Every Day a New Nadir

Aye up duck!

You're probably listening to this episode in May (unless you're an EDNN enthusiast/anorak, going back over our greatest hits in the year 2027), but it was recorded way, way back in the first half of April. Hence, there are references to dead royals, pubs reopening outdoor seating and the Indian variant was yet to cancel summer. 

In time honoured fashion we comment on the latest round of re-opening in the UK, before things likely close back up again, allowing us to do another re-opening special in four months time. 

We ask some big questions, including who is gagging to get back into Next? What did the British do before coffee shops? Will Pete ever have sex again without dates taking place in low-lit pubs and does Leigh want a landline in his flat?

There's some 'uncle Stringfellow redux' in there, deep analysis of the hit 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Leigh's big summer plans for a pandemic gay cruise.

If that doesn't bring the punters in, we don't know what will.

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Join us for a very special ramble in which Pete's not just talking to himself, but talking to himself with his ol' mucker Aaron present! Strap in for a roller-coaster of a ride featuring a dog attack, Pete being high as a kite after 17 hours without sustenance and we complete a spring day's odyssey walking along a main road. All this without taking a break from recording, like the podcasting professionals we are.*

Welcome to the long-awaited return of TLTAFOPOTI, recorded following the announcement that football had been shot in the back by the European Super League. Yet, within 24 hours or less of recording, reconstructive surgery had the game back on its feet, making much of the episode's content redundant. No longer quite so beautiful, football shall stumble on as before, debased by the billionaire sheikhs and oligarchs using clubs as personal play things and eternal cash cows. Happy days.

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Pete has moved. Again. Join him for a countryside ramble, as he pontificates on the death of Prince Phillip and Sarah Pascoe. 

Welcome to a very special edition of the ramble in which we hear from Pete both before and after what may very well turn out to be his final ever date...

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In episode 30 two elderly men discuss politics.

That's it.

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Pete recorded a ramble with a wine 'n' whiskey hangover and a massive cob on. Think of Larry David + Victor Meldrew in a proper mood. Strap in kids!

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For the archivist enthusiasts, we bring you a ramble Pete recorded way back in October last year when we thought things couldn't get any worse. How wrong we were.

Welcome all to an episode delayed due to various life developments, including Pete once again moving to a new city for absolutely no reason. It's also a mash up special as Leigh partakes of the space pipes, leaving him totally unable to reign in the excesses of Pete's nonecdotes. 

Pete gives an early debrief on his life in Bristol, including the fact he seems to be having very little luck on the sex and romance front, given the locals have a far greater choice of prospective lovers. We also hear a lengthy tale of his travels (and travails) across the city at the brisk pace of 12mph via electric scooter. 

Pins and needles onanism, the 'prime of Aaron Bastani's life' and Pete's possible future as a dreadlocked amateur DJ, high on drugs living as part of a polycule are all discussed. 

The episode takes off (or reaches a new nadir, depending on one's view) as Pete waxes lyrical about his Belgian odyssey back in the winter of 2017. Tales of walking donkeys between villages, carting a child around in a wheelbarrow, stealing leaves from a municipality outside Bruges and a sensual fire-side interaction with a mum will astound and bemuse. 

We finish up on a long-awaited update on Flemish politics and the discovery that Japanese style 'love hotels' are becoming a thing in the UK.

Don't do drugs, kids. 

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