#792 Let me bore you to sleep - GIVE ME SOME VITAMIN D - Jason Newland (22nd JANUARY 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You to Sleep. Oh yeah, it really is.

Thank you for joining me on this podcast and this video. Please only listen or watch this video when you can safely close your eyes. Now, I mentioned video.

For those listening on a podcast, which is most of the people that will be listening. Most of the podcast listeners will be listening on a podcast. But, it's also available on YouTube as a video as well.

And so, you're not really, is there any difference really between watching or listening to it? I think if you listen, if you, that's a bit, my voice went squeaky there. If you listen on the podcast then, and if you don't know what I look like, don't ruin it. Don't be going to my YouTube channel and looking at my funny face because it could ruin it for you.

Because in your mind, I might be like the perfect specimen of a man and you're gonna be disappointed. So please don't, don't, don't you, I can't believe I'm probably the only person ever in the world, in the history of the internet, to tell people not to go to my YouTube channel. Don't go to my YouTube channel.

Don't ruin it. The same for people listening on YouTube. My voice sounds a lot better on a podcast.

It sounds much better without my face as well, you know. I mean the quality of the sound isn't that different. This is a better microphone than that one, but that's a really good microphone anyway.

This is a video microphone. This is for my podcast. So the quality of the sound is, is, I would say it's better on the podcast than it is on the YouTube video.

But I've got a good setup for the YouTube so it should be a fairly good sound. Best sound I've ever had on any of my videos over the last 16 years that I've been doing it. But if you, if you listen to my um podcast without my face it's just much different.

It's almost like you might, you know what I look like because you've watched the videos. But then, then you listen to the podcast, it's like the image, the, the memory of my face starts to just dissolve to the point where you start replacing it with what you'd like me to look like. So yeah, so don't visit a podcast because it'll ruin it for you.

So keep separate, either listen on a podcast or watch on YouTube. Do not, stay in your lane. Like if I stayed in my lane, I wouldn't have ever left my bed.

So I'll here's talk about memory, right? There's a hypnosis trick I'm going to teach you. I want to teach you a little bit about hypnosis. A little bit over time, just a few little tips and tricks and things you know.

If this is a, this is a trick, this is a hypnotic trick to make someone forget everything that you've told them. Not just during that conversation, but during, you might have met up with them for 12 weeks and with one sentence, you can make them forget everything they've learnt from you. Now you might think, wow, surely that's a good idea.

Surely not. Yeah, I'm not messing about. This is true.

Are you ready? So it's just one sentence. It's a magic sentence. So if you want, I'm just going to go again.

If you want someone to forget everything you've ever said to them, any advice, any learnings you've ever sort of partaken, partaken to them, you know, shared, whatever, however you want to word it correctly in English. So here's the sentence. Are you ready? You might want to write this down or you might forget.

So here's the technique to make someone forget everything you've ever said to them. Ready? Congratulations. You've passed your driving test.

That's it. Now, I don't know if it works for everything, but it works for drivers. So, you know, they automatically forget everything they've learnt.

That's where I'm going with that. I shouldn't really have to explain it. Jason, you do realize probably most of the people listening to you are drivers.

Talk about alienating your audience. Yeah, it's a joke. It's a joke, man.

It's a joke. Bloody hell, man. Right.

So. I've been, I've got a few books. In fact, I can't maneuver with these blimmin microphones are in the way.

But I bought a few books in order to get back to some of the origins of, you know, how I started this podcast. You know, I can talk about my life and talk about stuff. It's boring and, you know, keep you updated.

Of course, I had Andre used to talk about Andre all the time, didn't I guess? And he used to pop in and make an appearance. And I was actually watching. I had.

YouTube on the television and my friend came upstairs and I was searching through my YouTube channel and he looked and he saw there was an old video of mine. So I was watching a YouTube video of Andre. Just one of the ones I because he used to be on a lot of the videos over a five year period, he was on huge amounts of videos he's on.

It make a guest appearance. He wasn't sometimes he'd only be on there for 30 minutes, 30 seconds or a couple of minutes and he'd wiggle and want to get off and do something else. The span of attention of a ferret, honestly.

And so I was watching that and then the next video along was of me from probably about 2010. And my friend, because he's only known me for five years. So he was looking at this like, that's you.

I said, yep, you had hair. Yeah, I still got hair, cheeky bugger. I got hair, look, but I shave it.

But he said, no, but you didn't have to shave it then because you had hair. I still don't have to shave it if I don't mind looking ridiculous. And if I. You look so young.

