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The Debilitating Strokes world-tour, decapitation versus getting shot into the sun versus falling asleep on the bus, banned Buddhist nursery classes, and why every funeral needs the Thong Song

The Schadenfreude Olympics, how the Tories accidentally followed through, The Corbyn Boys singing ‘Go Left’, and one demented fascist grandma

The Airbnb fascism filter, delays on the Maginot Line, the Libertines' new smackhead, and how to pull hope from the jaws of defeat

Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went extinct, language being invented by one really chatty monkey, and the importance of each ear having an iPod

Alliot and the far-right gentlemen's drinking club, how logic and reason don't extend to climate science, the paradox of a virgin's fear of cuckoldry, and booting our guest to the murder staircase

Dinosaurs knocked into space, finding the g-word, a new respect for facts from a surprising place, and what to do when you reach the edge of the world

Borges’ “Snap Election of Babylon”, sleeping with people with tie-dye sheets, the incoming reign of Mad King Charles, and Kraken standing for MP

Recorded live from inside an isolation tank, fearing our dolphin and whale competitors, the bad dubstep boyfriend, and calling the President at 4am

Dishonourable discharges, the end of the British union, the drunk Telegraph admirals in the cupboard, and being conscripted into the Great Gibraltar Monkey War

The director’s director’s cut of E.T., Japanese versus American horror, going a bit Garth Marenghi, and the eater of worlds, and children

Richard Barbrook, in defence of Labour's digital comms, the boring day after the revoution, and being a Never Flush

The longest-ever podcast recording, seizures live on air, the wankchurian candidate, and Red Balls Day sponsored by Red Bull and Ed Balls

Richard Seymour, the rise of the spiteful class, analysing Nigel Farage's victory love-making, and the real meaning of bronies

Wind, the opposite of glue, touching yourself into the alt right, and trapped inside your own skull spinning fruitlessly through the infinite universe

The first ever broadcast of the Kraken Radio Hour in 1917, taking in the shocking news from Russia, the Hairless Ball motif in the history of class struggle, Karl Marx’s big thatch nappy, and the pegging of the British Empire

The Dark Gump Rises, the Academy Award for Best Lube, Jack Nicholson on fire, and the return of Newsgak

The reason not to feed your puppy a samosa, the elephant that became an osteopath, more Eugenics Olympics, and Craigella Deville

NadSac the Sun columnist, the second sequel to 1984 after 1985, who'd be the best manager of the murder machine, and how Bernie woulda won the battle but lost the war

Robert Sharp, the Queen's relation to George Michael, divorcing Cecil Rhodes, and Hate Speech, Actually

What Top Gear would be if it were a story, how to define the triad of the British psyche, the always awful BBC orchestra, and which one of us has met a murderer