#103 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (28th February 2019)

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That'll buy a whole lot of rush. So welcome to another of these very very boring boring recordings. Very very very boring and it's supposed to be boring.

It's supposed to be very calming, loose, loosening. Just, you know, boring. Let me bore you to sleep.

And this is I think 103 I do believe. Just dropped the phone. So yesterday's episode of this thing I talked about and read out some of the comments and messages that have been left on my facebook.

Also some few comments that have been left on my youtube channel, you know, over the last couple of months. And I imagine it was very very very boring. And time really went quickly.

I ended up doing like an hour and 10 minutes when I really try to aim at about an hour. So today I'm going to do about 55 minutes instead just to make up for that extra 10 minutes that I did yesterday over. Although it doesn't really matter, I suppose.

Who's taking notes, you know? I can't imagine anyone's taking notes of or keeping track of the lengths of, you know, that I'm doing. That's not, yeah. Lengths? That's not the right word.

That'd be a swimming, a swimming term. How many lengths have you done? Strokes? How many strokes? Did you know that? No, maybe that's a different thing. Yeah, that's swimming, isn't it, as well? As well as, you know, well, it could be medical as well, couldn't it? As well as um, who knows what.

So yeah, right, getting back onto the subject of something else. Today has been a weird day. Or weird, like, not spooky, like Halloween weird.

And trust me, Halloween was extremely weird last year for me. It was a heck of a weird one. So not just for me, but the whole area, because something quite big happened here.

I won't go into it, but it's something I'm always going to remember. And today probably isn't something I'm always going to remember. It's not really been a memorable day.

And I woke up, I often do that. I've woken up nearly every day of my life. And what time did I go to bed? Because I do, I'm kind of in that mode of sleeping, or being awake at night, but not all night, if that makes sense.

So I'm pretty sure I was in bed by about three o'clock, I think. And I do like going to bed, but not always. I don't always like it.

You know, sometimes I don't particularly want to go to bed, because there's things that I want to do. Or maybe there's a film that I want to watch, or a television program that I want to watch. Or maybe, maybe I kind of had the urge to make a recording, or do some online research.

Yep, that's what I call it. I call it research. Other people may call it something else.

But online research. I'm thinking of applying for a psychology master's degree at the local university, which would start in, I suppose, September. Yeah, probably September.

And it'd be full time for a year. And it would cost, I think it cost about seven and a half thousand pound. So I'd have to get a loan to do it, a student loan.

But it'd be kind of like a conversion. A conversion, not conversion therapy. That's a very different thing altogether.

I don't mean all say it after me. And what that means really is that at the end of it, I will have, I'll be able to have membership of the UK Psychological Society. I kind of made that bit up.

It's the main psychological society, which you need to be a member of before you can go on and work as a psychiatrist or psychologist or trainee psychologist. And once I've got that training, once I've got the master's, I could then on become an assistant psychologist and maybe go on and do a PhD and become a psychologist. A, what do they call them? Clinical psychologist.

So I'd be, I'd have a doctorate. And I think, I think, I think, I think there's, I might be able to, I think once you do that, you can, I'm sure you can train, do another year or even do something where you can then, you'd be allowed to prescribe medication because I know some nurses can prescribe medication. So it's, I don't know what, I don't even know if I want to do that stuff to be fair.

It's, I don't know. I started thinking sort of financially because my finances have been a little bit of a struggle, just, just the last week or so. And because everything's gone up, everything that, because I've made so many recordings, like with Spreaker, I pay, there's one, two, three, four, five levels, I think, with Spreaker.

I think the first level is free, which you can have like five hours of audio. And then the second level you can have maybe a hundred hours. Then the third level, so the second level costs maybe £7 a month, maybe £10 a month.

The third level allows you to have 500 hours. And that is £19 a month, something like that. I'm kind of making up a little bit, but I'm just, I'm guessing rather than making it up.

And then the next one, 500 is 1,500 hours, which is the one that I'm on. And that's $49 a month. And the one after that is about $100 a month, and that gives you unlimited.

So I hit the, because I've got over 500 hours worth of audio on my podcasts, which is quite a lot really, isn't it? I suppose you think about it. And I'm not quite sure how much I've got. I think it's under, under a thousand, but it's getting onto a thousand hours.

And the, it was a case of either deleting some of my stuff from the podcasts or paying for the, the higher membership. So they gave me a discount, a 30% discount on the higher membership. So it should be something like $49.

Instead it's 36 or, I'm not sure, but they gave me 30% discount for, I don't know how long for, and that'll give me 150 hours. Now every week I'm probably producing five, six, seven, at least five hours every week, probably more. Sometimes it'd be 10 hours.

Sometimes it'll maybe be less, but at least five hours every week. So I imagine it won't be long before I'll have to upgrade to the higher level, which will then be $100 a month just for the podcasts. That's without all the other stuff that, you know, money to pay out.

It's like, wow, it's quite weird because the SoundCloud podcast, which I've got, only costs me £10 a month and it's unlimited. I can have as many sessions on there and I have, I've got just under 900 and something recordings I've got on my SoundCloud and there's no limit and they're all on there. The thing is when you've got a podcast, let's say iTunes, for example.

So my SoundCloud is on iTunes as well as the Spreaker ones as well. So let's say my SoundCloud one, which is just Jason Newland, free hypnosis. It's on the iTunes podcast, but there's only 250 episodes on there with the latest ones at the top.

So the only way you're going to see the other, what's it? 250, 350, 450, 550, 650, 750, 850, 950. So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, about 700 recordings you won't get to have access to with that podcast as it is on iTunes. However, if you go to the podcast and it's the same podcast, it's basically a CRSS feed that you send, that you add to iTunes and they take the feed and they update it whenever you had a new recording.

And this is way more boring than I intended it to be. And so if you go to the SoundCloud page or the SoundCloud podcast, all 950, whoever it is, recordings are still there. So what I did, and this is part of the reason why I had the Spreaker podcast, just going to have a quick drink.

I started thinking, well, you know what? Realistically, let's be realistic. And this is back when I had about 800 recordings. So that'll make more sense because I'll be talking about 800.

I'm going to think to myself, you know what, Juicy JJ, you've got 800 recordings here, although that will one day be probably about 950. But for now, let's just focus on 800 because that's where we are at this point. And iTunes only shows 250, the last or the latest 250.

So unless people actually go to the SoundCloud podcast, how are they going to know about all the other recordings? Because some of that stuff's pretty good. There's probably some awful stinkers there as well, but there's some good stuff. I'm sure it's all dependent upon what you like, I suppose, but there's some useful recordings and some quite, I don't know, there's a, see, not all of the older recordings were very good sound-wise.

You know, the sound quality was not brilliant, but the quality of the content in a lot of the earlier sessions was good. And also, I think it could be interesting to go back and look in time and you can get an idea of the kind of stuff that I used to do. I suppose in some ways, in some ways, you could say that perhaps I was more focused back then in a kind of a way, in a sense of, I didn't used to do this kind of stuff, you know.

I didn't necessarily know exactly what it was that I was going to talk about, but sometimes I did. Sometimes I knew. I thought, you know what? I'm going to do a recording.

I'm going to make a video, a relaxation video. That's what this is going to be about. This is going to be about relaxation.

And then I would sit in front of the video camera and I would press record. I try and do it as I speak. I'm thinking of this particular place that I lived at that time.

And see, my room, as you went into the house, because it was not a bungalow, but we'll do it like a cottage. I always get muddled up between cottages and bungalows, and the men and women's toilets. I guess sometimes I get muddled up.

And I used to go into the front because there was a driveway at the front of the cottage. And the whole cottage was surrounded by flowers and garden. The lady who was my landlady at that time, she absolutely loved the garden and doing gardening and making it beautiful.

So that was sort of her passion. So there was lots of flowers and everything all the way around. So there was a driveway where there's probably enough room for two cars comfortably, side by side.

So you could drive on to the forward, or I suppose you could back on. And there was a green car. I remember one of the cars was green.

My landlord's car was green. And I think my landlady used to call his car Kermit because it had legs. In fact, it was actually a frog.

It wasn't a car at all. It was a frog. And her husband used to ride on the back of it.

That's not true. So it was green, and she called it Kermit. And I used to go through, and there used to be a gap between the two cars.

And you could get through usually depending, I suppose, when they were parking. Depends on how drunk they were when they were parking. Not really, just joking.

And you could get through, open the gate and walk through, walk around. You couldn't actually see. You could see the front door, but I never went into the front door.

In fact, I don't think I even had the keys to the front door. I had a key to the back door, which led into the kitchen. So although I might have had a key to the front door, I wonder if I did.

I don't think I did. I think I had two keys. One was to the back door, and one was to my room.

So I'd walk around this pavement, and I'm not quite sure what kind of paving... I think it's paving slabs, but more... You know, instead of like a big paving slab, it was more like little broken ones, and it was kind of curly. Not curly as in you're walking around in circles, and not the yellow brick road kind of thing, but it went around and then led to the back door. And as you go into the back door, to the right, there was a greenhouse, but it wasn't green.

And it was... She had tomatoes in there, and she had... I don't know if there's anything else in there other than tomatoes, or tomato plants. It wasn't just a big bowl of tomatoes. That would have been strange.

And I remember I used to look after the tomatoes when they went on holiday, because sometimes they'd go on holiday, and she would say to me, uh, Jason. And I'd say, yes, landlady. And she said, me and the landlord, who's also my husband, are going to be going away on holiday to a place far away.

And I'd say, okay, landlady. Oh, hello, landlord. Because he had walked in.

Actually, I didn't see. He was actually under the table. And he wasn't under the table.

That's silly. He was actually in the greenhouse holding tomatoes, the bowl of tomatoes. He wasn't.

I don't know why I'm saying this. And I said, okay, Mrs. Landlord. How can I help you with your trip a long way away? Far away.

She said, no, far away. Not a long way away. It's going to be far away.

I said, okay. I kept my patience. I just, okay, fair enough.

And she said, I was wondering if you would please look after the tomatoes for me. I thought, okay, but what, do you want me to read bedtime stories? What kind of thing do you want me to do? The tomato plants, you know, take them out to the beach, buy them an ice cream. And she said, that's all very silly, isn't it? I said, yes.

Yes, Mrs. Landlady. I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm just relieved, you know, it's Friday evening.

Finished college. Just, just glad to get home. Just want to just chill out now for the weekend, you know.

She said, yeah, I understand. But I have to get up at 4.30 this morning to go and to catch the plane to go far away. I said, oh.

She said, yeah. I said, oh. She said, hmm.

And I said, what, um, you want me to look after the plants? So I realized that this conversation was dragging on a bit and I'm just going to have to need to go to the toilet at some point. And she said, yes, just need to water them every, how often was it? I don't know. And I said, you don't know how often? She said, no, I was just thinking, just talking to myself.

I said, okay. She said, um, probably just once a day or two. Because it is, she said, just check because it, this time of the year, it's hot, but the hotter it is, the, the more dried out the plants get.

I said, oh, that makes sense. Yeah. I suppose it would because of the heat drying out the, the, uh, the dirt.

And she said, do you mean compost? I said, no, I didn't really, but I suppose that is what you're, she said, do you, do you think it's just dirt that we use for, for tomatoes or just grows out of dirt out of nothing? I said, no, I don't know. I don't really know much about tomatoes. They're just, they're, they're in supermarkets, in the fridges, you can buy them and that's it.

She said, yeah, but there's more to them than that. I said, okay. And she said, let me show you something.

