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217 - Waiting for Godot (Patreon)

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2025-11-26 08:20:01
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The lads throw on their bowler hats and blame on their shoes the faults of their feet as they cover Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterpiece: Waiting for Godot. Topics include the origins of Godot, the benefits of being stabbed in the chest, and the enduring legacy of a stage play where nothing happens twice.

Media Referenced in this Episode:

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. 1953.

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson. Simon and Schuster. 1996.

Panic Attack by John Lahr. The New Yorker. May 11th, 2009.

SAMUEL BECKETT: Waiting for Godot : Bert Lahr / E. G. Marshall

The 1957 All-Black Broadway Cast of 'Waiting For Godot' in the Archives | The New York Public Library

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Interstitial: “A Message from Mr. Godot” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring A.J. DItty as “Mr. Godot” and Eleanor Philips as “The Weird Brother”.

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Zipzapzop

Please Marat/Sade next

By Tove!

Oh my god it's cool Godot

Iain Standing

My biggest falling out with someone is because of Godot. A friend described Sleep No More to me, asked me what my favorite play was, I answered honestly that it was Godot. They called me pretentious and never spoke to me again.

Evan Hawkins

I love this Podcast cos it's like I can watch all the plays and musicals I want without all the excess, like stage design.

I simp for pigeons

27:40 sure... I wasn't expecting this... But I wasn't not expecting something like this. 😅

HydrasCall

Of course I am sad that I am excluded from all of the announcements at the beginning of the episode as I am bisexual (European) and right-wing (German) but this the first play you guys talk about that I have actually read (in French of course).

Ms. Charlie

I love when you cover plays on the podcast because you always act them out so expertly; it really elevates the text in a way that makes it accessible for people unfamiliar with the source (me, for one), and with most theater in general. I learn so much during these episodes, thank you!!

Kageki Kokoro

i love the episodes about theater so much! if y'all ever did Threepenny Opera id probably die.

Syd

I, too, have a head too large for most normie hats

LogalogJack

As someone who never got into them, all these episodes you guys do on straight plays do is just make me appreciate and understand the references in Oh, Hello

NowhereMan661

You guys need to do SOMETHING on Antonin Artaud.

NowhereMan661

I never really saw the world that Gogo and Didi inhabit as being a post apocalyptic dreamworld, I thought that was just how Ireland was. Everything is dark and miserable, everyone is poor, the environment is devastated, and roving bands of thugs will just beat you up.

Hugh Kearney

Jesus AJ, way to make me tear up with the outro.

P.A.L.

Ok, got to do this cause unfortunately it's an area I've some knowledge on. Irish neutrality in WW2 was not a case of "Well the Nazis are fighting the British". There's a *lot* of reasons why Ireland was "neutral" ranging from the economic (we literally had just gotten over an economic tarriff war with the UK that had demolished what little economy we had built after independence), to the military (our armed forces were woefully underequipped and nobody wanted to expand them due to a near coup only a decade before) to the societal (we hadn't been attacked, so why stick our necks out), to the historical (Irish forces were heavily recruited and wasted in WW1 on a British promise of "respecting small nations") to many more. Ireland ultimately could not have contributed in a meaningful way to the Allied war effort beyond what it did, and what it did do puts Ireland at the point of being as pro-Allied a nation as is possible without actually joining the war. Irish workers in the tens to hundreds of thousands worked in British industries to free up manpower. Tens of thousands of Irish people volunteered in British, French and American armed forces. Irish intelligence reports were given to the Allies as soon as possible and the entire reason D-Day happened when it did was due to an Irish weather report that was requested by Eisenhower himself. Sorry to go off on this, it's a topic close to my heart.

NowhereMan661

Waiting for Gadot is like listening to a podcast. You're just killing time, waiting for some vague thing in the future that isn't going to happen. Sometimes you're humored, sometimes you're intellectually stimulated, sometimes you just need human companionship, but it's all distractions and hollow pursuits, waiting for nothing. Nothing to be done.

NowhereMan661

Ah yes, the Story of the Eye. God, I love Georges Bataille, that kinky-ass bastard. The answer to "What if the Marquis de Sade was a leftist and prefigured post-structuralism?"

NowhereMan661

No no, don't apologize, it's valuable historical context

Maris Tiller

As someone who loves both Beckett and Joyce I did, in fact, expect you to bring up the Joyce Fart Letters.

DuosAngel

Listening to you three talk theater is always a treat. I now desperately wish I could see this live.

Twat Snatch Beaver

Things like learning that the text from the hung luigi meme is from a samuel beckett play are what keep me subscribed for over three years.

Adi

I think it rhymes with “trope”. Twoapw.

Sam Reader

I've played Godot at every production of the play and yet I didn't get an invite to this. Sigh.

Tommie the Tired

They spray painted "A country road. A tree. Evening." Onto the street of the crossroads in the 9th ward where they wanted to perform the play in New Orleans.

John Leavitt

…wait for a return of what. Investment? Communism? The king? These two guys better just hang out and talk to each other by this swing set I guess

J. Kenji López-Grindcore

I cannot yet predict whether a given TWOAPW episode will make me think about luigi's hog

Ciara Rhiannon

Why is Godot the manager from Super Store?

Max

What’s the Patreon goal for a TWOAPW radio play production of Godot with AJ and Brian as Vladimir and Estragon? I need this, actually.

Bert George

Yeah. Me too. That “I can’t go on. Oh, oh what have I said?” hit me so damned hard.

Alexander Gebhardt

I would spend money to hear your radio play production of Godot. Lucky's monologue alone was so gripping and well executed and AJ and Brian have real chemistry as Vladimir and Estragon. Really well done guys! You can be proud of this one!

Leo Fie

Polyester shirts? How dare you!

Elizabeth Power

Yes, more theater episodes! My favorite! Once again, this is a famous place that I don’t know very much about, but will be excited to hear you explain. It’s interesting that you say a school cannot do a play with five parts. When I was in high school, we were apparently one of the first high schools to do God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza. There are only four parts in that show, but it was double cast so eight people could do it. I was the student director, had the best time, and had the whole thing memorized at one point, but the older I get the more I think that was a weird play for high school kids to do.

Elizabeth Power

I was in six characters in search of an author in college! It was so fun and weird. It probably blew my mind as much as the Italians you speak of.

Antichrist Against Fascism

I think that closing speech from AJ might be one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. I sent it to my partner because it helped me realise she makes the waiting bareable.

Greg Dean

Alright, finally digging into my childhood favourite, Challenge of the GoDots.

LogalogJack

This is definitely becoming a relisten staple for me, it hits different every time I come back. Also fun fact: testosterone can cause prostate-like cells to form in people who did not have them previously. I’m not saying this should lead to an all-tboy cast since theirs are homegrown and therefore more raw and powerful, but I’m also not not saying it

Levi Winter

i forgot the meme quote was originally luigi. jabroni mike's detective pikachu gardevoir version is lodged too deep