#505 Let me bore you to sleep

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.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. Very important that is, very important.

So yeah, because this is, you know, technically it is a sleep session, it might not seem like it sometimes, but it is about, we need to prepare for falling asleep, you know, so you don't want to be driving a motorbike, or you don't want to be in a hot air balloon listening to this, because you may, well, you know, for obvious reasons, it seems obvious to me, but maybe it isn't. Maybe it ain't so obvious. Had a message from Ben Davey.

Hi Ben. Says, Hi Jason, how's your weekend been? Hi Ben. All groovy here.

Thanks. What else have I got? Got a message from Rachel saying, I love listening to the Let Me Bore You to Sleep podcast. Thank you Jason.

So I replied, thank you. And got a message from Rachel. Right, I won't read it out because it's personal details, but basically just asking me if I had anything to help with calming down in the evenings when your head keeps telling you negative things.

And she said, and then it's some personal stuff, so I won't read that out, but then it says, I have sources to help, but the voices on their videos just annoy me. Ha ha. This, I can't, if I do that I go ha ha.

And they're so intimidating and patronising and your videos are so familiar to me, that I wondered if you had anything that might help me a bit. Thanks and take care. So what I've done is I've sent the podcast to my relaxation, hypnosis for stress, anxiety, panic attacks, and a few episodes as well, individual.

The thing is, I was looking, trying to find, trying to find what my, some of the names, because it's only really recently that I've been naming the recordings where I've, I know I named these recordings, but again, that's quite a recent thing. But with the relaxation for stress, for the weekly sleep hypnosis, for the deep sleep whisper ones, it always used to just be number one, number two, number three, like that. And then I start, people would sometimes contact me and say, JJ.

And I'd say, yeah. And they'd say, can you tell me where I can find that recording where you talk about the chocolate suitcase in the airport or something like that. And I didn't know, genuinely didn't know.

And other people might say, have you got a recording for internal negative chatter? And I know that I've done stuff like that. I've done a lot of recordings, especially the sleep stuff, because that was what was requested from me to, and I have been focusing a lot, especially over the last year or so, on the internal, the overactive mind when you're trying to sort of go to sleep. So I've focused a lot of that.

Quite often I mention it in pretty much, well, a lot of the recordings, not these ones, but the proper recordings I do. The proper therapeutic-ish ones, like the relaxation and sleep sessions and that. So today is Sunday, the 27th of September.

And I made two recordings today. I would have made more, but I didn't, I wasn't able to. But I did, well, I've done one, but it's also got sleep and it's got music in the background as well.

So two recordings, two versions of the same thing, which was number 271, deep sleep, whisper hypnosis, focus on your eyes to relax and sleep. I think the one without music is about, well, it's not about, I can actually see by the image exactly how long it lasts. Duration, 28 minutes, 35 seconds.

The one with music lasts for two hours and 38 seconds. And the good thing about that is you can use it as a relaxation session or you can use it to go to sleep. And the one with the music, I can't imagine many people will, how could you not fall asleep listening to that music for two hours after, how long did I say? 28 minutes.

Yeah, 28 minutes. And then the music just carries on for another hour and a half. It's quite nice, isn't it? Yeah.

It's a good idea. So, and of course I've got this recording as well, which is today. I'd kind of like to do another recording before the end of the day as well.

But what I have done is I haven't been in bed all day, which is unusual because generally I tend to go to bed, get up and go to bed here and there. But today I was looking after a dog and I couldn't really do like my normal routine. So, what I did is I took advantage of the time, got involved in my website and I've updated all the latest recordings onto my website as well as doing some other bits and bobs.

So, I spent a few hours today doing that. So, I'm quite pleased with how it's going, still a lot to do and I'm sort of looking at it for the future as well because the website will change in the future. But at the moment it's staying how it is.

But there's a lot to do, which is okay. It's okay. Yeah.

I'm just trying to relax myself a little bit after just having had a sort of quite stressful conversation with someone. I'm just trying to sort of unwind a bit now. I just need peace.