I said, okay, well, well, fair enough. And she went and she bent over. At that point, I got a bit worried.

And then she, she showed me something and it was this, it was like a bucket, but with a lid on, uh, kind of the same kind of, not a tin, but it was like a plastic container that reminded me a little bit like something that you would get paint or emulsion in, but it wasn't metal, it was plastic. She's very important for me to tell you that it was plastic. It doesn't really matter, I guess.

But she opened up the lid and she said, how, she said, how, how I smell of that? And I smelled it and it was very pongy. It was one of the, yeah, in the top 10 of bad smells. And I said, what on earth is that? And she said, chicken shit.

I said, no, I'm just asking what it is. You don't have to be rude to me. It's like, yeah, I know I'm, she said, I'm crying a little bit, but it's the smell, isn't it? You know, she said, no, it's chicken shit.

I said, what? She said, yeah, that's what it is. It is chicken shit. That's, it's the compost we use.

And I use that to grow the tomato plants. And I just couldn't believe it. That something that smelled that bad could be used to create something so, um, red and juicy.

I'm not in love with tomatoes. Don't get me wrong. I haven't got some kind of tomato fetish, but they are nice.

They're a nice tomato. And these were like the little, the little tomatoes, not the big, I'm not really a big fan of big tomatoes. Don't get me wrong.

I don't mind big things. Some things are nice if they're big. I'm quite happy whatever size some things are, but tomatoes, I quite like the small tomatoes.

The, what do they call them? I forget what they're called, but these, they weren't so much tiny. Just letting you know, Andre's making lots of... Andre's walked in with his girlfriend. He's collapsed on the floor and now he's just drinking water and he's completely dehydrated himself.

And now he's going to have something to eat. So I ended up looking after the plants, the tomato plants while they were away. I'll be going back to the tour.

So I'd walk into the house. I'm pretty sure the door handle was on the right hand side. I don't know why.

I can't remember that. And it was like a double glazing kind of door, I think. I might be wrong.

It might have been a wooden door. I really don't know. It might be metal.

Might be made of fiberglass. I don't know. Might be made of honey and rosebuds.

Probably not. And yeah, as you go into the door, to the left, there was a table and it was like a little eating area. I didn't, I didn't use it because it was for the family because she lived there with her daughter.

And then there was the kitchen and, you know, but on the right hand side, as you go into the kitchen, there was the living room. It was a lovely, lovely little cottage. And I never went upstairs, but I think I went into the, I didn't really go into the living room either.

I think I sat down in there once with them, I think to watch the boxing. And so it was a nice, nice area. And as I walked through, there is a door, worked for the door.

And I think this bit was an extension, I think. And there was another big table, which was again, somewhere for everyone to kind of eat and do whatever. On the right hand side, there was an, actually, I don't know if this was an extension because I'm pretty sure it was still cottagey.

I'm not an expert on cottaging and cottages. I've not been into that many cottages. So I know some people, well, I hear it.

I've heard people being like, oh, he's a cottager, he is. He goes cottaging. But what's wrong with that? Cottages are lovely.

You know, we've all got the things that we like to do. And if cottaging is something that you enjoy doing, you know, it varies because you think how far back some of those buildings go. They go back for years, years and years and years and years.

I know the, I think they used to have thatched roofs with straw and such like. But I think they probably, I can't imagine you'd find many, I can't imagine it'd be legal to have a roof with straw. You know, Andre's now gone and closed the door, which means he's going to be scratching at the door to get out of the door that he's just closed.

See, you can hear him now. I don't know why he can't shut up, just for an hour, just for an hour. So all I need him is just to shut up for an hour while I make a recording and he won't.

Is it too much to ask? Now he's trying to get out of the door that he's closed. I didn't really want the door closed. I like, I like to have the air circulating through the different rooms.

I like to, I like it to be airy because I've got the windows open in the bedroom and I've got the windows open in this room, the living room. And I like the, you know, the air to circulate just to, yeah, it's just nice. It's a nice thing to do, isn't it? It's not an amazing thing to do.

