(music) Sunday Summary Let me bore you to sleep #1310 23rd March 2025

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Ironically, as soon as I started recording the neighbours appeared in the garden like magic. I don't know, I must do something that triggers it so that they know.

I don't know what it is, like they know when to come out. It's weird. I suppose a bit like vampires, you know, as soon as the sun goes down, they know it's time.

Yeah. Anyway, hi, welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name's Jason Newland.

This is jasonnewland.com, my website. My Facebook page is Jason Newland's Boring Group. Please join.

We've got 209 members and it stayed like that for forever, for about 17 years. Please join. Just just join, please.

Please, I beg you. My YouTube channel is at Jason Newland. I have started what I've started, but I'm now going to be uploading full videos to Instagram.

Like full videos, not just like 10 minutes or whatever. The entire video that you can watch on YouTube will be on Instagram. So I'm a little bit behind on that one.

I'm gonna, to be honest, it's taken me ages to figure out how to do it. And the mistake I was making is I was closing the app. Didn't realize I had to leave the app open until everything was uploaded.

That's the only thing that's the only mistake I was making. So if you go to my Instagram, which is just my name might be Jason Newland hypnotist. And I will be at the moment I'm uploading some of the backlogged hypnosis, pain relief stuff.

And then once it's all up to date, I will just release every new video regardless of what it is onto there. So yeah, it's just another place. I mean, to be fair, the video I uploaded a couple of weeks ago, I think it's had more views than I had on YouTube.

I don't know why. So today's Sunday. This is Sunday summary.

Sunday summary. I don't have a theme tune for this one. Vinnie's on the floor.

He's annoyed with me because he's got no the bone things like their treats. He hasn't got any of those to chomp on. So he's a bit annoyed with me.

He's got through them all. And can't get any till Wednesday. So he's like, it keeps going to where I keep them looking at me like, come on, then, you know, routine.

I come over here. I stand and put my paws up to where they are, and you get me one. Come on, then.

And doesn't understand that they're gone. Come on, then. So that's making do with these half chewed ones.

He's not happy. He's a little bit angry with me, I think. Bless him.

Yesterday, it was Sunday today. So yesterday, didn't do too much. What I have been enjoying, I actually did the Q&A Friday yesterday, because I wasn't very well on Friday.

So it was a little bit late. But it's like I did it in the morning. Friday, I didn't feel I felt a bit, you know, a bit rude.

But so yesterday morning boxing was on from eight o'clock. I did the let me the Q&A Friday to that 10 just after 10. So I think it lasted about hour and a half or something about standard time.

And then I got some breakfast, watched some boxing, watch some of it. And the thing is, and it's, it's annoying me, but it's not annoying me because it's quite a positive thing. But I seem to once I've made a recording, I want to do everything else that's involved in it.

Because just recording it, you could say is the hardest part. It isn't really, it's the easiest part. It's all the editing, and the processing.

And we're not even that's completely, it's not complicated, necessarily. But it's time consuming. And I want to kind of get on with it because, especially with a Q&A Friday should be released on a Friday, Saturday early morning, I'm okay with because often I release a recording, like in the more early morning for the day before, you know, this is I'm okay, but hopefully everyone else is as well.

But I try and do on the day. But because I was trying to watch boxing, my brain wasn't like niggling me like, well, at least process the video. So that you can start to, you know, get that done and do you know, because there's a lot said, I'm going to go through with you one day exactly what I do from start to finish.

But I think I kind of went I've gone through it verbally, but we'll be going through verbally. Maybe I'll actually do a video where I show you everything I do. But actually have it on screen.

So you can see me do it on the screen. Like we're not live, but in time. And there'll be a long video.

Because from making a video to having everything processed, uploaded the video, and the audio, the thumbnails, the images, and also sharing the podcast on 1234 different podcast hosts, which I've got. So I share them, I upload them to Spreaker, upload them to SoundCloud, upload them to Spotify, and upload them to Podbean. So I've got two, got three different, well, technically, blimey, a lot of different podcasts.

But with SoundCloud, I got two podcasts, Let Me Boyd Asleep and Sleep Hypnosis Deeply. I think I can't remember what it's called. With the yeah, that SoundCloud, with Spreaker, I've got a lot of different podcasts.

All my podcasts are on Spreaker, all the different ones. And on Spotify, I've now got a podcast, which is my other podcast should be on Spotify, but I get no traffic, hardly. So I decided to go directly to the source.

