#403 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (19h May 2020)

Hello and welcome to Jason Newland dot com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can.

Safely close your eyes. So, I think this is number 403. I got a message earlier saying, Dear Jason, please can you stop talking about your brain and about your brains? Okay, fair enough.

Got another message that said, what did it say? Let's have a look. Hi Jason, I just had to email you first thing this morning after listening to your podcast last night about that daft dickhead who disrespected you and dawdled on about why he didn't like you anymore. He really should give you himself a good slap.

Or smack on dopey duck egg face. I don't get it why he had to be so dreadful. Anyway, I couldn't sleep after hearing how put out you were and wanted to comfort you with a coffee and a biscuit.

What is your favourite? Sorry, it's kind of the opposite to what I'm supposed to be doing, isn't it? I'm keeping people awake. I do apologise. What is your favourite biscuit? Shouldn't the Garibaldi be renamed Garimel patterning balding? Oi, oi, I'm going to have a go at men's balding patches.

And as for rich tea, being a contradiction in terms. So plain, nothing rich about it. And as for ginger nuts, no mention nuts in the ingredients.

The list goes on. Where was I so spent ages trying to get on PayPal to help you the costs, but they don't seem to be around in the early hours. But we'll fill up later today.

Do keep up please with boring me to sleep. Yours, that's from Gwen. Thank you.

That's very kind of you. And I mean, the person that sent me that message, I mean, first of all, it might be that it said Joe, was it Joe John Doe? It might have been a woman or a man. It's no way of knowing.

It's not didn't give a real name. It might not have even been a real message. It might have been someone just trying to wind me up.

Who knows? It might have been someone having a bad day. So there's quite a few of those around at the moment. And but Gwen, what is my favorite biscuit? Well, let me go through the biscuits that you mentioned, because I'm very upset now with you.

First of all, let me have a look. Garibaldi. Okay.

I like Garibaldi's. I go through stages where I really like a particular biscuit. And then I get a little bit fed up.

I don't bother anymore. I'm just climbed onto the chair. And I'm wondering if he can make it to the table or not.

No, he's not looking like he wants to. He's looking. No.

Good. Do you want to get up and give me a cuddle? Come on then. No.

Garibaldi's. I like Garibaldi's. I went through a little phase when I was working in insurance back in 2000.

Well, I left in 2007. I was there from 2004. And they used to sell these.

I'm sure it's that place. Yeah. Because I think they had a machine in the little staff room they had.

I might be wrong. It was summer anyway. And they had these little packets that I don't think they called them Garibaldi's, but they were.

I think they might have had a bit more sugar on them, like coated on them. But they were nice. Really nice.

And I went through a little patch. Not a board patch. Come on then.

If you want to get up and cuddle me, you can. No? Make your mind up, mate. He wants to go for a walk and I'm not taking him out.

And it's now nine o'clock and I'm not taking him out. I might give him a little. I might take him out later.

Like maybe half ten or something just for a walk. Just up the road. But I won't take him.

I'm not taking him anywhere where there's no lights because I can't see without the lights when it's dark. So you try. You try and tell me that that wasn't boring.

That was a boring sentence. I don't like going places where it's dark because I can't see. Ginger nuts.

I do like ginger nuts. In fact, I quite like dipping ginger nuts into tea. It's a weird kind of combination, but it's quite nice.

Rich tea. Actually, I'm going to agree and disagree with you on that one. I agree they're plain.

Why they're called rich tea, I don't know. However, and I'm not really a tea drinker anymore. I used to be a bit of one.

I grew up in the 70s in England. You know, it's part of the heritage to drink tea. And so it was.

And I think the only two biscuits really that went with tea was rich tea biscuits and digestives. Not chocolate ones, just the plain ones. You can put chocolate ones in, but then you end up with a, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but a nice little oil slick of chocolate on top of the tea.

