F***ing What?!

Well, textual deviants, we’ve almost reached the end of the line in 2024, but I hope you’ll agree that season 3 ends not with a whimper, but a bang. Our text was the 2021 British “comedy horror” film All My Friends Hate Me, and Tomek and I were joined on the livestream by Tom of Tiverton, a.k.a. Tom K., who provided us with a native son’s insight on Devonshire, setting of the flick in question. Press play above to hear the three of us analyze the text in “forensic detail” (as friend of show Steve W says in the intro), with significant digressions upon such topics as the unreliable narrator, the characteristics of Enneagram 6, the posh/pez(o) dichotomy, the meaning of pikey, the orthography of weendish (?), and the potential usurpation of both/and by neither/nor, among other things. Now answer me a riddle:

What’s thick at the base, goes into a point, and is slightly strangulated in the middle?

P.S. There is a processing issue with the video version of the pod so we’ll have to wait for the tech geniuses at Riverside to fix it before I can post the final edit on my YouTube channel. In the meantime, please enjoy the livestream (which for some reason synchs just fine):

Show Notes

• For the non-Brits, here’s a map of Devon (“east of Cornwall, south of Wales”):

• “What a fool believes, he sees”:

• Party time?

• “Unfilled?”

• “They’re all trying to kill me!”

• “It’s not Irish, it’s not English, it’s just—well, it’s just Pikey”:

• For more on the Wildcard a.k.a. the Joker, read Boal:

• If you think Tom of Tiverton looks familiar, it’s because you’ve seen him before:

That’s him in the thumbnail of the video version of this season’s Prufrock ep, of course, but he also made significant contributions to season 2: