Stupidly Small

Today we talk about stereotypes, voting, and Sovereign Hill (Lorin agrees with one of these reviews).   This week's sponsors are The Super Rad Nail Sisters. Welcome to Monday.  

Today's show contains our second ever guest. Our mate Heath Kerr has a crazy VHS collection and, as a student of Mad Maxology, he tells us about his favourite ever film, Mad Max and what it did for genre filmmaking.    Check out David Eger on a motorbike.   We also talk politics. Kind of.    Thanks once more to this week's sponsors Lance Rock Publicity.   Technical production by Stewart Thorn, who had his work set out for him today.   Have good Fridays! Now! Go do it!

Today's episode was the episode in which we discovered that it's generally not a good idea to cross Lorin. We also discussed the possibility of merch thanks to a strange message left for us on our company voicemail. Expressions of interest welcome on the issue of merch but let's not count our chickens. And by the way Stew alienated the entire motorbiking community. Then there's the bit where Stew plays the audio of Lorin not making any sense. It works out really well for him.   Thanks to our sponsor this week, the wonderful Lance Rock publicity. Our technical producer is Stewart Thorn.    See you tomorrow with guest number two...

Welcome to Wednesday. Smug: try denying it. Especially if you're Bono. By the way, this podcast comes with a warning: your head is probably going to fall of. Stop reading books! Thanks to Bhakthi and our mysterious other caller for getting in touch, which they did through our website. Please keep em coming. We greatly enjoy them. Thanks again to our sponsors for this week, the excellent Lance Rock Publicity. See you tomorrow.  

Today we speak to our first ever real life guest, the thoroughly excellent... Kaz Cooke!  Kaz dropped in for a new segment called Do Drop In. We brought the tea. She brought the biscuits. Kaz has been doing a Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria, the fascinating discoveries from which can be seen on her Fellow Flockery blog. Today, she tells us about a hairy brooch. Yes. A brooch made of hair. Check it out here. You can also take a stroll over to the State Library to see the exhibition in person. Important questions also covered in this episode: Are The A-Team the Village People of television? What's better than a Top Ten list? (Spoiler: almost anything). Can anybody make Stew Farrell's joke funny? Happy Tuesday everybody and massive thanks again to this week's sponsor Lance Rock Publicity. Legends.

Today's episode contains, as do many other great events in Western history, Winston Churchill. Here are the cranes paying tribute (they come in at about 3:50). Lots of weird ways to be buried.  Apparently it's not good to have a hot shower just before bed so that settles that debate. Churchill might not have liked the selfie but he probably would have been impressed with the best inventions of 2014 (the body carwash sadly not making the cut, presumably for timing reasons). What a world. Also impressive: telepathic communcation is within reach. Woah. Lance Rock Publicity are our brand new sponsor this week - welcome to the Stupidly Team and thanks heaps for your support. See you tomorrow with Kaz Cooke!

Welcome to Friday.   So it turns out we don't know enough about "the Halal debate" but here's an article about the animal cruelty aspect. In fact, if you're interested in reading about the politics of meat production, this is interesting.   Stew's golf swing is also interesting.   And because it's Friday, here's a collection of bad kids' jokes.   One last big thanks to our inaugural sponsor, Uni Bicycles.   Have a good one. See you Monday...

Today’s show touches on (heh) a new study that teaches people how to experience synaesthesia.   Here’s a weight watchers message board on the dim sim.   The English language is confusing.   Here’s some bonus English language nerdery.     Happy Thursday! 

Happy Wednesday, everybody!   Today’s show's show is a bit, as they say in the classics, loosey goosey. It includes: Susan Boyle’s album party, something called FOOGI which came about because of the long wait for MCC membership, a voicemail from the excellent Thomas Caldwell, and a total lack of intellectual rigour. Intellectual rigour is for next week.   Thanks again to this week’s sponsor, Uni Bicycles, where you can still get a 15% discount on cash transactions if you mention the Stupidly Small podcast.      Avoid white pants and see you tomorrow.

In today's podcast we mention this article about this article about Australia's Prime Minister in the Washington Post. Here's the cringeworthy moment article and here's a bonus cringe for you. Oof. Make yourself feel better with this (go science). We also received a voicemail from Emily in Enmore about Eternity. And here's the Kyle Sandilands tag. Thanks to Emily and also to Riles, our voicemail guests for today. You can leave a voicemail over at www.stupidlybig.com/voicemail - these are fun. And here are the crickets.  The podcast will be searchable on iTunes over the next couple of days (takes a while, we're told). In the meantime, go to the website to find the link to insert into your podcast app for download. And thanks again to the entirely excellent Uni Bicycles for being this week's sponsors. There's a 15% discount over there for cash purchases when you mention the Stupidly Small podcast. See you tomorrow.  

The inaugural Stupidly Small podcast contains a Scottish poetry recital, a description of Boston that is both unfair and inaccurate, and several unnecessarily hefty metaphors.  Our poem today is read by the excellent Jenny Niven. The poet is Norman MacCaig. The poem is Basking Shark.    Jenny left us a voice message via our website. So did Bob. Thanks to them and to everyone else who has been doing so - we hope to get to all your messages. You can leave a message too at www.stupidlybig.com/voicemail   Our sponsor for this week is Uni Bicycles. Mention the Stupidly Small podcast for a 15% discount on all cash purchases. Thanks so much to them for their support. If you would like to support us as a sponsor, please contact us through the website. If you would like to support us by liking us or commenting on iTunes, please go your hardest. Makes a big difference, the nerds tell us.   We are on Twitter, Facebook and you can sign up to our mailing list at the Stupidly Big website.