Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You

Game Saves with Bibi Lucille

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Jake Yapp starts live streaming after an audio interface crash, then begs someone to talk about World Mental Health Day.

The episode opens with Jake Yapp dealing with technical issues before starting the live stream. He ironically notes that no one is talking about World Mental Health Day. The first segment, 'Come Off It,' critiques recent newspaper coverage, including a Sunday Times graphic framing Boris Johnson as a 'red Tory' alongside communist figures like Stalin and Lenin. Jake argues this shows historical illiteracy and is part of reshaping the Overton window. He then discusses columns in the Mail on Sunday and The Times that invoke the 'Blitz spirit' to criticize homeworking and pandemic responses, deconstructing this as a propaganda myth that ignores historical realities like looting and trauma. Listener interactions follow, with satirical audio messages proposing absurd World Days like World Racism Day and Carry On World Day, mocking the proliferation of awareness events. Jake promotes the spin-off podcast Audio Freaks. The feature 'Game Saves' returns with guest Bibi Lucille, a writer-performer, who discusses her two-year addiction to the mobile puzzle game Best Fiends during a depressed period in sixth form. She links it to rebellion and escapism, noting she dreams about the game. Bibi also talks about her veganism and her one-woman play 'Meet Cute,' a witty show about converting boyfriends to veganism, running at the Bread and Roses Theatre. Later, an audio column from listener Lindsay humorously describes a traditional American Christmas centered on consumerism, noise, and violence, referencing Black Friday fights and films like Home Alone and Die Hard. The episode closes with thanks to patrons and promotions.

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A loose calendar riff where listener-made World Days turn into a funny argument about what deserves attention.

The episode takes a simple World Mental Health Day nod and turns it into a playful check on the calendar's stranger possibilities. Once an audio interface failure about four minutes before a live stream is cleared by a quick restart, the host invites listeners to invent new…

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You want a World Mental Health Day detour involving spiders, autocorrect, and incomplete jigsaws.

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