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Shooting Ropes with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland

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A weekly podcast where you can hang and bang with two of Scotland’s best stand-up comedians, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland. With brilliant guests, close-to-the-bone humour, genuine friendship, and a vaguely western theme. Take aim, cock your head, shoot your rope. Join the Patreon for bonus content and ad-free episodes over at Patreon.com/ShootingRopes Get involved with us on instagram @Shooting. Ropes and @ShootingRopesPod on TikTok Artwork by Jonny Mowat Produced by Lorenzo Pacitti A Rare Water Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Not Going Out (#026) 06.07.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Mcarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for another Monday Main Feed edition of high brow conversation and ultra-dense discourse. This week the boys dive into the Thomas Payne Chipotle, sleeping in the heat and Christopher's turmoil over never being part of a crowd ever again. Come see us at the Edinburgh Fringe! https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/22557/shooting-ropes-...

Fork In The Road with Paul Black (#025) 29.06.2026

It's a new Shooting Ropes Monday and we welcome a guest to the new ranch studio for the first time, none other than the wonderful Paul Black! We talk handsome dogs, Scotland's genetic disadvantages, the most scathing insult possible and the legend of The Human Stapler. You can find an extra 30 minutes with Paul NOW on our Patreon alongside other bonus and ad-free episodes every single week! Go see...

Invisible Ink (#024) 22.06.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for another Monday Main Feed edition of the Shooting Ropes Podcast! As Scotland is gripped by World Cup Fever, the boys of course dig into the invention of invisible ink, the human capacity to grow a third set of teeth and how to impress your cousin outside your local youth centre. Come see our live show at The Stand 3 during the Ed...

The Official Number One World Cup Podcast (#023) 15.06.2026

Welcome Shooters, Scorers, Kickers, Savers and Tacklers to the OFFICIAL number one World Cup Podcast. Join your hosts Christopher MacArthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for a one week only Shooting Ropes limited series experience. With Rosco jetting off to cheer on our brave boys in blue, he sat Christopher down before he left to impart some soccer wisdom and walk Chris through who exactly the Scot...

Opening Up The Mailbag (#022) 08.06.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for a debut dive into listener questions submitted exclusively by the Patreon team. We explore the public demand for Signature Dish/Signature Disc, Billy Connolly's Ad Reads and Wallace justifying his hipster leanings to a beleaguered Gromit. You can join the Patreon to submit questions for future mailbags exclusively for Straight S...

Forbidden Pleasures (#021) 01.06.2026

It's a great Monday in the Shooting Ropes-Verse as our wandering hosts return from far flung adventures to the new Shooting Ropes Ranch for a settling in catch-up. Join Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for a very special episode and another masterclass in the art of non-linear storytelling, featuring aliens, skeletons, spiders and the launch of our all new corporation of which YOU...

Parkour for Mum with Ed Night (#020) 25.05.2026

In our final down under edition from an apartment in Melbourne, Australia, your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland are joined by the hilarious Ed Night! We talk For You pages, AI slop and traumatic brain injuries, perhaps pulling at a common thread between the three. You can find Ed on instagram (@_ednight) and see his amazing stand-up special Hour Long Clip on YouTube now! Fu...

Avant-Garde Bird Show with David O'Doherty (#019) 18.05.2026

It's the second instalment of Shooting Ropes: DOWN UNDER, with your intrepid hosts, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland! This week, featuring special guest, the one and only David O'Doherty! You can see David O'Doherty at the Edinburgh Fringe this August with his new show, At This Stage, from Aug 5-31 And check out his terrific podcast What Did You Do Yesterday? co-hosted with Max Ru...

The Atomic Pom with Grace Jarvis (#018) 11.05.2026

Welcome to the first edition of Shooting Ropes: DOWN UNDER, with your alternate hemisphere hosts, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland! This week, featuring special guest, Antipodean legend and stand-up, Grace Jarvis! Join our trio in their serviced apartment mid-Melbourne Comedy Festival as they embark on a cultural exchange of smells, wildlife wars and diagnoses. You can see Grace a...

Number Daft with Liam Farrelly (#017) 04.05.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland for another episode of Shooting Ropes! This week with special guest, Paisley's own, Liam Farrelly (@liamfarrellycomedy)! From fighting your manager to fighting your taxi driver to fighting an old guy at a gig to fighting a whitey, it's all here on a KNOCKOUT episode of Shooting Ropes! Listen to Liam as Dungeon Master on the great new...

Voices of The Pharaohs with Liam Withnail (#016) 27.04.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland for another episode of Shooting Ropes! This week with special guest, the great Liam Withnail (@liamwithnail)! Join the boys to riff our way through history, from King Tut's gravitas to the best toilet's in Edinburgh, it's all here and it's all you want. You can find Liam's special Live At Monkey Barrel on YouTube now! Check out Chris...

Super Gen Z with Ayo Adenekan (#015) 20.04.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd & Rosco McClelland for another edition of the increasingly more vaguely western themed podcast, Shooting Ropes. This week with special guest, Ayo Adenekan (SNL UK, @Ayo_Adenekan) Edinburgh stand-up and staff writer on the historic first season of SNL UK, join Ayo and the boys for some untethered chat including topics such as Rumpelstiltskin, the ONLY...

The Sunshine Monstrosity with Milo Edwards (#014) 13.04.2026

Another week, thank god, another episode of Shooting Ropes! Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland, this week with special guest, Milo Edwards! (@Milo_Edwards, Glue Factory Podcast, Trash Future) This week we've brought in some heavyweight podcasting intellect in which Milo finds the time in an hour of serious high-level hardcore riffing to teach Chris how to shower and Ro...

No Complaints with Alison Spittle (#013) 06.04.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland for a brand new episode of Shooting Ropes! This week with special guest, Alison Spittle! (@alisonspittle, @IgnoreThatFeelingPodcast) Nu-Metal Karaoke, hidden subtext in Morrisey's lyrics, ADHD and much much more. Enjoy a bonus episode of extended chat with Alison only over on our Patreon! Bonus episodes drop every Wednesday. Catch Ali...

S-Tier with Stuart McPherson (#012) 30.03.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland for another week of shooting from the hip, this week with special guest, Stuart McPherson!(@stuartmcpherson_, Some Laugh Podcast) In this power hour we discover Chris' uncanny ability to tell when two films are in fact different films, Rosco's controversial chip shunning and Stuart's new Garlic Bread routine. We bring you this episode...

The Edge of Tomorrow with Li Jin Hao (#011) 23.03.2026

It is our privilege to bring you another episode of the vaguely western themed podcast, Shooting Ropes! With your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland joined in the studio this week by the wonderful Li Jin Hao (@jin.hao.li) As always the boys never shy away from the big topics of the day. Expect open contempt for silent letters, the ethics of pet ownership, cruel crop top clad kin...

Hey Hey Baby with Joe Kent-Walters (#010) 16.03.2026

Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland for a brand new episode with special guest, Joe Kent-Walters, who you may know best as the Yorkshire's Biggest Bastard, Frankie Monroe! You can have a peek to see if any tickets remain for Frankie Monroe at the Glasgow Comedy Festival on Thursday the 19th of March (https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/20601/joe-kent-walters-is-frank...

Rowntree Randoms with Ray Bradshaw (#009) 09.03.2026

Monday Monday, so good to me, because it means a new episode of Shooting Ropes! This week your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland are joined by the wonderful Ray Bradshaw! How do you achieve green urine? What do you do when your wife is teaching another man BSL? What does yet another guest have to say about the domestication of Rosco? All this and more answered on this edition o...

Sincere Goddess Worship with Sam Lake (#008) 02.03.2026

A new dawn, a new Monday, a new episode of Shooting Ropes! Join your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland as they welcome special guest Sam Lake to the Shooting Ropes Ranch. Join us for a live booster pack ripping, the history of the Cornish Pasty and another unwelcome peek into Rosco's For You Page. You can get tickets for Sam's upcoming Glasgow Comedy Festival show, he'll be per...

Big Dafty Disease with Stephen Buchanan (#007) 23.02.2026

Boy Howdy it's another episode of Shooting Ropes with your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland! This week with special guest, Stephen Buchanan! Join the boys for a whirlwind hour answering the biggest questions of the time, such as, how does coffee work and how can we stop grans from dying so often? You can find a bonus episode of an extended extra 40 minutes with Stephen on our...

Farm Strong with Kate Hammer (#006) 16.02.2026

Who has more rural friends, Chris or Rosco? The question on everybody's lips this week on the latest episode of Shooting Ropes. This week your hosts Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland are joined by a farm-raised, free-range mutual Kate Hammer! We talk Hog stampedes, Barn Holes, Hamster Homicides and of course, Legendary Danish band Cartoon's number 2 hit, Witch Doctor. See Kate perfor...

Teuchter Digimon with Jack Traynor (#005) 09.02.2026

A strange podcast episode rides into town, it's unfamiliar steed trotting ominously through the main street of the podcast apps. It's co-riders dismount and you discover it's your hosts Christopher MacArthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland. Before you can steel yourself and put your phone away you taste the hot lead of another hit episode crush through your abdomen, this week with exceptional guest and...

Overtoun Bridge with Kim Blythe (#004) 02.02.2026

This week your hosts, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland are joined by comedy sensation Kim Blythe! (@Kim. Blythe. Comedy) It's a tough week to be a Puppy Boy as our trio tackle the mysteries of the fatal Overtoun Bridge, CMB's Wile. E. Coyote commute and the debut of our latest podcast within the podcast, Bear Minimum. Catch Kim LIVE at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on March 20th p...

Up For It, Series 3 with Ashley Storrie (#003) 26.01.2026

It's a brand new episode of Shooting Ropes with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland, this week with special guest, Ashley Storrie! (@ashleystorrie, Dinosaur) A bumper episode reunion of the Up For It cast sees the curtain peeled back on Chris and Rosco's Star Trek auditions, Ashley's prolific erotica writing and the dawn of the Reverse Gigolo. Hear Ashley on BBC Radio Scotland, Friday...

Plague Facts with Helen Bauer (#002) 19.01.2026

Mount up for a new episode of Shooting Ropes with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Rosco McClelland, this week with special guest, Helen Bauer! (@helenbabauer, Helen's Log Podcast) Enjoy an hour of serious concern for Rosco's wellbeing, a survival guide through the Bubonic Plague and the debut appearance of Signature Disc and Signature Dish! Catch Helen's podcast weekly at Helen's Log on YouTube and...

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