The What & The Why

The What & The Why

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The What & The Why episodes

  • Episode 26 - A Clockwork Emu
    Please email us your questions/comments [email protected]. If you don’t email, we have almost nothing to talk about…
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    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
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    Show Notes:
    02.10: Joe Biden’s Small Announcment
    13.00: The Media & Greta Thunberg
    32.00: David’s Oddcast (or a Dr. Writes)
    42.00: Lost in the Mire
    43.37: Last Week’s Podcast This Week
    48.31: Fact Of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 25 - Extinction, Zionism, Notre Dame and Frank Sidebottom?
    Email us your questions/comments/obscure but much-cherished comedians at [email protected]
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    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    It wasn’t me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzt7JvsYIuI
    There is nothing like a Dame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljm9CDRAhMQ
    The bells of Notre Dame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae69SQQvLMw
    Mike Sidebottom’s Indie Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyt6GfkJpw
    This week’s order…
    03.07: Pigs & Numerology
    06.21: Extinction Rebellion
    25.00: Richard Burgon
    32.25: Notre Dame Fire
    39.45: Things We Lost in the Mire
    41.41: David’s Oddcast
    48.28: The Dad Joke Competition Results!
    53.31: Ask Tim
    58.09: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 24 - They Said It Was Impossible But It Isn't Now! Political Chat Recorded in the North!
    Email us your questions/comments/Dad Jokes (this time there’s a prize!) at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! How many times must we beg?!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    Last week’s link…
    You can now win a copy of The t*at in the hat cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1111612056548114432
    This week’s links…
    Bolton Question Time: https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17550669.bolton-question-time-cancelled-and-moved-to-london/?ref=twtrec
    GPS systems go crazy when Putin is near. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/russia-is-tricking-gps-to-protect-putin/
    Our AI Future: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/07/uk-businesses-using-artifical-intelligence-to-monitor-staff-activity
    Siberian Slapping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifQPD5eok4
    This week’s order…
    03.44: Assange
    028.27(!): On Protest Votes
    32.30: Bolton & Question Time
    40.38: David’s Oddcast
    46.00: Things We Lost in the Mire
    51.00: The Dad Joke Competition!
    52.38: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr
  • Episode 23 - The T*at in the Hat, Joe Biden, Corbyn & the Paras and... Harvey Keitel?
    Email us your questions/comments/Harvey Keitel trivia at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Oh, come on! Please!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    The t*at in the hat cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1111612056548114432
    The Mark Francois cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1113789586466070528
    That Niall Paterson thread: https://twitter.com/skynewsniall/status/1113438767380094982
    The Trump Chinah Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs8TtQsXsI0&t=923s
    The Joe Biden Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3pBWFcwAQ
    This week’s order… (digressions not included)
    01.57: The T*at in the Hat
    03.55: Joe Biden
    11.56: Brunei
    26.03: The Paras and Jeremy Corbyn
    33.43: David’s Oddcast
    38.07: Things We Lost in the Mire
    41.34: Ask Tim!
    54.37: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 22 -- A fun hour in which we disagree about everything...
    Email us your questions/comments/explanations of how we got Marx/Peterson all wrong at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! I’ve scraped skin off my knees getting down on the floor to beg you to do this.
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    Cartoon of the week: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1109602970461720577
    Adam Smith’s Repeal the Porn Laws: https://www.adamsmith.org/repeal-the-porn-laws
    Makkeken Pis: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/manneken-pis-statue-no-longer-peeing-water-dwn-drain
    Pope in Loreto, Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/video-of-pope-francis-trying-to-avoid-having-his-ring-kissed-goes-viral
    This week’s order…
    02.45: Racism in Football
    12.00: Peterson disinvited to Cambridge
    22.00: Cultural Marxism
    30:00: Oddcast
    37.40: Things We Lost in the Mire
    38.49: Ask Tim
    43.2: FACT of the Week
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    53 min
  • Episode 21 - Brexit, Blake and oh why bother? We're all doomed, anyway!
    Email us your questions/comments/post-Brexit tips on how to cook rats at [email protected]
    We beg you! Support the podcast! Please buy our books! But then, who are we kidding? I ask this every week and nobody buys my (this is David) book!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    The May cartoon:
    https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1108495069605179392
    More on the Porn Pass: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-block-uk-wired-explains
    William Blake Death Mask: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00611/William-Blake
    This week’s order…
    01.45: Brexit!
    13.11: The Birmingham Schools Controversy
    29.22: David’s Oddcast (None of this “Doctor Writes” nonsense).
    25.29: Banana’s Revisited / Listener’s Letter
    37.00: Things We Lost in the Mire
    39.23: Ask Tim!
    51.21: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 20 - Oh yes, we've got too much about bananas...
    Email us your questions/comments/Dad jokes at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Dear god! Won’t somebody please buy our books?!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    The Emily Maitlis Eye Roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNZZS7GFRz0
    The Melania Doppleganger: https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/whats-hot/does-melania-trump-really-use-a-body-double/ar-BBUKmfi
    The Banana Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFukyIIM1XI
    This week’s order…
    01.56: Algeria
    10.39: Bibi
    20.34: Titania McGrath
    25.29: Banana’s Revisited / Listener’s Letter
    29.16: Things We Lost in the Mire
    30.45: Ask Tim!
    33.11: David’s Oddcast
    41.50: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    49 min
  • Episode 19 - The podcast worth every penny of £100,000
    Email us your questions/comments/podcast tips [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! You won’t believe their value for money!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s order…
    03.19: The £100,000 Podcast
    04.20: Macron
    25.03: Things We Lost in the Mire
    31.51: Ask Tim
    35.46: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    43 min
  • Episode 18 - Korea, Cohen, Comic Relief & Lime Cordial Barrels
    Email us your questions/comments/chocolate memories at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Maybe somebody will leave a little treat on your pillow!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s tasty links…
    Make you an offer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TliG1fhvaM
    David’s article on David Lammy - https://reaction.life/david-lammy-right-comic-relief/
    Comedy https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1101392432841793536
    Tim’s first appearance as the Milk Tray Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA345HfN9Y4
    This week’s running-across-the-top-of-a-train order…
    03.21: Trump and North Korea
    14.04: Michael Cohen
    19.01: David Lammy and Comic Relief
    33.13: The Young Reporter and the Mountain Lion / General Media Chat
    42.46: Lost in the Mire
    44.48: Spam!
    48.00: Ask Tim!
    58.36: FACTS of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 17 - Splitters!
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    Support the podcast! Please buy our books!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s links…
    White Stripes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY
    The Magnificent 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ
    Snow White and The Seven Dwarves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0x0KYChq4
    Trump says “China” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs
    The 'silent' film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7VImsSMQM
    Earliest Sci Fi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk
    The Seven Samurai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXi5SUipbg8
    This week’s running order…
    03.38: The Split
    11.18: On By-elections
    15.29: Bernie
    17.29: Last Week’s Podcast This Week – Shamima Begum
    20.13: Lost in the Mire
    23.01: AI, Text, and Deep Fakes
    28.41: Letters to the Editor
    29.50: SPAM of the week
    31.38: Ask Tim
    43.53: Last Week’s Podcast This Week – Sci Fi Movies
    49.43: FACT of the Week
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    58 min

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