The What & The Why

The What & The Why

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The What & The Why episodes

  • Episode 16 - Opportunity Lost and the Return of the ISIS Bride
    Email us your questions/comments/comedic corruptions of the name “Waywell” at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Ack! Ack!
    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… Ack ack ack!
    The Shangrilas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdr-MslXkw
    Chicken Alarm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J753uaiOCCg
    Holtz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q
    Tim’s Year Ahead - http://www.thewhatandthewhy.com/2019-the-year-ahead/
    This week’s running order…
    01.24: Return of the ISIS Bride
    11.57: Lost in the Mire
    13.00: Russian Cyber Security
    18.25: Mars
    23.41: Ask Tim
    29.29: FACT of the week
    Ack! Ack! Ack!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    37 min
  • Episode 15 -- The Four Walruses of Love: Trump, Neeson, Boris, and Barry...
    Email us your questions/comments/sweet sweet love at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! We know you still love us, baby… Oh, yeah!
    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 sure-look-sexy-on-you links…
    State of the President - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMAgFxzErX4
    Lee Marvin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08
    The Walrus of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
    Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLx1EKifpGs&feature=youtu.be
    The Presidents’ Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-q2VNa89c
    This week’s hot running order…
    01.27: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
    03.13: State of the Unions
    11.05: Ask Tim!
    24.28: Lost in the Mire
    38.40: Fact of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    47 min
  • Episode 14 - Venezuela, M&S Wraps, and we play "My Neighbour's an Undertaker"...
    Email us your questions/comments/flu remedies at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! I’m sick (David) and working to edit this podcast on a Saturday hoping only to get some sweet sweet royalties from my 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 avoid them like David’s plague links…
    No pasaran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMD4ynTQXek
    Power to the people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKsR_wUSfA
    Bar Italia: http://baritaliasoho.co.uk/
    Patton (again): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/
    M&S Biryani: https://news.sky.com/story/m-s-accused-of-cultural-appropriation-over-biryani-wrap-11622691
    This week’s running order…
    3.05: Venezuela
    22.30: The M&S Biryani story
    29.11: Ask Tim!
    32.11: News roundup
    35.26: Last Week’s Podcast This Week
    37.45: Spam email of the week
    41.525: FACTS of the week
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    47 min
  • Episode 13 - The Other 27, The Oscars, Ocasio-Cortez, and... The Odd Couple?
    Email us your questions/comments/acceptance speeches at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Please don’t make me (David) 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)
    This week’s your-life-isn't-complete-without-them links…
    Government Shutdown Song 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyGuuQ3q8Y
    Cracked Actor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEvAvIGK-w
    Patton: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    This week’s running order…
    0.39: Introduction
    3.20: Brexit and The 27
    10.34: The Trump Shutdown Part 382
    17.24: The Contenders
    20.19: AOC
    26.35: Slight digression about beer recipes and right-wing populism
    31.41: Another slight digression, this time about China’s Social Credit scheme
    34.40: The Oscars
    47.25: We want to know what you think we should do... (Polite suggestions only, please!)
    48.54: FACTS of the week
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    54 min
  • Episode 12 -- Shaving, Long Moustaches, and Secret Bodily Juices…
    Email us your questions/comments/suggestions for invisible inks made from bodily juices at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Please/pretty 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 vital links…
    That Gillette ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaY2Kb_PKI
    Jokes and Virtue: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/morals-funny-sense-of-humour-virtue-joking-like-singapore-business-school-a8732251.html
    This week’s running order…
    0.37: The Pre-Match Chat
    3.47: Spy Gate
    6:13: The Gillette Ad
    16.12: News Roundup
    20.53: Are Morally Virtuous People Funny?
    28.20: FACT of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    38 min
  • Episode 11 -- Westminster Hate, Trump's Shutdown, and other forms of quackery
    Email us your questions/comments/hangover cures at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Please/pretty 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 vital links…
    Skepta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQOG5BkY2Bc
    Westminster harassment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSpOVKh8o5I
    Donald Duck and the Nazis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUNb6qUXYPA
    This week’s running order…
    01.54: Obligatory football chat (which will continue only until our teams are no longer top of our respective leagues)
    04.28: A Listener Writes about the Westminster Yellow Jackets
    13.27: The Trump Shutdown continues
    26.00: Lady Gaga & the weatherman
    35.40: World news roundup
    40.00: FACT of the Week!
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    50 min
  • Episode 10 - The Sajid, The Sausage, and The Clown
    Email us your questions/comments/clown jokes at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books for the New Year!
    Tim Marshall, Divided https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/
    Follow us on Twitter! Tim (http://www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (http://www.twitter.com/davidwaywell)
    This week’s important links…
    What is Greggs?: https://www.greggs.co.uk/
    Who was Jimmy Savile?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
    Pagliacci by Enrique Caruso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XujudRc_uk
    David’s Christmas chicken: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1077590524041797632
    This week’s running order…
    01.33: Obligatory football chat
    02.00: The Major Incident
    09.38: The Word ‘Illegal’
    17.33: Trump, Romney & US Politics
    27.40: World news roundup
    29.26: Sausages
    32.38: Clowns
    39.39: FACT of the Week!
    48 min
  • Episode 9 - Iraq, Walls, Golden Pianos, and absolutely everything that will happen in 2019...
    Email us your questions/comments/prophesies at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books for the New Year!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Why-Were…s/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Lives-Mon…e/dp/1783963107/
    This week’s important links.
    That golden piano: https://youtu.be/bNZ6vczX3xY?t=105
    Trump in Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuNcLilfcHg
    Schrödinger's cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaAxUO6-Uw
    This week’s running order…
    01.44: What a new year means for old problems
    02.10: Trump in Iraq
    08.08: The Golden Piano
    12.59: Technology and Security
    15.27: The compulsory bit about the ‘B’ word
    17.00: The US government shutdown
    19.00: Contenders for the Democrats
    23.35: A few smaller stories from around the world
    28.00: Gratuitous football talk
    28.55 Fanfare: FACT OF THE WEEK
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    36 min
  • Episode 8 - Droning on about Gatwick, Syria and... Belgium?
    Email us your questions/comments/recipes at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books for Christmas!
    Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Why-Were…s/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Lives-Mon…e/dp/1783963107/
    This week’s important links.
    Learn to say Merry Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAF0o9ls598
    Magritte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUk8L17A8Q
    A Trumpian fanfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ujGtvQxFps
    This week’s running order…
    01.41 Podcast Feedback
    07.22 The Gatwick Drone
    11.53 Trump, Syria & Mattis
    19.58 Belgium & UN immigration pact
    28.49 Missed story of the week: EU contingency plans
    30.56 Fanfare: FACT OF THE WEEK
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    40 min
  • Episode 7 - A Listener's Question, Africa, Michael Cohen, Humour, and whistling?
    Email us your questions/comments/jokes we've never heard before at [email protected]
    Support the podcast! Please buy our books for Christmas!
    Tim Marshall, Divided https://www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Why-Were-Living-Walls/dp/1783963972/
    David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Lives-Monks-Atheism-Apocalypse/dp/1783963107/
    This week’s running order…
    2.15 A Listener’s Question about Brexit
    11.35 Macron and the yellow vests… Part 283
    14.14 Putin sends bombers to Venezuela
    16.16 China, Canada and Huawei
    17.00 China & US in Africa
    21.40 Trump vs Michael Cohen
    25.24 Comedy and the Limits of Good Taste
    36.41 Fact of the Week
    Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)
    43 min

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