Here is the final podcast of season one, recorded before we take a break and prepare to return in 2020.  It finds us in relaxed and reflective mood looking out at a grey seascape from Paul's house in Whitstable, reviewing their first year of podding.  We look forward to returning to you, our kind and valued listeners, rejuvenated and refreshed in spring 2020. Until then, have a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year. Keep the faith.   See you on the other side. Love Paul and Guy X

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Episode 68 Season One Finale!

A fast moving and sometimes fierce pod, in which battle lines between the friends are drawn up, attacked and defended with gusto.  Paul continues his political journey to the left with trips to the food bank, and Guy does his best to get him to vote Tory before it's too late.  But when the shouting has subsided the lads share a tender moment about no longer living together in Pilton, and reaffirm their abiding love for each other despite both believing the other one is wildly wrong on almost every subject.  Paul finishes with a light hearted anecdote about nearly murdering a prime minister.

Episode 67 Wildly Wrong On Every Subject

Therapy, camping, Bukowski, being a writer and gay easyjet stewards.  Add hungry children, drawing and cruelty and you have this weeks' podcast. 

Episode 66 A Portrait Of The Artist

The two friends discuss plans for the forthcoming season of good cheer.  Paul proposes to liven up Christmas with a pagan celebration that includes animal sacrifices, upside down Christmas trees, and dinner in the West End.  Guy delivers a very brief moral lecture and unburdens himself of some horrific culinary confessions before they both confront the food that dare not speak its name.

Episode 65 Some Advent Musings

From a couple of armchairs in front of the woodburner on a rainy morning we discuss old age, eco militarism, and Prince Andrew's passport.  Paul, as an expert, comes up with a working definition of the verb 'to party'.  We then pass via Isadora Duncan's scarf and castration onto the subject of transgender people, which in our characteristic manner we gave a considered and balanced ragging.

Episode 64 Guy You'll Be A Woman Soon

This week the friends discuss the Catholic Church. Paul was brought up in the religion and so feels qualified to speak on the subject. Guy has little experience of it but offers his opinion anyway. The conversation then veers into the subject of celebrity crushes. Could it be true that Guy has never had one? You, dear listener, must decide for yourself.

Episode 63 The Biggest Gay Club In The World?

On a crisp sunny winter’s day, we pod from Paul’s house on the beach at Whitstable.  We sample oysters Paul picked from the foreshore, and hear about his adventures on his boat, the Lamia.   Beach huts, sex and death also all come under consideration as we discuss his new home town.

Episode 62 Whitstable, Mon Amour

This week we talk about the fatbergs clogging our sewers and what to do about them; Paul interviews Guy for a job as his butler, and then admonishes him for behaving too politely in restaurants.  We finish with a look at some old proverbs while Paul indulges in some good old fashioned work place harassment. 

Episode 61 Fools Seldom Differ

A pod for the hard core fans of That’s Just Ridiculous.  We tramp across the outer limits of taste and decorum as we submit Gary Glitter lyrics to a forensic textual analysis, then charge through flight shame, virtual reality and rapist shamen.  Sit forward and pin your ears back. Your sick bag is in the seat pocket in front of you.

Episode 60 Nothing Is Real

Still in Jamaica, we talk in the evening over a glass or two of rum.  We discuss bars, clubs, benders, and country dances we have recently enjoyed.  Paul turns the talk to Xtinction Rebellion, and Guy explains what he would do in the event of a revolution.  We round off with a good dose of psychedelic drugs and Paul’s move to the seaside.

Episode 58 Jamaican bars, Clubs And Country Dances.

This week we are again in Jamaica and are proud to have our first ever guest on That's Just Ridiculous.  In the heat of the night we enjoy conversation with Cuba, an old friend, who talks about Jamaican life today and in the past.  We hope you enjoy his stories as much as we did.

Episode 57 Our First Guest

           This week the friends broadcast from the fading colonial splendour of the Liguanea Club, Kingston, Jamaica.  They talk about attending a gathering of gay men in the capital of one the most homophobic countries in the world.  Paul mentions his racist psychologist, and guy reveals his ambition to become the cockfighting king of West Jamaica.

Episode 56 The Cock Fighters

Over a bottle of Macon Rouge from the prestigious vintner Aldi, the two pals enjoy a typically far ranging conversation.  Polyamoury and harems come under discussion, then Guy boasts about his bargee blood, and Paul describes a drunken prank.  This leaves time for Ian Dury story, a discussion of criminal pathology and a roundup of recommended medical appliances.

Episode 55 Foie Gras De Guy

This is an usual episode because we spend nearly all the half hour talking about one thing: a documentary about a road traffic incident on the M5 made in 2011.  Never say we don't have our finger on the pulse of contemporary culture.  We manage to squeeze in some James Taylor and a short interview with Bob Dylan and George Harrison.

Episode 54 Attack Of The Super Soldiers!

The picture accompanying this week's pod is of Paul in drag.  He has photoshopped it heavily because I can assure you he looked nothing like as good as this in real life.  We discuss Paul's fatal taste for cross dressing, have a good rant about art speak, and hear the tale of the extraordinary time Jude Law based a performance in a major movie on Paul.  

Episode 53 Look What The Cat Dragged In

An artist and a writer try to make sense of life. Unscripted and unguarded conversation, the kind of thing that other presenters only say off mic.

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