(no music) Whisper Wednesday | Let me bore you to sleep #1316 | 2nd April 2025

Whisper Wednesday, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Vinnie's running around in the background.

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So let's have a look today. I've already taken Vinnie out twice. Because today is Wednesday the 2nd of April.

2025. It's currently 2.35 in the afternoon. So I'm thinking.

What should I read? Should I look through a magazine? Let's have a look through a magazine. What magazine would be good? Ba-ba, ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom. Shall I find a magazine? About something that I've got zero interest in.

So I won't understand practically a thing. Yeah. Okay, let's have a look.

What have we got? We've got airplanes and transport. Animals and equestrian. Art and culture.

I don't know about any bloody art and culture. I don't even... My friend used to say stuff are far. That was her saying.

Boats and water sports. Okay, let's have a look at that. Oh, it really is just about boats.

Glory. Oh. Glory.

Glory hybrid propeller. Propeller. We're getting somewhere there.

You know, I wish in my earlier life that I had gone into selling yachts. Yeah, as a salesperson. But I don't know what Finn is doing in the background.

He's making a lot of racket. I wish I'd got into selling yachts even if it meant working for practically nothing just to get to the point where I could become a salesperson. Because there's a lot of money in that.

Or private jets. So imagine you get 10% and you're selling something worth 20 million or 10 million. You know, that's a fair bit of money.

To be a salesperson for that. That's, yeah. And the thing is I think it's one of those situations where one tycoon billionaire buys a yacht worth 100 million.

And dear friend perhaps, you know, they want to buy a yacht. But who are they going to go to? They're going to go to the company. The same company.

Because they're going to trust it. Because they're sitting on their friend's yacht drinking a tequila looking out at all the water. And not only that, they're going to want to deal with the same person, aren't they? So imagine if I sell I don't know 500 million yachts 500 million dollar yachts or 100 million pound yachts a year.

That's like 50 million pounds for me. It's not bad, is it? It's livable. Just about.

So look Let's have another way of getting these categories. If I look Alright, water sports Modern alternatives to decking This must be some kind of slang. Fishing boats and water sports.

Let's have a look at this. The shift, this shift mirrors the environment consciousness that was once at the heart of early marine practices. Historically, shipwrights used Stockholm tar a natural water-repellent and rock-resistant offering environmentally conscious alternatives to eat the real teak from the rainforest of Myanmar or oil.

Why did people call it It was called Burma. Why is it? Why we're not calling it Burma anymore? That bugged me the other day. Because I'm just seeing the official The official English form until 1989.

So why is it now Myanmar official? I'm trying to look at this. I'm guessing it's probably other countries getting involved. The United Nations, several other organizers.

Rights have not given me the names of Myanmar. Okay, here we go, here we go, here we go. The name of the country has been a matter of dispute and disagreement.

In that case, I apologize to any Myanmar and Burma arguers particularly in the early 21st century focusing mainly on the political legitimacy of those using Myanmar versus Burma. Both names derived from the earlier Burmese or an ethnonym for the majority Burman ethnic group of uncertain etymology. The terms are also popularly thought to derive from Sanskrit Brahma Disha land of Brahma in 1989 the military government officially changed the English translation of many names dating back to Burma's colonial period or earlier including that of the country itself Burma became Myanmar The renaming remains a contested issue.

Many political and ethnic opposition groups and countries continue to use Burma because they do not recognize the legitimacy or authority of the military government. So I'm interested was Burma, how long was Myanmar called Burma? Here we go Here we go, let's see I always find that kind of because I'm looking from an outside perspective I found it Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma That was official until 1989 Why did the British Why did the British call Myanmar Burma?

The British referred to the country now known as Myanmar as Burma during their colonial rule It was still called Burma I'm sure it was called Burma on the news until recently Now it's called Myanmar Okay, I can't be bothered to look into So many countries changed their names What? It's just like Thailand Thailand was hysterically, historically known as Siam until 1939 when it officially renamed to Thailand Did you know that?

You do know You do know You do now know You do know now Why did Siam change its name to Thailand? Siam officially changed its name to Thailand during a period of significant political transformation as part of a nationalist movement led by field Martian Phibun Songkran aiming to emphasize the country's unique identity and the unity of the Thai-speaking people Okay, makes me think So, like Did you know that for three days every year there's a celebration called Songkran in Thailand?

It's Thailand's traditional New Year festival I don't know when it is And they basically throw water I don't know Really, really climate They have three days of water fights They chuck water at each other I mean, that's gotta be I mean, how can they get anything done? It's like the, what's that movie? Where you can, all crimes overnight Not the pledge The crutch or whatever it's called It's a little bit like that but with water What other things are on here?

I can't imagine But yeah, that would have been good a good career move, I think or a career move because I never had a career Okay Let's have a look at sports Sports Sports Sports Boxing Boxing I don't like boxing but on this occasion I think I'll just have a look through it Just, you know I'll put myself through that Here we go Boxing Let's have a look Let's have a look Boxing is tribute to Colin Hart and it's George Foreman as well, of course I say of course but George Foreman left us this week or last week Let's have a look What have we got here?

This is interesting They're talking here about Colin Hart and talking about a particular fight where a boxer called Bramble beats Mancini It's a long, long time ago but Mancini was one of the top boxers of his time and he beat him after getting under his skin in the build-up to the fight Apparently, he brought out a voodoo doll of his opponent and that freaked him out That's kind of funny I saw that What?

Oh, blimey Where was it? I can't remember This might have been the 90s There was a boxer and apparently it was said that he used hypnosis in the build-up to his fight I don't know if it was That was Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank back in the 90s It was a really big fight I just don't remember who But the other boxer got a bit freaked out by it Bless So Vinnie's going to be in the background doing his thing I realise it's probably a little bit noisier than normal because of this being our Whisper Wednesday But I can't really...

He stops doing what he's doing as soon as I mention his name So there's a lot of stuff about George Foreman so I'm not really going to go into that I spoke about him the other day You see some people especially people my age when Mike Tyson came out and he was you know the heavyweight king 1986 and onwards for a few years beating everyone He was the scariest heavyweight of all time Fact is he wasn't because during Joe Frazier's time Joe Frazier was the scariest baddest man in boxing just

as scary just as bad just as frightening as Mike Tyson was It's just he didn't I guess he didn't rule for as long and also because he retired he didn't like to have that long career that Mike Tyson had but then he did come back so he did technically have a much longer career So he had about 10 years off and came back in 1988 I think Mike Tyson I think he started in 1984 and he went on until about 2005 So he did about 21 years as a professional So George Foreman did altogether I'll have to check that George Foreman Let's have a look George Foreman started his career Wow!

That's a long list He had 81 fights 68 He had 76 wins 5 losses 4 losses by decision 1 by knockout which was by Ali and then out of his 76 wins 68 were by knockout 8 by decision So his very first professional fight was in June 23rd 1969 and he retired altogether November 22nd 1997 So Just have a look So first of all he was 20 so 1969 when did he retire?

He was 24 when he won the world title from Joe Frazier 2 times and the third defense he got beaten by and then he fought Ron Lyle next just over a year October, November, December a year and 3 months later he fought Ron Lyle which I mention best one of the best heavyweight fights you will ever see and it goes on for 5 rounds but it's it's yeah it's a super fight as in it was super and then he beat Joe Frazier he beat Scott LeBue Don Dino,

John Dino Pedro Acosto and then he lost to Jimmy Young so he had after Mama Dolly had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 fights and he went on 1974 to 1977 I just still like this the idea that he got beaten and then he retired I mean technically yes but not in that order well technically yes in that order as well but he went on for 3 more years which is a fair amount of time and had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

6 fights and then he retired came back in 1987 aged 38 and 58 days but that Ron Lyle January 24, 1976 the weird thing about it is when he fought he didn't I'm just having a look he did an exhibition fight where he fought 5 different boxers one after another and it was 3 rounds each so it was 15 rounds all in all and he knocked 3 of them out and then he went the distance for the last 2 I think he was just really tired you can see that on

YouTube Boone Kirkman he was actually a professional fighter like a proper professional fighter he had 36 fights no 36 wins 32 32 alright ok so he had 36 plus 6 plus 6 so that's 0 draws 2 losses so he had over 40 professional fights and he fought George Foreman in his 24th fight no wonder he took him the distance he's got a lot of chaos on his thing as well blimey see now if an unknown fighter or wasn't that particularly well known went in the ring with an exhibition and fought

I don't know Usyk for example and there was 5 people fighting and 3 of them were knocked out and one of the ones that actually got through and went the distance that would elevate that fighters profile I'm pretty sure just like recently there was a Dubai fight a really big fight a fight card and Shakur Stephens was defending his world title but his opponent became unwell as did so needed a different opponent so he had an opponent come from the UK and although he got beat the English bloke got beat

it promoted him it pushed his profile up so high because he wasn't prepared he hadn't had a full camp he was unbeaten and it really put a good show in he did really well so he's now he's now got a name in the boxing world which I think he would have done eventually anyway but great great opportunity so see according to this the George Foreman fight it was an exhibition but it's still down as a loss which is silly because it's not down on George Foreman's George Foreman's record 1977 that's

unfair no it's not it's not at all so that was after Muhammad Ali Augustus 27 no mind you let's have a look Boone Kirkman so that's ridiculous so it's a non scored bout for George Foreman but it goes down as a loss for Boone Kirkman how's that fair it's not I've never been so angry anyway back to the so that's George Foreman let's go back before that Sonny Liston was the big bad man as well scared scared everyone and Ali knocked him out twice but he was really the bad of

boxing so Mike Tyson wasn't the first the first like super scary heavyweight there's been a few over the years we just haven't really seen any lately I mean there's a lot more skilful than Tyson was could punch harder than Tyson did but there haven't been many heavyweights that I can think of even wilder with his huge punches power I don't really think he he wasn't intimidating to the other boxers but Mike Tyson was and George Foreman was Sonny Liston was and I'm pretty safe to say Rocky Marciano was as well

but I think he was quite a nice bloke so I don't know heavyweights that were just really intimidating there was just some even like middleweights one of the most intimidating boxers I've seen in this country would be Nigel Benn there was just something about him it's like I know he's a boxer but very aggressive as a person but Chris Eubank who was better than him in the first fight anyway intimidating I don't know it's kind of strange trying to think of some boxers I missed a whole bunch of boxing during

the 2000's because of Sky Sports and I didn't have access to it for yeah pretty much the whole of the 2000's in fact I didn't have access to Sky Sports properly myself until 2015 but I did used to watch boxing 2008 10 I used to watch boxing at the place I lived the landlord would invite me to watch the late night shows the early hour one and stuff like that back it out yeah but once I got Sky Sports in 2015 because I had Sky for about a year by contract because I got it,

it was part of my deal I got satellite dish and all that stuff and I think no I think I had it for 2 years and then they put the price up like big time added another like 70 pound a month or something stupid like that and I said no no wow so I'm just looking at this Myles Templeton the history of boxing from with this app is I can't see Sandy Ryan there's been a couple of fights in the last couple of weeks where the two champions,

well actually Sandy Ryan wasn't a champion anymore but she lost and then the other one I forget her name she lost English, Sandy Ryan is Australian let's see I think I lose track, I'm sorry I lose track Brown, who's this boxing on this weekend it's a heavyweight pretty good, it's on the zone let's have a look schedule let's have a look at this all the upcoming big fights so April 4th Friday Barrow against Pratt so I don't know where that's going to be at 7pm Europe London,

ok let's go back and see what's been the sign up no I don't want to sign up I just want to read your content April 4th 2025 in France it's a super welterweight fight ok so Barrow Barrow is number one WBA rankings ok so the thing is I don't it's on Friday I might watch it anyway because it's I don't know where it's on the thing is iPad really annoy me because I've got this thing just come up it's come up ok it's gone away now whoo the one I was

talking about is Joyce Joyce vs Lerkovich but it's not just that there are a bunch of other fights on the same card heavyweight fights the Adelaide vs Toshkiva TKV I think they call him also oh where's the other fight maybe that's not on Rafferty vs Reagan that's not a heavyweight fight unless it is if you find information it was supposed to be like battle of the heavyweights this is super lightweight I think they might have had a cancellation they already had someone pull out so Joyce was supposed to be fighting

Dillian White hurt his pinky finger no he broke his finger so he's fighting Lerkovich instead who is possibly at a bigger risk for Joyce I don't know possibly he's only lost once against Daniel Dubois and he was kind of a bit of a boogeyman no one wanted to fight him I find that hard to believe I don't think that boxers ain't scared of anyone the whole thing is don't want to fight no probably because they're not getting paid any decent money probably what it is I don't want to fight because

I don't want to who else is on the thing that's going to annoy me Joyce right let's have a look Jo Joyce Undercard Jo Joyce Undercard ok so we've got here we go where is it the fight 5th of April at the Co-op Live Arena I wish they'd stop naming arenas after like a supermarket because these arenas get almost like they're sponsored and then they change a name like Wembley is Wembley always going to be Wembley I don't know why it bothers me ok here we go well that went to

boo this is supposed to be like a big heavyweight clash like a big like lots of heavyweight fights now there are there three but they're not the main fights anymore so I can't remember who was supposed to be fighting another fight Jo Joyce and Dillian White so he pulled out now is it Philip Berkovich David Adelaide and JTK I don't know I've never even heard of him before until this was announced so that's for the vacant British heavyweight title so I'm looking forward to that I like David Adelaide he's very

talented he's a big big puncher so I'm not interested in that definitely Jack Gravity against Corio Ragan that's the super lightweight super lightweight one that I said they're both undefeated so that'll be a good fight I'm sure but I was looking forward to heavyweights and the other heavyweight fight I was looking forward to as well not enough to remember the names of the people fighting but it was oh not Othello the former cruiserweight world champion all light heavyweight champion no cruiserweight champion and he went up to heavyweight and I don't

know why why it's been stopped but there is another heavyweight fight on here and it's Delicious Orrier versus Milos Veletic now Delicious apart from having the best name in boxing is an Olympian so this is his debut his first fight as a professional and he's huge but then he's heavyweight so he's kind of supposed to be but he's another huge one he's got 6 foot 6 or something and that'll be interesting and to be fair if that is his actual name he had no choice but to learn to fight did

he when he went to school because he was going to get a lot of hassle from other kids having that name it's just the fact kids are just what kids are like imagine going there the first day of school I'd like you to meet the newest person he's Delicious he's Delicious and everyone's waiting what's his name destined to be a fighter Khalid Majid against Alex Murphy super lightweight Royston Barney Smith Mark Chamberlain against Miguel Skaringi Nelson Birchall and then Madim Moussa and Louise Schetzer so I don't know any of these

names to be honest I think I've been a little bitter treated with some of the big fights lately so when it comes to the up and coming I don't necessarily know who they are so apparently odds for Joe Joyce 11-4 Hercovitch 2-7 a draw 18-1 that's not bad I mean he's never had a draw Joe Joyce has never had a draw so but they're both in a situation because they both got yeah I don't know I think it'll be a good fight but at the same time I've been a big

fan of Joe Joyce for years and years and I just don't want to see him get hurt however strange that is considering it's the hurt business I don't I'm just a fan of his he's also really lovely outside of the ring personality wise he's friendly like a gentle giant and I just I don't know I'm not sure I can hear my stomach I think that means it's time for me to go and get some food when did I last eat?

11 yeah that's about 4 or 5 hours ago 2 at 10 o'clock half 10, half 11, half 12 half 1, half 2, half 3 5 hours ago it's nearly half past 3 now okay let's come out there let's see what else, oh yeah Fandora they had a fight just over a week ago March 22nd that was good I've been following Fandora for years as well and they call him the Tower Inferno because he's like 6 foot 6 but he's little,

he's a little weight he's 152 and 3 quarter pounds which is I don't know what that is in stone but he's a super welterweight title so I think welterweight is about 10 stone maybe 11 but to be 10 stone or 10 and a half stone and to be 6 foot 6 is like it's almost unheard of what I think it is I mean there have been no he's 6 foot,

sorry I lied he's 6 foot 5 and a half inches I mean how does he even he's the tallest ever champion of that weight 6 foot 5 and a half inches I just don't know he's got 80 inch reach advantage blimey so he's very he's good as well he won the world title then he got knocked out in the defense and then he came back and he proved his mettle because he had a proper war with someone Tim Tsu and Tim Tsu is kind of classed as the next almost like

the next super fighter and he is really good however and it's a good name for him because he is fun and also his sister is also a world champion so apparently they're the first brother and sister world champions ever which I found weird because I thought yeah I think they're not the only brother and sister world champions because Caroline and Daniel Dubois are both world champions but they become after the event so Fandora Sebastian Fandora and his sister were world champions before Daniel became a world champion I think Caroline Dubois

was already a world champion before him I think so it's quite amazing really but apparently they don't talk to each other so I don't really know what the deal is with that because I'm a fan of both of them I remember this this was probably before Daniel Dubois had his first loss against Joe Joyce and he was the up and coming name, people were watching him he was a force he still is,

a force to be reckoned with and I saw a documentary online where someone was going around his house where his family lived he still lived at home I think he was about 22 years old at the time and they went into this huge room and there was this trophy cabinet a massive trophy cabinet full of boxing trophies and the reporter said Daniel are they all yours?

and he started laughing he said I wish they were but they're my sisters so his sister Caroline Dubois was the amateur like she was much more successful as an amateur than he was so really in the boxing family she was number one then he came along and winning the world heavyweight title I mean he got technically given it but he defended it against Annie Joshua it makes him more famous than her but she is really good although in her last fight she seemed very tired near the end which is fair

enough it's got to be tiring isn't it but I reckon he started off being annoyed that he was being compared to her now she's being compared to him because she was the amateur star and now he's the professional star I like them both I do individually just we've got a few big fights coming up in May April what have we got Joe Joyce so we've got this weekend then Sunday Tim Zeus fighting so that will be in Australia which will mean I have just come out of it I can't believe

it I will come back it's in Australia which means it will be on about 8 or 9 in the morning and then April the 12th that's a good weekend of boxing and then Friday night as well isn't it April the 4th boxing Friday night boxing Saturday night and boxing Sunday morning and then you've got Jaron Boutinis is fighting on the 12th Martin Smith on the 19th and then the 20th Liam Cameron and Ben Whittaker too so I'm definitely going to watch that that's on Sky Sports yeah I'm going to watch that that was a lot of controversy over that because a lot of people thought that some people were calling Ben Whittaker,

Ben Quittaker because they said that he quit and he pulled Liam Cameron over the ropes which I don't believe at all just for the simple fact that that's such a dangerous thing to do you know if you do that he could have ended up in a wheelchair literally from that high to pull himself backwards over the ropes either of them could have been seriously seriously injured so I don't believe that he purposely did it,

that's what I think not that what I think really counts for much but but it'll be good to see it because there's a big rivalry there so that's something to look forward to Conor Benn, Chris Eubank Jr April 26th definitely looking forward to that he's also got some really good fights on the undercard as well Chris Billum Smith, Anthony Yard Liam Smith it's yeah pretty cool also on the Liam Cameron and Ben Quittaker too,

Frazier Clark is making his comeback so that'll be interesting to see how he is now May 2nd Teofilo Malonez is defending his title and then Ryan Garcia and Rolando Romero and then Devin Haney against Juan Carlos as far as I'm aware the headlining act is actually Ryan Garcia even though Teofilo Lopez is the world champion and you'd think he'd be the top name but I think Ryan Garcia is just, and Devin Haney I think Ryan Garcia is the bigger name like in America,

in boxing and he's just really popular and during a press conference Ryan was sitting right where the main person would sit and Teofilo Lopez was sitting on the other end in like I don't know what I'm trying to explain but technically Teofilo should be the top because he's the world champion that's three really good fights that's on May 2nd and then May 3rd so that'll be early hours in the morning that's May 2nd May 3rd, Canelo Alvarez is defending his WBA,

WBC WBO and IBF super middleweight titles against William Scull and Badou Jack is defending his cruiserweight title and then Jamie Mangui is having his rematch with Bruno Soares and Jamie Mangui got knocked out by Bruno in his last fight and Jamie Mangui is one of the top, top fighters in the world he did lose to Canelo but that's the only loss he had I think and there's no shame in that let's face it Martin Piccoli is making his comeback but he already had this booked before he got done by Joe Joe,

Joe, Joe where is that the venue right where he had so I think that'll also be in the middle of the night so I think they're showing it for American audiences I'm not sure I'll have to look into that Naomi Inouye is fighting for the first time in Las Vegas I think I think it's the first time and he's defending all of his belts against Ramon Cardenas normally Inouye fights in Japan which is good for me because it means that the fight's on at like 9,

10 in the morning but this time it won't be it'll be on early hours of the morning which is a shame but hey and then Lee Wood is fighting I think he's gone up a weight he's one of these fighters to just he manages to pull it out right at the last minute that sounded wrong didn't it but he kind of he's been on the ropes and then just managed to knock out his opponent he's just such a warrior Lee Wood is such a warrior so that's the next 30 days

major fight schedule so April yeah so just over yeah just over 30 days because now April the 2nd yeah Michaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan yeah that's what I watched also William Cepeda that was I watched that this weekend he's so good he's so good but he just won't he won't stop he can't stop he just throws so many punches he's like non-stop but Devin Farmer's also really good that's a good good fight let's go and see the ringside charitable trust okay who's this oh that's the whole magazine red and on

the back of it there's a young person I don't know who it is pouting it doesn't say who it is it's the back cover 1909 the 1909 heritage so that I do believe is today's whisper Wednesday this week's and for some reason I've talked about boxing but that's because I was trying to choose a magazine about a subject that I'm not interested in and I just happened to pick boxing 1 who would have thought it's a random random thing or maybe I am into boxing yes so on that note I'm going to go thank you for listening and remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe lots of love bye