Discontent Provider

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...

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?

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...

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...

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.

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.

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".

Monday's minisode finds the chaps at the Happy Place fearfully put out, but not even surprised enough to raise an exquisitely-arched eyebrow to learn that the Department of Education is keeping tabs on its staff to make sure they're not being seditious in cyberspace. There's also a bit of History that Foxy learned in school from a book that would nowadays be burned from a teacher who would - in these God-awful days - almost certainly have died in mysterious circumstances.

No two ways about it; Foxy's a fair old cross-patch today. It might be the weather, or it might be an overdose of existentialism. In any event, the grumpiness of his trousers DOES sufficiently abate by the end of proceedings to revel in the misfortunes of others and do a song. Arkham - but of course - retains his effortless cool throughout.

Foxy and Arkham take to the Great Outdoors for a quick Wednesday shufty at a far bigger controversy than the destruction of a hospital - at least to some cats and kittens it is. They also gaze into the Beyond and ask "Whither TV News?"