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Fesshole: The Podcast

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  • Fesshole, the million follower Twitter account now has a podcast. Join creator Rob Manuel and his mate from school, Dave Stevenson, as they chew over the most awful, funniest confessions and cringe at the horror of it all.
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  • 7: “Which 80s pop group helped this man overcome his urination shyness?“

    7: “Which 80s pop group helped this man overcome his urination shyness?“
    Jul 16 2024
    I really like this episode - me and Dave are relaxed and into the vibe of what we've created. It reminds me of Seinfeld, now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we've reached the heights of Larry David's best writing here, but like Seinfeld, it's a show about nothing.

    What is this episode about? Nothing.

    Yet it's about everything - it's about two men having a long friendship since childhood and can finish each other's sentences.

    It's about spending time in our company, and either you want to hang out with us, or you'll think us pillocks.

    It's about being mature enough to acknowledge it's OK that your parents had sex.

    It's about still being immature enough to giggle at it.

    But most of all it's about Rob & Dave telling you a story of a lad they went to school with, with the most fearsome power in the word: the power to crush your spirit with a mean word, and that the world is still ruled by such people, and we are but mice playing on the giants, afraid that they'll awake.

    OK. Let's talk about titles. Titles are so hard on the 'week in review' episodes, they are some of the best episodes in terms of vibe, but they are impossible to title because they're about nothing, so here goes, let's brainstorm some titles:

    * Which member of the British aristocracy reads Fesshole?
    * The one with the new format section of 'rejected fessholes'
    * How the pop group Tears For Fears helped one man overcome his piss shyness.
    * What's the best rapping ever done by a white man?

    Oh man it's so hard, titles are so hard, but do listen, as this is a solid episode made of pure nothing, glorious nothing.

    Rob Manuel
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    51 mins
  • 6: 'I went to prison and this is what my fellow inmates confessed to me"

    6: 'I went to prison and this is what my fellow inmates confessed to me"
    Jul 9 2024
    It's not something you expect, one day you're swimming in the local pool and you see your acquaintance Chris Atkins and have a bit of a chat with him whilst both of you are playing with your kids and then two days later he's on the front page of the Daily Mail, imprisoned for five years for tax fraud.

    I didn't know what to think and I also was very worried about a boy being separated from his father at such an impressionable age.

    Occasionally I'd google him and check his social media and wonder how to get hold of him but there was nothing. One day I wrote him a letter saying what was going on in the world hoping to cheer him up but didn't know where to send it.

    Then suddenly, two and half years later, Chris emails me and says he's out and he LOVES fesshole.

    We go for a pint and Chris tells me that he's basically been running his own fesshole inside jail, except not doing it for a laugh, but he's been working as a prison listener and hearing all the prisoners' terrible confessions of yes sometimes murder, but often just loneliness.

    So of course I want to get him on the podcast, he's what we call in the business 'a friend of the google form" so we've queued him up.

    It's actually a fantastic episode that goes on a bit of a journey - we start light with me and Dave just being silly, we get into an incredibly detailed chat with Chris about the conditions in jail, and accidentally pivot to become a campaigning podcast that's massively pro prison reform and then end with a series of often silly prison confession for Chris to react to.

    We believe if you listen to the whole thing you'll end up wanting prison reform too.
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    51 mins
  • 5: “Is it ok for a man to name his dog after his best friend?”

    5: “Is it ok for a man to name his dog after his best friend?”
    Jul 2 2024
    9 thoughts I (Rob Manuel) had listening back to this episode

    1. Oh god we're going to have to cut all that really funny stuff about [redacted] because we don't want [redacted] to lose their job.

    2. These two people are complete dickheads but I quite like them because this is the sound of me and Dave sitting up to 5 in the morning as teenager talking absolute bollocks.

    3. I feel there could be repercussion from mentioning family stuff - it's not my intent to cause family woe here - but if you open your mouth and press record for an hour then who the hell knows what's going to come out.

    4. I quite enjoyed listening to me moan about the gym, sitting on a spin bike in the same bloody gym. I won't tell you which one it is, but I didn't go there for years as my partner thought it looked like a swingers club.

    5. These podcasts really do end up mentioning the crap that's floated around my head forever, I've now had at least two references to Amstrad CPC 464s in them, which really can't be what anyone ever singed up for, but that's what you're going to get.

    6. I think we've settled into a groove with the "week in reviews" in this one. The format is there and we're relaxed - although there's plenty of options for other sections. Feedback from the listeners would be nice - also rejected fesses would be good.

    7. Titling these things is fucking hard with "week in review" as what it's about? It's about lots of things. "Is it ok for men to bring their own bluetooth speakers into the sauna?" "Is it ok to call things Dave?" "Yes we are old men with opinions like DVDs and CDs were quite good you know".

    8. I sorta wish I didn't cop out 5 mins before the end and admit I was tired. Power on through, that's what I want to hear, although maybe that would be a good podcast "I am very tired" and people say they're tired and yawn and stuff and it would help people sleep.

    9. God it makes me nervous sticking this stuff out - it's just me and Dave talking like we normally talk - but with a bit of structure. What if people hate us? Well they won't hate Dave, Dave is nice, I'm clearly a bastard.

    ANHWAYWHAYHWAH - hope you enjoy it and stick around for the next one, coz it's another corker.

    Rob

    Producer: Will Fitzpatrick
    tempotalker.com
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    58 mins
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