(no music) Vinnie woke me up | LMBYTS #1421 | Jason Newland | 24th August 2025

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Yes, it is. We're Finny in the background, crunching away on I'm not even gonna tell you what it is. It's a it's a dog treat, which is really great.

But he loves it. So hey, so he's crunching on that. And he's just woken me up.

I don't know why he woke me up so early. My jaw did. Okay, I had an early night so so I've been in bed for seven hours.

What was it Saturday night last night? Or Friday? Saturday? Yeah. Didn't really accomplish much yesterday. If I'm honest.

Didn't get a lot done. Didn't try and get a lot done. I'm trying to think of any dreams that I had during the night.

I can't think of anything. What did I dream about? Did I dream about? Did I? Did I dream about anything at all? I can't remember. I don't know why Finny is so wide awake.

I don't get it. Anyway, yeah, so that's it really. What did I do yesterday? I got up.

I got up in the morning. Ooh, I brushed my teeth. Ooh, ooh.

I did a wee wee. Ooh. And I'm trying to think of something that rhymes with teeth.

Hmm, I'm not sure. Yeah, heath, peath, leaf. Oh, I went.

I got up in the morning. Brushed my teeth. Then went to the toilet and wiped with a leaf.

Yeah, it's growing, isn't it? I'm going to be the new Ed Sheeran. Yes. I've got a theory.

Ed Sheeran is still going to be around in 20 years time. And it's still going to be popular. And he'll be using whatever new advanced technology there is.

Do you know? Because I'm guessing the Internet's not going to be. It might not even be used anymore in 20 years time. There'll be something else.

I don't know what else or a new version of the Internet. But there'll be something else. What I want to find out is, isn't my thing glasses, you know, glasses, spectacles, reading glasses, whatever you want to call them.

Now, surely with the technology of today, and I've got lenses that can do weird things. I'd have thought that it would be much easier to not easier, but something that would possible to create glasses where the lenses adapt to the eyes. So do whatever the eye needs or requires in that moment.

So if you need to be able to read small print, it magnifies the print bigger. The same you do, you know, with the phone, if you're looking at a picture, you stretch it out. So it's a bit bigger, so you can see it now.

Or, you know, even on the iPad or whatever. So I would have thought that because at the moment my glasses, I need to get to the opticians because my eyesight is, it's probably, yeah, what I require is different to what I'm getting lens wise. And the other day, I was waiting for buses.

I wasn't waiting for buses, I was waiting for one bus. Just one bus, I didn't need lots of buses, just one. There's only one of me, you know, don't, don't need like one bus behind another bus, you know, like a little hammock between the two, between the back end and the front, the other one, and me laying in the hammock.

I don't need two taking me, just one, one bus. But quite a few buses turned up that weren't the bus I wanted. And I couldn't see the numbers at a bus.

There was a number on it, but it was, they were so, they weren't lit, they weren't kind of in, um, yeah, some buses have the number in lights, and you can, it's easier to see, even from a distance, you can kind of see, okay, as it gets closer, it's the, it's the juicy JJ bus. But I saw about four, four, four or, or five different buses, and I stopped at least one of them, and I said, oh, I had to pretend to think, like, do you, do you go to, do you go to my house?

And I said, no. And I'm like, okay.

Even though I knew it didn't, but I was a little bit, you know, embarrassed, because I just stopped it. A few months ago, I tried to stop the school bus. I didn't know, I was just waiting to try and get home.

And it was a school bus, not like one of the little buses with school thing, trips and stuff, but like a big bus. Actually, it was a coach, it did say school on the front of it. But I couldn't, I didn't see that until it got really close to me.

And I was already waving my hands. So it'd be handy if I could just, just by trying to see the number on the bus, that my magnification on my lenses would become higher. And I could, you know, a bit like the $6 million man, where he had one of his, he had a bionic eye, and he could see really long distances with it.

I'm not sure if he used to, I'm sure he used to like, put his hand to his temple when he used to do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do that or something. Was that the right tune? I'm sure it was like, did he did he did he did he did he did he did he did he do that whenever he did his bionicness.

And that would be quite handy to have.

I don't want a bionic eye. I'm not saying that. But it'd be handy to have glasses that would just magnify when I needed them to.

Yeah. Or become dark when I needed them to. So as in sunshade.

Perhaps become a different color when I needed them to. I mean, even just having one of the lenses, a bit like being a bionic man, just like my right eye, this for example, where I could just tap the side of the glasses, and it magnified times two. Just one tap magnifies times two, next magnifying times three, just enough so I can see the number of the bus at the correct time so I don't have to stop it.

