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James Cook
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Comedian. Often speaks of pop songs from days of yore.
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Like board games, jokes and nostalgia?
I wrote a book that combines all 3 (sort of).

A handy guide to which games you should and definitely shouldn't be playing with the family this festive period.

Available from 101boardgames.com
Roses are blue
Violets are red
My old-timey 3-D glasses
Are on upside down
February 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The other Golden Girls
Have pink ones
February 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! Remember to let your loved ones know that billionaires are an apocalyptic death cult who are training AI to replace you so that they alone can survive the climate collapse of the global food chain while using bots on social media to keep you distracted.

xxxx
February 14, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Not ALL the single ladies - Nuancé
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
She’s presenting like a mandrill

You lucky shorts, get ready to wrap a beautiful package

MELL. OW. OUT.

And many more….
Does anyone else have an MST3K line they use regularly, even if it makes no sense out of context?

Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
February 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NEW PODCAST EPISODCAST

Our randomly chosen Top 10 deepdive is from 2021 which was either 5 years or 5 minutes ago depending on your perception of time.

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Guess The Year (and songs and artists) Answers at linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
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February 9, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Etiquette advice needed:
When referring to the current US President, is it more correct to say ‘peadophile rapist’ or ‘rapist peadophile’?
February 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Not being funny but he looks well old
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Not being funny but he looks well old
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Mama Mia 3: Basically It’s Just Album Tracks
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Algorithm
Algomusic
Algomyman
Who could ask for anything more?
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Hello #totp viewers.

You might enjoy a podcast that deep dives random UK Top 10s from the past.

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February 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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NEW PODCAST ALERT

On Shooby Dooby Doo Wop, we deepdive random UK Top 10 singles charts from the past.

This week: 1994 feat. Prince, Crash Test Dummies and a singing bathroom fitter.

Tell your friends, pass it on. We're an indie so we need all the help we can get. Thanks

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February 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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This is just my kind of thing, so maybe it's yours too?
NEW PODCAST ALERT

On Shooby Dooby Doo Wop, we deepdive random UK Top 10 singles charts from the past.

This week: 1994 feat. Prince, Crash Test Dummies and a singing bathroom fitter.

Tell your friends, pass it on. We're an indie so we need all the help we can get. Thanks

linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
February 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM
NEW PODCAST ALERT

On Shooby Dooby Doo Wop, we deepdive random UK Top 10 singles charts from the past.

This week: 1994 feat. Prince, Crash Test Dummies and a singing bathroom fitter.

Tell your friends, pass it on. We're an indie so we need all the help we can get. Thanks

linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
February 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I know things look pretty bleak in the world right now, but maybe we should try giving billionaires more money.
February 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Good luck to all involved, you can't help but feel they're on a hiding to nothing - the first episode would have to be phenomenal to not get a critical kicking, and the US version took about 12 years to reach it's pinnacle quality level of 'mostly crap with some good bits'.
Saturday Night Live UK is out on the 21st March.

The players are announced: Celeste Dring, Hammed Animashaun, Larry Dean, George Fouracres, Jack Shep, Ayoade Bamgboye, Al Nash, Paddy Young, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Emma Sidi.
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This is a great explainer of this conspiracy theory bollocks. The only problem is that if you showed it to any of the rubes and nutjobs who believe it, they would blink at you and then ming on about how we were all part of the conspiracy too. You might as well scream it into a pillow.
Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

🧵
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February 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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I get SO excited for hotel breakfast. Scrambled eggs in a solid block? Children running around? Tiny box of bran flakes that I put a glop of yogurt and a handful of nuts on and then eat a quarter of? Coffee from a confusing machine? A worse meal than you'd have at home by some way? THAT'S THE STUFF!
January 31, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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FREE POST

All about serendipity, co-incidence and sparkly swimming hats.

The podcast where we deep-dive randomly chosen UK Top 10 singles charts from the past lands in 1994, and here we are 32 years later and The Boss is still doing his thing.

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January 30, 2026 at 10:30 AM
FREE POST

All about serendipity, co-incidence and sparkly swimming hats.

The podcast where we deep-dive randomly chosen UK Top 10 singles charts from the past lands in 1994, and here we are 32 years later and The Boss is still doing his thing.

www.patreon.com/posts/once-t...
Once there was this podcast who... | Shooby Dooby Doo Wop
Get more from Shooby Dooby Doo Wop on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:30 AM
AI will take your job and then make you blame an immigrant
January 30, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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🎶 we got a snow drift,
Danny’s gift
and plasma from the bloody lifts
axed doors,
maze tours
and creepy twins you can’t ignore,
red rum, scared mum, barman chum and you must say
when he’s typing all the day
it’s all work and never play
play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play. 🎶
January 29, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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Fantastic, pointed, and written with furious élan. She v good.

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Five things the film “Is This Thing On?” gets wrong about the world of stand up.
Stand-up comedy is not about constantly talking about your feelings; if it was-why would straight men be so successful at it?
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January 29, 2026 at 8:35 AM
AI is just a jumped up spell checker that’s often wrong and wants us all
to be Nazis
January 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM