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Ste and Nicole are back, and somehow a perfectly innocent quiz, a hot tub and a relationship involving a toaster have all ended up in the same episode. This week, there's a Pepsi disaster at the cinema, the eye-watering cost of a Harry Potter souvenir, baby spiders leaving home, and the usual detour through things that probably shouldn't take quite so long to discuss. In Topical Media, we're talki...

Nicole breaks WordPress, Ste contemplates reporting a gas worker smoking next to a massive hole, and somehow that's one of the more sensible parts of Episode 229. This week we discover the surprisingly filthy world of completely innocent terminology. Grease nipples, shafts, ballcocks, butt joints, thrust washers, flanges and the magnificent prick punch all get exactly the level of maturity you'd e...

EP228 | T.J. HUGHES: THE WORST ACRONYM EVER What does T.J. Hughes actually stand for? Well… apparently Ste and Nicole have some ideas, and somewhere around the hour mark they become so pleased with one of them that they actually stop the show and declare it the episode title. Before we get there, Ste accidentally joins the Ninja elite after winning a £175 air fryer, while Nicole’s week from hell c...

Which animals could Ste and Nicole actually beat in a fight? A goose seems possible. A kangaroo changes the mood considerably. This week, Nicole’s attempt to build a website leads into an M&S trip, a car crash and the joys of dealing with insurance. We get stuck into your listener feedback and the week’s news, then Judge Jerry hears about a drunk uncle who dropped a family secret at his niece’s we...

EP226 | Crotch Goblins, Supermarket Rage & Judge Jerry’s Wedding Verdict Crotch goblins, supermarket rage, New York mole people, common sense and a child-free wedding that somehow ends up in Judge Jerry’s courtroom. Welcome to Topicopedia EP226. 🎙️😂 This week, Ste and Nicole get into listener feedback, some of the stranger stories making the headlines, people apparently emerging from New York man...

EP225 | WETHERSPOONS PLATES ARE BRANDING GENIUS Episode 225 starts with autumn, technical gremlins and the remains of the NFT boom before heading into stolen Guinness, driverless taxis, a 35-day film, USB-sniffing police dogs and another selection of news stories that reality probably should have rejected. We also discover why Wetherspoons plates are instantly recognisable, compare modern nights o...

EP224 | Bonnie Blue, Dad’s Secret Subscription & a Very Awkward Baby Question Nicole is back from Cornwall with a new coffee machine and a Nintendo Switch, and it doesn’t take long for things to deteriorate. We get filthy with personalised Christmas baubles, discover what scientists think cats are saying with their urine, hear about cheese-ball motorway chaos and discuss a horrifying superglue DIY...

EP223 | £38k by mistake? A neighbour row escalates into CCTV, spreadsheets, Who Let The Dogs Out and retaliatory Cocomelon before Judge Jerry delivers his verdict. Plus a £38,611 British Gas mistake, AI shoplifters, useless AI emails, aliens, secret millions, dinosaurs in a tank and some properly questionable jokes. 07:23 — AI email loop / “I’ll pass this onto a human” 14:07 — Andy Burnham / fake...

This week on Topicopedia, things get weird remarkably quickly. Nicole somehow gets Michael Barrymore to sing Happy Birthday to “Spoodpimpy”, we discover what happens when somebody puts Bovril in a SodaStream, and Ste finds Nicole a bargain laptop online… unfortunately the seller appears to have included considerably more in the photos than just the ports. We also get into emergency wildfire alerts...

We both lick it out. Yes, that is a genuine sentence from EP221. And yes, we immediately realised it would probably end up in the title. This week Ste and Nicole tackle the important issues: the correct way to eat a Creme Egg, whether eating an Oreo normally makes you a psychopath, why stealing somebody else's chips tastes better because "the secret ingredient is crime", and just how much food you...

Description: Nicole’s back has finally packed up, Ste has returned from his birthday trip to London considerably poorer, and a disappointing Gordon Ramsay burger has left him questioning everything. In Episode 220 of Topicopedia, we hear about Nicole’s terrifying night home alone, debate whether Britain should ever reconsider the death penalty, and meet the electric Jaguar driver whose own car gra...

In Episode 219, Ste and Nicole accidentally spend far too long investigating Ben & Jerry’s flavours before eventually remembering they have an actual podcast to record. There’s listener feedback, Andy Burnham and Number 10 North, hosepipe snitches, people parachuting from towers, a real-life Spider-Man, rogue AI, Sam Smith’s hazel-eye confusion and plenty more from the week’s headlines. Nicole the...

Episode 218 gets expensive, awkward and worryingly canine. Nicole has bought a 3D printer and immediately discovered that the printer itself is only the beginning of the spending. We catch up with your feedback, discuss the week's headlines and make some political predictions that may age terribly. Then Ste plays The Price Is Wrong, attempting to guess the real cost of everything from a cup of tea...

Autocorrect has learned one word from Ste’s phone and it absolutely refuses to let it go: THE BINDICATOR. This week, Nicole reveals the matching tattoos and launches a forensic investigation into the face of someone who laughed at them. Ste embraces sticky-ball season, Andy risks the friendship by attacking pistachios, and Topical Media returns with the biggest, weirdest and most ridiculous storie...

Ste and Nicole are back for episode 216 of Topicopedia, and this week starts exactly how any sensible podcast should: with colonoscopy chat, road surface analysis and a suspiciously deep dive into bus-route YouTube. There’s also a missing smash burger delivery, a cursed DHL coffee table saga, listener feedback about weather stations, Viagra in football, air con, political chaos and the sort of wor...

This week on Topicopedia, Ste and Nicole are surviving the heatwave, arguing about aircon, celebrating Spoodpimp going weirdly viral, and once again proving that Lidl’s middle aisle is basically financial Russian roulette. We also dive into listener feedback, weird eBay purchases, resin pumpkins, suspicious weather maps, missing giraffes, sewer explorers, raccoons with jars on their heads, and sea...

This week on Topicopedia, we somehow go from politics to haunted bath toys, which feels about right. We talk Keir Starmer apparently throwing in the towel, Andy Burnham being lined up as the next big northern hope, social media bans, Clarkson, voting ages, and whether the government just wants everyone carrying digital ID. Then things get properly stupid as we dive into some of the most unhinged t...

This week on Topicopedia, Ste and Nicole accidentally wander through the Lidl middle aisle of chaos, discuss whether Ste has become worryingly healthy, and explain why slime with bits in it is an offence against humanity. We dig into listener feedback, RollerCoaster Tycoon nostalgia, Uncle Jerry’s growing presence in the comments section, and a Notable News round-up featuring Andy Burnham, Keir St...

This week on Topicopedia, the website gets hacked, Uncle Jerry continues terrorising the Facebook comments, Nicole survives another week of NHS side quests, and somehow we end up blaming Keir Starmer for everything. We kick things off with listener feedback, Andy’s thoughts, Bonnie Blue fallout, pet insurance drama, flip phones, Spotify, nostalgia, and the return of Uncle Jerry in the comments sec...

This week on Topicopedia, Ste and Nicole somehow go from Uncle Jerry being a menace on Facebook to police, politics, Bonnie Blue, Jeremy Clarkson’s choir, and the sort of people who post “delete me then” statuses at midnight. We get into the Manchester Airport case, the Henry Novak discussion, two-tier justice arguments, Bonnie Blue’s latest chaos, and why Jeremy Clarkson accidentally becoming lik...

This week on Topicopedia, Ste and Nicole return with another hour of absolute nonsense, medical mystery energy, listener chaos and questionable life choices. Nicole has another egg-related meltdown, the listeners are back with feedback about pavlovas, ice cream vans and underground amaretto panic, and TikTok decides Nicole’s snake setup is somehow worth sending death threats over. Then it’s into N...

This week on Topicopedia Episode 209, the eggs exploded… and so did the episode. Nicole kicks things off by revealing she detonated two eggs in the microwave like tiny breakfast grenades, Ste has reformatted his computer and accidentally tried to rejoin Slack like a confused new starter, and Uncle Jerry has once again been let loose on social media without supervision. We’ve got listener feedback...

This week on Topicopedia, Nicole is horizontal, Ste is ranting, Uncle Jerry is lurking, and the internet has somehow got even more ridiculous. We kick things off with listener feedback, postcards, pirate weekend, body reprogramming, and the return of lavatorial profanity. Then it’s time for Notable News of the Week, featuring David Attenborough turning 100, politics getting messier than ever, a de...

This week on Topicopedia, Uncle Jerry has been let loose on the socials, Andy is basically producing the show now, and somehow we end up doing what can only be described as a full public service announcement about different types of poo. We kick things off with listener feedback, pasty chat, four-day week dreams, podcast copyright chaos, political misery, awkward food memories and the kind of nota...

This week on Topicopedia, Ste and Nicole are back with another beautifully chaotic episode full of questionable rankings, terrible jokes, odd news, listener feedback and one very dark true crime case. We kick things off with hangovers, hot tub cleaning, Sunday sadness, shoplifting rants, Wetherspoons plates, and Andy’s latest feedback — including a few brutal “they’re a 10 but…” suggestions. Then...