(Overnight Music) Q&A Friday #1631 Let Me Bore You To Sleep

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. Then he drinking his water. He normally does that when he thinks that we're going out.

But we're not. Not just yet anyway. Not till this is accomplished.

So yeah, this is let me bore you to sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Today is Friday the 12th of June.

Two thousand and twenty six. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And what day is it? What day altogether now? Come on.

Q&A Q&A Q&A Friday. Friday. Yes.

What time is it? It's Q&A time. Well, it's five twenty six. So yeah.

Oh dear. So my website is Jason Newland dot com. All my recordings are uploaded there.

You can stream them and you can download all six fixed versions of each recording. And everything's free. Well, I've got a YouTube channel.

All my recordings are automatically uploaded to my YouTube channel. So that's easy to find. And.

Every day, I almost almost I also. Upload. A recording to both to all three things.

So it's TikTok X and Instagram. If the recording is less than an hour, then it goes on the whole thing. If it's over an hour, then I can only put the first fifty nine minutes on there.

Which could be long enough for someone to fall asleep. I've still been continuing doing the Breaking Free from Control and Manipulation podcast. I've now got.

I think 22 or 23 episodes on there. So before I get on, there's a few messages I need to say. I got a message today from Katie.

I'm going to read it out. And I'm going to it's like a shout out, but. I'll also I haven't got her name to to kind of mention, but anyway, I'll read the message out.

Hi, Jason. So this is from Katie. This is on Facebook.

I hope you don't mind me messaging you, but hoping for a little favor. My mom adores you and listens to you every night to fall asleep. She really speaks highly of you and in and I enjoy your stories and wisdom.

She's had a fall on the holidays at the weekend and is doing amazing recuperating. And I just wondered if you could send her a little message on here for encouragement. I will send a separate message with her name on here for a message, if possible, please.

Now, I can still in my next recording still say her name, but. Katie's mom. Hello.

Hi. I hope that you recover quickly and as I don't really know much about the situation, but I hope you're OK and that, you know, you're feeling better. Also, what I was going to do, not today, but was thinking of doing if you want me to is actually make you a special recording.

So it will be for everyone to listen to, but it will be for you. It will be called for Katie's mom, a relaxation session for Katie's mom, something like that. And I'll just put it on my website like I do everything else.

But you'll know it's you know, I think of you when I do it. And what you can do is let me know what what kind of stuff you like, what kind of relaxation session you'd like me to do. You know, you might want me to focus on your back or you might.

Enjoy the sea or, you know, I mean, something like that. So this is and if anyone's got any messages they want me to read out, I'm very much open for that. Because I like to give back and I like to, because, you know, I'm continuously feeling grateful towards you for listening.

Because without you listening, there'd be there'd be no reason for me to do this. And this is, this is what keeps me going, genuinely. And the two things that keep me going is me, this and Vinny.

So I've been doing this for 20 years. And I'll do it for as long as I'm physically able to. And I do seem to be getting more into a routine of making regular recordings.

Yesterday, though, for example, is well, it's not an example of it really. I did do a, I forget what I did, I did a break and free from what's it control and manipulation called emotional exhaustion. So I did that in the morning.

But I kind of my mood took a very big dip in the afternoon to the point where I just went to bed early and I didn't do anything else. But this morning, when I got up, I made two recordings. So I made another breaking free from control and manipulation, trusting your instincts again.

And I also did a sleep hypnosis recording called forget everything. So I did those this morning. So I've actually, I've gone from not being able to do anything to doing well, this is the third recording.

But it's a long time since the last one, because that was blimey, that was before nine o'clock this morning. It's now 532. Don't even ask me what I've done all day.

It's gone. It's just gone. But then making recordings.

I'm not going to say it's the easiest part, but it's it's it kind of is in a sense, because all the other stuff, the editing, the uploading, or the waiting around for things to be uploaded and downloaded. It's very time consuming. But it's worth it, I think.

So next thing I need to do is go to I can't go to the correct page. By the way, if you haven't joined yet, you know, you're welcome to join Jason Newland's Boring Group. It's my Facebook group.

And, you know, it's a place where you can send messages, or just post something. Also, you can send a message to me directly on my website as well. I found out recently that I do have a message on there, a contact form.

I sent myself one. It was a little bit cheeky. It was.

So contact. So my website is contact, you can put your name, email, if you want telephone number, comment, you don't have to put a correct email or correct telephone number or anything. So I won't phone you or anything like that.

Unless you want me to. So, you know, so it's just, I might try and figure a way of doing this. So you just put your name in a comment.

But I'm not quite sure how to do that yet. So the next thing is to go to my Facebook page. Please, please, please let me go to my Facebook page.

Okay, it's going to take me there in a minute. It's a bit windy out there. It sounded like.

So I need to say thank you to two people who sent me PayPal gifts because I did post something on the Facebook group. I can't even get onto the phone. Why is it not allowing me to get onto the Facebook group? Ridiculous.

Where are you? Facebook. Right, because I think I've got one, one, two, three, four, five different Facebook pages and a Facebook group. So that's where things get a little bit confusing.

So I've got the Jason Newland hypnotist page. We've got 25,000 followers. And I get hardly any, any reaction from anything I post on there, which is amazing.

25,000. It's not a bad amount, is it? But no one. I don't think anyone goes on there.

I get that I've got the let me bore you to sleep page, which has 185 followers. And no one seems to go on there either. And then I've got the other one, which is Jason Newland.

Jason Newland, the hypnotist or one word 36 followers. So I do get occasionally messages on there. Then I've got the let me bore you to sleep.

If I've not mentioned that one yet, have I? I've got 185 followers on that one. And then there's my own web, my own normal page, Jason Newland. And I've got 3000 point 3.9 9000 followers on there.

And again, I don't get much. I get the occasional like on stuff, but very little on there. And then I got my Facebook group.

Where is it? My Facebook group. So if I come out there, there is. So my Facebook group is Jason Newland's boring group.

And at the moment I got 248 members. So I did post. I thought I'd make it a bit snazzy.

I don't know why, but I put a thing yesterday by Jason, a virtual cup of tea, smiley face, a little cup of tea. Looks more like a cup of coffee. Really.

Mind you, I remember like when I was a kid, we used to be mugs of coffee, cups of tea. Mugs of coffee, cups of tea. Not a mug of tea.

You never get a mug of tea. Tea in a mug. But a cup of tea.

I personally, I'd go for a mug of tea. I don't, I haven't drunk coffee in ages really. Not myself.

I sometimes used to have one, have a coffee with a friend, but I don't, I haven't had a coffee at home for a long time. And then it says, if my boring voice has helped you fall asleep, relax, or escape the stresses of life. And you'd like to say thank you.

You can send me a small PayPal gift. No pressure or nothing will always remain free, blah, blah, blah. Your kindness helps me continue making these recordings and keeping the podcasts online, which is true.

At this time of the month, it's kind of mid section of the month. This is when a lot of the podcast stuff goes out. Like the cost of the website, cost of the podcast hosting, and the cost of various different things.

This kind of all seems to come out at a weird time. Most of my bills go out like my, my normal bill bills, like electric gas, water, council tax, all that stuff that generally goes out on the very first of the month. And then about the first week of the month, about seven for something, that's when the mobile phone bills go out.

And that's when a few other bits and bobs go out. And then around the middle of the month is when I start getting things going out. Oh, it's anyway.

So I'd like to say thank you to both Nicole and Samantha for your kind PayPal gifts. I posted Thank you Samantha on the both of to both of you on Jason Newland's boring group, because I was unable to get an email or anything to send to you. I couldn't there's nothing on the PayPal app.

So if you if you do send me a PayPal gift, I was wondering if you could, if you're on this is on issue, you might not be on Facebook. But maybe you can send me an email so I can reply and say thank you. I know that's a little bit extra work and stuff.

But I just, I really don't. I don't like not saying thank you. Even if I might say thank you on the podcast.

And hopefully you'll hear it, or write it down on my Jason Newland's boring group. I just the idea that you might have sent a PayPal gift and not had a response from me makes me feel a bit upset, actually, because I just like I don't want you to think that I'm like that. Does that make sense? It didn't, did it? It did.

