The What & The Why

Email us your questions/comments/arguments in favour of dropping certain long-running jokes at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… Otter Beef: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/29/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-hbo-japan-mascot This week’s order… 01.45: Tim’s Philosophy 101 03.40: Gavin’s Gone 11.13: Huawei & Post-Brexit Britain 24.18: The Venezuelan Stalemate 30.52: The Local Election Results / Tommy Robinson in the NW 37.17: David’s Oddcast 45.45: Things We Lost in the Mire 48.20: Letters 54.43: Last Week’s Podcast This Week 56.55: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Please email us your questions/comments twtwpodcast@gmail.com. If you don’t email, we have almost nothing to talk about… Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) Show Notes: 02.10: Joe Biden’s Small Announcment 13.00: The Media & Greta Thunberg 32.00: David’s Oddcast (or a Dr. Writes) 42.00: Lost in the Mire 43.37: Last Week’s Podcast This Week 48.31: Fact Of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/obscure but much-cherished comedians at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… It wasn’t me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzt7JvsYIuI There is nothing like a Dame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljm9CDRAhMQ The bells of Notre Dame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae69SQQvLMw Mike Sidebottom’s Indie Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyt6GfkJpw This week’s order… 03.07: Pigs & Numerology 06.21: Extinction Rebellion 25.00: Richard Burgon 32.25: Notre Dame Fire 39.45: Things We Lost in the Mire 41.41: David’s Oddcast 48.28: The Dad Joke Competition Results! 53.31: Ask Tim 58.09: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/Dad Jokes (this time there’s a prize!) at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! How many times must we beg?! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) Last week’s link… You can now win a copy of The t*at in the hat cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1111612056548114432 This week’s links… Bolton Question Time: https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17550669.bolton-question-time-cancelled-and-moved-to-london/?ref=twtrec GPS systems go crazy when Putin is near. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/russia-is-tricking-gps-to-protect-putin/ Our AI Future: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/07/uk-businesses-using-artifical-intelligence-to-monitor-staff-activity Siberian Slapping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifQPD5eok4 This week’s order… 03.44: Assange 028.27(!): On Protest Votes 32.30: Bolton & Question Time 40.38: David’s Oddcast 46.00: Things We Lost in the Mire 51.00: The Dad Joke Competition! 52.38: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/Harvey Keitel trivia at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Oh, come on! Please! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… The t*at in the hat cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1111612056548114432 The Mark Francois cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1113789586466070528 That Niall Paterson thread: https://twitter.com/skynewsniall/status/1113438767380094982 The Trump Chinah Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs8TtQsXsI0&t=923s The Joe Biden Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3pBWFcwAQ This week’s order… (digressions not included) 01.57: The T*at in the Hat 03.55: Joe Biden 11.56: Brunei 26.03: The Paras and Jeremy Corbyn 33.43: David’s Oddcast 38.07: Things We Lost in the Mire 41.34: Ask Tim! 54.37: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/explanations of how we got Marx/Peterson all wrong at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! I’ve scraped skin off my knees getting down on the floor to beg you to do this. Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… Cartoon of the week: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1109602970461720577 Adam Smith’s Repeal the Porn Laws: https://www.adamsmith.org/repeal-the-porn-laws Makkeken Pis: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/manneken-pis-statue-no-longer-peeing-water-dwn-drain Pope in Loreto, Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/video-of-pope-francis-trying-to-avoid-having-his-ring-kissed-goes-viral This week’s order… 02.45: Racism in Football 12.00: Peterson disinvited to Cambridge 22.00: Cultural Marxism 30:00: Oddcast 37.40: Things We Lost in the Mire 38.49: Ask Tim 43.2: FACT of the Week Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/post-Brexit tips on how to cook rats at twtwpodcast@gmail.com We beg you! Support the podcast! Please buy our books! But then, who are we kidding? I ask this every week and nobody buys my (this is David) book! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… The May cartoon: https://twitter.com/DavidWaywell/status/1108495069605179392 More on the Porn Pass: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-block-uk-wired-explains William Blake Death Mask: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00611/William-Blake This week’s order… 01.45: Brexit! 13.11: The Birmingham Schools Controversy 29.22: David’s Oddcast (None of this “Doctor Writes” nonsense). 25.29: Banana’s Revisited / Listener’s Letter 37.00: Things We Lost in the Mire 39.23: Ask Tim! 51.21: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/Dad jokes at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Dear god! Won’t somebody please buy our books?! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… The Emily Maitlis Eye Roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNZZS7GFRz0 The Melania Doppleganger: https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/whats-hot/does-melania-trump-really-use-a-body-double/ar-BBUKmfi The Banana Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFukyIIM1XI This week’s order… 01.56: Algeria 10.39: Bibi 20.34: Titania McGrath 25.29: Banana’s Revisited / Listener’s Letter 29.16: Things We Lost in the Mire 30.45: Ask Tim! 33.11: David’s Oddcast 41.50: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/podcast tips twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! You won’t believe their value for money! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s order… 03.19: The £100,000 Podcast 04.20: Macron 25.03: Things We Lost in the Mire 31.51: Ask Tim 35.46: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/chocolate memories at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Maybe somebody will leave a little treat on your pillow! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s tasty links… Make you an offer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TliG1fhvaM David’s article on David Lammy - https://reaction.life/david-lammy-right-comic-relief/ Comedy https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1101392432841793536 Tim’s first appearance as the Milk Tray Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA345HfN9Y4 This week’s running-across-the-top-of-a-train order… 03.21: Trump and North Korea 14.04: Michael Cohen 19.01: David Lammy and Comic Relief 33.13: The Young Reporter and the Mountain Lion / General Media Chat 42.46: Lost in the Mire 44.48: Spam! 48.00: Ask Tim! 58.36: FACTS of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/titles for the alternative podcast at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… White Stripes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY The Magnificent 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ Snow White and The Seven Dwarves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0x0KYChq4 Trump says “China” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs The 'silent' film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7VImsSMQM Earliest Sci Fi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk The Seven Samurai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXi5SUipbg8 This week’s running order… 03.38: The Split 11.18: On By-elections 15.29: Bernie 17.29: Last Week’s Podcast This Week – Shamima Begum 20.13: Lost in the Mire 23.01: AI, Text, and Deep Fakes 28.41: Letters to the Editor 29.50: SPAM of the week 31.38: Ask Tim 43.53: Last Week’s Podcast This Week – Sci Fi Movies 49.43: FACT of the Week Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/comedic corruptions of the name “Waywell” at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Ack! Ack! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s links… Ack ack ack! The Shangrilas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdr-MslXkw Chicken Alarm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J753uaiOCCg Holtz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q Tim’s Year Ahead - http://www.thewhatandthewhy.com/2019-the-year-ahead/ This week’s running order… 01.24: Return of the ISIS Bride 11.57: Lost in the Mire 13.00: Russian Cyber Security 18.25: Mars 23.41: Ask Tim 29.29: FACT of the week Ack! Ack! Ack! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/sweet sweet love at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! We know you still love us, baby… Oh, yeah! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s sure-look-sexy-on-you links… State of the President - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMAgFxzErX4 Lee Marvin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08 The Walrus of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLx1EKifpGs&feature=youtu.be The Presidents’ Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-q2VNa89c This week’s hot running order… 01.27: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases 03.13: State of the Unions 11.05: Ask Tim! 24.28: Lost in the Mire 38.40: Fact of the Week! Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/flu remedies at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! I’m sick (David) and working to edit this podcast on a Saturday hoping only to get some sweet sweet royalties from my book… Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s avoid them like David’s plague links… No pasaran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMD4ynTQXek Power to the people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKsR_wUSfA Bar Italia: http://baritaliasoho.co.uk/ Patton (again): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/ M&S Biryani: https://news.sky.com/story/m-s-accused-of-cultural-appropriation-over-biryani-wrap-11622691 This week’s running order… 3.05: Venezuela 22.30: The M&S Biryani story 29.11: Ask Tim! 32.11: News roundup 35.26: Last Week’s Podcast This Week 37.45: Spam email of the week 41.525: FACTS of the week Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)

Email us your questions/comments/acceptance speeches at twtwpodcast@gmail.com Support the podcast! Please buy our books! Please don’t make me (David) beg! Tim Marshall, Divided www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963972/ David Waywell, The Secret Lives of Monks www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783963107/ Follow us on Twitter! Tim (www.twitter.com/itwitius) & David (www.twitter.com/davidwaywell) This week’s your-life-isn't-complete-without-them links… Government Shutdown Song 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyGuuQ3q8Y Cracked Actor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEvAvIGK-w Patton: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This week’s running order… 0.39: Introduction 3.20: Brexit and The 27 10.34: The Trump Shutdown Part 382 17.24: The Contenders 20.19: AOC 26.35: Slight digression about beer recipes and right-wing populism 31.41: Another slight digression, this time about China’s Social Credit scheme 34.40: The Oscars 47.25: We want to know what you think we should do... (Polite suggestions only, please!) 48.54: FACTS of the week Title music: Hogan Grip, ‘Stance Gives You Balance’. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip/)