(music) Mondays Boring Objects Let me bore you to sleep #1321 7th April 2025

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I can't even say the word of it. I can't pronounce the word. Let Me Bore Your Pagophobia away and that's like swallowing phobia or fear of swallowing.

So I did that earlier specifically because I had there's the other day I was in the I was taking Vinnie out. Can you hear that? Someone's shouting in the garden. Can you hear that? Every day.

Like sometimes four in the morning, sometimes 11 at night. And yeah, so I was here. I think it was Saturday, either Friday or Saturday morning in the park with Vinnie talking to some people and one of the people mentioned that their grandson, their grandchild had this condition.

So I thought, well, I'd offer my help. And of course, I still need to go through the medical processes and stuff to eliminate which is what he's going through. But I did offer my help.

I said, well, you know, two things. I used to counsel children. And not that I'm not offering counseling, but I can maybe help, you know, with some hypnosis techniques and stuff.

You'll be in a room with me. I'll come around yours and you'll be there with me sitting with him or her or whoever the kid was. So, you know, it's just I thought it'd be a nice thing to offer, but they didn't get back to me.

I gave them my email address. I didn't have my website. I never go out.

I just didn't have my telephone number on me. But I've offered my services to local people on one, two, three. Can you hear that? Imagine having such a loud voice, but not knowing it's loud.

The ironic thing is the garden where the dog is, they shout for the dog, is literally, it's tiny. It's not like they've got to travel the other side of a field or something. Go figure.

Well, so I did this recording thinking, because I didn't, they didn't get back to me. And I think it's because maybe I'm a bit weird. I've come across a bit weird to people.

I don't know what it is. Or maybe they think that, well, why are you offering this service, but you're not you're not charging? Or I guess they don't, they just see me as a bog walker. Not as someone that maybe can do something that has something to offer.

See? I wonder how much louder she's going to get. How loud is that on the microphone? So I did this recording. Let me bore your fagger, pagger.

It's either faggophobia or paggerphobia. I think paggerphobia would probably sound better than the other one, because that sounds a bit wrong. And yeah, so what I'll do is, I've, so I've made those recordings, uploaded them to the podcasts.

Just I guess, you never know, maybe the child in question never gets to hear it. But maybe, and it's not just for kids, it's for anyone. It might be useful to someone out there, who's having issues with swallowing, who has a fear due to previously had a choking incident or something like that.

So that's why I did it for I put it out there. There's a little bit of humor in it. It's not, you know, it's not like super serious recording.

It's about 43 minutes long, I think. 43 minutes, 46 minutes. It's not really that important, is it? But it's 42 minutes and three seconds.

Did it this morning. It's okay. I mean, it might be a pile of crap, but it's, it's, to be honest, I don't know.

But it might be useful to someone. And the only thing they're going to lose is that the worst case scenario is to the person listening to it, either feels a bit more relaxed at the end of it, maybe has a giggle, has a laugh during it. And perhaps, like feels that they've wasted 42 minutes of their life.

That's the worst case scenario. Best case scenario is that it actually helps. And yeah, so that's it.

That's why I did that recording. I've been pretty good with the old Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts. I've done one every day since.

I don't know. It's been a while. That's weird.

Wait a minute. Sunday papers, Monday. I didn't upload Monday Boring Objects.

Okay, I did but not for the, not on YouTube. Unless I did a video. It's possible.

Did I do a video Monday Boring Objects? Clearing windows. Whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper. 29th of March.

Sunday's papers. Trivia Tuesday. Oh, that's weird.

Nevermind. Six. Oh no, that last Sunday's.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday's, Whisper Wednesday's, Trivia Tuesday's, Sunday papers. Maybe I didn't do Monday's Boring Objects last week. I can't remember.

Let's have a look. Did I? Moving things, Whisper Wednesday's, Trivia Tuesday's. I did.

The doc job. D O C K job. Monday's Boring Objects.

So I did do one last Monday. And did Sunday papers. So yeah, every day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and now Monday.

So it's nine days in a row that I've made a Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I'm going to talk about Big Brother. The TV show.

That's my Monday's Boring Objects. Because it starts today at 9pm again, and it's a celebrity version. And I am looking forward to it.

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. Which is why I'm making this recording at 4.38pm as opposed to 7.38pm. Because I want to get it done while I've got the energy. Not get it done like oh, like it's a chore, but have it all completed.

And then I can relax and watch Celebrity Big Brother. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So that would be groovy.

So I'm just going to think back to the Big Brother. I'm trying to think. When I first, when did it Big Brother start? Was it 2000? 2000.

Big Brother. UK. I think it was 2000, the very first episode.

I know it was based on Danish, was it Danish? Yeah, it was 2000. 2000 was the first series. And let's have a look.

2000 to 2010 on Channel 4. And then Channel 5 had it from 2011 to 2018. And then it started again in 2023. So having that four years off, or five years, four years or whatever off, I think it was good.

Because it was nice to have a break from it. In a sense of realising that just how excited I was when it came back in 2023. I know it's not for everyone, you know, not everyone's gonna like it.

But some people like different things, which is why there's so many different types of programmes on. But I loved it right from the start. Now, I don't know what day it was it started.

I'd watch it during the week in 2000. But I never got a chance to see. And it might have probably repeated on a Sunday, maybe, which I think it was the eviction, I think it was repeated on a Sunday morning.

I never got to see the eviction live, apart from maybe once. Because I was always busy on a Friday night. And the eviction nights, always Friday.

Although launch night, I'm pretty sure used to be a Friday as well. But this this one started on Monday, for some reason. Pretty sure last launch night was Sunday.

So I would watch it all the way through the week. So I'm pretty sure it was on Sundays, or it might not have been. I think they've always taken one day off.

Maybe they haven't. It's not 100%. But nowadays, they have it on Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night.

Oh, yeah, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then Friday's eviction night. And then they have Saturday night off. But on the TV show, they don't all go home.

They still stay in the in the house. I think part of the reason really, and it makes sense because they've on the Friday, they've used so much of the Friday up already for the eviction night. So showing stuff that happened just before the eviction, and they showed the eviction live.

So really Saturday, or on Sunday, they can show part of Friday, like after the eviction, and then the Saturday. So it kind of makes sense to have a day off. And I really liked it right from the very, very start.

Oh, yeah. I don't know what it is about it. I just I like the idea.

I guess, you know, it is a psychological study. That's what it was originally. And I still think of it as being that really watching people's interactions and the personality clashes.

I'm not no, I don't watch it just for the arguments. That's just a bonus, I guess, because some it can be funny. It can sometimes it can be a little bit gringy, you know, a little bit awkward, unnecessary.

Or even playing up for the cameras. There's a little bit of that sometimes. After a certain amount of time, after a few days, the the persona that the person has seems to drop a little bit, the mask drops, because I've been filmed 24 hours a day.

It's hard to keep up a pretense 24 hours a day. Plus, it's, you know, it's natural for us to be a little bit different in different situations. You know, I'm much more relaxed when I'm sitting at home than I am when I'm walking through the streets.

When I say walking through the streets, I'm not talking about applying for trade. I'm saying walking through the streets. And I don't, you know, I'm a bit more on guard, a bit more alert when I'm out.

If I'm walking in shops or whatever, not that I go out that much, but when I'm sitting here, it's relaxed. It's a different feeling. And I'm sure that if I was in a big brother house, which I never will be, I would probably hate every second of it.

Sleeping in a room with other, with, no, no. I've lived in a dormitory, didn't like it then. No.

Yeah, that wouldn't suit me. I mean, it would go, I think it would go two ways. I mean, first of all, I'm not a, I couldn't fit the criteria of, well, there's a degree of falseness that happens in the house, in the one in the UK.

I've never, does America have big brother? I don't even know. I know they have it all around the world, but big brother USA. They do.

See, I would like to see now, I don't know why, why can't we just have like a channel and this is going to seem weird, but I bet you anything that it would get probably millions of views every day. If there was a channel or an like a, like an app, you know, like YouTube kind of channel, so people can watch on TV or on their phone or whatever, just big brother and every series from every country from every year, just in categories and people can watch it.

Millions of views every day.

That's what I think. Just charge a pound a month. They'll have millions of pounds coming in a month.

It'd be a bit of a, you know, that's what I think about some of the sort of really old TV shows or I don't know, every episode. So I'd like to have access to every episode of stuff that I've watched or even radio shows just to have that. I'm trying to think there was one thing that I've thought about, it'd be good to have access to every episode, but I can't think what it is right now.

Maybe it was big brother. Possibly it was. And very likely I'd watch every episode from start to finish.

Well, for a while, and then I'd probably get fed up with it. But the format was so different. I did actually watch the launch show for the very first big brother in the UK.

And it wasn't glamorous at all. They were almost like walking in dirt, get into a warehouse in the middle of nowhere, which was just up the road from where I lived. It was on the Docklands somewhere, I think.

And if I'm correct, it was in the same place as where the big breakfast used to be filmed around that area, but I might be wrong. Narrated by Dave Walsh. Okay, Philip Proctor.

Oh, blimey, let's go back. Who's been, we've had a lot of American actors and singers and stuff in the UK big brother. But I've got no idea who's been in the American version.

And I mean, if they've, if that's if they do a a celebrity version or not, I don't know. Do they anyone, anyone? So 2000, July, 70 episodes, then they did. They've had 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 18.

Okay, right. So there was a celebrity. There's been 26 years or 26.

Yeah. 26 seasons of Big Brother in America. The last one was finished October last year.

So I'm just wondering, is there a did they do? There's one here says OTT. What does OTT stand for? I'm confused now. But yeah, celebrity.

I don't know if they did a celebrity version or not. You can I'm just looking through it. But what they did have, which I found interesting in the very first Big Brother in the UK, when I stopped saying UK, because that's the one I'm the only one I've ever watched.

So in the UK, Big Brother, I can't stop saying it now. There was a live feed, which you could watch and it was on. You know what, I don't even know where it was on.

Where could you watch it? I think it was on Channel 4 during the night. But they also had it on during the day as well. So I don't know if you had to go online to watch it.

But what they did is whenever anyone swore, or talked about something that was perhaps controversial, like in the background here, you'd hear the birds singing. So they basically muffle out their voices and have the birds like that for a bit of time, which got a little bit a little bit annoying. Because I wanted to hear what they were saying, because that's the bits you want to hear, isn't it?

The bits you're not supposed to, the bits you're not allowed to.

I want to hear those bits. Vinnie's not eating his dinner today. It's a bit annoying.

No, come on Vinnie. You know you don't bark. You do not bark when we're doing a recording.

I hope that wasn't too loud. It's just a little bark. So hopefully it's okay.

It's now licking my foot. Oh, good girl. So there was that.

Yeah, there was the live stream. I don't know if I actually watched the very first episode or not. I think I did though, because I've been interested in psychology for most of my, pretty much my whole adult life.

It's just interests me, maybe not enough to complete a degree, but hey, I was interested in the subject. It fascinates me, the human mind and trying to figure out why people do and say what they do and just trying to figure it out. Yes, it's difficult, but this was, I just thought it was a really, really interesting experiment to put all these people who didn't know each other together inside.

Vinnie, if you bark, we will be having words. I don't mind you got a little like that, which isn't a bark and we're quite early in the recording. So hopefully it's not disturbed anyone.

But if you start doing that when we're like a little bit further in, I will be so disappointed. I won't be angry. I'm not angry.

I'm just passionate. Okay. I'm shouting, but I'm not angry.

I'm passionate. Okay. You're not angry.

You're passionate. Okay. Good.

Okay. Sure. Sure.

Sure. There's someone slamming doors downstairs. I don't know who that is.

So yeah, I remember watching it and it was quite good because I'd be busy on a Friday night. But then on a Saturday morning, I could be I might actually recorded it on video or from the Friday night, but I do believe my memory is telling me that they used to replay the live final on a Saturday morning. So I would see it on a Saturday morning, maybe the Sunday morning, but I would watch it.

So yeah, it was quite difficult to avoid it though, because it was big news at the time. Right, I just had to take a slight little break there. Because Vinnie was getting a little bit interested in whatever was going on downstairs or upstairs or in the garden.

I don't know. Bit of banging. I mean, my neighbor's still having his kitchen done.

So it might have been that. Although he's been pretty good today. As long as I keep him in the living room.

Keep the door closed. Make sure there's some music or a telly's on as a distraction. He's fine.

I've got some balloons coming from at some point. I tell you the Amazon delivery driver. They got a new thing where it doesn't even come up once a he, he or she doesn't even come upstairs.

They just chuck the package outside the door. My neighbor opposite, they literally put it in the, left it in the hallway. Like in like a mine, they just, they're not on camera.

So I can see they haven't actually come upstairs. Which means I can never buy anything breakable. I just can't trust them.

If they're stuff, you know, not being gentle with things, then. I sometimes think, I don't know if Amazon offer this service. Do they offer the opportunity to pay for delivery? So that actually gets delivered by the post office and not by Amazon.

So it's more likely it's going to get delivered with a bit of care. I don't know. But yeah, I'm not not best impressed with Amazon delivery these days.

Ever since my microwave was dropped down the stairs twice. I got it on camera, I really should put off on YouTube. And yeah, it's a bit weird.

I just I don't, I don't know if they just not not aware that things, parcels shouldn't really be dropped. I thought that would be, I mean, it wasn't his fault. The person who dropped it down the stairs wasn't his fault that he dropped it slipped out of his hands twice.

