December 20, 2024

Peter Village Green Preservation Society

For this week’s bonus, we’re talking about the Starmer / McSweeney government getting outflanked on the left by frothing reactionaries because of their steadfast devotion to water companies being in private hands, and bad. We’re also talking about an amazing recent article about the mad boy king septuagenarian pub magnate who loves closing his pubs permanently as punishment for the slightest infraction. He’s real, and he’s (obviously) British.

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JKilmon · January 28, 2025

Sam smith has personally led to the explosion of London housing prices by throwing a bitch fit in every village trying to build a shed

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Nina · January 3, 2025

milo’s outburst is one of the most cathartic things i’ve heard in my life

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MI · January 1, 2025

Listening to Riley complain about his stress levels when he's also announced that he had access to therapy beginning in grade school is a trip. Privilege off the charts

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CrashMatt · January 2, 2025

Is it not possible to have/ have had therapy and also be stressed?

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SirHumphrey · December 30, 2024

After years of reading his Internet Tendency, I'm glad McSweeney is finally getting some recognition.

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Zoey George · December 30, 2024

Not sure how, but November's belaboured "Why?" At the 56 minute mark had me cackling the most I've listened to this pod in months.

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Thomas Noriega · December 23, 2024

This is an all time ep, my life has been irreparably ruined by the existence of the Pub Tyrant

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Sparky · December 23, 2024

Milo's old pub fella voice reminds me too much of David Mitchell's characters on Mitchell & Webb Look

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etienne · December 23, 2024

I know it's very frowned upon to be a YIMBY around here but: see what I mean? one guy can fuck over every development in all of the countryside because of aesthetic regs and random paperwork?

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Oliver Elliott · December 28, 2024

This happens a lot in California and is a primary source of the housing crisis here. The joker that runs the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles has tied up most of the projects in Hollywood (and elsewhere) for years. Good project, bad project, doesn’t matter! BANANAs: Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone.

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Watthew · December 22, 2024

Milo just 'gets' this country.

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Man2quilla · December 22, 2024

Roll Tide

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Dave Clarke · December 21, 2024

Incredibly weird to contemplate an "efficient" electoral victory strategy. I would have thought that controlling the government of a pretty rich country would be worth spending extra just to be sure, but what do I know?

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Noblese Oblahaj · December 21, 2024

This Humphrey guy sounds like if a villain from the Black Swordman's arc of Berserk used the behelit to become a demonic NIMBY

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Noblese Oblahaj · December 21, 2024

November, have you been playing theHunter: Call of the Riley

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MCL · December 21, 2024

Hey just go and swear in all this dudes pubs and he is gonna close them. Just get him to close all his own businesses, he’s a hoarder. If he was poor he’d have like 75 dogs living under his house

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Buckeroo · December 22, 2024

The good news is that he's 80, so he'll hopefully die of gruel-related parsimony soon.

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Elsie Hupp · December 21, 2024

You forgot the UK’s other major export: luxury real estate!

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Oliver Elliott · December 27, 2024

Also money laundering. But maybe that’s just the “free space” that doesn’t need to be mentioned. Also just a restatement of “luxury real estate” I suppose.

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Mark Schwagner · December 21, 2024

Even though it was just a throw away line: But Nova definitely found something I would buy as merch: The Trashfuture "Sacksful of Sandwiches"? Yes please!

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Clare Patterson · December 21, 2024

Unfortunately I can tell “365 starmy girl” is gonna be a core part of my vocabulary for the next month

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Mark Schwagner · December 21, 2024

New online handle? Ha!

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The *spooOOOoouwuOooOkily* woman-shaped Pharmacist · December 21, 2024

Okay, I don't normally do this, but I need to just... rant a bit here: NO ONE WAS "FLIPPED" IN 2024!!! 19 MILLION LESS PEOPLE VOTED! TRUMP LOST 3 MILLION, KAMALA LOST 16! THOSE PEOPLE DID NOT "FLIP", THEY JUST STAYED HOME. The Republicans did NOT win the election by convincing people to vote for them. The Democrats LOST by NOT convincing the people who would vote for them that it would be worth the risk of voting against the looming tyrant who might do Reprisals against them.

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Elsie Hupp · December 21, 2024

Yes: swing voters are a myth, and the only thing that actually changes is turnout. Anyway the beatings will continue until morale (turnout) improves.

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Andy Curtis-Brignell · December 21, 2024

the pubs only have 1 hit point but they infinitely spawn in and continuously buff Vile Landlord Humphrey - top tip is to aim for the brim of his flat cap for 4-5 hits and they'll stop materialising

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theo bradshaw · December 21, 2024

Currently digging a grave for a pet rat in community garden. The episode was very funny

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Cat Mara · December 21, 2024

I was perplexed when I first saw the title, thinking it was going to be about the late Fleetwood Mac guitarist, afraid that the only possible way he could turn up on TF was that some startup was claiming to have an AI avatar of him or something…

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Vanessa P · December 21, 2024

(Brendan O'Neill voice) But is it not true that the fact that this article's author has never mentioned the word "trans" on his X dot com feed merely demonstrates the power of the wokist Wahabbists of Wolverhampton to enforce a stultifying omertà on this issue? Indeed, his silence speaks volumes. As the great theorist of liberal capitalism George Orwell once wrote in his masterful tirade against cancel culture, Animal Farm, "the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which", which surely must be interpreted as a broadside against the trend of men identifying as pigs and vice versa.

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Elsie Hupp · December 21, 2024

I hope we Wokist Wahhabists at least smash graven images of cisgender heterosexuals and replace them with luxury flats (like the Saudis do in Mecca). I want my they/them Ritz-Carlton!

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David Power · December 21, 2024

Milo's Monsieur Garnier voice is top tier

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Andrew Davis · December 21, 2024

I wonder if Peter Village is keen on village cricket.

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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep · December 21, 2024

Man, l kinda wish that UB40[1] had more hits (l only know of "Red Red Wine", having done zero looking into it), if only to better hammer home the point that public benefits create public benefits [1] named after the unemployment benefits form

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Martin · December 21, 2024

Kia Carmer

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Shiv · December 21, 2024

reading some Guardian travel fluff ytd learned me about coop pubs, which sounds like a promising trend https://www.thenews.coop/co-op-pub-to-open-after-locals-raise-300000/

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Elsie Hupp · December 21, 2024

In the US I think the local equivalent is the VFW, which provides the important public service of subsidizing veteran intoxication.

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Adam Barker-wyatt · December 21, 2024

In Grainger market in Newcastle M&S maintains an original market stall they've had there for 100 years or something. I've bought socks there before.

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Shiv · December 21, 2024

“He Was Driven Mad By Boarding School” new TFCU podcast when

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Andrew Davis · December 21, 2024

Multiple hosts can certainly contribute to this one.

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Shiv · December 20, 2024

Mayoral Transing of Riley has breached containment

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EliteErin is cool · December 21, 2024

🏳️‍⚧️🔔 sound the alarm

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Raymond Price · December 20, 2024

1:03:50 Or Ferdinand I of Austria, who threw a small tantrum because his cook wouldn't make apricot dumplings due to apricots being out of season. "I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings". He's also supposedly the guy who, when told that revolutionaries were marching on the palace, asked "Are they allowed to do that?"

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John Leavitt · December 20, 2024

I’m led to believe Scotland had a good run with some nationally owned pubs until one of the Tory governments thought having a publicly owned business that made money and people liked was a bit embarrassing

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Suggestive Cacti · December 20, 2024

Milo, go off king.

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Shiv · December 21, 2024

when cunt is dropped non-australianly,

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Overzealous Euthanasiast · December 20, 2024

This had better be as despairing and hopeless as the others, was starting to forget the dread trajectory. It's medicine o clock! The bitterest pill continues to be the correctest. Correctesness? What the fuck is happening to words right now, I must depart. ta ta! (And by "depart" I mean "listen to podcast episode now" lol)

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Cate Kneale · December 21, 2024

Doing return with a v for George W Bush.

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Jack Fennell · December 20, 2024

Reflecting on my decision not to emigrate years ago, as I read the news from the UK about mandatory transitions and Jedward becoming joint monarchs; slapping my forehead, growling "Stupid! Stupid!"

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J · December 20, 2024

I think there's a problem with the episode ending a couple minutes early mid-sentence

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Jon W · December 20, 2024

How did you listen to this whole thing already? It's barely been out an hour.

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Alejandro Herrera · December 20, 2024

A specter is haunting rural Britain, the specter of the small business tyrant

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Nemo · December 20, 2024

i liked the early Prince Andrew films but it gets real weird by Chapterhouse Windsor

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Man2quilla · December 20, 2024

Real heads listened to the version that was taken down for telling the truth too hard