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Four business-owning entrepreneurial knuckleheads chew the fat on the sometimes murky, always quirky, world of UK and Irish personal finance.

Dave Mabbutt is having a crisis. He’s the richest man in Britain, a bona fide rockstar with fans, fame and fortune. He even has a personal assistant called Mr. Tumble, who is in fact an elephant - but he’s not happy. When you have more money than sense life can have hilarious consequences. And how rock and roll does it really feel to have your mum at every gig?

Nick Smith charts his journey from trainee teacher through to inspiring head across his near thirty-year career, with fascinating insights into the educational system along the way. The catalogue of incidents ranges from the embarrassing to the ridiculous, hilarious to the heart-breaking, and together they illustrate the daily grind of life at the whiteboard face in UK schools. Head Trauma is more than an amusing look at the trials of teacherdom—it's a call to arms for parents, teachers and pupils alike.

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows crawling and slithering to life to terrify those brave souls amongst you who dare to listen.

Get ready to eavesdrop on the world's sassiest love-hate relationship as two inseparable best friends who can't stand each other, unleash verbal fireworks on this side-splitting podcast. This dynamic duo engages in heated debate, dissecting the juiciest topics, all with a level of sass that would make even a Jigglypuff blush. Brace yourself for a wild ride filled with laughter, sass, and the kind of bickering only the closest of friends can deliver – proving that sometimes, the best relationships are built on a foundation of love and relentless roasting.

Brought to you by Puffin. Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality...

In the late 2020s and early '30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late '30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. On May 1st, 2067, it all ended in a nuclear fire.

Nigel Shirazi, the Speaker of the Merc Guild, knows that war is coming and he’s not ready. He needs to build up the mercenary forces after years of war, and he’s proclaimed the Phoenix Initiative to give people who want to start new companies the opportunity to do so. CASPers are cheaper and financed at lower rates, and the government of Earth is offering bounties to take the mercs from alien races off the planet. Now is the time!

The Social Media Management Handbook provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social media strategy. It is a comprehensive resource for bringing together such disparate areas as IT, customer service, sales, communications, and more to meet social media goals. Wollan and Smith and their Accenture team explain policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, metrics, strategies, incentives, and legal issues that may arise. 

Brought to you by Penguin. A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox. Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is Kit, her owner. Both are slightly nervous about what they'll find in...

The Ultimate Marketing & PR Book gives you everything you need to be a better marketer. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible. If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From strategy, mobile and ecommerce to social media, SEO and PR, The Ultimate Marketing & PR Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques and strategies for success.

Three Melbourne idiots watch movies and talk about them.

Welcome to the Part Time Pilot Audio Ground School Podcast! This podcast is going to be all about providing student pilots with ANOTHER way that they can consume the Private Pilot curriculum. The #1 reason student pilots never end up becoming a private pilot is NOT due to money. The real reason is actually deeper than that. Yes, flight training is expensive. But every student pilot knows this and budgets for it when they decide to do it. The actual #1 reason a student pilot fails is because they do not have a good, fundamental understanding of the private pilot knowledge they are meant to ...

T.S. Eliot tells us in his poem “The Hollow Men” that the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, he was wrong. Dead wrong. When death and destruction come, the screams of terror, horror, and excruciating pain will rend the blood-red sky and be heard across the world. When your number is up, there’s nowhere to run and no place to hide. You can't cheat death; death will find you. It always does.

Topics of discussion include faith, culture, and music

When working family man Glen Glass dies, his troubles should be over. But in a world where the Undead roam, death is not as simple as it used to be. This unique novel from best-selling author Nick Smith (Milk Treading, The Kitty Killer Cult) is an eerie glimpse into a grave new world of love, corruption, and betrayal. As compelling as it is original, Undead on Arrival challenges our attitudes toward life, death, and everything in between.

Jojo's World is a fortnightly Jojo's Bizarre Adventure recap and discussion podcast. Each episode, Jojo superfan and anime-snob, Liam S. Smith is joined by wannabe anime enthusiast and music-nerd, Nick Ballantyne to watch an episode and have an unscripted, largely coherent discussion of its influences, references and basically anything else that seems interesting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pre-school fiancé’s to (occasional) best friends and (full-time) enemies, Nick and Clarae are two individuals completely unqualified to host a podcast. So they’re doing one together.With their one combined braincell, they tell stories that will have you crying with laughter one moment and sobbing along with them the next (except Nick's anti-depressants don’t let him actually cry). From working-in-retail fiascos to hometown horror stories to high school theater trauma, 'two girls one braincell' will fundamentally change the way you view podcasts :)New episodes every Friday Support this ...

We are standing upon the shoulders of giants. As young Christians, we are trying to avoid Rehoboam’s folly by relying on the counsel of our elders. Please join Jake Smith and Nick Weaver as they ask questions, interview others, and strive to grow in their faith.

“I have 50 days to live. I don’t mean roughly 50 days. I mean exactly. My life ends on 30 December 2016". These are the opening lines of Drowned Hogg Day. Narrator Alex Hogg must come to terms not only with the wreckage of his life, but the certainty of his imminent drowning. Part comedy, part history, part thriller, Drowned Hogg Day charts the last 50 days of Alex’s life as he discovers a series of extraordinary historical parallels to his situation.