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Episode 22 (Or Season 2, Episode 1): Why We Switched to Video (And Why It’s Probably a Mistake)
Read more: Episode 22 (Or Season 2, Episode 1): Why We Switched to Video (And Why It’s Probably a Mistake)Although that, in and of itself, doesn’t really mean a great deal, given that Season 1 only ended last week. At the time of recording the final episode of Season 1, we didn’t really know that would be the end of Season 1, any more than when we recorded this episode we had any idea…
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Episode 21: Porthcawl Nostalgia, Clarks Shoes, and Three-Time Podfade Survivors
Read more: Episode 21: Porthcawl Nostalgia, Clarks Shoes, and Three-Time Podfade SurvivorsGiven that it came immediately off the back of episode 20, which had been a relative struggle to put together, episode 21 was much easier for us. Perhaps we’d worked out all of our demons in the prior recording, because this one did flow a little more naturally. I think the ‘cold open’ focusing on…
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Episode 20: The Foolproof Plan That Wasn’t Ben-and-James-Proof
Read more: Episode 20: The Foolproof Plan That Wasn’t Ben-and-James-ProofAfter smashing out episodes 17–19 in a single recording session, Ben and I met back in my office during the first week of the summer holidays to record episodes 20–22. The plan being to get all the summer holiday episodes recorded during the beginning of the summer break in order to free up the rest…
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Episode 19: 1980s Staycations, West Country Accents, and Bad Teacher Wellbeing Advice
Read more: Episode 19: 1980s Staycations, West Country Accents, and Bad Teacher Wellbeing AdviceEpisode 19 was the third we recorded on the bounce on the last day of term. We’ve only done a ‘triple recording’ a handful of times. Normally getting two in the can is hard enough and there have been times when recording even just the one episode can feel excruciating (episode 8 springs to mind).…