#687 Let me bore you to sleep - E-BOOKS COMING - Jason Newland (9th July 2021)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com My name is Jason the Nulandy and this is let me by. Let me bore you to sleep. Please only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes.

I think I may redo that introduction. No, I won't because I'm lazy. Lazy-y.

So hey, how you doing babes? How you doing? You alright? You alright babes? You alright darling? You alright sweetheart? Alright darling? Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. So yeah, this is Friday the 9th of July 2021. It really is.

It really is July. July. It's summer apparently.

Apparently. Raining all day long. It makes no difference to my life.

I don't know why I sort of like it's raining. Or have you been out? Has it affected you? Did you get wet? No, because I didn't go out. I didn't need to go out therefore I didn't go out.

So I've been sitting on my bum all day long. What have I been doing? You may ask. What's it got to do with you? I don't have to tell you anything.

None of your business. I'm not telling you about my exciting life. Okay, fair enough.

I will then. Well, what I've been doing today is two things. I have been trying to organize my recordings on my, I don't know what you call it, storage box thing, data storage thing that I bought a couple of months ago.

So I'm trying to get all my recordings all on there, all organized, just as another safe space for them all to be. And I'm using the normal laptop for that because it's just easier to use. It's just easier learning how to use Apple Mac and how to use their way of doing things.

It's just, I don't know why, if they were superior, which they're supposed to be, as far as processing and speed and, um, you know, lots of different things. Why not just have the same way of using it as with Windows? It's easy. Windows is so easy to use.

And you try going over to Apple and their iOS system. It's just not, it's not user friendly at all. The phone is and the iPad kind of is, I guess.

But the MacBook I got is it's not a touch screen, which I was surprised about. You can touch it, but it does nothing except make it murky, just makes it dirty. And I'm watching Dog.

What's it called? You know, the American show Dog, and he basically, he chases people that are wanted by the police. Bounty Hunter, that's it. And I haven't seen the program for quite a while.

I first discovered it in 2014. I think it was 2014. And I liked it quite a bit.

I did, I used to watch every day. But now, yeah, not that interested. It just happened to be on.

I watch much telly. I had a nap earlier, I just had enough. Just thought, oh, I'm going to sleep, man.

Going to sleep, which I did. I just laid down. And I just, just went to sleep for about three hours, I think it was just needed a nap.

And I got one. I mean, basically, I've been sat staring at this computer for hours all day long, we pretty much. And the other thing I've been doing, which is this stupid crappy chair.

Whenever my friend gives me stuff is always shite. Excuse my language, it always falls apart. It's fine when he gives it to me.

And then just, it just, there's no point buying or he gives it to me. So it's not, it's, you know, that's really kind of him. But it's never never works properly.

Nothing ever seems to work properly. This chair just clicks like really loudly. And it might not have anything to do with the chair, it might just be my big fat bum.

However, I'm blaming the chair. And it's annoying. So it's not really what I want while I'm making a recording, like a big bang, you know, while I'm doing that, I have to sit completely still when I do a hypnosis one.

So what I'll probably need to do in the future is get myself a decent chair, probably a gaming chair, one of those things, you know, that's really comfortable, good for me back supports me back, but at the same time, doesn't make lots of noises. Because they're built for people who have sitted for long periods of time. So that's probably one get myself.

Not this year, maybe next year. Not anytime, not anytime soon, baby. It's going to be a while before that happens.

But I will look to do that because this chair is just no good. It's okay for now. It's fairly comfortable.

Doesn't support my back at all. But it's you know, it's fairly comfortable. It's it rocks.

Well, yeah, it does rock a little bit. But I wouldn't trust it. You know, wouldn't like lean all the way back because it probably pretty what every other chair in the world does when I lean back on it.

It'll explode. I'll just bang and I'll find myself on the floor like oh no, broken another chair. How am I going to get back up onto my feet? And so you know, all those problems that come with it.

And we've been the size of a house. Wait a minute. Oh, no.

Oh, well that hurt. Oh, it's not supposed to hurt. I did it.

I did a fart earlier and it was so smelly. Now as you know, I don't normally fart. But we have a few problems.

As late today was the third installment of the constipation blockbuster. This is chapter three today. And it was a little bit easier.

