#61 Neighbours From Hell: Stevie Martin and the Unwelcome Doormat Curse

We Can Be Weirdos

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Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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"Always err on the side of neutralising the curse in a body of water"

Stevie Martin is an actor, writer, comedian and podcaster, and also part of comedy group Massive Dad. Stevie is a regular face on TV, and found a cult online following after a series of viral sketches with Lola-Rose Maxwell. She is a writer published everywhere from Vice to the Guardian, and her first book, Nobody Panic, was published in 2021 and adapted into a hit podcast. Stevie's new stand-up show, Clout, will run July 29th - August 5th at the Monkey Barrel, for the Edinburgh Fringe.

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0:49.8	And he was like, what's that?
0:52.3	That hasn't fallen off.
0:53.9	That's not like an accident. I was like, no's that? That hasn't fallen off. That's not like an accident.
0:56.0	I was like, no, she's cursed us.
0:59.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos.
1:24.5	My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am coming to you today from a hotel room in
1:29.0	Weidhofen, which is in Austria. It's a little town that's located just 15 minutes away
1:34.7	from Grobzikatz in Austria, which I'm sure you all know, the famous Gropsikatz. No, no one's
1:41.9	heard of it. It's the tiniest town that my great-grandmother lived in, my
1:45.6	grandfather grew up, and my dad at one point lived in the town, went to school there, and where I
1:51.3	have visited ever since a child and gone into adulthood. We are all back here, me, my dad, my
1:58.6	grandfather, my auntie, my uncle, we're all here because the house that my
2:04.5	grandfather grew up in, which was named the House of Shriver, has been knocked down and a local
2:11.5	aeronautical tech firm have built in its place a giant staff canteen that they have named Schreiber's.
2:20.9	And my grandfather, who's in his 90s, flew all the way from Australia to cut the ribbon on this
2:27.1	canteen. And so I flew in from Margate. My dad flew in, my auntie, my uncle. All of our
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