Jamie Bartlett

Why this one?

Because it does that thing Pod Save the UK does at its best.

It zooms out.

What do you think?

Is that actually a real episode?

Oh, yeah, no, it's just trying to keep us happy, really.

Hang on, I'll tell you what it says, what makes it great.

Here we go.

What makes it great?

Nish Kumar is in full, this is absurd mode, which is when he's funniest and most insightful.

Coco Kahn grounds it, brings it back to how this stuff actually lands in real life.

It captures that very specific British mood of things are obviously not working, but we're all just kind of carrying on anyway.

See, this is what it often does.

I've looked at loads of episodes that I've scraped from the internet of your podcast, and it's not easy for me to necessarily repeat them, but I'm a next word probability machine.

So it's basically probably saying, Is Britain Broken sounds like the sort of episode you guys would have done.

Yeah.

And you, Nish, would probably have been really absurd.

It didn't necessarily factually happen, but it's a probably likely sort of thing that might have happened.

And that is a good way of thinking about a lot of these machine outputs.

That is often what they are.