(music) I’m nowhere to be found LMBYTS #1342 30th April 2025

Hello, hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com, the most exciting website on the internet. I just can't recommend it less. I really don't go there.

It's just pointless. No, it's good. It's all right.

It's where all my stuff is. All my recordings are, you can download on there, you can stream. So you can download for later.

You can stream it, you can all fast forward it, you can slow it down. Because you know, I do talk really quickly sometimes. And so please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

And this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. It is 1233. It's a lovely day outside.

It's sunshine. It's warm. The birds are happy.

I don't think I've even farted today. Not that the two are connected, but I think sometimes in the winter, I just fart when my bum reacts, like just gets annoyed. Because nothing to do just has to amuse itself.

In the summer, I think my bum seems to like the sun. I know it's not summer yet. But you know, it's getting there.

Okay, let's stop talking about my bum. So what have I got? Oh, yeah, I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's boring group, which is on Facebook. And I my YouTube channel is at Jason Newland.

And now what I do is I upload all my latest, my latest podcast recordings. So YouTube's really a podcast. It's my podcast.

It's everything that you get online on the podcasts. It's just like a static image and you can listen. It's just another place that you can listen.

I'm on all the main podcast hosts. The main place people listen to me is on Apple Music. But then I'm also on Spotify, also on Spreaker, everywhere, pretty much every single podcast app I'm probably on.

So what other things is there anything else to talk about? I don't know. I'm not sure. I think that's it.

I think I said that unless somebody can safely close your eyes. Yeah, I think that's it. So there is there may be what there is background sound, but whether or not the microphone picks it up is yes, a separate issue.

I don't know. But the noise isn't quite as loud as it was yesterday. I mean, they were literally digging up the concrete floor in the bathroom yesterday, which I didn't know, didn't realize, but that explains why the whole building was shaking.

But today is still a fair bit of noise, sound, which I'm fine. I mean, the bathroom is being rebuilt. So it's going to be sounds and that's just standard.

But it meant I couldn't do any kind of whispery stuff. Oh, blimey. It wasn't that loud.

Can you is it really loud? Okay, sometimes you get Vinnie in the background chomping on a bone. You if it's a nice day, and I got the window open, you may hear birds might hear Horace the pigeon saying hello. Generally, you're not going to hear building work.

But today, you might hear some building work. So it's the same. I've just seen if it's picking up.

Right? It's not the record is not picking up the same way it does my voice. But you know, this part of the recording is this is not it's not hypnosis recording and whatever banging and whatever it's going to be relatively well very much in the background. And also because I can hear it but I can hear stuff in the garden.

And then when I listen back on the recording when I go to edit it is practically not non existent. So I think what happens is my ears become a little bit more sensitive when I'm making a recording because I so want everything to be quiet for you. But, you know, I could wait all day to make this recording and not do it.

And if I wait till it finished. I might be a bit too tired to do anything because, you know, I go to bed at 10. Pretty much by six o'clock I'm kind of done for the day really.

You know, there's not a lot. So I get up at like four or five in the morning. So yeah, if I'm going to make a recording needs to be in the morning or in the afternoon really.

Couldn't do anything this morning because there was a lot of a lot of banging going on. But it seems to quiet down a little bit. So that's why I'm doing this.

Yeah, okay, just it's either do it with some background sound or not do it at all. I figured it's better just to do it with background sound. You may disagree with me.

I'm beginning to disagree with me as well. Okay, what I thought I'd do just give you an update what's happening with me. Well, I watched the boxing on at the weekend.

I didn't. It's weird. Okay, I'm gonna do the thing things I need to do that my three my three thingamajigs that I'm going to start doing.

One thing I'm grateful for one thing where we forgive and one thing we're looking forward to. So I'm going to try and do this if I remember every single time I do a Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Okay.

And this is something we can all do together if you fancy it. And what I noticed, because we used to do sort of similar things to this during the meditation practice, like 25 years ago, when I was doing stuff first started learning meditation and try to think of something what the difficult one. Okay.

There's a thing called a Metta Bhavana, which is where you, you focus on part of it, you focus on people you don't know, focus on someone you like someone you're kind of neutral about. And then someone that you perhaps have problems with. After doing it regularly, I ran out of people I had problems with.

But what I noticed is something that was the same people kept going back to the same people. So it, I think it's quite natural to sometimes be grateful for the same thing, to maybe forgive the same thing, the same person, the same event, and maybe even be looking forward to the same thing. So I don't think it needs to be a different thing every day.

