(Long Music) I Had A Dream | #1651 Let Me Bore You To Sleep | 30th July 2026

Hello, hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. There's nothing for you to do.

You can just listen to me talking about nothing, nothing. So I hope you're well. Today which is 7.31am on the 30th Thursday, the 30th of July, 2026.

So yeah, wow. Near the end of another month. Can you believe it? Vinnie's, Vinnie's hunting a fly.

Basically, that's what he's doing. He's hunting a fly and he's been at it for a while. We just had a little sleep on the settee for an hour and 50 minutes listening to some music on YouTube.

I had a very strange dream. I was, what was my dream? Vinnie's having some water in the bedroom. There's no tap in there.

It's just that's where his bowl is at the moment. I mean, I'll move it into here when we officially move into the living room for the day, into the parlor, into the reception room. What was my dream? Okay, I had this dream that sounds familiar.

Sounds like a very famous speech. Flappy ears. Not, not the person who did the speech.

Um, Vinnie. So okay, I can tell you parts of this dream. I was living somewhere else and I wasn't living.

I was living, still living in a room that I was renting in London. And I was in this place, this town. I'm not sure why I was there.

I mean, it's a different part of the dream. I'm playing football on this. It was with Vinnie.

That's it. I've got Vinnie. Vinnie's on the lead and I'm kicking his balls around, which is very similar to, um, what I do with the apples.

Because there's, there's an apple tree. Funny enough, it's Nanny Treats' apple tree. So it's kind of in her garden, but half the tree is kind of in the field, in the park.

So it drops apples every day. And Vinnie loves going and eating the apples. So we go and we kick the balls, kick the balls, kick the apples around a little bit, depending on the heat.

Sometimes it'll, he's got a bit of energy and a run around, but, um, still on the lead. But it's a long lead. One of those extension ones, you know, and he'll run after the apples.

Other times he's simply choosing one to bring home, but he never brings it home now. He always drops it just like before we leave the park, generally. I don't know why, but that's what he does.

And so in this stream, we were doing a very similar thing, but I was kicking balls around or a ball around. It was kind of like on a football pitch. And there was part of the dream where I thought, why am I not imagining a football? Which is a bit weird.

And so I'm kicking this around and I realize we're on a football pitch and it's all enclosed so I can take his lead off. I don't need, his lead doesn't need to be on. He can have a bit more freedom.

So I do that and he is running around and he's having fun and then we need to go somewhere. I don't know why, but I've taken my shoes off. My train is off and we know that we've gone somewhere else.

But then all these, I think it's like a school or something. These kids start playing football. We might even be adults playing football.

I can't remember. But then we go back because I've left my trainer there, but no trainers, but I can only find one and the other one's missing. So we're looking for it everywhere.

And it's weird because the places that we're looking for it weren't even there before we started looking. That makes sense. Like I would turn to the right instead of being part of the football or maybe the goal.

There's now a desk covered in shoes. So we're looking, try and find my shoes and I look underneath this bench and there's loads of shoes exactly the same as mine, except mild differences. Maybe a stripe here or like a different logo.

I can't remember where we found it, but we did get, oh no, it was on a shelf. I think a teacher helped us find it. So, oh, there it is.

It was on a shelf. And then we leave and then there's all these weird things happen and I'm with other people as well. So I'm not just me.

We're in this town. I don't, it, there was a part of the, there was like part of when I was there that I was thinking, thanks Vinnie. So I looked down, but not, this is, this is real life now.

I looked down underneath the table and it just made that noise. I looked down and it's nowhere near the legs, not his legs, but the legs of the table. He's always near his legs, but the legs of the table are metal.

So he must have banged it with whatever was in his mouth, which is a, like a chew top, chewy thing, but he's nowhere near the legs. So I think he just does it every now and then just to wind me up. So I'm thinking to myself while I'm in this place, maybe I'd like to stay here.

Maybe, because I never really liked anywhere I've lived. I thought, maybe this would be a place to live. Maybe this is somewhere that I'll really enjoy living.

Like as far as a town goes, you know, an area, a town or whatever it was, maybe it was a village. I don't know. Near the end of the dream, I'm looking for someone to show me around because I realized that although I like the place, I've not really seen much of the place other than being in the town center earlier in the dream.

And there was like a marketplace and there was some very unusual characters there, which you'd get anywhere that was quite busy. I imagine in this country, it's always going to be different kind of people. And it's an understatement.

And I, I do, because I realized that I need to get home. I need to go home because I kind of, I couldn't stay there. But you know, right at the end of the dream, I asked for, I kind of walked into this to see a neighbor and kind of walked into this open conservatory area, walking over all the plants, which was a bit rude of me, but then it was a dream.

So, you know, you can kind of do anything you want in a dream, can't you? And not really apologize. You know what I mean? And I knock on the window and there's, I see two people. Then I see a third person pop up and I wave and they come out.

One of them is at a piano. The other one's, I think one is playing a piano and the other one's, I think just standing to the right. And the third one looks like they were hiding under the piano.

I don't know why. And they bounced up and it was a lady and she was bouncy. And I thought, okay, I wanted to ask someone just to introduce myself.

But then I thought, I like her. She, she seems nice. I'll ask if she'll show me around because I'm thinking I'd like to sort of get to know the area, you know, to see if it is as lovely as I'm feeling it to be.

That's the ending. But other stuff happens beforehand. And there's one point where I get into a taxi because I'm a bit confused about like, how am I going to get home? Do I have enough money in the bank to pay for the taxi to get home? So I thought, well, I'll go halfway.

I don't know if that even makes sense. You know, thinking who can I call to get help with the money to pay for the taxi to get back? Because it's going to cost a lot of money. And it was weird being, being worried about money when I'm asleep.

That's just very strange. It must have been a really long taxi journey. So I'm in the taxi.

So I get in the taxi. I don't remember ordering the taxi, but it just seemed to know where I was. I mean, it's dreams, isn't it? You don't need to phone for a taxi in a dream.

It just appears when you want it, I guess. That's how real life should be. But I do draw the line at what, you know, how much of real life should be like a dream because I have some very strange dreams.

I would not like to be real life. So I'm sitting in the back of this taxi. And the taxi's going and it's going and it's going and I am looking out the windows.

I don't know where I am. It seems like throughout the whole dream, I don't know where I am. It's a bit like just an average day in my life, really.

But at one point, I think, well, we've been driving quite, well I said we, I've been in the taxi, been driven for quite a long time. At no point did I actually tell the taxi driver where I wanted to go. I said to the taxi driver where I wanted to go.

No response. I said, I just want to make sure we're going to wherever it was. No response.

So I looked at the taxi driver. Because for some reason, because I was in the back. But for some reason, I didn't even look in the direction of the taxi driver when I was requesting to be taken to a specific destination.

I looked and I realized there was no one in the driving seat. Now, 30 years ago, that would have been almost like a horror story, wouldn't it? But today with the self driving cars, I just automatically assumed in my dream, oh, it's a self, it's a self driving car. I've never been in one of these before.

I said, and I'm playing around with, it was a little bit weird to start with, but then I'm thinking, hmm, wonder what I can get up to in the back of this car. And I started thinking, is there a television? A television came up. And I said, have you got an adult channel? And they said, no, you perv.

And I thought, okay, fair enough. That's a bit rude. Being judged in a dream.

It's not real. Don't care. It's just pervy to say it, to ask for that in the back of a taxi.

I said, no one's going to see me. What about all the other drivers that are driving past? Oh, fair enough. What about when we stop at traffic lights? All right, I'm going to go on.

So yeah, that was a bit pointless. I had four channels or something. I can't be bothered.

And it's going and it's going, but there's no answer because I'm asking, excuse me, hello. And I start thinking, well, surely there should be a communication or a possibility. You know, there should be some way of communicating with the taxi, even if it is self-driving.

But there didn't seem to be. And eventually I said, oh, you need to take me to where I'm going and just like pull over. So it did.

And I went into where I was going and the thing is, I didn't pay any money to the taxi, but I started thinking maybe, you know, like with Uber Eats, when I get a taxi with Uber Eats, no cash is exchanged. They just automatically take it, take the money out of my account. So I was like, okay, that must be what happened.

Which is handy. So because it means I never have cash on me anymore. I don't draw.

The last time I drew money out of the cash point was. It might have been when I went to the dentist actually. But before that it had been in the summer time.

But yeah, I think I drew some cash out when I went to the dentist. I still got £10 in my wallet. I didn't even know it was there.

I saw it the other day because I was looking. So I got a new debit card to come through because my old one ran out. And I'm just looking through my wallet.

This is in real life. So I get rid of the old one. I don't get I just chuck it into the drawer, the old debit card drawer.

It's like old debit cards, bus passes, library card, just stuff that I don't kind of use. And I noticed a bunch of stuff in the top of the wallet, you know, where people put money. Well, first of all, there's a £10 note.

It's like, oh, that's good to know. And then I found a few bits and bobs and in one of the layers, one of them is a piece of paper with my telephone number and a kiss. I think it was my name and my telephone number.

And I think I plan to give it to someone. And a lady that I was talking to regularly or something. I all I know is the paper was almost falling apart.

Okay, and this is in real life, not a dream. It was no, no moths have got to it. It's not I'm got like, it's not a cartoon.

I open my wallet and moths just fly out, nothing like that. But this piece of paper is absolutely, it was just old. It's been there for years.

Yars and yars. So I couldn't even tell you who I was planning to give it to. Unless I just felt lucky one day and just wrote, you know, put it in there.

I had a similar thing with a condom. And it actually when I got it out of my wallet, this is quite a long time ago. But it had it actually deteriorated.

It was just dry. There was nothing left. It was just, it was just stuck in the wallet for years and years.

I don't mean to brag. I'm just trying to think what else happened in this dream. So there was one point where I'm thirsty.

And I'm saying to my landlady, I'm thirsty. Do you have any drink, orange juice or anything? And she said, she didn't answer because I think we just started talking about something else. And I was telling her about, oh, you know who I met in my dream? Clint Eastwood.

I don't know why he was there. But I met him in my dream. And I said, I was like, wow.

I was, I was gonna say I was speechless, but that wouldn't make sense because I actually did talk to him. Plus, I don't think I've ever been speechless. But I did fumble a little bit.

I don't mean, you know, down there. I mean, verbally, I mean. And you imagine that getting arrested for molesting Clint Eastwood.

Wow. And anyway, because he's about 93, 94. Now he's, you know, he's a good age.

And 112, something like that. And I just said, Hello, Clint. And I wanted to talk to him.

I didn't know what to say. And I asked him some questions with no interest in the answer. The question I asked him was, all right, when's your next movie out? I don't care when the next movie's out.

But I just I had to ask him something. And I thought that'd be that'd be a subject that he's interested in. Because as far as I'm aware, he's still making movies.

And he said, Oh, yeah, there's two coming out. But one will be coming out this weekend. But the other one is in a few months or whatever.

I said, Oh, okay. Thanks, Clint Eastwood. And he left.

Very tall, very tall man. But then most people are tall compared to me. So I'm only three foot one.

In real life, not in my dreams, in my dreams, I'm like seven foot. Sometimes I'm kind of stretchy, I can kind of do what I want in a dream really. There is another there is like a lady and a man in the dream with me.

There was one scene and I'm kind of in a classroom setting with these other adults as a couple of men, a few men and they're just acting. I think I'm playing peacekeeper between some of them. Yeah, and before because I'm going to go back.

So when I was at my landlady's house, asking for drinks of orange juice, because she didn't answer and then she went off somewhere. And I realized I was still thirsty. Ironically, I woke up feeling thirsty.

And I thought, well, I did see some bottles of water in my cupboard. So a little bit of cupboard space for where my stuff was. And for some reason, I had something like seven bottles of water or four bottles of water.

Four, seven, it's similar, isn't it? It was in a box. But most of the box was empty. So I'm trying to, for some reason, I'm trying to put the box away back into the fridge.

Which is weird, because my my space turned into the fridge for some reason. So I'm trying to screw the box down. Screw the box down, you know, and push it down and manipulate the shape of the box so that it can fit into a smaller cavity.

