#321 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (3rd February 2020)

Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Hope you're well.

Only listen to this glorious podcast when you can safely close your eyes. And if you're listening to this in the future, which you will be of course, but you know I'm talking in the distant future, maybe 10-20 years time, and you may wonder what's a podcast? What's it all about? What's it talking about podcasts for? And it's just, how would I explain it? Because although it is a podcast, it's not really, it's on a podcast, but these are individual recordings. And they will all be available on my website.

They are all available on my website individually. But I think a podcast is just a way to categorize something. So because I do quite a few different types of recordings, I categorize, yeah, it's a way to, for me to categorize what I do.

That's not really a very good description, is it? Let me have a look. What is a podcast? A podcast is an audio show, kind of an audio show, which is free for people to listen to. And I suppose the hope with some podcasts is that they can gain money from perhaps advertising or promoting a product, you know, sponsorship, you know, like radio shows, or television, I suppose, commercial television, and other things would be maybe to sell products.

So if I had a book, I could say, welcome to Let Me Bore You to Sleep. And remember, you can purchase my book, Let Me Bore You to Sleep, available at all great booksellers online, of course, because they don't exist in real life anymore. So I could, you know, and that might be me in the future, I might be, you know, trying to sell stuff.

Oh, Andre's laying out of his bag. His head's, his head's out of the bag. I mean, it's connected to his body.

His head's laying out and he's on his right side of himself. And he's just, he looks so cute when he's asleep. When he's not trashing the place, it just looks so damn cute.

He really is the cutest little thing in the world. Irreplaceable, really is irreplaceable. And I say that because I could get another ferret and it would be just as cute as him.

But it wouldn't, but it would, but it wouldn't, but it would, you know, it's kind of, it wouldn't, but I'd fall in love with it, or him or her, of course. And yeah. And also, if I got another one, the new one might be a little bit more better behaved, because he's a little rascal, untrainable, completely untrainable.

And they're supposed to be trainable, you know, to a degree. He's untrainable. He refused to do anything that I've asked him to do.

Sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn't. You know, you'll crouch down on the carpet and I'll stay on the paper, and he moves over to the paper and does a, goes, goes to toilet on the paper, which is what he's supposed to do. So he does sometimes listen to me.

He understands, but other times he just looks at me and says, what are you going to do? Really? I mean, what, what are you going to do? Or it'd be, what are you going to do, right? What are you going to do? You can't do nothing. That's probably more, more the kind of tone of his attitude towards my authority. But yeah, it's, uh, so what is it today? It's, uh, is it time for me to talk about my stats? I think it's, I haven't talked about my stats for ages.

We should talk about stats. I had someone send me a text message on my phone, uh, telling me that I, let's see if I can read it out. I'll read it out to you.

Uh, okay. It said, I loved where you took me in your boringly interesting stories of knots, interviews, bills, trips to the vets and garage, Andre rustling about, loved it. And it lulled me.

Is this the same podcast? All I'm getting is an update on stats most nights. Leave you to it and we'll tune back in when you're over them. So that's from someone is an Australian, uh, phone number, but I'm unable to reply because it's an Australian phone number.

I can't reply to international calls. And so what I thought, because I actually take on board, um, I'm not good with criticism. You might've noticed some, I'm not, but at the same time, I do take it on board.

Now I do listen. And I thought the first part of that message was lovely. And I think that's what you called a shit sandwich.

It's something that's kind of, you know, you've got lovely stuff either side of it. And then just that bit of crap, that's the horrible stuff for you. Really lovely.

I really like what you used to do, but now what you're doing is rubbish. Hope you do the wonderful stuff again. So it's kind of, and I thought, okay, well, the first part is lovely.

So I appreciate that. And I've had, you know, I've had a lovely message today, actually. Um, I'll read that out to you in a little while.

Um, yeah, let me read that out to you now. This is a message that I got on my, where is it? Nope, that's not the one. This is a message that was left.

It was a, um, a review left on my website. Hi, Jason. Okay.

Right. The headline was Lifeline of a Podcast. And it's from Lydia.

It says, I've always struggled to sleep and find myself staring into the void on a regular basis. I first found these on Spotify, but I'm so happy I migrated to the website with so many more goodies can be found. Ever since listening to the podcasts, I fall asleep so much easier.

And even though I still wake up often, I find it much simpler to fall back to dreamland. And I cannot thank Jason enough for these sleep sessions. You're amazing.

This is a web review, and we could not find an order from Lydia in your order history. Thus we were not attached to verified, but that's, that's not that. She didn't write that.

That was separate. So thank you, Lydia. It's very kind of you.

And I don't know where Lydia's from, but if, uh, because all my recordings were available to listen and stream free on my website. So you don't have to download them in order to hear them. Uh, so, you know, but so it's kind of, uh, you know, I do get nice messages and I do.

So I can't, it's kind of like, uh, should I be, I can't just only what I can't, my words will come eventually. Um, I've got an impotent mouth. The words just aren't coming.

Um, I, I got, um, it doesn't kind of feel right to only accept the nice words if I can't at least read the other stuff as well. So I'm trying to do that in the past. I'll be honest in the past.

I have, uh, maybe had a bad review or someone says something nasty and I'll shut everything down. I'll delete websites, YouTube channels, I've done all kinds of, um, shut down podcasts or, you know, um, but I don't do that anymore because that is self sabotage. And it's also, it's not fair on people that rely on what I do.

And so I keep going regardless, but it's still, it's the, cause you know, I am diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder. So as well as bipolar. So I kind of, it's a little bit of a trigger and I'm laughing as I say it, but, um, now what I try and do is just go to bed and just try and sleep it off, put the laptop away and don't delete anything.

That's what I, that's what I try and do now. And it's all about that. It keeps coming up in my head.

Don't, um, sabotage, don't, don't self sabotage. And so that's what I try and do. However, however, however, I thought, okay, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll take this practically.

I'll do a practical evaluation of my recordings and I'm pretty good at scanning stuff. Like I can scan a page. I think, I think I learned to do it when I was at university.

I kind of, I learned to, it's something I think everyone learns when you're in university. You have to do dissertations and essays and kind of get, get used to scanning stuff. No, it's not so much quick reading.

I can just scan a page and see stuff and I can do that for audio as well because I've been editing my recordings for so long. I know how I can just skip through. And it reminds me a little bit of what I've said.

Once I start listening in the same way as when I was counselling, as soon as I started talking to the person, I recollected what they'd spoken to me about in the previous session. Even if it was like a week or two apart, I was just, you know, it kind of triggered it. So what I did is I listened back to the last 15 recordings and the last two recordings, not yesterday, but the two before that, I did talk about stats.

One, I didn't talk about stats the whole time, but one I did pretty much spend the whole recording talking about stats. And then there was about seven where I didn't talk about stats. And then one, there was one I did talk about stats.

And then going back, I've probably been talking about stats twice a month, probably, you know, which is more than what I used to. Perhaps I used to do it once a month, like a little stat update, you know, once a month. So I'm possibly doing it twice a month and as well as mentioning it in other recordings briefly, you know, just mentioning how many recordings or how many downloads I'd had the day before.

But I don't spend the entire recording talking about it, not in every recording. So I've purposely sat myself in a chair, I did this yesterday as well, away from the laptop. So I can't tell you what stats I've got.

I can't reach it. My arms aren't long enough. So if they were, I would, I would tickle Andre's ears.

If I had really long arms from here, I would tickle his ears. And I'd quickly pull them away when he looked up, like, what was that? What was it? Daddy. Daddy long arms.

And so I'm going to purposely not talk about stats, apart from maybe once a month. I don't know, I thought it would be boring for people to listen to. And, you know, especially for me, hearing numbers and stats is incredibly boring if it doesn't actually concern me.

So if I was listening to someone else talking about the statistics of their podcast or their website, that would bore the heck out of me, because I'd have no interest in it. So I thought it was quite a sort of a win-win situation in the sense of, it does interest me, but some of the stuff that I talk about interests me, but I know that it's boring, which is good. So I was hoping to kind of have a win-win situation for everybody.

So maybe, I don't know, I can stop talking about the stats if it's upsetting people. I took all the adverts off the podcast because some people were complaining about it, and that was funding the cost of the free service. So that's costing me £150 a month, which would have been covered by the adverts.

