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Ah, hello, welcome to Let Me Boy To Sleep with Vinnie and me. My name is Jason Newland and my website is jasonnewland.com. Are you going to hear that? It's little Vinnie walking around the city. Now, I've set up my microphone.
He doesn't know what to do because it's really different. No, get off the table. Vinnie, off the table.
Vinnie, off the table. Blimey. Um, I've set, I brought the table, my desk, closer to the city, to the sofa and I've readjusted the microphone so that I can just sit here comfortably and talk and my little boy can be on my lap, can't you? So I can give you attention and play, fight or whatever you want to do and I'm not ignoring you.
So hopefully, hey, you can have a fight, fight. Can have a fight, fight. You can bite me.
There you go. So hopefully he will not whine and moan because I can still give him attention at the same time because you are a part of this, aren't you? Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
Oh, he's still going to moan. He's still going to moan. Come on, we can play.
Let's still play. Still play. Still play.
So only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Here, he's making these weird noises. Come on then, do you want cuddles? See, you can cuddle me because I'm in the same place as you normally have me when I'm cuddling you, aren't I? It's really weird.
He's got this bit of skin that's on his back, on it like his neck and it seems to be crinkled and it moves at different places. It moves to the side, sometimes it's at the top and other boring sentences. No, stay away from the desk.
Good boy. Now he's going to climb onto the back of the sofa. Anything that's a little bit different, it throws him off.
He's not a big fan of change. I can relate to that. But he doesn't know what to do because suddenly, I'm doing this in a different place.
Because normally I'm sitting at the chair, on the chair, not at the chair, at the desk, over there. And he's like, oh, give me attention, give me attention. Why aren't you sitting in your proper place? Well, now I'm sitting in the proper place, but I'm still talking to myself and he doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't know what to make of it. The desk is really close to the sofa, so he can climb on there if he wants. He thinks he can anyway.
I'm not going to let him. Mmm, nice cup of tea. And I can even close my eyes and lay back if I want.
I have my head laying back. The window's open, so you might... No, don't touch the microphone. The window's open, so you might hear the odd birds, but generally not cuckoos.
He's very restless right now. He doesn't know what to do. Pigeons.
The pigeons generally make a fair bit of racket. This is quite nice, because I used to make my recordings sitting in a chair, comfortable chair. My big black squeaky chair, for those that have been listening for a few years, you might remember that.
It's going back a while, a while, and every time, every time I moved it, like that, this one is not squeaky. But you might hear Vinnie licking himself, which he is now, which is not a sound effect that you may wish to have in the background. But hey, I can't tell him what to do, can I? Not really.
There's a limit to what I can tell him what not to do. That's one of those things I kind of keep away from. I mean, you know what I mean, like verbally, not in every way, in every possible way.
So, I don't know what the day is today. Is it the 6th of April? I think it is. And the last recording I did was seven days ago, I think.
I just, I've been very much focusing on my website, and some other, other things as well. And as well as the YouTube channel, and I've just, just been focusing on other things, and trying to just, you know, grow things, and see how things are, blah, blah, blah. But the reality really, really is that I just need to make recordings.
So I've now reached the five-year mark of this podcast, the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast, five years. So now I'm not, I've now passed the five-year mark, but I'm not quite at the thousand episode mark. Not far off of that.
I don't know what number I'm at, because I don't have any electrical equipment near me. I've got no, I haven't got the laptop or the phone or anything. It's 900 and something.
It's the late, it's the late 900s. So I imagine, is it 991? Something like that. So there's not many left to reach the thousand.
So I thought that it'd be nice to maybe mark the occasion, like have a double celebration ish. You know, a thousand recordings, five years, half a decade of making the recordings for this podcast. And I know it's not coinciding with each other exactly to the day.
Oh, police are in the background. I can never, I can never tell the police, the police, the difference between the police and the ambulance sirens. So it sounds the same to me in this country.
I know in, in America, don't they go like, like that. And they, I'm sure the ambulance used to be ER, ER, ER, ER. Now that's a donkey, isn't it? No, but there used to be something, or is it a fire engine? I don't know.
I hear it a lot, a lot, because I live near a motorway, a major motorway. And even though it's not really close enough to hear the traffic. So I'm not near, near, as it were.
I mean, I have to, it's pretty much probably the length of, the width of two fields away. Like fields as in like agricultural field, maybe more. So it's a fair distance.
No more. No, blimey. Yeah, probably four fields away.
Maybe five fields. It's a fair distance, but it's not far. You know, it's a 20 minute walk, probably less in fact.
Yeah, to the motorway, let's say 20 minutes. And go over the bridge and just walk straight up. So yeah, 15, 20 minutes to the motorway.
So it's not a huge distance to walk it. But there's not really any reason for me to walk to the motorway. He wants my attention.
You want my attention? What is it you want? You can still cuddle. And do everything you normally do. It's just, I've got a microphone here.
Intruding on our privacy. It's all right, mate. You're still my little boy.
Come here. Come here. Come here.
Oh. Oh, come on. Give me cuddles.
Give me a cuddle. It's still all right. I'm still your daddy.
No changes. Still get your cuddles and kisses and everything else you get. You know what I do now? I can't say the word because he'll look at me and get excited.
But T-R-E-E-E-E-T-S. He can't get enough of them. So what I've had to do is start to give him his food instead of the treats.
Oops. Okay. Come now.
So I give him the food instead of the treats. So he thinks that he's getting treats. But he's not.
I keep saying it. I can't stop now. Treats.
Treats. Treats. Treats.
Treats. Treats. Treats.
I can't stop saying it. Treats. Treats.
Treats. Sorry, Vinnie. Treats.
Treats. Do you want to go for a walk? Do you want to go for a walk? Treats. Do you want to go for a walk? I can't stop myself.
All the things that he likes to hear. No, we can't. We will go out.
We'll go out later. No, I'm sorry. Okay, bite me.
I don't mean like bite. He is actually biting me. Come on then.
Let's have a punch up. Let's have a punch up. Come on.
Oh, let's have a punch up. He likes to bite me. So he's not really biting.
Not really. It's kind of, he's not trying to hurt me, but he loves when I play with him like and he bites it and then I'll pull it away and then and he grabs it again and I put it away again and he grabs it again and then if I lay him on his back, I can use his his his legs like I'm driving a car. He doesn't like that which makes it more fun.
I'm operating a crane, a crane with teeth and he gets so vicious but he's not really. He looks vicious because he's like teeth are growling and that but he never goes to proper bite me. He's so gentle in a way, you know.
He loves being teased. Although there are times when we're outside and he's been doing it again recently and I don't know why. It's a little bit annoying where he's been biting my trousers, jumping up biting my trousers.
Sometimes he nips my skin because I've got legs underneath the trousers that has skin on them and sometimes although they're quite baggy, they're like sweatpants or tracksuit bottoms, whatever. Sometimes he nips my leg and if I'm honest, it's not my favourite thing. It really isn't.
I don't like it because you've got sharp teeth and because he can't see what he's doing because all he can see is the fabric, the fabric. He can't see my leg underneath. Now I know he wouldn't bite my leg.
If he could see my leg, he wouldn't like bite it. I know because he would never bite me, would you? I know you're biting me now but kind of in a bitey way. If that makes any kind of sense.
So yeah, I'm quite pleased with how the website's gone or going or gone, whatever. I mean there's still some things I'd like to do. But ultimately, it's a podcast now.
Now I'm not sure if I mentioned this before. I might have mentioned it. I might have mentioned it in my last recording.
I don't remember. I did send a message online on Facebook and stuff and I'm getting more people visiting, which is nice. So ultimately, it's not a replacement for those of you that listen on Spotify or Apple podcasts or Stitcher or Luminary or Podbean or wherever.
Wherever you listen or Spreaker, wherever you listen, it's not a replacement for that. It's just another option. You know, it's a place where everything is in one place.
So you go to the home page of my website and there's a list of the podcasts, you know, the images of the podcast, which you can click on, which takes you to each podcast on the website. So then you can see the latest recordings and then you can scan down and click more to get more, you know, to go further into time. Into time? Back in time.
Previous episodes. But on the home page underneath, basically it's an accumulation of all of those different podcasts in one place on the home page and also on the episodes page. So the episodes page, there's no images of podcasts or anything like that.
So it just takes you straight there and it just gives you the most up to date recordings. So, for example, I've not made a chronic pain relief recording for a while, so you won't see anything in the top, probably 20 or 30 recordings, but you will see anything that I've done recently within out of those podcasts. Does this make sense? It made sense to me.
It kind of made sense to me when I started talking. Stay there. I've got you locked in my legs.
You can't get out ever, ever again. No. So what am I doing? I'm doing.
What I would like to do is something that is missing for me. And I sometimes wonder, is it even worth having old recordings? You know, like episode one of the Deep Sleep Whisper podcast or episode one or episode five of the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast, episode nine of the Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily podcast. Is there any point having like those old recordings from years ago? The answer I would say is yes, but with a like a subset in.
What are we doing? Yes, but and the but is it's worth having them if people know where they are and can listen to them. And because the podcasts only like really give you the latest recordings, you can scan down, but quite often 250 recordings is the most you'll get. And I've got thousands of recordings.
So what I was thinking of doing was making some podcasts because I use Spreaker as my main host for podcasting. And they're very good. It's basically unlimited, unlimited podcasts, different podcasts, unlimited downloads, because some might find this strange, hard to believe, but some podcasts hosts not only will they give you a limit of how many hours of podcasts you can upload a month.
And there's one that has like the top one is 12 hours a month, 12 hours a month, that wouldn't even cover me for one episode, considering, you know, one recording, one version of the recording is 10 hours long, one's five hours long. And one's however long is one's however long is with music. So that wouldn't even cover me for one recording.
And in some podcasts, they might give unlimited uploads. But then they have a limit on the width band, which is the amount of down or the amount of downloads that can be downloaded from the public. And that's too low for me.
Because, you know, I'm getting 400,000 plus a month downloads, which isn't a huge amount, but it's like what I can't. There's hardly any other podcast host that really caters for what I need. There's there's a few, there's a few, but I've been with Spreaker for a long time now.
Which is a shame I can't get onto their, their special program. But it's because I don't have adverts during the recording. So it wouldn't really work with it having adverts halfway through a hypnosis recording is not a good idea.
But if I did that, I'd be able to put I'd be able to not have to pay anything for my podcast hosting. So well, oh, well. Apparently, I'm in the top 5% of podcasts in the world for for downloads.
According to the statistics, not me personally, but just the amount I get, which is just what I have to say is weird. But I think there's a big difference between the 5% and the 4%. There's a big difference to the 4% and the 3%, etc, like that, you know, millions.
I'm guessing someone like Joe Rogan gets, I don't know, 30 million downloads a day, something like that, maybe more. Hundreds and hundreds of millions every month, which is slightly more than me. It's just just just just just a little bit.
And that's on this. I don't I don't know the stats for Spotify podcast. Because on YouTube, you can do research and you can find out the stats for YouTube channels.
Like my stats are very low on my YouTube channel. Mind yourself, man, mind the microphone. Yeah, I get I've had just under 10,000 YouTube watches, video watches or video views in the last 30 days.
So it's grown. But, you know, it's not a lot compared to the successful channels that get millions a day, millions and millions a day. But you can you can go on to a thing called, what is it called? It's not YouTube buddy is this is a YouTube website.
And all you do you just put in the name of the Oh, it's a nice little cute yawn. You put in the name of the channel, the YouTube channel, and it finds it. And then it tells you how many subs it's got and subscribers.
How many stop it now when the YouTube channel was created. Then it tells you how many downloads it's had in the last month, each day. And then it tells you how many video views there's been all time for the whole time in the channel.
