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Latest Episodes
Death / Where do we go?
The Debilitating Strokes world-tour, decapitation versus getting shot into the sun versus falling asleep on the bus, banned Buddhist nursery classes, and why every funeral needs the Thong Song
Hung Parliament / What's next?
The Schadenfreude Olympics, how the Tories accidentally followed through, The Corbyn Boys singing ‘Go Left’, and one demented fascist grandma
The Kraken Manifesto / How would you win the election?
The Airbnb fascism filter, delays on the Maginot Line, the Libertines' new smackhead, and how to pull hope from the jaws of defeat
Hominids / What's your favourite invention?
Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went extinct, language being invented by one really chatty monkey, and the importance of each ear having an iPod
The Malt-right / Is genocide the new counter-culture?
Alliot and the far-right gentlemen's drinking club, how logic and reason don't extend to climate science, the paradox of a virgin's fear of cuckoldry, and booting our guest to the murder staircase
Flat Earth / What's wrong with being wrong?
Dinosaurs knocked into space, finding the g-word, a new respect for facts from a surprising place, and what to do when you reach the edge of the world
UK Snap Election 2017 / Is Tim Farron a sin?
Borges’ “Snap Election of Babylon”, sleeping with people with tie-dye sheets, the incoming reign of Mad King Charles, and Kraken standing for MP
John C Lilly / Would you dispose of your body?
Recorded live from inside an isolation tank, fearing our dolphin and whale competitors, the bad dubstep boyfriend, and calling the President at 4am
Nationalism / What are you so proud of?
Dishonourable discharges, the end of the British union, the drunk Telegraph admirals in the cupboard, and being conscripted into the Great Gibraltar Monkey War
Stephen King / What makes a story spooky?
The director’s director’s cut of E.T., Japanese versus American horror, going a bit Garth Marenghi, and the eater of worlds, and children