Discontent Provider

Though now fairly well-stricken in years, the chaps are still more than capable of indulging in one of Britain's best-loved pastimes - to wit, pontificating about what they'd have done when it comes to a rumble. They're also - much to their surprise - not too far gone in nihilistic cynicism to give credit where it's due as it turns out that even some (CITATION NEEDED: Exact Figures Currently Unava...

Amidst the falling leaves and frost of their Autumnal Happy Place, the chaps find themselves unexpectedly pleased not to be in a tropical island paradise. They may be cold, bitter, and unappreciated - but at least they're not having to face an extremely difficult conversation that's been brewing for seventy-five years.

While the Great and the Good blame each other for interfering in their affairs, the chaps in the Happy Place prefer to take the stance of Personal Responsibility and accepting their own shortcomings. Turns out it's surprisingly easy to do it - especially if you're as great as wot Foxy and Arkham are...

Is the Autumnal mist a little thicker in the Happy Place than usual today? Do the denuded branches of the trees seem to weep with that touch more melancholy? Hard to say - but certainly the chaps are feeling a touch under the weather. Inspiration may be at hand from an unlikely source though. Perhaps concerning themselves with a potentially massive shift in Constitutional affairs is just silly? Wo...

For reasons they feel disinclined to divulge, the chaps are a day late to the Happy Place this week - but are, nevertheless, almost painfully eager to point out other people's shortcomings. Today, they're looking at how politeness costs nothing - except possibly job security, human dignity, and other insignificant trifles of that nature...

Being a pair of careful, rather close-mouthed coves, the chaps are not perhaps as sympathetic to Prime Ministers who don't sufficiently distinguish one form of ordnance from another - especially when a hostile Nation is just aching for a self-righteous war-wank.  This episode also features a moment of self-doubt, a touch of shaudenfraude, a Song At The End, and a fascinating glimpse into a rift in...

Neither the crackling of fallen leaves nor the invigorating sting of autumnal air in the Happy Place can cheer the chaps today as they ponder the dishonesty, insincerity, indifference, and cruelty of both those who promulgate and those who profit from the ever-growing horror of the Middle East conflict. Still; it's only a short one - and they both know that you, gentle listener, are a good and rig...

While the Britain beyond the leafy tranquility of their Happy Place rings to the anguished howls of post-colonial cretinism, Foxy and Arkham ponder the idiocy of people who LITERALLY didn't know what they'd got 'til it was gone - and then kicked up the most fearful row about it. Also - and on the subject of great songs, the chaps pay musical (near enough anyway) tribute to an all-time country musi...

Perhaps it's because Christmas is looming ever-closer and it doesn't hurt the more parsimonious to slim down their address books (even if they can claim the cost of cards and stamps back on expenses) but a lot of harsh words are being chucked around of late - or maybe some sort of Seasonally Affected Disorder is just making people say the quiet part out loud. Either way, today sees Arkham and Foxy...

Foxy and Arkham find themselves in the distinctly unfamiliar position of defending a British Prime Minister against the slurs of the uneducated lumpen herd. What many people have mistaken for a slip of the tongue was actually a damnably witty literary reference - or was it? Maybe he's just an idiot who hates the sick and disabled - though how likely is that? He is, after all, a committed Marxist -...

Foxy and Arkham are feeling dreadfully bucked to have arrived at their 100th Episode (give or take a couple of two-parters and "get-aheads" that don't count as canon). Needless to say, events beyond the leafy confines of the Happy Place may receive less than the chaps' usual forensic attention... It's Political Conference Time though - so comment isn't all that necessary.

The chaps wind up the week with both a bold (if impractical) Mission Statement and some Statements about a recent Mission. Comparisons 'twixt Small States and Rogue States which are not wholly favourable to the former.

The chaps find themselves in unwontedly chipper mood today because... Well; while they're not doing particularly well, they're doing a damned sight better than people upon whom they're not frightfully keen - and if that isn't cause for celebration, what is in these debased times? There's also a nod to both the Survival Horror genre and a band from yesteryear. It's pretty packed for a Monday is wha...

An indecently proud Foxy and Arkham compare producing two podcasts in the same week favourably to performing a spacewalk - justifiably, considering their budgetary limitations. After that, they consider the prospects of a reformed NHS and a Health Utopia as envisioned by centrists. It's probably not as bad as it seems - but only by a bit.

Exciting times for the chaps this week: a (partial) visual renaissance arrives just in time to see the shafting of Senior Citizens and irrefutable proof that the wheels have finally come off Humanity's little red wagon. And, were that not enough (though it obviously is) a tweak to the format is announced - one that will leave Mondays changed forever...

After a week on holiday, the chaps are disappointed - though by no means surprised - to return to the Happy Place only to find that little has changed. Big Money is still acting as though there has been no change in Government - and perhaps there hasn't been after all. Still; if enough of us eat enough tinned pineapple, who knows what could happen? It makes sense in context - though perhaps not mu...

This week finds the chaps burning any conceivable bridges and damning themselves irrevocably to never ever being invited to guest on another podcast by lashing out at practically every columnist, podcaster, and opinioneer and calling most of them idiots. Frankly, it's surprising it's taken this long... On a more positive note, The Silver Fox has some words of wisdom and encouragement for the Young...

As the country - and the chaps in the Happy Place - enjoy a respite from the worst of the chaos and cuntery of the past week, we take a look at what drove hotel-burners and sausage-roll heisters alike to give so many of our towns and cities some new scars - and just as we hope those scars will heal, we also hope that greater understanding can lead to better handling of the baser impulses at play. ...

Before you download this week's offering from the Happy Place, perhaps you should think for a moment: do you really want to listen to the chaps' reflection on a week of slaughter and unrest? That's not to say that it's any better (or worse) than their usual offering - but just a reminder that it's probably best to think about ANYTHING before doing it. Sadly, that sort of thing isn't everyone's bag...

Hey there, you groovy cats and kittens; drop by Foxy and Arkham's Happy Place this week and dig the sweet sunshine and the good vibes, why don't you? It's all so cool and beautiful, baby - ever since Parliament tuned in, turned on, and dropped out into a Political Age of Aquarius, we're all a lot more mellow, man... Unless you disagree with somebody even slightly; then, we'll eat your eyes right o...

As the Chattering Classes and the Political Elite shout themselves hoarse in an attempt to make some sense of Saturday's events in Butler, Pennsylvania - or at least some form of sense in which they're absolved of any and all blame - Foxy and Arkham retreat to the Happy Place to escape the cacophony of cant and reflect that with everybody mouthing off, it's small wonder that they can scarcely hear...

As the chaps twiddle their respective thumbs and paw-pads in the sun-drenched seclusion of their Happy Place - rather at a loss as how they might best tackle the recent seismic-but-probably-not-very-seismic changes in the UK, a remarkable thought occurs - and one from an even more remarkable source. Over to you, Brian...

The Happy Place is (a bit) Happier than usual this week as Arkham and Foxy see in the formation of a new Government. Needless to say, it's not all larks and untrammeled merriment - and there's still plenty to grouch about. For all that however, it may still be that chaps' most Upbeat Episode Ever - and you'll certainly never see a ventriloquist in the same light again.

After a brief absence - (relatively brief, anyway - in geologic terms) the chaps are back in the Happy Place. As the Nation gears up for the Election, Foxy and Arkham consider crises of conscience, unintended consequences, and the evanescence of a cornstarch coating. Also, exciting noises are made about LIVE election coverage. Doubtless Jeremy Vine is already shitting himself at the prospect... NB...

A certain pre-election ennui has caused Foxy and Arkham to retreat to the pastoral splendour of their Happy Place with more alacrity than usual this week. Fortunately, the splendid isolation did both of the chaps the world of good, and provided time and space enough to ponder as to why the Twitters, they are a-changing - as well as realising that things could always be worse...