#893 Dog sitting - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (23rd September 2022)

Hello and welcome to Squeaky Chair, and no it's not really a squeak, well it is a squeaky chair, but that is not the podcast. Because even, even with my very low standards, a podcast solely about squeaky, squeaky chair would be pretty poor, I think. Um, so welcome to let me bore you to sleep.

Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And my name is Jason Newland, and my website is jasonnewland.com. I hope you're well, I hope everything's fine. Blah de blah.

Yep, exactly. So, it's a bit early. It's a bit early in the morning.

I didn't make a recording, this, one of these recordings yesterday, during the day, or in the early evening, because I was a bit tired and, although I did manage to do two recordings. A deep sleep whisper recording, deep sleep whisper hypnosis, and a daily relaxing sleep hypnosis daily. So I did two different recordings, but I didn't, I never, I never did a boring one, although the other two were probably boring.

Part of the reason for that is, is, is, is, is, is, is, I'm just playing around with the knob, the volume knob. Part of reason for that is because I did the first recording as a video. Well, I did it as, I audioed it, and I also made a video as well.

And it took, well it still hasn't uploaded, still hasn't, I still haven't been able to edit the video. So, I transferred it, I airlifted it, whatever, airdropped it from the phone to the iPad, and then tried to use Luminary to edit it, and it just wasn't having it. It took forever, and in the end I just gave up.

So, I uploaded it, edited it, and uploaded it as an audio on the podcast. But I didn't bother with the video. And this is a, like a back and throw that I'm going through at the moment, and it's a little bit annoying, because, yeah, I thought, yeah, I'll do videos.

And it just hasn't worked out. It's way, you know, the way I used to do it before, I used to just video, make a video with the camera, or with the phone, and just upload it straight away. No editing, no microphone, no nothing.

And I just edit it. Okay, it's not totally true. I did, I did start editing videos, but there was a time when a lot of the, most of the time I just upload videos.

I didn't bother with any of the, can you hear that, it's my stomach. I wouldn't bother with any of the editing side of things. And then yesterday I thought, you know what I could do, I could try and do, is maybe, just maybe, live stream a Facebook, no on YouTube rather, live stream on YouTube.

But that didn't work, for some reason. I don't know why. I really don't know why that didn't work.

So, you know, I thought I'd do that at the same time. It's a live stream, no one expects a live stream to be edited, really. And maybe a little bit, but I think it's forgiven.

You know, if you do a live stream, and it's just you sitting there at the beginning of it, and then you talk, and then it ends. Maybe there's some audience participation. You know, that's kind of accepted, I think, even today is fine, without too much of a, like an introduction effects.

Although I know some people do know how to do all that stuff. So I thought about it, I thought it, I thought it about it. And, you know, I gave the live stream a go, it wouldn't, just wouldn't work, would not happen, would not play the game.

So that cut off while I was doing the second recording. So the first recording, I videoed it, fine, recorded it, you know, a video, but just couldn't upload it. And it was, I think it was like 40, 48 minutes long or something.

So it was a long video. Nevertheless, you know, let me bore you to sleep. So it was about an hour ish, sometimes longer, sometimes a little bit less.

So I don't know. I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of just giving up, not on everything, just on the videos, just saying, sorry, see you later.

We want to be here. Bye. And just getting rid of that microphone, getting rid of that stand.

It's not a lot of stuff on there, really. It's for the videos, doesn't take a lot of, a lot of energy, really. Well, it takes a lot of energy.

It's not a lot of, um, you know, I've got a microphone, I've got a booster, a, it's called an iRig, pre iRig. And that then fits into the phone. You can get an extension, I think to go into the iPad and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So yeah, that's, I'm just going to get rid of that, stick that in the storage room and just focus on the audios because, yeah, maybe that's just what I need to do. I had this, just this idea that maybe if I got back involved with YouTube and you know, if I stuck at it and I just kept uploading new videos when I made a recording, then it would grow like it used to be, you know, back in the old days, 10 years ago, in fact, when everything started to grow and the podcast, the videos rather started to really gain some traction. And I was getting, you know, new subscribers every day in their bunches.

And it was really kind of exciting in a way. And then, yeah, well, I deleted the channel. It wasn't the, probably wasn't the best decision I ever made.

It wasn't the worst either, to be fair. It wasn't the best decision and don't even ask me why. I've talked about it before.

It's one of those weird, weird, I think the word brain fart really does do it justice. So yeah, that's, that was done. So maybe, maybe I'm just not destined to to go back to YouTube and the podcasts are working out very well.

Everything's going nicely. The more I do, the more I get listened to is seems to be the, the motto. So if I, if I do, I do no, no recordings for, you know, weeks, even the, but when I recently, I didn't make any recordings for probably two weeks and the audience went down to like sometimes five, 6,000 a day downloads.

Yeah. 6,000, five, 5,000 downloads sometimes, sometimes seven, sometimes five. So it goes down and then I make one recording and it goes up to maybe 8,000, maybe 10,000.

I do another one. So what if I did two recordings, I'd normally get 12, 13,000 downloads, maybe more sometimes 15,000. If I do it regularly, if I, you know, if I do two new recordings every day, then probably looking more about 15,000 a day.

But if I do one new recorded a day, every day, and then another one occasionally, maybe twice a week. So that I'll be looking at about 12,000 downloads a day. So roughly, so it's one of those things, it seems to be the more I produce, the more people listen.

And I know that makes sense. It makes sense in a way. But then I think about, and I'm about to compare myself now to others, which is never a good idea, really.

It's never really a good idea. There's some podcasters that they release one podcast episode a week. And they are very, very popular.

And they will get, I don't know how many downloads they get, but they'll get more downloads than I do in a week. So let's say I get on a good week, a couple 100,000 downloads. That's a really, really, that's like top top week.

150,000 is a good week. That's a better week. And if you're thinking 15,000 a day, times by seven was 7,000.

Are we talking about statistics again, Jason? Yes, we are. Sorry. I don't know how we got onto the subject.

I know that no one wants to hear that statistics. No one's interested. But I will mention it sometimes.

Just forgive me, please, please forgive me. I know not what I do. I cannot help it.

Every now and then. It's because it's because it's because laddies and gentlemen and boys and girls. It is because and ferrets and dogs and kittens, elephants.

Monkeys. Zebras, not zebras, zebras. It's because I'm interested.

And I'll be honest with you, and this is probably a very sad statement. Without the podcasts, I have nothing. I have nothing.

I've really, this is kind of my whole life. And it is a little bit, it does seem a little bit sad to say that out loud. This is my life.

This is the most important thing that I do, making these recordings with the intention of helping others, hopefully helping others. Now, when I stop helping others, I feel that I've stopped or I guess get told that I've stopped helping others. Or actually not that because some people can be quite nasty at times.

If the audience stopped, you know, people stopped listening. I don't know what the heck I would do. I mean, in some ways, I'd be free.

It'd be a freedom, but not the kind of freedom that I want, really. Because I have, it reminds me of a Steve Martin film, The Jerk. He's, well, he phones his mum up and he says, you're right, mum.

I found out the, I found out my secret purpose, or what my secret purpose is, or what to do with my secret purpose, which was his thingy, his little friend. Something like that. Anyway, there's something, well, I wake, every time I wake up in the morning, when I wake up, I think of this.

Every time I wake up, I think of you. There's a time in the morning when I wake up. Well, I've had a poo, and all I can do is think of you.

Oh dear, that tickled me. It didn't really. I wasn't even, I wasn't even mildly amusing really, was it? But hey, I did my best.

I didn't do my best. I could have, I could have put a bit more effort into that, couldn't I? Yes, let's be honest. Anyway, what I was talking about is I, me, moi, I've got a purpose.

