Ep63: The Bitter End

Luke and Jon brave rain, fireworks and sweaty runners for an episode featuring the invention of the windscreen wiper, listener correspondence, distant explosions and three questionable drinks. Consumption Junction investigates Milky Splash sweets, the lexicon explores narcissism and Listen to Wikipedia turns edits into music. There are also celebrity guitar pedals, smokey chiller cabinets and one gloriously soggy episode title.More

Luke and Jon leave dinner for a special walking episode about Desert Island Discs, Oasis and the documentary Don’t Look Back in Anger. They choose their imaginary island records and survival equipment, correct loose ends from episode 66, discuss Bonehead’s role in the Oasis reunion, and explore why rivalry began with people sharing the same stream.More

Luke and Jon walk through Storm Austen in Southbourne, investigate a fallen tree, revisit the Cuban Missile Crisis and learn how Vasili Arkhipov helped prevent nuclear disaster. Along the way they answer questions about Memento, Def Jam and jamais vu, then consume Girona in three days with tapas, coffee, churches, city walls and very small beers.More

Luke and Jon head off-road to a beach hut with rum, whisky and ginger ale, stopping at the Co-op on the way. Along the walk they discuss Snoop Dogg, the Holy Grail, Aldi, lethal injection, false widow spiders and listener messages before reviewing the hut, recommending The Party and Silo, and wondering what to buy from the internet.More

Luke and Jon walk through a rainy autumn evening, revisit a long camping trip, celebrate an MSR tent-pole rescue and investigate the Knights Templar’s unhappy Friday. Along the way they answer the leaflet-versus-pamphlet question, decode famous brand names, discuss WorldGuessr, The Reluctant Vampire and The Cure, browse The Public Domain Review, and leave a buried Land Rover and a failed execution for next time.More

Luke and Jon walk through BMX freestyle, Tesla range anxiety, Jason Lewis’s human-powered circumnavigation and a long-awaited reply from Jon’s sister. There is WorldGuessr, British Scandal, Bow Street Runners, charity-shop Beatles records, a camping plan, Siren Lumina and the surprisingly nautical truth behind the bitter end, followed by one more mysterious pub-side observation.More

Luke and Jon mark the birth of London's Metropolitan Police, uncover the horsey origin of “constable”, revisit a Battle of Britain correction and survive another quiz night. Along the way there are listener messages, GeoWizard, William Shatner, a theatre review, the old-web search engine Wiby, two kilos of cheese and a plan to buy an industrial box of Tic-Tacs.More

Luke and Jon finally press record, then walk through AI doom, Salisbury theatre plans, old television adverts, the corrected rules of stone skimming and the strange history of Wednesday. There is a crisps-only pub experiment, an accidental lesson in Woden and a tour of Colin from Accounts, Movie Scene Map, odd marketplace finds and the rusty speaker stands that give this wandering episode its title.More

Episode 60 begins with a recording mishap, a cold, a rum and Pepsi, and a walk through Battle of Britain Day. Luke and Jon compare Arabica and Robusta, investigate the Phoebus light-bulb cartel, decode a Klingon message, launch Consumption Junction, review Flowers for Algernon, learn pandiculation and get unexpectedly serious about the World Stone Skimming Championships.More

Luke and Jon head out in shorts for a wet, increasingly autumnal walk, discuss Star Trek's surprisingly prophetic technology, clear up some old housekeeping and launch a new review feature with Apple TV's Silo. There's also coffee, Klingon, 60,000 photographs, a tour of the early internet and a roadside height restriction that supplies the episode title.More