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We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants. And there are no more impressive shoulders to stand on than the great physicists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This week, Mark is in conversation with …

Hands up who overthinks stuff? Did you really put your hand up? Is anyone else putting theirs up? Did you put yours up too quickly? Maybe you were too slow? And what is a hand meant to do once it’s u…

Staple a jelly doughnut to your ear, set your spleen to channel 27 and ask your favourite albino squirrel to a dance. Lex Friedman joins Mark to discuss their top-5 songs by “Weird” Al Yankovic that …

Rhythm is a dancer. The rhythm is gonna get ya. And you must not, under any circumstances, stop the beat.

This week, Stephanie Fuccio joins Mark to pick their top 5 songs that drag them to the dance f…

Whether they go “pew pew”, “what is this thing called ‘love’?” or “Give me your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle”, androids have, it turns out, been a staple of sci-fi films for a century.

Thi…

Whether you like to bash away at them or tickle them gently, you can get a lot of beautiful noise out of 88 keys.

Jon Hickman rejoins Mark to discuss their top-5 piano pop ac.

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Nothing is ever quite as it seems in the world of spies. A watch isn’t just a watch – it’s a deadly weapon. That phonebooth? Also a weapon. Bag pipes? Weapon. This sandwich though, that’s just Q’s lu…

The world faces a host of very real and serious dangers. But if you believe there’s nothing little ol’ us can do, it’s probably because that’s what certain people want you to think.

No, this isn’t a c…

What should you do, eat, drink, look for or avoid while traveling alone to a new city?

Arielle Nissenblatt, podcast maven and former List Envy guest, returns to decide on the top five ways to explore …

What do mechanical limbs, credit cards, and the atomic bomb have in common? They all had their roots in science fiction.

Ashley Hamer joins Mark to rank real-world inventions inspired by sci-fi, and M…

Just like every brand has a visual logo, every accomplished brand has an audio – or sonic – logo too. Everything from the Netflix “tudum” to the noise your computer makes when it starts up… even the …

Where can you go to get a goodnight kiss, see a big wienie, and drink your way around the world? Why, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom of course!

This week, Mark is joined by Disney turbo-enthusiast …

If they don’t leave you humming to yourself during your midnight pee, then they don’t qualify.

Standup comic Luke Gallacher joins Mark to discuss films that give them the absolute ick, and put them in…

“Let’s get away to this old European castle”, he said. “It’ll be romantic”, he said. Then you find your husband’s EVP meter in your carry-on luggage and you remember you married a writer of real-life…

We’ve got some half-priced cracked ice, codpieces, yellow coats and goldfish shoals nibbling at toes. That can mean only one thing – your podcast app is on the blink again.

Jon Bounds rejoins Mark to …

Sequins, ethnic-sounding instruments, scantily-clad androgynous gimps, wolves in tailored suits. It’s here. It’s Eurovision. Get used to it.

Cat Turner joins Mark to sift through all 37 Eurovision 202…

Those “You had to be there” moments; the jokes that made you cry but you can no longer remember; the savage putdown of the ambitious heckler. These are the moments that distinguish live comedy from w…

Everyone’s pretty, everyone eventually gets down to it, no-one throws up, and occasionally steam comes out of someone’s ears. Is there more to cute Korean dramas than this?

Turns out yes, yes there is…

Stuart Moore joins Mark to discuss their top-5 characters from America’s longest-running animated show.

Snowball II, Groundskeeper Willy, Frank Grimes. These are just some of the characters that get a…

Whether you’re 🤩, 😡, or 🫤 about them, emoji are a useful way to express in one tiny image what would take reams of text to express.

So today, George Chachanidze rejoins Mark to pick their top 5 emoji …