#861 Page 3 Girls - Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (10th July 2022)

Hello and welcome to Jason Newland dot com. My name's Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You to Sleep and Relax.

So hello everyone. I hope you're well. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

So today's Sunday the 10th of July 2022. Just a little bit of an update, a little bit of an update on what I've been doing. I've updated the website, I've updated the podcasts, podcasts, and just trying to sort of clean things up, trying to, I mean tidier, I mean, a bit more easier to sort of find what you're looking for.

There's a few more things I'm going to do, but I get a little bit, a little bit, not obsessed, but once I start doing something, I tend to want to continue doing it until it's finished. But it's never going to be finished. The website's never going to be finished.

The podcasts are never going to be finished because I keep making new ones. So I find myself sometimes getting, spending a lot of time working on the website or working on the podcasts and the titles and changing things around and when really I just need to be making new podcast episodes. So that's what I'm doing today.

I'm making a new podcast episode. And I've got a magazine here with me. I'm interviewing a magazine.

And also, Mary sent me a message. Thank you, Mary, telling me that the volume's much better now than it was before. So thank you.

I test, I did a lot of testing, lot of testing. And for the idea of it was to have the volume of the podcast, the same volume as the adverts. And now it should be instead of, you know, an advert blasting out and then me going, hello, welcome, you know, really quiet, should be the same volume.

And, you know, I've invested a lot of time into this and money as well to try and make it better for the listeners, for yourselves, for you, just you, no one else, just you. So that's it. In front of me, I have a magazine called Woman.

It's so I'm gonna just go through it and read from, you know, read some stuff. Have a little look. It's the date on this one is the 11th of July 2022.

So I guess that's when the was the 10th today, so I'm not quite sure why it's that date. Maybe that's when it runs out. And so this was £1.50 UK money, New Zealand, 550, Italy, 420 euros, Canada, 650.

And GRC, what's that? I don't know what GRC is that Greece? 380 euros. And Spain, I must be as SPN Spain, 330 euros. That's weird, isn't it? I thought if it's in euros, it would be the same regardless of where, because euros shows what I know.

So in Italy, it costs more than it does in Spain. How strange. I wonder why that is, because the euros are the same wherever the euros are, whether it's Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, whatever.

It's the same or here even, but we don't we don't use euros here. You try it, you try and buy a Mars bar or a can of coke in anywhere in this country and try and spend euros. Good luck on that one.

Ah, that's weird anyway. So apparently it's supposed to be, we're meant to be having a real, real heatwave. Proper old heatwave now, starting today and for the next few days, getting up to maybe 34 degrees, whatever that is.

So that's all I got to say on that one. It's going to be hot. Wait a minute, it's July.

Yeah, it should be hot. It's supposed to be hot in July, isn't it? This is the summer. It's like getting all excited.

I can't believe it's cold in January. It's supposed to be cold in January in my country. I know not all countries get cold in January.

But here, you know, it's weird. I don't know why. I quite like the seasons.

I realize I've not known anything else. I've always lived in a country that has seasons, you know, wherever they are. But to be to, you know, I've visited places where they don't really have seasons as such.

And it's strange. It's strange, like in Thailand, it gets dark at sort of seven o'clock. It's dark by seven or eight.

But apparently all year round. That's what I was told. I've not been there all year round, but I was told that they don't have like what we have here in England.

It's on the longest day, it's still light at 10 in the evening and it starts getting light at like three thirty in the morning, three o'clock in the morning. So we have really long days. Apparently in Thailand, it doesn't work like that.

But I don't know if it's what it's like in other countries. Maybe let me know. Tell me out loud now.

Tell me now, is it do you have do you have seasons where. You have certain days in a year that are just light for hours and hours and hours, you know, right from early morning to barely late at night, where it's just light. And then have really short days like what we have in.

I think December is the shortest day, then it's maybe begin in January. I forget. And then it starts to get light again.

You know, the days start to get longer. But there's there's a time when it starts to get dark at like four o'clock in the afternoon and it doesn't start to get light until about eight in the morning. You know, really short day and then.

But when it when it starts to get longer, I noticed it this year. The days get longer quick. It's not it's not really when it is a gradual process.

But it's really it's minutes every day, like a minute, minutes and minutes and minutes. It's not just a few seconds every day leading to like a minute a week. It's.

I don't know how many minutes, but it really sort of changes quite rapidly, in my opinion. So the front of this magazine is called a woman. OK, I'm not sure who it's aimed at.

And so on the front cover, it's on the left hand corner, it says Peter Andre. How I keep my marriage alive. Exclusive interview.

Now, for those that may not know who Peter Andre is, he was a singer in the 90s. And he. What was that song? He had a big hit in the 90s, had a couple of hits, maybe more than two, but he was very popular.

