Rathergood Chat

80: Top 10 Worms

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Worms! Everybody loves worms! Worms! What are the very best 10 worms in all of the wormy world? Have a listen and find out! WORMS! WOOHOO! WORMS!

In addition to the very best of worms, we also discuss dead whales, Tremors again, Foundation, unwanted clones and Quantum Dave.

TIMESTAMPS

02:02 - Bone-Eating Worm

07:15 - Bloodworm

11:35 - Giant Amazon Leech

15:32 - Flying Buttocks

19:17 - Giant Tube Worm

22:33 - Guinea Worm

28:30 - pretty Bristle Worms

31:29 - Bobbit Worm

35:18 - Velvet Worm

38:53 - Ribbon Worm

47:11 - Ranking

Honourable mentions: Tapeworm, Horse-Hair Worm, Hammerhead Worm.

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79: Top 10 Liquids

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Liquids! Like solids but better because they can sploosh about and stuff! But which are the best of all the liquids? Find out here! Also, we discuss eye eating, Orbital, spiders, Wormbursters, Mrs Potts who gives out the sweets, the butter-bog gods and worms.

TTP Tndex (Time To Parasites): One minute and 15 seconds

TIMESTAMPS:

0:11:06 - Water

0:20:51 - Olive Oil

0:26:39 - Tea

0:41:13 - Cone Snail venom

0:47:43 - Custard

0:49:40 - Horseshoe Crab blood

0:55:38 - Liquid Helium-2

0:58:27 - Alcohol

1:00:28 - Soup

1:01:13 - Crude oil

1:03:13 - Ranking!

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78: Top 10 Parasites

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

It's finally time to do the TOP 10 PARASITES! HOORAY! One of my absolute favourite subjects, I am SO HAPPY WE ARE DOING THIS ONE. Find out about some absolutely GREAT parasites here. YEAH! PARASITES! WOOOOOOO!

In addition to ranking parasites, we also discuss The Borrowers, tongues, colonial organisms, horse-eye sausage extrusion, immortality and cats.

This episode has a presumably unbeatable TTP (Time To Parasites) index of 10 seconds.

Timestamps! In case you want to skip to your favourite parasite!

02:58: Brain-Eating Amoeba

05:48: Tongue-Eating Louse

11:50: Figs

13:38: Wasps

20:35: Cordyceps

23:47: Sexually Transmitted Dog Cancer

30:10: Crab Barnacle

34:20: Green Banded Broodsac

40:50: Toxoplasma

47:38: The Human Placenta

56:17: Top Ten ranking

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77: Top 10 Women

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Who are the 10 very best women ever to have lived? Find out here! Is your favourite featured? Only one way to be sure- give it a listen. This is the final and definitive list of the best 10 women who have ever lived.

This week, we have a very impressive TTP (Time To Parasites) index of 41 seconds!

We discuss: Parasites, Eastenders, polonium and armadas.

Timecodes, in case you want to skip to a particular excellent woman:

03:58: Cleopatra

09:53: Marie Curie

15:17: Harriet Tubman

19:02: Florence Nightingale

24:11: Ada Lovelace

30:35: Boudica

38:44: Elizabeth I

47:29: Emmeline Pankhurst

54:02: Jane Goodall

57:50: Ella Fitzgerald

1:00:26: Ranking

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76: Top 10 People part 1: Men

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

It's the Top 10 Men! Who are the best men there ever have been? Find out here! Do you think you might be on the list? Are you one of the greatest men ever to have lived? Give it a listen and see if you are featured! Don't be sad if you're not, though.

Rathergood Chat ep77 - Top Ten People Part 1: MEN

In this episode, as well as the top 10 men, we also discuss electromagnet tennis, black holes, Mr Weebl, taxidermy and Victorian facial hair.

Here are some timecodes for the people we talk about, in case you want to skip forward to a specific chap:

02:35: Albert Einstein

21:36: Spike Milligan

26:16: Alexander Von Humboldt

30:30: Genghis Khan

38:11: David Attenborough

43:36: Charles Darwin

45:39: Leonardo Da Vinci

48:01: Charles Dickens

50:11: Dick Van Dyke

53:33: Isaac Asimov

57:17: Ranking

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75: Top 10 Numbers

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

What are the best numbers? I bet you have opinions, but those opinions might be WAY WRONG! Listen NOW to find out what the absolute definitive list of BEST NUMBERS EVER is! Maybe your fave number is on there! Maybe it isn't! Only one way to find out!

In this episode we talk about lettuce, gnomes, the Rolling Stones, pork pies, the fundamental nature of the universe, bingo, and lobsters.

Timestamps!

1:45: Pi

18:08: -1/12

27:03: Root2

31:36: 8

35:43: 6

39:19: c

41:46: 2

42:56: 10

44:08: The Planck Constant

45:20: 100

46:28: Ranking

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74: Top 10 Reptiles

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

What are the very best reptiles? FIND OUT HERE! What's your favourite reptile? Will it feature in this, the definitive and final top 10? Only one way to find out! Give it a listen!

In this episode, Joel does his best ever introductory song, and we discuss eyes, soft-shelled crabs, cephalopods, piranhas and Ray Winstone.

Here are the reptiles we discuss with timecodes, so you can jump to your favourite scaly creature if you like:

03:05 - Horny Toad

09:37 - Armadillo Girdled Lizard

13:09 - Komodo Dragon

18:27 - Minute Leaf Chameleon

22:45 - Dragon Lizard

26:42 - Green Anaconda

31:01 - Gecko

33:47 - Gharial

37:33 - Turtle/Tortoise

43:37 - Salt Water Crocodile

47:24 - Top Ten Ranking

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73: Top 10 Mammals

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

What is the best mammal? FIND OUT NOW! Whatever you are thinking, there is a good chance you are WRONG! This list of the best 10 mammals is a scientifically rigorous, final and definitive list that is immutable and perfect.

We discuss: snoots, Michaelangelo, dragons, mermaids, St. George, Aboriginal hunting methods, Liverpool and Mars Bars.

TIMESTAMPS:

09:22 - Pygmy Shrew

16:21 - Pink Fairy Armadillo

21:56 - Long Beaked Echidna

31:03 - Narwhal

37:33 - Dugong

41:44 - Gorilla

48:23 - Giant Pangolin

51:06 - Rhino

55:33 - Tiger

58:07 - Dog

1:02:24 - Ranking

TTP Index: 26 minutes

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72: Top 10 Fish

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

What are the best fish? Find out here! Are you a fan of dace, haddock or cod? Find out if your fave is in the official chart!

Are you a plaice fanatic? Do you think John Dory smashes the other fish with its sheer awesomeness? Do you feel like Dover Sole is the pinnacle of subaquatic amaze? Have you got a problem with Monkfish? Is Tuna right up your alley?

Get together with your friends and put a bet on who supports the official best fish! Dress up in a costume, reflecting the type of fish you choose to champion. If the wrong fish turns out to be the winner, then bludgeon your enemy into submission! It's a fun parlour game for all the family, and invite some guests you have never met before so you can all bond over your mutual competition regarding the better or worse type of fish that you like and stuff!

YEAH!

The results of this scientific enquiry are final and binding. The order of merit we apply to the top 10 fish is legally watertight, and if you disagree, you are wrong.

In addition to the top 10 actual fish, in this episode we also discuss the Brazilian Winky Fish, Dracula, swedes and snakes.

Here are the fish we talk about and the timeciodes in case you want to check out a specific awesome fish:

10:38 - Sand Tiger Shark

15:12 - Tassled Wobbegong

17:24 - Red Lipped Batfish

24:06 - Stone Fish

32:12 - White Margin Stargazer

38:26 - White Margin Stargazer tongue (You send me a pic to look at during the recording)

40:56 - Flying Fish

44:56 - Barrel Eye Fish

47:33 - Giant Oarfish

50:24 - Koi Carp

52:11 - Sunfish

52-54 - Hairy Frogfish

53:15 - Blobfish

53:41 - Those eels with a hinged mouth that makes up a third of their body length

53:59 - Handfish

54:18 - Male Anglerfish

Whoop whoop! FISH! YEAH!

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71: Top 10 Birds

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Which are the very best birds in the world? FIND OUT HERE The best 10 birds in all of creation! AMAZING! Today we have a chat about birds, as well as horses, Nike Airs, worms, rabbits and tigers. Most importantly, though, we give you a definitive list of the 10 very best birds in all the whole wide world!

Whoop whoop! Who will win? Who is your favourite bird? Will it be in the Top 10? Only one way to find out! Listen in and expand your brain!

Which birds do we discuss, you ask? Well look, here is all the info!

TIMESTAMPS!

