music #1218 Q&A Friday Let Me Bore You To Sleep 18th October 2024

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So, welcome. Q&A Friday. My name is Jason Newland.

This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. A couple of notices.

First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to Jennifer for your PayPal gift, for your kind PayPal gift. Thank you. I received that at 29 past midnight when I was in bed.

Thank you very much. Very much appreciated. Secondly, I am recording this on Saturday.

But I will also release it today. So it's sometime you know. So most for most of the Saturday, the Friday Q&A Fridays, I've released them Saturday morning.

But on this occasion, it's going to be later because it's now 9.49 in the morning on Saturday, the 19th of October. And there's very good reason for this. But it's just personal stuff.

I got I was helping a neighbor out. So I didn't. That's not the only reason to be fair.

But yeah, after that, I just couldn't like didn't have the energy to do it. But it's fine. I'll do it today.

Plus, I'll get I'm not okay. I'm not now but I was behind with my Open University degree course. Behind, like a week behind.

And now I'm up to date. The next week starts today. And I ended the last week last night.

So I now am up to date. But yeah, it's opened up a few little issues for me. In fact, I was considering leaving the course.

But I decided this was yesterday, probably afternoon. And I thought, well, instead of doing what I normally do, or what I have done in the past, and gone with that energy. I'll wait until Monday.

You know, think it over during the weekend. And there's some reason I thought I was further behind than I was. And I don't know, I mean, I'll talk about this a little bit more, because I think one of the questions asks me about the course.

But yeah, I was just, I'll be honest, I struggled, I'm struggling a little bit with it. And I think that's kind of normal, to be fair. And what's normal for me, anyway, I don't know if it's normal for other people.

But that's probably a different recording. But yeah, I'll talk about that maybe a bit more in the future. But right now it's Q&A Friday.

And I've got, I think 11 questions. So I've got a lot of questions to answer. Itchy back, itchy back.

Oh, it's raining. I just literally took him out. And he's now cleaning himself off.

He's probably got mud all over him. It's raining, man. It's raining.

And he's not going out again until Monday. Even if I just have to hold him out the window so he can go to the toilet. That way.

I'd say just I don't want to go out in it. I don't. Not a fan of the rain.

I'm not I'm a fan of the rain because you know, if it wasn't for the rain, we'd all be dead. But you know, I do it. I just don't like being in it.

You know, don't like being in it. That's kind of that's it really. I don't think there's anything else to update you on.

Yeah, just yesterday was a bit. I'll be the last the last weeks have been a bit at times in every day. You know, it's just it comes and goes.

But it's it's time consuming. And it's more time consuming than I gave it credit for that I didn't really think about, you know, 16 to 18 hours a week. That's not much but actually is quite a lot.

It is quite a lot. And it is quite a lot. I'm keep repeating it.

Anyway, I think I cover this. I think I'll be covering this information. In one of the questions.

I keep interrupting myself today. I bang the microphone and then I turn my phone on and a video started so I need to be a bit more focused. That's another thing.

Focused baby. That's something I'm like, need to be doing. Oh, yeah.

Molly, Molly, the boss is had her had her operation. And on her profile. There's a picture of her in bed.

And in the hospital bed. And she's on her way to recovery. So send in well wishes to Auntie Molly.

Right, here we go. Also did a poll this week. It's a day ago one day ago.

Please let me know if you'd like me to do regular weekly whisper Wednesdays. And I've had 26 votes. So far, the yeses have been six.

The noes have been 16. The ambivalent which someone added has been four. And the I told you before, don't interrupt me when I'm on the toilet.

Has had none. I'm adding wine for that. That's it.

Good. So here we go. Any questions for this week's q&a? I've got 11.

So I'll just go through them one by one. So before I do that, I'll just try to avoid doing it. I think.

What am I grateful for today? I'm grateful. I'm grateful for the rain. No.

I should do what am I not grateful for? That'd be easier. I'm such a grumpy old man. What am I grateful for? I'll tell you something I'm grateful for not grateful for.

I don't know if I've mentioned this. I think last week or the week before, when I received my DNA test kit. I also I think the next day received a bowel screening test kit.

Which was something the NHS, the National Health Service in this country, they're doing where it's normally people over 60. But they've been there short, they're like lower in the age. And I was included in that age group.

And I've been I got screened, I had to send a sample. Let's not, let's not focus too much on that. I did talk about it in one of my podcasts.

So I'm grateful because the results came through. And everything's fine. And I did do a little whoop.

I go, yeah, something like that. It might have been a bit more enthusiastic at the time. But I received a letter and I thought, oh, oh, oh, oh, what's going to be in this.

But it was just you're fine. And you get tested. And again, in five years, as a routine thing.

And see, yeah, that was good. That's nice. I've been bitten a few times.

So I don't know what's what's occurring. I think a creepy crawly might have got onto Vinnie. And he's brought it home.

Because I've found a couple of things on me. But they're not like fleas. I don't know what they are.

But it's he's been really good the whole of this year has been fine. The whole of the summer didn't get nothing on him. But the year before he did, I had to fumigate this whole place.

And I just like oh no. Especially now it's kind of becoming heating time. So that'll that'll Yeah, we'll see.

We'll see. Might just be a I mean, I don't know, lice or something. I don't know.

I got itchy knee. It could be bed mites. Could it be bed mites? Personally to wash the bed.

Every 10 years is okay, isn't it? Anyway, so let's do the questions, baby. I'm going to start from the top and go all the way all the way down. So there's one, two, Christine, Diane, three, Dimitri, four, Amferi, five, Anne, six, Joanne, seven, Chris, eight, Brittany, nine, Brittany, 10, Leah.

Oh, okay. So the 11th one, it wasn't a question. It was just someone saying that I love this question.

That was Brittany Smith. Brittany and Chris Beck, Chris, Chris Blimey, Chris, Chris Beckman, and Brittany Smith, Smitherson. So that was Yeah, this is 10 questions.

So what I'll do is I'll start with Christine. Okay. Do you have any questions about us? Listeners? We could answer in the comments.

Thank you for all you do. Love to the Vinster. Ah, that's an interesting one.

Do I have any questions for you? Okay, there's there's there's a yeah, there's probably a continuing question in my mind. So there's a couple. First of all, why do you listen? You know, why are you listening? Because I can't really I don't necessarily understand.

And it's it doesn't intrigue me. And the second question would be what do you get from listening to I'm gonna stop saying me at the recordings, these recordings, what you get from it? How does it benefit you? How have they helped you? I suppose another question. How did you find me? How did you find me? I've been hiding.

What other things? Yeah, why do you I suppose really, why do you listen? What are you listening for? It might sound like a really weird question for me to ask you. But yeah, I do wonder. I just like I don't, I don't really.

Because in real life, people don't listen to me. Well, okay, maybe they do. But I, you know, I mean, if it is just because I'm boring, then cool, I guess.

I mean, I'm the one that put the title of Let Me Bore You To Sleep. But I don't personally find myself boring. But you know, it's I don't know.

Yeah, I suppose that would be it. What? I mean, I guess, where are you from? Where you know, this is all those questions. But this is more, I guess more about the actual to the listeners, you, but also about the listening.

So I guess it's more from a podcast perspective. Where you from? What ages are you? Where's your list? Yeah, where are you listening from? Why are you listening? Is it benefiting? How is it benefiting? But I guess in some ways, that's more feedback, but also maybe encouragement, as well, perhaps. And yeah.

I mean, I don't know what a lot some of the people look like. Because there's pictures of that. I mean, to be I'm not one to really say anything, because I've got a picture of a myself when I was nine on my Facebook profile picture.

But it's a, you know, there's quite a few people don't have a picture or they don't have will have like an animal or flowers or, you know, different things like that. So I'm curious what people look like. I guess I'm not really hiding my identity in a sense of I do have videos of me.

And there are pictures of me on Facebook, like on my Facebook page. But I just think I might as well put me on use picture where I'm at my best. And I think nine.

I went downhill looks wise after the age of nine. I was I think I was I just looked cute. Everyone used to say how cute I was.

And I liked it. I liked when all the older women and the older girls Oh, you're so cute. Thanks.

Can we have a cuddle now? No, go away. Oh, you're not that cute. Oh.

So yeah, I just I suppose I've got a few my voice. Yeah, I've got a few questions. Got a few questions.

Yeah. But that's it. I suppose mainly just why why you're listening.

