#224 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (24th September 2019)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is I'll Let Me Bore You to Sleep. Please only listen and you can safely close your eyes. And if you would like to support me with my free service then please go to my website.

There's ways that you can send me gifts if you want to and that's groovy. So yeah just check out the website and all of my recordings are on there as well. Plus you can leave a testimonial.

You can contact me, write me a email, tell me how what I do is useful and yeah cool. So what I thought I would do, bear in mind it's 6.51 in the morning which doesn't really have any relevance to anything but I don't generally start a recording this late or this early. However I just spent the last probably three hours if not more applying online for a master's degree as well as applying for funding for the master's degree.

Oh yes so I thought I'd talk about it. I thought that's what I'd tell you about today. I'm going to go through the course that I've applied for.

Now and just for those that have never listened to me before these Let Me Bore You to Sleep recordings are exactly that. It's just me waffling on for about an hour and you can just relax and just fall asleep like I feel like I'm going to. And the thing is it gets to a point where if you listen to me regularly as soon as I start talking you automatically feel relaxed and tired.

So yeah it's quite a good little podcast. I think it's quite useful. It's different to, I mean there are other podcasts that aim at like telling stories.

There's a few, there's not many but there are a few out there. But I didn't even know about until I started doing this. But it's different because they're all different because they're all personal to the person that's doing them.

So it wouldn't matter if there was a thousand people doing exactly this, exactly what I'm doing. It's going to be different everyone because of their different personalities, their different voices, the accents they have, the words that they use, the tone of their voice, you know. It's going to be different for everybody.

So although technically this isn't original, although I thought it was when I started, there's not many people doing it. There's only a handful really in the world that do this kind of stuff, you know. Just, I mean if you look online there's some of the podcasts that are suggested for people to go to sleep aren't even made for people to go to sleep.

These are people that have made podcasts about things they're interested in, like talking about movies and things like that and they've been stuck in a list of podcasts to fall asleep to. So that must be quite an insult really, isn't it, I suppose, to the person making a podcast about something that they're really passionate about. It's kind of funny as well.

But there are podcasts made specifically for people to get to sleep and I've got a few. So in a way, in a way, kind of, technically, sort of, I am one of the first people online to do this. But I was doing it with hypnosis.

I was doing it, I had podcasts with sleep hypnosis sessions long before many people did it. I was doing softly spoken recordings and stuff with a bit of whispering in before ASMR even kind of existed on YouTube. I was doing it a long time before that.

So yeah, I'm not saying I'm, I kind of, I've not started anything other than just what I do for me. But at the same time I'm not copying anyone. Because you don't need to copy anybody really.

Because we're just all different, aren't we? Plus I don't ever listen to anybody else's podcast, like sleep podcasts. Firstly, I don't need to. You know, all I do is just start talking to myself and I fall asleep.

Yesterday, because I've got other podcasts that are, they're not like this, they're more hypnosis-y stuff. So I've got a few, but one of them is sleep hypnosis weekly. And I've started recording that whilst laying down in bed, which is never a good idea.

For me, because I just fall asleep and I'm not talking and you feel your legs and you feel your feet and I'm just, it's a bit weird. And I did it last night, or whatever time I went to bed, and I recorded it and it lasted about half an hour, 33 minutes or something. And I just pressed stop and uploaded it to the podcast.

And it's uploaded privately so no one can see it. So then I download it, edit it and upload it again, the new version, the edited version. So I wasn't sure at that time how snorey that I'd been.

But surprisingly enough, it wasn't, there wasn't much snoring. I thought there was going to be me going, like a piglet trying to persuade you to buy him a can of lager in the supermarket. Go on, get it for me.

Get it yourself. They don't serve pigs. How do you know? Oh, I just assumed they don't serve pigs.

Ah, but do you know that they don't serve pigs? Because I can honestly say I've never in all of my thousands of years stood in a queue of a supermarket and seen the cashier say, sorry, we don't serve your kind. Never seen that. Hopefully never will.

So maybe pigs can be served. Maybe they can go and buy their own alcohol. Don't know why I'm talking about pigs being served in supermarkets.

Slightly gone off track. So yeah, so what I've done, what I've done, oh yeah, and I fell asleep during that recording. And I haven't made a deep sleep whisper hypnosis session for a couple of days.

And I've not made a sleep, deep sleep, whatever it's called. I've had a relaxation hypnosis for stress, anxiety and panic attacks. Haven't made one of them for a few days.

But it's quite weird because the stats were still really good yesterday. I only made one recording. In fact, I had 3,305 downloads yesterday, 23rd of September, compared to the day before when I had 2,991.

And I only made one new recording. So I'm starting to think maybe if I don't make any recordings, I'll get even more. I don't know.

I mean, the deep sleep whisper podcast, it's gone down in stats a little bit because I've not made one. But I had 169 downloads so far today. And the stats start at about three o'clock in the morning, and it's now seven.

So you know, it's not too bad for a few hours. But 359 downloads yesterday. The day before, 451, 21st, 446, and 500 the day before that.

So the last day I did a recording was 22nd of September. It was only two days ago. But I had 359 downloads from that recording.

Yeah, so if I go a few days, then the last one gets downloaded more often than if I do them every day. I can't figure it all out. I can't.

I don't know why. It's like chronic pain relief podcast is going up in the world. Oh, maybe not.

No, I'll forget that. You know, it's really strange, right? But the only thing I wanted to do, not the only thing I wanted to do, but the thing I wanted to do most with the hypnosis and the stuff online was chronic pain relief. That was it.

And I did the relaxation because I was asked to do it. Because I was leading groups in a couple of charities in 2006 and into 2007. But in 2006, I was doing these CDs.

And because people were asking, oh, we'd like listening to you and all that stuff, but we only get to see you like once a week or twice a week. So I did a CD for them. And then they sold that one.

We didn't sell them, but they got taken very quickly. So it's costing charity a fair bit of money and time to buy these CDs and print them out and burn them and all this stuff. So I ended up just recording the live sessions and putting them onto the website.

I don't have, I don't think I've got any of them anymore. None of those live sessions exist, which is a shame because I had lots of them. I was talking about this, I think yesterday or the day before, I had a podcast which had hundreds of recordings and I lost probably a good 200, if not more, recordings back in 2008, maybe 2009 time.

And the podcast, it just closed. It just like closed and didn't give any notice and just closed and everything was lost because it was a free podcast and I would have paid them. I would have paid them to have my podcast on there.

Because the podcasts were doing really well. You know, I was really pleased with it. They didn't even offer a paid service.

It's like, what? So yeah, that's why, because there were a lot of free podcasts back then. And I was on all of them. I used all of them.

There was loads of video sites like YouTube, loads. And I was on all of them. Some of them I was getting lots, hundreds and thousands of downloads or plays on some of the video sites.

One by one they closed. There was one, I can't remember the name of it, but I was actually getting more plays on there than I was on YouTube. I was literally getting thousands of plays, like 10, 15,000 plays on a video after a couple of weeks.

And on YouTube, the same video would be getting maybe I don't know, a couple of hundred views or something. And then at that time, and then the video that the, I can't remember what it was called, but it's really good. I liked it because I was getting lots of plays.

And they closed. I mean, there was lots of video sites that, because I don't think YouTube was the first video site. I know obviously Myspace had videos service on there before YouTube came along, but there were other video sites around, but I think before YouTube, YouTube just overtook.

And there's a few, there are a few video sites left, but hardly any of them really get used, I don't think. I mean, Vimeo is more for professionals. So you can hide the video, you can sell the video, you can have, if you've got a Vimeo account, you can have the video as part of an online video course, like educational course.

So it's good for that. So they've kind of got that part of the market sewed up really. And it's a really good platform.

And I've used them many times over the years. But it's just weird how no one could compete with YouTube and no one's been able to compete with Facebook. Not really, even Twitter.

It's a different, it's a different service though, isn't it, Twitter. And some of the other ones are different, they're not the same. Because I don't know if you remember, I mean, Facebook wasn't the first one.

And obviously Myspace was the big, massive, huge, absolutely huge, millions and millions of people using Myspace. And I think the bloke called Tom, who used to run it, he, like it was his business. And whenever you joined, he would be your first friend.

And he had something like, you know, 100 million friends or something. And I'm not even sure if Myspace still exists. I think it does.

But it's just, it's like an empty ghost town, I think. Maybe they'll be able to revamp and do what Yahoo's done and sort of kind of rebrand. I don't know.

Some websites are able to do that. They kind of disappear, but they're still, I don't know, still seem to have some backing, some financial backing. Because Myspace, it then became more very focused on bands.

It was for bands to start with. And then it got kind of took over by the public. Because it was like, really good place to be.

It was, in some ways, I prefer Myspace to Facebook, because it seemed to me quite a positive place. And yeah, that's my recollection of it. But I might be, I might be looking through my apple coloured glasses.

I haven't got any roses. I had to use my two of the apple. Apple, apple, apple, apple.

That's another, that's another company, isn't it, that went down the hill and was doing really badly. And now it's one of the biggest companies in the world. Yeah, none of this is relevant to anything, is it? I don't even know why I'm talking about it.

Must be a reason. Hmm. Oh, yeah.

So I put these relaxation sessions, I already had them. I was making my own and putting them onto Myspace and on my website. So I started adding these live ones onto the website as well.

So that my clients could download them or stream them. And this is what, 2006, 2007. And then people, I think a few people started asking me, because I was doing chronic pain sessions.

That was what I was interested in. And I was doing, I think my first, my first ever video was a chronic pain relief video. And I like, I think I had about 10,000 plays of that one on Myspace.

And I was like over the moon. I was so happy. And it was getting so much positive feedback from people.

And it was just really, it was just kind, kindness. It was very strange compared to how it is now online. Some, not so much towards me, but how, you know, things I've seen and the, not everybody's so friendly online, especially on YouTube.

It's amazing. Some of the stuff I've seen, I don't, so I watch YouTube on television now or on my phone. So I never get to see the comments.

So on a laptop, the comments are there at the bottom. On the TV, the comments don't come up. And on my phone, generally the comment, I've got kind of streak all the way down to get to the comments.

So if I watch videos mainly on TV, YouTube videos, I don't get to see any of the comments, which is quite nice. And then people started commenting and sending me messages saying, can you do some sleep sessions? You've got a relaxing voice. I fell asleep listening to you.

Wondering if you could do something specifically for sleep. So I thought, oh, damn it. I don't want to.

I had a tantrum. I just climbed up a mountain, yelled egg, and then climbed back down again. So I started, I don't know if you wanted a shout out egg.

I didn't, did I? I didn't climb up a mountain. I just made it up. And I made a sleep session.

So I'd gone from chronic pain to making relaxation sessions, the live ones, and then making relaxation sessions at home to making sleep sessions, because people listen to the relaxation sessions and they were falling asleep as well. And the sleep sessions were always the most popular, even though the relaxation sessions were really popular as well, some of the ones I did in the past. And even the pain stuff was well-received at times.

But the sleep sessions, they're the ones that I kind of become known for that. Well, not known, am I? But you know what I mean. Known by those.

Everyone's known by those that listen to them, aren't they? Well, I suppose, I don't know. If you think about me, I imagine a lot of people would associate sleeping with me, with my voice, sleeping, falling asleep, either being bored asleep or listening to the sleep hypnosis sessions. Although, although, although, although, bing bong bing, I'm hoping, and the way it's growing, the other podcast, the stress anxiety podcast, that's growing to the point where on par daily, probably with the sleep hypnosis, the deep sleep whisper hypnosis.

But it's just a way behind because I didn't start making new sessions until a few months back. I've got like 59 episodes as opposed to 149 for the other one. But it's growing, so I'm kind of perhaps getting to be known for something else, which is quite cool.

To be known for something else as well. So I can be known as the boring man. I might have always been known as that, I don't know.

I don't know if it's what I say that's boring or how I talk that's boring. Or it's just, I don't know, maybe. So that was the introduction to this recording.

Have a little drink. Get my mouth nice and wet. Really weird sentence again to say.

So you hear a little bit of tip tapping, but that's just me on the, on the laptop. I was going to sort of redo some stuff. I've got another podcast as well.

I can't help it, I just keep making podcasts. But this is on podcast.co and it's called Jason Newland's Healing Voice. It's basically all of my stuff, all of the stuff going back to, I don't know, since records began, kind of my records.

So from the 17th to today, so what's that? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So this is the eighth day. Just over a week and it's only the beginning of the day here.

I've had 3,194 downloads from that podcast. See the first day, 17th of September, I had 51 downloads. 18th of September, the next day, 152 downloads.

Then on the 19th, 26, 26. What's going to happen now? Then 95 on the 20th of September, which was, was Friday was it? I don't know. What's going to happen now? It's 95, it's gone up, but I wonder what it's going to be like on 21st.

1,036 downloads. Wow. It's gone down a little bit on the 22nd, 815 downloads, gone up to 919 downloads on the 23rd of September.

There's 100 so far today, 100 downloads. So yeah, I've kind of been uploading my stuff and I'm doing that thing where I just, I refresh the page to see if it's gone up or go on, go up from 100. Go on, go up, go on, go on, go on.

Some podcasts only update every hour or something or two, you know, they don't do it like constantly. So the stats from my other, my Spreaker podcasts, 466,845. So this is nice if I, if it was 845, refresh that one.

If I count to 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10. Right, refresh it. It's still the same.

Come on. That's not fair. It's because I haven't, because I haven't uploaded anything for ages.

It's been 27, 28 hours since I last uploaded a recording. So it's, because when I've just uploaded something and I've like released it, it's, you can, if it was in real time, you could just see the numbers going up. But I keep refreshing it and nothing's happening.

Oh, why am I being so honest? I could just be saying, yeah, it's now 700. It's now 920. But no, it's almost like they're going to go down.

Of course, nope, still refreshing. Nothing, nothing's happening. It's almost like there's no activity on the podcast at all.

Come on, baby. Don't do this to me. I'm refreshing it.

It's, it's almost, you know, like when you ring, oh, it's now 846. Yeah, he's gone up one. It used to be like that years ago when, um, I haven't done it for a long time, but I'd phone someone and the phone was engaged and I keep phoning them and keep phoning them and keep phoning.

And it got to a point where I just got almost obsessed with phoning. It's like, it's keep phoning and keep phoning and keep phoning and keep phoning. And eventually they answer and they say, hello, you've moved to the local library.

How can I help? I was like, yeah, um, I was just wondering what time you close. And it's like, well, I didn't even need to speak to them. I could have just looked online.

Why am I, it's like, you didn't answer. I've got to keep phoning you. Why didn't you answer? Not like that now.

Oh, it's now 847. So if it goes up by one a minute, it goes up by more than that. But if it was one a minute, that would mean it'd be 60, 60 an hour, 60 times by 24.

So 61 by 10 is 600, 1200, 1000. And yeah, so it's over 1100. So probably looking at probably only two a minute really, isn't it? If it's 3000 a day, probably two a minute.

So maybe refreshing it every like two seconds. Oh, it's now 849. So it's gone up by two during that sentence.

Just shows you, doesn't it? It's almost like the internet can hear me. Can you hear me talking? It's like, oh, Jason wants us to have a few downloads. Come on, everyone.

Let's get some downloads for him. Just so he's got something to talk about. But what they don't realize is I have got something to talk about today.

Because in front of me is the website for the college course that I've, or the university course that I've applied for. And I will let you know, only you, I will let you know my progress on that. They say it takes maybe four weeks before I get to know.

And that might be the student loan. But basically, the course costs 10,000 and something pounds. And I've applied for the full amount for the student loan company.

So I'll get 10,000 pounds, but I just have to pay that directly to the university. I would have thought that they'd pay it directly, but perhaps I have to do it. So I'm not going to have any money.

I'm not going to get any cash or anything. And oh, it's now 852. I'm just going to turn it off.

I'm going to stop looking at that. But it would be nice to get a bursary and stuff like I did before, or a student loan, where I can actually get some money for me. But they don't seem to do that with the masters.

They only lend the amount for the course. So when I did the undergraduate, I got paid for living. I didn't get paid for living, but I got paid kind of living expenses.

I got a bursary. So the bursary is something that I got something I didn't have to pay back. And then I got stuff that I did have to pay back.

And I was getting paid. It wasn't a lot, to be fair. It was about £9,000 a year.

It was £3,000 every four months, something like that. And so I had to, you know, I needed to work part time to get through it, which I did. But this doesn't give a bursary, doesn't give any living money.

So the only way to do it is, you know, I'm able to do it at the moment with my situation. But yeah, so can you imagine a master's degree? I had to fill, I mean, the form was long online. And I was thinking, oh, I hope this doesn't do what some forms do.

You know, when you spend a bit too long on the page, and you go to click Next, and it times out the page, and you've lost all the information. Well, this didn't do that. And I spent hours going through it and putting all my information in and then writing a personal statement, which was, I suppose, the not hardest part, because I was just honest.

But it's the part that I don't know whether or it's what I told them about would be of use to them. I should have, should have, would have, could have. I could have read it to you if I still had it here.

No, I don't. I don't know where it is. Never mind.

So, but I'll read you the details of the course. So, this is Anglia Ruskin University. Now, I know a few people that have gone to university there and done a positive, yeah, it might have been this positive psychology course, MS. So, I guess it's probably exactly the same course.

So, she did that, and she was doing that at the same time as doing the first year of the degree, counselling. I can't imagine doing two at the same time, because she already had an undergraduate degree in a different thing. So, it's like, wow.

So, but she was like super academic, like really, you know, kind of just super clever, super able to do all that stuff. And I knew someone that went to Anglia Ruskin, who did a degree, a master's in social work. And I knew another person who did a cognitive behavioural therapy degree as well.

So, I know people who have been there. And I've been to the, I think it's, I've been to the one in Chelmsford a couple of times, the university there. But this isn't in Chelmsford, it's in Cambridge.

So, if I go there, I can tell people that I go to Cambridge. And technically, I won't be lying. So, that's quite cool, isn't it? Imagine, where did you go to university? Oh, I went to Cambridge.

Yes, I'm studying there. Yes. Because that, basically, that's the only place they do it.

They don't, the particular course that I'm applying for starts in January. Because it's too late to apply for September, because we're near the end of the month. And I wouldn't want to put that pressure on myself of starting the course without knowing whether or not I'm going to get it funded.

And also, all the rush, you know, and maybe turning up and having missed the first couple of weeks. No, I don't want that. So, I'll start in January.

And all being well. And it's going to be in Cambridge. So, it's, I don't quite know how it works.

Because I know Cambridge University, people who go to Cambridge, it's a different. So, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually question that. What's the difference between Cambridge Uni and Anglia Ruskin? Yeah, that's the one.

Okay. I didn't know that. So, I should read out what I'm saying.

The question is, is Anglia Ruskin actually part of the Cambridge University? That's the question. I'm going to see what it says here. This is called the studentroom.co.uk. So, the question is, it's a thread.

It says, I've read that Anglia Ruskin is in Cambridge. But is it actually part of the prestigious Cambridge Uni? Is it a good uni? Let's see what people have written. Someone's written, no, it's just in the same city.

No. Someone else has written, it's not part of the Cambridge Uni. No.

Someone else has written, no, not part of the prestigious Cambridge, prestigious Cambridge Uni. And then someone else has written, no, to be frank, it is like how Oxford Brookes is in Oxford, but isn't Oxford Uni. Or Birmingham City University is in Birmingham, but isn't the University of Birmingham.

It isn't very good. If you want to get a good degree, I would advise against going there. Oh, that's not very positive, is it? And someone else puts, lol, they wishes.

And someone else wrote, the teaching course is, this is nine years ago, blindly. It's a long time ago. The teaching course is having loads of problems.

My friend's just finished her first year, and they may not be carrying the course on to year two, if it doesn't improve. And someone's written, these are all from nine years ago. I didn't realise the internet was that old.

Someone's written, it's just in Cambridge. I went for the open day, hated it. And when I got a letter from them, with my offer on the back, was the scary legal stuff.

Didn't like it. My other two uni choices didn't feel the need to shove law stuff down my throat, just for an offer. And I think they are very money orientated.

That's what they wrote. Picture of a cat. Someone else wrote, no, they're close to each other in the same city.

That's pretty much it. Someone else has written, good one. I don't know if this is, so I think this is possibly a, it's sarcastic.

Someone's written, yes it is. But it is a cat secret. Similarly, London Met is part of LSE.

Thames Valley University is part of Oxford University. And Howard University is part of Harvard University. Someone else has written, it's an ex-poly, which became a uni in 1992.

So nearly 800 years after Cambridge did. I think it used to be an art college or something like that before. That was that one.

So it says someone else has written, again, nine years ago. One of its campuses is in Cambridge, but it's not a part of Cambridge University. Depends on what you're studying, what you want to do.

It's good for courses like nursing and optometry, but not much use taking a law degree there and wanting to work for a magic circle law firm. What's a magic circle law firm? That's a magic. Magic circle is magic, isn't it? Someone just said, nope, in the same city, different university.

And someone else, he's been reading all the other things and all the other comments says, this made me laugh so much. So, so much. So that was Bradall Blackwell, again, nine years ago.

And now people are just basically just having a go at Anglia Ruskin. My most memorable thing about my interview is getting a train there, with a sign at the stage and saying Cambridge, home to Anglia Ruskin University. Probs why I didn't get an offer, thinking back on it.

What? That doesn't make sense. Probs, probs, I guess that means short for probably. Probs why I didn't get an offer, thinking back on it.

Unless you're saying his most memorable part was the journey there. Or her journey there. That was nine years ago.

I don't know. Did trains exist then? He says, someone says, we used to have that sign on the buses as well. Okay.

Someone else has written, yeah, it's one of the colleges you can apply to, Anglia Ruskin College, Cambridge. It's a good college. Just has this bad rep.

So, students pretend it's not part of the uni. Same way, Homerton isn't part of the uni. Okay.

Someone's put, I laughed 66 times. So, you laughed 66 times. Laughed out loud.

I never put L, did I? Just for laughed. I laughed. Or LQ, I laughed quietly.

Or LAS, L, laughed at standard level. Well, I think that kind of, that's the thing with the internet. It's like, I'm applying for a course called Applied Positive Psychology, which is all about positivity.

And the comments I'm reading. Hmm. So, here's a Fred Stata.

So, what's rid of this? Oh, this is, this was 19 minutes ago. So, I've not read it. So, I don't know what it's going to say.

So, okay. So, my flatmates decided to go out yesterday while I stayed at the flat. I went to bed early, so I didn't see them until now.

It's the morning and I open my door and I see my flatmates laying out their mattresses in the hallway. I thought this was pretty weird. But anyway, whatever.

I'm about to literally step over them to go to the toilet and I see them all naked, fully naked on the floor. I'm trying to lock my door without waking them as they are sleeping right outside my room. What am I supposed to do? I can't leave my room and have somewhere to be.

Well, I can't leave my room and have somewhere to be. I'm also scared if I call up the university and tell on them, they will be reported and come for me. I can't ask parents and friends for advice as they will be really worried about me.

I want to request to move out, but I'm scared of telling on them. What do I do? Please someone help me as soon as you see this post. What should I tell the university? It's got to be weird actually having a bunch of naked people outside.

Why are they sleeping in the hallway? I'll refer the ones from years ago because that's just been posted. So my advice, let's see what other people have written. I'm guessing they'll wake up eventually, would lock the door.

Are you friends with them? If yes, you can explain how weird, scary it was in the morning and not do it again. Or if it's not the first time, we'll get some help with moving out. I suppose some people don't like nakedness today.

It's like, and from the sounds of it, I'm scared of telling on them. That's quite a young phrase. That's a very young person, isn't it? So perhaps it is.

I suppose because I lived on my own from the age of 16. So I was, you know, kind of used to it. But I imagine if I left home for the first time at 18, and traveled, or 19 even, but I traveled to the different side of the country.

Let's face it, if you're going to travel to a university, you might as well get as far away as possible. And it must be really kind of daunting, I suppose. I'm not really giving it any thought.

I still kind of don't want to either. I suppose the closest thing I've got to that is when I went to Butlins. But I was 20, 25.

But you know, traveled to the long way away. Ended up sleeping in a room with someone I don't know. Surrounded by people I don't know.

And that was quite, yeah, that's quite daunting. It was quite a very interesting situation. Interesting, it was.

That's a word, interesting. So yeah, that must probably be quite weird, especially for people that have, probably less weird for someone that lives in a city. But if you live in a little town, like a little village or a little town, and you kind of know everybody, and you're still friends with people that you went to school with.

And you've been going to school with them since you was like five years old or something. Then I suppose moving away from that must be quite, I'd imagine it'd be wonderful, but it's pretty quite strange for people. But if someone's living in a big city, there's not that many big cities, is there? But a city is a lot bigger than a town, a little town.

There's more people, it's less kind of neighborliness, and people less like knowing each other's business and stuff in a city, compared to a tiny little town. I imagine, mind you, it's different now, isn't it? I think even going back, probably 50, 60 years ago in London, people would know each other. It'd be kind of a community and stuff.

But can you hear that in the background? That's Andre. Basically just run over and done a messy poo on the paper. I do wonder, what do I get out of this relationship? So I might have to edit that and make it a bit quieter.

Oh, she has written, they're complete strangers, so I just met yesterday. I don't know if this is complete normal. They might have locked themselves out of their room.

Yeah, actually thinking about it, just my empathy's kicked in. Yeah, I imagine I've lived in enough rooms, lots of different rooms, in like shared houses. And yeah, imagine coming out and seeing someone, stalkers, sleep on a mattress outside your bedroom.

I can see it'd be quite nice in some ways, but just generally it'd be kind of unusual. The thing is, posting on a public forum like this on a student website and the studentroom.co.uk, I'm guessing probably gets a lot of traffic. Someone's going to see this and know the people involved, don't they? And probably say, do you do sleep in the hallway? Are you still doing that? Still doing that, are you? Yeah, well, good luck.

Oh, man, I need to open the window. I haven't even got around to... Oh, look. I didn't realise how much fun this would be, looking at this.

I've never even thought about looking at forums and questions and stuff. This is quite a good website, really. Looks like this... Looking through it, I'm not seeing any kind of really... Apart from being being rude about Angley Ruskin.

I'm bored AMA. What does AMA start for? And the thread starter is just as above, so whoever it is can be bothered to retype I'm bored AMA or, you know, copy and paste. So someone's written... AMA.

What is AMA? I'm bored and... I don't know. AMA. I'm bored, enormous, my, my arms.

I mean, I don't know. I'm bored and... Making... Art? AMA. AMA.

I'm bored, AMA. AMA. No, I really don't know what it means.

Someone else has written something. I'm a fourth year medical student, hating it's AMA. What does AMA stand for? What is it? I don't get it.

I'm just gonna have to Google it, aren't I? AMA. What does AMA stand for? Amazon's come up if I put that in. AMA.

AMA. No, I don't want Amazon. I just want AMA.

A M A. Supporting the cultural sector with training and resources. Arts Marketing Association. Urban Dictionary.

Ask me anything. AMA. Blimey.

How? I honestly didn't know that until just now. Swear down, I didn't know. Could you Adam and Eve it? Blimey.

