(Short - Voice Only) #1563 Let me bore you to sleep  Jason Newland  16th February 2026 2

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and please only listen or watch when you can safely close your eyes. Why would we watch if we could close our eyes? It's just for anyone watching on YouTube, really.

But yeah, only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Apparently my device is heating up. So I don't know how long before the laptop or the phone goes boom.

Hopefully not. I've noticed that recently my iPhone's been getting hot because the internet is so rubbish, like the normal internet. I've been using the iPhone data to upload videos and stuff to YouTube, which means the phone's been getting very hot.

And I hope I'm not ruining the phone because I cannot get another one. You know, that's the only phone I won't be able to get another one. So that's it.

That's got last me for the next few years. So hopefully, if that internet I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, if the fast broadband actually does come, because my name's down to get it. It's gotta be three weeks ago now.

So it should be the next one or two weeks. I'll sign up £25 a month, I think it is. They'll take over the contract.

They'll buy out the internet that I've got. And I should get be getting up to 400 megabytes a second, 500 a second minimum. Yeah, I can.

I can sign up. Let's have a look. I can actually search this actually while I'm on.

I'll go online. I'm just using the ordinary internet on here. Let me tell you the speed.

Speed, speed test. So this is on my normal internet, which I'm using for my TV for my camera, you know, the door camera. And for the laptop, that's the only thing I'm using it at the moment for.

And I'm getting 17 megabytes a second 17 which is absolutely ridiculous. Although the upload is 12. So that's pretty good.

So in all fairness, I do more uploading than downloading, because I'm uploading videos to YouTube, uploading audios, mp3s to the podcast hosts. So downloading is not something I do much of outside of just the pages of a website, you know, I guess. Like, you know, if I'm watching a YouTube video, then that's using download, isn't it? If I'm watching Netflix, or whatever, that's using downloads, but five or six megabytes a second should be enough to watch Netflix.

But yeah, I'm going to see what is it the local internet local fast broadband. I just want to see what it is. Why is it not listed? It's got to be.

I mean, it's an actual it's like a local if I go local. I've already put locally once already, didn't I? No, get rid of that local. And Virgin, a virgin don't do internet around it.

Fiber. Gigafast gigafast. Yeah, gigafast.

Okay. Right, so let's have a look gigabit broad. Giga giga.

So gigabit is a gigabit giga giga fast giga something gig gig gig gig, full fiber gigafast rise fast standard broadband office speeds up to 24 megabytes a second. considered standard by today's why how can how can 24 megabytes per second be considered standard? He said this is the slowest option available. It's ridiculously slow.

I mean, it's still faster than what I'm getting but ridiculous gigabit. Okay, so if I go to gigabit broadband, gigabits gigabit band is weird. Why is it not coming up on the internet or gigabit networks? Maybe is full fiber board band.

Okay, got it. So gigafast gigafast home gigafast pro. So you've got gigafast home light 160 megabytes, bytes, bytes a second.

500 megabytes a second is gigafast home. And then you got gigafast pro 900 megabytes a second. I choose the pro.

I mean, I go for the fastest. I've had the slowest for like 12 years. About time I had the fastest and can do HD gaming live streaming.

I do live streaming. So that's good. Regular downloads.

It's quite weird is 160 megabytes per second and it's saying perfect for HD Netflix and regular downloads and users who want to upgrade their broadband. 160 megabytes per second is really fast. Really fast compared to what I'm getting at the moment.

I think the most I've ever got is 70 megabytes a second. And that is with the sometimes I can get that with the phone. So that's very, very strange.

Very, very strange. So click it. Click here to see what speeds you're actually getting.

So I go to the speed test. So this is giving me the test of what I'm getting now. According to this, I'm getting 20, 19, 18, 17, 18, 19, 18, 17, 17.7 megabytes per second download.

And that's telling me the upload is free. It's like 4.5 or something. 5.4 4.5 5.9 17.7 download 5.9 upload.

So and so I just let you know those listening here on the podcast. I'm also live streaming on TikTok. So hi to everyone.

So that's, I find that interesting that the way they're they're not selling it. I mean, they're selling it, but they're not really pumping up the fact that 160 megabytes per second is like a miracle compared to what I'm getting. And it's also the same upload speed as well.

But maybe they're not doing that because they want people to buy the more expensive one, which is understandable. So let's let's go back and just find out how much each one costs. So see broadband options available at your address six months, 12 months, 18 month contract, 24 month contract.

Now I was told, whatever you choose, whatever level it is, if it's it can't go beyond 10% below what they promised. So if you get 500 megabytes a second, if it goes 50, I got 50. If it goes 50 below that, then you get a refund or something.

Yeah. So if I choose the 900, I put in postcode, they already got me on here. Select your address.

They've already got me on their files on that. I'm scared to even say that word anymore. Being on TikTok, they got me on their system.

Probably go 12 months, 24 months, continue with checking all available providers. Why is it saying sky broadband? Ah, so this is horn telecom home to this isn't even a direct thing. ultrafast full fiber is the best that they can give me.

And this is ridiculous. So the perfect broadband packages for me, they're found, okay, I didn't realize it's one of those places. For monthly cost of 30 pounds, only 30 pounds.

Download speed 55 megabytes per second. 55. Oh, upload speed, a massive 11 megabytes per second.

And also, they give you for free, a powerful Wi Fi router. And you can connect between five and 10 devices. I don't see how five to 10 devices going to work on that.

But you can download 50 gigabytes in 57 minutes. And it's clicking get me get it now. No.

So basically, they lie to me, they've taken me to the complete wrong place. This is not gigabit, gigabit networks. That's weird.

So they took me to a complete. So this isn't even the right place. So I'm wondering, is it a genuine company? Because saying hits is that she is saying here, 900 megabytes per second, or 500 or 160.

Which is why I was told because someone actually knocked on my door. And that my details because I signed up years ago, about two, three years ago, was signed up, put my email address and my, you know, my details and everything on there, saying that, yeah, I'm up for, you know, definitely love to join. But now, from the looks of this, I'm not going to be available.

I can't join. They're not allowed. That is so disappointing.

It is a discipline. Why are you why are you whining Vinnie? You got your dinner over there. You're not eating it.

Come and say hello. Come on up here. Cuddles.

Give me cuddles. What he wants is treats. You're not having any more Vinnie.

You got to have your dinner. I gave him his dinner this morning. He wouldn't touch it.

So I put it in the fridge and put it out again a while ago. Won't touch it. Let's try the lowest one.

Choose the lowest one. So six months, 12 months. Right, continue.

This is really, I'm probably gonna get loads of spam now for more every single internet company in the world. Vinnie, did you just fall off? So this is orders, home telecom.co.uk. It was going to come back saying we've got a brilliant offer for you. Let's see if it does.

We're very excited you want to join us. Your address isn't currently covered by this network. We can conduct a broader search to help find the best package.

No. I mean, they were literally laying in cable two or three weeks ago. So I guess I'll just have to wait.

Maybe there's been a hold up or something. The only other option I'm thinking about is Starlink. So let's just check.

That's another possible thing to use. Starlink internet, internet. And I've looked into this before.

And if I can get up to from 100 to 400. So if I put in or Vinnie's here again, if I move this down, in fact, I'll move that over there. Hello, Vinnie.

Hello. Hi, darling. Vinnie, my little baby boy is here.

My little baby boy is here. My little Vinnie, my little Vinnie. Vinnie, I love you.

I do. I love you. I love you so much.

I do. You are my world. You are.

The only thing about him that really annoys me is when we go out, he just barks at other dogs. Not all the time. He's begging now.

Let's see for those watching on on TikTok. There you go. That's him begging.

He wants a treat, but he's not having a treat. No, you're not. No.

No, you're not. Don't start barking. Some of your neighbors downstairs.

It's auntie downstairs neighbor, isn't it? So don't start barking. Oh, my T-shirt. I just realized you can see my fat old belly on it.

Vinnie. He seems to be making more guest appearances lately. Since I've moved the set over here, he seems to be a bit more.

Well, not just when I'm doing recordings, but even like when I'm working on stuff, he'll come and cuddle up a little bit or sit right on the edge of the set like on the where we're standing now, which is the. I don't know, elbow rest or whatever you want to call it. So Starlink.

I want to see where if it because I'd need to get a company because it's not a case of just. I think you can buy it out of the box, you can get it sent to you and you can set up yourself. It's probably got some kind of I don't know.

I don't know quite how it works, but it's satellite, isn't it? So you get it straight from satellites in the sky and stuff, I think. So you're not dependent upon cables or anything like that. And it's generally supposed to be good.

It's not cheap, though. So it costs money to buy the equipment. And then if you get it installed, it costs money to get installed as well.

And then there's the monthly charge of actually having it. I think it's really good for people living like in a desert or something like right in the middle of nowhere, where there's no Internet at all. And then they can, you know, be in a caravan in a forest or something or in a jungle, and they can be able to get the Internet and, you know, get help or whatever if they need it or watch Netflix.

What Vinnie? He's begging me again. Why is he interrupting me every time I try and do a super duper podcast? He interrupts me. I actually did.

So this is Monday's boring objects, by the way, I'm going to talk about Internet speed, or broadband, generally. And I think this is going to be the thumbnail for the video. So I did a long hypnosis recording again today, it's a sleep one.

And wow, it's about an hour and a half. But it's, I was falling asleep recording it. I'm like I did the last one, actually.

But this was even more sleepiness creating then. I mean, I don't think I was tired before I was starting it. But just sitting here.

You know, talking at that kind of speed, because this is a lot slower than my normal speaking voice, although my normal speaking voice isn't particularly fast. I think we can probably all agree on that. But yeah, when I fall in love, it will be completely.

You know, when I had Andre, he used to nibble on my beard. It's quite weird, because back then I actually had a, like a beard that wasn't white. He's literally all white now, nearly pretty much all of it.

A little bit of dark. And I'm still meaning to shave it all off. But I keep thinking, if I shave it off, what if it gets like really cold? Perhaps I need to keep my hair on me for just for a few more days, you know? It's still raining, been raining all day.

All day yesterday, all day today. It's just constant. I think it's rained every day this year so far.

It's just like, although we did have some sun, actually earlier we did, there was a bit of sun, and there was some daffodils in somebody's garden, but I'm beginning to think that maybe they bought those daffodils and put them into the plant pot. Well, that's what I'm thinking, because they're full, blossomed, they're all, you know, fully formed. And I'm thinking, I haven't seen daffodils anywhere else.

So I'm wondering whether or not they were, you know, artificially inseminated, as it were. You know, not using the English weather. No.

So let's have a look. I don't want you to get off, but I kind of, I do want to be able to get on with this recording thing. It's weird.

He went from, I've never been able to get him up, to him always being up now. It took him months. I mean, okay, not months.

Okay. So I don't know how long, how long did it, how long have I had this settee like this? About three weeks, two weeks, three weeks. And he's gone from kind of hesitating to literally practically being on my, he's practically on my lap now.

It's both his feet were on my lap and his hands were on my lap and his bum's kind of like leading towards me. And, but I don't want to grab, if I put my hand over him, if I go and put my hand near him, he'll run off. Actually look at it, but it, it will kind of think that I'm trying to grab him or something.

And he doesn't like that. It's weird. I can't win with him, but he does want to be on my lap.

He clearly wants to sort of cut it up to me. Don't you think? But he's not sure how to do it. I just remember when I first got him, that first couple of days that he moved in, after he moved in, he was trying to figure how to sit near me.

And he tried all these different positions. He like sat on my lap, didn't like that, sat to the side of me. He, at one point he actually, he got up behind me and laid down behind my head, like where the headrest is.

And he didn't like that. And he, he sat, he had, I had a little bed for him, which was this side. So he used to sleep on there, but then he kind of pushed it.

So it was a bit closer to me. And eventually he settled on just being to the left of me, cuddled up to my left leg when we were watching telly or just like listening to music or listening to my podcasts, which I do, which might sound weird, but it's true. I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.

I really do. I actually find them quite relaxing. And it might sound strange after 20 years of doing this, that I've realised that maybe what I'm doing is, might be useful.

But I listen to my recordings every day now. Every single recording I do, I listen to it. Whether it's one or two a day, I listen.

And I will sit on there and I will close my eyes. And I'll fall asleep every single time, every single time. And sometimes, when it's to Let Me Bore You To Sleep, I'll be agreeing.

Because I'm like, I'll say something about what I'm going to do. And I'm thinking, I'm going to do that as well. And then I realise like, it's me talking, and then I drift off again.

So it's kind of weird. I do, I lose, I lose contact of what's going on. And I forget that I'm listening to myself.

Strange. And when I was making the hypnosis recording earlier, I'll tell you the name of it. What is the name of it? Extreme Deep and Confusing Sleep.

That's basically the, the hypnotic technique that I'm using. And it's all over the place. It is kind of, it's very, not confusing in a bad way.

But it's, yeah. Oh, okay, so it's not uploaded. So I did that.

And it was not only was I drifting off. I was drifting in a way of thinking about something like, my imagination was gone, completely gone somewhere else. And other times when I'm doing it, like today, and other times when I make recordings, I just fall asleep, I do fall asleep, literally.

Even if it's just for a few seconds, I fall asleep. And I come back and like, what am I doing here? Oh, yeah, I'm making a recording. And then I think, oh, thanks for the likes on TikTok.

Thank you. And I start thinking, Oh, what was I talking about? And I really struggled to get back to where I was. It's kind of strange.

It's a strange sensation. Doesn't do. Yeah, it doesn't normally happen when I do a Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Because I don't generally have my eyes closed when I'm doing these. But as soon as I close my eyes, that's kind of like, I'm asking for trouble almost like, okay, I try and stay awake. Now, if you've got your eyes closed, try and it's like, no, I'm going to drift off.

And it doesn't probably doesn't help the fact that my medication causes me to feel tired a lot of the time. So I don't have trouble getting to sleep. I'm very lucky, I guess from that perspective, but it's you know, I will just just drift.

I mean, sometimes I wake up in the morning early. And I sit here and I check my stats. That's the first thing I did every morning.

It's not the first thing I do. I go wee wee when I first get up. And then I take my tablet for my stomach.

So I have to take one tablet a day for that. And then I come in here. I turn on the laptop.

Check my stats. So I go to So, you know, to Spreaker, and I click on statistics. Then let's go see more, not see more, but see more.

And I click on sometimes I click on yesterday, if I want to see what happened yesterday, what the total was. Because I'm in bed before the end of the day. I think the stats go on to one in the morning, I think.

And then I can look at that. And I can say, well, I click on my name to find out which podcast got the most views. So yesterday, hypnosis for sleeping deeply was number one.

Let Me Bore You To Sleep was number two. Relax and sleep hypnosis daily was number three. Deep Sleep Whisper hypnosis was number four.

Relaxation for stress and panic attacks number five. And then the rest were just like sporadic. And then what I can do, I can go to sources, not sources as in like and ravioli sources, but sources actually in just he just he's hiding things again.

It's like a squirrel but with a bad memory. He hides stuff, but he doesn't forgets where he hides them. And you could probably say to me and what we kind of figured what you meant when you said squirrel without a bad with a bad memory and didn't need to tell us that he hides things and he forgets where he hides them because that was almost, you know, obvious.

Sorry. So yeah, Apple podcasts number one, as always, usually anyway, but a couple of times it hasn't been but for a long time it has been. Podcast addict was number two.

So 52.55% was Apple podcasts. A 16.21% was podcast addict. Overcast was 7.38%. General Android app 5.83%. And Spreaker 3.37%. Spotify 3.10%. There's a load of others as well.

But I'm just like, what do I have to do for people on Spotify to listen to me? Unless I think what it is, is my SoundCloud podcasts on Spotify. That's why. So I think that's that's why they're not showing.

So geolocation. As always, United States is at the top. Always the number one.

Not always during the day. I mean, sometimes it can change. But first thing in the morning, the UK might be top.

But especially because the United States is in America is in America is asleep, potentially. So, but generally, United States is always a top overall. United Kingdom next, Australia, Canada.

And yeah, that's kind of what it is generally for the year. And if I go for me yesterday, then it was Indonesia, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Chechnya, France, St. Lucia. I dated someone from St. Lucia.

Do you know? Do you love when people say that? Oh, are you from England? Do you know Bob? He? He lives in London. Oh, yeah, Bob. Yeah.

Don't say hello to him for you. Netherlands, New Zealand, Thailand, Ethiopia, South Africa, Spain, India, Mexico, Argentina, Israel, Japan, Mongolia. So that's today if I go for last 12 months, United States 46.56%. United Kingdom 23.50%. Canada 7.9%. Australia 6.83%. And Ireland 1.34%. Sweden 1.4%. Japan 1.23%. So going down from there.

And it's not listing all the countries for the year because it's just the top countries listed all the countries that was people listen to me, then it would be probably pretty much every country in the world actually. Japan's the lowest one, but that's 0.20%. Turkey 1.0%. New Zealand. I used to get more people listening in New Zealand in the old days.

Right. But not so much. These days.

Do you ever talk and then realize, I feel like I've got a bit of, like my lips falling apart. Not falling apart as in like, just, you know. Hello.

Oh, thank you, baby. Oh, my little baby boy. Yes, little baby boy.

Did you do your flappy ears? Did you do your flappy ear? Flappy flappy thing? Hey. So yeah, internet, I was going to talk about internet. The first time, I'll be honest, I didn't really know about the internet.

Probably till 1997. At the end of the year. You're not having anything.

You got your dinner, eat your dinner, then we can talk again. Yeah. Eat your dinner, then we can have a conversation about anything else.

He's sitting here like, oh, so hungry, daddy. I need to eat. But he's got food on a plate down there.

It's been in the fridge, so it's fresh. It's not like I've left it out all day. It's only been down there for about a half an hour or so, maybe a little bit longer.

Considering the stuff you pick up off the grass when we're out and eat. The things that you eat when we're out and you're fussy about your dinner. Oh, chewing gum.

Anything with a string even. I mean, what? What is he? You've got plenty of stuff. You don't need anything from me, Vinnie.

Look, what's that? What about that? What about that? What about that? What about that? It's gone now. So, I can't say 100% if I got into the internet in 97 or if it was 98. And back then, the internet was very, very shabby.

It's very slow. And it was like did the whole ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. And I mean, I was lucky because I was able to use my friend's internet that was in a nightclub.

So it was a business internet and it was a bit more, it was still slow, but it was better than like home broadband. So I used to go in there and I used to really enjoy using it. And then I started, I had a computer.

Yeah, I had a computer, like a big old computer that I bought probably about 90, 98, maybe, maybe 99. So, yeah, I had the internet at that point in, I think I got the internet about 90. I don't know.

Oh, it's hard to remember. So I used to, I used to go to the internet cafe, which was in Leighton, I think, Leighton Stone, Leighton. It's a little walk up the road.

And I used to go there. And there'd never be anyone in there. You know, I'd be there and it'd just be a bit like a cafe.

I think it was one of those places that were sponsored by the government to teach people how to use the internet. And it was still paid to use the internet, but it was cheap. And I'd be in there.

And then when the school broke up, like when they, all the school kids came in and I can get out because they'd take over the place and it'd be chaos. But for a good few hours, it'd be me and maybe one other person in there. So I could, I was going on there finding all the different websites.

And it was, it was lovely, really enjoyed it. And then I was around. So I had the internet.

I must have had the internet by 99. Yeah, must have done. I'm pretty sure I had the internet by 99.

Myself in the room that I lived in, that I was renting. And I was around my, my cousins, not my uncles, my cousins. And he showed me something that he was doing on his computer.

Because bearing in mind, I had this computer that I didn't touch. There is no point to it. It's like having a laptop and not having it connected to the internet.

There'd be no point because everything I do, everything I produce is to do with the internet and uploading, downloading, recordings, videos, and all that stuff, or doing research, or designing images and whatever. But back then it was all everything was new. You know, surfing the web was a thing.

It was like exciting. Very slow. I mean, it took sometimes it took like a few minutes.

Well, sometimes often it took a few minutes for an image to open up. Seriously, that's that's why so much of the internet back then was text. Because images just like took ages.

And so I was around my cousins, this was the beginning of 2000. And he said, look at this, because I think we were doing some music or recording some music or something. And he said, look at this.

And he showed me a web page. I thought, oh, that's good. And he said, see, show.

And he said, okay. And he said, look, it's not connected to the internet. I like.

And he was literally going from page to page and moving around on this website. So how are you able to do that if you're not connected to the internet? And he said, I built the website myself. Using HTML, and his dad was doing as well.

It wasn't like a big website, but it was a few links to different pages and that stuff. And I said, yeah, but you still need the internet to do that. And he said, no, just need Internet Explorer.

So he was building it in notepad, the code, and then open it up in Internet Explorer. And then he'd have hyperlinks, and he just click on that and take him to a different page didn't have to be on the internet to do that. I mean, of course, he couldn't access anything on the internet without being connected, but he could access whatever was on his computer.

I was like, wow. Wow. And just Aaron's asked me, what do I do? I make podcasts, make podcasts, sleep podcasts, relaxation, and videos and podcasts for people.

And been doing that 20 years now. Yeah, it's all about sleep, relaxation. And I just talk, just me on my own talk.

I'm making one now. But this is a Let Me Bore You To Sleep one. So it's is based for sleeping, but it's also kind of not, it's not hypnosis, it's just me chatting.

And I do these pretty much every day. This is the second recording I've done today. And I never go live or stream what I'm doing when I do the hypnosis ones.

But when I do the Let Me Bore You To Sleep ones, sometimes I will stream it. But I'm limited to what interaction I can have, because I don't want to disrupt the flow of the podcast, if that makes sense. But because I was being sent heart means heart means heart means they're called love heart things.

I just want to say thank you, whoever was sending them. I've got 738 753. So whoever is sending them, thank you.

I appreciate that. And I, I was absolutely transfixed at what my cousin had done. And then my my uncle, his dad showed me what he was doing.

And he was even more into it than my cousin. Because he's my cousin. He's a bit of a I would I would call him a genius.

As in, back then he was only a kid. He was a kid. He was very young as a teenager, probably 1819 or whatever.

But he was phenomenal. With music, he could play guitar, he could play bass, he could play lead guitar, he could play keyboard, he could use all of the recording equipment, you know, on a computer. It's just phenomenal.

