#245 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (25th October 2019)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes as this boring recording that's specifically aimed at boring you to sleep may cause drowsiness. Normally, before I start, I give a little, I normally mention something about what's going on.

Any new developments? I'm tired. Check out my website, all my stuff's on there, all my recordings, all my videos, and there's a testimonial page where you can read other people's testimonials, people that have written nice things about me, and you can leave your own testimonial as well if you wish. Yeah, so, and there's a gift me page on there if you want to visit that, if you want to send me a gift, that would be lovely.

Um, so what I've got in front of me in my hand, or both hands actually, takes two hands to hold this thing, and is the Collins Gen Geography Basic Facts for exam revision. A mine of information. It looks really old.

Not the, um, the inside is, but just, oh, look at the age of it. 1983, it was originally published, and this is, this copy is the fifth edition in 2002. Um, I used to have these, uh, little books, kind of similar kind of things, but they were for, uh, what kind of things were they for? Because let's face it, we're going back to my kind of era, when I would buy stuff like this, like the early 80s, and books on, um, actually it probably wasn't the same thing, but like how to be a private detective, and, and what other things, I'm trying to think.

There'd be things like astronomy, astrology, you know, about planets, and, uh, like planes, you know, a guide to planes, and guides to mountains, mountains, and guide, you know, different things like that. But perhaps it wasn't Collins, it might have been a different kind of publisher, because this looks very much more, um, studicious. Is that an actual word? So, on the inside, still got the remainder of the cough that I had the last, uh, 10 days or so, but it's calmed down now, luckily.

Flares up a little bit when I'm talking, but occasionally I have to put it on pause. I have a big old cough, and then I'm fine again. On the inside, it says, uh, some other gems that might interest you.

Business studies, basic facts. Now, wouldn't that be interesting? I suppose if it was reissued, they'd update it, but the original version, let's say it's 1983, business studies, you wouldn't have any mention of the internet, no mention of Facebook, no mention of YouTube, Amazon, iPhones, smartphones, anything like that. It'd be computers, of course.

I mean, uh, 1983, there was computers around, but no internet. Modern history, basic facts. That's another one.

Imagine 1983, modern history, basic facts. It wouldn't be quite so modern anymore, would it? I mean, there'd be no, well, I think some of the political figures, you know, in this country, where I currently abode or abide. What have we had? So it's 1983.

What was his name? I don't know, some prime minister after Thatcher. Um, John Major, that's it, Major. So we had Major, Prime Minister, and then, then, it was either Prime Minister all the way up to Tony Blair.

It must have been, mustn't it? I don't think, did anyone take over from John Major? I don't remember. John Major. No, I don't think they did.

So Tony Blair was a Prime Minister from 97, 1997 to, I say that because you might be listening to this in 30, 39. You know what I mean? So it could be, oh, hundreds of years from now, might have found it in a volcano somewhere, might have found this and found our way to play it. And maybe someone made a, put on a vinyl or something.

I could do that, you know, I could put some of my stuff on vinyl and sell it on vinyl. What a pointless waste of time. But it could be cool.

Some people might like that. I could make some, like real world, physical, like things you can hold in your hands and collect kind of stuff. So put stuff on, on tape.

I remember the old tapes, or on vinyl or on CD, and just have those for people to buy if they want. And you could have a physical library with my little name on it. So you got John Major, Tony Blair, and then Tony Blair, and we had Brown, who took over from Tony Blair after being the Chancellor, I think he was.

And after he gave free prescriptions and free, made sure that where he comes from has free prescriptions, where else free, you know, no student loans, like free education. And England, who he was in charge of the student loans. I'm not sure when they came in, because I know people that went through the whole of education from leaving school to going and doing their A levels for what, two years, and then going and doing an undergraduate degree for three years, then doing a master's degree, maybe for one year, and then going on and doing a PhD for perhaps another two years.

And they didn't have to pay a penny, didn't have to get in debt or anything like that. Because it was all free, free education. And not anymore.

It's quite weird, because when I left university, my, I didn't admit what I'm not admitting, but I was having a chat with my, the leader of the course. And he said, you're lucky. I said, I don't really know where you get that from.

How do you figure that out? He said, no, you are, you're lucky. I said, okay, go on then. He said, well, you realise that you're leaving college or university this year, 2010? I said, yeah, I know the year.

And he said, well, next year, the student fees are going to go up. I said, what? He said, yeah, the government had been, was it supporting or subsidising the fees? And now they're not going to do it anymore. And the students are going to get charged the full amount of fees.

