(no music) #1119 - Barking Heaven - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (12th May 2024)

Hello, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

My website is letmeboreyou.com. How are you doing? Are you all right? Are you okay? Are you well? I've literally just been woken up. Now, some would argue, four minutes to seven in the evening, you shouldn't really be in bed, should you? I was having a nap, having a nap. I was tired, I wanted to have a little nap.

So I went for a nap about six o'clock. I got woken up three different times by Vinnie barking in my ear. The third time, there was someone at the door, so it was a legit reason.

I mean, I can't argue with that one. Someone at the door, he's going to bark. I can't argue with that one.

However, however, the other two reasons, because there's someone in the garden, and the new neighbor has a dog, a big, huge dog. And Vinnie is affected by the fact that there's another dog living in the building. And every time he hears the dog, probably smells the dog, I guess they can smell each other, from a distance.

Every time he knows that the dog's in the garden, he howls. It's not just like a normal bark, he howls like a wolf. Maybe not quite like that, but I just don't know what to do.

Because this dog is too big. It's an ex-old bully. It's too big for Vinnie to mess with.

And when Vinnie's met this dog, and he's already barked at it, and growled and stuff. And just the other dog doesn't seem to care. But, which is lucky for him.

Lucky for Vinnie. However, the second that he does care, is a problem. Because he's, he's big.

He's very, so strong. You just see. And apparently he's lost weight as well.

So he'll be even bigger probably in a few weeks. So I don't know. I'm just, I don't know what to do.

I mean the, the person, the neighbour's really nice, friendly. The dog seems really friendly as well. But Vinnie, he's playing out.

And anyway, that's enough seriousness. Maybe not nice. So last night, after I bathed the recorded, which is a pure gold, just in case you missed it.

Well worth a listen. It's phenomenal. It's my masterpiece.

Yeah. And I did that. I had something to eat.

Or no, I think I probably took, took him out for a quick WNLK. And then came back, made a cup of tea for the boxing. The boxing was on in the evening in the UK.

And I, yeah, it was, they started the show for free, which was weird. This is strange. My Kindle's playing up.

Why is my Kindle playing up? Very strange. Search the Kindle. I want to search for, I want to search for magazines.

That's what I want to search for. And it's giving me nothing. I'm supposed to be a member of the Kindle Unlimited.

So there should be a magazine on there. But it's now. I was asked, asked from someone on YouTube, if I could put my other stuff.

Oh, it's back now. That's weird. The internet just went off now it's back.

So I've got the magazines now. 2500 apparently. So I, yes, someone asked me on YouTube, can I put my other stuff back on YouTube? And I started thinking, okay, you know, the old stuff, like the other non Let Me Bore You To Sleep stuff.

And I sort of spent hours going through it. And I realized that I'm actually happy sticking to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I just felt a huge amount of extra pressure on me to start doing the other stuff and to be working through that.

When actually, in all truthfulness, this is I can only I can do one thing. I mean, there's one thing I do. And if I do one every day, it's, you know, if you include other little bits and bobs after this, you can look in four to five hours a day, work, not really work as it but you know, time.

So I don't know, I'm not I'm not just moaning today. I do apologize. Oh, yes, I apologize ever so much.

Sorry, everyone. Yeah, I'm not moaning really. I'm just still a little bit razzled from being woken up.

One of my neighbors wanted to know if I was any good at replacing toilet seats. I'm only good at my any good putting on a new toilet seat. Of all the local neighbors, you must have thought I'm the one that's probably broken the most broken the most toilet seats.

I must be an expert a whiz. In fact, I can put one in two seconds. It takes me to put a new toilet seat on.

I break down every three days. No, well, actually, I have broken. I've broken toilet seat couple before but it's not easy.

They're not hard to put on and I think but don't touch someone else's toilet. I don't want to touch my own toilet. Definitely don't want to touch someone else's toilet.

And now it takes me hours. So I just want to say no. I'm not.

