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🎙️ Episode Summary:
Posters – Monday’s Boring Objects – LMBYTS #1491 – Jason Newland – 17th November 2025(duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes)
🎙️ Episode Overview
In this meandering and sleepy Monday’s Boring Objects episode, Jason picks a wonderfully mundane theme: posters and “things I’ve had on the wall,” and then happily wanders off in all directions. Along the way he chats about boxing, TikTok oddities, blue tack, childhood comics, smart meters, bills stuck to walls, and old reviews that still keep him going. Vinnie the red Jack Russell pads around the flat, crunches loudly at the worst possible moments, and stars in a few stories of his own (including a very memorable wee on a neighbour’s bed). The tone is cosy, conversational, and gently self-mocking – ideal background rambling for drifting off to sleep or relaxing in bed with your eyes closed.
🧠 Main Segments & Themes
- Opening Ramble, Vinnie & New Hypnosis Session
- Jason starts by welcoming listeners to JasonNewland.com and reminding everyone to only listen when it’s safe to close their eyes.
- Vinnie has just had his dinner and may snack and potter about while Jason talks.
- Jason mentions recording a separate 30-minute hypnosis session earlier in the day (“Release Intention”) and feeling genuinely relaxed afterward.
- He talks about stats lagging behind, YouTube comments (thanks Tina), and how every new podcast now automatically appears on YouTube in six versions (with/without music, 5-hour and 10-hour editions).
- Platforms, Promotion & A Thank-You to Supporters
- Explains that new recordings are now also going up on X (Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, and possibly Facebook, with shorter or full-length video versions where possible.
- Mentions losing old Twitter account details and starting again with a fresh profile.
- Thanks Mary for a kind PayPal gift and invites listeners to send in questions for the upcoming Q&A Friday on 21st November 2025.
- Reflects on how people can listen anywhere – Spotify, Apple Podcasts, his website – and how YouTube is a “slow burner” with around 1,621 subscribers.
- Boxing Chat & “Funny Fights” (Conor Benn, Eubank Jr, Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua)
- Jason drifts into boxing talk: the one-sided Conor Benn vs Eubank Jr fight, how different it was from their first meeting, and why he’d give Eubank almost no rounds this time.
- Breaks down big purses, management cuts, and how 10 million quickly becomes “only” about three or three and a half after tax and fees.
- Discusses novelty fights, especially the planned Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul bout, predicting it will be funny – unless Jake Paul actually lands something big.
- Talks about Jake Paul’s record (MMA opponents, Tommy Fury, Mike Tyson, Chavez Jr.) and why these crossover events aren’t really new, reminding listeners of Ali vs a wrestler and other old exhibition-style bouts.
- Posters, Childhood Walls & TV Heroes
- Moves into the main “boring object” theme: posters on his walls over the years.
- Remembers the last “proper” poster he had as a teenager – pop star Sabrina from “Boys, Boys, Boys” – stuck somewhere he could “wake up to her every day,” and how deeply he believed he loved her.
- Talks about a childhood Bruce Lee poster from a magazine, probably around 1978, featuring images from Enter the Dragon – one from the opening training scene and another from the Hall of Mirrors.
- Reflects on the TV series Kung Fu with David Carradine, how much he adored the calm, focused style of the character, and how it contrasted with the shouting and squeaking of classic kung-fu films.
- Mentions the similar “walking down the road with a backpack” endings of Kung Fu and The Incredible Hulk.
- Shares his annoyance with the way Bruce Lee was portrayed in a modern Tarantino film, but admits one line about “everyone going to prison if they kill someone” was quite funny.
- Sharon Davies, Bikini Walls & Dad’s Comment
- Remembers having a picture of British swimmer Sharron Davies on the wall, likely around the time of the 1980 Olympics.
- Recalls his dad pointing out that everyone on his wall seemed to be in a bikini or swimming costume.
- Jason’s explanation? The “theme of the wall” was simply, “people I love… women I love.”
- Comics, Magazines & Blue Tack Logistics
- Reminisces about Look-in and The Dandy being his weekly comics, while his brothers had Beano, war magazines and football mags.
- Talks about wrestling with staples in the middle of magazines to extract posters without destroying the issue, because he liked to keep them all.
- Mentions how, by around 1984, he had years of Look-in and Dandy stored away, and how different it might have been if he’d kept them all until today.
- YouTube Videos, The Giant Beard & Being Seen vs Being Heard
- Jumps forward to YouTube era: he has old videos dating back to 2007, some of which he’s re-uploaded in playlists.
- Talks about a particular 2020 video where he has an enormous beard and a mask that sits like a “thong” between the beard, which even a local petrol station worker commented on once he shaved it off.
- Reflects on not loving the idea of being “seen” on camera, even though there are hundreds of videos where he’s already visible. He’s more comfortable as a voice than a face.
- Mentions AI-generated images where his teeth look comically perfect and his fingers somehow still look like his own hands.
- Smart Meters, Bills on Walls & Anxiety
- Shifts to practical “wall objects”: smart meters, bills, and lists of debts.
- Tells a story about a friend with COPD who placed the smart meter under the TV and became obsessed with watching the numbers go up, to the point of turning off heating and making himself cold.
- Jason gently urged him to put it away for the sake of his health and peace of mind – advice he also follows himself by keeping his own meter out of sight.
- Remembers a whiteboard listing monthly outgoings, and how much cheaper electricity and gas used to be. These days, almost everything is on direct debit, which he finds less stressful.
- TikTok, Weird Messages & Social Media Fatigue
- Talks about experimenting with TikTok over the weekend, researching how it works and feeling mentally drained by it all.
- Shares some odd messages from a stranger asking where he lives and insisting they’re on TikTok to “meet a lovely, honest, genuine man,” despite having no videos or live streams.
- Reflects on how that kind of thing feels scammy and how he’s not quite sure how his sleepy content fits into TikTok culture, but decides he’ll keep posting new episodes there, on Instagram, X, and maybe Facebook too.
- Vinnie’s Wee, Puppy Videos & Flat Memories
- Describes posting videos in his Facebook “Boring Group,” including clips of Vinnie as a tiny puppy with a hyperactive tail.
- Tells the story of Vinnie being left with a neighbour for an hour, happily bouncing around and then doing an excited wee on her bed. She laughed – Jason was less amused.
- Shares how he wishes he’d had Vinnie from the very start of his life, believing he’d have been hugged so much he’d be better behaved on walks today.
