Rathergood Chat

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!

Let's communicate! Using methods! Woohoo! From trendy semaphore to kid-friendly Morse, we all use amazing methods to communicate! Find out more here! In today's episode, we discuss: Screaming, coal, THE YACHTMASTER, Dyson spheres, holograms, whelks and foot-fingers. Whoop-de-dooooooo!

Small things! Amazing aren't they! If something is so small you can't see it that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist- maybe it's just a denizen of THE MICROSCOPIC REALM! In today's episode about things that are small, we discuss jellyfish, curses, mythological Greek punishments, colonies, consciousness, food preservation and KWAARF. Hooray! Also, there is a little bonus bit at the end after the fade-out if you keep listening. Hooray again!

Taste! It's the thing that makes food nice! Use your tongue to give it a go! Taste everything around you! Taste all the things! Go on! Do it! Do it now! Today, in our episode about tastes, we talk about the irrepressible nature of Monkey, the Tooth Fairy, eggs, crabs, parasitic wasps, subatomic particles, cess pools and death.