#606 Let me bore you to sleep

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 have just turned the television off. I've just opened a can of Coke and I can hear the fizzing from here. It's not a long way away, it's not in the garden or anything but it's like wow, what a noisy can of Coke.

And when I turn the television off, in case you're wondering why I'm mentioning that I turn the television off, you may be thinking well why would you leave it on? Surely we have your undivided attention. Yeah right. No, I don't have it on to watch.

I have it on mute simply because when I turn the television off I don't know what it is, whatever is inside the television starts to click. I guess as it cools down the tube or whatever's in there and it makes some weird noises every now and then. So for some reason I turned it off instead of leaving it on.

And there's no point turning it on because it'll still make those noises. Occasionally it makes those noises when it's on as well. Maybe I need a new television.

I hadn't thought about that. Well I've had this for five years, over five years I've had that television. I think yes, it's done me all right.

I think it's 36 inches, I think. 32, 36, something like that. It's fine.

You know I'd probably be fine with it for another couple years. Although I would eventually quite like to get a larger one. More just because of my eyesight than anything else.

It's not that I can't see the television. It's more I guess subtitles and you know think when there's a graph is being shown stuff like that and I'm trying to focus on it and I can't quite see that. Or even in movies you know when they hold the phone up or television even when the character holds their mobile telephone up and looks at a text that they've received and I can't quite make out what's on there, the writing on there.

So I really need to get myself a big telly for that reason, a bigger telly. So it's not really for any kind of, I want a big telly. It's just practical, practical reasons.

The same way as I've got my headphones, the noise cancelling headphones. That's the birds in the attic. The two are not connected, the headphones.

They're not wearing my headphones. It's, they're just, I don't know. Still got the mouse in the kitchen.

Can't catch it. Every time I put the mousetrap, and it's a humane mousetrap, I go in the kitchen and it's been set off and I go in and there's nothing in there. So perhaps the mouse is too quick.

I don't know. I'm kind of, you know, I've sealed up the parts which I think you can get in and out of the cupboards with but then I thought I'd sealed it and then it was still running around. So I don't know.

I've let Andre in there. Not so much to catch him but I thought Andre would be a deterrent. Because once he catches the smell, which he did the other, last night actually, he was searching.

Like really, and I hope that that would be enough for the mouse to want to get out and not come back. So you know, the smell of Andre, that should be a deterrent. I mean that's why I've not got them running around in the living room.

I hope. This whole building is just ridiculous. I've never, I like to say I've never lived anywhere that had like mice running around but unfortunately I have.

But I don't like them. And I found a solution though. It's you know, some people say yeah but mice, they're dangerous because they can bite through wires and stuff like that.

Well I have a solution for that. I have a solution. What you do, okay, if anyone's listening, if anyone's interested, every night before you go to bed, what you do is you crumble a bag of biscuits, a packet of biscuits, something just, just spread them all over the carpet and the different floors in the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, just spread them all over the floor, all the crumbs.

So that way the mice don't, they don't need to sort of be messing with wires, they'll eat the crumbs. So that's definitely a deterrent. Dear Jason.

So I hope you're well. I've been busy with, oh I made a mistake yesterday. I need to apologize if anyone's listening that was affected by this.

I didn't mean to do it. It was not, genuinely it was a mistake. It was an accident.

Not the kind of accident that involves a washing machine afterwards. I'm talking it's an accident regarding the podcasts. I was trying, I keep getting these notifications from the podcasts saying you could have more adverts and you could optimize your things.

And I was thinking, I don't know what I'm doing. And I just, so I just, and they said recommend it on auto optimization for the adverts. And I also had a link, a click of things that you can advertise that they're currently not advertising.

So I said, yeah, advertise what you want. I don't care. I mean, it should be targeted anyway, shouldn't it really? As far as I'm aware.

I know my adverts are targeted towards me. And it surprises me sometimes how targeted, I got an email the other day for, about helping with impotency. And like, how did they know? So I basically automatically or set it on auto optimization for the adverts.

And then suddenly, I had the the adverts went up by quite a lot. What's going on here? So I looked at them. And I looked at each individual thing, I saw that they'd put adverts in the middle of the recording, which is not what I wanted, not something that I would ever do.

So I reset it all back to normal. So it was like that for probably two or three hours. So apologies to anyone who was affected by that is corrected.

So the adverts will only be at the beginning of the recording. There will be no adverts in the middle. I mean, that's that defeats the whole object of what I'm doing.

You know, it's Yeah, so the ironic thing is, the, the money went up a lot. I got a little, a little taste in how how the kind of money that I could get if I had a proper amount of adverts. And it's substantially more.

But it's then it's just like, what's the point? There'd be no audience. I think not many people want to listen to a relaxation session, then halfway through have an advert or sleep session. So yeah, so I've got anyway, I've changed it back to how it should be.

So apologies to anyone that was affected by that. And from now on, I'm keeping my fingers off of any of those automated things. I mean, the podcast was saying set it to automation, that is the best way to do it.

So I thought it what it meant was, they would, it would provide better adverts for people more focused for what people perhaps would need rather than just random stuff. Because I need the revenue from the adverts to cover the costs, the growing, ever, ever increasing costs of running this free service. And then hopefully one day, earning a living and being able to pay rent and buy food and stuff like that.

You know, there's this little things in life that at 50 I should be able to do. The other thing I've done is I'm still uploading recordings to the SoundCloud. That's it.

My SoundCloud podcast, I'm still uploading. You know, I can only spend so much time doing that every day because it's this a lot of recordings to upload. But I am organizing them into playlists.

And there's 200 plus recordings uploaded so far. And ad free, so there's no adverts at all on those recordings. So that's an alternative for people that either don't like the adverts or don't want to support the free service.

So that can that can be another option. And I will be putting that link on my website. When it's done.

It's just I think that the most annoying part of doing this is the amount of work that goes into doing it. Not just the fact that it's going to cost me £120 a year extra, but it's just the the hours involved in uploading, downloading, then uploading. Because I don't have a lot of this stuff saved.

It's saved on the podcasts, but it wasn't saved on my hard drive. So so far I've uploaded the ones on my hard drive and now I'm going to be spending probably another probably 40-50 hours of my time downloading all the other recordings and then uploading them. So yeah, I'm not that's why I'm spreading it out.

I can't I'm not prepared to just spend all day doing it. Because then I'm missing out on doing the important things like making recordings and new stuff. Also, also, this is exciting.

Also the videos as well. So I set myself a target of one video per day. I've talked about this before and I'm still sticking to it.

But it's hard work. It's time consuming, but a lot of work goes into it. But I'm trying to stick to one video a day.

And then eventually, when I get the video camera, I'll be videoing probably more of these recordings I do. And then I'll be editing those as well. So yeah, so that won't be till next month at the earliest.

Maybe the month after. But if all goes well, it'll be what's it now March, April. So I hope in April, I'll be able to start videoing my podcasts, as well as you know, the podcasts as well, if that makes sense.

And then there's the other thing I'm doing, which I'm still in the process of putting together. And again, that's more work than I actually expected. Didn't expect it to be quite as time consuming as it is.

And quite as finicky. And it's not hard, really. But I started last night, doing the podcast for Spotify, which is a music podcast.

And it's going to be pretty much my radio show. I thought of the name being the Hospital Radio Alternative. I don't know why, I just quite like the idea of being being something that people can listen to maybe in hospital, but being different from what they would get in hospital.

Just like another choice. I know that, you know, there's loads of radio shows that people can listen to radio channels and stuff. But yeah, I might be might be people might like listening to me and listen to the songs I choose.

I don't know. So it's anyone's guess. But I think the thing that I need to be, I don't know, I've looked at different things to do.

And I thought I could do, I could ask for songs, you know, to be recommended people to give their you know, what songs they want to listen to and maybe messages that I could read out, you know, that kind of stuff. So I put a little message on Facebook saying anyone got a request for a song. And I've had a few come through and I'm not sure if all of them were actually serious requests.

Or just, I mean, whether they were just like joking about or maybe trying to sabotage my attempt at legitimate legitimacy. I don't know. But I might have to just play the songs that I want to play.

I don't know. It's got quite a few song requests. And I started to think that maybe the songs I like are not popular.

Because some of the songs I had requested, I don't even know. One wasn't even a song. One wasn't even.

Telly Savalas. Talking. I've seen it.

I've seen it on Top of the Pops 2. Telly Savalas when he was in his peak of his fame. He did a song where he just talks to music. That's not a song.

Although I think it might have got to number one. Let me check. Yeah, I want to check this because I have a little suspicion that it did because he was during his Kojak years.

Telly Savalas was proper, proper famous. So let me just check. Did Telly Savalas get to number one? That's it.

Go. Blimey. Tell me.

It says let me just check. Did us Avelis get to? No. No.

Ridiculous. Right. Did Telly Savalas get to number one? That's it.

That's what I want. If is the name of the song. Full chart history.

Okay, let's have a look. UK number one's one. So yeah, I think it did.

UK top 10's one. UK top 75's two. Weeks at number one.

One. So the if must have been two weeks at number one. Five weeks in the top 10.

Nine weeks in the top 40 and 12 weeks in the top 75. But he released another song which maybe he attempted singing and that's why it didn't get very high. The second, the first song he did was on the 22nd of February 1975 called If and it was at number one for two weeks.

The second song he wrote, he released was You've Lost That Loving Feeling 31st of the 5th 1975. So I think maybe he sung that one. Well, but that didn't get very high.

So should we look at the lyrics? I'm trying to think if I can't do the deep. Who loves a baby? Who loves a lollipop? He did. You know, he's famous for sucking on a lollipop.

That's what I remember him for, apart from being bald. But I wasn't allowed to watch it because it was an adult, it was an adult show. And it was on, you know, I was five years old when he released that song.

So I was too young to really to know about that kind of stuff, about that show. But it used to be on when I was in my, you know, early teens or childhood. We used to be on late at night, so I never got to see it.

But I have, it's quite weird. It used to be on late at night because it was adult, it was adult content. And it wasn't, I don't think anyway, much swearing or anything like that.

But it was, you know, it was gritty and it was at the time, just like the Sweeney, it was proper gritty. The professionals as well. Now, they show Kojak in the morning at 11 o'clock in the morning and the Sweeney the same.

So is that a sign of the times? Does that just give an idea of it's okay for a small child to watch it now, yet 40 years ago you had to be an adult to watch it. So what's next? I reckon, I reckon when I'm about 80, I'll turn the television on one day, half 10 in the morning and The Exorcist will be on. Seriously, zombie flesh eaters.

Saw. Seriously, it's like, it doesn't affect anyone anymore. Yeah, right.

I did find The Exorcist very funny the first time I watched it. I didn't find it scary. Am I wrong? I don't know.

I didn't, didn't find it a bit scary. I found it silly, to be, to be honest. Well, I, another thing I've noticed is horror movies are generally 15 now, rated 15.

The ones on what the movie channels I watch, whether it's Netflix, Amazon, whatever, generally 15. There's still, there are some that are 18. Of course, things like The Cabin and, you know, the really horrible ones.

But there's a lot of, probably I'd say 80% of horror movies, new horror movies, if not higher percentage are now 15. Yet 10 years ago, they would have been rated 18 or 20 years ago. And I don't really know what's changed.

I mean, the only way to be get an 18 certificate, unless it's extremely, graphically horrible, is to show a female nipple. That's the L get 18 rating. Don't show you don't show a boobie.

Oh, yeah, it's like, really? Look what you just shown. Just someone's, you know, cutting off their own leg. You know, in a bathroom, but no, don't show a bosom.

So weird, weird, weird, weird. Anyway, let's read the lyrics to this song. If you ready, get comfortable in my chair, let's have a little drink.

Let's lubricate me throat. I can't do his voice. Oh, the reason or just bashed the table.

My memory and he was famous for being for having a lollipop in his mouth. But I've watched the early episodes of that show. And he had a cigarette in his mouth the whole time.

The lollipop was after he stopped smoking. And he has his brother was also in the show as well. Speedy Gonzalez.

So lyrics to if good title. And it's got a picture of tell us of Alice holding a cigarette. Bless him.

I was I was a fan of his because he was in a lot of the really popular war films, wasn't he? You know, that is a dirty dozen and that kind of I don't want to say crap. But if you anyone is around today, I don't want to use the word centennials or whatever they call it. But those that have been born in the last 1020 years.

You've got no idea how boring the 70s were. For as a child, television wise. I mean, I don't know as an adult, I wasn't that old.

I can't, you know, there are some people that would say the 70s were the best years ever. I struggle with that one. But you know, it's all so personal, isn't it? personal opinion.

I wasn't a big fan. I wasn't a big fan of the 70s generally. And but television in the 70s, and even 80s even 90s.