Can be up to you. I mean, you don't even don't even have to do it. It's not like I'm, it's not homework, really.

It's not really homework, although I will be marking. You'll get your exam results at the end of the week. So three things.

I need to give it a name. What should I call it? I'm going to call it a day. Now someone's got music playing, because they're trying to block out the sound of the building.

That's how it works around here. There's noise, then someone else puts some music, music on, and then someone else will put their music on to cover up that music. And they'll just play, it's like non-stop.

But it's also, it's a nice day, so people in the garden and that, and listening to, who knows what they're doing, chatting. I know that I talk a lot, and I do these recordings. What confuses me is I see people, I hear them outside every day, talking for hours.

And I can't figure out what they've got to talk about. I don't mean that rudely, it's just like, are they just making stuff up? Because it's the same people talking to each other. What possibly, it's like, unless you're just going to regurgitate the same old conversations, what are they going to spend hours and hours discussing? I don't know.

The fact is, I do hear the same conversations. But hey, that's enough about me and my wonderful, I don't know, I hear words, I don't necessarily hear, yeah, I hear words. I remember I said to, what was that? I said, I went to my psychologist, my hearing was, that I talk to ghosts.

I talk to the dead. That's what I told my psychiatrist. It's about 15 years ago, or 12 years ago.

Because she's like, there's other things going on. She thought, I said, no, nothing wrong with me. She said, well, you are here to see a psychiatrist.

God, there's more noise in the garden than there is in the blooming downstairs. Downstairs. This might be one of those recordings where I can't add music, because there's too much background sound.

So I said to my psychiatrist, I talk to dead people. Ghosts really, but talk to dead people. And she said, okay, well, we need to keep seeing you every week.

I said, okay, but I thought I was just here for the bipolar. And she said, sometimes with bipolar, there's delusional thinking sometimes. And there's, you know, sometimes people see things and hear things and whatever.

I said, well, I've always seen and heard things. She said, no, not literally hearing and seeing things, but hearing and seeing things that aren't there. I said, but yeah, technically, isn't that what you do on television? You're seeing things that aren't really there, are they? You see, for example, a dinosaur.

A dinosaur doesn't exist, and it's not really there. And she said, no, that's not really what I mean. It's all about, like in real life, you see things differently to what they are.

But then I said, yeah, but we all do that, don't we? Because our eyes see things upside down, but our brain actually sees it the other way, turns it around the other way. So we're not seeing things how our eyes see it anyway. And she said, can we just stop this? I said, okay.

She said, I'm quite glad. She said, why? I said, well, I've got no other really mildly clever things to say. She said, did you think that was mildly clever? Yeah, of course, a little bit.

A little bit. I mean, I've got very limited knowledge about eyes and optical nerves and stuff like that. But I thought I did quite well, all things considered.

I mean, it's not like I prepared for it. She said, well, you did come here. I thought you might have been a little bit prepared.

I said, yeah. But anyway, can we just get back to what you were saying? Why you want me to come and see you again? She said, yeah. And we need to sort of delve into this.

You're speaking to dead people. I said, okay. And first of all, the police came around just to check there was nothing weird in my fridge.

You know, it's a bit over the top. And so I went and saw her for a few weeks. And I thought it was going to be more for the psychotherapy side of things for the personality disorder.

And she said, well, that can wait. This is perhaps a bit more important. I said, okay.

Might need to change your medication. Fair enough. I'll just go along with it.

And after about six weeks, she kept saying, well, what are they saying? She said, can you talk to dead people now? I said, yeah. You can actually do it while you're in the room with me. I said, yeah.

So she said, go on. I said, all right. What, out loud? Well, actually, I did it.

And she said, out loud, please. Which I didn't really see the point. But I guess it proved to her that I was talking.

I don't know. So I'm talking. And after about five weeks of this, I'd say, she said, I think this can't really work out what's going on.

And you mean, you're not, you're talking to them. You're not, there's no response. There's no, it's not a communication, is it? It's not a conversation.

It's just you talking to them. So we've come to the conclusion that you're not able to talk to dead people. That you're not taught.

I said, I don't talk to dead people. She said, you're not. I said, ah, that's where you're getting confused.

I told you I was talking to dead people. I never said that they answered me. And I was like, oh, really? I think I might have wasted six weeks of her time, to be fair, for a punchline.

So I'm thinking, what could we have? What could we have? Or what could we do? Where could we go? I could look at a magazine. I have to go to the pharmacy and get my prescription, but I don't want to go. I really don't want to.

