We're back at the Clapham Grand with another live episode of Things People Did. Our guest this week is a comedian, podcast legend and gentleman with the finest sideburns around... it's Mike Bubbins! He tells us all about working on the checkouts before barcodes were invented, driving a van illegally in Toronto, and the time he broke a students leg while he was a PE Teacher (which was an accident of course). Add in a free packet of Welsh-cakes and a world class Elvis impression, and you've got yo...
Feb 02, 2024•49 min•Season 9Ep. 10
Have you ever thought to yourself, I wonder who the Usain Bolt of window cleaning is? Of course you have... Well, meet Terry Turbo, the fastest window cleaner in the world. Yes, we're being serious. Terry has broken his own world record 9 times, and is attempting it again this coming March. There is a lot of chat about squeegees in this episode, and Joe tries to work out how long it would take for Terry to clean the Burj Khalifa. We're at the Clapham Grand with Things People Did every month, get...
Jan 31, 2024•52 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Dan Cole and Ben Youngs have a new rugby podcast, just in time for the Six Nations. We'd love you to check it out, and wanted to share the first episode with you. If you like it, head over to For The Love Of Rugby. Their second episode is out today. For The Love Of Rugby: https://linktr.ee/loveofrugby Go and hit the follow button, leave a review, and give Dan (and Ben) your support on their big podcasting adventure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 29, 2024•43 min
The show growing committee meet for the first time in 2024 to discuss the year of podcast domination ahead. It's slow progress, as Joe once again bemoans the lack of a neon sign for the show, and he's starting to worry that producer Ryan is letting power go to his head. There is however some good news as well - billboard in Leicester Square anyone? Joe and Tom go through some excellent guest applications for the show, and we have some excellent suggestions from our patrons. There is also talk of...
Jan 26, 2024•41 min•Season 9Ep. 8
What is the first thing you would do if you were marooned on a desert island? With no possessions, food or shelter? A scary thought for your average human, but not for this week's guest. Meet Tom, who is an expert in wilderness bushcraft and all things survival. He knows exactly what to do in every perilous situation, and is here to share his knowledge with Joe and Tom, so they don't have to resort to eating each other. They talk about making fire, pirates and a spider that gives you a 24 hour e...
Jan 24, 2024•57 min•Season 9Ep. 7
This is a classic episode from back when we had no listeners. Our guest this week is Darren, and there are some key questions on the agenda. What are you allowed to steal from hotels? And what is the toughest stain to get out of bed sheets? What is the weirdest object anyone has ever left behind? Listen, and find out. To come and watch Things People Did at The Clapham Grand, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/thingspeopledopod To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the ...
Jan 19, 2024•47 min•Season 9Ep. 6
We have an incredible guest this week. Meet Jill, who has been in over 2000 films, in a career spanning 60 years. James Bond, Carry On films, The Muppets, Indiana Jones, the first ever episode of Eastenders... you name it, she's been in it. She tells us all about the life of an extra, who the biggest divas are that she's encountered, and a David Bowie story that will blow your mind. To watch an award-winning film all about Jill, click here: https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/jill-uncredited To come an...
Jan 17, 2024•50 min•Season 9Ep. 5
We are back at The Clapham Grand with another live episode of Things People Did. Our guest this time is comedian (and classical singer) Lloyd Griffith! Lloyd has many talents that include perfectly spacing the pepperoni on a Pizza Hut pizza, smuggling satellites into DR Congo (and almost getting kidnapped) and power washing bird poo off of thousands of seats at Grimsby's stadium. He also gets the whole Clapham Grand on their feet with a rendition of Jerusalem... you don't want to miss this one. ...
Jan 12, 2024•51 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Our guest this week is Chris, and he may just have the best job in the world. Chris designs, tests and inspects playgrounds... which means he basically gets to be a kid for a living. In this episode, he tells us about the craziest designs he's ever seen, some absolute death trap playing equipment, and about the time he got attacked by goats whilst inspecting a climbing frame. They also design Joe and Tom's dream playground... which is definitely not suitable for children. You'll see why. Come an...