It was really, really, I mean, I don't know why he didn't take that route and become really, really famous, because he's super talented. And his dad was in a band. His dad was a guitarist in a band for probably about 40 years.

So he inherited, I guess, the musical talent from his dad. But he was able to put that into other things. And his dad was even more into the to the website building.

So I kind of caught the bug a bit. So in 2000 I pretty much diverted devoted, devoted, diverted, I divert devoted pretty much the whole year, or year and a half, including 2001 as well. The first half of 2001, I devoted to building websites, learning how to code HTM.

It was first it was called HTM, then they called it HTML. I had a big stack of books. And I would literally I'd take a code, like a, so I don't, I don't even know how to do it.

Now. This is crazy. And you should be able to go on a web page and click source.

Can you still do it? Click source. I don't know how to do it now. It's weird, isn't it? But you'd be you'd be able to just like go onto any web page, click source, and it would show you all of the code that made up that page.

And so what I did is I copied that. I went offline, put it into notepad. And I kept opening it up and taking bits out.

So I wanted to learn how to do a hyperlink, which is basically just when you click on a link, and it takes you to another page or another part of the website or whatever, or another part of the internet. And I thought instead of reading out of the book, because I could have found it in 10 seconds, I'm going to dissect this whole web, this page, this web page, until I find the complete link.

And I wanted to see whether or not I just had to keep testing it.

So every time I took something out, I had to do something. Every time I took something out, I had to test it again to see if it still worked. And I was only focused on that hyperlink.

So if the hyperlink worked, I then go back and start taking other bits out. So if the hyperlink didn't work, the next time I tested it, I'd go back and I'd repost what was in there. And it took me, I think, two days solid, maybe three days to find out how to do a hyperlink to find out the exact code necessary just for the hyperlink.

But it's etched in my brain for years after that. Not anymore, but it was. And it's just little things like bold and changing the colour and changing the line, you know, so it goes down a line ul is an I don't know, an underline and just little bits like that, that I learned.

It's very basic stuff. Nothing I did was complicated. Really basic.

But then what happened is the code started getting more sophisticated on websites and web pages. And there'd be a lot missing from the actual code. So it'd be like a a note and then it'd be other code, it'd be I don't know, like hidden code that you couldn't get access to.

Unless it was your because they'd have it on their own server, maybe. So you'd have to have access to the server to get access to that code. And, and that's where I stopped.

I didn't kind of continue after that. And I stopped building websites as far as like that goes, or learning anything new, really, in the summer 2001. But then, in 2004, because yes, so from 2001, I got evicted from where I was living.

So I didn't have my own internet. Again, until 2004. Believe it or not, that's quite a long time.

So not only did I not go on the internet. Actually, that's not right. I did go on the internet.

But I went on it one of the in the job that I had, when I worked in the gift shop, but I didn't have internet at home. And then I got internet at home. And I started thinking, I think I was started to build a website, I started to build websites again, just from my memory, like from hand.

And I built a website called help with pain. And another one free pain relief, which I built in 2006. So even six years later, I still remembered how to do the basic coding, you know, to build a website.

And also, the good thing about it is once you with that once I knew how to do it, I could then go online and and play around with it until it and copy what other websites have done by looking at their source code on their that website, and changing things around, you know, and I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to do anything now with that stuff.

So I had that internet. 2004, then I moved out there.

Then I got internet again. So pretty much, I haven't had my own internet the whole time. But it was still dial up.

In 2004, it was still dial up. When I moved into the place in 2005, when I was in the Buddhist community. So that was dial up.

So that was still slow, but it was announced for the whole house. So it wasn't the fastest internet. I still used it because that's all I had.

But it wasn't the fastest. And then when I moved out there, I moved to when I started doing university 2007. Where I moved, they had internet, they had sky, and sky is generally quite good.

But where their hub was, it was nowhere near where I was in the house because it was it was cottage. And I was in the extension part. So it didn't reach very well.

It worked if I was in the kitchen. And it also turn it off when I went on holiday. And it's like, you know, the fact it was like, part of it wasn't part of the it was kind of part of the deal of moving in there, in a sense of like, you got internet.

But that's, and I'm gonna had that in the past where I lived in places. They'd go on holiday, and they turn the heating off. So I go on holiday, like in October.

And they turn turn everything off. And like, I'm still living here. I'll be renting a room.

What did you I don't think just forgot I was there. I don't know. It's amazing.

But I think they did that as well. They turned the heating off. I just didn't have this wasn't thinking, I guess.

But what I did, because I didn't, I did have access to the library at college, so I could use the internet there. But it's very full. It's very busy a lot of the time.

I could also go to Essex University and I could use the library there as well. Because my course was at the my course was an Essex University course, but the actual because it was a practical thing. So I was doing counseling.

And the the college is where the counseling service was offered to the public. So we had we we studied there. But we also had access to the Essex University facilities and everything like that.

And the degree was accredited by Essex University. So I could go there, but it was a bit of a track of a track. But I did go to the college university.

I tell you, it's really weird. I'd love to go back to university now. I would, if I could go back to university, study psychology, or philosophy.

Something that I don't need to study. It's not for any kind of career. move.

Just for fun. It'd be nice. But I can't get I can't get finance to do it.

I can do an open university course, although I'd have to beg them now because I pulled out the one I was on. But that was available to do psychology course, even though I've already got a degree. So got a first degree.

And to do a second one in a university means paying out. I don't know, is it 12 grand a year, nine grand a year? I'm not sure. When I went to university, and even though student loans still pay it back, but it was just over 3000 pound a year.

And but with everything all together, I ended up with I think 24,000 pounds worth of debt with the student loan, I think something like that. And but that was with interest. And also, I got I got money to live on as well.

So everything kind of came from there. So I could buy and pay my rent and eat and everything like that. So I was getting six grand a year.

Yes, just over six grand a year. I was getting to 2200 every term. Was it just under two grand, something like that.

So it was about just over 6000 a year. So that was 618 612 8 612 18. Yeah.

And then 369 to 26 grand, something like that, all together. So I what I did, because I've moved into this place. It's a student accommodation.

It wasn't really, but it was. It was on the list. The university had of outside student accommodation.

So people that weren't actually didn't want to live in the university accommodation bits. And I don't think I'd have been eligible for that anyway, because I was maybe because of my age. I don't know.

I don't think there was an option. But I didn't look into it. Because at the time, when I started the course, when I, you know, it was quite a few months of kind of preparation, got accepted on the course, and I had to apply for financing, got accepted for that.

Then I worked out the logistics of everything. So I was going to stay in the house I was already living in. Because I like living there.

And I was with some friends. It was a little bit of a journey to get to university, but it's fine. I was I was okay with that.

I had a girlfriend as well, which is quite new, quite a new relationship. And that was going quite well, I think at the time seemed to be going quite well. And I also found myself a part time job in Sainsbury's, which was going to be at the weekends when I wasn't working, when I wasn't at college.

Everything was sorted. So I thought, and then there was a shoe core, I think the word is skirmish, there was a skirmish at the house I was living in, which meant sort of having to get out of there. So I ended up moving closer to the, or initially, I was going to move closer to my nan, which would have been a lot further away from college.

But my nan was so happy that I was moving closer. But then when I changed my mind and said, well, this is too far away, I'm going to struggle to get back and forward. And so my nan wasn't happy that I changed my mind.

But yeah, I made the effort to make sure I visited her regularly. So I just didn't see much point in moving further away. Knowing how difficult it was going to be.

And also financially, it didn't seem like it was going to work because I didn't have a job or anything and but luckily, it all worked out. I it's Wow, this coming October or September will be 19 years. 19 years.

Crazy. And I did get a I did get a part time job in the evolution shop, which is where I previously worked in the previous town that I'd lived back in 2004. So yeah, I did a little bit got a bit of part time work there as well.

And did some care work as well at some point. So I was going to say so yeah, because the internet was a very good there. Like in my room, it was a good internet, which wasn't good where I was.

I thought I'm gonna have to get some internet, but I couldn't really afford. I didn't want to sort of start getting internet fixed in all that stuff, you know. But I managed to get a dongle.

And it's basically, you just plug it into the side of your computer. And I was getting decent speed internet. It's basically just mobile broadband, which is what I've got now for this.

I've got mobile broadband. But back then, they weren't as used as popular as I need to get you some of those breath stick stink sticks. You smell like a dog.

You smell like a doggy. I'll close this. You smell like a doggy.

And so I got this dongle and it worked really well. I was surprised. Because then I could take it anywhere.

And it just Yeah, I mean, it wasn't I'd have to go back in a time machine to really kind of get an idea of how good it was. But I was I was quite thankful. But it was expensive.

It was quite expensive. But I do believe it was unlimited. You know, data, so that was good.

But I used it. And because I was doing a lot of research, I was also doing my videos and my podcasts. Because I started all that in 2006.

So during 2007 89 1011 that's when I was busiest on YouTube. 12 as well that was that was when things were like really starting to grow for me. And that was my old YouTube channel.

But that internet was quite good. I liked it. And I liked not having to be dependent upon other people.

You know, having a bit of independence, I guess it was nice. And so when I moved out there, it's weird, isn't it? I haven't had internet that many times. Because most of the places I lived in, I lived in before internet was even around.

So when I moved from there, I moved into a place with a room right at the top of the house. And there was a guy there was internet included in the rent. And it was like, I don't know what it was.

Talk talk or something like that. And it just kept cutting off. And I don't know, I think I might got myself a dongle again.

I think not 100% sure. But I was using the internet a lot back then. So, yeah, I was because at that time, there's a lot of torrents.

So I could because I didn't have a television for about a year. Not that I wasn't able to just I just couldn't be bothered. I was living in this place.

I knew I was only going to be there for a year. I almost didn't even unpack to be fair. I was just living on sandwiches and, you know, I didn't have a TV.

Just wait for the year to go by. So I could get out of there. I kind of was a little bit stuck.

And but what I did do is I watched TV programs like TV shows on my laptop. Things like True Blood and Game of Thrones because I had started at that point. And Breaking Bad, I think as well.

Yeah. So I was pretty much just downloading them, and then watching them. Because I couldn't stream anything.

The internet was too slow to stream anything. But if I if I left it downloading all night, and all day, then so when I got home from work, there'd be stuff available for me available for me to watch. And then there'd be downloading all night, which it'd be faster at night because everyone else was asleep, including me.

So I was downloading a whole series or seasons of shows. And so that was quite good. I mean, those torrent sites, I don't think they're available anymore.

But it was it was handy at the time. And then I moved again. And that's the place I lived in before I moved here.

And I got internet. Did I get internet? Or did I have a dongle again? I think I just had a dongle. Yeah, I think I just had a dongle.

So I got another dongle and just use that. Because the internet was I'm pretty sure I didn't have internet in that room. That's weird.

I can't remember. I can't remember. That's weird.

I do not recall. I definitely had internet because I was uploading videos and doing stuff like that. And yeah, 1000% I was on online, because I was using my laptop and I was talking to people online and uploading videos and you know, that were taking up a lot of lot of space a lot of you know, megabytes.

That's weird. I can't remember. I definitely had internet.

So maybe it was a dongle. Because I used to have dongles from Orange or EE. They changed themselves from Orange to EE didn't they? So I had because Orange and TalkTalk I forget the name.

But Orange got together with another company and they became EE. Unless I just had internet. I might just actually had internet and just normal internet broadband.

But it was slow. And then I moved here. And the first thing I did was, I got Sky broadband.

I got Sky dish is still out there now. And I got Sky and they offered me this really good plan. Never had Sky before.

For myself. I've lived in places that had Sky, which I could watch sometimes if there was no one else around. But I never had my own Sky TV channels to watch.

And I loved it. Because I could watch TV, I could pause it live, had access to loads of shows, box sets, Sky Sports, all the stuff, movies, they came with a full package. And for a really good price.

For the first 12 months or 18 months, 12 months, I think it was. And then, for some reason, I didn't buy a big TV. I was so used to watching small TVs that that's kind of all I knew.

It was almost like I've, you know, haven't spent 20 I don't know, it's just it's weird. It's like leaving milk outside to keep it cold instead of in the fridge. But we're so used to doing that that I don't use a fridge anymore.

I just put it in the cold. But I've got a fridge, use fridge. Why did I get a decent telly? I've got one now.

But it took me five years of living here before I got a decent television. I did, I did replace it when I had for a bigger TV. And eventually I got, I think, I don't know what it is.

75 inch one I've got now. But I've had that since 2000, I think 2001 2000. 2000.

It might have been further than that. Actually, it might have been 2000. 2000 2020 might have been 2019.

And I moved in here 2015. And I got that was special offer. I got a discount and I paid in installments.

But I've never had a decent TV before. I never, I never even particularly wanted one. I just didn't care.

I was happy just to watch the screen that I had. But then I realized because the TV was over there. Now TV's over there.

I can see myself on it because I'm streaming. Not streaming, whatever they call it matching, copying to the TV, what I'm doing on the iPad. And the TV was over there.

The black chair was here. And eventually my chair got closer and closer and closer and closer to the wall where the TV was. And I realized that I even need to get new eyes, or a bigger TV.

The new eyes wasn't an option. So I got a bigger TV. And then I started getting closer and closer to the wall again.

And that's when I thought I need a big TV. I need a much bigger TV. And that's when I went for the biggest I could get.

And initially I had it over there. They took up half the window because it's so long. So I moved it to the other side of the wall.

And I had it on. I had it, basically I got a wardrobe, put the wardrobe on its side. And I put the TV on top of the wardrobe.

That's how long the thing is. And eventually I had it like that for ages and ages. Then I had it on these tables for quite a while, maybe a year or so.

And then I've had it on the wall for probably about good few months now, maybe. I don't know how many months, a few months. Why I didn't put it on the wall to start with.

It's just, it's weird. It's, that's where it should be. It's like the perfect place.

I don't know why. But it was fine before. I think Vinnie's staring at me.

See, this is what I get. In the past, when you'd listen to my podcast, and I said, he's staring at me, this is what he would do. He'd literally just sit there, staring.

See, he's just staring right at me. He knows, but he knows I'm talking about him. Do you know I'm talking about you? Vinnie, do you know I'm talking about you? Wobble your head if you know I'm talking about you.

Okay, completely ignore me. Ignore me if you know I'm talking about you. Blink your ear.

Blink your eye. Go off screen. That's it.

I know. Whoa. I mean, he's gonna have a sausage later.

So I don't know what his issue is. He's gonna have a lovely, beautiful sausage in here. We haven't even had to.

This is going to be easy to edit. So I haven't had to do any. Interruptions or anything, have I, during this recording? And so yeah, I got the internet with Sky.

I got that as part of the deal. So I got the internet and the TV package. It was all right.

It was way better than what I had before. So I was, you know, I mean, I was happy just to have this place. To have my own place for the first time in my life.

And the internet was just, you know, it was good. The internet was, it wasn't fast. It's never been fast here because of where I live.

It's very rural, rural, rural, rural, rural. I can't say it, but R U R A L L L L L L L. And this is farms. It's basically surrounded by farms.

But it was okay. It was all right. And also back then, when I first moved in here, I wasn't really doing videos much anymore.

It was all audio. And audio is a lot smaller files, easier to upload. So I wasn't really that bothered.

And I was getting fast enough to stream Netflix and all the different movies and TV shows and stuff. Free view is there. So I was like, it's fine.

It's all right. And yeah. Then they said to me, it's time to renew.

Time to renew. And I said, okay. And I looked at the letter and how much they wanted.

And I could not believe what I was seeing. The amount more that they wanted was absolutely ridiculous. Like I think they almost doubled the amount.

So I said, can you give me a discount please? And they said, no. I said, yeah, but I've been with you for 18 months or a year. I don't know how long it was for, but they said, no.

I said, I have. They said, we know you have, but you're not getting a discount. I said, I'll leave.

If you don't give me a discount, I'm going to leave. Okay, then. Didn't care.

No kind of like, oh, didn't cry. Didn't beg me to stay. Didn't promise to send me, I don't know, some chocolates or something.

Nothing. Like, all right. See you then.

Bye. A bit like Netflix. You know, when you leave Netflix, you leave any of the other streaming services.

They'll say, oh, do you have to go? Can we convince you to stay? Maybe give you a discount? Let you have the next three months for, um, you know, a third of the price off or something like that. And he's saying, no, thanks. I said, oh, what if we give you a, give you a whole month free? Eh? He said, no, thanks.

What if I send you a sausage in the post? A sausage. And you know, they're really kind of trying. And in the end it's like, oh, sorry to see you go, but love to have you come back at some point.

Love you. You know? But Netflix, if you sort of say, I want to leave, I said, all right, bye. That's it.

They don't care. No kind of like bargaining. Oh, go and stay.

We'll give you a little bit of a discount. If nothing like that, it's like, it's almost like, yeah, I'll open the door for you. Bye.

There you go. Don't come back. It's like, got an attitude, Netflix.

It's true though. It's like, really, like, don't, don't try and keep you. So I had to get a new, a new internet.

And I ended up with, no, I think I stayed EE. I'm not sure if I stayed with Sky for the, um, for the phone. I might have stayed with Sky for the phone or EE, but I've mixed between the two, Sky and EE.

And EE. I've had all kinds of internet as well. So there was a time when I had internet, an internet card, a SIM card for my iPad, for my phone, for my laptop.

And yeah. And maybe for a nut, yeah, that's it. So I'd like three, three SIM cards on the go, all contracts, just basic, you know, data only contracts, apart from for the phone, because I was trying at one point, I tried to stream TikTok, Facebook, I was going to try and stream as many different places as possible.

So I was using my iPad, mobile phone, another phone, my old phone, old iPad, connected to the Wi Fi, just trying to do all these streams at the same time. And it really didn't work. It was very, very, very, very hard.

Very hard indeed. So I was writing something rude. So yeah, that's kind of my Monday's boring objects, broadband and internet.

Never had really, really good internet ever. The one I'm with at the moment is pretty good on the phone. I get up to 70 megabytes a second on the phone.

The broadband, awful. A couple of weeks ago, it kept stopping altogether. And I phoned them up.

Oh, we've got problems with our mast. How long? I literally had three days of no internet. And then he said, well, I'll do is I'll try and connect you to a different mast, a different tower.

And can you turn your router around facing a different way? Facing West? I was like, I don't know where West is. Have you got a compass on you? I said, nobody's got a compass. I've got a compass on them.

Why would I have a compass on me? I'm not in the scouts. But who carries a compass? Mountaineering people do, I guess. But generally at home, I'll be honest with you.

I've lived in about over 50 different addresses since I left school. Not once have I been sitting watching telly thinking, oh, where's that compass? It never, never happened. Never happened.

I mean, it's hard to believe, but it's true. Never happened. But it's the same with algebra.

Never, ever been stuck in life. Like, oh, I wish I learned algebra. Wish I'd listened to that class.

I still don't know how to do algebra. And never, never really come into, never been needed. I mean, I've had so many job interviews over the years, and no one's ever asked me, can you do algebra? You're only good at maths.

I suppose because a lot of my jobs didn't need mathematic ability. They needed me to be able to lift things and load things onto pallets, or washing up dishes, or unloading ovens full of bread, or putting stickers on bits of meat, or loading lorries, or sitting in a chair all night, securing a building. And that's just to name a few.

Working behind a bar in a pub. In fact, you do need a little bit of, you did back then, because you had to add up. There was no calculator on the till.

There was no, you had to like, add it all up in your head, then put the full amount in. Which wasn't good. I think tills were a bit more advanced now.

Just trying to think what other jobs I had that didn't involve maths. Even counselling, didn't really need mathematics. When I worked in insurance, I forgot about insurance.

I spent, I had three different jobs in insurance, and that, that lasted for what, 13 years of my life, pretty much, with a few breaks. And other than statistics, because you had to work out, you know, statistically, call to sale, quote to sale, you know, team statistics compared to everyone else's. And had to relearn that stuff.

But it's quite easy, really. But it was, I've forgotten now. Statist, S-T-A-T-I-S-T.

Yeah, I can't spell it either. Algebra. Even the word's difficult to spell.

Algebra. A-L-G B-R-A. That's a mouthful.

So yeah. So, that's it. That's my Monday's Bored Objects broadband.

I'm trying to think, when it moved from boing, boing, boing, boing, all that sound, you know, to dial up to actual broadband. I think it might have been 2005. Or was it 2007? I think it was between 2005 and 2007, that the dial up wasn't being used anymore.

I kind of miss that sound. Oh, it's nice. It was almost, it was kind of like you cross your fingers and your legs, because you didn't really know if it was going to work or not.

You go bing, bing, bing. And then sometimes go, you know, boing, boing, or whatever. So it meant it wasn't working.

And then times it just, other goes, other goes, sometimes my words are not working today. Sometimes it would just work perfectly. It'd be like, ah, and it didn't matter that it took, you know, 20 minutes for a picture to open.

It's just the fact that it was working. And I could, I don't even know what I did on there. I think I just used to search for stuff back in the early days of the internet here.

Like, you know, 90, a late, late 90s, 2000s. 2004, I definitely was getting more involved in studying stuff, buying stuff on Amazon. That's when I started buying books on Amazon, 2004, I think.

Maybe two, yeah, 2004. And then when I was at university, a lot of like studying, looking up stuff as well. So someone just asked me, am I in my bathroom? No, this is my, I've got, I'm sitting in a chair.

This is my living room. Does it look like I've got bathroom tiles behind me? I know, sorry. It's, they're soundproofing, supposed to be.

You know, you're not the first person to ask me that. So I'm just, well, I also need to make some changes. So I'm going to go.

So thank you very, very much for listening. I'm probably going to do another hypnosis recording tomorrow. I'm hoping that the one I uploaded I did today, it's in the process of being uploaded to YouTube as we speak.

Realistically, I probably won't be able to edit this one till tomorrow morning, this one now, when I get up out of bed. So that'll be released and it'll be uploaded by in the morning sometime, hopefully. But it depends how quickly the hypnosis one, for sleep, is uploaded.

Because it takes a while. And never know, it might already be done. But it might take a few more hours.

Might take all night, I hope not. And I think I'm going to try and do a trivia Tuesday tomorrow. Yeah.

Yeah, why not? So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Because you do deserve to be happy.

And be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye.