#615 Let me bore you to sleep

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Well, hello.

How are you today? Hope you're well. Hope you're okay. A quick, a quick, actually I was going to say something.

I wanted to say a big hello to my friends in Atlanta, America. I hope you're okay after the terrible things that happened this week. Also, a big shout out, and I've been doing this for the last few days, to my listeners in Iceland.

Now the, they've had like thousands of little mini earthquake things, and I've seen film footage, and it's shaking cars and stuff. So for me that's not mini, but it's not like full-blown catastrophe. That's gotta be scary.

And also now the earth, the volcano, which was causing the earthquakes, the volcano has erupted earlier, a few hours ago. So please, please keep safe, all my Iceland friends. And please, please, please, please keep safe.

Whatever you need to do, keep safe. That's all I got to say on that one. And I've never, the thing is, people in this country, in England, right, they moan, the weather's crap, it's boring.

But you know what, we don't have, we might not have a lot here, but some of the things we don't have is quite good, like crocodiles. We don't have really poisonous reptiles, and spiders, and snake. We've got a few poisonous snakes, but not on the level of other countries.

We don't have volcanoes. We rarely have anything in the, in the, in the league of hurricanes. We do have very strong winds sometimes, but we get the tail end of other countries' hurricanes.

So it might start off being 400 miles an hour in the Bahamas, and ends up being maybe 70 miles an hour here, which is a lot. So it's a, it's a heavy wind for us. But you know, it's not compared to what it originally was.

It's not blowing houses over, generally. In my life, there's only been one really recognized hurricane, and that was in 1987. Maybe 88, the beginning of 88, I'm not sure.

But it was, yeah, proper blue trees over, blue, it was houses over, all kinds of stuff. But we do get really strong winds sometimes that does blow roofs off people's houses. But that's less to do with the wind, more to do with the fact that their, their roofs were not very good.

Like they, the roofs needed fixing, or maybe the roof was weak, and they didn't realize it. Of course, the strong wind, well, without a strong wind that they wouldn't have blown over. But you know, a roof generally should be able to withhold a 70 mile an hour wind.

My friend actually was watching television in a bedroom, and suddenly she could see the sky. Seriously, it's like the wind blew her roof off while she was laying in bed watching telly. Luckily, she wasn't hurt.

But wow, can you imagine? Oh, proper scary. Funny for me, because it didn't happen to me, but because it happened to someone else, I was able to laugh. No, I didn't.

But you know, she, she had a lot of bad luck, actually. She broke a leg, an open fracture in three places or something, on New Year's Eve a few years ago. All she was doing was she went to the garage to put some washing in the tumble dryer, and she slipped.

And she was waiting for about five hours for the ambulance. And the hospital was about five minute drive from where she lives. But she couldn't get up.

She's a big girl. And she well, I think regardless of that, she couldn't get up and her parents were elderly, so they couldn't drive her. She waited five hours laying on the floor.

And then the following Christmas, the boiler broke at Christmas, but it broke Christmas Eve. So they were freezing cold. Again, it's not funny.

Just like what? And then the next year, the roof blew off. I mean, come on, and that's that's a lot of that's a lot of bad luck that isn't it? Wow. Anyway.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure if I if I'd gone through what she went with a leg, I wouldn't, I'd still be laying there probably. You know, just Oh, man, I visited in hospital. And she had to, she had to have surgery and have metal bits put in and stuff like that.

And she was walking on crutches for months afterwards. And with a walking stick and I think she's okay now. I think I should ask her what a great friend I am.

I really should ask her how she is. And we don't really have a lot in common. But we have what we do have is the love of Big Brother, which isn't on anymore.

But we love Big Brother. I love Big Brother above any other television show that there ever is. I used to love X Factor.

Went off the ball with that. And I couldn't watch it. Was it what I used to like the what is it called the you Britain's Got Talent.

But you know, during the last year, they had on screens, I had like the audience on video screens and like now now you're all right. Oh, you know, let me know when it's back a proper show again. I'm not I'm not into that.

I'm not interested. It's just like question time on TV. You know, it used to be really good because it'd be a panel of politicians and perhaps the odd famous person or a writer or whatever.

And it'd be maybe four, maybe six or seven of them all around this curly table, curly table with a big audience. And they travel around different towns each week, and they would be asked questions by the audience. And it's mainly about politics, what's going on.

And you know, there's mainly politicians and people with, I guess, power, a certain amount of influence. Again, the audience is gone. Not only would they have video screens of the audience, but they also had maybe only two guests and the rest were on a screen.