It did. It did. I think it did.

Yeah. So, which means I'll come out of there later. And I'll come and get to the any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, 12th of June 2026.

I have five questions. I'm rather aroused. I'm not.

That's weird. Isn't it weird? Like it was a time when you said aroused and it meant like you were kind of very attentive. Very, very suddenly very interested in something.

Very like, oh, okay. Stimulated. But nowadays everybody's got a dirty mind.

Dirty, dirty, dirty. Yep, I have a stiffy. So let's have a look what we're doing here.

What are we doing? Wee, wee, wee, wee. I'm trying to think if there's anything else I need to tell you before I do the recording. I don't know.

Uh, no, I can't think of anything particularly. No, that's it. So I've got my window closed, my door closed and my curtains drawn closed.

It's still light outside because it's only quarter to six. Vinnie hasn't seen Archie for weeks now. We've just been going out a little bit later.

That's, that's his best friend. But he's also really, there's another dog exactly the same as Archie. And Vinnie was playing with him this morning.

Doing exactly the same as what he does with Archie. So, and they were running around and playing and growling and it was really nice. And they were getting tangled because neither of them are allowed off the lead.

They were, he was like, okay, I wonder if Vinnie thinks he's Archie. But I don't think dogs are like that are they? It's more about smells in it, I think. I might be wrong, but it's a very, it's like the same type of dog looks, looks the same to me.

Just one of those cute little fluffy dogs. I don't, I don't know many dogs. Breeds really.

Types. Makes. You know, it's, I know you got whatever Vinnie is.

And I didn't even know what Jack Russell was before him really. But then you've got different kinds of Jack Russell because Vinnie's very short haired. He's ginger.

If you look at Eddie on Frasier, he's got long hair and he's white. Well, white and grey or whatever. And he's got long straggly hair.

So, I guess Eddie or Frasier is one of Vinnie's best friends. Although occasionally does bark at him and I say, it's Eddie. It's Eddie.

You see him every day. Sometimes, you know, I just, it's been quite windy. It was rainy yesterday.

Proper rainy. Rainy, rainy, rainy. Do you know that kind of wind today is being, do you know when you turn a corner and suddenly hit by the wind, but previous to that, it was completely quiet.

Like it was nothing. But you turn a corner, like the wind is just blowing in one direction. Or just one down one road for some reason.

It's a bit like that. It seems like it's just suddenly hit my windows and then going away. It's weird.

You're weird. So got a boxing on tomorrow. Got a boxing on.

Oh, I realised I need to get on with the questions. Is it annoying people that I perhaps don't do the Q&A, the questions? I do do the questions, but perhaps I don't do them as quickly as I should be considering I'm asking you to give me questions and then I'm answering them. Maybe not answering them.

As quick, as early in the recording as I should, perhaps. I don't know. But I do always answer the questions if I can.

Occasionally, I think there's been the odd one where I just didn't really have an answer. Yeah. Generally, I'll answer anything.

I don't. I don't. Well, if anything, I'm an oversharer, aren't I? So I'm not really too bothered what I get asked.

So I'll start with Shanthani. Shanthani asked. Oh, I did get a message on my.

This is on one of my PayPal gifts. I'll read that out. Oh, blimey, what's going on? OK, right.

This is from Samantha. Hey, Jason, I have been listening to you for seven years now and you feel like an old friend in some ways. I instantly feel comforted when I hear your voice.

I love hearing your stories, even if I never hear the end because I fall asleep and I always enjoy your cheeky jokes. Oh, I'm just wondering, is Samantha. Are you the person that I was talking to from the message earlier? Is that you connected that early message? See, I'm like, well, thank you for those kind words.

I'm like a really bad Inspector Clouseau and he was bad, wasn't he? Like a Sherlock Holmes, but without the violin. Shanthani asks, what is your favourite concert you ever saw? What were you like as a kid? Wow, how long is that recording going to be? Honestly, what was I like as a kid? You'd have to ask other people. I think annoying, annoying comes to mind.

I've never been to a concert. If I think of like a show, like I've never been. I nearly went to see Michael Jackson in 1988.

So on my birthday, one of my birthday presents from the auntie was Michael Jackson tickets. And I was going to go with my cousin and my auntie. And I was really excited because I was a huge Michael Jackson fan.

Now, this is how my mind used to work. I'd literally, well, I was starting a new job just after my 18th birthday. So I had to be 18 to even apply for this job.

And I got the job instantly. And I started like on the Monday. And it was in a factory that made meters.

And what I did, my job was to put meters in the boxes and package them onto pallets, you know, stack them on pallets and spin wrap them, you know, put the wrapping around them to make sure I didn't fall off. And that was it really. That was my job.

Now, I, I, I, I, I, it was my first proper job. I mean, I know I'd worked in a chip shop, and I'd had probably about 20 different jobs in the first, like, you know, for a couple of years. But I'd worked in a, it wasn't my first proper job.

I should stop saying that because there's nothing wrong with working in a chip shop. There's nothing wrong with working in the supermarket. It just felt like the first, it was the first job that paid me okay money.

And I was doing overtime. And, you know, I didn't even know what to spend my money on at the time. But then I was living in one room in a house, you know, for like 30 quid a week or 25 quid a week or something.

I was taking home probably 600, 700 a month. Maybe less, maybe 5, 600. I can't remember exactly.

But I was, you know, I didn't even think about getting myself a rent in a flat or taking driving lessons or dressing nicely or anything. It was, I don't know, I was very aimless. So anyway, I'm still talking about Michael Jackson tickets.

I am. Trust me, I am. And basically, I started that job.

The tickets weren't, the concert wasn't probably until possibly October. It was, it wasn't like in August. You know, my birthday was August.

So it was a couple of months afterwards. And I just started my new job. I'd only been there for a week.

And I had to have a day off to go to the concert. Because it was in London. I didn't live in London at that time.

And I didn't want to ask for the day off. And I didn't want to take the day off like cheekily, because it's the first week. I can't take a day off sick on the first week.

So I just cancelled going. Now, I'm not sure, because I'm not there now. You know, I'm not that age anymore.

And let's face it, it's nearly 40 years ago, 38 years ago. Nearly. I don't know if I had, if I was concerned about the crowds.

So I'd never been in a place like that, like stuck in the middle of a, I think it was a Wembley Stadium. And I might have had an issue with that. I don't know.

It might be an anxiety thing. So I use my work as an excuse. I'm really not sure.

Like now, I wish I'd gone, because it might change my life. But you might think, how would it change your life? Well, when I was, well, not just 18, but all right away from about the age of eight, I wanted to be a singer. And I used to write my own songs.

I'm not saying they were good, but I used to write my own songs. And I used to, when I was around 14, I fell in love with someone and I used to write poems and write songs for her. And she told me to go away.

And then, that's when I realized that not everybody appreciates somebody singing their own songs as like a love ballad to them. Not everybody appreciates a stranger doing that, especially through a letterbox. So yeah, even at school, I was really into, I wanted to learn the guitar, but I never did.

I bought a guitar, but it was a bass. So that was no good. I thought it was, I wonder why, you know, on a screen, because I got it from them, like a catalogue.

And I forgot that guitars have six strings, you know, like lead guitars, and it was electric one. And this one had four strings, which meant it was a bass. And I couldn't really see how learning the bass would be useful if I was going to be a singer.

It might have been, I don't know. I just didn't, couldn't figure it out. It was heavy.

It was blue. That's all I can tell you. So I used to sing a lot when I was on my own.

When I was upstairs, like when I was, when I was working, I used to sing a lot. And I used to listen to Michael Jackson. You know, when I wasn't working, I was listening to Michael Jackson or Stevie Wonder or, trying to think, George Michael, you know, people like that.

I used to sing their songs. So I, I wanted to be a singer. I'm not sure if I wrote any songs during the period of leaving school.

And I mean, really, the first time I remember writing a song after leaving school was in 1996. When I went around my cousins and we did, we wrote a song, he was a musician, so we wrote a song called I Miss You to try and get my girlfriend back. And that was 96.

So it was literally 10 years between me leaving school and writing my first, well really my first song with music. All the others were just me just, you know, singing. And I'd record myself and stuff like that.

But I hadn't done anything for about 10 years really. I played around with it in the early 90s, at home and that. And I got a four track.

Actually, none of this is true. No, it is true. But I had a four track or an eight track.

And I used to like sing bits and then put it together to make it sound okay. And I wanted to be a singer. That's kind of, I think the two things that I would like to have done going back to the age of 16 is, or even 18, but 16, there was two things and I just thought I can't do them.

I'm too old now. One was be a boxer. Because I was 18.

And I thought I'm too old. Now I could have gone to a boxing gym. I could have fought as an amateur for another 10, 15 years if I wanted to.

I think it's, is it 36 the cutoff point is for an amateur. So I could have fought for, you know, 18 years. But I just thought, just I'm too old for this.

Can't do it now. And being a singer. And because I was in this little town and there was nothing really there.

There's no, I don't know, just, I don't know how to explain it. If I'd have been in, I don't know if it made any difference where I was really. It's just the people I was around.

I wasn't around anyone that was into, if I'd have been around someone that was into boxing, that was boxing, I'd come along, come to the gym. Or if I'd been around someone that was into singing, like they had a band or something like that. Maybe I would have got, you know, kind of spread my wings a little bit and attempted to do it.

Although I did used to, I just remembered, I'm just like, I'm not lying, but remembering memories now. Is it remembering memories? You don't have to say memories do you? I'm just remembering. Because you can only remember memories, can't you? I don't need to say the word memories.

I remember a memory. No, it's unnecessary, isn't it? So two things actually that I remember when it comes to the music is, well three things, but it's the same person, two of them. I, yeah, I went to, oh wait a minute, I applied, I don't remember when it was, I think it was about 88, 89.

But I applied to be the lead singer in a band and I went to the next town, I think I got a taxi there, and I sung a Buddy Holly song and they were like a 60s band and they didn't want me. They did, I failed the audition. I personally think I failed the audition because they didn't relate to me because they were all people in their, I'm not saying middle age, but probably at least 30s, maybe 40s, I don't know, and there I was 18.

And I didn't, I don't think that if they thought they'd have much fun with me, they wanted to be with someone, I guess they didn't class me as an adult, maybe. They wanted to be around someone who was older, that's what I'm thinking. I might be wrong, it might just that they all thought I was rubbish, but I don't think I was, I don't think so.

Another time, this is after I left school, actually when I was at school there was this bloke called Sid and he was, can you flap your ears please Vin, oh thanks. My oldest brother was close friends with a bloke called Sid who owned the Wimpy Bar in town. So me and my friends used to go into the Wimpy at night, early evening, have a cup of tea and some toasted tea cakes and stuff like that.

And we got to know Sid as well and he'd chat to us, but we weren't, obviously we weren't drinking with him or anything like that like my brother because he was a lot older than me. But once my brother wanted to, he, I think he had a guitar and he wanted to be in a band as well, didn't want me in his band, but he wanted to be in a band. But I went around with him to play some songs I'd written and Sid, I think Sid lived above the Wimpy.

So I went up there with my brother and I think there's a couple of other people, so they were all adults and I was like 14, 15 maybe. And yeah, I'm not sure if they were laughing at me, but I think they laughed a little bit, but they seemed to be okay. And I don't remember a lot of it, but, and I think I did some singing when I was there because Sid wanted to be, I think his idol was George Michael and he had the looks, you know, so he, and he was also, I think he was the same, like Greek, wasn't George Michael Greek? I think, I think he was Greek as well.

So he kind of, yeah, but he wanted to be, he wanted to be, I don't know if his name was Papadopoulos, but he was, he, you know, he was a really cool dude and his brother or his cousin used to work there and I think he took over. But I got on with the whole family, got on really well, even when I left school and yeah, I got on, I liked them all. So that was one memory, but having left school, there was the audition, which didn't go too well and then, you know, that awkwardness of, I'm not going to say farting in a lift, but there's almost, I'd say the awkwardness, I suppose, if you're chatting to someone and you both say goodbye to each other and then you end up walking the same way.

And you know that you've both finished what you wanted to say, you don't want to start the conversation up again. I mean, I saw someone the other day that I haven't seen since 2011 and she worked in this place I worked in and she's probably only about 18, 19 at the time, maybe 20, 21. And I saw her in the post office about a month ago and I said to her, oh, it's you.

And she went, huh? I said, how are you doing? You remember me? Yeah, she's very miserable. And I said, how are you getting on? She said, I'm a teacher now. She didn't do that, but she didn't seem very pleased to see me for whatever reason.

And me and her got on really well when I was there. So who knows what that's about? Maybe she was having a bad day. And she said, oh yeah, I worked there for a year and a half and then I left.

And she's now a teacher or something. So, oh, good luck. And it was just awkward.

I think, I don't know if it was more awkward for her than me because it was awkward, but I kind of like found it quite funny in a way. But she really didn't want to talk to me. And that's, yeah, that's an awkward kind of situation.

So it was a little bit like that. I guess it's a bit like walking into a lift and people are following you into lift, but you get in there, maybe five seconds before they are, and you let off a massive fart. It's a little bit like that.

Like they're about to walk into a very misty lift and they don't want to be rude by like going, oh, which is what I would do. I would just say, oh my God, what the hell was that stink? Get out. I wouldn't probably say get out, but I would mention it probably.

I wouldn't be able to stop myself. So. I can't remember why.

Oh, yeah. The audition, the audition, the audition didn't go so well. And I also had a friend who was actually my oldest brother's friend and me and him became friends.

And he was a whiz on a keyboard, like a like a little, well, just a big keyboard at that time. But all the way through school, because I used to see him even in junior school, but wherever he was, he had a keyboard with him. Even just those like, I think at one point he had one of those Rolf Harris little xylophone, whatever they're called.

But he had the little keyboards constantly playing music. He was, that was his passion. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time since probably 89, 1989.

And I hope probably 90 actually 1990. I hope and hope and hope and hope that he's well and happy. Genuinely, I really liked him a lot.

The problem is, I wasn't a very good friend. Back then. I didn't get attached to anyone.

So I wasn't wasn't that I was a bad friend, as in horrible person. I just moved around so much. And when I moved to London in 1991, for the second time, and stayed there till 2001.

I had very little connection with anybody from the town that I'd lived in since the age of seven. And, but we used to kind of, I used to go into his house and we'd jam, we made this song. I forget, I used to remember it, but I forgot it now.

And he, I think he was influenced quite a lot by, let's say, Nick Kershaw, or the Piano Man, what's his name, the Piano Man, you know, because he definitely keyboard based music. And he liked to sing and stuff. And in 1989, we went for a, you know, we went into the beach, into the like the cliff bits.

And it's like, so sat down there and we was writing music as well in the sun. So that was quite cool. So yeah, there was that bit I forgot about that.

But it wasn't till 96 that I wrote my first song, like my song, with help with the music and then, and recorded it. And then I did some, I did another one in 97. So between 96 and 2001, I did probably about five or six songs over that period that I recorded.

Yeah, used to do a lot of karaoke. So in the comedy club where I used to do the talent show every Wednesday, or most Wednesdays. And it was a contest and I never won anything.

I just always probably minus to be fair. But afterwards, they'd have karaoke. And it'd be like a contest for that.

And I'd win that sometimes. Because I was I was good at singing. I was, I thought I was.

Yeah. And so that's what's your favorite concert you ever saw? I never never went to one. Vinny's now moaning at me do the old I know he can't help it.

And I know, well, I guess he's extremely bored right now. But still, come on. And I what I do now is in the mornings when I make my recording, because it's the only time when it's quiet.

It's not always quite outside, but it's the only time that it's likely to be quite outside for the entirety of the duration of me making recording. And I just realized I didn't need to say entirety and duration did I? Man, what I do is I leave him in the bedroom. So he's in bed.

I get up, I close the door. And I close the door in here. And then when I finish the recording, I open the door.

Which gives me well, I can't make a hypnosis recording with him scratching and running around and just doing his thing. But when I do let me boy to sleep, he's part of this. This this he is the co host.

Although I don't like it when he hassles me. But you know, he's little sounds he makes when he's chewing or if he's running around or he's just snoring or whatever. Occasionally he does do farts.

I mean, I would never do that. But he does it. I don't I don't edit it out because that is his contribution.

So I've never I've never been to I mean, I did go my my uncle, I told you my cousin and my uncle. My uncle was in a country band. And I did go and see him in concert once.

So yeah, that was a concert, isn't it? So I say that's the best concert I've been to I guess. When I was on the Isle of Man, and it really is there's only men live there pretty much. I was very surprised.

I thought it was like was why is it called the Isle of Man? But after like five days, I realized because I only met I saw what three women the whole time I was there. I mean, I wasn't looking for women, you know, I wasn't like, that'd be weird. But I just, there were you know, it's just all men.

It's just what's going on. I don't know how true that is. But that's that's how I experienced it.

And I think it was the week after the TT races. It's one of the biggest motorbike races courses, or most popular in the world. In fact, I think the Isle of Man TT races.

So I'm sure there's plenty of both species there. But yeah, I just seem to be men there. I mean, I was with three women as well.

So I guess I shouldn't really say that, should I? But Oh, yeah, there was the reason I mentioned this is because there was a kind of like a musical theatre show. Lots of just, there's like an orchestra and people singing and stuff like that. So that was all right.

That was nice. I felt a little bit. I don't know.

There's something about just sitting there with people around me, behind me and in front of me and to the side of me and I don't know where to look. Like if it's a movie, obviously you look at the fire escape. But I do tend to look at the fire escape just because it's lit.

It's like, I know it has to be lit, but it's a bit distracting. But you know, okay, you look at the screen. But when it's an orchestra, don't look at the trumpeter, don't look at the drummer, the violinist, the bloke with the stick, who no one's really taking any making any attention to anyway, what it was.

What's that about? It's called a conductor. I know what it's called. But really? Don't they rehearse? And they've got the music in front of them.

So they're going to know when the violin comes in and when the trumpets come in. And a lot of this music is hundreds of years old. So they've probably been listening to them, heard them hundreds if not thousands of times.

You know? You'd know. I don't know. Maybe.

What do I know? I'm not a musician. But it looks to me like it's just somebody with a stick who wished he was a wizard. Always wanted to be a wizard.

And he just stands up in front of the bunch of people playing music and it's almost as if he's threatening to turn them into frogs if they don't play. And he points like, come on, keep up. I was going to say my favourite song really as far as orchestra goes is the Frog Song by Paul McCartney.

But then that makes sense, doesn't it? If it was a wizard conducting it, when they're all human when they started, but he just was turning people into wizards, into wizards, into frogs by accident. That was a great song. And see, yeah, I've never really seen a concert.

I mean, that was a concert kind of I've seen a pantomime in 2005, went to a pantomime with a girlfriend and her kid. I think it was something, I don't know, Captain Hook or something. And when I was a kid, when I was like little, little, little, little, probably under the age of seven anyway, living in Southend, the children's home, we used to go to Southend Pier because there was a theatre, probably still is.

And I imagine we used to get three tickets and it'd be on the balcony. And we all held on so the nuns didn't push us over. But it was really, I quite liked it because there'd be pantomime every year.

And sometimes we'd go to, because there's probably two things I remember. I remember Swan Lake, which would have been ballet. And then I remember seeing a pantomime, which was Jack and the Beanstalk, because I fell in love with Jack.

And even at that age, I was confused. It's like, I love Jack. But I think one of my friends, or well, to be fair, if you live in a kid's home and you sleep with them and you work with them and you, they're your family.

They're not really your friends. Some of them you don't even like, but they are your family because that's, you live with them. You're with them all the time.

So one of the lads that I lived with, he said, you can't love him, it's a boy. It's a boy. And I'm like, really? I said, well, I was probably five at the time, five or six.

I didn't really know where we were going with that. And it turned out it wasn't a boy, it was a girl. And I did point that to him, like, it's a girl, because boys don't have them.

And it was an adult woman playing Jack. And he said, oh, okay. Because there was a brochure and her name was like Tiffany or I made that bit up, but you know, it was a female name.

And she was female. You could see that she was female. But it's Jack in the Beanstalk, like with pantomime.

If you don't know what pantomime is, by the way, is I think it's quite a British thing. So you have men dressing up as women, women dressing up as men, people wearing a horse costumes, silly songs, comedy, like a standard thing is. Have you seen? Have you seen Pinocchio? He's behind you.

That's the audience would shout out. And they'd look around and Pinocchio would like move around as he looked around. And he sort of kept behind him the whole time.

I can't see him. Come on, ladies and gentlemen. Have you seen Pinocchio? He's behind you.

And I just go on and on and on to the point where. You just can't just you'd have to get on stage, say, look, that's enough now. Yeah, he's there.

You're like, here he is. Look, Pinocchio. Meet Doris or whatever the person was.

Captain Hook Pinocchio. We're not dumb. You know, we're kids, but we we know that, you know, he's there.

You know how we know? Because you do this show every day, twice a day for about six weeks leading up to Christmas. Well, this is the one night that you forgot that he was there, is it? None of that happened, but it's it does sound like it could. Swan Lake was lovely.

That's a lovely sound. I'm sure we watched the Nutcracker as well. And then I remembered, no, we didn't.

I was in the Nutcracker. At school, I think it was junior school. I played me and my friend Dean.

We played the kids in a Nutcracker, so we had our own pantomime kind of thing or play Christmas play. And the tea, you know, it was families turned up, parents and all that stuff. And me and Dean, all we did pretty much all the way through was laugh.

Because I think we pretty much ruined it. Not on purpose, but we just laughed because it was we were in it a lot of the time because we were just as the little kids. We weren't even have a speaking part, I don't think.

And yeah, that was fun. I think. I mean, I was in a concert, like a musical concert where I played the violin with another person.

But that was like just a not a solo, whatever a solo plus one other person is, is, you know, that was that. And that was just like a one off thing in a night of music at one of us at my junior school as well. But favorite concert I ever saw.

No, I haven't seen any. I mean, I've not been to any. If I was going to say my favorite concert, I'd probably go for Delirious, which was Eddie Murphy's concert, his live performance.

And when I saw that for the first time in 1989, 1988. Or I think it was 88. Yeah, I laughed.

It might be in 89. I laughed so much through watching that. And it was a concert, but it was like they released it at theaters.

But it was a comedy concert. So I guess I'd say the concerts that I really loved have been comedy rather than live. The music.

But I haven't seen really any live bands. But I nearly went to see Michael Jackson. I could have gone to see him.

But yeah. The next question, Shanthony, what was I like as a kid? Annoying. I'll go back to that same word.

Annoying. I was tiny. So the thing is, in my mind, there's my child is broken up into different parts.

And some parts I don't remember anything about. So the part where I lived with my dad and my mum for the first six months, I don't remember that, obviously. And then the part when I was living with foster parents for about a year and a half till I was two or two or whatever.

I don't remember that either. And then the part where I moved, I went to Newcastle with my mum. She came and got us between that age.

So between two or two and a half and seven. I remember part of that time. And that time is broken up between living with her and she moved around a bit.

And then living in two different children's homes. And then the next section of childhood is at seven or just before I turned seven, moving in with my dad and his new wife. So there's that part.

And then that's broken up so that between seven and I suppose leaving school at 15. That's when the family kind of stopped. So for those eight years, so eight years, seven, 17, eight years.

So for eight years, we lived in three different houses. So the first house we lived in was my step mum's mum's house. And that wasn't for long.

And then we got a council house lived there till I was about just before I was nine, I think. And that was my favourite place I've ever lived. And so that's, so that's broken up those three sections by where we lived.

And that was the first time I'd ever had my own room. So that was cool. And then my little brother came along the day before my eighth birthday.

So that changed everything. And then we moved into this big house that had enough rooms for all of us. Which was 1979 to 1985 or 1986.

So 15. So for seven years, or six years, sorry. Seven years, six are loose track.

But anyway, it's so we was there for that period of time. So I kind of think of my childhood, like up to that age, pretty much sort of 151615. Really, when I left school, as far as I was concerned, the childhood ended when I left school.

Some would argue my childhood ended at six months old, but hey, depends how you look at it. So it's I kind of break it up. So what was I like? When I was I was very little, I was very premature.

That's when it wasn't an insult. It's really, really premature as a kid's fine, but you get called that as an adult. It's an issue, isn't it? So I was now it's like raising a Titanic.

So now I was thinking, I don't mean old and rusty, but you know, it's not far off it. I I'm trying to think probably I think I was quite quiet, I think. But at the same time, here's something I do remember, I wasn't scared of other kids.

Even though I was little, I did have two older brothers. And we had lived on a very rough council estate in Newcastle. And it also lived in two different children's homes, which could get rough at times.

So I wasn't, I didn't have any fear of other kids. So that's the one thing when it came to, I didn't kind of worry about other kids. You know, generally.

But I think I was quite a nice kid. I think when I was little, I was a bit I was I was rough. I guess I was rough when I was like living in Newcastle in children's homes.

I was very I didn't give in. So I used to have like a standoff with the nuns in Southend because they used to, they were determined I was going to eat the food they gave me. I was determined I wasn't.

So they would leave me and make me stay at the table for as long as it took me to eat the food. So I stayed there for hours and eventually let me go. I wouldn't do it.

And I'd say to them, I just want beans. Beans on toast. I didn't like the stuff they gave me.

Not all of it. I must have eaten something otherwise I wouldn't have survived. But I didn't like a lot of stuff that they gave me to eat.

And I wouldn't back down. So I don't know where I got that from. At school, when I was little, I suppose really, I can't remember much about school before the age of seven.

And then I went to three different schools, junior schools. I went to one at seven. I was at a different one at eight.

Really Vinny? So I was at a different one at seven. I was at a different one at eight. And then I went to another one at nine, which I was at for two years.

So my memory of junior school is I used to be quite protective towards other kids that had, we could say disabilities or disadvantages. I'd look out for people. I don't know why, but I just did.

And it wouldn't matter how big the person was that I was dealing with. If they were out of line, I would kind of tell them off. But I also used to own up to stuff that wasn't my fault.

That might have been, I'd been partly been trained by one of my brothers because he was always getting into trouble. And sometimes it was just easier to own up to it so we could all get on with our lives. But yeah, I remember I was in the first junior school.

So I'd have been seven and the teachers were moaning because someone had made a dent in the wall. And they said, you know what, no one's going to lunch until you tell us. So we find out who did it.

No one's going to lunch. And I thought this is just ridiculous. Like we're going to be here.

I mean, it was a big dent as well. Like I don't know how anyone made the dent. So it probably wasn't a kid.

It's probably, it was an accident that an adult did and they didn't realise they'd done it. Maybe the cleaner banged it or something. I've got no idea.

But anyway, I put my hand up and said it was me miss. Actually I think I said it was me sir. Just because I knew, realised it was a lady and I thought I'd just pretend it was an accident.

So it was me, me sir, I'm sorry miss, miss. And she said, okay, everyone out. Everyone go to lunch.

Jason can stay here. So I stayed there and she said, well, show me how you did it. I said, what? She said, show me how you made the hole in the wall.

I said, what do you want to make one? She's like, oh dear. She said, no, I just want to know how you did it. Why would I want to make one? I said, I don't know.

You seem to be interested in how I did it. Can you show me how you did it, please? Why? So that I know it is you that did it. But I just told you it was me that did it.

Yeah, but we need to make sure that we punished the right person. I said, why? And what do you mean punish? So I don't know what they had planned for me. Anyway, I said, okay.

I said, I used something out of the cupboard. Well, show us. So I went in there, bearing in mind, I hadn't done it.

And I went in there and pulled out a bit of Lego, but it was one of those big plastic block of Legos, not like the little bits, but which actually probably could scrape a bit of the thing. But these ones couldn't do anything anyway to anything. That's a sentence, isn't it? Can do anything anyway to anything.

So I said, yeah, I used this bit of Lego, this big block of, I don't think they were called Legos, but you know, it's a similar kind of thing. And she said, show me how you did it. So I kind of scraped the wall and she said, you didn't do it, did you? I said, yeah, Gav, honest.

I did. Honest. You've got me banged to rights.

Honest. And she said, go to lunch. And she just sent me to lunch.

So I'd never heard anything more about it, actually. I reckon one of the other teachers, they're probably in the, wherever they all hang out at lunchtime, probably discussing it. And so I said, oh boy, that was me.

You know, I backed my car in there by accident. Why the car was doing inside the school, I don't know. But it's like, oh, better not mention it then.

It's all right. Little Jason has admitted to it so we can just let it go. Really doesn't matter.

But that did happen. The part of it happened anyway. I did admit to, I used to admit to things I hadn't done.

Just sometimes it's easier, that whole tension of like, well, you're all staying here till we find out who did it. Someone did it. It's got to be one of you that did it.

And the amount of times that my brother would do stuff, and I'd see him do it. And then the three of us, like me and my oldest brother, my other brother, would be standing there and would be getting told off and told, well, one of you did it. We know that one of you did it.

And we'd all have to just stand there and not say anything. It's just hard work it was. Because I was a good kid.

I think I was a good kid. Generally. The only thing I didn't tolerate is people picking on people.

I didn't like kids picking on other kids. I didn't like that. Or picking on me or attempting to.

So I don't know, just rudeness. I mean, I got into a punch up with a kid that was swatting bees. Missing with like a bee that was like just on a sniffing.

I don't know what bees do sniff flowers and stuff to me. So, well, I got. Yeah, I got stopped by a teacher.

I just didn't like it. I don't stop doing that. Yeah, I don't know.

I was just tiny. I was like a. I don't know, just trying to think. I was a reader.

I was quiet, but not always. I was romantic. I had much more romance in me when I was a kid than I ever have done as an adult.

I was very, very romantic. I'd write poems and songs, you know, literally from the age of eight onwards. I wrote this song to Mandy, who was in a caravan site and I met her.

She was about the same age as me. Maybe she was nine. Maybe I was nine, but I think I was around eight.

And wait a minute, I was 15 and she was 20. I don't know, but I felt quite young. And I met her and we got on really well.

And then she left. And that was the period when I was really cute before I got all acne and teenage years. And I was I think I was like the cute kid.

Oh, my brother's like my brother's girlfriends or it's always so cute. I'd like that. But at the same time, I like yeah, cute and and manly and macho.

Which no one ever heard because I wouldn't say out loud. But yeah, I just. I was a quiet, I was a quiet kid.

I was quiet, like to read, and like listening to music, like being on my own, like watching telly and watching movies. I didn't mind watching movies. If there was other members of the family in the room.

I didn't mind watching telly as long as it's something I wanted to watch. If I was in a room with other people. Yeah, I like to like, I wasn't really sitting in the garden type because back then, it was like normal if it's sunny in the garden, everyone in the garden.

Let's sunbathe like I was a kid. Why would I want to sunbathe as a kid? But especially with my skin, I'm not, I haven't got the right skin for sunbathing. And it's inside out.

And I, I used to read. I remember once my dad shouting up to my bedroom saying Jason. Here we go again.

So what would you want? I didn't say that. I said, Hello. Hi dad.

How can I help you? He said, Come on down. It's summer. Come in the garden.

I said, I'm reading a book. And he just looked at me as like, Okay, I took the book with me. But it's like, I was the sun was shining in the room.

I was happy just lying on the bed reading the book, which is what I like to do. I loved to read. One of my top things in the world was to read.

I just loved it. I also like TV and all that stuff. But I like to read.

It was just me and my own me myself. And I love books. It's hard to know what I was like as a kid, because no one's told me I got nobody to tell me what I was like.

My dad doesn't remember anything, really about what I was like as a kid. He doesn't. You can ask him anything.

He wouldn't know a personality wise what I was like nothing. You could ask my nan, but she's not here anymore. So you can't.

You could ask my brothers, but they're not around. I don't know where they are. So they're not about so.

And my step mom, that was my mom at the time. She's not about she she she's gone. Not she's still around, but she's not near me.

So there's nobody I can get any information about what I was like as a kid. So if I was going to write my my life story, it would all be completely introspective from my perspective. Too many perspectives in that sentence, wasn't there? All through my eyes, without any kind of, I guess, not awareness, but I don't know how other people observed me, how other people experienced me.

And I still don't. I still don't. And I'm still making mistakes with people.

Even now at my age, thinking I'm helping people. And sometimes it just turns out that I haven't helped at all. I think that's why I prefer just to do the online stuff because real life people I just I just found it difficult.

Yeah, but I think I was an okay kid. I was solitary. I was moody.

I used to bottle things up. I know this is serious, but I used to not super serious, but I used to, I didn't know why I was feeling the way I was feeling. And sometimes I'd go home and I'd go up to my mum, my step mum.

I called her mum by the way. I never used to say, I didn't call her step mum number one. I didn't.

I called her mum. And I absolutely adored her. And I never loved anyone more than her in my life.

She was a person that I loved most in my entire life. So although I do say old step mum, she was, she was my life. Because from the age of seven or just before I was seven, I attached myself to her.

Like really, really attached myself to her. And I wouldn't let her go. I was, I feel I was a little bit clingy to be fair, but she, it was, it was almost like my, I finally got a mum.

And I wasn't going to let her go. And I just absolutely adored her. And also, obviously, I really, really loved my nan as well, but it was a different relationship.

You know, my relationship with my nan grew as an adult. My relationship with my nan when I was a little kid, between ages of, I didn't know before I was seven anyway, between the ages of seven and 15, 16. I'd see my nan, but I didn't have that much in that conversation with her on her own.

That happened when I got older. So what I'd say what I was like as a kid, I wasn't a bad kid. I was, I wasn't good at sports, necessarily.

I wasn't interested in sports. I felt very, as I got older, I noticed how small I was, because a lot of the other kids were going, they were just getting older, going through puberty, and I was still a kid. And, you know, by the time I got into the third or fourth year, I was surrounded by grown men.

And I was still a kid, waiting for my voice to break. I mean, it's, yeah, it was, it wasn't easy, really. I suppose the only time I actually would say that I was really got enthusiastic about anything the whole time that I was a kid, like really outwardly enthusiastic, and wouldn't stop talking about it to anyone that would listen, or anyone that wouldn't listen either, was karate.

Once I went to karate, that was it. That was my entire life. For the last couple of years of my school life.

That was it. It's the only thing I thought about. It's the only thing I talked about.

And pretty much that and training and health and, you know, things connected to karate, martial arts. So yeah, and and I think it's the first time I was ever anywhere that I almost felt like I belonged. It still felt awkward to a degree, because I was in a group, even with people that I knew.

But I felt a degree of comfort being at the karate club, because my teacher was brilliant. The everyone that was there was really pretty much good. I knew a lot of kids that were there as well.

I got to know them, obviously. And yeah, that was that was my favorite period of childhood, other than between the ages of seven and eight. That was the best year of my life, between seven and eight, moving in with my dad and his new wife.

That first year was almost perfect, really. And, you know, it was the first time that I felt any kind of stability. And it was, yeah, it was new.

And I didn't expect it to continue, you know, but yeah, so I've I enjoyed that year, that first year. That was the best year I had as a kid. As far as the best year as an adult, it's still yet to come.

That's why I'm thinking about it. The best is yet to come, I hope. I'd say I was a nice kid.

I wasn't a horrible kid. I was just annoying. I think a bit squeaky.

Yeah, but I did like to be solitary, but I was very moody. So this whole bipolar thing that didn't start as an adult, that's been going on for years since I was a kid. It's just it, I guess, I've got a way to express it.

I could express things verbally, I wasn't able to do it back then. I would hide and I would back away from life and read a book. That's what I used to do when I was a kid.

I'd go through periods when I would, even during lunchtime, I would hide from everyone. So I didn't have to play or didn't have to talk to anyone. And I just read a book.

Because I just couldn't, just couldn't handle being around anyone. But never lasted huge amounts of time. And sometimes it lasts for a few hours, sometimes for a few weeks.

It depended. So Sandy asks, have you taught Vinny any tricks? No. That's a really quick answer to that one.

Okay, there is a trick. There is a trick. It's called, he basically is, he does the reverse of whatever I ask him to do.

So if he's standing on the floor, if I'm in bed, and he's just sitting on the floor, staring at me in the dark, which he does every now and then, and I don't know why he does it, but it's annoying. And I can't rest when he's doing it. What I do now is say to him, either out of the room or on the bed, and he jumps on the bed.

But I could just as equally say, out the room, out, and then jump on the bed. So if I said, jump on the bed, he wouldn't. He's got a habit of just doing the complete opposite.

And, you know, he's okay, sometimes sit and stuff, but no, he's really, I think it just reminds me of our friend Andre, the original Andre back in 1994. I said to him, why don't you teach a dog to sit? And he looked at me all serious and he said, he already knows how to sit. Fair enough.

Can't argue with that. And Sandy asks, I am from Denmark, and I've listened since almost the beginning. Well, thank you.

And that's amazing, isn't it? I'm just amazed that people listen at all really. Because when I break it down, it's just me talking. I know, obviously, I do the hypnosis stuff.

And I do the, I'm currently been focusing on the new podcast I've been doing. But the Let Me Boy To Sleep ones has been eight years, over eight years now I've been doing this. And altogether 20 years doing all the hypnosis stuff.

But I do, I think a while ago, I started to think to myself, why are people listening? So I started to listen myself. And I can kind of see, or I kind of understand because I fall asleep listening to my recordings. And it's going to be less effective on me because it's my voice than it would be on someone else, I'd say.

But I, I listened, like I just literally, before I did this one, I listened to both my recordings I did this morning. And I properly zonked out. Like I was gone, especially the second one, which was the the sleep hypnosis one.

Blimey. So and I was forgetting things like to just as you can unwind the mind as it were, unwind the mind. That's a good unwind the mind.

It sounds like a good podcast title, doesn't it? So welcome, Sandy. Thank you for listening from Denmark. Do do I've never been to Denmark.

Have I been to Denmark? Been to Amsterdam. It's not in Denmark, is it? Netherlands, Netherlands. Yeah, I've never been.

What is going on here? Why it's gone from. Okay, right. And so thank you, everyone for listening.

But thank you, Sandy. Just trying to think any other tricks of any. Not really.

He's so. He won't do anything he doesn't want to do. There's there's not one part of him wants to please me.

He's not a needy dog at all. I'm the needy one really between the two of us. I was the same with Andre, my little Andre the ferret.

You know, he put up with me cuddling them because I love cuddling him. I remember I was downstairs with my friend Luke. And he said he could see that I looked a bit anxious.

And he said, do you need to go upstairs and cuddle Andre? So he knew it because like cuddling Andre helped me emotionally. To relax and to, you know, de-stress. Then he doesn't do that.

He won't cuddle. He'll cuddle up to me. And you know, let me stroke him and stuff.

But he won't. He won't let me cuddle him like put my arms around him and stuff won't do that. Which is a shame because I'd kind of like to do that, but hey.

Alison asks me, he says, you have been living in your current flat longer than you've lived anywhere else. I think, I think, do you ever think of living anywhere else? If money were not a concern, where would you like to live? And then Alison added, ha ha. I just noticed a similar question was asked last week.

I must have slept through it. I can't remember what I answered last week. Can you, anyone, anyone? Um, I'd quite like, I think I said last week that I'd like to travel.

At this time of my life, I realized there's places I don't want to go, but there's places I'd quite like to go. And by traveling, I don't mean hitchhiking or hiking through mountains or climbing Mount Everest or, I don't want to do any of that stuff. I just like to travel nicely and just visit some places, maybe on a cruise, maybe go on some cruises.

So I'd like to go on some cruises and then it needs to be the kind of traveling where I can continue to make my podcasts. That, that's like an important part of it. Well, it's very important.

So to be able to continue with my podcasts and yeah, other than that, maybe Thailand potentially. Um, maybe. Hmm.

Hmm. I don't know. I mean, I quite like the idea of just living in different places just for short periods of time till I get fed up and then just move on, you know, like stay in a, stay in a hotel in New York and then go somewhere else, Washington, or then maybe go to Canada and Montreal and just, you know, just maybe then go back to California, California, and then maybe to Mexico, Venezuela, or all the different places.

Just, yeah, just, it'd be nice, but not if I was going to do it by road, but I don't drive, but I don't know if they still have the greyhound buses. But at the same time, I don't know if I'd really want to do the slumming bit. So I've done that in the past.

I've traveled, I've hitchhiked, I've done long distance with, you know, uncomfortable. I've done the old uncomfortable traveling. And so I'd kind of like to have a bit of comfort.

So maybe cruises, that's kind of where I'm thinking. And maybe just stay here, live here. Get someone to look after Vinnie for a week or two if I was to go away.

But I would need, you know, financially, I would need to have an income. I mean, I've been looking into the potential of, could I get a sponsor for what I do? Some kind of company? I mean, I think the ideal situation would be somebody that really, really appreciates what I do. And they listen, or maybe they've listened, you know, in the past.

And it means that, you know, they think, well, okay, I'll get my company to sponsor you. And to get some kind of like a 10 year contract sponsorship. That's probably asking a lot.

But, you know, something where I can then just say, cool. I continue making my podcasts. And I can also live a decent lifestyle.

So, but also, I'm going to need someone to, I might need someone to take care of these podcasts. As I get older, there might be some things I'm unable to do, there might be some things I might, you know, whatever. Life, who knows, but I don't really want all of my work to go.

And just to be forgotten. I know, technically, a lot of it can't really be classed as work, because I'm just talking about farting and stuff. But and I don't know if anyone would want to listen to this.

In 20 years time, listening to a recording, I let me boy to sleep Q&A Friday, from 2026 in 2046. When I'm, if I'm still around, I'll be 76. 76 isn't that old, is it? Blimey.

Do you realize, when I'm 86 years old, I'll have been doing this for 50 years, baby. 50 years. 50 years.

Okay, I'm never going to have a marriage that lasted 50 years. That's unless medical science changes. It's impossible.

Unless we both get frozen and get woken up with Walt Disney's head or something in 100 years. I want my own body. It might sound weird, but if I was frozen, I want everything frozen.

I just don't want. You know, I don't want to go into it, but just yeah. However weird it might sound.

I don't think I'd really want to wake up and have this strong, physical, young body with my head on top, but it's not my body. Even if it looks amazing and it works amazing, it's still not mine. I'm not saying that I prefer to have this body over a body that looked like that, but I prefer to have my body, ish.

Yeah, so Alison is kind of, yeah, I think, if, I mean, the whole if money, if money was not a concern, that is the big part of it, really. But I definitely I'd like to get on some cruises and really, in all honesty, I'd like to have something to talk about and to do a little bit of research on that. I'd like to do something because my day to day life is very, there's just nothing really happening.

I know I'm focusing on making recordings and that's, that feels worthwhile. But there's gaps in my day where, I mean, I could, I could be doing this living or just traveling around the world. I could be doing this same thing.

From a desk in a cabin on a cruise ship. But then when I'm not making recordings or when I'm leaving things to upload, I can then go to the bar or watch a movie or just watch or go on an excursion or just, just look over the overboard at the sea. Just look at the sights or maybe even talk to other humans.

I suppose that's a possibility. And I'd have something to talk about, something to, I'd be experiencing something. Because these days I don't, other than making recordings and having the odd conversation with other dog walkers, that's kind of it.

I don't, there's not much going on. And I guess maybe that's, that helps. Maybe that's useful for making boring content.

But I think talking about things that are interesting can also be boring, just, just as boring. In fact, because it's not really about the content necessarily. I think it's, I just seem to have a bit of a boring voice.

So thank you, Alison. I think that's what I said last week. I do.

And lastly, I got Dawn. Do you have any tattoos? I got one in London when I visited from the States. Well, I'll show you mine.

If you show me yours. Yes, I do. I got one tattoo when I was 16, I do believe.

And I was just traveling to the next town with my friend, Neil. And either, I think my, one of my oldest brother's friends got on the bus. I'm just thinking, is it the one? No, it's not.

Someone else. Okay. So, he got on the bus.

And I said hello to him because I knew him because he was my friend, my brother's friend. Me and Neil weren't really up to much. We were just on the bus for the sake of being on the bus, going to the next town, just for something to do really.

And he said, what are you doing? I said, nah, not much. That's what we said to him. And he said, well, I'm going to get a tattoo, a tattoo.

He stood up, honestly stood up and said, I'm going to get a tattoo. And I said, oh, Neil, so I'm going to make this up probably, but Neil seemed excited. Now that might not have, he might not have been excited.

I think maybe we were both excited, but I know we were both bored. So I think we just decided to go along with him. Not to have a tattoo, although Neil might have said, I'm having a tattoo.

And I said, no, I'm not. But we went along with him. And there was this little shop down an old road.

Most roads are old, apart from the new ones. And we went into this place and it was a bit, yeah, you know, just, I'd never been in a tattoo shop before. Never felt the need.

Plus I wasn't old enough to be in there. Anyway, he just, he already knew what he wanted. Because he took a picture with him.

And the tattoo artist came out and said, what about you lads? Are you getting one? I looked around thinking, surely he's not talking to me. I'm only 16. And Neil said, yeah, I'll have one of them.

So he was looking on the wall. And there was a, because he was Scottish, he chose to have a Scottish flag done on his shoulder. And then he said, the bloke said, what about you Chuck? I don't know if he said Chuck, but he did say, what about you? I think he did.

And I was like, couldn't really decide. Never been great at deciding. One of those things over many years, like, oh, the problem with deciding is it almost feels like if I do this and I can't do that.

You know what I mean? It's like, uh, am I limiting myself by choosing this particular thing? It might sound weird, but I don't know if that's how I'm thinking, but I struggled. I didn't want an English flag. I didn't, I've never really been into flags just generally.

I'm not against flags. I'm not for them. I'm just, I just didn't never just, the idea of having one on my shoulder, didn't see the point.

Cause I, cause I understand he was from Scotland and he was proud of being from Scotland, but we didn't really do like English pride back then. It was just like, well, I live here. And most people say if, you know, in England, especially back in like 1980s or whatever, and it could be the same now, but yeah.

So where'd you live? I live here. What's it like? It was crap. It's boring.

It's crap. And everyone I ever met from anywhere in England would say the same thing. It's crap.

But that was just, even if it wasn't, it was just like the standard answer because it's, I guess it's a mixture of English humour and just downplaying things. We're not the most excitable people potentially. Sometimes it's, yeah, I don't know.

I'm not quite sure how to explain it. And some of that might just be lying as well. Dawn Aker tattoos.

So I ended up getting a tattoo on my right forearm and it was of a Chinese, you know, the possession things they have, where they've got the people and they're holding this big Chinese head up, dragon head. It's one of them, or is it a lion, a lion or a dragon, one of them. So yeah, I got that on my forearm.

Absolutely no reason really for it to be there. And however, during my peak years, I used to walk around, let's say like in a nightclub and sometimes I'd have ladies walk up to me and say, what's that on your arm? And I'd show it to them and sometimes they'd go, Oh, Oh, that's nice. What's your name? Usually they'd just laugh and walk away, but, you know, occasionally they'd actually stop and talk to me.

Like, I thought it was just some weird birthmark. I said, it's a tattoo. Why don't you get it removed? You know how people have said, you really chose that, did you? Then other people saying, what is it? I said, it's your mum.

I used to make people laugh. No, I used to say, it's my mum. Yeah, it's my mum.

I was listening to this on TikTok, this person was talking about, it was just, they were just arguing about whatever they argue about on TikTok. And someone said, well, if your mum did this, you know, these are complete strangers talking to each other. And there was that whole thing.

Don't mention my mum. If you mention my mum, I'll find you. It turned into that Liam Neeson spit, you know, I'll find you.

I have skills. It's like, it's just, come on, silly people. Like, you can't even say the word mum.

Are you talking about my mum? I don't know you. Therefore, I don't know your mum, do I? Silly Billy. It's almost as if it's pretend anger.

I think it is. It's kind of like, we're supposed to, this is the right thing to get angry about. It's weird.

Human, some humans are just very strange. I find them very strange. Can't figure humans out.

Can't figure myself out. But some of that stuff I see on TikTok, the arguments, the conversations, it's just like, what the heck are you talking about? What are you going on about? And there's this, was it the other day, it was, what was it? I had this idea, don't steal it, but I had an idea of a news show. But it's all done like TikTok.

And some of the language, you know, it's all TikTok, TikTok language as well. And there'd be, you know, someone on there. I kind of outlined it in my head earlier.

I don't want to spoil, I don't want to ruin it by telling you what it is, because I think I'd quite like to put it together, just as something to do as a little project. But it'd be really weird, especially some of the language that is, there's certain things you can't say on TikTok. So you have to change the language to something else.

Yet, if you were to describe that scenario, let's say it's a news bulletin, for example, and you described it in TikTok language, it would be so disrespectful to the victim and the families. Just because it's like the, you have to use weird. I don't know all of the different terms, but I know a few of them now.

I haven't been on, I've been watching TikTok for a few months now, on and off. I find it very, very strange, very strange indeed. I wonder if I've had any phone calls.

Oh, did I tell you that I had a problem with, oh, I've now found, I've got a message from Catherine from earlier. My mam's name is Christine. She's a huge fan.

Christine, yeah, isn't it normally Christine that listens to me? Yeah. She's a huge fan, listens nearly every night at a minute. Okay.

So, right. I won't read it all out. Catherine, I'll reply to this.

It's basically said, what I'll do is I will do a recording, even if it's not just, I'll just do a recording, even if it's only five or 10 minutes, just for your mum. Okay, Catherine. And I'm quite happy to do those kinds of things, like just do like a recording where I can sort of just say something, whether it's happy birthday, read out a story, whatever, you know, just a marriage proposal.

That'd be weird though, wouldn't it? Imagine. Imagine listening to my podcast and, you know, your boyfriend or girlfriend or partner, whatever you want to call it, is lying next to you in bed and you suddenly hear your name. It says, uh, hey, Jenny.

Or, hey, Bob. Jenny has a message for you. She wants to know if you'll divorce her.

Now, if you're married, if you're married, you'll know if you want to get married. Yeah. This one is my radio voice.

Hey, it's Jason here. How are you today? One of my neighbours, she's a dog walker. She is a dog walker.

And we're talking to another neighbour about my podcast. And she said, go on, do the voice. I said, what do you mean? She said, show me the voice you do.

I said, I don't have a voice. I do have a voice, but I don't have a weird voice when I do my podcasts. She said, do the voice.

I said, okay. Welcome to Jason Newland dot com. This is let me bore you to sleep.

And she said, that's the one that's like, that's not how I talk. I just talk normally. I just a bit slower.

Well, I don't talk fast anyway, but it's just a bit calmer. Maybe especially the hypnosis. See, there's a lot of hypnotists that I've studied and I've, I've watched them online and the amount of instructors that say, you haven't got, you haven't got to talk slowly, just talk normally.

And, and they'll be like, well, I go on and that's just not me. It doesn't mean that I'm just different from that. I don't, I'm not doing the slow because I think that's how it should be done.

I just, that is my natural way of talking in trying to do the hypnosis stuff. It's just, it can't have, for me, if I want, if I want to relax somebody, then I need to relax myself. And when I relax myself, my voice relaxes, my body relaxes, my tone of voice relaxes.

It's kind of, if I was like, now relax, go on, relax, relax your legs, relax your feet, relax your ears, relax. You know, stop thinking, stop thinking, get all the thoughts out of your mind now. That wouldn't work for me personally.

But then, you know, there is a technique in hypnosis. It can be where you, what's the right word? You basically overload the mind. And then you can just say sleep and they'll become, you know, they'll close their eyes because that's what they want to do.

They want to get out of the situation and almost got a spotlight on them and everyone watching them and they don't want everyone watching them. So they want to get out of that situation and close their eyes as a way out. But I just don't do that with these recordings.

I don't, the Let Me Boyd You Sleep podcasts aren't hypnosis anyway, so, but the sleep hypnosis ones are. I don't know what my point is on that one, but what's my point? Do I have a point? Have I ever had a point? I must have had a point once. I got a pointy too.

What? You want to know what the stats are for my website, for my YouTube? No, we don't. Oh, come on. Let me show you the stats, please.

Please. So I've now got 1,000. Okay.

1,715 subscribers. Right. It went down to 1,714 earlier.

Now it's gone back up again. So analytics is, I think what's happening with my YouTube channel is, it's just growing gradually and will continue growing gradually and gradually and gradually. So, you know, eventually I'll probably end up, it'll just be a lot more, but it's a very gradual I don't know if it's ever going to take that big leap that sometimes happens with YouTube, where you can just be coasting along for months and months, if not years, and then suddenly you wake up and you look at your stats and they're like 10, 15 times more viewers than there was before you went to sleep.

Or one of the videos, one of the recordings really becomes quite popular. So that can happen. Hasn't happened for a little while, but it's quite steady though.

So I'm getting the watch time hours is 257.4 hours more than last month for the last 28 days. So, yeah, 1,600 watch time hours, 3,200 views the last month. So there'll come a time when I'm getting 10,000, 15,000, 20, 50, you know, a hundred thousand views a month and it'll just keep growing.

And the longer I do it, the more I'll grow, I suppose, to the point where it's hundreds of thousands a month, I suppose. That'd be nice. I look forward to that.

It's just nice to, just nice to see. It's quite a nice visual thing to sort of see thousands and thousands of views a day, you know, or an hour even. Like I've never had thousands an hour, but you know, a day, that's nice.

Instead of hundreds. Although I did Wednesday, the 3rd of June, I got 333 views on my YouTube channel. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

It's, it's something just, I like to follow it, you know, just to see what's, what's going to happen and see how it goes. I just find it interesting really for whatever reason. I guess it'd be weird not to find it interesting, considering this is my life, isn't it? But it's very, YouTube is a very slow burner for me.

I've got, I've got a small audience, but a loyal audience on YouTube. And people do come back and they listen to a lot of the recording. You know, the loyal people listen, perhaps listen to the whole recording, and which is quite unusual for a lot of YouTube channels.

I mean, according to, if I go to, let's have a look. No, that's not what I want. Dawn? Oh, sorry.

Is that Dawn? Hi, Dawn. Now I just realized this. I got something here.

Where was it? Oh, okay. That's just that message there. So I've got, if I go to what? What the heck is going on there? Right.

That's very strange. So yeah, the ads that I've got going, I've reached 4,608 views. That's for the breaking free from control and manipulation.

I have 70, 70 times that the podcast has been landed on, which is good. It's just, I thought it'd be nice to just try and promote it a little bit, just for a few weeks, you know. Don't have to pay for it until the 25th.

And it's only a small amount. I remember I went on to chat, chat, GBT. So sort of saying, Oh, what do you think of these results? They say it's okay.

Considering the minuscule amount you're paying for the ads. Okay. You don't got to be rude.

I mean, yeah, of course I was, if I was forking out a thousand pound a day, I'd be getting a lot of people visiting the podcast and the website and stuff. But there would be a lot of point in doing that considering I don't make any money from the podcast or the website. You know what I mean, innit? Eh? So that's me done for the day.

I'm going to take the little one out for a walk. So thank you for listening. I will, and it's Saturday tomorrow.

It's boxing in the evening. There's a chance I won't make a recording tomorrow. But I probably will do one in early in the morning.

But again, I don't know, because I don't know. We'll see. So I'd like to say 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.