(no music) #1058 - The Boys are arguing - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (4th December 2023) (1)

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My name is Jason New and hope you well.

This is pretty much a reenactment of yesterday. I'm sitting here at my desk. Vinnie's eating a bone thing.

Logie is just laying on the floor and they had an argument earlier. I couldn't quite see what it was that was going on but it was because they were under the table but they were fighting. They had a fight and it's not good because Logie is well there's a I think there's a picture on Facebook it's a bit warm in here now.

I just put just put a top on and I don't need it. I'm not topless I mean I put a cardigan on because I'm an old man and I wear cardigans. I've been wearing cardigans since I was a kid.

They're handy aren't they? Because I think with a jumper you can take the jumper off or you can have the jumper on so you have a t-shirt on and maybe it's it's a bit it's not warm enough to just have the t-shirt on so but then you put a jumper on but then it might not be cold enough to have a jumper on and you know you can pull the sleeves up to let a bit of air onto your skin of your arms or I suppose you could just pull up the jumper a little

bit so you're over your belly or something but that's not usually a thing that we would necessarily do I guess but with a jumper with a cardigan you know you have a t-shirt on maybe it's it's not quite warm enough so when you put a cardigan on instead of a jumper it's pretty much the same thing.

However if it's a little bit too warm you know maybe you don't really really need a jumper on you know it's too warm for a jumper but not not warm enough for just a t-shirt and then we you know with a cardigan because it's got well it might have buttons but generally I go for the ones with zips because they're easier because buttons it's just I just don't have time for buttons anymore there was a time you know in the past I used to love buttons I'd happily spend all day

undoing the buttons of my cardigan but I think I've started to value time a bit more now and I don't want to really be devoting too much of my life to undoing buttons but with a cardigan you can just if you go to the top of the zip and just pull the zip down it doesn't yeah you haven't got to pull the whole all the way down it's not you haven't got you know undo it completely that's the good thing about I'm trying to talk seriously about this right that's the

good thing about some cardigans is it's not really a case of on or off or done up or undone there's there's a half way there's a half way point there's there's that that soft spot that that nice place where you can undo it just enough just enough so you can perhaps have enough breeze I mean you might be outside so you have enough I mean what I would suggest though is make sure that your t-shirts clean if you are outside because the other day I went into the garden and I

had a cardigan on a cardigan in the garden sounds like a poem coming on and I undid the cardigan because for a brief minute it wasn't that cold although it has been quite cold but let's pretend it wasn't for the sake of the story and I undid the cardigan and I was talking to a neighbor or I said I went inside the inside the other building that's why okay makes sense now I didn't realize because he's looking at my chest and I thought ah the workouts working out because my chest

you know perhaps a bit more muscular and she's she's admiring my boobies you know and who wouldn't be flattered when I got home and I realized that well I went into the looked in the mirror to congratulate myself on all the attention I was getting and and to look at my boobies and I realized there was porridge dried porridge all the way down pretty much my neck down between my boobs and it looked like I'd had some kind of adventure with some porridge well it's ready break but you know it's

the same kind of texture and I thought oh I wonder if she noticed she noticed that big pile of dried I mean it's almost ready break or porridge when it dries it's really solid and you could build a house with that stuff you could use it in between breaks genuinely I think you could because there's been times I don't want getting excited about this but there's been times when I've had to throw away dishes because I've left them too long and even soaking them doesn't doesn't help anymore because that that

porridge or that ready break is stuck and it's staying forever I remember I had one it was completely I must have only eaten half of it for some reason and I dropped the plate off of a roof and it didn't break because the porridge coated it and so it protected it I remember the time shower now it didn't break it didn't break and then someone on the floor down down below me saying yeah but why did you chuck it off the roof I mean what was he doing and nearly hit

me but it didn't though did it that dog though right now Logie's just pacing up and down he's he doesn't know what to do with himself got some good news yesterday or today yesterday sometime is yeah two good news is actually the neighbor said that she had a friend that was interested in taking him on Logie that is and last night or yesterday afternoon I don't know whenever I spoke to my friend's dad and my friend's cousin is going to come and take him on so he's not he's out of

the country at the moment so when he gets back he's gonna come and get him and he knows him he knows you know you know he's he knows the family so it's not like he's going somewhere that he's never been before and somewhere that he doesn't know anyone because he's got a kid and the kid loves him so yeah he'll be hopefully in his forever home within a week I hope and I hope more now because what happened between him and Vinnie that didn't like that very much and also he

went had a little afternoon nap because I wear cardigans and Logie was at the bottom of the bed Vinnie was at the top of bed with me Vinnie went over to Logie and Logie growled at him so I'm not yeah I'm a hundred percent not gonna leave them alone when I go into the kitchen Logie comes with me when I go into the bathroom Vinnie comes with me and when I take him in the garden I put I take him out together and they just do their own thing anyway the

