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Vamp Nation

A podcast about idioms, featuring various Mancunians with a general disdain for everything outside of Manchester.

  1. 09/11/2018

    MythBusters Did It!

    Adam and Terence lack a cat… Idioms: A rolling stone gathers no moss Bless their little cotton socks Alternative names: Super Magic Sparkle Pen Ideas for other Podcasts Seductive Paper Dance The Night Clouds are Forming Terence Reads Latin A Jewel of a Podcast Links: Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb Adventure Time’s Finale is the Beginning of Something New Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. MythBusters – Wikipedia YouTube – MythBusters in the rain White Rabbit Project (TV Series 2016) – IMDb Parks and Recreation (TV Series 2009–2015) – IMDb Making It (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb Jim Henson – Wikipedia YouTube – ERB, just including this for how great it is. Nomad (comics) – Wikipedia Kuala Lumpur – Wikipedia American Revolutionary War – Wikipedia YouTube – Another great song! The League of Gentlemen – Wikipedia George Cotton – Wikipedia Ganges – Wikipedia Accidental Tech Podcast Hello Internet No Such Thing as a Fish – Wikipedia Slow Burn The Wire (TV Series 2002–2008) – IMDb 99% Invisible Ferrite Recording Studio: Ferrite Recording Studio — Wooji Juice Audacity (audio editor) – Wikipedia Byker Grove – Wikipedia YouTube – Shot in the face! Media and contact: Our Twitter Our Instagram Lucy’s Instagram Deborah’s Instagram Deborah’s Twitter Sam’s Twitter Ben’s Twitter Terence’s Twitter a href="https://www.instagram.com/tardismeat/"

    37 min
  2. The ASMR One

    08/29/2018

    The ASMR One

    Adam and Terence listen to a cat. Idioms: The cat’s pyjamas Chance your arm Play a blinder (sort of) Alternative names: Licking Wendy Houses Tastless Rubbery Eggs Interesting Buttery Friend Yellow Silk PJs All Bacon Fry-up Odd But Accurate Links: Autonomous sensory meridian response – Wikipedia Prohibition in the United States – Wikipedia Donald Trump – Wikipedia Meowth – Wikipedia Rudyard Kipling – Wikipedia YouTube – Everybody Wants to be a cat Absinthe – Wikipedia Darjeeling – Wikipedia 10 of the Most Dangerous Airports in the World Tad Dorgan – Wikipedia Yes! We Have No Bananas – Wikipedia Dancing plague of 1518 – Wikipedia George Cross – Wikipedia St Patrick’s Cathedral Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb Disenchantment (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb YouTube – The Robot Hell Song John DiMaggio – Wikipedia Arrested Development (TV Series 2003– ) – IMDb Media and contact: Our Twitter Our Instagram Lucy’s Instagram Deborah’s Instagram Deborah’s Twitter Sam’s Twitter Ben’s Twitter Terence’s Twitter Terence’s Instagram Terence’s Website Email

    46 min

  3. 08/14/2018

    The Queen’s Glass Eyes

    Adam and Terence listen to Deborah’s cough, entirely self-inflicted. Idioms: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth Fit as a fiddle All the world’s a stage Alternative names: Melting from the face American inner monologue Socks is great Shiny Shiny House Deborah’s cough Links: YouTube – Queen’s guard Just William – Wikipedia Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) – Wikipedia Dennis the Menace and Gnasher – Wikipedia Walter Matthau – Wikipedia Gold leaf – Wikipedia Joey (TV series) – Wikipedia Pearl & Dean – Wikipedia YouTube – Simpsons Ape Song Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Wikipedia Lindsey Stirling – Wikipedia Ronald Reagan – Wikipedia Big Brother (UK TV series) – Wikipedia William Shakespeare – Wikipedia Y Tho | Know Your Meme Cold War – Wikipedia   Media and contact: Our Twitter Our Instagram Lucy’s Instagram Deborah’s Instagram Deborah’s Twitter Sam’s Twitter Ben’s Twitter Terence’s Twitter Terence’s Instagram Terence’s Website Email

    44 min

  4. 07/24/2018

    Jelly Boat Universe

    Adam, Deborah and Terence are together for the first time ever! We mainly talk nonsense… Idioms: Lead someone down the garden path Take it with a grain of salt Push the boat out Alternative names: Scurvy’s the one I wanted Space Pirate… Ghost Champagne Jelly Boats Greasy Idioms Barely Remembered Degrees Tez the Cabin Boy 72 Ingredients Links: The Office (U.S. TV series) – Wikipedia List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia Sean Bean – IMDb Garden-path sentence – Wikipedia Geocentric model – Wikipedia Heliocentrism – Wikipedia North–South divide – Wikipedia Face of Boe – Wikipedia Little Women – Wikipedia The Secret Garden – Wikipedia The Railway Children – Wikipedia Jurassic Park – Wikipedia David Attenborough – Wikipedia Richard Attenborough – Wikipedia Edwardian era – Wikipedia THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST on acast Call Me Kevin – YouTube Hello Internet Jeremy Hunt – Wikipedia Nicolas Cage – Wikipedia skeptic | Origin and meaning of skeptic by Online Etymology Dictionary Shoulder angel – Wikipedia Oprah Winfrey – Wikipedia Ainsley Harriott – Wikipedia Louis XVI of France – Wikipedia Electorate of Mainz – Wikipedia Prussia – Wikipedia Unification of Germany – Wikipedia Pliny the Elder – Wikipedia Black Death – Wikipedia Pontus (region) – Wikipedia Mithridates VI of Pontus – Wikipedia a

    44 min

  5. 07/17/2018

    Conscientiously Objecting Pigeons

    Adam, Terence and Lucy take on underwear… we’re also extremely ignorant about American sports! Idioms: Cut and run Mum’s the word Don’t get your knickers in a twist Alternative names: Drive-by Podcasting Our bad history Idiomatic Verb Phrases Let’s Twist Again Smokey Ghosts Knicked my Bocks Links: Lavalier microphone Pirates of the Caribbean Johnny Depp Disney Sheriff of Nottingham How it’s made – Newspaper Dennis Skinner Oliver Twist Blackadder Assassin’s Creed Elizabeth I (bit out on the date… again…) Vietnam War Iraq War Brexit (such a horrible word) David Cameron – whistling Monty Python And Now for Something Completely Different Anime bloody nose trope Royston Vasey Corned Beef Homing Pigeon Kibosh Vaudeville Heelys Return to Oz The Craft New York Knickerbockers Knickerbocker glory New York Knicks (also Knickerbockers, but basketball, a bit dull) Google Books Train from Katanga Mills & Boon Geordie Racer Stottie cake Pasty barm Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker Washington Irving George Cruikshank Bloomers Plus fours Media and contact: Our Twitter/p

    41 min

  6. 07/10/2018

    Super Hairy Leg Time

    Adam, Lucy and Deborah talk about the heat, again, and we also get into Terence’s hairy legs! Idioms: That old chestnut Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face Spinning a yarn Alternative names: Elongated Film Chat Peter Molyneux Sucks Floating Babies Links: Fable (2004 video game) – Wikipedia(great game) Peter Molyneux – Wikipedia Jack and the Beanstalk – Wikipedia Lionhead Studios – Wikipedia Bullfrog Productions – Wikipedia Theme Hospital – Wikipedia Theme Park World – Wikipedia Dungeon Keeper – Wikipedia Dungeon Keeper 2 – Wikipedia(one of the best games ever) Godus – Wikipedia Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube? – Wikipedia Can Xerox be used as a synonym for photocopy? – Quora Hoover vs. vacuum – Grammarist Velcro – Hook-and-loop fastener – Wikipedia Austin Powers – Wikipedia Goldmember – Wikipedia Hokusai – Wikipedia The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Wikipedia (Pokemon edition)The Great Wave Off Kanto by missypena on DeviantArt Photorealism – Wikipedia The Birth of Venus – Wikipedia The Merchant of Venice – Wikipedia Macbeth – Wikipedia Henry IV of France – Wikipedia (not quite the Henriest Henry) James Hardy Vaux – Wikipedia Red thread of fate – Wikipedia Minotaur – Wikipedia (Theseus!) American Horror Story – Wikipedia Bayeux Tapestry – Wikipedia Mean Girls – Wikipedia Freaky Friday (2003 film) – Wikipedia Blade (film) – Wikip

    41 min
  7. Rudderless Gawping

    06/26/2018

    Rudderless Gawping

    Adam, Sam and Terence try to talk sensibly, despite the heat… Idioms: Never the Twain Shall Meet Navel Gazing Get off Scot Free Media and contact: Our Twitter Our Instagram Lucy’s Instagram Deborah’s Instagram Deborah’s Twitter Sam’s Twitter Ben’s Twitter Terence’s Twitter Terence’s Instagram Terence’s Website Email

    48 min
  8. Arrogant Philosophers

    06/12/2018

    Arrogant Philosophers

    Idioms: Make hay while the sun shines The full monty Hobson’s choice Sponsored by: A change in podcast editing workflow. Rejected titles: Photoshopping yawns All Philosophers are Arrogant  We Philosopher Kings Debs’ Old English The Suneth Shineth I’m not mad! Links: Sophie’s Choice (it was also a book…) First past the post (again, feels like I’ve linked this before.) Plato Aristotle Plato’s Republic Ties in decline UK Summer British dialects Heinzhound  Robert Carlyle Stargate Universe (boo) Battlestar Galactica Mr. Bean The Full Monty – Film Montezuma (specifically the second one) Hernán Cortés Civilization – Game series (so good) Embiggen  Field Marshal Montgomery Monte card game Old maid Shebang How 2 (I’d completely forgot it was Carol Vorderman…) Interrobang  Why three busses come at once Blue Peter badges Unfiltered – James O’Brien The Louvre Media and contact: Our Twitter Our Instagram Lucy’s Instagram Deborah’s Instagram Deborah’s Twitter Sam’s Twitter Ben’s Twitter a href="https://twitter.com/tardismeat"

    47 min
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About

A podcast about idioms, featuring various Mancunians with a general disdain for everything outside of Manchester.

Information

  • Creator
    Vamp Nation
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2018
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Vamp Nation
  • Show Website
    Money for Old Rope