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Feb 05, 2022•12 min
Thacknology
It's Dave Thackeray. Talking.
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Episodes
The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov
You'll never hear a worse rendition of Russian accents so tuck in for a quarter-hour of unintentional comedy against the backdrop of a slightly amusing tale of betrayal, greed and numbers.
Jan 19, 2022•16 min
Finger food and Celebs Go Dating
You never know what you're gonna get - like the best line in Forrest Gump. On today's variety pack we had another crack at Protobot (http://molly.is/experimenting/protobot/) to come up with a catchy brand for lickable finger polish. That and a recap of last night's Celebs Go Dating and why you should never commit to a project that doesn't give you the flutters.
Jan 18, 2022•18 min
50 top-class cooking hacks
I read an article on America's Test Kitchen all about how to improve your kitchen craft with 50 tweaks. Man, it's insanely useful. Get those 50 hacks, here: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/4259-50-tiny-skills-to-improve-your-cooking-today On today's show I also natter about some other stuff like trying to find teachers who are actually good, and helping businesses get their sh!t together....
Jan 14, 2022•18 min
Explicit content
Whatever we're doing in life requires way more context than it's given. Today's show reiterates the importance of context when you're asking someone to do something. The reason you don't get what you want is often because you're not being clear or EXPLICIT in your request. Just by reading that you saved 13 minutes listening to me. All the hacks, people!
Jan 14, 2022•14 min
Square pegs and round holes
Find yourself one thing you love doing and love doing it more. That's the secret for smashing 2022 .
Jan 12, 2022•14 min
Sell the sizzle: 11 January 2022
Pig's heart finally crosses the Rubicon to human cavity - man delighted. Woman marries pink, not the rock star. Other woman thinks better of it and marries herself, instead. This and lots more on today's Thacknology, your alternative round-up of the day's events.
Jan 12, 2022•18 min
Boiling Point featuring Stephen Graham
You have to watch this. It is an extraordinary movie on so many levels. Grab yourself a VIP seat and get into it. Delicious stuff.
Jan 09, 2022•7 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Crash bam whack oosh fulsk
You'll only listen to this shizz if you're up for a bit of fun so I ain't even gonna bother with meaningful titles. JUST ENJOY IT.
Jan 09, 2022•12 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Feeling yourself
What does it mean to be the real you? It means having the courage to do what others don't. To challenge the norm - and to define your own. I spent 47 ywars trying to put my square peg in a round hole. Now all the holes are square. Find out why - and how you can find your own.
Jan 04, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Southport Market
I'm gloomy. In that enthusiastically gloomy way that characterises those moments when I despair but with the joy of optimism in my heart. Please join me for a peer inside the circus tent that is Southport Market, a brand new food destination for the North West's best seaside resort.
Jul 25, 2021•22 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Virgin River
I want simple. We deserve, need, simple. That's the subject of today's audio adventure. And this crazy-fun Netflix series. Hugely recommended. Come along - it's a fun ride.
Jul 16, 2021•14 min•Season 5Ep. 2
In Therapy with The Mule
Catching up with some great short watches and long indulgences. In Therapy is a great fly on the wall drama about fictional patients and their patient therapist. The Mule is an astonishing movie starring Clint Eastwood, who somehow still commands the set with one foot in the grave.
Jul 13, 2021•7 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Saturday Success Summit - what's up, y'all?
Happy weekend to ya. Even with just hours to go until England meets its fate - triumphant quarter-finalists, or triumphant in defeat - you've still got time to catch feels on the past week. With #AudioMo well and truly wrapped for another year, I've been lucky enough to dive into new things. And discover new truths about how to be better. Because that's all this show is about. How, together, we can be better. Let's get into it.
Jul 03, 2021•14 min
That's all, folks!
#AudioMo is AudioNo more. For 11 months. What a blast! Congrats everyone who stayed the course. Let's do it again soon!
Jun 30, 2021•4 min•Season 4Ep. 30
One left. Alright.
In 29 days of #AudioMo I've never been less inspired. Even then, today's episode is still a ripper. Love Island's begun. There's a plant in Israel knocking out 5,000 meaty burgers a day - with nary an animal in sight. Let's get some!
Jun 29, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Love Island 2021 - IT'S ON!
Meet your cast for this year's spectacle of sex, sass and sauce. And talking about sauce - find out what happened when I tried to make risotto the Wolfgang Puck way...
Jun 28, 2021•14 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Sunday smorgasbord
I love you. I love wind. I love word. I love to wend. Imagine the delight incoming on coalescence of this provocative troika.
Jun 27, 2021•9 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Fish and ships
My heart belongs to Warnemunde. It's the prettiest port. A model. The perfect segue to what comes next.
Jun 26, 2021•7 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Heart and flours
Who knew making a big mess of bedwear would lead to winning a client pitch!
Jun 25, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Manage your knowledge
There's a movement to capture everything we know in a way we can find it. Building a second brain. Knowledge management. I use Obsidian. It's free. It works. And it connects to cloud storage. obsidian.md - go get it!
Jun 24, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Lovely stuff
Nice little meander and natter for today. Brief bit of bants about Seth and Matt but otherwise it's the rudimentary straight-talking stuff. Look after each other!
Jun 23, 2021•7 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Long game. Hard yards. Winning.
It's taken 8 weeks to fully form an adult Thack. But the results are already starting to bear fruit across my lives. A happier, more confident me. And if you follow some of the advice in this show - you, too, can live a Florida lifestyle!
Jun 22, 2021•9 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Prime for fascism
It's Prime Day (of two) and I'm becoming increasingly concerned by the frothily fascist bent of GBNews. Far right AND far out. I'm in a proper pre-Tuesday tizz.
Jun 21, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Safety net
Refuse to change and you refuse to succeed. Just ask Yahoo!
Jun 20, 2021•8 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Flipping disgrace
What do you do with a utility that's essential to our safety and security - the very lowest tier in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? Why, you monetize it! Today I'm on a rant about the housing market and why pandemic-spawned landlords and flippers are the scourge of society. Profiting from others' misfortune, puffing up their savings already inflated by furlough payments. It's #AudioMo Day 19!
Jun 19, 2021•12 min
How to be different
My old boss said I was unmanageable and a maverick and I never thanked her. It was a lesson in appreciation that doing the different takes courage, spirit, strength and single-mindedness. Different isn't what anyone wants. But it's what everyone needs.
Jun 18, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Deserve more than you get
My headphones keep falling out.
Jun 17, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 17
What's the matter?
Carbonic anhydrase and P. polycephalum are 2021's graphene. Why? That's why you're here. Let's do this, #AudioMo!
Jun 16, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 16
To stay the same we gotta change
Contemplative prose for you today. Writer of wrongs. Where next?
Jun 15, 2021•9 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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