Looks Unfamiliar: Garreth Hirons – Piers Morgan, I Want My Sizzlin’ Bacon Back

Saboteur (Durell, 1985) - listen to Garreth Hirons and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is writer and musician Garreth Hirons, who’s sitting through the loading screen in the hope of seeing 48k renditions of his memories of The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Flavour Monster Munch and Fun At The Funeral Parlour. Along the way we’ll be finding out why professional wrestlers should never try their hand at topical satire, revealing why ZX Spectrum owners lived in fear of Ian Durell and assessing Piers Morgan’s degree of personal responsibility for the decline of the maize-based snack industry.

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Smiths Sizzlin' Bacon Monster Munch - listen to Garreth Hirons and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Garreth

Garreth Hirons is a musician and co-host of Retrospecticus – The Simpsons And Modern History, Together At Last!, a podcast that looks at an episode of The Simpsons and an event from world history that happened in the week the episode first aired in America. You can find the Retrospecticus website here and follow Retrospecticus on Twitter at @_Retrospecticus (don’t forget the underscore because they can’t!). You can find Garreth’s blog Atomic Sourpuss here and follow him on Twitter at @invaderace1.

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Further Listening

Garreth has also been on on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Nirvana spinoff band Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and early eighties soft drink Quatro – complete with more insults aimed at Piers Morgan – here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here, and stood in as host for chat with Tim talking about comedy on BBC Radio 3 here, the CD Single of Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops here and I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3, Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here.

Garreth has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here and Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends here.

Garreth also features in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Emma Burnell on The Patchwork Monkey, Ben Baker on Fiendish Feet, Phil Catterall on the Platoon computer game, Stephen O’Brien on The Morecambe And Wise Game, Mark Thompson on Night Shift and Tim on the radio talking to Georgey Spanswick about Denys Fisher Board Games; you can find it here.