"Hello tech support. Uh-huh, uh-huh. In your podcast app? OK. Does the thumbnail have two skeletons on it? Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm afraid you're going to have to listen to it. Yeah, yeah. The whole thing I'm afraid. It's only an hour. OK. I understand." Wow! This time on Cheerful Despair: <ul> <li>David F. Porteous didn't want to shoot lightning from his fingertips anyway!</li> <li>Minced beef rocket ship!</li> <li>We love the smell of Hersey's in the morning!</li> </ul>

Join two men on the right side of middle age and the wrong side of clinical obesity as they talk about basically nothing. Be disturbed by their absurd views and alarmed by how much you agree with them. For thirty minutes anything goes - this is cheerful despair.

Scottish author David F Porteous is approximately one half of Cheerful Despair, find out more about him at his website http://www.dfpiii.com

David Candy is approximately the other half of Cheerful Despair, learn nothing about him at his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/friendlyals