Matt in Burnley says, Will Andy Burnham's 1970s approach to economics lead to 1970s inflation? Matthew Lawrence.

So I think what can we distill of Andy Burnham's approach to economics? I think there are three things he's set out.

First of all, tackling the cost of living crisis.

Now, there's no single lever we can pull to do that.

It's the work of many hands, many reforms.

But getting on top of that is not just, as I said earlier, a sort of political offer to the public who are really squeezed, but it also helps contain inflation.

The second thing is pushing power out of Whitehall, so to the great towns and cities of Britain.

Matthew Lawrence, of course, Andy Burnham used to be in favour of privatisation, didn't he? He privatised a hospital.

Wh- what did you make of the speech today, and what, how did it sort of fit into your understanding of Andy Burnham's economic thinking?

So I think it had a clarity of vision, values, and a program, a sense of what he will actually do, and I think this is the thing.

I think you can really tell what his priorities are.

First of all, a clear sense of action on the cost of living, this sense of giving people a breathing space.

We'll see the details tomorrow.

It will be fully funded.

But there's a clear intent to provide families and businesses with relief from pressure on core costs.

Give us one big idea you'd like him to, to lay out this week.

Now, Shetland was traditionally treeless, wasn't it? But I think that's changing.

Yeah, I mean, the Vikings had a lot to do with that because they...

I mean, the Vikings, when they were not sort of being part-time marauders, they were actually farmers, so they chopped down a lot of the trees in Shetland to build houses and stuff.

I've got about seven trees in my garden that I planted when I first moved in.

OK. And... who, like, make an effort to plant trees and shrubs, you know, that will survive, because we are inside the Arctic Circle, after all.

Where I live in Got, the worst thing is that in winter, I mean, we have a weather system of our own, and it goes down to, like, minus 10, and... have really thick ice on the pavements or a huge snowfall.

And working for the NHS, we have what are called snow days, where you literally have to ring up your supervisor at sort of half six in the morning and say, I'm terribly sorry, but I won't be able to get in today because I can't get my sledge working.

So how did you... end up in Shetland with your family in the first place.

Um, who regulates it, and is it regulated different in different countries?

countries?Yes.

Um, so, uh, well, let-- again, I can-- I'm, I'm a bungee jumping expert, um, and, and I don't, I, I don't-- I'm not an expert at rope jumping.

But, um, my understanding is that ro-rope jumping being, being a fairly new activity is not highly regulated.

I have no knowledge of any safety standards that exist out there for, for that.

There are many safety standards for bungee jumping.

Um, depending on which jurisdiction you are in, uh, you'll be using w- uh, you know, one or the other.

When you look at it, are there any red flags that pop out to you?

Are there case studies which suggest otherwise?

Sure, yeah.

I mean, I think one can look at Britain's own past and contemporary peer economies in which public infrastructure is that foundation that then allows more dynamic economy to be built on top of it, peer economies that are richer and more equal than Britain.

So I mentioned it briefly before, but the track record of building out at speed and cost control and distributionally fairer- Because the costs were recouped through progressive taxation, not just on bills.

You know, infrastructure is very regressively funded at the moment.

You know, we- essentially a poll tax that we all pay the same amount regardless of income.

The public energy sector, both municipal and national, built an extraordinary scale and speed, transformed the country, massive modernization project.

[laughs] But, uh, so it's, you know, what he does will be interesting to see.

So did you guys put that show together or did ABC come up with the show and around you guys? What was what was the story behind its development?

Well, okay, so Joe was coming off of Blossom.

So they were like, we want to do another show with you.

And they didn't know which way to go, whether it was going to be like a more adult skewed show or more family oriented show.

And I know my...

My brother, you know, he always, he's like Mr.

Family and Mr., you know, talk about the holidays, he's like Mr. Christmas.

Tell us about it.

That's another podcast.

I love most of you.

Anyway, I lived in a house at that time.

I shared a house, a huge house on Mulholland Drive in, And the top floor of the house, it was four floors.

It went into the hill on Mulholland Drive by the Hollywood sign.

I had the bottom two floors and a couple that owned the house had the top two floors.

I had a separate entrance and it was amazing anyway.

Yeah.