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House of Commons Library - Wikicast 058 Apr 05, 2019

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The fact that we randomised on a Brexit related article is just cruel at this point. Simon and Dan talk Captain Marvel, Hansard, choral music, the Yogscast, and, sigh, Brexit. Also, Dan reports back on the community's music survey!

PATRONS PLEASE NOTE: we no longer have a top lad tier! We have split the tier into Top Dogs and Top Cats: please choose your allegiance accordingly!

WIKICAST FANIMATION CONTEST: https://goo.gl/forms/yaWkSAAEFsPfUkKI3

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- Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast

- Dan's piece of the week: https://open.spotify.com/track/34IIB7bQovmCXYgcgqJRAG

- Burning of Parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Parliament

- Hansard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard

- Simon playing GTA with the yogscast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBX05OA2hY

- Patrick H Willem's series on the MCU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Bq_jK0Z1Y

- Red Letter Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Edited by Adam Gillard, https://twitter.com/Adam_Gillard.

Juris Silovs (athlete) - Wikicast 057 Mar 18, 2019

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Dan weeps in this one! WE'VE GOT A WEEPER! Also, talking about running, Dan's Genesis Sixteen audition, and how our friend Ed is in the Umbrella Academy... it's the Wikicast!

EMAIL US WITH YOUR: favourite song, most played song, most recently played song!

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- Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast

- Simon's half marathon fundraiser: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/simonaccidentalmarathon

- The 10 second barrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-second_barrier

- YogCon: http://yogscast.com/yogcon

- Where'er you walk: https://open.spotify.com/track/6DlxjU56c6b1ifOwb8kRnR

- I'll sail upon the dog star: https://open.spotify.com/track/4l6OvjDViULG2XLKHHyYEi

- L'heure exquise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl22CLqxwus

- Umbrella Academy: https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863

- The Intelligence: https://theintelligence.economist.com/

- Blasting Off Again: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blasting-off-again/id1454168811?mt=2

- TNG Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70158329

- Kurzgesagt/Coffee Break drama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjRv6nY4QU

- If Beale Street Could Talk: https://open.spotify.com/album/0fJDCdcog8975mFnYSCKZT

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Wikicast 056 Mar 12, 2019

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Dan and Simon discuss their first ever albums, how Dan started his singing career with Evanescence, and Simon's half marathon! Plus some fan-written poetry, Netflix recommendations, and lots and lots of music chat. It's the Wikicast!

EMAIL US WITH YOUR: favourite song, most played song, most recently played song! GIVE US DATAAAAA

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- Where is the line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdQJ1W4COYA

- JCB song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkseGFQLh4

- For crying out loud (Meat Loaf): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KyHDNQkBSA

- In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHEk6-YLYo

- Mother of god here I stand (Tavener): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUZjxMjEiQ

- Louis Therous doc: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000327c

- Umbrella academy: https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863

- Simon's running fundraiser: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/simonaccidentalmarathon

- Cambridge Brexit event: https://www.facebook.com/events/786586015034676/

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Haskell, Texas - Wikicast 055 Mar 02, 2019

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OOOO EXCITING EPISODE! We introduce a new member of the Wikicast team, and introduce our first ever contest...

WIKICAST FANIMATION CONTEST: https://goo.gl/forms/yaWkSAAEFsPfUkKI3

Hat Films fanimation examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4CIVrhZZnw&list=PL6EAE945725CBFE29

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- Musket video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1NDMN9Gnw

- Miserere, Christopher Tye: https://open.spotify.com/track/7xD3YUxCq1yV6K1EXXml8t

- The lamentation, Edward Bairstow: https://open.spotify.com/track/5A0dFLbX8nUwyHHgAJE47T

- Sex Education: https://www.netflix.com/title/80197526

- Black Panther score: https://open.spotify.com/album/7KDslrXaOYS28ferZi5UVK

- Abducted in Plain Sight: https://www.netflix.com/title/81000864

- Ultimate Picture Palace: http://www.uppcinema.com/

- Oxford Uni arboretum: https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/visit-arboretum

- Keating! (musical): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating!

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Do I Love You? (The Ronettes song) - Wikicast 054 Feb 24, 2019

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It's our belated Valentines special! Simon and Dan talk about a lovely song from the 1960s, swap notes on their romantic lives, Simon gets rather excited about marbles, and the podcast receives some rather lovely poetry! Exciting things happening next episode, watch this space...

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- Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast

- Foleyship of the Ring (part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G8TH5oMRl4

- Breakfast at Tiffany's pic: https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/01/29/47522b7f-6906-4921-9e35-f78b0f42325b/resize/620x465/a96a9e907823263ea00e484e9e297aae/1372883021mickey-rooney.jpg

- Will Smith Genie: https://uproxx.com/movies/will-smith-genie-aladdin-internet-reaction/

- Gesualdo tenebrae responsories (sheet music: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/f8/Gesualdo_tenebrae_complete.pdf, spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6QUZJo26SuIIS7Ec9kfL5m)

- Simon's goodreads, for book reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/simonoxfphys

- Ugly Delicious: https://www.netflix.com/title/80170368

- Marblelympics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AbcCbyJ2U

- Earth Seen From Above (Monk): https://open.spotify.com/track/17R2bhPDYcG2feUojsn6cT?si=epOFdTKwR6SdAT14E4SAUg

- Astronaut Anthem (Monk): https://open.spotify.com/track/3QpBVVnt2M2MPZKI9VrqdY?si=UC8oY52USWqJA64Wx1-81g

- Nox Aurumque (Whitacre): https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pnk31JG61a5dkgzxw8W8k?si=jg7XsRqDRrWJbW1vyuAEwA

- Magnificat (Pärt): https://open.spotify.com/track/6WYAMMtzTa8J3EMqWz8mdL?si=9bBjwXs6RQeCuLTM5bhK8w

- "What, the canticles?" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3YiPC91QUk

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Vallesa de la Guareña - Wikicast 053 Feb 11, 2019

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Simon and Dan discover a new Favourite wikipedia article! Simon airs some complicated feelings about Emma Stone's boobs! Also in this episode we recommend some bizarre modern music, a whole slew of podcasts, and discover that many of our listeners mysteriously have head injuries... it's the Wikicast!

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- Simon's favourite website: http://earth.nullschool.net

- Demonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym

- Simon's video with Hat Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjm9vUeLu8Q

- Sparks and Quarks: https://sparksquarks.podbean.com/

- Westminster Mass (Panufnik): https://open.spotify.com/album/5rb4W6cvRDGCJzUedHLLHn

- Jésus accepte la souffrance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyrf_bMfbxk

- The Favourite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Favourite

- Imaginary Worlds: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/

- 20,000Hz: https://www.20k.org/

- Thinking Allowed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05

- The Greatest Generation (DeSoto): https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/greatest-generation

- R S Thomas: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/r-s-thomas

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Lithuania at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics - Wikicast 052 (drunk special) Jan 23, 2019

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Oh boy. You lovely volk donated money to charity in the Jingle Jam on the promise that Dan and I would get hammered and record an episode. So, er, here we go... it's the end of both our careers. Simon mistakes a famous composer for a Nazi scientist. Dan's northern and Aussie sides get combined. A fan doesn't have brain cancer! It's all a goddamn mess so just sit back and enjoy...

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- County flags of Liberia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Liberia

- Sean Kingston (not Sean Paul, Simon...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Kingston

- Best cry ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA

- Missa Charles Darwin: https://open.spotify.com/album/7fSXwqsyBjRmreve9R6dwr

- Jean Langlais: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Langlais

- Path of Miracles (SANTIAGO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHcqHzzTC8&list=PLAbkkkSiLkWtC8_pELuYKUCoifzvRmoPR

- The Instinctive Screenplay: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instinctive-Screenplay-Watching-Writing-Screen/dp/1137607491

- "I missed" reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXC_rjs7tg

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Christmas (surname) - Wikicast 051 Dec 22, 2018

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It's our Christmas special! I can only apologise for the amount of time that we spend talking about Christmas movies and singing. It's almost like that's what our personalities are based on. Mary Christmas everyone!

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- Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewikicast

- Dan's concert bbc link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06smml4

- Simon's graduation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLi4MkM-S9o

- Exeter nine lessons and carols service: https://www.facebook.com/exeteruniversitychapelchoir/videos/352947605438750/

- THE JINGLE JAM: https://www.humblebundle.com/yogscast/yogscast-jingle-jam-2018

- Simon's video with Hat films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGJhwk4vBT0

- Dove missa brevis (gloria): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nhvnW9s1m8

- Song exploder: http://songexploder.net/

- Tom Zalatnai’s twitter: https://twitter.com/tomzalatnai

- Sparks and quarks: https://sparksquarks.podbean.com/

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom) - Wikicast 050 Dec 18, 2018

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Simon gets rather angry about Brexit (and Name of the Wind). Our intrepid heroes also discuss climate change, Djesse (the new album from Jacob Collier), the Yogscast jingle jam, and about a million links. And a guy with a leaf blower.

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- Carbon brief on UK emissions: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-carbon-emissions-in-2017-fell-to-levels-last-seen-in-1890

- MP grabs mace: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/day-of-brexit-drama-ends-with-mp-grabbing-the-ceremonial-mace

- Djesse (piece of the week): https://open.spotify.com/track/3nur4bNfmRCoLFxk9ubHHK

- FUCKING TODDY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uO1A1IpAx0

- Painting with light photo: https://darrenjew.com/site3/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/20140418_0519__internet.jpg

- Home Alone music post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/9hiw1v/home_alone_1990_old_man_marley_is_scored_using/

- Baby Driver detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/8r3uwz/in_baby_driver_2017_the_heart_in_the_background/

- Oranges and Sunshine: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1438216/

- Spongy and Electric: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJqJob5IS9gd0PTpSIxZvg

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