I like to think that they do actually love each other and Logie wouldn't hurt him but Vinnie's not one to back down yes if he doesn't like something he really has a good old growl and you know yeah Logie doesn't take kindly to dogs growling at him it's not his favoritest thing in the world so we'll just have to see what happens but they can't be left alone in fact I wouldn't even leave them in the flat on their own in separate rooms in case Logie got out of one of

the rooms because I just don't know I just don't I don't trust him enough because he has had rows in the past with other dogs and he knows I'm talking about him as well it's weird he just looked up at me he's so clever this dog really he knows how to sit and the other day he picked the bowl up not since I've had him but since you know this is a few weeks ago when I was looking after him for the day and he just picked the water bowl up

and just dropped it at my feet it was empty it's like they're so clever I mean I don't know I know in human terms it's not that clever but because they can't communicate with words I mean Vinnie did the same thing with his little bowl he just covered my feet in water he copies what he does just doesn't know why it's true but before he met Logie Vinnie didn't even cock his leg to go to for a wee wee he did it like a girl dog he'd never been around other

dogs before didn't have any siblings and he he'd only ever been on his own with well he had two owners two two homes two forever homes kind of before he came here and but he he never did that thing you know when dogs have been to the toilet it's a wee or whatever and they just brush behind them to cover it up Vinnie never used to do that until he met Logie now he does it but he does it in the wrong direction so do we over there then all it

would do that thing like he doesn't know why he's doing it so it's not an instinctive thing it's just a copy thing what else does he do he I don't know what else he does this there are some things trying to try to remember something he did that was very similar I'll just just now I was in the in the bedroom and Logie followed me in there and I found a brush and it was a dog brush well to be fair it's probably just a brush but I've used it I

inherited it when I got Logie so I started brushing Logie not when I got Vinnie I'm getting muddled up between the different people Vinnie's mine Logie's Logie's my nephew Vinnie's my son so I'm brushing Logie and Vinnie comes and stands right next to me now Vinnie would never let me brush him I'm talking never I'd have to literally hold him down and brush him and once I started he liked it but he would never stand there and let me do it unless I was holding him or had him on the

lead or something this time he just stood there let me do it because Logie was standing there letting me do it he just copied Logie is and it wasn't just a one-off he was that he'd like had a I took turns brushing both of them and Vinnie was really into it he loved it it's very strange he's I think it's done him good spending time with Logie because he's yeah I think it has but I think one of the problems is when when when Logie I keep saying his name when

he used to come up here and visit for a few hours or maybe an hour or maybe a whole day he would run riot a little bit and he'd take stuff away from Vinnie and Vinnie had let him well since he's been here Vinnie has kind of taken that taken that back almost in a sense of this is his territory this is his home and he doesn't let Logie take stuff out of his mouth anymore or eat his food and before he used to Logie just push him out of the

way and Vinnie just let him do it but he doesn't do it anymore won't allow it which is why I think they're coming at a bit loggerheads you know but it is it's weird to watch and I do have to watch because I cannot I can't allow them to be getting into arguments now Logie and the other dog the black dog that was downstairs who's about a year old as well she was they used to fight but that because the other dog was also big smaller than him but still big

for a dog they didn't hurt each other but it sounded really you know it's it's like sometimes hearing someone on a on a train or tube you know let's say an underground train or a bus and they're talking on the phone and it sounds really aggressive and it turns out they're just having a friendly conversation because that's just how they talk you know I won't go any further with that one I'm just thinking um sometimes I've gone to get takeaway food and I've gone into a takeaway and ordered it and

it got into the back and screaming the order so they're like really quiet and friendly at the counter then they go into the kitchen and scream almost like they're very angry and come back and they're all happy again it's like huh wonder what it sounds like maybe I must know what I sound like to other people this dog just come and bash bashed the desk so I had to tell him to go away literally walked into the deck bang just so clumsy now Vinnie's generally a bit more better behaved when

