Summary: <p>This week we go from the serious to the absurd. We find out what the Kurdish region of Syria is actually like, we take Owen Jones’s suggestion of a National Restaurant chain seriously, get down to a Brexit Disco, and ask an actual goose behaviour scientist if geese really are dicks.</p> <p>***<a href="https://patreon.com/poddelusion">Join our Patreon and support a voice of sanity in a world that has gone mad.***</a></p> <p>Follow The Pod Delusion on <a href="https://twitter.com/poddelusion/">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PodDelusion/">Facebook.</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/psythor/">Follow your host, James O'Malley, on Twitter.</a> You can email him on psythor(at)gmail.com - prospective advertisers are especially welcome! You can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/sillypunk/">Liz</a> too.</p> <p>Norma Costello's <a href="https://twitter.com/normcos">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://muckrack.com/norma-costello">Journalist Page</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=328">Prof Peter Atkins</a>' <a href="http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10299/1/10299.pdf">writing on nationalised British restaurants [PDF]</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.claudiawascher.com/">Dr Claudia Wascher</a> (she's also on <a href="https://twitter.com/WascherClaudia">Twitter</a>).</p> <p>The Hustle by Article 54 on <a href="https://article54.bandcamp.com/releases">Bandcamp</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5FnvU0cEgFU81QwIgWzjeF?si=pVNEKYIvQaqJ7N-TJXNLLg">Spotify</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/rhodri">Rhodri Marsden on Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Our theme music is by the amazing <a href="http://www.miltonline.com/">Milton Mermikidies</a>.</p> <p>HONK!</p>