And then I thought maybe it's easier if I just take the water out. The water bottles, that is. But then I'm thinking, well, but what will I do with the box? Does it matter? Yeah.

Why? I can't just leave it here, can I, on the floor? Well, can't I just chuck it outside? No, because someone will see it. Someone might see me doing it. So yeah, I don't know what I did in the end.

I might have just hidden it. But I know I did, I did look for some orange, but the two bottles of orange that I saw previously before I asked if I could have some orange. Because I generally, I, you know, I try and find out if the thing is available before I ask for it.

Because there was two bottles of orange, I think Orangina and another kind of bottle of something. But when I went to get them, both were half empty. They'd been like half drunk.

I think one actually had a straw in it, I think. And I wasn't going anywhere near that. So I think, yeah, I got the taxi, the undriving or the non-driver taxi back to the place where I'd been.

There was another weird part of the dream. It's really weird now I'm thinking about it. There was a part of the dream where we were in a classroom setting.

Those were all adults. And someone's looking out the window. And there was like a bread delivery to one of the other blokes.

His mom was down there collecting some bread. But then it turned out that someone had come and grabbed the bread and ran off. And they were looking out the window and I'm thinking, no, I'm going to go down there, see if she's all right.

I'm just going to just look out the window, laughing. Now they'd been they weren't laughing. I was laughing on the stairs, but I stopped before I got outside.

Because there's one thing being disrespectful, but there's an entirely different thing being caught being disrespectful. You know, as long as no one sees you do it, it's fine. Anyway, I went out there and pretended to care.

And I did care. And she she was distressed. So I decided to run after the person.

Well, to try and find the person that had taken the bread. But I think even in my I'm so fat, even in my dreams, I can't run. So I'm skinny in my dreams, but it's almost like, you know, won't do it.

I'm not that creative. So I'm walking down this road, thinking about asking people because I'm thinking, should I ask people if they've seen someone running with a loaf of bread? Or should I? I think it was bread, it might mean something else. Or should I go into the local shops and see if anyone's tried to sell them a loaf of bread? Which makes you think that maybe it wasn't bread, maybe it was something else.

So I'm walking down this road, and there's a big market. It's very lively market. And kind of one of those you've got stalls on both sides of the road, and no traffic in the road, just, you know, pedestrians, but with shops behind the market stalls, where the pavement is.

So you know, there's people could walk behind and in the middle, or in front and behind of all the different stalls. And I didn't find the person, I don't think. But there was a weird incident where somebody melted.

That was strange. And then I came back, I'm trying to think of anything else that happened. It was, it was emotional.

And I think because I must have liked the female that I was with, maybe, I think she might have been related to me or something, I don't know. But I said to her, are you gonna? Yeah, she was there for a boyfriend. That's it.

She was there to sort of see her boyfriend. And I said she would go home now. Maybe she lived in the same area that I lived.

And she said no. I said no. I said when are you going to go home? Or when are we going to go home? She said I don't, not sure if I am.

That's when I started thinking, oh. So then I was thinking about it like, well, she's in love. She probably feels that she is at home.

Why would she want to go back to London if the person she wants to be with is here? That would make no sense, would it? I mean, if she doesn't have to, that is. So that's when I start walking, thinking, well, maybe this is a nice place. There's a good vibe.

And perhaps I will just, you know, see whether or not I can get or introduce myself and to the neighbor. And then I, you know, I'm just going to ask for a tour, which is a bit of a weird thing to do, isn't it? Knock on a random stranger's door and say, oh, by the way, I quite like this town. Show me around now.

Of course, I wouldn't have said it like that. I would have said, oh, please, please, please, would you per chance have the available time and energy to help me explore the depths of this particular area? You know, perhaps that was more like what I would have said. But I think the only reason I asked her is because I fancied her.

And she was continuously bouncing up and down. I don't know what that was about. Maybe she was on a pogo stick, but I didn't look at her feet.

So maybe, maybe that's what it was. You know, you might not know what a pogo stick is. It's basically, it's a, it's a stick with handlebars.

Then you've also got like handlebars near the bottom as well, which you can put your feet on, or foot bars, I guess. And the bottom bit is bouncy. Like a spring.

A lot of fun. Yeah, a lot of fun. And I don't know why adults didn't use that as a way of actually for transport.

I don't mean instead of a plane, or, you know, a car or coach or train. I'm not, not instead of, but it's got to be quicker than walking. It's more fun than walking.

And I imagine it's got to be equal quicker than jogging. But then if you if you're going out somewhere, I mean, jogging for exercise is brilliant if you can do it. It's not, it's not a traveling thing, is it? It's not a, I wouldn't class Finny, he's still, still hunting that fly.

He's literally he'll be, he'll be on my, on the chair next to me on the settee, and he'll be fast asleep. And I'll just be relaxing. And suddenly, he'll move and be snapping his teeth into the air.

I mean, his mouth will be connected, you know, it's not just his teeth. Again, it's not a cartoon. It makes me jump.

Really does. I don't bang my head off the ceiling. Because it's not Yeah, anyway.

I can't think what else happened in the dream. No, there probably was other stuff. But that's pretty much about it.

I don't know if it was affected by a documentary I watched about a prison on YouTube. Yeah, I know, I know how to enjoy light entertainment. But not sure.

So I wonder what's in the news? What's in the news? Is there any nice stories? Richard Madeley. Richard Madeley. Richard Madeley walks off of great GMB.

So it's a Good Morning Britain set over a pet peeve, as co host says he's had. Come on, I can't read this. It's like cutting it off.

Would you like to pay for this article? Of course I don't. Richard Madeley. So those who don't know who Richard Madeley is, he's pretty much a television legend in this country.

He's 70 years old now, and he's been hosting breakfast or mid morning TV shows for decades. He's also used to be really well known for gaffes, for saying the wrong things, almost like a real life Alan Partridge. In fact, if you go to YouTube, there's actually channels I think devoted to him.

So let's have a look what happened. He stormed off the set of the TV show after Kate Garraway teased him over his pet peeve during Tuesday's broadcast. He, they were discussing the headlines of the day when the conversation turned to irritating habits.

