#1012 Meet Vinnie Andre Newland - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (20th June 2023)

Hello, hello, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep with me Jason Newland and this little fella who's with me on my lap Vinnie Andre Newland. Is it Vinnie? Hello Vinnie. So the only way I can get him to stay on my lap is to give him treats and I've got a big pile of treats just here.

There you go. Otherwise he wouldn't want to be on here with me. He doesn't like me that much.

So, what's this? Look, look. Kisses. Look at kiss.

No, okay. Hey kiss. You'll get a kiss if there's food in your mouth for me to have.

Yeah, okay. So please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Now I don't normally do the Let Me Bore You To Sleep on video.

It is also going to be a podcast. I'll be using a microphone and the iPhone. Do you want another one? Another one? And yeah, that's it really.

So today is it's Tuesday. I think it's the, is it the 20th of June? Not sure. Isn't he a cute little thing? Look at the camera.

What's that? Look, I'm trying to find a way that he'd actually enjoy just sitting on my lap and just stay here for the duration for just for the sake of it. But unless there's something in it for him, I don't think he wants to. He's now just thinking when's the next treat? When's the next treat? I can almost read his mind.

Treat, treat, treat, treat, treat, treat. That's it. Another one.

There you go. So he has transformed my life quite a fair bit over the last six months that I've had him. Oh, what are you doing? So I've had him since the middle of December and it's now in the middle of June.

So that's six months, isn't it? June, July, June, July. Oh, you want to get down? Okay. All right then.

No more treats then. Have a cup of tea. So I, yeah, December, January, February, March, April, May, June.

So yeah, six months. It's gone pretty quick. Oh, a weird noise.

I think what it was, the week I got him, it was snow, it started to snow that week and it snowed for, we had a whole week of snow. It wasn't snowing the whole week, but snow was on the ground for the whole week. So it's very cold.

And then in one day, it all thawed out. It rained and it just all gone. Apart from maybe a bit of snow in the fields, you know, that seems to stay there for years.

You know, you ever go on a train and you go past a field where, and it's always like a bit of snow from 1974, still there. So I, don't give me hassle, mate. You, if you want to come get on my lap and be part of the podcast, then you can have as many treats as you want.

As long as it don't amount to more than the treats I've got on the table. And I'm not doing myself any favours by saying the word treats. Oh, great.

Someone's using power tools. It's that time of year. Power tool time.

Lawnmower, lawnmower people down, down there constantly. It seems that everyone's cutting their lawns except the council. They're letting the grass grow so long, so long.

And normally it wouldn't bother me, but I'm now walking in the park. And the long grass is quite difficult to walk on because it's got so long, literally up to my knees at times. And you might say, yeah, but you're only two foot four.

Okay. That's not the point. That's not the point.

It's just, you can't see what you're standing on. What you're standing on. And when I throw the ball, it gets lost in the grass.

You can't see where it is because the ball is green, which is a really, really bad choice for a colour of a ball that you're chucking in a field or in a park with grass. That's also green. Maybe a different colour of green, but they seem to meld together kind of from a distance.

So, for some reason, they're just not cutting the grass. And I don't really know why. But I know one thing is if he goes in a long grass, like he did the other day, the council started leaving strips of long grass.

Even when they do cut the grass, they leave bits of long grass or something. It's some kind of environmental thing. I don't really understand it.

But you know, it's what they're doing. It's nothing to do with me, really, I guess. But he loves, Vinnie loves going into the grass and pooing there.

I mentioned his name just in case you think my neighbours upstairs, you know, could be a visitor. Like when I say he likes to go to grass and poo. Like you talk about your dog or your neighbour or is your dad there? No, the dog, the dog.

My dad doesn't do that anymore. So he basically, it's not easy to pick up the said squidgy brown stuff with the bag. I mean, I do use a bag now.

So that's a step, a bit of progression on my side. And, but it's just, it's messy. I don't know.

Can you hear him? There you go. I'll just chuck him a tiny little treat and that'll keep him happy for about 12 seconds. It's weird yesterday, right? His friend who's a giant dog, much, he's like three, four times bigger than he is.

It's about eight stone. So he's like the size of a, I don't know, a 12 year old boy. I don't know why I said boy, girl, I don't know.

But I mean, I was, yeah, I was only about eight and a half stone when I left school. I was nine. No, I wasn't.

I left school at 15. I was eight and a half stone. I would have given anything to be the way I am now.

Admittedly, I didn't have anything to give, but you know, I would have like said, yeah, I'll swap you my Conkers or here's a book. You know, I didn't have a lot of stuff. I mean, don't really have much stuff when you're a kid, do you really? I guess.

I don't know. I had toys. I didn't really play with toys by then.

I should play with my brother's toys. My brother was, was he seven? He was eight years younger than me. So whatever that makes him.

So when I was 15, he was what? 13? No. 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5. He was five? No. 15, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Blimey. Yeah, he was young, wasn't he? He was young. He.

So he was eight when I was 16. Obviously, eight and eight is more than 12. So.

Seven. He was seven when I was 15. Because eight and eight.

I never did well with maths for some reason. Hard to believe, isn't it? I'm not sure a lot of people thought, like in the past, maybe you've watched me or listened to me and thought he sounds a bit like a maths genius. Well, I got I got a rule in life.

Don't study, don't study, don't study, don't stutter, don't study anything I cannot spell. Ready? There you go. So I. Yeah, I'd have given anything to be because I've lost weight.

I was 16 stone, which is I don't know how many kilos. And then I was 16 stone and I lost half a stone last year and then I put it back on again. You hear that banging bastards.

Annoys me. Just noise. People just I wonder if they even get paid.

I'm sure people, especially quite a few people would volunteer just to make noise. Like you just go over there go in someone's garden. Here's a piece of wood and a hammer and just hit the piece of wood for half an hour, an hour.

Okay. Oh, can I please? Sure. Can I do it for two hours? I just love making noise.

Yeah. It's the same thing with people that slam doors, or let doors slam. I never understood that.

Because I just can't do it. I don't like the sound of doors slamming. I know I might sound a bit like an old grumpy old man, which I guess I am.

But now planes. I didn't give up. I didn't give them permission to fly over here.

So I've been thinking, I've been thinking about what I've been doing here. YouTube and stuff like that. And come to the conclusion.

And I've discussed this a couple of times, a couple of recordings ago. That I think I'm just gonna focus on doing the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts, or recordings, videos, whatever you want to call them. Because they, they're the ones that are listened to most.

Generally, I mean, there's the whisper ones seem to be fairly popular as well. But the Let Me Bore You To Sleep ones, that they're the ones that I get most positive feedback over, over since I've been doing it for five years. And I've had quite a bit of positive feedback.

And I was thinking I was laying in bed earlier, stroking my left knee, intimately, very, very, or very, very sensitive left knee. So Oh, that's nice. And I wasn't.

Why did I say that? Very strange. And I was I was in bed. Just, just laying there.

I was laying, I was doing nothing but laying there. I was and I was listening to some classical music, which is not relevant to the story. And my left foot was facing towards the window.

I mean, it's, you know, it's just not necessary to even mention that stuff. Anyway, my glasses are steamed up, they're messy, I need to the lenses are just ruined. Now.

I do have another pair of glasses exactly the same as this identical, but I've never used the same frame, same lens everything. So I think it's time to put these away. To maybe hibernate them and start using the ones that I'll actually be able to see through.

I can see through them, but they just, you know, when you get smudgy, smudgy, that's what these are like now, like continuously smudgy. At least I hope it's the lenses, because if it isn't lenses, I'm in trouble. I really am.

So I look red face, I've been catching the sun. God, it's proper hot. I think I burnt my hands the other day.

But I won't bump bump bump bump. It's I don't sunbathe. And I don't sit in the sun because I'm not built for that.

I don't have that. I don't have the skin ability to do that. But unlike last year, when, apart from when I was in the sun for a little bit, I was indoors most of the time.

So I didn't have Andre to take him out anymore. So I was kind of indoors a lot for most of the summer kind of when I was here. But since December, I've been out four or five or more times every day, walking him, Vinnie, Vinnie.

And it's been, it's been all right. It's been all right. It's I'm used to going out and all weathers now being freezing cold and not being cold and being hot and wet and just every single bit of weather has happened since I've had him.

But there's been no volcanoes. But other than that, I know that technically that's not a weather is it? But it's definitely a pain. It's definitely annoying, disruptive.

What if we have any volcanoes in England? On this landmass that I live on? I don't know. I don't know. Might be one in Scotland or Wales.

I don't I'm really not sure. I don't think so. Is Ben Nevis a volcano? By the way, if you if you want to see what I will look like when I'm in my late 70s, go to Uncle Hubert, his YouTube channel.

Now he leaves messages on my YouTube videos. Go to his YouTube channel and look at the picture on his channel. And he's basically took a picture of me and aged me by about 25 years.

30 I don't know. I mean, blimey, but he's aged me. And I only realized recently, he's a very cheeky little monkey.

He really is. And it's weird. I've known it.

We've known each other for what 14 years now. And he is he's like my I don't know what you got James Bond and Spectre. He's like this.

He's like my arch enemy who I get on with. Kind of sometimes. He's I'm not going to tell you some of the pictures that he sent to me.

But they are funny. But at the same time, very wrong. And he was doing this long before AI was doing able to do it.

So I don't know how he did it if he was using Photoshop. And he was using technology a heck of a long a lot longer ago than it was available. So I don't know how he was doing it.

I guess just really good at doing that stuff. I'm even a bit scared about what he could do now with the new technology. I tried to deepfake my own voice yesterday.

Because I have too much time on my hands. And I use this website called lab 11 or 11 labs, something like that. And I basically put my voice in 16 times 16 different clips of my voice.

And I still sounded American. So I was doing something wrong. Because I clearly don't have an American accent.

But according to that, I don't have an English accent because I'm not talking like this. And then I came home and discovered that there were there were zombies everywhere. And I thought to myself, hmm, this is going to disrupt my evening of entertainment, watching Netflix and eating pizza.

But then one of the one of the zombies came over and said, it's okay. We also like pizza and watching Netflix. As long as we get to eat you afterwards.

And we all laughed. So I don't I don't talk like that. It's, it's kind of it's just like America, not, you've got lots of different accents, not every American accent.

And if you go by the movies, a lot of it's all Texan, or Southern, or you know, it's not it's so many different accents in America. It's just like there's so many different accents in Scotland. And England as well, it's huge amounts.

I mean, literally, 26 miles away from here. They're talking, they talk like they say, I'm going downtown. You're going town.

Oh, how are you? Are you well? Maybe quite not like that. But it's an accent. It's a real like tractor.

And I guess just up the road from further up is going on my harvest tractor. Oh, I'm going for a walk. You want to go for a walk? I'm going for a walk.

Which is very different for my accent. And I'm a I'm a souvenir. I'm a souvenir.

And it's weird considering how tiny this country is this okay, I say country this landmass is. It's tiny compared to pretty much the rest of the world. I mean, it's literally minuscule.

It seems big to me because I walk everywhere. Apart from when I don't. But it is a very small land area.

Compared to somewhere like America or Russia, or China, or Australia, or Canada, or pretty much most other countries in the world. I don't think it's the smallest country in the world, but it's one of them. But we've also got a lot of people here.

So I think it's what 70 million. And there's no other country in the world that has this amount of people per area. That's I'm not sure if that makes sense.

But no other country in the world as far as I'm aware has the amount the population density compared to the landmass. That does make sense. Does it make sense? So like you got America is huge, but it's 300 and what 360 million people in America.

In I think I hear it now is called North America. So I think of America, I don't think of Mexico or Argentina, I don't know where whatever the different Lithuania different places near or Canada. Canada is Canada, North America as well.

But it's Canada is a different country, isn't it? And it's bigger than America. Which I never quite understood. Because only seven people live there.

Very weird. I don't know where I get my facts from because but I'm believing everything I say. There's 360 million people.

But the area of the United States of America is absolutely huge. Compared to this country. You could fit this country, Scotland and Wales, more than once over in some states of America.

That's a lot. Again, I'm making it up. But it sounds like it could be true.

So I'm sticking to it. I yeah, I'm never going to change my opinion on that now is now it's cemented. That's my belief.

I believe it. Therefore it must be true. So it's a very small place.

The weird thing about it is even though technically, we've overcrowded. I walk around, I don't see anyone for hours. It's there's not a lot of people around.

But if you go where the busy places are, play places, play places, not just places, but play places. You know, going to town, there's a lot more people there. If you go to a city, although technically where I live is a city now I think.

