[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to JasonNewland.com My name is Jason Newland with my early morning croaky voice I was born under one moon star See it gets deeper I feel like my voice is broken eventually most of my adult life I mean
[00:00:29] Hello everybody and now well how high can I go maybe not as high as I once could anyway I don't normally do these recordings quite so early
[00:00:58] it is 18 minutes past 8am at this point I don't know what sound I'm going to use the word sound is going to be coming from downstairs because they are still in the process of having the bathroom done and today they are having the floor put in
[00:01:27] of the bathroom so I don't quite know what that entails I'm guessing it entails flooring but I don't know if it entails machinery making noise if it does then I'll have to kind of put a hold on this recording if it's too noisy mmmm blimey blimey blimey
[00:01:55] because the bathroom's being turned into a wet room I guess it's a different type of flooring that would normally be in a bathroom I'm guessing because there also has to be a drain in there doesn't there I suppose I mean baths have drains as well don't they but like a a different kind of drain for the water to go down yeah
[00:02:26] so anyway this is Q&A Friday it is it is the 9th of May 2025 and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes what else so my website's really groovy
[00:02:58] it's all my recordings are on there all the latest recordings are on there I've also I'm continuously adding new stuff just to try and help help people out so the first page of jasonnewland.com there's at the very top of the page there is like a carousel which lists like as an image of all the different podcasts
[00:03:29] and below that is the latest the very latest recordings that I've done where you can stream or you can actually download to your phone or whatever device you are using you can save that for later or forever you can also stream at different speed you can also skip forward so you can skip forward 30 seconds
[00:03:59] jump forward 30 seconds or you can rewind 10 seconds and you can fast you can fast forward you can go 2 times faster 1 times faster to you know but you can also go 0.75x so that would be probably is that 25% slower than normal so if I'm talking
[00:04:28] way too fast for you then you can you know you can slow it down a bit also on each recording tells you how long the recording is also tells you the size of the recording if you was to download it so for example yesterday's let me boil you to sleep was
[00:04:54] that's weird ok yesterday's let me boil you to sleep my hypnosis start so lmbYTS number 1348 42.56 megabytes and it's an hour 32 so it's an hour and 32 minutes and 59 seconds but if you were to download the 10 hour version with music it would be
[00:05:22] it's 9 hours 49 minutes 17 seconds and 269 megabytes so yes it's a bit bit bigger megabytes still not a lot to be fair for 10 hours but 137.31 megabytes is pretty small it's not a lot of space really and they I could get them smaller but I'm trying to you know I want to keep the
[00:05:52] the quality of the audio the 10 hour none of my recordings will come above 300 megabytes individually because basically Spreaker who I use doesn't allow that so 300 is the maximum I can put and 10 hours is also the maximum so I fill it under 300 megabytes and because that's the size of the file
[00:06:22] that basically that's how so if you was to download it onto your computer or onto your phone that's how much space it would take in your memory ok I actually find on the phone using the websites a lot easier so if I listen to a recording of mine I listen on the phone I listen on the phone but I go onto the website rather it's just easier because it's there
[00:06:51] the latest recordings there and just play I don't know just me I just find it I find it easier also in the index you got home which is just the standard you know main page then got a link for podcasts lists all the podcasts which you can click on it takes you to a podcast which is embedded in the website again you can stream or play download wherever and then you got playlists
[00:07:22] that again lists each individual podcast you can click on it and then you got a choice of choosing which ones you want to listen to so I do them in groups of 50 so 1 to 50 51 to 100 101 to 150 like that and you also again you can stream and play and download those ones if you want I've got a contact form there's a link to my Facebook group
[00:07:51] which is Jason Newland's boring group so that's pretty groovy right ok my website seems to have ok back to it so Facebook Jason Newland's boring group so there's a link to that there's a link to my YouTube channel which is at Jason Newland and I've got according to this 1.55
[00:08:21] thousand subscribers so 1.5 thousand subscribers 2.5 thousand videos which is quite a lot isn't it it's now my podcast so every all the the latest recordings are run there let's come back out of there there's a link to my PayPal and there's oh just come out on the website what am I doing
[00:08:51] there's then you got LB L M B Y T S so let me boil your sleep click on that and that takes you to that podcast which is embedded in the website then you've got a reviews which just lists to the I haven't had any reviews since the 6th of April so if you've got any reviews please please leave me a review and got
[00:09:19] then I've got a link for podcast apps so you can click on Apple Podcast Audible Amazon Music Podcast App CastBox Deezer Luminary Podcast Republic Player FM Podcast Addict Podcast Index Podchaser PodFriend Podverse Podbean Spreaker and Spotify Spotify should be at the top really we're near with Amazon
[00:09:48] but anyway you click on any of them so I'll click on Spotify for example and all my podcasts are listed with a link to the Spotify podcast for that particular podcast and which brings me to something where is it did have a question on my Facebook group from Megan
[00:10:17] I do believe Megan where are you Megan there hasn't been any uploads on Spotify since 1st of May will you be adding any new ones on there still and so I've added a link I think what it is is what it is is I
[00:10:47] yeah what it is I think that the thing was connected to to the SoundCloud because I had two Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts one was on SoundCloud one was on Spreaker the reason I didn't get rid of the SoundCloud one is because I'd had it for a while and
[00:11:15] I was getting traffic on there and I think Spotify kind of had both so I got rid of the SoundCloud one I got rid of both of my SoundCloud accounts I was able to a few people told me that they wanted them back so I was able to get back the main one but the other one I can't get back so it's just a case of going to a different link
[00:11:45] that's all so I definitely am on Spotify if you the Let Me Bore You To Sleep but all of the every single podcast I've got is on Spotify so I posted the link what I do maybe post the link again if you if you go to my actual website so Megan I did reply I said here's a link to my podcasts on Spotify
