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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.

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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?”

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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-

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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In which Thom and Michael lament the ageing of their musical heroes, moan about idiots for a change, and take us on a tour of their battered purity rings.

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In which Thom and Michael discuss the nausea of existence, their ability to survive disaster, the perils of moving home or office, and discover the fate of Edd the Duck.

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