#627 Let me bore you to sleep

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com My name is Jason Newland. This is let me bore you to sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Thank you to Paul for your PayPal gift and also for your Facebook message with a link to some software that may be very useful to me to make the loudness of the podcasts a correct volume for the streaming services you know such as Spotify and all the others. So I've checked it out on the iPad but I can't download anything on the iPad because it's just all apps but I will do it on the on the laptop.

I'll go on and download it and sort of see how it goes and and if it's it's a free it's a like a free trial or free whatever but it's only £33 if you buy the thing and it's like a one-off payment so if it works and it's good then I'll just probably buy it uh not not this week but yeah I just see I mean I was hoping that Audible would do that for me and the Rodecaster which I've not got yet and won't be getting for a month at least is in my understanding

is the finished product when you finish with because the Rodecaster you plug the microphone into it it's the Rodecaster is not connected to a laptop or to anything else I guess just a power source and you record onto it it's like a recording studio I guess you record directly onto it and the finished product should be if you put in the settings for podcast and I think it actually has like a thing you press podcast and that's what it's built for anyway really so it should come out at exactly the correct loudness without me having

to edit to get the loudness to a level that is approximately okay with guesswork so yeah it's uh it's all going to improve over time the the quality of the recordings will be better they will be and not just I think the let me boy the sleep ones are pretty good actually these days but there won't be much in the way of background sound especially with the hypnosis ones they're the ones that are really especially the deep sleep whisper ones it's very hard to record that and then increase the volume because when you increase the

volume you increase the the kind of the staticky sound certain things can be done in audible audible audible it is audible yeah um yeah audible the editing audio editing software there's certain things you can do I'm still learning that and this week I've been focusing very much on the recordings and other some other things that I wanted to get done before the end of the month a little push to you know increase the audience and you know just a bit of that stuff a bit of the back end stuff back end that is I think

that is a technical term so today is Wednesday and I normally don't do these recordings till quite late but it's fairly early today I'm going to cough now so I press the pause button and that was a lovely cough I've got the my neighbor's dog is up here I'm looking after him my neighbor's gone to have his jab um I didn't go to mine today because I was unwell I've been I've had to keep near the toilet unfortunately without going into details so um I'm gonna have to rebook I think the next time I rebook

I'll need to find somewhere closer to where I live because I was going to a different town and it's just wasn't practical but hey there you go so I've got this huge massive dinosaur dog on the floor and he has to be near you always has to be near you whatever you could be living you could literally be in a hall like thousands of feet wide you know and he'd have to be there with you practically sitting on you now this room is not thousands of feet wide but there is a bit more space than

there was because I've tidied up so there's a bit more space for him to sit down and lie on the floor and if he wanted to he could climb on the say but he's not doing that no he's he's laying down with his bum facing me for when he farts all his faces is bummed towards whoever he's with so that they can enjoy his trumpage oh by the way if you don't know trump trump is a there's another word for fart in the UK which is kind of you know it's an old one of the

old words he trumped which is kind of uh funny on some levels uh so he did a trump so now if you say he did a trump you probably not you know oh rub yourself over the carpet that's yeah why don't you yes this is that's fine that's okay he's a strange dog he's very um emotionally needy like proper proper needy which isn't his fault obviously but he's just you know always always needs attention and I think that's what made me realize there's no point me ever get a dog because that'd be annoying you know

I need a dog just to be doing its own thing really like Andre he does his own thing he's but he's a complete opposite I'd like more attention from Andre but he gives he doesn't give much to me unless you want something but you know he does come and cuddle me a few times a day well I pick I pick him up from the floor and cuddle him a few times a day when he was more flexible and younger he used to climb up my leg onto the settee but he hasn't got the I don't

know if he's got the muscle strength anymore to do that so he doesn't you know his days of jumping from one flat top to another flat top or flat surface to another flat surface those days are gone but a few years ago he would really if he wanted to get somewhere for example the I don't know the bookcase or if he wanted to get onto the windowsill he'd find a way on there even if it meant moving things around so he could use it to get up to the next thing like steps he'd find his

