Sinopsis
A podcast about people on the internet being wildly unreasonable.Our theme song is 'I Feel Fantastic' by Jonathan Coulton from the album 'Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms' (2005) which is licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 license.
Episodios
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017 - In which Les Misérables is sponsored by Specsavers
10/05/2018 Duración: 32min"If you don't want to see that thong, don't play the song." Thanks to everyone who sent us Mumsnet AIBU threads this week for us to discuss. We really appreciate you wading into the forums on our behalf. Glasses upon glasses in this episode as we invoice babies for broken wine glasses and improve Les Misérables with a spectacles-focused reimagining. We also take children up Mount Everest for a picnic and Sisqó requests to see that thong during the general swim session.
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016 - In which we read 'Harry Potter and the Zodiac Killer'
03/05/2018 Duración: 32min"Nom nom, pizza pizza." This week, we wade once more into the hellscape of Mumsnet. We discover a house set on fire in a celebratory fashion, drive-by pizza accidents, six year-olds drinking Pornstar Martinis, and Paul Hollywood's sex-gut.
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015 - In which babies catch tans
26/04/2018 Duración: 35min"Love juice." It's a baby-filled episode this week as we discuss Royal babies, recruiting babies as firefighters, trusting infants to deal with in-flight emergencies, and taking children to job interviews, and whether babies should have tans. We also demand haircuts as our birthright and petition for the nationalisation of shampoo. You can vote for us in the Listeners' Choice Award category at the British Podcast Awards at https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Go do that.
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014 - In which the Stink Judge decides when we can eat
19/04/2018 Duración: 38min"Am I being unreasonable to sing an adapted version of Blurred Lines to my cat?" We're back! After our break, MumsNet overfloweth with baffling threads. This week, we replace /everything/ with Peppa Pig, we eat a Tudor buffet at our desks in the office, we go to Robin Thicke-friendly churches, and Detective Pikachu investigates our local corner shop.
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013 - In which Easter is hijacked by the Postcode Lottery
05/04/2018 Duración: 31min"Let's hear it for the grans!" It's a GransNet special! This week, we delve into GransNet and discover the annoyingly reasonable grans of this forum: we dress like dowdy sacks of pasta, children are brainwashed by Postcode Lottery to forget the true meaning of Easter, aliens make contact with strangers in vans, and we meet our best new recurring character, Coffee Sue.
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012 - In which we hide vouchers from Poirot
29/03/2018 Duración: 32min"I just wanted a Dine-In-For-Two and now I'm in jail." This week, we burn our trousers, we speculate about the family of [Family relation]Net sites, and we get unreasonably het up about seat reservations on trains.
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011 - In which Boomers slowly invade Millennials' houses
22/03/2018 Duración: 31min"Muttering incantations in the long-forgotten eldritch language of the Elder Gods is a bit much." This week, we endlessly move their fruit bowl to keep up with the neighbours, we ponder the inscrutable and impossible geometry of the mysterious box room, and Simon gets obsessed with summoning the Elder Forgotten Gods.
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010 - In which we escape Scar's fascist regime to eat bugs
15/03/2018 Duración: 37min"Get your own baby fashion, motherfucker." This week we're joined by very special guest star, Fiona Ashley, who joins us as we escape a first date by having a wee in a cab, we finally throw away that portrait of Mussolini that brings us now joy, we get disinvited from a dog wedding, and Fi provides a perfect summary of Disney's Frozen (2013) leading us to accidentally write some erotic fan-fiction. Onwards and upwards, goodbye!
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009 - In which we scream in the Sistine Chapel
08/03/2018 Duración: 31min"And also don't let your five year-old walk around a museum saying "Fuck you" to all the paintings. That's not OK." This week, we do yoga on a plane in 1977, we cry about everything from Rothkos to breakfast gravy, and Simon launches his London mayoral campaign.
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008 - In which we write the prequel to Bugsy Malone
01/03/2018 Duración: 31min"What's the Little Red Hen got to do with it? It should be the Little Red State." This week on You Are Being Unreasonable, we consider ourselves very lucky to have found such great topics to discuss: library Oompa-Loompas segregating adults and children, driving middle-class friends to Waitrose for veg, and, as always, Hugh Jackman's 2017 movie The Greatest Showman.
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007 - In which tiny robots spy on us and we fail to spread butter
22/02/2018 Duración: 28min"Jam, not ham!" In this episode of You Are Being Unreasonable, we "let" Alexa "come" to "live" with us, we don't answer the door, we dip bananas in margarine, and we get surprisingly serious about workers' rights and small business ownership.
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006 - In which fresh milk is opened and Hugh Jackman puffs himself up
15/02/2018 Duración: 30min"Am I being unreasonable re. shitting man?" In this sixth episode of You Are Being Unreasonable, we ask about toilet etiquette, we drink ONLY the freshest of milks, and we meet BBC One's newest detectives, Driver and Pedestrian. (We had some trouble with the audio on this one so, particularly in the first five minutes, it might be bit janky. Sorry!)
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005 - In which children eat calamari and girlfriends steal buttons from ashtrays
08/02/2018 Duración: 28min"Water, pour with me." This week, we mash food for children, we listen to the sounds of water, and we build a bin-fort!
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004 - In which we split the bill and then the New New World Order is unmasked
01/02/2018 Duración: 30min"Next thing you know you're drinking a flaming glass of milk." In this episode, we explore clichéd mother-in-law drama, the social anxieties of going to a pub, and we uncover the secrets of the New New World Order.
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003 - In which pantsuits are considered and the greatest wizard is discovered
25/01/2018 Duración: 36minThis week, we cower as postmen try to deliver post to us, we get our bedsheets all sweaty with fever, and we discover the identity of the Greatest Wizard.
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002 - In which the chickens are released
18/01/2018 Duración: 22minIn our second episode of You Are Being Unreasonable, people are furious about early Christmas shoppers, book etiquette is discussed, wedding speeches are made, and chickens are released. (The audio for this episode got a bit heavily clipped so some sentences might cut off prematurely. Sorry!)