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(music) (10 hours) STREAMING – Monday’s Boring Objects
🎙️ 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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").
- Opens a folder with 700+ podcast images.
- Tries to locate early cover art from before 2019.<
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