What happens when you discover you’re just… not very good at something? This week, Tom and Beth discuss the hobbies we should probably have abandoned years ago, including the brutal question of whether some of us simply have no musical ability whatsoever.

Elsewhere, we get into the peculiar British obsession with caravanning, the reality of running an Airbnb, and why white vinegar appears to have become the answer to virtually every domestic problem known to humankind.

Plus: what gives you away as British when you’re abroad? Is it the apologising? The queuing? The sunburn? Or simply being unable to order a coffee without somehow making the whole interaction awkward?

Another rummage through the stuff we buy, the things we do, and the minor domestic nonsense that somehow takes over our lives.

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Here are some of the items mentioned on the show today:

RESISTANCE BANDS ARE AMAZING!

PRESS UPS WITHOUT WRIST PAIN!

IAN MOORE WRITES AMAZING BOOKS!

See you next time for some Kevin Eldon action! (which is up now at our Patreon!)

Toast

Welcome back Toasters! It's another full blooded dive into a real life human's entire Amazon account.

This week: comedian, writer, mod and now Frenchman - Ian Moore!

There’s a £2,500 camper van bought from a man who literally ran away after taking Ian’s cash, disastrous family caravanning holidays, a guitar teacher who delivered a brutally honest verdict on Ian’s musical abilities, and the small matter of a dead chicken being buried underneath the family broadband cable.

Along the way we discover why Ian can’t relax ( I mean who actually CAN though really), why rural French life hasn’t made him remotely less British, and why a dodgy internet connection may occasionally be the fault of a deceased hen. Yep. You heard.

Funny, wonderfully digressive and exactly what My Mate Bought a Toaster does best: one online shopping history, one life story.

My Mate Bought a Toaster with Tom Price. New episodes every other week.

Check out Ian and all his new book releases over at https://www.ianmoore.info

Hello Toasters!

Welcome back to another episode of Toasted - the in between week where we have a look through the previous interview and reflect on some of the high (vis) points and lows (rat pasta).

As usual there's some ridiculous products mentioned and recommended, and we've stuck some affiliate links here if you fancy a look.

Don't forget to give us a follow on the old socials, and we'll see you next time for some Ian Moore!

Team Toast x

Spin scrubber: https://amzn.to/4d5D0Lk

French posh squash: https://amzn.to/3UHA15A

THE T-shirt folder: https://amzn.to/4iU3frO

Supoon: https://amzn.to/4r1a8cZ

Method tropical coconut Fabric conditioner: https://amzn.to/4r3YM7Z

RAT PASTA - https://amzn.to/4ypab4J

Oh hey Toasters

Welcome to another episode of Amazon History Diving! This week we have huge news: Jamelia has bought a LOT of things on Amazon. Like, a LOT.

295 orders in a single year, in fact. Spoiler alert there.

Behind the stationery, fabric conditioner, photography equipment, rat poison, high-vis clothing and inexplicable metal detector, though, is the story of an extraordinary few years and an extraordinarily cool woman.

This week, during a brilliantly candid rummage through another Amazon history, Jamelia (WHO IS A FAN OF THE SHOW) takes us from homeschooling and the terrifying intrusion of the tabloid press, through lockdown and an ever-changing collection of new hobbies, to the breakdown of her marriage while pregnant with her fourth daughter and the beginning of a completely new life in Dubai. Drama-rama, frankly.

Along the way we discover why writing her own songs was one of the best decisions Jamelia ever made, why she once dressed like a construction worker simply because she had hired a skip, why her attempt to make all her baby's clothes resulted in precisely ZERO garments, and why one of her daughters has recently required a metal detector.

It's funny, surprisingly moving and gloriously chaotic. Because of COURSE it is because it's My Mate Bought a Toaster!

Welcome to the many, many, MANY Amazon eras of Jamelia.

Don't forget to give us a big fat follow on all the socials please:

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See you next time!

Team toast x

Tom and Beth are back for another serving of TOASTED—the My Mate Bought a Toaster aftershow.

This week, we return to Kelechi Okafor’s extraordinary shopping history to investigate the products that raised even more questions.

