Caroline keeps the wealth in the family this week by looking at the laugh-a-minute topic of when it stopped being OK to marry your cousin, before Alex gets greased up in her attempt to take us on a magical tour of McDonald’s counters across the world. Meanwhile Hannah tries to re-oxygenate proceedings by asking when on earth we decided we wanted to put plants indoors. In our Women Who Code mixer we try to work out how many Gs our phones will have by 2020, and our Smart Lesson tackles how to be two-faced in a respectful and responsible way without being caught out, you absolute rat.

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Hide behind your earbuds, listeners, because this week, Hannah resentfully investigates the relentless pull of True Crime podcasts, and finds that, goddamnit, they are pretty interesting. Meanwhile Alex investigates whether smelling salts are made of piss, and Caroline gazes wistfully at the moon while reminiscing about previous love affairs. Elsewhere, we try to invite Siri and her voice-recognising friends to our Women Who code mixer, and our Smart Lesson attempts to navigate the choppy waters of how to do Dry January without losing all your friends. 

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Prepare your can openers, dummies, because this week Hannah does some fishy maths in a segment on tinned tuna, Alex tells us why Lance Armstrong made so many people cry, and Caroline plays Grandad by explaining why cryptic crosswords are actually not so terrible. As well as all that, our Women Who Code mixer takes us inside the mind of a Monzo user as we learn about Fintech, and finally our Smart Lesson dishes out some tips on how to make your salary last until the first pay day of the year.

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Happy New Year, Satan worshippers! This week, Caroline gets to know the dark prince himself, Hannah nearly crashes our Women Who Code mixer by discovering exactly what was going on with Y2K, Alex solves the stripy toothpaste mystery and Romantic Misadventure host and Pop Bitch writer Kit Lovelace joins us to talk all things escalators. Finally in our Smart Lesson, we embrace New Year, New You with some tips on how to murder that sow, Old You.

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Are you leaving 2017 with less knowledge than when you entered it? Us too! But never mind, because the Dumb Wipe is here for anyone who needs to mop up any spilt turkey curry or arguments about monopoly, leaving you spick and span in time for 2018. In the absence of Charlie Brooker, entertainment’s next best things (that’s us!) whizz through some of the many things we didn't understand about the past twelve months, such as; why is a wotsit the president? Why did a little girl crashing her dad’s interview go viral? And why does George Osborne have any sort of job?

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Music by Harry Harris, logo design by Gavin Day. Recorded at Soho Radio Studios.

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Christmas has come early to the School for Dumb Women and we've got the discount crackers to prove it! This week, Caroline goes all Nigella on us and discovers the history of Christmas snacks, Alex learns what on earth myrrh is and Hannah forces everyone into her greatest artwork to date, the Nativity play. Finally we doss through our Women Who Code mixer and attempt to Smart Lesson our way to the perfect Smart Woman’s Christmas.

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In episode 26, we invited journalist and creator of Black Ballad, Tobi Oredein, to tell us all about why Issa Rae is her absolute hero. You can hear our full chat with Tobi, including more Issa Rae, speculation on Rihanna’s wild nights out, and the story of how Black Ballad was created in today’s bonus episode. 

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Music by Harry Harris, logo design by Gavin Day. Recorded at Soho Radio Studios.

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