(Short | Voice Only) Q&A Friday | #1608 Let me bore you to sleep | Jason Newland | 9th May 2026

Hello, welcome to let me bore you to sleep and Vinnie having a drink. A very loud drink. I wonder why I decided to have a drink at that right moment.

He was literally sitting by, oh he was literally, he was sitting at my feet right before I started talking. As soon as I started talking he ran over to, I know what it is, he thought I was on the phone because he couldn't see what I was doing. You thought I was on the phone didn't you? I'm not on the phone Vinnie, I'm making a podcast.

Because what he likes to do, if he thinks he's going out, even though we've just got back about 15 minutes ago, he drinks as much water as he can so he can do as many wheeze as he can. And he's literally got ready, he's thinking I'm going to take him out but can you keep your bum away from me please? That's what he thinks of me right now. It's almost like I teased him but I didn't, I didn't.

So this is let me bore you to sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

And today is a late version of Q&A Friday. Late for the third week in a row I do believe. However, yesterday, which was Friday, I didn't have any questions to answer.

So I didn't do it. So this morning, I was very strange. How weird.

So yeah, about 11 o'clock, because about five o'clock now. I added another post saying, I didn't get any questions for just for yesterday's Q&A Friday. But if you have some, I'll do it today.

So according to this, I now have three questions. Yeah. Right.

So I've got Nicole, Shantani and Joanne. So yep, these are the questions we have. So I'm gonna do this.

Before I go on, let you know I do have a YouTube channel, you can find me on TikTok, X and Instagram. And also got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's boring group. Also got some pages on there as well.

Jason Newland, hypnotist. And my website, which is Jason Newland.com, where all six versions of each recording is uploaded. So there's three without music, three with music.

I got through that quite quickly, didn't I? I'm very, ever so proud of myself. Yes. Today is Saturday, the ninth of May 2026.

So this week's been a bit. I mean, I had two busy days. So I had a busy day on Tuesday.

So I had to go up to pay for the my spectacles. So that was about a four hour journey. And then on.

Yeah, I did do a recording on Thursday, didn't I? And then on Friday, I met up with my dad. And today is a World Heavyweight title fight tonight at 630. It starts the show anyway, in about an hour and 10 minutes with Fabio Wardley and Daniel Beddingsfield.

No, Daniel Dubois. So that's going to be a bit of a scorcher. I do believe a bit of a hum-dum-dum.

Hum-dum-dum. Is that another word for boring? It's not gonna be boring. It's gonna be fantastic.

And yeah, the lady downstairs, it keeps, her door keeps sticking. So she keeps coming up, but hasn't hasn't come up today to ask me to close her door or open a door for her. So maybe the door's fixed itself.

Can't think of anything else that's happened or that's happening. Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, I have a tooth extraction, two fillings, and I'm also collecting my glasses. So that's a busy day.

And I think Thursday and Friday, I'm just going to be allowing my mouth to recover. So yeah, that's, that's all fine. It'll be done.

I've had a few teeth out, so I'm not too bothered about that. But I'll be glad when it's done, you know, when it's over and done with. And then what I'd like to do while I'm in town on Wednesday.

Yeah, because I'm getting, I've got the dentist appointment at 11. I'm at the opticians at 9.30. So what I might do is go into a bookshop and buy a book just to celebrate my new glasses. Might sound weird.

But I want to get back to reading. And for years I've been trying to like, why is it so, why do my eyes feel, my eyes were feeling very stressed and tense and tired when I was reading. And now I think I know why.

It's because my left eye wasn't doing its job. Wasn't reading properly. Wasn't seeing the words because of the lazy eye.

So with the corrective lenses, it should be a lot easier for me to read without having to read sentences and stuff without my right eye having to do extra, extra work. So yeah, that's, that's good. So I'm going to get back to reading, which is one of my passions for decades.

Can you make a bit more noise, please, Vinny? Oh, thank you. One of my passions for, honestly, since I was a little kid, it's the only thing, I guess over time, the only thing I really enjoyed apart from television, although television, I'm not so interested in TV now, although I do like watching and streaming like box sets and stuff. So I guess that is television, isn't it? It's just stuff that I've not seen in the past, movies.

So I do still like to sort of watch a bit of stuff and YouTube, although I'll come to that in a minute, because I've got a question about YouTube on here. It'd be good to start reading again. I don't know what kind of book, but I want something, I guess at this time in my life, well, I've always been interested in philosophy, but it's something that I'm probably most interested in really nowadays is philosophy.

So I'll probably get myself some kind of philosophical book. And so I like to think, I think sometimes philosophy is like thinking about thinking, and I like to ponder things, something that gets my brain working, or gets me interested in something. Yeah.

So I think that'll be probably a book I'll get just a little book, a little book on philosophy. And I'll read that. Because it's not about collecting books anymore, like I used to.

It's just, it's the joy of reading. Maybe I could just get a storybook. Because that's something, I used to read storybooks or fiction when I was, not fiction, yeah, fiction when I was young, but it was a mixture.

