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Where did a bone to pick originate and bed bugs biting?
September 11, 2018

Off the back of Serena William's tennis controversy, we have some controversy of our own with Dave calling out an online source's research methods for bone picking. There's tears, there's violence, there's racquet smashing...

Where did pie in the sky originate - and the story behind Martine the Meme?
September 04, 2018

Know your memes? Well you'll be delighted to know that our very own Martine AJA James AKA Blakey was once a well-known meme known as "weird kid in the tram shirt" and on this episode he divulges all the sordid details on how...

Christian Hull - where did jack-pot originate and the Salem tomato trials?
August 27, 2018

When Christian Hull comes to play things go south very quickly! Kyle Sandilands' new tv show Trial by Kyle is discussed, we respond to our first ever Facebook Q&A (without the A) and we debate whether Dean Cain was in the classic...

Ep 75: Who was Ben Hall, 'Clown Prince' of Bushrangers?
March 05, 2018

Who needs to be respected by your outlaw peers when you make balloon animals this good? Ben Hall was a bandit who defied the odds when he decided that clowning was his true passion. But just who was the Clown Prince underneath the tough...

Ep 74: Why was the first chip intended as an insult?
February 21, 2018

Smiths, Lays, Pringles - all of them unwitting participants in the greatest insult ever bestowed upon a man, but who slinged this despicable chip insult (or chipsult if you will) and what was their reason to hurl such salty-insolence? Take...

Ep 73: How did an Oregon man learn that cows made bad engines?
February 06, 2018

You've heard of Horse Power, but what about Cow Power? That's right, a brave young Oregon fella found out the hard way that cows and engines don't mix, but just how did he find out? Take a listen.

Ep 72: Where did 'Abracadabra' originate? (with Picture This Podcast)
January 23, 2018

Hocus Pocus, Zim Zalabim and Alakazam. All great words, but none of them compare in magic-comparison to the almighty abracadabra. Handed down from magician to magician over centuries, where does this all-mighty word come from and who the...

Ep 71: Where did 'Cats got your tongue' originate?
January 09, 2018

Ever choked on your own chit-chat or stumbled on a slippery sentence? It could be said that a cat has got your tongue, but why oh why did that cat take it from you and where has he been hiding it? Also, not kidding, we may have actually...

Ep 70: Hamish Blake - why did a cop in San Fran patrol with a ventriloquist dummy?
December 16, 2017

Not to be outdone by Andy, Hamish Blake joins us to tell us a little bit more about what the boys got up to on their international rock tour as well as helping us work out who the dummy really was in this puppetry fiasco.

Ep 69: Andy Lee - why is Donald Trump shrinking bears ears?
December 10, 2017

Fresh off the back of the 'Cool Boys and the Front Man' Private Jet tour, and having only this week retired from radio, Andy Lee is clearly looking for a new gig, so it seemed only fair we run him through the gauntlet that is We...