Which I think may be a weird question to ask someone that's listening. Yeah. Well, thank you for Christine.

That's kind of my honest answer, to be honest, to be honest. If I was going to lie, what question what answer would I give you? I don't know. My, my, my lion answer would be, tell me everything about yourselves.

I want to know everything about yourselves, your family, your lives, because that would be a lie. But anyone listens to me knows that as well. It's a man I struggle to be interested in my own life.

It's weird. But I'm interested in people's well being. I want I hope that people are okay.

Who listen? I'm doing this to help people. But if it's not helping people, then there's no point me doing it. You know, but then sometimes I kind of think, well, how's talking a bunch of rubbish and just blabbering on? How's that helping people? And it makes you think I should go back to what I used to do.

And just stick to the hypnosis recordings. And, you know, stick to the point. I occasionally did.

I'd get on with it. And that would be better. I'd be better served to do that, even though it would be less enjoyable for me.

And it I've evolved from that. So it would be going backwards, personally going backwards to being some hypnotic robot kind of thing, just repeating myself, just different variations of the same thing over and over again, which is what I used to do. You know, there's only so many ways you can really do a relaxation hypnosis session.

With I mean, I've done a lot of different ways, hundreds of different ways, probably, but it's all with the same ultimate goal for the person to feel more relaxed, to have your mind slowed down and your body calm and all that stuff. And I hope that that happens when you're listening to these recordings, that you feel relaxed and you feel calm. And I'm not too annoying at times.

I know I probably will be to some people at times. I annoy myself. I do.

I do. Honestly, sometimes I say something or think something, you know, I'm just like, what? And, you know, but anyway, Christine. And I want to say thank you to everyone that's asked a question today, this week, rather, and everyone has asked questions throughout the duration of these Q&A Fridays, which have lasted for quite a while now.

I just want to say thank you because I stopped counting how many I've done now. But there's been a few. It's since probably March time.

It's now October. So thank you for everyone. Not just this week, but all the questions have been asked.

All the people have asked questions. And also everyone that listens to the recordings. So yeah, thank you.

I'm grateful. That's what I'm grateful for. I'm grateful for the questions you send me.

I knew I'd get there eventually. So I hope that kind and also thank you for you do love to answer. Thank you, Christine.

So thank you for that question. I hope I've answered it. So the next one is Dorianna.

What is your go to beverage? Well, if we're going about talking about now compared to in the past, in the past, it would have been a different answer. Because I was definitely into the lager when I was younger. But nowadays I don't drink any alcohol whatsoever.

I used to have one cup of coffee a day in the morning. But I ran out of coffee and money a few weeks ago. And I didn't get any coffee for probably about a week.

And I realized that I didn't really need that coffee. Didn't you know, I felt like it was giving me a boost a nice little boosty start to the day. A bit of a kickstart bit of a bit of a brain fart to get me going.

But after not having it for a week, I just thought, well, yeah, I don't really need it. I just have a cup of tea, which is what I've done since. Also, because I've stopped having sugar at all, you know, I don't have any sugar in the house.

I basically coffee is my personal opinion. It's just like drinking mud. It's really horrible without the milk does sweeten it a bit.

I find but I don't like milky coffee. So kind of, you know, I prefer I don't necessarily want it strong, but I do want it sweet. So because because tea, I'll have tea with something when I'm eating, but when I'm not eating, I don't drink tea because got no sugar in it.

And it's horrible. When I'm eating cup of tea, it's, it's okay. I can even like this, not that I really buy biscuits anymore, but I could dip a biscuit in a cup of tea without sugar.

And it's still be nice. Still enjoy it. That's probably because of the sugar from the biscuit is probably going into the tea and sweetened in it, I suppose.

So I used to like coffee in the morning. First thing with my breakfast. Nowadays, the only the only two things I drink liquid wise, my three, with two, but three, you know, I explain what I mean.

And is that why I'm not going anywhere weird with this is I have tea, cups of tea probably have one, two, three, four, maybe five cups of tea a day, maybe four, four or five, at least four. I don't have any sugar in them, but I do have like a little dash of milk. Little dash.

I'm not a big milky tea drinker, which is probably why there's not a lot of taste. I mean, I'm thinking maybe to go start drinking a different type of tea, maybe Earl Grey. Because that has got a taste in it.

Not one that I particularly liked in the past, but maybe if I could get a start drinking fruit tea or something like that, maybe that'd be better better for me. Not one maybe better. Yeah, but also kind of not I don't know.

So I had the tea cups of tea. I don't necessarily drink the whole thing. It depends.

But I don't I never drink a cup of tea unless I'm eating. So you know, it's a and I eat every four or five hours, probably five or six hours. It depends.

I won't have I won't have a cup of tea in the middle. So if they say I've got a neighbor comes round, I make her a cup of tea. She brings her own sugar and her own cup.

It's true. She left a cup here now. But she did leave a bag of sugar but she she ran low so she took it back with her.

And I make her a cup of tea but I won't make myself a cup of tea because it's pointless. Because I won't enjoy drinking it. The only the only time I'll have a cup of tea is in order to have some something wet in my mouth.

Because does that sound strange? If I forget to take this I go around someone's house which isn't that often but and I don't have let's say I visit my dad. I will have a cup of tea. Because you know, when you when you're talking, or when I'm talking, you know, I need to need to keep my mouth nice and lubricated, which is what the water seems to do.

And I drink a lot of water. So I would say my go to drink is water. And if we're going to go back throughout history, my history, water has been the one.

Now, if you was to pile up all of the different types of drinks that I've had throughout my life, and put them in a pile. Or let's say you had a bunch of lakes. Yeah, a bunch of lakes, because that was fully how much liquid there's been a bunch of lakes of each individual or pond maybe I don't know how much the liquid takes up is going to be a pond of water, a pond, I'd say probably lakes, a lake of water, a lake of lager, a lake of Coca Cola, a lake of milk.

And I mean, you could have a lake of tea, the tea one would be the low. I've gone decades about drinking hardly any tea. So it's only recently that I've been drinking tea like regularly.

Milk is something that I drink. When I said earlier, like I drink just water and tea with the milk. Technically, because I have cereal with milk, sometimes two, three times a day.

So I've been trying to, you know, lose weight gradually. And it's so I drink, I get through probably two pints of milk a day, if not more. Technically, I'm not drinking the milk, but it is going in, you know.

It's entering my body. But in the past, when I was in my 20s, my early 20s, I used to have a pint of milk every time I had a meal in the evening. That used to be my thing.

So I'd have a cooked dinner, which I'd cook myself and then have a pint of milk out of the bowl. Those were the days when you could buy milk in bowls. You might still be able to, but now it's all like plastic contains.

There was a time when a lot of milk cartons, they would be milk cartons, wouldn't they? Like there'd be cardboard or maybe like that rice, ricey cardboard stuff where it is cardboard, but it's kind of slippery cardboard. You know, I don't know how to explain it, but and you still have to, and there'd be like little square boxes or taller ones. And you have to pull back the thing and then pull it out again.

And sometimes it's split and there'd be bits of cardboard and like it'd be and the edge would be all soggy. I haven't seen one of them for years, years, I tell you, years. I don't even know if they exist anymore.

The only format I get milk in now is plastic. There's almost like, because a lot of plastic's gone the other way, like getting rid of plastic spoons, plastic straws for cardboard straws, which go soggy in McDonald's, for example. And, you know, take me to court McDonald's, they might only go soggy because I take so long to eat my dinner.

So I'm sure that if you eat quickly, you probably won't, don't go soggy. But I'm there for about an hour. If I, if I do go, I've not done that for a while either.

I didn't let myself nearly expose my secret eating habits. Until last I went to McDonald's, right? The last time I went to McDonald's was after having the results of my health check. No, not the results.

The no, after having. No, I did. I got the results of my health check.

No, I go. Well, no, I got a health check and she gave me the results. And that wasn't.

Uh, yeah, I think she'd, I'm trying to think. Yeah, that was it. So she got, uh, my blood pressure and told me what my, uh, I've got it over there somewhere, you know, blood sugar level, all that stuff.

It's because I was pre-diabetic. Um, back in five months ago and I decided to sort it out myself and get it, get the sugar level down, which I did. And I was no longer in the, in the danger zone for that.

So to celebrate, I went to McDonald's, which, uh, some would say, yeah, good on you. I would say dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. I'm in the middle.

I mean, when I think of someone else doing that, dumb, dumb, dumb, me. I just can't help thinking I'm a hero. Whatever I do, it's weird, isn't it? It's a hero.

But yeah, um, milk. In the past, milk was definitely, it's something I used to eat in a drink rather during the day as well. So there'd be times when I'd have a pint of milk when I ate, lunchtime and in the evening, partly because I was trying to put some weight on.

It never worked. But, uh, the calcium, I just figured that some calcium and some protein or whatever. We had lakes, one of milk, one of water, one of lager, one of Coca-Cola.

I like to think that the one with water would be the highest. And bearing in mind, we get water out of our food. So our body absorbs water out from the food that we eat as well.

Unless all you do is eat dust. So, or muesli. So I think, I'm thinking, I'm thinking that water would be the, the biggest lake or the most in.

I'd like milk to be second, but I'm not so sure. But bearing in mind, I've been having breakfast cereals since I was at least seven. I don't know before that.

I'm sure I used to, I mean, I obviously ate because I was alive at seven, but I just, I don't know. I can't remember before seven about breakfast cereal. Um, I can't really remember eating breakfast cereal at seven either.

When can I remember when breakfast cereal, when do I remember? You know, I actually, uh, thinking back, I remember making some ready break in the kitchen where we lived when I was about probably 13. Wow. What other breakfast do I remember making? Oh, I remember when I was in a chip shop, living above the chip shop because I had such money.

Well, so I'd like practically nothing coming in money-wise. I got myself a little part-time job in the supermarket. The first of three times I worked there actually, it was just a local supermarket.

And I did two hours in the morning. It was like half past six to half past eight or no, six to eight. I said six to eight easy job.

It's just, you had to be up early in the morning. That's all. That's the only, it wasn't, um, I say easy.

I mean, you know, sometimes like it would be, this was during the summer. So I didn't get to see it when it was got really messy, like in the winter time, you know, with the snow and the mud and stuff. Um, but it was a really clean supermarket.

It was, it was quite a new one as well. So it was, you know, it was easy. It's one of those ones.

You just maintain it, keep the place clean and it stays clean. You know, it doesn't take a lot of effort. Never really got too, too messy.

And even during the day, I think they had a cleaner, someone that would clean up the aisles when there were spillages and they would make sure that the place was clean during the day as well. So it wasn't, it was quite easy to do. Just when I, one of my favorite things I used to like to do is, well, two things actually.

Three, if you include hiding and skiving, uh, four, if you include stealing some of the sweets, they sell these penny sweets. And I used to sometimes have one and that's wrong. I'm sorry.

I didn't know it was wrong back then. I did. I did.

I, I paid, I paid for it. I didn't pay for it. Not, not financially, but, um, yeah, the, the second time I did it, I, was it the second time or the third time I did that job? Second time, I think, which would be, so I did it in about 1987.

So I did it in 1989 and I did it again in 1990. Yeah. It was one of my, one of the only, in 1990, that and, uh, an evening cleaning job were all I had.

That was my income for like a couple of months, like over Christmas time. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. Blimey.

I just, I've forgotten all about this. I had a job. I had a, I've had a lot of cleaning jobs, a lot.

And I realized I could just spend the next hour talking about cleaning jobs, maybe Monday's boring objects, cleaning jobs. That's what I'm going to talk about. How am I going to remember that though? Can someone remind me, please, that for Monday's boring objects, I'm going to talk about cleaning jobs and I'll tell you, I'll list, I'll try and remember all the different cleaning jobs I've had.

Seriously, there's been a few, there's been a few. Okay. So I reckon the water would be the biggest lake.

The Coca-Cola. The lager is cartoony. Not sure if I could even say which one would be the bigger one because I drunk lager for quite a long time, but then I started, I kind of, once I stopped that, I started drinking Coke.

I don't drink Coke at all anymore. That took me a while. I managed to weed myself off of that.

And, but that was a long time ago. I stopped drinking Coke pretty much at the beginning of this year. And that was more due to a tooth issue.

And I thought, nah, I don't want it. I don't want to go through this again. And drinking Coke is not helping me.

So I thought, or not drinking Coke, maybe may help me not to have to go through that. So I stopped drinking Coke long before I had to stop eating sugar. But then I go through little phases where I just eat.

I just like eat cakes and it was like an empty, a lot bottomless pit. I just like cake, cake, cake, cake, chocolate. I don't know why.

So I do know why. Cause it's nice. It tastes lovely.

So I'm wrecking probably milk, water. I'm going to say water is my go-to drink. I've been drinking water, bottled water since 17.

I mean, regularly. I haven't drunk tap water the whole time. It's, it's, I'm full.

I had a job and part of the job was to test people's tap water in order to sell water in what infiltration systems, whatever they're called or filtration systems, infiltration. That's buying, isn't it? So filtration systems. Yeah.

And unfortunately it put me off tap water. Yeah. And I just, I've been drinking water out of the bottles since I've been doing that since yeah, 1987, 88, probably 88.

That's 36 years. I think I've had one glass of water that whole time out of the tap. But you know, I do, I always drink water out of the tap when it comes to drinking tea, but it's boiled.

It's just my little thing is there's nothing wrong with tap water. It's just my little thing that I just, you know, if it came to it, I would drink, I'd drink water out of a puddle if I had to, you know, if it was, if I was that thirsty, but hopefully that won't happen. So I'm guessing water is probably the, yeah, probably the one that'd be the biggest, possibly milk next and beer or lager rather coke.

And that's really, I've not really been very creative with my, I've drunk quite a bit of juice, like orange juice drinks, like Kia, what are they called? Not Sunny Delight. Kia, Kia Dora, whatever they're called. I haven't had any for a little while, but they're, yeah, I have those apparently got quite low sugar compared, not Sunny Delight, but compared to, I find the orange juice is a little bit too acidic for my tummy tum tum.

So yeah, water, I mean, to answer your question quickly, which I do like to do, of course, I'd say my go to drink is water or tea. I do miss drinking coke. Because that was probably, if we're going to go through my favourite drink ever, probably Coca Cola has probably been my favourite drink.

Taste wise, never, I never liked the taste of alcohol anyway. I didn't drink it for the taste. A nice cup of tea, a nice sweet cup of tea.

Yeah, coffee with enough sweetness is nice to taste. Taste can be nice. But generally, I would say, although I do like a latte, which is weird considering I don't like milky coffee.

I do quite like a latte sometimes. There used to be this thing I did back in probably 2000, 2001, where I would shake the milk. And then like, shake it in the actual container.

So it got all frothy and just pour it in the milk and into the coffee rather. And that would be my latte. I was very proud of myself.

So yeah, that is where I go to my beverage, my go to beverage. And to be fair, beverages and water is it, water is a drink. Yeah, so it's like tea, tea.

That was a quick answer, tea. Sorry, it took so long. And thank you, Diana.

So Dimitri asks me, do you like horror movies? I'd like to say no. And sometimes no is the answer. But I also do.

I'm a little bit flippy floppy with horror movies. And I know that they're not particularly good for me to watch. I don't think it's very healthy, really watching horror movies.

I don't see anything good psychically or emotionally. But do I do quite like them. So if I'm in the mood, if I'm in the right mood, I love a good horror movie.

The only problem is and this isn't for all of them. But it can some of them can be a bit too formatty, a bit too predictable. And it I don't know how to explain it is if you've got is you got a hero.

And you've got the villain, the naughty monster, whatever. Then most horror movies, I would say end with the hero winning. Not all obviously, but you know, most possibly, which is why I liked this films like seven.

And the cabin in the woods. The there's a few that are just just not what you think or Yeah, the the ones or the sixth sense. It's Yeah, it's I don't know if that would cost a horror movie, but it was kind of is.

Yeah, it's those kind of movies. The only problem is, it's hard to watch. Well, I find it hard to watch them more than once.

I watch a sixth sense twice, because I wanted to study it. Okay. But before watching a movie like the sixth then that I can say probably sixth sense.

Sense is you have to not know what happens. Otherwise, it's pointless watching it. I don't I think it's like unusual suspects, you need to not know what happens.

The and it's a it's a hard one, isn't it? How do they promote a movie without giving away the secret of the movie? How do they how do they stop other people from telling each other about what happens in a movie? Because there are people out there that love to spoil other people's enjoyment and pleasure. As we're all aware, there are people out there that get kick out of that.