And I didn't have a purpose, really, in my life. My whole life, outside of just doing something for me. So my purpose is, you know, with martial arts, reading books, comedy, even hypnosis, learning hypnosis, NLP, learning how to build websites.

That was all for me. That was just for my entertainment and my fun. This isn't for me.

I mean, I, this, you know, I enjoy parts of what I do. I enjoy not, not every aspect of it, if I'm honest. But, you know, I, you know, I enjoy doing it.

I do it because it's fun. But I do it more importantly, because I want to, I'm trying to make a difference. I'm trying to be of service to others.

And I've been trying to do that for 17 years. And I say try, because I don't know how, I'm not sure if, well, I don't know if I'm accomplishing that ambition. And I guess the reality is I'm never going to know.

I'm never going to know. I try and, I've had some wonderful feedback. I'm not asking for feedback, but I'm always welcoming it.

I always welcome nice, friendly, positive feedback. And, you know, you can do that via my website, or, you know, that's probably the best way to do it, in a way. The thing is, I, if I get positive feedback, it feels lovely.

I really like it. Yet at the same time, if I get negative feedback, it really affects me. Like really, really affects me.

To the point where I'm thinking, oh, I'll just, just quit. I'll just stop doing it. Because this just ain't working.

You know, I've invested so much time, trying to get the equipment to work, trying to get decent stuff. So that it sounds okay. People don't realise I've just got a very squeaky voice.

This is what I normally sound like. So to make myself sound like this, it takes a lot of tweaking. Because my normal voice is this.

Now, if you realise that, you wouldn't give me such a hard time. So, see what I mean? To get my voice to sound like this, it may sound still rubbish. It may sound too tinny, too vibratey, too high pitched, too low pitched, too sitting in a box.

I don't know, it could be. It's the best I'm able to do. All I can do is play with the knobs.

Listen through the headphones and play with the knobs. And really hope for the best. Because, you know, once I've done the recording, I also then put it through some other software to make it sound better.

So that, you know, there's a fair bit of effort goes into this. Compared to how things used to be, blimey, I used to turn... What did I used to... How did I used to do it before? Well, actually, I used to make the videos for quite a few years. I'd make a video on the phone and then I would edit it and I would extract... Or I wouldn't even do that.

I'd just make the video. I'd extract the audio from the video using some software online. And then I'd just upload the audio.

I wouldn't introduce it. I wouldn't even edit the audio. So it could be like... And just like all kinds of weird sounds.

Which was probably not acceptable on YouTube, but as an audio for, you know, for a podcast. I mean, what my thinking, my thinking... How do I say? My thinking is... Was rather... I'd rather produce a new recording than not. So I'd rather produce something that doesn't sound perfect.

With the content being good, hopefully. I'll choose that over a better quality sound. But making less recordings, because I guess I knew back then that I'm not really into the whole, perhaps the process inside of things.

The editing. I'll do it. I do do it.

I do. Every recording I and I try and make sound okay. And, you know, I do my... I say I do my best.

I mean, I could spend five hours on each recording, going through every single second of it. I'm not going to do that. I'm sorry.

Ain't going to happen. Therefore, if I was selling recordings, you know, they were for sale, then I probably would have to be more vigilant with the quality of the sound and make sure that every single background sound was gone. And if I occasionally bang the microphone, that that was deleted.

Now, I do try and do that. Sometimes I can't find it. You know, I'll bang the microphone and I'll look and there's no spike.

And on the recording, no obvious spike for me to delete. It's like, oh, I really don't want to listen to the whole 36 minutes in order to find that one bit. So I don't.

So there. So there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm looking after my friend's dog today. Yippee. He's a pain.

He's he's just annoying. He's lovely, but he's he just wants to do he gets bored. He wants to do stuff.

And it will come up here and it'll be so excited to come up here. And he'll run around excited for probably four minutes. And then it'll start like, okay, hunting.

Where can I get biscuits? Where's biscuits? Where's biscuits? Uncle Jason? Where's biscuits? Where's biscuits? Biscuits, biscuits, biscuits. And that's all he's interested in. And I might give him some biscuits.

I've also got some dog treats. So I'll give them preferably them to him, even though they're more expensive than the biscuits, but they're better for him. And then after a while, he just gets bored and he just lays down and all I hear is and he's just bored.

He's just and then occasionally I'm moving, he'll look up at me like what we're doing now, what we're doing now, what we're doing now, what we're doing now, what we're doing now, we're doing nothing. You're staying there. And I'm going to make another recording.

Or I'm going to watch telly or I'm going to go to bed or whatever. And then if I, oh, woe betide me if I decide to have something to eat. It's almost like his eyes turn into Superman, like laser vision.

Like, give me the food. I mean, that's a proper hypnotist. A dog, when you're eating and he wants your food.

The eyes that go right through you. Give me food. Give me food.

I can almost hear it. If his eyes could talk, give me food. Now, give me the whole plate, put it onto the floor.

And you can go and leave and come back at exactly the moment I finish eating. And then take me for a walk. That would be it.

If he could really communicate. That's all he wants. Take me for a walk.

Give me food. Stroke my belly. Pat me on the head.

Give me food. Move off the sofa so that I have more room to stretch. That is pretty much it.

He's a very, I suppose, quite basic. Dogs are quite basic, aren't they? But he just gets frustrated and all I'm constantly hearing. And that's just out of his, no, that is not out of his bum, but he's always farting as well.

And he doesn't make any sounds. There's no preparation for it. So at least if there's a fart, for me, a fart should have a sound.

Him, nothing. And all you get is suddenly the smell. Oh, not really.

And he always manages wherever he lays on the floor. His bum hole is always aimed at you. Always.

I'm not saying sometimes, it's always aimed at you, wherever you are. He manages to, I don't know how he manages to do it, but he manages to aim his bum hole at you when he's asleep. And that's when he relaxes.

And that's when all kinds of weirdness arrives into my nostrils. Knocks at my nostril doors. I know.

Can we come in, please? They're not even polite. They just just kick the door in. It's like, oh, oh, oh, what on earth is that? And I don't know.

It's still, oh, it's not nice. So, yeah, I got him today. Got him Monday as well.

So it's two days in a week. Blimey. It's kind of motivated me because I woke up quite early.

So I won't have him until probably at least nine, probably nine, eight, nine. So it's about five o'clock now. So it gives me a bit of time to get something done.

Because I don't know how noisy, it's not noisy so much, but what what kind of sounds he's going to make. So then, you know, just get some stuff done now. And then I can I can use that time to maybe do some editing, some website work and stuff.

So maybe do a bit of reading, a bit of sleeping probably as well. But bless him. I can't take him out for a walk because I don't trust him.

I don't trust him to behave. So he can go in the garden and he can do what he needs to do in the garden. But I'm not taking him out.

Because if there's another dog out, he gets very excited. So I'm not doing that. What else? I'll get some water for him.

And so I'll give him hugs and everything, make sure he's happy. But the only thing he really wants, he was three things he wants. Apart from being, you know, cuddled and stuff is and attention 24 hours a day.

But other than that, he wants food. He wants to go out for walks. And he wants his daddy.

And above all that is he wants his daddy. That's what he wants. Doesn't want me, he wants his daddy.

And he's, he's just, he doesn't care if his daddy, if his dad's not here. As long as his dad's downstairs or in the building, he does, as long as he can, he knows where he is. He can probably, I imagine dogs can smell us, can't they? So they know where we are.

Maybe that's what, that's, that's how he feels, a dog feels like. You're moaning about my farting. Well, I can smell inside your bum hole right now, even when it's closed.

I have to smell that all the time. Even when I'm in, even when I'm downstairs, I can smell it when you're asleep. So don't moan at me about farting.

I know what you get up to. Because it's like, imagine having that I don't understand. How can a dog supposedly have 10,000 times the smell capability as humans? How can he stay in the same room after farting? How can he stay in the same town? Honestly, it's, it's really bad.

So if that's bad for me, and he's getting 10 times, 10,000 times the guff, the guff, I love that word guff. He's getting 10 times, 10,000 times the guff effect as I'm getting. How can he even stay in the same city in the same country? I mean, you'd have to have a jet plane ready just to take off, wouldn't you? Believe it or not, a jet plane.

Hopefully the mountain won't be there this time. So yeah, it's, that's what I'll be doing today. I had a weird dream, weird dream.

When everyone needs the toilet, I have dreams where I need the toilet. And for some reason, I was in this place, and there was a lot of people about for, I don't know, I don't know why, a lot of people about. And it was very kind of snowy and misty.

And there was people just, and it was night time though as well. But it was almost, almost like there was some kind of spaceship spotting people, trying to spot a spaceship and they were all waiting to see if they could find this spaceship. That's the kind of vibe I was getting.

And so these people were excited about seeing aliens and spaceships and I needed the toilet. And I did see a sign and there's all these buildings and all these rooms. And there was a sign that had like the little man and women sign.

I'm not sure how long those will exist, but you know, to give the impression that toilets were nearby in that particular general, you know, general direction. So I did and I looked and I couldn't find it. And someone said, Oh, no, there's toilets in there.

I said, Oh, thanks. So I went in. And then I woke up realized I needed to go for a wee wee.

And that was it. But I just, it seemed a really long winded way to do it. You know, I mean, it's like very long winded.

And I'm glad that I wake up, of course, it's, you know, hmm. But it's, I never dreamed I was on the tube underground in London. And I left my bag.

So I went onto the tube station onto one of the tube platforms. I think it was on the central line. Not that that's really relevant.

And I left my bag, I came out to go on to a different platform. And I remembered, I left my bag. So I went back and the bag was gone.

I'd literally been, I'd left it for maybe 15 seconds. And I'm looking around, I said, Oi, where's my bloody bag? You were standing there, where's it gone? You got it? You hiding it in your underpants? And he said, No, that bloke over there. So I looked to my right, and there was a man and he had my bag.

I said, What are you doing? That's my bag. He said, Oh, there you go. I said, Do you normally take something so quickly? I mean, shouldn't you wait a little while before you steal my stuff? You know? Wait, wait until I've been gone.

What? I don't know. 23 seconds before you just nab it. And he said, he mumbled something.

And that was it. I can't remember what else happened in that dream. I do have some, it's not any point really saying the words, I have strange dreams, because doesn't everybody, aren't dreams just strange in themselves? I mean, how often do you like, I had a really sensible normal dream.

You don't do it, they're all weird. I've actually, I've actually got a whole, like a whole life, a whole living, a whole somewhere that I live, and a life, I've got a few of those in dreams. It's almost like it's a computer game.

And I programmed it myself, over time, and added bits. Is it like Minecraft? Or was that farming game that used to be able to play on Facebook? Around about 10 years ago, maybe more than 10 years ago, probably 2010. So about 12 years ago.

13 years ago. And I don't know if it was just called farm, the farm, something like that. And you could build a farm, you could build crops, you could build stuff, you kind of built your own world in a way.

And then they expanded it and other games allowed you to build cities. And, you know, so there's lots of those, those kind of games around back then. I think Minecraft was one of them, I'm not 100% sure.

It's not something I've really ever been into gaming. And I've missed out. See, I'm not one of these bitter people, like, oh, gaming, just because I don't understand something, automatically, it's wrong, it's bad, it's ridiculous, it's silly.

No. I mean, I think I'm outnumbered. I think if you're outnumbered, providing it isn't something horrible, you know, so like, really horrible views that other people have.

Well, I wish I should think that as well. Because, you know, everyone else does like, no, no, let's have some morals, a little bit. I don't have any, but I aspire to have some morals one day.

But I do think I'm outnumbered with gaming. Millions upon millions of people gain huge amounts of pleasure from playing games. I've just never been one to do that.

I've never. I'll tell you why. I think part of the reason is the jump from, okay, I was an original gamer.

You know, I remember the ping pong, the tennis thing, which was just beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And basically, two controllers, two people. And you got to look, basically, it's a line, a little line, and you'd move up and down to stop the ball.

It's like tennis. And it was the most basic game that's ever been invented. You know, it was very popular in the 70s.

So we had that at home. We like computer console just with that. It might be another version, you could speed it up, you could make the lines longer to make it easier to play.

I just make it as long as possible so that the ball could never get through. No one would ever play with me when I did that. And I remember once I said, why doesn't anyone play? Why doesn't anyone want to play the computer tennis with me? Is it because I'm too good? My brother said, no, it's because you're naked, they go away.

Okay, fair enough. At least, at least now I know. If no one tells me, I'm supposed to know.

And the, I didn't really keep, I kept up to date a little bit with the games because the game started to get sophisticated. Kind of, you know, we had Star Wars. Oh, Space Invaders.

Space Invaders was really like the first, in my memory, the first international, huge, hugely successful game. Space Invaders. And then all the others came along.

Some of them were way better than Space Invaders though. Because, you know, they'd fly in, they'd be flying and you'd have like space wars and stuff like that. And then, so there was those ones, and you had those in pubs and then there'd be, you'd have the stand up ones, but then those, they'd literally be people to have their drinks on them, use them as tables and then play them.

So they were very popular. And then handheld games came out. And I had at least one hand, two handheld games, which were like Pac-Man was a really popular one as well, of course, Pac-Man.

And I had a Pac-Man. And I had another thing, I forget what the one I had. But you know, got batteries in and there's a big old handheld thing.

And it was a lot of fun. But it was based, they were all basic, it was very repetitive. And they were easy, not easy, as in winning.

But they were easy to use those, you didn't need to read instructions to use the thing. And that's always a good sign for me. If there's no instructions, chuck it my way.

I'll give it a go. That's why I decided not to be a surgeon, too many instructions. So then, as the early 80s went by, I'm trying to think, I think Tron, Tron kind of changed the game up a little bit.

Because, you know, they made a movie. And it was, it was very quiet, very sophisticated, that game. And I used to like playing it, but I was never any good at it.

And I didn't like having to pay to play it. It just didn't seem right. And, you know, I'd go down the arcade, and I'd spend a couple of pounds and it just, money would go very quickly.

And I just thought, well, what have I got to show for this money that's gone? So arcades were very popular. I never, I used to go down and try and find money down there and stuff. But I was never, I didn't spend hours upon hours upon hours playing the games in order to learn how to play them.

So I never learned how to play them really. Although the only time I really enjoyed playing games was when I visited my uncle in about probably 84 and went up there for about two weeks, two of the best weeks of my childhood, to be fair. It might have been 10 days, might have been six days, but in my memory, it's about two weeks.

And my uncle was brilliant. He was just amazing. He still is, I'm sure.

I haven't seen him for 30 odd years, 35 years, whatever. In fact, I'm not sure if I've seen him since that week, which is ridiculous. But he's an amazing person.

Very generous, very kind, funny, just lovely, lovely bloke. So I did actually send him a letter, I sent him a Facebook message a few years back. I think it was before I moved in there.

So about six, seven years ago. And I thought, you know what? Because he's, he's, he was the brother of my step mum, who I grew up with from the age of seven to 16. Yeah.

So for nine years. And then she moved. I never really sort of had contact with her anymore.

And I didn't have contact with him either. So I sent him a message about seven years ago on Facebook. Just, I just wanted to thank him for being such an amazing uncle.

He's so lovely. He was, and he was, he was wealthy. He was a wealthy man.

He self made, you know, he's, he had a business in shipping. And he was very shippy, pp, shipping. I'm not sure if there's a business in there.

And so he, you know, he did really, really did well for himself. But on top of that, he was just a really nice person. He's very generous.