[00:12:13] they seem to be up to date now I hope this helps and it's basically jasonnewland.com forward slash Spotify and Megan says how bizarre when I click this link they are there but when I go via Spotify there's nothing since May the 1st how strange maybe it sort itself out eventually thank you I'll go via this link so what I would say is just use the link save the podcast on that one because I think there might be
[00:12:43] two different podcasts on Spotify for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and that's something I can't unfortunately undo because it is yeah it's just the way it's kind of worked out really unfortunately but you can what I've done is I've added the main thing so you got podcast apps Q&A Friday
[00:13:12] so that links to the at the top of that there's Ask Me Anything Q&A Friday submission if you've got any questions and underneath that box there's all the latest Q&A Friday recordings so the last one was last Friday 2nd of May then we've got requested recordings again all the latest requested recordings are on there the last one was April 17th but above that I do have
[00:13:42] a little form you can fill in if you want to request something then the next thing in the index is Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis so that's another link to that because people say that some people are struggling to find that online so that's the main website for there then I've got one for SoundCloud so I managed to get the SoundCloud reinstated for the main SoundCloud
[00:14:11] podcast so that's now there's a link there for that in the index that is and next to that is Apple Podcasts so that's all the podcasts I've got on there with the links directly to Apple Podcasts the only one I don't have out of all of the podcasts that are on Q&A that are on there is Q&A Friday so there's no Q&A Friday on Apple Podcasts
[00:14:41] at the moment that I can find and lastly Spotify so I've added that to the index yesterday I've checked every single link so every podcast I've got is on Spotify directly so yeah I hope that helps I don't know if it do but I hope it do and so that's what I've done I've been trying to update
[00:15:11] the information it's quite weird because SoundCloud said they reinstated the main podcast but then I'd have to send a request from the email connected to the other podcast did that and it wouldn't work like it just it's weird it's very strange so I can't get that one back but I got the main one back but it's just going to a different link that's all it is
[00:15:42] it's... I mean what I'll do... wait a minute I'm gonna just check this for you because it has bugged me a little bit that I don't like the idea that people are struggling to find stuff if you know what I mean but I want... it's just supposed to... the whole point of what I'm doing is to kind of relieve stress and tension not to increase it so... I'm not here to cause problems I want things to be easy so... what I'm gonna do
[00:16:11] let me just have a look see... let me bore you to sleep so let me check let me bore you to sleep podcasts and shows so I'm clicking on this podcasts and shows let me bore you to sleep actually there's more there's more than two because I've got ones from years ago
[00:16:42] so... let's have a look so the podcasts on here for the let me bore you to sleep so there's one... two... sure I saw another one yeah... three... three that I can see
[00:17:11] there might be others but... so the third one it's a really old image it was let me bore you to sleep that was the name of it so I'll click on that and the last recording I uploaded was the 1st of June 2018 so it was let me bore you to sleep number 25
[00:17:37] I don't know where I was recording that but... I wonder if it still plays
[00:18:12] still plays can you believe that? what's that? seven years ago? so... yeah... that still plays... I think that's where the problem lies is... with Spotify even podcasts that are no longer available they are available on Spotify because they download the... I think they actually must download the actual episodes themselves on their own service
[00:18:42] so that one's not valid and the other one which is... it's exactly the same cover as... the... so some people have been listening to the let me bore you to sleep the... the one that isn't... there's just been two I don't quite know how I ended up doing that but... I did... one on the cover's got
[00:19:11] let me bore you to sleep and it's got music a picture of Vinnie with headphones music... black and yellow outline and then no ads... on there... so that one... I think that was the one that was on... Soundcloud... let me just check... yeah... so the last one was the 1st of May
[00:19:38] which ironically... music... music... no music... no music... does it still play? still plays... that one's now... gone... I don't know how far back... how far... yeah... I don't know how far back that will go... Vinnie... don't be barking please mate... no...
[00:20:08] I said don't be barking... not please bark more... there's a difference between those two sentences... blimey... so... what was I saying? oh yeah... oh I found another one... oh no... there's a lot of...
[00:20:36] I've got a lot of podcasts on... Spotify... that are no longer available... which is a bit annoying because it... muddles things up... so the Let Me Bore You To Sleep... which has on the image... on the actual main image... music... and no ads... that was the one I had on Soundcloud... and unfortunately I've lost that... I just can't seem to get it back... so... of course you can listen to old recordings on there...
[00:21:05] I mean... I don't know how many are on there... but quite a few... but all new recordings will be... on the new link... which if I go back... I can find that... on Spotify... it's here... It's exactly the same image... it's exactly the same name... so there's no difference in the names either... there's not... you know... but this one... has got... the latest one...
[00:21:35] my hypnosis start... which was... last night... so yeah... that's got all the latest recordings... that's the one... to follow... that's the one... the link... that's the one that's on my website... with a link to it... and that's the one with the updated recordings... so sorry about the confusion... erm... yeah... it's just... one of those things...
[00:22:05] you know... but... I understand it can be frustrating... it's... it's now hopefully sorted... I've had a... few people actually contact me... about the SoundCloud... or a couple of... I've had people contact me... about the SoundCloud... then I've had a couple of people... contact me... about... the... Spotify... I guess... because when you're on Spotify...
[00:22:34] you... you don't know where it's come from... and I think... some people might think... it's actually... that the podcasts are uploaded to Spotify... and that's the host... which it can be... you can host on Spotify... but the main... place... usually... they just take the RSS feeds... which is the same... as most other podcast apps... so... I'll give you an example...
[00:23:04] what I do... for the Let Me Boy To Sleep... podcast... so... I'll click on this... and... so... let's have a look... there's... 867... listenable episodes... I... I... like I like to do... I deleted loads of episodes...
