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The Phillip Carter Show

by RealPhillipCarter

Comedy and Sci-Fi writer Phillip Carter sometimes invites guests to his weekly outbursts of philosophy and weirdness. Tune in to meet bestselling authors, TV producers, actresses, alien abductees, professional psychics, some more time travellers, painters, literary agents, time travellers, and scientists.The goal? To make you laugh, and hopefully to teach you something new and weird along the way.

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Episodes

  1. Why I left the poetry circuit

    You can vote on the name of the new poetry book with this link https://realphillipcarter.substack.com/p/you-can-name-my-upcoming-comedy-book

  2. SciFi battle - Phillip VS Nicola Rossi

    Nicola Rossi is a human I found on the internet. Her latest novel, Rockaway, is the third book in her chillingly plausible dystopian series, Rockstar Ending, which is in development for television.

  3. Two time travellers arguing.

    You can read this post by clicking here.

  4. A poem for the Sycamore Gap tree

    A comedy poem. You can find more at realphillipcarter on instagram and tiktok

  5. S2E4, Self-pub or Trad-pub? What's best for you?

    Some fun insights into traditional publishing along with an extended rant about how many mistakes I made when publishing Who Built The Humans?.

  6. S2 E4: with guest AARON FRALE - Comedy author, sciptwriter, actor, and more.

    Aaron is one of my favourite people. We meet up once a week on discord to write comedy together in our comedians group, and he is always very supportive and kind to the younger, less experienced writers. You can see all of Aaron's books here > https://amzn.to/3H053Mj (full disclosure, I'm an…

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  7. S2E3: Mushroom Monsters, Comedy Creators, and a third alliterative announcement.

    You can read the whole mycelial story here > https://realphillipcarter.substack.com/p/mycelial-aprils-free-short-story

  8. S2 E2: On performing, my new life as an open mic host, and general tomfoolery

    I'm excited to get guests in the studio again after a break of a few months, but what have I been doing in the meantime? Well, I hosted a few open mics, realised I've secretly been a comedian this whole time, and I tidied my room. I was recently interviewed by James Flynn. You can read about it...

  9. Episode 1 (of the new weekly format) Robots vs Literature

    The first episode of the new format, THE PHILLIP CARTER SHOW is now a weekly show with sporadic appearances from guests in the art, writing, comedy, and science worlds. Know someone who might be interested? Get in touch, or read some free short stories and comedy on my substack...

  10. Finger breaking chess robots, or 'What I did in November'

    A big list of all the cool stuff I got up to.

  11. Short Time Travel comedy - TARDIGRADE

    You can read the text version here

  12. TARDIGRADE - A comedic time travel short

    Read the story here https://realphillipcarter.substack.com/p/tardigrade-a-free-time-travel-story

  13. Introducing my newsletter and talking briefly of many things

    I have realised that I can directly record audio to substack, which is nice, but doesn't allow for the same range that ANCHOR does I also have a radio job now so would like to put some episodes here from the backlog https://realphillipcarter.substack.com/

  14. Poem - PRINT

    A poem called PRINT from way back in 2016. Very much not my present style! https://realphillipcarter.substack.com/

  15. My return - serious Poem

    I quite like that I now have to add a SERIOUS tag to my poetry, as I am becoming increasingly known for the silly stuff. It's nice being both. Doesn't make it easy to market, but it does make life more fun. Anyway, I am launching a time travel trilogy on Kickstarter. You should check it out...

  16. Ten deliriously dark minutes of existential crises

    In which I think about marketing, erections, and gravy and chips https://paisleyprintauthor.substack.com/

  17. poem - blood cell

    you can get the book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BP589NZ

  18. Scifi Comedy story - FTL

    A short story from my upcoming book HOLOGRAM KEBAB

  19. Free poems and an update

    Hello. Thanks for all the support. You are cool

  20. TOYS - a comedy poem about sex toys

    Just a quick one. Hope you enjoy it!

  21. Poem - Geodesic 2

    My first attempt at blending music with poetry, or at least, the first one I can properly remember. My website The poetry book

  22. TWO POEMS - Anachronangst / Wave Function Collapse

    Two poems, zero sales pitches. There's not even a website link in this one.

  23. Some big news

    In which I go to ComicCon, nearly get to America for a big book tour, find the meaning of life, kill god, and write a new trilogy of books. Poetry collections and WBTH2 also included... I've been busy

  24. 2/25/2022 Thoughts on Empathy / News

    My thoughts on empathy, and how we might train it with logic and reason to be a more efficient tool for solving the world's ills. My book <<<

  25. Episode 5 - scifi comedy story - Kebab

    In which a young woman discovers something disturbing about her soon-to-be ex boyfriend. With a sci-fi twist! For my substack blog (for free stories forever) CLICK HERE (my first book Who Built The Humans? is now reduced to £1.99, just click here to get it)

  26. EP4 - BOOT, a short story

    An old story from a new collection, HOLOGRAM KEBAB. It's a weird little book with weird little stories. Friday 21st January

  27. Ep 3.5 ( David Bowie philosophy broadcast, for ALLfm Manchester)

    I have started 2022 with an amazing opportunity. I was invited by Ruth from ALLfm to materialize on the 9th Jan in her studio at ALLfm, to talk about David Bowie. If you didn't know, I'm a huge fan of Bowie. I'm actually working towards making a separate thing dedicated to him. The 9th of January...