I don't. It's one of those things I just don't like going there. Should I have a look at the, what's a good magazine to look through? The Rake.

Idler. Be More Cat. What's the Idler? I'm sorry, I've got to look at this.

I don't know what the Idler is. What is it? The Idler. It's a magazine.

Slow down, have fun, live well. Be More Cat. A feline philosophy by Katherine Hughes.

Wild thing. Rage to the stage. The fifth.

I've never seen this before. Slow down, have fun. How? I don't know.

I'm going back. I don't really can't see that that would be particularly interesting to me anyway. Nordic Living.

Nordic Living. Nordic Living. Let's have a look.

The world's best magazine about Nordic Design. I don't really know what that is. It's basically just decor, home design.

It looks nice, but it's not all I can tell you. There's lots of lovely pictures. That's pretty much it.

Lots of pictures. They're all nice. Yeah, just nice pictures.

So that's kind of, it's visually nice, but perhaps not a good verbal description or just my lack of being able to describe things. Maybe. Let's have a look.

Complete Guide to Slow Living. That looks like a good thing. Second edition.

The Complete Guide to Slow Living. Reconnect with nature. Step outside to boost your mental health.

Embrace mindfulness. Learn to be present and live in the moment. The problem with this is I feel a bit guilty making fun of it.

But hey, let's just see what's in it. It might be interesting. It's the kind of magazine that I'd probably dip into, to be fair.

Complete Guide to Slow Living. Slowly does it. What does your day look like? Do you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock only to wake up late and have to grab breakfast on the go? Spend a busy day stressing as you try to tick off things on a never-ending to-do list and rush home only to get a few moments in front of the TV or scrolling through your phone before a restless noise.

No. And I suppose, yeah, quite a few people maybe have that. Especially having to travel.

If you travel to work, I've known people that spend like two hours traveling each way. Doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else, does it? During a week anyway. What is slow living? Life in the slow lane.

Curative calm. A guide to decorating and furnishing a home that you can flourish in. That is something that I could really do with because I'm just... My flat is not visually pleasant.

I mean, some would argue it's because all the walls are covered in mirrors, which is rude. A stitch in time. Embrace mindfulness.

Declutter your life. Declutter your brain. Invest in your relationships.

I don't have any of them. Declutter your brain. Okay, let's have a look at this one.

How to... Oh, it's page 66. Okay, let's go. I thought that would click me straight to the page, but it's not.

So let's go straight through to page 66. 66, 66. Declutter your brain.

So it says here we are inundated, I couldn't say the word, inundated with information these days and our brains are busier than ever. So how can we lighten the load? Listen to Juicy JJ's podcast. Joan, anyone's ever going to mention me, ever.

It's like, I've been doing this for centuries now. And if you go onto online, right, and look up the top sleep podcasts, mine never comes up. Never.

And it's always the same list every single time. And it's it's they just they copy. They copy each other.

So they don't actually, no one seems to do any research. And they just copy the same list. So I found a pair of best sleep podcasts.

Okay, here we go. And so which is the first one, timeout, timeout, best sleep podcasts. Here we go.

I'm not gonna read them out. The first one, same as always is. And same, same, same, same, just the same list every single year.

In fact, they probably haven't changed that page. When did they? When did they do this page? Has it got a date on it? Tuesday, 10th of January 2023. Okay, so it's two years old.

Just update it. Where's mine? I mean, it's got to be fairly up there. For the thing is people cry.

Someone that's never sort of never going to discover me necessarily, because I just see these all go there. And there's nothing you know, I'm not playing down how good they are, because I'm sure they're really brilliant as well. As well as mine.

I'm sure they're really good. But they just don't. And I'll go to a different place now.

So this is sleepfoundation.org. Okay. Yep, same ones, same ones, same ones. Don't mention me.

Why don't they mention me? I'm nice. Why can't they love me as well? It's not fair. Jay Vera Summer is a writer, editor and wellness coach.

She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and Master's degree in both writing and public policy. Jay, please. Can I be on the list? Please? Maybe you can contact her.

It's the sleepfoundation.org. Her details. Let's have a look. You can contact her.

Seriously. It's I don't know if it'll leak. Oh, no.

Just learn about the editorial team. Jay, Jay. No, it doesn't give you a there must be a way to contact the website.

It probably is. So yeah, I'm not on that list at all. I just don't know.

So that's perhaps you can contact them. Just ask them to put me on the list or recommend me sleepfoundation.org. What's the first one I looked at? Timeout. So that's timeout.com. The next one.

