#900 Nick Wilty - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (4th October 2022)

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My name is Jason Newland and I'm a bit yawny.

I'm making this a very early hours in the morning. I've woken up quite early. Not that much earlier than normal really.

I normally wake up fairly early. This desk is creaking. Can you hear that? I don't understand that.

I'm sure it didn't used to creak but then I didn't used to have a desk. So I guess everything kind of works out logically in the end. That's weird.

I don't know why. Anyway, my website is jasonnewland.com. I wouldn't bother going there. It's a bit rubbish.

Actually, it's not terrible. Let's have a look. No, he's going to talk about his website.

That's the only thing worse than that is the stats. No, I'm not going to talk about the website. I'm not.

I'm just going to have a quick look. jasonnewland.com. Yes. Okay.

Well, that's good. It's not up to date anyway. So latest recording.

So I need to change that. The front first page. A few customer reviews.

And then in the navigation or the you know, whatever latest recordings. That's all right. It's got all the latest recordings.

But underneath that, underneath the playlist of latest recordings, which the latest one is a 10 hour number three ASMR whisper no ginger nuts. Let me bore you to sleep. 4th of October 2022.

So that's the latest recording. So you can listen to that. So you know, but underneath, this is where it gets good and people don't realize because it's this is where it really gets sexy.

Apart from the fact that you can if you choose to choose, you can scroll down the playlist. Literally with your finger scroll down. And providing you got nothing else to do, you can keep scrolling down.

I'm now in August. I'm now in July. I'm now in What? February? That's a bit weird.

Why February? Oh, it's just a random Yeah, that can't be right. 170 piece of relaxation. Relax, sleep and nurses daily 14th of February.

That's 170. Okay. And relax and sleep with nurses daily.

178 is 3rd of October. So no, I think there's a bit of a mistake there. 170.

14th of July. I tell you what's happened. I know what's happened.

No, I don't. I have no idea what's happened. That's weird.

See if I didn't check this stuff. I wouldn't know. 14th of February.

That's the wrong date. 14th of July, not the 14th of February. So I don't know how I'm Man.

Anyway, the I'm guessing 169 would have been 169 would have been in February. Nope. How strange.

That's very, very peculiar. So you got that anyway, so you can scroll down there for as long. I don't know how long allow you to do it.

But possibly, yeah, June 2022. So maybe allow you to go through three years. I don't know.

And there's a play button, so you can just play it. It's not continuous. I don't think so.

And then in the menu, you've got let me boy to sleep, deep sleep, whisper, relax and sleep hypnosis, boring objects, bedtime story time, stop smoking, stress and pain relief. And all of those have got a playlist. We can go down and see you can play them and search.

So that's pretty good. It's not a bad little website. But what's underneath is probably pretty cool.

Underneath the on the latest, like the main record, the main page or latest recordings. There is a list of my websites. With the images and you can just click on which one you want.

So you got. So you can go to the menu or you can just click on it. So I'll go to Deep Sleep Whisper.

Click on that one. And there's a deep sleep whisper. Playlist with all the latest recordings.

Not only that, not only that. Underneath the playlist, there is a list of pretty much all of the different podcasts. Podcasts.

Such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Amazon Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, Google, iHeartRadio. CurioCaster, Luminary, Overcast, Play FM, Pocket Casts, Podcast Index, Podchaser Podcasts, Podfriend, Podstation, Podverse. There's a thing here, isn't there? I think the word pod is a bit overused.

Podcast Radio Public, Fountain Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spreaker Podcasts, Podbean, Audible, Acast, Listen Notes, Radio UK, TuneIn, Podparadise. iVoox, Chartable, Deezer, Reefonic, Backtracks, Owltail, Geo7, Podtail, Podtail, Angami, Blueberry, Podtoppin, and then YouTube at the end. So, click on any of those.

For example, I'm going to go to Overcast. And there's nothing there. Because you need to be on a phone for that.

So if I go to Pocket Casts. Okay, number one, you need to be on your phone for that. Okay, if I go to Apple Podcasts, it's going to come up.

That's not a very good effort, is it? These pages don't work. So Deep Sleep, Whisper, Hypnosis. It's got the latest recordings.

And a few. Has it got any? Oh, it's got years active 2018 to 22 on here for this podcast. Right, a few bits of information there.

Oh, come on. Come on, don't mess around. Spotify, that'll open up.

Yeah, Spotify, except cookies. So again, the latest recordings on Spotify from my podcast. This is a Deep Sleep, Whisper, Hypnosis.

All of my podcasts are on Spotify. They've got their own. I mean, it would be easier just to have one podcast.

It would. It would. But it's kind of too late for that.

It's not too long. It's never too late, is it? You know, if I got to the point where I could only make one record in a day, then I might decide to just focus on one podcast. Yeah, but I've got Amazon Music.

Oh, look. Yep. All up to date.

So that's my podcast is on there. Yeah. Castbox.

You get to do this for every single one. You get to press every single link. Please tell me you're not.

OK, I'm not. But I am. Sonia, this is a Castbox.

We've got a couple of reviews. Sonia says, I want to give my genuine thanks to you, sir. Your voice works magic.

By the way, I'm from Iran. Sending your love. Thank you, Sonia.

That's from November. So that's a little while ago. Brad says, thank you for making these, Jason.

My brain never shuts up when my head hits the pillow. Then tend to help these. These tend to help.

Now I'm going to go to sleep and fall. Good. Good for you.

Thanks, Brad. Jeff Clements says sexiest voice I've ever heard. I genuinely climaxed.

Wow. Thanks, Brad. He didn't say that.

He put a horrible message. Sonia says, thanks, Jason. Twice.

So that's really cool. And Sonia Mohammed put kisses. And I want to give you a genuine.

Sonia, if you love me, get in contact. I'm available. I'm available for some loving Stitcher podcast.

Let's have a look. Let's have a look. Deep sleep whisper.

Ten hours. No ginger nuts. So that's that's that's good.

See, so I'm just doing this just to let you know that actually luminary. Is that coming up? Yeah, it's coming up. Not every podcast updates instantly, to be fair.

You know, so far, if I upload, let me bore you to sleep. This recording. You know, it's 348 in the morning.

Now, I normally wake up about four. And I'm in bed by 10. You sometimes sometimes a bit earlier.

Sometimes I wake up a bit later. But four o'clock seems for some reason. It's weird because for years I'd sleep during the day and be awake at night.

Nowadays, I'm an early bird and I'm awake. I'm asleep early. I enjoy going to bed early, actually.

And I quite enjoy waking up early because it's very quiet. Four o'clock in the morning. It's quiet.

Pretty much all year round, apart from the birds, you know, tweeting and singing. And I know some people don't like hearing that on the recordings. I am a big fan of the birds.

I love the birds. They're not around at the moment. And although you can still hear the birds in the winter and that it's a lot quieter.

Come spring, once they start banging away, you know, it's like it's their little nymphomaniacs is they make. But it's such a lovely, such a lovely sound. If you try and stick out your mind, the fact that they just all have an orgy.

Three a.m. is it's a beautiful sound. I like the sound of bird orgies. This is a weird.

It's something about. I guess perhaps that's why they use the word bird like thrush. There's something about.

I don't know. Pigeon book, you know, there's something there's something about I don't hear the pigeon so much early, right early. It's more the other birds.

I think pigeons are more the grumpy get up late kind of ones. And Horace, he moans. It's not really a positive tweet.

It's not a positive sound. It's just a moment. Just another day, another day like yesterday.

Tomorrow will be another day like today. Like I sometimes say, Horace, listen. Can you just like take a step back? Things are OK.

You know, come on. Look at you. You're fine.

You've got me. And. What was your what you made that funny face expression when I said that? He said, I don't know, Jay, I just.

You look a bit boring, don't you? I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm boring. You can't have conversations with other birds, can you? Of course I am.

I'm a bird. We speak a different language. I said, really? He said, yeah, of course.

Would you think you're the only person I can talk to? I just assumed. Yeah, that's why you come here. I don't come here for that.

I come here just to laugh at you. When I see you in your chair making videos and making recordings, I feel better about my own life. Oh, thanks, Horace.

You're welcome, JJ. Haven't seen him. Haven't seen him for about two weeks.

Now, he would normally visit me more than once a day. He'd come onto the windowsill and look through the window. Like he'd call me.

And he'd look through the window and. He'd say hello. He hasn't for two weeks.

Now, it might be that he thought I'd moved because I wasn't here for a little while. Just for a couple of weeks. So he might have thought, oh.

He's gone. He's lefted me. He's lefted me.

Which I didn't, of course. But maybe that's how he's thinking and he's not happy with me now. I don't know.

What can I do to make it up to him? Because this might sound a bit strange, but I don't know where he lives. I mean, we've got a huge tree in the garden. It's a big, big old thing.

You can see it. Now, that's not really a good description of a tree, is it? I'll just tell you how big it is. How big is it? You can see it.

No, I don't mean like that. I didn't finish the sentence. You can see it from a distance.

That probably still isn't a good example of a big tree. It's just huge. It just looks huge from a distance.

From the park, you can see it and it just shadows the whole estate, if you like. It's a big thing. And there are probably thousands, I don't know, hundreds of birds in there.

Thousands of birds visit probably every day. And they party. They do.

There's a lot of activity going on there. And it's probably the best thing that's here. Probably the best thing that's here is that tree and the birds in the tree.

That's probably the best thing that's in this area. For me. Because I love the sound of the birds.

I do. Genuinely. Apart from the pigeons.

But I've got over that because being best friends with a pigeon, I'm less prejudiced now. That's one way to overcome my racism towards pigeons was getting to know one and realising we're not all that different. Not really.

We're very similar things. I mean, from the outside, you could say, well, yeah, he's a pigeon and you're human. So, OK, yeah, technically, superficially, we're very different.

But when you strip back the layers. When you really like seriously look at it and strip back the layers. Yeah, he's a pigeon, isn't he? Nothing like each other.

It's completely different. OK, forget the physical dynamics. So I'm just going to make sure that I press record on this thing, because I was so carried away, I forgot.

I take away the physical side of things. Yeah, he's a pigeon. I guess we don't have a lot in common.

We both like to moan. So I guess there's that. I'm trying not to.

I'm trying to. I'm trying to be more positive. I am trying to be more positive.

I even wrote a gratitude, started a gratitude journal. And I thought this is Sunday because now Wednesday, Sunday, I thought. I'll do a gratitude journal and try and make things a bit better, try and improve.

My. Attitude towards things and try and get a bit more positive, you know, try to appreciate what I do have. How things.

I appreciate the things that are going well, you know, going well, do have going well. And so I thought, yeah, OK, because I've man, I've. Between reading and listening to audio recordings, I am Mr. Self-help.

I am Mr. Motivation. I know it sounds weird, but I have just listened and read hundreds upon hundreds. If not thousands of recordings, probably hundreds, maybe not thousands, but hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds over the years.

But then I've listened to them over. So, yeah, thousands of times. And if there's one I like, I will listen to it over and over again.

So Earl Nightingale. I think we can safely say I've listened to him. Wow.

I've lost track of the times. I mean, not only that, I've listened to him for hours upon hours upon hours, hundreds of hours. I've listened to that man's voice.

And he's like a self-help motivational kind of thing. I don't know what the correct word is. But he he's he's almost like the not the first person to do it, because no one I don't think anyone really knows who the first person to do that stuff was.

But he was one of the first. In America. So who is who's the first? First motivational recording.

Right. He comes up first motivational recording. The strangest secret was a 1956 spoken word record by Earl Nightingale.

Which sold over one million copies and received the first gold record for the spoken word, which helped launch the field of business motivation and audio publishing. It was later adapted into print and video forms. 1956.

I mean, it's almost like he created he did. I'm pretty sure he didn't. He can't be the first person.

First 10 motivational experiences. Who was the first motivational speaker in the world? Ah, here we go. This is interesting to me.

This is interesting to me. You might not find interesting, but that's good, because then it means it's been I'm being boring, which means I'm sticking to the label on the tin. People.

OK, who is the first? This is Google. Who is the first motivational speaker in the world? One of the earliest motor. One of the earliest known motivational speakers and credited for what was considered his revolutionary work was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

1803 to 1882. I've heard of him. An American essayist, poet and philosopher.

OK, if I put in just motivational, this thing is creaking. Well, the most famous one, really, I guess, is Tony Robbins. Because of.

He's just I mean, he had those info commercials. Run in America on cable TV. Now, we don't have cable TV here.

In England, we never had that stuff. As far as I know, we have. I guess we kind of have the equivalent.

We don't have public access TV in the same way as I can't just decide to put my own TV show on. Locally. On cable.

You know, I guess really what it would be now is YouTube. That's the closest thing I've got to be able to do that is YouTube. And I know in America, I don't I'm not quite sure how it all works.

But I've heard of cable TV and, you know. Tony Robbins used to be used to have these adverts running all the time. From what I understand.

And. So Ralph Waldo Emerson. So that's already what I've already looked at.

The content is quite different. So the two main theories by which this is what this is Wikipedia. The two main theories for why motivational speakers may need to be externally searched out to fill the need of content theory or the price.

What. I don't know what that means. The content theory is created by different philosophers such as Abraham Maslow, Clayton Alderfer, Frederick Herzberg and David Cleland.

The focus on the inner workings and think of an individual that and what will energize. Is that a sentence? They focus on the inner workings and think of an individual and what will energize stop behaviors and keep it sustainable for long term needs. These theories acknowledge that every individual is unique and has different needs in order to motivate them.

OK. Now. I've never really thought about it too much because, you know, in a way, I'm a motivational speaker, I guess, in a kind of a kind of a way.

I'm laughing as I'm saying that. But. You know, some some of what I say, some of what I do, maybe not here, but on the other podcasts could be classed as positive.

I like to think maybe. Motivational, maybe, maybe, maybe useful, maybe self-help, maybe self-help. So, you know, perhaps.

I am a motivational speaker, but without speaking, but I am speaking. You know, I'm not speaking on a stage. But then if I was speaking on the stage, less people would hear me.

Because even if I was, unless I was at a stadium, you know, but if I was on a stage that only had a couple of thousand people, then less people would hear me in a day. If I just went on stage once a day, one night, you know, once at seven o'clock in the evening in a theater that holds 1500 people. I'm going to reach a much smaller audience than I do doing this.

That's like 10% of the audience, if that, on a quiet day. So can you imagine going on stage and then just like every day 10 to 15,000 people? Wow, I don't even know if I'd want it. I'll be honest with you.

Oh, man, I'm going in a different direction. But I discovered something. Every now and then I get a little bit, little bit, just a little bit nostalgic.

And I basically, I searched out a friend of mine, an old friend called Nick Welty. And he was, I mentioned him before. I've mentioned it before.

He was a comedian. He is a comedian. As far as I'm aware, this is Nick Welty artist.

But why he's not got Nick Welty comedian. Nick Welty. Comedian, presenter at Big Bubble UK, artist, husband, whatever.

whichstable.jimbo.com jimbo.com Jim Do jimbo.com That's weird. whichstable.jimdo.com Got you. whichstable.jimdo.com That's his website.

Right. Right, where is it? Paste. OK, good.

Websites coming up. Now, I've already been on his YouTube channel. Wow, a lot of paintings.

Blimey. So he did, he was one of the first people I met on the comedy circuit. Okay it says here, this is like a, on his website.

Nick Realty, artist, comedian, Falklands veteran. After 30 years the professional comedian playing to audiences in over 100 countries, ex-soldier and persistent hitchhiker, Nick Realty started painting in 2017 while his wife Maxine was undergoing cancer treatment. Using his comic mind and a curiosity about the world he began painting what some people would call surreal landscapes, generally in acrylics and occasionally oils.

Each painting has a story behind it, whether it be something from the news or from his travels. Described by Harry Hill as stunning, amazing, Nick Realty is a middle-aged prodigy and by celebrity photographer Andy Hollingsworth fabulously twisted work. You can feel both Dali and boyhood science fiction being stirred up in a tin in the corner of a creaky shed.

