Whose Coat is that Jacket?
Actor and singer Morgan James and teacher and writer Rhianydd Biebrach have been friends since nursery school in the Welsh Valleys. Fashions and hairstyles may have changed (or disappeared!) through the years, and life has taken them in different directions, but their friendship has stood the test of time.
Now, in their middle-aged prime, they are getting together once again to ponder some of life’s great questions and share some of their wit and hard-won wisdom - whether it’s wanted or not.
Taking a different theme every week, Morgan and Rhianydd bring their unique perspectives, often with a Welsh slant, to whatever’s been on their minds:
‘What makes you happy?’
‘Is it ok to tell lies?’
‘Would you do that at home?!’
So, if you often find yourself wondering the same thing, join Morgan and Rhianydd in asking that ubiquitous Welsh question, ‘Whose Coat Is That Jacket?’!
Cwtch up and tune in.
Whose Coat is that Jacket?
Was life better or worse BI?
Was life better B what? What are these whimsical Welsh wallies on about now?
Well, for the uninformed, ‘BI’ = Before Internet!
You’d have to be over thirty (or possibly even as old as Morgan and Rhianydd) to remember such halcyon days: days when if you wanted to find something out you had to … look in a book!; days when if you wanted to buy cinema tickets you had to … go and queue up!; days when if you had to drive somewhere you had to… (gasps)...read a bloody map!
We had patience! We had resourcefulness! We had critical thinking skills!
Think of what we miss out on now that we have the answers at our fingertips: whole nights in the pub arguing whether it was ‘Robert thingummy’ or ‘Al whatshisname’ in ‘that film’, and wait a minute ‘is he still alive anyway?’. Or the joys of waiting for the bus in the rain, wondering whether it would even turn up, with no way of finding out…
Hmmm. Maybe life BI wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be after all.
So yes, this week Morgan and Rhianydd debate the pros and cons of t’interweb, what we’ve lost and what we’ve gained. And what we would have done with it if it had been a thing in 1987 (nothing good in Rhianydd’s case, it turns out).
And no, the irony of the fact that we can only do this podcasting lark because of the world-wide-net, or whatever the young people are calling it these days, isn’t entirely lost on us.
There’s a pungent Wenglish Word of the Week, and if we can’t think of a cultural moment, we’ll just pop on chatgpt to help us out. No one will notice.
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Music by James Biebrach