Discontent Provider

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Join The Silver Fox (cock-eyed anti-folk chancer) and Arkham (The World’s Greatest Lurcher) in their Happy Place for a SHORT, thrice-weekly jaundiced jaunt through the highs and lows (but mostly the lows) of our world's descent into unspeakable ghastliness. The chaps offer you analysis and impotent rage in roughly equal measure - and a song at the end of each week to keep your toes tapping in an incomparable danse macabre that may or may not make it all seem more bearable. read less
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Episode 58: Even the damned UNIVERSE is cheating now!
2d ago
Episode 58: Even the damned UNIVERSE is cheating now!
The normally hard-headed realists of the Happy Place find themselves pondering cosmic affairs as one of the most sacred Laws of Nature goes for a Burton. For all that, however, they manage to fit in some speculations on the coverage of a globally-significant figure who should never really have been anything more than a character Ronnie Barker invented for a "Two Ronnies" sketch.
Episode 58: Even the damned UNIVERSE is cheating now!
2d ago
Episode 58: Even the damned UNIVERSE is cheating now!
The normally hard-headed realists of the Happy Place find themselves pondering cosmic affairs as one of the most sacred Laws of Nature goes for a Burton. For all that, however, they manage to fit in some speculations on the coverage of a globally-significant figure who should never really have been anything more than a character Ronnie Barker invented for a "Two Ronnies" sketch.
Episode 57: To Summit All Up
6d ago
Episode 57: To Summit All Up
A new week yawns wide open before us all - and, if the auguries are to be believed, the frail spirit of Hope might well be about to make a timid, faltering appearance. The chaps in the Happy Place would certainly like to think so - but they (and everybody else) have been fooled before... Also, Foxy and Arkham consider the role of the Monarchy in the international realm of rattling a cupful of coins and asking it anyone has any spare change - and are left indifferent by the spectacle of to of Britain's Worst People slinging mud at one another.
Episode 56: Vworp the News - We’re doing a Doctor Who Special!
24-11-2023
Episode 56: Vworp the News - We’re doing a Doctor Who Special!
With the news being so full of misery and full-on loathsomeness that nobody wants to touch the damned thing with a six-foot Staff of Rassilon, can Foxy and Arkham be blamed for taking the opportunity afforded by a TV classic's 60th Anniversary to ponder matters more edifying? Probably - but they've done it anyway.
Episode 55: Back To Basics
20-11-2023
Episode 55: Back To Basics
This week finds Foxy and Arkham reflecting on the importance of narrative convention, sticking to the script, and the importance of not overwhelming the viewers with too many Big Doings in one go. It's all rather meta, really - but why not? They know that their listeners are a sophisticated crowd. Mind you; attempting a comparison between the Foreign Secretary and the Tenth Doctor might be something of a stretch even for them...
Episode 54: Rwanda and Swansong
18-11-2023
Episode 54: Rwanda and Swansong
In an episode delayed by terrible technical issues, the chaps from the Happy Place puzzle over the Government's fixation upon Rwanda, and express concern over the plans to smash the citizenry's human rights into rubble. Also, those of a certain age (or those with a strangely anachronistic set of cultural references) might feel a touch of Flanders and Swann coming on vis-a-vis The Song At The End.
Episode 53: It’d Take A Braverman Than Me To Sack Her (and to resist that God-awful joke)
13-11-2023
Episode 53: It’d Take A Braverman Than Me To Sack Her (and to resist that God-awful joke)
Grateful that their fears about unspeakable carnage 'pon the streets of Olde London Towne, the Happy Place's lovely layabouts begin to speculate upon unspeakable carnage within the ranks of the Conservative Party as the PM attempts to shuffle a handful of duds into something that would have made the Cincinnati Kid turn it in and go home.
Episode 52: Monumental Idiocy
10-11-2023
Episode 52: Monumental Idiocy
As Armistice Day approaches, the Podcast To End All Podcasts considers the sticky position of peace-loving cats and kittens caught 'twixt two different groups of bellicose imbeciles - and expresses concern about where a potential Poppy Day punch-up might lead our beleagured country. Also - because they really don't know - Arkham and Foxy would love to find out what Real People do on weekends when the fabric of Democracy doesn't hang in the balance...
Episode 51: Ceremonial Soporifics
08-11-2023
Episode 51: Ceremonial Soporifics
The chaps are still reeling from the awe-inspiring majesty of the King's Speech. Not really - but one has to say that sort of thing now if one doesn't fancy things getting a tad custodial, apparently. On that subject, Foxy learns a harsh lesson about being brought up on 1970s sitcoms, while others learn one about being careful what they wish for...
An Intense Struggle Not To Do A Pun About Tents
06-11-2023
An Intense Struggle Not To Do A Pun About Tents
Foxy and Arkham are out of the traps bright and early today, and are feeling marginally less wretched than usual - so much so that a close observer might suspect them of being about to take a charitable attitude toward a politician who has made it a mission to persecute charitable attitudes. Lucky the chaps dodged that bullet, eh what?
Episode 49: Free to talk balls in the hallowed halls.
03-11-2023
Episode 49: Free to talk balls in the hallowed halls.
It's dashed lucky that the weather has inclined to the chilly of late. Had it not been, your Podcast Pals wouldn't have been kept warm by the heat of pure fury in the face of the appalling hypocrisy of a Government who - let's face it - have mastered the art to a point that would have made Michealfuckingangelo hang up his brushes...
Episode 48: Helping Absolutely No-One With Their Enquiries
01-11-2023
Episode 48: Helping Absolutely No-One With Their Enquiries
Those choosing to loiter a while in the Happy Place for a quick Wednesday Wallop of Discontent Provider might be surprised to find just how unsurprised the chaps are. Then again, they might not - though the Covid Enquiry is lavishing outrage, disgust, and moral torpitude upon the public, it's been pretty stingy when it comes to the Unexpected...
Episode47: Trigger Warning - Not the kind about language though; the OTHER kind.
30-10-2023
Episode47: Trigger Warning - Not the kind about language though; the OTHER kind.
In this Monday Mini, Foxy and Arkham eschew international niceties and unashamedly stick their noses (one long, sensitive, and peerlessly noble; the other a barely-there retroussé button of a thing) into America's business and consider the two nations' attitude to guns. So there.
Holy Sh*t (We mean ”Shit”, but censored it in case kids are browsing)
27-10-2023
Holy Sh*t (We mean ”Shit”, but censored it in case kids are browsing)
The Happy Place is fairly thick with secular humanism as we close another week. Those whose religious beliefs allow them to let other people kill and die for them while they're safely tucked up in their vestments may not dig this particular scene. On an unrelated note: the brand-new harp that is featured in the Song At The End is a crushing disappointment - and harsh words will be spoken in a Midlands music shop tome the morrow.
Episode 45: Thursday Surprise
26-10-2023
Episode 45: Thursday Surprise
An executive decision to wait upon events caused the unpardonable lateness of this episode; it couldn't be helped, however - the chaps wanted to have their ducks in a row prior to pondering the difference between something having "worth" and having "value".
Episode 44: We Don’t Need (you to have) No Education
23-10-2023
Episode 44: We Don’t Need (you to have) No Education
Monday's minisode finds the chaps at the Happy Place fearfully put out, but not even surprised enough to raise an exquisitely-arched eyebrow to learn that the Department of Education is keeping tabs on its staff to make sure they're not being seditious in cyberspace. There's also a bit of History that Foxy learned in school from a book that would nowadays be burned from a teacher who would - in these God-awful days - almost certainly have died in mysterious circumstances.
Episode 43: Annoyed By The Void
20-10-2023
Episode 43: Annoyed By The Void
No two ways about it; Foxy's a fair old cross-patch today. It might be the weather, or it might be an overdose of existentialism. In any event, the grumpiness of his trousers DOES sufficiently abate by the end of proceedings to revel in the misfortunes of others and do a song. Arkham - but of course - retains his effortless cool throughout.
Episode 42: One Little Word
18-10-2023
Episode 42: One Little Word
Foxy and Arkham take to the Great Outdoors for a quick Wednesday shufty at a far bigger controversy than the destruction of a hospital - at least to some cats and kittens it is. They also gaze into the Beyond and ask "Whither TV News?"
Episode 41: But Would It Stand Up In Court?
16-10-2023
Episode 41: But Would It Stand Up In Court?
Todays' Monday Minisode finds Foxy and the World's Greatest Lurcher take a gander at attitudes to crime, punishment, and class - in which the image of an innocent animal dying of a ghastly disease is not QUITE the most disturbing thing they encounter...
Episode 40: White-Hot White-Coat Frenzy
13-10-2023
Episode 40: White-Hot White-Coat Frenzy
It's been - even in the loveliest Happy Place on Earth - a somewhat gruelling week for us all, has it not? With that in mind, Arkham and Foxy have turned their three mournful eyes upon the Infinite - upon the Secrets of Creation, and a song about (justifiably) condescending aliens.
Episode 39: Bat-Shit-Crazy-Floss
11-10-2023
Episode 39: Bat-Shit-Crazy-Floss
For their first EVER midweek episode, Foxy and Arkham planned an epic deconstruction of something - but in the end, they got frightfully bummed out about lies, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. They DID manage to peep behind the black velvet drapes of the shadowy cabal that run the world, though - so that's something...