Phil W. Bayles

Or: How I Learned About The Wonders Of Insurance Fraud.

Let’s be honest… it was only a matter of time before I ended up on a podcast. Fortunately, I choose to pop my cherry with a good one.

Seemingly Unrelated is one of my favourite podcasts, and not just because its creator — Dr Andrew Johnstone — is a good friend of mine. He’s endlessly knowledgeable, with a brain that absorbs facts like a particularly interesting sponge, and he knows how to spin them together to make a particularly good yarn.

I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest on the most recent episode of Seemingly Unrelated, which is all about the Golden Age of Cinema: the power of billboards, the lengths to which people will go to avoid talking to someone they hate at parties, and how some of the best movies of all time owe their existence to insurance fraud.

You can watch the episode on YouTube at the link below, or listen to it wherever you normally get your podcasts. And if you can spare any change, please support the show over on Patreon.