Top Of The Pods

Top Of The Pods

Top ten list show - in every episode the UK Podcast Top Of The Pods brings you a top 10 list. With themes from the obscure to the damn right bandwagon popular, England's own Jon and Rob bring you top tens from listeners around the world. Join in by emailing topofthepods@gmail.com with your lists, feedback, opinions, ideas, pictures and audio comments. Visit www.topofthepods.com for literally hundreds more shows.

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May 23, 2013
Over 40 minutes worth of chat about the top 10 modern superheroes with our take on the best that modern cinema has to offer.
  • 10 - Captain America
  • 9 - Team America
  • 8 - Thor
  • 7 - Kick Ass
  • 6 - Iron Man
  • 5 - Spiderman 2
  • 4 - Hulk
  • 3 - Watchmen
  • 2 - The Avengers Assemble
  • 1 - The Dark Knight

Do you have a list you want us to read out? Email topofthepods@gmail.com with your ideas.

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Three years on and we're back for more - this is a one-off catchup episode of Top Of The Pods finding out what's been happening in Peterborough, in Tel Aviv and in the news. Stay subscribed as we've got another episode in the can ready to roll soon. Got a top ten list that's been burning a hole in your pocket? Email us at topofthepods@gmail.com and we'll read it out

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Landlord Phil from The Brit and Yankee has a love/hate relationship with bars in the UK, here are the top ten things he misses about traditional English pubs:-
  • 10 - Red carpets with bad patterns and beer stains
  • 9 - Horse Brasses
  • 8 - Watneys Red Barrel
  • 7 - Small 32 inch TVs with Match of The Day
  • 6 - A Bloody good chin-wag
  • 5 - Ploughman’s Lunches
  • 4 - Darts (and other pub games)
  • 3 - Friendly, jolly, red-faced landlords
  • 2 - Closing ...
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Scott joins Jon and Rob for a list of the top ten movie sequels that should never have been made:-
  • 10 - Superman IV
  • 9 - Casino Royale
  • 8 - Joey
  • 7 - Beverly Hills Cop Part 3
  • 6 - LOST final season
  • 5 - Mannequin 2
  • 4 - Jaws 3
  • 3 - Matrix 2
  • 2 - Indiana Jones 4
  • 1 - Star Wars Episodes 1 to 3

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this heated list over on the Top of the Pods Facebook page - keep an eye out on that page as we'll need m...
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Interested in Jews? So was Matt from South Carolina who wanted Jon to explain the top ten jewish holidays:-

It's always great to get feedback from everyone so drop us a comment on the www.topofthepods.com site and join in with the live show on the Top Of The Pods Facebook page.
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Poetic Joe came up with his list of the top ten things to do to prove you are a real man:-
  • 10 - Shave with a cut throat razor
  • 9 - Grow an epic beard and moustache
  • 8 - Build a fire
  • 7 - Climb a mountain
  • 6 - Make a plan
  • 5 - Give blood
  • 4 - Grow your own food and brew your own beer
  • 3 - Have a cold shower
  • 2 - Don't be evil
  • 1 - Opening a Jar Lid that is stuck

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Bit of an extra long episode today based loosely around the theme of the top ten things that have not been invented yet but should be which has kindly been sent in to us by Grant from Independence:-
  • 10 - Jet packs
  • 9 - Invisibility cloaks
  • 8 - Holograms
  • 7 - Artificial gravity
  • 6 - Universal translator
  • 5 - Weather machines
  • 4 - Flying cars
  • 3 - Teleportation
  • 2 - Intelligent robots
  • 1 - Warp drive

A big thank you to all our new old...
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Andy is feeling hot hot hot so he sent us his top ten reminders that its summer:-
  • 10 - Mowing the Lawn
  • 9 - The Beach
  • 8 - TV shows change
  • 7 - Kids
  • 6 - Icy cold beverages
  • 5 - Blockbuster films
  • 4 - BBQ season
  • 3 - Vacations
  • 2 - Air Conditioning
  • 1 - Longer Days

If you feel like emailing stuff over to us then send it to topofthepods@gmail.com or just send us some love on the Top of the Pods Facebook page.
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Alex from Basingstoke who enjoys listening to Top Of The pods in a bus and a shop sent us his list of the top ten list of cartoons and comics that have been made into films:-
  • 10 - Casper
  • 9 - Incredible Hulk
  • 8 - Inspector Gadget
  • 7 - Flintstones
  • 6 - Fantastic Four
  • 5 - X-Men
  • 4 - The Last Airbender
  • 3 - Batman
  • 2 - Transformers
  • 1 - Iron Man

Thats what Alex thought, but what did you think? Tell us on the official home of Top Ten L...
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Cher once sang a song 'If I could turn back time', however she didn't bother specifying exactly how she'd achieve this; so in today's show we run down the top ten time machines for your listening pleasure:-
  • 10 - The Time Machine from HG Wells
  • 9 - Hot Tub Time Machine
  • 8 - Contact
  • 7 - Twelve Monkeys
  • 6 - Austin Powers time tunnel
  • 5 - Terminator
  • 4 - Groundhog Day
  • 3 - The Tardis
  • 2 - Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
  • 1 - The DeLorean
  • ...
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Listener Bryan from Spain has a curious idea that we can bring important dead people back to life and give them the gift of immortality. Who did he pick though? Find out in the top ten list of dead people who deserved to be born immortal:-
  • 10 - John Candy
  • 9 - Tommy Cooper
  • 8 - J R R Tolkien
  • 7 - William Shakespeare
  • 6 - Sid James
  • 5 - John Logie Baird
  • 4 - Galileo
  • 3 - Hitler
  • 2 - Laurel and Hardy
  • 1 - The Wright Brothers

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Walker from Utah is a clever brainiac who has supplied us with the essential Top Ten Psychology Principles Everyone Should Know, so have a listen:-
  • 10 - The self-serving bias
  • 9 - Exercise is good for your psychological health
  • 8 - Men are often bad at judging if a women is flirting or not
  • 7 - Reciprocal liking
  • 6 - The foot in the door effect
  • 5 - The illusion of transparency
  • 4 - The over justification effect
  • 3 - People can misinte...
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This week on Top of the Pods we get back into the swing of things with a list of Top 10 people who have you over a barrel. These are the people who you can't help but pay money to, no matter how resentful you are about paying:-

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Due to some geographical problems we forgot to do a show for 3 years but now we're back and this is a special episode catching up on what we've been doing utilising the very worst microphone Jon could find. We've got a normal top ten list show in the can and we'll get that up in a few days time. We're also asking for some more top ten lists, fire them over to topofthepods@gmail.com - even if you've sent one before chances are we've...
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Being holiday season David from Blacksburg kindly sent us ten reasons to buy a Wii:-

Don't forget that we're after some more fun lists, they can be about anything - just send them into topofthepods@gmail.com. Keep popping over to w...
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Matts been flying recently and gave us this list about the top ten things to do in an airport:-

Strangly enough Rob is off to the airport next week heading to Hawaii, but stay subscribed as they...
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If you've got a Micheal Douglas, George Clooney or Mark Hunter in your life and want to treat them to a spot of dinner then here is a list of top ten foods for old people:-

Thanks to Scott for coming on the show, if you'd like to hear more from him then listen to the...
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