Episode 130 - The Voynich Manuscript

Cutting through the Bull in the Post-Truth Apocalypse

A lapsed quasi-satanist, a self-proclaimed science buff (with only a GCSE grade B in Physics) and a drug-addled lunatic attempt to navigate the irradiated wastelands and dung-hills of ignorance that is the Post-Truth Apocalypse. A smorgasbord of colourful language, drunken ramblings and the occasional "fact". Fact. Hosted by Ben, Gaz and Mike. This week the chaps attempt to decipher the enigma that is the Voynich Manuscript. Written in an unknown language on goat-skin dating back to the medieval times, the manuscript has baffled scholars, cryptologists, and code-breakers for centuries. Is it merely a result of an autistic monk from the 13th century, or a local quack's gibberish, elaborately created to impress illiterate patients? Or do the clues within the manuscript point to a more other-worldly explanantion? Also, a Californian man starts a house fire trying to kill a Black Widow spider with a blowtorch, a DUP MP blames Coronavirus on same-sex marriage, and Alex Jones threatens to turn cannibalistic to survive the pandemic! Warning #explicit content! www.facebook.com/cuttingthroughthebull [e-mail] @cuttingthroughthebullpta Also on iTunes. Intro music: freemusicarchive.org/music/Michett/~/Lift-off Outro music: freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar /Crime_Scene/T800 all music is Podsafe Music.