Everything But The Pub

Luke and Jon return with boozy chocolates, gifted socks and an unexpected BBC Radio Solent plug before taking a Titanic detour. They revisit the wreck's secret Navy connection, the Titan implosion and a wasp-versus-caterpillar encounter, then clear up old questions, rate Ludo, celebrate petrichor, remember ZX Spectrum programming and debate pasta, space hoppers and getting back to weights.More

Luke and Jon are back from holiday with stories about France, Spain, pools, golf, giant suitcases and the financial incentives of recycling bottles. They revisit Galileo’s telescope, tidy up some historical loose ends, investigate the surprisingly wholesome origins of gossip, rate a coffee and wonder whether anyone really wants two bottles of Facebook mayonnaise for a quid.More

Holiday preparations, Premier Inn upgrades and a festival review lead into the Pendle Witch Trials, planned obsolescence, nuts, airport security and a mysterious rusty eyelet. There is a pub rating, listener correspondence, a Japanese proverb, questionable jokes, favourite holiday transport and a lexicon entry about the magical history of “spell”, before the episode wanders through the Beatles, fake hands and pasta.More

Luke and Jon return to familiar ground with camping mishaps, a belated birthday gift and a bench overlooking the sea. Enid Blyton, listener corrections, ferries and pub ratings give way to planned obsolescence, Linux, alien etymology, favourite nuts and some deeply questionable marketplace finds. It is an ordinary Southbourne walk with an unusually cinematic view.More

Jon and Luke take the podcast off-road for a hot campsite walk near Lymington. Traffic-light history, railway signals and a hidden country pub lead into a refreshing shandy discovery, camping etymology and the surprising relationship between campaigns and Champagne. There is also hangxiety, holiday planning, bamboo underwear and plenty of noisy sandals on gravel.More

Jon and Luke begin year two with a morning off-roader, swapping pub pints for coffee and catching up after the anniversary crawl. Thomas Cromwell, tarmacadam, language myths and listener complaints all feature before the conversation reaches hangxiety, a possible Simon Sausage imposter, unusual afterlife options and a disturbing dental mannequin.More

Jon and Luke celebrate a full year of Everything But The Pub with a Southbourne pub crawl, an auxiliary banana and several listeners stepping out from behind their messages. Quick-fire favourites, strange would-you-rathers, pub stories and microphone mishaps follow as the afternoon becomes warmer, louder and considerably less organised.More

Jon and Luke ease into Episode 51 with barbecue chat, hot-weather rambling and a tribute to the mighty Meat Manager before veering into sliced bread, posh origins, listener pedantry and plans for the episode 52 pub crawl. Warm, funny and full of little detours, this one feels like summer settling in properly.More

Jon and Luke brave a sweltering evening as roads soften, tempers wobble and the pub still somehow beckons. Episode 50 takes in melting tarmac, sea swims, saunas, the origin of 999, leap seconds, listener messages and a typically chaotic warm-weather second half. Loose, funny and slightly delirious, it is another walk where the heat becomes part of the story.More

Jon and Luke wander through sea mist, retro gaming memories, Alan Turing chat and a distinctly hazy pub stop in Episode 49. There is fog, BMX, listener messages, charity-shop finds and a second half full of odd British details, low-stakes drama and the sort of drifting conversation this show does very well.More