Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland)

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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Silly Animal names – Trivia Tuesday – LMBYTS #1492 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview
In this Trivia Tuesday instalment, Jason goes down a wonderfully daft rabbit hole of animals with silly names — from slippery dick fish and boops boops to cockchafers, blue-footed boobies, great tits, hellbenders, snot otters, and beyond. Along the way he wanders (as always) through boxing rants, newspaper clippings, horoscopes, the strongest animals on Earth, and memories of his beloved ferret Andre — all wrapped in that calm, rambling, sleepy style that makes it easy to drift off while half-smiling at how ridiculous the world is.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes

1. Intro, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away & Boxing Joy
   • Opens with the usual welcome to JasonNewland.com and reminder to only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
   • Mentions recording Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 earlier in the day, which went in an unexpected direction.
   • Shares genuine excitement that local boxer Fabio Wardley has become WBO heavyweight champion after Oleksandr Usyk gave up the belt, reflecting on following Fabio’s career from the start.
   • Rambles happily about modern boxing politics: belts being vacated, commentators underrating fighters, and comparisons with 15-round eras and old-school rule changes.
   • Touches on David Benavidez, Canelo, Bivol and others, wondering why some fights never happen and musing on “toughest heavyweights” in different eras.
2. Daily Star Ramble, Fame & Social Media Plans
   • Flicks through the Daily Star, commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s sudden mega-fame and old glamour shots of Kelly Brook.
   • Tells a personal memory of seeing Frank Skinner in a comedy club years ago and feeling jealous of how pale he was compared to Jason’s own colouring, before musing on celebrity as an “aphrodisiac.”
   • Talks about his Facebook group “Jason Newland’s Boring Group” and how he now posts full new recordings there once they’ve gone through Spreaker and YouTube.
   • Explains his upload routine: six audio versions going to YouTube, then downloads the no-music version to share on Facebook; also posting full “audio videos” to TikTok, Instagram and X up to one hour.
   • Ponders whether to do TikTok Lives for Let Me Bore You To Sleep or Q&A Friday, unsure if he fits typical TikTok live trends.
   • Reflects briefly on his mood: struggling to get out of bed at the weekend, then suddenly feeling more productive and doing multiple recordings as his mood lifts.
3. Civil Suits, Weight-Loss Jabs & Horoscopes
   • Wonders aloud about civil court vs criminal court after hearing about a cancelled boxing match involving Gervonta Davis and a civil suit.
   • Reads a piece about weight-loss injections (“fat jabs”) slowing alcohol absorption and warns listeners to be careful if they’re on them — while noting he neither drinks nor takes jabs himself.
   • Thinks about his own weight, whether he’d even qualify for such treatment on the NHS, and how people use quick fixes.
   • Dips into the horoscope page, reading multiple star signs in his own slightly cheeky, editorial style — including Virgo (his sign) and others, poking fun at the vague and oddly specific advice while still enjoying the ritual.
4. Strongest Animals, Dinosaurs & Size Perspective
   • Looks up a list of the world’s strongest animals: harpy eagles, leopards, polar bears, lions, grizzlies, tigers, musk oxen, white rhinos, gorillas and African elephants.
   • Expresses amazement at how much weight these animals can lift (hundreds or thousands of kilos), and jokes that no human is getting anywhere near lifting like a gorilla.
   • Reflects on dung beetles lifting many times their own bodyweight and links this to why flies and insects seem “super strong” for their size.
   • Shares childhood impressions from Tarzan films, The Jungle Book, and old TV shows, admitting he once assumed lions were bigger than tigers until seeing them in a zoo.
   • Philosophises about dinosaurs not really being “gone” because modern creatures like rhinos, crocodiles, alligators and even turtles feel like living dinosaurs; remembers visiting castles on school trips and being struck by how small people must have been in the past.
5. Main Trivia: Animals with Silly Names
   • Finally settles into the main Trivia Tuesday topic: animals with silly or rude-sounding names.
   • Reads and reacts to a long list of creatures and species:
     • Mammals like dik-dik (tiny antelope), naked mole rats, raccoon dogs, uakaris, tarsiers, sengis (elephant shrews), wolverines, honey badgers, musk oxen, maned wolves, fainting goats, and more.
     • Mustelids (ferrets, polecats, wolverines, etc.), leading into a heartfelt tangent about Andre the ferret and the toughness of that whole family.
     • Birds including blue-footed, red-footed and masked boobies, great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, bearded tits, go-away birds, rough-faced shags, bananaquits and others.
     • Fish such as slippery dick, boops boops, clingfish, waspfish, spotted wobegong, long-dong-style eels, guppies, pufferfish, blobfish, lump suckers, sarcastic fringeheads and more.
     • Reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates with gloriously daft names: hellbenders, snot otters, chicken turtles, peacock mantis shrimp, vampire squid, bone-eating snot-flower worms, dragon millipedes, velvet worms, pea crabs and others.
   • Keeps circling back to how childish and funny these names sound, laughing at how ChatGPT previously added its own “jokey” commentary when he only wanted plain facts.
   • Highlights a “top rude names” shortlist including slippery dick, boops boops, cockchafer, dickcissel, and the many “tit” birds, with mock-outrage at how smutty it all sounds for a sleepy trivia podcast.
6. Vinnie, Uncle Sausages & Ferret World
   • Throughout the episode, Vinnie features as a kind of co-star: whining for food, tilting his head side-to-side, and generally interrupting in a cute but slightly annoying way when Jason’s trying to record.
   • Jason pauses the recording to get Vinnie his dinner, then continues with the animal names while watching him eat.
   • Shares a sweet story about a neighbour’s sausage dog nicknamed “Uncle Sausages,” and how Vinnie used to “talk” to him through the front door, leading Jason to wonder who his dog was chatting to.
   • Opens up about his long-held dream of “Andre’s World” — a big ferret sanctuary or woodland enclosure where ferrets could roam freely, be well-fed, tracked for safety, and live happy, lazy lives.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Barrel of Nonsense – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: ~40 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview This is a chronic pain relief session in Jason’s gently rambling, comedic, and completely unpressured style. You’re invited to get comfortable, only listen when it’s safe to close your eyes, and let your mind drift as Jason chats about leaf blowers, banana skins, strange family myths, getting older, bald spots in lift mirrors, and Vinnie snuffling around in the background. There’s no heavy technique to follow, no need for silence, and no “trying to relax.” Instead, Jason uses distraction, nonsense, and low-key hypnotic ideas to help your nervous system forget about pain for a while and settle into a looser, calmer state.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes 1. Getting Comfortable & Pain Relief Safeguards

• Jason opens by welcoming you to JasonNewland.com, reminding you this is a chronic pain relief session.
• Emphasises that you should know the cause of your pain and have your doctor’s permission before listening further.
• Invites you to sit or lie somewhere supported, reassuring you that background sounds and imperfect conditions are absolutely fine.
• Notes you can keep your eyes open, but closed usually feels more comfortable.

2. Leaf Blowers, Leaf Suckers & “Accidental” Hypnosis

• Launches into a mock-rant about gardeners using leaf blowers instead of “leaf suckers,” comparing them to vacuum cleaners and questioning the logic of blowing mess around instead of collecting it.
• Jokes that you might think he’s using distraction or confusion techniques, but insists he’s “just moaning about leaves”… while also explaining how distraction shifts attention away from pain and toward his nonsense.
• Plays with the idea that by trying to work out what he’s doing, you can end up more relaxed and even forget why you started listening… and only notice afterwards that you’ve had 10 minutes of comfort.

3. Arthritis, Emergencies & Forgetting to Hurt

• Talks about having arthritis in his lower back and how bending normally hurts — even picking up Vinnie’s poo.
• Describes running to help an elderly lady who fell in the road, lifting her without feeling his usual back pain because his focus was entirely on her safety (and not wanting to look like “a groper”).
• Uses this as a natural example of how, when attention is pulled fully into the moment or towards someone else, pain sensations can temporarily fade into the background.

4. Banana Skins, Family Myths & Nan the “Porcupine”

• Shares a long-running story from his nan about his aunt supposedly breaking her leg slipping on a banana skin.
• Years later, he discovers his aunt actually slipped on ice and never encountered a banana skin at all.
• More confusion follows with an “ice machine” that turns out to be a simple bucket of ice, and tales of his nan telling others Jason had a “ready-made family” with kids he never had.
• Reflects, with affection and amusement, on how family stories twist over time and how his nan might’ve just been bored and embellishing.

5. Old Relationships, Vague Answers & Frank Spencer

• Remembers a woman he dated years ago, travelling from London at weekends, wanting to move in with her.
• She repeatedly gave vague or indirect answers, never clearly saying “yes,” and eventually directly said she didn’t want him to move in.
• Jokes about people being vague, references “Frank” turning into “Betty” as a nod to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, and plays with the absurdity of conversations that go nowhere.
• Lightly touches on existential jokes about being the last man on earth, women possibly being AI, and a tongue-in-cheek aside about being on his meds.

6. Boring Your Pain Away: Everyday Triggers as Therapy

• Explains a personal technique where he imagines stress or tension leaving his body whenever he goes to the toilet, while drinking water becomes “putting positive energy” into himself.
• Talks about breathing in healing and breathing out negativity, like exhaling smoke.
• Notes that doing this kind of thing regularly can become automatic, so you feel calmer without consciously trying.
• Ties it back to his recordings: even if they sound ridiculous, thousands of people fall asleep or feel better listening to his “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” and “Let Me Bore Your Pain Away” sessions, often without knowing exactly why.

7. Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima & Aluminium vs Aluminum

• Rambles through The Wizard of Oz, casually spoiling the “it was all a dream” ending and only realising as he says it.
• Admits he was in his 30s before noticing that the farm characters at the start are echoed by the lion, tin man, and scarecrow in Oz.
• Drifts into pronunciation differences like Hiroshima vs. “Horishima,” and British vs. American words like aluminium/aluminum and colour/color, joking about how spellcheck must suffer and how language might have changed just to be awkward.

8. Circles on Paper, Giant Sheets & Broken Kitchen Blinds

• Suggests an absurd “hobby” of drawing endless coloured circles on a large sheet of paper until you run out of space.
• Wonders about the biggest piece of paper you can buy and pokes fun at billboard posters being made of strips.
• Then switches to a very domestic issue: his kitchen blind was broken by a council worker fixing his window, leaving only a ripped net curtain.
• Talks about how, with lights on, neighbours can see him pottering about or even dancing in the kitchen while waiting for the kettle — upper-body dancing only, to protect his lower back.

9. Ageing, Mirrors, Bald Spots & Lift Cameras

• Reflects on getting older: accepting some physical limitations, but still getting a shock when he catches sight of himself unexpectedly.
• Shares a vivid moment of stepping out of the bath, seeing a steamed-up mirror, wiping it clear, and being startled by the “big pink blob wobbling past” — then realising it’s just him.
• Recalls an elevator covered in mirrors, where all he could see was his bald spot shining like a “pessimistic halo.”
• Mentions his door camera capturing mostly the bald patch as he goes downstairs, joking that even the camera seems to be laughing at him.

10. Vinnie, Walking & Noticing How You Feel Now

• Checks on Vinnie, who’s buried his head under a cardigan and might (or might not) want a walk.
• Repeats the word “walk” to see if Vinnie reacts, but he stays asleep — another small, cosy domestic moment.
• Gently invites you to compare how your body feels now with how it felt at the start: noticing more relaxation, calmness, looseness, and maybe a slightly more positive outlook.
• Closes by naming the episode “A Barrel of Nonsense,” thanking you for listening, and reminding you to be kind and gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe and happy.

📢 Listener Notes & Outro

• This is a chronic pain relief episode in the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away series, using storytelling, humour, and gentle confusion as a way to nudge pain into the background.
• Jason reminds you to only use these sessions alongside proper medical care, not instead of it.
• Includes soft mentions of:
  • JasonNewland.com – where you can find more free sleep hypnosis, insomnia podcasts, and boring podcasts designed to help you relax and drift off.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Barrel of Nonsense – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: ~40 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview This is a chronic pain relief session in Jason’s gently rambling, comedic, and completely unpressured style. You’re invited to get comfortable, only listen when it’s safe to close your eyes, and let your mind drift as Jason chats about leaf blowers, banana skins, strange family myths, getting older, bald spots in lift mirrors, and Vinnie snuffling around in the background. There’s no heavy technique to follow, no need for silence, and no “trying to relax.” Instead, Jason uses distraction, nonsense, and low-key hypnotic ideas to help your nervous system forget about pain for a while and settle into a looser, calmer state.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes 1. Getting Comfortable & Pain Relief Safeguards

• Jason opens by welcoming you to JasonNewland.com, reminding you this is a chronic pain relief session.
• Emphasises that you should know the cause of your pain and have your doctor’s permission before listening further.
• Invites you to sit or lie somewhere supported, reassuring you that background sounds and imperfect conditions are absolutely fine.
• Notes you can keep your eyes open, but closed usually feels more comfortable.

2. Leaf Blowers, Leaf Suckers & “Accidental” Hypnosis

• Launches into a mock-rant about gardeners using leaf blowers instead of “leaf suckers,” comparing them to vacuum cleaners and questioning the logic of blowing mess around instead of collecting it.
• Jokes that you might think he’s using distraction or confusion techniques, but insists he’s “just moaning about leaves”… while also explaining how distraction shifts attention away from pain and toward his nonsense.
• Plays with the idea that by trying to work out what he’s doing, you can end up more relaxed and even forget why you started listening… and only notice afterwards that you’ve had 10 minutes of comfort.

3. Arthritis, Emergencies & Forgetting to Hurt

• Talks about having arthritis in his lower back and how bending normally hurts — even picking up Vinnie’s poo.
• Describes running to help an elderly lady who fell in the road, lifting her without feeling his usual back pain because his focus was entirely on her safety (and not wanting to look like “a groper”).
• Uses this as a natural example of how, when attention is pulled fully into the moment or towards someone else, pain sensations can temporarily fade into the background.

4. Banana Skins, Family Myths & Nan the “Porcupine”

• Shares a long-running story from his nan about his aunt supposedly breaking her leg slipping on a banana skin.
• Years later, he discovers his aunt actually slipped on ice and never encountered a banana skin at all.
• More confusion follows with an “ice machine” that turns out to be a simple bucket of ice, and tales of his nan telling others Jason had a “ready-made family” with kids he never had.
• Reflects, with affection and amusement, on how family stories twist over time and how his nan might’ve just been bored and embellishing.

5. Old Relationships, Vague Answers & Frank Spencer

• Remembers a woman he dated years ago, travelling from London at weekends, wanting to move in with her.
• She repeatedly gave vague or indirect answers, never clearly saying “yes,” and eventually directly said she didn’t want him to move in.
• Jokes about people being vague, references “Frank” turning into “Betty” as a nod to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, and plays with the absurdity of conversations that go nowhere.
• Lightly touches on existential jokes about being the last man on earth, women possibly being AI, and a tongue-in-cheek aside about being on his meds.

6. Boring Your Pain Away: Everyday Triggers as Therapy

• Explains a personal technique where he imagines stress or tension leaving his body whenever he goes to the toilet, while drinking water becomes “putting positive energy” into himself.
• Talks about breathing in healing and breathing out negativity, like exhaling smoke.
• Notes that doing this kind of thing regularly can become automatic, so you feel calmer without consciously trying.
• Ties it back to his recordings: even if they sound ridiculous, thousands of people fall asleep or feel better listening to his “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” and “Let Me Bore Your Pain Away” sessions, often without knowing exactly why.

7. Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima & Aluminium vs Aluminum

• Rambles through The Wizard of Oz, casually spoiling the “it was all a dream” ending and only realising as he says it.
• Admits he was in his 30s before noticing that the farm characters at the start are echoed by the lion, tin man, and scarecrow in Oz.
• Drifts into pronunciation differences like Hiroshima vs. “Horishima,” and British vs. American words like aluminium/aluminum and colour/color, joking about how spellcheck must suffer and how language might have changed just to be awkward.

8. Circles on Paper, Giant Sheets & Broken Kitchen Blinds

• Suggests an absurd “hobby” of drawing endless coloured circles on a large sheet of paper until you run out of space.
• Wonders about the biggest piece of paper you can buy and pokes fun at billboard posters being made of strips.
• Then switches to a very domestic issue: his kitchen blind was broken by a council worker fixing his window, leaving only a ripped net curtain.
• Talks about how, with lights on, neighbours can see him pottering about or even dancing in the kitchen while waiting for the kettle — upper-body dancing only, to protect his lower back.

9. Ageing, Mirrors, Bald Spots & Lift Cameras

• Reflects on getting older: accepting some physical limitations, but still getting a shock when he catches sight of himself unexpectedly.
• Shares a vivid moment of stepping out of the bath, seeing a steamed-up mirror, wiping it clear, and being startled by the “big pink blob wobbling past” — then realising it’s just him.
• Recalls an elevator covered in mirrors, where all he could see was his bald spot shining like a “pessimistic halo.”
• Mentions his door camera capturing mostly the bald patch as he goes downstairs, joking that even the camera seems to be laughing at him.

10. Vinnie, Walking & Noticing How You Feel Now

• Checks on Vinnie, who’s buried his head under a cardigan and might (or might not) want a walk.
• Repeats the word “walk” to see if Vinnie reacts, but he stays asleep — another small, cosy domestic moment.
• Gently invites you to compare how your body feels now with how it felt at the start: noticing more relaxation, calmness, looseness, and maybe a slightly more positive outlook.
• Closes by naming the episode “A Barrel of Nonsense,” thanking you for listening, and reminding you to be kind and gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe and happy.

📢 Listener Notes & Outro

• This is a chronic pain relief episode in the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away series, using storytelling, humour, and gentle confusion as a way to nudge pain into the background.
• Jason reminds you to only use these sessions alongside proper medical care, not instead of it.
• Includes soft mentions of:
  • JasonNewland.com – where you can find more free sleep hypnosis, insomnia podcasts, and boring podcasts designed to help you relax and drift off.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Barrel of Nonsense – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: ~40 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview This is a chronic pain relief session in Jason’s gently rambling, comedic, and completely unpressured style. You’re invited to get comfortable, only listen when it’s safe to close your eyes, and let your mind drift as Jason chats about leaf blowers, banana skins, strange family myths, getting older, bald spots in lift mirrors, and Vinnie snuffling around in the background. There’s no heavy technique to follow, no need for silence, and no “trying to relax.” Instead, Jason uses distraction, nonsense, and low-key hypnotic ideas to help your nervous system forget about pain for a while and settle into a looser, calmer state.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes 1. Getting Comfortable & Pain Relief Safeguards

• Jason opens by welcoming you to JasonNewland.com, reminding you this is a chronic pain relief session.
• Emphasises that you should know the cause of your pain and have your doctor’s permission before listening further.
• Invites you to sit or lie somewhere supported, reassuring you that background sounds and imperfect conditions are absolutely fine.
• Notes you can keep your eyes open, but closed usually feels more comfortable.

2. Leaf Blowers, Leaf Suckers & “Accidental” Hypnosis

• Launches into a mock-rant about gardeners using leaf blowers instead of “leaf suckers,” comparing them to vacuum cleaners and questioning the logic of blowing mess around instead of collecting it.
• Jokes that you might think he’s using distraction or confusion techniques, but insists he’s “just moaning about leaves”… while also explaining how distraction shifts attention away from pain and toward his nonsense.
• Plays with the idea that by trying to work out what he’s doing, you can end up more relaxed and even forget why you started listening… and only notice afterwards that you’ve had 10 minutes of comfort.

3. Arthritis, Emergencies & Forgetting to Hurt

• Talks about having arthritis in his lower back and how bending normally hurts — even picking up Vinnie’s poo.
• Describes running to help an elderly lady who fell in the road, lifting her without feeling his usual back pain because his focus was entirely on her safety (and not wanting to look like “a groper”).
• Uses this as a natural example of how, when attention is pulled fully into the moment or towards someone else, pain sensations can temporarily fade into the background.

4. Banana Skins, Family Myths & Nan the “Porcupine”

• Shares a long-running story from his nan about his aunt supposedly breaking her leg slipping on a banana skin.
• Years later, he discovers his aunt actually slipped on ice and never encountered a banana skin at all.
• More confusion follows with an “ice machine” that turns out to be a simple bucket of ice, and tales of his nan telling others Jason had a “ready-made family” with kids he never had.
• Reflects, with affection and amusement, on how family stories twist over time and how his nan might’ve just been bored and embellishing.

5. Old Relationships, Vague Answers & Frank Spencer

• Remembers a woman he dated years ago, travelling from London at weekends, wanting to move in with her.
• She repeatedly gave vague or indirect answers, never clearly saying “yes,” and eventually directly said she didn’t want him to move in.
• Jokes about people being vague, references “Frank” turning into “Betty” as a nod to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, and plays with the absurdity of conversations that go nowhere.
• Lightly touches on existential jokes about being the last man on earth, women possibly being AI, and a tongue-in-cheek aside about being on his meds.

6. Boring Your Pain Away: Everyday Triggers as Therapy

• Explains a personal technique where he imagines stress or tension leaving his body whenever he goes to the toilet, while drinking water becomes “putting positive energy” into himself.
• Talks about breathing in healing and breathing out negativity, like exhaling smoke.
• Notes that doing this kind of thing regularly can become automatic, so you feel calmer without consciously trying.
• Ties it back to his recordings: even if they sound ridiculous, thousands of people fall asleep or feel better listening to his “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” and “Let Me Bore Your Pain Away” sessions, often without knowing exactly why.

7. Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima & Aluminium vs Aluminum

• Rambles through The Wizard of Oz, casually spoiling the “it was all a dream” ending and only realising as he says it.
• Admits he was in his 30s before noticing that the farm characters at the start are echoed by the lion, tin man, and scarecrow in Oz.
• Drifts into pronunciation differences like Hiroshima vs. “Horishima,” and British vs. American words like aluminium/aluminum and colour/color, joking about how spellcheck must suffer and how language might have changed just to be awkward.

8. Circles on Paper, Giant Sheets & Broken Kitchen Blinds

• Suggests an absurd “hobby” of drawing endless coloured circles on a large sheet of paper until you run out of space.
• Wonders about the biggest piece of paper you can buy and pokes fun at billboard posters being made of strips.
• Then switches to a very domestic issue: his kitchen blind was broken by a council worker fixing his window, leaving only a ripped net curtain.
• Talks about how, with lights on, neighbours can see him pottering about or even dancing in the kitchen while waiting for the kettle — upper-body dancing only, to protect his lower back.

9. Ageing, Mirrors, Bald Spots & Lift Cameras

• Reflects on getting older: accepting some physical limitations, but still getting a shock when he catches sight of himself unexpectedly.
• Shares a vivid moment of stepping out of the bath, seeing a steamed-up mirror, wiping it clear, and being startled by the “big pink blob wobbling past” — then realising it’s just him.
• Recalls an elevator covered in mirrors, where all he could see was his bald spot shining like a “pessimistic halo.”
• Mentions his door camera capturing mostly the bald patch as he goes downstairs, joking that even the camera seems to be laughing at him.

10. Vinnie, Walking & Noticing How You Feel Now

• Checks on Vinnie, who’s buried his head under a cardigan and might (or might not) want a walk.
• Repeats the word “walk” to see if Vinnie reacts, but he stays asleep — another small, cosy domestic moment.
• Gently invites you to compare how your body feels now with how it felt at the start: noticing more relaxation, calmness, looseness, and maybe a slightly more positive outlook.
• Closes by naming the episode “A Barrel of Nonsense,” thanking you for listening, and reminding you to be kind and gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe and happy.

📢 Listener Notes & Outro

• This is a chronic pain relief episode in the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away series, using storytelling, humour, and gentle confusion as a way to nudge pain into the background.
• Jason reminds you to only use these sessions alongside proper medical care, not instead of it.
• Includes soft mentions of:
  • JasonNewland.com – where you can find more free sleep hypnosis, insomnia podcasts, and boring podcasts designed to help you relax and drift off.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
Support this free service:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jasonnewland

🎙️ Episode Summary:
Barrel of Nonsense – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: ~40 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview This is a chronic pain relief session in Jason’s gently rambling, comedic, and completely unpressured style. You’re invited to get comfortable, only listen when it’s safe to close your eyes, and let your mind drift as Jason chats about leaf blowers, banana skins, strange family myths, getting older, bald spots in lift mirrors, and Vinnie snuffling around in the background. There’s no heavy technique to follow, no need for silence, and no “trying to relax.” Instead, Jason uses distraction, nonsense, and low-key hypnotic ideas to help your nervous system forget about pain for a while and settle into a looser, calmer state.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes 1. Getting Comfortable & Pain Relief Safeguards

• Jason opens by welcoming you to JasonNewland.com, reminding you this is a chronic pain relief session.
• Emphasises that you should know the cause of your pain and have your doctor’s permission before listening further.
• Invites you to sit or lie somewhere supported, reassuring you that background sounds and imperfect conditions are absolutely fine.
• Notes you can keep your eyes open, but closed usually feels more comfortable.

2. Leaf Blowers, Leaf Suckers & “Accidental” Hypnosis

• Launches into a mock-rant about gardeners using leaf blowers instead of “leaf suckers,” comparing them to vacuum cleaners and questioning the logic of blowing mess around instead of collecting it.
• Jokes that you might think he’s using distraction or confusion techniques, but insists he’s “just moaning about leaves”… while also explaining how distraction shifts attention away from pain and toward his nonsense.
• Plays with the idea that by trying to work out what he’s doing, you can end up more relaxed and even forget why you started listening… and only notice afterwards that you’ve had 10 minutes of comfort.

3. Arthritis, Emergencies & Forgetting to Hurt

• Talks about having arthritis in his lower back and how bending normally hurts — even picking up Vinnie’s poo.
• Describes running to help an elderly lady who fell in the road, lifting her without feeling his usual back pain because his focus was entirely on her safety (and not wanting to look like “a groper”).
• Uses this as a natural example of how, when attention is pulled fully into the moment or towards someone else, pain sensations can temporarily fade into the background.

4. Banana Skins, Family Myths & Nan the “Porcupine”

• Shares a long-running story from his nan about his aunt supposedly breaking her leg slipping on a banana skin.
• Years later, he discovers his aunt actually slipped on ice and never encountered a banana skin at all.
• More confusion follows with an “ice machine” that turns out to be a simple bucket of ice, and tales of his nan telling others Jason had a “ready-made family” with kids he never had.
• Reflects, with affection and amusement, on how family stories twist over time and how his nan might’ve just been bored and embellishing.

5. Old Relationships, Vague Answers & Frank Spencer

• Remembers a woman he dated years ago, travelling from London at weekends, wanting to move in with her.
• She repeatedly gave vague or indirect answers, never clearly saying “yes,” and eventually directly said she didn’t want him to move in.
• Jokes about people being vague, references “Frank” turning into “Betty” as a nod to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, and plays with the absurdity of conversations that go nowhere.
• Lightly touches on existential jokes about being the last man on earth, women possibly being AI, and a tongue-in-cheek aside about being on his meds.

6. Boring Your Pain Away: Everyday Triggers as Therapy

• Explains a personal technique where he imagines stress or tension leaving his body whenever he goes to the toilet, while drinking water becomes “putting positive energy” into himself.
• Talks about breathing in healing and breathing out negativity, like exhaling smoke.
• Notes that doing this kind of thing regularly can become automatic, so you feel calmer without consciously trying.
• Ties it back to his recordings: even if they sound ridiculous, thousands of people fall asleep or feel better listening to his “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” and “Let Me Bore Your Pain Away” sessions, often without knowing exactly why.

7. Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima & Aluminium vs Aluminum

• Rambles through The Wizard of Oz, casually spoiling the “it was all a dream” ending and only realising as he says it.
• Admits he was in his 30s before noticing that the farm characters at the start are echoed by the lion, tin man, and scarecrow in Oz.
• Drifts into pronunciation differences like Hiroshima vs. “Horishima,” and British vs. American words like aluminium/aluminum and colour/color, joking about how spellcheck must suffer and how language might have changed just to be awkward.

8. Circles on Paper, Giant Sheets & Broken Kitchen Blinds

• Suggests an absurd “hobby” of drawing endless coloured circles on a large sheet of paper until you run out of space.
• Wonders about the biggest piece of paper you can buy and pokes fun at billboard posters being made of strips.
• Then switches to a very domestic issue: his kitchen blind was broken by a council worker fixing his window, leaving only a ripped net curtain.
• Talks about how, with lights on, neighbours can see him pottering about or even dancing in the kitchen while waiting for the kettle — upper-body dancing only, to protect his lower back.

9. Ageing, Mirrors, Bald Spots & Lift Cameras

• Reflects on getting older: accepting some physical limitations, but still getting a shock when he catches sight of himself unexpectedly.
• Shares a vivid moment of stepping out of the bath, seeing a steamed-up mirror, wiping it clear, and being startled by the “big pink blob wobbling past” — then realising it’s just him.
• Recalls an elevator covered in mirrors, where all he could see was his bald spot shining like a “pessimistic halo.”
• Mentions his door camera capturing mostly the bald patch as he goes downstairs, joking that even the camera seems to be laughing at him.

10. Vinnie, Walking & Noticing How You Feel Now

• Checks on Vinnie, who’s buried his head under a cardigan and might (or might not) want a walk.
• Repeats the word “walk” to see if Vinnie reacts, but he stays asleep — another small, cosy domestic moment.
• Gently invites you to compare how your body feels now with how it felt at the start: noticing more relaxation, calmness, looseness, and maybe a slightly more positive outlook.
• Closes by naming the episode “A Barrel of Nonsense,” thanking you for listening, and reminding you to be kind and gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe and happy.

📢 Listener Notes & Outro

• This is a chronic pain relief episode in the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away series, using storytelling, humour, and gentle confusion as a way to nudge pain into the background.
• Jason reminds you to only use these sessions alongside proper medical care, not instead of it.
• Includes soft mentions of:
  • JasonNewland.com – where you can find more free sleep hypnosis, insomnia podcasts, and boring podcasts designed to help you relax and drift off.

https://www.jasonnewland.com/
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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Barrel of Nonsense – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #43 – Jason Newland – 18th November 2025
(duration: ~40 minutes)

🎙️ Episode Overview This is a chronic pain relief session in Jason’s gently rambling, comedic, and completely unpressured style. You’re invited to get comfortable, only listen when it’s safe to close your eyes, and let your mind drift as Jason chats about leaf blowers, banana skins, strange family myths, getting older, bald spots in lift mirrors, and Vinnie snuffling around in the background. There’s no heavy technique to follow, no need for silence, and no “trying to relax.” Instead, Jason uses distraction, nonsense, and low-key hypnotic ideas to help your nervous system forget about pain for a while and settle into a looser, calmer state.

🧠 Main Segments & Themes 1. Getting Comfortable & Pain Relief Safeguards

• Jason opens by welcoming you to JasonNewland.com, reminding you this is a chronic pain relief session.
• Emphasises that you should know the cause of your pain and have your doctor’s permission before listening further.
• Invites you to sit or lie somewhere supported, reassuring you that background sounds and imperfect conditions are absolutely fine.
• Notes you can keep your eyes open, but closed usually feels more comfortable.

2. Leaf Blowers, Leaf Suckers & “Accidental” Hypnosis

• Launches into a mock-rant about gardeners using leaf blowers instead of “leaf suckers,” comparing them to vacuum cleaners and questioning the logic of blowing mess around instead of collecting it.
• Jokes that you might think he’s using distraction or confusion techniques, but insists he’s “just moaning about leaves”… while also explaining how distraction shifts attention away from pain and toward his nonsense.
• Plays with the idea that by trying to work out what he’s doing, you can end up more relaxed and even forget why you started listening… and only notice afterwards that you’ve had 10 minutes of comfort.

3. Arthritis, Emergencies & Forgetting to Hurt

• Talks about having arthritis in his lower back and how bending normally hurts — even picking up Vinnie’s poo.
• Describes running to help an elderly lady who fell in the road, lifting her without feeling his usual back pain because his focus was entirely on her safety (and not wanting to look like “a groper”).
• Uses this as a natural example of how, when attention is pulled fully into the moment or towards someone else, pain sensations can temporarily fade into the background.

4. Banana Skins, Family Myths & Nan the “Porcupine”

• Shares a long-running story from his nan about his aunt supposedly breaking her leg slipping on a banana skin.
• Years later, he discovers his aunt actually slipped on ice and never encountered a banana skin at all.
• More confusion follows with an “ice machine” that turns out to be a simple bucket of ice, and tales of his nan telling others Jason had a “ready-made family” with kids he never had.
• Reflects, with affection and amusement, on how family stories twist over time and how his nan might’ve just been bored and embellishing.

5. Old Relationships, Vague Answers & Frank Spencer

• Remembers a woman he dated years ago, travelling from London at weekends, wanting to move in with her.
• She repeatedly gave vague or indirect answers, never clearly saying “yes,” and eventually directly said she didn’t want him to move in.
• Jokes about people being vague, references “Frank” turning into “Betty” as a nod to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, and plays with the absurdity of conversations that go nowhere.
• Lightly touches on existential jokes about being the last man on earth, women possibly being AI, and a tongue-in-cheek aside about being on his meds.

6. Boring Your Pain Away: Everyday Triggers as Therapy

• Explains a personal technique where he imagines stress or tension leaving his body whenever he goes to the toilet, while drinking water becomes “putting positive energy” into himself.
• Talks about breathing in healing and breathing out negativity, like exhaling smoke.
• Notes that doing this kind of thing regularly can become automatic, so you feel calmer without consciously trying.
• Ties it back to his recordings: even if they sound ridiculous, thousands of people fall asleep or feel better listening to his “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” and “Let Me Bore Your Pain Away” sessions, often without knowing exactly why.

7. Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima & Aluminium vs Aluminum

• Rambles through The Wizard of Oz, casually spoiling the “it was all a dream” ending and only realising as he says it.
• Admits he was in his 30s before noticing that the farm characters at the start are echoed by the lion, tin man, and scarecrow in Oz.
• Drifts into pronunciation differences like Hiroshima vs. “Horishima,” and British vs. American words like aluminium/aluminum and colour/color, joking about how spellcheck must suffer and how language might have changed just to be awkward.

8. Circles on Paper, Giant Sheets & Broken Kitchen Blinds

• Suggests an absurd “hobby” of drawing endless coloured circles on a large sheet of paper until you run out of space.
• Wonders about the biggest piece of paper you can buy and pokes fun at billboard posters being made of strips.
• Then switches to a very domestic issue: his kitchen blind was broken by a council worker fixing his window, leaving only a ripped net curtain.
• Talks about how, with lights on, neighbours can see him pottering about or even dancing in the kitchen while waiting for the kettle — upper-body dancing only, to protect his lower back.

9. Ageing, Mirrors, Bald Spots & Lift Cameras

• Reflects on getting older: accepting some physical limitations, but still getting a shock when he catches sight of himself unexpectedly.
• Shares a vivid moment of stepping out of the bath, seeing a steamed-up mirror, wiping it clear, and being startled by the “big pink blob wobbling past” — then realising it’s just him.
• Recalls an elevator covered in mirrors, where all he could see was his bald spot shining like a “pessimistic halo.”
• Mentions his door camera capturing mostly the bald patch as he goes downstairs, joking that even the camera seems to be laughing at him.

10. Vinnie, Walking & Noticing How You Feel Now

• Checks on Vinnie, who’s buried his head under a cardigan and might (or might not) want a walk.
• Repeats the word “walk” to see if Vinnie reacts, but he stays asleep — another small, cosy domestic moment.
• Gently invites you to compare how your body feels now with how it felt at the start: noticing more relaxation, calmness, looseness, and maybe a slightly more positive outlook.
• Closes by naming the episode “A Barrel of Nonsense,” thanking you for listening, and reminding you to be kind and gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe and happy.

📢 Listener Notes & Outro

• This is a chronic pain relief episode in the Let Me Bore Your Pain Away series, using storytelling, humour, and gentle confusion as a way to nudge pain into the background.
• Jason reminds you to only use these sessions alongside proper medical care, not instead of it.
• Includes soft mentions of:
  • JasonNewland.com – where you can find more free sleep hypnosis, insomnia podcasts, and boring podcasts designed to help you relax and drift off.