And which is why I'm not mentioning.

You know anything about these movies, because they are great movies, but it's you need to there's lots that is this isn't the only ones there's loads of movies. There's more than 20 movies in the whole world. But they have a twist.

And it's a it's a cool twist. And it's something that you know, I mean, if you look at so many old hammer movies, hammer house movies, where the you know, there'd be some a bloke would save. Yeah, a man would perhaps save a woman from vampire castle from maybe Dracula's castle or something.

And he's and they either they overcome Dracula and whatever, you know, they win. And they're leaving on a horse and car. And he's like, he's saying, I love you.

I'm so glad that Dracula is not around anymore. That he's gone away. The nasty Dracula man has gone away.

And she's like, oh, yes. I am also glad that a Dracula man has gone away. Oh, yes.

Isn't it nice? We can really look forward to a wonderful life together. And he's like, yes, maybe we can go to Greece on holiday. No, why Greece? I don't want to go to Greece.

What's wrong with going to Italy? Well, I don't want to go to Italy. I've been to Italy before and I don't really want to go back there. I it's only about three months ago that I was there before.

I want to go somewhere like Greece. What can we compromise? Maybe go to Belgium. They both laughed.

Seriously, go to France. And they both laughed again. How about we go to Spain? Okay, there.

Let's go to Spain. And everything's fine and music's playing and you see him and he's going and then you see her turn the other way and fangs come out like because she's she's turned into a vampire. So he thinks he saved her from getting bitten or whatever.

But no, he hasn't. He didn't question why she was wearing a scarf, did he? That's what he should have done. See, if you're going to save someone from vampires before driving off with them, check why they're wearing a scarf.

If they've got their neck covered, just check. Because otherwise, they might need some wood in them as well. If you need to put some wood into them, you know, it's good to know beforehand.

That's enough about vampires and steaks and stuff. Oh, horror movies. Yeah, that twist.

They used to have those twists. So it wasn't always like the the good guy wins or a good person, whatever. Comes up trumps.

Yeah, I do. I like horror movies. There's I like funny ones, though.

There's a really funny one. And it's about a woman who is getting married. Her bride to be, no, her whatever the bloke is to be, who's marrying her, takes her back to his mansion with the family.

And they've got this tradition of playing a game. I don't want to spoil the plot, but there's a certain game which they play. And the whole family is involved in it.

And the description of the movie is more kind of horror and suspense when actually it's funny. It's a very funny movie. I found it really funny.

And yeah, that was good. I can't remember the name of it. Yeah, I like things with twists.

I like movies with twists, but I definitely like horror movies with twists. It's I've been watching the alien, the latest alien one. And it's all right, but it's I don't know that they've made so many of the alien movies.

It's not original, is it anymore? I guess the first alien movie, nothing had ever been made like that in my knowledge. I guess what I found this isn't about this isn't a horror movie, but I don't know if I've told you that one of my favorite movies is It's a Wonderful Life. That is my favorite movie of all time.

It's a one. It's a wonderful life. Frank Capra, who produced that movie.

I think he directed it and everything. He wrote it, as far as I'm aware. He also I came across this other movie that also had a lot of the stars and characters, the actors or whatever from that movie in another movie called You Can't Take It With You.

Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore. So I'm just thinking like, this is really weird. So you got old man Potter, who from the It's a Wonderful Life.

He's pretty much the star of. I mean, he's one of the stars of It's a Wonderful Life, but he's pretty much the main star kind of, of the You Can't Take It With You. Jimmy Stewart, who's George Bailey, he plays Lionel Blair, not Lionel Blair, Lionel Barrymore's son in this and other characters that were there.

I couldn't believe it. There's, there's George Bailey's dad in It's a Wonderful Life is also in the film. I think one of the clerks in the office of It's a Wonderful Life, he's in the movie.

And there's a few people I saw, I was like, wow, did they film it at the same time? But I don't think they did. I think it was a few years between the two films. But it was strange when Lionel Barrymore pretty much had the same voice, pretty much looked the same.

But in one movie, he was horrible. And in another movie, he was really delightful. Like, really nice.

And there wasn't a lot of difference, it just showed you what a great actor he was. Because he was able to turn his personality, flip it. He did win an Oscar, actually.

But because he's Lionel Barrymore is Drew Barrymore's great uncle or something, something like that. So he yeah, I just like quite surprised, because you're such a lovely character in You Can't Take It With But in It's a Wonderful Life, oh, not so much. Very surprising.

And the reason he was in a wheelchair in It's a Wonderful Life, is because I think he needed to be in a wheelchair. He was on crutches in You Can't Take It With You. Because it damaged his foot or his leg.

On set of one of the movies he did. And I think that caused problems for him, like for the rest of his life. That's based on reading a Wikipedia page.

So I don't know how much of it is true. So yeah, if I'm in the right mood, I like a nice horror movie. Although, I watched Scream, not the very latest one, but the one just before.

And it had an actress I really like. She plays Wednesday in Netflix's Wednesday. And the opening scene of Scream is exactly the same as the opening screen.

The opening scene I imagine of every Scream movie, I don't know, in the kitchen, phone call, whatever. At least in the first one. But that was, wasn't that the lady from Friends was in that, wasn't she? But I couldn't watch it.

Because I really like this actress, or actor, I really like her. And I couldn't watch her being hurt. Even though she's not really being hurt, I couldn't watch it.

Strange, isn't it? Normally things like that don't really bother me. But there's something about her I just don't, I can't, I just, no. I can't see anyone.

I couldn't watch a movie with her playing a victim of something, even though it might win her an Oscar and everything. I just couldn't. I don't want to see anyone hurt, not even in Pretend.

Weird, I don't know. Maybe I love her. So that's Dimitri.

Thank you for your, do I like, yeah. I used to watch really, I used to love horror movies when I was a kid. I remember something, something like called Insomnoid, Insomnoid rather.

There was zombie, zombie flesh eaters. There was a few films that used to, that were banned that I got to watch when I was about 10, 11. So Shogun Assassin, that was banned for a little while I think.

And it was those kind of movies that wouldn't even really be classed as gory. Well they are gory but it's just nothing more than you wouldn't, you wouldn't see, that you'd see like in zombie, The Walking Dead, stuff like that. You'd see that.

There was nothing, it's weird the way it's worked out that it probably wouldn't even be an 18 now. Probably a 15. And probably in 30 years time or 20 years time it'll probably be a PG.

Which makes you wonder what they're going to, what's actually going to happen on the screen. I tell you, I think, apart from stuttering, what I think is going to happen is, and it's moving towards this as well, quite quickly. If you go to, if you watch YouTube and people are able to make their own videos, it won't be long before people just sit in their own home and they watch a movie and they just make, they choose what they want it to be about.

And what level of violence or what level of naughtiness there is. And they can watch anything about anything and none of it, and it'll just all be created within seconds or as it, as it is, as it is played. And it'll be original and no one else will see it.

It's, yeah, that's what's going to happen, I reckon. Which will be, well it means we won't be able to talk about movies. Depends what the content is, I guess, doesn't it? Right, so thank you, Dimitri.

Anferi, Anferi or Anferi, how many times does it take you to get the podcast recording correct without mistakes? Or do you just wing it? Yeah, I just wing it. I don't, the only interruptions that I make are ones, well it's Vinnie barking or the doorbell going or the phone ringing. They're the main things that interrupt the recording.

Or me coughing or me needing to go to the toilet because I've been talking for so long. They're the only things. And what I do is I clap my hands as a marker on the audio so I can know to edit it and to go to those places.

But there's no sense of, well there's no sense to what I do really, is there? But there's no, yeah, I don't, I don't redo them. I mean occasionally I have stopped recordings. If I've been talking and doing one of these recordings and I realise that I'm in a, in a not a very good space, like not in a good mood, and maybe I didn't, I don't realise it at the time.

I'm not self-aware of it at the time. And then I realise, like as I'm talking, I will abandon the recording. Occasionally, a few times, not many, but I've actually done a whole recording and I've listened back to it and I thought, no, that was just, no, I was, that wasn't good.

That wasn't nice. I was too grumpy. Or maybe I've opened up a bit too much personal stuff.

But how many times it takes to get the podcast recording correct? Yeah, there is no mistakes in a sense of, it's all mistakes, you know. I mean, I do edit. So if I start coughing or if I'm trying to think, yeah, I don't, I just leave the mistakes in.

Because it's not rehearsed, it's not written down, not reading a script. This is just, it couldn't be, it wouldn't be like this if it was a script. It would be quick to the point, flashy, clean.

It would just, you know, it probably lasts for about 10 minutes. It'd be more listenable to, probably easier to listen to. So yeah, there's no, there's no, there's no redoing.

There's, I mean, I would if I didn't have, not I, but if, if there was no such thing as recording equipment, where you could edit, if there's no way of editing things, and it had to be completely recorded from start to finish, and that would have to be the end result, then that would be difficult. Does that make sense? So in the old days, I didn't use to edit, I used to just start the recording, finish the recording, and upload, whether it's a video or an audio, and I didn't do any editing.

Some people used to moan at me, but that's how I did things.

So I wanted it to sound like it was live. I wanted it to sound just real. But over time, and you know, 18 years later, it's, the equipment's a bit better, the software for editing is a bit better.

Although I use basic software, I use basic editing software, really. But it's not basic, it's, I mean, I do it on the iPad. So it's not as big, maybe it's not basic, but it's, it's nothing like complicated.

I don't do complicated. I try not to. So yeah, it's, I guess wing it, probably is the best word, probably is the best expression.

And wing it, I just wing everything I do pretty much in life. I'll wing it. So thank you.

I hope that answers your question. Anne asks, did you get your DNA results back yet? No. I'm starting to kind of wonder where they are.

Because I'm waiting. I'm now waiting to receive them. But I haven't, I'm like, where are they? I'm looking forward to being able to do a podcast about it, which is one of the main reasons I did it.

So that I can talk about it. But my plan was to either Saturday or Wednesday, talk about the DNA test results, and open the envelope while I'm actually making a recording. That's what I thought, you know, just like have it just have my natural reaction rather than what it won't say it wouldn't be rehearsed anyway, don't rehearse anything.

But it just it'd be nice to see how I actually feel. When I see you know, when I realized that I'm royalty, you know, I mean, so no, I haven't received them back yet. And but when I do, I will be making a podcast, which was the main reason I got it.

I thought it's to make an interesting podcast episode. Just it seemed like it'd be just be nice to do something a little bit different. So thank you.

Joe and asks me, what is the most interesting thing you have learned about studying psychology and counseling? Okay, I would say what I've learned is it's hard. I think I'm learning a bit more about myself. So I think you might be talking more about like, you know, topic wise or in for new information.

For me, I've learned a few bits and bobs about children, and about social construction and about the rights that children have in nearly all the countries of the world. And how it you know, they do have rights and they have all this stuff. The thing is, I think for me, it's been more I've learned the things that's interested me in a way is being my reaction to doing this because of I've struggled a little bit.

I didn't give it the respect I thought it needed. I didn't I didn't think it was going to be hard. You know, I'm coming into it with a background of already having studied psychology on my degree course for counseling.

Yeah, it wasn't like a huge part, but it was part of it. And also child development and so you know, all the things that would lead to being a counselor, you need to have a grounding in that stuff. But it was something I don't know, I just found it a little bit more challenging.

In some ways, this is more challenging than my other degree. In some ways, it really isn't. So it's, there's, because I've said for years, you know, sometimes the worst, the both the best and worst things about life is humans.

You know, for me, it's like the best and like human beings are the world, one of the best things there are about being alive, but they can also be the opposite. And to me, I would say, being on my degree course before, that was definitely a thing. I found it very, very difficult to be around people for long periods of time and to have to interact with them.

On the flip side, that was the best part of the course, being around people, and getting to know people and making new friends. It's a weird, weird thing. It's, I don't know which side was the strongest.

So I know which side was the strongest sometimes. But I had support during the course from a couple of fellow students. But on this, I'm kind of on my own.

I don't mean like poor me, but I'm, yeah, it is a solitary study, it's supposed to be. And I guess it'd be quite nice to, I mean, maybe I could reach out to some of the other students. I don't know.

We'll see. But yeah, I think just how hard it is, that's what I've, that's what I've learned. It's not easy.

So counselling, because this, this, this degree course isn't counselling, although it is part of the psychology and counselling department on the Open University. So I've already got a degree in counselling. And I got that in 2010.

I think the hardest part of, for me, the hardest part was for the counsellor for my other degree course was the, probably the coursework, the academic side. I would say I excelled at the practical. I'm not saying I was good, but I think I did better than I did with the, well, I know I did better with the practical than I did with the academic.

So that was something I learned. I think with counselling, it helps people. I know it's supposed to help people.

And, you know, I don't think I should be surprised that counselling helps people. If I've decided to do a degree in counselling, I shouldn't be like, wow, this actually really helps people. Yeah, of course.

But I was, I was a little bit taken back by how it could help someone in a fairly short time to move someone from being there to not there anymore, you know, wherever there is, to move away from there, but naturally not, you know, just of their own accord. So, yeah, counselling, I also learned that I'm, I'm not, I've not, I've not got, I don't think I've got the right personality to be a counsellor.

And if I was a counsellor, I need to have everything else sorted out.

I need to, I could only do that kind of work again. I won't be doing it again, but I could only do it if all other things were sorted. In other words, financially, there was no other stuff going on for me because then I could give myself to the clients for the period of time.

And I could only see a few clients a week. I couldn't do it every day, maybe six people a week or something like that, maybe 10, I don't know. I couldn't, I couldn't, like before when I was doing it, I was seeing clients coming home to a grotty, mouldy room and didn't have any money even to eat sometimes.

And that, that was hard because it was hard to maintain being positive, to be helpful to someone else when I wasn't in a good space myself. So it was, yeah, I don't think I've got a stable enough brain to be able to be a counsellor. And I learned that.

But I also found that I was able to leave myself outside the door. I was going to say with my shoes, but I did keep my shoes on because that'd be weird. He's barefooted.

He's a nice bloke. And he did listen to me and he nodded at the right places. But he had his feet out.

He hadn't cut his toenails. Yeah, that'd be weird. I was also amazed at how sometimes just letting it out is enough.

I had a, I had a someone come to me quite early. This was during my training. There was bereavement.

And he came in. And he howled, literally howled for about 40 minutes. And they left.

Came back the next week. Nothing. Just chatted.

Came back the next week. Don't need to come back anymore. I said, well, okay, if you need to go, we can go.

You haven't got a beer, but I'll keep next week's open just in case. Did. Came back.

Said, no, don't need to be here anymore. That was it. It just needed one session of, it needed the release.

Everyone's different. That's another thing. Everybody's different.

That's something I've learned. I know it could be a little bit of a cliche. Yeah, I'm unique, just like my, all my friends.

It's, but we are, we're all different. Something that I think I did, I was able to do, but it was naturally, is I didn't assume that I understood what people were, were getting at. Because the communication is not always very clear, I find in conversation.

I have to kind of dig a little bit to find out what the person means. Just anyone talking, unless I'm not interested and I just don't, I don't, I just let them say what they want and I don't, don't really care. But in a, in a counselling session, the first thing I notice is I care what they're saying.

I'm listening to what they're saying, which isn't the same, isn't always the case in real life. I wasn't waiting to talk, which is the case in real life. That's what I'd normally wait, waiting for them to stop so I could talk.

That's why this is better for me because it's just a, it's a monologue rather than a conversation. Although this is my way of having a conversation by asking questions or answering questions rather. But I was able to do that with counsellors, with counselling.

I think that was what it was, it was like having a special place, a certain, like a room, no other distractions, just me and them. They're there for a reason. I'm not just talking about the weather, I can't have a conversation like that.

I can do that with dog walkers, can't do it with a human. I'm not saying dog walkers aren't human. Okay, I can't do that in a, in a general situation.

I don't really necessarily want to talk about the weather. And some people would come in and want to talk about the weather and I would steer them towards why they're here. Usually, it depends.

I mean, I might want to talk about the weather, depends, you know. But I like the idea there was a reason for it. I like there being a reason for a conversation.

So I had someone phone me up two days ago. You alright? I said, yeah. I said, what's up? She said, no, nothing, nothing, nothing.

How are you doing? I said, what do you want? She said, what do you want? I said, I'm not being rude. You phoned up for a reason. What was, what is the reason you're calling me? Now she did have a reason.

And then she told me the reason. I said, you ain't got to do all the fluffy stuff beforehand, buttering me up. Just, she wouldn't, just like, what is it you want? We can still chat, but just, you know, I don't need, she's a local person, I don't need her phoning me up, you know, to have a chat about anything.

Unless, you know, because I knew that, well, I knew she wanted something. I could just, I could sense it. I could sense it in her voice.

And she said, oh, okay. And she told me, I said, okay, right, well, that's, so you wanted something then? I said, don't we, you say you didn't want anything, but you did. I said, I'm not being rude.

It's just like, just be honest. Just, just get to the point. What do you want? And then we can chat about other stuff afterwards.

But if you're calling for something, don't try and make it as a normal conversation. By the way, you know, can you, I don't know, I probably didn't present that very well. It wasn't a horrible conversation.

I wasn't rude. I was just like, yeah, I wasn't rude at all. I don't do rude, don't do rude.

That was like, just get to the point. What is it you want? I presented that like I was really rude to her. I wasn't, trust me.

I'm not doing myself any justice there. I'm quite good on the phone, actually. I don't like talking on the phone anymore, but I am still quite good on the phone.

I used to be brilliant on the phone because that's what I did for a living for years, talking on the phone, talking people into buying car insurance. So yeah, that was my expertise. Not so much now, but I don't have, I don't have many friends.

I don't have many people phone me and I don't want many people phoning me either. Most of the time, actually, I don't like talking on the phone much. I've gone off of it now.

It's probably because I did it for such a long time for a job and now, yeah, over time, I just like, nah, I don't really, I mean, I suppose I would given a situation, but, and also texting, I'm not into that. I don't need, I don't want a 20, I don't want a never ending conversation. That, I struggle with that.

You know those conversations, well, that literally never end. I mean, I've got a friend that I've known for 20 odd years, over 20 years. She sent me a text message the other day.

So it's like, how was your day? What the hell? What do you mean? How was my day? What was a weird message to send me? How are you doing? What's going on? How was your day? If you want to know how my day is, listen to my podcast, because you'll be able to see how my day is. I'm not repeating it. I didn't say that, but I know it sounds rude.

I don't mean it to be rude. But you know, I'll talk on the phone and, or be talking in person with someone. And I'm thinking, because I said this to my friend, I said, look, I prefer to be on my own.

I do. It's a fact. She said, yeah, but you're so, and I'm like, I'm not really want to spend time with people, really.

She said, but you're so friendly. You're so chatty. I said, yeah, but what you don't realize is, in my mind, if I spend an hour chatting with someone, that's a conversation I could have had for a podcast.

And I would have got just as much out of it. I don't need someone else in the room with me. So that's two hours of my time wasted, not wasted in a bad way, but just that I could have used to produce a podcast, to maybe help people to fall asleep, because it was so damn boring.

And I started thinking, and I realized another reason why I don't really like people being around, sort of, I don't watch TV with anyone. My neighbor loves boxing. Nah, I'm watching on my own.

It's because it's not that they'll talk. I mean, it's partly that, like just don't disturb me when I'm watching it. But what's more likely to happen, if we're watching a movie, or boxing even, is I will talk incessantly.

So I don't get a chance to enjoy the movie, or the boxing, because I'm the one talking. Isn't it weird? It's like, so it's, that's what having other people around does to me, turns me into a chatterbox. Because I only have people around that I know.

Like anyone, you don't have people, you don't have strangers in your house, do you? So it's, yeah, this is better because I prefer just doing this. I prefer just talking. I know not everyone can, not everyone would feel comfortable.

Rather, I was gonna say not anyone could do this, anyone could do this. There's not a human being in the world that couldn't do this. But no, not everyone would enjoy doing it.

And not everyone would want to, obviously, because they don't, most people don't do what I do. And I'm not talking about podcasts. I'm talking about this style of whatever this is.

And a lot of people probably wouldn't enjoy it or feel comfortable doing it. I mean, I've got this, I don't want to say friend, but he's a, like a YouTube colleague from many years ago. And he used to call himself Smunchkin.

And he would do these videos, and they were great. And it is very, very feeling-y, very gentle, says such lovely words, the opposite to me, really. And he stopped making videos because it took so much out of him.

And he did say to me, I wish I could do what you do. I said, what do you mean? He said, I wish I could just make a video and not care and just post it. I said, that's rude.

He said, you're rude. No, but he said, I can't. He had to keep re-recording, re-recording, re-recording.

And I think he needed to, he had to write a script, like write down what he was going to say beforehand. And that's not something that I've ever done. I mean, occasionally I've done it.

If there's things I want to remember, you know, especially if it's a hypnosis recording and I'm thinking, well, I want to talk about the idea of, I don't know, a flower, you know, a weed drying up in the sun and then turning into a flower and that's the rain coming down and the flower growing up and, you know, the weed being the distress and the flower being relaxation and calmness or whatever.

So I might have that and the rain could be like healing energy, like dripping down and you could feel it. Oh, just bang my glasses off.

You could feel it in the top of your head, almost like a power shower. And it just tinkles, tinkles through your body. So that as an idea, like, so I might sometimes think of that to start with in the past when I used to do those kinds of recordings, but the amount of times I'd then go on and do something completely different.

And really, it was just, I don't know why, I've forgotten what the question was. What's the most interesting thing you've learned about studying psychology and counselling? How did I get to talk about, I really went off that subject, didn't I? Thank you for getting me back on track, Joan, Joanne rather, sorry. Yeah, I, that's it really, just, I kind of learned how hard it is.

For me, I've struggled. I'm found, I'm finding it difficult. I am.

And there's a part of me does want to quit. That's the honest fact. So time will tell.

But I am up to date. So that's pretty good. Thank you for your question.

Chris asks, I feel like you're famous. Do you feel famous? No, is my answer to that. I really don't at all.

Brittany answers the question as well. I love this question. I really don't.

I don't feel I mean, realistically, if we're being truthful, I don't know. The amount of people that have listened to me, the amount of different people, I don't know. I don't know how many different people, individual people have listened to me.

How many people listen once and for next? How many people have listened to me for a period of time, because that's what they needed. And then they just moved on. How many people have listened to me intermittently? How many people listen to me continuously, like for years.

So it's going to be in the thousands, but not a lot. And on a slow day, I get, on an average day, I get probably, I don't know, for the last week, I've had about 40,000, 41,000 views in the last seven days, whatever that works out a day. Like 6,000 or 5,000, 6,000.

I've also had, was it 15 million, 16 million, 17. Since I've been doing this, since I've been doing podcasts, I've probably had 20 plus million listens. 20, well, way over 20 million listens of my podcasts over the, you know, the period, that's over like 18, 18 years nearly.

But that's not 18 million individual people. So there might be, there might be 100,000 different people have listened to me. There might be 10,000.

It's really hard to figure it out. I'll be honest with you. It's very hard.

Could be a million. I don't know, but it's definitely not a million regulars. So it's a handful, just a few thousand people that listen regularly.

So I don't really feel famous. I don't feel infamous either. And infamous is what I wanted when I was younger.

When I was like in my twenties, I wanted to be infamous. I wanted to be known for being a bad boy and a bad boy of comedy is what I wanted. And then as I got a bit older, I realized I just wanted to be funny.

I just wanted to, I wanted the audience to like me because I'd never tried that before. And by accident, I went on stage and I was funny, which sounds weird if you're doing standup comedy. I went on stage and I'd forgotten my act and I didn't have it written down.

So I used to have it written down and stuff. And I didn't, I think I was late for the gig. It was in the middle of nowhere.

And I went on stage and there was a very small audience. And I just went on and started making silly sounds and just being myself probably for the first time ever, maybe for one of the only times ever. And it went really well.

And I didn't know if it was, I really didn't know if it was even copyable, if I could do it again. It's weird because the feedback that the lady that ran the club, she wasn't there, but that night, but she said even the bar staff thought you were funny. And like, she, she got such a good response for me.

And I was, oh, I just did 10 minutes. I got paid, but it was a 10 minutes slot. And keep going back to the comedy tonight.

You notice that there's always a way back to talking about the comedy. So yeah, I don't class myself as famous. But there was a time when I used to call myself, this is probably like nine years ago, I should call myself the most successful failure online.

Because of the amount of people that were listening to my recordings and the fact that I was just getting into debt doing it, it was costing me money. So I used to call myself the most successful failure. Because on one level, I was doing well.

And another level, I was really not. But I don't really class myself as that anymore. Because since then, I don't think I'd even class myself as successful really just, I'm a plodder.

But it's good. I think it's good for me. And it's hopefully helping other people.

And it gives me some purpose gives me a reason to get out of bed. Gives me makes you makes you feel like my life is worthwhile. And I hope it is a hope it is.

So I think it's very kind of you to say that you feel like I'm famous. Keep having a creepy crawly jump on me from Vinnie. I think he's gonna have to have a bath.

Yeah, he doesn't you know, I say the word bath and he doesn't look up because he doesn't know the word. Which is good. Because, you know, I know some people they they use the word bath to scare or to like, you know, wind up the dog and I don't do that.

Mind you, I can't get him into the bathroom unless I got his lead on. So that's very kind. Thank you for the question.

Blimey, I've got three more questions. How long I've been talking for? How long? Wow, hour and an hour and three quarters. Roughly.

I'm hungry now. So Brittany has got a question. This may be a taboo topic for some.

Okay, sounds interesting. And quite personal. Okay, let me guess you want to know two inches? No, that's not what you're asking.

Okay, this may be a taboo topic for some and quite personal. So I understand if you don't want to answer, but I'm going to ask anyways. You spend so much time and effort supplying this service that has enhanced the life of everyone in this group for free.

How do you pay for your life? Pay for my life? That sounds dramatic, doesn't it? How do you pay for your life? Okay, I am. I'm on benefits. I am classed as disabled because of the bipolar.

My mental health is classed as quite severe. Even though I, that's the thing no one believes. No one that meets me believes, well, if you meet me enough times, you probably would believe that something a bit weird of me.

But I don't fit that necessarily fit that criteria for that people have inside their heads about someone that's not doing so great. And I remember some, someone saying to me, well, you're always so friendly when I see you. And then she phoned me.

And this was different from the time before, but she, this person phoned me and I said, you're right. I said, no. She said, well, what's going on? I said, I was just in the mood.

I wasn't rude to her, but she could not believe the tone of voice, the way I was. I wasn't rude at all. She was upset because I wasn't being friendly.

So it was kind of one of those weird ones. I wasn't being rude. I wasn't being unfriendly, but I wasn't being friendly.

And she struggled with that because I'm usually a very friendly person. And it happened to someone in the park. I was coming back from the petrol station that didn't want to go, but I had to go.

And I'm coming back and normal thing, like she said, this is a different person. I said, come down, sit down for a bit. I said, no, I can't.

She said, what's up? I said, I'm in a mood. I can't, I can't, can't be around people. I'll catch you later.

And that surprises people that know me. It didn't surprise my friend downstairs because he saw me like that a lot. But I generally don't go out when I'm like that.

So anyway, that's why I'm on benefits. I worked, I did 26 years working, and I've been on and off benefits. I've been on and off medication for different things, mental health issues and stuff.

That's a different podcast, really. But yeah, every time I've got a job, I've got ill. And it's not because I'm lazy, because I'm not lazy.

Well, sometimes I'm lazy. But ultimately, you know, there's no, there's no reason for me to be doing this is that this is just to help people. And I'm, I'm not lazy with this, it takes probably three to four hours a day of my my time to make podcast every day, especially as they seem to be getting longer and longer.

With the editing and the uploading and the processing and then making a video and then promoting them and all that stuff, making images and yeah. So what was the question? How do you pay for your life? Am I struggling at times financially? Yeah, it's not not easy. Sometimes, some weeks are better than others.

I'm in debt. So I've got I will be out of debt on the 25th of January 2028. I think for one of my debts.

Was it February, but it's January, February 2028. I just spoke to them yesterday. So yeah, I've got one, one debt credit cards 100 pound a month to about 2028 and everyone's 63 pound at 42 a month or something.

And yes, it's not easy sometimes. Constantly still got people asking to borrow money off me and asking me asking me for stuff. I don't feel a week goes by when I'm not asked to lend someone money, or they want something or if I got this or I got that and I struggled to say no, that's one of my my downfalls.

So if I have to go for a job interview, that's what I'm going to say. I struggle to say no. If they if they go that like, we've heard about all the good things you can do.

I've heard all about the positive stuff for about five hours. Now Mr. Jason, tell us about a negative about yourself. Tell us about one of your flaws.

I say well, I give too much. I struggle to say no. Oh, yeah, and I'm a thief.

I like to steal things. So yeah, that's arson. So yeah, that's that's kind of so yeah, at the moment.

Yeah, it's hard. What if you are what if and if you are what kind of monthly contributions from the members who are able would make a significant difference to you? Well, any anything that people could do to help. I mean, I'm trying to cut down my expenses for this thing.

But there's always you know, I had to get rid of my website yesterday because I couldn't pay that. But do I need a website? Four or five people a day go on it. You know, it was awful people.

I thought I did think that people would want to listen to the old stuff, but they don't. So it's you know, I might as well just for now anyway, let's leave that one alone. And yeah, there's there's expenses connected to making these podcasts, the podcast hosting, there's the, you know, the software I use for different things.

So yeah, it's, it's not free doesn't this. But at the same time, it's worth it. So any any help I get is just appreciated.

I mean, I tried I thought about doing the page. Well, I did do the patron couple of weeks ago or last week. And I spent, excuse me, I spent a whole week setting it up.

Once I launched it, I didn't feel right. So I got rid of it. So yeah, I just know I would like to be in a financially good situation.

And I'd be lying if I said I didn't, it'd be nice to be debt free and to maybe even be able to move somewhere that I want to live, move somewhere nice, have a decent income. I think the only way that's going to happen is if some either a wealthy benefactor asset, you know, maybe, you know, a billionaire comes along and says, Oh, we love what you do.

There you go.

You can help people and enjoy your life as well. And that would be that'd be quite cool. But unless that happens, I don't really see any way that things are going to change.

But you know, it's all right, things are okay. I don't know where I would be if it wasn't for what I do online, there wouldn't I would struggle to well, I wouldn't have any purpose, even if I was doing a degree is that doesn't I'm doing that for fun. And for one of my as a target as a challenge, and as a for education, really, just to get my brain working a bit more, and which is healthy.

But without this, I don't know, I don't know how I even got by before without this, without doing these recordings, or I don't know how I managed. What what was I what was my purpose before? You know, 1819 years ago, what, what was my purpose? So, yeah, so this, I'll continue. Even if it meant going back to just recording, you know, let's say all the recording equipment broke, and I couldn't replace it.

I just go back to doing it on a recording on a phone, or recording it on a on a laptop or a tape recorder or something like that, you know, just recording it online. Even that might not sound very good. It's still be there, you know.

So yeah, it's Yeah, that's my answer. I think I don't know if I answered it very well. I'm Brittany, I got another question from Brittany.

Here's my backup question. If you want to skip the and the other one. Oh, now and now you told me what is your moon morning routine? If you're getting ready to go out in order, apply me in order? And how long does each step take you? I do eat, drink, shower, hair, makeup, try makeup, try on different outfits, packing up your purse, etc.

I don't have a makeup or purse. I used to have a bag, I used to have a and people just say it's a purse. Because it kind of probably did look like a purse.

But it wasn't a purse. It was a bag. I think it was a bag.

It might be in a purse. But I think it was a bag. What is my routine? Makeup, I could do with some makeup.

I'm so good looking. I have to make down d d d d d d d d d. What is your morning routine? My morning routine really is I wake up in the morning. Vinnie's still in bed.

So I wake up before him. I do a whiz whiz. I then I have to take my acid reflux tablet, more information than you needed.

Then I have to wait about half an hour to an hour before that's what I can eat. My foot, I've been talking so long, my throat is starting to get dried up. Then depending on I do normally go online, check the stats, all that stuff, you know, just see if I've had anyone visit my YouTube channel.

And if I've had anyone listen to my podcast episodes and has a bit is there any activity on the Facebook group? And maybe check the local news. Just do that for a little while. If I'm editing a recording, then that's what I'll do.

I'll do the editing. So now that will take up my time. Then I will put the milk or wash up my cup and my bowl.

I've got two bowls, one cup. This next sounds like a video I watched once. And the I make a boiler kettle.

And then I put a tea bag into the cup, put the hot water into the cup from the kettle. Put that over the side. Because the next thing I do is I put milk into the bowl that I just washed up, make sure I rinse it so I can't smell the washing up liquid.

Put it into the microwave for two and a half minutes. Go and brush my teeth. Floss or whatever else mouthwash, face wipes, I've got these.

Maybe they'll make up remove this, but you know, I kind of use thing on my face twice a day to make me look beautiful. And they don't work. Brush my hair if I've got any hair.

Because you know, sometimes I'm bored, sometimes I'm not. Depends whether or not I've gone to sleep wearing my wig. Is that what you're thinking? No.

Sometimes I shave my head, sometimes I don't. So I look in the mirror. Recently, I've been checking out my biceps.

You asked me for the truth, I'm telling you. And it's not like I'm tensing them. I just like to just move my arm up so I can see the muscle tensing on its own.

So I've been doing weight training every day for a while now. So it's starting to show a little bit, which is nice. And then a few hours of that posing in the mirror.

I go into the... What I might do now, yeah, I go into the kitchen. If Finny's still in bed, I'll go into the kitchen. I'll take the milk out of the microwave.

I'll still have it in the bowl though, because otherwise it burns my fingers. And then I pour, I get some milk, put it into the tea, just a dash of milk. Put the milk back in the fridge.

I get the ready brick mix and I mix that in with the milk, hot milk. Add some raisins and some fruit, a little bit of dried fruit on top. And then I go into, I carry them.

I lift the... I hold the cup with my left hand and the bowl basically between my body and my left arm. Or with my right hand, I can't remember. I think, yeah, it's that way I can open and close the door.

Turn the light off in the kitchen, go out of the kitchen, close the door. Always keep the kitchen door closed. And then I walk into the living room and if I need a new bottle of water, I go and get a bottle of water because I've got packs of them.

I've only got one pack left, but normally you've got two or three packs near the front door. And then I get that there, sit down, turn TV on. Sometimes I check the news or other times I go on to YouTube and check out what's going on YouTube.

And yeah, just potter around really while I have my breakfast. And then that'll just be my breakfast. If I then, then later and I'll get get cleaned up like properly.

But if I'm just going to have a breakfast, sometimes I'll have my breakfast and a couple of hours later, I'll go back to bed with Vinnie because he's still asleep. And so I wake up sometimes four or five in the morning, but I'll go back to bed again at eight or seven or eight for a couple of hours. And he normally get up with me after that, or he wakes me up when he's ready.

And because now it is 11.52 PM. I had my breakfast at six this morning. And he's been so good right now.

He hasn't made a sound, has he? The whole time we've been doing this recording, he's laid here next to me, fast asleep. He's been so good. Such a good boy.

And if I was going to go out, then I would either have a shower, get ready that way and go get dressed, put on all new clothes and go out, you know, if it's safe, I needed to go to the petrol station or if I had an appointment and depending on where it was or yeah. Trying to think what other routines I've got. I'm trying to, I do need a routine.

I do. I do. I do.

I do. Even more so now with the university course, because I've got three, three and a half hours to devote to that every day, well, at least five days a week. So I need to really need to start organizing myself.

Because this, this takes three and a half to four hours a day for the podcast. The studying is three and a half to four hours a day. I mean, 18 hours times by five or divided by five, three, six, nine, 12, 30, 40, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 18, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, so about three and a half hours a day, isn't it?

Five days a week, 18 hours a day, ish.

Three, six, nine, 12, 30, 40, 15, 16, 17 and a half. Okay, I did that with one hand. Pretty, pretty good at doing things with one hand.

I can count, count, I can do times table, I can do divide. I can also do little hand puppets. If I put little puppets or finger puppets, I can draw little faces on my thumb and stuff.

Yeah, I'm very creative with my hand. So I'm trying to think what else I, yeah, different outfits. I wear the same thing all the time.

Not the same actual item of clothing, but I have, I think, eight pairs of tracksuit bottoms, which are the same. And I have, so I pretty much wear that the whole time. Just obviously wear different ones.

I've got a bunch of t-shirts. I've got two kind of cardigan things. I'm so unfashionable, it's ridiculous.

But no one sees me, really. I mean, okay, when I'm walking in, they see me, but people don't. It's not like I'm going out.

If I was going out, like out, out, like in some kind of social capacity, I would not want to be wearing what I wear. That would not be ideal. Really, not really, no.

But I don't have a purse. I don't have a bag of any kind, really, anymore. I used to.

When I first moved here, I had a bag. But now, yeah, yeah, as far as trying on different outfits, no, I wear the same thing pretty much. So yeah, that's my routine as far as that kind of stuff.

But I'd like to get more of a routine, you know, regarding when do I do, when do I spend time doing the course, the degree? When do I spend time making a podcast? When do I spend the time editing and processing the podcast? I don't do them one after another. And then I've got the time to take this little fellow out, which I do three or four times, sometimes five times a day.

And yeah, it's just trying to sort of, I'd like to be more organized, and maybe I will be, maybe I will be.

So thank you for that. I hope I've answered those questions in a kind of a way. The last question is from Leah.

Where do you get these often amusing cover art pictures for your podcast cover? Do you use AI or some fancy app? Many of them are very intriguing, nice work. Well, thank you very much. It's a mixture.

It's a mixture. Sometimes I create the image myself from other images. Sometimes I, I do use AI.

But I don't leave it up to AI. Usually I, I tell AI what I want. So if I want an image of a cat on stage, doing a stand up set to an audience of dogs, then it will give me some images and it might take a while before I find one that I like.

And then I'll reuse that. And then I'll have to edit that using Canva and adding bits and bobs and changing things and erasing things. And, you know, it can be, it can be quite, quite time consuming sometimes, especially if I've got a specific thing or an idea of what I want the picture to be.

You know, I've spent hours in the past just on an image because I've really wanted it to, to have a certain thing, a certain something, you know. So I just, I guess it really my creativity, when it comes to the images, more and more as I use the AI is just knowing what I want and trying to get the AI to produce what I want. So it's not hard.

Really, it's just finding ways to word it and trying to, I mean, there is a part of me, I want to do an image that will be attractive to listeners, but I don't think any images I do, people aren't going to listen to my podcast because of the image. I mean that maybe they will, but I doubt it. It's, it's not like YouTube.

YouTube, the thumbnails are so important, even though I put very little effort into my thumbnails really. Perhaps I need to start because I'm getting such more views on YouTube. It's really, really ridiculous.

But then every new recording I upload or every new video is 10 hours long. I think if I stick to it, if I stick to the 10 hour long videos, just keep doing it, I reckon in a year, maybe a couple of years, it will start to pick up. I'm not sure, we'll see.

So yeah, that's where I get the images that kind of, sometimes I create them and I search online for different things and I put them together to make like an image, but lots of different images to put together and take the backgrounds off and redirect them and you know, it's lots of different, different ways. But sometimes I just put in and I put it put in a like to chat GBT, make this image and it just makes the correct or makes an image that I like straight away.

However, there is other AIs that I could use other software that I could use.

I'm quite a loyal person. And I guess I'm a person of habit as well, I guess, I suppose. So using the same one every day suits me.

But there are other image makers, other image AI creators that are possibly more advanced than, than chat GBT that make the, well, there are, there are ones that that's what they're for. They're literally for creating images, chat GBT does lots of different things. So, yeah, that's it.

That's the answer to that question. And I'm glad you like the images. So according to my clock, I've been talking for over two and a quarter hours.

And blimey. Mind you, I remember when I first started doing these Q&A Fridays, I think the first one lasted about three hours. That's a long time.

The thing is 11 questions. No, it's 10 wasn't it 10 questions. 10 questions.

It's, that is quite a few questions. And thank you for all your questions. But I don't think I've ever had that many in one at one time before.

Normally, I might get four or five. But 10, 10, 10 is a bit more than normal. Yeah.

Cool. So this is Q&A Friday. It's a day late apologies.

It's now blimey. It's 12.04 in the afternoon. So it's midday.

I'll have a break from this. Have something to eat and then I reckon it will all be uploaded and available to listen to within the next few hours. Tomorrow is Sunday papers.

Monday is Monday's boring objects. Monday boring objects. Tuesday is trivia Tuesday.

And then Thursday is healing Thursday. Friday is Q&A Friday again. I'm hoping that I get my DNA tests back so I can talk about it on Wednesday.

Anyway, thank you for listening. Remember, remember, remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye.