#128 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (14th April 2019)

Hello, welcome to my weird stomach sounds. This is let me bore you to sleep and my website, which in my last recording I told you that was gone, is now back. Because... I just can't make my mind up about anything.

So there you go, the letmeboreyoutosleep.com is up and running again. I've rebuilt it. It's pretty much identical to what it was before I deleted it.

I'm becoming a whiz kid on the WordPress. WordPress is a, if you don't know, is a website building open source thing. Mind you, if it's open source, why am I paying? Yeah, so it's not, you know, it's kind of, it's costing me 21 pounds a month and I can host, I can have five websites on there.

So I've got the letmeboreyoutosleep.com, I've got the deepsleepwhisper.com. So both of those websites are now up and running again. And this evening I built jasonnewland.com, the website, but I've had problems linking it to my domain name for some reason. So when I said I built the website, I've kind of got a very basic page at the moment because what I'm going to have on my main Jason Newland website is categories.

So I have it all organized by categories. So all the relaxation recordings, chronic pain recordings, sleep recordings and will all be separated. And then the courses like Let Me Bore You To Sleep, Deep Sleep Whisper, oh wow, wow, wow.

So yes, considering there's about a thousand recordings, it's going to be a little bit of a job. I don't want to devote too much of my time to it all in one go. I'm just going to pace myself with that one.

I'm happy that I've got the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and the Deep Sleep Whisper one up and running again. So yeah. And also, oh by the way, I should just say only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes because, do I need to give a because? I suppose it's just for your safety.

It's as simple as that. I'll give you an example. So if you listen to me like on a regular basis to go to sleep and then one day you're driving in your car and you're thinking, oh I'll listen to Jason.

Perhaps you better not when you're driving if you associate me with sleeping. So I would say never listen to me, any of my recordings unless you can safely close your eyes. So I try and say that on every recording.

So there. And because although I try and pretend I don't care about anyone, I do actually a little bit care because I want people to be safe and I'm on here doing these recordings. I'm not, why I'm a counsellor, I was trained as a counsellor but I'm not, I'm not in the role of counsellor.

I'm not really in the role of a therapist. I'm not, I kind of mingle and intertwingle, intertwine, intertwine, intertwine, I don't know, intertwingle my knowledge, my experience with things I've read about, things I've seen, with ideas and thoughts and with creativity, you know, kind of just mixing it all together and hoping that the cake won't taste too bad. It's kind of, in some ways everything I do is an experiment but based upon some concrete elements.

So I kind of think, yeah I always know where the, where the door is, you know, I always make sure. So if I go into a maze, a maze would be no good for me because I'd always know the way out because I wouldn't be able to enter the maze unless I knew a way out even if it involved renting a helicopter to come and pick me up or going in the maze with a backpack and inside the backpack I had a chainsaw or a hedge trimmer and I just trim my way out which would probably annoy the owners of the, of the maze. Yeah, mind you it could be kind of a new, a new maze.

Reminds me of that film, is it The Maze? That was a strange film. So yeah, um, I was gonna say something. Just before I did the only listen when you can safely close your eyes, I was about to say something really amazing but I forgot.

Maybe it wasn't quite as amazing as I thought it was. So I changed my mind again and I've, as I said, I've just rebuilt the site. So I spent two days doing it and last night, yeah, I was up to quite late.

Although I was watching the boxing. There was a live big fight on Lomachenko was fighting Corolla on Sky Sports at three o'clock in the morning till about six or maybe half five, six, something like that. So I was watching that but I was also building the websites at the same time.

So I'm thinking about having some pods, some websites where maybe for the stop smoking, maybe websites for the chronic pain, sleep stuff, maybe some of the other courses, the sleep, what are they called? Sleep weekly, weekly sleep ones, which is really popular as well. So but what I did and I just, I need to just, I've decided I'm going to step back. Not now because I'm in a chair and I'm against the wall.

I'm not against the wall, I'm in a chair that is kind of against the wall. You know, I know this is a little bit childish and those of you that listen regularly will be really surprised that I do anything childish because I'm such a mature adult and so sensible most of the time. But for years and years and years, including childhood, but even as an adult, visiting my dad and he'll kind of at one point, guaranteed if I'm there for at least a couple of days, oh can you pull the chair away from the wall because it leaves a mark.

