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(music) (5 hours) #1441 Q&A Friday - Let me bore you to sleep
Title: #1441 Q&A Friday – Let Me Bore You To Sleep – 26th September 2025
Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Host: Jason Newland
🎙️ Format & Tone This is a typical “Q&A Friday” episode in Jason Newland’s Let Me Bore You To Sleep series. It’s unscripted, casual, and conversational—designed for relaxation and potentially falling asleep. Jason riffs on listener-submitted questions, muses about his day-to-day experiences, and shares personal reflections, all delivered in his familiar, meandering style.
📌 Main Topics Covered 1. Introduction & General Chit-Chat (0:00–10:00)
- Jason welcomes listeners and jokes about the squeaky noise in his desk.
- Promotes his website (jasonnewland.com) and Facebook group.
- Shares reflections about maintaining a small but meaningful private group versus having a large, impersonal following on public pages.
- Talks about the pros and cons of keeping his Facebook group private.
- Mentions his frustration with low engagement on large public platforms despite thousands of followers.
- Reflects on his identity as an “artist” and what that word means across professions.
- Describes how talking on his podcast is akin to writing or journaling.
- Opens up about past creative outlets: poetry, song lyrics, journaling.
- Discusses how his spoken-word content is a creative release and a way to process thoughts.
- Several humorous interactions with Vinnie.
- Vinnie barks at stair cleaners; Jason tries to calm him down.
- Vinnie acts temperamental with food—Jason tries new feeding strategies.
- They briefly "fall out" and reconcile—very relatable and sweet!
- He reflects on his hiatus from making hypnosis recordings in August 2025.
- Shares emotional struggles and moments of self-doubt about the usefulness of his work.
- A friend encouraged him, reminding him he has a “gift.”
- Now he's back, having made 3 hypnosis recordings that week.
- Mentions earlier technical problems with Apple Podcasts, now resolved.
- Talks about how to access his recordings via the website or directly through Apple/Spotify.
🎤 Listener Questions Answered
✅ Are you hooked on EastEnders again?
- Somewhat. Jason's been watching again recently.
- He reminisces about EastEnders history, including iconic characters like Dot Cotton, Ian Beale, Janine Butcher, and Nasty Nick.
- Talks about other soaps too: Emmerdale, Brookside, and Coronation Street.
- Humorously analyzes current plotlines and character dynamics.
- Jason admits he doesn’t know much about dinosaurs.
- He jokes his favorite would be a "cuddly one without teeth."
- Mentions liking flying dinosaurs (like Pterodactyls) and giant ones (like Brachiosaurus).
- Dives into humorous tangents about Godzilla, pet giraffes, and prehistoric movies.
- Nope! He doesn’t enjoy cooking.
- Says he prefers eating and compares food prep to being an actor in Game of Thrones: he’d rather be a viewer than a participant.
- Shares some fond memories of baking with his nan and stepmom as a child.
- Talks about his school experiences with home economics and drama (lots of fun stories here, including cross-dressing and makeup in drama class).
- Jason uses Three (a UK provider) with mobile internet.
- He pay
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