(Short | Music) #1584 Let me bore you to sleep | Jason Newland | 1st April 2026

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

It is 7.20pm on the 1st of April. 2026. Another month! Three months in already.

I've never been so excited. Yeah, nothing else to say on that one. So it's the 1st of April.

It's got me thinking about April's. I realised, you know what? Every recording could be a Sleepy Boring Objects recording. Because that's kind of, I do tend to, not necessarily focus on just one thing, but I get very distracted.

Even if I have an idea about what I'm going to talk about, like a very rough, very rough sketch, kind of. It just might be something that happened during the day, you know? Like a spaceship landing on the roof and I think, OK, got to remember to mention that. And they're now talking about Wellington boots and visiting Wales for a holiday.

And it's like, how did I get distracted and go in that direction? I just don't know. I do like the Welsh accent. I don't know why.

There's no logic, no logic to it. No, I don't know why. I like the Welsh accent.

I like accents. Actually, I quite like, as long as I can understand what the person is saying. I do quite like different accents.

Like ones that are different from mine. I mean, technically, I don't really have an accent. I do.

It's Southern, Southern English, but UK. But at the same time, I've moved around quite a bit. Now, I definitely don't have my Newcastle twang that I used to have.

So I used to be a proper Geordie when I was about four. So I learned to speak pretty much in Newcastle. You know, I suppose I learned words and stuff before that.

But then when I started to learn, you know, to conversate with people, it was in Geordie. Then I moved to South End when I was about five. So, yeah, five and a half, I don't know, I lose track.

Apparently, when I was seven, I still had a strong Geordie accent. But then over time, it just dwindled away. And I started having, I never quite had a Suffolk accent, because I lived in Suffolk.

Don't say it too quickly. I was a Suffolker. And then I moved to London, where I was originally born.

But I lived in East London this time, instead of North London, where I was born. So I was born in Enfield. But I did notice in the fourth or fifth, probably the fourth year of high school, I realised that I wasn't talking with the same accent as my fellow compatriots at the school.

Well, not all of them. I mean, some was, there was, my friend was Scottish, and there was probably someone from Liverpool, you know, but generally, there was a standard kind of accent. And I became aware of how I sounded, kind of.

And I realised it was because my dad was London, my nan was London, my granddad was London, my, all my uncles and aunts were from London. So I guess I just, you know, from the age of seven, grew up talking like them, talking like my dad. And my step mum, she didn't really have a Suffolk accent.

She was very kind of, very well spoken. She didn't really have a, like a, a local accent because she was from Egypt. No, she wasn't.

There isn't an Egypt accent. I am from Egypt, or Albania. I am from Albania.

Switzerland. I am from Switzerland. See, some argue, some might say, well, all my accents kind of seem very similar.

But my counteraction would be like, well, you can understand what I'm saying, can't you? And I was speaking the language and you still understood. That's a talent to be able to speak a foreign language to someone who doesn't understand that language. And for them to still understand is amazing.

It's a skill, a skill I never wanted to have. So I don't know if I said only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I do have two websites, jasonnewland.com, which is the podcast website.

And I also have a store, which is jasonnewland.store, where my thousands of recordings are held, or will be held. I'm still in the process of uploading them now. I started on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep with music.

And I'm going through, I mean, blimey, I spent two days going through my archives on the hard drives trying to find all the Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings that I've done with music, five hours, 10 hours, all that stuff. It's taken forever. I still haven't finished.

But now I'm starting to upload them because I realized that organizing is great, but I still need to get them up. So I started uploading them to the store. And I'm going to do the music first, the short with music, the short audio only is already all they're all up there.

So the short with music. And I think the first one I did was about 9905. And I've got 1500.

And I don't know whatever I've got. I've got no idea how many I've done. 1583.

So this has been 1584. Today. So I did Monday's boring objects, sleepy boring objects.

Monday, Tuesday. I was going to do Trivia Tuesday, but I didn't really feel very well. I'm kind of up and down a little bit at the moment.

So I didn't feel great. Today I felt a lot better. Got some laundry done.

Got the rubbish out this morning. Yeah, I suppose yesterday I did quite a lot of stuff done. But just admin stuff, you know, the organizing on the computer.

As a little bit draining, it's just staring at computer screen. But now I'm going to take a break from that and just start uploading them as much as I can. And yeah, I'll be pleased.

When it's done, it's gonna take I'll be honest, I don't know if I'll be able to get it all done before Christmas, because there's so many. I should be able to it's not that many is there? There is a lot though. Yeah, not Christmas.

I reckon I should put a big dent in it by the end of this month. Yeah, I should have. I reckon by the end of this month, I should hopefully have all the Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings for all six versions.

You know, short without music or short, short voice only long voice only overnight voice only and then short music, long music, overnight music. So have all six of those sections completed by the end of April. That's the hope.

And I think it's more possible now because of the organizing that I've done. I spent, yeah, quite a bit of time organizing. And I did start to go through these sleepy boring objects.

But I realized that all everything so was so disorganized that I needed to start sifting through stuff. And the easiest one to sift through is to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Because I've kind of already done one section for the one short without music or short voice only.

Although there's about 12 missing, but I've done you know, eight years worth of that. So yeah, I think I'm going back to about 2022 with the ones with music. So it's not going to be all the way back to 2018.

But there'll be a few years worth. Isn't that exciting, boys and girls? And I've got a YouTube channel. In fact, someone sent me or posted a very, very, very groovy message on my Facebook on my YouTube.

Sorry. Let me have a look. Let me read it to you.

Let me read it. Yeah, you read it. Yeah.