Logie's here when I'm doing a recording doesn't hassle me as much because I'd say 85 90% of time when I make a recording and Vinnie's in the same room when he's not got a bone to chew that is when he's not got a bone he hassles me whines begs all that rubbish and he just does it constantly and it's a little it's a little it's a slight it's a major distraction so I'm kind of pleased that they're they're kind of distracted each other a little bit I think it's warm in

here but it wasn't is we've really got the cold weather now outside why did I have to specify outside you don't have weather inside to me apart from a fridge a big freezer that's inside it's like weather isn't it really but I yeah I've been wearing my hat it's not quite got to the point of needing my gloves yet but then I haven't been going on long walks outside because I've not been able to really take I can't take the two dogs together any distance if it's early in the morning

early hours I'll take them both walk them to the to the park if there's no one else around I can take them to the park they can go to the toilet and then we'll come back if there's people about I can't take them both out if I take Logie out on his own even if it's you know Vinnie doesn't stop yapping so I can't and I can only take him out at night or early hours of the morning or late at night so I can't have Vinnie barking that time at

night or you know that time of the day early hours it's not fair on the neighbors if I take Vinnie out on his own Logie barks continuously so again late at night early in the morning I can't take him out can't take either of them out because the other one barks and then what else what I've been doing taking him out in the garden during the day probably three four times together and then once a day before the evening around six o'clock or whatever I take Vinnie out for a walk

on his own and we go for it's not like a long walk but it's a good half an hour walking around so he gets a bit of exercise he's more comfortable to go to the toilet when there's no one else around you know when he's it's it's hard to pick up a poo when you've got a huge dog and another dog like all pulling in different directions which is why I leave it on people's pavements their driveways in the garden like I do pick it up just yeah I do always

generally and it's you know he has a couple of poos when we go out and that's that's our little time together without the huge doggy you know that's up here at the moment and it's quite nice just for me and him just to be together and go for a walk and if it was what I might do is leave Loki up here tomorrow for an hour or so during the day and take Vinnie for a walk into the field just have a proper proper walk just so we can spend some

time together and he can because he needs the exercise he's still a baby isn't he really he's like you know he's not a baby but he's still young Loki struggles to get onto the bed or to get onto the settee he really has to his limbs are not doing so well but I got him running around in the garden today and it was so funny to watch because he was like a puppy he's all excited and he was running around and he was running towards me and it's really cool and

what other things yeah I might do that tomorrow I met the the neighbor from downstairs she knocked on the door because she didn't have a there's no electricity down there and she didn't have the key to get into the the meter box which is just like a what do they call those keys Emery Emery keys are they I don't know they're like in a triangle I got four different types and she was on the phone to the electricity company and she basically had there was there was money on the thing

but she had to press the button to do it so she she basically asking have you got a key for the meter I thought she meant like a key to put money onto the meter I thought well no you need a different you know a different oh he's just farted oh man I'm not joking it's really really rank oh why does he always have to lay down with his bum face in me never never lays down with his head facing me ever always got his bum face in me I mean

even when they walk when we walk he's ahead of me you know he won't walk backwards so try and get him to he won't unfair unfair so what was it oh yeah so got got that key for the neighbor and I said your you know your gas meter is in the kitchen she said it's not I said it is she said it's not we looked everywhere I said it's under the counter you know she said no it's not I said I promise you it is because this is not my first

rodeo with that meter I've had when the lady downstairs originally she was the one that was living there when I moved in her mum was trying to find the meter to because they wanted to put some electric some gas on and she's like I don't know where it is can't find it so I had to go down tell her because the the lady that was originally here she told me about it she said it's ridiculous it's right like it's almost it is hidden you have to go under the counter under

in the cupboard and turn right basically you can't see it you need a torch to find the thing because I knew where it was the previous tenant didn't know where it was I'd tell him where it is and I went she went in there she said can you show me so I did and yeah so it's a new new person moving in they've not they've moved in but they're not moving in till the end of the week properly so it's very echoey down there at the moment so they're just decorating

so yeah and then I'll be a new person I guess moving into my friend's flat in a couple of months I usually have fairly quick turnover turnaround rather you know from moving out I'm using those words but you know to a new person a new tenant so yeah it's all change it's weird it's been a very strange few weeks it's been a yeah oh the other thing is I decided to give my website another go and what I've done is I've still got the outlay that I've been building the last

week or so and it's just gonna be just a way of finding stuff so if you want to find it is broken into different sections you know basically I'll show you actually I look at it now I'll just open it up so if I go to the website go on to home so the very top of it is just a little logo of Jason Newland since 2006 and there's a little picture of Vinnie and little picture of Andre on there this is a little logo at the top home contact PayPal