Now, what I didn't used to like when I was a kid, and I've not ever seen it since for some reason, and I don't know why, is whenever I got made a coffee for me, I'd leave it for, if I left it for more than about five minutes, there'd be a big thick skin over it. I mean, is this a coffee or rice pudding? What is it? Seriously, it's like, and I couldn't drink it because it just, it really, it's just, no. And I've made coffee for myself thousands and thousands of times probably since I was a kid.

And I don't remember once there being a skin. I love my coffee with milk, like lots of milk. Not once have I had skin on the top.

So maybe we'd had different coffee back then. Maybe it's the different water. Maybe it was the cups.

Maybe it was the actual, it was the 80s. There was something in the air tonight. Phil Collins.

Maybe it was Phil Collins' fault. I don't know. That skin on top of coffee.

Yuck. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Didn't like it.

I don't like custard either. I know there's something about custard, it's just, anyway, I'm not going to talk about what I don't like, but let's talk about the biscuits I do like. As far as dunking into tea, I know Gwen, you didn't mention dunking into tea, but I used to have a friend called Duncan.

And I think any biscuit, if you're going to dunk it, you need to be an expert dunker. You need to be proficient. Because if it's, if it's inside the tea, you know, the biscuits dunked, if it's there for too long, like a millisecond too long, you're going to lose it.

Almost like this. It's like, how did the piranhas get inside my teacup? It's eating my biscuit. And the biscuit could sometimes disappear as well.

Or it stays right at the bottom. Why do biscuits sink to the bottom? I think about it sometimes. I think, you know what? We still haven't been able to go right to the bottom, the human species, right to the bottom of the ocean.

Not been able to go right to the bottom, to the very deepest depths yet. Because they've not been able to make the, I don't know, the submarine thing that can do it, that can handle the pressure, or that would sink that far. Make one out of digestive biscuits.

That was a long, long way to get to that, to get to that line, wasn't it? Well, worth it. That was a, that was a, yeah, that was a long journey. Let's move on.

Ginger nuts. I do like ginger nuts. I like ginger girls as well, which is weird.

Not weird, but I mean, it's not connected. But, you know, there's a girl at school, she had ginger hair, and we'd call her Ginger Nut and Duracell Copper Color Teapot or something, you know, stuff like that. But kids, you know, we all, everyone called each other names, always had a nickname for people.

And it was out of love, kind of, rather than hatred. You hear that buzzing? What on earth is that? I think it's the fridge. Wow.

Or the freezer. And I've got the door practically closed. But I can't close it all the way, because otherwise Andre will try and scratch his way through it, like he always does.

So I placed the microphone further away from my mouth. My whistling seems to be getting worse. I think it must be a speech impediment.

Therefore, therefore, it's not my fault, is it? If it's a speech impediment, because I made a, I did two different things yesterday and the day before. The day before, or yesterday, I went into my shed. No, yeah, yesterday.

No, today, earlier today, I made two recordings in my shed, and I fell asleep making them, because I did them directly after waking up. And I hadn't had my proper sleep, but I thought, oh, I was really enthusiastic to do something. So I did that, I put Andre in his cage, went and sat in the shed in the bedroom, because it's daytime.

And I think at some point we even had the lawnmowers being done, the council around cutting the lawns and stuff, but not during, while I was doing that. I fell asleep while I was doing them, which was a bit weird. And the day before, I did a deep sleep whisper.

And again, I was trying to do it as quiet as possible. And I had, I did it, I think, I'm not sure if I put Andre in his bed or in the cage or just left him in here. Come on, then.

Come on, then. Come on, then. Come on.

Oh, he's such a, I go to pick him up and he just runs back. Why are you doing that? He doesn't want me near him unless I'm actually going to do something and take him out. Food or walks, that's kind of all he wants.

All I'm good for for him. He's very selfish, just like me. I've forgotten what I was talking about now.

He distracts me. He does. Oh, yeah, I was scratching at the front door.

I don't know if you can hear it, it'd probably be quite faint though from here. The sound is not registering on the chart, the bar chart of sound on the tablet, but it might faintly be able to be heard. So hopefully not enough to cause concern.

Anyway, I decided to try something different because I was listening to a podcast and the presenter was interviewing, I think it was, it might have been Ricky Gervais, but it was someone. And he's so heavy footed, he's doing it on purpose, you know, he's doing the equivalent of a child stamping up the stairs after being sent to bed. A bit annoyed.

That's what he's doing. You're not taking me out. Bang, bang, bang, bang.

Like a little elephant. Can you imagine having a little elephant running around? How cute would that be? Provided it didn't stand on your foot. Even a tiny little elephant would just weigh so much, wouldn't it? I wonder how much, how big would an elephant need to be to weigh my size? Because it'd be smaller than me, wouldn't it? Because they're so compact.

It'd probably be, I imagine an elephant the size of a dog would weigh more than me. Again, I don't know if that's true. I've never met an elephant.

No, I don't think, I've seen, I've seen elephants. I think at zoos a few times over the years. And of course, you know, I've seen them on television and movies.

They're not, they're not a species of wild animal that I get particularly aroused by. I'm kind of, I quite like lions. And they pique my interest.

Monkeys, very cute. And bears, whales. You know, I think that those kind of, maybe polar bears.

I don't know why, some of the really big animals that I find quite interesting. But then I saw this documentary the other day, and it was actually Earth from Space, I think it was called. It was on BBC Four.

And it showed these monkeys. And honestly, they were pretty. They actually were pretty.

They looked like they had makeup on, including lipstick. I couldn't believe it. It's just, wow.

I want to say pretty. I mean, I don't, I wasn't, I didn't write to BBC, sort of, can you get me the number for that, for the young lady that was on your documentary? Can you find out if she's single? See if she's dating anyone? No, nothing like that. Although once, I did phone the BBC in 1988, and asked to speak to Whitney Houston.

She was on The Wogan Show, which was a chat show that was on in England. I think at one point it was on every night of the week, Monday to Friday. So Whitney Houston was on there.

It might have been 1987, actually. No, 1988. Yeah, 88, definitely.

And so I phoned up the BBC. I said, can I speak to Whitney, please? And the person said, what? I said, yeah, can you put Whitney on the phone? Just need to have a quick word. Now, the strange thing about this, can you hear him? He's like a little spoiled brat.

When he can't get his own way, he has a tantrum. That's what he's doing now. He's having a tantrum.

He's knocking things over. He's making as much noise as he can. It won't be long before he runs in here again.

Now I've got the birds in the loft, scraping at the wall. He'll be running in here in a minute. Here he comes.

Now he's underneath my chair. I got you. I got you, Mr. Man.

I got you. Why are you being so naughty? Give Daddy kisses. Kisses.

I think he just knocked the microphone. Sorry about that. I'll have to edit that bit out.

What do you have to sniff there for? He's got a thing about, I'm going to put him in his position where he's laying. He's basically laying on his back now with his bum in the air and all his feet and his toes in the air. I've got a hold of both his hands, just gently.

He's not struggling to get away or anything. All I do is I massage the palms of his hands gently and he just stays there. He doesn't move at all apart from just then when he did move.

Now he's gone. That wasn't a good example, but sometimes he'll just lay there for ages. He'll fall asleep.

But I think it's because he knew. Because I was talking while I was doing it, he thought, no, I'm not going to give him the satisfaction of looking like he knows what he's doing. Now, you want to come back up? No? Couldn't find him the other day.

I was thinking, where is he? Because he's got his special places that he generally sleeps. But I couldn't find any of them. So he wasn't in here.

I went to the bedroom. Wasn't on the bed. Went to the kitchen.

Wasn't in the kitchen. And I thought, oh. And then I found him.

He was inside a carrier bag, which was at the bottom of the bedroom, like the bed, where the bed ends. There's some floor near the window. And he was on the floor in a carrier bag, fast asleep.

But it wasn't just that. He'd made a bed. He was sleeping on an orange towel that he dragged and pulled into the plastic bag because there was no way that would have been in the bag to start with.

So he must have done that himself, made his own little bedding, his little nest, like a little rabbit. He is a rabbit, a rabbit that's scratching at the door, the front door. Luckily, it's a new door.

So the old door, he could sort of really kind of grab hold of it because it was wood. This one's, well, I don't know what they call them, UV? UPC? PVC? I don't know. Whatever it is.

I caught you again. Why don't you behave yourself? Eh? Why don't you behave yourself? I don't know why he likes going out so much. There's one particular spot in the park.

And it's, it's in some mud or dirt, depending on whether it's raining. And he digs in that one spot. Every single time we go past there, he digs.

So I'm guessing he must smell, or he does smell, he stinks. I'm guessing he must smell something underneath the ground. So maybe something's been buried there, or perhaps he's actually, there might be like rabbits under there or something.

And he's attracted, or maybe there's, maybe there's some ferrets that might be part of a, I don't know, an underground ferret mansion or something. But he really wants to get in there, but not enough to put much energy in, but he does give it a little go. But not as determined as he would be to get through a door.

So you see, if I ever got, if I ever got put into, is it Kolditz? What's the, what's that prison that no one can ever break out of? Is it Kolditz, wasn't it? If I got put in Kolditz, all I'd need to get out to escape would be a door and Andre. A door, and he would just, he'd escape, he'd break through, because he's so determined, he'd never stop. So what I'd do is I'd put the door against the wall, and he'd dig through the wall.

None of that really made sense, did it? Perhaps I could have thought it through. Oh, never mind. Never mind.

So what was I going to say? Oh, I tried again to do the transcription of one of my recordings, and it seemed to be working good. Working good. And I did it in a way where I used the phone to record, and I put the microphone into the, plug into the phone, using Dragon Everywhere, I think it is software, that's on there, and you have to pay for it, $10.99 a month.

And then I put the microphone near the tablet, which then played the recording, and it seemed to be going fine. But what happens is, it seems with the Dragon software, the app, when a word comes up that it doesn't understand, it just stops and waits for me to put in the word. And I can't, I don't want to sit there, watching this thing being done.

Because it means I have to listen to the whole recording, and just sit there for an hour, and kind of not do anything else. Which, you know, I suppose I could listen to, I suppose I could listen to music or whatever with my headphones on. Yeah, actually I didn't think about that.

Perhaps that's what I'll do. And just keep an eye on the, on how the audio is going. But the audio has to be fairly loud.

Not loud, loud, but loud enough. So, because of the, he's scratching at the top again. I should just let him out.

I should just say, there you go, bye, see ya. Just see what he does. I know what I'll do.

I'll just run off. I don't want to see him again. He's leaving home.

Bye, bye. So, the reason it needs to be a fairly good volume, and also played with a good speaker, is because the recorder works better when it's someone talking into the microphone, into it. Oh, bloody ferret.

He's annoying me tonight. See, when he's like this, I don't want to take him out. I feel like he doesn't deserve it, because he's being naughty.

But why should I, it's kind of, why should I expect him to be, have human emotions, and to be human, because he's naughty. Oh, still winds me up. Always has to get his own way.

Always. And, and I was saying something. It must have been important.

It must have been. I must have been, you know. I wonder.

Why, why, why, why, wonder. Why. Why, why, why, why, why.

I was talking about freezers, wasn't I? I was talking about freezers. And I was talking about biscuits. Yeah, I was talking about, what was I talking about? No, I wasn't talking about traveling.

Ginger nuts. I've dated, actually. I'm not saying people with ginger hair should be called ginger nuts.

I'm not saying that at all. At, at, at, at all. But the connection is just that I've dated quite a few girls with ginger hair over the years.

I have. One at school. One when I left school.

I fancied one that I worked with, but she wouldn't go out with me. So that's not really relevant, but not that. I mean, she, but that, that person is not relevant for the list.

And then I dated someone. I kind of, sort of, dated someone that had ginger hair in 91. Another one in 95.

And sure there's another one. So about five, maybe six ginger girls. Yeah.

Yeah. I think so. I was saying something really, really boring and I've forgotten what it is.

I've forgotten. So, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to talk about stats, you know, like a lot. But there's been a real increase in my listeners over the last week or so.

Well, a couple of weeks, but really it, you know, I had 5,800 yesterday and today. And what is it? 930. I think I've just got just under 5,000 already.

And the day before I had 5,000. The day before I had 4,800. The day before I had 4,600 or something.

It's like, ah. And the reason I'm mentioning it is because it's more than I would normally get. The seal has broken for the 5,000 mark because I have done 5,000 in the past in a day.

I've done 10,000, 12,000 in the past, but that's sort of a real, really rare, rare thing, you know. But to consistently be getting between 4,000 and 5,000 every single day, including the weekends, usually the weekends are quieter, is, I don't know. I just think it's, I find it interesting how it works.

I don't understand how it works. Really, I don't, genuinely. Because this time last year, I would have been happy to reach 2,000 a day.

Yeah, I can't see the stats. At least I don't think I can. Please don't talk about the stats, Uncle JJ.

Please. Yeah, I can, if I want to. The stats.

Let's have a look. Statistics. I don't know if it allows me.

Yeah, it should do. I'm looking on my phone. So, wow.

That's not right. Really? Wow. So, yeah.

Today, 17th, no 18th of May, I got 4,770 downloads. Yesterday, I had 5,830. 4,770, there's still another four, four hours, four or five hours left before this is sort of sorted, before the days ended.

On this, they finish about 1.30 for some reason. So, it's definitely going to be over 5,000. I don't know, I just find that interesting.

It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So, in the last seven days, the 12th of May, 4,889. 13th, 12th was, no 13th, 13th, sorry, 4,889. 14th, 5,495.

15th, 5,292. 16th, 5,830. No, 4,808.

17th, 4,583. And today, 4,770. I just find that absolutely amazing.

Possibly. Oh, what's going on? Let's see if I can get the stats from last, just this time last year. No, no way, I'm not going to.

In fact, no. 1 from, and then, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. So, May, it won't let me have May, but let me have June.

So, May, if I go to June the 1st, June the 1st, from June the 1st to June the 8th. Okay, so that just gives you, it's the first week of June last year. So, the 1st of June, I had 979 downloads.

2nd, 1,180. Next day, 1,619. Next day, 1,398.

802 on the 5th. Wow. 1,094 on the 6th.

7th was 1,611. 8th was 1,611. No, 7th was 1,094.

1,611 on the 8th. So, and that's a few weeks ahead. So, it's not this time next year yet.

It's kind of a month. It's like 11 months ago. But I wasn't often even hitting the 2,000 mark.

The 2,000 mark was like a rarity. And now the 5,000 mark is being hit more regularly than I was hitting the 2,000 mark 11 months ago. I don't know why that's, why is that interesting to me? Why wouldn't it be? Yeah, why wouldn't it be? It's alright, isn't it? Why is it June, but it doesn't have July? Okay, oh, that's why.

July, 2. Oh, wow. See, yeah, even that month in July, I was struggling to get over 1,000. Isn't it weird? So, I skip through to August.

So, July, August. Yeah. So, if I go to August, some 1,792, 1,7.

So, I'm hitting 2,000 three times a week on that one. 1,2,3. So, yeah, it's going alright.

That's kind of the point I was trying to make. If there is such a thing as a point, that was the point I was trying to express. And, yeah, I'm kind of pleased.

Sorry about it. But I am. My most popular podcast is, I suppose, technically, it's the relaxation for stress and anxiety.

Just based on the fact that it's one podcast, although it is shared on two other podcasts, it's basically on its own. So, when I released these, Let Me Boy To Sleep, I put them also on, as well as this podcast, I put them on two sleep sessions, two sleep podcasts. And also, let me have a look.

Let me have a look. Let me see. Right.

Custom, the last week. Done. So, if I let the Let Me Boy To Sleep ones, let's have a look.

So, 144,000. He's still going on about his bloody stats. I can't believe it.

So, yesterday, is it a 16 today? It's not, is it? No, last week. I want this week, current week. That's it.

Yeah, it's the 18th. So, let's say yesterday's recording, number 402, didn't have many, 108 downloads on this podcast, which isn't a lot. That's quite a low day, actually, for some reason.

Maybe that's just because it was a really awful, terrible podcast. So, the hypnosis for sleeping deeply, 239,000 on that one. So, for that episode of Let Me Boy To Sleep, 200.

So, it's pretty much double. And this is on a different podcast, hypnosis for sleeping deeply. And then for the other main one, sleep insomnia hypnosis, that's got 221,000.

Yeah, 190. So, it's 200, 390, 495. So, 2, 345.

So, I've had about 500 downloads and listens to the yesterday's Let Me Boy To Sleep so far. Over 500, because also the Jason Newlands free hypnosis service. So, it feels okay.

So, it's been a quiet, quiet day on the actual podcast itself. But on the other two podcasts, I've like doubled each one. So, it's been 500.

I know it's not a lot. Some people get millions for each recording, don't they? But I'm kind of only starting out. I mean, I've been doing it for 14 years.

By the time I'm 70, I reckon between me and you, because if you're still listening, you'll be able to watch me getting older. I mean, you can hear me aging. Honestly, sometimes I struggle to get out of the chair at the end of it.

And that's probably more to do with the glue on the chair. But I just really think it'd be fun, fun to just tell you about my aging process. I went to the hospital again today.

They're going to try and save my second leg. I'm just going to be coming home with like different parts of my body missing. Yeah, hello.

Welcome to jasonnewland.com. I'm still here. How are you? I'll be on. I'll probably be Andre the seventh by then.

The seventh ferret called Andre. I won't be able to have a ferret when I'm older. He'll just be tripping me up.

He tries to trip me up now. He does. He literally, especially if he wants me to do something, he will walk beside me.

And he just lays down in front of me. He tries to lay down on my shoes, which my feet are in. And I end up tripping over him.

Why he does it, I don't know. And I've seen him in action. I've been at the sink and I've turned around and he's laid down right behind me to trip me up.

And I've seen him do it to other people. So if I had a friend up here and my friends walked to the door and I've seen him do it, trying to trip him up. So it's good to see it from a different perspective.

And once my friend went to the toilet and had the door closed and Andre was scratching at the door. And just to see it from that perspective, I mean I was scratching the door as well, but it was just seeing, because he does that when I'm in there. Nowadays I just leave the door open for him.

And the smell normally keeps him away. When I first got him, he used to try and climb into my underpants. Not all the time, but if I was on the toilet, he'd try and climb into my underpants.

And sometimes I'd forget to look, to check. I'm walking around, looking down at my bulge thinking, wow, wow, that's impressive. Not realising I've got a sleeping ferret in me, in my ball bag.

So yeah, it bit my nipple when I was a kid. When I was a kid, when he was a kid. It was a little, that hurt.

As you saw on YouTube, there was this thing, it was a documentary called Free the Nipple. And it was genuine. And there was picketing going on by women who were topless and also men as well saying, yeah, free the nipple.

And the women's perspective was, first of all, the main thing is why can men be allowed to walk around topless in the summer and women can't? And they've got a great point. So that's a cause I could really get to grips with. I think it's, I definitely support that.

Equality is important. And I've never really been able to walk around with my boobies out because when I was younger, I was too skinny. For me, I was like a skin insect.

Skin insect? Stick figure. And now, I'm just way too curvy. I mean, I've got to be a double D at least.

So it's kind of gone from one extreme to the other. So I've never been plus and hairy. It's not like, I'll show my age here, not like Buck Rogers or Tom Selleck, Magnum.

Or James Bond, the original. I'm not quite that, that league of hairiness, but just, yeah. So I just keep the top on.

Again, I don't know why I'm telling you that. I don't think I'd ever be able to go to a nudist colony. In fact, I know I couldn't.

I still got the paperwork from the court case. Yeah, I've been banned. They didn't sign it.

They took my deposit for the holiday. They didn't say no cameras. I didn't see anywhere in the paperwork, no cameras, no video cameras, no telescopes, binoculars, film crew.

No live streaming to Facebook. None of that. They didn't put any of that in the small print.

The last time I actually went out, the nearest thing to a festival I've ever been was a thing called Buddhafield, which is supposed to be, well, it's named after the Buddha, so it's supposed to be kind of a Buddhist retreat, but not a strict Buddhist retreat. It's supposed to be more fun. And there's a lot of people there selling their wares, massages and candles.

And I think they even had some tarot card readers and stuff like that, which doesn't really go together with Buddhism. But yeah, they had workshops as well. And there was this particular workshop, and I thought it'd be quite cool because it was called a flirting workshop.

And I'd known two people for two previous years that had been, and they'd met someone at the flirting workshop because they were learning to flirt, and they met someone that they liked. So I thought, as I'm going this year, not this year, but back then, I'll give it a go. Just as I was talking there, there was some banging in the garden.

I should be a bit more specific. There was some banging. Yeah, just someone banging something.

It sounded like a bit of wood. Maybe it was a saucepan. I should do a bit of editing on this one.

People were banging doors downstairs. So I'm doing this early in the evening. That's why I'm trying to figure a way to sort of maybe not be up all night.

But it's the only way I can do recording without... I mean, it's still occasional banging of doors and stuff, but not a huge amount at night. So yeah, I'm going to go in a sec. I have to edit out some of those door bangs.

Which is, it is what it is, what it is. So yeah, I'm going to try and figure out a way to do the transcribing. What I've come up with, my theory or idea is to go through the recordings, break them down into 10 minutes slots, 10 minute recordings.

So that would be like six recordings for an hour, as an example. And then transcribe each recording, because 10 minutes should be easy enough to do. And do it like that.

It's time consuming, but the quality of the transcription was really good today. Using the microphone, using the phone, recording the tablet, the quality of the sound from the tablet. So yeah, it was kind of working.

I mean, I can see that there wouldn't be a huge amount of work for me to do. And also, if I do 10 minutes at a time, it's less work in an editing perspective. Because I can just re-listen to it.

And just put the odd dot here and delete this bit and change a word, you know, just a few little bits. So it shouldn't take very long at all. So that's probably what I'm going to do.

But it's just very time consuming. It's going to be a very long and long, long process. I'm thinking, I'm maybe trying to get another microphone, like the one I've got at the moment, and use that with my phone and record and transcribe as I go along while I'm recording.

And if I get that down to perfection, but have that on my label, labia, I don't know, what's the thing near your neck where the microphone sort of attaches to? Not the skin, not the collarbone. I mean, like when you're wearing clothes. And so I've already got one, so I'll have two then.

So one for the phone to transcribe as I speak, and one for the tablet to record as I speak. And possibly, if I can get it working properly and timing okay, then future recordings will already be transcribed as I record them. So yeah, there might be something in it, because I'm so sure that out of the 2,000 hours worth of me talking, there must be a book there.

There must be at least one book that I can write. A hundred page book, ebook. That's what I'm thinking.

So I don't think I'm going to get anything out of this recording, but you never know. I could do a book on stats. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm going to go. Thank you very much for listening. Remember, remember to be kind to yourself.

Lots of love. Bye.