How many is this quite detailed, it gives an estimate of how much the channels earning in advertising. So it's very estimate, estimated estimate. You know, sometimes they go, I've been they said for me, I've got no adverts on my YouTube channel.
I have I've not got enough subscribers to do that anyway. But I think if I did, I'd be I'd be earning between two $2 and $19 a year, something like that. So there's Yes, there'll be a lot of money in that.
My nipples itching. I don't think it's correlated to him. squeaking.
He's got squeak, isn't he? He's looking at me, you know, when they turn their head, he's doing that. What? I don't know. No barking.
You can stop that. No barking. Hey, what's that over there? What's that? I'm trying to distract him.
Sometimes if I can distract him, he can look into the thing, your cuddles, your cuddles. Come on. Give me cuddles.
Give me cuddles. He's full on that you just wants attention the whole time, apart from when he doesn't. Which is kind of funny, really, because first thing in the morning, sometimes I'll wake up before he does.
And I sit on my bed. And I look over at my shoes, I think I better put my shoes on because I need to take him out for a walk. And the other night, well, it felt like night time because it was dark outside.
It was four o'clock in the morning. I heard him say, don't even think about it. I said, what? He said, I'm just can you not see I'm still asleep? I said, but you're talking to me.
How can you talk to me if you're still asleep? And he came back with the most, I don't know, esoteric answer. Cryptic. Well, how can I talk to you from a dog? So, oh, fair enough, fair enough.
So, you know, but then other times he wakes me up to go to the toilet. Well, to go out, but it's now got to the point where if it's early in the morning, it is really just a toilet call. It's to take him outside, do a wee wee, and quite often he wants to come back and go back to bed.
He doesn't, I mean, sometimes, you know, he does want to go for a walk, but sometimes it's just to the nearest bit of grass and then just water the daisies. I'm stroking him now, he's happy. He's now laying on my lap, stroking him.
Stroking his back. He's a happy boy now. That's all he wanted.
He just wanted a bit of attention. Oh, I can't do this when I'm sitting on the chair at the desk. The other thing I can't do is know what time it is.
I've got no idea if I've been talking for five minutes or an hour. I know it's not been an hour, but it's probably been over five minutes, but I don't have to get up because that's the one thing about him. I had the same thing with Andre.
Andre wasn't always the cuddliest. He did, but sometimes, you know, it was on his terms and I'd be stroking him and he'd fall asleep and I didn't want to move because I just loved having him on my lap when he was asleep. And then he'd wake up and look at me like, who are you? What are you doing? Get off me.
And he'd run off because he just forgot. Mind you, I suppose waking up and seeing me must be a bit of a shock for anyone. So when he is asleep, like this one, or he's really relaxing, I try to just stay, you know, oh, I don't want to get up now.
I just want to be here. He doesn't do this very often, just lay on my lap and let me stroke him. Normally like sits to the side a bit or he lays on my legs, like the shin kind of area or sits on the leg rest.
But to actually just lay on me like he is now, doesn't do that that often, really. Although I've noticed that more and more, I'm waking up with him because he sleeps in the same bed as me now. I used to have him in here and I used to close the door when I first got him because he used to be barking and he used to wake me up.
I had to put him into the bedroom. Oh, there he started barking. What are you barking for? Why? What are you doing that for? But he just kept doing it.
I think he thought he heard my friend downstairs. It might be in him. It's possible.
But I don't know. So yeah, he was like, oh, what did I hear? And yes, that's it. Once he gets started, once he starts barking, he can't seem to stop.
I'm not sure why that is, but then I'm not a dog. I don't, you know, I don't really understand the barking thing. And there's lots of different reasons I have no doubt why dogs bark.
Ironically, probably is not the right word, is he barks more inside than he does when he's outside. I'll move the microphone down a bit. That's better.
That's better. Let's see if he doesn't stop wiggling. Stop wiggling.
Although now he doesn't bark as much as he used to. If he hears dogs outside, he doesn't really take much notice. Occasionally he'll shout back, you know, say hello to them.
Even the knocking at the doors. I mean, someone knocked at the door here last night and he didn't even answer. He didn't answer.
