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Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and this is Trivia Tuesday. Trivia Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday, that's it.
Vinnie, you don't have to make noise every time I do a recording. Today is Tuesday, the 17th of September 2024. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes, if I haven't said it already.
My website is jasonnewland.com. I've reinstated it, I've re-uploaded it again, not re-uploaded it, but put it back online. It was offline for about a week. Maybe less.
I'd like to say thank you to Deborah for your PayPal gift. Thank you very much. And it's left a lovely message saying thank you for your services.
I've been listening for several years and it's helped me to get through a chronic illness. So thank you, really appreciate that. What else do I need to say before I get on with the exciting stuff? I've just had a cheese and tomato roll.
Or I should say I've eaten some of it and Vinnie's eating the rest. He loves cheese. Loves cheese.
I'll kick the neighbour's dog today. That's a nice start to the recording, isn't it? There was an accident. He's trying to catch a fly.
The same fly that's been in here for about three days. He loves it. I'm so tired.
Why did I leave it till eight o'clock in the evening to do this? I don't know why I don't make recordings in the early afternoon. That's going to win out when I'm at my most probably awake-ish time, you know? But no, away until it's almost time for bed. Vinnie, stop moaning.
It's not my fault you can't get to sleep. Catch the fly. Spider Vinnie.
Spider Vinnie is really rubbish at catching flies. Yes, he is. His friend Archie, his best friend.
So I'll take him out. I spoke to a friend on the phone just after six. I was getting ready to take him out for a walk at six o'clock.
A couple of hours ago. And I got a phone call. So I didn't leave here till gone 20 past.
And he pulled me so hard. So I thought, I'll just follow him. Like I'll run with him.
And he ran right through the park into the other park. There's two parks connected to where his friend was. And his friend was the other side of the other park.
So I let him off and he ran up and started running around with Archie. He was so happy. Now, on the way back, we were just getting back to where I live.
And I was a little bit tangled up because Archie's got a sister. So there's basically three dogs all on leads on a pavement and they were getting a little bit tangled. So I lifted my leg up to untangle myself and ended up kicking Archie in the head.
I say kicking, he clip clipped him. It was an accident. I wouldn't mean never do that on purpose.
It was like, I can't believe I did it. What was embarrassing is, bearing in mind, I've done karate, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do, was it Taekwondo? I know it was like 10 years ago since I did that. But I used to be able to kick, well kick, never been like a huge high kicker, but I was a good kick.
Now I'm struggling to lift my leg above a tiny little dog. How embarrassing. It's like, it should be easy, especially as I'm five foot nine now, not five foot eight like I used to be.
The only man in his 50s that's actually grown in height, which just shows you how unique I is. Hey, so yesterday, oh now, now I'm a little bit worried because that fly is on the tea cup or the mug. I'll finish with the tea so I'm not that bothered.
But if he goes for it, he might end up spilling the mug or tipping the mug over and it'll go all over everything else that's on that little table, all over the remote control. And you know what remote controls can get like when tea gets all over them and get very sticky. So hopefully he won't, well he's eyeing it, he's literally staring at it right now.
Oh, it's quite funny to watch really, because the flies just do what flies do on the edges of the cup, which means it's going to get good old scrubbing. And he's transfixed, don't you Vin? So today is trivia Tuesday. Yesterday I did, I just moved on from kicking a dog.
I didn't hurt the dog, I didn't, and it was an accident. It was more just, I suppose really I brushed it, not like with a brush, but it was, it's like, I apologised, obviously I didn't. I said, look, if you want to get your own back, you can kick Vinnie if you like.
And she said, no, I'd rather kick you. I said, no, kick Vinnie. So you can kick me if you like, and I ran, because I didn't want to be kicked, because she scares me.
So I'm trying to think if anything else happened. Last night, I got woken up at 1.30. Well, this morning, I guess, early hours of Tuesday morning, I got woken up 1.30 and it was banging and not the good kind. And my neighbour sent me a text message, which I didn't see until I woke up later on, a few hours later, saying, did you hear that banging? And she said that she heard banging at her front window, which is very strange, very weird, weird situation.
So I'm going to have to, I need to charge my torch up actually, because the torch ran out of juice. And it's handy to have. You call it a flashlight, it may be, you may call it a flashlight in your own country.
I'm not giving you permission. You may, if you wish, call it a flashlight. Now that might be what you call a torch.
I suppose torch is the correct word. But if you use flashlight, that's what I mean when I say torch. Because torches used to be originally the things that people used to walk around and they'd light it on fire, didn't they? And it'd have oil or something, be like straw, I don't know.
I'm just thinking of the old movies, the old black and white movies, Frankenstein and stuff like that. Yeah. That's my references.
I don't know what the history is, all of that. But other than that, I'm trying to think what else. I think I told you about the police coming around.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that yesterday. That was on Sunday, I think. And I probably mentioned it on Sunday, to be fair.
I might not have mentioned it yesterday. I've updated the website. So the latest recordings on there as a video on the first page, and also the podcasts.
Vinnie, he's so annoying. It's not. See, when I edit this, you can hear him moving around, can't you? It sounds almost like I'm touching the microphone or something, but it's not.
It's him moving around. And can you please move your bum away from me? Don't look at me like that. Things used to be so much easier.
And yeah, so trivia Tuesday. Now, I'm going to need to use my phone because I've got very few actual trivia things in my head. So I have to look at my phone to get the trivia.
I did do a little bit of research previously. Will you stop? Blimey, Vinnie. Stay down, please.
Wow. I'm not... He keeps getting at it like he wants to see from a higher ground. It's almost like this is his little I don't know, mountain or something and he's looking down on his kingdom.
So this is what I looked up before car trivia facts. And what I did is I looked up 50 car trivia facts. And then I this is on chat GPT.
And then what I did, I then asked to check for facts, check them 50 to check it for to fact check rather the 50 which it did. So I'm just going to read out the correct ones. These are just, you know, ones are prepared, but I'll look at other stuff as well.