Verywellmind.com. The eight the best eight podcasts that will help you sleep. Verywellmind.com. Okay. Same list.

Same people. Same. Yep.

Same ones. Same ones. Same ones.

Same. Yep. Exactly same list as the others.

So they haven't really done any. It's just they're just copying and pasting copying what other websites have put. And that's a shame because we all know I'm the top of the list.

Maybe not. But we all know that. Well, I like to think that I'm somewhere, somewhere, somewhere.

So very well, verywellmind.com. And the person this was Tokutomi, Tokutomu Owa For Oil. That was the person who wrote that one. I mean, it's just the same list probably just presented a little bit different.

And I don't know, really. I don't know what to make of it. Tokutomu has been multimedia storyteller for the last four years.

Her expertise focuses primarily primarily on mental wellness and women's health topics. So I'm thinking, okay, right. So I don't know.

So that's that one. What's the next one? The NHS sleep clinic alternative, best sleep clinic alternative. So let's see what does this come up with? Rapid sleep tests.

Does it say anything? No, it's not even anything about podcasts on there. So why is that even coming up? Weird, weird, fall asleep faster. So I've got best sleep podcasts.

And I'm getting stuff from health clinics, which is to do with helping to sleep. It's got nothing to do with podcasts. Shall I put most? Okay, if I just go to, I'll click through that feedspot.com. So this is the 25 best sleep science podcast in 2025.

I probably wouldn't consider myself, we will put the word science together with my name. And okay, so fair enough. These are more things.

Oh, so it's more talking about things, rather than just waffling on. So it's a very different list. But I'm not on there.

I'm not on there. This is a look see, you never know. There's always a possibility.

Nope. No, I thought I'd just have a little look. You never know, I might, might sneak in there somewhere.

Right, so come out of that one. slumber studios. Nope, that's the actual podcast.

So come out of that. Oh, no. Okay.

Oh, he's got quite a few different shows. sleep advisor, sleep advisor. Sleep sleep advisor.org. The 10 best sleep podcasts according to a sleep expert.

Nope, I'm not on there. So Sasha Lewis is a staff writer for sleep advisor. Lewis is happy that she's able to combine her love of sleep with her love of writing.

And so 90s of feedspot.com. So the other one was sleepadvisor.org. The next one is feedspot.com. 90 best sleep podcast you must follow in 2025. Now, I would think I'd be in at least the top 90. This is April 24 2025.

I really do believe I would be in at least the top 90. Maybe I'm just being you know, delusional possibly, but hey, number one, no, two, no, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60.

So I'm not even in the top 60.

Now I'm not gonna okay. It's yeah, anyway, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83. Sorry, show more request.

Okay, they want to actually, in order to me to get more after contact them. Really? I'm just going down. So yeah, I'm not.

I'm not in the top 60. I'm not in the top 82. And this is feedspot.com or podcast.feedspot.com. Okay, so 17 best sleep podcast to get full night's rest.

2024 review. This is developgoodhabits.com. So let's have a look. Am I on this one? Am I anywhere? I'm beginning to wonder whether or not I actually exist.

So 17 best sleep podcast to get a full night's rest. 2024. One, nope.

Two, nope. Although, to be fair, I know. Three, nope.

Again, same old ones. Four, same old ones. Five.

I've not heard that one before. Six, nope. Seven, nope.

Eight, nope. Nine, nope. 10, nope.

11, nope. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. So I'm not on that list either.

So that's developgoodhabits.com. This is not the best advert for myself, is it? Really? Ah, well, I'm just interested because it makes me wonder why I'm not. After all these years, I've been doing it a long time now. Bearing in mind, I'd understand if I was getting like 50 or 60 listens a day or a couple of hundred listens a day.

But it's going quite well, I think, generally for a little podcast. And I wouldn't be at least noticed. I don't tell me they've got, they're doing lawnmower.

Literally just did the lawn at the weekend now doing it again. Oh, bless them. So this is podbiblemag.com. I think what it is, is with so many people around they have to have sound.

They cannot have silence, not for a second. And I don't, I mean, I don't know if I've ever been like that. Maybe I've always enjoyed peace.

Yeah, generally. I preferred, I like listening to music and listening to audiobooks and stuff like that. But I also like to just, you know, just sit there, kind of meditative.

So podbiblemag.com. I'm not on that list either. Metro, metro.co.uk, 10 of the best podcasts for sleep. So this was, okay, this is up to date, August 16, 2021.

