(music) #1274 A blip - Let me bore you to sleep (21st January 2025)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. It's 6.26pm on Tuesday the 21st of January 2020. So welcome.

Hello. Hello. How are you? Oh, so had a bit of a weird weird, weird little period but I'm kind of coming out of it.

It's just someone brought some drama to my door, some of their drama into my life and I don't need anyone's drama and it just threw me off a little bit. Threw me off. So had a little bit of a blip.

So if you've got any questions for this Friday, 24th of January for my Q&A Friday, please go to my Jason Newland's Boring Group on Facebook and ask a question. I've got two. Okay.

Wow, two really good questions actually already. And okay. So so one's for Michelle, one's from Barry.

I, my website's jasonnewland.com. It is actually my podcast. So every time I release a new recording, it's on there. It is on a layer.

That's all my latest stuff's on there. I've also got playlists and I've got links to all the different podcast apps that I'm on as well. So yeah, I'm just looking at something here.

A little bit tired today. Continue with Google. Continue with Google.

Oh, okay. Fair enough. Right.

The Vinnie's all right. He was just sitting underneath the radio just now. I think he's a little bit cold.

The temperature's dropped a little bit the last, well, actually it was last, no, it wasn't last night. It's kind of early hours this morning. I was lying in bed like I often do.

Especially when I'm in bed. And I noticed that, because normally I have like half my body out of the duvet and a half in. I kind of cuddle the duvet.

You could say, you know, yeah, I could say I'm kind of not scissoring. What's the right word? You know, when you kind of, if you're in bed with another, with a human, as opposed to a dog, which I am in bed with, not now, but I mean, Vinnie I'm talking about. What do they call it? Not scissoring.

You know, when you're kind of behind them, behind the person and you're cuddling them. Well, that's what I do with a duvet. Yeah.

And I noticed I was getting a bit chilly. It's a bit, ooh, a bit cold, but more than was acceptable. I don't need to be hot when I'm in bed.

In fact, I think it's kind of quite good not to be too warm when you're in bed. Because it's, it's good to not get overheated. I think for me anyway, I don't think it's good for me to get overheated.

But that reminds me, blimey. I had this girlfriend once. I did have a girlfriend.

It's true. And well, I say girlfriend, but she visited once. And she stayed over.

She had a sleepover and she got permission. And I can't honestly, it was like laying next to, I guess a radiator, literally a radiator, human shaped radiator. So much heat coming off of her.

It was just, it wasn't pleasant, actually. It wasn't unpleasant. It wasn't her, but it was just, it's like the heat.

Like, wow. And this was blimey. This, this wasn't in the summer.

I don't think. It might have been, might have been in the summer. Yeah, that is possible.

I can tell you exactly when it was. I can tell you the exact date, in fact, because I remember what I did. I don't remember her name, but I remember the boxing fight I watched, which was, maybe that's weird that that's what I remember.

I watched, retained, it was about 2017 or was it? No, it wasn't 2019. Maybe it was 2000. Maybe it's a lot longer.

I thought it was about 2015. Maybe it was a lot. It wouldn't have been 2020.

That's for sure. Retained. I think what it was, it was March the 16th, 2019.

Now let's see. That was a Saturday, but then most of the boxing dates are Saturday. For some reason, that date is coming up with a link because he wasn't the main person.

He wasn't the, ah, okay. So the fight was actually Spence, Jr. versus Garcia on March the 16th, 2019 for the IBF world welterweight world title. Mikey Garcia went up at least one, if not two weights to fight for the title and he didn't win.

The fight aftermath undercard confirmed bouts. Nothing. What? Panama, United Kingdom, ITV, no.

See, that's a lie. It wasn't on ITV. We haven't had, the last time ITV broadcasted a live world title fight was I can't even remember.

I surprised if it was in the last 30 years. Seriously. They used to every Saturday, not every Saturday, but they used to have regular Saturday night boxing on the ITV.

And I think Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Nassim Hamid maybe. They had lots of big, big stars. Would be fighting, but this, yeah, that's a weird one.

So why is there a link on that day then? So it's at ATM. It was March the 16th, 2019. He fought, see, this is a good memory of mine.

He won the WBC world super middleweight title. This is, oh, I haven't told you what I'm talking about, have I? David Benavidez is pretty much my favorite boxer. Just, he's amazing.

He's so good, but he hasn't been very active. Partly because he just can't really get the fights. He can't get the big fights because he's a super middleweight.

Well, he was a super middleweight. He's now a light heavyweight because he recently, well, in June last year, he won the WBC interim light heavyweight title, which means he's next in line to fight for the WBC light heavyweight world title, which is currently owned by Beto Bevis. I know who I'm saying.

My biggest surprise is when he beat Demetrius Andrade. He was another fighter I really liked and he retired in the sixth round and he was unbeaten. And again, I think he was at least, he was a world, he held a world title.

I don't know how many, if it was two world titles, I think. Right. He won, this is Demetrius Andrade.

He was a very awkward boxer. So I think people, some people didn't like, they didn't want to fight him because he was difficult to fight. And so he won the WBO light middleweight title 2013.

And so that's a WBO light middleweight title. He won the WBA regular light middleweight title in 2017, won the vacant WBO middleweight title 2018 and retained that for a few, for until 2021. And then he fought for the WBC interim super middleweight title and lost to David Benavidez.

So this is, why are you moaning Vinnie? You've been out. I don't know what you're moaning about. But he's, yeah, anyway, let's go back to David Benavidez.

The reason why he never, he never got a chance because he won the light middleweight, that the super middleweight world title twice. And he also won the interim as well. See, one of the times he lost his title on the scales because he was, and I think that was the one that I watched.

I think the first time he lost his title was because he got tested for recreational substances after the fight. So he'd gone out partying, I guess. And then he was tested the next day or something.

And so he lost his world title, which is kind of weird because if he was to take, Vinnie's so hungry, he's eating stuff off the floor. Do you really that hungry Vinnie? Are you, are you really that hungry? I've got to get him some food. Well, I got him some food and now he's happy eating it.

So, hey, well, he's eating it. I don't know if he's happy eating it, but I guess he is. So, okay.

For signing over the super middleweight limiter. Okay. Yeah.

So in August the 15th, 2020, that's it. He fought and he was over the limit. So he lost his super middleweight title again.

But previous to that, it was, yeah. So he lost on the scales the second time he still fought. So when he fought the challenger, he couldn't win the world title.

He could win the fight because he's still unbeaten. This is David Benavidez, but he, he fought Angula, but he couldn't, so he could lose the fight. And so Angula could still win the world title, but he couldn't, he was, he wasn't able to keep the world title even.

That's got to be hard to go into a title, you know, just imagine being the world champion and knowing that whatever happens, you're going to lose your world title. Even if you win, that's got to be a, a very difficult situation to be in. So he turned, I think he turned professional when he was like 15, well, he's 28 now and he started in 2013, which was 17, 16.

He was 16 when he turned professional, but it was in Mexico. So you can turn professional in Mexico at the age of 16. I think in America it's 18.

And I think in the UK also it's 18, I think. And then he, yeah, so he boxed it. The thing is he lived in Phoenix, Arizona.

So although he was Mexican by heritage, he was born in Phoenix, Arizona in America. So he went to Mexico to fight. So because if I'm correct, Phoenix is just, isn't it just like near, near Mexico? I don't, I mean, I thought it's in Texas as well, or maybe I've got it wrong.

I remember someone telling me once, cause my friend downstairs, his cousin lived in Texas and he said that he was, apparently he was near the border, but I'm not sure. It's a big border anyway, isn't it? W, so yeah, I remember that. And he's one of my favorite boxers.

I'm not going to sort of talk about boxing all the way through a recording, although I'd love to, of course, but he's so good. The reason I think, well, I'm not even, I don't have to guess it because it's pretty obvious. The reason he went up to light heavyweight is because Canelo, Mr. Canelo has hogged the world titles at super middleweight for years, years and years and years.

I mean, he hasn't had all of the world titles for forever, but it feels like it. I mean, when did he get his last, I think Billy Joe Saunders was the last person that he beat to suddenly get all of the titles. WBA, WBC, WBO, Caliplant, no Caliplant was, was the last one.

And that was November, 2021. So it's three, over three years, he's held the world title, all of the belts at super middleweight. So the WBA, super, super WBA, I don't know why they bottle things like super, because now if you win the WBA, what BA world title, it's just the regular championship.

That's weird. So he's got a WBA, WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and this ring super middleweight titles. So the WBA stands for World Boxing Association.

WBC stands for World Boxing Corporate, not corporation, World Boxing something. And the IBF stands for International Boxing Federation, I think. WBA stands, WBO stands for World Boxing Organization.

So I think the WBC is World Boxing. It might be World Boxing Confederation. So there's my two guesses, either Confederation or, what's the other word I said? Cappages? No.

I don't know, whatever it was. Corporation? For some reason, I keep thinking centenary, but that doesn't even make sense. So he's been hogging the world titles.

I mean, admittedly, he has defended it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times. So it's not like he hasn't defended it, but blimey, come on. He's hogged it.

And he hogged it all the way through from 2001 November. Now, to be fair, that wasn't that long, was it? Till September. So nearly a year, 10 months, until he defended it again, because he fought Dmitry Bivol for the light heavyweight title and lost.

And then Canelo fought on the 6th of May 2023, the 30th of September 2023. And then he fought Jamie Mungui, May 2024, Edgar Belanga, September 2024. What's weird is, as soon as he'd won the titles, as soon as he'd won them all outright, his knockout spree seemed to run out.

And he hasn't had a knockout since he won against Caleb Plant in 2021. So it's nearly over three years, he's not knocked anyone out. And he's had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 fights.

And you might think, well, doesn't mean anything. Well, no, I'm not. I'm not knocking him.

Don't tell him. Blimey, I don't want him after me. It's just, he was kind of a bit of a knockout machine.

And the previous three fights before he fought Dmitry, he knocked him out. Callum Smith took him a distance, then he knocked out Sergio Kovalov. I mean, it's okay.

I'd probably be better if I just tell you how many knockouts he's had. He's had 66 fights, 62 wins, two losses, and two draws. So the, yeah, four.

So two losses, two draws. The two losses, the two draws was against, what's his name? What's his name? Gennady Golovkin. So he had two, didn't he do two draws with him? Did he? I don't know.

Wait a minute. Keogh, Gennady Golovkin, majority decision. No, he didn't do two draws.

So he did do the other draw with them. But he got 39 knockouts and 23 by decision. And the two losses was at Dmitry Bivol, and which was what? 7th of May, 2022.

And he also lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013. So there's nine years between his losses and a heck of a lot of wins as well. So who did he draw with? For those who draw, draw, draw, draw, draw.

Just trying to find. Draw. I didn't know it.

Split decision, draw. Wow, this is long before, this is in his fifth fight. So there would have only been probably four rounds, maybe six rounds.

George Juarez and there was no link to his name. So I guess he didn't. I mean, he might go on to be a big star.

I don't know. I've not heard of him. That was back in 2006.

How long has he been going for? So he turned professional 2005. Wow. That's pretty phenomenal, isn't it? 20 years.

20 years. He's been a professional boxer and he's not even 40 yet. He's still only like 38, 37.

Was he 30? He's 34. He's 34. How can he have been boxing professionally for 20 years if he's 34? That means he started when he was 14.

Doesn't make sense, does it? He was born on 18th of July, 1990. Okay. 18th of July, 1990.

And his first fight was 29th of October, 2005. 1990, 2005. So he's 15.

25, 30. But that would still make him 35, wouldn't it? They've got this date wrong. They've got it wrong.

It's wrong. He was born in 90, 2005. That's 15.

So if he's been fighting since 2005, it's now 2025. 2025. That would make him 35.

But according to this, he's 34. Oh, it's July. So I guess, yeah, it depends on what time of the day.

Fair enough. So he started fighting at 15. Or 14 or 15 turned professional in Mexico.

The thing is, I don't think it's as well like professionally checked. I think some of the early fights, I think they're quite hard to really validate. I think.

I might be wrong. So he fought in Mexico, right away from 2005, all the way to 2008. So three years.

So I guess, so when he was 18, he started fighting in America, California. And so he won. He was winning youth belts because he was still so young.

And then he fought and he won his first world title against Matthew Hatton in 2011. So he'd been fighting for six years, six years. And that's a long time for someone of his caliber to get to the point of winning the world title.

And it was his 37th fight. And that's all pretty much because of his age. Oh, weird noise, I might do.

I mean, maybe. How many fights? One, two. So he fought in America twice.

And then he went back to Mexico. And he didn't fight in America again until 2010. So he'd like two years, came back in 2010.

I say came back, went back because obviously I'm not in America, am I? I'm here in England. So he definitely didn't take an easy route to get there. 37 fights, and most of them were in America.

But he had to, eventually he got a fight in America and fought for the world title. Why was it in America, though? Because he fought against Matthew Hatton, who was English, that was Ricky Hatton's brother. So why did Matthew Hatton, I wonder why, held the European, he challenged Wantser in Latvia.

So it was a, it was a vacant world title then. So him and Canelo fought for the vacant world title. It's kind of weird, really, when you think that, oh, blimey, that was at the end of his career.

So he, he fought for the world, he was a European champion. And he fought for the WBC light, vacant middleweight title. He lost to Canelo on points.

Then he fought Cole Brook, lost that on points. And then he fought Chris Van Hooden and lost that one on points. But that was 2007-2003.

And then to what? Okay, 2013-2011, 2012-2013. It often goes away, goes that way with boxes, like they'll have a loss and then they seem to go through sometimes through like a period when they lose. Some boxes actually come back and go through and go for a big winning streak after having a few losses.

It's kind of quite interesting for those who are interested in stuff like that. Anyway, so yesterday, I had a little bit of a blip. And this morning, I was still in that blip.

And I, I came off Facebook, which is something I haven't done in years. Haven't done it in years. So I came off of Facebook, deleted my channel, my Facebook thing, and deleted all the other Facebook pages.

And I was thinking about getting rid of my website. I was still going to do the podcast. I wasn't going to give up on that.

But just it was, yeah, just I had one of those moments due to outside interference. So I, it's kind of weird, actually, because I had a nap. No, I didn't have a nap.

I got a phone call from someone downstairs, and maybe downstairs. So I had a chat. It was a nice chat.

I felt a little bit better, but I just still need to go to bed. So I went to bed, had a nap, woke up, came in here. No, I was in bed and there was a knock at the door.

So I get up and one of my other neighbors cooked me dinner. And you know, that made a difference. Just that act of kindness actually made a difference.

And I've not eaten it yet. It's in the microwave. It was, I love it when I've done this, I heat it up.

And I just like, oh, so I brought back, brought back, I kind of got back on Facebook, had to join the group again, because I'd kind of left the group, my own group, Jason Roulain's boring group. Just in case anyone was wondering why I wasn't on there, or why I am kind of now joined. And yes, that's a weird one.

Surely I could have, as the, I wonder if I'm still an admin. I don't know if I'm an administrator anymore. Blimey.

It doesn't really matter to be honest. But I wonder, that'd be strange. Membership requests.

Oh, no, I am still, I'm still an admin. Because I've got the, because I do it through the, my Jason, my Jason Newland hypnotist page. That's how it was set up, I think, originally.

Yeah, I wonder if that means I'm on twice. No, I'm not. 207 members.

Let's have a look. So I'm the admin. I'm the admin, still the admin.

And Molly is the admin. She's also a group expert. I'm not a group expert.

Jason Newland. I'm the latest one to join three hours ago. Wow.

Just shows you, doesn't it? I don't know what it shows you. What does it show? I don't know, but it shows you. What? I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I wonder what other things. Congrats.

Oh, yeah. So there's an automatic like congratulations on our new members. So that was welcome me to the group.

It's sometimes weird because I look on a group and I think perhaps I shouldn't be posting anything. And then I remembered that perhaps I should. It's a very strange one.

But yeah, that little act of kindness made a difference. It's sometimes difficult to get a perspective. I find myself occasionally.

And there is one thing that I don't really want to make videos. I don't like making videos. And I mean, I'd still I'd like to do the videos as far as posting video versions of the podcasts.

But I don't actually enjoy. Video like doing the actual videos face face on videos. Videos with my face on them.

That makes sense. And I don't know what the solution is for that. I mean, I did.

I've done so many videos over the years. And I just like started doing it again. Recently, very recently.

This year, really. I think the first one was the first of January for quite a while. Or saying that I might have done one in December as well.

And new, new, new, new, new. No, I didn't. So the first one with my face on that done for quite some time was the beginning says first of January, then I did one on the second of January.

Then I another one with my face on it. The 14th of January, 15th, 18th, 19th, 19th again, 20th. And now it's really the 20th.

No, it's the videos from the 19th. But it took so long to to produce. So it was uploaded yesterday, but it's the 21st today.

But it actually produced on the 19th, which will be Sunday. I did a summary actually of last week on Sunday. This is kind of a summary of one mixture of summary of today and yesterday.

And boxing. Got some boxing, good boxing coming up actually. Got a what we got? We got we got here we got a fight on Friday morning, which is in Japan.

That'd be 830 in the morning. So that's something to look forward to. And it's Inui who is one of the pound for pound greats right now.

So that'll be good to watch that on Friday. So it's Wednesday tomorrow. And it's Thursday.

And it's a case of just that, you know, I was sitting down earlier. Well, everything kind of happened earlier, didn't it really? But you know, not long ago, I was sitting down on my chair over there behind me. And I just like, oh, I didn't really want to necessarily do anything.

But at the same time, I didn't really want to not do anything, or to do nothing. It's nice. It sometimes feels nice when I've when I've actually done something kind of kind of feel like I've accomplished something.

I don't know what but you know, a little bit of an accomplishment, like I've achieved, even if it's just like a recording, or maybe I've worked on my website and updated some stuff or other things. I mean, today's been such a slow day. With the podcasts, it's been the slowest day since so far, since the 27th of December.

Last year. The slowest day. And I've got no idea.

It's quite weird, because yesterday was a bank holiday in America. As far as I'm aware, that's what I said on the radio. And it was an okay day.

But today, I mean, Sunday was a big day. I had more downloads than I've had since by the 14th of January. So it's not been a long time, but it's definitely the biggest, the most downloads I've had in the last month, which was a month on Sunday.

I don't know. It's anyone's guess, really. I just don't.

I mean, it's kind of weird, not weird. I suppose it's not that weird. If I make a recording, I get more downloads.

When I make a new recording, and it's not really that that kind of, it's really not difficult to work it out, is it? It's not the world's most difficult puzzle to figure out. But I don't know. I just, sometimes I think, not very often, but sometimes I use my brain.

Sometimes I think, what about all the other thousands of recordings I've done? Doesn't anyone want to listen to them? Does it? It's not, I mean, okay, it's not up to date information, but this isn't, there's not really, there can't be a lot of difference between this and listening to a recording I did three years ago, really. I mean, maybe I'm not, I'm not selling it, am I?

Don't listen to me now. Listen to the old stuff.

It was better. Hmm. Maybe it was, I don't know.

I was, yeah, I was watching TV yesterday. I said, well, I was listening to it on a radio. But, you know, listened to quite a bit of what was going on in the political landscape.

So that was interesting to hear what was going on there. And it's, it's kind of strange how social media has, I'm not, I'm not saying they've only just started doing it, but they're doing that thing that tabloid press used to do. Well, still probably does do, where they focus on one thing and really, I'm trying to think the way to word it.

They go the dumb route. They go the really dumb down route. And I don't know, start accusing people of being certain ways, and this is this and there, just because of one thing they did.

And they'd, I'm just amazed at, and I did, part of the reason I got rid of Facebook today, because I just did my head in a bit. There's so much stuff on there. But it's just, you know what I mean? It's just like, I mean, I could literally show someone a piece of paper, just a blank piece of paper, paper, and say, do you, what can you see?

Squint your eyes and what can you see? Yeah.

It took me 10 seconds to figure it out. That could be the title. Just a blank piece of paper.

And you get some people saying, which is the blank piece of paper. And other people were saying, it's Hitler. It's Hitler.

I was like, what? It looks like a dandelion to me. Is it an electric car? And you get all these different, and then the conversation and just, it's like, it is just a blank piece of paper. I don't know why I'm saying paper like that.

Paper. It's my new way of saying paper. Do you think, do you think it'll catch on? Paper.

Imagine if you find yourself saying paper, whenever you say paper. Paper. So yeah.

I mean, it's just a well-known psychological thing. I forget what they call it, but you know, you've got, you can have five people all see the same incident and get five different versions of what happened, which is just amazing. I mean, you might, even those that kind of say, well, yeah, this happened, but one might say, yeah, but, or even identification.

One was wearing trainers, but it was, or one was wearing a hat. It was a green hat. No, it was a blue hat.

It was a red hat. Well, I think they all, they were wearing a scarf and it was purple. They were still wearing a hat.

Oh yeah. They were carrying some bananas. What's that got to do with anything? You didn't mention they were carrying a fruit, did you? Well, excuse me.

I think you'll find it was apples. So yeah, it's just people, it's like they don't, they see or experience, we all experience the world so differently. It's kind of amazing, really.

It's amazing that we ever, as a human race evolved, I think. It really is. It's phenomenal that we ever managed to sort of progress to the point where we are, considering how different people are.

Although then you've got these little groups of people that are all trying to be the same as each other. And I noticed that in certain parts of this country, even if you might go to a little town, and an example of this is, I remember I met, you might meet someone and think, wow, everything they're saying is funny. I've never heard anyone speak like that before.

And they've got these funny sayings and they're, these mannerisms, it's like, you know, you really like him because it's unique and quirky. And then they take you back to where they came from, not where the town that they live, or that they grew up in. And you go and meet their parents, and maybe you meet their friends, you go out to the pub, you know, you meet their people.

And they've all got the same mannerisms, and they're all saying the same things. And you realize that a person is not quite, the personality is not quite as unique as perhaps you first thought. I do wonder, I wonder maybe is being an individual is, is kind of frowned upon, I think, sometimes in, in this society.

My friend used to say it all the time, I want to be an individual, just like all my friends. I want to be an individual. And all I wanted to do is fit in.

But I never could. I tried, but I never could. I wanted to so badly, for a while, until I didn't care anymore.

And I didn't have that, I didn't have the ability. To be fair, I think it might be because I moved around too much. That might be one of the reasons.

If I had just, let's say, for example, if I'd have stayed in Newcastle, and from the ages of, I don't know, three years old, two and a half years old, whatever. All the way up to my age now. So all those, yeah, all those 20 plus years, whatever.

Perhaps I would have had that same, because people do have like a quirk in this, from their kind of area, they can't, there's that quirk, it's still quirk, you know, also people got their own personalities, obviously, as well. I'm not saying they haven't, but there's definitely a kind of an overlap between people sometimes. And, you know, you go to certain places now, they keep, they say, you know what I mean, you know what I mean, innit.

And other people go, other sayings or whatever. You're right lad, alright lad, yeah lad, like, eeyup, eeyup duck. You're making some weird noises today Vinnie.

Yes you are. I never fitted in. I remember once, I actually, it's not a good idea to do this when you're at school.

It wasn't, before I go any further, it wasn't anything strange. It was strange, but it wasn't, it wasn't expellable, you know. It was, I had a thing where I could never figure out if people liked me.

I still don't know, to be honest. And I thought, you know what, the best way is just to ask people. Because I couldn't tell, couldn't tell.

The only way I can tell, okay, well, I can tell if a woman likes me, there's two ways. She's basically got to tell me, or show me. You know, I'm not very good at reading between the lines.

And I asked this kid, his name was Jason actually. I remember his surname as well, I won't say it. But his dad was one of the, he was one of the sergeants in the sea cadets.

I don't know if sergeants was the right word. What were they called? He was one of the people in charge anyway. One of the, one of the drill sergeants that used to shower us.

And I remember saying to him, probably around that time, age 12, 11, 12, 15, I don't know. I said, do you like me? And he said, did you say, do I love you? The weird thing is, the volume that I spoke to him, compared to the volume that he responded in, was very different. Mine was very low volume, his was very loud volume.

Did you ask me if I love you? And it was in slow motion for some reason. It's very loud. He had a speaker, a lot of loud speaker things.

And it's only then that I realised that it was actually, it was the whole town was all crowded around us listening and laughing. And I said, no, I didn't say, do you love me? I said, do you love me? He said, well, I said, do you like me? He said, you said, do you love me? No, I said, do you like me? And he just like walked away.

Very confused.

From what I heard, he's still walking. He hasn't stopped walking. He's now in the eye, in the Atlantic and Atlantic, Atlantic, Antarctic, Atlantic, East.

Yeah. How far would you get? 40 years of walking, 42 years, let's say 41 years of walking. How far would you get? How far, let's say, well, this is a how far would 40, let's say 40 years, 40 years of walking get you? How far? Okay, for some reason, the internet doesn't seem to have this.

Walking for health, the NHS. Why? Every one mile walk time by age, what to expect? Well, let's have a look at this. What does this mean? Discover how age affects your walking speed.

Learn the average one mile walk in time by age. So this is the great great list.com. In 2017, British Olympian Tom Bosworth broke a world record when he race walked one mile in a speedy five minutes and 31 seconds. Amazing, right? As you might imagine, Olympic racewalkers move much faster than most people.

Really? I'm learning something new today. So when schlepping, schlepping, what does that mean? From say your apartment to your local coffee shop. I have never schlepped, schlepped.

I sleep every day, but schlepped. I've never called walking schlepping. So from your apartment to your local coffee shop, how fast do you walk in? Adults walk an average speed of about three miles per hour.

Though this varies widely, which equates roughly to about one mile every 20 minutes. Really? Wow, I'm glad they gave us that. Even I can work out what three 20s are.

Oh, blimey. This figure varies based on a few factors, including age. Younger people tend to walk faster than older people.

Wow. Sex. Men tend to walk slightly faster than women.

We do have more comfy shoes. Possibly, sometimes, occasionally, maybe. Sexist.

Overall health, genetics, diet and medical conditions influence your speed. Okay, here's one. Ward didn't know this one.

Body size. Factors like limb length and body mass index affect your pace. Well, limb length, obviously.

My friend downstairs, he'd walk twice the speed that I walked. And fitness levels, and he was tall running. Fitness level, when you exercise more, a faster walking speed may follow.

So when you get fitter, you might be fitter. Oh, I didn't know that. Exercise creates increased fitness.

In fact, if you exercise more, your fitness levels increase. Oh, no. All these years I've been doing it wrong.

I thought burgers and ice cream was the way. Now, here are the deets on how fast a person moves their feet. Deets, what's that supposed to mean? So they're using things like schlepping and deets.

What does deets mean? Is that supposed to be details? Short for details? Are they trying to be groovy? This is a groovy type try. Is this a groovy way of talking? schlepping and deets. I need to research that.

I don't know what I mean. I kind of figure it must be mean for details. But let's have a look.

Okay. More actions. Let's see.

Translate selection to English. So read from this search the web for deets. What is deets mean? Details.

Isn't that isn't that what I said? Did I say details? It's an informal. Yeah, example, stay tuned for more deets. I've never ever heard that before.

I don't think it's the first time. But now I'm never gonna forget it. Should we look up the other word schlepping? I mean, clearly, it's another word for walking.

Walking very slowly, maybe. Should we look that one up? Let's look that one up. Come on.

It's all about learning new things, isn't it? That's what this podcast is all about. Education. Ask copilot.

Okay, schlepping. Slepping are schlepping. This is the copilot says it's a Yiddish term that means carrying or lugging something.

Often something heavy or cumbersome. You might use it as a sentence like, I've been schlepping these groceries up the hill all day. It's a colourful way to describe the sometimes burdensome act of moving things from one place to another.

Where did you come across this word? It's got quite a distinctive flair to it. So yeah. So what are you carrying from your apartment to your local coffee shop? Is that implying that you're basically carrying yourself? I think it might do.

I think it's a little bit rude. So there we go. What's my age again? What's my age again? Every speed by the numbers.

So there's a list here. Here's what walking speed looks like on average for adults. According to research from 2011.

Age 20 to 29 is 3 to 3.4 miles per hour. 30 to 39 3 to 3.2 miles per hour. 40 to 49 3 to 3.1 to 3.2 miles per hour.

50 to 59 2.9 to 3.2 miles per hour. 60 to 69 lucky for some. 2.8 to 3 miles per hour.

70 to 79 2.5 to 2.8 miles per hour. 80 to 89. OK.

They don't have any. No one walks at 80. It's 2.1 to 2.17 miles per hour.

90 to 99. One mile a day. So, oh, OK.

Miles per hour. So on my category is 50 to 59. I can't believe it.

Age 3.2 miles an hour. See, that doesn't make sense. Explain this to me.

Why am I doing more miles an hour than I did between 20 and 29? That doesn't make sense. So I'm doing more than I did when I was 30 to 39. It does not make sense to me.

So I'm now doing 50 to 59 3.2. So I'm doing more miles an hour than I did my whole life. Any other time in my life. Which is not true.

At all. It does not make sense. So what's a brisk walk? You've probably heard the word, the term brisk walking before.

It's a more athletic type of walking than, say, strolling with Fluffy as she picks a favourite hydrant. Why do you assume that every dog's called Fluffy? They're not all called Fluffy. Who's writing this? What's the name of the person who wrote this? What's a brisk walk? You should get at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical exercise like brisk walking each week.

Good news, you don't have to run marathons to be fit. Well, that is kind of good, isn't it really? Who wrote this? I want to see who wrote it because I'm annoyed. Who wrote this? Who wrote this rubbish? Who wrote it? It's very good, but who wrote it? Why does my sight hurt when I run? Because you're unfit.

That's why. And so who wrote? Okay, the name of the person must be at the top. No, that's very, oh, it is medically reviewed by Daniel Bubness, MS, written by Alyssa Hullett.

So, written by Alyssa Hullett. Alyssa Hullett is a writer with work in outlets like Healthline, Greatest, and Seattle Times. Her current work evolves around themes of health, science, art, and community.

Greatest editorial guidelines. Stumbling upon health and wellness tips is easy. It's nonstop, everywhere.

But knowing that you found vetted, trustworthy, and relevant information. There's a question mark there. I wonder what it is, but it's like, but knowing that you found vetted, trustworthy, and relevant information.

Why is there a question mark there? Absolute work. Greatest is here to make the journey easier. I don't know if that works in a sentence, that question mark.

I'm not sure. We're distilling health information into stories that make sense. You don't have to stutter when you say these.

I have a little bit of stutter sometimes. So you can focus on feeling your best as yourself. I'm not a very good reader.

I can, I'm a good reader and I can read. I can, honest. But sometimes when I read things out, out, out loud, I stutter a little bit.

And sometimes when I say things out loud, I stutter a bit. It's almost that when I'm actually focusing on what I'm saying, it becomes a little bit harder to say it than when I'm just shooting the breeze, as it were. What a strange, strange dilemma.

Do you like me? What? Do I love you? That was embarrassing. Seriously, very embarrassing. I never known though, never, never knew, never could tell.

There's, I don't, my brain just doesn't work that way. I mean, I assumed my Nan loved me, but I didn't. I don't know.

It's weird. It's just, I think I said to my Nan that I loved her once and she said, I love you back. Once, the whole time I knew her.

Because it wasn't needed to be said. It wasn't necessary. It's one of those, like, she's my Nan.

Her job is to love me. And as a grandson, my job is to love her. There's no, but then the thing is I like spending time with her.

She was my favorite person. So, yeah. And the only time she ever really said anything, but it wasn't, I mean, publicly, she's always nice, always happy to see me.

And there was, when she broke her hip the first time, I came down from London and she was in a convalescent home. So they would just, yeah, she'd been to hospital and I didn't find out until probably two weeks after she'd actually done it or a week after. Just, there was a lack of communication.

And I, yeah, I think the telephone number my dad had was, he, yeah, he phoned the place I used to live and I've been kicked out of there. So I was kind of a bit muddled about where I was living at that time. So he couldn't get hold of me and stuff anyway.

And when I, when I came down, it was weird, I tell you, because that's happened twice with my Nan. The same thing happened twice. So I go to work.

So I find out on a Sunday night. I go to work Monday. And was it a Sunday night? It might have been a, might have been a Tuesday night or a Wednesday night.

I don't know exactly, but it was a nighttime and I got a phone call. I was like, or I might have just called my dad just to see how he is or whatever. And he told me that my Nan would, was in the convalescent home after having, you know, what happened.

And I was a little bit in shock to be honest. And I went to work the next day with every intention of heading up that weekend, like in a couple of days time. So maybe yeah, three days time or whatever.

And I go to work and I broke down. I started crying, not in front of everyone. I think I might have to walk out crying.

I went downstairs into the toilet and had a good cry and I couldn't work. I couldn't be there. I said, I've got to leave.

I've got to go and see my Nanny, my Nanny Newland. No, my Nanny New Land. And they said, it's fine.

It wouldn't make no difference. I didn't ask them. I just said, I've got to go.

It wasn't like I asked permission. And I never went back. I never go back to that job.

I might have gone back to the job. And then the next week, I, I can't remember. My memory is that I went down, I stayed with my Dad, visited my Nan a couple of times while I was down there.

It was kind of the week, the week leading to the weekend. So I stayed over there. I probably went on a Thursday, came back.

I was going to come back on the, I was going to come back. Well, I didn't know when I was going to come back to be fair. And I remember asking my friend, because I was supposed to be looking after the disco at the comedy club at the weekend.

So I couldn't do that either. And he, yeah, so I had this job. This was any, this was mobile phone contracts.

That was what I was selling or get trying to get people to buy. It's in Romford. Anyway, so I've been there.

I've been doing that job for about three months, probably. And I can't remember if it was the actual week or the following week. I think it must have been that week because I wouldn't have had any other time off.

So that would have been I decided, I think I know what it is. I was there. So I think it was probably, it might have been the Thursday night that I got the phone call or that I spoke to my dad.

So I went to work on the Friday or was it the Wednesday night? But it was something, it wasn't a long time before the weekend. I think it was a Wednesday night. Went in on Thursday.

I had to go back. I had to come and see my nan on the Thursday, on the Friday. I stayed the weekend.

And no, on the Friday, I was coming back. Was it coming back? Or was it the Monday? Whatever day it was, it was definitely a working day. It was either a Friday or a Monday.

Because I'm walking back from the bus stop to try to get the train back to London. And I walked past this agency, like an employment agency. And there's this, and I'm just looking, I'm always like looking around, see what jobs are about and that.

But it just caught my eye. And it was an insurance company looking for people, for sales people, like telesales, with a, with a, an actual salary. I was getting a salary.

But it wasn't getting like a lot of money. I don't think I was getting more. Yeah, I can't remember what I was getting.

Couple of hundred a week, probably. It wasn't a lot. And the basic, I mean, I was getting money on top with the bonus.

But then this job was offering I think 12 grand as a basic salary. And I thought, okay, that's not bad. Plus a bonus.

I've got experience now, doing sales and stuff. And I just went in there. All I went in there for, I was not dressed for the occasion either.

I just went in there. I had a little bag with me, a little handbag, a purse and stuff. You know, because I was traveling home.

I don't think I had my sleeping bag on me, unless I was wearing it. Anyway, I just walked in and said, hello. She said, hi.

And I said, how are you today? She said, what? I said, how are you doing today? So why are you talking like that? She asked me, why are you talking like that, sir? I said, well, I thought I'd just say today as many times as I can before you start saying today. How am I today? How are you today? How can I help you today? Is there anything I can do to help you today?

And she said, yeah, that is what I was going to say. I said, you don't need to say the word today after every sentence today.

She said, what do you mean today? See, she couldn't stop herself. It's weird. It's one of those things.

How are you today? What, you don't care how I was yesterday? Only about today. If you're going to be that specific, just say, how are you now? How are you this very minute? Okay, about in 10 minutes or a minute ago, just now, how are you right this second? And they don't want the answer. You know, if you go into a shop, how are you today? They're not willing to listen.

They've got no intention of just sitting and listening for an hour. They really don't. I do not believe they're genuinely interested in how I am or how my day is.

That's just a guess. Anyway, I went in with an attitude. More London, more East London attitude.

And I said, oh, hello. Excuse me. I like to put on my, that's my normal voice.

This is how I talk normally. This other voice that I put on, you know, it's hard to do sometimes. Once I start talking normally, I forget how I do with the pretend voice.

This is my normal voice, ladies and gentlemen. So I said, oh, hello. And she said, how are you today? How can I help you today? What can I help you with today? And I said, stop saying today.

And she laughed. And I said, I see that thing in your window. She said, what is it? I said, it's a job.

It's a job description of a job. She said, well, no, it is. Everything in the window is a job description.

We're a job agency, an employment agency. And I said, why? Why? Why? Just give me a break, man. It's been a tough couple of days.

And she said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. I put on the wrong shoes today.

I said, what do you mean? She said, I'm just wearing, to look at them. And I looked down at her shoes and I said, but they look comfortable. She said, yeah, that's the problem.

I'm not used to wearing comfortable shoes. I'm not used to being relaxed. I don't know.

I'm used to sitting behind the, you know, with these tight things that are squashing my toes together and blisters on my heels. And I haven't got any of that. And it's just, it's really thrown me off today.

Okay. And I said, well, anyway, I'm just here to, I don't, I don't want to do anything. I'm just interested in what company it is.

And she said, oh, let me have a look. She didn't speak like that. Oh, I'll have a quick look.

I'm ever so excited. So she said, oh yeah, it's insurance, an insurance company. I said, okay.

I said, and she, she got very excited. She said, you know, they're really looking for people and they're increasing their sales force and they need people ready to start kind of straight away if, if possible. And I said, really? She said, yeah.

I said, okay. And no, this is on a Thursday. That's right.

So I went, this is a Thursday. Blimey. Yeah.

So this happened really quickly. This is, or is it the Monday, Tuesday? Anyway, I went to the interview and basically I started the following Monday, which was something like the 21st of September, 21st of September. Let's go back.

What year? Yeah. If I go to the year, does it allow me to go to years? Wow. Vinegar started barking.

So I had to, I looked on my video during camera, no one at the door. I mean, normally it'd flash up anyway to let me know someone's at the door, but there was nothing there. Sometimes it's a little bit slow, like a couple of seconds or whatever.

I let him out. He runs to the door. As soon as he sees there's no one there, well, he can sniff, can't he? He knows there's no one there.

He comes in and he's fine. I don't know what it was that triggered him to be barking. It's strange.

I don't know why I was thinking about that job because the same thing happened twice before, like twice with my Nan. So it happened where she broke her hip the first time and I went to work and I had to leave. The second time I was in my third insurance company job and it was, no, I was actually at work when I got a text message from my dad telling me that my Nan was in hospital for something different, but this was a lot later.

This was like, blimey, yeah, 2013 probably, early 2013. And I see I had a text or missed call or something. So I went into the toilet and just had a look.

You're not allowed to sort of use the phones on the dance floor as it were. So I called my dad. Did I call him? No, I just looked at the text and that was it.

I went back to work. I sat there and I just couldn't do anything. So I had to leave.

Again, it wasn't like, can I leave? It's like, I'm going, got to go, sorry. And that was a weird one because I should have called my dad because then I would have known where she was. Because I was, the text said she's been taken to hospital.

She wasn't in hospital. She was in a different hospital, not the one that I thought she was at. She was at a specialist place for like elderly people.

She wasn't in, no, wait a minute. No, she was, but it wasn't, no, she was in hospital, but it was a different hospital. I don't know why, but she wasn't in the main hospital that I would, which is in a different town to where I live.

So anyway, I got a train there. She wasn't anywhere to be seen. And so I phoned up my dad and he told me where she was.

No, I think the hospital told me where she was. So I traveled up there, got a train, got a bus, got a taxi. Honestly, it was just hard work to get there.

It was in the middle of nowhere, very strange. And she was there for a little while actually. She convalesced there and she did kind of recover-ish, kind of, because I remember I went up there, my dad gave me a lift up there to see her.

But that was like a six hour adventure just to see her. And I get there, my aunt's there already. So I go, I sit down, my nan's really happy to see me and stuff.

And I can't have been sitting down more than like five or six minutes. I'm not even exaggerating on this one. And you might think, well, five or six minutes is not a long time.

No, what I mean is, I'm not, yeah, I'm not unexaggerating. So when I say five or six minutes, I don't mean I was there for 20 minutes. Is that unexaggerating? Still exaggeration, isn't it? If you decrease it, if you over-decrease it rather than over-increase it, or under-increase it.

I think being super unintelligent is a really a gift sometimes. So I'm sitting there, my aunt's there. I'm talking, I'm so like briefly, hello, are you all right? But I'm there to see my nan.

She's, she's not doing well, to be honest. She wasn't doing well. She was on oxygen, I think.

And one of the nurses came and says, oh, visiting time's up. And I look at her like, I've literally just got here. I spent four hours getting here.

That's how long it took. Because I kept going to the wrong places. I waited for about an hour for a bus.

And then the bus didn't take me where I wanted to, needed to go, so I had to get a taxi. And I was like, yeah, so it was a big old effort to get there. Not that I was, that was an issue, just I didn't want to sort of leave after six minutes.

Okay, maybe six and a half minutes. And my aunt said, it's time to go. It was just the wrong thing to say to me on that day.

And I said, well, you do what you want. I'm staying. And she left.

And I stayed for a little bit. I knew I couldn't stay for a long time, but I just, I want to spend some time with her. Luckily, I managed to get home.

Because I caught the, it was the last, the very last bus going where we were going. I mean, really, to this day, I still don't know where it was. Really out of the way, like in the countryside.

And that was a bit strange, being told, we've got to go. Something changed in my brain. It's a weird, weird experience.

And there was, I couldn't just leave her, you know, six minutes, come on. There's something really, I didn't, I didn't leave, I stayed for another two and a half minutes. Just to prove my point.

One of the really nice things is when she, when she broke her hip the first time, it's quite weird to start that with one of the good things. One of the really nice things about when, it's not about when she did it, but because there's nothing nice about that, but I should have reworded it, shouldn't I? Basically, what I'm trying, I'm trying to say is when I went to see her, and I'm walking towards her, she can see me.

So it's like she's in this bit of the doorway.

Ironically, she was in the bed next to one of my friend's mum, who I used to live with years ago. It's really strange. And her kids were there.

And it was just really weird that they just happened to be in the same sort of little ward together. And my nan shouted out to all the nurses, look it's my favourite nephew. Or was it niece? One of them.

But she said definitely favourite. I heard the word favourite. Or was it sandwich? Because there was a trolley.

Might have been cake. Because there was a trolley with some cakes and sandwiches on there. So maybe it wasn't me she was looking at.

But I think it was. So that's my favourite nephew or niece. Because she was very open minded back then.

She wasn't sure. She'd never seen me. No, she had seen me with someone once.

I don't mean seen me with them. But she'd met one of my girlfriends. I think she had.

She must have done. I wouldn't have gone. Yeah, I wouldn't have not visited her with her.

Of course she did. Oh, the reason I remember, I just remembered this girlfriend, I visited my nan with her. And just to prove that, you know, I had girlfriends.

And she, it turned out that that particular girlfriend, her, she lived in the same town that my granddad used to be stationed when he was in the army. So there was that kind of coincidence kind of thing. Yeah.

Weird, I completely forgot. I completely forgot that. That was a whole, that was a whole weekend.

I don't keep repeating myself today. I'm a little bit stuttery for some reason. I think I'm hungry.

I think I am hungry. Very, very hungry. Yeah, that's a whole different weekend.

That was a good weekend. Probably one of my better, better romantic weekends away. And I stayed with my dad, stayed in his caravan, which was on his driveway.

My stomach's right. Did you hear that? Feed me, feed me. And that was the first time ever that I'd taken a girlfriend home, walk home, took a girlfriend back to where I used to live and took it and took a girlfriend to my dad's.

Never done that before. Apart from when there was that short time when I lived with my dad for a little while in 1990. And I had a girlfriend, so we did meet her.

But yeah, the next time was 1996. In the summer, then the next time he saw one of my girlfriends was in 2006. Around about the kind of Christmasy time.

And that was it. So he's seen, so now we're 2000 and that's nearly 20 years ago. So blimey.

It's over a 40 year period. No, one, 10, 20, 30 year period. A 40 year period.

He's seen three of my girlfriends. Why say four, 50, 54 year period, because I didn't really have any girlfriends at school. No, he hasn't seen any other and I've not, he hasn't met any of the others.

I haven't had loads, but yeah, I can't even remember the last time I had a girlfriend, like an actual girlfriend, like, you know, regular meeting up at least. It's got to be at least three times, isn't it, to be a girlfriend? Hasn't it? It's got to at least see them at least twice. And the last time I was, it was 2000 and 2011, 2012.

Yeah, 2012. That's the last time I had any kind of regular female companionship, going out and doing stuff. 2012.

That's 12 years ago, 13 years ago now. Wow. It's a little while, isn't it? It's a little while.

So, as soon as I, as soon as I say so, then he knows. So I'm going to, I need to record him one day and just see what he does when I say the end bit of the recording. I'll do it and see if he jumps up.

So thank you for listening. And remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself. Lots of love.

Bye. Yep, straight away he gets up. He knows, but as soon as he hears me say bye, he knows.

And he's up, looking around. Weird. See ya.

Why do you notice that every time, then, your tail's wiggly? Why is your tail wiggly? You little wiggly, wobbly, wiggly, wobbly tail.