So I try I try not to say this stuff out loud, you know, because it's kind of quite negative. But in reality, I'm not never really been the most practical person. The amount of things that I've broken just by unpacking them.

I broke the TV when I unpacked it. The the legs that go in a TV. I remember my friend came upstairs.

He said, What's wrong with that? I said, What do you mean? He said, The back to front. He put the legs in back to front. I said, Oh, okay.

He said, How did you manage to do that? You know, they can't fit in that way. And they looked at the back of the TV and I'd split the plastic split because I forced it in. Basically forced it in the wrong hole, basically, or back to front rather.

And it's fine. But he said, Why didn't you wait? Why didn't you wait until I was up? Because I think he was in bed or something or he was out or he said, Why didn't you wait till I was here so I could help you? I said, I was excited. I was excited.

And I mean, the TV is quite a big TV. I never had a big TV before. I mean, this is probably 123456 times bigger than the other one I had.

But the other one I had was like the size of an ant. So probably not that big then. But yes, it's just the way it is.

I've I had a recording studio thing like the one I got here. And in the first couple of days, I managed to get the digital SIM card thing. It's not a SIM card, but it's the digital card that holds all the information, you know, the tracks.

But it's stuck. And I tried to pull it out and I ended up pushing it in further and broke it within like a week of having it. So I had to get another one.

Why didn't you send it back? Well, can't send something back that you've broken yourself. You know, I mean, it's like if it didn't work, then yeah, of course, I need to send it back and get a replacement. But I broke it.

I mean that the card was rattling around inside. I forced it way too much. In fact, I think I tried to remove the pliers probably wasn't a good idea.

Yeah, there was another thing. We had a this place I lived not before here but before the place before here. So it would have been 2011.

I lived in this room was on suite so it's all right. It's actually a nice room was in a new build. Neighbors were a little bit problematic.

I had a few issues, but I was just bad timing I think really. But I was upstairs. And I was right next to the bathroom, the main or the only bathroom in the building.

So there's one, two, three, three on suite rooms. So the one below me, and the one opposite me or on suite. And then there's a bathroom next to my bedroom.

So between my mice on suite and a person's on suite, there was a bed as a bathroom. And then next to his on suite bedroom, there was a smaller room just a basic bedroom. I say smaller, I don't I didn't go in there.

But it was it wasn't on suite anyway. It was small, I think. And then downstairs was the one that was below me was non suite.

The next to that one was a really long room is a big room, but no no, no, no, no on suite. So it's no but no bathroom in there. And then next to that one was another small room.

And then downstairs, there was a toilet. It's a communal toilet. And it was a fairly good sized kitchen, a nice big kitchen actually, and a living room that no one used because we didn't like each other.

What they did, they used it, they just went on from the round. Everyone else got on really well. Don't want to talk about it.

All right. So and it was a garden as well. So it's a nice house.

It was in a nice ish area. I mean, there was a yeah. It was one of those weird situations.

There was strange stuff going on. Even like the local neighbors. It was one of those a bit like 99% of the area was nice.

You know, families and everyone just doing their thing. And then a few of the houses were a couple of houses were dodgy. And yeah, so there was a problematic house a few doors up.

So police was constantly coming around and stuff like that. Not for me, but for them. Anyway, there was this door.

It's all about door. The whole story is about door. It's taken me about an hour to get to the fact that it's a door.

The bathroom next to me next to my room, my own suite room. So I like that room. If it could have been anywhere else.

I would have been all right living there. If there'd been a kitchen. I'd have my own kitchen.

You could say, well, that makes it flat. Well, it made it a studio apartment, I guess, wouldn't it? But it would have been all right if I had that top floor. Maybe I didn't have to talk to anyone else.

Anyway, I came in, if you go into my door, you have to go up one, two flights of stairs, and then turn right. I was right just there. Go in and my double bed in the corner, the right hand side, near the window is there is my set of drawers.

And I don't think I had any bookcases. I had a bunch of books, because all my stuff was in storage. So I had cases and cases of books, not bookcases, but plastic containers of books, but no bookcases.

At that time, I don't think I got it. I don't think I even got any bookcases by kind of spread them around a bit on top of the wardrobe and things like that. I had a table in there.

And to the left there is the bathroom. And that was a nice, nice bathroom. Just a shower, no bath.

So technically it was a shower room. And the toilet and a sink. Very nice.

Yeah, very nice done everything. The toilet broke after a few days of me being there. And I think that I think Yeah, I think the toilet seat came off as well.

Yeah. And they didn't fix a toilet for ages. And they said, Oh, you're gonna have to go downstairs.

Or no, you can go into the bathroom next door, or go all the way downstairs. And I was paying 125 pound a week for this room. And I didn't move into it because it was an ensuite.

I moved into it because it's the only place I could find in the allotted time that I had. It was like my only option, my last option. First and last.

I tried a few different places. And that was the only place I could actually get into. So anyway, so I'm there.

And it got to the point where I had to fill buckets of water up. And because you can manually flush a toilet by just pouring a bucket of water down, down into the toilet. So that was kind of what I had to do for probably about five weeks.

Really took that long. I was in there for a year. I wasn't in the toilet for a year.

But I was in that room for a year. Very long year. It's quite weird just thinking about it.

I feel a little bit nostalgic about it now when I think about it. Because I didn't have a television for a year. I did use the internet.

So I used the, I used my laptop to watch videos like downloaded, downloaded stuff. So like, I don't know if did I watch, maybe it was, did I or maybe I, I don't know, I'm trying to think maybe I had access to some streaming services. But 2011, I don't know if Netflix was, how established Netflix was at that point.

Because when I moved to the next place, although Netflix was available during my three years there, my internet wasn't strong enough to play it. I mean, that's ridiculous. I mean, Netflix only needs like four megabytes a second.

And I didn't get strong enough internet. How, how, how I ever managed to upload videos, I don't know. Phenomenal.

But I had a TV in that room. I managed to get a TV. But in the old room, I didn't have a TV.

In the new room, but the room that I had for that year. I don't know why I didn't have a TV. That's what I don't understand because I had a TV in the previous room.

Unless I just left the TV there. Or it might have broken because I had a TV, DVD TV and I think it broke. I think it stopped working.

Yeah, I think that's what happened. So I'd had it since 2004. So I'd had a good six years, seven years and it just, it was like a portable TV with a DVD player.

So it's quite cool. But also it wasn't big enough anymore. But for some reason, it didn't bother me not having a TV.

But I would download stuff to watch. One of the things I think I started watching was, if I'm correct, I think it was Game of Thrones. I think that started.

I was definitely watching True Blood. So I was watching True Blood. And I don't know, I think Game of Thrones.

I don't remember when Game of Thrones started. But I think it was on at that point. In fact, it probably started maybe 2011.

Absolutely loved it. But I might be getting my dates wrong. I might be getting my dates wrong.

I think also, maybe I didn't get a TV reception. I don't know, I lose track. Oh, because Blockbusters was still around at that time.

I'm pretty sure it was. But it was on its way out. Can't believe Blockbusters.

It just surprises me sometimes when some shops or some company that, okay, I didn't grow up with Blockbusters. That wasn't my, I wasn't breastfed by Blockbusters. I wasn't nurtured by it.

It's not something that was a part of my life. When I was a child, we didn't have Blockbusters where we lived, where I lived. But we did have video shops.

And so I kind of just connect it all together. Just the idea of video shop, which was, to me, those two things that I was, that I loved. Two things that I loved when I was a kid.

I love more than two things, probably. But these are two of my favorite things is, hey, calm down, mate. I said calm down.

The two things is, two things is sparking a bit. Library and video shop. Not just a video shop that I used to go to when I was like nine, 10, 11 or whatever.

But even when I was like 13, 14, there was a video shop around the corner from me. And I used to go in there. And he used to let me take out adult films and everything.

I mean, they didn't have adult adult films, nothing gooey, you know what I mean? Nothing like X-rated. It was just like 18s. So because most of the martial art movies I used to watch were 18s.

And they didn't care, to be honest. So I used to take him out. And we saw that one, the two that what the similarity between the two things is, I would literally spend forever in there.

I must have looked through every single title, read the information on every single title, which is why I didn't like blockbusters. Because blockbusters used to send, send it with a blockbusters cover. Like the video, or the DVDs.

I want to see the actual DVD. I want to see the cover, I want to see the description, I want to see who's in it and all that stuff. Anyway, back then they just give you the video.

And I mean, I imagine with blockbusters, they probably got one, one case, one picture, and like 100 or 200 videos or DVDs of the same thing. And then just use their own covers to put them in their own cases, which is fair enough. But I didn't like that.

I still just don't know. I loved to, when I was a kid, when I was about 11, 10, would look, we'd all go, the family, as a family, sometimes all five of us or however many there was, would go to the video shop. So we'd probably go there in my dad's car or van or whatever, on a Saturday night or Saturday afternoon, maybe Friday after, Friday afternoon, Friday evening, something.

But we'd pick, I think they used to do like a three video for the weekend or four videos for the weekend, something like that, had to bring them back on Sunday, or Monday or something. I think the deal was we'd bring them back on Sunday. So we'd take them back ourselves or I'm making part of this up.

Anyway, it was the best part of the week. Because I just look forward to it. Go there and, again, it was irresponsible, irresponsible parents, from what I'm about to tell you, because we used to watch X-rated, well 18 movies, which we shouldn't have watched as a family.

And I don't know, I guess, I'm just, I imagine adults weren't very intelligent back then. I just wonder, like, not intelligent, but just like intelligent in a sense of realizing that kids shouldn't be watching stuff like that. I mean, I liked, I was, you know, I liked it, kind of.

You know, I used to watch like horrible, inseminoid zombie flesh eaters. But I didn't get to see some of the horrible ones. They wouldn't let me watch it in the evening before going to bed.

They'd watch it while I was in bed. So I'd be in bed with my door open, because I didn't like to have the door closed. And all I could hear was screaming off in the video, like, as like, that made it worse, not being able to see what was going on.

But then the next day, I was allowed to watch it after school when I got home. So in the winter, it was dark anyway, so it's like night, and I'd be there four o'clock in the afternoon, before, before dinner, watching zombie fleshy on my own. Not every day, because we didn't watch the same movie every day.

But it was very strange. We used to watch, we used to get videos out midweek as well. It wasn't always us on a weekend.

It was just like, I remember once we went through this phase. And my dad was getting videos that were I don't know where he was like a friend that used to get videos. So he used to get them.

And we were having a Sunday lunch in the I don't know what the room is. I guess the the place we ate dinner, I guess there was a room with a table in and stuff. And there was a TV in there.

And we watched during our lunch, Sunday lunch dinner. What was it? Death Wish two. Death Wish two, which is even worse than Death Wish one.

For the graphicness. Even at that, and I was, what, 10? 11? Maybe 12, 11, 12. It's like, why? I mean, it was an interesting movie.

I'm not, you know, but the beginning bit I didn't like the rest of the movie was cool, because he was, you know, getting his revenge or whatever. But I'm eating my dinner. This is really putting me off my my corned beef.

Isn't it weird corned beef is arguably, I'm gonna argue, disgusting. However, if it's cooked properly, and it's in a pie, and they call it hash pie or something, it's phenomenal. And they're weird, something that's so disgusting, can actually taste so nice.

If it's cooked. And it's prepared in a different way. Anyway, that's an aside.

You're in a side. So what's it? Yeah, I there was a store. There was that was what I was going to come to this door.

Oh, so the two things I should love, I should go into the video shop and look at everything. And the same is with the library, or a bookshop. Later in life, more the bookshops when I used to go to every week, most weeks, for a long period of time, not, you know, depending on the time, you know, different years, different things.

But I used to go to the West End, get a tube, could get, you know, a daily ticket, which would take me to any of the places I wanted to go to, on the scent on the, you know, the underground, I only really wanted to go to Tottenham Court Road, because I could get everywhere I wanted to go to from there. So I mean, I didn't always but yeah, generally Tottenham Court Road, I could get to Leicester Square, Soho, Trafalgar Square, I think, yeah, Oxford Circus, all those different places were within walking distance.

So that's what I generally do.

I get off at Tottenham Court Road tube station from Stratford. And it was just it was like 12345, about five or six stops. And then I'd get off, I'd go I'd get I'd leave us in a specific exit, which would be opposite McDonald's.

So, so you had McDonald's across the road, and turn left. So you turn left, we're going back, you know, 500 years now. So probably changed.

In fact, I know it has because I've been back since and it's, it's not the same. Go up the road. And there was a I don't know if it was a Waterstones or was a book, etc.

I can't remember. There was a bookshop. So it's quite a big bookshop.

Everything's big. In the West End. All the bookshops are pretty big.

So I used to go in there. But that wasn't my favourite bookshop. I'd go in there.

I'd include it. That was, I suppose it was a little bit like having a, you know, I guess, having five brown haired children and one ginger, kind of, you know, I had to include the ginger one. I'm joking.

I've got ginger in my family. I had a ginger beard. I did have a ginger beard.

And the ginger bits went grey first. It's not fair. Couldn't believe it.

What's going on? The Kindle's updating itself. Okay, blimey. Go away.

Go away. Put it over there. So yeah, my ginger beard.

Very sad. People say like, why is your beard a different colour to your hair? But then I did have ginger bits in the front of my hair and at the side. They also went grey first.

Weird, strange. It's the Irish, it's the Celtic in me. It's the Irish in me, probably.

My name was Irish. Her brother was ginger. Three of my cousins, I think, got ginger kids.

So, you know, I think, I don't know, but I think I might have been ginger when I was born. And then, or was it my brother? Someone in my family, one of me or my brothers was ginger when we were born. But we were told that it didn't, that it just wore off and we became like dark, like brown hair.

But it turned out that they were putting dye in the shampoo. And it's not true. It's not true.

I don't know why I'm saying this. And why is the head and shoulders brown instead of blue? Blue! So, this door, right, the door was next to, the bathroom was next to the room that I had. And it kept clicking, slamming.

People would slam the door and it'd do it on its own. But like a loud click, like really, and I'd hear it early hours of the morning, late at night, and it just used to annoy me. Used to annoy me.

So, I decided to get practical. I decided to get in touch with my practical side. And decided to remove, shave off some of the wood from the door.

I purchased a plane. Okay, you might think, well, what's that, how's that going to help with the door? Yeah, great, if you want to travel to another country. No, not that kind of plane.

I wouldn't, you know, a plane, a wood thing so you can, you know, you can shave wood off of a wood. A plane, you know, it's a thing that you use. I don't know, it's got a handle.

I bought, I can't believe I actually bought one of those just for this. And I decided to give it a go and try and shave it off. I did some, made sure I cleaned up after myself and did it when there's no one around.

Because I didn't want anyone to know that what I was up to, because I thought, well, I don't know if this is okay to do or not. Well, all I want to, all I'm going to say is I got a little bit carried away. And I got a knock on my bedroom door and one of the tenants saying, do you know where the door is, where the bathroom door is?

I said, it's there.

He said, where? It's there, look. Oh, it's shrunk. And it was this little door just attached.

It's a thin little thing attached to the, to the hinges. I didn't realise quite what I was doing. And they said, do you know who did that? I said, I don't know.

He said, well, why have you got a plane in your hand? I said, do you want the long story or the story involving glue? She said, don't worry about it. And she went away. But practical stuff, I just, I've never been, you know, not always been great at that stuff.

I've broken so many things just by trying to put them together. And I'm amazed, I'm amazed at how many things now don't even have plugs anymore, or batteries or anything. Just something that needs a plug, or needs batteries, surely should be sent, should be with them, including the price.

Send some, like they used to do, send some crappy batteries that might last like three hours, but at least, at least have some batteries. But to not have a plug. I mean, there was a time I think the iPhone started doing it, where the plug was a foldable one.

So the pins folded down and you can push them up. I mean, I remember once, I'm just talking about, I got an iPhone, this is in this room as well, 2011. It's the first iPhone I ever had.

And was it an iPhone? It wasn't an iPhone. Was it an iPhone? It was a phone. Maybe it was an iPhone.

Or maybe it was, it was a phone, it was a mobile phone. It exploded. The plug exploded, not the actual phone.

I plugged it in and pull. It didn't go pull, because that's not very good explosion sound, is it? But it went bang. It didn't go bang either.

Like bang, and waving its little hands. But it was, it's a little bit scary, to be honest. I mean, it's just a plug.

It's just a plug. I mean, a plug, should you plug it in, should work. I tell you what's even weirder.

In, no, I don't know about America. I know that the plugs are too thonged. And I had to put an adapter on my equipment when I went over to Thailand.

The plugs didn't stay in, hardly on their own. So loose. Is that how plugs are in America? Because here, they are super secure.

You push a plug in, it takes effort to get it out. Like it's almost sealed into the, into it, you know, in a sense. It's not, but it feels like it's very, you know, there's no room for wiggle with the pins.

And when it's actually pushed all the way in, that's it, you can't, you can't get it out without a little bit of effort. Or I'm just really weak. It could be one, could be that.

Yeah, I found that a little bit weird. Those two pronged ones, very loose, not secure at all. Not, you know, it didn't, because I'm used to a plug, you push it in and it's really tight.

Those two pronged ones, loose. Even the ones that went in just like still like you could pull it out. Like so easily.

It's like literally just really, no, I don't like that. Anything that's attached to electricity, I want it to be secure. I want it to be proper, nice and tightly compacted.

And other words that mean the same thing. So McDonald's was opposite Tottenham Court Road tube station, but opposite that, if we go back to 91, there was HMV. In fact, in fact, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that HMV and Virgin were next to each other, like directly next to each other in the early 90s.

And both huge stores. Was it KP Max? Was that the closed shop? KX Max or something that became one of those shops in the later years, the late 90s. Because I think Virgin closed or HMV closed one of them.

But at the time was brilliant. And, you know, back then, CDs were in but albums were also in CD singles also in still around, you know. And there was loads of stuff, t shirts, merchandise, the book collections were really good.

And the comedy albums were great. Loads of American comedy. And I used to collect, I mean, I used to go to London in 1990.

Every time I got paid on a once a month, I got paid. And I was doing a night shift during 1990 in a factory. And I used to go every time I got paid, if it was, well, I don't know, the following Saturday, basically, I went up to London.

And so I stayed up. So I got up, I got home Saturday morning, after being working all night, I go straight, I had something to eat, and I go straight to London. And I'd go to those shops, I go to HMV, I would go to Virgin, I would go to Tower Records, which I think was near Trafalgar Square, I do believe.

And there might be in another place as well. Can't think off the top of my head. There's there was a place that had comedy albums.

So and I used to go there and not just comedy albums, but buy DVD, not DVDs or buy videos as well. Like live con, condoms, live concerts. So I'd have records, I wouldn't buy DVD, I wouldn't buy CDs, I buy tapes, if that's all I had.

I didn't have, I never bought a CD, didn't even know, didn't know anything about CDs. They weren't really, they were a thing, but they were kind of a new thing back then. And I didn't, I didn't bother with it.

So but I so I got vinyl albums of or tapes of like Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, I don't know, Emo Phillips, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Stephen Wright, Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay. And then some of the older ones. Like the people from the 60s and 50s and 60s, who'd done, is it Bob Newhart, Red Fox.

There was Joanne, Joan, Joan. I can't think of a surname, it's terrible. And, and then, did I say Emo Phillips? I did, didn't I? Stephen Wright, Emo Phillips.

There was others. There was others. But then, you know, some of them had multiple, multiple albums, like George Carlin.

I think at that point, he had about 12 albums or something, or maybe less. He had quite a few albums. One was called Class Cat Clown, Class Clown.

And he, so he, he was probably the most active, prolific comedians, stand up comedians, possibly in American history, I would say. I mean, Bill Cosby brought out loads of albums as well. And they were huge, hugely popular.

So I didn't realize, because I used to watch him on the Cosby show, like probably everyone else, you know, we used to, in the early 80s, but all the way through early 90s, I suppose. And I used to love it. I used to love it.

Especially Arnold, he used to make me laugh. You know, we're talking about dead. He used to crack me up.

And then Bill Cosby, I've been here before. It was, it was great. But he's, I didn't know just how famous he was until I came over his albums.

And then it wasn't really until the internet kicked in. No, I had a book actually, I had a book. I think it's called After Laughter, something like that.

And it was all about, I bought it in 91. I lent it to someone, I didn't get it back. And it had all this information of old comedians, all the way through to like more modern ones, stand up comedians.

And it was just amazing. You know, it's like pre, after the war, the Second World War, you know, sort of like the early 50s. And there was all these coffee places and jazz clubs and the big comedy, you know, in the 50s and in the 60s.

Where I guess, like in the 50s, we Steve Allen would have been in and it's just the 60s. Of course, Richard Pryor was doing his comedy. In the late 60s.

Bill Cosby was a huge star. Because Richard Pryor copied Bill Cosby. In fact, he said he earned a good living from being Bill Cosby for about five years.

And then one night, he did a gig. Richard Pryor did this gig, it was a charity gig. They asked him to go along.

And it was a charity for equality for gay people. And he said, Yeah, okay. So as a quality for gay, for gay people, because it back in this is in the 70s, I think my early, early 70s.

And or maybe middle, I don't know, probably early 70s. He'd had some albums out, he was well known. He was very clean, clean comedian.

And he'd been on I think Steve Allen TV show in America. And he was he was basically doing his version of Bill Cosby. But he did it a different way, you know, because he had a different way, he just had a different way about him.

So he went on stage, where he went, he turned up at this gig. It's a big, I think, outdoor gig. A lot of people were there, and he was a star.

He was one of the stars, you know. So he turned up there to support gay rights. And then he realized that the, the black dancers and the white dancers were segregated, the black dancers were segregated, and treated differently to the white dancers.

Put into a smaller room, treated, not treated well. So he saw that, he says, Okay, so I'm here to do this is his, well, kind of I'm paraphrasing his words, but so I'm here to support equal rights for gay people. But we're not getting equal rights for me and for my sisters.

So he went on stage. And he went on a rant. He bent over and pulled his trousers down.

And basically said you can kiss that. My, my. Yeah, and he walked off stage.

And he didn't perform for something like two years. And when he came back, a different performer. That's when the real, real Richard Pryor came out.

The real like stand up. But I was surprised, I was surprised when I discovered Richard Pryor's comedy, because I hadn't heard it. But I heard Eddie Murphy talking about it.

And I didn't understand what Eddie Murphy was talking about. Because I watched Raw. And Eddie Murphy, and this is what 8088.

I watched Raw. Yeah, 88. And I thought, but he's talking about Richard Pryor, swearing and stuff.

And I thought, doesn't swear, because any. That's why for and then, then I looked it up, and I've got some DVDs, DVDs, I've got some videos. And like, wow, it's like, you know, just couldn't believe what I was hearing.

And I've got his albums, and they're just so funny. I was like, how did I not know this? Because I knew who Richard Pryor was. He was one of the biggest stars in movies for a while.

You know, for me, things like Brewster's Millions, Stir Crazy, any of the movies he did with Gene Wilder, for me were brilliant. I think he did four movies with him. Plus he did the toy.

That was funny. The thing about that is he was, he basically was a toy for this little kid, who's getting paid to just basically just be with this kid and do whatever the kid said. And the kid was, it was a posh, posh family.

And he was introduced, his name is, his name is Master Bates. And he starts laughing. It's just like, yeah, it's funny.

But so he was, but that was after his transition of turning like, naughty comedy. He had been, he'd been doing, so it's weird, he went like, super clean, dirty on stage. And then he was this like, not say buffoon, like a clown.

He was a clown, wasn't he? Kind of like very physical, very always acted, kind of timid and scared and in a lot of his movies. And he was funny. He was physically funny, funny voice, funny face.

He was just really, I loved Richard Pryor's movies. Especially him and Gene Wilder. I mean, there's been lots of double acts, you know, not not actual double acts, double acts, but you know, when two people have been put together in movies, and it's just worked.

It's just been a lot of those different people. I suppose, and Jerry and Dean, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was an example. They were just put together and like, it became unless they were double act beforehand.

I don't know, maybe they were. But it's been a few movies where people have been like, they keep getting back together because it works. I think that Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were among the best ever that I've seen.

They just worked because they were both the clowns. There was no straight man. There was not one funny one.

And once you know, it's like they were both really funny. And they were both kind of kind of cowardly and buffoonish and physical. And I don't know, it's just silly.

But brilliant. I mean, I still do. I've seen Gene Wilder in interviews, very serious.

And he's no longer with us. But I've seen him in it. He's just really, because he married Rita Rudner, who is another comedy star.

So he was married to her. But I think he was very, no, I wouldn't expect him to be exactly the same as he is in his movies off stage, you know, as such. But he seemed very, very different, considering he was brilliant.

He was a brilliant comedy actor. To me, I just found him well, it wasn't just me, was it? I mean, clearly producers and directors and the general public also found him to be pretty, pretty good. Young Frankenstein, such a great movie.

And I was surprised when I found out that what's that TV show everyone loves? Everyone loves Raymond. So his dad in that was Young Frankenstein. But I remember Young Frankenstein being this huge man.

And he wasn't, he wasn't little, but he wasn't like really, really tall. And same look, same face, same grumpy face. It's like, wow.

So that was strange. And did you know, this is something I didn't realize until it was pointed out to me on, I don't know, maybe some TV show or something. Do you know the movie, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, won Oscars a couple of years back.

Hugely successful movie. I struggled to follow it a little bit, to be honest. It was a lot, it was literally everything all at once happening.

I struggled, it was a little bit overload for my very slow brain. But it's a good movie. And it's, as I said, it won Oscars and it was, you know, really one of the biggest movies of the year.

I didn't realize I had not that the, he looks familiar. The main actor is two was three, but there's two females, one male. The male just looked familiar, even sounded a bit familiar.

I couldn't place him. Couldn't place him at all. And then I found out it might have been through research might have been through just looking through stuff and realizing, wait a minute, wow, I don't know.

But it's recently I found out. So the male star of everything, everywhere, all at once, or every, whatever it's called, that one, he was in, he was basically the kid in Indiana Jones movies. The Chinese or a Chinese child, you know, Indiana, and he was, you know, he was in the first, at least the first two movies, maybe the first three, I don't know, looks the same.

And now he's probably in his late forties. Because thinking about it, he probably about my age, he was probably about my age, maybe a little bit younger when he was in those movies. So I was what, Indiana Jones was about 1980, I think.

So I would have been 10, nine or 10. He was probably seven or eight. So it's not a lot of difference.

We're about the same kind of age. But it's like, wow, I finished that barking. I'm gonna go.

See ya.