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It’s Rum Doings Episode 120! They didn’t say it couldn’t be done, because they didn’t care. To celebrate this monumental milestone, we don’t shut up for ages. In a bumper-length episode we talk our usual rubbish for 85 non-stop minutes.

Swigging on Japanese rum, with accompanying lame racism, we turn to the esteemed journal, The Practising Midwife. Here we learn how witchcraft is used by midwifes to save babies. We figure out the mistake all previous prime ministers have made when firing their shamed ministers, and then naturally move on to comics. That takes us to why we didn’t enjoy Lord Of The Rings, and eventually the feminism of Arnie and Stallone. Which then means we insist you watch The Villain.

At the start of the second half we ponder Timmy Mallett, and find ourselves discussing Saturday morning television. Including John’s appearance thereon. Then some magic. And then some reminiscing about when we didn’t hate DVDs. As we exceed our second time limit, we find our way to the old familiar of radio comedy, and attempts to sell off Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

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Rum Doings in the flesh! At last, at long long last, we’re in the same room, for episode 119. Not discussing Skype, we celebrate our corporeal companionship by drinking some actual, proper rum. It’s like the good old days.

What the hell is John’s problem with booth babes? Why does John deserve all the thanks? And then Nick decides to once more wander into the topic of trans matters.

Of course we stumble briefly into the story about Jimmy Saville, but then quickly move on to John’s holiday to Nazi Austria. This takes us to a comparison of the London and Vienna natural history museums, and naturally onto the most efficient way to buy a Starbucks. Things take a slightly odder tone, and then everything comes to an abrupt end when Nick refuses to carry on with Victoria in the room. And thank goodness, after what Nick said.

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Episode 118 of Rum Doings we begin with Nick’s revelation that all Austrians are Nazis, then learn the TRUTH about what tooth dreams mean.

An extended argument about the efficacy of acupuncture gets a little heated, before we realise it’s time for our weekly round-up of Romney’s adventures.

There’s no Rum Doings next week, as John’s away on his holidays, so imagine an episode of your own creation.

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Episode 117 of Rum Doings wants to tell you a story. And when we’re done, we discuss the scandalous underground dog food crime ring taking place in John’s street, Laura’s spectral science, and the demise of Ubi’s DRM. We check in on our weekly “Can We Envisage President Romney?” feature, and wonder why the American Christian-right are accepting a Mormon.

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Episode 116 of Rum Doings comes in a week following a week that had a Rum Doings in it! To celebrate our sweet one hundred and sixteen, we don’t discuss whether Apple has the right to unsharp corners. (It’s worth noting that this episode was recorded moments before Jeremy Hunt was announced as health sec, hence our not mentioning that.)

Highlights include thoughts on the Paralympics, booing at George Osborne, and the death of cats. Then we move on to one of Rum Doings’ finest topics – carpet cleaning. John has his hands on one of the finest leaflets we’ve ever seen. We express confusion at US political parties, and predict Jimmy Smits as next Republican president. And out David Hyde Pierce.

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Episode 115 of Rum Doings is a very, very late episode, recorded while the Olympics were still on. Nick then took a week to send his files to John, then John took a week to put them online. We are both rubbish, and we apologise. But fortunately, it’s a top-notch episode, despite being recorded on Skype with the line dropping very near the end. No, really, it’s still good!

Highlights include the renaming of John’s wife, the discovery of the Kitchen Fairy, and Nick lying about visiting Bath. We watch sunsets on Mars, John has actually been running, and we express our surprise at just how good the Olympics were.

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In a surprise early episode 114 of Rum Doings, Nick and John record an episode while the events of the weekend are fresh in their minds. Nick attended the Olympic opening ceremony, and has quite a bit to say on the Britain it portrayed. While John wrote a blog post (below) that rather a lot of people looked at. We discuss them both, entirely forgetting to have a topic not to talk about.

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Fresh as the morning dew, episode 113 of Rum Doings was recorded only moments ago. John with a cold, Nick with a smoke up his nose, we don’t discuss whether extended Twitter downtime will affect the Olympics. But we do discuss the potential for the opening ceremony, to which Nicholas shall attend. We question whether there should be a paralympics at all, and then move onto the strangeness of Mitt Romney.

Is gaming moving to Linux? We don’t actually discuss that, but Nick does explain just what a disaster Windows 8 is going to be. We wonder how Sorkin’s The Newsroom could be better, and then decide to get rid of wee-wees and poo-poos. Would you jump into a volcano? Would you watch White Collar? Would you be a Scottish Catholic?

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Goodness, it’s been a while. But finally, Rum Doings returns with episode 112, not asking what ambulances are going to do now there are Olympic lanes. It’s a Skype episode, but we seem to have the sound pretty well fixed now, so apart from even more talking over each other than usual it’s one heck of a step up from the terrible echoes of the last couple.

Although there wasn’t even a plan to record at all on this evening, as John was supposed to be having a romantic night away in a hotel. As you might expect, why he’s not there is the first matter discussed. How do you escape from a hotel? We then move on to plugging Nick’s brother’s book, The Fastest Loser, which you should buy.

There’s brief chat about the Google Nexus and Raspberry Pi, and Ouya, before we move onto more important matters – the details of the Farmborough W.I. July meeting. There’s more news from our new favourite paper, the Midsomer Norton, Radstock and District Journal, including a footpath we must save, and a lady who wants to set our heads on fire.

We look at the Onion’s extraordinary response to the Daniel Tosh rape joke furore. A quick glance at the banks leads on to Nick’s obsessive, dangerous stalking of Ben Goldacre.

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Bum dum Rum Doings episode 111! Back in our echo chamber, at the bottom of a giant well made of metal, we try to read out an email but then get distracted by everything. Nick apparently wants to “fix” Laura, and then John gets angry with a man. We dismiss the BMI, tell Money Supermarket to go away, and then finally read the email. About someone setting their house on fire because of Rum Doings. A bit.

It gets boring for a while, then we talk about how people are precious over dead bodies, and why John wants to be eaten by sharks. Did you know that baby cells live inside mummies? Probably if you listen to Radio Lab. But we talk about it inexpertly with some of the facts wrong. It turns out Nick’s daughter gets violent when her grammar is corrected, giraffes are tall, and Microsoft doesn’t have a brain in its tail.

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