#874 In Court Again - Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (3rd August 2022)

Hey, how you doin'? Sorry I couldn't get through. I got the high on my number. Especially for you.

Hello, hello? Hello, hello? Is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your hair. Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Your eyes are open wide. You don't know what to say, you don't know what to do, I've got to tell you so bad, I love you. Hello and welcome to Jason Newland dot com, my name is Jason Newland, this is let me bore you to sleep.

Please only listen when you can also really close your eyes. So hey, how you doing? Hope you're well. I haven't made one of these recordings for a little while, I do apologise.

I came across a post on Facebook in the, where is it, let me see, let me check, it was, it was in the private, private Facebook page. Please don't get too close to the microphone, it is not good. Jason Newland Hypnotist Group, that's the Facebook page, if you, if you want to join, be part of the fun.

I'll tell you how popular it is. Two weeks ago there was only 58 people, there was only 58 members, and it's a private group so you have to ask to be part of it, nothing spectacular, just, you know, but there was only 58, and I thought to myself two weeks ago, you know what, you know what JJ, it just needs a little bit of promotion, because I've never promoted it. So I thought, I'm going to tell people about it.

So I did. And now, after just two weeks, only, I'm not, I'm not bragging, I'm not showing off, I'm just, just telling you the facts, okay, right, I'm not sort of patting myself on the back or anything like that, you know, I'm not, I don't need a big cake, if you want to send me a big cake, I will eat it, but I don't, it's not what I need, but I'm just letting you know that after just two weeks going from only 58 members, okay, only 58, just two weeks ago, right, okay. Now, I'm not on an ego trip.

I'm just letting you know that I'm not on an ego trip. You could say I've been on an ego trip for 17 years, doing this stuff, then maybe I am, but not for this particular thing. I'm not really on an ego trip.

So, but I just want to, I just want to let you know, and I want to thank all those people that have joined up, and I just, I kind of want to pay tribute to the power of social media in a way, because I didn't even think about promoting it, for some reason, I always focused on my website, you know, jasonnewland.com, really do I mention, well, I don't think I've ever mentioned until two weeks ago about the Facebook group page, whatever it's called. Well, I did, and I think I did it two days in a row. I promoted it.

Okay, I only have 58 members, two weeks ago. Now, I'm waiting for the page to open up. What are you doing? Now, 61.

See, the power of social, you know, sometimes I've seen people talk about social media and on YouTube, like social media is the way to go. That's how you build your business up, how you build your, your fame, how you, you know, you, you build your career. And if you're a podcaster, you need social media.

61, what a pile of crap. Honestly, I couldn't sell a pair of dirty smelly socks. I mean, why would anyone want to buy? Yeah, that's really not example.

Good example is it? Why would anyone sell dirty socks and who'd want to buy them? Okay, I couldn't give away a piece of paper. Maybe that's not a good example. I mean, I couldn't give away a piece of paper to someone who needed, who needed a piece of paper.

This is going wrong. It's going wrong. I don't understand why.

Everything seems so good until I started talking. So that sums up a lot of my life actually. Yes, right.

As I'm talking to you, I'm also uploading stuff. Now, the reason, the reason why I haven't made any recordings, just moving the microphone. There you go.

The reason I haven't made any new, let me bore you to sleep recordings for, it can't be more than a week, can it? I don't know. Is because I have been focusing on remastering some of my older recordings. Now, there's a lot more to it than just putting them through a machine.

If you know what I mean, there's a lot more to it. And I started with recently, I've been mastering my new recordings. So they're loud enough.

They comply with the volume of podcasts, how they should be, and not very quiet like mine used to be. And hopefully they're fairly decent quality sound. Although this one, I'm not, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure with this, because I don't know. Maybe I need to fiddle around with the knobs a bit more. But it seems a little bit, I'm not sure.

It might just be that I haven't used the microphone for a few days and it's missed me. You know, it's a bit ring rusty. Anyway, I have been doing that for the last month and hopefully producing better quality audios.

Now, I thought about what should I do? Before I go any further, I want to mention some people. I want to mention, I want to mention some people. First of all, thank you to Molly, who is the admin for the Jason Newland Hypnotist Group.

Probably the easiest job, probably the easiest admin job on Facebook and in Facebook history because no one goes on there. But I've got a few people that do go on and and I do appreciate Mike. Hi, Mike.

Posted a comment saying, so I think it's a week since Jason Newland has put out a new episode of the Let Me Boy to Sleep. I'm somewhat of a new listener. So this norm, I realize this is in a private, private group.

So it's a private message in it like there is no personal information. So that's why I'm reading it out and I'm not giving you his surname. So is it normal for him to take so long or to take a week break? Or is he just creating content for his other podcasts? Or did he do another trip to Thailand? Anyhow, I'm not criticizing at all.

Just curious, curious and curious about when he releases new episodes. And I'll answer. I see what other people have written down.

Sarah says. I like this. There's no telling if there's a. That's funny.

If there's a break, I tend to go back through the old ones. Can't sleep without them anymore. Thanks, Sarah.

I like that. There's no telling. Yeah, I work in.

I'm working on a word. Right. The word is consistency.

I need to write it in big letters on my wall. Consistency. I'm consistent, consistently inconsistent.

I think pretty much. So I will. I'm working on it.

I'm working on it. Not sure how it's going. And Michelle answers.

Generally daily. Yeah, I can't agree with that. Generally, my guess is considering all the early deep sleep whispers are coming up.

Remastered. Jason is doing. Another funny thing.

Jason is doing Jason things and is lost in sound land. Completely right, Michelle. I don't know what it is.

I'm not quite sure why. Well, it's just a focus thing. I mean, some may say, well, I'm not focused enough because I get distracted.

But when I get distracted, I'm focused on the thing that I'm distracted by. So I would say I'm quite focused. So I'll tell you what I've been doing anyway in a minute.

What else did Michelle say? Shouldn't be too long to new episodes. Maybe perhaps have a listen to his bedtime story times while waiting. And Mike answers.

Think I'll check out some of these other podcasts. Thank you. Now, let me see.

Oh, Kitty says I miss his podcasts, too. Right. I'm back.

I'm back, baby. I am back. And I will hopefully get back to doing regular daily.

Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast. Yes, everybody. I will do that.

Unless, of course, I go to China and I will do that. So, yeah, I'm going to continue. It's just what I've been doing.

I can let me bore you with this. Let me bore you. I never drink a Coke first.

Oh, right. Oh, that was a little bit of gas got released. Oh, it's unlike me.

I'm usually a delicate flower. Oh, I'm trying to force one out, but it didn't happen. The good thing about trying to force burps is doesn't cause accidents.

So I was I was what I've been doing is going through my old deep sleep whisper recordings. Remastering. However, only remastering the ones that are any good by my I've got kind of a by any good.

I don't mean content. I mean, quality of recording. So it has to pass a few things before it even goes into the mastering.

So it goes it goes through the mastering. And so I listen to it. If it doesn't fulfill a certain criteria, it gets binned.

Now, I've not deleted from the podcast. I've left. I've not deleted anything, but I'm not releasing it as a remastered version.

So if you look at the Deep Sleep Whisper podcast or any other podcasts, it's not like, you know, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. But, you know, I go like 60, then 69. Like if some 70, 74, 70, you know, like that, because some of the recordings are just not up to quality.

The quality that I want anyway, and none of them are up to the quality. I want never have been and perhaps never will be. But there's a certain level that I have to have the recordings at with the remastered stuff.

And one of the things is too much background sound, not birds, because I've left the ones with birds singing in the background, because as far as I'm concerned, anyone doesn't like bird song is evil. I'm joking. It's it's not for everyone.

I adore the sounds of birds, pigeons. I love pigeons, but I don't I'm not a big fan of the. But as some of you will know, one of my best friends is Horace the pigeon, and he comes and visits me every day.

I haven't seen him today, but generally comes onto the windowsill. So we should rephrase that. I think it might just be bird poo.

The head looks like. Anyway. And and he's.

I don't find that too therapeutic, to be honest. Well, the other day I was so cute. There was a baby pigeon.

Learning to do that is all I heard is. And then. But really little version.

Oh, my heart melted, honestly. Oh, it's just it's just a little things in life sometimes. That's why I'm glad I've got a minuscule.

Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Check.

I'm still uploading stuff as we speak. So I've gone through 200 deep sleep whisper recordings. 200.

No. That's a lie. Hundred and.

Twenty one. It's not nearly as though we need to. What is it? Yeah, I've gone through 200, but there's not 200 left to put through the machine.

It's not machine, but to remaster. And but there is. What the heck is going on here? What's that? Oh, so I get 100.

It is a certain amount that I can do in a month for the amount. So pay. About £100 a month to do 100 hours worth of remastering.

And then what the remastering does is it just changes. It helps to get rid of background hissing or background sounds a bit. Brings up the volume.

Now, if the volume is too low. So, for example, if the volume goes from like me talking really loudly to me whispering really, really, really softly. And then I put it through the mastering.

It could be distorted because it's so different volume. And by pushing that volume from the whisper up, it just doesn't sound very good. But.

It's in a case like that, what I would do, especially because I did a bit of whispering right now, begin this. What I would do is I found another way of making the recording sound louder, but not as loud, but still louder than it did before without doing the mastering. So that's all.

That's not too bad because the. The software I use stopped working a few days ago, so I had to be creative. You know me, I do anything but be creative.

I do not like. I can't even spell it. I.T. No creative.

You worry. You worry. So what I've done, what I've been trying to do is go through.

Each recording. Find the ones that don't have some of them might sound good and then. Right at the end, I stop counting down from 10 down to one because there's a gap where there's nothing happening and it like fills in its own kind of noise.

So I scrap it. And. As I've gone along, I think I've become more fussy than what I was perhaps originally when I started doing a remastering.

So maybe a few got through that weren't. You could you could argue if listening to them and none of them sound good. But they sound a heck of a lot better than they did.

I'm not I'm not a professional recording engineer, and I think even a professional recording engineer would struggle a little bit with some of the. Terrible quality of sound that I used to present that I used to have, you know, a few years back. So it sounds better.

And some of them, although I've been releasing them without music. Also done versions with background music as well. Which will be released soon.

Sounds a heck of a lot better with background music because any little bits of background sound that might be there are pretty much just almost they kind of intertwine with the musical sounds as it were. So I'm fairly pleased. I mean.

So far. I have. What do I have? One hundred and fourteen.

So I've gone through one hundred and fourteen of these that I'm actually uploading now. And it's not one hundred and fourteen, but that's that's what number I go up to on my thingy, you know, my list. And I'm releasing them, but not all at once.

Now, I started and I just released like twenty, thirty all in one go. And I stopped doing that because that's a bit too much. It's a bit of a bombardment and.

People are likely to miss stuff. So what I'm doing is I'm releasing things. I leave at least four hours between releasing the recording if I can.

So what I'll be doing is when I when I release the Let Me Boy To Sleep recordings, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to release them over a night in the evening time, like overnight here. So I'll be maybe I'm thinking potentially eleven o'clock in the evening, one in the morning, three in the morning and five in the morning, because there's four different versions of my recordings, one without music, one with background music, one with five hours long, one ten hours long. So that's the with music.

And. Affirmations and stuff like that. And I will be doing more with that as well, sort of making some more stuff.

So it's all to come. I've barely touched the surface, I think, with this stuff. There's a lot more coming in the future.

And the once. Once. What's the date? A third, four fifths.

I've got two more days away, three more days and then I can do some more. So tomorrow's Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Yeah.

So. My plan. This is my plan is.

As well as doing that stuff. I'm also going to make new recordings as well. So I'm going to make the let me boy to sleep every day.

That's my plan. As I speak now. Or what is my plan? Whether I stick to it or not is.

Up to me. I will. It's every time I hear people or read that.

And someone's missing it or someone's. Listens every day. I kind of feel a little bit bad.

Oh, I really should get make a recording, you know. And. But being busy and also there's a few had a few problems last week.

I won't go into that. Because it's not light hearted enough, unfortunately. But it's all kind of resolved.

But today. Today, I was in court. Can you believe? I was in court in a magistrate's court.

Not for me, but for my friend. I'm a witness to a an incident. To an incident.

And or to the to the last part of an incident. Actually. I didn't know.

I just went to court with my friend. This is something that happened in beginning of the year. I went to court with my friend as support.

He wanted me to. He asked me to go with him. So I did.

And. The next thing I know. His solicitor or his lawyer or whatever.

Asked me. I'll see you were there. I said only at the end.

And asked me a couple of questions said, can I put you on the stand? It's not that's not like a big court case. But I'm just saying he wanted to me. Would I be.

A witness. I said, okay. So I'm going to be cross-examined.

Can you believe? Near the end of the year. Not hugely excited about a prospect. If I'm honest.

But. Hey, I'm going to try not. Just to not think about it.

And so I'll be. That'll be done. And then it will be.

And. Basically. If my friend had.

He's. Saying. He's pleaded not guilty for something.

He's been accused of. That he didn't do. But if he had pleaded guilty.

He would. He wouldn't have even got into trouble. Anyway.

It had got. The bare minimum. If you know, I mean, he's not.

Not gonna go to prison or anything. But because. He didn't do it.

What he was accused of. He was. He won't back down.

So it's going to court. Could have gone to Crown Court. That was the two options.

Crown Court. Which is. It's a much tougher sentence.

If you get found guilty. Because they. They get a jury.

And all that stuff. So there's. There's a chance.

You. You get in trouble. Like you get.

Could end up in prison. Because. It's all about money.

If they've invested all that money. And they want to see. A result.

But. It's not going that way. It's just going to.

Magistrates Court. Which is basically. A judge.

And. The lawyer. You know.

The solicitors. And judge just decides. Without.

A jury. I didn't even know. That that.

That that was even. Be a thing. For this.

Because it's such. It's such a minute thing. Honestly.

If I'm not. I've talked about it in the past. I won't go into it again.

But it was such. Ridiculous. It was like a nothing thing.

If that makes sense. I saw the CCTV footage. Of the event.

And it was. It was almost nothing. Yeah.

It's. Probably. A bit scary.

For the people involved. It was. You know.

About what might happen. But nothing. Like.

I must say. Nothing didn't. Things did happen.

But it. In. The way that.

The other person. Was portraying it. Was like it was.

Something really. Really huge. And.

In all fairness. My friend got hurt. He was.

He was on the receiving end. So. That's why I'm supporting him.

In court. It's not my first. Favorite idea of.

Something to do. If I am. Honest.

I've been to court twice. No. Maybe three times before.

Three times. I was in court. Bankruptcy court.

Back in 2006. So yeah. That was.

I got scared at that one. Because it was a proper judge. And everything.

But it wasn't. It wasn't like. You know.

You see court on telly. Nothing like that. It was like.

It was a. It was a chambers. But it wasn't like. Some big massive chambers.

With lots of people. I thought it was going to be. A jury.

And. I'd have to sort of. Give evidence.

Nothing like that. It was just. You know.

Looked at my situation. And said. Yep.

And just said. And that was it. I was in there for about.

10 minutes. At a time before that. I was trying to save.

The home that I was living. With my friend. This is back in the 90s.

So. I went to court. To try and help to keep that.

Place. And. More.

Almost. It was more a case of. To try to refrain from the.

Rebirth. Or from the. Possession.

Of or the. Getting kicked out. Of the house.

So. I was. Because I lived there.

So. I was in my. My benefit to not be.

Made. What's it. From there.

And. It worked. So.

It was successful. And. So.

That was. That was okay. I didn't enjoy that.

That was. More like a normal. Proper court.

That was. A bit. Weird.

The first time I was in court. Was when I was a little kid. And.

I didn't go into the court. I was very very young. Probably.

Three or four. I suppose. I don't know.

And. It was. A. Should we say.

A relationship. Dispute. Between.

Parents. Or parent figures. At that time.

And any more than that. I can't really tell you. But.

I remember. Getting bribed. With some sweeties.

I remember. Every bag of sweets. I've been given.

Especially when they're free. I just. Got that kind of memory.

You want me to say what. Yeah. Of course I will.

I don't mind. It's free sweets. Can I get a can of coke as well.

So. This would be the 4th. 1. 2. 3. 4th time I've been in court.

No. 5th time I've been in court today. So it would be the 5th time I've been in court.

In the end of the year. And I hope. I never have to go back.

I don't. Want. To do it.

I don't. want to do a new attempt. Let's have a little drink a little bit thirsty today.

You want to hear about the day ahead. Okay, okay, here we go. Right? When I know that I've got to go somewhere, I've got to do something that I don't want to do.

And I think going to court is on that list of things that I imagine most people would not want to do. I don't find it easy to fall asleep in that situation. And that was the case last night.

So I went to bed fairly, fairly early, I think. And I was still awake one o'clock, I got woken up at 230. But I wasn't asleep, I was kind of half awake anyway.

And it was just one of my neighbors just banging the door or something that was that was it. Next thing I know, it's seven o'clock in the morning. Or about 20 past seven, actually.

I literally went back to bed after that. That was it unconscious for five hours. Completely don't remember.

There was no tossing and turning nothing. It was like bank on. And it was nice.

I quite quite liked it actually. And so I woke up. I had my alarm set for eight o'clock.

Because I had booked a taxi for nine in the morning to go from here to the court is in a different town. And I knew that the journey would be half an hour to the train station, maybe 20 minutes. It's going to be about an hour and a half journey from here to the court.

Instead of other 25 minutes, 25 minutes, maybe half an hour in a taxi. So it wasn't a cheap taxi. But I ordered it and I ordered it last night.

And it's the same company that refused to take me to hospital. Earlier this year is when I had sound like an old moaning thought and I like moaning about physical complaints, but I had problems with my upper back. In fact, it was probably November because I think pretty sure we had Christmas, it might have been January.

There was something where there was a gap where the lady because she was a physiotherapist called me and there was a gap. So it might have been, I think it was, you know, I think it might well have been November last year. And she called me in December and said, I'll call you in January because it was I think two weeks before Christmas.

Yeah, blimey, so quite a while ago, because I had I was a bit unwell with the the thing we don't mention the, you know, the the masky thing, if you know what I mean. So I was oh, oh, that was October, November, the whole of my upper back, the muscles and I was having real problems. So I got I got arthritis in my lower back.

That's fair enough. You know, it's okay. I got it's just it is what it is.

Maybe that's nature way of making up for how damn good looking I am, and how sexy I am. Maybe, maybe having the pain in my lower back for arthritis is nature's way of saying, well, you've had 51 years of being six foot six blonde hair, and having everyone chuck themselves at you. And you know, you've had it easy your whole life.

So maybe that's my, that's my burden. You know, maybe that's, that's my comeback, comeuppance. So I'm fine with that.

It's okay, I don't mind. It's, I'm a realist, it's like, well, it doesn't matter. You know, it's not, as long as I do certain things, it doesn't stop me from doing other things.

So as long as I do a fair bit of walking every day, one of the things that allows me to do is walk without pain. It sounds weird, but I have to really, it's almost like it needs to be lubricated from inwards from inside. So that movement lubricates it.

And I also do exercises, I do stretches, I do weights, I do quite a few different things, not just my lower back, but also for my upper back. Because I was in absolute agony with my upper back to the point of crying. And I'm not.

I'm the only time I've really cried. It's always been emotional. I've never cried over physical things ever in my life.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but I've never, it hasn't happened yet, apart from this time. And I wasn't howling, but I did have a tear. I think that was a lot of frustration.

Like, how can I be, what's going on? You know, this is just horrible. I got myself a back brace and everything thinking, I don't know, what can I do? Well, I had physiotherapy on the phone because this was last year. There were no face-to-face appointments.

She said I could have done it on Zoom. Um, but I was, I told her I wasn't in a hurry. Oh dear.

Oh, I make myself laugh. You're the only one. Yeah, I know.

Um, so yeah, I don't want face-to-face. And what you do, someone's face-to-face and you're on the toilet, you know, they call you on the toilet. You know, it's like, you can't press answer and then just wait a minute.

Cause you can, if you're on the toilet, someone phones you on a normal phone, like a ring ring, you know, you can say, Oh, wait a second. And you have a quick wipe. And you know what I mean? You can sort of just wait a second.

I'm just going to move into a different room. Um, I just need to put the curtains up or something like that. I need you to do a washing up.

I'll be right back. Um, I need to cut my toenails, anything, an excuse. And then you like carrying a conversation on.

You can't do that on Zoom or Skype because they're there. They can see you. They can see you.

Um, so yeah, I don't, I don't really like cameras, uh, like video calls. I did it a little bit with someone that I met on holiday. So we were talking to each other for a few weeks afterwards.

It was just like, no, I can't be bothered with this. There's no point. I might sound weird, but I just, it doesn't sound weird.

If you heard me many times before, it sounds just like me, but I just, I can't, I'm not, that interest goes is, I don't talk, I don't like talking on the phone. I don't like really even texting. And I don't know why, but I think I'm quite a focused person.

So if I'm going to do something, I'll do it there. And then, but if I leave it, sometimes I'll forget it. So sometimes I'll read a message and I might just like press a, like a thumbs up with the intention of writing a message back.

And I've just realized, I think I did that to Molly recently because I was going to Molly, if you listen to this, sorry, Molly's one of my favorite Facebook people. Just tell me that now. That's why I mentioned every now and then.

I don't know why. I just really, I think she's great. And, and I love everyone else just as much.

But there is, Molly made a video for me years and years ago, as did a few other people. And it was, I'm not sure who put it together. I forget now.

I think, I think it was Molly that organized it actually. And it was like, I think it might have been for my 50th birthday. So it wasn't long ago, was it? It wasn't long ago as I'm only 51 now.

I'm not 52 till what? 26th of August. Yes. 26th of August.

What? How can you send me a gift? I'll come and you know how. Don't, just, just send me, it's up to you. I'm not asking for anything.

But 52 is in England. You might not know this if you're not from England. In England, 52 is, is the most important year.

It is. Oh, you're lying. I'm not lying.

I'm not lying. I've never lied. Which is a lie, isn't it? I don't lie as such.

I do. But I do lie. Yeah.

So yeah, it's, my birthday's fairly soon. Soon, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What was I talking about? Yeah.

Who'd want a piece of paper? Why would you just give someone a piece of paper? You wouldn't sell it to them, would you? Like, in a pad. I couldn't even give a piece of paper away. I think I've gone back too far into the recording.

What did I talk about? I went to court. I've kind of covered that. Well, I haven't really.

I talked about the phone, getting the phone. Yeah. Zoom.

Just one look and then my heart went boom. Suddenly we were on the moon. Flying high on a monkey's back.

Oh. I don't know what I was talking. Why was I talking about Zoom? It wasn't my diarrhea story, was it? No.

Oh, I remember. This is the story. I had a bad stomach.

This is a few years back. I had a poorly tum tum. And I was, I needed to go to the, was it the doctor's surgery? Or was it the pharmacy? Oh, it's the pharmacy.

Needed to go to the pharmacy to collect my prescription. And I'd run out. I left it because I had a bad stomach for a few days.

And then I went to the, I thought I was safe. I thought the world was safe. And so I went out, got as far as the bus stop.

And my tummy told me it's time to go home. So I decided to phone the pharmacy up and ask them if they'll deliver it. And you know, at that point, I think you could pay to do it or they just, okay, this is it.

I said this is about four years ago, three or four years ago. Anyway, so I'm on hold. Now this story might have involved doctor's surgery last time.

I think it was the pharmacy, one of them, but it's the same story either way, really. But it did happen. It might just not have happened the way that I'm saying.

I went to, yeah, so I'm walking. Well, I'm walking so fast. I'm almost floating above the grass as I'm traveling.

I'm like a, like a hovercraft almost traveling across the park towards my house. Not from gas. You know what I mean? It wasn't, wasn't like steam or anything.

I'm just moving so quickly. And I get into the, get into my house, get to the toilet just in, just in time. Right.

And I'm literally bending down to sit down and they answer the phone. Hello, pharmacy, how can I help? And all they heard was the noise that erupted when I sat down. Honestly, you couldn't have timed it either better or worse, depending on your point of view.

And it wasn't, it wasn't like a two, it wasn't a two second job. This was like a good, probably eight seconds. And I just thought, Oh, I'm so, so sorry.

Can you imagine what they thought? I'll just say I've not really thought of it better from their perspective before. Oh, I must have been awful. I was both embarrassed and tickled by it.

I found it hilarious. And also relieved because the, the discomfort, let's call it this, let's use the word discomfort had been relieved. But those sound effects, if that call had been recorded, the thing is, I think she had it on loudspeaker because I heard a lot of laughter in the background and how we managed to keep the conversation going after that.

But I just went along with it. I said, look, sorry, but I have to come and collect my prescription. But unfortunately, I've got a bad stomach that got some giggles in the background as well.

So they did, they didn't question that. And they, she said, that's fine. We'll get a delivery, but it won't, it'll be there in the morning.

But between eight and nine, is that okay? I said, that's fine. And bye, bye. Thank you.

And I can't even imagine the conversations that went on when I put the phone down. It's made me think though, because you know, when you, when you take in a sickie, well, I haven't worked properly for a while, but you know, I did, I worked for most of my adult life from the age of 15, 20, I think I did about 26 years of working, wasted my, I wasted 26 years. And I remember phoning up a few times and, you know, the whole, I can't come in today.

And like trying to put on a, you know, a fake, a fake voice. I just realised the best thing to do before you make that phone call is get on the toilet and just do that. Just say, I'm sorry, I can't come out because I, and then just, just keep quiet and just, you know, let it all out.

They're not going to argue with it. I actually worked with someone that she wanted to go home. She was at work and she just had enough.

She just wanted to go home. And she said she didn't feel very well, but she just like, that was just that, just couldn't, just didn't want to be there. And what she did was she asked to go home and she was just honest.

She said, look, I don't feel very, I don't feel particularly good. I want to go home, you know, just honest. And the supervisor said, no.

10 minutes later, vomited all over the desk. So she kind of forced herself to be sick. And it's not a nice story, but it did the trick.

The next day she phoned up and they said, take as long as you want. Come back when you're ready. If you, cause they had to clean it up.

So it's sometimes by showing, so it's, it's almost like if you want to get off, you want to, if you want to go home from work, faint, pretend to faint. Let's think of ways of going home. Okay.

So you can phone up, but they don't believe you. If you phone up, unless the person really knows you well, and they know there's an ongoing issue, whatever, chances are your manager, supervisor, line manager, managing director, whatever. They won't believe you.

They won't, but you're taking a sickie, you know, you're just taking a day off. Even if it's genuine, I'd say mostly, most people are pretty honest. And there's a thing in management that I found out is there's those that they don't believe ever.

The ones they don't believe is people have the Monday off, then come back on a Tuesday. And people that do that often do it quite a few times throughout the year. So it kind of fits like crying wolf situation, you know? So when they do have time off, genuinely, they're not believed.

And it's always that, well, isn't it amazing how you always recover by the Tuesday. So when I heard that, from then on, I always had the whole week off. So I shot myself in the foot a bit there.

I thought, no, I'll have the week off. That, you know, I'm not gonna, that shows that it's real. It wasn't real, but you know, you're pretending.

So if you're gonna fake it, fake for longer. That's my, what I'm trying to portray here. You know, honestly, the things I remember, there was once, there's this bloke, and he was, I liked him a lot, actually.

He was one of the top sellers in one of the companies, the insurance companies I worked at. One of the top sellers, like, they had a special table for the top sellers. And at the end of every month, it might have been at the end of every week, I think it was the end of every month, they moved the person.

So if someone, they had different tables, you know, around, and they'd always move the top I don't know how many, maybe six, maybe eight people were at that table, the top people. And every month, there's one person who was always, like, right at the top, but he didn't like sitting on that table. But the rest of them, you know, and it was usually the same faces.

I sat there a couple of times, but generally I wasn't the top top. But I did all right in that job. But this bloke, he was the top, he was, he had his own seat, and he was there all year round, every year.

He'd also do coursework. I think he was doing, yeah, he was doing a university course in mathematics. I think it might have been Open University, I'm not sure.

But he'd do coursework in between calls. So he's really, really bright, bright person. Anyway, and this might be because of his mathematical brain.

But he quite liked gambling, particularly fruit machines. Now, I don't know how far this went into his life, I didn't ask, but all I know, he was always really, really nice to me. So I won't say a bad thing about him.

He's nice, I've not seen him. I saw him once, when I moved away from that town. And I hadn't worked at that place, probably for about seven or eight months.

But so he still remembered me and I had a little chat and stuff and haven't seen him since. Saw one other person I used to work with. And that was when I was doing boxing at the martial arts gym.

And he was there doing kickboxing. And he looked exactly the same as before. And maybe I did.

But it'd been a few years since I last saw him. And how you doing? All right. And that was it.

And I haven't seen him since. But I sat next to him for ages and ages when I worked at that shop at the job. So you know, I spent a lot of time chatting.

So I kind of knew him quite well. Anyway, this other bloke, the one that was doing the mathematics, and he liked to do his, he liked to do the fruit machines. So we all go to lunch, and then probably two and a half hours after lunch ends, he walks back.

But everyone's like saying, you know where Rudolph is? I can't remember his name. You know where Rudolph is? No one knows where Rudolph is. But you all went to lunch together.

Where is he? I don't know. Yeah. And then, so two and a half hours later, maybe three hours later, he walks in.

And I was sitting there and I was right near, I sat really close to the desk of the manager at the time. And, and Rudolph, he walked up to the manager, he said, I won't bullshit you. I won't lie to you.

I've been on a fruit machine all afternoon. I thought I was on to a winner. And I thought I was going to win about three grand.

That's where I've been. And the manager laughed, because it was so honest, so honest. And it was almost the blatancy of him, but also the fact that he was just honest.

He's like, do what you got to do, whatever, you know what I mean? But I couldn't stop myself. I was on to a winner. And I knew that he said that he, if he, he'd put so much into the machine, and it was coming up really good.

And it was in a pub, I think, or it might have been in a betting shop. He knew that as soon as he got off the machine, someone else had come along. And they would take all that money, because it was going to pay out eventually.

So I think, I think the machines are set. So they give out a percentage. So maybe every time they, for every hundred pound that comes in, they might pay out 25 pound.

So, you know, but that 25 pound doesn't come out every hundred pound that goes in. It accrues. So someone might go in and put in a pound and win 600 pound.

You know, you know, I mean, thousands of pounds might go into that machine. And so I might win like a big, big, big lot. That's my understanding.

I don't know much about history or geography. But I do know that I love you. And I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful, wonderful world this would be.

And I'm confident to be the new student that I'm trying to be. Anyway, and another thing that happened, I remember, I remember, everyone was looking for a member of staff. Again, I can't remember his name.

I don't tell you people's names or anyway, to be fair, I never give out the real name of anyone. And also, I don't remember people's names. But this bloke, he was, he was one of the palest people I ever met.

Like really pale, like skin wise, it's really like white, white, you know, I mean, like really, not in a horrible way, just very, very, very, like he'd never seen the sun ever. And I'm red. I've got red skin.

And but my ankles. Yeah, so kind of my legs, but his face was the colour of my legs. Because when my legs never see the sun.

So I'm not saying that people like people thought that his face was my legs. I'm Yeah. Yeah, I didn't walk into the office one day with shorts on people saying, Hey, I Steve, looking at my legs.

Oh, sorry for the Steve there. No, it didn't look like my legs. I'm saying it kind of colour.

Anyway, one of the managers said, Oh, where's Steve again? It's a made up name. It's not made all names are made up really, aren't they? Think about it. Where's Steve? Don't know.

And they looked on the screen because they can tell how long someone's been off the computer. Because you had to log out a phone every time you went to the toilet or went to breaks. He'd been gone for two hours.

He hadn't had a break. It wasn't his lunchtime or anything. But where is he? Don't know.

And they started they started getting worried. They looked for him. He fell asleep in the toilet.

Literally went to the toilet and fell asleep for two hours. And no one noticed he was gone for two hours. Well, for an hour and 5055 minutes, and then the next five minutes was looking for him like, where's he gone? phoning him and you know, because we were in a building that was three floors to the building.

So it took a few minutes like look around for him. See if he was in the break room or if you know if he was outside having a cigarette or just skiving or hiding or I don't know, chopping wood, whatever, I guess technically he was chopping wood, wasn't he? At some point and then he fell asleep. Whilst the wood was being And, and the thing is, I couldn't discipline him, because it was so hilarious.

Now, you know, listen to my film. It's not that funny. But imagine you know somebody and this sales force wasn't big.

At that point, they grew. Once I left the sales department and went into compliance listening to the calls, they pretty much doubled nearly treble that at least double the size of the sales force. sales floor and had three different sales departments, two floors.

At that time, it's just on one floor and everyone knew each other. You know, it's very quiet. It was what, 4040 people working there.

Everyone knew each other's names, everyone you know, so we knew him. He hadn't been there that long, but everyone knew him, you know, he's a nice bloke. And so someone came upstairs said he was asleep in the toilet.

So I must have looked over the thing cubicle they're worried about, you know, what's happened? They knocked on the door, nothing looked over. And he's asleep. He's fast asleep.

He didn't have a duvet or anything, but he was asleep. And I hope he wasn't sucking his thumb. And he came upstairs, and he did the walk of shame.

Everyone started clapping. And it was just they couldn't second, they couldn't. Because first of all, it could happen to anyone.

It could imagine, just human beings. I've fallen asleep on buses, on trains. I've fallen asleep at weird places, sometimes, you know, just, just college, fall asleep during a lecture.

And he just fell asleep, must have just closed my eyes for a couple of seconds. And that was it gone. Easy can easily happen, I guess.

And it was just so funny, though. Because no one had done that before. No one had like the two hours.

The fact that no one noticed he was gone for two hours was kind of weird, considering how small a group it was. But that was kind of funny. Trying to think of any other weird things.

Strange things. There's been a lot of strange things happened in the call centers. Trying to think of strange things.

Can't think of anything. I don't remember. It's flummoxed me.

There's probably loads. There's lots of weird things that happened. I mean, for everyone, isn't it? In that place, it was strange.

They had a boss. So basically, it was weird because I worked. I worked at a company that was owned by the same man as the company I ended up working for there.

But he sold it to Churchill. And I left Churchill and I started working for this other company that was owned by him that he started after selling that company. And he's kind of got a history of starting companies, building them up successful and then selling them.

That's kind of what he does. And then he uses those facilities to build another company. So he's always he just loves creating new things.

He's very, very successful. And he kind of doesn't necessarily want to be that involved for too long in any one thing. That's how it seemed at the time.

And he had a helicopter company. He's, he's, yeah, he's hugely successful. I don't know what he's doing these days.

But, you know, that last thing I heard about him was in 2007, 2000. Yeah, so that last time I heard about him. So I ended up working for him again.

And he didn't come into the sales floor very often. Yeah, downstairs, I think he had his own bathroom. He used to go, I think, cycling or go to the gym.

And, you know, he was he's running various different businesses. So he wasn't like hugely hands on with that business. He had someone else that used to kind of pretty much run it for him.

He was still the boss, but and when he sold it, the other person became the manager, like the overall manager. It's a lot of information about nothing here, isn't it? Really? Well, I remember once though, this this boss, this big tycoon man, he was, you know, it's very rich. He walked through the sales floor.

And someone said something that he didn't like. And he sacked them on the spot. Like no disciplinary, no warnings, just get out in front of everybody.

Really chucking his weight around. He must have just been having a bad day. Because the sales floor, we were all saying things we shouldn't be saying.

Off the phone, not on the phone, but off the phone. It was like it was very, I say laddish, those women working as well, but it's very inappropriate behaviour at times. And I think it's wrong to call it laddish, because I think it's, it's very unequal to think that only men can be that can misbehave.

Because I know I've spent a lot of time with women over the years. And it's not a man thing, misbehaving and being rude and having a laugh. And you know, everyone can do it regardless of genitals.

It's just a human thing. So I'm not one of those like, we got to get rid of the word laddish. I don't care.

But it's, you know, we're gonna go down that road. I will get rid of it. No, I was the same.

Yeah, he really humiliated in front of everyone. Like get out. The thing is, the person did it to was the top seller.

I mean, the top seller out of everybody. Like the person that no one knew how he did what he did. He was just a born salesperson, I guess he was phenomenal.

And he was, he was yards and yards ahead of even the other top people. I was nowhere close. I couldn't he couldn't even see me in his rear mirror.

He was so good. And he said something that was that the big boss didn't like. And I don't know if the big boss said something and he was rude to him, like joking around.

And he said, what'd you say? Get out. Pack your bag, pack your bags. Pack your bags.

Get rid of all your books, and your bedding, and your bedding. Yeah, take your TV, get out. And your sofa.

No, they said, he thought he was joking. That the salesman, salesperson thought he was joking. And he wasn't.

He said, okay. And he said, I'm sorry, I didn't mean, you know, like, no, get out. At one point, I thought it was going to turn into a, into a little punch up because this, this bloke was the salesperson wasn't known for being a pushover, if you know, I mean, it's very full on very focused, and he got what he wanted.

That's probably why he was so successful in selling. But I was like, so like, he just put his stuff in his bags and he left. Now that is, that's not allowed.

You know, you can't do that. You couldn't even do that then. And this was 2005, probably.

Even then, you can just tell someone they're sacked. Especially as he hadn't done anything. I mean, I suppose it may be it would be classed as a gross misconduct and gross misconduct can be instant dismissal without anything, can it? But he didn't, to me, first of all, it didn't seem like it was that situation.

He was but he said something perhaps disrespectful to the boss. Is that gross misconduct? I don't think so. But, but the other thing is the top seller.

So what he did, in effect, was walk into the prison and pick on the toughest guy and pick a fight and win to show everyone else how he's the toughest. And it seemed like that the manager did that, or the owner of the company did that. So maybe he felt he was losing control of the sales force or of the staff, because other people were managing and you know, and he thought, oh, I'm gonna go in there and show everyone who's boss.

And he did. Because after that, it would be like a little whisper, the boss is coming. And everyone would sort of start behaving.

But then the atmosphere changed. The atmosphere wasn't as nice, wasn't as free wasn't as it was less playing around. And that was the thing that made the job fun.

Because jobs in call centers, they can be a lot of fun. If there's a little bit, you know, a little bit of freedom. Remembering if people remember how doing call center jobs, answering the phones all day, it's not easy work.

And some people say yeah, but compared to being a coal miner or being working in the steels, the steel industry, you're making a car in a car factory. It's not about that. It's not about what's physically harder.

Because clearly, if you're if you work in a bakery, or if you load lorries, if you you know, if you load lorries all day, or if you're a builder, your job is a lot physically harder, or intense than sitting in a chair in front of a computer all day, obviously, I mean, it's this, it doesn't mean it's, there's a different type, if anyone's ever done call center work, and I did about, how many years did I do? One, 2001, 2002, 2003, then 2005, 2006, 2007. But over a 12 year period, I did about eight, seven and a half, eight hours, seven and a half to eight years, maybe eight, nine years of call center work over a 12 year period.

So I did a few little bits in between.

I've worked in four different call centers, three insurance and one mobile phones. In fact, if you want to go back answering phones, I did that for four years previous as well. But that wasn't a call center, but it was helping out in an office taking bookings and stuff.

But that was just helping out. It wasn't a job or anything. That's where I got my, I get a bit of experience, I suppose, a bit of training on how to talk on the phone.

Because my friend liked, he liked my telephone manner. So I used to help him out and it gave me something to do. And this is for the comedy club.

I didn't get paid, it just, it gave me food and it just, I liked hanging around there. It's really hard to explain, but I loved that comedy club. You know, normally people say I'd work, I'd do this for free.

I did that for free, because I loved it. I didn't, it wasn't about earning money for me. I was quite unwell to start with.

So it gave me, I could have sat at home watching television all day, but I didn't. I thought, well I did for a while, but then I thought it was the opportunity to go out a little bit, you know, to go somewhere a few times a week and to have, you know, a meal, get a proper cooked meal and drinks if I want them and, you know, get to have a social life in a place that I loved. Now, I don't think I've ever loved, the only two places I've ever loved, houses, buildings, would be my nan's or my nanny granddad's house before it was sold, where she lived on her own from 91.

And I lived in, I lived in there when I was seven to eight, eight and a half, something like that. And then she moved in with my granddad. So that house was in the family and we moved in when it was new, brand new.

It was a council house. I loved that house, absolutely loved it. And I loved the comedy club, the building.

They're the only two places that I've ever really, I mean, do I love this place? I don't know. I think sometimes if something's too close to really see the reality, to get a perspective of, you know what, I'm very fortunate. You know, I've got my own home.

Yes, it's a, it's a council property. It's not mine. I don't own it.

But I waited from the age of 15 to the age of 45 to get this. So it's 30 years. So 30 years of working and waiting and also not applying, to be fair.

I didn't apply for, I applied for housing to be on the housing list a couple of times previous, but I didn't, I wasn't persistent with it. But this time I was and it came through. So I've been here since, what is it? 2015.

It's now 2022, which is weird. It's like, what, seven years I've been here, seven and a half years, no, seven years, seven and a bit. And quite a lot's happened in that time.

So I need to get a perspective of this place. Sometimes I need to just, oh, there's, there's good aspects to this place. It's, it's not so much the flat, it's other bits, like where it's, where it is.

You know, sometimes just a little thing like a supermarket across the road, or, you know, within five minute walking distance or something that would make the world of difference to everything. For me, it just makes things so much easier. Because it's okay getting a delivery, food delivery, but you can't get them every day.

Well, you can if you've got the money, but the minimum is like £40 for delivery. So I can't get delivery every day, pretty much like once a week, if that. But having a supermarket, it doesn't have to be a huge one, but good if it is.

It's almost like it gets me out of the shower, walk around the corner, walk to the supermarket, and just choose what I need for the day or for the next couple of days, for sandwiches, and maybe some milk, bread, fresh bread, things like that. It just, it can just add to quality of life, the quality of lifestyle, I think. And especially if it's like a big supermarket and it's got a canteen or a restaurant in there, that could be good as well.

So I can get like a cooked meal. And yeah, because I've had that in the past and I haven't had it for quite a while. When I was living, before I moved here, I was very close to a supermarket.

Now it wasn't a big supermarket, it was a Tesco, mini Tesco thing, but it still had pretty much everything I could want. I'm not like a huge fussy person when it comes to buying stuff. I don't need 30 different cheeses to choose from, you know? 27 is enough.

So I used to go in there and they had everything I needed pretty much. But if they didn't, I just walk up the road because I was in town. Everything was there that I needed.

There was takeaways, Chinese takeaway, there was a pizza place, kebab place, all literally across the road from where I lived. And it was just up the road from where I lived before, like when I was the previous place, which was I know about 10 minutes away, maybe seven or eight minutes away from the supermarket. And before that, they had a big supermarket, huge supermarket, just around the corner from me.

So it was 10 minute walk. And then just up the road, loads of takeaways and a petrol station where I could get off license, you know, beer and stuff like that. Blimey, I've been chatting for ages.

It just shows you, doesn't it? If I don't do one of these recordings, I've got all these words inside me just waiting to pop out of my ears. And they just have. So I'm going to stop talking now because I still didn't tell you about what happened today, did I? Never mind.

I'll do it another time. So thank you for listening. Please remember, remember, remember, remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy.

And remember to be gentle with yourself. Just, and you might say, what do you mean by gentle? Just gentle. Don't give yourself a hard time.

You know, start noticing what you're saying to yourself. You know, some of the things that you might say to yourself, I know we can be harsh sometimes with ourselves and just notice that and like, no, that's not acceptable. No.

Start just breathing that stuff out. Just being a bit more gentle. And it doesn't have to happen straight away.

It's not something like, I said, I'm going to be gentle with myself. And then you end up getting, you know, having a go at yourself and not being gentle, because then obviously you're not being gentle with yourself. Just take it easy.

Let it happen naturally. The more you do it, the more you start noticing, when you're not being gentle, gives you more opportunity to then just let that go. So some people see that as, and I used to with meditation, when I wasn't, you know, the one thing I noticed is I should notice when I wasn't following my breath or following the mantra or whatever it was that I was doing.

And I used to think, all right, just keep that, that, that's a sign that I'm not doing it properly. But it's not, it's a sign that you have been doing it properly. And when you notice when it's not, when you're not doing what you want to do.

So for example, you notice when you've been not being so gentle with yourself. That's not a sign that you're not doing it properly, whatever that means. It's just a sign that it means that you're doing it more often.

You're being more gentle with yourself. And you're reminding yourself that you're worth it, you know. I know it's starting to sound like a cosmetic advert.

But, you know, just be gentle. So part of the reason I'm talking about this is because, you know, when I, I don't want it to come across as just sort of a bunch of words. So when I say be gentle with yourself, I always says that every time.

It's meaningless. He just says that it doesn't mean anything if he doesn't even know what he means. I do know what I mean when I say it.

I know what I mean when I say be kind to yourself. And I know what I mean when I say you deserve to be happy. Now I can tell you what I mean every single time, but that takes a while.

But I have said it quite a few times over the years. And I can spend an hour telling you what I mean by you deserve to be happy. In fact, I think, honestly, I think if you're still awake, I think my relax and sleep, you know, my relax, hypnosis for relaxation.

I forget. Wait a second. Let me get my podcast up.

I've got too many podcasts. That's the problem. Not a bad problem to have really, I guess.

Let me have a look. Let me check to see if it's true because I've got a memory that on my relaxation, hypnosis, stress and anxiety. I've got an actual you deserve to be happy.

You deserve to be happy. Wonder where it is then. That's weird.

Happy. Maybe it's in my hypnotic buffet. Nope.

I don't know where it is then. Maybe, maybe it's in the healing words podcast. Let me have a look.

Nope. Maybe it's in motivational podcast. Yes, I knew I did a podcast called you deserve to be happy.

Oh, it's only 10 minutes long. But it's Jason's motivational podcast or daily motivational podcast. Okay.

I wonder if it's also in the Jason's positivity podcast. It is the same one. You deserve to be happy.

That's interesting. Wonder why it's not in anything else. Anyway, so I did, but I've talked about it a few times over the years.

I'm going to go because I'm just waffling and this recording might end up being way too way too big a file, which I might struggle to upload. So hopefully, hopefully not. But we shall see.

So thank you. Take care yourselves. Lots of love.

And I will. I aim. I aim.

I don't guarantee nothing but I aim to make a recording again tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next, next, next, next, next day and the next day and the next day until the end of time. So thank you for listening and bye bye. Lots of love.