Episodes

  • LXX. If Oranges Were Sh!t.
    Aug 24 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn (after proselytising about a particularly delicious scotch egg) about the surprising number of regional variations of Britain's favourite cooked breakfast, and also how Dubai might have grown into a high tech megalopolis but it's postal system still relies on a system that only functions when the population was small enough to know everyone by name (because with no street addresses that was the only way you're going to know who's house it is!).

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    45 mins
  • LXIX. Nice.
    Jun 9 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn about how in 1518 the people of Strasbourg danced compulsively until they couldn't stand any longer, and also the bizarre reason why Costco hotdogs will never increase in price.

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    36 mins
  • LXVIII. Horny Birds in Your Area (with very special guest Waffles!)
    May 12 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. This week we're joined by Waffles (of Waffles and Mario Talk About Things podcast) for a special (mostly) Aotearoa New Zealand themed episode as we learn about the sexy saxophone music Kiwi conservationists use to get Kakapos to mate, how the most important hill in New Zealand is actually in Turkey (and how the Maori Battalion was the only successful unit at Gallipoli), and finally about Westward Ho! (not in New Zealand) and other unusual place names.

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    Waffles can be found on Twitter @Waffles_Mario and you can listen to Waffles and Mario Talk About Things podcast here: https://www.necropodicon.com/wamtatbio

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • LXVII. Emancipate this, B*tch!
    Apr 29 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn about an Aztec god, Xipetotec, who was worshipped by flaying human sacrifices - and we also learn that the last Trial By Combat in Britain took place in the 19th century!

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    53 mins
  • LXVI. Small in Japan
    Apr 14 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn about a Japanese fisherman who washed up in Tsarist Russia and was then charged with being the authority of all Japanese knowledge in St Petersburg, and we learn the extreme cyberpunk-esque lengths an Indian student went to in order to cheat at a medical school exam.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • LXV. The Emperor's New Kitten
    Mar 25 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn about the earliest record of a cat in Japan (and the young Emperor who was delighted to be its proud new owner), and we also learn about Anthrax Island and the Dark Harvest Commandos (which aren't death metal bands but actually the case of Britain deploying bio weapons in Scotland during World War 2).

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    32 mins
  • XLIV. Flowers on Our Dicks
    Mar 10 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. Join us as we learn about the flowery ways to say "I don't give a fuck" in various European languages, and also about the Turnspit Dog - an unfortunate (and now extinct) breed of dog with an unglamorous role in life.

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    53 mins
  • LXIII. Cooking With Grief is Dead. Long Live Cooking With Grief!
    Feb 24 2022

    Cooking With Grief is the comedy podcast that covers everything from history to science, pop culture to geography, and everything in between. And now we're back for more after our brief hibernation over the cold winter months - it's Season 2! To bring in the new season, join us as we learn about a study that proves how more attractive people have better immune systems than average looking people, and about a whimsical teapot that was used for deadly effect in the Chinese Imperial Court.

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    47 mins