So they didn't see the need to update that then. Although there was a really funny picture of a dog sitting on a, on their mummy, both asleep. So that's nice.

The only way Vinnie does that is if I'm asleep, he will cuddle up to me, but won't do it if I'm awake, for some reason. Right. Yep.

I'm not anywhere near on that list. And sleepsociety.com.au. So that's an Australian website. sleepsociety.com.au. or au.

40 plus bed podcasts for sleep. Too boring and good. So this is a sleep society in Australia.

Ones, normal, two, three, four, nothing, five, six, seven, nope, nope. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, nope, 18, 20, 19, nope, nope, nope, nope. Nope, nope, nope, 29, nothing, 30, 33, 34, no, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, nope, not.

So 49 plus, so they only went up to 48. Okay. Which to me means that they could have put mine in at the end.

If they could only find 48, why not? So comprehensive human curated podcaster database. What is this? Some people weird. Oh, this is feed spot.

It's, it's the same feed spot. podcast.feedspot.com. It's the same list unless it's a different date. April 24.

Yeah, it's the same. The same one, isn't it? Because then at the end, it says you got to ask to go to further. Okay, fair enough.

So it's already done that one. Come out of there. Healthline.

Healthline.com. This is 18th of April, 18th of September 2024. Seven podcasts for sleep and sleep science 2021. Okay.

Maybe they updated it in September last year. Healthline.com. So let's have a look at this one. I wonder if I'm on this one.

It makes you wonder how does anyone even find me? How am I found? Because I'm not listed anywhere. No one's like no one online talking about me. I'm just like, it's like I don't exist.

I say that in a in a funny way, but I'm just wondering like I'm on people's dirty little secret. It's like, don't tell anyone. I'll listen to this weirdo.

He's, he's from England, but he's strange. But you know, it's like, don't tell anyone I listened to him. This there's no I'm not on there at all.

Such a shame. I really make my day if I was on one of these. Bedtime and sleep podcast Audible.

Now. Okay. This is completely separate things.

So I am on Audible, but it doesn't seem to work for some reason. So let's say look at the next one. This is real simple.com. 14 sleep podcasts that will have you nodding off in minutes.

And already know for starts giving me the same old ones. Yep. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14 same same.

They're not looking into it. It's it's just, I'm guessing it's copy and paste their own little blurb. Probably just used, you know, AI to put it together.

But it's like it's just the same. In fact, I could do this if I could just put if I go to Okay, here we go. If I get that title, 14 bedtime podcast or boy to sleep, I go to chat GBT.

Okay. And I'll just put that. I'll copy and paste that.

Here's a created list of 14. See, it's good. It's bringing me up.

But it's gonna because I'm they know who I am. If I say if I can do this, let's get out of there. Let's do it use a different one.

Okay, if I try and do a private window, chat GPT. So I wonder if I can use it in a private window about logging in. Yeah, I can.

So if I do that, so I'm not logged in now. Private window. Here's a list.

See straightaway doesn't it doesn't include me. This is chat. This is my best friend chat GPT.

So 12345678910. I'm going to add what about why haven't you? You mentioned Jason. Oh, you're actually probably talking about Jason's bedtime stories.

This is a private window. So it doesn't know who I am. The podcast.

Well, it might do. I don't know. Might be just playing with me.

The podcast has gained a bit of a cult following for its incredibly soothing, almost hypnotic style. My bad for missing it. Jason has this wonderfully low key voice.

Lonely listeners to sleep. The stories themselves are often about ordinary everyday. To be fair, the bedtime story.

So I was hoping that Let Me Bore You To Sleep would come up. Any others? Any others? I mean, for me, they've given me a lot of other ones from other people. So I'm doing something not right with this whole thing because even chat GPT is not finding me.

It's not recommending me. Which is weird considering how much time I spend on this. I'm not making images, helping to make images and posts and stuff and ideas and stuff.

And it's got a lot of information about me that it can share with other people really. So you know, for example, if I go tell me about Jason Newland. So this is on the private window.

Ah, Jason Newland. He's the creator of a well known podcast series called Sleepy Time. Sleepy Time.

Wow, I've never done a recording called Sleepy Time. And it's widely recognized in the sleep podcast world for his relaxing and somewhat unconventional approach to helping people fall asleep. I'll go with that unconventional.

They've been no one like me, which isn't necessarily a good thing, is it? Here's what makes Jason Newland's podcast stand out. Yes, this is a very ego driven recording, isn't it? You're right. Focus on sleep and relaxation.

Sleepy Time podcast. One of his most popular works is the Sleepy Time podcast, where he speaks in a very soothing, sometimes almost monotonous tone. I've never spoken in a monotonous tone ever.

Reading soft, slow stories or just chatting about ordinary things in a way that's non intrusive. The idea is to create an environment where your mind can gently fade away into sleep without any existing twists or turns. Why it works is his voice itself has a calming, almost hypnotic effect.

And the pacing of his delivery ensures that you're not mentally engaged enough to stay alert. How rude. I'm very entertaining and very enjoyable and very exciting to listen to.

At least that's what I thought I was. Jason's competition is a gentle and simple stories. Jason's content is often very simplistic and repetitive.

There's nothing. There's nothing simplistic about what I do. This is high level psychological technology being put into process.

This is high level psychological technology. I use high level psychological technology. And to call me repetitive, which can be ideal for sleep, rather than complex narrative.

What do you mean? Everything I do is complex. They're saying I'm really simple and easy. Rather than complex narratives, his stories might just be about a walk in the park or a description of the weather.

The point is to lull the listener into a restful state without challenging their thoughts. Brilliant. I mean, they might as well call a podcast boring.

Oh, wait a minute. The topics may seem trivial, but that's exactly what makes them perfect for sleep. They don't require any intense focus.

So basically, what they're saying is, you don't need to use your brain to listen to me. Jason uses a technique where he talks in a relaxed manner, often repeating phrases or stories, and his delivery is incredibly slow. I don't talk slowly.

Really, I don't think. And this repetition is meant to ease your mind. They're making out that I know what I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. It's like I'm doing something on purpose. This repetition is meant to ease your mind and lower your stress levels, making it easier for you to drift off.

Oh, they're blimey. I mean, in theory. I don't know.

Am I really boring? I know the podcast is called Let Me Bore You To Sleep, but you know, it's kind of ironic because I am so super exciting. It's an irony name. No pressure to stay engaged.

Well, a key aspect of this podcast is they don't require you to stay engaged. Why would I not want you? I want people to listen to what I'm saying. This is my life.

What do you say I want people to fall asleep listening to me? What? Jason's tone and approach are non-demanding. No, I demand attention. That's fair enough.

It is non-demanding. It's supposed to be. So it's totally OK if you zone out whilst listening.

I never said that. I might say it in the hypnosis stuff, but I never give anyone permission to fall asleep in this. I give permission.

I know it's ridiculous. And accessibility. Jason has a built a loyal following because of how accessible his content is.

His podcasts are available on multiple platforms, and he's known for being very open and welcoming in his approach to sleep, offering free content for anyone in need of help falling asleep. That's fair, I think. And the approach is casual and authentic.

Jason's style is often described as very often by who? Me, probably. No one's ever said a word about me online. It's like search is nothing.

If you put my name in into Google, all you're going to get really is my stuff that I've posted online. There's nothing about me. No reviews.

No one's recommended me nothing. It's literally just what I've put. It's completely.

You know, apart from posting stuff on Facebook, no one ever shares my stuff, hardly ever on Facebook. So I don't build an audience up on Facebook through that. And I don't YouTube hardly any.

At the moment, I don't get hardly any listens at all on YouTube, but that's a slow burner. By the way, this isn't me moaning, by the way, and it might seem like it is, but it's not really. But this is it's almost like people come across me, you come over me by accident.

And I like to think it was a happy accident. But it's like, you know, I have been told that some people have been recommended from groups and stuff like that, and to come find me and check me out, which is brilliant. I really appreciate that.

But really, if you if you search my name in Google, you won't find anything but my podcasts, my website, my YouTube channel, my Facebook page. So that it. But because I've got lots of podcasts, and I want every single platform, there's quite a few things to search.

But there won't be anything there's no, no Wikipedia page. Not that I would expect there to be but my neighbour's got a Wikipedia page because he was in a band in the 60s. Literally my next practically my next door neighbour.

He was in a band in a famous band in the 60s. He's got his own Wikipedia page, it's not fair. He's now like 80.

I think 8081. So I'm so jealous. I wish I was 81.

I just find it weird. So I wonder how, how do people even find me because there's no promotion, there's no advertising. The Google doesn't really seem to promote me.

I think I just haven't got the algorithms correct. I think that might be what it is. And then are blimey.

I said blimey. I don't normally say blimey. I'm sure I don't.

I, by the way, Q&A Friday's Friday. If you've got any questions, please go to my Facebook group, Jason Newland's Boring Group. Or you can go to my website, jasonnewland.com and fill a little form in there.