He didn't. He normally answers by barking. He didn't bark.
He just looked at me. So that was late at night. I think he must have just thought, well, that was weird.
There's a bang at the door. It wasn't a proper knock. It was more like a bang.
And it was about a quarter. What time was it? Yeah, quarter to 10, quarter, 10 to 10, something like that. And yeah, it was a neighbor wanting some milk.
And I said, well, I've got some milk. And they said, no, it's the wrong type. Because I have the semi-skimmed.
And they were full of that. And I said, well, no, you can have this. You can have a two liter or whatever it is I've got here.
Two pints. I don't think it's two liters of this milk. It's just got it delivered today.
Or you can go away. And they said, oh, could you come to the garage with me? To buy some. First of all, have you got any money so I can buy some? I said, okay, I've got a bit of change.
And then will you come to the garage? I said, no. I'm about to go to bed. I mean, I'm in bed at 10.
Pretty much every night. I'm up a little bit later at the weekends if there's boxing on. But I'm generally in bed by 10 o'clock in the evening.
And I'm up at, I don't know, six, sometimes four, sometimes five. It really depends upon the little one. What time he wakes me up to go for a wee wee.
If he doesn't wake me up, then I'll wake up later, generally. But he often wakes me up. He licks my ear.
I wake up with, oh, yeah, I was going to say, yeah. He always used to sleep. When I did allow him to start sleeping in my bed, when he calmed down a bit, he'd sleep at the bottom of the bed.
Now he still does that. So if I'm facing, because my bed's against the wall, not both sides, just one side. I'd have to have a really big bed or a really small room, wouldn't I, to have both sides.
But one, yeah, one side. So if I'm facing away from the wall, he sits at the bottom. He might sit, he might sleep at my ankles.
Sometimes he'll lay on my legs. And normally I turn around after about a few minutes, because I start sleeping on my right side, which is away from the wall. And then I turn over and I sleep on my left side, which is towards the wall, towards the wall.
And then, quite often, he moves up and lays against my back, like the middle of my back or my upper back. Now when I wake up in the morning, not all the time, but quite often, he's laying pretty much practically on my pillow, like just where my face is. He's laying there, sort of cuddled up to me.
Now he won't go to bed like that. He won't. And if I try and bring him over to cuddle him, he won't.
He'll go away. But when I'm asleep, he does it. It's weird, isn't it? The amount of times I wake up and he's like really, like, not cut up, I mean, he hasn't got his arms wrapped around me and, you know, but he's, he's, it's like pushed against me.
But that's, that's the thing, I think, with dogs. I don't know about all dogs, because I've not met all dogs. I've only met 42% of them.
It seems to be a thing where they need to touch you, need to have a part of their body touching their, I don't know, I don't like the word owner, because you can't own a living being. I'm not the owner. It's not a car, or a bicycle, or a toilet scrubbing brush.
He's a sentient being. So it seems to be that it needs to be touching me, even if it's just one thing he does do when I'm at the desk, when I'm at the other desk. Well, he does it when I'm at the other desk as well.
Which is the other and which is the other? One's the other and the other one's the other as well. So the desk to the right of me is where I do, I don't make recordings there, but I do do administration stuff, you know, just working on the website and the YouTube videos and stuff like that. Stuff that I would do on the lap, what I do on a laptop.
The other desk, I do use that for the recording. I also use it for some other stuff as well. So when I'm at the desk, where the laptop is, very often he will come and sit or lay down at my feet, always has to touch my feet, like laying across my feet, or just leaning against my feet or my ankles.
I don't even know he's there half the time. And he's so light, I don't even know when he's jumped onto my bed. Last night, I went to bed, I turned the lights off in here.
It's a new thing I'm doing, I'm trying it out. He was in his little bed, which is on the sofa next to me. He didn't seem bothered about getting up to come to bed with me, so I just left him there.
I went to the toilet, had a tinkle, had a little tinkle, then I urinated. And I went to bed, had some water first, I always like to drink some water before sleeping. And he was nowhere to be seen.
I knew where he was, he wasn't missing, but he was in the other room, which is this room. Oh, someone's now banging the door outside. Stop banging, stop it.
Can you hear that? It's almost like they do it on purpose, just to make noise, for the sake of making noise. It's showing off. Look how much noise I can make, just with this door.
I'm going to disturb everyone, just by banging this door. I'm the door banger. What was I saying? Yeah, I used to mow the lawn, but I think, I remember I used to visit my Nan, and I used to do the lawn for her.
Sometimes I do the front lawn, sometimes I do the back lawn. I have a slight memory that I would do her half of the lawn, and maybe even do the neighbor's half, because we were close to the neighbor's next door, to her. They were there when I lived there, when I was seven.
There was the mother, there was the father, there was the daughter, and there was the son. Now, the son was about the same age as my older brother, so he was about two years older than me, and the girl was about two years younger than me. Yeah, so, I used to go around there, and my brother used to go around there, and we were friends with them, like the two families were friends with their family, you know, because we lived next door to each other, and at the time it was a housing estate, council housing estate, but it was new, so when we moved in, there was actually, they were still building, not building our house, because that would have been, would have been weird, wouldn't it?
And going to the toilet, and there's people putting in the plumbing, or whatever, or having a bath.
So, there were still other houses being built, because the estate was quite big, it wasn't big, but it was, there was a few, it was quite big, it was quite a few houses around it, I don't know, maybe 100 houses, maybe more, and our house was a semi-detached with their house next door, so we shared, we were connected, as in the living room connected to their living room, it didn't, you know, there's a wall, because they were separate houses, and the kitchen, and I'm guessing probably the two main bedrooms would have done as well, wouldn't they?
Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. But I think it was quite well made, because I don't remember really hearing the neighbours when I lived there, and I don't remember hearing them when I visited my nan and grandad either, or when I visited my nan. It was quiet, they were quiet people, and they were lovely, all of them, the father, the mother, the son, daughter, all really nice people.
I think the mother was a nurse, but I don't know what the father did, but I kept in contact with them, because even though we left there when I was eight, or eight and a half, my nan and grandad moved in from London, so they moved in, I don't know how they worked it all out, but they did an exchange, they moved out of their council house, and moved here, and, or moved here, moved into that house, and that's where they lived, that's where my nan lived, until 2010, I think, so for about 1980, no,
for about 1978, 79, 99, 2009, no, wait a minute, 79, 89, 99, 2009, so yeah, for over 30 years she lived there, 79, 89, yeah, okay, something like that, and then she moved into sheltered accommodation, I don't know the exact time, times of those manoeuvres, but, yeah, what I do remember, when we first moved there, because the place was still a complete, well, building site really, the ground hadn't settled, I don't mean that the house wasn't sinking or anything, but the garden was like a swamp, seriously, my dad was in the garden, and the mud
went up to his waist, and my dad's at least 19 foot tall, so, I couldn't believe it, it's like, it's really, that the ground hadn't settled, I was amazed at how deep the ground was to me, to start with, how deep the dirt was, but it just hadn't settled, and I realised I said that a few times, but I feel the need to say it one more time, settled, yeah, I feel one of my fondest memories of living in that house, was when it snowed, there was, I can't remember, probably either 1978 or 1979, 1978,
maybe January 79, something like that, I don't know, it snowed, like really, really a lot, and we woke up, and we were snowed in, it was brilliant, absolutely brilliant, the schools were closed, I mean, you know, that was always good news to me, always good news, and yeah, yeah, brilliant, so we could go out, and we did, we, my dad managed to get out, I don't know, I think he might have climbed out of a window, probably made that bit up, but he managed to clear away the snow, we were definitely blocked in the back,
the back passage was definitely blocked, but my dad managed to clear the back passage out, and with a shovel and stuff, so just to make it easier for us to get in and out of the back passage, because that was the way that we'd come in and out of the house, you know, through the back door, through the gate, back passage into the back door, we wouldn't really come in and out of the front door, because we were all too young to have door keys at that time, and I don't think I got my first
