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Underground! The ideal place to hide from all the horrors of the world! The dread won't find you if you are buried beneath a thousand tonnes of dirt. Get into a hole right now, it's the only way! In this episode, Joel has the wrong tea and we discuss pirates, troglodytes, Camberwick Green, dibbers, dobbers, and Stripy Garold the enormous blood-hungry murder bee.Also this episode's Time-Till-Parasites (the TTP index) is an impressive 26 minutes.

Bags! Use them to carry the trinkets that shield your soul from the awful horror of your existence! Fill your bag with purchased items! They matter! Your life has meaning! Today, in addition to bags, we discuss: Bagger 288, Budgens, spiders, pianos, the Windmills of Your Mind, mustard, gudgeons, bins and Devon.

Old diseases are the best diseases! Let's hear it for such classics as scurvy, rickets and leprosy. So much classier and more demure than the brash modern rubbish we all have to get infected with these days.In today's episode, as well as classic diseases we discuss ferrets, Ski Sunday, Rupert Grint, gin, insufferable wizards and halberds.

Jokes! The funny little things we say to blot out the sheer horrifying nausea of existence! Hooray! Today, we discuss squirrels, cats with Phil Collins' face, time-travelling Soviet murder-chimps, monkey bars, extended families, ballet, Spike Milligan, and how to survive a shark attack.

Skin! It keeps your insides in! Should your family be at risk of starvation through abject poverty, you can always trade your valuable hide for food. What a boon skin really is! Hooray for skin! Today, as well as wonderful skin, we discuss napalm, autocannibalism, Pork Force, rats, bears, melons, Joss Whedon, custard, and sentient tea.

Weevils! Amazing little cutey critters! They have boots and snoots! Today we discuss weevils in all their glory. Strap yourself in and prepare for a wealth of weevily goodness. I bet you never knew how awesome weevils are! Also, we discuss optimising giraffes, chickens, snoots, sharks, the rings of Saturn, Tarzan and albatrosses.

Beans! Amazing little blobs of potential! They can grow into things! They can be eaten by human men and women! WOWZORS! In today's episode, we discuss guns, stew, kohlrabi, chainsaws, bisection, acid and krill. Hooray! also BEANS of course! Woo for beans!

Aliens! Creatures from space that want to inhabit our bodies and control our minds so that they can escape their own benighted worlds! Nearly everyone has one in them now. You probably do already. Lucky you! In today's episode about aliens, we discuss humans, parasitic worms (yet again,) Batman, turbines, Steven Seagal, Oumuamua, crabs and baffling internal mouths. Hooray!

Hair! Stringy bits of weird body stuff that your head extrudes to cover your shameful brains! Find out more about this wonderful substance here and now! We discuss Ilfracombe, haircuts, electrocution, blubber, Queen, inverse monkeys, Claudia Winkleman, and the life cycle of the Ant&Dec.