Discontent Provider

Episode 54: Rwanda and Swansong

In an episode delayed by terrible technical issues, the chaps from the Happy Place puzzle over the Government's fixation upon Rwanda, and express concern over the plans to smash the citizenry's human rights into rubble. Also, those of a certain age (or those with a strangely anachronistic set of cultural references) might feel a touch of Flanders and Swann coming on vis-a-vis The Song At The End.

Episode 53: It’d Take A Braverman Than Me To Sack Her (and to resist that God-awful joke)

Grateful that their fears about unspeakable carnage 'pon the streets of Olde London Towne, the Happy Place's lovely layabouts begin to speculate upon unspeakable carnage within the ranks of the Conservative Party as the PM attempts to shuffle a handful of duds into something that would have made the Cincinnati Kid turn it in and go home.

Episode 52: Monumental Idiocy

As Armistice Day approaches, the Podcast To End All Podcasts considers the sticky position of peace-loving cats and kittens caught 'twixt two different groups of bellicose imbeciles - and expresses concern about where a potential Poppy Day punch-up might lead our beleagured country. Also - because they really don't know - Arkham and Foxy would love to find out what Real People do on weekends when the fabric of Democracy doesn't hang in the balance...

Episode 51: Ceremonial Soporifics

The chaps are still reeling from the awe-inspiring majesty of the King's Speech. Not really - but one has to say that sort of thing now if one doesn't fancy things getting a tad custodial, apparently. On that subject, Foxy learns a harsh lesson about being brought up on 1970s sitcoms, while others learn one about being careful what they wish for...

An Intense Struggle Not To Do A Pun About Tents

Foxy and Arkham are out of the traps bright and early today, and are feeling marginally less wretched than usual - so much so that a close observer might suspect them of being about to take a charitable attitude toward a politician who has made it a mission to persecute charitable attitudes. Lucky the chaps dodged that bullet, eh what?

Episode 49: Free to talk balls in the hallowed halls.

It's dashed lucky that the weather has inclined to the chilly of late. Had it not been, your Podcast Pals wouldn't have been kept warm by the heat of pure fury in the face of the appalling hypocrisy of a Government who - let's face it - have mastered the art to a point that would have made Michealfuckingangelo hang up his brushes...

Episode 48: Helping Absolutely No-One With Their Enquiries

Those choosing to loiter a while in the Happy Place for a quick Wednesday Wallop of Discontent Provider might be surprised to find just how unsurprised the chaps are. Then again, they might not - though the Covid Enquiry is lavishing outrage, disgust, and moral torpitude upon the public, it's been pretty stingy when it comes to the Unexpected...

Episode47: Trigger Warning - Not the kind about language though; the OTHER kind.

In this Monday Mini, Foxy and Arkham eschew international niceties and unashamedly stick their noses (one long, sensitive, and peerlessly noble; the other a barely-there retroussé button of a thing) into America's business and consider the two nations' attitude to guns. So there.

Holy Sh*t (We mean ”Shit”, but censored it in case kids are browsing)

The Happy Place is fairly thick with secular humanism as we close another week. Those whose religious beliefs allow them to let other people kill and die for them while they're safely tucked up in their vestments may not dig this particular scene. On an unrelated note: the brand-new harp that is featured in the Song At The End is a crushing disappointment - and harsh words will be spoken in a Midlands music shop tome the morrow.

Episode 45: Thursday Surprise

An executive decision to wait upon events caused the unpardonable lateness of this episode; it couldn't be helped, however - the chaps wanted to have their ducks in a row prior to pondering the difference between something having "worth" and having "value".