Dirty Stupid Wisdom with Ben Keaton
I know a lot of things.
Correction. I have a lot of experience.
Moments of brilliance, tragedy, joy, success and poor decisions. A slop bucket of life.
These essays are an effort to make sense of that. It's supposed to make sense isn't it? We wouldn't be the only known living beings in the star system for no reason, that would be ridiculous.
I like simple things. And I like the pain we suffer. It cuts through the noise. And I like my confusion funny. Dirty Stupid Wisdom is my collection of funny, ridiculous, painful moments that suggest clarity and insight. They won't cure you but they might sustain you for a short while.
Episodes
16 episodes
2 Dead Dogs and a Crushed Hat
2 Dead Dogs and a Crushed HatThere's a punchline at the end of life that makes it all funny? Right? Come on, indulge me! What a year. I'm laughing now. But then. Ouch. THIS IS A TRUE STORY OF LO...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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14:45
I Yam what I Yam - Tattoo Crazy
I Yam what I Yam – Tattoo’s Crazy Popeye, the spinach eating cartoon sailor of the 1930s and 40s said it best. He knew who he was and had the tattoos to prove it. Identity emerges. Some know day one and can’t wait to get ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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15:09
If I Were Me
Those self-help gurus must live perfect lives, right? So why do they look like they just came out of rehab? Knowing the right thing to do and doing it are not the same thing at all. That’s why bakeries sell out by 2pm.THIS IS THE STORY O...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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15:52
Watching Not Drowning
Acting is a mad business. You get to do things you’d run from in the real world.'You’ll be naked in this scene.''I feckin won’t!''So will she.''Oh. Ok then.'Some roles get under your skin. Others swallo...
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15:05
Gone North
There are lots of ways to lose friends — not returning a lawnmower, fancying the wife, constantly leaving wee on the floor after bathroom visits. All of them in the canon of possibility.I just didn’t see this one coming.This episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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11:43
Take His Cards
Ben Keaton is a drinker in constant search of that sweet spot. That mix if soft warm, witty repartee embodied by his childhood heroes. This episode is a hymn to booze and online shopping. Those next day deliveries are just fu...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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13:06
He Keeps a List
Ben Keaton keeps a list of people he hates.It’s not a list you’d write down.It’s a private tally of rage.Petty. Profound. Occasionally piss-soaked.This episode is about the fantasies we quietly enjoy and the hatreds we pol...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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17:36
Cue Trombones
Superstition, ghosts, there’s no need to believe in any of that unless it shares your DNA and slips you cash when you’re broke.This episode is an account of the madness that creeps in when ladders, pianos and dead fathers...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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16:43
I Saw Doctor Who's Bollocks
Some sights stay with you forever. The shock may even cause you to rewrite history. In this case the bollocks of a time lord in an intimate setting. You don’t plan for it but once those fellas are out there, there’s no unseeing them....
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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13:36
All Inclusive
All InclusiveBen Keaton’s feed is having a breakdown. The algorithm is too confident. It thinks it knows us, when we don't know ourselves. He’s starting to question what honesty actually looks like. Not the polite social kind— the...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:54
When I Talk to You
Ben Keaton lives in a harem of detached, super-intelligent women. Every day is optimised. Every need attended to. Every fantasy indulged.This is the life we all hoped for. The future, squashed into a one-bedroom flat. No wonder hi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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13:05
I Lost My Virginity to a Drug Dealing Nurse
I Lost My Virginity to a Drug-Dealing NurseAn unflinching tale of sexual awaking, Irish style. Ben Keaton looks back on the miracle of how he lost his virginity — not in a romantic blur of youth, but with a drug-dealing nurse in H...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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17:05
A Beer by the Bins
A Beer by the BinsBen Keaton shares a pint with The Boy and lays out his plans. What begins as a conversation about funerals turns into something else entirely: a meditation on family, finances, and the strange tenderness of talki...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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14:52
The Mad Irish
What makes a nation tick? For some it’s power, for others poetry. There's definitely a drum beating in the Irish — a kind of rhythm that can lift a room. In this episode, Ben Keaton wrestles with a label he never asked for and slowly...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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17:22