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The DWP Echo Chamber returns with Series Two! Welcome to another five episodes, released weekly over the next five weeks.

In Episode 6, James and Michele talk about Winter for the Adept by Andrew Cartmel, released in July 2000 – the tenth story in Big Finish’s main range.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy Winter for the Adept from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show.

It’s a glorious day as Tom Baker becomes a Member of theOrder of the British Empire and the Three Who Rule are here to celebrate this momentous occasion along with news of further Gallifrey One guests, Phil Collinson trolling us all with War Chief intrigues, Toby Hadoke’s annual In Memoriam, Big Finish news as usual and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Moonbase”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Tom Baker awarded MBE for Services to Television
• More New Guests at Gallifrey One 2025
• Doctor Who Magazine 612
• Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on February 1
• The Savages screening at the BFI on February 28
• Phil Collinson fuels the War Chief/Master link
• Toby Hadoke’s 2024 In Memoriam
• Toby Hadoke’s Arnold Yarrow obituary
• Jess Jurkovic: Record, Reuse, Recycle – 60s Doctor Who Incidental Music
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show released
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show behind the scenes
• Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Doctor Who – Short Trips: War Stories released

Classic Series Commentary

• The Moonbase Episode One

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare review the 2024 Doctor Who festive special: Joy to the World, come up with our Predictions, Hopes and Dreams, and Fears for 2025, see how wrong we were about our Predictions for 2024, talk about our fallen friend Siobhan, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:42 — Welcome!
• 01:07 – News:
• 01:17 — Doctor Who: Pertwee’s first is collected.
• 03:14 — V: The audio adventures.
• 05:43 — Silo and Dune Prophecy: Renewed.
• 07:14 — The Batman Part 2 and Mickey 17: Release date shiftage.
• 10:34 – Siobhan Gallichan: A tribute.
• 27:49 – Annual Predictions:
• 28:00 — 2024 Predictions.
• 38:12 — 2025 Predictions.
• 38:12 – Hopes and Dreams:
• 38:12 — 2024 Hopes and Dreams.
• 43:51 — 2025 Hopes and Dreams.
• 47:47 – Fears:
• 47:47 — 2024 Fears.
• 52:57 — 2025 Fears.
• 55:38 – Doctor Who: Joy to the World.
• 75:23 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 79:00 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 79:40 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Doctor Who season 7.
• Wikipedia: V (1983 miniseries).
• Big Finish: V UK.
• Wikipedia: Silo (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Dune: Prophecy.
• Wikipedia: The Batman (film).
• IMDB: Siobhan Gallichan.
• Wikipedia: Mickey 17.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast UK Jason (@jangomac73), Miranda (@CarouselUnique), Simon and  Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) check into the Time Hotel to discuss Joy to the World.

Bearded Geek Toy reviews

Miranda’s link tree

Cryptic Who

It's 2025 and to kick off the year we are thrilled to present to you our recent chat with Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric in Doctor Who from 1981-1982.

For those in Australia, this is a taste of what is to come at Matthew's live appearances with us in March in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Happy New Year from Something Who.

Just before Christmas, on 23rd December 2024, a 90 minute colour version of the War Games was broadcast on BBC4 and made available in the BBC iPlayer. As with The Daleks before it, this 10 part black and white story has been edited into a shorter form and colourised to help bring it to life for a new generation.

And Something Who has managed to secure a return visit from two of the key members of the team who made it - Benjamin Cook, the Editor, and Rich Tipple, Lead Colourisation Artist. It's a great chat that goes into how and why a number of the creative choices were made, some of the difficulties involved in editing and colorising a story form the 1960s as well as many of the delights involved.

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com.

In the UK you can find The War Games in Colour on the BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026ch7/doctor-who-19631996-season-6-the-war-games-in-colour

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

On this week's podcast, the Wanderers review Doctor Who story #312: Joy to the World!

Ratings: Connor 8, David 8.25, Trevor 7.75, Charlie 6.75

Hosts:

• Trevor  @whoviantrev.bsky.social    Trevsplace
• Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Comic Conspiracy
• David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian    DraconianProgeny
• Connor  The Deadly Emerald

Join us in two weeks for the January edition of Crossing the Void!

The latest leg of our flight through entirety comes to a gentle landing this week, but before we all head off to collect our luggage, all seven of us take the opportunity to say goodbye to Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat in one last retrospective.

Notes and links

Thank you to those of you who sent us questions: Kate Orman, Doctor What and General Witchfinders.

In our discussion of Sleep No More, Brendan reaches for the name of Bethany Black’s love interest in the episode, but goes slightly astray. The name he’s after is Chopra, played by the astoundingly beautiful Neet Mohan.