And if I'm just there for lunch during the, I don't normally hear it, but if I stay over I'll be sitting in a chair and it will lean against the wall. Can you move away from the wall because it leaves a mark on the wall. So when I finally got my own place four years ago, literally four years ago now, like within the last week or so, I purposely rub the furniture against the wall to leave marks.

And it does leave marks. I need to paint the wall now, a little bit annoying. But what is strange is what's left the biggest mark is my arm.

And I might sound weird, but my arm resting because the chair is aiming towards the television. And the right hand of the chair is pressed against the wall. It's not like tightly pressed.

You couldn't put a pencil in between it, it wouldn't hold the pencil up. You know, it's not that tight. Not that I even own a pencil.

Does anyone own pencils anymore? Do they still exist? I don't know. But it's, so I'm facing the TV and my arm, because it's a big black squeaky chair, you hear it every time I talk. You know, it squeaks.

You can hear that. I try and keep still as much as possible, but it still squeaks. And my right arm is rested on the armrest, I suppose.

That's why it's called an armrest. I never thought about that. And it's weird because it's as if it looks right, as if it's right.

My arm has basically been there and the sun's been shining against the wall for four years. And there's a shadow now, like a permanent shadow on the wall. It's probably just my hand, my arm, but it's actually higher than my arm, which is weird.

Anyway, I don't know. Can shadows stay on a wall? I suppose in movies they can. Did you ever watch The Saint? It was a TV show with Ian Orgilvy in the early 80s, I think.

And he used to have this little halo used to come above his head. It didn't come above his head. I mean, it appeared above his head, but it wasn't really there.

And it wasn't really there during the show. It was just kind of, I suppose, the saint bit. I'm making out that he was really nice.

And Roger Moore was the original saint, I think, back in the 60s. Well, anyway, Ian Orgilvy became the saint. He took over from that job.

I remember seeing a preview of it, and there'd be the halo above his head. I thought that he was going to become invisible, but he never did. I thought he had like superpowers, but he didn't.

I've seen The Saint from the 60s as well. And it's quite funny, really, because Roger Moore pretty much just... The Saint and James Bond are very similar. He played the character in a very similar way.

Very similar. I liked him in that other show. What was it, the one with Tony Curtis? The... What was it called? That was also in the 60s.

I forget what it's called, but I used to love watching it in the 90s. I used to watch that, because it was just really good. And it was... And Buck Rogers.

Buck Rogers was good. I used to watch that in the 90s as well. It was the 80s when it first came out.

Was it Gerard? Something Gerard, I don't know. Thing is, Buck... This... My memories of Buck Rogers is a bit tainted, okay? Because I actually drew... What did I spend about two or three hours drawing Buck Rogers out of the looking comic? And I drew it with a pen. I had the pencils then.

They did exist back then. And paper. And I drew, didn't trace.

I drew... I might have traced. No, I couldn't really get the hang of tracing. But it depended on how thick the paper was, because it works really thin paper, because you could see the tracing underneath, and you could draw around it.

But if it's thick paper, sometimes what I'd do is I'd put the tracing at the bottom of the pad, and like, why can't I see it? Why can't I... It's not because it's at the bottom of the pad. So I'm like, okay, I've got to keep going on about it. It's at the bottom of the pad, right? I get it.

So why can't I see it then? Because it's at the bottom. I know you said that, but why can't I see it? Those conversations used to last for ages. So I did this picture, and I think it was when I had the chickenpox, and it was snowing outside.

And it was beautiful out there, because... I don't know about you. I imagine it's different if you live somewhere where there's snow all the time. It's probably just like very samey, you know? It's kind of like if you work in a Jaffa Cake factory.

Jaffa Cakes probably don't hold the same excitement as they do to me. I love a Jaffa Cake, but I think if I was around them all the time, I might not get quite as aroused. That reminds me, years ago, I worked in this, I had this job.

It was basically this big freezer place. And they had like a new job on, and they asked me to help. Well, they just told me to go and do it, really.

They didn't ask me. But it was Cadbury's Cream Eggs, putting them into boxes, like big boxes. So putting the little boxes into the big boxes, because they were all frozen.

And then I think checking them, and just general stuff like that. Now, at the end of the job, after a few weeks of doing that, I couldn't face another Cadbury's Cream Egg. I just, you know, I could never eat another one after that, you know, for at least a year.

Because I just consumed so many. As did, I'm surprised that the company didn't shut down. Of course, none of that's true, because I do lie a lot.

So yeah, none of that really happened. But can't eat too many of them. So didn't do much confectionery.

Why do people in America call it candy? We call it sweets in England. Candy. Candy.

So you've got candy floss. But that's not chocolate. But then candy isn't necessarily chocolate.

It can be just sweet, isn't it? So why call it candy in America? And we call it sweets here. Which was first? Things like that, that I really don't think about very often. I think I shall have a drink.

I woke up this morning without a hangover. I felt like I had a hangover. I say this morning, it was 7.30 this evening, but, or yesterday evening.

But I don't drink alcohol. So I don't know what on earth it was. I thought maybe I'd just been asleep too long or dehydrated a bit.

But I didn't have the heating on. I don't think. Because that can sometimes be, you know, sometimes when it's cold, you know, like in the winter and stuff.

And other times when it's cold, I might wake up, go and do a wee wee. And then I might turn the heating on. You know, if it's like six o'clock or seven o'clock, I might think, I don't know what I'll do.

I think I'll turn the heating on. Now that's how I word it now. But at the time, it was probably more a case of heating on.

Back to bed. That's kind of it. Wouldn't it be lovely if, do you know that moment, you know, when you get up out of bed, you go to the toilet and you get back into bed and you just go back to sleep instantly, like absolutely instantly.

That would be a good position to be in. When you first go to bed, just have that same feeling of just laying down and bang, gone. And you wake up in the morning or whatever time, because you know, a lot of people do night shifts.

Not everybody sleeps during the night. Some people sleep during the day. So I think it's, I have to remember that it's not everybody.

And technically people in Australia sleep during the day. Because Australia's day is my night. So probably, well I reckon 90% of Australians sleep during the day.

Because that's my night. So when I'm asleep, although I'm asleep during the day as well, which is their night, technically I'm probably asleep at the same time. This all made sense to me before I started talking.

Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm not so sure. Oh, it's been a bit of a weird week.

Really, really strange week. I put so much work into building websites and then just deleting them. And then to go and build them again.

So I am determined that I'm not going to go anywhere near the websites that I've built. You know, in a sense of deleting them or anything. I'm just going to keep them.

Oh, another thing that I did. Oh dear, because I did my, oh yeah, during the week I did that premium website for the Let Me Boy To Sleep. Premium.

So it was the plan. And I paid for it and, you know, got it all up and running and uploaded all the stuff. It took ages to do.

The plan was that the current month is free to listen to anything that I reproduce during the current month. But then any back catalogue is a subscription service. $9.99 a month or something like that.

And it was going so well. And then it didn't work. It just didn't work.

It worked on a laptop, worked on the tablet, did not work on the phone. Which would have been fine 10 years ago. Because, you know, most people were using laptops 10 years ago.

But now the majority of people are using phones to, you know, especially with podcasts and stuff like that. So I just got rid of it. But before I'd got rid of it, I had deleted all of the old catalogue, all of the back sessions of the Let Me Boy To Sleep from the original podcast.

So, it was a case of re-uploading everything. And what that did is it messed with some of the podcasts because then they didn't have anything to play until I'd uploaded them all. And most of the podcasts, they kind of check the RSS feed every day or something like that.

So it should all be up to date. However, there's loads of links that are now not working. The links to the different podcasts are now gone because new links have been made.

So that's another reason why I need to just stop. It's weird though, and I don't quite understand. Since I re-uploaded all the sessions, I suddenly got loads and loads of downloads, like a lot of downloads.

So yesterday I had nearly 6,000 downloads. The day before I had about 7,000 downloads. And I know that maybe a couple of places might download it as far as, you know, but that maybe would explain a couple of hundred downloads, but not that many thousands.

To have 13,000 in two days, it just seems I don't quite understand what's happened there. Never mind. I'll probably get like 73 downloads today.

That'd be funny. Well, it wouldn't be funny. I've also put the adverts back on, but they're only available, they're only on at the very beginning.

And I've just gone there to try and cover the costs, to, you know, a little bit to cover the costs of running this free service. So that's it. I don't think the adverts are too bad.

I don't know. Any other free service has adverts, doesn't it? So I'm okay with that. I think I've, I should get about $20 this month.

Any little bit helps, doesn't it? I suppose. Every little bit. I think the only thing with the adverts is a different level of volume to me.

I think because I'm quiet, even when I do these, even though they're not whispers, I'm still, I just naturally talk quietly. So it's kind of, you know what I mean? But I don't have the adverts in midway. Can you imagine me talking like this and suddenly, you know, 30 minutes in, a big loud advert telling you about something you've got no interest in? I don't have them at the end either.

So I've only got them, I'm only getting a third of the amount that I could be getting from the adverts. I could have the free adverts per session. But, you know, as I said, I don't because I don't want to jar people out at the end if they're relaxed and tired and stuff.

Maybe I'll make some more practical stuff, pain relief, or, you know, maybe I can have adverts at the end of those, perhaps. I also, I deleted all the stuff, all of the old episodes of Let Me Bore You to Sleep from my Sound Cloud podcast. So I've re-uploaded those yesterday, or the other last night or the night before.

I still don't know what to do about that Sound Cloud podcast. It just really fluctuates from the end. You know, some days I'll get like a few hundred plays.

Sometimes I'll get maybe a hundred plays. Some days I'll get 60 plays. Sometimes I'll get a thousand plays.

It's just like, that's the Sound Cloud, but it's very small compared to the other podcasts that I've got, like on Spreaker. But I don't know, I've got a little thing about Sound Cloud. I've had those podcasts with Sound Cloud for years.

Many years I've been with Sound Cloud, on and off. And I don't know, I kind of, I'd like to see it reach a million. And I'm quite a long way off that at the moment.

I think I'm about 60, 67,000 or something. But I did have over 200,000 on my last podcast with Sound Cloud. I'd like to have a million.

With the Spreaker one, since November, I've got 119,000 downloads and probably over about 12,000, 13,000 plays. So we look forward to that being a million as well. I just want, just the word million sounds quite nice to have in a sentence connected to me.

You know, I definitely would celebrate that. A million downloads of a podcast or even collectively of all the podcasts. I'd be happy.

I'd be brilliant. I'd just be really pleased. I'm just having a drink.

Yeah. It's Easter this week. I don't know if you have Easter in other countries.

I suppose you do. Some countries. In America, do you have Easter? We have Easter eggs where it's basically chocolate eggs with kind of a gift inside.

And what kind of gifts? When I was younger, when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure the Easter eggs used to have gifts like toys and stuff. Maybe I'm wrong. But the Easter eggs now generally, so if it's a crunchy Easter egg or a Mars bar Easter egg, it'll have little Mars bars inside.

Or a Skittles Easter egg or you could just go for all the different sweets or candies that you have. So I'm guessing you have different ones in America, probably different ones in Canada, different ones in Australia, different ones in New Zealand, different eggs and candy and sweets in South Africa, different ones in Germany, different ones in France. Is Easter called L'Easter in France? Or On Easter in Italy? Is it Easter? I think, yeah, I remember when I was a kid, we used to go, me and my brothers, well me anyway, I don't know about them, and we used to go to Sunday school on Easter.

But it was the only time we ever went. The Sunday school would be kind of a church thing. It's as if they wanted us out of their house.

I don't know what that was about. But what I liked about Easter eggs, apart from eating them, is when you give them to people, you don't have to wrap them up. Because if you did, well they're going to wrap us up, well I wonder what's in there on this Easter day where everyone just gives Easter eggs.

That's where you're wrong. It's a giant frog. It wouldn't be a giant frog.

I suppose you can buy frogs, big frogs, but you'd need a lot of space, wouldn't you? It wouldn't be fair to put a frog in like a fish tank. Because frogs, they want to bounce and hop and be free. It's like a kangaroo.

It wouldn't keep a kangaroo in the airing cupboard. It needs to hop and be free. There was a film I saw about a kangaroo.

It's really funny. And this is like a really mischievous kangaroo, and they're chasing it. These people are chasing it, and it's just really funny.

Really, yeah, I did laugh. I like to laugh about things sometimes. I like watching things that make me laugh.

Don't worry, I'm not writing or rehearsing my dating profile. I like to laugh. I'll tell you, when I was a kid, I used to love watching films.

And, you know, all through my childhood, really, from the age of probably the age of nine or 10, we had a DVD, not DVD, a video recorder. And then it was, we first had a, what was it, a 2000 system. I forget who made it.

But it was really good quality. You could record both sides of the tape, all that stuff. And I think that the tape would hold hours and hours, like six hours worth of video on each side, something like that.

Well, anyway, Betamax came in. They were cheaper, and they took over and became the big cheese. And, you know, pretty much everybody had a Betamax video recorder.

And the tapes, the videotapes were, you know, it was fairly good. It was okay. And I used to record stuff off the telly.

I remember... Sorry about that. Do you hear that? It's Andre. Andre, you okay, mate? Hey? He's asleep.

He's dreaming. Sorry if I didn't make anyone jump in my chair. If anyone wants to buy me a new chair, feel free.

This one's just falling apart now, I think. Just, it's got worn out. The cover's even starting to peel off.

God, plus it's noisy, just the noise of it. It's a little bit... So I'm used to it. It doesn't bother me really that much, to be fair, but I do wonder if it disturbs me when I sit on it.

So we had the Betamax video recorder, but you could only play one side and everything was cheaper. A lot cheaper than the 2000 systems. I'm trying to think who made the 2000 systems.

Like Hitachi or something like that. So we had the Betamax recorder and then you used to be able to buy the videotapes in packs of five or something, or even packs of 10, and they'd be like one pound each or something like that. And sometimes in special offers, you'd get two for the price of one.

I had a friend when I was pretty... How old was I? 18? 18. Yeah, 18. And yeah, yeah, I was 18.

And he lived in this studio flat. And it was with a council, and he was on the waiting list to get a bigger flat. But he had this like a bit of work.

It was nice, you know, going there. It was on the ground floor. You walk in.

If I remember correctly, I think the kitchen was on the left-hand side as you went in. And then there is a bathroom maybe on the right-hand side. And then you went in and I'm not quite sure, but you had two beds with like a distance between them.

They weren't put together. Two beds. And I used to stay there a couple of times like overnight.

And on his wall, he had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videotapes. I'm talking wall-to-wall shelves with videotapes on. And they were probably VHS actually, not BMX.

And yeah, because BMX or they might... Who knows? Who knows? I don't know. It was long before DVDs anyway. And he had... I don't know how many he had, but he had a lot.

And they were all like films. That's pretty much what you can get on videotapes, isn't it? It's going to be films. I suppose it could have been football matches or news, I suppose.

But it was... I'm not going to say pirate films because he wasn't just into pirates. But you know what I mean. He had kind of everything.

I mean, it looked like he had every film that was ever produced since 1927. 1984, January. You know, there's loads and loads of films.

I've never seen that many. Well, I have. I've been in a video shop.

They probably had more there. But he didn't have... To be fair, he probably had... Yeah, because in the video shops, quite often they have them facing out so you can see the cover. I mean, we don't have video shops anymore, do we? But there used to be.

We used to have video shops here. I mean, I remember the first one I ever went to. It was down the seafront.

And it was... I think I've only known... He only used three video shops before I moved to London. There's one down the seafront. I'm not sure if they moved or it was just another one.

But one opened up around the corner from where I lived. So I'm not going to walk down to the seafront if there's one around the corner. No matter how much I like the people that ran it.

I didn't know them. But you know, I kind of liked them because they'd let me take anything out without worrying about my age. I was taking 18s out and I didn't look 18 when I was 25.

I've always looked... Well, not always now maybe, but I did look young. I didn't look 18 when I was 18. So I definitely didn't look 18 when I was 13.

But they just let me take whatever out I wanted. And I wasn't really into horror. I used to watch horror films with the family.

So if I was choosing films to watch with the family, I'd... We used to watch quite a few horror films. I don't know why actually. Stuff that I wasn't supposed to watch.

But when I was in the shop myself, because once I got my own card for me, especially with the one around the corner, I wasn't interested in horror films. What I wanted was comedy and martial arts. So I watched every single martial arts film pretty much that's ever been available on video.

I mean, I watched all of them, every single one. That they had, and they had a huge collection. Especially once I was renting them, they were just getting more and more.

In fact, I think they used to just do a cycle. So I think they had other shops and they'd take some out of one shop and put them into another shop. So that it kind of made the selection a bit more fresher.

A bit like, I suppose it's a little bit like a fish tank with some running water, because it keeps the air, keeps it fresh, the water oxygenated. So it kept the video shops oxygenated like that. But I used to go in there and I think the one around the corner, I think it had a downstairs as well.

And when I was not looking, I used to look at all the adult films as well. Didn't take them out, but I used to look at the covers and try and memorise the pictures for when I got home. So I got all the martial arts films out, but I loved the comedies.

I know I kind of mock the whole, I like to laugh, because we all like to laugh, don't we? But I pretty much always loved comedy. Comedy films, whatever, stand-up comedy. I think we all need some light relief in life.

I genuinely do. And I also discovered that there's a lot of stuff out there, a lot of funny stuff that you have to look for. There's this little bit of gold nuggets out there in the film world.

And one such thing I shall tell you about, it might not be a surprise because you may have seen it. Right, here we go. Oh, I discovered, I didn't discover him because he was famous.

I'm not a, I don't know, I'm not a management of entertainers or anything. But I discovered Steve Martin before he became famous in England. And you may think, if you're in another country, say, oh, what do you mean you discovered him before he was famous in England? He was famous in America in the 70s.

Ah, but he wasn't famous in England. He didn't become really well-known until he did the film Roxanne. That was the film that, you know, made him really well-known here.

And then pretty much everything he did from then on. I'm trying to think, what other films did he do after that? I can't remember, but loads. He did the film with Michael Caine, didn't he? He did.

But in America, he was already famous, not just because he was one of the most popular stand-up comedians that America's ever had. He was filling stadiums in America when he was doing his stand-up act. You know, he was up there with Bill Cosby as far as, I think that's where the comparison probably ends, but hopefully.

But he was, no, Bill Cosby was filling stadiums with Richard Pryor as well, but not all comedians did. And Steve Meyer was one of the ones that did. But he wasn't known here because we didn't have Saturday Night Live here, apart from those that had satellites and, you know, it wasn't on normal terrestrial television.

But Roxanne was such a huge hit, I think worldwide, but it was massive here. And that kind of, suddenly everyone knew who he was. But before that, in the early 80s, I was watching his films.

The, and obviously there's The Jerk, and that's a famous, one of his most famous films in America. But the, All of Me, was it The Man With Two Brains? I forget, I watched every single one of Steve Martin's films, long before he did the, Roxanne. And those early films were the funniest thing for me.

They were the funniest films that he ever made. And more so than The Jerk, I think the other ones, the ones that weren't as famous, so funny. I can't even, I remember bits, but it was just, I need to re-watch them actually, because I haven't seen them for like 30 years, but very, very funny.

And then quite a few of the martial art films were funny as well. Like Jackie Chan, again, before he became famous in the West. And I'm trying to think of a film that he got famous for.

I can't remember, but I watched all of his films, like Drunken Master, and they were all dubbed, dubbed into English. But they were really good films, and they were really funny. He, for one scene, he'd walk in, he'd go into a restaurant, and he didn't have any money, and he ordered some rice and some noodles and whatever, and he's basically eating it.

He said, some more, have some more. And he's stuffing his face, and he keeps eating. And eventually, the manager comes over and says, you need to pay.

And he says, I haven't finished. Because he's still eating the bowl of noodles. He said, I haven't finished.

He said, you need to pay now. He said, but I haven't got any money. And then a big fight ensues, and all these people are trying to get to him, and he's jumping over tables and chucking chairs and doing all this acrobatic stuff, but at the same time eating the noodles.

It's very funny, very funny. But the thing that I, there was a, a kind of, it was a collection of films called, I think called the Trinity films, and they were from, I suppose the 70s maybe, but they were kind of in this spaghetti western style, but I'd never heard of them before. And both the actors were famous actors.

I think, is it Jackie Gleason? Maybe, I don't know. And, but these films, as I said, I'm not an expert on films. I'm not a film buff, but I've spent enough time in video shops to kind of see every single film that was available, you know, and I'm quite aware of what films are what and stuff.

And I watched a lot of films, thousands, thousands and thousands of films. And I don't recall ever seeing the Trinity films on television or even spoken about, yet they were, they were really funny. I think it's, one of them calls My Name is Trinity or The Man Named Trinity or A Town Named Trinity, something like that.

And it's very funny. It's really, and, but they didn't just do the cowboy films, they did other films as well. Together, did loads.

I don't know how many films they did together, but they were a really good mix. Like, it's a double act on camera. Very funny.

And, yeah, absolutely loved. So I watched all of those films that I could get hold of. And then another video shop opened in the town.

So I used to go there. The bloke there had long blonde hair, and his girlfriend or his wife sort of worked in there as well sometimes. And she's just like, wow, she was, yeah, I quite, I preferred it when she was in there.

Because I just, I'd sort of say hello, and she'd ignore me. But, you know, sometimes I just, when I was about 14, 15, I'd rather be ignored by someone beautiful than, well actually that doesn't make sense, does it? At least I was in the same room, I suppose. But I used to, again, I rented all the films out that I could.

I'd, you know, any comedy, even if it was from the 50s or 60s or 70s, or if it had unknown actors, I didn't bother about famous actors. I just, you know, I'd rent it. If it was a comedy, I'd rent it and I'd watch it.

And quite often, you know, you get those moments that are just brilliant. I think I saw every Gene Wilder film. And some of the films, not every film museum was great.

But sometimes there's that little bit of genius, because he was one of the best comedy actors, I think. And there's one scene, I don't even know what film it was in, but a woman kisses him on the lips. And he stands back, looks horrified, rubs his lips, and like a little kid would do, yells and runs away screaming.

And it's one of those moments where I had to, I was laughing so hard, I had to pause it, rewind it and listen and watch it again, and still couldn't stop laughing. And those moments, I like those moments. There's another one with, I think it's called What About Bob? With Bill, what's his name from Groundhog Day? Bill something, you know his name, you know the bloke.

And so Bob, that's Bill, he's asleep on the couch. And Richard Dreyfuss is his psychologist, psychiatrist. He's trying to wake him up.

And he's been asleep all night and he's sleeping in his house. He's trying to wake him up. So he's saying, Bob, Bob, nothing, shakes him, nothing.

And he's basically going through everything. He ends up playing a trumpet in his ear, shouting, screaming, playing cymbals and all stuff like that, really anything to get him up. Nothing.

And then Bob's little alarm clock goes off and it wakes him up. That's what makes it so funny. It's like the whole trumpet and everything, like that's funny.

But then him to wake up to this little alarm clock, like going dee dee dee, dee dee dee. It's like, oh, yours. For me, those moments, they're the moments that I love in life.

Those moments that I laugh and it's just pure joy. See, I do like to laugh but I wouldn't put it on a dating app. I like to eat me.

I love eating. I love to poo. It's just things you need to do.

And I think we need to laugh. It's not a case of I like to laugh. We need to laugh.

It's important. I think it's more important than we'll ever know. And also we need to sleep, which is why I do these and hopefully will continue.

My aim is to continue to do this now for the rest of my life. And I hope that I get to the point where I can do one a day for the next 50 odd years. We can all grow old together.

Yeah. 50 years, I'll be 98. Can you imagine me? Now, welcome to let me put you to sleep dot com.

Wow, 50 years time. But we even have the internet. You know, who knows what will happen then? Wow, 50 years time, I might have, I might have 2000 downloads a day instead of 1000.

Wow. I might be famous. Anyway, the 60 minute marks gone.

67 minutes. So I'm gonna go. I just want to say a quick a quick goodbye.

And I hope that you all have a good sleep and keep safe. And just remember that you deserve to be happy. You deserve to have a good laugh.

Do enjoy yourself. Keep safe. Bye.