Well, I was young. It's 10 years ago. I had no, pretty much no gray in my beard at all.

I had a hair, which was just hair. I don't know how do you describe hair? I guess I think I have to describe hair to people listening on my podcast, but I don't know. You know what hair is.

And those are OK. There are going to be some people that haven't seen hair for whatever reason. So but you know what it feels like.

And. How on earth do you describe hair to someone? I don't know. I mean, I've got.

My hair, I mean, at the moment, it's just spiky, a little bit spiky because it's probably. An inch long, maybe even if, yeah, maybe an inch, maybe just under an inch long, um, because I got it got shaved to a week ago, two weeks ago. Maybe it's longer than an inch.

When it comes to inches, I have issues. So I have a tendency of exaggerating. So my hair is 15 inches long at the moment, and it's only funny if you can actually see my hair.

So I, I had gray. I think I might have a little bit of gray at the front, but that's it. No gray at the sides.

Hair was nice and properly done. I used to go to hairdressers and have it done every three months or whatever. I make myself look presentable because I was a counselor.

I was I had to dress smart and try to look okay. You know, gave up on that completely given up now. Um, he's like, you look so young.

I said, yeah, I've got other ones from 2007. You should see me there. I'm just crazy.

I started this. I was 35. I was 35 years old when I made my first video.

And now I'm, you know, 39. So yeah, it's because I've aged a little bit. I tell you it was weird.

I went to, um, I went to meditation today. And I met up with a friend. Well, I met, I saw a few people that I haven't seen for years, but I've been involved in Buddhism for 20 years, nearly.

Uh, it was longer actually, but 20 years with this organization, um, November, 2002, November, 2002. That's when I first started going and it's January, 2022. So it's okay.

It's not quite 20 years, but soon will be, won't be long before won't be long before Halloween. No, surely it's only January. It'll be here before you know it.

And I'm lucky because I haven't got to wear a costume because I always look like it's Halloween. Oh, Jason, stop putting yourself down. You know, there's people out there that love you.

Yeah, sure. Sure it is. Sure.

I'm saying that. Wait a minute. This message.

Okay. All the messages I ever get are nice. So I'm not sort of going to say this is the nicest message I've ever had because I've had some lovely messages, but it was beautiful, a beautiful message that I received the other day.

And you know, I'm not the most confident person in the world, to be fair. Whoops. Sorry about that.

I'll try and reduce the volume on the podcast. I didn't realize that I was watching Ali Sherlock. One of the most amazing singers.

She's only about three years old. Honestly, she does busking in the street. And she's amazing.

Such an amazing singer. If you like singers like like the Cranberries, Dolores from the Cranberries, who's no longer with us. If you if you like her voice, the Irish, you know, song like that is, she does that.

She's got that raspy. I don't know what there's probably a technical word for it in singing, but because it's not my sphere of knowledge, so I don't know what it's called. But Ali Sherlock, A-L-L-I-E, Sherlock as in Sherlock Holmes.

She is phenomenal. And the weird thing about it is she's had billions of views on her YouTube channel. And she does covers.

She does write her own songs as well. And I think she's she started, I think, when she was about 10 or 11 or something like that. And now she was like a tiny little girl standing there.

The guitar was hardly, she could hardly hold the guitar. It was so big. And now she's, I don't even know if she's 18 yet.

She might be. She's still a teenager anyway. So she technically, she's probably one of the most successful singers in the world as far as billions of views of her YouTube videos.

Yet she's not famous. And I don't understand why she's not famous, because she's been on TV. She's had interviews in Ireland, in the UK, in America.

I think she was on Oprah or Ellen. Yeah, she was on Ellen. And she actually did have top producers wanting to work with her and stuff.

And I don't know if it's an age thing. Maybe it's her dad keeping her grounded until she's older to make up her own decisions before going into becoming a pop star. I don't know.

But she's phenomenal. So check her out. She's, she's, she's got, there's hundreds of videos on her YouTube channel.

And she sings songs from everybody, like whether it's Meatloaf. Meatloaf passed away yesterday, didn't he? Or was it this morning? Thich Nhat Hanh died as well. Two very famous people in different categories of the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh was a Buddhist who wrote loads of brilliant books. It's Thich N-H-A-H-N or something. And I used to read his books back in 2001 onwards.

I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved those books. So and then you got Meatloaf. And I do think I'm not being morbid.