In Episode 2 of Flight Through Entirety, Richard famously compares Hartnell’s performance style to Marlene Dietrich’s. This week, he bookends that beautifully with a comparison of Peter Capaldi’s style to Maggie Smith’s, particularly her Oscar-winning performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Richard alludes to this story from 2015, in which a team consisting of Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss came third in a Doctor Who pub trivia competition at a Doctor Who convention in Sydney.

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You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

Now that Flight Through Entirety is taking a break, you should all go and subscribe to 500 Year Diary, our latest new Doctor Who podcast, in which we go back through the history of the show and examine new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early in 2024, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season, The Second Coming, early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire recently released our hot take on Ncuti Gatwa’s second Christmas Special (and Steven Moffat’s ninth), Joy to the World. And we’ll be back again in 2025 to talk about Season 2.

Last week, The Three-Handed Game released their first Christmas Special, discussing the 1966 Avengers episode Too Many Christmas Trees, in which Steed’s weird Christmas nightmares start to become reality. The boys will be back in 2025 for the third episode in their triptych The Pop Explosion.

Maximum Power is back at last with its long-awaited coverage of the 1981 season of Blakes 7. Last weekend we released our discussion on the season’s controversial second episode — Power.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we watched a notoriously silly early episode of Deep Space Nine, the widely reviled but never forgotten Move Along Home.

Thank you very much for listening: we’ll see you again in a few years. And on all of our other podcasts, of course.

The holidays are here again, and that means we were treated to another Christmas Special!

Join Erika, Kat, Lynne, and Tansy as we discuss the Moffat-penned Christmas special "Joy to the World!"

So, what are your thoughts on "Joy to the World?" Did you enjoy the Doctor's time with Anita on his slow go around? Were you excited like we were about Joel Fry's appearance? Where would you visit in the Time Hotel?

Drop us a message on Bluesky, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Joel Fry is Justin, the Narrator in the Big Finish story Doctor Who: No Place

Join Brent, Michele and James as they take a look back at Doctor Who in 2024. From Tales of the TARDIS through to the return of Sutekh to Doctor Who comics to Big Finish plays – it’s all here.

A very Happy New Year to all you wonderful listeners and be sure to join us again in 2025 for Episode 388 – our predictions Episode!

As always, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch by emailing us at the campervan at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, Tweeting us or by jumping onto our Facebook Page and Group.

Enjoy the show!

Waffle On New Years Eve Special 2024

Happy New Year to you all and Meds, Kell and Peter thought they woud give you a special gift to see the New Year in. Recorded a few months ago the lads decided to make a special episode and its been sittying in the library desperate to get out. So if you cant be bothered with the normal dismal tv options why not crack open a drink and listen to us and see the new year in. 

Heres to a Waffley 2025, thanks for staying with us you all are amazing.

WE'RE BACK!! After a lengthy hiatus, Who & Company returns with a very special guest! Writer/director/actor Matthew Jacobs joins us to discuss his film/TV career, the creation of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, and his new venture - writing for Big Finish!

Then Matthew selects his Pick of the Month - the ABC/Family Channel action/adventure series, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles! Matthew discusses writing for the show, meetings with George Lucas, how scripts get chosen in a writers' room, and much more!

And get the brand new Matthew Jacobs Big Finish audio play, Puccini and the Doctor - part of the Deadly Strangers box set only at www.bigfinish.com.

Part two of my review of the year which covers July to December, the new series re-watch resumes next week.

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In our final episode of 2024, Chris, Philip and Dwayne look back at the first episode of Doctor Who from it's triumphant return to TV screens in 2005, namely, Rose.

We hope you enjoy the commentary.

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As a companion to our Something Who 101, which has clips from the first 5 years of our podcast, it's time to share a few highlights from the past year of Something Who, which included our 100th episode. If you haven't heard us before, this will give you a flavour of our podcast. And if you have, here's a reminder.

And there's a lot to choose from. In addition to our regular presenting team of Richard, Paul and Giles, Rick rapidly became a fixture, and we had several appearances from Jess Jurkovic. Gav Rymill came back, Tim Burrows popped by for an episode and Simon Guerrier made a return visit. Richard had a nice chat with Jonn Elledge about his enthusiasm for Doctor Who.

We hope you enjoy these clips and, if you do, please peruse our back catalogue for the full versions of all of these items and perhaps you'd like to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or similar platform.

The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Erika and Steven complete the penultimate Pertwee story!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Steven and Erika quite like “The Monster of Peladon”! We said what we said!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Erika and Steven continue Erika’s journey of discovery of “The Monster of Peladon” with slightly(?) less talk about “The Space Pirates.”

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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Hello dear listener! Here we are, saying goodbye to 2024 with a look back at the 2013 telemovie, An Adventure in Space and Time.

