Skid Doufas

Certain he is on the right side of history.

Skid believes, with complete sincerity, that he has found the right way to think. Stan is watching the mate he has loved like a brother become someone he barely recognises.

Start Season 1 Meet Skid and Stan

One local pub
Two old mates
Two seasons

Skid Doufas, a spiky-haired older punk musician, animatedly making his point at the bar in a local pub

Underneath the argument

This is a story about losing someone who is still sitting across from you.

Skid has not set out to become cruel. In his own mind, he has become clearer, braver and better informed. He speaks with the moral confidence of someone who believes every important question has already been settled.

But when certainty becomes identity, disagreement starts to feel like betrayal. Every conversation becomes a test. Every old memory has to pass through a new set of rules.

Skid Doufas

The righteous one

Self-assured, confident and basking in his own righteousness, Skid believes without irony that he has found the correct way to think. He does not see himself as intolerant. He sees himself as one of the few people brave enough to care.

Woke Warrior
Morally certain
Chronically online
Entirely sincere

Stan

The friend who stayed

Stan has loved Skid like a brother for most of their adult lives. He is not trying to defeat an ideology or score a point. He is trying to understand what happened to his mate, and how long a friendship can survive when every question is treated as a moral failure.

Loyal
Grounded
Increasingly weary
Still at the table

“I’m not asking you to agree with me. I’m asking my friend to hear me.”
Stan, Episode 30

Why it feels familiar

Not a lecture about politics. A comic about what certainty can cost.

Across pubs, kitchens and group chats, people are watching old friends become consumed by a worldview that leaves less and less room for friendship. Skid and Stan give that experience somewhere to be funny, uncomfortable and recognisable, without pretending either man is disposable.

Pull up a stool and begin

Two seasons