Money for Old Rope

By Vamp Nation

A podcast about idioms, featuring various Mancunians with a general disdain for everything outside of Manchester.... more

· Comedy

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The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.

Money for Old Rope episodes:

September 11, 2018MythBusters Did It!
Adam and Terence lack a cat…
Idioms:
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Bless their little cotton socks
Alternative names:
Super Magic Sparkle Pen
Ideas for other Podcasts
Seductive Paper Dance
The Night Clouds are Forming
Terence Reads Latin
A Jewel of a Podcast
Links:
Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Adventure Time’s Finale is the Beginning of Something New
Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
MythBusters – Wikipedia
YouTube – MythBusters in the rain
White Rabbit Project (TV Series 2016) – IMDb
Parks and Recreation (TV Series 2009–2015) – IMDb
Making It (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Jim Henson – Wikipedia
YouTube – ERB, just including this for how great it is.
Nomad (comics) – Wikipedia
Kuala Lumpur – Wikipedia
American Revolutionary War – Wikipedia
YouTube – Another great song!
The League of Gentlemen – Wikipedia
George Cotton – Wikipedia
Ganges – Wikipedia
Accidental Tech Podcast
Hello Internet
No Such Thing as a Fish – Wikipedia
Slow Burn
The Wire (TV Series 2002–2008) – IMDb
99% Invisible
Ferrite Recording Studio: Ferrite Recording Studio — Wooji Juice
Audacity (audio editor) – Wikipedia
Byker Grove – Wikipedia
YouTube – Shot in the face!
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagram
Deborah’s Twitter
Sam’s Twitter
Ben’s Twitter
Terence’s Twitter
...more
38min
August 29, 2018The ASMR One
Adam and Terence listen to a cat.
Idioms:
The cat’s pyjamas
Chance your arm
Play a blinder (sort of)
Alternative names:
Licking Wendy Houses
Tastless Rubbery Eggs
Interesting Buttery Friend
Yellow Silk PJs
All Bacon Fry-up
Odd But Accurate
Links:
Autonomous sensory meridian response – Wikipedia
Prohibition in the United States – Wikipedia
Donald Trump – Wikipedia
Meowth – Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling – Wikipedia
YouTube – Everybody Wants to be a cat
Absinthe – Wikipedia
Darjeeling – Wikipedia
10 of the Most Dangerous Airports in the World
Tad Dorgan – Wikipedia
Yes! We Have No Bananas – Wikipedia
Dancing plague of 1518 – Wikipedia
George Cross – Wikipedia
St Patrick’s Cathedral
Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
Disenchantment (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb
YouTube – The Robot Hell Song
John DiMaggio – Wikipedia
Arrested Development (TV Series 2003– ) – IMDb
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagram
Deborah’s Twitter
Sam’s Twitter
Ben’s Twitter
Terence’s Twitter
Terence’s Instagram
Terence’s Website
Email
...more
46min
August 14, 2018The Queen’s Glass Eyes
Adam and Terence listen to Deborah’s cough, entirely self-inflicted.
Idioms:
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Fit as a fiddle
All the world’s a stage
Alternative names:
Melting from the face
American inner monologue
Socks is great
Shiny Shiny House
Deborah’s cough
Links:
YouTube – Queen’s guard
Just William – Wikipedia
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) – Wikipedia
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher – Wikipedia
Walter Matthau – Wikipedia
Gold leaf – Wikipedia
Joey (TV series) – Wikipedia
Pearl & Dean – Wikipedia
YouTube – Simpsons Ape Song
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Wikipedia
Lindsey Stirling – Wikipedia
Ronald Reagan – Wikipedia
Big Brother (UK TV series) – Wikipedia
William Shakespeare – Wikipedia
Y Tho | Know Your Meme
Cold War – Wikipedia

Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagram
Deborah’s Twitter
Sam’s Twitter
Ben’s Twitter
Terence’s Twitter
Terence’s Instagram
Terence’s Website
Email
...more
45min
July 24, 2018Jelly Boat Universe
Adam, Deborah and Terence are together for the first time ever! We mainly talk nonsense…
Idioms:
Lead someone down the garden path
Take it with a grain of salt
Push the boat out
Alternative names:
Scurvy’s the one I wanted
Space Pirate… Ghost
Champagne Jelly Boats
Greasy Idioms
Barely Remembered Degrees
Tez the Cabin Boy
72 Ingredients
Links:
The Office (U.S. TV series) – Wikipedia
List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia
List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia
Sean Bean – IMDb
Garden-path sentence – Wikipedia
Geocentric model – Wikipedia
Heliocentrism – Wikipedia
North–South divide – Wikipedia
Face of Boe – Wikipedia
Little Women – Wikipedia
The Secret Garden – Wikipedia
The Railway Children – Wikipedia
Jurassic Park – Wikipedia
David Attenborough – Wikipedia
Richard Attenborough – Wikipedia
Edwardian era – Wikipedia
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST on acast
Call Me Kevin – YouTube
Hello Internet
Jeremy Hunt – Wikipedia
Nicolas Cage – Wikipedia
skeptic | Origin and meaning of skeptic by Online Etymology Dictionary
Shoulder angel – Wikipedia
Oprah Winfrey – Wikipedia
Ainsley Harriott – Wikipedia
Louis XVI of France – Wikipedia
Electorate of Mainz – Wikipedia
Prussia – Wikipedia
Unification of Germany – Wikipedia
Pliny the Elder – Wikipedia
Black Death – Wikipedia
Pontus (region) – Wikipedia
Mithridates VI of Pontus – Wikipedia
...more
45min
July 17, 2018Conscientiously Objecting Pigeons
Adam, Terence and Lucy take on underwear… we’re also extremely ignorant about American sports!
Idioms:
Cut and run
Mum’s the word
Don’t get your knickers in a twist
Alternative names:
Drive-by Podcasting
Our bad history
Idiomatic Verb Phrases
Let’s Twist Again
Smokey Ghosts
Knicked my Bocks
Links:
Lavalier microphone
Pirates of the Caribbean
Johnny Depp
Disney Sheriff of Nottingham
How it’s made – Newspaper
Dennis Skinner
Oliver Twist
Blackadder
Assassin’s Creed
Elizabeth I (bit out on the date… again…)
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Brexit (such a horrible word)
David Cameron – whistling
Monty Python
And Now for Something Completely Different
Anime bloody nose trope
Royston Vasey
Corned Beef
Homing Pigeon
Kibosh
Vaudeville
Heelys
Return to Oz
The Craft
New York Knickerbockers
Knickerbocker glory
New York Knicks (also Knickerbockers, but basketball, a bit dull)
Google Books
Train from Katanga
Mills & Boon
Geordie Racer
Stottie cake
Pasty barm
Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
George Cruikshank
Bloomers
Plus fours
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
...more
42min
July 10, 2018Super Hairy Leg Time
Adam, Lucy and Deborah talk about the heat, again, and we also get into Terence’s hairy legs!
Idioms:
That old chestnut
Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face
Spinning a yarn
Alternative names:
Elongated Film Chat
Peter Molyneux Sucks
Floating Babies
Links:
Fable (2004 video game) – Wikipedia(great game)
Peter Molyneux – Wikipedia
Jack and the Beanstalk – Wikipedia
Lionhead Studios – Wikipedia
Bullfrog Productions – Wikipedia
Theme Hospital – Wikipedia
Theme Park World – Wikipedia
Dungeon Keeper – Wikipedia
Dungeon Keeper 2 – Wikipedia(one of the best games ever)
Godus – Wikipedia
Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube? – Wikipedia
Can Xerox be used as a synonym for photocopy? – Quora
Hoover vs. vacuum – Grammarist
Velcro – Hook-and-loop fastener – Wikipedia
Austin Powers – Wikipedia
Goldmember – Wikipedia
Hokusai – Wikipedia
The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Wikipedia
(Pokemon edition)The Great Wave Off Kanto by missypena on DeviantArt
Photorealism – Wikipedia
The Birth of Venus – Wikipedia
The Merchant of Venice – Wikipedia
Macbeth – Wikipedia
Henry IV of France – Wikipedia (not quite the Henriest Henry)
James Hardy Vaux – Wikipedia
Red thread of fate – Wikipedia
Minotaur – Wikipedia (Theseus!)
American Horror Story – Wikipedia
Bayeux Tapestry – Wikipedia
Mean Girls – Wikipedia
Freaky Friday (2003 film) – Wikipedia
Blade (film) – Wikip
...more
42min
June 26, 2018Rudderless Gawping
Adam, Sam and Terence try to talk sensibly, despite the heat…
Idioms:
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Navel Gazing
Get off Scot Free
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagram
Deborah’s Twitter
Sam’s Twitter
Ben’s Twitter
Terence’s Twitter
Terence’s Instagram
Terence’s Website
Email
...more
48min
June 12, 2018Arrogant Philosophers
Idioms:
Make hay while the sun shines
The full monty
Hobson’s choice
Sponsored by:
A change in podcast editing workflow.
Rejected titles:
Photoshopping yawns
All Philosophers are Arrogant
We Philosopher Kings
Debs’ Old English
The Suneth Shineth
I’m not mad!
Links:
Sophie’s Choice (it was also a book…)
First past the post (again, feels like I’ve linked this before.)
Plato
Aristotle
Plato’s Republic
Ties in decline
UK Summer
British dialects
Heinzhound
Robert Carlyle
Stargate Universe (boo)
Battlestar Galactica
Mr. Bean
The Full Monty – Film
Montezuma (specifically the second one)
Hernán Cortés
Civilization – Game series (so good)
Embiggen
Field Marshal Montgomery
Monte card game
Old maid
Shebang
How 2 (I’d completely forgot it was Carol Vorderman…)
Interrobang
Why three busses come at once
Blue Peter badges
Unfiltered – James O’Brien
The Louvre
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagram
Deborah’s Twitter
Sam’s Twitter
Ben’s Twitter
...more
47min
May 30, 2018Forming a Guild
Idioms:
Tin foil hat
Got their comeuppance
At sixes and sevens
Sponsored by:
Bank holidays.
Links:
Muppets Tonight
Number 9 – Futurama
Into the Wild Green Yonder
New Matt Groening Show
Roswell
Area 51
The X-Files
Wild West Red Dwarf
Westworld
Tin foil formally tin
How they make tinfoil
Better Call Saul
Philip K. Dick
H. G. Wells
UNESCO
World Wildlife Fund
British Humanist Association
British Eugenics Society
Brave New World (fantastic book!)
The Doors of Perception
Bush Did 9/11
Chemtrails
Cloud seeding
Water testing planes
UK Cabinet Split
Cockney rhyming slang
12 Angry Men (first watched this in school, didn’t appreciate it)
A Few Good Men
Bottle episode
Editing in films discussion
City of London Livery Companies
Ancient Guilds
Livery
Terry Pratchett Guilds
Stonecutters
Tim Berners-Lee
Bill Gates
Guild Wars (never played)
World of Warcraft (played this too much)
...more
43min
May 22, 2018Extra Bitter Beer
Idioms:
Turn on a sixpence
Cut someone some slack
Full tilt
Sponsored by:
Injured limbs.
Links:
Sixpence
Usain Bolt
Tron
Lightbikes (Light cycle!)
Pivot!
Charles Dickens
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Almanac
All the Year Round periodical
Dressage
Rube Goldberg machine
Honda Advert
House of Commons – Sixpence
House of Commons – Dime
Aloe
Cooperage
Bugsy Malone
Naruto running
The Incredible Crash Dummies
Crash test dummies TV
Taxidermy
Tilting in poker
MOBA (Feel like we were a bit far off)
League of Legends
Dota
Dota2
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of Newerth
Tilting in esports (an art?)
Jousting
Warcraft III (such a great game, Ben’s great at it)
Fight over Dota Name
Rejected titles:
We’re all injured
We’re not mechanics
Dimes, Daims, and Dames
Wanging with Sticks
The Podcast Almanac
Media and contact:
Our Twitter
Our Instagram
Lucy’s Instagram
Deborah’s Instagr
...more
33min

FAQs about Money for Old Rope:

How many episodes does Money for Old Rope have?

The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.