Wow, so it's weird because he doesn't really look much different to what he did 30 years ago, 31 years when I first met him. Mind you that's a picture from 1993, no it's not, that's the photograph from 2017, so he's not going to look that much different now as he was only three years ago, five years ago. London Taps.

So he, I think he's about 10 years older than me. I remember him being about 30, maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure he was about 30 when I was 40, when I was 20. Now I don't think, I mean I don't care, you know age and stuff, but if he is 60, blimey he looks good.

Seriously he looks really, he's got less, this is from 2017, he's got less grey hair on his chin than I have and I always class myself as being fairly young because I like to lie to myself. Nick Rorty. Wow he was the writer for, that's interesting.

Nick Rorty. Nick Rorty is known for Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, 2017. Cattle Drive and the World Stands Up, C4 bio.

I think I will. There's not a lot in the bio but I can tell you a lot about him. Yeah, okay.

I remember, I might get this wrong so if I do, don't worry, you know I'm not trying to make facts. But I think, I think, oh not okay. Rhys Jones, Griff and Jones, Griff and Jones.

Why Rhys? Mel Smith, not tonight, Alas Smith and Jones. Okay, Nick, Nick Rorty, he wrote for that. This is like in the 90s, so he wrote for that show.

In my memory, in my memory he did. So let's have a look at what says. Nick Rorty live comedy dates, nothing.

Maybe he's retired after 30 years. I mean, blimey, 30 years as a stand-up comedian, traveling by the world. Blimey, 30 years.

I guess he deserves to retire, you know. Music live shows, Malcolm Hardy charity cabaret, past shows. Nick Rorty behind the jokes.

This is an Edinburgh Fringe show. Globetrotting comedian Nick Rorty returns. More outlandish stories, jokes from his travels.

All true? With a question mark. Bandits, transvestites, war and wife. You decide or buy the DVD.

Wow, what other ones do you do? Nick Rorty incident prone. The globetrotting comedian parked his boots in Edinburgh. After an eight-year absence, chronicling his true adventures and misadventures in the years BC, before comedy.

The laid-back raconteur recounts what led to the impressive tally of 38 jobs across 111 countries. Wow. From buying himself out of the British Army, post-Falklands war service, to becoming a professional comedian, Nick promises an autobiographical romp of Paraguayan bandits, drink and drug-related shenanigans and generally trying to nearly snuff it across four continents.

Nick effortlessly mines laughs from jaw-dropping it-could-only-happen-to-me horror stories. German comedy ambassador Herning Wen argue over pub jokes and lament the decline of law and order. There will also be no shortage of magic tricks and boisterous showmanship.

This is, uh, doesn't say where this is. It doesn't say. I don't know where.

Oh. That's strange. One of my favorite comedians in the whole world is Stuart Lee.

Stuart Lee, Stuart S-T-E-U-T-T-L-E-E. He's got a basic, so just basically, basically, that's his new new tour throughout 2003. He's, um, one of the best comedians.

Another comedian I really, really like, um, that this might not be that popular a choice because of some people might have, you know, be aware of newspapers and stuff. Well, we all know about newspapers. We've seen them at least.

They sell them in this shop. No, I don't mean newspapers. Are you aware of newspapers? But Louis C, Louis CK is one of my favorite comedians.

He's even because he was, they tried to put him in with the, the me too movement thing. Um, and he, he, he wasn't, you know, he wasn't, but he, they, he, he did some weird, he admitted to doing some weird stuff, but it wasn't anything on the level of, um, there's different levels. I don't know.

Anyway, but I don't want to talk about that, but he, it's very funny. Like really, really funny. His comedy is, um, he's one of the best standup comedians in the world.

And I think Stuart Lee is as well. Um, they both are for me, but then Louis CK is, was very, very, very popular as a standup in America. And he's popular over here as well on Netflix.

And I think it was in Netflix that had his TV shows. Then he, he went through a period of not being around and then he came back. And, uh, excuse me, Louis, uh, let me read it.

Louis CK, Louis CK. Okay. Wow.

His name is that selectly Louis Alfred. So let's see. No wonder it's C K Y C K then.

Don't know. Makes no sense. Louis a S surely.

Hey. So he, he started his career in the nineties, right? For comedians like David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Dana Carvey, Chris Rock and Saturday Night Live. And then, um, he became public prolifically releasing nine comedy albums.

So he's had nine comedy albums. Um, he's been in a few TV shows. He was in a TV show called Louis, which I used to love.

I don't know why he stopped doing it, but it went on from 2010 to 2015. Uh, it's really, really good. Um, he did another show called Horace and Pete and it was weird.

It was a weird show. Just a very weird show. Very dramatic.

Um, like really almost wide classes, potentially Oscar winning performances from all the actors. It's just really, uh, very, very unusual TV show. I don't even know which streaming channel.

I think it was Amazon had it on there, but that came out around. Well, it's my, I discovered that around the time that he had a few issues. Uh, so he's been in a few films.

In 2017, he admitted to several incidents, incidences of misconduct. Following the release of an article, the New York times, this resulted in a widespread, in widespread criticism and causes 2017 film. I love you, daddy to be pulled from distribution prior to its release and halt his standup career.

And 2018, he returned to a way it wasn't gone for long. Was he in 2018? He returned to standup comedy and in 2019 announced an international tour in 2020, CK released a new comedy special. Sincerely Louis CK on his website for which he received a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2021.

He embraced on an international comedy tour and released a new comedy special. Sorry. And co-wrote and directed the 2022 film fourth of July starring Joe list.

Okay. Well, no, that I've not heard of that fourth of July. Blimey.

Ah, man, it released in June. It took 325,000 in the box office, which I'm probably guessing means it didn't do so well. Well, I'm, I'm guessing.

Even though he wasn't even in it, it goes from different ways, doesn't it? So, oh, he was in it. He was a therapist. It goes.

Something like that can go. So being famous. So if he writes a movie, he writes it, directs it, produces it, uh, co-stars in it, edits it.

So it would have, you know, if you'd have released that seven years ago, it might've been a huge hit. You know, if it had been before, whatever, before he got in trouble, but it might've been, it might've been a bigger hit. If his name hadn't been connected to it, but then why would you direct, write, produce a co-star and all that, all this stuff, probably finance the thing to then not even be mentioned.

I suppose. I don't know. I mean, I haven't written or directed a movie for a while, for a lickle while.

Okay. So he's such a good comedian, like really, really funny. And I think part of the idea, the part of why it's funny is because he's, he's real.

Um, uh, as far as he, I don't know how to explain it really. He's, he's, he's real. He just, he's, he talks about stuff that kind of makes sense for who he is, for his life, for his experiences, doesn't sort of try and put on a, uh, like a percent, a pretend facade.

Well, that's what a facade is, isn't it? You know, you know, I mean, he doesn't try and, you know, like, uh, you know, he kind of got Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock or Steve Martin, or they're kind of characters, you know, when they came out, Eddie Murphy, cocky, uh, like sex God kind of, you know, and it was, it was brilliant what he did, but it wasn't real, you know, it wasn't gutsy, uh, grimy stuff. It was just really entertaining and funny. But then you got Richard Pryor that comes on and he's, or George Carlin, uh, two of my favorite comedians of all time.

I would even go as far as to say George Carlin was possibly the king of comedy, like of all time. And some would be controversial. Well, if you just look at the longevity of George Carlin, started in the fifties, in the 1950s or 60s, whether he's on TV, he started in, he was on black and white television and he was still going when he was in his seventies and it wasn't that he was still going.

I've seen loads of comedians, um, that after seven or eight years, they've lost it. They're, they're not, they haven't got what they had this, whether it's through, well, it could be for lots of reasons, but they've lost, they've lost what they had and they were headline acts, maybe never on telly, but destined for that. And then, and then they kind of lost it.

They didn't have that magic or they've lost the magic or that maybe that's fallen out of love with doing it. And then you've got someone like Louis CK or, uh, George Carlin, who after doing it for so many years are still brilliant, still brilliant at what they're doing. Still clearly put loads of effort and work into, uh, writing for the standup gig that they got.