So I'm using chat GPT 01 preview. So this is their latest model. Whoa, okay.
Which is weird. I mean, automobiles, cars, I don't, I don't even drive. I don't I never I remember once I was about when my friend had a car.
So I would have been probably 16 because most of my friends were older than me when I was at school. So I was 16. He'd probably already turned 17.
And he had his own car. And he was driving it probably without plates. I think he had his girlfriend with him or something.
Or maybe he was just driving it anyway. And I laid on the bonnet. For some reason, you know, like they do in the movies and that.
And he started the car and started driving with me laid flat down with my face near the windscreen. And he kept driving. And I was screaming, please stop, please.
That's how I used to scream back then. And he did. Well, obviously he did because he's still driving now.
I'm still holding on. Yeah, no, it's that was a bit freaky. Luckily, he stopped, which was good.
Now, as far as as far as stories go, that one probably needs a bit more work. It's just a true memory, really. It's a true, true one.
I haven't had a lot of experience with cars because I don't drive and I have. I had driving lessons twice in my life. My guess would have to be during my life, wouldn't it? Wouldn't be in the womb.
I had driving lessons in 1991 when I was in London and I had a I had a job so I could afford driving lessons. So I had a job that was paying me enough to have driving lessons. The thing is, I just didn't see the point because where I lived in Stratford, you couldn't even drive in a straight line without having to keep stopping and letting cars through because of all the parked cars.
You couldn't get two cars going either side of the road for hardly any part of the streets that I lived in. And it's different, I know, when you get onto motorways and busier roads and other parts of the country and that, but London was just so congested and not just on the roads that were, that did move, the traffic moved so slowly because of the congestion, but also you couldn't move particularly fast.
I mean like normal speed limit even because of all the parked cars.
And I just like, you know, I partly wish I'd continued because then I would have had a driving license and it would have opened up. Some opportunities like job wise, life wise, you know, I could have, I mean technically because of my kind of personality, probably a long distance lorry driver would have been, yeah, probably been quite a good job for me because I'm quite happy to, with solitude, I'm happy with solitude, I'm happy being on my own and I don't need to be around people.
But I'm okay to be around people at the same time, you know, I'm not, it's, either's fine, but I don't need to be around other people.
As far as working goes, I'd probably prefer to not be around anyone. So being a lorry driver would probably suit me, not now perhaps, but you know, when I was younger. But then I'm not, I can't drive, so it's not a good job at all.
But it used to be a well-paid job being a lorry driver and especially like long distance, like traveling through Europe, that would have been, yeah, yeah, I think I'd have been all right. That would have been quite a good job for me. It's, as long as I kept myself fit, so as long as I was able to exercise, because, you know, sitting down for long hours, long period of time is not particularly great for anyone.
So, although I do do that now, I guess. I can have a dog though, you can, I wonder if you could, I suppose you can travel around. Yeah, you can't travel through Europe probably with a dog, but I could have had a dog if I was local, like in the UK.
So I could have a dog in there, or a monkey like Clyde from Any Which Way But Loose, or Any Which Way You Can, depending, you know, he was in both. He was also in, was it a cannonball run? I think Clyde was in at least one of them movies as well. Yep, Clint Eastwood's most famous co-star, an orangutan.
So yeah, I'd, blimey, it sounds like quite a nice little fantasy, being a long distance lorry driver. Yeah, wow. Anyway, maybe in a different life, maybe.
So I did have driving lessons. This annoyed me, and it's weird, I don't know why, but in 2004, I had driving lessons. Or was it 2005? I think it was 2004, in the summer time.
Yeah, I had driving lessons, and this, I should have got driving lessons with someone that I, no, actually, because I didn't know anyone, I didn't know any driving instructors. But I did in 2006, because I helped someone, I did hypnosis with someone that wanted to pass their driving instructor test, and had already failed twice, and they were worried they wouldn't be able to do it again if they failed a third time.
So I did some hypnosis with them, they asked me to, and they went on and passed, and ended up opening their own company, and they've had, blimey, 18 years of success.
Actually, here's something, one of my family members owns, one of my cousins owns a really big driving instructor school. I didn't even know, because after this, doing this driving instructor thing, but this is not a thing, the lady, once she qualified, which was literally a few days after I saw her, she started sending her pupils to me for their tests, to help them with their tests, test nerves and stuff like that.
So it took a few months later, when she sort of had a few people ready.
But I was doing groups, like small groups for people. And I thought, oh, maybe I'll look into this. So I sent emails out to all the local driving instructor schools within the area, within a 100 mile radius, probably, might not, probably 30, 40 mile radius.
And I was going to perhaps put on driving test courses where I lived, so people could just travel to me, or maybe I could put on a do like a one, like a two hour group session for individual organizations or driving schools. Anyway, that's a long way around it. But I sent I sent these emails out.
This was 2011. Or was it 2010? No, 2009. Or 2010, something like that.
Or was it 2009? 7, 8, 2008. So around that time. Well, I got an email back saying, are you, are you the Jason Newland that, and she asked me these personal questions, this person, about my dad's name and my brother's name.
I'm like, who the hell is this? And it was from a driving school. And I thought, oh, what's going on? And then she sent a message back saying, laughing, like, sort of freak you out. It's your cousin.
Wow. So yeah, she, she's got with her husband. She's got a driving school, like it's a big one as well.
Like, like, I think it's, I'm not sure if it's nationwide, but it's definitely a quite a large area. So that's quite cool. Never gave me any work though.
Can you believe it? My own blood, my own flesh and blood didn't give me no work. Is it flesh and blood if it's your cousin? It's, it's, even it's related, but it's not necessarily. I mean, I don't know.
I know I've got 50% of my dad's DNA and 50% of my mum's DNA. I think that's how it works, isn't it? So my cousin is his, my dad's brother's daughter. So my dad had 50% of my nan's DNA, 50% of my granddad's DNA.
And so did my uncle, 50% of his dad, 50% of granddad and grandmas, grandmothers, which means that wouldn't they then share the same DNA? Because if, if that works out that way, so if the parents, if I share 50% of my mum's DNA, 50% of my dad's DNA, then also my other two brothers would also share 50% of my mum's DNA and 50% of my dad's DNA.
So doesn't that make us identical DNA wise? But we're not at all. Finny, stop it.
Maybe this is a time that I regret not listening to anything that anyone said ever during my educational years. Tickle tummy, tickle tummy. Okay, that was the wrong time to tickle him.
I hope that wasn't too loud. It wasn't quiet, was it? Depends how far in we are. Um, oh, I think I will.
So yeah, 2004. I went, I had driving lessons. This is going to sound a little bit petty.
Okay. I had driving lessons. And the driving instructor was a young lad.
He couldn't be more than early twenties. He was very young. And this is petty, right? I found him annoying because he was over enthusiastic.
Okay, it sounds petty. And I'd like it sounds weird to say out loud. But he was super buzzed.
So like, yeah, come, let's do it. Oh, right. Let's go.
So you can do it. Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go this way now. Or you just stop, stop, stop. And you're like, keep on the right side of the road.
The right side. No, the left side of the right side, the correct side. Hey, watch out for that lorry.
Yeah, I know you wanted to be a driver. I don't need to hear about that now. I come on, let's go.
And like, so a bit hyper. A bit like a Jack Russell stalking a stalking a lie. Then he said appealing, stalking a pea.
So that was I stopped taking lessons because I just couldn't face it. I couldn't. He's literally trying to catch the fly midair.
And he's nowhere near it. He's fast, but he's not that fast. He's like, he's trying to grab it and a fly is just laughing at him.
It's just the fly is almost like that. He's flying in slow motion. And he can't catch it.
I heard the fly giggling did doing calm down. So yeah, trivia, trivia, we've got to do the trivia things. So where are we? So here's some trivia bits about cars.
He's the first one, the first automobile. Okay, so this is the first automobile. Carl Benz painted, painted, painted, patented the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine in 1886, known as the Benz patent motorwagon.
Benz, Mercedes Benz. I wonder if it's the same person. So let's see.
I need to go back. He is annoying me. So Vinnie, why have you got to do this while I'm doing a recording? Please calm yourself down.
So I'm going to read the correct ones out because it did fetch Ford's assembly line. Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line in 1913. Yep.
These aren't very interesting, are they? Volkswagen Beetle legacy, over 21 million units were produced of the Volkswagen Beetle legacy. Fastest production car. Right.
As of 2023, that's as far back as this is. That's when this cut off on chapter two. They're not as up to date as now.
As of 2023, the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300 plus is among the fastest production cars. Is 300 plus mean 300 miles an hour? I don't know. The best selling car is the Toyota Corolla, which has sold 50 million units since 1966.
Is that worldwide? Or is this just in America? Because I'm not sure. Hopefully, they're going worldwide. And if it is worldwide, do they keep track of what they've sold in other countries? I don't know.
Rolls Royce hood ornament. This I found this interesting. Interested.
The Spirit of Ecstasy, which is the name of the Rolls Royce hood ornament, didn't know it had a name. Spirit of Ecstasy was first introduced in 1911. So even though I don't know a lot about cars, I do know what a Rolls Royce is.
I know that Rolls Royces have those like birdie things on the top, don't they? So number seven, Tesla's Autopilot. Autopilot. Introduced in 2014, with advanced driver assistance features.
And then you've got Ferrari's Prancing Horse. Ferrari's Prancing Horse. Inspired by World War One pilot Francesco Baracca's emblem.
Oh, I guess the Ferrari Prancing Horse. So that's the emblem on the Ferrari. I don't think I've ever even seen a Ferrari.
Outside of Tom Selleck, not Bergerac, not Kojak. Blimey, Tom Selleck. I think it had a name of his TV program now.
That's crazy. He's 79 years old. Breakout Royal.
Magnum, blimey, Magnum. I used to watch that, Magnum PI. That was a great show.
So yeah. Yeah, he had a, he had a Ferrari. That's I didn't know.
Lamborghini. Another car I've never seen, but I've heard of. Can't spell it, even though it's in front of me.
Is it weird? It's one of those names or words. Even though it's in front of me, I still can't spell it. It's so complicated to spell.
Lamborghini. Founded after Ferruccio Lamborghini's dispute with Enzo Ferrari. Okay.
I read somewhere else that there is something to do with an issue with the Ferrari. Like some kind of mechanical issue and Lamborghini weren't happy. So he went and got it.
Isn't it weird, isn't it? So he goes on and makes a car that's possibly even more exciting or more, you know, than a Ferrari is. Maybe. I mean, I've never, I decided not to get a Ferrari or Lamborghini.
I decided like, what's the point? Who needs that? You know, especially at the time I had a black and white television. So I thought, I'll get a TV and get a TV instead. I think I got a color TV in 2004.
That's my first color TV. Blimey. It's not, it wasn't, but there was a period when I was watching a black and white TV for a couple of years in the early 2000s.
And there was no reason for it. Zero. I could have had a TV bigger than the one I've got now if I'd wanted to.
But for some reason I didn't. Didn't get one. Very weird.
I don't know what was going on at the time. Well, I do. And that was when I was doing the sales and things were going quite well for me.
Electric, early electric cars. Electric cars are popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Really? Electric cars.
Right. I'm gonna have to ask more questions now. Expand on 10.
Expand on 10. I need to just... Electric cars were popular. Confirming, expanding on fact number.
Early electric cars. Tell me, tell me more. Okay.
Here's an expanded explanation. Early electric cars. Historic context.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, electric vehicles, EVs, emerged as a prominent mode of transportation. During this period, the automotive industry was in its infancy and there was no clear consensus on which type of propulsion, steam, electric or gasoline would dominate. That's hard to believe, isn't it? Urban preference.
Electric cars. Popularity and market share. Urban preference.
Electric cars were particularly popular in the urban areas. Cities had shorter travel distances and readily available electricity, making EVs convenient for daily use. Market dominance.
Around 1900, electric vehicles accounted for about one third of all vehicles on the road in the United States. In some regions, they even outsold gasoline powered cars. Is this true? Advantage... Is this true? Fact... I need to get it fact checked.
Fact check. Fact check. Because this... I don't remember electric cars being around.
The network connection was lost. Yeah, because you've been lying to me. That's why.
Fact check it. The network connection. Verifying accuracy.
That sounds like porky pies, doesn't it? What next? Like flying cars. Although flying cars do exist now, did you know that? Yeah, flying cars. Did you not know that? Yeah.
Flying cars. They are now a thing. Right, it's true.
So it's correct. Ease of operation. Accurate electric cars did not require hand cranking, unlike gasoline cars at the time.
Correct electric car motors operated almost silently. Wow. They created no exhaust emissions, low maintenance, fewer moving parts, no gear shifting.
Why on earth did we end up using that horrible gasoline and petrol? Money, baby. Money. Baker Money Vehicle.
Correct. Found in 19... Wow. So they sold over 13,000 vehicles from between 1907 to 1939.
This is a Detroit electric company. Target audience. Women drivers.
Accurate apparently. Electric cars were marketed towards women. Okay, this is what it says here.
I'm not saying this, even though it's my voice saying it. I'm just I'm just the messenger. That's what it says here.
Okay, I don't agree with anything I ever read. But apparently it's accurate because I've done double, I've fact checked. Target audience for the electric, early, the early electric cars, like 100 years ago or whatever.
Electric cars were marketed towards women. Due to their ease of use and cleanliness. Oh my goodness.
And also affluent individuals. The higher cost of electric vehicles made them more accessible to the wealthy. Wow.
Typical speeds were 15 to 20 miles an hour, with ranges of 20 to 50 miles per charge. And it's taken us a whole century to get back to that. Because of greed, basically, I would argue, possibly, because of all the money.
Why did we make ourselves so dependent upon all reserves of another nation, when we didn't need to? Or maybe we didn't, I don't know. I mean, I wonder sometimes, with solar power, if we had solar power, like solar panels, on every single roof, so every time a slate was made, every slate, when on roofs, were solar powered, would we have, would we then not have to use, would we have enough electricity for everything we needed?
I do wonder about that, you know, if all the bricks had solar panels on the outside of the bricks, and all the trees were made of solar panels, on every leaf, solar panels on the leaves, and the pavements made of solar panels, or the sidewalks, the roads, made of, all the cars, everything just had solar panels on them. But, you know, in a discreet way, not so, it didn't necessarily have to be, look like mirrors or anything.
That'd be weird. But it's like, I know it costs money to do, to start with, but if it made, if it was self-sufficiency, I mean, the whole world would benefit. Imagine we made enough so that everybody, because the sun, sun's, no one belongs, no one, well, so far, no one owns the sun.
It's here for everyone, and it shines every day. You know, it goes around the earth, doesn't it, the sun, and it's, you know, we don't necessarily get the sun all day long, because it's in Australia when the moon takes over, because it does shifts, doesn't it? So, but the sun's always working, then the moon's always working, really, but they kind of, you know, they're just pole opposites to each other.
So we, what do we do? We, the sun what goes around us, and we go around the moon, and it's just, it's just the way it works.
It's good. It's handy. Whoever invented that did quite a good job.
It seems to work okay. If we could get some kind of solar panels, even like just our shoes, or get solar panel hats, everyone walking around with solar panel hats, or solar panel jumpers, or coats, jackets, solar solar panel glasses, just so we can always like just taking in some of that energy that can then be used. Makes sense to me.
Imagine if all you had to do, if you needed to, oh, I need to heat the boiler up. But you know, instead of gas, have it, can you get electric boiler? Or is it always gas? I don't know. Is there any such thing as an electric boiler? I don't know.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But okay, let's say you want to, you want to watch television. And because this could be like a double thing, couldn't it? You could say, well, I want to watch telly, but have it connected to a treadmill.
So you had to walk. If you wanted to watch it sitting down, then you had to run for let's say half an hour for, if you wanted to watch a two hour movie, you had to run for let's say 20 minutes on the treadmill, and then you could sit down and watch the two hour movie. Or if you wanted to just to watch it while it was on, just watch it like through and without any running, you could just walk slowly, but still create enough energy for the television to run.
So that'd be the benefit, double benefit of watching the television, watching the movie, for example, but also that level of fitness. So I have the ideas. I'll move on.
Better roads favoured long distance travel suited to gasoline car. Oh, so the infrastructure was a reason why they didn't really want to have electric cars because gasoline cars were better on the roads that they had, whoever they are. Battery limitations.
Well, you know what? Okay, fair enough. At the time, there was going to be battery limitations. Also, there would be the, you know, the charging stations would have been limited, but then there wouldn't have been that many cars on the road at that time.
So over time, growing with the population of new drivers, and new cars on the road, there'd be more charging stations, places to charge. And because it was, there was money in it, they would work on creating much more advanced electric cars. Because you imagine we've got, um, what's his name? Elon Musk.
And where he is like he's, he, you know, he's got his Elon Musk cars. Tesla's. The thing is, so if we'd spent the last 100 years, 120, I say we, but if the car manufacturers spent the last 120 years working on ways of improving the electric car, can you imagine where it would be now? We probably would have been driving around, flying around in cars that last 50 years.
Because it'd be so, because they'd have been focused on that. And so just focused on gasoline and ways to basically get people to consume petrol. And they would have focused on the electric cars.
So the infrastructure would have been there because they'd have built the infrastructure. You know, I mean, I imagine what the world would be different, wouldn't it? I mean, there's a car now, I actually knew this. This is that off the top of my head now.
There's a new car that's a water fueled car. So here's different things. So it says the idea of a car that runs on water has been a subject of many claims.
But most of these have been found to be pseudoscience or fraudulent. Stanley Meyer in 95 unveiled a converted dune buggy that he claimed could run on water. He claimed to have driven over 100 miles on one gallon of tap water.
However, they found his claims to be fraudulent in 96. Electrolysis, most cars used to separate water and hydrogen. Toyota is apparently developing a water powered engine that uses electrolysis to create a self sustainable cycle.
Wow. Okay, there's a lot more about the Stanley Meyer than I realized. There's a lot of conspiracies about him.
I saw there was a car, a water powered car that's being developed. It's recently I watched it. I don't know if it was a documentary.
I had to have a break then. Because not not for me. But because Vinnie kept barking.
But it wasn't like a big loud bark. It was just just random, random barks because he could hear stuff. I don't know what but he could hear stuff.
Also readjusted where I'm sitting. So now sitting in my normal seat. Why sit on the sofa on the right side.
This is where I sit when I watch telly. It's much more comfortable. So I've moved the table closer.
So the microphone can still reach me. And this is more comfortable for Vinnie because this is how he's used to being so he can see a bit more settled. This is where he's used to sit in and lying down on this side.
So he's a lot calmer now. It's a lot more relaxing for me as well. It's amazing isn't it? Just being on the right side compared to the left side.
It feels, it feels right. It feels yummy. So back to the cars.
I'll be honest with you. I don't know the problem is because it's I know the recordings are supposed to be boring and stuff but I don't find anything particularly interesting about cars. It's just Vinnie he's still trying to find trying to get to that.
I'll tell you I'm gonna I'm gonna do a different thing. I'm gonna move from cars to so we'll start a new one. I'll ask a new one so okay give me 20 trivia facts from 2024.
No I won't do it because it's not that up to date for 2023. Okay right here we go. By the way it's not necessarily true what I come out with because it's it I mean it's nothing I mean chat GPT is one of the best ones but at the same time you know this new model is supposed to be the most accurate model one of the most accurate models in the world and I've been with chat GPT since it started being available to the public which was maybe a couple of years ago now but it is yeah so I try and find stuff.
It helps me with creating images. I still build the image myself but it helps me to create sometimes the the type of image I want part maybe some part of the image. So a bit of trivia from 2023 Twitter became X. Apparently it causes caused mass confusion as people wondered if they needed to solve what if they needed to solve for it.
To solve for it doesn't even make sense. I don't know what that means. Barbie mania the release of the movie led to a global shortage of pink paint.
For a while proven that life in plastic is indeed fantastic and monochromatic. I don't know what that means so I didn't know that or I kind of vaguely remember that not that the movie. I struggled with that movie.
Now I think it might have gone over my head a bit. I know it's popular and I've tried to watch it. I've not watched it all the way through and it's you know visually it's spectacular really lovely visual image you know the colors and the cinematography and all that stuff.
I just I don't know maybe because I never had a Barbie doll maybe I don't quite get it. I did have an action man doll but I kind of almost felt that it wasn't aiming at me that I wasn't their their main audience and I didn't I feel I felt a little bit left out by that a little bit ostracized maybe a little bit a little bit kind of no longer in the circle of movies you know and I'd like to I'd like to still be included in as part of the audience for movies new movies coming out and this I just didn't can quite get into it.
I think it's one of those movies that I'm gonna watch in a few years time and probably think wow this is amazing why didn't I like it to start with you know it could have been I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when I was watching it or my expectations were too high because of the huge publicity and for example I refused to watch Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs,
Titanic um Gladiator even the Sopranos when it started I refused to watch that stuff because I thought too hyped couldn't be bothered not watching it and every one of those movies were great great movies I could have done without Titanic to be fair I was it was more visual spectacle you know the way they made this ship and you know do all that stuff so that was and yeah certain parts of it was interesting at the time because I was there I was a young man at the time when it
came out or was it early 90s and it was a good song it was a Celine John that sung that song so I okay forget Titanic that wasn't really didn't really bother about that but also um what's it The Matrix everyone was talking about The Matrix so I purposely didn't watch it I don't care about The Matrix I wanted to watch it I loved it I even watched the third one I even watched the fourth one actually and the third one was it wasn't the best one in the series and
I didn't even want to watch the second Terminator 2 that's the one didn't watch that brilliant movie brilliant I tell you something though uh there's the Emmy Awards has just been on and it was like promoting the winners one of the winners was well there's three three winners they were talking about the first one was Reindeer I think Reindeer I've watched that it was a Netflix TV show the other two one was Shogun and the other one was The Bear and both the Shogun and The Bear are on Disney plus
and I thought okay I'll have a look at them I mean I remembered the original Shogun TV show with Richard Chamberlain and it went on forever but I liked it you know those are the days where epic TV shows would last for hours and hours and hours each episode like really like three hours per episode stuff like that four hours hundred hours per episode it was just it went on and on and on but it was a great TV show this was in the 80s the early 80s I'd say I
don't know but I'm because I think it was based on a true story about a westerner who got stranded in Japan and they he he ended up becoming a samurai or so I don't know something like that it might not be true I mean it wasn't a documentary because I just some of the scenes I didn't think they'd allow it you know with camera crew and that because it was a bit rude at times but The Bear so I thought I don't really want to watch the show Shogun again I'll
be honest I don't really want to go through that again I went through it it's like I went through it I did it it's a little bit like Breaking Bad I got through it don't really feel the need to revisit it's it's done it's it's a bit like a wedding or a holiday with your family you got through it you don't want to go back you'd be glad you you you know you're home let's just move on it's maybe it's not like that but it's just I've seen if it's the
same show then I've seen it it's going to be exactly the same as before I mean it's going to have better special effects and but I can't see visually it'll be more spectacular but to be fair as far as the script goes it was a good script it was based on the on of the very successful novel and Richard Chamberlain was in it Richard Chamberlain was a star and Richard Chamberlain was groovy bearing in mind he was in Dr Kildare in the 60s I do believe Richard Chamberlain he's 90 he's
90 wow born in 1934 he's 90 just goes to show doesn't it you learn to be a samurai and it keeps you in good stead physically doesn't it it's a it's a very healthy kind of martial arts to learn so being end up being a shogun and stuff that really helped him with his longevity education he got a bachelor's of arts in 1956 filmography the purple helmet no that's a difference not him the blimey he still made movies 2018 and he was like 103 then so he he started making movies
in 1960 secret the purple help not helmet a purple wreath and he did he was in Julius Caesar the three musketeers tower inferno four musketeers and these were huge movies the slipper and the rose he was in the swarm which was a I think that was a horror movie King Solomon's minds return of the musketeers so he came back in 1989 as Aramis wow just what oh he did a voice role for Justice League Gods and Monsters so it was a cartoon but television films okay let's move away from that television series Dr.
