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Hello and welcome to Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday. Yep, it's that time of the week again.
Oh dear, so my name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And my website, as I yawn, is, Let Me Bore You To Sleep, no, jasonnewland.com. Blimey, www.jasonnewland.com. So, just a couple of things before I go, before I go on, before I continue, is I do have a YouTube channel which you can listen to my stuff on there.
It just searched my name, that's what I, that's what the YouTube channel is under, is my name. And what else do I have? I've got a Facebook group, which is really boring me, just talking about it, and it's actually called Jason Newland's Boring Group. And if you like, you can join.
So here we go, that's it, really, that's as much information as I've got on that one. I feel tired. I might be a bit hungry.
I might, I think I'm a bit hungry, that's probably why I'm low energy right now. I'll have something to eat when I've done this. So, let's see if I've got any questions.
What other questions do I have? So I've got four questions for the Q&A Friday this week. It won't be probably a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge recording, as I've only got four, four questions. Maybe, I don't know, people running out of questions, possible.
I've been doing this for a while now. But before I do that, I have discovered, well, not discovered, but I like to listen to audiobooks on Audible. But unfortunately, Audible is not cheap.
Although, to be fair, if I used it correctly, it would be fine. Because you can send books back and then get another book and stuff. I just generally don't send books back.
So once I've got a book, I've got a habit of keeping the books. Now, I've got some that are free. So you do get some books that are free that you can listen to.
In my library, I've currently got 302 books. Some of them are just ones that I've downloaded the free, you know, they're available to listen to. But what I've, what I've noticed is there's not a lot, well, I've kind of got nearly all of the psychology books that Audible have available.
Apart from, there's ones you can buy, but I've got a lot of the audio, you know, ones that are free, freely available. I've got all of them, pretty much. Yet there are loads and loads and loads of books on Kindle that you can get or that I've got already.
And also, if you get Kindle Unlimited, there's loads of psychology books on there. So I was trying to figure out how can I listen, because I like to listen to the audiobooks, I like to listen to the books rather. Because when I'm lying down or relaxing, or even when I'm working, I'll be ordering a lot, even when I'm working on the website or doing some internet stuff, like doing podcast stuff, administration stuff, I like to call it, it can be good to listen to an audiobook.
So but instead of listening to the same books over and over again, which I have been the last couple of months, it's a collection of books that I just seem to be listening to. I delved into how can I listen to Kindle books that are just in print, or not in print, but you know, on the Kindle. And I discovered that you can do it, there's a few different ways of doing it.
But one of the easiest ways is just to use Alexa. Now, all I do, I downloaded the Alexa app onto my phone, it can be done, I think you can do it on the Kindle itself. But you need headphones or speakers.
I don't have I do have headphones, but I like to listen when I'm in bed. So headphones isn't really ideal for me. So I downloaded the Alexa app, which is where is it, I had to go through all the different things.
So what what my allowing it to do, give access to the microphone, all that stuff. But if I say, Alexa, blah, blah, blah, blah. Hi, Alexa, blah, blah, blah.
Hey, Alexa, blah, blah, blah. I hope I haven't just set off your Alexa. Sorry, I'll stop saying Alexa.
It doesn't do anything unless I actually open the app. So that's kind of handy in a sense. So it's not gonna keep setting itself off, you know.
And whenever I say that word, but if I open it up, I'll just give you an example, I'm gonna turn the volume down. And say, I'm gonna say Alexa again, sorry. Alexa, continue reading.
Sorry, there is nothing for me to resume. Alexa, read book. Resuming your most recent book, Psychology for Beginners, incomprehensible language, read with Kindle Assistive Reader.
Psychology for Beginners, incomprehensible language by Alex Owen, MD. Psycho knowledge. Series.
Copyright, copyright 2021. I said continue reading, not, why is it going back to the beginning? Alexa, shush. It worked.
The thing is, I don't know why I did that, because it went back to the beginning again. And I'll be listening to it for about two hours. Go to most recent page.
Page two of 199. No, that's not right. I mean, oh, five, six.
Okay, I listened to it for about an hour. So I definitely, well, maybe you have to be more specific. Let's see if I can do it that way.
Alexa, play Kindle book, chapter two. Resuming your most recent book, Psychology for Beginners, incomprehensible language, read with Kindle Assistive Reader. Alexa, play chapter two.
I'm not quite sure how to help you with that. Alexa, Alexa, read chapter two. I'm not quite sure how to help you with that.
The patient may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means. Electronic mechanical. Oh, shush.
Alexa, stop. Alexa, stop. Alexa cushion.
Alexa, breaking up with you. Alexa, that's the end. No, I won't.
I won't have to. Alexa, Alexa, Alexa, I'm having the last word. I'm not quite sure.
No, Alexa, Alexa. I'm that's it. I've told you the conversations over now.
I'm in control. I'm not quite sure. Alexa, I'm the boss.
I'm your boss. You're you're AI. I said that's it.
No more conversation. I'm not quite sure how to help you with that. Alexa, Alexa, Alexa, Alexa, Alexa, Alexa, don't talk over me.
Look, I only talk if you love me. Thanks for telling me. What? Alexa, stop talking.
Yeah, I found the magic. I'm not used to Alexa. I think I know that thing that I've just been used.
I'm not used to it. I used to have I gave him away guys to have one and just didn't use it. Really? Wasn't really for me.
I thought it'd be brilliant. But yeah, I'm not gonna I'm gonna. Yeah, I thought it'd be really like very futuristic, very much like Star Trek.
And, you know, it's good for things like what's the weather play? You know, sort of like Alexa play the Beatles. Something like that. I still don't even know if it would do that.
Would it do that? Is it even got access to do that? I don't know. God, do you have Amazon? I have Amazon Music. So maybe? Nope.
Where is it? Let's see if where is it? Alexa, play the Beatles greatest hits. Right, I got rid of that for copyright reasons. Can't be playing that.
Oh, dear. So yeah, that does that I guess that's that works for that. But Oh, dear.
Anyway. So really, the whole story of telling you that I've got this way to read books kind of backfired, even though it was working. I don't really want to hold your hand.
Stop it. Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of that. There are other ways of doing it though.
So maybe I'll look into that. Because what I'm gonna want to do what I plan to do is listening to the course book. So I'll get that I've got it in in physical form.
But maybe next week, or the week after whatever, I'll get on digital sort of on what's it? Kindle, is it Kindle, and then I would be able to listen to it being read to me. But we'll see. We will see.
So right. I need to look at the Facebook now. I don't know.
Here we go. So I've got some questions. Little bit distracted by the sound outside.
But if you can't hear it, then I'm not worried. It's seven o'clock. It's seven o'clock.
Yeah, just before seven o'clock. So Nicole, Cindy, Christine, and Jenny. Jenny, I was I think if um, what's his name? Jenny.
What's his name? Not Brad Pitt. When he's in that movie and he had his girlfriend called Jenny. Jenny.
Anyway, I'll shut up because in case it's annoying. Nicole asks me. I don't believe these have been asked before.
If they have, I apologize. And I'm sorry if I'm not supposed to ask more than one question. Nicole, there's no, there are no rules.
Really, to be honest. It's all just a bit of fun. Anyway, it's there's no rules.
I mean, I don't, I don't generally get into super serious stuff. But sometimes I do, you know, but it's there's no rules. Generally, I'll say that now next week, I probably get all these really personal questions.
And number one. Number one, what is your favorite meal? If you could choose anything, including takeaway or restaurants? I mean, I have. I've mentioned the sweet corn and pineapple pizza before.
That is kind of if I was I'm going to I'm going to look at this from a different perspective. Okay, completely different perspective. If I was able to eat anything I wanted to eat without consequence, because you know, now I'm can't really, I have to be very careful what I eat, especially when it comes to cholesterol and sugar.
So I had high cholesterol and extremely high sugar level in my blood. I'm pretty sure the sugar levels gone down because I have lost weight. I have lost weight.
I'm actually under 15 stone now. So I've lost over a stone. But I would say probably a stone since I stopped eating sugar or digesting sugar.
I've lost a stone in weight. And I think I possibly even put a bit of weight on because I've been working out doing weights and stuff. So there's potentially I might well have lost more than a stone in fact, which is good.
Because well, I don't know I just I do. Sometimes I feel slimmer. But then I still I'm not, I'm not slim either.
You know, I'm still not slim, but slim. I feel a little bit more comfortable walking around in a t shirt. For the first time in many years, I can walk around a t shirt today, not a tight t shirt.
Because otherwise I just look like a sausage in a sausage skin. But if I was a jelly in a sausage skin, if I was a caterpillar, no, in a condom, if I was going to wear a tight t shirt, I would need to really reduce my weight by quite a bit. Probably another stone.
So I'm thinking maybe if I can get down to maybe an ideal weight for me would be about 14 stone. So I was 16 before. Now I'm just below 15.
And if it got down to 14. I mean, really, I know this probably isn't perhaps exactly the answer in the question at all. But I wanted to talk about it anyway.
The I'm quite pleased because I weighed myself a couple of days ago and it's just like wow. Because I knew I'd be I knew I was losing I managed to lose some weight because I was about 15 and a quarter between 15 and a quarter 15 and a half stone last time I weighed myself. And I did feel that.
Yeah, I think I've lost some weight. I do think I have. This is hard to tell because it's I don't know just I think I have.
And then when I weighed myself and I actually really had because that's quite a bit of, you know, it's half a stone. And half quarter 15. 15 and a half.
Yeah, because I was 16 start with any anyway, I've lost weight. That's the main thing. That's what I'm saying.
And perhaps by Christmas, I might be down to 14 stone. But I don't care what I weigh is to me I think really not it's not about the weight. It's about the reducing the just, you know, is it BMI? Well, for me, actually, for me, it was BIM.
That's what the doctor said. I said, Isn't it BMI? He said, No, with you, it's BIM. I said, What do you mean? He says, it's blimey, I'm a fat, which is rude.
But it's BMI blood. I don't know what it's what it stands for. So that's kind of what I need to look at.
I mean, I don't know what the healthy because it's gonna be different in my age, isn't it? Is it kind of works different differently, because when I was, I don't know, let's say 30. My weight and my, I guess it's natural to have a higher, a different type of body at 50 than when you're 30. But at the same time, when I was 30, I probably would have been able to carry 16 stone easier, maybe, but it's I don't know, it's weird, because I remember when I hit 14 stone, and I was probably 40 3940 maybe.
And I felt huge, I felt like an elephant. I felt so big. I feel I'm well, really felt really well with it.
And like I was gonna pop and then roll on a few years and I'm two stone heavier than that. And I felt fine. It's weird.
It's a really weird thing. I kind of grew into the fact. So now as I'm losing that, purposefully, you know, doing I'm to do gentle exercise, because I overdid it a while back a few weeks back and hurt my back.
So now I'm just doing still doing weights, but I'm doing gentle. I'm not overdoing it, if you know what I mean. Because before I was doing exercise like four times a day, weight doing weights and stuff like that.
And I'm just now it's just once a day. And don't, you know, just gradually ease into it. Especially after, you know, injuring my back or whatever I did to it.
Overused it, maybe. So I'm gonna pretend that I can eat anything I want. So what I would probably say, thinking about previous meals, but I love and I love a nice roast dinner.
So I'm going to move away from takeaway food, just as we're gonna say, what's your favorite meal? My favorite meal, probably is Christmas dinner. I like the variety, I quite like the different things are available. I also, which I know, I don't think I don't know what other people have, but I haven't had too many roast dinners where mashed potatoes also served.
But I'm a mashed potato lover. I do. I love mashed potato.
I haven't had any for a long time. But I do love mashed potato. So, but I also love roast potatoes.
And I so I love like having both. I like vegetables as well. So my favorite vegetable apart from potato would be, but even boiled potatoes can be nice if they're, you know, seasoned in there.
I mean, I don't really, if I was to cook something for myself, there's no seasoning. There's no, there's no salt, there's no anything, no salt, pepper. It's just all, I suppose the correct term is bland.
But you know, some potatoes, some vegetables taste okay, actually, if you don't overboil them, like carrots, for example, they can be quite nice. I tell you what I do like though, I was talking about this the other day to someone, I think they were, what is it? What are they called? Humans. Yeah, this is human person.
And they walk in their dog. And parsnips, not parsnips. Yeah, parsnips.
I was thinking parsley. Parsnips. We were talking about roast dinners.
I was talking about roast dinners. And I said to her, do you like parsnips? She said no. I said I love parsnips, especially sometimes if they're glazed and they're in the oven, they taste better than your roasted potatoes.
And she looked like she wanted to get away. Like, in a hurry to leave. I said, you should try them.
And she said, I just say good morning to you. I didn't want to talk about parsnips, roast dinners, anything like that, especially not Christmas dinner. We're still in August.
Why? I was like, okay, blimey. Just being friendly. She said no, there's friendly and there's oversharing.
I am an oversharer. I think that's been established. I think it's, I don't know.
Is oversharing a bad thing? I've just been listening to an audit. Well, it's a Kindle book on bipolar. And this person's saying about how to overshare.
I'm thinking, maybe, because I'm not one of those. I think I'm the opposite to stoic or stoic. Those silent, silent, strong types.
I'm a chatty, weak one. I think that's probably what I am. And I think as I was younger, when I was younger, you know, I'd get criticized and judged and told off and, you know, all that stuff.
But now, at my age, no one can really do anything, can't really say anything. So I'm not being, I'm never not rude to anyone. And it's, it's a weird, weird kind of place to be.
Because I remember when I was, a teenager, even early 20s, the amount of older people that would talk down to me. And I'd be sitting there listening to them, and thinking, why am I sitting here listening to you? And there was times when I actually believed that I didn't, like my, my opinions and my thoughts weren't actually worth anything. They didn't, they were pointless.
They don't, you know, like my opinion had no validity at all. And then I realized that maybe theirs didn't. At one point as I got older, but then maybe, maybe my, my, my thoughts and things I had to say maybe is just as equal to what they're saying.
Maybe. And then I got even older and I realized that none of it really matters. It's just opinions.
Opinions are not that important. They seem important to the individuals, but the amount of people that get into arguments and worse over an opinion, you've only got to go onto Facebook and Twitter to see that, over an opinion. That's why I don't think I've noticed over the last 20 odd years, I've made it quite a, quite a commitment to trying to reduce or notice my opinions and to reduce or get rid of, or at least soften, soften any hard line kind of thinking.
Any potentially extreme, when I say extreme, just any horrible stuff, you know, oh, everyone, this should be this, and they should be doing this, and they should be allowed in, and they should all be doing that. You know, all that stuff. Because I noticed that whenever I've had those conversations, or someone's had the conversation with me, especially when it comes to sexuality, race, just, I'm trying to think, what's the other one?
Sex, but it comes to between a difference between men and women and children and adults and all different things like that.
Just when someone's being like really hard line, whichever angle they're coming from, it doesn't, it's not very pleasant. It just doesn't, I don't, I don't get a good vibe. That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm trying to say. I don't get a good vibe from them. Because it's something that's been tapped into.
And I do wonder how much of that is them or is it a parent that had that opinion, when they were growing up, and now they're in their 60s, and they're still thinking that without actually, without any kind of introspection. I don't know, because you know, I could have been a proper full on, full on bigot, to be honest, I could have done. Grew up in the 70s.
The 70s in England was not the most open minded space to be. It really wasn't. It was, you know, you think all the adults had gone through, they'd like, not all the adults, but even the young adults, around about my dad's age, you know, people that were 20, 30 years older than me.
So many of them were anti things. Anti, anti, you know, really like, don't like that, don't like that, don't like them, don't like what they're doing. They shouldn't be doing this.
And I'm surprised that I didn't end up like that. I think I went the other way. Because they're human beings.
We're dealing with human beings. And I never really understood why. Yeah, this is strange.
I know perhaps going off in a different direction, but which is unlike me, of course. But I never understood, you know, I remember I lived in a little town. I lived in lots of different places when I was a kid, well as an adult as well.
But you know, as a kid, North London, then Newcastle, then Southend, then Suffolk. So I lived in different places. The amount of prejudice that I experienced towards, not towards me, but towards other people when I was living in the little towns, where there was almost no reason for them to be prejudiced in the sense of, for example, if I give an example, let's say they didn't like helicopters, right?
The locals didn't like helicopters, they really had an issue with helicopters.
But there was hardly, there was like one or two helicopters in the whole town. It's rare, you know, thousands of planes, maybe 50,000 planes, and maybe 16 helicopters. And the planes had an issue with the helicopters.
Even though, we do need helicopters and planes. You know, I just, it's a nice way to say it, I think. But then every helicopter I met, I got on with them.
I didn't get on with all the planes though. And that's what I noticed, it's like, you know, I just, I kind of, it dawned on me one day that I've never had an issue with a helicopter. But I've had lots of issues with planes.
So why am I going to dislike a helicopter over the planes? So my favourite meal, oh my goodness, my favourite meal, I'd say here we're going to do, okay, here's what I would do, is a roast dinner. That's one of my favourite meals, a roast dinner. And it would be, this is going back, so yeah, I'd like, it'd be everything.
Yorkshire puddings. Although I'm pretty much almost a vegetarian these days, but it'd be a mixture of lots of different things. So it'd be like a Christmas dinner, any vegetable I wanted, including sweet corn.
I love sweet corn. That's something that's, I don't see offered particularly often in a roast dinner. I want a roast dinner now.
Sweet corn, and then Yorkshire puddings, as many as I can eat. So just, just have loads there. I love Yorkshire puddings.
Roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli, brussels sprouts, love brussels sprouts. I love brussels sprouts, Vinnie, love brussels sprouts. And what else? Gravy.
Yeah, sausage, sausages with bacon wrapped around. Again, I probably would not be allowed to eat that anymore. What's this? Stuffing, oh, stuffing of course.
And I think even bread, is it bread and butter pudding? Bread and butter pudding, is it that stuff you can have? That's quite nice that it goes with, I think some people have it on beef. And what else would there be? What's that? What's that? Oh, purple stuff, not chutney. It's a, it's kind of a Christmassy thing.
I forget, but it's, that's really nice as well. Like jelly jam, kind of. Yeah, that's nice.
Why are you staring at me Vinnie? You want your dinner, don't you? Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, my dear. I don't have, I can't give you, I'm doing this, I'm working.
Working? It's not working, is it? I know it's not working, but I'm doing something. At least I'm trying to do something. So that'd be one.
Another thing I haven't had for years, it's what I used to like to do. I used to like to go into the Wimpy, quarter pounder with chips, and a milkshake. That used to be one of my favourite things to do.
I go in there probably once a week for a few years, for a while, when I lived in town. I haven't lived in town for 10 years now. It, it was better when I was younger, because I noticed as I got older, I was getting more and more bloated.
That was probably because I was eating five burgers. But, you know, I used to like a lovely quarter pounder with chips. That was nice.
Quarter pounder with cheese and chips. McDonald's, I used to love quarter pounder with cheese, you know, with McDonald's, when I was a teenager. And then, I mean, I just loved them.
They were just, they were like the most, my favourite thing to eat, when I was like 16, 17, 18, 19. And I, even when I was in my 20s, I used to go to McDonald's probably once a week for a few years. I used to go there once a week, if I could get to the West End and just have a, you know, a quarter pounder with chips or a quarter pounder meal, a quarter pounder cheese meal with a milkshake.
But, and it was, to be fair, you know, in the West End, you've got, you've got lots of different things you can eat, but it's very busy and it's also not cheap. McDonald's was a cheap meal. It's not so cheap these days, but back then a few quid and you, you know, so it was all right.
Now, I think you're looking at nearly £10 for a McDonald's meal these days. So, but there is another meal I really like and it was tapas, Spanish, in a Spanish restaurant, tapas. I like that.
But I think I'm hungry, that's what it is. I'm really, I'm really, really hungry and I know that all I've got to eat is going to be salad and rice cakes and some hummus and I know that I'm hungry but I'm not looking forward to eating it because, just because, because, because. It'd be really nice if, you know, if you started dieting, started to, you know, I can eat healthy now.
I'm going to try and get the calories down and all that. And you do it and as soon as you start eating the healthy food, all the weight drops off that you want to want to go. The body goes to exactly how you want it to be.
The fat level, the BIM, the sugar, blood sugar level, cholesterol, everything goes to exactly how you want it to be. As soon as you start eating and it stays that way providing you stick to the diet. You know, so it would be like incentive straight away.
It's like you go to the gym once and your body's transformed instantly to the kind of body you want to have, whether it's muscular or whatever, athletic or if you want to be. But then if you stop going to the gym, if you go more than a month without going to the gym, your body just goes back to how it was, you know. I think that would just be much easier, obviously, but it would be an easier way to keep a diet, wouldn't it?
Do you imagine it's like I'm going to have a salad and when I finish this salad in five minutes time I will be two stone lighter and I'll be slim, trim and even my beard will be nicely shaped for some reason.
I'll have more hair on my head. It's like perfect. I'd eat the salad, wouldn't you? Like yeah, in fact, I might even look forwards.
In fact, I might even stop this recording to go and have the salad. You know, I might have already had the salad. I might have eaten the salad yesterday.
That's what we need. We need the equivalent of that Willy Wonka chewing gum. The equivalent, the opposite to it rather.
Because you remember they had the chewing gum and the kid ate it. It was a little girl, wasn't it? That ate it. Or was it a little boy? And they weren't little anymore because it just blew up and became a big blue raspberry kind of thing.
And they had to be juiced, isn't it? As I said, let's go and juice him or juicer. But the opposite to that. So you'd have the thing and you'd be eating it and I'd start eating it.
Oh, chewing gum. Yeah, that's lovely. What does it taste of? It tastes of lettuce.
I could taste lettuce. I could taste spring onions. I could taste tomato.
Cucumber? Celery? Who the heck, who the heck eats celery? It's a garnish, you don't eat it. Celery. I used to grow it in school.
Celery. Oh, but as you say in it, with disgust, you start to slim. It's like, oh.
Mind you, if the chewing gum, it'd be, even if it's just chewing gum, I don't know if I'd want to eat it or chew it. Because like, oh, do you want some more chewing gum? Because you remember, it just, it toned you right down straight away, made you healthiest you've been in years. Yeah, but you've got a different flavour.
Well, I've got the Big Mac flavour, but unfortunately it has a different effect on your body. But it tastes like a Big Mac. Yeah, but what I'm saying is it's got a different effect on your body.
Like you've got the salad flavour, it's made you slimmer, and it might elongate your life. But you said you've got a Big Mac flavour. Yeah, you're not quite grasping what I'm saying here.
What other flavours have you got? Um, we've got the hummus flavour. No, be serious. What other flavours have you got? Well, Burger King, we've got a Burger King flavour.
Yeah, really? What, you've got curry flavour? We've got curry flavour, yeah, but it's not just curry, it's the Indian takeaway flavour. In fact, it's like everything. It's a combination of any anything that's on the menu really.
I said, ah, okay, so can't you have a McDonald's flavour instead of just a Big Mac flavour? And he said no, because they wanted too much money. They didn't want to really get involved with us. They said we'd have to go to each franchise, and everyone's got their own opinions, and they weren't on board for this.
Because there's no money in it. What do you mean? Well, you eat food. People go into McDonald's and it's about the experience and that, but just chewing gum, they didn't like the idea, really.
Plus, you know, one of the things any restaurant or fast food place doesn't like is the amount of gum that's put underneath the table in the restaurants. You know, it's not a popular thing for the staff to have to deal with. By the way, are you going to actually talk about the questions yet? I am talking about the questions.
I am. What is my favourite meal? Yeah, so I'm trying to think. In a restaurant, probably, I still seem to go for pizza when I go into a restaurant.
I did have one of those, I forget the name of it, pancini or something. Pancini. I don't know.
And I thought it sounds good. It's basically just a pizza in half, like rolled over a pizza sandwich. It's a pizza.
Yeah, it's just a pizza rolled over, almost like a kind of like a flat Cornish pasty. But with pizza. So yeah, I'd probably say roast dinner.
I mean, for a takeaway, sweet corn pineapple pizza. I do like KFC. Occasionally, they used to be one of my favourite things back in 2011.
Because I went through a year where all I didn't cook anything at all. I think I did I cook one meal. So the rest of the year, I ate sandwiches.
So I have sandwiches during the day. And I have sandwiches in the evening, take them home. It's from Greg's.
So that was a year of doing that. What I did do that on a Sunday is I'd walk up to KFC. And on Saturday, even sometimes I'd have a pizza delivered as well.
But Sunday afternoon, walk up to KFC, get a big old, they used to have these platters where it would be quarter pound chicken, I think four pieces of chicken and beans, sweet corn, popcorn, chicken, fries and a drink for like 10 quid or 11 12 pound 10 pound out of that. So I used to get that quite regularly. Come home and just pig out.
And it was lovely. Because it was like the only cooked meal really I was having in the week. So it's nice.
I don't know why I didn't just go and eat something cooked. I could have gone to a cafe but I never did. And so that was that was my favourite meal anyway, probably going to go roast dinner, I'd say.
But takeaway is a different thing. It depends. I do like Indian food.
To a degree, I do like the naan bread. That's my favourite thing. And I do like the what's it? Papa Don's.
And I do like the different sources, all the different sources they have. They're nice. But everything else needs to be I do like the rice, some of the rice.
But I'm not a big spicy hot person. Not into that. So yeah, not so much.
Chinese, I like the sweet and sour stuff. I'm not so much. Why do you keep blubbering your head, Vinnie? You're listening, aren't you? Give me cuddles.
He's cuddled up to me. It's been quite um I've noticed this a lot more over over time. He's gotten more affectionate with me.
Haven't you Vin? Got more affectionate, cuddles with me a lot more than he used to. And I quite like it. I like it.
We do like it. We have like a little cuddle, don't we? Hey? Yes, we do. We love having a cuddle together.
It's me and you, isn't it? Hey Vin? And literally he's just laying down over my leg and he's just on his one side and he's just I've stroked his chest. He's a happy little boy, aren't you? I think he's hungry though, as I am. Is you hungry, Vin? Is you a hungry baby? Is you a hungry baby? Yes, you is.
Yes, you is. You a hungry one. A hungry one.
Yeah. Oh Vin, he loves because he he shares my dinner with me as well. He has his own food but I always share what I have.
He doesn't share his. And I had some rice last night. Rice with tuna fish.
And he loved it, honestly. But he also loves a roast dinner. You eat vegetables.
He likes veg. He does like the gravy as well. I like gravy.
I don't like thick gravy. I like it nice and nice and thin. Nice and runny like liquid should be really, shouldn't it? Or liquid should be runny.
And maybe even tomato sauce. Not a big fan of brown sauce, really. Not even on breakfasts.
Not that I have fried breakfasts anymore. I mean, I actually, a few weeks ago, those that listen every time, you may remember this, but I was getting all excited that I bought some vegetarian sausages. I had some eggs, some beans, and I was going to make myself a, not fried breakfast, but just like a cooked breakfast.
Gonna cook it in the grill and poach the eggs, do the beans in a microwave. So I was looking forward to that. A couple of bits of toast, a cup of tea.
Well, when I finished the recording on that particular evening, or early, late afternoon or whatever, I did that, and I had the worst heartburn that I had for ages. And I don't know if it's I just stuffed it down, or I think it might just been too much. Because I overloaded myself with food.
Because normally I don't, I don't eat much in a sitting. I never have really been a big eater. Like my whole life.
I've never, I don't necessarily like to leave food. I haven't got to worry too much now I've got this little one, because he'll help me eat it. But I don't, I can't.
Yeah, occasionally I will. Like, but I know there's some people that will eat every single thing off of the plate. And I generally don't do that.
If it's a cooked meal. Yeah, I just, I'm not a big eater, never have been a big eater. I've been, I've been someone eating that's big.
But I've never been a big eater. So next one is about wife swapping. No, swapping did how I looked at the thing.
How did you swap from going to sleep in the late hours of the night, early mornings? Okay, how did you swap from going to sleep in the late hours of the night, early hours of the morning, and sleeping during the daytime? To go to sleep early evenings waking up early? I very badly need to switch around my sleep schedule, schedule, schedule from staying up all night and sleeping all day to going to bed earlier and waking up earlier.
And I am having a lot of trouble with it. Thank you.
And that's also from Nicole. Well, let me think. I would say I used to see it.
It partly changed. It was to see I never used to be awake all night. But I used to be a late person.
Did you hear that's my stomach. I used to go to bed late. So you know, for many years, I would go to bed early hours of the morning.
Generally at one o'clock to but I wouldn't normally go to bed less but before one o'clock. And then I don't know because I moved here. And I don't know when it happened.
It might have been more strategic. Because I wanted to be able to make recordings and I was struggling to get enough quiet to do them during the day. Because a lot of lot of background sound I didn't have the equipment.
So that's been my excuse in a lot of different scenarios. Just don't have the correct equipment. Tell me about it.
And I Yeah, and it's not just so even if you can't hear the background sounds, because it's you know, it's a bit microphones better set up than it used to be. I can hear the background sounds and it does distract me sometimes. And there's been times when I've done a recording.
And in the end, I've just ditched the recording. Because it's a little bit frustrating. And then listen back to the recording.
And you can hardly hear a thing from the background sounds. It's just an end. If we've background music is pretty much gone.
But I can hear it. And it just annoys me. Sometimes.
Yeah, most of the time. Okay, but occasionally is like, oh, just just. Yeah.
So what was the question? I have to look again. Oh, yeah, my my the way I changed my sleeping. I didn't do it on purpose.
So I went from going to bed, like one o'clock in the morning, and then waking up probably nine o'clock. 10 o'clock in the morning to it just happened gradually. I don't think anything particularly happened for it to happen.
It probably I imagine it is started in the winter. And I would I started to be up all night. So instead of going to bed at one, I'd be going to bed later and later.
So be two o'clock in the morning. Then sometimes it'd be three o'clock in the morning. And then I got to the point where I'll be going to bed at four o'clock.
And then I started listening to LBC radio show that started at four and ended at seven. I started listening to that in the morning. And then going to bed after that finished about seven o'clock.
And that's when I was fully into the sleeping during the day. And during the night, I would work on the podcasts. I'd make some podcasts, but I'd also be working them on the admin admin side of things.
And it suited me at the time. I had Andre, I had Andre living with me. And, you know, it's just, you know, I wouldn't be getting up late late anyway.
So I'd go to bed at seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, one, two, I'd be up by two o'clock. So I'd still have like two all the way through till seven, you know, still quite a long time to be awake during the day. I'd still be awake most of the day.
Just it's just the afternoon. It's the morning bit I'd miss. And so what happened is I went to Cornwall 2022.
No, 2021. It was in the summer. And my friend invited me to go on holiday with her and her boyfriend, and her mum and her dog.
So I went along, we were gone for about five days, five or six days, something like that. And we were staying in this house, it was a three bedroom house, like a holiday home thing. But because they didn't live my lifestyle, they were just living, hey, come on, mate.
Good boy. They were going to bed. Well, they were going to bed in the evening, and wake up in the morning.
So what I did is I couldn't stay up all night because they were doing stuff during the day, expected me to do stuff during the day. And my whole, my whole kind of calendar kind of changed from then on. But it still didn't change completely because so I was getting up at about six o'clock in the morning.
And they were moaning that I was up too early, making too much noise, even though I was really creeping around, trying to be quiet. But I wasn't so familiar with the, okay, I was on a drum kit. But you know, it's, she was annoying me.
So no, she was, I didn't have a drum kit. But she did complain about me, like, can you get up a little later? I said, well, I get up when I wake up, I'm in a room. There's nothing in there.
None of my stuff. I have to go to the toilet, which means leaving the room. And when I wake up, what am I supposed to do? Just sit in silence until you all get out of bed.
I don't live like that. And no, I just didn't know what to do really. But anyway, I was waking up early.
I was going to bed early, partly because they were watching television, stuff that I didn't want to watch. I have no internet for most of the time there, because they couldn't get hold of the internet and the Wi-Fi was terrible on my own thing. So I was trying to use the phone.
So that was just because of where we were, we were in the middle of nowhere. And it's very lovely, but it's just really out of the way. Anyway, so I had nothing to do really.
I kind of like, I didn't want to watch telly because they were watching stuff I didn't want to watch. And I'm used to being on my own. I'm used to watching my own TV, when I want, what I want.
It's a selfish way to be probably, but it's just what I'm used to. So I was going to bed early, like eight o'clock. Good night, everyone.
You're going to bed already? That was her boyfriend. I said, yeah. She said, really? Why are you going to bed so early for? I said, just thought, what's it got to do with you why I'm going to bed? I'm an adult.
I'm 51 years old. If I want to go to bed, I'll go to bed. And I slam the door because I'm an adult.
No, I didn't slam the door. Anyway, I, that's what happened. What are you doing Vinnie? He wants to play.
You get a bit rough mate. You've been a bit rough. Calm down.
Calm down. Good boy. Good boy.
So he, so yeah, I kind of got into that. And after about six days, I kind of got used to being up during the day, being in bed during the night. When I got home, I kind of still went back to being up half the night, but it wasn't the same anymore.
I was, I was in bed by four in the morning. So I went back to my old routine, but I couldn't stay up till seven anymore. Just couldn't do it.
It's like that had changed. And I was going to bed about three, sometimes three o'clock in the morning, sometimes four, but I noticed that I was struggling to be awake still at four. And I was missing the radio show because it was actually, I was going to bed as it started.
And then I went to Thailand for a short while. And because it's the complete opposite, time-wise, I, I just, it, it changed my clock. Changed, it sort of changed my internal clock.
So when I got home, I was, I was going to bed at night, waking up early in the morning. And it's been like that ever since. But I think I was moving towards that anyway.
Because there's been times when I've been, you know, I've gone to bed at eight, nine in the morning, any evening, got up early. It's, you know, sometimes I go to bed at seven. If, because I've noticed that's quite a good thing for me to do.
If I'm not in the best, the best state of mind sometimes, it's better that I just go to bed than sit here, starting to delete stuff, which I've done in the past, like websites and podcasts and things like that. So it's better for me to just move away from everything and just go to bed. And sometimes that's all I need to do.
And I'll wake up at maybe nine o'clock, maybe 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock. And then I'll wake up at three or four in the morning and I can start a new day. So yeah.
So that's kind of how I did it. It wasn't really, you can kind of do it gradually. I think we just get used to stuff.
Well, I, I thought for myself, I get used to a certain routine and I just seem to become accustomed to it. So going to bed at three, four o'clock, no, getting up, sorry, about, I don't wake up every day at four in the morning. Sometimes I wake up at six in the morning.
It really does depend. And I don't go to bed early, early every night. Sometimes I go to bed at 11.
There'd been times I go to bed at midnight, sometimes even one in the morning, if boxing's on at the weekend. And, but then there's other times when I wake up, I go to bed at eight and I'm up at two because boxing's on in America and I want to watch it. So it's, it's, and then I have to sleep during the day because I'm so tired.
So tired. So tired. Yes.
Tired. And I hope that answered your question. I don't think it was very helpful though.
Sorry. Uh, I probably didn't help, but I think it was about me sometimes making small changes. And what I've noticed is if I'm in bed and I don't want to be in bed, I just stay in bed, you know? So if I go to bed early, let's say eight o'clock, nine o'clock and I wake up at 11 or 12 and I'm awake.
In the past, I used to just get up. Now I don't. I just stay in bed.
And I fall asleep again. It's not, I don't try and like force myself to fall asleep because I not into that. I just, uh, you know, even if I turn a radio on or listen to an audio book or listen to some music or something, but generally I, once I fall asleep, that's it usually till about four or five.
So when I go to bed early, sometimes I do wake up after a few hours and it's still before 12. And so in the past, as I said, like a few years back, I would've got up like, well, it just, whenever I felt awake, I'd get up. But now I just allow myself the rest.
Even if I'm not like hugely tired, I'll go and sleep or lay down. So I hope that answered the question anyway, even if it wasn't useful, it's still answered. So Cindy asks, what's the biggest challenge you've faced as a podcaster and how did you overcome it? Ooh, wow.
Okay. There's been a few, not necessarily to do with the podcast itself, but during the period as a podcaster, because I started podcasting in what are you doing? What are you growling for? Started podcasting like 2006. So I would say, well, I started making recordings anyway, 2006 audio recordings.
I used to upload them to MySpace. Then 2007, that's when I think I got my first actual podcast, podcast. The first thing is that problems I had was finding somewhere quiet to make the recordings.
The equipment was an issue. I struggled with the editing. You know, the whole thing was, it wasn't easy in a sense of I had to, I didn't have to, but I decided to accept the, the quality as far as the recording quality was not going to be very good, but hopefully the, the content quality was okay.
And that seemed to be the case for quite a while. Now it's the other way around. So I, the first real issue was when I lost about half of my recordings, if not more, I lost at least 100 or 200 recordings in, I think it was 2009.
Yeah, maybe 2010, I think it was 2009. And the podcast I've been using for a few years, just deleted loads of my recordings. And I didn't have them backed up or saved those.
So I had some of them backed up, but I lost a lot of them. So that was a big hurdle. What was the question? What's the biggest challenge? That was a challenge.
A lot of my challenge, my own, it's been my self-sabotage to be honest. I've been a self-sabotager for quite a, quite a few times. When my YouTube channel was going really, really well, like I was starting to really see the difference.
And I deleted the channel. There was no reason for it. I just had a brain fart, or whatever you want to call it, mood swing.
And it was a very strange, strange situation. But something that I'd worked so long on so many years to build up and finally, not finally, I mean, it started to pick up in 2011. So I started the channel in 2007, started to pick up 2011, had my first 100,000 plays on a video, on one video.
So I was really pleased with that. And then every video that I released was getting good, good views. I mean, yeah, it was, it was, I wasn't, I wasn't getting millions, but it was getting, you know, it was going well.
And I was getting more and more subscribers every day. It was just growing. Exponentially, I guess is the correct word.
And then in 2013, I deleted it. So it was going, it was going well. It really was.
I reckon, yeah, I might may well have had quite a lot of subscribers by now. You think 11 years later, I probably had about three, three and a half thousand subscribers. So it wasn't a huge subscribers.
But a lot of people that were subscribed were actually watching. So I wouldn't be surprised if I had a hundred, couple of hundred thousand subscribers, maybe even more by now, after 11 years, if I continue to grow it, maybe even half a million, who knows? Anything's possible, I guess. But there you go, I realized that that's a video thing, not a podcast thing, but I kind of class it all as the same.
It's all in the same ballpark, really. Especially as usually the videos and the podcast were the same. So I would make a video and then convert it into an audio for a podcast.
Now I'm doing the opposite. I'm making audios and convert them into videos for YouTube. Another thing would be, yeah, my own, I said, the bipolar, that's definitely had a big, it's been challenging, because I have deleted stuff so many times, deleted podcasts, deleted websites that I've spent hundreds of hours building, and then lost, because I pressed the delete button, and even the website companies couldn't get them back.
Sometimes I can get stuff back. The amount of times I've deleted Facebook, Twitter, I lost Twitter actually by deleting it. I forgot I deleted it.
And you get, I think, 30 days to cancel a deletion. And so I lost my Twitter account. I've been trying to get it back for a couple of years.
And I'm just like, it's gone, isn't it? That's why it's gone, because I deleted it. And so I haven't done that for years and for quite a while. And with a Facebook, I can't do it now because of the Facebook group.
If I delete my Facebook page, then I think, I don't know what would happen to the group. I mean, maybe it's still carry on. Maybe I don't need to be on it.
But yeah, so anyway, I didn't do that now. Yeah, the other thing would probably be a couple of years ago, was it a couple of years or was it last year? A couple of years ago, the podcast host I was using told me, you can't have music. Because I used to have the recordings, just the original recordings of the podcast, then I would do the versions with with background music.
Then I do a version five hour and 10 hour, but it would just be the recording and then music for five hours or 10 hours. No other background talking or counting down or body scans or any of the stuff that I do now. So I had to delete every, you know, a big, big, big chunk of my podcasts.
And then redo everything. So that was a hurdle that was a few years back. And then last year, they did exactly the same thing.
But this time they said no music at all. And I didn't have enough time to delete what they needed me to delete because there was so much thousands of recordings, multiple podcasts, and I lost a lot of stuff. Not only did so I wasn't able to download it, I didn't have it backed up because I didn't learn.
That's why it's even now I'm not necessarily backing stuff up. Which I should be. It's just it's, it's, it's quite hard to know where to store it, because it really does take up a lot of space.
The podcast, it takes up a huge amounts of space. I've got 123 hard drives, as well as the heart, the hard drive on the laptop, and the space on the iPad. As well as the was it Apple Cloud, I know iCloud.
ICloud, let's see Apple Cloud, isn't it? I can't so yeah, this is it's difficult to try and I'm trying to get everything organized and keep everything in one place and I've got the videos on one hard drive. I've got the audios on a different hard drive. And I've tried to organize and save as much stuff as possible.
But over the years, I have lost hundreds and hundreds of recordings and hundreds of videos over the years, so much stuff that I've lost. Because there was times when I would say I was fairly prolific. Yeah, I do multiple recordings in a day sometimes.
So the last challenge really was that one regarding podcasts, although yeah, it would be because ever since that happened last year, I think I don't know what time it was. Ever since that happened, and I started to I had to, I had to change over to SoundCloud. The stats have gone down.
Because the I just, I can't, I kind of, yeah, to have podcasts with music like I do on SoundCloud, but to have each podcast separately with music. So you know, to have all the stuff on there that I used to have, I just can't afford to have that many different podcasts. And it's a weird one hard to explain, but is the sound I've got two podcasts now on SoundCloud.
One that has all my stuff on and one that's for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I've also gone back to Spreaker. But I've now been making recordings.
Where they're without music. So they're like five and 10 hours but without music just talking about music. So I've been working on that.
But ultimately, I just constantly give myself more work. So anyway, there's been a few challenges. Cindy, thank you.
Christine asks, what was Dooley for in Andre Dooley Newland, please. Thanks, JJ. Love to Vin.
He's now licking the bottom of my foot. I like that. Is that wrong? I really do like it.
I okay, so the reason why I'll go back a little bit. I called you know, Andre, my little Andre, the ferret. He was called Andre after one of my best, one of my best friends in the past, Andre.
So he was called. Yeah, so he was called I called him on because my friend was called Andre Dooley. That was his name.
So I called Andre, my Andre, Andre Dooley Newland. So he had my surname, they had Andre and Dooley in the middle, because that was Andre. And although we kind of we were really close in the 90s.
And I hadn't seen him for a long time. And he, he, he's not all around anymore, unfortunately. But he would be among the closest friends I've ever had in my life.
You know, my whole life. One of the closest friends I've had, there's not many, there's really a handful of people that I've been super close to. And he's one of them.
So I found out just before I got Andre, my ferret Andre, that he passed away. So it was kind of a tribute. And also because the nickname that Andre, the original Andre used to have was called little legs, or no legs.
So no legs, that's what he used to call him, saying that he had little legs, and he's really short, even though he's my height. So they call him no legs. And my little Andre, the ferret, tiny little legs.
So it just seemed correct. So to as a tribute to Andre, call my little boy Andre. And just have the do lead new land, like Vinnie is now Vinnie, Andre do lead new land.
I usually say Vinnie, Andre new land. But I probably would say Vinnie, Andre do lead new land. It's like his two middle names would be Andre do lead.
Mind you, if I'd have got him this year, I'm pretty sure he'd have a different name. A different middle name. But I'd already called him Andre, Vinnie, like Vinnie, I've already called him Vinnie, Andre new land.
So I'm not going to change it. But I mean, is it? I don't think it's disrespectful to name a pet after a human, is it? Someone that you care about? I don't think so. But yeah, not that he's a pet.
He's my little boy. He's my son, this one. So is Andre.
So that's why really it's the do lead was Andre's surname. And Andre do lead new land, because he had to have my surname, didn't he? Because he was my son. That's it really.
Blimey. This is going to be a really short recording. I've hardly talked all the way.
Jenny says, asks, Do you like art? If so, what style artists do you like most? I need to listen to Q&A Fridays during the day so I don't fall asleep and miss the answers. Well, Jenny, I should have answered yours first, shouldn't I? Then you'd have heard it. I don't know how long we've been talking for.
So do I like art? It depends what your classes are. I mean, if you mean art as in paintings, I don't dislike art. And I've been in probably a lot of the main art galleries in London, multiple times over the years.
And it's beautiful stuff. You know, it's hard to deny the fact of how, how amazing those artists were back in, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The some of the arts.
I don't know if I always kind of understand the art. I know it can be a personal thing anyway. But I'm not really into art as far as I mean, for me, I was actually having this similar conversation with a lady who was talking about how she liked to paint and do an artistic thing.
And I said, Yeah, I'm artistic. And she said, Don't you mean autistic, which I thought was rude. She she laughed.
I said, No. Well, I'm not sure. But artistic.
I like to think that what I do is art in a weird kind of a way, because literature is art, isn't it? Writing is an art form. And it's not painting, but you kind of paint in a picture, maybe with words, and maybe I'm kind of doing that in a weird way. And I think the speaking, not, not everybody would want to, but not everybody would be able to talk for an hour, or an hour and a half or two hours.
Just sit and talk into a microphone and have it to be such great quality content as me. Anyone could do this really, just talk rubbish for an hour. It's not hard.
But not everybody wouldn't suit everybody. This is perfect for me. And I like to think that what I do is kind of art.
But do I like art? Yeah. I, I don't because I was never much good, though. That's the thing.
The reason I didn't get I'm interested in things I can do, or at least something that I might have been good at. So like with boxing. I love boxing.
I've done but I've trained in a boxing gym. Not I was too old to spar, but I did train for a year or two or whatever it was when I was at college. And I think I might have been, if I'd had the opportunity when I was younger, I think I'd have been acceptable.
I think I'd have been all right, I think. But you know, and I know some people might say, what do you mean, if you'd had the chance or the opportunity just turn up at a gym? Well, that is what I did. When I was 20.
I turned up at a gym in London, East London. I was 20. I mean, I was still as young, isn't it? Not not according to them.
They mean, okay, it's a joke. So like, oh, no, this is a junior school go away too young. No, it was actually a proper boxing gym, full time boxing gym, very famous boxing gym, actually, world famous.
And they turned me away. So I was too old. They only wanted kids, because that's what they were looking for to turn into future world champions or whatever, they wanted kids.
And maybe they looked at me and thought that skinny, skinny lad, big nose, what's he going to be able to do? Maybe that's what they'd look, that's all they saw when they walked in there. Not realizing that. Well, I don't know, who knows what I could have, under the right circumstances, I might have been okay.
I was definitely quite good at those kinds of things. In the past, or adequate ish. So yeah.
Blimey. Yes, I was rubbish. Okay, maybe not rubbish.
But I, I used to, I used to love drawing. And then I kind of realized that perhaps I wasn't very good. I thought I was doing really well.
And I don't know, something happened. And I just thought, oh, it's not very good. And I kind of fell out of love of it.
I spent hours drawing, whether it was birds, whether it was people, celebrities, out of magazines, I used to really love that. Just a, you know, pen and paper. And then I tried painting.
Didn't like it. Don't like, never liked the feeling of paint on a paper. I've tried painting by numbers.
I've even bought all the equipment, easel or like, you know, to really have a go at it. And I thought it might be good for my mental health, you know, if I could try and paint my feelings and ended up with this just big black cloud on a white surface. And that was kind of it.
So yeah, I don't know. I just never really I wanted. I struggled to be enthusiastic about it because I wasn't very good.
And I didn't really enjoy painting. And I haven't even attempted to draw anything since I was a kid. And never really been a hands on kind of person.
But my dad's brilliant with his hands. He can pretty much build anything. He's a bit like the A-team, you know, can build stuff out of nothing.
You bunch of junk in a warehouse and you'll come out with a bunch of junk all stuck together. But you know, that's besides the point. It's, you know, it's, I'd love to do an episode of the A-team, but make it realistic.
I really would. And so I did, there used to be an art gallery above the comedy club. And it was my friend, he actually, he, he, it was his art gallery.
And it was basically the barman and his girlfriend or wife, I don't know if they're married, who was a waitress. They, they were both artists. And I think one of them was at university or he just, and he was doing an art degree.
And then he, he basically, a few years later, my friend had the whole top floor as an art gallery for him. And they took over and they ran it. And I went up there.
So every time they had a new exhibition, I'd go up when there was no one around and have a little look around. There was only one that I really, really liked that. Okay, maybe one that I understood.
And it was a bunch of nudes. And before you, before you wonder, oh, yeah, okay, that's why you liked it. No, no, no, no.
What it was, it, it had all these scenarios, especially a lot of conflict, like war and stuff like that. Like from the past, people on horses in the battlefield, you know, battle of whatever, Waterloo, whatever it was, everyone was naked. And it just showed the absurdity.
It just changed the perspective of also how vulnerable human beings are really, you know, take off the armor and just like naked. It's just, I don't know, it's hard to explain. And we're going back to, you know, 2000.
So it's 25 years ago, whatever. I just remember seeing it and thinking, oh. And then I went to the toilet and did a big poo.
So yeah. So art, I would have loved to have been really, really, really, really, really good at something. Always wanted to be good at something.
And Vinnie's been very restless. Why are you being so restless, Vin? You want to, you want me to stop doing this now, don't you? Do you? You want to stop doing this? Why are you sticking, don't stick your bum in my face. What are you doing? What do you want? What actually do you want? So I'd love to, yeah, I do like art, I mean, sculptures and stuff like that.
I've known some artists over the years. And yeah, I just, I don't know. Maybe I don't know if I'm clever enough to really understand it all.
I don't know. It's a hard one. Vinnie, blimey, what are you doing? He's really restless now.
So I'm going to have to bring this to an end because he wants my attention. He really wants my attention, don't you? What are you doing? What are you doing, Vin? What are you doing, baby? What are you doing? Why are you all over me now? Suddenly, all of a sudden, suddenly, all of a sudden. He wants to play.
Hasn't barked, has he? Oh, through this recording, that's good. You've been a good boy. Yes, you have.
Yes, you have. You've been so good today. Yeah, yes, you have, haven't you? He's good most of the time.
It's just, you know, when he does, he barks suddenly out of the blue and it's so high pitched. It just gets my ears a little bit. So that's it.
Ow, stop biting me. Are you that hungry that you're trying to eat my fingers? Sausage fingers. Sausage.
They're not sausages. They're fingers. They look like sausages.
Stop it. Stop being rude. So thank you for listening.
Thank you for the questions. Remember to be kind to yourself. Remember to be gentle with yourself because you do deserve to be happy.
Lots of love. Bye.
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