The difficult second episode!

Indie Queen of Comedy Alexandra Haddow joins Dan and Jo following an extremely traumatic week for Jo's phone and her immaculately manicured little digits. TW: LOADS OF POO.

Alex reminisces - not exactly fondly - about her time on the Chicken Counter at a major supermarket serving both as the front of house 'bossman' and back of house giblet extractor... for £3.59 per hour.

Then we talk ten hour shifts on checkouts that felt like a sort of water torture before moving onto an internship with a magazine where she wanted to smash some fancy baubles and her 'boss' was a fellow intern.

Alex treats us to a very polite blast, putting her worst ever boss 'c*** Smurf' in her place in her signature 'apologetic bitch' style.

Wearing her Indie crown with pride, she also tells us all about Indie Amnesty, her indie club night where it's a fiver in and we all pretend it's 2009 and have a bloody brilliant time and quite possibly coming home with Fresher's Flu. Then we hear all about her shiny new and brilliant podcast with comedy friend, Adam Flood 'Adam and Alex's Indie Supergroup' where they fangirl/boy over indie heartthrobs from the noughties to include members of Hard Fi, Hoosiers and Boy Kill Boy.

Contains strong language throughout.

Chapters:
00:00 — Welcome to the difficult second episode
01:15 — Jo's phone goes down a Portaloo
05:02 — "Give me a f***ing glove"
08:22 — Introducing Alexandra Haddow
09:08 — Adam and Alex's Indie Supergroup
10:30 — Indie Amnesty, and whether dads are allowed
14:41 — First Job, Worst Job, Durst Job
15:22 — £3.59 an hour on the Morrison's chicken counter
20:17 — Checkouts: beep, beep, beep
22:23 — Durst job: bauble boxing day
29:43 — The Nomination: C*** Smurf
37:06 — The Blast
41:08 — Plugs

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Our guest: Alexandra Haddow
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Your hosts: Dan Pountney and Jo Somner
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Gobby Girls: The After Party @ Gilded Balloon

*The stories told on this show are personal recollections shared for entertainment. Names, dates, locations and job titles have been changed and/or omitted.*

Comedian, writer and unwitting kitten breeder Rich Spalding admits the best day of his working life was directing cars into a field aged ten. Everything since has been bitterly disappointing: bin bags, gravy, and a sixteen year old boss counting his till while he stood there dressed as a sad witch.

Dan and Jo get the full CV. Bon Marché, where he was hired as eye candy for the largely large pensioners and had to ask a manager what a blouse was. A bin bag factory so silent he started composing imaginary albums in his head. A gravy factory he lasted one shift at, quitting to a foreman who said "get out where you can." And a large sanctuary for erotic animals somewhere in Central Europe, where his teenage manager recounted the gift shop takings every night and once informed him he was eight pence short.

Then the boss he actually puts on blast: a comedy promoter, legal name withheld, MI5 codename 00 Cunt, who ghosted him for six months until Rich named him in a Facebook comedy group. Within five minutes the promoter was ringing him on Messenger to scream at him. Rich delivers the verdict in sixty seconds, wrestling promo style, on behalf of himself and the textile workers of this country.

Also featured: Jo's twenty year exile from Gap Cambridge, the correct way to fold a t-shirt without a board, washing machine jingles, and a running nipple report.

Contains very strong language.

Chapters
00:00 Cold open and the Salem Bitch Trial
04:00 Rich Spalding joins us
06:10 What four million views actually feels like
11:15 First Job, Worst Job, Durst Job
12:40 Bon Marché, and what is a blouse
15:30 If you're a talking, you're not folding
18:00 The erotic animal sanctuary
26:00 Bin bags, gravy, and the sound of nothing
34:20 The nomination: 00 Cunt
41:45 On Blast: the promo
47:50 Plugs and scores

Rich Spalding
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Debut hour, Gather Your Skeletons, out free online this summer
Previously co-hosted Our Dads Died, available wherever you get your podcasts

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Comedy writing friends who bonded over their worst jobs and decided to make it everyone else's problem.
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Rate us five stars wherever you're listening. We need to socially climb.

The stories told on this show are personal recollections shared for entertainment. Names, dates, locations and job titles have been changed and/or omitted.