#995 Protesters Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (20th April 2023)

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. I hope the sound is okay. I had a bit of a problem with the microphone.

It basically just collapsed on me and it's a little bit, I mean it's not a long way, it's only a few inches away from my mouth. But it's, I mean it's not normally inside my mouth but it's, you know, a lot of fuzzy noise here, staticky noise. I think the other laptop's downloading something so downloading, uploading, something like that.

Anyway, hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. My name is Jason Newland. My website is jasonnewland.com which is a wonderful place to go to.

It's a wonderful place full of stuff. There are pretty much all my podcasts are on there and every time I release a new recording it is available instantly on the website to listen to. Of course, you may choose just to continue listening.

Brilliant, do you hear that? The other laptop, shush. So yeah, if you're listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, wherever it is, cool, thank you for listening. Just to let you know you can listen on my website.

So, oh yeah, only listen to this podcast when you can safely close your eyes. And today is Thursday the 20th of April 2023. It is 12.32 in the afternoon.

Yes, yes. So I've just got my phone here. Let's have a look if I stick it on.

Yeah. Oh, I know what I'll do. I know what I'll do.

Yeah, that's it. So it's been a few days since I last did a recording. I haven't really been able to make one for a few days.

But here I am. I'm back. Wah wah wah.

I've also did a new Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis podcast episode and that's like 45 minutes long. So that was pretty cool. So I've kind of managed to managed to get my motivation kick started.

So what's been happening? What's been happening? Well, the weather has improved somewhat. I mean, for I don't know, it seemed like for weeks that we just kept having rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, all the time, rain. And out of all the weather that we have, that's the only one that really that kind of disrupts me a bit.

Because I don't care how windy it is. I don't care how cold it is. Even snow.

I don't get wet in the snow. It kind of just brushes off you, doesn't it? I mean, the ice, the ice, you know, after the snow, not so great. But as far as weather, it's the rain because I don't, I don't enjoy getting wet.

And because I'm taking Vinnie out for maybe four or five walks a day. I, you know, it's like, I don't want to keep having to change my clothes. Which sometimes I do.

I get home and have to take the clothes off because they're soaked through. And I don't like putting a jacket on my coat that's still wet, even though it's on a hook and it's above a radiator. Sometimes it just doesn't get dry enough.

And I'm putting a, oh, it's like putting, it's not like putting dirty underwear on, but I'm guessing for a wedding. No, I don't know. It's, it's, it's kind of just doesn't feel very nice.

It's, it's, it's like kissing a squirrel. I mean, I love squirrels, but I wouldn't want to kiss one. You know, it's nothing like kissing a squirrel, is it really? But you know, it's not pleasant.

It's not pleasant. It's like kissing me. That's it.

That's a good, that's a good, yeah. It's like kissing. So yeah, the weather's cheered up somewhat.

It's been a lot brighter, blue skies, sunny, still a bit chilly, but I don't really care about the temperature really, if I'm honest. I'm not really a walkabout in a t-shirt kind of girl. It's not really, well, I don't have the body for it.

You know, that's, that's the, the, the basic fact. I don't feel, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't particularly like walking around in a t-shirt. Now, there's certain kinds of t-shirts I will walk around in, but they have to be very loose.

Not necessarily around the shoulders, but definitely around the belly button area, that region, because, oh, I've got an itchy armpit. That's nice. Didn't need to tell you that, did I? I thought I'd just, you have to have a little sniff, don't you, just to see whether or not, no, it's still okay.

Don't need a bath this week. So it's, I do like the weather, you know, getting better, but I'm more of a, spring is kind of my time of the year. I do like the spring time when it's not raining, but spring is definitely a very wet time, generally in this country that I abode.

But we also have really nice weather. What's the stupid, what are you doing? Why is the laptop keep going, I don't know why it's doing that. I can't be bothered to get up, so hopefully it's not too loud.

I can, I will get up actually. Wait a minute. I'll get up.

Yeah, I just got up and muted the laptop. I think it's just notifications. But I don't really need to hear it.

I'm not that interested. It's the same reason I don't have sound on my phone when someone sends me a text message, because I'm not interested. In hearing, what was it? What was the tune I used to have? Stuff like that.

I found it annoying first thing, when mobile phones were very first came into the public consciousness. And people would be in on a train or a bus. And the whole journey, if you didn't hear them talking loudly on the phone, you'd hear text messages.

And it's almost like they're on a text message, the whole hour and a half, and it's just constant. I forget the sound, but there's different sounds for the peak. There was a regular sound that came with the phone.

I think it was the Nokia, which had a specific tune. If you didn't change it, it was the same tune. And I think also the iPhone did as well when it first came out.

And then there's also a specific tune, or like a short sound for text messages. And you can adjust the sound level, the volume. And the amount of people that seem to have them on full blast surprised me.

I don't know why anything surprised me when it comes to the general public, but it's just like, why is it so loud? Especially when they created phones that could vibrate. I mean, who wouldn't want something vibrating in their pocket? I mean, I used to have two phones so I could phone myself just to enjoy. Anyway, so I used to have my phone on mute and I put it on vibrate.

Once the novelty of having a mobile phone wore off, it was a novelty for the weeks. And, you know, even then I was a bit late to the game. Not hugely late, but a little bit late.

But probably I got my first mobile phone in probably the tail end of 1997. Perhaps the beginning of 1998. And I did date someone that had a mobile phone in 1996.

But there was a period when the mobile phones, you know, like the original ones were just huge bricks, big old things. And it was people used to have them in cars. Some people had phone car, not car, car phones, not phone cars.

And some would walk around and almost have a good backpack on them so they could have an aerial and so they could phone people. And I used to, you know, in London, that's where lived at the time, there was phone boxes pretty much everywhere. They were everywhere.

I don't think they're anywhere anymore. So I just use a phone box and, you know, make phone calls that way. But then I never really wanted to have long conversations with anyone.

So it was only ever, I mean, the good thing about phone boxes is you phone someone up saying I'm just a family or whatever. Just a quick call just to see how you are. Hope you well.

And I can't talk for long because there's a queue of people outside waiting to use the phone. Of course, this wasn't always true, but it's still, you know, it's just like, well, it's a very short call. How are you? That's nice.

Bye. And it was kind of done. Because to be honest, if I was going to have a like a private conversation, that maybe lasted for a deal of time.

I didn't want to do it in public. I didn't want to do it outside, standing up with someone standing behind me waiting to use the phone. I've done lots of those conversations, but I didn't really enjoy it because it was felt a little bit, you know, I prefer to be indoors, sitting down, perhaps watching telly.

At the same time, drinking a cup of tea, perhaps a buttered scone, you know, just generally throwing a javelin, you know, just general things that you do when you're on the phone. And I standing up talking on phones in public wasn't really my thing. Now, there was a time that I loved talking on the phone, to be honest, I did.

But that all came to an end after working in call centers. Yeah, I went into work in, was it 2001, I started working in call centers. And the last call center job I had was 2014.

And after that, after thousands upon thousands of phone conversations at work, I really just, the novelty had worn off. I think that's worn off. I think that's a good, good phrase.

It was worn off. I didn't particularly enjoy talking on the phone anymore. I've overdone it.

You can have too much of a good thing, maybe, maybe that's what it is. In the early days, I had a good laugh. In the later days, it was just a bit tedious.

It was, it was a chore, sometimes. Not helping people, I liked helping people, but it was just not everybody phoned up because they wanted help. Some people phoned up just to moan and meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh.

And it was, yeah, it was, yeah, I think, I think jobs like that, for me anyway, sitting on a phone, well not sitting on the phone, but answering the phone, making phone calls, whatever, for eight hours a day, week in, week out for years and years, is I think it takes a special kind of person to be able to do that for any length of time. I did it for quite a long time, but some people can do it for decades, I guess, some people can. And I don't think I was someone that could do that.

It just, it just got very, I found it difficult. I mean, sometimes I would take it personally. You know, someone was rude to me, and they weren't, it wasn't personal, because the only way it can be personal really, is if someone knows you.

It's like someone could say anything about my mum, but if they don't know my mum, and they don't know me, it's not personal, is it? They're just saying it to annoy me. Or to make me laugh, depending on who they are. If somebody knows my mum, you know, if I'm at school, somebody that's never met my parents says, oh, I'm trying to think, trying to think of an insult, I don't know, I can't think of any, that someone might say.

You are, your mum lives in a well, or something like that, I don't know if that's an insult. Your mum looks like a giant ant, I don't know, is that an insult? So whatever, whatever the thing might be. Now, if it was someone at school, even if I've known them for years, even if I didn't know them that well, or I'd sat next to them for years, if they've never actually met my mum, then it's not really an insult.

