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(music) (10 hours) Saturday Summary | LMBYTS #1484 | Jason Newland | 8th November 2025
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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Saturday Summary – Let Me Bore You To Sleep #1484 (8th November 2025)
💤 Overview: This relaxed, meandering episode serves as a weekly reflection on your recordings, personal routines, podcast stats, and a few musings about technology, dogs, fireworks, and nostalgic memories. It blends updates, storytelling, self-reflection, and some amusing tangents into a calm, easygoing listen.
🗂️ Weekly Recap Structure: You recapped the five recordings you released during the week:
- Monday – Boring Objects
- Tuesday – Trivia Tuesday
- Wednesday – Whisper Wednesday
- Thursday – Throwbacks (1982 TV shows)
- Friday – Q&A Friday
📈 Podcast Stats & Listener Trends: You explored detailed podcast analytics:
- Overcast and Podcast Addict have overtaken Apple Podcasts in downloads.
- Apple Podcasts used to dominate but has had issues refreshing your feed, affecting visibility.
- You checked numerous platforms (Podbean, Deezer, Spotify, TuneIn, etc.) to verify which are up-to-date and which have broken or outdated links.
- Notably, Spotify, Podcast Addict, and Deezer are current, but many Apple Podcast country-specific pages are broken (404 errors).
- You shared frustration about Apple Podcasts' unreliability and how it's hurt your reach and listener perception.
- You shared how Vinnie’s fear of fireworks has escalated this year, making Bonfire Night and surrounding days stressful.
- You adjusted your routine: no more park walks in the dark. Evening walks now happen earlier and on the pavement.
- There's some comic relief when Vinnie chooses to poop on front lawns, often in front of living room windows—much to your embarrassment.
- Big Brother: You’ve been enjoying the season, sad that it’s nearly over.
- I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here may fill the gap for you post-Big Brother.
- Ozark: You started rewatching the series, noticing how much you’d forgotten.
- Future rewatch plans: Dexter, 24, Angel, and possibly Buffy.
- You also talked about Silo (Apple TV), praising its quality but lamenting the limited show catalogue.
- Reflections on Bonfire Night traditions, including home bonfires and sparkler mishaps.
- Nostalgic details about family buffets, freezing cold weather as a kid, and burning holes in gloves with sparklers.
- A humorous story about indoor fireworks being underwhelming.
- More quirky memories like fondue-like cook-your-own food kits and SodaStream nostalgia.
- You were cold-calling people to sell phone contracts.
- A supervisor randomly whispered “I like to burn things” mid-call, then walked off.
- That bizarre moment has clearly stuck with you ever since.
- You've been updating transcripts, show images, and organizing your website content.
- Brought your “Sleepy Boring Objects” and Q&A Friday podcast pages up to date.
- Thanked PayPal supporters for helping with bills at the start of the month.
- Funny issue with your robe not fully covering you when lying down.
- Baths are becoming more awkward.
- Chair snoozes and nightly classical m
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