Read along
Complete transcript
Hello, hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You to Sleep. My name's Jason Newland and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I also, also have a website and you can go there if you choose.
It's www.jasonnewland.com. There are playlists on there so you can stream or download my latest recordings. So hello, hello. I'm sitting in my hotel room.
The time is 12.49 in the afternoon, Thai time, Thai time. And there will be background sounds, okay, I'll let you know that now. Even, you might already hear some, there will be, undoubtedly.
It's just, it's unavoidable, unfortunately. But if I recorded this in five hours time, you wouldn't be able to hear my voice, probably. It would just be boom, boom, boom like music.
And at 12 o'clock or one o'clock in the morning, you wouldn't be able to even hear your own voice. You would, I don't know why I'm saying that, of course you'd be able to hear your own voice. But it's pretty loud.
And I'm in the quiet room, would you believe? I've got a carrier back there. Move that out of the way. So I'd like to say thank you to everyone that sent me birthday wishes.
Thank you very much. It's very kind of you. I can't say thank you to individual people just because I'm using my phone to make this recording.
Although I suppose I could get my iPad out. Or let's maybe try that one. Yeah, I've got my iPad.
I'm just allowing it to turn. It's well, it's turning on. It's getting turned on.
Oh, it's now dancing. So let me have a look. Low battery.
Okay, let me see if I can quickly go into Facebook before the battery runs out. Oh, where's Facebook? Wait a minute. Facebook, where are you? Where are you? Hey, I can't.
Nope, the battery's run out. See, there's something about, I don't know what it is, but the batteries last a lot longer when I'm in England. Honestly, the battery lasts for ages.
But here it seems to run down even when it's turned off. Maybe there's some kind of magnetic force here. I don't know.
It's weird. Very, very weird. Maybe there's little monkeys that come in here and use it when I'm not here.
But I haven't seen any monkeys yet. Because there's monkeys, lots of monkeys here, but I've not seen one. I want to see a monkey.
I love monkeys. Not so keen on seeing any tigers. I think I can avoid that.
Yeah, I'm not that bothered. All crocodiles. Don't need to see a crocodile if I'm honest.
Although I'm thinking about going, because there's a crocodile farm here. Crocodile farm or crocodile sanctuary or something like that. It's not here.
It's not in my room, but it's not, I don't think it's even local, but it might be, but it might not be. I'm not sure. So I might, I might look into that.
I can't, I can't really travel too far. But yeah, it might be worth looking into. So yeah, anyway, thank you for my birthday wishes.
It's very kind of you all. I would have thanked you individually, personally on this podcast by mentioning your names. But the iPad wouldn't work.
Well it would and it just ran out after about 15 seconds. So that was it. Just a little bit annoying.
Slightly, slightly annoying. Just a little bit. Just a little bit.
And I know, thank you to Molly for posting a birthday greetings onto the Facebook page, Facebook group page. And thank you to those that sent me messages on my, on Facebook. Yeah.
Messenger. So I will reply. I will, I will reply to each person.
And the reason why I, Ooh, that was a weird noise. Ooh. The reason why I didn't have time yesterday because yesterday was my actual birthday.
26. It's now the 27th. Where I am anyway, that's where it's the 27th here.
And I didn't have time to make a recording. And basically I got up out of bed, had a shower, had my breakfast downstairs. Then I went to a bar and got there just before 1.30, which is a time I was supposed to get there to have a, I was going to a bar and club crawl or bar crawl, they call it.
And people started to gather around. And we left at 3.30 in the afternoon. And I got back to the hotel here about 20 to 12 in the evening.
And I had something to eat. So that was quite amazing. And still, the kitchen was still open.
I didn't go and cook myself. Why would you cook yourself? That'd be painful. No, I didn't go and prepare my own food.
The staff was still there. That's quite late, isn't it? To be preparing food. But I was hungry because I hadn't eaten since, I don't know what time, what midday, half 12 or whatever time it was.
