Ben Baker hosts a retrospective look back at one of his biggest loves and influences: Viz, the adult comic founded by teenage cartoonist Chris Donald which has made people laugh, guffaw, chuckle, snort and wheeze with its mixture of comic strips, newspaper spoofs, rude words, bottoms, bollocks and general buggering about since issue one, sold as The Bumper Monster Christmas Special, first appeared at a gig in the Gosforth Hotel pub on the 10th December 1979.

Musician and podcaster Paul Abbott joins him to discuss that first issue and where it sits in the UK's comic history, reflecting as it has over four decades of fads, trends and Macc Lads revival tours. Although mostly they're just going to laugh a lot at rude words. Enjoy.

Read the original comic alongside us here: https://bit.ly/3xS08Hx

Welcome to Ben Baker's Christmas Box, a seasonally swanky trip through television's present-wrapped past. In each short episode of my new series I talk to a guest about something that represents the Christmas period to them and today I'm joined by musician, podcaster and composer of my amazing new theme tune Paul Abbott who has brought to the turkey-stained table "Peace On Earth", a 1939 Christmas cartoon all about the very least festive subject imaginable. He's here to expunge some childhood terrors and pass them onto us...Merry Deathmas!

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Watch Peace on Earth here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuiut

Find Paul and his mighty works here: https://twitter.com/Pablovich 

And I've just released a new book all about the hits, misses and 'what the bloody hell is that?!?s' that made up the 20th century Christmas TV experience. Find it here: https://linktr.ee/BenBakerBooks.

Do you want to listen to a podcast about rotten Draculas, strange handprints, Pope swapping, TV monkey homing, New Zealand's unusual chart toppers, the art of Star Trek Captain naming and Tom Mix's horse Tony among things? Well, this was indeed the series for you!

Sadly this is the final regular episode of "Don't Lets Chart". We've really enjoyed our two and a half years of creating silly list trivia but we both feel we've done as much as we can under the current name. We will return with something different soon but for now its goodbye and a huge thank you for listening to our daft series.

Love and Robots,

Ben and Phil

.trahC steL tnoD fo edosipe wen eht ot emoclew dna olleH...ahem, sorry, we've been listening to those backwards records again as there's moral panic on the horizon and its coming for your children!!! I mean, it's not obviously. But Ben Baker and Phil Catterall will be exploring some of history's weirdest uproars alongside learning about Gangulphus of Burgundy, the things that happened in Monty Python's wake, toxins, yellow reggae, the 'Cattomeat Bin Animal', Rainbow Parties, chess nonsense, Elvis' last hit singles, foam rolling, Minnesota mascot wars and why you cant even say Christmas anymore.

So come ruin your turntable for the true masters of the dark. enif yllacisab s'ti, enif s'tI

Listen, share, hit subscribe, drink a vodka up your bum, all that usual stuff. We're a small scale homemade show with just two people so all the support is gratefully received as our current listener base could fit in a shoe. 

If you'd like to throw a few quid at us too you can support the show - and get our monthly bonus show, plus access to two whole series not on the regular feed - via this here link: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart

Hey kids! Do you like facts? Do you like charts? Do you like betraying your country for upwards of £6 and a bottle of Tizer? Then Don't Lets Chart is the podcast for you. Ben Baker and Phil Catterall lead the parade of the past with terrible deals, Beethoven's working titles, the finest in pathologists, money for literally nothing, your best Swedish Idol judge, unfreedom, impressing Jodie Foster, what ET is short for, a talking 12" Nelson Mandela, frame frisking, uprisings and a leather pavillion for everybody.

Listen, share, hit subscribe, steal an experimental aircraft, all that usual stuff. We're a small scale homemade show with just two people so all the support is gratefully received.

If you'd like to throw a few quid at us too you can support the show and get our soon to be announced monthly bonus show, plus access to two whole series not on the regular feed, via this here link: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart

Welcome to the podcast that tries to charge head first through today via the distraction of yesterday with lists, trivia and thirteen litres of Old Ianson’s Dad Botherer up the park. In today's episode we're taking a look at April 20th throughout the years and learn why Street Fighter The Movie The Game did not need to exist, who has the annually best bottoms, when Macbeth was first misquoted for comedy value, what a pineapple farmer might be, who came afoul of a "swamp rabbit", how you could lick a James Bond, when the Red Baron was a dog, what Phil's closest lookalike is, how to tell the "unpasteurised milk" joke, what George Burns and Captain Tom have in common (other than that) and there's the tragic history of Davey Dirtbox. Plus much more all packed into a very funny half hour in which you might learn something but only if you read an encyclopedia whilst listening.

Listen, share, hit subscribe, wear a tie that stinks of chicken, all that usual stuff. We're a small scale homemade show with just two people so all the support is gratefully received.

If you'd like to throw a few quid at us too you can support the show and get our soon to be announced monthly bonus show, plus access to two whole series not on the regular feed, via this here link: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart

Don't Lets Chart is a podcast that looks at the current day in history, shakes it for interesting trivia and then spray paints "BUMS" over the top of it.

In this look at the April 6ths of time, Ben Baker and Phil Catterall learn about America's furry millionaire, Tartan Day, Napoleon's more petty acts of sulking, celluloid filth, Olympic pigeon bothering, the true inventor of the Pog, Steve Video Plus, boxing for peace, how Teddy Roosevelt definitely sounded, the early days of animation, ABBA's rise to Eurovision dominance, New Beer's Eve, the sadness of Spare Dad Three, patently untrue patents and lots more on the way. Plus our resident robot is here with his topical take on the news.

Listen, share, hit subscribe, fight a bear, all that usual stuff. We're a small scale homemade show with just two people so all the support is gratefully received.

If you'd like to throw a few quid at us too you can support the show and get our soon to be announced monthly bonus show, plus access to two whole series not on the regular feed, via this here link: https://www.patreon.com/dontletschart

After the success and feedback on the pilot episode, we've decided to launch Game For A Quiz as its own show with a unique feed (e.g it will not be posted here!) and social media stuff. If you missed the first show, here's a small trailer for what we do. Then please go follow us on the podcast app of your choice and get the freshly minted second episode pitting Noel Edmonds against Brucie!

Or listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IYe28JjR4U7Lge0IeyPDu

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3fD1gYl

Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/game-for-a-quiz-the-gameshow-showdown

Ben Baker has always been fascinated by the world of pop parodies - musical spoofs or pastiches of existing bands, singers and genres - from "Spitting Image" to "Horrible Histories". In this first edition he looks at three and a bit decades of ribbing directed at the Mancunian mouthpiece that is Steven Patrick Bulbous Overcoat  Morrissey and The Smiths. 

A misunderstood and unfortunately all too understood character that many have taken great delight in aping or paying tribute to, including Radio Active, Who Dares Wins, Frank Sidebottom, Mitch Benn, MJ Hibbett, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Armando Iannucci, Harry Hill, Jay Foreman, Darrell Maclaine and...Bernard Manning?!  

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Why Cant I Be You? is written and produced by Ben Baker. All clips come under review as fair use and are copyright their original sources. Got someone in mind you'd like me to cover in a future "Why Can't I Be You"? Or spot any Moz-mocking that I've missed. Let me know on Twitter @BenBakerBooks.

And remember the lesson of The Smiths. Just because a bunch of wankers like it, doesn't mean that it's shit....