No, not watching that. House of Commons, primarily this is question time. It was like a monkey's tea pie.

It was chaotic. It used to be that is like little children's playground. And be booing each other laughing at each other goading rude.

It was funny, funny to watch. And they'd be told off by the headmaster, who was sitting in a chair or the headmistress, depending if you know who was in charge at the time. And it was funny.

It was funny. It was embarrassing. You know, it was embarrassing, but it was funny as well.

Plus educational, because you get to hear what the answers are and get to hear what's, you know, what people's opinions are and stuff. And I used to watch that every Wednesday, midday. Now there's hardly anyone in the House of Commons when they do it, and the rest is on screens.

So I don't watch it anymore. Even news, the news is just, and it seems to be like, how can someone, right? Here's me. I got nothing.

I got no money, I got nothing. But I'm doing my best to get decent equipment to do what I'm doing. Yet somebody like a politician that's, and quite often they've got other jobs as well.

So they're well off. But even a politician, they're on, I don't know, 100 grand a year or something. How can they not have a decent camera to talk onto when they're doing a live broadcast? They just end up using the one in a laptop.

And we all know laptop cameras are not good. They never have been. I don't know why.

I don't know why, but they're just not very good. They're okay if it's a family thing. You know, if you're just talking to your, to your kid on Skype or to someone, it kind of doesn't really matter what the quality is.

Well, to me, it doesn't really matter what the quality of the picture's like. Not that I would do it on Skype. I'd just do it on the phone if I was going to do that.

And the picture on the phone is good. Because the cameras are good on phones. But the amount of up-the-nose video shots with these people, famous, you know, politicians and stuff, they can't even, you don't do it.

I mean, I've made videos where it's been up my nose, but I've got a massive, massive conch, so I can't help it. Wherever you go, if you can travel to the next town and my nostrils will still be there, staring at you, like big caves. I can't help that.

You know, since I've got a massive nose, what can I do? But politicians, you know, I mean, like, come on, they've got perfect faces. But you lift the laptop up, aim it. You know what I mean? Do it so you can see yourself.

You can see that it's like looking right up your nose. Come on, just. So I'm just moaning.

Why they can't just get decent equipment? If they know they're going to be on telly, they're on telly. Blimey. Being on YouTube, I want a decent camera to be on YouTube.

If I was going to be on telly and, you know, my YouTube channel's got, what, 500, you know, subscribers. If I was going to be on telly with potentially millions of people watching, I'd want the best camera setup possible. Especially if, like, these politicians, they want to further their career.

Most of them probably want to be prime minister. You know, they've got that secret ambition inside their pants. You know, they want, they want it.

That's what they want. So why aren't they using decent equipment? A camera for the sake of, like, 600, 700 pound, probably less, in fact, but you can get a decent, really good picture with a camera, use it as a webcam and stream live. And it's a really good picture.

Quality for, let's say, you know, six, 700 pound, 600, 700 pound. These people are earning, you know, a lot of money. Why don't they invest in themselves? Plus, the good thing about the camera, if I, when I end up getting it, is it's got this filter on it and it makes you look better.

You know, the things, I think you can get them on apps on Facebook. I don't do selfies and and I don't take hundreds of photographs. So until I find one that looks just right and by just right, it looks nothing like the person in real life.

So when there's a young person or whoever, they're posting this picture, they're taking lots of pictures and they put a filter on it and made himself, basically, you've made yourself look completely different to what you do look like. So let's hope you never meet anyone in real life that thinks you look like that because you don't. And secondly, there's nothing wrong with how you look.

You look fine as you are. I wanted to add that as well. I'm amazed.

I don't know why. I've never understood the makeup thing because I've seen, I've dated, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I've always gone for women that have minimal makeup. I just, it might be just the people that the attractive women just have never given me a second look.

That's why I've never dated any. That's a lie. I've dated some beautiful women.

I only date beautiful women. All women are beautiful. See, covered myself there in peanut butter.

Never dated someone that was really a makeup person, ever. I don't know why. It's maybe I've just been lucky or unlucky, whichever way you look at it.

But every, pretty much every woman I've dated literally can be ready really quickly to go out. There's very little in the way of makeup, maybe a bit of lipstick, eyeliner, maybe no fake. I've never gone out with anyone that had fake stuff, but that is more of a more modern thing these days.

Or modern, everything's modern these days because it's modern, it's now, isn't it? But when I was in my dating years, hair extensions, I don't, well, as far as I'm aware, they weren't really a thing. They were around, but they weren't really a thing. I'd never, ever, ever want to date someone that wore a wig unless it was for medical reasons.

See, I let that in there because if someone's wearing a wig because they've got alopecia or something, then fine. And they can wear a wig if they want anyway. Of course, everyone's got the right to do what they want to do.

But I've got the right to not want to be with someone that has a weird, that pulls their hair off and scares the hell out of me. Because that would be scary if you didn't know. If you didn't know that someone was wearing a wig and you was getting maybe amorous and suddenly they pulled their wig off or perhaps it slipped off.

It's like, what? Is this a man? What's going on here? Is it an alien? So yeah, hair extensions, eyelash extensions, fake eyelashes. Never, ever dated anyone that does that stuff and they never will. Apart from if I get an opportunity, then of course I will.

There was this young female at my last job and she was probably about 20. It might even be late teens, early 20s anyway, probably. Yeah, I'd say probably about 22, 23.

She's gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. But she's fake as you like. Not physically.

She didn't need to be physically fake because she was still young and had everything. Although I wouldn't be surprised if she perhaps did go down that road just to please some man or whatever, some idea of what she thinks people want. But she had everything.

I think she had fake hair, fake eyes, fake... I think she might have had fake different colors in her eyes, but she had fake eyebrows or fake eyelashes, fake hair, fake fingernails, so long. How does she wipe her bum? That's the only thing I think about when I see someone with nails like that. How does she wipe or how does he, if it's a man, how do they wipe their bum? Now, I'll be honest, right? I'll be honest, I'll be honest.

When I meet someone for the first time, I don't want to picture them on a toilet. That to me doesn't lead to me wanting to be with them or go on a date. So if I want to, you know, meet someone for... If you meet someone and you go out with them for the first time and they turn up with big nails like that, you don't want to be picturing them on a toilet.

It almost ruins the meal for me. So I've never dated anyone with fake nails. In fact, I, well, I find that most women, if not before, at least after a few weeks, generally end up biting their nails anyway, out of nerves.

Nerves of being with me, like, oh, I'm biting my nails. When's he gonna, I can't handle it. Oh, he's so annoying.

He's so boring. So tedious. Is he a fake? I don't, I know it's, and I never understood the, like, I don't want to say white, because it is white women that have, oh, you'll be racist now if you, well, no, if you wait until I finish the sentence.

Okay. Maybe not just white women, but predominantly that have the lip, what do they call it? Liposuction. They should have called that liposuction, shouldn't they? Because it's lip.

Obviously that's not what they call liposuction. The lip implant thing, the collagen or whatever they stick inside women's lips, on their face, the puffy. I think it is actually poison they put in there, isn't it? Because the, what's the other thing they do where, and I might try this myself actually, because I'm looking a bit older.

I'd like to do something about the bags under my eyes. Sleeping more probably might help, but to maybe get like a, if I was going to have anything done, there's a couple of things, one, I won't, two that I won't mention. Maybe like a chemical facelift or, you know, something like that.

Rather, I don't want surgery. I really don't. I don't want any of that stuff.

But maybe, maybe some face filler or something. I don't know. Some, something.

Perhaps. I'm not hugely impressed with going bald. I've got a bald spot at the back of my head and now I just shave my head every, every week.

It's not really, it's not to the bone, but it's like literally with clippers. I just shave it all off. So it's, it's basically, you can see my scalp, but I've got a beard.

So I have to have hair somewhere. Otherwise, I just look like an egg. Honestly, it doesn't look like an egg.

Um, almost, I suppose like an egg with two handles, which would be ears and then a kind of, I don't know, um, a rest, which would be my nose, I guess. You could just like rest it on its side, but it doesn't roll over because of my nose. So yeah, it's not a good look.

Not a good look. Um, sexy for some. The problem is, anyone that found me physically appealing is someone that I'd be a little bit worried about meeting.

You know, it's like, hey, you find me attractive. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I felt I might be busy. Yeah, I'll give this one a miss, actually.

Yeah, I just rather meet someone that doesn't find me attractive, but eventually falls for my charm. Wants me for my money. Well, that's never happened.

Blimey. I used to know someone, I worked with someone and he was, he was young. He was only, I think he was less, I think it was about 18, 19 when I was working in sales, the first, uh, insurance job I had.

And he was earning more than me or equal. You know, we were both kind of, uh, actually probably wasn't earning more than me. Sometimes he earned more than me, but he, we were not far apart.

I'd say I was better than him, um, but not a lot of difference. He was really good as well. So for a 19 year old, he was earning a lot of money or 18 year old is earning a lot of money.