Moments before the show turned over to the next show, Madeley admitted he hated people eating food next to him, particularly at the cinema. Garraway, 59, took the opportunity to roast her colleague, not literally roasting but like pulling his leg or tickling his ribs or whatever you want to call it, pulling his plonker, and pulled out a bag of popcorn from inside the coffee table cabinet. As Madeley screwed up his face in disgust, she threw a piece of popcorn in his mouth and chuckled, he's the fun piece.

He doesn't like people eating next to him. Madeley then sighed and walked out of the studio, prompting Garraway to declare he's had enough. He stormed off set.

He returned to the set after a preview aired of Hammond and O'Leary for the upcoming This Morning show. The broadcaster slumped next to Garraway who continued to gleefully eat her popcorn before the show went on to an ad break. The playful moment comes after the show was plagued with a slew of mishaps.

I mean, so they were just messing around. If you look at the headlines, Richard Madeley walks off GMB set over pet peeve as Garraway says he's had enough. So basically, I've seen a very similar thing to this, which involved him and he basically, I think he just probably needed to do a wee wee.

That's a reality isn't it? Or put some deodorant on? I'm not sure. I mean, what can you do in 30 seconds? Hmm. Whatever it was, he did it and then came back.

There's quite a few. If I look at Richard Madeley, let's have a look at Magey gaffes. So let's have a look at some of the things that he's done over the years.

I found one it says Richard Madeley's this is the HuffPost.co.uk Richard Madeley's 15 most brilliant TV gaffes, blunders and oversharing moments ever. So it says when it comes to must watch live TV gaffes, no one delivers quite like Richard Madeley. So he's well known for this.

One is number one, telling his daughter Chloe that she was an accident. So here's him talking about his wife Judy. So Judy got pregnant very quickly again.

And it was an accident. Sorry, Chloe. But you were and you know it.

And you know it. And she's actually sitting in front of him in the studio when he says it. Okay, I mean, I was told that I was an accident as well.

Number two, trying to talk to a guest via video link, not realizing they were actually sitting next to him. That's funny. So trying to get a video link of someone that's literally sitting to the left of you.

That's funny. I can hear what sounds like bagpipes. Why am I hearing bagpipes? Oh, no.

It's really weird because I can hear bagpipes and it's coming from a neighbor's flat. I'm almost hoping it's just neurosis. Because the idea of living next to someone that's playing the bagpipes is pretty much worse than them to be sectioned.

But wow, it's gone away now. I wasn't imagining it. Maybe it's just watching telly with bagpipes.

Why though? If there's a TV program with bagpipes, I turn it off. Or turn it over. Bagpipes are only allowed once a year.

And that's like, you know, New Year's Eve. But they're so lovely to listen to. Come on.

Come on. Seriously. It's there's a reason when someone's a moany, moany, old moaner that just moans on and on and on and on and on and on and on and doesn't stop moaning that they get the nickname windbag.

Right? And that's what a bagpipes is. It's just a windbag isn't it? Letting out lots. It's basically a fart bag.

Letting out. Individually, the sounds are just farts. But mix them all together.

And that's what bagpipe sounds like. Reflecting on his own culinary delights. Remember that soup I made last week? Absolutely horrible.

Had to throw it in the garden. Okay. The time he overdid it with a fake tan.

So this is him talking. I worked it out. And it's not because I slapped fake tan on.

Because I don't do that. When you get up early, you don't want to disturb your partner. So I get ready in the kitchen.

I had a dry shave in the kitchen. And it was quite itchy. So I reached into the cardboard and got what I thought was aftershave balm, squirted it on.

And I thought it smelled a bit funny. But whatever. Anyway, it wasn't aftershave balm.

It was Chloe or Judy's fake tan. Okay, I've got a question. Right.

He and Judy, they used to work together. Now, he works like for a different channel. Or no, the same channel, but he doesn't work with Judy anymore.

But they're, you know, they're married, been married a long, long time. Rich as anything. Right.

Rich as anything. And he works on television. Getting paid the big bucks.

Why would he have to creep around early in the morning in the dark and have to have a dry shave in the kitchen? That sounds ridiculous. Is he that scared of his wife? Not to wake her up? I mean, personally, I don't care if he shaves or not. But it's like, why would you have it? I'd have a dry shave because I can't afford any foam or maybe the hot water's gone off.

You know, the electricity's run out of money or whatever. It's very strange. Do they not own a bathroom? Mind you, I have lived in places where I got moaned at.

Two different places I got moaned at for having baths before going to work. Because it was waking them up. I remember saying to one landlady, well, you know, perhaps if you started sleeping in your bed instead of the bath, it wouldn't be because she was in a bath sleeping and I was filling it with water.

And that was, it was kind of a joke. It was an attempt. And I, well, I've got to get clean before going to work.

Or have a bath in the evening. No, but in the evening, we sweat like about half a gallon of water of sweat. We're not clean when we wake up.

Even if you had a shower and a bath, even if you had 10 showers before going to bed, you're not going to be clean when you wake up. But, so, I ended up having to have, I think one place I went to have a shower instead, but even that was too noisy. So I have to have a strip wash in the sink and then have a, have a bath or whatever when I got home from work.

And I'm paying for that. Well, I was paying for that service. It's not like she was, or those, those two different women, not that they were doing me a favor by letting me live there.

They were getting rent. I mean, one was when I was working in a factory. Well, actually, they were both when I was working in the factory, but different factories, different parts of the country.

I mean, the one in London, I got a bird on the windowsill. Can you hear that? Why are they on the windowsill? Seems a strange place. I've realized I'm a bit prejudiced against pigeons because I love birds.

Birds are among my favorite animals in a whole wide world. They just are. I just love, I love monkeys as well.

Little monkeys. I just love, I've got a big fondness of birds. And all I do, I got, you know, I've got one of my best friends in the world, Horace the pigeon, who I've known since I've lived here.

He hasn't visited recently, but and I will feed pigeons. Well, I used to feed pigeons in the park when I'd fed the squirrels, but it's the sound that they make. It's like nonstop.

I just had a little bit of a just a little bit of an interruption from the old winster. He started, the downstairs neighbor was, I think, was just leaving the building, and he was starting to bark a little bit. Because he starts off, it's like, uh, uh, uh, it gets louder and longer.

Like a ferocious little penguin. And I say, no Vinnie, no, my little baby boy, no, please don't do that. We need to be very gentle with our neighbors, especially this time in the morning.

I mean, it's only, it's not even half past eight yet. It's not. It's 8.24am. Yes, it is.

Yes, it is. 8.24am. So he did another interview. He introduced the guest to the paramedics who saved his life.

Wow. And he said to this guest, this is the one, so paramedics were there, and the person who the paramedics saved their, the person who the paramedics saved their life, if that makes sense, was in the studio and he was introducing that person to the paramedics. Okay.

Very emotional moment. And he says to the person, stop crying. This is supposed to make you happy.

Anyway, after the break, the biggest dog in the UK, and he really is big. So don't miss it. So it, me reading it out doesn't do justice to how, because if you add his facial expressions and his voice, there's a, sometimes there's kind of almost a vacancy look, like he's not aware of what he's saying or who's around him.

And, you know, there's an old saying, isn't it? Read the room. And I don't think he's ever, ever done that. But he's very funny.

Accidentally sometimes, but he's, he seems like a really nice person, actually. I like him. And I've been, you know, literally 40 odd years.

I've seen him on TV. Not all the time, because I don't really watch morning TV, but I used to. He's now on the like six o'clock in the morning, TV, good morning TV, whatever it is from six to 830, I think.

And even though I'm awake, I generally don't watch like morning TV, because nowadays I'm in bed, at least by nine. So, you know, I get up quite very early in the morning as well. Okay, so he's interviewing on this sixth one, this next one, he's interviewing, he's having an interview with a naked Brexit protester.

So there's a naked lady in the studio, I'm guessing she's probably covered up, so wouldn't, I don't think they'd be allowed to show boobies on TV at that time in the morning. It's hard to find boobies anywhere. And I search, I mean, for research purposes, but it's hard to find.

Although I saw this really funny movie the other night, it was early hours in the morning. I think it was either yesterday or the day before. It's called, I think just called Bluebeard, or Mr. Bluebeard.

And it's got, oh, what's his name? It's basically got a lot of really famous actors. In fact, let me look it up. Bluebeard, Bluebeard.

Bluebeard the movie. Okay. Right, here we go.

So I tell you who's in it. Okay, the movie, I want the movie. I think it's quite a famous book as well.

So Bluebeard. Oh, stop it. I don't want that blue.

Blubbered. He's changed it to blub. No, that's actually what I did write down.

Blubbered. So Bluebeard, Bluebeard movie. And I'm talking about huge names from the movies of the time.

Like massive names. So it was 1972. Do you know who starred? Now I've never even heard of this.

I've heard of a beard like parrot. Kind of, you know, like pirate, parrot kind of people with different beards, colours and stuff. It starred Richard Burton, Oscar winning Richard Burton, and Raquel Welsh, and a bunch of other people that were really quite well known at the time.

But as far as like longevity, Richard Burton and Raquel Welsh would still be remembered in the film world. Richard Burton was an absolute legend of an actor. And he was in Cleopatra and all kinds of stuff like that, wasn't he? He was massive.

And Raquel Welsh was also, I was going to say massive, but she was also like a huge. Oh, is she not around anymore? Wow. And she's born 1940.

I mean, she became huge. When she did the movie 1 million beasts, 1 million years BC in 1966. So she was already very famous before she did this movie in 1972 called Bluebeard.

Now, I don't know if it was supposed to be a comedy. It's a, it's a, apparently it's a French folk tale. The film is based on that.

I don't know. He had a way with the world's most beautiful and most seductive, most glamorous women. He did away with them.

So basically, he's a bad guy. And he keeps getting rid of, you know, doing away with the different women in his life. He meets, so basically, he meets a lady.

And he decides to tell her his story about all the different women. Okay, that he's kind of been with and then kind of did away with. So it's not a nice story.

But there's one scene. And it is Rekha Welsh that's doing this. And it's actually, it's hilarious.

So he meets her, he meets Rekha Welsh, and she's in a monastery. She's a nun. Okay.

And he falls in love with her. And he keeps going back to the monastery and talking to her. Because he's quite a well, well known person in society.

He's like a sir or he's a baron, a baron. So he's in Austria. He's a veteran fighter pilot from World War One.

And he had a blue tinned beer. So he's a very well known and respected member of society lives in a castle, all that stuff. Anyway.

So he's going through the different stories. But the story of Rekha Welsh was absolutely, well, the ending wasn't funny, but you know, the story itself. So he's visiting her more and more regularly, pretending it's because he's stopped being religious and that.

And he starts taking her out and declaring his love to her. And she's still a nun, but saying I can't because I'm a nun. I can't not can't do anything.

But I can't. I can't be in a loving relationship because I'm married, you know, married to the church. And he keeps insisting he's taken her out and worrying and worrying, you know, and he basically she falls in love with him, and she leaves the monastery.

And then it's the wedding night. It's like the wedding period. And she says, Oh, throughout this whole thing, he can't function in bed.

He's unable to complete the marital honeymoon, cliche rights, for whatever reason. And I think it was a war injury. But he still he kind of wants to be known as a ladies man.

And so I said he woos and poos, Jekyll Welsh, whatever her name is, Jekyll Welsh. And she's decided that she won't, she can't be physical with him, or she can't marry him. Until she's told him, she needs to basically unburden herself by telling him about all the different men that she's been with.

And he's like, we don't need to do that. I you know, the life starts now. I love life together now.

I don't need to know about the past. She said, No, but that's why I was at the church, so that I could pay penance for what I've done before. And I feel I need to do that with you.

I need to get it all out and opened, tell you everything so that we can start on a clean slate. That's my words. Anyway, I mean, it's all my words, isn't it? Because I'm the one talking, but you know, I mean, and I swear this is one of the funniest, like if it was a sketch, such a funny sketch.

So this this part of the movie lasted for about 10 minutes, probably. And she's basically, it's lots of different scenes, where he's trying to be romantic with her. And she blurts out another X and what they got up to.

And just to look on his face and the the, the awkwardness of the situation, and how out of place it was that she's sort of blurting this stuff out. Oh, yeah. And then there and it went on and on.

It just really funny. I don't know if it was supposed to be funny. I really don't.

But it was. And in the end, you know, the ending wasn't funny, but like that period. And he seemed to really love her.

But then he seemed to love all of them. I didn't watch the whole movie. I probably missed the first probably 20 or 30 minutes.

And I did watch it to the end because it got me enthralled. Just because there was something about it. It was an old film.

I was like two years old when it came out. But to see Richard Burton almost I mean, I don't I imagine that movie was I don't know if it was successful or not. I'm just gonna look down to the say release critical response.

Okay, says here, someone said, there's no longer any novelty in watching a sad disintegration of Richard Burton's acting career. A bit rude. That person said it was 120 123 minutes of unrelieved boredom and morbidity.

High Camp another person said he put the number one said it was the sickest film one of the films of 1972. I mean, yeah, it was it was a horror movie. It for that piece for that spot with Raquel Welsh.

It was funny. It's honest. I was laughing because I didn't expect it.

And I like a little bit of really old horror early in the morning. So I used to like watching that like the old Hammer House movies. And it'd be on like really late at night.

Or maybe nowadays you can find them sometimes three o'clock in three or four in the morning. And all black and white or the Christopher Lee and Peter Cushion movies, you know, Frankenstein or Dracula or those kinds of movies. And boy, even the really old ones that Bela Lugosi, or Boris Karloff.

Boris car. Why is it a Boris Karloff sounds like a horror monster? Weird, isn't it? The music was from Ennio Morricone. Didn't he do the the move this this the the sound the good, bad and ugly? He did.

He did. That's another that's really another thing that got me kind of hooked a bit because I love Ennio Morricone's music. I've actually listened to albums of just his music.

Really much more to do with the fistful of dollars and a few dollars more and all that stuff. The old spaghetti westerns. So in a way, when you think the music for the movie was an Oscar winning and I'm pretty sure Ennio Morricone would have won Oscars for his music.

I wonder if he did. Did he? Did he win an Oscar? Westerns. I wonder if he did.

I was not saying if he did or not. But yes, he's done a massive career though. He did so many.

Wow. I wonder how old he was or is. Oh, he was 91 when he passed.

Born in 1928. So you think about it. This movie had Richard Burton who was how many times did he win an Oscar? Richard Burton.

See, I don't really remember in early movies. You know, I remember seeing him in, I suppose, yeah, 1953. Because like TV was black and white in the 50s and the 60s in this country anyway, generally.

But a lot of the big movies were Technicolor. So you had movies like The Robe and Richard Burton played the Roman Military Tribune. I'm reading this by the way.

It's not in my memory. Marcellus Galliol. So a lot of those, because he was in just a lot of the really huge movies, wasn't he? Back in the 50s and the 60s, I suppose.

Why is it not telling me about the Oscars? He must have won an Oscar. Maybe he's so big it almost doesn't matter. Oh, he was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won.

Wow. He never won an Oscar, but nominated seven times. Why are you repeating yourself, JJ? I don't know.

I really don't know. So he was nominated for My Cousin Rachel, 1952. The Robe, which I just mentioned, 1953.

Beckett, 1964. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1965. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1966.

Anne of the Thousand Days, 1969. And lastly, Equus, 1977. Ironically, Equus came out five years after the movie that I was talking about, which the critics were moaning about his declining.

Yet he gets nominated for an Oscar five years later. And he got married 5,000 times. One, two, three, four, five.

Five times. Twice to Elizabeth Taylor. He was Welsh.

And let's have a look at his movies. So this page is too long. So it's going to be a different page for his movies.

I want to see how many I remember. Maynard, Richard Burton on stage, on stage screen. Okay, here we go.

List of, no, List of Atheists in Movies. What are you talking about? I think I've moved to a different page. No, Richard Burton.

Okay, I've got to go. I'm on Wikipedia. So I've got to go all the way down to find his movies listed.

Very strange. The Robe. So it says here, Bolstered by the Robe's Box Office Collections.

Oh, the takings at the box office. Zanuck, who I don't know who that is, probably a producer or whatever, offers Burton a seven year, seven picture, one million pound contract. Which is, bearing in mind, this is 1953, equivalent to $12,124, $1,000,000 contract.

It's equivalent to over $12,000,000 in 2025, which it just, it just shows you the difference though, doesn't it? If you consider that Jim Carrey got $10,000,000 in the early 90s for one movie. And you say, yeah, but what is 1953? No, but the equivalent of $12,000,000, Jim Carrey got $10,000,000 30 odd years ago, which would be the equivalent of what? $15,000,000 now? So they weren't getting paid, they were getting paid good money.

Really good for, mind you, the living, the cost of living was so cheap back then, compared to now, in a sense of, yeah, a million pound in 1953.

It's, it's almost like unbelievable money, wasn't it? That was like a, it was like a made up figure back then. Someone's in the garden shouting. Apparently he turned it down as he was planning to head home to portray Hamlet in the Old Vic.

Wow. So he wanted to earn a hundred, well, he was earning £150 a week at the Old Vic. He chose that over the $1,000,000 contract because he wanted to do what he wanted to do.

Whoa, got a, he got a hats off baby. Apparently it says Hamlet was a challenge that both terrified and attracted him as it was a role many of his peers in the British theatre had undertaken, including Gorgud and Olivia. Arda.

Where can I find his movies? This is a little bit annoying. I just want to like go through them, see what ones I recollect. Recollect.

I'm just going through it. I thought that would have been one of the main links on here, but it's not. No, it's not.

So when he passed away, he left £4.58 million equivalent to £14 million. Oh, he's only 58. Blimey.

I want to see his movies. I don't want to see them. I want to just list of.

Okay, right. I just had to click on that one. But they're mixed in radio, television, theatre, all in one place, which I'm not a fan of really, if I'll be honest.

Right, it's all mixed up. Wow. Film, radio, television and theatre.

Douglas Adams, British radio and television writer and novelist. Why? That's got nothing. See, I want to try and find out his movies.

But there's nothing there. It's not. Oh.

Um, right. It's not. That's weird.

Why would they do that? Okay, I can find out. All I've got to do is just put Richard Burton movies in it. Richard Burton.

