As we discuss this episode, there are really only about a dozen possible conversation topics, once you really get to think about it. Once you've exhausted the possibilities of bees, vehicles, bees in vehicles... well, it's time to finally finish what we started way back in our first ever episode, and lay to rest once and for all the contentious matter of how to fix sport! Join us as we cook up a tasty melange of Squid Game and the Triwizard Tournament, then finish up with everybody's favourite dessert: the nauseatingly-named Hyper-Fake-Icals (documentary edition). Which one of these true stories is too fake to be true?

Music used: "Investigation", "Funkorama" and March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Ever since that first time an audience got freaked out by a train, we've been fascinated by the ol' moving pictures. But have we done all we can with this inspiring medium? As ever, the answer is a resounding no. Sure, we could keep just re-releasing superhero sequels and live-action remakes of animated classics, but the modern audience demands so much more. Join us as we explore genre-busting twists on classic tales, play with the paper-thin distinction between horror and romance, and discover that, as usual, almost everything is better in the imagination of a child.

Music used: "Local Forecast - Slower" and March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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If music be the food of love, then it's time to put love on a diet. Honestly, this stuff'll clog your arteries. We've heard your chart pops, your synth beats and your hard rocks, and honestly none of them are quite cutting the mustard. As is reliably the case, the status quo needs shaking up, and we've got the ol' Disrupt-o-matic all revved up and ready to go. We're talking Non-Fungible-Tracks, concerts so intimate they barely exist, and unwieldly cylinders of rich, malleable wax.

Music used: "Joey's Formal Waltz - Unscented" and March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Plastic pals that come alive. Every kid's dream, right? Sneaking around your bedroom at night, getting into mischief. What could possibly go wrong. Join us as we take a deep dive into what the world might actually look like if a) the Toy Story films were 100% true and b) the cat was out of the bag (or toy was out of the box, or whatever). If you haven't seen any of the films then... spoilers I guess. But the point is, the toys come alive when nobody's looking. You get it.

Music used: "Ethernight Club" and March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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You may not like it, but this is what peak human performance looks like. Squat, scaly forms heaving their metallic bulk over the scorched landscape. Gradually slowing, slowing, slowing down as the precious heat leaves their blood. As they grind to a stately halt, a majestic crest extends! Up, up it reaches, a salute to the heavens, a mute appeal to a nameless god, a conduit for the light, the life, the precious power.

At least, that'd probably be the case if the Earth was covered in constant lightning storms. Also your energy bill would likely be lower. Contact your local government representative today, and maybe we can make it happen!

And then, just for fun, come back and listen to us play Hyper-fake-icals about art installations. It's surprisingly difficult to come up with something someone, somewhere hasn't already done.

Music used: "Hyperfun", "Fluffing a Duck" and March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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According to The Matrix, they had to trap everyone in a simulation that mirrored real life - as opposed to a perfect digital utopia - because when they tried the latter for Matrix 1.0, the collective minds of humanity rejected it. That does seem like an appropriate punchline to the cosmic joke that is consciousness, and if you look around at the simulations we build for ourselves to get lost in, you can kind of see their point. Our digital playgrounds tend to feature more threat, drudgery and capitalism than we might expect of paradise, but heck if we don't crave those kill-you-over-and-over bosses, 0.5% drop rates on loot and delicious microtransactions. Oh, those tasty tasty crates. Anyway. Come listen to us date ourselves as we discuss what life could be like if it followed the same rules and logic as videogames.

Music used: "On Hold For You" and "March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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There are two types of people: 1) those who will one day be zombies, and 2) those who will one day be their food. Pretty sure we read that on an inspirational bumper sticker or something. Then I guess you've got the oh-so-badass survivors (let's call them 3), many of whom end up as number 2) by the end of the movie anyway, so the few who don't are really a negligible statistical anomaly. So you know what forget 3, they don't deserve their own category. And now that we think about it, most of the time the bizarre biology of the living dead decrees that becoming zombie food means becoming a zombie, so it's really all just 1) with extra steps. Maddening!

Ok, let's just make a note here - To Do: 1) track down that lorry driver so we can refute his bumper sticker, 2) figure out better way to survive inevitable zombie apocalypse. We'll get to number 1) later, if there's time before the infection starts. 2) seems more pressing, so before we can confuse ourselves with any more numbered lists, let's go ahead and make that the theme of this episode.

Music used: "Guzheng City" and "March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Don't get us wrong, we love dogs. And horses, horses are great. Actually, since they basically occupy the middle of that Venn diagram, it's possible we love greyhounds most of all. But that's not the point - the point is, what if humans hadn't been able to base their early civilisation around the domestication of such familiar species, and had to branch (and trunk, and root, and tunnel and river) out instead?

Picture a bucolic farmyard scene. Under a blue sky, amid rolling hills, sheep graze peacefully like earthbound clouds. But what's that bounding towards them over the windswept meadow? A sheepdog? No. As it draws nearer you make out the roiling, tumbling form of a ball made of a million giant ants. And they want to help.

Music used: "The Entertainer" and "March of the Spoons"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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