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Worms! Everybody loves worms! Worms! What are the very best 10 worms in all of the wormy world? Have a listen and find out! WORMS! WOOHOO! WORMS! In addition to the very best of worms, we also discuss dead whales, Tremors again, Foundation, unwanted clones and Quantum Dave. TIMESTAMPS 02:02 - Bone-Eating Worm 07:15 - Bloodworm 11:35 - Giant Amazon Leech 15:32 - Flying Buttocks 19:17 - Giant Tube W...

Liquids! Like solids but better because they can sploosh about and stuff! But which are the best of all the liquids? Find out here! Also, we discuss eye eating, Orbital, spiders, Wormbursters, Mrs Potts who gives out the sweets, the butter-bog gods and worms. TTP Tndex (Time To Parasites): One minute and 15 seconds TIMESTAMPS: 0:11:06 - Water 0:20:51 - Olive Oil 0:26:39 - Tea 0:41:13 - Cone Snail...

It's finally time to do the TOP 10 PARASITES! HOORAY! One of my absolute favourite subjects, I am SO HAPPY WE ARE DOING THIS ONE. Find out about some absolutely GREAT parasites here. YEAH! PARASITES! WOOOOOOO! In addition to ranking parasites, we also discuss The Borrowers, tongues, colonial organisms, horse-eye sausage extrusion, immortality and cats. This episode has a presumably unbeatable TTP...

Who are the 10 very best women ever to have lived? Find out here! Is your favourite featured? Only one way to be sure- give it a listen. This is the final and definitive list of the best 10 women who have ever lived. This week, we have a very impressive TTP (Time To Parasites) index of 41 seconds! We discuss: Parasites, Eastenders, polonium and armadas. Timecodes, in case you want to skip to a par...

It's the Top 10 Men! Who are the best men there ever have been? Find out here! Do you think you might be on the list? Are you one of the greatest men ever to have lived? Give it a listen and see if you are featured! Don't be sad if you're not, though. Rathergood Chat ep77 - Top Ten People Part 1: MEN In this episode, as well as the top 10 men, we also discuss electromagnet tennis, black holes...

What are the best numbers? I bet you have opinions, but those opinions might be WAY WRONG! Listen NOW to find out what the absolute definitive list of BEST NUMBERS EVER is! Maybe your fave number is on there! Maybe it isn't! Only one way to find out! In this episode we talk about lettuce, gnomes, the Rolling Stones, pork pies, the fundamental nature of the universe, bingo, and lobsters. Timestamps...

What are the very best reptiles? FIND OUT HERE! What's your favourite reptile? Will it feature in this, the definitive and final top 10? Only one way to find out! Give it a listen! In this episode, Joel does his best ever introductory song, and we discuss eyes, soft-shelled crabs, cephalopods, piranhas and Ray Winstone. Here are the reptiles we discuss with timecodes, so you can jump to your favou...

What is the best mammal? FIND OUT NOW! Whatever you are thinking, there is a good chance you are WRONG! This list of the best 10 mammals is a scientifically rigorous, final and definitive list that is immutable and perfect. We discuss: snoots, Michaelangelo, dragons, mermaids, St. George, Aboriginal hunting methods, Liverpool and Mars Bars. TIMESTAMPS: 09:22 - Pygmy Shrew 16:21 - Pink Fairy Armadi...

What are the best fish? Find out here! Are you a fan of dace, haddock or cod? Find out if your fave is in the official chart! Are you a plaice fanatic? Do you think John Dory smashes the other fish with its sheer awesomeness? Do you feel like Dover Sole is the pinnacle of subaquatic amaze? Have you got a problem with Monkfish? Is Tuna right up your alley? Get together with your friends and pu...

Which are the very best birds in the world? FIND OUT HERE The best 10 birds in all of creation! AMAZING! Today we have a chat about birds, as well as horses, Nike Airs, worms, rabbits and tigers. Most importantly, though, we give you a definitive list of the 10 very best birds in all the whole wide world! Whoop whoop! Who will win? Who is your favourite bird? Will it be in the Top 10? Only one way...

Ancient Greece! Amazing birthplace of the modern world, Western culture and democracy. Where mighty Spartans hoiked people into wells shouting "THIS IS SPARTA" all day, every day, for thousands upon thousands of years. Imagine a whole culture built on the single foundational activity of hoofing people into holes while shouting your location. What a dream society! What a wonderful place! We ar...

