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Let's communicate! Using methods! Woohoo! From trendy semaphore to kid-friendly Morse, we all use amazing methods to communicate! Find out more here! In today's episode, we discuss: Screaming, coal, THE YACHTMASTER, Dyson spheres, holograms, whelks and foot-fingers. Whoop-de-dooooooo! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Small things! Amazing aren't they! If something is so small you can't see it that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist- maybe it's just a denizen of THE MICROSCOPIC REALM! In today's episode about things that are small, we discuss jellyfish, curses, mythological Greek punishments, colonies, consciousness, food preservation and KWAARF. Hooray! Also, there is a little bonus bit at the end after...

Taste! It's the thing that makes food nice! Use your tongue to give it a go! Taste everything around you! Taste all the things! Go on! Do it! Do it now! Today, in our episode about tastes, we talk about the irrepressible nature of Monkey, the Tooth Fairy, eggs, crabs, parasitic wasps, subatomic particles, cess pools and death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prehensile things are amazing! Grip with them! Lift, swing and defeat your enemies! YEAH! In today's episode we construct a wildly confusing but scientifically definitive index of prehensility, and also discuss slippers, sky bums, science jocks, moustaches, wrenches, penguins, tree-running and beaks. Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eggs! Ovoid containers of albumeny yolky goodness! Harbingers of new life, birdous or turtacular. Even Snakey! Wow! Eggs! Let's talk eggs! Whoop whoop! Today, we discuss pythons, bananas, cats, dogs, sharks, wasps and dinosaurs. Also eggs. YEAH! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cheese! It's milk made solid and delicious by bacterial cultures! DELICIOUS GOODNESS OMG! Today we discuss replacement Daves, Tower Bridge, lava, the Terminator, worms, processed foods and terroir. The specific replacement Daves are Meat Dave, Skin Dave, Cheese Dave and Wasp Dave. We also discuss cheese. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 1980s! Cultural high point of humanity! Microcomputers in the home! Big hair! What a time! Today we talk about: Nye Bevan, malevolent seaside eyeballs, phlogiston, o-rings, candles, bicycles, coincidences, post-war austerity, Qualcast Mutilator, emotions and maggots. Also the 1980s! Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tubers! Things that grow in the ground! Potating happily, God bless them! Today, we talk about: magma, horsemeat, brown, worms and slugs, tubes, gourds, raisins, katsu curry and sousaphones. Also tubers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time! Our pitiless enemy, dragging us relentlessly towards the abyss of death. Hooray! Today, we talk about: chariots, camels, beans, jackdaws, the culture war, the Hun, head cheese, galactic winter, and rubbing chilli into your eyes. What else would you expect from a podcast episode about time? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 2025! Oh my gosh! Quarter of the way through the century! How on earth did that happen? Anyway, today we talk about jumping, solipsism, escalators, the shadowy global elite, Aussie Rules Football, vermin, Advocaat, tongues, monarchs and the heat death of the universe. Also the new year of course! HAPPY NEW YEAR AGAIN! WOOHOOOO! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

It's CHRISTMAS! HOORAY! Today we talk about Christmas obviously, but also about: grit, the apocalypse, hair, livers, bisection, swords, laser-tag, and Joel's bafflingly comprehensive lack of Christmas movie knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Electricity! Incredibly useful power source for lights, computers, executions and bringing monsters to life! YEAH! Today we discuss numerical scoring systems, lunch, Bobbit worms, elephant murder, Roman emperors, public information films, boats, cows, Satanistic head rotation and posh kids. Also electricity! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Games! Play them to avoid falling prey to the overwhelming horror and nausea of existence that will inevitably consume you if ever allow yourself to think about it! Today we discuss the cruelty of the universe, tentacles, metaphor, cheese axes, casinos, 80s computers, fighter planes and wood chips. Also games of course! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dance! It's a rhythmic movement of your body to movement! WOW! Find out about this amazing new innovation here! Today we discuss the French Revolution, rifling, school plays, Brazil, TikTok, parenting, sports, and rizz. Also dance, of course! Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bones! The hard crackly bits that stop your flop. Nobody wants to be a meaty flopster. Hooray for bones! Today we discuss crabs, centaurs, venomous bums, prehensile limbs, wheelbarrow/rug/professional wrestling injuries, swedes, the thoughts that keep Dave awake at 3am, butchers, Greek music, elephants, shield bugs and needlessly gendered toys. Also bones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Buildings! Live in them! Work in them! Avoid spending time under the horrid sky by being in them! Today we discuss sheep, German conceptual art, gigantic mechasnails, Children of men, our favourite turbs, black pudding and buildings! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adverts! They are everywhere and we've made a good few ourselves. Marvel at our expert insight into the world of advertising. In today's episode we discuss Spanish meats, murderous water horses, chickens, Attack of the 50ft Woman, Quiznos (obviously,) the FU response, the Algorithm, the firehose of crap, and Egg Benedicts. All this in addition to, obviously, advertising, which we talk about in-dep...

Flying creatures! Are they real? Are they magical? FIND OUT NOW! Today, we talk about: Autoclaves, reverse evolution, spiders, badgers, hedgehogs, sea urchins, flightless birds, ears and horsebats. Obviously, we discuss flying creatures at length. Bees are a flying creature so we discuss those a bit, despite having used up most of our bee facts last week. Still, there's always more to discuss wher...

Cephalopods are wonderful things. Squids! Bendy, tentacley, suckery beak-wielding monstrosities of our deepest nightmares and general awesome aqua-wiggly-dudes! WOW! Today, we talk about: mantlepieces, striped animals, Three Bean Salad, Vietnamese food, the Wokerati, insects, dunces, extinct animals, Russian literature and blood-squirting reptiles. Also cephalopods obviously. Squids and octopuses...

Submarines are the very best things there are! I want one very very badly. Where's my submarine? WHY DON'T I HAVE A SUBMARINE GODDAMIT? Other than submarines (which is Joel's favourite subject so far) we take time to discuss grammar pedantry, Indiana Jones, tinned food, lurking and - at length - worms. We do discuss submarines a lot though. Submarines are amazing. AMAZING. I really want a submarin...

Birds! Magical creatures that float aloft, mocking the laws of physics and us poor benighted ground-dwellers. Find out more about these bizarre and mysterious creatures here! Today we discuss Toenail eyeshades, Russia, Antlers, Paint Your Wagon, dinosaurs, SPARTA!, Time travel, Chairman Mao, Spitfires and Dave's very rational hatred of anglers. We also discuss birds! Amazing! Hosted on Acast. See...

Windows! Magical walls that let you see the world outside without having it touch you! AMAZING! Today we discuss Rubik's shapes, machicolations, mythological warriors, floral names, mind-shattering garden plants, classic cars, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, earwax, bricks, vandalism, mills and gas giants. All the stuff you would expect to cover in a podcast about windows, basically. Hosted on...

Phones! Incredibly useful technological marvel and worst curse ever to afflict mankind! Do you love them or hate them? Today we discuss gourds, dirty old men, Dave's complete lack of interesting anecdotes, gruel, Greek mythology, THINK MINK!, mind bullets, Wikipedia, anger management and also phones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everything has a shape! Even hexagons, although nobody knows what shape they are. It's the last great mystery of science. We discuss accidental minibeast murder, our dark lord Satan, forbidden geometry, Plato, cosmic horror, Tales of the Unexpected, our favourite leaves, the diameter of the Earth, Joel's pyramid collection, cats, the Scooortish Aaaahccent, and whales. Hooray for shapes! What'...

Art! It's the pinnacle of human achievement! Or is it maybe a load of old nonsense? Let's talk art! Today we discuss dentistry, plaster, child-rearing, zeppelins, collective punishment, Prince William, drones, miniguns, toxoplasmosis, Elon Musk's catsuit, Kim Jong Il and Roman horse-punchers. Also Joel's general disinterest in art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.