Episode 28 - Dissecting Trivial Thoughts with Alex Bowden

Alex Bowden of King Cricket joins the podcast to talk about his journey in cricket comedy writing, what his inexhaustible source of ideas is, and whether cricket in general has been trending more or less ridiculous. Alex's website: https://kingcricket.co.uk/ Follow Alex on Bluesky @kingcricket.co.uk The Cricket Sickos Podcast on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhzf25 On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aditrs7870?feature=shared RSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/fa16cb28/podcast/rss Follow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.social Chapters: 00:48 Origins of King Cricket 07:01 Cricket origin story 10:39 Origins in cricket writing 26:33 Writing as a fan vs professionally 34:15 Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket 37:00 Is cricket becoming more or less ridiculous? 45:19 How Alex tries to find the humour in life outside cricket