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We Can Pedia

We Can Pedia

By: Tristan Haze and Nathan Hugh Robért
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Comedians Nathan and Tristan discuss the first article Wikipedia's Random Article feature throws at them. No take-backs. No second chances.

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  • Insecurity and Provocation: National League Division One in 2005
    Dec 23 2025

    NHR explains his baritone and tells a house-hunting story.

    Cricket is the most complicated game in the world (according to Stephen Fry).

    NHR heaps scorn upon Tristan's new coffee-table book of Australian Mammals, saying that this kind of book is commonplace in London and even calling it a 'magazine' late in the episode.

    We learn about the Duckworth-Lewis method for determining who wins a cricket match if it gets rained out.

    The table, showing all completed matches is as follows:

    2005 totesport League – Division One Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts 1 Essex Eagles 16 13 1 2 56 2 Middlesex Crusaders 16 10 5 1 42 3 Northamptonshire Steelbacks 16 7 7 2 32 4 Glamorgan Dragons 16 6 6 4 32 5 Nottinghamshire Outlaws 16 6 7 3 30 6 Lancashire Lightning 16 6 9 1 26 7 Gloucestershire Gladiators 16 6 9 1 26 8 Worcestershire Royals 16 5 10 1 22 9 Hampshire Hawks 16 5 10 1 22

    Theme music by Edward Lonsdale.

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    49 mins
  • Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr.
    Nov 29 2025

    If you're a New York mobster from the 1950's, what does it mean for your biographer to write that you talk like a New York mobster from the 1920's? Does it just mean that the way you speak is a bit out of date?

    The two circles 'boomers on Facebook' and 'extended families of gangsters' are discovered to coincide in a very attractive way.

    Tristan would have become a gangster if Goodfellas ended right after the Luftansa Heist. Nathan is struggling in London.

    Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr. (1934, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – August 20, 1976, Chelsea, Manhattan) was a New York mobster who served as a mentor to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies. Cummiskey is reputed to have shown Coonan how to dismember and dispose of murder victims by scattering their remains into the waters around the sewage treatment plant, which was operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection at Randalls and Wards Islands, notably in the Hudson River. Cummiskey was murdered by hitman Joseph Sullivan on August 20, 1976, in a bar.

    Theme music by Edward Lonsdale.

    Tristan on Instagram.

    NHR on Instagram.

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    46 mins
  • Kinda Cool: The Short-Toed Treecreeper
    Nov 1 2025

    It sinks in that ~20% of Wikipedia articles are about particular species.

    Once you have a substantial zoological collection going it's damn near impossible to get rid of it.

    We notice a tendency to just say facts from the article to each other and say they're 'cool' or 'kinda cool'.

    We manage to stay off Syd Barrett and NHR is rocked to learn that the phrase 'down pat' is not 'down packed'.

    NHR then takes us home with a lurid anecdote from his scouting days.

    I Tristan am also involved in the episode; I just chose not to mention it until now.

    The short-toed treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla) is a small passerine bird found in woodlands through much of the warmer regions of Europe and into north Africa. It has a generally more southerly distribution than the other European treecreeper species, the common treecreeper, with which it is easily confused where they both occur. The short-toed treecreeper tends to prefer deciduous trees and lower altitudes than its relative in these overlap areas. Although mainly sedentary, vagrants have occurred outside the breeding range.

    The short-toed treecreeper is one of a group of four very similar Holarctic treecreepers, including the closely related North American brown creepers,[2] and has five subspecies differing in appearance and song.

    Theme music by Edward Lonsdale.

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    36 mins
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