#534 Let me bore you to sleep

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Feeling a bit stuffy the last couple of days, a bit, a bit coughy, a bit, ugh.

I think it might be the weather because I would say probably the first, for the first time in some time I'm actually feeling a bit cold inside. I've got the heating on. I'm waiting for it to warm up a bit but it just feels cold in there.

I'll tell you what it feels like. It feels like the downstairs flat. The people downstairs have filled the entire flat with ice cubes.

That's what it feels like and the ice, you know, the coldness is just rising through my bones. So yeah, that's what I feel like today. But I know, I know, I know that by the end of this recording I will feel tip top, tip top, tip top, very well by the end of this recording.

I will. I'll have an upsurge in energy. I'll feel healed.

See, optimism. Optimism. See, I normally edit out coughs but I'm just leaving it in just for the sake of the drummer, the drummer, the whole thing.

Andre's in the bedroom having special relations with his girlfriend, the slipper, and a piece of plastic. Yes. Bless him.

So today, do you know when I told you that I had a two million? I think it was Monday, it's Friday now, and I said Monday I'll reach two million. It's now 2,027,663. It's like, wow, it just goes up so quick.

I mean, yeah, it's weird how it works. Everything's just getting, I don't know if the word more popular is right, but everything's just seems to be increasing like stats wise. I mean, today it's only half 10.

It's not even half 10 yet. There's three hours left on the clock before the stats are completed. In fact, it's probably four, four hours before they're kind of updated.

So at the moment I've got 7,533, no, 7,553 downloads just today. Yesterday, 6,748. The day before on Wednesday, 8,078.

It's been a, you know, it's growing, isn't it? It's growing, man. And I think the, I don't know if it's ironic, but the less feedback I get, the more downloads I seem to get. So lately I've had hardly any messages or comments really from anybody.

But I guess what is there to say, I suppose, if you've already sent me messages in the past and perhaps I haven't replied in a way that you wanted me to, I'm probably not always the best conversationalist. I don't know. If it wasn't for the stats, I'd start thinking, oh, no one's listening because I'm not getting any feedback.

No one's really kind of contacted me and saying they like what I'm doing or they enjoy it or it's helping. Yeah, I'm getting more listeners every day. More, more, more, more.

More and more and more. So the lucky number is 10,000. I'm getting to the point where I'm aiming for 8,000 every day.

I don't want it to go below 8,000. Today, it will be above 8,000. Yesterday, it wasn't 6,700.

So, you know, it's still, you know, still a good day. It's weird the way I look at it now. It's like, oh, that's a bad day compared to how I want it to be.

I want at least 8,000 every single day. But actually, that's not what I want. What I want is 10,000.

I need 10,000. And then once I get to 10,000, well, now I've got to 8,000. I know I can do 10,000.

Once I get to 10,000, I'll know that I can do 20,000. You know, with work and time and, you know, just doing what I need to do. Keep doing what I'm doing.

Once I get to 20,000 downloads a day, then I can then become self-sufficient. That's the aim. I can then become self-sufficient.

And I can have this as my occupation, which will be groovy, instead of being a very expensive hobby. So, thank you for listening. If you're listening, where you're listening, for whatever reason you're listening.

And just let you know, there's nobody going to be talking on this. I'm not going to have a phone call conversation with anybody during this recording. It's just us.

Just me and you. Oh, just me and you. No one else.

No one else at all. So, I've made a few recordings today. Well, this is, I've done two recordings, one with music.

So, I did a relaxation. It's a really good one. I am biased towards what I do, but it was, what was it called? Wow.

So, even on that podcast, the real podcast, the podcast relaxation hypnosis for stress and anxiety and panic attacks. Even now, I've had 1982 downloads today. So, I did a recording called focusing on this moment to relax and sleep.

So, I did that this morning. And it's a very positive recording, very positive. And not that my other stuff is negative.

But those I'm pretty much every recording I do for the relaxation, hypnosis, stress, etc. podcast is a positive recording. Because it has to be really.

But I just find it. Yeah, I just find it very interesting how things are going. So, I did a Jason's bedtime story time.

And okay, here's the ironic thing. Well, it's not ironic, but I did number 13, Jason's bedtime story time, the golden goose adopted by Justin Newland. And I had three downloads so far that one.

And to give you an idea about that podcast, I had 12 downloads today, 13 yesterday, seven a day before for that podcast. So, in and of itself, you'd think there's no point at all in doing that. Then, then you look at well, you don't look at it, but I look at the other podcast where I have added it, added those same recordings.

And at 57 so far for sleep insomnia, hypnosis, of that, and there'll be hundreds, hundreds of listeners of that that session. But here's the weird thing, I just seen this, I can't believe it again. For the sleep insomnia, hypnosis podcast today, 2749 downloads just for one podcast.

So, things are going really well. And the reason I'm sharing this with you is because, well, first, I don't think many people who make podcasts do share this kind of information. I've listened to some podcasts and I've never known anyone to do that, to just be as transparent as possible.

And I've never known anyone to do that, to just be as transparent as I am. Especially as for, for someone that's popular, my figures would be very, very low. So I wouldn't, you know, if I was, even when I was only getting maybe, you know, 1000 downloads a day, between all the podcasts, I was still telling people that, because to me, I was pleased with it, because it was growing.

But it's a small amount. And my seven or 8000 a day is still a tiny, tiny, tiny amount compared to popular podcasters, I think. Again, how do I know? I wonder, I wonder, is there a thing? Is there a website? Because there's a website where you can check out the stats for YouTube channels, you can see how many views they get.

So check stats for podcasts, check stats. Okay. View podcast reports.

Okay. Is view podcast reports, access reports. Okay, there must be one, there must be a website.

How to measure podcast downloads, access, check your podcast performance, podcast statistics. Here are some interesting stats about podcasts. Wow, I don't even look at this, this, some of this stuff might actually be useful for me.

I spent a lot of time on the toilet today. Again, I don't want to go into details. But yeah, not, not being at my best, if I'm honest.

And hopefully, I mean, the good thing is, what the hell is Andre doing? Andre, what are you doing, mate? The good thing is, you know, I'm lucky that I'm not answerable to anyone at the moment. So if I need to go to bed, or if I need to, you know, Andre, that's not a real sneeze. You know, I told you about that.

Stop with the false sneezing. How many people have ever listened? Okay, I'm just looking at this. This is something I should really do in my own time.

But I figure as we're together, I like to do different things. You know, podcast advice, podcast, how we collect and post. Why feed hits and monthly downloads are meaningless.

Meaningless? Why, why feed hits and monthly downloads are meaningless podcast. It's not meaningless. Not meaningless to me.

No. So I'm just looking at this. There's probably For me, I know that Spreaker does the stats correctly, because they're in that they joined this, I think it's an international organization, which means they have to provide exact correct statistics.

So they can't inflate it, you know, to keep people paying them to have a podcast, you know, they have to, in fact, it went the opposite way. When they signed up for this, and they readjusted all their statistics to fit in with the guidelines to make sure it's all properly done. A lot of people, including me actually lost stats, because they hadn't been collected correctly.

This is about a year, maybe two years. Yeah, about a year ago, I think. So now it's all industry standards, statistics.

And there's another way I can tell that, well, there's all these different ways you can tell the things are going, how it is how it should be. Overcast, accurate by me. How to tell numbers, how to make a podcast.

Can't see podcast measurement. Okay, here, I'll check something else out. So average stats for podcast, as it says here, podcast listeners spend an average six average of six hours and 37 minutes listening to podcasts every week.

And my listeners listen to a lot more than that. So maybe that's why I don't my audience are not average podcast listeners. Until two years ago, consumers spent only five hours per week listening to podcasts in 2018.

That wasn't one sentence I should have stopped. And in 2018, listening time jumped 32%. What's our good stats for podcast? Okay, here we go.

A podcast episode that has been live approximately 30 days averages 141 downloads. If you have over 3,400 downloads, you're in the top 10%. If you have over 9000 downloads, you are in the top 5%.

Lastly, if you have over 50,000 downloads per episode, again, after having it live for 30 days, you're in the top 1%. Now, that was good until that last sentence, when it said per episode, I don't have 50,000 downloads per episode. I've got a few episodes that are 1000s.

I average more than 141. Well, I average more than 141 downloads in a day. So if I if I release a recording, probably to 200 300.

But then I then I release another recording the next day. So worked out the I suppose an average daily, let me boil to sleep per episode when I release it. It's about 500 downloads per episode spread throughout the different podcasts.

That's about all the other ones that listen to from the past and that won't be listened to in the future. So I guess what the reality would be, and I've done this in the past. If I go a week, or two weeks without making a recording on a podcast, then that podcast statistics will go up for the last recording would go up to 1000s.

That's because I haven't made a recording for a week or so. So if I only made one recording every 30 days, then I probably would reach to 3400 quite easily. So if I went and only did one recording for the deep sleep whisper, or only one recording for the relaxation for stress and anxiety, every 30 days, I might lose the audience to be fair, because it's a long time.

But I would get even without the audience, even if I lost the audience, some of the audience, I would still get I imagine I would get probably about 9000 in a month, quite easily, I reckon 50,000 50,000. No, not 50,000 per episode in 30 days. No.

But I do get 140 150,000 a month in 30 days throughout the different podcasts I do. So I don't know, it's hard to tell. How much does the average podcast make is it is it says an an estimate.

If your podcast has about 10,000 downloads per episode, you can expect to make between $500 to $900 per episode in affiliate sales. If your podcast has 10,000, there is no, that is not true. Well, not in my experience.

10,000. So 10,000 isn't a lot. And 519 19 900.

Now 10,000 downloads would be probably about $40 on my advertising stream. So 10,000 be $40 they're saying 500 to 900, maybe $50 maybe even 60 out of push, you know, if it's a good day, if they're being generous, but 500 to 900 per episode. Can you imagine that I get $500 a day to have 10,000 which means 8000 would give me well easier than five 500 minimum for 10,000.

So basically for every 2000 you get $100. So it's two so $400 a day is what I would be getting now. On 8000 downloads $400 a day, blimey, Mr. That'd be $146,000 a year.

No, that is not what I'm getting. It really isn't. It's not.

