Sep 18, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
On this month's episode of The Virginia Roundup Gary Brazil takes us back to the times before smartphones and social media, a time when we may have been "bored" and had to fill the space with our own…
Rolf McLaughlinGuest
Declan TraynorHost
Gary BrazileMichelle
Hello, and welcome to another piece of health and fitness advice from me, Gary Brazile of Age Defy Fitness, a personal trainer in Steel Flex Gym in Virginia Town, and also an online fitness coach.
Do you remember it? Remember when you can actually have absolutely nothing to do? You'd be sitting, waiting for a bus, or standing in a queue, waiting for somebody to arrive, sitting in the doctor's waiting room, and you just sit there.
You might read some random poster on the wall 17 times, might watch people walking past, might have a little daydream, or God forbid, you might think.
Nowadays, the second there's a gap of approximately four seconds in our life, out comes the phone.
And one I catch myself doing as well a lot of the time is watching television while also looking at my phone.
I need two screens simultaneously pumping information into my head, and here's the really mad one.
Have you ever taken your phone out of your pocket, looked at it, put it back in your pocket, and then about 30 seconds later, taken it back out again? And nothing's happened.
You haven't missed an important announcement from the tea shop, [laughs] but here we are checking it again.
And I started wondering recently, when did we become so uncomfortable with doing absolutely nothing? Because boredom used to be a completely normal part of life.
If you're around my, around my age, I'm 55 next week, think back to being a kid.
If there was nothing on the telly, there was nothing on the telly, and that was it.
And depending on your age, you might only have had a handful of channels to choose from anyway.
You couldn't sit there scrolling through 14,000 programs for 40 minutes before thinking, "Ah, there's nothing to watch." Or, and as kids, if we said, "I'm bored," our parents didn't immediately produce an entertainment schedule.
Hello, and welcome to another piece of health and fitness advice from me, Gary Brazile of Age Defy Fitness, a personal trainer in Steel Flex Gym in Virginia Town, and also an online fitness coach.
Do you remember it? Remember when you can actually have absolutely nothing to do? You'd be sitting, waiting for a bus, or standing in a queue, waiting for somebody to arrive, sitting in the doctor's waiting room, and you just sit there.
You might read some random poster on the wall 17 times, might watch people walking past, might have a little daydream, or God forbid, you might think.
Nowadays, the second there's a gap of approximately four seconds in our life, out comes the phone.
And one I catch myself doing as well a lot of the time is watching television while also looking at my phone.
I need two screens simultaneously pumping information into my head, and here's the really mad one.
Have you ever taken your phone out of your pocket, looked at it, put it back in your pocket, and then about 30 seconds later, taken it back out again? And nothing's happened.
You haven't missed an important announcement from the tea shop, [laughs] but here we are checking it again.
And I started wondering recently, when did we become so uncomfortable with doing absolutely nothing? Because boredom used to be a completely normal part of life.
If you're around my, around my age, I'm 55 next week, think back to being a kid.
If there was nothing on the telly, there was nothing on the telly, and that was it.
And depending on your age, you might only have had a handful of channels to choose from anyway.
You couldn't sit there scrolling through 14,000 programs for 40 minutes before thinking, "Ah, there's nothing to watch." Or, and as kids, if we said, "I'm bored," our parents didn't immediately produce an entertainment schedule.
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