I was thinking the same thing when Oli steam rolled over Ed and didn't even realise it, Oli probably got ADHD but that is also why I love him and it all makes sense to me lol
LBC’s ruined Oli. There was a very “this is beneath me” energy coming from him, he didn’t add anything and his banter was more just straight abuse. Nitpicking Ava over how she pronounced Badenoch and then dismissing Ava’s points because “It’s just Badenoch”, like we dismissed Trump and Farage. Badenoch and her allies used similar rhetoric prior to the election and used that as a basis to sack thousands of public sector staff. The purpose of Badenoch’s rhetoric isn’t to call for people like me to be jailed, it’s to get consensus that we should be punished and then they move onto how we should be punished.
Tbf he's not done one for a while so might just be he felt a more edgy pod was overdue but do think he went OTT. Also totally agree on the LBC point, since he started doing LBC you can see he's using the more James O'Brian pondering smugly tone when discussing politics, which works well for radio but is quite jarring on a podcast when the point is a more normal discussion.
@@abersan6520 exactly that. James O’Brien is a private school debate bro, doing a debate stream with “plebs” for a lack of a better term. Oli shouldn’t be debating Ed or Ava.
I do love the banter, but when you saw how good the team can be with Laura and Ava covering Grenfell it does feel like I'll be chasing that dragon the rest of me life 😅
@@Its-Tonal-Whiplash Topic is the tory conference, "they are all on crack" is as much politics as was involved in that. I'm sure if the topic was Grenfell with these 3 we'd get a similarly great episode. Blame the lunatics that are the tories for this ep.
Ollie acted like a complete tool in this episode - it feels like he crossed a line between banter and bullying. You could read on Ed and Ava's facss that they weren't up for it. I love the banter on this podcast, but this episode went way too far!
I'm usually here for the BanterCast and I know Oli wakes up and chooses chaos most days, but he came across really unlikeable in this episode. When it crosses over from nonsense to really targeted jibes about his colleagues it just comes across nasty. I also can't help thinking he is their line manager - if I started calling one of my staff 'pussy lips' that would be an instant HR meeting. Do better Mr Dugmore
Hope Oli's next holiday isn't too far off... 💀 Any combination of Ed, Ava, Sean, and Laura is *chef's kiss*. Even Oli and Ava is OK. But as soon as Oli and Ed are together, Oli shows off like he's in primary school and his best friend's come round for a play date. Awful.
I actually prefer these podcasts with just Ava and Ed. They have such good chemistry together - also when Laura joins too. I actively enjoy those. This dynamic...it's just tolerable
There's a lot of evidence for Ava's hypothesis. OK Not all are racists. A lot are Islamophobes and xenophobes or classist. But almost all Tories discriminate against SOMEONE They didn't used to be so like that, but see Peter Oborne's analysis of why the Tories are dying
Rishi Sunak called it right during the leadership election between him and Truss that her economic plans were mad and would crash the economy. Sunak’s background/skin colour didn't sit well with a lot of the Tory party membership. Most of the Tory party membership is predominantly white and over 50 they won't vote for Badenoch simply because of her skin colour. That and maybe lesson was learnt by the Tories that you don't hire someone is incompetent and I don't think Badenoch is. At moment I'd say Cleverly will be on the final ballet he's the most impressive candidate and Tugenhat. Meanwhile Jenrick looks and sounds like toddler begging for attention most of the time.
I usually love this podcast. The mix of banter and genuine insight can be terrific but after my own difficult day’s work, this just comes across as Ollie being an utter childish tw@t, leading to overly indulgent sh1te from people who think they’re funnier then they are when together. Ava and Laura are my favourites, their Grenfell episode an act of wonder, Ollie and Ava when together are unique, but these three together just turn me off now. That’s not Ed’s fault, but Ollie seems to act differently around him.
My god this is borderline unwatchable. Ollie: (back from another long break) "we have lives you know" Ed: "this is our job". Well quite.... Over 20mins in and im thinking to myself this lot likely get paid a decent wage for this. I like the bit of banter on this show as much as anyone but when you think they likely earn more than a social worker to basically just piss about with their mates telling jokes, all whilst thinking themselves as socialists or left wing, it really does make you think. How disconnected from real life & work the 'educated' left has become? I work on close to minimum wage as a support worker in social care btw and just come off a 12hour shift to listen to this... Maybe I'm just feeling a little bitter but I'm just not appreciating this level uncontrolled indulgent childishness right now.
Genuinely feel bad for Ed and Ava here - both made solid attempts to actually share political insights and Oli seemed to do nothing but be snarky and awful I feel like when the 3 of them are together, Oli encourages the others to gang up on each other and it's kind of grim
Avas face at 27:08 after Ollie says "..gotta bigger fish to fry...". She definitely saw that as arrogance. She will be off as soon as she gets an offer from another organisation. Big loss for JOE. Ollie needs to learn some humility. No one likes a big head.
Can they stop f*cking about? We all love a bit of banter but after the first ten minutes just start switching on? I want them to roast Tories not each other. 😂
Also want to see them talk more about Labour scandals, US election, the very significant recent developments in Iran vs Israel etc. there's a lot they can talk about
Really miss the journalism and analysis when I watch episodes like this. Have to agree with other comments that Oli seemed a bit, blunt? this episode. Like to think and would hope it's just banter but it gets uncomfortable to watch after a certain point
I know there's not a great deal in point leaving negative comments and I don't want to be overly critical, but this was a tough watch. I don't know why the dynamic felt really off in this one. Might just be there wasn't enough actual discussion but some of the stuff going back and forwards was pretty mean spirited. Felt really frustrated for Ed and Ava at points when they were trying to move the conversation along. Really feels like this didn't need to be an hour with the amount they had to say about the conference overall.
Im getting so sick of the Bantercast. Yeah, i know, I'm no fun. I would actually like some politics in my podcast guys. The Ed and Ava pod earlier this week was basically just them giggling at one another for 40 minutes. This episode is just the three of you mucking around. Please can we actually get some political discussion on this politics podcast? You can do better than this. Laura is so much better than the three of you. Please, either actually cover politics or hand the podcast to people who actually want to.
I'm assuming the pod is the way it is now because it sometime generates much more engagement than their other content, therefore it *has* to be an hour and three times a week whether the presenters want to be there or not. I think they are bored of it. I would prefer either shorter more focussed eps, less frequent drops or more frequent Laura. Or a 10-15 min bantz intro and the the actual politics content time timestamped.
Unfortunately none of us have the foresight to know if it’ll be a good or bad pod whichever week. 10,000 + views but I’d love to know how many people have actually watched the whole thing. I lasted 15 minutes…
THANK YOU SO MUCH AVA FOR SAYING THAT! Black and Brown people know this and have known this for decades, we knew they wouldn’t pick Rishi, and we know they won’t pick Kemi. Obviously there are loads of factors but ultimately, even the members who actually aren’t racist, but are conscious that a lot of people in the party are, will not vote for a poc because they know a plurality of the party will not approve of a poc leader. Unfortunately, much of the conservative party’s philosophical heritage is tied up in racism. Conservative’s prefer white people and that preference conserves the countries ethnic majority, both institutionally and literally by population count. I don’t believe most of these people are actually liberals, though they will tell you they are liberal conservative - a contradiction in terms, no? The membership didn’t pick Rishi. They won’t pick Kemi.
You can tell Oli is having a crisis about having a child and the late nights are getting to him. Putting all his pent up rage at Ava and Ed. Hopefully he gets out of it or he needs some time off the podcast and just stick to interviews.
I'm at 17 minutes in and thinking _"OMG, just get on with it, FFS!"_ 🙄 Can I have my hour & 5 minutes back, please? Eva was the only person to make any attempt at not acting like a bunch of 14-year-olds whose parents have gone on holiday, they're home alone for the first time, and they've just found where the booze was stashed. _Kids, I'm not angry, I'm disappointed._ I hope they read the comments section. 😐
Why was ollie so mean to Ed in this ep? Honestly, every time he is on the podcast he barely adds anything of substance to the discussion. Starting to dislike him
Ollie is it alright if you let the podcast talk about politics please i think most of us would like to hear an analysis of what the F**k has been going on in politics.
Whenever I see only Ollie and Ed on the thumbnail, “dudes rock”, I don’t even bother watching. When I also see Ava, I think there’s a chance it’ll be an alright pod because she might stop all the nonsense. Unfortunately 15 minutes in and I’ve switched off. Seriously guys we all like a bit of banter but Jesus wept whoever pays you guys to just talk utter shite all the time is insane. Bit of banter, serious chat, bit of banter, more serious chat and so on. It’s not difficult. Or just have Ava, Laura and special guest every week. That also works.
These podcasts are getting worse and worse. They only seem to exist so the PJ team can entertain each other - I used to enjoy and like a laugh but 25 mins in and they are still dicking around.
If "Cringe" was distilled in to a podcast this would be it. The vibes were very off, there's a lot of ways I can spend my viewing time and if this is the course of things then I'll be looking elsewhere.
You don't have to be a racist to be a tory, but you do have to be willing to be in a party with all the sensible racists in the country, and lots of the nonsensible racists. You don't have to be racist, but you have to have decided racism isn't a deal-breaker for you, which is as bad as being a racist as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you, you summed it up perfectly. It’s guilty by association. Their track record not just speaks volumes but screams. To be apart of the party is to be happy with how they handled Brexit lockdown and Covid, bigotry. Labour isn’t much better but at least in the last under Corbyn they didn’t vote or support horrible legislation
@@croneryveit9070 friends get bullied by eachother all the time - it's especially important to call it out when the people involved are friends as they often don't realise they're doing it
Absolute car crash performance from Dugmore - returns and practically sabotages a podcast that was doing well without him. Yes you've got a nipper and a national radio gig but at the end of the day the gig is the gig and you've put off a lot of viewers with your uni humour and dickhead power moves.
I used to enjoy this podcast much more than I do now, I was talking to a friend last week about how the ratio of politics to trying too hard to be funny is now skewed in the wrong direction. I don't know if Oli has burn out / depression, something going on we have no right to know about, but it seemed like he was being flippantly mean, to Ava especially. Of course she knows him and can judge that for herself, I found it uncomfortable. Ava has a valid, and not new, point regarding the racism of the conservative party membership and Oli more than once was too easy to mock it - and not in a silly light hearted way which was embarrassing of him. I wouldn't be surprised if Oli or Ava jumped ship soon and left Joe, Ed seems the one who still has some want to be there these days. Maybe they all need a bit of a break from the relentless content creation/ trying to juggle it all or at least Oli should think about quitting if his heart isn't in it anymore.
10 mins in and Ed taking a calming breath trying to get to the point, dear god with you on that one! Also Oli you achieved your mission of having "no one understand" 👏slow👏clap👏 🙄
Still doing the student-union approach to podcasting, eh? If an hour of childish giggles is because of audience-capture, it makes me wonder who that audience actually is. And some advice for Olli: remember the old maxim "be good to people on your way up, because you may meet them again on your way down"
Currently at 51:00. Normally love the mix of banter & politics, Ed and Ava are generally the perfect inbetween imo, Laura and Ava's episode on grenfell was absolutely brilliant and a fantastic watch / listen. But dear god is Oli so utterly jarring in this episode, if he is to continue acting like this in further episodes, please just don't include him. The banter was fun at the start but it felt like anytime we were really getting some insight, or interesting points made he would either shoot them down or interrupt them so that they would never be fully explored. I'm surprised they uploaded this to be honest, I could feel Ava's frustration at the end, (which I think Ed had at the start) because what's the point of being there if you're not going to be able to say anything of substance? What a shameful waste of our time and yours.
This podcast didn't have far to go downhill. But down it has. How could these guys seriously put this content out. Sorry guys; clap all you want. It's pretty sad.
I feel like they like the fact that nobody likes this and are just doing it as some kind of twisted dom move. Barely watchable, completely annoying and frustrating, empty, pointless... And i finished it, at this point it says more about me than them 😅
Good things about the pod Ava’s top. The bookcases. (I was trying to read the book titles as the convo was bad) Audio was good Bad things The actual political discussion on a political discussion podcast
Ed deserves a raise for having to deal with you lot
Agreed. How did he handle their repulsive banter today ? Sad really
@@Gusthecatinlondon the banter is not even funny, dear lords
Ava deserves a raise more like
If ADHD was a podcast
30:43
That explains why it works for me! Thank you
@@r.p.mcmurphy6278 thank you mate. Fucking >30 mins wasted before getting into substance.
I was thinking the same thing when Oli steam rolled over Ed and didn't even realise it, Oli probably got ADHD but that is also why I love him and it all makes sense to me lol
@@pandemoniumgaming6344 No Oli just came across like a prick.
LBC’s ruined Oli. There was a very “this is beneath me” energy coming from him, he didn’t add anything and his banter was more just straight abuse.
Nitpicking Ava over how she pronounced Badenoch and then dismissing Ava’s points because “It’s just Badenoch”, like we dismissed Trump and Farage.
Badenoch and her allies used similar rhetoric prior to the election and used that as a basis to sack thousands of public sector staff.
The purpose of Badenoch’s rhetoric isn’t to call for people like me to be jailed, it’s to get consensus that we should be punished and then they move onto how we should be punished.
Tbf he's not done one for a while so might just be he felt a more edgy pod was overdue but do think he went OTT.
Also totally agree on the LBC point, since he started doing LBC you can see he's using the more James O'Brian pondering smugly tone when discussing politics, which works well for radio but is quite jarring on a podcast when the point is a more normal discussion.
@@abersan6520 exactly that. James O’Brien is a private school debate bro, doing a debate stream with “plebs” for a lack of a better term. Oli shouldn’t be debating Ed or Ava.
“ can I just say something”… rude and undermining
"When I see her later" lol so simple but left me in tears!
I do love the banter, but when you saw how good the team can be with Laura and Ava covering Grenfell it does feel like I'll be chasing that dragon the rest of me life 😅
Yeah I love the banter but also would like to hear the politics 😅
Yeah, I’ve noticed I quickly switch off when Ollie is in it… the it’s simply BantersJoe.
Used to really like Ollie but, it’s becoming unwatchable. Possibly now because he’s a dad this is the only “fun time” he gets to have…
Would prefer a banter section and then tag the video with where politics start. Depending on my mood, I’d stick with the banter or skip it.
@@Its-Tonal-Whiplash Topic is the tory conference, "they are all on crack" is as much politics as was involved in that. I'm sure if the topic was Grenfell with these 3 we'd get a similarly great episode. Blame the lunatics that are the tories for this ep.
Oli’s always liked smelling his own farts but this was ridiculous
Ollie acted like a complete tool in this episode - it feels like he crossed a line between banter and bullying. You could read on Ed and Ava's facss that they weren't up for it. I love the banter on this podcast, but this episode went way too far!
Thank you ! I commented the same thing. What was that all about ?
Not sure about Kemi, but Oli was a bit abrasive today
definitely, what happened to him?
I'm usually here for the BanterCast and I know Oli wakes up and chooses chaos most days, but he came across really unlikeable in this episode. When it crosses over from nonsense to really targeted jibes about his colleagues it just comes across nasty. I also can't help thinking he is their line manager - if I started calling one of my staff 'pussy lips' that would be an instant HR meeting. Do better Mr Dugmore
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This is really awkward to watch, what’s wrong with Ollie? It looks like bullying and just intent on sabotaging the others.
this was a painful watch guys, not enough substance or structure. and who pissed in oli’s corn flakes this morning?
Was Dugmore alright in this episode? He offered nothing and just seemed to needle the other two.
Agreed. He was unnecessarily shitty on numerous occasions.
At 10:04 I think Ollie took exception to the wife comment, and was in a mood from there on, possibly in a bad mood before that also
Hope Oli's next holiday isn't too far off... 💀 Any combination of Ed, Ava, Sean, and Laura is *chef's kiss*. Even Oli and Ava is OK. But as soon as Oli and Ed are together, Oli shows off like he's in primary school and his best friend's come round for a play date. Awful.
I actually prefer these podcasts with just Ava and Ed. They have such good chemistry together - also when Laura joins too. I actively enjoy those. This dynamic...it's just tolerable
There's a lot of evidence for Ava's hypothesis. OK Not all are racists. A lot are Islamophobes and xenophobes or classist.
But almost all Tories discriminate against SOMEONE
They didn't used to be so like that, but see Peter Oborne's analysis of why the Tories are dying
Rishi Sunak called it right during the leadership election between him and Truss that her economic plans were mad and would crash the economy.
Sunak’s background/skin colour didn't sit well with a lot of the Tory party membership. Most of the Tory party membership is predominantly white and over 50 they won't vote for Badenoch simply because of her skin colour. That and maybe lesson was learnt by the Tories that you don't hire someone is incompetent and I don't think Badenoch is.
At moment I'd say Cleverly will be on the final ballet he's the most impressive candidate and Tugenhat. Meanwhile Jenrick looks and sounds like toddler begging for attention most of the time.
Oli needs to move on. Detriment to the podcast. Felt like he didn't want to be there and wanted to be as disruptive as possible.
I usually love this podcast. The mix of banter and genuine insight can be terrific but after my own difficult day’s work, this just comes across as Ollie being an utter childish tw@t, leading to overly indulgent sh1te from people who think they’re funnier then they are when together. Ava and Laura are my favourites, their Grenfell episode an act of wonder, Ollie and Ava when together are unique, but these three together just turn me off now. That’s not Ed’s fault, but Ollie seems to act differently around him.
My wife much prefers Laura and Ava but can't watch the three of them. I quite enjoy the nonsense.
Can't stand Laura, so boring
Couldn't agree more. I'm off elsewhere to get some actual politics
@@JK-uy1foIt's interesting seeing how people experience the podcast. I find Laura so sharp and knowledgeable, straight to the point and insightful.
My god this is borderline unwatchable. Ollie: (back from another long break) "we have lives you know" Ed: "this is our job". Well quite....
Over 20mins in and im thinking to myself this lot likely get paid a decent wage for this.
I like the bit of banter on this show as much as anyone but when you think they likely earn more than a social worker to basically just piss about with their mates telling jokes, all whilst thinking themselves as socialists or left wing, it really does make you think. How disconnected from real life & work the 'educated' left has become?
I work on close to minimum wage as a support worker in social care btw and just come off a 12hour shift to listen to this... Maybe I'm just feeling a little bitter but I'm just not appreciating this level uncontrolled indulgent childishness right now.
I stood in the rain for 12 hours... but yeah keep guessing their wages to justify your point 😅
100% As the saying goes: "power corrupts, but a side-gig at LBC corrupts absolutely"
@@easytoassemble54321 😂 well said 🙌👏👏
Genuinely feel bad for Ed and Ava here - both made solid attempts to actually share political insights and Oli seemed to do nothing but be snarky and awful
I feel like when the 3 of them are together, Oli encourages the others to gang up on each other and it's kind of grim
Fully agree. Ed and Ava together actually share insights, Oli brings nothing to this table but bullying unfortunately
Avas face at 27:08 after Ollie says "..gotta bigger fish to fry...". She definitely saw that as arrogance. She will be off as soon as she gets an offer from another organisation. Big loss for JOE. Ollie needs to learn some humility. No one likes a big head.
I thought exactly the same. Her face says it all
This podcast gave me flashbacks to being bullied as a child.
Can they stop f*cking about? We all love a bit of banter but after the first ten minutes just start switching on? I want them to roast Tories not each other. 😂
Also want to see them talk more about Labour scandals, US election, the very significant recent developments in Iran vs Israel etc. there's a lot they can talk about
Really feel like Oli should just stay away from the mic at this point
Weirdly awkward episode to watch. Weird to gang up joke heckling Ed when we could actually have his insight.
Aye I must admit I wondered if they are annoyed at him in their personal lives or something watching this one
@@enemystand2981right ? Seemed little one sided!
Is Oli having some kind of masculinity crisis?
Next stage of morphing into his idol James O'Brien
Really miss the journalism and analysis when I watch episodes like this. Have to agree with other comments that Oli seemed a bit, blunt? this episode. Like to think and would hope it's just banter but it gets uncomfortable to watch after a certain point
Ed, remembering why he doesn't do the three people podcasts anymore.
Ollie is an actual nob!
I'm genuinely interested in your views on the conference but I'm 25 minutes in and thinking, "why the F am i bothering with this?"
What was wrong with Ollie here?
Someone got a lift home in Iain Dale’s Saab 2010 convertible and now thinks they’re a high roller
I feel bad for Ed, leave Ed alone
“Should we?”
“Could do…”
“…yeah…”
Followed by 15 seconds of dead air.
I know there's not a great deal in point leaving negative comments and I don't want to be overly critical, but this was a tough watch. I don't know why the dynamic felt really off in this one. Might just be there wasn't enough actual discussion but some of the stuff going back and forwards was pretty mean spirited. Felt really frustrated for Ed and Ava at points when they were trying to move the conversation along. Really feels like this didn't need to be an hour with the amount they had to say about the conference overall.
Saved this to listen to today while at work.... wish i hadnt.
Not normally one to rag on you guys but this was a hard watch tbh
This was the most abrasive episode of the pod
Oh the vibe is so off in this. Ed annoyed that they kept interrupting him, Oli sulking because he got a taste of his own medicine with the wife joke.
ooof, Ava's face at 27:00 when Oli brags about LBC
And again after the clip at around 41:00...
When podcasts don't let anyone actually finish or explain a point.. makes for really frustrating listening
Im getting so sick of the Bantercast. Yeah, i know, I'm no fun. I would actually like some politics in my podcast guys. The Ed and Ava pod earlier this week was basically just them giggling at one another for 40 minutes. This episode is just the three of you mucking around. Please can we actually get some political discussion on this politics podcast?
You can do better than this. Laura is so much better than the three of you. Please, either actually cover politics or hand the podcast to people who actually want to.
I'm assuming the pod is the way it is now because it sometime generates much more engagement than their other content, therefore it *has* to be an hour and three times a week whether the presenters want to be there or not. I think they are bored of it. I would prefer either shorter more focussed eps, less frequent drops or more frequent Laura. Or a 10-15 min bantz intro and the the actual politics content time timestamped.
Laura is lame.
Nearly 10,000 of us have watched this. This is on us.
Unfortunately none of us have the foresight to know if it’ll be a good or bad pod whichever week.
10,000 + views but I’d love to know how many people have actually watched the whole thing. I lasted 15 minutes…
THANK YOU SO MUCH AVA FOR SAYING THAT! Black and Brown people know this and have known this for decades, we knew they wouldn’t pick Rishi, and we know they won’t pick Kemi. Obviously there are loads of factors but ultimately, even the members who actually aren’t racist, but are conscious that a lot of people in the party are, will not vote for a poc because they know a plurality of the party will not approve of a poc leader. Unfortunately, much of the conservative party’s philosophical heritage is tied up in racism. Conservative’s prefer white people and that preference conserves the countries ethnic majority, both institutionally and literally by population count. I don’t believe most of these people are actually liberals, though they will tell you they are liberal conservative - a contradiction in terms, no? The membership didn’t pick Rishi. They won’t pick Kemi.
You can tell Oli is having a crisis about having a child and the late nights are getting to him. Putting all his pent up rage at Ava and Ed. Hopefully he gets out of it or he needs some time off the podcast and just stick to interviews.
This was a painful watch
Deeply unpleasant podcast, not listening again to bullying!
I'm at 17 minutes in and thinking _"OMG, just get on with it, FFS!"_ 🙄
Can I have my hour & 5 minutes back, please?
Eva was the only person to make any attempt at not acting like a bunch of 14-year-olds whose parents have gone on holiday, they're home alone for the first time, and they've just found where the booze was stashed.
_Kids, I'm not angry, I'm disappointed._
I hope they read the comments section. 😐
How is this MORE unhinged th
an when they were all drinking ?and yet...
I'm usually all for a bit of piss and urine, but this ep went a bit awry. 51:06 Ava looks how I felt throughout a lot of this pod
LMAO why did they release this?
Why was ollie so mean to Ed in this ep? Honestly, every time he is on the podcast he barely adds anything of substance to the discussion. Starting to dislike him
Ooooof...that was a tough watch.
It's tough to say, but if we're timestamping where the discussion starts, maybe 26:02?
I've been meaning to suggest this but it seems like an impossible task some weeks.
Now this is the bleeding edge political commentary we all subscribe for.
You forgot to add the "/sarcasm" tag at the end of your comment.
Ollie is it alright if you let the podcast talk about politics please i think most of us would like to hear an analysis of what the F**k has been going on in politics.
Whenever I see only Ollie and Ed on the thumbnail, “dudes rock”, I don’t even bother watching. When I also see Ava, I think there’s a chance it’ll be an alright pod because she might stop all the nonsense. Unfortunately 15 minutes in and I’ve switched off.
Seriously guys we all like a bit of banter but Jesus wept whoever pays you guys to just talk utter shite all the time is insane.
Bit of banter, serious chat, bit of banter, more serious chat and so on. It’s not difficult.
Or just have Ava, Laura and special guest every week. That also works.
These podcasts are getting worse and worse. They only seem to exist so the PJ team can entertain each other - I used to enjoy and like a laugh but 25 mins in and they are still dicking around.
5.49 in and I’m wishing I was watching the Tory party conference 😢
Re:what Ollie said: Maybe you should recruit a few ex state school people
Genuinely lost it when Ed suggested tory party members were smoking crack 😂😂😂 bang on and was met with straight faces 😂
If "Cringe" was distilled in to a podcast this would be it.
The vibes were very off, there's a lot of ways I can spend my viewing time and if this is the course of things then I'll be looking elsewhere.
This was fucking embarrassing.
Ed and Ollie are in complete denial if they don't think the Tories are racist and that that is the main reason Truss won.
Day 62 of asking for a production team microphone.
The awkward silences are hilarious
Why so awkward? Do you not know each other IRL?
This used to be a reputable channel. This is just rubbish and questionable.
You don't have to be a racist to be a tory, but you do have to be willing to be in a party with all the sensible racists in the country, and lots of the nonsensible racists.
You don't have to be racist, but you have to have decided racism isn't a deal-breaker for you, which is as bad as being a racist as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you, you summed it up perfectly. It’s guilty by association. Their track record not just speaks volumes but screams. To be apart of the party is to be happy with how they handled Brexit lockdown and Covid, bigotry. Labour isn’t much better but at least in the last under Corbyn they didn’t vote or support horrible legislation
Ava is right. Not every Tory is a racist, but every Tory is comfortable with clear and open racism from other party members.
This is like when me and two mates take two lines too quickly…
Ollie is starting to become downright disrespectful to Ava...
Fuck it, by 50 minutes in I'm about ready to say that Ava's being bullied by the other two - you can disagree with someone without laughing at them!
They are friends as well as colleagues. You don't get to decide the limits of people's relationships when you don't even know them wtf?
@@croneryveit9070 friends get bullied by eachother all the time - it's especially important to call it out when the people involved are friends as they often don't realise they're doing it
Can Ollie just stay away? The podcast is so much better without him :/
This was angsty
I heard that productivity is declining in the UK for some reason.....
If Oli isn’t talking he has no interest in letting anyone else speak. This was utterly rubbish. Do better
Rapidly going off listening to this podcast. 😢
a dreadfully painful 20 minutes i will never get back
42:00 Oli, you need some sleep man, the mania you’re showing is normal for having a new kid, but dude it’s getting out of hand
This is unbearable. Honestly, this podcast has become too annoying to watch. Is anybody really laughing?
Like viewing a parole meeting of three particularly heinous child killers. Scars have been left.
Oli and Ava have a fucking nap if you're too grumpy to record. I have the same feeling watching this as when I watch Uncut Gems.
Absolute car crash performance from Dugmore - returns and practically sabotages a podcast that was doing well without him. Yes you've got a nipper and a national radio gig but at the end of the day the gig is the gig and you've put off a lot of viewers with your uni humour and dickhead power moves.
I used to enjoy this podcast much more than I do now, I was talking to a friend last week about how the ratio of politics to trying too hard to be funny is now skewed in the wrong direction. I don't know if Oli has burn out / depression, something going on we have no right to know about, but it seemed like he was being flippantly mean, to Ava especially. Of course she knows him and can judge that for herself, I found it uncomfortable. Ava has a valid, and not new, point regarding the racism of the conservative party membership and Oli more than once was too easy to mock it - and not in a silly light hearted way which was embarrassing of him. I wouldn't be surprised if Oli or Ava jumped ship soon and left Joe, Ed seems the one who still has some want to be there these days. Maybe they all need a bit of a break from the relentless content creation/ trying to juggle it all or at least Oli should think about quitting if his heart isn't in it anymore.
57:00 is the moment I realised that the whole of PoliticsJoe was a facade for the Reform Party with Nigel Farage as their CEO on speed dial!
10 mins in and Ed taking a calming breath trying to get to the point, dear god with you on that one! Also Oli you achieved your mission of having "no one understand" 👏slow👏clap👏 🙄
40:52 Oli forcing Ava to do a Jim from The Office
Still doing the student-union approach to podcasting, eh? If an hour of childish giggles is because of audience-capture, it makes me wonder who that audience actually is.
And some advice for Olli: remember the old maxim "be good to people on your way up, because you may meet them again on your way down"
I hated this. Solidarity with Ed !!
This episode is killing my braincells and i have prescious few left!
Too much lbc
Currently at 51:00. Normally love the mix of banter & politics, Ed and Ava are generally the perfect inbetween imo, Laura and Ava's episode on grenfell was absolutely brilliant and a fantastic watch / listen. But dear god is Oli so utterly jarring in this episode, if he is to continue acting like this in further episodes, please just don't include him. The banter was fun at the start but it felt like anytime we were really getting some insight, or interesting points made he would either shoot them down or interrupt them so that they would never be fully explored. I'm surprised they uploaded this to be honest, I could feel Ava's frustration at the end, (which I think Ed had at the start) because what's the point of being there if you're not going to be able to say anything of substance? What a shameful waste of our time and yours.
christ, Ed carries this podcast and puts up with an incredibly amount of shite from olly (who was acting very weirdly here I thought).
To quote Jeremy Usborne: what's so funny?
This is a god damn fever dream
Not gonna lie, this podcast would be an incoherent mess to normal me. However, half a bottle of gin me, for some reason likes it. So 👍
Tune in to this one for Avas worst ever take
This podcast didn't have far to go downhill. But down it has. How could these guys seriously put this content out. Sorry guys; clap all you want. It's pretty sad.
I feel like they like the fact that nobody likes this and are just doing it as some kind of twisted dom move.
Barely watchable, completely annoying and frustrating, empty, pointless... And i finished it, at this point it says more about me than them 😅
Totally agree with Ava on most everything especially her thoughts on immigration
Man i feel like i had to work to watch this, brilliant though. I felt so bad for Ed, youngest sibling energy.
Good things about the pod
Ava’s top.
The bookcases. (I was trying to read the book titles as the convo was bad)
Audio was good
Bad things
The actual political discussion on a political discussion podcast
All a bit sad perhaps things will improve and we can move on with a lot more content and less cackling banter.