And one of the reasons he was so popular is because he was super fit. He had a super fit body, abdominal muscles and mysterious girl. That's it.

Mysterious girl. And the video was on the beach, I think, and he was showing off his abdominals and his muscles. And he got a lot of attention because of how he looked.

And. And then so that was in the 90s, I'm pretty sure, maybe it was the early 2000s. I might have it, I might have it wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was the 90s, late 90s.

Maybe. Yeah, I think so. And then.

Kind of. Not faded away, but wasn't particularly in the public eye in this country so much. And then he went into the jungle, the I'm a celebrity, get me out of here with a bunch of other people.

But it was quite early on in the show, quite early on in the like, when it was really, really popular, like the height of its popularity. So it'd been going maybe, I don't know, maybe it was the very first season, but I'm not sure if it was. It might have been serious.

It might have been the third or fourth, but it was that was when it was really popular. Now, he's Australian, so I imagine he just got a bus there. Everyone else had to get a plane and stuff.

Anyway, he he got there and. Another person that was there was a very, a formerly very popular model slash page three girl called Jordan. That was her page three or model name.

But her actual name is Katie Price. So she uses kind of a bit of, well, she, I think she uses Katie Price now, but Jordan was the name she went by and she was really, really, really popular as a model, a page three model in. I guess it's early 2000s, probably early 2000s, late 90s, early 2000s.

And for those that don't know, I'm just going to have a drink. You know, my desk, you don't know it, but I got this desk is basically a gaming desk. I don't, I'm not a gamer, but it seemed to suit what I needed because it's got holes in a desk for cables to go down.

And there's an extension that I've added, which is part of the desk, which holds a drink. And that's where I was holding the can of Coke, just on the right hand side. And just what I just want to let you know about it.

It's made of metal, so it's a little bit baggy, not baggy, baggy, baggy, tinny. Oh yeah. Anyway, so he went, oh, Jordan.

Okay. If you don't know what a page three girl is, because in probably most parts of the world, this would not be allowed. Okay.

In fact, it would probably, well, it would be illegal in lots of parts of the world. And it wouldn't be acceptable. And we're, I don't know if England's either behind or ahead of the game on this one.

I'm not sure. But it's, it's basically topless ladies. And it was predominantly used to be on page three and a couple of newspapers, well, three actually, but two original ones, the sun and then the star, the daily star, daily sun newspapers would have page three girls posing on page three.

And then the sport, which was originally the Sunday sport came out and they had topless ladies on every single page. They even had a nipple count on the front page, like there's seven, 140, 141 nipples, which is weirdest thing in the world. Like just, you might think I'm making this up.

This is true. The Sunday sport, and it's still going, it's like a daily sport, it's still around. They became famous because they'd have stories like Elvis was spotted on the moon and things like that.

And they'd have a picture of him on the moon and they just make stuff up, just make mixed in with real news as well. And then, you know, it was full of, full of telephone numbers that you could call to talk to people, premium telephone numbers and stuff. And it was, I suppose a lot of people would class it as quite seedy, but it was popular.

It was popular for a while. And it was, they did stuff that you would not be able to do now. They would 100% not be able to do.

Now, the age of consent in this country is 16. Okay. I know in America, it's 18, depending on what you're doing, 18 for one particular thing, 21 for drinking.

Over here, it's 18 for drinking. You have to be 17 before you can take driving lessons. I think in America it's five.

So, and we're not allowed to own guns. You know, it's the only people that can really own guns in this country is I think farmers and people that are like gun hobbyists that go into, you know, they use gun ranges and things like that. And they can get licenses and they have to keep the gun in a safe and all that stuff.

But it's, you know, there are lots of guns in this country, but not many people own them. If that makes sense. It's not a commonplace thing.

It's illegal to own a gun. You can't carry it around in public. So even a farmer couldn't walk around in a supermarket with a shotgun.

You know, it's not allowed, it's frowned upon, you could say. And I don't think farmers should have guns. I'm a little bit biased because I had a gun pointed at me when I was a kid.

So yeah, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't enjoy it.Me and my brothers, we was, I must have been about three, maybe four, three or four. And we were running around in the fields like children do.

This was in Newcastle. I think it was Newcastle. And we were just running, racing up and down the field.

And some bloke called us over. So we went over. Because, you know, in them days, an adult told you to do something, you kind of did it, you know, like, okay, we didn't know who he was or what he wanted.

And he pointed a gun at us and said he was going to shoot us for being on his land. And then some other bloke came along and calmed him down and told him to put his gun away. And, you know, now that man would go to prison.

Well, hopefully, you know, you can't do that, can't point a gun at children. I mean, I don't think you ever were allowed to. I don't think it was like, yeah, I've got permission.

