(no music) #1143 - Q&A Friday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (7th June 2024)

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

There's a bit of banging going on somewhere in the building. Sounds like a hammer and a drill or something like that so I don't know. Quite where it's coming from.

It can't be coming from upstairs. Maybe it's coming from downstairs. I don't know.

It's very strange. Someone might just be putting furniture together. They might be hammering in a nail into the wall for a family portrait and decided that they want to make it so special that I'll take the time maybe to give it a special memory.

So instead of just hammering it in quickly, they'll take a few hours. I don't know. I don't know.

Right, today is Q&A for Friday. And thank you for those that have left a message, a question rather. Let's have a look.

Oh, where are we? Where are we? Right. Just going to the page to find the stuff. I think Andre on keep saying Andre.

It's because I was thinking about him. Vinnie saw his first squirrel today. I don't think he's seen one before.

At least I don't know if he has. I don't remember it happening with me. And the squirrels aren't around a lot.

To have one just walking around crossing the road like it was just a little bit random is quite unusual. That was the whole story. That was a bit boring, wasn't it? Perfect for this podcast.

So those that don't know what Q&A Friday is, it's a podcast I do on Fridays, which is a Q&A. And now music is blaring out from downstairs. Brilliant.

Yeah, great. Or I don't know where from because this windows open because it's nice weather. It might be over the fence, to be honest.

It's just hopefully you can't hear it. If you can, there's nothing I can do about it. I'm not going to wait until any later because half past eight now and there's been loads of noise outside until now.

What the hell that noise is? Very strange. Very strange. Wow.

Anyway, that is weird. This is really weird noises. Hope there's no one living in the loft.

I tell you what, I don't understand how people can listen to really, really loud, like loud, loud TV or loud music, really loud, not just. I'm talking like loud. Like really, I don't know how to explain it, really.

It's, you know, it's to the work. I struggle to even be in the same room when that kind of level of sound is there. Really loud.

But then, do you know, you get people in cars and you hear them pulling up from like 10 miles away because of the radio. They'll listen to the radio and you can hear people talking on the radio and it's really loud and they pull up and it's really loud. But I wonder, is it loud in their car? Do they have to have it loud because of all the traffic sound?

I'm not a driver.

I don't know. Or are they just, maybe they're just a bit deaf. I mean, my hearing, I think is fairly okay, but my eyesight isn't.

So can you hear that? I think it's starting to annoy me a little bit. I have to calm myself down. I don't expect complete silence.

I'd like it, but I don't expect it. But at this time of night, half eight. Or am I just getting old? Maybe, maybe.

So I got these questions. I got Christine, Lynn, Robin, Kathleen and Teresa. So I've got a few questions.

So I want to start off right at the beginning. Start off with Christine. Oh yeah, by the way, if you've, if you, that's a weird noise, isn't it? If you, if you've joined or subscribed to my YouTube channel, thank you.

Because I've had a lot of new subscribers this week and which is quite cool. So thanks a lot. If you want to know where my YouTube channel is, just go to YouTube and just put my name in, you'll find me quite easily.

The videos, including the ones I've not yet uploaded, or they're uploaded, but they're not actually available. Some of them are like private. There's 610 videos.

So it's taken me a couple of weeks to upload them all. Most of them are now done. And I'm just in the process of making new ones from well, not new, but I've done what was it? 7 to 20.

I've made 13 videos today. So number 7 to 20, sleeping boring objects. I've not updated them.

So I've not made them public yet. But I've been uploading them and making them. It's quite time consuming, actually.

Part of me thinks, you know, then another part of me thinks it's kind of just this a constant squeaky sounds really. So Christine asks me, which season do you like best? And why? Well, which season do I like best and why? I would say I have a little little pungent. That's the right word.

The spring, which is kind of I guess we're just leaving spring now, aren't we? But not for the weather, because the weather does start to brighten up. But we have beautiful days in the winter, autumn, and you know, even the winter, autumn, summer, we have beautiful days, they might not always be warm, but clear blue sky. You know, so spring is not the only time when the weather gets better.

Although it does get better, kind of, but there's a lot of rain, a lot of rain in spring. So I'm not particularly, I'm not fond of the constant rain due to having Vinnie. Otherwise, it probably wouldn't bother me.

With Andre, he didn't have to go out. So you know, I had to go out sometimes. But now compared to back then, you know, a few years back, there's much more available to get delivered.

There was a time when even this this building was blacklisted. Even taxi drivers wouldn't come here. The taxi firm said no, because some of the locals that lived around here, not in the building, but they would live around here, they would get a taxi from town, park up and say, I'm just going to go and get the money, and walk through our building and then out the back, because the back entrance with a gate, you can just leave and run off.

And the taxi driver will be sitting there for like 20 minutes and then have to drive off. And it happens so often, including when I was living there. I actually seen a couple of people do it.

So I know some of the culprits, which meant that getting taxis was, well, first of all, not coming. That's what I was told, managed to find one taxi firm that would come. But they'd only come if they got paid first.

Now, it's because they know me a little bit. I've got a taxi firm that I guess they've got my number on their system now. So when I call them up, I say to them that I will pay if they want me to all pay before the journey starts.

And normally I don't need to. But if I if I've ordered a taxi for somebody else, which I've done a few times, I will pay for the journey before they leave. And so they know that I'm honest, I guess.

So now I don't have any problems getting a taxi. But we didn't get deliveries. We couldn't get us.

It was quite difficult. You get groceries. Some groceries, you know, it's weird, right? Okay.

Iceland, it's not that not the country. Iceland, the supermarket, you might not have an Iceland where you live. But in the UK of England, there is there's a is it like a frozen? I think they used to be called not frisbees, frombies, frambies.

Basically a frozen shop, a shop full of freezers, a supermarket full of freezers. And that's it was a name and then they got took over by Iceland, I think. Anyway, it's called Iceland now has been for some while.

And I couldn't believe it. They don't deliver online, even now nine years, nine years, you can't get delivery online. However, if you go all the way to town and buy all the food, they will deliver it.

And that's where they deliver it from. So but they won't deliver it online. How weird is that? The fact is, over the last nine years, they would have made a fair bit of money for me.

Because I would have used them. But having to walk or have to not walk but go into town and queue up for ages and all that stuff. The process of them to pay for everything and do all that.

And then it's good that they deliver us nice, but sometimes they'd be there before me. Wouldn't give me a lift though. But it's like, you know, I'll be there at 11 o'clock.

They said we'd be home by 12. No, takes two hours to get home. Oh, I'm going to deliver till four then.

Four. Now some of you might be thinking, what's that got to do with the seasons? And which you like? And then the only reason I know that is because it's in front of me. That's a good thing about Q&A Friday.

I have the questions in front of me on the screen, reminding me at all times to try and stick to the subject. How did I get on to talking about Iceland and supermarkets? I don't know. What season do I like? Yeah, I reckon spring.

I mean, summer's okay, but spring is quite nice because I can walk around. I haven't got to wear a T-shirt. I know some people do wear T-shirts.

You know, this is first sign of sun and they're out there with T-shirts on, shivering like silly, silly penguins that they are. It's like, what are you wearing a T-shirt for? It's like three degrees. It's like, yeah, but the sun's out.

Okay. I don't go by whether the sun's up. The sun's out every single day of the year, isn't it? Because, you know, the day that when the sun isn't out will be a day that none of us will wake up.

Basically, you know, the sun's always there. When the sun's not there anymore, we won't be here anymore. Well, yeah, I'm pretty much guaranteed that, isn't it? I guess when that light goes out, all lights go out in the vicinity.

It'll just be an ice rock, I suppose. Blimey. I don't know about that.

There's apparently a planet, and I've still not heard anything about it since, which has got potentially life on there, because they've found that whatever life produces, like living beings produce a certain gas, this planet has that gas on there, and it's the only planet they've found ever, other than this one, that has that. And it's two and a half times bigger than this planet, and it's got two and a half times the amount of that gas.

Two and a half times.

Can you imagine that? Like 16 billion people. Could be interesting. I'd love it.

I'd absolutely love, that's one of the biggest things I'd love, to find life on another planet, but not like microbes or things like that, but just a living being that we could communicate with. Although I don't think humans are pretty, I don't think we're the best as a species with communication, because let's face it, people can't even get on with their neighbor, can they? Sometimes.

And look at all the different species on this planet, different countries, and the different languages, and all the, you know, it's, I don't know how well we would, as a species, as a planet, accommodate another race of people, and we don't even like our own races, or get on with our own races, maybe is probably a better way of putting it.

Some people don't like the different races, some people struggle with the different races, some people just don't care. There's definitely a lot of difference, and perhaps what we need is something so different to come along, so that we can all realize that we're pretty much the same. You know, something so different, a species so different that it pulls us all together.

I don't mean in a war or anything like that, but I mean just a battle of survival, no, nothing like that, no war of the worlds or anything. But just so like, oh, human beings, because you know, they'll come in and say, you all look the same to us, because we will. You've all got, mostly you've got two legs, two arms, two eyes, a mouth, bum hole, feet, toes, fingers, you know, hair, or not hair, depending on how old you are, or you know, it's like teeth, again, depending on age, and how much sugar you've had during your lifetime.

Brilliant. I wish someone had told me about the dangers of eating chocolate. Oh, wait a minute.

Yeah, I probably did know that. So now I've only got one tooth left. I'm bald, practically.

You know, I'm a bald, I've got a bald spot on the back of my head. Seriously, it's like a, like a big, flat kind of, a plane tried to land on it the other day. Ridiculous.

Why is that noise? There's a real strange noises going on. It's weird. I don't know.

It's distracting me. So which season do I like best? I would say I like spring. And yeah, spring, not, yeah, probably.

Part of the reason is that, that is because quite a few nice things have happened in spring. It's, I like the idea of new life, a new start. I kind of had that feeling twice a year, three times a year, sometimes if I include my birthday, you know, starting, okay, this year, on my 34th birthday, you know, I'm going to do something different.

Because I'm 34 this year, I've decided. I'm going to do something different. Or New Year's Eve.

Right, let's make some changes the coming year. Okay, it might only last for like three hours, the momentum, but, and I have a similar thing with spring time. There's been a few periods in my life where I have actually just felt quite positive towards like the coming year, the rest of the year, because of what's happened in spring.

This isn't one of those years, funny enough. But there has been a few. There's one in 1990, yeah.

And I moved back and stayed with my dad for a few months, because I was living in London and I came back and I had two jobs, one night shift job and another job in the evening. And it was kind of April time and everything was going quite well for me actually. I'd gone from earning for like £85 a week to earning, I don't know, probably £300 a week, something like that.

So it really went up the amount I was earning, maybe more than that. And it was kind of, oh, the things were just looking up, just looked a little bit up, a bit better, a bit more. Oh, a similar thing, probably in 1988.

I left the chip shop and I went and worked. And again, I stayed with my dad for a little while. And I got the new job in the co-op.

Now I'm not, I didn't particularly like the job in the co-op, but I was just, I guess, happy to have a job. And it wasn't hard, really, you know, it wasn't uncomfortable, physically uncomfortable, you know. It was okay as far as the job goes.

I wasn't very good at it, but I've never been particularly good at any job I've done. And I, it was just new, it was new, I was meeting new people. And for the first time, yeah, things were changing a little bit.

And I guess I was kind of discovering myself a bit during that period, leading up to the summer. And then, I don't know, it's hard to explain really. But I, yeah, quite, I just remember it.

Trying to think what other years I remember spring. I suppose I remember 1986, because I left school in spring. And I was all excited to leave school.

Because I really, I wasn't the biggest fan of that place. Just didn't like it, didn't want to be there, just, I never really ever wanted to be there. Apart from the first day of school, first day of term, for about, well, at least one year.

I think it might have been the second year of high school, second out of five. And I went in with my pencil case and my pad, and I was determined to be a good boy. I wasn't going to get in trouble, I wasn't going to chuck tables at anyone.

I was not, I wasn't going to be verbally naughty. I was just going to get on, focus, and be, well, I didn't know, probably didn't know the word academic back then, but to be, be a good student, you know. And so I went into school, got there about quarter to nine, I guess.

The first, we had to, I guess, call our names out and register at nine o'clock in the morning. About four minutes past nine, I kind of changed my mind. And it's just like, it wasn't, you know, it wasn't, just wasn't, it wasn't, that's all.

Because I think my biggest thing about high school, there's a few things. I was the smallest. And I was still the smallest kid in the high school when I was in the third year.

You know, I was tiny, really small. And which was very strange when you consider that both my brothers were, weren't small. And my dad's definitely not small.

So I don't know quite how I ended up being so tiny. I kind of figure it out what it is from a psychological point of view, but yeah, it was just weird. So I, in the first year, I went to high school, I was a little bit intimidated by how big everything was, and how many people there were, and all these huge kids, like adults walking around.

So I was a little bit perplexed by it all. But I think that's normal for probably a lot of kids. Well, I remember I was in the first year of my, yeah, the English teacher was my form teacher.

And it was a room between basically the back room led to the library. So yeah, it was an okay room, really. And I saw I was in there for English and for form.

So every, every, every lunchtime and everywhere, every beginning of beginning of the day, and the end of the day, we had to go back there and be signed in and signed out or whatever. And the teacher, the English teacher, I really wanted him to like me. He had really curly hair and glasses.

That's not his fault. But I've got glasses and really curly hair if I let it grow. In fact, I probably had curlier hair than him.

But he had a proper, proper curly, curly, curly, which wasn't really relevant to the story. But I'm just, I think he was ginger. Or like fair hair, he had fair hair.

Fairish. And he was old, but he probably wasn't. He was probably in his 20s.

So he wasn't an old, you know, I was 11. Anyone in their 20s, they weren't young, were they to me. Anyway, it was weird because I did this, I've talked about this in the past, but they did this grin.

Oh, what's it called? Ray Winston was in the movie of it. I know kind of their name, but I don't want to mispronounce it because it will come out as something that I don't want to say out loud. Because it sounds like I'm being.

Okay, really? Oh, okay. Television wasn't television. It was.

Why is he got down television film scum? I thought it was a movie. No, it's television. That's weird.

Okay, right. So Beowulf, Beowulf, Beowulf, Beowulf, Beowulf. Ray Winston was in that 2007.

So we were reading the book. And the teacher said, now go home. It was at the end of the day, is a go home and write what you think is going to happen next.

So technically, there's no way of failing. This is a if I said, Oh, the dragon or whatever else goes into the goes into the cage and starts playing chess with an albatross and or whatever. And a genie appears and says, would you like to touch my teapot? And whatever.

So it can't be How can it be wrong? If he said, would you just imagine what's going to happen next and write it? How can it be wrong? There's no right or wrong, is there? Really? Well, apparently there was. And mine was wrong. And I spent hours working on this thing.

I think maybe is a fact that he had to spend so long reading it. When everyone else probably did like a page or page and a half. And I wrote an essay, I practically wrote a book.

And it's the first time I'd ever written anything like that before. I'd never I'd never been given an assignment where I had to just say, what's going to happen next? Okay. And I just, you know, I didn't go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then took it in the next day. And I got a very, very low mark. I'm sure he said something like, What are you on about? What the heck was this? And called my parents and I got sectioned.

No, I didn't. And I said, I couldn't understand really. He put it was a put down, basically, it was like, absolutely rubbish.

And he was really not not nice about it. Not horrible, horrible, but it's really dismissive. I said, I spent hours doing that.

He said, you shouldn't have done. It was just a quick assignment, just a bit of homework. What do you think is gonna happen next? I didn't expect to write up, you know, begin a whole new religion around it.

It's just, just, just what's gonna happen next. And I said, I put down what's gonna happen next. And he started going through, he said, Okay, so Beowulf, how does he end up working in a Chinese restaurant? At what point, during the part of the book that we read, signposted that he would be, that he was even interested in working in a Chinese restaurant.

And I said, are you being prejudiced against Beowulf? Because he's not Chinese? You saying Chinese people can't work in a Chinese restaurant? He said, No, although it's never happened yet. It's 1981. But it might one day.

I wonder if that has happened? I suppose. No, I know has actually I know someone works in a and actually, was it Chinese or Indian? I forget. But they work on the counter.

But usually, as it's not not prejudiced or anything to say this is generally sometimes things happen. And they are what they are. And sometimes there's different people working somewhere and other people working somewhere else.

And sometimes those people enjoyed the job and stop talking. And so that didn't go so well. I said to like, I'm walking up to him once.

I found out the easiest way he didn't he banned my canoe. I walked up to the desk. I said, Do you like me? He said, What? I said, Do you look down his glasses at me? He actually took his glasses off and put them in my face and look through me like, why? I know I did that.

Dressed me up as a cat once. But hey, that's a different story. So what is what you mean? I said, Do you like me? He said, Why? I said, This is what you don't like me.

I mean, that'd be pretty obvious reason why someone would ask that question. It's like you don't like me. What have I done to you? He said, I'm never going to get that time back.

But I spent reading your Baywall thing. That's an hour of my life. I'm never going to get back.

I said, Yeah, but I'm a kid. Still, I can't forgive you. I said, But I'm 11 years old.

It's not my fault. You asked, you know, just to do anything. He said, No, I don't care.

Go away. So I took him an apple in to no orange, nothing banana. He liked bananas.

But he still said no. And I'd walk away so we can leave the banana here. But don't bring me any more fruit.

And he stopped me again, unless they're bananas. But get someone else to bring because I don't like you. That put a dent in what I'm not saying I had any kind of confidence before that, but academically, but it was gone at that point.

I realize I'm not answering the question. So, Lynn asks me, If you could live, if you could have a second home, anywhere in the world, where would it be? Thank you, Lynn. A second home.

By the way, some of these questions you might think. Oh, you answered those before. Yeah, but it's gonna be different each time.

So don't worry. And also, it's all depend on my mood. Why, how I answer it.

If you could have a second home, anywhere in the world, where would it be? I'd like to have a first time first, but I guess you can class this as a home. It's not owned, but it's still it's where I live. So Ah, maybe Thailand, maybe not.

Maybe America, maybe not. Maybe Canada or Australia. I don't know.

Because out of all those places I just mentioned, I've only been to one. And that's Thailand, not been to Australia, America or Canada. And in fact, I haven't been to most countries in the world.

A second home. I'm not always quite like the idea of having like a home in London, just for not to live in London, because I don't want to live in London. Really, I don't think I did that.

Did a did over a decade of that. I was born in London, but throughout my whole of my 20s, I was in London. So I don't really want to go back to that.

And it's not, you know, it's not really for me. But I quite like the idea of having an apartment right in the West End. You know where all the No, I didn't say Soho, did I? But that is near, near roughly because of the theatres, the theatres and to be near Covent Garden, Leicester Square, and Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, Soho, all those areas that I've always liked.

It would be, did I say Covent Garden? Covent? Yeah, Covent Garden. So I would. Yeah, that that's what I quite like.

If you if I had to stick stay in this country, unless I can have three homes, but I quite like to have a place in London. But like somewhere like that, but not. The thing is, if I had a nice place living somewhere else, I want to be here.

Because I don't usually like living here. So I would. This is a temporary situation, I hope.

Well, everything's temporary, isn't it? I guess. But I'd like to think that, yes, if I was gonna say a second time, let's go for a different country, then. So let's say I've got a nice home in this country.

I don't know. I don't know. It's weird, isn't it? I've been anywhere I'd like to go back to.

I'm not sure if I'd even want to go back to Thailand. I've done Bulgaria, been to France, been to Amsterdam, been to Belgium, been to Ireland, been to Spain. I think I'd quite like to go back to Spain.

But I think if I did it this time, I'd like to travel through Europe, through the nice, the safe parts of Europe, that is. And the ones that aren't at war is what I mean. And or not, I mean, okay, forget proxy.

But you know, I'm talking about actually. Yeah, I was war political. And where would I need a second home? Lynn, I want your house.

That's what I want your house. Thanks. You're offering me your house.

Oh, Lynn, that's really nice of you. Thank you. I don't know.

Honestly. I mean, I did talk the other day about wanting I'd like to buy my nan's old house. I know someone else lives in there now, but I'd pay them over the odds to get it if I had the cash to do it.

Because I just love that house. And the vibe is going to be different, though, isn't it? Because someone else has lived there. You know, the fact is that from being a new build, so first, we moved in there after the building had just been born.

And 1978, or 77, 78. Yeah, 78. And then a couple of years later, or a year, year and a half later, my nan in Granite moved in.

And she lived there all the way up to 2010, 2011, 12, something like that, 2010. Maybe 2009, around that time anyway. And so she lived there a long time.

Of course, 80, 90, 2000. She was there 30 odd years she lived there. So that's my memory and the smell.

You know, my stepmom, I was talking about the smell of houses. My house doesn't smell. I said all houses smell.

She kind of got upset that I was talking about a house smelling. That's not what I was saying. Is every house has a familiar smell? I mean, smell is the right word.

Smell is not a horrible word. Smelly, potentially is not a nice word. But smell, aroma, scent, is that a better word? I kind of put it together more with the vibe of the house.

Like my flat does stinks up here sometimes. But that's because of Finney's bottom farts. Yes.

My stomach's grumbling. That's weird. But what I meant when I said, oh, your house is that familiar smell? Like, it was a positive thing.

Smells nice is whether it's the flour, whether the flowers, whether it's the cooking, the baking, the just generally, you know, the overall sense of the building that they live in. It's got a nice smell. It's been the same since, as far as I've known, for a long, long time.

My nanny granddad's house had that same, different, but a smell that was always there all the way through. There wasn't this, maybe it's just a sense, a scent, a sense of a scent. But then they say, you know, if we, yeah, I used to work in this place as a shop, gift shop, used to be a pub.

And every now and then you get a smell of beer. You get it like from the cellar, you get a smell of beer. And it hadn't been a pub for weeks.

No, it hadn't been a pub for, I think, it might have even been a hundred years or something. It was a long, long time. Long time.

And because, let's face it, the place wasn't big enough to be a big pub. It was a tiny little pub. So it was, I don't know, it might have been 30 years earlier or something.

I'm making, I don't know how long, I'm making it up. I want to say like 5,000 years, a million years. And it could still smell the stale beer, which is rude because, you know, that's why they closed because they were selling stale beer.

But that is rude, isn't it? Pubs don't smell of stale beer. They used to smell of smoke. When I worked in a pub, that used to be the smell, really.

You had stale beer the next morning because it'd be, it depends if you cleared up or not. If you cleared up the night, then it wouldn't be so bad in the morning. But, you know, if I could have a second home, that's the question.

Wow. Why is it so complicated to just stick to the subject? I don't know. Oh, I might have to come back to that.

I really, really, I'm not sure if I could have a second home. Maybe Torquay, because I do like Torquay. Maybe it's because I like talking.

I want to go somewhere called Torquay. That was very dull, that wasn't it? Okay, I'll give that some more thought. I might discuss that in a future episode.

But I'm just, I can't really think about, I can't, I can think, I'm just trying to think where, I don't have a place in mind, I don't think so, unless I've talked about it in depth and forgotten about it. I don't mean during this recording, I mean previously. I'm not sure.

How weird. I don't know. I've given a few examples, I guess, but I think it'd be quite nice to, I'd say what I would quite like, if I could drive, I quite like one of those big caravan things that you can drive along and just travel in one of those.

I like the idea of traveling the country, this country, and just seeing every single town and just, you know, in a way I'd like to do it on my own, but in another way, I don't know how safe I would feel doing it on my own. I think it'd be nice, be it, you know, or I'd have Vinnie with me, and he's quite a good guard dog.

You know, if a squirrel farts in the forest, he'll let me know about that, but I don't always need to know every time a squirrel squeaks one out.

Oh, today I played a ball thing with him, you know, I took the, I threw, I got two balls and a thrower, you know, a plastic thrower, and I did that with him. I haven't done it since last year, and oh, he loved it, absolutely loved it, but he kept losing the ball. The grass is so long, it nearly covers him.

It's a new thing the council are doing, not what they're supposed to, basically. They're charging more, but doing less. So, I don't know, maybe they're short-staffed, or they forget.

I mean, on, I think, Tuesday, they, someone came around and trimmed around the benches, around the trees, around the lampposts, trimmed the edges ready for the lawn to be, for the grass to be cut, and now that's starting to grow back, because they've not turned up to cut the grass. So, it's strange, strange, strange, strange, strange. It just makes you wonder, like, if they actually promised, if the government said, the current government said, we will make sure we cut the grass regularly, we'll, we'll, if you vote for us, we'll get all the grass cut this week, they'll probably get back in.

A lot of people don't like the grass being left really long, and personally, if I was gonna, if I was gonna run as an independent, because you can't promise anything as an independent, can you?

An MP, you can only promise something if you're actually the Prime Minister, and you can make promises about what you're going to do, what changes you're going to make, and if you're just, if you're not an MP for a, for a, you know, an organization or a party, you can't really make, you can say, well, I'll try and do a few things, but here's what I would promise, it'd just be stuff I couldn't deliver, but I'd promise anyway, free tampons for everyone, including the men, just free tampons, because I was,

I thought, I always found it really ridiculous, or sanitary towels, it doesn't have to be for tampons, I know, sorry, I should have warned you that we were going to be talking about them bloody things, but it's, basically, I just, why, why should she charge, she doesn't have to pay for stuff like that, I don't think she'd have to pay for underwear, you know, if everyone went on strike, okay, seriously, if everyone went on strike, and I'm not going to talk about the other things, but I'm going to talk about the underwear,

but you can make it apply to the first thing I mentioned, if everyone decided not to wear underwear, and not to wear trousers or anything, and they're like, that's it, unless you pay for us to have, unless you give us free underwear and trousers, then we're going to walk around without them, they'd have to start giving people trousers for free, and underwear for free, maybe not good ones, but something, because they wouldn't want people just walking around, and sitting on bus seats, and train seats, and in hospitals, sitting down on a seat,

just generally sitting down is just the gross thing, and, so what else would I do, free sanitary stuff, free soap, she'd have to pay for soap, we need soap, soap is too important to have to pay for it, it's a necessity, anything that's a necessity, I kind of don't think we should really need to pay for it, of course we have to pay higher taxes and everything, but I'm just saying generally, if it's a necessity, toilet roll, now you can still buy toilet roll, you can buy nice toilet roll,

or you can get free toilet roll that maybe your finger's not going to appreciate it so much, you know, so you have to use more soap, but it's just, it's a basic necessity, so it should be free, toilet roll, deodorant, just for other people's sake, just for others, deodorant should be free, but then if you want to have a certain smell that you like, then of course that's available, you can buy, so if you know, if you want to, if you want to find a, going back to the original thing,

you want to find one that fits really comfy, I don't know if that's such a thing, so if it's, I don't know, I've not not used them so recently, and you, I'm gonna move on from this, I'm just trying to let you know what a great political leader I would be, so free of those things at the beginning, free socks, well maybe, but just the necessities, we all need coats in the winter, we all need to have basic things like maybe a nails cut, toenails cut, that should be free,

and what else, I mean really I think it'd be quite good if you only got car washes, why can't we have a body wash like that, where you just sit down, the thing closes around you, you know like those old fashioned saunas that was in the James Bond movie, and he was stuck in it, and so I turned the volume, the volume, turn the temperature up, one of those things, but like just washes your body, if you sit in there like a car wash, everything gets cleaned and emptied or whatever,

everything gets like scrubbed and then dried off, and you get up and you're done, and that to me it sounds like a good idea, and it should be free, because again for other people, I don't know, what other things would I do, all grass would be cut, the thing is, people moan, I hear people moaning every day about the grass being too long, why don't they bring their lawnmower out and just cut it, it's not a huge bit of grass, it's a size of six large gardens,

so you haven't got to do the whole thing, just do one large garden, and once one person did it, someone else would come out and do it, because you know, people are sheep, people are sheep, and if they were, it would be better, because they could eat the grass couldn't they, if I had a lawnmower, I probably would be out doing that, so I've done that in the past, if the, not lawn, but if someone's, when I lived in the previous town, I'd walk to work, and I was on the main road,

lived on the main road, really busy, and walking on the pavement, which wasn't a particularly large pavement, because this was kind of countryside-ish, obviously a park, but a much bigger park, like a really big park, not like the little park here, and sometimes the trees and the bushes would grow out too far into the pavement, so literally I'd be like trying to push my way through them, and almost in the road, and one day I got a little bit annoyed at this, and I went back and I got some shears,

or you know, some scissors, you know, big scissor things for gardens, and I removed a lot of that stuff, I got a little bit carried away to be honest, but I thought I could see the owner of the house looking at me through the window, and it wouldn't come out for some reason, but I just, it's just, even now I see places where it's growing out, and you can hardly get through, like this is Q&A Friday, not Moaning Friday, sorry, what other things would I do that are free, that would be good,

there's some things that everyone, what the Greens just said actually, the Green Party, they would raise the minimum wage to £15 an hour, or was it £14 an hour, and even young people would get the same as the other people, because at the moment, and I think it's unfair, 18 year olds get less than 21 year olds for doing exactly the same job, never used to be the case, this was, this is not how it used to be when I was young, everybody got paid practically nothing, you know, but it's like,

there's no difference between an 18 and a 21 year old, what's the difference, why should an 18 year old get paid less money per hour, well the Greens have said, we're going to put that up so everyone gets paid the same, I'm seeing if that gets out, that news gets out, there'll be a lot of 18 year olds voting, because that's millions of, millions of people, young men and women that are not getting paid equal, so just walking up to the voting polling booth could be worth their while, you never know,

so who else, I'd love that, it'd make me laugh so much, if the Green Party got in, oh it just, it would just be hysterical, just to see the looks on the, the Conservatives and Labour's faces, when they realised, if the Conservatives get, the Greens got in, and then the Liberal Democrats became second, so both of the main parties were new, and the Conservatives and Labour weren't anywhere, they were just on the fringes again, and they only had like maybe 15 MPs between them, in the House of Commons,

oh that'd be so funny, not for the country, but you know, funny for me to see, just got a text from my neighbour downstairs, telling me that she's got a new shower, so that's why, that's what the drooling was, so that's good, I'm glad she, I know she wanted one, so I'm glad she's got it, and I don't know why I just started thinking, is there someone in the loft, how did they get into the loft, but then if I climbed into someone's loft, I'll probably make a little bit less noise,

I wouldn't start drilling, you know, that'd be weird, it's half nine, so okay, what other questions do I have, so I really should be answering these questions, shouldn't I, oh Robin, I can't afford to respond to this one, because I couldn't help it, so, hi Jason, even though my cousin was Muhammad Ali, I think that George Foreman is the best fighter of his time, maybe not boxer, but definitely fighter, who do you think is the best fighter boxer of his time, now I had to ask questions about the Muhammad Ali,

so I'll let you read that yourself, if you go to, because posts are kind of private, I know it's only for people that are actually members, but if you want to see the read the conversation, you just need to go to the Jason Newland's boring group, however, I will answer the question, oh yes, the thing is with George Foreman, okay, Muhammad Ali knocked him out, it wasn't the only loss he took, he did lose, I mean, let's have a look, Foreman, topics, okay, George, George Foreman, born 1949,

how old does that make him, 75, blimey, so he won every fight, he turned professional, he was Olympic gold medalist, that's worth remembering as well, I'm saying that, because I don't know if he was or not, I think he was, yes, he did, he won the heavyweight gold in 1968, I guess that was before they became, it would have been light heavyweight, it would have been super heavyweight now, because now heavyweight is cruiserweight, if that makes sense, so in the Olympics heavyweight and super heavyweight, super heavyweights go on to be heavyweight professionals,

heavyweights in Olympics generally go on to become cruiserweights, cruiserweight division wasn't around in the 60s, I'm not sure when it first started actually, so he had his first professional fight in 1969, and he knocked out most of his opponents until he fought Muhammad Ali in 1974 October, and he lost, so he won his world title from Joe Frazier, he won the WBA, WBC and Ring magazine heavyweight titles, and he lost them, he defended against two people, including Ken Norton, knocked out all of those people,

and then he got knocked out by Muhammad Ali in round 8 of 15, 15, 15, yeah 15 rounds, I mean it's now 12, I remember when it's 15, in the 80s, the late 80s still 15 rounds for some world titles, there's a big difference between 12 and 15, not just for the fighter, but if some fighters, some boxers, they struggle, they might have won the whole fight until the last couple of rounds and got beaten for the last two rounds, but know they've won the fight, if they've still got another three rounds left,

you know it'd be a different matter, and that's something I've noticed actually, is I've been watching some of the old fights like Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano, and indeed the real kind of 1930s, 1940s fights, 1950s, and the fighters today would have struggled under those circumstances, some of them would have struggled, because they didn't have the same rules, the outcomes would undoubtedly be different, one thing's very different is, well there's the rounds, in the 20s there was no limit to the rounds, like you just could go 100 rounds, it's crazy,

literally they'd just be walking around, tip turn around, just taking their time, because it could last forever, like hours, and sometimes it'd just be exhaustion, the one that succumbed to exhaustion would be a loser, so the other thing is there was no free knockdowns, and that's the end, and when someone got knocked down, even originally the referee didn't even stop it, there was no, basically the referee would sort of like get up, I think originally the referee didn't even get involved, they'd fall down and they'd keep punching them,

so they stopped that, the referee started doing a count, but now they have to go to a neutral corner, the other boxer that isn't being counted, wasn't the case back then, in the 30s, 40s, 50s, so they would literally be waiting for the person to just stand up, and they'd start punching again, I mean they pretty much had no chance of surviving the fight, as in winning, because it didn't have that little break, and the other thing is, I don't think the timekeeping was always that good, a little bit dodgy I think,

and there was a lot of, boxing was run, I'm not saying it's not now, because it may well be now, run by gangsters, definitely was in America in the 30s, 40s, a lot of it was run by the mob, famously so, it's not my opinion, it just was, and sometimes they would, the referee would be bought off, and there's even stories about having horseshoes in their gloves, I mean it's just ridiculous, some of the things that they used to get up to, and I'm trying to think what other things,

yeah I mean, how could anyone, I mean I've seen old footage of people going to their knees, now if you go to your knees, if any part of your body other than your feet touch the ground in a boxing ring, that is an automatic 10 count, unless of course you're unconscious, unless it's a stoppage, but if it's, even if the, unless it's a trip, then it's not, but even if it's a trip, the referee separates the boxers, so if someone just trips over their own laces or whatever, their own feet,

because they've accidentally put on their clown shoes, and you know they're tripping over, the referee gets in the way, the boxer generally knows to get out of the way as well, they step back, not back then they didn't, you know any mistake you made, they'd be on you, and if they punched them and they go to their knees, the referee wouldn't stand in, the other boxer would just keep punching them, and it's like just really wild, like the wild west I guess, and now there's so many rules, they still break the rules,

and the rules aren't particularly clear, as with Yusek in his previous fight, before fighting Fury, when his, he was hit on the belt, and he went, he rolled around, what did Fury say, it was like a, he rolled around like a sausage in a frying pan, which is very, I always find that funny, but he did, he rolled around, he's like, oh, now why would someone's shorts need to be, their belt line is below the belly button, isn't it, the belt line is below the, it's not above the belly button,

some could argue maybe it's on the belly button, but it's generally, most fighters have their shorts below the belly button, he has his above the belly button, which is cheating as far as I'm concerned, however, I'm still a fan of his, I'm just, I just think it's, Dubois knocked him out, that would have been stopped, but he said, oh, I'd have still got up, if I needed to, I'd have got up, why'd you roll around then, biting for some time, I do believe, so I just saw something about him,

he's actually, Alexander Usyk is planning, when he's had his, after he's had his fight with Tyson, the return match, he's looking to move down back to cruiserweight, because he doesn't like having to keep eating all the time during training, he's eating, eating, eating, this is his eating interview, this is his own words, just constantly eating, and it's, he doesn't like it, that's the only way he can be a heavyweight, is by doing that, it's like, okay, that makes sense, I guess, because that's the, that's the advantage that natural heavyweights have,

is they don't have to diet, I mean, they probably do have to diet for health reasons, for as an athlete, I mean, but ultimately, they don't have to watch their weight, in the same way as other weight categories do, yes, you can't go above a certain weight, in all the other categories, heavyweight, there's no limit, there's a minimum, but there's no limit, and, but someone that comes in as a minimum, is not probably going to do, like apart from Mike Tyson, generally, Herbie Hyde's another, another example, who wasn't heavy,

but he was victorious, and won WBO title twice, and he was one of the hardest punchers, according to, Riddick Bowe, he was the hardest puncher he ever had, and Riddick Bowe fought Evander Holyfield, and many others, so, you know, anyway, you were talking about George, well, you weren't really talking about George Foreman, you were, but you said, who do I think, I want to talk about George Foreman, because I forgot what the question is, he's so, George Foreman, so if you, that's right, the reason I was looking at his thing,

is a lot of people, I used to be one of them, I'm saying a lot of people, because I've got no idea, but the way it was presented to me, bearing in mind that I was four years old, when he lost to Muhammad Ali, so I didn't have a clue who he was, I didn't know about boxing, later in life, when he came back in 1987, I, I saw that he, you know, he used to, I'd heard of him, and I'd seen him doing the grills and stuff like that,

so I knew who he, that's what he was famous for, in the early 80s really, for me, in the UK, you know, he was famous because he was doing the grills, and he was this bubbly bloke and everything, and I don't know, the early 80s, but in the 80s, so, what I didn't realise, or I did not realise, I actually believed the George Foreman, because the Muhammad Ali fight was so famous, long after, it still is, still a famous fight, his fights between, what's his name, Joe Frazier and George Foreman,

really kind of probably the ones that remembered the most, I would say, I guess I'm just, I can't really speak for everyone, but you know, Rumble in the Jungle and the Thriller in Manila, quite rhymy, I thought that he'd just quit, and my voice has gone all weird, I did, I thought he'd quit, and he came back in 1987, he didn't quit, at all, well, he had a couple of years off, well, he had a year and a half off, he came back, and he won one, two, three, four,

five fights, his sixth fight, he lost to Jimmy Young on points, unanimous decision, so, that's when he quit, for 10 years, he didn't fight for 10 years, boxing, now, what a lot of people don't realize, again, I'm doing this, what a lot, okay, the reason I'm saying that, is because no one ever mentioned it to me, ever, and I discovered it by accident, a few years back, Joe Frazier's best fight, when he was young, his first time around, let's say, as far as I'm concerned, was not, it was the Muhammad Ali fight,

anyway, because he lost, and that wasn't, I mean, Muhammad Ali took too much punishment in that fight, it was silly, but I used to believe that Muhammad Ali just wore him out, and George, George, George, George Bailey, George Foreman, got so tired, that he just like, he just basically pushed him over, he didn't, Ali knocked him out, it was a proper knockout, you know, yeah, maybe he was too knackered to get up, but he was knocked out, so that was it, no one else did that, that's kind of what my point is,

I'm trying to get to, nobody, nobody else did that, and nobody could do that in the 90s, which is classed as kind of the, the two glamorous eras of boxing, heavyweight boxing, was the 70s and the 90s, I know that's missing out Tyson, and for all the accolades that we can give to him as a boxer, he, he won his world titles in a period when there wasn't a lot going on, without being rude, just there wasn't no, he didn't, a lot of the people that he won against were kind of,

they weren't at the same caliber as some of the future ones, and the previous ones, he'd fought, perhaps, it's just, you know, I don't want to say anything bad, and also, he beat Larry Holmes, when Larry Holmes was, you know, pretty much in the twilight of his career, even though he went on for another 15 years or something, but what George Foreman did was, he, he ruled, he ruled the 70s, because I think we can pretty much argue that Ali ruled the 70s, Larry Holmes ruled the 80s, or the late 70s and the early, you know, mid-80s, Tyson took over 86, November, and had it for three years or four years.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make, why am I making these points, is that, when he came back, oh, first of all, the best fight he had was from, with Ron Lyle, if you are a boxing fan, you might not be, but if you are, and you want to see, I mean, he did get taken, he had some tough fights when he came back, he did a couple of tough fights, um, I'd say the two, two of the tougher fights that he had, Shannon Briggs,

a lot of people say Shannon Briggs should have won that, and that was his very last fight, November 1997, and Tommy Morrison, that's another fight that he, he, he took a bit of a, bit of a battering in that one, and Evander Holyfield, again, that wasn't an easy fight either, he lost to Tommy Morrison and to Evander Holyfield, so, and he really took quite a bit of a, you know, he didn't, it wasn't an easy fight for him, at all, but I think his hardest fight was Ron Lyle,

because Ron Lyle put him down, he, Ron Lyle put him down, and he put Ron Lyle down, and it went backwards and forwards, and that was one of the most exciting heavyweight fights you'll see, for the simple fact that they went at each other, and it was very, very even, very even, so Ron Lyle, oh, he's not around anymore, so he, he never won the world title, but, and he did, he lost to Muhammad Ali, it just shows you how good Muhammad Ali is though, because, I'll tell you another thing,

that I didn't realize until looking at this, he had five exhibition matches, oh wait a minute, it was all on the same night, oh yeah, I remember, he fought five, George Foreman did an exhibition match, and he fought five opponents in one night, he knocked three of them out, one in the second round, one in the second round, one in the second round, three in the second round, and then the third one, the third, the fourth and fifth went distance, three rounds, so there was, there was no win or lose for those ones,

but he, because it was exhibition, so they were not, non-scored, five, and Muhammad Ali was, because this was after Muhammad Ali beat him, I think 1975, when did, yeah, yeah, so it was a year afterwards, Muhammad Ali was in the audience, backing George Foreman saying, come on George, you can do it, this is funny, when I look, if I was going to say who's my, of the 70s, is that what we're talking about, isn't it, who's the best of the 70s, of his time, that's the problem, the best boxer of,

uh, George Foreman is the best boxer of his time, Muhammad Ali was the best, I just, I think, it's hard because George Foreman's time was twice, so George Foreman, he did what Muhammad Ali could not do, and that's come back at that age and be doing, you know, because he physically wasn't able to, I think he would have done if he could, and I do wonder, had he had his health to be able to do that, how well he would have done against the younger boxers, but I reckon, I reckon that,

because George Foreman generally just knocked everyone out in his first period as a boxer, he knocked, he pretty much knocked nearly everybody out that he faced, and the only time he took, he took real punishment was, I think, Ron Lyle, after he lost, but he didn't even take hardly any punishment against Ali, apart from the three or four punches he took that knocked him out, so the whole of that fight with Ali, he was punching Ali, and Ali was on the ropes pretty much the whole time, he took a few punches,

but that was it, um, Ali was the one that took punishment in that fight, so George proved himself to be, even as an older man, can you imagine him, I don't know, because when he was younger, his defense wasn't very good, compared to when he was older, he learned to defend himself a lot better, because he couldn't rely upon just knocking everyone out, although he did still knock most people out, even when he was older, but he was taking the distance a few times, and yeah,

a few times he was taking the distance actually, one, two, three, four, his four, the last four fights he had, after he won the world title, he, yes, he must have given up the titles, he didn't lose the world title, he must have given it up, so he vacated, yeah, I'm confused, anyway, he had this like cross-armed defense, which was very famous in the past, I forget who it was who did that, but he took that stance, and what he did have, which very few heavy boxers, any boxers really have,

is, you know, if you just exclude Muhammad Ali, he never got knocked out, just once by Muhammad Ali, no one else could knock him out, and even Ron Lyle, who knocked him down, got knocked out in the fifth round by him, he knocked Joe Frazier down, I think four, five times, six times, during that fight, when he won the first, when he first won the world title in 1973, and I think that was when Muhammad Ali was not in the army, yeah, that period when he was, wasn't allowed to box,

so it's hard, I mean, if you want to go, I don't think any boxers accomplished or achieved what Muhammad Ali did, both in and outside of the ring, I, there's no, no boxers done that, I don't think, in a sense of being worldwide famous, worldwide famous, not just famous in the western world, I mean, how many people in Africa, in India, knew about Rocky Marciano, but everybody knew about Muhammad Ali, the whole world tuned in to watch him fight George Foreman and, you know, and then he went on to be a superstar,

even afterwards, and he was treated almost like a king, like royalty, wasn't he, all around the world, no other boxers ever had that worldwide, they do in their own country, like Manny Pacquiao is, he is almost like a king in the Philippines, he's not a king, I know, I don't want to be sacrilege or whatever towards the royal family, but he, he is loved, there's some boxers in Germany that are loved, there's, you know, by their country, they're loved, and even if they never win a world title, they're still absolutely adored,

because they might be one of the only boxers that's achieved even fighting for a world title, so, I mean, there was a thing, a Cuban fighter who, I think he won the heavyweight title gold in the Olympics twice, and in them days, it was against the law, they weren't allowed to fight in the professionals, the communist party or something, but there was an opportunity, or something happened, and he was offered the opportunity to fight Muhammad Ali for huge amounts of money, because he was classed as the only person who would be able to beat Ali,

that would, like, stand a chance against him, at the time, that is, and when he was, like, back on top, and he said he'd rather be the Cuban fella, he said he'd rather be loved by millions than have millions in the bank, and known by few, because he'd been known in America, and maybe the Western world, but he'd rather have the adoration that he got from the Cubans, his fellow Cubans, and be a hero, because he won the gold medal twice, and at that time, I don't think anyone had ever won it twice before,

it has been done a couple of times since, a few times since, in boxing, Clarissa Marshall and Loma Lomachenko, Lomachenko, I think both of those won gold medals twice in the Olympics for boxing, oh my goodness, I know too much information, and so Ali, the greatest in and out of the ring, the greatest in the ring for that generation, if you want to talk for the 70s, I'd have to go for Muhammad Ali for the 70s, just because he beat him, and it's not because, just because he beat him,

it's the fact that no one else could, you know, I think that if you go all the way through his career, when Muhammad Ali knocked him out when he was 25 years old, this George Foreman, just before he was 26 years old, and he retired at just under 49 years old, and no one was able to knock him out, in 81 fights, he knocked out 68 opponents, 8 by decision, he won, he lost 5, 4 by decision, and he got knocked out once, and that was to Muhammad Ali,

so based on that, I would say he was, Muhammad Ali was the greatest during the 70s, and it's hard to say though, because you know, then you've got Larry Holmes, and who was, probably would have beaten Muhammad Ali long before they actually fought, potentially, because he was, he's one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, Larry Holmes as well, unfortunately, because he fought Muhammad Ali, and beat him up in 1980, or whenever it was, America didn't like him for a while, so we never got the, the proper adoration that he should have done,

for being one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, and in his peak, I don't think there's any heavyweight, pretty much during my lifetime, that would have easily beaten him, or that maybe would have beaten him, when he was in his peak, I think even Ali would have struggled, when Ali was in his peak, to beat a peak, this is getting confusing, it's like, you imagine boxers in their peak, that's what, that's always quite like the idea of, like Lennox Lewis, Rocky Marciano, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Ali,

Ken Norton, then you've got Klitschko's, and you've got Tyson Fury, even David Haye, I mean he was a, he was a knockout machine, David Haye, he wasn't a heavyweight champion for long, but he was phenomenal, when, when he was, and you've got, I'm trying to think what others is, this Herbie Hyde, one of my favorites, because he was a little guy, giant compared to me, because I'm short, but he, and he was, if you, if you don't know who Herbie Hyde is, he's a British heavyweight boxer, and he was,

he actually went down in weight, to cruiserweight later in his career, but he was really good, really good, he was about 6'2", I think, something like, might be higher, taller, maybe a bit less, I don't know, about 6'2", so he wasn't little, but he wasn't heavy, he was heavyweight heavy, but not heavyweight heavy, you know, he was on the lower end, and also, it's around that time that the heavyweight started to get a lot taller, so, you know, Lennox Lewis was I think 6'6", and there's quite a few tall heavyweights,

and they really did have an advantage, like with the length of their arms, before that, there was, there's always been tall heavyweights, but it seems to be that the taller the heavyweight is, often, I know that Oleksandr Usyk is kind of breaking that tradition recently, but the tall ones definitely have dominated recently, over the last few years, the Klitschko's, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, and you've got the Big Bang, Zhang, and so many of them are now like 6'4", 6'5", 6'6", there's not, I think, I mean, Oleksandr Usyk might be 6'3",

6'4", so he's not short, but he just, compared to Tyson Fury, he didn't look very tall at all, that was like me fighting a giraffe, it was honestly, but, and he bounces around a lot, I think he wears high heels when he does the, when he does the conferences, and he does face-to-face with Tyson Fury, I'm pretty sure he has like high, not high heels, as in, let's go out dancing high heels, but, do you come here often high heels, not those kind of high heels, but like platform shoes or something,

you know, from the 70s, so that he's a bit taller, and I'd say it was David, oh, what's his name, there was this boxer, he's funny, and he had a press conference, and he did his face-off with his opponent, and he put a sock down his pants, down his, because he had to do the weigh-in, so he did this, and he put a sock down his pants, it was just so funny, it's just, I like stuff like that, and yeah, I mean, if I go to the 80s, so I'll do the 70s,

I think Ali, Ali first, second and third in the 70s, I said, I know it's kind of, I'm being populist or whatever, but Joe Frazier and George Foreman, really, the three, but there were others that were around, but yeah, I'd say Ali, the 70s, he dominated, the 80s, I'd say it's a 50-50, Larry Holmes dominated the first half of the 80s, Tyson dominated the second half, because even before he won the world title, he was, Mike Tyson was getting, well, he was knocking everyone out,

and he was more famous than the heavyweight champion in America, people were excited about him, he was getting paid, even before he fought for a world title, he was getting paid half a million dollars for a fight, I mean, that's just, and it's not someone that was established, he'd only been fighting for a year and a half or two years, but he got loads of fights in really quick, I think he did about 13 fights in one year, and then he did another like 10-12 fights in the second year,

but back then, half a million was quite a lot, you know, for 1986, for someone that wasn't a world champion, and he turned up, when he fought Trevor Burbick, he turned up, here's a bit of trivia that you may have forgotten, if you did know it, there was a rule back then, that you weren't allowed to wear the same colour shorts as your opponent, well Tyson turned up in black shorts, because that's what he always wore, his opponent had black shorts on, but his opponent was a world champion, so immediately,

if I remember rightly, if I, I think I do, Mike Tyson got, he got fined $50,000, just for turning up in the wrong coloured shorts, wow, is that amazing, so, I remember that, just see like, he's gonna get charged $50,000, because he wouldn't, I think they told him in his changing room, you've got to wear different shorts, and he said, I don't want to change my shorts, that's my impression of Mike Tyson, and it wasn't me, so I think, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, shared the 80s, there was other really good heavyweights in the 80s,

Tim Witherspoon, Bone Crusher Smith, Pinkman Thomas, and so, where was I, where was I, yeah, so, I would say George Foreman is up there, one of the greatest heavyweights ever, simply because of what he achieved, it's not just because he won the world title twice, it's the fact that it was 15 years between them, or whatever the time span, there's a long time between when he won it the first time, when he won it the second time, so, it's pretty phenomenal, no one else has ever achieved that, I don't think,

yet, anyway, there might be another one, might be another one come along, I mean, you don't know, Tyson Fury might retire, and come back when he's in his 40s, and do exactly what George Foreman did, you know, he could, he could come back when he's 45, and win the world title again, it's possible, I mean, he's won the world title twice already, heavyweight title twice, so, he's had all the belts at one point, but, you know, to, you know, together, not all at one point, but he's held all the belts at different times, so, maybe

he's, he could do that, I don't know, so, yeah, I don't know if I've answered the question, Kathleen, so, thanks for the question, Kathleen says, dearest Jason, what is your earliest memory?

So, my earliest memory, I've got a few, I'm going to stick to positive ones, stick to a positive memory, I still, one of my earliest memories is, yeah, here's a nice memory I got, we was in a children's home, and we were, at this point, we were coming back to my dad's, pretty much every weekend, and it was like a gradual thing, and then eventually we moved, moved there, so, on one weekend, we couldn't go, because his new wife, that is my step-mom-to-be, had glandular fever, or something like that, so,

what we did instead is, we went to London, we got picked up by my auntie, my dad's sister, took to London, and we stayed with her for the weekend, and we spent the whole weekend in London, going around all of the, yeah, the sightseeing places, like Big Ben, Madame Tussauds, Tower of London, the museum, and it was a brilliant weekend, absolutely brilliant, and I didn't really know her, to be honest, I'd met her, because I'd met her when I'd been around my dad's, and I think when he first brought us back,

the whole family was gathering around to meet us, because they hadn't seen us, hadn't seen me since I was a baby, so there was everyone's, and my other brothers were little as well, so they were all kind of quite excited, so I had met everyone at this point, and I don't know if my nan was with us as well, she might have been with us as well, because she lived in London, so my dad didn't live in London anymore, so I'm guessing we probably spent time with my nan and granddad as well,

but I just, we might have even stayed with my nan and granddad, I really don't remember, I do remember the, how much fun it was to be going into these places, and that I'd never been to before, and I was tiny, you know, I was only six, nearly seven, but I was six at the time, and it was great, great fun, had ice creams, I think my auntie tried to get us to eat cockles with these little bowls of little fish things, no thanks, so yeah, that's one of my,

one of my earliest memories of, a nice memory that I remember, yeah, I'd forgotten about that, I hadn't completely forgotten, but I hadn't thought about it for a long time, yeah, there's another memory, I've got a really nice memory, it was a little bit later on, I was probably eight, and we were at a wedding, and I was, yeah, and I was dancing, like shaking Stevens, and we, I think my stepmum left early because she had a migraine or something, and my dad took me and my three brothers,

no my two brothers, my little brother, he was a baby, and I think they just left him, left him in the car, and left him in the garage, so we, we went out, and we went, it was a summer, we went out into the sea, and just, we're in the sea together, all three of us, all four of us, and we'd never done anything like that with him before, and it was like dark outside, and it was just like, and bearing in mind, I was petrified of the water,

but I wasn't scared, because my dad was there, I felt safe, because he was there, I knew, well, I felt safe, I knew I was safe, which is quite a nice feeling, actually, I'm that was a lovely feeling as well, just, that was a nice memory, and it's really weird, I'm now thinking of memories that involved my dad, and there was, again, this is when I was, it's not a first memory, but I was at high school, and probably maybe 12, 13, maybe younger, but we came back,

and my dad had a computer, like, he'd bought a computer, the first, one of the first computers at the time, that was more for, like, playing games and stuff, it was Z, I don't know, spectrum or something, I don't know, but I had no interest in it, but I really loved the atmosphere in the house, because my dad was happy, my brothers were happy, it was just a lovely atmosphere, I was interested to the degree that something new was happening, my middle brother, my one just above me,

he was really interested in the computer, and he was learning how to code, and how to program, and all kinds of stuff, very quickly, picked up very quickly, so I was more interested, probably, in playing games, and back then, it was just deep, deep, deep, like the tennis game, you know, with things like that, so it wasn't very, very complicated stuff, I say that, but it's not true, because arcade games were around, but on the PCs, they weren't so advanced, but the Atari systems were out, we never had an Atari system,

I don't think, but my uncle did, that's another really, a really nice memory, is when we went to stay with my uncle in Kent, and that was one of the best times of my childhood, because I was there, my little brother was there, I was there, my stepmum was there, I say stepmum, I used to call her mum, but I try and differentiate between who's who, you know, there's the original mum, there's the foster mum, there's the nanny mums, the nanny, the nun mums, and then there's the first stepmother,

and then there's a second stepmother, so it's quite a few different mums there, and the second stepmother, I've had for over 30 years, so she'd been around a long time, so I, yeah, so that's it, I just remember that being, yeah, because probably going to London and doing that, is one of my earliest memories, yeah, wow, as like as a happy memory, there's not a huge amount of happy memories really before that though, not being negative, just I can't think of too many things that I remember that were particularly nice,

previous to moving in with my dad, when I was just, before I was like seven years old, it was the year of my seventh birthday, that's the summer of my seventh birthday, so I don't recall anything particularly nice happening before then, I'm sure it did, I just don't remember it, and yeah, so that's that's my answer to that, so it's a nice memory, thanks Kathleen, next question, Teresa, is there a person in your life that you genuinely enjoy talking with and listening to their side of the story too, oy,

listening to their side of the story, what are you saying, that I like just to talk at people, which I do, and someone that makes you chuckle, I know you're the most comfortable talking to us through the podcast, but it's one-sided, when I'm laughing at an entertaining story that you're telling, I don't get a turn to tell my story, that would might, that might make you laugh, well thanks Teresa, yeah, I've had people that, I've got a friend that I get on really well with, a couple of people that I get on really well with,

that I speak to on the phone, and I generally get on quite well with people, generally anyway, and as far as making me laugh, one of the people that made me laugh the most was someone called Alex, he used to make me laugh, I used to work with him, he lived, moved to Canada, but he was very funny, and so don't try to look at my phone, who do I know, who do I know that I talk to regularly, not really many people now, my, my uh, yeah,

I don't have much really in a way of real life people, oh a couple of friends that I speak to, I do get on with, try and get on with most people, but as far as anyone that makes me laugh, like really like full out, well I have a laugh with everyone, but not so much these days, not really, um, I met a few comedians over the years in the past, and I guess the things that make me laugh is when I watch stuff on telly, and you know,

if a comedy show, or a stand-up show, or things like that, but it's just a normal conversation, I do, people make me laugh, anyone can really, if they say something that's funny, I just laugh, you know, if it makes me laugh, it makes me laugh, I don't, I don't have anyone that's constant, or consistent, because I don't have constant companionship with anyone, I don't mean like romantically, but just generally, I'm not around anyone regularly, like on a daily, daily, daily basis as it were, and yeah, but I do,

people do make me laugh, I do laugh, you know, I, I don't stop myself, or, or try and shelter myself from other people's jokes, if that makes sense, I don't, I don't try and dominate, or let me be the funny one, I love people make me laugh, I think it's more fun for me than me making them laugh, to be honest, because it's, it's just, it's just fun, because I like to laugh, I love laughing, God, it reminds me of the, the dating apps, where people say I like to laugh,

and then these other ones would say, my children come first, they're my priority, no man is ever going to come before my children, they're like, okay, but I love to laugh, like you've started off your profile all wrong, calm down a little bit, I will never put up with a man, like no, that's not the way to get a relationship, not that I know how to get a relationship, but anyway, I'll move on from that, controversial, second question, you mentioned regretting starting that job in the chip shop, when you were 15 to 16,

so that was Teresa, yeah, I was 15 to 17 actually, I was 16, you know what, I was 15 when I started, 16, 15, 16, 17, yeah, I was 17 when I finished, so I was there for two years, I was there from March, April kind of time, 1986, until around March, April 1988, and we were, I'm being pedantic, sorry, and you were living above the restaurant, it's not a great situation at times, but why did you go out on your own so young, ah, well, this isn't a happy story,

but it's just factual, so I'll give you the facts, and it's something that millions of other people have gone through anyway, so it's not anything new, I was born with wings, and unlike the rest of the family, my wings didn't work, what am I talking about, so I was in, I was at school, I was the youngest in my school, which is why, or in my year, pretty much, there might have been one other kid, but I don't think, I think, I did a survey once, I literally did ask everybody,

so I was the youngest in my year, so I left school at 15 instead of 16, most of the other kids left at 16, so I did still have to go back and do some exams, I didn't realise I didn't have to go back, but I went back anyway, because I thought I was going to get arrested if I didn't, which was silly, and I got no marks, I failed every single exam I ever did during that time, so I didn't try either, but anyway, going back,

just before I got the job in a ship shop, the reason I got it is because my dad got me in the garden, he didn't call me, but he had a chat with me in the garden saying, what are you going to do now then, you'll be leaving school soon, I said, what do you mean, he said, well, you're going to have to get a job, you're not going to college are you, no, actually he said, you're going to have to get a job unless you're going to go to college,

and he started laughing hysterically, the whole neighbourhood, people looking over the fence, just laughing and like, that's a bit rude, but anyway, he said, you're going to have to get a job, what are you going to do, I said, I don't know, what was weird though, because he said something, because he used to like to say this, he liked to say a phrase, you're stupid, what are you, and expected me to repeat back, I'm stupid, on this occasion I said, no, I'm not, I stood up to him, not physically,

but verbally, and he said, oh, well, okay then, don't, don't, don't do that then or whatever, then he started barking, so I don't know what I need to cut out of that last sentence, so yeah, anyway, I, because he was like, oh, you've got to get a job, I thought, okay, I'll show you, I went out and I got the first job that I could, I literally just crossed the road into town, saw, went into the chip shop, say, you got any jobs, and he said, yeah, I might have,

popped back in two hours when I finished, you know, the shift or whatever, went back and he said, yeah, and I started the following week, now at the time, the family kind of fallen a bit weird, so my second from oldest brother had moved out, my oldest brother, I don't know if he was living there or not, I can't remember, my little brother was like seven years old, my step-mom was working, and my dad was working, and it was, wasn't really a home anymore, you know, like it used to be,

and shortly after I started working in the chip shop, they split up, that's pretty much it really, that's kind of how I ended up, so I was homeless as far as, I stayed with my step-mom, we went and lived in her mum's flat, and I was living in the living room, sleeping in the living room at night on a camper bed for probably 11 months, 10 months, a year, I'm not sure exactly how long, probably about 10 months, it was a long time, and I was really close to my step-grandmother,

my step-mom's mum, until at the end of that period, we never spoke again afterwards, because we didn't like each other, after living with each other, and which is a shame, because I used to get on really well with her, like really, really close, so you know, so anyway, there was that, I tried going back, because I hated being there, I tried to go back to my dad's, because he stayed in the house, because the previous time they split up, they, he moved out, and then when they moved back,

he said he was never moving out again, so this time she moved out, anyway, so I went back to live back at my dad's, like in the house, because I couldn't, I just wanted to be in my own bed again, but unfortunately at this point, it was cold, so it was probably winter time, or October, September, October, no heating on, he refused to put the heating on, there was no food, all right, Vinnie's getting a bit impatient with me, so I'm gonna have to go in a minute, because he's hassling me,

he's starting to get all barky, and every time he's really quiet, it's so much, why people can't just be quiet, opening the door, closing the door, slam, slam, slam, so calm down Vinnie, so what happened is, I went back and lived there again, you know, the flat, and then they decided to move away, all of them, my step-mom was going to have a little brother, I think the sale of the house had come through, pretty much, and they decided to leave, start a new life, she had a new,

a new bloke to go to be with, and she, her, her mum decided to move down there as well, because that's where my uncle, where her brother used to live, and you know, so it's kind of re-getting back together with her family, so she wanted me to go and live with her, she did, she did, you know, so still only 15 or 16, 16 at this point probably, but she did offer me to go there, and I visited, we all went together, and we came back, you know, but we went,

and the bloke basically told me that he didn't want me coming back, for some reason, I don't know, he didn't, didn't like me, or, I think he struggled with the idea that she had a grown-up son, although not biologically, didn't look good, I don't think, because he, because she was too young to have me, basically, she was only 21 when I was seven, so yeah, that's, I think, well, I don't know if it's physically impossible, but it's rare, isn't it, quite a rare sort of situation, so he didn't like that,

apparently, it's a weird thing about it, is both my older brothers stayed with them, he had no problem with them staying for periods of time, but didn't want me, it's weird, I don't really get it, but they weren't allowed to call her mum, get that, so for 10 years, nine, nine years or whatever, we were all calling her mum, and then we had to stop, well, not me, because I wasn't invited, but they had to stop, because she, he was embarrassed, he didn't know what to tell the kids,

because she had new kids, had more, two more kids and stuff, how do we explain that to the kids, that these adults are calling you mum, it's easy, it's not, it's not a complicated process, is it, we adopted them, which she did, like she adopted us, so we adopted, they're my adopted children, legal children, anyway, so that, that's, that's how I came to having to move out into the flat above the chip shop, I needed somewhere to live, and I didn't know what I was going to do, but luckily everything kind of,

the planets aligned in a weird way, and my boss at the chip shop was living above the, he was living above the chip shop, but he was about to move out, because he'd just bought a new house, and that wasn't my, my family home, because that would have been weird, but he bought a new house, and they said, well, you can, you can live here, live upstairs, so that's what I did, moved in, still remember it now, moving in there, the first Sunday I was there, it was Easter Sunday,

and my friend Neil came around, and we had a cup of tea and some hot cross buns, maybe that's why I like hot cross buns so much, because there's, there's a, some kind of emotional thing within, yeah, and Words Will Come, which is on telly, so I remember that, Sunday morning, and Neil's, my friend Neil, his family, his mum and dad gave me cutlery and plates and stuff like that, so yeah, it was, yeah, it was weird, but that's how I ended up living there, and then when I moved out of there,

I temporarily lived at my dad's, then I moved out, and I lived above my next place that I lived, which is a co-op, which is weird, like going from what I live above one place to the next, so I was kicked out of the place above the chip shop, because I gave my job, I quit the job, and they said well you've got two weeks to get out of the flat, so I got evicted from there, stayed at my dad's, and then I moved into the chip shop, but the co-op above there,

got evicted from there, because the manager who was living up there that rented me the room, she got kicked out, because she wasn't working there anymore, it's weird, so two evictions before the age of 18, it's not bad is it, and yeah, and then just went from there, different rooms, about 50, moved about 50 odd times since I was, since I left school, so I moved around a little bit, but that's how I ended up above the chip shop, just, it's just a standard, you know, just split up, that's it,

just normal, normal things, but I did, I kept in contact with my dad, I didn't see him much during the, between like 15 and 17, because he was dealing with his own stuff, but I started to see him a lot, you know, we haven't always got on great, but we're just, we're just very different people, it's very different, it's just different opinions, I guess, and different values, and yeah, just different, so we don't, we're never going to really see eye to eye, I don't think, on a lot of different things,

but, but then he's my dad, he's not my friend, I don't need him to be my friend, it'd be nice, I guess, I do see some people that have friends, like my dad's my best friend, like, well, that's nice, I guess, but mine's not, he's my dad, and I just don't have that, yeah, I don't know, it's weird, but he has helped me out a few times over the years, when I've needed him, so, you know, he's there, he's there, you know, so he has, he stepped up when he needed,

when I needed him, I wish I could say the same for him, I've not really stepped up, maybe I will one day, maybe I'll have an opportunity, I hope he doesn't need my kidneys, I don't need to give him, I've already given three livers away already, I don't want to give any more away, so living above the, yeah, why did I go out so young, on my young, yeah, that was it, that's why I went out so young, I had no plan, I had no guidance, I didn't have any,

I didn't ask for guidance either, I didn't know what to do, I just knew I didn't like being at school, I got out of school, and then I didn't know what to do, genuinely did not know, and no one else was, everyone was busy doing their own thing, you know, the, my step-mom was busy working, and being a mother, so she didn't have any time really to focus on what I was doing, so I was just doing the chip shop, and I didn't bother anyone, apart from the smell, that bothered everyone,

not, not the farts, I'm talking about the chip shop smell, I couldn't smell it, but everyone was, oh, the smell of chips, the smell of fish, like, so do you, yeah, you know, it's like, you smell of shoes, while working the shoe shop, you smell of shoes then, no I don't, yes you do, you smell of polish, shoe polish, so what's the end of this, your stories are the best, apart from that last one, even when I know you're making half of it up, as you go,

you still keep up all night listening, still keep me up all night, I have never ever lied, or made up anything ever in my entire life, and I've been doing this for at least 300 years, so I've never made up anything ever, how dare you, oh, um, when your story ends with, and we laughed and danced, always get a chuckle, so yeah, and we did, we actually did laugh and dance, uh, with this one, that's weird, I suppose you're about to say that, so Vinnie's calmed down a little bit, haven't you,

hey, he's such a little monkey, I ran out of treats to give him a couple of days ago, so he's been eating all his meals, the amount of times he just doesn't, like no, don't want it, don't want it, now when I give him his meal, he's tucking right in, knife and fork, serviette, everything, sitting at the table like a good little boy, it's amazing, he eats the whole lot, let's still try and give him a little bit of what I'm eating as well, if it's, you know, edible, but you know,

I think I've in the past, I've given too many treats, too many, and he just sighed, not enough, not enough, not too many, not enough, okay, don't sigh at me, young man, I can hear you, he literally did this one, that's just rude, you're rude, shut up, so I'm gonna go, I don't know if I've answered these questions in a correct manner, I hope I have, yeah, I think I've answered them, I think, oh, my subscribers on YouTube, 1247, so I had 59 new subscribers in the last couple of weeks,

it's not bad, is it, yeah, it's not brilliant, it's not bad, it's not millions, didn't say it was millions, did I, have I said, oh, I've got millions of subscribers on YouTube, no, I think even my peak, apparently, according to someone who told me that I had about 3000 subscribers, so I was getting 45,000 plays a month, I think on my last play, I might be a little bit more on my last month, maybe 47,000, so even at my peak, it wasn't like high, but 3000 subscribers, according to the,

that app I went on to yesterday, it's going to take me about four years to get 3000, five years, like, nah, nah, I'll get 3000 by the end of this year, or my name isn't Billy McMoney, I don't know what that was, so I'm going to go to bed, it's time for me to go to bed, I'll take the little one out for a quick thingy, I won't say the word, because he will hear me, oh, I've got a notification, one hour till Don King's Adrian Broner and Blair Cobbs have a fight,

a boxing, so that's another fight in Don King's living room, brilliant, honestly, he's got like 300 million in the bank, something like that, regardless of his reputation, he's still probably one of the most famous boxing promoter of all time, you'd think you'd want to put on, and he's about 90 years old, he's nearly 90, I think, you'd think you'd put on one, want to put on one really big show, especially after all the huge shows he had on in the past, I think he was responsible for the Frula in Manila,

he was obviously responsible, say obviously, but for Tyson, Mike Tyson fights, put on a really big show, spend a hundred million, go on, just put on the biggest show you can do, or promise 300 million, and then just give them 50 grand each, because they'll still be surprised they got paid anything, so just, oh, don't sue me, is, I think people are still waiting to get paid from fights they had like five years ago with him, he doesn't like paying people, apparently, Larry Holmes had retired after they fought Michael Spinks and lost the world title,

heavyweight title, in 1985, I think it was, 1984, 85, 86, I don't know, whenever it was, and he retired, Don King turned up, knocked on Larry Holmes's door and said, I want you to fight Mike Tyson for the world title, and Larry Holmes said no, and Don King chucked a bag, a bag on the floor, it was a 50 grand, was it half a million in cash, something like, probably half a million in cash, he said there, take that, and that's just a down payment, and Larry Holmes said okay,

so having that cash, I think it was one of those like, don't have to declare it, like yeah, fair enough, so I don't, where did their money go, where do their money, where does their money go, because you're getting paid millions and millions, a heavyweight champion automatically is very rich, you think getting paid five, ten million a fight, even back then, in the 80s, you'd be set for life, but, but then I suppose if you've got a mansion, if you, you know, you can be spending,

you might have a 30 million dollar house, but have to pay three million a year for the ground rent, I heard that somewhere, I don't know if it's true, that's a lot of money, isn't it, to be paying out for something for, for nothing really, in a sense, and you've already bought the property, but you got to pay for the sky as well, sky rent, air rent, and what have you got, like someone, um, to do the grass, what, boy rent, or rent boy, no, no, that's wrong, um, right, okay,

I want to go, I don't know if I've answered the questions correctly, or in a way that might feel satisfactory to those to have asked me the questions, but if I have done, I applaud myself, little clap for myself, thank you, I'm doing a bow now, I'm not, but you know, no way in knowing, well, actually, you know, if I did a bow, my head would hit the microphone, so I didn't really do a bow, but I'm pretending, so remember to be kind to yourself, you deserve to be happy, remember to be gentle with yourself, lots of love, bye.