There we go. Community. Right.

I'm going to read it out because it's nice. And this is from yayayahound1912. 11 hours ago.

I've not replied yet. But I saw a few hours ago. Jason is the modern day God of sleep hypnosis.

Most effective, more effective than a warm glass of milk. Wonderful bedtime stories, wonderful soothing voice. Wonderful soothing voice.

What a good friend or neighbor Jason would be. Love to the graphics to love the graphics hugs from across the pond. Bravo.

Thank you. And there was another one there. This is on a date.

So that was for the Monday's sleepy boring objects on Monday. And also another one was left for 1453. Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

From the same person. The best Betty by podcast hands down. I like that Betty by Jason has been my bed buddy for a long time now.

Such a kind soothing voice. hugs across the pond. Jason.

Love to Vinnie. Well, I don't know what your actual name is in real life. It might be someone that's on my Facebook group.

But thank you really appreciate those kind words. I will reply on here. What I've done the recording.

Which reminds me I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newlands boring group. So you can join if you like. Join the fun.

Yeah. And I am doing a Q&A Friday this week. Because the last two weeks, I don't think I had any questions.

Or at least last week, I didn't have any questions. Which makes me think has the as the Q&A Friday run its course? I don't know. So what I do is it's basically I've always went there.

It's basically any question you want. And it doesn't matter if it's been asked before. I get you know, a few questions that have been asked before it doesn't matter because I'm not necessarily going to answer the same way I did last time anyway.

Because my answer is going to be very much based upon it will be based upon like reality and you know, the truth and my past and how I'm feeling, but also be based on how I'm feeling there and then. So, you know, it'll be pretty good different answer every time. Maybe a similar answer, but possibly, possibly very different.

You know, I mean, in it. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna post that on while I'm speaking to you. Jason Newlands boring group on Facebook.

So I'm going to post that. Any questions for this week's Q&A Friday. Which is the I don't know what day is the third of April.

Well, dog is barking in the garden. Third of April. April.

2026. Okay. So there you go.

Any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, April 26. No, April. Third of April, sorry, blimey.

2026. I've just realized I should give it a bit of a colored background. Just to make it look a bit more groovy, you know, a bit more.

Right, that'll do the job. So there you go. And I'm going to pin it to the group is pin it save pin to features.

So I don't know why the dogs barking in the background. There has been a lot of Oh, yeah. Also appreciate any PayPal gifts.

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There's a kitchen being built downstairs in one of the flats. So the kitchen is being taken out. And I probably mentioned this on Monday.

Being turned into a wet room. So that's been pretty much full on. Not bad, but a fair bit of sound, which is set off the dog across over the fence.

And it's like that's, that's natural, isn't it? And then he's pretty good now. It doesn't really respond to the dog now. But if more than one dog barks at a time, he can't help himself.

He's like he joins in. Because, you know, for we know they are actually communicating this, you know, there's a communication there. And I might not be shouting out to each other.

Don't forget to watch EastEnders at 7.30pm. We'll get to find out the results of the court case or who knows. And then the other one I say, Oh, do you remember when Wellard was in it? EastEnders is much better than Vinnie Bichella. What do you mean Wellard? Who's Wellard? And Barney over the fence.

Wellard wasn't he that dog that, what's his name? Gaffney had. And when he was a dustman. Wellard, yeah.

And Vinnie's like, What do you mean? Why was he called Wellard? He said, Oh, it's Gaffney. Gaffney was the, he was Bianca's brother. And he just called it Wellard.

So, oh. And Vinnie said, Listen, lads, I don't think this is going to really make the cut for the podcast. It's possibly I mean, it's boring, but it's boring in a wrong way.

And, you know, I thought it'd be interesting us three dogs shouting over the fence and talking to each other and maybe brighten up the podcast. But I don't think the audience is going to want to really maybe relate to the, to Wellard. They might not even know who Wellard is.

Some of them might not even know what EastEnders is. But those that do watch EastEnders might not remember Wellard, the dog that was Bianca's brother's dog, Gaffney. He used to sweep the streets, didn't he, Gaffney? On the market stall.

That's all he did all day, just around the market stall. I think he actually worked for the market. And I miss him.

I do. What was weird, though, about Gaffney is he played a nerd. Not in a bad way, but he was, he was just like, um, he played, it was kind of, he was a nice character.

He was like a gentle character. The couldn't, you know, he's gentle and a bit. I don't want to say a wimp, because that's not fair.

But he played that kind of character. And it wasn't a character. He was like a comedy character.

He wasn't to be taken seriously in the show. And I don't think they ever really gave him anything serious to a serious role. Because he just, I don't know, he was a comedy character, really.

And he was a kid when he was in it. And then he grew up and then he left or they kicked him out or whatever. And I haven't seen him really in anything else.

I saw him a sitcom, where they were talking, he was in a sitcom and that he actually used in his real name Gaffney. And I think he might have been a Ricky Gervais thing. And then recently, there was a movie.

And it was, I forget his name, but he's someone I really like, he does a lot of martial arts and stuff in the movies. So this is an up to date movie, like this year or last year, whenever. And it's got all these good characters.

So let me get it up. I want to get it up for you. Because it's gonna bug me if I don't.

So if we go for Gaffney. Gaffney. Okay, if we go, okay, let's go to Gaffney Willard.

Okay, found it. Willard. He's a dog in 1994.

So Dean Gaffney, who played Robbie Jackson, Bianca's brother. So he was just a really nice lad. And he, you know, he's in it for Gaffney.

Oh, okay. They're talking about Willard. I was gonna say, there's different people didn't play Gaffney.