But then he didn't do anything about it. He just still put it on my, put it onto the my doorstep. And it had in it was a box with a microwave on the outside.

So you can see it was a microwave, you know, and it was damaged. So if he had, if he had anything about him, he would have knocked and said sorry. You know, I didn't even complain about him.

I did get a refund. But as far as can be bothered to make a complaint. But you'd think that have whoever was in that situation would have I don't know.

I don't know what it is. What would be the right I don't know what the right term is. But I mean, the thing was rattling.

He must have must have heard it rattling. Because once he dropped it down the stairs twice. The third time he went all the way up to the stairs and climbed onto the roof and dropped it down.

Bless him. So yeah, that was weird. I remember my neighbor downstairs calling me and saying, Is that your microwave? I said, Yeah, how do you know I've got a microwave? She said, Oh, I saw the delivery driver dropping it down the stairs twice.

I said, What? She said, Yeah, come down. So I went down. She or did she might just sent it to me.

But I went down and watched looked at it. I still got on my phone. So if it's still on it, it's still on it.

Or was it if I lost it? So I don't know where it is. Where would it be? Where would it be? Well, where would it be? Where would it be? I can't find it. I don't know where it went then.

I wonder where it went. That's weird. It was definitely this year, wasn't it? Yeah, it was this year.

It was probably two months ago. Probably ish. Probably about two months ago.

Let's have a look where? No, that's very unusual. No, I can't find it. No, it's gone.

Maybe I deleted it. It's probably just saved on the iCloud. Probably.

Videos. Okay. 62 videos.

It's just mainly Vinnie. What's that one? Oh, no, it's the washing machine. Vinnie.

Boy, I'm filming. I've got a few videos of Vinnie. Well, nearly all of them are actually to be fair.

Blimey. I need to have a need to have a vacuum. A vacuum.

Yeah, anyway, Big Brother. I'm trying to think. I remember I watched the first watched it in 2000.

I don't even know if I watched it in 2002 because 2001. Because I was evicted from where I was living. So I wonder.

Let me have a look. So see series one. Is this the American or the UK one? Blimey, come on.

Big Brother. I'm on Wikipedia, but it's just taken ages. Big Brother.

No, it's American series. I go back to UK series. No.

Oh, it's a different page. Right. Got it.

So that was winners. Craig Phillips. Brian Dowling.

Kate Lawler. Cameron Stout. Number four, fourth year.

Paul Brennan. Don't remember that. Nadia Almada.

Remember that? Or that was the teen Big Brother. I don't remember there being a teen Big Brother. I don't remember that.

It was pre recorded between the 30th of July and the 8th of August 2003. Where was I living then? 2003. I would have been living in a YMCA.

And I mean, I probably would have watched it if it was on TV because back then. Oh, itchy back. Mind you, I was doing shifts.

So I was doing sometimes I wouldn't finish work till nine, which means the earliest I'd get home would probably be half nine, 20 to 10. Yeah, so that wouldn't be. What was it? Eight.

Or nine. I don't remember. Eight or nine.

Maybe nine. I'm pretty sure at that time I was working, there was like lots of different shift patterns. It wasn't just two different shift patterns.

Like sometimes you get, you know, two to six, six to two. And maybe, you know, maybe three shift patterns if you do night shift as well. Which is just no good.

To be fair. And for me, I could do night shift. I've done night shift in the past.

I could be up all night. But only for up all night. Constantly.

I can't be up all night one week and then be in a doing a two in the afternoon till 10 at night. The next week that's, that's just, that would have ruined me. In my second insurance job, I actually, they had a different shift pattern.

They had a, oh, what was it? And they had a morning. So there was an overlap. What was it? Eight till, eight till five.

Was it eight till five? Eight till five. I don't know. But there was, two different shift patterns.

One of them was two till 10. Or was it two till nine? Or one till nine? One till nine. But then, on a Friday, you finish at two.

You go in from, no, yeah, on a Friday, that's it. On a Friday, you go in from nine to one. And then you'd have the rest of the weekend off.

All afternoon, Friday, Saturday, all day off, Sunday, all day off. And then go back again, two o'clock. So it might have been two till 10.

Or one till 10, something like that. It was, I think it was like a longer shift, but then a shorter day on Friday. That's the one I changed to.

I said to him, can I just, can you just put me on the late, the late shift every, every week? Because it suits me. Just a little bit of consistency, you see. And they did.

And then they changed in. That's when I changed department. Because I need, I needed that regular shift pattern.

And the weird thing about it is, and this isn't necessarily related to Big Brother. You know, it's amazing how many different, okay, relax, relax. How many different people, winners of Big Brother went on to be TV, to be on TV.

So Craig Phillips, he had a like a self, do it yourself kind of show thing. Brian Dowling was a TV host, he was a winner. Kate Lawler has done lots of TV.

And I'm just looking through this just off the top of my head. I mean, did Helen Wood, not just the winners, but also Helen Adam. Okay, that's not a good example.

It's quite a few. Josie Gibson, that's it. Josie Gibson.

She won it in the 11th season, 11th series. And she, she's still on TV. She's a big TV host now.

Those like morning TV. So she's, at the moment, she's probably at the top of the list, really. And then, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen, Helen Wood.

She's a, she was the really scary one, I think. I think. So yeah, I changed the shift.

What I decided was to, I needed to, I didn't want to really want to be in a sales environment anymore. I needed a change, but I didn't want to leave the company because I liked working there. It was a lived, it was a 15 minute walk, but it was close to town.

And yeah, I wanted to stay there. So what I did, and this was December 2000. Because I started, I started there in 2004.

I think it was August. Because before that, because I worked at Churchill. And I left.

What's going on here? Blimey. It keeps skipping, keep skipping to like different shows. I'm trying to think 2000.

Can we just get the years? Oh, two. Right. Series two, series.

So series five. That was 2004. So yeah, during series five of Big Brother, that was a year, I started working at the, in the call center, selling or, you know, sales, car insurance.

But then at the end of 2005, which that was Nadia, she won that one, Big Brother. And 2005, December, I applied to change roles to work in a different department in the insurance company. I mean, I'm sure Nadia, Almada, didn't know anything about it.

And she was a trans, trans lady. So she was the, probably one of the most, one of the first famous trans females on TV at that time, I would say, possibly. I'm pretty sure she was from Portuguese.

Yeah. So she was Portuguese. And it's weird because she won it.

And then she came back in the ultimate Big Brother one. So she won the year five. She came back year in year well between 11 and 12.

So they did the ultimate Big Brother and brought back loads of the winners from the previous years. And Nadia was pretty much booed out of the show. It's almost like they didn't like her anymore.

It's weird because she was so popular. I mean, the fact that she won it obviously shows that she was popular, but she was so lovely in the show. But in the ultimate one, she was, I think she had, she had the hump, I think.

She had, she was annoyed. But another one, Brian Bellow. The, he was really good.

I liked him a lot. Brian Bellow won it one, Big Brother eight. And he said, look, there was also in the ultimate Big Brother, which was August 24 2010.

Two days for my birthday, two days before I was 40. Can you even believe that? How ridiculous is that? I'm now 73. Can you believe? And when I went on to the 10th of September, 2010.

And Brian Dowling won that. So he was one of the winners previously. He won that and Nikki Graham came second.

Nikki Graham, when did Nikki, did Nikki Graham come second in any other ones? Because weird because Nikki Graham is one of the most famous, most famous UK Big Brother contestants. She didn't win it. She didn't come second, according to this, apart from in the ultimate one.

But she was one of the most memorable for any Big Brother fan. There's no Big Brother fan that doesn't know who Nikki Graham is. Really? I mean, there's, I mean, I, Mr. Stutter, I guess you could be a Big Brother fan from the last, you know, from 2023 onwards, and maybe not know previous winners.

I mean, of course, that's possible. But, you know, hardcore, original fans, but that's not really fair, is it? It doesn't matter if you've only watched one season, or one series. If you're a fan of Big Brother, you're a fan of Big Brother.

You know, because you can't go back in time, can you? Someone who's at 18, they can't go back 24, 25 years to watch the first season. And you know, so it's not fair on them. So someone that's 10, watching it for the first time.

So yeah, although I'm not sure it's really suitable viewing for young, young, young people. Because it's a bit adult. Sometimes they do say some naughty words.

Naughty words, naughty words. So Nikki Graham, okay. So I did this job, I applied to be working in compliance.

And that job entailed listening to phone calls, to basically just judge whether or not the calls were handled correctly. And they asked the correct, proper questions in the right way, and didn't miss out anything, and were honest during the recording, all that stuff. So I applied for that job.

And at this point, the previous sales manager had moved downstairs, and she was now in charge of the customer service. So we had a different sales manager upstairs, who'd been there still for quite a while. And so I had the interview with my old sales manager.

And she said, Why? Why? I said, Why what? She said, Why aren't you wearing trousers? No, she said, Why? Why do you want to leave that job and come and do this? I said, Well, firstly, you know, if I'm going to sell it to you, I'm the most compliant person on the sales floor, which is true. And I was getting every time I got 100, we'd have six calls listened to every month.

And for every 100%, which means everything was perfect.

You know, as far as their tick sheet goes, you know, the 100% would get 25 pound for each call that they got, which was 100%. And then whoever got the most 100% would then win 100 pound on top. So that added the bonus.

So there was me and one other person who would be who we would kind of take turns winning it. You kind of won one month, I'd get 100, then the next month she'd get 100. But we'd all be getting generally I'd be getting at least four or five 100%.

So between the two of us, one of us would perhaps get five and everyone would get six. You know, I mean, so that that's kind of how it worked out. And I think we both got exactly the same amount once they just gave us 100 pound each, plus 2520.

What's six 25s? 2550 100 150. So it's 250 pound bonus. And you know, I didn't get 100 pound every month, but I did get the next 100 or 125 or whatever.

So yeah, it's pretty cool. So the manager, that's why I said, Well, I know, I know how it works. I'm the most compliant person, apart from one other person, but, you know, pretty much the most compliant person on the wholesale floor.

She said, That's true. And also, the managing director was at lunch. This is this is this is totally true as well.

It might sound like I'm bragging and I am. But the thing is, I wonder who's going to be on Big Brother tonight. Because it's celebrity Big Brother.

It's not just any old Big Brother, it's celebrity. And I don't even know one person's going to be on there. And I'm quite happy about that.

Because I'm looking forward to being surprised. You know, I'm going to have it on. And I'm going to be watching like just with glee.

Someone said to me, someone asked me on Friday, what gives me joy? Big Brother. launch night at Big Brother gives me joy. I don't know why I love it.

I love Big Brother. I used to feel the same way about the X Factor. You know, back in the early days, I kind of pitted off a little bit with the X Factor over the years.

But for many years, well over a decade, I loved it. You know, every Saturday night. I think I like the fact it was just on once a week.

And I just that was my Saturday night watching X Factor. Love, love, love, loved it. It was the same kind of excitement as I would get for a big upcoming boxing event.

It's Yeah, it's feel good thing. And that's what Big Brother gives me. Because, you know, I make recordings and I do all this stuff.

I don't look forward to the evening. But there's nothing I'm looking forward to to watch on TV. Because so much stuff is available to stream now.

There's no sort of deadlines. There's no times for it. Apart from, you know, at the weekend, when there's boxing on, if there's boxing on, because then it's on a certain time.

And it's, it's a little bit constricted in a way, you know, compared to, it's like, I have to be sitting and watching it right now. And that's when Vinnie normally wants to go and do her poo. So I'm in this, I mean, I'm in the interview, and she says, Okay, see, we agree with you, you're good at the compliance.

This job will be easy for you. I said, Thank you. I agree.

I don't want to take it because it's easy for me. But she said, Why do you want it? I said, because of the hours. But firstly, I've had enough of sales.

Sales, because I'd already Yeah, I just didn't want to do sales anymore. I didn't want to do sales to start with in that company. But I was kind of, I had to get a job.

So just went back into sales. But I was happy to get out, you know, the sales department, even though, as I say, the managing director went to lunch with the sales manager and everything. And when the sale manager came back, he said that the director of the company.

And this is true. I'm not even making this up. Okay.

He might be making up but I'm not making up. He said that the the managing director said that he wished that everybody on the sales floor was like me. Because then it would be so much better.

And then he stopped. He said, Yeah, apart from the smell, obviously. But you know, if everyone washed, then that would be and I thought it's so rude.

But made us laugh. But it's like, really? So and everyone has to wear trousers. So I said, Anyway, I said, I said, What do you mean? He said, Well, you do everything correctly.

You don't sell the most. But you do so well. But you do everything correctly.

Because a lot of people that were selling more, they're getting more sales. But sometimes they were giving insurance. They were selling someone car insurance for a van for commercial vehicle, which meant the insurance wasn't even valid.

And it was valid because it was the error of the company. But you know, it wasn't they had to cancel the insurance. And then the salesperson would get that money taken off their wages.

So sometimes they'd lose like hundreds of pounds off their month's money. Because of making a mistake. Happened once to me.

I think I didn't like that. It did happen once I made a mistake. And which is human.

I mean, I class myself. Technically, I'm living in a world full of humans. So I'm kind of I live I live among you live among them.

And that was that was a bit of Oh, really? I wonder if any of the I do wonder that about the big brother tonight. Because I was there was there was, you know, there's always like a little bit of you know, kind of little bit of teasing, little bit of tickling, little bit of, you know, like, it might be this person, it might be that person. And I think the only other series that they have that with is probably I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, jungle, get me out of the jungle program.

And they quite often don't tell you exactly who's going to be in there until the last minute. And I don't watch that program. So I don't.

I mean, it's in is is the arguments and stuff and the conversations and get to know celebrities. That's good. But I don't like the Tucker trials.

I just just, I don't like it. It's just Yeah, I just don't like it. And everything else about is good.

But I think the reason why most people maybe watch it is the reason that I don't want to watch it. But then how am I supposed to? I don't know how why people watch it. But anyway, and my manager said, Why? Why did you? Why do you? Well, this is the sales, the previous sales manager now is the customer service manager.

Why? Why do you want to leave your sales position and come and work in customer service as a compliance officer? Just, you know, listening to calls on the phone all day. And I said, Well, be listening, you know, it's the hours, it's eight to five. Was it nine to five, I think it might be an eight to five.

And Monday to Friday, had the weekends off, had my evenings off. That's what I wanted. And because I was living in the Buddhist community at the time.

And I, I don't know, I just, I just didn't want to do the sales anymore. I really wanted to get out of sales. And they, and she did say to me, and it was also my future boss was there as well.

I didn't really know him. I did kind of know him to talk to to chat to because he's the one that told me there was a job. Because so he used to come in, he was the IT man, or the IT person.

So he'd he did that as well as run the compliance department. Because the compliance department only had two people in it, me and Pammy. And then there was him who was like managed it.

And he'd do the overflow. He'd basically listen to some of the calls that we did to make sure that we were doing the job properly. Plus, he was doing other stuff as well.

It was kind of like the assistant to the boss. So he taught and I started to see him every now and then he'd come up with a computer went down or the system went down. He'd be in the sales office like doing stuff.

So I got to know him a little bit chatting to him is very friendly bloke. And he told me there was a job downstairs. In the compliance.

So I said, Can I apply? And he said, Well, you have to you have to go down and have to speak to what's her name? I said, Who's what's her name? He said, he did say name, but I can't remember what her name is. He didn't say what's her name. He was a bit more respectful than me.

He actually used people's proper names. So that's what I did. So he was in the interview as well.

And she because he was going to be my manager. So the customer service manager, she said to me, Okay, so you want the job, but you realize you're going to be losing 10,000 pound a year to do this. I hadn't really worked it out that it was going to be that much, but it was.

So I was earning 25 with the sales bonus and all that stuff. And the basic on this was going to be 14. So I said, Yeah, it's fine.

She said, Are you sure you're really willing to lose 200 pound a week? And I was like, Okay, it'd be Yeah, it's not about the money anymore. It's about, I just want to have a more relaxed time. You know, I want to get out sales, sales was just not, not for me anymore.

And she said, I'll be honest with you. If it wasn't for the fact that you, you know, we're good at what you do upstairs. We probably would just like to give you the job now, right now.

But we're gonna have to talk to your manager upstairs. And I said, Well, it's not really going to make that much difference. She said, Why not? This bit I'm making up probably, I don't know.

But I'm pretty sure I said to her, Well, if you don't give me a job, I can't stay in sales. I don't want to work in sales anymore. I don't want to be doing shifts.

That's why I want to come and do this job downstairs in the customer service. Because I've had enough of sales. And she said, Well, let us we'll let you know.

And then I Yeah, that was it. And I've got the job. So I started in December.

2005. Yeah, 2005. So I've been there for a year and a year and four months.

I sat in a desk at the back of the room, what big old room. And there was nothing for me to do. There was just a computer.

And why is there nothing for me to do? They do the compliances. They do them. They've been doing it since I've been upstairs.

And so why is there nothing to do? But they didn't. They were basically wanting to set up an area that could hold all three of us. Because up to that point, Pam was doing all of them.

Pam and the other bloke were pretty much doing all of them. As like, okay. So I don't know who else I think there used to be someone else.

I think what it was is the two of them could do it easy to get between them. But the man, he started because he was getting more and more duties elsewhere doing other things with it. So it got to the point where sometimes, they weren't even doing six.

They weren't listening to six recordings a month, which was annoying, because that meant I didn't get paid as much. You know, with the bonuses and that. Who'd have thought that 98 out of 100 would be a disappointing mark? It's crazy, isn't it? But that's that's a difference.

That's 25 pounds that wasn't going in my pocket. The sales was quite good, though, because the good thing, the payment structure, because they paid the monthly money, which was, I think it was 13,000 a year, basic. And then the bonus was paid weekly.

So it's a monthly, you know, monthly structure paid. I just banged the desk that that metal thing has to go. I keep banging it.

The Yeah, they'd paid monthly. So you know, at the end of every month, we get paid. I don't know what's that 1000 pound or something.

Is it 1012? Yeah, maybe, maybe 900 8920 or I don't know whatever it was. And then we get a bonus of whatever we had the previous week. So some people in there, they'd be getting like five, 600 pounds.

Because I was in no way was I even near being a top seller. But I did. I made my money up with the compliance by doing a job properly.

So yeah, I think the most I ever earned in one week was about I think the compliance done the compliance was paid as part of the monthly that wasn't paid in the weekly. Yeah, that's it. So I got that paid extra.

And the Yeah, because it was on the payslip. So the so if sometimes again, actually 250 sometimes it'd be like 125 depended. But with the actual sales, I think one of my best week was about 450.

I think that was probably a one off, maybe 350 450. But I didn't I was I was nowhere in the top sales people in that company. But the difference is everyone there was good.

Anyone that was not able to hit the targets basically got let go. But with Churchill, you basically you had to turn up in the office with the intention of farting in order to get a disciplinary, you know, just like almost yet to wait for the managing director to turn up and just fart in front of him. I'm saying don't do that.

But I'm saying, you know, anyone ever did that? I don't even want to They were a bit more nicer, I think, in a sense, towards the staff. Because they needed the calls answered. It wasn't just about sales.

Because they were getting paid, they were getting penalised. If they didn't answer the calls that came through that answer a certain percentage of the calls, because they were coming through from the bank, Lloyd's TSB bank calls. And that's my understanding of it.

So even people that didn't sell much, at least they were answering the phone, which meant they were saving the company money, probably paying their wages just by answering the phone, really. So Big Brother starts at nine o'clock on channel, it moves from channel four, to channel five, and now it's on ITV2. But the launch night is on ITV1.

So, yeah, there's been quite a few hosts. Oh, Jade Goody is probably one of the most famous, one of the most famous contestants as well. But she didn't win it.

I don't know where she came, probably third. But she was one of the top ones. And then she was in the ultimate one, as well.

And that, that all kind of went a bit pear shaped. That that one, there was a lot of Yeah, let me go on, I'm gonna click on this, because I just to recount my memory of it. The ultimate format, Brian.

Okay. Brian, okay. So let's have a look.

So the entrance in the ultimate Big Brother was Brian Dowling. He was a winner of Big Brother two. He won it.