Richard Burton. Richard Burton movies, imdb.com. Right. Okay.

Right. The first one he did was 1949. The Last Days of Darwin.

So. 1950, Waterfront. So I'm just going to read out the ones that I remember.

The Desert Rats. Yep, I remember that. That was 1953.

That was a huge, because there was a time when war movies were really popular. Really, like the big blockbuster, Technicolor movies. And you had people like Larry Hagman, Charles Bronson, all the big stars.

I mean, in that one, you got Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, and loads of other probably up and coming future superstars of movies. And The Robe, of course. So that had Victor Mature, Gene Simmons, and Richard Burton.

The Prince of Players. Don't know that one. Alexandra the Great.

And that was a big movie, I do believe. Look Back in Anger. I Heard Her Say.

I don't remember. A Midsummer Night's Dream. I know that one, obviously, because of the book.

So I'm not sure if it was a big. I don't know if it was a success or not. The Longest Day.

John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, 1962. So that was a huge, I think that was a massive movie as well. Cleopatra.

That's an Elizabeth Taylor. I loved Rex Harrison. I loved the way he talked.

It was a Cleopatra. Isn't it weird? Elizabeth Taylor was the star of that movie. I know she was a star, but like, I didn't realize she was a star.

Because you know, you get movies where the star isn't like the person that's named first. When you actually watch the movie, you realize, no, that's the star. A bit like with The Simpsons, the TV show, the cartoon is, it was portrayed as being as Bart Simpson being the star of the show.

But it's not. It's Homer Simpson. He's the star.

It's about him. It sometimes is about the others as well. But it's ultimately about him.

He's the number one person on the show. And you can you could agree or not, it's up to you. So here's another one, Zulu.

This was a huge movie. It had loads of actors, including, what's his name? You aren't supposed to blow the bloody doors off. What's his name? Eric Clapton or whatever.

Beckett. Okay. Hamlet.

Oh, this is Do you do it as a movie as well? All right. Blimey. What's New Pussycat? That was a big movie, wasn't it? Peter Sellers.

See, he was in that as well. I want to watch that again. That was funny.

I love Peter Sellers. And The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. That was a big one, wasn't it? That was a big movie.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, of course. Big movie. Taming of the Shrew.

I don't know if it was a big movie, but I know it's very famous, isn't it? Very famous book. Dr. Forstis. I don't know.

The Comedians. A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti. Under the violent... Why is it The Comedians? I never understood why they kept the name Haiti.

It's not the most positive name, is it? For a place. Where Eagles Dare. That was a big movie.

I remember that because Clint Eastwood was in that as well. Richard Burton. Right, I can't.

I don't really... Bluebeard. It says 1972. I thought it was 1973.

Oh well. So, that's the one I was talking about at the beginning. And there was a bloke when I was in Ireland.

That's it. That was fun. Just like randomly just mentioning other men.

Oh, I forgot about him. Yeah, that was him and his brother. The Clansmen.

Exorcist 2. So, he was the star of that, was he? That was a huge movie. Those Exorcist movies. The first one and the second one.

I guess the second one was big. The first one was massive. He wasn't in the first one, was he? No.

Unless he was, was he? Going back. Nope. Someone's car alarm's gone off.

The Equus. So, that was the last film he got nominated for an Oscar with. A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled, stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.

It doesn't pull me in, if you know what I mean. His last movie was 1984. John Hurt, Richard Burton, Susanna Hamilton.

Wasn't that a huge movie? So, if he starred in a really, really big movie. Wasn't it? Or am I just imagining it? That it was like a really, really, really popular movie. So, I don't know what the ratings were.

What the takings were. I kind of want to know now. I don't know why, but I do.

I don't care why. I just do. I do.

Film. So, Wikipedia will tell me probably how well it did. All right.

It did. I mean, it made a profit. Budget 5.5 million, and then box office 8.4 million.

And it was, when did it come out? When was the movie made? It doesn't tell you. Oh, 1984. I honestly, I thought it was supposed to be a futuristic movie.

So, it doesn't make sense to release it in the year that it's based in, when you look around like there's nothing like that. That was the whole point of the book, wasn't it? Because this is what he, Orson, George Orwell rather, predicted that 1984 would be like. But in 1984, when it was released, we could see that it wasn't like that at all.

The thing is, when they do like the movies, oh, it took 8.4 million, the budget was 5.5 million, which would include all the advertising and stuff as well. What they seem to forget in these little bits is, what about the rental market? So, the box office, that's the cinemas. But what about all the millions of people that rented it out? And then what about the money they got from selling it to TV stations?

And then to streaming services? And then how much they got, you know, when they sold the video, like directly, you know, so people bought the video rather than just renting it.

Because in the early days, I'm talking even like early 80s, you could rent a movie out probably a pound each or something like that. But if you actually wanted to buy the movie, it would cost I think like 60, 70 pound. And that's in the early 80s.

So, you know, so you could buy it off the shop. But that was kind of, they were probably paying 50 quid for it. And they wanted to make some profit.

So yeah, I mean, even now, you buy a DVD, it's not going to be much more than like 20 quid. That's 40, 45, 46 years later. Crazy, isn't it? Crazy, completely crazy.

I have watched it. It's not really my thing. I like comedies.

I like not only comedy, not just comedies. I'm not that like limited. No, I won't watch anything unless it's a comedy.

No, I'm not quite there. But I like serious stuff and stuff. I don't like different things.

Not really into anything super serious at the moment. There is a TV show I just started watching. Is it Insatiable? Let's have a look.

Insatiable TV show. Insatiable. I have to turn the TV on.

Oh, okay, here we go. Oh, it's actually called Insatiable. It's a TV show.

It's really weird. The Wikipedia has started off saying it basically. It's basically being horrible about it.

I like it. So it's an American dark comedy drama series. Basically, about a young girl who's out for revenge because she was overweight growing up and wasn't treated great.

And then she had to wear a wire on her jaw so she could only drink food like liquid food for about six or seven weeks or whatever. And she lost loads of weight and suddenly was beautiful. You know, that's how it works, isn't it? It's really weird.

I've lost weight in the past. Hasn't changed my my face. Really? It was really weird.

I don't know. I've never... I haven't got like a skinny face. But I don't think it really... I had a few less chins.

But it didn't change. I think it changed how I looked facially. Well, not a huge amount.

It didn't turn me prettier. I mean, how could I get any prettier? Hey, hey, hey, hey. Right, Vinnie's now hassling me.

I think... Are you bored? Do you want to go for a walk? Want to go for a walk? Yeah? I've got to take the little munchkin out before it gets too hot. So... Oh, he's flapping his ears in absolute bliss. But anyway, I'll be watching Insatiable.

I like it. It's funny. It's this... Yeah, I'm gonna... It's two series available.

It's on... I think it's on Netflix. Netflix. That's the thing.

If you watch... If you look at reviews of a movie or TV show, I just find it can ruin it for me. Unless the reviews are positive, then it's not going to ruin it. Unless they, you know, spoil the plot.

But when they start like saying things about it that aren't nice, it... I think I'm just very easily influenced. Well, I know I am. So... I try not to look at reviews of something before I watch it.

That's what happened with the Simpsons movie. I was a big Simpsons fan going back like 30-odd years. And when the movie came out in about, I think, 2005, I was really looking forward to it.

And I looked at the reviews and the reviews were really bad. Or some of the reviews that I read anyway. And then I watched it and it just spoilt it for me.

Because I was affected by that, what had been said. And it kind of happened a bit with the Supergirl. So I watched Supergirl the other day and I didn't enjoy it as I would do.

Because I'd watched... There was a lot of stuff on YouTube and on the internet about Supergirl long before even... Even while it was being made. And not all of it was positive. So I'm going to have to stop watching that stuff.

Because it ruined it for me a little bit. I will watch it again when I'm in a better frame of mind. And they did the same with the Superman movie.

That they... I say they, like YouTube and the critics and... He's a different actor. And they were really picking him apart. And they were even picking how Supergirl looks.

Like picking her off because of her looks. Because she hasn't got perfect teeth and it's like she's a human being. I mean you can make... If you make... If you kind of make fun of how someone looks if they're wearing... Like you can make fun of Darth Vader.

No one did because he was too scary. But you could make fun of the costume. But you wouldn't make fun of the man inside the costume.

Especially as he was about seven foot tall. And a bodybuilder. And Robert Powell I think his name was.

But he was huge. But he was the green cross code man. The thing is... It's okay to... Like let's say you've got Aquaman is also plays a character in Supergirl.

It's a character. And you can see it's him. I mean you know it's him.

But you see you can see it's him. It's a good character. But I kind of... For me this is my personal opinion.

If you're going to play a superhero or a supervillain whichever way you want to go. Just play one. It just it confused me a bit.

Because there's been quite a few... There's been a few now that have played like different ones. And even the latest Marvel Avengers has got Robert Downey Jr. or Iron Man playing Dr. Doom. Now I don't know how the heck they worked that out.

Maybe... I don't know if you haven't watched any of the Avengers movie. I don't want to spoil it for you. But you know he was no longer in the Avengers for whatever reason.

After the last movie. So or the last yeah one of their movies. So I'm thinking well that's it then isn't it? Maybe they regretted it and thought well we want him back.

Just kind of doesn't make sense to me a bit. Why? Why would you... Why have they brought him? Because when he takes his helmet off aren't people going to realize oh it's Iron Man. Maybe I'm being a bit slow and it's happened before.

I'm so slow sometimes I catch up. I don't actually catch myself up. I do.

Seriously if I'm walking down like a straight road and I walk so slowly that I can actually well as I'm walking I can see the back of myself. It doesn't make sense though really does it? No. I don't know.

I don't want to read any more reviews. And I think Millie or whatever her name is who plays Supergirl. I think she plays her really well.

I really liked the Supergirl in the last in the Flash movie. But it's probably because I just thought she was really gorgeous to be fair. But she's very serious.

So I don't think she'd have been much fun. Not not her but the character. That character of her wouldn't have been much fun in a movie.

She was very much... But then if you look at the first two like the previous Superman he wasn't exactly Mr. Jove you're happy jokey was he? I know some people love that about it. I think a lot of people that love the DC over Marvel is because DC is more serious. And although they have they seem to have introduced a bit more humor especially like with the Flash and Aquaman.

Is Aquaman DC or Marvel? It's Marvel isn't it? Or is it? No it's DC isn't it? DC. So I don't I don't say I'm not saying I prefer this version of Superman to the last one. It's just there was very little humor apart from when they all got together you know with Aquaman Wonder Woman and the Flash and Superman that that was funny there was some funny bits in that movie.

Didn't really come from Superman though. But then he wasn't really Clark Kent. I think a lot of the humor from the original or the 1970s late 70s early 80s Superman the humor came from when he was Clark Kent not when he was Superman.

Because he was pretty serious when he was Superman wasn't he? Hmm But then Batman I think Batman it's just I prefer the original movies like the um what 88 89 with uh Michael Keaton and then various others to the more recent Batmans because they weren't as serious. They're still a serious character but the baddies were kind of funny. And I also grew up watching Batman the TV show the series even though it was from the 60s they used to show repeats on Saturday mornings.

So I was like at the age of nine eight nine ten watching Batman on TV like in the Saturday mornings and loved it absolutely loved it. So after watching and it was so funny it was ridiculously funny just it was just silly which was the whole point of it wasn't it? And the thing is Batman was serious he was serious in that he was he did it with a straight face in fact both of them didn't that Batman and Robin both did it with a straight face even though everything around them was just ridiculous.

But then they turned Batman into being in you know having a straight face and everything else is serious around him.

It's I don't know it's all they're all good though I'm not saying that they're not good just I quite like a bit of lightness with my superheroes I do even some really funny bits like the flash I like the flash because it was I suppose the like like the the way he talks and stuff and and the what's it called the galaxy something galaxy you know the the bunch of together with a tree and something of the galaxy so that's that's really funny bits but anyway I'm gonna go I've talked

enough about superhero movies I love them all and I will watch all of them every single time a superhero movie gets released I will watch it regardless whether it's good bad whatever I'll watch it because I am dedicated so I'm now and someone blubbering on very loudly in the garden so I'm gonna go so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe lots of love bye