But I live in a village. And there's more people Christmas time is huge amounts. And then if you I'm sure if you go to Birmingham or not Clacton.

What's that place Manchester, Liverpool, places like that. Although they're not big. Because we don't really have big London's the only big city.

And even London isn't particularly big. Because we're a tiny country. But I've been to Liverpool, I've been to Manchester, I've been to Birmingham.

I've been to most places actually Nottingham been to most places over the years. And I was excited to go to Manchester and Liverpool. Because I guess for anyone outside of or anyone in the world really of my age or older, Liverpool, Beatles, you know, is outside is the place that I was living.

Liverpool was somewhere that everyone knew about because of the Beatles. Even though the Beatles are split up by the time I was born. My dad was a huge fan.

So I was when I went to live with him at seven. He was he had old eight track tapes of the Beatles, which I reckon be worth quite a bit of money now. But he loved the Beatles.

So you know, I kind of grew up from that age, listening to him. And I guess I probably heard them on the radio. Previous to that.

What else would be I suppose is a football team. It's a famous football team, Liverpool. I guess around the world.

I don't really follow football, but I know that Liverpool is a big team. But when I went there, there were a lot happening. But then I went during I actually, I was going to the man know the Isle of Man.

Three women live there. No joke, three women. And at the time, this is 19 years ago.

Wow. Went to Blackpool. And the it was so windy.

I was excited to go to Blackpool because I always thought, by the way, that's him chomping on a bone if you want to know what the sound is in the background. I'm not. Well, I don't know what I would do to make that kind of sound.

Click my fingernails together. I don't know. Try to start a fire with a couple of sticks underneath the desk.

Why would I do that? When I got a lighter? Why would I start a fire under that? That would be the probably the big question, really, wouldn't it? Not why would I use sticks instead of a lighter? So I was looking forward to going to Blackpool, not Liverpool, Blackpool, because I didn't think we were going to go to Liverpool. I didn't really know where we were going.

Because apparently we were supposed to go.

I think we're supposed to go to Wales or something. And then they changed it because the weather was so bad. And it was hurricane kind of just below a hurricane level wind.

So we stopped off at Blackpool. Got an ice cream, you know, popcorn, candy floss, stuff like that. Candy floss didn't last long.

Not even long enough to eat it. And it was weird because I landed on my Nan's face. And yeah, she had a pink beard.

So yeah, all the weird things. My Nan got stuck in the toilets, in the public toilets, because that way there's some kind of timer on them. So you put money in and there was a timer, which I don't get in my mind, because how can you know how long it's going to be? How long are you going to take? And she got stuck in there.

I hope she's all right. 19 years being in a toilet. We had to leave her because, you know, we had a ferry to catch.

So I remember Blackpool being very, very windy and didn't really get to see a thing. I mean, literally there was dust and sand and all kinds of crap blowing in my eyes. And I didn't have glasses on back then.

Because I was, my eyes worked. I was quite lucky. My eyes worked.

Yum, yum, yum. And I remember, yeah, we went through Liverpool, but it was night time, because our ferry left at 11 in the evening. And we literally just drove through Liverpool.

But I don't think we even went through the city centre. We just went to the ferry, wherever the ferry is. So I didn't really, well I went to Liverpool, didn't really get to see Liverpool.

I didn't get to cross the Abbey Road, is it Abbey Road Studios, the traffic crossing thing that's on the cover of their album. Didn't get to do that. I reckon people do that every day.

It's got to be like a regular thing. I bet you people every day visit Liverpool and do that. I bet you.

I don't know if it's true. I believe it's true. And then I went to Birmingham because I was, I had like a long distance relationship, friendship, dating kind of thing going on.

It was back in the day where you used to date on the phone. And it's like, you could talk and transfer messages and talk live. And it was like dating.

It was kind of, I suppose like Tinder or plenty of fish, but on the phone. Because it was just before, it wasn't before the internet, but it was before the internet was any good really. So we're talking 98, 99 time.

And I went up to Birmingham. And I remember meeting her. I got to the train station and I phoned her and she said, just come to my house.

So I got a taxi to her house. And she had about 700 children. And she looked a bit like Pamela Anderson.

Like, that's no lie. No, she did. She did look a bit like Pamela Anderson.

Quite similar. And she was about, I don't know, late 20s, probably 26, 27, something like that. I don't know, 25, 26.

And while she was talking, we're in the living room just chatting, because we'd spoken to each other quite a lot. And then eventually, I decided to go up to meet her because I liked her. She was nice.

There's a lot of commotion outside the house. Like, oh, what's going on out there? And she said, oh, it's just the kids. But it was a bit of shouting.

So I thought I was going to look out the window. And some of the kids were chucking rocks at the opposite house. It's like, wow, this is quite a strange environment.

But I don't know, it was weird. It didn't put me off because I didn't stay. I didn't stay there.

I was there and then I left. I mean, you know, you have to leave eventually. But it was a short, considering the distance, because it took a few hours to get there from London.

And I think it was a Sunday, because my day off, so I had to travel back. So I was only there for about an hour or two hours, which wasn't enough time to really do much. She didn't even have time to cook me a dinner or to moan at me.

None of that boyfriend, girlfriend stuff. It just. Yeah, she wasn't even disappointed in me or anything like we weren't weren't together long enough for her to get disappointed.

It's a shame. Shut up. Why do people have to talk so loudly? They can't tell what the distance is between themselves and the other person.

Maybe they're long sighted. Is it long sighted? Where they think the other person's are like a mile away. I'm just here.

Not only can I hear you. There's elephants in Africa can hear you. Do they have elephants in Africa? I don't know.

I've not been there. How would I know? How would I know? It's not the point. They have tigers, lions.

I sometimes get a little bit confused between the animals in India and Africa. I know the different countries, obviously. Well, I know Africa is not a country.

But it's a landmass. But there's. I don't know.

Crocodiles, alligators. But then you got elephants. Bears.

Zebras. Don't you mean zebras? No, it's correct. It's spelling is zebra.

And what else? Oh, yeah, lions and tigers. Now, I don't know. Liger, ligers.

There is a thing called a liger, isn't there? It's a mixture of a tiger and a lion and a tiger. I think when they, you know, got drunk together and did the deed and gave birth to a liger rather than a lion. I was surprised at how big tigers are.

I mean, lions are big, but tigers are just just huge things. But so are lions. I mean, lions are big as well, but tigers.

I think lions look bigger because of their big fluffy collar thing that they have going on. Like a duffel coat, you know, big furry thing around the duffel coat that whatever. So when they put that on themselves before they go out, makes them look bigger, more hench.

But you take that off and they're pretty skinny. They're pretty slim. But tigers.

I don't know. I think tigers are bigger than lions, aren't they? But then you don't get tigers and lions together, do you? Don't generally. Do you have tigers in Africa? You have tigers in Africa, but lions in India or tigers in India and lions in Africa, something like that, or both in both.

I'm not emotionally invested in the truth of either of those sentences, I'll be honest. The truth is not important. I'll tell you what, I started to notice there's a lot more AI generated BS happening on Facebook.

I was really surprised, not surprised. I expected it to happen, but I didn't think it would be happening so soon. And people posting stuff on there, which is being lapped up almost like just without question.

Here's a picture of a baby tortoise or a baby cockerel or baby, whatever. And it's a beautiful picture of big colourful eyes. And it's clearly not a real picture, but it is beautiful.

Well, I didn't know that. I didn't know that. The crocodiles had such beautiful eyes when they were born, big blue, blue eyes.

And they're born with a smile on their face and they have a hat on and they're wearing a dress. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know baby crocodiles were born wearing a dress, riding a bicycle.

Wow. I didn't know that. Now I do.

It's now in my memory forever. And it's now fact to me. It's like what? I feel, oh, Vinnie's staring at me.

I feel I need to double check everything now. I just want to go on. There is a way of searching and checking for images to see if they're made by AI.

Now I've got no issue with AI images because they're good for creating images, which is what they're for. But I'm not into the fake stuff like the pretending that something is. I'll give an example.

There was a picture on Facebook yesterday or today, and there was this man, a photographer. Then he had about 700 cameras on him, like wrapped around his body. And like clearly that wasn't a real photograph.

It might be an old photograph. It might be a photoshopped photograph that was made years ago. I don't know.

Because, you know, with the time and the skill, people have been able to create stuff like that for a long time. But it did look real, you know, it looked like a real photograph. It really didn't look like a generated image.

So I'm thinking AI. But something I would say because I'm into AI is something that's really grabbed my attention and my interest. There is a lot of skill goes into producing AI images.

Because to get the best images, you need to know the prompts, the correct prompts. And there's a lot of learning involved in that. And the people that are making the best images are probably the designers, people that are already professional designers, because they know what they're looking for, they know what they want to do.

And someone like me, I can make images. I've used a few different apps. But some of them have come out okay.

But, you know, it's a work in progress. And the one thing that AI image makers are not great at the moment is text. So if you wanted to make a sign, let's say I want to make a road sign in the middle of the ocean, which says, please take your shoes off before entering or I don't know, whatever.

Please don't disturb Aquaman is Aquaman is sleeping, whatever it might be. Don't park here, you know, whatever the silly sign might be, you know. So you can get a road sign in the middle of the ocean, they'll do that, but have gobbledygook words that doesn't make sense.

No, there's no language, it's just a bunch of just blurry things. So it would mean adding your own text, I guess, which isn't that complicated, I know, but it, you can kind of see where text has been added to something like that, the way I do it anyway. So yeah, it's, I do find it very interesting.

I do, I can't help it. I just, it's the first time I've been interested in something like this, the way I am with this, since the internet started. And I got into website building, and I was already into hypnosis before that.

And I guess, I mean, I've been doing a podcast in for, I suppose, yeah, 2006. And I got into the podcast and making videos. But it's different from that this is more just for the sake of interest.

I'm not I'm not interested in AI for what I can do to for any other reason other than just I'm interested in it. You know, I made the podcasts, hopefully to help people to relax and maybe fall asleep and just let go of that, you know, what's going on in your mind for a while. And even though from a from a first example of listening to me, Neteron, wow, wow, wow, wow.

You might think, well, how is this? How is this even potentially a therapeutic or useful use of my time? You may think that, and you may be right. It's quite subtle. It's quite subtle.

And it seems to be that over time, over there's something happens. Something changes within you. And you feel more relaxed.

And you feel calmer, maybe more positive. Giving yourself a rest, maybe more sleepy. And then there's that connection with my voice and maybe with my funny face, if you're watching on YouTube.

And there's that thing going on like, oh, it's that weird, red faced man from England. It's weird, because my beard was like a beard goatee at the moment. It looks even whiter on my red face.

It's not fair. It's actually dark. It's dark, dark hair, but it looks white.

Because I'm ultraviolet. So even though I don't give, look how white my arms are, even though, look, I do go out with my arms open, open my eyes open, you know, so my arms can be seen. So you can see even there, look, difference between that and that.

That's brown compared to that. But compared to there, I'm trying to flex my muscles, but there's nothing there. So I'll put them down.

I do have, I used to have muscles. So what was I saying? What was I talking about? Oh, yeah. Being red, that's nice.

I'm red all year round. I was born with this red face. I don't think I had a red face when I was a kid.

It just produced it. It just was like, yeah, brilliant. Thanks.

Cheers. This is great. I think that's why the only the only women I can meet are ones that are colour blind, they can't see.

They just think, oh, I just look normal. I don't realise that I'm literally radiating heat from my cheeks. Walk around with me in the night, pitch black, you can see around.

I'm like a flash torch light thing. I'm not at all. I don't know why I'm saying stuff like that.

It's almost like I put myself down, but I'm not really because I'm just telling the truth. There's no point hiding it, is there? No. You can't hide what is.

You know, if I stood up and said I'm slim, you could see clearly that I'm not. If I stood up next to 10 other people and told you I was tall, you could see that clearly I'm not. If I took my glasses off and tried to read you the titles of the books on the bookcase opposite, I wouldn't be able to.

That's not really that is relevant to what I'm saying. Like if I said I don't need the glasses and you'd be able to see clearly that I do. See clearly that I do.

So, even though I don't kind of mention about feeling relaxed and being calm and peaceful and all that stuff. It over the last five years and over a thousand recordings of this podcast, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I've come to the conclusion that providing I do regular recordings, which I haven't been lately and I'm sorry about that, but I'm going to give more, put more energy into doing it.

I mean, it's a thing about I'm not. If I, if I make a video, then I don't like making videos really. I don't mind making videos.

I used to love making videos, but I don't, you know, I'm not. If I look like Brad Pitt, I probably enjoy making videos, you know what I mean? But then I'd be getting excited, wouldn't I? Looking at Brad Pitt. But, oh, I don't know.

We'll just see, see how it goes. But my intention is to keep making these recordings and try and do one every day. That's my intention.

So, and I'm going to be focusing on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast from now on. And I'll also be including other things with it. So I'll be talking about some news and the podcast episodes might be a little bit longer as well, because I'll be perhaps incorporating other things into it.

Just, I mean, something I'd like to do. I'd like to talk about nice news stories. Do you know what I mean? Something, a nice news story, and not necessarily somebody saved someone's life who's, you know, in trouble.

Because even though that's a lovely story, which is a positive story, we're still focusing on a bad event, you know, I quite like to find some really uplifting stories that don't involve a negative subject or illnesses or anything like that. It's just something uplifting in itself. I mean, maybe maybe there isn't anything.

There has to be. I mean, I've looked, I've looked through the newspapers, sometimes the whole of the day, and not found one out of about 10 newspapers not found one positive story. And it's, it's weird.

I mean, maybe that they clearly are aiming at what people like, because they've been doing that for decades and decades. So they, they know more about what the population wants to read than I do. But I don't want to read it.

I don't want to read the horrible negative stuff. I just had enough of that. I'd rather read about something funny or something silly, or absurd, or, you know, even, I mean, I'm just thinking, I can't remember, I can't think of anything necessarily.

Something funny would be nice. I like that. I like funny stories.

So I'm going to have to search for that. And maybe if I set up my website properly, maybe because I'm thinking about having a specific website just for this podcast. So maybe you could send me in stories.

If you find something online, or maybe something that's in your area, that's or something that's happened to you, that's uplifting, that's funny, that's interesting, or doesn't have to be interesting, because this is a boring podcast. So I could read it out. So perhaps a little bit of involvement.

I could read out messages on YouTube, I could read out. So you could leave messages on here, you can leave messages on my website. And if you leave messages on the podcast, I might not see them because this podcast is on so many different podcast hosts, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Podbean, Luminosity, Luminosity, like so many different ones that it's I don't really have, I don't get informed when there's a message.

But perhaps I can do something on my website, or maybe start a new website specifically, just for this podcast. Or just have the jasonnewland.com just for this podcast. Maybe, maybe, as it is, that is the only podcast that's on there.

So perhaps I'll do that. But I just thought maybe it'd be good to do a bit of interaction, a bit of, you know, tell me some stuff and I can read it out. And just go from there, make it a bit more interactive.

Perhaps, perhaps not. But perhaps, I don't know, it's just an idea. I'm not, I'm not married to it.

I just, just thought perhaps you you might think it's a good, a good way to direction to, to be travelling in. A bit of involvement, a bit of sharing, sharing and caring. It might, might be nice, might, it might, might, might, might, might, might.

I don't know. I really, really don't know. I'm just, I've used a different microphone for this.

I hope it's okay. I hope it's okay for the podcast. I hope so.

I really do. Let me know if you, if it's awful sound or whatever. But I'm using a microphone that's attached to the film.

And, but I mean, this setup is really easy for me, which I like a lot. You know, all my podcast stuff's over there. And I still edit and I still have to, I mean, I got the video that I have to take the audio of the video in order to, you know, to edit that and put on the podcast.

Edit the video and upload that to YouTube. So it's still a fair bit of editing to do. But not a huge amount because I haven't got up and the good thing about this is, you know, if I cough or sneeze or someone's at the door or something like that, it doesn't really matter because I can just edit it out because I've got a video editing software.

So I can just do that and it's easy to do. So yeah, we'll just see, see how it goes. On the video, I won't be using software to take away the pauses.

So the one thing you won't be getting with this, unless there's been a break, you know, someone's knocked at the door. So you might have me talking then. And then, you know, it might be a break like that.

So it'd be split. But there won't, because as far as I'm aware, a lot of YouTubers use this software, it's AI, and it takes away the pauses, which is why every sentence and every word continues, almost trips over each other. It's very fast.

Now, I generally, that's a bit of a long pause for effect there. I generally don't talk particularly fast. I mean, that's for two reasons.

One is because this is a boring podcast, aimed at helping you to relax and fall asleep and just let go and just chill out, whatever. And secondly, is I don't talk fast. I just don't talk fast.

I mean, it, there are times when I will get excited. And for example, someone, I'm trying to think, a neighbor brought me a dinner round yesterday, cooked a dinner and gave me a plate of dinner, food. And I was excited.

I said, Oh, food. Thanks. So you know, I, I was very excited.

And I came across probably a bit, a bit more excited than I am when I do these podcasts. But generally, or if someone asked me about the boxing, they say, did you watch the boxing last night? And I said, and it's like a big, big night. And I had a really good time watching it.

I say, yeah. So, you know, sometimes I am a little bit more enthusiastic. I sound a bit more animated than other times.

The thing is, I was I was listening, I was watching, while listening and watching. So I was listening to what the person was saying. On YouTube.

There was this lady, she was doing a YouTube video on how to make meditative videos. That wasn't what she does. She does like how to make money and how to be a millionaire.

Well, that's, you know, there's a lot of those on YouTube. And it was quite weird, because did everything she was using was trial. She didn't even pay for anything.

And it's like, well, if you should, I use this regularly. We'll pay for it then. If you're, you're trying to teach people to be rich, pay, pay the $10 a month for that software.

But no, using it as a trial. But I don't know just anyway, she she sounded so monotone. The way she was talking, and I thought she'd be ideal to be making like a boring recording.

But then I thought, you know, I'll be honest, I just turned off I couldn't listen to her. Because it was so monotone. And I know that I'm probably very monotone and got very, very boring voice.

But even that was too much even for me. But to be honest, I don't listen to myself. I do want to talk in this, I put something in the ears, or there's a wax build up.

And yeah, I'm a little bit too boring for myself. But I do occasionally listen to a podcast just to, you know, I can't I need to be need to have the experience of lying down or listening to an hour of me talking. I do it occasionally.

I mean, very, very, very rarely. I listen to it kind of while I'm doing the editing, but I'm not listening to the whole hour. If you know what I mean, I've got the I've got certain techniques.

But there are pauses with this. So I will be one of the few people on YouTube that actually talks with pauses and talks at not only am I talking at human speed, I'm talking much slower than probably human speed. Because I don't know, I imagine people that have never, people have only been on YouTube for maybe well grown up on YouTube, you know, not growing up on YouTube.

But how would you grow up on YouTube? I was born on the internet. I was born on a server. I don't know.

But I I know it's right early on that people used to talk very fast. And although sometimes I can handle it, because what they're talking about is interesting to me. And I mean, I want to learn what's being talked about.

But that continuous no pauses. One sentence right into the next sentence. It does.

It drains me a little bit, because I can't keep up with it. I'm clearly got a very slow brain. And not all the time.

Yeah, so what was I talking about? So yeah, basically, that's that's my microphone. Perhaps I should be a bit closer to it. I don't know, perhaps I should have it a bit higher up.

I'm not sure. Oh, itchy thighs. Oh, my left knee feels nice.

It doesn't wait, it does, but that's not relevant. So I'm going to go have another cup of tea. It's run out now.

It's not run out, it's tea in there, but it's cold. The warmth, the hot tea is run out. The cold tea's there, but the hot has run out, you know.

Yeah. So yeah, that's it. Really, I'm gonna.

I feel I might have some tea cakes. It's good to celebrate. I like to celebrate with tea cakes sometimes.

Toasted tea cakes. And that's what I'm going to do. So that's it.

So if you like what I do, and if you like these, Let Me Bore You To Sleep, then just let me know. And because this is what I'm going to be doing from now on. This is, I'm going to be doing it for five years.

But this is, and they might last for more than an hour, because generally an hour is about the same, the amount of time that I would talk, sometimes a little bit less, often more, but I might end up doing two or three hours at a time. We'll see. But we'll see how it, how it, how it goes over time.

So thank you everyone for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Remember to be gentle with yourself, because you deserve to be happy.

Do something nice for yourself today. And it doesn't have to be expensive, doesn't have to cost any money. Maybe just going for a walk, maybe having a long bath.

I mean, unless you've got a short bath, so you can't have a long bath, but you know, as in time rather than length. Eat something that you like. Phone someone up that you enjoy talking to just anything that, that can give you a sense of feeling nice.

And I will be back again tomorrow with another, another exciting episode of Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I've been Jason Newland, and thank you for listening. Lots of love.

Bye.