It's finally time to do the TOP 10 PARASITES! HOORAY! One of my absolute favourite subjects, I am SO HAPPY WE ARE DOING THIS ONE. Find out about some absolutely GREAT parasites here. YEAH! PARASITES! WOOOOOOO!

In addition to ranking parasites, we also discuss The Borrowers, tongues, colonial organisms, horse-eye sausage extrusion, immortality and cats.

This episode has a presumably unbeatable TTP (Time To Parasites) index of 10 seconds.

Timestamps! In case you want to skip to your favourite parasite!

02:58: Brain-Eating Amoeba

05:48: Tongue-Eating Louse

11:50: Figs

13:38: Wasps

20:35: Cordyceps

23:47: Sexually Transmitted Dog Cancer

30:10: Crab Barnacle

34:20: Green Banded Broodsac

40:50: Toxoplasma

47:38: The Human Placenta

56:17: Top Ten ranking

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Who are the 10 very best women ever to have lived? Find out here! Is your favourite featured? Only one way to be sure- give it a listen. This is the final and definitive list of the best 10 women who have ever lived.

This week, we have a very impressive TTP (Time To Parasites) index of 41 seconds!

We discuss: Parasites, Eastenders, polonium and armadas.

Timecodes, in case you want to skip to a particular excellent woman:

03:58: Cleopatra

09:53: Marie Curie

15:17: Harriet Tubman

19:02: Florence Nightingale

24:11: Ada Lovelace

30:35: Boudica

38:44: Elizabeth I

47:29: Emmeline Pankhurst

54:02: Jane Goodall

57:50: Ella Fitzgerald

1:00:26: Ranking

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It's the Top 10 Men! Who are the best men there ever have been? Find out here! Do you think you might be on the list? Are you one of the greatest men ever to have lived? Give it a listen and see if you are featured! Don't be sad if you're not, though.

Rathergood Chat ep77 - Top Ten People Part 1: MEN

In this episode, as well as the top 10 men, we also discuss electromagnet tennis, black holes, Mr Weebl, taxidermy and Victorian facial hair.

Here are some timecodes for the people we talk about, in case you want to skip forward to a specific chap:

02:35: Albert Einstein

21:36: Spike Milligan

26:16: Alexander Von Humboldt

30:30: Genghis Khan

38:11: David Attenborough

43:36: Charles Darwin

45:39: Leonardo Da Vinci

48:01: Charles Dickens

50:11: Dick Van Dyke

53:33: Isaac Asimov

57:17: Ranking

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What are the best numbers? I bet you have opinions, but those opinions might be WAY WRONG! Listen NOW to find out what the absolute definitive list of BEST NUMBERS EVER is! Maybe your fave number is on there! Maybe it isn't! Only one way to find out!

In this episode we talk about lettuce, gnomes, the Rolling Stones, pork pies, the fundamental nature of the universe, bingo, and lobsters.

Timestamps!

1:45: Pi

18:08: -1/12

27:03: Root2

31:36: 8

35:43: 6

39:19: c

41:46: 2

42:56: 10

44:08: The Planck Constant

45:20: 100

46:28: Ranking

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What are the very best reptiles? FIND OUT HERE! What's your favourite reptile? Will it feature in this, the definitive and final top 10? Only one way to find out! Give it a listen!

In this episode, Joel does his best ever introductory song, and we discuss eyes, soft-shelled crabs, cephalopods, piranhas and Ray Winstone.

Here are the reptiles we discuss with timecodes, so you can jump to your favourite scaly creature if you like:

03:05 - Horny Toad

09:37 - Armadillo Girdled Lizard

13:09 - Komodo Dragon

18:27 - Minute Leaf Chameleon

22:45 - Dragon Lizard

26:42 - Green Anaconda

31:01 - Gecko

33:47 - Gharial

37:33 - Turtle/Tortoise

43:37 - Salt Water Crocodile

47:24 - Top Ten Ranking

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What is the best mammal? FIND OUT NOW! Whatever you are thinking, there is a good chance you are WRONG! This list of the best 10 mammals is a scientifically rigorous, final and definitive list that is immutable and perfect.

