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Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross and The Supremes do the Beatles cover.

Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus whack facts, dud inventions and a Beatles cover.

Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’?  Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, as well as the step-grandfather of his ex-wife? Do you know Greg Almann’s first band? Do you remember great Aussie rocker Jeff St John? As always there are whack facts, musings, a Darwin Award, a couple of dud inventions plus an amazing interpretation of a Beatles song. 

Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like fries with that?” We’ve got Roger Daltry in his first band…another idiot gets a Darwin Award… The Rolling Stones Time Is on My Side is a cover… Alanah Miles has a one-hit-wonder… there is a song that was a hit in 1945, 1956, 1963 and today! There is a surprise Beatles cover… plus musings, whack facts and another dud invention.

Can you guess why the penknife was invented? We have Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before Pink Floyd… Another worthy idiot wins a Darwin Award…Another Number One hit that took 300 years to chart… and another one-hit-wonder from Roger Voudourus. More life hacks and whack facts, a dud invention and a Beatles cover from Nina Simone…

Lollapalooza… an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event…. Another idiot gets a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool… More whack facts and life hacks along with a dud invention – the wine dispensing bra… There’s Graham Nash in his first band… Reggae Red Red Wine is the cover… Double-Barrel is the one hit wonder… Joe Cocker sings so beautifully… and Sherbert has a Beatles cover.

Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck does the one-hit-wonder… Canadian Sarah McLachlan has a sweet performance of Blackbird off the Beatles White Album and there are the usual life hacks, whack facts, banter and fun…

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by a fear of happiness – yes, there is such a phobia… There’s Annie Lennox in a band before the Eurhythmics… Another winner of the coveted Darwin Award who improved our gene pool by removing himself from it… Limp Bizkit covers The Who… Barry Crocker has a one-hit-wonder… there’s the late but wonderful Billy Thorpe and Blood Sweat & Tears cover The Beatles plus whack facts, musing and a dud invention… 

In Yiddish, would you rather be a mensch or a schmuck? Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Roy Orbison in his first band, The Wink Westerners… Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman… Electric Avenue is the one-hit-wonder… we dig up the terrific English-Aussie rocker, Jon English… Stevie Wonder works it out with a Beatles cover… Hair in a Can is the failed invention and a Canadian lawyer improves our collective gene pool by removing himself from it to take out the Darwin Award… and, as usual, there are musing, banter, trivia and deep meaning of life thoughts like, does a drinking straw have one hole or two?

Clever but unscrupulous – that’s a ‘snollygoster’… Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Mama Cass in a band before she became famous… Eva Cassidy covering a Fleetwood Mac song… Nicolette Larson with a Lotta Love for the one-hit-wonder… Leonard Cohen with a lotta love for his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ilhen… Marmalade spreads out for the Beatles cover and we have a winner of the Darwin Awards who improved the world’s gene pool by removing himself from it…