On the Topic Podcast

This week and hot off the heels of a past episode, Alex & Dan make a break for the Nostalgia beach, as they discuss some of the things which were banned from their school playgrounds... and some of yours, too!

From spinning plastic toys destined for a window or someone's eyes - to more plastic cards and collectibles which ended up being taken by the school bully. If that wasn't enough, the joys of pure sugar in fluorescent straws being knocked back in the classroom and discarded in the halls - to triange flapjacks? There were some odd contraband back in the day!

Sit back, relax and enjoy another trip down 90s and 2000s memory lane!
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Credits:
Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

This week, Alex & Dan go back to the books to find you more creepy and odd stories from Urban Myths and English Folklore in this fantastic follow up to 2020's Volume 1! In that episode, they discussed the issues with Big Cats, Men in Black, Chupacabra's, eery sounds of banging drums in times of war - and lots more!

In this episode, it's turned up a notch; from odd robotic-like colourful beings who appear to Children on an island off the coast of the UK, Hags who haunt the woodland in the Midlands - to a game played in an elevator where you musn't look at the person who gets on for fear of spending eternity in the liminal world, to Glaswegian Vampires and hoardes of murderous children on the hunt.... this episode has it all!

Grab you deck chair, come sit on the Pop Culture beach as we discuss some strange and odd stories from the UK - and further afield!

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Credits:
Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

This week we go down to the Pop Culture Beach and open the vault - and it's an absolute belter! Just in time for the Volume 2 coming up in the next week, Alex & Dan talk through their favourite Urban Legends and Myths and where it all started back in the Summer of 2020, with the dawn of the new podcast / channel direction.

As was in that week, this week Alex & Dan discuss the Rat-man of Southend-on-Sea, a murderous song in Pokemon Red & Blue's Lavender Town, Spring Heeled Jack, the Slender Man and plenty of others! Considering roots in the real world and for some, how these have changed and altered due to the online age, the duo give some background on these dark legends and thanks to the power of social media - some of yours too!Turn on the lights for this one guys if you want to sleep tonight!

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Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

This week, the dynamic duo of the south coast are swapping the Pop Culture Beach for the nearby public house - because, you guessed it - it's birthday time!

You know the drill; it's Ask Me Anything time and for another year, you did not dissapoint!

From Smoked or Unsmoked Bacon (it's an important topic!), some of our favourite Thunderbirds episodes, what TV series we'd like to star in - to whether book to film adaptations should be a thing and whether blowing on hot food really cools it down.... we tackle all the big subjects at the beer tables!

We also discuss Smutty Seagulls and who would win in a royal rumble of the Cryptids - sounds like a normal OTT episode to us!

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Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

This week Alex & Dan take to the internet to uncover a dark theory of one of the most iconic and much loved children's series of the 90's - the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers!

Whilst many of us have fond memories of tight lycra-clad teenagers kicking butt and taking names in mega-bots, there's a subsequent sad tale to tell this week as it's often not a happy ending for those who don the suits.

Is there a curse and are these actors doomed to suffer following their stint on the Hollywood circuit? Let's get into it.

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Credits:
This wek's theme music: Objectivitst Guitarist, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme song - Epic instrumental cover
Exit theme song: Go Go Power Rangers by Ron Wasserman
Usual theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)