Hoovering - Episode 70: Matthew Highton
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
This week I’m joined by lovely man and great, bonkers comedian Matthew Highton. We hoover with a specific focus on what eating might be like in a post-apocalyptic future - and I have to warn you, it isn’t always easy listening, this one. Some of the stuff we eat and talking about eating is frankly fu**ing disgusting. Haha. But yeah, still great, obviously.
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Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019
9th JUNE - UNDERBELLY Festival Southbank - Guests are Sara Pascoe, Tom Allen and Liam Charles (off of Bake Off and ‘Liam Bakes’)
18th JULY - MARLOWE COMEDY FESTIVAL, Canterbury - Guests being announced super soon
12th & 13th AUGUST - EDINBURGH FRINGE Festival, 3pm, Monkey Barrell
Honourable Mentions
MATTHEW HIGHTON is a brilliant comedian whose also always turning out very cool short films too - click on his great big name here to follow his work.
If you fancy coming to any of my gigs or hearing what I’m up to MY WEBSITE IS HERE
And specifically if you’d like to see my new stand up show HENCH in Edinburgh then please do - and also I’m in a play 11th June til 6th July at the Kings Head in Islington called BREXIT - if you want to see me pretending to be a disgusting Tory grown up.
The cockroaches and crickets we ate were from a company called EAT GRUB and the beef-filled indestructible cakes of Hollywood fame was a TWINKIE. And the vegan chocolate that ‘tasted of Holland & Barrett’ was from ALMIGHTY FOODS
Those strange and exciting salts we were tasting came from SOUS CHEF
Comedians we mention are HAL BRANSON, LEE KERN and ADAM LARTER
We mention the relish fake chicken from Hackney’s TEMPLE OF SEITAN
And last but not least - R.I.P you delicious IRUN BRU BARS
OH, And
If you have got a any spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called PATREON where I exchange for rewards including exclusive content for your hard earned cash which means I can keep doing...
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| 0:53.2 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm Jessica Bostigue. |
| 0:58.0 | I love eating as much as anything else in the world. |
| 1:01.7 | But also, it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 1:08.2 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an |
| 1:12.9 | interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovery. |
| 1:22.5 | Hey, you wonderfuls. This week's episode is me talking to the brilliant boy comedian Matthew Heighton. |
| 1:28.4 | We have a particular focus on eating in a post-apocalyptic future, something which, |
| 1:33.5 | this lovely massive weirdo, Matthew is particularly obsessed with apocalypses and the future. |
| 1:40.0 | So thanks for listening and as ever for telling every dickhead you ever meet about the podcast. |
| 1:45.0 | Please keep that up along with the usual rating, reviewing and subscribing. |
| 1:49.2 | Live show-wise, we have our biggest one yet in just a few days at the Underbelly South Bank Festival at Sunday the 9th, 4.30 in the afternoon. |
| 1:57.1 | And our guests are superstars. |
| 1:58.9 | We've got Tom Allen, Sarah Pascoe and Bake Offs, Liam Charles. |
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