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Adam and Terence lack a cat…
Idioms:
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Bless their little cotton socks
Alternative names:
Super Magic Sparkle Pen
Ideas for other Podcasts
Seductive Paper Dance
The Night Clouds are Forming
Terence Reads Latin
A Jewel of a Podcast
Links:
Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Adventure Time’s Finale is the Beginning of Something New
Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
MythBusters – Wikipedia
YouTube – MythBusters in the rain
White Rabbit Project (TV Series 2016) – IMDb
Parks and Recreation (TV Series 2009–2015) – IMDb
Making It (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Jim Henson – Wikipedia
YouTube – ERB, just including this for how great it is.
Nomad (comics) – Wikipedia
Kuala Lumpur – Wikipedia
American Revolutionary War – Wikipedia
YouTube – Another great song!
The League of Gentlemen – Wikipedia
George Cotton – Wikipedia
Ganges – Wikipedia
Accidental Tech Podcast
Hello Internet
No Such Thing as a Fish – Wikipedia
Slow Burn
The Wire (TV Series 2002–2008) – IMDb
99% Invisible
Ferrite Recording Studio: Ferrite Recording Studio — Wooji Juice
Audacity (audio editor) – Wikipedia
Byker Grove – Wikipedia
YouTube – Shot in the face!
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Adam and Terence listen to a cat.
Idioms:
The cat’s pyjamas
Chance your arm
Play a blinder (sort of)
Alternative names:
Licking Wendy Houses
Tastless Rubbery Eggs
Interesting Buttery Friend
Yellow Silk PJs
All Bacon Fry-up
Odd But Accurate
Links:
Autonomous sensory meridian response – Wikipedia
Prohibition in the United States – Wikipedia
Donald Trump – Wikipedia
Meowth – Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling – Wikipedia
YouTube – Everybody Wants to be a cat
Absinthe – Wikipedia
Darjeeling – Wikipedia
10 of the Most Dangerous Airports in the World
Tad Dorgan – Wikipedia
Yes! We Have No Bananas – Wikipedia
Dancing plague of 1518 – Wikipedia
George Cross – Wikipedia
St Patrick’s Cathedral
Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Disenchantment (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
YouTube – The Robot Hell Song
John DiMaggio – Wikipedia
Arrested Development (TV Series 2003– ) – IMDb
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Adam and Terence listen to Deborah’s cough, entirely self-inflicted.
Idioms:
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Fit as a fiddle
All the world’s a stage
Alternative names:
Melting from the face
American inner monologue
Socks is great
Shiny Shiny House
Deborah’s cough
Links:
YouTube – Queen’s guard
Just William – Wikipedia
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) – Wikipedia
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher – Wikipedia
Walter Matthau – Wikipedia
Gold leaf – Wikipedia
Joey (TV series) – Wikipedia
Pearl & Dean – Wikipedia
YouTube – Simpsons Ape Song
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Wikipedia
Lindsey Stirling – Wikipedia
Ronald Reagan – Wikipedia
Big Brother (UK TV series) – Wikipedia
William Shakespeare – Wikipedia
Y Tho | Know Your Meme
Cold War – Wikipedia
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Adam, Deborah and Terence are together for the first time ever! We mainly talk nonsense…
Idioms:
Lead someone down the garden path
Take it with a grain of salt
Push the boat out
Alternative names:
Scurvy’s the one I wanted
Space Pirate… Ghost
Champagne Jelly Boats
Greasy Idioms
Barely Remembered Degrees
Tez the Cabin Boy
72 Ingredients
Links:
The Office (U.S. TV series) – Wikipedia
List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia
List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia
Sean Bean – IMDb
Garden-path sentence – Wikipedia
Geocentric model – Wikipedia
Heliocentrism – Wikipedia
North–South divide – Wikipedia
Face of Boe – Wikipedia
Little Women – Wikipedia
The Secret Garden – Wikipedia
The Railway Children – Wikipedia
Jurassic Park – Wikipedia
David Attenborough – Wikipedia
Richard Attenborough – Wikipedia
Edwardian era – Wikipedia
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST on acast
Call Me Kevin – YouTube
Hello Internet
Jeremy Hunt – Wikipedia
Nicolas Cage – Wikipedia
skeptic | Origin and meaning of skeptic by Online Etymology Dictionary
Shoulder angel – Wikipedia
Oprah Winfrey – Wikipedia
Ainsley Harriott – Wikipedia
Louis XVI of France – Wikipedia
Electorate of Mainz – Wikipedia
Prussia – Wikipedia
Unification of Germany – Wikipedia
Pliny the Elder – Wikipedia
Black Death – Wikipedia
Pontus (region) – Wikipedia
Mithridates VI of Pontus – Wikipedia
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Adam, Terence and Lucy take on underwear… we’re also extremely ignorant about American sports!
