Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast)

Recorded in peak January survival mode, Episode 237 is a proper classic Two Mr Ps ramble that somehow starts with tour warnings and ends with… absolute school-based chaos. The lads kick things off with a three week countdown to the next run of live shows, a bit of excitement about trialling full video episodes on YouTube, and a surprisingly long detour into haircuts, beards, and the deeply humbling world of acting self tapes, where Adam discovers that “throwing yourself into a role” sometimes just means your partner cry-laughing at you in the kitchen.

From there, the episode leans into shared nostalgia and gentle self-ridicule, with stories of teenage acting, questionable school trips from the past, and Mr P very lightly taking credit for helping solve a crime via a Crimewatch reconstruction. As always, confidence is high. Accuracy is optional.

The middle of the episode brings back another blind ranking. This time it’s the worst things a member of school staff can hear at 8.30am, prompting some very relatable debate about printers, WiFi, parents asking for “a chat”, and why vague meetings can ruin your entire day before it’s even started. If you’ve ever stood in a classroom mentally reprioritising your will to live before the bell, this bit will hit home.

Things then slide neatly into a thread about the worst bits of general knowledge people have ever got confidently wrong, proving once again that adulthood does not guarantee understanding of geography, biology, space, or how the human body works. It’s comforting, alarming, and very funny in equal measure.

The second half is packed with what the podcast does best: relentless teacher stories. Quick-fire pupil comebacks, accidental classroom burns, and moments of unintentional brilliance from children who absolutely did not mean to be funny, but very much were. There’s a strong run of anonymous submissions too, covering awkward parent interactions, catastrophic slips of the tongue, staffroom mishaps, EYFS horror stories, and the kind of incidents that could only ever happen in a school and could only ever be laughed about years later.

It all builds to a finish that perfectly sums up the podcast: wildly inappropriate visuals, uncontrollable laughter, and the shared understanding that teaching is a job where no amount of training can prepare you for what you’ll actually experience. Chaotic, cathartic, and exactly the sort of episode that feels like a long staffroom chat after a very long day.

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Tour dates:

📍 Dates and Venues

🎭 February 2026

14th: Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall 🎻

15th: Newcastle, Tyne Theatre 🎭

17th: Birmingham, Town Hall 🏙️

18th: Sheffield, Memorial Hall 🧱

19th: Leicester, De Montfort Hall 🦊

20th: Bradford, St George’s Hall 🏰

22nd: Cardiff, New Theatre 🏉

28th: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall 🎸 NEW DATE

🎭 May 2026

22nd: Salford, The Lowry 🎨

🎭 October 2026

26th: Dartford, Orchard Theatre 🌉

27th: Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre 🌳

29th: Colchester, Charter Hall 🏺

30th: Southampton, O2 Guildhall ⚓

🎭 February 2027

14th: Blackpool, Grand Theatre 🎡

15th: Carlisle, The Sands Centre 🏞️

16th: Chester, Storyhouse 🐎

17th: Crewe, Lyceum Theatre 🚂

18th: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 🏹

19th: Stoke, Victoria Hall 🏺

20th: Stockton, Globe Theatre 🌐

21st: York, Grand Opera House MATINEE 🏰

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Recorded straight after a padel game and delivered from a slightly overheated garden studio, Episode 236 is very much a classic Two Mr Ps episode: chaotic, relatable, and held together by teacher tiredness and questionable decision making. The lads kick things off with wellbeing chat, winter survival mode, and the small victories that get you through January, before a quick reminder that the live tour is creeping up fast and having something in the diary can make a genuinely grim half-term feel survivable.

From there, the episode leans heavily into what listeners love most: the everyday nonsense of school life. There’s a blind ranking of the most annoying things children say in lessons, plenty of shared frustration about classroom time-wasters, and a deep dive into how rumours start, spread, and somehow become accepted fact in schools, workplaces, and beyond. As always, the stories spiral quickly, proving that children, adults, and the internet are all equally capable of absolute nonsense.

The second half is packed with the kind of teacher stories that make you laugh and wince at the same time: accidental innuendos, things kids say with total innocence but disastrous timing, and those moments where you have to keep a straight face despite everything in your body telling you not to. It wraps up with a listener dilemma that touches on authority, humour, and whether staff in leadership roles should be able to take a joke, sparking a surprisingly thoughtful discussion beneath the laughs.

It’s one of those episodes that feels like a long staffroom chat at the end of a tough day: lots of laughing, a bit of venting, and the comforting reminder that if your week’s been a mess, you’re definitely not alone.

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Tour dates:

📍 Dates and Venues

🎭 February 2026

14th: Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall 🎻

15th: Newcastle, Tyne Theatre 🎭

17th: Birmingham, Town Hall 🏙️

18th: Sheffield, Memorial Hall 🧱

19th: Leicester, De Montfort Hall 🦊

20th: Bradford, St George’s Hall 🏰

22nd: Cardiff, New Theatre 🏉

28th: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall 🎸 NEW DATE

🎭 May 2026

22nd: Salford, The Lowry 🎨

🎭 October 2026

26th: Dartford, Orchard Theatre 🌉

27th: Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre 🌳

29th: Colchester, Charter Hall 🏺

30th: Southampton, O2 Guildhall ⚓

🎭 February 2027

14th: Blackpool, Grand Theatre 🎡

15th: Carlisle, The Sands Centre 🏞️

16th: Chester, Storyhouse 🐎

17th: Crewe, Lyceum Theatre 🚂

18th: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 🏹

19th: Stoke, Victoria Hall 🏺

20th: Stockton, Globe Theatre 🌐

21st: York, Grand Opera House MATINEE 🏰

🎟️ Grab your tickets now at 2mrpspodcast.com/live 🎟️

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Recorded on the first day back after the Christmas break, Episode 235 kicks off with the lads doing what every teacher and school worker is doing right now: pretending they’re “refreshed” while their soul quietly leaves their body.

Adam shares a very real festive debrief, with Christmas containing some genuinely lovely moments… and some properly tough ones too, as Max struggles with the change of routine and sleep goes fully off the rails.

New Year’s resolutions get a run through, with Adam aiming to sort his eating out (less “accidental fasting followed by a massive pig out”) and the purchase of a new air fryer being presented as the fresh start nobody asked for. Mr P’s resolution is a bit more existential: better phone habits, less doom scrolling, more control over screen time… which is tricky when social media has basically built the whole Mr P empire. He also shares a genuinely terrifying first day back journey involving ice, sliding, and a lorry that nearly turned inset day into a very dramatic insurance claim.

From there, the episode shifts into a proper 2025 rewind: favourite films, TV series, trends, songs, and best moments. There’s love for the tour, big family memories, and some surprisingly wholesome reflection, including Mr P’s proudest dad moment of the year. Then it’s straight into what the podcast does best: kids being absolutely unhinged. Adam brings a run of savage pupil comments (including brutal body comments, classic “you’re too old to marry”, and some questions that should never be asked out loud). Mr P adds more of the funniest things teachers have heard, including the sort of innocent one-liners that are hilarious… until you remember you’re the adult in the room and you’re meant to keep a straight face.

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Tour dates:

📍 Dates and Venues

🎭 February 2026

14th: Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall 🎻

15th: Newcastle, Tyne Theatre 🎭

17th: Birmingham, Town Hall 🏙️

18th: Sheffield, Memorial Hall 🧱

19th: Leicester, De Montfort Hall 🦊

20th: Bradford, St George’s Hall 🏰

22nd: Cardiff, New Theatre 🏉

28th: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall 🎸 NEW DATE

🎭 May 2026

22nd: Salford, The Lowry 🎨

🎭 October 2026

26th: Dartford, Orchard Theatre 🌉

27th: Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre 🌳

29th: Colchester, Charter Hall 🏺

30th: Southampton, O2 Guildhall ⚓

🎭 February 2027

14th: Blackpool, Grand Theatre 🎡

15th: Carlisle, The Sands Centre 🏞️

16th: Chester, Storyhouse 🐎

17th: Crewe, Lyceum Theatre 🚂

18th: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 🏹

19th: Stoke, Victoria Hall 🏺

20th: Stockton, Globe Theatre 🌐

21st: York, Grand Opera House MATINEE 🏰

🎟️ Grab your tickets now at 2mrpspodcast.com/live 🎟️

👯‍♀️ Tag your teacher crew, bring your mates, and let’s make this tour UNFORGETTABLE! 💃🙌🔥
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Recorded as Part 2 of the Christmas Special, this episode is basically festive story time with no filler, just wall-to-wall chaos from schools and staff rooms.

It kicks off with a rapid-fire run of Christmas related parent complaints, the sort that make you question how we’ve survived as a species. From nativity casting drama to utterly wild expectations of what schools should be doing in December, it’s the full “parents at Christmas” bingo card.

From there it moves into nativity mayhem: costume misunderstandings, rogue characters, ill timed one liners, performances held together with panic, Blu Tack and pure teacher instinct. Think classic primary school Christmas show energy… but dialled up.

Next comes a collection of bizarre and hilarious teacher gifts. Not the usual “we don’t expect anything” bit (which is said, because it’s true), but more the strange, accidental, overly personal or completely unhinged presents that only ever seem to happen in education.

Then it turns to staff do confessions and workplace Christmas party stories, ranging from awkward oversharing and cringe flirting to situations that are so chaotic they should come with a safeguarding flowchart. It’s a reminder that a school staff night out is basically a controlled experiment in poor decision-making.

There’s also a run of Secret Santa stories, including the type of gift choices that leave an entire staff room silent, plus a few moments that prove Secret Santa is either the best bonding experience in the world or the quickest route to HR.

The episode wraps with a big thank you to listeners for sharing stories and supporting the pod and the live tour, plus the usual end of term message: rest up, survive the festive madness, and they’ll be back in January.

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Tour dates:

📍 Dates and Venues

🎭 February 2026

14th: Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall 🎻

15th: Newcastle, Tyne Theatre 🎭

17th: Birmingham, Town Hall 🏙️

18th: Sheffield, Memorial Hall 🧱

19th: Leicester, De Montfort Hall 🦊

20th: Bradford, St George’s Hall 🏰

22nd: Cardiff, New Theatre 🏉

28th: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall 🎸 NEW DATE

🎭 May 2026

22nd: Salford, The Lowry 🎨

🎭 October 2026

26th: Dartford, Orchard Theatre 🌉

27th: Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre 🌳

29th: Colchester, Charter Hall 🏺

30th: Southampton, O2 Guildhall ⚓

🎭 February 2027

14th: Blackpool, Grand Theatre 🎡

15th: Carlisle, The Sands Centre 🏞️

16th: Chester, Storyhouse 🐎

17th: Crewe, Lyceum Theatre 🚂

18th: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 🏹

19th: Stoke, Victoria Hall 🏺

20th: Stockton, Globe Theatre 🌐

21st: York, Grand Opera House MATINEE 🏰

🎟️ Grab your tickets now at 2mrpspodcast.com/live 🎟️

👯‍♀️ Tag your teacher crew, bring your mates, and let’s make this tour UNFORGETTABLE! 💃🙌🔥
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Part 1 of the Christmas Special kicks off exactly how most school staff feel by mid-December: exhausted, slightly ill, and crawling towards the finish line like it’s Sports Day in a suit.

Adam’s running on fumes, Lee’s been properly hit by the lurgy, there’s a heartfelt bit about how crucial the Christmas break is, even if you’re not a “massive Christmas person”. If you’re sat there thinking you could happily work through it, the lads reckon that’s less festive spirit and more a genuine warning sign.

They give another big thank you for the tour love, with the slightly mind blowing update that over 15,000 tickets have sold, plus a reminder that the tour is extending into October 2026 and February 2027.

They also have a laugh at the annual “Christmas is being cancelled” crowd, sparked by Tesco calling Christmas trees “evergreen trees”, as if capitalism is suddenly going to stop selling Christmas.

The second half is a brilliant thread: “What’s a Christmas tradition your family does that you don’t think anyone else does?” There’s a genuinely lovely bit of reflection too on “presence over presents” and the pressure parents put on themselves to make Christmas perfect, plus how traditions and time together matter more than whatever plastic trend the kids wanted that year. Part 1 ends with the lads deciding to split the Christmas Special into two episodes, because there’s too much festive chaos for one. Part 2 is coming later in the break with even more stories.

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Tour dates:

📍 Dates and Venues

🎭 February 2026

14th: Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall 🎻

15th: Newcastle, Tyne Theatre 🎭

17th: Birmingham, Town Hall 🏙️

18th: Sheffield, Memorial Hall 🧱

19th: Leicester, De Montfort Hall 🦊

20th: Bradford, St George’s Hall 🏰

22nd: Cardiff, New Theatre 🏉

28th: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall 🎸 NEW DATE

🎭 May 2026

22nd: Salford, The Lowry 🎨

🎭 October 2026

26th: Dartford, Orchard Theatre 🌉

27th: Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre 🌳

29th: Colchester, Charter Hall 🏺

30th: Southampton, O2 Guildhall ⚓

🎭 February 2027

14th: Blackpool, Grand Theatre 🎡

15th: Carlisle, The Sands Centre 🏞️

16th: Chester, Storyhouse 🐎

17th: Crewe, Lyceum Theatre 🚂

18th: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall 🏹

19th: Stoke, Victoria Hall 🏺

20th: Stockton, Globe Theatre 🌐

21st: York, Grand Opera House MATINEE 🏰

🎟️ Grab your tickets now at 2mrpspodcast.com/live 🎟️

👯‍♀️ Tag your teacher crew, bring your mates, and let’s make this tour UNFORGETTABLE! 💃🙌🔥
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