It says there pointing guns at children. It's a permission slip. But now it would be that, oh man, he gets so in trouble.

But yeah, so I'm not a big fan of, not really a big fan of guns. I had a gun pointed at me when I was in Bulgaria as well. Like some Mafia man or whatever pulled a gun out when one of my friends, I was, because I went on a holiday with about five people, snowboarding in 2002, I think it was.

And that's not the town. It was Bulgaria. It was just near Sofia.

Anyway, he, this one of the people in my group, lunged at this woman that was walking into the bar or area, not realising there was two men behind these two women, like a little bit further up. And what he was doing, he didn't like lunge, but he was like really a bit full on that he grabbed one of their arms like, oh, come and have a drink with me. You're so beautiful.

Like something like that, which is out of order, obviously. But the next thing we know, we've got these two men walk through the door, one pulls a gun out and starts pointing at us all like individually. And yeah, that wasn't a great experience.

He said something about I couldn't understand because he said something in Bulgarian, then he said something in broken English. And I got the gist of it, like, don't do that again, kind of. And he started laughing and walked off.

But yeah, it wasn't it wasn't a pleasant experience. See, I'm not a big fan of guns haven't been too pointed at me in the past. So stop with all your guns already.

Silly people. Silly people, silly billies. See, we have to have guns.

Don't care. I don't care. So Peter Andre went into, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.

If you haven't seen that show, I've got to explain everything. If you haven't seen, if you haven't seen that show, it's a bunch of usually not particularly famous people, or maybe previously famous people that are perhaps retired now, or used to be well known, or maybe just averagely known, you know, in the country. And then they go to a jungle, was in Australia.

And they'd have to live in like a camp. Basically, it's just camping for for a month or three weeks or something. And they get tasks and they, you know, the viewers vote on who has to do a task.

And some of the tasks could be things like swimming with crocodiles or mating with an elephant or you're just just general things, normal things. It's a weird noise. I hear some strange noises in the walls.

So many animals, honestly, it's like a zoo in that loft upstairs. Well, as opposed to the loft downstairs. Yeah, all right.

So, um, Jordan, Katie, whatever her name is, she was one of the most popular pay tree girls ever. And there's been a few, Samantha Fox in the 80s, Linda Lusardi in the 80s. Yeah, it's been Paige, is it Paige? I can't remember.

There's a few that were just really, really, really popular. And I don't even know if page three exists anymore. I don't read The Sun.

I haven't bought The Sun for I used to read it years ago when I was young. I used to read just because it's it's not like a real newspaper. See, if you if you really want to have a good read about a subject and about something that's happened, then you need to get one of the bigger papers like The Guardian or The Telegraph or The Times or The Independent or whatever.

They've got more content, there's more, you know, information, or maybe even the Mail or The Express is a bit more, perhaps a bit more, although they're kind of somewhere in between being more. I don't know how many of them are actually factual on how many. I don't know how much is made up in the newspapers.

It's hard to know how much is made up. So I remember reading The Sport and thinking, you know, this is ridiculous. This is the front cover.

And like The Fingers, The Queen was learning to break dance or something like that. That was a front cover. So everything else from there I just assumed was rubbish.

But I went through a period when I used to buy probably four, four or five papers every morning before going to work, a few hours before going to work, and then just going through them and writing down stuff and trying to find jokes out of the newspapers. And I was surprised at how much stuff that was in The Sun or The Daily Sport was in all the other newspapers. It's the same stories.

So if you just read The Sport, it sounds like a joke. And then you realise that it's actually real. So I don't know.

I don't know how much is made up and how much is real in those papers. You can't take it all too seriously because they just do what they want to do really. For some, yes, I think that's been proven in court many times, apparently, supposedly, maybe.

Please don't sue me. So, I guess, so what was I saying? I don't know if there's a page three girl anymore. I've got no idea.

I mean, if I go into a cafe and have like a big fried breakfast, which is a couple of times a year, if that, it's really rare. And I sit down and I have a nice, well, there's one particular place I quite like in town. It's very small, though, so you can't, there's what, one, two, three, four, five tables.

So it's not great. You know, it's not a lot of room. But I like to have an omelette and chips and beans and two slices of bread and a Coke, can of Coke.

And some tomato sauce on top of the omelette and maybe a little bit to the side of where the fries are, the chips, fries, so I can dip them in there. And then I like to make chip sandwiches out of the fries, you know, the chips, put them into the slice of bread and then dip them into the tomato ketchup and the beans maybe. And oh, it's lovely.

I love an omelette. I really do like an omelette. When I go in there, quite often they have a couple of newspapers, maybe The Sun and The Star.

And I'll have a look at The Star. If The Sun's available, I'll have a little read. I'll have a little read, look at the pictures.

And it doesn't take more than 10 minutes really to read that newspaper just to skim through it. And then it's done. And The Star, Daily Star was back in the 90s, 80s and 90s, it was almost like a poor version of The Sun.

You know, it tends to have less pages. It was cheaper than The Sun. So you know, The Sun might be 25 pence and The Star would be like 18 pence or 19 pence, you know, so it'd be cheaper.

But there'd be less in it. It would be, it wouldn't take more than about seven minutes to read it instead of 10 minutes. And the content was practically, back then was almost identical.

It wasn't, I don't know how often they did anything unique or original. But I might be wrong. I might be wrong on that one.

So I used to, I used to read, I'd read both, or one or the other. I mean, I could make one of them last all day. When I was working, I'd just read during my break times, and I'd have like 15 minutes coffee break.

And by the time I got my coffee queued up, whatever, and managed to sit down, roll a cigarette or whatever, and then I'd perhaps have a few minutes to actually read the thing. So, you know, occasionally, occasionally, there'd be an article that I was interested in. And you know, I'd want to ring, want to read the whole article.

But you know, that was now and then. So Jordan, the patriarchal or, I just got to tell you about the sport. So I got to tell you about the sport.

They did something, that's what I was talking about the age of consent, they did something back in 1995. There was this model called Lindsay Dawn Mackenzie. If you want to Google just go Lindsay Dawn Mackenzie.

And so I think it's, it might be M-A-C-K-E-N-Z-I-E. Anyway, she was 15 years old. And now you have to be 18 to be on page three.

That's been a rule for I think quite a few years. I mean, used to be able to buy cigarettes at 16 here. Now it's 18.

And it has been for a long time. So, you know, things have changed. The age of consent for males with other males went down, used to be 21.

It used to be illegal 40 years ago. It used to be called, it used to be classed as a mental illness. And it was against the law.

But now that then they changed the law, and people could be together, if you know what I mean, at the age of 21. So same sex. I think it was only for men, they didn't, I think they recognised that women, no one cared what women did, for some reason.

It's just men. So men had to, you know, abide by that law. I'm thinking it might not, they might not have even recognised that women maybe loved each other.

I don't know. So I think they brought the age down to 18 at some point. I'm not sure when.

I don't have exact dates in front of me without going online. And that involves turning around, and I can't be bothered. I just can't.

And then it took it to Parliament. It wasn't like a big deal. It was just like, I think if you're a politician, you can put forward a recommendation to change a law.

There's a specific term for it. I don't know what it is, but like an amendment or something like that. And what you need is, in order to allow that amendment to be put to the vote, you need a certain amount of backing, some certain amount of votes or whatever.

I think that's how it works. So this one of the MPs, and this is a Minister of Parliament. And they're kind of like, if you live in it, they're kind of like politicians.

And it went to vote. And it was the biggest turnout ever. The amount of men that turned up voting for this to be reduced to 16.

It was, I think it was the biggest turnout ever. There was men turned up that didn't even work there. There weren't even MPs.

I don't know if that's true. But it went through, and it was the quickest vote in history. And everyone ran out when it's finished to enjoy the new law.

So you didn't have to hide anymore, I guess, from what they were doing. And I was like, okay. So that was one of those laws of 16.

But in America, and some other places, 18 for everyone. I don't know about same sex. I'm not sure.

I don't know. I haven't looked that much into it. But there's definitely a difference in like not being able to, you can't drink to your 21.

Is that right in America? Although everyone does. Anyone that drinks does not wait till they're 21. I'm pretty sure.

Because a 21 year old doesn't look any different to a 19 year old. Really. Necessarily.

But there's a big difference between a 16 year old and an 18 year old. There was for me anyway. When I was 16, I was a child.

I still am mentally. But physically, I was a child. When I was 18, I still looked very, very young.

Which is why I look so young now. Yeah. That annoyed me in Thailand.

Someone said, I said, how old do you think I am? She said, early 50s. That's really annoying. I think she even guessed like 51.

You're not supposed to say that. You don't get it. You're supposed to say 35.

You're supposed to lie. That's how it works in my country. You lie.

What's wrong? Yeah, 51. How much do you think I weigh? 17 stone? No. So anyway, the sport, the newspaper, the dodgy, weird newspaper.

There wasn't really a newspaper. There was more of a, more of a sex pest really than a newspaper. Anyway, they had, and this, this is back in 1995, because I remember they were getting very excited and they had this new model, new, new, underaged, she's 15 years old.

And they were doing a countdown to a 16th birthday. And on a 16th birthday, though, as a, as a present for every, all the men that wanted us to, you know, I'm gonna say next, though, we're going to have her on page three. Topless at 16.

Now that's not allowed anymore. And there's a lot of things, I mean, that aren't allowed anymore. Lynchings, that's one thing that's not so popular, frowned upon.

So it was weird, because even at that age, like, okay, she was, is, there was a particular reason why she got a lot of attention and why they, you know, for whatever reason, and she was, became quite famous because of it. But even at the time, I thought, and I was 24 at this time, even then I thought, this is dodgy. This is, this is exploitative.

I didn't care. But I just thought, this is, I mean, she clearly knew what she was doing. And her dad was her manager.

And, you know, she was milking it. Excuse the expression. She was milking it for every, everything she could get.

And she made a lot, huge amount of money. But it was like, her dad is, like, encouraging it. What's going on? I mean, her dad's encouraging that.

I couldn't get my dad to encourage me working in a chip shop. It's like, it's, I just didn't understand it. I didn't complain.

And I was just intrigued because of, from a sociological point of view, which is why I bought every, every paper for those 10 days leading up to her birthday. Now it was, you know, I was very, always been interested in psychology and sociology and just the way that people react. I found it fascinating, very fascinating.

And I remember on the day that the, you know, the day of her birthday and the unveiling, it's like, this is weird. You just, just strange. I remember sitting there, I was just standing, talking to my friend about it.

And he was saying, I said, this is weird. This is all the attention, the amount of attention in the country, even the other newspapers were talking about it. And he said, yeah, I know.

And then I remember hearing a voice like the, the newsagent shouting, I'm opening now. So, okay, so you go and buy, buy the paper. Have a little drink of Coke.

Very weird, very strange. And this is before, well, not long before the internet, but it was before the internet. And people used to rely on, okay, I suppose the two main things, you know, the things that the early days and we, before the internet, we used to make do by using phone books and magazines.

You know, those that kind of covered the things that the internet almost took over. I mean, magazines still exist. I'm not sure if the phone books, do we still have phone books anymore? You know, telephone directories, does Yellow Pages still exist? I don't know.

I know there's yell.com. I remember when I, when I finished my counselling degree or the, you know, I finished the second year and I was qualified as a counsellor, person-centred counsellor. And I decided to, you know, start counselling, you know, that's what I trained for, for two years, full-time, I thought I'd start. And I remember I phoned up the Yellow Pages to place an advert in, in their book.

And this man or woman, I can't even remember, came round my house and sat at the table with me. And I was lodging there at the time, I lodged everywhere. I was, I was the lodger for 30 years, nearly.

Am I still the lodger? I don't know. I'm the renter now, rather than the lodger. Anyway, this, it kind of talked me into, pretty sure I spent about £700 on an advert for the year.

And it really wasn't worth it. It really wasn't. I mean, this is back in 2000 and, 2009.

Yeah, summer, probably about the summer of 2009. Yeah. Yes, late summer 2009.

And so, you know, I was also listed online on the yell.com and stuff like that. But you can get listed free on there. This was like a listing at the top of the page and priority listing or whatever.

I had a few people call me from there, but not much. It really wasn't, it wasn't worth it, really. It might have been, I think if it had been 20 years earlier, it probably was worth it.

In fact, it might have been my main source of getting clients and customers. But because of the internet was in proper full swing by then, I mean, by 2009, the internet was almost, it was well and truly established. Most people in this country had broadband, pretty much.

The internet was good. Mobile phones, not so much as far as the speed. Mobile phones now are very, very fast.

In fact, sometimes the mobile data is actually much faster than broadband, where I am. It is. I can't get fast broadband, my maximum broadband here.

I don't know why. Maybe it's because I live in a little village or whatever. But it's I think 37 megabytes a second.

Not that it reaches that, I don't think, but that's kind of the maximum I can get. But if I use the, if I do, I do, I will turn around. I don't like to turn around, but I'm going to do it.

Okay, I'm going to look at my phone. And I'll actually test it. I'll do both.

I'll do two tests. I'll do the speed checker for the mobile data because I've got my mobile phone has got, I'm with, is it three? I don't know. Okay, so it's not, it's not high.

No, it's not great, actually. But what is different is the upload speed is a lot higher than the broadband. So skip ad, skip ad, close.

Okay, so what I got on this one, 40.87 megabytes a second download, but upload was 17.56 megabytes. So that's, that's the upload. I don't use it much to download, you know, downloading as far as websites and stuff.

It's the uploading of recordings and podcasts that I use my mobile phone for. I use the iCloud. So I do all the editing and everything like that on the laptop or the iPad.

I share it to the iCloud and then I upload it. I sometimes use the iPad or whatever using the broadband as well. But the broadband is just slower to upload.

So I'll do a comparison. So I've got 40.87 megabytes download and 17.56 megabytes a second upload. That's on the mobile data.

Now just check that it is on the mobile data. Yeah, mobile data on. So I'll turn that off.

And if I go to Wi-Fi, turn that on. Okay, so that's on. So now let's do the same thing.

Speed check, test again. Wow, downloads coming up really low. It's like, um, yeah.

So I don't know if you can remember what I just said. Downloads is 21. Let's have a look.

Skip ad come out of that. Download is 21.39, 21.39 megabytes and upload is 6.92 megabytes. So see is a big difference.

Big, big difference. Now I also have. Okay, so the, the, the, um, the broadband or the Wi-Fi on there is sky.

Sky. I also have broadband. It's a, like a mobile broadband with three, which I can use on the, I can use for anything with TV, laptop, iPad, just anything that uses Wi-Fi.

I can use that. Now I don't use it all the time. But if I'm uploading a lot of stuff, then I'll use it.

It's quicker than the sky broadband. So it's kind of, you know, it's, that's my backup broadband. But sky, generally I use it mainly just for the TV and the TV apps and stuff like that.

And I use it, I do use it. Oops, just banged the microphone. Sorry about that.

I do use it when I'm, when I've got a lot of stuff to upload. So I use the iPad data. I use the, the sky broadband, and I'll use the three broadband.

So I'll be using three different devices. And if I've got a lot of stuff to upload or a lot of work to do, and sometimes it's just helpful to do that. Or if I've got quite a few recordings that I've done, and I don't want to spend, you know, all day uploading them.

So yeah, that was, that's what I've got there. It's a shame because really, I shouldn't need any of that. It's good to have mobile data.

And for going out, because I can't use Wi Fi, my own Wi Fi when I'm on the bus or walking down the street. And it is handy to be able to get access to the internet. Just generally when be it went out directions or for whatever reason, you know, for whatever, it's just, it's good to have it.

It's good to have that facility. So that's handy. The, you know, I use the data on the phone to upload and it's unlimited data.

I think it's £30 a month. I predominantly use it to upload my podcast episodes to the podcasts or to the podcast host. So that's what I predominantly use it for.

So it's really, I could also, I've got phone calls and stuff like that, but I rarely make phone calls. I'm not really a phone person these days. I used to be, I used to love talking on the phone.

Now, I'll be honest, once I've talked, I kind of don't want to talk anymore. It might sound strange. It actually does sound strange.

It's a weird sentence. Once I've maybe talked for an hour, made a recording or maybe made a couple of recordings. I don't actually want to have a conversation.

Not always, but generally I'm talked out and for me, and there's another way I seem to think, and I don't really know why, but if I'm going to use my voice, I'd rather use it for good or for something useful. So instead of just talking a load of crap to someone else, I'd rather talk a load of crap to you. Now I'd rather, if I'm going to talk nonsense, which is among my favourite things to do, I'd rather talk into a microphone, make use of that and the silliness or whatever is in my mind, the boring, pointless stuff that's going on, and I can talk about it and make a recording that may be useful to a few people instead of having a conversation on a phone with somebody for an hour.

And I'm not saying it's not pointless because I've got a few friends that I enjoy talking to, but it's I kind of less and less really want to talk on the phone. I've got a couple of people that I do like to talk to on the phone, but I don't, it's almost like I don't want to add anyone else to that list. Maybe it's just the way I've evolved or devolved, I'm not sure, but you know the idea of getting a telephone number or meeting someone new and and then talking to them on the phone, like what's the point? I don't really want to, I don't see the point.

If you come round, you know, come round and depending on who it is of course, but the idea of just sitting there talking on the phone, like I don't know, not sure if I really want to do that. And that like daily interaction where, you know, I kind of know what another person's doing every day and they know what I'm doing every day. I only have that with one person and I can only have it with one person.

Well, okay, that's probably not true, but you know, if I got myself in a relationship, a romantic relationship, then of course we'd be in each other's lives and I'd have to pretend to be interested and she'd have to pretend to be interested in me. So it would be, that'd be different, but it's a lot, it's a lot to focus on. It's like it's like an ongoing soap opera that it's not always interesting, is it? You know, I know that my life is, it's not very interesting and and I kind of don't want to put that on someone, you know, like my parents phone me and like what's, or even friends, what's going on? Nothing.

What have you been up to? Nothing. You still doing the podcasts? That's, my parents never asked me that, but like my friends might do. So yeah.

How's that going? The same. It's like, it's not really any change. I mean, and it's not negative either.

It's just, I have a very small life. Did you think I was going to say the word life after the word small? Stop being so rude. I have a very tiny, tiny, minuscule life.

