Episodes
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Episode 68 Season One Finale!
Here is the final podcast of season one, recorded before we take a break and prepare to return in 2020. It finds us in relaxed and reflective mood looking out at a grey seascape from Paul's house in Whitstable, reviewing their first year of podding. We look forward to returning to you, our kind…
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Episode 67 Wildly Wrong On Every Subject
A fast moving and sometimes fierce pod, in which battle lines between the friends are drawn up, attacked and defended with gusto. Paul continues his political journey to the left with trips to the food bank, and Guy does his best to get him to vote Tory before it's too late. But when the shouting...
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Episode 66 A Portrait Of The Artist
Therapy, camping, Bukowski, being a writer and gay easyjet stewards. Add hungry children, drawing and cruelty and you have this weeks' podcast.
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Episode 65 Some Advent Musings
The two friends discuss plans for the forthcoming season of good cheer. Paul proposes to liven up Christmas with a pagan celebration that includes animal sacrifices, upside down Christmas trees, and dinner in the West End. Guy delivers a very brief moral lecture and unburdens himself of some...
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Episode 64 Guy You'll Be A Woman Soon
From a couple of armchairs in front of the woodburner on a rainy morning we discuss old age, eco militarism, and Prince Andrew's passport. Paul, as an expert, comes up with a working definition of the verb 'to party'. We then pass via Isadora Duncan's scarf and castration onto the subject of...
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Episode 63 The Biggest Gay Club In The World?
This week the friends discuss the Catholic Church. Paul was brought up in the religion and so feels qualified to speak on the subject. Guy has little experience of it but offers his opinion anyway. The conversation then veers into the subject of celebrity crushes. Could it be true that Guy has...
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Episode 62 Whitstable, Mon Amour
On a crisp sunny winter’s day, we pod from Paul’s house on the beach at Whitstable. We sample oysters Paul picked from the foreshore, and hear about his adventures on his boat, the Lamia. Beach huts, sex and death also all come under consideration as we discuss his new home town.
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Episode 61 Fools Seldom Differ
This week we talk about the fatbergs clogging our sewers and what to do about them; Paul interviews Guy for a job as his butler, and then admonishes him for behaving too politely in restaurants. We finish with a look at some old proverbs while Paul indulges in some good old fashioned work place...
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Episode 60 Nothing Is Real
A pod for the hard core fans of That’s Just Ridiculous. We tramp across the outer limits of taste and decorum as we submit Gary Glitter lyrics to a forensic textual analysis, then charge through flight shame, virtual reality and rapist shamen. Sit forward and pin your ears back. Your sick bag is…
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Episode 58 Jamaican bars, Clubs And Country Dances.
Still in Jamaica, we talk in the evening over a glass or two of rum. We discuss bars, clubs, benders, and country dances we have recently enjoyed. Paul turns the talk to Xtinction Rebellion, and Guy explains what he would do in the event of a revolution. We round off with a good dose of…
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Episode 57 Our First Guest
This week we are again in Jamaica and are proud to have our first ever guest on That's Just Ridiculous. In the heat of the night we enjoy conversation with Cuba, an old friend, who talks about Jamaican life today and in the past. We hope you enjoy his stories as much as we did.
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Episode 56 The Cock Fighters
This week the friends broadcast from the fading colonial splendour of the Liguanea Club, Kingston, Jamaica. They talk about attending a gathering of gay men in the capital of one the most homophobic countries in the world. Paul mentions his racist psychologist, and guy reveals his ambition to...
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Episode 55 Foie Gras De Guy
Over a bottle of Macon Rouge from the prestigious vintner Aldi, the two pals enjoy a typically far ranging conversation. Polyamoury and harems come under discussion, then Guy boasts about his bargee blood, and Paul describes a drunken prank. This leaves time for Ian Dury story, a discussion of...
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Episode 54 Attack Of The Super Soldiers!
This is an usual episode because we spend nearly all the half hour talking about one thing: a documentary about a road traffic incident on the M5 made in 2011. Never say we don't have our finger on the pulse of contemporary culture. We manage to squeeze in some James Taylor and a short interview...
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Episode 53 Look What The Cat Dragged In
The picture accompanying this week's pod is of Paul in drag. He has photoshopped it heavily because I can assure you he looked nothing like as good as this in real life. We discuss Paul's fatal taste for cross dressing, have a good rant about art speak, and hear the tale of the extraordinary time...
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Episode 52 A Full Year of Podcasting
The Pod is one year old! Happy Birthday to us. And thank you all for coming to this our little birthday party. On a September afternoon we celebrate over a cup of tea and talk about the year that's passed. Paul tells me about ineffective hangover cures and I advise him how to prevent room spin.…
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Episode 51 Cut Loose Like A Deuce
Some episodes are better than others, and this is a good one, with a fine balance between the absurd and the ridiculous. We start somehow on the artist Barbara Kruger and warm up on billboard statements. It is not long before Paul is absolving Guy's sins and talking about confessing during his...
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Episode 50 ɿǝnniꓷ ǝƨɿǝvǝЯ
In this episode we discuss a forthcoming project to consume an entire restaurant dinner in reverse. We ask listeners to give us recommendations for a suitable eatery. Please get in touch and help us on this misguided enterprise.
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Episode 49 In And Out Of Love
We podded this week after a fine lunch at The Chapel in Bruton, which set us up for a conversation starting with butterflies and ending in Ibiza. On the trip we encountered gin, the ancient mariner, crying, and masturbation, or as Paul daintily called it, 'the hand in the service of the...
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Episode 48 Paul, The Devil's Child.
Paul gives us a touching account of his childhood and his relationship with his mother, who sweetly called the young lad 'The Devil's Child.' Over the decades since, Paul has not changed, and later in the pod sneers at Guy's more fortunate start in life. Guy takes the opportunity to make the TJR...
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Episode 47 Obesity Challenge
It was another tough week for Guy, still on the painkillers, and Paul puts the boot in. He never misses a chance to hit a man when he's down. Guy milks it for all it's worth. Paul also has time to give advice on serviettes, negative ionisers and mixing a whisky sour.
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Episode 46 Pain Relief
Guy has a slipped disc and recorded this pod under the influence of diverse and heavy pain killers. Listeners may or may not notice him rambling more incoherently than normal. Luckily, Paul takes up the slack and ensures the delivery of a sparkling half hour. To be taken aurally, with alcohol,...
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Episode 45 Crap Acapella
This week's pod starts with an acapella rendition of our theme tune, setting the tone for a gentle, reflective half hour. Paul s starts with a feelings check, and we move on naturally to tidying my tool shed and Paul blocking people on FB. We talk about the triumphs and disasters of our teenage...
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Episode 44 Disco Biscuit
We missed the pod deadline for the second time in our ten months of existence, on account of operational complexities occasioned by a fine dinner followed by poire william and many godfathers. But on Saturday afternoon we sat down to pod, starting with the sad tale of Jo Meek, the man who made...
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Episode 43 : Guy & Paul report from the Glastonbury Festival
The two friends make a report from the front line at the Glastonbury Festival. After hearing this you can save yourself 240 quid and tell people you were there. They review gigs by Interpol, Keane, The Killers and the Chemical Brothers. Security and the drugs policy also come under sober...
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Episode 42 Ooooh You Are Awful But I Like You
The two friends are currently at the Glastonbury Festival, and little has been heard from them for 24 hours. Paul was last seen lavishing kisses and hugs on a long lost friend, who turned out to be a total stranger. Next week they will file a full and frank report of their festival highs and lows.
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Episode 41 Guy Cheats Death To Pod Again
The two friends are reunited, and ready to make up for last weeks missing pod. They extol the joys of ferry trips, the 100 years war, and the night before Glastonbury Festival, as well as warning of the perils of peaking too early and knowing too many Beatles lyrics in Cuban bars.
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Episode 40 New Age Rules and Regulations
This week the gents attempt to understand the nature of our changing world and the role of risk and danger in our daily lives. Is there room for the maverick in our increasingly small world? Are wars necessary or can we make do with football? Can humans be domesticated? The big questions get an...
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Episode 39 The 2019 Podcast Awards. And The Winner Is...
It’s Awards Week in podland. The prizes were handed out to the nation’s favourite pods and Guy fails to hide his disappointment that THAT’S JUST RIDICULOUS did not make the podium. It’s a bitter pill to swallow and unfortunately one that you don’t get high on. Paul doesn’t give a shit. We also…
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Episode 38 Love in a Radioactive Climate
Listen to another closely focused podcast from the men who are Just Ridiculous. We start with Farage, hop to the ancient Greeks and thence Paul's account of starting a revolution in Portugal. That's the first four minutes. We hear the friends discuss the rights and wrongs of telling friends their...
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Episode 37 Friendship - Can you wear it out?
Friendship? Can you wear it out with overuse? After recording 36 podcasts together, the boys discuss this rather sensitive topic. Paul then gives us a feelings check and lets his buttons get pushed. Guy reveals what came up at his first ever tarot reading, and the two of them make fun of cruise...
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Episode 36 Restaurant Troubadours
This week the two friends take their ease in front of the fire. Paul breaks the congenial mood playing a love song to Guy on his guitar, but Guy, as forgiving as ever doesn't hold it against him. They then discuss street begging, busking and other promising career opportunities for Paul. Talk…
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Episode 35 Kafka and the Unicorns
The two friends are back in Somerset podding in front of the fire. They open on Kafka and how his life was such a doddle compared to the average citizen's these days. Pablo the cat slinks into the room to listen in. Recently Pablo has been ignoring the friends and the two of them discuss the...
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Episode 34 A Million Paul Fryers
After their tropical break the two friends are back at base to tease out the difficulties of single use plastics and the sustainable development of the male inflatable doll. Paul also posits the the theory of the multiverse in which there are a million versions of himself. It concludes, logically...
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Episode 33 Pure Fockery
In the last of their sextet of Jamaican transmissions we find the two friends in full holiday mode, settling down with rum at sunset. Paul recommends books to be read in Jamaica and they debate the shortcomings of Ian Fleming villains. Paul explains to Guy the benefits of Grand theft auto, and…
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Episode 32 Overproof Rum and Idle Chat
In a surprise political development and on the grounds that he is unlikely to be able to make matters any worse Paul Fryer is made UK Prime Minister. We listen to his first cabinet meeting and hear some of his plans for the country. The two friends then discuss Jamaican nuclear power, Glastonbury...
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Episode 31 Beach Bodies and Obituaries
This week the pals, still hiding in Jamaica, get personal. Guy insults Paul's swimming style and Paul goes for Guy's belly. Then things get a bit more emotional as Guy tells Paul that he is to be a gravedigger on the morrow...
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Episode 30 Ganja and Fine Burgundy
In the shade of an almond tree, with the breeze blowing off the Caribbean, our two friends fire off another Jamaican pod. They talk about the growing Chinese empire, about working in the rain, fine burgundy and ganja. The relative merits of the I -Ching and English muffins also come under…
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Episode 29 A Pirate In The Caribbean
At their ease beside the Caribbean sea, the two friends delight in a passing light aircraft, and investigate the Jamaicanness of James Bond, who was created by Ian Fleming only thirty miles up the coast. They discuss TV watching habits on the island, Dick Van Dyke on acid, and the pronunciation…
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Episode 28 A Pod From Jamaica
This week we find the friends marooned on the northern coast of the island of Jamaica. While a sea breeze ruffles the trees and birds sing in the bright sun, they chat about the village of Cousins Cove, where they are staying. The conversation, as usual, is wide ranging, from Guy having his car...
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Episode 27 Ladybirds and Birdsong
On a sunny day the friends sit outside to enjoy the weather. Against a backdrop of birdsong, they talk about birds, ladybirds and atomic bombs; but in an unforeseen escalation Paul declares martial law, attempts to arrest and then summarily execute Guy. Again.
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Episode 26 Not With A Whimper, But A Bang
After Paul launches the pod the two oddballs get down to some clubbable talk. Guy tells us about the time he was caught in a hurricane, and Paul dusts off some of his large collection of unreleased Jimmy Saville stories from the archive. Justice and Hypocrisy come up for discussion before the...
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Episode 25 If We Could Turn Back Time
This week the two friends talk about Guy's cat Pablo, who has some problems, discussing his new medication. They move on to a recent walk up the Glastonbury Tor, and Guy tries to send Paul back in time to get him burnt as a witch, but fails. A conversation about war movies and their relevance to...
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Episode 24 The Jesus Pod
This week we find the friends in a speculative mood. After creating a safe space to talk in, Paul advances the theory that humans from the future are living amongst us, and Guy talks about the time a teenage Jesus Christ stayed in his house in Somerset. They move on to sex with computers,...
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Episode 23 Sky Low
In the aftermath of his recent London book launch, Guy describes a calamitous visit to the Sky News television studios, part of an ongoing promotional peregrination which he is compelled to endure. Paul responds with a light hearted tale of his family's bungling criminality. Guy tests Paul on a...
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Episode 22 Arctic Dogging Adventure
Paul returns from an Polar expedition where he realised a lifelong ambition and saw the Northern Lights whilst dogging. Guy shares his anxieties about his forthcoming publication but is sensitively reassured by Paul who promises to punch anyone who doesn't like it. The subject of cycling raises...
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Episode 21 Paul Meets God in a Field
Munching chocolates our two podders talk about the time Paul met God in a field. Paul then uses his elevated spiritual state to solve a moral dilemma for Guy. They discuss the merits of possessing swagger before talking about the nylon curtain on European flights that separates First Class from...
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Episode 20 Don't Be Shy! (with Paul & Guy)
Do you find it difficult to enter a room full of strangers? Do you want some help breaking the ice at social events? Well this is the pod for you. After drawing last week's espionage related issues to a close the two friends brainstorm an idea which could change the world forever. Drawing on…
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Episode 19 On Her Majesty's Secret Podcast
Our heroes, for obvious reasons, have received the call from spooks at M.I. something to do important undercover work in the interests of national security. When you need discretion, reliability and precision planning who better to ask? The two friends discuss the mission and their tactics. Paul...
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