Yeah, wow. I mean, I would hope at the very least, I'm looking at 20,000 a day to give me $80 a day, which would be enough to live on. And also pay pay myself a minimum wage of 15,000 a year.

And then pay the cost of running the service. And the rest will be invested back into promotion and paying for equipment and stuff like that. So I don't know how they come up with that five.

Imagine how many people start actually take up doing this stuff thinking that they're going to make $500 an episode. Well, here's another question. How many listeners do you need to make money on a podcast? To put harder numbers on it.

Many sponsorship agencies look for 3000 to 5000 listeners per episode before they'll take you on. But if you're doing it yourself, it's perfectly possible to earn a decent sponsorship income once you pass the 1000 to 2000 mark. Especially if you have a particular niche audience.

Well, okay, I can kind of see that I think the way things are going, there's a couple of my podcasts that are becoming more popular. The audience is growing to the point where there will come a point where I'm getting 1000s per episode, even though I'm recording a new one every day, I'm still going to be getting 1000s per episode. So I suppose once that kicks in many, maybe some of the advertisers would want to advertise with me.

Because they look at the statistics. And I think well, and they'd pay the advertising company, or they'd pay Spreaker. Because Spreaker take 50% I think, of the advertising revenue.

But they do a lot of the work. I do all of the work as far as apart from making a podcast. So I suppose it's possible maybe maybe it would go up maybe if I was getting I mean, possibly, maybe I'm doing too many recordings.

Perhaps if I only did one recording a week, and let the stats build up so that I had if I did one a week, one, let me bore you to sleep a week, one, deep sleep whisper week, one relaxation for stress. All of those recordings would get, you know, you know, 1000s each downloads, at least 1000. But probably maybe, you know, up to the 567 910 1000.

Not that much. I'm just thinking though, probably not for five, 510 1520 255 1015 2025 3035 three and a half thousand listeners per week, probably for my let me bore you to sleep podcasts. Episodes.

I don't know. Can you make a living podcasting is a question. Sponsorships are the most common way podcasters make money.

This is when the podcast promotes the sponsor during the show. You probably hear your favourite shows plug their advertisers a few times in every episode. No, you don't know me.

How much you earn from a sponsor depends on the number of downloads your episodes earn. Which makes sense. It's a weird one.

How much money does call her daddy podcast make? I've not heard of that one. The contract reportedly states that they each make 75,000 annually in the base salary, going up to 100,000 after three years, with additional compensation for downloads. Call her daddy.

It's a drama apparently. How much does Joe Rogan make per podcast? He has claimed that his show gets as many as 190 million downloads per month. Wow.

Wow. 190 million downloads per month. Should I say one more time? I won't.

190 million downloads per month. Between ad revenue, live shows and YouTube broadcasts of the program, Rogan made 30 million last year, making him Ford's highest paid podcaster of 2019. 190 million downloads per month.

Okay. Let me work out how much I would earn based on if I was, if I got 190 million downloads. Wow.

So here we go. I just had a, just had someone at the door then. Right.

Where was I? See, you know, I said to you that I was going to feel better. I do. I don't know what it is.

I mean, I'm not, I'm not really a spiritual person. Although you could say, well, all the years I spent involved in Buddhism would kind of say the opposite to that in a way. But I don't like the word spiritual for when I, when I think of it for myself, not for other people.

Uh, but for me, it doesn't, doesn't really ring true to me. I don't really think of myself as spiritual, but holy. I think holy is a better word.

Uh, I would like to be called your worship. That is a way to be addressing me. I think, I don't know.

Um, healer, heal. I mean, you know, Jason does, it's got two meanings in Greek mythology is the healer and healing hands. Jason.

Um, so, and I do have healing hands. Well, when I did massage, I did the massage course and the reflexology course, I was really good at it. And again, what is it about saying that I'm good at something? I feel like I'm bragging, but I'm not because in these recordings, I probably say more negative stuff about myself and put myself down, even in a kind of a humorous way than I do saying positive things about myself.

But, and then when I say something, oh, I'm good at that. Well, I was good at that. I'm not now.

I don't do it, but I seem to, I don't know. It seems almost like I'm showing off and I'm not, it doesn't feel right. I don't like to be show off.

I mean, some people, some people may say that I'm quite good at hypnosis and doing hypnosis recordings. I couldn't possibly comment on that other than I hope so. I hope that somebody's benefiting.

Otherwise, what is the point in listening? You know, not, not to these so much because this isn't hypnosis. This is just me chatting about stuff. But with some of the other things I do, there's a real intention, a positive, do I want to use the word loving? I don't know.

But I'm, you know, I'm, I'm tapping into the love inside me that hides most of the time when I make a recording. I genuinely, with every ounce of my being, wish that the words I'm saying in those recordings are going to have a healing effect, a beneficial effect mentally, emotionally, physically, whether they do or not. I may never know.

I do, you know, I've had feedback. I have had people tell me that they do, but I'm hardly bombarded with messages from people. It goes through periods.

Sometimes I'll get lots of messages saying, Oh, what you do is great. And it's really helped. And then I just get hardly any feedback.

Or sometimes I go through periods when people send me PayPal gifts. And it's like, wow, they really love me. And then nothing.

