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Gold

In which Thom and Michael celebrate their golden podcast anniversary with a bumper special edition, which you might notice looks and sounds quite like all the other episodes. They talk about their experiences seeing Los Quattros Cunts, and Michael gets distracted quite a lot by the copy of Assassin’s Creed II that he’s left on pause in the background. Thom gets angry about Conservative bloggers, and Michael gives an inadvertent ‘hello’ and marvels at the human indicator.

Scarlett

In which Thom and Michael talk about some delightful cakes and some foul jelly beans. Which, were they minded, they could make into some analogy about the podcast. Or the world. Or something. And when not talking about food, share their predilection for being astonishingly petty.

Montana

In which Michael’s forthcoming birthday is celebrated with an impromptu game, talk at length about Richard Herring and his entirely justifiable reuse of material and Thom is amazed at Charlie Brooker’s coat while Michael is more amazed by his artistic talents.

Dong

In which Michael makes his triumphant return from his travels, and regales Thom with his views on Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the film version of The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Blumpkin

Matt and Thom talk about many things, but most of all they would like to make it clear to you that you should not search Urban Dictionary for Blumpkin, Chili Dog or Cleveland Steamer.

Trafigura

In which Thom and Will attempt to bring themselves to the attention of Carter-Ruck for publicity purposes.

Pixies

In which Billy and Thom discuss Michael’s starring plinth appearance while he takes his art around the world. Thom talks for longer than he should do about his recent holiday before Billy and Thom get on to more interesting topics and tell you about the Pixies, why you probably shouldn’t get a Kindle, but maybe get an eReader anyway and then give their opinions on Star Wars.

Manifesto

In an overlong, and inadequately-edited, episode of the podcast, Michael and Ed discuss political matters in the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, before, during and after an evening of comedy with Mark Thomas. They also remember with fear and horror their experiences with The Room, and recall childhood memories of snooker experimentation. There’s even time to touch on Polanski! - The Musical.

Mercy

A little bit of fun to tide you over until the next podcast - Michael harnesses the power of Garageband to recreate one of his childhood radio-editing masterpieces.

Savvy

In Thom’s absence, Michael talks to Chris Applegate (@qwghlm) in the Barbican Centre about why Facebook is like shingles, what happens when we run out of words, what makes an advert unforgettable, and why even simple rules make games better than Second Life. Michael’s ghostly avatar is left staring at a crashed helicopter.

Institution

In their last podcast together for a while, Thom and Michael debate whether Derren Brown really did disappoint the nation, and determine just how jingoistic the Last Night of the Proms is. Michael offers some reviews you can’t use, Thom tells the saga of a burgeoning friendship destroyed by Chris de Burgh, and THIS PODCAST IS PRETTY GOOD, AND I’M GONNA LET YOU HEAR IT! BUT BEYONCE HAS ONE OF THE BEST PODCASTS OF ALL TIME!!

Nine

Don’t worry, you haven’t gone back in time eight months, this is really podcast forty. We just called it ‘Nine’ to blow your feeble minds!!! We talk about nine-related ventures, entirely using nine-letter words, in nine-worded sentences, and nine-sentenced paragraphs. That rhyme. Take that in your ears and smoke it!

Jagpard

In which Thom and Michael alternately gripe and praise the features of Snow Leopard, and celebrate the continuing fine journalism of the Daily Mail. Michael describes his visit to the funny-eyed taxidermy of Tring, and Thom celebrates another correct 2009 prediction.

Kennedy

In which Thom and Michael “report” “live” from the “Edinburgh” “festival”, discuss their recent Prom experiences, establish their knowledge of LEGO giraffe anatomy, and seek answers to the eternal question, “What’s wrong with the muppet’s eyes?”

Standards

In which Thom and Michael talk and stuff. Like every week. I suppose you think this text will help you know whether it’s worth downloading. Ha. You were so wrong. OK, A-levels, journalism, U2, the Proms, and Hitler. One of these doesn’t really get covered very fully. All the others are FULLY covered, so we never need to discuss them again. Thom wants to know if I’m ever going to stop typing, but he-

Campfire

In which Thom and Michael discuss their trip to the Royal Festival Hall to see The National, and respond to listeners’ suggestions (apart from Helen’s, whose romantic assignations we have managed to forget about for a second week).

Glom

In which Thom and Michael talk about their experiences of “challenging” new contemporary classical music at the Proms, Thom chastises Michael for participating in another podcast, and they grumble about the supposed technorati.

Calendar

In which Thom and Michael lament journalistic standards in the Daily Mail and the Guardian and in which Thom entirely fails to tell you anything about Daniel Kitson’s excellent new show, which you should really go and see.

Moon

On the day after the fortieth anniversary of man walking on the moon, Thom and Michael recorded this momentous podcast. Who knows which of these events people will be talking about in another forty years? The moon one. Obviously.

Yak-Shaving Reloaded

After listening back to last week’s podcast, Michael noticed that about four minutes of it consisted of a section of audio repeated nine times. We don’t know what went wrong - but it seems likely that it was a combination of Podbean’s flakiness and BT’s Home Hub resetting itself while we were uploading. In any case, here is the four minutes of audio, as they should have sounded!