And I just, I think it's phenomenal that someone in their sixties can be, do a standup show that's funny, or if not funnier than something they did when they're in their thirties. When they were at the height of their fame, when they were almost like a superstar in America, George Carlin, he had loads of, uh, albums, comedy albums, and he was very famous. Now, I don't know how famous he was out there because America is such a huge, huge country.

Um, 360 million, although back in the sixties and seventies, probably more 250 million or something. I imagine there's a lot more now than it used to be. Uh, there is everywhere I think, isn't there? Um, well, maybe not everywhere, but I, I've just, I just, I'm just impressed.

I'm impressed that someone is able to keep that going. You know what I mean? Just to be able to keep just, I don't know, I don't know. It is, I've seen, I mean, I know that keeping motivation going, I mean, if you're motivated naturally, it makes a big difference.

Uh, I'm just going to focus. I mean, I know what it's like when I did comedy. I wasn't very good.

I never became very good. I became, I had some good gigs where I saw potential, if that makes sense. So I had gigs that went really well, that the audiences were lovely.

But I think part of the reason it went so well is because the audience was lovely and they kind of were in a good mood and the energy was right. And I was in a good mood and it was, it just, you know, went together very well. It was just a very nice mix.

Everyone was in the right space at the right time. When I had really good gigs and I had a few, like really phenomenal gigs, but not many like that. There wasn't many that were that good.

And then I had loads that were okay. And then even more that were really bad, you know, especially in the beginning. And I don't know how people keep that motivation going to do that.

Like go back to Nick Wilty. He, and this is, to be fair, I copied him. I didn't copy comedy, but I copied his, he used to record himself.

And you know what? I don't know if I copied him at all, because I probably did though. Only in the recording, he had a little digital recorder and he, not digital, a tape recorder, didn't have digital recorders back then. He had a tape recorder and he recorded his gigs, his performances, so he could play it back and see how it got on.

So I did the same thing. Now in my mind, knowing that I did that in 1991, in my mind, we just had the same idea. But in reality, I probably saw him do it and I went and bought one.

Because I just want to make it clear, I didn't copy him in any other way. Very different. I mean, if I had copied him, I might have had some success, because he was a brilliant comedian.

And he was one of these comedians and he used to come on stage and he had long hair. And it's almost like, you know, he was in the army, very regimented, previous to this. He served his time in the army and then he left.

He'd been to war, so that was, you know, it's all the stuff that comes with that, all the emotional stuff. And he talked to me a little bit about it at times. And then, he's, I suppose he's one of the people that I had the most respect for on the comedy circuit, or in life even.

He didn't command respect, but he didn't demand it. But he kind of, um, I don't know, he gained it. People respected him.

He was a nice person. You know when someone's just nice? And I've always wanted to be that kind of person. Just a nice person.

And one day, one day I'll get there. I'm semi-nice. I have a semi.

Anyway, he, he used to go on stage and he'd talk about, sometimes he'd talk about his travels. So he'd left the army and, I know I'm just repeating what I've already read out to you anyway, but I knew that, I didn't know all that stuff. There's some stuff in there that I didn't know, that I read out on his website.

So he had long hair in a ponytail. Now, I don't know if he's the reason I chose to grow my hair long, because I did grow my hair long. Wow, maybe I was trying to be him.

Anyway, he had long hair. And once I started doing comedy in January 1991, I started growing my hair. And eventually it was long enough to pull into a ponytail, like a tiny little ponytail.

And then I just kept letting it grow. And then eventually I cut it off in the summer 94. But I had long hair for a few years.

And that's as close to being like him as I was ever going to get. Because he was together, he was very grounded as a person. And I was all over the place.

I was just, I was all over the place. I don't know where I was. I was, um, yeah, I don't know how I, I don't know how I got through those times, really.

But I really wanted to be like, to have that respect, because it automatically had the respect. And every Wednesday night at the comedy club, there was a, there was a contest. So you could go on, it's for new acts, go on.

And then if you won, you know, they'd have judges at the end of the night. If you won, you got to come back the following week on a Thursday night and perform. Now, I think they start with, they just used to give £25 or something.

