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Ep 111: Sarah Jones – World’s Worst Smell Monday, March 25th, 2019

Hold your noses and dive into the open sewer of the most olfactorily repulsive episode yet Joined by Sarah Jones, an expert on microbes, minerals and a bunch of really pungent jobs we delve into the eye-watering world of the world's worst smell  There are tales of the Asian "King of Fruits", canine flatuomancy and The Great Stink, plus our old friends at the World War 2 Special Operations unit turn up again with yet another plan to win the war using maverick means We might all come up smelling of roses by the end Axl Rose's post-show gusset Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @Sarah_Jokes Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 111: Sarah Jones – World’s Worst Smell

The Third Foot – Psychosurgery (Bonus Episode) Friday, March 22nd, 2019

As promised a couple of episodes ago, since we've hit our target on Patreon of 25 supporters, we'll be throwing out an extra show per month for all our listeners in which we focus in more depth on some of our world's worst winners For this first extra edition we went all the way back to our first episode and explored the grisly world of trepanning and lobotomies  We're not gonna lie, it's pretty grim stuff, but even amongst the horrific excuses for medical science we manage to find the entertaining oddities of a man who fired a particle accelerator at his head and somehow survived, JFK's family secret and the reason why you should never trust the Swiss with anything medical Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Third Foot, Worst Foot Forward

The Third Foot – Psychosurgery (Bonus Episode)

Ep 110: Cerys Bradley – World’s Worst Scientific Experiment Monday, March 18th, 2019

We're down in the lab tinkering with equipment, mixing dangerous substances and generally causing chaos We're conducting the World's Worst Scientific Experiment under the watchful eye of the hugely qualified and clever Cerys Bradley There are a surprising amount of stories involving puppy-torture, probes being stuck in surprising places, elephants on drugs, Jesus get-togethers and much more Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @hashtagcerys Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Science & Nature, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 110: Cerys Bradley – World’s Worst Scientific Experiment

Ep 109: Andrew Ellard – World’s Worst Evil Genius Sunday, March 10th, 2019

swivels around in enormous winged chair Ah, MrPodcast Listener, we've been expecting you  The guest in our deadly lair this week is master script editor Andrew Ellard, who joins us on a tour of the most woeful evil geniuses in fact and fiction Andrew brings an astonishing movie abomination from the 1960s making an absolute hash of the memory of 007  Meanwhile Barry tells the tales of the most dangerous Xhosa tribeswoman ever, the man who amplified Hitler and the scariest quiz contestant to make it onto TV  To finish off Ben has two mighty tales of a Nobel prize winning Japanese novelist whose homoerotic cult went badly wrong and the self-made growth-hormone millionaire who dreamed of a creating a New Utopia at the end of the 1990s Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @ellardent Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, History & Politics, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 109: Andrew Ellard – World’s Worst Evil Genius

Ep 108: Dr Rob Cromarty – World’s Worst Military Tactic Monday, March 4th, 2019

Quick, march! Into battle we go under the leadership of our general, classicist and quiz-show boffin Dr Rob Cromarty We're seeking out the world's worst military tactic and you bet we've found a few contenders to skirmish with There are war elephants galore, French plans that backfire spectacularly and the Pyrrhus behind Pyrrhic victories Attack! Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @DocCrom Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, History & Politics, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 108: Dr Rob Cromarty – World’s Worst Military Tactic

Ep 107: Dean Rodgers – World’s Worst Puzzle Sunday, February 24th, 2019

This is an episode for anyone who has become so frustrated with their Rubik's Cube that they've ended up unpeeling the coloured squares and sticking them back on to help you solve it! Joined by incredible escape room auteur Dean Rodgers, Ben and Barry travel from Ancient Greece to musty 90s gamer bedrooms, via the court of King Rudolf of Bohemia and Lewis Carroll's very twisted imagination  By the end of this, you won't look at a black cat, a raven or a fishing rod in the same way again Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @deanjrodgers Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Hobbies & Games, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 107: Dean Rodgers – World’s Worst Puzzle

Ep 106a: Best of the Worst of the Best 4 Monday, February 18th, 2019

With the first inklings of spring in the air, Ben and Barry are feeling positively positive about things and so once again are delving back into the archives in search of some of the World's Best In this instance, we look at the topics from Episodes 16 to 20: Conspiracy Theory, Haircut, Teen Movie, Parasite and Wine There are missing landmasses, Polish plaits, classical literature, sniffer-wasps and Buzz Aldrin's sherry, all in this potpourri of pleasantness Normal negativity will resume next week Tickets to Barry's play VESPERTILIO, which opens this week, can be purchased here: https://vaultfestivalcom/whats-on/vespertilio/ Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Miscellaneous, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

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Ep 106: Dan Simpson – World’s Worst Lullaby Monday, February 11th, 2019

