(Overnight | Voice Only) #1590 Let me bore you to sleep | Jason Newland | 10th April 2026

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. This is supposed to be Q&A Friday.

But as far as I'm aware, I'm just going to have a little quick check because up to now nobody's asked a question. Not one single person. It's almost like you don't want to know anything about me.

And yes, no questions at all. So I've got three people liked it, the post. Any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, 10th of April 2026.

Three people liked it, but no one actually asked a question. So So what I could do, so I'm going to do something a little bit different. So I'm going to go to chat GPT for Q&A Friday.

Q. Oh, it's really hard to type with one hand and a which is ironic because that's how I always used to type Friday for Q&A Friday. Ask me 10 questions. Cues that Vinnie would ask.

Right. So please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I have two websites, jasonnewland.com, which is my podcast website.

And I have a Jason Newland dot store, which is my store website or my online store where my recordings can be downloaded completely free. I'm always in the process of building that. So every time I do a new Let Me Bore You To Sleep, I upload them to the store.

They're also available to data stream. I'm going to say the word. I do have a bit of a stutter sometimes when I say words beginning with S. It's strange.

But obviously didn't happen then when I said strange. Although I have a little bit said it the second time. Maybe being self conscious about it doesn't help.

It is Friday, the 10th of April 2026. I'm here with Vinnie. He's underneath the desk having a little chew on one of his bony things.

What's new? What's new pussycat? Oh, well, about an hour ago, I had some croissants and a cup of tea. That's not really new, is it? But it is. And it's topical as far as it just happened.

And the time is four o'clock. 4pm in the afternoon. So when I've done this, I'll take him out for his last little jog of the day.

We've been out twice. We're now about half nine. And then we're now again about two, about two o'clock.

So yeah, the last one would be around about six, between five and six. Generally, yeah. I mean, sometimes I don't do a recording until about five or six anyway.

I mean, the other night, I didn't even realise how late it was. And I was doing a recording thinking, I'll take him out afterwards. And I looked out a window and it was dark.

Well, too dark to really go out. I have a certain grade of darkness that I don't like to, I don't tread outside when it's at that level. So I need to be able to see the floor basically, because I've got to pick up his his little droppings.

And I need to be able to see around myself. As my eyesight is reduced over the years, which I'm fine with, it's just natural, isn't it? I can't. I can't see people's faces.

And I can't. I can see people's faces. I can never see a face.

I can but they have to be about 10 foot away from me before I can actually really get a grip of the face. Now I've not measured it. It might be six foot, I don't know.

And so quite often I gauge who someone is by what they're wearing. And if some people wear the same coat every time they go out that they buy the person's dog, because I can see kind of if it's a white small dog. And if someone's because one of the, there's a person with a dog that has the, they take the dog in a pram.

Because a dog can't walk very well. So, you know, things like that, I can see from a distance and like, oh, it's either a dog or a pram or it's a woman with a pram. Or a person with a pram or with a dog.

Or someone else, I don't know. So you know, it could be one of them. At night, I can't see the faces.

And just like during the winter, I realized that if I'm going out when it's dark, even with a torch with a light and stuff, it just doesn't work because first of all, you can't shine a torch on someone. It's not fair. It's just you can't just shine a torch at somebody.

So not really. So I'm kind of enjoying the fact that I can go out in the morning and go out in the evening. And it's pretty much light till about I don't know seven, eight o'clock now.

Seven. I don't know. I'm not 100% sure because I've not checked.

So the latest is I did a hypnosis session yesterday. And what was it called? It was something. And I went body, a body scan.

It was a body scan. And the stats again have been just I don't know, like today, it's what is it still getting Vietnam and some of the other countries that I don't normally get. But I get I get this I get listeners from all over the world.

And I am bragging. So it's not the fact that I'm getting listeners from Paraguay or Morocco or Kenya or Philippines or Brazil or Mexico, Bangladesh, Iraq. You know, I've always had kind of people listening from various different countries.

It's just it seems to have increased the amount of people that are listening from those other countries. Slovenia, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela. And the Vietnam yet again is like, near the top is above the United Kingdom.

So I'm just, I'm just interested. And I keep mentioning it, but it's because I'm genuinely interested in kind of who's listening. And I like to hear from people.

And it'd be brilliant to hear from some people from Vietnam, just to say hi. I mean, you can even I mean, I was wondering, maybe some people listen to my podcasts, even if they don't understand what I'm saying, because I've just got a boring tone. I think I'm exciting, but maybe my recording, my voice isn't particularly an interesting voice, and it can exceed barriers of communication.

In the sense of language, it doesn't matter what language I'm speaking. It just becomes just background blabber. Maybe that's what it is.

Maybe, maybe. I don't know. I'm not sure.

I just like to know. I'm just I'm interested. This is this is my life.

So I'm just interested. So another week till my dad turns 80. And he spoke to me, called me up last night, actually.

