

Things People Do
Crowd Network
Everyone is interesting if you ask the right questions. And this is a show about all the weird and wonderful things people do.
Meet astronauts, teachers, marine biologists, cheesemakers, prison guards and everyone in between. Along the way, you'll learn things that blow your mind. You'll laugh until it hurts, and feel a whole lot better about the world around you and the people that fill it.
Meet astronauts, teachers, marine biologists, cheesemakers, prison guards and everyone in between. Along the way, you'll learn things that blow your mind. You'll laugh until it hurts, and feel a whole lot better about the world around you and the people that fill it.
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Mar 14, 2025 • 58min
Things People Did, with Jamali Maddix: Prepping for a zombie apocalypse with baked beans and a samurai sword
What did comedian Jamali Maddix do before making it as a big time comedian? Well when he wasn't refereeing a paintball match, cold calling about double glazing and labouring... he was at car boot sales.We had the best time ever with Jamali and think you should go and see him on tour: www.jamalimaddix.comThis episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPDTo get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.ukIf you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewformTo get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xROn Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledoTo become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledoTo grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTokIf you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.ukMusic courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 12, 2025 • 60min
About Celebrants: The strangest wedding trends you’ve never heard of
Our guest this week is India, a celebrant who turns weddings into something way more personal than just saying "I do." She tells us about the couple who wrote their vows live during the ceremony, a barefoot bride with a penchant for rose petals, and why "ring warming" is a completely innocent tradition... promise! To find out more about India, and book her for your ceremonies, click here: https://www.indiabelceremonies.com/This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPD To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 7, 2025 • 47min
Things People Review: Josh the Chimney Sweep is back!
This week we are joined by a very special guest. A man so famous in the Bristol and Bath area after being a guest on our show, that we almost had to pay him a fee. It's the people's champion, a TPD legend... Josh the Chimney Sweep is back! We're in Bristol, and he's here for a catch up, some bonkers hypothetical questions, and to tell us what cultural things he's been up to. We're genuinely debating signing him up full time on the show... enjoy.This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPD To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 5, 2025 • 1h 1min
About Ghosts: How to tell if your house is haunted
Our guest this week is Danny Robins, ghost hunter and host of Uncanny. He spends his life speaking to people who swear they’ve seen ghosts—but does he actually believe in them? We talk poltergeists, the fear of death, and whether being a ghost would be a bit… rubbish. Plus, Joe considers whether he’s ever moved objects with internal turbulence (after a curry, maybe).To watch Uncanny on IPlayer, click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001rcl0/uncannyTo listen to Danny's podcast, click here: https://podfollow.com/1589938734 This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPD To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 28, 2025 • 44min
About Beer Scientists: Who let Joe loose in a beer lab?
Welcome to Things People Brew part two, where today we are recording in an actual lab! Our guest is Fraser, a beer scientist who is here to blow our minds with all the clever stuff that goes into beer making. We talk about fermentation, flavour deterioration, and lots of other big words that Joe doesn't understand. They also learn about robotic arms, and noses that operate on artificial intelligence. Get ready for a science lesson that was much better than the ones you had in school.This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPD To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 26, 2025 • 55min
About Brewers: Meet the Willy Wonka of beer making
Welcome Things People Brew, where this week it’s all about brewing beer (see what we did there?). Today, we have left our usual studio to go and meet the Willy Wonka of beer making at his set up in Waterloo. His name is AJ, and he’s here to tell us everything we;’ve ever wanted to ask about beer, and to share some of his weird and wonderful concoctions, featuring pineapple, glitter and sometimes crickets (as in Jimmeny!). We learn a lot about yeast, hops, and Joe gets pretty tipsy again. Enjoy! This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPD To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 21, 2025 • 50min
Things People Did, with Abi Clarke: Work experience in a cupboard, teaching 'movement' and flirting with Poldark
We are in Bristol for another Things People Did, and our guest this week is comedian and Tik Tok sensation, Abi Clarke. Abi has had quite the journey, from work experience at a hairdressers (where they basically kept her in a cupboard), to making it on the big screen as an extra in Poldark, where she mostly just flirted with 'the hottest man alive' whilst dressed in a horrendous wig. She also invented something called 'dog of the week' and she teaches Joe how to improv as a welsh chimney sweep. It's a wild ride.We love Abi - go see her on tour! Tickets here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/abi-clarke-tickets-adp1556227This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPDTo get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.ukIf you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewformTo get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xROn Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledoTo become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledoTo grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTokIf you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.ukMusic courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 19, 2025 • 57min
About Delivery Drivers: The weirdest substitutions for customer’s shopping
Today, we’re chatting with Sonny, a supermarket delivery driver from Edinburgh. He tells us some of the weirdest substitutions he’s delivered to customers, and what happens to the food if the customer isn’t in? Does he get to keep it?This episode is proudly sponsored by BrewDog Punk IPA. To get 12 cans of Punk IPA for £15 with free delivery (exclusively for TPD listeners) click here: https://www.BrewDog.com/TPDTo get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.ukIf you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewformTo get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xROn Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledoTo become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledoTo grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTokIf you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.ukMusic courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 14, 2025 • 45min
Classic: About Lifeguards
Welcome to another classic episode of Things People Do. Fancy a story about Joe, a Danish couple and some stray dogs in Thailand? Well, this is the episode for you. It also includes Emma, a lifeguard, explaining why swimming caps are important, how ‘poonamis’ are dealt with, and how close to reality Baywatch really is.To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.ukIf you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewformTo get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xROn Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledoTo become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledoTo grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTokIf you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.ukMusic courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Feb 12, 2025 • 59min
About Child Psychologists: Why do kids hate broccoli?
Dr. Anna Colton, a Clinical Psychologist specializing in children and eating disorders, shares her insights on parenting and child psychology. She discusses why kids often detest broccoli, highlighting psychological factors behind food aversions. The conversation touches on the importance of early childhood experiences and effective communication about food. With humor, they explore the balancing act of parenting, addressing mealtime challenges and sibling rivalry while providing relatable anecdotes and practical strategies for nurturing healthy relationships with food.