So instead of being £3,000 a year, it went up to, I think initially it went up to £6,000. And now it's £9,000. But I might, I might be on, you know, it's definitely about £9,000 now anyway.

But I'm not sure if it went up in increments or just went up straight away to the full £9,000 a year. It's a lot of money. So for one year, they're paying the amount that cost me for three years for my degree.

It'd be lovely if it was free. Because I'm just having a little skim through this geography basic facts. I can't think of a more boring on this.

Geography. Wow. Look at this.

Look at this. Climate change from 1983. Okay, what does it say? Fluctuations in the patterns of climate over long periods of time.

That's what climate change means. There is indisputable evidence for changes in the world's climate. A. Fossil records.

Fossils of species such as the mammoth have been found in what are now temperature regions. And B. Topographical evidence in North Africa, now largely desert. It can be seen where rivers once ran, indicating that the area's rainfall was once much higher.

You know, I just realised, just realised this. I nearly said the now largely deserted. But it's not, it's desert.

I just realised where deserted comes from. Because deserted means not many people being there, doesn't it? Like quite an empty space. And a desert is quite an empty space, isn't it? So a desert, apart from being ice cream and chocolate and marshmallows, but a desert is a deserted place.

I wonder if anyone else has realised that connection. C. Historical records. So it says here, the freezing over the River Thames was widely reported in the 17th and 18th centuries.

And it says here, C. Little Ice Age. Okay, it doesn't say any more there. So that, so they're saying, well they're saying because the River Thames doesn't freeze over, it means that we're, we don't want the River Thames to freeze over.

Do we? Hmm? M. And D. It says here, Meteorological records. So records of the weather, which exist for many areas of the world, and some of which date from early times. Records of the weather which exist.

Okay. Comparisons can be made with present day climate. I'm lost on that one.

There's a bunch of words. E. Geological evidence. The landscape of, for example, much of Britain has been shaped by the action of glaciers.

And it says C. Ice Age. It really wants me to read Ice Age. Just put, I just remember the glacier.

Do you remember the, the advert, Fox's Glacier Mints? And it had a little, not a pumpkin, polar bear, it was a polar bear. And it would, didn't it like bang into it and say, ouch, ouch. And glacier, mints, polar bears are stupid.

Well, I don't know what the catchphrase was, but it's, I actually met the man that made the advert. He was an NLP teacher, quite a big name in the NLP world. And he, he was responsible for that advert.

Because believe it or not, this is a little bit of a fact that you might not be interested in. When hypnosis, there's this different times during history that hypnosis is taken on quite a big, it's made a bit of fuss of, you know, it's been taken seriously. One of those times was during when it was used for pain relief, before the medical profession had developed a way to anesthetize people.

And so it was used, hypnosis was used for that, because studies had been done. Medical doctors went to other countries and did thousands of operations, wrote books and medical papers and everything, using only hypnosis, and of course, the medical procedure. So doctors in, I would say the Western world, I don't know how far sprung it was, might have just been in the UK, might have been in Europe, I don't know, might have been in America.

I don't really care. But I know that it was used, hypnosis is used for and helping people. It's like for anesthetists, for anesthetizing people during operations.

And then ether came in, that became available, or it was discovered or created or invented or whatever. And as soon as that was available, the doctors, the surgeons started using that instead of hypnosis, because it's much quicker. It's much quicker, it's easy.

It was a chemical, wasn't it? And it did the job. And if I had a choice to have an operation with hypnosis or with medical anesthetizing, I'd go for the medical, the chemical, the drug anesthetist. That's what I'd go for.

So I was knocked out completely. I don't want someone like me waffling on. So that was a big time in the past.

Another big one that isn't quite as known, it's not quite as written about, although I have read things about it, articles, and I have in the past had a very large hypnosis library. So I used to have quite a few old books that used to talk about this. A place that really, or an institute that really took hypnosis to their bosom was advertising, really took it to their bosom.

They breastfed it. They made it, it was a cash cow for them. And they used it, used the hypnosis techniques in order to manipulate the masses through television and radio advertising.

Isn't that interesting? And during the Brexit, a thing that we don't like to talk about really, but it's a made up word. And a very famous hypnotist was called in and used by one of the parties during the period of trying to get, or trying to manipulate the population of England or Britain or whatever to vote, to leave and stuff. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, it's not really, is it? Not very interesting.

