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Grab a virtual coffee. Kick back. And join Katie Hagaman & Sean McMahon as they dive behind the couch, digging for the spare change of life and depositing it into your ears via the medium of audio.

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  • Jul 30, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • every other week NEW EPISODES
  • 41m AVG DURATION
  • 28 EPISODES


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Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Eight: Intergalactic Ambassadors

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2020 42:12


This week your favourite unlicensed archaeologists discuss the CIA 'fessing up about their extraterrestrial collector's items and why we'd be the perfect choice for a first contact scenario. Featuring music by the soundscape magician Taylor Wheeler!

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Seven: Birdboy and Millipede Girl

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 30:21


This week your favorite unlicensed zoologists build a fort behind the couch to dicuss a topic close to their hearts; animals! With music by the cool as biscuits Violet!

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Six: Wizard Cops

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 36:25


This week your favourite unlicensed archeologists theorise what a post Voldemort Wizarding world would look like. Featuring music by the super fly Mirages! Follow them on YouTube with a magical click at https://youtu.be/JxPh2EnHzgI

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Five: We're Ready...To Believe You

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 41:27


This week we fire up our unlicensed nuclear accelerators, draw our neutrino wands and throw downour traps whilst ensuring not to look directly into them! Featuring a very special guest... with music by Sam James!

Behind The Couch- Episode Twenty-Four: The Katie Season

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 36:50


This week, your hosts discuss just how much Katie is paid to be friends with Sean, and what skill we would most like to learn via Matrix upload. Plus! The name of Sean's local ice cream truck driver is revealed! Featuring music by...Katie Hagaman?!

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Three: Spoons, By Neo.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 53:13


This week, we're joined by special guest Callum Hurley, who is changing the digital landscape in very exciting ways. We also share our thoughts on what role Neo will play in the next Matrix movie. Featuring music by The Baskervilles! https://youtu.be/8VV8JDKEMSs

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-Two: Shredded Centaurs.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2020 38:29


This week your favourite unlicensed archeologists tackle a round of Would You Rather and learn just how shredded Katie would be if she were a centaur. Featuring music by....Elvis Presley?!

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty-One: Leaves on The Wind

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 41:43


This week we review some Locke and Key swag sent to the show from the awesome folks at Skelton Crew Studios! We also prepare (in retrospect, unnecessarily) for the launch of The Falcon 9 Crew Dragon lift off. Featuring another great track we think you'll love! Check out the video here! https://youtu.be/jJ5l5ls0hP4

Behind The Couch - Episode Twenty: Bards and Sorcery

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 45:51


This week your favourite unlicensed archeologists dive into the realm of audiobooks with the Audio Sorceress herself, Marnye Young! Featuring music by Lucy Blu!

Behind The Couch - Episode Nineteen: Helicopter Autobots

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 49:57


This week your favourite unlicensed archeologists are joined by Canadian Cannonball David Gane; co-author of the Shepherd and Wolfe mystery series! Join us, as we spend 30 seconds exploring our knowledge about golf, the storage unit where movie scripts go to die, and determine which of us is probably a Cylon. With music by the sensational Mabes!

Behind The Couch - Episode Eighteen: Buttercup Renegades

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2020 39:28


This week, your favourite unlicensed archeologists discuss just how well we might get on with some of our heroes, whether buttercups exist within the distant realm of the United Kingdom, and why the post office staff hate Sean. PLUS Just what happened during the fateful pilot of Episode 1 you never got to hear. Featuring music by the awesome Adam Fearn!

Behind The Couch - Episode Seventeen: Mission Unpossible

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 42:48


This week we dust off our exploding chewing gum (making sure to keep the red and green ends well and truly separate) and discuss just what happens when an IMF agent gets very upset. Featuring music by the remarkable Taylor Davis! https://youtu.be/8eXzKuRsmrI

Behind The Couch - Episode Sixteen: A Podcast For Those Who Seek To Find...

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2020 56:37


This week, your hosts pry open a piece of driftwood Sean's dog found and dug up at the beach. The consequences are predictably disastrous.

Behind The Couch - Episode Fifteen: The One where Katie gets bitten by a Dolphin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2020 42:39


This week, there's a dance off in Sean's garden, Katie gets bitten by a murder of dolphins, and Sean's streak of rubbish superpowers continues. Featuring music by the legend that is Chris "Amontiok" Bramante! https://youtu.be/8KGOZ3fiG9s

Behind The Couch - Episode Fourteen: Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 46:40


This week we rank as many superpowers as we can cram in, exploring the real-world implications of what possessing them would really mean. With music by the spectacular Zoee! https://youtu.be/J2KYFDfM5Ws

Behind The Couch - Episode Thirteen: Locke and Key!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 43:11


This week, it’s time to grab your Anywhere Key and think of Matheson, as we head into the heart…of Key House!   Also!  We play our first ever game of “Did I make up that key, tho?” Can Katie win?   With music by the sensational Lauren Fairweather!

Behind The Couch - Episode Twelve: A Tale of Two Witchers

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2020 36:07


This week, two retired Witchers pick up their swords, tossing a coin into the valley o' plenty and through the window of the studio apartment where destiny hangs its hat. Join us, as we tackle...The Witcher! Figuratively. Neither of us have the body strength to actually tackle Geralt of Rivia. With music from the phenomenal Taylor Davis! https://youtu.be/wFH5UjVtPpM

Behind The Couch - Episode Eleven: Guns for show, Garden Hoes for a Pro

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2020 37:59


This week, your favourite unlicensed archaeologists tackle the biggest threat to the infrastructure of our planet since Tik Tok.   What happens when the laws of society snap, and a quick milk run turns into a battle for survival?   What would you do when Mother Nature unleashes a can of whoop ass and turns the average Karen into a shuffling ambassador of the undead?   Tune in for some hot tips and cheeky life hacks on how to survive….the apocalypse! With music by Vic Allen!

Behind The Couch - Episode Ten: Jurassic Lark

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2020 50:06


This week, your favourite unlicensed archaeologists are joined by Georgia’s greatest export and national treasure, April Woodard! So jump into your stain-resistant perma-tweed-armoured jeeps, pop on your night vision goggles and join us, as we head into the lush tropical rainforest of Isla Nublar! Featuring music by underground nerdcore rapper Mega Ran! Twitter @megaran YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/5pBKB9KECoY

Behind The Couch - Episode Eight: Nothing Rhymes With "Last Jedi"

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2020 38:19


This week, we open the pod bay doors of the hypothetical, and thrash it out over what's cooler; the undiscovered horrors of the deep, or the equally murderous attributes of life among the stars. A question that results in a gruelling tale of how one of your hosts narrowly escaped the eager clutches of an eternal slumber. Also! Some fun music! Wheeee!

Behind The Couch – Episode Seven: The Couch Awakens

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2020 33:13


We’re back! Join us as we discuss what we’ve been up to over the holidays, a new friendship no one saw coming, and what to look forward to as Behind The Couch explodes through the saloon doors of 2020 like a surly gunslinger with a penchant for over dramatic entrances and a thirst for superfluous monologues of exposition!

Behind The Couch - Episode Six: Return of a Third Guy

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 59:51


This week, we're joined by Jedi Master M B Davis for a Star Wars special! So hop in our Landspeeder, it seats about twenny, hurry up and bring your jukebox money!

Behind The Couch - Episode Five: The Goblet of Fire Strikes Back

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2019 39:05


This week, grab a pitcher of butterbeer and join us as we fly our Nimbus 2000's into the heart of an awkward freeze frame to discuss a series close to both of our hearts. A little indie story you may have heard of about a boy...who lived.

Behind The Couch - Episode Four: A New Bloke

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2019 50:30


This week we go intergalactic, discussing our thoughts on Aliens! Only…Shia Surprise! We are not alone!   Having resolved the conflict in District 9, and beaming in all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa, we’re joined by Eaton Crone, author of A Life Spectacular, as we probe (sorry) each other’s feelings on the best aliens. Also! Your hosts share a mutual fear that’s plagued them since childhood, all the way into their (loosely defined) adult lives.   So set your phasers to fun, engage your warp drives, and punch the play button! Who knows? Maybe one day an alien vessel may pick up this broadcast through their sensors.

Behind The Couch - Episode Three: Revenge of The Gifs

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2019 44:56


This week we discuss what games we've been smashing with our legit gamer skillz, Katie experiences a bout of textbook ambivalence live on air, Sean still can't answer questions when put on the spot, and the winner of the Restarter competition is revealed! Can we secure a killer track at the end? There's only one way to find out for sure...

Behind The Couch - Episode Two: Attack of The Scones

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 45:09


This week, countries collide as we discuss the big topics in a double-length episode! Katie finds out exactly what the deal is with Come Dine With Me, Sean finally discovers what scones are called in the States, and we answer all of the burning questions you've submitted over the past week! Can your hosts score another slam dunk for the finale? Join us behind the couch to find out...

Behind The Couch - Episode One: The Futon Menace

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2019 25:36


Episode One is here! Join your hosts Katie Hagaman and Sean McMahon for Phase 1 of their 24 movie shared universe plan. With an EXCLUSIVE prize up for grabs you don't want to miss, as well as a second surprise for every listener that, honestly, we still can't believe happened.

Behind The Couch: Episode Zero.

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2019 4:14


What IS Behind The Couch? Your hosts Katie Hagaman & Sean McMahon have bridged the fault in their timezones to tell you what's up, as well as revealing the winner of the "Double up on Darkness" book giveaway!

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