A podcast that explores the obscurely relevant. Join Gusto as he (painfully) dissects pressing, as well as banal, issues within the spheres of culture, politics and the environment. Expect to encounter bizarre historical events that illustrate how far we haven't come, and how ideas have a propensity to recycle themselves. With any luck, you damn dirty apes will leave each episode more puzzled than you were beforehand.

Puzzled Monkey
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Podcast Overview
A podcast that explores the obscurely relevant. Join Gusto as he (painfully) dissects pressing, as well as banal, issues within the spheres of culture, politics and the environment. Expect to encounter bizarre historical events that illustrate how far we haven't come, and how ideas have a propensity to recycle themselves. With any luck, you damn dirty apes will leave each episode more puzzled than you were beforehand.
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Publishing Since
2/3/2021
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Recent Episodes

April 18, 2021
Royal Novichok
To mark the end of the inaugural season of Puzzled Monkey, Gusto serves up a piping-hot Q+A episode with all the trimmings. Strap in for musings on the importance of phallic graffiti to UK culture, impressions of Jordan Peterson singing about Lobster hierarchies, and investigations into whether the death of Prince Philip was a false-flag operation orchestrated by the Conservative Party to distract attention from their rampant cronyism. As if that wasn't enough, Gusto then explores the subtle ...

April 1, 2021
Suez Pudding
In light of the Ever Given being freed from the silted banks of the Suez Canal, Gusto puts his goggles on and dives head-first into the history of this man-made wonder. We explore ancient aquatic infrastructures that may have inspired the construction of the canal, namely the mysterious Canal of the Pharaoh and the irrigation systems of the world's first civilization: the mighty Sumerians. In liquid fashion, attention then turns to how the canal became such a central capillary of world trade,...

March 24, 2021
Kambo No. 5
Gusto is joined by the scouse seagulls roosting in his new gaff to discuss whether or not we should support the cull of invasive non-native species such as the bushy-tailed grey squirrel, the exotically plumed ring-necked parakeet and the trip-inducing cane toad. This swiftly degenerates into an exploration of how humans and non-human animals have a propensity to seek out psychedelic experience. Why do humans and Golden Retrievers lick slime off toads? Why do Big-Horned Sheep gum down halluci...
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