Fifth Wednesday Not-A-Lotta-Podda
4/29/20267 min
No normal episode of Three Bean Salad this week (it's a five Wednesday April and we only do four episodes a month because of tidal science)
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First 90 secondsHenry Paker· Host0:00
[upbeat music] [gong echoes] Caution. [alarm buzzes] Caution. [alarm buzzes] Caution. [alarm buzzes] Alert. [alarm buzzes] This is a Fifth Wednesday. [alarm buzzes] Please gather at the muster station. [laughs] Please gather at the mustard station.
Mike Wozniak· Host0:24
And do nothing, please.
Henry Paker· Host0:26
Muster and do nothing. Hang around.
Mike Wozniak· Host0:30
Yes, it's a, it's a Fifth Wednesday. Uh, for those of you who, surely you know by now, but we do four episodes a month.
Henry Paker· Host0:35
Mm.
Mike Wozniak· Host0:36
Some months have five Wednesdays in them.
Henry Paker· Host0:39
S- still, even now, even after our, a long-form protest in podcast form- Yeah ... which is what this whole show is.
Mike Wozniak· Host0:46
Yeah.
Henry Paker· Host0:47
You know. But unfortunately we've ended up in a bit of a complex legal pickle, haven't we? Because we desperately want, we actually desperately want to provide content on the fifth Wednesday of the month.
Mike Wozniak· Host0:55
Mm. Mm.
Henry Paker· Host0:55
But we're now being sued by the Gregorian calendar, aren't we? [laughs] Which is under the auspices of the Vatican.
Mike Wozniak· Host1:01
Mm-hmm.
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:02
Well, I'm being sued by, um, a Cliff Richard calendar.
Henry Paker· Host1:04
[laughs] [laughs] Yeah. It's, um, it's the one- Yeah ... from i- 1979 where, isn't it, was him with, um, just him and loads of squirrels, isn't it?
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:16
Yeah.
Mike Wozniak· Host1:16
Yes, that's right. 'Cause I think Cliff Richard's output is now owned by Omnicliff, which in turn owns, uh, the Vatican is my, uh... I think the Va- Vatican is a subsidiary of Omnicliff.
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:25
That's right.
Henry Paker· Host1:26
That's right. So, so Omnicliff, it owns United Biscuits. [laughs] It