I don't do much. And there's times when I can't do much, to be honest, but, you know, generally when things are going okay, I don't do much. I'll, I'll make a podcast.

I'll work on the, tinker around on the website or on the podcast or do a bit of research or do some reading. And, you know, gradually, you know, things grow. I mean, sometimes I've quiet days.

I had a very quiet day yesterday. My podcasts, I didn't, I found like six and a half thousand downloads yesterday, which is really poor. That's really, really, really low.

To get below 10,000 is an awful day for me. But then the weird thing about it is I didn't, it hasn't been ages since I made a recording. I think I did a recording the day before and two the day before that.

So, I don't know, maybe it was a Saturday. Weekends are slower than the normal, you know, rest of the week. I guess that's because a lot of people are busy, you know, doing other things, like maybe with family or loved ones.

I know that's not necessarily separate. You can love your family. You know what I mean, a family or like relationships or friends or whatever.

And some, I guess what I'm saying is some people have a social life. I don't have a social life. I haven't had a social life since, well, since Thailand.

Before that, since, I would say 2001, but that's not totally true. You know, I have gone out drinking with friends that I've worked with. When I was at university, I did a bit and I did when I was working at Churchill, but that was 2001, 2002, 2003.

Yeah, no, not really had a social life. When I was in London, I did. And then I moved and it all kind of stopped.

I don't know. For some reason, it's really weird that I felt old when I was 31. In some ways, I felt older then than I do now.

And perhaps it was because I was surrounded by a lot of, well, what they would class themselves as very young, 18, 19, 20 year olds, some 17 year olds that were working in the office that I worked in. And to a 17, 18, 19 year old, 31 is ancient. My age now, I'd be like an old fuddy-duddy to them.

So I was, and I think being treated like an old person, I started feeling like an old person. Now, I'm not treated like anything. Yeah, I'm around people around my same age now.

And the people I do see, they're all around. There's no one younger than early 40s. So, you know, they're all kind of same kind of age group, middle-aged.

And I don't really feel old when I'm around people like that, because age isn't really mentioned. It's not really a topic that's popular, talking about age so much. And so I'm not around any young people, young, young, younger people in order to really even think about my age.

I mean, you think, was it July now? In just over a month, I'll be 52. 52. 52.

Blimey. 52. Oh, by the way, I got rid of the postbox.

I think I mentioned that, but I just, if you're still listening, that is, I got rid of the postbox because I just couldn't be, I don't know. I can't remember why, but I did. I don't know.

I'm backtracking, but there's a reason. It's not an interesting reason. I just got rid of it.

I didn't get any mail, but then I didn't, I mean, I paid for three months and I got rid of it after the first month. And it'd only been active for about a week or two weeks. That was that weekend that I got rid of everything and I deleted loads of stuff.

And part of that was getting rid of the postbox. So, you know, that was part of that social experiment. Oh, so Jordan, the page three girl, Katie Price and Peter Andre.

There's a reason I was talking about this because the front of this magazine that I'm not going to get to talk about now because I've kind of got to the end of the recording is, um, he's on the front cover. Well, a little part of the front cover. So what he says is he, uh, yeah, he, he went into, he went into, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.

And Jordan, the page three, she wasn't a page three girl anymore at that point. I don't think, but she was still a model and she was still, I think an author of books and she was famous. She's, she's, she's famous in this country.

Has been for a long, long time. I think she's also been a pop star as well. No, she did.

I'm pretty sure she was a pop star. And did she, did she do the Eurovision song contest or she applied to do, I think to represent, um, the UK. So, but this was after I'm a celebrity, I think, but they, they got together.

They fell in love, Peter Andre and Jordan or Katie Price. They fell in love. I suppose Jordan and Katie Price is like Batman and, um, Bruce Wayne, except there's no masks.

They both look the same. There's no costume. It's the same person.

So they got together and it was, it was, it was romantic, you know, I remember watching it because that's the days when I used to watch it. I haven't watched it for a long time, uh, many, many, many, many, many, many years. But at that time I did, I used to watch it and I really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed seeing them falling for each other. And it was very romantic. It was just nice.

It was pleasurable. I did really, I thoroughly enjoyed myself viewing, viewing what was viewable. And they left, when they left the jungle, they got married, had kids.

And yeah, I think Peter Andre, it gave him a res, uh, his career a resurgence. So he was on television. He started doing hosting TV shows.

I think he might've also released a song, a new song. I can't remember. Um, but he definitely started, I think he hosted a TV show, which was one of those, um, refurbishing your house in a day shows, you know, when they're like a hundred builders and plasters come into your house and rebuild everything in 10 minutes or something like that.

Um, and he did, did that. So I never saw it. I saw clips of it, but daytime telly isn't really my bag.

I don't, don't really watch daytime telly. And I think it's just wrong. I just daytime.

It's just not, I can't, I can't, I just can't, I can't do it. I don't know why it's just something about daytime telly is I would, I'm not saying I don't ever watch telly, but it'd be streaming something. But I don't watch television during the day anymore.

And unless it's the news or it's the parliament channel and there's a debate going on or something like that. I love watching people debating. So yeah, it's see, I'm usually so focused when I do these recordings, usually so focused yet today, for some reason, it's almost like I've gone off on a tangent and I haven't even got around to talking about the thing that I was going to talk about, which was the magazine called Woman.

And there's 60 to 63 pages. Well, no, 62 pages because there's a lot of adverts. I'll be honest, a lot of adverts on there.

Look, Lake Como, Lake Como drinks, it's inclusive holiday, eight days, first person from 979, second person now from 489.50 pence. Why does everyone, these holiday places really seem to assume that there's two people going. I mean, if you go on holiday with your partner, it's not really a holiday, is it? Especially if you live with them.

If you're not with them and you don't live with them. And yes, it's a romantic break. And you but if you live with someone 24 hours, it's like every day of the year, 372 days a year.

If you live with them and then you go away, you know, if you said, oh, I'm going to, I just need a bit of air, I need a break from this argument. You know, if you have an argument with your partner and you say, I need a break, I'm going for a walk. And you say, then you say, are you coming? Or I'm going to the pub, I need to just have a break from this conversation.

It's, you know, I don't want to say anything. I don't want to, you know, say anything that I regret. I'm going to go to the pub for a couple of hours just to get away.

And then pop your head back. Are you ready to come? You come to the pub with me? But no, you need a break. So.

Or. If I guess you turn it around, if it was a woman saying it to a man, because it could be a man, but if it's a woman saying it to a man, I'm I'm going to knitting club. I'm going to nail painting club.

I'm joking, blimey. And I don't think they have knitting clubs today. Can you can you learn to knit? I want to learn to knit.

Apparently, if I keep talking, you'll forget about this sexist remark I just made, even though I was joking. Apparently, knitting is one of the best things for your brain because you're using both sides of your brain continuously activating, stretching those brain muscles because you're using your right hand and your left hand and you're concentrating. So both parts of your brain activated at the same time.

And for some people, they would knit for hours on end. So it keeps your brain very active. It's very, very, very good for your brain.

So I was thinking about maybe learning to knit because my nan used to knit and she had most of her faculties right away up to the end. I'm not sure she had all her faculties to start with, but I'm joking. She was very compass menace or whatever you call it.

And she she was about 142 when she she left. So she was fairly old, but she. Yeah, her mind was still there as fine, kind of as far as I know.

And she knitted for years and years and years and years, not continuously for years, but all the way through my childhood, all the way through. Most of my adulthood, probably till. I don't think she knitted for the last 10 years.

When her eyesight went, she stopped knitting because she couldn't see what couldn't see what she was doing, couldn't see because it's quite quite a small thing, isn't it? So she couldn't see anymore to what she was doing. So her eyesight was very bad at the end. I mean, she was yeah, it was as bad as you can get.

But it went went downhill over a period of time. So probably for a good probably 50 years of her life. She was knitting.

Now I'm making that up. I'm just guesswork. I don't know if it was 50 years.

I don't know. She started knitting at 20 until she was 70. I mean, she was still knitting in her 80s.

I'm pretty sure. So she might have started in her 30s. But she might have started in her teenage years.

She might have been taught knitting because back then we're talking about the 1800s. Back then you could probably learn internet and and things like that was part of the educational stuff, I imagine back then. So I'm thinking I might like to learn to knit.

Because I like the idea of the exercise in my brain muscles. I like that. I'm very much I'm very into the old neuroscience at the moment.

I read a read a bit, listened to a few audio books. It's just fascinating stuff. And you know that the old saying that people say, oh, we only use 10% of our brain.

Apparently, that's not true. We use all of our brain. We just don't use all of it at the same time.

All parts of the brain and get activated at certain times. It's just you know, we don't it's the idea that there's like 90% of the brain it's never used, dormant, untapped. It's never stimulated.

Apparently, that's not true. Because they can actually tell what parts of the brain get activated at different times. And you know, with the those, those, they look like shower caps with with wires sticking out around the things they put on people's heads, and they can actually map the brain.

But I think so. So I find that stuff fascinating. But on that note, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go.

So thank you and tomorrow maybe tomorrow I might actually read something. The handle on my chair just clicked. I might read something out of the book.

Maybe out of the out of the magazine, woman. So take care of yourselves. Remember, remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.

Be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Be kind to yourself because you deserve to be gentle with yourself. Lots of love.

Bye