For nearly 12 hours, I had some fries. I had a portion of fries in the first club we went to, which was just basically a beer bar. And we went into one, two, three, four, five, six, six different places, I think, maybe seven, six, I think.
So that was all right. It was good. It was a lot of fun, actually.
It was just nice to see more of what was about. Stuff that I wouldn't have seen otherwise, because I don't really, I don't know, it's different going with a group of people. And I've got chat to a couple of people.
It's nice. It's quite nice to speak English as well. Because normally I speak French.
So when I speak to Thai people, it's broken English that I speak, because it's kind of, because obviously it's a different language to them. So I try and break down what I'm trying to say, which is what they do when they communicate. So if they don't have anything, they say, not have.
Or one thing that's very popular here is you ask someone, what would you like to do? They say, you choose. Or no, no, no, you choose. Up to you.
That's it. Up to you. Up to you.
So that's another thing. So I say that to them and they're like, oh, that's what we say. Why are you saying it to us? And yeah, it's kind of, I guess, trying to reflect back to them what they say to me.
So that maybe I'm able to make myself understood. But some of them speak very, very good English. But to be honest, I don't know how much they're understanding.
Because I get that look from people sometimes and they just, their eyes glaze over. And I don't know if they're actually just falling asleep through boredom. And it's amazing that I can bore people who don't even understand what I'm saying.
It's not really funny, is it? It's a bit sad. Really a bit sad. But yeah, so that's what I did.
It's a bit stuffy in here. So I don't have the air conditioner when I'm in bed. I turn it on when I'm in the room.
Try and get it to a nice sort of cool temperature. And then I go to sleep. I try and go to sleep without the air conditioner on because it is too cold.
It's kind of weird. It's just, I don't go to sleep when it's cold. I don't, I never sleep in a cold room.
In the summer it's warm and in the winter I have, well, I usually have the heating on. Not at night, but I have it on. Sometimes I'll have it on at night.
If it's cold, cold, or I'll have it like very low. But here I can't sleep when it's cold. I sleep in the cold.
You know, it's not really something I do. So maybe it's something I might have to get used to when I get back home. But here it's just weird.
It's like choosing to be too warm or too cold. It's like, no, I shouldn't have to choose that. So I kind of acclimatized a bit, acclimatized a bit to the temperature of this room.
And being able to just sleep. I fall asleep eventually, but the music doesn't stop till last night. It stopped around three in the morning.
So that was quite good. And there's some, there's someone out there that has this thing, they keep banging it and they're trying to get trade. They're trying to like get passers by trade, but they've got this big plastic thing, keep banging it against their leg.
And it's really, really annoying. And it's really loud. And they're directly outside the hotel.
It's like, why are you doing that? And it started to annoy me because I can hear it when I'm in bed, doing it like early hours of the morning. And you can hear, I can hear it in my hotel room. And it's like, ah, so that was bugging me.
I wanted to take it off him. I wanted to hide it, you know. But there's nothing I can do about it.
It's out of my control. So I thought, what's the next best thing? You know, what can I do? And I thought, I'll use psychology. Yeah.
I'll use my imagination. So I imagined that this man or woman, I'm not going to say if it's a man or woman, this person, is, has been in therapy as part of a rehabilitation program. And has been taught aversion therapy.
And they're taught a way of controlling their urges. So now, when I hear it or see it, this person making the noise, I imagine that every time they make that noise and hit that thing against their leg, making that big loud noise, that they're basically, that's what they do to, instead of exposing himself publicly. So that's what I'm thinking.
So every time he thinks about exposing himself, it bangs the thing on his or her leg. And that, that cheered me up. It's, it's almost, it transformed.
I mean, I literally, I could sit out and watch and it's funny because it's like, you know, he's just talking and then he does it and they're like, oh, he was just thinking about getting his knob out. It's like, oh, this makes me laugh. So yeah, it's a little bit of transformational reframing, maybe.
I perhaps I should do that more often. I have done stuff like that in the past, just, you know, just to help me through. But it's, I think if you can make it so it's amusing to you, that that works better.
I mean, it can, it can be, you can, sometimes what I do is if someone's being really, really rude to me and I then imagine something quite horrible that they're going through, you know what I mean? And so that's why they're like the way they are. And then, you know, opens a bit of compassion in me towards them and it evens out and it's like, well, it doesn't really matter. You know, how would I be if I was going through that? How would I, you know, maybe I'd be rude to other people if I was, you know, dealing with that every day.
So the problem with that is it's not funny. There's nothing funny about that. So I find if you can make it funny, make it like a really silly situation with your imagination, that it's just makes it easier.
Now, you know, I've variated the, uh, what he's trying to avoid doing downstairs. So, you know, I changed it around. So sometimes it's every time he thinks about a certain thing, he, he bashes his leg with the plastic thing.
I'm not going to tell you why, but you know, I make it so it's funny for me. So it just, this makes it interesting and it turns it from being, it stops that like frustration and like, urgh, into, that's kind of funny. So yeah, as I'm trying to think of other ways I've done, done similar things in the past, uh, I suppose, you know, if you see someone, if you see someone like that, walking around acting all tough, uh, like strutting around, you know, I don't know.
There's, there's always those people, you know, that really just got a bad attitude and they're like, urgh. Just imagine that they're looking for their willy. Then it's like, oh, that's why I like that.
I mean, I'd be in a bad mood if I'd lost my willy. Although it wouldn't affect me too much, but you know, as long as there's still a little bit of hose pipe in there so I can wee, that's all I need. In fact, I like sitting down and weeing anyway.
No, I don't. I've never done, I've never treated myself to a posh wee. Not really.
Just, I don't know. I quite like standing up. I think I'd stand up poo if I could.
I prefer it. I'm not standing up and pooing. I'm just, I prefer to stand up.
I don't really want to sit down on a toilet. Not even my own toilet. I'd rather stand.
I'd rather have no physical contact with the, uh, the object, if at all possible. Thank you very much. Hmm.
That's nice. So I've gone and went online. Yes.
I think it was yesterday or the day before and I've tried to cancel most of my future payments on stuff. So I'm going to have to buckle up when I get home. I will have zero, I'll have nothing.
Um, but it's okay. I, you know, what this in some ways, yeah, this is a holiday, but it's not really, this is something I needed to do. It was this or potentially get ill.
You know, I had to get away from my environment. So this was, this is, you know, it's also a little bit of a tester, little bit of a tester. To see if it's even an option to make podcasts while I'm away, because if it's possible and you know, I'm not talking about now, but in the future, potentially I could travel.
I could travel around, not, not Thailand necessarily, but just as places. It's a big world. So maybe go to America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of the whole of Europe.
I'd quite like to visit. I'd like, and that's made me sound weird. I'd like to go to Russia.
I'd like to go to China. I like to visit these places because the, the history is, although I'm not interested in history really. Um, but they've got a lot of historical buildings.
And I think that was a weird point. I think, I think that if I take my information about countries from the news that I read and see, then I would be, I'd have a very negative attitude towards a lot of countries. And I don't really want to have that.
I'd rather just see for myself, experience for myself. Um, there's this YouTuber that's been going to Columbia and, um, like Mexico and Columbia and places that are supposed to be the, some of the scariest, um, places on earth to go to. And he is going to these places on his YouTube channel.
And you know, all he's getting is love. All he's receiving is kindness and friendliness from pretty much everyone he meets. And yeah, there's places he, he's been told not to go to at night, but there's those places can be everywhere, can't they? I mean, there's places not to go to at night in my little town.
Well, it's actually quite a big town, but my little village, this is fine, but the minor, I own the town, you know, I own the village, but there's, there's a part of town that like so many places probably around the world, but in England, where the entertainment section is most prominent about nightclubs, pubs. And there's like one little area in town, um, which gets very, very, very, very, very, very busy. I don't go there, but it's, there's a, and it's, there's, there's trouble is people wanting to, they get drunk and they want to fall out of each other and stuff like that.
And there's those places, I'd say probably everywhere, pretty much everywhere in the world. It's got to be some places where people just, when there's a big congregation, there's, there's always going to be a few issues. Just like here, it's a very peaceful place, people smiling and friendly.
And, but you know, there's, there's people get very drunk. I mean, I imagine if I had come here 30 years ago, actually, that's not true. 30 years ago, I didn't even drink.
I would have been drinking Coke. Although as a 22 year old, cause now I'm 52, so 22, who knows, I might've gone off the rails a bit or got onto the rails, maybe. I'm not sure.
Never, it's really weird. I've never been much of a drinker, but I did drink for a long time. So it's kind of a weird, I don't drink alcohol pretty much ever when I'm at home, never drink alcohol when I'm at home.
And the last time I bought alcohol for myself was possibly last year on my birthday. And I think I bought eight cans of lager. I had half a can and I had enough and just gave the rest to my friend.
Now that might be last year or the year before. It might be my 50th birthday. Just don't drink.
I mean, when I went to Cornwall last year in May, I think it was June, the end of May, I was there for five days or something like that. I had, I think, three pints of lager during that week, maybe four. And it was lovely.
It was lovely weather, really, really nice weather. And just a nice cold pint. It was nice.
But I had no need to drink or to buy cans and take them or, you know, and when I got home, didn't want to drink. It was just nice to have the odd one. Now, since I've been here, I'm about to tell you that I'm drinking all the time.
I'm not. I feel I probably had about four bottles a day, four bottles, like bottles of, it's not, it's not even strong lager. It's called Chang.
It's just, I think it's fairly just weak, weak lager. It's okay. It tastes all right.
It's okay. So I was just, what I do is I have, I rarely drink a whole bottle. I might drink a third, two thirds, maybe.
And then I just, and then I leave, depending where I am. And if I'm here, then I don't leave. I might come upstairs.
But I leave, but I can't stay, you know, I leave the bar. But I'm also trying to mix it with Coke, Coca-Cola and water to make sure I kind of, you know, have plenty of water as well because of the heat. When we, when we finished the bar crawl, we ended up back where we started, but the nightclub was open.
So we went into there and this man, I didn't know who he was, but he's the owner of the bar. He said to me, it's really unusual to see a sober person at the end of this, at the end of these bar crawl. I said, what is it? Yeah, they're usually completely ratted out, you know, they're completely gone.
And I said, yeah, I don't drink. I really, I do drink, but I've had probably about three bottles today. And he said, yeah, it's just unusual to see that.
But we weren't in any place for long. So I probably did have more than three bottles, but I didn't drink all of them, if you know what I mean. I was three, four, five.
So I had a drink in each place. So I must've had at least six or seven drinks. So mixed together, Sprite was the last drink I had.
And I had probably two or three Cokes and the rest were beers. And I had a beer before leaving. So, yeah, it's, I don't know, I don't really feel the need to get drunk.
I don't at all. It's just not for me anymore. Although I never really particularly like getting drunk.
I like getting tipsy. I like getting merry. The drunk bit, not really my thing.
The loss of control. I like to be in control of myself. Probably a bit too much, but that's what is, that's my, I guess that's my safety position.
If I know what I'm doing, where I am and what's happening around me, then I can manoeuvre those particular Cs. So if they get a bit choppy, I can better find my way around. As opposed to if I'm very hazy in the head, who knows what's going to happen.
So I just like to keep a level head, a steady head. I'm not sure if I've ever had a level head. I have to look at my neck.
Apparently I've got quite a big neck, which is weird. I don't think I have. I went into his shop and he said, you can tell, you can tell a, the person's waist, if the trousers would fit by putting the waist of the trousers or pants around your neck to see if they fit that way.
Because normally the waist is twice the size of the, twice the, twice the, the what's it of the, of the waist. Now I'm pretty sure my waist is about five times bigger than my neck. However, the technique worked.
So if you do that, it goes all the way around and it's like you're stretching it because that's half of your waist, isn't it? Cause it's, you know, cause the two bits are together. So either I've got a very slim waist or very big fat neck. And I don't think I've got a fat neck.
I'm looking in the mirror here, by the way. I don't think I've got a fat neck. Not really.
I used to have more chins back in like six, seven years ago than I have now. It was a bit quiet there wasn't it after I said that. I'm not really sure where to go after that.
It's, I don't know. I just, I don't, I don't think I've got a, maybe it's the back of my neck. The back of my neck is a problem.
I don't know. But yeah, I'm not sure. I know that I struggle to do shirts up, you know, at the button that the neck fit.
I can't, I mean, I have to have a really large shirt to be able to do the neck up, but then I don't want to do the neck up. I'll tell you what slim people really don't seem to get. Well, okay.
Some slim, a slim person that I know had a really different way of looking at clothing because he's slim. It's fine to be tight. Doesn't understand that, no, not when you're big, you don't want tight clothes on when you're big.
I want loose clothing. And like, because if you're slim, you're walking around and you've, in some ways having tighter clothing is better because then you can show off if you've got muscles or whatever, you know, you can show that off and it looks, you can look good and look slim, but also show that you do have a body and you're not just a stick insect. But I don't want tight clothing.
It's like, okay, I can have a tight top on and it shows off my muscles and my arms and my shoulders and maybe my back, but then I've got these big old boobies flopping around and this pregnant belly and it looks awful. It just looks really, really bad. And I want to just have a big tent, I guess, just have something that just doesn't cling to my body.
I don't want anything clinging and I'd rather just, I don't know, just hide it all. You know, because it doesn't matter how, because I do weights and stuff. It doesn't matter how, not that my arms look good, but even if I did lots of weights and everything and I could have really good arms, but it means nothing if I've got, if I've got this like mountain below my chest sticking out and knocking people over, you know.
I'm trying to do a bit of exercise here because I've had a lot of problems with my back. Yesterday was the worst. I was sitting down a lot and in the end I had to start standing up because I don't know, I was leaning forward too much or something.
And then I went to, when I went to lean back, it was really, really bad. And it was, the worst has been for a long time. And so I'm going to, I'm going to go for a long walk today.
I'm probably not going to go into any bars or anything. Or I might go to karaoke. Didn't do that for two days.
So I might go to karaoke, sing a couple of songs, but I'm just going to go for a long walk once it cools down. So it might not be for a few hours. Although, you know what? Yesterday it was cool.
Cause it's raining. Cause it'd been raining for two days. Uh, yesterday it was raining during the day and I thought, Oh, I'm not going out in this.
Then I thought it was my birthday. What am I going to do? Stay here and just lay on the bed all day. Like I could do that at home.
That is something that I quite often do at home. It's just like, no, I've come here to get away from that. So I thought, you know what? I'm just going to go.
It stopped raining a bit. It was raining, but just spitting, you know, a little bit. But here when it rains it proper, you know, when it goes, it goes.
It's like monsoon kind of thing. I thought, no, I'm just going to go. It's not far to walk.
It's 10 minutes, maybe 15 minute walk. So I just, I did it. And, uh, I got there just as it started to rain, like again, started to rain a bit more.
So I was in the shelter and it was fine, but it was cool. It was like being in England. Honestly, it was that kind of temperature, like a nice, it's kind of like a summer's evening, like a hot summer's day, but in the evening where it was cool.
Um, and a nice break from the heat, but not cold, you know? Um, it was nice. It was fresh because of the rain. Uh, it was cool.
The weird thing about it as the day progressed. So this was, let's say between half one, half three, pretty much the peak of the heat really, you know, sort of, but as the day, as the night came, it was hotter. So, you know, seven, eight, nine, 10 in the evening, it was really warm with like not much breeze at all.
