Badly Written Boy
Mark Jackson
Badly Written Boy is a reciting of my teens and 20s, now as a 40 something. How do I remember all these things? I wrote it all down… badly. Enduring with me on this retrospective, cringeworthy experience is my wife, who has never read my diaries.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Comedy
Networks:
Mark Jackson
Description:
Badly Written Boy is a reciting of my teens and 20s, now as a 40 something. How do I remember all these things? I wrote it all down… badly. Enduring with me on this retrospective, cringeworthy experience is my wife, who has never read my diaries.
Language:
English
Episodes
#32 Liv Fast Pie Young
2/16/2025
In Episode 32, we hear about the new job, pursuing the secretary, intense scanning, the eyes of desire, throwing pies at a hypnotist, stapling torn pants together, drunk and disorderly, sleeping in a corridor, and rocking a CD player.
Duration:00:45:32
#31 Boom Boom
1/29/2025
In Episode 31, we hear about big breaks, big bras, cool cars, boom boom, bad beats, banking fiascos, emerging talent in the world of literature, lesbians, gym daze, pool king, and premature consumption of advent calendar chocolate.
Duration:00:53:34
#30 Lazy Freeloading Chauvinist w/ Michelle Pearce and Jarrod Hart
10/29/2024
In Episode 30, we hear about attempts to become a lifeguard, and alternative careers in t-shirt design, a scriptwriting, film making, ebay trading, and receptionist. We also slag off blue collar workers, judge women, and discuss toasters.
Duration:00:56:19
#29 Lifeguard
10/15/2024
In Episode 29, we hear about aspirations to become a lifeguard, aspirations to move away again, an interview to become a landscape architect, retro game trading, a new cat, road navigation before GPS, and signing a contract with confidence.
Duration:00:53:01
#28 Lads Trip to Turkey
9/27/2024
In Episode 28, we hear about a lads trip to Turkey, wearing a skimpy towel in a spa, chasing women in the sea, scuba diving, and general hatred for a rotund store manager.
Duration:00:51:18
#27 Inconvenience Store w/ Michelle Greet
8/26/2024
In Episode 27, we are joined by my sister to hear about working in a convenience store, booking a holiday, getting fancy haircut, pursuing a colleague, holding up queues, jogging, and excessive consumption of Lucozade.
Duration:00:47:25
#26 Patio Potato
7/30/2024
In Episode 26, we hear about the prolonged laying of a patio, photo albums, a dead cat, a local shop for local people, illusions of grandeur, moments of clarity, alighting, delighting, and insulting pretty much everyone.
Duration:01:03:05
#25 Two Roses
5/21/2024
In Episode 25, we query the existence of eagles in Australia, ponder the thought of becoming a director on the back of a GCSE in Media Studies, wonder why the pool is closed when it is still hot, determine sensibilities of cryogenic sleep, and cry over two old roses. Maybe you will too.
Duration:00:52:05
#24 Unlikely Reunion
5/5/2024
In Episode 24, we hear about an unlikely reunion, being kicked out by a pensioner, what you should spend your last $4.42 on, cleaning a car for free, serving coffee for free, planting trees for free, and telemarketing for free.
Duration:01:01:55
#23 Dumped
4/18/2024
In Episode 23, we hear about a short lived career in telemarketing, an all too predictable dumping, lodging with pensioners, and more championship manager.
Duration:00:49:17
#22 Trainwreck
4/2/2024
In Episode 22, we hear about leaving home, a terrible email, a seizure, the follies of unemployment, poor money management, being a bad boyfriend, the big day out, and a restaurant opening.
Duration:01:06:36
#21 Festive Spending Spree
2/27/2024
In Episode 21 we hear about being 21 today, getting down and doing the bad thing, allegations of laziness, being laid off, not having the perseverance to be a samurai, crashing into a yacht with a kayak, and putting on a speedo show at the retirement village pool.
Duration:01:00:34
#20 In Too Deep
2/13/2024
In Episode 20 we hear about going in too deep, bludging, waitering, packing, how not to eat a mango, and antics on the Gold Coast.
Duration:00:58:52
#19 Exhaustion w/ Matt Wilson
2/4/2024
In Episode 19 we hear about reunions, exhaustion, intolerable cruelty, a tick, a cockaroach, old school scam emails, my first thai curry, my first cappuccino, and an ultrasound. A special guest episode with Matt Wilson.
Duration:01:04:48
#18 Cherry Ripe
1/1/2024
In Episode 18 we hear about cherry popping, breaking curtains, scam jobs, modelling, being skint, dodgy piss, disgusting fish, and Dunlop K26s.
Duration:00:47:03
#17 Australia Bound
12/24/2023
In Episode 17 we hear about a leaving do, a dead deer, destruction of a diary, pre-departure defecation, floppy disks, VHS entertainment, and me time.
Duration:00:49:08
#16 Graduation w/ Jarrod Hart
12/8/2023
In Episode 16 we hear about graduation, the porn virus, racializing a fashion label, lifestyles of the demented, film critiquing, and a cat scaling a fence. A special guest episode with Jarrod Hart.
Duration:00:57:25
#15 Degree result w/ Sinead Lyons
11/27/2023
In Episode 15, we hear about Mark’s degree results, candles, fairy lights, back pain, a tramp under a tree, another whimsical infatuation, and a cup of vomit. A special guest episode with Sinead Lyons.
Duration:00:44:50
#14 TV Adaptation
11/13/2023
In Episode 14, we hear what a tv adaptation of Badly Written Boy might entail, how Mark would fail at getting cast as himself, the final university course submissions, booking flights to Australia, man flu, more self-pity, a man vs wasp encounter, and the multiple roles of the humble couch.
Duration:00:36:51
#12 Seizing the light
10/31/2023
In Episode 12, we hear about seizing the light, studio masturbation, the topshop voyeur, nicely pressed shirts, quiche boy, polaroid cameras, headbutting, and waffle stomping.
Duration:00:47:21