way onto the windowsill and he'd knock everything off he found his way onto the bookcase I don't know how he did it but he managed to get high up and knocked everything off the bookcase and fell off himself a load of stuff fell on him now that was not my plan you know I didn't want that to happen I'm not even sure how he managed to get on there came home one night or one day and the kitchen everything was on the floor basically he'd got onto the kitchen how he did it but he got

into I don't know he got into the kitchen service and he knocked everything he could onto the floor cups plates cutlery saucepans anything basically that was light enough for him to push off he did so yeah he's I really do wish I'd had a film of that a bit of footage you know to just it just be I think it'd be funny to see you know you know I mean you know I mean it'd be funny very very very very very funny but I don't so therefore I won't I can't see it so I can't

put it on YouTube but you know what I will be putting onto YouTube do you know see the dog has pushed me back so far in my chair that I'm basically pushed against the punch bag or the back of my chair is which is slightly annoying so here we go here's what I've done on credit again yeah I'm getting into a lot of debt it's brilliant I got myself a retail card with this retail company and basically I can I can spend six months I can pay off over six months and not I think not

have any interest I think but if you don't pay off within six months the interest starts from the day you purchased it so I will pay it off within six months and it's my camera my camera my Sony ZV-1 vlogging camera so I have to I can pick it up at the weekend so was it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday so Sunday or maybe Monday I don't know maybe Tuesday maybe Friday but not this week so basically the weekend onwards I can pick it up because they wouldn't deliver wouldn't deliver they said oh out of

stock to deliver but in stock to collect which means that they clearly it doesn't make sense does it if it's in stock then deliver it maybe I'm wrong in my presumption I don't know so that's something I'm you know fairly looking forward to getting and I would have got the Rodecaster recording thing if it was available on credit but I couldn't get it on credit so I have to pay for that outright and well I haven't got the money to do that so I can't do it yet it's going to be a month a month

or two months before I get that but in the meantime I'll you know still look to try and increase the quality of the sound but once I get that item the Rodecaster it should should should should increase the quality instantly it should just be a really good quality I'm hoping that the microphone on the camera is as good as they say I've seen a few reviews on YouTube and because I'm not going to be far away from the camera it should pick me up fine and I've got a fair bit of soundproof in here so

it shouldn't sound much in the way of echoey but I am planning to get those that lapel microphone which is specifically for that camera which will be it will be really really good I'll be really war and then I'll be able to and I'll get more done I'm tired I'm so so so so tired if what you said is true why did you always do those things do those things oh see I've got some new suggestions on the dating app for Facebook oh she looks all right she has eyes and ears that's nice I don't

know what she not what she is but she's it's going Brazil Braziluria Brazil Brazilera Brazilera what dealer what deal what is wa with that thingy above the a a mistake which makes you humble a mistake this is on stroke a mistake which makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant yes sir that's a good saying she's got nice oh no no no no no no 55 bye bye bye bye bye I saw one that I liked earlier the one I saw a lady that I liked earlier and it just made me

laugh something she put in there was quite funny so this is another one another so looking forward to a new year and a fresh start thought I'd give this a go and see if these guys that I don't see where you go what what people don't realize I don't know why and I've seen this a lot in on dating apps is they start off with a with a defensive and on a negative by saying what they don't want say what you do want you know saying oh I don't want I don't want someone that's going

to be horrible to me well who does who does want that you know and the ones are my kids are the most important thing in the world to me well yeah obviously what why would you need to even say that you know it's more important than any man everybody knows that come on wow well it should be wasn't quite the way with my step-mom but there you go looking forward to a new year and a fresh start thought I'd give this a go and see if these guys that are not just after one thing trust

you you meet any men you'll meet will be fine you'll be fine with though you probably won't be on their minds that gets on my nerves well well again it's just negative in it we well loved the wrong man for far too many years to not be in love with him no more is amazing well uh well loved the wrong man okay I well loved the wrong man for far too many years to not be in love with him no more is amazing okay I think I'm not sure if I understand that you can't help

you fall in love with sometimes but sure I'm glad that past that past took far too long as a basically it shows how important thought stops are and because if one sentence leads to the next sentence it doesn't really work for the reading it makes it difficult I'm no English expert but you can't help who you fall in love with with sometimes but sure I'm glad that past took far too long what do you want go away no get off get off it's like you just knock stuff over honestly just lay down mate lay down

no don't knock my stuff over they've got expensive equipment on there just just behave yourself honestly I can't leave anything because he's just so heavy-handed or heavy trough to wherever you wanna always looking for something to eat as well you know he looks through the floor because Andre has his food and Andre hides it sometimes and moves it around and the dog's looking where's Andre hidden the food um I said no anyway so I'll get rid of her this oh she's nice she's from Red Hill but there's just one picture and that's it no information

I mean it's yeah I don't suppose it really matters I think what would be better though is if you could go to their go to the person's profile Facebook profile and then you get an idea what they really like you get more of an idea oh wow that's not a real person is it this looks like a no this looks almost like it's a fake person I just got interrupted then um my friend's back so the dog's happy again wow see it's really strange here this is this lady here and she ticks a lot of

boxes there's a couple of boxes ticked very quickly um a little bit I don't know about the dog she's got a Doberman next to her so I don't know there's a big as her yeah two crazy Dobermans it says in a picture yeah I'm a little bit scared and she's taller than I am she's from Russia now I don't mind people that are taller than me I've met a lot of girls that are taller than me because I'm a short arse but there's a picture of her with high heels on which means she'd be about

seven foot two a little bit too tall very intimidating as well and she's got both her Doberman in front of her but then when I'm thinking you know no because I'm not that I would be not that I would get a response anyway but I'm thinking nah there's a picture right at the bottom of her in a karate gi or jiu-jitsu gi whatever it is she's doing it doesn't say but she's definitely got a lot of martial arts kits on with a blue belt it might be purple belt or blue belt which means she's been

doing it a while so yeah sounds like oh well damn it oh okay I gotta stop looking at these so yeah I don't know what I was talking about oh yeah my camera my camera get me camera um I've been looking forward to this for months I've been planning this for a long time long time which means please you know don't don't go to YouTube or anything and watch the video so you know listen please continue to listen to the podcast but if you fancy a laugh just if you want laugh at my funny face

you get a chance to because my funny face is going to be on YouTube a lot a heck of a lot because I'm planning I'm planning on videoing all my new recordings planning whether I do it or not I don't know but with the investment that I've just uh that I'm paying out it would make sense to use the thing and it's you know it's built for vlogging it's built for YouTube uh creators it's it's the perfect camera really for that so yeah there there's still a a what's it so I've got I've got um

tripods and stuff like that but there's a it's got a special tripod that can be used with it where you can have a bit of control over it and that but you don't need that yeah to start with I'll have to get it it's another 160 quid or something but I get that separate because where I got the camera from they didn't sell that which is weird because most places that sell it give you a special offer say well if you buy them together we give you 90 pound 90 pound off of the overall price

but not not where I got mine no but it's groovy it's groovy groovy groovy and I'm glad that I'm getting it yeah I am yeah I think if if I was able to choose between which I'd get first the RODECaster Pro recording deck or the camera I'd go for the RODECaster Pro podcaster thing but but but but I couldn't get that on credit so it wasn't an option was not an option no no no no no no no no no no no no however however I found it online um 100 pound cheaper than on than

it is on Amazon 100 pound cheaper which is a significant amount so it's like 540 pound on Amazon 440 whatever 46 pound on other websites now I decided to go to did a little bit of research decided to go directly to the RODECaster to the RODE website who produces these and they have a list of recommended retailers to purchase it from because they don't sell it directly you know they obviously they sell it to the stores who then sell it to the public so they which was a bit surprised about why can't I just buy

