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Podshambles

Podshambles
Podshambles is the comedy stylings of Paddy Gervers (Jonny & The Baptists) and Laurie Havelock (once met Brian Blessed). They are two best friends who know far too much about each other. Each episode, marvel as they stagger and ramble through video games, comic books and any other fragments of geek culture that wander through their synchronised brains. No conversational cul-de-sac is left unplundered, whether it's Game of Thrones (or Goats), their many run-ins with geese, or just a load of egg puns. There's even a regular check in with Choose Your Own Adventure with Flagon the Dwarf, a not at all Dungeons and Dragons-esque romp through somewhere quite like a pound-shop Middle Earth. Expect an hour-long podcast that will make you laugh. I promise. Swearsies. BFFs 4LYF.

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Episodes

Podshambles 32: Butt Harp

Sound the shamble-horns and alert the village elders - there's a fangorious pod-beast on the loose and it's coming right for us. Under its fleshy jowls this week: Paddy and Laurie put the Twitter phenomenon that is #100HappyDays to task, share some heartwarming tales of childhood vandalism before catching up with Flagon the Dwarf, Barbossa the pirate King and Oliver, the other one, in another exciting, unplanned episode of CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Send in your thoughts, suggestions and geese p...

Sep 23, 20151 hr 29 min

Podshambles 31: I Trust You…With My Wife

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 recommen...

Aug 19, 20151 hr 32 min

Podshambles 30: Ball Of Otters

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 wi...

Jul 18, 20151 hr 21 min

Podshambles 29: Hold Your Sort Of Horses

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 becau...

Jun 29, 20151 hr 33 min

Podshambles 28: Flapsworth The Butler

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 09, 20151 hr 15 min

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

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 06, 20151 hr 14 min

Podshambles 26: Wood Ewe, Would Ye?

"Those criminals put two of our men in Podybags captain - those poor Castards didn't know what hit 'em."The Shamburglars are back and they've brought goat farming, emu highways, hit new songs and the plot synopsis to the dreadful movie Heathers with them! Oh - and they have also found the ancient Chinese city of Tseng Su because they are rad.So restitch your moccasins, restock the sultanas and win that tombola - Podshambles has arrived. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Feb 08, 20151 hr 17 min

Podshambles 25: Bananas For Bananas (Christmas Special)

Crack open the Christmas Podt (that's Port, as in the drink) and tap the Cast of Ale (like Cask, as in a Cask of Ale - these jokes just get better and better) and tuck in to a very Shambolic Christmas. Paddy will inevitably explain the inner workings of an Indonesian Gamelan, Laurie will undoubtably regale you will the details of his new sitcom 'Happy Go Clucky', and the waifish strays will finally settle the big arguments.It is time to choose.Are you BanFlak? Or are you VanChocBo? Hosted on Aca...

Dec 26, 20141 hr 31 min

Podshambles 24: Falcon Vendetta

The Shamblecars are Podracing again in Cast And Curious 6: This Time It Is Cars Again. Will our star-crossed lovers keep their cool? We certainly hope so.It's a tight corner as Laurie introduces classic character Mike Po-Host, a swift chicane as Paddy relives his childhood broadcast Radio Smile and a cataclysmic collision as special guest Falcon Vendetta bursts onto the scene in a blaze of platinum-record glory. It just got real. Way too real. Really real. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...

Dec 12, 20141 hr 21 min

Podshambles 23: Hallowangover

The Podghosts arise from their Castgraves to wiggle their Shamblebums to funky funky beat. That is correct - it is Halloween. And Paddy is very, very hungover.Even as I write this I am not yet fully recovered. I mean seriously. This is the longest and worst hangover I have ever had.Anyway.LISTEN as Laurie talks beards, GASP as Paddy struggles to explain toasters, and COMBUST as the Shamblerangers recreate the Halloween Specials of Friends and Thomas the Tank Engine. There were some massive sound...

Oct 31, 20141 hr 25 min

Podshambles 22: Meet The Klumps

Just like our fathers, our Podfathers and their Castfathers before them, Laurie and Paddy wrangle their way into another Shamblexpedition to the undiscovered lands. Paddy explores his dark past and his traumatic memories of battery advertising, Laurie well and truly meets the Klumps, and the hip-hop-double-act of some renown reveal what REALLY happened on the Ionian Island of Zakynthos. Ready your bayonets and open your hats - this yacht just went rogue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Oct 12, 20141 hr 7 min

Podshambles 21: The Five Bears

The Fairy Podparents have well and truly Cast a naughty/nice Shamblespell and unleashed total and uninhibited chaos upon the land of Crumpton. Season 2 bollocks off in style, with such hard-hitting nodules as wizarding pastimes, Paddy's Big Ball World Cup Ball Adventure Segment, and a whole host of totally original and definitely not hastily thrown together characters. Who ISN'T ready to meet Jean Voyage? HEY? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 16, 20141 hr 14 min

Ball FM – In The Ball Of The Mountain King

The Final Broadcast. The End is Nigh. Goodnight.Yours faithfully,Radio Ball.(Where Balls really do come true.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 15, 20145 min

Ball FM – Total ReBall

HERE IS A BALL FOR YOUR THOUGHT-HEAD: HOW MUCH BALL COULD A BALLCHUCK BALL IF A BALLCHUCK COULD CHUCK BALLS? EXACTLY. I HAVE JUST REMEMBERED THE APOSTROPHE THING AND HOW MUCH IT ANNOYS ME SO HAVE REMOVED ALL APOSTROPHES FROM THIS DESCRIPTION. BALL BALL BALL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 12, 20143 min

Ball FM – Ball Out Boy

IT'S BALL TIME AND RADIO BALL ARE IN CHARGE OF THE CLOCKS. JUST REMEMBER THE WORDS OF ADELE: LET THE SKY BALL, WHEN IT CRUMBALLS, WE WILL STAND BALL, FACE IT BALL TOGETHER. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 07, 20148 min

Ball FM – Who You Gonna Ball?

BALL FM RIDES AGAIN, TAKING RADIO TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL AND SEEMINGLY MONOPOLISING THE AIRWAVES. KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE BALLPARK, BALLING THE SHOTS, IT'S A BALL WORLD AFTER ALL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 02, 20146 min

Ball FM – Hey Now, You’re A Ballstar

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE BALLS GET BALL FM. THE SAGA CONTINUES TO INTERRUPT REGULAR PODCASTING FOR THIS SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT INTERVIEW. BALL ME, DON'T BE AFRAID YOU CAN BALL ME, MAYBE IT'S LATE BUT JUST BALL ME, BALL ME AND I'LL BE AROUND. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 01, 20145 min

Ball FM – Belle Of The Ball

WE CONTINUE TO INTERRUPT BROADCASTING FOR MORE BALLS - BALL TOGETHER NOW! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 31, 20147 min

Ball FM – Your Daily Helping of Ball

WE INTERRUPT OUR USUAL PROGRAMMING TO BRING YOU DAILY HELPINGS OF BALL FM, STRAIGHT TO YOUR FACE AND INTO YOUR EARS LIKE HOT WET AUDIO JOY. YUM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 22, 20147 min

Podshambles 20: The Season Finale

Do you remember those halcyon days when we were but mere Shamblings? Oh how we used to Podforage for Castmorsels without a care in the world. But those days are gone. We are now fully grown Shamblers - and boy oh boy have we come a long way.Join us (like normal) as we round off what we have decided to call SEASON ONE in style. Things are getting pretty bloody festive at the Shamblegrotto as Christmas falls on us, so expect potentially unwanted messages from possibly forgotten/underwritten charac...

Dec 26, 20131 hr 9 min

Podshambles 19: Whole Grain, All Bran

Oof, watch out, that's it, just wiggle out round then put it down there. You know, just over there! Right by the Shamblecopier.AND THE SCENERY FALLS AWAY TO REVEAL A PODCAST!Well that's just a taste of what's to come in this week's heaped up offering of extract of MaltShambles (oh god, are these getting too tortured yet?) This week, our worryingly debonair duo take to the skies to pen their own anime series, Laurie finds a mystery pig and Paddy tells everyone about the life and times of Daniel S...

Dec 12, 20131 hr 4 min

Podshambles 18: We Really Need To Talk

Pop down to the Shamblebakery and pick up a Podloaf and five Castbagels because it's gonna be a long night (and to get through it you will need loads of bread). The return of the fabled 'Podshambles' is upon us and boy oh boy is it tasty. We begin with the heavily debated subject of PS4/Xbox One/Beef before stumbling blindly into the highly anticipated Aikido section. BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. Keep your eyes peeled and your shins broken for hot-off-the-press information regarding which video game cha...

Nov 28, 20131 hr 25 min

Podshambles 17: Hurricastoween

We didn't see it coming. No-one saw it coming. A warm summer, a calm autumn, but then - then the Shamblewinds came. And Shamblewinds show no mercy.Paddy and Laurie battle it out against the forces of nature the only way they know how - indoors. How will they survive whilst the 'others' succumb to WIND MADNESS? Will Paddy's driving lesson be enough to save the future of humanity/transport? What happened to Laurie at Nandos in an unrelated event? Will they remember it's also Halloween? You will ha...

Nov 06, 20131 hr 30 min

Podshambles 16: Carrot Club (with special guest Jay Foreman)

Well, one's a lonely wash, two's a shower and THREE'S A BLOODY SHAMBLEBATH. Yes, our numbers swell by one this week as we welcome honorary shambleer Jay Foreman – eminent musical comedian, bon viveur, raconteur, boulangeur and all-round swell guy to withstand an hour of our nonsense. We enjoy some songs, chat and WAIT HOLD UP, WHO BROUGHT CARROTS? Suddenly, the episode has taken a turn for the better. Laurie discusses his ideas for a perfect ice cream house, Paddy gets greedy with the utensils, ...

Oct 24, 20131 hr 18 min

Podshambles 15: Dial-Up Golem

Gee-whiz, those Shamblebears sure do love their honey! Watch as they Podfrolic through the beehives, snuffling up the last bits of Castnectar from the bee-nests. Paddy brings out the TOME OF DESTINY and the happy-go-lucky Shamblescamps dive head first into a pool of Choose Your Own Adventure. Yes, you heard right - it is BACK. Laurie finds himself reliving the old days with Flagon, Paddy tries to do too many voices whilst sticking strictly to his limited vocal range, and the fun-lovin' pair batt...

Oct 12, 20131 hr 32 min

Podshambles 14: Flatties

Buckle up your Shambelts and hoist up your Podsails because this trouser-boat is bound for unCasted Territory. Paddy reveals his beef with weevils, Laurie lashes out at society for a general lack in Bernard Matthews based knowledge, and the two Heroes of Time (Laurie and Paddy from Podshambles) discuss their grand plans for Grunty Pig and Battlegoose. The possibility of Shambles Merchandise looms on the horizon and everyone gets a little bit over excited - so excited in fact that the pair only r...

Sep 27, 20131 hr 17 min

Podshambles 13: Bumgoblins

The Shamblesharks are circling once again, drawn to the scent of Pod-blood in the Cast-ocean (I meant for that to sound less disgusting, but it's clearly too late to change it). Anyway, this week our intrepid young Shamblodytes find themselves back in each other's company after a hearty adventure-filled Scotland-induced absence (Paddy went to Edinburgh and then came back). Laurie has what can only be described as an existential crisis over whether Borrowers need passports, Paddy gets censored as...

Sep 08, 20131 hr 17 min

Podshambles 12: Heron’s Heroin Herring

This week, back at the Shambel Tower in gay Paris, Paddy's only gone and bloody gone to bloody Edinburgh bloody Norah. So it's down to tech-wizard Laurence to man the mumblestations and record this week's custard slice.But he forgot. So instead - the Pilotshambles! Hear how our intrepid heroes began speaking about Pokemans, originated the cult practice of salmon batting, and met Elsinore, the finest prostitute there ever was.It's a rip-roarer of an OK time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Aug 12, 20131 hr 8 min

Podshambles 11: Gooselord

We are back behind the Shambleabra with a whole new barrel of podcast-fish. Paddy explains why we are all just one big massive family of ducks, Laurie gets fruity whilst interviewing Engine-Room Phil and Barbossa, and the critically overexcited pair help Lia find a job in the competitive world of ornithology.Expect seizures. And go-karts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 18, 20131 hr 4 min

Podshambles 10 (Part Two): Sexier Enemies

It's time for a bonanza sale at the Shamble Charcuterie as we get under the covers for part two of podlet 10. What awaits us in the sexy shambles boudoir? James and Kate pop over for long-overdue ménage-a-quatre (that's a foursome, to you and I), the postal salmon is relentlessly unsexy and Paddy and Laurie discover the kinship that can only arrive after building a sexy canoe.(Sorry for the French. It's a phase we're going through.)This episode is dedicated to Ray Harryhausen, who inspired a gen...

Jun 30, 20131 hr 12 min
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