The Brothers Deeney

Diane!  Twin Peaks. The weirdest, sexiest, funniest, shittest, brilliantest show that's ever been. If you know the program, you should listen to the boys discussing it. If you haven't, you should still listen but you should maybe tell all your friends too.  Give yourself a present and listen to our wonderful podcast with a donut and a cup of coffee. Black as midnight on a moonless night....

Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence! The early 18th century brought a pandemic of addiction amongst the putrid streets of old London Town. William of Orange had become king from the Netherlands and brought with him enough gin to intoxicate a nation. And drunk London was for fifty years!  The Brothers Deeney get under the skin on this bizarre stretch of British history, whilst Sazzie comes a...

"I can smile and murder whiles I smile." Another jolly episode of the Book of Nowt, coming at you from a maximum security prison. Two lads lay on the comedy whilst tragedy is all around them.  Murder is a horrid thing, but a horrid thing that people seem to absolutely love. Weirdly.  Come and join our true crime society whilst we discuss murderers' nicknames, ideal murder weapons, a...

We. Are. Back. After three long weeks (so long they were about ten actual weeks), the Brothers Deeney return to the podosphere to chew the fat on the hot-potch majesty that is the English Language.  We cover everything from spelling reform, to language history, to favourite words, to Conal not liking asking people how they are, to even inventing our own new words.  Sazzie is back to in a new(ish)...

The last episode of the season is celebrated with one of the most used storytelling tropes. But is it used because it's good or because it's easy? Well... it's a bit of both. But do listen even though I've told you the ending.  Conal gets annoyed at toilet attendants, Joe is delighted he has a break.  We've had a blast working on this season but this we promise: THE BOOK O...

Fancy walking around commercial hell all day on a busy Saturday? Thought not. Why not just listen to this for a bit instead.  IKEA is a nightmare of an experience that loads of other people think is really good but it isn't it's a nightmare.  Meatballs, blue & yellow, the lights bit... what more could a person ever dream of?  We also talk about our top three fruits. Important stuff. ...

“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change ” So never said Charles Darwin. It was Leon Megginson. But still, nice quote. Evolution by natural selection was first posited in 1859 in On The Origin of Species, and has been a controversial topic since. Not sure why... becasue it's amazing... and true. If this episode up...

We did a game show episode. In The Rating Game, Conal and Joe must convince Sazzie as to their nomination for the most overrated and underrated thing in each category.  We had a jolly good time making it, but it might be self indulgent crap. You be the judge.  Support the show

Inside my shell I wait and bleed... or something.  Remember Y2K? Remember pierced eyebrows? Remember moshing to Alien Ant Farm at Leeds Festival 2001? Yeah, it was rubbish.  Here, we take to pieces a genre much-forgotten. A genre of skate parks and baggy jeans; turntable scratches and frosted tips; Durst and Levigne. Yeah, we aren't fans, but we remember it allllll too well. You are our butte...

No stooges were used in the making of this podcast.  How good is Derren Brown though? He goes out there, gets inside people's heads, and leaves without making a mess. We cover all the main topics of the big man's career: prediciting lottery numbers, heists, and when our mate Kez was nearly hypnotised by a dog.  Conal's been poorly with norovirus... you can only imagine the stories h...

We came here for a shootout!  The Kray Twins terrorised the London clubland of the 50s and 60s, bullying gangster kingpin and innocent civiliant alike. They used fear, intimidation, violence, and charm as their primary weapons, but won court cases againt the police, so the public loved them. Weird innit.  Joe and Conal are just hoping that David Bailey takes some photographs of them so they can be...

Barcelonaaaaaaa... such a beautiful horizon. Rubbish song, charming city. Barcelona is one of the shining lights of European human settlements. A thriving hub of culture, quisine, architecture, history, and sport... but all the songs called Barcelona are still trash.  Most importantly though, the Brothers Deeney discuss those little statues of men in red hats having a poo.  We think you are all re...

It's not you, it's us.  The best podcast talks about the worst feeling. You love someone to death, but they're keen to move on. None of us want it, but without it music would just be lift music.  We indulge in all manner of anecdotes and opinions of love's turbulent meanderings. Conal gives us his history of ghosting and Joe regales a poem he wrote when he was 16. It's one...

1991. One year higher than 1990, but a million times more valuable.  This was the year of Desert Storm, Grunge, Rodney King, doing everything for you, Game Boys, and eating people's liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti fefefefe! We go through this year, month by month, and see what it's left in its wake.  Join us for fun, friendship, and maybe more.  Support the show

Chim-chim-cheroo! And here it is... the musical worth watching.  Detailing the job of a woman on a zero-hours contract, Mary Poppins has been spellbinding audiences since Beatlemania and shows no signs of a difficult breakup.  With a host of talented performers, some much-discussed accents, and a surprisingly lengthy running time, this film is practically perfect in every way.  We've got a qu...

Na then, yer big duck egg. Frame thi sen an' listen ter' Book ah Naaht. In this little episode we take a world tour of the accents of the English-speaking world. We list our favourites, but not our least because we don't have any because accents are amazing.  I like yours the best. Conal reveals he has an excellent, excellent Kiwi voice, and Joe struggles with Australian. What a cou...

We. Are. Back.  This time with a topic right up Joe's street and a tiny little bit up Conal's too. The Roman Empire! We owe them so much, but they were brutal expansionists. Love it or hate it, Ancient Rome is so interesting it makes out heads hurt. Except for laughs, facts, banter, education, reliability, emotional strength, progressive thinging, silliness, philosophy, sexual charge, ph...

Last one and this one's a DOOZY! The Holiday. What can we say about this that Noam Chomsky hasn't said a thousand times before? It's long, it's overwritten, it's sentimental, it thinks an awful lot of itself... but it's still better than Love Actually. If you don't like this film, we have four words for you: Law. Diaz. Winslet. Black. Actually, you might have a p...

 Welcome to Christmas Land. A depressing little hellhole in the middle of nowhere that will judge you no matter the time of year. This is the perfect hallmark film for the ages: a successful woman in the city with a black assistant goes to the small town she grew up in for some reason and is convinced by a local hunk with big hands that the city is fucking shit and she should stay in the place she...

This film is... surreal. Is it even a film? I mean it's on the telly, under the category "film", but is it? There are arguments and New York and lesbians and priests and baubles and car crashes and angels and dogs and I don't even know anymore. This film is so fucking boring. Our podcast isn't though and it's fair to say we eviscerate it. Also available as a YouTube v...

God rest ye merry gentlemen... if you ever see this film. We really scrape the bottom of the barrel of mulled wine with this one. We can't decide what's worst: the writing, the story, the dialogue, the acting, the cast, the plagiarism, or the font on the poster. Despite being miserable as Santa's funeral watching this, we actually had a jolly good time talking about and think you&ap...

We love Christmas, but the people that made "Midnight at the Magnolia" clearly don't as the thing starts on Boxing Day. Downer. This film is a load of old arse and Sazzie Kluvitse, Lizzy Dening, & the boys are in agreement on that. It features boring jazz, running through cobwebs, unhelpful radio call-ins, and two of the smuggest faces in the history of celluloid. Here's th...

In the immortal words of Shakin' Stevens, "Merry Christmas, Everyone!" In this six-part romp we delivery a deserved broadside to some of Netflix's biggest yuletide stinkers. These are: 1. Last Christmas 2. Midnight at the Magnolia 3. A Christmas Break-In 4. A New York Christmas Wedding 5. Christmas Land 6. The Holiday The boys are joined by their excellent Christmas mates Sazzi...

They DO move in herds! A podcast 65 million years in the making. That's right, the brothers Deeney are reviewing the greatest film ever made by humans. It came smashing onto our screens in 1993 like a brachiosaurus sneexing all over your sister, and has been shaking our glasses of water ever since.  We celebrate Goldblum, Neil, Dern, Attenborough, Peck, and the children that are also involved...

Is there a greater queen than Cleopatra? Except for Elizabeth I. And Catherine the Great. And Queen Latifa.  Written in the annuls of history as humanity's most suductive ruler, we lift the lid on how unfair and nonsense the annuls of history actually are. In her 39 years she did an awful lot of living and we do a really fantastic job of clipping that to a manageable hour.  A great leader wit...