I mean, it was early 80s up to the early 80s. We only had three channels be in UK of England. Scotland and Wales had their own version of BBC I think.

And I remember watching the weather. Island, only Northern Ireland had weather back then. The rest of Ireland didn't have any weather.

They just you know, I don't know why but the weather forecast would only give the weather for Northern Ireland. But the rest of Ireland, when I went and moved to Ireland, I was really surprised that they do also have rain and sunshine and you know, all the rest of it. Wow.

I went there in a spacesuit. I didn't even think they'd have oxygen. Very delighted.

I was always delighted, delighted. Okay, three channels until I think 1982 or 1981 or something. And then channel four came along.

The simple fact it was channel four gives you an idea it was a fourth channel. And then in 1997, 1997, so literally 16 years later, or whatever, channel five came along. And that was it.

That was like the first new TV channel. And I remember the launch, I watched it live as I was so excited. A friend of mine was actually hosting the launch was a couple of people I knew, but one that I was quite friends with called Tim Vine.

He was a comedian. Well, he is a comedian. And he basically that was his big break.

He was the face of channel five. He had like three different television shows on that channel. That was brilliant for him.

Yeah, amazing. It's like, wow, I was just really pleased for him. And Alan Davies was on there as well.

I think he helped launch it. And I'm not sure who else, a couple of those quite a few people were involved. And then that was it.

There was no other channels until the digital rollout where we went from analog to digital. And suddenly, we had free view, loads and loads of channels on free view. And I, I was at university at the time.

Back in, they got changed over the, I don't know, the aerial person came and changed it to digital. And it was probably 2000 and maybe 2009. And I remember sitting in bed, looking at the channel, looking at all the different channels that I could watch.

I was, honestly, it was almost like, you know, it was almost like, it was really nice. It was, it was Wow. I'd never because I'd never had Scott.

Well, to be fair, that's not the first experience I've had that I lived in a place that had sky, but I didn't have access to sky. And sky is a satellite channel, where you do get lots of different channels, including by Fox and various, you know, probably HBO possibly, I don't know, but various different television channels that you wouldn't get anywhere else at the time. And maybe BT also offered that at the time, but I don't know.

But I know sky did. But that was 1997 98 99 2000 2001 period. And whenever my landlady and landlord went on holiday, I'd be looking after the house.

And I would watch television every night in their living room, watching all the different satellite channels. I loved it. Because it was either that or five channels upstairs.

But now, wow, now is just unlimited. Really, if you can afford it, and if you've, you know, if you've got the technology to do it, you could pretty much watch every program of anywhere from around the world. So it's like, wow, I do think sometimes it's too much.

There's too much choice. There's been times when I've been looking through Netflix, and I realized I've spent about an hour just looking through, looking for something to watch. In any end, I don't watch anything because I think I've missed the moment.

In a way, you know, I was like, looking forward to doing this. And now I can't be bothered. I can't be a ball of the heart.

So there you go. Yes, there you go. Of course.

So tell us about this. Oh, here we go. Let's have a look.

Now, I realized this song might be very important to people, some people listening. So me reading lyrics out got nothing to do with that. I just I've never read I've never read the lyrics.

I like to read lyrics out of songs. This will be interesting. So if okay, here's the lyrics.

We smelled your soup on the fire cooking. We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright. So bright.

And yet they come from oh, far. Oh, so far away. We heard your flags and so your banners flapping.

We felt the air from from your hands all clapping time in time. I'm sure your time is not so far away. Millions all moving forward.

Millions all babbling crossword. Millions all flow at water. Millions all bright with laughter.

He make you glowing. He bake you golden like a yanks mud. I'm sure that I saw your writing on paper landing.

Your stamps showed bridges and temples standing still. So still. And yet they're standing.

Oh, so far away. I saw you asking for Western thinking. I say it's poison that you'll be drinking.

Stay as east as far away as dreams will let you be. That was written by David Gates. Shame on you.

That was none of that really made sense to me. Okay, we smelled your soup on the fire cooking. Fair enough.

Smell the soup is cooking smell the soup. We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright. How does a pencil look bright? So bright.

And yet they come from oh, so far away. What pencils? Wow. Unless the lyrics are incorrect.

So let me just if lyrics if this is a song by bread though. So if I go in telly surveillance, we smelled your soup on the fire cooking. I don't believe that can't be the lyrics.

So there's a different if here, it says, but this is from bread, I think. If a picture paints 1000 words, then why can't I paint you? The words will never show the you I've come to know. And if a face could launch 1000 ships, then where am I to go? There's no one home but you.

You're all that's left me too. And when my love for life is running dry, you come and pour yourself on me. If a man could be two places at one time.

I'd be with you tomorrow and today. Beside you all the way. If the world should stop revolving, spinning, spinning slowly down to die.

I'd spend the end with you. And when the world is through, then one by one the stars would all go out. Then you and I would simply fly away.

That sounds more like Yeah, so this, this is another one. So I'm thinking this is the correct words, lyrics. Because all the lyrics.

If a picture paints 1000 words, how weird. So that that other was completely wrong. This is the internet.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet. And that's beautiful. It's that beautiful as a poem.

It was beautiful. The words were lovely. If I could be two men, two people, I'll be with you today and tomorrow.

I mean, I'll probably say something different, which would be a bit rude. But, but, you know, it's like, wow, if I was two people, I'd make love to you all night and watch television in the living room. If eating ice cream, if, if, wow, apologies to Mr. surveillance.

Wow. According to this, he kept going, he did quite a few songs. But, you know, America is a different place.

And he was, I imagine he was a much bigger star in America than he was here. Just from the simple fact that it's an American TV show. He was a big star.

And there's more people in America to buy his records. So I'd be quite surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if he had more chart success in the US of A than he did here.

Although clearly he had a number one hit, which was amazing. For anyone to achieve this is still the pinnacle, isn't it? For chart for for singers or bands. You know, I know people you loads of these bands and singers that can sell out arenas all over the world.

And, you know, make millions, millions and millions of dollars and become rich and famous and huge without even ever having a number one. You know, as long as you get in the top 10 and keep getting in the top 10 and people buy their albums. And but it's something special, I think about hitting the number one spot.

I mean, in England, we had does it top 40, the hit parade. And that was it, you know, if you hit number one, you were or whoever, you know, hit number one were big news. And they would sell a lot of records.

And that's the only chance we had. In America, you got quite a few. You've gone on as other people that aren't from America listed.

But in America, there's different charts by quite a few. And there were them because I used to watch Casey Kasem on television. And he used to do the American charts, because I'm interested in what's happening there as well.

But then he do a rundown of the if anyone's ever watched the case, Casey Kasem, when he was on television in the 80s and 90s as well, probably he there was sort of like country, western R&B, quite a few different charts. Here's just one chart. That's it.

Well, there was I mean, there might be I'm pretty sure there's a I think it might be an HMV that started doing the charts like their own based on their own sales of singles. So they'd be they'd have their own charts, because I think I remember going in there, they they would have their own charts. And they have a classical charts that ever R&B charts, country charts, things like that.

So but the actual radio shows generally just the top 40. Yeah, back in the 80s. I don't know how probably maybe the 90s as well.

But there was a time when any music act, regardless of how big they were getting or how well they were doing. If they got an opportunity to be on top of the pops, they would take it. And they would cancel everything else to get on top of the pops.

Unless, of course, they were already famous. But if they weren't famous yet, because being on top of the pops could transform the life of a singer or a band, literally overnight. They go from being completely unknown, what practically unknown might have a following, might be gigging, might be doing tours.

But they go from being pretty much not that not particularly well known to being famous overnight, just by performing really well on top of the pops on a Thursday evening at 730. I don't know if you can hear all that. What's going on banging downstairs? He's doing I think my sounds like he's sweeping up.

Or he's just banging the radios, maybe he's playing the drums. I actually didn't meet the downstairs neighbor. He came up because his charger, he wanted to know if I could find a charger that he could use for his phone.

And I invited him in and said, come and sit down, have a coffee. I said, I'll have three sugars, please. We laughed.

He didn't know where the car was. And we were talking. And he said, somewhere in a conversation that he'd really like to learn to play the drums.

And I said, Stop there. I will pay you to not play the drums. For the duration of you living below me.

I will pay you cash money to not get a drum set to not be playing the drums. He laughed. I was serious.

I don't think he realized that I'll get I'd get some kind of a loan. Yeah, I couldn't deal with that. That would be that really would be the end game.

Yes, it would be my end game. I can't imagine waking up to a drum set. That was my impression of drums.

So I don't know what I'm gonna do about the Spotify radio show thing. Because I do want to do it. I do.

But at the same time, realistically, I'm not going to be able to do one every day. Because I was planning to make it last for three hours. A three hour show.

An hour long shows not long enough, really, because I'm just talking. And for 10 minutes, then there's a song, then there's 10 minutes only talking again. Mind you, three hours is still quite long, isn't it? It's just, I'd like I wish but not able to be able to play a few songs in a row.

You know, so maybe play, okay, we're now gonna play three songs. And then I'll come back at the end of that. And I'll sort of talk for 10 minutes, and then play three songs.

But can't do that. I have to play one song only. And then talk in, I think, at least seven minutes, something like that.

I look into it, I'm gonna give it a bit more bit more of my focus and attention to see exactly what I need to do to comply with their particular broadcasting rules. So I think for this current episode, I'm going to do, I'm just going to play my own songs. Not my own songs, but the ones that I want to listen to.

Just for now. I don't just based on the song choices, they're so far away from each other, even further away than I am with my personal choice. Like my personal songs I like.

I mean, I, you know, I would say I'm eclectic. But that's just another word for really old. And open minded to different types of music.

Because I've been around for quite a few decades. I've got favourite songs and songs I really love in every single decade. I say that I don't know about this decade.

What decade are we in? 2020 2021 Off the top of my head, I can't think of a song that I liked, that I really, really liked last year. There probably was, but I can't think of anything. And I know that a lot of the music's not aimed at me, but I've, I've never listened to music really that was aimed at me.

You know, in the 90s, the music aimed at me was the dance music. Like, you know, acid and you know, when I was sort of in my early 20s, all that kind of acid house and all that stuff. I never liked that.

Really never like that kind of stuff. Because I didn't used to go to nightclubs and get off my head. Never did it.

I've been to nightclubs, but very, very small amount of times. So I didn't have any emotional connection to those tracks to those that kind of music. And I suppose really, the closest I liked was the things that became popular.

Because that's the only chance anyway, I got to hear them if they were popular. And they were played on the radio or they got in the charts. So, you know, Ebenezer Good.

E's are good. E's are good. He's Ebenezer Good.

And lovely, lovely, lovely. See, I like that. But that was, and quite a few DJs or bands that were making music for the underground sort of popped their head up and made a few hits.

Because, you know, they were super, they were super talented, ultimately. And I liked that music. So the reality is, I got to like stuff that I was offered to listen to.

So maybe had some of the other sort of like dance tracks being played on the radio or on television, I might have come around to liking those too. How educational. Tell us more.

No, no. So far on my. Yeah, I've still got it up.

So far on my podcast, I have 10, 10 minutes, 45 seconds of me talking and introducing the podcast, Club Tropicana by Wham!, followed by 12 minutes, 23 seconds of me talking about Club Tropicana by Wham! And then the next song is Bad by Mocha Jackson, followed by 25 minutes, nine seconds of me talking about that song and then introducing The Wanderer by Dion. So there's three songs and three bits of me talking. 10, 20, 30, 5. So about 35, 36, 9, 10.

43. So 45 minutes roughly of radio data so far. I'm just not sure.

I do want to do it, but I might just have to. And I don't know if people are going to want to listen, but I think I'm going to need to stick to the songs that I like at least initially, initially, just for at least the first recording. I'd like to see that.

And, you know, hopefully people will like listening to those songs. I mean, they're good songs. I know they're old.

Blimey, The Wanderers. Um, there's like 70 years old or something, but behind each song, I've got stories to tell involving my own sort of life experiences. So it's definitely, definitely, uh, yeah.

Oh, did you, did you ever, ever, ever, ever know? Did you, did you ever, ever, ever know? Well, okay. Right. So we're getting near the end of this here recording.

So, you know, a little bit of a balancing act going on at the moment, trying to juggle different things, making one video a day for YouTube, doing the podcast, music podcast for Spotify, and uploading my recordings to the SoundCloud advert free podcast. Then of course, there's the making of new recordings. So yes, it's quite a lot.

And then there's the, the website side of things, updating the website with the new content. Blimey, really? Wow. Wow.

Yes, quite a lot. I also need to watch television as well. How do I fit it all in? It's something that I've never, ever needed to say before.

Anyway, I'm going to go. Thank you for listening and remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

Bye.