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Podshambles 33: Shambles & Dragons (Live From A Farm)

NEW EPISODE KLAXON. It’s all gone a bit fantastical this week at Shambleville U.S.A (Pod-ulation: Cast) as Paddy & Laurie take a weekend away together to – you guessed it – play Dungeons & Dragons.

There will be dogs. There will be hangovers. There will be Two-Handed Bearded Axes of Gnoll-Slaying +1. You better get your D20s out as this podcast is about to get critical.

This also marks the start of us being AS REGULAR AS A BOWEL MOVEMENT/fortnightly wank. We will be releasing an episode every two weeks, with you late Tuesday Night/Early Wednesday. Everything is kicking off.

You can listen to it on Acast by clicking below, or alternatively you can download it from iTunes by following this link: Podshambles on iTunes!

Celebrationenjoy, you Shambles. X

Podshambles 31: I Trust You…With My Wife

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A rolling pod gathers no shambles, but a shambles in time saves you big money cash sums.

It’s time for another rollicking good time with Paddy and Laurie as they crawl their little butts into another enormous Shamble-cavern. There’s hi-jinks ahoy and jeopardy aplenty as we undertake not one, not two, not four, but yes, that’s right, THREE quizzes that plumb the very depths of man’s soul! And determine which 2003 snooker player we are. Then there’s just about time to swap some choice book recommendations before Paddy slings his hairy arse off to Edinburgh with barely a “toodle-oo” to speak of.

What a guy. What a piece. What a bit. What a shambles.

Podshambles 30: Ball Of Otters

Mauricio Pochettino-sama
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Shambles…shambles never changes.

But this week it has. A little bit. It’s episode 30 of our Podshambling antics and we celebrate by revisiting some old features! Yay! We check in with Number One Fan Mauricio Pochettino and give him some otter-related tips for the new Tottenham stadium, we get some VERY overdue correspondence from a certain courier fish and, oh, what’s that? You want some Choose Your Own Adventure? Well pop this installment in your mouth hole and chew wisely, friend, chew very wisely.

Podshambles: it’s like audio treacle for your ears except less sticky and, if anything, less easy to sneak into a public place.

Podshambles 29: Hold Your Sort Of Horses

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Cleanliness is next to Podliness, and Podliness is next to Castliness.

The Shambled-Eggs are back again and they sure know how to be served with toast. Genuinely gasp as Laurie brings you into the 21st century, potentially wail as Paddy continues the tale of Flagon the Dwarf in Choose Your Own Adventure, and aggressively jump as maestro Zac Cole returns to the Shamblewaves.

Fluff the pillows, repair the stairs, buy more towels and do not under any circumstances give those towels to the crabs because as we all now know the crabs are angered by fabric. We just about got away with it last time but I think AGAIN might be pushing it.

Good evening. This is a shambles.

Podshambles 28: Flapsworth The Butler

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Pod through the Cast / and you’re to blame / you give Cast / a Pod name. Or something.

After a hiatus the Shambleggs are back with another thing! Expect Laurie undertaking severe psychological profiling, Paddy genuinely losing control over a one-foot magic butler, and to top it all off – a husky sled team.

The night is dark and full of butts.

Podshambles is back.

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Hello, brave Shambleers! How fare you?
Oh?
Well I thought she was getting better?
Oh. I see. the tentacles.
No, no, please, send my best! Just don’t mention her…
Yeah, the beak.
Well I’m sure it is de rigeur in Paris but frankly…
OK, OK. Yup. Extra trill. OK. Bye!

We’ve not been back for a while, admittedly, because we’ve been busy working away at the YOOTYOOBZ for a while! We’ve got lots of treats for you, if you’re interested…

First, our series of ‘A Goodnight Shambles’ – quick sessions where we talk utter bollocks and cursorily paying attention to a game – is up, wherein we play Hearthstone. REVEL as we talk about Paddy’s purple nips, among other treats.

Second, we’ve got some choice highlights from the podcast in the form of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE! By popular demand – well, Nigel and his rabid dog down the pub made a passing comment about it so we thought we would. We’ve already made it up to the ADVENTURE TRAIN, with more episodes shortly to follow.

And, finally, our playthrough of SUNLESS SEA continues, with crabs coming out of our arse and Liam Welton, developer at Failbetter Games, keeping us in check. We’ve had a little break but will be returning with more SOON.

That’s all for now, do SUBSCRIBE TO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE if you feel so generously inclined to do so. Also, do email, tweet or carve messages into your flesh if you a) like what we’re doing b) don’t like what we’re doing c) would like to propose some sort of excellent business plan centered around high duck fashion to us.

LOVE AND SNOGS
P&L x

Podshambles 27: Betrayal Monkey and Lie Bananas (Live From New York)

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The Podprinces have been Cast away to Shamblerica but golly gee willikers are they bouncing back!

Continue your adventures with Padcoolio and Lauradical as they brave the tundras of New York, covering everything from overzealous flag usage to why three and a half feet of bacon is apparently an appropriate substitute for bread. They’ve only bloody gone and made a YouTube channel too.

Expect ham. Or don’t. YOUR CALL.

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Shambletracks: Grace Petrie says Farewell To Welfare.

Hello everybody.

It’s been a while. I know I usually say that in jest because it generally hasn’t been a while, but today I mean it. I very rarely mean things, or do I? We may never know.

So as you may have gathered from smatterings of tweets, facebook posts and Laurie’s tear-jerking (genuinely) LCD Soundsystem ‘All My Friends‘ Shambletrack – I am now in America. New York City to be precise, and I will be remaining here for the time being. Of course this has thrown a comically-sized socket-wrench into the purely metaphorical cogs of Podshambles (yeah that’s right guys – we have metaphorical cogs. Metaphorical cogs powered by FRIENDSHIP) but never fear – I’m to an extent back on the radar. It took me a good week to get used to residing out here, and I’m still very much adjusting to the intricacies of Stateside life – for instance everyone thinking I’m adorable because of my voice, the absence of soft drinks that won’t instantly kill you, or having to order ‘a pack of Marlboro Reds’ as opposed to ‘twenty Marlboro Reds’ – a conundrum which ended up with me accidentally being handed 400 hundred cigarettes by a cashier who thought I was either mental or trying to kill myself.

BUT THAT’S LIFE GUYS.

I’ve found a spare half an hour, so here we go. I was going to do something loosely based on New York City but I feel like I’ll be doing a few of those whilst I’m out here and I don’t want to just aimlessly throw something at you guys because it conveniently has the words ‘New York’ embedded in the lyrics somewhere. So I’ve chosen a song that actually means something to me.

I was asked in an interview today (that’s right – I do interviews because I am super cool) what my favourite political song was, and the answer was so blindingly obvious. Farewell To Welfare by Grace Petrie is a stand-out masterclass in just how effective and meaningful political and satirical music can be. I first gigged with Grace about three years ago and she blew me away. Her songs have so much heart and honesty that it brings a tear to the eye, and she is politically dead on – hitting points such as anti-LGBT discrimination, the victimisation of the working people and the attitudes of the husks currently running our UK government.

This goes out to everyone who gives a shit about our country and the people who live in it. Grace you are an absolute star.

Thanks for reading everyone – I’ll be back to usual soon, just need to get over some culture shock/sugar poisoning/getting hit by a big yellow taxi whilst ‘jaywalking‘ (?). You can buy the music of Grace Petrie (and more with her band ‘The Benefits Culture’) buy clicking HERE.

Big, big love and HEY IF YOU’RE IN NEW YORK GIVE ME A CALL ON 555-PADDY-NEW-YORK-PHONE-.com. I think that’s it?

