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(music) (10 hours) Women’s Weekly | LMBYTS #1459 | Jason Newland | 11th October 2025
https://www.jasonnewland.com/ Women’s Weekly | LMBYTS #1459 | Jason Newland | 11th October 2025 🕒 Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes 🔗 View Transcript 🎙️ Summary of Content This episode of Let Me Bore You to Sleep by Jason Newland is a relaxed, meandering, and humorous spoken-word journey in which Jason reads through the latest edition of Women’s Weekly magazine. It's full of dry wit, side tangents, social observations, and the occasional heartfelt moment. 🧵 Transcript Breakdown 🐶 Intro & Vinnie’s Drama (0:00–3:30) Jason opens with a buzzing noise mystery. Vinnie (his dog) refuses to eat his food unless it's hand-fed or placed on the floor. Jason laments this new routine and sets the tone for a relaxed, sleepy episode. 📻 Background Noise Commentary (3:30–6:30) Jason talks about noisy neighbors, ambient garden sounds, and how background chatter can be annoying—like only hearing one side of a phone call. Shares a funny anecdote about a woman receiving a video call at Uncle Sausage’s funeral. 🧵 Curtains, Buzzing & Noise Control (7:00–8:30) He tries to quiet the noise by closing the window and drawing “soundproof” curtains. Reflects that people aren’t intentionally annoying—it’s just how they are, like his own “super sexiness.” 😄 📚 Main Segment: Reading Woman’s Weekly (8:30–1:14:00) Jason reads and critiques the 14th October 2025 edition of Woman’s Weekly magazine, bringing his signature wit to each page: 📰 Magazine Contents: Fashion & Lifestyle: Handbags with massive pockets (“for all your women's stuff”), waterproof jackets, dungarees from America, and discussions on why women’s zippers are on the opposite side. Cookery & Crafts: Comfort food recipes, knitting patterns (which Jason finds “rocket-science-level complicated”), cross-stitching memories, and retro sewing tips. Gardening & Home: Japanese anemones, pretty patios, retro revivals. Fiction & Culture: Short stories, serial fiction, literary festivals, and celebrity interviews. Health: Iron deficiency, anemia, nocturia (frequent night urination), and mental health letters. Horoscopes: Read aloud in full, sprinkled with Jason’s commentary and jokes. Letters from Readers: Jason reacts to wholesome reader letters and ponders the outdated phrasing like “unto” instead of “into.” Puzzles & Features: Pearl necklaces, deodorant as a beauty tip (“deodorant doesn’t make you attractive—it just makes you not stink”). 🎤 Jason’s Commentary & Personal Tangents Throughout the episode, Jason weaves in candid reflections, comedy, and social commentary: Gender Roles & Stereotypes: Questions the outdated division of interests (e.g., why men can’t knit or want handbags), and jokes about wanting to knit and have a purse. Art & School Days: Shares childhood memories of being steered away from creative hobbies like sewing and cross-stitching. Men’s Emotional Expression: Mentions Jordan Peterson and the societal discouragement of men expressing vulnerability. Desire for Excellence: Talks about his lifelong desire to be exceptional at something—especially art, music, comedy, and eventually sales.
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