Frenzied and Sustained
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA mild skirmish in the war on ignorance. A humorous look at topics from Astronomy to Gastronomy whilst helping Paul Simon find the missing 44 ways to leave his lover.
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Episode 19 - The one with Agony Aunts, Electric Cars and Friend-zoned and sustained
August 24, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week we look at the inefficiencies of petrol cars and search nature for something as equally un-parsimonious with its fuel. We shove Frère Jacques through our anagram poetry section that we call My Taragon Pea. Whilst Barry suggested Electric cars, Sam proffered Friend-zoned and sustained where we look at the hapless characters stuck literally forever in the friend zone. We have another new section where we look at what's happening down on the farm but literally the last section looks ...
Episode 18 The one where we show that supermodels only weigh 1Kg, Nanci Griffith needs some help with alternative coping strategies and we try and identify all the influences for A Knights Tale, film, poem and poem.
June 09, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBOur Brainy Lecture looks for mass and finds it in the most surprising place. In Songs under the Microscope we explore Nanci Griffith's response to a setback in her 1993 hit Tecumseh Valley. Unlike every other podcast we are in colour, and the colour this week is Bastard Amber so point your browsers at Pantone 148C. Our section that goes by many names including A Greyer Tampon and Mangy Port Area considers the Anagram form of the poem Fi by Pudgy Rail Drink. A Sauce a Sauce My Kingdom for ...
Episode 18 The one where we show that supermodels only weigh 1Kg, Nanci Griffith needs some help with alternative coping strategies and we try and identify all the influences for A Knights Tale, film, poem and poem.
June 09, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBOur Brainy Lecture looks for mass and finds it in the most surprising place. In Songs under the Microscope we explore Nanci Griffith's response to a setback in her 1993 hit Tecumseh Valley. Unlike every other podcast we are in colour, and the colour this week is Bastard Amber so point your browsers at Pantone 148C. Our section that goes by many names including A Greyer Tampon and Mangy Port Area considers the Anagram form of the poem Fi by Pudgy Rail Drink. A Sauce a Sauce My Kingdom for ...
Episode 17- The one where statistics show that the world probably does to exist, we prepare a sorrel sauce for Yorgos Lanthamos’s The Lobster. and Kafka's monstrous insect. All this in Pantone 715C
June 02, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week our Brainy lecture considers Boltzman Brains and shows why, on balance, you probably do not exist. Well, you do, but no one else. The Metamorphosis and The Lobster have the super plastic human mind dealing with absurd propositions whilst still trying to get to work on time. Yorgos Lanthamos was silent about the sauce that would be served with the lobster, but we are serving it with a tangy sorrel sauce. Our misheard lyrics have had me singing “Might as well face it, you’re a dick ...
Episode 16 - The one where we wonder if Entropy made life inevitable, if Indiana Jones caused World War II and why Hot Chocolate sing that they remove umbilicals
May 27, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBOur Brainy Lecture discusses entropy, and considers the theory that life is just a consequence of entropy. We try and bring some structure and order to the debate. Our Songs under the Microscope continues with its next top ten misheard lyrics. Listen on if you want to know who removes umbilicals and who pees in the corner. In A Sauce A Sauce my Kingdom for a Sauce - we go back to the fundamentals of French cuisine with the Sauce Supreme a daughter sauce of the Velouté that we first met way...
Episode 16 - The one where we wonder if Entropy made life inevitable, if Indiana Jones caused World War II and why Hot Chocolate sing that they remove umbilicals
May 27, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBOur Brainy Lecture discusses entropy, and considers the theory that life is just a consequence of entropy. We try and bring some structure and order to the debate. Our Songs under the Microscope continues with its next top ten misheard lyrics. Listen on if you want to know who removes umbilicals and who pees in the corner. In A Sauce A Sauce my Kingdom for a Sauce - we go back to the fundamentals of French cuisine with the Sauce Supreme a daughter sauce of the Velouté that we first met way...
Episode 15 - The Ethics of gene editing, Broken Proverbs, Misheard Lyrics and the Rhythm of English
May 19, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBWith CRISPR Cas9 gene editing a dystopian future could be just twenty years away. We look at the developments and consider the risks, benefits and ethics. In a Podcasting first we now introduce a podcast with colour, literally with Pantone 448C. Our songs under the Microscope continues its voyage into misheard lyrics. We stress test some common proverbs and found them inaccurate at best and the purveyor of very poor counsel at worst. Finally, we consider how language dictates the rhythm an...
Episode 14 - The one with 27 metre high CRISPR babies, misheard lyrics under the microscope and a decidedly dodgy book review of 50 shades of Grey
May 12, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBThis week's Brainy Lecture considers Final Cut Pro for genes with the CRISPR gene splicing technology. We look at how it works and how it may help humanity. We spot the first misuse of the technology was well. We welcome back our Songs under the Microscope with a special misheard lyrics edition. Stand by your shallots as this week we are giving our kingdom for a red wine sauce. In Literally the Last Section we finally tackle 50 Shades of Grey and we compare and contrast it to Harry Potte...
Episode 13 - The one with multiple multiverse theories, Shakespeare's medical knowledge, Wife Carrying and Raspberry Vinegar
May 05, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week our Brainy Lecture considers the multiverse and what that might mean for free will. It examines the theory that a big bang occurs in every black hole with each new universe a slightly tweaked version of its parent thus giving a kind of cosmic evolution. In Sports that Definitely should be in the Olympics we throw our women over our shoulders and feminism back two hundred years as we delve into the murky sport of wife carrying. Our local news from around the Frenzied and Sustained...
Episode - 12 The one where we ask who finely tuned our universe, how did cheese rolling become a sport and we finally get a diagnosis in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
April 28, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBThis week's Brainy Lecture considers the Finely Tuned Universe and notices that if one of 20 physical constants were slightly different that life, the universe and everything may not exist. Is this evidence for our extreme good luck, someone fiddling with the dials on our behalf, or that we live in a multiverse. We continue our series of Sports that should Definitely be in the Olympics with the ancient and hazardous pursuit of cheese rolling. Talking of food, A Sauce a Sauce, my kingdom ...
Episode 11 - The one with the Fermi Paradox or where are all the Brainy Aliens. Also we look at the world's longest shampoo commercial, also known as Out of Africa and introduce a new section on sports that should be in the Olympics
April 21, 2021 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBThe Fermi Paradox asks why have we no sign of all the super intelligent aliens, why have they not made contact yet; especially as they may have had a 4 billion year lead over us A Sauce A Sauce My Kingdom for a Sauce gives you a foolproof way of creating your own fabulous mayonnaise and thus freeing you from the tyranny of Hellmann’s forever. In Literally the Last section we watch Robert Redford wash Meryl Streep's hair for three hours in film Out of Africa. We introduce a new secti...
Episode 10 - The one where we upgrade our eyes, add diamonds to the soles of our shoes and reveal the psychological crisis in 100 Acre Wood
April 14, 2021 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBWe compensate for our rubbishy gelatinous orbs in our skull and use astrophotography to reveal that the night skies above our heads to be full of dramatic colour, shapes and jewel like stars. Talking of which, we calculate that adding diamonds to the soles of your shoes, as first suggested by Paul Simon, can be a highly cost effective shoe construction technology compared with normal leather shoe resoling. It also stops Paul Simon from Slip Sliding Away. We examine the scandalous under trea...
Episode 9 - The one with Neutrinos with an identity crisis, a flat packed bearskin hat, and we beg recording artists to stop admitting to crimes
April 07, 2021 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIn this week’s podcast for a post stupid society our Brainy Lecture looks at the particle with multiple personality disorder - the neutrino and that forces us to relive the quantum strangeness that we first encountered in Episode 2. We encounter the least practical of all hats when we consider the surprisingly popular Bearskin and learn that it is part of the Uniform of 14 countries’ armies. In Songs under the microscope we compare the legal prowess of various recording artists and we beg ...
Episode 8 - The one with Dark Energy and the big rip, we repeatedly use a rude Norwegian word to describe the hat of the week and Tony Soprano's friend, Paul McCartney blames the black notes when the problem was the whites and we delve into the corporate
March 31, 2021 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBOur Brainy Lecture finally looks at dark energy, the mysterious force that suddenly started accelerating the expansion of the universe and unless it stops we are heading for the Big Split. Our hat of the week is the Ushanka. This may be my favourite sauce to date, Sauce Albert with fresh horseradish root to enliven your beef. This week’s songs under microscope uses music theory to show that Paul McCartney was ill advised in his use of metaphors in Ebony and Ivory. In literally the last s...
Episode 8 - The one with Dark Energy and the big rip, we repeatedly use a rude Norwegian word to describe the hat of the week and Tony Soprano's friend, Paul McCartney blames the black notes when the problem was the whites and we delve into the corporate
March 31, 2021 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBOur Brainy Lecture finally looks at dark energy, the mysterious force that suddenly started accelerating the expansion of the universe and unless it stops we are heading for the Big Split. Our hat of the week is the Ushanka. This may be my favourite sauce to date, Sauce Albert with fresh horseradish root to enliven your beef. This week’s songs under microscope uses music theory to show that Paul McCartney was ill advised in his use of metaphors in Ebony and Ivory. In literally the last s...
Episode 7 - The one where we ask if physicists should be strung up by their superstring theories, we look at the glorification of binge eating in The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the indecisive refreshment strategy in Polly Put The Kettle On
March 25, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBOur Brainy Lecture looks at the wiggly jiggly world of superstring theory and we ask whether a whole generation of physicist have just wasted their lives. We turn our attentions and saucepans to a Cider Beurre Blanc. This week’s song under microscope considers the enduring charm of Polly Put The Kettle on and examine what exactly has kept this infusion centric ditty in the charts for the last two hundred years. That gets us thinking about the whole canon of gruesome english language nursery ...
Episode 6 - The one where we answer the question of whether ghosts exist, and for that matter, does dark matter? We diagnose Bruno Mars with lagophthalmos in his song Grenade
March 18, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBThis week's Brainy Lecture looks at Dark matter and we are made to feel insignificant when we find out that the known universe is down to 0.6% of the total. We try and cheer ourselves up with Bob Dylan's poultry themed song, Lay Lady Lay before Bruno Mars makes us feel sad again. Then we get happy once more as we contemplate the Asian Conical hat and our sweet and sour red pepper sauce. In Literally the Last section we find several Shakespeare works that are in contravention of common HR pr...
Episode 5 - The one with black holes and the Piña Colada Song, the best hat in human history and a medical analysis of the world's most famous truant, Tintin
March 11, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBOur Brainy Lecture peers into black holes and encounters Spaghettification, but no fear, as with any pasta based cosmological encounter we have a bonus sauce for the occasion. In our songs under the microscope we probably read way more into Rupert Holmes's lyrics than is probably sensible, but it does seem that Mozart ripped off the song for his own Cosi Fan Tutti. In A Sauce, A sauce, my kingdom for a sauce we make the simple yet stunning Red Pepper Sabayon and we uncover a medical theory t...
Episode 4 - The one where we prove that Time exists, that Hogwarts should be shut down and that people should be more careful in their choice of wedding ballads
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week's episode looks at the nature of time, whether the past and future are as real as the present, can it be changed and why does Foreigner want it to 'Feel like the First Time.' This episode is grudgingly sponsored by a racist breakfast cereal and in Literally the Last Section we see how broom flying at Hogwarts fits into the 2016 Civil Aviation Air Navigation Order.
Episode 3 - The one where we ask Gravity, Force or Farce And call Einstein a Psycho
February 25, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBOur Brainy lecture looks at Einstein's General Relativity and shows that mass slows down time, and it is slowed time gives us the illusion of gravity. We make a decidedly next level Béchamel source by inverting it. Yes, even our sauces seem to defy the arrow of time in this podcast. We finally resolve the Clash's dilemma as to whether they should stay or go. We also help out the Government by starting to rename towns and things that are no longer new but keep referring to themselves as such....
Episode 2 - The One with Quantum Entanglement and the ghost of Stephen Hawking ruins the joke
February 18, 2021 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWe explore the bizarre world of Quantum Entanglement and break cause and effect and annoy Einstein. We make a mushroom velouté, analyse the Monkees' 1966 hit Last Train To Clarksville and analyse Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and ask if Javert was crime fighting superstar or work-shy fop.
Episode 1. The one with Special Relativity and Gwyneth Paltrow's Candle
February 15, 2021 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBThe Brainy Lecture looks at things in the universe that travel faster than the speed of light. Literally the Last section considers the word 'impede' and brings back its long lost brother 'expede' We have a very excellent recipe for a chilli tomato sauce We audit Paul Simon's 50 ways to leave your number and uncover the chilling truth that he only provided between 4 and 6. We help make up the shortfall. See how the Muon uses relativity to cheat death