Digital Porridge

...and we're back from hiatus! In this episode, we welcome each other back, touch on our upcoming YouTubiness, discuss what we'll do and buy once we 'get big', birthdays, ice cream and a whole lot more! (apologies for the manhandling of the microphone, we got a bit handy in a few places!) When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Want to help us out? Buy us a beer and donate to the DP! Just click the Donate button at the left! Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Well, he-LLOOOO!! How do you do? It's been a while, hasn't it? Indeed it has, indeed...it...has! Many apologies for the delay in updates recently, but things have been busy in Porridgeland! Really. But don't ask why. Really. In this latest episode, the lads are talking about Frank's upcoming trip to the United States, including highly anticipated runs to BBQ joints and shopping malls. Before that, we get to talk about this amazing miniatures museum in France, where Frank was recently! Check out the pictures below!   So here's this wacky (but actually pretty cool) museum in France: More of this at www.mimlyon.com   When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Want to help us out? Buy us a beer and donate to the DP! Just click the Donate button at the left! Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Episode 28 brings us back to Skype, because we can't seem to fashion together a time to actually record face-to-face after our time in Kabul. Maybe it's because of the In this episode, we apologize for a sub-optimal episide 27. Also, Mat's wearing bunny ears while working from home and playing on the guitar, we discuss the war-torn ruins of Detroit, a dog barks at its own echo, Mat gets shouted at by a neighbor, and Frank gets the term 'rumpy-pumpy' explained to him. Finally, we talk about how Frank has changed recently. Mainly his Twitter account, but is there more to it than that? When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Want to help us out? Buy us a beer and donate to the DP! Just click the Donate button at the left! Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

For Episode 27, Mat comes clean! About what? Well, you'll just have to listen. In the middle of Mat's dangerous revelation, we have a visit from Listener Paul! We have a massive shout-out to one of our dedicated listeners, then the lads take a road trip to Kabul, of all places. What for? We have no idea. It's kind of a dangerous place for white people to just pop down to. While there, we discuss prides of gays, goats and chickens on the bus as we drive down the road to Dushanbe, Miami Vice and more, including Captain Lou Albano, the origins of curry and the Darwin Fish. To make up for Mat's dreadful mistake, we've made this one an extra-long show for your aural elucidations. Forthwith and herein, forevermore indubitably.     This episode brought to you, as always, by Scotch eggs!   And also by our mate Bugfish's podcast, The Noise in My Brain   Join in the soundtrack to Frank's life:         When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Want to help us out? Buy us a beer and donate to the DP! Just click the Donate button at the left! Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

In this episode, we discuss the dearth of common sense in the mafia when it comes to not just interpersonal relations but general business sense and maintaining espirit de corps. Then we dive into a TON of listener comments on this here website! There's a lot of you commenting on the site and we really appreciate it! Then we wrap up proceeding with a discussion about the latest extension of the phenomenon of 'dogging': seagulling! Haven't heard of it? Well, you won't want to! But we do it anyway. Quite a big episode! We hope you enjoy it.   In case the revelation of seagulling is too much for your delicate ears, here's a seagull stealing a bag of potato chips:   For a different type of seagulling that every schoolboy in Britain apparently takes part in, check this out:   When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Here's a little longer-than-normal show to make up for the recent lapses in timeliness! In Episode 25, the DP boys hop on Skype to get the podcast done, but FRET NOT, dear listeners! Mat has a new laptop with a much-improved cooling system, so there's no buZZZZZZZzzzzzzzZZZZZ zzzzzzzZZZZzzzZZZZZZZ zzzzZZZZzzzzz any more! The only trouble is there's a bit of echo in the early part of the show but hey if you made it past Episode 22 - or even heard any part of that show - you've got absolutely nothing to worry about. Anyway, after discussing horses (and the recent Grand National horse race) for some reason, we hip hop right into Mat's Hip Hop Corner with his tweets of the week from various hip-hop luminaries and wannabes. Here's the official 18+ video Mat mentions, 'All Over the House' from the UK rapper Skepta. (SERIOUSLY NSFW (NOT SAFE FOR WORK) It's got lots of boobz in it, YouTube won't host the actual video as IT'S NSFW it so it's on another site. For some video grabs (rather than the full XXXXXX-worthy video - STILL NSFW), chiggity check it below. Skepta ft. Majestic & Shorty - All Over The House found on Hip-Hop (please note we're really not going to turn into a crappy porn-rap video review show! we have a little more class than that) Then we attempt to compare the US and UK hip-hop scenes. Which isn't all that funny so we cut that crap out. This might honestly be the last time we try the US/UK comparisons! But we contrast that with talking about Mat's really really white children. So it's all swings and roundabouts, as the Brits say.It just means 'things have a way of balancing themselves out, old chap, don't you know'. For more info about the grime music scene, check out the Grimepedia website. By the way, how do people feel about Cosmic Stapleguns, Furious Masturbation or Baby Pigeons  as band names? And here's the haiku for Mat's upcoming semi-regular feature, The Whore Next Door: The whore is next door Less car spots, streams of strange men This is on Mat's street To see the sea shanty video that Mat is upset about, check this out:   And the light/ceiling fan cord pull is autographed and ready for the first person who donates to us and buys use a beer using the link to the left! At some point in the future we'll have stickers or decals available to mail to folks who want to decorate their laptops, jalopies, school lockers, skateboards, fedoras, bicycles and other things! So keep an eye out for those.   When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Welcome to episode 24! We are halfway to #48! Woooo! In this one, we get started with random porn/shock web sites and a wee bit of talk about US/UK relations. Then we got bogged down in political correctness, talking about gypsies, Cockneys, Native Americans/First Nation people, and more, finishing up with car surfing...something we're probably not going to be trying anytime soon. We also have a special song for the Reddit.com website, which was suggested to us by one of our most interactive users, Procrastibaking!   Mat's Urban Recommendation this week is Ghost Poet's song Cash and Carry:   Then things got a little out of hand and we finished one-upping each other on 'dangerous' trend of car surfing - oh those crazy kids!   But this one really must win the battle:   This might be the only true 'surfing car' though:     Buy us a beer! Just click on the Donate button to the left! When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

This time we're in Mat's kitchen, so that echo you might hear is our melodious voices reflecting off the grand granite countertops, multilevel wooden floors and oak kitchen units of his manor house! We kicked out the servants because Frank gets assaulted by Mat's Vibrator Revenge Bag (Frank is working on his revenge), and we talk about Mat's taint (or 'smelly bridge'), the joys and horrors of new life, the sexual proclivities of The Queen of England, Mat's Urban Update, speaking in tongues, making music,   Check out the Dubcast podcast here, episode 28 right at the beginning is the one you want to listen to. If you know any Dutch guys, it's even funnier, seriously. Want to see actual American churchgoers dancing with snakes for the Lord? Well...     Buy us a beer! Just click on the Donate button to the left! When you’re done listening, please rate and review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Welcome to the Vibecast! This one was recorded remotely, with Mat trying to surf on a windswept beach while juggling vibrators. Actually it's just his Macbook dying a slow death while we're trying to quietly talk over Skype, but try to ignore that! In this episode, we welcome Mat back from his enforced exile, and he welcomes all of our listeners with a new song - accompanied by himself on guitar! Unfortunately we get continually interrupted by Bob the Builder trying to reach his friends, using this interesting device:   We touch on the upcoming royal nuptuals, much like this tea cup would touch your lips as you hold your pinkie out as you lift it to your face: If you want to help Mat out with getting a new (as in not dying!) laptop, click on the Donate button to the left! When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley

Well it's the follow-up to the now-infamous cold shoulder episode! And, well...hopefully we pick up right where we left off. We want to shake off that awkwardness, so we start off with talk of blind dates! Those are never awkward, are they? Neither is our next subject, bullying, starting a cult, and finally a special prize for Digital Porridge listener SHANE! Shane is helping us conquer Canada, by referring new listener Thomas, who is currently swimming in maple syrup with grizzly bears and beavers, as he listens to the podcast! For referring a friend, Shane earned himself a special custom song, specifically for him! If YOU want your own song, sung for you, then uploaded to the official Digital Porridge YouTube channel, get a friend to subscribe to us, give us a review on iTunes, 'Like' us or comment on Facebook, post on the blog, or drop us a line on Twitter! YOU get to pick the style of music, and we'll write and perform a song. Just for YOU. Big ups to Canada, and shout outs to Germany! We don't know who our German listeners are, but please get in touch somehow! Listen to episode #21 right here!   We'd like to have a mass-eev Digital Porridge welcome to new listeners Taylor and bugfish! Not sure if you're the same person, but if you are, welcome to both of you anyway! We still want more feedback from our listeners, so please leave a comment here on the blog, a review on iTunes or 'like' us on Facebook!   Listen to this episode right here!   When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley : Catch Up! : Get the Episodes 1-10 Archive

In this show, we instruct all of our listeners to stand in a corner as punishment for not joining the listeners actually doing the work in getting in touch and giving us feedback on the blog, Facebook, Twitter and more. Also, RIP Nate Dogg. He had hoes in different area codes. Smiley Culture didn't, though. Visit Nate Dogg's top contribution to the betterment of womenkind here:   And how about a healthy Digital Porridge welcome to new listener Procrastibaking! We still want more feedback from our listeners, so please leave a comment here on the blog, a review on iTunes or 'like' us on Facebook!   Listen to this episode right here!   When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley : Catch Up! : Get the Episodes 1-10 Archive

Starting with reggae greats Pato and Buju Banton (not sure if they are related), we take head-on the charges by our listeners that we are ON DRUGS. Let us be clear: not usually. Okay? Okay. Then we go on to talk about conception porn (registered trademark), cats (again?!) and other stuff. Check out Pato Banton here:   and Buju Banton here:   (are there any reggae singers who are sponsored by cough syrup makers? you'd think their throats are really raw all the time!) As for the Faces of Meth, as discussed in the show...well here's your warning to not do any drugs, courtesy of America's drug fighters...and if that doesn't work, two words for ya: Amy Winehouse.   For anyone curious to check out Yogi's Nazi (?) watch tower, check it out here:   And the lower half, with the privacy box (with a hinged top and a side mousey hole that you can't see in this picture)   And here's the cat hammock that will be attached this weekend:   Yogi appreciates the effort... ...we hope.   We still want more feedback from our listeners, so please leave a comment here on the blog, a review on iTunes or 'like' us on Facebook!   Listen to this episode right here!   When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley. Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley : Catch Up! : Get the Episodes 1-10 Archive

Hey-hey-hey, Porridgistas! In this episode, we welcome listener Pete and his friends, and take on their suggested topic of 'gabba' dance music. We also reminisce about the smells of old girlfriends and grandmothers (not at the same time, eww), and finally our new mascot is introduced, because Mat's kitten is far too old and un-cute now. Download Episode 18 right here, or listen to it by clicking on the player below!   Rastamouse? What the hell's a Rastamouse?   Want to know what gabba music is? Chiggity check this out (don't click this, Pete):   Gabba music is definitely NOT this:   (well it's got a decent bass beat if you're a bass junkie)   How about some YouTube Doubler action to see what it'd be like to have gabba music at a wedding reception? Just click here and mute the video on the right. Once again: the four starches developed by ancient peoples And how about our new mascot, Yogi! (she's a she)   Coming up for next week's episode: another special episode from Mat's house! We'll be gorging on a popular nighttime flu/cold remedy that puts you to sleep fast...or just lots of alcohol. Plans changed, sorry - episode 20 will be the 'from Mat's house' show!   We're still looking for feedback from our listeners, so please leave a comment here on the blog, on iTunes or on Facebook!   Listen to this episode right here!   When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley : Catch Up! : Get the Episodes 1-10 Archive

So what's up in this episode? Well, we experiment with radio-style 'what is this sound' games, Mat frets about his abuse of his cat, we introduce Digital Porridge-branded 'Mancones', talk about being 'a homeless', benevolent dictators and a whole lot more! Check it out... Download Episode 17 right here! (right-click and choose Save Link As), or use the iTunes link   Mister Scruff's opinion of his treatment is clear for all to see     From the Poop Report website comes this review of the Bottom Buddy Toilet Tissue Holder: The Bottom Buddy consists of a curved plastic handle with a golf-ball sized head at one end. The head features flexible plastic pieces that resemble the closed bud of a flower. Pry the petals apart, insert a wad of toilet paper or a moist wipe, and it's as if your arm has just grown a foot longer. Reach back (from in front or behind), wipe, and then press the release button on the handle to drop the soiled paper into the toilet. (OK, fair enough, it's also extremely helpful for people with injuries and medical conditions. But still. Frank has seen it on sites devoted to extraordinarily obese people.) Thanks to Dr Jax at muus.co.uk for the Dalek-voiced DP samples! Very cool. Can you count how many samples were used during this show? Seriously, can you? We sort of lost count. And finally, a horse with one ball isn't called anything, according to what a quick Wikipedia scan brings up. A castrated male horse is  called a gelding, though (don't scroll down that page if you're a guy).   Listen to this episode right here!   This is how Mat taunts his cat - with pictures of other cats free from cones and able to roam freely and pee in their master's shoes. As always, we'd really  appreciate any reviews on iTunes and 'Likes' on Facebook!

A few difficulties putting this show to bed, so apologies up front for any strangeness with the show! In this one we're talking about the upcoming London Olympics, the limitations of American-style 'posh' branding, and the pulling power of making sweeping judgments on the dental habits of an entire culture. Download Episode 16 right here! (right-click and choose Save Link As) Just so you can see some paralympic runners in action, check out this video!   And for Mat's favorite brand of food, on both continents, check out   We're still looking for feedback from our listeners, so please leave a comment here on the blog, on iTunes or on Facebook!   Listen to this episode right here!   When you’re done listening, please review us on iTunes or Podcast Alley Tell your friends about us, and encourage them to subscribe either on iTunes or with the RSS feed. Get in touch : the DP blog | Facebook | Twitter | email Mat | email Frank | send us a voice or musical message! : Subscribe : iTunes | RSS feed : Review us : iTunes | Podcast Alley : Catch Up! : Get the Episodes 1-10 Archive