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Stop talking about Valentine’s Day and start talking about Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire Day! That’s right, this episode marks exactly two years since the first episode dropped on 14 February 2019. For this very special anniversary episode Jo and Adam are joined by author Oli Grant to discuss his book How To Live Well The North Korean Way, a satire on the nature of self-help books and their efforts to selectively appropriate, repackage and commodify aspects of other cultures. They also ask whether or not Jo has any authority here or if Adam has read the script and understood it. 

In this episode Adam and Jo talk about:

999: Total Emergency 

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Andrew Doyle 

Better Call Saul

Board games 

Boris Johnson 

Boules 

Brexit 

Candy Crush 

Cartoons

Coach Trip 

Come Dine With Me

Conduct Literature (eighteenth century) 

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 

Donald Trump 

Elon Musk 

Flo and Joan

Game of Thrones

Gender Pay Gap 

Handforth Parish Council 

Have I Got News For You 

Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well (by Meik Wiking)

Ian Hislop 

Jackie Weaver

Joe Dunthorne 

Joe Rogan

John Crace

Juche 

Julie’s iPad

Kim Jong-un

Lifestyle 

Maternity Leave 

Monopoly 

Mrs Brown’s Boys

Netflix

Nigel Farage 

North Korea 

Pandemic (the board game) 

Penguin 

Private Eye

Preti Patel 

Sarah Lund

Snow 

Spoofed

The Adam Buxton Podcast 

The Happiness Research Institute 

The Shining by Stephen King

Tim Martin 

Tories 

Valentines Day 

Wellbeing

Whigs

Words with Friends 2

Zoom