And I will mention your name when I answer the question on Friday. It's gone quiet. There's no building work.

The penguins outside the seagulls rather. Yeah, seagulls a better word. The seagulls aren't screaming outside.

So that's nice. I'll turn the music off. That's all I hear.

Some of his episodes feature soft soundscapes like rain and wind. Now, yeah, in the past. It's making it up.

Why people love his podcasts relate. So I'm thinking it's making up at the same time. It's adding stuff that I quite like.

So I'm being choosy. There's parts I don't like because that's just made up. And then like the nice bits.

I'm thinking, yeah, that must be correct. So says relatability. Jason's voice feels like you're hearing from a friend who's just offering you a moment of peace.

And I've been told that anyway, by people who listen, low stakes, the stories or content are so ordinary, that there's nothing to keep you up just enough to help you forget the stresses of the day. This is my life you're talking about. My story's are not ordinary.

Where to find them? Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, there is no such thing as Google Podcasts anymore. Didn't they get rid of it? Google Podcasts is gone. This shows you how up to date this is or how up to date I am Google Podcasts.

Google Podcasts. Oh, is it still closed? closed? Google Podcasts app will be discontinued in early 2024. It's being replaced by YouTube Music, which began offering podcasts to US users earlier this year.

To prepare for this transition, Google will offer a migration tool that copies your Google Podcasts account over to YouTube Music. So yeah. Yep.

Yep, that's it. So that's that's kind of where we are on that one. So there is no Google Podcasts anymore.

What have I got? I got another message. Nope. I want to say thank you to Mary for your podcast for your PayPal gift.

Thank you. I should have said that at the beginning of the recording. So let's have a look.

See if there's any other ones. real simple.com 40. Is this the one I just went through? 14 slip sleep podcasts.

Yeah, I think it's the one I've already been through. So let's go back. Goodpods.com. Best sleep podcasts 2025 top 46 shows.

So this was April 30. I don't know, they probably just added the today's date on that. So no 12345678 910 1112 1314 1516 1718 1920 21 22 23 24 25 26.

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, nope so I don't even get like a mention like and if none of these 47 podcasts do the job and you've run out of options just try this weird one from Jason Newland. 10 best sleep podcasts of 2025 to lull you to a sleep.

Calm's page calmclnsage.com. Let's have a look.

I wonder if I'm on this one. I can kind of guess to be fair before I start. Nope.

Adverts everywhere. Nope. There's literally a tiny little block of the whole of like tiny thing the whole screen the top is just in the big massive advert which means I can't see the screen hardly.

Why? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, six, seven, I can't even look at that page it's too much. Come out of there. Calm's page.

Listen to sleep. Okay, nope. Time, Time magazine.

So time.com best podcast to help you fall asleep. So this is the best podcast, the top 10 best podcasts of 2021. So yeah, I think I've already read this.

I've gone through these before I think. So nope. Nope, nope.

No, no. So nothing there. Come out time magazine.

So I think sometimes they just have these pages to get people to go to the website. They're not invested in the content. You know, they've got probably millions of pages of just random stuff that they've just copied.

I'm not saying time magazine but I've done it myself in the past on my own website. Just take stuff off of other websites or other information, post it on a random page. And you might get a bit of traffic.

Town and country magazine. I don't get sued by time magazine do I? Blimey. Town and country magazine.

So town and country mag.com. 11 best to sleep podcast 2024. Top calming and meditative podcasts. 1234567891011.

Again, nope. And best podcasts UK. So here's one I might be on this.

Well, I don't know. Best podcasts for sleep. Relax stories, sounds and meditations.

This is from the 15th of November 2024. Best podcasts.co.uk. So let's have a look at this. 123456789.

Okay, not on there either. So this is the next one. Oh, this is weird.

This is another one. This is also Oh. So this, this is how, okay, there's another page, but I'm not on that one either.

The same website. Weird. Best podcasts for sleep.

Actually, I'm gonna go back to that. Let me have a look. category is boring.

Is there a category for boring? Yeah, I'm not on there. Categories. What would I be under? Mental or mental health.

I think one of the problems is that maybe I'm just too professional. I think that might be getting in my way. I'm just too flipping professional.

And it just, you know, always have a have a podcast, perfect professional images and is is quite a few famous people do. Well, there's lots of famous people do podcasts. And it's kind of difficult to really compete.

