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Welcome back to The Variety Show, where Tom and Rob are asking the important questions in life. How do you get out of paying a restaurant bill? Are social media influencers becoming unbearable? And can you identify a classic video game from nothing more than its sound effects?

Having survived Blackpool, the pair return with another helping of questionable opinions, retro nostalgia, ridiculous conversations and the sort of arguments that really shouldn't require this much thought.

Question Time (but definitely not the BBC version) kicks things off with a restaurant bill dilemma and listener questions. As usual, what should be a straightforward discussion takes a few unexpected turns.

Then it's time for Do You Remember?, the nostalgia game where Tom and Rob attempt to drag forgotten memories back into the daylight. Expect a trip through the sort of things you haven't thought about for years, alongside the usual arguments about what counts as a proper memory.

There's also a rant about modern influencers, the joys of wandering around St Albans with a camera, and Tom's plans for a new YouTube series called Lunch Break. Because apparently having several podcasts isn't enough to keep him occupied.

The Snack Test returns, and this time the humble Jaffa Cake gets dragged into the world of digestive biscuits. Is combining two British biscuit favourites a stroke of genius, or have we created something that doesn't quite satisfy either craving? Tom and Rob put their taste buds to work and deliver their usual unnecessarily specific verdicts.

For the main quiz, it's Guess the Video Game from the Sound Effect. Ten games spanning the late 1980s, early 1990s and 2000s, with Rob challenged to identify each one using only its familiar noises. How much gaming knowledge has survived the decades, and how much has been replaced with completely useless information?

And, naturally, there's more 1990s music nostalgia before the episode wraps up, with some familiar names from the era making an appearance.

It's another episode of The Variety Show from Studio. British comedy podcasting with retro gaming, snack reviews, pop culture, nostalgia and two blokes who can turn absolutely anything into a debate.

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