This week Ben and Barry are joined by remarkable cabaret legend Mat Ricardo to head out West to find the most useless cowboys in the wild frontier. As well as various Billies, Buffallos and kids they encounter the practice of bulldogging, the moral conundrum of the Marlboro man and some aluminium factory workers who are very far from home.
225 - SACHA COWARD - WORLD'S WORST MERMAID
We are under the sea this week with folklorist, historian and cryptid-enthusiast Sacha Coward as we try and get an Arial view of the World's Worst Mermaid. Sacha takes us to the depths of the Amazon to sort dolphin fact from dolphin fiction, Ben treads the boards at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and Barry takes the most litigious statue in Denmark to court.
224 - KRIS BALL - WORLD'S WORST EUROVISION ACT
It's a contest about a contest today as we bring podcaster and Eurovision Song Contest fanatic Kris Ball to help us sort out the World's Worst Eurovision Act. In what may be a baffling experience for anyone not from this continent, we discuss miming playing instruments, Portugal's up-and-down history with the event and the wit and wisdom of Sir Terry Wogan. We also make Worst Foot Forward history as all three of us arrive with exactly the same candidate...
223 - DAN QUIRKE - WORLD'S WORST MOVIE EFFECTS
We're splicing ourselves into a model of a burning building this week as we bring shonky jeopardy into your ears. Joining us to celebrate the worst that Hollywood can deliver is actor, painter and writer Daniel Quirke. We reveal quite how method James Cagney was forced to go, the dreaded 'butthole' cut of Cats and the horror of Jeremy Renner's CGI arms.