And which is fine either way, because a gift is something that someone gives to you. You can't expect it. And it's a wonderful thing.

I give my gift every day. But my gift isn't money. My gift is my voice.

And my cheeky little jokes every now and then. My time. Yeah.

So I'm feeling better now. I think either that or the ice cubes downstairs have melted. Maybe it's just a big, a big, massive pool of warm water.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to tomorrow because I'm watching a boxing on telly. And my friend, I've got two friends coming around. They're my neighbors.

So they're, they're in my bubble, actually. So which is good. So they come in upstairs.

And I see them, you know, most days anyway. But they're going to come up and we're going to watch the boxing together. It's Usyk and Chizora, the main event.

And a few other bouts as well. So I'd like to order pizza, but I can't, I can't do that. But it'd be nice.

So you know, I like to have pizza when there's a boxing on. But it's going to be a good night be. Yeah, be good.

It's nice. I don't really like watching things with other people like movies or television. The news is okay.

But boxing? Yeah, as long as, mind you, I remember I had a knock at the door. And I was here with my friend and we were watching Anthony Joshua fighting. This is probably three years ago, maybe two, two, three years ago.

Saturday night, I paid £20 or whatever for this fight. We were all set up. And my friend had, in fact, I might have even had a can of lager.

So we were just chilling out, just looking forward to the fight. And there's a knock on the door, and it was another neighbour. And so I kept her outside because she wanted to speak to my friend.

I said, oh, and then we'd start chatting. And, you know, I'd get on the right vibe. And in the end, I said, just come in.

Yeah, I felt I was being rude. Plus, I was missing the boxing, which was annoying me. So she came in.

And they said, oh, boxing, I'm a big fan of boxing, love boxing. And okay. And then the main event starts.

And she says, so who's that bloke then? I said, he's the world champion. That's Anthony Joshua. Ah.

And who's that one? You don't know who, if you don't know who they are, you're not a fan of boxing. If you don't know who the heavyweight champion of the world is, you're not a fan of boxing. Now, I understand you can't perhaps know the name of every world champion in the boxing world, because there are so many.

You know, there's, there's now we've got WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, world champion belts. Plus, there's, what is it, IBH? There's another one they tried to try and sort of make popular, but that's not working. So there's four main titles.

Oh, there's the ring magazine one as well. So there's five, five titles that are up for grabs in each weight division. And there's, there's weight divisions that have literally got a few pounds between them.

Seriously, this is going to bore the, bore the bras off you. This is seriously, this is going to be so boring. So I'm now going to read you the weights, boxing weight classes, but you'll be surprised at how many there are.

Okay, you ready? Um, what are you doing? Weight class boxing, professional boxing. What are you doing? Sometimes it really is annoying. When? Okay, so I'm going to go back.

Boxing weight divisions. Here we go. This is proper.

This is Britannica. So we'll be correct without sending me to lots of different pages. So it says here during the 19th century, and again, at the beginning of the 20th century, the popularity of boxing brought about the formation of weight divisions other than the heavyweight class to eliminate the handicap of smaller contestants having to concede excessive weight to their opponents.

Some originated in the United States, others in Great Britain. There are traditionally eight weight divisions in men's boxing. They say men's boxing because women's boxing did not exist until, I don't know what year it was allowed in the amateurs, and I don't know what year it was allowed in professionals, but it's a recent phenomenon.

Not recent if you're 12 years old, because it might have been happening the whole of your life. So you might think, well, it's always been there. Yeah, but you're 12.

If you're 50 or 32, like me, you can, you know, I can remember back where women were not allowed to fight in boxing. There was a time when women were not allowed to train in boxing gyms, but there was a time when women were not allowed in pubs in England. You know, there was a time when women were not allowed to vote.

It's really weird to think how much we've given women, so ungrateful considering. Joking, I'm joking. I never understood why, why would, I've met so many women over the years, and I've never, I've never thought to myself that men, I've met a lot of men, a lot of women, as everyone has, you know, but I've worked in a nightclub, I've worked in, had lots of different jobs.

So I've met a lot of people over the years, lived with lots of different people as well. I've never felt that one sex was superior to another. I just didn't, you know, maybe part of that was because I was born into a society where women did have a lot more equal opportunities than they had previous generations.

I mean, let's face it, I was my first politician I ever remember, the first Prime Minister that I remember was Margaret Thatcher. Now there were other Prime Ministers during my life, because I was born in, let's pretend I was born in 1970, shall we, just for the sake of the joke. So Margaret Thatcher, she was a woman, apparently, and so she was, for me, a Prime Minister, being a woman was no different to a man being a Prime Minister.

In fact, if anything, I thought women were the ones that should be Prime Minister. I thought, wow, when, what's his name, I forget his name, whoever took over from the Prime Minister, John, it's not John Mann, that's a comedian. That's weird, his name's gone out of my head.

But anyway, when he was Prime Minister, I was like, oh, I've been allowed to do that job. And women have always been allowed in pubs since I've been probably alive. Women have been allowed to vote as long as I've been alive.

And boxing, no. But then you weren't allowed to, amateur boxers were not allowed to box with beards. They had to use their fists.