gift me so that's the three three pages in the thing at the top and then so on the home page Let Me Bore You To Sleep deep sleep whisper relax and sleep hypnosis sleepy boring objects bedtime story time stop smoking stress and pain relief there'll be a few more but they're the main ones and I've only been working so far on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep but if you click on deep sleep whisper there is a playlist of the so you can kind of still listen stuff on there

but with the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and the others will be the same click on that and Let Me Bore You To Sleep and it's got a list of four four choices no music music five hours and 10 hours so if you click on no music that's the one I'm doing at the moment so then we come to no music Let Me Bore You To Sleep it's very quick it's very quick and it's very basic on the website on the phone very very easily put together very quick to use so no music let you bore you to sleep so I've got 1 to 50,

51 to 100 and so on until 1051 to 1100 so click on 1050 and then I've got 50 on each page again in dropping down a list and so you got the number which is 1 Let Me Bore You To Sleep 2 3 4 5 and then play download on the right side so you can just click on a play download whichever one you want I'll go to number one and it takes you to the SoundCloud page number one Let Me Bore You To Sleep and you can play or you

can if you click on more you can download the file so yeah so this is really very basic and you still have the website open because that's opened a different page so far I'm number 201 so there's a fair bit to do to be honest I'm number 201 on the no music ones but once I've done the got to the 1057 or whatever it is I'll then go on to the 5 hours 10 hours music and there's only 50 in each of those and I've decided I'm not gonna bother trying

to recreate the old recordings I've got the originals without music and they'll just have to be the ones that are available but going forward I will continue to make the ones with background music 5 hours and 10 hours so really once I've done all the ones with no music it's then nearly complete for that for that you know for this section then I'll do the let me deep sleep whisper and so it's gonna take a few weeks I'm not spending all my time doing it although I guess I'm spending a

bit of time but you know it's good to keep busy I like keeping busy at the moment so you know last not this Friday the Friday before and that weekend I spent most of the weekend cleaning and tidying up and chucking stuff away but now I stopped well part of me is my friend's dad I thought he was gonna be staying there so I just had to tidy up but every day it gets messy again it's just the way it is that's the way it is so I've still got some

stuff to get rid of still a few bits to work on but other than that I'm not not too worried to be honest with you doesn't really matter just I've got my deliveries today so I've got my toilet paper which I think was yesterday actually I got that then I got some dog food and I got some dry food as well as the wet food toothpaste and a couple of packs of face wipes so that covers me I went yeah I went to the petrol station yesterday and got some sugar

and I didn't get any I should have got some Weetabix I didn't think about it but I got some sugar and some coffee that was yesterday so I didn't think about the Weetabix that would have been something that was be useful because I pretty much run out of cereal now other than the ready brick but it's it'll be time that's really boring isn't it it'll be time to get some kind of food order soon so I'm gonna have to look into that and other than that so that that's what I've

been working on and it's coming together quite well I tried to do it so it's really mobile friendly I know people listen on laptop but majority of people that listen seems to be on the phone and this is really easy to use on the phone and again you can look at all the archives and you'll be able to have access to blimey I don't know 3,000 recordings or something when I finished is that how many they'll be I mean all I've got to do if I look at if I go

out here and I click into I click into the one which has got all of my recordings on or but I don't still a few to put on there anyway but profile 3530 recordings that's including the different ones with music in that but that is pretty much what you can have on my website when I finished you have access to all of those recordings and easy to find but really really easy by numbers you know and of course if you remember stuff you can download you can download things if there's

something you like you can just download it and play again and maybe get rid of it if you don't want it I was trying to download stuff on my phone and it wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why and where's it gone that to go into this because I've got an iPhone had to go into the Safari settings and choose where the downloads go I had it set as going on to the iCloud which does take a while if it just goes directly onto your phone it's a lot quicker