I just need relaxation, a peaceful life. It's kind of all, I think it's what I've always needed probably, but I kind of feel more so nowadays that I really just need things. I'm not a big fan of drama, drama.

Never have been really, but for some reason I can't seem to just let it wash over me anymore. It just didn't, well, I didn't used to let it affect me, but it seems to, I'd rather just avoid it. And I don't have a dramatic life.

My life's very, I've got a very simplistic lifestyle and everything I do is based around this. Not this particular recording, just generally the online free service that I run. And from getting up in the morning to going to bed, I, did I say getting up in the morning? Well, it could be getting up in the afternoon, but you know, whatever time it is, this is what I'm focusing on.

And this is what I want to focus on. And nothing else really. It's not, I don't know what it is.

I just, I like to just focus on one thing, but the one thing I'm focusing on is, has a, there's a lot of depth to it, you know, there's a lot of, a lot to it. There's various different aspects from making the recordings, to the editing, to the website stuff, to the promotion, to the education, you know, learning stuff, learning things, improving my education, becoming better at what I do. And I suppose one of the good things, it's not, it's good, but it has it's like, it's a little bit bad from one angle, is I'm never going to be finished.

And sometimes it's nice to have an ending, you know, I mean, obviously there will be an ultimate ending, but it's nice to have a, an ending as a goal. So, well, this is where I want to be. And at the moment, well, for the last, I don't know how many years, 14 years, I had a goal, I've had goals, but not an ultimate goal.

And the ultimate, well, kind of the ultimate goal is helping as many people as possible, which is a very vague, a vague target. Because, you know, let's say in 2007, I would have been, the idea of getting, well, how does it work out? Yeah, nearly, nearly 2 million. I'm just trying to figure out, wait, wait a sec, let me work it out.

Let me work it out to see roughly how many downloads. Oh no, he's talking about stats again. Yep.

Okay. So, ah, ah, okay. Times by 52.

Okay. So, based on about an average of 4,000 a day, times by 30, times by 12. It's more than that, isn't it? So, a minimum at the moment of 15, 1.5 million a year.

So, based on 4,000 minimum, it's more than that. But let's say 4,000 minimum, really it's more like 150, let's say 140,000 a month. Times by 12, 1.68. So, you know, over 1.5 million downloads a year.

Now, in 2008, I would have been wetting myself with excitement. But the thought of that, just wow. But now it doesn't seem such a big deal.

It's nice, but it doesn't, as soon as I hit a target, I want it to be more. So, 4,000 a day isn't a good day anymore. It's an average day at best.

And I don't want to be ungrateful. Don't want to be, but I'm going to be. I'm going to be.

No, I'm not. Let's have a look. So, today it's half nine, 10.

There's four hours still of the day left. So, I've got 4,362. So, it's, yeah, I've not had one day.

Yeah, not one day this week has been below 4,000. So, a good day, I suppose, that's at the bare minimum is now 4,000 a day. So, an average day probably would be 4,500, 5,000, and a really good day would be 6,000 plus.

I'd have been so happy to get that. Well, I am happy to get it, but it would just be such a huge, huge deal. What's it say here? My week statistics from the 20th to the 26th of September, 34,017.

This is 34,000, 34,017. So, weekly, that'd be 1.768 million. So, 1.7 million if I did that every week, and that is kind of average now.

It's probably, yeah. So, ain't bad, not really, but I'd like it to be better. It's just, it's not so bad considering I don't promote.

If I started promoting on Facebook, and when I say promote, I don't mean just adding my post, my latest recording onto Facebook, which is, I do that. But rarely ever does anyone ever share my posts to their own Facebook page. It happens now and then.

There was a period when someone was doing it on every recording, but they don't anymore. But I was grateful when they were. It doesn't, it's, I think what it is, is because I'm just always here.

It's not a novelty. It's like, oh, Jason's recording a new recording. Yeah, because it's been four hours since his last one.

It's not an adventure anymore, probably. If it was weekly, maybe it'd be more interesting. I don't know, would it? Or more of an occasion, or monthly.

My podcast is out, my weekly podcast. But because I do them so often, make so many different recordings, and let me bore you to sleep, it's pretty much daily. The relaxation for hypnosis and stress and anxiety and stuff, that is fairly regular as well.

Rarely do I go more than a couple of days without putting something on there. The sleep hypnosis podcast, pretty much every day something goes onto those. What other ones? Deep sleep whisper.

I do a few a week. I'd like to do one every day, but it's finding the time when it's quiet enough to do it. And also, I'll be honest with you, it puts a little bit of a strain on my voice to whisper.

Do you hear that nice whistle? Whisper. It is me whispering. Hello, hello there, thank you very much, hello there.

But when I'm talking like this, it's easier when I'm whispering. I feel almost like I'm pushing the air out, and my voice feels a little bit under pressure, a little bit. And I have my headphones on like I do now.

I'm so aware of every tiny sound in the background, as well as every crackle and crickle of my voice. Every little husk. Hello, hello there, thank you very much for listening to me.

To me, that's what I sound like. I know I don't, but. Welcome to Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis.

I know I don't sound like that, but I don't actually, I'm not sure if I really like the sound of my voice on those recordings. Is it now I'm hiding behind the curtains? You know, it's, I don't know. But they are fairly popular, so I do make them.

And I guess it's just being self-conscious. It's a bit like when someone said, oh, you've got a lisp. And I, okay, I probably have, I just didn't realise it.

And for a while I got a little bit self-conscious about it. But now, I hardly ever notice it. It's like, I do, in a way, if I had, and I've got to know, I'm not, I don't know if I've known people with speech impediments.

I had a really good friend at school who had a, what do you call it, a stutter. And I had a good friend as an adult who had a stutter as well. And, you know, I don't have, there was a time when I had a bit of a stutter going on.

And it used to be when I was put on the spot, when it wasn't literally a spot, I was put, when I was kind of bombarded with questions. And, you know, it's like, justify yourself now, answer this, answer this, answer this. And I would stutter.

You know, which I think is possibly a natural reaction when I was scared. So, you know, I used to stutter. But I don't stutter, I don't stutter generally.

But I might, you know, have a little bit of a lisp and stuff at times, which could be due to the way my teeth are, you know, if you've got gaps in your teeth or your teeth are shaped a certain way, it affects how you speak, doesn't it? Or if you've got, I don't, I don't know, because maybe, because when I talk, I relax. And especially when I'm doing a relaxation session. I mean, I don't just sit here and go through the motions and just reading off a piece of paper.

You know, it's me. I give everything. Sounds so dramatic.

Okay, all together now. There's a hero and his name is Jason Newland. He gives everything when he does a recording.

I don't, when I do a recording, I get relaxed. Now, if I didn't get relaxed when I made a recording, or if I didn't feel really tired and sleepy when I did a sleep hypnosis recording, then there'd be no point uploading them for other people to listen to. Because if I know it's worked on me, and it always does, sometimes too, too well, then there'd be no point doing it.

You know, so I test pretty much everything before it goes up on the internet to be listened to. I don't necessarily listen back to everything. And luckily, because I've got such a much better recording equipment happening, there's less in the way of distortion that I used to have before when I was making these recordings a couple of months ago.

And I used to have to spend maybe an hour and a half editing. Now, I mean, the recording is louder, which I hope, when no one's really sort of, a couple of people mentioned it, but hopefully that's appreciated. So the, you know, in the adverts at the beginning, there shouldn't be much of a difference in volume between the couple of adverts or whatever at the beginning of the recording and the actual recording.

There's, you know, it shouldn't be like a huge difference like they used to be. And I've worked hard to try and get to that level of, you know, it took me months to get to this point of testing and trying and to find out ways to improve, you know, the master of the copy to get it not perfect, because it's never going to be perfect, but at the very least to be the best that I, the best that I can do, the best a man can get. Is that deodorant isn't it? Deodorant.

