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James Cook
@jamesecook.bsky.social
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Comedian. Often speaks of pop songs from days of yore.
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Mr Noseybonk is attacking the US.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hello. Sporadic reminder that if you like pop music, I co-host a podcast where we deep-dive random UK Top 10 singles charts from the past.

This week's Top 10 contains (at least) 5 iconic bangers (see vid). Find out the stories, myths and music behind the hits at linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I prefer his earlier, cool-as-fuck stuff.
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Anyone else remember Celebrity Traitors in 1995?

What a series that was. Michael Parkinson, Gabrielle and Tim Curry as the Traitors. The unlikely friendship between Brian Moore and Art Malik. Mollie Sugden's fart. Adrian Moorhouse's eye-roll. All hosted by Eve Pollard.
The line-up of Celebrity Traitors 1995. Valerie Singleton, Curtis Walker, Tim Curry, Rula Lenska, Michael Sheard, Delia Smith, Gabrielle, Jasper Carrott, Bonnie Tyler, Siobhan Finneran, Nicholas Parsons, Art Malik, Jaki Graham, Brian Moore, Victoria Wood, Trevor McDonald, Mollie Sugden, Michael Parkinson and Adrian Moorhouse.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Nope. If one is a traitor, they offer the other half the prize fund to keep quiet about it and be in the final two with them. Otherwise they both get voted out and get nothing.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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📅NEW WEEK📅
💿NEW CHART💿
🎧NEW EPISODE🎧
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Part 1 features:
🔮a song that predicts the future
🚛 how to get a boyband in a van
👽 a spooky dance mash-up
🎸 Britpop does Northern Soul
🇪🇺 a Eurovision hit with global appeal

Available from linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Reform were totally fine with this advert obvs
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Roses are red
Crimes can be heinous
Doctors are warning patients not to put spring rolls up their anus
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Anyone else think this recipe sounds like a 1950s ventriloquist act?
Herby salmon and couscous
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Please, Mr Compensator was my father's name. Call me 'Over'.
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Hello. The podcast I do with Andy 'not on the socials' Robinson has a new episode.

We talk about pop records from the past, and this week it's 1983 (see clip for songs).

Head to linktr.ee/shoobypodcast to listen and support podcasts by people who aren't already famous millionaires.
October 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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FUN FACT: I no longer mention where I'm from on-stage (unless I'm local). Too many hecklers were shouting out words to the effect of 'but you're white?' (usually they'd include an ethnic slur) and me telling them to go forth and multiply because they were a thick racist c-bomb, although cathartic, was derailing my 20 minutes of bon homie, banter and witticisms. Luckily for me I suppose, I have the privilege of blending in with the majority. If individuals were shouting it, then many more were probably thinking it - and those are the people Jenrick is going after. The *ahem* 'low information voters' in small towns who believe that there are no white people in Birmingham and that London is under Sharia Law because they've 'done their own research' by seeing memes on social media, reading the Daily Mail or watching GBeebies. But not by actually visiting either city. And the rest of us have to watch the Dog Whistle Greatest Hits getting wheeled out again, because racists only have one playbook and they use it time after time hoping that we'll have forgotten when their easily disprovable bullshit was last debunked. If I was a Tory, I'd be absolutely appalled that this is what passes for 'Conservative values' in 2025. You'd have thought the party of personal responsibility wouldn't also be the party of 'people of that demographic are all the same' but here we are.
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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🎧NEW EPISODE ALERT🎧
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Part 1 features 5 blokes singing about regret😔, eyes (Spanish) 👀, dancing (general) 🕺, love ❤️ and more regret 😔, so as you can imagine Andy and James get the giggles.
Available from linktr.ee/shoobypodcast.
October 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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BIRMINGHAM!
A comedy/game show/live experience unlike anything you'll have seen before.

Unless you watched Channel 4 in the 80s obvs.

www.bhamcomfest.co.uk/freehalfdaye...
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Hey (hey) you (you) I don’t like your podcast
No way (no way) I think you need a new one

Just one of the songs explored on today’s NEW EPISODE of Shooby Dooby Doo Wop: The Top 10 Time Machine

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Avril Lavigne Girlfriend single cover art with a suggestion that she was killed and replaced I. 2003
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Just one of the songs explored on today’s NEW EPISODE of Shooby Dooby Doo Wop: The Top 10 Time Machine

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The cover art of Beautiful Liar by Beyonce and Shakira with the caption ‘I Know Him So Well for millenials’ because it is.
October 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I know that this is just the headline, but FFS Labour - regular people don’t care about ‘growth’ because it’s an amorphous thing that we just don’t see in our day to day lives.

If you want to stop people going to reform you have to IMPROVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE - that’s what people see EVERY DAY
September 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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They just help them out when they’re busy
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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People of around my vintage, do you remember a cartoon series called Denver The Last Dinosaur? If so do you remember the first two lines of the theme song? If so just sing them to yourself. Now sing them again. OMG WHAT DID IT MEAN?
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Can’t believe that half of people don’t understand percentages. That’s almost 1 in 3.
September 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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🎧NEW EPISODE🎧
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Stonk yourself silly as we don our Levis👖, throw our hands up in the air🙌, get soppy about a postman📨 and give you devotion in our wonderful balloon🎈.
Watch the vid to jog your nostalgia glands and listen to the podcast available from your usual provider.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM