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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode our heroes discover early on that they don't have any subjects to discuss.  Never mind.  They hastily improvise and before you know it they're discussing Ivan's unfunny comedy night, Ben's poetry and Sean's "true" stories.  

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      <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately technical problems prevented us recording a proper episode this week so Ivan and Sean got together to record this mini-episode to fill the gap.  

Hopefully normal service will be resumed next week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a nice Christmas break the guys reconvene to discuss what they've been up to and what Santa has placed in their stockings.  Along the way they discuss New Year's Eve parties, "quadrilogies", and a few innovative ideas for computer games.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode our three heroes attempt to discuss bad cover versions and Christmas parties.  Along the way they also stumble through the subjects of TV theme tunes, train announcements and Paul Daniels.

For those of you enjoying the non-visual version]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode Ben, Sean and Ivan get into the Christmas spirit by talking about bad Christmas presents.  Due to another scheduling conflict Sean is talking to us from a comedy gig.  This results in Ben and Ivan interviewing comedians again with the same]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:18:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Double, double toil and trouble, bagpipes play and shortbread crumble.  OK, that doesn't really rhyme.  

Anyway, we three meet again for an episode that is inadvertently Scottish and is all the better for that.  We try to tackle the subjects of Halloween]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:07:49 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh lordy.Â  If you haven't heard us before, please don't start here.Â  Major technical issues plague the podcast and it shortly devolves into a tribute to David Shayler's appearance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWsuieLf9R8) on Have I Got News For You.Â]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:24:32 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode Ivan gets geeky, Sean gets stinky and Ben is feline freaky.  They also reflect on the pain of poor customer service, the benefits of grazing and the possible actions of a hypothetical-super-intelligent-hyper-being.

Music is "Rythme Futur"]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:24:50 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In which our hapless podcasters attempt to speak coherently on the subjects of beards, famous painters and why elephants never forget.Â  They also ruminate on the viewing habits of goldfish, the difficulties of rectal filming and they play "guess that noi]]></description>
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