Worst Foot Forward

Get ready for the cinematic equivalent of a kick in the shins as we head to the cinema wearing three jockstraps, a backwards headguard and fetching lacrosse skirts as we watch all the most terrible sports movies, so that you don't have to.

Joined by comedian Ignacio Lopez we discuss how to ruin a cult classic, the haphazard launch of The Mighty Ducks and report on some very strange astrological goings on in Pittsburgh.

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Hello, bonjour and willkommen to this linguistically laden episode of Worst Foot Forward. Actor and student of languages Rich Watkins brings his talented tongue to bear on the World's Worst Language, with demonstrations of back slang and a very controversial candidate. Barry uncovers the secrets of the Rosetta Stone, and Ben doesn't disappoint long-time listeners with a discussion all about Klingon.

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As the famous rhyme doesn't go, 'In Twenty Twenty, Van der Velde and McStay / discovered Columbus was really from Norway'. After we were contacted by a Norwegian listener, Petter, with news from the north that there is a local legend in the tiny village of Hyen that Christopher Columbus was actually Norwegian. Not only that, there are TWO monuments in the village, to both the man himself and to 'Columbus's Egg'. Well, that was all we needed to set us off on a winding route in a bonus episode where we discover the mad stories about CC's origins, how exactly to balance an egg, and where on Earth is Atlantis.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing… Ben does have a new baby, after all! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

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No, there isn't a typo in this episode title and we aren't visiting the glitz and glam world of Hollywood. Instead, alongside the brilliant British-Nigerian comedian Ola, we are immersing ourselves in the brilliant, irrepressible but definitely crazy world of the Nigerian and West African film industry known as Nollywood. Ola tells us tales of snakes inserting themselves into lady-parts, Ben turns his seedy eye to bad CGI and Barry tells us exactly why Blackberry phones are so damn important.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing…Ben has a new baby to feed, after all! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for this week's episode of Worst Foot Forward - or ideally, gales of laughter as we expound on the World's Worst Speech. We are joined by Dr Naomi Paxton, performer, feminist, academic, and far too brilliant to contain in one short intro. Naomi is full of wonderful stories about rollerskating suffragettes and backtracking misogynists, while Barry finds a 53 hour sermon and Ben sits through the ramblings of William Henry Harrison, whose inauguration speech was nearly longer than his presidency.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing…after all, Ben has a new mouth to feed! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

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We are bang slap in the middle of nowhere, up a creek without a paddle and being urged violently to do a U-Turn where possible as we follow the World's Worst Map. Alongside us is historian Seb Falk who talks us through the weird and wonderful places and things to be found in the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Ben takes us wandering in the Mountains of Kong (spoiler: they don't exist) and Barry finds a map of a square and stationary Earth!

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Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

This week's episode has been painstakingly carved out of the finest audio marble available, erected on to a plinth only for us to discover that the head is on backwards and the shadow it casts looks indecent.

Joined by comedian, writer and podcaster Athena Kugblenu we discuss monuments as diverse as a giant mouse holding some DNA, the Geordie messiah, some Georgian commandments and an enormous revelation about Croatia.

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Get tickets for Ben's outdoor, socially distanced comedy show featuring Sindhu Vee, Suzi Ruffell and Jake Lambert on August 6th here: https://www.seetickets.com/event/good-ship-comedy-at-the-new-normal/le-gothique/1601371

Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing… https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

This month's bonus episode takes us back to our episode on the world's worst detective where we encountered a truly remarkable French icon: Eugène François Vidocq. A classic case of a 19th century man living several lives in one he was a career criminal, spy, master of disguise, fencer, paramour, soldier, policeman, private detective, novelist, businessman and self-mythologiser.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the biography of a staggeringly industrious, intelligent and dangerous man.

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Get tickets for Ben's outdoor, socially distanced comedy show featuring Sindhu Vee, Suzi Ruffell and Jake Lambert on August 6th here: https://www.seetickets.com/event/good-ship-comedy-at-the-new-normal/le-gothique/1601371

Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing… https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

In an age that is anything but rational, where pseuds, quacks and anti-vaxxers have way more voice than they should, it's time for a bit of perspective. Joined by expert actual scientist and founder of Science Show-Off comedy nights Steve Cross, we discover the ridiculous and awful things people have done in the name of science, without actually doing science. Brains are electrocuted, millions left dead thanks to an old friend of the show and one boy scout has a very dangerous dream indeed.

Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @steve_x

Get tickets for Ben's outdoor, socially distanced comedy show featuring Sindhu Vee, Suzi Ruffell and Jake Lambert on August 6th here: https://www.seetickets.com/event/good-ship-comedy-at-the-new-normal/le-gothique/1601371

Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing… https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

Listener beware, you're in for a scare. Gather round the campfire and join Barry, Ben and guest Jessica Law as we tell the World's Worst Horror Story. Ben takes on one of Bram Stoker's lesser-known works, Jess holds forth at length on the dreadfulness of Penny Dreadfuls, and Barry goes back to the Noughties and opens a can of creepypasta.

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Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing… https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com