Episodes
We thought that because we've been absolutely terrible at keeping everyone updated with how things are, we'd record a little update. It's not an episode, so sorry about that, and it's only Phil L on this one, so double sorry about that.
Published 04/01/21
Published 04/01/21
It’s 1944, it’s Hartford Connecticut and this may be the most horrible episode we’ve ever done.  In what grisled old circus types are already calling the Greatest Podcast on Earth, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the truly terrible Hartford Circus Fire - the awesome conflagration that descended on the good people of Connecticut one beautiful summers day in July. Should they have used petrol to waterproof the tent. Nope. No. Absolutely not.  TRIGGER WARNING. This is a bad...
Published 11/18/20
It’s 1961. It’s North Carolina USA and a Boeing B52 Stratofortress has just mislaid two 3.8 megaton Hydrogen Bombs somewhere in the sky above Goldsboro.  In what, despite the best efforts of Pentagon whitewashers, we now know to be the newly declassified 44th episode of the CB Wallop podcast, join Phil Lucas and Phil Jerrod as they discuss The Goldsboro B-52 Crash - the gigantic military plane that fell out of the sky, dumped two of the most dangerous pieces equipment the world has ever seen...
Published 10/23/20
It’s 1935, it’s Long Island, New York and a group of extremely naughty monkeys are about to stage the easiest prison break since David Copperfield pretended to be locked in Alcatraz. In what hundreds of fast-talking New York monkeys are already throwing their excrement at, it's the 43rd episode of the CB Wallop podcast. Join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the The Long Island Rhesus Monkey Escape - the tiny plank-based blunder that unwittingly released over a hundred naughty...
Published 10/05/20
It’s 1994. It’s forty-thousand feet over the Siberian tundra and Captain Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kudrinsky is about to take part in the worst bring your child to work day since Daddy Day Care 3. In what panicking Russian pilots are already radioing in as the 42nd edition of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Aeroflot Flight 593 -  the quite frankly anus tightening, stomach crunching, thigh scarring, nightmare fueling, brain buggeringly terrifying story of...
Published 09/15/20
It's 1988. It's as close to Broadway as makes no odds and a load of luvvie theatre types are about to sit through the worst high school musical since High School Musical. In what puritanical religious mothers are already wringing their hands might be the 41st edition of the CB Wallop podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Carrie: The Musical. The gigantic Broadway flop that tried to make a big song and dance about periods, bullying, dirty pillows and pig murder, but ended...
Published 08/18/20
It's the 18th Century. Britain is deep at war with France (probably) and Londoners are getting slaughtered on a ‘throat-searing, eye-reddening, vomit-churning hell broth’ of fermented juniper berries and sulphuric acid. In what powder-faced, big-wigged, coffee house creeping Georgians are already calling the 40th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The London Gin Craze - the unaccountable popularity of a beverage so strong it caused birth defects,...
Published 07/31/20
It’s 1992. It’s the Phillipines and PepsiCo have just made the biggest computer error since Newscorp bought MySpace. In what discerning listeners are already calling the Podcast of a New Generation, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Pepsi Numbers Promotion - the Pepsi Challenge that created 40,000 Filipino millionaires, then quickly turned into absolute bloody madness. Should they have just used raffle tickets? Yes.. that might have worked better. Trigger Warning - Phil and...
Published 06/03/20
It’s 1916. It’s Uplees just outside Faversham, and the good people of the Explosives Loading Company are about to open the biggest hole in Kent since Yates’s Wine Lodge.  In what will almost certainly be the most explosive episode of the CB Wallop Podcast ever join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Great Faversham Explosion of 1916 - the gigantic blast that rocked the south of England, atomised over a hundred working men and boys and inadvertently implied that ladies are far...
Published 05/11/20
It’s 2018. It’s Elne in Southern France, and the Mayor has just cut the ribbon on one of the the most worthless art collections since they closed the last Athena.   In what the Policeman from ‘Allo ‘Allo would have called “Zee dirty-tree epi-sod of the CB Wallop podcast Reneeeé” join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Musee Etienne Terrus - the newly renovated French art museum, that was built to honour the great artist Etienne Terrus, then unwittingly filled with fake...
Published 04/28/20
It's 2001, it's Ontario, Canada and the town of Timmins’ most famous absentee country music superstar is finally being opened to the public in the form of a building.  In what might be the least impressive episode of the CB Wallop podcast in country-pop history, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Shania Twain Center. The gigantic monument to the genius of Shania Twain that was built on the side of a gold mine, attracted less visitors than Ian Huntley and was eventually...
Published 04/09/20
It’s 1967, it’s the Scilly Isles and a jumbo-ized mega tanker full of dirty oil is about to cause more damage to the Cornish economy than Brexit, Thatcher and Fleetwood Mac put together.  In what must be the crudest installment of the CB Wallop Podcast EVER join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The SS Torrey Canyon - the gigantic oil tanker that went the wrong way, ran aground and made most of the west coast of England far, far too slippery for sunbathing.  Can you bomb oil out of...
Published 03/16/20
It’s the 20th of January, or the 30th of January 1606, or 1607. It’s Bristol, England and the surfing along the Bristol Channel is much, much better than usual.  In what bawdy, wide ruff’d Stuart noblemen are already calling the 34th chapt’r of thine CB Wallop Podcast, thou artless Banbury cheese, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Bristol Channel Flood - the gigantic freak wave that drowned pretty much everything and everyone right up to the Cotswolds.  Was it a tsunami? Was...
Published 02/24/20
It’s 1990. It’s Frankfurt Germany, and a shadowy music producer is about to drop the biggest pop bombshell since Robbie left Take That.  In what talent-free 80s mime artists are already lip syncing is the 33rd episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Milli Vannill - the big shouldered Euro-pop megastars who sold a bazillion records, won an armful of awards and then had to give them all back again. Should they have read their record contract? Yes... yes...
Published 01/20/20
It’s 1971. It’s Iraq and Saddam Hussein has just imported 95,000 tonnes of chemically coated Mexican grain so dangerous I’m surprised we didn’t have a war about it.   In what Iraqi Information Ministers are already denying is the 31st episode of the CB Wallop Podcast you Americans dogs! join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the Iraq Poison Grain Disaster - the shocking and awful miscommunication that killed hundreds of people, poisoned thousands more, and forever ruined the...
Published 12/16/19
It’s 2007, it’s Chatham in Kent and nestled in a gigantic aluminium box above a Nando's chicken shop is the most authentic recreation of Victorian England since The Muppet's Christmas Carol.  In what Disney cockneys are already proclaiming is the 31st episode of the CB Wallop Podcast -Maory Pop-inns! join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Dickens World - the well meaning theme park that tried to bring the genius of Dickens to life using nothing but fifty out of work actors, an...
Published 11/11/19
It’s Christmas 1836, it’s Lewes on the south coast of England and a whole load of snugly Dickensian folk are about to get the worst surprise down the chimney since Jimmy Savile played Father Christmas.  In what rosy-cheeked Victorian urchins are already singing is the 30th episode of the CB Wallop podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the Lewes Avalanche - the massive ball of tightly packed snow and ice that let go of a mountain and hurled itself at the good Christian people...
Published 10/29/19
It’s 1975, it’s fancy central London and at Moorgate Underground Station a load of miserable commuters are waiting to catch the worst tube journey since Phil Lucas passed his kidney stones.  In what vastly overpaid tube drivers are already complaining to their union is the 29th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, Join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Moorgate Tube Crash - the weird and mysterious tale of how a perfectly healthy man, on a perfectly normal morning, drove his...
Published 10/07/19
It’s 1955. It’s Le Mans, France and a quarter of a million people have turned out to watch one of the most boring sporting events on the planet - The Le Mans 24 Hour.     In what rich, champagne-spraying playboys are already toasting as the 28th lap of the CB Wallop podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss the Le Mans Motor Racing Disaster of 1955 - Dozens of very fast cars, thousands of very boring miles, and one tragic decision that led to the worst accident in motor racing...
Published 09/16/19
It's 1996. It's literally every country in the world (apart from Bermuda) and McDonald's have just released a burger specifically designed for wankers.  In what fast food executives are already calling the Mc27th Deluxe episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Arch Deluxe - the burger for urban sophisticates that came with its own line dance, included a special 'adult' sauce for grownups and ended up costing the big red clown hundreds of millions of...
Published 09/02/19
It's 1883. It's The Victoria Hall Sunderland, and an out-of-town prestidigitator is about to take part in the worst theatrical experience since Mel Gibson played Hamlet. In what Health and Safety executives have been banging on about for years and years is the 26th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Victoria Hall Stampede - the tiny, tragic mistake that cost the lives of two hundred children, ruined countless more and inadvertently helped us...
Published 08/19/19
It’s 2019. It’s Haywards Heath, England, and Phil Jerrod’s left kidney is being haunted by a ghost made out of meat.   In what appallingly under-appreciated NHS nurses are already calling the 25th episode of the CB Wallop podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they present The Story of ‘Kuato’ - the five kilogram cyst that forced Phil into the most dramatic weight loss regime since Anne Boleyn.  Does Phil want to say thank you to everyone, again and again and again.... Yes... yes he...
Published 08/07/19
It's 1981. It's Acton, California, and a whole load of shiny, happy American movie people are being attacked by lions. In what terrified, scalped and bleeding cinematographers are already calling the 24th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss Roar! - surely the maddest, most dangerous, and least responsible clusterf#@k of a movie ever committed to celluloid. Should they have done the whole thing with hamsters?... yes.. yes that would have been...
Published 07/04/19
It's 1972. It's London, England and in Battersea Park loads of kids are riding a roller coaster with a worse safety record than Doctor Octopus. In what queazy funfair patrons are already calling the 23rd episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Big Dipper Roller Coaster Crash - the rotting 50s roller coaster that was built for the Festival of Britain, ruined the lives of countless families and was then promptly forgotten by everyone. Scream if you...
Published 06/16/19