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Dan Q - The Podcast

Dan Q - The Podcast

By: Dan Q
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 A podcast nobody asked for about things only Dan cares about. A spin-off of the blog of Dan Q, who's been making random stuff on the Internet since the 1990s.© Dan Q 2025; all original content CC-BY-AT; details at https://danq.me/license/ Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Beer Token

    The Beer Token
    Sep 4 2025
    Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/09/04/the-beer-token/

    Thanks to the success of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, we can never forget quite how much beer you used to be able to get for a fiver (plus an exceptionally-generous tip). Nowadays, it'll get you one pint, if you're lucky... and that offers us an exciting opportunity...

    00:00 Intro
    00:37 The Beer Token
    01:17 Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, extract from Chapter 2
    03:17 1979: The price of a pint of beer
    05:12 1990: The price of a pint of beer
    06:17 1998: The £2 Coin, or Original Beer Token
    08:00 2023: Beer now more likely to be £5 than £4
    08:30 An opportunity
    09:10 The £5 Coin, or a New Beer Token?
    10:20 Would a politician support this?
    10:45 Outro
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    11 mins
  • Hexagonal Cheese Scones

    Hexagonal Cheese Scones
    Aug 28 2025
    Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/08/28/hexagonal-cheese-scones/

    A poem about the shape of a scone.

    00:00 Intro
    00:30 Hexagonal Cheese Scones
    01:13 Outro
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    2 mins
  • Google Shared My Phone Number!

    Google Shared My Phone Number!
    May 21 2025
    Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/

    When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?

    00:00 Intro
    00:31 Google shared my phone number!
    00:53 [Self-ad!] Plug for volunteering opportunities at Three Rings CIC
    01:08 Unexpected phone calls
    02:06 "Where did you find this number?"
    02:33 Finding myself on Google
    03:25 How Google first got my phone number
    04:47 The second time this month a company leaked my PII!
    05:02 "Did I click the wrong button on a popup?" and sarcasm
    05:42 Outro
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    6 mins
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