(no music) #1257 Q&A Friday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (20th December 2024)

Hello and welcome to... Hello and welcome to Q&A Friday. What? No jingle? Well, there's a reason for that. No, there's no reason for that.

I don't know. I'm actually releasing this late. In fact, I'm recording this late.

I am recording this on Sunday. So technically, it's Q&A Sunday. But there's a reason for that.

But give me some time and I'll figure one out. What's the reason? I can't even remember what happened on Friday. What did I do on Friday? I wasn't... Yeah, I just wasn't really... Yeah, I didn't feel really up to doing it on Friday.

And then yesterday, which was Saturday, it was a full day. So I had my my dad met him for lunch for Christmas dinner at 11. And then when I got home, there's about an hour before boxing started.

And now my voice is going croaky. What's happening to my voice? I know. I'll try and have some water.

So anyway, please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My website is jasonnewland.com. I do yeah, do six versions of each recording. One without music, normal length, then a five and 10 hours without music.

Then I do one with music and then five and 10 hours with music. Just gives you a bit of choice. My website is pretty much my podcast now.

So if you go to jasonnewland.com, all the latest recordings are on there. You can download or you can stream. Also, also, also, also, which is one of the better things of the podcast is you go to playlists, which is in the index, or the menu rather.

All the different podcasts I do are available, you can click on them. And they're broken down into 50 into playlists of just 50 recordings. And so yeah, just gives you an option gives you a chance to listen to some of the older stuff.

I'm going to break it down by without music with music, five hours, 10 hours, all that stuff. But that's going to take a while to get all that done. And I'm thinking today I'm going to wash my curtains.

Might seem like a strange thing to do. But I got the urge. I got the I got the urge.

I don't know why. Just want to I just want to wash my curtains. So I'm thinking I might probably do that today.

They do need to be done and washed and dried. Mind you, I suppose. I can just hang them up wet and they will dry on their own, won't they? Because the radiator so they'll just dry naturally.

So I got like a hang on to dry anyway, so I might as well just stick them up wet. What other things do I normally say? Did I say my name? My name's Jason Newland. I don't know if there's anything else to tell you.

I know I'm back to using Spreaker. I never stopped using Spreaker, but for my main podcasts, I'm using Spreaker. So the background music is all copyright free part of Spreaker.

They allow background music as long as they use their background music. So I mean, I now do that. I've got a YouTube channel at Jason Newland.

I've got a Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group. And that's it really. I don't think there's anything else.

Had a lovely dinner yesterday, but I did something I don't normally do. And I'm not talking about cartwheels. I had a drink, alcohol, which I haven't had a drink of alcohol for two and a half years.

So that was a, I think I just needed to take the edge off really. So I got there about 40 minutes before my dad was in a pub. And I don't, I don't, a pub environment isn't really for me.

It's just, I'm not a big public, anywhere public, but a pub. I mean, literally pub stands for public, doesn't it? Public house. So I don't know.

Yeah, so I had a pint of Foster's and then later on I had half a pint of Foster's. So I had one and a half pints, which is more alcohol than that, as I said, that I've had for two and a half years. And I don't think it did my acid reflux too much good.

I had pretty bad indigestion after I'd eaten and drunk the alcohol. But the meal was good. You know what I did? Because I had to order it.

I didn't have to, but I ordered it online. I booked it so my dad didn't have to do anything. And I sorted it all out my end because he was visiting here.

I ordered extra, I don't know what to call them, but basically potatoes and Yorkshire puddings as a side dish. So I ended up paying like £20 more for something that we didn't need. It's like, what? But, you know, it worked out okay.

It was just, it was, I don't think I've ever booked a table anywhere ever in my life. And booking the, there's one thing, booking a table and then going and ordering stuff. But to actually order the food beforehand, I didn't find it easy.

It's just something I haven't really done before. And it's, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't love the experience of booking it.

But when we got there, it was nice. So it was nice. It was a good, a nice time.

I saw my little brother, I saw, you know, so that was good as well. And my step mum, I can't believe it. She painted me, her present for Christmas.

She painted me a picture of Vinnie. So now I've got two pictures, two paintings, one with Vinnie and Andre, and now one with Vinnie. So Cara did the one with Vinnie and Andre, but now I've got a big pic.

Yeah, it's fairly, it's just this whole face. And he's got a big head, isn't he, old Vinnie? And she just did it off a photograph and it's like really, really cool. I need to start collecting pictures of Vinnie and Andre from my wall.

Maybe start putting a wall up. Maybe, if anyone wants to do a picture of my nan, do that as well. Ah, hey.

He's just got out of bed, he's served. 9.37, so he's been up for about seven minutes. Bearing in mind we went to bed, I don't know, nine hours ago, 10 hours ago probably.

So he's had a good old sleep. I've been up for hours. I watched the boxing last night, Tyson Fury and Youssef.

It was kind of weird. Unlike previous nights at Dubai, when the, it was multiple world titles. Oi, don't be starting mate, I ain't in the mood.

Calm yourself. A lot of the other bills were like, multiple world title fights. This one just had the world title fight at the end.

And some of the other bills, there was people on there that I knew. On this one, there wasn't so many that I knew. So I knew Tyson and Youssef.

I also knew two of the heavyweights. I knew there was two other heavyweight fights, which I knew the opponents and I knew the fighters on those ones. So I knew the fighters for three fights, but all the others I didn't really know them.

And it didn't keep me gripped. They say, it's weird because no matter how good the fight is, because I'm not a casual fan. I think a casual fan can probably watch boxing and just like, oh, that's a really good fight.

Oh, that's a night, but it could be anyone fighting. It's weird because I'm quite a big fan of boxing. I don't necessarily enjoy just anyone fighting.

I love to see up and coming fighters and, you know, building up their career. That's interesting. And, you know, former Olympians sort of starting their professional career.

And I do like the heavyweights. I've got a particular interest in heavyweights. And I like watching the best fighters.

You know, the top fighters. They're the ones that I like to really, they're the ones I enjoy watching. The up and coming and the current.

But I guess I like watching the cream. I can't, I don't really particularly just want to watch boxing just for the sake of boxing. Although sometimes you get the most amazing fights with complete unknowns.

Well, maybe people I don't know. They're not unknowns, but, you know, maybe they're not known outside of their, like, hometown. In the same way that Fabio Wardley wasn't really known outside of Ipswich.

And now he's a big player. In fact, I think he's the most exciting heavyweight in the world, personally. Mind you, I wouldn't bet against Usyk ever against anyone.

Because no one can do what Usyk does. And that's just punch continuously for 12 rounds. It just doesn't let up, doesn't stop.

And the speed and all that. So anyway, I won't spoil the fight just in case, well, I don't want to talk about the results of the fight in case you haven't watched it. I would never, I'd never bet, I wouldn't bet against Tyson Fury either.

It's just like, it's hard to bet against people that are so good. But I would never bet against Canelo. Even though Canelo has lost a couple of times.

I hope he does fight Crawford. Canelo and Crawford. If he fights next year, them two fight, it will be the biggest fight of the year.

And I think, so, okay, spoilers. I'm going to talk about the results of the fight. I'm not going to talk about Tyson Fury and Usyk.

But I will talk about two of the other fights. So if you haven't seen, if you're going to be watching it later tonight or a different day, then turn this off because you're going to, it's going to be a spoiler. And I don't want to spoil people's fun.

So there was a, the two heavy, the two heavyweight fights were really good. The undercard, like really good. In fact, it wasn't just heavyweight, there was some other really good fights as well, I'm just remembering now.

But because I know, and I've been following the heavyweights, the individual fighters, I kind of, it was more exciting. And Dave Allen fought Johnny Fisher. And Dave Allen absolutely won that fight.

Like there's, I don't think anyone watching it at home would think, apart from a Johnny Fisher fan who'd be biased, and I'm a Johnny Fisher fan as well, by the way, but I'm also a Dave Allen fan. So Dave Allen won that fight. Like absolutely, but he didn't.

He got robbed with the points. And it's weird, because as I was watching it, and they came to a close, it, you know, no one, it went to points in the end. And I thought to myself, you know what? Eddie Hearn, no, not Eddie Hearn, it's Eddie Hearn, yeah, Eddie Hearn's got Johnny Fisher.

That's one of his people. Eddie Hearn is going to have a big influence on the outcomes of the fights. And it's just a big influence on the whole event, because he's part of the event.

Johnny Fisher's unbeaten. Dave Allen was put in there to be beaten by Johnny Fisher. He wasn't supposed to be a challenge, not really.

But he decided to write up the script, write up the script, rip up the script, and do what he can do, which was he out-punched him, out-boxed him. He won that fight fair and square. But just as they were coming to the announcement, I thought to myself, they're going to give it to Johnny Fisher, which they did.

And it was ridiculous scoring as well. They gave, yeah, they gave Dave Allen hardly any rounds. It was ridiculous.

Now, I actually defy, well, I dare anybody who's not fallen asleep watching this or listening to this, watch the Johnny Fisher against Dave Allen fight. I mean, it's a 12-round fight, but it is full on for 12 rounds. Tell me, or just watch the highlights.

Tell me that Dave Allen, mind you, it depends how they put the highlights together, because there were points. Dave Allen didn't win every round at all. And it was not completely one-sided.

It was at times. But Johnny Fisher, he did throw some really good punches and some good combinations. But Dave Allen was knocking Johnny Fisher all around the ring.

He put him down once, at least once, and he was pretty much just old manning him. I think that's the term. Because Johnny Fisher's young and Dave Allen's the older man, more experienced, twice as many fights.

Watch that fight and tell me that Dave Allen didn't win it. Even a non-boxing person who doesn't really watch boxing much, not really that interested, a casual fan, whatever, tell me that you think that Johnny Fisher won that. He did win it, but tell me, you know, it was silly.

And I said, I'm a fan of Johnny Fisher, I'm not hating towards him. And his last fight was amazing, the knockout he did. But this one, and he was also really good in this one.

But Dave Allen won it. Honestly, it was, all right, mate. Anyway, the other fight was Otuah, not Otuah, Moses Otuah, who's 19, he's British, and he fought Keynes, I think it was, who's Australian.

Now, I've been watching Moses since his very first fight. And he's a heavyweight, and he's trying to, I think his aim is to beat Mike Tyson's record for the youngest heavyweight champion. And I reckon he'll fight for the world title next year.

Because the people with the money will want to make that happen. Then he wants my attention, I think. Well, I didn't realise how good he was.

And I've watched every fight he's had, and he's only had like eight fights. So he's not had a lot of fights. And he's knocked, I think apart from one fight, he's knocked everyone out apart from one person, I think.

The speed, I don't think I've ever seen a heavyweight with the speed that he's got. I mean, like super speed, can't see it. Can't, can't, it's like, I don't know, I'm gonna say, possibly even faster than Ali.

But in a different way. Because when Ali was punching, obviously super fast, hardly anyone in the world, heavyweights ever been as quick as Ali was. Or Cassius Clay when he was young.

But I think the difference with Moses is he's got the speed, but he does the knockout punches with that speed. He's not sticking to the, to the, my words aren't working today. The jabs, that's what I'm thinking about.

He's not just sticking to the jab. He's literally doing knockout punch with the same speed as Ali would do the jab. So you wouldn't even, don't see it coming.

And the accuracy, see if he missed, he would have been on the floor. He could have knocked himself out. That's the weird thing.

He threw absolutely everything into the punch, but it was so quick. If, if the, if his opponent, if Moses's opponent had moved out of the way, he would have possibly, he might have thrown himself out of the ring. And flown away.

It was that kind of speed that I don't think I've ever seen. I mean, Mike Tyson had a lot of speed, but he, a lot of his, he had speed, but it was the power as well. It wasn't just the speed.

This is a freakish speed. Now again, what, you don't even have to watch the, you don't have to do anything. But if you want to watch the, the reruns or, of that fight, Moses Attua.

And I think it was Keynes. I think it's the, his opponent. It, it was only one round.

So if you, yeah. If you watch the, just the one round. Honestly, the speed.

And I realised I was a little bit, a little bit punch drunk with boxing. Cause it started at four. Too many hours.

It's, it's a little bit too much. I think I can three or four hours, but not like six, seven hours. It's just too long.

Even for me. Even for me. But they were the only two, the three fights that I was interested in and actually enjoyed really was the three heavyweight fights that I mentioned.

And I guess there's something about watching, watching someone that you're interested in. It's like just, it makes it more interesting. It just, I just, I can't just, randomly watch stuff for the sake of it.

No matter how good it is. And sometimes the best fights, boxing, whatever. It's like, I guess sometimes the best football you'll ever see or the best rugby you'll ever see or the best cricket or basketball could be.

You might just watch a game being played in a local game. No superstars, just people or kids from a school or whatever. And it might be the best game you've ever seen.

It's just the way things are, isn't it? You might see the best fight you'll ever see in a local leisure center. It might be the best boxing you've seen in your life. Way better than any world title fight you've ever seen.

And no one's even filming it. It's just, so that I understand that can happen. But yeah, that Moses Attua, wow.

And the weird thing about it, he doesn't look big. Obviously he is big. But he doesn't look big.

Because he's quite slim. It reminds me a little bit, it doesn't seem as tall but it reminds me Lennox Lewis when he started out. Because Lennox Lewis was quite slim when he started out.

And then he put on, I think he was probably 16 stone. Because he was 6'6", something like that. But at the end of his career he was probably 18, 19 stone.

So he put on quite a little, as he got older he put on a lot more weight. But he just doesn't, but he was, yeah. Because Keane was about 6'6".

And I think Moses is about 6'1", 6'2". So he's not like super tall. I mean, obviously he's big.

Because he's a heavier, you know, he's like. He doesn't, for some reason he doesn't look that big. But super powerful and so fast.

And he's going to get bigger as he gets older. Because, you know, age and weight. Even the lower weights, like the feather weights and the welter weights, they really struggle as they get older to keep down to that weight.

I mean, it's easier for a heavyweight because they don't have to get below a certain weight. So they haven't got to like struggle. I mean, maybe they need, they've got a fighting weight and want to be at a certain, they want to be at 16 stone.

Or 220 pounds or whatever. But ultimately they can come in at 30 stone and still be okay. They might not win a fight.

But it's, you know, with a welterweight or other weights they have to be, got a limit to what weight they can be. Otherwise, otherwise, otherwise, otherwise. And I've seen it loads of times.

Even in a world title fight, they may lose their title on the scales. I've seen that in the past. I saw it with Tank Davis, David Benavidez.

And they both lost their world titles on the scales. So they were defending their world title. They came overweight.

They tried to lose some weight. They were given like a couple of hours or whatever and they couldn't. So they still went ahead and fought the fight.

But they didn't have the world title. So the title was for his, their opponents to win. So if their opponents won the fight, which they didn't, their opponents would have won the world title.

But if their opponents didn't win, then the world title would become vacant over a few pounds. And if I want to lose five pounds, I just go to the toilet. It's, it's, yeah.

Anyway, this isn't really about boxing. This is about the Q&A Friday. So let's have a look.

I have, I have, I have, I have, and I'm glad I remembered it. I have a message that was posted on my website. So let's have a look.

So I've got a Q&A Friday link on my website. And that's basically just ask me a question. Which someone did, if I could find it.

Oh, by the way, the lights on the Christmas tree outside do work. I know some of you have been really wondering. But they do actually work.

I'm not going to take a picture of it because it looks awful. You know, there's no lying about that. It does look bad.

But I gave it a go. You know, I'm limited. I'm not, I'm like four foot tall.

The tree's about a hundred foot tall. I, you know, there's limitations. Gravity is a problem.

So I can't get very high to put the stuff. So I've got tinsel, I've got lights, I've got baubles. I've got a plaque with my friend's name on it.

But I can't find it because I lost it. I literally had it delivered three days ago and it's gone missing. Well, it's not gone missing it.

I've just mislaid it. Anyway, here's a four, here's a message sent on my website from Maria. This is the first question of Q&A Friday.

Jason, what is a typical day for you if you have one? Do you have set times, routines, for doing things? E.g. taking Vinnie for walks. Perhaps you take each day as it comes. Many thanks.

And I realise, Maria, you possibly don't sound like that. I thought it'd be trying to add a voice. Well, thank you, Maria.

Let us have a look. What is a typical day for me? There are some things that I do kind of on a regular basis. And I don't mean go to the toilet.

Or shout out of the window at strangers. This is, what do I do? I wake up. I wake up in the morning, quite early, although today it was later.

The later I go to bed, the later I wake up. I generally kind of aim to go to bed about 10 o'clock, between 9 and 11. But usually about 10, maybe 11.

I wake up between 4 and 6. You see, it kind of depends on what time I go to bed. So it's not like a set routine. But there's a few things that I do that are set.

When I wake up, I get out of bed. I put both my feet on the ground. I go do wee-wees.

And then I take my tablet for my acid reflux. Yay! And then I wait for about a half hour, sometimes a bit longer, before I have my breakfast. So during that time, I come into the living room.

Vinnie's often still asleep on the bed. It depends on the situation. So if I've got a podcast to edit that I've done the night before, I will start on that, start editing it.

But I generally start, the first thing I do is just, I'll actually do it in front of, I'll do it now. So I'll open up my laptop. I'll have a look at the stats.

So just see what the stats are, the overall stats from yesterday and how they are today. And just see what's predominantly going busy and which podcasts are most active and stuff like that. At the moment, Hypnosis is Sleeping Deeply is the most active podcast.

Then Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis. Then Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So it's all, it's a Sunday.

It's three minutes past ten. Sunday's usually quite a slow day. Then I'll probably go on to YouTube.

I'll do that now. Go on to YouTube. See if I have any messages.

No. There is a message that has a question. Who's the lady podcaster you listen to please? You've mentioned her a few times and I'm curious.

This is from Christine. I'll tell you what, I'm going to answer that next. I'm going to answer that as part of my Q&A Friday.

In fact, I can't because I don't know. Christine, I genuinely don't know. Have I ever said, I don't remember ever saying that I listen to a lady podcaster.

I don't. I do listen to a radio station, Nick Abbott, on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday at ten o'clock in the evening. It's ten to one.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Friday and Saturday is more kind of jovial and playing around and stuff. Sunday is a bit more political and serious.

So yeah, I can't think of a woman, a lady that I listen to as a podcaster. I can't think of any podcasts that I listen to. I do listen to a lot of audio books.

Unless you're thinking about Lara. Lara Cox, is it? But I don't listen to, she's a hypnotist and she's someone I used to know years ago. She doesn't even remember me.

But this was like a long, long time ago. So I do post her stuff sometimes. And she does like comedy.

She's a comedian. She does comedy, hypnosis. Who else would I listen to? There's, I can't think.

I can't remember. If someone does remember that, maybe let Christine know or post it. You know, maybe post it.

And I can't think who it could be. And right, so I go to the YouTube channel. Just check out how things are.

Subscribers still the same as yesterday. It's plodding away. And because I generally just upload 10 hour versions of the latest recordings.

I don't get many. I don't get many views, really. That's the truth of it.

It's growing. It's steady at 1415 subscribers. And I really don't get, I don't get many views at all.

And it's not a good promotion for the, I mean, really not very many. But when, when people do listen, they listen for a long time. Not that that really makes much difference.

But I am, however, however, thinking about making videos again, like actually have my funny face and put them onto YouTube in the new year, like maybe right from the beginning of the new year. We'll see. We'll see.

I'm thinking about that. So I will check the YouTube channel. And then I will go to Facebook.

See if there's any messages, which there won't be. Occasionally, there's messages, but don't get many. I'm trying to think.

Yeah, then I go into my basic pay. Normally, I go to the Facebook group just to check what's going on. I don't take much notice of the main page because even I post all my new stuff on the main page.

I get really no, people don't really take any notice apart from Molly. Sometimes she says she likes, likes it. But most people on my YouTube, on my Facebook page, my friends, 3.8 thousand.

No, they must think that no one listens to my recordings because they see me posting stuff and there's no response, no reaction. Hardly. How little they know.

How right they are. No, no one listens to my stuff. Never mind.

And then I go to my YouTube, my Facebook. Page, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group, just check there. There's always a chance that there might be some, a new person wanting to join, but there isn't.

So I'll come out of that. And I just check to see if there's anything new. I mean, normally anything new, anything new would normally just come up in the the WhatsApp, you know, notification bar anyway.

See, yeah, what is this? So I've got that, that's it really. That's that's kind of my normal routine. And then I'm going to make breakfast.

I make a cup of tea, put a tea bag in, put the hot water in and put some milk in a bowl after I've washed up the bowl. Give it a good rinse proper so that my breakfast doesn't taste of washing up liquid. Put the milk in a bowl, put the bowl in the microwave.

For two and a half minutes, go into the bathroom, clean my teeth, wipe my face, look at my hair in complete wonder. Disbelief. And then I come back into the kitchen.

I add some milk to the tea, just a little dash. And then I, you know, I squirt the, well not squirt, but I squeeze the tea bag with the spoon against the side of the cup. And then I chuck that out the window, pass it by.

I don't. And then I mix the, use the same spoon. I make sure there's no cover to the milk, you know, no like skin or anything.

So I'm like that. And I rinse the spoon. Then I add the ready brick powder to the milk.

And when that's done, I add some raisins and stuff on top. Then I carry that out with the tea into the living room. I turn the light off in the kitchen, close the door.

And then I sit down. If Vinnie's in the bed, well, actually, if it's early in the morning, I just leave Vinnie if he's in the bed. Sit down on a chair, put it into recline mode, turn the TV on, and I have my breakfast and my cup of tea.

And if it's a weekday, by this time it's usually five, between five and six, I will watch TV. I'll watch Frasier if it's on, or Cheers. So usually it's something like that on Channel 4. And I love Frasier, it's such a great show.

And Cheers as well, just nostalgic, I guess. And then perhaps I'll go onto YouTube and just check out what's going on on there, maybe check the news, just to update myself on what's going on in the world. And, depending, I'm not straight after I've eaten, but maybe an hour or so, I might just listen to some music, close my eyes, and just relax for a bit.

And then I'll do some stuff, take what's his name, the little one, O-U-T-4-A-W-A-L-K, I'm trying to not say the words because he's literally wanting me to do that now. And then, I'll just be to the park, generally. I said the word park, you heard that.

And then I will, hopefully he'll do a poo, because he needs to do two a day, generally, one in the evening, one in the morning. Once he's done the two, I know he's kind of set. Because, yeah, so I'll do that, then I'll bring it back.

There's always something to do. There's always something to do, especially with the website. There's always pages to build.

There's always podcasts to edit, or to create. All right, Vinnie, good boy. So there's never nothing to do.

It doesn't mean I always want to do it, or I always do do it, but there's always something to do. Yeah, it's all consuming. It can be, if I let it.

It, the day depends what happens, you know, if a neighbor knocks on the door, wants help, or, you know, it all depends, really. And Vinnie is, I think he needs a toilet, so I'm going to have to take him out and continue this when I get back. What was the time? I've nearly been talking for an hour, but I'm going to take him to the toilet, and I'm going to come back and continue.

So really, I'll take Vinnie out throughout the day, usually four times. And then in the evening, I'll take him in the garden, and he can do his wee-wees, the last wee-wee of the day in the garden. It's a communal garden, and then we'll go to bed.

But I try and get him to go to the toilet before bedtime. That way he doesn't wake me up in the middle of the night. I watch, I do, I watch a bit of TV, maybe watch a movie.

I like to watch YouTube videos on AI, and other stuff that maybe will come useful for what I do. Then of course, if I make a podcast, that takes a few hours of my time, you know, to record it, edit it, upload it. So that's for three or four hours.

And then, when it's time to go to bed, so I'll eat throughout the day as well. When it's time to go to bed, I will, you know, take him to do a wee-wee in the garden, and then I will go to bed. It's an exciting life, isn't it? I don't really have any regular things that I do at the moment.

Although I'm going to maybe, maybe try and change that next year. Perhaps get out a bit more, and yeah, start doing a bit more. Yeah, so I think I've answered your question.

I mean, there's regular things as far as if boxing's on, and if it's something I want to watch, that'll be something that I'll, you know, look forward to doing. And sometimes, if I'm up early enough in the morning, I'll stream it live. I'll go to the beginning of the recording of the stream, and then I'll kind of fast forward the bits that I don't need to watch.

Other times, I'll just play it back, or play it, you know, let's say it's in America, for example, and it's on at three in the morning, or four in the morning, or five in the morning, whatever. I might watch it later in the day, just watch the whole show. I have the odd phone call sometimes, that people I deal with.

I'm watching a TV show at the moment called Sweet Pea, so I've watched the first episode of that, so I think I'm going to be watching all of those episodes. So if I get into a series, into a new series, or maybe, like, I kind of find a box set that I want to watch all of the episodes, then that's quite nice, because I'll do that over a few weeks.

I'm trying to think, what else? Sunday, I like to have a day of rest, which might sound weird.

You could say, well, every day is a day of rest, but I like to have a Sunday when I don't see anybody, don't speak to anyone, no one phones me or knocks on my door, just have a day away from everyone, just a nice day for me. So that's my Sunday. I kind of want every day to be like that a little bit, but yeah, Sunday especially.

And I think if you ask me this question in a year's time, I might have a very different answer, but at the moment, that's it. There's not a lot going on, but in a year's time, it might be different. So I think I'm going to have to take the little one for a W-A-L-K.

I'll answer Kate's question. Kate asks, what is or has been Vinnie's favourite toy? He loves balls, loves balls, but there's certain things that he likes. He's got a snake, like a stuffed snake.

That's one of his favourite ones. It's more of a chewer, so he'd rather like chew on a bone or that's kind of, he's happy with stuff like that. Or, you know, I think he prefers that than a toy.

He likes to play. I mean, ultimately, his favourite toy would be another dog, another small dog to run around with. That's kind of like a toy for him, and he loves that.

But I can't trust him to let him off the lead, so he can't do that anymore. And it's such a shame, because I would say that's probably him at his happiest, when he's running and playing and wrestling and kissing and cuddling with one of his little friends. But the other thing, he's got some toys at his mum's, so when he visits there, he's got stuff that he likes to play with.

And he does play more there than he does here. He's got more room. It's a much bigger flat.

There's two bedrooms. Living room's much bigger. The kitchen's much bigger.

So he can, the hallway's bigger. He can really have a good run around. He can't really do that here.

It's a little bit cluttered, because I've got desks and, you know, there's not a lot of room for him to kind of run around. And maybe I can try and sort that out, so he has a bit more space. And I'm thinking of maybe getting rid of that sofa, because it's collapsing.

Get myself a chair, like I used to have before, a recliner chair, just a cheap one. And that'll take up less space. And I might, I might even look at getting rid of one of these desks.

I don't know if I really need two desks. I mean, they're both full. I want to do work, like editing and stuff on, and all of the website stuff.

And the other one has got my recording equipment on. It might be a different way of doing this. There's a bit more space friendly.

So I would say he's, his favorite toy doesn't really have a favorite toy, doesn't seem to. But when he does play, he likes to play with little balls, which reminds me of a weird dream I had last night. Very strange.

I had this dream where I was, I had something implanted into my body. And it had to be removed. But it was, it was implanted.

And I didn't know that it had been done. And it was some kind of a defense issue. You're like, I think the, the secret services in this country were involved.

And it wasn't my fault. But then I, it was weird, really weird, weird, weird dream. I had some, I had some very strange dreams last night.

Really strange dreams. So Anne asks, who's the council flat? Who is the council that you mentioned when you talk about your apartment? So it's the local county council. They, in the UK, they're, like in London, you've got boroughs.

So it's different boroughs. So you got Hackney and you got, I don't know, different boroughs. In other parts of the country, you've got towns and councils and stuff.

So it's basic, the local council is the, where I live. They're in charge of, I don't know, refuge collection. They're in charge of main, maintenance basically of the whole town.

They're be in charge of planning permission, I guess. All those things, road fixing, make sure the potholes stay really deep and dangerous. You know, things like that.

They do very conscientious about that. They make sure the potholes are really deep. And the other thing, they, they come around to make sure that people, at least 5% of the, of the population are being antisocial.

It's very important that at least 5% ruin it for everyone else. So that's what the council do. They, they basically, they're my landlord.

So the council, I mean the, the home section, the county borough homes, that's, they're in charge of everything to do with council property, council tax and stuff like that. I guess that's all kind of part and parcel of that as well. But yeah, so they're, they're basically my landlord.

Well, they are literally my landlord. So they're in control. They're the ones that decide on the rent.

They decide on who lives where. They decide on the rules. They decide on whether or not I have new windows put in or a new bathroom put in or I have to ask them permission to do stuff.

Which I did last week or the week before, asked permission to have a camera on my door and they gave me the permission. When I moved in, I asked permission for a pet and they gave me permission with, with rules. One of the rules was I couldn't have a cat because I live on the top floor.

And I couldn't have, if, yeah, if I had an, a dog, the dog had to not disturb the neighbours and not like badly disturb them. He does bark, Finny barks, but I do try and keep him quiet most of the time and weren't not allowed to take him in the garden and let him off the lead. And, you know, make sure he doesn't like poo everywhere.

Now I take him in the garden to do a wee and he's always on the lead. He doesn't even like pooing in the garden. His favourite place to poo is on the front lawn of a neighbour's house where they're all watching through the window.

That's what he likes. Ideally during a birthday party. He just, he loves an audience.

It's not so he doesn't want an audience for him. He wants an audience for when I pick it up. He's very rude.

So that's when I talk about the council, they're my landlord and they, they do the repairs. They pretty much are in charge of all these properties. And so if I became, for example, if I was a hoarder, they would come and they would force me to sort it out.

And if I didn't sort it out, they would sort it out for me and then charge me. And if I was problematic, then they would evict me. You know, things like that.

It's, yeah, it's a very, I think there's a lot of people I've been working, doing a full-time job, trying to take care of thousands of properties. I mean, they're clearly the biggest landlord in this area. The council, like nationwide, are the biggest landlord in the country.

Right, thanks for that. So Dimitri asks, Hi Jason, another major boxing event is coming our way. Since you're a fan of boxing, I want to ask if you're going to be watching the Fury and Yusuke rematch and who do you think will win? I reckon Yusuke will win on points.

If I'd have recorded this on Friday, then I would have told you that I thought Tyson Fury was going to win because he was going to use the punch that was so successful in their first fight, which was the uppercut. And I think he hardly threw it. So I don't know quite what was going on.

But you know what, I'm not criticizing anyone because I can't do what they do. It just, I just, I just thought that maybe that was something that he, that was useful, something that worked because he hurt Yusuke a few times in that first fight. With his uppercut.

Yeah, but this time, neither of them got hurt. Neither of them, like there was no, there was no point where either of them looked really stunned or anything throughout the whole fight, which is amazing when you think 12 rounds of two, two. Yeah, it's just like, wow.

So yes, it's a bit belated for me to answer your question. So I would have said Fury. I would have thought, yeah, I was, I would never bet against Yusuke.

I don't bet. But if I, if I did bet, I wouldn't bet against Yusuke because he is phenomenal. And I don't really think he's got anything to prove now.

He's beaten everyone. He's, and everyone that he hasn't beaten has been beaten by the people that he's beat. That makes sense.

So he's beaten, in this country, ironically, it is all English fighters. Which is a bit weird. But all the big fighters he's beaten in heavyweight, which is Zora, DuBois, Anthony Joshua twice, Tyson Fury twice.

So he's fought the World Heavyweight Championship four times, five times he defended it. Twice, he defended it once against Josh, three times. So he defended it against Joshua after winning it the first fight.

Then he defended against DuBois. Knocking DuBois out. Then he defended it against Tyson Fury twice, didn't he? Of course, it's four times he's defended his world title.

Who else is there? So he's fought, I think Chizora gave him the hardest fight he's had in heavyweight, personally. There doesn't seem to be a lot of point in him fighting people that have already, that have been beaten by the people he's beat. And I know it doesn't always work that way, styles make fights and stuff, but.

And now they're talking about maybe, I don't think there'll be a third fight. I don't think anyone would want to see a third fight. I don't want to see a third fight.

I don't think even, I don't think either of them want to have a third fight. It just seems pointless. If it's two close fights, or one wins one, then the next one wins one, you know? Like that, have a third, two as a decider.

But when Usyk wins twice, on points, and I'd say he deserved both those wins. I wouldn't have given it, I wouldn't have done it in a unanimous way that they did it. The scorecards were ridiculous.

Almost like Usyk bullied him all the way through, which he didn't. But Usyk threw more punches. He was busier, cleaner, cleaner, you know, he's just, he was Usyk doing what Usyk does, which is be pretty amazing.

And now there's talk of him perhaps fighting Dubois, or even though Dubois has got a fight against Joseph Parker in February, you know, it's, I don't see the point in that. I don't see the point in it unifying all the belts, because it just holds everything up. Let some of the other people fight for a belt.

Show me an excite, a fight that I'm going to get excited about. So for me, let some of the younger people, the newcomers have a go. So I'd say let, as far as the heavyweights go, I'm just going to talk about the UK, because we are dominating the heavyweight division at the moment.

At the moment, there are plenty of brilliant heavyweights from all over the world. But at the moment, the UK seems to be dominating, has done, other than the main man, which is obviously Usyk, but outside of him, it seems to be mainly UK fighters, Joshua, Tyson Fury, Dubois, you know, this is really seems to be dominating. So that will change, no doubt.

However, there's two, there's three really, really big fighters in the heavyweight division that are technically British. There's one that's, I think he's African, but he does, I think he fights from England. And he's, what was his name? He's really good.

He's really skillful. He has lost one, but he's kind of the boogeyman and no one wants to fight him. He knocked out Anderson.

And then you've got obviously Big Zhang, Big Bang Zhang, who's exciting to watch as well, because just don't know what he's going to do, because he's so huge. And what I'd like to see, personally, I'd like to see Fabio Wardley get a shot at the world title next year. I'd like to see him go in, because I think that he's got a really, really good chance at beating, maybe not Usyk.

So I think, I don't know, I'm not sure if Usyk's even beatable. I mean, technically everyone is, but he's not shown any way of being really hurt other than when Dubois knocked him down with a body shot that he claimed was low. But other than that, and he rolled around on the floor like a sausage in a frying pan.

That's Tyson Fury's words, not mine. It was funny. And I don't know, I think Fabio Wardley is my favourite heavyweight.

Although most of the tour, wow. The speed, that speed. I mean, honestly, I had to rewind it just to keep watching it, because I couldn't see.

It was so fast. I couldn't see what he did. I could see the outcome of what he did.

And when a boxer falls down and literally they crumple to the floor and their legs go everywhere. And that's, yeah, that was, wow. I don't, I just wonder, would Usyk be able to take that? Because that was on a different level.

I mean, sometimes, you know, you see a knockout and the punches and it's like, wow. And it's so clean. It's like, that's amazing.

But you see it. It's fast, but you see it. It's hard to even see the punch with Moses.

It was that fast. And it wasn't just his arm, his whole body moved at a speed that I've just, I don't know if I've seen that before. I might have done, but not as a heavyweight as Abs just, yeah, check it out.

Honestly, if you don't believe me, I was quite impressed. I'd like to see Fabio Wardley. What I want, what I want is for the Brits heavyweights to stop fighting each other.

I want the people that I like, the boxers that I like to stop fighting each other. I want them to fight other people, let them all win world titles and then maybe fight each other. So I want Moses, I don't want him to fight Fabio Wardley.

I want Fabio Wardley to be fighting Big Bang Zeng or one of the big, you know, the big Americans or or, you know, someone that's up there, high up so that he can win a world title. I want Dubois to be left alone. I don't want any of our British fighters to fight each other anymore.

Apart from Tyson Fury and Joshua, let them fight. They've been wanting to fight. That's been their, it's kind of their curtain call in a way.

And they've been waiting to do that for a while. And it is all, it's like people watch it and there'll be all this like big, it'll be a big build-up and they'll both earn some good money. Probably be in Dubai, although I imagine it's a good chance it could be at Wembley in the summer.

That's what my prediction, probably Wembley in the summer, biggest live audience of all time, like at Wembley in the UK days. And it'll be the big build-up and it might, it might be a really good fight, it might not. And I suppose if it's a really good fight and it's not one-sided then they'll have a rematch, make a bit more money.

But there doesn't seem to be anything else. I think Joshua's got a couple of options of like really, there will be popular fights. Him having a rematch with Dillian White, that's a popular fight.

I think boxing fans in the UK would want to see that. It's well overdue, you know, it's really overdue. That should have happened, I believe, four or five years ago.

Because they had a very close fight where Joshua won before he won the world title. But then Dillian White came back and he was doing so well for such a long time and he never got a chance at a world title fight. For years he was waiting.

So I'm thinking there's that and then Joshua and Tyson. Dillian White has got two fights that he could have that would be really popular. Again, like with Joshua and then he could have a trilogy, he could have the third fight with Chizora and people would go and watch that because both their fights were really good.

So that's the options I think like popularity wise in this country they could have. Although maybe, maybe put Moses, one of the young people, in with one of the old veterans. So Fabio Wardley in with Chizora and Moses Attua in with Dillian White.

That to me would be what a great event. New against old. Old versus new.

I mean that might not be a catchy thing but have that as a heavyweight. Old versus new. And then at the top of the bill maybe put in perhaps even have Tyson Fury fighting Daniel Dubois.

So again Daniel Dubois is new, Tyson Fury is old. I mean in comparison age wise not a lot in it to be fair. So old versus new.

That would be really interesting and maybe trying to think do it with so maybe because Johnny Fisher has won, I think they should give him a rematch but because he won his fight so put him in with a veteran as well which they already have done really with Dave Allen who clearly won but didn't. And I'm trying to think of some other new heavyweights so have like just heavyweights old versus new.

Do it at Wembley, Elk Sellout or the O2 or maybe do it in Dubai.

Maybe do it in there but I think it would be really big. It doesn't have to be just against British. It doesn't matter who they are.

So you could have Klitschko come back and have him fight Dubois old against new. If the money's there then it can happen can't it? Also the the person in Dubai they've bought the ring magazine which means they now own the ring magazine and the ring magazine belt so they can start to have their own events where they literally have fighters fight for the ring magazine world title.

The ring magazine belt which gives them is it carte en blanche or what they call it? It gives them a lot more power to do stuff.

I think they've got one of the world title. I think WBC the person in charge of WBC is almost always at these events and he's like very close to the to the the Arabs that are in charge of the event. So I think he's well in you know got his feet under the table there.

So I don't know how manipulated or he is. I don't know how. I think money talks ultimately.

Money talks. Money talks. What was the question? Oh yeah so that's it.

Ing asks me do you like reading or listening to novels? Which novel have you particularly enjoyed recently? Do you have a favorite novel? No not really not hugely these days. I have done the past but I do listen to audio books but they're generally fact stuff you know sort of self-help, self-development, maybe autobiographical or educational. That seems to be the books that I would read that I would listen to rather.

I mean I can actually read I can list some of the books that I've been reading. Let's have an audible. So let's go on there.

Audible, My Library, The Power of Habit, Think and Grow Rich, Goals by Zig Ziglar, Seven Habits of Hardly Effective People. These are books that I'm listening to at the moment. The Chimp Paradox, Hypnosis, I Haven't Been Completely Honest With You by Miranda Hart.

So that's autobiographical. This one is I Hate You Don't Leave Me which is about personality disorder. Philosophy for Dummies.

So there's a novel here Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche or Nietzsche. And then I got They Say I Say which is another psychological thing. Then there's The Many Steric Goats by John Ronson.

That is again it's not stories, he's telling a story but it's more like factual stuff. Then there's another one by Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive. It's a self-help book.

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss. Drive by Daniel H Pink. Get Me Out of Here, Crime and Punishment.

So that's a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Reprogram Your Subconscious, Proven Speed Reading Techniques and Kinds of Minds. So that gives you an idea the kind of books I'm listening to.

You got Your Public Persona, Self-Presentation, The Polyvagal Theory, Language and the Mind, Creativity and Your Brain, The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience, Consciousness and the Brain, Your Deceptive Mind, The Intelligent Brain, The Passions, that's philosophy, Understanding the Dark Side of Human Brain or Behaviour, Understanding Cognitive Biases, Shocking Psychological Studies, Essentials of Social Psychology, Understanding Disorders of the Brain, The Absorbent Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Art of Note-Taking, Brains, Myths, Exploded, Understanding the Brain, The Teenage Brain.

So that just gives you an idea. There's a few more, I'll just read off the list.

I won't read all of them because there's hundreds, but these are the audiobooks that I've been listening to. The Whole Brain Child, The Psychology Book, Understanding the Mysteries of Human Brain, Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky, Grit, How to Fail, Forgiveness is Freeing, that's by Eckhart Tolle, Modern Day in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung, The Human Mind, The Bystander Effect, Psych 101, The Developing Mind, Little Book of Psychology, Hacking the Unconscious, Alchemy, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, I do like Louise Hay, there was a part of that book that really jolted me a little bit that I didn't like.

I just think some of the self-help gurus, which as she is clearly one of the main ones, I know she's not around anymore, but she's huge, huge name in the self-help domain.

She made some of these statements that are just a little bit too broad and a little bit too, I don't know what the right word is, a little bit dismissing, dismissal, disrespectful maybe towards some people that are dealing with certain conditions. And I don't, I'm not a big fan of, see, okay, what I'm trying to say is I understand how we think affects how we are, how we think affects our health, how we think, how we think, how we think affects our behavior, how behavior affects how we think, how our behavior affects how we are, how our health, and what we, you know, so many different things, variables.

But I'm not a big fan when of the idea that you don't necessarily have to flip something on its side, on its back, in order to say well this is this, therefore this must be this, because there's different ways of looking at things.

And the idea of we're all to blame for whatever illness comes our way, I'm not, I don't, I can't go for that, I can't, that's just, it's just disrespectful. And she does say something right at the beginning of one of her books, I think it's you can heal your life, but saying we're responsible for our stuff. And I found that a little bit with the Buddhists when I first got involved with them, almost, they didn't seem to even acknowledge the idea of mental, mental health issues.

It's like it's not that simple. Well, you know, we're all in control of everything we do, and how we think, like, I practiced for years and years and years. And I still had a personality disorder, and I still had bipolar.

Blimey, can you hear that? It's fucking windy out there. It's weird, the gate's really, really banging, but the trees aren't swaying that much. It's really banging.

Anyway, so I am a fan of Louise Hay. So yeah, I want to put that forward. But it just, it leaves a bad taste sometimes when it's a little bit like Paul McKenna.

You know, I've got a lot of respect for Paul McKenna and all the NLP people, all of them really, like anyone to do with hypnosis, got respect for people that do that, because it's something that I was deeply involved in for a long time. And I'm still affected by it. And I'm still, you know, it's still part of me.

However, when someone like Paul McKenna goes on, does a video, sticks on Facebook saying that the difference between hypnosis and counselling is this, and then he's pretty much just completely slagging off counselling. Like all it is, is like it's completely useless. And as a counsellor, as someone trained as a counsellor, and someone, you know, I used to be a counsellor as my profession, it's just so disrespectful.

On a level that is hard to even really portray. Because he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Because he hasn't studied it yet.

I understand where he's coming from, like some people are in therapy for years, and they haven't had their issues sorted. And he, he seems to think that it's all about having everything sorted. And I don't know, for me, for me personally, it's about management.

It's about managing a condition. It's so if you got mold, you know, you do what you can to get rid of the mold. But if you've literally you're living in a basement, and it's flooded outside, and you can't do anything about the flooding outside, then all you could do is continually try and treat the mold.

You might not be able to actually get rid of it completely. But you can treat it, you can air, you can have a air purifier, whatever they call it, you know, that sucks the moist out of the air, have the windows open, and keep the walls clean. You know, do what you can to maintain it.

So it doesn't get out of hand. But you might not necessarily be able to actually get rid of it completely. Because of the conditions of that are outside of your control.

Unless you're willing to knock down the house, or knock down that wall. Now, I'll show my complete ignorance when it comes to building because I don't know, maybe I might be wrong on this one. But it was an example I could think of.

There probably are better examples. Sometimes there are situations that we cannot change. We can adapt.

We can maybe move on from those situations. But moving on might be harder than not moving on. You know, it's like, if I had a bad neighbor living here, which I have, I've had problems with neighbors.

Sometimes, I could move out. But a short term solution would be just moving out, renting somewhere else, I lose this flat. I won't be able to apply for another council property for 10 years.

I probably wouldn't even get yeah, I probably never get another council property ever. And I'll go back to living in a little room with a bed, a wardrobe, and sharing a toilet and a bathroom with people in the kitchen. And I don't want to go back to that.

But that could be that might be a much better solution, short term, than being near a really problematic neighbor. But long term is not a solution. So it's kind of like why I just have to put up with the short term and not go down that road and try and find a more of a longer term solution, or manage the situation.

So if they say if a neighbor is being really noisy, then maybe try and soundproof the floor, so I can't hear the noise. What I did when I had a noisy neighbor is I got headphones, but noise cancelling headphones. So I didn't even have to listen to music, I just put the headphones on nice and comfy, and just relax, or listen to some music, watch a video, watch TV, whatever.

And I could just have the headphones on. And I couldn't hear anything that was going on. So there's there are solutions.

And I used to wear earplugs for years, because I couldn't sleep without with all the noise going on. I was like, super, super sensitive to sound. I'm not anymore.

It's weird, I can, I mean, I have music playing, or an audio book playing when I'm in bed, but that's more because of Inni. If there's no sound, there is no nothing distracting him. He will literally any sound and he'll start barking.

Until probably about two o'clock, maybe one two o'clock in the morning, I can turn it off. And nothing bothers him. But then there's not a lot of sound going on at that time in the morning.

So once he's in a deep sleep, he's pretty much gone. But it takes a while for him to get there. He kind of semi there now.

What was the question? Oh, yeah, novel. So I used to I used to read novels. I did.

I used to read novels a lot when I was younger. Not a lot. But when I was young, I used to quite like Star Trek ones.

And I used to like the science fiction ones, because they pretty explicit. I'm not to be honest, when I was a teenager, a lot of them were really rude. So I like reading them.

But not but not not just rude, but like adult in every way. And so I like reading that stuff. But that's what I when I was like, 1314.

I when as I got older, my 20s, I was reading beat generation kind of books like Kerouac, Ginsberg. So I was reading some not just novels, like on the road. But also, like Ginsberg was doing.

I think he howl. Remember, he did a poem called Howl, which was I didn't enjoy it, if I'll be honest. But then there's other people that did.

I think we Kerouac did the Dharma Bums as well. And then I kind of I had most of the beat generation books that were available that I could get my hands on. A lot of them were poetry.

And I liked them all. I said how I struggled a little bit with. And then I discovered Charles Bukowski, who technically wasn't part of the beat generation.

But he kind of he was more like an anti an anti hero. So the beat generation were anti establishment. Charles Bukowski was anti establishment and anti anti establishment.

He was on a different, different kind of trajectory altogether. And I would argue, one of the greatest writers of the last. I mean, I've not read enough to really, I guess.

No, I've not. I can't really comment. I've read a lot of books.

I've read a lot of novels over the years. Just not recently. And I'd like to do that more.

I would. I'd like to read more novels. I mean, I've been listening to Jane Austen and I've been there's some of the books on the audio.

But I really liked Dostoevsky. I like listening to this reading Celine. Celine is a French, she was a French author.

And I like that first person novel where and then when they're just being gritty and real. I like that. I always like that.

And that's why Charles Bukowski novels were some of my favorite stuff. And I like to write like that. I'd like to I don't but I'd like to.

And when I did write it was always kind of in the first person and just talking about how things really are for me, or rather how things really were for them. And so I read a book called iced. And because this was a times when I used to read the book reviews.

And if there was a novel that was published, that was, you know, actually read book reviews. I haven't, I haven't done that for decades. But in the 90s, I used to do that.

And then I buy it, I buy the book that looked like it was good to read it over the weekend. And I had quite a big collection of books. I've had, I've had large collections of books, probably three or four times in my life.

And lost them all, he would chuck them away or destroyed them or so I never sold anything. I did actually know it's not true. I sold my Buddhist books in 2000.

No, in 1995. I sold my Buddhist books because I had a big collection. And I needed some money.

And I think I've got probably about 30 pounds. Really, I think I had 300 pounds worth of books. And I think I've got like 30 quid for them.

If I had all my books, not including my childhood books, it would fill every every wall of this flat. There'd be 1000s and 1000s of books. And that's just the ones that I've owned.

Not the ones that I read at the library or anything like that. But yeah, I've read a lot of books, just not lately. I've been I know you could say, well, I'm listening to them, which is true.

And that's more to do with my eyesight. Because my eyesight is not so good. And I get eyestrain when I kind of try and focus my eyes on stuff, especially writing.

And I'm still drawn to more factual, educational stuff. If you look at my book collection, so much of it is just textbooks, mainly on hypnosis. There's some psychology stuff, some philosophy stuff, self help.

But I do have some novels. So Tom Sharp was one of my favourite authors when I was a kid. He wrote Wilt and many books about Wilt.

That's very funny. I loved reading Woody Allen books in my teens, late teens. Hilarious.

I found them so funny. I even had the anthology, really big book of his, like of all his books, because his books are quite small, like him really quite quite slim, but fun. I think it's one of his jokes.

So I just it's so funny. Made me laugh. Really made me laugh when I read them like proper.

I had in the 90s, I've got about four or five of Charles Bukowski books, but I had loads in the 90s. A lot of books, even a lot of the poetry books he did as well. One of my favourite books, this is a weird one, is by is it Martina Cole.

So Martina Cole is a book called The Lady Killer. And I was a security guard in 1996. And I was asked to look after the reception in this place.

It was downstairs, but it was the managing directors of the papers reception. I wasn't doing anything. I was just security.

So the reception during the day, there'd be people there, you know, letting people in and but at night, there was no one there. There was actually Kelvin McKenzie. He was the boss of the Mirror Group or the Mirror newspaper.

He was the editor. He was like the top person. And that was his office was that was the security for his office.

Well, I saw him a few times, but you know, I never no one came at night to sort of see him. He was there during the day. So I was there for 12 hours in the evening during the night.

And all I was doing was looking after the place because someone hadn't turned up. So I've done it a couple of times. I might have been there on a daytime as well on a Saturday when they were closed, but I was there.

And there was a book just left on the reception, which was the Martina Cole, The Lady Killers. And I started reading it. I couldn't believe it.

I really got really got, excuse me, really got stuck into it. I mean, like, really like, wow. And I never got to finish it.

I actually got sacked for falling asleep. Or suspended and I got sacked and then they gave me the job back. Because it was their fault.

Really. They asked me, I'd already done a 12 hour shift. They said, Oh, can you stay and do another 12 hour shift tonight? I said, I've already done 12 hours.

That's 24 hours. You expect me to just stay awake for 24 hours? And he said, Don't worry. I said, What do you mean don't worry? I'm going to fall asleep.

He said, Don't worry, it's fine. No one's going to know. I said, if you're sure, because I will fall asleep.

I can't stay awake for 24 hours. And I hadn't been awake. I'd been awake for probably at that point.

12, 13, 14, probably already been awake for like 15 hours anyway. So to stay awake for another, that'd be, I'd have to be awake for about 30 hours before I got a chance to go to bed the next day. And he said, Don't worry.

The next thing I know, I'm being escorted out. No, I'll get a phone call the next day. No, no way.

I wake up and my boss is standing over me. But it was the person that told me it was okay if I fall asleep. So I thought nothing of it.

And I was trying to stay. So it's not like I was, I was, I didn't have my sleeping bag with me. I'm a little sleeping hat.

And, you know, me hot water bottle and stuff, all perched on the desk, a little hammock, you know, it's not like I was prepared to go to sleep. I just fell asleep sitting in a chair because I was so tired. Went home thinking everything was fine.

Got a phone call saying I was sacked, or I had to have a disciplinary. Like what? And I just went in there and said, Look, you are ridiculous. I went into the disciplinary and I said, Look, this is ridiculous.

Because both of the owners, or they were kind of the managers, the directors of this is this security company. There was a one that I never saw. And he was kind of, but if they were equal, one that I saw every day, a one I never saw.

The one I saw every day was a one that said it was okay, didn't matter, I fell asleep. So when I went in there, the one that I didn't normally see, started having a go at me saying you fell asleep, you broke rules and you're on camera and being fallen asleep in a sleeping bag or whatever. And the other bloke was just keeping quiet.

The one that's told me it was okay if I fell asleep. He's the one that asked me up. He's the one that told everyone.

So I just looked at him, I said, Are you serious? And I don't think he thought I was going to confront him. I said, Are you serious? Really going to just sit there and act like you don't know what's going on, like you're innocent. And I just, and the other bloke was like, well, what? I said, this monkey here, I don't know if I use that word, this monkey here said to me, he said to me, he asked me to do a 12 hour shift after I'd already done a 12 hour shift.

And I said that I'd fall asleep. And he said, don't matter. Simple as that.

And I fell asleep. And that's it. That's all she wrote.

They left the office. I had a little bit of a discussion. And they came back and said, sorry, I lost like three days wages, because there was, I think it was like, go home for the rest of the week.

And we'll see you on Monday. This is on a kind of Wednesday. So I'd lost three days wages.

And they moved me. They moved me out off of that job, because I didn't realize until later, that what they would do, they had a client. And the client complained about the security guard.

They would tell the client that they'd sacked the security guard. But what they really did is just move them to a different site. And that's what they did with me.

And they made a mistake, though, because they actually sent back someone that was sacked for one of my sites. They'd been sacked for drinking. They sent him back to the same site.

And after the company told this, this client that they'd sacked the security guard, they sent him back two weeks later. Oh, dear. Ah, well, I have returned after taking a mini frog walk.

Cold, so cold out there. And according to this, it's five degrees. But with the wind, Oh, me five degree, five degrees isn't hot, is it? And it's very soon.

But blimey cold. So I, I wanted him just to it was raining a little bit. Not enough, but a little bit.

I mean, it's sunny now. It was sunny before I went out. It stopped being sunny when I went out.

And now it's sunny again. It's like nature is winding me up. So I, it's cold.

And him, little VinVin, all he needed to do, part of the deal was I take him out, he goes to the toilet. First walk of the day is a poo walk. It's for him to, you know, empty everything out.

He'd had lots of wee-wees. But could he find a place to go to the toilet? No. It's almost like the wind was blowing.

Whatever scent he smells on the grass, that makes his bum open was just, it was getting blown around. He was following it like a, like a ghost, a pooey, sorry mate, a pooey scent ghost. And he had me, like honestly walking all around the field, the park, from one end to the other.

And eventually I said, no, that's enough. You need to go there. And he did.

And you might think, oh, we should be able to go away once. I was getting cold. It was raining.

Very windy. The fences were creaking. Now I know that, especially one particular fence that blew down last time it was windy.

So just, you know, let's try and get back into safety. A lot of trees around as well. It's not a great place to be when it's super windy.

Although now if you look outside, it's like summer. I don't know what the, what the weather's doing to me today. But anyway, he kept crouching down, ready to do, go to the toilet.

And he'd sniff, stick his nose in the air, sniff, and then get up and, and start running towards somewhere else. So in the end, after he did this about seven times, and I just stopped and I said, no, I'm not going anywhere else now. I need to do a poo here.

So I just held the lead, didn't let him run off. And he just did a poo there. If I'd known, two years it took me to work this out.

If I'd known that that's all it took was just to hold him, not hold him, but to not let him run off. And he just do the poo wherever he was, then that's what I would have done years ago. Although I do, I do, you know, I like him to be able to just do what he wants.

But sometimes it's nice to get out of the cold. So the last question for Q&A Friday slash Sunday is from Anne. And it's I have most noticed several ways you say things that are different than in the US, for example, blimey and half a, we say 830.

Have you noticed anything we say that is not said there? There's quite a few. And one that always amazes me because it's literally back to front, but it still works is we say I couldn't care less. Americans say, I could care less.

And it means the same thing. It's like you turn it upside down, and it means the same thing. It's almost like it works both ways.

Yet it's the opposite. I couldn't care less. And I could care less.

That's technically the opposite thing. But it means the same thing. I couldn't care any less than I do now.

And I could care less. Like it's just the same. It's it's Yeah, one of those weird ones.

But we say I couldn't care less. And Americans I say all met not all Americans are all British say anything. But from what I've noticed on TV is I could care less seems to be more American.

So I'm generalizing by the way. And just in case don't upset anyone. Another thing when it comes to time, I've noticed that you say in America, sometimes they tend to say time different night.

You say 830. What did I say off? We say 830 as well. It can be you know, it can be evil.

But there is something you say in America. When you say people in America seem to say is, I can't remember what it is. But we say like five past 10, for example, or quarter past 10, 10 past 10 quarter to 10 quarter to 1110 to 1125 to 1225 past nine, half past six, 630.

You know, so we kind of ought but there's something that in America, this seven and five to two or five and I don't know, I can't remember how it goes. But we don't do that here. It's very, it's a different way of expressing it.

So I feel like I'm teaching the clock how to say the time. But it's, you know, it's like you've got the hours like one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock. And if you if you I think if you're so for example, if I was talking to somebody, so what I do is if I'm doing a podcast, usually I'd say, it's 10am, or it's 10pm.

Or it's 130 in the afternoon, because we're not in the same room. I wouldn't need to say in the afternoon, or I would need to say it's what someone asked me to time and they're sitting down. I say it's 11am.

I wouldn't need to say that. So it's 11. So I wouldn't say it's 11 o'clock.

It's 11. I might say clock. I might miss the hour.

You know, it's lots of different things. But if someone's in another country, or if you're planning to meet somebody tomorrow, for example, and you say, well, I meet you at 830. I'll meet you at nine.

Now you need to be specific. It's nine in the morning or nine in the evening. I'll meet you at nine in the evening, or I'll meet you at nine in the morning, or 9am, 9pm.

Or if you go for the, if you want to be very, what's the right word? Military, you could use a 24 hour clock. I'll meet you at 2100 hours. So I learned all that when I was in the sea cadets.

And it came real real handy. I didn't never, never needed it. But you know, I suppose it's something to know, isn't it? I that's some of the things then you got things like sidewalk, which we call pavement.

So there's certain things that are really obvious when we hear that I've grown up listening. Well, I've grown up watching American TV shows and movies, right from the birth, really. So I know, even though sidewalk isn't how we what we call a pavement.

I know what it means. Because I've had 50 years of watching American TV shows. Sometimes it's pronunciation as well.

Although it's pronunciation. But for now, I think pronunciation is the better word, because you're pronouncing something. So just call it pronunciation.

Pronunciation sounds like the wrong way to say it. Even though Yeah, anyway. Aluminum, we say aluminium, you say aluminum, aluminum.

Roof. Now I don't know where that came from. Why? I know, I know it's an accent thing.

It's an accent thing rather than an American thing. So I don't think that every I'm sure it's said differently depending on where you're from, in America. Or whoever, you know, if someone's living in America.

However, roof. I think there might be parts of this country that say roof as well. But it's roof, we just say roof.

But I gotta be a little bit careful. Because I'm a southerner, although I used to be a northerner. I used to be a Newcastle when I was a kid, moved around a little bit.

But again, I'm kind of talking from a southern perspective. And in America, if you ask the same question as someone from Scotland, or someone from Nottingham, or someone from Liverpool, or someone from Norfolk, or Somerset, you know, they might have a different take completely on what I'm saying. But some things I think are standard is we say pavement, we have pavement, America has sidewalk.

We don't say vehicle. So like vehicle, vehicle. It seems to be, I'm going to pronounce this way, at least you know what it's how to spell it if you say vehicle.

But yeah, just certain things we don't, we don't use the word gas, petrol. I'm going to the petrol station, not to the gas station. And to me, gas is what you use for central heating and heating the water and stuff like that.

That's like the gas boiler. So that's just those little things that are just a bit different. But if I was in America, I wouldn't be pedantic and say, what do you mean? You're going to take me to the gas station? No, petrol station.

I wouldn't do that. Because I know that that's, I don't want to get shot. But I know that it's just a different way of talking about things.

I'm trying to think. We used to be, you know, your ER, we don't call it ER, the emergency room, we don't have that here. But we now call it A&E.

So the accident and emergency didn't used to be called that used to be called casualty, the casualty department. So I imagine one day it should be called ER. And other things.

Medications, no, no, no, it's not one. And we never used to use the term meds. But I think we kind of do now in this country.

Used to be like prescriptions, what prescriptions you want? Not what meds you want. But I think we kind of, we have become very Americanized over the last probably 50 odd years. And maybe parts of America become a bit more Anglo sized, because of the English shows.

But I don't, I imagine the American shows don't really give a true representation of America, just like the English shows don't give a true representation of this country. It's the whole kind of, I'll give you an example of a really bad representation. Of England is was that Dalton Abbey or what it was called, that the majority of people in this country do not talk like this, like the royal family, they don't, they don't.

Some do. But most don't. The probably the closest thing that the Beatles, you know, there's the Liverpool accent, Americans took to that accent.

So it that that's when that was a genuine accent that they had. And if through Liverpool, and in Manchester, and places like that, it's, there's some very similarities between the accents, their similarities, I would say, not not the same, but they seem and they're not far away from each other. That's the weird thing about it is like you've got towns with different accents that are literally like five miles away.

It's weird. But that's because, you know, we didn't have transport for years. And I used to call it transport.

Now I say transport. Because I used to be posh. Now I'm common.

Try to think what and police, police, do we use the same as police, we don't really have sheriffs here. I think they might do in Scotland, but we don't have sheriffs in this country. Not, you know, we don't have jail, we have prison.

But then I think in America, jail is somewhere you go temporarily, you know, like someone that's been drinking too much or being naughty, and they go to jail for the night. So we do have that. It's a police station.

But we don't really call it going to jail, necessarily. But prison we call prison. So we don't really have always going, we've gone to jail, we've gone to prison.

So we use the word term prison, really. And other things. flashlight, we use the word torch.

We don't we don't say flashlight. Ever. In this country.

I say ever. I'm not I've not. I've not been around every single human being in this country that has used a torch to see whether or not they said the word flashlight.

And what I have noticed is more and more younger people, and not just younger people now, but over the last few decades, are using terms that wasn't really used in this country before, and very American. For example, when I was a kid, it wasn't Santa Claus, although it was Santa Claus, we didn't call him Santa, we called him Father Christmas. Not everyone, but generally, the standard thing was Father Christmas.

You know, publicly, it was a standard thing. So Father Christmas, it wasn't. I mean, it can be used indistinguished, you know, I don't like where this can both can be used.

But in America, I don't think you don't think they use a term Father Christmas. It's like very much Santa Claus. And I've noticed that with my niece, Santa, Santa, it's not no Father Christmas anymore.

And it's a little bit jarring. But for no reason. It's like, why? What does it matter? It doesn't matter.

But it's something about, I guess, I don't know what it is. And I kind of, I never really got why people got upset, you know, like when the Beatles came out, or Elvis came out, or punk rock. Why there was so much hostility towards new things, or the internet or computers, or now it's AI, people don't really like, not happy with the all of like the new stuff.

I say not all people, some people don't like it. Change, I guess change can be scary. The unknown can be scary.

And I suppose that maybe change is, it's jarring as well, when people are using different language almost. And they're from the same, and I don't mean a foreign language. I mean, you, you know, let's say you were born in 1947, you kind of expect your son or your daughter to speak the same as you, kind of, I don't mean all the same words, but generally the same.

And you expect their kids to have the same kind of speak the same, and maybe their kids. But actually, the same as what happened in the 60s, because I know my granddad, my granddad was not walking around going, groovy, baby. I know that for a fact.

You know, did you have a good time granddad last the weekend? Yeah, man, it was swinging. He didn't say stuff like that. Flower power, baby.

You know, he didn't. He was, you know, he was born in 1920s. Or 19, no, before that he was, blimey, he was 29 in 1939.

So how old does that make him? He was nearly 30 in 1939. So he was born in what, 1909? Would that make it? And he passed away in 1991. So yeah, he was born about 1911.

He was 80 when he passed. Yeah, blimey. So it was a different language.

It was like, all these new phrases and stuff. And I've noticed that when I was like in my 20s, I was using terms that my dad didn't really understand. And I think what was weird is, and I've seen this as well, the same terms used differently now.

Like the term deep throat meant something different when my dad was younger. The one he does now. The term I was at this.

Oh, yeah. LOL used to mean lots of love. Now means laughing out loud.

And body count used to mean like, body count, like dead bodies. Now it means how many people that you person has been intimate with. And that's now it's like, it's weird, especially I watch some shows sometimes and I don't know what they're talking about.

They're asking, like as a reality show, they're on a beach and they're asking each other what their body count is. And I'm thinking, is this serial killer on a beach? Is this a new kind of format? What's going on? What's your body count? And it's that kind of weird like little, I've never, ever, ever had anyone asked me. I've never asked anyone what their how many people have been with.

And especially not in that like, what's your body count? There's something not in public either, but not in private. And no one's ever asked me, but that's probably because I assume that I don't have one. I'm still a virgin.

But yes, but at the moment, and is I've noticed that stuff that's happening, it's almost like we're becoming the same. Some of the language now is the same. Because I reckon because of social media, the same phrases are being used in England that are being used in America by so many younger people, like the kids or the teenagers, or maybe the young adults.

They're being used, some of the phrases are being used. And I don't understand a lot of them. I've got a young 20 year old living downstairs.

And she tells me stuff and I don't, she hasn't to explain it to me. And I never thought that would ever happen. I really didn't.

I didn't think I'd be completely oblivious. And it feels weird. It does.

I don't I don't necessarily like the feeling to be honest. Because it's just like, you know, what's the one of the benefits, potentially, of reading hundreds, thousands of books or whatever, over your life is that I at least have a working knowledge of my own language. And even if I can't necessarily think of the correct word when I'm talking, I can understand the word when it's said to me, or when I read it.

So I have a comprehension of words that I don't use myself. I'm a very plain speaker. I don't use lots of I just don't use anything other than not flower with my language.

I just use very basic words. And but I do understand, usually always, but do often understand the words that are being used even though I don't use them myself. Although there are some times when I don't and I will ask.

Because I know there are some people that love to use words that are not they're not used, like Jen in general conversation. Even words like facetious, I understand what it means, but it's not something that's used in. It's not like one of those regularly used words.

Categorical, you know, there's some some words are just I'm trying I'm trying to think of some words. I was incandescent with rage. You know, some some phrases that I would never use generally, unless I was making fun of myself.

So I think what's happening now is the should we use the word slang? I suppose it is, isn't it? Shortened versions, like a whole new kind of thing. And it seems now that there's a crossover between because of all the different integrations that have gone on in society. And then those children are grown up, having their own way of talking.

And it's Yeah, I was watching Big Brother in the summer. Well, late summer, autumn. And there was a there was 12345.

Yeah, there was there was 123. 123. There was three young, they're all pretty much most of them are young in their early 20s.

There's three of them were talking very kind of London, sort of street. I don't know, same phrases like, you know, famine, and all these things. And then there was a, so there was a black girl into mixed that like from the ones from Afghanistan and never, but all kind of brought up in the UK, or born in the UK.

But I think I think all of them actually born in other countries, but came to the UK as babies or little kids. So they had a different way of talking to each other. And the there was a gay lady, a gay girl, a girl, a woman.

And she had her own lingo as well. Talking about what was it? What was it? Fray, not sway, fray, sway, hey, hey, that's so tight. Way, lay, sway.

Something like that. She kept and she kept repeating it over and over again. Almost like she was trying to fit in with a stereotype.

But it was a stereotype that I think the majority well, I didn't really know about. I'm not talking about gay people. I've known many, many gay people.

I'm talking about the, like the, the, the lingo. Didn't when I was when I was in my, my, my 90s, during the 90s, when I was in my 20s, I was around so many people of all cultures and all nationalities and sexualities, just continuous. I was working in places with people from all over the world that worked as a with an agency that worked there.

And then I was involved in a comedy scene. So I was around people of all loads of different sexualities. And, you know, it's just standard stuff.

And I don't remember any of them having a different way of talking other than just talking normally. Just, just plainly talking plainly. Without any kind of lingo thing.

That's so sway. Say it with chest. Like, well, that's what one of the girls and big bro say say it with chest.

So I'm guessing that means stick your chest out and be prideful. It's like, what are you doing? Say it with chest. I've never honestly, there's almost is I quite like that saying actually, but regardless, it's just we need a dictionary need an urban dictionary.

There are there is such thing as an urban dictionary, I think. Because it doesn't it's called urban, urban lingo or whatever. And I mean, all urban.

It doesn't urban mean living in the city, doesn't it? Which means that there's lots of cities in this country, which then means that half the population is urban. Perhaps if not more, I don't know. Say it with chest, say it with knees.

Knees. You get there? I still just yeah. So I think the the lingo is changing.

I'm well behind the times. It's ridiculous. I don't even I think, I think when I talk to younger people, they talk to me just they just use normal English.

But maybe when they're with themselves, with each other, with other young people, they'll talk differently. So talk about ghosting and talk about body counts and talk about Oh, that's another one. One of my neighbors said, I'm being what's that thing where you get spammed? I'm being spammed.

I said, Who by? She's my boyfriend. I said, What do you mean? She keeps calling me keep sending texts. And I'm not answered yet.

He keeps sending texts. He's calling it spamming. And that's not what that was not what I'm I know spamming to be.

But then ultimately, that is what if it's an unwanted text message, then that is what spam is, isn't it when you get a text message that you don't want, or an email that you don't want really generally email that you don't want. It's just little things like that. There's like, I understand everyone wants to have their own kind of way to communicate each generation.

It does, it puts a divide, I think it puts a little bit of a divide between the people between the generations a little bit, which causes miscommunication unnecessarily. Maybe older people just need to be just have a lesson. Just need to we just need to be kept.

I say we, I don't really class myself as old, but I know some lot of people probably would. Okay, I'm old, blimey. I'll tell you my friend.

But obviously, neighbor. Vinnie was barking. So and look like someone was at my door.

So I looked at the camera. What do I see my neighbors on the floor? He's nearly 80 is trying to get up from the floor. So I get myself some popcorn and just watch him through the camera.

See how long it takes. Obviously not. So I go out to help him up.

And he didn't. I was like, have you hurt yourself? He said no, no. And he just, I think he bent over to get something actually he'd been shopping, or he picked up some stuff.

He bent over to pick something out of the bag and he fell over. I mean, I've got a concrete floor. Well, I've got there is a concrete floor on in the hallway, or in the building as well underneath the carpets.

And it's like, Oh, man, it was so worrying to see that went out and managed to get and it's, it's not light. It's quite stocky. He's not not big, but he's quite stocky.

And I was trying to get him up. But at the same time, I didn't want to. I didn't want him to hurt himself getting up either.

I don't want to pull his arm out the socket or something. I mean, unless of course he wanted longer arms. In case he's remote control, he lost his remote control again.

So just reach over and press the button. That's a weird thing to say. So yeah, I got him up, make sure he's okay.

He seemed okay. And I had about 15 minutes to get ready before the taxi arrived to take me to the pub where I was meeting my dad. Really honestly, if he did needed help, like, you know, an ambulance or something like that, and they're not being selfish.

But that would have ruined that I couldn't have gone. I couldn't have left, could I? Obviously not. But it's almost I could just say, well, can you just wait there? I'll be back in a minute.

I'll be back in three hours. You know, luckily he didn't didn't didn't hurt himself. He didn't didn't didn't hurt himself.

Or he didn't hurt himself. He didn't didn't didn't hurt himself. No, he didn't.

I checked up on him later and he seemed all right. But left his key out. He left his keys in the door.

So I knock on his door. So he left it. Oh, he said, I thought you put them pocket when I fell over.

I said, well, why would you that what? I have never once put my hands in someone's pocket. I don't put my hands in people's pockets. It's not a thing I do.

I don't really a pocket person. And no, no. So I come home, his keys are in the door.

So I have to ring his doorbell. The one I got in and he now hears it. And it's like, I don't know.

He's all right, though. But worries me a little bit. What else? I'm trying to think of some other things that in America people say, but I think it's becoming I reckon we're going to get to a point where we all speak the same as the young generation.

I think because of the Internet, because of the social networking, that the communications becoming so I can understand what an American says to me. The lingo, I can kind of, I understand a lot of the references, not all the references, but I understand a lot of the references, because I'm just used to it now. And I think it's probably the same as well.

Although I think I might sometimes say things and the listeners might not know what I'm referring to. Sometimes. Parking lot.

We don't call it a parking lot. We just call it parking. We don't say the word lot or parking lot.

And what is he called? Oh my goodness. Parking lot. It's gone out of my head.

It's one of those weird things. Parking lot, parking lots, UK car park blimey. It's a car park.

It went out of my head. See? Parking lot. We call it a car park.

So whether it's just the area, the area is a car park outside the pub. There's a car park near the park. There's a little parking area.

You know, we don't use parking lot. I'm trying to think of some other things. Ruth, Ruth, Ruth, Ruth.

I'm trying to think of some other stuff that I would say differently from America. Americans, USA. Just trying to think doctors, GPs.

I don't know if you have, we call our doctor surgery, we call them GPs, doctors, like general practitioners. I'm not sure what you say in America. You use the word GP.

Something that's different as well is the, I mean, it's changed a lot, but when I was at school, we're going in high school, it'd be first year to fifth or sixth if you stayed in sixth form. And somewhere along the line, it's changed. So it ends up being year seven or year nine or year 10, like that.

In America, they have a different system, I think. Grade, yeah, fourth grade, third grade, second grade, ninth grade or whatever. We don't have that in this country, but we have changed.

I think they changed to kind of copy America, but instead of calling it grade, they call it year. So instead of fourth grade, it's year four. What other things, what other things? Zip codes, we have postcode.

So you have zip code in America, we have postcode, which is pretty much just the same thing. It's a way to find an address. So that's that.

What other things? J-walking. Now, we don't have j-walking in this country as a law. It's one of those things that, it's just something that stupid people do.

Like walking in traffic, that's just a dumb thing to do, generally. But unless you live in London, and it's the standard thing to do. Because otherwise, if you're going to wait for traffic to stop, you're going to be waiting for a week.

So you have to kind of walk through the traffic when it's going slow, and then wait. Because, you know, a lot of places in London, and it might be the same in other cities as well, is a traffic, it's just one big traffic jam, pretty much, just going a little bit faster than this traffic jam does. So you just walk in between the cars, and just wait and then walk again in between the next cars.

So that technically is j-walking. So it's not, it's not a law in this country. At least I don't think it is.

It's definitely not called j-walking. We use the murder not homicide. Although I notice it's starting to be used a bit more in this country.

There's police officers, we don't use the word correctional officers. I don't think it's a correctional officer. Prison officer.

Yeah, so we don't use correctional officers, just prison officer. What other things, what other things? I've really got my brain going on this one. There's like lorries, we use the word lorry, you use the word truck, or America uses the word truck.

We use the word lorry. We use the word underground, you use the word subway in America. And in France, it's the metro, I do believe.

In different countries, they've got their own version of that, but ours is called the underground. Because it's underground. I don't know why subway is called the subway.

I'm not talking about a sausage. The sausage, the sandwich place. I used to go in there quite a lot when I was younger.

Everything happened when I was younger. There was a manager in one of the places and she used to talk to me for ages. She used to really talk to me and I didn't quite understand why she wanted to talk to me.

And what else? Cable TV, we don't really have cable TV here. But we do have, we had satellite TV. But we didn't, yeah, cable TV was more like anyone could be on cable TV.

I do believe we never, never really had that here. Where like, a member of the general public could be on TV. I mean, now the internet's there, of course we do, but it's YouTube and or someone sets up on our own website.

Pharmacies, we didn't used to call them pharmacies, we used to call them chemists. Now for some reason, we're now calling them pharmacies. So if I look, if I put a picture of Boots Store 80s.

Okay, let's have a look. Boots, so it just used to be Boots. And it is since 1849.

Okay, that's not a good example. It won't say so chemists, chemists, chemists, chemists. Chemists.

Right. Okay. You're joking me.

So Boots, apparently it's always had pharmacy. That annoys me. Why is the internet lying to me again? I know I oops, I remember.

Pharmacy. Your chemist shops. Gordon's chemists.

Right. Okay, if I just get away. Chemist stores, chemists in the 80s.

Right, let's have a look. I just want to see. There's got I know it's just displays.

Pharmacy, maybe they've always been called pharmacies. And for some reason, I was brought up to call them chemists. I'm sure they used to have chemists.

Boots chemist. Let's have a look. Let's see.

See if I can find one. Boots. Boots chemist shop.

1970. Okay, still says pharmacy. Boots Pharmacy.

Really? Dispensing chemists Boots. 19. This is the in the 70s.

Boots Pharmacy. But that was in London. So London Pharmacy, Beauty Pharmacy.

Boots largest chemist in the world. So I found one with Boots chemist. I found another one.

This is Boots 1960s dispensing chemist Boots. Boots is the biggest chemist or pharmacy in the country. Been around for absolutely well over 100 years.

Boots and Co drugstores. So I think they were called drugstores before that. Chemists.

The chemists boots dispensing chemists. Yeah, so it used to be we used to call our things chemists and I think we just copied America and started using the word pharmacy. Yeah.

So that's another thing. But it's been a pharmacy for decades. So that's not really a good example, I suppose.

I'm trying to think of something else. Sneakers. Not Snickers, but sneakers.

Although Snickers is another example. We call them trainers in this country, or at least we used to. And now as the younger population, well, probably people my age as well, call them sneakers, but we call them trainers.

And Vinnie's just farted. I can smell it, Vin. Don't just pretend.

I can see you look, you're pretending to look away. I can smell it. Whoever dealt it, smelt it.

So yes, sneakers, we call trainers or used to call traders. I've never used the word sneakers outside of like this kind of conversation. I've never gone to buy sneakers by traders.

So we just call it different things. Snickers, snicker bars used to be called marathons in this country. And then in the, I think the 90s, for some reason, I don't know why, maybe just the packaging, it maybe saved the millions of pounds or something.

They changed it to Snickers. But in America, I think it already was Snickers. So that's another example of America versus UK version of words or use of words.

Apartment in America, we use the word flat. We don't use words like condo in this country. Like for sure for condominium, isn't it? Still not even sure what that is.

We don't have, or we didn't used to have motels. Hotels, because motels are kind of like just cheap versions of motels. They're like hotels on a motorway, aren't they? Motels.

We just, we do have, I think that we do have some motels now, but they are just hotels on the motorway. It's, it's a weird one, really. But yeah, we don't usually use the word motel.

But you got a lot, America's got a lot more motorways than we have. Because slightly bigger, slightly, just a little bit bigger than the UK of England. And what else? I'm trying to think coaches.

We don't do coaches, but I'm trying to think of transport. My trains, trams. I don't know if you have trams in America, or I think you do.

Do you have, trams in New York? We have trams in a couple of places. They have them in Manchester, because I went to, I went there once and got on a tram. And I think they have them somewhere else.

They used to be everywhere. Used to be in London. They were a really popular way to get around.

And I don't know what, well, I guess they got rid of them because of the cars. There was no room for the trams anymore. I've been, I don't know if I, did I travel on a tram in, in Amsterdam? Because a lot of trams in Amsterdam, a lot of people on bikes as well.

A lot of bikes there. And what else? Wallpaper, not wallpaper, carpet, tiles, oxygen. I'm just trying to think of other things that would be different.

I think some of the foods, oh, pie, pizza pie. We don't use that term in, in the UK. Well, I've never, ever heard anyone use it.

Again, I'm generalizing. There might be places that use it all the time, but I've never known anyone to use the word pizza pie. But in America, I hear it a lot on TV and movies.

I don't know if it's a general thing, if it's used a lot. Pizza pie, like what? Instead of just a pizza pizza, pizza piece, pizza, piece of pizza, a pizza pie. And what else? We don't use things like litres, we have pints.

So if we're going to a pub, it's always a pint, it's not a litre. I don't know if you do the same in America, or if they do the same in America, I don't know. And bars, we don't, we do have bars now, but we didn't, didn't used to really, it's just with pubs.

But I know things have changed now. And America has pubs, and we have bars. But anything that really America used to call bars, we call pubs, outside of like, restaurants, or hotels.

Or, you know, you get a hotel bar. That's a little bit different, or an airport bar, or a restaurant bar, or something like that. But outside of that, it's generally just pubs.

Although there's less and less pubs these days in this country, it's become a less of a thing. And it will pretty much die out, I guess, over the next probably five or 10 years. Which would be weird, because I always thought this, like, I don't, I'd rather go somewhere without alcohol.

But a pub, somewhere where there's activities, maybe people can play games, play pool, but sober. Sell soft drinks and charge, charge for it. You know, make your money out of that, whatever.

But just have, just like, from a social perspective, but sober. It just seems a shame that our culture has always been so fixed on kind of the way it has been, like with pubs and that. I think pubs are a great idea, but take away the drink.

And just, it seems like it'd be a much nicer place. I might be wrong. I might be very wrong.

I might be completely wrong. Trying to think of something else. Nappies and diapers.

That's an obvious one. So we don't use the word diapers in this country. We use the word nappies.

It's the same thing. It's just a different word. And what else? I'm thinking of bras now, brasiers.

No, it's probably the same, both. I'm just, I don't know why I'm thinking of them. I suppose nappy, and I'm thinking of breast milk, and then breasts, and then bras.

Just a connection, isn't it, that's all. Babies are called the same. And I can't think of anything.

Babies, children are called children. Adults are called adults. Women are called men.

Houses, is it the same? Houses. Yeah, your apartment, and then a flat in this country. I can't think of anything else now, offhand.

There's probably absolutely loads, loads and loads and loads, probably hundreds of thousands that I haven't even thought of. But I thought of a few. I'm pleased.

Well, I don't know, I'm not pleased, but I'm okay. I'm mildly satisfied. That's loud, isn't it? Can you hear that? That's actually in the garden, over the fence, about 100 yards away.

Anyway, I want to go. Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself. Lots of love. Bye.