If it's not the one I want. Giving me time to stop it if it is the one I want. If it's the one that I want, one that I want for.

The bus, the one that the bus that I want, bus that I want for. Yeah. That would be handy though.

The same with hearing aids, I'm pretty sure, never had a hearing aid. As far as I know, you can control the, I was going to say temperature, the volume. So I don't know if it's still the same, but I've known a few people over the years that would turn a hearing aid down.

If there was a party or family gathering, it's just so they didn't have to hear everyone screaming and shouting and whatever. And I thought how, how cool would that be if we had that ability to be able to just do that with our ears. Make things louder when we wanted them to be.

So let's say there's something we're trying to listen to. Maybe a neighbor's conversation. I don't know, just, you know, you just want to hear something.

Or maybe you want to watch a movie, but it's quite late at night. So you don't have the TV up too loud. So yeah, just turn the volume on your ear up a little bit so you can hear a bit more.

And then when you're being told off, you can just turn the volume down. So you're not hearing it. Maybe when you're with someone that talks a lot, like me.

Turn the volume down. I've known people who do that, and they clearly do it on purpose, just so they don't have to hear all the waffle and blah, blah, all that stuff. Maybe on a Christmas morning and I just, you know, turn it down.

But I think they forget they've turned it down. It's only when people are shouting at them. Dad! Dad! Grandad! Dad! What? What? Oh, and then they go and start moving their ear.

Ear thingy, phone, earphones. Hearing aid, that's it. Although they now make these hearing aids where you can, just these things that, like those aerials that are sticking out of your ear, like little things.

So I'm not quite sure how that works. Luckily, because I was, I was, well, I probably would have ended up with a hearing aid if it hadn't been for having my adenoids out, because I was partially deaf in one ear. When I was about seven, eight years old.

Had the operation when I was about eight, yeah, about eight. But yeah, I could have ended up with a hearing aid. Vinnie's acting really weird today.

Right from getting up, he's acted weird. I'm not sure what it is. There's something.

I don't know what, but there's something. And I think I know what it is now, because his mummy, it's a neighbour that he used to live with. She's going on a holiday, and I think she might be getting ready that he can hear her.

Because she'd be walking through the garden to get into the car. So I'm thinking he could probably hear a little bit of activity there. He's always listening out for her.

He absolutely worships her, seriously. He's, if only I had that kind of love from him. So it's weird.

I mean, she sold him to me. But he still adores her. There's no one more in the world that he'd rather be with than her, I don't think.

I mean, maybe he'd want to be with me, after nearly three years of living with me. But that might go the other way. Maybe after three years, he'd just be happy to live anywhere else.

He's staring at me now. What are you doing? He's a good boy. He's got a habit of like gulping down stuff though.

So yeah, it's Sunday today. I'm just gonna, I don't know, I don't have any plans today. But there are a few things that I'm looking to maybe to try and do.

One of those things is, I need to start finding a way to promote in my podcast. If you're on Facebook, maybe, if you see the Facebook post of my new podcast, of my latest one, maybe you can share it on your Facebook group. That would be super groovy.

I just need to start reaching. God, it's noisy. I hope that's not too noisy for you all.

I can't help it. is just as I said that he's even more noisy you know some people are saying oh he's getting fat he's strong he's a strong little fella he's compact he's got a lot of muscles he ain't got no fat on him he's just strong you know he he has like three four well let's say three walks a day and you know we play fight and stuff like that and he's not fat his hips you know his hind legs it's a muscle but then he's getting out a lot

you know he's he's walking for that's like an hour and a half a day of walking around and get running and stuff and when we do walk he pulls on the lead you know he's a strong little thing for some reason and it'd be nice if he was just a little softy but he's not oh yesterday was annoying took him out very first person I see is a neighbor that I've not seen I say neighbor he lives around the corner but I've not seen him since December and I like the

bloke we get on well and I just wanted to have a chat with him Vinnie would not stop barking at his dog and we were trying to say hello to each other in the end we said sorry just catch up another time the only time I ever see him is when he's with his dog but Vinnie sometimes behaves a bit better than that he would not stop and this was about nine o'clock in the morning yesterday and I was so loud but I can't stop him he won't listen to me

and he's got certain dogs he just doesn't like he doesn't like that person's dog I don't know why there's no reason to it it's a lovely dog see what he does he's got a habit of barking at the wrong dogs dogs that are gentle but just bigger yeah there's a couple of I don't know what they are they're not St.