Well, yesterday afternoon, around five o'clock. And we had a conversation for about an hour. Longest conversation we've had in a long time.

And usually when he calls, it's usually him and my stepmom. And it's two people and us. I'm more of a one on one person.

Whoever is one on one, I can talk. There's two people. And then there's and then there's like silences.

And especially when it's on the phone. I kind of, you know, I can't kind of gauge what's going on, especially if it's two people. If it's one person, I can just say blatantly like what? It's hard to do that with two.

But it was it was nice. It was a nice conversation we had. And so I'm seeing him at the next week, next week on his birthday.

And the Tyson Fury fight is on a Saturday night this this weekend. Tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that. That'll be good.

I don't foresee him having an issue with the bloke he's fighting. Because the person he's fighting, actually, it's not fair. I'm looking for Dove.

I can't say his name. But he's I think he's Croatian. And he's a big lump.

He was heavyweight, but he's big, big, big man. But then Tyson Fury ain't no bigger than Tyson Fury. So they were kind of there's not a lot in it between the sizes of the two, to be fair.

But I just I mean, I've seen it on Makhminov. He's lost a couple of fights. So is Tyson Fury, to be fair.

And but he lost to like lower level opponents. Tyson Fury is only lost to Yuzek, who is the best of the best. But at the moment, you know, he's at the top of the pile.

So I just I don't know. It's Amr Libidov. Tyson's Tyson Fury's opponent fought Dave Allen a few months ago.

And I think Dave Allen was very, very unfortunate not to get the knockout. Because I think it was close. I'm wondering if Dave Allen's engine ran out a little bit.

Because he really had him on the ropes. And it went the distance and Dave Allen lost. But it was still a good fight.

And it was and he really you know, he's, I would say Amr Libidov is getting better. But also say Dave Allen's probably getting better as well, even though he's 33. So it's quite weird because Tyson Fury is now fighting his ex-opponent.

And Dave Allen's now fighting a much higher ranked opponent in I don't know what his name is. I forget. But he's a higher ranked heavyweight.

I wonder if the winner of that link fight each other. I doubt it. I don't think Tyson Fury will want to fight Dave Allen.

I think Fury is, as far as I'm aware, there's only two fights he wants. I think he wants Usyk. That's the one he wants most of all, I think.

Because he thinks he won twice, I think. Even though he lost twice on the scorecards. So Fury wants to fight Usyk again, the third one.

And he also wants to fight Joshua. He'd get more money for Joshua fight, I think. They'd sell out Wembley.

Pay-per-view would be, they'd sell out a lot of tickets. And a lot of people, probably more people would watch that than would watch him against Usyk. But if he fought Usyk and won, he'd have the world titles back.

Or he'd be a world champion again. So that would be, you know what I mean, that would be a different, a big ball game. A big ball game, a different ball game.

Alternatively, if he gets through this fight, he could fight someone like Wardley, Fabio Wardley for the WBO heavyweight title. Now, to me, Fabio Wardley is precious. It might sound weird, but I don't want anyone to fight him that's going to win.

And I know that's not how boxing works. And you might think, well, you obviously don't think much of Fabio Wardley's skills as a boxer, pedigree or anything. It's not that.

It's just, I'm such a big fan of his. And everyone that's going to be fighting him, pretty much from now on, are people I'm also a fan of. So he's fighting Dubois in May.

I've been, I've followed Dubois since he started, since he turned professional, since he was like 22 years old. He's now about 30, I think. He's, he might have been younger than that.

He might have been 19. But he's, I followed him right the way through. So I'm a big fan of his as well.

And if Fabio fights Usyk, I'm a big fan of Usyk. It's like all the heavyweights. I'm a fan of them.

I'm also a fan of, I like the bloke that Tyson Few is fighting as well. I followed him for quite a few years because he's an absolute monster of a man. And he, he looks scarier than he is.

He just looks the part. He looks more of the part. If you lined him up, if you knew nothing about boxing and nothing about boxing, just going by looks, if you lined him up with every other heavyweight in the top 20 and said, which is the toughest? I think a lot of people would pick him.

I wouldn't pick Tyson Few, wouldn't pick Usyk. I think quite a few people would pick Fabio as well. But I just think they would pick a Manetelov because he just looks the part.

He could be, if he wanted to, he could go into movies. But he probably would get typecast as a baddie. Which is a shame because he's actually, is it a shame though? I mean, remember Jaws, those are old enough to remember Jaws, the Richard Keel from the James Bond movies.

But he became absolutely, he became almost like a superstar because of those movies. Because he was in, I think he was in two and then he was in Cannonball Run as well. And because he had gold teeth and he was about nine foot tall.

And here's something else you might not have known. He was the original Incredible Hulk. Back in the late 70s, or whenever the Incredible Hulk started.

So they had Bill Bixby. They wanted Richard Keel. He was going to be the Hulk.

They were going to paint him green and he was going to be the Hulk because of his size and because he looked scary. But I think the, well in fact originally they were going to paint him orange. And the man who wrote the comics said no, he has to be green.

Because, no they want to paint him red. Because they said red is the, that's the colour of anger. Whatever.

And the bloke who wrote the comics said no, it's green. The Incredible Hulk is green. Although there was a red Hulk as well.

There's been lots of different colour Hulks. Apparently. I mean, there was a red Hulk in one of the latest movies.

So they had Richard Keel, Jaws, to be the Hulk. And then something happened. I can't remember what I read.

I read it, this is only a couple of days ago. And they said that Richard Keel wasn't muscly enough. He didn't look strong enough.

He was big. But he didn't have, and he didn't have muscles. So they chose Lou Ferrigno, who was one of the top bodybuilders in the world at the time.

And they said that he matched what the Hulk looked like in the, in the comics. Because he started rippling with muscles. I reckon it wouldn't have made much difference.

I think Richard Keel would have, I mean, look, he was a scary looking bloke. But I think he, he didn't look so scary when he didn't have any clothes on. As opposed to, it's more like his face and his size.

But he didn't have the body to match. He wasn't a bodybuilder. And they got Lou Ferrigno.

And Bill Bixby, who's apparently he was a bit of a thespian. He didn't like the idea of being in a comic book, like a cartoon character. And he said he would only appear in the show, if he didn't have to have anything to do with the Hulk.

He didn't want to see the monster. I'm not quite sure what that was about. Because I went online, I saw loads of pictures with him, both of them cuddling each other.

So obviously, he changed his mind once he met Lou Ferrigno. I mean, that would be one of those wouldn't it? I don't want to meet Lou Ferrigno, six foot eight, bodybuilder, painted green, scary monster. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to see him.

I'll play, I'll play Dr. Banner. But I don't want to see the Hulk. And he could have that in his mind.

Then there's a knock on the trailer on the first day of shooting. He opens the door and there's a Hulk standing there saying, Hi, Bill. I thought I'd just introduce myself.

I'm Lou. At what point is Bill Bixby going to say, go away? I don't know. To this absolute giant of a man like, no, come in.

He probably wouldn't fit in a trailer, I don't think. Why are you staring at me Vinnie? Your dinner's over there. Eat your dinner.

Eat your dinner Vinnie. Eat it now. Eat it all up.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Blah, blah, blah. He's just staring at me.

No, I've got nothing for you. Nothing at all. Sorry.

Sorry man, I've got nothing for you. You didn't eat your dinner yesterday, did you? He's begging. He's sitting on his back, in his bum with both his paws up.

Begging. What is it you want? What is it you always want? Which is ironic because he's got treats on the plate with his food. And because he's being defiant about going near the plate because he's got food on it.

Fresh food, by the way. It's not old food, is it? Not that I give him old food, but you know, he's literally avoiding that plate. So he doesn't realise that there's treats on the side of the plate for him, which I was trying to do to entice him.

No, away with you young sir. No, no, no. He's got like laser vision of just staring.

He doesn't blink. I wonder if he's got eyelids. Yeah, he's got to have eyelids, hasn't he? I really should pay more attention.

So, why was I talking about the Incredible Hulk? There's got to be a reason for that. I don't know. Richard Kiel, the Incredible Hulk.

Boxing, heavyweights. Yes. So, I'm going to watch boxing on Saturday.

So that's good. I'm looking forward to that. It's actually, if I look up Tyson, Tyson, Fury, Undercard.

I know that Conor Benn, Undercard and Fight Times. So it's on Netflix. See, even though I've got the blokes name in front of me, I still can't say it.

Aslanabek. I know that's how you say his first name. Mukhmadov.

It starts at 7pm UK time and the main ring walk about 10pm. Okay, so that's just standard really. It's on Netflix.

So that's not standard. Generally, we don't have much in the way of boxing on Netflix. We've had the Mike Tyson ones, didn't we? So this is his comeback.

He hasn't fought for a year and a year and two, two and a year and a half, two years. I don't know. Okay.

Right. The Gypsy King will be an overwhelming favourite ahead of big two. Okay.

He returns. He hopes to return to the world title mix. Okay, he's just talking about him.

So let's go. I want to find out the Undercard. But it's not mentioned in the Undercard.

Oh, here we go. Right. The main card, including the Undercard, so the preliminary card.

What? Now, seven o'clock. You got Fraser Clark and Justin Hooney. Great, great one.

I like both of them. Justin Hooney took Fabio Wardley the distance and outboxed Fabio Wardley. Right.

Vidi just barked. But he didn't bark for long. Do you want to know why? Let me let me let me let you into a secret.

This is the box. I purchased on Amazon, an anti barking device. Also has a convenient remote control included.

I don't need that. I've got an auto. It's from Queen Mew.

And it says, oh, the 600 foot remote control distance. I'm pretty sure it said there's a 50 foot barking thing. So.

