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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. Me's Jason Newland with my early morning croaky voice. I was born under a wandering star. See it gets deeper.
I feel like my voice is broken eventually. Most of my adult life I mean. Hello everybody.
And now. How high can I go? Maybe not as high as I once could. Anyway.
I don't normally do these recordings quite so early. It is 18 minutes past 8am. At this point I don't know what sound.
I'm going to use the word sound is going to be coming from downstairs. Because they're still in the process of having the bathroom done. And today they're having the floor.
Put in of the bathroom. So I don't quite know what that entails. I'm guessing it entails flooring.
But I don't know if it entails machinery making noise. If it does. Then I'll have to kind of put a hole on this recording.
If it's too noisy. Blimey, blimey, blimey. Because the bathroom has been turned into a wet room.
I guess it's a different type of flooring. That would normally be in a bathroom. I'm guessing.
Because there also has to be a drain in there doesn't there. I suppose I'm guessing it's going to be a drain in the bathroom. Baths have drains as well don't they.
But like a different kind of drain for the water to go down. Yeah. So anyway this is Q&A Friday.
It is, it is, it is. The 9th of May 2025. And please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
And what else. So my website's really groovy. And it's, all my recordings are on there.
All the latest recordings are on there. I've also, I'm continuously adding new stuff. Just to try and help, help people out.
So the first page of jasonnewland.com. There's at the very top of the page there is like a carousel. Where you can skip across which lists like as an image of all the different podcasts. And below that is the latest, the very latest recordings that I've done.
Where you can stream or you can actually download to your phone or whatever. A device you are using. And you can save that for later or forever.
You can also stream at different speed. You can also skip forward. So you can skip forward 30 seconds.
Jump forward 30 seconds. Or you can rewind 10 seconds. And you can fast, you can fast forward.
You can go two times faster. One times faster to, you know, but you can also go. 0.75x. So that would be probably, is that 25% slower than normal.
So if I'm talking way too fast for you. Then you can, you know, you can slow it down a bit. Also on each recording it tells you how long the recording is.
Also tells you the size of the recording. If you was to download it. So for example, yesterday's Let Me Bore You To Sleep.
Was. That's weird. Okay.
Yesterday's Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My hypnosis start. So LMBYTS number 1348.
42.56 megabytes. And there's an hour 32, an hour and 32 minutes and 59 seconds. But if you was to download the 10 hour version with music.
It would be, it's nine hours, 49 minutes, 17 seconds. And 269 megabytes. So yes, it's a bit, bit bigger megabytes.
Still not a lot to be fair for 10 hours. But 137.31 megabytes is pretty small. It's not a lot of space really.
And they, I could get them smaller, but I'm trying to, you know, I want to keep the quality of the audio. The 10 hour, none of my recordings will come above 300 megabytes. Individually, because basically Spreaker who I use doesn't allow that.
So 300 is the maximum I can put. And 10 hours is also the maximum. So I feel it under 300 megabytes.
And because that's the size of the file. That it's basically that's how so if you was to download it onto your computer or onto your phone, that's how much space it would take in your memory. Okay.
Okay. I actually find on the phone, using the website, it's a lot easier. So if I listen to a recording of mine, I listen on the phone.
I listen on the phone, but I go onto the website rather. It's just easier because there, the latest recordings there. And just play.
I don't know, just me, I just find it. I find it easier. Also in the index, you got home, which is just the standard, you know, main page.
Then you've got a link for podcasts, which links lists all the podcasts, which you can click on. It takes you to a podcast, which is embedded in the website. Again, you can stream or play, download, whatever.
And then you've got playlists. That again, lists or, you know, each individual podcast, you can click on it. And then you've got a choice of choosing which ones you want to listen to.
So I do them in groups of 50. So 1 to 50, 51 to 100, 101 to 150, like that. And you've also, again, you can stream and play and download those ones if you want.
I've got a contact form. There's a link to my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group. So that's pretty groovy.
Right, okay. My website seems to have, okay, back to it. So Facebook, Jason Newland's Boring Group.
So there's a link to that. There's a link to my YouTube channel, which is at Jason Newland. And I've got, according to this, 1.55 thousand subscribers.
So one and a half thousand subscribers. Two and a half thousand videos, which is quite a lot, isn't it? It's now my podcast. So every, all the latest recordings are run there.
So let's come back out of there. There's a link to my PayPal. And there's, oh, just come out on the website.
What on earth am I doing? There's, then you've got LB, LMBYTS, so Let Me Boil Your Sleep. Click on that, and that takes you to that podcast, which is embedded in the website. Then you've got Reviews, which just lists to the, um, ba-bum-bum.
I haven't had any reviews since the 6th of April. So if you've got any reviews, please, please leave me a review. And I've got, then I've got a link for Podcast Apps.
So you can click on Apple Podcast, Audible, Amazon Music, Podcast App, Pa-uh, Castbox, Deezer, Luminary, Podcast Republic, Player FM, Podcast Addict, Podcast Index, Podchaser, Podfriend, Podverse, Podbean, Spreaker, and Spotify. Spotify should be at the top, really. We're near with Amazon, but anyway, you click on any of them.