We discuss: snoots, Michaelangelo, dragons, mermaids, St. George, Aboriginal hunting methods, Liverpool and Mars Bars.

TIMESTAMPS:

09:22 - Pygmy Shrew

16:21 - Pink Fairy Armadillo

21:56 - Long Beaked Echidna

31:03 - Narwhal

37:33 - Dugong

41:44 - Gorilla

48:23 - Giant Pangolin

51:06 - Rhino

55:33 - Tiger

58:07 - Dog

1:02:24 - Ranking

TTP Index: 26 minutes

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What are the best fish? Find out here! Are you a fan of dace, haddock or cod? Find out if your fave is in the official chart!

Are you a plaice fanatic? Do you think John Dory smashes the other fish with its sheer awesomeness? Do you feel like Dover Sole is the pinnacle of subaquatic amaze? Have you got a problem with Monkfish? Is Tuna right up your alley?

Get together with your friends and put a bet on who supports the official best fish! Dress up in a costume, reflecting the type of fish you choose to champion. If the wrong fish turns out to be the winner, then bludgeon your enemy into submission! It's a fun parlour game for all the family, and invite some guests you have never met before so you can all bond over your mutual competition regarding the better or worse type of fish that you like and stuff!

YEAH!

The results of this scientific enquiry are final and binding. The order of merit we apply to the top 10 fish is legally watertight, and if you disagree, you are wrong.

In addition to the top 10 actual fish, in this episode we also discuss the Brazilian Winky Fish, Dracula, swedes and snakes.

Here are the fish we talk about and the timeciodes in case you want to check out a specific awesome fish:

10:38 - Sand Tiger Shark

15:12 - Tassled Wobbegong

17:24 - Red Lipped Batfish

24:06 - Stone Fish

32:12 - White Margin Stargazer

 38:26 - White Margin Stargazer tongue (You send me a pic to look at during the recording)

40:56 - Flying Fish

44:56 - Barrel Eye Fish

47:33 - Giant Oarfish

50:24 - Koi Carp

52:11 - Sunfish

52-54 - Hairy Frogfish

53:15 - Blobfish

53:41 - Those eels with a hinged mouth that makes up a third of their body length

53:59 - Handfish

54:18 - Male Anglerfish

Whoop whoop! FISH! YEAH!

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Which are the very best birds in the world? FIND OUT HERE The best 10 birds in all of creation! AMAZING! Today we have a chat about birds, as well as horses, Nike Airs, worms, rabbits and tigers. Most importantly, though, we give you a definitive list of the 10 very best birds in all the whole wide world!

Whoop whoop! Who will win? Who is your favourite bird? Will it be in the Top 10? Only one way to find out! Listen in and expand your brain!

Which birds do we discuss, you ask? Well look, here is all the info!

TIMESTAMPS!

03:53 - Shoebill

11:23 - Frigate Bird

20:41 - Cormorant

24:05 - Cassowary

28:42 - Crow

37:18 - Spoonbill

39:29 - Barn Owl

44:38 - Emperor Penguin

52:01 - Albatross

54:52 - Woodpecker

56:35 - Top ten list

The final ranking.... You will just have to listen to find out.

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Ancient Greece! Amazing birthplace of the modern world, Western culture and democracy. Where mighty Spartans hoiked people into wells shouting "THIS IS SPARTA" all day, every day, for thousands upon thousands of years. Imagine a whole culture built on the single foundational activity of hoofing people into holes while shouting your location. What a dream society! What a wonderful place! We are all the poorer for abandoning this wonderful and noble way of life.

In today's episode, we discuss cows, lion-men, skeletons, remote tribes, peristalsis and mechanical wings.

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