I didn't know if it would reach outside or not, but it's definitely it just worked. Because he started barking and normally because he goes high, really, really loud, very, very quickly. And it takes a while to calm him down.

Maybe only like 10, 15, 20 seconds sometimes. It's not a long time, but it's enough time to set off all the dogs in the neighborhood. But he stopped within about two seconds.

And it's a ultra sound like, you know, I couldn't hear it, but he heard it and he stopped straight away. It worked. I mean, I got it through this morning, charged it up, realized I was I had it connected to the charger and I was looking at the instructions and it said, do not, do not leave it charged while it's on.

So, okay. So I undid it. I put onto the windowsill.

And it's next to my skybox. So I've got three electrical things. So this, it does flash.

So I might have to turn it around. Because when I'm sitting on my city, it's not bothering me now because I, but it's going to bother me probably because it's going to be flashing at me like a blue light. But I think also part of that is when it goes red, I know I'll have to recharge it.

So I don't know how long it's going to last without recharging, you know, before I have to sort of recharge it. But I'll gauge that and maybe I'll just recharge it every night before going to bed or during the night while I'm in bed. And it stopped embarking like within two seconds.

It was like, that was it. Probably less than a second actually. It was proper full on.

It was like, what it was, I looked on the camera for, you know, door camera for the front door. It's just two neighbours leaving their flats, which they should be allowed to do without him barking. You know, it's really, I mean, one of the neighbours actually, I see them on camera sometimes.

And they're trying to open and close their door really quietly. And the father's like, going to his daughter and his wife, trying to get in just so that he doesn't bark. And that's not fair.

I told them, I said, look, I saw you on camera. Like being super careful and just you don't have to do that. If he barks, he barks, don't worry about it.

I try and keep him so he doesn't, but it's not your fault. It's not, you know, it's not their fault that he's barking. And I mean, I guess they're being considerate as well as I try and be.

But at the same time, I don't want people to feel, you don't have to walk on eggshells, you know, when you're coming into your own home. So, and I found out from downstairs that they don't really hear him. It doesn't bother them with him.

It's more when I'm telling to, I'm trying to calm him down. They can hear me being a bit too loud. This works.

And I'm hoping it trains him. Because if every time he, I don't mind him a little bit of growl, a little bit of like, you know, just, but he goes super high, super loud, a million miles an hour. And if one of the neighbors complained, luckily no one has, and hopefully no one would, because I've got a good relationship with my neighbors.

But it could cause a lot of problems for me and for him. So this is part of his training. If someone knocks on the front door, he barks.

That's it. That's the way it is. And that's normal, isn't it? But he doesn't have to bark when a caterpillar like farts outside into a trumpet, you know, he doesn't have to I'm hoping that it trains him.

So I used to have, I've had two different versions. When I first got him, I had a collar, which used to vibrate when he barked. And he didn't like it.

Of course, he didn't like it, but I didn't. At the time, he didn't bark when he was outside. He does now.

He barks at other dogs, never barked at other dogs when I first got him. He kind of found his voice, a bit like me. I found my voice probably when I was about 44, when I started doing the Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings.

Before that, it was hypnosis. And I kind of found, I found my, I don't know, whatever this is. And I'm 44, probably 48, 47, 47, 44, 2000.

What the heck is that? Someone's drilling outside. How dare they make a noise? Do they not realize that I'm trying to produce a professional recording here? That is ridiculous. And yes, I'm pleased I got that.

And it just, it's kind of weird because I've got it. And he hasn't barked since I've had it. He literally hasn't barked all day long, which is a record.

And I thought, this is weird. Is it already working? Is something happening? I don't know. Is he kind of aware there's this new thing in the room? Although it's only small, it's on the shelf, but it worked.

I'm really pleased with that, actually. Because it's not, you know, the vibrating thing on his, he didn't like that. So I took it off.

And then I found it in about 300 different pieces. I don't know how he got it. It was on the desk.

And then he also had a handheld one, which was just supposed to let out high pitched. And he destroyed that as well. So this being automatic, that's what it is.

I need something that's automatic, as opposed to me having to press a button because I've got a dog whistle thing on my phone. But by the time I turn the app on and do that, he's already been going for about like a minute. So yeah, I'm hoping this will train him just to reduce it a little bit.

Because he might be able to find, he might find a way that he can bark, but it's just below the trigger point. So it's like, woof, woof, woof. And he'll be fine.

I'm fine with that as well, because it's a very, it's a low, low level. But we'll see. He'll still bark when we're outside.

Dogs he doesn't like, I suppose. But he seems happy enough. It's just the ultrasound, whatever it is.

And as soon as he heard it, he stopped. And that was it. Yeah, that was good.

Right, to the undercard. I still haven't got to the questions yet. I will get there.

The Q&A Friday questions. So, yeah, Justin Hooney and Fraser Clark. I like Fraser Clark, but he is quite, the reason I think that this is an interesting fight is because Fabio Wardley has knocked out both Fraser Clark and Justin Hooney.

