In today's episode Douglas and French omni-critic Horace Perrault discuss the memorable moments of the 2024 Insect Games, including a centipede called Legless Carl Thresher, ironic snail deaths and the Anteater Incident

Mantis madness at Mortein Staduium where Morocco's Munira and Muntaz Mantis make moves for gold against Melbourne's own Mandy and Mary Mantis, in a memorable match involving microcephalic male Maltese mantises, Mecca and mayhem

Today's Insect Games episode brings you the thrilling final of the flea pole vault. Who will snap under the pressure? Listen and find out.

BREAKING: Drama at snail marathon as surprise track invader shakes up the race. For more details, listen to this episode of Earwash!

In an un-bee-lievable sixty-third episode, we meet the Australian male bee synchronised flying team. Despite being a largely visual experience, we're putting it out as audio. You shall have to imagine for yourselves the spectacle that unfolds.

In a tight little capsule of an episode, Douglas discloses the strange oddments contained in one of his notebooks. That's it, that's the entire thing, and yet it is so much more than this blurb would suggest. Listen and hear it for yourself

This week, we hear from Douglas's American neighbour Jennifer. Why is she boycotting a major hardware chain? What is the most anti-woke meat? Does kosher salt really make things kosher? Some of these questions will be answered in this week's earwashing.

Douglas has spent the last month in Ballarat, and it's starting to get to him. Fortunately he has omnicritic Horace Perrault to assist him in assessing exactly what is the biggest problem with where he is staying. Is it the light that will not turn off? Is it the grime in the bathroom? Or is it the unsettling thing Douglas found in the carpet? Listen, and find out for yourselves about the apartment that is the best place to have an existential crisis in Ballarat.

This week Douglas has consulted the stars to foretell your future. At least, he thinks they were the stars. He lives in a very light polluted area so what he may have been consulting may have been Starlink satellites, or a plane going overhead. Whatever it actually was that was consulted, it bestows its secrets of the future upon you. Listen, and hear what the future holds for you...

Music: Ethereal by Punch Deck 

This week we veer dangerously close to being educational, with Douglas disclosing and defining the weird and wonderful words recorded in his notebooks