[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to JasonNewland.com My name is Jason Newland with my early morning croaky voice I was born and a wonder star See it gets deeper
[00:00:24] I feel like my voice is broken eventually most of my adult life I mean hello everybody and now uh well how high can I go maybe not as high as I once could anyway
[00:00:51] I don't normally do these recordings quite so early 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
[00:01:19] um today they are having the floor put in 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 hmm
[00:01:53] blimey blimey blimey blimey because the bathroom has been 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
[00:02:21] for the water to go down yeah so anyway this is Q&A Friday it is it is it is the 9th of May 2025 and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes
[00:02:48] what else so my website's really groovy and 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
[00:03:18] the very top of the page there is like a carousel where you can skip across which lists like as an image of all the different podcasts 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 a device you are using you can save that for later or forever
[00:03:47] you can also stream at different speed you can also skip forward so you can skip forward 30 seconds jump forward 30 seconds or you can rewind 10 seconds and you can fast you can fast forward you can go two times faster one times faster to you know but you can also go
[00:04:17] 0.75x so that would be probably is that 25% slower than normal so if I'm talking way too fast for you then you can you know you can slow it down a bit also on each recording it tells you how long the recording is also tells you the size of the recording if you was to download it so for example
[00:04:47] yesterday's let me bore you to sleep was that's weird ok yesterday's let me bore you to sleep my hypnosis start so lmbyts number 1348 42.56 megabytes and it's an hour 32 an hour and 32 minutes and 59 seconds
[00:05:17] but if you was to download the 10 hour version with music it would be 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
[00:05:47] and they I could get them smaller but I'm trying to you know I want to keep the 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 fit it under 300 megabytes
[00:06:17] and because that's the size of the file 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 okay okay I actually find on the phone using the website it's a lot easier so if I listen to a recording of mine I listen on the phone
[00:06:47] I listen on the phone but I go onto the website rather it's just easier because it's there the latest recording is there and just play I don't know just me I just find it I find it easier also in the index you've got home which is just the standard you know main page then we've got a link for podcasts which links lists all the podcasts which you can click on it takes you to a podcast which is embedded in the website again
[00:07:16] you can stream or play download and then you've got playlists that again lists or you know each individual podcast you can click on it and then you've 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've also again you can stream and play and download those ones if you want
[00:07:46] I've got a contact form there's a link to my Facebook group which is Jason Newland's boring group so that's pretty groovy 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
[00:08:18] according to this 1.55 5,000 subscribers so 1,500 subscribers 2,500 videos which is quite a lot isn't it it's now my podcast so every all 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 of the website
[00:08:48] what on earth am I doing there's then you've got LB L M B Y T S so let me boil you to 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 um bum bum I haven't had any reviews since the 6th of April so if you've got any reviews please please leave me a review
[00:09:18] and got 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'm click on Spotify for example and all my podcasts are listed with a link to the Spotify podcast for that particular podcast um which brings me to something where is it did have a question on my Facebook group from Megan
[00:10:17] I do believe er 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 um I
[00:10:47] yeah what it is I think that the thing was connected to to the SoundCloud SoundCloud because I had two let me boil you to sleep podcasts one was on SoundCloud one's 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 er I think Spotify 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 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 boil you to sleep or 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
[00:12:42] because I think there might be two different podcasts on Spotify for the let me boil you to sleep and that's something I can't unfortunately undo because it is yeah it's just the way it's it's kind of worked out really unfortunately and but you can what I've done is I've added the main thing so you got podcast apps
[00:13:11] Q&A Friday 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 then 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
[00:13:41] I do have 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 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
[00:14:12] podcast so that's now there's a link there for that in the index that is 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
[00:15:10] the information it's quite weird because SoundCloud said oh they reinstated the 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 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
[00:15:40] that's all it is it's I mean what I'll do wait a minute I'm going to 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 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
[00:16:10] so what I'm going to do 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
[00:16:38] because I've got ones from years ago so let's have a look so the podcast on here for the let me bore you to sleep so there's one two sure I saw another one yeah three
[00:17:10] three that I can see there might be others but see 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
[00:17:35] I don't know where I was recording that but I wonder if it still plays
[00:17:46] still plays can you believe that
[00:18:17] what's that 7 years ago so 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 so that one's not valid and not the other one
[00:18:46] 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 one on the covers got let me bore you to sleep and it's got music
[00:19:14] 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 yeah so the last one was the 1st of May which ironically music
[00:19:44] no music no music does it still play? still plays that one's now Gorn 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 I said don't be barking not please bark more there's a difference between those two sentences
[00:20:16] blimey so what was I saying? oh yeah oh I found another one oh no there's a lot of I've got a lot of podcasts on let me on Spotify that are no longer available which is a bit annoying because it
[00:20:45] it muddles things up so the let me boil 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 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
[00:21:15] I can find that on Spotify it's here let me boil you to sleep 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 which was last night so yeah that's got all the latest recordings
[00:21:45] that's the one to follow that's the one 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 you know but I understand it can be frustrating so it's it's now hopefully sorted er
[00:22:16] I've had a yeah I've had a couple 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 you you you don't know where it's come from I think erm some people might think it's actually that the podcasts are uploaded to Spotify
[00:22:44] and that's the host which it can be you can host on Spotify but the main erm place usually which is the same as most other podcast apps so I'll give you an example what I do so for the Let Me Boy To Sleep podcast so let's go click on this
[00:23:13] and so let's have a look there's 867 listenable episodes er like I like to do I deleted loads of episodes it was more it was more in a sense of trying to change because I was putting
[00:23:43] 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 like me to start charging me more they already have so now it's like 50 odd quid a month instead of being 22 so I was trying to kind of cut down the expense a little bit
[00:24:13] 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 got Let Me Boy To Sleep you got Podcast Settings so Let Me Boy To Sleep what I might do if I just change it to
[00:24:42] if I change it to Let Me Boy To Sleep dash Jason Newland maybe that will 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 let's have a look Vinny's proper moaning today he was a bit ill earlier he
[00:25:11] 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 is on there anyway at the bottom so what I can do is once I've made a podcast on Spreeca which is my main podcast host I go to the settings which says RSS settings
[00:25:41] I'm not 100% sure what RSS stands for I used to know it but I don't care what it means is basically it's a feed so you give it to a podcast app for example Castbox or Apple Podcasts Spotify
[00:26:09] 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 social sharing no that's weird distribution oh yeah that's the one so your podcast has been added to Spreeca
[00:26:41] and then it's it's been added to Spotify Heart Radio Amazon Music Audible Castbox Deezer Podcast Addict Podchaser NG07 Well I was just rudely interrupted not really rudely but I was interrupted by a phone call from my doctor's surgery
[00:27:10] 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 I don't know I think I might have bored him anyway anyway oh I contacted
[00:27:41] 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 I never seem to get around to just doing the questions anonymous member Oshini
[00:28:08] Jason I enjoy your LMBYTS so much all the way from South Africa I listen via Spotify and haven't seen any new uploads you know you can join the Jason's Boring Group if you're on here you could join if you want so I'm guessing your name's Oshini 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
[00:28:38] I will copy 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 that's weird that's not what I was supposed to be doing
[00:29:08] Jason Newland Spotify okay so if I just go hi here is the new link to to the Spotify to the sound to the podcast right in fact no wait a minute
[00:29:37] wait a minute let me go back just on Newland Spotify let me boy 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 that'll do the job
[00:30:09] okay Spotify let me boy to sleep so that's done sorry about that hassle and you know so hey any questions for this year this week's Q&A for eye day for eye day let's have a look all comments I've got five hope asks me which that was that was a bit whistly wasn't it hope asks
[00:30:40] me which platform should we listen to in order to give you the most support uh but I don't know really I mean all of the podcast hosts are basically coming from Spreaker so Spreaker generally provides the the the so if you listen on Spotify
[00:31:08] 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 a website because I suppose it's just because I'm paying for a website and I want it to be used that's kind of it it doesn't really matter
[00:31:38] 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 tells me how many if I look at the sources let's say yesterday for example so 1625 downloads came from Apple podcasts 123 downloads from podcast Addict
[00:32:06] 78 from Overcast 38 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 1,625
[00:32:37] 8,9 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 that is made up of on Spreaker
[00:33:07] that it's basically it's the link that they're using I realise some of this might sound a bit like gogglyblog but I kind of I kind of know I know what I mean if that helps see Spotify 16 16 16 downloads on Spotify from all my podcasts so I find that
[00:33:37] 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 that's it yeah
[00:34:07] I'm not quite sure how it works out maybe they keep their stats 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 current this year custom
[00:34:37] let's have a look what we've got this year January so 175 175 175 thousand downloads since January on this podcast on Spreaker 153 644
[00:35:07] on Apple podcast Overcast 3542 Podcast Addict 2934 I'm number 4
[00:35:51] I'm number 4 on the list jasonlouland.com 561 so that's like direct I mean they're all from Spreaker that's the weird thing but like people directly going on to Spreaker so really the answer to your question hope is wherever you want just listen wherever is comfortable for you and I mean really the job is for me to support you
[00:36:20] so 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 wherever you want to listen 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 podcast
[00:36:50] 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 look for stuff so even if I want to listen to music I go in and go into the library but if I go in and put in my name Jason Jason Derulo always comes up top and then Jason Mraz
[00:37:21] Mraz then Jason Isbell Jason Donovan Jason Oldean Jason I mean what about me? what about me? let's have a look Jason Newland Artist top results click on this what's coming up? nothing nothing so Apple
[00:37:50] Apple Music for some reason doesn't seem to have me on there but I'm definitely on Apple Podcasts that's strange so if I look let me bore you to Apple Music so is Apple Podcasts a different app then? let me bore bore
[00:38:24] let me bore you to slurp okay that's not the right and you's got owe you to sleep albums, songs, playlists that's just that's very weird podcasts albums
[00:38:50] 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 Apple Podcasts yep I do have Apple Podcasts I got the app it's just
[00:39:21] yeah it's just a different app I listen to Apple Music let me bore you to sleep ah it's a jason if I put in boring I wonder what will come up boring
[00:39:47] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 nope not me I'm not coming up channels nope if I put bored bored shows not even coming up bored is literally in the title but nope not coming up
[00:40:17] 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 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 erm nope I'm not on here either they're not listing me I wonder if I've been blacklisted
[00:40:47] 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 Spotify's kind of hidden me but if you put my name in you've got top results
[00:41:18] that's but that goes for individual recordings so go for shows let me boil 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 and chronic pain hypnosis hypnosis for sleeping deeply let me boil let me boil to sleep
[00:41:48] wow there's about 16 hypnosis for sleeping deeply so I've got no idea latest recording so let me boil to sleep that one works let me go down to the other let me boil to sleep my hypnosis start it's basically just showing the same same podcast see if it's got any right that's all of it
[00:42:17] hypnosis for 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 panic okay that's good so I personally just use my website
[00:42:47] 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 I listen to lectures on YouTube
[00:43:16] 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 like university lectures and things like that
[00:43:46] at the moment so yeah wherever I hope 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 boobies boobies no I don't know what makes me happy
[00:44:13] that was too loud and that was too late in a 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 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 I focus on how I feel like feeling better I feel more better
[00:44:45] when I feel like I've 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 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 helping I mean I like 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 but little things you know I do like to I like to watch comedy and
[00:45:52] yeah I 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 and without this it's really sad but I don't really have much
[00:46:21] 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 is it yeah I think that's there's a boxing of course I forgot about boxing sometimes it's the looking forward to the boxing rather than the actual watching of it but sometimes the watching of it
[00:46:51] is just you know occasionally there's just this amazing 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? and I was I am
[00:47:21] actually I had a workout on 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 but punching doesn't seem to negatively affect my back at all my lower back
[00:47:51] but if anything it stretches my upper back and yeah it's nice feels nice yeah I still do weights I've lacked I've I've yeah I've gone down a little bit with that I was doing them really regular haven't been doing them so regular I mean when I'm not in the
[00:48:20] 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 well it's squats really so it's kind of stretches and
[00:48:49] 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 that'd be nice and a punch bag that I could use anytime
[00:49:18] 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 so I like to do things continuous so I'll punch it for an hour continuously not hard continuously but I will keep going I will keep that movement going for the whole time and
[00:49:47] at the end of it I feel very sweaty but I feel you know quite good like I've had a it's not just physical it's not just like strength or stretching the movements good as well but it's sort of it's also cardiovascular because you do anything any kind of physical movement for a long period of time it turns into cardiovascular doesn't it?
[00:50:17] it turns into working the lungs and the heart because you don't have to run to get that you can use your hands to get that as well I mean to 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 40s probably he was a coach for the Olympic team
[00:50:46] for basketball for disabled basketball players so he was at the disabled what is it called? what is it called? the Olympics is it disabled Olympics I can't remember what it's called but he he was like the British coach one of the British coaches for the basketball team now what's really weird about him is
[00:51:17] I remember seeing that he was like 6 foot 2 because he's always been like my chest height it's like you're like 6 foot 2 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 you know such a good attitude towards life I saw him without his top on once
[00:51:47] I think he just had like a a t-shirt on but you know one of those sporty t-shirts where basically it just kind of covers your neck and your chest built like a horse that sounds wrong doesn't it? when you talk about someone I saw him the other day with very few clothes on he's built like a horse honestly so muscular his arms, his shoulders
[00:52:17] 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 going to work your cardiovascular system just as much as running would so there that's what I think
[00:52:46] I might be talking rubbish but that wouldn't be the first time alright 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 hello sweet juicy JJ thank you Theresa at least someone knows what my real name is thank you I'm so confused
[00:53:15] 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 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
[00:53:44] in America we have dollars and cents love love tea and we laughed oh yes so this is for tea and I think the stones that's talking about weight so so that's when I talk about how heavy I am see I was raised
[00:54:13] when I was raised when I was young mother 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 5 foot 8 which is what I am 5 foot 9 6 foot 3 so I'm 6 foot 3 let's say that's my height which isn't my height
[00:54:40] 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 thinking about it it might be a giant
[00:55:09] but I don't know with stone that's the the weight so I was a hundred I was just a few years ago I was ranging between 98 kilos and 102 kilos so that that was kind of my my weight range I was kind of moving in between those two and
[00:55:39] 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 it's hard to tell because sometimes I stand in front of the mirror
[00:56:09] and I hear screaming I'm thinking am I screaming inside my head and I realise it's 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 the stones stones and pounds is it stones one
[00:56:37] there's 14 pounds in a stone okay I think it's 2.2 kilos in a I don't know oh man 2.2 pounds in a kilo no that wouldn't make sense
[00:57:05] 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 it was always how many miles an hour you're doing
[00:57:36] kilometers an hour never ever used not not in my lifetime not not with anyone I ever knew 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 when did money money
[00:58:06] money system change when did 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 for centuries Britain had used pounds shillings and pence
[00:58:35] 12 pence made 1 shilling that's just confusing 12 pence made 1 shilling and 20 shillings was equivalent to 1 pound which meant there meant there was 240 pence in 1 pound so and then they I think they call it decimalised it
[00:59:04] so they changed it so now there's basically it's kind of very similar to America I think you get 100 cent to a a dollar is that correct? we have 100 pennies to 1 pound 100 pennies to 1 pound and so here's the different coins we have although
[00:59:32] I think the mints they've stopped making 1 pences and 2 pences but I think they're still legal tender so you've got 1 pence 1 penny coin which is like a rusty dirty dirty coloured thing it looks like it just looks like it's been in someone's coffee you know it's just or just been left in an ashtray or so just really
[01:00:02] filthy 2 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 5 pence piece which is a lot smaller now than it used to be when I say smaller it's still just the same currency piece they used to be quite big but now they're little
[01:00:32] so you've got a 5 pence piece you've got a 10 pence piece there's a 20 pence piece which was introduced in when was that introduced? 20 pence introduced the 20 pence was introduced in 1982 so there was no 20 pence before but that was and that's kind of like
[01:01:02] got quite a few different sides to it before that it's got even more it's got what? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 sides the next coin above that is the 50 pence piece which has got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 oh so so the 20 pence piece has got
[01:01:31] it's got 7 sides the 50 pence piece has got 7 sides so it's kind of angled you know but the 50 pence piece is a lot bigger than the 20 pence piece 20 pence piece I think is about the same kind of size as a 5 pence piece I do believe maybe a little bit bigger I say this because I hardly ever see cash I don't have any cash haven't seen the only time I have cash is if
[01:02:01] 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 and the 20 pence piece was introduced then so a 50 pence piece we used to have used to have a pound a pound note so that was the first note currency
[01:02:31] this is when I was like you know growing up sort of 9, 8, 9, 10, whatever I remember this 7 I didn't have a lot to do with money I think when I was younger than that so the pound note so the pound note was around do do do do do do do do
[01:03:02] so the pound note was discontinued discontinued 1988 ok so the pound note was discontinued in 1988 and it been around since 1797 so it was withdrawn from in 1988 due to inflation as it was replaced by a coin so
[01:03:32] when did did did one pound coin when did one pound start come into circulation ok 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
[01:04:02] 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 so for 5 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 which they did in 1988 however however however with the notes
[01:04:33] we had we had one pound note five pound notes ten pound notes twenty pound notes and fifty pound notes 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
[01:05:02] 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 so what did happen though in 15th of June 1998 the two pound coin was released
[01:05:32] the two pound coin so I don't really know why but that's so then we so the whole like money change so in a sense that we had 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
[01:06:01] 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 so there's 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
[01:06:31] no it was 1988 wasn't it 1988 yeah 1998 two pound coin came out which is a much bigger coin it's 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 the next thing that changed
[01:07:03] to a five pound so the next thing would be that when did the twenty pound 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
[01:07:33] 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 the twenty pound note were introduced by the Bank of England seventeen twenty five so there's always been a twenty pound note I tell you what I'm thinking of is they changed the design they changed the design and
[01:08:04] right this note replaces our paper twenty pound notes which we draw from circulation 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 oh
[01:08:33] ok so there's always been a twenty pound note I didn't think there had been I really didn't think that a fifty pound note let's have a look so
[01:09:06] yeah goes up to fifty fifty pound is the highest note is there ever been a hundred pound note is there the the Bank of England first issued a hundred pound note in approximately seventeen twenty five the note was
[01:09:34] last issued in nineteen forty three and ceased to be legal tender in nineteen forty five 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 hmm look at this according to this calculator the value of one hundred pound
[01:10:04] in seventeen twenty seven a few years back in today's money is around six thousand pounds so I don't know what the the ratio is between a pound and dollar so basically your cents is our pence your dollar is our pound but then Australia has dollar
[01:10:34] what's the Australian dollar I think Canada has a dollar quite a few countries use 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
[01:11:03] and so so look I know one one twenty pounds a score which is British slang for money so I'm just going to go and click on this see just out of interest because there's a lot of cockney like terms as well that used to be used
[01:11:32] 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 without thinking that it's slang but it is slang so quid is pounds sorry about that I did don't really think about it just just something I've been learnt it's just you know
[01:12:01] 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 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
[01:12:31] but one which is certainly still used today is bob it was referring to I thought bob bob was oh it's the equivalent to a quid a few bob 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
[01:12:59] 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 slang word that used to be used I think slang the word is the right word for that I think the slang words being like a little bit rude a little bit ooooh and bread used to be a TV show called bread comedy
[01:13:28] I used to like watching that when I was a kid further the phrase bread and honey is cockney rhyming slang for money I'm all out of bread man I can't come tonight so that's where the bread came from ok and then you've got the term in simplest sense from about 1940s but there's a much older one called breadwinner
[01:13:58] which actually is part of the language now never really thought about it as being money bread bread and honey money dough that's another word dough meaning money is much more older than bread as a slang term for money yeah so someone probably thought dough what does dough make it makes bread but bread doesn't stay it doesn't rhyme with money
[01:14:28] 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 another one the earliest cabbage 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 never heard of that as a user's word milk
[01:14:57] milk is another slang term for money used in many parts of Britain I've never heard money referred to as milk no never foreskin frog skin sorry frog skins is another lesser use no never heard of that never use anyone no one's ever come up to and said you got any frog skins
[01:15:26] how much frog skins do you make how much frog skins you got in your bank never gone into a bank and said I'd like to draw out some frog skins please moolah okay yeah moolah I know that paper scratch yeah it's not a sub for you normally hear rhino nope never ever heard of that fiver that just means a five pound note
[01:15:57] so if you 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 it's not actually not a term I would ever use 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 the
[01:16:27] every member of the family's being abducted by aliens and 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 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 score I can have and
[01:16:58] I mean basically so they can score is as simple as that because that's what scoring is isn't it so a score you can say it's got three three terminologies score as in scoring a goal score as in twenty pound and score as in paying for some narcotics illegal so fiver tenner a nicker
[01:17:27] n-i-c-k-e-r 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 a basically for a pound but I didn't really didn't it's you know like I really need to listen to that word you said you know what did you shout out then
[01:17:57] because I remember one of my it was a proper cockney and he walked in and said anyone got anyone got a nicker I can borrow now he was a supervisor and he was constantly moving different people around from different departments and the you know the the agency workers which I was one of them and we kind of looked round at him thinking
[01:18:26] 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 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 I still didn't know what it was until right now a bullseye
[01:18:56] a monkey 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 see you'll hear this kind of slang in some of the the gangster movies and stuff based on like London and that
[01:19:24] 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 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
[01:19:54] 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 another specific name for a particular amount of money in London is a lady this refers to five pound nope
[01:20:23] never heard of that ever and you got you got rhyming slang fiver so you got lady Godiva because it rhymes with fiver which is where you get the word lady so lady is a fiver because it rhymes it rhymes with lady Godiva it
[01:20:52] I never really saw the point in all that to be honest I just sometimes through less less commonly than the others is in this vein fifteen pounds is referred to as a Commodore never heard that before never ever ever ever so redis that's another one so just means cash you got any cash you got any redis basically you got anything ready now any money ready
[01:21:21] 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 yeah I don't use most of those terms but I do use pounds
[01:21:51] quid Dosh 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 got fifty I don't know if you have hundred pound hundred dollar notes so we only go up to fifty pounds so you probably have fifty dollar notes in America and if you're from America
[01:22:21] 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 is worth less I think in this country so that's my answer to that and Anne asks me have you met Molly how did she become an admin she pays me she pays me about two thousand pounds a week
[01:22:50] to be the admin and no she doesn't 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 it's such a long time
[01:23:20] since I kind of I mean Molly did a video review I think back in about I think yeah and I don't I really don't know honestly just just one of those things that just happened it just
[01:23:49] naturally fitted into place I guess so that's how Molly ended up being the boss of the group just as I said that Molly's liked my Whisper Wednesday 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 and but yeah she's been around a long time
[01:24:21] yeah I see it really I don't know and 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 I went through one of my little weird periods and so I've joined so I think she's actually in charge of everything she's in charge of the group now so
[01:24:49] 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 do questions this early in the morning
[01:25:19] 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 and be gentle with yourself because you deserve
[01:25:48] to feel safe lots of love, bye goodbye