Bernard's they're huge anyway these dogs are huge bigger than me and they're so lovely honestly the gentlest dogs they're like bears but they're gentle really gentle Giants and there's two of them one's black one's brown and Vinnie cannot stop barking at them every single time now they laugh now because they know what he does and I just wave to them and they're okay with it now it was a little bit of like come on and the other I think a few weeks ago I was waiting for the bus to go

up to the hospital and I didn't have Vinnie with me and the bloke with the two massive dogs walks past and he comes over and I get to say hello to the dogs for the first time they're so friendly it's like Vinnie if anything Vinnie is getting in the way of me talking to people it should be the other way around you know walking talking to other dog walkers a bit of communication just a little bit of hello how are you could be nice but that's what it used to be

like when I first had him now there's less and less people with little dogs and even now he started barking at some small dogs sometimes so I'm literally walking around having to sort of keep to myself and keep him away from everyone which is not much fun really you know there was a time and I just like I'd walk up to people I wouldn't walk up to them but would if I was in that vicinity and like is it okay for him to say hello and he would and you know

generally was okay now I don't even bother because if I see someone new I just I don't bother because Vinnie's just he's a little bit antisocial he's still got his friends he likes who he likes but he doesn't seem to be particularly interested on meeting new people I can't really can't really judge him because that's a little bit like me but how can he be like me he's a dog how can he how can he yeah it wouldn't make sense unless it's just the fact that he's not around anyone he's

just with me pretty much the whole time so if he was around lots of different dogs perhaps it'd be a bit more friendly towards them maybe I suppose one of the things is if he goes up to a new dog and the new dog's snappy he because he's so little you know I have to think about his safety but at the same time he's also it's like scrappy-do it doesn't seem he's really I mean there's this lovely lady right locally and I said oh just he can be a little bit

weird she said it's okay my dog's really friendly I said no but my one is but she said anyway Vinnie was behaving so they went up to each other sniffed each other and then he snapped at the dog and growled and ever since then the woman's just ignored me okay fair enough but she was so friendly like okay I'll keep him away I won't let him go near the dog but so he just messed that up just a nice a nice person with a nice friendly dog and Vinnie had to

go be just I don't know if it's aggressive or just forceful trying to be in charge who knows he's yeah it's volatile Vinnie is volatile but not with humans absolutely loves humans just not particularly fond of other dogs apart from the ones he likes which is weird he used to be he used to get on with everybody every dog whether it was a big dog wherever whatever he would lay down on his back and be submissive stop doing that he stopped it if it's a dog you don't like he barks

at it he still does do the submissive thing occasionally with another dog but it's usually dogs that he knows and he still does that as also with some people humans occasionally but that's I think he just likes to get his chest rubbed he loves people absolutely loves people he's an enigma to me I don't I don't I don't get it no I don't get why he loves people although okay I don't get why he loves people but he how it can be one way and not the other how it can

be so much of so much excitement and happiness to meet a human but have hardly any of that to meet a dog mind you this is not always like that of all humans there's a there's a couple that walk a dog and I don't know who he's to be honest I'm not sure if it's the dog or the people that Vinnie's got an issue with you know it's yeah I think he might be a little bit concerned about all of them although I don't think he's a very good judge of

character to be honest with you I know some dodgy people that he absolutely adores so he hasn't got yeah he hasn't got any kind of sensible judgment he's just got a lot of love that's all he's got a lot of love ooh yes he have there's some boxing on right now as we speak and it's a Jake Paul it's most valuable MVP MVE most valuable product most valuable prospects something like that and so it's a Jake Paul show he's not on the show he's just it's his company and there are

I think there's two two main two big men's fights both fighting for the the interworld title so that's the interim world title so there's two fights and there's two female world title fights as well plus a few other fights that's a really good bill I don't know any of the people on the bill I don't know them but it's still a really good bill to have sort of such high-level kind of opponents on their fights on there because the thing is with Jake Paul you know and I know a lot

of people will moan him because he's ruining boxing and coming in as a youtuber pretending to be a boxer he's not a boxer he's a youtuber he's not a boxer what's he doing well he is a boxer he just happens to be two things I mean we had a boxer years ago who had he been around now or had the internet been around when he was around he would have been all over the internet because he was a professional model but he also fought for a world title and he was

very good I was more than good in fact he might have won a world title I'm not sure be and I fought Chris Eubank no he fought did he fight Chris Eubank or did he fight Kiyosaki I'm sure it was in the 90s so probably would have been Chris Eubank I think but yeah he was he was a model and a professional boxer some some boxers have more than one job especially when they start out but even when they're world champions so Terry Marsh was a firefighter and a world champion

boxer at lightweight I do believe so yeah so Jake Paul can be more than one thing anyway regardless of what anyone thinks about his his own fights and saying oh he's bad for boxing well I don't personally agree because I think it's it's fun it's a bit of fun watch out you don't watch it if you don't want it you don't watch it don't you know if you do do but what he is really good at two things he's really good at is promoting boxing to people that wouldn't perhaps be

wanting to watch boxing which would be his audience of millions and millions of young people who perhaps some perhaps wouldn't want to watch boxing but he's got them interested so he's been a great promoter for boxing and the second thing probably more important than that is he's the biggest promoter of female boxers he's not the biggest promoter but he's the one that's he's okay the biggest he's a big champion it champions female boxers and he's put on some really good fights with women and he's got things got quite a few

under him now that sounds wrong doesn't it be you know I mean and I don't know quite why but he's and I'm glad he has because for those that don't know it's one of those if you know you know women box women's boxing I believe will be more popular than men's boxing in future or at least we will have a female that's more popular than any other male boxer at some point and I think there's gonna be there's already one oh it's a name it's an Olympic gold medalist British and

she's I'd say she's better than anyone I've seen there's something about her I know Katie Taylor was phenomenal and the Katie Taylor's generation they really went they they grew the female boxing world between her and quite a few boxers around the world in fact America from different places they built up the female boxers and what's her name who fought Katie Taylor Serrano yeah so people like her that just built it up and she was like the Mayweather almost of boxing having held world title really Vinnie and I know some people

are gonna be like oh I can't listen to this with that noise in the background I didn't even know I stopped noticing it until just then when it was really loud very noisy eater and but what he's done is yeah what is my prediction I'm thinking potentially you're gonna have three three types of boxers in the female world of boxing who are gonna be probably world champions maybe not all world champions but really really really popular really popular okay so is my prediction that the men's boxing will just carry on

as normal and they'll be great boxes and you know just this that's always has been and but I think the focus will be the focus on female boxers will increase at the moment I don't I found the excitement's gone a little bit then you got people like Dubois who's a world champion female boxer she's really good and yes if there's a few that are around but I've got this prediction in the future it could be the next few years could be it could be already here but I don't know about

them you're gonna get a Clarissa Shields is another one and again she's she won the Olympic gold twice and multiple world championships and she's unbeaten I mean to me she is the top of the pile in a sense of what she's accomplished but for some reason she seems to be pushed out of the really big fights the Katie Taylor Serrano those kinds of fights where they're earning huge money and they're being there on like Netflix and the zone and you know like really really publicized and Clarissa Shields I don't I

can't remember when last time she had a fight that was pushed in this country anyway that it was publicized in like a big way I'm not sure why that is maybe just a promotion company or the management maybe they're difficult to deal with I don't know I'm not sure my thought Clarissa Shields and Katie Taylor needed to get it on and Katie Taylor I would say that she should just put a bit of just let herself get a little bit heavier which I'm sure she's probably walking around a heavier weight

anyway which are most people do with inboxing and to go from middleweight or whatever is to heavyweight it's not a lot there's not a lot of weight difference and fight for the world heavyweight title against Clarissa Shields who's currently got it and that would be a good fight in fact that would be a really that would be something I'd look forward to watching because I like both those fighters but I've watched I followed Clarissa Shields for years I don't know she's a special fighter so I'd like to see them too

I mean in a way Clarissa Shields has she kind of fits one of these categories but I'm gonna here's what I think is gonna happen in the next few years we've met three type of female boxers there's gonna be an absolute okay I don't know how to word this properly but there's gonna be an absolute monster and I don't mean that in a bad way but but someone that's just like a Butterbean or Jharrel Miller type or just someone that's just heavyweight I imagine just thinking but just someone's absolutely just

really knocking everyone out because they're so ferocious and maybe just really big as well because you know in the heavyweights some of the men are just so big so that's what I'm thinking there's gonna be like a female Mike Tyson like aggressive wise and there's gonna grab the attention of not just the boxing world but you know the newspapers will love it then I think they'll possibly be a superstar based on skills which I'm thinking we might already have but based on skill it's like a Mayweather Sugar Ray Leonard type

where they're almost perfection I'm trying to think we've got a few now in the male division like Usyk or I suppose Canelo someone that's just really brilliant at everything but way better than everyone else which Leonard was pretty much wasn't he kind of and Mayweather they just had the skills that just made other boxes not not look as good as they really are and then lastly but not leastly because this one's gonna be the most famous and the richest of all the female boxers and I suppose really the only equivalent

