(no music) #1261 “Happy New Year” Let me bore you to sleep (1st January 2025) Jason Newland

Hello and happy new year Ma, happy new year. Welcome my name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Yes, I am the bored version. And before anyone makes any comments about the background stuff, I'm in the middle of tidying up. My whole room is redesigned.

So I've actually now got my TV on top of both my desks pushed together. The background as you can see there's the sofa, there's three bookcases and Vinnie is rummaging around something. There's a lot of crap on the floor and stuff everywhere because me and my neighbors downstairs we got the TV onto the desks and everything's kind of needs to be tidied.

But this is now going to be the setup because from the looks of things and I'm a little bit surprised at this the picture looks like it's going to be bright enough.

I've got a light there, I got a light there and I got a light over there and I got the TV screen with a bright light shining in front of me so hopefully or itchy hopefully it should be all right and I'm filming this by the way just in case you're listening on the podcast this is actually being filmed filmed and I shaved my head yesterday and my neck the back of my neck and it's itchy what's weird though is well it might not be weird but never get an itchy

head I can shave my head every day I don't but if I did still don't get an itchy head but shave my neck my shoulder the places where I don't necessarily want hair springing up and I got hairy I'm quite I'm not like super hairy and I do like to keep trim but I do have hair on my chest and you know other places but you know sometimes I will shave my arms and my which is weird and I've got I haven't got like super hairy arms but I do sometimes

trim them I don't know why and I used to shave my chest again I don't know why and you got little Vinnie in the background doing stuff I want to try and set this up so that he you see him so if I move the stuff off of one part of the over there actually I just took the cover off of his of my sofa he is very likely to go and sit in the background he's not now because I want him to he's not gonna eat his dinner now but

he generally goes to sleep and lays down and stuff in the background on my seat well we share the same seat which is possibly what he's gonna do although at the moment he's got everything on the floor to play with so he's making it even messier but over the next few days I'm going to tidy this up but my priority my priority is to what do you want I don't know what he wants he's whining Vinnie what is it baby what is it baby oh he's loving the space now as

you can see there's three bookcases behind me so this isn't like a tiny room it's not a huge room but it's not a tiny room so the there's probably about a couple of hundred books there in the back and there's the sofa as you can see behind me you can see half of the sofa that looks really tiny doesn't it looks quite small on camera and so it's not really the size of my hand my hands aren't that big but now there's space between the tv and the desks because I'm

sitting at the desk there's two desks side by side with the tv on top there's room for my laptop there's room for the recording equipment a microphone there's room for me to stick the camera the rather I'm using the phone as a camera I haven't got it plugged in which I possibly I'm not sure if the thing will reach let's see oh no I could get an extension anyway so it's fine it just means I can't talk for hours because the juice will run out I reckon if I go online

I should be able to get a much longer extension hmm although I do have I don't know where it is I have a hmm what is it called a power box and power pack thing that can be charged and used maybe I use that I'll charge that up plug that in itchy back so yeah it's 2025 Wednesday the 1st of January 2025 I'm kind of planning kind of planning to do a recording every day this year that's my plan to do a Let Me Bore You To Sleep every single day

of the year and then I'll release it as a podcast episode in six different versions without music five ten hours about music with music and in five or ten hours with music the six different versions I'll also release the video which will be 10 hours long so it'll be the video like this and then afterwards it'll be a dark screen for the next nine hours what else I don't know I can't think of anything else I do have a website jasonnewland.com where all my stuff is I'll just go to here

jasonnewland.com it's basically my podcast website it's my podcast basically I just wanted to know I should have cleaned my glasses a little bit I need new glasses not just for vision which is I know the main reason for glasses it's really the top reason however they're they're now scratched so you know so it is a podcast so you if you go to the website it's a podcast jasonnewland.com but I do also have playlists broken up into sets of 50 so you can find and listen to the old stuff so all

the recordings I've made are on here thousands over 2000 recordings and you've also got podcasts as well so it gives you a list of all the podcasts I've also got Q&A Friday podcast now so all the 38 recordings I've done so far are on there there's quite a few different things Stop Smoking Stop Nail Biting Sleepy Boring Objects which I'm going to call Monday's Boring Objects because that's what I'm going to be doing from now on um my plan my plan is to stick to the Monday's Boring Objects Trivia Tuesday

Q&A Friday Sunday Papers so they're the one two three so it's four four out of seven days so that's um that's more than 10% and I'm going to maybe start looking to do some other stuff maybe maybe may this is a big maybe because it's a possible doing a weekly bedtime story time once a week possibly I don't know I'm not sure if I can I don't know um I'm also I want to be able to do well I'm looking I want to be able to I'd like to do Let

Me Bore Your Pain Away but there isn't really any difference between the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away and the Let Me Bore You To Sleep other than I do focus on chronic pain in that recording it it's not a lot difference really I like to think that this these recordings will do the same for people and whether it's insomnia whether it's stress related anxiety or chronic pain that these recordings would do have the same effect because in order to fall asleep you need to relax and when you relax that

reduces chronic pain and obviously anxiety as well and when you fall asleep you don't have chronic pain you don't have anxiety or stress or insomnia when you're asleep either so it's kind of all the same thing kind of to me and I listen to my own recordings I've been doing that a little bit more lately because I wanted to see whether or not what what's what what it's like you know if if I worked in a chocolate factory I would be so fat I'll be I'll be eating chocolate and the

whole the whole like oh you get fed up with chocolate no I might get fed up with a particular chocolate bar and then move on to another one if I worked in a big chocolate factory there's always going to be like a new one to eat I might feel okay I don't want to eat that one I've eaten that all all year I'll eat something different but I don't think I'd get fed up with chocolate although I can't I don't eat chocolate anymore but you know if I was to eat

chocolate I sometimes eat chocolate don't tell anyone I like to pretend that I never eat chocolate look at him he's not even in the right section then he's behind me if you can see that look he normally sits nearer the end but for some reason he's sitting there oh oh well what I might do is move the chair yeah a little bit further that way so you can see him you probably don't want to see what he's doing right now though I'm going to move so you can he's giving himself

a little bath yeah whether or not I will actually continue to do videos I don't know I'd like to at least make a recording every day an audio recording but whether or not it'll be a video as well time will tell that's my that is kind of like my plan that's why I shaved my head because my hair was so messy I couldn't I just couldn't have it on camera I mean there are there is film footage of me with the biggest beard if you search through my YouTube videos so

it's at Jason Newland that's my YouTube channel there's also a link on the website but there's one with my beard it was like during lockdown period about 2020 probably it was down there it was oops just banged the microphone it was absolutely huge and I banged the microphone again obviously I can't move my left hand when I'm the thing is I'm used to the microphone being here to my right now it's at my left and it's throwing me right off I'm used to it just being there and I guess I

kind of got accustomed to move my left hand around I didn't realize until just now if I go back a bit though then I can probably do this but the microphone is quite sensitive and I don't know whether or not it will pick up my voice as well as if I'm a little bit closer I mean one of the good things about it is if there's background music in the like in the garden the microphone it picks some of it up but it's not it's not as loud as it is

for me when I'm hearing it that makes any sense I'm not going to wear headphones either because I can't be bothered I just have to have a bit of trust that everything's okay it's all okay so I'm gonna I'm gonna do this recording as if it's the very first recording I mean technically it is the first of the year well not technically literally it is the first of the year but it's not the first recording because I've done how many have I done anyone anyone know how many I've got no

idea I really don't know let me check let me have a little check the let me boy to sleeps I've done 1260 different recordings so this is 1261 and the last one I did was on Monday so it's now Wednesday so yeah two days ago I yeah so this isn't the first recording that's basically what I was trying to say the first one was in March March 2018 I do believe I've actually got it now because I've got them all broken down into playlists well podcasts but playlists and I can

tell you exactly number one was where is it where is it where is it oh come on don't hide it was the 27th of March 2018 and number 50 was the 27th of October so yeah seven seven months to do 50 quite a lot of months isn't it considering that's like 30 April May June July August September October wow I wasn't doing it very regularly was I maybe I started doing it and I kind of just got bored maybe I did one 27 28 29 30th of March then the 2nd

3rd 4th 5th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 16th 17th 20th 23rd 24th 30th of April so it takes me up to 21 then the May the 4th the 6th the 26th 20th okay so I had two on the 26th which doesn't make sense to me both different recordings 24 and 25 and then so that was May so it's three and four in May and then June 18th 21st 21st again again two different recordings two different lengths how did I manage to do two on the same day that's very

strange I don't get that so what was that June and then July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 August 1 2 32 September 1 1 2 3 4 5 no blindly only two in September three in September 1 2 3 4 5 6 in October so I wasn't really on a roll at that point because that's quite slow isn't it I mean if I go 2024 for okay nothing I want to see how many recordings I did in 2024 I wonder it might be quite difficult to

find they Let Me Bore You To Sleep 2000 okay actually it wouldn't be would it 2024 if I just put January January 2024 19th of January 26 17 16th okay so I've got the 19th of January so 1066 1065 18th 1061 right 1063 1062 okay now this makes sense because beginning the end of last year in the beginning this year wasn't a bit weird for me so so 1063 1063 was the first recording of this year and that was the 16th of January 2024 a new future that was the name

of that one so 1063 and 1063 1000 163 1263 okay 197 197 197 recordings this year for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep which it's not a huge amount is it yeah but it's all right it's a 200 200 so you probably look at about 18 a month 17 to 18 a month which is yeah it's more than half the month let's go have a drink of water so I'm going to introduce this I'm going to do this recording like it's for a newbie someone that's never been here before

someone that's never listened to me before someone that's never seen my funny face funny face before my baldy head I'm not actually bald by the way I mean I am bald but I'm not bald I mean I am bald I mean obviously you can see that I've got I'm not but it you know there is underneath the skin there is some some roots they're hiding there's a few few a few hairs hiding under there so the thing is the hair that I do have is really thick and curly I'm not

talking about other parts of the body I'm talking about on my head when it grows it just gets really and but it just looks disproportionate now so there's kind of my head is receding my head my hairline is receding but the hair is sticking out and I'm starting to look like I should be working in a circus outside of what I normally look you know anyway I this is what he does he makes noise and he plays around and he's got so much space now he's got space underneath the desks

he's got space to run around in the room he's got the settee which he goes on he cuddles up to me on the settee and I'm quite happy with the way the room's opened up I'm not so happy with him destroying whatever it is he's destroying right now because I don't know Vinnie what are you destroying he's staring at me he stopped staring at me I would pick him up but he doesn't like being picked up do you hey you don't like being picked up and I don't want him to

the thing is if I if I get him close to me and I pick him up then next time I go to sort of just stroke him he runs away because he he thinks I'm going to pick him up so that's why I don't pick him up anymore I let him come to me if he wants to jump on my lap he will you know he generally doesn't want to do you hey you do whatever you want don't you you're the boss he's the boss so how would I describe oh

also I want to say thank you I realized that I should have done this at the beginning of the recording just in case people have fallen asleep but I had some lovely messages okay let's have a look um right I got a message from Meta AI my name is Meta AI think of me like an assistant who's here to help you learn plan and connect what can I help you with today you can leave me alone okay thank you bye um I got a message from Michelle happy new year well

thank you very much happy new year to you and then I've got what other one Megan I want to read this out but I kind of at the same time it's personal so I won't read it out but Megan if you're listening let me know if it's okay to read out the message that you sent me because it's a lovely message but I don't I don't like to I got I'm trying to learn from the past and there have been times in the past when I have read out left messages

and I've been put on the naughty step so I need to just make sure that it's okay to read it out but it's a lovely message thank you Megan I'm just going to say thank you in the comments but I woke up to that message and it was a lovely way to wake up although there was one bit of it that I'm a little bit confused about um uh at the end it says ps flake ice creams are forever stuck in my brain after the last episode I don't know I

don't even I don't have no idea what I talked about well I guess I talked about flake ice creams but I don't remember what I said that's one of the problems with these recordings I don't generally remember anything that I've spoken about Vinnie calm yourself down please darling darling good boy yes you are well you got a wet nose you got a wet nose uh but yeah that was really lovely message thank you but if you can send me a message let me know firstly is it okay to read out

your message on the next podcast episode secondly what did I say about the flake ice creams because I don't remember um I've got Jove wrote happy new year Jason be listening to you later I'm not sure if I'll make it to midnight thank you thank you very much um so I got happy new year messages from Sebastian different Sebastian from the Sebastian that I talk about that's a different Sebastian uh so that was it what have I got what have I got what have I got let's see what other messages

I've got on here I also want to welcome Nadine Axka I might be pronouncing these wrong sorry Axka and I'm not sure if I've mentioned the other person but also these are new members to the Jason Newland's Boring Group right can't find the other person oh yes I can Maria so welcome all of you um who's laughing okay so thank you all of you for this for this do there okay so I'm just have a look see what messages I've got so yeah we've now got 203 oh no yeah 203

members of Jason Newland's Boring Group it's not really boring it's very exciting as you can tell from my voice it's it's a place that you can join and there's noises downstairs I hope Vinnie doesn't start barking because I don't have any distracting music or anything which I normally have playing either tv or some music or the radio or a a book an audio book I need something like that going the whole time pretty much otherwise he'll start barking and he's also noticing already so he's about to start barking any second

now can you see him can you see him behind me he's like looking at the door what's going on I think what it was is just a neighbor downstairs slamming the door which I did at about five o'clock this morning bless him so he's listening is it time to bark yet or not I don't know I want to bark but I don't know if it should I bark yet um so wishing you all the best of a happy new year all comments so I've got a few happy new year's messages from Maria,

Heather, Anne, Tammy, Ing, Kara, Christine, Dimitri so thank you very much for your happy new year messages so how would I how would I describe this recording this podcast to people who never never listened um although I have titled it Let Me Bore You To Sleep the fact is I talk about really interesting things I do to me it's interesting but to other people it's not and I discovered recently when I tried to convert my transcripts I transcribed the recordings and then I tried to get AI to search through the

recordings and you know kind of organize it and AI cannot follow what I talk about it's too muddled so it ends up writing something down that's completely untrue because I've started off talking about let's say my step-mom number one and then I'm talking about the chip shop and I'm talking about living near a beach or staying with my uncle on a beach and it kind of seems to combine those whole things so telling me that I lived I I grew up in a chip shop with my step-mom overlooking the beach

which none of those things those things happen individually but they weren't all one thing AI can't follow what I do it can't keep track of it's almost like I I don't stay on a like a straight line personally I think I do kind of maybe not I'm being quite good with this one I'm sticking to the subject I mean I don't has anyone got any new year's resolutions because I thought about new year's resolutions I had a bit of a bit of insight last night and I kind of I thought

hmm you know did we get that insight just like hmm yeah I'm thinking that I'm going to just I want to continue this next year or this year now this the future 360 odd days kind of as I have been but at the same time not as I have been I'd like it to be a bit more yeah Vinnie I need you I really need you to bark don't I just because the idiots downstairs are banging their doors come on it's not their fault they can't help it it's not their

fault they really wouldn't choose to be like that would they door slamming shakes the whole building when they do it because the doors are heavy and just let them slam it's not like they slam them but the doors automatically slam shut if you just leave them but instead of slamming them shut they push them open so it's got more you know and it's metal on metal because the doors have got metal in got inside and they're big fire doors they are good doors but very heavy and very loud and Vinnie

doesn't like them he doesn't like it because it can imagine his hearing is a lot better than mine unless of course we're in the park and I'm asking him to do something he doesn't hear a single thing I say yeah if I'm in the bathroom saying come on Vinnie time for a bath he doesn't hear that either he just suddenly gets the urge to hide under the bed so I kind of think in my new year's resolution is to maybe to just do a different a new recording every day and

I kind of I don't want to get too caught up with lots of different things lots of different um because I've got a lot of different podcasts lots but I can't do all of them it's just not it's not practical oh by the way I contacted ancestry.com do you know why they only took 49 pound out of my bank account for the next three months Vinnie that's good thank you so 49 pound out of my bank I was not best pleased because I thought firstly I'd cancelled it and as it

took it took two times to cancel it I actually cancelled it again and it still wasn't cancelled it's a very strange system they've got going on there and I still have not received the DNA results that I sent off what was it 28th of September haven't received the results so and ancestry.com I couldn't find an email to email them they've got like a bot or I don't know if it's a bot or it's an actual human being answering questions on the help thing but it's very limited to what you can

actually write down so I asked I explained my situation to chat gpt because I didn't know how to word it I didn't know how to word it so let's have a look I'll tell you what I wrote um right request refund for DNA test so I wrote down I ordered and paid for a DNA kit with ancestor.com ancestry.com I haven't received the results three months later they also automatically charged me for the next three months subscription of 49 pound the DNA test was ordered the 28th of September 2024 and there's

a reference number all the reference number it cost £69.99 including £1 for three months of worldwide membership which is pretty much to me useless about the DNA test as the whole point about the DNA test so I couldn't you know it's limited I found it limited by limiting as far as what I could do on there so after a day of playing around with it I kind of just ignored it and waited for the DNA test results to come through they never did and then I basically so I didn't know

what to do 49 pound out of my bank is not a good start to the year and the especially as a service that I don't need to use and it's kind of pointless for me and as far as I was aware I cancelled it so I went online cancelled it again and when I contacted them and said we can cancel it if you like so I went back on there and it wasn't cancelled so I cancelled it again absolutely amazing I don't know they make it complicated on purpose to cancel

stuff not just not just ancestry.com that's my opinion whether it's true or not it's a different thing that was my that's my experience for lots of different websites subscription websites they make it complicated so I think people were just like oh I can't bother to do it later and then they forget to do it later so another £10 goes out to the company you know whatever it is in my case £49 like I'm ever going to pay £49 for a service I don't even use that what would that what would

the point in that anyway I put this information into chat gpt because I want to get help on how to word my message to them if I was but I couldn't find an email but I found there was a message box at the bottom of the page of the ancestry.com website and I've been waiting for DNA results in order to use the Ancestry service correctly I'm unhappy about the need I'm unhappy and need a refund of all money that you've taken and that I've paid and a few other little bits

and that stuff I can't afford to lose £49 please help so what chatgp did is they wrote a whole thing for me to post they got a few bits wrong based on my information not being very clear so they got the finances wrong saying that the ancestry.com owes me £216.99 which they don't and £69.99 plus £49 well what happened I got through I couldn't find an email address which I'd previously looked for I'd already sent a message to them and they didn't get back to me this was a few weeks

ago so I did it again maybe they were closed I don't know but they were open last night so I think if they're going to be open new year's eve they'd be open pretty much most days I didn't contact them Christmas day or anything like that so I I spoke to them you know by I couldn't put the whole message that chatgpt made up for me because I could only fit in bits at a time because it only takes a certain amount of text in the box so I did it

bit by bit I managed to get it all in there and they were like how can I help you we can't we don't do refunds um do you have a reference number do you have the yeah um activation code do you have the activation code for your kit I said no why not I don't know didn't even know what don't know what an activation code is I mean in theory I do know what an activation code is it's a code that is used for activating something you know I can figure

that one out but for activation in things and they said no we don't don't do can't we do refunds we can't do anything unless you've got the activation code I said well I'd like a refund then that's just if you can't help with that she said let me just search he or she I don't know who it was it might be in a bot I don't know it might be AI that's doing this they said uh they came out said we found your sample it's been in the lab retori since

October the 18th something like that and we can't send it back to you because we don't have the activation code see I don't this is a I don't understand right I paid for it online I'm a member of the of the website there's an order number my details and my address everything's on there it was also on the return when I sent it back so they've got my thing why can't they just send it to me they clearly done the results so they've done the results why don't you just send

it to me why have they got to have an activation code what's that even about even if they don't doesn't have to be added to the website because I don't even need it to be I don't need it added to the website because simply I'm not going to be using the website anymore but I do still want to have that write up of my DNA results and so the end result the end the end game was this it was really if it's a human it's a friendly human being and they

said we'll make an exception this time we'll refund you back the £49 that we took today and it would take seven to ten days to do that for it to go back into your bank and they're going to send out another kit for me to send a sample for my of my DNA and they're going to do that free of charge as well and that could take up to seven days they said so I suppose really I mean it'd be nice when the money's back in my account because £49 a

bit a bit much to be losing when I didn't realize you know that it was going to be happening but the really good thing is um I'll read you some of what it says in the the chat GPT message that they put together for me it says subject urgent refund request for non-delivery of DNA results and unauthorized subscription charges dear ancestry support team I'm writing to raise a formal complaint regarding my recent experience with your service which has caused me significant distress on September 28th on 8 28th of September 2024

I ordered a DNA kit order number 49 whatever else for £69.99 despite waiting for over three months I have not received any DNA results furthermore I was automatically charged £49 for the worldwide membership subscription for the next three months without being able to use the service effectively due to the non-delivery of my DNA results this situation has caused me tremendous distress and the financial burden is particularly significant as I am currently on benefits and cannot afford these charges I am requesting the following a full refund of the £69.99 for the

DNA kit a full refund of all subscription charges totaling £49 confirmation of my subscription that my subscription has been cancelled to prevent any further charges I am extremely disappointed with the lack of communication and service regarding this matter and urge you to address this complaint immediately if this issue is not resolved promptly promptly I will have no choice but to escalate this further through my bank to dispute the charges and consult UK consumer protection agencies for guidance I trust you will treat this matter with the urgency it deserves and provide

provide a resolution within the next seven days please confirm receipt of this email and provide a timeline for the refund process thank you for your attention to this matter you're sincerely Jasom Newland well that was if I was going to send an email it's a pretty good email I mean I just put in my bits and they came up chatgp came up with this email which I think it's pretty good I did use it but I had to put in bits by bit you know so what didn't they didn't get

the whole thing all at one time but they did get all the information from that email but in you know what do they call it you know when you're on a website and you can send a message the message box thing yeah so I would I'm not saying that I wouldn't have got the same result without chatgpt but I definitely wouldn't have well I can word things okay I think I'm quite capable of putting together sentence send words together putting together words sentences paragraphs but you know I just think that

it sounded more professional professional because I wouldn't have known about the consumer UK consumer protection agents agency and or being able to escalate it further to my bank to dispute the charges I didn't know about that stuff so it's really useful to have you know the only thing I by the way I'm not getting paid to mention chatgpt it's just something that I used I found very helpful in my day-to-day life it's there's certain things I would recommend to anybody two of the things are really probably audible and chatgpt they're

probably the two things I would recommend I'm sure there's more stuff that I would recommend as well but there are two things that I use regularly and another thing I would use I would recommend if you like you know so editing images I use canva every single day but I also use because on chatgpt you've got the okay all right let's go back to that right you've got chatgpt legacy model chatgpt 4 great for most tasks use advanced reasoning okay but you can I'm not going to use that so but

you can also do images what's this search okay so you can help images but with canva what I use that for is to then edit the image create it in a way that you know I don't know just create just make it tidy up add bits you know you can add lots of little bits and stuff and I just find it I mean I've been using canva for years I've been using chatgpt for a couple of years now as well since it came out but it's it didn't used to do

images I don't think when it first came out now it does images because openai who run who own chatgpt have their own like image creators it's sora I forget yeah capability chat need more capabilities so I pay $20 a month plus the vat this is about $25 a month the get the best of openai with the high level of access highest level access this is a pro so I get the plus pro is $200 US dollars a month you get everything in plus unlimited access zero one mini gpt40 and advanced

voice audio only okay high limits for video and screen sharing in advanced voice access to zero one promo mode which uses more compute are the best answers to the hardest questions and extended access to sorrow video generation I've never used sorrow video what is it that they use for the images then I lose track create a new projects opportunity limited access to sorrow video generation I've not even tried the video because I don't even really think about making videos like using AI is I've got I've done different types of videos

over the years and I'm banging the microphone again sorry um I have I've done like these kinds of videos I started off doing this kind of video back in 2006 while I'm just sitting in front of the camera and talking and I had more hair and I was younger I was 35 years old I'm now wow wow I'll be 55 years old this year I wonder how many other people on YouTube have got videos from like 18 years ago blimey mind you I was doing videos before YouTube I was I

used to have them on MySpace then when YouTube came along I added them on YouTube and Facebook and there was a lot of social media sites very similar to Facebook it's very windy outside today it's really windy it's been windy for all night long and I've got all the windows open on the latch so they're not like wide open because otherwise the curtains get all blowy but the garden gate is just slamming shut all the time constantly and that might seem annoying might sound annoying but the good thing about it

is it distracts the little one who for some reason is asleep on the floor instead of being on a settee where he normally sits but then he's never had me sit over here before this is strange I've never made a recording sitting here I've made recordings sitting we went back to here for the TV and behind me and the desk in front of me I've made video record videos or recordings in the corner there over there that was during lockdown I had my desk so I remember Luke used to sit

over there it's ridiculous I had the the map of the world and all the different new cases and I'll be saying to him just just I got a little bit um a little bit caught up in the whole thing following it right from the start before it was even before the public was even taking any notice before the newspapers were even mentioning it because you know just I got just found it interesting I had no idea what was gonna it was gonna lead to what it led to I had my

table over there I had tables on the side in front of the window I've had tables and just a bit it's like I've made recordings every everywhere except on the ceiling and that's not through lack of trying yeah it's been windy though so if I was going to describe this recording I would probably say it is a hopefully relaxing calming boring so that you can just fall asleep and what you may notice and people who listen regularly may also agree with this is after a while not just of listening during

the recording but after a while of listening regularly it's almost like your mind knows to shut off your mind will just automatically slow down the chitter chatter or the busyness just calms down and you might just start to drift I mean you might even try and stay awake because you want to listen to all the exciting stuff I've got to say and that also works in the opposite way as well because the more you try and stay awake the more you're going to get tired and you're going to start to

drift it's it's a weird kind of logic but that's just how it is if you try and force yourself to stay awake you will fall asleep if you're listening to me not necessarily in any other situation but when you listen to me if you try to stay awake you'll fall asleep you get more and more tired and the more often you you hear my voice the quicker only in situations where you want to but the quicker you will fall asleep and if you don't want to fall asleep I suggest you

don't listen to me lying down because that's just like a double whammy lying down is unless you've got some romantic you've got your partner next to you and you've got some romantic music playing you know barry manilow or barbie girl or something like that you know bonie m you've got if you've got romantic music playing and you're with your partner maybe you know you might be relaxed perhaps not hold not all of your body's going to be feeling tired so that's a different situation but if you're just on your own

and you're lying down and the bed because you think about it right from birth when we lied down that usually meant it's time to go to sleep right from like the first day of our lives so it's very much instilled in us and there's nothing to think about there's nothing to ponder over there's no plans to be made when you're lying down and that's why sometimes listening to a weird person like me can be useful because it can be difficult to follow such tediousness such utter rubbish because i admittedly sometimes

i come out with some silly things once or twice once or twice so this this is an opportunity to just allow what hap just whatever happens naturally to happen and when you listen to me talking especially if you're lying in bed and the lights are off you have certain feelings and one of the main feelings you have is your mind slows down is a sense of comfort fills your body and your mind and you relax and to me that's a useful thing and to many other people it tell me that

it's a useful thing as well so in fact i actually have brought myself to sleep on many occasions i find it difficult to listen to myself without drifting off and to me i'm the most interesting person on the planet so it's very difficult you know how i still send myself to sleep and you imagine how well that's like because i kind of especially if it's a recent recording once i start listening to it it might trigger my memory to know what i said what i say next and i still feel

bored and fall asleep and i can't i couldn't tell you what i spoke about on monday's recording but if i started listening to it i might then remember oh okay that's when i talk about parachutes and the uh the aphrodisiac they aphrodisiac nature of ice cream with flakes or i don't know whatever i talked about as a guest and it's something that you can the good thing about this is you can listen regularly to the new ones but you can also listen to the old recordings as well so you can

listen to me aging and if i do continue the videos you can watch me age getting older and older and older oh man yeah it's groovy isn't it groovy so that's it really it's a very basic concept and when i started out the only reason really that i started doing the let me boy to sleeps is because and i've mentioned this before i used to do videos jason chat videos that were my vlogs and i do them every now and then and i just talk about my life and what's going

on and mental health stuff and someone pointed out to me that even though i wasn't doing hypnosis recordings just listening to me talk about my life sent him to sleep through boredom to start with i don't know if i found it particularly complimentary then i started to think and over the years i was moving or starting to integrate me just chatting with hypnosis to the point where moved into me just chatting and maybe getting the same result as i was with the relaxation or sleep insomnia recordings the hypnosis stuff that

i used to do so i called it Let Me Bore You To Sleep and here i am there are other people doing these kinds of things they don't do it the way i do it but i actually had someone accuse me of copying another person who'd been doing like a boring podcast for i think two years before i started i didn't even know they existed honestly i was doing asmr no i was doing yeah i was doing asmr videos before i knew what asmr was i was doing whispering stuff i

started doing hypnosis videos on YouTube before i knew anyone else was doing them and there was literally a small handful of us YouTube hypnotists back in 2007 i'm talking a small amount um one of the originals would you believe probably one of the least successful i think that bloke's car's broken shouldn't sound that loud should it no it shouldn't so i've got tidying up to do but i'm not going to do any tidying up today because it's new year's day man it's new year's day don't spend new year's day tidying

up and cleaning no don't spend any day tidying up and cleaning no maybe i'll leave it till next year that might be my motto for this year leave it till next year let's do it next year don't need to do it now do it next year yeah maybe so that's it really thank you for listening thanks ever so much and remember to be kind to yourself be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to be happy and when i say this bit vinnie becomes a bit more alert because he suddenly

he because he knows when i say thanks for listening remember to be kind to yourself be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to be happy lots of love and when i say goodbye he's up he's waiting he's right by my side aren't you waiting for me to do something but i know one thing i'm not doing and that's going outside because it's raining and it's not as windy as what it was but it's still too windy for a brolly so i'm staying indoors yeah so take care and tomorrow i'm

gonna do another one i don't know what tomorrow is thursday so when i've done this is that no i'm gonna post i'm gonna do it now while i think about it so any questions for this week's for 2005 2025 2000 first Q&A Friday any questions for 2025's first Q&A Friday it'll be number episode number 39 39 here we go i'll post that so now it's done because i'm not going to upload this straight away i'm not going i need to edit it and i'm going to take a little break now

but when i've finished the recording what i'm going to do is take some pictures of me just like and have that as the as the picture yeah for some reason so thank you for listening remember as i said to be kind to yourself be gentle lots of love bye