But they've both also taken him the distance. So Fraser Clark nearly took him the distance. Fraser Clark took him the distance in the first fight.

And they both, I would have, I would have gone for a draw with that one. They very much kind of, I don't know, but Fraser Clark was really good in that fight as well. And then the second Fraser Clark fight with Fabio Wardley, he just knocked him out very quickly.

Justin Hooney went nearly the distance and then got knocked out. So two of Fabio Wardley and Fabio Wardley being one of the current world champions, it's interesting to see how they, how they sort of deal with each other. I'm going to predict that Justin Hooney will win.

I'm thinking it's going to be one of those fights that goes the distance, even though they're both heavyweights. They're, I think they're that kind of, those kind of fighters that's probably going to go the distance, which isn't, if it's a good fight, great. But if it's, it might be boring.

It might, you know, sometimes distant fights can be like amazing, especially as back and forward. But yeah, Jamie TKV is fighting Richard Riakapour and it's another heavyweight fight. So that would be good.

Jamie TKV won the, I think he won the British title from Fraser Clark a few months back and that was a pretty good fight back and forth as well. So that was, yeah, and that was, yeah, that went to the distance, I do believe. And then the fight, the co-main event fight for the Tyson Fury fight is Conor Benn versus Regis Progre.

Now Regis Progre is a former world champion. So that's probably, that's the, you know, other than the Tyson Fury, the Conor Benn fight is like the top fight of the night as far as billing goes. Although I'm kind of surprised because apparently Conor Benn got paid huge amounts of money.

Why is he, why hasn't he got his own, why is he not starring in his own show? You know, why is he not headlining his own show? Which I'm a bit surprised about. So then you've got a preliminary card, which is, again, I'm a bit surprised at this because the prelims have got people that would normally be in the undercard. So you've got Francis Gorman, against Ryan LeBourne, heavyweight.

I think Francis Gorman is family, he's part of the Gorman family. You could ask him, well, yeah, obviously, because his surname is Gorman. No, but there's, they've got a history of fighters.

So I'm guessing he's, I don't know. So it's a guess. I think I've seen him before.

I think I have. And you've got Hector Avila, Lozano, I'm doing accents now, versus Sultan Almarhamed, lightweight. So I've not, I've not heard of any of these people.

Elliot Weil, Tom Hill, welterweight. Mike Tallon against Leandro Joss, blank, flyweight. Pawel August against Simon Zachudenberger, super middleweight.

Felix Cash against Liam O'Hara, middleweight. So I've heard of those. Is it Liam O'Hare? I know Felix Cash.

And then you've got Brian Gorman. Another Gorman. They've got to be related, didn't they? I don't know.

Brion, Brian or Brion Gorman against Eduardo Costa Nascimento. That's a mouthful, isn't it? Super lightweight. So I'm thinking if the actual show starts at seven, the preliminary probably will start about three.

Blimey. Tyson Hughes is funny, though. He says, the truth is, I came back to boxing for one reason only, and that's to make boxing great again.

He says, since I retired, boxing has been on a downward slope. Eh, not really. Not really.

I mean, if anything, there's, well, with the heavyweights, the boxing, you know, it's always kind of up and down. You got certain superstars that come and go. Canelo was the superstar for so many years.

And he hasn't had a fight for a while. I think he's got to come back in September, I think. But with the heavyweights, it was the same people, wasn't it? Usyk, Tyson Fury, Wilder, Joshua.

They were like the top of the tree. But recent years, over sort of the last couple of years, there's, especially with the Dubai fights. I mean, I guess that's not going to happen again anytime soon, but they put on the best shows in Dubai, and they literally, they had top heavyweights fighting each other, not for titles, just for entertainment, which is kind of what boxing's supposed to be.

And yeah, some of those shows was, I was excited. Every single fight was, on some level, not a world title fight, or at least a headline fight. Wilder against another heavyweight, and then Zhang against another heavyweight, Joseph Parker against another heavyweight.

And like, one after another, after another, it's like, wow, phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. And I don't know if we'll ever see that again. I think the only people that would be able to put that on would be probably Netflix.

Would be able to afford to put something like that on again. Something so big and spectacular. Yeah, it was, yeah.

I know it's going to sound weird, but that helped me get through quite a difficult period a couple of years ago. Because we had all these like, literally every week or two, there was a big boxing event. And it just gave me something to kind of hold on to.

And you know, that's sometimes all we need, isn't it? And because I love boxing, I was like, I was looking forward to the Saturday, Saturday night. And although I'm looking forward to tomorrow night, it's a big night of boxing, it's on Netflix. It's going to be good.

And there's also boxing on a different channel, which is another boxing I'd like to see. I'd watch it if it wasn't for Tyson Fury. So, I mean, it doesn't really matter which one I watch, because I can watch Netflix.

I can watch the playback, or I can watch the playback of the one on DAZN. I can't remember which one is on DAZN. But... Why don't you just do a boxing podcast? Why are you... Oh, I mean, Usik's fighting some bloke, kickboxer.

I don't know if it's next week or whenever. And I'll watch it. Will I watch it? Yeah, it's on DAZN.

I'll watch it. But... If you've got the greatest, I mean, apparently this bloke's supposed to be the greatest kickboxer of all time. But if you've got, I've never heard of him before.

Now, when Tyson Fury and then Anthony Joshua fought, oh, I forget his name now, but he was the UFC heavyweight champion, and he was pretty famous for having the hardest punch and for being, because UFC is huge, isn't it? So, he was, Gion, Gion, I can't say his name, Gion Jay, Gion, Gion, I can't, why am I, Gion, Gion, Gion, well, anyway, he was known, he was like a relevant world champion with UFC.

And although it was a crossover fight, and he did knock Tyson down, and some would argue that he deserved to win that fight against Tyson Fury, he was very much knocked out by Joshua in the next fight. But he earned himself lots of money.

Good luck to him. Nganu, that's it, Nganu. It's just because of the N and the G, because that's not how we spell things, is it? So NG, Nganu, yeah.

Very powerful. So, it was kind of like, that was exciting, because although I'd not seen Nganu fight, I'd heard a lot about him before, because, you know, there's all this thing about him being the heaviest puncher in history, they'd like tested people's punches, and, you know, they, basically, they really promoted him. Whoever promoted him did a really good job of it.

But outside of that, I've never heard of this Rico bloke. And it's not to say that a kickboxer can't make a good boxer, because both the Klitschko brothers were kickboxers before they turned to boxing. Dillian White was a kickboxer before he turned to boxing.

So it's not something that hasn't been done. Right, I've now got Vinnie pretty much climbing all over me now. He's gone to the city, and now he's trying to get on my lap, right? He's giving me kisses.

Why are you giving me kisses for? I'm not complaining, because I love my daddy kisses, but why are you doing it? It's like he's completely unaware that there's treats on the plate on the floor. Weird, isn't it? Unless, I mean, I suppose you could need the toilet, but we literally, it was only a little while ago that we came back from being outside, didn't we Vin? Hey?

Hey? Hey? So yeah, anyway, I'm looking forward to watching that tomorrow. Yeah, so let's have a look at these, which we're going to go to the stats we've got.

So yeah, okay, I'll move away from the stats. Sorry. So nothing at all for Facebook questions.

Really? What are you doing? Okay. So I asked ChatGPT to come up with 10 questions that Vinnie might ask me. He's doing his own jokes as well, right? So basically, it's written these 10 down, but it's not a question for me to ask.

They've basically done it in some kind of joke form. So I'll read them out anyway. Number one, if I bark at my reflection, and he barks back, who started it? Number two, because it's, you know, questions for me to answer.

Why do humans throw the ball and then expect me to bring it back? Number three, it's a good point, I suppose. If I sit really still, will dinner come faster? I think you know the answer to that Vinnie. That's a no, isn't it? The thing is, he gets his dinner.

He doesn't even want his dinner. He just wants treats all the time. So he's now lying, facing away from me, right on the edge of the sofa.

And he's, I just wants to be close to me, I think, which is nice. Because he's used to when I sit on the set, he cuddles up to me to the side of me. I think he misses.

Sometimes when I'm at the desk, he will like cuddle up to my leg or to my foot or you know, but if I spend too much time at the desk, I think he feels a little bit left out a little bit. I don't know. Why is the postman allowed near my house, but now I'm not allowed near his legs? Now a good point.

See, these aren't questions that I can answer are they? He's just, he's doing his own jokes. Good point though. Can you imagine being a postman? Woman? Postman person? Because everywhere you go, it's like, I've delivered leaflets.

Now I used to deliver newspapers, but it's a long time ago. But I've delivered leaflets in recent years to promote my free services and stuff. The last time would probably be around 2000.

2009 was the last time I delivered leaflets door to door. And that was just my own leaflets advertising my free pain relief service. And it seems like every other door there's a dog.

And I'd actually got, I put, you know, I kind of added near miss and I thought, Ooh, so I pulled my hand out of the, out of, because some of the letterboxes are so stiff that you can't push anything through it. Maybe a newspaper like crunched up would go through, but you have to open the letterbox or push your fingers through in order to get stuff into through the letterbox.

And I did that.

And I just like, I felt the, almost like the wind from a dog trying to say hello to my fingers. For all that was close. At the very next door.

I had my finger been literally I was. And I didn't know what to do. I ended up I had to go to hospital and have it like sorted out.

But if I just, I don't think I delivered leaflets after that. I think it put me off to be honest. I remember I just took the end of my finger off, watch the nail off and stuff.

And I remember the, the, the doctor looking at it said, Oh, you might need to have plastic. Honestly, he said you might have to have plastic surgery. Because my finger was like split a bit.

And they didn't give me, they didn't actually put proper stitches in, they just put those fly stitch things and kind of hold my finger together. And it healed fine. It's scarred, but it healed fine.

And the nail grew back. And at the time said, Oh, you might have to have plastic surgery. And I started laughing.

He said, What are you laughing for? I said, Well, look at me, you think if I'm gonna have plastic surgery, I'm going to start on my finger. There's other things need doing. If I care about what my little finger looks like, come on.

Blimey. It's ridiculous. This is a little finger.

I'm okay. Yeah, I suppose there are situations but just it was, it did not need any kind of cosmetic help. In fact, you have to look really closely to see the scar.

Because it's a little finger. So what's the next one? If money's so bad, why does it feel so good between my legs on my paws? Yeah, good question. Why do you say good boy when I sit, but not when I stare at you for three hours? I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Isn't it weird? You know, I do sometimes think I'm the only one that has a dog that stares at them. I'm not, am I? See, I'm not really outside of Vinnie. I'm not really used to having dogs or being around dogs.

I've lived with a few dogs over the years, but they weren't my dogs. They didn't really pay me that much attention. So I've never been in a situation where the dog was with my dog.

I was the one, you know, the daddy. So I've never had a dog just stare at me the way he does. So it's not a Vinnie thing.

It's just a dog thing, isn't it? So I need to just not give it so much, like it's a big thing. It's just, it's just a doggy thing. It's a Vinnie doggy thing.

Is it a Vinnie thing, Vinnie, or is it a doggy thing? He's looking at me, good boy. You are a good boy. 5% of the time.

If I steal food quietly, is it still stealing or just clever hunting? Now that's a good question because I've seen him steal food quietly. Well, not food, he steals treats, biscuits, whatever he can. And he does it.

I had a friend visiting me the other day, last week or the week before. And Vinnie literally did stuff that he would never do. He got onto the sofa in front of me while I was talking to my friend, picked up some biscuits.

There's only like two biscuits left. Picked the packet up really quietly and jumped off the chair, off the sofa, really quietly. But I could see him do it, like he's right in front of me.

It's almost like he didn't know I could see him. If he didn't make any sound, then no one would notice. And then you know what he did next? He ripped the plastic bag open where the biscuits were in, making loads of noise.

So, you know, the first bit worked. Why is your bed, your bed, when I clearly improve it by lying in the middle? Well, yeah, I've given up thinking of it as being my bed. It's, I just say the bed now, our bed.

He understands it as well. If I say in the bedroom, in the living room, in the bedroom, on the bed, he knows. So last thing at night, I might give him a little treat and go in the kitchen and I'll be, I'll be kind of shutting down the living room, turning the lights off.

I always check all the rooms, you know, kitchen and stuff, just to make sure everything's sorted, make sure the front door is locked, you know, all that stuff. And he does, he goes into the bedroom. If I say in the bedroom, he does, or take it in the bedroom.

If I don't say take it in the bedroom, it might just go into the living room. That was really boring, wasn't it? That was a boring story. If I ignore you the first five times, does that mean I'm in charge now? I like that.

Why do they ignore us? The amount, because I know, we all know that dogs understand, okay, they might not know, they might not understand everything. Obviously, I mean, no one understands everything, but I know that he understands certain things, and he knows some words, and he knows, he knows some things, because he does, he follows the instructions. Sometimes, I mean, there's some instructions he follows nearly every time, unless he just doesn't want to.

And it's almost like he knows that I'm talking about him. He's just sitting there with his ears up, listening, and his ears are turned towards me. I know, Vinnie.

You can hear me, can't you? You can hear what I'm saying. You know I'm talking about you. He's a little grumpy bum.

Are you being a grumpy bum? Are you being a grumpy bum? What's the next question? Why does he ignore me? That is a very good question. Why does he ignore me? I mean, today, he saw one of the neighbors that he hasn't seen for months. And this is one of the neighbors that never gives him anything, but he adores him.

Vinnie goes absolutely nuts every time he sees him. Honestly, and he's never given him a treat, nothing. So that, that ruins the idea.

You know when people say, well, I say to people, he really likes you. And I said, yes, only because you're giving him a treat. Or it's only because I'm giving him a treat.

Or if I say, oh, your dog likes me, only because you're giving him a treat. Well, actually, that's not necessarily true. I mean, it can be true.

But some dogs just like individual people, don't they? He, well, he happens to really like people generally, but he's got his favorites. In fact, I would say that a lot of the dog walkers in the park, he doesn't go nutty over them. He'll go up to them and beg for treats, and they're going to say hello.

But the way he was with my neighbor that I was talking about just now, he doesn't do that with any of the dog walkers. It doesn't matter how often he sees him, he gets overexcited every time. He's just, he's the lady across the road as well, who's got cats.

And he, we joke about him being, her being his girlfriend, because he's absolutely, he loves her. And she's never given him a thing. And downstairs, when you're trying to get onto the table, you're not getting on the table with Eddie.

If you can get on my lap, you can, I don't mind. If I stay like that and you can, yeah, kisses, kisses, kisses, kisses. I think he might be a little bit bored, to be honest.

I don't know, I think that's what might be going on. Are you a little bit bored? Are you? Yeah. Well, I can't really help that, can I? I can't help that.

It's not my fault you're bored. No, it ain't. It ain't, it ain't, it ain't.

No, it ain't. So, what was I going to say? Oh, yeah. What's, what's, what's the next one? Why do I have 47 toys, but only one is worth destroying at a time? The thing is with Vin is, he's not interested in toys.

And he's got a big pile of toys down there. And he just doesn't want to play with them. He's not interested.

Are you? He doesn't care about them. And I don't know why. Occasionally he will, he'll play with one or he'll get a ball.

But he's got nothing that's his like blankie, you know, not one, a thing that he has to have with him all the time. Just doesn't have it. See, I find that quite cute when dogs have like a a toy that they won't let go off that they have to have, you know, you can actually say, go and get your, go and get your zebra.

With Andre, it was his snake. He had this big long snake, stuffed snake. And it was a real snake.

They probably wouldn't be natural habit, you know, friends, but he had this stuff snake, which was twice his length, probably. And he loved it. But he didn't like me touching it.

Did not like me. If I've got went near it, he'd grab it and he'd run off. And he'd hide it.

And every now and then I'd find him. He'd, I'd find it actually, in the top of his cage. So for the last good last four years of having him, the cage was just open all the time, he could come and go as he wanted, because there was a hammock in there and there was water and food and everything was in there.

Plus, he could do whatever he wanted outside of the cage. And I'd find his snake. And he'd actually managed to get it all the way up through the little places in the cage.

There was not enough room to get in there. And he managed to get it into like a small space. He must have spent hours doing that.

But it was almost like it was his child or something. Absolutely loved that snake. But then he also loved my, he loved my slipper.

And he ruined a few slippers of mine. That's why I ended up buying Crocs. And so then he's now got, he's got his bum on the settee, the edge of the settee, he's got both of his feet on my right leg.

And he's intermittently just staring at me. He's just turned away now because, probably because I mentioned his name. That's what I'll say, I'll call him Billy Bob.

Billy Bob. Billy Bob was Billy Bob. Billy Bob.

Is it Billy Bob Thornton? Thornton? Billy Bob Thornton? It's a bit of a weird name, isn't it? Billy Bob. Billy Bob. If you say it quickly.

Billy Bob. Billy Bob. Great actor.

Billy Bob. Billy Bob. Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy Bob.

It's weird. I kind of now want him to bark. And it's strange.

Like, it's the thing I don't want. Generally, the most of all is for him to bark. Because when he barks, another dog barks.

And then that starts off a whole kind of, it just, you know. But now he's not barking at all. I don't understand it.

I'm very, very confused. Very, very, very confused. Yes, I am.

I could do with some food. I had the croissants, but it's not really food, is it? It's pretty much just butter. Butter and pastry.

What would I like? Not a roast dinner. I don't think I'd be bothered about a roast dinner. Or maybe a Spanish.

What do they call it? What's a Spanish omelette? What's the difference in a normal omelette and a Spanish omelette? Is a Spanish omelette thicker? I think it is, isn't it? It's more, it's not as not as big, but it's thicker. Spanish omelette. Is a Spanish omelette cold? I don't know.

But I used to go to this Spanish. Yeah, it was a restaurant. I used to go in there with my cousin and we'd have a few drinks at the bar.

We wouldn't eat in, but we'd have food on the bar. And it was not tacos. What's it called? When there's lots of like small amounts of little different bits.

And I used to go in there and loved it. Absolutely loved it. That's my way to eat.

You know, just different things to choose from instead of just a plate of food. And that's it. You guess what you got? Okay, no, let's try something a bit different.

And yeah, it was nice. I like that. An omelette.

I think I quite like to have an omelette. It's strange talking about what's the difference in a Spanish omelette and an English omelette. It's got to be something because otherwise, why would they call it a Spanish omelette? If it wasn't different, it was just an omelette.

Then every country would call their omelettes by the country's name, a Russian omelette, a Chinese omelette, an English omelette, a Scottish omelette. I don't know. It must be something different.

What is it Vinnie? What are you up to baby? He keeps licking me. What is it? Is this something you're trying to get and you can't get to it. So that's weird.

Did you hear that? Wow. He definitely wants my attention. I just don't know what for.

What do you want my attention for Vinnie? He's talking to me. What is it? What does he want? What? Do you need to go out? Is that what you need? Do you need to go out? Do you? Now he's turning his head from side to side. He's so cute.

Right. I think I might have to take him out for a wee wee. Do you need a toilet? Do you need a wee wee? Do you want to go out? I think that's a yes.

All right. I'm going to go. So thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye.