The team discuss how one in five Brits see their AI companions as ‘friends’, the takeaways from the world porridge making championships and Emerald’s Trump-themed ‘Metal Matrix’ game…

 

Later, they chat about why Stephen King’s marriage was on the rocks, top tips from the World Wine-Tasting Championship and a tarot card reading cat going viral online…

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Emerald Paston 

And Diggory Waite filling in for Queenie Miller and Mike Rayment who, don’t worry, will be back soon! 

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

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The team return for another series of the podcast – this time alongside the TV show! They tackle a tricky odd one out involving Austrian nuns, Russian bears and a confused Canadian in the UK before learning about dossing detectives and the UK’s hottest new pet trend: exotic woodlice…

Later, they chat about the real root of a suspected gas leak in Lancashire, the name of the new train destined to defeat dangerous leaves on the line and what Labour members were given to survive their recent party conference…

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Queenie Miller 

Emerald Paston 

And Mike Rayment (hard at work this week but back next week!)

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

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The team discusses the major party’s reactions to the anti-immigration protests taking place outside hotels, Angela Rayner’s new home and holiday photos and Trump’s ramping up of the use of the National Guard.

Later, they chat about Gen Z’s work-based plan to combat loneliness, the boy addicted to jacket potatoes, and how – despite all the odds – Pearl the chicken has lived long enough to be crowned the oldest in the world.

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Queenie Miller

Emerald Paston 

And Mike Rayment

 

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

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The team discusses Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, the ‘crack team’ of European leaders who came to back him up and which country’s diplomat has the best joke.

Later, they chat about backpack-wearing cyborg cockroaches, Nigel Farage’s new football shirt for sale and explain how to correctly use the newest word in the Cambridge Dictionary: ‘Skibidi’.

Your hosts are Jack Harris

Emerald Paston 

Mike Rayment

And the absent Queenie Miller who is still busy holding the comedy world together at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

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The team discuss Kemi Badenoch's school snitching admission, unpick the mass pensioner imprisonments from the Palestine Action protest and compare the two greatest bromances on the international stage: Trump & Putin and JD Vance & David Lammy. 

Later they explain how Fantasy football works, why an Argentinian man received $12,500 in compensation from Google and provide an update from Aalborg Zoo...

Your hosts are Jack Harris

Queenie Miller 

Emerald Paston 

And the absent Mike Rayment who, for anyone interested, has drafted an absolutely awful fantasy team.

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

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The team discuss Trump’s hideous $200 million White House ballroom extension, Labour and Yvette Cooper mimicking Nigel Farage’s call to have criminal suspect’s ethnicity and immigration status revealed and the many, many books written by Reform UK’s newest member, Rupert Matthews. 

They also chat about Tesco’s viral (and sad) birthday cake sandwich, the Squonkerpalooza Festival celebrating everyone’s favourite sorrowful Squonk and a Danish zoos plea to the public to send in their pets as “fodder” for their animals…

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Emerald Paston 

Mike Rayment

And the absent Queenie Miller, still smashing it at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

In the News This Week is a Hat Trick Podcast

The team discuss the lionesses back-to-back Euros triumphs, Trump’s questionable golf game on his trip to Scotland and the Online Safety Act – if Big Busty British Women dot co dot UK are reading this please do get in touch about that sponsorship... 

They then go on to chat about a kleptomaniac cat in New Zealand, the intern fired from a prestigious law firm for biting her colleagues and if the UK is experiencing ‘peak Greggs’…

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Emerald Paston 

Mike Rayment

And the absent Queenie Miller, who – sorry to disappoint – isn’t actually doing a comedy show with Liz Truss.

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

In the News This Week is a Hat Trick Podcast

The team get together in person for once to discuss parliament breaking for recess, the scrapping of the water regulator 'Ofwat', Kemi Badenoch raising tories from the dead in her reshuffle and Reform's 'big' law and order policy ideas...

Then they chat about the 72 new badges available to girl guides, the 6 million dollar banana artwork eaten again and pay tribute to late great Pauline Richards, the world's longest serving KFC worker. 

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Your hosts are Jack Harris

Queenie Miller 

Emerald Paston 

And Mike Rayment

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

In the News This Week is a Hat Trick Podcast

The team talk about Donald Trump’s realisation that Vladamir Putin might actually not be a good guy after all, his decision to arm Ukraine and strange trophy lift at The Club World Cup. 

Later, they discuss Angela Rayner’s spat with Unite, question what could turn a pigeon green and ponder how they would spoil their plushies should they take them to a 'Plushie Hotel'…

 

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Our hosts are Jack Harris

Queenie Miller 

Mike Rayment

And Emerald Paston dialling in this week as she attempts to experience Cornwall exactly like the author of her new favourite memoir. 

   

The Producer, ousted by Labour MP Chris Bryant for his poor placement of apostrophes, is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

   

In the News This Week is a Hat Trick Podcast

The team go through Keir Starmer’s to-do list – starting with the immediate issue of Emmanuel Macron’s state visit, sorting out the economy, and handling threats from other political parties – both old and new… 

Later, they bring you all the latest fashion news from the Oasis reunion, the £500,000 full stop and Jeremy Hunt’s toaster.

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Our hosts are Jack Harris

Emerald Paston 

Queenie Miller 

And Mike Rayment dialling in this week after a bout of Queenie’s mushroom wellington.

  

The Producer is Diggory Waite

The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton

The Music is by Big George

  

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