(music) (10 hours) THANK YOU LMBYTS #1423 Jason Newland 27th August 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. Hello everybody, how are you? This is now going to be my voice now that I am 55 and an old man. I'm going to be very gentle but ever so croaky. Oh, I'm not sure what I'm going to talk about but I'm, I don't know why I'm doing that.

So hey, it is Wednesday the 27th of August 2025. Yeah baby, it really is. Which meant yesterday was my birthday, August 26th.

So I'm sitting here with Vinnie cuddled up next to me. I've got my iPad in front of me so I'm going to read out some stuff. This is basically just a thank you recording, really, that's all this is.

So I, you know, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes if I haven't already said that. And I'm looking at here, I've got no idea what this is, you know, it's Facebook, so yeah. 55.

I don't know what to make of it. I know technically, you know, it's only another year, I mean literally it's only another day, isn't it, really from the day before, but it's, you know, it's one digit more, one number. You know what digit means? One number.

But did I feel young at 54? I don't know. I felt fresh. People would ask me how old I was, I'd say I'm 54 and I'd feel full of pride and youth and figure that they'd be really impressed with how young I was.

But now I imagine that same scenario and I, I say 55 and they run away, they run away screaming and I shrink into the cracks of the pavement out of embarrassment. I don't know. I didn't do much yesterday.

I did, I treated myself to a takeaway. I took the little one here out a couple of times, three times, twice, three times, I can't remember. No, three times, I think.

Yeah, would have been three times. Well, four times, including popping in the garden for a wee, thinking he needed a wee-wee, but he didn't need a wee-wee. All he wanted to do was try and get underneath the neighbor's, I should explain what this is.

So my neighbor, not in this block, but in the next block, he's got himself a new mobility scooter, I think they're called. I call it a new car, but yes, and a mobility scooter. And he's about 83, 84, something like that.

He just really don't look it. Seriously, he just looks way younger. And I actually had a chat with him the other day.

And he told me all about it and why he's got it and everything. So I don't see him very often. But when I do see him, we have a good old chin-wag, we get on very well.

He was very close to Luke, because they're next-door neighbors. It's a different building, but they were next-door neighbors. His part of the building's joined.

My part of the building isn't joined to anything, it just ends. No one wanted to be my neighbor. The builders decided.

So he, Luke, to the left of him was their flat. And he was very close to both him and his wife. His wife, really close to.

His wife used to go and speak to Luke and spend hours chatting. We'd go in the garden. And they were really, really good friends.

And she passed away. And he kind of kept up his relationship with her husband. I mean, they were friends with her husband as well.

But because, you know, he'd been there a couple of years before I moved in. And I never really got to know his wife. But a little bit, but not a lot.

Because I suppose because I'm a little bit shy, you know. My dad had a few chats with her. But I sort of, I got to know him a lot more than I did her.

So anyway, I was just chatting to him. Because he was, he was outside and I saw him standing over this machine. Looks like a lawnmower, a little bit from a distance.

But then I do need my eyes tested. Literally, I do. And he was, I thought I'd just go outside.

And did I have Vinnie with me? I don't think I did. Because if I had have done, no, I might have done. No, I did.

Yeah, I did. Blimey, yeah. I did have Vinnie with me.

As I went out just to see if he was okay, if he needed a hand with something. Because I didn't know whether or not he'd been out in it. And so I've not seen him use it.

It's only been out there for about maybe two weeks. And it's got this big cover on it. And to start with, I thought it was like a little tent.

And he was just, I don't know. I didn't know what it was underneath there. Until that day when I saw him like without the cover on.

Not him without the cover on, but the mobility scooter without the cover on. Because he must have taken the cover off. So I thought, ooh.

Instead of standing here in my underpants, perhaps I'll go down and see how he's getting on. If he needs a hand. So I get Vinnie, put him on the lead.

I head my way down to this, got to the bottom of the stairs and thought, oh, wait a minute. I went back upstairs, put some clothes on, then came back down and he wasn't there. He wasn't in the garden anymore.

But the scooter was the, his new car. I'm going to call him his new car because that's what I called it to him. And Vinnie was very interested in it.

And he has been since he's been there. I couldn't figure out why. He actually, Vinnie pretends he needs to go for wee-wees.

Just in order for me to take him in the garden. So we can try and get underneath that tarpaulin or whatever it is, the cover. And I've not figured it, what it is.

Although I do know he has a bit of a fascination with those things. Because he's got a couple of friends that he says hello to that are on those mobility scooters. And he gets so excited when he sees them.

He tries to get on. I think he would be happy to get on one. But I think he actually wants one for himself.

He's lazier than me. He's an old bugger, isn't he? Honestly, I think he's. If I bought him a motorbike, I think he'd be over the moon.

He's a bit of a speed freak, I think, old Vinnie. Maybe it's because I can't let him run around because I can't allow him off the lead. So, you know.

It's weird though, isn't it? I can't let him off the lead, but he thinks I'm going to let him have a motorbike and ride around. If I can't trust you off the lead, Vin, I'm going to give you something that goes 80 miles an hour and let you on a motorway, am I? No. 80 miles an hour, probably a lot more than that, aren't they? I don't know.

So, I go downstairs anyway, and the bloke's, he's not in the garden. So I walk around, his front door's open. So I thought, okay, I'll just shout.

Well, I'm not shout, shout, but like, hi, hi. The thing is, he's got like a heart condition. So I don't, I'm saying it not because it's personal, obviously, but I don't want to make him jump.

So I have to be, you know, being gentle, you know, try and like, hi, are you there? Hello. And he couldn't hear me. I think he's got a hearing aid as well.

And, but it's sort of kind of, you know, I don't want to be like, hi, and him go, oh, and be, be, you know, be startled. Because a similar thing happened, well, it's a completely different thing happened, actually. It was similar because it involved him, but it didn't really involve him, but he was part of the story.

The other neighbor, another neighbor, which is, lives in the same block as him, came outside and I was in the garden. This is a few months ago. I was in the garden with Vinnie.

And it was like, oh, two o'clock, 1.30, two o'clock in the morning. It was in the summer, so it was, you know, it wasn't even cold. It was just nice, nice kind of probably May, June time.

And the young bloke who lives in that block comes out, made me jump. Vinnie just got excited, started barking. Brilliant, at two o'clock in the morning, that's what I needed.

I didn't need it, that's what I meant. It was sarcasm. OK, how to explain sarcasm.

So, yeah, anyway, he, he comes out, I said, oh, you made me jump. We laughed. He helped me off the floor and I said, he said, are you OK now? I said, yeah, I got my breath back.

He said, I said to him, what were you doing? Hanging around in the dark. He said, I was going to ask you the same thing. I said, yeah, but I've got a dog.

He said, I've got a dog. I said, you haven't got a dog with you here, have you? I said, no, it's in the house. I said, I don't feel this conversation is going anywhere, do you? He said, no.

Shall we start again? So he did, he went back into the, into this building and I kind of walked back upstairs. Took my clothes off and just looked out the window with my underpants on. And I see him come out and he's standing there looking for me like, perhaps when he said, shall we start over, maybe, perhaps he went inside as a joke.

And I took it too serious and I kind of overdid it. So I had to put my clothes back on again and went downstairs into the garden. He said, where were you? I said, I just, you know, when you went, when you said, shall we start over and you went inside as a joke, I did it as well and I went upstairs, but I ended up taking my clothes off.

He said, well, that's weird. I said, you're weird. He said, no, I mean, why would you go upstairs and take your clothes off? I said, because that's how I was before I came down.

I was standing looking through the window, looking out into the garden in just my underpants. And I realized as I said that, I actually thought that I myself was a bit weird. Because it seemed like a kind of strange thing to do.

A strange thing to tell anyone that I've just done. And he did like point that out. Why are you, why are you standing in your flat, just in your underpants, looking out into the garden? I said, what does it matter what I'm wearing? He said, yeah, but it sounds a bit strange that you would tell me that.

I said, yeah, but they're my windows. I'm allowed to look through them. And, you know, they see through for a reason.

He said, yeah, but they see through both sides. You know, we, person, we can see you in your window. I said, no, you can't.

He said, yes, you can. You can't see me when I'm at my window. He said, yeah, I can see you when you're at your window.

I said, all right, then, wait here. I went back upstairs. And I waved to him and said, can you see me? And he started laughing.

So I shouted out, I opened the window. I said, can you see me? He said, no, but I made you go up there. He was laughing.

He said, you need to come back down. I said, OK. So I had to put my clothes back on again.

Went all the way downstairs. And I said, why did you do that? He said, do what? I said, why do you say you could see me? Get me to go all the way back upstairs, take my clothes off. So I'm in my underpants.

And you say you can't see me. He said, why did you get undressed again? I said, I thought it'd be funny. He said, OK, this is going nowhere, is it? I said, no, not really.

He said, I thought you was going to sort of thank people for your birthday messages and the PayPal gifts on this podcast. And I said, I was. I was, but I seemed to have got a little bit sidetracked.

He said, yeah, I noticed you do that quite a lot. It's almost like you press record and you start talking. And you don't know where it's going to go.

It's like you've got no preparation. But you don't even rehearse, do you? I said, rehearse. I can't even spell the word.

How could I rehearse this? He said, have you ever tried to rehearse? You know, actually put together some kind of well-written podcast episode where. At the very least, you're coherent. I thought, wow.

He's saying that I'm incoherent. He said, no, not in a bad way, just in a kind of a bit mumbled, a bit not, not, not verbally. It's not that I can't verbally understand the words that you're saying.

It's just, it's not always easy to follow because you're going in different directions and then you keep going back on yourself. And then the original thing that you were talking about has gone out of my mind because you're talking about something different. And I'm wondering, even though I can't remember what you first started out talking about, whether or not you can remember what you were talking about.

And if we're ever going to get back to that. Are you just going to continue this way until something else hooks your interest and you start talking about that other thing? I said, are they new shoes you've got there? He says, why are you asking about my shoes? I said, I'm just being friendly. I'm just wondering.

I'm just, I decided I want to get a new hobby and I thought maybe shoes would be an interesting hobby. He says two things. Firstly, I don't believe you.

What do you mean? I don't believe, by the way, how has people, I could ask you, Jason. I said, yeah, okay. I didn't know he knew my name.

How are people listening supposed to know which one of us are talking? I said, well, what? He said, you should at least do a different voice. Otherwise, it's just one person talking. Right now, it could be me or you.

Yeah, but it's you, isn't it? No, you know, you know that because you're here. You can, you know, it's me talking. But the audience don't know who's talking.

I think they do. I think, I think you, you downplay the intellectual prowess of my listeners. I have a very selective, highly intelligent base of people that listen to my recordings.

There's no dum-dums listening to me. It's all super clever people. And we both laughed.

And I said, why do you think that I'm lying? Well, what do you mean? What about? I said, about the shoes. Oh, okay. We're going back to that now, are we? Yeah, it was genuine.

I'm thinking of becoming interested in shoes. He said, you can't, you can't decide, you can't, he couldn't get the words out. He said, you can't decide to become interested in something.

I said, what do you mean? He said, you're either interested in something or you're not interested in it. You can't just choose. Oh, I think I'm going to become interested in this thing.

And I've got an idea. I'm going to become interested in birdhouses, building birdhouses. That's, I think I'm interested in becoming interested in that.

So you can't be interested in becoming interested in something. Is that what you're saying? I think so. He said.

So what else do you not believe? He asked me. No, what else? I said to him, what else don't you believe? See, now I'm getting confused. He said, you are, yeah.

I said, shush. That was a narrative over the narrative. He said, you can't have a narrative over a narrative.

I said, I can. I mean, I think it's a commentary over a narrative you're thinking about. I said, I don't know what it is.

He said, okay, your shoes, the shoe, my shoes. You said that you think my shoes are nice. I said, yeah.

And I would argue that you are being insincere. And I said, what do you mean? He said, it's two in the morning. You can't even see my shoes.

He caught me out there. I couldn't see anything. I could hear a voice.

I wasn't even a hundred percent sure it was him, to be honest. I said, anyway, forgetting all that. Why are you here? He said, I live here.

I said, no, I don't mean that. He said, are you talking about biologically? I said, no. I'm just like, why are you in the garden at two in the morning? He said, I'm locked out.

I said, you could have told me this right at the beginning. That's the beginning of the sentence. Hi, I'm locked out.

That would have saved us like 20 minutes of talking absolute nonsense. And he said, yeah, but you kind of got half a podcast out of it. I said, yeah, true.

But it has distracted me from the point of the podcast, which was to thank my listeners for all the lovely birthday messages and the PayPal gifts. That is why I'm on here to do that. That's what this recording was specifically for.

He said, are you just interspersing it throughout the recording? Just so you've said it. And then you're going to continue talking rubbish. I said, don't analyze me.

Don't analyze. Don't pick apart everything I'm saying. And I, you know, oh, why are you saying that? Then why are you doing that? Then me, me, me, me, me, me.

No, I don't play that game, mate. He said, don't call me, mate. I said, all right, sorry.

He's a big lad. I don't want to upset him. And I said, so you're locked out? He said, yeah.

I said, why? He said, because my key, I don't have my key. I said, no, I understand what locked out means. Because I can't open the door.

Yeah, I understand that. Why don't you just knock on the door? Because he lives with his mum. He's only, I think he's like 20 years old or something, 19, 20.

It's weird. He was like 10 years old when I moved in there. And he said, oh, I can't.

I said, why not? He said, my mum's not here. She's away for the weekend or a few days or something. I said, oh, what neighbours? Has anybody got a key? Is there anybody in your block that's got a key? And he said, yeah, two people.

Or one, no, one person. I think it was the one that bloke with the scooter outside. And I said, well, why don't you give him a knock? He said, I did, but really lightly.

Because I don't want to disturb him at two o'clock in the morning. And I said, there's not really any point knocking on his door if you don't want him to wake up. I mean, if you knock him really lightly, if you don't want him to actually hear you, what's the point in doing it to start with? And he said, yeah, it's a valid point, actually.

Yeah, hadn't thought about that. I said, exactly. There's no point in knocking on the door if you purposely don't want him to hear.

So I said, just knock. Why don't you knock louder? He said, I don't want to disturb him. I said, but he's got the key.

Your emergency key, yeah? He said, yeah. I said, well, this is an emergency. That's the whole point of a neighbour having a key, is if you lose your key, because I think he'd lost it or he'd left it at his friend's or I don't know.

If you lock yourself out, now this wasn't the summer. Or was it the summer? I think it was still. Yeah, it wasn't warm.

I don't know if it was warm. I want to make this story a bit more, a bit more exciting. There was a blizzard.

There was a blizzard and everything was being blown away. And it was like a scene from The Wizard of Oz. Not the one where they're walking down the yellow brick road singing.

But anyway, he said, I don't want to wake him up. I said, well, to be fair, that's kind of the whole point of why he's there. He said, that's a bit cruel.

It doesn't exist so I could wake him up at two in the morning. I said, no, I don't mean that. I mean, that's why he's got your key in case of an emergency.

And this is an emergency. I mean, he's only sitting around outside all night. Well, anyway, I knock on the door and as I'm knocking, I'm realising that he's got his health conditions.

And I don't want to wake him up either. Because I'm like, oh, you know what? You got a point there. So I think, and I end up tapping.

I just, I saw him a few days later, the bloke that was there. He said, you should have knocked louder. I said, yeah, thanks.

It doesn't help now though, does it? You know, it doesn't help then telling me that now. So I thought, why don't you go, what else can we do? And he said, that's right. I'll just go and sit in the garden and just wait until it's a decent hour.

Because then he's going to knock on the bloke's door to get, you know, in the morning about seven or whatever. And I said, but you can't be out here all night. I said, let's get a, I said, let's phone a, what's it? Let's phone the council, get them to come out and they can put a, I think he's having a dream.

Can you hear him? Listen, he's not going to do it now. That's annoying. He does this.

I don't know what he's dreaming. How would I know? There's no way of knowing, is there? Yeah. So where was I? Oh, this was a well-planned story.

Let me look at my notes. I spent hours writing this story out for you. This, oh yeah.

Where was I? Um, I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah. I said, well, why don't we call the council up and get a locksmith? This is an emergency.

Because they've got an out of hours thing at the council. So he said, oh, if you're sure. I said, yeah, come on.

So I brought him up here. I phoned the council. And they said, it's not really an emergency.

I said, it is an emergency. There's a young lad. He can't get into his home.

Have you got a neighbor who's got a key? And it's like, oh, yeah, but we can't. I said, look, he won't wake up. We've knocked on his door really loud.

He can't get him out of bed. He said, are you sure? I said, what do you mean? Are you sure you knocked loudly? I said, yeah, why are you questioning that? He said, are you sure, Jason? I said, this is weird. Why are you talking to me like that? He said, I don't know.

I'm just wondering. Are you sure it wasn't just because you're concerned he didn't want to jolt him out of his sleep? Didn't want to upset him? Didn't want to, you know, cause problems. I said, this is a weird conversation.

Do I know you? He said, yeah, it's me. It's Tom. I said, Tom? He said, yeah, we used to work together in the call center.

Tom. Tom. Yeah.

Tom. I worked in a canteen. Oh, I don't know mate.

How do you recognize me? He said, oh no, I knew where you lived. Did you? Yeah. I always knew where people lived.

Now I should add here. He's not listening to this part of the conversation. I should add that Tom.

I mean, he worked in a canteen, he didn't work with me. I used to get her like a food, mainly just like snacks really, you know, things like breakfasts and stuff, breakfast rolls and stuff. But I wasn't working, it's not like he sat next to me or we did the same job.

I mean, technically we worked together as far as being in the same organization. I said, all right, anyway, how are you doing? He said, oh, I've got so much to tell you. I said, okay, well, if you hold that in for a second, and perhaps we can get this key situation sorted out.

He said, all right, just like you, that is Jason. I said, why is that? He said, always thinking about work, always putting work first. And I said, are you sure you've got the right Jason? And we laughed, we did laugh at that.

Everyone laughed, even a bloke downstairs. He woke up, put his head out the window, like, so that was a good one. And he went back to sleep again.

And so the council said, well, I said, look, he's a young lad, he's on his own. His mum's away, because that's the first thing. Oh, where's his mum then? Yeah, I said, look, he's a young lad, he's outside on his own, two in the morning.

He needs, his mum's not coming back for three days or two days. Can you please send a locksmith round? He can stay here till the locksmith gets here. And then, you know, he said, well, I'll see what I can do.

And then he phones up and says, oh, no, I can't do that for whatever reason. So he looks at me and says, never mind, I'll go and sit in the garden. I said, well, you're welcome to sit on the set here if you want, and wait till the morning.

And I'm looking out the window at this point, and I look back, and he's gone. He's literally run out. Do you know when you see the cartoons where people run through a door, and you see the shape of their body left in the door, like in a gap? That's what it was like.

He didn't want to stay here. Blimey, after all I did to help. So, yeah, anyway, my voice is getting croaky, I need a drink.

I didn't do much yesterday, really. I spoke to my dad for a little bit. And I didn't even do a recording.

It's terrible, isn't it? Terrible of me. Yeah, I just didn't want to do anything, just wanted to just relax. Which I did.

I had a shower. That was, wasn't so much because it was my birthday, but it's like, you know. It's more because my neighbours asked me to.

Apparently, once a year is not enough. So, I didn't realise people were joking when they said, I'm going to have my annual shower, have my annual bath on my birthday. I thought that was like a thing, but people were joking.

I mean, I wish they'd let me know when they're joking. All those years of scaly skin. So, I, the bloke with the, it's not a beach buggy, is it? Kind of like a beach buggy.

But the little car thing in the garden. I was saying to him, Vinnie is absolutely obsessed with getting under there. And he said, oh, it's because one of my cats sleeps on the, on the seat because it's very warm and cosy.

I said, oh. And the weird thing about that is, both those cats can lay on the garden and Vinnie will go nowhere near them. Like nowhere near them.

He will walk around them. Even if he was on the lead, off the lead. He's never off the lead in the garden or anywhere else.

But he would not, if he was on the lead, off the lead, he would still walk around. He won't go anywhere near those cats. He's a little scaly cat himself.

It's weird, that word scaly cat, because cats aren't scared, are they? Cats are brave. Cats are fearless sometimes. Oh, but they run away from dogs.

I don't think it's even from fear. It's almost like it's a bit of fun. Or dogs chasing me.

Or something that can only move probably 20% of the speed that I can move. Or I think on a, or dogs running towards me. I'll just finish reading this newspaper and then I'll jump onto, hop onto the fence and just laugh at it.

Look it up at me barking. You can't get to me, can you? I might climb that tree and get stuck or pretend I'm stuck. Just to annoy the neighbours, to get them all worried.

And then if one of the neighbours managed to get a big, one of those big things, what do you call them, ladders, and gets up to me and I can scratch him and just jump down and giggle. Because that's what cats do. Yeah.

Not all cats. I remember in 19, 1980. Probably 1989.

89. Yeah, probably about 1989. Maybe 90.

1990? 1989. I went round some friend's place and they had two cats. Two kittens.

I picked one up, it wee'd all over me. They found it hilarious. And I swear that these two cats, these two kittens were running around the walls.

I'm not even joking. They were running around the walls, chasing each other. Now, back in those days, we used to have wallpaper.

You might still have wallpaper, I don't know. I don't have it here, but everywhere had wallpaper back in the day. Pretty much.

Apart from those places that didn't. So they had somebody cling on to their claws, but they were running around the walls, up and down the curtains, and around the walls, almost defying gravity. And you may think I'm telling fibs, and I might be.

But my memory, that's something that I've never seen before. And it just made me like, wow. That's just wow.

It wowed me. In fact, I might have actually literally verbalized the wow. Like, wow.

But probably more like, wow, that thing. That's my voice was a lot higher pitched. It's before puberty.

It was only 25. And I don't know why I'm talking. Oh, yeah.

Anyway, so that was that done. So that's the only reason Vinnie was trying to get underneath that tarpaulin or whatever to get to the beach buggy thing. Was because the cat had been sleeping on the seat.

Makes no sense. Because if he thought a cat was actually under there, one of them cats, he wouldn't try and get under there. He would keep well away.

And he can smell. He does smell. He needs a bath.

Surely he can smell if there's a cat under there. Unless a different cats under there, one that he wants to chase. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read some of the messages out I got.

Which are on my Jason Newland's boring group. Mitchell writes, Happy birthday, Jason. Hopefully something very unboring happens for you today.

It comes with a great night's rest. You deserve it today for all the great sleep you've caused me. Thank you, Mitchell.

It's very kind of you. And let's have a look. OK.

What other ones have we got? Maria says, Happy birthday. I hope you have an enjoyable day. Thank you, Maria.

Christine says, You're young at heart. Enjoy the rest of your evening. I hope it involves pizza and chocolate.

Very best wishes. Thank you. Thank you very much.

I did have some cookies. Hope says, Happy birthday. Juicy JJ.

Thank you, Hope. Thank you. Maria writes, Happy birthday to you, Jason.

Have a great day today. Best wishes. Thank you.

Thank you, Maria. And Molly writes, Happy birthday to you, Jason. New land.

Thank you, Molly. New land. Thanks, Molly.

I do appreciate that. Tammy says, Happy birthday, Jason. Hope you have a wonderful birthday.

Thank you very much. And Cara says, Let's surprise Jason with a bunch of PayPal gifts for his birthday, everybody. Thank you very much, Cara.

That's very lovely of you. As well, thanks. I'm saying wow, I've already read it.

Don't know why I'm pretending I'm reading it for the first time. But it did very much surprise me when I saw that. And I did get some Facebook of some PayPal gifts.

So thank you. And I'm going to say thank you to everyone that gave me one of them as well. If I'm down at the list, but thank you to everyone.

I will try and send you a personal thank you. Okay, Mike. Mike Winnipeg, could you remind me again, as again when it is? Okay, Cara says today, Tuesday, 26th of August.

If you live in the UK tomorrow, if you're like me, living in several hours behind. So Jonathan says, I thought he was on this page. Like doesn't he post on here and can't he see this? Cara says, Yeah, but it will be surprised by the by the unknown number of PayPal gifts that are able to arrive at least.

So yeah, I did wake up to that. That was that was lovely. Thank you.

It was a big surprise. Happy birthday from Michelle. Thank you, Michelle.

And then I got Kathleen. Happy birthday, Daddy. So I got a message from Vinnie via Kathleen.

So Vinnie's been calling you, isn't he again? And thank you. That's very nice. God, mine is a picture of him.

My room don't look messy. Another birthday from Rich. Rick, sorry.

A happy birthday, Jason. Many returns of the day. Thank you.

Thank you, Rick. Robin says, Happy birthday. Happy, happy birthday, Jason and many more.

Thank you very much. Here's a he. It's a goat blowing on things.

That's a lot of things it's blowing on. I like that. Happy birthday, Jason from Christine.

Thank you. Have a great day. Lots of love.

Thank you very much, Christine. Oh, there's two from Christine. Happy birthday, Jason.

Thank you, Kathleen. Happy birthday. Sending love and best wishes.

Thank you very much. So that's that's lovely. I do appreciate that.

Thank you very much, everybody. I have. I had a lot of email.

Facebook messages like a lot. So I can't even go through all of them. I've tried to reply to them.

But yeah, I had many, many, many. So what I'm going to do. Is read out some of the messages on my page.

So happy birthday from Deb. Thank you. Sherry, wish you sorry, Sherry.

Wish you the happiest birthdays. Freedom 55. Yeah, 55 is I'm not sure if it tastes quite like freedom.

More like old age. Dolores. Happy birthday.

Thank you. Zoe. Happy birthday, Jason.

We'll pick a love heart. Hope to see you soon. This is this sexy Jason.

Happy birthday. Oh, thanks, Zoe. And Colin says happy birthday, Sherry.

Happiest of birthdays to you. Enjoy your day. Thank you, Cheryl.

Did I say Sherry? Cheryl, my eyesight. Hannah, Hannah says happy birthday to you. So thank you, Hannah.

And so I'll. If there's anything I replied to, I'll try to reply. This could go to some of the other pages on Facebook.

Yeah, let's have a look. Right, nothing on there. Let's go on to the other one.

Jason Newland, hypnotist. 25,000 followers. Wow.

Thank you. OK, so I got a comment. Happy belated birthday wishes.

Good to see you after such a long time. That's from Peter. And I don't know.

I'm not quite sure what this good to see me after such a long time. I post. I post every single podcast.

Onto this page. So I'm not sure. I'm not quite sure what, unless you mean I don't do not post.

Suppose I don't maybe don't post messages on here so much. But posted the questions for Q&A Friday and other things like that. But every time I do a new recording, I do post it onto my Facebook pages, all of them.

Yeah. Karen says, hi, Jason. Happy birthday.

Can't remember if it's today or tomorrow. Quick question. Will you or have you done any hypnotherapy sessions for addiction? Thank you.

I did do some stuff years ago. I have to look up, look it up. It'd be probably be on my website.

I think I did. Yeah. What if I can get into my email on here? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Email, email, email, email. Can I? No. Inbox, downloading your messages.

That might take a few hours. Please sign in. I am signed in.

What are you talking about? Sign in. OK, I'm going to have to say thank you to the individual people for your Paypal gifts. I'll do that today.

But yeah, I really do appreciate it. And I appreciate the kind words that I've received. And I've said it before and I'll say it again.

No, I do. I said, thank you. You know, I do have the best listeners.

That's what I believe. I got the best listeners out of any podcast. I may not have the best podcast, the best content, best quality, the best host, but I definitely have the best listeners.

So thank you. Genuinely, thank you for listening. And thank you for supporting me.

And now I'm going to go and have some ready break. Yeah. So I'm going to go.

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.