So yeah, what am I doing that for? I should just put the adverts back on. Yeah, well, it's like, why am I paying? No, I shouldn't really have to pay for it, should I? You shouldn't really have to pay for a free service. If the people that have the free service don't have to pay, why should the person providing the free service have to pay? But then I don't have to do anything, do I? That's the bottom line.

I do it because I want to. So hey, I'm back. I'm back.

Sometimes I do just think I'll stop doing everything. I do have a little tantrum. That's it.

Someone's complained. Someone's been negative to me. That's it.

The fact is, 99% of any message I get are positive. 99% to people saying nice things. I don't think many people would be able to have that percentage.

So I should just kind of get a perspective because the amount of people... I had another message that I read saying, oh yeah, it was on Facebook. Let me just read this to you. Let me read it to you.

Facebook. Where's Facebook? So I posted something on Facebook. And it was posted saying, I just realized I can check my stats, but I'm not going to.

Or am I? Yeah. Or am I? I posted a lovely picture of Andre. Andre loves his new bag.

There's this big picture of him. He looks so cute. So I posted something yesterday or the day before.

I post so much stuff. I don't know. Where is it? It's got to be somewhere.

Oh, yes. Make a suggestion for a recording, whether it be a topic for the Let Me Boyd Asleep podcast or other. And I've made a suggestion page, which is on my website.

And I've had a few people go on there, but nobody's actually left any messages on the actual website yet for that. Monica says, not really a topic, but please don't ever stop doing the Let Me Boyd Asleep. I'll never sleep again.

LOL. I need it in my life. So that was lovely.

Natalie says, how to leave a long term relationship. So my reply to that was excessive farting may help. And Megan, I don't remember seeing this.

And Megan says, I listen to Let Me Boyd Asleep most nights, but there's no use me giving a topic as I'm usually asleep in the first 15 minutes. So I wouldn't hear it anyway. That's funny.

And Kissy has replied to that one saying, same here. OK, there's a message from Jodie, but I have to reply to that because I didn't see that one there. It's weird.

Sometimes I don't see messages that are posted. I don't know why. I don't know why.

So that's nice. I mean, I wasn't, you know, well, I suppose I was looking for people to just, if you go to the website, there's a suggestion box, suggestion, not a suggestion box, a suggestion page, which you can click on in the menu. So I was going to say.

Wow. No, I just see something entirely, which is incredible. But anyway, I'm not going to focus on that.

So I took the So I listened to a few, as I said, of the recordings. Oh, there was a couple, you know, recently, but it's not every one. There's a bit of a little exaggeration there.

So not every one. Every recording is now about stats. Well, if I was making one recording a week, and the last two recordings have been about stats, then yeah, it could be like, it's a bit much.

But I'm pretty much making a recording every day. Last month, I made 30, let me bore you to sleep recordings in 31 days. So, you know, I've made one every day this month so far.

And so that's only the third day. But I think it's, I don't know, I like talking about stats. Maybe I need to get a podcast.

The stats podcast. Do you think? You see how popular that would be? I just want to talk about myself. I want to talk about stats.

Statistics. Yes. But I won't.

I won't. I won't. I won't.

You can't make me. I haven't made the Deep Sleep Whisper recording for two days. And I'm just amazed that, I'm not amazed, but I'm amazed at how popular they are when I actually release a recording.

They're just really popular. And I don't know, it's not that I don't know why, it's just, it's just, and yeah, they just, I want to talk about the stats now. The stats, the numbers really go up when I, almost like a little kid, you know, when you're told you can't talk, you can't do something, or you're told don't laugh.

You know, don't laugh at the funeral. Don't laugh during the funeral. I wasn't going to laugh, but now I'm not allowed to laugh.

All I want to do is laugh. I had no intention. There's nothing funny here at all.

But now I keep thinking I can't laugh. And it's pushing me to want to laugh. Uncontrollably.

I'm a little bit like with stats. I just want to keep talking about stats. Can't stop saying the word stats.

Statistics. 38, 24, 34. I don't know.

I wonder what my stats are. I don't know what my chest measurement is. My stomach.

The thing is, the stomach isn't really your stomach, is it? Because the stomach is that bit just above your hips. And then there's the hips, which is kind of, it's kind of your bum, isn't it? Just above your bum. Or kind of your bum kind of ish.

But that bit just below, just above my hips, is a lot smaller than that bit. Well, where my belly button is. And there's quite a few inch difference there.

Maybe I should start wearing braces. I don't mean for my teeth. Although that might be useful, I don't know.

A little bit too old for that kind of stuff now. See, in England, I don't think, I think I knew one person during school that had braces. Just didn't.

Didn't have them. Maybe two. Didn't have braces.

It wasn't like a popular thing. And when people did have them, they were metal. And it's like, oh, well, no, I didn't really fancy it.

I mean, I don't think I needed it, but I might have done. Who knows? If I'd have been born in America, where the dental, the, what's probably the word to phrase it? The, I don't know, dental care is possibly more focused. Is that a guess of what I'm saying? There's more focus on dental care in America than perhaps in England from a public perspective.

And that's what I've heard. That's what I've read. That's what I've heard.

I don't mean it's true, but it probably is. It might not be, but it possibly is. And in England, again, I'm generalizing, you know, because I have to.

Well, I don't have to, but I choose to. And going to the dentist is, I think it's on par with a prostate exam, not something that you kind of choose to have unless it was really necessary. You know, that's kind of, that's the, or like having a, having a scrape, you know, having a cervical scrape.

That's kind of the level of dentistry here. Not the level of dentistry, but the level of like enthusiasm of going to the dentist. Like, oh yeah, I can't wait for that.

Yeah. Okay. So, I don't like dentists really.

I'll tell you what it is. I had, I don't like things in my mouth. That might sound strange.

Might sound like a weird thing, but I don't like things in my mouth. I'm sounding, I'm sounding angry. I don't like things in my mouth.

It's very windy outside. And last time, or if it was last time or the time before I went to the dentist and he put this plastic thing in my mouth and he wanted to take an x-ray. And literally I was, it was very uncomfortable.

And in the end I had to say, no, that's enough. Because, and I had another, yeah, I don't know if I had it. I think I had a tooth, yeah, I had a tooth removed.

I've got, what have I got? I've got two gaps, two teeth removed, two missing teeth in my mouth on the left-hand side, the bottom. And no missing teeth on the front, on the top, whatever. And no missing teeth at the front either.

So you can't see them unless I open my mouth up really loud. Really loud? Wide. And I think I had one of those removed.

I don't think, I definitely had one removed back in 19, 19, 19, 1989, I think. And then the second one was removed probably about five years ago, four, maybe four years ago. And the lady that removed the second one, she couldn't do it.

She wasn't physically strong enough. And I don't know if it's because she was a lady, just the fact that she, on this situation, the person doing my teeth, like I'll just say the dentist, forget it was the lady. She couldn't, she couldn't do it.

She could do like the standard stuff, like put an injection in and but actually, you know, doing the drilling, oh I'm going to detox because not everybody likes that stuff. And neither do I actually. But she couldn't get it out.

She wasn't, because she had to physically remove it. So like with tweezers or pliers or whatever, twyers, she couldn't do it. And she left some of it in the gum.

She said, you're just going to have to go to the hospital and have an operation and have it removed. I said, can't you just remove it? She said, no, I've been cutting your gum for the last half an hour. Now, when I got out of there, she had annihilated my mouth, absolutely ruined my gum.

I mean, I thought she was digging for oil or something. It just absolutely destroyed my mouth. It was pretty, I didn't realise until, you know, the anaesthetic wore off.

It was, oh man, weeks and weeks before it healed up. And, but there was still a bit of tooth in there, but the gum grew over. Luckily, the tooth wasn't infected, so I'm okay.

So it was basically just a bit of tooth that's stuck in there. But I was like, what incompetence? You know, surely in that situation, you'd call another dentist because the place had three dentists in there. You'd call someone else to come and help you, wouldn't you? I know I would.

If I couldn't do something, I'd say, I'd go ask for the lady next to me, because some people are good at what they do, aren't they? And to be fair, if you're a dentist and you can't remove a tooth, then you shouldn't really be a dentist. I kind of, it seems to be like a standard prerequisite, really, doesn't it? To be a dentist, to be able to remove a tooth. It's like if you're taking blood all day, you need to be able to know how to take blood.

You know, you need to be able to find a vein. If you can't find a vein, if you have trouble finding veins, then perhaps you need to sort of find a different job. And I've been really lucky because I've seen people who are brilliant at stuff.