It's not that exciting, but it seems like a fairly good thing to have a bit of circulation of air. Didn't have that so much in the place I lived before. So this cottage, I had a, I had a room.

It's a very, very small room. Just trying to think what size it would have been. Probably with the bed, probably the half the size of this room, that room was, with the bed and everything.

Yeah, probably about half the size. And it was a nice little room, you know, it wasn't big enough to live in. And as far as, you know, when I moved in there, I had hundreds and hundreds of books and I had to keep them in plastic boxes because there was nowhere to store them because there was no, there wasn't no space for anything really.

So apart from that, it was all right. Lived with a couple of people, a couple of people moved into the other room that was opposite me. There was a young female moved in there pretty much a couple of weeks after I moved in.

And then she moved out. And then another female moved in there, that was working in the pub. I really liked her, but she was there for a little bit and then she went.

And then another female moved in. And she was from, where was she from? She was sort of like, I think, Africa or some kind of a country in that region of the world. And she was quite young.

I think she was probably early twenties, but she was probably the most petite female adult that I've ever met. I mean, literally, I think I saw her, her jeans were being dried on the radiator and couldn't believe, they weren't, they were children's jeans, they weren't adult jeans. And so it was very, she was a nice girl and she definitely looked like a woman.

She didn't look like a girl, like a little girl. She just was that kind of petite frame. And then with adult parts added, I don't know if that's, that sounds weird, but you wouldn't mistake her for, you wouldn't think that she was a child if you saw her, but she's very little, very short, very petite, just probably couldn't have weighed more than about six stone, seven stone maybe, if that.

And I was grumpy to her. I said hello to her when she first moved in, I was trying to be friendly, just generally. But then she used to have a job and she'd get home late at night and she used to have showers late at night and wake me up because my bedroom was right, basically the bathroom was between our rooms.

And I got really grumpy and I started moaning and I told the landlady on her, I told her, I said, can you tell her to stop doing that because I have to get up early in the morning and go to college and all that stuff. So I was grumpy. So instead of being kind and nice, which is something that I would have benefited from had I been like that, I was a grumpy ass to her.

And so we didn't really get to know each other, but she was lovely. She was a really nice person. And I remember seeing her and this was in the winter and it was snowing and we had a particularly snowy snow before and she was making a snowman.

She'd never seen the snow before. The first time she'd ever seen snow and she was all wrapped up and she was making a snowman and you know, you could see her holding, you think she had this big, big white ball in her hands of snow and you think that must be the snowman's head. And then as she walked closer to the snowman, you could see that it was only really the size of a snowball.

It was not very big at all. It's just she was so little and she'd put it on and it would just like add a tiny little bit onto the, like a finger onto the snowman. And she was so small actually.

I noticed this. I thought she was walking on some ice, but it wasn't. It was actually a puddle, but she was so light that she could walk on water.

It's quite amazing. And I wanted to go out and see her and maybe help her with the snowman or I don't know, but I didn't because I'd be grumpy with her and I thought I should just leave her alone because it's, you know, because I've been grumpy and I was a bit embarrassed. And she was only there for a few weeks, probably maybe a month, four or five weeks.

And then she was, there was a van outside and she was packing her stuff up. And I said, what were you doing? And she said, I'm moving out. I said, why? What's going on? And she said, oh, I've got no friends here.

I made no friends. I don't know anybody, like in the country. She literally had just moved from another country from, I don't know, Sudan or honestly, I don't know where.

And I just felt even more guilty as well because I hadn't made much of an effort. And she gave me a big hug goodbye and I didn't want her to leave because I just, I felt quite a connection with her then. And I wanted to help her.

I wanted to, I suppose, be a friend to her. So I was going to say I learned from that, but I probably didn't learn anything from it. But I'd like to think I did learn something.

If I was in the same situation again, I would do things differently. I looked after the tomatoes though, so that was all right. There was one particular time when my landlady and landlord went away on holiday and I decided, because I didn't have to work, I didn't have any work at that time, I think, and I was on holiday from university.

I decided to make use of those 10 days and produce a stop smoking hypnosis course, which is what I did. I got it all set up on the big table in the other room, the recording equipment, and I've got a laptop, microphone, everything. And what I did is I think I might have also made a few other videos each day as well, but I was also watching what was I watching? Prison Break.

And I watched, I think I watched every episode of Prison Break during those 10 days. I watched them back to back and each episode I'd go and do another hour of recording and then I'd go back and watch another episode of Prison Break and I'd go back and do another hour. And I was also editing every single second of the recordings as well, going back, listening to them, changing this, bits here and everything.

And it's the only time that I've ever done that in the 13 and a half years or whatever I've been doing this. It's the only time that I've ever put that much effort into a course or into any of my audio recordings or videos. And I spent many, many hours putting that together, that course, that stop smoking course.

And it's only, it's a 28 day stop smoking and it's four sessions lasting about half an hour each. So it's not a lot of time at all, really, as far considering how much time it took to produce it. It took absolutely ages, 10 days.

And I've never done anything like that since because it was awful. It was the editing bit that I just, ah, trying to make it so there was no background sound and I would just happen to have a windy, a windy week with a rattly door. It's like, oh, so it was, I think that was 2009.

I think that was 2009. So it's, yeah, it's 10 years ago, this, nearly 10 years ago. And I was really pleased with it because I put so much work into it and I thought, this has got to be popular.

And to be fair, it was quite popular for a while. And then what I did is someone said to me, you know what, I listened to the, to the recordings back to back, the episode one, episode two, episode three and episode four. And I fell asleep.

I listened to all of them and I've not smoked since. And that was, you know, like a year ago or something. So what I thought I'd do is I'd edit the four recordings into one, which is what I did.

And it's, what's it called? Stop smoking and start living, I think it's called. So it was, yeah. And the weird thing about it is, it's not weird, but on YouTube, it's posted, someone else posted it on YouTube and it's had a lot of, a lot of plays.

But on my YouTube channel, it's probably had hardly any, but it has done in the past though. So what I did today is because of my finances, I posted a thing on Facebook and also on my website, just saying, you know, if anyone would like to help out with the costs of running this free, this free service that I do. I had a few negative comments, a few negative, quite dismissive actions from people.

So I took it off of Facebook again. And I took it off my website and I was trying to figure what am I going to do? Because tomorrow I've got all this money coming out of my bank account and the website, that comes out in two days time. I think it's the 2nd of March and that's £30.

What do I want to do? What do I want to do? So in the end I deleted, I closed the website and I just opened up a blogger, a blogger, a website, a free one, and I've just embedded the podcast into that. Just the standard Jason Newland free hypnosis podcast so that you can listen to all the updated stuff on there. It's still the same jasonnewland.com but there's none of the other stuff, none of the other pages, nothing.

That's all gone. And so that's just one, one change that I made. There wasn't anything else that I could really reduce because all the podcasts that I've got are there for a purpose and because everything's becoming more popular and more established, I don't want to start deleting stuff.

You know, I like the idea of, yeah, okay, so there's a hundred and, now a hundred and three Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings, but I don't want to delete 50 of them so that I can, you know, keep on a lower tariff and pay less a month so you only have the last 50 to listen to because then those 50 are gone. You know, it's nice, I think it's nice to have that option to listen back to number five or number 22 if you want to, you know, that's how I see it. So this is yet another boring, boring, boring, boring, boring thing.

Thank you for listening. I will probably do another boring session tomorrow and I did do a deep sleep whisper number 57 I think it was today earlier on. So that was pretty good, I think.

And again, thank you for all your support and thank you for listening. Thank you for watching and thank you for being groovy. And I'll speak to you next time.

Bye.