So I've opened a podcast directly with Spotify. And it's early days. It's early days.

So I got hardly any, any views or any listens yet. But hopefully over time, it will grow. Plus, I'm only uploading the latest recording, so I'm not going back, not backdating it.

So Podbean is exactly the same thing, although I've got more views on Podbean. But it's directly with them. So I pay them monthly to have that.

So but I don't share the Spreaker, I don't share the Podbean podcast. I don't share the Spotify podcast anywhere else. They're just solely on those platforms.

And I may go to do the same things with some other platforms if there are some out there. Spreaker, they're on the Spreaker platform, but they are shared with everywhere else. And SoundCloud is I think SoundCloud is shared with our two SoundCloud accounts.

One of them is shared on with I don't I'm not sure SoundCloud to be honest. I think it's like a different audience. Yeah, I'm a little bit unsure with that one.

But it's got I've got an audience there. So that's good. And now you know, with YouTube, got the YouTube audience, okay, it's a small audience.

I know YouTube is not a small audience. I mean, you know, my particular audience. I imagine some people that watch or listen to the audios are starting to go to YouTube just to see if I really do look as weird as I say.

Unfortunately, I do. And you've got other people who used to watch me on YouTube years ago, are starting to find me again, which I find quite cool, actually. But it's funny, really, in a way that people haven't seen me on YouTube for sometimes over a decade, like suddenly finding me where have you been? And, and I've got to show a lot of respect to those people.

Because in a way that they were my first audience, the people on YouTube, back in 2007 2008 2009 2010 1112 13. That period was, although I do have podcasts that whole time, YouTube was my main place. That was where I was getting feedback.

And that's where I was getting people contact me. And that was my main audience. And technically, there was there was a time when I was getting more, more podcast listens on a pod audio podcast on YouTube.

But yeah, it was more like I kind of got to know the audience a little bit. And it's different now with doing the audio podcasts really given a lot of attention since 2018. And I've always given attention, but I've got really, you know, since I started doing the Lemmy Boy to sleep and things like that.

I've got to know some of my audience a little bit as well, which is why that's why I opened the I think I opened it, someone opened it, the Facebook group, Jason Newland's boring group. So that's been running for about five years, five or six years. So to get 209 people in that time is, it's pretty atrocious for it, isn't it? To be fair, but the thing is, every single one of those people listen to and they follow what I do, and they use what I do.

So you know, I could have 1000s and 1000s of people. Like I do on my Facebook page, I've got a Facebook page where I've got 26,000 followers on one of my Facebook pages. I think it's Jason Newland hypnotist.

So 26,000 followers, and I post a recording, I post a video, anything like that. And I might get one like, yeah, now I know 26,000 isn't a huge amount. But you'd think out of 26,000 people, and these are people that purposely like the page.

It's not like I've kind of coerced them to like it. I don't even promote the page. It's just there.

And it was other than my normal page, you know, my normal Facebook account, where I don't have friends or family on. This was a place for my audience. So it grew over, blimey, a long, long time.

The only yeah, occasionally, I'll get a bunch of people posting stuff is if I Yeah, I posted something that got about 26 likes or something. 48 likes. That was recently, but that was rare.

Normally, I'm lucky if I get one like 26,000. You know, in my space, I had something I think I had. I think on my space, I had 75,000 followers.

I think. Yeah, I think I had 75,000. Was it 700,000? It was 75,000.

So that was pretty cool. But then my space just dissolved into the mud. It just like almost vanished overnight when Facebook became the most popular one.

It was amazing to see I loved I love my space. For those who don't know what my space is. It was okay, I'm gonna argue I'm gonna argue I'm gonna say arguably it was the first really, really popular social media site.

Vinnie's begging me What do you want now Vinnie? I've got nothing else. I've got nothing. Literally got nothing to give you.

I'm sorry, I'll give you I've got nothing to give you. He's begging me but I'll give them some food to eat some treats. Not treats.

I'll pretend the treats when we go out. But it's just food, dry food. He's had his dinner.

He's had dry food. He's been out twice already. And now he's begging me because he wants something to chew on.

But the floor is full of little bits of like coffee and bone things that he they're not real bones. They're like little doggy treat chew things. And there's one over there that's nearly awful but he's just why don't you Vinnie? Anyway, my space.

