Encarta & Chill | A 90s Podcast

Grab your best shirt with three lines on it because the jewels remain gleaming and Encarta and Chill is back with a World Cup special!
The razor sharp wit of Des Lynham and tactical nous of Jimmy Hill may be absent from this particular trip to France, America and Italy but Tom and Tom will do their best to muddle through what they deem noteworthy about World Cups in the 90s...
Romania's matching hairdos, Diana Ross's penalty nightmare and John Barnes' rap are all put under the floodlights and if there's time, a goal or two might be mentioned.

Even less research than usual is required today, as it’s that time again when Tom and Tomek wade through the stack of pizza menus by their front door in search of your correspondence.
Is there an animal more synonymous with the ’90s than ducks? One listener certainly thinks so!
Which Hollywood star could be in line to play a Class A4 steam locomotive? There’s only one man for the job!
When does a collection become an obsession? Take a trip to a grandmother-in-law’s spare bedroom and find out!
There’s certainly never a dull moment when you guys are providing the content...

Tom and Tom are on the hunt for the most 90s photo EVER!
They've selected 10 of their favourites for 'Encarta Chill's Portrait of the 90s' and you - the listeners - will decide the winner.
Before you decide, board the context train that is this week's episode, stopping at...
• Anthea Turner sat atop a National Lottery cake
• Shaquille O'Neal cradling Bill Gates
• Jean Claude Van Damme bored on holiday
• Sonic the Hedgehog presenting Michael Jackson with some flowers
• Ant and Dec in their prime
• Chris Evans, Danny Baker and Paul Gascoigne on the lash
• The Spice Girls launching Channel 5
• Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn squaring up in a football match
• Boyzone, Robbie Williams and Peter Andre knocking about together
• Patsy Palmer launching the EastEnders website
...Head over to @encartaandchill on Instagram to vote!

What is the best way to enjoy jazz?
Is the pen mightier than the keyboard?
Is it acceptable to answer the door in your pants?
...they're just some of the intriguing questions posed in this week's episode of Encarta and Chill despite them having nothing to do with the actual subject matter.
Headaches, orgasms and the future are the focus as Tom and Tomek take a third look at the world of advertising in the 90s.
Try and keep SOME of your clothes on as you get treated to some unnecessarily racy commercials, before abandoning them entirely whilst being serenaded by Bob Hoskins.

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our pod... That was almost the title of this very podcast and this week Tom and Tomek discover their decision not to use it may have been the best branding decision since Mr. Kipling.
Neil Buchanan is back by order of the "King of the 90s", lunchbox politics are put under the microscope, and human beings struggle to grasp the concept of chewing.
It's a snack-sized instalment of Encarta and Chill all about snacks!

Does playing Guess Who in real time work as podcastable content? Judge for yourself as Tom and Tom journey back to a time when tabletop entertainment was king.
This week, they ponder which board game would be even worse to get trapped in than Jumanji, confess their most disastrous Rube Goldberg machine attempts, and scrutinise some truly questionable Monopoly boards.
The pirates are popping, the hippos are hungry, and they don’t care how many families they destroy along the way.

If you ever dreamt of being a pirate in the ’90s, you didn’t need a parrot or a chest full of booty - just a computer and the patience to wait 12 hours for 'Tubthumping' to download.
This week, Encarta and Chill explores the murky depths of the criminal underworld: from beloved actress Winona Ryder forgetting to pay for $5,000 worth of clothes, to abhorrent scumbag Tomek Glowacki bringing small businesses to their knees with his chocolate heists.
Long-time listeners will know this isn’t the podcast for case studies on the decade’s most horrific crimes. But you WILL hear about a fictional character who was done so dirty, the Prime Minister was demanding justice!

Podcast killed the video star?
You won’t SEE any music videos in this audio recording, but you WILL get vivid descriptions of the Spice Girls as fairies, Fatman Scoop as a CGI Jigglypuff, and Thom Yorke as an unruly supermarket patron.
In the latest episode of Encarta and Chill, Tom and Tom pay their respects to a fallen icon of ’90s culture: MTV.
Press play now - before Ashton Kutcher jumps out and reveals this entire episode is just one big Punk’d.

Shouldn’t you be at work?
Then again, who could resist the sporting carnival that takes the majesty of Italia ’90, the razzmatazz of USA ’94, the panache of France ’98 and dresses it up in feathers?
The World Cup of Ducks continues - not because of popular demand, but because choosing 32 contestants was a stupid idea that was never going to fit into a single episode.
Who will join last week’s finalist in a winner-takes-all showdown in the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim (sadly renamed the Honda Center in 2006)?
One thing's for sure; this time, ALMOST all of them are actual ducks…

Encarta and Chill is celebrating its 50th episode and there was only one topic befitting of such an occasion.
It's time for the World Cup of Ducks!
32 iconic anatidae will go webbed-toe-to-toe for the crown in a tournament that promises FOWLS, WINGERS and more iconic Chris WADDLE moments than Italia 90.
Some beak-watering fixtures are billed! Who sinks? Who swims? Dive in and find out...