developing the TV show.

Unless the TV show comes from a book. Did the TV show originate from the book? From a book? I wonder. Did bionic man originate from book? Six million dollar man.

Ah, the series was based on Martin Caden's Caden's Coden's Caden's 1972 novel, Cyborg, which was the working title of the series during pre production. Wow. See, I don't understand why did we call him the bionic man when the show is called the six million dollar man? When did the bionic man start? 24 October 1974 in the UK.

How much? Oh, here's an interesting question. If you're interested. It's not if you're not.

How much would the six million dollar man cost today? Roughly 28 billion dollars. 28 billion dollars. Yeah, but I'm thinking, okay, so you're telling me that six million dollars in 1974 is worth 28 billion.

Now, let's check it out. Six, six billion dollars. 1974 worth now.

So 6,094,000 inflation calculator. Here we go. Inflation calculator in dollars.

Value of six million from 1974 to 2023. Just give me the price. Give me the price, man.

Why doesn't it just tell me? Okay, here we go. It would be equivalent to 80 million. Now, wait a minute.

$692 for Yeah, according to this, it'd be worth $30 million. That's not accurate. That'd be true.

Six million would now be worth 30 million. So how did they come up with 28 billion then? So to say and include a cumulative change would be like 600% or something like that. Because 10% would be 100% would be 12 million, wouldn't it? So to end up being 30 or 40 or 50 million.

So how did they come up with 28 billion? That doesn't make sense, does it? Does not make sense. So they've got different 6 million in 1974 adjusted for inflation would be 36 million. So I don't know 49 years.

Wow. But that takes into consideration the drop in the dollar and whatever over the years. You've got a lot more for your dollar in 1974.

Wow. The dollar rose in 19 1980. The dollar rose as the strongest of dollars being since 1974.

The dollar is the strongest in 1980. That was during President Reagan, wasn't it? I'll be honest, I wasn't very up to date with not well, definitely not American politics, but not really with much politics at all. I used to see the news.

I didn't watch the news myself, but it was on. And so I knew about Margaret Thatcher, because she was the Prime Minister here. And I remember seeing Ronald Reagan on television, and she, both him and Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister here, were gone really well, apparently.

And I remember the Ronald Reagan getting on very well with, was it Gorbachev in Russia? So the leaders of the sort of getting on quite well with each other. Obviously, not all leaders everywhere, just those that I remember. And yeah, was it I forget is Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, so I don't not sure.

I think they were both quite similar in their attitude towards the West. I I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

But I remember, just remember the nice bits, I guess. I didn't really, I had no interest in it. No interest in politics when I was a kid, when I was little.

Really didn't. I mean, there were certain things we had to know about because even the teachers were talking about it. So certain things that happened in the 80s that was unavoidable.

But yeah, I didn't really get interested in politics, or I get, I suppose became socially aware, aware of that kind of stuff until I was probably 16. And I had my first election with an L election. I think it was 1987 or it might be 1988.

And I remember buying a large pizza. And a few cans of coke, maybe a bottle of coke, I can't remember. And sitting up all night watching the election.

Was it 97? 1997 election. Maybe it was 1988. Oh, no, it was 97.

1st of May. Wow. So I literally moved into that flat above the chip shop.

On just before Easter. So that would have been I can work it out. Let's have a look.

Easter 1987. So it was April the 19th. That was Easter.

So I I remember April the 19th. So I remember there being it was Shrove, was it? Not Shrove Tuesday. Over here.

I don't know if you celebrate Easter in other countries, but over here we have hot cross buns. And we eat them on the tradition is we eat them on the Friday, Good Friday. Not good for everyone.

But Good Friday. And then we have Easter eggs on the Sunday. So I, I just remember, I think it I mean, it might have been Easter.

But my friend came around, we were closed, the chip shop was closed. So I was definitely closed on Sundays anyway. But I think Good Friday, it was closed.

So my friend, because he came around, and he was working full time as well. So he came around on Good Friday. And Wurzel Gummidge was on television.

So I wonder if I can get the TV. Good. Good Friday.

97. television TV guide. UK.

So Good Friday. Why does it give me 14th of July? Monday. Friday, the 19th.

17th. Friday, the 17th. April.