It's like, what's going on? It's like, this is weird, man. So yeah, it was okay. It was good fun.
It was, it's kind of like having a tourist guide to take me on a trip, like an excursion, holiday excursion. It was good. There's another one on Monday.
I think they do it Mondays and Fridays. So what I might do is go to the one on Monday, then go to the one on Friday, then go to the one on Monday, maybe the one on Friday. I don't know how many, well, I might be, I might be home by then.
I don't know. I can't really work out the days, but it's sort of the 27th today. I don't know how many days are in this month.
It's either 30 or 31. I love it. You ever say that to anyone? What do they do? 30 days in September, April, June, and November.
Like I couldn't have been in school that day when that nursery rhyme was given out. 30 days in September and November. Like, no, just tell me how many days.
They can't just say 31 or 30 or 28. How many days in this, how many days were this in this month? No, I don't need the rhyme. Can you just tell me how many days? 30 days in September and November.
Shut up. I don't need the rhyme. You're not hearing me.
So yeah, I don't know that rhyme. I've not learned it. I'm not going to learn it.
Just like I'm not going to learn the times tables. I refuse. I know the ones time table.
I know the two times table. I know the four times table. I know the five times table.
I know the 10 times table. See, I know most of them. Now, when I say I know them, I know them as in I can count up.
Don't start asking me, you know, trying to catch me out like, what's five nines? Now I can tell you it's 45 anyway instantly, but it's regardless of that. Is five nines 45? 10 nines is 90. Half a 90 is 45.
Yeah. And so, yeah, there's ways. I've sounded really intelligent then, didn't I? Until I realized that it's probably the three year old could probably say, give you that answer.
So I can do the times table. I can do all of them. Because, but it's just remembering to take off the amount when you get to the next number in there.
It's like seven, 14. So, you know, you've got to take three off. So it's 24 take away three.
And whatever number that is, is 10 times that take away three. It's like, oh, like what's 45 twos? Well, it's 90. You know, but it's, it's, if you're like trying to think, oh, four twos times by 45.
You know, so I'm only really mentioning easy numbers. Fives. Fives.
I think most people really struggle with five times table, but I've mastered it. I'll tell you how I do it. This is the most pointless conversation.
What am I doing? Oh, I really liked it when you talked about the times table, Jason. Oh, it was, I was going to settle down and fall asleep, but it was just so interesting. I just had to listen.
Oh, thank you so much. I feel like not, not only have I, not only have I managed to relax, but I've also learned something new. You're an education.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I thought about trying to find somewhere that's, um, there's people in the, in the hallway.
Can you hear that? Yes. People talking in the hallway. So, um, so loud.
I don't know how to whisper here. We don't. Um, what does it say? Uh, the, I've forgotten what I was going to say.
I forgot it. I forgot it. I forgot all together what he was going to say.
I don't know. I thought about trying to find a room that's quiet where I could make my recordings and then I could perhaps do some hypnosis stuff. But so far, I mean, this is the quiet it gets here.
I mean, technically there probably is enough time for me to do a 20 minute recording, a sleep recording or, uh, some kind of hypnosis stuff, but it is a gamble. It is a gamble. It's, you know, it's really not hard to know when, when, and I'm not sure.
Yeah. I just don't know. It's a strange one.
So it's, what is it time now? Half 25 to two. The good thing about downstairs is the food's available like all day. So I have a breakfast and last night I treated myself cause it was my birthday.
Birthday. I treated myself to a pizza. Cause when I got home, when I got back here, I didn't even know whether they still served food and they did.
So I had a pizza and apple and ice cream for dessert. Now I never eat food and have a dessert ever, but this is like a little celebration birthday. And you know, the weird thing about it, I ate every single bit of both.
I was that hungry. Now no one can tell me that that was a boring story. That was an exciting story.