I'm going to give is Pamela Anderson so someone that or Marilyn Monroe really Vinnie thanks I'm trying to think who's there is there females that just don't I'm not really on the pulse of society and news and stuff and in this country the people that seem to get the most press still seems to be the Beckhams and the Roar family but as far as females go males I don't really know who's the popular people but there'll be a boxer that comes along there will be I want to say Pamela Anderson

I don't mean like physically just just someone that will just people will like I don't know people just fall in love with kind of like something about her that this happened isn't it happens with actors as well if George Clooney is a good example I mean that man can't do anything he can't do any wrong Kenny because just so many people just fancied him he's perfect and Pamela Anderson was so big my pun intended I mean she was huge wasn't she again no pun intended back in the 80s no the

80s and 90s well she started off in the 80s didn't she because she was in Home Improvements with Tim Allen did you know that yeah it's true and then she I don't know when Baywatch started was it was it late 80s or early 90s so yeah I think there's gonna be those three type of boxes in the female boxing world they're gonna rise and perhaps be talked about and be just as popular as the men boxers because really other than and how many superfights have been with the women's boxers Serrano

and Katie Taylor that's kind of seems to be but there will yeah I've got a really feeling that's what's gonna happen I've also also got a feeling that a heavyweight box is gonna turn up that no one's even aware of he's already around but no one's aware of him in the male division and he's just gonna come in and clear out the heavyweight division I mean if you know it might be a Talma and I kind of hope it is because I really like a Talma I like his the way

he is as a person he's so calm and he doesn't yeah he's so good but I'm thinking is someone's gonna come along it's just gonna be an absolute beast and it's gonna be interesting I think with a Talma and Moses a Talma he's kind of the new kid on the block and he's a lot of people talking about him being the next big thing because he's so calm it'd be interesting to see what he's like in a heated kind of exchange you know what they had before fights to press conference

and stuff like that be interesting to see how he reacts to someone being naughty you know someone like shouting and turning tables over and stuff like that that'd be interesting also because he's so fast if someone slapped him or something you know when on a face-to-face there's a chance that he could knock that other person out almost by accident because he's got such quick reflexes and if that happened in the weigh-in you know the night before the day before the fight and they've had a weigh-in and they do face-to-face and

the other boxer decides to slap him or something or push him and his natural reaction might end that fight before it starts make a lot of predictions you know I got oh wow I got some lottery tickets a couple of weeks and didn't win anything got one number last week I was queuing up in the supermarket I've been waiting and waiting and waiting and there was a bloke in front of me and he was getting so frustrated and there was just one person behind a counter and there was one customer

this side of the counter didn't know what they were doing and this man was getting more more frustrated and he walked off if I think two people did if they were in front of me walked off in the end and I just stood there for a while I didn't I wasn't in a hurry I was mildly interested in why it was taking so long and why other people in the next booth four people just standing around chatting while he was there a big queue while no one didn't just come in

and say someone did walk through stood there and walked out why that to me seems a bit strange they wouldn't help each other out but maybe they were on their break anyway he you could see the young lad who was the other side of the counter was getting a bit flustered but yeah you know he was I didn't know what he was doing and then when it came to me oh no when he finished with the man the bloke had bought something like 90 lottery tickets 90 lottery tickets and he

had to count them all out and do them all 90 that's a lot of lottery tickets 90 and I said so I said can I get a hundred lottery tickets please and he looked at me hopefully that I was joking it just to me why didn't the bloke just do it on the internet especially as it looked like he was given he wasn't doing a lucky dip so for every lottery ticket he was given he had to put in the numbers of the lottery ticket of the number you know so

like 90 different times so he was there for a while I don't know how long he was there before I got there but no I've no one came over to help him to help him to kind of you know help with the queue and people were just queuing and then leaving and they were doing the same behind me as well mind you a lot of people don't like to stand behind me because I keep farting you see I don't know what Vinnie's doing he's hunting he's looking for something to so

was looking for something to be naughty with right I'm gonna go and have my breakfast it's time for breakfast yes it is and it's very cool this morning like I don't want to say cold but on the verge of cold which is weird because the heat hasn't come on but yesterday when it was warm outside the heating came on yeah it was cold inside but not as cold as it is now strange I cannot fathom it I don't understand so okay that's me I'm gonna go and have my breakfast 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