Yeah, I can't really remember my point of what I was talking about. What was I talking about? Oh, on Earth. It was something, wasn't it? It's something about Oh, having a, yeah, I kind of covered that up in this weird speaking voice.

The thing is, of course I had a cold there. The thing is, the thing is, this is the thing. It's going to be different for everybody, isn't it? As far as what you like.

Now some people are only perhaps going to like somebody that has an American accent. If they're American, I'm saying some people, some people from England might only want to listen to somebody with an American accent doing a recording. It's, you know, some people might only want to listen to someone with an Irish accent, because that might be their favorite accent.

So everyone has their own different preferences. And it's the idea of pleasing everyone. I've proper given up on that idea.

And there's freedom in that. You know, the more, the more people, and I realized this years ago with celebrities, but the more people really like a celebrity, the more people really don't like the celebrity. It's, it's just the way it goes, you know, the more popular.

Okay, let's say, as an example, Jimmy Carr, Jimmy Carr, I used to know him years ago, before he was famous. He used to perform in the comedy club I was at. And he's friends with him.

He's really nice, nice bloke. And he was managed by the club, the club had a management team, like comedy management. So they managed him as a comedian.

And you know, he was doing really well really quickly. And I saw as he got more famous, the more people couldn't stand him. Yet the more people absolutely loved him.

Really, you know, strange, not probably not strange at all, but I find it unusual. So he was, he's definitely got a huge, huge audience and huge following. He's very, very successful.

But he's also got huge amounts of people that don't like him, or don't like his style of comedy. So I guess that you get that with bands as well, don't you? Or someone like, I don't know, Justin Bieber. There's probably going to be hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions that can't stand him.

But at the same time, millions and millions and millions and millions and millions that absolutely adore him. I like him. I don't hate him.

I don't adore him. I don't have any strong emotions. And to be fair, the only song that I really liked that he did was the Baby Baby.

Baby, baby, baby, oh. Baby, baby, baby, oh. Baby, baby, baby, oh.

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. When he was about 10. I liked that song.

I did. Because that was, what, 2009? Something like that, wasn't it? And I liked that. But he was a kid.

But it was such a catchy song. I've not really followed him in his career. I'm guessing I'm not his target audience.

It's a little guess there. Yeah. I had a really good, well, I better not say that.

Yeah, I can't say that. So yeah. Imagine something rude.

But I did say it. But just, yeah, I can't say that. Oh, it was funny though.

Damn it. Now I'm censoring myself. See? I can only go downhill.

Once I start censoring myself, then there'll be no point making these recordings. You know, it's fine with the hypnosis stuff. But once I start censoring this podcast to let me boy to sleep, then there literally would be no point.

So I'm going to have to make sure I don't censor myself. Okay. Here's what I was going to say.

I was going to say that I'm not Justin Bieber's target audience because my boobs are too well developed. It's not actually that funny really, but just the idea that he probably doesn't appeal that much to an adult audience. Justin.

He's an adult now though and he's about 50. He's 50 years old. People don't realize.

He was never a kid. He was born 12 and he's always stayed looking that age, but he's 50. I remember it was one of those, what do they call it? Where they make fun of each other.

Roast. It was a roast and I can't remember who was the one being roasted. There's a few of them on YouTube.

They are funny to watch. To really enjoy it, you got to pick a celebrity that you like. For example, if you're a fan of Donald Trump, there's a roast that he did or he attended, a roast in his name.

Loads of comedians made fun of him and he made fun of himself. If you're a big fan of, I'm trying to think, there's loads, loads of famous people have had it done to them. I think even Mike Tyson did it as well.

That takes a lot of guts to go on stage with him sitting there and to be making fun of him. But hey, it did. They did it.

So yeah, it's really Snoop Dogg's on quite a few of them because he's just, I don't know, it's something about his vibe. I think they like him being on those ones because he's just as part of the, he's one of the roasters, not the roasty. Although he might have been a roasty.