I didn't realize I had that setting done but what I had to go Google it and find out how to do it and once I've done that it was you know instantly pretty much available for me to to listen to not that I want to listen to it I'm just just saying it was there so I was just testing it really so in some ways I mean I could have I could have it all inclusive in just one website in a sense so it doesn't go away to a different website

for you to play the recording I could have a just a page where it's embedded in there I could do that and I might still do that but for now I'm gonna do it this way because it just it's the way to get it done and yes it's a way to get it done I might look at maybe doing it differently in the future but this is the the main outlay the outline of it I'm gonna get rid of that now does that make sense I think that makes sense this

is the main yeah this is like the foundations of it and three and a half thousand recordings is quite a lot so it will take a while I mean considering I've only done 200 I mean the outline is there for all 1054 with the Let Me Bore You To Sleep but I've not done the outline I've not done the different pages for the other stuff even so far but I have done for this one so the first thousand you know if I if I managed to organize 200 and put the

it's a bit I had to explain how I do basically I have to make changes to the soundcloud and there's a lot of is just copy and paste copy the the link and paste the link into the website and it's fairly easy I was having a lot of problems yesterday with finding a way to download stuff for people and it just kept not working you know I mean you could I did have it before where you could you could download we could download episodes just directly off the episode of the

website but I think it's nice to be able to play play the recording and just stream it whatever and it just might be a better way to have it it's more like a podcast it will be and it'll just be just my stuff so we'll see and it's very basic it's got a very basic design and it's supposed to be basic really just I probably have a list of like the latest as well just so you can see what the latest recordings are but yeah I'll do it for a few

more days if I get fed up with it I might just delete it but it seems a shame because if you put my name into Google my website comes up at the top and it just seems a shame to sort of not have that there because so I should see if I if it does I don't make it might not now if I do private window that way I've done not so Jason Jason Newland no it doesn't not an Apple podcast comes up top with me Let Me Bore You To

Sleep Apple podcasts and then there's Jason G Newland MD medical he's a doctor in Washington University then the next one down is Google podcasts Let Me Bore You To Sleep stress and pain relief Apple podcasts then Jason Newland MD the same ones before Jason Newland MD Washington University Jason G Newland pediatrics same person HHS voting damn you he's got more than me he never used to be above me he's not I'm at the top but he's still he's got more than me on the on the first page now yeah okay

let's let's do without the private I bet you if I do that private I'll come up the top yeah I was putting Jason and just in Microsoft Jason no it's probably because I closed my website down for a couple of days or for a day it's not coming up at all that's weird how strange that's just one day of not bit if I put in Google let me get Google that's Bing Google okay Google Google right Jason Newland okay jasonnewland.com so let's do it on private see if it does the

same thing so Google Google.com Google Google Google accept or just on Jason Newland thousands of hypnosis MP3s and videos latest recordings relax and sleep hypnosis daily it's weird though because I knew out the pictures one picture of me with Andre three pictures of the doctor another picture of me pictures of two videos two different videos another one of the doctor there's a picture of me that's on my Facebook page the you know the one of Neil it's a little baby a little baby it's a little kid eight or nine years

old ah wow okay fair enough so yeah I'm I'm around on Google more than then Bing wonder why that is actually I don't care I don't wonder why isn't it weird I really couldn't it's been quite a few quite a good day apparently the stats really bad not stats but they're not they're not showing the stats anymore properly and I'd like went on to I googled it so why is SoundCloud not giving me the stats the way they used to they said because you you didn't say it didn't answer but

they said oh you need to clear your cache but I thought I had thought I had how many downloads I mean yesterday's recording it's not bad on that one relax leave and pain relief hypnosis 347 plays of the 10-hour one that's alright the 10-hour one I did on the 30th of November's had 1374 plays it's not bad is it just for one recording so I don't know what it is we daily now between 10 and 15,000 a day I guess I don't know it's hard to work it out now it is it's actually literally very hard because lots of different podcasts and I don't know the last seven days on this one 36,189 was that daily I don't know 5,

10, 15, 20, 21, 30, 35 that's 5,000 a day on average which is still way more than I would get on any other one podcast wouldn't get that many generally okay so the other one which gets a few is the what's this one hypnosis for sleeping deeply with music so only the ones of music I've got on there I don't have any records of that music I said that pretty much three times or something you know different well it's just music only ones with music basically 378 for the one I

uploaded 19 hours ago the 10 hours that's for the 10-hour one I've got four different versions no three different versions on there the mute background music one five hours and ten hours ten hours always gets the most generally the one couple of days before 30th November 1426 yeah it's weird the way it goes but then on the 29th of November the 10-hour one 410 but 21st November 947 and that was the first time I'd done anything for ages for a while there's still stuff to upload I know there is I

really do know there is and I haven't done it yet because I don't have an excuse other than I got bored I mean the hypnosis sleeping deeply with music 1467 tracks different now it's different recordings now there should be more than that shouldn't there I know okay there's a thousand pretty much where there's no back yeah okay no that's no thinking about it one two three no but I don't have that anyway yeah I'm just thinking so I three and a half thousand three and a half thousand on the other

podcast so all I'm missing is just one if you take off three and a half thousand broken into four what's that 35 divided by four if it was 40 it'd be one each 10 each and then you got to take five off so so it's 1 2 3 4 8 16 32 33 34 35 so 9 9 18 27 36 so 27 and nine eight and a half it's eight and a half times by two so 850 no yeah 850 times by two eight hundred one thousand six hundred one thousand

seven hundred three no four one thousand so it's four isn't it not three three nine 85 eight 160 and another eight says one for 240 rather so 240 255 2055 so or to is something anyway so should be over 2,000 tracks on here so I don't know what ones are missing I can't believe I just publicly let you know how slow my mathematical brain is embarrassed I don't just embarrass myself I mean you know those of you been listening for a while possibly all thinking the same thing not the first

time you've done that young man I know but it's yeah it is a little bit embarrassing I don't under last time I saw my father we were having lunch and my stepmom we were talking about mathematics and both me and her just saying that we're never really very good never had much success with it and my my my dad was saying oh you know everyone can learn look he's very quite dismissive sometimes with that stuff now everyone can learn everyone can I do I do believe everyone can improve to a

degree any situation everybody has you know with hard work and generally if you want to if you really really you know we can improve to a degree the idea that anybody could do anything especially things like mathematics or you know some people have a perfect memory don't they they remember everything it's the idea or idiotic memory or something so I said I've got one of those those and I thought no I don't remember everything I said oh I said thank you and he'd laughed and walked away I think he walked

what was he on a pongo stick pogo stick pongo stick I don't remember I don't remember well I think one of the problems with being at home all day with very little activity like mental activity or conversational activity with another human is the brain has a almost I guess less stimulation maybe not enough stimulation and I'm starting to think that perhaps I need to be working my brain a bit better give give my brain as much attention as I give my belly perhaps because you know I spent years cultivating this

belly of mine making it nice big and spongy and fabulous to to look at glorious to behold maybe I should give a little bit more attention to my mind to opening up more of those you know networks in my brain perhaps and maybe you know just something as simple as like a bit more reading because I think I'm not about lately but like like you know the last week or so but previous to recent stuff I've I really seem to be focusing a lot on the web side of stuff you

know I've spent at least what two months uploading and he's just done a big old fart again oh man the windows open seriously the window is open and even the cold air won't come in there with that far it scares the cold air away what's nothing I want nothing to do with that I want no part of that fart oh I yeah I had the window open early you know when you get cold and you feel it oh that's how I felt earlier and the heating wasn't on for some reason

so I had the window open it was I guess not much above you know freezing point I guess outside probably maybe a few degrees and I'm surprised that the the heating didn't come on but it didn't for some reason that's strange so yeah oh my neighbor downstairs said I hope my music isn't too loud I said what music I can't help it I'm just a liar I'm born to lie she said I'd just rather you told me then call a council up and stuff and us and I said I mean

I just firstly I'd never call the council anyway and secondly there's more important things to for me to be thinking about you know than someone having some music on and the volumes twice as loud as it would be when there's furniture in a place because it's just echoey it's really echoey once there's furniture in and once you've got carpet on the floor it will just you know it'll probably be half half the amount of sound and she says she can't hear me at all that's good because she didn't hear the

banging on the floor with my walking stick shouting shut up you know what time it is it's 7 in the evening we should be in bed asleep so she didn't hear that which is good I'm not sure what she thinks of me now because when she knocked on the door I looked for the keyhole and I couldn't see who it was I don't know if the keyhole's dirty but it's probably because I didn't recognize it probably because I'd not seen her before that would be possibly part of the reason because

I don't normally get people I don't know knock on my door I thought do I know you I said who is it who is it and she said it was the neighbour downstairs she was really nice and I just thought oh I've basically just done a been a grumpy old man the other side of the door and so but she's lovely and very friendly and just let us go with her life and I made up my mind that any new neighbors that come in there I'm gonna be friendly to anyone

that comes in there but I'm not gonna be involved I mean she's a lot younger than me and I don't really wouldn't fit into her world anyway but even if someone I'm not gonna be making new friends with anyone that moves in there might sound like a weird thing to say but it's been a roller coaster it really has living around here and all the different people that I've met and you know I broke my rule my rule in the past was keep away from people you know when it came

