Boris Johnson Part 2
Added 2024-10-10 09:04:06 +0000 UTC
It's the (right file this time) for Boris Part 2! Expect, among other things, the 2012 Olympics, the Garden Bridge, and the slow pupation of Britain's laziest Prime Minister. Many good wishes and salaams!
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I have it on good slander that Johnson fucks like caligula & is packing like his consul.
Gilded Dragon
2024-12-31 16:04:52 +0000 UTCRe podcast extraction? Is it a cold press situation or like solvent bath, fractional distillation, enfleurage? Or this more a vacuum pump situation?
Gilded Dragon
2024-12-31 14:58:27 +0000 UTCNo Gods, No Mayors, No Ziplines
Shivvy
2024-11-17 09:13:42 +0000 UTCHumbly requesting t-shirt with Guppy Family Crest
Shivvy
2024-11-17 09:06:20 +0000 UTCWhat is it with Boris, impossible bridges, and UXO?? Didn't he propose a bridge between Great Britain and Northern Ireland that'd go right through an underwater munitions dump while he was PM?
Jamie King
2024-10-18 15:34:46 +0000 UTClol ty......Too Many Mayors in the File
The Office of the Mayor
2024-10-17 12:21:32 +0000 UTCWodehouse is racist? The heck? Maybe? He’s dead AF and doesn’t need me to defend him, but given he lampoons Oswald Mosley most thinly as well as Cheesewright (the cop) & Basset (the reactionary largely un-democratic magistrate), I find that (a little?) hard to swallow? Maybe he’s a super reactionary, but I just don’t see it? Of the ww1-interwar British writers, I always kind of thought Wodehouse & Robert Graves shone peerlessly ‘better’ / above in a time when Britain really buried its head in the sand/up its own ass & largely agree with the exile / war nerd column on his recent biographers, here? People say that about Blazing Saddles (maybe not Mel’s best film), and I always feel kind of at a loss? Compare the most monetarily rewarded end of history ‘never blue’ light humorist on talent and personal un-likability that’s successful in their lifetime…. (Jerry Seinfeld?) or to a guy contemporary of Wodehouse & Graves (Orwell?) and I can’t really hate Wodehouse *too* much here? Maybe that’s just how I read him and take some comfort in the idea of ‘wouldn’t it be nice if we could all live like a Bertie Wooster & have ready access to a Jeeves?’ & don’t really read into it a whole lot more / am largely ignorant? We’re grading on a pretty wild curve here, &, of guys in the Wodehouse lane of late empire era never blue light humor then (& even now), he’s not the *first* one I think of (of his time) in the reactionary or racist lane, despite his success in his lifetime nor his lack of any overt opposition to the status quo around him that I can hate on *much?* Whether or not guys like BoJo use his words & promote the aspects of worst Wodehouse characters and drones world / culture ‘is right & good, actually!’…I can see that? But P.G.’s Dead AF & doubtfully intended this? Unless it was all an elaborate 12D chess rouse of his to give contemporary & future reactionaries more tools idk? The affable racist I think of before the British media became so consolidated & laser beam focused as a malefactor in their ability to crush the individual & so subservient to power that I compare to BoJo to in affect is Dennis Thatcher (much as they tried to keep him under wraps?)? The media was still grossly complacent with their euphemism for his drunken ‘excited utterances’ (as the cops & trained prosecutors would say in re: Court-admissible statements (often) given more weight) when he was somewhere that would be easily captured today on smrat fone that *could* be risky for a municipal politician now (though, arguably, corporations find municipal politicians little obstacle &/or non-expendable in these days of corporate-capture whoever they are if/when swapped out?) after the Dennis’ 2nd drink was ‘tired and emotional’ in the 80s IIRC when he’d say pretty wild casual things about people of other skin shades coming toward the imperial core w/either managerial skills &/or avoiding collapse/very bad conditions at home? That was gross enough then, media wise, but today more widespread within the populace with more normalization it almost seems quaint in terms of harm & media malevolence & their apologists, sickos & freaks? Maybe I’m way off, just not the first time I’ve heard that of PG or Blazing Saddles (from people of very different political leanings & metaphorical literacy, usually?)… …just a little surprised, but don’t necessarily disagree, but also don’t readily put PG anywhere near the top of the list compared to his contemporaries is all? Idk why I’m really listening to this, maybe it’s cope to make up for the void of not researching my own local people where a vote or bit of advocacy can *maybe* matter once in a while? BoJo is bizarro Rob Ford on public transit hostility, but UK doesn’t have much of a car industry left nor as high car ownership rates & sprawling car-centric suburbs & domestic oil as Anglo Ontario/Alberta, either? Although, Sunak on HS2 snd terminal car-brain to the point of absurdity is a whole other thing… …not surprising, but Bromley Hitler/crazy vocal minority for sure? The canceling of transit, public nuclear / renewable power, bad land use & data centers to suck up all the power/water, scrape/sell your data and get a guy in Mumbai(or wherever is convenient? to do a remote job for race to the bottom pricing / working conditions is good medicine for a present minded positive nihilist, I guess? Or maybe just cope? The kiss of death / political ceiling of majorly incompetent &/or hyper-ambitious &/or unscrupulous municipal politician makes good farcical entertainment… …it’s like bad art that needs to exist that gets/got funding and wide exposure & a lot of human-based decisions/choices with a huge void between ambitions and actual talent/ability to execute the vision now being replaced / flooded out in the noise by either AI &/or floods of right wing $, but little competition, depth/size of the aggregate talent pool &/or incentive to promote talent all that much? Our mayor is sort of a John Tory (although less suburbanite base / no Toronto Mega-city or London restructuring of the goal posts that I don’t fully understand). He’s been a good sport (Ted Wheeler, Portland, Or) in tough times when everyone hates him/uses his face as a toilet/lightening rod of discontent /he probably had higher aspirations for when one of our 1000yo senators &/or congressmen kick it in a democrat deathstar rotten borough…he lacks some wit, bit of a trust fund baby/2nd rate intellect like FDR and ability to delegate & nose for BS & backstabbing & incompetent underlings , but you could sure do a lot worse for competence, giving the cops whatever they want / pissing away all $ Reagan & later republicans/conservatives often do so there’s nothing left for basic anything of *any* benefit after they leave… …the giant convoluted mess that is the new ranked choice ballot cooked up by the entrenched bureaucrats and passed by low information voters is already giving me a brain-ur-ism… …If it even matters, I (& any like-minded?) have no clue how to use it *remotely* strategically?
Jim K
2024-10-15 03:23:46 +0000 UTCI am being genuinely serious when I say this might be my one of the best betheaverse podcasts. It’s all of trashfuture’s best bits, where we learn about a weird guy, condensed into a full podcast
Ineloquent Reverie
2024-10-14 21:46:47 +0000 UTCI can tell apart their voices just fine. But without saying “this voice is Mattie” and “this voice is Riley” I don’t have a name to put the voice to until randomly halfway through the pod when one of their names is used in context. Putting that in the intro would be helpful.
Sequoia Alexander
2024-10-14 19:27:51 +0000 UTCAbsolutely perfect line to end the episode
-Kris-
2024-10-14 02:49:13 +0000 UTCTo be taken seriously as a candidate in an election, British politicians must routinely state their willingness to blow up the SS Richard Montgomery to show they're hard
-Kris-
2024-10-14 02:26:25 +0000 UTCI was gonna say you could bring back the Saunders Roe Princess and just land on the water. Then I learned that there was a whole Beirut warehouse waiting in that exact spot
-Kris-
2024-10-14 02:25:13 +0000 UTCJust so you know, there's a thin line in the shape of someone's head and shoulders (?) overlaying the photos on several of the episode covers, including this one--looks like a fill tool issue.
🪰
2024-10-12 13:45:04 +0000 UTCCan't do England without Liverpool fmr. Mayor Joe Anderson!
kakotheres
2024-10-12 00:23:27 +0000 UTCI watched the closing ceremony for the 2012 Olympics from the secure ward of a mental health facility. That was a weird night.
Slazenger Kincaid
2024-10-11 19:42:38 +0000 UTCLivingstone should’ve taken a swing.
SixArmedSweater
2024-10-11 15:05:05 +0000 UTCBalkany Balkany Balkany Balkany
Adam Barker-wyatt
2024-10-11 14:44:00 +0000 UTCMy ex thought he was really hot to the extent that she told me I'd be more attractive if I looked more like him. having gained a fair amount of weight and being older and doughier generally, I think she'd like what she sees if we met nowadays
Adam Barker-wyatt
2024-10-11 14:42:44 +0000 UTCI screamed out loud to myself when Riley started tapping the Hs on the table, having caught on 30 seconds before Nova, that was extraordinary
Jordan Hale
2024-10-11 13:22:40 +0000 UTCreally? I think Mattie sounds like Julie Kavner in the best possible way. If you can’t hear that difference, Riley is the one who says beeeen (been) or oat (out).
MI
2024-10-11 11:04:27 +0000 UTCLook, I think Boris looks like a shaved albino gorilla, but it’s pretty obvious he’s got a serious rizz game. That’s the secret to his success with women.
Matthew
2024-10-11 10:05:07 +0000 UTCI swear to god if we ever find it there’s a secret Providence style cabal controlling the world it’s gonna be through fucking Aramark
John Leavitt
2024-10-10 22:46:08 +0000 UTCAnyone who’s company sounds like its out of Office Space must be a weird person
Matthew McKenzie
2024-10-10 22:06:15 +0000 UTCCould you introduce Matty and Riley one at a time with their voice associated with the intro? I realized I don’t know which one is which!
Sequoia Alexander
2024-10-10 18:34:19 +0000 UTCHello and fuck to you and yours.
Anya Sullivan
2024-10-10 18:05:49 +0000 UTCI think I'll be keeping a personal list of Mattie's different ages that are mentioned. I think we currently have age 15 on 9/11 and age 14 for the 2012 Olympics, so the canon is shaping up to be quite interesting.
I made a Patreon for Get Cynical
2024-10-10 17:14:03 +0000 UTCSounds like I’m only getting Matty’s audio in my version! :(
Mitchell Crease
2024-10-10 16:30:16 +0000 UTCspreading spermatozoa like a zombie ant spreading cordyceps spores . mormon elders 🤝 boris johnson
MI
2024-10-10 14:22:43 +0000 UTCOne common thread between mega-project mayors around the globe (since the 1960s apparently) is Aramark. Their board of directors reads like a rogues gallery of bond villains.
MI
2024-10-10 13:09:35 +0000 UTCI think, for this show, we should focus on Anglosphere mayors first. Not like we dont have many shit ones. It will make us moving onto a really bad french mayor that more impactful
Bee Bimbo
2024-10-10 11:44:36 +0000 UTCVote Quimby.
Julien Cuny
2024-10-10 10:58:35 +0000 UTCmeet me behind the bike shed at 3.30pm for the bootleg tape.
Jousterly Rock
2024-10-10 10:01:14 +0000 UTC(re)-release the Mattie cut!
Thyme
2024-10-10 09:08:44 +0000 UTCMayor Quimby when tho
James Yoe
2024-10-10 09:06:43 +0000 UTC