Before then, all the usual news and short topics you’ve come to expect, and after the Adventure in Space and Time section, we have a ton of listener feedback and what we’ve been watching this past month. A jam-packed episode! Tune in!

Contact us any time at: hello@theDWshow.net

Steven and Erika start another new-to-Erika story, which is going well…so far! Oh, and once again they end up taking about “The Space Pirates.” (We swear we’re not doing it on purpose!)

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The gang is back! Ross, Melvin, and Jeff are back to talk about a new Doctor Who episode. This time it is Joy to World. Alot of thoughts from the trio. It was a joy of a conversation.

We spend a lot of time talking about DUNE and A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, before, you know, getting to the Doctor Who. But hey, that's our brand.

Plus Eric is back on the "Mavity" train.

00:00 - Intro

00:32 - A Complete Unknown Bob Dylan Talk

01:42 - Dune Prophecy Talk

04:16 - DUNE SPOILERS

08:48 - The road to a Joy to the World: A Doctor Who Christmas Special

10:00 - Okay, for real now, a Joy to the World: A Doctor Who Christmas Special review

25:12 - MAVITY!

26:20 - Back to it.

37:30 - Doctor Who Season Two Reaction

39:53 - Where to find us

42:50 - She's from Andor!

43:09 - Outro

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Outro Music: Jesus Christ Superstar

Brent and Michele have opinions about the Christmas Special and will not be silenced. Plus, Brent makes a surprising campervan confession. Join them for their second—and even third—thoughts about Joy to the World. Then head to our Facebook Group to continue the discussion online.

Coming soon: Join the DWP crew for our traditional Review of the Year in Episode 387.

Enjoy the Show!

On the Trap One Christmas Special Si (@Si_Hart) and Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess) lead K9 and Company neophytes Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar) and Colin (@colin_neal) through their first experience of Doctor Who's first spin-off.

E vamos para mais um especial de Natal! Em JOY TO THE WORLD, o 15º Doutor, vivido por Ncuti Gatwa, vive uma aventura pelas portas do Hotel Tempo ao lado de Joy, vivida por Nicola Coughlan! Além de Joy, ainda temos o Doutor vivendo por um ano com aquela que todos já querem para companion futuramente: Anita, vivida por Steph de Whalley #AnitaPraCompanion Dinossauros, Expresso Oriente, Monte Everest, referências à pandemia e um final estelar! Puxa uma cadeira e vem com a gente em mais esse review!

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Review - Joy to The World

In the last podcast of 2024, the Who's He? team look at this years Doctor Who Christmas Special, Joy to The World, starring Ncuti Gatwa. With Scott stepping in at late notice to replace Paul who was trapped in a temporal nexus (or Zoom not working properly), he joins a still grumpy Phil in looking at this Steven Moffat story that features a time hotel, dinosaurs and a one shot companion in the form of Nicola Coughlans Joy. But was she really the companion and why did Phil think this story features one of the most tone deaf plot devices he's seen in a Christmas Special?

We wish all our listeners a Happy New Year and we will see you in 2025!

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It’s the annual tradition of our Radio Free Skaro livestream with Steven, Warren, and special guest Kyle Anderson as they look at “Joy to the World,” the latest traditional Xmas special written by Steven Moffat, along with a tsunami of other Doctor Who content including the Doctor Who Proms, behind the scenes fun like Unleashed and The War Games in Colour! Also, Thrill to fulsome praise of The Space Pirates, and less enthusiastic about The Savages, which has nothing to do with any of the above! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• “Joy to the World” Review
• Doctor Who Season 2 Teaser
• Doctor Who Season 2: First Look
• Everything We Know About Doctor Who Season 2
• Doctor Who Unleashed: Joy to the World
• Doctor Who overnight viewing figures on BBC One – 4.11m, 6th for the day
• “The War Games” in Colour review
• The War Games in Colour available for pre-order in the UK
• Doctor Who at the BBC Proms review
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out December 29 at 4:45pm

The first of my two part, review of the year, or to be more precise the review of my year. This covers January to June, part two in a few days time.

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WOW! What do you make of that?! Join Phil and James from the Campervan as they try to find space in the Campervan after the DWP Christmas Party and discuss their views on Joy to the World, this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special. We make no promises about insightful analysis and it’s quite possible they might break into song (that’s a thing now with Doctor Who, y’know) – but we do promise a fun conversation to which many of you have contributed! Thanks for all your feedback that features in this DWP – keep it coming – the discussion continues online in our Facebook Group!

Join the DWP crew next week for our now traditional Review of the Year in Episode 387.

