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For this Britainology down under, Milo and Nate are joined by Joel Duscher and Jackson Baly from Sanspants Radio to discuss the odd breed of Australian billionaire and their fixations. Mostly on coal, holes in the ground, and so on.

For this month's first Britainology, Milo subjects Nate to the early-2000s British reality TV show Supernanny, with an episode featuring a particularly unruly 9-year-old girl named Meghann. It's famously "iconic" British TV with more than a few ethical dilemmas, and frankly we're undecided on its va

Thank you to the fan who commented that we should continue to explore Richard E. Grant's career. As such, we've watched the 1987 film WITHNAIL & I and.... enjoyed it? But it's very hard to escape the notion that 1987 Britain conjuring 1969 Britain looks indistinguishable from 2024 Britain in terms o

For this month's second Britainology, we discuss the mythological summer that English football wasn't total shit, which was something of a new phenomenon at the time. That's right, we're discussing the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, hosted in the UK in the dying lights of John Major's pre

We've heard that any political issue in the United Kingdom is 'just like The Thick of It' and as such we've sought to verify. By watching the 2000s BBC sitcom, or at least one episode of the show, and addressing what it says about British politics? To be honest, it definitely says a lot about Armand

For this month's first Britainology, we've watched the season of the military-themed and emphatically strange UK reality TV show "Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins," featuring....Matt Hancock. It's exactly what you think it is.

For this month's first Britainology, we examine an unambiguously good (and strange) British crime film: Jonathan Glazer's 2000 debut SEXY BEAST. Why is the film so atmospheric and detached? Why is Ben Kingsley so good at being an ultra-geezer? Is the plot saying definitively that Ian McShane had to

The eternal gadfly of British politics and reality TV returns to the centre stage yet again, and as such Milo and Hussein cobble together all their anecdotes and facts to explain George Galloway's whole deal to Nate. No guarantees that they succeed, but they try.

For this month's first Britainology, we're joined by music journalist and genre aficionado Dan Hancox, the author of 'Inner City Pressure: the Story of Grime.' But we're not talking about Grime today (that'll come later!)—rather, we're talking about a genre close to Milo's heart, the Essex-born-and-

*UNLOCKED TO THE $5 TIER BECAUSE NATE IS EXHAUSTED RIGHT NOW AND THE BONUS IS LATE* For this month's second Britainology, Nate and Milo discuss Sacha Baron Cohen's 2000s comedy program Da Ali G Show, its appearances in America, the type of guy it's supposed to be making fun of, and what their Americ

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo discuss the now-timeless 2003 Richard Curtis film LOVE ACTUALLY, and what it says about Britain. Milo loves it, Nate's wife loves it, Nate is lukewarm on it but it did make him laugh, and Boris Johnson Voice makes an appearance.

For this month's first Britainology, we speak with journalist Alan White (@aljwhite) of Politics Home about the strange and sordid history of Britain's tabloid press--how it never seems to change (culturally or otherwise), how it keeps getting away with things, how different its affect is from that

For this month's first Britainology, we're learning about Wales--the history, the language, its relationship to the United Kingdom, the strange exploits of the one-man Welsh IRA--and in order to do so, we're joined by James Griffiths, the Hong Kong correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail, and a

For this month's first Britainology, we watched the 2004 UK gangster movie LAYER CAKE, featuring a much younger Daniel Craig, a very Essex'ed-up Sienna Miller, and a very unknown-at-the-time Tom Hardy. And it's a good movie! Which we enjoyed! And had a lot of fun talking about, especially as regards

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo get expert advice from The Athletic's Joey D'Urso, a lifelong football fan and a source of extremely funny anecdotes about the nutters and eccentrics of the English Premier League. We learn about Gazza, Georgie Best, Vinnie Jones, and many more. Hop

We've fixed the issue that was causing glitching during playback! For this month's first Britainology, we've decided to invert the formula of our last show with Jackson Baly and Joel Zammit of Sanspants Radio: instead of Brits in Australia, we're now discussing Australians in Britain. And we cover e

For this month's first Britainology, it's a slight reversal of the script: we have before us a British cultural institution that Nate knows more about than Milo does. It is in fact the children's weekly comics paper / mischief compendium 'The Beano,' which Nate read avidly in the early 1990s and Mil

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo watched the first installment of the Up series, the 1964 mini-documentary SEVEN UP! Filmed as a commentary on Britain's class system and unintentionally becoming a time lapse of the Baby Boomers, it's still an absolute gem of British Pathé Voice, an

For this month's first Britainology, Nate and Milo examine a BBC children's show that has been running since the 1950s, despite no one watching it. The show is called Blue Peter, it's extremely boring, it feels like it's been taken out of a different era, and yes, there are allegations of adultery a

In this month's first Britainology, we interview the UK's only good columnist about his new book 'The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less.' The book is available here from Profile Books. However, rest assured that we talk about the book for about half of this interview, and the other h

For this month's first Britainology, Milo explains the heartwarming autumn tradition of burning effigies of Catholics. Well, sorta. It's our Guy Fawkes Night explainer episode, among many other tangents. Hope you enjoy! *AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tick

For this month's first Britianology, we bring on our TF cohost Alice to discuss one of British history's strangest men. That's right, we're discussing Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence himself, or any of the multiple aliases with which he enlisted in the British military in order to get big strappin

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! For this month's second Britainology, Milo forces Nate (currently in Indiana taking care of his family, free from the United Kingdom for a brief moment) to VPN in and watch the first episode of the new Channel 4 reality TV show 'Make Me Prime Minister,' in which a brilli

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! For this month's second Britainology, we speak with Aberdeen-based musician Elijah Fynmore about the moments in UK life when you're allowed to--or expected to--break into song. What is the deal with Sweet Caroline? What is the deal with Irish folk ballads about utterly o

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! For this month's second Britainology, Milo makes Nate watch season 1, episode 1 of the Channel 4 teen comedy/drama 'Skins.' Nicholas Hoult is in demon twink mode causing chaos all around flip-phone-era Bristol c. 2007, and Nate marvels at the fact that a show like this w

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! We're extremely happy to welcome friend of the show Phoebe Roy on to discuss the 1990s sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (only the first 3 seasons are canonical), its enduring appeal, and how it got a lot of stuff right before people even had the words to describe the phenomena

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! For this month's second Britainology, Milo and Nate are joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss Britain's 1956 invasion of Egypt, how Britain got spectacularly owned, and the eternal weak point of the British military throughout the entire operation: cupboards. Hope yo

Now unlocked to the $5 tier! We've got Joe and Francis back to discuss the Midwest--a reverse Britainology, if you will--and we're discussing 24-hour diners, terrible fast food jobs, and the cultural weight of professional wrestling in the Rust Belt / Greater Midwest. Hope you enjoy!

The previous file issue has been fixed This month's $5 Britainology involves Milo forcing Nate to watch an incredibly awkward episode of I'm Alan Partridge and then helping him talk him off the ledge. We also explore how Partridge is not all that exaggerated a version of a British radio DJ, replete

This week we explore the phenomenon of 2000s Indie Rock (and the endless succession of bands that seemed to go nowhere) with two long-suffering veterans of the scene: Fred Macpherson (of the bands Spector, Les Incompétents, and and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man) and music journalist Oscar Rickett. It's a lot of