Exorcism! The ancient art of removing those lovely demons that sit in our minds and direct our actions. Everybody's got a few. Sure, they cause us to commit all kinds of horrific evil but they are at least company and we should value them for that. Today, we discuss chainsaws, Christmas, rock wigs, God, Roman military divisions and mealworms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Comedy! The art of distracting from the utter horror and nausea of existence by finding something absurd to say that makes people laugh briefly, before the unending nightmare of life resumes once more. Today, we discuss organs, ants, eggs, smoking, and TV shows that make Dave cry.. . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cardboard! Ideal for making boxes to store all your things, as long as those things aren't seeping blood and other fluids, because if they are doing that then the cardboard will get soggy and the bottom will fall out. In today's episode, we discuss business baths, banking, viscera, Mars, videogames and klezmer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I scream! You scream! We all scream, all the time! It never ceases. Ice Cream! The nicest, coldest semi-liquid food there is! OR IS IT? In this episode we also discuss walruses, 70's British wrestlers, the scientific method, the Renaissance and piping hot mince. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Apocalypse! The welcome end to all this awful, nauseating existence, A blessed relief that we are all impatient to embrace. Hooray for the Apocalypse! In this episode we discuss vehicles with faces on the front, Jeremy Worldsmasher, cosmic ordering, axes, gudgeons, crumble, legstenders and pancake day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Underground! The ideal place to hide from all the horrors of the world! The dread won't find you if you are buried beneath a thousand tonnes of dirt. Get into a hole right now, it's the only way! In this episode, Joel has the wrong tea and we discuss pirates, troglodytes, Camberwick Green, dibbers, dobbers, and Stripy Garold the enormous blood-hungry murder bee. Also this episode's Time-Till-Paras...

Bags! Use them to carry the trinkets that shield your soul from the awful horror of your existence! Fill your bag with purchased items! They matter! Your life has meaning! Today, in addition to bags, we discuss: Bagger 288, Budgens, spiders, pianos, the Windmills of Your Mind, mustard, gudgeons, bins and Devon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Old diseases are the best diseases! Let's hear it for such classics as scurvy, rickets and leprosy. So much classier and more demure than the brash modern rubbish we all have to get infected with these days. In today's episode, as well as classic diseases we discuss ferrets, Ski Sunday, Rupert Grint, gin, insufferable wizards and halberds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Jokes! The funny little things we say to blot out the sheer horrifying nausea of existence! Hooray! Today, we discuss squirrels, cats with Phil Collins' face, time-travelling Soviet murder-chimps, monkey bars, extended families, ballet, Spike Milligan, and how to survive a shark attack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Skin! It keeps your insides in! Should your family be at risk of starvation through abject poverty, you can always trade your valuable hide for food. What a boon skin really is! Hooray for skin! Today, as well as wonderful skin, we discuss napalm, autocannibalism, Pork Force, rats, bears, melons, Joss Whedon, custard, and sentient tea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weevils! Amazing little cutey critters! They have boots and snoots! Today we discuss weevils in all their glory. Strap yourself in and prepare for a wealth of weevily goodness. I bet you never knew how awesome weevils are! Also, we discuss optimising giraffes, chickens, snoots, sharks, the rings of Saturn, Tarzan and albatrosses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beans! Amazing little blobs of potential! They can grow into things! They can be eaten by human men and women! WOWZORS! In today's episode, we discuss guns, stew, kohlrabi, chainsaws, bisection, acid and krill. Hooray! also BEANS of course! Woo for beans! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aliens! Creatures from space that want to inhabit our bodies and control our minds so that they can escape their own benighted worlds! Nearly everyone has one in them now. You probably do already. Lucky you! In today's episode about aliens, we discuss humans, parasitic worms (yet again,) Batman, turbines, Steven Seagal, Oumuamua, crabs and baffling internal mouths. Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Hair! Stringy bits of weird body stuff that your head extrudes to cover your shameful brains! Find out more about this wonderful substance here and now! We discuss Ilfracombe, haircuts, electrocution, blubber, Queen, inverse monkeys, Claudia Winkleman, and the life cycle of the Ant&Dec. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.