Toadcast #44 – The Whingecast
It’s teh next Great Depreshun oh noes! Or maybe we’re just moaning like a bunch of fucking girls. After the doom and gloom in the papers it seems time to actually compare the current financial tantrum to the Great Depression and tell anyone who makes that comparison to fuck right off and stop being so self-indulgent.
It’s even ridiculous when compared to the rough times in the fucking eighties when Margaret Thatcher eviscerated everywhere in England outside the M25. She destroyed the country. Annihilating nationalised industries which were no longer economic makes sense, but completely destroying the industries that keep a town alive at the same time as you destroy the support networks provided by the state and also refusing to do anything to encourage industries to grow that might replace the thousands of jobs you have just made vanish is just slash and burn social policy.
There may be a little too much opinionated political opinion and general drunken rambling between myself and my darling girl Mrs. Toad, but erm, well, fuck it you’re own your own. Listen if you think you can face it. But you must understand, we were vewy bewwwy drnk.
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01. Woody Guthrie – Do Re Mi (04.20)
02. Ray’s Vast Basement – Black Cotton (12.52)
03. The Specials – Ghost Town (15.31)
04. The Clash – Career Opportunities (25.33)
05. Billy Bragg – To Have and to Have Not (36.04)
06. Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing (36.03)
07. 4 or 5 Magicians – Forever on the Edge (39.25)
08. The Men They Couldn’t Hang – The Ghosts of Cable Street (52.29)
09. The Willard Grant Conspiracy – Evening Mass (62.44)
10. Phil Ochs – No Christmas in Kentucky (68.29)
Final score: Bottles of wine: 5. Bottles of beer: 3. Night night bitches.
i love you……just for the middle paragraph…..and any Americans out there….you don’t get off the hook, Reagan was a cock also……Thatcher? can’t wait for the old witch to die and go and dance on her grave.
Matty boy i’m buying you a drink later for this…..awesome boy.
Do you know the MJ Hibbett song ‘The Fight For History’? You’d love it.
no but i’ll dig it out……what you doing later? i’m meeting Graeme from the Kays in Black Bo’s at 6:30ish
We’re having some nosh here and heading down after.
I disown this podacst after the part where I can’t actually speak anymore. The start in fact.
How in the heavens do you drink five bottles of wine, and then some?
Dunno about a new Depression, though I did learn that as of last week the pound is only worth about $1.50 USD and the Euro is only worth about $1.29 USD. Gets any lower and I just might vacation in the UK! Waiting for the day.
Wikipedia says: “Consuming excessive amounts of alcohol may lead to a hangover the next day.” Anyway, you made a podcast the same day, and that’s the only thing I’m concerned of
I think you must have intoxicated my computer, its the first ever podcast that just wont play. I’m so going to fix it so I can hear drunken Thatcher abuse damn!
It seems to be working for everyone else. Still having trouble, or has it fixed itself? I can email you a new link if you want and you can download it directly from my ftp site.
Just skip this week. Honest.
Oh I don’t think so.
I haven’t listened to it yet – but I’m led to believe it’s a classic of the genre!
Hi Matthew, glad to say its working fine now ,I think the kids were stealing all the bandwidth. Well worth the effort…classic of its drunken genre