#929 Interrupting dog Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (24th November 2022)

Hello, welcome to let me bore you to sleep. Hello, I've got the dog with me today, solo dog. He did you hear that? What he wants is he's staring at the biscuit tin.

Woof! He's looking at me like what are you doing? Dogs don't go woof. Right, only listen when you can safely close your eyes and relax. You've had enough biscuits.

All you've been doing is eating. The whole time you've been up here is eating. It's got to be more to you than that.

Hey, and farting. He actually does that when he sleeps. He likes to lay down with his bum staring at me and then he just lets all that out.

It's horrendous. It's really, really bad. How can someone turn something that tastes so lovely as a biscuit into something that smells so awful? You're right, everybody can can though.

Yeah, we all can do that. It's not special skill really is it? Our bodies are pretty amazing. So welcome, hope everyone's okay, hope everyone's happy.

Today is Wednesday the 23rd of November 2022 and he's gone off. I don't know, he's gone into the bedroom. Maybe he's gone to the front door.

He's looking for something. What's he looking for? That's weird. That's weird when he leaves the room because normally he stays wherever I am and he's back now.

He's having a little walk around, a little wander. But he can't get in the kitchen and the bathroom because those doors are closed. Bedroom's open, that's it, and the hallway and this room.

Basically what's happened is he's my friend's dog. Now my friend's got a visitor who's brought his dog with him and this dog here wants to eat the other dog, doesn't like other dogs. So they've been struggling to keep them apart all day and keeping one in the kitchen and one the bedroom and to alternate in so they can spend time one of them and keep the other separate.

So I said I'll look after him for a few hours tonight, take him back at 10 or whatever when I'm ready for bed. It's now 20 to 9. So yeah, by the time I finished this recording, uploaded it or edited it and uploaded it, it was time for bed really. Beddy, beddy, beddy, beddy times.

Which reminds me, where's my phone? There it is. Actually I'll do that later. So I need to plug the phone in and charge it up.

What I do is if I move it over there, I just don't want it to cause buzzing or anything like that. In fact, what I'll do is I'll put my headphones on just to make sure. Yeah, nothing.

Too many wires, too many wires. Honestly, I'm not a fan of the wires and they keep getting caught up in my chair and that's how I broke my last headphones. They got caught up in my chair, I tripped over and I trod on them and when I when I stand on something, it breaks, unfortunately.

Right, what I thought I would do today, what I thought I'd do today, something a little bit different. It sparked from yesterday's recording. I want to do something a bit more uplifting and there's not really much to talk about my life at the moment.

All I've been doing, I've spent most of the day on the toilet. So that's not something, that's not a conversation. There might be a conversation, might be a conversation starter but where does it go from there? So you do that often, do you? Spend a lot of time on the toilet, do you? What kind of toilet have you got? No, no.

So that's it really. I've been indoors. I've made a deep sleep whisper recording a few hours back.

So that's uploaded, edited and uploaded. And other than that, I'll be honest, I haven't done much today. I've not felt very well.

So I, you know, I've kind of forced myself to do the deep sleep whisper one and then I'm doing this. This is, it's a little bit late, too late to be doing anything else now because, you know, I'll go to bed after this. I've been up since four.

I had a few, couple of naps but I woke up at four this morning. It's about the normal time I wake up these days. Sometimes six but normally about four.

It's weird but I'm in bed by about ten, sometimes earlier. It's like the opposite to how it used to be. I don't understand.

So, oh, you want to know about YouTube? Okay, well, so far, subscribers still 784. No rise in subscribers in about two days, which I find kind of weird. In fact, I went up, okay, I had no subscribers on Tuesday and no subscribers today.

Monday I went up by three. So, you know, yeah, just the way it is. I'm trying to schedule at least one new video on YouTube every day.

Release it at 4am, just random time but it's supposed to be quite a good time to release videos. I'm not sure if it is or not. So I'm going to try and release one a day and just see how it goes because at least then I'm uploading more than, you know, an average YouTube channel.

The really successful ones upload regularly. But if I just do one a day then I'll be able to see whether or not it's going to grow. Once it starts to grow, I might start to do two a day.

Because if I'm, let's say, if I made two recordings today, not this included, and I'd upload them and turn both of them into videos. I did one today, a Deep Sleep Whisper, but I won't. I'll turn that into video tomorrow and I'll upload it so that it's released on Friday morning at 4am.

And even if I made three recordings, turn them all into videos, I'll upload them still one a day. So I might be, you know, a few days, even a week or so in advance. This is boring.

That's really boring, isn't it? Sorry. Sorry, everybody. I tried my best to be interesting, but it just didn't work.

I don't know why. What do you want me to tell you about statistics for the podcasts? Really? I didn't think you'd want to know that. Well, I really do believe that I used to be able have a men and women percentage, but it doesn't have it on there.

Someone said recently on YouTube that I clearly have my highest percentage is men that listen. And it's not the case on the podcast. I used to be able to get those stats, but I think I can on iTunes and Spotify.

But I have to go into each individual podcast app back door kind of to do it back door. So yeah. And also, just based on the amount of people that have messaged me over the years, it's 90, probably 95% female that have messaged me.

It doesn't mean it's 95% female listening. But it seems to be statistically, maybe 70% female to 14% male. Because we have to give up.

He's doing he's found an empty sweet wrapper on the floor. He's trying to get like any little morsel out of it. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what the maybe that's why they take the stats off now. The male female because perhaps they're being PC. And they don't upset anyone.

So they take those off. Because otherwise, it'd get really confusing, wouldn't it? To try and cater for everyone. Which is impossible, by the way.

It's impossible. Not everyone can be catered for. I'm not catered for.

My species is not catered for. What's your species? Never you mind. Okay.

Okay. Total downloads. This is valid because I think it was November the 18th.

Four years ago. That's when I started using Spreaker. Like continuously since that time.

So I've not gone anywhere else in those four years. 2018 1920. Yeah, since 2018.

The only I have opened other podcasts, SoundCloud and Podbean and things like that. But that's just experimental stuff. So since I've had these podcasts, this is all the podcasts all together.

And it's I think it was the 18th of 18th of the 18th of November 2022. I think that 18th of November 2018. Until now, which is it is now the 23rd.

So it's literally just over four years practically on the dot, apart from a few days. Total downloads. You don't want to know do you? Why am I telling you? You're not interested.

All right, let's get back to the thing I was going to talk about. And oh, you do want to know. Oh, now you want to know.

You don't want to hear about the stats, but you actually are interested. Okay. See, such a teaser.

Do you want to know or not? I can tell you I don't have to. I don't want to upset anyone. Do I? No, I don't.

I don't. You want to know how many downloads I've had? How many different times my recordings have been listened to since 2018 November? Four years. You ready? Drum roll.

It's not a huge amount, but to me, it's a huge amount. To other people, other podcasters listening to this might think, oh, I'll get that before breakfast. Joe Rogan possibly is the only one that can say that.

He gets that probably every day. Maybe more than that a day, but okay. I've so far accumulated 11,371,269 downloads, total downloads.

And total live plays, that's when I've actually broadcasted live on this platform, 40. So there, 11,371,269. That's not bad, is it? Really? I mean, what's that? 5, 10, 15, 3, 6, 9, 12.

3, 6, 9, 12. So that's over 3 million a year. I don't know how many I've had the last 12 months.

5,674,561. That's the last 12 months. Really? Okay, okay, got you.

Got you, got you, got you. Okay, let's actually do the year. Let's go from January the 1st, January the 1st till now.

No, because that's two years, that is. Oh, that's okay. Interesting.

Considering I've got 11,000 for four years. The last two years, that's without the end of November and December, I've had over 9 million. So from January 2021 until today, 23rd November 2022, I've had 9,005,363.

So that wasn't a month I was going for, though. He's just let off a fart. And, oh, all I can say on that is, oh, so far this year, I've had 4,590,090.

That's what I want to say about stats. So just just let you know. I'm just saying, because it's thanks to you.

I don't do anything, do I? It's, let's face it, I could sit here all day making recordings, but if no one listened, what would be the point? So it is down to the listeners. And which is you. So thank you.

I do appreciate it. Admittedly, January, February, March were the best months I had. And then everything dropped.

And it's kind of stayed at the same, you know, up and down a little bit, but stayed at the same kind of level between three and four hundred thousand a month. But in January last year, 773,000 downloads. February, 681,000.

Ain't that weird? December, I had 849,000. Now I realized that, oh no, I don't know why. I really don't know.

I mean, maybe I was just better. Back then. It's weird, isn't it? I did have better equipment.

I started getting decent equipment at the end of the year, probably shortly after Luce and Andre. I feel I put, tried to put all my energy into this. But that's when I started doing recordings with music.

Started doing the 10 hour versions. So I updated lots of the old tracks and uploaded them. So I uploaded loads of recordings every day.

I can't do that now because I don't have loads of recordings to upload. So I'm just uploading the ones that I make. Now, given the same situation now, I could, if I was uploading 20, 30, 40 new recordings every day and different versions of those recordings, I probably would be getting 50,000 downloads a day instead of 15.

But it's okay because that's not what I'm doing. I did all that. What I made the changes.

So basically what happened, I think December and January, November, December, January, it was really good. And then I was told that I couldn't have music. I couldn't have recordings with long bits of music at the end because it's podcasts and podcast isn't just music.

That's, that's not what it is. So I had to take all of those off and my stats went down, right? Because that was popular. The ones with just music at the end, just music, nothing else, no talking over the music.

But there is now. And I literally, I went to probably, let me have a look. I can tell you, I was getting less than 10,000 downloads a day, which was just ridiculously low.

Let's go back to January. Or do we have to? I think it's January or February. I can't remember.