it directly from them and they gave a list of safe places that they recommend and let's face it if they recommend it and it's on their website it's going to be pucker isn't it it's going to be correct the first one was 540 the next one now 440 why would I pay 100 pound extra for what I mean does it come with a lifetime supply of tomato sauce ketchup over what does it smile at me when I fart I mean what is the extra benefits you get from paying the extra 100 pound I don't know

now that I can think of now I said now I'm not so yeah it's uh that's going to be interesting new development for myself to be moving in that direction and back into the world of YouTube it's been a while really since I've been consistent I say been a while it's been years and years the last time I was consistent on YouTube was probably um 2000 and maybe 2018 to maybe 2017 maybe 2016 I'm not sure not 100% sure however I'm about to return about to return to my home my home of YouTube videos back

to where I came from does feel a bit weird yeah it's a little bit weird to go back but it's not going backwards it's going forwards because I'm doing something different to what I used to do then you know I've almost I've got a regular podcasts that I do and established so I'm an established podcaster now although I've been doing podcasts for 15 years but I feel that I'm more I've stuck to kind of one thing you know before I was doing videos I was doing podcasts and I was doing a lot of the stuff

I was doing was just standalone recordings now although everything is standalone they're they're also part of a of a group so this is a standalone recording in a way but it's also you know part of a podcast which has got over you know 626 recordings on it so it's part of something just like the Deep Sleep Whistle ones it's like 300 recordings on there it's part of something so each one is an addition and adds to it yeah I think so I think that makes sense to me so what I'll be doing is potentially just

doing this and recording myself like filming myself recording myself so it won't be particularly interesting to watch really but I guess you know who knows there might I might still have an audience on YouTube I've got like 550 subscribers on a channel that I rarely do anything on so I think once I start producing regular videos the subscribers will increase and also a few weeks ago like a month ago whatever I did add a few videos and the subscriber rate went up quite quickly so I was like oh wow just by adding a new one

so if I'm adding I don't know two or three new videos every day you know let me bore you to sleep Deep Sleep Whisper and a relaxation hypnosis for relaxation recording so let's say three that's quite a lot for a YouTube channel to produce three recordings three videos a day but it won't be just recorded I won't be producing them just for the sake of it because that's what I do anyway on the podcasts so yeah I think it might be interesting I just don't want everyone going to YouTube and I want people to still

stay on face on Spotify and listen to me on the podcast as well so I'm kind of hoping to reach a new and different audience on YouTube to the audience I've got on the podcasts I don't want I don't know don't necessarily well there's nothing I can do about it but I don't necessarily I'm not looking for people to migrate to move to YouTube from you know not to move to YouTube I sound so dramatic and important don't I so self-important anyway I know what I mean I know what I mean kind of kind of

no so yeah I'd like I'm interested to see how it goes very very very very interested I'm also interested to see the process of editing and how quickly I can learn to make the videos decent and you know fairly professional editing wise because if I've got three or even more videos each day that's quite a bit of editing and it's quite a bit of editing just for the audio so it's a fairly a fair bit of editing for the videos however if I'm doing it every day I'm just going to get quicker and better at

it so it won't take very long or it won't take as long to go through the editing process of each individual video so we'll see and see what happens but it will be starting next week so I might even start Sunday but probably Monday the next you know I'll start recording my sessions and it will be strange because I don't you know when I say recording I'm talking about videoing it this part of me doesn't really want to do that anymore because I know I can sit here and I could you know I could pour

I wanted to I could pour candy floss all over my head and no one would know saying that you'd know because I tell you so if I had like popcorn in my ears and in my nostrils and stuff even if you if I wasn't on video I'd probably tell you that I had that going on because it gives me something to talk about on a video you can kind of see it well you you can see not kind of you you can see it so yeah I don't know I don't know why I feel this

way for you even when I look to the sky all I want to do is hug you yeah I think it's it's gonna be interesting it's gonna be interesting and adds to what I'm doing but I started to think oh this is a lot it's quite a lot to do but I might have to get myself some makeup to make myself look presentable but I don't know how I don't know how to do that apparently there's a soft filter there's a way to sort of soften yourself up a little bit so I can take off