[00:23:34] it was more... in a sense of trying to... change... because I was putting... I was making the fifth... like the... 50 sections... like... 1 to 50... 51 to 100... and all that... and I was trying to... cut down the amount of space... I was using... because... Spreakers... who is my host... is... possibly likely to start... charging me... more... they already have... so now it's like... 50 odd quid a month...
[00:24:04] instead of being... 22... so I was trying to... kind of cut down... the expense... a little bit... and... but... it's fine... it's... there's still... all the recordings... are still saved... but on the... if I look at the actual... information... so you've got... you've got... podcast settings... so... let me...
[00:24:31] what I might do... if I just... change it to... if I change it to... let me... boy to sleep... dash... Jason Newland... maybe that'll make it... a little bit easier... to find on Spotify... I don't know... how long it will take... for it to change... on the Spotify server though... and...
[00:25:01] let's have a look... I think he's... proper moaning today... he was a bit ill earlier... he... yeah he was ill... like... so I don't know... so I've changed it... to let me... boy to sleep... even though... Jason Newland's on there... at the bottom... so... what I can do... is...
[00:25:30] once I've made a podcast... on Spreaker... which is my main... podcast host... I go to the... settings... which says... RSS settings... I'm not 100% sure... what RSS stands for... I used to know it... but I don't care... it... is basically... it's a feed... so... you give it... to... a podcast app...
[00:26:00] for example... Castbox... or... Apple... podcasts... Spotify... and what it does then... is... it syncs with... that podcast... whenever something new... is added... and it also gives me... the opportunity... for distribution... not distribution... um... social sharing... no...
[00:26:30] that's weird... distribution... oh yeah... that's the one... so... your podcast... podcast has been added... to Spreaker... and then it's... it's been added to... Apple Podcasts... Spotify... Heart Radio... Amazon Music... Audible... Castbox... Deezer... Podcast Addict... Podchaser... and Geo7... well I was just... rudely interrupted...
[00:27:00] not really rudely... but... I was interrupted... by... a phone call... from my doctor's surgery... and it was... I forgot it was today... they were doing a medication review... so that was... 8.45... until... 10 past 9... 25 minutes... I got the sense... that he was very tired... at the end of it...
[00:27:31] I don't know... I think I might have bored him... anyway... anyway... oh I contacted... oh what am I doing... well I should really... I should really... do the old... questions... shouldn't I... so here we go... let's have a look... at the questions... sorry...
[00:28:01] I never seem to get around... to just... doing the questions... anonymous member... Oshini... Jason... I enjoy your LMBYTS... so much... all the way from South Africa... I listened via Spotify... and haven't seen any new uploads... you know you can join... erm... the... Jason's Boring Group... if you're on here... you could join... if you want... so I'm guessing your name's Oshini... erm...
[00:28:31] so... I don't know if you've covered this... what I'm going to do... what I'm going to do... because I've just kind of covered this subject... I will... copy... the... the link... and I'll post it there now... so hopefully... you can... yeah... go there... so if I comment... oh... here we go... really?
[00:29:01] that's weird... that's not what I was supposed to be doing... Jason Newland... Spotify... ok... so if I just go... hi... here is... the... new link... to... to... the... Spotify... to the sound... to the podcast... right...
[00:29:36] in fact... no... wait a minute... wait a minute... let me go back... just on... new land... Spotify... let me... to sleep... so I'll click on that link... that's the one... so here's the link... here's the new link... to the podcast... hopefully that'll do...
[00:30:05] that'll do the job... ok... Spotify... let me... do the sleep... so that's done... sorry about that hassle... and... you know... so hey... any questions... for this... this week's... Q&A for... iDay... for... iDay... all comments... I've got five... Hope asks me... which...
[00:30:34] that was... that was a bit whistly... hope asks... me... which platform... should we listen to... in order to give you... the most support... uh... but... but... but... i don't know really... i mean... all of the... podcasts... hosts... are basically coming from... Spreaker... so Spreaker... generally... provides... the...
[00:31:05] the... so if you listen on Spotify... or if you listen on... Apple Podcasts... or any of the others... generally... you're listening to... to Spreaker... podcasts... so that's the home... and... the same as if you listen... on my website... it's still from Spreaker... and i like... i like it when people... listen on my website... because... i suppose... it's just because... i'm paying for a website... and i want it to be used...
[00:31:34] that's kind of it... it doesn't really matter... but... it's... you know... when i look at the stats... on Spreaker... and i see that... my website's being used... it's quite nice... because it... it tells me... how many... if i look at the sources... let's say... yesterday... for example... so... 1,625... downloads... came from Apple Podcasts... 123...
[00:32:05] downloads... from Podcast Addict... 78... from Overcast... 36... from... jasonnewland.com... and... so it was an overall... 1,986... downloads yesterday... so as you can see... it's broken up into... 1,986... it's broken up into quite a few... so...
[00:32:34] 1,625... blimey... so yeah... it's broken up into lots of different podcasts... in order to... make up that amount... yeah... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20... so there's 20 different places... that...
[00:33:04] is made up of... on Spreaker... that it's... basically it's the link... that they're using... I realise some of this might sound a bit like... goggly blog... but... I kind of... I kind of know... I know what I mean... if that helps... see Spotify... 16... 16... downloads on Spotify... from all my podcasts...
[00:33:35] so I find that... kind of strange... really... bearing in mind... that Spotify is supposed to be the... the most... well... the biggest... I guess... competitor... for Apple podcasts... yet I get hardly any... any views on Spotify... unless they just download them... and I don't... I don't get to see...
[00:34:04] that's it... yeah... I'm not quite sure... how it works out... maybe they keep their stats... to themselves... I don't know... but... if I look... at... and you can't blame me... for looking at the stats... because I was asked... to look at the stats... literally... just now... I had an excuse... so... this year... let's say this year...
[00:34:34] current... this year... custom... let's have a look... what we've got... this year... this year... da da da da... January... so... 175... 175... downloads... since January... on this podcast... on Spreaker...
[00:35:04] 153... 644... on Apple Podcast... Overcast... 3542... Podcast Addict... 2,934... I'm number 4... on the list... jasonlouland.com... 2,646... so that's how many people... that's how many downloads... there have been... whether people... played... or downloaded... where is Spotify...
[00:35:35] it's way down... at just... 1,109... for the whole year... so far... it's... yeah... it's kind of weird... but then... Spreaker... is way down as well... 561... so that... that's like... direct... I mean... they're all from Spreaker... that's the weird thing... but... like people... directly going on to Spreaker...
[00:36:06] so really... the answer to your question... is... wherever you want... just... listen... wherever is comfortable... for you... I mean... really... the job is for me... to support you... so I... I do appreciate... that you're looking... to give me support... but... you know... my job is to support you... this is what I'm... sort of doing here... and... you know... really... just...
[00:36:35] wherever you want to listen... where do you... where is it best for you... for me... the best place to listen... is on my website... for me... because... it's just... I find it easier... than... logging... you know... going into a... a podcast... because you know... I use Apple... what do I use? Apple Music... so I can search for myself... where am I? I have to go in... and...
[00:37:05] look for stuff... so even... even if I want to listen to music... I go in... go into the library... but... if I go in... put in my name... Jason... Jason Derulo... always comes up top... and then... Jason Mraz... Mraz... then Jason... Isbell... Jason Donovan... Jason Aldean... Jason... I mean... what about me? What about me?
[00:37:35] Let's have a look... Jason Newland... artist... top results... click on this... what's coming up? Nothing... so Apple... Apple Music... for some reason... doesn't seem to have me on there... but I'm definitely on... Apple Podcasts... that's... strange... so...
[00:38:05] don't feel like... let me bore you to... Apple Music... so is Apple Podcasts... a different... a different app then? let me... let me... bore... bore you... let me bore you to slurp... okay... that's not the right... and you's got... owe you... to... sleep...
[00:38:36] albums... songs... playlists... nothing... that's just... that's very weird... podcasts... albums... so... Apple Podcasts... it must have... a separate... so let's have a look... maybe it's got a separate thing... just shows you how often... I listen to a podcast...
[00:39:08] Apple Podcasts... yep... I do have Apple Podcasts... I've got the app... it's just... yeah... it's just a different app... I listen to Apple Music... let me bore you to sleep...
[00:39:39] so... jason... if I put in boring... I wonder what will come up... boring... one... two... three... four... five... six... seven... eight... nine... ten... four... nope... not me... I'm not coming up... channels... nope... if I put... bored... bored... shows...
[00:40:10] not even coming up... bored is literally in the title... but... nope... not coming up... or even... just they're not showing... I know I'm on there... but they're just not showing me... I don't know what I have to do... to be... you know... so if I put in sleep... let's have a look... see if... so I'm using my phone here... so... Apple Podcasts... look for sleep... so shows...
[00:40:40] nope... I'm not on here either... they're not listing me... I wonder if I've been blacklisted... for some reason... yeah... I'm not on... I mean... I'm definitely on the... on the platform... because... if I put in... my name... so the chances of you... accidentally... coming over me... is going to be... very... rare... because...
[00:41:09] Spotify's kind of... hidden... me... but if you put my name in... you've got top results... that's... but that goes for... individual recordings... so go for shows... let me boy to sleep... at the top... then Monday's... sleepy boring objects... stress and pain relief... relaxation for... stress and panic attacks... stop smoking hypnosis... Jason's bedtime story time... hypnosis for... sleeping deeply...
[00:41:40] and... chronic pain hypnosis... hypnosis for... sleeping deeply... let me boy... let me boy to sleep... so there's another one there... wow... and... there's about... 16... hypnosis for... sleeping deeply... so I've got no idea... latest recording... so... let me boy to sleep... that one works... let me go down to the other... let me boy to sleep... and... my hypnosis start...
[00:42:10] it's basically just showing the same... same podcast... see if it's got any... right... that's all of it... so hypnosis is sleeping deeply... my hypnosis start... that's the latest recording... what's this one... yeah... my hypnosis... so that's... it's just showing the same thing... see... yeah... it's a little bit weird... isn't it... relaxation for...
[00:42:41] panic... panic... okay... that's good... so... I personally just use my website... I do use Apple Music... but I don't... really... I mean I'm... I go through periods... sometimes... at the moment... because I'm really into... chronic pain relief... and stuff like that... so...
[00:43:13] I listen to lectures on YouTube... because YouTube is such a good resource... for stuff like that... for educational material... so I'll be listening to the experts... pain experts... you know... doctors and scientists... and... the podcasts are good as well... but I just find the... I quite like listening to... you know...
[00:43:43] like university lectures... and things like that... at the moment... so yeah... wherever... hope... I just thanks for supporting me... wherever... you want to listen... as long as you're happy... and as long as it's helping... that's all that really matters... Ali asked me... what are some things... that make you happy right now... now... boobies... no... I don't know... erm... what makes me happy...
[00:44:13] that was too loud... and that was too late... in the recording... to be doing that... I do apologise... I'll try and... reduce the sound... or delete it... or edit it... I don't know... I... I don't really know... what does make me happy... I like it when I'm productive... I like it when I've... I feel... if we... if we... if I focus on how I feel like... feeling better... I feel... more better...
[00:44:45] when I feel like I've achieved... achieved something... so if the stats... are... okay... you know... providing I get at least... you know... at least a couple of thousand... downloads a day... I'm alright with that... that's... I'd like it to be more... but... you know... it's definitely... in the right area... sort of heading... heading up again... erm... I like making...
[00:45:15] I feel that... the idea of helping people... is pretty much the only thing... that... makes me happy... really... I don't know if I am... help... I mean... I think I am... but that's the only... that's... this is what I do... this is my life... you know... there isn't really much else... going on... erm... but little things... you know... I do like to... I like to watch... comedy...
[00:45:46] erm... yeah... quite like sleeping... I don't... yeah... I don't know really... just doing this... this is the only thing... this is what I live for... this is my life... has been for a long time... and... this is the only... stable... thing that I have...
[00:46:17] and without this... it's really sad... but I don't really have much... so... yeah... I don't mean just doing... these recordings... but... the other stuff I do... the... pain stuff... and things like that... so yeah... it's a... hmm... hmm... yeah... I think that's... there's a... boxing... of course I forgot about boxing... ah... sometimes it's the looking forward to the boxing...
[00:46:46] rather than the actual watching of it... but sometimes the watching of it is just... you know... occasionally there's just... this... just amazing... an amazing event... and... Michelle asks... you used to talk about doing exercises... do you still do them? are you asking me if I put my weight back on? is that what you're asking me? you basically ask me how big my belly is now... is it?
[00:47:15] um... I... I am... actually I had a workout in my punch bag yesterday... felt lovely... I love punching... just... on a punch bag only... I just love it... it's just so... the physical movement... it stretches my back... it doesn't affect my lower back... which is weird... because that's... that's the part that I have problems with...
[00:47:44] but punching doesn't seem to... negatively affect my back at all... my lower back... but... if anything it stretches my upper back... and... yeah... it's nice... feels nice... um... yeah... I still do weights... I've lacked... I've... yeah... I've gone down a little bit with that... I was doing them really regular...
[00:48:15] haven't been doing them so regular... I mean... when I'm not in this... when I'm not in like... the best space to do anything... then... they... seem to be something that... drops off... but... you know... it's just one of those things... but I'm... you know... I'm kind of getting back into it a bit... I do feel better in my back... my lower back... when I do do the stretches... when I do the...
[00:48:44] well... it's... squats really... so it's kind of stretches... and... weights... as well... but yeah... I'm still doing it... I mean... I'd like to... it's about motivation really... I think... if I had a bit more space... and... like a proper gym to work out in...
[00:49:13] that'd be nice... and a punch bag... that I could use anytime... because I've got neighbours downstairs... I know it's going to shake the hell out of their ceiling... whenever I'm using a punch bag... so... I don't want to disturb them... but if I could... use a punch bag for... like an hour a day... because I like... I like to do things... continuous... so... I'll punch it for an hour... continuously... not hard... continuously... but I will... keep going...
[00:49:43] I will keep that movement going... for the whole time... and... at the end of it... I feel good... very sweaty... but I feel... you know... quite good... like I've had a... it's not just... um... physical... like... strength... or... stretching... the movement's good as well... but sort of... it's also cardiovascular... because... you do anything... any kind of... uh... physical movement...
[00:50:12] for a long period of time... it... turns into cardiovascular... doesn't it? it turns into... working the lungs and the heart... because... you don't have to run... to get that... you can use your... you can use your... your hands... to get that as well... I mean... just ask anyone... that's in a wheelchair... you know... you can... you can... I had a friend... he was in a wheelchair... from the age of about 19... I met him when he was in his...
[00:50:41] 40s probably... he was a coach... for the Olympic team... for basketball... for disabled... basketball players... so he was at the... the... disabled... what is it called? the Olympics... is it... disabled Olympics... the... I can't remember what it's called... but he... he was... like... the British... coach... one of the British coaches...
[00:51:10] for the basketball team... now what's really weird about him... is... I remember seeing... that he was like... six foot two... because he'd always been... like... my chest height... it's like... you're like six foot two... it's just... I couldn't get my head... because I'd never known him... outside of being in a wheelchair... so like... and what an amazing person... honestly... to be able to...
[00:51:39] you know... it's such a good attitude... towards life... I saw him without his top on once... I think he just had like... a... a t-shirt on... but you know one of those... sporty t-shirts... where... basically... it just goes... kind of covers your neck... and... your chest and that... built like a horse... that sounds wrong... doesn't it? when you're talking about someone... I saw him the other day... with very few clothes on...
[00:52:08] he's built like a horse... honestly... so muscular... his arms... his shoulders... his chest... his back... because he was exercising... I mean this is quite... this is 20 years ago... but... like... so strong... and you know... if you do enough press-ups... or pull-ups... that's gonna work your cardiovascular system...
[00:52:37] just as much as running would... so there... that's what I think... and... I might be talking rubbish... but that wouldn't be the first time... alright... this... this is a question I got from... Theresa... but I've added it onto this... because this is... I don't know where... I can't remember where that was posted... Q&A question...
[00:53:06] hello sweet juicy JJ... thank you Theresa... at least someone knows what my real name is... thank you... I'm so confused... when you're talking... oh blimey I nearly burped... I'm so confused... hmm... well... that's a weird time to yawn... I'm so confused... when you're talking about money... I hear you say... quids... pounds... stones... stones...
[00:53:36] and other things... but I can't remember... can't remember them all... what are the differences... of those things... can you break it down for us... in America we have... dollars and cents... um... love love tea... and we laughed... oh yes... so... this is for tea... erm... I think the stones... that's talking about weight... so...
[00:54:06] so that's... when I talk about... how... heavy I am... see I was raised... when I was raised... when I was young... we always used to have... foot... and stones... so... you'd have feet... it wouldn't be... inches... or centimeters... it'd be feet... so... five foot eight... which is what I am... well... five foot nine... six foot three...
[00:54:35] so I'm six foot three... let's say... that's my height... which isn't my height... but if you start saying... how many inches... or how many centimeters... or how many meters... yeah... meters... I don't know what that is... and I think it's used in... probably... a lot of different parts of the world... they use meters... instead of feet... I don't know... if you say someone's like... 20 meters high... I don't know what that is...
[00:55:07] thinking about it... it might be a giant... but... I don't know... with stone... that's the... the weight... so... I was... a hundred... I was... a few years ago... I was... ranging between... 98 kilos... and 102 kilos... so that... that was kind of my... my weight range...
[00:55:35] I was kind of moving in between those two... and... so I was definitely on the cusp of... above 100 kilos... for quite a few years... I managed to get it down... but that's... roughly about... 16 stone... so I'm now... below 15 stone... so I've lost some weight... lost some fat... I might have just lost muscle... and just... kept fat... because... I don't know...
[00:56:05] it's hard to tell... because sometimes... I stand in front of the mirror... and... I hear screaming... I'm thinking... am I screaming inside my head... and I realise... it's the mirror... the mirror can't stand it... so... I don't know... if that's... an issue... I'm so... so... with money... so there's stones... stones... and pounds...
[00:56:34] is it stones... one... there's 14 pounds... in a stone... okay... I think it's... I think it's 2.2 kilos... in a... I don't know... oh man... 2.2 pounds... in a kilo... no...
[00:57:03] that wouldn't make sense... 2.2 kilos... in a pound... 2.2... it's a little bit like... driving... so we... we have miles an hour... I think in... I mean you might have that as well... but the... I think it's more... kilometers per hour... I think in America... I might be wrong... but... I'm pretty sure the cars used to have both... but with us...
[00:57:33] it was always how many miles an hour you're doing... kilometers an hour... never... ever used... not... not in my lifetime... not... not of anyone I ever knew... I'm not saying no one ever used it... but... it wasn't something that we... that we used... and... with the money... the money changed over when I was... very young... so the metric system... when...
[00:58:01] when did money... money... money system change... when did the money... the money system change... 1970s... it might have been before... 1970s to be fair... 15th of February... 1971... the people of Britain... woke up to a new system of currency... so... blimey... so it was during my lifetime...
[00:58:30] for centuries... Britain had used... pounds... shillings... and pence... 12 pence made one shilling... that's just confusing... 12 pence made one shilling... and 20 shillings... was equivalent to one pound... which means that... meant there was... 240 pence in one pound... so... and then they...
[00:59:00] I think they call it... decimalised it... so they changed it... so now... there's... basically... it's kind of very similar to America... I think... you get... a hundred cent to a... a dollar... is that correct? we have... 100 pennies... to... one pound... 100 pennies... to one pound... and... so...
[00:59:28] here's the different coins we have... although... I think the mints... they've stopped making... one pences... and two pences... but... I think they're still legal tender... so you've got... one pence... one penny... one penny coin... which is like a rusty... dirty... coloured thing... it looks like... it just looks like... it's been in someone's coffee...
[00:59:57] you know... it's just... or... just been left in an ashtray... so it's really... filthy... a two point... two pence coin... which is... a bigger... like a... a lot bigger than that... there used to be... a half penny coin... when I was a kid... but they got rid of that... then there's... a five pence piece... which is a lot smaller now... than it used to be... when I say smaller...
[01:00:27] it's still just the same... currency piece... they used to be quite big... but now they're little... so you've got a five pence piece... you've got a ten pence piece... there's a twenty pence piece... which was introduced... in... when was that introduced? twenty pence... introduced... the twenty pence was introduced... in nineteen eighty two...
[01:00:58] so there was no twenty pence before... but that... that was... and that's kind of like... got quite a few different... um... sides to it... before that... the... it's got even more... it's got what... one... two... three... four... five... six... seven... eight sides... the next coin above that... is the fifty pence piece... which has got... one... two... three... four... five... six... seven sides... one... two... three...
[01:01:27] four... five... six... two... three... one... two... five... one... three... two...
[01:01:57] five... two... The only time I have cash is if, well, I have cash if I get change. And because most of what I ever order is online delivered, so I don't really see any cash anymore. A 20 pence piece was introduced then. So a 50 pence piece.
[01:02:22] We used to have a pound note. So that was the first note currency. This is when I was like, you know, growing up, sort of 9, 8, 9, 10, whatever. I remember this, 7. It didn't have a lot to do with money, I think, when I was younger than that. So I had the pound note.
[01:02:52] So the pound note was around... So the pound note was discontinued in 1988. Okay. So the pound note was discontinued in 1988.
[01:03:19] And it had been around since 1797. So it was drawn from in 1988 due to inflation as it was replaced by a coin. So when did... Did one pound coin... When did start... Come into circulation?
[01:03:50] Okay. 1983. So I thought this was true because I was thinking, wait a minute. It was around long before they got rid of the one pound note. So for quite a long time, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... So for five years, the pound coin, the new pound coin, which was released in 1983, and the pound note were both in circulation at the same time. So they were trying to gradually get rid of the pound note.
[01:04:19] Which they did in 1988. However, however, with the notes, we had... We had one pound note, five pound notes, ten pound notes, twenty pound notes, and fifty pound notes.
[01:04:47] There wasn't a twenty pound note, I think, when I was growing up. That was a new thing as well, so I'm going to look into that. But we have that now, so we have... We don't have the one pound note anymore, so that's gone. So we have a five pound note, ten pound note, twenty pound note, and fifty pound note. I don't think we have any notes higher than that. I've never seen a higher note than that.
[01:05:16] So what did happen though, in 15th of June 1998, the two pound coin was released. The two pound coin. So, I don't really know why, but that's... So then we... So the whole money changed.
[01:05:43] So, in a sense, we had then the one penny, the two penny, the five penny, the ten penny. We no longer had the half penny. We had the twenty pence. We had the fifty pence. One pound coin. Two pound coin. There was never a two... Well, during my lifetime or during my period, there hasn't been a two pound note. Maybe there used to be in the past.
[01:06:13] So, there was a one pound coin and a one pound note at the same time. Until the one pound note got taken away. Which was... I think I already mentioned that earlier. Whenever that was. And then... No, it was 1988, wasn't it? 1988? Yeah. 1998. 1998. 1998. Two pound coin came out. Which is a much bigger coin. It's...
[01:06:43] Yeah. It's probably the biggest coin out of all of them, I think. Maybe the same size as a fifty pence piece. But it's a different colour. And... Then... Then... The next thing that changed... Do you have five pounds? So, the next thing would be... When did the twenty pound...
[01:07:12] Twenty pound... When did the twenty pound coin come into circulation? What? Twenty pence. So, the twenty... Have I mentioned this? The twenty pence came into circulation in 1982. So, there wasn't a twenty pence. So, I'm going to look at now... The twenty pound... Note. So, there's been a few changes over the years.
[01:07:43] The twenty pound note... Was introduced by the Bank of England... 1725. So, there's always been a twenty pound note. I'll tell you what I'm thinking of. Is... They changed the design. They changed the design. And... Right. This note replaces our paper twenty pound notes... Which we draw from circulation...
[01:08:12] After the thirty of September 2022. So... Twenty pound notes... When... When did twenty pound notes... Change design? Because I don't remember... There being a twenty pound note. The new twenty pound note... Ah... Okay. So, there's always been a twenty pound note. I didn't think there had been. I really didn't think that.
[01:08:42] A fifty pound note. So, look. So... Yeah. It goes up to fifty. Fifty pound is the highest note.
[01:09:12] Is there ever... Has there ever been... A hundred pound note? Is there... The Bank of England first issued a hundred pound note in approximately 1725. The note was last issued in 1943. And ceased to be legal tender in 1945.
[01:09:42] There is no Bank of England one hundred pound note currently in circulation. And the Bank of England advises that there are no plans to introduce one in the foreseeable future. Ah... Look at this. According to this calculator, the value of one hundred pound... In 1727... A few years back...
[01:10:08] In today's money is around six thousand pounds. So, I don't know what the... The... Ratio is between... A pound and a dollar. So, basically, your cents is our pence. Your dollar is our pound. But then... Australia... Has dollar. What's the Australian dollar? Then Canada has a dollar. Quite a few...
[01:10:38] I think there's a few countries used the term dollar. But... I don't think any other country... Uses the word pound. I might be wrong. And... There's... There are nicknames... For some of our money. And... So, let's have a look. I know one... One...
[01:11:14] Twenty pounds a score. Which is... British slang for money. So, I'm just going to go and click on this C. Just out of interest. Because... There's a lot of cockney... Like... Terms as well that used to be used. Firstly, we use what is... The most universal... Quid. I suppose quid. That is slang. So, if I say... Oh, it cost me thirty quid. I say it just... Naturally.
[01:11:44] Without thinking... That it's slang. But it is slang. So, quid is pounds. Sorry about that. I didn't really think about it. Just... Just something I've been... Learned. Been learnt. It's just, you know... Something that a lot of people use. Dosh. That's another word that's... Used for money. I don't generally use that word. Because... I'm an adult. And...
[01:12:14] The term... Is kind of an old term. It's like nothing but pop-ups on this website. I'm looking at foreignlingo.com. Another slightly old-fashioned term. But one which is certainly still used today. Is bob. It was referring to... I thought bob... Bob was...
[01:12:44] Oh, it's the equivalent to a quid. A few bob. So, that's using... It's kind of... It's like... Oh, it's going to cost a few bob to get that fixed. But it doesn't really mean a certain amount. It's just saying it's going to cost a bit of money. And... It's going to cost a few quid. It's going to cost a few pounds. Bread. Bread's another...
[01:13:12] Slang word that used to be used. I think slang the word's the right word for that. I think the slang word's being like... A little bit rude. A little bit... Ooh. Bread. Used to be a TV show called Bread. Bread. Comedy. And it was... I used to like watching it... When I was a kid. Further... The phrase bread and honey is cockney rhyming slang for money.
[01:13:43] I'm all out of bread, man. I can't come tonight. So, that's where the bread came from. Okay. And then you've got the term in simplest sense... From about 1940s. But there's a much older one called Breadwinner. Which actually is part of the language now. I never really thought about it as being money, bread. Bread and honey, money. Hmm. Doe. That's another word.
[01:14:12] Doe meaning money is much more older than bread. As a slang term for money. Hmm. So, someone probably thought dough. What does dough make? It makes bread. But bread doesn't stay... It doesn't rhyme with money. So, what can I put on bread that rhymes with money? Honey. He's got so much dough in a bank, he'll never tell anyone. What's the other one? The earliest... Cabbage. Cabbage.
[01:14:40] Another somewhat common slang term for money in Britain is cabbage. Really? He's got a nice chunk of cabbage sitting in the bank. Never heard of that. Clam. Clam? Never heard of that as I used as a word. Milk. Milk is another slang term for money used in many parts of Britain. And I've never heard money referred to as milk. Nope, never. Foreskin.
[01:15:10] Frogskins, sorry. Frogskins is another lesser use. Nope, never heard of that. Never used anyone... No one's ever come up to me and said, You got any frogskins? How much frogskins do you make? How much frogskins do you got in your bank? Never gone into a bank and said, I'd like to draw out some frogskins, please. Moolah. Okay, yeah, Moolah, I know that. Paper? Yeah.
[01:15:42] Scratch. Yeah, it's not something you normally hear. Rhino. Nope. Never ever heard of that. Fiver. So that just means a five pound note. So if you've got a fiver, can you lend me a fiver? Or can you lend me a tenner? Ten pound, five pound. Can you lend me a score? Or... It's not... That's not a term I would ever normally use,
[01:16:10] but if... I mean, here's a little bit of information. You might want to know. If someone's telling you about some really amazing... Some major thing, catastrophe that's happened to them, you know, the house has fallen down, and every member of the family's being abducted by aliens, and, you know, they've got debts of millions, and they don't know what to do, and haven't eaten for a year, and they said, oh, can you lend me a score?
[01:16:41] What they really mean is they want to go and buy drugs. Okay. So that's, you know, when that conversation of like huge stuff's happened, and then they end up saying, you've got a score I can have. And... I mean, basically, so they can score. It's as simple as that, because that's what scoring is, isn't it? So a score... You can say it's got three terminologies. Score as in scoring a goal,
[01:17:12] score as in 20 pound, and score as in paying for some narcotics. Illegal. So fiver, tenner, a nicker, N-I-C-K-E-R. I used to hear people from like... Older people from London saying that. Never really knew what it meant. It was basically for a pound,
[01:17:44] but I didn't really... It's, you know, like... I really need to listen to that word you just said. You know, what did you shout out then? Because I remember one of my... It was a proper cockney, and he walked in and said, anyone got a nicker I can borrow? Now, he was a supervisor, and he was constantly moving different... people around from different departments.
[01:18:14] The, you know, the... The agency workers, which I was one of them. And... We kind of looked round at him, thinking... What did he just say? Because it was very loud in there, and... A few of the Africans looked over as well, like, yeah, what did you say? But it was just basically needed a pound... On that occasion. In many parts, pony... In many parts of London,
[01:18:44] you might hear people talk about a pony. It's 25 pound. See, I never knew what a pony was. I knew of the term, but I still didn't know what it was until right now. A bullseye... Is 50 pound. Okay? So... Because that's worth 50 points in the game, so that's fine. Didn't know that either. A monkey... Is 500.
[01:19:14] See, you'll hear this kind of slang in some of the... The gangster movies and stuff, based on, like, London and that. I still didn't know what a monkey was until right now. 500. Why they can't just say 500? Because the weird thing about it is, it's kind of code, but ultimately, it's not code if everyone knows what it means. So if everyone around you knows that a monkey
[01:19:43] equals 500 pound... You know, if you're living in a... In a town where everyone, including the police, the teachers, the parents, the children, everyone, including the florist, everyone knows what a pony means, what a bullseye means, and what a monkey means, then there's no point saying it, is there? Because you're no longer speaking in code, and if you might as well just say the real term.
[01:20:16] Another specific name for a particular amount of money in London is a lady. This refers to five pound. Nope. Never heard of that. Ever. And you've got rhyming slang. Fiver. So you've got fiver, you've got lady Godiva, because it rhymes with fiver, which is where you get the word lady. So lady is a fiver,
[01:20:46] because it rhymes with lady Godiva. I've never really saw the point in all that, to be honest. Sometimes through less comedy than the others in this vein, 15 pounds is referred to as a Commodore. Never heard that before. Never, ever, ever, ever. So, readies, that's another one. So,
[01:21:16] just means cash, you've got any cash, you've got any readies. Basically, you've got anything ready now, any money ready to spend now, so we don't have to go to the bank. And, shillings, again, that was long gone before. Shekels, we don't really use the word shekels anymore. And, and that's it. So, yeah,
[01:21:46] I don't use most of those terms. But, I do use pounds, quid, um, dosh, that's another, yeah, I don't really, blag. No, I don't use most of those words. But, yeah, that's kind of what it is. It's just, so you've got 50, I don't know if you have 100 pound, 100 dollar notes. So, we only go up to 50 pounds. So, you probably have 50 dollar notes in America.
[01:22:18] And, if you're from America, it's not worth the same. So, there's, the exchange rate is different. I'm not really sure what the exchange rate is, but, the, our money's worth less, I think, in this country. So, that's my answer to that. Ann asks me, have you met Molly? How did she become an admin? She pays me, she pays me about
[01:22:48] 2,000 pounds a week to be the admin. And, no, she doesn't. How, I've never met her, never met her. I don't even know, to be honest. I don't know. She stalked me for a while. And, no, I don't know. It's, I couldn't even tell you.
[01:23:17] It's such a long time since, I kind of, I mean, I know she, Molly did a, video review, I think, back in about, 2019. 2019. I think, yeah. And, I don't, I really don't know. Honestly, just, just one of those things
[01:23:47] that just happened. It just, naturally, fitted into place, I guess. So, that's how Molly ended up being the boss of the group. Um, just as I said that, Molly's liked my Whisper Wednesday. Thursday. So, I guess, because she's on the group a lot, she's always checking out stuff. I know she's got her own stuff going on. Um, but, yeah, she's been around
[01:24:16] a long time. Yeah. That's it really, I don't know. Um, I don't even know if I made her, did I make her an admin or did she just make herself the admin? I mean, I think she's now in charge of the group. I, she allowed me to join because I left the group thinking, uh, went through one of my little weird periods and, uh, so I've joined. So, I think she's actually in charge of everything.
[01:24:46] She's in charge of the group now. So, she doesn't need me to be in the group. It's weird, isn't it? I don't even need to be in my own group. So, yeah, Molly is the boss of this group. She's in charge. So, she's in charge of me. She's always bossing me around. And that, I do believe, is all the questions. I don't normally
[01:25:16] do questions this early in the morning. Vinny's hassling me, begging me, so I don't know what he wants. So, I just want to say thank you to Hope, Ali, Michelle, Teresa, and Anne for your questions. I hope I answered them kind of properly. I hope. So, thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.
[01:25:45] And be gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye. Bye.
