The Wikicast

Can you generate electricity with hamster wheels? What was the Christmas carol beef this year? And what the FUCK is going on with Star Wars musical terminology?! -------- Ichthyosaur discovery: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/january/britains-largest-ever-ichthyosaur-is-discovered-rutland-water.html   Dan Choral Piece of the Week: Cana’s Guest, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILLAlxtbiGw...

The episode with a visual aid. Simon and Dan discuss House of Gaga, Olympic sports, the Jingle Jam, and finally read the brilliant Holopod Star Wars fan fiction! For reasons that will become clear in the next episode, this episode is very, very, very, very dated. We recorded this over a month ago, as is obvious from our discussion of the Jingle Jam. To cut a long story short, Simon got quite sick...

In a remarkable piece of continuity, Simon and Dan are in Sweden this episode! Specifically listening to some Jazz in the Pawnshop. Yes, PAWNshop. Dan gets misty-eyed about vinyl, Simon rants about DUNE, and both have opinions on James Bond...   Next episode: the Holopod! -------- Dudley Moore Colonel Bogey/Neverending piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw   Beyond the Fringe: https:/...

For our 100th episode we're joined by some very special guests, the stars of the Swedish Wikicast! Featuring long-term readers Isabelle and Erik and new reader Greta, and an awful lot of content around #FishFacts. Will Simon and Dan impress the new cast members with their Swedish? What does Greta want for her birthday? How is the weather in Alaska? We find out in our 100th episode extravaganza! --...

Is Simon a criminal? Dan weighs in. Also, 99 episodes??? -------- Turboencabulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator Hogwarts Legacy  https://www.hogwartslegacy.com/en-us The Radio 4 pips  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal Our patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast -------- Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys...

It's erect, it's aromatic, it's often compact... it's the Wikicast! Simon and Dan talk about a shrub before getting on to the important issue of splurging their recent watches and listens and generally catching up. It's been a while! Also, why can't Daaan pronounce traaaanslation? -------- Shepherd's Carol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8N2YTikOsc   Age of Plastic: https://open.spotify.com/albu...

The single most momentous email in the history of our podcast arrives in our inbox. Also, Icelandic labour, the IPCC, and running. Simon had to write this description in a hurry, can you tell? -------- The Anthropocene Reviewed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anthropocene_Reviewed   Simon's IPCC report video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzpG7di07E4   JustGiving page for Simon's run: https:/...

Dan and Simon create the most dazzling, entertaining, and dangerous sport known to humankind: Plughole Panic.   Simon also panics Dan with his Neanderthal impression, we both learn about archery, and we talk about yet another wikipedia article predicated on a lie. -------- Whitsunday Islands/passage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsunday_Islands   Hat Films golf battle royale: https://www.youtu...

When does human history begin? Which Olympic sport would be worst to compete in naked? Why is Simon using a bean tin as a microphone? The episode where Simon and Dan find a flaw at the heart of wikipedia! -------- Human history wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history   History of Rome podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wiEd40oPbQ9UK1rSpIy8I?si=m-gJmB_kQJ-lFsjhBYHbQw&dl_branch=1   Al...

Australian budget thrillers? Costing how many dollarydoos? Warning: this podcast may also contain high octane discussion of IKEA furniture, electric bikes, and Australian case law. Also, one of the most bizarre coincidences we've ever heard, in Corin's podence corner. -------- Simpsons Australia episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FGVh1dj0A   Spongy and Electric film critics: https://www.yo...

The episode with a deep dark secret. Did Simon forget to take notes on what links to include? Maybe. -------- Cooke Nunc Dimittis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niy9C0bMSTE   Our patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast -------- Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Holmes_(inventor)   O...

Dan and Simon are joined by Barnaby Martin of the YouTube channel Listening In! We talk about film scores, baby metal, trash tv, auditioning stories, and which choir is the best in the world. If you don't know you Barney is, do yourself a favour and check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/barnabycbmartin   -------- Barney's video on why choral music is the best: https://www.you...

It's the podcast where Simon and Dan talk about tiny toys! It turns out we have an incredibly cool reader (just one though), and Dan reveals what it's like to work behind the desk at the recent UK elections! Scintillating. This episode might have set a record for the most links in the show notes. Someone, please, for the love of god, click on them. -------- Medlife crisis: https://www.youtube.com/...

The article Simon didn't want to tear himself away from. The boys talk about flight on other planets, sponsoring a flight on this planet, and Dan discovers his new favourite sport. Oh, and Simon has some announcement or other. Fantastic work from you all writing in with your strange sports - please do keep them coming in, and let us know if there's an opportunity to join you (in the post rona time...

An episode featuring Dan reciting poetry, Simon reveals a secret part of his past, and we discuss what would be worse: being Midas, or anti-Midas.... Also the Witcher. #GetHenryCavillOnTheWikicast What weird sports do you play? Has anyone else played Simon's scout version of handball? Can we make this the national sport of the wikicast? Email in and let us know! -------- Withnail and I Hamlet read...

This one is a slow build to a very satisfying finish... Simon calls Dan dad twice, and the Balrog makes an appearance. Oh and twenty minutes of fan fiction. Strap in. -------- Simon's video with Spiffing Brit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3M9-MxyCaQ   Easter by Ralph Vaughan Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3UtkkbQak   Simon's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/drsimonclark   Our patreon...

It's the Wikicast... after dark... (warning: may contain nipple nori roll nibbling) -------- Forniphilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_furniture   Nyotaimori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyotaimori   Spem in Alium documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1zZwppTuc   Lamentations of Jeremiah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbczcKGgcwM   Our patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewikic...

I'll be honest, I edited this episode yesterday and I cannot remember for the life of me what we talk about. Something about Sea Beet I think? You're on your own. -------- Everything is Brassica: https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3395076/brassica-oleracea.0.jpg   Sea Beet (read as Nigella Lawson): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_beet   Documentary about Spem in Alium: https://ww...

Wanna know how I got this skip? -------- George Mackay Brown: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/george-mackay-brown/   Nightstalker: https://www.netflix.com/title/81025701 Battlefront 2 HD remaster mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/hd-graphics-mod   Simon's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/drsimonclark Our patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast -------- Email us at: spongyelectric@gm...

Simon: I feel like I've needed therapy for quite some time Dan, with no hesitation: yes   We're back! Filling your ears with honey and nonsense, including the Cod Wars, poetry, and a very strange video with a saxophone. -------- Dan's album of the week: https://open.spotify.com/album/6EZ4ZARjmbOF8M9yRzxMxE?si=emomF7XyTtiK9GOeJiDH3Q   The crazy fever dream video Dan sent Simon: https://www.youtube....

Simon apologises for any thunderclaps caused by his dummy thicc cheeks -------- Delft thunderclap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft#Delft_Explosion   London beer flood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood   Time the "View of Delft" was painted: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomy-offers-fresh-look-vermeers-view-delft-180975413/   Balloon: https://www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

We. Are. Back. What's the article? Who cares. Simon and Dan natter on about what they've been up to, and drop some major bombs. Dan is doing something very interesting next year! Simon loves The Mandalorian! Dan STILL hasn't seen Hamilton! After our hiatus we're now back with regular episodes, and this time around they're being edited by Dan! That means things might sound a bit different, and poss...

You asked, we delivered! We invited Adam on the show to tell us why we're not role models, and then get sucked into quick possibly the most interesting wiki-rabbit hole of all time. It involves death rays, Citizen Kane, and "Oom the Omnipotent". All this and much more in this bumper episode of the Wikicast! -------- Ganna Walska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganna_Walska   Harry Grindell Matthews...

Dan nearly has a heart attack, Simon breaks his microphone, Dan goes nuts for poetry, Simon does something else, and the pair receive some cracking Corin's pondence. Top tier episode, all round. -------- Dan's insta: https://www.instagram.com/danmaw/   Simon's Twitch: https://twitch.tv/drsimonclark/   Les Illuminations (DCPOTW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XQGHOfIdYY   What's So Great About T...

After Simon and pixel girl go on their summer holidays the Wikicast can return! Dan and Simon treat you to a bumper episode, discussing a Japanese actor, various national liquors, and JK Rowling. Oh, and choosing their own adventure in some excellent interactive fan fiction!! -------- Air Strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Strike_(2018_film) List of national liquors: https://en.wikipedia.or...