Idioms:
Cut and run
Mum’s the word
Don’t get your knickers in a twist
Alternative names:
Drive-by Podcasting
Our bad history
Idiomatic Verb Phrases
Let’s Twist Again
Smokey Ghosts
Knicked my Bocks
Links:
Lavalier microphone
Pirates of the Caribbean
Johnny Depp
Disney Sheriff of Nottingham
How it’s made – Newspaper
Dennis Skinner
Oliver Twist
Blackadder
Assassin’s Creed
Elizabeth I (bit out on the date… again…)
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Brexit (such a horrible word)
David Cameron – whistling
Monty Python
And Now for Something Completely Different
Anime bloody nose trope
Royston Vasey
Corned Beef
Homing Pigeon
Kibosh
Vaudeville
Heelys
Return to Oz
The Craft
New York Knickerbockers
Knickerbocker glory
New York Knicks (also Knickerbockers, but basketball, a bit dull)
Google Books
Train from Katanga
Mills & Boon
Geordie Racer
Stottie cake
Pasty barm
Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
George Cruikshank
Bloomers
Plus fours
Media and contact:
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Adam, Lucy and Deborah talk about the heat, again, and we also get into Terence’s hairy legs!
Idioms:
That old chestnut
Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face
Spinning a yarn
Alternative names:
Elongated Film Chat
Peter Molyneux Sucks
Floating Babies
Links:
Fable (2004 video game) – Wikipedia(great game)
Peter Molyneux – Wikipedia
Jack and the Beanstalk – Wikipedia
Lionhead Studios – Wikipedia
Bullfrog Productions – Wikipedia
Theme Hospital – Wikipedia
Theme Park World – Wikipedia
Dungeon Keeper – Wikipedia
Dungeon Keeper 2 – Wikipedia(one of the best games ever)
Godus – Wikipedia
Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube? – Wikipedia
Can Xerox be used as a synonym for photocopy? – Quora
Hoover vs. vacuum – Grammarist
Velcro – Hook-and-loop fastener – Wikipedia
Austin Powers – Wikipedia
Goldmember – Wikipedia
Hokusai – Wikipedia
The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Wikipedia
(Pokemon edition)The Great Wave Off Kanto by missypena on DeviantArt
Photorealism – Wikipedia
The Birth of Venus – Wikipedia
The Merchant of Venice – Wikipedia
Macbeth – Wikipedia
Henry IV of France – Wikipedia (not quite the Henriest Henry)
James Hardy Vaux – Wikipedia
Red thread of fate – Wikipedia
Minotaur – Wikipedia (Theseus!)
American Horror Story – Wikipedia
Bayeux Tapestry – Wikipedia
Mean Girls – Wikipedia
Freaky Friday (2003 film) – Wikipedia
Blade (film) – Wikip
Adam, Sam and Terence try to talk sensibly, despite the heat…
Idioms:
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Navel Gazing
Get off Scot Free
Media and contact:
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Idioms:
Make hay while the sun shines
The full monty
Hobson’s choice
Sponsored by:
A change in podcast editing workflow.
Rejected titles:
Photoshopping yawns
All Philosophers are Arrogant
We Philosopher Kings
Debs’ Old English
The Suneth Shineth
I’m not mad!
Links:
Sophie’s Choice (it was also a book…)
First past the post (again, feels like I’ve linked this before.)
Plato
Aristotle
Plato’s Republic
Ties in decline
UK Summer
British dialects
Heinzhound
Robert Carlyle
Stargate Universe (boo)
Battlestar Galactica
Mr. Bean
The Full Monty – Film
Montezuma (specifically the second one)
Hernán Cortés
Civilization – Game series (so good)
Embiggen
Field Marshal Montgomery
Monte card game
Old maid
Shebang
How 2 (I’d completely forgot it was Carol Vorderman…)
Interrobang
Why three busses come at once
Blue Peter badges
Unfiltered – James O’Brien
The Louvre
Media and contact:
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Idioms:
Tin foil hat
Got their comeuppance
At sixes and sevens
Sponsored by:
Bank holidays.
Links:
Muppets Tonight
Number 9 – Futurama
Into the Wild Green Yonder
New Matt Groening Show
Roswell
Area 51
The X-Files
Wild West Red Dwarf
Westworld
Tin foil formally tin
How they make tinfoil
Better Call Saul
Philip K. Dick
H. G. Wells
UNESCO
World Wildlife Fund
British Humanist Association
British Eugenics Society
Brave New World (fantastic book!)
The Doors of Perception
Bush Did 9/11
Chemtrails
Cloud seeding
Water testing planes
UK Cabinet Split
Cockney rhyming slang
12 Angry Men (first watched this in school, didn’t appreciate it)
A Few Good Men
Bottle episode
Editing in films discussion
City of London Livery Companies
Ancient Guilds
Livery
Terry Pratchett Guilds
Stonecutters
Tim Berners-Lee
Bill Gates
Guild Wars (never played)
World of Warcraft (played this too much)
Idioms:
Turn on a sixpence
Cut someone some slack
Full tilt
Sponsored by:
Injured limbs.
Links:
Sixpence
Usain Bolt
Tron
Lightbikes (Light cycle!)
Pivot!
Charles Dickens
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Almanac
All the Year Round periodical
Dressage
Rube Goldberg machine
Honda Advert
House of Commons – Sixpence
House of Commons – Dime
Aloe
Cooperage
Bugsy Malone
Naruto running
The Incredible Crash Dummies
Crash test dummies TV
Taxidermy
Tilting in poker
MOBA (Feel like we were a bit far off)
League of Legends
Dota
Dota2
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of Newerth
Tilting in esports (an art?)
Jousting
Warcraft III (such a great game, Ben’s great at it)
Fight over Dota Name
Rejected titles:
We’re all injured
We’re not mechanics
Dimes, Daims, and Dames
Wanging with Sticks
The Podcast Almanac
Media and contact:
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Idioms:
Through thick and thin
Every cloud has a silver lining
Fly off the handle
Sponsored by:
No one, but we got the attention of a celebrity on Twitter.
Links:
More chickens than people (I didn’t actually believe this one, that’ll teach me…)
World population clock
Battery farming
Nandos (cheeky)
Wedding vows
CGI
Banana’s Introduced to the UK
It’s a Wonderful Life
Fat sign of wealth
Henriest Henry
Feeding the multitude (5000, woop)
Spartans
300 (60%… it deserves much more than that…)
Battle of Thermopylae (boom, got that one right)
Midas
The Land Before Time
Triceratops (not one of those dinosaurs that textbooks got wrong!)
Doomsday Book (got this one right too!)
Non-Newtonian fluid
Bird’s Custard (and this one, good podcast for vague history!)
Smash (the very phrase ‘instant mashed potato’ inspires dread)
Angel Delight
Chaucer
The Lord of the Rings (boring)
Rosetta Stone
Voynich Manuscript (didn’t recall this one though…)
Berenstain Bears Pawadox
Atlantis
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Jason Momoa (will forever be Ronon from Stargate to me)
P. T. Barnum
Star Wars, misquoted
Bleeding Gums Murphy
Bleeding Gums’ voice actors (not JEL)
James Earl Jones
Kimba the White Li
Idioms:
Don’t poke the bear
Wet your whistle
Flash in the pan
Sponsored by:
Links:
South Park
South Park Episode 300 (got it wrong, it’s actually 200 I was thinking of…)
Jesus vs. Frosty (1992)
Jesus vs. Santa (1995)
South Park Pilot (1997)
Vuvuzela
Chris Evans on Top Gear
New Top Gear viewership (sad times)
Gold panning pan
Pan pipes
Pan the Satyr (playing the pan flute!)
Dryden’s Plays
Mayor of Canterbridge (or more appropriately ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’)
Brandon Sanderson
The Merchant of Venice
Frankenstein
Dracula
Amber Rudd
M. Night Shyamalan
Signs (yup, was M. Night)
The Village (also M. Night)
Flash and the Pan
Waiting for a Train
Accidental Tech Podcast
Reed wind instruments
Semaphore
Help! (Album Semaphore)
International Panic Symbol (A real thing!)
Panic signal… (another great Matt and Trey production)
Brace position conspiracy
The Canterbury Tales
Wet your w
Idioms:
Fighting fire with fire
Starter for ten
Chew the rag/fat
Sponsored by:
That guy
Links:
Hybrid Mario flash game
Pokémon Uranium
Pokémon Sun and Moon
Pokémon Release Date (1996!)
Controlled burns
Trench warfare
Water Arson (inundationist!)
King John (Shakespeare)
Kansas
Carry On Wayward Son (disappointed I couldn’t remember this…)
Reel Big Fish
Oasis
Original firefighters (alternatively titled, being a Roman entrepreneur)
Caroline Kirkland
The Blitz
Mutually Assured Destruction (Adam has opinions on this.)
North Korea Talks (Trump, you’re up, be good.)
South Korea turns off propaganda
Music Torture
Starter for 10 (movie)
Arbitrage
University Challenge
Sky TV
Strictly Come Dancing
Jeremy Paxman
Bamber Gascoigne
Paxman rant on Cameron
Lord North (classic example of being remembered for one thing)
Beard phobia
Lord of the Flies
1999 Life in the 1500s
Pez
Aftershow Links:
Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s Business Practices
Rejected titles:
Nintendo take us down
Aggressively Levelling Pokemon
Life is Unfair
We Stop Forrest Fires
Machines Guns are Disruptive
Classic Shotgun Approach
Ben Rigs Auctions
Remember Eating Meat
Gamon
Idioms:
On yer bike
Tie the knot
Pass the buck
Sponsored by:
Links:
First Past the Post (not PR)
Alternative Vote (not PR)
Proportional representation
MMP – AMS (my mistake)
STV
D’Hondt
CGP Grey’s Video on FPTP (Worth the watch, as are the others, I promise.)
Yes Minister (never seen this, might have to watch it.)
National Trust
Becoming an MP
Stoppit and Tidyup
Spywatch
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race – Camels vs. Bikes
Norman Tebbit
Segway
Owner of Segway Dies
Swegway (Silly devices)
Mountainboarding
Snakeboard
Flicker scooter
Tying cans to cars
The Lady’s Favour
Common-law Marriage
No-fault Divorces
Gay Divorce Law
Same-sex in the Law
Gordian Knot (Alexander, dammit)
Odysseus and the axe-handles (embarrassed for forgetting this one)
Conan the Barbarian
Handfasting Ceremony
Pre-engagement ring
Purity ring
Ring finger
Chastity Belt (Debatably Not Safe for Work, depends where you work I suppose…)
Idioms:
Under the weather
Not enough room to swing a cat
No rest for the wicked
Sponsored by:
Keys!
Links:
Altered Carbon
Bat Out of Hell
WWF
WWF
WWF vs. WWF
The Undertaker
Tekken
Wizard of Oz (1939 Film)
Technicolor
Doctor Who
Daleks
Daily Mail
Cage the Elephant
Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
Borderlands
Paper Planes – MIA
Paper Planes – Street Sweeper Social Club
Tom Morello
Rage Against the Machine
Coverdale Bible
Magic: The Gathering
Meteorologist
Met Office
ITV
Channel 5
BBC
Shipping Forecast
ASMR
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
Dick Van Dyke
SAD lamp
Sad lamp
Crow’s Nest
Seasonal affective disorder
Trilby
Cat o’ nine tails
Henriest Henry
Gout
Syphilis
Anglo-Saxons
Normans
Idioms:
The lion’s share
It’s not rocket science
On the cards
Links:
Hello Internet
South Park – HUMANCENTiPAD
6 Days to Air
Lion Bar
Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle lion
East India Company
Samson and the Lion
Samson’s Riddle
Serengeti
Colonial England
Aesop’s Fables
The Wizard of Oz – Film (There are many)
The Perry Index
William Caxton
Donkeys Defend Herd
Mules
Dualism
Library of Alexandria
Vatican Library
Dan Brown
Common sense isn’t common (Apparently)
Bunny ears shoe tying
Chinese Rockets
2001: A Space Odyssey
Albert Einstein
President Eisenhower
The Space Race
Laika
Soyuz
Yuri Gagarin
Michael Collins
Lobotomy
You Are Two
Mitchell and Webb Skit
Tarot Cards
Speedy Pasta Bolognese (Apology from Adam, Sam never sent me the recipe.)
The Magic Circle
Divination
Trump Suit
Knights Templar
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Bertram Forer
Cold Reading
Idioms:
Not to rain on your parade
Thrown under the bus
To keep tabs on
Links:
Eskimo words for snow
Frozen – Let it Snow
The Weather Girls – It’s Raining Men
Presidents’ Day
Queen’s Coronation
Don’t rain on my Parade
Barbra Streisand
James VI (and I)
Bob Merrill
Streisand Effect
Banned in Russia?
Beyonce’s Photo (dubious claims)
House – TV
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Filofax
Rolodex
Geordie
Arctic Monkeys (Don’t believe the hype!)
Computer Tablet
Tabs vs Spaces
Tabstop Frame
Buses invented?
Bolton
Blackburn
Northern Ireland
Buster Keaton
On the Buses
The Magic School Bus
Pokemon Porygon Episode
Digimon (also known as ‘the better Pokemon’)
Yoshi
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Seinfeld
Friends
American Primaries
Rejected titles:
I got a James Right
Filofax Vibes
The age of the Filofax
Montague and Tabulates
Watch those Plosives
Plinky Plonky Score
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