I like fiction, but I also liked factual stuff. You know, I learned how to be a detective. When I was a kid, we used to have these books, how to be a private eye, how to be a detective, how to use a lawnmower, you know, those kinds of things.

So, because being a detective, all you needed back then was a magnifying glass, a bit of dust, so you can like, and a brush, like a shaving brush, to search for fingerprints, and some sellotape to take the fingerprints off. And what else? A hat, usually was good. And a camera.

And to be sneaky. And a notebook, because you know, if you've got a client, they're telling you details, you've got to write down the details, haven't you? Mind you, it was quite hard to get new clients when I was 10. Didn't get a lot of, I didn't get any.

I got no business, nothing at all. But I was still a private detective. I was lucky, a little agency, me and two other friends, or three friends.

I was about 11, actually. And yeah, we used to go up, my friend was, he had his office upstairs, which was his bedroom, but it was an office. Had paperclips and everything.

And we used to have these little toy guns, and we'd run around the town, and we'd have, you know, we just basically, I thought you might have even had some little radios as well. I think it was quite successful. It's probably the most successful children's detective agency that had no customers in the town, in the whole town.

Probably the most successful one like that. I mean, maybe it's a little bit like, is it the secret six or the private five or the special seven? Our squeaky's got a whistle now in the garden. Yeah, that's what you do to, when you've got a kid that makes noise all the time.

I can't wait to shut the kid up. Give it a whistle. Yeah.

In the evening as well, when people want to sort of settle down for the evening, at like half five, six, give the kid a whistle. Let it in the garden. Yeah.

There's a little bit of sarcasm in my voice though, isn't there? Just a little bit. Just a little bit. I still, I used to like the idea of being a detective, you know, like Magnum and not an official like police person, but like a secret one, you know, just one that was, I don't know.

I mean, it'd be much easier to do it nowadays, wouldn't it? With the technology we've got, it'd be easier to kind of catch people out and stuff, but it doesn't really interest me anymore. Not for at least 40 odd years. Yeah.

45 years. Where does the time go? You know, I was looking for internet earlier, just trying to get fast broadband because my broadband is just ridiculously slow sometimes. And even when it's, it's fastest, it's still slow.

I still get the buffering signal on my TV when I'm watching Netflix, Netflix, Netflix. No one in the entire world should ever get that buffering signal ever. It's ridiculous.

I mean, the internet has been around forever now. It hasn't, but you know what I mean, a long time. It's like, let's go back in time and let's get the dial, the dial up.

Like a cat in a mangler. Like, I remember getting so excited when I'd hear the sound that let you know that it connected. Oh, it's actually worked.

Because a lot of time it didn't. And then waiting for a picture to come up on the screen, waiting for like five minutes for a picture. Oh, I can see the head now, the forehead.

I can see the eyes. Like literally five minutes just for one picture. Ridiculous.

Yet it was popular. And sometimes the speed here is about the same speed as back then in 2000. 26 years ago, when I'd started to learn to build websites, 26 years.

It's weird, isn't it? So now I might be in a position where I'm thinking, I'll be moaning, or the AI is now taking away the jobs. They don't need me to be able to code to be able to write website code or anything like that. But then, after 26 years, I like to think that I'd have been in a position to take advantage of the AI.

Maybe. I wish I'd got in on that internet bubble. The problem is, I didn't have any good ideas for the internet.

I mean, I did have some websites. One was called Tidy Search. And that was in 2000.

And it was basically, it was a directory. It was like Google, but it was cleaner and tidier. It was a directory.

And I didn't like, because at the time, Google was, it had the search, but it also had a directory which you could click on and go down and find stuff that way as well. A long time ago. So I decided to do a cleaner version, one that was just easier to use.

And it was easy to use, but it was very hard to build. Like really hard. Really, I mean, if I'd have stuck at it, you know, after like 10, 15 years doing it, I might have actually, because all the information I've had on there, I might have been getting really good traffic.

And also being able to incorporate all the latest technology as I went along. And maybe even forged some kind of partnership with a company that could improve the service. Because a lot of other places would be going onto my website just to find stuff to put onto their own search engine thing.

And all my information was coming from phone books. So business, businesses from phone books from all over the country. So I wasn't going online to find stuff, I was actually photocopying phone books for each part of the country.

So accountants, the first one, I think is on in any directory. And I'd photocopy all the pages of each accountants in each area of the UK, because all the library, the library would have all the phone books, the business directories for the whole of the UK. So I would do that.

I remember once accountants, I think this is 2000, I counted about 5000 hypnotists or hypnotherapists at the time in the UK. It took ages. I was in and out of there photocopying and then adding all the information into by hand into the directory for my website.

I lost my way a bit with that one, because in the end, I just gave up on it. But the next proper website I had wasn't until 2004. And that was helpwithpain.

And then the next one was freepainrelief.co.uk, I do believe. But also I had jasonnewland.com, which is about 2004 as well. Maybe a bit earlier, which I wasn't using, I didn't start using that until about 2006.

Or did I use it 2004? I'm not sure. I might have had it open, but I didn't do anything with it, you know, just a place where you could go to and then get redirected to the other websites. Yeah, 2006, when I started using it properly, to have my recordings on.

