#1015 I hope it was just the radio - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (2nd July 2023)

Hello, do you want that? Do you? Well, hello everybody. Hello, hello, hello. Let's have a drink of water.

So, hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and oh, my website, I just realised it was offline because I hadn't paid for it. So, it's now back online again, jasonnewland.com. And please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

And do you know what's really weird? It's actually cold inside. It was cold outside as well today. It's Sunday, the 2nd of July, 2023.

And it's not cold, like, but it's chilly. And I'm refusing to put a jumper on, a cardigan or anything like that. I've got a t-shirt on.

I'm just flat out refusing because it just seems wrong to be wearing a cardigan in July. I mean, if I'm honest, I could do with having heating on. It's really not very warm.

It's strange. It's kind of very strange. I'm just touching, there's bits of metal right on the desk and the metals, you can always tell, kind of get an idea of the room temperature by touching anything that's metal.

And the metal, I don't know what it is, some kind of holder thing. It's cold. That was the whole story, really, just having a little bit of a moan.

So I don't mind the weather because I don't care if it's hot. But I kind of don't expect it to be cold. Cold.

I mean, ooh, you know, shiver, shiver. It's shiver weather, shiver weather. Anyway, I'll just give a filly a bony thing to chew on.

So that should keep him occupied for a little while, hopefully. A couple of things. I, I managed to, managed, it took me quite a while to re-upload all of the YouTube videos that I had deleted.

So they're now back. And I've started to make some more, more as well. Because there's, I've got, it's kind of ridiculous in a way how many different recordings I've done.

And I'm not just talking about the different versions of one recording. I mean, that in itself, just puts it into the multiple thousands. But by just the individual recordings, there's so many, so many.

Just since 2018. And I had at least 1000 before that, that are nowhere to be seen. They kind of just, I deleted them and they're gone.

I've got videos and stuff that oh man, the quality is awful. Like really, really bad quality. And the quality when I made them weren't that bad.

It wasn't. It's the, I guess the copying the copying of copying the copier, copying the copy, blah, blah. And it just is really, really, I haven't kept there.

I mean, they were never great quality, but blimey. Really, really bad. And so even some that have fairly okay audio, have just the videos ridiculous.

Which is a shame because I've got a lot of recordings. And I did go online to see if there's any way of improving the video quality. But nothing I tried has worked.

I'm not not to say that it's not possible, because I'm sure it is possible, but it I'm not an editor. And I couldn't find anything that really made I could change the way the video looked using the Adobe suite using the video thing. But I just couldn't, it just didn't look any good.

And audio is a little bit easier to change. So I can I can improve the audio quality on some of the older recordings. But that's not really going to make any difference if the videos are awful.

Unless I guess I suppose I could upload them on YouTube and make a video like separate to the audio. If the audio is good enough. It makes me think like what was I doing for the first 12 years? The first 12 years of doing this, making podcasts and hypnosis recordings, everything I did for 12 years was rubbish.

And that doesn't make sense. Because if everything I did was rubbish, why were people watching them listening to them? So I guess well, I guess perhaps the quality, not the content, the content maybe was okay, hopefully, but the quality of the video and the audio wasn't always particularly I'm laughing now because sometimes it was it was really bad quality, very echoey, or there'd be stuff going on in the background like really loud.

And I remember someone said once, well, they sent them put a message saying, have you considered fading in and fading out of your recording? I didn't even know what I meant.

Didn't what were you talking about? Instead of like, hearing me ruffling around, ruffling, always a ruffle, you know, sort of preparing to start the recording. And at the end of it, like, you can hear me go off to the toilet. And just is is very, I mean, not that this is professional, but that was really unprofessional.

Before I just put that there first, because I don't think anyone's ever going to call me professional. I'm not. I'm not the most slick person when it comes to this stuff.

If I was, then I'd be making one recording for sleep, one recording for relaxation, one recording for chronic pain relief, one recording for stopping smoking, and that would be it. I wouldn't be making hundreds of recordings, hundreds and hundreds and thousands for sleeping and relaxation. I have to do so many to try and make one good one out of all of them.

Maybe, maybe. Yeah, so I'm just in the middle of looking at some stuff. A couple of things I'm planning to do.

Well, I've kind of already set the thing in motion is to have this is something I've done before, actually. But the way I did it before didn't work because the websites weren't correct. But I'm going to, I'm going to have websites for each individual podcast.

So for the Let Me Boyd Asleep, there will be a website specifically for that podcast. Deep Sleep Whisper, hypnosis, there'll be a website specifically for that podcast. Relax Asleep Hypnosis Daily, there'll be a blog, you know, on and on and on.

And jasonnewland.com will still be there. That will have all of every new recording will be on there instantly. So anytime I make a new recording, it will be available on jasonnewland.com. But for those that are maybe only interested in the Let Me Boyd Asleep, then maybe it's an idea to have a website just for that.

And then perhaps have the option for you to be able to if you are like, I don't want to use the word fan, but if you're hugely impressed with what I do, I am joking. If you like what I do, then and this is more what you like rather than the other stuff that I do, like the whispering. I thought about doing some hypnosis shouting, relax yourself, go to sleep, like that.

But I don't know how well that would go down. But that's kind of whisper shouting, isn't it? Yeah, I feel relaxed. Oh, that hurt my right ear a little bit doing that.

See, my mouth doesn't open very wide. And you may be thinking, how the heck did you come from what you're talking about to talk about your mouth to open very wide? Where's the connection? Well, I was when I was shouted then, or pretending to shout, I was opening my mouth quite wide, but it doesn't open wide. I don't know why.

Maybe it's because I've got a little face, but I haven't got a little face, have I? I haven't got a little head. So I don't know. Maybe I've had a broken jaw when I was younger, and it didn't sit properly.

I don't really don't understand. But I remember I was at the dentist a few years ago, probably 10 years ago. And the lady, the dentist person, was kept saying to me, can you open your mouth wider? And I kept saying, oh, oh.

And she said, well, she said, well, what are you saying? Like, if you're going to do a job like that, you should, surely you should learn how to understand people talking when they've got like their mouth full of stuff. You know, it's you think you'd learn to, to, to understand. Like when I was, you know, worked in a call centre, I, I was able to tune into different accents.

Like people from all over the world were, you know, talking and it's sometimes it took a little while. Some of the hardest accents were, well, just really thick, like really strong accents. Wherever they're from, it was just a really strong accent.

And more if the person talked very quickly. Because it's, not only do I talk slowly, I also hear slowly, which is a weird thing to say. But if, if someone talks really quickly to me, it's almost like they've said nothing.

It is, I don't hear it. It's just noise. It's just like, are you, that's all I hear.

And I might catch some of it. I might catch the lift to the funeral or whatever it was they just said, but like, do you want, sorry. And you know, because I've had, I was, when I was younger, I had hearing issues in one of my ears.

I was, I had to have an operation and I was backward at school and stuff. That's the only reason. But, and there's times when I'm thinking, I think my hearing's going again, you know.

But then I've come to realise that, well, maybe it is partly that, but I can't hear people when they talk very quickly. Now I do sometimes talk quickly. This is me talking quickly right now.

That's, that's quick for me. And, and I do struggle with some YouTube, well, a lot of YouTube videos, because it's, I feel a bit bombarded by the quickness of the talking. Now, I probably could slow it down, thinking about it.

You think you can slow down the video. And there's hardly any YouTube videos that, that people talk slowly. And that I've found, or the type of videos that I'm interested in.

And I don't want to stop watching the videos, because YouTube is probably my, as far as viewing things on a television, YouTube is the place I go. Because there's, I like to follow the AI and boxing and just, you know, social issues and whatever, interviews. And I see interviews are quite good, because generally, when someone's being interviewed, the interviewer has a tendency to talk a bit slower than a normal conversation.

And the person who's replying, or who's being interviewed, seems to talk a bit slower, because they're thinking about what they're saying before they say it. So they don't get cancelled. So they don't get into rubble.

Maybe. So I think it's going to come to a point where I'm one of the only places that you can go to on YouTube or online, and listen to someone speaking slowly. I know that hypnosis sessions are slow.

But this, this isn't a hypnosis session, this is just me talking. And, you know, there are other people that do boring stuff as well. It's, but I, I don't listen to that's the things that they do.

Because this is just me being me. It's not, I mean, it might, it might seem from the outside, like these recordings are finely tuned, crafted pieces of art, you know, and I'm sure some of you might think that I spent hours writing a script for this podcast. And I'm just reading it off a piece of paper or off a screen.

And I've, I've spent all day putting it together, crafting, crafting my words. Well, sorry to break it to you, but that ain't, that ain't what's happening. I don't, I don't even, I don't, I don't even think that if I did do that, that the podcast would be improved.

Even if I spent eight hours preparing it. Now you think that would help, wouldn't you? But I don't know, because I'd probably be too tired to want to do anything after spending eight hours preparing some kind of monologue thing. Yeah.

But this does suit me in some ways, the monologue kind of talking at you rather than having a conversation. Because I do find that when I'm talking to other people, I'm just waiting for them to stop talking so I can say what I want to say. And I know that's not a popular thing to say out loud, but I mean, it's not, not always the case.

And these days, I don't have many conversations with people, maybe your dog walker, and we're just talking about the dogs. So that can be a bit strange after the event. And I think, Oh, just when someone says, Oh, what's his name? I say Vinnie.

What type of dog is he? I said, he's a red dog. He's little, or whatever. They say, Oh, he's Vinnie.

That's a nice name. And that's it. Am I supposed to ask what their dog's name is? I don't know.

I'm guessing that's probably expected. But there's something about that, that puts me off doing it. When someone expects it.

Or, you know, when someone expects a compliment. That's what I don't compliment. I don't compliment people.

Like, in a false way. You know, I spent a lot of time around some people that are very complimentary to each other. And would do a similar thing to me.

So when I was at university, I'd have a haircut, or I'd trim my beard, or have a shave, or buy a new jumper, or something like that. Or a new coat, new shoes, new spectacles. Oh, Jason, you look 20 years younger.

I'm like, shut up. It's just lies. Why are you lying? It's lies.

I don't look 20 years younger. I own a mirror. I can see.

I just look cleaner. I look like I might have had a wash. I don't look younger.

Maybe I look a little bit younger because you can't see so many grey hairs. Because, you know, if I clean shave, I'm talking about my face, there's no grey beard, you know. Not my whole beard is grey, but there's a fair bit of grey there now.

I used to like to say that only the ginger parts of my beard are turned grey. Well, that was the case 10 years ago. Now, it's pretty much spread.

None of the hairs are that fussy. The grey is not that fussy, which hair it takes over, which hair it possesses. They're like triffids.

My beard is a lot like a triffid. What's a triffid? Google it. I can't explain everything.

Going back to like 1982 television show or movie, Day of the Triffids, was that movie, wasn't it? There were big flowers and they used to move around, like sunflowers kind of thing. And probably the least scary horror movie you'll ever see. But for some reason, we were supposed to be scared because a flower was walking around.

Oh, dear. What's my favourite horror movie? Oh, let me tell you. American Werewolf in London.

If you haven't seen it, don't watch it at night, watch it during the day if you're watching it. And remember, it's funny. Okay.

It's old. And I think about 1980, maybe 81. And if you remember the Michael Jackson thriller video, was it George Landis was a director of that.

He's the same person that made and directed the American Werewolf in London. So they use the same prosthetics and makeup and stuff like that. So if it hadn't been for the American Werewolf in London, there would be no Michael Jackson.

That's what I'm saying. There'd be no thriller album. Which is complete lies.

But there'd be no thriller video like that. It just be a different video and it probably would have been just as successful because let's face it, he was pretty good at what he did, wasn't he? Just didn't always do good things. But yeah, he was a good singer.

I like it when he's a kid. I like his kid stuff. No, that sounded wrong.

I liked his singing when he was a kid. So Ben and Ben, the two of us need look normal. Oh, I was thinking about what I said.

I didn't mean it to come out like that. I do. When I was about 17 years old, I had an album, I think it was a double album.

And it was the Michael Jackson or the Jacksons or might be the Michael Jackson and the Jacksons super mix. And it was all of their hits, we've like mixed together. And like right from the start in our ABC.

And I want you back, Ben. Blame on the boogie. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? What other songs did they do? I'll be back.

No, I'll be back. I'll be there. That's it.

I'll be there. Do you ever want something that you know you shouldn't have? But the more you know, you shouldn't have it, the more you want it. And then one day you get it.

It just feels so good for you. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. That's another one.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. And there was a few songs that I'd never heard before that I just really liked. And I've never heard a Michael Jackson song that I didn't like.

I'm not I've not raved about every single one. Now, this is something that I heard before, I think I hear in about, wow, I can't like a dance uncontrollably, nothing like that. But I've never heard anything like Stevie Wonder as well.

I've never had a Stevie Wonder song that I just I like. He's he's just so amazing. Like Stevie.

I call him Stee. What other people? Whitney Houston's another one. I was a bit in love with Whitney.

I was. When you think about it, she was a little bit older than me. Marginally.

So. What, for about nine, is it 85 she came out? She was about 17, wasn't she? No, 85. And I was 14, 15, 14.

So she was about three years older than me. And I remember seeing her singing, I think it was on The Wogan Show. Terry Wogan was this really big interviewer, like on television.

BBC One used to be on every every evening, like Monday to Friday for a while. And he was very famous in this country. And she was on there singing, I think it was saving all my love for you.

And she just sounded like an angel, looked like an angel. But I didn't realise she was an angel in disguise. It's an Elvis song.

He wasn't singing about Whitney because she wasn't born then. You're an angel in disguise. Oh, yes, you are.

She looks like an angel. That's another Elvis. I've never heard a song by Elvis I didn't like.

I mean, I haven't fallen in love with every song he did. But he just had, to me, I mean, I'm not the only one that thinks this, obviously. He just had a beautiful voice.

And if you listen to some of his gospel stuff, you could almost, and then you listen to his, Well, since my baby left me, I found a blue place to tell. I'm wiggling my hips right now. And there's that, he sounds so young, it's a very kind of young voice.

And then you hear his an album where he's doing the gospel, or he's singing even the Christmas album. And he's a much more mature voice. And it's like, wow.

It's like, I believe when everyone goes astray, someone will come to show the way. I believe, I believe. And it's like, wow, he's mature, his voice really matured.

And I realized it was the same year, it was the same period, like 1957. He had the same voice, but he could do different things with it. So he could sing like, I don't know when he was he 54, he started 56, 57, whatever.

But it's the same period, it wasn't like it was 10 years later. He was doing gospel songs, with like, kind of a deep voice, powerful. And then other times he was doing ballads that were quite high, you know, not high, but higher vocally.

I know what I mean. Buddy Holly is another one that I really fell in love with. I'm not sure how I came over him.

It must have been, I knew who he was, because my dad used to play 50 songs. And we had this little games box, it was a games room upstairs in our house. And there was these old, are they 12 track tapes.

And there was all these 50 songs like rubber ball, I'll come back soon back to you. Rubber ball, I'll come back soon back to you. All that, like the Wanderers as well.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time, the Wanderers. Well, I'm a type of guy who will never know, I never went on police, I don't run from town to town. And yeah, so I kind of started to like those 50s songs.

I'd already kind of heard a lot of the 60s stuff. Because let's face it, I was born in 1970. So the 60s stuff wasn't really that old to me.

You know, as a like a young child, I was still hearing the 60s stuff like it was fairly new. You know, the Beatles, they broke up a year before I was born. So on the radio, they were playing that stuff like it was still fairly late, late, latest music, kind of.

And it's weird, my very first, that was a weird noise I just made then, my very first memory of hearing a song. And it was on the radio, I think. And I was in my, I was gonna say my crib, so we don't use the word like crib here.

But in my bedchamber, or no, what? Bed cot or something. Anyway, I couldn't get out of it. So I don't know how old I was, I was probably about 11.

And I must have been, I was very young. So I was in this room. And Gary Glitter was on the radio, like he was singing.

And I hope to God, it was just him on the radio. And he was singing, I love you, love, you love me too, love, I love you, love me, love. And that song, to be, it might not have been on the radio, it might have been, no, there wasn't anyone playing a guitar.

No, I think maybe it was a record just been playing on repeat. But it etched in my brain, like the words of that song. And I remember the words, but, and I'm thinking how clever I am, must have a, like some kind of digital memory or something.

And then I remember like, the words, I love you, love, she loves me too, love, I love you, love, me, love. I love you, love, she loves me too, love, I love you, love, me, love. It's kind of quite easy words to remember, I guess.

But you know, that was, I grew up in the early 70s, thinking about it, you know, think all those like glam rock stuff that I was hearing, but I don't remember that would have potentially had an effect on me. And that was, you know, TV programs I was watching that I didn't know what I was watching, that would have affected my development, just like it does, television does, films you watch when you're a little kid, music you listen to, video games, oh, was that controversial.

And it affects us, you know, affects us as adults, so it's going to affect people when they're little.

So I don't know what the heck went on for me to end up like this. And I don't remember hearing the Beatles, really, as a kid, like a little kid. The only other song I really, or two songs I remember from below the age of six or seven was Bill Haley and the Comets.

Now I remember Rock Around the Clock. And was it see you later alligator in the wild crocodile? Was it something like that? So definitely Rock Around the Clock. And I was thinking, why was I hearing that so regularly on the radio? Because this is in the the monastery, or the nunnery that I lived in.

And why? I don't know why I can still visualize the radio on the top. I think it might have been a piano. Wow.

No, why would there be a piano there? But yeah, Bill Haley and the Comets, singing Rock Around the Clock. Now at the time, I didn't know that it was an old song from the 50s. I didn't know that Bill Haley and the Comet Rock Around the Clock was almost a signature tune for rock and roll.

It was like the start of rock and roll. I didn't know that. I didn't know what rock and roll was.

I'm still not sure. And I was hearing this song. One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock.

Rock Around the Clock. I always get my luck between that and happy days. One, two, three, four o'clock.

These happy days are yours and mine. These happy days are yours. My happy days.

Doesn't that start off with the one, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock? I don't know. But yeah, was the happy days in the 60s or was it in the 70s or the 80s? Was it 70s? No, it was the 80s. I used to watch it when I was a kid in the early 80s.

I'm pretty sure. Or late 70s. Like Mork & Mindy as well.

That's another one. I loved Mork & Mindy. I still do.

They don't show it anymore. They, whoever they are, haven't seen it on TV for decades. It's not like a recent thing.

They just, I don't know if Mork, I mean, Robin didn't want, they called him Mork. Maybe he didn't want that being on TV, you know, with his film career and that. I don't know.

But he should be pleased with his work on that show because it was, it was funny. And it wasn't just funny as a kid. I watched it when I was older.

The last time I watched Mork & Mindy, it was 1989, early 1990. And it was on every Friday evening, I think, about 6.30. And I'd watch it. And I just, it was funny.

It made me laugh. Which is, I guess, you know what funny means, Jason? Makes you laugh. Okay.

But it was, it was, in some ways, probably funnier than what it was when I was a kid, because I didn't understand a lot of what was being said. Because with Mork & Mindy, there's a lot of physical humour, wasn't there? Like him sitting on his face and her sitting on his, no, him sitting on his face, walking around with a backward suit on and just drinking out of his finger and things like that.

I mean, it's funny.

It's, when you're a kid, that's just hilarious. I mean, if there is any, if you've got kids, and they've not seen Mork & Mindy, show them, because you can, I think there's clips or episodes on YouTube. I bet you they'll laugh at Mork, especially the first episode where he sits on his face, and then he drinks out of his finger and that, you know, it's that kind of stuff.

But there's something that I think happened in the late 70s and the early 80s, where perhaps more with American shows than English shows, there was a very different kind of TV shows that we had. But it was sometimes quite a philosophical, like a philosophical bit at the end or part of it. So when Mork would, you know, say, Mork, cool and awesome, come in awesome.

And he'd do like a stand up routine, but he'd also talk about something that was quite serious, like a real, quite a psychological, sociological topic, you know, and it's like, oh, I don't think I got it when I was a kid, but I think I did when I got older. So, oh, okay. And it's quite nice.

But then I think the thing that really got me was from a like an emotional perspective. Mr. Merlin. I love Mr. Merlin.

And Zack, do you anyone remember Mr. Merlin TV show? He basically was a mechanic, but he was Merlin, you know, the sorcerer. And Zack was his apprentice. Or, yeah, I think he was he was a school kid, but he was, I think he was, but he was his like magical apprentice.

And Mr. Merlin used to take him into his basement and teaching things. And I just, I think a staircase used to go up and it go into the clouds and there'd be a magical bird in a cage. I just, I loved it.

I just loved it. I just just love that show. But there was this TV show, what was it called? Kung Fu.

And there is, because I've always, well not now so much, but when I was a kid, always had an affinity with the martial arts. Not physically, but just emotionally kind of, I felt somehow connected to Bruce Lee and Kung Fu. And, you know, I'm talking about when I was little, from the age of like seven onwards.

And I've talked about the poster of Bruce Lee on my wall. It was randomly there when I was seven. Like, why was it there? I don't know.

But I used to watch Kung Fu and it was my, it wasn't, okay, it wasn't my, it was one of my favorite programs. And it wasn't really for kids. Not really.

But I used to watch quite adult stuff back then. Not horrible stuff necessarily, but stuff they used to have on Saturday nights at Logan's Run. That wasn't for kids.

You know, Buck Rogers in the 25th century, that was for kids. Well, it's for the family, you know. Dukes of Hazzard, that was for everybody.

The 18th, it's a little bit more adult because, you know, they were firing missiles at each other, but no one ever got hurt. So, you know, there's that kind of stuff. But Kung Fu, a TV show with David Carradine, Carradine.

I loved it because he was very, very quiet and very thinkative. That's the opposite of talkative, maybe thinkative. He was very, you know, he'd meditate and he's very calm and he spoke quietly.

And he just, yeah, I just loved him. I just thought, I guess if I ever wanted to be like anybody, it would be him when I was young now, or him or Wordsworth Gummidge. That'd be the two.

I was going to say or Jack the Ripper, but then I, so I loved Wordsworth Gummidge. Wordsworth Gummidge. Oh, Aunt Sally.

That's not cream cakes. Aunt Sally. That's my impression.

It's not very good. But I loved Kung Fu, the TV show. I just loved it.

And to me, it's very similar. I had that similar vibe to The Incredible Hulk. And you might be thinking, where's the, how can you even have a connection between those two shows? Two very different TV shows.

Yeah, but not really. Because they were constantly on the move, weren't they? And at the end of every, every episode, you'd see them both walking. You'd see Kung Fu walking down a dusty road and you see, you'd see The Incredible Hulk with his backpack walking, maybe fingering for a lift.

So in a like, quiet, melancholic mood, music playing. That might not be the right music. But yeah, just trying to think what else reminds me.

Highway to Heaven was another TV show that I loved. And that was a little bit similar because he was always on the move, but it was more focused, wasn't it? I mean, Kung Fu didn't really seem to know where he was going to end up. And The Hulk didn't seem to know either.

Constantly waking up with ripped trousers and, or waking up like naked, looking and having to steal people's clothes. I mean, must have been difficult for him. But yeah, I remember that these are shows that I really loved.

Trying to think what other TV shows I really, really, really loved. Buck Rogers, brilliant. That affected me in different ways that just visually stimulating.

It was just fun. Then you had Flash Gordon, but that was, you did have the Flash Gordon TV show that I used to watch from the 50s or something. It was, I think it was in black and white.

But Flash Gordon was a big movie in the early 80s that you may or may not remember. And I just loved that movie. I love the Spider-Man movie, like the original first Spider-Man movie.

Was it 1978 or something? 77, 78. I did loved it. Loved, loved, loved it.

You never see that on telly. I mean, they don't mind showing Spartacus or Moses or The Greatest Story Ever Told, those kinds of things. They'll show them on telly or James Bond, older James Bond movies.

But what about the other classic movies? You know, they don't show a lot of that stuff. Battlestar Galactica. Trying to think what other ones.

Yeah, the first Spider-Man movie. I've never seen a rerun of Logan's Run. Logan's Run was a great TV show.

Again, I think they were going to do a new version of it, but it fell through. Because it was such an advanced, they were well ahead of their time with that one. But then it was a futuristic science fiction, which is kind of the point, isn't it, I suppose, to be advanced.

Very good. But then, I don't know about where you lived when you was little, but we had, in this country, we had TV shows that we used to watch that you might not have ever had. One was called Blake's Seven.

And Blake, he had really curly hair. And I think he was only in the first season, first series. And then he, he was, I don't know, he wasn't in it for whatever reason, but they still kept the same, the name, because it was seven people, I guess.

I'm guessing that that's a number. It might be five, but why would they call it Blake's Seven? You know what I mean? Did the seven include Blake? I don't remember. I can't tell you.

But I liked it. And they had these things, you know, Star Trek, and they stand on the thoughts, it things a little, they're almost like oven rings, aren't they? They get on ovens, and they stand on those, then they get transported down to the planet. In Blake's Seven, they put rings on.

So these big like wooden or metal rings. Not rings. Bracelets, that's it, bracelets.

I think I keep thinking cankle, cankle. That's not the right word, bracelets. And then they could get basically transported back wherever they are.

But they didn't, or they, I don't know if they could transport themselves back. But sometimes they'd lose the cankle off their, off their wrist, and then like, oh, we're going to do now. Another one we had space 1999.

Like I'm going back, I'm going back for all of them really. I mean, it's a long time ago. But space 1999 was, oh, that was good.

I liked it. There's a bloke on there that was like an eagle. He had eagle hair, and eagle eyebrows.

And he, I think, I'm not sure if he knows, I think it's the lady. There was a lady there and she could turn into any animal. Oh, it's brilliant.

It was. Oh, yeah. So that's space 1999.

Wow. So this is, it might have been early 80s. It might be late 70s.

Because it's a little bit fuzzy for me. It's almost the same period. Kind of.

He's underneath, he's underneath my chair. He's listening now. And he's crunching on something, but I don't know what it is.

I think he might have started to eat some of his new food. So I went to the pet store, or the sweet shop that he likes to call it. And I said, look, he doesn't like the food I'm getting him.

It's too hard. He likes crunching on stuff for fun, but not when he's eating. So they said, well, this is like a mixture.

This is fairly soft. It's not not soft, soft, but it's softer. So I got some of those and he didn't seem to want to go near them.

No, I think it's just still the bone. Hopefully we'll have them. But I noticed I got these little treats that I said to a tree.

No, he didn't hear me. And they're tiny little things. Perfect for when we're out.

So I can like chuck them to him, but they're not big. So that's what I thought. Well, no, they're not big.

I didn't like think they were small and realize they were the size of a house. They were still small. I thought they were so small.

And I realized just, you know, then I got closer to them. The closer I got, the bigger they got. No, no, it wasn't like that.

It was a mile away. I didn't realize it was a mile away. I couldn't see if it was a mile away, could I? Anyway, the.

He likes them a lot, like really likes them. So I gave him a couple on the way home, just like when we got out of the pet shop. Here's a couple of treats because he was trying to get into the bag.

Which, incidentally, brand new bag that I got from the petrol station. It was a carrier bag for life for life. OK.

It lasted till the middle of the park until one of the handles ripped off. With him jumping up at it. So.

The life of what? I mean, it's just ridiculous. Luckily, one of the handles stayed and it would have been worse if you'd have ripped open the bottom of it and all the stuff fell out because I had a big bag of food. I had another fairly big bag of treats, another two bags of treats and also some bone things for him.

So there was too much stuff to be. I don't know how they got it back. I'd have had to leave some of it in the park.

Walked home and then come back hoping that it was still there. It's just silly. Anyway, so I took him out the second time.

And because it's Sunday, I didn't throw the ball or anything for him. Because there was a few people there and I'd rather do it when there's no one around. So at least then he will kind of stay with me.

He won't run off. But he wanted that. We've got this game that we play and it's a little bit easier with these little treats.

But he likes me to chuck the treat ahead. Either on the grass or on the pavement. The path ahead of me.

And he runs and he finds it. If it's in the grass, he'll sniff and find it. He's very good at it.

Very good. I chuck it, he doesn't always see where it's gone. But he'll sniff and he'll find it.

It's like wow. That's what I thought. Until I decided to actually keep check myself.

And I could see it landed. I could see where this one landed. And he sniffed around.

It was about a foot away. And it was going crunching. He was pretending to eat it so that I'd chuck him another one.

Pretending. He hadn't found it at all. There's probably about 15 treats still in the park.

How lazy is that? How manipulative? He does that. He's like oh no. No, seriously.

Sometimes. I'll be saying time to go home. And he'll start pulling in the area where he likes to go to the toilet.

So I'll kind of follow him. And he's just pulling further and further. He doesn't want to go to the toilet.

But he bends down. Like he's going to do a poo. And he looks around.

And he stops again. And he's still sniffing. Maybe turning around a bit.

And looking for something. No intention of doing a poo. He's just doing it to stay out longer.

Sometimes he'll do it because he sees a dog the other side of the park. And he's waiting for the dog to get closer so he can go and play with. He pretends he needs the toilet.

Absolutely biggest manipulator I've ever, well since Andre. He was another one. I do, I do find them don't I? I'm ever so lucky.

But yeah that's kind of me really. I just got a lot going on. It's near the end of the day really.

It's quarter past nine in the evening. So I'll, I don't know. I might upload this before I go to bed.

Or I might wait until I wake up. Because I'm normally in bed by now. Nine, ten o'clock on a Sunday.

Oh that is, I don't know. It might sound like I'm lying. But it's true.

And here's another thing right. It's starting to get dark outside and it's nine o'clock. It didn't used to.

It did used to and then it didn't used to. It did used to you know a few months ago. But then, I mean in this country, where I live anyway.

Sometimes it starts to get dark about 3.30 in the afternoon. Starts to get dusk. You know not dark but like dull.

And then by 4, 4.30 it's dark. And it doesn't get, it doesn't get light till about 3, about 2, 2.30 in the afternoon. So we have a half an hour of light.

That's a lie. But it will be like good nine o'clock in the morning till it's like proper light. And then in the afternoon sometimes like 10, 11.

You need light on indoors all the day. It's like living in the Antarctic. And I should know.

I watched a documentary once. It's really quite light out there actually isn't it. But I'm gonna go.

Thank you very much for listening. Thank you ever so much. Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.

Do something nice for yourself. Lots of love. Bye.

Bye, bye, bye, bye. Bye, bye. Bye.

You don't have to make a lot of noise Finny. You do really. I still can't believe how loud that fart was earlier.

All right let's stop this.