What? Yeah, he was the overall winner. So you had Brian Dowling, Nikki Graham, she was fifth place in Big Brother seven, she came runner up in the ultimate. And then you had the with the ones that were previous winners of Big Brother, Chantal Houghton.

And Eureka Johnson, but she was a winner of Celebrity Big Brother. Oh, Chantal Houghton. This is, this is funny.

I remember that. Wow. Chantal Houghton.

She basically came into Celebrity Big Brother, but with a secret. And her secret is, was she's a celebrity. So they put her in, as being like, in a boy in a band, like a girl band.

But she wasn't a celebrity. And no one knew who she who she was. But at the same time, not everybody on Celebrity Big Brother has always been like a big, like world famous name.

I mean, some really have, but not everyone has. I mean, some of the Celebrity Big Brothers have been so good. Like Coolio, when he was on there, and Minnie Mee was on there as well.

And so many, it's been great. So these are previous winners, but then she went on to win it, even though she wasn't a celebrity to start with. And then she came third place in the Ultra one, which is cool.

So, ooh, Victor Abua. He was evicted, because he got into, I think he's the one that got into an argument on Big Brother 5. But he came fourth place this time. And Nick Bateman, Nick, anyone that never watched any of the earlier Big Brothers, this was the very first series.

And the rules of Big Brother. I mean, this is a this is, it's really hard to believe that this was even a thing. But this was headline news.

And I think I'm partly making this up. But I do believe it was even mentioned in the House of Parliament by the Prime Minister. Seriously, what Nick Bateman did.

Blimey. Oh, this job. I did.

I like working there, actually. I did. But the thing is, it was, it was weird, because I went from being one of the gang, but I was working in the South Floor, to knowing, you get to know everyone, even maybe not personally, but know everyone's name.

And, you know, it wasn't a big sales floor. There was probably, I don't know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, 30, 40, 40, probably 50, maybe 60 people when I worked there. They did increase it by about three times that.

So they put in, yeah, they got started getting team leaders and stuff, and increasing. But there's probably maybe 50 or 60 people working there. And I pretty much knew everyone to speak to and say hello to in that.

So I go from being their colleague, to marking their calls. And that didn't go down so well, all the time. And I just had to explain to them that if you, the thing is, if they would give, they give you bonuses, if you got 100%, you get £25.

But if you got below 40%, 40% was the path, pass mark. I think, and that's not not a particularly high level, is it? I think 40, maybe it was 45% was the pass mark. Anyone got got below that, they would lose money.

And one person lost, they got below 40%, or whatever, on all six calls. So they lost, I think it might have been you lose £25. So he lost £150 from his, from his money.

And he was not happy. So he had the team leaders running around listening to the calls to check saying, well, no, he, you know, and I don't know if I think it might be in a different department, not sales, maybe in. Yeah, I think it was renewals.

And every single one that he'd failed on, he failed on. Like they got someone to re-listen to it. And I got Pam to listen to it, or my manager.

And they seem to be under the impression that I was going to give him a bad mark. So why? I wouldn't do that, you know? Probably the most awkward one, the awkward situation was, well, not as awkward as Nick Bateman in Big Brother. You know, it was it was actually headline news, right? Why? Why? Just because he wrote down messages with a pen or pencil that he smuggled into Big Brother, write down messages trying to manipulate the nomination process.

Okay. He was, this is ridiculous now, but he was the bear in mind, this is 2000. So 25 years ago, blimey.

He was the most hated man in Britain. He did nothing other than just write down a few messages. He didn't hurt anyone, you know, but he was absolutely, I think he had to go into hiding.

That's how ridiculous it was. It was so big. It was he honestly, there's no way I can really explain to you how huge it was.

Big Brother was so watched at that point. And so he went into the ultra one, and he came fifth. So he was, he was, he was ejected from Big Yeah.

Oh, no, Victor Ebua wasn't evicted, he was evicted, not ejected. Sorry, but Nick Bateman was ejected. And because for cheating.

So ridiculous. Preston, Big Brother four, he got together with Chantal Houghton, and I think they got married. So they fell in love.

And he came fourth, then he came sixth place in. I think they perhaps weren't together anymore, when they went back into the house. So it's quite awkward.

Eureka Johnson was the winner of the celebrity Big Brother six. And she came seventh place in that there was really, really funny bit with Eureka Johnson and Mini Me. And they were singing.

This is in the Big Brother celebrity Big Brother number six. They sang a song together. It was so good.

So funny. Vanessa felt she was in celebrity Big Brother one. She got evicted from there.

And she got a few numbers. She came eighth. She was evicted.

Michelle Bass. Big Brother five. Yeah, she was a character because she got evicted from Big Brother five.

But then she got a big bite. Yeah, so she was a character. So they put her in next to that.

And Vanessa felt the character as well. Nadia Almada. Big Brother five.

Again, she won Big Brother five. Really popular. I said earlier, then she was evicted.

She's won a 1234. Well, she was a 123 the third person to get evicted. And then you've got Mikosa Musambassi.

Mikosa Musambassi. Who's Mikosa Musambassi? She's she was in Big Brother six. I think I know Mikosa.

She was third place in Big Brother six, but she got evicted. She was second to be evicted. Coolio.

Third place in celebrity Big Brother six. He was so good. I nearly said cool.

He was great. And celebrity Big Brother six, because he was also in the same, the same one with Eureka Johnson, and Mini-Me. And they were like a double act them two so good.

But for some reason he got ejected from the ultra Big Brother and I don't remember quite why. Don't remember. That's weird, isn't it? It's got to be.

Well, of course, there was a reason. He must have done something or said something that people were upset with. And celebrity Big Brother three, John McCruick.

He was a Yeah, he was evicted in the first one, Big Brother three, and he was evicted. He was the first one to be evicted from the ultra. And then Josie Gibson, she won Big Brother 11.

But she walked out of the ultra Big Brother. I need to know why. I need to know why.

That's really gonna bug me if I don't find out why. In the end, I only worked, I worked in a compliance for longer than I thought I worked in a sales department in that company. So I did December 2005.

2005 Yeah, 2005. Until June 2007. So what's that as one year, eight months.

And basically, they have gone part time due to health issues. And which was fine. I mean, it's like that suited me really well.

So I'd go in at I've known nine to two, something like that. And like five hours and it was perfect. Five days a week, five hours a day, I could get lots done.

I had one quarter of our break, that's all I needed. But that wasn't enough. They needed me to do more hours.

So from pretty much September, October 2006 to June 2007. I was part time. And then they said, they called me to the office and said, I either have to go full time or leave or go back to full time or leave.

And I tossed and turned. And the manager saying, Can you just wait to get home to do that? And so I got up off the floor and I thought, I said, Okay, I'll stay. And then the next day said, No, I'm not going to stay.

