The PoDKast: Donkey Kong Universe Tomfoolery jeffonan@gmail.com(Jeff Onana)

In a desperate attempt to claw back (or, to put it another way, simply claw) some popularity amongst the COOL KIDS, the PoDKast boys return with an episode centred around ducks and, more specifically, the well-loved '90s Disney cartoon/comic/stage musical Duck Tales. They meticulously examine the series (because they're all sophisticated and stuff) and draw parallels between it and the DKU in a manner that can only be described as "WELL-THOUGHT OUT" and almost certainly not "TENUOUS". With apologies to the entire nation of Scotland.

Tensions are running high between Jeff and Matt as they join Cameron to spend an entire episode talking about death. Why are we here? What happens when we die? Does it still count as murder if your victim is a terrifying acorn man? All of these great, timeless questions are not even remotely attempted to be answered. But that's alright because special guest Derek Acora is on hand to make contact with the other side in a world-exclusive where the PoDKast becomes the first podcast ever to communicate with the eternal spirits of the deceased. Probably. Give it a listen! If you like. It's got Wanky the Duck in it.

Jeff is wearing a gas mask for religious reasons and Andy Barrett (whom you'll remember from episode 108, obviously) has escaped from the well. Oh, and apparently a new home console Donkey Kong Country game has been announced or something. The PoDKast crew offer a few half-thoughts on the matter of this newly (well, semi-newly, considering how long it took for this episode to get edited) emerged news in their "new" segment, The Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze-Dar. It's a clever pun on the word "radar". After all of that malarkey things progress into a strange discussion—constantly derailed by their well-escapee Andy—about Banjo and Kazooie's BLOCKY appearences, in honour of the B-K anniversary last month. Does this count as entertainment? I'm not sure, I can't remember what it is.

After several months of not realising they were meant to be talking into microphones and sending it out on the internet for bored people to listen to, the PoDKast "team" decided that the best course of action would be to talk into some microphones and send it out on the internet for bored people to listen to. This episode is conspicuously lacking in any coverage whatsoever of the latest Donkey Kong Country game or, for that matter, any kind of plan. But worry not! What this show lack in content it makes up for in... erm... I'll get back to you on that one.

Hey, GET THIS, there's a Christmas episode of the PoDKast! It's, er, feature length! Because naturally we assume that, what with it being all Crimbley and that, you'll have at least double the amount of time on your hands to fill up with... er, this. Join Matt, Cameron and Leanne for their comedically half-assed attempts to talk about something, *anything*, that feels like it might approximate to relevance! Plus, there was that whole thing-o about the world ending or something, I dunno. It's quite a journey, and who knows? It might just take you to the END OF THE UNIVERSE [Spoiler: it won't].

It's a second series! Although we've attempted to change and improve (not to mention having forced our resident jingle-writer to replace self-deprecation with self-aggrandisement in a last-ditch attempt to fool people into sticking with us) it turns out that simply saying "this is a whole new series" doesn't necessarily mean it'll be particularly distinguishable from the last one. But HEY, who cares? It's Diddy Kong Racing's birthday (not to mention the birthday of the PoDKast pseudo-reboot, but probably nobody cares about that fact anyway) so we're allowed to suck ourselves off in a glorious lack of self-awareness. Plus as we do so, we're joined by guest host Karla as well as our all-new permanent co-host Wanky the Duck! Does anyone even read these blurb things? If so, HI BLURB-READER PERSON! I want to lick your nipples. NOW.