Rathergood Chat

Soil! It's that brown stuff that plants grow out of and worms live in! YEAH! Today we talk about tiny trains, model villages, the town of Poundbury, Traitors UK, Secret Hitler, horse poo, Crocodile Dundee, chickens, Russian foxes, animal emotions, dogs, mud and cows. We even briefly mention soil at some points! Is soil good or bad? Should you be pro or anti soil? Is soil Good or Evil? Maybe you'll...

Cars! They're wheely good! Let's talk cars!  It's a fascinating chat about cars! We also touch on other important and sometimes even relevant subjects such as: Scabies, Lupus (which Dave confuses with Mono,) glands, swans, Wham!, Joel's military past, sport, ornithopters and autonomous carnivorous kitchen appliances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

VOLCANOES! Massive explodey fire doom things! YEAH! WOOHOO! VOLCANOES ARE AMAZING! We have a wonderful discussion of these monstrous embodiments of the contempt in which Mother Earth holds our pathetic travails. We also discuss the creative process, Bjork, cave paintings, Arthur Scargill, flaming sky orcas, the Bayeux Tapestry, the Tunguska Event, Trek Wars, and the Town Mangler. Hosted on Acast....

Wearing things on your feet is awesome. Look at those buffoons with their bleeding shredded feet, limping over the horrid gravelly ground. Not us! We are far cleverer than those foot-fools! We wear things on our feet! FOOTWEAR! Find out about it here! Footwear is the single most advantageous thing you can wear on your foot, and that is a 100% science fact. We discuss footwear, along with the priso...

Ooh saucy! This is what we say whenever we see liquid, viscous food that can be slopped on to another, more solid food. Find out all about the myriad mysteries of sauce! WOWZORS! The only sauce source you need. We also discuss Penguin Jim, the tyranny of joints, gravy, eggs, drones, kimchi, mashed potato, school protests and yorkshire puddings. Wow! Amazing stuff!   Hosted on Acast. See...

Blades! Sharp and slicey! Chop and dicey! Cheap or pricey, always nice! It's time to talk about bisection! Also, golden syrup, how lovely it is to be a baseline human, pagan rituals, Big Farmer and a traumatic story about ice-skating. Yay! We also discuss how ridiculously English my village is and the resident gravedigger / scythe murderer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Insects! Amazing carapacey wriggley things of doom! Joel and Dave discuss skull binding, rats and mice, frogs, how many legs and arms crabs have and also insects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Photosynthesis! Using the power of the sun to grow new life! WOW! On this episode about the magical natural process of photosynthesis, Joel and Dave discuss cats, spiders, Triffids, Doctor Who, fungal foot infections, Gillian McKeith and parasitic worms, among many other fascinating subjects. Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Music! Isn't it awesome! We are experts in all things musical so listen in and learn. Become the envy of your friends with a monstrous knowledge of musical things and stuff. Joel and Dave discuss everything you ever need or want to know about music. Along the way we also talk about some other things, such as rabies, parasites, newspaper salesmen, rag and bone men, cheese, very large figs, holy war...

Aeroplanes are fantastic! Find out all about them with Joel and Dave. Aeroplanes are mysterious and wonderful things, defying the rules of nature as the dangle stringless in the skies. We uncover all of their magical secrets in this discussion. We also discuss Blur lyrics (incorrectly,) banana tricks, klaxxons, hoovers, megastructures, circus clowns, snakes, Return of the Jedi, and symbiosis. Host...

Fruit is amazing! Find out more about this fantastic subject and many other things. Fruit is absolutely brilliant and everybody loves it. Joel is a particular fan of growing fruits, and absolutely loves this opportunity to talk about fruit at length. Find out Joel's favourite fruit! What could it be? Make a wager with your friends, run a sweepstake or run a book on it. You'll find out here, as wel...

Furniture! Joel and Dave discuss lots of things including, briefly, furniture Furniture is amazing and incredible. That said, we spent more time discussing things like Winston Churchill, goobers, compulsory state music, sausages and, of course, bursting. How could we possibly discuss furniture without spending a lot of time thinking about bursting? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Gravity! Isn't it awesome? And yet also our greatest enemy. Find out whether it is a good thing or a bad thing in this awesome podcast. Gravity is here to stay and here we discuss it in great detail. Also, Dave has a monstrously powerful cold that would have killed a lesser man. Joel explains the rich folk tradition of Old Man Chicken. Then they redefine the base elements so they make a bit m...

The Roman Empire! Was it great? Hell yeah! Find out more! The Roman Empire! In today's podcast we discuss columns, Joel's mate Concrete John, why travelling to Scotland is instantly fatal, monotremes, and the best situations in which to be naked and blue. We also discuss the Roman Empire of course. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Medicine! Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Find out now! Medicine! In today's podcast we discuss taxonomy, early hominins, bloodworms, cod livers, the ultra-rich, porcupine factories and briefly, medicine. Should we make medicine compulsory? Or should it be banned? We work out the answer to this pressing question and also unearth many other truths in the process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Joel and Dave explain everything you need to know about cooking Do you want to know how to cook? Learn to cook! Dave and Joel explain everything there is to know about cooking and cookery in this incredibly useful and informative podcast episode, which is about cooking. Discussion of eggs is thorough. Knives are covered, and also other things such as whether flames are a good thing. Your life will...

Joel and Dave discuss the most wonderful creatures ever to exist - namely crabs. Rathergood, where all of this began back at the dawn of the new millennium, is in fact The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom, and Joel is himself the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom - a gigantic crab with a human face, atop a gigantic pyramid surrounded by hordes of fanatical followers. Crabs have featured in many, many o...

Trees! Big wood things sticking out of the ground! They're magnificent, aren't they! Joel and Dave discuss the glory of trees, including why there are loads of mulberry trees around England planted due to an ancient misunderstanding about the diet of moth larvae. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Would you like to survive? If so, this is the podcast for you. Failing to survive is generally considered a bad thing so you should probably listen to this. Obviously everybody knows the main "vanilla" way to survive is to eat the Eye of the Tiger but believe it or not there are other ways to survive. Find out about them here! Joel and Dave also explain lots of other things such as all the types o...

Crime- good thing or bad thing? Joel and Dave solve the problem of crime that has plagued human societies forever. They also discuss other important issues such as the surprising fact that eels are the escaped intestinal tracts of deceased whales in search of a new host. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joel Veitch and David Shute are joined today by their longtime friend and collaborator Alex Mallinson, to discuss the origins of the project which eventually became the Netflix show Bad Dinosaurs, on the day of its release. They tell the story of how they went from doodles of incompetent dinosaurs on a napkin, to a series of YouTube shorts, to a globally released animation series. SPOILER: It was...

Joel and Dave delve deep into the vagaries of the weather. Weather is the staple favourite conversation subject of all Britons, and hence all outstanding questions and mysteries regarding the functioning of the weather are answered here once and for all. Is weather a good thing? Or a bad thing? Find out now! Also some other subjects such as haunted goat heads, baffling thoraxes and how to seize co...

What is a gas? Can you squeeze it? How does this relate to rock music, Ancient Rome, zombies and boxing legends? When would it be appropriate for you to swallow an antelope whole? Find out in this conversational thrill ride into the exciting world of gas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joel and Dave dig deep into the mysteries of maths, the language of the universe. They also discuss some other things as well. All the things they discuss are very interesting and clever, as always, because they are such very clever men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joel and Dave discuss the deep history of folklore that is our common cultural heritage. They also discuss several other things, all of which are very interesting and clever. Guaranteed. Including ROFLCON and the benefits of washing clothes with petrol . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.