Paddy XX

p.s Oh my God I actually just saw a TV advert for meow mix. I’ve wanted to see what all the fuss is about for years. Now I know. The cat even said ‘I want chicken I want liver Meow Mix Meow Mix please deliver’. IT WAS AMAZING. #meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow.

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Shambletracks: Once I heard this great song by Pearl Jam.

Good day Sirs and Madams (?) – I trust the winter has not been too harsh on the crop yield? The Viscount sent word of troubles in the north, I do so hope young Timothy recovers from consumption before too long!

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME.

Hello all – Paddy again. I’m just so predictable.

I can’t believe I have gone this long without approaching Pearl Jam as a Shambletrack. Pearl Jam are one of my all time favourite bands and I think I was struggling with choosing one song to play you. I mean, I love every song they have ever written so picking one seems like an underhanded betrayal of all the other ditties they jigwhistle. So I’ve decided to go with the first Pearl Jam song I ever heard – Once. This was the opening song of their debut album ‘Ten‘, released August 1991, and thus is the reason I heard it first. I was given the album by my first guitar teacher when I was ten (WEIRD HUH? TEN AND TEN – CRAZY) and I worshipped it through the medium of walkman monopolisation. If you’re not a Pearl Jam fan – I totally understand. Eddie Vedder, like many grunge frontmen, has one of those distinctive marmite voices (see: Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Elmo) – there’s no middle ground on opinions of him. I personally and clearly love it. Half of the time you have no idea what he’s saying, and the other half of the time you just assume it’s something excellent. HE’S AMAZING. I now have every Pearl Jam record and will never ever grow tired of them. I urge you to do the same.

PJ (abbreviated because AND WHAT) really have it all. They can be heavy as a sack of hammers (see: Even Flow), soft as a rhythmic pillow (see: Better Man) or just mad as a bag of spiders (see: the drunkest ever cover of Baba O’Riley). This is grunge music at it’s absolute zenith – may it continue to reign supreme.

Enjoy – kicks in after about 40 seconds of weird atmospheric beauty.

That’s all from me today – bit of a short one but then again so are some crusted pies, concise jokes, and the inhabitants or Ironforge.

Big Love,

Paddy XX

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Shambletracks: Those Hot 8 Brass Band boys sure do know how to Sexual Healing.

Hello, and as ever, hurrah.

Today I have a challenge for you all, one that will test your mettle to its very limit and reveal your true nature – you will be forced to look into your soul and, with wide eyed acceptance, confront who you really are. That’s right guys, Shambletracks just got heavy.

Thursday’s trial by musical fire – listen to today’s track and DO NOT smile. Don’t jig, bump, sway or bounce – especially no bouncing.

I am going to make a prediction; you will fail. And that’s OK, completing today’s dastardly and outrageously difficult challenge would sound alarm bells for even the coldest amongst us.

So, what is this song; this unimaginably happy melody, this oasis of sound in a cold grey Thursday desert, this Bill Murray of a tune. Well, let me introduce you to Hot 8 Brass Band’s cover of Sexual Healing, originally, of course, by Marvin Gaye.

When it comes to this song I am completely bias, so I could be overestimating how happy it will make all of you lovely people, but for me this tune stirs up wonderful memories of my last birthday. When my friends gathered on a warm July evening to treat me to a Dirty Burger and a trip to see Chef – it sounds low key and could even sound dull, but it was a great Wednesday evening. This song capped it all off – being used in the film to add a bit of shine to one of the film’s many many happy moments (it really is an incredibly easy watch, good food, good tunes and almost no drama to speak of).

There is really very little left to say about today’s Shambletrack;  because I am pushed for time but also because that’s it, it’s simply a happy song, and a great cover of a classic, just let the cool brass sounds wash over you and enjoy.

So good luck with today’s challenge, and let us at Podshambles/Shambletracks know how you get on.

Have a wonderful Thursday.

LOVE,

Zac.

XXXX

[Editor’s note: Paddy is rad lololololol]