Anyway, there's not enough time to tell you about the Applied... It's called Applied Positivity Psychology, MSC. And... There's a lot there, but I'll have to just do it another time. Student Life.

Out Campuses. I never joined a student's union when I was... I didn't do any of the activities, because the college I went to before, it was part of Essex University, but it was called the Colchester Institute. So the course was accredited by the university.

And so it was an undergraduate with a Bachelor of Arts of Honours, I think. But most of the people there were really young. Like really sort of 16 onwards kind of age.

And there were adults there as well, but it was predominantly... I'd say... At least 80% probably higher of the students were probably 90% under 20. Which meant there was no activities for... That I really felt comfortable going to. I thought about going to the Wing Chun Kung Fu Club, but I didn't.

The thing is, if I go to Cambridge, I can't... This... I wonder how many times... How many days a week would I be going if I went there? Benefit Careers, and it's where you study. The Facility of Science and Engineering is where I'll be studying. It's one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University.

Where can I explore for entry? These entry requirements. Suggested courses that may interest you. Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience.

That would be like proper beautiful to be able to do that. Because neuroscience, that's the future. Isn't it amazing? This is my real voice now.

Isn't it amazing? Isn't it amazing that over a hundred years... 1999, 2000, 120 years or well over a hundred years, psychology has been kind of going. And all these leaps and bounds and psychological research and everything like that. Okay.

And then someone had the idea. You know what? Maybe we should start looking at the brain. Yeah.

Oh, never thought of that. Of course, you should start out. You wouldn't do it with any other part of the body, would you? I see you've got a pain in your stomach.

Okay, well, let's talk through it. No, you have to kind of look inside to see what's going on. So yeah, neuroscience is amazing.

The way the brain is so flexible and the plasticity of the brain, it can grow, it can repair itself. How we think affects our brain. How we think affects the health of our brain, which then affects how we feel.

It's like, it's amazing stuff. Absolutely beautiful. I love it.

But I have to put that on the back burner. Study that another time. I kind of study it anyway, but not just through videos and watching stuff and learning.

There's one here, consumer psychology. And that would be interesting from a sense of starting a business and selling stuff. But probably more interesting to someone, yeah, it could be really useful.

Then there's foundations in clinical psychology. I like the one I've applied for, applied positive psychology, because I'm hoping, I said it in my statement, personal statement, that I want to use what I learn to help myself and others, to make it part of what I do, the recordings I do, and to spread my learnings to help other people. So that's kind of the reason I want to do it.

Plus, you know, to help myself as well. Doesn't say anything. Fees and funding, £10,700 a year for the course.

How do I pay my fees? You don't need to pay fees until you accepted an offer to attend, but you must pay your fees upfront in full or installments. We offer a fantastic range of ARU scholarships, which provide extra financial support. Why a university? Oh, I'll click on that.

What does that say about scholarships and bursaries? We know that undertaking a degree course is a bit, so I wonder, I don't know really much about, what is their advice? Well, there's one for students whose exceptional academic achievements and extracurricular achievements set them apart from their peers. Probably not the one I'm going to be going for. They got one for bipolar, I don't know, STEM merit scholarships, alumni, alumni, completed note, partner scholarship.

Sports, no, that's not going to give me, if an EU national college study, it's not me. MBA, boost your career prospects, no, international excellence, no, no, I don't, no, I don't fit any of those categories, nevermind. So the last time I looked at the stats for Spreaker, 852, so what's it now? 911, that's gradually, and the podcast.co, 100 for the day, what is it now? Let's have a look, what is it now, now, 114, so it's not gone up by much, but it's still groovy.

I'll get AMA, ask me anything. I suppose it's just the internet, isn't it? And went from text speak to, yeah, I suppose that's how I started really, wasn't it? And then sort of on phones, and then people on Facebook and Twitter, and also, because Twitter was so limited to how many words you could put on there, so abbreviations were possibly required. Oh dear, anyway, I'm going to go.

Thank you for listening, speak to you very soon, take care of yourselves, remember to be kind to yourself, because you deserve to be happy, lots of love, bye as you buy.