And then they'd say, okay, you can have a gig, which is what anyone wants. It's all, that's all that the new comedians want is a paid gig. That's gold, that's gold dust for people.

Because once you've had a paid gig, you can tell other clubs, I had a paid gig, and you get to be seen. So you might have a paid gig on a Thursday night, next week. And on that night, there might be the, the owner of the comedy store might be in there.

Or Banana Cabaret, or whatever different clubs, junglers. And he or she might be sitting in the audience or just in there talking to the manager, the owner of the club, and see you on there, like, wow, who's this bloke? Oh, he won the contest last Wednesday. And he's come back today, because I gave him a free gig, a gig, a paid gig, he gets paid £25.

We should just give people £25. Then I thought, perhaps I'll give them a gig, make them work for it. And yeah, so he can grow.

And I saw that. I saw that with him. He'd be there on a Wednesday night.

And people would come up to them, come up to him with their diaries, seeing if he's available to do a gig at their club. He didn't have to do anything, they came to him. And I remember, this is, this might not be true.

But I have this memory that we were at a gig together. And someone came up to him and said, and he talking to him, and then he came up to me and said, this band, it was a famous rock band, wanted him to open for them at a festival. I don't remember what the band's name was.

That's my memory of it. It might be, it was a famous person. Maybe it was not a band, but I'm pretty sure it was a band.

And it was at one of these festivals, you know, one of the festivals that we have over here. And they wanted him to open for them and do some stand up for their show, because they were, they had their own show going on, because they were headlining, I really don't know. But that's my memory of it, where he's like, wow, I've just been asked to open for these famous people.

And I was like, wow. And it wasn't the famous people. I don't, I don't think they were actually in the club.

But maybe their, their management or whatever. I don't know. I might, it might be the actual famous person themselves.

I can't tell you, because I don't remember, because it's a long time ago. So Nick Realty, unfortunately, there's hardly anything online. Like his gigs, I hope he recorded them.

It seems a shame that his stuff would be lost. You know, I hope he, that he videotaped or, you know, his one man shows and stuff. Because if he didn't, wow.

What a shame. For all those, imagine those hundreds of thousands of hours of comedy shows that he did. Do you imagine how many gigs he did over 30 years? I mean, I say hundreds of thousands, probably maybe not hundreds of thousands, but you know, a lot.

You know, a full time comedian who's doing really well, is earning a living out of it, will do probably 200 gigs a year, if not more. Some comedians, I don't know what it's like now, but when I was doing it, they do like three or four gigs in an evening. So Friday, Saturday night would be their busiest time.

And they'd be zipping around between the comedy store, junglers, comedy cafe, comedy at Soho, you know, an area where there was comedy clubs, West End area. And they'd zip from one to the other. And I'm sure one bloke did like six gigs in one night.

How he did it, I don't know. I mean, one of the gigs started at like five in the afternoon. The next one was at seven.

Then there was another one at nine. Then there was like 10. You know, it's just like, wow.

But three gigs in an evening was not, not unnatural. It was kind of quite fairly normal. You know, they'd do the early show at the comedy store, go off.

And then they could close any other comedy club. So the early show would be about eight o'clock. So they'd open for the early show at the comedy store at maybe 8.30, close at 10 or 11 at another club, and then go back to the comedy store for the late show, which started at 12 or 11 or 12, one, I don't know.

So, you know, three gigs was easy. To do to get to if he was in that area. That's amazing, really.

Right, I got my breakfast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.

Wow. Once I start talking about this stuff, I can't stop killing. It's definitely a subject that I'm interested in still after all these years, still interested.

Wow, squeaky squeaky though. Anyway, so I'm going to go. Thank you for listening.

Thank you. And I will return tomorrow. And for those who listen, those are still listening.

I do have a couple of other like let me bore you recordings, podcasts now, the ASMR whisper version of the let me bore you to sleep. It's just this with me whispering. That's all.

And the other one is let me bore your pain away. It's like this, but it is different. It is different because I do have a bit more focused on the subject.

But it still is the same kind of thing. That makes sense. Yeah.

So take care. Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

And that's it. Lots of love. Bye.