It was just only him. No one could replace him. So if you go back to Scott, Scott something, what's his name? Scott martial arts.

Okay, Scott. Scott. Scott Mills comes up for some reason.

And Scott. Action, action star. Action star.

Action star. Srah. What's a Srah? Star.

Scott, action star. Right, Scott Adkins. That's it.

Scott Adkins. Now, I like Scott Adkins. There's a few reasons I like him.

One is he's 49 years old. And I like the fact that some of these action people, I'm not talking about Arnold or Sylvester Stallone, who are like getting 80. But some of like the Jason Statham, and the, what's his name that played Kane in Batman, and they're all getting on to my age.

And I figure, actually, I just don't want to be the only heartthrob. You know, I mean, I don't want to be the only 55 year old heartthrob. So it's just nice.

And he played Boyka in the Undisputed movies. Boyka, Boyka. So there was a show, there was a film I really, really liked, which was the Avengement.

Absolutely ridiculous. It was just like, really full on. He was also in a movie recently called Prisoner of War.

So I liked that. It was good. And The Rip.

The Rip. Right. Take cover.

Where's the movie? All right, I think that's the one. It's all right. No, that's not the one.

Diablo. Diablo. How many movies does he make a year? This is ridiculous.

That's absolutely day of reckoning. No, Diablo. He was in John Wick 4 as well.

The Killer's Game. Oh, I don't think I've watched that all the way through. Take cover.

He's really good anyway. I really like him. He's funny.

Prisoner of War is a good movie, actually, I thought. Reckless. I reckon.

Oh, anyway, I can't find the movie offhand. One more shot. One more shot.

Okay. Some of these titles of the movie are the same. Where you've got the same name, but a completely different movie, which is weird.

Day of Reckoning. I wonder if that's it. No.

No, it's not. That's very, very strange. Strange.

Very, very strange indeed. Why is that not coming up? I'm confused. Very, very confused.

But anyway, it basically he's. I'm not sure it's got some like good characters in there. There's Scott Adkins and he's basically on the run with.

Okay. I think I found it. It is.

Okay. Diablo. Diablo.

Take cover. I think it was take cover. No, or it might be.

Is it take cover? Why is it so hard to just find a name? The thing is, he makes so many movies. He literally did like one a week. It's ridiculous.

I mean, the last one, two, three, four, four in 2026, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, 2025. One, two, three, four in 2024. Two in 2023.

One, two, three in 2022. 2021, one, two. 2020.

One, two, three, four, five. Blimey. 2019.

One, two, three, four. So he's in quite a few of the like martial art movies, like it man. And there's another one wasn't there.

Where is it? Yeah. Quite a few different ones. So I seem to have lost.

That's really strange. Diablo. Yeah.

Anyway, Gaffney plays a hard plays like a the head is like a mobster. And Gaffney plays the probably the next one up. He was like the mobsters security.

You know, he controls all the all the I don't know, you know, I mean, like a second in charge. And it's Gaffney. And I got nothing against Gaffney.

You know, personally, I just found it very funny. Because it just it didn't fit the character. I've never seen him in a role like that before.

And but it's kind of strange. If you look at Hugh Grant. Who's known that Hugh Grant could pull off playing a really, really bad guy.

Based on how he used to be 30 years ago. A little bumbling, like, oh, like Boris Johnson type of cheeky, chappy, saying the wrong thing. You know, except, you know, about destroying the economy.

But it's, it was just really it wasn't really like the idea of him being a I don't know. He's reinvented himself. I don't know if anyone knows this.

There's some movies that if you haven't seen any of Hugh Grant's movies lately. I've got a couple I can recommend to you. Because he's really changed it around.

He's not. Yeah, he's not how he used to be in his movies. And he's, he's kind of taken on a different persona.

I mean, a couple of them are fairly similar personas in a couple of the movies, but he was arrested in 1995. Apparently, he's Divine Brown. That sucks.

So let's have a look. Filmography. I don't know if Hugh Grant in the 90s was more famous for being in four weddings and a funeral, or being with Liz Hurley.

Because she was, I don't know about in America, but she was a she was such a big massive star in this country. She was like the most famous woman outside of Princess Diana really in this country at the time. Morris, White Mischief.

Right, so let's go down. So you've got the all the ones that are remembered that would remember like four weddings and a funeral. The other big ones that he was like, because that really made I guess, made him a huge star.

Nine months. I don't know that one. Notting Hill.

Another one that was like huge, very funny as well. Huge hit. Bridget Jones's diary.

Again, huge hit in in the UK. I don't know about other countries. But then you got about a boy I remember that.

Then you got Love Actually. Another huge, massive, massive hit. Ironically, Love Actually.

Notting Hill and Nine Days and a Funeral, whatever it's called. Four Weddings and a Funeral all written by the same person. I do believe so.

But then you got this period when he didn't, he did all that he did the Bridget Jones's movies. And I'm sure he did lots of really great movies that people loved. But I never really seen him in much.

It was in Paddington 2. Paddington 2 was 2017. Can you believe that? That doesn't even make sense. The thing is, Four Weddings was 94.

And then 2000, 2010. He did a few like Bridget Jones, Love Actually about yeah. Then the 2000 teens.

He did. Okay, well, yeah. So yeah, still been going.

But The Gentleman. That's when he changed. That's when I. The character.

That's when I realized that he is actually a character actor. And he didn't seem to be. It seemed like he was playing the same character.

You know, The Gentleman, very different character. And he was in a movie called Heretic. Is that the one? Yeah, Heretic.

Wow. So if you've not seen The Gentleman, 2019. Worth a watch just for his character.

Also, Heretic, which is 2024. Yeah, I don't want to spoil the film, but it's really worth watching just for his. He is.

Yeah. He reinvented himself. Very, very, very good actor.

Bridget. He's also in Bridget Jones's Mad About The Boy, 2025. Daniel Cleaver.

Bridget Jones. When was the last Bridget Jones one? 2004. That was the last one.

So basically, 21 years. Bridget Jones's Diary, and then Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason was the second one. So the diary was 2001.

I thought there was three originally, and then the fourth one. Scientists. No, that's it.

Unless he wasn't in that. Wasn't there another Bridget Jones movie? The Bridget Jones film series. No, come back, come back, come back.

I'm sure there was four movies. The first film was a success at the box office and was met with praise from critics. That's not me saying it is.

Wikipedia. And the second film received a mixed negative reception, but was commercially successful. The third film was met with both critical and commercial success.

And the fourth film was theatrically released in most markets. It relieves so. Okay, right.

So the first one, Bridget Jones's Diary, the second one, Edge of Reason, and the fourth one. What's his name in it? Hugh Grant. But he's not in.

He's not in the third one. Wonder why not? Why is he not in the third one? What did he do wrong? Was he busy? He might have been busy. He might have been.

You don't know he wasn't. He might have been. He might have been doing something else.

You can't always expect him to be your beck and call. You know, just because he's an actor, a famous actor, he still has other things to do. You might want to go for a little drive around LA.

You know, suck up the air and just chill out. Maybe park up, have a chat to some, you know, people standing on the sidewalk. You know, he might just be chilling out and maybe someone offers, you know, asks him for a lift and he gets, you know, gives him a lift and suddenly the police stop him and like, what's going on? No, it's not Divine this time.

It's someone else. He was really famous in America because that was a big deal, wasn't it? That was a big story. Patrick Dempsey, who was in, there's too many, you know, I started watching, oh man, I started watching Haunting on the Hill House or in the Hill House yesterday.

Yesterday. I'm not sure if I'm going to revisit it. I did one, one episode and it's like, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. James Andrews.

Wow, all these people. Jim Broadbent. He's a weird actor.

Not weird, but Jim Broadbent. He played basically in Only Fools and Horses. He played well, ironically, a bent copper.

So he was a bit of a dodgy police, always looking. And I think he, I think he set Del Boy up years earlier and then he, and it turned out he was, was it he was married to Del Boy's new girlfriend or used to be married or something like that. So, and he comes and he apologizes and all that.

I don't know. I can't remember exactly, but he wasn't like a big part of the show. He was in a couple of episodes.

Then he went on and he was in so many movies. Such a good actor, like really great actor. I think he's not sure if he's won any Oscars, but he's definitely won lots of awards.

I'm making that up, but it sounds like it could be true. Let's have a look. Accolades, Accolades.

He's 77, so he's still young. 77, personal life. He's been married since 1987.

Awards and honours list. Okay, here we go. Academy Awards, best supporting actor.

He won for Iris. So that's the Oscars, isn't it? I don't know why they just call it an Oscar. Choose one, Academy Awards or Oscars.

Why, you know, just, just one, because I find that confusing, even though I know they're both the same thing. I still find it confusing. Is it the Academy Awards or is it the Oscars? Now, I bet you some people also might think, oh, I thought it was two different things.

No, it's the same thing. Oscars, so he's won an Oscar. You win an Oscar, which is the statue, isn't it? But it's also called an Academy Award.

So he got best supporting actor for Iris. I remember my Nan really wanted to watch that movie. Which she did.

She was really interested in it. I don't know why, because I think the subject matter was something because, did, did Judi Dench win an Oscar for that? I wonder. Reception Awards, best actress.

Right, Judi Dench was nominated. She didn't win, but George, Jim Broadbent, Broadbent did. Best supporting actress, Kate Winslet, she nominated.

So that was for the Academy Awards or the Oscars. The Oscars, Award Circuit Community Awards, Berlin International Film Festival. He won the net new tap.

Oh, my goodness. Now that's Hugh Bonneville. It's going to say George, Jim Broadbent, he wouldn't get new talent awarded.

He's he's 300 years old. Best actress in a leading role. So for the British Academy Film Awards.

They call them BAFTAs. But it should be BAFFA, shouldn't it? Not BAFTAs. British Academy Film Awards.

B A F A. There's no T there. So what do they call it, the BAFTAs then? Now some, some people might think I'm being pedantic, but I promise you I don't, I don't do anything I can't spell. Best actress in a leading role, Judi Dench, she won a BAFTA.

It just shows you that not all BAFTAs are necessarily going to lead to an Oscar. Sometimes they do, like the same person would win an Oscar, but I don't know who won. I don't know who won the Oscars this year.

Yeah, I'm not sure because there's a bit of a who-ho, wasn't there? So, sorry, I was trying to stop myself from laughing. BAFTAs, British Academy Awards. Best film.

Is that this year? Right, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. That's confusing. Ah, okay.

Oh, this is how many nominators, nominations there's been in the British Academy Film Awards. And there's been 55 so far, 55 awards. This is how many films and how many nominations they got and how many they were awarded.

Oh, okay. So nominations, Lord of the Rings. This was The Fellowship of the Ring, whichever one that was, those movies.

I literally, there was a mirror just underneath the TV that I had. And I could actually see my beard growing while I was watching that movie. It went on forever and ever.

It's still playing now. The first movie still hasn't finished playing. And I started watching it in what, 2001? It's the longest movie in the history.

It literally should have been called a never-ending movie. So long. And I've never really enjoyed really, really, really, really long films.

And I have to take a break after an hour or two, I have to take a break. Three, four hours. I can't sit there for that long.

It's, it's just too long. Need a potty break or something, you know, just, just got 12 nominations as well as the Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring. 12 nominations.

I never watched that. Is it any good? The next two movies got nine nominations when they were first released. These are BAFTAs.

Amelie and Gosford Park. So what, how many awards did it win? Lord of the Rings won four. Moulin Rouge, Moulin Rouge won three.

Amelie won two. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone nominated for seven, won zero. Iris nominated for six.

Got one, didn't it? Because it got broadband. No, Judi Dench. So this is, yeah, the ones that received multiple awards is only listed.

A Beautiful Mind, they got two awards. Shrek, Bridget Jones's Diary, Blackhawk Down. So they were nominated five, four, three.

In the Bedroom, Mulholland Drive, The Others, Planet of the Apes and The Shipping News got two nominations. And The Others, great movie. Great movie.

I've just really, yeah, it's for me, it's up there with, um, what, Bruce's Willis won the, is it the sixth, the fifth element? No, what was it called? The Bruce, Bruce Willis won, um, oh, did he do that before Pulp Fiction or afterwards? Because I think back to Bruce Willis, because you think about it, yeah, Bruce Willis is Bruce, up in Bruce, I wonder if Bruce Willis comes up at the top.

Bruce Lee, Bruce, and then Bruce Lee, Bruce Willis, Willis. Here we go.

Willy Baby. He's 71. That's all he is.

I want to look at his movies. Let's have a look at his movies. He's got his political views.

Who cares about his political views? It's like, who cares? Does he put his milk into his tea before, before the hot water or after the hot water? How many times does he shake a tea bag before he's ready to drink it? It's like, why? Why is that even valid? I don't know. Is he political? Which sock does he put on first? Does he check it? Does he check that it's still clean?

I don't know. Religious beliefs.

What's he got to do with anyone? It's no one's business, but his. Right, let's have a look. Where is it? He's Ashton Kutcher's dad, isn't he? So, where's his movies? I really want to see his movies.

I'll just remember what I really liked. He's made a lot of movies that I've liked over the years. He really has.

And that's no lie. Bruce Willis, come on. There's a lot about him.

He's been around a long time, hasn't he? Why is he not letting me see? He's got a list of his movies. Come on. Come on there.

Come on then. Come on. Stop messing about.

Where's the list of his movies? Career, career, career, career. Because normally on Wikipedia it lists some and then I'll have a link to all of his bibliography or his movies he's been in. But it's not on here.

And I don't believe that to be true, because there must be. Because he's been around so blong. Blimming long.

There's even a Lego movie. Right, this is annoying now, because I can't find a list of his movies. Oh, here we go.

Bruce Willis filmography, right at the bottom of the page. I'm going to go through the Bruce Willis movies that I liked. In fact, should I go through the TV first? Because that was when I first discovered him.

I don't think he did a huge amount of TV, but maybe he did. Oh, he was in Miami Vice. Did you know that? He played Tommy Amato.

Tommy Tomato. So, Moonlighting, 1985 to 89. Loved that show.

Loved it. I love, love, love, love, love, loved it. It was funny.

Him and Cybill Shepherd. He couldn't get a better mix, like chemistry wise, I think for on screen. I suppose you I mean, apart from like, maybe thinking about it.

Sam out of Cheers, and Diana, Diana, Diana. So him and Diana, Sam and Diana in Cheers, that chemistry and that screen magic that they had. And then I mean, Rebecca was great.

She was brilliant in her own way. But because it wasn't really, it wasn't romantic, was it between him and between her and Sam? It was her him trying to be romantic, but then it was really, she was this very, very much different character. And I was, I would argue, she almost became the star of the show in a way.

Above Sam, because she was such a strong character in the show. And but in like the later, the later days, the later seasons. Yeah, they did.

A lot of the scripts did follow her. And I don't know. But anyway, that was the Sam Diana was definitely good screen chemistry.

And I think moonlighting that was amazing on that one as well. Although I did struggle a little bit to follow it because it was two people talking at the same time. But it was still great.

I loved it. I love the wackiness of it. It was just I don't know, it was like Miami Vice again.

I know he was in one episode of that, but I loved Miami Vice. It was something about those times, the middle 80s, where the programs coming out of America, the TV shows were very stylish. Like everything was, you know, Miami Vice was everything was stylish and they were wearing designer clothes and Don, Don, Don, what was his name? Anyway, like the both of them, they were just like icons, weren't they?

For style.

And then moonlighting, again, everything was kind of really upbeat show. It was very kind of I don't know. So I'm not sure what I'm trying to say.

I don't know. But I liked it. That's basically what was the return of Bruno was the return of Bruno and HBO special.

So mockumentary stars Bruce Willis as his fictional alter ego, Bruno Rodolini, a legendary blues singer musician, who influenced as a story goes, a number of other famous musicians. Never even heard of it. I probably watched it.

But I forgot it. Wow. So he's been Bruno the kid.

Return of Bruno, Bruno the Kid, Mad About You, Ali McBeal, Friends, he was in three episodes of Friends, Touching Evil 2004, executive producer 12 episodes. So he didn't star in it, but he executively produced it. Right.

So we go to his movies. So really out of all that it was only really like the, you know, the one thing that I would really have him remembered for would be Moonlighting, personally myself, although he was in other stuff as well. But just like guest appearances and things.

So the movies, 1980. The Verdict. Wow.

Because his first movie after being a star on TV was Blind Date. And I remember watching that. And he.

Oh, Kim Basinger, Basinger, Basinger. But it was, I think it was very directed by Blake Edwards. Do you know? It's weird.

I've got this information in my head. Do you know who Blake Edwards was? I say was, I hope he's still around, but you know what he directed? Do you want to tell you? I'll click on his name. Right.

He's, yeah, he left us in 2010, aged 88. Do you know what he did, Blake Edwards? Breakfast at Tiffany's. So that was, that was his big one.

That was the big one that, it's not the first one, Operation Petticoat, 1959. Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961. So he directed these movies.

And then Days of Wine and Roses, 62. This is the one that I remember him for. I didn't know about the others.

The Pink Panther films. So he did five of the films involving Edwards and Sellers in original material. So he basically, so the Pink Panther directed by Blake Edwards.

I don't know who wrote it. I don't know. So Blake Edwards, who did arguably some of the greatest comedy movies at the time, Pink Panther movies, also did Blind Date for Bruce Willis.

I don't know if it was a hit. I think it must've been a hit, surely. Yeah, it was.

It budget was 16 million and they got 39.3. And he did have some songs out, didn't he? Under the Boardwalk. Under the Boardwalk. So that was the 80s as well.

I do remember. I'm pretty sure. Music videos.

Music video, Respect Yourself and Stylo. Music video, See or So. Music video.

Why is it Broadway? He did Broadway as well. Wow. I didn't know that.

That's very surprising to me. Okay, here we go. So I'm going to go through the movies that I liked that he's done.

I like Blind Date. That's the first movie that I've seen. I don't know of his, but that was after, you know, the TV show that he did.

Sunset, I don't remember. The obvious Die Hard 1988. I think is going to be the thing that he'll be remembered for.

Just it's etched, isn't it, in the history of cinema, I guess. And they spent between 25 and 35 million making it and made up to 141.5 million, which was a fair amount back then. And it turned into a Christmas movie and it never was a Christmas movie.

It's a weird, isn't it? But then The Wizard of Oz was never a Christmas movie, but that turned into one, didn't it? It's a Wonderful Life. I mean, my favorite movie of all time, by the way, so I'm not having to go here. But technically, it's not really about Christmas.

It does have the Old Land Vine song thing at the end. And, you know, there's a Christmas tree and it is kind of Christmas time. And as I said, I love that movie.

Love, love, love it. No other movie is important to me as that one. Just love it, the meaning of it and everything.

I remember I watched it for the very first time in 1987 and I came over it by accident. I said, my little black and white TV in my room, living above the co-op shop, renting off the manager. She had the flat and she's rented a room to me.

And it was a Saturday afternoon, I'm pretty sure, or maybe it was a Sunday, probably a Sunday afternoon, actually. And I was just watching it. And I think I just, it started literally just as I turned the TV on.

And I was, I was engorged watching it. Wrong word. I was absolutely engaged with the whole thing.

And relax. I was engaged, completely enthralled with the film, never heard of it before. And it became my all time favourite movie.

I still love the Wizard of Oz. I do wish that. I don't know that something, I kind of wish it could have been remade.

I realise we've got Wicked and stuff. But I don't know, maybe I need to watch it again. Wicked and wow, what a voice.

What's her name's got? A phenomenal voice. It's just, I'd quite like to see the Wizard of Oz with all the same songs. And I guess it's gonna have to be a different actor now, isn't it? Compared to what it, because she's not around anymore.

But, but with all this, I suppose the special effects, but there wasn't a huge amount of special effects really needed, was there? I mean, there was the lightning from her fingernails, and there was the flying monkeys and stuff. So I mean, that was perfectly done anyway. So you can hardly see the strings unless you really look close.

I just, and if you know, if you watch the screen, you can, it's such a great movie. I love it. I just love that, that point where Dorothy opens the door from like black and white to Technicolor.

And imagine how amazing that would have been in the movies, on a movie screen, for people used to watching movies in black and white. And I do wonder, did they know that that was going to happen? Because if you didn't know, but they probably would have done, because it was like, in Technicolor, they would have advertised it like that to get people to go, wouldn't they? So maybe people were watching it thinking, this isn't Technicolor, this is black and white.

Doris, can you see the screen? Is it black and white or Technicolor? It's black and white, Bob.

Oh. But I thought it was going to be Technicolor. So did I. Doris, I thought it was going to be Technicolor, not black and white.

What is Steve? Do you look at the screen? Does it look all right to you? What do you mean? I can't do, I'm sorry, I can't do. I'm going silly now, I'm going to stop. What do you mean? Is the color, is the screen right? Is it black and white? I'm busy, leave me alone.

I'm doing a jigsaw puzzle. Sunset Die Hard, so in the country, I don't remember that. Look who's talking, 1989.

So this is something that I found annoying, right? No, actually, forget it. Well, a little bit. Okay.

Look who's talking. How many of these? Yeah, these are my favorite movies. So, I don't even remember Blind Date, really.

I know it's a bit chaotic. Die Hard. Yep.

Look who's talking. Yeah, I like those movies when they came out. I'm not bothered about watching them now, but at the time, I liked them.

So, Die Hard 2, yep. Look who's talking too. I'm pretty sure the, is it, it was a big thing, wasn't it, about the baby having the voice of Roseanne.

So, I remember that a bit. Bonfire of the Vanities. What is that about? It's a black comedy.

Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith. I did watch it, but I don't remember what it's about. And then Hudson Hawk.

Hudson Hawk. What was that about? Catch, this is the poster. Catch the excitement.

Catch the adventure. Catch the Hawk. Bruce Willis.

Hudson Hawk. You can tell that it wasn't going to be a big, for some reason, just, I don't know why, it looks a bit naff. It did, it made a profit.

But, was it a good movie, mate? I just don't have a memory of it being a good movie. I also co-wrote the movie. I'll leave it alone then.

Had a lot of famous people in it. James Coburn, Andy McDowell, Danny Areola, Lorraine Twaswant, Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernhardt. Oh, actually, thinking back, I think it was a good movie.

It's like a comedy. I'm going to have to check it out, because I'm going in a different direction now. I think it might have been good.

Billy Bathgate, I don't remember. The Last Boy Scout. Is that when he's going in between two different gangs? Like in the West, but there's two different gangs fighting each other, and he's kind of in the middle.

Let me see. It's not, at all, is it? It's a washed-up private detective who teams up with a disgraced former football star, Wayans, to uncover political blah blah blah. Okay.

So, I don't remember that one, really. The Player, Death Becomes Us. That was one of my favourites that he did.

Really, really funny. Funny movie. Starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini.

Rossellini? Rossellini. That's a good movie. Very funny.

Funny movie. So, that's one of my favourite ones of his. Loaded Weapon 1. I've got no idea.

He played John McLean in Loaded Weapon 1. Is that a spoof? It is a spoof, isn't it? So, that's one of my favourite movies of all time. Striking Distance, and then Pulp Fiction. See, some people sort of go, oh, it re-pushed his career.

Like, Pulp Fiction was such a huge success, that he kind of reinvented himself, and he was suddenly a big star again. He was already a big star. I mean, Death Becomes Us was only two years earlier, and that was a big hit.

Pulp Fiction was, blimey, it was huge. 8.5 million budget, 213.9 million at the box office. That's without all the videos and stuff, I guess, afterwards.

So, the continued die-hard movies. I watched all of them. 12 Monkeys.

I was a little bit confused by that one, to be honest. What's going on? Where's all the monkeys? Last Man Standing. That's the one I was thinking about.

A neo-western action film. That was a good movie. A really good movie, and it made a loss at the box office.

I don't know why. It was, yeah, it was Reception. It was a box office bomb, grossing 18.1 million domestically, against a 67 million budget.

I thought it was good, but, you know, what do I know? But then I wasn't really into the fifth element, and I think that was a big, big hit, wasn't it? So, I wasn't really into the fifth element. Just wasn't really, yeah, I don't know what it was. It just didn't, yeah, you know what I mean? Armageddon.

I mean, he's going to be, that's going to be the, that was such a big movie, wasn't it? I mean, not only the movie itself, but the music. Yeah, great, great movie. Great movie.

So, yeah, they had loads of famous people in it as well. So, that's one of my favorites that he did, but I've not seen it for years, and I don't know if it's because I know what's going to happen. Like, some movies I don't see for decades, maybe, and I watch it, I think, wow, like, I forgot that bit.

You know, I don't remember the house blowing off and suddenly landing in Oz. Okay, that's not a good example, because I do remember that one. But, I don't want to spoil some of the movies, but there's some movies that I can't watch anymore.

Simply because, just, I don't know, where's the one that he was in that is probably one of my favorite movies he ever did? Where is it? It's disappeared. Unless it was the 2000s. The whole nine yards.

No, not my thing. Unbreakable, Grand Champ, The Crocodile Hunter, Collision Course. No.

Charlie's Angels. No. The whole 10 yards.

No. The whole nine yards. So, he played it.

They did another one. The first one was so, the first one was so rubbish, they made a second one. 41 million, the box, yeah, the budget was 41 and they made 106.

I would say that's more to do with Matthew Perry, no offense, but Matthew Perry was like massive star, wasn't he back then? So, that's, that was, I think that was his first, was that his first movie? The Bandit's Heart's War, Tears of the Sun, I've got no idea. Rugrats Go Wild, he was in Charlie's Angels. Ocean 12, he's just a cameo.

Sin City, yep. See, these standout movies, to me, personally, the standout, I guess that's what I call standout movies, but the ones that really stand out for Bruce Willis, for me, is Die Hard. I wouldn't include Lacoose Talking, although it was a huge hit, but I'm going to say, and it was only a voice role anyway, wasn't it? So, Die Hard, I say only a voice role, I mean basically it was, the whole thing was about the voice, wasn't it?

What are you talking about? So, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, that really, Death Becomes Her, so that's another one that really stands out, Pulp Fiction.

So, if we go for the ones that are really like huge standout movies, for me, with Bruce Willis, it would be, I guess obvious really, but if I can go back to it, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, all the Die Hard movies, but Pulp Fiction, Die Hard the first one in Pulp Fiction, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, just have a look, Sin City, these the movies that really stand out to me, Sin City, I don't know if he was in the second one, I don't know if he was in the second, I'm going down to Sin City, it's such a great movie, Sin City, both of them actually, Red, a surprisingly good movie, I couldn't believe how good it was.

I thought it was just going to be a, well, I didn't think it was going to be very good, really, really good movie, and it's a box office success as well, so I'm pleased for him for that.

