Exactly 15 minutes of badinage on a weekly topic. Unedited and un-fact-checked.
Slightly more than our regulation 15 minutes - it IS a special after all! We're in a pub, with a selection of special guests, looking back over our first year, celebrating Christmas and wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2019!
Or in full - "The Patriarchy. Does International Men's Day prove that its not just women that are unhappy with their place in society?" Men's place in society is one of high stress and pressure. Special Guest Droops joins us to ask should they be helped more, or are they just whiners?
Special Guest Chimp Doctor Natasha joins us again, this time to look at proper labeling for food allergies, some Urban Myths, the reason for no ties in hospitals, checklists, and then end with a really terrible dinosaur pun.
Special Guest Lydia joins us in our most expletive heavy episode ever! Do Schools give us the life skills that we need in the modern world?
SpecialGuest Droops joins us for a debate on what constitutes a coup and do they ever work? The gang are also forced to agree that it's not just those dastardly Tories that have them.
Special Guest Beans joins us to ask - are kids better than running a business? Should we just donate and should birth control be opt-out?
Friend of the podcast Droops joins us to get serious about Sexism Racism Homophobia & 70s humour. Is it getting harder to make people laugh?
Doctor Natasha joins us to discuss our (Western?) attitudes to death. Why are we so uncomfortable talking about and dealing with it. Red writes her last will, and we hear about the Torajan tribe from Indonesia.
Special Guest Beans joins us to look at how rubbish targeted ads seem to be. And whether we have free will when it comes to cat food, lawnmowers or Jeremy Clarkson!
We are joined by 3 Trick-Or-Treaters: Dot, Earwax and Arcade, to talk horror games, scary costumes and other Halloweeny stuff! Here is the link mentioned for the spider dog prank on Youtube: https://youtu.be/YoB8t0B4jx4
Friend of the podcast Droops returns to tackle this personal topic before he even gets a boyfriend! We ask why people have issues with Gay Adoption, and hope that society is moving past this as an issue.
Guest stud Cod joins us to discuss the history and state of zoos while Red worries that frozen worms are going to take over the world.
Elon Musk sees Mars as a Growth Opportunity for the Human Race. We're joined by Guest Chimp Fuego to discuss if this will save us as a species, or is it just a pipe dream?
Special guest Droops listens in as Toast lectures about metaphor, then Droops tells us his ghost story before we ask Red "Is the Devil Real" and "what is an Atheist"?
How does Crowdfunding work? What projects have we backed? Is Toast sneakily just advertising his current campaign on Kickstarter for his Frisboules game?
Special Guest Esther joins us for a wide ranging discussion moving from death, through pain onto Tattoos.
The NHS published a survey last week to estimate how old your heart is. So special guest Cod helps us investigate Medicine, HealthyLiving and lifting lions in the Crimea!
Red seems to want to confess something, but if we can't forgive Hitler then is there any hope for her? With special Guest Chimp Fuego!
SpecialGuest Grimace joins us to discuss whether "The Worlds largest Restaurant Chain" really deserves the #EvilCorporate #Label it has been stuck with. We get all Nostalgic and watch the live Web feed of the last MacDonalds burger sold in Iceland!
Special Guest Lydia wants the British Health Service protected from Political Interference. What is the difference from Privatisation? Whats wrong with the system as it currently stands? What are the pros and cons? We Investigate!
Special Guest Fuego joins us as we start with the anachronism of weddings, followed by the misogynist conspiracy of marriage. Was Queen Victoria a virgin and would you marry a tree?
We're joined by Special Guest Beans to chat all things LoveIsland & Kardashian. What even is Reality TV and what does it say about society?
Our First Podcast without Chimps. But its ok! We have our "Chimps Incontinent" aka Cod along to discuss Driverless Cars. When will this future arrive and what will be the impact on our lives?
The Don is often portrayed as a bumbling idiot, yet he has outwitted many to become the most powerful politician in the world. The team, now with a guest presenter, investigate FBI style and deliver judgement.
6 months in and Chimps is leaving the country and with it, the Podcast. We ask him some tough questions and say goodbye. What does the future hold for the rest of us?
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain. How do they work and how can we spend them?
We discuss the validity of Psychometric Testing. Then we discuss our results on a test we took? Which one of us comes out as Moana?
Rapid fire questions from Chimps to Red and Toast! Warning: this episode contains unusual humour (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Augmented Reality is a technology that takes the world around you and adds virtual content on top such that it looks like it's actually there in the real world! We had been promised that Augmented Reality would revamp the tech scene and change the way consumers interact in the digital space. But its been few years since that promise and nothing major has come out of it at least in consumer space. Red, Chimps, and Toast discuss the reasons.
Freedom of speech and the right to freedom of expression applies to ideas of all kinds including those that may be deeply offensive. From no-platforming to the NRA, conspiracist theorists and hate mongers, where should the idea of free speech start and end? Red, Chimps and Toast discuss this very important topic.
The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system that will monitor the behaviour of its enormous population, and rank them all based on their "social credit." The "social credit system," first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that "keeping trust is glorious and breaking trust is disgraceful”. Red, Chimps and Toast discuss the implications of such a system.
A podcast about podcasts...well about awesome podcasts! Red, Chimps and Toast share some of their favourite podcasts. We also learn about the inspiration behind this podcast! Warning: this episode contains unusual humour (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).