So I'll click on Spotify, for example. And all my podcasts are listed with a link to the Spotify podcast for that particular podcast. And which brings me to something, where is it? I did have a question on my Facebook group from Megan, I do believe.
Uh, Megan, where are you? Megan, there hasn't been any uploads on Spotify since 1st of May. Will you be adding any new ones on there still? Um, so I've added a link. I think what it is, is, what it is, is, um, I, yeah, what it is, is, I think that the thing was connected to, to the SoundCloud.
Because I had two Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts. One was on SoundCloud, one was on Spreaker. The reason I didn't get rid of the SoundCloud one is because I'd had it for a while.
And I was getting traffic on there. And I think Spotify kind of had both. So I got rid of the SoundCloud one.
I got rid of both of my SoundCloud accounts. I was able to, people told me that they wanted them back. So I was able to get back the main one.
But the other one I can't get back. So it's just a case of going to a different link, that's all. So I definitely am on Spotify.
If you, the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, all of the, every single podcast I've got is on Spotify. So I posted the link. What I'll do, maybe post the link again.
If you, um, if you go to my actual website. So Megan, I did reply. I said, here's a link to my podcasts on Spotify.
They seem to be up to date now. I hope this helps. And it's basically jasonnewland.com forward slash Spotify.
And Megan says, how bizarre. When I click this link, they are there. But when I go via Spotify, there's nothing since May the 1st.
How strange. Maybe it's sort itself out eventually. Thank you.
I'll go via this link. So what I would say is just use the link. Save the podcast on that one.
I think there might be two different podcasts on Spotify for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And that's something I can't unfortunately undo. Because it is, yeah, it's just the way it's kind of worked out really, unfortunately.
But you can, what I've done is I've added the main thing. So you've got podcast apps, Q&A Friday. So that links to the, at the top of that is Ask Me Anything, Q&A Friday submission, if you've got any questions.
And then underneath that box, there's all the latest Q&A Friday recordings. So the last one was last Friday, 2nd of May. Then we've got requested recordings.
Again, all the latest requested recordings are on there. The last one was April the 17th. Above that, I do have a little form you can fill in if you want to request something.
Then the next thing in the index is Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis. So that's another link to that because people say that some people are struggling to find that online. So that's the main website for there.
Then I've got one for SoundCloud. So I managed to get the SoundCloud reinstated for the main SoundCloud podcast. So that's now there's a link there for that for that in the index that is.
And next to that is Apple Podcasts. So that's all the podcasts I've got on there with the links directly to Apple Podcasts. The only one I don't have out of all of the podcasts that are on there is Q&A Friday.
So there's no Q&A Friday on Apple Podcasts at the moment that I can find. And lastly, Spotify. So I've added that to the index yesterday.
I've checked every single link. So every podcast I've got is on Spotify directly. So yeah, I hope that helps.
I don't know if it do. But I hope it do. So that's what I've done.
I've been trying to update the information. It's quite weird because SoundCloud said, oh, they reinstated the main podcast. But then I'd have to send a request from the email connected to the other podcast.
Did that and it wouldn't work. I just, it's weird. It's very strange.
So I can't get that one back. But I got the main one back. But it's just going to a different link.
That's all it is. It's, I mean, what I'll do, wait a minute, I'm going to just check this for you. Because it has bugged me a little bit that I don't like the idea that people are struggling to find stuff.
If you know what I mean. But I want to suppose that the whole point of what I'm doing is to kind of relieve stress and tension, not to increase it. So I'm not here to cause problems.
I want things to be easy. So what I'm going to do, let me just have a look. See, Let Me Bore You To Sleep.
So let me check. Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Podcasts and shows.
So I'm clicking on this podcast and shows. Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Actually, there's more.
There's more than two. So I've got ones from years ago. So let's have a look.
So the podcast on here for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So there's one. Two, sure I saw another one, yeah, three, right, three that I can see.
There might be others. But see the third one. It's a really old image.
It was Let Me Bore You To Sleep. That was the name of it. So I'll click on that.
And the last recording I uploaded was the 1st of June 2018. So it was a Let Me Bore You To Sleep number 25. I don't know where I was recording that.
But I wonder if it still plays. Wow. Still plays.
You believe that? What's that? Seven years ago. So yeah, that still plays. I think that's where the problem lies is with Spotify, even podcasts that are no longer available.
They are available on Spotify because they download the I think they actually must download the actual episodes themselves on their own servers. So that one is not valid. And the other one, which is, it's exactly the same cover as the.
So some people have been listening to the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. The one that isn't. But there's been two.
I don't quite know how I ended up doing that. But I did. One on the covers got Let Me Bore You To Sleep and it's got music.
A picture of Vinnie with headphones, music, black and yellow outline, and then no ads on there. So that one. I think that was the one that was on SoundCloud.
