Take Five

Sometimes you need to get somewhere. If you’re afraid of trains, planes, and boats, then cars are your only choice, pretty much. That means cars are really important, so it’s a good thing they’re the topic of this week’s episode.

Where would you be if it weren’t for cars, eh? And if you were afraid of trains, planes, and boats? Probably wondering what all the roads were for.

Show notes and links:

* Benz Patent Motor Car, the first automobile (1885 – 1886) (daimler.com)

If you’ve lived in Brighton, listen to this episode! Or, maybe you should only listen to it if you haven’t lived in Brighton? You’ve got more to learn, after all. Then again, we need all the listeners we can get, so you should listen to it no matter what.

Show notes and links:

* Visit Brighton – Official Brighton & Hove Tourist Information Site (visitbrighton.com)

Things like teleportation are bad, because they’ll probably never happen, but thanks to science fiction everyone knows what it is and wants it to exist.

Science fiction is a tease. Which is not to say that fantasy isn’t tease. Where’s the magic, Tolkien? You’ve ruined existence.

The internet has changed many things. Take comedy, for example. It used to be that if you wanted to make a 13 year old laugh you had to make a reference to genitalia. Now you just show them a meme.

I don’t know if that’s better or worse.

If you’re into sleeping, then odds are you’re also into pillows. So strap in and listen to the latest episode of Take Five, which is all about our fluffy friends. I would, however, ask you not to fall asleep while listening, but if you’re able to fall asleep in under five minutes, I won’t even be angry – that’s impressive.

Electricity is everywhere, but how well do we really know it? Can we trust it? When we don’t even know how something works, should we be happy that it’s running through our walls and into our computers? I can’t even wear a tin foil hat, because they conduct electricity :(

Join Jack and Anthony as they discuss the sinister and unknowable force powering things that are “electric”.

Who better to talk about the Wilderness than two people who have never experienced it?! Join Jack and Anthony as they discuss survival plans that would actually be quite the opposite.

Sometimes languages are silly, and homophones are a great example of that! Communication is full of these little landmines that will blow you up if you accidentally step on them. So great!

Which is why it’s just swell that “Homophone” is the topic of this week’s episode!

Batteries power all sorts of important things, which is why it’s a great topic for this week’s episode.

Incidentally, a great thing about Take Five is that because each episode is so short, it won’t use much of your battery! That’s called responsible podcasting, and is why Take Five’s slogan is “Saving the Planet One Episode at a Time”.

Show notes and links:

* How do batteries work? A simple introduction (explainthatstuff.com)

This week’s show covers probably the most risqué topic that’s been discussed on Take Five! I’ll… leave the description at that, since this all makes me deeply uncomfortable.