There was this, I'm going to say Chinese, but I think he was Chinese, and it doesn't make any difference what nationality he was, but he was the most talented blood taker of all time. As far as I'm concerned, I reckon if there was an Olympics for taking blood, he would be gold. He would be a gold medalist, seriously.

And when I first moved here, I had to have a few blood tests over a period of years, and I always used to go to him. And that's what he did all day long. He was in the hospital, and that's what he did.

And there'd be 20 people queuing, and it'd all be seen within minutes. Honestly, it wouldn't just be like a little blood test, it'd be taking maybe five, six vials of blood, but it's only one injection, isn't it? One prick. And he didn't fear the thing.

Nothing. He was so good at what he did. Honestly, he was a master, an absolute master.

And I used to say to him, you are the king. And he used to say, go away, I will heal the sea. I said, yeah, but you're so quick.

He said, yeah, that's what your wife tells me. I said, what are you doing? He said, that's what your mum tells me, sorry. Well, you can't really change it to a mum joke after having a wife joke.

He said, yeah, no, but I just realised you might not be married. In fact, looking at you, probably not. He spoke fast as well.

But he was really, really quick. It's just amazing. I like that.

I like it when I occasionally meet someone that's really brilliant at what they do. And I don't think it matters if someone's taking blood or some other medical procedure, especially with medical procedures, if they can do it and without any discomfort at all, what a gift to humanity. I mean, that's someone that should be living in a mansion, seriously.

For me, that's someone that should never have to pay bills, should never have to pay tax, should never have to do anything. He should have everything he wants in life because he was helping hundreds of people every day through something that can be quite difficult for some people. And he was doing it and he was causing no discomfort.

That is a hero, like an un-whatever hero, someone that's not recognised, although he was recognised probably by everyone that saw him. Absolute legend, proper. I just realised, I think I love him.

I love him. But he was so good, so quick. And the reason I'm saying how great he was is because I used to have a needle phobia when I was younger.

And for years and years and years, I had it. Ever since I had my first blood test and the nurse said, oh, wait a minute, I have to go and get a cotton bud and a plaster and left me holding the needle in my own arm as you went on to another room to get the plaster and some cotton wool. And after that, I just didn't enjoy the experience for some reason.

And I could still do it because once I learnt hypnosis, I knew how to sort of relax myself and stuff. But with this bloke, you didn't need any hypnosis, no technique, no relaxation technique. There wasn't even time to relax.

It was bang done. It's absolutely amazing. I don't know what other people I've met in my life that have been just really, really good at what they do, like really top notch.

Okay, there was Jody. I mentioned him. He was a salesman that I worked twice with.

Actually, I worked twice with a few people. There was two really, really good salespeople. One was Jody.

And when I worked in church, he was the top. No one could really touch him. You know, I was second, but there was a bit of a cavity between me and him.

You know, it's a bit of a... I did sometimes get more than him, but he was consistently way ahead of everybody. And I remember I won... There was a competition going on between me, this other friend I was going to tell you about, and also Jody, about... Because Jody held the world record, not world record, the record for the company for the most amount of sales in a week. And then my friend, I forget his name now, I'll remember it in a minute, he broke the record.

So I think he got like something... Jody had it at 46, or maybe something like that. My other friend got up to 48 sales in the week, and I think I pushed it to 52 sales in a week. So I broke the record, had the most sales that anyone's ever had in that office anyway.

I don't know about the whole company, but there was about 250 salespeople, I think, over 200. And I was all like, yeah, I'm the man. Of course, I wasn't the only man there, and there were also other humans as well.

But, you know, I was like a bit cocky. Well, not cocky, just... I suppose just celebrating, really. Celebrating the success.

Thinking, no one's going to touch that. No one's going to go anywhere near that. And I think, not the next week, but the week after, someone said, oh, Jody's broken your record.

And I look up at the board, because it was written down the board, he got 76 sales. He didn't just break the record, he just hammered it. I got 52, he got 76.

Never got anywhere close to that. I never got more than 52. I don't think, yeah, I don't think I've ever got more than that record that I've broken.

And admittedly, he didn't get 76 every week, but he was just better than me. That's a simple fact. And I was in quite a good position, because I was classed as... Because I was one of the top salespeople in the place, I got given... I was kind of like a trainer.

Not like an official trainer, but they would sit people with me, new people, or people that were struggling, maybe from other teams, and they'd sit them next to me, so that I could help them to sell more, and help them to sort of what to say, and stuff like that. So that was quite good. But that also meant that I was able to listen to people's calls.

So what I would do is, and I'd be off the phone for a couple of hours, and I'd listen to the calls, maybe of the person that I was training, to see what they were doing wrong, so I could hear them. It's sometimes nice just to hear a whole call without the person being there. But I also used to listen to Jodie's calls, because I wanted to figure out what he did that I wasn't doing.

And the one thing he did is he was upbeat the whole time. So the three things that he did, he was upbeat, positive, friendly, the whole time, regardless of what the other person said. Secondly, he always asked for the business, assumed they wanted it, which is what I did as well.

That's what the top salespeople do. If you don't ask, you have to ask for the business. Otherwise, you just won't be successful.

It's just the way it is in that industry. The third thing he did, which I couldn't do, is he got through the quote really quickly. So he got through more calls probably in two days than I would in a whole week.

In fact, he might even get through more calls in one day than I would the whole week, because he'd be on the phone for maybe 10 minutes, seven minutes, and get a sale. I'd be on the phone maybe an hour. It's just like now.

I can talk and talk and talk and talk. And I think I should wear people down. I think they just give up.

But I just talked to him about anything, just to make him laugh and have a chat and assume that they were going to buy it. And I always asked for the sale, and I was successful. And that's why I think it shows that I'm not just bragging, because people who brag don't tell you about people who are more successful than themselves.

And Jodie was earning loads more than me. I doubled my money. So I was on a £12,000 basic salary a year.

This is back from September 2001 until the end of 2003 that I was there. It's a basic of £12,000, and I was getting a bonus of £12,000 as well. So I doubled my money to get £24,000 a year, which still is not a huge amount of money.

But when I went back into sales, went back into insurance, I wasn't getting anywhere near that. And that was in 2011, or 2012, 2013 time. So 10 years later, the bonuses were less than they were before doing the same job.

I couldn't believe it. And the insurance was more money. I was car insurance is a hell of a lot more than it used to be.

And I was getting less bonus. And the other one, I can't remember his name. I should remember his name because they used to call him Jimmy.

I don't know why. His name will come to me. But I used to be really good friends with him, but I haven't seen him for a long time.

And this Jimmy, he was, he basically had, he was a kid. He wasn't a kid, but he looked like a kid. And he'd been there since he was 16 in the office in that company.

And he basically, he was in the mailroom, and admin, posting envelopes and stuff like that. And then eventually, he asked to get a job in the sales department, probably when he was about 18. And he did that.

And when I met him, he was about 19, I think. And he was one of the top people as well. And what he used to make fun of me all the time, he used to really wind me up sometimes, but we got on really well with him.

And I was, even though I was only 31, compared to him, I was old, because he was like 19. So I was a lot older than him. But, you know, he took me to my first football game.

My first football match, never been to a football stadium in my life at that point. And, you know, we used to go drinking and stuff, now and then, but we got on really well. He moved to Canada, but I really liked him.

But anyway, his technique was this. His way of getting sales wasn't, he built no rapport up. Nothing.

He didn't try and be, he wasn't rude to them. He basically was like a little robot. And he just blurted out the questions one after another, typed in the information into the computer, said, that's your price.

Do you want to do that? Okay, get a credit card or pay, you know, get a paid instalment. That's it. Thanks, bye.

And then he'd just take the next call. Hello there. And he'd just go for it.

And he wouldn't necessarily get more sales than me. Sometimes he would. And sometimes, you know, he'd beat me, but I think average, I'd be ahead of him.

Not necessarily by a huge amount, but I would be, basically me, him and Jodie and a couple of others would be in the top five, like constantly, like every month of the year. And what was really weird about him is he could get through so many calls in a day that his conversion mate from, we had two conversion mates. We used to get together once a month, have a little meeting, team meeting, which is boring as anything.

And we used to just laugh at it because the team leader was all serious. And there's one thing about if you've got a team leader that can't do the job as well as you can, it's hard. It's, you know, if you've got someone telling you how to do something, when you know actually you can do it much better than they ever could.

And it showed that we did that. It showed that once when there's a bit of competition, the team, two team leaders and me. So two different team leaders from two teams, one that went on to be the big boss and my team leader and me on a Saturday morning, we all had a competition to see who would get the most sales.

And I got loads more than them because they couldn't do what I could do. Again, I'm showing off like, but what's, what's wrong? I'm not doing it now and I'm making no money so, but what? It's, if you're good at something, regardless of whether or not it made me ill, but if you're good at something, I think it's quite, is it a bad thing to mention it? I mean, is it arrogance? Is it conceit? I don't know, maybe, but it's also factual. You know, if, what's his name? Federer.

If Federer says, you know, I'm the best tennis player that's ever lived. Not me, about me, about himself. I'm the best tennis player ever.

Well, I'm the best tennis player of the last 20 years or 30 years. Even non-tennis fans would struggle to argue with that because the stats, oh, saying the word stats again, the stats add up. He's accomplished more than any other tennis player ever has in history, male tennis players.

But I think overall, all tennis players, I think he's accomplished more. So, you know, you can't argue with Floyd Mayweather, whether you like him or not. As a boxer, he is unbeaten and he's earned more than any other boxer in history.

And he's accomplished more than pretty much any boxer and being unbeaten and being mega rich. They worked out that not all his money's been earned from boxing. He promotes as well.

He does other things. He's got perfume, I think, and vodka or something like that, that he sells. They worked out that every punch he landed, every punch that he threw and landed during his boxing career earned him 500,000 pounds or $500,000.

And he landed a lot of punches. And that's over a 20-year career or something. I think he's about 42 now.

He started when he was a teenager. He was, I think he was about 19 when he turned professional. So even if you're not into, I'm not into tennis, but I can appreciate someone being phenomenal.

Just like, see, in my day, it was, Bjorn Borg was the king of tennis. And then, and there was obviously Connors, there was McEnroe came along and knocked Bjorn Borg off his crown or his throne or whatever. And then other people would come along, but no one's dominated.

I mean, Becker, there's been a lot of players that have dominated in tennis, but no one like Federer. He's just like a genius genius, like a double genius. I'm not into chess, but I admire people that are just brilliant at it.

There's something just about some people being really good. I always want to be really good at something. That was kind of one of the things that was missing from my life that I wanted.

I used to look at people and think, not look at people, because I didn't really meet any people in real life that were particularly good at stuff, but not like excel. Some did, I suppose, but I'm trying to think of some people that I've met in real life that are really, really good. It's been comedians that were just phenomenal.

And a lot of them did go on to be TV stars and stuff like that, but some of them were really brilliant and didn't go on to be TV stars. They've made a living out of it, or maybe they quit and went into writing, but they were just brilliant comedians. I remember once, years ago, I did mention this in the past.

There was a girl who was friends. She couldn't have been more than about 19, 20. And she was a friend of my friend's girlfriend.

And we were all in the comedy club. And I met her and I said hello. And I kind of fell for her a little bit.

She just blew me away with just that instant attraction that she didn't have towards me. And I went and saw her sing in a pub. And I thought, this is going to be... I figured she'd be good, but I had no idea how good she'd be.

Absolutely brilliant, phenomenal singer. And then I kind of lost track. I think I might have asked her out and she said no, but I blocked it out of my head.

I blocked it out of my memory. So I think I did ask her out. And she actually had a big hit with a band.

I don't know what it was. I think it was like a... You know those musicians that have a singer. They have lots of hits, but they just have a singer.

So it's like whatever it is featuring a specific singer for this band. Basement Jacks featuring Adele, you know, could happen. I don't know.

So that's what she did. And she had a... It was a top 10 hit. I think might have even gone to number one, I don't know.

But it was a very big hit at the time. How on earth she didn't go on to be a huge star, I don't know. Because for me, she fitted the... What I imagined the... I don't know, the tick sheet that would be for a television... Yes, a musical act to be successful on television.

She sounded amazing. She was beautiful. And she was really nice as well.

So anyone working with her would imagine enjoy working with her because she was a nice person, very friendly. Who knows? I'm not a producer, am I? A music producer. But I did get a little of a kick knowing that someone that I'd known would go on to have a big hit.

So that was cool. Don't know anyone else has had music in charts, do I? No, no, I don't. Other people are really good at what they do.