any sort of which makes you look just a bit nicer you know it's kind of the opposite to HD I think you know high definition video is great but not for faces unless that face is particularly lovely and I don't I don't fall I don't fall into that category it's I don't you know I don't watch my own videos but I don't want people watching the videos just like counting the liver spots you know it's like no as you know I mean I might use that as a hypnotic trance now I'm gonna hold the back

of my hand up to you and I'd like you to count the liver spots counting all the way up to 4032 counting one two three four yeah so yeah probably I did I did do a recording uh called focus on my um eye bags that's it okay focus on my eye bags to relax I think some people might not know whether to take me seriously or not with titles like that I mean there's one one title what was it um oh yeah let me relax you with my hand when I had that title you know

I think I made a video at the time or maybe it was just a podcast audio but I was you know I'm focusing on my hand and it's a technique it's a relaxation technique focusing on my hand and so I think it was a video I think it was a video um let me relax you with my hand and I think it was a video that had apparently amused a few people out there and it brought up all kinds of connotations and accusations that were untrue mostly so yeah I sometimes perhaps haven't thought through some

of the titles of my recordings but you know what after 15 years it's not that easy to keep coming up with new titles especially for relaxation sessions because let's face it most people don't make relaxation lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of relaxation sessions there are some but not many you know there's some of the most popular people out there have made a few relaxation sessions that get millions of views on youtube so they might do like oh another one do another one do another one but they won't you know do lots

and lots and lots and lots and lots and hundreds and hundreds just for relaxation which is what I did no wonder I was a failure no I wasn't not really so what's the month now it's now okay we start in April so I'm going to start making videos in April so April May June July August September October November December so that's nine months for the to the end of the year now nine months how many subscribers you know I want to have at least a thousand by the end of the year but realistically if I'm

making three videos a day that's what it's 90 videos a month roughly so that's or 81 81 videos no wait a minute how many videos a month 90 90 videos so it's like 810 so over 800 videos between now and Christmas now if I've done 800 new videos and I've only got up to a thousand subscribers so only reached 450 new subscribers then I'm probably doing something wrong very wrong wrong so which means I need to sort of start giving myself a good looking at in the mirror so there's potential I could reach a thousand

with it by summer maybe July and then maybe reach I don't know I just I'll be happy to reach a thousand subscribers I know might sound weird but based on such a small amount I've got you know I'll basically be doubling the subscribers and that'd be quite exciting for me to get to two thousand excuse me or five thousand would be amazing to get to ten thousand would be phenomenal I mean not in you know the reality of it is it's a small amount for most people but for me it'd be huge absolutely huge to

get ten thousand subscribers now to get I don't know what it is I think if you get a hundred thousand subscribers you get a plaque from YouTube they send you a plaque in the post I think it is and then if you get a million subscribers you get another plaque something like that I've watched some videos on it I might be wrong about the numbers but you definitely get something for a million but I think you do get subscribers if you're getting a hundred thousand as well because it's uh we've reached you know it's a

good it's a nice target to me isn't it a hundred thousand so my plan is just to just to keep going keep doing it keep going and keep making new recordings and new video you know of the recordings and just see how it goes just there's nothing to lose and also three recordings not that much really when I'm doing it anyway just to feel myself isn't really a big issue if I was I don't know what don't I know I don't know I just think it'd be cool cool to yeah I think it's going to

be fun so that's the plan that's my plan and the plan has been put into action in a sense of the camera's been put well it's it's it's not being bought because I'm paying for it over or six months to pay for it I think I can put money onto the account over that time so I can pay off bit by bit as long as it's paid off within the six months then it's done I think it's interest-free which is good so I will do that I mean it's basically it's a hundred pound a month

I've got to find excuse me and then yeah I'm just going to keep doing that and seeing what happens and maybe I'll just I'll just be very interested to to see the results at the end of the year at the end of this year the results of having excuse me having done videos for nine months on YouTube as well as of course the podcasts I mean yeah I love the podcasts and it's my baby these uh I put a lot of work and energy time and money into producing this stuff over the last few years

might not see my 15 years but I feel like this is like a new phase a new yeah that might sound weird but you know November 2018 was when I opened up the podcast that you know on Spreaker and uploaded a lot of my old stuff on there and from then also started some new podcasts like the Let Me Boy To Sleep one which as I said now has over 600 recordings so I'm just uh you know I'm just interested in seeing how it's grown to what it is and I'm just excited to see how

it's going to continue to grow excuse me I've got a bit of a bit of a coffee coffee throat today so what is it Thursday me oh no no no no no I'm just seeing what the stats are for this week so far so yesterday I had 11,373 downloads today so far 7,397 now it is it's not seven o'clock in the evening yet so there's still six hours left and so six hours to I need 2,700 to get to the 10,000 I'm now at a point where I'm not willing for it to go below 10,000

of course I don't have you know that much control really if people either people listen or they don't but in my mind I don't want it to go below 10,000 I think my you know the I have uh what's it called acid acid reflux tablets that I take and sometimes I don't take them every day and so when I don't some I get like a cough makes me cough sometimes you know indigestion heartburn and stuff but today I think it's it's a bit of coughing that's okay I feel like I've got a hair in my

throat but I haven't I haven't your honor so you know you get to get to travel excuse me travel along on this journey with me to you know do this stuff as I'm sort of growing and progressing and hopefully turning this into a living for myself it's not something I never really wanted before but I realize at my age I need to start looking for you know planning a little bit for the future and there's been a few incidences where I've had the need of needed money and didn't have any access to any money one

such occasion was when Andre was at the vets and I did get some help and I thank those people that did help but I had to borrow money and it was yeah it was a difficult time and if Andre had actually needed to have an operation or anything like that I wouldn't have been able to afford to have it done and I don't ever want to be in that position again for him I want to be able to to do whatever is necessary to keep him happy and safe and well he is my number one

priority so yeah hopefully by the end of this year I could start looking to perhaps becoming you know moving into self-employment maybe moving into you know having this as a job but it might still take a year or two before I'm there but things are sort of looking up and yeah that's my plan that's my plan and it's it's not like a detailed plan not I guess not really but it is a plan it's probably a lot more detail inside my head than there is verbally I kind of do know what I want I've got

an idea of the lifestyle I want and yeah I'm looking forward to pursuing this next step which is the videos on YouTube and then once that is established and once I'm able to sort of deal with making videos daily and all the editing and everything else once that's sorted and I'm feeling okay with that I suppose it's then time to look for the next step which may involve writing a book or something like that and then the next step going on a world tour yeah sure sure you're gonna go yeah you're gonna go on a

world tour that's right oh aren't you little baby oh come here you and your world tour I need to get some fans first I've got some fans yeah of course you have yeah and they're dotted all around the world as well aren't they yeah in every single country you've got people that really love your stuff yeah yeah we've heard it all before I've never said anything before yes you have it's all you ever do no it isn't yes it is um yeah I'm not sure what that was uh so yeah it's it'd be weird I

don't think I can I don't know if I can I'm used to sort of spacing out a little bit when I make recordings not in a weird way just you know it's you know it's not the most organized when I do these boring ones it's it's not particularly linear you know it's just a bunch of stuff that I talk about a bunch of stuff sometimes things and sometimes words and sometimes ideas but none of it of any particular importance importance um so yeah I don't know it might be interesting I guess I mean I'll be

able to talk about making YouTube videos which might be weird because I've actually been filming myself talking about how weird it is to make YouTube videos again after such a long time I'm very very interested to first of all see what quality is going to be like hopefully it's going to be good secondly I'd be interested to find out I can't remember the second bit I suppose yeah I'm interested to see what the reaction is as far as statistics and people visiting and watching and subscribing so yeah I'll be interested to find out what happens

there and I will keep you updated I will you know me and my stats I love to love to chat about statistics which is a very strange thing to do I know but hey I'm a strange fella innit very very strange indeed yes so on that note I'm going to go say thank you please remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy lots of love bye