It's a comedy (and carb) bonanza this week, with the wonderful Matthew Crosby, who is one third of Pappy's! We still don't know quite how that happened.

TWEETS - this week the ‘tweet’ is actually an instagram reel to introduce you to the Trusty Hogs podcast. In this clip, we hear about ‘Helen’s stairwell incident’. Listen to episode 86 of Trusty Hogs for the full, haunting story. 

In our interview with Matthew, he chose to sing the praises of potatoes, which he declares to be the most versatile vegetable, and in fact most versatile thing in the known universe. We also mention:

• James Acaster's new podcast 'Springleaf'
• The ultimate weirdness of encountering someone who you've listened to for hours on podcasts (chiefly Jimmy Pardo of 'Never Not Funny' fame)
• This video about potato dishes from around the world, inexplicably made by Business Insider.
• The Norwegian lefse, shown in this video
• Air-fried gnocchi
• Bonus Carb Content - a Georgian man called Georgy makes so much kachapuri

In a blatant attempt to copy the 'Beckenham Recs' feature from Matthew and Ed Gamble's Radio X show, Nancy tries to 'Bec Rec' some podcasts to Matthew.

• Shameless and their 'Scandal' episodes (because it reminds Nancy of Hollywood Crime Scene)
• That’s Messed Up, an SVU podcast
• Ruined, where scared people can have horror films spoiled for them
• Lolita Podcast and Inside Mensa by Jamie Loftus
• Bonus Bec Rec from Matthew - Earshot- 'A succulent Chinese meal'

Please check out the charity 'Greener and Cleaner' who do great work in south London to make green living and working the norm. Find them online https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk and on Instagram.

Mushrooms, natural dyes, and how not to poison yourself! In this extra little snippet of our chat with Elly (@takeitupwearitout), we quizzed her about how you dye fabric with mushrooms. Nancy is not a fan of mushrooms, and has vowed to never knowingly eat a mushroom and enjoy it- but has put that grudge aside, because it's all in aid of crafting.

Let's have a much needed chat about fabric, the natural world and the garment industry, with Elly aka Take It Up Wear It Out! Elly is a textile artist whose creations are inspired by the natural world. Often the river Wandle runs through her work, which makes sense, as it’s a jewel in South London’s crown. We touch on some difficult truths related to poverty at home and abroad, 2013’s catastrophically deadly Rana Plaza collapse, pollution, ‘wear it once’ culture, aaaaand massive companies that don’t pay tax. But there is an awful lot to love in this dive into the waters of regenerative fashion. 

Firstly - TWEETS

• Check out what @kit_yates_maths found in his chicken feed bin recently, in this thread.
• Nancy allows Huw to submit a bonus tweet, because it is about ITALIAN DRAG.

In our chat with Elly we talked about: 

• Celia Pym
• Kate Secules
• Flora Collingwood Norris
• Fashion Revolution - pushing for transparency with the #whomademyclothes campaign
• Elly’s 3D textile piece ‘Unnatural’ that was submitted to the Mr X Stitch Contemporary Needlework Prize.
• Elly’s post on Regenerative Fashion
• Aja Barber. Read Aja’s book, 'Consumed'.
• Follow Elly for updates about her creative work and opportunities to get involved in wandering the Wandle (and even stitching the Wandle). You can also buy her zine about ‘Unnatural’ there to show your support for her work.

At the end of the episode we give some on-theme recommendations…

• Earlier this year, Nancy went to the Threads Festival at Sunny Bank Mills (home of the Sewing Bee!) and lost her mind playing with a big industrial loom. She also spotted Alex Vincent’s jewelery, created from brambles.
• Any mention of the River Wandle makes us think about the Rivers of London novels, by Ben Aaronovitch.

Cover art:

Performer/model: 

Stream Rob Cope's new single 'Up' from his upcoming album Gemini: https://orcd.co/m2vvzqo

We bring up music pals and previous Jazz Podcast guests:

• Tom Varrall (guitarist for Jamie Cullum and Ableton legend)
• Hattie Whitehead (singer-songwriter who also does an incredible Joni Mitchell)
• Matt Roberts (trumpet player for Gentlemen's Dub Club and arranger extraordinaire)
• Pete Lee (our piano man with the finest hair in jazz)
• Rachel Clark (a.k.a. Ms ABBA, and currently on tour with Carly Rae Jepsen!)

Nancy mentions The Comedian's Comedian Podcast as a good pod for any saxophonist with a lot of driving and introspection to do- '...are you happy???'

Nancy was nice to Huw for about a minute and a half before the mask slipped. Sorry Huw.

TWEETS- follow Haley and Venmo generously to support the luxurious lifestyles of rescued cats like Shambles and Bitty: @feederofcats

Here are some wonderful tweets about these cat pals: 

• Shambles ruining his ball-removal appointment
• Smug Bitty being smug

Our main chat with Rob f***ing Cope is all about SPACE. He tries to convince Nancy of the wonder of space, rather than the horror of space - which is, objectively, simply TOO BIG. 

Buy Rob’s album ‘Gods of Apollo’ on Bandcamp

Check out images of Pluto taken by New Horizons

Rob-recommended-reading included ‘Carrying the Fire’ by Michael Collins, and ‘Endurance’ by Scott Kelly. We also all respect the hell out of playing saxophone in space.

Follow Rob for primo sax and cats content: @rcope88

And listen to the Jazz Podcast! Which Rob & Tara *actually* publish episodes of, unlike us, the lazy goons at ‘Thanks, I Love It!’ HQ.

Nancy mentioned a bunch of sci-fi including Contact, Arrival, Battlestar Galactica, and Interstellar. 

Huw mentioned his Marc Rebillet alarm clock.

Been napping this whole time soz. Huw debuts a new jingle, the man cannot be stopped on his jingle rampage. A recap episode of sorts, in which we recommend...

Music:

• Listen to Ward Thomas & Gabrielle Aplin to get some joy and beauty in your life for goodness sake. 
• Get free audiobooks from your library- try the ‘Libby’ app in the UK. 

Cat updates:

• Photos of Larry and Leo! Leo’s an acrobat/ parkour boy now. 
• We love @heyheymomodraws and their pet portrait of our departed cat, Gem.

Craft corner:

• Crochet - CraftyK21 teaches crochet in London
• Some cool charity craft projects can be found at Pachamama & the Free Shop Lebanon 

TV:

• Watch Deadloch. It’s > Mare of Easttown. Thank you to this tiktoker for the dance remix of ‘L-L-L-L-LESBIANS!’
• Watch Ghosts (BBC edition durr). 
• ‘Heathers the Musical’ is on Prime and Nancy’s insufferable with the soundtrack on Spotify currently. 

And - after Nancy talks about body positivity, our final tip is to go outside, touch grass, have a swim in some cold water at Brockwell Lido if you wanna. Or don’t, just be you, and everyone else can Mind Their Business. See you soon for another proper episode! With an interview and everything! 

Tweets:

Bad lipreading Wimbledon

And our new cats- Larry and Leo, who are just weird little guys who live with us now

Please support the rescue charity London Inner City Kitties who do ever such a lot for cats like L&L

And thanks to the hero Amy K at the Paw Seasons cat foster hotel in Plaistow- she rescued L&L while they were strays in her garden

INTERVIEW- Jack’s chat about graphic novels:

• ‘Building Stories’
• Calvin & Hobbes
• ‘Epileptic’ 
• ‘Compleat Moonshadow’
• ‘From Hell’ and the work of historian Hallie Ruebenhold
• ‘Uzomaki’ (horror manga)
• the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Shonan Jump
• ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel (and the Overdue podcast episode that covers it) 

Webcomic recommendations:  

• Kate Beaton’s ‘Hark, a vagrant’
• False Knees
• Lucy Knisley and her cat Rhino
• Sack of Potatis

Content note - there is a lot of chat about alcohol, addiction issues, and mental health this episode. 

