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7 days ago
7 days ago
Simon and Dan bring in the new year with... 12 months of monastery soups. Warning: this episode contains some certified Dan Maw moments.
The boys read out some excellent correspondence, swap stories of Christmas, and reminisce about times spent together in Amsterdam <3
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- Macbeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth,_King_of_Scotland
- Dan and Simon Amsterdam vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTZtTskvHg
- 12 Months of Monastery Soups: https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Months-Monastery-Victor-DAvila-Latourrette/dp/0767901800
- Epic Warlord titan: https://spikeybits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/warlord-titan.jpg
- Simon Clark Errata: https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonClarkErrata/
- DCPOTW: Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: https://open.spotify.com/track/6GPl4qYaR1nr0HzlFVDABE?si=c94dc3de4a0a4e34
- Simon's bonus pick: https://open.spotify.com/album/5l62MCTHzb1xeyt44dEJ4L?si=jZuZcF02THWOk_eXmnzySA
- The Limehouse Golem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limehouse_Golem
- Ghosts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00049t9/ghosts
- Rev: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0178fhq/rev
- Briony: https://www.twitch.tv/brionykay
- Hat Films Minecraft series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW1Yb5N9dD8dBLk9NoQw4mhdPJuKEE25Q
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Abell
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
A new episode of the Wikicast? It's a Christmas miracle! Simon and Dan chat about Christmas in its various forms, singing, movies, and... well, the usual guff. But with a festive hat on! Also, Simon is sick. Sorry about that.
This episode arrived on a paddle steamer before getting on a horse.
Thank you to everyone who has come with us on the Wikicast journey in 2022! Sorry for wasting all your time. We're excited to serve up fresh nontent for you in 2023. Now where's the brandy...
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- St Nicholas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
- Mummer’s play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers%27_play
- Sinterklaas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
- King Wenceslas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia
- DCPOTW: Of the Rose, Cecilia McDowell: https://open.spotify.com/track/6VOFE4Oe7vSOt2oEgDj2N9?si=8e719c0f89b64d94
- Path of Miracles: https://open.spotify.com/album/3h26ZrnBBtfRWAMAI7R5zQ?si=IFqtWLjuSYiMIjlJaSNbzQ
- Cacophony: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cacophony-great-classical-music-that-makes-life-better/id1451741203
- Chart Party: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSe4gpc8PLDECqViWi-2we3
- Yogscast University Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nPbTZ275n0
- The Longest Johns: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5k979N1TnPncUyqlXlaRSv?si=HC18-pp3RW-KpHFq-9wUmA
- RPGeeks Christmas Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsEs6H_Sk4
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Christmas
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Simon gets on his high horse to rant about racehorses, while a sweaty Dan sneaks up on him with a fistful of dreamies, speaking Dutch the entire time.
It's one of those episodes.
#blorko
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- Big Red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretariat_(horse)
- Potoooooooo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-8-Os
- Hecatoncheires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatoncheires
- DCPOTW Messa di Requiem, Ildebrando Pizzetti: https://open.spotify.com/track/0UBUqDw285jP7P3F8zkCs7?si=222d3d5cac654742
- Path of Miracles: https://open.spotify.com/album/3h26ZrnBBtfRWAMAI7R5zQ?si=IFqtWLjuSYiMIjlJaSNbzQ
- Man in Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9VGZeqMfo
- The man who tried to fake an element: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterton_(horse)
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Yet more conversation between your two favourite British metrosexuals. This time discussing the Queen's funeral, sweat stories, and how to change the past.
How would you change human history if you went back in time by 4000 years? Email in!
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Northern grasslands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_short_grasslands
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Lyon film museum: https://en.lyon-france.com/discover-lyon/culture-and-museums/museums/cinema-and-miniature-museum
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Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: https://marianamazzucato.com/books/mission-economy
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Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Changes_Everything_(book)
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DCPOTW: Rachmaninov vespers https://open.spotify.com/album/6IC3DSM06TNJqXRZu499gx?si=Fa0wEMFyStS0l898knD3Wg
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Who Shall Separate Us?, Macmillan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqftlBY9uTc
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Song for Athene: https://open.spotify.com/track/4q8nTqZQlOhl8YqkXtpiCI?si=3e347b8b9db6492b
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Dominion: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43885149-dominion
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Hat Films Ranch Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbiNb913hlNKv7ZfGaB9Jykg92sdFmk0l
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Bumps racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumps_race
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaboo
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
It's a special episode people! Dan and Simon talk about tying the knot. (No, not them). Introducing pixel wife to the canon!
Simon and Dan talk about the big day, perfume, books, the perils of being a lawyer, and for the first time in a while attempt some German tongue twisters...
Do you have any wedding stories? Email in!
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- Fragrantica https://www.fragrantica.com/
- Blessed Be the God and Father, Wesley: https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZPDHmvX02cSGUmyp52Kee?si=e5c4fd88dc79431d
- Ubi Caritas, Duruflé: https://open.spotify.com/track/4zXsxw9BJqLfLdL4iekEcI?si=0b9193a3b28f4cae
- Ave Maria, Biebl: https://open.spotify.com/track/6HnknbjLQhAkEpRzsfy27K?si=7889b4505beb46fb
- Simon's post about the wedding on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7GW-lDscB/
- DCPOTW: In The Beginning, Copland: https://open.spotify.com/track/3EHq925KfAqsJGORPHxQN1?si=5831f4151c184c38
- Dominion: https://open.spotify.com/track/3EHq925KfAqsJGORPHxQN1?si=5831f4151c184c38
- Highest point in the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Scenery
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
One house move, a stag do, a set of exams, and a whole load of bollocks later, Simon and Dan are back with a fresh serving of nontent!
This week the boys talk about the first female novelist in the English language, some exciting viewing recommendations, and ZE FRENCH PART OF ALASKA HON HON HON
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- DCPOTW: Shine by Wickman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yud1ggCgofk
- Stormzy gets a doctorate: https://www.nme.com/news/music/stormzy-given-honorary-degree-by-university-of-exeter-3252733
- Simon's new house video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZFVzeAkmQ
- Simon's Warhammer stag do: https://www.instagram.com/p/CegqL7IDgTR/
- Bobby Broccoli: https://www.youtube.com/user/BobbyBroccoli
- Aphra Behn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn
- Chris Hemsworth acting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJBPb4RXNk
- Repair Shop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l581p
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Email us at: spongyelectric@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snettisham_hydroelectric_power_plant
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
Dan and Simon are joined by a professional shitposter, Annie Rau from depthsofwikipedia! Annie introduces our heroes to a dazzling series of wikipedia articles, and we talk about... well... everything?
Check out depthsofwikipedia everywhere, but here is Annie's Instagram! https://instagram.com/depthsofwikipedia
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- Buttered cat paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox
- DCPOTW: The Mozart Requiem: https://open.spotify.com/album/2wNvwhS6pLo6jFydj10KCt?si=jHEZoaF-SoaIKpDWr6tOSw
- Series of tubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
- List of nicknames used by Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Donald_Trump
- Shortest History of the Soviet Union: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59679063-the-shortest-history-of-the-soviet-union
- The Wikipedia Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Revolution
- Thinking about the immortality of the crab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_about_the_immortality_of_the_crab
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Kreuz
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
Fs in the chat.
An alarming clone concept, an MCU retrospective, and exam season advice await you in this thrilling episode of: SIMON AND DAN TALK ABOUT GUFF
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- Legless lizards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard
- Keeled scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeled_scales
- DCPOTW: The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons: https://open.spotify.com/track/1dyHU9CgeTWIvb2serBHzE?si=45611f3f16064fe4
- Stargate SG-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau_fence_lizard
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Simon and Dan haven't spoken in weeks apart from the London incident so expect a big catch-up! Along the way they discover a rather unique album, talk about their latest discoveries on Netflix, and a reader describes the first (?) wikicast-themed dream...
Lots of passion and geekery in this one, enjoy!
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- RPGeeks: https://www.simonoxfphys.com/rpgeeks
- Westminster Cathedral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral
- Friends of Cathedral Music: https://cathedralmusictrust.org.uk/
- Swedish Wikicast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7CHknSBgaTPLTNMt5V7xlA?si=99cd918b96bf4ecf
- Simon's Norway vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1i6hMQbkx8
- DCPOTW: Postquam surrexit Dominus by Martin Baker: https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWWyAanizGmGVWjFRdJ7S?si=33544a8ed1af4d57
- Pictures from Adepticon 2022/Golden Demon: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/29/here-are-the-fantastic-golden-demon-winners-crowned-at-adepticon-2022/
- Stanley Tucci munching his way through Italy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0bncl3n/stanley-tucci-searching-for-italy
- Great Hole: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_Loch
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Music_for_Short_People
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://www.fergushallmusic.com/
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Simon gets existential about YouTube, Dan proposes the Hans Zimmer crossover we've all been waiting for, and we introduce you to one of the finest Croatian musicians you've never heard of. Also, Simon gets turned into a child?
Truly, one of our best episodes.
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- Teddy Lion on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teddylionband/
- DCPOTW: Sure on this Shining Night by Morten Lauridsen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6q307Nr6FBeUPwQGhm0f1K?si=b50e765c6a60480e
- This section looks bare without a third point so I'm just going to make one up. Sue me.
- And a fourth, I'm feeling rogue.
- Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast
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Follow us on Twitter: @DanielJMaw @simonoxfphys
This week's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Lion
Fan discord channel: https://discord.gg/SZu6e2F
This episode was edited by the wonderful Fergus Hall! https://fergushallcomposer.com/about