A feather helmet, a credit card, a hand axe, a painting on silk "admonishing" Empress Jia.  If that sounds like a scavenger hunt, it's because it is — and you can't beat the British Museum for scavenging.  Join us as Brad dishes on A History of the World in 100 Objects, the 2010 podcast series and corresponding book by former BM director Neil MacGregor that access the Museum's extensive collections to tell the million-year story of our lives ... one object at a time.  Also, Mike bashes iPhones and Long John Silver's.

Classic campfire cooking works.  Hot dogs on sticks are tasty, easy, and the kids love 'em.  But a few very easy steps open up a whole world of savory ribs, mouth watering BBQ, campfire nachos supreme, Turkish coffee, perfect French toast . . . Have to stop writing, my stomach is grumbling.

The least handy guy I know refinishes a kitchen table that's suffered a decade and half of abuse from children.  After all that hard work, kick back, relax, and sample some TV that's so good it's worth the subtitles. 

The foreign language TV review starts at 15:45.  Not that anyone would want to skip ahead.  Just giving our listeners all the information so they can make informed decisions.  

Explore the legendary radio sessions of John Peel.  While drinking coffee.  Coffee you roasted at home.  Because why would you pay $5 and drive to a god awful chain for bitter dreck when you can have fresh roasted better stuff right at home for a tiny fraction of the cost?  Seriously?  Put on another Peel session for a bottle of home-brewed Belgian ale.  Peel.  Roast.  Brew.  Repeat.

In today's episode, Mike combines the best of Judaism and Christianity into pork belly-infused, toasted, braided, eggy bread and Brad goes suburban farmer on us and chases chickens around his backyard.

Enough books, TV, and movies to entertain and enlighten for months, all from one spy author who's been at it for 60 years.  But where to start and where to go from there?  After that, a deeply profound discussion of the finest packaged nuts available today.  That's of course, Blue Diamond Salt and Vinegar Almonds.  Really.  Spies, traitors, Mossad, Palestine, the Berlin Wall, Big Pharma, Chechnya, populism, and then . . . nuts.

Explore the colorful insults of the greatest [non-American] orator of all time, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Then explore every inch of your surrounding area on foot as fast as you can.  Cicero's Philippics and Runkeeper Mapping make this week different from the last.  Bonus showdown between Cicero and Daniel Webster for the global title.

Dig back for some updates to your playlist and fall asleep without fail every night.  In the pilot episode of Bang a Gong, your hosts highlight Two Things that made this week different — and better — from the last.