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Doctor Who Literature is on break until the New Year, but Jason and Callie come back for one night to discuss this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special: Joy to the World, by Steven Moffat. Warning, this is a FULL SPOILER chat so don't listen until you've watched the episode first. Callie as always does not hold back on any opinion, and Jason as always has slight trouble staying on topic.

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A ten-minute sequence stops “Joy to the World” cold, yet turns out to be the heart of the 2024 Christmas special.

When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the earth, just in time for Christmas.

What did we make of it? This is our HOT TAKE.

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This week I pay tribute to podcaster Siobahn Gallichan who sadly died recently, also a mini review of Doctor Who: Joy to the World, this year’s Christmas Special.

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Toni and Joe are joined by Adam Clegg to eat eggs, calibrate camp, and rave about Racnoss in the Doctor Who Christmas Special The Runaway Bride.

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This Christmas, we travel from a snowy wasteland in the recent past, to an alien battlefield on a distant planet, to a historical battlefield that has faded from human memory — only to discover that the real battlefield was the friends we made along the way. Or something. Time to say goodbye to Peter Capaldi in Twice upon a Time.

Notes and links

For the kids: Morecambe and Wise were an incredibly successful and famous British comedy duo throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, and their Christmas specials were insanely popular — running from 1969 to 1977 on the BBC, and then on ITV from 1978 to 1983. Their 1977 show was watched by 28 million people in the UK.

Inevitably, Richard mentions some antecedents to this story. A Christmas Carol (1843), in which Charles Dickens calls out his era’s brutal social inequalities and essentially creates Christmas as we know it. All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), a vivid story of some young German soldiers fighting in France during the Great War. And, closer to home, A B Facey’s A Fortunate Life (1981), the autobiography of a Australian man who experienced extraordinary suffering and loss — growing up in Western Australia, surviving the Gallipoli campaign, losing his son in World War II — before the publication of the book when he was 87 years old. (“I have lived a very good life, it has been very rich and full. I have been very fortunate and I am thrilled by it when I look back.”)

If you want to know what Susan was up to instead of appearing in this episode, the adventures of the War Susan now encompass three Big Finish box sets, one of which is due for release some time next year.

Simon identifies a nod in Murray’s soundtrack to Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel (1978). You can hear it performed here.

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You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire will back in a couple of days’ time with our hot take on Ncuti Gatwa’s second Christmas Special (and Steven Moffat’s ninth), Joy to the Worlds. And we’ll be back again in 2025 to talk about Season 2.

Today, The Three-Handed Game is back for their first Christmas Special, discussing the 1966 Avengers episode Too Many Christmas Trees, in which Steed’s weird Christmas nightmares start to become reality. The boys will be back in 2025 for the third episode in their triptych The Pop Explosion.

Maximum Power is back at last with its long-awaited coverage of the 1981 series of Blakes 7, starting with the season première Rescue. We’ll be back again on this Sunday to talk about the second episode, Power.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we celebrated Christmas by catching up with friend-of-the-podcast Frazer Gregory to watch what might be the best of all the Star Trek films, Star Trek: First Contact.

Merry Christmas one and all!!! Today, David and Matt sit down to wrap up this year's Wheelie Big Quiz charity fundraiser!

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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

The War Games - IN COLOUR!

In a festive episode, Scott and Phil look at The War Games - In Colour starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor.  In this colourised, heavily edited and enhanced edition of Patrick Troughtons final story, we get to see the second Doctor regenerate into the third and for some reason, confirmation that the War Chief is really the Master.

Phil goes into full on Scrooge mode as the pair of them discuss the highs and lows of another classic Doctor Who story being adapted for a modern audience. Whatever that means.

Also, we get an early Christmas present in the form of Jon Pertwee's first season getting the The Collection treatment on bluray, which puts the festive spirit into Phil.

We wish all our listeners a very merry Christmas!!

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This is Bags of Action. The podcast devoted to action movies, both old and new, but all of them are awesome! Pete and Steve return for a special festive episode of Bags of Action to discuss Carry On, the 2024 film starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson and Dean Norris.. It's available now to watch on Netflix.

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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.

CUTBITS:

• Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway Question Mark Three Six featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we discuss our recent viewings of the UHD disc of Twice Upon a Time.
• This a lost cutbits episode that marked the first return to the MHC feed. This was the episode that inspired us to resurrect this feed, covering series 10 intending to publish this after those commentaries were completed. 

WARNING:

• This discussion contains miscellaneous K-9 and Company, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Sherlock, Class, new WHO, and/or classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor Who. If you are 100% spoilerphobic to new & classic episodes not yet seen, do NOT complain to us. This episode is MOSTLY HARMLESS & contains EXPLICIT ideas, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

 DISCLAIMER:

• This Cutbit was recorded Mar. 19th, 2022.
• COMING SOON: MHC #?37! or 38?!

DON'T PANIC

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