He used to be in a band. In fact, he was offered a record deal when he was, I guess in the 60s, when he was in his band. And he, he decided he wanted to, he wanted the security of work, you know.

So he turned down the recording contract. So that would have been a weird one. He might have gone and been, might have been famous.

But he decided he wanted to make his own way in the world, like in business, and he was successful. So he, but he loved games. He loved all kinds of games.

And he had computers. And what I noticed is, he was very into Apple computers, and he used them for his work. So this is in the early 80s, when Apple was, you know, I don't know what they were, but they were kind of more sophisticated than the normal PCs.

And I remember downstairs is where I was sleeping. He had lots of computers and stuff. And he had this helicopter game.

And it was so, so much fun. It was on a computer, like it was a joystick attached. And I've never seen that before.

I've seen arcade stuff and, you know, those kinds of things. But what he did have that I really liked, and it was for his daughter, basically, is an Atari system. And he had loads of these consoles.

It was like Atari was a console game. And it had everything. I mean, he had like, just so many games to choose from.

And I would spend hours playing it. I'd sit on the chair or sit on the floor. And my favorite one was Smurfs.

And it was just like a general, what do they call it? Platform game, you know, you go from one thing and then you go to, then you get to reach the next level and all that. And I just remember the Smurfs, because every time you get through a level, it's like, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Either that or every time you lost, I don't remember.

But I liked that game. I really did. And in the other room, because that was in one room, and there was also a next, there was a night that was part of a room that had a snooker table in it.

And then there was, I think that led to the kitchen, there was like a thing in the wall, you know, where you could put food through, if I remember rightly. But through the other, or out of the door, and then there's the hallway, and then through another, into another big room, his daughter, so my uncle's daughter was watching The Jungle Book, you know, the movie Jungle Book. And she had it on repeat 24 hours a day.

So all she did was watch The Jungle Book. Now, admittedly, she was, she was little, she was tiny, she probably three years old or something. Or 15.

I don't know. I can't remember. But she was very young.

She loved The Jungle Book. And I, I loved it the first two times. And then I couldn't, I couldn't sit in the room and watch it anymore.

After about five, six, seven times, and it was, it was on, you know, she'd play it three times in a row every day. And if she didn't play in that room, she'd play in the other room. So if the adults were there, they'd have the television on in the main living room, which means I'd get kicked off the, off the TV in the other room because she'd want to watch Jungle Book.

Jungle Book. I want to be like you. I can't believe I came to absolutely detest that film.

I liked, I really liked it before. But I got to the point where I couldn't watch it anymore. It was like every day, three, four, 72 times one day.

Could not believe. And it was just, oh, not again. I want to be like you.

I want to walk like you, talk like you. And to this day, I can't watch it. I can't.

So this is 1984. I can't. I'm not good.

I might try. I might try and watch it. I did watch the live version one.

Wasn't there two different live versions in recent years? So I did watch that and that was good. But I never watched the cartoon one. Do, do, do.

I want to be like you, you, you. No, no, no, no, no, no. I was just, there was this, in the 90s, there was this lad, he was probably the same age as me really, but he's always copying what other people did.

Their mannerisms, the way they spoke, the things they said. I mean, like almost instantaneously after they'd said it, he'd say the same thing like be really excited as if he just said it himself off his own back like he was original. And so he worked in this place that I worked and it started to annoy us.

So when he did it, when he started doing it, we all jumped into character and start singing the I want to be like you, you, you, I want to walk like you, talk like you, and we do a little dance. Now I'll be honest there was no geography, geography, geography, geography, geography, geography, geography, geography. Anyway that word that means preparation of the dance.

There wasn't, I think it went quite well. The weird thing about it, he joined in. So I don't think he quite understood what we were doing.

And we had to be a bit more blatant and said stop copying us. He says yes stop copying. I'm talking to you.

Stop, stop copying. Just be yourself. And I said look, I took him aside and he was like what's this all about? I said look you're just copying people but the thing is you don't realize that the people you're copying have got no more, got nothing that you don't have.