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What The F Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Ep 175 with Robin Ince (Part 2)

What The F Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Carousel Studios

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.7888 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Mark continues his conversation with Robin. If you haven't heard the first part then do go back and listen now but for the rest of you here is the second half of the interview. Want to get access to the full video interview before anyone else? why not join us on Patreon? For £4 a month you can listen to the whole interview straight away – and you'll also be able to watch it! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/wtfisgoingonpod⁠  For media, press & guest enquiries please email mikey@carouselstudios.co.uk Follow What The F*** Is Going On? @wtfisgoingonpod  Follow Mark Steel @mrmarksteel   Follow Robin @Robinince1969 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Being an adult sucks.

0:02.0

Adults, they have to work all day.

0:05.0

When adults get male, it's always bills and bills suck.

0:11.0

Sure, but we've got a driver's license.

0:13.0

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0:39.3

Yes, you can.

0:40.3

They're eating the dogs.

0:42.3

They're eating the dinosaurs.

0:44.3

Under the EU, we weren't allowed to eat.

0:47.3

I just don't get it.

0:48.3

I just think everyone should be sure.

0:49.3

What the fuck is going on?

0:53.3

Hello, I'm Mark Still.

0:55.8

Welcome to my podcast where each week we ask the question, what the fuck is going on?

1:03.9

What the fuck is going on?

1:08.3

Where we were is that there was an incident very, very early on in your life, which you write about very movingly at the start of this book that stayed with you.

1:20.8

Well, obviously it would stay with you forever in a car.

1:24.2

Yeah, I was, yeah, so basically when I was two days before my third birthday, I was in the back of a car with my sister Sarah, one of my sisters, and my mum was driving, little country road about a mile from where we lived, and there was a car that was on the wrong side of the road driving at speed and it smashed into us. And we, my sister and me were kind of okay, but my mum was severely injured.

1:47.8

And in fact, would have died if my dad hadn't been a few cars behind on his way back from work.

1:53.0

Because when the ambulance came, they were going to take it to the local hospital.

1:56.7

And they said, my dad said, if you take it a local hospital, she will die.

2:03.3

And years later we found out, well, not even years later, it was true.

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