A Pessimist is Never Disappointed: Recent Episodes
robin smith
Married couple Rob and Nadia chat about their lives. Dark, surreal, funny, tragic, and completely true (mostly). Listen to them as they cling to each other while the planet hurtles towards its eventual doom.
Rob and Ned are here to talk about their year of 2023, topics include funerals and shit museums.
So trigger warning about those topics
songs featured
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
7ebra - I Have a Lot to Say
They Might Be Giants - Hearing Aid
Meiko Nakahara - Fantasy
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Mamma Aiuto from the Porko Rosso soundtrack
Sade - Smooth Operator (Long Version)
and
Anyone Who Ever Had A Heart...
Nadia and Rob return after months apart, and filled with people dangling on fences, climbing up 9 flights for fights, pier adventures, and getting cancelled on twitter.
Funny, strange, sad, and unpredictable, this is the real life and tales of Nadia and Rob
Trigger warning: Includes frank conversations around subjects that may cause distress and frequent use of foul language.
Music this episode:
The Audience – A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed - 1998 (Released by: eLLeFFe)
Anri - I Can't Stop The Loneliness - 1983
7ebra - I Have a Lot to Say - 2023 (PNKSLM Recordings)
Magazine - A Song From Under the Floorboards - 1980 (Virgin Records)
Cure - Lovesong - 1989 (Elektra Records)
Happypills - So Long Earth - 2018 The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me - 2005 (Too Young to Die)
The Freshies - Wrap Up the Rockets - 1985
Rob and Nadia return with an exhausted episode about supermarket work woes and odos.
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Rob and Nadia return to talk about life in the middle of the third national lockdown in the UK. Also, Bad video game demos, morality in struggle, work racists, magazine stars, and just what is hardcore pornography?
Sometimes funny, sometimes heavy, it's the return of A Pessimist is Never Disappointed.
Songs featured:
A pessimist is never disappointed - By The Audience
Everyday - By Rogue Wave
The End Of The World - By Aphrodite's Child
24 Hours from Tulsa - By Gene Pitney
Telephone Number - By Junko Ohashi
Lollipop - By Ben Kweller
Down In The Tube Station After Midnight - By The Bad Shepherds
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'The Timeline Podcast' : https://anchor.fm/robin-smith73
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We mumble through the events of the last few weeks of Covid 19, lock-down, and our survival on pot noodles, Turkish delight and the Simpsons on Disney plus
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Rob and Nadia sleepily chat about Christmas past and present as well as smashing car windows on new years.
Rob and Nadia talk about their memories of growing up in poverty. Claiming crisis loans to buy choc-ices, the fantastic non-presents they got over birthdays and Christmas.
Also they talk about the societal misunderstanding of the levels of poverty under our noses... before doing some random chuckle-jokes.
(re-uploaded with edits to remove names mentioned)
Rob and Ned talk some about work and holidays.
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Rob and Nadia, Husband and Wife, clinging to each other as the planet catches fire and hurtles towards inevitable doom.
Join them as they share true, surreal, hilarious, and often terrible stories from their lives.