They weren't allowed to have beards if they were if they were amateur boxers, which meant a whole big part of the world wasn't allowed to partake in amateur boxing. If their religion, or their belief system that they'd been indoctrinated, you know, born into, and brainwashed in, told them that they should wear a beard all the time. So when they dropped that, suddenly we had people from other countries that were phenomenal boxers, that then became world champions and Olympic gold medalists and stuff.

And now I think they're trying to do it for Hindus to allow boxers to wear, not temples, what is it? The hats that they wear, the turbans, is it turbans? Yeah. So is it? I don't know if turbans is the right word. But because you got Hindus and Sikhs, unless it's turban for both.

But until now, that's been the thing is, I'm not laughing at the turban, I'm just thinking, it's an advantage, isn't it? Because, you know, it's protecting your head. It's got to be a good thing, surely, if you're a boxer. But I think that they're trying to get around that.

So what that will mean is in the future, if that happens, there will be future world title holders and future Olympic gold medalists who are wearing a turban. So I think that's exciting. I'm not interested in the turban bit, just the idea that it opens up for more people to do what they are good at.

I think everyone should be allowed, I think not only should women be allowed to box, I think women should be allowed to box men if they want. And you know, something I've noticed, I know probably no one listening to this would be interested in anything I'd like to say, so it doesn't really matter. But from observing, because I didn't, there's part of me doesn't like the idea of women punching each other.

And that's, I guess, been taught to me. You know, again, I've been brainwashed into the idea that women are the weaker sex and women shouldn't be doing stuff like that. And women are soft and gentle, which isn't true.

You know, it's no more true than all men are aggressive and all men are horrible. And you know, it's just, we're all just people, aren't we? And I've met women that are stronger, as strong as any man I've ever met. Okay, not that often, but I've met women that would cleanly, easily pick a man above her head and just crush him.

I've met women like that. And so I, you know, part of me also knew that women could also be really, really cruel as well as men, as well as humans. It's a human ability to be nice or to be horrible or to be aggressive and stuff.

What I didn't expect, and I should have really, based on my knowledge of what I've seen in the past, is I've never, once seen a female boxer, boxers fighting where one of them's in there just to survive, just for a paycheck. Never seen that once. Even if one's a lot better than the other one, yeah, they both go at it and they both give it everything they've got, 100%.

Now, if you don't watch boxing, you may not realise this, but some boxers, even though I won't really say a word against any boxers because to do that job is, it's a hard job to do. You know, you're ruining your health for the future. But the boxers that do that stuff, but I've seen lots of men fighting in the ring where, I mean, I've even seen it where both of them didn't seem like they wanted to actually have a fight.

I've seen loads where one just lays down at the first opportunity. Never seen that in a women's fighting ever. So technically, based on the short lifespan of women's boxing so far, in the future, 10, 20 years time, the best boxer pound for pound, well, it's kind of on that verge now, but the best boxers in the world will be women because they will be outshining the men so much so, because I don't know why, but they're just more aggressive in the ring.

I don't know why that is. I'm pleased, but I don't want to see it outside the ring. I know some people go, oh, it's aggressive.

It's controlled. It's a sport. You know, it's a sport.

When I did karate, I entered a couple of competitions. I didn't do very well, but I loved every second of it. Even losing, I didn't love the losing, but even losing a contest in doing something you enjoy doing, even losing is better than not doing it at all.

It's the same with the comedy. When I did that, I devoted my life to that for seven or eight years. Even when I did bad gigs, and I did lots of bad, lots and lots of bad gigs, especially the first year or two, 91, 92, people couldn't believe I kept coming back.

But I don't give up and never give up, apart from when I do give up. But generally, I stuck at it for seven years, and I became semi-professional. I think if you get paid enough to earn a living and you don't do any other job, then you're professional or whatever it is you're doing.

If you get paid and it's not enough to live on, then you're semi-professional. That's my thinking around it. So I was a semi-professional stand-up comedian from 93 onwards.

And then by 96, it started to pair out, started to kind of reduce. By 97, I wasn't doing as much, but I was better. I was a much better comedian.

In 95, I was at my peak. At that time, that's when I was really getting paid and I was enjoying it. Sometimes I'd go on stage, and my best gigs were when I just used to make funny noises.

And I'd just talk, but then I didn't even know I was going to make the weird noises, and I did. They sort of just seemed to naturally pop out of my mouth. And so I started off doing comedy, aggressive comedy.

I was very blue. In fact, I wasn't blue. I was just downright disgusting, to be fair.

I did. I used to say stuff that if I said it to you now, if I said it on here, a lot of people wouldn't want to listen again. They'd be very upset and stuff.

But that was a long time ago, man. It's 25 years ago. But that's the kind of comedy that I liked.

In fact, I do still like that kind of comedy. I do. I love it.

But my repertoire, or my taste in comedy is hugely wide. I love all types of comedy. And you know what? I think it's the best gift to be able to appreciate different types of comedy as a gift.

And obviously, the comedy itself is a gift. But the more wider, the more wider your, or the more open, maybe that could be another word, more open you are to different types of different styles of comedy, the more fun you can have. You know, in a sense, if you can, even if you've got no money, you've got nowhere to go, they've got no one to go out with or anything like that.

If you've got a radio, or you've got the internet, you've got a TV set, you've got, you know, you can watch comedy, stand up shows from the 1950s onwards. Andre, baby. You're right.

Why do I love him so much? He's the side of my chair. On the floor. He's laying on some clothes.

And he's, he was going, it might have been him saying, Dad, can you please shut up? So me being nice to him just then, perhaps I shouldn't have been. Yeah, but having that wide spectrum. So much to watch and listen to on TV.

And you know what? The other day, I mentioned it. And I need, I want to try and get back to reminding myself what it is. But I've discovered some American comedians from probably 70s, maybe the 80s, that I'd never heard of before.

They're absolutely hilarious. Really, really funny. And the thing with, I would say I was probably a little bit of a comedy connoisseur, especially with stand up comedy.

I was once a hit 18. I would always loved comedy from early age as a kid, young kid, watching on telly. I never saw one stand up comedy show live when I was about 16 or 17.

And, but, you know, I used to watch live stand up on television. And then when I was 18, I started collecting live videos, live shows on video. So I had Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg.

Oh, here's the thing. It is to show if I this is a subject that I'm still passionate about. It's weird, because when I start talking about it, I realized how passionate I am still about comedy.

Yeah, my time is past, you know, that for that stuff is a shame. Because I clearly love it. I'm just getting excited talking about it.

And I'm not talking about me doing I'm just talking about the subject. Wow. It's not strange.

So but anyway, I, I got the get if you get a chance. Whoopi Goldberg did a video. It was a live concert, but it wasn't stand up comedy.

It was a West End show, where she won loads of awards. She was a stand up comedian as well. But this show was like a one woman show, where she played different characters.

And it was funny. It was moving. It was emotional.

You know, it's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And I fell in love with Whoopi Goldberg.

I just did fell in love with her. And that was before she was famous. And it was definitely before anyone knew about her in my country.

And I'm trying to think what was the first what made her famous here? And I had nuns on the run. But she was she was in ghost, wasn't she? In the early 90s? Or was that late 80s? Even was it was ghost in the late 80s? Or was it early 90s? I'm trying to think I know she's been in loads of movies, but and she's a huge, huge star, isn't she? Old Whoopi. I remember when she she dated Ted Danson from Cheers.

That was great. It was funny. And I had Steve Martin, because again, being a connoisseur of comedy.

Back then, I was watching Steve Martin films that were not on television in the UK. Or had even been at the movies. The Man with Two Brains.

The was there was something like me. But with Lily Tomlin. So he did quite a few films.

Lonely Guy, I'm sure there was one called Lonely Guy. And he lived in an apartment, there was cardboard, life size images of people in his apartment. That was funny.

The Jerk, obviously. So that was the one that kind of made him was like his big film in America. That was his first.

I think it was first huge hit, I think. But Steve Martin didn't become and he was on television, he did his stand up routine on some TV shows and stuff. Late Night TV.

It was Roxanne that made Steve Martin famous here. So Roxanne, him and Daryl Hannah, such I don't know how big the film was in other countries, but it was huge absolutely massive box office success. And then everything he'd done from there on was a hit, pretty much for a while.

So he did Roxanne. What other films did he do after Roxanne? Did he go straight into doing the family ones? Father of the Bride. He might have done you know, I'm sure he did another family one before in like 1990.

And then All of Me, that's the one with Lily Tomlin. So I was watching his early stuff. The early films when I was in my teens.

So I was about 14 probably. And I was watching these films that he'd made in the early 80s. Because he was a superstar in America, I didn't realise.

As far as comedy goes, he was selling out arenas in the 70s. Huge late 70s, but he was a massive star. I'm saying this to people that probably already know that.

But a lot of people might not know. It's just the same as Bill Cosby. I know perhaps we're not supposed to talk about him anymore.

But Bill Cosby was the most successful stand up comedian that they'd ever been in America. He was filling stadiums, arenas out with his stand up and he'd just be sitting there on a stool. He had number one albums.

You know, he was out selling The Beatles. I made that bit up, it might be true. With his albums, he was literally so successful.

And that was long before I was even born. But Steve Martin, when I first saw his live video, so I got a video of him live. And I couldn't believe it.

I might have listened to his album first. Because he had one which was comedy is not pretty. And it's not fun being small.

That's another one that he did, I think. I think he had three albums, live concerts from the late 70s, early 80s. And and I think I watched the video first, to be fair.

And I just found it brilliant. It's like, wow, wow. This is not just amazing, not just funny, physically amazing.

But the bloke can play the banjo like I've never seen anyone do it before. I mean, if you can show me someone that can play the banjo better than Steve Martin, you'll be surprised because he's just phenomenal. And he's been doing it for so long.

I mean, you know, wow. Anyway, and to be able to be able to intermix a banjo into a comedy sketch, or stand up comedy routine, I think it's pretty amazing as well. Eddie Murphy.

Ah, you know what? Going back even earlier, I think one of my first videos I ever watched, and I think this might have been rented was Eddie Murphy's Delirious in 1988. So that's before I started collecting videos. Or maybe that's around the time that I started collecting them.

So I was 17, before I was 17 at the time. And I watched Delirious, I'm pretty sure I rented it, but I might have bought it. I don't know.

And I laughed so much. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Because it was just brilliant.

But I didn't know Eddie Murphy did stand up comedy. I'd seen him in the movies, you know, Beverly Hills Cop and 48 Hours. But all of those, I mean, they're all just the biggest, biggest Hollywood star was me.

It's a bit like Richard Pryor. I didn't know Richard Pryor was a comedian. Until, again, the same kind of age when I was about 17.

Because before that, and I was a big, I was a big fan of Richard Pryor, but his movies. And again, like I like I did with Steve Martin. I watched, because on TV, they used to show Brewster's Millions, you'd see Superman 3, maybe Christmastime.

And Stir Chicken or Stir Crazy, I said Stir Crazy. And Silver Streak. I think they were the main films that Richard Pryor that would get shown on television.

Now, I didn't know that he'd made lots of other films. Until I went to the video shop. They knew me in there.

Honestly, I watched I think every single film possible. I watched everything. I was a proper movie buff.

I don't know why. I just loved watching films. My favourite feeling that I ever got when we were kids, because I didn't, it's not that I didn't like being around the family.

I just, you know, I didn't look forward to it. Just, it's because I had brothers and we'd argue. And it was because two of them were older than me, which meant they would win.

And the other one was eight years younger than me, which meant he would win. So I didn't really have a chance. So, and I was always, I always liked things.

I like different things to the others. I like to read. And the others didn't seem that bothered about that.

Or maybe I like to read, you know, different things to them. I had different interests. But my oldest brother was a massive Elvis fan.

Like, as big an Elvis fan as you'll ever meet. He had, I think he had nearly all of his albums and he just loved him. He spent a lot of time doing that, listening to Elvis and his life, a lot of his life when he wasn't at school was based on that because he loved Elvis so much.

And that's where I got my love for Elvis from. Probably, in reality, just from hearing Elvis's songs all the time, during my childhood, as you know, during the, during the ages of eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, you know, and then suddenly, I just realized that I was an Elvis fan as well. And my other brother, he was very physical.

He's a very athletic, physical person. So he's very active. That's what I'm trying to say.

He's a very active person. So he'd be out a lot doing stuff and having fun. I was more sitting at home on my own.

I liked sitting downstairs, if I was on my own, or I was doing something and other people were just doing their own thing, reading a book, or maybe doing a drawing or, you know, something like that. Or watching television or watching a movie. But generally, because I didn't have my own television until I was probably 14, maybe 15.

No, 14. And so, you know, I was relying upon the television downstairs. And why I didn't just buy myself a television, I don't know.

It didn't even enter my mind. So I could have paid, I could have got one. Maybe I wasn't allowed one, I don't know.

But I had, you know, I had income. In fact, I had more money when I was at school than I do now. Because I had like three different jobs.

You know, I was thinking about that. I know that working young children is frowned upon, you know, sort of sweatshops and things like that. And of course, I agree with that.

It should be frowned upon, but we do need them. Otherwise, how are we supposed to get cheap clothes? I'm joking, I'm joking. But I was thinking, you know, I was watching an episode of Family Guy.

And Chris, for those who don't know what a program is, then it's a cartoon. And Chris marries, he's 14. And he marries a girl, probably about the same age, maybe 15, in the show.

And he has to, he ends up working in a restaurant. And they're living together. And you know, and I thought about that, you know, I was thinking, you know what, I reckon most 14 year old boys, not most, because there's going to be a lot, you know, that want to go to school and want to go to university and, you know, have dreams and stuff.

But if you gave a 14 year old teenage boy an opportunity to live with his girlfriend, and to live an adult lifestyle, and to be able to, you know, do all the things that he's not supposed to do, but as an adult, you know, but he can because he's married and he's able to. And the only thing he's got to do for that is to go to work full time. You would have such a long list of 14 year old boys wanting to go to work.

And I would have been in that list as well, I would have been in that queue. I would have, I would have loved to have gone to work full time at the age of 12, 13 even, rather than go to school. Seriously.

I mean, I think some people, I don't know, I don't know, I just think some people maybe are best suited for different things. And maybe should give, should have the opportunity to find out what they're good at. And if you're at school, and you've not found out what you're good at, or if you've not found something you're interested in, and let's face it, there's quite a few subjects in school.

I mean, it's, there's a lot of information there and a lot of different things that you can learn. And if, if you still haven't found something that you're interested in, by the time you get to 12, 13, 14, or 12, I left school at 15, so 14 is not that young, but 12, let's say. There may be an opportunity to go into work, as long as you get paid a proper wage, not a four, you know, 12 year old wage, but proper adult wage.

And you're treated with respect and you have all the same rules as everyone else. I reckon quite a few people would want to do that. Learn a trade, learn to be a mechanic, or learn to do such, you know, find something that they've, they're passionate about, that they're interested in.

Because, you know, I honestly, I feel, I feel like I, I wasted five years of my life being at school. I didn't really, I really felt I learned anything. And part of that was because I was determined not to.

So, you know, can't really blame anyone else, but I didn't, I feel I learned more in the part-time job in the bakery that I had at the weekends. I learned communication skills because I was with adults, but I was with adults that weren't telling me what to do in a way that, like, like parents, it was a different kind of, it was a responsibility, you know, because in a job you can get told what to do, but you can walk out. You don't have to do it, you know, especially if it's a part-time job and you're at school.

I could have walked out any minute and said, no, you break the eggs yourself. I'm not carrying that tray, you know, whatever it would be that I might say. But I enjoyed that job.

I even got up at six o'clock. I got, I started work at six o'clock on a Saturday, five o'clock on a Sunday. That's early and I'm not an early riser.

Well, part of me is, but most of me is not. My brain is, definitely isn't. And I think that might have been better for me.

Maybe. Either that or maybe in school, it might be a lot different. Well, it will be a lot different from the 700 years ago that I was there.

But even now, basic things like how to queue for a bus doesn't seem to be taught at school. And you think about it, the last six, seven months, the television adverts in my country have been trying to teach the population how to wash their hands. It's not just how to wash your hands, but begging people to please wash their hands when they give birth to their Maltesers.

I mean, it's like, what? That's, that's worrying. So, things, you know, queuing for a bus, the amount of young people that, you know, I'll be waiting for a bus with my friend or just on my own. I'll be waiting maybe 10 minutes.

Some young 20 year old or whatever will walk up, wait there for maybe a couple of minutes. The bus will pull up, he'll put his hand out, I'll put my hand out as well. We don't, we don't touch hands and talk about put your hand out for the bus to stop.

And he'll go on the bus first. Now, there's been times when I said, oy, and I said, I'm, I'm, I'm getting on first. I don't do that so much now, but I have done that in the past.

But it just seems like absolutely like a lack of, I guess, but then I didn't realize that, I think up to the age of 25, a human's brain doesn't work properly anyway. It's still, the connections are still building together. And a teenager's brain is not, it's no one's fault.

It's just, you know, the brain hasn't developed. And the more that the scientists and the brain experts explore, the more they're realizing that we are never the finished article. Our brains are constantly changing, as are our bodies.

We are never finished. Our brains are never complete. Which is brilliant.

Because it means that we can continue to learn. There's that whole thing that saying, well, if you haven't, you can't learn after a certain age. Well, I've realized that's not true.

The only reason people might not learn after a certain age is for two reasons. Firstly, because they're too lazy to do it. Secondly, because they believe they can't.

Because that's what they've been brought up to think. That's what they've been, had their brainwashing done. So much brainwashing.

So before we go, because it is time to go. I'm just going to read you out the weights for the different boxes. Minimum weight is 105 pounds.

So I'm pretty sure I've never heard of anyone fighting at 48 kilos for 105 pounds. I mean, that's, that's more than half my body weight. It's basically just my legs running around.

You got light flyweight 108 pounds, three pounds. So you can go up, you can win the world title at minimum weight, go up three pounds and fight for another world title. I can lose three pounds just getting onto the exercise bike.

Flyweight 112 pounds, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, four pounds. Okay, four pounds, it's nothing, is it? So that's why a lot of the lower weight boxers managed to win world titles in lots of different weights. And because some of them are very young when they start, let's face it, you're not going to, how many grown adult men are you going to find that are 48 kilos? I mean, that's the size of an obese baby, isn't it? A toddler that's a bit big.

I mean, 40, you know, 105 pounds for an adult man. Yeah, maybe a teenager, 17, 18 year old, very extremely slim, short, you know, person, but they're going to put weight on as they get older. So once they reach maybe 20, 22, 25, they may well be, they might gone up like six, seven weights.

So in that period, they could perhaps win world titles, all those different weights and end up being a welterweight maybe, which is 147 pounds. So they might put, so four, yeah. Anyway, there's minimum weight, lightweight, flyweight, super flyweight, bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, super featherweight.

There's four pounds between, I don't know why they bother. Lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight, super welterweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight. But it's different in Olympics, see? So there's only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

There are 10 weights in the Olympics opposed to the 700 different weights on there. So a heavyweight is 91 kilos, up to 91 kilos. Okay.

So 201 pounds, that's the heavyweight in the Olympics. Super heavyweight is above 91 kilos. So what happens is a heavyweight, someone who wins the super heavyweight world title, the Olympic gold or one of the medals will then go on to be a heavyweight fighter in the boxing ranks, the professional ranks if they choose.

A heavyweight will go on to be a cruiserweight in the professional division, because that's a heavyweight basically is cruiserweight. I don't know why they don't just put cruiserweight and then heavyweight, make more sense instead of super heavyweight. Now with women's boxing, they can't decide apparently.

According to this, a heavyweight, super heavyweight in professional boxing is over 179 pounds, 81 kilos. That's what I want to see. I want to see heavyweight, super heavyweight boxers, women.

Because I'd just like to see what that would be like. So I haven't seen that yet. I've only seen like middleweight, lightweight, middleweight.

The women Olympics is restricted to just three weight classes, three flyweight, lightweight and middleweight, which explains why we've not seen no heavyweight professional stars because the stars generally come from the Olympics. That's where it's really where they've been the leaders in professional women's boxing. So let's get a heavyweight in there.

That's what I want to see. Just a personal thing. Just a personal wish of mine.

So that's it. So I'm going to go now. Going to go now.

Thank you very much for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Because you deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.