03:53 - Shoebill

11:23 - Frigate Bird

20:41 - Cormorant

24:05 - Cassowary

28:42 - Crow

37:18 - Spoonbill

39:29 - Barn Owl

44:38 - Emperor Penguin

52:01 - Albatross

54:52 - Woodpecker

56:35 - Top ten list

The final ranking.... You will just have to listen to find out.

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70: Ancient Greece

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Ancient Greece! Amazing birthplace of the modern world, Western culture and democracy. Where mighty Spartans hoiked people into wells shouting "THIS IS SPARTA" all day, every day, for thousands upon thousands of years. Imagine a whole culture built on the single foundational activity of hoofing people into holes while shouting your location. What a dream society! What a wonderful place! We are all the poorer for abandoning this wonderful and noble way of life.

In today's episode, we discuss cows, lion-men, skeletons, remote tribes, peristalsis and mechanical wings.

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69: Exorcism

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Exorcism! The ancient art of removing those lovely demons that sit in our minds and direct our actions. Everybody's got a few. Sure, they cause us to commit all kinds of horrific evil but they are at least company and we should value them for that. Today, we discuss chainsaws, Christmas, rock wigs, God, Roman military divisions and mealworms.

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68: Comedy

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Comedy! The art of distracting from the utter horror and nausea of existence by finding something absurd to say that makes people laugh briefly, before the unending nightmare of life resumes once more. Today, we discuss organs, ants, eggs, smoking, and TV shows that make Dave cry..

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67: Cardboard

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Cardboard! Ideal for making boxes to store all your things, as long as those things aren't seeping blood and other fluids, because if they are doing that then the cardboard will get soggy and the bottom will fall out. In today's episode, we discuss business baths, banking, viscera, Mars, videogames and klezmer.

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66: Ice Cream

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

I scream! You scream! We all scream, all the time! It never ceases. Ice Cream! The nicest, coldest semi-liquid food there is! OR IS IT? In this episode we also discuss walruses, 70's British wrestlers, the scientific method, the Renaissance and piping hot mince.

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65: The Apocalypse

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The Apocalypse! The welcome end to all this awful, nauseating existence, A blessed relief that we are all impatient to embrace. Hooray for the Apocalypse! In this episode we discuss vehicles with faces on the front, Jeremy Worldsmasher, cosmic ordering, axes, gudgeons, crumble, legstenders and pancake day.

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64: The Subterranean Realm

Wed, 28 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Underground! The ideal place to hide from all the horrors of the world! The dread won't find you if you are buried beneath a thousand tonnes of dirt. Get into a hole right now, it's the only way! In this episode, Joel has the wrong tea and we discuss pirates, troglodytes, Camberwick Green, dibbers, dobbers, and Stripy Garold the enormous blood-hungry murder bee.

Also this episode's Time-Till-Parasites (the TTP index) is an impressive 26 minutes.

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63: Bags

Wed, 21 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Bags! Use them to carry the trinkets that shield your soul from the awful horror of your existence! Fill your bag with purchased items! They matter! Your life has meaning! Today, in addition to bags, we discuss: Bagger 288, Budgens, spiders, pianos, the Windmills of Your Mind, mustard, gudgeons, bins and Devon.

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62: Classic Diseases

Wed, 14 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Old diseases are the best diseases! Let's hear it for such classics as scurvy, rickets and leprosy. So much classier and more demure than the brash modern rubbish we all have to get infected with these days. In today's episode, as well as classic diseases we discuss ferrets, Ski Sunday, Rupert Grint, gin, insufferable wizards and halberds.

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61: Jokes

Wed, 07 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Jokes! The funny little things we say to blot out the sheer horrifying nausea of existence! Hooray!

Today, we discuss squirrels, cats with Phil Collins' face, time-travelling Soviet murder-chimps, monkey bars, extended families, ballet, Spike Milligan, and how to survive a shark attack.

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60: Skin

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Skin! It keeps your insides in! Should your family be at risk of starvation through abject poverty, you can always trade your valuable hide for food. What a boon skin really is! Hooray for skin! Today, as well as wonderful skin, we discuss napalm, autocannibalism, Pork Force, rats, bears, melons, Joss Whedon, custard, and sentient tea.

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59: Weevils

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Weevils! Amazing little cutey critters! They have boots and snoots! Today we discuss weevils in all their glory. Strap yourself in and prepare for a wealth of weevily goodness. I bet you never knew how awesome weevils are! Also, we discuss optimising giraffes, chickens, snoots, sharks, the rings of Saturn, Tarzan and albatrosses.

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58: Beans

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Beans! Amazing little blobs of potential! They can grow into things! They can be eaten by human men and women! WOWZORS! In today's episode, we discuss guns, stew, kohlrabi, chainsaws, bisection, acid and krill. Hooray! also BEANS of course! Woo for beans!

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57: Aliens

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Aliens! Creatures from space that want to inhabit our bodies and control our minds so that they can escape their own benighted worlds! Nearly everyone has one in them now. You probably do already. Lucky you! In today's episode about aliens, we discuss humans, parasitic worms (yet again,) Batman, turbines, Steven Seagal, Oumuamua, crabs and baffling internal mouths. Hooray!

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56: Hair

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Hair! Stringy bits of weird body stuff that your head extrudes to cover your shameful brains! Find out more about this wonderful substance here and now! We discuss Ilfracombe, haircuts, electrocution, blubber, Queen, inverse monkeys, Claudia Winkleman, and the life cycle of the Ant&Dec.

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55: Methods Of Communication

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Let's communicate! Using methods! Woohoo! From trendy semaphore to kid-friendly Morse, we all use amazing methods to communicate! Find out more here! In today's episode, we discuss: Screaming, coal, THE YACHTMASTER, Dyson spheres, holograms, whelks and foot-fingers. Whoop-de-dooooooo!

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54: The Microscopic Realm

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Small things! Amazing aren't they! If something is so small you can't see it that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist- maybe it's just a denizen of THE MICROSCOPIC REALM! In today's episode about things that are small, we discuss jellyfish, curses, mythological Greek punishments, colonies, consciousness, food preservation and KWAARF. Hooray! Also, there is a little bonus bit at the end after the fade-out if you keep listening. Hooray again!

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53: Tastes

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Taste! It's the thing that makes food nice! Use your tongue to give it a go! Taste everything around you! Taste all the things! Go on! Do it! Do it now! Today, in our episode about tastes, we talk about the irrepressible nature of Monkey, the Tooth Fairy, eggs, crabs, parasitic wasps, subatomic particles, cess pools and death.

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52: Prehensility

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Prehensile things are amazing! Grip with them! Lift, swing and defeat your enemies! YEAH! In today's episode we construct a wildly confusing but scientifically definitive index of prehensility, and also discuss slippers, sky bums, science jocks, moustaches, wrenches, penguins, tree-running and beaks. Hooray!

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51: Eggs

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Eggs! Ovoid containers of albumeny yolky goodness! Harbingers of new life, birdous or turtacular. Even Snakey! Wow! Eggs! Let's talk eggs! Whoop whoop! Today, we discuss pythons, bananas, cats, dogs, sharks, wasps and dinosaurs. Also eggs. YEAH!

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50: Cheese

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Cheese! It's milk made solid and delicious by bacterial cultures! DELICIOUS GOODNESS OMG! Today we discuss replacement Daves, Tower Bridge, lava, the Terminator, worms, processed foods and terroir. The specific replacement Daves are Meat Dave, Skin Dave, Cheese Dave and Wasp Dave.

We also discuss cheese.

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49: The 1980s

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

The 1980s! Cultural high point of humanity! Microcomputers in the home! Big hair! What a time! Today we talk about: Nye Bevan, malevolent seaside eyeballs, phlogiston, o-rings, candles, bicycles, coincidences, post-war austerity, Qualcast Mutilator, emotions and maggots. Also the 1980s! Hooray!

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48: Tubers

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Tubers! Things that grow in the ground! Potating happily, God bless them! Today, we talk about: magma, horsemeat, brown, worms and slugs, tubes, gourds, raisins, katsu curry and sousaphones. Also tubers!

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47: Time

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Time! Our pitiless enemy, dragging us relentlessly towards the abyss of death. Hooray! Today, we talk about: chariots, camels, beans, jackdaws, the culture war, the Hun, head cheese, galactic winter, and rubbing chilli into your eyes. What else would you expect from a podcast episode about time?

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46: New Year 2025!

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:00:50 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 2025! Oh my gosh! Quarter of the way through the century! How on earth did that happen? Anyway, today we talk about jumping, solipsism, escalators, the shadowy global elite, Aussie Rules Football, vermin, Advocaat, tongues, monarchs and the heat death of the universe. Also the new year of course! HAPPY NEW YEAR AGAIN! WOOHOOOO!

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45: CHRISTMAS!

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:00:08 GMT

It's CHRISTMAS! HOORAY! Today we talk about Christmas obviously, but also about: grit, the apocalypse, hair, livers, bisection, swords, laser-tag, and Joel's bafflingly comprehensive lack of Christmas movie knowledge.

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44: Electricity

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:00:59 GMT

Electricity! Incredibly useful power source for lights, computers, executions and bringing monsters to life! YEAH! Today we discuss numerical scoring systems, lunch, Bobbit worms, elephant murder, Roman emperors, public information films, boats, cows, Satanistic head rotation and posh kids. Also electricity!

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43: Games

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:00:57 GMT

Games! Play them to avoid falling prey to the overwhelming horror and nausea of existence that will inevitably consume you if ever allow yourself to think about it! Today we discuss the cruelty of the universe, tentacles, metaphor, cheese axes, casinos, 80s computers, fighter planes and wood chips. Also games of course!

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42: Dance

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:00:54 GMT

Dance! It's a rhythmic movement of your body to movement! WOW! Find out about this amazing new innovation here! Today we discuss the French Revolution, rifling, school plays, Brazil, TikTok, parenting, sports, and rizz. Also dance, of course! Hooray!

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41: Bones

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:00:09 GMT

Bones! The hard crackly bits that stop your flop. Nobody wants to be a meaty flopster. Hooray for bones! Today we discuss crabs, centaurs, venomous bums, prehensile limbs, wheelbarrow/rug/professional wrestling injuries, swedes, the thoughts that keep Dave awake at 3am, butchers, Greek music, elephants, shield bugs and needlessly gendered toys. Also bones.

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40: Buildings

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:00:25 GMT

Buildings! Live in them! Work in them! Avoid spending time under the horrid sky by being in them! Today we discuss sheep, German conceptual art, gigantic mechasnails, Children of men, our favourite turbs, black pudding and buildings!

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39: Adverts

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:00:57 GMT

Adverts! They are everywhere and we've made a good few ourselves. Marvel at our expert insight into the world of advertising. In today's episode we discuss Spanish meats, murderous water horses, chickens, Attack of the 50ft Woman, Quiznos (obviously,) the FU response, the Algorithm, the firehose of crap, and Egg Benedicts. All this in addition to, obviously, advertising, which we talk about in-depth. We have made lots of commercials, and this is your chance to gain the benefit of our extensive wisdom and experience.

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38: Flying Creatures

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:00:16 GMT

Flying creatures! Are they real? Are they magical? FIND OUT NOW! Today, we talk about: Autoclaves, reverse evolution, spiders, badgers, hedgehogs, sea urchins, flightless birds, ears and horsebats. Obviously, we discuss flying creatures at length. Bees are a flying creature so we discuss those a bit, despite having used up most of our bee facts last week. Still, there's always more to discuss where bees are concerned. Gotta love those bees. Also, can Dave lick the back of his own ears and if not, how does he get them licked?

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37: Cephalopods

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:00:20 GMT

Cephalopods are wonderful things. Squids! Bendy, tentacley, suckery beak-wielding monstrosities of our deepest nightmares and general awesome aqua-wiggly-dudes! WOW! Today, we talk about: mantlepieces, striped animals, Three Bean Salad, Vietnamese food, the Wokerati, insects, dunces, extinct animals, Russian literature and blood-squirting reptiles. Also cephalopods obviously. Squids and octopuses are in there. Oh yeah!

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36: Submarines

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:00:40 GMT

Submarines are the very best things there are! I want one very very badly. Where's my submarine? WHY DON'T I HAVE A SUBMARINE GODDAMIT? Other than submarines (which is Joel's favourite subject so far) we take time to discuss grammar pedantry, Indiana Jones, tinned food, lurking and - at length - worms.

We do discuss submarines a lot though. Submarines are amazing. AMAZING. I really want a submarine. I REALLY WANT A SUBMARINE GIVE ME A SUBMARINE.

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35: Birds

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:00:15 GMT

Birds! Magical creatures that float aloft, mocking the laws of physics and us poor benighted ground-dwellers. Find out more about these bizarre and mysterious creatures here! Today we discuss Toenail eyeshades, Russia, Antlers, Paint Your Wagon, dinosaurs, SPARTA!, Time travel, Chairman Mao, Spitfires and Dave's very rational hatred of anglers. We also discuss birds! Amazing!

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34: Windows

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:00:14 GMT

Windows! Magical walls that let you see the world outside without having it touch you! AMAZING! Today we discuss Rubik's shapes, machicolations, mythological warriors, floral names, mind-shattering garden plants, classic cars, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, earwax, bricks, vandalism, mills and gas giants. All the stuff you would expect to cover in a podcast about windows, basically.

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33: Phones

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:07:58 GMT

Phones! Incredibly useful technological marvel and worst curse ever to afflict mankind! Do you love them or hate them? Today we discuss gourds, dirty old men, Dave's complete lack of interesting anecdotes, gruel, Greek mythology, THINK MINK!, mind bullets, Wikipedia, anger management and also phones.

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32: Shapes

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:00:22 GMT

Everything has a shape! Even hexagons, although nobody knows what shape they are. It's the last great mystery of science. We discuss accidental minibeast murder, our dark lord Satan, forbidden geometry, Plato, cosmic horror, Tales of the Unexpected, our favourite leaves, the diameter of the Earth, Joel's pyramid collection, cats, the Scooortish Aaaahccent, and whales.

Hooray for shapes! What's your favourite shape? Why not contact us to let us know? Maybe we could make a chart out of the results- and you know what? That chart would be A SHAPE! AMAZING! WOW! MIND BLOWN!

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31: Art

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:00:02 GMT

Art! It's the pinnacle of human achievement! Or is it maybe a load of old nonsense? Let's talk art! Today we discuss dentistry, plaster, child-rearing, zeppelins, collective punishment, Prince William, drones, miniguns, toxoplasmosis, Elon Musk's catsuit, Kim Jong Il and Roman horse-punchers. Also Joel's general disinterest in art.

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30: Soil

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Soil! It's that brown stuff that plants grow out of and worms live in! YEAH! Today we talk about tiny trains, model villages, the town of Poundbury, Traitors UK, Secret Hitler, horse poo, Crocodile Dundee, chickens, Russian foxes, animal emotions, dogs, mud and cows. We even briefly mention soil at some points! Is soil good or bad? Should you be pro or anti soil? Is soil Good or Evil? Maybe you'll find out if you listen to the podcast! Maybe you won't! Only one way to find out!

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29: Cars

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:00:43 GMT

Cars! They're wheely good! Let's talk cars! It's a fascinating chat about cars! We also touch on other important and sometimes even relevant subjects such as: Scabies, Lupus (which Dave confuses with Mono,) glands, swans, Wham!, Joel's military past, sport, ornithopters and autonomous carnivorous kitchen appliances.

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28: Volcanoes

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:00:28 GMT

VOLCANOES! Massive explodey fire doom things! YEAH! WOOHOO! VOLCANOES ARE AMAZING! We have a wonderful discussion of these monstrous embodiments of the contempt in which Mother Earth holds our pathetic travails. We also discuss the creative process, Bjork, cave paintings, Arthur Scargill, flaming sky orcas, the Bayeux Tapestry, the Tunguska Event, Trek Wars, and the Town Mangler.

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27: Footwear

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:00:28 GMT

Wearing things on your feet is awesome. Look at those buffoons with their bleeding shredded feet, limping over the horrid gravelly ground. Not us! We are far cleverer than those foot-fools! We wear things on our feet! FOOTWEAR! Find out about it here! Footwear is the single most advantageous thing you can wear on your foot, and that is a 100% science fact. We discuss footwear, along with the prison of the flesh, punks, battle adzes, battle lathes, poached eggs, gladiators, claymores, walruses and Joel's very rational scientifically proven superstitions. Pretty flippin' sweet bruh!

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26: Sauces

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:00:54 GMT

Ooh saucy! This is what we say whenever we see liquid, viscous food that can be slopped on to another, more solid food. Find out all about the myriad mysteries of sauce! WOWZORS! The only sauce source you need. We also discuss Penguin Jim, the tyranny of joints, gravy, eggs, drones, kimchi, mashed potato, school protests and yorkshire puddings. Wow! Amazing stuff!

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25: Blades

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 06:00:56 GMT

Blades! Sharp and slicey! Chop and dicey! Cheap or pricey, always nice! It's time to talk about bisection! Also, golden syrup, how lovely it is to be a baseline human, pagan rituals, Big Farmer and a traumatic story about ice-skating. Yay! We also discuss how ridiculously English my village is and the resident gravedigger / scythe murderer.

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24: Insects

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:07:17 GMT

Insects! Amazing carapacey wriggley things of doom! Joel and Dave discuss skull binding, rats and mice, frogs, how many legs and arms crabs have and also insects.

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23: Photosynthesis

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:00:42 GMT

Photosynthesis! Using the power of the sun to grow new life! WOW! On this episode about the magical natural process of photosynthesis, Joel and Dave discuss cats, spiders, Triffids, Doctor Who, fungal foot infections, Gillian McKeith and parasitic worms, among many other fascinating subjects. Hooray!

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22: Music

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:00:59 GMT

Music! Isn't it awesome! We are experts in all things musical so listen in and learn. Become the envy of your friends with a monstrous knowledge of musical things and stuff. Joel and Dave discuss everything you ever need or want to know about music. Along the way we also talk about some other things, such as rabies, parasites, newspaper salesmen, rag and bone men, cheese, very large figs, holy war and kabaddi.

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21: Aviation

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:00:31 GMT

Aeroplanes are fantastic! Find out all about them with Joel and Dave. Aeroplanes are mysterious and wonderful things, defying the rules of nature as the dangle stringless in the skies. We uncover all of their magical secrets in this discussion. We also discuss Blur lyrics (incorrectly,) banana tricks, klaxxons, hoovers, megastructures, circus clowns, snakes, Return of the Jedi, and symbiosis.

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20: Fruit

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:00:08 GMT

Fruit is amazing! Find out more about this fantastic subject and many other things. Fruit is absolutely brilliant and everybody loves it. Joel is a particular fan of growing fruits, and absolutely loves this opportunity to talk about fruit at length. Find out Joel's favourite fruit! What could it be? Make a wager with your friends, run a sweepstake or run a book on it. You'll find out here, as well as various other of the fruits Joel likes. You also might want to make a wager on which fruits Dave is not particularly fond of. It's a pretty breathtaking revelation!

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19: Furniture

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Furniture! Joel and Dave discuss lots of things including, briefly, furniture Furniture is amazing and incredible. That said, we spent more time discussing things like Winston Churchill, goobers, compulsory state music, sausages and, of course, bursting. How could we possibly discuss furniture without spending a lot of time thinking about bursting?

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18: Gravity

Wed, 29 May 2024 06:47:43 GMT

Gravity! Isn't it awesome? And yet also our greatest enemy. Find out whether it is a good thing or a bad thing in this awesome podcast. Gravity is here to stay and here we discuss it in great detail. Also, Dave has a monstrously powerful cold that would have killed a lesser man. Joel explains the rich folk tradition of Old Man Chicken. Then they redefine the base elements so they make a bit more sense, waffle on about skeletons for a while and invent two new religions.

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17: The Roman Empire

Wed, 22 May 2024 06:00:53 GMT

The Roman Empire! Was it great? Hell yeah! Find out more! The Roman Empire! In today's podcast we discuss columns, Joel's mate Concrete John, why travelling to Scotland is instantly fatal, monotremes, and the best situations in which to be naked and blue. We also discuss the Roman Empire of course.

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16: Medicine

Wed, 15 May 2024 06:00:30 GMT

Medicine! Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Find out now! Medicine! In today's podcast we discuss taxonomy, early hominins, bloodworms, cod livers, the ultra-rich, porcupine factories and briefly, medicine. Should we make medicine compulsory? Or should it be banned? We work out the answer to this pressing question and also unearth many other truths in the process.

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15: Cooking

Wed, 08 May 2024 06:00:36 GMT

Joel and Dave explain everything you need to know about cooking Do you want to know how to cook? Learn to cook! Dave and Joel explain everything there is to know about cooking and cookery in this incredibly useful and informative podcast episode, which is about cooking.

Discussion of eggs is thorough. Knives are covered, and also other things such as whether flames are a good thing. Your life will be improved enormously, and your cooking knowledge will amaze your friends, once you have listened carefully to this wonderful episode of Rathergood Chat. You know that aching void at the centre of your very soul? Maybe listening to our podcast about cooking will fill it! Worth a try hey?

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14: Crabs

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:00:08 GMT

Joel and Dave discuss the most wonderful creatures ever to exist - namely crabs. Rathergood, where all of this began back at the dawn of the new millennium, is in fact The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom, and Joel is himself the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom - a gigantic crab with a human face, atop a gigantic pyramid surrounded by hordes of fanatical followers. Crabs have featured in many, many of their works over the years and so this is a subject very close to their crabby hearts. In addition to crabs, this podcast also covers (among other things)

* The Margate Crab Museum

* Meaty Steve, who sells carrier bags full of suspicious meat from round the back of the hospital

* Oesophagal flesh centipedes

* Squirrels

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13: Trees

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:00:46 GMT

Trees! Big wood things sticking out of the ground! They're magnificent, aren't they! Joel and Dave discuss the glory of trees, including why there are loads of mulberry trees around England planted due to an ancient misunderstanding about the diet of moth larvae.

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12: Survival

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:00:49 GMT

Would you like to survive? If so, this is the podcast for you. Failing to survive is generally considered a bad thing so you should probably listen to this. Obviously everybody knows the main "vanilla" way to survive is to eat the Eye of the Tiger but believe it or not there are other ways to survive. Find out about them here! Joel and Dave also explain lots of other things such as all the types of star including Brown Dwarf, Paisley Gnome and Cosmoctagon.

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11: Crime

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:00:00 GMT

Crime- good thing or bad thing? Joel and Dave solve the problem of crime that has plagued human societies forever. They also discuss other important issues such as the surprising fact that eels are the escaped intestinal tracts of deceased whales in search of a new host.

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10: Bad Dinosaurs Netflix Release Special

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:00:06 GMT

Joel Veitch and David Shute are joined today by their longtime friend and collaborator Alex Mallinson, to discuss the origins of the project which eventually became the Netflix show Bad Dinosaurs, on the day of its release.

They tell the story of how they went from doodles of incompetent dinosaurs on a napkin, to a series of YouTube shorts, to a globally released animation series.

SPOILER: It was neither easy nor fast.

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9: Weather

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:00:56 GMT

Joel and Dave delve deep into the vagaries of the weather. Weather is the staple favourite conversation subject of all Britons, and hence all outstanding questions and mysteries regarding the functioning of the weather are answered here once and for all. Is weather a good thing? Or a bad thing? Find out now! Also some other subjects such as haunted goat heads, baffling thoraxes and how to seize control of a bee colony from the existing queen.

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8: Gas

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:00:37 GMT

What is a gas? Can you squeeze it? How does this relate to rock music, Ancient Rome, zombies and boxing legends? When would it be appropriate for you to swallow an antelope whole? Find out in this conversational thrill ride into the exciting world of gas.

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7: Mathematics

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 07:00:49 GMT

Joel and Dave dig deep into the mysteries of maths, the language of the universe. They also discuss some other things as well. All the things they discuss are very interesting and clever, as always, because they are such very clever men.

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6: Folklore

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:00:14 GMT

Joel and Dave discuss the deep history of folklore that is our common cultural heritage. They also discuss several other things, all of which are very interesting and clever. Guaranteed. Including ROFLCON and the benefits of washing clothes with petrol .

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5: Colour

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:00:30 GMT

Joel and Dave explain how colour works. Wavelengths of light, energy levels of photons, iridescence and everything else that relates to our visual perception of the world around us; all of this and more is explored and decoded.

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4: Space

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:00:09 GMT

Joel and David delve into the deepest mysteries of creation in this episode about space. How did the universe come about? What amazing and breathtaking wonders does it contain? These subjects and others are certainly mentioned in passing, at the very least.

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3: The Sea

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:30:47 GMT

Joel and Dave discuss the sea. Dave, also known as Sea Dave, has spent many of his years living upon the sea and as such he is a great source of knowledge about this watery thing. Joel is quite good at pretending he knows things and he likes squids, which live in the sea, so he can join in. Their discussion is guaranteed to be informative, though not necessarily useful.

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2: Cats

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:37:33 GMT

Joel and Dave discuss the glorious beast that is the domestic cat. Many of the original animations on rathergood.com featured cats and kittens. This experience, coupled with many decades of cat ownership, make these two splendid men an ideal source of information on the subject of the cat, just so long as you do not expect them to tell you anything useful.

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1: Dogs

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:03:34 GMT

Joel and David discuss dogs. Descended from wolves but bred to be eternally joyful companions they are more like children than animals. Man's greatest achievement, the existence of a creature so pure of heart is a true wonder. Their ancestors, the ancient and mighty wolves of the frozen forests, must be turning in their graves. They also cover ladles, the oil with which you oil a ladle, and the way you can extract it by squeezing whales.

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