Fugue Chat

Ho ho ho! For the first podcast of 2026 Matt and Ross have a (slightly late) chat about surprising things that make you feel festive such as: bin days, landlords, going up in the loft, prison escapes and more.

Matt talks about being embarrassed when people talk about Covid.

Matt talks about his daughters being ill. (Spoiler alert: everyone is fine.)

Matt drives home and talks about being given a neat idea to frame his PhD work, along with his worry that he’ll undermine it by going on about it for too long.

Matt drives home and talks about the US artist Lee Lozano’s notebooks

Matt makes meatballs and talks about clearing a blocked drain.

Matt talks about a workshop he ran with his students where they all went out and picked up things from the streets to make sculpture.

Matt talks about having a bad back.

Matt talks about misremembering where the term gaslighting originated.

Matt drives home from the station, talking about the Celebrity Traitors and how celebrities are really good at performing normalness. He’s also got a cold.