(no music) #1086 Vinnie just detonated a Mega Fart - Let Me Bore You To Sleep - (23rd March 2024)

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

And I'd like to say thank you again to those of you that sent me PayPal gifts yesterday, because you really helped me out a lot. Not only was I able to pay off the what was being taken out my account for the podcasts. Also, I was able to save my domain name, which is good, which I didn't know was going to be I was going to be getting that coming through yesterday as well.

So, all in all, thank you very much. And to say thank you, I'm going to give you all a special kiss. Special finny kisses.

Special finny kisses. Oh, no, I don't want to kiss him now. Just see what he's doing.

Yes, I'm not going to be kissing him for a little while. Blimey. He's considering how sharp his teeth is.

He's quite gentle with himself. That's all I'm saying. So, today I've taken video out for, I've taken it out one, two, three, four, I think three or four times today I've taken it out.

And I'm pretty sure three of those times, or at least two of those times, it was raining. So it's a very quick out and in. Very like done.

Do you we really said to me, go on, hurry up, hurry up, Jay, just get it done. Try not to aim at the school, you know, just like let's go and get back inside. Because I didn't want to get wet.

I don't just I'm okay with the cold. I'm okay with the wind, whatever. It's just the rain.

It's a little bit. Because if I get wet, or my jacket, coat, whatever gets wet, then it's not necessarily going to be dry for the next little trip outside. And same as with my shoes.

Even on a put them under the radiator. Sometimes I'm putting shoes on there still wet and it's just uncomfortable. And you might say, well, you should have more than one pair of shoes at your age.

And I haven't. I do have a pair of boots, but anything with laces is a slight challenge these days. And I have to hold my breath to do the laces up.

It's a bit like cutting my toenails. Similar kind of process. I mean, it's not the same.

You know, doing shoelaces up isn't the same as cutting toenails. I'm not saying it's identical. But you know, the physics, the physicality, the attempt to touch my toes, you know, is all in place.

It's all kind of very similar. Something's got a thingy's attention over there. I wonder what it is.

So, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. So I did that. We went to bed just after 10 o'clock.

I woke up just before five. I got out of bed just before five o'clock. Vinnie was still in bed at nine.

Seriously, he just stayed in bed. Didn't get up. Didn't want to get up.

He just, so he basically had 11 hours near enough of being in bed asleep. I guess he needed it. All that exercise that we both do together.

Oh, I don't look at him. Okay, I'm not being rude. I'm sorry.

Love you. He just looks at me. Okay.

I can see him under the table just staring at me sometimes. So I've got a new thing that I'm doing. You know, me like to do new things.

Always searching, always seeing what's about, always seeing what I can, what I can do. PDF Africa. Okay.

Right. So I've spent the last month or so converting my podcast audio mp3s into PDF files, transcripts, basically just written, just writing down what I say word for word. It's like 99.8% accurate.

So I found one. I've tried loads and loads and loads and loads. And I found TurboScribe, which so far is the best.

Still doesn't spell my name correctly, but hey, all the other words it seems to do okay. Just my name. Not M Y N A M E. I mean, for some reason it seems to spell Newland.

N U. Like, really? Anyway, other than that, it's really good. Other than not being able to spell my name. It's pretty good.

Pretty good. And it's not like it's a work colleague. Just like pronounce my name correctly.

No, no. Jason. No.

Yeah, that would be annoying. But it's an app. It's an AI subscribe, subscribe, transcribe thing.

And so far, I'm now in the process of I've done 600. I've transcribed 600 episodes out of 1000. And I don't know how many I've done so far.

I'm not sure. So look, I should know really should know. 1085.

So this is number 1086. So I've transcribed 600 so far, which is pretty good. Pretty good.

I'm now doing the next 10 to take up to 610. 600, 610. And I do 10 at a time.

It seems to allow that sometimes allows me to do 50 at a time, and then it doesn't allow me to do any more. So I'm just doing 10 at a time. I've done I think about 100 today, or 50 today, something like that.

I do have 50 a day. So anyway, what that means is that every eventually I mean, what we got how many days we got Friday today. So I might, I'm probably not going to transcribe any more after this.

So I'll have 650 done by tomorrow, 700 by Sunday, 800 by Tuesday, 900 by Thursday, 1000 by Saturday. So basically, not as coming Monday, but we'll probably by the end of next week, pretty much the weekend, maybe Monday, I'll have them all done. They're all organized as well into folders.

So like 1 to 50, 101 to 150, etc. I like to stick them in 50s just makes it a little bit easier. And what I've been doing is trying to figure out what to do with them.

Because I kind of know what I want to do, I want to write something I want to do a Kindle book of some kind. I can hear this, the excitement in the air. As I say those words.

So it just seems like I've got so much material. And I thought with that amount of, you know, 1000 over 1000 hours of me talking. I mean, realistically, it's going to be a lot more than 1000 hours, because some last an hour and a half.

So it's going to be for 1300 hours, probably at least. And I can tell you exactly how many hours there is. Because I've got a podcast, which is on Spreaker, which is without any music.

So it's just them. Let me see if it shows it. Does it? I thought it might say how many hours there was.

171 episodes. Alright, so I have lost some episodes along the way. So out of 1084, I've lost about 13 episodes.

I wonder where they went, just lost them. It's gone. That's a shame.

So there's about 13 episodes that are missing that I lost when I basically my my podcast was deleted. So I didn't have everything backed up. But most of them are there.

So 1071. How many hours? Where did it? Sure used to be podcast statistics. 600.

Okay. Oh, I thought it used to sure used to say how many hours that there was, but maybe not. podcast settings.

No, doesn't say it really doesn't say web, website settings, page settings. Nope. Now.

Oh, well, nevermind. The only way to do to be to get all the files into all the 1071 mp3s into a big file and just then figure out how much you know, see how what length the file is all together. But that would take ages to do because I've got them all split up into numbers.

You know, including the files with music 10 hours and all that stuff. So I'll get rid of that then. So what I've been doing, I've been transcribing.

I wish I'd had this available when I was at university, because I had to transcribe recordings of counseling sessions. So when I was a student, you know, it's weird, because I started off, I think it was September 2007. That was when my university course started.

And it was a degree in counseling studies. The first two years gave me a diploma in person centered counseling. The third year with the other two gave me the is it BSc honors was a BA honors.

I can't remember one then degree. So we had to complete the 100 hours of counseling within the first two years by the end of the second academic year, in order to gain the diploma. And really, in order to then go on to the third year, because some people just do it year by year.

Some people just signed up for the diploma, the two year diploma and then decided to go on to do the third year to get the degree. I'd signed up for the whole degree right from the start. And I'm glad I did.

Oh, I kind of wish I was doing it now. Because I think I might be not necessarily better as a counselor, because I probably wouldn't. But I might be a better student now.

I'm a bit more grown up now. Because you know, back then I was I was only 37. And, you know, I was a young man, I was only a young man, a young boy back then.

And I think if I was, I mean, I'd love, I would actually love to go back to university, like properly, I'm not saying like physically, go to university rather than do online. Open University is available for me. And I'm just signing in now just going to have a look at that actually.

Because I don't know when the when the course because I've signed up to do a a degree in psychology on the Open University. But I don't know when, because a certain date, the degree starts. 1st of September.

Well, key facts, you can apply for a loan to cover tuition fees if degree started on or after 1st of September 2017. Okay. So I've already, my stuff is where am I? Okay, student home.

So I signed up with Open University before. And for those that don't know what the Open University is, it's, it didn't used to be online. It's been around, I think, since the 60s.

And I, I did my very first Open University course in the 90s. The late 90s. That just lets you know how, how long I've been trying to do an Open University course.

And I didn't, I didn't continue with it. And it was free back then. Absolutely free.

I mean, zero expense. Do the whole degree, no cost. Now it's like three grand a year or something.

So it, I didn't realise how good things were back then. But then there's no way of knowing is there? I mean, there was a time that I know people that are blind and they're probably in their middle 60s now that went to university in the 70s and 80s maybe. And they could leave school, go to university, get an undergraduate degree, not pay anything.

There's also no student loans, also get a grant as well to live, live in grant. Then they could do that. Then they can go and do a master's degree.

Again, not pay for it and get a grant. And then they could go on and do a doctorate or PhD. If that's, you know, the chosen path that they've chosen, I guess, and not pay for that either, because it was free.

And then they could get, go on to be a doctor, really go on to like a well paid job. I mean, it's a long academic career. I mean, I suppose a lot of people then go into teaching after that, maybe, or science or something, but something changed.

I don't know when, when did, when did, when did you university courses stop being free? This is in the UK because it's different in different parts of the world. 1976. Oh, okay.

So I knew it was free in the 70s. I didn't, I thought it was still free in the 80s as well. Blimey.

1976. So until 1976, tuition fees were paid by UK students attending a UK university who only qualified for the minimum grant of 50 pound. Oh, okay, here we go.

In 1976, they were abolished together with a 50 pound minimum grant. And so universities became free. So timeline of tuition fees.

Let's have a look. This would be fees prior to 1962 in the United Kingdom. And although I think it's different in Scotland, I'm pretty sure they don't have university fees in Scotland.

But I might be wrong. And that's only for people that are resident, you know, that have been born there or something like that. And again, same with the NHS prescriptions.

I'm not sure if it's still if that's still correct, but there was a time, not too long ago, and it may still be that the NHS prescriptions, which cost about seven pounds or something here, are free in Scotland. To be fair, it's not free, because people pay tax. So the NHS is free on use, but it's still paid for by everyone.

Apart from me, because I'm a layabout. Tuition fees in the United Kingdom were reintroduced for full time resident students in 1998. Wow.

As a means of funding tuition to undergraduate and postgraduate certificate students. Since their introduction, the fees have been reformed multiple times by several bills. And when I went to university, it was 3000 pound a year.

This is in, it might be just a 3200. But it was something like that. And this was 2000, the academic year of 2007 to 2010.

And my, he was kind of the boss of the course, he was the the head of department. He said to me, you're really lucky. I said, I thought he was talking about my hair.

You know, because I still had quite a bit of my hair back then. And he wasn't talking about that. He was actually talking about the course.

And which is kind of what we were there to discuss, I suppose. And he said, you do realise that if you'd have done this course in two years time, you can end up paying like 9000 a year. I said, Come on.

I think it went up to 6000 a year, I don't know. But it went from basically, it says here, the academic year for 2012 to 2013. The cap on fees rising up to 9000 a year.

9000. It's a big old, and apparently the universities were subsidising it. So they, I don't know quite how it works, or the government was subsidising it as well.

And wow. So David Blunkett, United Kingdom Secretary of State of Education, from 97 to 2001, introduced tuition fees of 1000 a year. And then it went up.

So I guess that's how much it was when they first started the tuition fees. The Open University was still free. I think even in the early 2000s, because I think I applied again then as well.

Absolutely. Wow. The thing is, I'm not able to, let me ask that.

Let me ask ChatGBT, they seem to know everything. If I've already had a, if I've already done a degree, completed three year degree, degree degree in the UK, and I'm 50 years old, have had tuition fees paid, had a student loan, a student loan, can I apply to do another undergraduate? So some of you might think, well, why? Why do you want to do another undergraduate degree?

Why don't you just go and do a postgraduate, a master's? Well, there's a good reason for that. In the UK, at a UK cemetery, not cemetery.

University. I do make myself laugh. Someone's good.

Yes. Of course, I can. I didn't say about being able to would I cut notes? See? Right.

It says here, of course, I can. I forgot about this. I didn't mention the student loan or need in a student loan for the second one, did I? And they're saying, of course, you can do a second degree.

I know I can do a second degree. If I've got the money, if I've got like, you know, 20, was it 27 grand? Why are you shaking me? What are you shaking for, darling? Are you cold? You don't got to be cold. How can you be cold? How can you be cold sitting next to me, the big whorst that I am? Surely I should be able to keep you warm.

Oh, you lovely little boy. And I, yeah, so I didn't add that. So student loan eligibility.

Since you've mentioned having a student loan, it's important to understand the current eligibility criteria for student finance for a second undergraduate degree. Generally, student finance is available for a first degree. I know this.

I know. For a second degree, funding options may be limited. However, however, there are exceptions, such as if you're studying for degree in a certain subject like health care or education, or if your first degree did not lead to a qualification.

I could argue that one. I mean, it did, but it didn't. I mean, it did.

I mean, yeah, I mean, don't all degrees lead to a qualification? That's the point of a degree, isn't it? It's a qualification. It's not necessarily going to lead to a job. And the degree didn't lead me to a job.

The diploma led me to the job that I got. And then three years later, or two and a half years later, the government made loads of cuts and I pretty much had to start looking for part time work. So that career didn't last long, three and a half years, I think four years.

The specific rules can vary and it's a good idea to check with a student loans company or the relevant relevant relevant authority in your home nation within the UK for the most accurate information. Alternative funding, consider looking into scholarships, bursaries or employment sponsorship. I wouldn't even know how to wouldn't even know, wouldn't know how to do that wouldn't have the first idea.

Just wouldn't, generally wouldn't. Part time study, if you're concerned about balancing study with other commitments, sort of a bad, bad, bad, bad, part time study might be an option worth considering. Okay, it's interesting.

It's not mentioning Open University. Right, I've looked, there was a time, I don't know if it's applicable, when STEM subjects were available to be studied as a secondary degree and also get financing. But that was things like physics and STEM subjects, STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

It basically stands for science, STEM, S T E M, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Well, I didn't know that actually stood for something. So I would be interested, I would, in something to do with AI, just because it's just something I find fascinating.

I'm just interested in it as an interest. And anything I do at this stage in my life, I'll be doing it for interest. There's no career out of it for me, because if I do a degree, I started at the end of this year, let's say if I started a degree in September, if it's full time, it's three years, if it's part time in the Open University, it's up to six years, I think you can spend 14 years.

But generally, if you do a course every year, one course a year, which is worth 60 points, takes six years to get the degree. So I'm going to be 60 years old. And so let's say it takes another year for me to get to get a job, you know, after leaving that, it means I'll have a full time job for six years before I retire.

It's not really, you know, as if I did a part time, do the full time is worth it, because then I'll only be 54, 55, 57. So I'll be able to work for nine years. And in a, or I could just do this.

Because that's the weird thing, right? Okay, that's the weird thing. Because based on the feedback I get, and have gotten over the years, over many, many, many, many, many, many, um, the only thing that I've done with my life that's actually been worthwhile, as far as employment goes, is none of the jobs I had is the thing that I do for free, which is this. It's only the stuff that I've done for free that actually has been useful to, I'm going to say the world, but you know, to whoever uses it, or whatever listens.

And the other jobs I did, I wasn't happy doing them. I didn't feel fulfilled. There was nothing wrong with the jobs.

I mean, I've done every single possible menial job that there is to do. Because I left school with no qualifications, nothing. And I was kind of proud of that, for some reason.

I don't know why. Not now, but I was. I was like, yeah, I ain't got nothing.

Look at me. Whee! Hey, tell me I couldn't be a success. Look at me frying this fish, these chips.

Oh, tell me I couldn't make something of myself. Like, yeah, maybe I had a bit of arrogance when I was 16. But I didn't see the benefit of an education.

And I didn't. I just figured that that was my life, you know, that's what it was going to be forever, doing stuff that I didn't really enjoy doing. And also, I just, it wasn't, I know not everyone's lucky enough to do something that they enjoy.

It should be some pleasure out of everything, I think, if possible. I mean, you know, even when I was a security guard, I still got a bit of pleasure in the sense that I was on my own. So I could just be left alone, listen to some music.

You know, it was quite chilled out at night when I was working there, when I did securities at night. And so there's always a bit of, you know, even with the kitchen porter in when I'd be washing up all day, there was something quite nice about having everything clean, and everything's finished. It's like, oh, yeah.

As I look at my hands shriveled, like, I don't know, something that's shriveled, I guess. I was thinking of a pig's belly. I don't know why.

Probably that's what my hands look like a pig's belly. So I, this is the first time I mean, I say the first time it's been 18 years, it's not really, it's not a short period, but out of all the things I've done over the last 18 years, it feels like this podcast is the thing that's, I don't know if I'm going to be remembered when I'm gone.

But if I'm remembered for anything, it might be this.

And I remember when Edini left. Edini is a hypnotist and magician on YouTube. And he had quite a fair following.

And he was, he used to do, he had the perfect voice for hypnosis. He like naturally spoke really slowly. That was his natural speaking voice.

Edini. Edini, where are you? Edini? Uh, uh, uh, uh. Hypnosis.

Edini. Okay. Edini 76.

E-D-D-I-E-D-D-I-N-I 76. He's got 7,041 subscribers. So I think he's got more subscribers than he had before.

He told her. So all of his videos, some of his videos, his most popular videos got nearly 400,000 views and the other ones got nearly 200, 150, 140,000, 120,000. And you know, he was a good bloke.

I did an interview with him once on my, I don't know which way it was one on one of these podcasts. Well, on this podcast, it was years ago and yeah, I don't know what my point was. There was a point.

I don't know what it was. I've lost the point. I've lost the point of what the point was.

So yeah, I've been, I've been transcribing with the intention of um, doing something and I've been thinking about it. What can I do? And I've been going through these different transcription, PDF readers, just trying to find ways of asking questions and from the PDF files so that I can get an idea of what's in them. And you know, basically I want to be able to upload all of the PDF files and then just ask a question like, tell me everything that I've spoken, that I've talked about the chip shop or about firework night or about Easter or about being a security guard or about having my hair cut or whatever.

It might be some exciting memory. And I know that I, I probably repeat myself a fair bit of time. And I know that perhaps also repeat myself as well.

So I might have told different versions of the same story and I'll be interested to see what I've said and what I've done. I've searched through a different few different things. There's one app called, I'll tell you what it is.

It's online. It's called Popeye dot pro. Yeah, P O P A I dot pro.

And I can ask a question. So I can put an episode in so 451 episode 451. And it just gives a summary to start with a summary, summarize, summarize in one sentence, my five bullet points, okay, five bullet points summarize that hour long is 17 pages.

Wow. So it's probably a lot longer than an hour, I guess. And what it does, it just quite instantly the document is a collection of personal reflections and plans by an individual considering writing a series of short.

What? That is not what I've talked about in this. Blimey, that's just ridiculous. Okay, is the document is a transcript of a personal monologue, host of a podcast title, Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

And Jason mentions a way for listeners to support Jason provides an overview of his experience creating podcasts and recording notes. Notice that he's been doing it since 2006. I'm sure I don't mention that too often.

Well, 18 years. Yeah, it's been really more than that. In fact, I don't mention that too often.

Every year it goes up. At my age, I'm lucky to get up more than once a year. He shares the history of his podcast episodes reflected on significant milestones, like the hundredth episode, and mentions other podcast series he has done.

Senses such as Jason storytime and deep sleep whisper. He discusses a process of updating the episodes, blah, blah. Transcript also includes personal anecdotes and interactions with his audience.

Jason reads out messages from listeners who appreciate his work. And he shares a humorous exchange about a worn out chair he has posted online. He has posted online, engaging with his audience comments.

The conversation shifts to various topics from serials and spreads he likes or dislikes to the possibility of writing and releasing a memoir. Blimey. I've that's weird, because that's what I'm coming to about maybe doing a journal.

So I'm talking about doing a memoir journal in here. In this thing. I thought it would be fun.

Jason touches on his financial status in a self depreciating manner, revealing a meager amount of savings, which he humorously calculated over the span of his working life. He also discusses ideas for writing a book, possibly a memoir, reflecting on the creative process and considering releasing it. The monologue concludes with random musings about personal grooming, haircuts, a past experience of growing his hair long, and his interactions with his former Italian barber.

Additionally, get this I just read a little bit ahead. Additionally, Jason talks about his cat Andre's new playtube and ends with personal reflections and everyday life events. In summary, cat? What cat? Andre would be very upset about that.

I'm a ferret, not a cat. In summary, Jason Newland's monologue is a blend of updates about his podcast series, personal stories, listeners interactions and everyday musings, all delivered in a tone being so mundane as to induce sleep in the listener. That bit's a bit rude.

So that's one thing that I can use as one tool. I can also use some other tools as well. But this next thing that I found is because I'm testing all of the things I've been barred.

Just trying to test all the different AI tools out to see what use they are. To me for what I do. And if I was as if I was a computer programmer, I would be in my element because I would be able to do so many things.

I'd be able to create apps you know, probably make some good money using these tools. But I know pretty much nothing about that stuff. So I do know about my stuff, which is just me talking rubbish for an hour.

I know how to do that. That's the only thing I'm any good at. I'm not much good at that.

So what I've done, I've done some research today. And I what I've done is I've asked all these different AI things to suggest the best way for me to search through multiple I'm talking like over 1000 PDF files of transcripts of an audio. How can I what's the best way to manipulate it to go through them all and ask questions and to gather the data to gather the information, scrape through the whole lot of them in order to then do something with that information.

And what was recommended by all of them, other than to create my own chatbot, my own large language model, machine learning thing, which is a little bit out of my a little bit. It's a long way out of my knowledge base. And it will be I'm pretty sure it won't be long before I'll be able to just sign into a machine and just, you know, let's just say I want to have a machine and I want it just to be about what I'm doing.

And I'm just going to upload all the files all the audio recordings that I've done and just say, it's going to be based on this. Now I'll be able to then just search for everything and, you know, probably even make a new podcast episode of that even record that speaking, just taking the words from the other, you know, the other podcast episodes. But it's not really not really how I work.

So that won't be happening. And although cloning a voice, there is software now called Oh, what is it called? 2111 blind voice cloning voice cloning 11 labs is called Yeah, 11 labs. It's not coming up.

But 11 labs is Oh, yes, 11 labs.io. With this, you can clone your voice, then create a voice client for just for just a few minutes of audio, reach unparalleled accuracy across 29 languages, and 50 plus accents. It's the it's the this is part of I think this is part of is it part of the same company that does chat GPT? I think it is. No, it's not.

I thought it was. I thought it was. No.

So now the converting a podcast into a different language, using my voice, that could be useful, I guess. And to maybe do different versions. So maybe do one in Mandarin, one in Russian, one in German, one in whatever, you know, I'm going to go through every single language in the world.

But you know, I'm saying just like for lots of different countries. And but then that'd be okay. That'd be like another podcast.

And I don't want to do what will concern me is, I'm not sure how translatable what I talk about is, because, apart from the fact that it is, is, you know, realistically, realistically, it's probably not the most exciting thing in the world, listening to me, probably not quite. You know, you know, I mean, it's like, probably not quite as, you know, not really. It's not on the edge of your seat stuff.

That's what I'm saying is, so I'm gonna Oh, so I'm gonna look into this. What is the pricing for this? Oh, none of it's free now. A lot of this stuff used to be free, like test it out.

It's free. Now, no, no, no. Although this isn't.

Oh, this isn't actually. Ah, okay. Start.

But that's not too bad. Is it? It's free. Let's contradict myself.

No, it's free. But you got 10,000 characters per month. 10 minutes of audio.

30,000 characters is one pound a month, $1 a month rather, instead of $5, which should be 30 minutes of audio. $11 instead of 22. Yeah, for the first month, you get 50% off.

So that's why they're doing it. 100,000 characters, two hours audio. Pro is $99 a month, 500,000 characters per month, 10 hours audio.

Access to... clone your voice with as little as one minute. See, if I was going to clone my voice, I'd want to do it with all of my recordings, like literally upload, you know, 1000 hours, so they could really get a sense of not not just my voice, but the, the, I don't know. I don't know what it's called.

The timber, the inflections that I've probably got no idea that I do. The lisp that I occasionally do the, and the weird sounds that I make, and that'd be weird, because that's if I made weird sounds, which of course I don't. So I don't know, I'll look into that.

Just, it's more for fun than anything else. But there might come a time without being grim, but there might come a time when I'm not able to make podcasts, but I might still have access to be able to write or whatever. So by cloning my voice, it might give me the opportunity to continue to communicate, you know, in later life, if that's an issue.

And compare plans and features. Or you could, because think about it, let's say if I do this for another, what am I now? 33. So if I do this for another 20 years, let's say.

So I'm 73. I mean, I like the idea of doing it till I'm 103. But yeah, let's say 50 years, but let's say, let's say 20 years.

Who knows? I mean, 20 years time, I might not want to do it anymore. I don't know. I've done nearly 20 years, and I still want to do it.

So maybe I still will. So let's say 20 years, let's say, let's say 30 years, let's say up until I'm 73. No, that's 73, isn't it? Wow.

Oh, my goodness. 30 years away is 83. 50, 60, 70, 80.

I've just aged 10 years in a second. Whoa. Only 30 years and 30 years ago isn't that long ago.

I was only 21 or 23. Only 23, 30 years ago. But in 30 years time, I'll be 83.

How is that possible? Well, you add 30 plus 30 plus 20. 80. Yeah, okay.

I know how it's possible numerically. It's just wow. Wow.

Anyway, so let's say if I'm doing this for the next 20 years, this is for example, I might want to retire. I might, you know, I might need to get myself a job. And so that will be another 20 years.

Make a bit more noise, please, Vin. That's another 20 years worth of recordings. So and my intention now is to try and do one of these every day.

So if I do, I'm not probably not gonna be able to do one every day for the next 20 years. That's possibly unrealistic. But you know, we're gonna say if I do, what is he doing? He's looking at me.

That's what he's doing. He's ripping something up. He's found something.

Now he's staring at me. You know, it's time for me to have a dinner, don't you? You've already had two dinners today. You probably don't need any more, do you? Do you? Right.

Yeah. So if you think, let's say if I do 250 recordings a year, I'm still gonna aim for one a day. I am.

That's my aim. So but if I do this, I do 250 a year, at least. So that's 255 250.

So even if it's less than that, it's 200 a year. That's two, four, six, eight, 10. So it's over 2000.

Wait a minute. 200 a year times by 10. It's 2000 4000 with the 5000 I've done.

So yeah, so that's there's like 5000 6000 hours, probably 10,000 to be honest. So that with that amount of I'm not sure where I'm going with this. Yeah, with that 10,000 hours of me talking, then when that's, you know, that can be put into a machine, you can make a robot of me.

And you could literally probably just say, um, tell me just bore me about something. You know, just just random off the top of your head. And I could just, the AI could just create something based on things I've already talked about.

Over those that 30. Blimey, no, nearly that'd be nearly 40 years, wouldn't it period. So I'll do it for another 20 years.

I've already done it for eight. Mind you, I've only done this podcast for six years. So that's that's probably Yeah, so let's say 30 years nearly.

Oh, you're so cute, Vinnie. You are so cute. So I would I'm just thinking like they could have an AI a robot of me.

Or maybe not a robot. I don't think you need you need anything physical just be a lap. laptops probably won't be around then.

By then. But you could just say like, just bore me. And I could just talk about whatever.

And it just be my voice. And you wouldn't even know. Maybe I'll do that one day.

Maybe I'll play with this. I'll play with it for a while and see whether or not I have been on it before the 11 labs a few months back, maybe last year, maybe. And it didn't.

Yeah, it wasn't. It didn't sound like me, to be honest. Didn't sound like me.

And then my friend said, Yeah, but you're just playing back the recording that you put in. It's not converted yet. I thought, Oh, that's weird.

And he said, We never, we never really hear what we really sound like. But actually, I do. I know what I sound like.

Some people don't know what they sound like. And if they, if they, they record themselves, or they get recorded. It's almost a surprise.

Finny, seriously, mate, stop hassling me. You were fine a second ago until I gave you some attention. And then you started coming up and being weird.

Come on, mate. You're absolutely fine. You just want my attention, don't you? You've got my attention 24 hours a day, mate.

24 hours a day. Don't want my attention when you're in bed, though, do you? When you're sleeping, push me away. No cuddles for daddy.

No. When I get off my breakfast, you don't get up with me, do you? No. Oh, now he's biting me.

Oh, you want to play fight? Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

It's very quiet in this building tonight. Usually there's a fair bit of door slamming at some point, but it's not. What has been happening, though, is downstairs, my friend's flat, there's been an electrician in there for the last two days, or three days, I guess.

I suppose they're rewiring the place. So, what was it? I reckon by April, so it's March now, probably by the end of next month, there'll probably be someone new living in there. Crazy, isn't it, really? Wow.

So, I just, forgetting the AI stuff, I thought, yeah, what I might do in the future is maybe make an AI podcast, and then see if anyone notices. I'm not sure if anyone will. I mean, I could probably just do it now, after the first hour or half an hour, I could just probably just put AI, and then we all went for a walk.

I worked in a chip shop, and then I worked as a security guard. And some people might not even notice it, because they're so bored. So, what I've thought about doing, okay, is this.

I thought about creating, flipping heck, Hairy Mary, stop it. Stop it. He does this, he just wants me to just play with him, and grab him, and just, you know, if I don't give him attention, he's like, he's like a, you're like a little child.

He's a little child, isn't he? He's only two years old. But I thought about writing a journal, once a year, and actually having it as a journal, like a diary journal, you know, so it's dated. So every time I do a recording, each day, I'll have a date in that journal, and I'll release it the year after.

So for example, I'll release 2024 journal in 2025 January. And I'll go through each recording I do for each of those days that I do them, and then turn that into a journal entry, and change it a little bit and add a little bit, take a bit off or whatever, to make it more readable. But at the same time, also boring.

Something you can read and just, it's gonna be tedious. Very boring reading. Maybe something you can read at night.

And it's yeah, and it won't be easy to follow because not all of my recordings are easy to follow. I guess someone told me, well AI told me that. So I've chosen the BSc Honours Psychology with the Open University.

And time to choose your modules, choose your modules. Our curriculum for the 2024-25 year has now been updated, and we are open for registration. Wow, I didn't think it was open yet.

Zero credit selected. View study pattern. So here's what I've got to do.

So starts in 2021. Okay, start date is 5th of October 2024. For the... Seriously mate, calm down, please leave me alone.

Just for 10 minutes. Okay? Okay, just for 10 minutes. £3,636 for each module.

There's six modules. Wow. Blimey.

So I should be allowed to, well I've already applied for a student loan, but I applied for the wrong year. And so I have to apply again. I don't know if they're open yet.

But I've got to choose one. The first one is DD102. And that's called Introducing the Social Sciences.

This module is an ideal introduction to the social sciences, criminology, geography, and environment, politics, and international studies, economics, and sociology. Yeah, it doesn't really appeal to me, to be honest with you. The next one is Exploring Psychological Worlds, Thinking, Feeling, Doing.

And this is ECUP110, no D110. And starts 5th October. So I have to choose one of these.

And there's another one, Introduction to Childhood Studies and Child Psychology. That seems like the obvious one to start with, kind of. And if you know what I mean, it's this.

Select the following compulsory modules. So in stage one, you'll be introduced to some of the big topics in psychology, academic skills for successful study. You'll start with one of three options, a core social science module covering criminology, blah, blah, blah, or a broad introduction to psychology and counselling.

Again, in all fairness, I've done a counselling degree, and I also did psychology in that. So maybe the Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies would be the one really best for me. This will set the scene for the first core psychology module, which explores different ways that psychologists investigate how we think and behave, considering how academic research can be applied in real life settings.

So stage one, 60 credits from the options below. So a big topic, you'll start with one of three options, of course. Okay, so really, I'll be doing choose a start date, 1st of February.

So I could technically, no, I'm not going to. So I do select the following compulsive, compulsive, compulsory, encounter, encountering psychology in context. That's weird.

Select 60 credits from the options below. So I have to select one, which is either the introducing social sciences, exploring psychological worlds, thinking, feeling, doing. That does appeal to me though, along with some basic principles of counselling and mental well-being.

Well, that also is addressing the mental well-being, not the counselling so much. And introduction to childhood studies and child psychology. And so that, that may be, and then I have to choose the compulsory one.

So it's one in three, optional, the compulsory, this is for the first 60 points. Okay, select 60 credits for the year. So it's 30 each, 60 a year.

So not 60 years, 60, 30. What? Select 60 credits from the option below. Oh, yeah.

So it's 60 per thing. And it's 240 for the degree. So 60 per course.

And the compulsory is module D 120, 60 credits level one, encountering psychology in context. This module offers an accessible and engaging introduction to classic and contemporary psychological theory and research applied to a broad range of real world contexts. This module is expected to start for the last time in February 2033.

Blimey. Okay, so I can't do two in one year. Really? Stage one, you'll be introduced to some of the big topics of psychology.

I thought I was going to do 24, 225. I didn't think I'd be doing two at the same time. No.

Really? So select. So it says, select 60 credits from the options below. I don't want to select 60, I want to select 30.

I want to do one. Why are you making me select 60? Because you know, I mean, the compulsory one, I can start in January 2025. And it ends September 2025.

So I guess, you know, I could do two because there's an overlap. And the introduction to childhood ends June 2025 starts October 2024. Oh, man, this is this is complicated.

More complicated than I thought it would be. Blimey. So what about student loan? Is that open? I'm gonna have to speak to someone on the phone.

I'll call them up. Because I'm confused now. I really am.

Because I didn't think I'd be doing two student finances going to there. We're sorry there's a problem with our service. Don't apologize.

Just fix it. It's not real. It's not the proper website.

Student loan, student loan, student loan, student loan, student loan. Where are you? Wow. Blimey.

It's well hidden. It's hidden. Student loan, student loan.

I can't find it now. I just clicked on it. Oh, there is student loans courses Open University.

Okay. Now, student loan. So where did it is student home? Oh, loans for degree holders in England.

So there should be a link. So eligible qualifications that I can apply. Okay, this is if you're looking to reskill or upskill in subjects such as psychology, science, computing, maths, nursing, or healthcare, you could be eligible for a tuition fee loan from Student Finance England, even if you had one before.

Key facts you can apply for the cover for loan to cover tuition fees if okay, so here's the eligible qualifications. BA Honours Environmental Studies, Geography, Engineering, Biology, Biomedical Sciences. No, no, no, no, nope.

Chemistry. Nope. Combined STEM.

Nope. Computing and IT. Computing and IT Communications Network.

Don't know what that is. Computing and IT Communications Software. Computing and IT Software.

Computing with Electronics Engineering. Engineering. Counselling.

Already got one. Cybersecurity. That would be interesting.

Vinnie has guffed. He's done the smelliest fart I've ever smelled in my entire life. It's pungent.

Really bad, like really bad. I think he wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to go out. I thought he was just playing around, but I think he did.

Oh, man. Data Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Forensic Psychology. I don't know what that is.

Geography and Environmental Science, Geology, Health Sciences, Healthcare and Health Science. Mathematics. No.

Mathematics and it's learning. No. Mathematics and Physics.

Yeah, right. Mathematics and Statistics. Can you someone take a degree in Statistics? Blimey.

Natural Sciences, Natural Sciences, Astronomy and Planetary Science. Be interesting. Natural Science, Biology, Natural Science, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, Physics, Nursing.

Nursing for adults. I thought all nurses were adults. Nursing children and young people.

I didn't think children could be nurses. Nursing, learning disabilities, nursing, mental health. The nursing jobs.

I've looked into this before and you basically, you learn on the job. So you're doing the job as well as doing the open university degree at the same time. Physics, Honorary Psychology, which is what I was looking to do.

Psychology of Counseling. Nope. Public Health and Wellbeing, Social Psychology, Sport, Fitness and Coaching.

Master of Engineering, Master Environment. These are masters, say. So I'm going to look at that.

Oh, stop it. Honors. Mental Health.

Because that would be the one that would interest me most if I was going to be a nurse. If I was young enough. Mental Health.

If you want to become a registered nurse within the field and are already working in the health care role, this unique practice-based qualification is for you. This is practice-based. You'll be able to stay in work while you study, provided you have the support of your employer and suitable practice can be agreed upon.

Successful completion of your degree through this route route will result in your eligibility to apply for registration as a qualified nurse. Mental Health with Nursing and Midwifery Council, NMC. So, basically, tuition fee loan.

Does it allow you to click on apply? What if it does? Tuition fee loan. And repaid. Okay.

Oh, it's somewhere. Student Finance. Oh, Student Finance, England.

Get Student Finance step by step. Start now. Contacts.

I'm already logged in there, so all I've got to do is just put in my details and they should be able to find me. Show password. Okay.

Jess Newland. Please confirm your secret answer. Okay.

Right. So, I'm now into Student Finance. Undergraduate Student Finance Applications.

Cancelled or withdrawn applications 2023. I applied for the wrong year. Why they allowed me to apply for last year, this year, I don't know.

You can view applications for students who made before 2019. Okay, so basically, I can apply. So, I need to save this.

I need to save this. Account Student Finance. Save it.

Your account homepage Student Finance. Okay, done. Cool.

Undergraduate Student Finance Applications. Advanced Learner. Disabled Students Allowance Application.

I am actually officially disabled, mental health reasons, not physical. So, I don't know what that would be. Weird.

So, I don't know how to... I still quite like the idea of going to a physical university again. Just to, I guess, I don't know, see if I could do it. Undergraduate Students Finance Application.

You can view postgraduate, advanced. Okay, you can view it. If you've already started to apply, why is it not allowing me to actually... You can view applications you've made.

Application status. You made your... Okay, I'm not quite sure what's going on there. Someone's in the garden shouting.

So, I'm going to go. Blimey, I've been talking for ages. And so, thank you for listening.

Yeah, what the journal, I'm thinking maybe I do a journal. I'll go back in time and do 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and then 2024. Blimey, that'll be the seventh year.

So, maybe do 2024 in January, release that, but release the others before that. Just for those, I don't know. I like to do things.

If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it. And I've downloaded this software. I've got a free trial for a week.

And it's the Adobe Acrobat PDF thing. And according to this, according to this, I can search PDF files and ask questions. So, I'm wondering if it can do more than one.

Oh, it is. So, I'm going to put 50. I've uploaded 50.

Welcome. So, 300. All right, it's only uploaded one.

Okay, fair enough. Find text or tools. So, find text, chip shop, chip shop, chip shop, search document, no matches were found.

Anyway, easily edited. Okay, it's gonna have to look through it and see how it works. But oh, it has opened up, it's opened up a page for each one.

All 50. There's 50 different pages all opened up separately. Wow, come back, combine files.

Combine add to file. Okay. I'm confused.

I'm very, very confused now. And there's got to be, I've got to figure out how to do it. So, organize pages.

How do I organize? Okay. Never mind. I'll figure out how to do it.

It's going to take a little bit or a little bit. What I need to do is close them all out because it's like 50 tabs. And then he's in a hallway and I don't know what he's up to.

Concerns me when he goes into the hallway on his own. I think maybe he's up to something. He's up to something.

I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. Anyway, I'm going to go.

Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye.