(music) (10 hours) Sunday’s papers | LMBYTS #1460 | Jason Newland | 12th October 2025

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📄 “Sunday’s papers LMBYTS #1460 Jason Newland – 12th October 2025”
🕰 Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes
🎙 Style: Casual, reflective, meandering, humorous
🐶 Recurring co-star: Vinnie the dog (adorable and opinionated as always)

🧘‍♂️ Overall Tone & Purpose Jason’s goal remains true to the “Let Me Bore You to Sleep” spirit — to gently ramble, muse, and entertain while helping listeners unwind or fall asleep. Though nominally a commentary on Sunday’s papers, it’s largely a relaxed and tangential exploration of Jason’s day, thoughts, and observations, with a few news stories sprinkled in.

🐾 Part 1: A Walk in the Park with Vinnie (0:00 – ~19:00)

• Weather report (Jason-style): Lovely day, nice weather lately.
• Bendy tree anecdote: Jason contemplates taking a funny picture pretending the tree bent under his weight. But alas — no phone, no photographer, and a confused passerby.
• Fence and bush mystery: He hears an odd sound, thinks it’s from a bush, suspects it might be a toilet flushing in the woods (spoiler: it’s geese).
• Vinnie as a philosophical sidekick: Jason imagines a full-on dialogue with Vinnie, who sasses him about bush ventriloquism and corrects him on the difference between hibernation and migration.
• Squirrel TV habits: A hypothetical debate on whether squirrels watch Strictly Come Dancing during winter.

📰 Part 2: Avoiding the Serious News (~22:00 – 30:00)

• Jason delays opening the papers, chatting more with Vinnie about the nature of the podcast — improvisational, soothing, not heavily scripted.
• Vinnie teases Jason about his lack of professionalism, and Jason defends the charm of going unscripted.

🗞 Part 3: Paper Highlights – The (Mostly) Lighthearted Bits (~30:00 – 1:17:00) Jason flips through the Sunday Star, picking out quirky, amusing, or mildly absurd stories:

• Brits face 4-hour EU border queues due to new face and fingerprint scanning systems.
• Steve Coogan tired of people shouting “A-ha!” — Jason empathizes.
• Dua Lipa performs at a drag bar — Jason admits he doesn't know her songs.
• Sigourney Weaver (76!) may return in a new Alien film — Jason is surprised by her age.
• Conker Championships scandal: An 83-year-old champ was accused (and cleared) of cheating with a steel nut. Jason is both amused and impressed.
• Gen Z revives CDs – Jason grumbles affectionately about retro being things he still uses.
• Jude Law says being seen as attractive is limiting — Jason mocks the “tragedy” of beauty.
• Ryan Reynolds jokes raising a boy is harder than girls — Jason skeptically predicts teen daughters may prove otherwise.
• Sam Fox says Brits don’t appreciate her singing due to her Page 3 past.
• John Bishop biopic with Will Arnett playing him — Jason wonders why John didn’t play himself.
• Brad Pitt moves in with his partner — Jason jokes about being overly concerned about celebrity relationships.

🪐 Part 4: Astrology & Oddities (1:28:00 – end)

• Horoscopes with Russell Grant – Jason reads horoscopes in a friendly tone, paying extra attention to Virgo (his sign) and Pisces (potential soulmates, perhaps?).
• Odd news:
  • Talking litter bins in a Dutch theme park.
  • Nude Christmas dinner at a Southampton pub for naturists.
  • Karate black belts earned by two women aged 79.
  • Edible cucumber packaging.
  • Ark orbital capsule for fast emergency deliveries.
  • Influencers with music careers, including Addison Rae.
• Jason ends with gentle reminders of kindness, self-care, and love.

❤️ Themes & Takeaways

• Gentle, slow humour: Delivered in Jason’s trademark soft-spoken, rambly style.
• Absurdity & affection for the mundane: Whether it’s geese honking or a newspaper pun, Jason leans into the small, funny oddities of life.
• Imaginary conversations with Vinnie are rich with irony and warmth — an ongoing highlight of the LMBYTS episodes.
• Sleepy vibes: Everything is structured (loosely) to help you relax, chuckle a bit, and drift off.