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(no music) Vinnie keeps farting | LMBYTS #1457 | Jason Newland | 9th October 2025
📄 "Vinnie keeps farting LMBYTS #1457 – Jason Newland – 9th October 2025"
⏱️ Duration: 1 hour, 17 minutes
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🐾 1. Vinnie the Farting Dog (Recurring Comic Relief)
- Vinnie, Jason’s dog, plays a starring (and flatulent) role.
- Jason mentions how Vinnie always farts with his bum facing him.
- There are multiple moments of affectionate, if slightly exasperated, interactions between Jason and Vinnie—including Vinnie trying to sit on his lap and making various sounds throughout the episode.
- Jason considers rearranging his setup so Vinnie can be closer while he records.
- Jason shaved his head again and reflects humorously on the cold scalp and losing hair.
- He jokes about having a bald patch but not being fully bald yet.
- Comments on others telling him to grow hair back or wear a hat—says it’s "a bit rude."
- Touches on enjoying the tactile feeling of a freshly shaved scalp.
- Jason has reorganized his website with playlists in blocks of 50 episodes (e.g., 1–50, 601–650, etc.).
- Each playlist includes features like download, play, comment, share.
- Mentions this helps overcome limitations on platforms like Apple Podcasts, which restrict how many episodes are viewable.
- Keep things simple and consistent:
- Make recordings daily (Mon–Fri).
- Skip time-consuming tasks like writing detailed descriptions or focusing on SEO.
- No transcripts or fancy uploads—just record, edit, upload, repeat.
- Emphasizes returning to basics, echoing earlier days of the podcast.
- Jason shares his YouTube analytics:
- Some episodes unexpectedly surge in popularity (e.g., Episode 1456 got 219 views in 2 days).
- Wonders why YouTube promotes certain episodes.
- Reflects on long-term podcasting (nearly 20 years!) and the experience of being “rediscovered” by longtime listeners.
- Jason reminisces about his childhood bedroom, saying it was his favorite room ever.
- Talks about living with his nan and loving that house so much he’d buy it if he had the money.
- Considers how he’d re-use rooms for podcasting and living now.
- Launches into a humorous, imagined conversation with his former drama teacher—blurring reality and fiction.
- Recalls doing drama classes, wearing makeup and dresses, and walking home that way.
- Reflects on being a cheeky kid, joking around, and how some teachers viewed him.
- Detailed reflections on childhood friends: Dean, Neil, Ivan, and Stephen.
- Talks about how some friendships changed or ended, especially as they transitioned into teenage years.
- Shares how Neil’s parents helped him out when he moved into his first flat at age 16—showing genuine gratitude.
- Explores feelings around friendship, growing up, and being a bit of a “late bloomer.”
- Jason reflects on how, in the past, he needed silence to sleep but now embraces natural background noise (like birds, dogs, and ambient room sounds).
- This shift supports the core theme of his podcast: helping others relax and sleep in the real world, not a perfectly silent one.
- Stream-of-consciousness, reflective, and humorous.
- A mix of light storytelling, gentle rambling, and personal insight.
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