So TV times. 17th of April 1987. Oh, okay.

Television. So I wonder if it's going to give me the whole, is it going to give me the whole thing? No, it's not. What's the point in having it there? There are no broadcasts to show here.

Try viewing the full schedule. You're just it's just a trick. There's nothing on there.

Just a waste of my time. Why did you do that? I'm never going to forgive them. One London studio seven.

What's on today? 4th to 10th of April 1987. To be fair, for no, because it wouldn't normally have it on Friday, would it? TV times. Let's have a look if it's got some back numbers.

3rd of April. 11th to the 17th. 18th to the 25th.

I'll add to cart so it's not going to let me have a look at it. So what is six pound that's going to cost? So someone somewhere has got hold of a lot of these, I guess, and selling them radio. In fact, they've actually got it.

Radio times back numbers.com. But this is the TV times, not radio times. The radio times were separate back then. The radio times and TV times.

I think it still is separate. Dear, dear TV guide. Nope.

That's now. I don't know what's on now. I'm busy.

Ah. Okay, I'll try one more chance. 17th April TV guide, UK.

Wurzel Gummidge. Wurzel Gummidge. Okay.

Wow. TV show 1987 to 89. So Wurzel Gummidge down under.

Wow. So TV times Wurzel Gummidge. I can't find it.

I wanted to just check, you know, just check that it's TV times may may defer to like this. Oh, never mind. It doesn't matter.

Although, ah, I know what I can do. Wurzel Gummidge. Wurzel Gummidge.

If I look at Wurzel Gummidge, and it will give me probably the dates that it was on. Wurzel Gummidge. I wonder if it will give me the dates it was on telly.

Series 2. 1987. 15th of November 1987. 22nd of November 1987.

So 22nd. Oh, this is a New Zealand series. Nope.

Oh, okay. New Zealand. So was that when did it show on in the UK? 22nd.

4th of October. So from the looks of this, it only released. I mean, there's a good chance very, very good chance that actually the the Wurzel Gummidge.

What did we look at? 22nd. 22nd of Easter 1987. 1987.

April the 19th. So it's Sunday. 2019, 2020.

That'd be the Wednesday. It's not coming together at all, is it? As far as plans go, this is an awful plan. I was so looking forward to seeing it and thinking, wow.

Wait a minute. 19th, 18th, 17th, 16th. Nope, still doesn't work.

Whatever way I look at it, you know what you have to realize, you might actually know what Wurzel Gummidge is. If you're not, I mean, it was was it shown in other countries? We don't know. I'm really not sure.

So, okay. 81. So it would have been a repeat.

It was clearly repeat because it did. I spat everywhere, sorry. The first episode of Wurzel Gummidge was February 25th, 1979.

It's called Wurzel's Washing Day. And in that finished, there were seven episodes in that season. And it finished April the 8th of April 1979.

The next season started, we call it series here, but season series. February, no, January the 6th, 1980. Finishing 24th of February, 1980.

So there's two, three. The fourth season was basically finished 1981, July 31st. And then that was it until 1987, October.

So, clearly, what the episode I was watching on that Sunday was just a repeat. Because in 1987, and the first episode was 4th of October, 1987. And it was called Wurzel Gummidge Down Under.

So, I don't remember that. Yeah, so it would have been. I don't remember how off.

It's really hard to air date December 20. Okay. You can't find out the.

Well, I say you can't, you might be able to online. But to find out when something's been repeated, I don't know. Wurzel Gummidge has been on television so many times.

I did find something that was. Ah, wait a minute. Let me have a look.

Look in magazine, TV listings. Should we say the 19th, April, 1987. Oh, I know that's talking 16th of January.

That's 19th of December. So, 1987. Issue look in magazine Wix.

There was something I saw and actually showed the listings. It showed. Oh, this is weird.

I'll tell you what, right. I had look in magazine. From late 70s all the way up to probably 84, maybe 85.

I don't know. And it's got pictures here of the covers of those magazines. And I would have had all of them.

I had hundreds of look in magazines. And sometimes I'd organise them in order, you know, when I was on the toilet. I didn't always do that.

Sometimes I wiped my bum. But it's, wow. Wow.

11th of June, 1983, Boy George. You got 18th of June, 1983, Musical Youth. 25th of June, 1983, Danger Mouse.

Oh, wow. 2nd of July, 1983, Return of the Jedi is on the front. And then you got 16th of July, 1983, Knight Rider.

Just going down. 13th of August, 1983, Clark Kent's back, Superman 3. Wow. 3rd of September, 1983.

Wham, they're on the front cover. I'm just looking who's on the front cover. I can't really tell sometimes who it is.

Nick Heywood, 15th of October, 83. He was like a local boy to sort of near where I lived at the time. And if you've not heard him, Nick Heywood? No, I think Nick Kershaw.

Sorry. Nick Kershaw. Nick Heywood is really popular as well.

I think of Nick Kershaw. Oh, Knight Rider is again there. Terrorhawks.

Terrorhawks. Wow. This is funny.

They've got, this is 19th of November, 83. They got Terrorhawks. And then a little divider and then Kachigoo underneath.

And they've all got similar hairstyles. Hey you, Rocksteady Crew. Cliff Richard.

Looking TV annual. I used to have that most years. I get that.

Wow. Nostalgia. See, I remember 1970.

What year would it be? Mork & Mindy. 1978, I reckon. 1978.

So, looking shawty, waddy. There's Star Wars. The Bionic Woman.

David's Soul. Oh, Logan's Run. Logan's Run.

Really? Really? Logan's Run. I can honestly say I haven't thought about Logan's Run for quite some time. Anyone that doesn't know what Logan's Run is, let me excite you.

I'll let you Google it. Just Google it. Logan's Run.

It was a TV show. Obviously 1978, I guess, because they're talking about it in 1978. It was different from anything else.

Oh, wow. That's great. What else have we got? The Six Million Dollar Man.

You've got tennis. I think McEnroe against Bjorn Borg. Abba.

Who's that? Who is that? Oh, what? Patrick Duffy. The Man from Atlantis. Wow.

Pat Duffy feature and big colour pin-up. Wow. That's phenomenal.

The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. Bonnie Tyler. 1978.

What was Bonnie Tyler doing in 1978? Six Million Dollar Man. Darts. See, in the UK, bearing in mind this was for kids.

Okay, this was a kids magazine. It wasn't for adults. It was for children.

Now, you don't see children's magazines. Well, I'm guessing. That's a bit flabby, isn't it? I'm guessing that you don't see articles about darts or tennis or snooker.

But in the late 80s and late 70s and early 80s, these games were really popular. The whole family would sit around the telly watching the Wimbledon final, which they probably still do. But it was huge.

A huge event. Snooker was massive. Even darts was popular.

Like, I know darts is popular, but I'm talking on a bigger scale. Like Eric Bristow. They were celebrities.

The World's Strongest Man. Jeff Capes was a celebrity. I reckon not many people could even name the World's Strongest Man.

I can't even name the World's Strongest Man at the moment. I don't know who he is. But back then, people knew.

I don't know. Sport was big. It still is big, I know, but... What is this? Oh, okay.

Logan's Run. Let's look back again. Elvis Costello.

Sha-waddy-waddy. Grizzly Adams. Grizzly Adams.

Grizzly Adams. And it's got the Fonzie with Suzy Cuatro. Do you remember? Did anyone see that episode of the Fonzie? He falls in love with Suzy Cuatro.

I remember. Yes, I do. And what else? I think the Bionic Man.

I think he's nearly 90 now. Tomorrow's People. Tomorrow's People.

That was a good show. I liked that show when I was a kid. Looking... What was it? David's Soul.

Charlie's Angels. Charlie's Angels. Yep.

Wow. And it's got a whole thing about football, one of these. This is June 78, so it's... Kenny Daglish is on the front cover.

So maybe it's like the Incredible Hulk. These are some of the features. Wow.

Man from Atlantis. Logan's Run. They had the comic strips so that, you know, cartoon strips at this time.

The Benny Hill page. Six Million Dollar Man. Man from Atlantis.

Logan's Run. Bionic Woman. Doctor on the Go.

Blimey. And the posters Sheila and Bea Devotion. There's so much.

This is it. John Travolta. John Travolta pinup and special feature.

That's the 5th of August 1978. So that's the first thing I've seen with... I mean it says Hit Parade Superstar because he had hits. Both him and Olivia Newton-John had hits, from the Grease film.

Oh Elvis. Elvis feature. Big colour pinup.

Win an album. So... Elvis feature. Big colour... So that would be, you know, a year after.

So... Lookin' Barry Sheen. Return of the Saint. The Saint.

So I don't know if anyone saw the Saint in... It was Roger Moore. I didn't know this until more recent years because I've never seen it. Roger Moore was the Saint at Elvis before he became James Bond.

And Ian Orgilvy took over the role of the Saint like quite a few years later. And they kept advertising it and they had this halo but he was just like a stick figure. And I remember saying to my mum at the time, so does he turn invisible? And she said you'll have to wait and see.

But he didn't turn invisible. So why didn't she just say no? Because I spent the whole... I remember, I think it was, because this is 1978. By about 1982 when the series finished, I remember saying to her, he hasn't turned invisible yet.

She said it's been four years. Did you not realise he wasn't going to turn invisible? But you said wait and see. And she just walked off laughing.

So what other things are there? Mind your... Wow. There's a TV show called Mind Your Language. Very popular.

It would not be allowed today. Wow. You can see clips of it on YouTube.

It's, yeah, it's probably the most un-PC thing. It's beyond being un-PC really. It's on a different level.

And that's, that gives you an example of the kind of TV shows that Britain used to have as family entertainment. Another one, if you want to check it out. Oh, what is it? Oh yeah, It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum. That's another TV show that would, they can't show reruns of it. And you can see clips of it on YouTube.

Again, Saturday night peak time viewing for families in Britain. What's another one? There was one, but it was kind of, he said that he was making fun of those kinds of people that are like that. But it's called Till Death Do Us Part.

Or if you just put Alf Garnett. Alf Garnett into YouTube, you'll see. Again, that's something.

And that carried on into the 90s. And then what other ones? Let me think. Love Thy Neighbour.

That's another one. Wow, I've seen clips of that on YouTube. It's like, whoa, you'll never see it on TV.

You know, it won't be never be repeated. And again, peak time viewing for families in the 70s. And it's amazing, really.

I've seen so many TV shows from the 70s, comedies from the 60s, and they weren't like that. It's just, there must have been a phase, you know, a phrase, a phase that it's just, I guess, what the public liked. At the time, because if you, you know, things like Eric and Ernie, Morgan Wise, or Cannon and Ball, or, you know, all of a sudden, they're like really big double acts, they were just, or Bruce Forsyth.

These are legends, like, you know, in Britain, British comedy of the late 70s, early 80s. And they were always gentle, gentle comedy, funny, but gentle. So yeah, I've probably talked enough, haven't I? I think I've gone well over my hour.

Wow, hour and 20 minutes. I just got so excited. I was so excited about talking about nothing.

Words were gummage. That's the only thing I remember that I spoke about. Well, it's time for me to go.

Goodie, goodie, goodie, goodie, goo, goo, goo. So remember to be kind to yourself. Remember to be gentle with yourself, because you deserve to be happy.

And just think about how you'd feel if in the future, let's say in the next, the next month, you decide to just stop blaming yourself for stuff. Just for a month, just take a month off of, you know, reminding yourself of stuff that you don't want to remind yourself of. And so just to leave past mistakes in the past, and just test it for a month to see what it's like to see how much more relaxed you feel just by the idea of it.

Realizing that we're always moving forward. Always. And the thing we move towards is our own creation.

So, you know, you're literally painting, you know, if you're, if you're traveling forward in your mind, towards a forest, you're the one that's painted the forest. You know, in your imagination, I mean, if you're imagining that you're going to be sitting on a beach next year, or in the summer, you've, you've created that beach in your mind. You're creating the the road that you're driving on, you're creating the sky that you're looking up at.

You're creating the plane that you're traveling in, or the train, or the hot air balloon, if that's your favorite way to travel. So you can just test that out. Maybe just do it for a week, maybe just for the day.

Just see what it feels like. See how you feel different, how it changes your outlook. Maybe you find that relaxing is easier, much easier.

Letting go becomes the most simple thing in the whole world. So I'll speak to you tomorrow. Take care and lots of love.

Bye