I'm going to have a look. January, February, October, May, June, July. Did he, did he, did he, did he, did he, did he, January, January.

Why is he doing that? January, 2022 to 30. Okay. Oh, no, no.

Okay. So I was in January. I was getting 40,000 downloads, 35,000, 39, 37 at the beginning of the year, not the first, first of January, 17,000 and a half, still good for the first of January.

And then it went up, you know, 40,000 on the fourth. So January started off good, never really going below 20,000. And then, and then I did, and then it started going down when I got that message.

One day, I got 11,000. That was the 30th of January, February, 16,000, 22,000. So it's only going down to 10,000, 927.

So it went down. And what I did is if I remember, I can't remember the exact details, the exact details. But I started making new recordings with the new stuff, you know, with the background sounds, background music, but with affirmations and such like, such like, yeah, so it grew.

What are you doing, mate? Why are you acting so weird? He wants to get that other dog down there. Dog's pregnant. He's sick.

He's a sicko. So yeah, I had that period. So it went down.

Then I had to sort of try and get it back. So I managed to get it back to, you know, 17,000, 18,000, 12,000, 15,000, 19,000, varying in April, then May, I think it was a low month in May. Because yeah, it was quite a low month, 350,000.

But I was, I was away for a few weeks in May. So I had some, I had a couple of good days, but mainly it's quite a quiet one. June.

What happened in June? Very, yeah. So I went away, it must have been the end of May. Because the first few days of June, the first 12 days of June, I was pretty much nothing.

It was, I didn't need, just below 10,000. Literally, mate, go away. Seriously.

Don't take the pic. I've got a microphone and you're banging the desk and it's going to bang the microphone. The microphone.

The microphone. This is the Columbia's dog. He's like a dog version of me.

It's the most ridiculous thing in the world to have a dog his size in anything but a castle. And he's just farted. He literally farted while he's next to me.

Yeah. And he's facing the other way. Oi, up.

Get under the desk. Move, please. Thank you.

No, not halfway. The whole way. That's it.

Good boy. You can go to sleep on the couch. You haven't got to stay on the floor.

What? What do you want? Do you hear that? Yeah, that's what I need. More noise. Can you make more noise? Make more noise.

More noise. More noise. You know it.

Yeah. Bless him. So, yeah, he's annoying.

He's an annoying dog. I have such little tolerance for any, any, anything. Honestly, I'm such a grump.

Especially when I'm making a recording. I know that I'm going to have to sieve through the whole thing to find those noises he made to try and edit them out. It takes me an hour to edit a recording as it is.

That's when there's nothing going on. I'm just trying to sort of get it to sound okay. Try and get rid of some of the background sounds.

June was, you know, 340,000. It was nothing much happening. It was below 10,000.

It hasn't been a great year, really, for my podcasts. Yeah, and then it picked up again. So May, June, I'm not sure when I was away.

Then I got back, did a few, and it got up again. And then near the end of the month, I had 22,500, 21,000. Yeah, so it kind of grew a bit and I got it back above the 10,000, which is the minimum I should expect on a day.

Then July, good ends of the month, 15,000 or whatever. Yeah, maybe it's my inconsistency. I think that I'm consistent.

Maybe I'm not as consistent as I like to think I am. So August, good starts of the month. Every day's 13,000 to 18,000, 13,000, 15,000, 16,000, 17,000.

So it's good. It's a steady, steady amount. I'm doing maybe one recording a day, maybe two now and then.

And then the end of the month, it goes down because I'm away for a little while. So one day, the 31st of August, 5,434 downloads. That's ridiculous.

Absolutely ridiculous. So September, again, I didn't get back to, I don't know what day it was, but it was pretty slow until I got back. And then you can see the big jump up, it's the spike up.

But it's only 242,000 for that month. So it was quite hard to save that month. October, 328,000.

So it's been quite a slow year, really. Maybe I'm coming to the end of my... I like to think that there's still room to grow, but maybe it's not. Maybe I've done all I can do.

Oh, so this year so far, 4,590,679. That's all right, isn't it? And the months have started to grow back again. September was a low month because I was away.

You know, statistically, if I was going to try and sell you this as a business, I'd have no chance because the stats go from just under 800,000 a month to last, let's say last month was the last one because this month's not complete yet, to 328,000. Although September was less than that. July was less than that.

August, 362,000. So it's weird the way it goes, but they'll be looking at it thinking, well, it's going down. I think the next year will be a sign.

It'll be more of a sign. I mean, if that's it, then it's that, isn't it? If I end up with two people listening, then you know what? From an ego perspective, I'll probably still continue. I'll probably end up going on to YouTube and just doing them there and I'll get an audience on YouTube.

So there'll always, I guess, be an audience for what I do. Might not be a big audience, but YouTube can take years to grow, but it will grow. I've done it before.

And yeah, maybe this is happening with podcasts for everyone. Maybe podcast listening has gone down. You know, you don't know, do we? I mean, it's a possibility.

Perhaps people have got bored of me, which is not surprising because I'm boring and I'm supposed to be boring. I mean, the clue's in the title. I don't know.

That's a bit high pitched. Anyway, that wasn't really what I wanted to talk about today. So I wasted half an hour.

That's good. Right. I've got an idea.

Here's my idea. Okay. Excuse me.

I want to give you some quotes from some of these. Bob Proctor's another one who I didn't mention yesterday, and he wasn't on the list and he should be. He passed away really recently, like in a point where I was watching his YouTube videos and he was doing live broadcasts.

And then suddenly he wasn't doing live broadcasts anymore because he couldn't. I was like, wow, I think he was like 79 or 80 or something. So I thought maybe I'd do some quotes, read out some quotes of some of these really famous motivational people.

And I thought I'd start off with Earl Nightingale's quotes. So I can't guarantee that these will be correct, but I'm going to read them anyway. I'll recognize some of them probably because of I listen to him every day.

But because it's the internet, I can't be sure of what you're reading is correct. It's just not. It's quite difficult to know.

I'm getting this from a website called ink.com. Never heard of that website before. I don't really know what it is. You may have heard of it.

It looks like a magazine website. It's not asking me to subscribe. So it's giving me, no, it's giving me 37.

Is that how many it is? Yeah, it's giving me all 37 without blocking me and wanting me, you know, blocking me behind a paywall. Okay, so this is Earl Nightingale. And for some reason, it's got two children from Getty Images.

It's two children looking up at the sky with helmets and goggles on with little plane wings on their back. Okay, right. Is this why the headline is 37 Earl Nightingale quotes that will empower you to soar high? Yes, it's a cute picture.

I just because I didn't look at the title. All I heard all I saw was 37 Earl Nightingale quotes. Remember, everything begins with an idea.

Everything. Yep. Here we go.

Here we go. These are 37 quotes that will inspire and empower you to success and learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. It sounds much better in his voice. He's got this gravelly voice.

This Oh, sexy, so sexy. You know, it sounds like he's smoking about 10 cigars at the same time. It's really great.

Great voice. Anyway, your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. All you need is the plan, the roadmap, the courage to press on to your destination.

Okay, none of these really sound very familiar. Picture yourself in your mind's eyes having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing things that you'll be doing when you've reached that goal.

Okay, number six is let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand or don't let the fear of the completely different sentence than that with the word don't in front. Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of you doing it. The time will pass anyway.

We might just as well put that past in time to the best possible use. You know, my friend Noel said a very similar thing to me. He said, I was working for him and he said, I said to him, I think I'm I'd like to learn to play the piano.

But then I'm just going to take ages I don't know. And he said to me, look, in seven years time, either you'll be able to play the piano or you won't. It's up to you.

You'll be seven years older, if you learn to play the piano, because you chose to do it, or you won't be able to because you chose not to. Now get on and clean the toilet. And don't let, I did a whisper recording yesterday and I was talking about, I don't know, I was relaxing the different parts of the body and I said to move your jaw around.

Yeah. And then I said, by that I mean side to side, not from room to room, moving around your house. And it tickled me.

And I was trying to play it straight, you know, when I do those recordings, I try and keep it very together. And I wanted to laugh so much because it's such, I just had this visual of taking a jaw off and just putting it down in another room and leaving it there. I just, I don't know.

It was a bit silly. And don't, okay. Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal or ideal.

Yes. I can hear him say that. Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal or ideal.

Now he says that someone who, being rich and stuff isn't, that's not the only successful kind of person. If you're, whatever you do, if you do your best at it and you're the best you can be, then you're successful. So whether it's being a parent, whether it's being a car mechanic, whether it's whatever, drawing or playing the piano or whatever, you're successful if you actually put everything into it and you give it your all and you do your best.

It doesn't matter what the result is. I suppose it only really matters if you're, you know, if you're cooking something like, well, I'm a success because I did my best. Not good if you're food poisoning people.

And if you're playing a, you know, a recital of a piece of music that you've written and it's just awful. I mean, you're a success in a sense of you put everything into it, but you might need to keep it to yourself. Be successful quietly, you know, don't invite friends and family to come round to listen.

That's just personal experience. It's, you'd be more popular if you just invite people around to look at your holiday snaps or your wedding pictures. Like, why would I want to look at wedding pictures? I was there.

Look, this is me in my, this is me in my suit and my tuxedo. Yeah, I saw you. No, but this is when we got all together.

That's, that's, that's Susie's, that's Susie's family as well as our family. And all of us are great, great. Yeah, I was there.

I saw these people. I'm not married to her. I don't need to know who they are.

That's a bit rude. I turned up, didn't I? I didn't want to. Probably only about 5% of the people there wanted to be there.

You know, the rest of them just came because it's free beer and free food. And they were guilt-tripped to come. I'm sure that's not true.

Everyone loves weddings. Every single person loves weddings. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so everything begins with an idea. Everything begins with an idea. Yeah, everything does begin with an idea.

You can blame all this stuff that I do online with an idea I had in 2006. I was sitting at my desk with my laptop and a can of lager. Don't drink lager.

Don't drink at all now. My bookcase is behind me. Got two bookcases behind me.

Full of hypnosis books. Yep, check. Full of hypnosis books.

Isn't that weird? 17 years. Didn't have a dog on the floor. And it was a January, so it's nearly, how many years is it? 2006.

So January 2006. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. So it'll be 17 years in just over a month.

Is that right? 3, 4, 5. Yeah, yeah. So 17 years it will be exactly. So it's nearly 17 years.

Anyway. And to be fair, I'd already posted on my website at least a couple of recordings for people to listen to download or download and listen to. So it wasn't the first time I'd done it.

I started doing that in 2004. But this was new. You know, this is a new adventure.

I miss that. I quite like to have another new adventure. It's really hard to just, if it fits in with what I'm already doing, it's not really a new adventure.

It could be a segue. I have thought about dropping all the other stuff and just doing this podcast once a day, just for those that like listening to it. But then if I go too long without making a hypnosis recording, I have the urge to make a hypnosis recording.

I don't necessarily like doing it when I feel that I have to. But sometimes I'm like, oh, okay. Especially as if you have all these hypnosis books.

If I when I read a hypnosis book, it sparks me sparks my mind to sort of Oh, okay. I can incorporate that. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Success.

Okay. Our environment, the world in which we live and work is a mirror, a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Our environment, the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Not sure I understand that one. Oh, yeah. I'll be in a way.

We see we notice things, don't we? We see the world for our own eyes for our own filters, our own prejudices and attitudes and just it's weird, isn't it? Because you if I walk to the petrol station, pouring down rains, windy is cold, the cars are driving past too fast, splashing water all over me. And I get to the petrol station and maybe they're closed. You know, they're flooded and they're closed.

So you can't get in anyway. So I have to walk all the way up to the shops, which is about 20 minute walk. And I'm soaked already.

So I might as well just walk to the shop because I need what I need, you know, I need to get some milk or something like that. So I can't have any breakfast about doing that. So we'll go all the way up there and I'm getting absolutely splattered with muddy water all the way there.

And I get the milk. And maybe they don't have any milk. Or maybe I get the milk and I drop it on the floor on the way back.

It's something like that. It's like, oh, now if that happened, if I'd have if I'd have walked all the way to that shop and I met the woman of my dreams. You know, I hear that this happens.

I've never had experienced it. Not as an adult. I think I did when I was a kid.

But I don't know if it counts. Marilyn Monroe watching her in a movie. I don't know if that counts.

But I fell in love with Robin Hood. There was a woman playing Robin Hood. It was in a theatre when I was about five.

I fell in love with him, her. I knew it was a woman. And I just because it was quite a long thing.

It's quite a long thing. It's quite a long play. And I just, you know, I just really liked women when I was a kid.

I had a real. I don't know what it was. There was almost like I had a real.

I was awake to women, girls. I say women, girls. I love girls.

I had no interest. Boys bored me. Girls fascinated me.

You know, in junior school, I had friends that were girls. Before I went to high school, I had a lot of friends that were girls. I used to hang around with them.

I used to skip with them. I didn't care. I used to love them.

I had boyfriends as well. Friends that were boys. And.

But I love the girls. And then I got to high school. And it changed the girl.

I had a few friends that were female. But generally, I didn't really have hardly any female friends all the way through high school. Apart from just a small handful that I'd known right from first year all the way to fifth year.

But we just knew each other, you know, we dated or whatever through that time. And it's really weird because I don't know. Whatever mojo I had.

When I was 10, I seem to have lost it when I got to 11. And then some of the girls are still because they were a couple of years younger than me. So they came in.

They were. Yeah, they came to high school. Once I was in third year, they were in the first year.

But I couldn't hang around with them. You can't if you're in third year high school. You can't hang around a first year girls.

You know, I was 13, they were 11. It's just you can't do it if it's your sister. And I wanted to hang around them because they were my friends and I hadn't seen them for ages.

And they remembered me. I remember them. Sometimes I'd see them, you know, because I lived in a little town.

So I would see them sometimes like on the beach or whatever. If I was in a tree, you know, whatever. And.

You know, I was. I remember this one girl. Right away from being.

So let's say I was friends when I was 10. Nine, nine, 10. She was like seven or eight.

Yeah, it's a couple of years younger than me. And I was friends about three. She's probably about the same size as me.

But she she's lovely blonde. I think she was. I don't know.

It's like Dutch kind of. Swedish looking. I don't sweep it.

She had blonde hair and quite pale skin. She's just really liked her and her friends were just like, I think at that age is boys and girls are kind of the same. Yes, some boys have already developed.

I guess some girls are developing in that. But at the age of like nine, 10, most of them all kind of still children. I had a couple of friends or boys that were men.