when it comes to living in a house I've lived in so many shared accommodations over the last well since I was playing what 17 I was living on my stepmum's living room floor on a little camper bed when I was 15 and then when I was 16 I moved into the flap of the chip shop on my own but still they still had access to go in there because I had an office up there and the public were allowed to come use my bathroom which meant they could pretty much do

whatever they wanted to do have a little look around if they wanted to not that it was anything up there because the law came in where every restaurant had to provide toilet facilities because it didn't used to be a law and it came in about 1987 or something and from then onwards pretty much most of my adult life until 2015 April when I was 44 yeah so I was 44 and so from the ages of 17 to 44 whatever that is I can't even be bothered to work it out I

was living in shared accommodation either sharing a building or sharing a flat or sharing a house or you know there's some kind of sharing kind of involved I'm not a cap I had a couple of studio apartments they were still still didn't have access to it was like a communal front door and a communal reception so I couldn't I had to go there to collect my post and you know it's always like this happened to be around other people so learning to just be friendly but not get involved with them

and then I moved here and I thought I'm gonna do something different this time I'm going to I'm gonna really make an effort this might sound weird I'm not sure if I really said it like that really make an effort but I chose to make an effort and in some ways it kind of backfired on me in some ways it was probably a really good thing for me I don't know I'm not sure it's hard to tell to be honest all I know is you know I was knocking on all

the doors in the building to say hello which is something I would never do and then bit by bit I got to meet the neighbors no one had right no one answered the door but the first person I met was my friend downstairs and he was walking in I remember I'm gonna do a podcast about him not not um it's not gonna be emotional it's just gonna just tell you about me and him together as friends and you know kind of summer stuff we go up to over the years but

I'm gonna do a podcast talking about that at some point this isn't going to be that podcast I might have to wait a little while before I do that and but I remember him walking in the front door the communal front door and I was walking up the stairs and he he said hello to me I said alright he was with someone else that was his friend I've since got to know and I just introduced myself to him and we just I could see that we got on you know but

that was it really like hello and he was going into his flat and I was going up to mine so just hello that was probably the first week that I moved in probably the next week it might have even been the first week but I think it's the second week probably he he was in the garden he was sitting down in the garden because we used to have this desk okay like in a pub garden where they have the benches and you could sit either side of the bench or we

had one of them in the garden it fell apart in the end and I think I farted too much on it but we he he was sitting on there so I went downstairs I thought I'll go and say hello because this was in the summer I moved no this was in like springtime end of April beginning of May and we hit it off we just got on really well like just instantly got on really well and just went from there and if it hadn't been for him I wouldn't have got

Andre because once I met him I think he might been outside with L who was he was a ferret but he was it was Andre's uncle and he he was oh he was a biter he was he loved to bite people and I was a little bit dubious like oh I'm not sure if I want that thing near me but then I like oh he's cute though and I'm talking about the ferret and I think it was about October time and he said oh do you want one I said what

he said do you want do you want a his friend the person who we got L from was had some new pups or whatever they're called new ferrets little babies and I thought about it for about a week and I thought yeah but no yeah but no like yeah that on the plus side it's so cute but on the negative side they're not so positive could take him for a walk maybe I don't know just it's just like yeah but someone to love maybe someone to love me I don't know

but on the negative side or the the minus side I thought nah I can't be bothered it's a lot of hassle I'm not sure if I want one and what if it bites me and well I decided no I might not have told you this I decided a hundred percent no I said tell your friend no I don't want one and I'm walking home one day probably two three days later and my friends walking into the flats with his friend that has a cage with him and my friend invites me

in to just look at these a couple of ferrets and he said one of them is already taken but you know he said if you're sure if you know if you want to change your mind you can have one of them there's two they're both brothers you can choose one and the other one's going to go to the other person who's been promised he hasn't seen the ferret yet so you can you get you get to choose which one you want if you want him if you want one and I

looked at Andre I just fell in love with her I mean instantly fell in love with his cute little face he's tiny he was tiny he fit in the palm of my hand and it's weird because he didn't like me at all and I found I've been like that with women over the years I've really been attracted to women that didn't like me which means I've been attracted to a lot of women I mean 99.9.9.9% of the of the female population no I'm joking I did see I did that did

seem to be a thing in the past when I really find myself attracted to someone who really either just didn't even see me or just didn't like me or even horrible like horrible to me and then there's been occasions where I've met someone who really liked me not for quite a while I must admit but you know in the past where they've really taken to me very quickly and I've been unsure about it so I kind of was what's going on here it's maybe I need therapy I could do with

some therapy or maybe I saw I said that once on it he says these this is years ago they said that you'll let me boy this thing what is this therapy for you I tried not to talk about serious stuff I know I mentioned a few bits and bobs here and there but generally I don't really go into anything I try and keep things light I hope I do I don't go into particularly I have done in the past and you know my my my challenge is especially at the moment

is to not do that to try and look at the positives try and look at the the lighter side of the situation and at the moment there's no lighter side to the situation but I can at least talk about good times you know I mean so it's and there's always you know that's that's the things like I try and focus on if I talk about my childhood I try and focus on maybe some silly times that happened or rather than anything serious because that's not really what I want to discuss

and it's not really probably what anyone else wants to hear so I do sometimes open up and talk about things but generally you know this is about I don't know what this is about I don't know anymore I don't know anymore someone tell me I'm not sure I do know that I did something today that was useful I ate a banana let me tell you about this about this whole thing there's a story behind this and yesterday I did a recording and I was hungry and I was so hungry at

the end of it I was too hungry to cook anything I ended up having some breakfast cereal now today I thought I wonder if I can learn from that because again I was hungry before I even started making this recording and then I had an idea what if I eat something now some of you won't be thinking yeah that's what we do when we're hungry no I don't mean like a meal just something small I thought about eating the crunchy chocolate bar that I've got in that fridge but I thought

well no it's not really gonna do the job that's if anything that's gonna make my stomach more hungry possibly I don't know and then I thought aha I remembered that I had some bananas I struggle with these sometimes like it's so boring I can't believe I'm saying it okay back to the story I walked into the kitchen and I was looking in the cupboards I looked in the left cupboard first because that's the one that's closest to me when I walk in there was a bag of spaghetti but that needs

cooking and it needs something with it on its own it's not really much use and it's not really much else in there so I went to the other cupboard which is the basically there's two cupboards on the wall either side but in the middle there's a cooker so I went over to the other cupboard which is on the wall and I opened that up and the first thing I noticed is I'm pretty much out of breakfast cereal other than ready break I've still got another two boxes of that so there's

plenty of that for the next probably I don't know week or two week or at least a week but I wasn't I mean I did consider maybe I could have some ready break but I didn't really want to go two whole days with just breakfast cereal one day is enough for that so I thought now what I'll do is I'll try and eat something a bit more substantial later but it's something just to tide me over I looked up to the next shelf the middle shelf and there was a couple

of black bananas old really or maybe three that needed to be removed from the world so I took them out and then as I was doing that I realized I had that's weird noise I realized that I had some actual fresh bananas in there that I bought a few days ago and it was still had the wrapper on so you know the job the sticky wrapper thing so I took that off quite tough to open actually and I don't mind admitting it I mean some things are tougher than others aren't

they and I took a banana out now I thought it was ripe and I went to open it from the top but it was a bit tough now I know a secret way of opening bananas that is used I think in countries where bananas are grown but in the West we open them we open them at what we think is the top where the stalk is well actually you can know if you open up the bottom it's a lot easier just pull it just pull it it just comes up comes

apart really easily I saw that on a YouTube video once I think it was entitled you've been peeling your bananas incorrectly all these years or something like that or how to how to get the skin off a banana differently it was catchy you know so I'm saying it's a very very catchy and surprisingly as I thought always because it wasn't coming off at the stalk then it's not ready but then when I took it out the bottom it was ready so I ate that I didn't eat all of it I

took a little bit out to give it to the big dog because he eats anything but he wouldn't eat it so I handed it to Vinnie and he took it basically because I'd handed it to Logie Vinnie wanted it Vinnie didn't want either he dropped on the floor doesn't like banana never has possibly never will just it's not his thing in his argument is why would bananas would not be my natural food would it how am I gonna climb a tree to get a banana I say but you eat tuna

fish don't you he said why he was trying to catch me out I'm not even two years old and you're giving me rubbish like that I'm still a baby you should be ashamed of yourself and one of us walked out crying I'm not gonna say which so humiliated I'm gonna get some food I'm gonna have some pasta I've got these bags of pasta and they're they've got stuff in them and they literally take two minutes and they're really nice so I'm gonna do that either that or I might have some

ready brick I might have some ready brick and toast no I better not I'll have some I'm gonna have some pasta so I'm gonna go and probably be back again tomorrow so remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself it's really important honestly seriously really important be gentle and I'll speak to you tomorrow lots of love bye bye bye bye bye bye