(no music) #1242 Trivia Tuesday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (26th November 2024)

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. It's that day. What day is it? Of course it's Tuesday.

But what does that mean? Sounds like it might mean. What do you mean? I don't know. Could it be? Could it be? It might be.

What are you talking about? Trivia Tuesday. Okay, maybe that wasn't so good. Hello, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

My name's Jason Newland. Vinnie is cleaning himself. Nice.

The day is the Tuesday, the 26th of November 2024. And I'm tired. It's half past eight and I'm ready for bed already.

This is number 1242 of the Let Me Bore You To Sleep series. That's quite a lot, isn't it? 1242 blimey. So I don't know what the latest is.

What's the latest bit? Okay, I've got a few things I can tell you. One of the things is I spoke to my the Open University tutor. I got a reply back.

I'll read it to you. I'll read it to you. Let me read it to you.

Oh, yeah, only listen if you can safely close your eyes. My YouTube channel is available. And I upload a 10 hour version of each recording.

It's a blank. It's a black screen or dark screen after the first 10 seconds. What else? I have.

Oh, stop you'll do it in a minute. Don't worry. I have a Facebook group called Jason Newland's boring group.

And that is it, I think. So a couple of things have been going on. I've been trying to sort out my finances and stuff.

So that seems to be coming along. The other thing that I've had an issue with that just is my own thing, but it is the Open University degree course. I'm not a little bit I've been getting behind with the study.

But it's been it wasn't just that it was I just couldn't motivate myself to do this the first assignment. And although I thought I'd sent the assignment in, I hadn't because I put it through the wrong portal or something. I really don't know.

And so what I did is I'm just trying to find the email. I sent an email to my to tour. Blimey, okay, we go.

I sent on Friday, I think. Yeah, right. Because the the first assignment was due on Thursday.

So I sent an email. I was just honest. I'll read it out to you.

So dear, Mrs. tutor, that's not her name. I've messed up. I've struggled a lot to do this TMA one due to mental health issues and a lack of confidence and motivation.

I did however, send in a practice one just to see if I at least is in the correct format. It was sent on the 20th of November, I think. So I'm a little bit confused whether I did that or it's a weird one.

I just don't know how to use the system. So I feel like I'm lying, but I'm not. Anyway, I'm not sure what to do next, as I have missed the deadline and not asked for an extension.

Oh, yeah, well, I thought I was sending it to a practice thing. And then I got a thing saying that they'd received it and it and it was done. So I just thought, Oh, no, I sent it in, but it's wrong.

It wasn't completely full. It was just a test one. So I thought, well, and then I went back on there and it didn't look like they'd received it.

Confusing, I'm very confused. Just generally. So as well as experience a lot of anxiety due to whatever.

Also been going last week processing debt relief stuff. My brain's a bit frazzled. I'm unsure to my next move.

Do I need to cancel a course or will I get removed? So I thought I'd give a bit of information, but I didn't want to, you know, I didn't just want to be casual, like why didn't send it in there and there. Give at least a reason, not an excuse, but a reason kind of. Anyway, I appreciate your time and apologize for going too much detail about mental health and penal issues, especially as I'm joking, especially as it may just seem like I'm trying to make excuses.

And then in brackets, I put, maybe I am. Perhaps I shouldn't have put that. I find the material of the course interesting and I've read the chapters of the course book numerous times, which is true, which is true.

And as well as using outside sources to expand my understanding of this material, which is also true. I find the more different angles I approach a subject, the likelihood that the knowledge will somehow stick in my brain and then be accessible to me in future when needed, such as in completing the TMA-1, which is the tutor marked assignment. And it's a bit like throwing poo at a wall.

Eventually something will stick. Again, perhaps I shouldn't have put that. I have gone online to try and figure out how I am able to write in some kind of academic manner, but keep seeming to fall short of my goal.

I've attempted to put together a formulaic strategy of paragraphs that then, that then can be changed to include all the relevant information that's being asked of me to explain my understanding of the coursework. Anyway, please can you advise me on my next step as I've run out of ideas and I'm not even certain that there are any options left for me with the Open University. Thanks for your patience in reading this.

All the best. Steven Seagal. And now I'm going to treat myself to a poo.

Again, I'm not sure how professional that was. When I sent that on Friday, no I sent that on Saturday. Blimey, why did I send that on Saturday? It's a Saturday in the afternoon at 1.52pm. I didn't expect to hear anything clearly because it's a weekend and I just didn't expect to get a response until Monday, which I didn't.

I was hoping to get one by Monday so I could then figure out what to do next. Hi, Jason. This is a response.

Hi, Jason. I'm sorry to hear you having some difficulties. However, I do appreciate you sharing these with me.

Do not worry, all information written here is confidential. And by the way, I would never read anything out that someone sent me that was confidential to them. If that makes sense, just let you know.

Sorry to hear you Mr. Deadline. I'm just laughing at what might come next out of my head. Sorry to hear you Mr. Deadline and did not ask for an extension.

Indeed extensions do not work posthumously or retrospectively. So my recommendation here would be to contact the student support team as soon as possible. They will help you outline what options you have right now.

So please contact them and explain your situation. Let me know what they tell you. Okay, so that's what I've done.

And then she's just put lots, lots of love. So that last bit is obviously just made up. So that was at 11.39pm in the morning on a Monday.

So I replied. Hi, thank you for getting back to me. Thanks Susie Q for getting back to me.

I took your advice and contacted student support. I spoke to Bobby McFadden. And he explained that I can continue on to TMA2.

And as long as I pass the overall module, I will be fine. So that's what I shall do. Thank you.

Thanks again. And Susie Q replies. Great to hear this.

Please focus on TMAO2. Okay. If you need any help, please reach out.

