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Ep 279: Daisy Earl – World’s Worst Hotel Monday, July 24th, 2023
We're checking in to Worst Foot Towers today, the World's Worst Hotel Our special guest is Daisy Earl, comedian and writer, who brings personal tales of creepy car parks and spooky night-time pacing Serving Daisy is chambermaid Barry who has an axe to grind with the Borden House, while head waiter Ben plates up a dish of bear faeces Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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The 3rd Foot: Maurice Flitcroft Friday, July 21st, 2023
With the Open Championship golf underway, it's about time Barry led us through the biography of the so-called Phantom Of The Open, aka Maurice Flitcroft Immortalised in the film starring Mark Rylance, Flitcroft tried to fool the powers-that-be by entering the Open in 1976, a mere two years after taking up the game In doing so, he set a record for the worst ever score posted in the event and entered many more times under various aliases to avoid being detected His story is funny, heartwarming and VERY Worst Foot Forward Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 278: Ed Byrne – World’s Worst Figure of Speech Monday, July 10th, 2023
Armed with nothing but a dictionary of aphorisms and a big red cliche detector, Ben and Barry are joined this wek by Irish comedy legend Ed Byrne Together they get to the bottom of all sorts of linguistic conundra, including what a moral compass looks like, quite how much anti-Irish prejudice is baked into the English language and why you should be careful which South American country you openly talk about passing wind in Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @MrEdByrne Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot @VanderLaugh @MrEdByrne Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
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The Third Foot: The Ashes Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
It's summer, and one of the great summer sporting events is The Ashes, the roughly-every-two-years cricketing clash between in England and Australia Ben decides to sit Barry down and tell him the untold story of this event, thus making it now the told story We learn about cremation, Welsh druids and what this all has to do with Robert Downey Jr anyway Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 277: Matt Kirshen – World’s Worst Computer Monday, June 26th, 2023
We're firing up our operating systems this week as we search for the worst computer in history By our side we've got host of the Probably Science podcast, finalist of Last Comic Standing and award-winning writer for The Jim Jeffries Show: it's Matt Kirshen! We head back 2000 years to chat about the Antikythera, dip our toes into the art-prank world to meet the Persistence of Chaos and welcome back an old friend of the podcast, The Mechanical Turk Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @mattkirshen Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot @VanderLaugh @Matt_Kirshen Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
Filed Under: History & Politics, Podcast, Science & Nature
Ep 276: Ivan Brett – World’s Worst Traitor Monday, June 12th, 2023
Alright listeners, time to confess: Are you a Faithful or a Traitor We are hunting down the World's Worst Traitor in the company of one of the stars of the UK's first season of the hit TV show, The Traitors: Ivan Brett A brilliant author and gamer, Ivan reveals the true identity of the mysterious John Johnson Meanwhile Ben unveils the many faces of Lord Haw-Haw and Barry explains why the word quisling is just so damn fun to say Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @IvanBrett Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 275: Rosie Holt – World’s Worst Romantic Hero Monday, May 29th, 2023
Loosen your collars and lick your lips, it's getting hot in here as we flirt with the World's Worst Romantic Hero Making up a very saucy threesome with Barry and Ben on the show this week is comedian, actor and viral sensation Rosie Holt who bats her eyes at one of the biggest names in poetry Meanwhile, Barry introduces the team to Mr Mills and Mr Boon, and Ben meets his alter-ego, Alexander Brannigan Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @RosieisaHolt Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: Art & Literature, Podcast, TV & Film
The Third Foot: Birthdays Monday, May 22nd, 2023
"For we're two jolly good fellows!" Indeed, both Barry and Ben's birthday's fall in the month of May, so for this month's bonus episode, Barry presents a goody-bag full of weird and wonderful birthday facts There is "the birthday problem", the Canadian tradition of nose-greasing and the reason why everyone in Korea is about to de-age Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 274b: Best of the Worst of the Best 20 Monday, May 15th, 2023
It's a cosy Barry and Ben episode this week, as we host one of our intermittent "best of the worst" looks back (look-backs) at the topics from 5 past episodes and flip our outlook from negative to positive This week we take in episodes 96 to 100 and try to pin down the World's Best Material, God, Vending Machine, Empire and Century There are cameos from Ronnie O'Sullivan, The Penguin, John Coltrane and a small mining town in Nevada Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 274: Caimh McDonnell – World’s Worst Criminal Monday, May 1st, 2023
Come cat-burglars, cutpurses and conmen, as we assess the World's Worst Criminal this week We are joined by comedian and author Caimh McDonnell who takes us on a hilarious tour of Florida Man's worst and best efforts There is also a good dose of stolen hearts, lemon juice and gentlemen thieves to be found in this line-up Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show, and especially as we work on our book and plan more live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: History & Politics, Miscellaneous, Podcast
The Third Foot: Passports Friday, April 28th, 2023
We're getting stamped in this month's Third Foot bonus episode, as Ben takes a recent experience at Border Control and turns it into a recording all about Passports There are wandering moose, pharoahs in transit and an ingenious forger who goes straight into the Hall of Fame alongisde other, presumablty faked, old masters Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
Filed Under: History & Politics, Podcast, Third Foot
Ep 272: Silvana Van der Velde – World’s Worst Tax Monday, April 17th, 2023
Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play Breeding here: https://kingsheadtheatrecom/whats-on/breeding There's only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the irresistible trundle of the neverending stream of podcasts We bring you two of the dreaded horsemen this week, as nominated by our Patreon donor Peter Schaub and there was only ever one expert we could ask for this topic: the finest tax lawyer in the West, Ben's actual wife, Silvana She makes a compelling case for the intricacies of VAT being a Lewis Carrol-esque world of nonsense, while Ben and Barry bring their A-game chatting about all the daft things that have been taxed in history from beards to balloons through to playing cards, cowardice and homemade liquid gold Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...
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Ep 272: Ben Davis – World’s Worst Library Monday, April 3rd, 2023
Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play Breeding here: https://kingsheadtheatrecom/whats-on/breeding Shhhh! Silence please in the library, lest we set the demon librarian on you! Tiptoeing around the shelves with us is children's author Ben Davis who takes us spelunking under Paris Meanwhile Ben finds a library with no books in it and Barry takes a deep dive into the mucky literary waters of Philip Larkin's life Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @bendavis_86 Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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The Third Foot: Timothy Dexter Monday, March 27th, 2023
Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play 'Breeding' here: https://kingsheadtheatrecom/whats-on/breeding It's Third Foot time and this one is suggested by Patreon donor Maxwell Lindsay, who found a very Worst Foot figure in the shape of American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter Learn how he became incredibly wealthy almost by accident, how he dodged his rivals various brickbats with oblivious aplomb and how he staged his own funeral early out of sheer neediness Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...
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Ep 271: Rob Manuel – World’s Worst Pop Star Monday, March 20th, 2023
Joined by the king of internet triviality and special Patreon guest judge John Robinson, Ben and Barry head down to the local disco in search of the world's worst pop star Amongst the one-hit wonders and chart-bottoming no-hopers we uncover sinister goings-on in 60s suburban America, a man who torpedoed his career in favour of obscure French poetry and Syria's answer to Dolly Parton Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @robmanuel @thranjax Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot Join us on our Discord server! https://discordgg/9buWKthgfx Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom 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, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...