#401 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (17th May 2020)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You to Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Thank you for listening. And I want to start off by reading kind of two reviews. Two reviews.

And okay, one was a review, one was a message. So the first review is, and the headline is Sleep at Last. This is from Jen J. This says, I wish to give a huge thanks to Jason for providing such a wonderful service for those of us who suffer with sleep issues at night.

Since I have discovered Jason's podcast, not only am I now able to sleep throughout the night, but my constant mind chatter has now completely quietened down. I have also found that I am much calmer during the daytime. I now look forward to going to bed with the anticipation that I will be listening to Jason's soothing and beautifully relaxing, tranquil voice.

Jason truly is a godsend to all who cannot sleep, and who for the most part suffer in silence with insomnia. Please keep up the invaluable service you provide to so many, to so many Jasons, right, to so many, Jason. It is so very much, it is, I should learn to read, shouldn't I? It is so, I'm reading off the phone, so it's very small letters.

Stop having it go at me. It is so very much appreciated. Many thanks to you, Jen J. So thank you, Jen J. I'm starting to think I might have already read it out.

But if I have then read it out twice. And the next message. So thank you for that.

It's lovely. This is one I got yesterday, or was five minutes past midnight. So it's today for me.

But yeah, yesterday. And this is from someone called John Doe. Okay, he says, Are you effing kidding me? Question mark.

Eating, chewing, smacking, smacking, and making ridiculous noises on a recording. I used to like you. But now you're just, okay, I used to like you.

But now you're just annoying. I'm finding a new podcast. How do you make money anyway? And then at the end, he says, you're always asking for gifts.

And so I'm not sure is that a negative one or not? I don't know. And I used to like you. Do you know me? Do you? If my friends don't like me, well, I expect people to listen to me to like me.

No. So dear John Doe, not sure if that's really your name. I suppose a couple of things brought up.

One thing is, I don't think I'm always asking for gifts. I tell people that they can if they want to send a PayPal gift. And I have asked for help to pay for the cost of running this free service.

And people do help me. In fact, I should say a big thank you to Linda, who's helped me out towards the coming month. You know, it costs money.

If you look at our website, it's a good website. It's not cheap. Well, it's not expensive, but it's, you know, you're not paying for my time.

It's not like anyone's donating or giving money. Oh, my glasses are now on the floor. Excuse me.

My glasses got so bored, they fell asleep and fell off my face. What was I moaning about? Yeah, the podcast costs $72 a month. The website is $29 plus whatever apps I've got on top of it as well.

That's just that. That's without the cost of the electrical equipment that I use, software that I use to produce this stuff. You know, I'm not recording this on a cheap tape recorder.

You know, this is... I'm using expensive equipment to make these recordings, which is at a microphone and stuff like that. That's why it's good quality sound. I mean, it might not be perfect quality.

It's not, maybe not studio recorder, but you try and make a recording and get it. You know, if you've never done it before, not you, who's listening, because I love you. But it's taken me many years to get to the point where I can produce this level of quality for sound.

Even if I've got a little ferret in the background, they didn't moan about the ferret. They probably know better not to, I guess. You can say what you like about me, but you start on Andre.

I'll tell you, mate, I'll find you. I'll find you and I'll chuck a custard pie at you. It's, I don't know, it could be anyone.

Maybe they really are called John Doe. But that's usually the name of a dead body that's found, isn't it? And they put like John Doe on like a body that they don't have any identification. And they put John Doe down until they find out who it is.

So it's, I don't know. Are you effing kidding me? So it's someone that didn't want to actually use the word, the swear word, eating, chewing, the smacking bit. I don't know what that's about.

I don't do any smacking, do I? What smacking do I do? I really, the thing is, I think it's, I did a recording the other day, I started off talking, I was eating a chocolate bar. How often do I make a recording? This is a question to those of you that listen to me regularly. How often do I eat when I'm making a recording? It's like hardly ever.

And that was purposely just to be annoying, but kind of in a mildly humorous way, you know? I didn't spend a whole hour eating while I was making the recording. I've done 400 of these, which is now 401. And if you can find five recordings where I've eaten while making a recording, I will, I will make a video of myself dancing to the Spice Girls.

Music, okay? You won't be able to find one. You'd be able to find, I do drink, I drink, I've always got a drink next to me, whether it's water or sometimes coffee, depends what time of the day I'm doing it. Usually not coffee in the evening, but Coke or, you know, water.

There's I won't say what he's doing, because I don't want to say anybody. Let's not mention anything that happens. And chewing.

Again, I would only chew when I'm eating. Eating, chewing. So he expected me to eat without chewing.

How often do I sit here going, I don't. This is like, it's really rare. I just happened to have done one a couple of days ago where I was really hungry.

But I wanted to make a recording. So I thought I'll have a chocolate bar. And I don't know, I just, I thought it'd be a little bit funny to do it whilst making a recording.

Admittedly, perhaps it wasn't funny, but I didn't think it'd be offending anyone. Making ridiculous noises. I will hold my hands up to that.

I probably go. I mean, I would say if you can't find at least 1000 times that I've got gone in the last 400 recordings, if you can't find that, then I'll do a little dance to Buddy Holly song. I do go, I make weird noises sometimes.

And I've been doing that since I was a kid. It's just what I do. And see, I just do it.

But I don't do it really to annoy people. I don't. So eating and chewing.

For me, that's kind of the same thing. It's why do you keep doing a poo before you wipe your bum? Well, there'd be no reason to, you know, one goes together with the other. So smacking.

So I don't know what's that. What do I smack? When smacking, that's hitting, isn't it? I don't hit anything. When have I ever hit anything? I actually go through the recording, trying to sort of neutralize any loud, louder sounds.

And as I'm looking at the screen on the tablet, as I record this, I can see what level the sound is. So when it goes out of green, which doesn't take a huge amount, I try and keep it in, you know, just just below the yellow. And if it goes to too high, it goes into red.

So I am, you know, trying to, the thing is, the thing is, I, because, you know, this tablet I use, it's an expensive tablet, I'm still paying for it. But it's got much better quality sound than I had with the phone. And the bigger screen, with my eyesight, I need a bigger screen to do stuff with.

I can do basic stuff. And they are, you know, the phone's really good for music, listening to recordings, stuff like that. It's really good for that.

It's pretty good for phone calls as well. Texting, checking apps, checking stuff. But I need a bigger screen.

My eyes aren't suited for small screens. And I won't, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna apologize for having bad eyesight. You know what I mean? It's just, I mean, I probably haven't helped myself.

And if the, if the cliche is true about, you know, what could make you blind, but sort of smacking, I don't understand that. Make ridiculous noises. That might be when I was eating, but that might, maybe I do get.

And the next bit. I used to like you. I used to like you, but now you're just annoying.

Yeah, no, I agree. I am annoying. So I can't take that as an offense because I'd rather be annoying than be you.

Mr. Doe. I don't know. I just, I used to like you, but now you're just annoying.

I'm fighting a new podcast, which is fine. There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there. I'm one of the best ones, but you know, there's lots out there.

But you know, if you search for sleep on any of the top podcast hosts, like, you know, iTunes or Spotify costs, cast box and stuff. I'm going to come up. One of my one out of about four, four of my podcasts will come up.

So some people like what I do. Maybe not you, Mr. Dodo. But some people, I used to like you.

I used to be my best friend. I'm finding a new podcast. Well, cool.

There's lots out there. You know what? Seriously, though, listen to something you enjoy. There's no point listening to something if you don't enjoy it.

You know, I think everybody should. There's so much choice to go through. And in some ways, my sleep hypnosis sessions may be more suitable for people that don't want to listen to me.

Just a bloody ferret. I can hear him. Andre, shut up.

Maybe that this person's complaining about the noises that he makes, thinking that it's me. How do you make money anyway? Which is a weird question. I don't do this to make money.

I could make more money by doing a part time cleaning job for an hour a morning in a local shop, just cleaning the shop floor with a mop. I'd make more money doing that. In fact, I make more money doing that once a week than I would doing this.

In fact, I don't make any money doing this because it goes on the costs. I don't make any money from this. So anything that I do get goes on the costs, including my benefit money.

You are always asking for gifts. So that's something that bugs me. I don't like asking for help.

But it's sometimes it's a necessary. I want to use the word evil, but it's a necessary thing. Because sometimes we all need help.

And as I am hopefully helping other people, I don't feel too bad asking for help. Not really. Not hugely.

And what's wrong with having gifts? It's nice. It's a nice thing, isn't it? I suppose maybe people, some people rather, don't realize, they don't know, they don't understand me. Maybe some people don't realize that this isn't just slapping.

When have I ever slapped? I don't, do I? Mind you, they might not be talking about this recording. It might not even be this podcast. Maybe it's a different podcast that I do.

But I've never done an eating podcast where I'm eating. Not like hypnosis or sleep or anything like that. So I've lost a customer there.

It's quite weird, though, because I looked at my stats. And the last two days I had over 5000 listens and downloads, nearly five and a half thousand on Friday, 5000 on Thursday, about 5250 on Friday. I don't know what it's been for Saturday yet, because we're not, we're not at the end of Saturday.

We've still got a few hours left until the end of the day. But oh my God, he's talking about the bloody stats. He's always talking about the stats.

Dear Jason, will you please stop talking about your bloody stats? Sorry about the swearing, children. Children of the night. Okay, let's have a look.

Seven days. So weekends are always a little bit quieter. So what is the date today? It's the 16th.

Okay, so today's not over yet. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Wednesday, I had 4889 downloads.

Thursday, 5495. Friday, 5291. And Saturday so far, 4627.

And there's still another couple of hours left. And if they don't, so that'll be, yeah, pretty much that'll be over 5000. So imagine if John Doe had stayed listening, I could have had an extra one listener to those stats.

It could have been, yeah, instead of 4627, it could be 4628. Man, I know I'm kind of joking around and stuff. I don't, I don't like the idea of having upset anyone.

I honestly, I don't, I'm not here for that. But I'll just let you know, the guest whisperer, I can't hear recording, but she had lots of, because it's a bit too low for me. And I can't be bothered to set my headphones up.

But she's had probably about 700 downloads. This was to Barangary. Wouldn't it be funny if it was her that got upset with me? After I did all that and put a recording on.

Don't like you anymore. But yeah, she said, if you can work this out, it's on the Deep Sleep Whisperer podcast. We're at 895 so far today.

But I had 228 downloads for her on the Deep Sleep Whisperer. On the Deep Sleep Hypnosis for Sleeping Deeply podcast. For her, for her podcast, I had 184.

And for the, that's the wrong one. Oops, no. Sleep Insomnia Hypnosis.

That was a quiet day. For her one, she had 187 on that one. So it's probably about 800, I think.

I don't, I can't work it all out. Jason Newland Hypnosis podcast. Never get many on that.

She had 15, no, 28. That's quite a small, doesn't get a lot. I had 128.

I've stopped talking about stats. I know that no one wants to hear about my statistics. Some 1 and 1 million 225,000, nearly 100, 226,000 downloads.

That's not bad, is it? Not bad for someone that eats, you know, constantly eating through every single recording and munching and what else do I do? Constantly slapping things. I wonder what it, what does that mean? Slapping? What do I slap? I've never slapped anything. I mean, during a recording, that is.

Oh, well. So I think it was interesting to see two different, two different messages, one from someone that likes what I do and another one from someone that personally doesn't like me anymore. I used to love you.

But now, now I know that you eat and chew food. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, some people, if they hear the word, they hear that, they might not like it.

You know, everyone's got their own thing and what they like and dislike. If I was going to make a podcast and I was determined not to annoy anybody, never try to upset anybody or annoy anyone, then the podcast would be silent. Well, no, even that would annoy people, wouldn't it? So I just wouldn't make a podcast.

As Buddy Holly said, hey, hey, now as Buddy Holly said, the best way to fail is to try to please everyone. I'm just having a drink there. So yeah, I hope.

I mean, part of what this is about, how it's evolved, this podcast is to kind of take your mind off stuff, you know, there's a lot going on. This kind of one thing, one subject seems to be for the last three, four months in the news and that. So I kind of try to talk about other things and, you know, make it a little bit silly.

Sometimes it's a bit serious, I guess, sometimes. But generally, I'd say 90% of what I talk about and it's just quite light hearted as much as possible. Yeah, so there.

So, however, the anonymous person that used to like me, but not anymore. Fair enough. It's okay.

It doesn't matter. I'm just a voice on a podcast. It's not that important.

It's other people that do podcasts. We've all got voices, you know, it's just a different voice that you're listening to in the future. And, you know, you find someone that you really like.

For everyone that's popular, I'm not saying I'm popular, but for everyone, the more popular someone gets, the more people don't like them. That's just a scientific fact. So when someone becomes famous, they might go from being... So I'll do comedians because I know that sort of that industry a little bit from previous life.

So you've got a stand up comedian. They'll go on stage and they'll go from being on an audience where no one will know who they are. You know, they'll go on stage and some of the audience will love them, really like them, fun and funny.

Some of the audience won't. Ideally, enough people do so that everyone laughs and the people that aren't laughing or not liking it can't be heard. When that person starts to get a bit more well known, you know, on the circuit, maybe go to an Edinburgh show, then they start to get a fan base.

People go to see them. The comedy club, perhaps, you know, say Jack D when he was, before he was on telly, he was a big deal, you know, and he was, it was exciting to go and see him. Or Lee Evans, another one.

Long before he went on telly, Lee Evans was, he was someone that was worth going to see, even if it was just a club headlining, like a normal comedy club. So then they go on telly, you know, if they get more famous, they get, you know, they get some television time and perhaps millions and millions of people really like them, but at the same time, so they might have 10 million people like them, but it's guaranteed there's going to be another two. There might be another 10 million that doesn't like them or 5 million that absolutely can't stand them.

Why? They're not funny. Why are you listening to him for? He's not funny. Yeah, they've got a huge fan base and they can travel the entire country, maybe the entire world with an audience.

Now, if it's probably not in comedy, but you know, maybe he's a band or singer. So I'm not comparing myself at all to those, to, you know, famous people or popular people, but on a tiny little scale, you have to sort of get in touch or kind of try and get in touch with the reality that not everybody's going to like what I do. Everybody's going to benefit from what I do.

And I think I made a breakthrough because in the past when I've had nasty messages like that, I've shut down the website, I've, you know, cancelled stuff, deleted stuff, had a bit of a meltdown, you know, just because it's more of a self-doubt kind of thing. But this time I thought, nah, I'll just go to bed. So I went to bed for a few hours and I just kept going.

So yeah, it's weird. It's unreal. It's not like real life, being online as a, well, not a public figure, but as a kind of, I don't know what to do, a podcaster.

I don't know what, how to really describe myself, but to be producing stuff and people all around the world listening, it's a little bit surreal. And it's probably, it's unrealistic that I only want people to say nice things, but I do. It's the truth.

I don't want to hear anyone, you know, I don't expect women to tell me that they think that I'm handsome. I generally don't expect that. But I also don't really want the opposite.

You know, I'd rather never have anyone say something nice than hear one person say something horrible. Because I'm a little bit sensitive, just a little bit. Too sensitive really to be doing online stuff maybe.

But that's part of the reason why I don't make videos anymore. Because I had so many, again, it was out of proportion. It was majority positive.

But it's just those occasional horrible ones, messages that used to bug me. I closed down YouTube channels and deleted all my videos because of it in the past. So I don't try not to interact with, we're not trying to, I don't really put much energy into YouTube.

Not because of the people just, it seems to be a breeding ground sometimes for a lot of negativity. And I've been lucky, I haven't really had that. The people that follow me are really nice.

But it's not the ones that are negative, the negative people aren't the ones that follow. They're the ones that are just out to cause havoc. And I even had someone phone me up once and sort of leave weird messages.

