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S2 Ep 181It weren’t me!

This week’s clips are from early 2020 when we were just hearing about the Mad Bat Disease and some people were taking advantage, there’s a phoney French listener with material and a confusing message from New York.

Jun 20, 202228 min

S2 Ep 180A genius restaurant promotion

This week’s clips are from when we were just hearing about the Mad Bat Disease and include a restauranteur with an idea, a man who offers to subject himself to free beer and panic buying was afoot.

Jun 13, 202236 min

S2 Ep 179A bucket of mist

These clips include science advice from a self confessed genius, we were trying not to touch our faces and were frightened of running out of toilet paper

Jun 6, 202228 min

S2 Ep 178Chimps with nukes

This week’s clips include a mystifying call about the truth, there’s a worrying development in the animal kingdom and Bodger Johnson spies a job creation opportunity.

May 30, 202232 min

S2 Ep 177The bathroom ballet

This week, there’s the rules of the bathroom dance, we were freaking out about washing our hands and I found that animals are playing catch-up.

May 23, 202231 min

S2 Ep 176The Toilet Issue

This week’s clips from two years ago include me not getting calmed about a dental visit, the Eurovision Song Contest was imminent and no-one had seen the Dear Leader in a while.

May 16, 202241 min

S2 Ep 175Absent without leave

This week’s clips are from two years ago when people were wondering where Bodger had got to, as he seemed to have disappeared. Turns out he was selling himself to the highest Russian bidder, a man called with something unfathomable and listeners pick fights with each other.

May 9, 202230 min

S2 Ep 174How much for a toaster?!

In this week’s clips we were trying to save the planet, one plastic bag at a time, there was alarming news on the price of a kitchen gadget and we hear about the surprising stuff people found in the street.

May 1, 202234 min

S2 Ep 173Flip-flop heaven

This week we were enjoying our all-new passports, a voter is not entirely satisfied with how his decision turned out and I explain why some footwear is ill advised.

Apr 26, 202231 min

S2 Ep 172Where’s Bodger?

This week’s clips are from two years ago when Bodger Johnson had done one of his disappearing acts, people had started to turn anti-packaging and we get a lecture from a bank.

Apr 19, 202240 min

S2 Ep 171What’s the Queen on?

This week, we find out something alarming about the pandemic, people were upset about the environment, there was a Friends reunion and we discover where the Queen is to be found.

Apr 11, 202231 min

S2 Ep 170George Clooney gets swamped

In this episode we have lots of fun with weather and Bodger Johnson’s place gets a touch-up.

Apr 4, 202231 min

S2 Ep 169How to eat peanut butter

These clips from two years ago include our first taste of panic buying, a listener with material manages to get one by me and a nice lady shares her breakfast routine.

Mar 28, 202227 min

S2 Ep 168Pasta is very dangerous

This week’s clips are from two years ago when people were panic buying lettuce, Meghan Sparkles had not yet been dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West, I was trying not to touch my face and we learned something alarming about pasta.

Mar 23, 202229 min

S2 Ep 167Washing your hands with booze

This week’s clips are from the start of our journey through the mad bat disease, when we were experiencing our first supermarket sweeps of toilet paper and we were trying not to touch our faces.

Mar 14, 202233 min

S2 Ep 166Don’t touch your face!

These clips are from a couple of years ago when I had a Nesquik disaster, we were starting to panic about toilet paper and everyone was going germ-free.

Mar 7, 202239 min

S2 Ep 165Bodger’s holiday mystery

This week’s podcast has me not complaining about feeling ill, I make a prediction about government policy, we talk about the artist Banksy and we were just starting out on our journey with the invisible menace.

Feb 28, 202232 min

S2 Ep 164Asking For A Punch

This week’s clips are from when I had a cold and was also suffering from inhaling a foreign object in my sleep but as you can imagine, I wasn’t complaining about it at all!

Feb 21, 202240 min

S2 Ep 163Something inside my insides

This week there’s more talk of the Death Bat, Donny and Bodger’s relationship sours and I have a go at SUV drivers.

Feb 21, 202232 min

S2 Ep 162Squirrels in the attic

This week’s clips from two years ago include several animal nightmares, a boat load of people get sent to Milton Keynes, something other than the disease was giving us reason to be concerned about China and we got into James Bond’s car.

Feb 7, 202235 min

S2 Ep 161Bats in the attic, squirrels in the loft

This weeks clips are from two years ago when we were expecting a storm, we hadn’t yet started on our Covid nightmare, I had a row with a nice lady about an awful man and I was suffering from a fluffy vermin attack.

Jan 31, 202233 min

S2 Ep 160Inhaling something really bad

This week’s clips include Donald Trump’s weird attraction to a certain animal, there’s an alarming prediction about our future, I take in something that disagrees with me, we were at the very start of the virus thing and Dominic Cummings had yet to test his eyesight, Boris Johnson was our new leader and I get called something I’ve never been called before.

Jan 24, 202230 min

S2 Ep 159Having someone for dinner

This week’s clips are from two years ago when someone wanted to give Bodger a chance, a man had an interesting idea for dinner and there was a storm-a-coming.

Jan 17, 202236 min

S2 Ep 158You could see her arm!

This week’s clips are from two years ago, when we had not yet experienced the delights of Covid or a Boris Johnson leadership. The nation was gripped by a wardrobe malfunction and worried about the state of bees and there’s advice on what not to put in your neighbour’s letter box.

Jan 10, 202235 min

S2 Ep 157A cosy contraception

This week the nation was gripped by an off-the-shoulder number, bees were a problem and a wide range of experts called to talk about things they knew nothing about.

Dec 20, 202129 min

S2 Ep 156Take me to your leader

This week, I have a fight with the equipment, someone doesn't quite understand a Labour Party promise, a storm is coming in, some people get stuck in Milton Keynes and we realise we are not the brightest things on Earth.

Dec 6, 202128 min

S2 Ep 155A sexual disease down under

This week's clips are from the first day of our freedom from the Evil European Overlords, I get a proposal from a lady in Croydon, we fail to spot a celebrity, find a dog's worth £10m and discover something awful about a certain cuddly bear.

Nov 29, 202131 min

S2 Ep 154Fix bayonets!

This week's clips are from the day after we escaped the clutches of the European Socialist Superstate and we were having a LOT of fun. There was a playlist to guess, a portrait to marvel at and a suspicious call from someone who might not be who they said they were.

Nov 22, 202134 min

S2 Ep 153Dusting your nick-knacks

It was the day after our glorious escape from our evil European overlords and everyone was in a great mood, including me. There was a small cloud on our horizon of a mysterious invisible menace brewing in China but apart from that we were all fired up and full of beans. This show was a hoot.

Nov 15, 202138 min

S2 Ep 152We're out!

It is the day this podcast has been building up to for a while now and it finally arrived. We left the EU on the 31st of January 2020 and Nick Ferrari was on air for the glorious moment. I followed afterwards and here's a flavour of what happened, with some predictions of what might happen next, which were either very right, or very wrong.

Nov 9, 202128 min

S2 Ep 151Keep taking the pills

This week, Australia was on fire, China was reacting to a virus that hadn't got here yet, I had a dicky tummy and Donald Trump allowed companies to pollute America's rivers - good job that wouldn't happen here, eh?

Nov 1, 202128 min

S2 Ep 150Pasta is a vegetable

This week's clips are from the week before we left the Evil European Socialist Superstate, President Tangerine Scream reclassified food, I was bravely putting up with a dodgy stomach and Boris Johnson said something stupid.

Oct 26, 202135 min

S2 Ep 149Morons on motorbikes

We were just a week away from our glorious future outside the evil EU superstate, word was coming from China about a mysterious new illness and I was recovering from a dodgy oyster.

Oct 18, 202139 min

S2 Ep 148Earthquake rumblings

This week's clips are from when we were hearing of the invisible menace from China for the first time and I may have been one of the first people in this country to get it. Or it might have been a dodgy bivalve

Oct 11, 202133 min

S2 Ep 147Solving global warming with a tube

This week, it was the week before we left the European Union to access our perfect new lives, a man calls to tell me about his organ and we solve global warming in one easy step.

Oct 4, 202130 min

S2 Ep 146To space and beyond!

This week, in clips from January 2020, Donald Trump announced his Space Force, we were a week away from our glorious future outside the Evil European Socialist Superstate and I declare war on trees.

Sep 27, 202130 min

S2 Ep 145Uh-oh! It begins.

This week, in clips from January 2020, a man wakes up from what sounds like a coma and sees who our prime minister is, the church talk about sex a lot and there's the very first inkling from China that things may be going downhill.

Sep 21, 202132 min

S2 Ep 144Kook Alert!

This week's clips were from just before we escaped the Evil European Overlords, one lady was very upset about it, there's a spooky prediction about empty shelves and quite a lot of eccentric callers.

Sep 13, 202128 min

S2 Ep 143Keeping the ball rolling

This week, there's some calls so impenetrable you'd need to be Alan Turing to figure them out, Sajman Jav slips up and we learn who is the backbone of this great country.

Sep 7, 202129 min

S2 Ep 142More than one moose

This week's clips come from when Hazza and Sparkles were causing consternation by not following the script we had written for them, we were about to be free of our European Socialist Overlords, The Tangerine Scream was still in the Whitehouse and quite a few callers were not completely satisfied with me.

Aug 30, 202129 min

S2 Ep 141Worst. Trifle. Ever.

This week, people were obsessing about the colour of their passports, there's crisps and chocolate at the same time and Hazza and Sparkles were threatening to leave.

Aug 23, 202132 min

S2 Ep 140Party Planning

This week's clips are from just weeks before we gained our freedom from the Evil Socialist Superstate and someone was planning a celebration. I get a call from an old enemy and one from a customer who is not completely satisfied.

Aug 16, 202133 min

S2 Ep 139Can you spare a Bob boy?

This week's clips are from days before we ascended the sunny uplands of our glorious future and left the Evil Socialist Superstate, the nation was searching for loose change, Donito Mussolini was flexing his muscle and it was all a bit "Dad's Army".

Aug 9, 202130 min

S2 Ep 138Bonging for Britain

These clips are from just weeks before we first heard about an invisible menace in China and we were occupied by other matters like what Hazza and Sparkles were going to do next and, most pressingly, how we should celebrate our glorious exit from the Evil European Superstate.

Aug 2, 202131 min

S2 Ep 137Flimflam and twaddle

We are in January 2020 when we were bathing in the glory of a new leader and the invisible menace was yet to be heard of. There's the best TV shows, a unique way of funding the nation's favourite institution and all eyes were on Hazza and Sparkles.

Jul 27, 202137 min

S2 Ep 136The great escape

These clips are from January 2020, just before we left the EU and before we heard of the invisible menace that was just around the corner. There's quite some chat about the royals and an old friend of the show calls to talk about "algorithms".

Jul 20, 202130 min

S2 Ep 135Cruella the puppy stealer

This week's clips are from January last year and we were talking then about many of the things we are still talking about now. A heartless, evil woman from far, far away had come to steal our precious puppy, World War 3 looked like it was about to begin and an "expert" calls.

Jul 12, 202132 min

S2 Ep 134Mind the bull

This week is a bit spooky as a good few months before we had ever heard of the virus, the idea of wearing masks and working from home came up, along with something odd in a farmer's field and even weirder up a skyscraper.

Jul 6, 202132 min

Introducing 'I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan'

Hi, Nick Abot listener, We’ve got another brand new podcast we think you’ll enjoy. ‘I’ve Been Thinking’ is a new weekly show hosted by Peter Frankopan. As well as being a best-selling author (Silk Roads), Professor of Global History and Oxford and voted as one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers, Peter uses this podcast to speak with some incredible guests looking at topics from around the world that help understand and explain the past, present and future. Guests include former Director of the FBI James Comey and Chinese artist & activist Ai Weiwei. This is a taster of what you can expect from the show. If you like what you hear please search for I’ve Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts.

Jul 1, 20212 min

S2 Ep 133The 16th Show in a Row

This week's clips are from the end of a marathon run of shows over Christmas 2019. Donald Trump had just bombed Iran, Australia was on fire, someone commits a milk crime and I declare war on daytime TV.

Jun 28, 202134 min