Jan 10, 2024•57 min•Season 9Ep. 3
This is a classic episode from back when we had no listeners! Joe and Tom are refreshed and ready for the year ahead, and their guest today is Surgeon Chris - who is also a listener! He’s really into the pelvis, and just loves getting his saw and hammer out on broken bones, but has he ever operated on anyone with a mortal shell stuck up them? Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We'll be live at The...
Jan 05, 2024•59 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Happy New Year to you all, we hope you had a wonderful festive period full of fun and Valencia ice lollies... we know Joe did. We kick off 2024 with a belter, where we are joined by Emma the Beekeeper, who flew over from Northern Ireland to tell us about every different type of bee, how they elect a queen and the many times she has been stung in the face. She also tells us about a giant bee nightclub in the sky, and why David Beckhams hives aren't very realistic... it's a fascinating chat. Come ...
Jan 03, 2024•56 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Welcome to the The Marlie Awards, our first ever red carpet event, celebrating the best in class from 2023. Sit back and enjoy some of our favourite moments from an absolutely stellar year. See you in 2024! Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/thingspeopledopod To get ad-free and longer episodes on App...
Dec 27, 2023•56 min•Season 8Ep. 70
Every week we bring you a classic episode, from back when we had no listeners. This time, Joe (aka Fish, apparently) and Tom meet a tattoo artist and ask her everything they’ve ever wanted to know about tattoos. Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/thingspeopledopod To get ad-free and longer episodes o...
Dec 22, 2023•45 min•Season 8Ep. 69
This is it. We have some big news to announce. As you heard a few weeks ago, from Jonny the marketing expert, the branding of our show could do with a bit of a make over. So, in this episode, you're going to hear about our plans for 2024! We have a new name, some new artwork, and from January we'll be bringing you an extra Friday episode as well. Joe, Tom and Producer Ryan are bringing the Show Growing Committee back to tell you all about it. The actual show is barely going to change, you can st...
Dec 20, 2023•42 min•Season 8Ep. 68
Ho ho ho, merry Christmas! Actually we should just say merry Christmas, as apparently the real Santa doesn't say ho ho ho. We learn this (and many other secrets of the trade) from Mike, who is a professional Father Christmas. Yes, that is his real job all year round, as he takes bookings in January, and there is a Santa convention that happens in June. Luckily, most Santa's get to take Christmas day off. Warning, don't listen to this episode if you are around young children, as we don't want to ...
Dec 13, 2023•57 min•Season 8Ep. 67
Every week we bring you an old episode, back from when we had no listeners. Here, Joe and Tom meet Paddy who lived on the streets of Birmingham for 5 years. He’s one of the most extraordinary people they’ll ever meet and he’ll make you think again about homeless people. Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linkt...
Dec 09, 2023•40 min•Season 8Ep. 66
Our guest this week is Jonny, who is an expert in marketing. Joe and Tom ask him lots of silly questions about adverts (anyone remember the Umbongo song?) and he gives us a very honest assessment about the marketing of this podcast... turns out we aren't ready to become a viral sensation just yet. Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your...
Dec 06, 2023•57 min•Season 8Ep. 65
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Every week we bring you an old episode, back from when we had no listeners. This week, Joe and Tom meet a cheesemonger, eat six cheeses and potentially get gout. Learn all about the Great Cheese War of 1766, Sardinian maggots and how many goats is a lot of goats. We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/jm...
Dec 02, 2023•52 min•Season 8Ep. 64
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 This week we meet Lee, who is an APT in a mortuary. There are some very serious parts to this episode, as well as some very funny parts, all of which delve into the inspiring work that Lee and his team do. What are the strangest things he has ever found in a dead body? How exactly do post-mortems work? How does he cope with some of the horrific things he sees? Yo...
Nov 29, 2023•58 min•Season 8Ep. 63
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Every week we bring you an old episode, back from when we had no listeners. This time, Joe and Tom meet Tim Peake and ask him everything they've ever wanted to know about astronauts. We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/jmstickets To download the Spond app, click here: https://spond.sng.link/D472x/uijj...
Nov 25, 2023•48 min•Season 8Ep. 62
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Tickets only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 This is another episode of 'Things People Did', a new format where we're going to speak to comedians about the jobs they used to do before they became famous! We have a big time guest today who is on more TV shows than he can count... sometimes at the same time, it's Joel Dommett! However, before he found success, he did a stint at virgin megastore as a makeshift ...
Nov 24, 2023•59 min•Season 8Ep. 61
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Warning, this episode may make you heave if you're not into disgusting stuff. Amber is a foot health specialist, who spends her days dealing with ingrowing toenails, bunions and verrucas. She also once dealt with some toenails that hadn't been cut in 30 years... As well as the gross stuff, we rate Joe and Tom's feet, and debate how much money Joe could get for pi...
Nov 22, 2023•57 min•Season 8Ep. 60
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Every week we bring you an old episode, back from when we had no listeners. This time, Joe and Tom meet Dr Mark Freestone and ask him everything they've ever wanted to know about psychopaths. We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linktr.ee/jmstickets To download the Spond app, click here: https://spond.sng.link/D...
Nov 18, 2023•51 min•Season 8Ep. 59
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Our guest this week is Gav, he's an ecologist, and he has spent most of his career smelling otter poo, counting newts and conducting bat surveys. In this episode, we learn why that is such important work, and about how we can all do simple things to help protect the environment around us. We also learn that Joe has a talent for identifying insects just by the sou...
Nov 15, 2023•57 min•Season 8Ep. 58
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 Every week we bring you an old episode, back from when we had no listeners. This time, Joe and Tom meet Dan Snow who knows everything about everything. It's one of our favourite episodes and covers Roman emperors, King Wladyslaw, Tutankhamun’s underpants and Henry VIII. We'll be live at The Clapham Grand every month next year, get your tickets here: https://linkt...
Nov 11, 2023•47 min•Season 8Ep. 57
Come and see us at The Clapham Grand on 16th January for our next live show! Ticket's only £15 here: https://link.dice.fm/C09cda047686 We're live at The Clapham Grand this week, and we've got something exciting up our sleeve. This is the first episode of 'Things People Did', a new format where we're going to speak to comedians about the jobs they used to do before they became famous. The best part is, we're going to be doing this every month live at The Clapham Grand in front of an audience, and...
Nov 08, 2023•47 min•Season 8Ep. 56
Every Saturday morning we bring you one of our favourite guests from back when the show had no listeners. In this week’s classic, Joe and Tom meet a vicar and he might be the best vicar in the world. They ask him about weddings, funerals, swear words in the bible and whether the Lord is Father Tim's line manager. Merch available here: joemarler.co.uk/shop To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe fo...
Nov 04, 2023•44 min•Season 8Ep. 55
Joe has returned from The Rugby World Cup in France, so he's here to tell Tom, and the rest of us, about all of the big moments... New JMS caps and hoodies available here: joemarler.co.uk/shop To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/joemarlershow To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/joemarlershow To get official show socks, click h...
Nov 03, 2023•37 min•Season 8Ep. 54
Some of the facts you will hear in this episode about germs will likely blow your mind. You may not even understand it all... we're not sure Joe did. But what we can tell you is that there is talk of zombie ants, the amount of bacteria on a nightclub carpet, viruses and if they could wipe out humanity, and a study on Belgian faeces which is quite frankly, ridiculous. Dr Jonathan Kennedy is our expert this week, and you can buy his book 'Pathogenesis' here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pathog...
Nov 01, 2023•48 min•Season 8Ep. 53
Every Saturday morning we bring you one of our favourite guests from back when the show had no listeners. In this week’s classic, Joe and Tom meet a teacher and ask her everything they’ve ever wanted to know about working in a school. Come and see our next live show (with Joe Wilkinson): https://link.dice.fm/B708c6703331 Merch available here: joemarler.co.uk/shop To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subs...
Oct 28, 2023•45 min•Season 8Ep. 52
