Comedy
Well, you spoke and we listened! You said...can you make Stalemates even more rambling and incoherent than before? We said: not a problem. You pleaded with us...can you make punishingly long and almost completely devoid of structure? We said...happy to oblige. You were crying out in the night...please, can you avoid the given conversational topic almost completely and just waffle on about anything that comes into your sweet heads? We said...that's uncanny BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE DONE. Welcome to the first Stalemates of 2020 - literally the only time John and Joe see each other now John's given up drinking. In this sparkling, spanking panty fresh episode we discuss the decade that was the 2010s. The decade that neither of us remember. Joe didn't even remember that this was the decade we were discussing and researched the previous one. We talk about the death of pop and the birth of Ed Sheeran, Joe, so like Scorsese in so many ways, mauls the Marvel Universe before admitting he has only ever seen DC comics films (I know!). John points out the top three biggest selling books of the last ten years have an unlikely provenance and the pair of them dismantle Bowie's elegiac Blackstar song, before admitting it was alright anyway cause it was Bowie. All this and the pick of the pops theme getting seriously headachey with us bickering over the top of it. You spoke. We listened. This is all your fault.