The free pain relief was offering a free pain relief service in my local town. So the jasonnewland.com was where you could listen to my recordings. Yes, it was a separate website for a separate thing.

Oh, yes. 20 years old, 20 years. It was 20 years ago today that I used that website.

Oh, yeah. Anyway, so I'm looking for this internet broadband and I'm going through everything. And it's all offering me slow broadband.

We can do 100, 200, up to 500, up to 1 million megabytes a second. And I put in my postcode, we can offer you 35 megabytes a second. Okay, well, no.

Why? Why? Why? I mean, there's actually a place called gigabyte. And they it is ridiculous, right? They put leaflets through my door. The whole area leaflets through my door is not in the whole area.

But then he's put loads of leaflets through and expect me to like, hand them out to all the neighbors. Nothing quite as ridiculous as that. But for years, they've been posting stuff through.

Let me know if you're interested in really, really fast broadband up to 400 megabytes a second. I said, Yes, I am. He said, No, I'm just the leaflet delivery.

You got you got a contact and go to the website. So I went to the website. I said, Yes, I am.

And the website said, I can't talk to you directly because of my website. If you want to leave your details, we'd like to leave your details. Yes, yes, I am.

I mean, yes, I do. So I left my details, the name, my address, telephone number, all that stuff. Years ago, we're talking good two, three, four years ago.

And then I think it was last year. Might be the beginning of this year. But I think it was last year.

It might be beginning of the year. It doesn't really matter. Anyway, a man came around.

And he was here for a few days walking around the estate. And I missed him on one occasion, because I was out. And my neighbor downstairs said said to me, Did you see the bloke? No, that was made up information.

Sorry. Then he came back. I said, because she she had missed him as well.

But he came back and I caught him. I said, Hello. I didn't catch him as in like he wasn't flying through the window on a like Tarzan or anything.

But I said, Hi. He said, Hello. I think he thought I've recognized him from somewhere, which I had because I've been seeing him walking around the estate.

Do you know when you see someone every single day practically, and you feel like you know them? Maybe you get on a bus or train and they're just good people are quite habitual, aren't they? Can be. So they get on at the same spot on the train every day or the same. They walk, you know, they go upstairs on the bus every time at the same time every day.

Some people, you kind of feel you know them. This happened to me years ago, probably about 2009, maybe 2010. And I was going up and having counseling.

And I've carried on after my course finished. So it might have been 2011. But it's probably more like 2009 2010.

And every single Friday, I got a bus to this part of like another part of countryside. But the other side of the town that makes sense is like, there's a good hour from here on a bus, I would say, depending on traffic and that. If not more, actually, could be even more than an hour.

But on a Friday afternoon, it's very busy. I don't know why Friday afternoons are so busy. But it used to take sometimes an hour just to get from there, back into town.

And I lived a half way between there and here back then. So I lived closer to town, but I was still a fair distance away from town. I guess I don't really need to go into details about the hill that we used to go down.

I used to go up a hill. That's it. We used to go down the hill and then up the hill.

I know my name isn't Jack or Jill. So I saw this lady and she waved to me. But it's the first time she ever waved and said hello to me.

Even I saw her every single, every single Friday. And we'd see each other and it went from being like, not seeing each other and then, oh, not you again. To, I mean, I think some people, after meeting me, there's like a little bit of disappointment, generally.

And then there's a period of like, oh, why did he go away? Why is he still here? And then a bit of acceptance like, oh, he can't help it. To even, oh, hi. Maybe never to the point of excitement, but kind of, in a sense, just giving up, you know, it's like, oh, I give up.

He's going to be on the bus. So I might as well just say hello to him. I mean, I was on the bus for a legitimate reason.

I wasn't just there to annoy people. That was just the extra benefit, I suppose. And she did, she's like, hello.

It's one of those moments where, you know, when someone's really seems pleased to see you, and you kind of feel you have to look behind yourself to see if it's someone else that they're saying hello to, because you seem too pleased to see me. Like, it can't be me, because I've done that in the past. So I sort of said hello back.

And then someone's kind of said, hello, waved and walked towards them and gave it a big hug. And then someone comes up to me and says, why are you in our garden? And he put his trousers back on. So it's also, it can be a little bit awkward, can't it? So naturally, I'm looking around like, there's no one around me.

Hi. And then she gets off the bus. And then I get a call from my counsellor saying, oh, the mood's gone through really quickly.

And I'm moving, some kind of family thing or whatever. So I can't continue with the counselling. And I said to her, what about the lady on the bus? She said, ah, lady on the bus? I said, yeah, I met a lady on the bus.

And I've been travelling up here for about, it's got to be a good 10 months. I see her every day, well, every Friday. And she's gone from like, you know, the process.

And my counsellor said, oh, she kind of ignored you to start with, and then kind of just a bit disappointed. I said, yeah, exactly. She said, yeah, that's how I felt when you started coming to see me for counselling.

I said, really? She said, no. That's what I called for. I didn't, I don't care about the person on the bus.

I was letting you know that I can't see you anymore, because I have to go back to Wales. I said, I didn't know you was from Wales. She said, well, anyway, I just want to just apologise to you.