It's, it, it's, they're trying to annoy me, or wind me up, or get a reaction, but it's not personal, not really. But if a, if one of my friends who has visited my house, and seen my mother, says something like that, then it's personal, isn't it? So that's how I kind of felt with, in case you've forgotten why I'm talking about this, with people that would, you know, in the call centre, I know I didn't get that many people that would say stuff about my mum, it didn't happen very often. But yeah, the call centre was weird.

I heard, I've got to share this, I've got a friend who, at the weekend, this weekend just gone, there was two demonstrations at sporting events, big sporting events. And the first one was at the Grand National on Saturday afternoon, or was it Sunday afternoon, I don't know, one of them. And the protesters, there was people protesting about for the horse, horses and stuff.

And they ran onto the field and were trying to sort of disrupt, well they did disrupt it, but trying to stop the horse race. That's the first thing that happened. The next day, the World, the World Snooker Championship started.

And I don't know if it was Sunday or Monday, whenever, but someone from the crowd jumped onto the snooker table. I wonder if anyone listens to this calls it snooker, snooker. Did they say roof instead of roof, tooth instead of tooth.

You're saying it wrong. So the snooker table, and there was two games going on at the same time with a partition. A bit, not the same kind of partition that was in India, but it's, it's just a, just to basically to partition the two games, but it doesn't stop the sound.

So it's weird that if someone farts or makes a coughing sound or anything like that, I don't mean coughing as in wooden, you know, forever home, forever bed thing. I mean like and when the snooker player is about to take a shot, they get so angry. Uh, the referee or umpire, whatever, there's like looking around who made that sound? Who farted? Like a small sound like that, but it's okay.

If they're about to take a shot and the other table is playing, that whole crowd around that table will start clapping. That's okay. A big roar is clap, but someone coughs.

Oh, how dare you cough? I mean, what would be more distracting? You're about to take a really important shot. Someone going, or like, you imagine I'm not going to do it, but loads of people, like a hundred people clapping, probably more than a hundred. I'd say the clap would be more distracting than the fart, but that's just my personal opinion.

I'm not a professional snooker player anymore. I got bored with it. It just took up too much of my time and I decided to take up yo-yos instead.

I didn't get to the same levels, the same heights of success and super stardom because yo-yoing isn't quite as popular as it used to be. Anyway, it's not about me. So someone got onto one of the tables and poured all this orange powder all over the table.

Well, not all over, but like over a lot of the table, messed the table up. It was a bloke and he just kneeled down and he got pulled off the table. The other side of the partition is there was a lady, I think, who tried to climb onto the table, but she was stopped from doing so.

So they didn't ruin the other table. But it was, it was something, I think he had a t-shirt with stop oil on it. So it was a stop oil protest and it was in the news.

It might be in the news where you are. I mean, the snooker is quite popular worldwide and I don't know if where you are. What's that noise? That's strange.

Does that not sound like someone just touched the table and made the table go wobble? Go wobble? Wobble. Shake. We know what wobble means.

So, so this happens. So two things in a row. They're talking, well, they're talking, they've actually warned whoever they are, I don't know which group, that they're going to disrupt the London Marathon this coming weekend.

So that'll be interesting to watch. I don't normally watch it, so I might do this year just to see. And I guess they'll only, the only time they can really, well, I don't know, they can disrupt the beginning.

I'm not quite sure how they would do it, because there are thousands upon thousands of runners. And I don't see how they could even block it because the runners just run around, wouldn't they? You know, with the cars, when the, some of these groups, they stop the traffic around the country by sitting and lying in the road. Now that's not going to work with people running, because just jump over them, wouldn't they? Just run around them.

So I'm not really sure how they're going to disrupt the London Marathon. Unless, of course, they win it and at the end saying, ah, I'm not really a contestant. But yeah, I don't know.

Contestant, that's not the right word, is it? So I'm not sure. It'll be interesting to see how they're going to do it, because they don't, they don't let you know beforehand, but they have said, we're going to, we're going to disrupt the London Marathon. Now, luckily, my marathon days are over.

After the 54th one, I thought, ah, that's enough now. You know, it's fun and it's great to all the millions of, the millions of money that I raised for charities. It was, it was good fun.

You know, it was, it was nice, but I don't know. I just felt that my knees, it wasn't good for my knees, all that running. So I kind of had to quit.

I had to give it up in the end. I didn't have to, but I thought, you know what? I might need my knees when I get older. But you know, they might, they might, they might be useful.

So got to take it a little bit easy. Got to be careful with your knees when you get older. They've got to, you know, they've got to last for the whole of your life, haven't they, really, knees? It's only, I mean, it's only when I've hurt a knee that I've realised, oh, I didn't realise how much it didn't hurt before.

Because you don't notice things when it's not hurting, do you? You don't know, oh, oh, none of my bones are hurting. That's good. It's like, we don't do that, do we? But like, sometimes, because I used to, I remember I nearly chopped my leg off once with an axe.

And I didn't mean to do it, by the way. It wasn't some kind of weird, gradual self-elimination, like, I'll do my leg first. But it was, it was, I had an axe and I was cutting a tree down.

And I think the axe was blunt, to be fair. I think the axe bounced off the tree and hit my, hit my knee. Or I just missed the tree altogether and hit my knee.

I'm not sure. One of those things happened. The end result is I hit my knee with the axe.

And it really hurt. You know, I was on the floor. It was very hurtful.

And I was at the bottom of the garden, which isn't really relevant to the story. But I just wanted to give you the setting. So the bottom of the garden, there was a fence, there was a factory behind us.

There was trees, there was the, there was the ground. I was standing on the ground. Handy for standing on groundies.

And there was oxygen in the air. But I just used to have a plum tree near the bottom of the garden on the right hand side. If you, if you're at the bottom of the garden looking towards the house, the plum tree was on the right hand side.

But if you was at the other side of the garden, the other, the other, you know, where the house is looking at the, towards the bottom of the garden, it's really weird. But the plum tree was on the left. I didn't really get my head around that.

It's like the trees change sides. It's weird. So I used to drop plums as trees do, well plum trees especially.

And I never liked plums. But because we had a plum tree, and during plum season, we had plums with everything. Plum pie, plum cross crumble, is it crumble? Plum custard, plum breakfast cereal, I don't know, just plum curry.

Everything, plums, plums, plums, plums, plums. I don't like plums. But it's a gift from nature.

It's a gift. It's, it's naturally produced. So is my poo.

Doesn't mean I want to eat that. I thought to myself, I didn't say that out loud. Blimey.

And it's like, it's naturally produced. It's, it's a, it's a gift. It's not a gift.

It's horrible. They don't taste nice. Admittedly, admittedly, they could taste nice.

If you put about 16 bags of sugar in with them. They tasted lovely, but I'm pretty sure anything would taste nice. If you put that much sugar in with it.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure a boiled alien's head would taste nice if you added sugar, enough sugar. E.T.'s head. E.T. go home.

Nope, you're going into the boiling pot. Well, E.T. was on TV at Easter. I hadn't seen it for years.

And that's all I've got to say really about that program, that film. I, I remember what, I don't remember, but I know I did go to the cinema and watched it. And I remember knowing that, or preparing myself to cry because that's what I was supposed to do.

I was, I knew that I was supposed to have some kind of an emotional connection with the alien. And I think I might have cried. I'm not sure.

But I'm pretty certain that in my lifetime, since I've been aware of what's going on, you know, like movies and stuff, E.T. was the most pumped movie ever. The most publicized, most talked about movie I think I've ever known. Even more so than Star Wars or Titanic.

Or Avatar, even though Avatar, the first Avatar is the biggest box office hit of all time. But E.T. was just huge, huge. And those that weren't around in them days, because there's plenty of people that weren't even alive back then.

I don't, you're never really going to realize, and it might sound like I'm just making up, but I never make things up. Never have. Everything is truthful from the start to the end.

Every single thing. Even when I was a monk, living on that, in that mountain cave, I remember thinking to myself, not sure if I should mention this because people might think I'm making it up. So when I'm doing a podcast in a few years time, when the internet's created, I might ask, should I mention that I used to live in a cave on the top of a mountain, a mountain.

Some people just don't believe, do they? Some people just don't believe what we say. Assume that it's fibs, but it might not be fibs. Not everyone's a fibber.

Fib, fib, fib, fib, fibber. Fib, fib, fib, fib, fibber. Sorry, I don't know why I'm saying that.

So yeah, did a, did a deep sleep whisper hypnosis recording earlier. That was pretty cool. That was pretty good.

