405 episodes
Worst Foot Forward Hosted by Ben Van der Velde and Barry McStay
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4.9 • 101 Ratings
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An encyclopaedia of heroic failure
Join Ben Van der Velde, Barry McStay and their guests as they brandish their wooden spoons of destiny and celebrate the losers, heroic failures and spectacular mis-steps that pockmark human endeavour. If you ever want to feel better about your progress in life, take a listen and enjoy a lovely schadenfreude bubble bath. Music by Max Perryment (www.maxperryment.co.uk)
Donate to us via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
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Ep 302: Harry Stachini - World's Worst Dinosaur
This podcast finds a way...to ruin your favourite prehistoric lizards for you! Barry and Ben are going fossil-hunting in the company of comedian and podcaster Harry Stachini to pick over the bones of the World's Worst Dinosaur. There are brains in bums, T-Rex's called Sue and dinosaur erotica. Yep. You heard us. You won't want to miss this one.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
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Ep 301: Victoria Melody - World's Worst Bird
Join our two regular birdbrains as they talk to comedian, writer and wondrous performance artist Victoria Melody as they scan history - both human and natural - for the world's worst bird. We meet Charles Dickens' aggressive pet, some heroic and haphazard pigeons, Ben invents a new meal and relays the horrors of an infamous French delicacy.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @victoriamelody
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot @victoriamelody_
Take a butcher's at Ben's Substack here: https://vanderlaugh.substack.com/
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward -
The Third Foot: The Battle of Thermopylae
To celebrate our 300th episode, we're celebrating the most famous 300 men in history - the Spartan warriors who died valiently fighting the Persians. Except there werent' 300 of them. And not everyone they fought was strictly Persian. And they ended up in this pickle thanks to the weasely behaviour of a shepherd. For this and more historical tomfoolery, whack this month's Third Foot in your ears.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
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Ep 300: Worst Foot Forward turns 300!
Some said it couldn't be done. Some said it SHOULDN'T be done. But here we are - the podcast has reached 300 episodes! So the proud parents are taking out the photo album to show off some of their big strong pod-child's embarrassing snaps from its youth. In the time-honoured style of one of those TV retrospective shows, Barry and Ben each share 3 of their favourite facts from the show, 5 of their favourite moments and their favourite episode. Enjoy some classic Worst Foot Forward clips such as Lisztomania, Morrissey's appalling sex scenes, live audience sound FX, George Sitwell's wasp gun and the lifespan of astatine.
The show features the following guests, in order of appearance: Bethany Black, Moxie Labouche, Georgie Morrell (now Georgie Wyatt), Joshua Tonks, Seb Falk, Helen Arnie, Professor Elemental, Tristan Bernays, Tulip Siddiq MP, Alexander Bennett, Paul Duncan McGarrity, Dr Kit Chapman, Robyn Perkins, Joel Morris, Bec Hill, Jay Foreman, Ria Lina, Johnny Chiodini, Ellie Gibson, Will Seaward and Dr Keir Shiels.
Thanks to all our guests over the past 8 years and 300 episodes, to all our listeners and to all our Patreon donors. It's been quite the wild ride. We hope you enjoy this chance to glance back at our skidmarks.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show going forward! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com
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Ep 299: Tom Price - World's Worst Golfer
Join us as we tee off across history to discover the definitive worst golfer in history. Accompanied by actor, comedian, radio host and golf obsessive Tom Price, Ben and Barry encounter Presidents, prison officers and the infamous Phantom of the Open.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot @thepricetom
Take a butcher's at Ben's Substack here: https://vanderlaugh.substack.com/
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward -
Ep 298: Steve Best - World's Worst Photographer
Join us in the WFF dark room as we search through the negatives of the worst ever photographs in the company of master comedian and photographer Steve Best. We talk mundanity, plagiarism and a very talented and opportunistic ape.
Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @SteveBestComic
Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot
Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx
Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support the show during this whole pandemic thing, and especially as we work on our first book and plan some live shows! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
Customer Reviews
Brings joy to every Monday morning
The perfect soundtrack to getting ready for the working week. I’ve listened to the whole back catalogue now, some episodes more than once, and couldn’t recommend the podcast more
Hilarious, charming and fascinating!
Rapidly working my way through the back catalogue, and I’m enjoying all of them!
Always Funny, Always Brilliant
I was put on to this Podcast by my partner and we have been devouring the back catalogue together. Ben and Barry are spectacular company and the guests and topics they cover are always fun and interesting.
There is no other podcast which produces such a high level of laughs and 'oh I didn't know that' moments.
Cannot reccomend it enough. Put it in your earholes.
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