Let me just check. Yeah, so the last one was the 1st of May. Which ironically, music, music, no music, no music.
Does it still play? Still plays. That one's now gone. I don't know how far back, how far? Yeah, I don't know how far back that will go.
Vinnie, don't be barking, please, man. No, I said, don't be barking, not please bark more. There's a difference between those two sentences.
Blimey. Right. So what was I saying? Oh, yeah.
Oh, I found another one. Oh, no. There's a lot of, I've got a lot of podcasts on Spotify that are no longer available.
Which is a bit annoying because it muddles things up. So the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, which has on the image, on the actual main image, music and no ads. That was the one I had on SoundCloud.
And unfortunately, I've lost that. I just can't seem to get it back. So of course, you can listen to old recordings on there.
I mean, I don't know how many are on there, but quite a few. But all new recordings will be on the new link, which I go back. I can find that on Spotify is here.
Let Me Bore You To Sleep. It's exactly the same image is exactly the same name. So there's no difference in the names either.
There's not, you know, but this one has got the latest one, my hypnosis start, which was last night. So yeah, that's got all the latest recordings. That's the one to follow.
That's the one the link. That's the one that's on my website with a link to it. And that's the one with the updated recordings.
So sorry about the confusion. And yeah, it's just one of those things, you know. But I understand it can be frustrating.
So it's now hopefully sorted. I've had a few people actually contact me about the SoundCloud or a couple of people contact me about the SoundCloud. Then I've had a couple of people contact me about the Spotify.
I guess because when you're on Spotify, you don't know where it's come from. I think some people might think it's actually the podcast uploaded to Spotify. And that's the host, which it can be.
You can host on Spotify. But the main place, usually they just tell you RSS feeds, which is the same as most other podcast apps. So I'll give you an example what I do.
So for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast. So I'll click on this. And so let's have a look.
There's 867 listenable episodes. Like I like to do, I deleted loads of episodes. It was more in a sense of trying to change because I was putting, I was making the fifth, like the 50 sections, like 1 to 50, 51 to 100 and all that.
And I was trying to cut down the amount of space I was using because Spreakers, who is my host, is possibly likely to start charging me more. They already have. So now it's like 50 odd quid a month instead of being 22.
So I was trying to kind of cut down the expense a little bit. But it's fine. It's there's still all the recordings are still saved.
But on the, if I look at the actual information. So you got Let Me Bore You To Sleep, your podcast settings. So Let Me Bore You To Sleep.
What I might do if I just change it to, if I change it to Let Me Bore You To Sleep dash Jason Newland, maybe that'll make it a little bit easier to find on Spotify. I don't know how long it will take for it to change on the Spotify server though. And let's have a look.
He's proper moaning today. He was a bit ill earlier. He yeah, he was ill like.
So I don't know. So I've changed it to Let Me Bore You To Sleep, Jason Newland, even though Jason Newland is on there anyway at the bottom. So what I can do is once I've made a podcast on Spreaker, which is my main podcast host.
I go to the settings which says RSS settings. I'm not 100% sure what RSS stands for. I used to know it, but I don't care.
What it means is basically. It's a feed. So you give it to a podcast app, for example, Castbox or Apple.
Podcasts Spotify. And what it does then is it syncs with that podcast whenever something new is added. And it also gives me the opportunity for distribution, not distribution and social sharing.
No, that's weird distribution. Oh yeah, that's the one. So your podcast has been added to Spreaker and then it's been added to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Heart Radio, Amazon Music, Audible, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podcast Chaser, NG07.
Well, I was just rudely interrupted. Not really rudely, but I was interrupted by a phone call from my doctor's surgery. And it was, I forgot it was today, they were doing a medication review.
So that was 8.45 until 10 past nine. 25 minutes. I've got the sense that he was very tired at the end of it.
I think I might have bored him. Anyway, anyway, our contact did. Oh, what am I doing? Well, I should really, I should really do the old questions, shouldn't I? So here we go.
Let's have a look at the questions. Sorry, I never seem to get around to just doing the questions. Anonymous member, Oshini.
Jason, I enjoy your LMBYTS so much all the way from South Africa. I listen via Spotify and haven't seen any new uploads. You know, you can join.
And the Jason knows boring group. If you're on here, you could join if you want. So I'm guessing your name's Oshini.
So I don't know if you've covered this. What I'm going to do, what I'm going to do, because I've just kind of covered this subject, I will copy the link and I'll post it there now. So hopefully you can go there.
So if I comment, oh, here we go. Really? That's weird. That's not what I was supposed to be doing.
Jason Newland, Spotify. Okay, so if I just go high, here is the new link to the Spotify, to the podcast. In fact, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Let me go back. Jason Newland, Spotify, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So I'll click on that link.
That's the one. So here's the link. Here's the new link to the podcast.
So hopefully that'll do that'll do the job. Oh, okay. Spotify, Let Me Bore You To Sleep.
So that's done. Sorry about that hassle. And you know, so hey, any questions for this year? This week's Q&A for iDay, for iDay.
Let's have a look. All comments. I've got five.
Hope asks me, which that was, that's a bit wishly, wasn't it? Hope asks me, which platform should we listen to in order to give you the most support? I don't know really. I mean, all the podcast hosts are basically coming from Spreaker. So Spreaker generally provides the... So if you listen on Spotify, or if you listen on Apple Podcasts or any of the others, generally you're listening to Spreaker podcasts.
So that's the home. And the same as if you listen on my website, it's still from Spreaker. And I like it when people listen on my website because I suppose it's just because I'm paying for a website and I want it to be used.
That's kind of it. It doesn't really matter. But it's, you know, when I look at the stats on Spreaker and I see that my website's being used, it's quite nice because it tells me how many, if I look at the sources, let's say yesterday, for example.
So 1,625 downloads came from Apple Podcasts, 123 downloads from Podcast Addict, 78 from Overcast, 36 from jasonnewland.com. So there was an overall 1,986 downloads yesterday. So as you can see, it's broken up into 1,986. It's broken up into quite a few.
So 1,625. Blimey, so yeah, there's, it's broken up into lots of different podcasts. In order to make up that amount.
Yeah, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20. So there's 20 different places that that is made up of on Spreaker, that it's basically it's the link that they're using. I realize some of this might sound a bit like gobbledyblog.
But I kind of, I kind of know, I know what I mean. If that helps. See Spotify, 16, 16 downloads on Spotify from all my podcasts.
So I find that kind of strange really. Bearing in mind that Spotify is supposed to be the most, well, the biggest, I guess, competitor for Apple podcasts. Yeah, I get hardly any, any views on Spotify, unless they just download them and I don't, I don't get to see.
That's it. Yeah. I'm not quite sure how it works out.
Maybe they keep their stats themselves. I don't know. But if I look at, and you can't blame me for looking at the stats, because I was asked to look at the stats literally just now.
I had an excuse. So this year, let's say this year, current, this year custom. Let's have a look.
We've got this year. January, so 175, 175,000 downloads since January on this podcast on Spreaker. 153,644 on Apple podcast, Overcast 3,542, Podcast Addict 2,934.
I'm number four on the list, jasonnewland.com, 2,646. So that's how many people, that's how many downloads have been, whether people have played or downloaded. Where is Spotify? It's way down at just 1,109 for the whole year so far.
It's, yeah, it's kind of weird, but then Spreaker is way down as well, 561. So that's like direct. I mean, they're all from Spreaker.
That's the weird thing. But like people directly going on to Spreaker. So really, the answer to your question, Hope, is wherever you want, just listen wherever is comfortable for you.
And I mean, really, the job is for me to support you. So I do appreciate that you're looking to give me support. But, you know, my job is to support you.
This is what I'm sort of doing here. And, you know, really just wherever you want to listen, where do you, where is it best for you? For me, the best place to listen is on my website, for me, because it's just I find it easier than logging, you know, going into a podcast, because, you know, I use Apple. What do I use? Apple Music.
So I can search for myself. Where am I? I have to go in and look for stuff. So even if I want to listen to music, I go in, go into a library.
But if I go and put in my name, Jason. Jason Derulo always comes up top. And then Jason Mraz, Mraz, then Jason Isbell, Jason Donovan, Jason Aldean.
I mean, what about me? What about me? Let's have a look. Jason Newland, artist, top results. Click on this.
What's coming up? Nothing. So Apple, Apple Music, for some reason, doesn't seem to have me on there. But I'm definitely on Apple Podcasts.
That's strange. So if I look, let me bore you to Apple Music, says Apple Podcasts, a different a different app then. Let me bore.
Let me bore you to slurp. Okay, that's not the one. And you've got OU2, albums, songs, playlists, nothing.
That's just, that's very weird. Podcasts, albums. So Apple Podcasts, I must have a separate.
So let's have a look. Maybe it's got a separate thing. This shows you how often I listen to a podcast.
Apple Podcasts. Yep, I do have Apple Podcasts. I got the app.
It's just, yeah, it's a different, it's just a different app. I listen to Apple Music. Let Me Bore You To Sleep.
Ah, okay. So Jasson. If I put in boring, I wonder what will come up.
Boring. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 55, 56, 57, 58, 58, 59, 59, 60, 60, 61, 62, 63, 63, 64, 65, 67, 67, 68, 69, 69, 70, 71, 71, 72, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 80, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81,
81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81 just they're not showing i know i'm on there but they're just not showing me i don't know what i have to do to get you know so if i put in sleep let's have a look see if so i'm using my phone here so apple podcast look for sleep so shows um nope i'm not on here either they're not listing me i wonder if i've been blacklisted for some reason yeah i'm not on i mean i'm
definitely on the on the platform because if i put in my name so the chances if you accidentally come in over me is going to be very rare because spotify has kind of hidden me but if you put my name in you got top results that's but that goes for individual recordings so go for shows let me boy to sleeps at the top then monday's sleepy boring objects stress and pain relief relaxation for stress and panic attacks stop smoking hypnosis jason's bedtime story time hypnosis for sleeping deeply and chronic pain
hypnosis hypnosis for sleeping deeply let me bore you Let Me Bore You To Sleep so there's another one there wow and there's about 16 let hypnosis for sleeping deeply so i've got no idea latest recording so Let Me Bore You To Sleep that one works let me go down to the other Let Me Bore You To Sleep um my hypnosis start it's basically just showing the same same podcast see if it's got any right that's all of it so hypnosis for sleeping deeply my hypnosis start that's the the latest recording
what's this one yeah my hip so that's it's just showing the same thing see yeah it's a little bit weird isn't it relaxation for panic okay that's good so i personally just use my website i do use apple music but i don't really i mean i'm i go through periods sometimes at the moment because i'm really into chronic pain relief and stuff like that so i listen to lectures on YouTube because YouTube's such a good resource for stuff like that for educational material so i'll be listening to the experts pain
experts you know doctors and scientists and the podcasts are good as well but i just find the i quite like listening to you know like university lectures and things like that at the moment uh so yeah where hope i just thanks for supporting me wherever you want to listen as long as you're happy and as long as it's helping that's all that really matters um ali asked me what are some things that make you happy right now boobies no i don't know um what makes me happy that was too loud
and that was too late in the recording to be doing that i do apologize i'll try and reduce the sound or delete it or edit it i don't know i i don't really know what does make me happy i like it when i'm productive i like it when i've i feel if we if we if i focus on how i feel like feeling better i feel more better um when i feel like i've achieved something so if the stats are okay you know providing i get at least you know at
least a couple of thousand downloads a day i'm all right with that that's you know i'd like it to be more but you know it's definitely in the right area so heading heading up again um i like making i feel that the idea of helping people is pretty much the only thing that makes me happy really and i don't know if i am help i mean i like i think i am but that's the only that's that's the only thing that makes me happy is this is what i do this
is my life you know there isn't really much else going on and but little things you know i do like to you know i like to watch comedy and um yeah i quite like sleeping i don't yeah i don't know really just doing this this is the only thing this is what i live for this is my life has been for a long time and this is the only stable thing that i have and without this it's really sad but i don't really have much so yeah i don't mean just
doing these recordings but the other stuff i do the pain stuff and things like that so yeah is uh yeah yeah i think that's there's a boxing of course i forgot about boxing ah sometimes it's the looking forward to the boxing rather than the actual watching of it but sometimes the watching of it is just you know occasionally there's just this just amazing amazing event and michelle asks you used to talk about doing exercises do you still do them are you asking me if i put my weight back on is
that what you're asking me you basically ask me how big my belly is now is it um i would i i am actually i had a workout my punch bag yesterday felt lovely i love punching just on a punch bag only i just love it it's just so the physical movement it stretches my back it doesn't affect my lower back which is weird because that's that's the part that i have problems with but punching doesn't seem to negatively affect my back at all my lower back but if anything it stretches
my upper back and yeah it's nice feels nice um yeah i still do weights i've lacked i've yeah i've gone down a little bit with that i was doing a really regular haven't been doing so regular i mean when i'm not in this the when i'm not in like the best space to do anything then they seem to be something that drops off but you know that it's just one of those things but i'm you know i'm kind of getting back into it a bit i do feel better in my
back my lower back when i do do the stretches when i do the what it's squats really so it's kind of stretches and weights as well but yeah i'm still doing it i mean i'd like to it's about motivation really i think if i had a bit more space and like a proper gym to work out in that'd be nice and a punch bag that i could use anytime because i've got neighbors downstairs i know it's going to shake the hell out of their ceiling whenever i'm using a punch bag
so i don't want to disturb them but if i could use a punch bag for like an hour a day because i like i like to do things continuous so i'll punch it for an hour continuously not hard continuously but i will keep going i will keep that movement going for the whole time and at the end of it i feel good very sweaty but i feel you know quite good like i've had a it's not just physical well it's not just like strength or stretching the movement's good as well
but sort of it's also cardiovascular because you do anything any kind of physical movement for a long period of time it turns into cardiovascular doesn't it it turns into working the lungs and the heart because you don't have to run to get that you can use your you can use your your hands to get that as well i mean to ask anyone that's in a wheelchair you know you can you can i had a friend he was in a wheelchair from the age of about 19 i met him when he
was in his 40s probably he was a coach for the olympic team for basketball for disabled basketball players so he was at the disabled what was it called the olympics is it disabled olympics that i can't know what it's called but he he was like the british coach one of the british coaches for the basketball team now what's really weird about him is i remember seeing that he was like six foot two because he's always being like my chest height it's like you're like six foot two it's just i couldn't
get my head because i've never known him outside of being in a wheelchair so like and what an amazing person honestly to be able to you know it's such a good attitude towards life i saw him without his top on once i think he just had like a t-shirt on but you know when those sporty t-shirts where basically it just goes kind of covers your neck and your chest and that built like a horse that sounds wrong doesn't it when you talk about someone i saw him the other day with
very few clothes on he's built like a horse now i'm honestly so muscular his arms his shoulders his chest his back because he was exercising i mean this is quite this is 20 years ago but like so strong and you know if you do enough press-ups or pull-ups that's going to work your cardiovascular system just as much as running so there that's what i think um i might be talking rubbish but that wouldn't be the first time all right this this is a question i got from teresa but i've added
it onto this because this is i don't know where that can't remember where that was posted uh q and a question hello sweet juicy jj thank you teresa at least someone knows what my real name is thank you i'm so confused when you're talking oh blimey i nearly burped i'm so confused well there's a weird time to yawn i'm so confused when you're talking about money i hear you say quids pounds stones stones and other things but i can't remember can't remember them all what are the differences of those things
can you break it down for us in america we have dollars and cents um love love tea and we laughed oh yes so this is for tea um i think the stones that's talking about weight so so that's when i talk about how heavy i am see i was raised when i was raised when i was young mother we always used to have foot and stones so you'd have feet it wouldn't be inches or centimeters it'd be feet so five foot eight which is what i am well five foot nine
six foot three so i'm six foot three let's say that's my height which isn't my height but if you start saying how many inches or how many centimeters or how many meters yeah meters i don't know what that is and i think it's used in probably a lot of different parts of the world they use meters instead of feet i don't know if you say someone's like 20 meters high i don't know what that is thinking about it it might be a giant but i don't know with stone that's the
the weight so i was a hundred i was a few years ago i was ranging between 98 kilos and 102 kilos so that that was kind of my my weight range i was kind of moving in between those two and so i was definitely on the cusp of above 100 kilos for quite a few years i managed to get it down but that's roughly about 16 stone so i'm now below 15 stone so i've lost some weight lost some fat i might just lost muscle and just kept fat because i
don't know it's hard to tell because sometimes i stand in front of the mirror and i hear screaming i'm thinking am i screaming inside my head and i realized it's the mirror the mirror can't stand it so i don't know if that's an issue i'm so so with money so the stones stones and pounds is it stones one one uh there's 14 pounds in a stone okay i think it's 2.2 kilos in a i don't know oh man 2.2 pounds in a kilo no that wouldn't make sense 2.2 kilos in
a pound 2.2 it's a little bit like driving so we we have miles an hour i think in i mean you might have that as well but the i think it's more kilometers per hour i think in america i might be wrong but i'm pretty sure the cars used to have both but with us it was how many miles an hour you're doing kilometers an hour never ever used not not in my lifetime not not with anyone i ever knew i'm not saying no one ever used it but it wasn't
something that we that we used and with the money the money changed over when i was very young so the metric system um when when did money money money system change when did the money system change 1970s it might be before 1970s to be fair 15th of february 1971 the people of britain woke up to a new system of currency so it's blimey so it was during my lifetime for centuries britain had used pounds shillings and pence 12 pence made one shilling that's just confusing 12 pence made one shilling and
20 shillings was equivalent to one pound which meant that meant there was 240 pence in one pound and so and then they i think they called decimalized it so they changed it so now there's basically it's kind of very similar to america i think you get a hundred cent to a dollar is that correct we have 100 pennies to one pound 100 pennies to one pound and so here's the different coins we have although i think the mints they've stopped making one pences and two pences but i think they're still
legal tender so you've got one pence one penny coin which is like a rusty dirty colored thing it looks like it just looks like it's been in someone's coffee it's you know it's just or just been left in an ashtray or something just a really filthy a two point two pence coin which is a bigger like a lot bigger than that there used to be a half penny coin when i was a kid but they got rid of that then there's a five pence piece which is a lot smaller now
than it used to be when i say smaller it's still the same currency piece they used to be quite big but now they're little so you've got five pence piece you've got 10 pence piece there's a 20 pence piece which was introduced in when was that introduced 20 pence introduced the 20 pence was introduced in 1982 so there was no 20 pence before but that that was and that's kind of like got quite a few different sides to it before that the it's got even more it's got what one two
three four five six seven eight sides the next coin above that is the 50 pence piece which has got one two three four five six one two three four five six seven sides one two three four five six oh so so the 20 pence piece has got it's got seven sides the 50 pence piece has got seven sides so it's kind of angled you know but the 50 pence piece is a lot bigger than a 20 pence piece 20 pence piece i think it's about the same kind of size as
a five pence piece i do believe maybe a little bit bigger i say this because i hardly ever see cash i don't have any cash haven't seen the only time i have cash is if well i have cash if i get changed and because most of what i ever order is online delivered so i don't really see any any cash anymore um 20 pence piece was introduced then so 50 pence piece we used to have used to have a pound a pound note so that was the first note currency this
is when i was like you know growing up sort nine eight nine ten whatever i remember this seven it didn't have a lot to do with money i think when i was younger than that so i that the pound note so the pound note was around do do do do do do so the pound note was discontinued in 1988 okay so the pound note was discontinued in 1988 and it'd been around since 1797 so it was drawn from 90 in 1988 due to inflation as it was replaced by a coin
so when did did one pound coin when did start come into circulation okay 1983 so i thought this was true because i was thinking wait a minute it was around long before they got rid of the one pound note so for quite a long time three four five six seven eight so for five years the pound coin the new pound coin which was released in 1983 and the pound note were both in circulation at the same time so they were trying to gradually get rid of the pound note which they
did in 1988 however however with the notes we had um we had five one pound notes five pound notes 10 pound notes 20 pound notes and 50 pound notes there wasn't a 20 pound note i think when i was growing up that was a new thing as well so i'm gonna look into that but we have that now so we have um we don't have the one pound note anymore so that's gone so a five pound note 10 pound note 20 pound note and 50 pound note i don't think we
have any notes higher than that i've never seen a higher note than that um so what did happen though in 15th of june 1998 the two pound coin was released the two pound coin so i don't really know why but that's so then we so the whole like money change so in a sense that we had then the one penny the two penny the five penny the ten penny we no longer had the half penny we had the 20 pence we had the 50 pence one pound coin two pound coin
there was never a two well during my lifetime that at all during my period hasn't been a two pound note maybe they used to be in the past so there was a one pound coin and a one pound note at the same time until the one pound note got taken away which was i think i already mentioned that earlier whenever whenever that was and then no it's 1988 wasn't it 1988 yeah 1998 two pound coin came out which is a much bigger coin it's yeah it's probably the biggest coin out
of all of them i think maybe the same size of 50 pence piece but it's a different color and then the next thing that changed throughout five pound so the next thing would be that when did the 20 pound 20 pound when did the 20 pound coin come into circulation what 20 pence so the 20 have i mentioned this the 20 pence came to circulation 1982 so there wasn't a 20 pence so i'm going to look at now the 20 pound note so there's been a few changes over the years
the 20 pound notes were introduced by the bank of england 1725 so there's always been a 20 pound note i tell you what i'm thinking of is they changed the design they changed the design and right this note replaces our paper 20 pound notes which were drawn from circulation after the 30th of september 2022 so the 20 pound notes when when did 20 pound notes change design so i don't remember there being a 20 pound note the new 20 pound note oh okay so there's always been a 20 pound note
i did think there had been that i really didn't think that a 50 pound note um all right so look so yeah it goes up to 50 50 pound is the highest note is there ever has there ever been a hundred pound note is there the bank of england first issued a hundred pound note in approximately 1725 the note was last issued in 1943 and ceased to be legal tender in 1945 there is no bank of england 100 pound note currently in circulation and the bank of england advises that there
are no plans to introduce one in the foreseeable future hmm look at this according to this calculator the value of 100 pound in 1727 a few years back in today's money is around 6000 pounds so i don't know what the the ratio is between a pound and a dollar so basically your cents is our pence your dollar is our pound but then australia has dollar what's the australian dollar i think canada has a dollar but quite a few i think there's a few countries used the term dollar but i don't
think any other country uses the word pound i might be wrong and there's there are nicknames for some of our money and so let's have a look i know one 20 pounds a score which is british slang for money so i'm just going to go and click on this see just out of interest because there's a lot of cockney like terms as well that used to used firstly we use what is the most universal quid i suppose quid that is slang so if i say oh it cost me 30 quid
i say it just naturally without thinking that it's slang but it is slang so quid is pounds sorry about that i did don't really think about it just just something i've learned being learned it's just you know something that a lot of people use dosh that's another word that's um used for money i don't generally use that word because i'm an adult and the term is kind of an old term god it's like nothing but pop-ups on this website i'm looking at foreignlingo.com another slightly old-fashioned term but one which is
certainly still used today is bob it was referring to i thought bob bob was obviously equivalent to a quid a few bob so that's using it's kind of like oh it's going to cost a few bob to get that fixed but it doesn't really mean a certain amount it's just saying it's going to cost a bit of money and it's going to cost a few quid going to cost a few pounds bread bread's another um slang word that used to be used i think slang the word's the right word for
that i think the slang words being like a bit a little bit rude a little bit oh and bread used to be a tv show called bread comedy and i used to like watching it when i was a kid further okay the the phrase bread and honey is cockney rhyming slang for money i'm all out on bread man i can't come tonight so that's where the bread came from okay and then you've got the term simplest sense from about 1940s but there's a much older one called bread winner which actually
is part of the language now never really thought about it as being money bread bread and honey money dough that's another word dough meaning money is much more older than bread as a slang term for money so someone probably thought dough what does dough make it makes bread but bread doesn't stay it doesn't rhyme with money so what can i put on bread that rhymes with money honey he's got so much dough in a bank he'll never tell anyone what's another one the earliest cabbage another somewhat common slang term for
money in britain is cabbage really he's got a nice chunk of cabbage sitting in the bank never heard of that clam clam never heard of that as i used his word milk milk is another slang term for money used in many parts of britain i've never heard money referred to as milk nope never foreskin a frog skin sorry frogs frogskins is another lesser use nope never heard that never use anyone no one's ever come up to me said you got any frog skins how much frog skins do you make how
much frog skins you got any bank never gone into a bank said i have to draw out some frog skins please moolah okay yeah moolah i know that paper yeah scratch yeah it's not something you normally hear rhino nope never ever heard of that fiver that just means a five pound note so have you got a fiver can you lend me a fiver or can you lend me a tenner ten pound five pound you lend me a score it's not actually not a term i would ever normally use but if
i mean is is a little bit of information you might want to know if someone's telling you about some really amazing some major thing catastrophe that's happened to them you know the the house has fallen down and the every member of the family's being abducted by aliens and and you know they've got debts of millions and they don't know what to do and haven't eaten for a year and they said okay lend me a score what they really mean is they want to go and buy drugs okay so that's uh
you know when when that conversation of like huge stuff's happened and then they end up saying you've got a score i can have and i mean basically so they can score is as simple as that because that's what scoring is isn't it so a score and you can say it's got three three terminologies score as in scoring a goal score as in 20 pound and score as in paying for some narcotics illegal so fiver tenner a nicker n-i-c-k-e-r and and i used to hear people from like old older people from
london saying that never really knew what it meant it was uh basically for a pound but i didn't really didn't if you know like i really need to listen to that the word you said you know what did you shout out then because i remember one man it was a proper cockney and he walked in and said anyone got anyone got a nicker i can borrow now he was a supervisor and he was constantly moving different people around from different departments and the you know the the agency workers which i
was one of them and we kind of looked around at him thinking what did he just say because it's very loud in there and a few of the africans looked over as well like yeah what did you say but it was just basically neither the pound on that occasion in many parts pony in many parts of london you might hear people talking about a pony it's 25 pound see i never knew what a pony was i knew of the term i still didn't know what it was until right now a
bullseye is 50 pound okay so because that's worth 50 points in the game so that's that's fine didn't know that either a monkey is 500 see you'll hear this kind of slang in some of the the gangster movies and stuff based on like london and that i still didn't know what a monkey was until right now 500 why can't you say 500 because the weird thing about it is it's kind of code but ultimately it's not code if everyone knows what it means so if everyone around you knows that a
monkey equals 500 pound you know if you're living in a in a town where everyone including the police the teachers the parents the children everyone including the florist everyone knows what a pony means what a bullseye means and what a monkey means then there's no point saying it is there because you're no longer speaking in code and if you might as well just say the the real term another specific name for a particular amount of money in london is a lady this refers to five pound nope never heard of that
ever um and you got you got rhyming slang uh fiver so you got fiver but lady godiva because it rhymes with fiver which is where you get the word lady so lady is a fiver because it rain it rhymes with lady godiva i never really saw the point in all that to be honest i just sometimes through less com less commonly than the others is in this vein 15 pounds is referred to as a commodore never heard that before never ever ever ever so readies that's another one so just means
cash you've got any cash you've got any readies basically you've got anything ready now any money ready to spend now so we don't have to go to the bank and shillings again that was long gone before shekels we don't really use the word shekels anymore um and that's it so yeah i don't use most of those terms but i do use pounds quid um dosh that's another yeah i don't mean blag no i don't use most of those words but yeah that's kind of what it is it's just so you
got 50 i don't know if you have 100 pound 100 dollar notes so we only go up to 50 pounds so you probably have 50 dollar notes in america and if you're from america it's not worth the same so there's the exchange rate is different i'm not really sure what the exchange rate is but the our money is worth less i think in this country so that's my answer to that and ann asks me have you met molly how did she become an admin she pays me she pays me about
two thousand pounds a week to be the admin and no she doesn't how i've never met her never met her i don't even know to be honest i don't know she stalked me for a while and no i don't know is i couldn't even tell you it's such a long time since i kind of i mean i know she molly did a video review i think back in about 2019 i think yeah and i don't i'm really don't know i'm honestly just just one of those things that just happened it
just naturally fitted into place i guess so that's how molly ended up being the boss of the group and just as i said that molly's liked my whisper wednesday so i guess because she's on the group a lot she's always checking out stuff i know she's got her own stuff going on and but yeah she's been around a long time yeah i see really i don't know and i don't even know if i made it did i make her an admin or does she just make herself the admin i mean
i think she's now in charge of the group i she allowed me to join because i left the group thinking i went through one of my little weird periods and uh so i've joined so i think she's actually in charge of everything she's in charge of the group now so she doesn't need me to be in the group it's weird i don't even need to be in my own group so yeah molly is the boss of this group she's in charge so she's in charge of me she always bossing me
around and that i do believe is all the questions i don't normally do questions this early in the morning vinnie's hassling me begging me so i don't know what he wants so i just want to say thank you to hope ali michelle theresa and ann for your questions i hope i answered them kind of properly i hope so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe lots of love bye
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