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Show 873: Nonetheless Wiser

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Neal maps the future of the traditional white haired action villain, explains why governments would love to mandate toe typewriters, tries to describe a mysterious part of Dublin’s city centre using Theoretical Physics, conjures a talking cat to explain the mechanics of speaking without vocal cords, defends Edwyn Collins’ incorrect inflexions in Addidas World, relates a defining childhood moment involving a very special word, worries about toilet brush design, proposes a unifying theory for the Terminator movies, illuminates the dark side of cartoon dogs, wonders how you go about decaffeinating something, relates how bread vans triggered an ambulance phobia, remembers when the name AA1 Aardvark used to mean something and looks at tastefully rebooting Die Hard, what cats hear when we say anti disestablish mentarianism (last time I used that word without breaks in it, it broke the feed), why dog beds are nonsense, The Ant and the Aardvark, why The Animals of Farthing Wood is unsuitable for children, Jellystone and other hideous cartoon reboots, a piece of student infrastructure resembling an ancient royal litter, fines for swearing in Demolition Man (1993), schooling in the twenty-second century, the surprising logistics of walking computers and more.

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Matchstick Cats 769: The Thirtieth Day of February

Matchstick Cats 769: The Thirtieth Day of February

Matchstick Cats 768: Invested

Matchstick Cats 768: Invested

Video Shorts 207: No Thank You, I Do NOT Want to go Down to Devil Gate Drive

Show 872: How to Achieve Omnipresence by Sixty Five

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SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES. Neal considers how to talk to your child about Devil Gate Drive, explains how the bow and arrow were the Dark Ages equivalent of a kid with glasses, reveals the best career to pursue for omnipresence, explores the logistics of being seen dead in an IKEA, celebrates his old dinosaur mirror’s scientific endorsement and looks at a 1980s music warning label, tricycle tyre alchemy, life in a Dyson Sphere, Haley’s Comet, Haley’s father, The SuperVet (Channel 4 UK), off-camera unheard interviewers, Designated Survivor (Netflix), operating your two wheeled no legs dog, an unexpected advantage of noisy joints, the Ask Jeeves mascot, three hours stuck in a rail tunnel, rain from the heavens via space, societal attitudes to desserts, improving how you donate coffee to homeless citizens and more.

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Matchstick Cats 767: The Philip Principle

Matchstick Cats 767: The Philip Principle

Video Shorts 206: Lincoln’s Ghost – A Diplomatic Disaster Waiting to Happen

In a first for me, the video below was automatically removed from TikTok for “violent extremism.”**

In case you’re afraid to watch, it’s a podcast clip from Show 871, light heartedly suggesting that the White House, by putting Winston Churchill (British World War II prime minister) in the haunted Lincoln bedroom instead of a non haunted alternative, could have risked a diplomatic incident. (Continues under video)

Churchill reportedly described getting out of the bath naked, to be greeted by the sight of long deceased U.S. President Lincoln (RIP) in the room. He reportedly said something along the lines of “Good evening Mr Lincoln, you have me at a disadvantage.” Lincoln then smiled and disappeared.

As a responsible purveyor of stream-of-consciousness monologular humour I, of course, gave counterpoint time to the possiblity Churchill might have taken offence had he NOT being offered the haunted room – perhaps it would have been viewed it as a snub.

**UPDATE:
My best guess is a brief image of Adolf Hitler, which is in fact a close up of a stock video clip of the front of his book, was assumed to be an endorsement. I used this clip once before and zoomed in better on the photo so the book wasn’t visible. My stock clips are from Vizard, a service used by many podcesters to create video for their shareable audio clips.

Rest assured I do not, nor have I ever had, any desire to promote Mein Kampf. If I did, I hope I’d have been considerate enough to provide an audiobook option, for my fellow vision impaired users.

TikTok’s system automatically deemed it to be “violent extremism” – YouTube and Instagrammer seem to be fine with it. I didn’t see any reason until I had used up my one appeal opportuntiy. While violent extremist seems to me a very serious allegation, it turns out it just means if I do it one more time I get a warning.

Matchstick Cats 766: Prejudice

Matchstick Cats 766: Prejudice