It amazes me. There was one study and see, some people think, right, I'll drink a Coke. The lecturer is going to give a lecture.

Now, hypnosis is about the result rather than the way it's presented, maybe. I don't know. So you don't have to talk, tell someone, you're going to feel this, you're going to feel that, and this is going to happen, and that's going to happen.

And then, of course, that works, but it doesn't, it's not the only way that works. And you don't have to start shaking someone really quickly and pull their head down in order for them to go into some instant hypnotic trance. Of course, that works.

But if someone grabbed my head like that, I wouldn't be too happy. And also, because I'm a bit of a, I don't know what the right word is, careful, in some ways, quite careful person. If I had someone there, first of all, if, I think the only way, this is a personal thing, if you're going to do a demonstration, instant induction, I think the only place really for that kind of thing would be on stage as a performance.

And I would be a little bit concerned about the person's neck, because the neck can be quite a, I don't know, my neck's a little bit delicate at times. And someone just to push down on my neck would be, or just to push me down and say, oh, I don't know if I enjoy that. I don't feel too comfortable.

Oh my goodness, I've got the television on. And the first Christmas advert is just popped on the telly. Oh dear.

It's for Disney World, probably Paris. That's for, I've never been, but I've got no idea what it's like. I'm impressed.

I imagine it's just an easier route to do, isn't it? Rather than travelling all the way to Orlando. See, I do know my geography. I know that Disney World is in Orlando, I think.

It is, isn't it? Orlando. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. So I, yeah, there was this study done.

It was more of a psychological study. However, it was using hypnosis, basically suggestion. So what they did is, it was done in Mexico.

And this is, I'm not sure what year this was. I studied this as part of an open university course I was doing on psychology. So I don't have the exact details.

But the, what they did, I think it was Mexico. It was in in America, some part of America. And I don't abide by continents.

I don't. As far as I'm concerned, it's one country. Sorry, sorry to break it to you.

That's why, that's why my friend sent me this geography basic facts. Because as far as I'm concerned, one continent's one country. Don't do continents.

One country. How can there be a border unless there's a sea? There has to be sea around it for it to be an island. An island's an island, however big it is.

It's surrounded by sea, isn't it? So, you know, just we'll get along. Let's all get along, shall we? And I think it was Mexico. It might have been Puerto Rico.

Or it might have been, um, I don't know, Mexico or, or, um, Germany. I'm not sure. I can't remember.

Brazil. Brazil, that's another one, isn't it? It's up that way. Brazil.

That's, that's part of America, isn't it? Um, or Chelsea. I don't know. But anyway, I think it was in Mexico.

And they did this study where there was, they wanted to reduce the amount of teenage pregnancies. That was their goal, because it was, for whatever reason, they, they felt it was a bit too high. And they wanted to find out a way to, uh, cut it, to reduce it.

And they tried things by just saying, can you please, or use a rubber, please use a Johnny. And that wasn't working. So they tried a different version.

So what they did is, on the country's biggest soap opera television show, they had, they devised a plot. They got together with the TV shows producers, and together they devised a plot that had the leading character go through, um, a very, go through that, that situation of getting pregnant as a teenager, underaged or whatever. And this, apparently this is true.

And they did all this. And if it had such a big effect that the teenage pregnancy rate went down by a huge amount. The sales of condoms went up by a huge amount.

Now that is hypnosis. And because it's planned to get a result. And it's manipulation.

Because anyone that says hypnosis isn't manipulation, is we're always manipulating each other. Even if we don't mean to do, you know, not necessarily intentionally manipulating each other. But we affect each other, don't we? All of us.

You talk to somebody. I'm very, very, um, easily influenced. Ridiculous, sometimes.

Which is why I quite like to keep away from people, because I find, it's silly. I know it's silly, but, um, I can be swayed by another person's opinion. Not opinion as in, um, in the sense of me believing what they think.

But as in, it's in their mood. You know, kind of just, I don't know. I think it's because I listen.

At least I listen too much. That's my problem. Just, I'm too attentive.

So, um, I think that this Gibraltar exercise on that, you know, soap opera or whatever it was, is a really good example, it's a really good example of mass hypnosis. Manipulation, but with a, um, should we say positive intent or a kind intent? Trying to, you know, to help the population, possibly. Some would say, well, you know, they have arguments about it and I don't really care what those arguments would be.