And so he was dating teenage girls cause that's, he was a teenager. So I guess he said that his girlfriend was 16 or something like that, 17. And what he would do is to show off without bragging, he would leave his payslip open.

So she'd be in his bedroom or wherever. And he just leave it open knowing that she'd look so that she could see. And it was his little trick to just, uh, to impress her because to, we're talking 2001.

So to a 17 year old girl in 2001, seeing someone, you know, seeing that your boyfriend or some new boy that you just met is earning two grand a month is like, Whoa, you know, it's like, wow. So, you know, that's a lot of money. Um, and so he's probably earning more than most, pretty much all of his friends I imagine at that age, you know, two grand a month.

There's a lot of people that do apprenticeships and they're doing what a university. So they've got no money. It's not really till your gets or 20, early twenties that you start maybe earning some, a little bit of money before that is, yeah, not a lot out there.

And just guessing, but yeah, fake, I don't want to talk about fake today. Um, it must've been a reason, a reason, a reason why I don't know. So I'm in, I'm in an okay mood today actually, because first of all, I've been fairly productive, fairly productive.

And yesterday I was in the day before. So I've, you know, I'm getting over 7,000 downloads a day, which is good. It's nice.

My chair is squeaky, but more than that is I have discovered a way to improve the sound after I've done the recording using audition, the Adobe audition software, really easily. I can get rid of the background sound, most of the background sound so that it transforms the recording from having the hiss that you get. Although they, I know that for those that have listened to me in, you know, for a while, you're going to, I'm sure you admit the, the sound or you agree, the sound is a lot better than it was.

The, the quality is improved over the last couple of years, gradually, and I've been using different microphones and trying to find a different software and a different combinations to get the best quality sound. And this is the best it's ever been until now. So this recording, when I finished this, I will turn on the PC, wait about an hour for that thing to fire up.

I have to pour a bit of coal into it and fan the coal with one of those old fans. And then I will, well, first of all, I'll edit it and then I'll transfer over and then I'll take the background stuff off. Then I'll edit it, then I'll send it back and edit it again.

And so it's a little bit of work, but the end result should be much better. Now, personally, I prefer not to have to faff around like that. Because at the moment with the iPad, unless, I mean, they are trying to make that the Adobe package they've got, they're trying to make a bit more available for tablets, because they realize tablets are being used more, more and more than they ever have been.

So because they've got a lot of, there's a lot of things that tablets now have that they didn't used to have. They're becoming more and more like laptops. For example, I've got a keyboard.

Now it's not a magic keyboard, but it is a keyboard for the iPad. There's two types of keyboards. One, it's pretty amazing, actually.

If you haven't got to do anything, it just automatically connects. You know, so you just plug, you don't got to plug anything in. So it's quite magic.

But this keyboard's fine for what I need it for. But there's another keyboard that turns it almost, for those that use the iMac, turns it more into like an iMac experience. I haven't got that keyboard.

And I don't need that. I'm okay with the keyboard I've got, which I need, you know, bought separately when I bought the iPad, which was last year, I think, year before last year, I don't know. So I'm still paying for it.

But there's more that you can do on the iPads. See, when I had my first iPad in 2012, I didn't like it, it was didn't do anything for me. Just first of all, it's a flat screen on its own.

And I, you know, I'm used to laptops, where the screens up, and I'm using it on a keyboard. Well, I just couldn't really get my just didn't like it. So I just didn't use it.

I ended up I think I've still got it. But it's just you can't do anything with it now. The Apple are very good at manipulating their buyers to purchase newer versions by not updating the old stuff.

It's almost like every piece of software or hardware rather, that you get will become outdated. And you need to buy a newer version in order to make the most of what's available. And I think that's, I understand it from a financial perspective.

But I think it's a bit rude, a little bit rude. Yeah, I do. And they don't know what it is.

But with mobile phones, the Apple phones, the battery starts to slow down, or starts to run out quicker. And again, sometimes you can't update apps after a certain amount of time. It's I got an old, I've had three iPhones.

Now. I still got I still got the original one somewhere. The second one, I've lent to my friend to use.

He's used to using Androids, but his Android broke, or someone broke it. So I've lent him my other iPhone. And I think he's getting used to it now.

He's just, just, you know, he's got to play with the thing. It's I mean, any, any really any man that was once a boy can understand the concept of playing with something until it works properly. You know, it's, it's a standard, it's inherent within us.

So it's like with a phone, it's and it's so, it's so handy, you can just keep playing and going changing the settings and going into the apps. And eventually, you learn how to do it. He knows how to do stuff now.

I didn't even finish that sentence today. Started talking before the end of the sentence. He knows how to do stuff now on the iPhone that I don't know how to do.

Because I don't put much effort into the phone. I'm not really interested in the phone or the iPad. Outside of being of service to me.

I want it to do what I want it to do. I want the apps, I use specific apps. And that's all I do.

You know, I use the phone. I mean, this is the process that I go through. Have a little drink.

So this is the process now that process is going to change. So what I do, first of all, is I plug in, I've got the microphone plugged into a Focusrite Scarlett. And then that Scarlett, which is the the power for the microphone, that then is plugged into an adapter, which is then plugged into the iPad.

Now, what I have to do is start recording using an app. And I have to test the recording to make sure it's recording properly. So I've got headphones on, which is connected to the Focusrite power thing.

So I put the headphones on. I listen, and I'll stop the recording. I go back and I listen to what I've just recorded.

So I just do like a little introduction thing. If it doesn't sound right, because if it echoes or it sounds like I'm from a distance, it means the microphone's not working properly. It's not plugged in, it's not connected properly.

So I have to do is unplug it and plug it back in again until I get it how it's supposed to be. And then eventually, sometimes it takes a couple of times, but usually it's fairly quick. And then listen and I can hear me talking the way that you can hear me now.

That's the level. Take the headphones off because I don't... I said before, my ears, when I get sweaty, they smell like cheese. So if anyone wants to date me, just you know, get in contact.

If you love the smell of cheesy ears, then please get in contact because I'm the man for you. Oh, yeah. Basically, if you love weird smells, I'm definitely, I'm the right person for you.

And I said then that's done. Yeah, so I'm gonna record. I can see the level of the recording, but I can't hear it because I'm not listening on the headphones.

Because I just find this a bit uncomfortable. And I suppose the benefit to listening is I can hear because without headphones, I can hear background sounds quite clearly. But with the headphones, I can hear the background sounds through the microphone, or what the microphone is picking up, which is less than what it would be with my ears alone.

With the other microphone, it would be more than what I would pick up with my ears. It picked up a lot of the background sound. This one, less, much, much less so.

Which is why I got it. Dear Jason, will you stop talking about your bloody microphone? No, I won't stop. I'll stop talking about the microphone when I get the new recording desk, the recording studio.

Then I'll be talking about that all the time. And then I'll stop talking about that when I get the camera, because I'll probably be talking about the camera all the time. So there.

I'm getting this stuff for you. It's not for me. What do I get out of it? I can't use the microphone.

It doesn't doesn't run me a bath or make me cups of tea. Tuck me in at night. It doesn't do anything.

It just sits there. It doesn't give me anything other than it feels nice to be able to make decent quality recordings. It doesn't, you know, it doesn't give me any kind of intrinsic pleasure.

Just like the laptop doesn't do anything for me. Or I can search the internet. You can search the internet on a cheap, you know, 50 pound tablet.

You know, it doesn't. I can search the internet on the TV. I can search the internet on the phone.

I don't, you know, don't need that. But I needed it for what I'm doing here to do the recording and to do the editing. Something that wasn't going to buzz like a laptop.

Laptop, you know, because of the the what are they air filters or whatever they're called the fans spinning around. It's not ideal, really. But I'm going to bypass all of that.

When I get my mixer desk, recording desk, the road podcaster, which is all within itself. So I'll be able to record and I'll be saved on a disk and I'll be able to put the disk into the PC and edit it using Adobe and it'll be done. But Andre is about Andre.

Blimey, he's running. I'm going to grab him and bring him here so you can say hello. I just press pause there for a minute.

I've gone out and he's run to the door and he's come back. And as I've gone out into the looking at me like so innocent, I've gone out and he's run back to the door and he's crouched down. He's done a big poo.

All right. He missed the paper by about half an inch. The paper where I put down for him didn't do that, didn't do on the paper, did it on the carpet, which is something that he doesn't normally do.

OK, and I was laying in my arms still. Because he knows he's been naughty, don't you? Yes, you do. You know you've been a naughty boy.

Thing is, he never gets in trouble. That's the thing. How can he? What am I supposed to do? Shout it in.

That would be pathetic. You know, I'm an adult. I'd start having a tantrum, a little ferret.

No, if you shout at an animal or a human, to be fair, it's just a tantrum, isn't it? You're just a little toddler. You've got the brain power of a three year old. Yes, toddler, shouting at a child.

He didn't toddler you. So there's no point in me shouting at him because firstly, he doesn't care. Secondly, he doesn't care.

Thirdly, he doesn't care. He's not interested. He's going to sleep in my arms.

He never does that. Well, OK, he does do it sometimes. So I'm thinking maybe he was half asleep when he got up.

That's why his aim wasn't so good. And he was just running to go back to sleep. And I picked him up and he's just gone back to sleep.

Yes. What happens now, though, is he'll wake up and suddenly he'll realize he's in my arms and he won't know how he got there. And he'll look up at me like, who are you? What do you want? Get off me.

You're not my real dad. And I'll just run off. So I have to cherish these little moments where he's just passive and just not that he's aggressive, but he's it's almost like a kind of pet that you'd want, like a loving, a loving little child is lying there going buh-byes, listening to daddy's ever so exciting voice.

He's awake now. Do you want to say hello to everybody? Say hello. He's licking the microphone.

Go lick the microphone. I could get him to lick the microphone if I put some chocolate on there, but I haven't got any chocolate. I'm completely bereft.

Wow. Where did that word come from? Hey, do you want to say goodbye to everyone? Oh, kisses. OK, see you later.

I haven't seen much of him today at all. I didn't take him out. Really nice day outside.

I stuttered again. Really nice day outside. But I didn't.

That's it. Make as much noise as you can. Good boy.

I couldn't be bothered. To go out, really. And then the evening came and I was busy doing bits and, you know, the evening came and there was stuff I wanted to do and he was asleep.

So in the end, you just didn't take him anywhere. But tomorrow, tomorrow, if it's a nice day, I'm going to try and take him out during the day and maybe go for a nice walk. And it'll be nice for both of us because he's quite happy for it to be cold and raining.

Because it's spring, he doesn't care. In the winter, he don't like it because it's, you know, his season. He's he's happy, doesn't care what the weather's like.

Not so nice for me. But now that it well, hopefully it's perking up a bit. Although I heard, I heard it that it's possibly going to be snowing in parts of the country, which is a bit weird.

Snow. I mean, it's not weird. I suppose it is a little bit weird to have snow in March.

It's not unheard of at all. I mean, I remember one year where it snowed pretty much January, February, March, April time. Snowed all four months, not constant.

But it was a lot of snow in February and March. This year, when did we have the snow? Was it January or was it February? I can't remember. But I know it was snowing.

And it did settle for a few days. And then it was really icy, proper, proper icy. And I remember it was night time and I was just I was trying to break the ice.

So I literally trying to break the ice. I was like, I'm sitting around here. Do you like watching The Walking Dead? Yeah.

And it was so hard, the ice, I kind of gave up. And freezing cold and I thought this is going to stay, it's going to stick around for forever and ever and ever. Overnight, something changed, woke up, not one bit of ice anywhere.

So the temperature must, I mean, overnight, the idea of the temperature rising overnight doesn't really seem like a likelihood, does it? It's normally in the winter, night time is colder than during the day, I imagine. But there must have been a lot of rain and it just all got melted overnight, literally the next day. Couldn't believe it.

Where's it all gone? It wasn't just like little patches, it was solid ice on the pavements, in the fields, snow, I guess, still in the fields. There was a snowman that actually turned out to be a mudman covered in a bit of snow because it was still there. So they literally, whoever made it, managed to make it out of mud, mainly mud.

I'm just, it was, I think it's still there now and I think it might be a local priest. He's now got a job as a local policeman, I don't know. That just didn't really go anywhere, there's no point in saying that, what was the point, don't know.

Don't matter though, does it? It's only words. So I might take him out tomorrow, Saturday. Okay, the next thing I do, so I've got this plugged in to the iPad, I do the recording, I talk for however long, you know, it depends what podcast I'm doing.

So if I'm doing a deep sleep whisper, I talk for 20 to 30 minutes or whisper for 20 to 30 minutes. I've even done ones at 10 minutes, but generally. And then I, you know, so that's how long, if I do other ones like this one, this lasts for an hour, pretty much minimum, sometimes longer, sometimes a little bit shorter, but rarely, rarely is it.

I think sometimes they're a little bit shorter if the battery's running out on the iPad. So if it's going down to like 8%, I kind of, I don't want to lose the whole thing, you see, so I kind of stop and make sure that I upload it and save it before I lose it. And then at the moment, the process is this, I upload it to the iCloud.

Then I download that recording and share it with the editing software, which is the same as I record it on. I do, I edit as far as I look through any spikes where it might be a little bit louder in parts. And I have a few, I have a few little routines, I do a few little things.

So if I cough during the recording, I then I bang on a microphone about five or six times, not hard, but enough so that the spike goes up. So it's marked. Generally, if I'm going to cough, I try and press the pause button before I do.

But yeah, sometimes I don't have a very, I don't know, no notice really, it just happens or if I sneeze or, you know, anything like that. Or if there's really loud noise outside, or someone slammed the door or someone's knocking at the front door, then again, I bang on the microphone, just so I can mark it, so I can find it easily. So the first thing I do is I go to the beginning of the recording, and cut off whatever's at the beginning, which is usually me saying some weird things before I start the recording.

So I edit that out. And then I phase in to the bit where I say, Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. And then I go fast forwards to the end. And I go to the last bit where I'm saying goodbye or whatever.

I leave it like maybe two seconds and I'll stop and delete the last the end of it. And then I phase in or phase out rather the last bit. Then I look through the bits that need cutting out.

The ones I've marked myself by banging on the microphone with my hammer. So I go there, I actually enlarge it and I go there, listen, and I delete that. And then I look at the other spikes, maybe there's a bit higher and listen.

And so what's that? If it's, it's not really much in a way of distortion these days. But if it's sometimes if it's a little bit too loud, or a little bit, and if I'm able to, I'll perhaps get rid of it. And sometimes I do that a bit too often sometimes.

So I will delete those as well. At the moment, the only thing that's really noticeable is a bit of popping, a bit of popping in the microphone, even though there is a well, I've got two different filters that I can put on the front of that. One's the normal one.

And you can do without the filter as well. But I wouldn't. Personally, I think that'd be Yeah, I would want to do that.

But there's a bigger one that you can use, which would be more of a pop filter. So I'm just playing it by ear at the moment. And if I get one that's really kind of quite prominent, I tried to edit it a little bit.

So it's not quite as loud. Then, what I do is I increase the volume to minus 16, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is, in order to increase the volume, so that it plays better with the podcast. Then I listen to it, not the whole thing, but listen to parts of it.

With the headphones on, actually, what I do, I use wireless headphones, the ones that go in your ears. I use that for listening, because, because, because, because I don't get any background sound when I'm listening then because it's right in my ears. The headphones don't really, I could do it with the big, the big headphones.

But it's just easier, because it's already set up to use it, I only use it for that. So I use it and listen to that. And then it's easy to edit, it's clear.

And then I upload it. Again, I give it a I usually put like an XX at the end of it, because it's already been named. And then when it's uploaded to the iCloud, I delete the original version, saving the updated edited version.

And then I, that's all I do on the iPad. Now, with the internet, so obviously, I'm using the internet to upload and stuff. As far as the documents, and I use the internet, the normal broadband internet for streaming TV.

And also when I'm using my PC, I've got it directly connected via the ethernet thing. So from uploading stuff and using the PC, I'm using the internet on there. I used to upload the recordings to the podcast using the normal internet.

And broadband really is much better for downloading than for uploading. So in fact, yeah, the what I do is download. Yeah.

So I basically I only use the broadband for downloading. Because when I start trying to upload to 300 megabytes a time, it just gets it, it stops, it freezes, and I have to keep resetting it. It almost it can't handle it.

But downloading has no problem downloading, uploading doesn't seem to work very well. So I've got the phone, we've got unlimited data on the phone. So what I do is I then move, put the microphone away, what it's on a, it's on a stand.

So move the microphone. Just I just banged it, then just move it away. I maybe put the iPad on charge, or just leave it as it is or turn it off depending.

And the iPad and the iPhone are connected. So anything I upload to the was it iCloud is also available on the iPhone. And it costs me $6.99 a month for two terabytes of space on the iCloud.

So that's another expense, there's lots of these expenses that really do add up. And I forget about them as well, because I don't think about it. So I think about the because I've got the $120 due, I think in two days, for the podcast hosting.

I think about that. But I don't think about the little ones like the add up at $6.99 for this, I've got $50 for the Adobe stuff is website is $29 a month. And I was just just, and then there's the internet, the broadband, 28 pound a month for the for the phone, internet.

Blimey, it's just lots. But the good thing is, I can sit down, I can put the TV on and I can stream something to watch. So maybe it's a YouTube video on how to do something, or maybe it's just something to watch the streaming, Netflix or whatever.

And then I can use my phone that's not being used for anything else. And I can upload my recordings to as many you know, whatever podcasts I want to upload it to. And sometimes I make a few recordings, and then I'll upload them all.

And I'll be there, it might take me an hour, half an hour to an hour to upload all these recordings. But while I'm doing it, I'm watching something on telly. So it's before I was doing it on the iPad.

And it was and it kept cutting off and it take me maybe twice the time, maybe three times the time actually, because I had to keep waiting for it to to the internet to come back on. But in the meantime, I couldn't do anything else online. So earlier, even though I wasn't watching anything on streaming, I was uploading the stuff on my phone, but using the iPad to do the design for the cover for the cover of the podcast cover.

So I was doing that on that internet and using the the phone internet to upload the podcasts is quicker. And it's cleaner. And it's just simple.

And I'm very pleased. And it's all 28 pound a month, which is probably I don't know, 28 pound is in dollars. 2838 20 probably $40.

Yeah, probably $40 a month. Perhaps a little bit less than maybe $39 a month, something like that. And, but for me, it's 28 pounds a month, it's less than one pound a day.

Now, if you say, for one pound, you can take away all the hassle that you were having before with your broadband. And you can just do it all on your phone and upload. And it's easy.

Just for the price of one pound a day. I would have said you know what, I'll give you one pound three pence. I'm that happy with it.

So yeah, for me, it's, it's a time saver, saving time, energy, and a degree of stress it was causing me. It's like, oh, the internet's cough again. And now I can sit down and I can watch something on YouTube, or watch something on Netflix, and just chill out and do it relaxed and just upload it to put the phone down while it uploads.

And it's got nothing to do with what I'm streaming because I'm not using it for anything else, other than just to upload podcasts. It's a good system, actually. And then, then what I do is I come back to the iPad, either straight away and do it while I'm doing that or usually I like to have a little break after doing the editing.

And I'll maybe leave it a half hour or something. Then I come back, I'll make the cover for the podcast. At the moment I'm using Canva, which is a free software online, which is I've been using it for quite a while.

It's very easy to use. Although I will be looking at using Photoshop as I'm paying for Photoshop, I might as well use it or learn how to use it. So I'm going to be doing that in the future.

But at the moment, I'll just continue with Canva for now. And then when I've done that, I add those pictures to the podcasts. Then I share the podcasts to Facebook, my normal Facebook page, and then the other pages that I have on Facebook and to Twitter.

And then that's it, done. But that's another process, the making the image. You know, sometimes it's fairly quick.

Sometimes I put a so it's for me, it's all about trying to improve, trying to, yeah, trying to improve what I'm doing bit by bit. Gradually, I'm all about slow progress. But progress, even if it's slow, at least, you know, as long as it's progress of some kind, I think.

Yes, just a little bit. So well, that is the end of this recording. The thing is, right? The thing is, I don't know if I can be bothered to edit it properly.

But now I've told you, now, that's what I normally do. Yeah. But now, there's added process of editing it on the iPad, then saving it to a disk, putting the disk into the PC, editing it on Adobe Audition, then saving it back onto the disk, or onto the hard drive, and then onto the disk, and put it, I like to save things onto the hard drive.

So I save onto the hard drive, then I'll copy it and add it to the disk. And then I put it back onto the disk into the connector to the iPad, and then save it onto the hard drive again. And save it until now, I'll basically go into that disk, copy it, and then paste it into the iCloud downloads box.

And then when that's done, I'll open it up in the other editor. Or I just listen to it, to be fair. I listen to it to see how it sounds.

And then, then I can add music, so I can do a version with music. And so that's, you know, so it's, it's quite a bit involved. And it seems like it's just, you just waffle on for a bit and then you upload it.

There was a time when that was all I did. There was. And I preferred it.

I did. I'll be honest, I'm, I'm lazy. You know, I prefer to just spend my time making recordings.

And that's it. But unfortunately, unless you've got someone else to do it for you, got to do it yourself. You got to be you got to do everything, you know, everything connected with this podcast and thing.

I, I'm in charge of the whole thing. I'm responsible for everything from the images, from the music. But I don't record the music, but I use music that's free to use.

I make sure that I always put down the copyright. Although it's uncopyrighted, I put down who it's, who it's from and their website and that stuff. I make sure I put that into every podcast.

So there's a lot of, you know, bits and bobs that come with that. And probably, probably going to look to make my own music in the future. But that's not a priority at this moment.

Really isn't. So yeah, with the sound, about to improve the sound. I'm now, it opens up more possibilities for videos that I can start to put together for YouTube.

So older recordings where if I can improve the quality of the sound, the you know, and then just add some extra video footage to it. It could end up being a fairly good, fairly nice video. So yeah, the only thing with YouTube videos, I'm not going to have any background music unless it's one that won't be a problem to YouTube because they're pretty hot on that.

So thank you for listening. Remember, remember, remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

Bye.