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August 22, 2025 37 mins

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get your word in the dictionary, weigh your pets accurately, or stop your kids from making up rules… but it will make you laugh about all of it.


Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they take another deep dive into life’s oddities — the everyday, the unnecessary, and the unexpectedly funny. From chocolate geometry to chaotic car games, they’ll review it all so you don’t have to.


This week’s episode features:📖 New Words in the Dictionary – how do they get in there, and who decides what counts?🐕 Animal Weigh-Ins – vets, scales, and the chaos of wriggling pets🍫 Toblerones – peak chocolate or impractical triangle trap?🎲 Playing Name Games with Kids – wholesome fun or tactical nightmare?


Chapters:

00:00:01 Hi!

00:04:59 Lawn review

00:11:46 Toblerone review

00:18:40 Break

00:19:33 New Words reviewed

00:26:09 Funny Names

00:30:28 Animal weigh ins


It’s words, weights, wedges and whingeing — all leaving you perfectly Mildly Informed.


👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed


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