I'm being I'm thinking of this in as up an upbeat way. Okay, not the not the being dead because but I mean, because obviously, I'm not, hey, they're dead. I'm not being upbeat on that.

I mean, is they've left like there's a thing about legacy. And the first time legacy was really mentioned to me. I'm not sure when it was legacy.

Someone did mention it to me. So what what's your legacy going to be? And there's the idea is when you get older, you get to the point where I hope you see a picture of Andre in the back. I've got him on my iPad over there.

There's a picture of my sleep. It's not going to be very particularly clear picture, but just where my thumb is. My finger is just there.

I want to have a picture of Andre with me. When I make videos is always a part of why do he's with me, in a way, you know, I will what I'm going to do when I get to it. And I will get to it.

Because I've now figured out how to use the editing video editing software that I use on my iPad. So I can now edit videos. No, I'm it's not fantastic.

I'm not going to win any awards. No, I don't think Spielberg is going to be calling me out and saying JJ, I need some help. I've got a problem with the editing of my new movie.

I was wondering if you can give me some hints. I don't think that's going to happen. That is how he talks.

JJ. Yes, I did ET. That's exactly how he talks.

It's weird. So I'm going to put a collage of make a video collage of Andre of not pictures necessarily, which is not him moving around and doing stuff. Now I know he did the same kind of thing over and over again.

Basically wriggling to try and get away from me. But I will put together it's just it's going to take a long time to get to go through all the different videos. Because it didn't just pop up on the let me boy to sleep videos I did.

He popped up on Jason chat videos, he popped up on some of the other videos as well. There's quite a few over the years. So another videos that I've never put on YouTube or his videos are on Facebook.

So yeah, I will do like a little collage of a tribute video to my little boy. I will do that. I'd like to do that this year at some point.

Yeah, so that's I'm gonna do that legacy. There's the idea is that Okay, you lived your life. And then you come to you know, your last period of your life.

And you know, so some people may get to the point of what I've done, what I've done, what I've accomplished, what have I what am I going to leave the world to to show that I was even here to show that I even existed? Is there anything that's gonna be to be to say my words to be remembered by to is there anything like a legacy, because you know, see with famous people, singers, they got your albums, their concerts that are being videotaped and stuff like that. So you know, like Elvis Presley will always live on. In that sense, he's always going to be remembered.

And new audiences will discover Elvis, I'm pretty sure. You know, even in under 100 years time, providing Russia don't invade the Ukraine anytime soon. Elvis was the excitement of seeing an early Elvis.

I think that is quite contagious. The excitement of the Beatles when they were, you know, when they first arrived. The excitement is seeing a little Michael Jackson.

I know it wasn't tiny, but you know, a little Michael Jackson performing with his older brothers, you know, on live television and just to see so because YouTube obviously, it's got all that stuff. So people in the future may come across something or like a really young person who's never really heard of Elvis Presley maybe, and they see him for the first time. And they might see him as this, you know, when he was 42 on stage, performing and you know, he wasn't at his best physically, he was unwell.

And that's not, I don't think how he would want to be remembered, even though vocally, he was still brilliant. He had an amazing voice. And I'm coming from the perspective of being a fan, but I don't think I can really argue that he had a great voice.

I suppose some people could, but I don't see how because I think he proved how good his voice was from a very early age, when he did the, he did the like the the Christian kind of songs. When he was, I think it was still he was young. And he did the not hymns, the hymns, but what do they call them? Not carols, not hymns.

Whatever they're called, but he did that. And they were brilliant. Like his voice, very operatic at times, very gospel, gospel, gospel.

That's the word I was looking for. Gospel, operatic, of course, rock and roll. The ballads, you know, he's very versatile.

And so yeah, I mean, I mean, I remember when I was about 13, maybe 14, 13. Maybe, maybe earlier. I discovered Buddy Holly.

Maybe early actually, because Buddy Holly was the first album I ever bought. First, I did have albums, I had some vinyl albums that I was, that I was bought for Christmas and birthdays and stuff. Because, you know, I moan, sometimes I moan about my childhood.

I think that's what childhoods are for really, just to moan, gives you something to moan about for the rest of your life. But when it came to Christmas and birthdays, my parents, or my dad and my second mum, so generous. I mean, unbelievable generous to me, really.

Just, they went all out for all of us every year for, I don't know, 10 years, however long, no, about eight years we were together. 77 to 85, 86, it all went to poo, but 85. Christmas 85 was the last Christmas we ever spent together as a family.

So my 15th birthday would have been the last birthday I had, but I don't think it would have been the same as before. Because there was this, I think it did change a little bit as we got older, but there was a thing for birthdays, we used to, the whole family, so that would be my parents and my three brothers, and they'd come in, or I'd be one of the brothers, you know, we'd all go into the their bedroom and we'd all have presents and we'd be singing, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Jason.

Everyone else called me Jason, my dad said, dear son, because he didn't know any of our names, he just didn't bother learning them, I don't think.

I think really what it is, is because I was seven, see, he only had me until I was about three to six months old, and then I was living at other places until I was nearly seven. So I think he just didn't bother learning my name, because he figured, well, don't know how long he's going to be around, is it really worth learning his name, let's leave it 10 years, and well, it didn't last 10 years, because, you know, and then I think he just didn't bother. But I know his name, Shishawna, yeah, he's got a girl's name.

So I, what we used to do is, what we used to do is go into the bedroom, so I'd be in my bed, I knew it was my birthday, that's another thing, I didn't know about birthdays until I was about seven. I'd heard about a birthday at when I was about five, because, so I was in the children's home, and I came downstairs. Now, I think this was in Newcastle, because I lived in two children's homes, one in Newcastle, one in Southend, Nazareth House, they were both called, and it was the, the, the Disgusting Nuns of Nazareth or something, I think the name of the charity or the organisation was.

And the, they were quite cool. A lot of it was run by, I guess, carers, just pedestrians, normal people. And I remember going in, and there was this, the breakfast room or the place we had dinner was almost like a conservatory, very light, very, I guess what you call like an extension, you know, to a building.

But it's very, like a conservatory, so it's really, really bright and sunny and stuff. And my birthday's in August, so there's a good chance you're having some nice sun. And I come downstairs, it's the holidays, so we're not at school or anything.

I'm the, blimey, that was a weird night, I just, some shouting outside, how strange. Sometimes I feel I want to go out there and just tell them to shut up. But what do I do? What, have I really got to wait until the middle of the night to make recordings? You know, it's not fair.

I'm trying to, I'm trying to have a, like a, kind of a normal lifestyle if I can. I'd like to be awake during the day and be asleep at night, you know, like a regular kind of geezer. I don't mean going to bed early necessarily, but at least being in bed by one or two in the morning.

And I had my bloods done. Because last, two weeks ago I went to the doctors and had, first of all I had, saw the nurse and then I saw a doctor. And part of the reason I, I have a medical every year, normally.

Last year I missed, I haven't had one for over two years because of the lockdown and I think I cancelled an appointment last year because I just didn't want to go out. So I haven't had any blood tests or any, anything tested for, I do a bit of self-testing on some parts of me. I make sure, you know, things work.

So, because you can, you know, test me on, you can test your own pulse, can't you? And if you, you can look up a lot online what, what the average. Sorry, I make myself laugh. Okay, forget, forget what I was saying.

Okay. Um, um, sorry, it's what's in my head that's, that's made me laugh. Okay, so I had my bloods done and then, no, I had, I got tested two weeks ago and they said, your blood pressure's too high.

Not like, oh no, your blood pressure's too high. It was like, it's a bit high. There was no urgency in it.

It didn't, I didn't get a sense of, you know, it was more, it was an interest. It was a mild interest. I mean, it's my health after all, it's my life.

Uh, the two things, well, the one thing I never had an issue was with my blood pressure. Never had an issue until now. It's the first time I've ever had anything.

I've gone to the hospital, um, with panic attacks, not realizing it was a panic attack, but it was constriction of my chest, pains and stuff. So I went to the hospital twice in the past, long time ago, actually, but, um, they, they brought it down to being a panic attack. So she after told them my, you know, my history, um, they didn't want to go all the way back.

You know, it's, it's nice to like watching cartoons on a Saturday morning, but that's not really relevant to your, you used to like riding bikes. Great. That's lovely.

That's really nice. Yeah. When you was four, you got your first, yep.

But we don't really need to hear about that. No, it's fine. Okay.

You watched planet of the apes in 1974 and you had one of the people that worked in your children's home tickle you till, um, you nearly weed yourself. Great, great memory. Don't need that right now.

We're focusing on blood pressure and why you've come into the hospital. Okay. Okay.

Okay. We said, you want to make history. We don't want to know about the war, not that history, not that history.

So she's, um, basically my blood pressure has always been perfect. At least that's what they've told me. They said, like, it's fine.

Your blood pressure is really good. And I had the ECG stuff, you know, um, back then. Now, a few years ago when I used to have the, the MOT or whatever, you know, the yearly thing, they used to put ECGs on my chest, check my heart, everything.

Don't do that now. I think they're getting very lazy or they're just cutting corners because they've got so many people to see. Maybe that's what it is.

Or maybe I was only getting that because I was going to the mental health center and I was getting my medicals done by them rather than through the doctor's surgery. The doctor's surgery don't seem to be as thorough or to look at as many things, but I don't know. Um, but anyway, I went there and my blood pressure was a bit high.

So I went, then I went and saw a doctor afterwards and the doctor said, yeah, your blood pressure is a bit high. So I took my blood pressure about four times during that period. If you took it twice, he took, um, both women or they took it twice.

I'm not sure how they were presenting themselves on that day. And so I had my blood pressure done and it was high. So they sent me home with a machine, a blood pressure machine, and I did it.

I did a machine. It was quite fun, quite fun actually. And I wrote down lots of different ones.

I did had it for two weeks instead of one week. I took it back. The nurse looked at it and said, yeah, it's fine.

She was, I don't know. She didn't seem that interested to be honest. So, okay.

I've had issues with high cholesterol for, I had a, I had it first time in about 2007, 2000, I put about 2008 and I was told my cholesterol was very high and needed to come down. And it did, I got it down. I made absolutely no changes to my lifestyle, hoping that that would do the job.

And it did seem to do the job. Uh, the, it's very hard to stick to that though. You know, I wanted to make no changes to your lifestyle.

I wanted to stop drinking. No, you still need to drink every night. So you need to still have fry ups.

It's like, but I don't want to, I don't want a burger. You need to have that burger on a Saturday lunchtime is what you normally do. You need, you know, strict as I was very strict and it went down.

So, Hey, and then a couple of years ago, my blood pressure, my blood cholesterol was the only issue that there was when I had the, um, it was probably about 2019 was the last time I had a bloodstain and a body checks and stuff. Still no prostate exam, no matter how much I beg. So I, I was thinking the last time they said, Oh, your, um, my blood cholesterol was high was three years ago.

Let's say two and a half years ago, whatever. And they said to me, well, we can put you on not beta blockers, uh, blood thinners. I forget what they're called, but once you're on them, you've got to stay on them.

And I said, no, no, I don't want to. They said, yeah, but you know, high cholesterol can be very dangerous. I said, yeah, but being stuck on something forever.

I don't know. Just, um, I just didn't know if I don't have to, you know, if, if they said, you know, you need to go on this medication now and you need to start taking it now. And you have to take it every day to keep yourself alive or well, of course.

Yeah. Okay. I'll take, I'll eat all of them.

I won't eat all of them, but I'll take one as they say. That's a stupid thing to say. I'll have all of them.

Give me everything. I would listen to the advice. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm a fairly rational person at times.

I can kind of figure out whether something's serious or not. Usually, maybe not sometimes, perhaps never. And they said, we need, if you're not going to take the tablets, you need to reduce your cholesterol.

I said, okay. And I was determined to reduce my cholesterol for at least a week. And I forgot about it.

Yeah. Now I do do some exercise. I've got my punch bag behind me.

My friend was saying to me, that must look stupid. You've got a video, you're making a video of yourself and you're doing hypnosis videos and stuff like that. And you've got a punch bag behind you.

Hasn't anyone ever mentioned it? Probably more likely mentioned the big pink pig that's behind the punch bag. It's there. That's where it is.

It's stuck to the wall. I've super glued it to the wall as well as nails and everything else. And I use it every day.

I've only have to start using gloves though, because I've damaged my hands. Oh, my lower back arthritis. That's what it is.

That's what causes the pain. It's arthritis according to the doctors and the physiotherapist. And it could be fine.

It doesn't have to get any worse. So yeah, that's what I'm dealing with. But exercise can really help.

Exercise, stretching, and maybe losing some weight, taking the pressure off of my lower back. So yeah, but it's arthritis. What type of arthritis? That's a different thing, isn't it? Because you've got arthritis and you've got different types.

You've got rheumatoid arthritis, which basically means your immune system is, isn't it? Is that right? It's an immune system thing. So that might not be right, but I'm just trying to think. I think it is, but it might not be.

I'm not an expert on anything. I think that's obvious to anyone that's listened to me for more than four minutes. You know, I don't know anything about anything.

I just make it up as I go along. So I get up, I get out of bed and I walk down the stairs into this breakfast area. And I'm probably about five, five years old.

And one of the carers, or I don't know, she worked in the kitchen. There was no one in there. So everyone had already been in and had their breakfast.

I must have just overslept. And a good chance that maybe it was a Saturday and there was no reason to get out of bed. There's nothing being done.

I don't know. And this woman says, happy birthday. I said, what's a birthday? I didn't, I don't know if I said that, but I didn't really know about birthdays because in my memory, I'd never been given anything.

I didn't even know how old I was. I didn't, just didn't, it wasn't something that came up in my life. And the only reason they knew it was my birthday is because my mum, the biological mother had came in and given them a present for me to give to me for my birthday.

Didn't stick around to see me, just came in, dropped it off and left. I hadn't seen her for who knows how long, a long, long time, quite a long time. Didn't, you know, it's like there was a box of Maltesers.

That's what I got for my birthday. I love Maltesers. I still do love Maltesers.

And there's probably some emotional issues with that as well. But, but they're tasty. I love the way they just get into every crevice of your teeth and gradually rot your teeth away bit by bit.

Love it. Maltesers. I know that they're different things in different countries.

I forget what they're called. Malt, I'm sure they're called Malt balls or something like that in America. They're Maltese something.

Maltese, they're called Maltesers here. Wow. Okay.

So, Ally Sherlock. Look at her now and look at when she's a little girl. I mean, it's just amazing.

You can see her face is kind of the same, but she's tiny. And now she's a woman. It's like, amazing.

It's not, it's just, it's not what it means. It's natural, isn't it? It's nature, but Bennett. All right.

So I got a message on Instagram and I wanted to read it. I was going to read it out to you, but I'm not going to say who wrote it because I'm going to say who it's from because I don't think that's, I don't know. There's nothing personal in it.

There is, but nothing, you know, I'm not going to read out who wrote it to me because I'll just read the message. Yeah. It's on Instagram anyway.

It's weird. It says, Dear Jason Newland. So that's the story.

I never had anyone call me by my full name before. My name is Dawn Evans. And I found your, it doesn't say that.

It says, I found your YouTube videos 12 years ago during the lowest time of my life. I wanted to tell you that I've always wanted to be a hypnotist and I'm starting a hypnotherapy course next week. You changed my life.

I learned peace through your videos and audio journeys. Thank you for existing. Your impact on my life has been tremendous.

I am forever grateful. Wow. Isn't that a wow, isn't it? It's a wow moment.

I know I'm realizing this is a wow moment because it's about me, but you know, I woke up the other day and I, you know, I'll be honest, I wasn't in the greatest mood in the world and I read that and it just uplifted me. It really did uplifted me up. Oh, lifted, you know, really just felt nice.

Felt nice to, to feel that what I'm doing, not just what I'm doing now, or even the last few years, but what I've been doing for a long time, it's useful. It's actually beneficial, you know, to go back 12 years, um, bearing in mind that the quality of the video, uh, the videos that I made, the quality, not the content. I think the content has always been, uh, was always quite good, even from the start, as much as for relaxation, sleep, pain relief, the content's always been, there's always room for improvement.

And, you know, obviously always, there's always been fairly, uh, received well. That's what I'm trying to say. It's been received well, but the actual quality of the video, uh, the quality of the audio, which is often even worse than the video was awful.

Sometimes really bad, like really echoey and like static-y and the video is maybe, I'm not saying it's a perfect quality because there's not a lot of light in this room. I've got some light in that I've got to set up, so it should make the video a bit better. So the, the idea that, you know, even back then when the video quality wasn't great, the audio quality wasn't great, I was still getting loads of people telling me that what I was doing was useful to them.

And I just feel that now that the, the quality of the video and the audio on the podcasts with the equipment I've got, it's improved drastically, I would say. And I've even made some improvements this week, which should improve the sound of the podcast. Can you hear that? It's very loud.

There's no need for loudness like that. There's no need. No, there's no need.

What was I saying? Yeah, I've got this, there's a box which, I'll tell you what it's called. It's called, what's it called? Focusrite. And it's basically, it's where the microphone, it's like a, I don't know, I don't know all the technical jargon for that's the lingo for this.

Is it like an amplifier or something like that? Anyway, I've got that and then I've got another amplifier cloud thing, and a microphone. And the iPad, I'll do it on the new iPad. So hopefully, the quality should be better, should be a much better quality sound.

Although I think the quality of the sound on the previous recording I did was good as well. But I'm hoping that this sound is a little bit better. Maybe it might be rubbish.

I don't know. I might have to check the settings and stuff. But you know.

So my, I went to a doctor's last week, and two weeks ago, and they said, you've got to come back and have your bloods done. I said, Well, why don't you do them now? You're lazy. And they said, No, we don't do them now.

You have to come back. And I said, I have problems coming out. I don't have issues leaving the house sometimes.

Well, you're gonna have to get out then. Yeah. I do understand mental illness at all.

I really completely dismissive of what I was saying like, we're just gonna have to get out. You have to make force yourself to come out. This is important.

This is your health. Yeah, okay, I understand it's important. But I try and do things at one time as much as I can.

Because sometimes I can't face going out as simple as that. And which is why I cancelled last week. Because even I'd make the appointment, I had to cancel it because I couldn't just couldn't face going out.

But anyway, I've managed to get out this week did it. So I made another appointment and did it. Thursday, the Saturday now, Thursday, I had the blood test or the bloods taken out.

And I had a missed call. So I was out Friday, yesterday. And I had a missed call at 428 in the afternoon.

And this was at five o'clock, I looked at my phone and was like, huh? And it's from a doctor from the doctor, the doctor, not the doctor, but my doctor surgery. The doctor, where have you hidden my TARDIS station? Stop doing that, please. I found him I said, Hello.

I said, Yeah, hi. What do you want? I said, I didn't miss call. Just wondering, because you know, from the doctor, they, I had my bloods done, and they said that they would call me if it was important.

If there was anything important to talk to me about. And I had an appointment booked to go and see them, or for them to phone me into just about eight, nine days away. So I thought it was going to take that long for the bloods to come back.

Well, turns out the bloods had come back very quickly. And the two things he said that she was reading through it, and said, well, everything seems to look okay. The two things is cholesterol.

And the other one is my vitamin D, vitamin D deficient. She said, you need to get out more. I told you why I don't get out more.

She said, you need to get out more. Okay. It's freezing cold out there.

I was out today, I went out and it's horrible. It's so horrible. I must have got huge amounts of vitamin D today.

Because I was out standing waiting for a bus for half an hour, but probably for about nearly an hour altogether. Just because I got two buses back, one bus there, two buses back. So I was waiting, I was at least standing out for at least an hour outside.

So I was out. But, you know, I don't, that doesn't seem like a great solution. In some ways, it's like such an easy solution.

It's way better than being told we got to be on medication, like, well, just stick your head out of the window. But that's not what they mean. I mean, actually going outside.

Who wants to go outside? I don't want to go outside. So I'm going to go outside, I'm going to get out more. Because I have to, my health needs it.

Or I thought to myself, what if I get myself some really strong vitamin D tablets? That should do the trick, shouldn't it? So I'm thinking, what does vitamin D really do? You know, what does it really do? It's huge. It's for your immune system. It's, it's good, I think, for your skin, for your brain development, also for energy.

I think, isn't vitamin D can affect your energy levels? Should I check? I'm going to check. I think I need to check. Should I check? Yeah, let's check.

What does vitamin D do? What does vitamin D do? Vitamin D. Here we go. Vitamin D benefits. This is, I always like to, when I read a website, I like to tell people what the website is I'm reading.

So this is 7seas.co.uk or 7-seas. So I guess that's 7seas liver oil or cod liver oil or whatever tablets, but maybe they make other vitamins as well. According to this, vitamin D, okay, it says here, regardless of age, vitamin D is needed for the maintenance of normal bones because it helps the body absorb calcium and phosphorus.

It supports the proper function of muscles. It also aids in the process of cell division. Sounds like a band, doesn't it? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the stage, cell division, which helps our bodies grow and repair themselves.

Vitamin D contributes to the normal function of the immune system, which is the body's natural defense against germs and harmful bacteria. Yeah, it's pretty important, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Is it D or B then? Because it's saying about getting, oh, that's weird. I don't understand that.

I need to look more into it, I suppose. Oh, oh, oh, see, yeah. So that's what I'm going to do.

I've got multivitamin tablets that I've taken today. So I'm going to do that. And just go, you know, maybe get some vitamin D tablets on their own, and start looking at increasing that.

Because I think for in order for it to show that there's a deficiency, there must be quite a bit of a deficiency for it to show my bloods. And that maybe that's why I'm having so much issues my lower back, maybe the there is an issue with the muscles or, you know, the bones or whatever. So yeah, I'm going to be a vitamin D mad man now.

I'm going to just everything vitamin D, D, D, D, D, double D, triple D. I'm just going to be eating anything. I'm going to suck on anything that's a D, eating it, whatever, I don't care. So hopefully, that will even out and I will become vitamin D efficient.

Is that the right word? I don't know. I didn't know. I don't know.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Ah, so that that was this other stuff I could tell you, you know, I was going to read you this book is the book I've got, I didn't get around to reading it. But I haven't made a video on a podcast in a little while.

So I was catching you up. There you go. This is the book is called weird, but true.

2022 also rhymes National Geographic kids. Okay, well, that's my age level real, isn't it? It's my mental age. There you go.

Look. So I'm going to be dipping into that as well as quite a few other books I've got, which are of the same caliber. And just light hearted stuff, you know, just for example, sunny, funny sans serif.

On April Fool's Day in 1977, newspaper readers in Britain were invited to apply for a position at the University of Sans Serif. Never heard of that place to study whether it was possible to extract energy from moonbeams. I like this little bit because you see is aimed at kids.

They're not even trying to make it funny. Lots of people applied but the university does not exist. They're not like try to add any jokes just left it at that which is quite cute.

I think. Okay, lefty laughs. A number of April Fool's pranks have been directed at left handed people.

Controversial. In 1996, adverts showed a left handed chocolate bar. In 1997, a left handed laptop.

In 1998, a left handed burger. And more recently, people have been pranked with left handed mobile phones, pizzas, golf balls, pint glasses, toilet paper, and even dogs. I want to see evidence of this just writing it down like that.

I want to see evidence. I want to see film footage of someone being pranked that toilet paper is left handed. Or dog is left.

Oh, chopping down the oldest tree. In 2014, it was reported that the world's oldest tree had been cut down in the Amazon rainforest. It wasn't true.

But lots of people got very angry about it. However, in 1964, by accident, a science graduate caused the world's oldest tree. The world's oldest did I say the old world history, the world's oldest tree, a bristle cone pine called Prometheus, Prometheus.

That was a 5,000 year old to be cut down as part of a study. Someone did actually cut down the world's oldest tree. Did he? I mean, how do you know? I mean, it's a few trees out there.

I'm just going to dip into one more thing. Okay. Stop this environmental.

Stop the cows from burping. Cows burp methane, or methane, a gas that contributes to global warming. I thought it was farting.

I didn't to reduce the amount of methane they produce. The problem is that they're around. This is funny.

I'm sorry. The problem is that they're around 1.5 billion cows in the world and not enough seaweed to go around. Stop picking on the cows.

What's picking on the cows? Aren't they? They fart too much. Now they burp too much. It's not their fault.

They're not the best treated people in the world. Are they? Let them fart while they can. I'll do one more.

Do one more. I'm just going to skip through. Let's do a sport one.

Let's have a look. Excuse me. You know, I'm looking for boxing.

That's what I'm looking for, but I can't find anything. Okay. Dambi.

Dambi, I might have pronounced it wrong. Never mind. It's a martial art that comes from Nigeria.

Its origins date back to the 10th century. Competitors duel over three rounds using a tightly bound hand known as a spear for attack and the other as a shield for defense. I've seen this on YouTube.

It's not very much different from boxing really. You only use one hand to strike. So you don't use both hands.

One hand's got all kind of gloved up or laced up. Not with boxing gloves, but as I said with this laced stuff. Known as a spear.

And the other hand is sort of to try and push the other person off and stop them from getting to you. But I've seen this. I didn't realize that's what it's called, but I've seen it on YouTube and it's vicious.

Very vicious. Let's not leave it on that note then. Let's find another one.

Okay. Here's one. In the USA, the longest song to reach number one is American Pie by singer songwriter Don McLean.

It is relatively brief at 8 minutes, 34 seconds long. I thought Bohemian Rhapsody was the longest song. And what about the Elvis song.

Do you know what I mean? Okay. The longest song to reach number one in the UK charts is All Around the World by Oasis, which is short by comparison, which is short by comparison. Okay.

Because they're talking about another song clocking in at 9.5 minutes. Okay. So the longest song to be released so far is called The Rise and Fall of Bossa Nova by Michael J. Botswick, PC3 project.

If you can handle the listening experience, it takes over 13 hours from start to finish. No, thanks. No, thank you.

Thanks, but no thanks. Right. I'm going to go.

Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. And I will return again tomorrow.

And be gentle. Be gentle with yourself because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.