It was a bit of an easier read if you know what I mean. Things flowed a little bit better. The words, you know, as I was reading the chapter, because the first chapter it was very, very, I don't know what that was.

That wasn't me. The first chapter of this constipation saga was, it was, it was a heavy read. I found it very difficult to finish the chapter if I'm honest.

It was very, very hard, very hard to process. It didn't, I mean, to say it didn't flow easily was, it just didn't flow. It's almost, I felt almost very blocked while I was reading it.

And at the end of it, I felt, I felt physically exhausted. I really did. I mean, it took me ages to finish it.

It was over an hour it took to finish that particular chapter. Now the second chapter was, I think it was yesterday. And it was, it wasn't an easy chapter, but it was easier.

You know, easier felt, feel things, I'm not saying things felt lubricated, like things were just flowing a little, but they did flow a little bit easier. There was less of a strain on my brain, as I was trying to read that particular chapter of the constipation saga. And I mean, you know, it was historically accurate, but the end did come, the end did come.

And I was pleased. And, but it was probably about 25 minutes, 20 minutes, maybe. So it took less time to read.

And things eventually presented themselves, you know, to me sort of in a sense of understanding. Now today that I read the third chapter of this ongoing, I mean, I don't want to call it a shit story, but you know, it's ongoing. And today, I could definitely feel it was more of a smoother read, as it were, still blockages, still not as smooth as I'd like, it didn't, didn't flow completely, you know.

But eventually, I mean, it's almost like before, it was just one big, very solid story. In the first chapter, like it was so solid, very hard and solid story and hard to follow. And it just didn't, didn't move very quickly.

Very heavy, very heavy and solid. The second one yesterday, the second chapter that I read, it wasn't, it was still quite solid. The story, still quite heavy, but less, it was lighter than before.

And although it did, did take a while to really present itself. And so that I could really understand what was going on. But then what happened is it that big, solid story, as it was sort of gaining entry.

But it sort of broke up into a few subplots, which made it easier to digest or digest is the right word, probably the opposite to that. But yeah, so breaking up into a few subplots was good. Now today, it definitely seemed to start off with a few subplots.

But you could still feel there was a solid story there somewhere, sort of in the back. I got a sense it was a little bit like a train, this this story today, I could definitely sense that the it was coming through the tunnel. But only part of the first carriage was through the tunnel, like the back tunnel bit, as it was sort of heading to the tunnel exit.

So I think you could see the light, you could see the light. But you could see that that was an old one. The carriages at the front were seem to be a lot older than the than the carriages further back.

And the ones further back seem to be seem to be kind of willing to come through. But I think the one at the front was a little bit stuck in its ways, if you know what I mean. It's like, no, I don't want to move, just seem to want to just stay there.

But eventually, everything moved along and it was okay. It's okay. And as I said, there was even more subplots at the end of this one, which made it easier to examine, not that I examined it, but you know, in my mind.

Yeah, I think. So what I've been doing today is I took this medication, it was a softener. For, you know, what, you know, you know, to soften the thingy.

And I think it's giving me a bit of an upset stomach. But we'll see. I'm hoping this will all be sorted and back to normal by next week.

It's Friday now. It's weird because I don't, you know, I have the occasional obstruction. Everybody does.

I think I'll drink a cup of coffee. It's the worst thing to drink whilst talking, because it dries your mouth up. I feel like a someone that as they get older, like, you know, the saliva stops being produced, ending up with a dry mouth and other stuff that we don't talk about.

But I'm not there yet. I do produce saliva. Oh, I'm not sure what that was.

So yeah, okay, that's a good start. So what I've done is I have just did some research. I think it was yesterday or last night.

Because I've been looking for a way to transcribe my podcasts and my videos and my, you know, my recordings for since the start of doing them. And I found the odd way. I found one and this place, I think it was a podcast host and they did it free.

And then they issued me a bill for like $700 because I'd overused their service in the fine print that I didn't read. It said that, you know, anything over a certain amount would be charged. And in the end, they accepted I think $150 and for me never to use their service again.

It was horrible. It was Yeah, it was that was not a nice day. So since then, I've been very, very dubious, very careful about what transcribing services I use, because I don't want to get caught out like that again.

And it's hard because once you've got your card number, they can pretty much do what they want. And the rules online aren't quite as strictly observed, or monitored, or policed, as is in shops and you know, the normal world, you know, in a normal world, you couldn't go into a shop, buy a pair of panties or whatever, for $9, and then they just charge another 74 on top. They just can't do that.

But online, they seem to think they can do what they want. And I don't agree with it. I really, really don't.

Anyway, I found, I've been looking, I'm not looking 24 hours a day, but I'm looking to see how I can transcribe my audios, my recordings, into, you know, written text, in the hope of two things. First of all, put in a transcription with the recording. So people that have difficulty hearing can read, although I don't think many people that are deaf are going to actually going to be going anywhere near podcasts.

It's just, it's, it just doesn't seem like that's something that someone's gonna do. But I mean, I might be wrong. So, you know, I thought, well, if I can reach different audiences, and I can help out someone, because you know, I haven't had hearing loss issues myself in the past.

And I, you know, I'd happily try and help out if I can a little bit. But the main thing is to be able to create some ebooks, and maybe some real books. Based on the thousands of hours of me talking, I figured there's got to be something there worth reading, surely, especially when it comes to when I'm talking about stress and anxiety and panic attacks and relaxation techniques, whatever.

I'm not, I imagine it's way more than one book. You know, because a book, you only, you only get like a 60 page book on a, on an ebook, they're not big. Some of them even like 30 pages.

So what I thought I'd do is do a little ebook, sell it, or give it away for free, to be fair, but sell it for free. That makes sense. Stick on Amazon, and put it on the different places that allow me to give it away for free, or for people to read for free on Kindle and stuff like that.

And also stick on my website as well. Just to see whether or not, just in and say this is free, because I'm looking for feedback. That's it.

Just so I can get a bit of feedback to see whether or not they like the book. People, if they find, because I'm going to be basically just writing the way I speak. So a lot of it's just going to be word for word what I've said on a recording.

But with additional writing from myself, you know, just explaining what I've said, or why I said it, and, you know, stuff like that. So I just thought it might be an interesting thing to do. To add to what I'm already doing, because, you know, it's important to, for me to turn this into a business, I need to have things to sell.

But at the same time, I don't want to just randomly sell random things, which I could do, you know, there's lots of merchandising things that are possibilities. And I still might look at those in the future, but not right now. But anything that I do, I want it to be useful and worthwhile, and to have a point to it.

Does that make sense? Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, make sense? I want it to be useful. I don't see the point in doing something just for the sake of doing it. Especially when it comes to something as important as a book.

I say important, but you know, I mean, it's like something that I want it to be useful, or at the very, very, very least, slightly entertaining, something. So what I'm doing, I found this website, it cost me money to use it. But it's going to be, I've been uploading the relaxation hypnosis for stress and anxiety, and panic attacks.

So there's, I'm not sure how many there are there. So I'm uploading those first, or uploading, I'm transcribing them first rather. I'm up to number 39.

So it's taken me all day to do this. It's, it does, there's no work for me to do. It's a case of just uploading the file, and they do the rest.

But it is time consuming, and I'm doing other stuff at the same time. Now, once all those are done, I don't know, I don't think I'm going to be able to get all of them done, because it resets every month. So once they use the full amount, I'll have to wait another month to get more.

I get something like 600, 6000 minutes, which is 100 hours. So you get 100 hours worth of transcribing, which gives me, not all these recordings were an hour long, some of them 30 minutes, 40 minutes. So I guess I should get 150 recordings out of this on that podcast.

And then I'll have to wait until, you know, August the 9th or whatever, before I can start transcribing more. So in that, in that time, what I'll do is I'll go through them. And I'll start organizing the transcriptions and making it so I can upload it and just add it to the podcast itself.

And then what I'll do is I will start to go through and just try to find subjects. So if there's a subject, let's say me talking about my own experiences with stress and anxiety and stuff, what I do is I start cutting and pasting and keeping that stuff separate, put that into like a big file, where I'm talking about that, and then maybe breaking up even more. So if I'm talking about, you know, so say I've got a 10 page or 20 pages of me talking about myself, probably more than that I imagine, because all I do is talk about myself.

And I would do, I didn't break it up into maybe organize it into what I'm talking about. Anxiety or whatever at work, at home, when I'm out. And maybe if there's a if I'm talking about being on a holiday, when I went to the Isle of Man and I was, or when I went on to do retreat, a Buddhist retreat, and the effects of the anxiety and stuff, then I'd break that into bits.

So I might have told the same story, maybe 15 times, and it might be slightly different the way I've told it. Hopefully, I won't look like a big fat liar. Because I don't want everyone to know what I'm really like.

Now I don't, it should be kind of the same, but there'll be different, different versions of it depending on how I'm feeling, I guess. And depending on what I remember about those particular experiences. And then perhaps what I'll do is spend a little bit of time telling that story.

Because some of those stories I've talked about, and they let me bore you to sleep as well. So, or even in the relax and sleep hypnosis daily, I might have talked about that stuff. So you know, eventually, I'll go through the whole lot and come up with a very definitive collection of me talking, but in written terms of those experiences.

In the same with the, with the let me bore you to sleep. Out of all, even though I don't necessarily go into huge detail about my childhood, I think I did a bit in some of the early recordings. And when I know I did, I know I did.

I really did. And then I started to try I wanted to make it lighter. You know, there was times when the recordings weren't quite as light.

So I thought no, I need to still still make them funny. But for Yeah, I want to try and keep it light. I don't want to really talk too much about that stuff.

Which is why I guess there are times when it's a bit repetitive. When I talk about living in a children's home. I don't really go into any details or tell you any new stories because partly I don't remember that much anymore.

It's not something I really think about. But you know, there's a lot of a lot of stuff happened during those years. And a lot of things that I probably could sort of remember if I gave it some thought.

Yeah, just trying to think. Yeah. So I that's kind of where I'm going with that.

I want to do that instead of this. So I need to be careful. I need to watch myself because I have a tendency as a person is something that's been my tendency for forever really is when I get when I really into something.

I tend to do that to the exclusion of everything else. Even eating and going to the toilet. You know, I kind of got I need to go to the toilet.

I'll just hold it in if I need to eat. Well, I don't even think about eating. My stomach's rumbling can't feed me man.

Come on. I can't maintain this figure without food. I did greasy food, chips, chocolate.

Come on, man. You're not a game. Stop messing around.

Don't rile me man. Don't rile me. So I I said those stupid little.

I used to work in a pub. And I don't know if he worked in a pub with me or not, or if he was like this little Irish man. It was so horrible.

It was just horrible. You know, I talk like don't rile me mate. Don't rile me.

And he'd be talking about he's always talking about fighting and beating people up. And he was a man. He was an adult.

Or is it with adults? These adults, if you're still talking about fighting, and you're in your 20s, and you're no longer a teenager, there's something wrong with you. There's something wrong with you. Unless you're a professional fighter.

You know, you're doing it as a as or you're doing it as a sport. If you're still sitting around with people showing off about done this or done that. If you still basically if you want to impress other people, you're a child, you're a little child, you got a child's brain.

And stop it. Now, stop it now. And by a child's brain, what I mean is in that moment, you'll be in a child.

Doesn't mean you got a child's brain all the time. Although some people seem to have. Let's have fun.

I want to just have fun. You're 45 years old. No, but I want to have fun.

No, don't work like that. You don't have fun at 45. You have responsibilities.

You can have some enjoyment. But you're not a child anymore. I want to party.

No, doesn't work like that. You have to be miserable like the rest of us. But I want to have fun.

I want to, I want to do things and I want to get drunk and I want to just have a punch up. You're a middle aged man. You can barely get up the stairs without getting out of breath.

And you can have a punch up with someone. Come on, man. I just want to hit someone.

Stop it. Grow up. Grow up, man.

You're not a teeny weeny anymore. You're an oldie bogey, an oldie. I'm really talking to myself here.

I just want to have a punch up. I want to knock this guy out. And then I'm just, you know, I've got this shopping in my hands and I'm like five steps up the stairs, you know, that I walk up and I'm thinking, perhaps getting into a fight isn't a good idea.

Then I put the bags down and I, I use all my strength to try and find my keys. And I find them and I'm struggling to unlock the door. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't get into a fight.

Maybe I should just accept reality. I'm 50. I should just, you know, and I sit down and I just let go of that, all that pressure and relax.

It feels so good. Yeah, I'm 50. I should just, I should just accept it and embrace, embrace reality instead of trying to fight it.

So, okay, I shouldn't get into a fight. And 10 minutes later, I'm watching the news and thinking, I want to knock him out, knock him out. One punch.

Where did reality go? It seems to have passed by. Come back reality. Come on.

Stick around for a little while. I do like reality. In some ways, in some ways, not every way, obviously, because, you know, I mean, nothing's obvious, but you know, yeah, I'm not a fan of every reality aspect of my life.

However, there's something comforting about actually getting in touch with reality and not fighting it. And I don't think that, I mean, you could say, well, yeah, but accepting reality is negative. It's a negative thing.

Well, I understand it could be, I suppose, could be perceived as being negative. So me accepting reality is, well, I'm not, I'm, you know, I'm not fit anymore. And I should just, or I'm fat and that's it, I should just accept it.

Well, accepting it isn't going to help me in the future. Because you don't see, you don't see any fat 80 year olds hardly ever. It's true.

It's just a fit. How often do you see a hugely, really, really fat old person? They do exist, but there's not many of them. And you can argue that all the time, but you're just arguing with reality.

So there. So that's what worries me about my dad, because he's, he's still got a bit of weight on him. He's a big, he's a big bloke.

He was born. I think he must have just been a big baby. A big baby.

Not now. Let's call him a big, big baby. And you know, when he was born, I think he's just a big baby.

He was, he was good. You still talk about your dad. You talked about him yesterday.

Yeah, no, I don't know what that is. I think, um, um, issues, issues probably. So he was, I think he was like 14 and a half stone when he was in school, in high school.

And that's a lot. That's a really heavy child. That's a big child.

Um, 14 and a half stone. I don't know what that is in pounds. It's over 200 pounds.

I'd say, yeah, it's got to be over 200 pounds. So 200 pound teenager is quite, and he weren't fat. He didn't have any fat on him.

He was just muscle, which most, most teenagers are generally. So he wasn't, um, an obese kid. I think he only really started, and it's only really his belly.

The rest of him is like muscle, but it's only really probably when he hit his thirties that he started to get a bit of middle-aged spread. But up to then, and even now, he pretends that he's lighter than me, but he isn't. He can't be.

He's bigger than me. He can't be lighter than me. So he's just naturally, so if you imagine if you're 14 and a half stone slim, you know, like just without any fat on you when you're a teenager, he must have been a hell of a lot heavier when he was an adult.

You know, he must have been walking around at 16, 17 stone, I reckon, when he was like working, when he was in his 20s and 30s. He must have been. There's no way he could have been unless he stayed the same weight his whole life, which he didn't, because I'm, I'm about 15 and a half stone and he's big, he was bigger than I am.

I don't think he's bigger than I am now, but he was way bigger than I am. So he must have been a good couple of stone heavier. So because he's so broad, he's so strong, like chest, arms, all that stuff, that I guess it doesn't, I don't know, it's, it's almost like an optical illusion.

It's like when I look in the mirror when I'm naked, it looks like I have no penis, but it's an optical illusion. I in fact have a micro penis, it's, it is there, you just can't see. By the way, I am available, I am single, if there's any ladies out there that are really not fussy at all.

If you really don't care, if you want, if you, if you're not bothered at all about looks, personality, or weird smells, give me, give me, you know, get in touch. It'll surprise you that I don't get many, I don't get much response from those messages I send out. Maybe it's because it's too far into the recording and a lot of people are asleep and, or maybe there's people lying down thinking, oh, that's the best news I've ever heard.

He's the man of my dreams. But unfortunately, I'm too tired. And I can't watch to relax.

I can't be bothered to go and get my um, my writing pad and my, my feather ink pen. I just, I just can't be bothered. I'm just gonna have to just lay here in my multi-million pound house on my own, even though I'd love him to be here with me.

Oh, the idea of lots of different smells daily. Hmm. Hmm.

Waking up to that funny face every day. What bliss. Oh, not sure if I'm really selling myself.

I don't know. I remember years ago, I was sitting in a nightclub in my night. Well, I'll call it my nightclub.

It wasn't, but in my head, it was, it was. It's the only building I ever loved. Pretty much.

Now, I loved my nan and granddad's house. And it's a house that I lived in before they did. And I associated positivity with that house.

We were there for a year. We were happy as a family, pretty much. And then my nan and granddad moved in there.

And they were happy. And it was all positive, really, apart from granddad dying. And there was that armed robbery siege that did that was a part from that.

But you know, my nan falling over and stuff that wasn't great. But you know, but I didn't associate that some of the more trials, you know, some of those kinds of things as to do with a house. So when my nan broke a hip, even though it was in the house, it wasn't because of the house.

It was because of a hosepipe, actually. Before you start going weird with your images, she was hosing the garden. And she tripped over the hosepipe when the end came out of a bomb.

No, she tripped over it. And yeah, I mean, that's resilience that that lady she had the strength that I'll probably never understand. She she laughing is funny.

She climbed because she's in the back of the garden and there's no one around. And my granddad wasn't there anymore. And she climbed all the way through the garden and got into the house and all the way through to the phone.

And I used to get the phone and then she phoned my dad didn't find an ambulance. She was of that stupid generation, where phone family, you know, not don't actually phone for people you need. Phone, phone, phone your dad.

Let's put it on him. You know, not as call an ambulance and let the ambulance come in. And then let them find the family.

But, you know, it's her choice. So that's what she did. You know, if I was in an emergency, I would phone 999 or 911, or seven thing phone, or George or him or whatever way to depend on what country I was in.

I would find the number for the emergency services. Imagine like, ring ring. Hello.

Hi, Dad. It's Jason. Hey, what do you want? It's two in the morning.

Yeah. Yeah, sorry to disturb you, Dad. I've had an accident, fallen out the bath and I've broken my arm.

So? Well, I can't move. I'm stuck. I just thought I'd, um, if you can help.

How am I supposed to help? Well, um, maybe you can phone for an ambulance? Why don't you phone for an ambulance? Um, I don't have an answer for that. Yeah. You got a phone, haven't you? Oh, wait a minute.

Yeah, you're phoning me on it. You've got a phone? Yes, Dad, I have a phone. Do you remember the number? Is that why you're calling? Because you forgot the number? Let me tell you again.

I can't mean I've told you for years, but if you remember, OK, you ready? Nine, nine, nine. That's the number. Yeah, I know, Dad.

I know the number. So why didn't you call it then? Because I guess I just saw it as an opportunity for you to care about me. Issues, issues with the father.

He's always got issues with the father. What is his issue? Why can't he just sit down and talk to him? Sit down and talk to your dad, Jay. Go on, sit down and talk to him.

Sort it out. Don't use my time. This is my podcast time.

Try to listen. Try to go to sleep. And all I'm hearing, all I'm hearing is you going on about your dad and your bloody family.

Oh, I was in a children's home. Oh, I was adopted. Oh, I was fostered.

I'm such a victim. Pardon me. My name's Jason Newland.

I've had it so bad. That's a bit harsh. Yeah, well, just get on with something different.

Stop talking about your dad, will ya? Well, it was kind of part of the story. I was just making fun of the idea of calling up someone that's not relevant to what you need. Yeah, but your dad was relevant, wasn't he? What do you mean? Well, your nan phoned your dad because she probably wanted him to come over and look after her while she waited for an ambulance.

Because they're not always the quickest, are they? They're not always the quickest. They don't always get there when you want them. Okay, I didn't think about that.

Maybe she wanted to see the face of her son. Maybe she had a good relationship with her son. Maybe you should learn from that.

All right. All right. Calm it now.

All right, mate. Calm it. Calm it.

Calm it, everyone. Let's have a bunch up. Oh, wait a minute.

No, I can't because I'm 50. I'm a 50-year-old old man. All right, just shut up.

You shut up. Just shush. You shush.

Shut your fuck-fro-fro. Was you about to say fuck? No, I was not about to say that. I do not swear.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, shut up. Show me your nipple and I'll show you a wand. A wand that will take you back to where you belong.

So I was, the point I was saying is I felt I liked that house. That's all it was. Oh yeah, so I was in the nightclub.

I love a building, but a building that I really, really loved. It was a comedy club and I loved it. I'd been going there since 91, January the 23rd, it was a Wednesday, I think, right the way through until regularly until 2001.

And then I'd visit. I moved away from London, but I used to come back and visit and stay in hotels and stuff or stay at my friends who owned the club. And then eventually I didn't go as often as I used to do.

And then the place changed. So the comedy went upstairs and downstairs was a nightclub, like a music and stuff. It ruined it for me.

For me, that was it. It couldn't be the same. But, you know, there was a financial need to do that, basically, because the rent was so bloody high.

Seriously high. The landlord just basically, I think the landlord sat on the buildings for years and years and years, 20 years. And the buildings went up in price by millions.

This whole area, it was a dump. And then now the area is one of the trendiest parts of London. Yeah.

It was it was a trendy place. Trendy, my man. Very, very, very, very trendy.

Yeah. And at that time, it's just starting to become more and more and more popular. So the dormant property owner who owned the entire building, which was huge, and I think other buildings in the area, there were old mills that weren't used anymore, and sold them to someone else, of course, someone different.

And that person came along and put up my friend's rent by a huge amount. I think I doubled his rent or something. Now, before that, he had a really good relationship with the landlord.

And the rent did go up, you know, over time, but it was minimal. It was, you know, it was a very fair and good relationship for 20 years that they were kind of the first 20 years out of 25 that he was there. But then the last five years, once it was a new landlord, this bloke wanted every, he wanted blood, he wanted everything you get.

And possibly the reason for that is firstly, I imagine his mortgage was absolutely massive. Because he bought all these buildings for millions and millions and millions. I imagine the one building is probably worth 5 million, if not more.

So the amount of mortgage you'd have to pay on something like that. And the thing is, something my friend never got credit for, is he rebuilt the inside of that building. It was nothing, it was just a derelict, crappy, and horrible, you know.

And it had been changed before he got there because his friend owned it and then sold it to him. But this was, you know, this is like 1990. But over the next 20 years, he built an art gallery upstairs, he built offices, he built another nightclub upstairs, because there was like four floors.

He built so much stuff. And put in new floors, new everything, you know, really made it nice. Invested, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't invest at least half a million over that 20 years in infrastructure, you know, changing stuff, toilets, walls, just the whole, you know, the whole, it's hard to hard to go through all this.

I'll do it one day. So remember, there's so much he did, spent an absolute fortune, but you don't get anything for that. That's what I realized, you know, if I ever rented somewhere out, if you rent a building out, and it's crappy inside, and you make it beautiful, your rent still probably going to go up.

And then when you move out, they'll keep that stuff. You've increased the value of their property. Which means if you're renting a flat, and then you decide, well, I'm going to decorate it nicely, I'm going to put in decent toilets, maybe even put in a decent kitchen, because you might decide to live there for, you know, a few years.

So you decide to just okay, no, I'm going to invest, and I'm going to have it all professionally decorated, and put in really beautiful carpets, all that stuff. And then you might put in your own, I know people that do that, they'll change the kitchen, they'll put in a new kitchen, a brand new kitchen, or brand new bathroom suite, like a nice one, not the one that came with the flat when they started renting it, because they were going to rent, they plan to stay there for a few years. And then they moved out.

And then Landlord comes in and looks around, and sees all these beautiful changes that have been made, that maybe shouldn't have been made, you know, maybe he didn't have permission to do that, but looks around and sees that the bathroom has got a 10 grand fitted bathroom, instead of the 300 pound one that he'd put in, or the secondhand one that he'd put in, which is more likely with the kind of landlords that I know about. And then what can they do, they can then rent it for more money, because the value of the property has gone up. The value of the letting's gone up because it's got a beautiful kitchen, and a beautiful bath.

Well, is there such things as a beautiful bathroom if you're in there? Can anything be beautiful if you poo near it? You know what I mean? But ultimately, in a really nice carpet, because you can't take that stuff with you. You can't take the bath with you. You can't take all the kitchen cabinets with you in the sink, unless you've still got the old stuff and you replace it and put it back in.

I'm sure there are people that do that. I know how to do that. And they keep that stuff in storage.

