🎙️ Podcast Title: STREAMING – Monday’s Boring Objects - LMBYTS #1436 – 22nd September 2025
Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Host: Jason Newland
Series: Let Me Bore You to Sleep 🛋️ Overall Theme: A slow-paced, meandering monologue blending tech confusion, mundane life updates, personal reflections, and behind-the-scenes thoughts about running the podcast. The episode is built around the concept of “boring objects” but evolves into an impromptu stream of consciousness. As always, the delivery is intentionally mellow to help listeners unwind or fall asleep. 📌 Key Topics & Tangents: 🧓 Reflections on Aging & Time Travel
- Jason wonders what it would be like to go back to being 22 years old.
- Ponders the drawbacks of returning to a younger age with the limitations of that mindset.
- Concludes that despite nostalgia, he wouldn't thrive with his past mindset in today’s life.
💸 Broadband Contracts & Mild Existential Math
- Reads out a letter about his broadband contract expiring.
- Calculates future broadband prices 50 years into the future (up to £116/month at age 105!).
- Mildly panicked over possible price hikes and automatic renewals.
- Reflects on the confusing nature of utility services and automation in customer service.
📆 Date Formatting Rant
- Rants about UK vs. US date formatting.
- Defends the UK format (day/month/year) as the more sensible one.
- Highlights how inconsistent global date conventions cause confusion in digital systems.
🐶 Vinny, His Dog, Makes Several (Audible) Cameos
- Vinny farts multiple times during the episode — Jason notes each one.
- Compares Vinny's eating habits to a snake swallowing a giraffe (which he admits is a nonsense metaphor).
- Describes Vinny’s love of women and how he uses that charm when meeting locals.
🌐 Podcast Website Maintenance
- Discusses updating his website and fixing broken Apple Podcast links.
- Walks through adjusting the menu settings on his site in real time.
- Reflects on the tediousness and technical challenges of managing online content alone.
- Notes concern over fans not seeing new episodes due to podcast feed glitches.
🧠 Mental Health Check-In
- Briefly discusses his diagnosis: bipolar and EUPD (Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder).
- Mentions recent medication changes and side effects (e.g., early waking, disorientation).
- Reveals he has a mental health nurse check-in soon.
🎨 Podcast Image Design & Feedback Loop
- Uses ChatGPT to critique and refine his episode cover art.
- Debates which visual elements to keep: episode numbers, music badges, website URLs, etc.
- Wants to simplify the design for mobile thumbnails.
- Reminisces about creating early podcast images before Canva or AI tools existed.
🍕 Hilarious First-Date Fart Story
- Shares a story about trying to hold in farts on a first date.
- Wishes Vinny had been there at the time — he could have blamed the dog.
- Philosophizes about how bathrooms are the worst (echoiest) place to fart quietly.
📺 Streaming Services Deep Dive (Unplanned Tangent)
- Long, detailed discussion comparing streaming services:
- Netflix: Complains about pricing tiers and downgraded HD unless you pay more.
- Amazon Prime: Praises it as good value due to free delivery + video.
- Apple TV / Disney+ / ITVX / NOW TV / Sky: Compares costs, features, limitations.
- Expresses frustration over fragmented services and the desire for a universal streaming bundle.
- Reflects on subscribing to services for his late uncle ("Uncle Sausages").
🗂️ Nostalgic Dive into Old Podcast Images
- Opens a folder with 700+ podcast images.
- Tries to locate early cover art from before 2019.
- Discusses how he used to rely on webcam shots or free tools before Canva.
🎞️ Movie Trivia & 80s TV
- Talks about Jason Bateman’s career (Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, Teen Wolf 2).
- Reminisces about Family Ties and Michael J. Fox.
- Comments on the UK’s delayed broadcast of American shows in the past.
🎬 Film Snobbery & Independent Cinema
- Discovers a service called MUBI, geared toward indie films.
- Shares appreciation for low-budget films made for the love of cinema.
📦 Amazon, Apple, and Cloud Subscriptions
- Realizes he's paying for Apple Music but thought it was Amazon.
- Talks about increasing iCloud storage due to podcast files and images.
- Considers but rejects Apple One bundles.
💡 End-of-Episode Reflection
- Considers how podcast content often strays from its intended topic.
- Emphasizes the unpredictability and stream-of-consciousness nature of his episodes.
- Concludes that movies are just “glorified flip charts” (i.e., moving images = lots of still frames).
💬 Tone & Style:
- Casual, self-deprecating, and often silly.
- Intentionally meandering with no clear structure.
- Offers moments of unexpected insight and humor in the mundane.
💤 Intended Effect:
- Help listeners relax, unwind, or fall asleep.
- Blends boredom and gentle storytelling with light humor and comforting chatter.
🐾 Most Adorable Moment: Jason describes Vinny sitting on his feet, “like a little rabbit,” begging for treats he won’t get until Wednesday. 😄