I've never met any writers. And that would be quite interesting if I'd have met some writers in my life. But I haven't.

I haven't met really any hypnotists, like, kind of doing what I do. There's one that I've kind of I've got friends with on Facebook called Adini. But outside of that, I don't... I mean, there may be a collective, like a group, a hub, a community that I'm not aware of.

They might all get together and chat and stuff. But I've never really had much in the way of contact. Well, I had a few people reach out to me.

There's some channels that are doing it. In the past, they've actually said that I inspired them to do it. And they're really successful now.

But it's... I don't know. I haven't had this. There doesn't seem to be a community of that.

And there are communities of hypnotists. But not so much for people that do this, or do this kind of stuff. I realised this itself isn't hypnosis, but the other stuff that maybe I sometimes do, that possibly could be construed as hypnotic-able.

Hypnotic-able. And Jimmy was funny. He would read the script so quickly.

And so I worked with him. And then the next job I had in a call centre, he started working there after I'd been there for probably about a year and three months, or a year and four months, something like that. And my job was to mark and mark all the calls to make sure that everyone was doing it properly.

And it didn't seem like he was even trying. He just wasn't asking the proper questions. He was skimming through the questions so quickly, I'd have to keep rewinding to listen to it.

And he'd miss out about a third of the things that he was supposed to do. And in the end, I'd just say, look, I'd give the calls to someone else, because I'd say to him that he's my friend. He's crap at what he's doing.

He's good, he sells, but he's really, you know, I feel under pressure here because I don't, every time I mark him down, he gets, he loses money. You know, he could lose a few hundred pound a month. And that's horrible to have that happen, because it's happened to me.

I know to have, you feel like you've been mugged, you know. So he, in the end, they knew that I was biased. I had problems, like bias problems, you know, because he was friends with me and my boss knew that.

So they would, my boss and my colleague would do his call, or his calls, rather than me doing them. And it just took the pressure off me, because I said, look, if you get sacked, because he kept saying, I'm going to get sacked if I don't pass the call test thing. I said, well, do it properly then.

Just do your job properly. You know, it can't be that difficult, really. But it was difficult for him.

Anyway, he, we used to go, probably every once a month, we'd go to the pizza place, the pizza hut in town. We'd go and have a pizza. I remember once, he was standing at my desk, waiting for me.

And, you know, I was on a call, so I just finished what I was doing. And the other two people with me, my boss and my colleague, they were laughing. I couldn't really figure out why.

You're going for lunch, are you? Special occasion, is it? What the fuck? The fup? What the fup, I said. I used to say fup a lot. Fup, flup, ship, tip.

And I said, what are you on about? And he just laughed, so went off as usual. And went into the pizza hut, walked in. Every table had a flower, a rose on it, and a candle, and like a little red tablecloth.

It was Valentine's Day. Could not believe it. Now, he found it hilarious, because he clearly knew it was Valentine's Day, but I had no idea.

I wasn't, you know, didn't really care about stuff like that. And we were the, no, we weren't the only two people in there, but we were when we first walked in. And then people were coming in, couples were coming in and sitting down at the tables.

And I don't know, it just didn't quite feel right. I liked him as a friend, but it was just, it was something about, you know, my colleagues found it so hilarious that me and him were going for lunch on Valentine's Day. And I kind of don't want to be around loved up people at any time.

You know, it's just up to yourself. I don't want to see too, you know, if people are homophobic, I don't want to see too good of a same-sex kissing. I don't want to see anybody kissing, ever.

It's just, no, I don't want to see it. Just, I've always been like that, though. I don't think it's because I'm an old fuddy-duddy.

I just, it's just not something I want to see. It's like, I don't want to see someone washing their balls in a sink. You know, it's just one of those things I just don't want to see.

It's not something that I, I don't, I'm all for people washing their balls. I'm not saying, and especially, you know, if they're, if they're playing cricket and the ball's got a lot of grass stains, the balls have got covered in stains, then yeah. Anyway, I'd like to talk more about the stats.

So, I'm going to talk about that for a while. Now, let's see. Just watching the news.

I'm going to go now. So, thank you very much for listening. I hope you have a lovely sleep and lovely day ahead.

And I'll speak to you again tomorrow. And remember, in the meantime, remember to be kind to yourself, because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

Bye.