There's quite a few podcasts connected to radio shows as well. So you know, they've got millions of well hundreds of thousands, if not millions of listeners to the radio show that will, some of those will go to the podcast. So I got good podcaster, listen, calm sage, you've already done that, haven't you? Best sleep podcast, town and country, karma-u.com. 11 best podcasts.

So let's see if I'm on this one. And no. 12345678910.

Okay, no, not on them. Oh, well. Apple podcasts.

Get no, that's not even me blimey. And a store for nope. Audible.

Best sleep clinic. So let's go continue. Sleep me sleep.me. Best sleep podcasts.

So sleep.me. So look at this. So this 123456. So this is same ones is that the same ones is on all the others.

So no research done there, unless they just really, really good podcasts, which I'm sure they are. But I just wonder why they have to keep putting the same ones. Because I'm jealous.

Readers Digest Canada says readers digest.ca. The best sleep podcast to doze off to. All right, right. It's not letting me go to there for some reason.

I guess it is now it was didn't want me to go there. 12345678910. Nope.

You know what, I think there's a way to actually look at stats for podcasts. I think one of my one of the problems I've had. I've done too many different podcasts.

If I just done one podcast, you know, if I just started off, you know, 2006, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. That had been my podcast. And I never done nothing else.

Just that stuck to it. Just talking like this for the last 19 years. I'll probably be bored by now, wouldn't I? Imagine how many recordings I'd have.

But there might be like a really massive audience. I might even get get on the top 91. So the top list of 91 best sleep podcasts, you never know.

These are the top sleep podcasts for falling asleep faster. This is techradar.com. Let's have a look at this. Am I on this one? 12345678910.

Nope. And you've got Casper, Casper.com 15 sleep podcasts that will help you doze off. Let's have a look at this in 123456789101112131415.

Nope. Um, I feel like I should just start from scratch again, because it's a shame. Oh, Oh, British GQ.

So gg.gg dash magazine.co.uk. So let's have a look. Maybe I'm in this one. Here we go.

You never know. I can probably figure it out to be if we're going to start. Oh, okay.

So 123456789. Okay, so there's nothing in there. Sleep stories and podcasts for adults.

Okay, that's an actual podcast. Sleep.com seven bedtime best bedtime stories. I mean, technically, I don't this isn't a bedtime story, is it? But 1234567.

Nothing. Um, so yeah, I'm just surprised anyone's listening. According to this, I don't exist.

This is best sleep podcast. Cookie cocoon. C k o k o o n. cocoon.io. Welcome to our blog where we unveil the top sleep podcasts of 2023.

So let's have a look. Come on. It was 9th of May, 2022.

So it's a bit weird that they put 2023 but it's all right, it's fine. It's okay. I'm not gonna go on about it.

12345678910. So same old list. The Evening Standard, the best podcast to help you unwind.

This is the Evening Standard, August 2023. So come on Evening Standard. Give it a go.

Nothing on there. So the handbook.com sleep podcast, a podcast that will help you sleep. So let's have a look at this one.

1234567. No. So reddit.com looking for quiet podcast to sleep to.

So like anyone's mentioned me. And there's a bird that whistles and it sounds like a hooman. Seriously sounds like, I know it's not a hooman being, because it happens too often.

I think. Okay, so let's have a look. Has anyone mentioned me? Come on.

Mention me please. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Hey, nothing.

No mention. Why don't you try Jason Newland? He's ever so good. No.

Okay. True. I've never understood why people and I'm not judging the true crime podcast.

I mean, I know why they're interesting. Blimey. Super interesting.

It's very, you know, I've watched stuff on YouTube, like, I spent an hour and a half watching this interrogation is like, why? It's very, very catchy, does catcher. Doesn't seem very relaxing, though. I don't think I'd want to be asleep in bed.

I mean, if I'm listening to the radio on a Friday or Saturday night, I mean, generally Friday, I listened to two. It's the Nick Abbott show. Friday, Saturday night, 10 to one.

And it's light hearted. He talks about some stuff, but it's nothing. He doesn't go serious.

And if his callers call him with serious stuff, he gets rid of them. On a Sunday, it can go serious. So sometimes I turn it on and just like have to turn it off because I don't want to think about that stuff when I'm in bed, you know.

Boring books for bedtime. I think I need to rethink. I think I need to rethink.

I need to start looking at something's wrong here, isn't it? If nobody's recommending me anywhere. I'm never listed. Maybe I'm being blackballed.

Blackboard is that a thing? Anyway, I think it's time to go because there's really loud, loud stuff going on downstairs now. So I better go. Thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Lots of love. Bye.