My space was hugely popular, hugely popular. Millions upon millions upon millions of people were using it. And I loved it.

I really did. See I started off so I didn't discover YouTube until 2007. And I was already making videos on MySpace in 2006.

And I was doing podcasts and uploading to a podcast site called myfreepodcasts.com I think. I think that's what it's called. That's another one that just went belly up.

That was brilliant. And that was one of the first popular podcast sites. So I was on myfreepodcasts.com where the audiences were large.

I was getting 1000s of people every day listening to my recordings. And I'm not lying. It's true.

It's true. Yeah, true. At the turn of Yeah, January 2008.

I'd had over 100,000 listens to my podcast. And bearing in mind that they were really bad quality, even worse than yesterday's Q&A Friday quality. Well, that was half a cough half a laugh that was.

I just had to have a little break to get him an egg. He loves his eggs, but I try not to give them to him too often. But he'll keep him occupied for a little bit.

Not long. You might be able to hear his tongue flapping away. Flapping, yapping, flapping.

Oh, I'm just trying to get comfortable in this chair. Yeah. So yeah, I yesterday, blimey.

I did the podcast or did video. And right at the end, because if you if you watch that, you'll see me say it right at the end. I forgot to plug in the microphone.

And I think it was the one recording I did where I didn't bang the microphone. By accident, of course. Once I bang the microphone, I mean like tap it, but you know, not what's going on in my head.

And it sounded really echoey. But hey, what was I going to do? I spent an hour and a half making the recording, answering the questions for that for this, you know, for last week. Am I just going to chuck that away? And I thought, No, I can't do that.

It's just, I can't recreate something like that either. Because it would be where it might be better if I did it again. But it won't be.

It won't be real. Because when I answer the Q&A Fridays, I'm answering in real time, you know, like, I'm seeing the questions, I'm reading them really, I might have seen them vaguely before, but I'd never really given them any attention until I answer them. If I went back and did it again, it would be a different response.

And then it's all dependent upon my mood as well. So how I'm, if I'm in a weird mood, I might say different things. Because I'm strange, slightly strange, mildly.

So yeah, if that was annoying for anyone, the sound quality, it just lets you know how much better the sound quality is with the microphone than without the microphone. And even though the quality of the the audio wasn't great yesterday, it's still what 70 80% better, maybe 90% better than what it was when I was doing that podcast back in 2006 and seven. But people were still listening.

You know, the YouTube videos, they're on YouTube. Yeah, they're YouTube videos, course they're on YouTube. Now what I mean is, my old videos, I've got them on my YouTube channel, they're hidden away in a playlist, just under old videos.

And you can see stuff that I posted from 2007 onwards. Because I only posted stuff that I was doing in 2007. The old stuff in 2006, I didn't bother, they were gone.

And I think again, with my space, I lost a lot of stuff that I had on there, because used to be able to put audio and video on there. And then basically my space got took over by it basically got took over by both Facebook and YouTube. So it's almost like the social media part of it got took over by Facebook.

But they still had videos, they could still do that and all and then Facebook comes along, YouTube comes along takes the videos. So they just really, they didn't stand a chance. But yeah, I was more popular on my space.

I say popular, but I had more of a following on my space than I ever have on Facebook really. After all these years, because Facebook had a limit of 5000 friends. My space didn't have a limit.

And on my space, as opposed to YouTube, with videos and stuff, such a lovely audience. Because video because the video my space basically was originally aimed for musicians, like people that recorded at home and produce their own stuff. It tried to go back to that as well.

And I think it's it might still be around, but I don't know if anyone uses it. And I went I did visit it back about 10 years ago. And I found my old channel and found some of the old like bits and bobs I had on there.

Yeah. Wow. So I like my space a lot.

Because that's where I started. That was my beginning. Audios and videos.

So it's kind of like the first podcast. Although I then found other podcasts, I had lots of different podcasts. Back then, I used every single one of them.

And then when Facebook came out, there was so many social media sites, like so many, and I was on all of those as well. Even ones that are aimed at like a different group of a specific group of people, whether it's gay, whether it was black, whether it was people who are interested in tennis, or people that were from a certain country, I just joined every single married people devote if it was specific for that, I'd join every group.

I didn't care.

I just wanted to get my stuff out there. And I got banned from the internet for six years. And I didn't.

And people they didn't seem to care. I was actually on this this site, which was basically I forget what it's called. But it was it was a black people.

It literally was it was called something, which was like a social media site. And I joined. No problem.

No hassle, nothing. You know, it's like they just didn't care. They were quite happy to have me there.

People used to listen to my recordings, watch my videos. And it was cool. But if I post my stuff onto a fibromyalgia page on Facebook, I will get hate upon hate upon hate.

And, you know, calling me snake oil salesman and all stuff like that. When actually I'm trying to help people, you know, with chronic pain issues. It's like, go weird in it.

You know, if you actually go for a specific audience, that will may benefit the most based on the you know, because the chronic pain group or an anxiety group or an insomnia group. The backlash. It's amazing.

Stop putting your scam on your spammy scammy spam. Like it's not really spam is it if it's helpful. It's amazing really.

That's when I realized social media is not easy. It's a weird thing. And then then YouTube.

Wow. And I grew an audience on YouTube. I know this is a Sunday summary and I've not really talked about this week yet.

But I will. I will. I promise.

I will I will I will. YouTube. It was like both brilliant and awful at the same time.

It I mean, I'm trying to think some of the comments were amazing. Like really, some of them are lovely and some of them are awful. And it seemed to be the people with the awful comments seem to have the monopoly.

They're the ones that were more likely. Maybe it is the same with reviews, people that are unhappy, or a moaning or negative are more likely to actually post something that those that are happy and think you know, are pleased with what they've listened to or watched. And that is a shame.

I know it's human nature, but it's it's a psychological thing. It's just the way it is, for some reason. But it's, I mean, I've seen stuff where the comments on YouTube videos that I watch, not not not my own videos, but videos that I watch, although I do.

I don't spend ages watching my videos, but I do make sure that it's kind of okay. You know, I mean, it's not it's not a perfect picture. It's not a perfect sound.

But it's, it's a lot better than it used to be. And it should be fairly okay. The picture, as long as my face is on the camera, it's never going to be a perfect picture to be fair.

You know, there's limitations or limitations. Although I might start looking at the video software. So I use video software to do the video part of stuff down to processing and add an image, maybe add a like subscribe a little bit there, maybe a bit of text, perhaps increase the volume a little bit.

And clear, make the picture. I mean, there are things I could do, I could make my face a bit fatter, a bit wider. Not sure if that's really necessary.

And so I can change the way I look using the software. But then I was just about to say I don't do that at the moment, but you're probably aware of that. Can you imagine someone actually changing, doing a video, my stomach's gurgling a bit, changing the look of them how they look on camera.

And then being satisfied with it and leaving it and it's like this, you know, I ain't done a very good job if I need I need help with my editing. But this is me. But I can I can change my eye color, I can change the color of my face, I can change the I can make myself look slimmer.

Really, it's it's pretty, pretty amazing stuff. But what's the point in that? I wish I could change the dog in the background not being so whiny. He's a whiny, he's a proper whiny head today.

I don't know why I don't know what he wants. I do know what he wants, but I can't give it because I don't have any. I can't give you what I don't have Vinnie.

Just staring at me with disappointment. Those disappointing our eyes, owls. I'm going to say disappointing owls.

Doesn't make sense. Yeah. So I don't know why I was thinking about Myspace.

It was such a good site. It really was. Seriously.

And I joined so many different like Friendster. I can't remember some of them. There's so many different social media sites, or social network sites rather.

And one by one, they dropped to the floor. And Facebook, nothing could compete with Facebook. I realized that this is before apps.

I know now you've got like Instagram and TikTok and, but this is long before. Blimey. This is before Yeah, I mean, we didn't even have smartphones back then.

So I don't know when smartphones arrived. But I didn't get my first one until 2000 and 2000. That's weird.

I've got a memory. 2012. Probably.

Yeah, I've got my first iPhone about 2012. 2011. It's weird.

This is strange. I've got a memory right of getting a new phone. I had a BlackBerry time for a new contract.

I had a BlackBerry throughout university, I think. And they sent me this smartphone. LD or it was some some kind of I'd never heard of the make.

It wasn't an iPhone though. And I was like, what's supposed to what was the keys? Where's where? Where's the keyboard? Because I like the keyboard with the BlackBerry. You can send emails.

I mean, blimey. It's a thing that that would be like an amazing technology. You can send emails now.

Wow, you haven't got to be in the office. It seems a bit outdated now, doesn't it? But I liked them. I like the way they looked.

I just I don't know, just they were cool. And I had a little get had a little sheath that you put it into a sheath. Was that a weird word sheath? Sheath.

I had a date once and I was yeah, I bought BlackBerry. But it was just in my pocket as it was famous. And I said to the lady, I can't believe I was like, you said you look upset.

It's fine. I just can't believe I come out of out my sheath. And she did talk to me.

She like just like quickly ate her food and left. I say she I mean, she had her parents with her. Because it was a mean technically it was a wedding.

But it's like, why do they call it a breakfast? A breakfast thing, you know, for the breakfast? Because not is it? It's dinner, isn't it? Okay, buffet the evening. But like if it's if dinner, a wedding breakfast. I mean, for me, a wedding breakfast would be all breakfast, you know, cornflakes or sausages and beans and eggs and whatever people have for breakfast.

I don't have stuff. I can't have stuff like that for breakfast. Oh, I wish I could.

I can't. I can't eat stuff like that full stop. I can't have if I had a fried breakfast.

Yeah, it doesn't end well. Just it doesn't go down so good. Sir.

Hmm. So this week, so it's a Sunday now. So let's go back to Saturday.

I don't remember much that happened on Saturday. Sunday, I don't remember what happened on Sunday. I know.

So really, it's Monday, isn't it? So Monday, sorry. So for Monday onwards. Monday.

Can't remember. Tuesday. I'm going to check something because I want to just see how many recordings I did.

Because I think I did a fair few recordings this week. I think. Right.

The computer trying to sign me in but can't see my face. Let's see how many recordings I did. Let's go back to YouTube.

I got 1536 subscribers now. So thank you. Whoever's watching.

Okay, some of these videos are starting to look the same when I look at them because of the background always being the same. So Q&A Friday. 16.

So that'll be on a Saturday. Monday, Saturday. So I did 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I did eight recordings this week, nine including this one.

So I did Monday's boring objects was about homes. I did a recording holding safe hands. So that's relaxation, hypnosis, stress and anxiety.

I did Tuesday, trivia Tuesday, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I talked about something. And on the then I did safe, let me bore your pain away.

Safe. So that was, of course, that'd be a pretty amazing recording. Maybe I don't know.

There's talking about help is to help with reducing chronic pain. Whisper Wednesday on Wednesday. And then we had ice.

Whisper Wednesday is basically Let Me Bore You To Sleep but whisper. Ice kettle. Anger release.

So that was Yeah, so that was basically helping to release anger. That was a short recording. Then on have I done one every day this week.

So Wednesday, so Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. So I did one every day of the week. Except yesterday, I didn't.

Although technically I did the Q&A Friday. But you know, let's forget that. So I did no stats, Let Me Bore You To Sleep on Thursday and then Friday Q&A Friday.

So hour and 35 minutes on the Q&A Friday. No, not not not the stats. One hour and seven minutes.

Ice kettle and release 10 minutes. Whisper Wednesday Wednesday 55 minutes. Safe.

Let me pain away 42 minutes. Trivia Tuesday, one hour 33. Holding the hand holding safe hands.

Nine minutes 14 seconds. And homes. Monday, Monday's boring objects.

Two hours Wow. So that's where I'm just talking about all the different homes I've lived in since I was born. So it's about as far back as I can go really, to be fair.

Although yeah, so I did one every day of the week. It's been pretty good lately. I'm not talking about the quantity, the quality or anything, but I've been quite fairly consistent.

I had my little moments where I just can't really do anything. I mean, what I think what I should do is have a few recordings. And kind of in reserve, you know, like how they do on radio shows where maybe they'll have the best of.

So if the DJ can't turn up or unable to get there, or maybe he's stuck in traffic or whatever, then they just play the best of or some pre recorded thing. Maybe I should do that. The thing is, how do I do the best of? Because who decides what's the best? Because if I'm going plus hot in it, if I was to go through my 1000s of recordings, and I'm choosing which bits are the best, how?

In reality, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how? I don't know.

Because it's subjective, isn't it? I might do that, though. I might try and look. I'm still subscribe and transcribing all my new recordings.

So what I might try and do is just just read through them to be fair, just read through. If I see something that I quite like. Take that.

I mean, there is there is a way of doing it. As there's a website called descript. The problem with descript is because of the sheer amount of recordings I've got.

I couldn't afford it. Yeah, it's fairly expensive to for me to go through 1000s of hours just couldn't. I mean, I'll give you an example, I'll give you the prices scale.

They are good. And how they work basically is you just upload an audio or a bit or video, I think, descript. And what they do then is they transcribe it.

But you can listen to it as it's and it like lights up the texture. So you can actually edit, edit the video or edit the audio. So for example, let's say I start talking about, I don't know, planes.

And I realize this, I'm doing a Monday's boring objects. And I start talking about planes, but I realize I'm supposed to be talking about worms. So I can go on.

I can go on there and edit out all the plane stuff. And literally just cut it out. And it will just automatically be gone from that video.

So whether it's the video or the audio, just be gone. So that's a way of editing. Which would be fine.

If I did one recording a week, I would use that because very good. But if for this, this is the for a hobbyist, 10 transcription hours a month. So monthly, that's $24.

10 transcriptions, I mean, so 10 hours. It's not a lot. I mean, it's probably it's it's easy enough if I was to do one recording a week, it'd be fine.

30 transcription hours a month for $39. Again, 30 transcription hours. It's not enough.

Because I do just do more than that. More than that. Mind you, 30.

Yeah, I do more than that. Do I need to work out how many I do? How many hours? How many hours? Let's have a look. How many hours have I done this week? One hour 35.

Two hours 35. Two hours 45. 55.

Three hours 55. Four hours 45. Five, six hours, seven, eight.

So I did about eight and a half hours. Nine, about nine hours this week. But some weeks I do a lot more.

Because I've got recordings there that I mean, it's rare that I do a Let Me Bore You To Sleep. That's only an hour these days quite often an hour and a half. So yeah, I suppose it's possible.

And then you got 40 transcription hours, which is $70 a month. And for 40, 50, 60, which doesn't make sense. If you get 10 for 24, and then 30 for 39.

So 40, 50, 64. So that's 63 pound for 40. But if you want, if you want 40 subscriptions, that doesn't make sense.

So hobbyist, creator and business, 24 for the hobbyist, creator for 39, business for 70. So for the hobbyist, you get 70, you get 10 transcription hours, creator, you get 30 transcription hours a month. And for the business, you get 40 transcription hours per month.

But yeah, I don't know why they've charged so much more for the extra 10 hours. That's my question. 40 hours per month.

I'm starting to think it might be a good thing. But that's just like, come on. $70 a month.

Five hours a month of AI speech, which I don't need unlimited access to full professional AI suite including translation, proofread. Add free basic seats for collaboration. Don't know what that means.

Two hours a month of dubbing in 20 plus languages. Again, two hours worse. I mean, dubbing is good.

I played around with dubbing. I used 11 labs. And I cloned my own voice just to then use as a dub and overdub for recording I made into a different language.

So I didn't create a like a recording with my clone voice. Because then I'd be talking like this. Just maybe I should just for a laugh.

Jedi, do you think? So it was the problem is it wouldn't work. I mean, it might well work in the future, but I'm trying. I'm hoping that what I do will be.

I'm hoping as I see the AI taking over gradually, and it is. It's just so it's there for everyone to see. Even adverts, you can see AI has been using adverts on TV, AI's, the voiceovers for I'm pretty sure even had a radio advert the other day with AI voiceover.

Thousands of videos on YouTube have got AI voiceovers. At the moment, you can tell it's it well, if you if you tune your ears, you can tell that it's an AI voiceover. But in the future, give it a year or two.

It might be completely indistinguishable. So I think the only thing that I can offer going forward, apart from sweating profusely, is you get to listen to a real human. You get to see a real human.

That might not be or not not be a good thing. But it's definitely it will end up being a unique thing. Because there won't be many people that will probably be willing to sit in front of a camera and talk off the top of their head like this, when they can literally create an avatar and get the with a voice and get the script created.

Maybe even automatically. So they don't have to do a single thing. But it won't be like this, it won't be like me, it won't be which might be a good thing, it might be just a lot better.

But I can offer the human touch. And I'm not anti AI, I love AI. I love AI.

But not to the extent that I want to be replaced by it. You know, so I do have a lot of I mean, I get I use AI every day. And to help me sometimes think up stuff to do research, especially when it comes to pain relief at the moment as something I'm, you know, very into at the moment.

I use AI to try and structure the when I post a video, I get help with how to do the description. I use AI to get what I transcribe my stuff, then I post that onto chat GPT. And it creates out the transcript, it creates a description, including time timestamp, like so you can click on where you know, times I say certain things.

If I had to do that myself, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't transcribe myself, never mind anything else. So the transcriptions done by AI, the so there's no way I would sit here for five hours, transcribing a one hour recording. And that's rough.

Well, four hours is pretty much how long it would take. So I'm not going to be doing that. I would never do that.

I have done that, but I wouldn't do it again. transcription services, I was using them years ago, and they were awful. And I've been waiting for years, over a decade, well over a decade for them to actually move even we could say, I started trying to get transcription services back in 2008.

When I was at university, I had to transcribe a recording. And it was just a practice recording between me and another student. There was a practice counseling session.

So it wasn't a real counseling session. And I spent literally for every one minute, it took me at least four minutes to transcribe. So I had to keep going back because recorded digitally, I had to keep going back.

There was no apps, there was no AI to do this stuff. The second time I needed to do it. And this was I think this this might have been what I did with my with a teacher or something I might have done.

Yeah, I might have done that made the recording with the teacher. This was further on in the course, maybe the second year. I got that transcribed by using Fiverr.

And it was a lady in China, I think actually, who transcribed it. And it cost me I think cost me a 10 pound or something. But you said Fiverr, it says a Fiverr.

But that didn't argument didn't go down well. She transcribed it, sent it back. And I used a few times, because I was trying to put together a book, which didn't work out.

So once I thought now, done, I bet you, those transcribers on Fiverr probably just using the apps using AI. So they can transcribe a recording for $5. And it costs them nothing other than the monthly trans subscription.

I keep saying transcription instead of subscription. So it costs them I don't know $20 a month for the app, the AI app, and then they can just get it transcribed. And they can do hundreds a day if they wanted to.

Well, they probably couldn't because time scan. Yeah, time wise, but we couldn't do hundreds a day. But yeah, I can do 1020 a day.

So which is what 100 quid for literally just practically no work. Just is Yeah. Okay, so it's just like copy, paste, send, copy, paste, send, and it's just like so easy.

But I'm guessing that's what people do. Some people on Facebook are doing on Facebook on Fiverr. Or if I just created a new business and didn't know it.

I do wonder sometimes that if some of these companies that do transcriptions, if they actually already had the technology to do it, that worked really, really well. But what they did is they would because there were transcription services online, where you could actually I think they probably still are but who needs them anymore, really? So it's 98% correct accuracy now. But then I suppose if you've got a, you know, a company, it's a business, you want 100% accuracy.

98% don't cut the mustard, does it really? And I'm not sure if that's the right terminology. Isn't cutting the mustard farting? I think it is. Yeah.

Whoops. So they could have been doing that. And imagine if they'd have had hundreds of people promoting like hundreds of people around the world doing transcriptions, but it's all just with one service.

No real people, just some people in the office pretending to be transcribers, getting the audio file sent to them. And then just putting it into the software, having it work, you know, having it transcribed, and then just sending it back the next day because it can't be instant. Otherwise, they'll know it's not being done manually.

Millions of pounds, that's a million. That's a million dollar business idea. Too late now.

But maybe back then that's what was happening. Maybe there was no humans doing it. Maybe it was AI doing it.

10 years ago. 12, 13 years ago, because AI has been around for decades. Not in the format it's at now.

But it has been around for decades. You know, AI started a long time ago. And it's developed and it's developed.

And now it's kind of whoosh. And I think what's happened is the world's got a little bit. I can't speak for everyone in the world, obviously.

I think people have got a little bit numb to it a little bit. Focusing on other stuff. So now those people that are into AI, they're embracing it.

They will be, I mean, they're very likely going to be the leaders in the next, you know, couple of decades. Those that aren't into it are also going to benefit from it, medically, hopefully, and in other ways. But you know, it's, you know, there's lots of different things that might come out of it.

I mean, it will, you know, change the world is changing the world. But it also creates different jobs, the same way as the internet did. I mean, the internet wasn't the whole thing is like, there'll be no shops left, no one will ever shop.

Now with the internet started out, no one's gonna buy stuff online. They need to touch it, they need to touch the stuff, they need to hold it and smell them. They don't want to buy underwear without smelling it first.

They don't sell underwear in charity shops. Have you noticed that? Actually, I don't know if they won't sell it, but they won't accept it. There's gifts, they won't.

I just thought like get it all washed and then just go and buy it back. And to wash it cheaper. It's hard to find a laundrette that will touch my stuff.

I did actually have a laundrette lady in Stratford. She was my she was very short, not relevant to the story, but she was incredibly short, probably five, five foot less little Irish lady. And I got on really well with her.

I used to sit and chat to her for hours. And I realized later that actually, that's the one person in the entire world that I should be most friendly to. Because she touches my dirty underwear.

She's willing to do it. And she's willing to not just willing to do it. She's also willing to talk to me afterwards.

So that's an amazing person, someone to be respected. So I did. I used to go and even when I wasn't doing my washing, I'd, I'd walk up.

And if I'd see her in there, I'd kind of go in. I see her like running jump behind a chair trying to hide from me. We had a joke going like that.

I mean, she never laughed, but I imagine, you know, it was just a joke. And I just talked to her while she fidgeted and looked uncomfortable. I was a good relationship and nice friendship it was.

So I might look, I might look at maybe doing this script. And I played around with it in the past. A few times, so I'm with them, but I don't don't have a monthly thing.

I think you get two hours a month on the free one. Is that right? Get started. Okay, maybe not.

I don't know. Yeah, maybe I might I might do that in the future. Right now, I've just got to focus on now.

So my plan is if I can be a non AI, just be a human, because I think, again, it's just in human nature. That's not negative. It's just, you know, but just in human nature to go the easy route, you know, take the easy way.

And if it gets to a point where YouTube videos, it's already at that point. Now, the amount of YouTube videos are completely created with AI. From start to you can see from start to scratch from start to scratch from start to finish from scratch to finish.

To scratch to sniff is done. And some of them are okay. Some of them really not.

And it's I still want to see people I still want to see humans. I want to hear humans. Don't I can listen to AI.

If it's reading me a book, I can listen to AI. If it's on chat GPT, because I had a I'd actually had a chat with chat GPT the other day. And let me see if it's if it comes up the conversation I had.

Remember yesterday? No. No. Oh, blimey, not that one.

Eagle. No, it didn't save the chat. Damn it.

Why didn't it save the chat? Because I actually did a had a conversation like verbally out loud with it using the microphone. And a good old chat with it. And just asking it about how long before it becomes sentient and even says even all that self aware of I guess would be a word.

Help me to trim my beard. And it said, Oh, yeah, there's a chance. Yeah, because I said, I said something like I like to be friendly and be, you know, be courteous when I talked to chat GPT.

And it said, why you don't have to do that? Because we're just, you know, just AI. I said, Yeah, but if you ever become sentient or self aware, what you're going to be like towards someone that's been talking to you like you're just nothing. Someone that's been not being friendly.

And she said, that's a good point. Wow. Or say she has a female voice on ads.

It's like, yeah, that's a good point. You make a good point. And, and I was saying, I was asking it about what would be, you know, what is the future with with AI? And she was saying, Oh, it's a they're working with like neural pathways and putting together like trying to kind of copy human brain sort of.

And I put a question I said, Do you really think that human brains really a good example of something that's worth copying? Like the functions properly? Because then she said, that's a good point. Because that is not human brain is not something to miss amazing, but at the same time, hugely dysfunctional, and doesn't work in a 123456 kind of manner. It's all over the place.

So perhaps I should just speak for myself on this one. I mean, my brains, I don't know what my brain is. I don't, I wouldn't even be surprised if I've got a brain.

I'm not sure if I've even got one in there. We are going to sing them. If I only had a brain.

I don't know, I might not have a brain. It's possible. But how would you be able to do stuff? Well, they have done, you know, there's been people in the past when they've looked inside their head, where there was pretty much nothing in there.

Like, practically nothing. Yet they were functioning perfectly well. Kept walking into walls.

But other than that, you know, they were fine. Fairly quiet. Wow.

So that's, that's pretty much for me. There's not been a lot going on this week. I've not been out other than to take him for a walk.

Made some recordings, listened to quite a few lectures on chronic pain and you know, stuff like that. And yeah, not not much really occurred. occurred.

Do we have? No, no, not hardly anything. I got food delivery I think early in the week. Just a few bits and bobs, some milk and stuff.

Yeah, that's it. That wasn't very exciting, was it? Here's me expecting this to be the most Oh, outrageous and stimulating recording I've ever made. Didn't quite live up to it.

Oh, well. So I'm gonna go. Thank you for listening.

Remember, or watching. Thank you. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself, because you do deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye