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The Harsh Couch

The Harsh Couch is a weekly wireless programme in which we review Australian and World news, politics, sport and other things that are making us sad, glad or mad. Four blokes sit on The Harsh Couch: a doctor, a lapsed lawyer, a stay-at-home dad, a couple of anarchists (one a crypto-anarchist), some true believers, a former political staffer, a couple of dot-com survivors, a Buddhist, a chef and three cooks, a couple of musicians, three fathers, a former employee of the World Bank, a former public servant, current and former tertiary educators, a current employee of a Big Four bank, a bottle-shop worker, four old friends, a Queenslander, a Sydneysider, a South-East Asian, and a NSW country boy.

  1. 60

    2021.10.04 Space Buzkashi

    The Reportmanteau of Koserbia. - Alternative Title

  2. 59

    2021.07.05 Wally Funk and Cosmic Girl

    Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. - George Orwell

  3. 58

    2021.06.21 Barnaby Reflux

    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

  4. 57

    2021.06.07 Squid Toothpaste

    Life is a hazard. - Dr Gob

  5. 56

    2021.06.01 Radical Transhumanism

    Life is like riding a bicycle. - Albert Einstein

  6. 55

    2021.05.24 Oxygen Enema

    Life is like a box of chocolates. - Forrest Gump

  7. 54

    2021.05.18 Super Glue and Dogs' Balls

    Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all night long. - Rascal Flatts

  8. 53

    2021.05.11 The Podcast for National Resilience

    Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

  9. 52

    2021.03.08 Alive

    We're alive. - Wibbly

  10. 51

    2020.12.07 A Shit Proxy

    In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen. - Ben Bova

  11. 50

    2020.11.30 Abyssinia Later

    Sending the Lobbies and Eating the Yabbies. - Dr Gob

  12. 49

    2020.11.23 Taste the Espirit de Corpse

    Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

  13. 48

    2020.11.16 The Coup d'Etat Region of France

    It's not actually a coup unless it comes from the Coup d'Etat region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling authoritarian takeover. - Remy Anne

  14. 47

    2020.11.09 It's the Vibe

    You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. - Yuri Orlov

  15. 46

    2020.11.02 Electric Boogaloo Etsy Boys

    And now, Frozen Insects, with their hit single, The Motorcycles of Minsk.

  16. 45

    2020.10.26 Primate of the Visigothic Kingdom

    We can't return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem. - HKG graffiti

  17. 44

    2020.10.19 Bee Baron of Bamfordshire

    Take the L out of Lover and it's over. - The Motels

  18. 43

    2020.10.12 La Science C'est Moi

    You can fit a lot of pus in your arse. - Dr Gob

  19. 42

    2020.10.05 Bonsai Walrus

    I get old and I forget. - Harry Halibut

  20. 41

    2020.09.28 Aether

    Hope dies last. - Various

  21. 40

    2020.09.21 Nanga Skrang

    All mushrooms are edible, but some are edible only once. - Unverifiable Lithuanian proverb

  22. 39

    2020.09.14 The Incidental Pedant

    From April 10, 1945 to July 18, 1947, eighteen people were injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project.

  23. 38

    2020.09.07 Gülenistas

    Three egg yolks, the juice of one lemon, and a f*ckton of butter. - Dr Gob

  24. 37

    2020.08.31 Pox Pustules from the East

    They jammed radioactive beans up his date. - Harry

  25. 36

    2020.08.24 Pan(cake)sexuality

    QUILTBAG - QU is for queer and questioning, I for intersex, L for Lesbian, T for transgender and transsexual and Two-Spirit, B for bisexual, A for asexual and ally, and G for gay and genderqueer.

  26. 35

    2020.08.11 Therapy Llama

    Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity. - Bertolt Brecht

  27. 34

    2020.08.04 Chushi Gangdruk

    ... less than 1% of the retail market. - Jeff Bezos

  28. 33

    2020.07.28 Be Water My Friend

    Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee

  29. 32

    2020.07.21 Good Trouble

    There are no bigger crooks than the banks. - Lucio Urtubia

  30. 31

    2020.07.14 Reverse Bestiality

    History is written by the people who do the harm. - Michael Holding

  31. 30

    2020.07.07 Replicons

    Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. - Steve Jobs and Michael Hawley

  32. 29

    2020.06.30 The Scunthorpe Problem

    It's about the conomy, innit? - Dr Gob

  33. 28

    2020.06.23 Greenhorns

    Cardiologists just want to jam a stent in your pumphole. - Dr Gob

  34. 27

    2020.06.16 We're All Cancelled

    This Captain Cook statue, does it depict his last moments alive? - Tholf

  35. 26

    2020.06.09 Juris-my-diction

    We ain't having it no more. - Man watching a statue trip and fall into a polluted river

  36. 25

    2020.06.02 Eden Monaco

    The industry of the integrated spectacle and immaterial command owes me money. - Luther Blissett

  37. 24

    2020.05.26 Cags

    What we lose on the swings, we make up on the roundabouts. - P.G. Wodehouse

  38. 23

    2020.05.19 Cyberlibel

    The President is foolish. - Some Guy

  39. 22

    2020.05.12 Naked Gardening

    Kissinger is still alive. - Wibbly

  40. 21

    2020.05.05 Nigerien vs Nigerian

    We share half our genes with the banana. - Robert May

  41. 20

    2020.04.28 Murmurating

    [...] supposing you brought the light inside the body [...] - President 45

  42. 19

    2020.04.06 A Ferret in the Coalmine

    I'm just living my best life. - Unnamed child of Gob

  43. 18

    2020.03.30 This Thing

    What exactly is a panoe? - The Queen Mother

  44. 17

    2020.03.24 The Roni

    The US is Ground Zero for World Stupid(TM) right now. - Wibbly

  45. 16

    2020.03.17 Stay At Home

    Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis. - Machiavelli

  46. 15

    2020.03.09 Quantum Flash Gordon

    If you see sea kelp seek help. - Dr Gob

  47. 14

    2020.03.03 Quaranta Giorni

    I am a meat pimp for alpine gastropods. Deal wiv it. - Stelazine

  48. 13

    2020.02.18 Mander's Reagent

    Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell

  49. 12

    2020.02.11 Fast Radio Burst

    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker

  50. 11

    2020.02.04 Kosher Locusts

    Oh Shania, you broke my heart and toyed with my emotions. - graffiti, Shoalhaven Bridge, North pillar

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The Harsh Couch is a weekly wireless programme in which we review Australian and World news, politics, sport and other things that are making us sad, glad or mad. Four blokes sit on The Harsh Couch: a doctor, a lapsed lawyer, a stay-at-home dad, a couple of anarchists (one a crypto-anarchist), some true believers, a former political staffer, a couple of dot-com survivors, a Buddhist, a chef and three cooks, a couple of musicians, three fathers, a former employee of the World Bank, a former public servant, current and former tertiary educators, a current employee of a Big Four bank, a bottle-shop worker, four old friends, a Queenslander, a Sydneysider, a South-East Asian, and a NSW country boy.

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