We read reviews of anti-sitting spikes, discover the alarming world of foot-numbing cream and discuss whether tarot cards predict the future—or simply give people the rare pleasure of feeling properly seen.

There are also five listener emails, two utterly ridiculous signs and several contributions from the dogs, who apparently believed they had been booked as regular guests.

Links to some of the products discussed are here look:

DO NOT SIT HERE SIGN

ANTI SITTING HERE SPIKES

NUMBING CREAM

TOASTED: more purchases, more stories and considerably more background barking.

Kelechi Okafor once moved to Atlanta because she believed she and Ciara should be friends.

There was no meeting arranged. No address. Not really even a plan. She just… went to Atlanta.

Which gives you some idea of the energy of this week’s My Mate Bought a Toaster, especially with that being THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE SHOW.

Strap in.

Via Kelechi's online shopping history, Tom discovers an extraordinary trail through acting, personal training, pole dancing, homemade wigs, hot yoga, tarot, Muay Thai and a frankly alarming approach to protecting the radiator covers in her studio. Alarming and also completely ineffective.

There’s also the small matter of turning 40 and inventing geriatric twerking, why you should be VERY careful about the words “in perpetuity” in a contract, the joys of window-shopping death and why Kelechi is simply too sexy to give away the rights to her voice and likeness forever.

One online shopping history. One life story. It's another My Mate Bought a Toaster!

Also go and check out our friends at Great Oak Farm. They're ecologists and writers who specialise in the most BEAUTIFUL kids' books. Here's a link look. It's only a few quid and there's Apple Pay so it's done in seconds!

See you next week for more Toasted!

Hello and welcome back to another episode of TOASTED where we save money on guests and instead just waffle on about the last ep of the show. Which, I think you'll agree, was ACE.

Toby Tarrant supplies many talking points including:

• Turning into your parents

• Poor financial management

• T-Shirt folders

• T-Shirt folders

• OMG the T-Shirt folder

As ever we have a bundle of product recommendations based on this episode including:

THE T-SHIRT FOLDER YES PLEASE

THE SPOON HAS BEEN RE-INVENTED YES PLEASE

KILL THE FRUIT FLIES MAKE THEM DIE

More great episodes to come in the next few weeks including Chesney Hawks, Kevin Eldon and Jamelia!!!! What a lot of stupid fun we do have on the show.

See you next time,

Toast x

We're back and this week we're diving deep into Toby Tarrant's chaotic online purchase history where we find headphones, weird bendy spoons and THE GREATEST ITEM EVER FEATURED ON THE SHOW.

There's other topics, too, of course. Including turning into your dad, finding the right flat with a his n hers toilet, and what happens when your accountant calls because you've been scammed by yourself off on a pub crawl.

A lovable, lovely, large man is Toby. Tom is also here during the interview process.

Enjoy.

And don't miss out on the greatest product ever, look:

THE GREATEST PRODUCT EVER

THE SECOND GREATEST PRODUCT EVER

TOBY TARRANT TICKETS - he's LIVE IN EDINBURGH FROM AUGUST 7th so do go if you're up there please.

Ok thanks see you next week for Toasted,

Team Toast xx

Hi and welcome back to another episode of Toasted, with Tom and Beth. On the show today we trawl through the interviews and pick up the conversational splinters and ask ourselves if there are any products here we'd actually buy. And then we stick links here and you can go and look for yourself!

Here we go then. A load of (affiliate) links.

First up - Beth's wig and THAT bathroom cabinet.

• WIG TOPPER - https://amzn.to/4fxok87

• THE CABINET -  https://amzn.eu/d/0dygJ08Y

And now some of the best bits of Charlie Higson's Amazon history:

• King Zero - https://amzn.to/4pEUjIp

• Author Page - https://amzn.to/4pDLU7P

• Elmore Leonard - https://amzn.to/4z0ipSf

And over to Dame Chapman:

• London - https://amzn.to/3RFkcLk

• BBQ trays - https://amzn.to/3TWIHo1

• BBQ brush - https://amzn.to/4hwn2wL

• CJ SANSOM BOOK 1 - https://amzn.to/4fAS3No

• Green Egg - like HELL are you buying this - https://amzn.to/4fXX7gc

Don't forget to drop us an email - [email protected] for all follow up questions, comments and criticisms.

Also give us a follow on the socials - @toasterpod everywhere more or less.

And see you next week for the brilliant Toby Tarrant!

Team Toast xx

Hello Toasters we are BACK!

There aren't many people who can go from touring the world with the Spice Girls to becoming the face of the Chelsea Flower Show in almost a matter of months, but then Nicki Chapman isn't like most people. And her shopping history is about to prove it.

In this episode we dive into her online shopping history and discover someone who loves life, pop music, printing, pebbles and tiny fish. It's all here!

Along the way we discuss:

• Why Nicki bought a special barbecue tray for her beloved Green Egg

• The fish tank built into her downstairs loo (yes, really she has FISH IN HER ACTUAL BOG)

• The monthly visit from her "Fish Man"

• Her favourite novel of all time is also a city

• Why she loves to print everything out

• The lockdown cocktails that united her street

• Oh yeah there's also one or two references to working with the Spice Girls, David Bowie, Prince and Kylie

• The reality of Pop Idol and the music business

• Recovering from brain tumour surgery

• Why gardening really can change your life

Purchases featured

• Green Egg barbecue cleaning tray

• Tropical fish food

• London by Edward Rutherfurd

• Printer ink. Loads of printer ink.

• Jet pressure washer

• Plum slate garden chippings

• MOTH Negroni cocktails

• Toothpicks for Invisalign

As ever it's a guided tour around our guest who reveals all. The fun, the funny, the totally insane (did we mention the fish?) and the reason she's one of British television's most recognisable presenters.

Next time - Toby Tarrant!

This week on My Mate Bought A Toaster, Tom rifles through the online shopping history of bestselling author and The Traitors star Harriet Tyce… and uncovers everything from cutting-edge MP3 players to Baby Mozart DVDs, dinner party cookbooks, rowing gloves, weighted blankets and even the book she accidentally bought… that she wrote herself.

Along the way Harriet opens up about life as a criminal barrister, the crippling nerves she battled in court, the moment she realised she wanted to become a novelist, why Blood Orange changed everything, and what really happened behind the scenes on The Traitors.

There are stories about illegal MP3 downloads, disastrous dinner parties, parenting fads we all fell for, lockdown puzzles, marathon misery, moonwalking in a Wonderbra, and why she still can’t quite believe her entire life has been preserved in Amazon order history since 2001. It's quite literally ALL HERE UNDER ONE PODCAST ROOF GUYS!

As ever we root around and find laughs, truths and a spot of the surprisingly moving… and occasionally things do get quite forensic.

Products we dig into include (roughly in order):

• 2001 – Intel Pocket Concert MP3 Player
• 2002 – Toshiba DVD Player
• 2002 – The Matrix DVD
• 2002 – The Lord of the Rings DVD
• 2002 – Gladiator DVD
• 2002 – Monsters, Inc. DVD
• 2003 – Entertaining cookbook by Victoria Blashford-Snell
• 2004 – Baby Beethoven / Baby Van Gogh / Baby Mozart DVDs
• 2004 – Children’s vegetarian recipe books
• 2004 – Finger food book for babies & toddlers
• 2004 – Brain games for babies
• 2004 – Black & Decker drill
• 2007 – Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries / Express-style recipe books
• 2007 – The Fussy Eaters’ Recipe Book
• 2007 – Preserved (home preserving cookbook)
• 2007 – Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great
• 2009 – The French Laundry Cookbook
• 2014 – I Hate Literary Agents (guide to getting published)
• 2019/2020 – Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
• 2020 – Pink rowing gloves
• 2020 – Thames Path walking guide
• 2020 – 11kg weighted blanket
• 2020 – Harriet’s own novel, Blood Orange
• 2020 – Jigsaw puzzles (lockdown purchases)
• Recent years – Poetry collections

Got a question or a story from your own online shopping history?

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