This month's extra Patreon episode is about Dancing Plagues. Ben takes Barry on a waltz through pre-Reformation Europe, around shrines to St Vitus, as well as to dance marathons in Depression Era USA and some rebellious riotous Japanese dances in the 1860s.
149 - VICKI PIPE - WORLD'S WORST TRAIN
Tickets please, and get your feet off the seat while minding the gap and moving down inside the carriage: It's time to hop aboard the World's Worst Train, destination This Podcast. Ben and Barry are joined in the caboose by Vicki Pipe whose All The Stations project has seen her visit all the train stations in the UK and Ireland. She is here to discourse on the rickety old Pacer trains which are basically buses on tracks, while Barry finds some presidential funeral trains and Ben sticks a train on some wheels and then on some more wheels for good measure.
148B - BEST OF THE WORST OF THE BEST 8
Since the third Monday in January is, apparently, statistically the most depressing day of the year, we thought we'd whack a smile on your collective faces with an episode celebrating some of life's little upsides. Going over topics from episodes 36-40 we find the best gadgets, mythical creatures, words, strikers and environmentalists.
Expect to be uplifted, delighted and baffled in equal measure!
148 - DOMINIC NICHOLLS - WORLD'S WORST WEAPON
Boom-bang-a-bang! Worst Foot Forward are waving their deadly weapons around. Ben and Barry are joined by former army man and current defence correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, Dom Nicholls who tries his best to be sergeant-major to their minor misdemeanours. Dom gives us the lowdown on nuclear weaponry, especially the ill-fated hand-held nuclear rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Barry kills a multitude of different animals in the company of Catholic saints and our friends at the Special Operations Executive. And Ben takes the old joke about razorblades and tried to get as many barrels as possible onto a single gun. Take cover!
147 - RAHUL KOHLI - WORLD'S WORST MOB BOSS
We're gonna make you an offer you can't refuse: an hour of sinister and stupid tales about mobsters who often make Bugsy Malone look like Don Corleone. Accompanied by award-winning stand-up comic Rahul Kohli, who mines his own chequered past growing up in Newcastle amongst some haphazard company, we discover why you should never let the mafia put up your Christmas decorations, the Yakuza's charming outreach work and even more evidence for Frank Sinatra being a total shit.