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*PREVIEW* Britainology 5: The Cult of the Legend

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Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In a preview of the most recent Britainology, brought on Riley to discuss a phenomenon as eternally British as bad weather itself: the legend. Who are British legends? What makes them act this way? How do you create a taxonomy of figures to distinguish between the Essex Geezer, the Entrepreneurial Legend, the High Street Hard Man, and Tim Westwood? Well, we gave it our best go. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42848878 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

I mean, the country is relentlessly unspecial.

0:15.9

That's kind of like baked into the culture.

0:17.6

Yeah.

0:18.4

And so that and so you can, but you can see Mard, right?

0:22.1

You can see Mark and Arge, Marge.

0:24.7

Marge.

0:25.6

The two of them together.

0:26.5

They're kind of just raging against the monotony of this place, but in the most consumer

0:31.7

and flash way possible.

0:33.2

That's why their job now is to go and as like, I don't know, what, like 45 year old, 50 year old men make like special appearances at Bounce by the Ours in Sheffield.

0:44.3

The thing is, they're not even that old.

0:45.9

They're like both in their late 30s.

0:47.9

They just seem that old because of the impossibly bizarre way in which they lead their life.

0:52.0

Because this is another thing about the legend, right?

0:53.8

It's like the legend, like, wants to be cool and wants to be seen as cool.

0:58.0

But the thing is that like for that, they don't actually have to be cool.

1:00.8

The legend only has to be the coolest guy their friends know.

1:04.4

Like Mark Wright only has to be cooler than Arge, which is easy.

1:08.5

How can anyone manage that?

1:09.5

Because Arge is which is easy. How can anyone manage that? Because Arge is a simpleton.

1:11.3

I remember there was, there's like a plot line from, I watched that first series of the

1:14.9

Anyways Essex when it came out when I was like 17.

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