Because it's normal to have a, like a, like a settling down, gradual, gradually finishing the counselling, maybe doing every week, and then maybe every two weeks, and then once a month, and do that over maybe a month or so. Two months, maybe, even if it's been a long term counselling. But I can't do that, because I have to, have to move on.

I said, that's, that's okay. She said, you're still thinking about the woman on the bus, aren't you? I said, yeah, I am. I am.

I was like, okay, well, take care. Bye. Bye.

And I never saw the woman on the bus again. And I loved her. I loved her.

I love her. What else? Oh, yeah, the whole point I'm trying to say about the broadband is I went online, and I'm looking to find a broadband that would be useful for me. And there was a couple of options, but they all come in as low, all offering, you know, really high megabytes a second, which, you know, a speed of 200 or 400 is very, very fast.

But none of them were offering that to me. None of them even seem to want to give me a fast broadband. So, basically, I sort of, I went on to chat GPT said, can you help me out, find me some, you know, there must be someone that will be able to give me some broadband.

Someone banging on the door, not on the door, but on the wall. You don't think I'm making noise? Maybe my voice is so, do you think? Could be my voice? Do you think my voice is just really, it drains through the walls? A bit of banging on the on the door on the walls or something from downstairs or from somewhere. Can't quite make it out.

But anyway, so, yeah, so I'm looking for the broadband that just I just need a couple of hundred megabytes a second would dramatically improve the situation. And I kept going through one one by one by one by one by one and couldn't find anything. And one even said, you know, it's all basically you go to the website, you put your postcode in, and then find the number of the house.

And it tells you whether or not they have it available. On one of them, they said, oh, no, it's not available at your address. Do you want to put a different address in? Would you like to put a different address in? Yeah, I'm going to move to get better broadband.

Like, well, in that case, well, if you've got any properties you suggest I move into so I can actually have some quick broadband. It's amazing. Crazy.

So, Nicole asks me, what's the weirdest compliment you've ever received? I can't tell you. There was a very funny compliment I got when I was about 27 from a lady. But yeah, I can't repeat that one.

It was funny. It's something I'd never heard anyone say before. You're probably thinking, well, that I was good, that you were good.

That you was actually no, stop it. That's not true. But anyway, it was along that line.

But yeah, it was kind of I can't read that one. So compliment. I had a comedian say to me once, I've done a few just being friendly.

But he said to me and this is when I was like in my early 20s. He said, the thing about you is when you talk, people do listen. And I said to him, really? What? Who? Who in particular do you think listens to me? You really think people listen? And he turned to me and said, so what? What? Sorry? Because the joke there is that he wasn't listening.

Because he said to me that people used to listen when I talked. And so my response was like, hey, who? Do you know who? You know, got any examples? And he said, what? What? I mean, it wasn't the best put together joke, but that was the premise of it. Because I was feeling good about that people listen, because I didn't think that people did listen.

And that's the joke of it, is the idea that he's just said that people listen, but he wasn't listening himself. Therefore, making the statement kind of a bit silly. You know what I mean? I mean, perhaps it'd be better if I'd have used a different phrase at the end of it, like, oh, sorry, I forgot you were there.

Or shut up. I don't know. Maybe.

Who are you? Yeah, maybe that'd be better. But it's a real situation that did actually happen. Only the first part, when he said, oh, people listen to you when you talk.

Nothing else happened. It was just that. Okay, it's not totally true.

Other things did happen. You know, time continued. People got on with their lives.

You know, everything didn't just come to a halt in that second and was frozen in time. No, we, you know, everyone just moved on with their lives. But I do remember that.

And weirdest compliment. I did, there was, I left a job once and this lady that I used to hang out with, she was the sister of my bosses in the bakery. And I just used to have dinner with her.

Sometime like lunch at work. And we got really well. And just, I can't be myself with her.

On the day that I had left, and I went to collect my wages, because it was cash back then. So I went to collect my wages. And I saw her on the way as I was walking towards the bakery.

And she said, oh, she's really sad that I wasn't there anymore. And she said, if I didn't have a boyfriend, I'll probably give you a go. I thought, okay.

I didn't really know what to make of it, if I'm honest. If I didn't have a boyfriend, I might give you a go. That was her, that's what she said.

So I guess, is that a compliment? Other compliments. Oh yeah, people said to me, you don't smell as bad as you look. Is that a compliment? You don't smell as bad as I thought you would.

I don't know. Compliments. I don't really feel that I've had many compliments.

I mean, people, I've had compliments on what I do here. People saying they like my voice, or they like the thing, like what I'm saying, and like listening to me, and being bored, and going to sleep, and all that stuff. But I mean, I did have one person contact me, and they said, I love listening to you talk.

I listen to you when I'm in bed. I don't know if you kind of imagine where I'm going with this without actually going there. And she said, I lay there waiting for you to tell me what to do next.

Because you're such a lovely voice. I'm like, okay. Didn't really, you know, it's, of course, I don't be a dog barking out of the back.

I don't make such recordings as you know. But it was like, okay. So I have had people telling me they listen to me.

Okay, well, how should I word this, that I have had different, different effects on different people. And I mean, it's not all big complimentary. Some posts, I think someone said once that listening to me made him want to eat a tree.

This is a weird thing, isn't it? I mean, how would you eat a tree? Another one said he wanted to stick his head in a beehive. So he couldn't hear me anymore, which is a bit harsh. I mean, that's obviously, that's not a compliment, is it? I guess it's the opposite to a compliment.

I mean, probably the biggest compliment I get is I'm boring. Or people say I'll make him laugh. That's a compliment.

I'm talking about the weirdest, am I? So that's, and that's probably weird for some people to think that, you know, which really makes you laugh. I listen to all the time. There's not a funny thing said once, not ever.

You know, they might find that it's a bit of a weird compliment that some people find me humorous. And I'm trying to think there's probably has been some examples, some really weird examples where I've had the most strangestest compliments ever. I can't think off the top of my head.

I mean, I don't know if it's a compliment, but someone did say once, when they watch me on YouTube, you look nothing like I thought you'd look. But you'll do. It's like, what? That was a weird one.

You look much taller. You seem much taller when I listen to your podcasts. It's not really a compliment, is it? It's like, really? Because the thing is, I think when you listen to somebody on the radio, or I find it's quite hard to put an image, to put a face to that person and for it to be correct.

In fact, I don't think it's ever been correct. Ever. My whole life.

I might be in the ballpark as far as some aspects, but generally, you know, I mean, yeah, physically, it's I'm not gonna say it's impossible, because maybe there are ways of figuring it out. But then I know what I look like. I also know what I sound like.

And that might be a bit strange. What do you mean you know what you sound like? We all know what we sound like. But that isn't necessarily the case.

Because if you get someone, if you record their voice and play it back to them, and they've never been recorded before, they may be very, very surprised, or even shocked at how they sound to themselves, compared to how maybe they thought they sounded. So how they sound to others, it takes a bit of, you have to listen to yourself. And I think a lot of people when they talk out loud, they're not hearing their voice the way other people are hearing it.

But I am. There's a hero. No, I don't mean it like that.

I'm not bragging. It's just after doing this for so many years, and after editing thousands of recordings, my internal voice and my external voice are the same. If that makes any sense at all.

You know, so when I'm thinking, I'm thinking in my voice. And I know exactly how I feel, how I sound. I don't sound deep or higher pitched, or yeah, anything.

I just sound exactly how I sound to me. Like my ears are finely tuned into my own voice. If that makes any sense.

I think it did to start with. I think the bit that made the most sense was when I said hello and welcome to let me boy to sleep. It's kind of gone downhill from there.

Well, I could do and I could reverse the question and shout it out to everyone. Maybe post the weirdest compliment that you can think you could give me. That'd be interesting.

That'd be funny as well. So maybe send it, you send it my website. Or you send it to Jason Newland at hotmail.co.uk. Or you could post it on Facebook or X or Instagram or TikTok.

So on my Facebook. So yeah. I can't think of any.

Okay, I did get a weird compliment. So there's a lady living downstairs. This was last year.

And I liked her. But nothing happened between us. But I did like her.

And I kind of wanted something to happen. I suppose a little bit. I wasn't sure I was wasn't in the greatest space to be fair.

But I was like, Oh, she moved in the year before last actually. She moved out last year. And she got pregnant.

Not by me. And she said to me, Oh, I joked saying well, wasn't me. I mean, she knew that.

And then she said, Oh, I wish it was. I wish you were the father. So that's, I guess quite a weird compliment for someone to say that they wished I was the father of their child.

That's not the first time that's happened either. It happened when I was 17, working above a co-op, working at the co-op local. And I was walking down the road, one of the local customers, regular customers came out of her house and said, started talking to me and said, would you would you father my child? Would you get me pregnant? And I ran.

I ran and I ran and I ran. And I didn't I was I was scared though. Which is weird because I fancied her and she was only probably a couple of years older than me.

But I did fancy her but that was a little bit too much like, invite me in for a cup of tea first. You know, talk about the weather. Maybe even like, see who's got to be his hands, you know, normal stuff you do on a first date.

And but no, no, it's like, come on in and we'll like no. Because at the time I didn't know what to do because I hadn't released my Virgo in me until I was 19. The summer of my 19th year.

So I was a little bit, I was a little bit scared. I didn't know what to do. Weirdest compliments.

It started to make me think about compliments I've had because I don't generally remember compliments. I've had a few women say, oh, you're like a like a breath of fresh air. Because I guess I'm just a little bit different from what some people are used to.

Um, I'm not sure. Oh, well, this isn't a weird one. But my friend Noel, he said to me, I went to his one man show, which was at the comedy club.

And this was around 2007. Because I've been doing the free pain relief stuff for a year by then. And he said to me that he was proud of me for what I've done.

And he would happily introduce me to any of his friends, any of his business friends, you know, business chums. And I thought, wow. So that was a that was what I guess is not weird, but it was a nice compliment.

I did have another, yeah, there's another girlfriend made a weird compliment. She said, I don't know if it's a compliment or not. She said, how come you haven't got, why haven't you got loads of hairs in your nose? Why haven't you got? And I said, huh? So she, she's like, was surprised.

It's like, stop looking up my nose. That's weird. She's like, really like, just why haven't you got lots of nasal hair? Like, that didn't seem it just, I don't know, things like that ruined the romance a bit with her.

I'll be honest. It ruined the wedding. You know, I was just about to say, I do.

And she's talking about nasal hair. I mean, blimey. No wonder the marriage only lasted 32 years.

Trying to think what other weirdest compliments you've ever received. This wasn't a compliment. I had someone tell me that my eyelids, my eyebrows are too close to my eyes.

So that was an insult, but a bit of a strange one, to be honest. No, I can't think there's probably loads because when they're weird, they don't really feel like compliments. Do they? I would say I would argue potentially.

I mean, it depends, but what else? Still just trying to think. I can't think of any others. Weirdest compliment.

No, no. Shanthani asks me, what are your pet peeves? What makes you scared? And are you an introvert or an extrovert? That's better. I've got a few pet peeves, to be honest.

People driving, people parking on the pavement. That's one of my big pet peeves. People bibbing their horns for no reason.

Especially people that do it, like keep doing it because they've been impatient. I've seen that loads of times. It's like, because they can't be bothered to get out the car.

I mean, some taxi drivers do it. A bit less so now because they've got apps that are telling people that they're there and that, but never really understood the whole concept of saying goodbye to someone and driving off. But as you drive off, you bib your horn.

What's the point in that? You already said goodbye. Understanding like, oh, you get in the car and I forgot to say goodbye. Bib your horn.

Dogs barking in the garden, continuously in the garden all day. That's my pet peeve. Literally a pet peeve.

Being interrupted when I'm making a recording. So Vinny barking because someone's knocked on the door, like a kid in the garden whistling, using a whistle or a dog barking or a woman shouting or all that stuff. Anything that interrupts a recording because I can't do hypnosis recordings pretty much during daylight because of that.

Which means I have to get up very early in the morning to do it. And yeah, it's a shame. I'm trying to think what other pet peeves.

People that shout, people just can't just talk normally, but have to shout talk. That's weird. I find, I don't know why they do that.

People continuously, I don't know, just humans, humans in general. It's people at speed. When there's no reason, when there's no benefit, literally they'll speed and get like 10 seconds off their journey, if that, and they end up behind another car that's in a traffic jam.

People that don't let me cross the road. When I'm trying to cross and they don't stop and I'm standing there for like five minutes sometimes. And in addition to that is people that think by slowing down, I'm going to cross the road.

I'm not, I'm not going to cross the road till they stop. Because I've done that in the past. I've actually had cars speed up again.

Once I stepped in the road, which isn't funny, but it's, it makes you think and it's like, okay. So unless they blink their lights or wave their hands and they slow, really slow down, then I'll cross if they're a distance away. But if they're still going and they just slow down a little bit and keep going, I'm not going to try and outrun a car or a van or a lorry because I don't walk very fast.

I think people that don't acknowledge cars that stop. See, although I like cars to stop, I don't expect them. They don't have to, but if they do, it's nice.

Unless it's a zebra crossing, then they have what is supposed to stop or it's just a red light. I always acknowledge the driver to say, thank you. Always have done my whole life pretty much because it's just respectful.

And I'm like, thank you for stopping. The fact that they had to stop by law, it's not come, it doesn't come into it for me. So I thank you.

When I see people that don't do that, I find that that's a little bit of a pet peeve. And I've realized that you've opened up a can of worms because I think that all I am is just one big pet peeve. That's me.

That explains my character, which I don't want to be like that. So people that people just walk in and they know you're behind them and they don't open the door for you and let the door slam in your face. Or I mean, some people argue, I've had arguments with this.

Some people say, but you don't live here, mate. This is my front door. Can you go away? Can you put your pants on? And the thing is, I'm going to keep doing the pants one, don't worry.

Yeah, I know. You'll miss it if I didn't do it. At least once a recording.

I, yeah, when you do open the door, hold the door open for someone, you know, in a shop or something and they don't acknowledge it. Now, I know different countries have different rules when it comes to social niceties. But in my country, where I come from, where I live, we say thank you and please.

It's actually important to say that. And I think some countries it's important to burp after you've eaten to let people know that you've enjoyed the dinner. Or it's very important that you eat every single bit of food on there or that you eat it a certain way.

I don't buy into those customs because we don't really have that so much here as a custom that I've been born into. You know, although I did have a friend once who was so sexy, he cooked some nachos with cheese and sauce and stuff. And he moaned because we were using knives and forks to or like a spoon and a fork to remove them from the main dish onto our own plates.

And he was saying, it's finger food. It's finger food. You're supposed to eat it with your fingers.

Okay, we're going to eat it with your fingers. But it doesn't mean that I've got we've all got to stick out individual dirty fingers into the pile of food that we're all sharing, does it? If I knew that I would have washed my hands after I did my last poo. It's just like, oh, and it's things like that.

I'm not quite as uptight as that. It's finger food. It's like going into a Chinese restaurant or get a Chinese takeaway.

And they insist we must use chip stocks, chip stock, chip, chopsticks, chopsticks. No. I've been into restaurants where there's been chopsticks.

And I say with spoon with a knife and fork, we're using chopsticks. You should learn to use them. You should use the customs of the place you're in.

Firstly, we're not in China. Even if you were. Do you really think that I'm going to spend months and months and months learning to use an eating utensil when I'm only going to be in the country for one week? Do you really think I'm going to put that much effort in? Especially as I'm only in here for like two hours.

You feel I'm going to put that? No. Give me a fork and a spoon. Chopsticks.

It's ridiculous. It's not ridiculous for people that are raised and born to use them. But there's no there's no need to learn to use them if we don't need to.

You know what I mean? This is like saying, oh, we're in this particular country. So no, you don't drink tap water. You go to the well.

You must walk 14 miles to the well. No. I'm in a hotel.

I'm just going to have Perrier, thanks. No, you must walk to the well. Why are you so insistent on me walking to the well? Because that's what it is.

Everyone else that lives here walks to the well. You don't see anyone walking around drinking Perrier, do you? I said, yeah, all the people that came here with look at them all in the hotel are drinking Perrier because the tap water is not safe. Not safe? Then go to the well.

Shut up. Isaac pet peeves, apparently going to the well is a pet peeve. I don't know why that is.

What else? What makes me scared? Being attacked by a lion or a big bear. Generally things that can't happen. Really? Yeah.

Yeah. Sharks. Things that I don't go into the sea.

So, you know, sharks aren't really a problem to me. And alligators, things like that. There's a few things, I suppose, but nothing major, just general.

I think I'm pretty normal. I'm pretty like normal things. You know, I'm not a big fan of heights.

You're never going to find me bungee jumping or jumping out of a plane. That's never going to happen. And when I say never, I mean the true word, the true meaning of the word never.

A very inflexible word. I do believe it should be. Never means never.

Not like never say never. No. Sometimes you need to say never.

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? I would say I'm both because of my personality disorder, bipolar and stuff. I'm an introvert when I'm at home. Sometimes when I'm in public, I'm an introvert and sometimes a bit of an introvert extrovert.

Can you hear the dog in the background? Where's my gun? Oh, aim, aim. I'm probably a bit of both, I'd say. I don't think I really categorise myself as either.

I'm just me. But the version of me depends on my mood. It really does.

And so yeah, I can be both. I can be, yeah, I can be both. Vinny just started banging the metal of the desk with his shoe.

So I moved the shoe with my foot. I said, don't do that. He picked it up, looked at me and just ran off.

He's got an attitude, that boy. Seriously. Introvert or extrovert? I'd go introvert, generally.

I don't like crowds. I'm a one-on-one person. That's why when I do these recordings, I'm talking just to you.

So I'm a one-on-one person. And yeah, generally. If I'm in a room with three people, I don't like it.

Or two people. I can only have a conversation with one person. I mean, some people are quite cool and they will talk individually.

And it can work. But generally, I struggle to figure out what people's intentions are, generally. So one-on-one, that's all I'm really prepared to do.

Apart from when I've got no choice. Yeah, I'd say introvert. But with, I mean, my personality disorder is an emotionally unstable personality disorder.

With, I forget what it is, but basically potential of doing some, not thinking things through and doing something, doing stuff. So I guess that part of me is quite extrovert, introvert, extrovert. You know, I forget the name of it.

I don't know. But if I'm in a good mood, I'm quite up. When I'm not in, when I'm in a lesser mood, I'm definitely introvert there.

I don't go all ranty and ravery like some people. I don't like shouting and stuff like that. I just keep to myself most of the time anyway.

I prefer to just do my own thing. I've got a few friends that I speak to. That's it.

But it's a one-on-one. I don't get together with groups of people. Never really enjoyed that.

And I still don't. I prefer one-on-one conversation. And yeah, yeah, it's just easier.

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What's your most embarrassing moment? Oh, there's a few, few embarrassing moments. I was with a girlfriend once on a train. This was a long time ago.

And she, there was no one to the side of us. No one on the seats next to us. And she pulled my pants down.

And then pushed me into the, you know, the walkway. But as far as people to see me so that that was embarrassing. And then there was that time I got arrested for being naked in on the train in the, no, I didn't.

And what else? I think when I was in junior, when I was in infant school, a junior school, I got in trouble for stealing from the top, the tuck shop. And the police came in and I had to stand up there and got told off. I was, I was seven and yeah, I didn't really see it as stealing.

I thought it was just free stuff because I had the key to the door. I didn't see it as stealing because I didn't have to knock a door in or anything. I just opened the, opened the door with a key.

I thought therefore it was just free. That was a reward of opening a door is to have whatever's inside the door. But you know, I had to learn that that wasn't the case.

Embarrassing moments. There's one I was once I was in a club and it was someone eating and I kind of just bent down chatting them up or talking to the lady. And as I'm talking to her, the chewing gum in my mouth falls onto the floor because I'm kind of at her head height, kind of, and I'm bending over and it just falls out of my mouth.

And I just said, I'll see you later. I was a bit embarrassed because I think everyone, it was about four people on the table and it all seemed to happen in slow motion. There's a few embarrassing moments that happened when I was, it was embarrassing to me, but no one else knew anything about it.

My voice is kind of croaky for some reason. So I can't think of any particular embarrassing moment. There is, I'm sure, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

So Joan asks, Joanne asks, what's your favorite type of thing to watch on YouTube? Over recent months, I've quite got into the auditors, watching people traveling around different towns and filming people acting very bizarrely, especially like at nightclub time and drunk people getting into arguments about nothing. It's kind of quite funny to watch. Very silly.

Boxing, a lot of boxing stuff I like to watch. Interviews, you know, the buildup towards a fight coming up and stuff like that. Sometimes watching old fights.

I like to listen, well, I listen, although it's on the TV, YouTube, I watch YouTube on TV. I like to listen to classical music. So I sit on my chair and I kind of just drift off listening to that and relax.

I also listen to my own podcast as well on YouTube. So I do that and I kind of recline and go to sleep or just relax. So I try and give myself a few times during the day to relax.

It's like a constant thing, just trying to kind of work on being calm, loose. Yeah. I like to watch like the latest update on AI, especially chat GPT because I use it every day.

Motivational talks, maybe even music as well. I like to watch music videos. Yeah, I quite like watching old stuff.

Like there was this old documentary from about 19, maybe 60s or early 70s, where someone was being forced. Well, they had to move out of their home and they were being given a new council flat or council home. And they didn't want to move out of where they were born because they'd lived there their whole life.

And this lady was probably in her 60s or something. But she didn't have any heating. It was really run down where she was living.

And they gave her this new place to move into. But the rent was three times as much. So she was paying like £3 a week.

And she had to pay £9 a week once she moved, which imagine having your rent going up three times the amount is a lot, isn't it? Or two times the amount if you however you look at it. It goes up another two times, which means it's three times. But she didn't want to move and they showed some of the building that she was living in, it was derelict.

And the taps, everything was like, probably about 100 years old. It's really old, old buildings. And I found that interesting.

Just seeing and being interviewed and this whole area it was in Covent Garden. So they decided the council in Covent Garden decided to get rid of all those houses and move because it was a really thriving area. And people knew each other.

It was like a really good community. Everyone's went to the local pub. They worked on the market, you know.

And bit by bit, people were being moved out. I think the market got moved to a different place. New Covent Garden or wherever.

And everything changed. And, you know, they interviewed a couple of people and one said like, well, I don't want to move. I've lived here all my life.

All my friends live here. And you want me to move somewhere where I won't know anybody at this time of my life. And, yeah, I kind of felt for it.

It's just interesting to see that people haven't really changed. You know, human beings are human beings. And even like 50, 60 years ago, it was still very similar values.

People wanted to be near the ones. They wanted to, you know, want to be loved or want to love, want to be loved, wanted to have familiarity. You know, things like that.

So, yeah, just things that interest me, like documentaries from the past. Sometimes with famous people and famous writers. And as I got more into the classical music, I'm starting to become a little, very little, a small amount, but I'm starting to become a little bit interested in the composers.

It's not like, it's not turned into a big, like obsessive thing, because I don't want that to happen, because there's no point to it. You know, I'll stick at being obsessed at this. There's a reason, you know, there's a benefit to this.

It helps people, hopefully. Me being obsessed with, um, you know, opera and, well not opera so much, but with composers and their lives and how they did what they did. That's, it's interesting, but it's not gonna, I don't think I need to be too, too obsessed with it, you know, but I am getting a little bit interested.

So, I watched, I watched YouTube videos on, on, little documentaries on people put together, you know, just from people that are interested. There's also movies on YouTube now, which you can watch for free, which are, instead of being like, that shouldn't be on there, are actually put on there by YouTube. So, yeah, it's, I like YouTube, I do.

So, it's varied, but the thing is, if you go on there, whatever you put in, if you watch enough videos of one thing, then YouTube will just start chucking more and more of the same stuff. And just because I spent yesterday looking at, um, researching the Russ Myers movies, doesn't mean I want that content on my wall today. So, yeah, I think they'd kind of, I wish they'd kind of focus more on the bigger picture, because they'd see that I'm constantly, uh, they do, yeah, they are constantly putting classical music on there, because every day, every day, I listen to classical music videos.

So, yeah, I just find it relaxing, and it's very, oh, excuse me, it's very important that I continue my ongoing training in relaxing my body and my mind. It's just something that I've, I need to keep up. It's too important not to.

So, yeah, that, I do believe, is everything. Anonymous member 468. How many anonymous members are there? Unless that's your actual name, Anonymous member 468.

Because I've been saying this for years, that there's way more on here, what, looking at this page, than the 245 members. There's a lot of anonymous people that come on here and watch as well. So, hmm, well, you're welcome to join anyway.

So, I'm going to go, I'm going to watch the boats in. So, I'd like to say thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy.

And thank you for those of you that sent the questions as well. And remember to be gentle with yourself, because you do deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye.