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Simply Not Cricket
Mostly about sport this week: we chat about how a bar themed entirely on breasts — not to mention a sport where young girls show their undies — became socially acceptable in America; this leads to the...
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Pound Notes and Dollar Coins
In our MLK Day show, we discuss the British connection to Dr. King, then move on to tooth fairy inflation. This gets us on to change jars and piggy banks, and British TV shows that became American. We...
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Race Relations
We celebrate President Obama’s 2nd Inauguration by examining the diverse melting-pot that is American society, and we do it by painstakingly dissecting some terrible jokes. Later, Sam takes a slightly...
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Germans!
We open with an amazing but true fact about the British and American Dennis The Menaces. Then, to celebrate our first letter from a listener in Germany, we discuss European aristocrat-swapping, which...
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It’s Groundhog Day All Over Again
An exciting weekend that brought us both the prognostications of a large rodent and some sort of sporting event involving a bowl that is, apparently, far from ordinary. Obviously we discuss the works...
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Love, Strangely
You’d think Valentine’s Day would be uncontroversial, but starting with the fact that the British consider it odd that Americans send their mothers Valentines at all, we chat about the yanks’ limited...
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Mad Cow, Crazy Horse
If there’s a through-line to this week’s episode, it seems to be flesh and blood; we chat about the fact that while American giants can apparently smell the blood of Englishmen, the American Red Cross...
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A Visitor From Anglotopia
A packed episode! First, we give the least intelligent talk about the Oscars ever, because they hadn’t actually happened when we recorded, and we’d seen a total of 1 of the films between us. After...
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Stupid!
Our quinceañera episode! We talk about daylight savings, then listener Jill gets in touch to tell us about some British and jewish folklore involving people acting stupid. This allows us to revisit...
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They’re Always After Me Lucky Charms
St. Patrick’s Day is here, but in the interest of fairness, we talk about all four patron saints of the UK. We also discuss our Irish voiceover guy, and James does an impression of his French teacher...
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Critters and Varmints
It’s Palm Sunday later this week, so we talk about that until it stops being interesting (90 seconds or so.) James then segues into talking about palm trees, despite Paul thinking that this is also too...
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Chocolate and Jesus
Easter for the Christians, passover for the Jews, chocolate for everyone! We talk about all three of those things, plus Stephen Fry’s spider bite and why it’s only hooman to say Jagwar. Yeah. Later,...
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Skyfool
In our April Fool’s show we talk about the breakfast of champions that is the Taco Bell A.M. Crunchwrap, then attempt to discuss the major developments at the end of Downton Abbey’s third season...
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The Listeners Speak
Our faithful listeners get in touch: first Jochen writes from Hamburg to stick it to James about Easter, Heathrow Airport and British cars, but also asks about the origins of the word “loo.” Then Laci...
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Normal Service Etcetera
Show will be a teeny bit late this week (sorry.) Recording two shows, plus work has been nuts. Just not going to get it up tonight (ooer!) Tomorrow for sure though. Thanks for your patience, everyone!
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Breaking The Rules
In this week’s episode, James describes narrowly dodging a traffic ticket from Henny Youngman, then talks about British vs American board games and nursery rhymes. Later, Kurt takes the quiz and tries...
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Breakfast In America
We’ll take this week’s episode sunny side up! We talk mostly about the bountiful options available to Americans, everything from egg style to toast type. Later, Ed Gamble (the other half of Peacock...
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Help!
This picture is a red herring: we actually talk about the movie “The Help” which leads to us revisiting the whole Rodney King debacle. Then we chat about noun gender in various languages (including...
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Hello, Clarice
In our Cinco de Mayo and Star Wars Day episode, we talk about, well, cannibals. First, the Jamestown settlers who got quite hungry, then the movie “Alive,” then whether James or Johnson would be more...
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Misunderstandings
This week, after talking about the non-story that is Star Wars VII, we read about some misunderstandings between cultures. Later, Nish Kumar of the Peacock & Gamble podcast calls in and talks about...
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