  28. Ep3 - With JO THE LION. Where is Bowie's secret autobiography?

    In this special, hour-long episode, I talk to Jo The Lion about her writing, David Bowie fanfiction, and if skin walkers stole David's autobiography and if we might be able to get it back from Area51. We recorded audio and video for this one, and you can watch the video >>> here <<< This episode…

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  29. Episode 2 - two short stories and an existential crisis.

    In which I reveal the title of my next book, Hologram Kebab, and read you two stories from it! Here's my gofundme for the WBTH audiobook >>> https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-this-time-traveler-become-his-true-self

  30. Episode 1 - In which I am reincarnated as a fictional space explorer

    The first episode of the rebrand, in which my secret plans for world domination are laid bare for you to gawp at. My books My substack blog My medium blog (same as substack, just less content, only the journalistic, click-baity stuff)

  31. FALSE VACUUM intro + poems

    Some poems from my upcoming book FALSE VACUUM

  32. Geodesic - Poetry

    Some fun poems. Pre-order the book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BP589NZ

  33. Massive scifi poetry podcast

    A huge episode where I read 6 whole poems, and edit some and do a bit of improv

  34. Incoherent rambling about my life, interviews, and who my audience seems to be?

    No idea to be honest. Who Built The Humans has gone down in price though, check it out <<<

  35. Blood Cell - Poem ( + bonus rant about art )

    You can find me on instagram as Paisleyprintauthor

  36. Poem - Leaving

    A poem about leaving someone, filled with cosmic metaphor, as you would expect.

  37. Fragment - Poem

    A little poem, you can pre-order its collection here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phillip-Carter/e/B095JQRVN5

  38. On Vanity - An entire story from WHO BUILT THE HUMANS?

    This is part of the ON SERIES, a mini collection of 15 poetic stories inside WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? my book of 47 short stories whobuiltthehumans.com

  39. POEM - Appendectomy

    My thoughts on leaving university and the fragile "network" I had developed during it. Naturally mixed in with some wordplay and a bit of light fiction, as is my style.

  40. My brilliant novel

    In which I tell you about how my novel is better than yours.

  41. POEM - The sad and lonely spoken word "feminist"

    This was written with two particular narcissists in mind, both of whom are too thick to read this caption so I can say what I want about them here YOU SMELL LIKE WET EGGS

  42. Rapa Nui/The crystal rebellion

    Soon to be featured on a proper radio channel, these are the extracts I think are most suited to daytime listening (no aliens with rude names) www.whobuiltthehumans.com

  43. Even more space in storytelling

    In which I go on an extended rant about the "economy of storytelling" and how it's probably nonsense.

  44. Lecture 2 - Space in storytelling (draft post)

    This is a test of my material on space in storytelling I am still working on the audio. My mic is affixed to the same desk my laptop is on, so I am thinking of solutions to cushion the arm and also raise the laptop in a way that makes it quieter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  45. The Stephanie Glitch - Chapter 1 part 1

    Read the novel in text form HERE My recently published book, WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? At some point in 2015 I decided to stop offending people at poetry evenings and write a deep, mindbending YA book with a sarcastic protagonist who (spoiler alert) literally punches God at one point and then…

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  46. Who Built The Humans? - Behind the scenes

    11 minutes of your favourite unknown sci-fi author rambling about how he wrote that easy-to-read book that's actually quite complicated under the hood. I will go a bit into my writing philosophy, a bit into how the 47 stories interact with each other, how there are 11 universes they fit into…

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  47. WBTH poem - On Meaninglessness

    A part of my 15 performance poem pieces that kick the piss out of every concept you have ever loved. #scifi #poem #poetry #sciencefiction #comedy #standup

  48. Who Built The Humans? - Excerpt 2 - From the stars, a million voices.

    William Bines learns that his superior, Clyde Waller, knows more about his missing sister than he had first admitted. Read the whole story here

  49. A nightmare about marriage

    In which I have a vivid dream that I am attempting to have an affair

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Comedy and Sci-Fi writer Phillip Carter sometimes invites guests to his weekly outbursts of philosophy and weirdness. Tune in to meet bestselling authors, TV producers, actresses, alien abductees, professional psychics, some more time travellers, painters, literary agents, time travellers, and scientists.The goal? To make you laugh, and hopefully to teach you something new and weird along the way.

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