But he's just almost like the coolest bear alive. Snoop Dogg. Slippin' in a bog.

Biddy biddy bog. Hey you. That's not a very good impression.

I used to like his music. Anyway, I can't see, seriously, I clearly can't do an impression. Doggie ooh.

You know I'm a doggie. Ooh ooh ooh. Yeah, it's not very good.

I just had to put you on pause there for a second because I heard, I heard it, I heard it. A weird noise. It was Andre.

He's basically got his new hideout and it's, it's not inside the shed in the bedroom. It's the, I felt I mentioned it, the covers that cover the opening of the shed. These big, I don't know what you call them, cover, you know, big blanket things.

And he sleeps there. That's his new thing. So, and he's been there all day.

I took him out for a walk earlier with the dog. Which is very difficult because, but at the same time they can't be indoors together in the same room because Andre will bite the dog. Yet the dog doesn't like Andre being asleep.

So Andre is quite often happy just to be left alone. But the dog wants to play. Yet the dog doesn't like it when Andre bites him.

Which is not surprising, who would? And I keep trying to get Andre to stop and he won't. But I think the dog likes it at the same time. Not, not being bitten, but he likes playing.

He loves him. So they both love each other, but Andre's too naughty. Anyway, what I decided, because I was looking after the dog, I have to keep Andre and him separate.

So Andre's in the bedroom. So I decided I'll take them both out for a walk. So, because when they're outside, they don't bother each other.

They're quite happy. Andre follows him. So wherever Logie, wherever the dog goes, Andre follows him.

And they basically get on with it. You know, there's no biting. There's no nothing when they're outside.

Now I thought that was a good idea. I did. I thought, now that's a good idea.

Why don't I take both the animals out at the same time? The dog's uncontrollable, but we were pretty much uncontrollable. So strong, constantly pulling, you know, it's a handful, proper handful. Andre is a handful in a different way because he's constantly going in different directions.

And because the dog and Andre were both moving at a very different speed, I was in the middle of two animals. So I had one, Andre was sniffing the grass and rolling around. I had my arms stretched and the dog was trying to move forward.

So I was, honestly, I was like standing there with my arms stretched out, holding, putting all my, not all my energy, but putting a lot more energy holding the dog and probably the other side trying to keep a balance because Andre doesn't weigh hardly anything. So, and then I thought that was all right until the dog does a big, massive toilet. So, you know, I have to pick it up in a bag.

It's raining. The dog has done his business. Now he wants to head off.

He wants to go and do something else. Andre's still stretched out on the line because I've got the, I don't know what you call it, but it's an extension lead. So he's probably about 20 foot away from me.

So I literally am trying to get him, trying to reel him in. He doesn't want to move. I can't go and pick him up because the dog is pulling me the other way and I need to stay here because that's where the, what's it is.

I'm trying to get, so I managed to get Andre back and then I'm trying to get the bag out of my pocket, take it off the reel because it's a reel of bags, trying to undo it in the wind and the rain. And then of course turn it inside out so I can grab the, the thing. And it was really, and the dog was trying to pull me off balance.

Not trying to pull him off balance, but trying to, well he was pulling me off balance, but he wasn't obviously trying to, but it was, I don't think he had that, hadn't planned it. You know, he hadn't written down an idea on what I'm going to do. I'm going to pull him off balance and I'm going to make him fall over.

So basically I managed to do it in the end and luckily he did it just near the bin where the bag was to be placed. And he went into the park a little bit and I realised, he did another one. Yay.

And then I realised and I thought, yeah, let's go home. Yeah, yeah, shall we? Yeah, let's go home. So I went home and then I took him out on his own, went to the fields and for some reason he kept going from left to right, from left to right, left.

I was like, seriously mate? And then he decided to walk right in front of me as if he was trying to trip me up. And then I said to him, listen mate, if you trip me up and I fall, I'm going to make sure I fall on you. Then you'll see who's the heaviest, which is probably a weird thing to say to a dog out loud, but it was annoying.

It was annoying me. Naughty boy. And then he sort of sorted himself out and he was fine.

But I didn't really get a chance. I couldn't make a recording when he's here because he's constantly walking around and banging the microphone. So what did I got on with? Website stuff, which is good.

Needs to be done. I just didn't want to do it. But it's not that I didn't want to do it.

I just kind of put it off a bit and there's still huge amounts to do. Because I could sit here for a month solid. I'm not going to, but I could sit here for a month solid working on a website and it still wouldn't be finished because it's never ending.

But I don't want to spend, I don't want to sit here and realise, well, I've made my recordings for a week and I have done that in the past. I'd rather make recordings and be behind on the website. Yeah, personally.

Just a personal thing. I think it's more important to make new recordings than to have a perfect website. It's nearly perfect, but you know, not really.

Really? Yeah. Wow. So yeah, things have been going from a perspective of the podcast and everything like that.

Things are going good. There's been some, what's the right word? Yeah. Improvements or there's been some ink.

Yeah, there's been some stuff that's been, that I've found encouraging. Partly. With what's been going on this week.

I mean, it's been, it hasn't all been roses and butterflies and ice cream, but there's definitely, there's been some really good stuff. It's just really weird that we get to the end of September. I'm interested to see how October turns out from a podcast perspective.

Also, I suppose from a societal perspective as well, but definitely from a podcast, because I want to see if the growth continues. Because on some aspects, there's been a tremendous growth this month. And I'm curious to see if that continues.

And if it does continue, things are really looking up. Very much so. So I'll just have to wait and see.

It's, yeah, it's going to be a financial, little bit of a struggle for the next few weeks. But once it gets to the end of October, I'll be fine. And then what we got, November, December, Christmas.

You know, I was talking to my friend earlier and I said, I'd really, really like to get away with Andre. I need to take him with me wherever I go. So I need to find a pet friendly place.

And while I was thinking, but hotels aren't really the place to go anymore at the moment with the way things are. And I don't know if there's many hotels where I could take a ferret. And I'm even wondering, even pet friendly places might only be friendly towards dogs.

You know, so I'd have to look into it. But what I was thinking is maybe renting a caravan on a caravan site for perhaps a week in, I don't know, maybe November. And that's a weird time of the year, sort of technically.

It's not perhaps the best weather, but I love the sounds of the wind. I love if it's near the sea, I'll be able to hear the sea. And I'm thinking of going somewhere really local because I don't live near the sea here, but there is places not far away that are near the sea.

So if I can find a place, a caravan where I can take Andre with me and he can live there with me for a week, then that's what I might do. And if it's a place that I'm thinking of that's literally probably 20 miles away from here, I can actually take his cage with me and stick it, get a taxi there, get a taxi back when I'm finished and just take the cage and whatever else I need. And let's face it, if I'm there for a week, if I run out of anything, I can just come back here and get it, which defeats the object of going on holiday, I know, but I won't be far away.

So that's what I'm thinking of doing, going on holiday, staying in a caravan, like a proper nice Dulux. Dulux? Is that proper? That's a paint, isn't it? Deluxe, Dulux. Nice, nice caravan on my own with Andre.

And somewhere where they've got television, everything I need, I'll take, yeah, I'll probably take my equipment with me as well and do recordings there. So I'll need to have internet. So as long as there's a Wi-Fi, but what I might do is say, you know what, this is a holiday.

I'm not doing any, any recordings for that time away. So set up a bunch of recordings for the other podcasts to upload and maybe just, yeah, have a break, like completely. Have a, have a gig, I don't know, just have, even if it's just for a weekend, but I think a week would be good.

If I could afford it, I don't know how much they charge. It's off season, November, I mean, who the heck would want to stay in a caravan in November, near the sea? Like the worst time of the year, you know, wind-wise. So yeah, in here, in this country, you know, I know that probably Australia, it's, is it summer now, isn't it? In Australia? No? I don't know.

But no, it'd probably be spring. Wouldn't it be, so if it's autumn here, it'd probably be spring in Australia. By the way, this is a genuine question, so I'm not mocking.

I'm genuinely not, well, I'm not, I'm just, it's a genuine question. I could Google it, but I thought it'd be interesting if anyone in America would like to let me know. Do you know, so you call, have you heard of autumn? Because you've got the different seasons, you know, spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Now, I know in America you call it fall. Is that a nickname for it? Because the trees fall down, or the leaves fall off the tree or whatever? Or is it just another name and you don't ever use the word autumn? So I'm really not sure. You know, the idea is, it's the old rhyme or the thing.

Actually, no, it's more for putting the clocks back and turning the box, the clocks forward in British summer time, saving time, whatever. And in this country, they even say spring back, so you put the clocks back in spring, fall forward, which never made sense to me, because what are you on about? Don't you mean autumn forward? No, spring forward. Spring back, spring back, fall forward.

No, it's autumn. So I don't know, I don't even know. It's another word in America.

And the thing is, not one person can really answer this, because I know you've got states probably bigger than my country. See, you've got different time zones in one country. It's mind boggling for me, the idea that you can travel so far away, there's a different time zone and you're still in the same country.

That's beyond my brain. I know it's true, but it's still like, wow. I mean, I think to get... Let me tell you factually, the time it takes, I think it's about six hours, but it might be a little bit longer.

Let me just test. Time to travel across England. Yeah, nine hours.

You can go from one coast to the other in nine hours, 300 miles across the United Kingdom. Yes, basically from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern coast of England is about six... Well, make your mind up. Oh, 600 miles.

So that's... Oh, I've got here. Okay. So that's Scotland.

How long does it take from America to England? Oh, it's funny. If you're traveling the whole way from Utica to London, it would take approximately 200 hours to drive. How long is England from top to bottom? So from top to bottom, Land's End to John O'Groats is the traversal of the whole length of the Isle of Great Britain between two extremities, the southwest and northeast.

The traditional distance by road is 874 miles and takes most cyclists 10 to 14 days. The record for running the route is nine days. Wow.

So 874 miles. So that's pretty much from one end right to the bottom, from the top to the bottom of this country of Great Britain. 874 miles.

So what I'm going to do now is which... Okay, which are the largest states? So... Oh, no, that's not right, is it? Oh, that's not... Okay, what I'll do, which... Oh, no, I'll do it differently. If the thing will actually let me. Which US states are bigger than the UK? There's 11 US states that are bigger than Britain.

Wow. That includes Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, and Michigan. All right.

Which states are smaller than the In terms of land area, England is bigger than Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Maine, South Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey. What happened to old Jersey? Give it away to the charity shop. Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island.

Wow. Isn't that in... Well, it's not interesting, is it really? But it's still... Wow. I think it just gives you an idea of how big or rather how small my country is.

So if you're living in America and if you've never been here, tiny country. But to me, I live in a huge country because you try and walk it. Seriously.

It's a long, long walk. Oops. Bang, bang, bang.

It takes me just to get to town about an hour and a half to walk. In fact, probably longer, probably about nearly two hours. So there you go.

Anyway, that's about it for me. I think this has been very educational for everybody. I bet there's probably supermarkets or superstores, retail parks bigger than my town in America.

I bet you. Like a mall is probably bigger than my town. Now that, I would like to see.

I find that stuff interesting. I think if you always sort of lived... I did live in London, but London doesn't... It's not big. It doesn't seem big because it's so compact.

There's so many people all living on top of each other and you're... It's really, really... I mean, London isn't even very big. You can get from one side of London to the other really quickly. It's not that far.

It just seems... It takes ages sometimes because of the traffic or if you're waiting for a tube or a train. Anyway, I thought I'd share all that with you. It's all about education, don't you know? So I'm Thank you very much for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself. Do something nice for yourself today. Lots of love.

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