Red 2 as well, so I think I've watched both of those, Sin City 2, so he was in both of those, I do believe that's kind of it, although, no, he was also in a really, he was in Glass, that's another one that he was really good in, but really, really good, and he replayed the same character in, where is it, where is it, because there was three movies, two, Glass and another one, and then he, where is it, Split, uncredited cameo, okay, so it's in Glass, David Dunn,

and then he was David Dunn one last time, I was in, he was in the very first one, wasn't he, David Dunn, where are you, David Dunn, David, David, David, David, David, David Dunn, I thought he was in the first one, because he played basically indestructible, oh that's very strange, David Dunn, so he played in Split 2016, he also did a particularly good job of Death Wish as well actually, Glass, again, he was in that, but what's the third one, because there was a final movie with all three of them in it,

and I can't blimmin hecky find it, wrong place, Snipers, Deadlock, right, I'm going to have to find, so if I go back to David Dunn, David Dunn, so he's in Unbreakable, so why could I not find Unbreakable then, Unbreakable, I'll probably find it now I'm looking, the thing is, just because I'm on Wikipedia, doesn't mean it's going to be on here, you know what I mean, David Dunn, David Dunn, David, David, David, I'm pretty sure Unbreakable was the very first one out of the movies that he was in,

it definitely wasn't like a long time before, I'm pretty sure, because 2018 was Glass, and that had, what's his name, who was the opposite to Unbreakable, and then you had Split, and right, I'm going to go back to it now, so it's a fictional superhero protagonist, this is David Dunn, in M.

Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable film series, Dunn is a former college football prodigy and security guard, who discovers he has superhuman abilities, he doesn't really discover that, he just discovers that he keeps, oh Glass is the last one, so basically he's Unbreakable, but he just has, he's never been, never had an injury or been ill his whole life, and he was a survivor of a major event, and this professor wanted to sort of, trying to figure out why he's like that, because he's the opposite, if he just, if he, I don't know,

if he trips over, his head falls off, you know, and he just, it's so, very kind of, the opposite to Unbreakable, and, but he has powers, all right, he has a, oh Unbreakable, so I'm just going to look at the, what about, okay, I'll go back to the series, so it's three, Glass, Split is a different, so Glass brings all three together, and Samuel L Jackson is like the professor bloke, that's in a wheelchair, and he can't, he basically, he's very, you know, he's very sensitive, and you've got Bruce Willis,

that's Unbreakable, and then you've got, what's his name, James McEvoy, who is, I'm not really sure what he is, he's a mixture, he's definitely a mixture of people, and the way they do it though, is, you know, that introduction saying he's a superhuman, superhero, superhuman strength, or whatever, they don't show that until the last movie, what they show is two people, the first two movies, Unbreakable and Split, they show as two people with very remarkable conditions, one potentially being just really, really lucky, and the other person being severely disturbed,

and then the third one, it brings it all together, and it's almost like they've all kind of got superpowers, it's really good, but the point I was trying to make, there was a, there was a point for what I was saying, he's done a lot of movies, I really, really, really like, he's made a lot of movies, but some that just really stand out, like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Unbreakable, and the one, what is it, the fifth element, Pulp Fiction, yeah, and Die Hard, I mean out of those, Die Hard,

it was that character that he played in a few movies, he played, yeah, he played the, like, what's his name in three of the movies as well, Unbreakable, and Split, and Glass, so he played the same character there, Look Who's Talking, he played the voice, didn't he, of the kid in those two movies, you've got no idea who, Look Who's Talking, wait a minute, Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking, the thing is, right, this is what I'm thinking about, because it's John Travolta, and Bruce Willis, how weird is this,

Bruce Willis isn't even the star of the movie, go figure, it's got him as right at the bottom, everyone else is a star, because he was just the voice, but he was the star, wasn't he, but obviously John Travolta and Kirstie Alley was like the actual star stars, but that's another thing with, I remember the, when John Travolta, when Pulp Fiction came out, they were talking about, oh, it's giving John Travolta some success for the first time in years, you know, he's now got his career back, and I'm thinking, oh,

wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, okay, you've got, when was, when was that, when was Pulp Fiction, 1994, right, 1994, and it's the first time he'd received an Academy Award nomination, and they're saying that his career was revived, I mean, he did get some really good movies after that, big, massive movies, but in 1990, he was in Look Who's Talking 2, which was a huge hit, and then Look Who's Talking Now, so Look Who's Talking, and Look Who's Talking 2, which was a big hit as well,

and then Look Who's Talking Now, I don't know if anyone watched that one, yeah, 22 million budget, 10 million, well no, okay, wasn't such a hit, but it's only a couple of years, it's only a couple of, I loved what happened to him after the Pulp Fiction, some of my favourite movies he did, I didn't bother with Broken Arrow, but Get Shorty was great, phenomenon, loved that movie, and Michael, other than Grease, they were my favourite movies he was ever in, like that little period, Phenomenon, Michael, and Pulp Fiction,

and Grease, those four movies were my favourite John Travolta movies, because just Get Shorty was really good as well, so it's, but I just loved Michael and Phenomenon, there's, I don't know, there's something about it, and he did those like 96 in the same year, there was just, yeah, suddenly, it's almost like the really good movie writers decided to offer him the scripts, and those movies were so different from what he'd done before, I don't think he'd ever played an archangel before, and Phenomenon, I just loved it, but on that note,

I'm going to get myself some foodie woodie, because the weird thing about this time of year, having the clocks being put forward or back or whatever, is it's still light outside, and it's nearly seven o'clock, it's still light, and it gives the illusion of it being earlier, earlier than it is, although seven o'clock is not late is it, but just gives the illusion, bit of an illusion, so I'm going to get myself some din-dins, so I'm going to have a pie, I'm going to have some fries or something,

and if I've got some, I'm going to have some beans, some beans, yes, so thank you for listening, remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy, and be gentle with yourself, you deserve to feel safe, lots of love, bye