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What if we made the Soviet Union, but shit and expensive?What if a Swedish man was Italian?
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Card-Carrying Villain: Dave Courtney. If there’s a law, he’ll break it just for the hell of it.
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Your Head A-Splode
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Your Head Asplode: Allegedly, pirating a premium episode of the podcast and hearing Milo say that it's a paid one puts listeners at risk of this.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The name and entire premise of the podcast.
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good Is Not Nice: The show makes mockery of many acceptable targets, such as war criminals, tech billionaires and people who make the world a worse place, and the episode descriptions always include links to fundraisers and tenant unions.
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Crapsaccharine World
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Crapsaccharine World: London as a whole. The hosts have very little time or patience for all the “fun� activities and businesses that get promoted in hip publications like Vice or Time Out, seeing them as twee, annoying, exclusively filled with smug moneyed City boys on tertiary incomes, and only made possible through constant gentrification and selling off assets to billionaires. The shining example of this is the much-vaunted 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, where a pageant showing off a rose-tinted idealised version of Britain was only made possible by demolishing East London housing estates to create the Olympic Park and displacing the residents, with housing prices only getting higher and higher in the years since.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: The UK as a whole, but of special mention is the south-east of England, where all the British hosts (Milo, Hussein and November) originate from. November in particular describes her hometown of Bromley as exceptionally grim.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Many, but some particular targets include UK media commentator Brendan O'Neill and 'human labrador retriever' Matt Hancock. Graham Linehan, the once-distinguished creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, whose virulent transphobia rendered him effectively unemployable and cost him his marriage. The hosts take active glee whenever he appears in the news as it always precedes him humiliating himself further. Self-styled “celebrity gangster� Dave Courtney, to the point where the first episode of the sub-series Britainology was devoted to a documentary about him. The entire Labour Party under Keir Starmer, which they ignore as much as possible, and insist on calling the “Loser Party for Losers�. Among the hosts, Riley often gets ribbed for his very expensive tastes in food and fashion.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first year of the show was more loosely structured, frequently going off-topic, and recorded in Riley’s living room or whatever Airbnb the hosts were staying in. Audio difficulties and tech issues were frequent, especially with Milo joining remotely from Moscow. Fast forward to 2018, where they began recording in a studio in Tower Hamlets, Nate came on as a dedicated producer, and Riley ran a tighter ship, taking detailed extensive notes before recording and keeping the discussion focused. Grace Blakeley, who’s been among the most frequent guests, noted in 2020 how “serious� the show has gotten and that the usual process was to get drunk and record for hours. Sex and horniness comes up frequently in the first year of the show, especially from Riley; nowadays, he has to stop the conversation from getting too horny.
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Hair-Trigger Temper
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Milo, who can go from calm and sardonic to furiously ranting at something annoying or insipid. Whenever he does this, he develops what Riley calls a “relaxation vein�.
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Fake Band
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Fake Band: Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads.
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Simple Country Lawyer
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Simple Country Lawyer: Milo’s Kentucky colonel characternote effectively an impression of Kevin Costner in JFK, who always pops up to point out the short-sighted cruelty of the financial world, “and surely there’s some mannah o’ SAFEGUARD to prevent such a thing from occurin’?!â€�
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Canary in a Coal Mine
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Canary in a Coal Mine: Trans people, Muslims and immigrants are this to the UK whenever things look rough, with politicians and commentators of all stripes engaging in culture war bullshit to distract the populace. November, as a trans woman who converted to Islam, is especially tired of this. Also brought up when discussing insecure work for artists with Abigail Thorn. The hosts warn that, if the government can get away with leaving actors and comedians in the dirt, they will do the same for other industries.
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Capitalism Is Bad
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Capitalism Is Bad: The podcast is explicitly socialist in its outlook, and most episodes involve some discussion of the absurdities of capitalism.
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Cultural Cringe
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Cultural Cringe: Often features discussion of the unique perversions of British culture, including referring to the UK as 'nonce/TERF island'. The sub-series Britainology has Milo introducing Nate to a different bizarre aspect of the UK, ranging from rave culture, 1970s television and the national obsession with Princess Diana, and trying to unpack it.
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Five-Man Band
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Five-Man Band: The full squad: Riley, Milo, Nate, Hussein, and November Sixth Ranger: Devon co-hosts the Twitch stream and served as the DM for their Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and occasionally appears on the podcast if it interests them. Olga Koch, Russian-born British comedian and friend of Riley and Milo, will sometimes join the hosts.
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Un-Robotic Reveal
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Un-Robotic Reveal: The failed startup “Nate� (no relation); an AI that can fill in customer details on checkout is actually being done manually by some guys in the Philippines.
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Upper-Class Twit
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Upper-Class Twit: A frequent target of the show, but particularly relevant for the two-parter covering the failed coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea, where most of the collaborators were wealthy Old Etonians and Harrovians who craved adventure. Sir Mark Thatcher (yes, son of Margaret) gets it particularly bad; his nickname at Harrow as “Thickyâ€�note Harrow is already notable for being among the stupider of English public schools, along with Rugby and Charterhouse, and he once went missing during the 1982 Paris-Dakar rally because he didn’t know how to read the map.
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: the "banished from the lagoon" bit goes on, ignoring attempts at interruption, for ten straight minutes.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Really all of the hosts, but especially November.
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Cop Hater
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Cop Hater: Showcased during discussion of police treatment of protesters, particularly after the murder of Sarah Everard.
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What If?
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What If?: The show uses this snowclone to poke fun at the high-concept scifi of Black Mirror ('What if your phone was the cops?'), cultural stereotypes ('What if a Swedish man was Italian?') and the state of the modern world ('What if we made the Soviet Union, but shit and expensive?')
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Europeans Are Kinky
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Europeans Are Kinky: the hosts sometimes joke companies start-ups they talk about are financed by the "business perverts" from Twünkhole Capital, the only company where the desk chairs have holes in them for rimming.
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: the hosts get particularly appalled at "Keir Starmer can't even define what a woman is" in the context of a transgender child getting murdered.
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Sixth Ranger
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Sixth Ranger: Devon co-hosts the Twitch stream and served as the DM for their Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and occasionally appears on the podcast if it interests them. Olga Koch, Russian-born British comedian and friend of Riley and Milo, will sometimes join the hosts.
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Man of a Thousand Voices
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Man of a Thousand Voices: Milo's talent for voices has birthed many of the show's bits. Zigzagged with Riley; Milo theorises that he can be this trope, but only if he’s trying to impersonate someone else, like the Enigma machine.
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A Rare Sentence
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A Rare Sentence: "I've heard rumours that you have been banished to the lagoon".
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Amoral Afrikaner
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Amoral Afrikaner: Milo's Afrikaner mercenary character Jerk van der Klerk.
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Start of Darkness
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Start of Darkness: Riley’s Law - “Anyone who discovers transphobia never posts normally again�. Examples include Graham Linehan, JK Rowling, the Internet forum Mumsnet, and most British media outlets, particularly The Times and The Spectator.
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Musical Episode
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Musical Episode: Between the two songs from Johannes Vonk and The Clogheads and Richard Highsmith’s ‘track’ “Call Me Mr. E�, the show has started to use original music to emphasize its political and comedic points.
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The Chew Toy
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The Chew Toy: Nick Clegg, former Lib Dem leader turned human shield for Mark Zuckerberg. The hosts lose their shit over a Financial Times interview with him where his first line is asking “Can we get the sneering and mockery out of the way?�
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Battle Strip
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Battle Strip: Devon has a very muscular build, and for a princely sum will tear off their t-shirt on Twitch. It’s become a Running Gag that the show has to reimburse them for going through countless Tesco t-shirts. This has happened less and less with Devon getting increasingly hench and not wanting to destroy their wardrobe.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: So, so many. What if a Swedish man was Italian? Boston Asimo. What if your x was the cops?
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Oktoberfest
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Oktoberfest: While doing standup in Russia, Milo recounts how he was frequently booked to do gigs at various Maximilian’s, which were often the biggest venues at the small towns on the tour. The menu was almost entirely identical varieties of German sausage, apart from the odd Ukrainian dish “because that’s basically German�.
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