Little late this week, folks. So late in fact that it's next week! Anyway, this week the lads are talking 1992 Al Pacino Oscar vehicle Scent of a Woman and 2009 Eels album Hombre Lobo. In the midst of all that, Danny manages a reverie on the essential inauthenticity of the popular perception of male desire and Niall relates a mind-blowing but immediately obviously true observation which was imparted to him about seminal 80s man film Top Gun. Have a listen, if you don't mind your mind being blown...
Apr 17, 2018•2 hr 17 min
Hey folks! This week the lads are chatting about New Wave SF masterpiece The Fifth Head of Cerberus and 90s music biopic Grace of My Heart. And... we have to apologise, because we do somehow end up discussing various issues of manscaping. Nobody wanted it, least of all us. But there we are. Anyhoo! Enjoy!
Apr 08, 2018•2 hr 5 min
Fanfare!!! This week the lads have put swapping on hold to chat with Guitar-making supremo Fergal Quigley. When he's not playing weddings and pubs around the North-East, Fergal makes his own guitars and creates art for other well-known pop-culture podcasts (proper ones, not like this). We also talk butchers' bandsaws and the dangers (and arguable utility) of talk boxes. Have a listen!
Mar 30, 2018•2 hr 3 min
Alright folks! This week, the lads are talking about a pair of sitcom classics - Seinfeld episode The Contest and Only Fools and Horses episode May The Force Be With You! Meanwhile, Niall ruminates on how maleness affects your ablutions and Danny blows minds with a totally new take on Schrodinger's Cat.
Mar 23, 2018•2 hr 8 min
Okay folks, we're genuinely sorry about this, but the curse of Swap Meet has apparently struck again... We really have to stop mentioning people by name. We're like celebrity cyanide or something. Anyway, this week we're talking Hollywood documentary The Death of Superman Lives and comedian Dana Gould's special Let Me Put My Thoughts In You. Also, Niall gets straight to the heart of things and solves abortion, while Danny introduces a new aphorism to the United States. Both of these things with ...
Mar 16, 2018•2 hr 3 min
Ahoy-hoy! This week the lads chat about absurdist Steve Martin vehicle The Jerk and Macho modern stand-up Joe Rogan's Netflix special Triggered. Also, they manage to have a fundamental and impassioned disagreement on overblown romantic early 80's ballads. One of them likes them but can't respect them, the other vice versa. I'd try to raise some tension here, but who takes which position is basically exactly how you'd imagine.
Mar 10, 2018•2 hr 7 min
Okay, this week's a messy, messy, messy one Swap Meeters... We pass the time talking about 80s high-concept family comedy Innerspace and the post-punk folky meanderings of Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains. Also, Niall reveals the secret of just how Jon Pertwee managed to be such a hit with the ladies and Danny finally answers the long-hanging question "If Glenn Hansard was a superhero, which superhero would he be?" What more could you want?
Mar 01, 2018•2 hr 12 min
This week the lads chat about creepy political horror Get Out and creepy possibly-political drama There Will Be Blood. Also, Danny and Niall discover they have very, very different attitudes to night-out loyalties and the concept of "man down".
Feb 23, 2018•2 hr 6 min
Hey hey! This week the lads chat about up-to-the-minute Channel 4 nostalgia-fest Derry Girls and short-change post-punk mumbler Mark E Smith's band The Fall. In the middle of all that Danny manages to share the secret of the perfect poached egg, and Niall takes you through the looking glass to uncover the truth behind the mutton conspiracy.
Feb 16, 2018•2 hr 4 min
This week the lads discuss Laurie Kilmartin's deceptive special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, and promote themselves into the realm of intellectual heavyweights by discussing one of Jordan Peterson's Maps Of Meaning Lectures. Meanwhile, Niall allows his gender relations to be defined by The Apprentice, while Danny displays an uncanny knack for picking out identical voice twins. Have a listen!
Feb 09, 2018•2 hr
This week the lads discuss Dave Chappelle's recent twin specials Equanimity and The Bird Revelation, and rockumentary Never Get Tired. Also, Niall expounds on the explosive consequences of naivete and Danny asks the much overdue question "What did Ghandi really do for us? Really?"
Jan 26, 2018•2 hr 4 min
Back again folks! This week the lads discuss love letter to music and smarm Begin Again, and love letter adventure and alcoholism The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn. Meanwhile, Danny extols the trials of veganism while Niall proposes a new world government based on celebrity breeding. Have a listen!
Jan 19, 2018•2 hr
First episode of 2018! Danny and Niall stand up for the contrarian in us all and chair the first meeting of the Judd Hirsch Appreciation Society!
Jan 03, 2018•2 hr 2 min
As befits an end-of-the-year episode, the lads get very introspective about the podcast itself, and discuss the things that they no longer care about. It's a prodigious list...
Dec 22, 2017•2 hr 3 min
Well, the lads let you down last week, didn't they? So here they are, limping back into the full glare of the internet to short change Black Mirror and Noel Gallagher. Also, Niall shares a harrowing experience at a Christmas party and Danny ranks the nations meat-market night spots. Have a listen!
Dec 12, 2017•2 hr
The lads have a name for short-changing their swaps, but they have NEVER short changed a swap like they short change one of 'em this week. So this week, Danny ponders what conclusions he can draw about Charlie Rose's physique from his face, while Niall admires himself in a window.
Nov 28, 2017•2 hr 3 min