And I kind of didn't know because at the time things had come together for me. So the beginning of 2006, that's when I really started the making recordings online, doing free pain relief service for people during 2006. And started doing like group sessions.

So come October, November 2006, once I started to recover a bit and from being a bit unwell, I was able to do more stuff after work, like more voluntary things. And I like that. It was nice to do that, go and do some voluntary work, do some group relaxation sessions, maybe two, three, four, I was doing like five or six group sessions a week in the like late afternoon or early evening.

And then I kind of had to give that up if I went full time. So I decided no, I'll just leave. And that's what I did.

So I gave my notice, a month's notice, I left end of June, I think it was. And during that period, I applied to go to university to do counselling and yeah, it all worked out. Well, you know, kind of, I suppose.

Yeah, I got my degree in that. So that was good. That'd be so cool doing a degree, like I'm in a full time, just going to college, going to university.

That'd be in a subject though, that really grabs me. Something, I don't know, something that I'm already good at. I just have to find something I'm good at first.

But it'd be nice to be to go and be already knowledgeable in something. So I really don't know who's going to be on Big Brother this Sunday. That's it.

But tonight, rather, sorry, this Monday, it's Monday already, isn't it? At nine o'clock. I've got to find out why Josie left Big Brother. So let's have a look.

There's got to be something in here. Big Brother, Big Brother, Big Brother. In October 2000.

Right. It was confirmed. After an interview with Davina McCall, she confirmed she was going to take part in Ultimate Big Brother, then re-entered the Big Brother house 18 minutes later.

What? Blimey. So she went straight. They did Celebi Big Brother immediately after the Big Brother series ended.

I don't remember that. Blimey. Anyway, on day three of Ultimate Big Brother, Gibson, Josie Gibson, who literally just won Big Brother.

Oh, I know, because she didn't she didn't want to stay in anyway. She'd had enough. She'd already done like served her time.

And I don't think she's wanted to be there anymore. She realized missing a family or something. So you might think I'm reading this and I'm talking about this is my memory now.

Gibson walked out the house while other housemates were nominating. It was confirmed that she was not returning to the Ultimate Big Brother house. She reunited with Parton, I don't know who Parton is, seconds after breaking out as he was at the Big Brother compound recording a message for her.

Her fellow housemates shared their sadness after her exit, with Eureka Johnson crying and eventual winner Brian Dowling predicting that she would have won if she had stayed. Who's John? Okay, she entered into a run. Really? In 2010, Gibson entered the Big Brother house.

And throughout her stay, she received five nominations for eviction, never faced the public vote, the public vote, the public vote. She entered into a romantic relationship with fellow housemate John James Parton. And upon leaving Big Brother, the couple confirmed they were dating.

On day 66 of Big Brother 11, Gibson was selected by the other housemates to receive a ticket to the final. Oh, that makes sense then. So she's fallen in love with John James Parton during that season of Big Brother.

And because she wins, she then gets put into the Big Brother Ultimate house. You know, she gets offered to be in there. But she goes in but she's missing John James Parton.

Because that was her new boyfriend. And let's, well, let's be fair. There's probably things they wanted to do that they weren't able to do on camera.

I can't think what it is. I'm sure there was something. So yeah, I mean, is she literally she had an interview with Davina McCall and confirmed she's going to take part in Ultimate Big Brother and then reentered the Big Brother house 18 minutes later.

Now, she might have had those 18 minutes with John James Parton. I mean, that's enough. Well, with a rest and a cup of tea three or four times but and a biscuit and a sausage.

I mean, I don't know who John James Parton is. Let's have a look. Is there a picture of him? John James Parton.

John James. I don't know. So I wonder if they got married.

Did her and John James Parton get married? I really don't know. I mean, she might be married. Did she get married? There's no way of knowing.

I mean, it's none of my business, really, whether or not she got married to John James Parton. I'm just having a look at personal life. Well, she did give birth to a son, Reggie James.

So is this a real kind of one name's not enough. I'm getting a sense there, don't you? Like one name. I mean, she's got three names, four names, or three, Josephine Diane Shirley Gibson.

So I'm thinking then she meets another man that's got another man, but a man called John James Parton. So I'm thinking he's got to two names. She had three names.

And she only really used to go by Josie. But I don't know if John James Parton went by John James. Or John.

I mean, I would never call anyone with two names. Never. Never.

Never. One name. One name's enough for anyone.

I don't think we need two names. Apart from Billy Bob, Billy Bob Thornton. I call him Billy Bob.

I might call him Billy Bobby, Billy Bobby. Because, well, he's just the coolest actor in the world. I would say Billy Bob Thornton is so good.

So yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I've met a few people with two names. And they just get one.

Sarah Jane. Sarah. Not calling her Sarah Jane.

Sarah. Sorry. Those are the rules.

I actually had this friend of mine, female friend at school change her name. And I would not call her by the name that she changed it to. I just, I don't know why.

I don't know why I was being, because the thing is, I generally don't use people's names anyway. Because if I'm standing in front of them, they know who I'm talking to. I don't need to say their name if I'm talking to them.

They're not a dog. You know, if I'm talking to Vinnie, like, Vinnie, he gets his attention because he recognizes his name. And he often ignores me.

But if it's a human being, and you're just you and them talking, unless you're going to talk about them, there's no reason to use their name. Or if you're phoning for them and sort of asking, yeah, is Sarah there? Sarah? I don't know what I called Sarah. Sarah, with the bluer hair.

Sarah with the blue hair, 16 piercings. Facials piercings. No, don't know.

Okay, Sarah Jane. Oh, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane.

She's just there with me. There you go. Okay, brilliant.

Like, no, double barrel, don't even get me started on double barreled names. I don't really care. I just don't see the point.

Although I did have a girlfriend once and she said to me, if we ever have kids, you're going to, the kid is going to have a double barreled name. They'll have my surname and your surname. I said, okay.

She said, you alright with that? I said, yeah. I said, okay, cool. She said, I've got to pop out.

She said, where are you going? Get some condoms. So I'm not having a kid with a double barreled name. We laughed, but she did.

She said either a double barreled name or the kid's going to be, have my surname, like her surname. Like, what? How about a bit of tradition? I know, you know, you could say, yeah, but tradition, how far do you want to go back? Slavery's traditional. Like, no, come on.

Let's not be silly. It might be true, but come on. Just, just something.

Because I just like the idea, you know, things like calling your kids, giving your kids a name, name them after a relative. You know, like my, my uncle was called Edward after my granddad. And so that was his first born, first male.

And the first female was called Eileen after my nan. That was kind of a traditional thing to do back then. In America, it's, they put junior on the end.

We don't do that because we just don't do that here. Generally, I mean, it can be, I suppose, if someone's really famous and they've both got the same name, you'd like to say senior and junior, so you know who's who. But generally, you know, there's plenty of juniors that no one knows who their parents were.

So it's not like they're going to get confused. You know, if, if my name was, let's say my dad's name was, okay, I'm not a good example, but let's say, you know, if someone was famous, and they've got the same first name as their dad, but their dad has never been famous and not known by anybody. Then there's no reason for them to put junior, is there?

On the end, but some people do that.

I want everybody to know I'm a junior. Well, I'm not, I'm not a junior. I'm a, I'm not even a senior.

You know, I was named, like my oldest brother, I don't know who he was named after. But I think he was named after a member of the family. My other brother was named after a member of the family, I think.

Me, I was named after a TV character. It's true. In the 60s, there was a TV show called Jason.

Jason. What was it? Jason. King, that's it, Jason King.

I think he was like a detective. And he had this big mustache and maybe a beard. And apparently my dad looked a bit like him.

And people used to call him Jason. And, this bloke was a 60s womanizer, popular with the ladies, a bit of a, you know, a heartthrob on TV. And my dad's friends used to call him Jason as a nickname.

So that's what, that's how I ended up with the name Jason. Not named after any family members, after some TV show. That's why I decided if I ever, ever have a kid, if I have a daughter, I'm going to call her Wonder Woman.

Or if it was a boy, Bionic Man. Or the Fall Guy, because I like both. I still think that the Bionic Man, he was so handsome, wasn't he? Like, I don't know something about him.

He's such a, such a handsome face. Iconic. I mean, can you imagine, for those that don't know, it's hard to even explain the popularity of TV shows like The A-Team, or The Bionic Man, or Wonder Woman, Mork and Mindy.

I mean, there's so many different shows that were just huge. That would have, or Dallas, that would have literally 20 million people in a country that at the time probably had about 55 million people. Like nearly half the population would be watching this TV show on a Saturday night.

Because we only had three channels. It's very unlikely to get any program on TV outside of maybe a huge royal event that's going to have that many people watching this country. Then how big it was in America, probably had 100 million people in America watching these shows.

And they'd have toys. The Bionic Man used to have a thing where he could do its eye and look through its eye, and it had self-gripping hands, I think. I might be thinking of just a normal action man now.

But you know, there was toys. Mork and Mindy, there was a Mork and Mindy toy, and an egg. There was an egg that came.

I had the egg. I did. I didn't have the egg.

I didn't give birth to the egg. I didn't put it out. I'm not saying it wouldn't fit.

But he, I think he was like, he came out of the egg, as in the TV show. The A-Team, they had action figures. Mr. T, I say obviously, but I think it's fair to say, obviously the most famous, one of the most famous faces of the early 80s, Mr. T. What are you talking about, Willis? And you've got different strokes, of course, then.

I'll put it at a four. And it's like, some of these shows are so huge. And they'd have their own annuals.

Like, anally, they'd have a book or magazine would come out, which would be like, you know, just stories and photographs and stuff like that. Maybe Christmas. It'd be, yeah, like really big.

These were huge, huge shows. And now things seem to be big for a short time. Like the latest Netflix series, Adolescence, not seen it.

I'm a little bit not sure if I want to watch it or not. But get huge amounts of people from around the world watch them. And then they kind of just sort of disappear, because something else comes along.

And, yeah, I don't know, it's different now. I'm not saying it's better or it's worse. It's just different.

And kind of, I used to look forward to Saturday nights because of TV. And it was quite a nice environment at home. It was fairly peaceful.

It's about the only time really, there was any kind of real peace would be my Saturday. Yeah, if we weren't like, if we weren't getting told to do stuff, it was quite peaceful on a Saturday evening. We'd sit around, my dad would fall asleep in his chair.

We'd watch some movies. We've got deep videos out from the video shop. We'd have a bag of sweets after having had dinner, which was usually like bits and bobs and sandwiches and crisps and stuff.

That'd be our evening meal on a Saturday, be like a buffet kind of thing. I think we were allowed to eat on our lap as well, while watching telly. And I do I think back to those days and they were good.

That some of those times were really, really good times. Yeah, I used to love the videos. Just click, you're going to the video shop, we get like three or four video tapes.

And we're just this is brilliant. So good. But we would watch stuff that we shouldn't be watching.

You know, like alien and zombie flesh eaters and stuff like which we shouldn't have been watching. But you know, this is the things that's how things were back then. There wasn't such a big issue about it.

Even the TV shows on the base to watch stuff. Because we used to video a lot of things that were on late, or that went on forever. Really long stuff like Shogun.

It lasted every episode lasted about three months. And I'd still sit and watch it. So I just like spending time with my stepmom.

And I just watch it and just I think I would fall asleep. But Richard Chamberlain, who recently left, left us Richard Chamberlain, I loved him. I used to watch Dr. Kildare.

You know, 83, 84. Dr. Kildare was on about six o'clock in the evening, half five, six on BBC Two, I think, or Channel Four. And it was like a 1960s TV show.

But I loved it. I don't know, I just just love that stuff. One of my favorite shows was Mr. Merlin.

And it was this per this like Mr. It was Merlin, you know, the actual magician or the wizard Merlin. But he was in America and he was running a a car shop, you know, a garage or whatever. And Zachary, I remember the name Zachary.

He was his apprentice. And he was teaching him, you know, to be a magician, or a wizard. Loved it.

Loved that show. The Three Musket Hounds. One for all and all for one.

That's I love love all that stuff. I just feel a little bit out of date now. Just like I'm not because TV is not really as valid as it used to be.

With all the catch up and stuff, it's quite easy to miss things. I think personally, that is that that continuity is kind of gone a bit. Like with EastEnders, Coronation Street, things I used to watch, like Casualty or Holby City, The Bill, London's Burning, things like that that I used to watch really regularly when I was younger.

And I don't really watch hardly any of that. Which I suppose is why I'm, you know, excited and looking forward to two and a half hours time when Celebrity Big Brother starts. Oh, yeah.

Celebrity Big Brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Vinnie's now halfling me.

I don't know why. I don't know if your treats have come through yet, Vinnie. I don't know.

Track parcel. Oh, that's a nice little squeak. Say hello to everyone, Vinnie.

Do you want to say hello to everyone? Track package. We will email you when you have an estimated delivery time. Why it's not, it's not tracking it, is it? I ordered it on Thursday, I think.

They said, so it should have been here Friday. He said, won't be delivered Friday. We'll deliver tomorrow.

They said, we can't deliver today. We'll deliver Sunday. And now, am I going to get another mail, another email saying we can't deliver it today? Because they're his favorite little bone things.

Oh, so I'm going to go, thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. And be gentle with yourself.

You do deserve to feel safe. Vinnie's making his little squealing noise. You want to make another squealing noise? I think he might have heard Archie go past.

Did you? Did you hear one of your friends go past? Okay. Take care. Lots of love.

Bye. What is it?