So yeah, it wasn't ideal. It wasn't a perfect situation. It's all about messages.

I have a message from someone. Let me have a look. I can't reply simply because I don't have.

Okay. This is from Sylvia. Ah, ah, okay.

That's interesting. Okay. No, that's why I'm not going to read it out.

No, I've just seen something. Didn't realize. I've got a message, a message and I didn't know who it's from.

Then I got another message and they signed their name. One was not positive. The other one was really nice.

The second one was nice. Oh, okay. So I'll leave, I won't read that one out.

Yeah. All right. I'll move on from that.

That was, yeah, I won't say it. I did read out the message on a previous recording. But I think, you know, sometimes it could be luck of the dip, dip of the luck, luck of the dip.

If you don't listen, someone who doesn't listen regularly, and they might just listen to a random recording. And then they might listen to another random recording. And I might be, for example, talking about my stats, you know, throughout the whole recording or through a lot of the recording, which I generally don't do.

I mentioned it now and then, but I've done a few recordings. I think I've counted three out of maybe four out of the whole 400 where I was focusing on stats. And it could look like that's all I'm talking about, just in the same way as if I was eating and just happened to come across the two recordings where I was eating while I was doing a recording.

Then it's going to say, well, that's all you do is eat. All you do is eat. But so maybe the John Doe is, who knows, maybe it's the same person.

I don't know. But whoever it is, I wish everybody well. It doesn't matter.

This isn't really important, is it? I mean, you know, you're not paying for it. It's not like, it's just, I'm the one that's paying for it with my time. Yeah, you get to eat an hour.

I've spent blimey, I've spent thousands and thousands of my hours doing this. Not just making recordings, but website development and promotion and eating, you know, obviously chocolate bars. So there, I got the sticky end of the stick.

Is that a term? I don't know. I ain't done much today or yesterday. I haven't had dinner yet.

I took Andre out for a walk and he went into the fields and we got back from the fields and he wanted to walk somewhere else. And I said, no. And I basically had to drag him across the floor.

Now, if it's a nice, if it's grass or mud or dirt, he will lay on his side in defiance. But if it's concrete, he stands on his feet and tries to stop me, almost like a tug of war, but I'm a little bit stronger than him. So instead of pulling him hard, I just pull him gently.

You hear it? And if he really keeps it, I just pick him up. So I don't want him hurting his feet. He's very, very determined to do what he wants to do and to not do what he doesn't want to do.

And then he ended up, I ended up carrying him all the way home. He was tired. He just walked the whole length of a field and then a whole length of a field coming back.

It's a long way for these little legs. And that's got to be the equivalent of me walking to town and back. At least, you know, that's maybe more.

Nah, probably about the same distance. I mean, from there to there. So yeah, it's probably equivalent for him.

He was running because I've got this lead that extends so he can run ahead. He loves it. Really, there's now he's not stuck by my side.

So I was trying to try and let him off the lead before so he could run, but he just kept going down the ditches and it was hard to sort of get him back. Now I let him go down the ditch, but I stopped the string of the lead so that he can only go down so far. And he's got no option but to come back again.

But he still at least goes down a little bit to sort of rub himself over the ditch. So he does. He seems to really enjoy it.

It's a lovely time. And I don't know if I mentioned this yesterday. There's a couple of things that I didn't mention from yesterday.

And I can't remember what it was. So there's one particular thing that I forgot all about. But I took him out for a walk.

He wanted to go out. So it's normal. I took him out early evening.

And I put my balaclava on above my face because it wasn't early. It was kind of, there was still people about, it was still sunny outside. So I put my face mask thing over my face, put my gloves on, and I put him, pick him up, take him downstairs and put him down on the grass.

And he's trying to get back inside the door, inside the front door. And I can't, what's he doing? It's not cold outside. It wasn't hot.

It was just really his temperature. I didn't understand it. And then it dawned on me and I might be completely wrong here.

I don't think he knew who I was because I had my face covered. So I uncovered my, I picked him up. I uncovered my face.

I said, look, it's your daddy. And he gives me kisses and he gets to get down and he wants to go for a walk then. It was almost like he thought I was taking him away from, from me.

And again, it might be my own imagination there, but I spend 24 hours a day with this little thing for pretty much the last four and a half years, nearly five years. I say 24 hours a day, but it feels like it. He is asleep a lot of the time, but I've been, I've studied him and his behavior and what he does.

And it's hard not to, you know, I notice patterns in behavior and I really think he wasn't sure who I was because the mask was covering me. So he must've looked up and like, who is that? But I can't understand because I thought that it would all be about the smell. But then I'm thinking maybe because I wear a certain jacket when I take him out, that's what he can smell.

He can smell himself. Maybe that throws him off. I don't know.

He was, he seemed confused, but as soon as he saw my face and he had a kiss, he sort of looked my face and was like, oh. And he wanted to get down and he wanted to go for a walk. So he didn't want to go inside anymore.

It's very, I don't know, I thought it was really cute. Maybe he does like me. You never know.

He might do. Do we love his daddy? Andre, do you love your daddy? So I suppose that what happens is, you know, when I get negative comments, well not negative, but yeah, it wasn't a positive one, was it? When I get a, whatever you want to call it, something that was, yeah, I'm going to use the word negative, but I suppose from their perspective, it wasn't negative, it was just factual, just how they felt. But it does affect me.

And then I start, a little bit start to let myself start to check what I'm saying as I'm saying it. It's self-editing a little bit. And I don't want to be doing that because if I have to self-edit when I make these recordings, I'm just going to stop making these recordings.

And that's, for me, that's part of the fun of doing these, because I can just kind of go off into some weird direction and have no idea where I'm going, not know if I'm going to be able to make my way back. And regardless of how silly, whether it's funny or whether it's not, I'll still leave it on the recording. But if I have to start self-editing as I'm talking, I won't enjoy doing it anymore.

And then I won't do it. I do these recordings because I enjoy them. Usually, yeah, I do.

I do it because I like doing it. And I get a lot of positive feedback from people telling me that they like it as well, because it's an hour taking your mind off of your stuff. So even if I'm moaning about something, I'm moaning about me.

And it won't have anything to do with your life. It's just me having a little moan. But nothing serious.

That's not really anything extremely serious. It's just having a little moan, a bit of moan, like a grumpy old man that I am. And so, yeah, I was doing a wee earlier.

I was standing over the toilet. I decided to do it in the toilet today instead of the bath. And I was thinking, well, I've done 400 recordings of this podcast.

Maybe I should just stop. Maybe that's enough now. Maybe I've lost my mojo, if I ever had a mojo.

I don't know. And if it's not fun for me, I don't want to do something. So with the deep sleep, whisper ones, I do them when I'm in the mood.

But I do feel an obligation to do them because they're more like for a therapeutic perspective. And the relaxation for stress and anxiety ones, I don't do them when I'm not in the mood, but I do kind of push myself to do them simply because of how important they are to me and to other people, some other people in a sense of from a stress, anxiety perspective. So in a sleep hypnosis weekly podcast, I try to do one every week, but I never seem to do it.

Usually every 10 days or something, if I'm lucky. And these ones are a lot easier for me to do. It doesn't take, I don't have to find a completely silent place to do it.

I don't have to lock Andre in a cage or go into a different room to do it. And because he's part of the podcast, even if he is making some weird monkey sounds, he's part of it. He's part of the, in fact, he's the popular one.

If he could talk, you wouldn't need me. He could just be on here. Hello everybody.

My daddy keeps farting and blabbing it on me. I don't know how he would talk. Who knows? To be fair, if he could talk, I think the only thing he'd be saying is, food, food.

Take me for a walk. Take me for a walk. I want to bite you.

I want to bite you. Where's my slipper? That's it. I don't think he's, I don't think he's philosophically minded.

I might be wrong, but I don't think so. I don't think I'm ever going to, I don't think I'm going to find him reading one of my Nietzsche books. If I had any, do I have any? Not Nietzsche, Nietzsche.