You know, they were actual men by the time they were 10 and 11. You know, it's like grown. There was a bloke at school and he was as big as my dad when he was 11.

But he didn't know it. He's like he was a man, deep voice. He could grow a beard if he wanted pretty much.

He was big. And he was funny. And, you know, he's very, he's very confident, but he didn't know that he was as big as he was.

And he got bigger. There was no one there was, you know, pretty much among the biggest kids in the whole school. I don't think there's many people as big as him.

It wasn't so much the height is just big. So he was about six foot four. And I'd say probably weighed more than I do now.

In my first and second year, he was big. But he didn't. He didn't act tough until the last year.

So he was always getting it. He was always cocky and joking around, but he didn't get aggressive really, you know, it was only the last of the last two years, year and a half of high school, he started boxing. So he went to boxing and then he, he realized that he, I guess he was taking on people older than him, because they must have figured he was like in his 20s.

When he was only 14. He looked in his 20s. And he was taking on these grown men.

And, you know, handling his own, you know, so I think his confidence grew. And he wanted to prove himself. And the weird thing about it, he had nothing to prove.

Because no one ever gave him hassle because he was a giant. Among us. He wasn't a giant, not a real giant.

But he was big, big, big lad, you know. And nobody was ever going to pick on him. No one's ever going to try and get a fight with him.

Because he could just sit on you and that would be it. I remember once he punched me in the nose, and he just didn't, I don't think he was just messing around. But he ended up punching me in the nose.

And I like just collapsed in his arms. And he took me outside and ran around on me on his shoulders. For some reason, there's a bit weird, a bit random.

But he was my friend. And he came to my aid once. It's weird.

And this is aggressive stuff. It's not violence. It's aggressive.

And it was this, I think it was the fourth or fifth year, probably fourth year, because there wasn't much happened in the fifth year. The fifth year started in September. And it was one term until, you know, it was half term, but one term till Christmas.

And then the next term, there was just a few weeks, and that was the end of the year. I left in March. And didn't even have to turn up for half the lessons.

Because I wasn't taking any exams for some of them. So yeah, so it must have probably been the year before. But this kid started on me, and I don't know why, I must have done something to upset him, whatever.

And he was another friend of mine, but for some reason, he laid into me. So my other friend, the giant one, picked him up and pushed him against a big pane of glass. Like just like pinned him against it.

So we do. It was all peacocking, almost for the girls and you know, all that stuff. But I don't know why I was involved.

And it's weird because I didn't do anything. I mean, I don't think I don't think I did. I mean, maybe I've been rude.

Maybe I didn't open the door, leave the door open for him. Or I don't know, maybe I stole out of his wallet. I can't remember.

I didn't do that. It was something that, because that was weird, because no one ever started on me. That was a weird situation, because generally, I kind of, you know, just wouldn't happen.

And that's part of the reason why it wouldn't happen, because of what happened afterwards. And it's this kid got pushed. And the whole of this pane of glass cracked.

And you should have heard like that. Oh, because everyone was watching. You know, everyone stops when this stuff happens.

And I swear, I didn't care about it. I was worried he was going to go through. Oh, I started like, let him go stop.

And my worry that he'd hurt himself like the one that was being pushed against the glass, even though he'd like started on me, I was concerned about his safety. Now weird, isn't it really? Yeah, not weird as an adult, but I was a child. I was still concerned about him.

So I was thinking, I hope he hasn't hurt himself. But it was a it was a mixture of him being him being pushed. And also him contracting his muscles in his back, because he was also really muscular.

So it's like any shed the glass and cracked it in a shed. And then a teacher comes along and says, and they got that to go and stand outside the headmaster's office. And I went and spoke to them.

I said thanks to my friend. But the other one was supposed to be my friend as well. I said, What were you doing? Why were you doing that? Well, I don't you know, I don't stand.

And I can't remember what he said. I was too busy stealing out of his bag. Because I know he had some biscuits in there.

So I said the word biscuits. The dog's looking at me now. I said biscuits.

Biscuits. Yeah, the dog. And yes, I was like, oh, biscuits.

I wasn't stealing out of his bag. I didn't used to steal. I didn't.

I did, but I didn't. I used to like stealing off the off the teachers. But just things off the desk, like calculator, car keys, you know, things like that.

And it was just as a joke. So what I would do is I'd go up to the to the table, and I would ask a question. Now, they should have known that I wouldn't have understood the answer.

But they didn't quite know. So I'd ask a question. I'd distract them.

Because if you distract someone with your right hand, let's say you distract someone with your left hand, you can pretty much do whatever you want with your right hand. Not always the case that it doesn't always hold up in court. But he, you know, the teachers, I used to, like, nick their pen or nick the calculator, not to steal it, but just to, I'd kind of put it somewhere else.

So I'd take it off and maybe put it in one of their drawers or something in their desk. And like, it's usually only a few minutes later. Who's got my calculator? I'd start laughing.

Like, have you got it? I said, no. And maybe it's like, look in my bag if you want. I have not got your calculator.

So I'd empty my bag. And she said, what about the keys? Well, yeah, I've got your car keys. I said, you were a thief then, weren't you? I said, no.

She said, how do you work that out? If you've got my car keys in your bag, how can you not be a thief? I said, I can't drive. Besides, I don't know which car is yours. I said, well, you can just do the alarm.

Click the alarm and the car alarm thing will come on and let you know which car it is. I said, well, thanks for that useful information. I'll remember that for next time.

But I can't drive. So what's the point of me stealing something I can't use? She said, well, you stole the calculator. Oh, I can't believe she said that.

She's saying that Jason can't use a calculator. Did you hear that stupid noise that he makes? Everyone needs a dog with special needs. You're so weird.

If I told you some of the things he does, literally, go away. Seriously, mate, go away. Go away, please.

You're banging the desk again. And you farted. You're doing both two things that I specifically asked you not to do.

Please don't fart. Please don't bang the table. Because it bangs the microphone, which is connected to the table.

You're going downstairs in a minute. You've only got 22 minutes left. Why don't you do nicely? Why don't you play nicely? No wonder he gets annoyed with you.

You are annoying. Why can't you just be lovely? Always demand him. Always.

Honestly, it's like he's never eaten in his entire life. Ever. This is, you know, I have to have a biscuit.

I haven't had a biscuit. I don't know how I'm going to get the energy to actually, you know, crunch the biscuit. I don't have enough energy.

So I haven't had a biscuit for at least six minutes. You definitely have a blue badge if you drove. What? What high five? What? Do you need a toilet? Do you need a toilet? Do you need to do poos? Poo poos? I want to stand up.

If I do that and he runs towards the door, then I know he needs a toilet. You are annoying. Right, just for, I've been swearing, so I can't really cut that out.

I stood up to see if he wanted to go to the toilet and he jumped onto the settee and basically nearly knocked the biscuit tin off. That's all he wants. No, shut up.

No, shut up. Shut up. I'll give you a biscuit in a minute.

In a minute. You're not the boss of me. He thinks he's the boss of me.

What he forgets is that he can't beat me in a fight. I tried. He can't beat me.

When he tried to attack a dog when I was walking him, he got off the lead. He actually got the lead off himself. Trying to attack this dog and I managed to wrestle him down.

It took every ounce of energy from me. Shut up. Whining.

Whining. Go away. I think if he was my dog, I'd definitely have to drive him somewhere and just let him out and drive off.

Honestly. Yes, yes. You're annoying.

You're too big for this place. He's a huge dog. He's so heavy.

He stands on your foot. It's like being stood on your foot by a 17 stone gorilla. Seriously.

Or a bear. Isn't it? Yeah. You really feel it.

Thanks for ruining another recording. I nearly called him Andre. Thanks for recording, ruining another recording, my mate, my old doggy friend.

Yeah, he ain't coming back up here again. Normally he's quite good actually. He's late.

To be fair, I was saying biscuit. So that's probably the thing that got him going. It's just because he's so slow that it took him a few minutes to realize that I'd said biscuit.

He actually got hit by a car a couple of years ago. He didn't even notice. Seriously.

He ran out in front of the car. Car hit him and stopped. And he was just looking around like what? A dent in the car but nothing in him.

Like literally nothing. It's like how? It wasn't going fast but that's besides the point. It's like wow.

He walks into things. Honestly, he walks into walls. He walks into doors.

He walks like doing his desk. He banged it into the desk. It's like he doesn't feel anything.

I know he's got a very strong head. The skull is phenomenally strong. Like it's got one of the strongest skulls of any dog.

He's that breed that's got like a huge skull but nevertheless. Because I think big head but mainly it's skull. Not much of it's brain.

But then he's a dog. It's a dog isn't it? He's just a dog. He's an unusual dog.

I've known a few dogs and he's very strange. If you see pictures of him you'd love him. He's very cute.

You go oh don't be horrible to him. I'm not horrible to him. I'm not really.

I say horrible things to him but not very often. I just joke. I never do anything.

I would never do anything to harm the little boy. But he does wind me up in the heat of the moment. He winds me up when he knocks stuff off.

He's knocked equipment off the desk. He's broken stuff. Honestly he will eat.

He'll knock stuff off a table to get to things he wants to eat. About a year ago, maybe two years ago, I knocked on my friend's door. He answered the door.

He was literally at his front door for 30 seconds and then he goes back in. He put his plate of food down. The dog had the food.

There was a Mexican standoff between the two of them because my friend he just spent like an hour and a half cooking and the dog they really didn't like each other for a while. I feel I had to have him up here. I'm always defending the dog but he really is the strangest little dog I've ever known.

Mate, do you want to come over here? Come here. Come on then. Come on then.

See I didn't really get to read. You are at this moment standing. Okay now shut up now.

What we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Yep. You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

You are at this moment standing right in the middle of your own acre of diamonds. The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. That's true.

We only ever work for ourselves. Yeah but I get paid by an employer. I have a boss who pays me.

I work for her. See what I did with that? Her. See now? Not him but her.

See? I'm a... what is it? It now. I don't know. I work for her.

Him. They. Work for they.

You don't. We all work for ourselves. I work for another person.

That's why I think if I was an employer I'd only employ someone that was really wanted to do the job. I don't know. It'd be quite hard if it's cleaning toilets or something grim.

I've done that as a job a few times. That's not the nicest job in the world. Oh god I remember I had this one of my insurance jobs that I worked.

I was sitting on a toilet and the cleaner, the janitor whatever of the building came in and he was like cleaning the toilet and he's like yeah yeah he was yelling swearing at the top of his voice of his voice you disgusting pieces of... really shouting about the people that worked there and whoever particularly the person that had been in that toilet previously and he was really ranting. Now for some reason he didn't check to see if anyone else was in there. So when I came out I flushed the toilet which he must have heard.

I came out I washed my hands well I had to because someone else was in there you know couldn't just walk out you know like normal and touch everything in the office. So and he looked at me and you could see he was so embarrassed and he didn't make a peep. He was like whenever he saw me after that he was probably I don't know if I'd have complained he might have got in trouble he might have lost his job I don't know we should complain now to find out.

Now I understand the cleaning toilets thing but if you clean toilets don't don't moan about crap you know you're not there to clean clean toilets if the toilets were always clean they wouldn't need you you know it's don't moan if you're washing up if you're a kitchen porter don't moan that there's dirty dishes to clean if there wasn't you wouldn't be there yeah creativity are the biggest mistake okay creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm do each day all that you can all that can be done that day you don't need to overwork or

to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible of time shortest possible time let's say possible of time there is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or to sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard backyard please deck chair don't like deck chairs the more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal the more assuredly the idea buried deep in our subconscious will direct us along the path to its fulfillment oh here's one we will

receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service yep all you have to do is know where you're going the answers will come to you of their own accord people are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be whether they will admit it or not hmm controversial we can let circumstances rule us or we can take charge and rule our lives from within i like this one actually we all walk in the dark we all walk in

the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light and take responsibility for ourselves what's going on in the inside shows on the outside everything in the world we want to do or get done we must do it with and through people unfortunately your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind this next one is the most important one and normally he just i'll give you the two versions this is the version here but the version i hear more often says you are

now and you do become what you think about normally he says you become what you think about we become what we think about and i remember i had that on my it's a few years ago yeah a few years ago i had it underneath my television set or just like you know so i could see it every day and i had a visitor he was like what does that mean and they become what we think what does that mean then because he's proper intelligent you become what we think about um i thought well i'm not

going to try to explain it to you because i don't think you're going to understand and for me it makes sense but i guess it doesn't make sense to everyone but i could be bothered i just excellence is not a singular act but a habit you are what you do repeatedly so you become what you think about if you think about something if you look at a footballer a great footballer or a great gymnast or mathematician or whatever they're absorbed in what they're doing don't just think about it when they're doing it and think about

it when they're not doing it and they're they're the people that become successful like hugely successful you know they're the ones that become the top no nine-to-five person i don't think has ever got to the top of anything just because you need to you might only be at work nine to five but you'll be thinking about it when you're not there and that's not always necessarily a healthy thing but it's i don't know become what you think about if someone sits watching programs about horrible stuff which is the daytime tv's full of like really like

there's very little positivity on telly anyway but during the daytime it's really bad real life crime and stuff like that what goes in is what fills you up it's like you know you can cut an orange open you're not gonna be able to get lemon out you're gonna get strawberries out you're only gonna be able to get lemon out that's all that's going to come out of a lemon is lemon because that's what's inside it so if someone's just got that negativity that's all that's going to come out of them is negativity so the idea

is to fill ourselves with more positivity that's my idea anyway is more try to work on the more positive side of things and one of those things is if you're doing something because you know for the last nearly 17 years nearly every weekend friday night saturday night times when technically i should be out socializing you know i spent you know this is this is my middle my middle 30s when i started doing this i was 35 years old so i wasn't old and all my attention went on this all my attention went on making videos

and making audios and promoting it building websites all for this that's all i thought about i did it i was working full-time and i was working in the evening doing this you know i'd watch the x-factor but i'd have the laptop on my on my lap working on the website at the same time as watching youtube watching um x-factor so every friday saturday sunday night every night during the week holidays if i had to have time off always working and that's why i'm so successful today oh dear i ruined it didn't i i ruined it

by getting back to reality that's why what do you want why don't you go away go away oh you got it's like he knows the time there's two minutes before he goes back downstairs when i go back downstairs what do you want a biscuit right come on say goodbye woof woof woof woof woof woof woof say something say something see you later bye