(Overnight | Voice Only) EARNEST | Let me bore your pain away #25 | Jason Newland | 17th April 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnuland.com, my name's Jason Nuland, please, please, please, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. So this is let me bore your pain away, it's basically just me wobbling on about various things that can hopefully help to reduce the physical sensations of your chronic pain. Ultimately, I guess it's just, I mean, it's very base, it could be a relaxation session, you know, just a distraction maybe.

And only listen, of course, I said when you can safely close your eyes, but also with the permission of your doctor. Because you do need to know the cause of the chronic pain. You need to know the cause of the pain basically before you listen.

And I would advise that about any thing, any kind of real life therapy as well, find out the cause first, before you get any kind of treatment. Although this isn't treatment, and this is not a replacement for treatment. This is just middle aged English man, just talking.

I saw this is if it helps brilliant. And I hope it does. But I'm not a replacement for anything else.

The only thing I could really replace is, you know, if you had a really boring friend who used to talk to or listen to because let's face it, maybe they just talked at you. And maybe they've moved away and you don't have contact with them anymore. I can be a replacement for that.

Some boring person talks at you. Or if you've got someone that you know, likes to eat all your chocolate. And maybe they're not around anymore for whatever reason I can replace that person because I do.

Oh, I love chocolate. I could go on but I won't. I was gonna say if you got someone that maybe that you don't see anymore that had a really weird beard.

That's me as well. I'm thinking of growing my beard like really big. Like it was 2020.

It was so big even scared the cashier at the garage. The petrol station she because I had a I was trying to wear a mask and the mask basically just didn't even cover it. It was just that the mask look tiny.

My head looked massive. And when I trimmed it, she said to me, I'm so glad you got rid of that beard. I used to get so scared when I'd see you walking up here.

So it's just a beard. She said yeah, but it was it was just so wide. So what do you mean? She said like you were knocking things off the shelves.

Exaggerating a little bit. He said he's like people keep their distance here. Not because I had to is because I didn't have any choice because your beard was about six foot long.

She went on a bit she went over the top with this wasn't six foot long. It was quite big. There's there's actually a video of me on YouTube somewhere.

A couple of videos with that beard and it's really large, like really a big fat beard it was. Some may argue that's not relevant to the recording. And I would say, yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe not.

Depends. I might talk about beards. I might not talk about beards.

I never know what I'm going to talk about. Oh, yeah. So I have a Facebook group, Jason Newland's boring group.

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So tiny little form with your question and your name, that's pretty much it. And I will, whatever questions I get between each Friday, so between finishing the Friday q&a Friday recording, and the next beginning of recording it, whatever questions I get during that week, I will include and I'll mention your name, I only mentioned first names. And I'll try and answer the question.

Some could would argue that I perhaps don't answer the questions correctly. But there is no right and wrong way to answer a question. And you might ask, you know, for example, you might ask me, what was the first, first time I wore a tie.

And, or first time I wore a suit. And I might tell you about a bicycle that I had that got a puncture. And I had to push it all the way up a hill.

So there's no guarantee that I'm going to necessarily focus on the question, I might get a when I'm not as focused as maybe some may wish I was, I'm quite happy with the way I do it. But I don't always, I try and answer the questions. But sometimes I get questions a little bit like, oh, I have to be careful because, you know, especially if it involves other people in my life, and I can't, you know, if they listen to this, I have to be careful that I don't say anything derogatory, you know.

So I have to, but generally, any question, if I can answer it, I will. If I can't, I will still answer it. But it might be.

But plus, I didn't even finish that sentence. Plus, you can ask me the same question every week for a whole year, and you probably get a different answer. Every week, it depends on what my mood is.

Depends. And also, you know, sometimes I'll answer a question on Q&A Friday. And I'll be sitting over there afterwards, thinking, hmm, especially when it's things like, what's your favourite movie, or what's your favourite song? And I'll think, oh, wait a minute.

No, my favourite movie is that. This, you know, and I'll kind of, I forgot to mention this thing. Or, you know, it reminds me, blimey, to laugh again.

This is a true story. Someone came to me. And they had a phobia, or not a phobia, but they just, travelling to the airport, because this person was gone on holiday.

Travelling to the airport was causing a lot of anxiety. And the person couldn't figure out why. It's like, I don't know why.

And he had a phobia, he had a phobia of travelling to the airport in a car. Like, because he'd get a taxi, I think, or drove, I don't know. And I was like, okay, have you got an issue with a plane? No, I haven't got an issue with a plane.

Is it you've got an issue with the people you're going with? No, not really. I mean, I've got three kids, but you get used to them after a while, don't you? I was like, what? Can't leave them at home these days, got to take them with you. Okay.

And it was like, okay, so I'm trying to figure it out. She came, and this might have been a hypnosis, I don't know if it was a hypnosis, or it was counselling. I can't remember in what what words were coming to head I had on that day.

Anyway, after about the third session, she mentioned that she'd been in a car crash on the way to the airport, like about five years ago. Quite a serious car crash, like, okay, it's the dots weren't joining in his mind. I'm saying his and her because I can't remember if it was a bloke or a woman, I've got no idea, don't care.

But they didn't, they didn't have like, it seems so obvious, like, well, obviously, if you've got this issue, because something bad happened, something, you know, quite, you know, hard happened on the way to an airport, because travelling to the airport wasn't something that they did regularly. It was like a once a year thing, or twice a year, I don't know. And unless, of course, he was in there, like, it could have been a pilot, I suppose.

No, no, I don't think he was a pilot. So it's amazing that sometimes, you know, forgetting things, and it's, it's all about forgetting things. I remember, oh, my chair's falling apart.

I keep picking at the, do you know, I've got like a gaming chair. I don't, I'm not a gamer. The last time I even attempted to play a computer game, was 2005.

And somebody sold me their Game Boy, I think it was. Game Boy? Is it Game Boy? What is it? Not the Xbox, but the other one is a Game Boy. So he sold me that.

And I was like, I don't know what to do with this. And the chair is not falling apart, because I've had it for 20 years. I just haven't, I keep picking it.

I'm just thinking if that was my fingers, I was picking it, I'd have no fingers left. So yeah. There's been times when I've forgotten about my lower back.

See, I very, very skillfully pulled it back to the reason I'm doing this recording. And I'm very pleased with myself. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Because it takes away the potential cleverness of what I did. But now thinking about it, maybe it wasn't that clever. Maybe it was just too, I can't get a sense.

It's like the arrows are basically pointing at the fact that he's now mentioning forgetting. He's going to start talking about forgetting about the pain. That's what you're going to do now, isn't it? Yeah.

But not, oh, let's put a finger in my ear, just pull out some earwax. Do you ever wonder why earwax is such a weird colour? See, I have to be careful with my ears. Not because they're so big.

I don't get stuck in between buildings because my ears are so big. No, not because they're that big, although they are fairly big. Although, I tell you what's weird.

I had a friend at school and he had his ears pinned back. Yet, she went and had his operation. His ears didn't even stick out.

I didn't, it's just like, it wasn't even to me that noticeable. You know, it's weird. It's like, I thought my ears probably stuck out just as much as his did.

But he, you know, he had a thing about it. So he got his ears pinned back. And yeah, I think that's another thing about distraction, isn't it? Is because I'm trying to keep coming back to my lower back.

But when I was thinking about my friend's ears, I don't get, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about his ears, by the way. I mean, it's like, back when I was about 11 or 12. So it's, you know, a few years ago.

It's over 15 years ago. So I don't spend a lot of time thinking of his ears. But when I was thinking of his ears, I wasn't focusing on my lower back.

And you might be thinking, that's because he had such big ears. He didn't. And that's rude.

Don't make fun of my friend, who I haven't seen for 40 years. I suppose technically, is he still a friend? I don't know. See, I'm the way I see it.

And it's weird. But I've got what I left school in 1986. So it's nearly 40 years ago.

Is that right? 86 96 2006 2016 2026. So in a year's time, there's 39 years. There are people I went to school with, who I still have high regard for.

And I haven't seen them pretty much since I left school. Like someone called Stefan, or Stefan, Stefan. I remember his surname.

I remember what he looked like. He was tall and he was cool. And I remember him.

I just, he was one of these people. He's someone that I'd kind of want to be like. I was nothing like him.

But I would, you know, if I could have chosen to be like anyone, probably in my year, he would have been one of the people I've chosen to be like. Because he was, I mean, he was a man. That's the one thing.

He was already a man physically. But he seemed to be a man mentally as well. He was more clued together, he was more sensible.

He wasn't scared of anything. He just is strong. But he was also nice.

You know, he looked out for people and I just yeah. Yeah, it's weird. I'm hoping that the old, I'm not gonna say his name, but V-I-N-N-E-E-E-E-E-E doesn't start shouting because of the conversations, the very loud conversations going on in the garden.

Yesterday, man, they were playing music. I think they were doing it from a phone. So it's just all distorted from a distance.

It's distorted, isn't it? If you hear someone's phone music and had a blast in like all day, all, all day, right till about 11 at night. I was like, what the heck? It was very strange. I hope that's not a sign of things to come.

I can, I can imagine I'm gonna, gonna get a letter. Dear Jason, I quite like some of your let me bore your, let me bore your pain away recordings. But you did one on Thursday, the 17th of April.

And it was more like, let me bore you by moaning about stuff. Let me moan at you. And we just moaned all the way through it.

How is that useful? It's useful to me, lets me get rid of it. I feel better now. Oh, let all the negativity out.

Whoa. I'm not moaning. I'm just pointing out.

You want to hear a moan? This is a moan, but it's not really, it's kind of a, it's a funny moan. I can't believe this happened. I'll tell you in a minute.

So when I was focusing on my, on my friends, focusing, focusing on my friend's ears, to be fair, actually anything I do when I make these recordings, my lower back relaxes. There's something about my voice. I'm not saying that in like, Oh, I have such a calm voice.

I don't mean like that, but just there's something about recording or doing these recordings that has a tendency to relax me. Sometimes I do feel tired when I make them, I yawn. Sometimes my body feels, well, my whole body feels quite relaxed right now, but my lower back, I'm focusing on it.

That's where the old arthritis is in my lower back, left side. And, you know, I'm kind of stretching it. I can feel that it's this, I don't know, you know, you know, when you have local anaesthetic, so you can still feel the pressure, but you can't, there's no physical discomfort, but you can feel the pressure.

So if a dentist is doing stuff, or maybe you're having stitches and they've given you local anaesthetic in your hand or your foot or whatever. I had it when I had ingrown toenails sorted once, I had a local anaesthetic. And it's weird, you can feel the pressure, but it's like, that's it.

It's a bit like that. I'm kind of, I'm pressing on my lower back, not, not hard, just so I can feel, I can feel it, but it's just nothing. It just feels the same as the other side really.

It's kind of weird. What was I going to tell you? All right, I went out today. So I was in here and I was just doing some, what did I do? Yeah, I was just finishing up with, because I do the recordings and I upload them and after editing them and all that stuff.

There was a few bits and bobs I needed to do. One of those things was to add the images to some of the podcast episodes. So I did that.

That took a little while. Itchy bum, sorry. Oh, that's better.

The buttock, I should say buttock really, just in case you think, well, you should go and wash your hands, shouldn't you? I've got trousers on. So I, I need to cut my fingernails actually. So I was just finishing off some of the old classes, administration stuff, you know, some of that stuff that needs to be done.

And I had two pieces of chocolate. I don't generally eat chocolate, but on this occasion, I had a dairy milk caramel, Cadbury's dairy milk caramel bar with two bits left from last night. But it was warm.

And I thought to myself, nah, it seems a shame to not eat it right now. It just, do you know, you ever get that, that, that situation where you think it just seems like the right thing to do. It's a similar, if you, if you're walking down the street, and you see someone struggling with like an elderly person struggling with some really, really heavy, heavy shopping.

And then you see someone, like a young woman, who's maybe struggling to do a brolly, get out, you know, maybe she's her hair's getting wet. So you go and help the young person, the attractive, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. So you help the person that needs help, and it feels like the right thing to do.

That's how I am with the chocolate. But morally, it felt the right decision to eat that chocolate. It's only two pieces.

I mean, I lost a stone. Well, I lost a stone and a half. So I lost a stone and I've not put it back on.

I lost a stone and a half and I put half a stone back on. So technically, I suppose I can't really be dancing around doing somersaults making out that I want a good, because I've not put the weight back on because technically, I've put one third of it back on. But if you move away from that, I'm still on 15, not 16 stone.

So that's good. Well, I'll be by Christmas, I might be 17 stone. I don't think so.

That bit of metal thing. Honestly, I've got this bracket on this desk. It reminds me, okay, you ever see It's a Wonderful Life.

And they got he's got that banister, like the thing that he holds on to the banister, right at the top, the bottom of the stairs, and it just comes off. And he's like, Oh, damn banister. And then when he comes back off the pier, and all his family there, and all his friends come to save him financially, and the old man, old man, Zion, Zion, or whatever it is, is playing.

And, you know, he goes upstairs to see his daughter, Juju, because he had a petal in his pocket, Juju's petal, Juju's petal. And, and he puts his hand on the banister and it comes off like, Oh, oh, and he's happy. Where like an hour earlier, he was like annoyed.

He's like, Oh, and now he's like, Oh, it was a bit like that. I lost my train of thought there. What was I talking about? I was talking about eating chocolate and I ended up focusing on a banister on Oh, this metal thing.

It's like that. That's it. This metal thing on my desk.

And it's not like a banister. Because that would be weird because it's nothing like that. But it's something that's just annoying me.

And I just like I wish I could do something about it. But that would involve that would involve effort. And it's just there.

I just need a screwdriver. But I lent my screwdriver to my neighbor. And my neighbor never re- basically gave it back.

I don't know what the re was going to be. Repeated, reported, reprieved, returned. That's it.

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Plus we we kind of did everything we could to ruin the Marvel franchise. I still stick with Marvel, even though Disney really have gone out their way to destroy it. I don't know why.

Because that was, I mean, they have the rights, they own Star Wars, and the Marvel, all the Marvel movies and stuff. And I don't know, not quite sure why they've kind of done what they've done. And they really need some PR.

They need they need someone to have a word with some of their stars as well, just to be quiet. When they're promoting a movie. It's really I reckon that Snow White, if it got good ratings, regardless if it was good or not, it might be a really good movie.

I don't know. Probably the biggest hit of the year. Even if it wasn't particularly good.

Just because it's a Disney movie. It's a remake of one of the most famous Disney movies of all time. And it's got some famous people in it.

And you know, it's got Wonder Woman, she's in isn't she? It just shows you how easily because of social networking, social media, the internet and all that stuff. It's like they go to town in a much a stronger way than the national press ever used to. It used to be like a slow burning thing with the newspapers.

You know, they try and do something. And if if everyone else followed, then it'd be good. Sometimes it wouldn't work.

And they did one recently about it was Stephen Fry. So Stephen Fry made a controversial comment Stephen Fry controversy, controversy. This is recently.

And I always got another one now. The thing is, I don't know if it was it was accused of making racist and sexist jokes, or I don't know what it was. And oh, yeah, I know what it was he made had been criticized for controversial comments regarding some Yeah, quite serious stuff.

They posted it, whoever it was online, no one showed the slightest bit of interest. Because he would have been what he wasn't cancelled. And it seems like he's above being cancelled.

Some people just are above that. Russell Grant seems to be above that. John Tate, or his name, Tate, whoever that name is, the bloke.

Tate, what's his first name? Tate used to be Tate and Lyle. If you put Tate in, Jenny used to be like Tate and Lyle Sugar. That's weird.

I put in Tate into Google and nothing's coming up other than if I just check Tate Modern Hotels. Andrew is Andrew. I bet if I just put Andrew probably come up in the listings and that's a very slurpy word then Andrew's Andrew.

And yeah, a n the first word. Andrew Tate's the first person that comes up as soon as I put a n. So Andrew Tate is, it's quite funny because he, what Ricky Gervais said that Andrew Tate is what a 14 year old boy thinks a man is supposed to be like. And I thought it was quite funny because he's not really representative of the male population, I would say.

It's kind of a fantasy, kind of, I don't know, it's weird. I mean, see, in England, we saw Andrew Tate years ago, long before he was famous worldwide. Long, long, long before, because he was in Big Brother.

And I don't know if he was, he wasn't even in, what year was that? What year was he in Big Brother? What does he say about, okay, let's have a look. I want to see some of the rubbish he comes out with. See, I quite like people that come out with crap because it's funny.

But it doesn't, you know, people just say stuff like, it's almost like they created kind of like a Frankenstein's monster or AI, they sort of said, okay, create the perfect version of a misogynist, like the perfect version that has every single misogynistic attribute. And he seemed to come out the other end. I think, you know, I've got no issue with him.

I don't know him. But he's, there's a lot of that stuff online at the moment. I watch a lot of YouTube channels.

And I do, I see some of these YouTube channels, and there's quite a few really popular YouTube channels that are so anti the opposite sex, it's ridiculous. I don't understand it. I think women are lovely.

Not all of them. But not all men are lovely either, you know, not all anyone thinks lovely. But everyone's got something good about them.

Big Brother 2016. So, and it wasn't celebrity Big Brother either. No one knew who he was.

He was just some, he had hair back then. He was a bloke. And they kept talking about him being a kickboxer champion.

And he was, he was controversial, argumentative. But he was unknown. And he had a weird accent, a mixture between English and American.

He came under scrutiny for previously having made homophobic and racist posts on Twitter. He was removed from the show after six days. So, which produces saying it was because of events outside the house.

Oh, okay. Well, that didn't come up when I talked about that when I was trying to look at people for people that had been kicked off a Big Brother. I think I wanted to talk about Taty Paty, patatey.

So, as distractions, I mean, in some ways, you know, I'd rather have arthritis than be him. You know, so it's weird. I don't understand.

I do sometimes wonder how do people get to be so angry, take themselves so seriously. And that is something that can really get in the way of relaxing. I've seen that over the years a lot, where some people just take themselves a little bit too seriously.

It's not that they should see themselves as a joke, of course not. But or sometimes like really earnest people. Let's have a look if I've got the right the word right earnest.

The word earnest is defined as being characterized by or proceeding from an intense and serious state of mind. Yeah, serious. I do get it right.

It implies seriousness and determination, often indicating that someone is sincere and can be committed to their intentions or actions. And there's nothing wrong with sincerity, blimey. So it's an amazing trait.

And being earnest, you know, if you're trying, if you're climbing a mountain, or you're searching for someone's missing, or, you know, you're trying to save someone's life, or yeah, being earnest is this amazing characteristic. But in just everyday life, it might not be always useful, especially with physical issues. I've noticed that I've known a lot of people over the years.

They've just been very, very, I don't use the word earnest, but serious, very taking themselves serious, maybe taking other people serious, taking their own views really seriously. And I understand. You know, it's probably quite hard for some people to realize that their views are only really important to them.

And maybe people that have the same views, but there are millions, if not billions of people around the world that don't feel the same way. So it doesn't mean that they're right, doesn't mean that you're right, or I'm right. We're just right for us.

