EPISODE · May 31, 2023 · 1H 16M
Insurance, the White Man's Burden
from Goon Pod · host Goon Pod
Actor & writer Chas Early first heard the Goons when he discovered in his dad's record collection a 1967 LP called Goon But Not Forgotten, featuring Six Charlies In Search of An Author and Insurance, the White Man's Burden. It's the latter show which he discusses this week, a tremendous episode which at first appears to focus on a flannelled fool's attempt to make a fortune out of a piano-playing penguin but then swiftly pulls a handbrake turn as Ned lucklessly tries to set fire to the English Channel in order to claim insurance money. An unwitting mark in the latest crooked scheme cooked-up by those confidence tricksters Thynne & Moriarty, along the way Ned meets an employee of a match factory who sunbathes in the snow and tries to start a fire with a boy-scout's legs! Oh, and Wallace 'The Pelvis' Greenslade has to beat them off while belting out some rock & roll! Plus there's the usual mix of tangents, conversational meanderings and general blather for which Goon Pod is uniquely suited! It's all here, folks!
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Actor & writer Chas Early first heard the Goons when he discovered in his dad's record collection a 1967 LP called Goon But Not Forgotten, featuring Six Charlies In Search of An Author and Insurance, the White Man's Burden. It's the latter show which he discusses this week, a tremendous episode which at first appears to focus on a flannelled fool's attempt to make a fortune out of a piano-playing penguin but then swiftly pulls a handbrake turn as Ned lucklessly tries to set fire to the English Channel in order to claim insurance money. An unwitting mark in the latest crooked scheme cooked-up by those confidence tricksters Thynne & Moriarty, along the way Ned meets an employee of a match factory who sunbathes in the snow and tries to start a fire with a boy-scout's legs! Oh, and Wallace 'The Pelvis' Greenslade has to beat them off while belting out some rock & roll! Plus there's the usual mix of tangents, conversational meanderings and general blather for which Goon Pod is uniquely suited! It's all here, folks!
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Insurance, the White Man's Burden
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