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The episode sees Jon and Nic discussing Nic's most recent essay in his coronavirus response series, the Flowers of Anxiety. Enjoy!

Here's the discussion of the second essay in Nic's series. Jon and Nic discuss Jarhead, Jean Baudrillard, unreality, war movies and much more besides. Enjoy!

Jon and Nic are back to bring you a series of podcast episodes in tandem with Nic's five-essay series. In this episode, they're talking Easy and Nic's essay on the unique Netflix series: Taking it Easy. Do check out the essay - half of the proceeds that Nic makes will be going to help people who have suffered at the hands of the pandemic. We'll be next week to talk Jarhead or Midsommer. See you then!

Jon and Nic are back to talk about films beloved by people around the world and then trash them. Here they talk about Alien and then its sequel Aliens. Enjoy!

Jon and Nic are back to chat shit and their topic of choice this week is Robert Eggers, director of The Witch and, more recently, The Lighthouse. Plenty to talk about with Eggers and it may even have been the case that Nic persuades Jon that the film is one of the most important films of recent years. But you know.

Jon and Nic chat about the Safdie Brothers' recent offering, Uncut Gems

Jon is joined by Ahmed Yussuf (and jilted by Nic Morales) to talk about The Farewell - a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lulu Wang.

Jon and Jamie have a discussion about some of the ideological and intellectual undertones behind debates about VAR.

John and Jamie spend some time talking about the intellectual issues thrown up by the introduction of Video-Assistant Referees into football.

Jon and Nic sit down for an hour and discuss the recent Joker film. Enjoy.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

In our penultimate episode, we’re in the midlands with one of the Premier League’s nouveau riches. Leicester City came from the relative poverty of a Premier League relegation battle in 2015 to winning the whole damn thing a season later in what was, without doubt, one of the finest moments of English football’s storied history. But this vertiginous rise to the lofty heights of the Premier League’s elite had a strange effect on the club. The following season, Claudio Ranieri was...

Today, we’re as far North as we’ll get in this series. Newcastle has a famous footballing pedigree which is why the slow decline of the club in the last ten years has been all the more painful to watch. Owned by arch capitalist and almost universally despised Mike Ashley, the club has been run as a cash cow for a number of years with the owner doing just enough to milk it for profit. Fans could hardly believe their luck when they managed to accrue the talents of Rafael Benitez and then...

In today’s episode, we’re back in London - just down the road from Fulham Broadway Tube Station at Stamford Bridge. Under Roman Abramovich, Chelsea have had an up-and-down few years. As far as the present season is concerned, it’s something of a down year. Despite Europa League success with Maurizio Sarri last season, a two-window transfer ban from FIFA for malpractice signing foreign under-18 players as well as Sarri’s return to Italy has left fans and pundits alike unsure of how...

Hello and welcome to Kitted Out Podcast, a podcast on football shirts. Each episode, I will take an in-depth look at a different shirt from throughout the years to discuss everything about it. The design, the materials, the story. For episode 8, I am taking a look at the 2018-19 3rd Kit for Doncaster Rovers which was sponsored by CALM and designed by an 11-year-old! This is the 3rd year where Doncaster and CALM have come together and it has produced something wonderful! I...

Today, we’re back in the capital city - in London's North West and Stratford. It’s hard to talk about West Ham without mentioning their geographic re-location. Moving away from their home in Upton Park three seasons ago, the Hammers took up residence in the Olympic Stadium bequeathed them in the wake of London 2012. This sort of casual dismissal of localism in sports fandom has become par for the course in recent years but West Ham’s story seems to offer a parable about the...

Today we’re heading to a part of the country that is under-represented in the Premier League: Norfolk. Norwich aren’t exactly new to the Premier League but, when they dropped out of the top division of English football in 2016, no one expected them to be coming up again any time soon. Two uninspiring seasons in the Championship followed and it looked as thought Norwich were more likely to head in the opposite direction. But then everything changed when two men came into the club and...

Today we’re in Wolverhampton exploring a club whose fortunes have changed drastically in recent years. When Wolves dropped out of the Premier League in 2012 and then out of the Championship in the following season, no one expected them to be back in the top division of English football any time soon. But when Chinese firm Fosun International bought out the team and began forging a special relationship with Jorge Mendes, things soon turned around. Now with Nuno Espirito Santo at the...

Today we’re nearly in London but not quite… which is how I would have described Watford in terms of the Premier League a couple of seasons ago. Two years on and the Hornets have graduated into that coveted set of teams in the league’s middle class: the best of the rest. An 11th place finish might not sound like much but, only two points off Sullivan and Gold’s vanity project, West Ham, and Watford are certainly in the mix. All of which is strange given that the writing seemed on the...

Today, we’re back in the North West, if not in football’s birthplace then in the cauldron in which it was refined. Burnley’s Turf Moor has, against the expectations of many pundits - professional and armchair alike, continued to enjoy Premier League football for the last three seasons. Each year, there are naysayers who predict the club to drop back into the Championship but it never happens. Much of this is to do with their long-serving manager, Sean Dyche, who has dragged Burnley...