Q&A Friday | #1615 Let Me Bore You To Sleep | Overnight Music | Jason Newland

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep. My name is Jason Newland and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Safely close your eyes.

And this is Q&A Friday. Q&A Friday. It is Friday the 22nd of May 2026.

It's 6.37 in the evening although it's bright and light outside. Let you know my website is jasonnewland.com I've got a YouTube channel and also upload on Instagram X. Where else? Where else do I upload? Instagram X and the other one TikTok. And I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group.

So before I do the questions I'll just give you just a little update on what's been going on so far because I can't remember the last time I made a recording. It was the 19th which is Tuesday. So that's the last time I made a recording was Tuesday.

So a few things have happened in the last week or this week. One is I went to the dentist on Monday. It was an emergency appointment and they cleaned the wound where the tooth had been where the tooth used to live and and gave me some more antibiotics.

And it just wasn't getting any better. It didn't seem to be getting any better at all. So yesterday because I had an earache, jaw, you know it's really it wasn't particularly pleasant.

So I called them up and said could I get an emergency appointment. Because realizing this bank holiday weekend they'll be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday. So the next appointment would be Tuesday and I didn't know if I could wait that long based on how I was feeling yesterday, Thursday.

Well they gave me an appointment for 10 20 this morning. I had a fairly good night's sleep last night and I didn't. I took some painkillers at 6 in the morning.

When I got to them at 10 20 my mouth wasn't really hurting that much and it hasn't all day really hurt like a huge amount. There's part of the gum that hurts more than the actual where the tooth was. And so she the lady the dentist cleaned up the thing and put some more like cleaning antibiotic, I don't know, into it.

That's already come out anyway. But as she was digging into it it didn't really hurt that much. On Monday it was oh you know he's like oh.

So that part is really healing which is good news. I've got one more tablet left of the antibiotics to take. So it's done its job but the healing process of my mouth according to my dentist is just taking quite a long time.

And other than take painkillers it's not a lot I can really do about it. It's just just the way it is. Whether it's to do with age, whether it's just to do with that part of my body, I don't know.

We didn't have an in-depth conversation about anatomy to be honest. But it's put my mind at ease now because now I've had someone prodding where the tooth used to be and I can feel that actually it's not that painful anymore there. It's just in the gum around it.

And that also feels a lot less than what it did yesterday. So I guess tomorrow will feel less and then Sunday and Monday and I imagine in a week or so they'll pretty much just be feel the same as the other side of my mouth. But I just I'm just amazed at how much of a I don't know an adventure it's been.

When I can't even remember I'm losing track of how many times I've been to the dentist. I went originally to a different dentist and that was about six weeks ago I think. Six weeks I would tell you exactly when it was.

So I had the medication. I went to dentist on the 14th I think of April. So it's what five weeks now.

So went to the 14th of April with a toothache. They said yeah you need to the tooth out. But they only looked at one tooth and it's going to be 350 pound or 500 pound depending on how difficult it is and blah blah blah.

And I said thank you very much. I'll find a different dentist if I can NHS. They gave me a prescription for antibiotics and it did its trick.

It got rid of the pain. Got rid of the abscess or whatever cavity abscess thing. Now it did upset my stomach which meant I couldn't I couldn't visit my dad on his 80th birthday because I literally couldn't leave.

I didn't feel safe to leave the house because of my tum tum. And then my next appointment to see I found a dentist that I could see. I think anyway I can't remember the exact dates but I got an appointment with a new dentist NHS one this time which meant I didn't have to pay.

And they gave me an examination. So I went there completely pain free completely fine. But I was told that I needed to get it out otherwise it would come back.

So I had an examination had x-rays all that stuff and they said yeah you got you do need to have it removed. Also you need two fillings. So I said cool.

If you go to the counter we'll book an appointment. So you know I said thanks and they said we can fit you in next week. And I thought no I'm not in a hurry.

I'm not in a hurry. So I said can we make it two weeks time. And they said okay.

The reason being is because I just fancied the idea of it being I don't know you know I mean I don't know I just didn't I wasn't really in a hurry because it was it wasn't causing me any problems. So I wasn't in a hurry to get it out knowing that getting out would be you know not pleasant generally. So but they said the idea I had to have two fillings and an extraction all at the same time.

But not at the same time. I mean they weren't they did want to eat individually and stuff but you know in the same period of time the 40 minutes I was there. So I booked it two weeks away.

When it came to the week to go now went along again still completely pain free. Felt fine. Had had all the treatment.

It went okay. I had a numb mouth you know as you do. I looked like didn't know if I was dribbling or not talking.

It was weird. I said to the nurse assistant or the nurse assistant the dental assistant. Do I have anything on my chin or my mouth before I go out in the public.

And she said no it's fine. So then I actually went out and they do have a toilet. So I went to the toilet looked in the mirror and there was blood on my beard.

It's like why didn't you mention that. Maybe that's part of this keeps the job makes maybe makes the job a bit more fun sending people out with weird things on their face. So I come home.

I'm trying to keep track of. So this was last Wednesday. Was it Tuesday or Wednesday I had the tooth out.

And Tuesday and Friday I was still like ah. It was as much as what it was when I had it out. So I got an emergency appointment for the Monday.

Put me on medication. Then I went back again today. So I've lost track of how many times that is.

This is four times. One, two, one, two, three, four, five. So that's five different dental appointments for one tooth.

Including the original dentist I went to. As I five dental appointments in as many weeks. Pretty much.

So I hope that now it's done. Done, done, done, done, done, done. And the way it's feeling compared to the way it was yesterday.

I'm kind of and also having gone today put my mind at rest as well. So I'm glad I'm feeling a bit more positive about that stuff. Another thing this week I met up with a friend that I haven't seen for a while and he's got a serious medical condition and that was, I don't know, that was just really quite upsetting.

When he told me about it on Monday. But I met up with him on Thursday yesterday. We had a coffee.

Well, he had a coffee. And so I was bibbing. Why do people bib their horns continuously when they're in a car? Is it just impatience? Like bibbing, has bibbing a horn ever made someone, something happen quicker? Has it changed time in some way? Does bibbing a horn ever calm a person down? Either the person in the car bibbing the horn or the person that's having their horn bibbed at them? Does it improve either of their lives in any way? That's my question.

I'm guessing no. There you go. So I understood doing it.

Bless him. Is that time of the year? I mean, it could just be a kid. Wait, I used to do that when I was a kid.

I used to bib the horn. It's fun, isn't it? Yeah, so that's done. So I met my friend.

That's an eye opener. There's something about, I don't know. It just, it put things into perspective in some ways, because everyone I'm around, seems to have problems.

I don't know if I just seem to attract that, or I just happen to be living in a place where there's a lot of people with problems. So I think it may be a bit of both. And I do like to help people.

I don't always succeed. And I mess up, you know, being human and all that. But I do, you know, do try.

I mean, there was a time in my life when I never tried. I used to keep well away from people. That was when I was younger.

Really, before the age of 30, I was selfish, but I was. But I didn't really get involved with people. Really.

I mean, I had a couple of friends. But, you know, we were all young and healthy, I guess. And there were no problems, other than maybe relationship issues, you know, and not having any money.

And life being a bit crap. We're living in London. But there was no, I don't know.

It's not like now. It's very different now. At this time in my life.

I don't know what I'm trying to say. But yeah, I think I was less caring back then. I kept myself to myself, focused on, you know, comedy or whatever I was doing, whether it was watching the boxing or just getting through the week, really sometimes.

And then, you know, early 2000s, I kind of, what's that like? What's that about? 32, 33. Something changed. I think it was after I got ill, after I started having the panic attacks at 32, and dealt with that for like two years.

It was like non, it felt like it was nonstop. I started to have a bit more compassion, I think, to other people who were also going through stuff. Because I knew what it was like to have moods, to have mood swings.

But I just thought that was me. I didn't think there was a name for it. I thought I was just being Jason.

I'm just a Jason. Are you doing a Jason are you? Yeah, I'm doing a Jason. I think I became a bit more compassionate.

And then I did the massage course, that kind of maybe perhaps a bit more. I don't know. I got into holistic therapy.

You know, I wanted to help people. I tried to launch a free pain relief 2004. It didn't succeed, but I did some hypnosis for some people.

I mean, discovering hypnosis, I forgot about that. Discovering hypnosis. I didn't discover it, but you know, discovering it for myself in 2000, no, 1997.

That was kind of probably my journey towards helping people. Because I did start to think, you know, I want to help people with this. But I didn't help anyone with it really, just a handful of people.

But I didn't really do much with it other than just study it and just enjoy studying it and collecting books and stuff. So I suppose it was like 2006 was really the like 20 years ago when I started doing all this stuff, like audios and videos, when things really changed. Learning to meditate and stuff as well, previous to that in 2003 onwards.

Being around Buddhists, some of them are really lovely. Wanting to help people and then becoming a counsellor, going through the counselling and training. So yeah, I guess all that kind of led me to be where I am now.

Not that I'm in a great place, but just generally I'm not as selfish as I used to be. And I'm pleased about that. And also all the therapy I've had.

Blimey, I've had a bucket full of therapy, I really have. So that's helped. And I would have, I had a recent thing and, okay, I did react and I did some weird things, but I didn't do anything too nutty.

Which was like, oh, that's a good, good thing. I've not destroyed all my recordings. I didn't, you know, which I have done in the past.

And it's like, okay, I'm growing. Eventually, I'm nearly 56. I'm starting to start to grow as a person, maybe not just my belly.

Blah, blah, blah, get on with the Q&A Friday, monkey boy. Okay, right, wow. Have a drink of water.

So yeah, it's been a, it's definitely been a week of three parts. The, yeah. So I got off, I had a friend who, apparently, I told someone else something that was personal about her and, or him.

And they've kind of, they're upset. And I don't remember what it was. I didn't mean to do that.

But the thing is, you know, when you're supporting someone, like, for example, when I was supporting my friend downstairs, I didn't have anyone to talk to about it. The whole time, I didn't have anybody to talk to about it. To give me some kind of support, to help me to, you know, I mean, I didn't have that.

Wow, can you hear that? It's really loud. Actually, one of the windows are on the latch a bit. I hope the noise outside isn't too bad.

But it's summer, I can't really avoid the squeaky sounds and stuff that are out there, you know. I might actually try and, yeah, if I close the window and pull the curtains over, that might do the job. So just close the windows up, pull the curtains.

I hope that at least blocks some of the sound. Although this microphone doesn't pick up a huge amount of background sound, which is pretty good. So what was I saying? Oh, yeah.

So, you know, with the, with the Uncle Sausage situation last year, I had someone to talk to about that. So it's just someone just, you know, sometimes it's nice to have someone that you can just, not offload, or maybe offload, maybe just, just to talk to. But no, it's not gossip, it's just talking.

But I think the mistake is, well, not a mistake, but I think what needs to be done in future needs to be someone that doesn't know that person. Because then that can cause problems. And if they get chatting, then they could, it might just come up like, wait a minute, he said what? And I think that's the mistake I made.

Unless I said something online here, which I didn't mean to, you know, but who knows. So yeah, I kind of lost a friend there. For, generally, I wasn't gossiping.

It's not that I never gossip, but I wasn't. Because that's not, there's certain things, that's not a gossipy situation. It was a serious situation.

And it was difficult for me to deal with. So I kind of, I had to talk to someone more for me rather than for them. And also I was worried about them.

So yeah, that was, that was my mistake. But, you know, we learn, we try to learn. And that's the thing, I never had that before.

Because all my friends, before I moved here, all my friends, okay, apart from a tiny little period, when I had a group of friends, we all work together and live together, that's different. Outside of that, most of my friends have never met each other. I just have very different friends.

So I can phone up my friend, let's call her, Bing Bong Bong, I'll call her up, and I can talk and say anything I want about Uncle Sausages, for example, like last year. And nobody, it's never going to get back to him, whatever I say, however I'm feeling, I tell her how I'm feeling. It's never going to get back to him.

Well, obviously, it's not now. But because they don't know each other, they live different parts of the country, or different parts of the world, even sometimes, you know, so that's, that used to be my rule. And I kind of, I laxed a little bit.

Because when I moved here, I made the effort to get to know people. I made the effort to be open, to be friendly, to be a friendly neighbor. Because always in the past, I knew that I'd be moving on, I'd be moving to a different address.

I'd only be living there for a year, or two or three. I knew it was short term. When I moved in here, having waited for decades and decades to have my own place like this, I kind of started to think about settling, or maybe putting down roots, maybe not roots, I'm not going to have a family or anything, but just, you know what I mean, just being friendly to people.

And I did that. And in some ways, it's been nice. In some ways, it's really, really backfired.

So I think I'd probably, I wouldn't, if I was here, let's say 11 years now, I've been here. If I was still, didn't talk to anybody, and didn't know anyone to say hello to, then I think I feel quite lonely. But that's not the case.

I do know the neighbors, not all of them, but I know a few of the neighbors. And I know a few dog walkers. So that, you know, without that, I think I'd feel different.

It would, you know, that's a positive thing. Sometimes, although yesterday, not yesterday, today, was it today? Was it today? It was today. Yeah, today I was walking through the town.

I was thinking to myself, because walking towards the dentist. And I thought, this is really nice, actually. So I'm walking down a road, it's very busy.

That wasn't the nice part. I didn't know anyone. Didn't have to say hello to anyone, didn't have to stop and chat.

Didn't have to pretend I was okay. You know, didn't have to put a mask on. And none of that stuff, I could just be myself and just walk to us going.

And that's how things used to be when I lived in London. Or when I first moved to the town I lived in before here. Or when I first moved here as well into this town.

Or when I first moved into this area, I guess it's the same, isn't it? Don't know anyone. It's quite nice to, I quite like that. But I don't think I'd want it every day.

I don't think I'd want it all the time. Yeah, it's just something I was thinking. I thought, this is quite nice.

No one's going to shout my name. Not that I get that a lot, but, you know, I can just chill out. And just walk to where I'm going.

I went into the bookshop. So this, this is both, okay, I don't know. Right.

So I go into the bookshop's Waterstones in town, in town. And I just walked through it. As I thought, now I've got my reading glasses that I've not even taken out of the case yet.

I've had them for a week. And I need to, I want to get a book. I want to kind of get, I'm thinking of getting, yeah, I was like, I want to get a book, but I don't know what.

I don't want to get anything heavy, just some light reading, maybe some, I don't know, philosophy or something. And I was just, I don't know where to start, because I've never, okay, I've never, I haven't for a long time been much of a fiction reader. It's been very much, not just textbooks, but, you know, about a specific subject, whether it's hypnosis, or psychology, or psychotherapy, or Buddhism, or philosophy, or specific subjects like autism.

I've just had a, they've all never really been storybooks. Although I have read fiction in the past, but less so for a long time. And there was a time in the 90s that I'd actually, I'd look in, there was a magazine called Time Out magazine that came out every, it was every Tuesday.

And it had all the listings in London, whether it was theatres, cinemas, comedy clubs, you name it, had everything that was going on pretty much around London. And also reviews of shows. And it was also a book review every week.

And quite often I'd go and buy that book, the one that they were recommending. So I did that for a few years. So I'm just looking, I'm kind of looking around.

I kind of wanted to look at the mental health section, but that was upstairs. I knew I didn't have much time. I only had about 10 minutes in that shop before I had to leave.

So I thought, well, I'll just stay at the bottom of the shop. So I'm walking through. It's quite weird as I'm walking in because there's two entrances or two exits, depending on what you want to call them, between the roads between and there's two roads kind of, there's two main, I guess, town roads, and Waterstones is between the two.

So you're going out into, you can basically walk through the high street into a different road. Anyway, I think you probably understand what I mean. So I'm walking towards one of the entrances.

And there's a woman and a man walking, and a woman's moaning, and a proper moan. I can't believe there was someone behind the counter with chewing gum in their mouth, chewing gum. What's the world coming to? I'm thinking, when I left the house today, the news just reminded me what was on the news.

And she's worried about someone chewing gum. Okay, well, it's each to their own. And I'm thinking, I want to tell him.

I want to go and see who's behind the counter and tell him that some woman was just moaning about him chewing gum. Then I thought, what's the point in that? What's the benefit? There's none really, is there? Plus, they were busy at the counter, so I just left it. And I looked around and thought, because they've got educational stuff in the first part, so I'll quickly run past that.

Hold my hands up so I can't see any of the books, especially the mathematical books. And I get to the fiction. I mean, there is a health section like diet and stuff, which probably... I've got a slight tingle of interest in dieting.

Not dieting as in losing weight and stuff, although that can always be useful. But from a healthy perspective, a healthy diet, something that would give me the proper correct vitamins and all that stuff. And Vinny is practically in my face right now.

Honestly, he's just staring at me. I don't quite know what he wants. So I'm looking around, and I'm looking at the books on the shelves, and then they have tables where they put, I suppose, books they're promoting or whatever.

So I see this book, and it's got... Oh, what's his name? What's his name? What's his name, anyone? Oh, I do know his name. Don't worry. He was in Peep Show.

Peep Show. Okay, everything but the actual names of the people. David Mitchell.

So David Mitchell in the Peep Show. And he's been in loads of different things since then. So I was like, there was a book there which had him, like he wrote it, what was David Mitchell.

So I'm thinking, ah, because I like the way he talks and the way he kind of, I find it very funny as a person. Not just when he's doing scripted stuff, but also he just seems naturally good at ad-libbing and a funny person. What I thought, hmm, you know what I mean? I thought, hmm.

And so I picked it up, and it was a book called something or other, a very thick, thick old book, really thick. And suddenly I hear this voice saying, oh, that's a really good book. And I'm like, huh? And it's like, I'm not saying that he appeared out of nowhere, because the counter was like really quite close.

But there's a bloke there, and he starts trying to sell me the book. So it was nice, he was a very friendly person. And really selling it, you know, like he said he loved the book and went into detail.

He was very knowledgeable about the book. But I wanted him to go away. I don't mean it in a horrible, in a horribly just, I only had 10 minutes.

And I wanted to just have a quick look around. And I spent five minutes talking about a book that I wasn't going to buy. Because halfway through the conversation, I found out that it wasn't the David Mitchell that I thought, but it was the David Mitchell it was a different David Mitchell.

An author, but David Mitchell has already also written books. David Mitchell, author, okay. So David Mitchell, author.

Oh, he's a year older than me. That's nice. So he wrote, um, wow, he's written about autism.

That's interesting. His first novel was called Ghostwritten in 1999. So the one I was looking at was called Cloud Atlas from 2004.

And it was turned into a film, apparently. So 2012, I mean, maybe I should have got it, but I just, I needed to, I'll be honest, I didn't, I didn't have my glasses on me. I wanted to have a little read, little, you know, just read a couple of pages and stuff to see whether it was something that would interest me.

And he wasn't leaving me alone. I tried to hide behind a book that didn't work. And that's when you realize, oh, I wish I'd brought my invisible coffee flask.

Because then you can just unscrew the top, you know what I mean? And get your little invisible cup out and pour it in and that. Maybe have your invisible dog say, sit, sit. That usually does a trick and they leave.

But I'd say it was lovely. I just didn't have the time. The thing is, if I go into a bookshop, I can't have a time limit, because maybe not that bookshop, because it's not a big bookshop.

But some of the big, big bookshops in London, because there's a road in London, just round the corner from Tottenham Court Road tube station, come out of Tottenham Court Road tube station. McDonald's is opposite. Virgin megastore used to be opposite.

It might be HMV now. I don't know. I feel as though it's still there.

But turn right out of the station, then turn right again. And that road that leads down towards where the theatre land is, is there used to be about five bookshops down there. Blacks, Foils, which is was pretty much the most famous bookstore in the country.

I do believe one of the oldest, if not the oldest. Don't know if it's even still there. So I used to go there, Foils, Blacks, Books etc, Waterstones, and I'm sure there was another one.

There probably was another one. I just can't remember the name of it. But I'd be in there for hours, like going between the three or four bookshops.

And love, love, love, loved it. Honestly, hours. And even when I moved away from London, I'd go back on pay day.

Or, you know, pay weekend, go up to London, and I buy sometimes like a couple of hundred pounds worth of books. I think the most I spent was like 250 once. And I just had these like two or three bags of books, and brought them home to add to my collection.

And no, I didn't read them. What was I going to do with you? If I read them or not? I probably, the thing is, you know, with like textual books or textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, a lot of that stuff is not necessarily something you're just going to read. But it's handy for information.

So, for example, if I was going to do a, if I wanted to do a hypnosis session for, I don't know, just an addiction to buying kittens or something, I don't know, you know, as an example, then I would look that up. And maybe I'd find that eventually, if I looked through all the books. Now, it's a lot easier with the internet.

And also with AI to find stuff, which, you know, in the 90s, pretty much dependent upon books. In the 2000s, the internet, I mean, the stuff I had in my books, and what was available on the internet, it wasn't there. Because it was such, some of it was so high, I want to say high tech, but so, I don't even know if academic is the correct word.

Weird, maybe. But a lot of stuff wasn't online, because people didn't want to share it online. Hypnotherapists wanted or hypnotherapist trainers, they wanted to charge for information on hypnosis.

They didn't want it freely available for people to find online. But now with AI, you, it does help to know what you're looking for, to be honest. And you know, when it comes to if I was looking for something to do with, I don't know.

Okay, if I bring up, where's the questions, Q&A Fridays questions, I know. That's what happens when I don't make a recording for a little while. I just have all this stuff on to talk about.

I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Okay, so if I write into chat GPT, tell me everything about I access in I access in queues and chronic pain relief.

So this is, this is not something that someone would probably ask a question about unless you have to know, I guess you have to know what it is first, which makes sense, doesn't it? In the same way as if you're an engineer, I wouldn't be able to ask not even the simplest engineer question, other than, tell me about wheels. What's an engine? You know, so tell me everything about I access in queues and chronic pain relief. I access in queues are a concept most commonly associated with Richard Brandler, John Grinder, blah, blah, blah, NLP.

And okay, so I know all that stuff. The model is not universal. Okay, good.

So, so I access in queues and chronic pain relief. Oh, this is interesting, because that's very good. So this isn't this is stuff that I didn't know about.

Okay. And ah, and then basically, it's just going through the history of it. So EMDR seems to have kind of come from I access in queues, because EMDR, if I'm right, is where you move your eyes around side to side and I've not studied it.

But I know the bare basics. Ah, so I'm getting distracted by this. See, this is what really fascinates me, because that's another issue.

If I could finish a sentence, I still like to, because like, with my mouth, I didn't really class that as chronic pain, it's acute pain. It's an injury, you know, injury from having a tooth out. If it continued, like in a month's time, then it's chronic pain, and there's no reason for it to be there.

So, at the moment, you need to have a degree, I need to have a degree of pain, not now. But when I had the tooth out, I needed to have some a warning to be careful with that part of the mouth. It's just a protection thing.

And I kind of still need that a little bit, because if I eat, if I started just eating on that side of the mouth, I could actually damage that area and open up. So I have to be very careful, eat on my right side. But I know that I'd like don't really need to be reminded of that.

Hmm. Although I'm not complaining now because it's it's on the way to be amended. Oh, we can now listen to a sleep recording about hearing about dentists.

That'd be nice. I wonder if I only got like three people listening to me every day. Ah.

Ah. So let's have a look. Let's have a look now.

Now. Now. Anyway, I've kind of got off subject a little bit.

So what I'll do is let's have a look at the questions. Our boxing's on tomorrow. It's a really good bill, like really, really good bill.

So I'm pleased about that. Going to watch that. I don't know when it's time it starts because it's in Egypt.

So I don't know if Egypt are ahead or behind. No idea. In fact, what time does Egypt boxing start? UK.

Boxing. Oh, no. 23rd of May.

What time does a boxing start in the UK? 4.30am. What? When is that then? This is the 23rd. It's only 22nd. Boxing tonight.

Oh, no, this is an American. Okay, so tonight there's boxing on in America. So 22nd of May.

So that'll be on the main fight will be on. It's a middleweight. Oh, I'd be a final eliminator.

Jones against Gottieri. 4.30 in the morning. So there's a chance I'll be awake for that.

I don't know. I'll be in bed by 10 tonight. So I'm always in bed by 10, usually on a Friday.

Okay, so Saturday. Usyk. Oh, it's 4pm from 4pm.

Usyk against Verhoeven. So Usyk is a heavyweight champion of the world. He is fighting Verhoeven who is a big name in kickboxing.

I've never heard of him before. Although I did watch one of his fights early on YouTube. And he's a handful.

And very fast hands very fast. And very jittery as well. If that makes sense, kind of like I don't know, it doesn't seem to let you know where the punches are going to come next from.

But the undercard is really good. In fact, there's not one fight that I don't want to watch. Apart from the one that I don't want to watch.

And there is a female fight that I probably am not that bothered about. Hiruta against Solomon. But apparently, they kept, I saw the press conference and they were introducing Hiruta as the pound for pound best female boxer in the world.

So I'm not heard of her before. So perhaps I need to do a bit of research there. There's a heavyweight fight Sanchez against Torres Jr. Sanchez, they're both big names or Sanchez is a big name in the heavyweight division.

And Torres Jr. is like up and coming. So now he's unbeaten. So it'd be interesting to see that one.

Shiraz against Begic. So that's for super middleweight title. Shiraz, he's really good.

Yeah, I mean his last Hamza Shiraz So he's got 22 fights with one draw. His last fight, I mean, gets a lot of knockouts as well. He's number two with the WBO, 10 with the ring.

So he, this last fight was July, blimey, it's nearly a year ago. And he knocked out Edgar Belanger. Which was, I mean, Edgar Belanger was not someone that would go down easy like that.

Not that he went down easy. But I don't think anyone expected a knockout like that. And it was phenomenal, really phenomenal.

So he's fighting. I thought he was fighting for the, I don't know. I thought someone was fighting for a world title.

And then Katerl is fighting Giazov. And Katerl is a big name as well. Oh, he's unbeaten, blimey.

And not he's, Sharam Giazov, he's unbeaten. And stopped 10, okay. So that should be good as well.

Katerl is, he's one of the best boxers I've seen. When he's on ball, when he's really on it, he's really on it. So fast, so one of the cleanest punchers.

A little bit like Devin Haney, as far as clean punches go. Or some of the best boxers in the world have that. Where when they score, everyone can see that they've scored.

Because it's so clean. Devin Haney has it. Jack Katerl, of course, as I said.

Just trying to think out of all the different people. Few all rankings, okay. What I'll do, I'll go through the heavyweights.

Probably Aleksandr Usyk, you can tell when he's scored. He's very clean. Herkovich is pretty clean.

Utama as well. Then you've got Kruiserweight. Jaya Pattaya.

He's pretty, the audience can see when he actually connects. Because usually they fall onto the canvas. And so, very clean puncher.

Benavidez, my favourite boxer in the world, pretty much. He's very clean, yeah. So, I think the ones that are at the top, quite often, you can see the punches.

So, if it does go the distance, then it's easier for the judges to do it. Dmitry Brivol, again, is another one who's really clean. Clean fighter, as far as people can see.

Does that make sense when I say clean? I don't mean clean as in, like, had a bath. But, because maybe, sometimes it can get scrappy, you know, like, all punching each other. And you can't see if they've even hit each other.

It can just be a bit like a cartoon, almost like there's like dust around them, swirling around as they're like, you know, fighting. But, to be able to do it, I don't know. It's like, probably one of the best people, and he's pound for pound one of the best in the world, would be someone else.

I can't remember now. I've lost the page. Never mind.

So, Facebook. Also, I want to say thank you to Christine, Jodie, and Cheryl for your kind words regarding me going to the dentist today. Thank you.

So, any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, 22nd of May, 2026. I do have some questions. Little bit, little bit late.

As far as like an hour in. And I still haven't sort of started. I'm just building up to it.

It's never too late for a good thing, is it? It's nice to build up and just take it slowly. You know what I mean? So, here we go. Cheryl.

If you could have whatever you wanted for dinner, what would it be? Are there any really good restaurants nearby that you love? And it's interesting you say that because it is getting time to eat soon. Good restaurants nearby. I'm not going to say that the restaurants are bad because there's only one restaurant nearby, an Indian restaurant, and I've been in there a few times and I liked it.

But for me, going into an Indian restaurant or any restaurant really, I'd want to be with someone. It might sound like a weird thing to say because most people probably go to a restaurant with someone, but I can go into the Wimpy. I can go into the McDonald's on my own.

I can go into cafes, coffee houses and stuff on my own. I don't want to go into a restaurant on my own. Because I've always gone with someone and usually a restaurant is something that I would do on a date.

Not always, but you know. So, going into an Indian restaurant, normally it'd be... If I was saying normally, probably thinking about it, most of the times I've been into an Indian restaurant, it hasn't been on a date, it's been with friends. There goes that theory.

I don't think I've ever been into a Chinese restaurant. I've had loads of Chinese takeaways. Weird, well it's not weird, but when you said that about like having something to eat, anything you could have, an omelette, omelette and chips from the Chinese takeaway.

That's what I'm thinking now. I got a little, but I might try and get something out the freezer and cook that instead. Maybe have a pizza and some onion rings or something.

I just, I'm getting to the point where I'm getting a little peckish, peckish. Yeah, I don't, when I was in town, sometimes I'd go into ZZ, you know the pizza place. There was a place, it wasn't in town, but it was like halfway between town and where I live now, called, is it Ben and Jerry's or Ben and Jen and Berry's or something.

That was nice, it's closed down now. It's, it's something completely different now. But that was nice, I used to like going in there.

I didn't go in there often, but it was always busy. So I don't know what they did to, well, not what they did, but I don't know what happened for it to close down. But I went in there a few times actually, over the years.

And there is, there is a, what's it, there's quite a few farm centres or garden centres around here. And I think that's the same across the entire country. Lots of garden centres.

And I don't know, but I think quite a few of the garden centres have restaurants. I know the one near where I live do, does. And so I go in there sometimes.

They have, you know, quite a nice cake selection. You can get breakfast before 11.30 and you can get like lunch after that time. And they also do sandwiches and stuff.

But last time I went in there, I just didn't really, I wasn't really hungry. It wasn't long since I'd eaten. And I saw my dad and he had something to eat.

And I was like, I don't really fancy that. You know, I think if you had a burger, I might have thought, hmm, but he didn't want that. Yeah, I think it was probably just a little bit too early for me.

Because we went in at 11 and then we could have got breakfast to be fair, but we didn't. Yeah, we could have got breakfast. Why didn't we get breakfast? That could have been juicy.

Nevermind. So yeah, there's not really anything around here. I don't go to restaurants really.

I mean, technically the garden centre is a restaurant, you know, it is a restaurant within the garden centre. It's just, you know, it's open during the day. I kind of think of restaurants open in the evenings and, you know, a place to socialise.

It's a little bit different. It's just a different type of restaurant, isn't it? It's a traditional restaurant, I guess. I don't know if I could have any, whatever I wanted for dinner, what would it be? I mean, that's going to change whenever you ask me.

It'll be different in 20 minutes to what it is now, probably. But right now, kebab, maybe? I don't know. An omelette and chips, maybe an omelette and rice.

Yeah, I'm not really big on chips anymore. I never really have been a big chip fan really, not for decades. But maybe an omelette.

It's like from the Chinese takeaway, an omelette and rice, egg fried rice. Oh, yeah. And to the next question, you got me hungry now.

Angie asks me, how did you decide to do sleep podcasts? Oh, I'll read the rest. Do you consider the profound effect that this may have, that you may have? I asked because I started listening to you over four years ago when my husband suddenly passed and I needed something to help me sleep. You, Vinny and Logie helped keep me sane and help me ease into the sleep I wouldn't have gotten.

Now I still have comfort in hearing your podcasts. Angie, that's lovely. Honestly, thank you so much for those kind words.

That's what makes it worthwhile, hearing things like that. It's like, wow. It's almost like, who are you talking about? It can't be me.

But yeah, honestly, really, I'm really pleased that I was or am continuing to be able to be of use, you know, helpful. My words have gone. And so I go back, how did I decide to do sleep podcasts? I didn't start out.

It's really podcasts weren't really kind of a thing. They were a thing, but they weren't a popular thing. So in 2006, when I started out, I decided to make videos and audios and upload them.

Well, I just started making videos and upload them onto MySpace. At the time, I was doing group sessions, group relaxation sessions at a alcohol charity. And also at a drug rehab center.

At two different places. So I basically just sit there, have a crowd, I'd have a group of people. Sometimes it'd be six people.

Sometimes it'd be 20 people. Sometimes it'd be three, you know, like however many people turned up, including staff. And I just lead them through a relaxation session for probably a half an hour, 40 minutes.

And I'd go once a week or twice a week, depending when I could go. Usually once a week. And because at this time, I was What was I doing? I was doing it on a Monday night.

That's it. I was doing it on a Monday night. So it was only a small group of people to start with.

And then when I went part time in my job, I started doing it in the afternoons to a larger amount of people. So yeah, I was doing that. And then people started asking me, can't you have... Why can't we... You can listen to it.

Listen to you do it. But it'd be nice to listen to you at home. And I thought, oh, okay.

Well, I don't want to go around your house. Perhaps I shouldn't have said that out loud. But I thought, what can I do? And someone said, well, can't you do a CD? So I started to make CDs with the help of the charity.

They printed off CDs and I recorded it. Very bad recording. Very bad quality.

Uploaded it onto a CD, printed it and everything, or digitally, I mean, and then gave the CDs away. But we were getting through a lot of them. A lot.

To the point where they just couldn't really afford to keep doing it. Because they weren't charging anything. So I decided, well, I'll put them on my website.

Have them for people to listen to. And at this point, I was also, anyway, I was recording my recordings anyway, and I was posting them onto Myspace. So I started off just making recordings in my bedroom.

And making videos and then extracting the audio from the video and making it as an audio as well on Myspace. And then, some of this might not, may not be in the right order. I'll just let you know that.

So I was doing that. And then I, this, yeah, so I was doing that. And I think there was, I'm not sure if there was any podcasts that were like, because podcasts, although it had been around, those podcasts had a little bit of a popularity in 2004.

And then it kind of went away a bit. And then it had a resurgence probably about 2007. And I was kind of on that wave.

So I joined a podcast website or podcast app. It wasn't called an app at the time, it was just a website. And that you could access on your phone and stuff.

It wasn't an app, I don't know. Probably called it probably was an app, wasn't it? But anyway, it was a podcast and it's called freepodcast.com. So I just started uploading all the old stuff. And back then I can remember thinking, oh, I've got 12 recordings.

Wow, I've got 12 recordings. I do more than that in a week sometimes. Not often, but like 12 recordings is nothing, is it? I've got thousands and thousands now.

But I'd be uploading them. And every time I made a recording, I'd upload them. And so I had my space for the videos and the recordings, the audios.

And I had the podcast for the audios. Now both of those sites were going well. The downloads on my space were going really well.

Like I was getting thousands of watches on my videos. And I couldn't believe it. Like, why? Why are people watching my videos? Now my space was predominantly for, it was created for musicians.

But before Facebook, it was the main social networking site in the world. It was the most popular one in the world at the time. Huge, huge it was.

Huge. And so I was getting a lot of traffic. But I wasn't just getting a lot of people watching.

I was also getting pretty much only positive feedback. Which you imagine in this day and age, or even the last 20 years, online to just get positive feedback. It sounds like a lie, doesn't it really? But it's, it's partially true.

It might be a lie. I'm pretty sure I got a lot of positive stuff. Because I think if I'd got loads of negative feedback right at the beginning, I might, I don't know if I'd have continued.

So I was very lucky that my space existed. Because YouTube was not the most, I mean, I used to get positive feedback on YouTube, but when I started posting, but it's also, you know, had the negative stuff as well. So I was on MySpace, I had loads of people, I think one of my videos hit about 50,000 views.

I could not believe it. And at the beginning of 2008, my podcast reached over 100,000 for the podcast. It might be more than 100,000, but it was at least 100,000.

And I remember just feeling so good, just like wow. But then that podcast kind of came to an end. Because they didn't have, I feel I probably just took up too much space.

And podcasting kind of popped again, just became less. So for a short period, podcasting became popular, and then people lost interest, seem to lose interest, as they had done in the early 2000s. So by this stage, I'd also, I'd moved from MySpace, because MySpace kind of disintegrated.

As soon as Facebook opened, like everyone seemed to just migrate, migrate towards Facebook. And then YouTube was there. So Facebook was good for sharing stuff.

YouTube was good for uploading stuff, but not audios. So I had to look for alternatives. Once I got to 2008, probably after about three or four months into that year, my podcast had just, they'd stopped doing the stats.

And they'd stopped allowing uploads, it kind of came to an end. So I started to look for other podcast hosts. And there was still a few free ones, but there was just, it wasn't getting, they just weren't podcasting just wasn't popular anymore.

Had a little bit of a big thing, and then it's kind of disappeared, almost. And loads of podcast sites just went podcast, they're offering free podcast space and stuff. Which is annoying, because I would have actually paid cash money to have my podcast kept, because I lost a lot of a lot of recordings when they stopped.

So I couldn't even download them. Couldn't upload anything, couldn't download the ones I've got, didn't have any backup saved, and I lost a lot of stuff. So, I mean, none of it was good, necessarily.

Not good quality audio. But it would be nice nostalgically, I guess, just to listen back to it and think. Well, just maybe think to myself, Oh, I can't believe I've not improved in 20 years.

Maybe. I don't know. And so YouTube took over from the video aspect of that.

And I found a podcast, I think I was using, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think. Yeah, SoundCloud. That was one of the ones that I used.

Although I don't think that was the first one. I found a few different ones. And yes, I pretty much tested out most of the different podcast hosts over that period.

Over the years, pretty much nearly every podcast host I've actually signed up to. Just to see, you know, to see kind of if they're any good, because I wasn't only looking for somewhere to store my recordings. That's not really much use to me.

I was looking for somewhere for people to listen to my recordings. So I was looking for an audience. And the free podcast host, the original one I had, had a huge audience.

And all the other podcast hosts that I was using had audiences. And this is before I kind of really got into the whole Apple podcast. Well, Apple podcasts didn't exist back then.

It was Apple Music, that had podcast sections and then over time, you know, things changed as they always do. So I mean, I was too far to Yeah, so I ended up using SoundCloud for quite a few years. Just SoundCloud on its own.

And then I moved to Spreaker. And then I moved back to SoundCloud. I kept kind of changing over what I wanted and stuff.

And so now, I've also tried others out at the same time during these last like 1011 years. So now I've got two Spreaker hosting packages. And I've also got two accounts.

One's for the let me board your sleep and one's for the sleep hypnosis thing. So there's two of those. But I've also got Spreaker as well, which also has those podcasts on.

It's just some, some places will only they'll only play the Spreaker ones. And some places will only only play the or list the SoundCloud ones for some reason. So I just kept that all together.

And my dominant one has been Spreaker for the last eight or nine years. And, yeah, it's been all right. I mean, so far, so far since March 2008, I have had downloads.

So that's basically people listening. Downloads about 15,515,897 downloads. But with with SoundCloud, I've had since 2016 on this one.

So since 2016, I've about three and a half million between the two. So yeah, it was a three and a half is. Yes, it's getting on to like 1819 million in eight on eight years, nine years, eight years, I don't know.

So, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm fairly pleased with that. But then there's a whole period before as well. So I've been doing this for 20 years.

So I probably reached 20. Well, definitely 20 plus million downloads or plays audio wise. Since I started, maybe 25 million, maybe.

It's hard to know. I've had so many podcasts over the years, so many that I've deleted and just, yeah, there's a lot. I mean, I remember I had, there was, oh, I forget the name of the place.

There's this podcast thing that I used to use. And I forgot about it. And I used to use it.

I used to pay for it. It was 48 pound a month. And this was 15 years ago.

And they had a good audience. And I used to get really good stats on there. So I was pleased with that.

But then I decided to change because it was a bit too expensive because I was at university, I think, at the time. So I thought, ooh, you know, I'm gonna, I need to get something a bit cheaper. So what I did is I opened some accounts with that same place and uploaded the minimum amount.

So each so that you get free a certain amount free and podomatic, podomatic. That's it. Podomatic.

Wow. It's not even coming up anymore. Don't tell me it doesn't exist.

Oh, it does exist. Oh, it does. It does.

It does. Wonder how much it costs now. Oh, it's not let me not let me go in.

So if I put podomatic and it's put my name, maybe something will come up just on new land. Oh, okay. Chronic pain Tuesday.

So let's open this up. Chronic pain Tuesday. Uploaded 2017.

So some of these, oh blimey, November 2018. So this is six, five, so I've hardly any on there of like actually I've listened. But I didn't go on here for like six years.

And a couple of my podcasts, even though I'd only put in I shrunk down the podcasts so they were smaller, like size wise, not length wise, but just the file size. And I put them, you know, uploaded them and just forgot all about it. And between them, there's like about three 350,000 downloads.

Wow, this is interesting. I didn't know this. So when I uploaded this 30 day relaxation plan course, this 30 day relaxation course was recorded by hypnotist Jason Newland in 2011.

It had 150,000 downloads when Jason removed it in 2017. Now he's back for your relaxing pleasure, your relaxation pleasure. Wow.

Yeah, so that was one of the ones. But now it some of them have got like 123 because once I've taken it off and we uploaded it, it didn't get anything. But it generally had 150,000 downloads.

And we're just that's the thing mess with stuff. And it can the whole thing can kind of fall down a bit. And I've done a lot of that over the years.

I kind of like played, played with stuff that didn't need playing with. Oh, yeah, that was it. It was a 30 day relaxation plan and a seven day insomnia cure.

So the seven day insomnia cure, I had even more. But now only a few and if only a few downloads, three followers. Oh, okay, I was wrong.

Sorry. So it's got more if this one's got more downloads. So uploaded this March 18, 2018.

So day one's got 1043 day to 558, then 483, 458, and day 7, 419. So just there are there are different things. It's like, if that makes any sense, then it didn't to me, actually, when I just read it back to myself, there are different things.

What do you mean there are different things? Fall asleep with Jason six day course. I haven't visited this fee ages and ages and ages. Right? So it's just Yeah, so podomatic is one that I used to use.

I wonder start your free podcast. Okay, I don't know how much the cost is. It's not let me know.

I just want to try one more see if there's any others. Because you think that one that was 150,000 in 2018, that might be, you know, I guess it had a regular listener, the listenership, I could have gone on to be a lot by now. It's another eight years onwards, isn't it? Oh, well.

Oh, well. Well, it's now disappeared. It's not doing anything.

I think I've used up my Why? Never mind. So yeah, so back to the question. That's I think once I Oh, what's that? Once, I think 2007.

Again, 2008 podcast seems to take a bit of a dip. But I stuck with it. So a lot of companies lost a lot of companies stopped doing it, they didn't offer the free ones anymore.

And I don't think not everybody was into podcasting enough to want to pay to use the services or to upload their own stuff. Or the podcast host did offer free stuff, it'd be like half an hour a month or something which some people will be fine with. He was never really enough for me.

Never. So I remember in the past, like even 20 years ago, but like, even 1516 years, five years, even people say, Why? Why do you need help? Financially, just use free services. If it's a free service for everyone else, you just use a free service.

And, okay, right, let me just add up all the different recordings I've got and how many hours, how many hours of space, digital space I take up. I mean, I'm amazed at Spreaker allow me to use up so much space. When you think every recording I make has 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

So like nearly 20 hours, pretty much like 20. Blimey, no 10, 20, 30. Over 30 hours, every recording.

So if I do an hour recording, that's 32 hours. It's two recordings with and without music, 10 hours. Then you got the five hour ones.

So that's 30 hours and then however long the recording is originally with and without music. I'm amazed, honestly, Spreaker allows me to put so much on there. Yeah, I am actually quite surprised.

Yeah, so that's kind of how I did it. And I continued making audios, continued making videos. I, although I did the audios, making the podcasts, and I continued doing that on Spreaker, not Spreaker on SoundCloud, pretty much from 2000, I'd say probably 2010, maybe 2011.

I was pretty much solidly on SoundCloud all the way up to 2015. Pretty much, I would say yeah. And but then in 2000, when I moved here, I began using Spreaker.

I also use some others as well. But once I found Spreaker, I kind of stuck with them most of the time. Because I don't know, I just liked them.

Just liked, like, like the way they work and liked the system and yeah, sort of stuck. It's good to stay with one person if possible, I think. Besides, I'd used all the others, pretty much, and hardly any that I've not actually tested.

And I've tested them. Every year I test probably one or two. If there's a new one comes up, I look for it, see if it's viable, how much space I get.

And the amount that the amount of the ones that are around, where I couldn't use, couldn't use anyway, because there's not enough space. There's not enough anything for what I need. But yeah, that's kind of that was a long version of how I started and how I decided to do sleep podcast.

The sleep podcast part, let's have another drink of water. In all honesty, I did not start out wanting to do sleep podcasts. I started out not focusing on those.

That's what I mean. My only interest really as far as from a hypnosis perspective was chronic pain. Now, I was doing relaxation sessions in groups, because I was asked to do that.

And I was quite successful, according to the people listening. So I continued doing it. And then I started putting stuff online.

So people could you know, so that the that audience could listen and more people listen to my stuff. But the sleep stuff people asked for. My I did do some sleep stuff early on.

But it was just like pain relief, sleep, relaxation, that's the three. And I just I'll do that. And then just, I didn't know how it's going to go.

That's like 2006. And it went well enough for me to continue. But the sleep stuff is what's been the most popular.

Out of everything I've done, the sleep podcasts have been the most popular thing I've done. And I've made loads of chronic pain relief sessions. And I mean, that was my only interest.

Really, that was my main interest in helping people with pain. And it's probably my least popular recordings to the public. But the sleep recordings, for some reason, I just seem to have the correct, either the correct voice or the correct energy or the something that sends people buh-byes.

And what started me doing the let me boy to sleep recordings is now I used to make a video every now and then. I can update video where I just tell people tell the audience on YouTube what I'm doing. You know, if I'm working on a certain hypnosis course, I'm going to release or if I've just moved home or how the university course is going, all that stuff.

And then I started calling it Jason Chats. So it's like a regular vlog. Not regular as in any particular day, just whenever I wanted to really.

And then 2011, I was doing the Jason Chats and stuff and I met Boston Chickie online and she invited me to a thing that was like doing, making podcasts or vlogs every day for a whole year. So I joined that with the intention of doing that. I didn't do it in the end.

I couldn't, I didn't accomplish it, but I did start out and kind of became kind of a part of a community that was all doing that. So, and it was, I found it quite interesting seeing people just talking about their lives and it, I don't know, just quite, that was a weird part of my life, a weird, weird period, but every week, every year is weird. They're all weird for some reason.

I mean, this, this, this year's already been weird. This week's been weird. But for me, that is so, so weird.

So I just, I've forgotten what I was talking about. What was I doing? What? Okay. What I wanted for dinner.

Um, no, um, yeah. Someone said to me, you know, when I listen to your Jason Chats or when I watch you on YouTube, I always fall asleep. That's a message they posted.

He always bore me to sleep. And I thought, now I don't know if this is, I think you're so boring. You send me to sleep.

That's it. Your, your, your Jason Chats are so boring. You always send me to sleep.

I didn't take it as a compliment because the Jason Chats were not supposed to be boring or sleep recordings. They were supposed to be me being myself, talking about my life. They weren't supposed to be boring.

They weren't, they were me. Okay. I wasn't trying to be exciting.

You know what I mean? I wasn't trying like, Hey everyone, let's jump up and down and juggle. No, but I, I, yeah, I didn't really think that I was coming across as boring, but anyway, this person said that and I started thinking like, maybe there's something in that. Maybe, just maybe.

And this is at a point where I'd been doing sleep hypnosis recordings for years and years and years. So 12 years, just trying to work it out. I've been doing these for eight years.

So at that point I'd been making sleep hypnosis recordings for 12 years, as well as relaxation, pain relief, stop smoking, a few other bits and bobs and some other things I kind of tested and tried out. So I thought, Hmm. I thought, give it a go.

Why don't I try? And this is my, the very first recording is like this, where I start off by this, just talking and then gradually go slow and, you know, work into a hypnosis recording for sleep. And that's what I thought I was going to do. And then I realized that didn't really suit me to go, you know.

I'd done something similar before to that, which I didn't call boring or anything. I just, hypno chats, I think I called them. And I would talk about a subject and then lead into hypnosis.

And I did them in 2011 and 12. So they were quite, yeah, I liked them. The audience didn't, but I did.

They're locked away in a vault somewhere, never to be seen again. And I thought, Hmm. So to be boring, what have I got to do to be boring? Now, I kind of didn't really take on what that person's written is the fact that they weren't saying that I was doing anything.

I was just being myself and I was being boring. You know, just me myself was boring, that person to sleep. And I didn't want to really believe that.

I don't think I thought, okay, I'll do a boring to sleep. I will actually put on some kind of a, not a persona, but I'd talk and then I'd start to slow it down or really focus on the most minicule pointless thing in the room, or focusing down to an object and stuff like that, which again is going back to very much kind of hypnotic stuff. And I wasn't sure what to call it.

So I called, let me bore you to sleep. I can honestly tell you, I did not know there were any other boring podcasts out there. I didn't know.

I did no research. It wasn't like I was trying to build an empire, you know, I just, I just called it, let me bore you to sleep and started making recordings. There are other podcasts out there and there's one that's been around longer than me called bored to sleep or something.

And someone Ackerman, I think his name is, and I remember someone, some website reviewed my website, reviewed my podcast a couple of years in to doing it. And they said that I was just copying this bloke. So I listened to this bloke and I'm nothing like him.

Nothing is like zero similarity. Between me and him. And we don't sound the same.

We don't talk about the same things. We, everything is different. I'm not comparing in a sense of who's better.

It's just, he's way more popular than I am. But we're nothing like each other. And there's enough room in the world for a few, you know, there's a lot more boring podcasts now than there ever used to be.

When I started, after I read that review saying he's just copying this bloke, I thought, perhaps I should have done a bit of market research before I started doing this podcast. And then I saw that there was a few, not many, but a few podcasts aimed at boring people to sleep. But then when I started posting hypnosis videos, I didn't know anyone else was doing them.

There was no one else doing them on my space as far as I know. And then YouTube came along and I started, I posted my old ones onto YouTube and started posting new ones onto YouTube. I didn't know that anybody else in the world was doing hypnosis videos.

However, it might sound weird. And it's not like, oh, I'm so special. I just, I had no idea because I didn't do any research.

YouTube was a very difficult place to navigate back then. And I was only really focused on what I was doing. You know, I was one of the originals anyway, at least.

Not many people started before I started doing, I think 2007, I started on YouTube. And you, I don't know if you find anyone that started before that time, we'd find it hard to when it comes to the YouTube hypnotists. And I think some people even got motivated by me to start their own hypnosis, YouTube channels, or even to train in hypnosis.

So it's kind of quite nice. I mean, I had one person contacted me, this is a long time ago, like 2009. And he said he was doing his doctorate and he wanted to use my material in his doctorate.

All right, okay. I'm not going to say no. I had a DJ from Croatia asked me permission to use my voice in a couple of his songs.

I said, okay, I'm not gonna say no to that. That's groovy. He sent me them as well.

I've got them now, but I used to have them. And it was like house music, really full on, but you'd hear my voice, close your eyes and stuff like that. It's like counting down as like, wow.

So yeah, it's just some little memories over the years. I remember I had, I had a really one of my biggest fans, like a long time ago, Angela, she took me on holiday with her on her iPod, is it iPod? And she basically on a cruise, she kept sending pictures to me. I think it was even on Facebook, not Facebook, yeah, Facebook or email or something.

And just pictures of pictures of her and then pictures of an empty chair, but with the podcast, the pod, iPod on the chair, or by the swimming pool on the beach and stuff like that. That was funny. And she was one of my first big fans.

I really, really loved what I did. I haven't heard from her in years. I've got no idea.

I lose track of people sometimes. I get so caught up in what I'm doing. And I guess my own life as well at times that I just, I don't always, I haven't always got my eye on like, I can't, I can't, I can't keep track of everything.

You know, in all reality. I'm just grateful for anyone that does listen, because without you, there'd be no me, really. Josephine.

Alright, so yeah, then I ended up doing a sleep podcast. And because they'd been the most popular, then I ended up doing the Let Me Boyd Asleep. And I moved away from trying to make it hypnosis into just letting it be what it is.

Organically became this, whatever this is, just a friendly voice, hopefully, to listen to at the end of the day. And comfort, hopefully, although I perhaps I do talk about stuff that maybe is not always the most relaxing. I don't intend to do that, you know, sometimes their life can be real, can't it? So it's just documenting my life, probably more my mind than my life.

But my mind and my life be documented for the sake of boringness. And I mean, I could have just as easily called like, a tedium for sleep, or my tedious life. My it could be lots of different things I could have called this but basically, let me bore you to sleep because that YouTube message told me that I bored someone to sleep talking about my life.

Which I found kind of funny, but in some level, but not completely. So Josephine asks, What would your ideal day out be? Not in any if money was no object kind of way, realistic budget kind of day out. Okay.

It's very difficult to don't go out. I can't remember the last time I went out for like on a day out. My answer would have been London.

So if you'd asked me this question 10 years ago, no, not 10 years ago. 20 years ago, if you just said ideal day out, I'd have said train to London, bookshops, have a little walk around, go down Leicester Square, or the Leicester Square, I used to love Leicester Square at night, and then go to a comedy club. So have a hotel booked for the night.

So go to London for the day. Hang around have probably go to McDonald's or whatever. And then buy some books, maybe go to the cinema if I want to kind of fit lots and lots in.

And then have my yeah, then go to the comedy club in the evening, which is now closed anyway. And then go to the nightclub up upstairs afterwards, and go back to the nightclub, I go back to the hotel. And come home on the Sunday, I suppose.

So that would probably be that would have been one of my good weekends, like a day out. I mean, the hanging around Leicester Square early hours of the morning. And it's probably something I'm never going to do again, unless, unless I got a hotel in Leicester Square, or near Leicester Square, and was in London for the weekend.

Finny wants my attention now. Even though you've not touched your food, have you not touched your food? I left him today, I had to leave him when I went out to the old dentist and I recorded him the whole time. On and off for 17 minutes he was howling.

Seven, you know, I was gone for two over two hours. I left just after nine, about half nine, got back just before 12. So, he, yeah, 17 minutes is quite a lot of time, isn't it? Especially if you imagine if she was downstairs, or he was a neighbour listening to that.

You'd like he was howling for hours, because it probably felt like hours. When actually, it was a tiny, it wasn't a lot, you know, it was a small percentage of the time I was away. But still, it's still a long time.

So I wasn't best pleased with that, if I'm honest with you. And I know, you know, he's got to do what he's got to do. But I left him yesterday.

Yesterday? All my troubles seem so far away. I forgot what I was saying. I had just had a message come up on my phone.

I got distracted, sorry. So my ideal day out? Yeah, I think I would book a hotel. But a day out? Hmm.

It shouldn't be hard to answer, should it really? But I've not really done anything for years. I seem to spend the last 20 years, or 25 years, blimey, ridiculous, can't believe it, either working all the time, so not really having the time to do anything, or having time but no money to do anything. There's been a few periods when I've been like been okay for both but you've really caught me off guard with that one.

What would be my ideal day out? I suppose really, it'd be if I was in a relationship, probably going on a date. I mean, right now, my ideal date, my ideal day out would be going visiting my Nan, but I can't do that because she's not here anymore. But that was something I used to look forward to doing.

That was a nice day out. So I'd go, sometimes I'd just go for a long walk all around the fields before visiting her. Or I'd go on the beach, go for a long walk before visit, you know, just have the day out and spend a few hours with her but also spend a bit of time near the beach and stuff.

Or better still, when she was able to go and get around, I used to go down with her, I used to go down to the beach with her, we'd go to a cafe and go for long walks along the prom together. I used to like that. Yeah.

So yeah, none of it, none of it would require any money really, because I've never been in, I mean, I know a lot of things can cost money. But for me, I wouldn't want to go to London and buy lots of books anymore. I wouldn't want to go.

I mean, getting to London would cost money, of course, but a day out probably wouldn't involve London now. It'd probably be, well, I didn't think that would be a hard question to answer. Not that I read the question beforehand either, but I just, you'd think it'd be easy, wouldn't you? Because I've been solitary for so long, and even 20 years ago, I'd be out on my own, unless I had a girlfriend at the time.

So I'd go to the cinema on my own. I'd go into a cafe or coffee place on my own. I mean, I'd meet with friends and stuff as well.

But yeah, I haven't given a very good answer to that question, but I can't think of a good one. Sorry, Shanthony, what was your worst job? Wow. How long you got to choose one to choose a worst job? Okay.

I'm not going to choose the chip shop because it wasn't the worst job. It was the worst paid job, but it wasn't the worst job. It was a smelly job for some reason, because if you work somewhere, I had both the fish side, like the raw fish in the kitchen, and then the cooking side.

So I kind of just smelt, all my clothes smelt really bad. And those were the days where I couldn't wash my clothes every day. And I didn't have lots of different clothes to wear.

So I was kind of wearing the same jeans every day. And they were just coated in batter and grease and potato peeling and all kinds of stuff. And yeah, but it wasn't the worst job.

Oh, it's not sounding good, is it? But it wasn't the worst job. And the worst job. I mean, I've not really liked any of the jobs I've had.

Apart from, I mean, I like being a DJ, but that wasn't a job that was, that was like more just helping a friend out. And, you know, he'd give me dinner and drinks and stuff, you know, for the evening, and pay for my taxis to get there home. So I wasn't, you know, I wasn't getting paid.

But it was just, he was basically doing me a favor, really, by offering me a chance to have a social life and to get out of the house. So that was technically the best job, being a DJ. So we're looking for the worst job, aren't we? And the worst job.

It's hard to choose one. And it'd be easy to choose one that I liked. The worst job.

Now when I was a security guard. When I was a security guard, I had multiple different jobs within the company. So you could say, well, the security guard job was, that was the job.

But we had lots of different jobs. So whether it was working in the hospital, in a care home, securing in all different places, like a ground, grounds, building places, like the Royal Opera House. The second, the new Royal Opera House at the time was being built in 97.

And I was security there for a while. So there's lots of different places I was put. Probably the worst place I went to, there was two actually.

Or three, I don't know how I was able to think of four, but one was in a gambling shop in the middle of nowhere in East London. I got dropped off there. And it was on a housing estate.

And literally, I was standing at the door of this gambling shop. I was there because the previous security guard had been sent to hospital, had a disagreement with someone, someone didn't like him or whatever. So basically, they were surrounding me, but not physically poking me, but verbally trying to get a response, so they could have some fun.

And I didn't play their game. So they kept saying stuff like, what would you do if someone comes in there and want to hold the place up? You know, they come with a gun and say, I'll handle all the money. What would you do? I said, do nothing.

But your job is to do something. I said, what for the money I get? What would you do if some people started fighting? I'd do nothing. I knew I was only there for one night, one evening.

And like this, they kept poking like, what would you do if this happened? I am going to do nothing. You will not do what you want. You can set fire to the building.

I don't care. Makes no difference to me. I probably didn't say that, but I might have done thinking how I was back then probably is something I would have said.

Not something I should have said, but probably because I didn't care. I said, I'm going to do nothing. I'm getting paid like £2.50 an hour.

Barely enough to live on. I'm not going to get in the way of people fighting. I'm not going to get in the way of a gun.

Why? For what? Pay me £100 an hour and you'll see a different version of me. But then I'll come in with a bulletproof vest on. You get what you pay for, don't you? I suppose.

So that was one of the worst jobs. But I also worked in an old people's home, which we used to call them then, residential home, I think they're called now. The reason it was strange is, first of all, I was a cook.

Bearing in mind that I wasn't a cook, but because I'd done catering. I went for the job and I don't know why, but I got it. And the woman who's in charge of the kitchen was just not very friendly towards me.

The people that lived there were not very friendly towards me, because I kept making the porridge wrong. One pot of porridge and every single person that had porridge wanted it different to the way I was making it. It was too salty, too sweet, too many prunes, too much sand.

I couldn't win. Couldn't win. And to top it off, the man that had dated my mother after, you know, she'd split from my dad, he was coming in every day.

Basically, it just winded me up. I didn't want to see him and he kept coming in, just messing with my head really. So I did my two weeks and then I left, you know, it was a mutual like, you know.

I think basically they told me, you're rubbish at this and I said, I don't know. So that's definitely in the top 10. Putting stickers on bits of meat, that wasn't great.

Unloading lorries, that wasn't great. Working inside a freezer, that wasn't great. Working inside a massive bakery where it was so hot all the time, very hard, very hard.

But I wasn't scared of hard work. It was just, it was very exhausting because the heat, more than anything. Having worked in an office that I was no good at, I started working there and then the manager who gave me the job decided to take, well not decided, but he kept taking time off and he took time off, a long period of time off.

And I was left there on my own, not knowing what I was doing. And so that was very difficult. And he did, yeah, I don't quite know what was going on with him because no one told me.

Yeah, I worked in a co-op, didn't like that, I was no good at that. Oh, the pub, probably the pub's the worst one. The pub job I had was probably the worst job I ever had.

Yeah, I was working in this pub, it was a bar, actually, it was in a fairly nice hotel. They had their own bar, but then there was this pub connected to it and it was awful. The clients, just the patients, the clientele, all the regulars anyway, it was awful.

It was a really run down, rough pub. It was one of the roughest pubs in the town, if not the roughest pubs. And I don't know why, why was it so rough? And how could a rough pub be connected to a nice hotel? I couldn't understand it, it was awful in there.

It was just awful, really, really awful. And I did wonder afterwards, thinking, well, that was a seaside holiday destination. So you imagine being on holiday, staying in one of the holiday camps and walking down the beach, walking down the prom, what should we get a drink? Oh, yeah, I could do a drink, it's a lovely summer's evening.

It's half seven, bright, sun's still out, should we go for a drink? Oh, look at that, there's a lovely hotel there. Perhaps we should see if we go into a bar in the hotel. Or we could just go to the bar next that's connected, there's a pub connected to the hotel.

It must be lovely in there. It must be glorious, glorious, glorious, glorious. A whole lot of glorious, a glory hole, you may say.

And they step inside, the dankness, the dark souls looking at them from the tables and the bar. That's just the staff. It closed down eventually, it had to.

It was not nice in there. So yeah, that might be one of the ones I didn't like. That's near the top.

Just trying to think of other jobs, road sweeping, wasn't a big fan of that. Working in a laundry, very hard. Again, it's not that I don't, I was not scared of hard work, but so hot, so very, very hot.

Cleaning caravans, yeah, the thing is very samey. You know, once you've done one bed, you've done one toilet, it's like, oh. Part of the satisfaction, I think, of housework, not that I'm a big fan of housework, but cleaning the bathroom.

The good thing about cleaning the bathroom is when it's done. It wouldn't feel nice if I suddenly had to go and clean another toilet. And then another one, then another one, then another one.

There's this kind of no, for me, I didn't get any satisfaction or have time to feel good about what I'd done or to have time to make it, oh, I found, oh, I remember the work. This is the worst job I've had. I was a cleaner.

The cleaning job was fine. I worked in a supermarket. It's very easy, early morning, two hours, easy peasy, loved it.

Really simple job. But my manager came up to me and said, oh, I said, excuse me. He said, oh, Jason, I said, yeah, how would you like more work? I was like, these sentences are lasting ages.

What's going on? He said, well, basically the bakery, because it was a supermarket. And then as you moved away inside the supermarket, a different section, there was a bakery. We shut us down and opened up and there was a bakery.

They baked all their own stuff. And you could clean the bakery. I said, okay.

I said, they said, who normally does it? He said, oh, um, has, yeah, I don't know, the other person left. Now, when I went in there, that floor, so I know I've been cleaning floors. For a long time, a long, long, I started off cleaning jobs as a teenager.

When I was sort of left school, I was doing cleaning job at 16, 17, and did them all the way up to my thirties. I know whether or not a floor has been cleaned recently, even if it's dirty, I can see like, if you look at my floor, it might be messy, but, you know, it's not been like this for years. I'm not saying that that floor had been like that for years, but I'd worked in a bakery previous to that.

And I knew what a bakery looks like. At the end of a busy day, because I worked in a bakery in a restaurant, a big restaurant, and the floor would get caked with crust and all kinds of stuff. But not on that level.

And I used to clean the floor in the bakery every day. When I worked, that was part of the job. At the end, it's just clean up.

This floor. I mean, literally, I was, I'm sure my head was nearly, if I can get the sentence out, my head was nearly touching the ceiling. And the ceiling was about seven foot off the ground.

Honestly, that's how high the floor was. From crust and pastry and all kinds of stuff. So basically, they lied.

They said, oh, yeah, it hasn't been done for a couple of days. It looked like it had never been done before. I mean, if a health and safety person had come along and seen that floor, because they must have been working with that floor like that for a while.

They might well have closed the place down, you know. I don't know quite how it works. So I saw it as a challenge.

I was only supposed to be there for two hours. I think between five and seven. I was there till 10.

And the next day, I went in. I was doing the mornings and my supervisor didn't say anything until after I'd finished my shift, which was like six, it was like 8.30 in the morning. So I did two hours.

She came up and said, yeah, they don't want you back. I said, OK. They said you did a really bad job.

Didn't do it properly. And I just started laughing. What are you laughing for? I said, because it's just, I don't know.

Bearing in mind, I know what I used to be like, but I don't have a memory of this. Because the bakery was open at this point. Whether or not I went and had a little chat with the people in there.

And called them all liars. I'm not sure. Maybe I didn't.

I don't know. Maybe because I had the little morning job, I didn't want to cause friction. But in a normal situation, I would have gone and queried what had been said.

Queried it at the very minimum. Queried. I'm just trying to think.

Whatever jobs. So that was awful. It was only one off.

But I really put a lot of effort into that. And it didn't work out very well. I mean, I could say the worst job I had was insurance because it made me ill.

But then I suppose it's me that made me ill by pushing myself too much. And being in that environment, it's not good for me. Being in that kind of, yeah, just high energy, high whatever.

No, it's not. It's not. I didn't know at the time.

But yeah, it's not right for me. Working in retail. Now, I quite liked working.

I didn't like the co-op. When I worked in the gift shop, I kind of liked the people. Including the customers.

But didn't necessarily enjoy the job. Because it was either being on the till. That was cool.

And it's quiet. Just chatting to someone if there was another person with me. But very boring.

Really boring when it's quiet. And too busy when it's busy. It was like it's either one or the other.

And can't think of any others. There's probably one that I've so obviously missed out. That I can't think about.

I can't like for some reason not come into my head. Okay, the worst job I ever had was working at on a reception. For a children's charity.

And simply because the manager was horrible. And yeah, that was probably the worst job I had. Yeah, that was a very difficult experience.

Yeah, probably that was probably the worst one. Even though I loved the charity. And I was counselling for the charity beforehand.

And even afterwards. And I was volunteering in the office. And everything was fine.

But as soon as they gave me a job. She turned and went from being friendly to wow. Honestly, if I'd recorded it.

I could have got a huge compensation. If I'd recorded some of the things she said to me. But hey, hey ho, as they say.

So I left that job. So I just couldn't couldn't do it. And yeah, I say that's probably the worst.

The worst job because of how it ended. And it was hard because. Yeah, I fully I probably have talked about it before.

And I'll talk about it again one day. But yeah, this is a bad one to end on, isn't it? What was my worst job? But yeah, I've had. Not really liked any of them, really.

I prefer just to kind of get a job. Just watching telly and eating popcorn and chocolate. Not if you want to keep all your teeth.

Can you imagine if you could actually take the, you know. Go back and take that advice. I remember when I was.

Went round my girlfriend's flat. When she moved to Derby. Visited her.

It is 91, 92, 93. I don't know whenever. And I was eating.

I was just eating sweets, chocolate, whatever. And I offered her friend some chocolate. And she says, no, thanks.

I'd like to keep my smile. And I thought because she had like very white teeth. Like big white teeth.

I don't have big teeth anyway. But she had like, you know, teeth. And I'm thinking, yeah.

If I'd have had that attitude back then. Maybe I'd have a few more teeth. But then I'd have missed out on all that sugary goodness.

Oh, that sweet delight. So this is me. I need to get some food, baby.

Some food. So I'd like to say thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself.

Because you do deserve to be happy. And remember to be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe.

Lots of love. Bye.