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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
And oh, this is another live stream. So, Carole's watching on Facebook, Belinda's watching on Facebook. Don't know if anyone's watching on YouTube yet.
And tomorrow or the day after, I'm going to be broadcasting also to Instagram as well. Yeah! Hi Belinda, how you doing? Hi Jason, says Belinda. So, this is just my Let Me Bore You To Sleep, scratchy nose.
And it's weird because I've got the phone there and the iPad there. And it's kind of not quite in sync. Also, I kind of look there but then I kind of, if you know what I mean, it's a bit weird.
And I've got the two microphones. Tomorrow I'll have three microphones, I have four in fact, because I will have a microphone for the iPad because at the moment I don't. So, I'll have a microphone, external microphone for the iPad and for when I do the YouTube ones and I'll have an external for, that's if I do the YouTube, I don't know which one to use.
But for the other phone, I'll have a microphone for that one as well. So, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, all at the same time. Now I'm down to just one person, Belinda, I think it might just be me and you all night.
All night? That sounds weird, you know what I mean. Yeah, my little beard trimmer is charging as we speak. So, I have a little shave tomorrow.
It's good to have something to look forward to, isn't it? Belinda says, you had a haircut. Looks good, thank you. I'm just going to put my hair, it looks, yeah.
From that angle, it looks like I'm kind of bald. Well, I kind of am bald, but it looks just part of the hair is growing quicker than other parts, which is weird. I might shave it all off again tomorrow.
Although there's not much to shave off, as you can see. But, I don't know, I like to play around with hair, with my hair, which is weird. I like to let the beard grow and let the, you know, I've got pictures and I've got videos, actually, where my beard was so big, like almost, it was trampy, it was just unkempt.
And at the time, I enjoyed playing with it. It was kind of like a new hobby. I was playing with it, twisting it, pulling it into my mouth and like chewing on the hairs from my chin.
And it's quite, quite a lot of fun. But in the end, it's weird because when I shaved it off, the lady in the petrol station said to me, I'm so glad you got rid of that beard. It looked awful.
It's like, really? Really? I mean, yeah, thanks. Thanks for telling me now. No, so no one says, oh, by the way, you know, it was afterwards, isn't it? Oh, your hair looks so much better now.
We smell so much better now that you've had a bath. We didn't mention it for the last six months. I've not been washing, but now I'm washed like, oh, no.
So I like having hair. But at the same time, it's much easier to have no hair. It's much easier just to have it like this.
I haven't got to do anything with it. Literally, nowt. It's just there.
It's ready. I look the same as when I get up in the morning as I do when I go to bed at night. It's just the same.
That's it. That's all I've got to say. What time is it? 11th, 23.
Yesterday, I did what? It was early hours in the morning. And I had a few people actually come on and talk to me. I just don't know when a good time to do live streams is because I've kind of sort of in my own mind, anyway, committed to making or to doing streams, to streaming my at least this.
Maybe not the deep sleep whisper ones or the daily relax and sleep hypnosis ones or the boring podcast objects or the bedtime story time or whatever, whatever I do. But this, this, this, this, this thing, this thing that I do. Um, I have to be careful where I put my hands.
I don't mean like, I mean, just in the sense of, um, I don't know. What do I mean? What do I mean? No, in a sense of like banging the microphones and stuff. I like a lot.
So I'm getting some lighting, some professional lighting. Well, yeah, so it is professional lighting and to perhaps I don't need it, but I'm going to get it. I'm getting it anyway.
So I'm going to have a big light over there, big light over there, a big light, maybe above me so that the, it just makes the picture better. Better. And that's, that's kind of like my aim now is to try to improve upon quality picture and audio as well.
Audio. So today I want to close my eyes for a bit, just to rest my eyes. As you know, I'm watching apart from Belinda.
It's just me and you, Belinda. Let's close our eyes together and just pretend we're somewhere. Maybe on a beach, sun shining.
It's nice and bright and warm and cozy and it feels wonderful. But there's no chance of the sun rays causing any problems to our skin. It's a healthy sun and it's got some kind of block.
It's got a filter in front of it. So we don't have to wear, not sanitary towels, um, suntan lotion. I'm not really a big fan of suntan lotion.
It's very greasy. I think it probably goes back to when I was young and I had, I guess I had spots. I was prone to spots.
So putting grease onto my skin didn't seem like a very good idea at the time. Didn't seem like a good idea at the time. Didn't.
Belinda says, I just got out of this, got out of the sunbed. Ah, isn't that a coincidence that I just mentioned about being in the sun and you just got out of sunbed. Now, you might start to think that I've got hidden cameras in your home.
Like I haven't. And if I knew where you lived, I would, but I don't. So I can't.
Hidden cameras. I wouldn't even have hidden cameras in my own home. But then why would you? I suppose.
Never understood that. Why people, the idea of putting a hidden camera, hiding a camera in a toilet or in a bathroom. Who doesn't want someone going to the toilet? Belinda says, I hope so.
Oh, no, I mean, I hope not. No, no. Although I could, because I'm not going to be doing any big editing, but I could like get a camera sort of over there and I could edit it so, you know, I could see myself from a distance and a camera over there and like some of the vloggers on YouTube.
But nope. Oh, I've got someone watching, which is funny because VVN4YI, FYI. VVN, what's VVN? According to the thing, there's no one is actually watching on YouTube, but on here.
Oh, OK. Just want to make it. VYN.FYI, don't know what that means.
I don't know what it means. So I hope everyone listening or watching as well. Those are because, you know, more people are going to be listening.
After the event. You know what? Well, anyone listens to the podcast, they're going to be listening after the event. So those watching, obviously you're you're seeing it in real time and you you can enjoy the excitement of being bored live.
So who else is watching on Facebook? There's two people watching. According to YouTube, no one's watching. Still trying to figure out a time to do this.
Like a good time when like a regular audience can watch. But. Although right now it's early, really, it's half past 11 in the evening.
I'm feeling quite tired. I'm ready for bed. Also can't go to bed because I've just started this 13 minutes in.
So the earliest I could finish this really is in an hour. Or. Forty.
Seven minutes. It's turned into a job. I'm counting the minutes before I can go back home.
But I am home. I know. I know you are.
I did go. I went for a walk earlier. Absolutely beautiful day here.
And it wasn't cold. Sunshine, blue sky. It was gorgeous.
Really, really gorgeous. And yeah, I went for a walk with my friend. It was about on the way back.
It was three o'clock when we got. So yeah, just before three o'clock, I left the house. And it was just so nice.
What I really wanted to do is go for a walk in the park. My friend Noel was there watching. I see you.
Hi, Noel. What I really wanted to do. Is.
Go for a nice walk in the park. Maybe just film like I do. But it's so muddy.
So damn muddy. So I didn't bother. By the way, this is supposed to be boring.
Just in case anyone. How? Why are you so boring? It's supposed to be boring. It really is.
So yeah, not done much. Still working on the website. Loads to do on the website.
Absolutely huge amounts. And I mean, the website's never going to be finished. It's it's kind of like my penis.
It's never going to be to the right. It's never going to have grown to the right length yet. You know, still growing.
I tell myself that. I have to tell myself that. It's going to get bigger one day.
Just keeps me going, you know. But yeah, the website is still going. Still growing and.
So much to do to add to it. And the podcasts, it's going well. I've had about 30,000 downloads today.
There's certain things have changed that was made it difficult. The. But that's OK.
It's just the way it is. But I'm getting 30,000. So how much is that a month? 30,000 three.
So every 10 days, three, 300,000, three, six. That's about 900,000 a month. So last month, I had 870,000 downloads.
And the month before, I think 820. So I might actually. I might hit the.
I guess I've not reached a million yet in a month, which is fine. I'm not moaning. And it's weird because, you know, I've got.
Talking about having 800,000 downloads in a month and 30,000 downloads a day. And I've got one person watching me on Facebook and no one watching me on YouTube. Strange, isn't it? Yet thousands of people will listen to this on the podcasts when I upload it tomorrow morning or whenever.
Because I have to edit it first. It's strange, isn't it? So why am I giving energy towards this when really it's. You know, it's my podcast listeners.
They're my real friends. They're my real family. So they're the listeners.
Well, one person listening or watching on Facebook. And it's either Noel or Belinda. So unless, of course, the Facebook stats are wrong and there's more than one person.
There's no one on YouTube. I'm live 20 minutes. No one.
Mind you, I've only got 600 and I think I was 600 and 612 subscribers. Belinda, it's me. I knew Belinda.
I knew you'd still be there. I knew I could trust you. I knew it.
It's, um, see, Noel was a friend of mine, so he wouldn't want to watch me because it'd be. If you know, because I've known him for 30 years. Yeah, blimey.
30 years I've known Noel. So he's one of the only people from real life that I have on my Facebook. And part of the reason is because we don't live near each other and he's, he travels.
So he travels the world and that. So I kind of, it's a good way of keeping in contact. Because telephones aren't always, if someone's in the middle of the Pacific.
Pacific Ocean or in another country. Facebook's quite a, sometimes an easier way to contact or to keep. But not that I, to be fair, I don't really use Facebook that much.
To really contact people. But as far as family and friends, I've got, I've got a couple of friends. I've got maybe three or four friends, like real life people that I know on Facebook.
And family. One, I've got a cousin on here. No, a cousin and an auntie, actually.
It is her mom, it's my cousin's mom. It's, yeah, my cousin's mother, me auntie. So she's on Facebook as well.
Outside of that, I don't really. I have my friends, one of my best friends. I've not got him on Facebook, but his dad's on Facebook.
His dad, his dad added me. And I can't ignore it, can I? If his dad adds me, so I have to, I had to sort of add him. But that, but my friend, if anyone says, oh, do you want to add me on Facebook? I said, no, you live downstairs.
You live around the corner. I'm not going to add you on Facebook. I've got some neighbor, I had a neighbor the other day said, well, give me your telephone number.
I said, why? I said, you know where I live. I just live here. I don't need to, I don't need your phone in me.
Was that rude? I don't know. It didn't seem rude to me. It didn't seem rude at all.
So, what do you want to talk about? What do you want to talk about, man? I don't know. Let me think. You know, I think about the time.
I remember since 2022, what was I doing 10 years ago? What was I doing 20 years ago? What was I doing 30 years ago? And what was I doing 40 years ago? Now, 50 years ago, I was one years old, one and a half. So, I know that already. Where I was then, I was living with foster parents in Enfield, North London.
And so, and I was living with my brother, my older, one of my brothers was also living with these foster parents. Lovely people, apparently, I don't remember. But they wanted to adopt us, actually, for real.
So, they clearly loved us. So, that was good. So, that was 20, that was 50 years ago.
Don't remember much more than that at that time. Now, 40 years ago, I would have been 12. In my 12th year, 1982, I had my appendix out.
I'm pretty sure that was the year I had my appendix out. And what I did is, I pretended to have appendicitis to get off school. Now, I knew someone that had their appendix out and I knew what the symptoms were.
And my older brother had suspected appendicitis, grumbled an appendix. But he didn't have his appendix out. So, I thought, oh, I'm going to, you know, because I really didn't like school.
So, I just, I've always had an issue with learning. I don't like it. I'm against it.
It should be banned. And so, what I did, when it was time, and this is bad, there was times I used to chuck myself down the stairs, hoping that I'd, like, hurt myself so I didn't have to go to school. I know it's a horrible, stupid thing to do, but that's what I used to do.
That's how little I loved going to school. So, and this was high school. Junior school, I didn't have an issue with.
Infant school, junior school, whatever you, primary, whatever you want to call it. High school, didn't like it. The teachers, it was almost like being at home.
Teachers talking down to me, just being rude and telling me I was stupid, and, you know, I just didn't, didn't fit in. Never have fitted in, ever. But there's been times when I felt more at home.
So, for example, like my friend Noel there, he's retired now, but he owned a comedy club that I used to frequent from 1991 January. I started going in there, and it's the only place, really, that I ever loved. Like, I just, I've never really loved a building before.
It's weird, it's strange, but I loved that building. I loved the club. And I spent many hours there as a customer.
I worked there, I did all, you know, I was there in different capacities, and I loved it, loved that place. And I guess, I mean, when I first worked there, the staff knew that I was friends with the owner, the boss, and some of them, I didn't realise at the time, but I was told by other people, that they thought I was a spy, like, really? And, like, I was going to spy on the staff for my friend, the boss. I was going to spy on them anyway, I've got nothing to do with that.
Just, I love spying on people. No, no. And the very first night I worked there, because I'd been going there for, I'd been there seven years, been going there, before I'd sort of started working there, on a weekend, and at the end of the night, all of the staff made a circle of chairs around in a circle and left me out.
And it was only the barman, Johnny, who invited me in and told people to move aside so I could sort of pull a chair in. It's almost like they purposely left, like, it was weird. And a couple of staff members were rude to me, didn't like me, didn't talk to me.
And a good thing about it is, if you were somewhere long enough, the arseholes generally leave, the rude people, the people that clearly, they don't like their job. People that are miserable at work is for lots of different reasons. But ultimately, if someone hates their job or doesn't like it, especially if it's a part-time job, they're not going to be there long.
I mean, people get stuck in a full-time job that they don't like, maybe. And it's harder to leave, I guess, if you've got family and, you know, debts or whatever, mortgages, we need to eat. But with a part-time job, like a waiter, a waitressing job, or a bar job that's maybe a couple of nights a week, you can pretty much get another job anywhere doing that.
So you're not stuck there. So if you're not happy, then you'd leave. So what happened is these people left.
And I personally think that, as I was there, the staff became nicer. Not the staff that were already there, but all the new people were lovely. Like, they were really nice.
I don't feel I had an issue with anybody that worked there. They were all nice. And I was really good friends with the door staff, the waitresses, waiters, everyone.
And it's the only, even though I didn't, I've never really felt, I felt at home there. So I've not really talked about this, but I felt at home there. And I mean, I loved that place.
Like, loved it. Like, I'm getting emotional because it's gone. So the place is gone.
It's not there anymore. The building's there, but the club's not there anymore. And my dream was to one day buy it off my friend.
And even though, you know, I was working, I was earning £2 an hour, £3 an hour, whatever, in low-paid work for most of my 20s. You know, so the chance of me ever having any money was pretty much non-existent. But I still had that dream of, like, one day.
And it was always, I always wanted to pay above the amount. So to give my friend, who is a million quid, there you go, he's a million pound, and I'll have the club. And I don't know, it's just a dream.
I had this, that little dream. But it was something I quite liked. Because I worked in the office, I worked downstairs.
So I got to know the staff in different parts. So like the management side, the office side. I was friends with the people in the kitchen.
Because I did everything. Like I was a cleaner there at the time. When I was a cleaner, took the money on the door.
I'd clear tables. I'd do anything. I didn't care.
Just do whatever. And so a DJ, I forgot I was a DJ as well. I was, I think I was regarded as the worst DJ in London at the time.
Actually, I was a good wedding disco. I was a good wedding disco. So it's funny because the staff would moan.
Like, oh, so you're playing the same songs. But if you're working every weekend, you're hearing the same songs. But the people come in, it's not the same songs to them.
Because they weren't here last week. You know, even the regular customers might come three, four times a year. At the weekend, maybe every Wednesday.
But so, you know, playing ABBA. You know, Wham! It can get a bit tedious hearing it every day, every week. Wham! I'm your man.
Don't you know who I am? Whatever. Come on, Eileen. Dancing Queen.
I Will Survive. Or I used to call it the Man Hating Song. Because that was in the period when the music, the dance music was really good in the late 90s.
I know you could say dance music is good always. Or the dance music is never good. Depends on what you like.
But there was like, everybody is free to feel good. And those kind of, you know, those, a lot of dance music was really pop, pop dance music. And I loved it.
I loved the dance music back then. You know, it's one of those, I can actually sit and listen. Well, I used to be able to sit and listen to dance music.
Like sit and listen to it and be doing something maybe on the computer. Before that, I couldn't because I didn't, you know, the dance music from the 80s. You know, like techno and all that stuff really wasn't my thing.
Alison is watching on Facebook. Hello, Alison. So I've got 39,000 people watching on YouTube.
Hi, everyone. That's 30,000 lies. Where is everyone? So, um, it's weird.
Why am I focusing on doing live streams? I don't even like it. I don't like doing live stuff. I don't want to be on camera, really.
But I don't dislike doing it. I wouldn't do it if I didn't like doing it. No one's forcing me to.
But I don't know. I kind of realized recently that with the podcast, a couple of things happened on my podcast. One was I had to get rid of hundreds of my recordings because they didn't meet a certain criteria because they had lots of music.
Now I've changed that. So there's now music, but it's underneath me talking for five hours and 10 hours. So I've kind of made those recordings.
So I've re uploaded them. I'm still in the process of re uploading. And then I'm making the website so that all of my stuff can be listened to stream for free.
You can download them for free, all of the recordings, including the ones with music, which I never used to have on my website. And then the other stuff happened, which just shows that I can't rely solely if I want to do this as a job, as a as a business in the future. I cannot rely solely on podcasting.
No matter how, how well I was going to use the word successful, but I don't know. I don't know what criteria I need to use. I'm successful for me.
But, you know, Joe Rogan gets 300 million downloads a month. I'm just about, you know, I'm getting maybe 800,000 a month. But there are a lot of people out there that are maybe getting 10,000 downloads a month and they're happy.
And it's, you know, it's growing for them. So for some people, 800,000 downloads a month is they would be like, wow, that's a huge amount. And for other people, it's nothing.
So, you know, I guess it just depends. I mean, I've researched this. I've gone online and thought, OK, what is a good amount for a month as a podcast? What makes, what's the difference between a podcast that isn't particularly successful and one that's doing really well? And, you know, what is the difference between one that's doing OK, one that's doing pretty good, one that's doing really well, and one that's really doing, you know, really, you know, that's like a way above the average.
Because Joe Rogan, he can't compare. It's not fair for anyone to compare with those podcasts that, because he's a superstar. He's, he's an internet superstar.
And, you know, as he makes millions of dollars a month doing what he does, you know, so he is, he can't, there's no point comparing with him. So I'd be interested because with YouTube, you can go onto a thing called, I forget the name of it, but there's a website you can go onto and you can actually find out the stats for every YouTube channel that there is. You just put in the name of the YouTube channel and it tells you how many subscribers they've got.
And I've got, I said 612 subscribers. So, or is it? Yeah, I think it is. So it's very low, but it's growing.
It's growing, kind of. And you can find out how many down, how many people have, how many views each day they get and how many videos they've uploaded. And, and then it gives you like in an estimate of how much that person will earn off of the podcast, off of the YouTube channel monthly and yearly.
And it starts off a very low amount and then goes up to a much higher amount. So again, it's quite difficult to sort of work out. I think, I think you could probably make about between 500 and a million pound, 500 and a thousand dollars per million plays.
I think that's kind of roughly where it is with YouTube, but it depends what you do. So you can see that on YouTube. You can see where people are.
With podcasts, you can't see that. There's no equivalent there online. And I've looked.
And if there is an equivalent, maybe let me know, because I have not found one. So I kind of, obviously, I don't need to look at that for myself because I know what I'm doing. But it'd be nice to see what other people are doing, especially the top in the charts of Spotify, you know, ones like the True Crime podcast, because they're among the most popular podcasts.
The other really popular podcasts would be celebrities. Celebrity podcast, you know, famous people that are doing podcasts. So, you know, people like me, of course.
So I don't know where I am, where I, I really don't know. I mean, I might literally be nowhere near other people. But I'm sure there was a really popular podcaster talking about getting 12 million downloads a year, which is like brilliant, you know.
And then I'm thinking, I'm not actually far off that myself. Really, I'm getting over 800,000 a month. And it's eight, nine, it's nearly 10,000, 10 million a year.
So I know it's not 300,000 a month, 300,000, 300 million, 300 million, which Joe Rogan gets. And he does his stuff on YouTube and on Spotify. So he's making money.
I don't know how it works. I'm guessing I would have thought that he'd make more money doing it himself than having someone pay him. Because I just thought, figured, you know, he's got all the equipment, he's got YouTube, he's free to run, doesn't cost anything.
In a sense, if you haven't got to pay YouTube anything, you need the equipment and to build an audience up, which he's done anyway, on YouTube. And then Spotify decided to like pay him. I don't know how much he gets.
He gets a lot of money. He's the highest paid podcaster in the world. But there's a huge difference between him and pretty much everyone else.
I don't think there's anyone else who does podcasts that actually earn anywhere near what he gets. He's just at a different ballgame. He's just completely different to everyone else.
But I'd love to know where people are. Are there podcasts getting 10 million downloads a month? Or a week? Or a day even? Are there people out there that are getting a million downloads a day? And how much are they making just out of interest? I mean, a million a day, that's a lot of money. It really is.
And someone making a million downloads a day, I can't even work it out. There would be a millionaire anyway. Instantly, you'd be a millionaire if he was getting a million downloads a day.
But I don't know how much it'd work out because it depends upon the advertising and stuff. But I've been thinking, all my little babies have been in one wardrobe. Everything's sort of in one place.
We're podcasting. And even before, when I used to do YouTube, for years and years I focused on YouTube, I still did the podcasts. So not everything was in one place.
I still, yeah, I mean, I was still getting maybe 100,000 to 200,000 downloads a year on my podcasts. And then with YouTube, I'd be getting at the height. And it's still a small amount.
And don't worry, I'm not bragging because there's nothing to brag about. But my YouTube channel was growing and I was getting 45,000 plays a month. But it went from about 33,000 to 45,000.
And it was growing exponentially. And I think I had about 3,000 subscribers, which again, I know it's not a lot. But at the time for me, I was suddenly getting loads of subscribers every day, just really growing.
And it was exciting times. I'll be honest with you, it was exciting. Because I've been doing it for years, since 2007.
And it only really started to become popular, the podcast, the YouTube channel. In, I think it was 2011. That's when I really saw a change.
But 2011, 2012. So I'd say 2012 up to 2013. So maybe 2013 actually.
I lose track. I really struggle to remember. But like 2012, 2013.
So 2011 is that when I started getting, I've got someone on YouTube watching. Hi, whoever you are. Hello.
I had my first viral video on YouTube. It wasn't viral, but for me, it was viral. Because I went from getting a few hundred views to suddenly having thousands of views of this video, like overnight.
And I'd never had that before. I was happy to get a few hundred views on a video. And it was growing, it was growing very, very steadily and slowly.
And what I found with YouTube is once someone likes you, they kind of stick with you a little bit. I had a very loyal audience on YouTube. And I still do a little bit, actually.
I've still got people that watch my videos that used to watch me back 2010, 2009 sometimes. So some people stuck with me for a long time, following me wherever I go. You know, it sounds weird, doesn't it? My disciples.
They're just following me, listening to me on a different podcast, hosts that I've had, SoundCloud, various different places, Podomatic, and now Spreaker. The thing is, in the past, there wasn't all of these different places to listen to podcasts, because Spotify didn't used to have podcasts. iTunes didn't used to have podcasts.
There was a time when the only people that listened, the only really way to promote, Leslie says, can't stay, Jason, but I wish you all the best. I will be back. I will be back.
Thanks, Leslie. That's on YouTube. See you later.
Um, what was I saying? I forget. I forget what I said. Um, let's talk about YouTube videos.
And someone's sending love, love, who's that sending me love, love hearts? Who's that? Thank you, whoever did. Sending me kisses, kisses and love. What was I thinking about? I was talking about YouTube videos, people following me.
Yeah, in the old days, and I can talk about the old days, not just because I'm old, but I've been doing this stuff for a long time. I mean, if you look back at some of my early videos, some of them are on YouTube. Just look at what I looked like then.
You know, I had no gray hairs. Um, I actually, I used to be a girl, but you know, I've changed a lot over the years. But I was so much younger.
I was 35 years old when I first started doing this stuff. 35, I'm now 79. So, I, you know, it's weird, but you know, I can go back and think, well, there was a time when you didn't have podcast places where you could listen to podcasts.
In the way we do now, there was podcast hosts. And some of those podcast hosts would have their own audience. So, Podomatic is an example of one of those places, and it still does.
I've not been on there for a long time, but I used to be on there for years, on and off. If I had a podcast, it was on there for, I had two, that was on there for six years, something like that. Four, three, four, five years.
And I went on there one day, I forgot all about them. And between them, they had about 300,000 downloads between the two podcasts. And I've not even looked at them, I just uploaded them.
One had 30 episodes, the other one had seven. And between them, there was over 300,000 downloads. Wow, I couldn't believe it.
It's like, and my main podcast at the time, I was probably reached about 200,000 downloads for the year. The previous year, I probably got about 150. The year before that, about 100,000 downloads.
So, you know, to just find these two little podcasts that accumulated 300,000 plays over that period, without any promotion or anything from my side. Because Podomatic had its own audience, had its own kind of, you know, group of people that listened to the podcasts. So other than that, people had to promote their own podcasts by going on to, you know, posting on Facebook, or having their own website.
And just with the hope that people would share. Now, I don't know if anybody hardly ever shares what I do. I don't even know how people come across me.
I mean, I'm in a few charts. I'm in like the top 10 or top 30 or top 20 of a few podcast charts out there. In the category of health or sleep or whatever.
So maybe, because I went to Spotify, I was watching Spotify on the television, and I thought, I know what I'll do. I'll put in sleep hypnosis search in the search bar. And I came up, I mean, four, I think four or five of my podcasts came up.
I wasn't first, I was like, third. And then I was maybe seventh, and then 14th. And, you know, so just along the way.
I was like, wow, I'm just, it's almost like I've become a part of the, I'm just here. Just here doing what I do. And some people listen, some people don't.
And I can't really, in some ways, figure out why. To make sure, what have I got? 21% of my iPad, 20% of the battery left. So it should be fine.
Trying to figure out why. Oh, excuse me. That's a big question, isn't it? Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why? Do fools fall in love with fools like you? Oh, genie, genie, genie.
What's that? What's that from, anyone? Genie, genie. Oh, genie, genie, genie. Madonna.
True Blue, the album. See? Educational. This is an educational podcast.
Don't you know? Learn a lot from me. I'm putting very little to learn. Oh, hello there.
Hi. All these microphones, all these screens staring at me. I don't know what to do.
Never used to be like this. I used to just have my phone and make it, just film myself from a YouTube video. It was much easier.
I'd upload it, no editing. I'd get the audio from the video and I'd just post that onto podcast. No editing.
I did. It's ridiculous. So many old podcasts.
No editing. Just sometimes me and you, all you could hear is like, and scratching and just me, you know, fumbling and me doing me zip up and just flushing the toilet, you know, all that stuff just, and then hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. Only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And it was so bad, really.
That no, there was times, there was a time when I would not edit. Would not, couldn't be bothered. I just thought, I need to go to bed.
I need to go bye-byes. I need bye-byes. And relax.
I haven't done any. I got, I've done no weights today. No weight training at all today.
And I don't, I haven't felt the need. I'm all sniffy. That's nice.
My back's felt all right. That's the main reason I do the weights is for my back.
also to make myself look hench and structure and it clearly doesn't work oh I've got muscles look I have they're hidden I'm a little a little bit like Billie Eilish like Billie Eilish used to wear really sometimes still does wear really baggy clothes to cover up her body to cover up her bumps and she likes to say oh sure that's what I like to say you know she's an 18 year old girl I'm not I'm just saying she is she 18 I'm kind of similar I you know I'm hiding my muscles instead of wearing baggy
clothes I walk around with a big layer of fat over me so I'm like Billie Eilish but instead of baggy clothes it's blubber covering up my my voluptuousness weird word in it voluptuous how is your stakes it was voluptuous it's just oh it's a voluptuous cat voluptuous I like to think it is quite like I like the word voluptuous because that would kind of describe the type of lady that I find drawn to a voluptuous lady what does it mean what does it really mean does it mean fat does it mean big does it mean
I don't know for me it just means war it means core I like her war I've just gone back to 1973 war war what's your name darling war no I've never done that in my life never I might have done it at school for a joke you know I never what darling what's your name want to go war nah wolf whistling nah just there's almost I think that that cliche of builders or you know people working on a roof or something wolf whistling ladies and quite often schoolgirls are on the way to school that just
I don't know I guess there's a degree of freedom in being able to do that you know but I mean it's very unacceptable socially these days to do anything like that but that's why I quite liked Barbara Windsor in the carry-on films because she used to grab the men so that a man would be like flirting and go wolf whistling and Barbara Windsor would chase and start trying to pinch his bum and he'd be like oh get off me go off me yeah she'd do a laugh and she'd be chasing him around like turn the
tables almost Benny Hill esque kind of but she was Benny Hill which makes me wonder if he got the idea from her oh hey this is deep as deep as an ocean on my bum hole it's she's maybe that's what it is Benny Hill copied Barbara Windsor in the carry-on films and for those that don't know what a carry-on film is or what Barbara when not what Barbara Windsor who Barbara Windsor is or was she's not with us anymore she was one of the main leads or stars I would say part of the crew part
of the cast because quite often there wasn't really a star because lots of them were in it together like carry-on camping there wouldn't just be one there was never just one star you could say well Sid James is the star because he's in so many of them or Kenneth Williams or I guess Barbara Windsor but Barbara Windsor wasn't in as many of the carry-on films as Sid James or Kenneth Williams I'm trying to think if who else what's the name matron she was in loads of them and the blonde lady she was in loads of
them as well she played the French Queen in carry-on off with their heads forget her name so I'm guessing most people would know what the films were but they might not so basically what it is it was just a film franchise and it is well for me I love them I don't give a stuff what anyone else thinks and they are outdated but so am I I'm outdated I'm old I don't I can't try and pretend to be woke or whatever stupid new word is in this week I just all I can be is me
and I I find that I find the carry-on films it's not just that they're funny and they're entertaining and they're there they warm me they you know it's stuff from the past and a lot of those films were made before I was even born but they used to be on telly on a Sunday afternoon when I was a kid I mean I think most of the carry-on films in fact had been finished I think there wasn't by the late 70s they're pretty much done so 50s 60s and 70s the carry-on films were done and then
so by the time I started watching them on telly you know they'd stopped making them and I just the music was funny the characters were funny and because a lot of the characters is the same actors in different ones you get to know the community get to know them and it was just fun fun to watch you know wasn't supposed to change your life it was just a bit of fun now you know some people could do a social commentary on a on a carry-on film and bore you even more than I am about all
the harm and the you know all the bad things about I'm not interested in that I just find them I just like them and I don't watch them that very often but sometimes it's nice to turn the TV on and there's a the beginning of carry-on up the jungle or carry-on I know something like that I tell you other films I liked and can't get them to watch can't watch them anywhere can't stream them can't find them anywhere is confessions films confessions of a driving instructor confessions of a window cleaner I'm sure there was a
confessions of a pop performer confessions of a plumber I don't know there's Robin Asquith who was in a few of the carry-on films and he Robin Asquith actually played there's a TV show with Sid James called bless bless this house and I think that was the tune but I remember I never I don't think I've really got to watch it but my granddad was watching it because it was on when I visited my granddad when I was a little little kid I was probably six and I remember that being on so 1976 you know there
were I think it was on them about that time anyway the movie version Robin Asquith played Sid James his son now that the TV show had a different man but apparently he wasn't available to do the movie for whatever reason so Robin Asquith took on the role of his son and I would say Robin Asquith was possibly one of the most underrated comedy characters he's such a great comedy actor the physicality of him the facial expressions that he made and he was cheeky but these confession films were adult so they kind of were in the
same vein as the carry-on films really but with less characters you know with the there is certain characters were in it and yeah here's a bit of trivia his brother in the carry-on in the confession films because they were adults so he would get himself into it be a driving instructor or window cleaner and he'd get dragged in by the women and then their husband would come home and you know all that kind of stuff but it was a comedy and but they were kind of x-rated I watched them all when I was a kid
and I was pretty teenager my brother got them on video so I watched them loved them I thought was hilarious and then he yeah his brother in the movie in the in the TV yeah in the movies was the same person who Tony Blair married his daughter yeah so Tony Blair his daughter married Tony Blair the ex-prime minister how about that for some trivia I think I got I might have a toothache I might have a bit of do you know when you get a splinter and you stick something into the splinter and you get
a splinter out but it still feels like a splinters in there that's what it feels like a little bit in one of my teeth I think so I could use a toothpick and I think I might have perhaps stuck it in a bit too far into the gum so it feels like there's something in there that there isn't just regret oh right anyway this has been a weird one I've had no one to talk to at all on this podcast nobody apart from Belinda who said hi and that was it no one's spoken to me
really no questions nothing so there you go another podcast done hey so maybe 1130 at night or 1230 at night it's not a good time when is a good time I don't know I'm not sure I'm not sure ah anyway that's it I'm gonna go now thank you very much remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy lots of love I'll fall asleep myself now I could fall asleep quite easily so I'm gonna go take care bye bye bye bye
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