And they just put that back on. But yeah, you can have exactly, you imagine doing that sort of the landlords looking around at the nice stuff and thinking, all right, yeah, it's good. Easy deposit back.

I'm going back thinking, yeah, I'm going to charge an extra 200 pound a month for this. And he comes in to show the new tenants or prospective new tenants around. And he realizes that you've took all your stuff back.

And it's now how it used to be. Same toilet as before. Same bath, little tin bath.

The same rusty, the rusty kitchen, whatever you call it, where you put stuff on the sink. Rusty taps and the board, you know, the thing that you put your dishes on when you've washed and thinking, oh, I can't charge. But then in that situation, say, you know what? I know it's 700 pound a month.

Because I like you, I'm going to do it at 400. No, 500. Do it 500 for you.

Because you're so lovely. And they might jump at that. Not realizing that originally, you were getting 450 a month.

One day I'll tell you all about my landlord and landlady experiences. I have touched upon it in the past. But I will.

I've had some very weird experiences with landlords and man ladies. My summary up is I don't like them. That's my summary.

My summary up is I know my stepsister didn't like hearing that once because she was dating a landlord. And I said, they're all scum, all slippery scumbags. And she didn't like that.

I said, yeah, but I said, but my boyfriend's got, he does that. I said, yeah, doesn't surprise me. He's a slippery scumbag too.

They're not all landlords are slippery scumbags, but they are. But they're not. But they are.

I've just, I've met, I'm not sure. I'm actually, no, the YMCA, the land, the scumbag landlords there were nice, actually. But it was a charity and I guess a different kind of thing.

But yeah, I've had lots of, yeah, I was not even interested in experiences, just crappiness. They're okay, as long as they're getting your money, but even then they can be a bit weird. There's one landlord that was just always there.

I think he just loved seeing us. And it was, he had like, it was there for like three or four months with scaffolding. What the hell he was doing? I know one thing he wasn't doing, and he wasn't sorting out the dampness in my room.

So, you know, all the thousands of pounds he was spending on the building, he didn't seem to be interested in my room. I remember saying, your, your neck curtains are all dirty and damp. I said, yes, because they're damp and dirty.

Because of the windows, because it's damp in there. He said, you should open the windows in. I said, I do open the windows all day every day.

He said, Oh, I said, there's damp in there. He said, there's not damp in there. I said, yes, there is.

He says, no, no, I said, it's mouldy. He said, because you don't open the windows enough. I said, I do open the windows.

He said, Oh, you don't open them enough. But I do open the windows. I've always opened windows, wherever I've lived.

I don't live, I don't stay in a room without the window open. I've got the window open here now. I like a bit of air coming in.

I don't just sit in a room, smelling my own farts. I want to have some air. But it was, it was slippery.

I think that's it, a lot of, not that they're bad people. I just think of some, I think it comes with a job description. You got to be a bit slippery.

Got to be a little bit dodgy. If not as a person, but in, just during your role as a landlord, honesty doesn't seem to be the priority. It doesn't seem to be the most important thing as a landlord.

You know, especially with like multiple occupancies and stuff. Because there's a lot of money in that. I remember he actually had, he put down an address.

So he had to put down his address as an emergency call for the, in event of a fire or anything like that in the building. Yeah. It wasn't his address.

He put down the address of another one of his houses that he was letting out. I only found that out because one of the people who lived there, he knew him and he'd, he worked, did some work for him. And the fact is that he lived in this huge house out of town, you know, it's multi-million pounds mention or whatever.

And the address he gave was another multiple occupancy around the corner from us. So when people had problems, they'd go around there looking for him. Or if he'd put a notice through the door, threatening, you know, eviction, sometimes would go around there looking for him.

And nope, he wasn't there because he didn't live there. I was slippery, very sly and slippery. Imagine having a place that someone says, yeah, I'm breathing in, I'm ill because I'm breathing in moldy dampness from the wall.

My thought was, oh my goodness. I'll do everything I can to sort this out so that you can have this problem gone and you can enjoy, you know, even if it is a tiny little room, at least you can have a bit of peace and quiet and not be having mold to deal with. But that wasn't his priority.

His priority was, I think rent boys, but that's my own personal opinion. It doesn't mean it's true. I only go, thanks for listening to me.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love. Bye.