Travel back with us to summer 2021! This lost recording is from before Wembley got all smashed up at the World Cup Euros Final, and long before we realised that Downing Street was hosting prosecco parties this whole time… We talk tweets (cats are involved, naturally), and have a long chat about being teetotal with the lovely Adam.

Tweet of the week:

• Is it a Train Cafe or a Cat Cafe?! Here is the news reel from @NHKWORLD_News - the 'Trainswatters' video that Huw watched. And this one with a beast in a railway tunnel.
• You can follow the Diorama Restaurant @Caferest_bar_Fe

Things about sobriety and alcoholism:

• Book - This Naked Mind - Annie Grace
• Book - Alcohol Explained - William Porter
• Book - The Sober Diaries - Clare Pooley
• Book - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober - Catherine Gray
• Book - Coming Undone - Terri White
• TV - Catastrophe - All4 / Prime

More episodes of Thanks, I Love It! are coming soon

Find us on Twitter @iloveitpod

We’re back! With a not-very-mini ‘minisode’. Featuring grim TV dramas, Stath’s Silly Billy Awards, and London mud.  

Tweets of the week from Alistair Green @mralistairgreen Including everyone’s favourite flirty disgraced ex-Health Secretary. 

These are the Top 7 Grim Things that got Nancy through the back half of 2021: 

• TV- Adult Material
• Podcast - Ruined
• Book - Careless by Kirsty Capes
• Film documentary - Four Hours at the Capitol
• Podcast - Lolita Podcast
• TV- Appropriate Adult  
• Podcast - That’s Messed Up: An SVU podcast 

These are the cute things we would recommend: 

• Huw having a job! Huw went on tour in 2021 - check out Saint Raymond  
• Book - Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• Book - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green  
• Book - All of the Terry Pratchett books ever - RIP Terry 
• TV - Stath Lets Flats
• Podcast - Nancy betrayed Huw and now contributes to another podcast. It's Unicast, about university - shout out to Meg and Prod Sam!  
• Good Cats Online (all on Twitter). Follow @Lynn_mcgoo for Bobbi content. Follow @alanna to meet Tuesday. Follow @mekosoff to worship Carmichael.  
• When Cardi B met Robert Pattinson
• Sewing and visible darning - Celia Pym
• Mudlarking! In London the Thames Discovery Programme is the best place to find out more about the history of the river. If you want to go look at that mud yourself, you gotta have a licence to mudlark, from the Port of London Authority

New episodes of Thanks, I Love It! are...

Here’s Huw’s epic tutorial video on Prince basslines: https://youtu.be/tOVy05b4nOA

Tweeter of the week is @mckellogs who posts about her rowdy animals at home, and the meemaws at work who just live to steal peppermints. 

Social links for the Hertfordshire Bird Review, where the Bird Report Editor is Clifford Smout: https://twitter.com/hertsbirds?s=21

Mr Clifford Smout also posts his own bird tweets - https://twitter.com/csmo34?s=21

A king among dogs, Samoyed Mika on instagram - https://instagram.com/samoyedmika?utm_medium=copy_link

Nancy’s photos of ‘Big Dog’ on train - https://twitter.com/needforcheese/status/987074344965869573?s=21

Dog Wat I Saw on twitter and instagram. Here is the dogwatwesaw pictured at Jolene in Newington Green.

Hannah’s all time favourite dog spot- Bear Dog and Baby Bear Dog

Swedish Vallhunds - just go google them, you’re welcome.

Hannah would like to promote the very fine cat, Toast, on instagram.

Al runs a blog for a German football team (because he was unable to watch Leyton Orient play during lockdown) https://foal-train.com/home/ or on twitter:

Huw loved the movie ’The Forty Year Old Version’ on Netflix. Nancy loved ‘Starstruck’ on BBCiplayer. And also that time Rose Matafeo played Buffy on stage and wore a blond wig. 

Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ILoveItPod (@iloveitpod)