How to Fail at Life – Details, episodes & analysis

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How to Fail at Life

Jeffrey Payne

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Frequency: 1 episode/158d. Total Eps: 5

Two artists talking about how to handle the traumatic and frankly inconvenient obligation of existing.

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Episode 4, Hypocritical Praxis: Why Are We Here?

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, October 10, 2022 • Duration 50:46

This episode Jeffrey and Susan gaze intently at their navels, searching for meaning, and finding none. We try to solve the mysteries of why we record ourselves talking and expect you to listen to it without coercion, what happens to our brains when we internet too much, if podcast listeners are so affluent why haven’t I got any money? If they’re so educated why do they listen to Jamie Laing? And what your problem is with cats, you monster. Please enjoy an oddly introspective chat, with only disappointing conclusions. The How to Fail at Life Podcast, Better Than Silence!

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Episode 3: What the Hell is Wrong With You?

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, February 22, 2021 • Duration 01:12:39

After last episodes evisceration of the ‘Wellness Industry’, Jeffrey and Susan chart the Mariana Trench-like depths of how to really get well. They talk Drugs, Support Groups, AI chat bots, and the absurd reality of having to pay someone fifty pounds an hour to ask ‘how are you?’ And why it is worth it if you can.

Some links to places that can help you if you need it:

There’s Mind

https://www.mind.org.uk/need-urgent-help/using-this-tool

Health in Mind

https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/what-we-do

And don’t forget to consider local universities and colleges that train counsellors, many offer very reduced rates. They might be new to the profession, but personality is more important than anything, and honestly, what have you got to lose? UCC is nearest to us. If you’re not local to Essex, check where you are.

https://www.colchester.ac.uk/open-to-the-public/counselling-service/

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How to Fail at Life Trailer

Season 1

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 • Duration 01:08

The How to Fail at Life Podcast is a journey through modern life seen through the sardonic and grumpy lenses of Jeffrey and Susan. It's for anyone who can't make sense of this procession of inconveniences we are obligated to refer to as 'life'. You're not alone. Come listen, and find out what we're all so angry about.

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Episode 2: Are You Well Ness?

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, February 8, 2021 • Duration 01:12:56

In Episode 2, Jeffrey and Susan plumb the depths of chicanery in the wellness industry. From incompetent ancient quacks to the modern hyperindividualisation of public health. With wicked songs and bold opinions, delivered in their inimitable manner, and accompanied by the synthesiser Jeffrey bought for his Nintendo Switch, this episode promises that you'll never look at a health magazine the same way ever again.

Nathan Barley Ep 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqfkuc5mawg

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Episode One, Pilot Error Take Two: The Reinvention

Season 1 · Episode 1

Sunday, January 17, 2021 • Duration 01:44:46

Writer Jeffrey Payne and Actor Susan Sorrowl listen to a TV director whinge about having to see someone's room during a Zoom audition and really go off on one about it.

Covering such diverse matters as retraining, UBI, the toxic conditioning of economic productivity, Zoom shame, Normal shame, The Swing Riots of the 1830s, how London absolutely sucks balls, what might happen if an amputee mistakenly got a modelling job, why local creativity is the key to social change, and Susan explains how people are potatoes and potatoes are art.

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