Please do engage in the module material and all the support etc. And, and please stop reading out my emails to your podcast listeners, and especially my address, please stop that. Susie Q, 41 Melbourne Avenue, Portsmouth, PM 5761, telephone number 01739324537982895621354.

So it kind of went together quite well. So what I need to do is send just basically do the coursework. The next for the next one, the next part.

And let's have a look. I go back. Right, is it going to log me out? Nope.

So I've got all weeks. So the second, that block, the first block, like block one is now completed. Block two started on the 23rd, which is what three days to 2324 2526.

So it's less than four days ago. Less than 10 days ago, more than one day ago, block two. So on this one, we're going to be talking about the self diverse families, young people's mental health and well being, education and learning.

Yeah, that's the ones. In the first block, it was the self diverse families, young people. No, blimey.

Just read that. The first module was what is childhood and youth studies, the psychology of childhood and youth, embodied childhood. I struggled with that.

The concept of that. And it's weird. I've been not studying psychology for years.

I've just been interested. I've read books and stuff. I might have studied psychology to a degree, but not to a degree, but in a way, regarding when I did my first degree, counselling degree.

So psychology was part of that. However, I've never heard of the term embodied, like embodied learning, embodied childhood, I didn't understand it. I can't insert took me.

It's taken me a while to kind of get my head around it. I think I have now. But it involved reading, listening to an audio book all about it, I think too, in fact, and also looking on YouTube and listening to a couple of lectures and stuff like that, just to, I just found it difficult to, the concept is, I don't know why, I don't know why.

Anyway, so I think this next, the next one, I think it's going to be not easy, but more kind of something that I know a little bit about, like the self, like, you know, diverse families, young people's mental health and well being, education and learning. So, you know, I think that it's a little bit more perhaps interesting than the, I don't know. Anyway, the, the next S, the assignment and cut off date is the 30th of January 2025.

So I've got was it? Yeah, two months, two months take away a day. So I'm going to get on this. And what I'll do is the way it works is the the first assignment is only 10% of the entire year, or the entire course of this this course, which means that I as long as I get and I have to get a score of 40% overall.

So as long as I get score 40% with all the other over 40% of all the other assignments, I'll be fine. And then this course doesn't even, it's not even included in the overall mark of the degree, have to do the course, but it's not included in the overall mark of the final mark of the degree in six years time. Hey, that's exciting, isn't it? Why are you telling us this?

I don't know.

I'm just keeping you updated. That's all. That's all.

Right. So that that's where I am with this stuff. Just it's weird.

What I need to do, what I need to do, try and figure out my way of learning a way that because if it's not fun, I don't want to do it. And I'm doing this for fun. I'm not doing it to further my career.

What career altogether now? What career exactly? I don't have a career. So I'm not doing it to further my my status in life or to improve my finances or anything like that. This is purely because I think it's important to have an active mind.

It's important to keep learning. I think for everyone, it's not, you know, and there's studies that show that it's really important to keep learning new things to keep your mind busy, not busy. It's not about being busy because it's easy to be busy without learning anything.

I don't need don't need education to keep busy. I can watch box sets all day long. I could to be playing games, which I don't, but I could.

I could be a gamer, baby, a gamer. I'm never any good with games. The only the only two games I ever liked, really, apart from the really early ones like I quite like Pac-Man.

But it just used to annoy me a little bit. Space Invaders. I like Space Invaders.

But it used to annoy me a little bit. I didn't like it when they kept coming down. Don't know, you know, when you shoot them and they just keep coming down further and further and further and crashing on you.

I didn't like that. I didn't seem unnecessary. A little bit rude, really.

And what else is there? I quite in the early days, because I don't know how many people could remember this. The first video games were basically, was it tennis? And you had a little console with a twirly knob. And you had a little line either side of the screen and a ball or dots would go between and you basically have to knock it over to each other and try and get it into the, I suppose, into the goal or I think they called it tennis.

I can't remember. No, not into the goal. They had to basically, yeah, you had to get it in past the thing.

And I think the further you got in the game, the longer the line would be. I think the further you got, yeah, something like that. And every time you lost a point, the line would go smaller so you'd have less room to hit the ball back.

And it was literally just two lines and one dot and boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, like that. It was just, it was, it was good for its time. I mean, we're talking probably early 80s, maybe, maybe late 70s.

But I quite like that. I think partly because it's something that I could kind of compete with, with my brothers, because I couldn't compete with them physically, because I was a lot older than me. And when it came to physical sports, even things like playing pool, snooker or tennis, table tennis, football, anything that was kind of physical.

I just didn't stand a chance against them because they just were bigger and stronger than I was. But with this computer game, it was kind of even-ish. But I still lost.

I don't feel I ever won. They were very competitive, but I think that's normal. You've got brothers or sisters, siblings, it's to be competitive with each other.

So yeah, that's going back a while. So I was okay with that. I did have, I did have some, a couple of computer games.

Because it was a phase, a phrase, a phase where you could buy handheld computer games and they weren't little, they were quite bulky things, but that suited me. I like holding big things. Because, you know, doing stuff on a little, do you remember what was those little, is it Atari? No, Nintendo, those tiny little Nintendo handheld things, tiny little things.

Like, no, I want something that I can actually see. I want something that comes in a box, that's a big box. So when it's a Christmas or birthday present, I can get excited.

It's hard to get excited over a small box. I don't know, that's what I was like. I had a couple of, a couple of games, computer games.

I can't remember what they were. I think they were kind of in the same line as like, what did I say? Not Star Trek. He's distracted me with his noise, he's biting on a bone now and he's distracted me.

So I, yeah, anyway, I had a couple of games. But the only two games I really liked, outside of the games that I had myself, was, never really been a big game fan, not even as a kid. But when I was 14, probably, about 14, there was a video game called Tron at the arcade and I used to play that and always lost.