Sleep well, dear listeners, and sweet nightmares to you all as Ben and Barry, in the company of poet Dan Simpson, hasten you to slumber with the World's Worst Lullaby We truly travel the globe in this one, with contributions from Iceland, Haiti, Brazil and Indonesia, essays from Lorca and compositions from Brahms, and Dan introduces us to a particularly horrifying cover of an already horrifying song Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @DanSimpsonPoet Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Art & Literature, Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 106: Dan Simpson – World’s Worst Lullaby

Ep 105: Dr Seth Thevoz – World’s Worst Voiceover Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

In a world where two trivia nerds are able to trap the honorary librarian of the Liberal Club in a posh shed out the back of a nice flat in Hampstead, anything is possible  And this week, in that world, we chat to the marvelous journalist, academic and storyhouse of anecdote Dr Seth Thevoz about the worst voiceovers in history  Ben has trouble with Republican sausage rolls, Barry finds out about fomenting revolution and Seth bring us a very drunk Orson Welles behaving very badly indeed Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @SAThevoz Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Podcast, TV & Film, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 105: Dr Seth Thevoz – World’s Worst Voiceover

Ep 104: Myq Kaplan – World’s Worst Guest Monday, January 28th, 2019

Be our guests, be our guests - in fact, the man doing just that (via Skype) is American stand-up Myq Kaplan, who is getting very meta as he chose the topic World's Worst Guest, and strives to live up to the title Meanwhile, Barry tells us about the man who broke into Buckingham Palace and served himself a cheeseboard, while Ben looks at chat show meltdowns and Japanese retirement parties gone horribly wrong Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @myqkaplan Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Miscellaneous, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 104: Myq Kaplan – World’s Worst Guest

Ep 103: Tom Hall & Andrew Gruen – World’s Worst Escape Monday, January 21st, 2019

Over the past five years the phenomenon of escape rooms has exploded all over the globe and this week our two guests are creators of several remarkable ones in London  Tom and Andrew join us to talk about what goes wrong when people try to escape  There are tales of hidden papal tunnels, ice skating queens and the most Australian disguise in history Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @Tom_J_Hall @theandrewgruen @MH_Escape Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, History & Politics, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 103: Tom Hall & Andrew Gruen – World’s Worst Escape

Ep 102: Oliver Powell – World’s Worst Advert Monday, January 14th, 2019

We’re indulging our consumerist instincts this week in the company of actor, host of the Average at Best Podcast and star of countless commercials, Oliver Powell Ollie helps us glaze over in the face of the World’s Worst Adverts, with insights into life on the set of his recent Durex ad Barry examines the product placement habits of 007, and Ben describes the public service advert of your nightmares Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @oliverpowell Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support us as we venture forth into professional recording studios: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast, TV & Film, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 102: Oliver Powell – World’s Worst Advert

Ep 101: Sooz Kempner – World’s Worst Diva Monday, January 7th, 2019

Pop on your diamante slippers, swish your feather boa around your neck and strut your way in 2019 with tales of the world's worst divas  Accompanied by magnificent musical comic Sooz Kempner we tell the tales of Handel's warring divas, Freddie Mercury's run-ins with Sid Vicious (and a lot of dwarves) and why the heir to the British throne doesn't understand how sandwiches work Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @SoozUK Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support Ben’s new baby and Barry’s crippling trivia addiction: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Music, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 101: Sooz Kempner – World’s Worst Diva

Ep 100b: The World’s Worst ‘Best of 2018’ Episode Sunday, December 30th, 2018

New Year’s Eve, the clocks tick towards midnight with the prospect of turning the page on 2018 BUT NO! We keep you firmly rooted in the past as we look back at our so-called “best bits” from episodes released over the past year There are returns for several old friends, not least the French president who died in flagrante delicto, an unwitting newsreader with a numerical disadvantage, and an English toff brandishing a wasp gun Thanks for listening in 2018 and here’s to a 2019 full of more of the world’s worst stuff Love, Barry & Ben Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support Ben’s new baby and Barry’s crippling trivia addiction: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose:...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

Ep 100b: The World’s Worst ‘Best of 2018’ Episode

Ep 100a: Best of the Worst of the Best 3 Monday, December 24th, 2018

This week we head to the appendix of our encyclopaedia of heroic failure and talk about some stone cold heroes Way back in early 2017 we talked about the worst board games, fairy tales, professional wrestlers, TV comedies and first dates - now Ben and Barry return to the scene of the crimes to laud some champions  On our way we uncover the real story behind Beauty and the Beast, why Calvin Coolidge was a hit with the ladies and laud a big, battle-scarred bear with a scabby heart of gold Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde Visit wwwworstfootforwardpodcastcom for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support Ben’s new baby and Barry’s crippling trivia addiction: https://wwwpatreoncom/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of...


Filed Under: Barry McStay, Ben Van Der Velde, Best of the Worst of the Best, Miscellaneous, Podcast, Worst Foot Forward

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