It had everything, everything but a car chase. It didn't need a car chase. It was too good.
It was too exciting. Oh dear. Oh dear.
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.
Oh dear. Oh dear. Right.
I'm going to go. So I try and, I try and do at least 45 to 60 minutes when I do these. It's a little bit, a little bit, um, so in England we use the word close when we talk about like, you know, it's what's a bit close, like the temperature, you know, it's like maybe there'd be a thunderstorm.
It's a little bit clammy, a little bit. Oh, you know, that's what it feels like in here without the air conditioning on. It's just feels a little bit, there's oxygen in the room, but I'm imagining the oxygen levels perhaps not particularly high right now.
So I need to pump in a bit through the air conditioning, which is okay. I mean, it's a big room, so that's good. It means the air is flowing and stuff.
So, uh, but after like half an hour, I noticed I cough a little bit and I get a dry throat and, you know, especially talking, which doesn't generally happen at home. I get a dry throat when I talk sometimes, but I'm constantly drinking water throughout the day anyway. And that was also an exciting story.
I wonder how many people are thinking, you're not going to tell us about the clubs you went into. How come you've just completely skimmed over that? You said you went into six clubs and you're not mentioning any of them, not mentioned anything you saw or witnessed. No, I'm not.
This is a family entertainment show and I witnessed things I cannot talk about on here. I did not interact in anything, but I witnessed, uh, nothing bad, not really. Well, there was, no, there was, no.
Well, there was this one thing that it's weird. I'm getting to the point where I guess I'm getting, I am getting older. It shows that I'm aging because there was this, a couple of ladies got onto the bar.
Okay. I won't go into any more details. All the other people seemed to be enjoying the show and I was thinking it's a bit unhygienic.
You know, people have got, imagine if someone was at that bar and they drop a, drop a peanut on the bar and they pick it up and they put it back in their mouth. You wouldn't want to after that. You would have to see in that.
And it was the bar where people were drinking. Like literally, they just put the, put the bar mat back onto the bar and carried on like normal. Like, no, nothing, nothing continues like normal ever again.
It's like, oh no, man, it's just, it's, are you not going to sterilize everything? What are you doing? No. So yeah, that was weird. That was the only thing that really was a bit strange.
I mean, apparently there are some weird things happen out here, but there's weird things happen everywhere. It's got nowhere to look, I suppose. I'm not looking.
I'm really not, I'm not that interested. I'm kind of interested, but not, kind of am, but not, you know, I realized I'm not a very, a particularly good tourist because I'm not that bothered about anything out here. Oh, you should go and travel.
But people keep telling me, go to that island, go to this island. It's lovely. And I said, look, I don't, okay, I can see that, you know, it'd be lovely, but I can't be out in the sun.
I'm going to burn. It's too hot. You know, it's just, I need to keep in the shelter, going onto an island and perhaps it is something that I should do while I'm out here.
There are some places where they have monkeys. I really love monkeys. I don't know what it is.
I just always loved monkeys. I've had it. I've got a little thing for monkeys.
I think it might be because when I was a little kid, when I was about seven or eight, whatever, I had this little toy that had a monkey on a climbing frame. And that might have been what caused my love for monkeys. And then there's Planet of the Apes.
That was, they were very popular movies back then. Well, before then, but, you know, in the seventies, I remember I saw, early seventies, I saw one of the Planet of the Apes movies. The one where they were on horses.
And then there was the tea adverts with the monkeys. And then there was Clyde from Every Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood. He was a monkey.
He was a orangutan. So yeah, I've had a few. I'm trying to think of any other things.
I've had a few monkeys as prime ministers over here during my lifetime. Anyway, that's it really. Thank you ever so much for listening.
Oh, thank you. Thanks again for the birthday wishes. Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.
Lots of love. Be gentle with yourself. Bye.
Paragraph spacing and recurring name or title errors have been tidied. Because this began as a voice transcription, an occasional word or piece of punctuation may still be incorrect.