It's, I do find it interesting though, when you think about the, people have this conception that hypnosis is either ordering people around on a stage and getting them to do silly things or somebody sitting in a chair talking and then just saying, you're going to feel this, you're going to feel that. And both of them are hypnosis. It's true, they are.

But there's more to it than that. Does that make sense? See, I'm in a different kind of camp. Some people, I'm very camp.

Some people say, you know, stage hypnosis is just rubbish. Some people say there's no such thing as counselling, just rubbish. Psychotherapy's silly and they all kind of want to, they want to promote their own thing.

You know, counselling is silly, but hypnosis is brilliant. Hypnosis is silly, but counselling is brilliant. Stage hypnosis is brilliant, but therapy is just silly.

You know, everyone's got their own thing. I'm kind of open to all of them. Generally don't care.

I think if something works, it works. If you sat here listening to me going, boom, bee, bam, boom, bam, bee, bee, bee, boom, bam, bam, bee, bam, boom, bam, bee, bee, bee, boom, boom, bam, boom, bam, for an hour. And at the end of it, you felt different.

You felt more uplifted, you know, whatever, something had changed and you felt better about yourself. Then that's, that's, that's worked. Kind of a weird, weird thing to do possibly.

And don't worry, I'm never going to do a recording like that. I kind of want to now. I suppose I could do something like this, like I could talk about how I'm feeling.

I could do that and I'd talk in a really, really kind of suave way. How are you today? I went for a walk down the street. I looked up at a tree.

And I thought to myself, where are all these sounds coming from? And then I carried on walking. And I could do something like that, but I won't because it is clearly a little bit silly. And if I'm known for anything, I'm known for my seriousness.

I'm a very, very serious person that takes everything very, very seriously. And I have no time for humour, no time for laughter. It's all about seriousness.

Because the only way to heal from any kind of emotional turmoil is by being incredibly serious all the time. Or is it the opposite to that? Let me think. Yes.

I think to take yourself seriously, taking yourself too seriously, thinking that that will improve your life is almost like trying to push on a door that opens outwardly. Keep pushing at that door, it's going to open eventually, but it won't ever open because you have to pull it. You can't pull it.

But no, you're pushing. Like it's pulling, why do you think it's got a knob on it? It's got a knob, it's got a handle to pull. No, I'm going to keep pushing, pushing, pushing.

I'm seriously going to focus on that pushing. So each to their own. I've seen some serious people over the years have taken themselves so seriously.

I've done it myself. I have. And it doesn't happen too often, thankfully.

But it has happened. It really has happened a couple of times. And I kind of don't like myself afterwards.

It's a little bit of guilt, you know, probably stems from the old days Star Trek's on the telly. It's the Deep Space Nine, I think. It might be Voyager.

I think it's Voyager. Because what you had normal Star Trek, like the original series, that they show, they show that on telly as well. And it might sound weird, but I actually really like the original series more than I have done for a long, long time.

Admittedly, I haven't watched it for a long, long time. But there's something quite good about it. I know it was brilliant at the time.

Okay. But it can be a little bit difficult watching something that's so dated. And where, you know, sort of, where the special effects are just, you know, it can be a little bit difficult rewatching stuff like that.

A little bit. But Star Trek has something about it that was beautiful. It's, I don't know if it's the dialogue, it was funny.

The dialogue and the put downs and the conversations they had with each other was, it was really good, because, let's face it, they couldn't rely on a huge amount of special effects. I mean, they, I suppose they did, they probably created special effects specifically for Star Trek. Because it was a, it was like a new thing, wasn't it? But I just like it.

I don't watch it much, but watched it the other day. And it was just, I don't know, it was good. And then in the 90s, well, I used to watch Star Trek, the original TV show, when I was a kid.

My memory, my first memory of it was in the early 80s. Because, you know, I wasn't even alive when Star Trek was originally broadcasted. And I started watching it, it might have been late 70s, early 80s, I remember.

It used to be on, I don't know why I've got this in my head. But it used to be on maybe 5.30 or five o'clock, or six o'clock in the evening on BBC Two, I think. And I'm pretty sure BBC Two.

And then I thought, I used to watch it, and I really liked it. I really liked it, really a lot, really did. And then I started watching the Star Trek films, which were very different from the TV show.

And firstly, it was weird, because I didn't realise that Star Trek was such a long time ago. So I'm watching it 20 years after it had originally been on telly. And then I watched Star Trek, the film, and I see Captain Kirk and Spock and Scotty and Subaloo and Sulu and the Russian Chekhov, that's it, Chekhov.

I nearly said jerk-off, Chekhov, that's it, Chekhov. And they were all old. Bear in mind, I was only, you know, 12 or whatever, 10, 11.

And they were all old compared to what they were in the TV show. But they were, they were 20 years older. They were all in their 40s or 50s by this point.

How could they have aged so much since last week? I couldn't believe it. Seriously, I watched it last week. Then I saw the film on the video, because my dad had a video recorder.

I was like, oh, he's expanded. Captain Kirk, he'd grown a bit. But that was really big.

You know, all the films, they were huge successes. Search for Spock, Wrath of Khan, The Journey Home, and I don't remember the others. One had a whale in it, didn't they? They had a whale of a time.

And then the 90s came. The new Star Trek, I was having none of it. I refused point blank range to not ever watch that program ever.

It got loads of publicity when it first came out. I think one of the things was that a captain with a French name and a bald head. I think that was a bit of a shock to the public.

Just like, that's not, how's that going to work? John Luke Picard and he's bald. The fact that the original Captain Kirk's been bald for the last 50 years apparently shouldn't really make any difference anyway. And then I moved to Ireland and I was there for a couple of months living with Andre's parents.

Not Andre here, because that would be weird living in a, otherwise I'd be living in a field in a hole somewhere, wouldn't I? With a bunch of ferrets, which would be very strange. And Star Trek, The Next Generation, was on every single night at six o'clock or I think it was on at 6.30 or might be on at five. But anyway, it was on the same time on Sky One, every single evening of the week.

And me and Andre would be sitting there watching The Simpsons. And then I think Star Trek would come on. I don't think we ever got to watch the whole thing because his mum would shout out, dinner! And so, in an Irish accent, sort of, but it was food.

It was dinner. Dinner time, come on. And so we'd all go and have something to eat.

And I fell in love with Star Trek, The Next Generation, because it really was good, really good. And then when I moved back to England, I carried on watching it and it was on like normal telly at that point. And I just, yeah, it's brilliant.

But after watching that, I couldn't watch the original show anymore, the original series. But it's only recently that I've started watching it and thinking, oh, and then the same thing happened with Star Trek. And what did I say? Not Deep Space Nine, but Star Trek.

Forget it now. I was just watching it. But again, I wouldn't watch this one.

Not just because I thought, I can't, I can't do it again. I can't make a new change to my life. So this one was a new captain, this time a female captain.

And with Doctor, who was like an anagram, or, you know, it wasn't real. And there was, it was just like a really different Voyager, Star Trek Voyager. But then I did, I kind of dipped my toe in one day and I thought, okay, I loved it.

So I watched every episode of that. And Deep Space Nine came along. And I thought, no, I've had enough now.

I can't, I can't keep watching. And it's just, no, it's just silly. This time, it's a different captain, but it's part of a space station.

So there's, and they've got these different characters that's got a, it was like this real dodgy character that I think he works on the bar, but he's always like trying to do deals and stuff. And there's one of the people who were, is, he morphs into different things. And, oh, okay, I'm not going to watch it.

Refused. So I watched it. And I loved it.

And so I watched that. Then, Star Trek, I can't even remember the name of it, but I stuck to my guns with this one and I didn't watch it. And it was the one with the time traveler man.

He was in it, Scott Beckett or whatever his name is. And I just, I watched one episode and I thought, oh, I just didn't feel it with that one. And I didn't bother.

And I thought, I'm glad I've got rid of the habit. I've broken the chain. Never need to go back to Star Trek again.

Then what happened? A new Star Trek started a couple of years ago. And I thought, I'm not going to watch it. Not going to watch it.

It's like every time they change, they add a new dimension, make it a bit more up to date or a bit more. So first of all, they had a captain with, yeah, in the sixties. So they had a captain, but they had big characters that were Russian.

In the sixties, they have a Russian character, especially with the Cold War and all that stuff, which is quite brave, I suppose, for television to do. So one of the major characters was Scottish. I don't know if that really means anything, but another one was a who, that's a black lady in a job of like a high position job, which was, you know, in the sixties was something that went against the national psyche or something, I suppose.

And then next Star Trek, they got a board man. I don't know if that really was a statement. But he was, he was elderly.

He was like older. And I think it's always been for a long time, you know, society's been ageist. So they kind of had an elderly man that's an action man, because the only elderly people ever doing action films or anything was James Bond.

Basically, with Roger Moore, he was 90 and he was running around and on ski slifts and ski lifts and doing somersaults. And, you know, he'd have broken his hip, you know, that's the fact of it. But he'd, outside of that, he didn't usually see many older people doing stuff like that anymore anyway.

But suddenly he was there and it was intellectual, he was clever. And he used to talk about Shakespeare and poetry and stuff like that. And he had a Klingon as a security chief, a Klingon.

That goat went against everything to do with Star Trek. You don't have a Klingon working on the ship. What on earth's that about? And what other things were different? Oh, there was an android, wasn't there? Another main character, Data.

And he was an android. Another thing that was just quirky, it was brilliant. Data was brilliant.

And I think all, I just loved all the characters on there. Whoopi Goldberg was on there. I'm not sure why, but she was on there.

When have they realised? The thing is, she's so famous, isn't she? And everyone loves her. I don't think she might have just walked on the set and they just thought, well, she's sat down and she's drinking a cup of coffee. She keeps telling each other people their fortunes, so just leave it there.

I don't want to be rude. So I think that's, she might just, maybe she's waiting for the third Nun film to be starting. I don't know.

So they just left her there. So the third Star Trek, which has got a female lead, a female, and so she's a lesbian. And like that was, that broke a lot of taboos, social taboos, female.

And they kind of touched on sexuality, which is like, everyone gets excited about. It's like, brilliant, good for them. And they said the Doctor was, what's it? Like a, not a hallucination, but it wasn't real.

And what other characters was there on there? Morph, was Morph on that one? Yeah, Morph, a Morphian person. And if I'm correct, there is a female Klingon, or there's no female, a female Spock was on there as well. No, no.

Well, she might have been as well, but they broke the rules again. So the second Star Trek had a Klingon, that was breaking the rules, Klingon, biggest enemy of Star Trek up to that point. But then what did the third Star Trek do? They had, was it nine to one or nine, seven to three or whatever? They had Star Trek's biggest enemy ever on board as part of the crew.

Seven of nine or something like that, forget her name. But she was part of the Borg, Bjorg, Bjorn, Bjorn thing, where it was like a cube and it'd go through space and it used to absorb the different technology and they'd all communicate with each other, a bit like teenagers, I suppose. And she, I don't know, she left the colony or got found or whatever, and she joined the ship.

So that was another like, wow. So they got a female in charge, which they'd never had before. And they had the biggest enemy they've ever had, the Borg, because they could never defeat it on the ship as well.

And Deep Space Nine, they have a black man in charge of the whole space station. Can you imagine if they'd done that in the 60s? And I'm trying to think what other things they had on Deep Space Nine. I know it was great, I just can't remember.

It was more going on. There was more characters. And the fact that they, you know, again, he was gay as well, I think, so, or no, he might have just drunk tea.

I can't remember. I don't know what other things were on there. It's going to come to me in a minute.

Was there any androids? Maybe the Morph. The Morph Man was on Deep Space Nine. Possible.

The thing is what I can't, what I don't really understand is the, what are they, Pesty Heads, what are they called? The, remember the Wrath of Khan? The, oh, what are they called? Not Gremlins. The biggest enemies in the past before the Bjorg came along. Oh dear.

I don't remember. No, I can't remember. But anyway, they're in Star Trek, the original show, they're in the movies, they're in every single Star Trek, every remake of Star Trek, whether it's the Voyager, Next Generation, the Deep Space Nine, the, whatever, the other two as well, the newer ones, they always look different.

They always have different faces. I'm not saying that everything should look all the same, but they do look different. The, I can't even think of the name of them.

Klingons, that's it. The Klingons, they transformed so much, but then in Next Generation, big old Pesty Head, and whenever other ones came on, they'd always look similar. They'd look different, but they all look similar, all have the same kind of shaped head and, you know, all that stuff.

But then in each episode, each new retake, they look different. They make your mind up. That's just me.

So I've finished the Geography book. I think I've given you lots and lots of new information. I just read something about industrial inertia.

The tendency for an industry to retain original locations, even though such locations may no longer be optimum. It's listing a bunch of them here in England, and from the looks of it, they're not there anymore. Wow.

So that's the end of this recording. Thank you for listening. Hopefully, hopefully I'll make a deep sleep whisper soon as well and try and do some other stuff as well.

I'm just, as I come out of this, the last week or so of being a bit under the weather, but I think it is the weather, you know, it's been very windy today, even windier than me. So I'm going to go. Thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself, because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love. Bye.