‘Belinda Blinks’ No More: The Dirty Fun Of ‘My Dad Wrote A Porno’ Podcast Concludes After Three New Episodes
Belinda Blumethal may have made her last deal in the cutthroat world of pots and pans.
If you don’t know Belinda, that’s because you haven’t (yet) listened to the hilarious and weirdly perverted podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno. In it, Jamie Morton, along with his pals James Cooper and Alice Levine, read chapters from the amateur erotica series Belinda Blinked, a series written by Morton’s dad under the unassuming ‘pen name’nom de porn’ of Rocky Flintstone.
The show will publish three more episodes beginning November 28th, concluding on December 12th with an interview with the author himself, marking the first time Flintstone has taken the mic for the program.
My Dad Wrote a Porno has been a massive success, with more than 430 million downloads globally. The show has sold out two world tours, been adapted into an HBO comedy special and has had celebrity fans like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dame Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen and Dan Levy appearing in episodes to talk about their love of the series.
The series began in 2015, when Morton discovered that his father had written a intentionally pornographic but unintentionally comical erotic novel that followed the titular (ha!) Belinda Blumenthal, a sales executive at Steele’s Pots and Pans as she rose to success in an industry that seemed to be rife with orgies, secret trysts and other debauchery.
Each series of the podcast features Morton reading one chapter from a Belinda book, which now has six volumes, while he, Cooper and Levine crack wise over the cringe-worthy descriptions of business deals, and the most unsexy erotic encounters ever committed to print. Some of the biggest laughs came from Flintstone’s uncanny descriptions of the female anatomy.
Lines such as, “Her nipples were now as large as the three-inch rivets which held the hull of the fateful Titanic” and “I’m Christina…and here is my ass!” (along with many more we can’t quote here) helped make the show a global cultural phenomenon.
Speaking to BBC News, the friends said that after scores of episodes it “felt like the right time” to bring the podcast series to a close and they “wanted to go out on a high”, but promised “it’s not the end of the brand,” adding that their individual commitments to other work left them “worried that the time we could dedicate to it would be limited.”
The trio haven’t ruled out continuing the Belinda story in other media. According to Levine, “if we did something visual we have a lot of good people on speed dial,” referring to the famous fans who have guested on the podcast. Levine promised “something very exciting in the works. If people are sad about today’s news, hopefully they’ll be buoyed by this.” The trio said an announcement about the show’s future will be coming after Christmas.
Morton said, “I’m not sure we’ll ever do a podcast again, as the story came to such a perfect point that we felt we could bow out.” The Belinda Blinked book series will carry on, as Flintstone will continue to write his unlikely erotica.
“We were all pretty emotional” recording the final episode, said Levine, “but it was satisfying to feel we’d done it proud.”