Kildare 1961 to 66 now for those who don't know about Dr. Kildare it was good it was I'm pretty sure it's black and white but it might be in color it was a good show I actually enjoyed it I used to watch it on I think they used to show it I wasn't alive at that time when it was on originally but I used to watch it in the early 80s and I think they used to show it in early evening time like on BBC 2 maybe channel 4 and part of the reason they showed it might have been because of the
success of Shogun but Shogun wasn't the only TV series that was huge so that was 1980 he won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Leading Actor but I remember he was in a no what are you doing he was in more than that see this is annoying me now because he was I know for a fact that he was in another big really big maybe it was a movie then a TV movie let's have a look let's go back television series television movies television films Man
in the Iron Mask I didn't know that was a television movie The Thorn Birds The Thorn Birds see why is this a TV show that was a TV show but they've got it under television films there was four episodes so it's not a film is it as a TV show and that's what I was looking for because was he in The Seagulls The Thorn Birds The Missing Years okay that was 96 there was a show right that was really really freaky that was on as a TV show and it was
let me have a look I'll always remember it because it was a blind girl or blind lady and okay movie TV show it's called something like Seagull Island there are a few shows now related to seagulls right let's have a look The Hanging Gale All at Sea Monkman and Seagulls genius guy The Hanging Gale nope All at Sea nope I'm gonna find it because I know it was absolutely freaky seriously very very freaky show and basically this bloke was well you kept you could hear what she was hearing the lady
so her world was through by hearing but you could also see what was happening which which was different from what she was hearing it's very strange um oh Seagull Island episode 1.2 wow I don't remember that Barbara oh okay I won't read it out because the plot isn't very nice it's a bit oh well that's not how I remember it very unusual never mind I won't go any further with that one because I generally what on earth's going on so flying cars approved the world's first flying I told you there's
a flying car didn't I the world's first flying car received FAA approval I don't know what FAA stands for F I know what FAA stands for here um approval so now you can complain about traffic jams in the sky too lab grown chicken a lab grown chicken meat was approved for sale in the US making chickens everywhere be a be the cyber leaf it's doing its own jokes here Apple Vision Pro Apple unveiled its Vision Pro AR I don't know what that stands for AR artificial headset for $3,499 it's the
most expensive um it's doing its own jokes here saying it's the most expensive way to walk into walls in your own home 3D printed cheesecake what 3D printed cheesecake scientists I don't know why that's even funny what scientists successfully 3D printed a cheesecake finally merging is this true this is world's oldest dog Bobby a dog who's 31 years old from Portugal became the world's oldest canine 31 blimey a Chinese zoo went viral when visitors forced thought that its sun bear was just a per just a person in a costume but
it wasn't it was actually a bear and a robot conductor led a Korean orchestra wow this is in 2023 an AI created song featuring fake goat vocals of Drake and the weekend went viral I can't remember that one I think I like the weekend but also like Tuesdays and Wednesdays Marathon pub crawl a man set a world record by visiting 67 pubs in 24 hours 67 pubs in 24 hours but the only way that would be even possible is you'd need to find a town with a lot of pubs and
that's an obvious statement you're not going to travel from town to town that only has two pubs but there are places like when I went to Ireland I lived in Carlo which is South Island Carlo Carlo town near Kilkenny or something Carlo County Carlo you go into the town and there was like pub after pub after pub after pub there was so many pubs so you could literally probably visit 10 15 pubs in like an hour if you if you just like went in and then came out went in okay
you know you wouldn't have enough time to drink anything so yeah if you did that and just kept going to another town found enough towns that had all those kinds of pubs or if you go to really really popular holiday destination I'm guessing places like Blackpool in the summer there's loads of pubs and bars that you can go into or London there's probably places where there's like so many pubs in a small area that's what I'm guessing I can't think of any other places where pubs would be like really popular
but 24 hours you could travel quite a distance in that 67 pubs I could get I think you'd get around more than 67 pubs in 24 hours I don't know why I want to do it now but it would be it just have to be very strategic but then technically you need to call them up and say look just other rules you can only go in during opening hours or can you go because you know if you can use the full 24 hours and go at three o'clock in the morning
when they're closed but the landlord lets you in you visit the pub you know I don't know what the rules are if that was a case then 67 pubs wouldn't be a huge thing to do I don't think I'm just trying to think how many pubs are there here there's none there's on the way to town from this direction going towards town is one two three four four pubs on the way to town and in town there's a pub there there's a pub there there's a pub there five six seven
calm down mate seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen so there's probably 20 pubs just in this town which you could get to in the next two hours you could visit all 20 pubs in two hours probably let's say three hours two four so see you're like already in three hours you're already done you know 30 percent yeah I might do that I might try and but do you have I mean if you have to have a drink in all all the pubs then no 67 drinks even if
it was just 67 bottles of water you'd need to walk around with a bucket and goldfish drivers scientists taught goldfish to drive a rope this has got to be just really scientists taught goldfish to drive a robotic car I don't even want to say about that electric flying taxis in Paris so Paris has tested electric flying taxis to prepare for the 2024 Olympics so this is a year ago this is 2023 so I don't know if that if that's but there are flying cars now airbag jeans a company released airbag
jeans for motorcyclists you might just have airbag everything and it must just like sit inside a big airbag with holes in for your eyes so you can see and just a little so you can get your hands out and I mean that's got to look quite weird airbags for you I suppose unless so it'll only come out if there's an there's a crash so you might as well have your whole body airbagged yeah unless the oil is out which would be quite weird to look at record-breaking push-ups an athlete did
over 3000 push-ups in one hour yeah I've seen that actually on YouTube or he did I think he did a thousand uh it wasn't in an hour but it was a thousand non-stop he did it in I think about 20 minutes half an hour something like that 3000 push-ups in one hour that is a lot I mean you think that's how many minutes in an hour so 60 60 minutes in an hour so 60 times by 10 see if you did 10 push-ups a minute that's 600 20 a minute 1000
to it so yeah 3000 you need to be doing so one a second so how many seconds in a minute 60 60 seconds in a minute and then 60 so 60 times by 60 what's that let's have a look at how 60 oh come on yeah just why are these apps I'm not interested in getting paying for an app it's a calculator why would I want to pay for a calculator times by 60 36 no 60 not 6 6 0 times by 6 0 3600 it's kind of nearly one every
like one and a half seconds something like that it's quite a lot one two yeah for a whole hour I mean yeah mate for for a minute I guess it's possible so if you did a minute and you did 60 press-ups or push-ups press-ups push-ups the same in it isn't it or push-ups oh push-ups that's pull-ups I don't know I think press-ups and push-ups so you did 60 in a minute I mean I could see how that would be possible if you rushed it you know or 50 in a minute
I mean I could probably I mean if you break it down I could do yeah I could do 10 push-ups in 10 seconds like 60 in a minute no no I mean probably could but like after a bit of training I could probably work up to it I'm pretty sure I couldn't do I don't know if I could even do 60 press-ups now I could do 30 or 40 but 60 no not without getting a little bit oh so yeah no I can do 50 because I was doing 50 yeah
I can do 50 50 push-ups without too much so I guess if I pushed it I could probably get to 80 to 100 but I would be very exhausted and possibly pull a muscle doing it so there's no point I don't need that record breaker sweat powered wearables engineers develop devices that turn sweat into electricity electricity wow yeah I've got nothing to say about that one giant rubber duck I mean in the summer bearing in mind the uh the pond that seems to it's like a pond something isn't it it's
like you know I mean the sweat can get a little bit I mean if that could produce electricity my underpants alone could probably power the whole town living um giant rubber duck tour the world's largest rubber duck tour hub Vinnie just keeps still for a second he's so he's like right left right left right love he's shaking the whole what's that are sitting on the world's largest rubber duck toured harbors worldwide confusing ducks and uh asteroid sample return nasa's osiris rex rux mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu giving earth its
first special delivery from space uh bee vaccine the first vaccine for bees was approved wow ensuring our future honey suppliers are free a safe rubber a vaccine for bees blimey I didn't even know that was a thing I can do that as well Vinnie I can just move suddenly make a whole chair just wobble and number 20 black hole aims at earth scientists found ice nice yeah that's a nice one um let's have a look okay right I've got an idea so I'm going to ask now for some podcast trivia
I just want to see what it comes up with give me some podcast trivia come on give me some podcast trivia yeah okay so origin of the term podcast the word podcast is a blend of ipod and broadcast it was first coined by journalist Ben Hamsley in 2004 in an article in The Guardian some of this might be lies but I want to read it out anyway the first podcast so the early 2000s saw the emergence of the first podcasts with pioneers like Christopher Lyndon and Adam Curry leading the way
happens in Apple's influence so in 2005 Apple added podcast support to iTunes significantly boosting the medium's popularity by making podcasts easily accessible to ipod users and now is massive growth so as of 2023 there are over 2 million active podcasts and more than 48 million podcast episodes available worldwide the most popular genres or genres include society and culture business comedy news and true crime I know true crime is a very popular thing and I've watched a couple of YouTube things on true crime and I can see why people get caught
up in it because it is I don't like it but it's interesting it's it is it's just it's quite gripping and it's like nah don't be gripped thanks global audience over 100 million people in the United States listen to at least one podcast each month and that's out of what 360 million people blimey the longest marathon podcast so this is the longest marathon podcast the record for the longest uninterrupted live broadcast podcast is over 150 hours achieved by a team from talkathon in 2016 so I'm wondering 2016 150 hours that's
quite a lot isn't it it's more than one person could do I mean technically was it 24 how many days is that 24 48 24 96 24 24 so you're looking at like yeah 150 hours like eight days solid 24 hours a day nah I don't think I'm gonna go for that great record it's not even the case of I couldn't do it because I suppose I could in a sense of if I didn't have to go anywhere I could I wouldn't be I mean I'll be asleep so you'd be
able to hear me snoring but I'd still be doing the pod you know I'd still be on the podcast audio wise but I couldn't stream live at 150 hours I don't think any I don't know anywhere where you could even do that serial phenomenon true crime podcast serial released in 2014 often credited to bringing podcasts into mainstream popularity it's weird isn't it because I've been doing podcasts since 2006 and it didn't become popular till 2014 apparently educational tool many universities offer lectures and course materials in podcast form making higher education
more accessible to the public and celebrity hosts high profile figure high profile figures like Michelle Obama Max Shepard and Oprah Winfrey have launched their own successful podcasts and of course Joe Rogan signed a deal with Spotify for over 100 million 2020 because he is the he's the top podcaster in the world and you got international podcast day wow 35th September so everyone celebrates yay I did notice actually going back to what it said earlier 2014 I noticed the podcast started to get more popular after 2014 you know especially around the
2017 you know 16 17 18 onwards seemed to sort of grow a bit more for a while multilingual content see I'm still not sure how to do that because if I could do this I only really speak this language so I don't know if people could listen to this in a different language but would it be of a different voice if it could be translated to a different voice but then it wouldn't be me then would it really but I remember someone telling me that I've got a bit of a
following in China so people got what I got I got an audience in China but they they have to log in via like a proxy like VPN because they're not allowed to they don't have access to the western internet that's what this person said I don't know so they said yeah we listen we listen to you we we we celebrate you we have statues of you no I didn't say that but that'd be so cool I'd be brilliant I'd love to go to China it's uh there's a lot of people
it'd be a bit overwhelming I think if there was too many people because I'm not great with crowds necessarily but yeah I bet you'd be be popular in such a large country you could literally I mean this has happened for some people like musicians uh was it David Hasselhoff huge music star in Germany like the number one music star I don't know if he is now but he was for quite a while and we knew him well the general public would have known him because of Knight Rider and then Baywatch
but he was a huge star as a singer in Germany so there are some people that make it really big in other countries yet they're almost unknown in their own country but who would care and basically imagine if you who is it who made it big in America before they made it big here I can't remember there's a there's an English singer or British singer that were a lot bigger in America than here before and then they came back and and now I'll tell you one uh comedian the Scottish comedian
that did the late show Craig Ferguson is it he wasn't a star here star in America and but he wasn't he was never he might have been in Scotland I don't know but he was never really like a big star in the UK or in England Vinnie will you just calm down it's been 17 hours can you calm down now please baby and I remember watching it I had a DVD of him because you know being phonetical on stand-up comedy I bought uh what was the tape recorder tape of uh
Craig Ferguson isn't it I think in like I don't know 1990 or something so let's have a look podcast advertising review in the US surpassed 1 billion 2021 uh binge listening a significant number of listeners refer to prefer to binge multiple podcast episodes in one sitting much like watching television easy entry okay starting a podcast doesn't require expensive equipment many successful podcasters begin with just a smartphone and a good idea yep and podcasting cars I wouldn't know about that because I don't drive and revival of audio dramas fictional podcasts like
Welcome to Night Vale have revived the tradition of radio dramas offering serialized and storytelling in audio form another thing that my my brother said about this list listening speed many podcast enthusiasts listen at an increased speed 1.5 times or two percent or two times to consume more content in less time my brother told me he does that so when he listens to I don't know if it's YouTube videos or audiobooks or stuff like that he listens on two times so he can I think he listens when he's on the treadmill
or on an exercise bike and he listens like twice as fast so he can listen quicker yeah it doesn't doesn't really work for me to be honest with you no I'm more I prefer slow I'm just slow that's just the way it is I don't I don't want fast I watched that program The Bear so I thought it's an Emmy Award winner I'll just watch it watch the first episode let's have a listen see what it's like I'm sure it's really good I'm sure it is but I had to turn
it off after about 15 minutes it's just too full-on it's non-stop talking talking talking talking one person talking then another person talking and I didn't know who any of the characters were didn't know why they were saying why they were what they were saying I guess you get to find out later on as the the the character develops you know but it was too a little bit too too fast paced for me it was another TV show years ago called The Thick of It or In The Thick of It which
is a comedy show about a press office I think or was it about it's either a press office or political thing and it had the one of the stars of he used to be a Doctor Who the Scottish one but he played the Doctor Who as with a Scottish accent not the Scottish Doctor Who that played with an English accent and it was a really good show and it was funny but I couldn't I couldn't keep up with it it was just too fast it was like we're like really really
super speed and I don't I can watch action movies like that but when it comes to dialogue I can't follow really fast talking just yeah can't I can sometimes but I don't find it relaxing and I sitting watching that The Bear which is set in this sandwich shop and there was nothing relaxing about watching it at all as like I mean I don't necessarily watch a movie or a TV show to be relaxed you know it's entertainment but it was just too full-on it was yeah so that's I'm going to
be giving that one a miss I mean it's a Emmy award winning so it's very popular I just it's too full-on I don't like you know The Walking Dead I love The Walking Dead but now all the the spin-off series is of The Walking Dead seem to have followed in the footsteps of the last few series or seasons of The Walking Dead original show by being mixing excitement maybe for every minute every minute of excitement there's 10 minutes of real slow dialogue and even for me that was a bit too
slow it sometimes I mean there was a mo you know some of the characters it needed to go slow because they were they were popular characters and maybe they're coming towards their end of their time on the show so it was a build-up and you know but even the new shows they just parts were good but then it's like slow again how slow can you row is it gets it just maybe they pick up I didn't watch more than like two episodes of each one and I just I think with
The Walking Dead it got to the point where The Walking Dead were no longer part of the show they weren't the most important part it's all about the humans and how the humans were actually worse than the zombies so also it's weird with a with a walking dead every time they go to a different place and meet new people they've all got a different name for the zombies like The Walking Dead and then there's the munchers, the smunchers, the nightwalkers, the strollers, the smelly ones,
the just so many different weird the crunchies different different names and isn't it weird right well I find it weird that out of all the places they go to not one person calls them zombies it you know just makes me wonder makes me wonder why why why why why why they don't call oh yeah so that's trivia Tuesday a little bit disappointing I feel a bit disappointed myself wasn't quite what I hoped for I was I wasn't expecting fireworks to go off at the end of the recording I didn't necessarily
expect to be you know the knock on the door and someone's handing me a big award an Oscar anything like that you know I didn't expect that but I mean I've enjoyed it more if Finny had just kept still and quiet just for a little while and he's looking at me like what me what have I done I've just been sitting here I haven't done anything I've just been sitting here like a good little boy what were you looking at me for what what what what do you mean what you
know what I ain't done nothing yeah you have and you're doing it right now you're looking at the fly and you're going to move suddenly and bang the settee and everyone will hear it see you're looking again all you can do is focus on that fly isn't it yep there you go oh dear well I'm going to go now oh yes so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy take care bye
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