But now I'm thinking, I wonder what the sound was like, because I can, I can, I've got editing software to change the sound anyway. Anyway, but I try not to, if I can help it, because it's extra work. And I can use the audio software to a degree.

It's more sort of self-taught, rather than watching videos or learning how to use the Adobe Suite, the Adobe audio software, editing software, or even the video software. I can use it to kind of, to a level, to a level. But it'll improve.

I'll improve as I go along. As I go along, things will get nice and better. Nice and better.

So what was I talking about? Working in a call centre. Bumble, bumble, bumble, bumble, bumble, bumble. I don't know.

ET. Yeah, yeah. Why was I talking about ET though? Plums.

How did I get from plums to ET? The axe on my knee. How did I get from an axe in my knee to ET? How did I get from a call centre to hit myself with an axe? Another thing that I used to do with my knees that wasn't particularly good and not hugely pleased with myself, but I was a little kid, so hey. When I danced, and I'm talking the ages of like seven, eight, nine, to about 32, I used to do Shaken Stevens dance.

And those that don't know who Shaken Stevens is, he was pretty much the closest thing to Elvis that we had in this country. He was, he was, I might think I'm joking when I say that, and I kind of am, but I'm not. He was the biggest selling recording artist in the UK throughout the whole of the 80s.

In the UK, like selling in the 80s. So that doesn't include people like Elton John that sold millions in other countries. This is in the 80s, not 90s, in the 80s.

He was the biggest selling British artist in the UK. And he had lots of number ones, he had like about 700 hits. And he was my favourite singer.

Behind the green door, it's raining so hard, and then it's gonna rain all night. He did so many songs, he did lots and lots of songs. And his backing group was the Sunsets, so the Shaken Stevens and the Sunsets.

And I had quite a few of his albums. I really did. And I loved him.

I did, I did. And he had, he kind of dressed like an early Elvis. You know, when Elvis was very young, you know, in the 50s, he kind of dressed a bit like that.

So he'd dress in, he'd have his quiff, his hairstyle was very Elvis-y. He had a, like a teddy boy, he dressed like a teddy boy, basically, which was probably more 60s, wasn't it? I don't know. But he dressed like that.

And he, sometimes he'd have jeans on, and he'd, he'd wiggle his hips. And he'd go down, he wouldn't go all the way down. I should change that terminal.

He'd, he'd kind of go down like he was kneeling on the floor, but he wouldn't. His knees would go halfway down, then it's, you know, like dance like that, which was a bit Elvis-y as well. Well, I went all the way, and I used to dance like Shaken Stevens, or Shakey, as you know, we used to call him.

But instead of only going halfway down my knees, I would actually slam my knees on the floor. So I'd go from standing up to kneeling down, literally just by bending my knees and smashing on the floor. It was a silly thing to do.

No one told me not to do it, unless they did, and I just didn't listen. I imagine some people thought, he'll learn. They clearly didn't know me very well.

And every time I'd hurt my knees, but it didn't stop me. I kept going. And I remember, you know, I'd go, anytime there was a birthday party, you know, with my family, or there was a wedding that we went to, something like that, I'd always dance by Shakey Dance.

And this is the late 70s, early 80s, probably late 70s more than that. I think once I got to about nine or ten, I stopped doing it. Kind of, maybe.

And I remember I'd go to school the next day, maybe this is Saturday night, and I go to school on a Monday, and the teacher said, oh, you're doing your Shakey Dance again at the weekend. And I said, how do you know? He said, well, you're on crutches. You're always on crutches when you come, when you've done that, because you break your knees.

I said, I don't always break my knees. I never had crutches. But I did limp a little bit.

It did hurt. I don't know why I kept doing it. It hurted.

But I was, I was very dedicated to my craft, very dedicated to wanting to be the best Shakey dancer in the world, or at least on that dance floor, under the age of ten, under five foot tall. I'm hearing what sounds like food being eaten. But Vinnie's not even in here.

He's in the other room. How weird. That is a bit strange.

Oh, anyway. Never mind, eh? Never mind. So it's a lovely day today.

Very blue skies. I was supposed to go and see, there's a birthday party this weekend, like a family get together. But unfortunately, a member of my family's got COVID.

So it's being called off. So, you know, I'm sending wishes to her, hope she recovers and everything. And I just got back from a cruise.

So I'm guessing she ain't going to be the only one that's got COVID. It's, I'm not saying cruises cause COVID, but, you know, stuck on a, not stuck, but being on a, in a ship like that, I guess. I don't know.

I love, I'd love to go on a ferry, on a cruise. I really would. I know it doesn't always have the best reputation or whatever, you know.

Especially at certain times, but I just, I think it's, I love them. I love ferries. I've never been on a cruise.

I've gone on ferries over to, when I was younger to, what's it? Belgium. That's it. So I went a few times to Belgium when I was a kid and I just loved it.

I loved the ferry. I loved, especially cause I was little, everything was big. I mean, ferries are big anyway, but I was just, it was just phenomenal.

And I'd run around, maybe find other kids to play with. I'd run around and it'd just be never ending fun. Oh, I loved it.

I really did. There's a real weird sound around here at the moment. My tortoise got weird.

It started to continually flush. Not like constantly, like football, just like dripping. Not a stuff you have on toast.

If you get a time machine, go back to 1934, but dripping as in drip, drip. I know they don't make the sound drip. I don't actually say the word when it drips, but beep, beep, beep, like that.

I think that was a perfect sound of a drip. And you might be thinking, yep, you really are a drip, which is very unkind to say something like that to someone. I'm not a drip.

I'm a very nice person. I pretend to be. So yeah, it's nice, nice weather outside.

I'm trying to, I'm looking at trying to make some longer videos for YouTube. The 10 hour ones, and seeing how I can go about doing that. Using the Adobe software, because I did play around with it a while ago, a few weeks ago.

And it's a case of, I don't know. I'm just, I'm not sure. I want to, I want to do it.

But as far as the file sizes is so big, where will I store this stuff? I'm gonna have to get a storage thing to put it on. And it's just going to take up so much space. And I don't want to upload it to YouTube and then delete it.

So YouTube's the only place where it is, because then that's not a good idea. Generally, because if I lose the video, it's gone forever. Especially after all that work of producing it and editing it.

I won't lose the recording, the record that the video is based on. Yeah, so I'll just see. It's, you know, I mean, I've got a backup thingy, memory card or whatever you want to call it, two terabytes.

But two terabytes isn't a huge amount, really. Not when you're dealing with the amount of stuff that I've got. Each video could be 10 gigabytes each.

It could be more. I mean, you know, this is really not a huge amount, especially 10 hours worth of video. In fact, it probably would be more.

One hour's of video would probably be a couple of gigabytes, maybe four, five. So yeah, I could end up with about 50, 40, 30 gigabytes, 30 gigabytes per video. Which is not ideal, really.

So I'm just going to see. I'm going to play around with it today. Have a little potter, little pitter, little look, little, you know, little this, little that, to see whether or not it's possible.

And see if I can just find out how much storage I've got. How many videos I could store before I run out of space. And I don't think it would be that many.

I'd have to get more space, more external drives, you know, memory drives to store the stuff. And they're not cheap either. They're not.

And the thing is, the cloud just always seems to have a limit. And with iCloud, and that's two terabytes. Why can't I have a million terabytes? Why is there a limit? You know, it's like $6.99 for two terabytes, and that's it.

All right, give me more. Offer me, you know, charge me more, but give me more. Charge me 20 quid and give me, you know, 20 terabytes of space.

And they're in a good position because once you've filled up that amount of space online, you have to keep paying them because where else are you going to keep the stuff? If you don't, you have to go out and buy an external drive, or maybe four or five of them. In order to, you know, to take the stuff off the cloud and put it on there. So it makes sense for them to offer really large amounts of space.

But from the other side, it's not as quick. Because if you've got a hard drive, external hard drive, disk space rather, it just, it's not a hard drive, it's a, I don't know, memory card, whatever it is. It is kind of instant.

But if you're downloading or uploading or downloading to the internet or to the cloud, it depends upon your internet speed. With the external drive, it depends upon your computer speed. And maybe the speed of the drive as well.

So it's quick, it's pretty quick. So yeah, I'll look into it. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

It's also time now. It's 1.23 in the afternoon. I could quite do with a ginger nut biscuit.

Isn't it weird? Is that a weird thing to say? I like ginger nuts. I do. I do, I do, I do, I do.

I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do. I do, I do, I do, I do. I like ginger nuts.

I got these things a while back and they were ginger nuts, but they had chocolate on them.

but they were ginger inside and really nice like really really nice i don't remember what they're called maybe they were ginger snaps maybe but they were i think it was dark chocolate as well it's like really oh oh it was like oh oh yeah i do i do like a bit of ginger i used to eat tangerines quite regularly i had a job and this is back in well i ended the job ended in 19 no not 19 in 2007 summertime so it was a few months before i started my degree in counselling and i've

been there since yeah september 2004 but i've been doing the job that i had since january no december 2005 and that was listening to people's calls i was the compliance a compliance officer checking the people doing the job right and everything among the only jobs that i actually enjoyed doing actually and every day i think i'd have at least one is it tangerine what's the other ones they're similar but i'd buy loads of them and you could always know when they're ready because their the skin would be loose not not loose as in you know

decayed but loose so they would open it and it'd be perfectly ripe and maybe it's because i had them every day that i got to i got to know just through touch that they were ready to be enjoyed and i think sometimes i'd share them with others and i preferred them much more than banana not bananas um not apples some of the things that are similar pineapple no peaches oh the orange things the oranges yeah oranges i don't oranges are a little bit too for me a little bit too citrusy unless it was clementines but

i had but they were lovely and they were sweet and they were just perfect perfect effect i was very happy with them they were superb they really they really were superb superb and i had a lot of fun what's going on so i yeah i used to eat them and it was i don't know why i remembered that but for some reason i felt the urge to tell you because it sounded like a really interesting story and to my surprise i was right it was among the most interesting stories i've ever told yeah i used

to sit down in the chair as well when i ate them and i had this this desk and there was a drawer a set of drawers like but used to have wheels so it used to be able to not drive off or anything but it would slide underneath the desk and i'd have a key to lock the desk or to lock the the drawers i don't really need a key there was nothing of interest in there but i'd have some biscuits and i'd have bottles of water and you know pretty much stuff like that so

it wasn't and pens sometimes i'd have pens and i think there's anything else what else would i have in there unless it was paperwork i needed to do it might have been i don't recall i'm pretty sure everything was done on the computer is all spreadsheets i'm pretty sure pretty sure i know when i first started working there my boss let me have access to the the back door of the system and he said oh could you make some changes and i messed everything up like really messed up the computer system for the whole company

accidentally i didn't mean to do it and it really caused problems but luckily my boss was also the it man the it person there and he had a backup of the original server you know so he backed it up and i wasn't allowed to ever again to touch that stuff i was banned and it wasn't part of my job anyway just he wanted me to help him with something and then he left me to it i didn't know what i was doing so i ended up deleting stuff that shouldn't have been deleted and yeah that

was i really thought i was going to get sacked because until he said well i did i managed to i did have a backup and he got it all back but it would have cost the company i think quite a lot of money so yeah luckily luckily lucky luckily thanks to backup it was okay which brings us in a circle back to no it doesn't does it actually no i was gonna say it doesn't bring us back to a circle of anything yeah chopping down a tree no that doesn't really no blue sky no no

although it was a blue sky when i left that job yeah i like that is one of the only jobs i enjoyed that i liked because i was good at it and i liked it as well you know listening to other people's calls marking making sure i did a job properly i'm pretty well back then i was very precise very literal which i had to be for that job very focused and i had done the job so i knew how to do what they were doing at least the sales department anyway so when i was

listening i could mark it and no one could say well you couldn't do what we do because i could and i did in fact before i left the sales department and went into compliance i was the most compliant person on the whole sales floor marks wise so yeah that's part of the reason they took me on in the compliance because i knew exactly how to do it properly and what to listen for i think ladies and gentlemen this is this is called flexing i'm flexing i used to be good at compliance 25 years ago how

many years ago is that when i left 2007 2008 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 16 years ago that's over four years i've left that job i've been out of there over four years wow do you mean over four years it's 16 years and 16 years is over four years isn't it oh you make me mad whoa sorry i can't help myself so anyway um yeah i would be back tomorrow i will be back tomorrow oh yeah i'll finish i'll finish this i was going to mention

it it made me laugh this is how i started talk what i started talking about so the yeah the grand national horse racing was disrupted by uh people and they were against horse racing the snooker place the snooker was stopped by people with stop oil so they were protesting like my friend said to me i understand why the horse racing was interrupted but what have they got against snooker how is snooker hurting anyone i had to laugh it's not about the snooker what they got against snooker oh yes how is that hurting animals oh man

that made oh it did it made me it made me giggle inside anyway i'm gonna go it made my ears wobble so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy lots of love bye