door key until I was probably 14, 14, and that was only because my step-mum was going to work, and we had no other way of getting in and out of the house, so I'd get home from school, I'd have to let myself in, that's when everything went a bit, a bit pooey, to be, to be honest, things were okay until, well, they weren't, but things were, I don't know, it's just nicer to come home to a warm house when you're at school, and to have someone there, and to come home to a cold, empty, dark
house, it's like, I was like, I might as well live on my own, so I, my, one of my nicest memories is, it really was thick snow, it was up to my, pretty much up to my chin, it was, it wasn't, but it was thick, it was very thick, very deep snow, and you see all my little brother, my little brothers and brothers and everything walking along, and like, where's Jason, and you say, well, can't you see his hat, all you just see is my hat moving across the snow, and that was me, and we
went, snow, not snowboarding, but you know what, is it sleigh, sleigh, sleigh snowed in, snowed in, snowing, snowing, snowboarding, sleighing, I don't know, you know those plastic, like little plastic tray things, or did we have a wooden one, we might have had a wooden one, but anyway, my dad took us, because he couldn't work either, because he couldn't get the van out, he couldn't do anything, so we were kind of stuck there, we had this hill, just around the corner from where we lived, so my dad took us up there, and we sledded, sledded, that's
it, sledded down, wasn't really my thing, I've never really been into extreme sports, and that, that is not my thing, I wasn't, didn't really, and then they were chucking snowballs at each other, again, never liked that, never, never enjoyed it, I never, never felt the, never thought to myself ever in my life, you know what I'd like right now, is to have a frozen ball of ice chucked at my face, oh, I just really like that, no, never had, never thought about it, and I don't really want to do it to someone else either, not,
not really, generally, so I kind of, yeah, I remember it, I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it being snowy, and I enjoyed not going to school, and I enjoyed the fact that my brothers were having fun, and my dad was having fun, and it was just a nice experience, I just wasn't into the whole kind of dangerous sports, you know, but it was good, it was a nice, and we came home, I was a bit cold, and we came home and got warm, and that was nice, being in the warm when it's cold outside, it's nice
watching the snow outside, it's, I like that, and then my brother decided he was going to make an igloo in the back garden, but it was in the back passage part of the garden, not the actual garden itself, but there was a little bit which was, it's almost like a patio, and I think at one point my granddad had a, what is it, a green greenhouse there, and he had his own shed as well, so, but before that we didn't have a greenhouse, we just had the ground, and I became obsessed with making my igloo,
so he did his with snow, and you know, it melted, I crafted mine, and I made sure that I was, I was putting cement in it, and I basically was moulding it, and it stayed there, it's still there, it's actually, it never melted, it was so well, so well done, it never, it was there, it was there for weeks, it was there for weeks, it was there for days, it was there till the next day, but, until my brother smashed it down, but I put so much love and time and energy into it, I really
did, and I was, it was probably the best thing I'd ever created, it was my masterpiece, so that's one of my happy, happy memories of living there, the other one, I've talked about this before, it's my very first date, and I remember my dad waking me up, because it was, he knew I had a date, and I was, I was going to be, I don't know if she was coming around my house, or I was going around her house, and then we were going to the cinema, it's a Saturday morning, and then we, I don't
know, went around her house and had some chips, but he woke me up, my dad woke me up, and I don't know, I was so full of happiness, I grabbed him, and I gave a big hug, I was so, it was like an immense sense of just complete bliss, because, because I was looking forward to it, it was a Saturday, and I actually had something really wonderful to do, you know, it's, I mean, I was, I don't even know if I was eight years old yet, but I might not have been eight, in fact, I
probably wasn't eight yet, but it's still seven, but I might have been eight, I don't know, because my little brother was born the day before my birthday, before, the day before my eighth birthday, and he ended up sleeping in my bedroom, no he didn't, that's, that's a lie, no, we moved out, because the house wasn't big enough for all of us, and obviously there was a conversation, eventually I realised that perhaps we should keep all the kids together, so they decided this, we'll get, we'll get a bigger house, which they did, a lot, a lot
bigger, but I remember, I don't remember the day, but I do remember hugging my dad, I basically just, like, held on to him, squeezed him, like, oh, I was so happy, weird, no, it's not weird, is it really, it's just, it's not my normal way of waking up, that's what I'm saying, I wake up like, oh, oh, food, coffee, what's this taste in my mouth, but yeah, oh, nice little memories, I guess recently I've just been thinking about, time really does go by, and I know that I was told this when I was young, and
probably every young person gets told this, you know, time shoots by, time goes very quickly, but it doesn't seem to me like it's gone quickly, I'm just surprised at how much time has gone by, if that makes sense, I just, there's been times when things have really dragged, you know, really, really dragged, like being in a lecture at school, or waiting in a, waiting, yeah, waiting in the, in a doctor's surgery, or in a hospital for an appointment, or anything, just standing in line at a bank, waiting to be served, knowing I've only got six
minutes left to get back to work, for my lunch break, and time really goes slow, it goes slow, but it also goes fast at the same time, it's a weird one, it's, it drags, it's, that's a very strange one, isn't it, but also, how quickly time goes, you know, there's been times when I've met people that I liked, and perhaps they liked me a little bit, and we spent time together, maybe romantically, and the day, or the evening, would just absolutely shoot by, for me anyway, it might have dragged for them, but for me, it's
like suddenly, you know, we go out, so we meet up at sort of six o'clock, to go and get some, go and have some dinner, and maybe go to the cinema, come back, get home about nine o'clock in the evening, and maybe I'm in a relationship with this person, you know, and perhaps we decide to have an early night, and you know, make sweet love, and so it's half past nine, we go upstairs, and, and you know, afterwards, I'm sitting in bed, like drinking a cup of tea, or something like that, and I'm looking at
the watch, and like, blimey, I can't believe 10 minutes has gone already, it's like, blimey, it's gone really quick, 10 minutes, it's like, oh, yeah, they never agree with me when I say that, but they agree with the quick part, but sometimes just, you know, if you're watching, you sit down talking to someone, and it's new, and they're new, not new, but they're not new humans, but new to you, and you realize it's like early hours of the morning, and you still don't know what their name is, it's like, it's still like, it just goes
so quick, but we've just been chatting, we've just been talking, but it makes sense, really, when you think about it, because if you just met someone, and you like them, you're telling them about your life, and that takes a while, when you think about it, I've spent, well, over a thousand hours, probably 12, 13, 100 hours, maybe 1500 hours, I don't know, but well over a thousand hours talking on this podcast about myself, and about my life, and I've only touched a tiny little bit, really, I haven't, you know, there's lots that I've forgotten about,
or not mentioned, or sometimes I think about it after the event, not after, and obviously you can only think about things after the event, because you can't think about them before, unless of course you do, but after making the recording, I mean, anyway, have I got any messages, anything at all, anyone called me, nope, emails, nope, your March performance, two plays in March, wow, this is Podbean, all time plays, 142, wow, Amazon Drive, what Amazon Drive, okay, and how many downloads have I had today, so far, 6.
30 in the afternoon, right, 9761, so it's not bad, really, considering I haven't made any for a week, yesterday I had 11,500 downloads, the day before, just under 15,000, so it's not too bad, the most I've had in the last 30 days was, this is the 22nd of March, just over 21,000, oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well, have I got any messages on Facebook, on Facebook, Facebook, a server, I don't know what this is, I've got this thing that I got sent, okay, I know what it is, Brandon, you aren't connected to 150s,
also, honestly, I've basically had nothing but messages, this is on Messenger, Facebook Messenger, I've had so many messages just telling me that people have left the group, what group, I've not joined any group, and it just looked as something about the Mario Brothers or something, it's like, just go away, go away, stop it, anyway, I'm going to go, I'm going to go away now, yes, so thank you for listening, remember to be kind to yourself, remember to be gentle with yourself, and take care, lots of love, bye.
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