Desert Island Dictator

To celebrate the Friends Reunion (which we didn't speak of at all), I spoke to my friend Leslie Ewing-Burgesse, ostensibly about her island, but we uh... got sidetracked. 

Welcome back to Desert Island Dictator! This week I spoke to Luke Poulton (@veganluke) about Wallace and Gromit, Blobby and the all powerful noodle sandwich.  We had a lovely old time. 

This week I spoke to Robyn Perkins, scientist, comedian and owner-operator of "Comedy for the Curious", a science based comedy show that right now runs online every Sunday here   We talked about the final defeat of techno and in the end descended into a lengthy food-based fugue state.   

This week I spoke to Sam Rhodes, musician, comedian, and composer of the theme to this very podcast!  You can see his Comedy Special on Amazon Prime Sam Rhodes: Americanarama and listen to his podcast Segmentariat on every good podcasting content sluice.  If that wasn't enough, his band Taikonaut are a lovely slice of heavy art rock, find some tracked right here: http://www.huntinggirlproductions.com/taikonaut/

Tom Mayhew of Radio 4's Tom Mayhew Benefit Scum came on. What a lovely chap. 

This week, I spoke to Objectively Funny head honcho and all round lovely man Martin Willis all about bums, himbos and being a real nice guy. 

This week I spoke to Vix Leyton @prvix - host of the wonderfully chaotic Comedy Arcade.  Please do check out her podcast. I spoke to Her Highness all about her tropical island (secretly just off the M4).   

This was a fun one. I spoke to Vittorio Angelone, host of the No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs podcast and the Good Guy podcast all about synaesthesia , why you probably are just quirky, and the only time you're allowed to heckle.  Find Vittorio on most socials at @thatvittorio  Donate to the pod at paypal.me/jacobhashishaton

This week, I spoke to the journalist and political bookmaker William Kedjanyi about an island much closer to home.  This turned out to be an in depth and politics/news heavy chat and one that I really enjoyed. Over the coming months we're aiming to space out the chats between comedians/entertainers of whom I know many, and really interesting people from the world of politics, journalism, science and academia.  As always, please do follow us on Twitter at @D_I_D_Pod, me on @jacobandthehats. You can also find me on Instagram and TikTok at: jacobhashishaton

This week, I spoke to Ola the Comedian, host of the Sunday Sermon Podcast, a stand-up and committed Christian with a very unique performance style. I'd really encourage you to check him out if you enjoy the interview.  As always, please find us on Twitter on @D_I_D_Pod and follow me, Jacob Hatton on Instagram and TikTok for some quality #content. 

This week, I spoke to Dan Offen of the Position 6 podcast (a podcast dedicated to the world of popular e-Sport DOTA2). This was a whole new world for me and we had a fascinating chat. This was easily one of my favourite episodes.  Please follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/D_I_D_Pod Jacob Hatton: https://twitter.com/jacobandthehats  Jacob Hatton's Substack: https://jacobhatton.substack.com    Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/desertislanddictator?fan_landing=true    

First, very sorry for the audio issues with this. At the moment I'm confined to video conferencing using whatever my guests can get hold of and I tried to reset some of it, and managed to do a bit of damage to the file.  Please do bare with us though because this was a properly fascinating conversation. Elizabeth Dennis-Harburg is a Labour Concillor and competitive figure skater. We talked human-penguin hybrids, My Chemical Romance and why reusing is better than recycling. Elizabeth will like never be elected again after this goes out. Sorry about that. 

This week, Jacob Hatton (@jacobandthehats) chatted to Sam Lake (@MrSamLake) about body positivity, eurovision and biscuits.  This one was a lot of fun to record, so I do hope it's a lot of fun to listen to.    Promo guff Like everyone, we do now have a Patreon where, if you enjoy the pod you can donate to its upkeep. It's very early doors so I absolutely do not expect anything but I'm using a bit of time to get organised. The plan is to start paying for a proper studio that is not my study and zoom to record so that we can get guests in as soon as the plague passes.  Upcoming Twitch: we are going to start building a gaming Twitch channel, playing only games that involve worldbuilding i.e. mods for Morrowind, Sim City games, Minecraft etc where we build our sandy utopias. Watch this space for that! Also, your host @jacobandthehats has a free Substack: https://jacobhatton.substack.com/. Here he's publishing weekly articles and monthly short fiction and would love subscribers. 

This week, Jacob chats to Riley, the inimitable host of technology podcast Trashfuture about his strange new land of techno and putting secret cinema up against the wall.  You can find Trashfuture on any good #content sluice and Riley himself on Twitter at @raaleh  You can follow me on @jacobandthehats, and the Podcast at @D_I_DPodcast

In this episode, our erstwhile dictator is the comedian and owner of the "Zero Hours" podcast, Kathryn Mather, who I can only urge you to check out in the strongest of terms.  I learned about man farming, Sparta and what records a blood-rag might bring to a desert island. 

In this, the first episode, our first castaway Ben Kavanagh tells me all about his perfect island. I am cancelled by the nation of Spain, we fight a war and talk The Tuxedo.