It's a bit like David Bowie. There was a whole thing. Is it Barry? Is it Bowie? And he was asked one time, he said, I don't care.

I don't care how you pronounce it. That didn't help. It would have been helpful if it has just been able to set the argument.

It's Bowie. Is it Bowie or Bowie? He just said, no, it's Bowie. You've all been wrong the whole time.

Star man, I see him in the sky. He had it all to do it, but he doesn't got a mind. He's a star man.

Dear Jason, I used to like you before you started singing. Now I can't listen anymore. You've changed.

You're not who you was before. Was it Porsche as well? It's not Porsche, it's Porsche. No, it's Porsche.

In this country, it's called a Porsche. But some people that are really into cars, they pronounce it Porsche. And other countries pronounce it Porsche.

But England, we call it a Porsche. It's like Nike, the sports thing. It's Nike.

But I know in America, they call it Nike. And they keep trying to get people to say Nike here. And I think the young people probably do.

But I was brought up to call it Nike. And I'm sure, I don't know, I'd have to do some research. Pretty sure I could find some 1980s adverts, which said the word Nike, not Nike.

See, little done the opposite. There's a supermarket chain, they have to have a lot of faith in them, because what they sell is stuff with writing on that doesn't even, that's a different language. So you kind of got to hope for the best really.

But it's very popular in this country. I think it's a German, is it a German company, I think? There's Aldi and Lidl. I don't have a Lidl where I live.

But they're very popular, very, very popular. It's cheap, or cheaper sort of food and stuff. But with unusual names.

And the, for years and years and years, the adverts kept, kept pronouncing that Lidl, Lidl, come to Lidl's, Lidl, over and over again. They didn't just have an advert that said Lidl, Lidl, Lidl, because that would be a rubbish advert. But we weren't having none of it.

I think some Waitrose shoppers, people that shop, that's one of the like the posh shops. And I've been to Waitrose, but I thought I'd go to Lidl's and get some tinned tomatoes. But we didn't, it's Lidl's, Lidl's.

So what do they do? They're now, the adverts now call them Lidl. The adverts on telly, Lidl. And in fact, their, their slogan, save a Lidl, spend a lot.

No, no, sorry, it's the other way around. Spend a Lidl, save a lot. So that's their catchphrase now.

Spend, it's not spend a Lidl, it's spend a Lidl, save a lot. It's a bit like Asda's, what's Asda's one? Where they tap their bum. Every Lidl helps.

Is that Sainsbury's? Every Lidl helps. And Asda, Tesco, no, Tesco's every Lidl helps. Sainsbury's, most things help.

No, that's, that would be right. I think Asda and Aldi is, which were cheap. Yeah.

Asda, Aldi, not Asda, Aldi. Aldi, Asda, they're, they're cheap, but they're proper, a proper supermarket in this country. Like Asda, at the top of the pile, but they're not everywhere.

There's not as many, but sort of as far as expensiveness goes, you've got kind of Waitrose-ish. So you've got Waitrose, and then you've got Marks and Spencers. And you can get some really nice, nice food in both of those places that you can eat.

So it's quite a good place to go to if you work in an office and you're in town and you could, you know, get a salad or sandwiches and stuff. And it's pretty good quality. And they have bakeries, you know, in the shop.

I mean, even this really is boring. You can't complain. It's not boring.

Even, yeah, so that's okay. And then as you go down, the two biggest supermarkets, like biggest, I think Tesco is the biggest and Sainsbury's the second biggest. But the reason Tesco is the biggest, because they've not just got big stores, they've got hundreds and hundreds of little stores dotted around the country.

And there's about 5 million just in London. So they've kind of tried to take over the corner shops that used to be famous in London and cities and stuff. So they've sort of kind of tried to be like what the co-op used to do, be a very small convenience store, but where the stuff on the shelves isn't 17 years out of date.

So it's, you know, it's quite good. But it's a little bit more expensive than the supermarket itself. And then down from there, so then Tesco's and Sainsbury's.

I think Sainsbury's is sort of the second largest in the country. I think Tesco's is the largest. Sainsbury's is the second largest.

But I think they've got some of the largest stores in Europe. In fact, I think the ones near where I live is one of the largest in Europe. Big old store.

And then you've got Asda, which is I think probably the next one down. And then there's a few others like Morrisons, but they're not everywhere. I mean, there's Morrisons near where my dad lives.

Huge Morrisons, been there for about 30 years. Big old one, really. But I don't think it was a Morrisons when it opened.

There's also other stores that are sort of more Northern. So there's like chains of supermarkets that aren't even in my part of the country that would be really well known up, maybe up North or maybe in the Midlands. And maybe the same things with Scotland and Wales.

There's other supermarkets that's really, really well known, but we don't have here possibly. Safeways. There used to be a supermarket called Safeways.

I don't know if that's still around. Farm Foods. That's another one.

But again, that's not everywhere, but there might be hundreds of stores. I don't know. We used to have Farm Foods around the corner from where I used to live back in 2002.

I used to go there in 2003. I might have gone in 2002 as well. And there's a lot of frozen stuff there, but it was really quite good.

But it was, I think it wasn't really, it was their own stuff. I think it had their own labels on rather than, so if you go into Iceland, I guess that would be up there as well in the supermarkets. So probably quite high up actually.

Maybe just below Asda, maybe more than Asda, I don't know. But they don't have massive stores as far as I'm aware, because it's mainly frozen food, but they also sell loads of other stuff as well, like fruit and veg and cakes. But they don't have within their shop, again, they might, but not anywhere that I've ever been, they don't have a bakery or a fishmonger's or butcher's or a pizza thing or a delicatessen or cheese counter or, I think I've covered nearly all the bases there.

Although Argos was bought out by Sainsbury's. So I don't, I reckon eventually start to see Sainsbury's moving the, I don't know how they would, because I don't know how it would happen. Mind you, I think because if you don't know what Argos is, if you're not, I say this, a lot of people listen and think, well, of course I do.

I live in Norwich, I live in Peterborough, of course I know what Argos is. Yeah, if you live in Norway or Canada, they might not have an Argos there. They might do, but I don't know.

So it's like a catalogue shop. Well, it still is a catalogue shop, but now instead of the catalogues, which used to be on a table, there'd be lots of different catalogues. They're all identical.

And you'd look through them, find a picture of something, get the number, write it down with a little betting slip, basically, with a little betting shop pen, exactly the same pens. And then you'd go to the counter and you'd buy it. Now it's all touchscreen, spreading, sharing your germs, touchscreen thing.

So it's not the same. It's basically, you're just doing what you would do at home, except you've got your trousers on. So with Argos, I imagine a lot of people just order their stuff and just go and collect it from the shop, or do it online.

Not 100%, sure if that's true or not. Sounds like it could be. Yeah.

So I'm kind of going to have something to eat. That's something to eat. I'll have a roast dinner.

It's a frozen meal, but I think a roast. Either that. Oh no, I know.

Sausages. Sausages and mash. Maybe with vegetables.

Vegetables. Yes. Oh no, did I go? Oh no.

So I think that's it. This is a sit for today. Tomorrow I'll do something else and make another recording.

And I actually did. I don't know. Well, I do know.

I did it. I made this recording yesterday for, it's a relaxation for stress and anxiety. And it was a touching fingertips.

Yeah. And as a touching fingertips, I think it's called, it was the most recent one that I did. And it's like a technique, but I think it's quite cool.

And I almost made it up myself. I say almost, I mean, I, I think I did, but you never know do you in these days, just might have heard someone else do it in the past, but it was a creative moment. So I just thought, Oh, let's see.

Let's see how this works. And I think it's quite good. In fact, I'm going to do a recording for pain relief recording using that same technique for headaches.

Relief. Yeah. That's what I'm going to do.

Very excited. I must admit, probably the most excited I've ever been ever, ever. And I've never before been this excited.

It's amazing. I'm surprised at how excited I am. I can feel my little finger twitching with anticipation.

I do need to go now. So thank you very much for listening and I shall make another recording tomorrow probably. So remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.