Jay Foreman

@eddache.bsky.social I feel like this is going to be your jam.

Count Duckula - with Jay Foreman Podcast Episode · Comfort Blanket · 04/12/2025 · 1h 12m

Now available wherever you get your podcasts! Me on @gralefrit.bsky.social’s Comfort Blanket, talking about Count Duckula. (Warning: contains cosy nostalgia and geeky analysis of British animation.)

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Big thanks to Audible for naming 'This Way Up' one of their audio books of 2025! Sound on for a little preview...

And you can click below to buy in audio / print form in UK, US, CA, AU, NZ, DE, FR, NL, IT...

What a good gift.

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A 1958 Rand McNally street map of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Map Men Book Book Tour has started again! 🗺️ 📕 🚌

Still some tickets for Liverpool tonight and Nottingham tomorrow! Come and say hello!

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Lots of people have been bringing their kids to these events! Come along! :)

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Thanks so much!

What's the IPA symbol for the very specific geordie sound in the middle of "better"? It's not just a glottal stop, there's a slight alveolar tap in there.

EPISODE 164: The unplayable record. Featuring 'Map Men' @jayforeman.bsky.social & @markcooperjones.bsky.social and Mithuna Yoganathan. Listen via any podcast provider or lateralcast.com/episodes/164.

THIS WAY UP Go to THIS WAY UP.

Scenario 1:
It's the end of November, and you haven't done ANY of your Christmas shopping.

Scenario 2:
It's the end of November and you've bought AT LEAST ONE thing for your Christmas shopping.

If you prefer the sound of scenario 2, then click this link to buy the Map Men Book!

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Me living in the general Enfield sort of area is no big secret. Enfield’s all over my videos.

An envelope: “Notice of plans to build 21,000 homes on our green belt”

Good.

Ooh!! This is out! This was loads of fun. Thanks @gralefrit.bsky.social for having me on again to talk about one of my favourite cartoons. (Warning: contains cosy nostalgia and geeky analysis of comedy and animation)

Have you heard it slowed down from 45 to 33rpm?

If you bring your own ukulele, I promise to play the counties song.

Do you live in….

A. Nottingham
B. Liverpool
C. Neither of those places but you fancy a trip to either Nottingham or Liverpool?

Then come on down and say hi to me and/or @markcooperjones.bsky.social in Nottingham/Liverpool.

#mapmenbookbooktour

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Hahaha!!! What a way to be reminded of that song’s existence for the first time in about 20 years!

J’étais là en juillet! (J’y vais assez souvent - j’ai des cousins là bas.) Je vous tiendrai au courant si nous trouvons bientôt un éditeur français.

I can eat a lot of crisps in four minutes.

I’ve changed my mind. I absolutely don’t recommend doing that at all. You’ll eat loads, decide you’ve had more than enough, and end up with a really big bag of crisps burning a stressfully tempting crisp hole in your jacket pocket while you stand waiting for a train.

a big bag of pesto and mozzarella flavour crisps

If you ever find yourself writing a book, I highly recommend including the sentence “Britain has an unparalleled variety of crisp flavours” so that, at a signing event, a French person can meet you and say “oh no you don’t.” and give you a big bag of pesto and mozzarella flavour crisps.

Say what you like about the rest of this tweet, but I strongly approve of the term “AI-nthology”.

Mind you, you should have seen the comments section under Magical Mystery Tour in 1967.

It’s truly remarkable how unlistenably bad the 2025 AI remix of Real Love is, especially given how tasteful a job they did with Free as a Bird just a few minutes ago. Unanimously despised in the comments section. Sounds like an intern emailed the wrong file to the publishers.

Those who find Beatle geekery tedious, look away now…

Prediction for Frozen 3…

Multiple Olafs.

Oddly enough, this thought occurred to me just now cos I was looking at Sooz’s photo of a horse.

Horsen
Heerse
Hoorse
Horse

Surprising that ‘horse’ doesn’t have a weird plural.