(music) (5 hours) Silly Animal names | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1492 | Jason Newland | 18th November 2025

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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

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