It's our opinion. And it's how we choose to think and live our life. But then when you break it down, how much is it free choice of thinking? If we're being indoctrinated into it, being born into it? Because you add the amount of things that I've probably indoctrinated from living in this country.

I mean, when I was a kid, I grew up. Eventually, I grew up. And there was a certain mindset, a very dismissive mindset to anyone that was out of the norm.

People with disabilities were generally, you wouldn't see them. Maybe people in wheelchairs, but outside of that, they'd be locked up. You know, there was the care in the community kind of came in in the 90s, where people were allowed to live outside of hospitals.

There was a real misunderstanding. It wasn't misunderstanding, it wasn't even attempted understanding of differences. So any kind of difference was mocked.

And yeah, a lot of time was funny, in a way, if you're not the one being mocked. But if you are the one being mocked, it's probably not quite as humorous. And I have been the one being mocked.

And I didn't enjoy it. And I learned from that. Until the next time I decided to mock someone.

No, I don't. Generally, I like to go the other way. So, well, used to.

If I see someone mocking somebody, I join forces with the other person that's being mocked, and turn it on them. And either coach them on what to say, or just join in and sort of say, and basically be their voice temporarily. Because I've known people that won't say anything back, they'll just sit there, or stand there and let it happen.

And I can't, I can't allow that. Because I'm earnest. I'm very serious about things like that.

Serious and determined. So sincere. I'm committed to my intentions or actions.

I'm just trying to learn what the word earnest means. What's that famous book, earnest? Something earnest. So that is something I've noticed.

Is, so you thought I was going to talk about forgetting things. No, no, no. Mind you, there has been times when I've just forgotten about my back.

There have. I mean, there was one time when I fractured my back in two places. The week I got Vinny.

I had a. Well, it wasn't a walking stick, but it was a very sturdy umbrella with like a handle, and I used it as a walking stick just to help me get through because I was, oh man, that was, that was a very interesting time. And then one day I went out without it and I forgot that I needed it. And I realized that I was really making a meal of it.

I was almost over-exaggerating my limping. And I didn't realize I was doing that until I forgot to take the brolly out. I mean, I wasn't walking normally.

I still had a limp and I was being careful, but it almost like made me, brought me down to earth to realize that. Well, if I was able to forget that I needed some kind of support, then I possibly didn't need the support. And then I fell over, so I did need it.

No, I didn't. I haven't fallen over since. Blimey.

That was weird. My friend said, you know, like we had snow that week. The last time we had settled snow.

So this is over two years ago, two years and four months. That's the last time we had, in where I live, I mean, had any kind of settled, proper settled snow. Where, settled, you know what I mean, like it's there for a few days and that.

It all melted on that day. I think it was a Wednesday or Thursday, all melted. It didn't stay settled for a long time, maybe a few days, maybe five days.

I don't know, I lose track. And all I'm doing is just, my friend knocked on, no, he shouted up. It's a bit late at night to be doing that, but he shouted up.

Oh, do you want to bring Vinny down and go in the garden? Logie and Vinny. And I'd only had Vinny literally for a week. That was the first week of having him.

So there's a lot of excitement about having him here. And Logie loved him. Vinny loved Luke.

He loved Logie. He loved going in and out of that flat. You know, this was all new for him.

He was having the time of his life. I guess he's, you know, I think he'd have preferred to be downstairs and to be up here with me. But I think he's given up on the dream.

He's settled. I think that's the most I could ever really hope for anyone with me, is just to settle. That's what I was hoping in life with relationships.

I don't need anyone to fall in love with me. I just want someone just to settle, just to give up looking for something better. That's all I want.

There's not much to ask. Oh, that's terrible. Oh, that's some water.

I got a little delivery earlier. Some food to get me through till next week because tomorrow is Good Friday. Then it's well, it's basically Easter weekend.

So I think everything kind of goes back to normal Saturday. Then it's Easter Day, Sunday, Easter Monday, or good, like a bank holiday Monday. And then things go back to normal Tuesday.

So I'm going to be other than, you know, doing what I normally do really. Yeah, making recordings and watching some telly. I hope to watch some telly over the weekend.

I just started watching the movie, but I thought was getting on. It's like, I mean, now it's quarter to three. I almost feel like I haven't done anything today.

It's kind of weird. So I thought I might as well just get on and make a make a recording but that seriousness. I have mentioned this before.

I'm not 100% sure how to really kind of move. Well, I've been there must only sometimes I'm there. Sometimes I'm super serious.

But generally, I think having I'm not going to say a sense of humor because serious people can have a sense of humor as well. I think everybody's got a sense of humor. It's just different for each person.

But to be a bit more lighter to be a bit. Well, what does it take for you to feel less serious? I mean, the fact is, some people have got a lot of serious stuff going on. So it's, I would never really say to someone generally, unless I know them very well, to just try not to take themselves too seriously.

But then you can take other things seriously without taking yourself seriously. Can't you? Is that possible? Is it possible to take a break from all that stuff? And just remembering, we get what we think about. So whatever we focus on has an effect on how we feel.

I mean, this is just scientific fact. It's not an opinion. I was angry to sound quite aggressive.

It's not an opinion. It's fact. I'm taking myself I mean, very earnest.

That's going to be the word. This is what's going to be called earnest. So I'm going to call this recording earnest.

I'm never going to use the word earnest again after this. It's not one of the words I use. I don't know why I just said like very old fashioned.

What is that? What is that book something earnest? Very, very famous book. I'm gonna look up book. And the importance of being earnest.

Oscar Wilde. I've never read it. I've never read it.

Earnest. Okay, let's have a look. Just gonna have a look for something.

This is gonna be weird. I'm gonna ask. All right, here we go.

And ask chap GPT. Do you? Do you have any techniques for us to stop being earnest? Okay, here we go. And let's see what comes up with.

Do you have any hypnosis techniques for stopping being earnest? So although I mean, recently, I've been making recordings and I've kind of focused on some relief techniques and stuff. This is a little bit different base kind of distractions. I didn't tell you today about the chocolate.

Oh, I'll tell you in a minute. It's honestly I'm embarrassed by it. I'm actually embarrassed.

And I can't believe no one told me. So this is always giving me a whole I just want Oh, no, okay. Now it's giving me lots like a whole thing.

I don't want a whole thing. Just if I say stop, and just 10 different techniques, techniques, right, I don't want a whole hypnosis script, just 10 different techniques. Just interested because I know some things I know some things I'm so clever.

Hmm. There are ways of it's about dislodging is about moving away from a fixed mind. I'm not reading this off the screen, by the way, I'm still waiting for it to load up.

And moving away from that fixedness. I suppose in a way it's like stretching exercises for your mind, stretching your mind so you have a bit more flexibility. So here's what's coming up with this.

The playful observer, imagine yourself stepping outside your body, observing yourself interacting earnestly with others. But also seeing the humor in these moments, notice a playful absurdity and being over overly serious. Okay, so imagine I guess is a good example.

I've seen that. I've seen it when and sometimes it can be. So I've seen people if it's just like an average joke, sometimes people not won't laugh because it goes against their you know, it's a subject matter that they don't like, which is understandable.

But if something when something makes someone laugh, it's uncontrollable. But real laughter, something might be humorous, like, yeah, it's funny. But something that makes you just really laugh, you know, proper, proper laugh.

That's uncontrollable. That's out of our control. We know what uncontrollable is.

Okay, fair enough. Blimey. So serious.

It's it's out of our control. So it doesn't mean so if someone told me a joke about the Pope that made me laugh doesn't mean that I'm against the Pope or find anything funny about the Pope water skiing, or whatever the joke would be, you know, it's, it's just, it made me laugh. And it wasn't.

It caught me off guard. And that's something I think some people struggle with, like, you can't laugh at that can't laugh at this. Well, an old Richard Bandler, he said, you know, with stuff that's serious now, one day we'll laugh about this.

Why wait? Why not laugh about it now. And I'm not talking about super serious, horrible things. But I remember the other day, I had a neighbor who had an ambulance called.

And they heard this, this person heard the ambulance drivers or the paramedics joking. And I had to explain to him that it's it's a natural thing to do. They're not laughing at you.

They're not laughing at your situation. Basically, it's a thing called gallows humor. And he'd not heard that because he's young, very, very young hadn't heard of the term.

So I had to explain this. It's basically they do not such a difficult job at times. That the only way to really cope with it is by laughing at what's going on.

They're not really laughing at what's going on. They're not they find something's funny. But you know, it's a way of coping.

And it's similar with I'm sure with the police, with doctors, nurses, with even in counseling, it was sort of, you know, even in the call center. But laugh at someone make fun of a customer, or make fun of a team leader that was a bit over the top, you know, moaning stuff, just, it was a way of letting that tension out a way of release. You know, so it's not necessarily that you find it funny.

Like that you find their situation funny. Or you're really mocking them. It's just that it's, it's a way to let out a later a way to release.

Oh, brilliant. You've now explained humor to us. Thanks.

No, I'm not trying to explain humor to you. It's saying that this is what I told this person. There's sometimes people will laugh, but they're not really laughing at you.

Now, I still have to convince myself that if someone's, if I'm walking down the street in my shorts, and every single person points at my legs and laughs, they're not laughing at me, they're laughing with me. Okay. There's the balloon release.

Picture your earnest thoughts and serious feelings as helium balloons, gently letting them go one by one, watching them float peacefully away, feeling lighter and freer as each balloon disappears into the sky. And this is another version of the helium release or the stress release. And another, another version of that is, you can imagine getting all the, all the things you're concerned about, put them into a wheelbarrow, pushing the wheelbarrow towards a hot air balloon, you know, the ones with the baskets.

And then just the baskets got a couple of pieces of wood, like a ramp, push the wheelbarrow in, empty in there, pull up the side of the basket. And then just cut the cut the cord or the rope that's keeping the hot air balloon on the ground. And watch all that crap, all that stress, all that negativity, discomfort, just slowly rise, slowly, and just notice how good it feels.

I used to have that feeling when I would, whenever I got onto a ferry, and I would leave this country. I always felt a relief as I moved away from the shore. You know, whether it's going to Belgium, whether it was France, Ireland, that's the only three different places I've been to on a ferry.

France, Belgium and Ireland. Yeah, I think that's it. Oh, Isle of Man as well.

So four, always had that same feeling. Although I wasn't able to watch with the Isle of Man one, the winds were too strong, we weren't even allowed outside. But all the other ferries, it was lovely, just, it wasn't like, in a negative way, like, oh, England.

It wasn't like that. It was just, it was that separation. It was that, that break, that physical separation of being away from, well, basically, I was leaving everything there.

I was leaving any worries, any concerns, my past, everything was there. And I was moving away from it. It was nice, felt nice.

It feels nice even imagining it, to be honest. Yeah, it can feel like that sometimes. You can leave stuff, like in a hot air balloon, you can leave the physical discomfort, you can leave that on the shore, as well as you move away on the boat.

You can leave it at home, whenever you go out. There's so many little things you can do that, I know it's imagination. But sometimes, you know, if you carried around a little pad with you, piece of paper, I'm not talking about a big pad, just a little pad, just a little, just, you know, doesn't have to be anything big.

And you could do this at home as well. But whenever you get a feeling, whenever you get a feeling you don't enjoy, whether it's a thought that you're not enjoying, whether it's a physical feeling that just feels quite horrible. You could write how you feel down, rip it off the pad, whatever, screw it up and just put it in the bin.

Or if you live around here, just chuck it out a window for the cleaners to pick up in a month's time. What they do with their nappies. Oh, dear.

Honestly, there's there's a flat downstairs. There's eggshells all outside the kitchen window on the floor outside. How? What? They were chucking nappies out the front.

It's on camera. They've got the other people also got on camera. But how? How? How? What part of the brain needs to be turned off to be cooking? And then just chucking food, chucking empty eggshells out the kitchen window? What part of the brain has to be switched off to do that? Or to chuck a dirty nappy out of the living room window? I mean, maybe we can switch parts of the brain off.

Maybe the part for that, that bit of your body that you want to feel relaxed. Maybe switch that part of the body, that part of the brain off. Just that one small part.

And I guess there's, I mean, if you think about it like a traffic light system. So you got that part of your body is green, is yellow and is red. So red kind of means it can, each colour can mean what you want them to mean.

So you can just change the colour. Maybe the one in the middle is, you know, yeah. One colour is maybe unpleasant feeling.

And then the other colour would be feeling relaxed. I mean, I want to go like, you know, stop, go and prepare to go. Although in this country, there's something that happens, talking about turning off parts of your brain.

When people get a driving licence in this country, they get a part lobotomy. And what happens is they get a part of their brain removed. The, I don't know, the sensible part that only really, it activates when they're in the car.

The rest of the time, they're fine. But if something happens, so they learn that red is stop, green is go, yellow depends on where you are. So if you're stopped at the traffic lights, yellow means prepare to go.

And when it goes to green, so if you're on red, yellow is prepare to go, ready. And when it goes to green, you can go. And if you're pulling up to traffic lights, and it's on green, and it turns to yellow, prepare to stop, and it goes to red.

Now, you might not you might drive up and not know what it is might just be on a yellow. So you don't know if it's about to stop or if it's about to go. So you slow down, you you become very aware of it.

Preparing. That's kind of what it's supposed to be. Says the man that's never actually driven a car.

I did I had three driving lessons. So that but what it turned into is in this country, the part of the brain that gets switched off when you get your driving license is you when you drive an up towards the traffic lights, and it's on yellow. What that means to the person in their brain is speed up.

Whether it's going to green or whether it's going to read, they don't know if it's on yellow speed up. That's what it means if you're nowhere near the traffic lights. But if you see that if you're sitting at a traffic lights, and you stopped because it's been on red, the yellow instead of meaning prepare for green when you can start driving again.

Yellow means go to it to the driver's brain. So it goes from red to yellow. It means I can just go and that's not what it means.

It means prepare to go. You don't go yet until it goes to green. So something happens to driver's brains.

And it's weird. I just don't know what it is. It's I guess it's just I don't know.

I read I don't know. So I don't know. There's a die down down die or down technique.

Visualize a control dial clearly marked earnestness. It was high, slowly and deliberately turn the dial down, feeling more playful, relaxed and less serious of each reduction. So I've done a dial down technique in the past, quite probably quite a few times.

But imagine if you just did do that with your level of seriousness. If you know if that's the case, being able to relax because you know, this is something I've said for years and years and years. When you're listening to me, I say if you're lying down or you're sitting down, you're giving yourself half an hour or an hour or whatever time it is to just take some time out and not care about anything.

Don't take anything I say seriously, because I'm just talking a load of rubbish most of the time. This is just time out from life. And nothing matters right now.

And I try to put this idea forward. And I know it's it's a weird, a weird concept sometimes, because I don't know if it might come across as me saying, you know, nothing in your life matters. And I'm not saying that.

That's really ridiculous thing to say. I'm saying that for the period of time that you're listening to my super exciting voice. Take a break from that stuff.

I literally don't care about anything. Nothing, whether it's illness, other people's illness. I'm talking anything, let everything go.

If you're able to get into that zone of not caring, but not in a way, of course, you still care. But you're taking a break from it. You're having a rest from it.

And we all need to put stuff down sometimes. I mean, talking from my own perspective, a few times over the years, I ended up carrying too much stuff like baggage, stress, tension, it made me ill to the point where I couldn't function and I lost my job. It happened three times for it happened three times officially, but it happened in the past when I was younger.

I just didn't really know what was going on. I kind of a little bit more clued up about what's happening now. And I had to drop everything.

And it was a case of like I was always not so much juggling, but carrying such a heavy weight of different things. To the point where if I just had to let them go, but if I had taken a break, I was this lady the other day. That reminds me, I can't remember the toffee thing, but that chocolate.

I embarrassed myself so badly. But anyway, this woman I saw again, I think today or was it yesterday, but a couple of days ago, me and Vinnie were in the park, we see this lady with these two big massive bags, they were bigger than she was both of them. And the bags weren't on wheels, but she was not actually she was struggling with the bags.

She put them down. And I think she's looking at her hand. See, see, like, it's obvious that she was struggling with the bags.

So after I stopped laughing, I went over to help her. And, you know, Vinnie had to pick me off the floor because I found it so funny. I didn't, I didn't laugh, blimey.

So I went over. This is kind of a bit silly. I went over to help her, but always like the other side of the park.

And I was shouting, well, calling out loud, not shouting, shouting, because I do have a I do have a very loud voice when I shout. So I don't shout. But like, excuse me.

Excuse me, bag lady. I realised that probably wasn't a good thing to shout out. Lady with the bags.

Excuse me. Wiggy. No, I didn't show that.

But like, I was trying to get her attention. But she wasn't hearing me. I'm like, and I couldn't, it seemed like the closer I got to her, the further she got away.

One of those visual weird things, you know, that you see on strange movies and cartoons and that. I couldn't catch up to her by walking. But I didn't want to run because I've heard comments about what I look like when I run.

Another dog walker told me I've seen you run. And I thought, wow, you kept that hidden in your pocket. So I was making fun of her and she said, Oh, I've seen you run.

And I, oh, she was holding on to that one for a rainy day. Got me right back. I guess I run a little bit like I probably run the way I look like I run.

So if you was to see me, you just looked at me. That's how I run. Yes, it's not necessarily a good thing.

So I'm walking really fast. Eventually, she puts the bags down. And I say, excuse me.

Hello. I didn't want to tap her on the shoulder. I didn't want to touch don't touch anyone, but I don't want to startle her or anything.

I couldn't get in front of her because the two bags were there, blocking the whole thing. And there was a car to the side of us. I couldn't get around.

And luckily, she turned around. I said, Hello. She said, What? I said, You okay? She said, What's it got to do with you? I said, I wonder if you need to see you look like you're struggling with the bags.

She said, Looks like you're struggling with your belly. Wow, this isn't going how I thought it'd go. I said, Do you want me to give you a hand? She said, Give me a hand.

What do you mean? I said, You want me to carry the bags for you? She said, Doesn't look like you'd be able to carry anything. I don't think even if I empty the bags, you'd be able to carry the empty bags. You're so weak.

Okay, none of this happened. But that is what Vinnie is telling people. He lies all the time.

Things happen because we have such a boring life. He has to make stuff up. So when he meets up with Archie, I heard him the other day.

He sees Archie. This is Archie's mom that was making fun of me running and stuff. He was on the lead.

But I was talking to his mom and they were just taking turns urinating on each other, which is weird. They literally do do that. And I heard Archie said stuff like, So what's he been up to this week? I thought, What? Who's been up to? And then he said to him, We had some chocolate.

He wouldn't believe what happened. He just had two bits of chocolate. It was melted chocolate.

And I thought, Hey, Vinnie, stop. Stop talking about me. Why are you telling him? He said, Because you need to tell the story you've been talking about.

You keep mentioning it, but you haven't actually told that story about the chocolate yet. And now you got embarrassed. You know, you can't keep putting it off.

You've been talking for about three hours now. And besides, this is supposed to be, you know, let me bore your pain away. You've you've just been talking about absolute rubbish for the last seven hours.

So it's gone up from three hours to seven hours. Yeah. Including this conversation, it probably about nine hours.

I said, Look, this is it. You can't speak, can you? I said, Yes, I can speak. Sometimes I have a bit of a stutter.

He laughed, which I think is rude. And I said, Look, the fact is, I said to him, Look, there's more. Did you ever consider that maybe even just seems like I'm talking about random things that possibly some of this might be useful, at the very least as a distraction technique, and maybe relaxation and stuff like that.

He said, No. Why not? Why? I said, Look, you lived here for two years and four or five months, nearly, nearly two years, over two years and four months. And four, eight, nine, 10.

So two and a third years. Why do you say no to that question? You don't think that maybe I know that maybe you know that I know what I'm doing? He said, No. I said, Why not? He said, Because of my dog.

I said, Fair enough. He said, Why are you having a conversation with a dog? I had no answer for him. Movie screen reframe is another thing.

Imagine you're watching yourself behaving earnestly on a cinema screen, then playfully change the film. We play serious scenes with humorous, playful interactions shifting your emotional response to laughter or gentle amusement. I think sometimes just remembering something that happened that was funny is, you know, something you've seen on TV or something you see in a movie or something you heard someone say.

And just remembering it. It can just be funny, it changes. Because when you laugh, or if you find something humorous, it changes how you feel.

It changes for all of us, you know. So there's the mirror smile technique. Imagine yourself standing in front of a mirror, looking overly earnest, then gradually see your reflection break into a warm, spontaneous smile.

Feel the ease and joy this brings as seriousness dissolves naturally. Sounds like a horror movie. So you look in the mirror, and your reflection starts laughing at you.

Wow. Okay, I mean, that's a bit freaky. I mean, it might be really good, but that would, I would definitely be wondering what was being put in my drink.

I shouldn't be making fun of the techniques. But yeah, I think sometimes there's a technique of, it's an old, it's not my technique, just an old technique, where if there was an incident that you struggled thinking about, because it's just like an interaction, a verbal interaction at work or something that's just left an unpleasant feeling, you can kind of have that memory. But then, you know, say it's your boss telling you off or having a go at you.

Or you can imagine behind them, like a mermaid dancing behind them. Or like all the other managers, just like doing little strip teas behind your manager when he's being so serious. And all your like, just something silly like that.

I mean, you can be extreme with it as well, make it even funnier, don't make, you know, something that makes you laugh. Or you can just imagine that maybe they've just, you know, partially naked, but in a way that they didn't realize maybe their zip was undone. And, you know, just, it could be anything, just if it makes you laugh.

Or imagine them with, maybe every time they talk, a piece of carrot falls on the floor, piece of broccoli, bits of food. So there's like this big pile of food on the floor, in front of them, as it falls out of their mouth whenever they talk. Or maybe every time they talk, they just shrink.

So the more they moan, the smaller they get. And their voice starts to get squeaky. You know, just little things like that.

And imagine a friendly, humorous version of yourself, a comedian or playful inner guide, who whispers humorous comments into your mind during earnest moments, making it impossible to remain overly serious. I've had this in the past, at the really wrong times. And well, I just, I've just been thinking about the wrong thing.

And it's, it's weird. It's kind of strange. It definitely changes how you feel.

If you start, like, just, it's kind of just whispering to yourself, like, even if it's someone saying something to you, and it's all just going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And or you imagine, like, just like, I bet you need a big poo, don't you? Or you can imagine what they're thinking while they're talking. You know, so if it's an interaction, I mean, you can imagine they're thinking to themselves, or, or, you know, whatever it could be.

I wish I hadn't had that last cup of coffee. And they're needing to go to the toilet, or maybe they just realized that they've left a big damp patch on their trousers. And hoping that no one notices it, but you notice it.

So yeah, there's a soap bubble technique. What's this? Oh, it's going to have something to do with bobbing, popping bubbles. Visualize your earnest thoughts encased with soapy bubbles.

Gently pop each bubble experiencing the release of seriousness as each pops, replaced by calmness ease and gentle amusement. I mean, I'm not quite sure what soap is, but I have to look that one up. Feather touch technique.

Picture a feather, a feather, a feather, gently brushing away seriousness from your forehead, shoulders and chest, softly sweeping earnestness away, leaving you feeling light, freer, and gently amused. I mean, when I call that woman, the lady caught up with her, and just said, Look, I'm not trying to, you know, I'm just gonna I saw you struggling with your bags. Can I help you pick them? Can I carry them? And she said, Okay, thank you.

I said, You're gonna have to take Vinny though. Because I can't, can't do both. And she said, I forget it then.

No, she didn't. She took him. I said, Can you keep it on? Can you keep him on a short lead though? Because he's got a habit trying to run in the road.

She said, This is getting more, this is this more problematic than carrying the bags. And how many more rules are there? I said, No more rules. That's it.

So we cheerfully walked back to where she lives. She lives at the end of the road. I didn't know where she lived, but I was thankful it wasn't too far.

And that was it really. And I thought, what if only I had done what she did, is she carried the bags. I think she carried too much.

She had too much to carry. And I don't think that was particularly good. She's fairly elderly.

I don't know, age wise, maybe in her 70s. Elderly, I don't know if that's the right word anymore. But she's probably possibly carrying too much.

Because they were heavy, they were heavy bags. And but she was putting them down, having a rest, then carrying them and putting them down. I think someone that takes themselves seriously, perhaps has a tendency of carrying those bags and keep adding more.

And won't put them down, refusing to put them down until they have no choice. So that happened to me a few times, where instead of just putting the bags down, having a break, and taking a rest from caring about anything, which again, I said, it's a weird concept to not care for a period of time, not care about anyone, not care about anything, including yourself, including your loved ones, including the day, including your job, including where you live, including your health, anything, letting go of all that stuff, just for a period of time. And when you do that, there's some freedom there.

And things like you physically, you just feel relaxed. There's nowhere else, there's no other way to feel because it's free, it's freeing. But then the benefit of when you go back, you know, when you like, I say go back, but when you, when the recording's finished or the session's finished, whether it's listening to me or whether it's, it could be doing yoga, it could be doing meditation, it could be just going for a nice walk, anything where you can just move everything else away and ignore that.

Take a break from that stuff, just don't care about it for a while. And let go of any guilt that you might have about not caring about it. You've also got to not care about the guilt.

Because ultimately, you don't really, you're not really not caring. Of course you still care, but you're letting it go, you're having a break from it. You know, it's the same way as you don't eat when you're on the toilet.

The two don't really go together. Although the process is kind of, the beginning and ending of the process, but you know, it's two separate things. Some may say, how did everything seem to come back to pooing with you, doesn't it? I said, no.

And then I think about it and like, yeah, it does seem to, doesn't it? Oh, well. You've got the laughing stream. Imagine stepping into a warm, clear stream.

A stream, imagine, okay, clear stream, whose water contains laughter, joy and playfulness, feel earnestly being washed away effortlessly, replaced by a joyful, carefree attitude. I mean, I think that's part, that can be a benefit of dressing up. I know, I've heard that quite a few people dress up, like dressing up, or maybe acting, doing drama, taking on a different role, because they have a break from themselves.

Maybe at the weekend, they'll go out and they'll be a different person, or maybe even moving to a different place, a new job. It's almost that you get a chance to reinvent yourself. So, oh, so before I go, I've got to tell you that story about the chocolate.

This is, oh, this is so embarrassing. Right. My friend, opposite, needs his stuff removed.

He's got a fridge, he's got, I think the freezer needs to go, because it's rusty on the outside, and he's now just got this brand new kitchen. And he said, oh, but it works. Yeah, but just because it works doesn't mean that you need to keep it.

I mean, it's, it's probably about 30 years old. And it's rusty. It's literally rusty on the outside.

It's awful. And I'm not sure how safe it is either, if it's that old. But we've organised for him to get a new, it's a second hand fridge, but from Del Boy, who's another neighbour, who buys and sells stuff.

So he's got it in his, his garage. So we're going to get that when the kitchen's finished in a couple of weeks. So I'm going, I go for a walk.

I said the word, I took Vinnie out. So yeah, so I had the chocolate. Anyway, I'm finishing what I'm doing.

I go out, take him out and just walk around. He's, I've must have been out for about, I don't know, half an hour. He was just smelling the grass as he does normally.

Did I see anyone? Oh, yeah, I saw. There was one man that said hello to him. And he actually said, thank you for stopping and talking to me.

So that was nice. And then he said, why are you holding your hand out? I said, money. Don't get a conversation with me for nothing.

I charge a pound a minute. And we laughed and saw a car. I think we saw another dog owner.

Wasn't a lot going on, actually. I took my hat off. So I had my hat on, but it was too warm to have my hat on.

The thing is, I roughly remember saying that to somebody, that I had my hat on, but then I took it off because it was warm. I don't know who it was. Anyway, we come back, he did, he went to the toilet, got rid of that and picked it up, used the bag this time.

Less washing, less soap, you know, and so I get back. And I think I'm just on the way upstairs. And I see the person that takes the rubbish.

Right, so he's like, it's only like take stuff and pick stuff up for people in that, you know, big things and stuff. And I asked him about, because I spoke to him before and I said, is there any, can you help with the, with my friend's stuff? So he said, yeah, in a couple of weeks time. So I arranged that with him and I said, maybe just give me a knock.

And, and then I said, not now, because I'm not on my head. So he's okay. So I went, went and gave my neighbor a knock and said, here's what's going on.

You see down there, I was thinking if you come out and just have a look at that van. He spent about 10 minutes step coming out of the door. I don't know why he spent so long.

I know he's nearly 80, but he really, it's almost like you're moving really slowly on purpose there. I mean, it was like super slow. I mean, guaranteed.

If I said to him, oh, the chip van's out there, he'd have moved super fast. Anyway, the, I just explained to him what's going to happen. That I've organized for him to have the old stuff.

He's got a cooker as well that he doesn't use that's going out. The new is old. All this has been there for a long, long time.

He's got the same cooker as me really. And he's got a fridge that's going to go into the same gap as where the cooker was because he uses the air fryer. Doesn't need, doesn't need a cooker.

So I do that and like, okay, everything's fine. He wants to talk about golf. And I'm like, no, can't talk about golf.

Cause I showed a bit of interest in golf and he just, he thinks I like golf. I don't, I don't dislike any sport. I just only interested in boxing.

It's the only one. I've got seriously no interest in any other sport, you know, boxing. I know about that's, that's the only sport I really know about that I know quite a bit about and I've been following it since I was a kid.

So, uh, anyway, I get indoors. I think the delivery comes. So I've ordered the delivery before I went out.

I go back and sit down. The delivery comes. And so I, I walk outside.

Oh no, this is what happens. No, I got it the wrong way around. I come upstairs.

The delivery comes. I then go downstairs, help with the delivery. Then I see the person outside speak to him about the fridge because I had Uber deliver me some groceries.

And then I would knocked on my friends that the neighbor's door explained to him what's going on two weeks time. They'll take that stuff and all that. And then we'll come in.

Then we can, then I came into the, my flat, put the stuff away. Vinnie, he had some treats. He loves them.

Yeah. You heard the word treats. Didn't you? Sorry, I shouldn't be saying that.

And then I started getting the treats and I sit down and I thought, Oh, I need a wee wee. So I go into the, into the bathroom, go into the kitchen. Wow.

I nearly said that didn't I? No, I went to the bathroom and did, did a wee wee, wash my hands. And you know, quite often I do. I just have a look in the mirror and just feel sorry for myself for a few minutes.

I couldn't believe what I saw. There was toffee sticking out of my beard, all over my beard from the, the caramel, uh, Cadbury's dairy milk caramel. So the, the milk, the caramel middle, whatever it was sticking in my beard.

Cause my beard's now too long to even feel it. So it wasn't against my skin, but it was just all dripping down. I couldn't believe it.

I was walking around with that on my chin for the last hour. I've been embarrassed before many times, many, many, many times, but this, this was, yeah, this was wrong. It was just, just, uh, anyway.

Um, that's it really. I hope this has been mildly helpful. I can't see how it would be, but if it was then good.

If it wasn't, then I hope it was. I got no idea how long I was talking for. It seems like a long time, but then in a way it doesn't.

Should we have a look? According to that, it's one hour and over an hour and a half. I've been talking. Blimey.

So I'm going to go. Let me give Vinnie another t-r-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-t. And that's, that's it for me for now.

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

Notice how the way you feel has changed since you started listening to this. And if this is useful and it helps, beneficial, maybe let me know. Let other people know.

Share the love, man. I sometimes think that it's almost like I'm people's dirty little secret. You know, they found me on a weird part of the internet.

It's like, let's not tell anyone else. I wonder if people are embarrassed about me. I don't know.

Anyway, thanks for listening and I will be back again soon. Take care. Lots of love.

Bye.