I mean, obviously, otherwise I'd still be playing it, I suppose. I'm trying to put Tron into Google and it keeps trying to get me to put something else in. Tron.

1982. Tron the game, really? Maybe, I didn't realise it was that early. Arcade game.

Release. The arcade game, 1982. Okay, so it wouldn't have been when I was 14, it would have been when I was 12, 13.

I wouldn't have been on it straight away. I was always behind the trend, as it were. But I did used to play Tron and I actually enjoyed it but unfortunately had to pay.

So the idea of having to keep putting in 10 pence or 20 pence or 50 pence, whatever it was. Although I don't know if 20 pence existed back then. I don't know.

When did 20 pence come into circulation? June 2009? No. June 1982. It was the first undated, what? Ah, now this is about an accident.

It was an unusual, accidental, dateless version of the 20 pence piece and it was reported to be in circulation in June 2009, which would be the first undated British coin to enter circulation in more than 300 years. So when I was a kid, growing up, we had 1 pence pieces. We had 2 pence pieces and they were made of copper.

They were brown and rusty. Well, maybe not rusty but they were brown. Then we had 5 pence pieces, which were silver, little.

Then we had 10 pence pieces, 50 pence pieces and that was all the coins there was. And we had 1 pound notes, we had 5 pound notes, 10 pound notes and I'll be completely honest with you, I don't know above that. I don't know when 20 pound notes came in.

Because I don't, I never had that, you know, we're talking the early 80s. I never had 20 pound. So, I wonder, when did 20 pound, when did the 20 pound notes come into circulation? That's interesting.

The 20 pound note came into circulation, I'm just wondering whether or not I would remember it. 20 pound notes were introduced by the Bank of England for the first time in 1725. Ok, fair enough, they were around.

I just don't remember. I wasn't, that's a long time ago. What I do know is there was no 1 pound coin when I was little.

So, the first 1 pound coin was introduced. The 1 pound coin replaced the Bank of England's 1 pound note, which ceased to be issued at the end of 1984 and was removed from circulation on the 11th of March 1988. When was the 1 pound coin introduced? That's the thing, because it would have been introduced long before the pound note was got rid of.

How much? It sounds like my trivia is going to be money today for some reason. A 1 pound coin that was introduced on April 21st 1983 for the Queen's birthday with a mintage of 443053510. I don't know what that was all about, what am I saying? For coin collectors and others looking for one to buy or sell, the average sale value is £1.80 according to eBay.

When was the first 1 pound coin introduced? The original pound coin replaced, I know it replaced, but when was it first? Because I don't just like say everyone here's a pound coin, now stop with your notes, here's now the pound coins. No, they would have started releasing them before they got rid of the pound notes. It's not telling me, it will not tell me.

I was at school anyway, I remember that, because we used to play, I say we, the kids at school used to play coin against the wall, so you'd chuck a coin against the wall and whoever got closest to the wall won the other person's coin, if there was two people doing it. If there was five people doing it, whoever got closest to the wall would win everyone else's money.

It was a trend for a while and I used to lend people money, because people would get so excited and they'd lost their money maybe, so I'd lend money to people.

Unfortunately I was really bad at it, I was not very good at collecting the money back, so I stopped. You may say, how could you lend money? Well I had about three jobs at the time. In the early 80s I had, what did I have, at one point I had a morning paper round, an evening paper round, a monthly leaflet delivery thing, which I'd do at the weekends.

That was it, so I had three jobs. I also did the town crier, so I had four, and that was once every two weeks I think. It wasn't a lot of money coming in, but it was still cool.

So the one pound coin came in, and then the two pound coin came in. We never had a two pound note as far as I'm aware. The two pound, when did the two pound coin come in? I'm going to guess, before I put it in there, I'm going to guess 90s.

No! No! 1986? Wow. I had a friend who used to collect two pound coins. As far as a collection thing goes, it's not too bad is it? I mean, collecting money, it's not the worst hobby, and it's always going to go up in value isn't it? Get it? Because the more you add, the more it's going to be worth.

Unless of course, actually it won't, because if you just sit on money, it goes down in value doesn't it? The history of the two pound coin and the raw mint, I know all about going down, when it comes to money. I used to like the idea of being a financier, so someone that could do money, knew how to work with money and shares and stuff like that.

I used to buy the Financial Times when I was 18, however, I didn't have a clue what I was reading.

I just liked the idea of walking around with this pink newspaper. It's true, I did. I'd walk around, showing it off, opening it up in public, didn't know what I was, you know.

I think at one point someone said, look, excuse me mate, your paper's upside down. I didn't know, I didn't know what I was reading. 1986.

See, this is supposed to be Trivia Tuesday. And he's distracted me again. I'm sorry, let me just step on you.

Good boy, good boy. Let's have a look. So, get some trivia on UK coins.

So, I'm going to ask ChetGBT, find, I'm just going to, about money. Let's have a look. Oh, this is interesting, kind of, because it actually does relate to something I know about, which is rare.

Coin flip predictability. A study that a coin toss isn't truly 50-50. So, you know when people say, well, 50-50, you do it, you know, heads, tails.

A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on, about 51% of the time. So, next time you flip for pizza toppings, take a second look at the starting side. It's more likely to land on the side it started on.

What do they mean by it started on? The one, the side that's facing up, or the side that's facing down? Oh, I guess they're facing up, it's, yeah, okay. Do you know, I'm going back a little while, but does anyone remember the episode of the Happy Days, when the Fonzie was flipping coins off of his elbow into his hand? It's a random, random question, and you have to be pretty old to remember that.

For some reason I remember it.

Now, I probably don't remember it from the original, because it's possibly repeats that I watched. Although I did watch it when it was originally on as well, but there was one episode where the Fonzie was, yeah, he was just doing that. I think it, either he was doing it because it was a new kind of thing that people were doing, or him doing it caused a trend.

Shall I find out? Did Fonzie, did Fonzie coin flipping cause a trend? Scientist, oh, did Fonzie, why would, coin tossing? Wow, that's weird. Did Fonzie coin tossing from elbow cause a trend? Number of quarters on Fonzie's elbow. Oh, Henry Winkler explains the origins of the Fonzie's famous catchphrases.

Let's have a look. I'm banging the microphone, I'm sorry about that everyone. I've got a different set up now, I'm not sitting in a chair, a comfy chair anymore, because it's too hard to do podcasts when I'm comfortable.

I'm not uncomfortable, but I'm sitting at the desk, so I've now got the microphone stretching from one desk to the other. Because, otherwise, it's a bit restrictive because my throat gets a bit like, and I talk like this. How many quarters did Fonzie catch from his elbow? I can't remember the whole episode, but it had to do with a competition at Owls.

Just saw this episode last night and it was 40 coins, Angie, Fonzie's cousin, who caught all of them for a new record. I don't remember that, it might have been a trend, it's a long time ago. Anyway, get this, right, so you know, you balance the coins on your elbow and then you catch it with the same hand.

I was good friends with the record holder for that. His name is Dean Gould, you can Google him if you want to find out about him. Okay, so this is, okay, there's an article about him in the local newspaper, not around here, but this is from the 22nd of August 2021.

So let's have a look. Meet Dean Gould, who has won 54 world records, including naming over 700 Titanic survivors. Oh my goodness, how is that even a record? This is ridiculous, I have to register to read the article about my friend.

Ridiculous, really sad. No, he won't let me read it. So let's have another one.

He used to call himself Dexter Staird. He could literally move really long fingers, big hands, and he could bend his fingers backwards. You know, like you can, if you face your palm flat, like facing towards the ceiling, this is providing you're sitting on a chair and you're standing on your head.

So face it towards the ceiling, and you know when you move your fingers up a little bit, not like the whole way into a fist, but just a little bit up. He can do that with his backwards, with his hands backwards, which is something I've never seen before. So here's one from 2023, 10th of October.

Bottle flipping record breaker. The thing about him is he's now, he's 59 then. When was this? 2023.

So he's 60. So yeah, I know he was a bit older than me, but he still looks the same. I don't think he looks any different.

I mean, he's got less hair, haven't we all? You know, it's just, but he's still, I think the thing about him is he's, he married his wife. Well, they were married when I met them in 1989. That's how long I knew him.

And she's a wonderful, really amazing person. So I think he hit the jackpot. He's been able to live the life he wants to live, doing what he enjoys doing.

And he's got three great kids, so he's held more than 60 world records. I mean, how many people in the world could even say that? I mean, I just said it, but you know, I mean, like, have actually accomplished that. So the first, the first world record was to flip a plastic water bottle from a table in the same minute as a beer mat flipping record.

He achieved 34 flips in one minute, in which the bottle turned 180 degrees. That was what he did recently. I don't know how he comes up with some of these things, but what he was well known for, you know, back in the 80s and the 90s is, or the 80s, it was like beer mat flipping.

So what he'd do is he'd balance beer mats on the edge of a table and then just basically flip it, like tap the bottom with his fingers and then catch them. Because he's got such huge hands. He, you know, he just, he could catch more than anyone else in the world.

So he held that world record. I don't know if he's still got the world record, but he did. He held it.

I think he, he had someone else that kept beating him and he kept beating them and kind of going backward and forward. And the other thing that he was most well known for at the time, apart from beer mat flipping, was the coin tossing. So he was a tosser of coins.

So he had the world record for the most amount of coins balanced on his, you know, the back of his elbow and catching them. Again, it's a very hand thing. He, because he's, he calls himself, he called, yeah, he called himself Dexter Stan because he literally, he could do things with his hands that were pretty impressive.

Ask his wife. No, no, I didn't say that. So the first was to flip a plate.

Okay. It's weird. It's funny as well.

But it's amazing. I mean, why would you come up with something like, wake up and think, you know what I'm going to do? I need to do a new world record. How about, I wonder what the world record is for reciting the names of the survivors of the Titanic disaster.

I mean, how would you even, in the fastest time, how would you even come up with that? It's so random. He just, he used to find things that were just really weird. So he wasn't one of these world record breakers.

He's been in a Guinness book of records. He still is for, you know, for decades among the most successful record breakers in this country. And he started his own world records organization as well.

I think about 20 years ago, I was in it actually. Didn't know that, did you? I had the longest hypnosis recording. It's a long time ago.

But yeah, at the time I was in his record books. That's about like 2018, possibly. What else is there? So he took 41 minutes and 23 seconds to do that.

Wow. I wonder. Record breaker.

Oh my goodness. I was still in there. Right.

This is a long time ago. Okay. It's a very long time ago.

So it wouldn't really count anymore. But I had the longest hypnosis video on the internet. It's 10 hours and 30 minutes.

And so I'm in there. This is the record holders republic. So that's back in the days when I don't know if it's even on there anymore, to be fair.

But it's a long time ago. Wow. Record breaker.

So that was in connection with coins. I don't know how I managed to get onto there from talking about money. So the next one, I'm not going to talk about this because this is obvious.

Okay, I'm not even going to read that one out. Monopoly money worth more. So, and this is obvious as well.

Like they're saying, do you know what, if a monopoly money was real, it'd be worth a lot more money. Oh, okay. So you're telling me that you couldn't buy Palmel for 500 pounds.

Is that what you're telling me? Or 5,000 pounds. Really? It'd be more than that in real life, would it? Blimey. Parker Brothers has printed out over 30 billion in monopoly cash.

More than most central banks. So according to this, there's more money, there's more monopoly money in the world than there is real money. I don't think that's true.

I don't think that's true. It's got to be more than 30 billion. Or maybe they're just talking about America, but it's still got to be more than 30 billion in cash.

Apparently, in Sweden, where cash is nearly oblique, I mean obsolete, a man was arrested for throwing coins at a bank in protest. The reason? He was mad his money smelled bad. Smelly Swedish money.

So, I mean, it's always, you don't know where money's been, do you? So I know somewhere where money's been, but just, if you're handling money, you need to wash your hands pretty regularly. In Sweden, so cash is nearly obsolete. I didn't know that.

They're trying to do that here during lockdown. The second year, like when it was still kind of allowed out, but it was kind of semi. It was still quiet, but we were allowed out.

But all the shops still had masks and distancing and stuff. I don't even know why I was in town. I had to go in town probably to get some food order or something.

Or maybe to go to the opticians. Who knows? I had to go in for some reason. And I went to InterCosta Coffee, either Costa or the other one.

Ordered my coffee. And they said, like 350 or whatever the amount was. So I handed over my money.

They said, no, we're not taking cash. I said, what? And there was a huge queue behind me. Okay, there was more than three people.

I said, what do you mean you're not taking cash? We're not taking cash. What, do you want me to pay in kindness? I mean, do you want me to do the washing up? What's going on? It's confusing me. It's like, what, is it free? He said, no, but we're not taking cash.

I said, that is the currency of this here country. This is how we, you know, cash is how we pay for things. And he said, no, people pay for debit cards and credit cards.

I said, yeah, but that's an option. It's easier to keep, I find it's easier to keep track of money if I've got it in cash. I can keep more track of what I've spent rather than just keep going, you know, tapping on something with a card.

And he said, that's too much information. So can you not give, can you not pay by card? And I said, I haven't got a card. Because I'd come out of my wallet.

It's just a very rare moment. Or either that or I just didn't have enough money on my card. I drew out all my money in cash.

And I said, I don't have a card. My card, there's no money on there. Which is not something I need.

I didn't really want to be shouting that out. I said to him, I don't really want to be shouting that out in front of all these people that I've got no money in the bank. And his response was, well, don't shout out then.

They say at normal volume and no one else will hear. Maybe the person next in the queue might hear, but the people outside won't hear. But when you shout it out like that, everyone's heard.

Probably people in the next town probably heard. And we both laughed because obviously they wouldn't. It wasn't that loud.

We had a little cuddle. And he gave me the coffee for free. And I remember thinking, well, I tried my luck.

I said, can I have a sandwich as well and a sausage roll? We laughed again. This time he didn't want a cuddle. If only I'd done that.

If only I'd got all the food and quickly put my hands all over it and started eating a sausage roll and a cake and just rubbing it over my face or whatever. And then saying, I've only got cash. I might have got away with taking it all, getting it, but no.

So I said, okay, so don't just take it. So he just ripped it off and gave me the coffee and I walked out. And he spoke to the person next and he said, no, out.

I thought he was telling me to get out and he wasn't. He was telling the next person in line to get out. He says, you get out.

You've already been in twice. You know that we're giving away free drinks for people that haven't got debit cards. So you can leave.

So people were trying to luck a little bit. I genuinely didn't know. Genuinely did not know.

And had I done, I would have ordered more. I would have ordered. Well, I'd have ordered everything.

But they refused to handle cash. And so the hundred thousand pound bill, the US once printed one hundred thousand. Pound bills featuring Woodrow Wilson.

That was a single money. These were never in public circulation and were used for transactions between Federal Reserve banks. Yeah.

Would you remember that movie? The one, the one million pound note. And it was based in England. And.

It was. Yeah, no one believe. I think he was getting all this stuff and then they started to misbelieve him or disbelieve that he had.

He actually did have a one million pound note when actually he did in the end. I think. It was weird because no one could.

No one could like give change, could they? That's the problem. If all you got on you is a million pounds, a million pound note, and you just want to buy a Kit Kat. It's a difficult situation.

It is a difficult situation. I mean, you can either give tell them that you'll pay for it later or them just not give you the Kit Kat. Or.

You can. Give them the million pound note and let them owe you the change, which probably not going to happen. But then if they refuse to give you the Kit Kat.

And they just work there, you could go and buy the shop. Bearing in mind this million pound note was back in probably the 1940s or 50s. So you could probably get a lot of shop for a million.

Buying a shop would probably cost maybe ten, twenty thousand pound back then. So the shopkeeper might not, the person working there might not be too happy. So they might just give the Kit Kat away.

I don't know. I've never been in that situation. Or do you see this? Some people invest in gold.

Others invest in goldfish. Really? A collector once paid three hundred thousand dollars for a single goldfish. How? Seems a bit fishy to me.

Me, me, me, me, me. Really? Three hundred thousand? Unless it poos gold, why would you? Cheddar money. During World War Two the British made money out of cheese cloth like material.

To prevent counterfeiting. Oh my goodness. So technically you could say you had cheddar.

So they made money out of, I think I've seen that in the movies. Where they've got these, money just made out of cloth. Wow.

I mean ultimately it's just, the money's not worth anything. I mean it used to be, didn't it? Like the coins used to be worth something. Like, you know, a coin that was worth ten dollars was actually literally worth ten dollars.

Because of the silver or whatever. I'm making it up, I think it's true. A Canadian man once accidentally received a bank statement showing that he had ninety-two quadrillion.

I don't even know what quadrillion is. Well, I guess it's, it's four times a trillion. So why don't you just say four trillion? Quad is four, isn't it? I don't know.

It doesn't exist. The number doesn't, like. There's not a company worth more, worth over a trillion.

I mean it's worth over more than one trillion, but it's never gone beyond a trillion number-wise. Is trillion, is quadrillion above trillion? Because you've got a million. Or you've got a thousand, hundred thousand, million, billion.

So yeah, thousands. So a million, billion, trillion. And I don't know what's after that.

Because no one's ever owned, well no one currently has that amount of money. And no company's worth that amount of money. So I don't know what it's called.

NASA only sends paper money on missions. Why? Coins could float around in zero gravity, turning astronauts into unwitting bankers chasing loose change. I don't think so.

I don't think that's true. That can't be true. Why would you need the money in space anyway? In case you come across some alien version of Costa Coffee or something, like McDonald's from Mars.

Why would you need money? I mean especially if you've got coins, it's only going to weigh you down, which could be handy in space I suppose. Bananas. Bananas, okay.

In World War II, prisoners of war camps, cigarettes were often used as currency. But in one camp, bananas became the trade standard, making the original fruit market. Let's see if there's any more.

Dogecoin. Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency, featuring a Shiba Inu dog. Was created as a joke in 2013.

Despite that, it once had a market cap of over 80 billion. I've got no idea what that is. I didn't really understand any of that sentence.

Money. In ancient Rome, brides carrying a coin to signify they were bringing money into the marriage. Okay.

It says today many spouses still refer to their partner as the one who spends all my coins. Where? I've never heard that expression before. The number one.

In 2001, Australia tested a $1 million bank loan. It wasn't for circulation, but for testing machines. Sadly, it's now considered priceless.

And if it was a one-off. I never got that, the word priceless, when I was younger. Most things happened when I was younger.

I never quite got the idea of what priceless meant. How can that even exist? Either something's worth something, or it's not worth something. Either it's got a value, or it don't.

If it don't have a value, then it's worthless, not priceless. The idea that something's worth so much that no one can buy it. How can something like that actually exist in reality? Hasn't every painting and every artefact at some point been sold on? You know when they say it's priceless.

The crown jewels are priceless. Not if they were up for sale, they wouldn't be. They can't be up for sale because they're part of the royal family.

But if they were up for sale, they wouldn't be priceless, would they? You know what I mean. Oh, this is interesting. In 2015, Hasbro released a special Monopoly set with real cash hidden inside.

$20,580. Okay, I don't remember hearing about that. The phrase, a few clams for money has literal roots.

Native Americans used to clam shells as currency. In the 1980s, the Mexican peso became so worthless that people used it as wallpaper. I've heard that in the past, where the money is devalued so much that people are spending thousands, if not hundreds of thousands for a loaf of bread.

It's scary, man. We don't have that here, but blimey, I hope never happens. I just don't have that much money.

During hyperinflation in the 1920s, Germany In 1920s Germany, it was a sentence. Banknotes were so worthless, people burned them for fuel. Wow.

Ah, just, I don't know. So, if you had a billion Zimbabwean dollars during their hyperinflation, you could buy a banana. Wow.

A billion dollars for a banana. Now, I'm thinking, unless they come in millions, like a million dollar notes, a billion dollars would be quite a few. At that point, you've just got to start, just... It's just, there's no point to the money, is there, at that point? At that point, there's no point to the money.

Making a penny costs about 2.1 cents, so each one loses money. Now, that's ironic. A currency, that's, that, that is interesting, isn't it? We've stopped making pennies now, in this country.

We don't make pennies, and I'm not sure if they got rid of two pennies as well. Definitely got one of the one pennies gone. Which means everything would be now rounded up to the five pence.

No... How does that work, though? How does that work? If they're getting rid of the one pennies, everything has to add up to a round figure. Or, at least, like, for example, 10 pound can't be 9.99, because that one penny's gone. It can't be 10.99. It can't be 11.99. It can't be 9.89. It can't be 7.49. So it'll have to be either 55, or, you know, or it'll be a 5 or a 0.

There's no other... Wow.

It says here 100, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean, 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill was once worth less than 50 pence, or 50 cents. Today, collectors pay hundreds of real dollars for them. Blimey.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates could spend $1 million per day and not even run out of money for 245 years. Hmm. That's quite a lot, isn't it? That's a lifestyle.

1 million a day. 245 years. Hmm.

In the 17th century, pirates preferred Spanish double loons, doubloons, I don't know what that is, and pieces of eight as currency. The term pieces of eight came from chopping coins into small pieces for easier trading. I guess that makes sense.

You know, if originally there was just like one coin, let's say a pound coin, the only way you could give someone change is by cutting off a bit of a coin and give it to them in little tiny little bits of metal. Yeah, it does make sense, doesn't it? Because literally the coin was worth its weight in gold, I don't know if it was gold or silver or whatever.

Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, secretly gave away almost his entire $8 billion fortune to charity.

He kept just enough for himself to live modestly. Oh. So he secretly did it.

How do we know about it then? Duty Free Shoppers, I don't know what that is. $8 billion. I mean, that's enough to get by, isn't it? $8 billion.

You could probably give half that away and still just about manage. Hmm. You might have to make a few cutbacks, but you'll be fine.

In 2006, robbers in Malaysia stole an ATM. They got away with the machine but couldn't open it. After hours of frustration, they left it on the side of the road.

That's not a happy story. That's theft, man. A bakery in Beverly Hills introduced an ATM that dispenses fresh cupcakes instead of cash.

Yeah. I don't think anything can be as good as a cupcake. That's a nice thing to... Oh.

Oh yeah. So I wonder if there's any more. So let's see.

There. In the US, the two pound bill featuring Thomas Jefferson is still in circulation but relatively rare. Apparently, a lot of people believe it's no longer produced.

Okay. And the origin... The term salary comes from the Latin word salarium. Salarium.

Or salarium or salarium. Which was a payment made to Roman soldiers in salt. Salt was a valuable commodity.

So if you did get a time machine, all you'd need is a big bag of salt and you'd be rich, wouldn't you? Just go back in time. What's this rain in though? The salt, it gets soggy. Oh.

The largest coin ever minted was a 100 kilogram gold coin made in Australia. In 2011. This massive coin showcases the length... The world's oldest currency, the British pound sterling.

Ah, how about this then, ladies and gentlemen. The British pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use. Dating back to 775 AD.

Its longevity reflects the enduring stability of the British economy. You could basically say that we invented money. You're welcome.

The world's first automated teller machine. What's a teller machine? Oh, that would be like ATM, I guess. The cash machine.

The world's first... I just realised I'm being very slow. ATM stands for automated teller machine. So we don't call them ATMs in this country, we call them cash machines.

I say we, maybe the younger people do, but ATM is not an English word. Well, clearly it is because the first one was in London. Enfield, which is where I was born.

Three years before I was born, the first one, the world's first ever, was installed in Enfield in 1967. By the innovation, revolutionised banking, providing 24-7 access to cash. But of course, no one used to say 24-7 back then.

24 hours a day. But that was too hard to say. It just took too long.

24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's just a long sentence. I remember everyone got together, the whole world got together and thought, what can we do? We need to stop wars, we need to do something about that.

They said, no, that's not the most important thing. The biggest thing is the sentence, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's too long.

It's too cumbersome. It's a bit too much. A bit too much for a tongue twister.

People haven't got time in this busy day and age of the 90s or the early 2000s. And so I came up with, what about 24-7? I think America might have said 7-24, because they have their dates back to front. What do you mean we have our dates back to front? You do.

What do you mean? Well, what do you say the 1st of April, how do you write it down? You put 4-1. We put 1-4. We invented the dates and the months.

I don't know, was it the Romans? Who invented months and days? I think it was the Romans, I might be wrong. Why 12 months a year? How it works? I don't know. Who invented... OK, we have the ancient Babylonians, Babylonians, to thank for our 24-hour days.

OK, the number 7 held a particular... As soon as we have the birth, thank you for them, the number 7, so 7 days a week. Again, them again. I don't know.

But yeah, it's kind of strange. I understand why they do it in America and whatever countries that do the month first and then day and then year. Because on a spreadsheet, it works better that way.

However, as far as the communication aspects go, it doesn't so much. It took me years to realise. Why is America, why is there 5th of November? Or why do they celebrate the 7th of July? 7th of June? That's why 7th of July, because it's 7th of the 7th.

Independence Day is the 7th of the 7th. Because they know, they want... Now I understand. It's a conspiracy.

What are you actually talking about? I don't know. But you know, if you go for Christmas, for Christmas for us, it's 25th of the 12th, not 12th of the 25th. It's not 1225, it's 2512.

Do you see what I mean? That always made sense, but then it's just what I'm used to. It doesn't really matter. I mean, what benefit could everyone doing the same thing do other than help communication possibly make the world a better place? But other than that, how's it going to do that? I don't know, I'm just making it up as I go along.

The first paper money originated in China during the Tang Dynasty, 1618 to 907. How do we know? Name one person that was there. Come on, push him forward, tell me.

Tell me to my face that that's what happened, because you were there and you saw it. No, you don't know. Thank you very much.

Merchants used promissory notes. I don't know what that means. And I'm not going to look it up.

The word money is derived from the Latin word monita. Monita, which was a title given to Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods. Temples dedicated to her often served as mints where coins were produced, leading to the association between the goddess and currency.

By the way, some of this might be lies. The first universal credit card, which could be used at a variety of establishments, was introduced by Diners Club in 1950. American Express debuted a credit card of this type in 1958.

The first universal credit card was introduced by Diners Club. So let's have a look. So let's find who.

I want to see who created Diners Club. History and legacy. Diners Club International.

It's a New York restaurant. Okay, cool. I thought it was.

It might be. The first online purchase was made in 1994 when a man purchased a CD by the band Sting from the website Netmarket. I don't know, there was a band called Sting.

I don't know if a singer called Sting. I remember a band called Police. The Police.

There was a band called Sting in 1994. And it marked the beginning of e-commerce as we know it. Band Sting.

So I'm wondering if that's just... if they've got that wrong and they meant... Sting, musician. Yeah, the Police. There's no band called... I'm not saying there isn't a band called Sting.

Okay, there is a band called Sting. Sting. Oh no, it's Sting.

It's actually Sting. Right, so where is Sting? Is it... nope. No, it's Sting.

So they must be referring to Sting. Sting, Sting. I'm an alien in New York.

I'm tired. I don't want to... I can't keep doing it anymore. I've had enough of this tantric stuff.

I just need to go to sleep. Oh no, leave me alone. I'm 90.

I don't want to do it anymore. Stacey, leave me alone. I've had a few people view my video from yesterday.

Monday's Boring Objects. So this is the end of the recording really. It's been a bit of a waffle... a waffle fest, to be fair.

I had some sausages earlier. I don't know why I'm telling you that. It's just... because it's the truth and it's exciting.

But it's time to go... It's time to go to bed. So I'm going to get ready for bed. Take the little one in the garden to do its last wee of the day.

And then retire. Retire into bed. That's what I'm going to do.

Because it's 3 minutes to 10 o'clock. So it's going to be probably 20 past, half past, before I make it into the bed. And then what I'll do is probably listen to an audiobook.

Yeah. What book am I listening to at the moment? Let's have a look. I'm an Englishman in New York.

Oh, I thought it was Alien in New York. It was Englishman. What book am I reading? Or what book am I listening to? Okay.

Understanding Child Development. So that's my latest book that I'm listening to. And... Oh.

Ten... I was listening to it earlier, but I must have... 3, 10, 30, 1... That's 4 hours 2 minutes left, but... Minus 0.4... Yeah, I think I must have listened to about an hour earlier. It's only just over 5 hours, I think, for that particular book. Oh dear.

Previous books for this week. I was listening to Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss. This is quite an interesting book.

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig. So I listened to that as well the other day. I got Mastering College Essays.

I listened to that, but that... In the hope that that would help me get motivated for my... My assignment, but... The Psychology book, Introduction to Psychology, Essentials of Social Psychology. It's kind of weird, I've got... What's my profile? I've got 363 books in my Audible account. And I've been a member since 2017.

It's saying here 2024, but the fact is it's been since 2017. And... My listening time... Monthly... So far this month, November, it's now the 26th. 157 hours 51 minutes of listening to audiobooks.

The only month I've beaten that, so I've only got 1, 2, 3, 4, the last 5 months. In July I had 172 hours and 21 minutes listening to audiobooks. August, 89 hours.

September, 100 hours. October, 74 and a half hours. Now November, 157.

Nearly 158 hours. Which comes to a complete 2 months, 25 days, 23 hours and 11 months. Quite a lot.

Quite a lot of listening time. Today I've only listened to 4 hours and 14 minutes. No, daily.

Day... Oh, OK, no, today I've listened to 4 hours and 14 minutes. Daily... Today I've listened to 4 hours and 15 minutes. Yesterday I listened to 4 hours and 18 minutes.

Sunday... Because it was Monday yesterday, today. Sunday I listened to 7 hours and 20 minutes. Saturday I listened to 2 hours and 36 minutes.

And Friday I listened to 4 hours and 26 minutes. So, apart from the really big... Sunday was a big day. Saturday was a smaller day.

So we're looking at 4 plus hours a day. I mean, some books do have a lot more hours than others. I mean, I guess that's obvious, isn't it? But some of the books I've got are... 20 hours or... You know, they're not usually like huge amounts.

But the average is normally... I don't know... 7... Like, the shortest books is about 5 hours. And then an average-sized book would possibly be between 7 and 10 hours. And then a bigger book... So, for example... Where is it? It's going down.

So... Okay, so there's not that many that are really... So you've got to understand in the brain 16 hours. And Hegel, Marx and Vysotsky, 17 hours. Theories of Human Development, 15 hours.

So some of the great ideas of psychology, over 21 hours. So yeah, some of those ones are very long. But generally... I'd say roughly between 6 and 8 hours, I'd say, pretty much, would be the average.

Because there's Sociology for Dummies, 9 hours, 5 minutes... No, 52 minutes, but I think that's how much is left out of about 15 hours. Evolve Your Brain by Joe Dispenza, 16 hours. Why is that locked? No longer included with membership.

Why do you do that? Psychology Classics. So all these ones that are no longer included with the membership. So why? Why? Blimey! So they're making ones that were free to listen to, and now they're no longer free.

So I have to pay for them. That's not fair. I've got no money, man.

I ain't got no money, man. So some of those books I had listed weren't all my books that I own. There's a few that are just part of the Audible catalogue.

So I'll get rid of that. What's this one? Yeah, I've got a couple here. That's weird.

So there's a few that have been... Evolve Your Brain has been taken off. 50 Psychology Classics has been taken off. The Lucifer Effect has been taken off.

The Brain. So these are ones that I've read, but that's besides the point. I want to keep on them.

Free Yourself from Fears. Bipolar Disorder, that's gone. Ivan Pavlov.

The Little Book of Attachment, that's gone. Psychology of Dummies, that's gone. Evolve Your Brain, that's gone.

The Brave Athlete, that's gone. How strange. That's really weird.

So these books are no longer available in my membership. I thought I'd purchased them. That's very unusual.

I just don't keep track of things, that's the problem. I really don't. So all these things that are just... That's really weird.

Very weird. I'm going through them and deleting them, but they just... They keep going back, being on there again. I think there's an issue.

And I thought I'd have used the credits for those. Very weird. Very strange.

I wonder how. I don't get it. I'm more confused than I've ever... No, I'm not.

I've been more confused than this before. But I thought, as I'm sort of a regular customer, then I would still have access to those, but nope. No, no, no, no, no.

No. So what I do... It keeps saying title no longer included in membership. Alright.

I'm going to come out of there, and maybe go back in again and see if it updates it. Because this is just silly. Title in the library is locked.

Your membership has ended. My membership hasn't ended? What are you talking about? My membership has not ended. Has it? Membership.

My membership hasn't ended. My membership is completely up to date. Why are they saying... Why do they say stuff like that? It literally took money out yesterday.

Thanks for being a listener since 30th of August 2017. Your next bill is 23rd of the 12th. So it's 2312, not 1223.

2312 2024. So why is it saying on here that my thing has ended? Because it hasn't. Title in library is locked.

So I'm going to remove these from the library. Because I don't need them in there. If I can't read them, or listen to them, what's the point in them being in my library? Zero point.

I'm sure you agree. Remove from library. Remove from library.

That's a shame. I've still got 347 titles. It's just I don't understand why they were... I don't understand it.

Very weird. What's that all about? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone for anyone? It's a very strange thing. I mean part of the good thing of these, Audible, is you can listen to other books that isn't part of your life, that you can listen to for free without having to spend the credits on them.

Perhaps I've upset them. I don't know how. I don't get it.

I don't get it at all. Very strange. Has anyone noticed that Facebook has turned into lots of videos of TV shows and old stuff from the past and just... I don't know.

So yeah. I'm just... Da da da da da da da da da. Anyway, I've got to go.

Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye. I think I need to fart.

Don't tell anyone. No. I think that's... That needs a safety, it needs a silence to run.

Take care. Bye.