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Catching up with the winners from The Golden Lobes Awards – Part 2!

Published on July 24, 2025

We’ve been spotlighting some of the award winners of The Golden Lobes Awards, which took place on 7th May at The Clapham Grand, London. If you missed our first article, check it out here.

Created by the team behind Cheerful Earful, the global festival of funny podcasts, The Golden Lobes shine a spotlight on the creators and shows that keep audiences laughing week after week.

There were 13 award categories in total: Best Blooper, Best Tangent, Grower, Not a Shower, Best Social, Funniest Student podcast, Best Guest, Best Listener Moment, Earworm Award, Best Live podcast, Best Scripted Show, Best Artwork, The Big Ears Award and The Listener’s Lobe. For the full list of winners, see here.

Today, we’ll hear from some more of the award winners to find out more about their podcasts and how they felt about winning a Golden Lobes award.

Best Live Show

Lateral with Tom Scott

Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

I’m David Bodycombe, aka “Producer David”. Lateral is a comedy panel game all about weird questions with wonderful answers. Each week, three guests join forces to work out things like: how did someone’s broken bathroom extractor fan cause 250,000 Americans to get married last year? There is a link! (Answer in episode 36.)

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

You can’t go wrong with any of the episodes featuring Ella, Caroline and Tom from ‘Let’s Learn Everything!’ such as #131, ‘Very happy mice’. Their sense of fun and wonderment is infectious. However, many listeners start with our first episode and work forwards, because our format hasn’t changed very much over the two years.

What does winning a Golden Lobes Award mean to you?

We often tend to fly under the radar in terms of PR, so it’s lovely to receive some validation that we’re doing something right! We won the ‘Best Live Show’ category for our very first live event, which happened to be at the Cheerful Earful podcast festival itself. We’ll be back for the 2025 festival, so we have a lot to live up to!

Where can Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

Our official website at lateralcast.com has details of our previous episodes, full transcripts, and a link to send in your own question ideas. There’s also details of our tie-in book, and the Producer’s Club for ad-free episodes and bonus fun stuff. We have full video episodes on Spotify, or search for “lateralcast” on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram for clips.

Judge’s comments

“Knows how to make the audience part of the show, an essential device to a successful live show (be it comedy or a podcast). Easy-to-follow gameshow format that feels inclusive to all. Well executed all round. Who wouldn’t want to be in the audience??

The host skilfully maintains the pace of the game, slowly unveiling more and more details, all the while cracking jokes. There is clearly chemistry across the panel, with the entire panel chipping in with jokes. The host brilliantly gets the crowd involved so they feel a part of the show and the recording captures the energy and laughter of the room. Nice to have some backing music whilst the question is read out. A fantastic clip which showcases every ingredient for a brilliant live show.”

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Best Social

Thots TV

Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

We are three flatmates and best friends who record on their ratchet living room floor. Thots TV is a nostalgic podcast (for adults!) about kid’s TV of our past, where we discuss shows we love and hate and the changing cultural landscape of children’s media. Our pod is overly candid, and every conversation we have on mic is just like one we’d have in our kitchen at 3AM. If you want to hear our critique of popular kids shows (and also know more about us than our own families) then let us slide into your eardrums before we hunt you down and make you listen anyway.

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

Our Thomas and Friends episode is the perfect introduction to our podcast, with a nice mix of facts and comedy. Our favourite episodes are the ones about shows with rich history, and in this one we unpack a cultural landmark while also letting our listeners feel as though they are hanging out in our living room with us. You’ll come away having had a good laugh, and hopefully will have learnt something new as well.

What does winning a Golden Lobes Award mean to you?

Having a passion project that you share with your two best mates is already one of the greatest feelings, but to be able to call it “award-winning” is on another level. We’ve not had a day off in three years, and though we can’t complain about that, to know that people appreciate our work is immensely rewarding. Cheerful Earful (who run the Golden Lobes) is run by some of the nicest people in the industry. Getting to hang out with them at the ceremony was a highlight of our podcasting journey, and we can’t thank them enough.

Where can Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

We’re very active on Instagram (we did win Best Socials after all) but you can find us in lots of places:

Instagram: @th0tstv
X: @thots__tv
TikTok: @thotstvpod
YouTube: @ThotsTVPod
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mu5Y8TNE

Judge’s comments

“There’s an effortless, infectious chemistry between the hosts that feels like you’re eavesdropping on a hilarious flatmate chat over a bottle of wine. Social media is clearly part of the podcast’s DNA with memes, clips, and even historical retellings that have built a super engaged community beyond the episodes. Keep doing what you’re doing!

This entrant clearly goes beyond simply posting clips of the podcast and hoping for the best. It’s clear they have a deep understanding and connection to the content (kids TV) that their audience is hungry for and they create non-podcast content to satisfy that hunger. They’ve carved out and nurtured a seriously impressive niche and the fruits of their labour are clearly very delicious. I’d maybe exercise caution when it comes to copyright rules; I’d hate to see such a successful account be caught out!”

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Grower Not a Shower (Cult Favourite)

CheapShow

Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

CheapShow is Paul Gannon & Eli Silverman’s “economy” comedy podcast that searches the charity shops, bargain bins or Poundlands of the UK to discover the treasure amongst the trash. Tonally, a lot of people have described our podcast as a cross between the sitcom “Bottom” and old magazine TV show “That’s Life!” but with a focus on cheap food, old vinyl, charity shop curios, retro board games, and whatever terrible surprises come our way. One week we can be a review podcast or game show, the next week an outdoors travelogue or narrative adventure – we’re a bit of a shapeshifter!

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

Tricky one – because there are many types of episodes that we do!

We tend to soft reboot the show every 50th episode, so anyone can jump in and start from a relatively clean slate.

If you want to hear us with a guest – Ep 375 with comedy legend Robert Popper has a REALLY bizarre surprise at its centre.

We escape the studio for “walkabout” episodes, Ep 357 takes us to Los Angeles for an odd adventure.

Ep 181 is a crowning achievement as it’s our 3-hour doc about the greatest pop culture story never told… Winkie!

What does winning a Golden Lobes Award mean to you?

It means a LOT to us! We’ve been going 10 years, heading towards 450 episodes and we’re probably the living definition of a cult podcast. We’ve had amazing support from our audience and our guests/contributors over the years but we’ve never really been “recognised” in more mainstream circles.

We love our odd, dumb, creative, surreal, vulgar podcast and to collect a Golden Lobe award that celebrates our achievements, despite us never grabbing hundreds of thousands of listeners, shows us that there are some industry people out there who love what we do too and that’s incredibly satisfying, emotionally, to hear.

Where can Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

CheapShow is everywhere! Your one-stop-shop for ALL things CheapShow is www.thecheapshow.co.uk.

From there, you can find links to our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Bsky etc) as well as our fortnightly YouTube series “Cheap Shots” which are shorter, but more visual versions of our usual format. It’s also where we host our live stream events and more interactive productions.
One last thing! To celebrate our 10th year of existence, we are releasing a vinyl album of songs and music from the past decade of CheapShow – and it’s fabulous! (Details here!)

Judge’s comments

“I adore the audience’s passion for this podcast, which has clearly carved out and owned a niche. The boys grubby humour is infectious and a welcome antidote to safer comedy. Singing ability is questionable.

The podcast brings the live shows to life brilliantly, with the audience and atmosphere in the room being captured effectively to engage listeners in the live experience rather than exclude them. With listeners contributing music, animation and art it’s clear the podcast has established itself as a cult favourite – 450 episodes is no small feat!”