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| Piranesi, Part 3: The Prophet | 08 Sep 2024 | 01:35:29 | |
In this chapter, Lindsey and Jeff talk about the man of the hour, Laurence Arne-Sayles.
Thanks for listening to The Great and Secret Knowledge: A Speculative Fiction Podcast! In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff cover Part 3: The Prophet.
Below you'll find our plugs, links, recommendations, and links to stuff from this week's episode!
Please join our Discord server and get to know the fam! Lindsey's podcasts The Kurt Locker Cool Breeze over the Mountains Historical Hotties Jeff's podcasts Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Our theme song was composed by James Lark Visit his website! https://www.jameslark.co.uk/ And listen to his wonderful short story podcast, Neurotic Literature: https://www.jameslark.co.uk/neuroticliterature Recommendations Social Media Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon Links
John Robbins’ Diet For a New America
Part 3 The Prophet "He wore a suit in a Prince of Wales check" - another thing he just knows unless hes lying the prophet had no idea there were dead people here? i guess he mustve gone to prison before folks he knew got stuck there? this skinny old dude taught the Other! The others name is Val Ketterley second fiddle complete charlatan, "all his ideas are second hand" "For all the grand intellectual manner and the dark, penetrating stare, he hasn’t an original thought in his head. All his ideas are second-hand.’ not moral, but didnt want society to crumble sentimental streak - doesnt want to lose civilization "My contemporaries did not understand this. They were all enamoured with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!" A Distributary World he confirms that the knowledge is not here Ketterley is an egotist. He always thinks in terms of utility. He cannot imagine why anything should exist if he cannot make use of it.’ Poor James Ritter could barely string a sentence together by the end and hed been here half as long sylvia could pop in and out at will - wherever you come from you always arrive at the first vestibule? 'You might like to head off the danger by killing him or something.’ I took time to study his words carefully. There was a great deal I did not understand though this, I expect, is usual with prophets, their minds being very great and their thoughts following strange paths perhaps the other was the 75th person! but thats fantasy [could the listener be called The 75th?] could the prophet have sent some of the dead here? its been 25 years since he was in prison so how long has he been sending people? why did other hide existence of prophet? the prophet is definitely a violent person - The Hays Code, the sinister gay trope perhaps i will write a letter to him in future? all bets are off when time travel is in play Other warns him that P will become his enemy if he talks to 16 - being embarrassed is the worst fate if i find that you are mad then i think its best if i kill you. for both our sakes the Other is rather inflexible in his character. I would not go so far as to say it is a fault, but it is a definite tendency P practices hiding from 16 P puts his hair ornaments into a box he indexes his recent journal entries Stanley Ovenden is already in there! I knew as I looked at it that there was something very strange here. But the strange thing was so strange, so entirely incomprehensible that I found it difficult to form coherent thoughts about it. I could see the strangeness with my eyes, but I could not think it with my mind why is there a journal 21? he only has 10! his brain is compelling him not to investigate this mystery, to challenge his assumptions i feel a certain parallel to whats happening at the moment in Israel, what i imagine Russians are facing wrt to Ukraine - why is this happening, whos to blame, what does it mean, are the people i trust intentionally hiding the truth? if you keep yourself from learning something new so you wont have to change your life
The Good Place
Laurence Arne Sayles Orkney Ness of Brodgar Georgia OKeefe RD Laing JW Dunne Owen Barfield Rudolf Steiner Colin Wilson Srinavasa Ramanujan Nottingham, England Birmingham University of Manchester Maurizio Giussani the disappearance of MG More Names Perugia Bannerman Hughes Hughes first name is Tali this arne sayles guy is a real bastard MGs girlfriend Elena Marietti "the other world" Huxleyan psychedelic experience - discuss doors of perception MG disappears what are Birmingham and Perugia? nonsense! "at the very point at which the Other has declared he will kill me if I become mad, I have discovered that I am mad already! Or, if not mad now, then certainly I have been mad in the past. I was mad when I wrote those entries" the faun, the statue he loves above all others faun comforts him "The word ‘Birmingham’, for example, brings with it a blare of noise, a flash of movement and colour and the fleeting image of towers and spires against a heavy grey sky. I try to catch hold of these impressions, to examine them further, but instantly they fade." he can almost remember university, but decides he extrapolated it from scholar he now has evidence of his mental derangement he decides he has to take better care of himself twenty journals are missing! reading the journals is a "triggering activity" so he decides to space it out - reminds me of emdr therapy, although my therapist believed it should be at least twice a month if not more "the House is the cause of my forgetting" thats a big shift for him "It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted" - a clear depiction of the mental process that keeps us stuck in bad information land P waits week and a half before reading about Sylvia and John he sits by gorilla because he will lend Strength more names Leith, Scotland Angharad Scott Death, Stars, and Mathematics is a fun title she was the most devoted unpaid housekeeper and secretary house in Whalley Range Canal Street to pick up young men cutting off parents as a test of loyalty - classic cult move Tom Titchwell, friend of her father, printed her poems her first picture, Moon/Wood, in which a woman defies her hierophant, is beaten, then makes a deal for him to be imprisoned and eventually killed. Did she turn in Laurence? she called the House the Castle and took footage there! she tells her troubles to Robert Allstead LAS tells her to discard him, she refuses after that she is gone without trace cleaner discovers John Ritter behind wall Ritter is sectioned at Wakefield among others Ritter couldnt explain where hed been Ritter explains that he was usually in the House he mentions minotaurs Journalist Lysander Weeks interviews Ritter he seemed chill he describes the house and says working at town hall calms him because the decor was similar university may be real but not in house, same with garden he says the House plants ideas in his head "This is how the House places new ideas gently and naturally in the Minds of Men. This is how the House increases my understanding" his last thought is that there may be more people than dead in the House
John Robbins’ Diet For a New America
“Benevolent is a strong word” - Lindsey Doctor Who Flux
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| Piranesi, Part 2: The Other (Second Half) | 05 Sep 2024 | 01:23:46 | |
Thanks for listening to The Great and Secret Knowledge: A Speculative Fiction Podcast! In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff cover the second half of Part 2: The Other.
Below you'll find our plugs, links, recommendations, and links to stuff from this week's episode! Please join our Discord server and get to know the fam! Lindsey's podcasts
Cool Breeze over the Mountains Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Social Media Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Links
The Twilight Zone: "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" Doctor Who: "Enemy of the World", "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead"
Extended Notes
title chat A Conversation
ask the other for shoes? other doing a ritual Addy Domarus is Addy Domarus one of the dead? Other even more condescending Piranesi needs shoes list of things Other has given Him in the year he named the constellations, the list began 11:40 About shoes - move it back? 12:40 in the year i named the dead he gave me a ham sandwich dude has new suit everytime we see him he rationalizes the abuse and its effects why wouldnt he ask for the shoes? was he always like this? 17 None of the dead claim the name Addy Domarus this is a fantasy book so everything may have meaning he journeys with his new shoes he's nervous about the dark room
he has an obligation to the other he has a desire to please crowd of statues could the statues be actual people? or images from plays? are they seeing the actual moon? he decides the secret knowledge is pointless the House is the House its sacred, we shouldnt exploit it or try to define it enriched uranium he finds 47 pieces of paper in the herring gull room he has so much patience
the other asks how the shoes are
Piranesi's bad memory Other remembers way more information if we're no longer colleagues than i cant spend time with you this comes up every 18 months
the house cares about systems but time seems less important
Other is really busy P has never tried to find out where Other lives is the House sentient? editing select memories is P an experiment? is TO afraid to stay over an hour cuz he might lose memories? why doesnt P seem to ever want to leave Westworld you dont know what you dont know
He writes a letter right on the stone where they normally meet
Another person! 16 are they a test subject? if you challenge traditions and their adherents you have to give up some of that veneration reason is one of the things that 16 wants to tear down prejudice him against people who might help him
the First Vestibule
We Got Two Minotaurs a long corridor formed by the shadows Cabin in the Woods the statue of an elderly fox teaching to youngsters could the letter be for Piranesi? P writes to the letter writer
that's it The Other is an asshole P disbelieves the corridor's reality how does somebody just disappear? wolf child theory
who is the Prophet? 16? Piranesi? Jeff guesses there's a fourth person!
1:05:19 the end
aftershow
bookshelves collapsing CS Lewis dream library Beauty & the Beast The Thing X-Files The Twilight Zone "Enemy of the World" "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" Fallout "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" we're inquisitive by nature social primates we want to fit in yawning and sociopaths 10 percent of the population (is this accurate?) Am I a Psychopath?
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| Piranesi, Part 1: Piranesi and Part 2: The Other (1st Half) | 29 Aug 2024 | 01:57:39 | |
Join Lindsey Nelsen and Jeff Richardson as the tackle their first work of speculative fiction, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke! In this episode, they talk about their experience with speculative fiction and cover Part 1: Piranesi, and the first half of Part 2: The Other.
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Meet us:
Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - @LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter)
Jeff Richardson twitter - @eljefetacoma Facebook - Jeff Richardson Instagram - @eljefetacoma
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| Season One Trailer - Welcome Aboard! | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:02:46 | |
Welcome to our brand new media analysis podcast! Brought to you by Lindsey Nelsen and Jeff Richardson! The first property we're covering is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke!
Meet us:
Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - @LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter)
Jeff Richardson twitter - @eljefetacoma Facebook - Jeff Richardson Instagram - @eljefetacoma
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| Doctor WhoDis Season Two Episode 4 "Lucky Day" with Jessie Rye | 14 May 2025 | 03:10:04 | |
Jessie is back to discuss the fourth episode of Season Two of Doctor Who on Disney Plus, "Lucky Day"! This one is real heavy, so strap in, folks!
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram
Possible Show Titles
UNIT Truther Intention is Everything Trashbags All the Way Down
Links
The 1996 Telecommunications Act Vote for Indigenous Representation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zygon_Invasion | |||
| Doctor Who Season One Episode 1 "Rose" with Jessie Rye and AJ Ganaros | 09 May 2025 | 02:18:39 | |
Jessie is back and we're joined by AJ Ganaros of Shattered Worlds RPG and Christmastide, Ohio fame to talk about "Rose", the first ever episode of New Doctor Who, featuring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper! We get granular and a little bit naughty, goofing and spoofing our way to a conclusion!
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram
Jessie Rye
@kosmiccowgirl on the Socials
@AJ_the_Slayer on all the socials
Possible Show Titles
Put it Right on the Floor Think of Me As Your Stool Rose Tyler One, Patriarchy Zero Attack of the Microplastics The Russell Zoom Meat-hawkin' It's a Rhombus Scheme My Boss Wanted Monkey Butlers The Inception Moment Freeform, Hit Us Up A Paving Stone BJ Send Russell an Email Crackin' a Toe-a Oh, Mickey, No
Recommendations
Links
Everything is Awesome Episodes 139A and 139B Star Trek: The Next Generation
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 16 and 17 with Sofia B | 17 Mar 2025 | 01:26:57 | |
Sofia is back to discuss the final two chapters in Lois McMaster Bujold’s seminal science fiction work, The Vor Game! In these chapters, Miles proves his mettle and Gregor comes to terms with his father’s legacy.
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram
Possible Show Titles
A Relaxed Button Personing? A Whole Separate Story Such Soothing Lies Gregor's Honor
Recommendations
Goblin Emperor Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land Severance
Links
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Origins of the Lincoln quote:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/11/cannot-fool/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/699462-you-can-please-some-of-the-people-all-of-the
Question for Lois’s blog: how common/widespread was the knowledge that Prince Serg was a sexual sadist?
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 14 and 15 with Sofia B | 08 Mar 2025 | 01:49:30 | |
In this episode, Sofia and Jeff chat through Chapters 14 and 15 of Lois McMaster Bujold's brilliant space opera novel, The Vor Game! In these chapters, the Cetagandans are up to no good, Cavilo challenges Miles, and Miles says some truly disturbing stuff. Will he become Emperor of Barrayar? (No, absolutely not.) Find out next time, maybe, on The Great and Secret Knowledge!
Possible Show Titles
Cetaganigans An Engineer of Violence A Strange Game Acting Drillig
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
Links
Capitol City in Foundation (Trantor) S.M. Stirling (Historical Time Travel) episode where Davros wants to know how the Daleks failed The Doctor who burns down London and Rome
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| The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapters 15-19 with James Lark | 23 Feb 2025 | 02:29:20 | |
In this one, James Lark returns to discuss Chapters 15 thru 19 of The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. In these chapters, Bartimaeus gets in over his head. Nathaniel feels trapped.
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Possible Show Titles
It's a Mid Bridge An Amorous Pidgeon Lark's Tongue Mango Chutney Territory Vegetable Teacher One of the Good Ones
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
James Lark
@worksoflark on Instagram and @jameslark on Twitter
Recommendations
Who Back When: A Doctor Who Podcast
Anti-Recommendation
Links
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| Dispatch from Gallifrey One | 22 Feb 2025 | 00:53:00 | |
In this one, Jeff goes to the Doctor Who convention, Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, California!
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
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| In the Mouth of Madness with Jayme Antrim | 19 Feb 2025 | 03:05:45 | |
In this episode, Jayme returns to discuss John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness starring Sam Neill.
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Possible Show Titles
Jayme 2 Double Dream Just Be a Quatto Evil Cathedral My Heebies are Jeebed Enough! The Death of the Author Swings Down the Ass
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
Jayme Antrim
inks
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Vigo Will Ferrell Emma Thompson movie Ridiculously Photogenic Jogger | |||
| The Vor Game, Chapters 12 and 13 with Sofia B | 11 Feb 2025 | 02:27:29 | |
In these chapters, Miles and Gregor meet some very dangerous people. Jeff and Sofia have a ton of tangents but it sure ain't cuz these chapters are boring! Is this our longest ep to date?
Possible Show Titles I Forbid It Tonguewrangler Two Separate Hats
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
Links
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18423.The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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| DeForest Kelley: Up Close and Personal with Author Kris M Smith | 05 Feb 2025 | 02:55:00 | |
In this episode, Jeff is joined by author Kris M Smith to discuss his book, DeForest Kelley: Up Close and Personal. The conversation ranges far and wide from topics as diverse as animal rights, transgender issues, caring for terminal loved ones, and Star Trek's beloved Dr McCoy, DeForest Kelley!
Contact Info for Kris M Smith
KrisMSmith in Tacoma on Facebook email: Kris@wordwhisperer.net
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Possible Show Titles
Literally Shakin' in My Boots The Warriors and the Peacemakers A Ritual of Love A Total Earthling on the Enterprise A Fan's Fantasy The Reel McCoy The Best Boss I Ever Had
Recommendations
Lakewood Playhouse Robert Reich Inequality Media Heather Cox-Richardson King's Books in Tacoma Bookshop.org Libro.fm
Links
Roy Rogers Star Trek: The Motion Picture Dave Barry Asimov James Blish Brad Barry Ursula K LeGuin Lucy and Desi Dick Van Dyke the salt monster the horta Harlan Ellison City on the Edge of Forever Star Trek: The Next Generation Gene Roddenberry Wagon Train Joseph Campbell Yaysayers and Good Guides Leon Uris James Michener The Waltons Star Trek: Discovery African serval DeForest Kelley: Up Close and Personal the one where the shuttle is underpowered From Sawdust to Stardust TOS: "The Empath" TOS: "City on the Edge of Forever" TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" TOS: "Bread and Circuses" Apache Uprising The Law and Jake Wade Warlock The Virginian: "Man of Violence" Bonanza: "The Honor of Cochise" "The Decision" Star Trek: TNG "Encounter at Farpoint" TOS: "The Mantrap" John Hoyt Midday Colorado (tv show?) Paul Winfield TV Guide Gunfight at the OK Corral Hollywood Walk of Fame A.C. Lyles Ron Hawk Lorraine Day Raintree County Lee Marvin Clark Gable Elizabeth Taylor 2:00:00 - trans talk Intersex Womb Man Gender Justice League Rainbow Center in Tacoma The Actor's Prayer Leonard Nimoy George Takei Kelley Phone Tag The Enduring Legacy of DeForest Kelley Ted Trail's Apetalk and Whalespeak Animal Protection Institute Lakewood Playhouse Robert Reich Inequality Media Heather Cox-Richardson The Diary of Anne Frank The Miracle Fiddler on the Roof | |||
| Lower Decks, Season 1, Episode 3 "Temporal Edict" with the Duras Sisters Podcast | 27 Jan 2025 | 02:28:06 | |
Dave and Jeff welcome Rhianna and Ashlyn of The Duras Sisters Podcast to discuss Season 1, Episode 3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's called Temporal Edict and it's a blast! We have a long and fruitful discussion that ranges from the Prime Directive to Mistborn and everything between!
Favorite References
Everyone: Chief Miles Edward O’Brien
Possible Show Titles
Podcasting! I'm Not Bragging, I'm Just Musing
Please join our Discord server and get to know the whole podcasting family!
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Wind and Truth The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Starship Tempest Star Trek Adventures DeForest Kelley: Up Close and Personal
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon
The Duras Sisters Podcast
@thedurassisterspodcast on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky
Links
Star Trek: The Original Series Dropout: Dirty Laundry with Lower Decks cast Star Trek: The Next Generation TNG "Redemption, Part 1 and 2" Star Trek "The Trouble With Tribbles" Star Trek: Discovery "Kobayashi Maru" Doctor Who "Frontier in Space" Star Trek: The Next Generation "Sub Rosa" Star Trek "Spectre of the Gun" and "Shore Leave"
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 10 and 11 with Sofia B | 26 Jan 2025 | 01:54:37 | |
In this episode, Sofia B returns to talk about chapters 10 and 11 of Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction masterpiece, The Vor Game, featuring our favorite young hero, Miles Vorkosigan!
Possible Show Titles
Maximum Friction Tongue-Slashing Gloves Bahbla Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Who Back When: A Doctor Who Podcast
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Links
Halliburton electrocutions in Iraq The Dollop episode about the hydroplane guy can you talk without a tongue?
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 8 and 9 with Sofia B | 26 Jan 2025 | 01:20:10 | |
In this episode, Sofia B returns to talk about chapters 8 and 9 of Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction masterpiece, The Vor Game, featuring our favorite young hero, Miles Vorkosigan!
Possible Show Titles
Ghost Narrator
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Links
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| Doctor WhoDis Season Two Episode 3 "The Well" with Jessie Rye | 06 May 2025 | 01:55:36 | |
Jessie and Jeff break down the latest episode of Doctor Who on Disney+, Season Two, Episode 3 "The Well". They mention at least twenty other episodes, disability advocacy, reviving characters and monsters from Classic Doctor Who, and more!
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram
Jessie Rye
@kosmiccowgirl on the Socials
Possible Show Titles
Rory's Fifth Death My Mistrust of Russell What If There's Two Masters?
Links
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "They Meet the Gorn" "Journey to the Center of the Tardis" The Qurunx from "Power of the Doctor" | |||
| Interview with Legendary Author Lois McMaster Bujold, Part Two | 15 Jan 2025 | 01:36:02 | |
Here's part two of our wide-ranging discussion with Lois McMaster Bujold, author of the Vorkosigan Saga and the Five Gods series!
Possible show titles
Emo Gregor
Recommendations
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Links
polygraph tester who used his system on plants Doctor Who episode: "The Giggle" Sorcery and Cecilia: or The Enchanted Cooking Pot Soleil's The Warrior's Apprentice Vorkosigan Saga GURPS Sourcebook Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy James H Schmitz - Telzey Amberdon Cordwainer Smith - worlds of the Instrumentality Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen Japanese guy busted for hiring multiple surrogate mothers Swedish childrens' rights to access their biological parents | |||
| An Interview with Legendary SF Author Lois McMaster Bujold, Part One | 15 Jan 2025 | 01:19:57 | |
Legendary SF author, Lois McMaster Bujold, joins Sofia and Jeff to cover all manner of fascinating subjects, including the Vorkosigan Saga and the Five Gods series. You won't be disappointed! Stay tuned for Part 2!
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Possible show titles
Emo Gregor
Links
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet Pat Wrede "writers get different things for free" On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context Roman story about Christian martyrs frozen on a lake
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| The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapters 11-14 with James Lark | 06 Jan 2025 | 02:03:46 | |
In this episode, James Lark returns to discuss chapters 11 thru 14 of Jonathan Stroud's fantasy masterpiece, The Amulet of Samarkand. In these chapters, we discuss Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, being handcuffed to your enemy, the election of popes, and more!
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Recommendations
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)
A Noble Entity From Another Place Unwillingly Entwined Suppress the Fanboy Obscene and Fetid and Fug
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James's podcast
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
James Lark
@worksoflark on Instagram and @jameslark on Twitter
Links
"Resurrection of the Daleks" - Doctor Who Joe Ford, podcaster extraordinaire genius loci from Dresden Files Mills and Boone romance novels the real Gladstone and Disraeli Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) Life, the Universe and Everything Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Extended Notes
Chapter 11 B is impressed that N is framing his master N denies it B explains how unusual it is to target your own master, especially so early in your education B explains how apprenticeship is meant to work "Since the days of the Median Magi, students have always lived alone in their mentors’ house—one master to one pupil, conducting their lessons with secrecy and stealth. From ziggurat to pyramid, from sacred oak to skyscraper, thousands of years pass and things don’t change." B likes that the kid is so ambitious, willing to get his master killed B hadnt heard of Underwood so he figured he was a lowlevel nobody. This suggests that B has been summoned in the past few decades (unless wizards have extra long lifespans) "he had all the time-honored attributes that other humans associate with great and powerful magic: a mane of unkempt hair the color of tobacco ash, a long whitish beard that jutted outward like the prow of a ship, and a pair of particularly bristly eyebrows." Martha is fully dressed and B is relieved. He must not like female nudity - that or hes not into older women Underwood complains about the spider (B) to Martha B goes to study, sees a pentacle on the door B puts on a shield the amulet sucks up the fire from the trap he slips in and sees the study he remarks that the security is pretty weak he goes into the cabinet and is underwhelmed by the objects inside he slides the amulet behind a bird token B goes up stairs but stops when he sees Mrs U leading N down N knows hes screwed because B is supposed to quietly stick near to him until summoned U is so rude to N and his wife B hears Nathaniels name! B studies the boys appearance and manner B capers to attract Ns attention Underwood complains about the PM hanging with Makepeace, who writes misonformation into his plays he thinks the PM should help the interior dept instead of socializing U says N has done well enough to perform his first summoning U thinks the boy is scared of summoning but its actually cuz N is tripping about B hearing his real name the plan is to summon a natterjack impling or a mouler. B is unimpressed Ns contact lenses have arrived N hears a noise at the door U disregards it he wants N to bring a book of names N clearly can tell B got his name The boots were on the other eight feet now Chapter 12 He complains about U not teaching him enough he says how hes read all these books N says its peaceful and he likes the statue. Who is it? Its Gladstone! he was a powerful PM fought duel with Disraeli over a woman he gets shirty about it and starts ranting about how good the govt is she explains that some countries dont need magicians he says she doesnt know anything because shes a commoner she says commoners can be smart he asks if she wanted to be a wizard she says no and shes happy to be an art teacher N is surprised she has other pupils it makes me feel queasy Mrs U blows in frantic Apparently U wants him to meet some guests Miss L thinks this is good news U is daunted by the thought of meeting all these magicians they dont look like magicians N is underwhelmed U is schmoozing when he sees N he waves him over meets three wizards old tomato face clammy doughboy slickback big teeth aka simon lovelace doughboy has a question big teeth is super rude N contradicts one of them U sends him away BT observes that hes not afraid of his elders perhaps you dont think we're your betters? N doesnt answer cuz hes confused BT demands a quiz from N U isnt protecting him at all N answers all the questions right Simon asks him about six words of direction U objects because he shouldnt know that yet N does it men are impressed SL says some rude shit and N claps back calls him a sore loser SL has demons attack the boy everyone is staring at N he looks to U who is mad at him instead of SL? he leaves and goes upstairs he runs into Mrs U he asks her who the bigteeth guy is she says its Simon Lovelace repetition of You're capable of nothing. You're helpless. You're too weak to fight back does James ever use this technique? he goes to the workroom and grabs the box of mites the party is breaking up, with wizards at the door. N says the words and smashes the box with a hammer the six mites go for the magicians Simon bats his away dough face falls down outside and gets a couple attacking his skin old man barely reacts, sending his into the carpet, where Simon smashes it with his foot U is shocked. He goes to doughface and deactivates the mites N rushes to the schoolroom Ms Lutyens is there she realizes N is upset and goes to comfort him SL uses magic to lift N into the air, tips him up butt first, and spanks him repeatedly until he loses all sense hes stuck in his room for a month, punished severely. he hd no lessons and could only sit in his room and look out the window he finds a pen and starts sketching the outside. then he begins intricately plotting his revenge did you plot anything at age 10? seems unusual Mrs U is forbidden from talking to him when school starts again he learns that Ms Lutyens has been fired chapter 13 he spends a lot of time in the garden, plotting revenge or reading books he looks to the statue of Gladstone for inspiration, to keep his determination up he plans to emulate Gladstone by punishing his enemies N decides to come at Lovelace with sneakiness and trickery, not head on N pretends to be reformed, wearing a meek and pliant mask he controls his face just like a master liar/sociopath he doesnt see U as his master anymore Underwood not defending him made N lose all respect. A master should treat an apprentice like their child why didnt U protect him? because hes a coward afraid of Lovelace's power did you ever have a situation like that? sacking Ms Lutyens was among U's worst crimes N could not forgive U for this Mrs U was his only light, but he couldnt be totally honest with her he doesnt have his own lenses yet so he used the masters to summon an imp he makes a polished bronze disc he waits until the Us leave for a trip he makes a circle and uses a bowl of rowan wood and hazel he steps into his circle and begins he starts his incantation and wishes he had some water once you start you cant safely stop a naked baby with yellow eyes and red lips appears N confines it into the disc N can now spy all over the place. he keeps the disc hidden under the roof tiles first he spies on his masters office, but gives up after seeing how boring it is he spies on Ms Lutyens and her pupil N orders imp to spy on Lovelace. it balks at this given how powerful S is this job its not impossible, just difficult he sees SL typing on a computer imp is getting bored, N orders him to stay he says a word that causes the imp pain he cant get too near in case Lovelaces defenses twig this brings us to the introduction of the scary huge beardo L is startled by the mans appearance, suggesting that the guy bypassed all his security. how does he do that? L whips out a bunch of cash Imp warns him that a watcher is on its way N tells him to stay until the last second L reaches out for his prize Big Beardo gives him a small parcel, which he frantically unwraps imp dips out but before he does N sees the amulet hes being annoying but N demands to know what he saw and heard L was super eager Big Beardo says "the Amulet of Samarkand is yours, Lovelace." six months pass while he prepares his plan. the imp cant get that close again U is still slowrolling him, thinking hes too dull to teach new things chapter 14 Bartimaeus decides to manifest as a human next time hes summoned he decides to look like Ptolemy, a fourteen year old Egyptian boy. he thought it would inspire the boys jealousy and rivalry B is stoked cuz he has a handle on the kid now N goes to his circle B appears in London gear N tries to order B Bs like give over, kid N is losing his cool Nathaniel goes for the Systemic Vise Bartimaeus intones Nathaniel's name, followed by a counter-spell the kid cancels the spell before it can rebound on him Bartimaeus keeps flippin shit B says he'll go back to his bag of tricks the kid busts out the Stimulating Compass B launches this one back and nearly kills the kid a second time Bartimaeus is like careful your master will come up to see what youre doing N isnt worried he realizes that B learned his name and thats how he could counterspell (but didnt he already show that he was anxious about it in the scene with the master about getting his name?) N gets mad when B talks like a teen he starts to get into a fighting stance, B follows his lead Ptolemy was very similar in look to Nathaniel, though much better looking (I'm wondering if Bartimaeus's love for him is sexual as well as filial) N ponders how he can break Bartimaeus without being countered B hopes that he can exhaust the boy by making him angry B finds out that N isnt working for anyone else, he's doing it on his own B tells him some girl tried to take the amulet N is intrigued, but charges on he tells B about big beardo about how he was covered in blood he thinks Lovelace is up to some bad business N starts to give B new orders but B explains how he has no leverage he tells N that he could spill Ns name to friends and enemies N decides to pull that move where you send multiple copies of the blackmail info to your attorney to be mailed to the media in the event of your death it works! B gives in and agrees to continue working
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 6 and 7 with Sofia B | 31 Dec 2024 | 01:19:05 | |
In this episode, Sofia B returns to talk about chapters 6 and 7 of Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction masterpiece, The Vor Game, featuring our favorite young hero, Miles Vorkosigan!
The Vor Game, Chapters 6 and 7 with Sofia B
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its autumn in Vorbarr Sultana earth import trees "Miles glimpsed one such tree. An Earth maple, with carnelian leaves and a silver-gray trunk, across the street. Then the door closed. Miles held that tree before his mind’s eye, trying to memorize it, just in case he never saw it again." hes taken upstairs in impsec to see the boss, Simon Illyan Overhult is unsure about leaving Miles alone with Simon Simon is unconcerned Miles looks like absolute shit Simon looks him over it gives Miles some deja vu this is an easter egg for those whove read the warriors apprentice People fear Illyan, but a lot of that is the office hes been in the job20 years screwed up during the soltoxin attack illyan is only afraid of Miles's mom apparently because of "vivid first impressions" impressions plural? Miles used to call him Uncle Simon. now its sir Simon looks utterly exhausted "them. The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes, like bacteria. I don’t suppose you could have picked some more public way to self-destruct? Attempted to assassinate the Emperor with your pocketknife during the Birthday Review, say, or raped a sheep in the Great Square during rush hour?”" he doesnt understand how Miles could have betrayed his father like this Miles doesnt think he really did Count V and aide walk in Miles is jealous of how brilliant respected tall and handsome Jole is (Vs aide) "Jole was even worse than Ivan, who while darkly handsome had never been accused of brilliance." Simon turns off recording equipment his father hugs him - its quite touching Miles explains the incident CV is fiddling with a light pen Miles is annoyed by this CV must notice his reaction because he puts it away this shows he is cognizant of his actions and doesnt want to annoy his subordinates (or his son) what a contrast with Metzov CV is furious that Metzov dragooned trainees for the firing squad "General Metzov, by your account,” said Admiral Vorkosigan, “dragged a platoon of eighteen-year-olds into what came within a hair of being a mass torture-murder.” Miles nodded in memory. His body still twinged with assorted agonies. “For that sin, there is no hole deep enough to hide him from my wrath. Metzov will be taken care of, all right.”" Miles explains that half the techs were Greekies Illyan is stunned to see that Metzov had no concern for the fallout Miles says he thought itd be a problem, but he wasnt conscious of it until after the fact but that doesnt stop him from spinning "It . . . occurred to me, that if I died with them, at least it would be crystal clear that it hadn’t been some plot of your government or the Vor oligarchy. So that if I lived, I won, and if I died, I won too. Or at least served. Strategy, of sorts.”" Miles asks if he'll be charged with treason Illyan says no, but mentions its the second time... he plans to hide M until it blows over Miles asks for mercy for the mutineers, since they were in it together CV explains that if he lets them off, Miles's career will be ruined "Miles exhaled, a long breath. “In a weird sense, they were my men. Do it. Kill the charges.” “Will you resign your commission, then?” demanded Illyan. He looked sick. Miles felt sick, nauseous and cold. “I will.”" Illyan asks how Miles knew about Metzovs actions during the Komarr revolt M explains that he and Ivan did it hes annoyed that Ivan didnt tell Illyan Miles is trippin so he sits down cross legged his dad thinks about helping but doesnt he recommends they fast-penta Ahn Miles explains how he and Ivan did the research CV almost laughs "Airtight security, you said,” murmured Count Vorkosigan, unsuccessfully suppressing a wheezing laugh. “The most expensive yet devised. Proof against the cleverest viruses, the most sophisticated eavesdropping equipment. And two ensigns waft right through it?” Goaded, Illyan snapped, “I didn’t promise it was idiot-proof!”" Illyan is so over Miles's bullshit "This, on top of your earlier escapade with those damned mercenaries, on top of it all—house arrest isn’t enough. I won’t sleep through the night till I have you locked in a cell with your hands tied behind your back.”" CV proposes that Illyan bring Miles into ImpSec Illyan realizes no one will have Miles but himself "None that I could, in honor, lean on to take him. Excepting yourself. I have always”— Count Vorkosigan flashed a peculiar grin—“leaned on you, Simon.”" they plan to hide him - true exile but not disgrace "Security can use his talents. Security more than any other department needs his talents.” “To see the obvious?” “And the less obvious. Many officers may be trusted with the Emperor’s life. Rather fewer with his honor.”" CV suggests Miles go to infirmary he asks about Kyril Island "The climate was ferocious, the terrain was lethal, a third of the population including my immediate superior was dead drunk most of the time. The average IQ equaled the mean temperature in degrees cee, there wasn’t a woman for five hundred kilometers in any direction, and the base commander was a homicidal psychotic. Other than that, it was lovely.”" Miles is surprised to learn CV once commanded the base "How’d you like it?” “I can’t remember much. I was drunk most of the time. Everybody finds their own way of dealing with Camp Permafrost. I might say, you did rather better than I." Miles has one more question "Miles looked up at his father. “Did I do the right thing, sir? Last night?” “Yes,” said the Count simply. “A right thing. Perhaps not the best of all possible right things. Three days from now you may think of a cleverer tactic, but you were the man on the ground at the time. I try not to second-guess my field commanders.” Miles’s heart rose in his aching chest for the first time since he’d left Kyril Island. He nodded, satisfied." Miles goes downstairs to infirmary the surgeon seems awed by CV Miles knows the real CV, the one who came home for lunch every day to spend quality time with his son "Only Miles knew the interior view of those hours, how the big man in the green uniform would bolt a sandwich in five minutes and then spend the next hour and a half down on the floor with his son who could not walk, playing, talking, reading aloud." when Miles didnt want to do PT, CV would spur him forward "'You are Vor. You must not frighten your liege people with this show of uncontrol, Lord Miles.”" M realizes that with CV in his life, no wonder he wasnt awed by Metzov He's treated for five days in the infirmary then released "Why can't I go home?" Miles complained to his mother on her next visit. "Nobody's telling me anything. If I'm not under arrest, why can't I take home leave? If I am under arrest, why aren't the doors locked? I feel like I'm in limbo." "Countess Cordelia Vorkosigan vented an unladylike snort. "You are in limbo, kiddo." we get a great description of Lady Vorkosigan he thinks about how she was a captain on an astronomical survey, an explorer, brave she moves through Barrayaran society with aplomb
"It was the casual fearlessness, Miles decided, that made his mother so unsettling." Miles complains about not being let out. Lady V explains the fallout annoying bit of unnecessary exposition: "Think of it as a funny reservist." She would know this already Metzov is getting booted by with no court martial. Miles is still in limbo tho the plan is for the Barrayaran militaristss to settle down before letting him out "It all seems so unreal." He hunched back into his pillow. "I only wanted to serve." She suggests that he could up Vorness and see the galaxy he counters with why don't you do that? "Ah." She smiled bleakly at the touche. "Some people's needs are more compelling than guns." turns out the Count cant come see him to make it look like he's angry unnecessary exposition: the thing about Aral's high hopes in Miles around his congenital injuries. clearly they both have talked about this already "Miles sighed glumly. "I want something to do. I want my clothes back." Ivan doesnt want Miles's limbo stuck on him (like a button on the episode) Chapter 7 Miles is led to his protected witnesses apartment he thinks about being a political nonperson "Was it possible life in limbo was having a chameleon effect, rendering him translucent?" he has all his stuff from Kyril Island he looks around. ordinary stuff there must be bugs all over Miles didn't have any neighbors he wanders around but gets gently directed back to his area he thinks about rappeling down the outside Miles gets enough food tokens for a month and shudders He cleans all his stuff and gets dressed he pretends he's in a cabin on a starship Someone comes to his door its a guard, scanning for whatnot in comes a man, the emperor gregor vor barra Miles gestures him to sit asks if Emperor has bugs running he says he asked for none but who knows with Illyan Emperor has wine, the private reserve "elegant anesthesia" Gregor cant stay too long, but they have time to pound a couple bottles he references Cordelia's religion - what is it? Mom put Gregor up to it, even provided the wine calls it ambrosia made me wish i could still drink wine Miles thinks about growing up with Gregor, tho he was five years older than Miles Ivan and Elena Gregor gives sympathy about Miles's military career he complains about his dull service he talks about their forebears, how active they were militarily Miles says they were flung into situations Mad Yuri killed most of CVs family Gregors melancholy, Miles wonders if he's thinking about how bad his father was, or if he even knew the truth about Serg's evil "Nobody who'd known Serg talked about him, Count Vorkosigan least of all. Miles had met one of Serg's victims. Miles hoped Gregor never would." Miles asks about Gregor's birthday Gregor says folks are all trying to get him to marry Miles is like go for it dude, have a son and settle all this schemery Gregors like you could be one of the schemers Miles is like have you seen me? bro i look wack. get married have kids Gregor ponders running away Miles does not like where this is going Gregor asks about the chinese emperor who swept up somewhere Miles is like no dude youre Vor, you cant wander off Miles tries to distract by playing tacti-go even though he doesn't want to Gregor tries to beat Miles. Miles goes easy on him, but not too obviously. Gregors having fun they drink more "I don't think I've beaten you at this since you were fourteen," sighed Gregor, concealing secret satisfaction at the low point spread of that last round. "You should be an officer, dammit" Miles explains that the game isnt analogous to real battle. Miles likes it for not being so chaotic Gregors like wtf why did they send you there, mentions the time Miles commanded a space fleet Miles is like chill dude thats a secret also he didnt prove he could obey, only command Gregor says he doesnt know why Illyan didnt do more with them he likes that Miles brought them secretly into Barrayar's service Miles thinks Illyan took the deal to keep them from working for Barrayar's enemies explains their size and function Miles sort of tells the story of sneaking in and tricking them all into serving him he thinks about how wild it was hes not fond of heights? how has this not come up Gregor ass ghow Kyril Island compared to battle with the Dendarii? "Oh, there were certain parallels," Miles admitted. "Both were jobs I wasn't trained for, both were potentially lethal, I got out of both by my skin - lost some skin. The Dendarii episode was....worse." Miles should have put on tunes, the silence is oppressive Miles asks Gregor to get him out Gregor admits that he feels compelled to do what Illyan and Vorkosigan suggest he do Illyan wants him kept out of sight so thats that "How much time? Dammit, if I don't get something to do soon, I'm going to be the first case of human spontaneous combustion recorded on vid." they still havent proven that that is a thing, hilarious Miles is way drunk now, says they're treating him like a mascot Gregor knocks over a stack of chips "Being a mascot isn't bad work, if you can get it." He promises to talk to Illyan about it Miles gets a job! He's administrative assistant to the guard commander for the building he's there a month and so over it he wonders if he'll get out before Winterfair another month he starts to watch every training vid in the library gets halfway before being called to Illyan's office There he meets his superior, Captain Ungari specialist in military evaluation Illyan surprises Miles to report any news on the Dendarii Mercenaries he only got a bday message from Elena Simon puts up a holodisplay of wormholes, tells Miles to evaluate the scenario Miles proves he's got the goods to analyze the data and complete an assessment this also introduces us to the locations the story will be taking us, a bit of table setting that ends in a reminder of whats up with Cetaganda Simon explains their focus "Wormhole strategy. The devil’s cat’s cradle,” Illyan muttered editorially. He squinted at his glowing schematic. “Four players, one game-board. It ought to be simple. . . ." theres an arms race developing in the Hegen Hub, planetary governments hiring mercs and building armed jump stations and the like the Dendarii have been contracted by Aslund to cover while they build a station we learn that the Dendarii have changed their name back to the Osserin Fleet Vervain hired someone called Randall's Rangers Illyan moves on to Cetaganda he suggests that Pol might react badly to learning Barrayar and the Dendarii have a link they might turn to Cetaganda Illyan wants information "Illyan, generally, wanted information with the same passion that a strung-out juba freak craved a spike. He turned now to Ungari. “So what do you think, Captain? Will he do?”" "He’s more physically conspicuous than I’d realized.” “As camouflage, that’s not necessarily a disadvantage. In his company you ought to be nearly invisible. The stalking goat and the hunter.”" turns out CV thinks they should send Miles out to ascertain info on the Dendarii and the situation in general asks if Miles could be Naismith again "To activate that suppressed persona again . . . It wasn’t just a part, Illyan. “I could play Naismith again, sure. It’s stopping playing Naismith that scares me.”" Miles is freaking out inside but keeping cool Illyan sends him out to be on hand if they need him to take control of the Dendarii money to bribe them away from the Hub Hell be Naismith, keeping it cool "You will, of course, obey Captain Ungari’s orders. That goes without saying.” Illyan’s direct stare was chill as a Kyril Island midnight. Miles smiled dutifully, to show he took the hint. I’ll be good, sir—let me off-planet! From ghost to goat—was this a promotion."
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| The Colour of Magic (2008) Part 2 with Dean Eaton | 24 Dec 2024 | 01:57:33 | |
Dean Eaton is back and ready to go! This second half was somewhat less hilarious only because the film itself was less so and we seemed to be sapped of energy because of it. But don't worry! We made it work! As always, we knuckled down and made ourselves presentable because damnit we're professionals and that's just how we do it. End of.
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Atun the turtle knows why he's going near a star no one else knows the octavo is taking action, its pedestal is shaped like discworld and tilts to move the turtle rincewind falls - and doesnt die! shot of wizards tower why?
"did i just leave the world only to fall back on it again?"
2:30 "is that me, or is it getting bigger?"
protestors mobbing against wizards
"wizards out, wizards out!"
TC puts on big hat, getting inducted
"one small step for a wizard into the unseen, one giant leap for the unseen university"
TC is pretty chill about the unrest
"i propose that we perform the rite of Ashkente"
barbarian soldier types theyre talking pillaging one eyed guest whose name is legend explains his secret of longevity
"hot water, good dentistry, and soft lavatory paper"
big chest has toilet paper he uses to lure the one eyed guy is he smoking weed? he has a horse back at the tower, Ashkente rite takes place death shows up
"i was at a party, you know"
TC asks why the red star is getting bigger its because the turtle is moving towards it the octavo needs the eighth spell which is why it turned to grab rincewind all spells must be said together at solstice or many worlds will die where is rincewind?
"in the forest of skund, rimward of the ramtop mountains, feeling very sorry for himself"
death thinks the party will go downhill at midnight trymon talks to the orangutan librarian
"whoever says all the spells when the disc is in danger will gain ultimate power...to save the world. Yes, and that."
Trymon tells Horace not to tell anyone else about this secret. He gives H a banana. He says rincewind must not die until they get him back and empty his head Tourist shows up. RW doesnt want him to haunt him turns out hes still alive and dangling from a tree
"the turtle must have caught us somewhere?" why? who knows
where are we? tourist sees a stonehenge Trymon says get rw alive to save the world old one eye sees the chest open show the gold and keep moving 2f and rw are seeing nature sscrifice thing sex and violence usually at the same time 2f sees the cult coming, they hide old one eye and chest arrive about the chest:
"hes very loyal. if loyaltys what you need in a suitcase"
theyre going to sacrifice hottie 2f steps in to disrupt the party old one eye moves in, grabs rw, demands info
"his name is 2f and hes not from these parts"
old one eye wants the chest star is getting bigger
"you ever done this sort of thing before? rushed into a temple, killed the priest, got the gold, and saved the girl? not in too many words no. you do it like this."
one eye rushes in rw encourages 2f to go, he rescues hottie instead. shes not that into it. she didnt eff for eight years so she could be with moon goddess and they messed it up rw gets kncoed out, one eye stabs priest rw is dreaming, weird visuals he hs a very important task
"its not even a flesh wound"
girl wont let then rescue her. one eye disagrees
"dont just lie there you daft cow, help me up"
the seven spells want him to come back and return the eighth. he mustnt let the wrong wizards get his spell he must bring it back at the solstice. hes mad at them for ruining his life. he will be a real wizard again if he turns over the spell 2f wants to stay for the druid rite but rw tells him the solstice festival is best in Ankh Morpork
he wants to see the temple at bel shamharoth. where no one has returned alive the river snarl runs right past it on our way to the celebrations at ankh morpork they do their bro handshake wizards attack, they hide in sacrifical altar rince and tourist make it to a sacrificial pyre and the wizards are outside telling him theyve come for him
RW: "even by wizard standard, trymon is a nasty piece of work"
"if that star is an omen, were all going to die. how about the death star?"
they roll out action hero style, wizards stormtrooper shoot them until one goes right for rw. 2f takes the shot back to the protest trymon dumps some piss on the lead organizer wizards havent been able to find rincewind
one eye kills a guy rw drags knocked out 2f, props him up who saved them? cohen the barbarian hottie is way into it its him but hes gotten super old
hottie: "Bards still sing songs about you. I never get anyroyalties."
80 years in the business and what do i have to show for it? 100 recipes for soup hes bemoaning being too old to get respect rw has a cough 2f isnt exactly dead, hes just gone a necromancer
"whats neck romance?" "no necromancy is talking to the dead"
rw doesnt believe ittarot cards, 1st is the star four of elephants ace of turtles death
"is he really dead?"
lady makes a sort of medicine. he needs to drink it rw drinks he freezes and leaves his body where am i going? weird black and white death zone, hourglasses of rw and 2f rw arrives in driveway of big house
he looks for 2f sees a big pendulum blade 2f is watching it
"where are we exactly?"
"were sort of informally dead"
rw drags him out death says
"i so seldom have company"
"ive never been in deaths door before"
they run down the drive death rides up with a scythe hottie wakes up rw 2f hugs rincewind for saving his life
"the horse people are very suspicious"
picture guy paints whats really there, rw didnt like what he saw back at the wizards, trymon burned a magical chair. he goes over the agenda rw is item 1 star is item 2 trymon sent a hero to find rincewind wizards find that ridiculous
a heroine named Herrena is coming to grab rincewind cohen says horse people have decided to give the team mounts and horses to get to the river rincewind decides to split with cohen cohen doesnt know how to deal with sincerit rincewind explains how 2f always focuses on the positive wherever they go cohen likes his eyes
"they can see for 50 years"
cohen agrees to travel with 2f, hottie comes with
"in case Cohen needs anything rubbed"
star even bigger, 2f asks if theyll be burnt up, rw doesnt know rw says hottie has taken a shine to cohen cohen says hes 87
2f says "who could possibly attack us now?"
Herrena continues to follow big vistas and generic music near the troll bone mountains 2f tells cohen about dentures Herrena knocks out the crew and brings them to a big rock cave
2f and rw argue because the ladies ruin rincewinds cunning lie old troll mountain - really old trolls turn to stone fire is going to upset him because theyre all standing on his tongue troll waking up is a real nightmare rw and 2f are still tied, runningish
troll moves in their direction boys fall down wait how does sun work if discworld is freely moving through space? rw tells 2f what he really thinks the goons are back and have the boys cut to clamoring peasants outside university
destroy false wizards! the trouble is the archchancellor just isnt a team player lesser wizards plot to kill the AC theyll do it all together they do a trap with a banana component looks like AC got covered by drywall yogurt
he escapes! then has a growly freakout they bang a gong to get the ferryman ove its foggy ferryman is hooded
"youre not the usual ferryman"
Herrena orders men to grab Cohen he pops out and demolishes everyone Rws fight is so dumb he gets knocked out twice then bonked by the chest 2f is cheering on the fight cohen hurts his back
Herrena preps to stab hottie cracks her on the head with a stick hottie and cohen are getting married rw thinks its a bit odd wonders how cohen will have the stamina
cohen agrees with the concern, but he thought rw was talking about her octavo is itchy AC growls some more AC is pissed about hero not getting rw so hes going to consult the octavo
"we have gone beyond wisdom"
aint that right hottie is bethann people are going bugfuck rw asks why guy says disc is going to hit the star the spell speaks thru rw and says the star is life not death
cohen gets trolls teeth dentures Bethan his betrothed he wants a wedding dress and a steak rw and 2f come across rubes burning magic books people decide to slowly advance on rw AC enters octavo room
orders wizards to unlock the chain rw tries to do magic, but cant 2f hypes him up guy says all the magics gone rw does a wind spell that pokes a guy then rw faints
"I have a wizard!"
luggage returns and breaks up the mob wizards get the chain off AC grabs the book and heads to the great hall, locking the other wizards inside the room the star has other worlds around it 2f called them spots rw says no, but doesnt have a name for them, knows theyre things floating around the star
he just jacked someones fur off their stand and they didnt even react they get to the lower cellars we hear wizards shouting upstairs AC is climbing up RW goes to the octavo room door and sees that its the other wizards the masters of wizardry are in there
rincewind tries to open door but the guy says he doesnt have the magic for it rw tries to prove him wrong blue magic floats out and turns the lock door opens the wizards fill him in people are screaming so the wizards go to check it out are demons coming through? guy says no but worse
2f runs madly into the tower he just jacked a guys sword no problem rw has to follow
2f: "this is an adventure, isnt it?"
book comes down octavo is done 2f picks it up RW takes it and goes up top he says im not crazy and then talks to himself
AC greets him and welcomes him to enter his eyes are green flames briefly
"the 8th spell, give it to me"
AC tries to kill Rincewind but the big book blocks the shot chimp librarian climbs tower
"these statues look like wizards. "they are the wizards! there are? they were."
2f is looking for sword rw tries to crush AC with book then falls down ac falls on a banana peel and the spell hits him in the mouth, turns him to stone rw is inside the book rw is actually hanging off the stone
rw drops cohen grabs him death is annoyed again rw returns the spells to the book isnt all this magic exciting?
cohen isnt impressed, he likes stage magic book floats up and vanishes suddenly worlds move towards the disc theyre all new turtles with discs! theyre itty bitty
"thats 2flower, he just appreciates beautiy in his own way"
sleepy Atun looks kinda suss theres a turtle flying up over the sunset why only 8 and not hundreds like actual turtles magical octavo drops and lands in the luggage it wouldnt tell 2flower where it had put it
poor Trymon fell over and broke 2flower is going home rw is upset
"you havent really been anywhere until you get back home"
Cohen and Bethan got hitched he stole the dress for her they go to do their homey shake rw hugs him instead it feels like the end of a summer love affair
the tourist knows he'll never come this way again if he goes again he'll go somewhere else i wish he wasnt so closed off a character the patrician! he peers out of his litter, confirms that 2f is leaving, and bows his head
the luggage arrives to assist rw he doesnt want it but eventually caves Cohen and Bethan wave as the ship floats along the pier the real ship and dock would be all shouting, instead its all serene the scientists from the start do a joke and thats it its all a question of perspective?
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| The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapters 7-10 with James Lark | 22 Dec 2024 | 02:39:12 | |
James Lark is back and we're talking music teaching, conducting, the trials of poor Nathaniel, and the struggles of being a budding wizard with a cowardly master.
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Chapter 7
9 B leaves the square looking for a good alley. he really wants to toss the amulet but he cant without putting himself more in Ns power 10 2 footnote - because a master forcing his djinn to attack another resulted in a massive explosion in Baghdad, now magicians choose not to pit djinn directly against each other "Cities get me down, almost as if I am underground. London is particularly bad—cold, gray, heavy with odors and rain. It makes me long for the south, for the deserts and the blank blue sky." he finds a dry alcove and takes a seat 11 he ponders the situation "At dawn I would hand over the Amulet and escape this sorry mess for good. Except for my business with the boy. He’d pay for it, big time. You didn’t reduce Bartimaeus of Uruk to dossing in a West End back alley and expect to get away with it. First I’d find out his name, then—" booted feet show up at the end of the alley. who is it? he wonders if the police sniffed him out or the orbs found him 12 the kids from t square five boys, one commanding girl black leather jacket and flared pants 13 one of the boys senses B girl orders them to subdue him three big boys go to town on him B tries a mini-detonation but it doesnt hurt anyone he tries another and it sets off a bunch of car alarms "I repeated the effect with greater emphasis. Car alarms in the next street started ringing. This time, I confess, I expected to be left in the charcoally grip of three charred corpses." boys keep holding on, unharmed 14 girl says she wants the amulet B guesses she's thirteen, with a strong authoritative voice she calls him a cretin and he doesnt clap back "You don’t really know who I am, do you?” I made it sound damn casual, with a side helping of menace. “You’re not a magician.” “Too right I’m not.” He starts to flex his mighty voice 15 "Would a magician do so well against your wickedness?” She had a point there." magicians would stay away, and if they didnt theyd need imps and djinn to defeat him he's too tired to do a full demo he offers to assist her (Jesus tempted by the devil) 16 "To my disappointment, the girl clamped her hands over her ears. “Don’t give me your weasel words, demon!” she said. “I won’t be tempted.” he explains that he could bring the night police down on them "Don’t be naïve,” I said. “Think about it. You’re trying to rob me of a very powerful object. It belongs to a terrible magician. If you so much as touch it, he’ll find you and nail your skin to his door."" he was getting to her, making her reconsider 17 she reaches for the chain he turns into a Nile crocodile and scares off the boys, then wacks the boys with his tail 18 right as a boy throws a silver object, B turns into a fox and slips away. the sphere buries itself into the wall B runs and jumps into a bin, narrowly avoiding the police 19 some commotion happens and the fox waits, listening
Chapter 8
1 We learn about Ns master Arthur Underwood and his wife tall Georgian house in Highgate Underwood didnt want an apprentice but apparently its mandatory one day the ministry of employment assigns him one 2 this place has a real Brazil feel to it Arthur comes to the clerks desk, finds out he'll be signing forns and meeting the boy boy is 5, very bright "a wodge of paper"? 3 turns out his parents bolted, barely said anything his birth records will destroyed our first glimpse of Nathaniel "He passed down a series of silent corridors and through a heavy, paneled door to a brightly painted room that had been filled with toys for the entertainment of unhappy children. There, between a grimacing rocking horse and a plastic wizard doll wearing a comedy conical hat, he found a small pale-faced boy. It had been crying in the recent past, but had now fortunately desisted." 4 Underwood tells him who he is then takes him to his car he tried to talk to N but no dice we meet Mrs Martha Underwood. shes amazing, so sweet and kind 5 Martha puts her arm around N and convinces him to share the secret of his birth name 6 Martha expresses her concern for Nathaniel and disapproval of the system of apprenticeship "think it’s disgraceful, ripping a child from his home so young.” “That’s how it’s always been done, Martha. Apprentices have to come from somewhere.” Underwood is very frank about the reasons for the rules "His birth name must be forgotten, or else future enemies will use it to harm him. How can it be forgotten if his family keeps in contact? Besides, no one has forced his parents to part with their brat." if apprentices make it they get to work for the government 7 Martha wishes they could have a child something happened in Italy when they let magicians have kids N's bedroom is in the attic he can see London out the window he can see the crystal palace radio mast on a good day is the crystal palace radio mast a real thing? 8 M puts fresh flowers on his desk every week she often uses Ns birth name, despite Arthurs disapproval she refuses to be moved, despite the risk "Who’s going to notice?” she protested. “No one. It gives the poor lad comfort.”" other people call him Underwood and Arthur calls him boy. Nathaniel is devoted to her she gave him a painting of boats the woman is extraordinary 9 "You’re to be a magician, Nathaniel,” she said, “and that is the greatest privilege that any boy or girl could have. Your parents have made the ultimate sacrifice by giving you up for this noble destiny. No, don’t cry, dear. So in turn you must be strong, strive as hard as you can, and learn everything your tutors ask of you. By doing that you will honor both your parents and yourself." 10 most magicians work at Whitehall and she expects he will too. he determines to make her proud and make it to the government he eventually stopped thinking of his parents and accepted life with the Underwoods 11 the "mouth not toes" story he keeps himself looking neat and tidy pale face Martha helps him with his homework 12 hes learning geography she explains why its important she tells him about the djinn 13 Walter Purcell, Ns non magical teacher horrible ties twitchy, honest, snippy 14 Purcell explains why we need a government protection in a time of war tho it sounds like theyre whipping czechs butt if magicians werent in charge it would be commoners "All that stands between us and anarchy is our leaders. This is what you should aspire to, boy. To be a part of the Government and rule honorably. Remember that.”" 15 "Honor is the most important quality for a magician,” Mr. Purcell went on. “He or she has great power, and must use it with discretion. In the past, rogue magicians have attempted to overthrow the State: they have always been defeated. Why? Because true magicians fight with virtue and justice on their side.” 16 he learns to swim at eight hes avoided and left alone he has a music teacher, Mr Sindra Sindra gets super angry apparently music is used in summoning 17 N is hopeless at music his drawing teacher mrs lutyens is great tho she asks for his name and he gives it 18 he wishes he could draw fun stuff instead of symbols and diagrams she explains that he needs to do this extremely well to be amagician 19 hes made mistakes she explains that in magic he cant afford to make a single mistake Nathaniel goes out to the garden 20 theres a cool statue of a guy in the garden he asks Martha who it is "Ask your master,” she said. “He knows everything.” But Nathaniel had not dared ask." N comes here to compose himself
Chapter 9
1 nathaniel would be summoned to the master office he sits on a cushion 2 Underwood would quiz him on all he was learning sometimes he would talk about magic he explains that magicians can be bad or good, but what they must not be is incompetent. Loss of control is unacceptable. "Providing the magician remains in control of the forces he has set to work, he remains—what does he remain?” 3 Safe, secret, strong the great secret - that demons (or spirits) are very wicked and will hurt you if they can he explains that you cant mispronounce anything demons will exploit any failure hes almost nine 4 magic lessons begin twice a week he loved being telling about his day with Martha, then dreaming about going to the government 5 master takes N to his office he shows him a case of books he must learn before his 12th birthday he asks if then he'll be a magician 6 Master points at bookcase with hundreds of books he wont be allowed to look at those till 13 next they go to a creepy workroom 6 M has him put on the spectacles Master show him his contact lenses 7 when hes 12 he'll get a new name 8 M explains the need for secrecy demons and also bed magicians can use him name to pull shenanigans N gets to wear spectacles but not outside the workroom explains that there are different layers to reality 9 Master pulls down a dead rat tells N to look at it closely puts on specs sees an imp a "Scarlet Vexation" 10 its a spreader of pestilence he shows N a box full of tiny lil demon guys simplest minded demons orange stings beneath their tails 11 these mites will mess up your enemies ""We have dangerous tools that we must control. We shall now begin learning how to protect ourselves.”" he learned all the skills necessary to do magic 12 not once does Underwood summon anything he does as much extra work as he can he wants those spectacles damnit he tells Lutyens "'Patience,” she told him. “Patience is the prime virtue. If you hurry, you will fail. And failure is painful. You must always relax and concentrate on the task in hand.'" Underwood summons a creature but wont let N see it 13 the master and he stand in circles and the demon should be appearing in the other one a wind knocks over candles, starting a fire N goes to extinguish him but Master shouts him down Master says seven words of dismissal burning papers vanish, candles are back upright 14 Master admonishes him for falling for the demons trick some demons adopt cute animal guises some make nasty smells one made a shower of apple blossom some had nice perfume some were scary sounds 15 he kept it together a year later he was able to wear the specs and see the demons he was kicking ass at all his studies just before age 11, something terrible happens
Chapter 10
1 Bartimaeus complains about his terrible ordeal, camped out on the roof of Westminster Abbey waiting for the summons amulet flashes in the sunlight 2 the spheres didnt find him because of the artifacts in the graves the boy still hasnt woken up he restates his belief that N is being exploited by a more powerful magician 3 clearly several magicians took part in the search, suggesting the amulet was necessary to some larger plan Simon Lovelace is powerful "The fact that he was able to employ (and restrain) both Faquarl and Jabor proved as much. I did not relish the urchin’s chances when the magician caught up with him." its been several centuries since B has run into humans that are immune to magic the kids dont seem to grasp the implications B cant figure how the girl is related the summons feels super painful 4 B is annoyed by N "I order you, Bartimaeus, to reveal whether you have diligently and wholly carried out your charge—” “Of course I have—what do you think this is, costume jewelry?”" "The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace’s. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace’s again." the kid has drawn Adelbrand's Pentacle kids shouldnt be able to smirk 5 As P is trouble B pretends that N has done the circle wrong trying to spook him "The kid’s face went an interesting mix of white and red; his lower lip wobbled; his eyes bulged from their sockets. He looked very much like he wanted to run for it, but he didn’t, so my plan was foiled." N calls him Recreant demon B admits he lied N says put the amulet in the bowl 6 instead N uses a stick N has a smart way to transfer the amulet from one circle to another this isnt like the dresden files where crossing the boundary of a circle breaks the spell N doesnt like how it smells B explains what he had to do to avoid capture "You were pursued?” He sounded almost eager. Wrong emotion, kid—try fear. “By half the demonic hordes of London.”" B warns N that they are coming for him He tries to trick N into releasing him again N doesnt bite "Do you take me for a fool?” “The amulet in your hands answers that." 7 Nathan tries to banish B but B resists "You cannot depart! I have other work for thee.” More than the renewed captivity, it was these occasional archaisms that annoyed me so much. Thee, recreant demon—I ask you! No one used language like that anymore, and hadn’t for two hundred years. Anyone would think he had learned his trade entirely out of some old book." haha! dramatic irony As P lets you hold on to a demon and continue their service "It was a complex magical formula that required adult stamina and concentration, and this gave me ammunition for my next attack." 8 B asks where Ns master is N seems stung by this B says its a sort of prank N laughs, then puts amulet back in the bowl 9 He sends amulet back to B B says he'll give amulet to Simon Lovelace the boys coat is three sizes too large "It had evidently once belonged to a very careless magician, since, although heavily patched, it still displayed the unmistakable ravages of fire, blood, and talon. I wished the boy similar fortune." the kid has a scrying glass he starts to cast a spell 10 the boy uses the glass B looks around the room he wants a clue as to the boys official name (which is funny because N doesnt have one yet) a cracked glass vase with fresh flowers somebody liked him Kid orders B to hide the amulet in Underwoods office "Very well. Where does this unfortunate magician reside?” The boy smiled thinly. “Downstairs.”"
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| Lower Decks, Episode 1 "Second Contact" and Episode 2 "Envoys" with Dave H | 22 Dec 2024 | 02:13:56 | |
In this episode, Dave H returns to discuss the first two episodes of Lower Decks, "Second Contact" and "Envoys". Hilarity ensues.
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Soundbite: Ransom shouts "did I eat flesh? how much did I eat?" Mariner: "We're gonna get your butt in a captain's chair!" 1:04:38 1:21:25 Mariner: "Up and down with the blast shield!" Show Pic: Boimler saying "Female outside feces feces" 1:36:25 Shapeshifter child: "I'm a little boy!" Show Pic: "He likes jamaharon!" 18:24 Boimler: "I should just study bugs on a far off planet!" Show Pic: Boimler with his pants down
Episode 1 "Second Contact"
space station and ships pan into view a male voice gives a captains log the Cerritos looks cool as hell douglas station cool layers, plenty of depth great depth of field, fuzzy people in bg and fg "our specialty is second contact" black lady opens the door and clowns on purple haired guy for doing a captains log in a closet shes drunk, busting on him for being a nerd romulan whiskey is blue phg says its against regulation, black lady doesnt care she starts swinging a batleth, cant remember what its called "i got it from an old guy with an eyepatch" could it be Martok? surely shed recognize him since hes the chancellor "worf worf worf i love honor! i demand honor!" she hacks his thigh, they both scream credits beautiful scenery rocks hit ship (shouldnt the deflector block those) the ship sees borgs fighting roms and dips out its got a space whale! looks so good! shuttle lands theres a geordi visor! an Orion officer Ensign dvana tendi shes jacked blonde guy tells her to keep moving phg, boimler, is only getting bananas shes science, boims and mariner are command "i love science. Uh, its so sciency" is boimler horny for Tendi? Beckett Mariner "i cant believe were gonna serve side by side, scientists and commanders, an elite team" shes clearly very into drama tendi def wants to be CMO Mariner does not want to be senior (odd then that shes in the command track) she was promoted, then thought for herself so got demoted Mariner doesnt like giving the tour but she does need help with contraband Boims is not amused Boimler points out places on the map Mariner clearly has heard Boimlers jokes and is bored with it Boims thinks bridge is cool Mariner does not Rutherford the engineer has a vulcan implant thats goofing up Ruthy has a date with ensign barnes M says shes crazy hot ruthys implant keeps suppressing his emotions Ruthy is naturally anxious, pukes when stressed? Mariner pretends not to know what rooms are, Boims calls her out M "And this is Boims's hidey closet where he pretends to be a captain like a big boy." B "this is not a good tour!" they sleep in a hallway sleep near a shower Tendi is loving being on a ship seeing the warp trails its holodeck time! (i am skeptical that an ensign wouldnt have used a holodeck before. im sure they use them to do the kobayashi maru) Boims is crazy for warp core M does not care Tendi doesnt know about sand? nonsense also surely Orions have holodecks at least to practice their piracy Tendis impressed that B gets to go to the bridge M downplays it all nude olympic training facility M should be reported to hr for this one Galardonian shuttles are badass Gs themselves are little purple seahorse pigs, some with horns Ransom, buff white dude, gets bit by insect R and mustache man are real bros Boims tries to manage hair unsuccessfully he enters the bridge in severe anxiety Black woman captain gives Boims a special assignment keep an eye on ensign mariner "i like my crew working in lockstep" Barnes and Ruthy's date apparently Billups doesnt know how to talk to women (with future knowledge we have an idea why) Rs implant makes him harshly vulcan for a sec her dad was a cyborg "Shaxs drop his latte again? Guy's got baby hands" would be funnier if wed gotten his name yet, clearly a second watch joke B is clearly feeling bad and suss he sees Mariner run off and get in a truck he follows Ransom goes nuts zombie virus, spewing black goo and chewing on a guys neck B and R still do date even during this madness disease is either airborne or transferred by goo cat doctor T "i was supposed to be assisting Nurse Westlake" cat points at guy on bed snarling "that is nurse westlake!" B is behind a bush, peeking he sees Mariner offering starfleet tech to two Galardonians the planet is so beautiful, yellow sky, reddish brown leaves, pea soup green dirt, fungus balls and tall grass B jumps out and scares Mariner he accuses her of selling weapons, she tries to shut him down Gs try to leave, B shoots the ground B reads the rulebook she busts back with more knowledge its farm equipment hes surprised Gs run through gate, leave it open huge spider breaks out giant spider is shooting butt webbing M and B behind bush M defends herself, saying the farmers were starving so she gave some help he asks how she knew they exist she was here last year on the quito before she got demoted to the cerritos B didnt know her backstory she was trapped in a sentient cave "thats a dark place that knows things" head taken off by a singing crystal klingon prison where she had to fight a yeti for her own shoes for no reason. "he was just being a dick!" hes only been to five planets including earth and vulcan he only knows what in the manuals so he should follow her lead they cant leave because the farmers need the spider general order 5 "We'll just stun it." "No could spoil the milk." B dismisses this, but as i thought about it i realized she saw only one get out which suggests the animal isnt for meat but for some other purpose, its a short leap to milk "Five ships, yeti shoes, i am always right, take them off now!" two puppets of them for spider to attack its going to town on Bs uniform M is stoked shes ready to jump on its back he wants it to destroy both uniforms first why did she yell Mark before jumping? she jumps, then B he gets nabbed by spider which starts gooping and sucking him he says phaser it farmers begs her not to M says we cant let it eat him farmer says its just suckling for moisture M yells to Boimler "its just suckling you, youre fine" Boimler has funny scream. M tries to encourage him "go to your happy place! oo think about the warp core!" B and M spacewalk to get to the rally point it looks totally awesome their suits are low on oxygen? they should be rated for 24 hours or more if show canon is to be believed. how long were Belanna and Tom out there? she likes The Monkees, Ruthy is into it "Lets just say I'm a Believer" Great shot thru window of Shaxs wasting fools as they ascend B and R are wicked at action stuff weirdly a hatch wont open for them i like how he thumbs up for her to move through maintenance hatch then jumps in after, good teamwork during retreat they take off helmets and kiss shes like hows it goin and hes like these doors are messed up she is not into boring details and walks off Tendi in sickybay "pump this, dont pass out. nobodys authorized to pass out" M havin some wilk while B gets milked she pulls him out of sleepy spider "my bones..." "but im naked" they drive back thru idyllic landscape with lovely tune "i think we make a pretty good team, Boimler" he admits he was told to spy on her she doesnt get why he worships them he starts to defend captain but stops hes going to report her they get to rally point and beam to ship everyone is in transporter room DR taana swipes bs face and analyEs spider milk dr t says they should get B to sickbak "what makes him so special? nothing. its the slime, Captain" "everyone, protect. this. slime!" Shaxs bursts through door, carrying B crew makes it to sickbay milk will neutralize rage effect T says Cap doesnt have nuch time. M yells "oo shouldve washed those hands, captain!" Ransom is cured "where am i? did i eat flesh?" "hardly any" "how much did i eat?!" T sprays purple gas through ship captain congratulates Dr t she makes a bad joke, senior staff laugh M tries to explain that B saved them Tendi stoked cuz she got to hold a heart cap says in report that only dr t saved everyone she asks B what mariner did he says she was fine "maybe that goo that saved the ship messed with my memory" even now hes trying to correct the record admiral so and so calls her "ransom tried to eat a guy. we're fine" she wants to throw Mariner in the brig she loves the brig T asks R about his date he praises her but hes not seeing her again she had zero interest in why a red alert messed with the hatch lock "who has time for romance when theres a level two diagnostic just sitting there waiting to be run?" "mm mm dont have to tell me twice i am right there" B praises M "starfleet is better with you in it" B didnt sell her out she praises him "were gonna get your butt in a captains chair. guess what mm im your new mentor. boom. surprise bitchh its done how does it feel?" lower decks cheer "youre gonna be my chadeetch from now on baby" she mentions spocks rebirth in star trek 3 mentions khan and space whales how bout sulu do yiu know kirk my man worf gary mitchell, do you know deanna troi her body be bangin, she went from a jumpsuit
"Envoys"
cerritos floats above red planet pale blue sphere enters the hull imto a storage room M suggests drinkin and gettin a dude all worked up Tendi doesnt get it energy sphere appears "supplicate yourselves!" Mariner grabs it and tells Tendi to bring a canister "we can use this thing for all sorts of cool stuff" she starts to push it into a canister he says he can grant wishes Mariners listening she demands a tricorder with a purple stripe he loses a bunch of power she wants a power pack it gets even smaller Captain Freeman rolls up and it just darts into her chest shouting "die, mortal!" T and M are watching video of admiral falling B comes in with news of his mission hes talking about someone they speculate who it might be Castro, enterprise Pjoq, what a snack its Boimler! piloting general Korin decorated warrior they all have an apostrophe M thinks the cargo bay is exotic R shows up hes been in ducts for a week "thats another three, four days in the tubes!" R says he'll switch his career to change shifts B comes into the shuttle bay Mariners in the shuttle! shes already there eating ramen and spilling shes the pilot he has a dress uniform blast field down and up with songs Rutherford tells Billups hes transferring Billups is totally cool about it they chant his name on the shuttle M is passed out "buried alive marooned for eternity moons of nibia" Bs been studying Korin deference and respect M kicks his ass "Starfleet has made you soft, Mariner!" "i must update you on my many sexual contests, Mariner! What, both of them?" Korin wants to be landed in Little Kronos Bs like what? "I got chewed out, but he got his ass chewed Uuuup" why is console hot? multispecies hang spot unsecured district theyre blood bonded he passed out on his sword Korin jakes the shuttle Mariner laughs "classic Korin" "did you even read the mission brief?" "im sorry i skimmed most of it, and read some of the captions" Boimler is speed walking to conserve energy "this is serious! i think were violating the Khitomer accords" "he went north in search of stronger ales!" so were federation dogs, huh? "hey if it got us what we needed woof woof" Ransom does command trainer 43 with Rutherford captain were being drawn into a temporal rift? "casualties 105 percent wait how did i kill more than the whole crew?" Ransom mentions the Janeway protocol command trainer 4 should they hit the asteroid? Janeway protocol? "all the ships children have been ejected into space." "all those kids..." M and B talk philosophy of training Boimler meets a lady in red shes real sensual Mariner washes it off of Brad "i know you still want it! I can hear your nasty boy thoughts!" it was an anobaj weakminded? lol "An andorian in the bathroom said the generals in a bar down the road" hes relating engineering to bodies taana is supportive she orders him to chat with the guy and keep him distracted instead R makes him freak out "Those are dilithium burns? how are you still alive, man? you should be dead!" "that robot said i was dying" he joins security bunch of borgs program smorgasborg he uses his implant to be a super kickpuncher M cautions B to be chill he gets all huffy Boimler sees a man being menaced he runs in Mariner says no old guy whines other guy goes to kick him B shoots "Starfleet! I order you to step away from the elder! You idiot thats no elder!" its a weird little monster - Vendorian shapeshifter they start a barfight theres a Morn! Boimler objects "this is a violation of the Tulganan neutrality pact" Mariner jumps up "Kirk hands" has phaser she pays for five rounds "sir i dont know you, thats starfleet property youre handling" Boimler looks like shit. He feels inadequate because of Mariners awesomeness "all that studying and where did it get me?" "i should just turn in my uniform and go work on a research asteroid!" Mariner is horrified "do not even joke about that" 17:45 soundbite: Boimler does the shaky video log bit Mariner says starfleet needs booksmart people like B he flips his communicator and runs off Rutherford is in security. Shaxs is giving a speech "no greater honor than to die beside you in battle." Rutherford decides to go back to engineering. he needs those tubes "Got to be true to yourself. am i right bears? oo rah!" Rutherford "Aw, bears!" ferengi bit Mariner pretends hes a Bolean "hey ferengi, get out of here, get get!" they drag drunk Korin out of the shuttle "Fetch me my drinking horn, i need ale" Mariner pretends to have not known the ferengi thing B promises not to tell anyone smash cut to him telling everyone "Muah muah hoo mon" he was doin the hand thing and everything" Mariner pretends to be offended and jets she smiles Rutherford "i belong in the tubes" she doesnt realize he did all that to be a bro ferengi dude and Mariner chat R looks at tube "isnt it amazing?" she says looking at spce on her pad. R looks at tube. "its beautiful"
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| Holiday Special: Terry Pratchett's Hogfather with Jayme Antrim | 15 Dec 2024 | 03:00:23 | |
This is it! Our holiday special with the one and only Jayme Antrim! Back by popular demand, Terry Pratchett brings us Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, a dramatic retelling of his timeless classic. It's no notes today so things are a bit loose and all over the place, but it's a ton of fun and should make a delightful part of your holiday experience!
Happy holidays, everyone! May your season be as bright as Death's eyes!
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Plugs
Jayme Antrim
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Possible show titles
Meat Nieces One Dimensional Dudes Bordered-Off Danger Showers Medium Dave Fan Fiction Humans Are the Hawk Tuah
Social Media
Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Jayme Antrim Brandoff the Offbrand Gandalf on Youtube
Links
Doctor Who "Love and Monsters" Star Trek: The Next Generation "Tuvix"
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| Dracula (1931) Part 2 with Jayme Antrim | 12 Dec 2024 | 01:12:58 | |
It's Part 2 of our gigantic Dracula discussion! Special thanks to Jayme for bringing all this knowledge and enthusiasm!
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Plugs
Jeff Richardson Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
Jayme Antrim
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song. Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Ravenous Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Jayme Antrim
Brandoff the Off-Brand Gandalf on Youtube
Possible show titles:
My Dude, This is Your Job A Stake on a Steak Mummies vs The Bronx Dracula 2 The Stoker Necktie Links
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter what do you call an incel with a girlfriend?
Extended Notes
"for one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing." Mr Mina was shocked Harker said he looked like a wild animal he looks outside, notices a wolf VH explains that drac is a vamp and can turn into critters "the strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him." Mina goes out walkin finds CD, he wraps her up Harkers says vamps are only in ghost stories VH says some vamp lore, doesnt even worry about explaining it he must have brought boxes of grave dirt Renfield is eavesdropping Renfield explains that Mina has been attacked, he thinks Harker should take her away big bat arrives renfield tries to apologize, warns him to escape VH tells renfield to help he says he cant maid screams and runs over miss mina is out there dead renfield laughs all creepy like maid passes out renfield crawls over to her is he gonna bite off a chunk? Mina's still alive VH says shes under his influence "we must cope with it" child crying woman walking in dark woods comedy intern reads paper children describes beautiful lady in white who enticed them with chocolates, drew them into woods, and offered them chocolate Mina saw Lucy outside after her death Mina tried to speak to her until she realized she was dead Lucy looked like animal, then ran into the dark Mina asks them to save her soul Harker says she wont die she says dont kiss me anymore she tells VH to make it clear to Jon "its all over Jon. Our love, our life together." Drac wills her VH tells her to come inside Harker blames VH for driving her crazy he wants to take Mina away VH has prepared the place to protect against Drac she wants dad to keep Jon from leaving nurse is ordered to keep windows shut and wolfsbane near Mina. drac is at his coffin three boxes of earth were deliverd to carfax abbey VH tells Harker he cant take her or it will kill her VH explains his occult knowledge - the only way to save her is to stake dracula "you forget doctor that madmen have great strength." Martin the panto orderly is shocked to learn R escaped again Drac released him "a red mist spread over the lawn coming on like a flame of fire and then he parted it and then i could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red like his, only smaller." rats rats rats thousands millions of them all red blood, alp these will i give you if you will obey me." daddy asks what hes meant to do "that which had already been done" "Dracula is in the house"! "Van Helsing. Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country." I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy." dracs blood flows through Minas veins, she will be immortal Van Helsing promises to destroy carfax abbey and stake dracula drac tries to summon VH, he resists but then starts to stumble forward. He regains control. VH reaches for crucifix, drac hisses and runs off Mina doesnt want the wolfsbane, says it stinks. she refused to stay put and went onto the terrace Harker comes in and sees Mina all fresh as a daisy Briggs wants her to come back in, she and JH wave her off Mina is enticed by JHs neck she claims to not dislike the night. she now says she loves it Jh is trying to chase off a big bat shes talking to it JH is flummoxed Mina is trying to mind control JH shes moving in again VH rushes in with cross Mina tells him that drac fed her blood Martin tries to shoot the bat VH tells him to leave off Martin the wacky orderly "theyre all crazy but me and you. And sometimes i have my doubts about you." Drac summons nurse briggs to the window she takes down the wolfsbane then lets him come in VH and J follow Ren into abbey Drac lures Mina there as well Renfield is all stoked he wants to serve JH finds a grate and yells Mina Renfield is scared, tries to run Drac tells him to wait. he stands still Drac approaches. Renfield whines R whines while Drac chokes him and drops him down the stairs he runs to basement with Mina closes and locks the door the boys rush in and find no one they hunt around a bit for some reason drac is asleep (we havent seen any indication of dawn) VH opens the other coffin, doesnt let JH see sends him off for a rock rips up the lid to make stakes Jh comes back VH says Minas not there JH goes looking Minas in corner wailing they meet up and hug "the daylight stopped him." Harker walks her up the stairs to the sound of bells wtf "arent you coming with us? not yet not presently" "come, john" last line so she hasnt yet been turned? this movie is skimpy on the rules is Mina now a daywalker?
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| Dracula (1931) Part 1 with Jayme Antrim | 11 Dec 2024 | 02:11:18 | |
In this one, Jayme Antrim swings by to discuss Dracula (1931). We have a terrific time, so good in fact that we decided to do a big fat two parter!
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Jeff @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Jayme Antrim Brandoff the Offbrand Gandalf on Youtube
Possible show titles:
Shouting Dracula A Year of Dracula Be a Hunky Dracula Why is There a Bug Coffin, Guys? Bag Baby Brooklyn Slumlord Dracula Chicken Blood Soup for the No-souled Take That, Great Britain!
Recommendations
Fright Night remake Tennant, Farrell Elvira's Haunted Hills The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
Social Media
Links
Vampire Anthology with Jayme's Dracula story The Hammer Brothers from Super Mario Bros (pic of Jayme as Dracula?) Ragtime by ER Doctorow (CORRECTION: nominated for Nebula but didn't win)
Extended Notes
pretty canyon painting among the peaks bygone age five passengers in coach tourist lady reading from the book local says tonight is bad news nosferatu to the virgin we pray geese in the yard! working people come out to see the coach ladies hide behind windows porter starts unloading all the luggage this dude sounds American he says not to take down his luggage innkeeper wants him to wait hes meeting another coach on Borgo pass at midnight count draculus count draculas name scares the hell out of these rubes "no. you mustn't go there. we people of the mountains believe that at the castle there are vampires, dracula and his wives, they take the form of wolves and bats. they leave their coffins at night and feed on the blood of the living." fancy lad is unmoved, he is set on meeting the other coach (this dude kind of reminds me of my brother - his bright-eyed desire to gain secret knowledge and meet interesting people) innkeeper's wife gives him her crucifix everyone is sad that hes going foreboding clifftop castle this crypt looks like state of decay these shots are real arty, like a fellini joint slow drac and his three spooky wives we got us a real eye gore (is it Dracula? the implication in the book is that it was) this dude has a real penetrating stare spooky af great fogslashdust effect as carriage rolls up the hill wtf theres a bat over the horses and no driver i dont think you could pay me to go through with this this dude walks smoothly and silently this dude has real elijah wood face its mister renfield every shot hes in makes him small and weak its so 3D real black lodge motherfucker right here drac cant resist blood but the crucifix freaks him out renfield not looking too good dracs fingers are so scary renfields spooky smile after drac kills crew renfield now at sewards sanitarium drac lookin fly cop whistles and pleather capes drac mind controls lady at theater introduces himself to rich moustacheman his daugter Mina, miss lucy weston, and mina's husband Jonathan drac compares his castle in transylvania to carfax abb "to die, to be really dead. That must be glorious." mh: "oh but count dracula." dr: "there are far worse things awaiting man than death." Lucy tells Mina shes hot for drac. Mina thinks she should chase someone normal outside Westons place, drac hangs out like a creep 28:00 lucy in bed reading, bigass bat at the window. she doesnt notice it, drifts off. then bat enters and drac advanced with his scary claw fingies he gets his face right up near lucys neck. so rapey at seward sanitarium we see an auditorium where they examine Lucy's corpse. "on the throat of each victim, the same two marks." Martin the orderly chucks Renfields spider out the window. He is real weird about it we see oldman doing experiences gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead. yes nesferatu professor tells mustache drac is def a vampire renfield comes in, oldman tries to touch his hand. he recoils "keep your filthy hands to yourself!" someone thinks they heard a wolf annnoying comedy orderly says "ee thinks theyre owlin back at him! hes cryzy!" Van Helsing shoves wolfsbane in Rs face, hes like "you know too much to live Van Helsing" Renfield doesnt want to do something to Mina but doesnt explain what it is Drac enters Mina's room, makes the grimace and leans forward Mina talks about her dream thing the next day room full of mist lamp "a tiny spark in the fog" "And then i saw two red eyes starinf at me and a white livid face came down out of the mist" Harker tells her it was a dream "it seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me" Harker gaslights her Van Helsing taps in Harker claims she's hiding something "is there anything the matter with your throat" van helsing checks her neck consent means nothing in 1931 apparently bite showed up the morning after "what could have caused them, Doctor?" "Count Dracula." interesting mashup Mina isnt afraid of Drac? Drac recognizes Van Helsings name Count claims to have told her vampire stories Harkers seems jealous of dracs attention Van Helsing realizes Drac has no reflection Dad tells her to go to bed, she objects Drac reiterates, she goes with no complaint VH shows Harker the mirror. Hes stunned Van Helsing asks drac to look at the mirror. Drac reacts with fury and knocks it away are dracs afraid of seeing themselves? are they ashamed of having no reflection? does it remind them they have no soul?
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| Star Trek: TNG Season One Episode 8: "Justice" | 04 May 2025 | 01:39:00 | |
Sofia B and Jeff are back to discuss this extremely important episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the process, they cover everything from drug treatment of criminals to low-tech law enforcement logistics. It's a good one!
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Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Social Media
Jeff Richardson
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram
Possible Show Titles
Bwah! We Are In Here Now Unusually Lovely Rigelian Fruitbat Syndrome
Recommendations
Links
Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek: Voyager the sky people Sumerian myths (Jeff can’t verify the accuracy of this link but good luck)
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 3 thru 5 with Sofia B | 07 Dec 2024 | 01:37:25 | |
[Editor’s note: Jeff said some things about George W. Bush that haven’t necessarily been proven in court. We encourage you to read up on the issue to learn what has and hasn’t been corroborated publicly.]
In this one, Sofia B returns to discuss chapters 3 thru 5 of The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles gets in over his head and goes head to head with a dangerous superior.
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Plugs
Check out Sofia’s interview on Jeff’s other show, Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?: https://awesomepodnw.libsyn.com/episode-149-saving-the-wetlands-ft-sofia-buhrgard
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendation
Pantheon (tv series) - Based on the short story collection by Ken Liu
Anti-Recommendation
The Culture series by I.M. Banks Social Media
None for Sofia R unless you're looking for traffic planning - if so hit us up and we'll connect you!
@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
Possible Show Titles
I Gotta Get a Cloak Sinister Assistant A Well-Known Sneaky Guy The Other Empire
Links
George W Bush and the Air National Guard Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Extended Notes
chapter 3 1 he survived the cold hes recovering in the infirmary he fantasizes about what impsec would do to the motor pool guys they hadnt meant to murder him so he lets it go 2 M asks if they treat a lot of frostbite corpsman has to send him packing 3 do many people lose scat cats? not too many the commandant has been ripshit about it he goes home and realizes he doesnt have the correct uniform since he lost his boots and trousers in the mud he couldnt borrow from anyone because they wouldnt fit his unusual anatomy 4 "He cursed under his breath and shucked on his dress greens, complete with mirror-polished boots to the knees. At least the boots obviated the need for leg braces." Miles thinks about how he failed to avoid the problem. He always seems committed to improving his behavior. Very ambitious "Today, the general was aggressively dressed in black fatigues. At Metzov’s altitude in the hierarchy, this stylistic choice usually indicated a deliberate identification with The Fighting Man. The only concession to his rank was their pressed neatness. His decorations were stripped down to a mere modest three, all high combat commendations. Pseudo-modest; pruned of the surrounding foliage, they leapt to the eye. Mentally, Miles applauded, even envied, the effect. Metzov looked his part, the combat commander, absolutely, unconsciously natural." 5 Miles realizes hes fulfilling an embarrassing stereotype a Vor lordling in riding boots He thinks to himself: "I didn’t design the damned boots. His father had once suggested that his staff officers must need them for riding hobbyhorses, high horses, and nightmares. Unable to think of a useful reply to the general’s sally, Miles stood in dignified silence, chin lifted, parade rest. “Sir.”" 6 Metzov goes in on poor Miles about his fanciness and failure he finds out the permafrost zones were represented by blue on the maps which hed have known if hed read the regulations, which hed have done if his boss wasnt a total wreck 7 Metzov is being a real douche "The authority lent Miles by his uniform barely balanced the deformities that made him a target of Barrayar’s historically grounded, intense genetic prejudices. A public humiliation that sapped that authority before men he must also command came very close to an act of sabotage. Deliberate, or unconscious?" Miles references how he nearly wasnt born because of an attack during Vordarians Pretendership 8 Metzov thinks what they need is a fresh war every few years to toughen up the troops Metzov says some sexist shit and Miles internally turns it around Metzov lays out his punishment. He has to get with Lt Bonn and organize a work detail to lift the scatcat out 9 Metzov turns the screws, punishing Miles for damaging the station to save his life Miles does not want to be insubordinate but also he has no respect for Metzov. "'The damage I did to the weather station was not a stupid accident like the scat-cat, sir! It was necessary to my survival.” General Metzov fixed him with a very cold eye. “Make that six hours a day, Ensign Vorkosigan.” Miles spoke through his teeth, words jerked out as though by pliers. “Would you have preferred the interview you’d be having right now if I’d permitted myself to freeze, sir?”" Metzov is shooting daggers 10 Miles leaves the office and starts to unravel he got too used to being around bigwigs he doesnt know how to shut up and serve Miles wonders if Metzov is political 11 M realizes that there could be myriad reasons why Metzov is a bust Milo tells himself hes just gonna have to avoid Metzov foreshadowing about Ahn and Metzov! Bonn and Miles are stomping around, trying to find the scatcat 12 Miles learns that the ice forms under the bog, making it solidish ground unless it gets warm enough then it melts ""Midwinter, you could park a freight shuttle on this bog. Come summer, it thins out. It can thaw from seeming-solid to liquid in a few hours, when the temperature is just right, and back again.” “I . . . think I found that out.”" 13 Bonn finds the scatcat with a probe he signals the hovercab hovercab flies over and sucks the thing out of the ice 14 Miles explains how he almost died goes to look for his boots only finds one "Bonn frowned down at the ruined boot dangling from Miles’s hand. “You could have been killed,” he said in a tone of realization." 15 Bonn finds it odd that Miles wont turn in Pattas from the motor pool Miles explains the situation 16 he tells Bonn why he's here, to earn his spot on the new ship Miles jokes that Vor promises dont mean much 17 Bonn delivers Pattas and Olney to Miles in the morning they get to work cleaning all the equipment that had been submerged Miles heads off to work, musing how these two must be confused 18 next day he Olney and Pattas had culvert duty he really got into it 19 Miles finds a plugged culvert with water pooling on one side he realizes hes the only one narrow enough to get through the drain 20 he finds a corpse! chapter 4 page 1 surgeon arrives miles and crew close off one end of drain surgeon determines he drowned, no signs of foul play page 2 "Does this sort of thing happen often around here?” Miles inquired mildly. The surgeon shot him a sour look. “I slab a few idiots every year. What d’you expect, when you put five thousand kids between the ages of eighteen and twenty together on an island and tell ’em to go play war? I admit, this one seems to have discovered a completely new method of slabbing himself. I guess you never see it all.”" miles went in to search but found nothing but a handlight original impressions suggest the guy was alone Pattas is surprised Miles seems unimpressed by the mans body page 3 Pattas asks if hes seen a body before Miles thinks about it "Miles hesitated. Events of three years ago flickered through his memory. The brief months he’d been caught in desperate combat far from home, having accidentally fallen in with a space mercenary force, was not a secret to be mentioned or even hinted at here. Regular Imperial troops despised mercenaries anyway, alive or dead. But the Tau Verde campaign had surely taught him the difference between practice and real, between war and war games, and that death had subtler vectors than direct touch. “Before,” said Miles dampingly. “Couple of times.”" later he gets a call from someone in Vorbarr Sultana handsome Ivan is on the other end he wanted to show Miles his new apartment page 4 Miles used to live in the capitol, he finds it strange to see again Ivan has a webcam you can turn around 360, shows Miles the room he gets a wave of homesickness Ivan has a new girlfriend Ivan noticed Miles is soaked, asks what he's been doing forensic plumbing "how’s life in the infantry?” “Oh, great. Lazkowski Base is the real thing, y’know.” Miles did not define what real thing. “Not a . . . warehouse for excess Vor lordlings like Imperial Headquarters.”" Ivan explains how fun his job is, getting to see info from all over the empire page 5 "Voices from another universe. At that, Vorbarr Sultana was only a couple of hours away by sub-orbital flight. In theory. Miles was obscurely comforted to be reminded that the whole planet hadn’t shrunk to the lead-gray horizons of Kyril Island, even if his part of it seemed to have." later he goes to the infirmary to talk to the surgeon surgeon explains that the guy got stuck and died within thirty minutes. "death by misadventure"." Miles asks why he doesnt want to know more page 6 surgeon isnt interested. just death by stupidity, details irrelevant Miles goes jogging arrives at culverts "The road was lonely, out by the empty practice fields. The sun crawled crabwise toward the horizon. Miles broke from a jog back to a walk, then to a slower walk. His leg-braces chafed, beneath his pants. One of these days very soon he would take the time to get the brittle long bones in his legs replaced with synthetics. At that, elective surgery might be a quasi-legitimate way to lever himself off Kyril Island, if things grew too desperate before his six months were up. It seemed like cheating, though." he tries to figure out why the guy chose that particular culvert he takes a slightly wider one and voila finds 7 a package taped to the roof his mind races, thinking of the glory "Pastries. A couple of dozen lisettes, a kind of miniature popover glazed and stuffed with candied fruit, made, traditionally, for the Midsummer Day celebration. Month-and-a-half-old stale pastries. What a cause to die for." doc isnt impressed "The surgeon’s only comment, when Miles caught up with him and explained his findings, was “Yep. Death from stupidity, all right.” Absently, the man bit into a lisette and sniffed." 8 he see Lt Ahn off Ahn leaves him with a cryptic warning "he can be a funny kind of dangerous. dont ever really threaten him, huh?" Ahn tells him not to risk pissing him off 9 Miles decides to look into Metzovs record clearly something happened during the Komarr revolt that got him sent to Kyril Island he comes to a redacted section and decides to call a contact with security clearance its Ivan! 10 "Yeah, the old man’s stuck in committee. Nice little flap—a Barrayaran-registered freighter got itself impounded in the Hegen Hub—at Vervain Station—for suspicion of espionage.” surely this wont end up having something to do with the story later Ivan gets stopped by an impsec warning, explains how he cant get any data out Miles tells him how he can make the two computers talk to each other, bypassing all security 11 Miles finds out Metzov probably killed a dude who killed a guard trying to escape And there the info ended Miles tries to get Ivan on board "You,” said Ivan severely, “are career-poison. Never darken my vidplate again. Except at home, of course.” 12 5000 grubs arrive! some grubs strted a fire lighting farts Miles suggested they solve the problem by taking red bean stew off the menu "Three months down, three to go. It was getting darker." chapter 5 1 not the wahwah warning? silence was baffling some sort of accident in a toxic stores bunker 2 they join a big gang of folks at the bunker, including fire marshall and surgeon surgeon tells them to take off everything and then decon the bunker is full of fetaine a terrible poison barrels corroded over 20 years 3 Miles suggests using heat to melt the fetaine fetaine affects reproduction Miles busts out a full on weatherman bit Bonn and the fire marshall plan the operation Miles thinks about following them there he cant risk mutating his sperm he couldnt sleep so he's up Metzov is in his office with Bonn Miles steps in Metzov says some ignorant shit he says he isnt mad the doc says the gear isnt good enough 5 Metzov is talking about shooting people who dont follow orders Miles doesnt like what hes seeing were gonna have a good old fashioned discipline parade 6 Metzov has a bunch of guys lined up "the really old-fashioned discipline parades had involved lead-lined rubber hoses. How far back in Barrayaran history was Metzov’s mind rooted?" Metzov explains why it was good to have multiple military branches so they could shoot each other mutiny?! "'Principle, sir, what principle? It’s waste disposal,” Miles choked." 7 a bunch of grubs with nerve disruptors (which sound hella scary) Miles thinks about how these kids arent trained enough for these weapons Metzov orders the techs to strip Miles thinks about how evil fetaine is and how screwy it is for barrayar to have made it Bonn strips and joins the line 8 "No, no, no! Miles screamed inside his head. If you join them they’ll never back down. They’ll know they’re right. Bad mistake, bad . . . " Metzov tells Miles to grab a gun or get gone. someone gives Miles a disruptor "He could leave. Could he leave?" he realizes this is gonna be a massacre he ponders the thorniness of the issue, how his dad taught about how to handle criminal orders it was a powerful class they called it Vorkosigan's Day 9 "For a lunatic moment Miles envisioned thumbing off the safety and shooting Metzov. And then what, shoot the grubs? He couldn’t possibly get them all before they got him. I could be the only soldier here under thirty who’s ever killed an enemy before, in battle or out of it." M realizes he has no choice. his career is toast, he knows hed be haunted by ghosts if he doesnt join the others "He sat on the ground. Pulled off his gloves and boots. Let his parka fall, and his shirts. Trousers and thermal underwear atop the pile, and the nerve disruptor nested carefully on them. He stepped forward. His leg braces felt like icicles against his calves. I hate passive resistance. I really, really hate it." "What the hell do you think you’re doing, Ensign?” Metzov snarled as Miles limped past him. “Breaking this up, sir,” Miles replied steadily" Metzov calls him Vorkosigan, which could only stiffen his resolve. hes honorbound to do the right thing 10 Miles calls him Mad Metzov in his head Miles explains the situation. If people learn what happened it would be bad for Metzov "S-s-sorry, sir, but I see at least ten witnesses, behind those nerve disruptors.” "You can’t silence me. Living or dead, through my mouth or yours—or theirs—I will testify.”" 11 Miles gives Metzov a win, explaining how it could benefit him Metzov calls his dad a nasty name Miles gets him to go for the deal he sees the relief in Metzovs eyes "It reminded him of that definition of his father’s. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise." Bonn asks am i supposed to thank you for this? "We got what we wanted, eh? He’s going to plasma the fetaine on-site before the wind shifts in the morning. Nobody dies. Nobody gets their nuts curdled. We win. I think.”" 12 Bonn and Miles are cellmates Bonn just confirmed that the bunker was melted guards take Miles to base security Impsec is there as Miles arrives Miles signs some travel orders 13 Miles is stoked to see the impsec courier thinking hes there to help Metzov comes in all pleased says if a vor commits mutiny its treason Miles realizes now that the big guy is his new jailer "Overholt, read the name on the man’s badge, which Miles mentally redubbed Overkill. He had only to lift his arm to dangle Miles like a kitten." 14 theyre taking him to imperial hq "The Imperial Security sub-orbital courier shuttle sat on the icy concrete like a bird of prey accidentally placed in a pigeon cote. Slick and black and deadly, it seemed to break the sound barrier just resting there." Miles can smell the weather - conflicting emotions
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| The Vor Game, Chapters 1 and 2 with Sofia B | 01 Dec 2024 | 02:03:16 | |
In this one, Sofia B drops by to discuss traffic planning, terminators, and Jeff's favorite science fiction novel, The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold.
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chapter 1 page 1 plastic flimsie - apparently we're still using plastic centuries from now - hopefully its made of bamboo or hemp or something biodegradable maybe their matter recyclers break them down so they dont sit in landfills so we're in an empire page 2 chief of impsec illyan who remembered everything the emperor is young? if hes near military academy age thatd be 23 plus Vorish types? whats that? page 3 ship duty is the most sought after appointment ive been interviewing my dad and he got ship duty, though he wasnt academy trained "'So what have they done to you this time?” asked Plause, clearly prepared to offer congratulations or sympathy as indicated." Ivans Miles's cousin? also Miles has physical handicaps. long description of what it was like being made taller page 4 miles isnt built for infantry Major Cecil has a sense of humor page 5 miles insurbodination "your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much.” “No, I don’t,” Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth." page 6 Miles is a manipulator par excellence if he keeps his nose clean and gets along with his officers and subordinates hell be recommended for ship duty on a shipnthat sounds a lot like the enterprise page 7 "your saving grace. Mutant" there are mutants in this story? and Miles is proving their worth? "We’re not trying to make it impossible, Ensign.” Merely very difficult. “I’m glad to know that too. Sir.” Miles’s parting salute was almost subordinate." page 8 "A couple of the black-clad men, watching him as he hopped down from the ramp, made remarks to each other in Barrayaran Greek, a minority dialect of Earth origin, thoroughly debased in the centuries of the Time of Isolation." so we have greeks on a different planet who still speak greek, this isnt earth and were after something called the time of isolation Miles can speak Greek but he plays it cool its a mutant! lets talk disability and how folks treated disabled folks in the 90s its horrible that you could be beaten to death in this society for being too different. also a good sign of Miles's character that he acknowledges his privilege. That sort of thing was much less common in the 90s the vorkosigans own district? is that where they live or do they rule it? is Miles a prince? "Yes, rank, social or military, had its uses. Miles meant to acquire all he could before he was done." page 9 he chooses to walk rather than inconvenience the jerks his disabiity sounds severe, having to wear braces and having trouble walking very far his pride makes him hide his trouble base is free of infantry until summer page 10 the air inside is 98.6! who works here? the meteorology officer is a drunk in his underwear page 11 this is Lieutenant Anh hes been in this terrible assignment for fifteen years you have to wonder what he could have done to deserve that he runs into a jogging sergeant maybe in the lobby page 12 "Miles stood with his legs slightly apart, threw back his head, and stared up with equal force. The man seemed totally oblivious to Miles’s collar tabs. Exasperated, Miles snapped, “Are all the keepers on vacation, or is anybody actually running this bloody zoo?'" "With a cold flare of his carved nostril, the Base Commander glared down at Miles and growled, “I run it, Ensign." Chapter 2 page 1 Anh is awake, hungover, and breathing poorly "Ha?” Ahn looked up, and returned his salute automatically. “What the devil are you, ah . . . Ensign?” this dude lost an entire day Miles seizes the chance to trick this dude into teaching him something Anh looks him over ever so briefly and moves on he names all the computers womens names page 2 he tapes the procedural discs under each piece of gear he names his coffee pot Georgette Anh turns in a slow 360 to meditate (or maybe predict the weather?) just past the shortest night of the year in summer must be the north pole? "Kyril Island was an egg-shaped lump about seventy kilometers wide and one-hundred-sixty kilometers long, and over five hundred kilometers from the next land of any description. Lumpy and brown described most of it, both base and island." nobody bothered with agricultural terraforming so this is a thing now, making worlds more like earth talking about bleakness "To the near south, the leaden sea heaved, muting the sun’s best efforts at sparkle. To the far north a gray line marked the border of the tundra at a chain of dead volcanic mountains." hed been in snow before but here the sea air seeps into his bones at every old break (which is many) page 3 Anh is shocked to learn that Miles's dad is Lord Vorkosigan Admiral Count, conqueror of Komarr, hero of Escobar, Lord Regent to the emperor "I have seen him laugh in pure delight, standing on the dock at Vorkosigan Surleau and yelling instructions over the water, the morning I first sailed, dumped, and righted the skimmer by myself. I have seen him weep till his nose ran, more dead drunk than you were yesterday, Ahn, the night we got the word Major Duvallier was executed for espionage. I have seen him rage, so brick-red we feared for his heart, when the reports came in fully detailing the stupidities that led to the last riots in Solstice. I have seen him wandering around Vorkosigan House at dawn in his underwear, yawning and prodding my sleepy mother into helping him find two matching socks. He’s not like anything, Ahn. He’s the original. “He cares about Barrayar,” Miles said aloud at last, as the silence grew awkward. “He’s . . . a hard act to follow.” Miles think Ahn would be more prejudiced if he wasnt so stoked about his coming retirement page 4 What is Vor? "I’m Vor,” said Miles impatiently. “I serve. Or at any rate, I try to. Wherever I’m put. That was the deal.” what are wah-wahs? Miles doesnt mind beatings but he hates practical jokes - same explains ropes between buildings and how to fall without breaking bones "...you must never let yourself get caught without your cold gear, or more than fifteen minutes away from a bunker. There’s bunkers all around the grubs’ practice fields out there.” Ahn waved his arm in that direction. He seemed quite serious, even earnest. “You hear that siren, you run like hell for cover. The size you are, if you ever got picked up and blown into the sea, they’d never find you again.'" spoiler alert - good foreshadowing about the dangers and the bunkers he wonders how Anh gets his numbers page 5 "'You’re not just making them up, are you?” said Miles in suspicion. “No!” said Ahn. “I hadn’t thought about it, but . . . it’s the way the day smells, I guess.” He inhaled deeply, by way of demonstration." theres no such thing as a smellometer "When Ahn leaves, this island is going to experience an 11-to-21% drop in forecast accuracy. They’re going to notice." page 6 Anh is trashed so Miles gets to work more good foreshadowing "Base personnel, Miles had been given to understand, had grown extremely tired of picking lost antigrav sleds out of the frigid sea. Not to mention their late drivers." one of the ableist Greeks from earlier is at the motor pool when Miles gets there page 7 Miles has to constantly preclvent himself from going off, but hes gotten good at it "Concentrate on the task, not the bloody audience. You’ve always had an audience. Probably always will." he realizes its gonna be a year or two before people respect him every time he goes to a new post page 8 hes enjoying being alone for once hes late so he decided to camp out for four hours til its light again he parks where Pattas told him to park on a video he saw a portapotty flying horizontally and decides he needs to weigh down his tent page 9 to that end he attaches a chain from his tent to the scat cat he reads, goes to sleep, then wakes up in darkness even though it should be bright out hes experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning and is stuck in the muck, tent all squished up "Miles shoved one finger against the thin cold plastic. It yielded slowly, like soft butter, and retained the dented impression. What the hell . . . ?" hes underground, stuck in some sort of slow mud page 10 he tells himself to relax he thinks about the ice poking tube in the scat cat, then realizes the scat cat is pulling him down he hs a terrible vision of people finding his gross body he gets a rib from the tent and pokes it through a small gap in the zipper "He’d feared the black mud would pour in, drowning him at once, but it only crept in extrusive blobs, to fall with oozing plops. The comparison was obvious and repulsive. God, and I thought I’d been in deep shit before." he turns the heat tube off to put in his pocket and its pitch black hes running out of time page 11 he unzips his boots and undoes his belt buckle he pulls in tons of mud to make room, then surges upward "His legs slid out of his boots and pants, his hips sucked free, and he rolled away. He lay spread-eagled for maximum support on the treacherous surface, faceup to the gray swirling sky. His uniform jacket and long underwear were soaked with slime, and he’d lost one thermal sock, as well as both boots and his trousers. It was sleeting." later his colleagues find him freezing in the weather station, having busted a piece of equipment to use to signal Anh back in HQ. He's alive, but boy is he pissed | |||
| The Thing (1982) with Dave H | 25 Nov 2024 | 02:33:29 | |
In this one, Friend of DeSoto and entertainment lawyer Dave H swings by to discuss one of the scariest movies of all time, The Thing, directed by John Carpenter.
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ennio morricone it sounds carpentery but its not! interesting flying saucer! shaky dolly across a sweet snowy ridge this husky looks so happy were shootin dogs! look at these cute old dudes playing ping pong "Poor baby youre startin to lose it, arent you?" he poured whiskey into his computer! wtf hell of an opener boss looks like discount robert stack theyve been cut off for two weeks? ominous Nauls like to skate "maybe were at war with Norway" Macready has to fly them even though the weather sucks this dogs biding his time Nauls likes stevie, doesnt actually turn it down dogs peekin spooky norwegian place is torched bloody axe in a door icicles everywhere corpse in a chair cut his wrists but also his throat? good depth of set here cute doggy waiting for them groovy steam comin off the multicorpse guy sounds like Brimley but looks like Beatty spooky dog freaks out the others this monster dog is so nasty, launching tentacles and spider legs its got a goo hose "idont know what the hells in there but its weird and pissed off, whatever it is" Childs torches it long silent pause while they absorb the situation autopsy on the creature they find the spot they dug something up and head out to investigate big saucer theyre awfully blase about ice climbing why is the ice blue? "i just cannot believe all this voodoo bullshit" i love Keith David! he was in precinct 13, they live, fire king in adventure time groovy computer program describing cells this computer is extremely sophisticated if it can project something and describe it in simple terms like that guy says we should burn them "you cant burn the find of the century. thats gonna win somebody the Nobel prize" oh dude its goopin the boys talk out in the Thiokol - Blairs journal says the things are still alive uh oh Bennings got absorbed they torched him theyre using so much fuel odd that Garry isnt taking charge everyone seems to defer to Mac action packed bit where Blair is losing it. he killed the dogs, messed up the computers tractor and the choppers locking Blair into the toolshed "trusts a tough thing to come by these days. why dont you just trust in the lord." Blair says to watch Clark closely theyre gonna make a blood serum test paranoid mess after the blood packs are found to be damaged Windows tries to get a gun they decide Mac should hold the weapons whoa Mac decides theyre gonna drug Garry Clark and Copper with morphine "Nobody trusts anybody now. We're all very tired." everyone should prepare their own meals and eat out of cans in case a single particle could take someone over Fuchs finds Macs ripped up coat guys go out to find him they check on Blair "I hear funny things out here." Fuchs bought it. did he burn himself? "were going to my shack. What for? Cus when i left yesterday i turned the lights off." lights are on "Childs, what if were wrong about him? then were wrong" "anybody touches me and we go" thing eats Coppers hands and then goes full nightmare they cook it but the head escapes spider head peeks out Mcready decides to tie everyone up and test their blood "you see when a man bleeds, its just tissue. the blood of one of you things wont obey when its attacked" mac heats up a wire and plans to cook the different samples to see if they react whoa they cooked Palmer and he did the fun stuntman fire walk, rushed through a wall then exploded apparently they stop needing to use the fire extinguisher "i know you gentleman have been through a lot, but when you find the time id rather not spend the rest of this winter tied to this fucking couch!" Blair got out. someone mustve let him out theres a secret lair underneath the shed? hes made himself a spaceship? now theyre hunting Blair Childs leaves the camp and then the power goes out the thing wants to freeze and wait for rescue Mac blows up the little ship they break in using a little tractor to use the fuel theyre lighting everything up room by room great lighting in the generator room omg its so nasty when Blair invades Garrys face and drags him off Mac is worried, hes got a stick of d and a lighter damn that thing can roll underground, shit now its a sandworm dinosaur "yeah, fuck you too" so nasty it blows big Mac survives, hes outside, hes drinkin "how will we make it?" "maybe we shouldnt" "why dont we just wait here a little while? see what happens." Childs takes a drink and the bumbums come in howd the guy live being frozen "because hes a space guy'"
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| The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapters 1-6 with James Lark | 18 Nov 2024 | 02:21:35 | |
In this one, James Lark phones in from jolly old London to discuss the first book in The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud.
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I ask you
chapter one
"The sulfur cloud contracted into a thick column of smoke that vomited forth thin tendrils; they licked the air like tongues before withdrawing. The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcano. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke.
"Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him."
kid makes sure its the correct demon.
"Are you that B-Bartimaeus who in olden times was summoned by the magicians to repair the walls of Prague?” What a time waster this kid was. Who else would it be? I upped the volume a bit on this one… ‘I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni, N’gorso the Mighty, and the Serpent of Silver Plumes! I have rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak, and Prague. I have spoken with Solomon. I have run with the buffalo fathers of the plains. I have watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people. I am Bartimaeus!’"
most young magicians are cautious. the kid is punching above his weight
B thinks the kid should be thinking about cars and girls and not summoning
"I charge you to retrieve the Amulet of Samarkand from the house of Simon Lovelace and bring it to me when I summon you at dawn tomorrow.” “You what?” “I charge you to retrieve—” “Yes, I heard what you said.” I didn’t mean to sound petulant. It just slipped out, and my sepulchral tones slipped a bit too."
the wizard has to send them away thrice unless they choose to leave before that B thinks someone is taking advantage of kid we're in London, must be close to modern day if there are racing cars kids room is decorated spartanly - B wonders why there are no posters of pop stars or football players the amulet belongs to Simon Loveless. He is bad news and will get it back the Systemic Vise is some nasty spell to hurt demons
chapter 2
B can turn into animals it hurts to be corporeal changing forms helps but it burns up his energy
he wonders about the kid and what will happen to his rep when other demons learn hes controlled by a child he can see on seven planes - humans can only see one magic protections equal wealth. do people pay mages to set it up or are only mages wealthy?
the house is well defended, including three weird looking sentries he turns into a mole to go under the shield
chapter three
B is a being of fire and air so he hates earth you dont notice it on the audiobook but he has little asides in the endnotes he heard voices in the house and sees a vent. he becomes a fly
chapter 4
two people in a room, one woman fawning over a dude, Simon Lovelace he thought he might turn into this lady next time he sees the kid. i cant picture that happening onscreen lol endnote -
"For those who are wondering, I have no difficulty in becoming a woman. Nor for that matter a man. In some ways I suppose women are trickier, but I won’t go into that now. Woman, man, mole, maggot—they’re all the same, when all’s said and done, except for slight variations in cognitive ability."
Lovelace has an imp on his shoulder so B cant enter til it leaves B clearly hates ordinary human behavior.
"The magician was talking. He did little else. The woman gazed at him with spaniel eyes so wide and silly with adoration that I wanted to bite her."
shes named Amanda so we have a prime minister and sycophants. is there a king or queen? a house of commons? how similar to earths is the government?
Carter arrives, one of SLs servants
he has a friend, a playwright named Makepeace. SL and Amanda will be going to the theater he considers using magic.
"I debated sending out a discreet magical pulse to see if I could detect the whereabouts of the magician’s artifacts, but decided that it was far too risky. The sentry creatures outside might pick it up, for one thing, even if there was no further guard. I, the fly, would have to go hunting myself."
theres a frog alarm disguised as a smoke detector, so we're definitely in the electronic age B does good spywork, following the mark, going to the most well defended door he can turn into smoke! he goes under the door and then turns into a child.
he thinks about being the magic kid, but cant because he doesnt know his name. instead he becomes a dark skinned boy from Bs past, someone he loved? demons can love... kid was from the Nile, so perhaps pharaoh times?
the room is full of magical bits and bobs, which B scoffs at theres a golems eye which is super powerful. he figures SL doesnt know that. he says some stuff about magical tourism.
"Magical tourism…I ask you.5 Well, with luck it might kill him some day."
according to the endnote, B doesnt care about cultural vandalism, he just finds it vulgar he sees the amulet in a glass case.
"The Amulet was small, dull, and made of beaten gold. It hung from a short gold chain. In its center was an oval piece of jade. The gold had been pressed with simple notched designs depicting running steeds. Horses were the prize possessions of the people from central Asia who had made the Amulet three thousand years before and had later buried it in the tomb of one of their princesses."
he breaks the glass and grabs it. something on the seventh plane is coming. a portal is opening and something is coming through. he bolts for the door. his fist blows up the door turns out the toad isnt just an alarm, it also spits acid. B shrinks it with a compression spell. B can make force fields so he throws one up and keeps running. Something called a Detonation sends him flying into the wall.
"The impact was so great that I was sent flying headlong at an angle down the corridor and half into the wall. Green flames licked around me, leaving streaks on the decor like the fingers of a giant hand."
a red skinned demon shouts Bs name. B rolls down the stairs and looks at the front door. The sentries are out there so he heads to the back of the house. he comes to a kitchen with an attached greenhouse. he runs in and puts a Seal on the door to the hall. near the fire is a cook with a meat cleaver.
"He was sitting far back in his chair with his shoes on the kitchen table, a fat, jovial-looking man with a red face and a meat cleaver in his hand. He was studiously paring his nails with the cleaver, flicking each fragment of nail expertly through the air to land in the fireplace beside him. As he did so he watched me continuously with his dark little eyes."
Its Faquarl! he and B have history, and he must be strong because B is on his best behavior detonations hit the door but the seal holds Jabor must be the red guy. apparently hes gotten more addicted to violence ove rthe years
"Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen,’ that’s your master’s watchword, is it? Still, he must be fairly potent to be able to have you and Jabor as his slaves.”
Faquarl does not like the S word. He says he and Jabor are playing the long game Faquarl tells him to give back the amulet. he cant do that. endnote 7
"Not strictly correct. I could have given over the Amulet and thus failed in my charge. But then, even if I had managed to escape from Faquarl, I would have had to return empty-handed to the pale-faced boy. My failure would have left me at his tender mercy, doubly in his power, and somehow I knew this was not a good idea."
B tries to edge toward the window. F tells him its silly and pointless. calls the sentries triloids. B goes to return the amulet, leaps to the side and drops the Seal. The detonation shoots through the opening and hurls F into the fire. B bolts and gets into the garden. The triloids come for him so he makes an Illumination, blinding them. He tears ass through it and gets out of the yard, hitting the alarm field as he goes. he hears hooves so turns into a peregrine falcon. he takes off across the city, F and J following
"Suffice it to say, however, that when Faquarl and Jabor landed in the Hampstead backstreet, creating an invisible obstruction that was immediately hit by a speeding moving van, I was nowhere to be seen."
i dont know what this means
chapter 5
Nathaniel heres where we find out how awful the kids master is. hes got big white eyebrows
"Remember this,” he said in a soft voice. “Demons are very wicked. They will hurt you if they can. Do you understand this?”
master doesnt think the kid really gets it.
"Oh, yes, sir; yes, I do, sir. Demons are wicked and they are hurtful and they will hurt you if you let them, sir.”
hes only seen demons in books (are we back in time or is he lying?) Master tells him to go to his office, get his spectacles, wear them, then return.
"Never having been beyond this point before, he had nothing but nursery stories to furnish his ideas of what might be waiting in his master’s study. Terrible images of stuffed crocodiles and bottled eyeballs sprang garishly into his mind. Furiously he drove them out again."
he enters the office. it seems ordinary. he sees the box on a table. he heads toward it. he tries to touch it but it keeps moving. its too hot. the whole room seems to be alive with noises. pens start rolling in all directions. something laughs in his ear. he lashes out. he grabs the mastersglasses, runs for the door. it slams shut. he hears all this motion. shouts begone. sounds stop but then start again. he puts on the glasses.
"A hundred small demons filled every inch of the space in front of him. They were stacked one on top of the other all over the room, like seeds in a melon or nuts in a bag, with feet squishing faces and elbows jabbed into bellies. So tightly were they clustered that the very carpet was blocked out. Leering obscenely, they squatted on the desk, hung from the lights and bookcases, and hovered in midair. Some balanced on the protruding noses of others or were suspended from their limbs. A few had huge bodies with heads the size of oranges; several displayed the reverse. There were tails and wings and horns and warts and extra hands, mouths, feet, and eyes. There were too many scales and too much hair and other things in impossible places."
the demons jump him, not hurting him but menacing him terribly for twenty minutes. it was immensely traumatizing. his master never explained it or even discussed it. it bred deep resentment in Nathaniel.
"This was one of Nathaniel’s earliest experiences. He did not speak of it to anyone, but the shadow of it never left his heart. He was six years old at the time."
chapter 6
Bartimaeus has the amulet but it sends out a powerful aura so anyone aware of magic can follow it to the source. Bartimaues still has hours to go before hes summoned again, so hes constantly moving from one hideout to the next. small red spheres are moving all over the city, looking for it.
there were so many Lovelace had to have other magicians assisting him with the search. finally hes too tired to keep switching and moving, so he goes to Trafalgar square to blend in with other magic items and people, as a way to obscure the amulets position.
B flies in and turns into the egyptian boy again, wearing jeans and a tshirt. tourists are looking at so called magical trinkets, snapping pictures and whatnot. some people were magicians, mostly from government. one had an imp but the majority were without demons. a few regular police and some hairy night police.
b goes to look at a stall but realizes a gang of kids are looking at him. He doesnt know why, but he tries to mill about and get rid of them. he wondered why they were following him. it couldnt have been to mug him, he was clearly broke.
he manages to lose them by going into the subway and popping back up on the other side of the road. He hunkers down in another alley behind some bins. He smiles, thinking hes lost them.
“I was wrong.”
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| The Colour of Magic (2008), Part 1 with Dean Eaton | 11 Nov 2024 | 02:38:31 | |
In this one, Dean Eaton swings by to discuss Part 1 of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (2008). Lindsey had to step back from the show for personal reasons, so until Jeff finds a permanent cohost we'll be swapping between various properties with different guests.
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Recommendations
Omniversal Escapades The Good Doctor Discworld, Book 3: Equal Rites The Dresden Files The Witcher (book series) The Fatal Wish
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Jeff Richardson
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@geekusdean on the various socials
Links
Star Trek: The Next Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%27s_Dragon_(1977_film)
Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse
Extended Notes
purple sky in a distant and second hand set of dimensions through wavering star mists see the great A'tuin big turtle, four giant elephants, discworld astrozoologists what is the sex of the turtle ankh morpork - sean astin twoflower is the worlds first tourist good looking city pretty good cgi eight heads of the order of wizardry
"when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, hes tired of life. Im just speculating, obviously" - Tim Curry wizard
old rumlet died Rincewind shows up late - David Jason? its a real sausage fest here rincewind isnt even level 1 so he gets bumped who killed Narrowbolt? interesting architecture one weird lady making charms rincewind leave Unseen University stirs magic? bums steals food in market why is Astin so modern and these clods are medieval or renaissance? Is Rincewind possessed by purple juice? being protected by magic Rincewind sees gold and he wants it! sapient pear wood trunk has legs RWs robe is so janky fun whip pans tavern set has good depth Rincewind can speak Trob he says he can help tourist stay alive Bes Pelargic best port of Agatean Empire
"he says he's a tourist Huh? Whats that mean then? I think it means idiot."
scum finds out tourist has gold Ymor the thief finds out whore pits and slave markets? yikes Jeremy Irons the Patrician chewing the scenery hes got a fake widows peak and a speech impediment Zlorf the assassin these dwarves seem dangerous Bruff of the guild of merchants and traders the magic flash makes them fight each other? what do you say to that? you say yes. i say yes! Rincewind has to protect sean astin and not run away
"if i were you id sue my face for slander"
sees barfight, tries to run trunk wont let him escape tourist is taking pictures and loving the fight picture imp inside the camera fun monochrome pictures of their adventures Death played by christopher lee tourist tells rw about insurance its like a bet inn blows up its funny how unheroic these two are terrible horse riding effect purple chained book octovo the spells in it are buggin it missed RW so now chancellor needs to get him back so it will settle down the book Horace is chancos homey tim curry mr tryman wacked narrowbolt room at the top how to succeed at wizardy he goes to open it and it has scary knives is harace the head librarian? trymon wants to take over as chancellor so he needs to ice Spoghold Grog rw cant find 2f pit of ultimate despair dread tower of darkness hospitable temple of belshab theroth the wyrmburg and the palace of the dragon lord hubward and rimward rw is about to be eaten by wolves poison snake on the branch! purple light again box scares off wolves and grabs him dragons dont exist anymore wicked gear door trymon wants in they really get their moneys worth with that fake bookcase missing spell spold doesnt know where it is trymon peeps on spold, then slaps goo in his lock timelapse clouds music is pretty damn annoying birds are cheesy as heck have there been any women in this yet? he sees a floating mountain - is it wyrmberg? rincewind is on the luggage invisible dragon grabs 2flower more bad horse action homeboy hits branch and falls down a magic sword tells RW to pull it out of the stone
"could be worse. this could have been an anvil." what? horace and chanco come to see sklop they see the keyhole was covered sklop is dead rw beats dragon lady using magic sword and says lets go to wyrmberg dragon is see through dragon looks video gamey but cool music is pretty generic fantasy our first lady the set looks great, like stone carved to look like dragon sces rw has hog boots now trymon seems to have killed glorp, chats with chanco outside his office AC shouts - did Trymon kill the AC? tourist is in jail, so stoked to have seen dragons tourist is a dragon lord? for some reason it likes him dragon melts the bars - long silly effect arch chancellors hat is on the ground... but AC is still alive he set a big axe spring trap RW is upside down with his sword chica is bangin, turns out her sword has a personality too rw and her magic swords battle
"ive seen sharper butter knives"
his boots break and now hes hanging off her he drops and 2f and dragon catches him
"its not the actual falling, its more the hitting that bothers me"
he dropped the sword at the edge of the world, The Krullians are still hoping to learn the sex of the turtle they have a cool ramp and a purple guy asking about chelonauts 12 hours until the launch RE and 2flower are drifting close to the edge of discworld
"we're going to run out of world! well i definitely want to see that!"
RW wind might die, the octavo is not happy about it horace comes to see arch chancellor weatherwax, trymon blocks him chanco is sleeping, an anvil trap over his head horace smells burning chanco wakes up confused and worried anvil drops horace says that after rw touched the octavo, he never won any exams such an obvious outcrop 2flower resuscitates RW rw doesnt like hugs 2f convinces him to see the bright side and shakes hands RW tells him about the octavo and the spell
"settled in my memory like a toad in a stone"
trymon and horace look at the octavo Trymon learns that no one knows what the spell does they marvel at the edge of the world theres a circumfence then a boat arrives they crank it and find a city at the edge of the world
"do you see the eighth color? thats the color of magic"
rw points out a new star a boat rolls up they get in luggage is coming trymon sees arch chancellor making a big arrow ac has magic mirror and is gonna shoot Rincewind. he says the spell will come back on the ionized path and enter chanco he and trymon banter about the eight spells trymon has dagger horace runs in
"its The octavo. iti going really ape"
the spells are restless horace opens door to octavo did chanco go in? welcome to Krull my name is Marchesa black woman with spear plans to sacrifice them somehow RW beats everyone up and the two get away big chest is going into ocean to reach them trapped on an island Tourist pulls a thing and theyre in the ball room looks like star systems rincewind isnt as stoked they beat up two dudes and wear the space costumes cut to the arena: crowd is stoked vehicle is ready purple coat guy gives a speech
"highly skilled chelonauts"
the two are suited up
"i just think i need to boldly go"
"heroes not just of Krull but the galaxy" pc guy oh no theyre going up to the ship octavo is screechin wizards are in front of it silly purple effect shoots up to the ceiling its going up out of the university into the sky theres a chimp wizard - head librarian Horace the guys arrive at the ship, the goons are pursuing them 2f is opening it rincewind is not into it but the enemy chelonauts are coming 2f gets stuck in hatch countdown is going the wizards see the Octavo looking like discworld blowing up with mist - a warning?
"to the tower of art!"
wizards climbing stairs 8888 of them it didnt blow up but it made a big mist a countdown while 2f is tryingg to get inside hatch and the ship is about to go a new star
"the whole damn sky is full of worlds"
ac says the only way to know whats happening is to perform the rite of ashkente mist is a change spell created by the octavo
“the whole world is changing...for the better, I think."
arrow went through ACs hat Trymon dumped him off the edge we see whole discworld ship is spinning so they can see the edge tourist says the new star is so pretty, he should name it trymon is now the arch chancellor oops they went under the whole thing they seem to be moving near the new star
"ill give it a name: goodbye, world"
theyre on a collision course!
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| The Wizard of Oz (1939) with Ben Mooney | 17 Oct 2024 | 02:35:43 | |
Ben Mooney of Back to the Futurama fame joins us to discuss Jeff's favorite film, The Wizard of Oz. We get deep into the weeds on this one, from class struggle to female scientists to the drawbacks of John Carpenter films. Toby Keith gets a shoutout and Glinda gets a critical reappraisal.
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The Vanishing (Dutch Version) Alan Wake 2 Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty Social Media Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
Bluesky: ben.vampirefriday.org Mastadon: benmo@sunny.garden Links Return to Oz Supernatural "Skin" 1-6 The Thing Doctor Who The Hobbit Alice in Wonderland Avatar Citizen Kane William Randolph Hearst Rupert Murdoch Gone With the Wind Mr Rogers Rocky Horror Picture Show Legend Clue Muppet Treasure Island Labyrinth David Bowie The White Rose Society Jurassic Park Alien Gandhi Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Princess Bride The Ring Twin Peaks: The Return Murder She Wrote Hannibal What We Do in the Shadows Dracula Speak No Evil James McAvoy
BRING BACK THE INTERMISSION A Movie-Ass Movie movies stayed in theaters sometimes for years live show during a movie make every movie a rocky horror picture show theyre not all winners LIPSKIN Oh we've had a beef for some time some loudass birds what is this statue for? you can't blame a tornado on a dog I'm not saying Toto is on a weight loss journey Make every effect you can a practical effect abandoned Oz theme park youre gonna need another boat she could be a chaotic good witch a good post-murder party you gotta have snacks where's the Orange Brick Road go? magic ethereal background singers! you don't know the rules! owls and vultures look like shit far too many monkeys the witch is so evil she cackles at US a Prime Directive violation par excellence Breakdown [Don't Watch It] Buying a Costume: the coward's way out Lindsey Nelsen: Certified Spooky Person™️ Ben's Haunted House so many nieces and nephews Backtothefuturama.com Goodmorninggreendale.com ringmybell.sexandlasers.com love the wind sound during the overture victor fleming production/directed as well munchkins arent credited? dedicated to the Young in Heart like when time magazines person of the year was You chicks chirping! aunt em is she playing younger than 16? wavin that dang hammer at her lovin the walk on the stall in a nice dress thing shes gonna get ate by the pigs! Zekes the cowardly lion! Aunt Em cant put up with lollygaggers well dont start posing for it now! its no place for dorothy qround a pig sty now go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia! some place where there isnt any trouble we must discuss the classic anti Jewish stereotype witch/ Miss Gulch (not in the book?) (Uncle Henry has a long beard in the book and both he and Em are gray and dour, no laughter) toto whimpering! never heard it before Elmyra Gulch for 23 years ive been dying to tell you what i thought of you and now, well, being a christian woman i cant say it Totos a sneaker you came back! good reason to run away does this mean that Toto's to blame for this entire mess? or Dorothy for letting him in the garden? this part is kind of dull visually but the banter is good no one would ever leave their tray of food down near where a loose dog could get it. sheer madness i like how the branches are moving out the door winds pickin up!! a whopper! to speak in the language of the peasantry! that model looks amazing the twister always scares the shit out of me you can tell Judy Garland is a stage actor dancer type and not a farmgirl, yankin on the cellar door limply (in the book the cellar door is inside the house) i just yelled get away from the window! even though ive seen this fifteen times cart tree chickens knitting lady shes dead cow dead two guys rowing dead Miss Gulch! oh shit shes a witc this song is so scary i forget how scary the music is when watching it with an album oh! cute utterance amid total silence toto in full color is even cuter Munchkin village really could be a theme park area (in book Munchkins are Dorothy's height, i think they aged Dorothy up for the film) Toto, I have a feelling were not in Kansas anymore oh this bitch Glenda the good witch (from the book - pic at bottom of notes) (in book a Munchkin suggests she go to the wizard. doesnt explain why she cant go but plants a protective kiss on her) i need you to wage war on this other witch ONLY BAD WITCHES ARE UGLY shes gone where the goblins go its funny how they try to make the kids look older with wildass makeup Glinda is on valium for sure smiling through the death chat dude is swinging his sword around in the middle of this melee ok what these people are tiny yet their doors still dont fit them lullaby league has super squeaky song wicked witch of the east seems so goofy where are the slippers? Glinda is such a shit stirrer the witchs exit is so dramatic what a smell of sulfur she doesnt seem all that surprised to find out Oz also has trouble Glinda you vile shit stirrer - dont take off those slippers! Glinda's slippers must rule if she doesnt even try to take the ruby ones it seems like the edits last long as Toto stays on task - i wonder how many takes he ruined bet Garland was having to feed him treats anytime the camera came on (theres a ton of eating in the books but not in the film) why scary music for Scarecrow? brown nose? (in the book everyone in the East wears blue, even the scarecrow) i could while away the hours pickin wild flowers individal! shes really good at gassing up her homeys how do you follow the ybr if it splits four ways? uh oh witch be right here? wild. why doesnt she just kill her right here? why its a man! oil can! rusting rain! did this paint give him cancer? who sang that lady part? fucking weird WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO? wtf i cant remember a time this has ever happened in cinema - possibly a Mel Brooks? can he throw his voice? i need to know the extent of the tin mans powers toto loves him the toot toot spooked Toto what are D and SC whisperin about? oh takin him with them to the wizard witch cacklin on the roof? wanna play ball?!!! this woman just tried to ignite poor SC oh yeah its lion time lions and tigers and bears oh my whats wrong with you teachin em? Dorothy just slapped him on the face! (in the book Lion asks what Toto is made of and Dorothy says hes a meat dog!) afraid of sheep! without the vim and voive! if the wizard is a wizard who will serve (id love it if the lion was a literal lion like in the book, though who will ever redo the Wizard of Oz?) gorgeous matte painting at the end of wizard of oz song - i want it as a mural witchypoo is doing something dastardly (in the book the witch doesnt make the poppies appear!) poppies will put them to sleep! get high people sc and tm dont breathe so theyre fine (itb they leave Lion in the field! theres this whole section where the queen of mice and her subjects help rescue Lion) (itb Lion talks like a dnd paladin) i have this strange memory of wearing a Lion costume and playing TCL, but surely not cuz i dont remember anything else about it snow neutralizes poppy poison? but then rusts poor TM "somebody always helps that girl" well bust my buttons! lookat these green motherfuckers velvet tophat! oh no its the king of the forest song yeah i dont like this guys shtick tm just broke a pot to do a bit? chaos why the huh at the end? dont cry dorothy! door guy had an Aunt Em once? bizarre the green cathedral hall is real spooky Toto! boveen fodder damn wiz really is ordering them to their deaths lion leaps through a window with no apparent injury wrench net gas and gun those owls are the worst thing in the movie wait maybe the vultures are worse that flying monkey should use the slippers, take control homey too many monkeys Toto! i bet those monkeys stink so many spears missed Toto! holy shit she's so evil she cackles AT US! Toto goes to get the guys! climbing with lions tail! its slow goin witchy is into brutalist architecture olia jo um owium jo um hooknosed green mongols with naginatas they all managed to get their asses kicked oz is parked right next to the front door? what a doofus a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how you are loved by others You are looking at a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified so the message is stay at home? surely she just means for two years until graduation, yeah? now i know ive got a heart, cuz its breaking say goodbye toto theres no place like home she'll have to give up Toto anyway, unless Gulch ate it in the storm
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| The X-Files: "Beyond the Sea" and "Humbug" | 01 Oct 2024 | 01:49:12 | |
In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff break down two exception X-Files episodes, “Beyond the Sea” and “Humbug”, from season one and season two, respectively. Lon Suder and the Enigma feature prominently, and the Man From Another Place even makes an appearance! Next time: The Wizard of Oz! Please join our Discord server and get to know the fam! Lindsey's podcasts
Cool Breeze over the Mountains
Jeff's podcasts
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show) James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Recommendations
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) with Jamie Loftus Dickenson on Apple TV+ The Maid and the Crodocile by Jordan Ifueko
Social Media
Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon
Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show)
Links
"Whatever Lola Wants She Gets" COPS chasin a werewolf episode Star Trek: The Next Generation Extended Notes
Beyond the Sea
season 1 ep 13
its christmas! her dad likes to tease her is she religious? she rebels by punishing herself with pine needles lol mom doesnt know why he wants to leave early? or does she know something? ohhh she wants dad to admit hes proud of Dana motherfuckers will pay anything to look like they have hair whats dad saying? we lost your dad :( hes a ghost! our first look at the credits groovy song seems more like the credits of an unexplained mysteries inappropriate, Dana shes shocked to be called Dana by Mulder Luther Lee Boggs - Brad Dourif Boggs is a family annihilator what do we know about FAs LLB wants to meet Mulder Dana works to deal with pain Mulder is sweet with Dana he wanted to be spread in the sea and not buried at Arlington french beyond the sea
"he was your father"
what does that mean?! what four letter words would you put on your fists? LLB channeling, he really goes for it have you ever seen someone channel for real? Ramtha in Yelm can convicts have earrings?
"i gotta go, i gotta go"
he sings the tune! but not in French? is that just for us or does it mean anything this music is so creepy haunting horns, feathery strings Mulder is mad!
"I thought that youd be pleased that id opened myself up to extreme possibilities"
"I love this job" "You love your father"
spooky circle pan so wet dont go near the white cross your blood spills on the white cross oh dang Mulder got it in the leg Danas trippin was Lucas Henry Boggs's partner? wow Scully says some angry nonsense Dana sees Mulder? its always odd when cops are hallucinating yet stay at work whoa now hes channeling Scully at 14!
"theres plenty o room in that cold dark place for liars, Scully"
is it proof that he hasnt reformed not giving up the boys location? or is saving your own life enough to justify letting someone dies? great prison model! Cops lie! Bearing false witness is a commandment and your good catholic girl Scully crossed that one right off the list its our ACAB moment of the day circles, barrels, huge vats condemned factory old blue devil brewery
"dont follow Henry to the devil, leave that to me"
wow Scully just rolls into view, shes feelin reckless lol she sent a goon on ahead love that rat squeakage oops Boggs got him she didnt really need that warning considering it was all the way across the room
"I believe that if you had orchestrated this kidnapping, Lucas Henry would have been aware of the danger you warned me about"
hes got some wild eyebrows i trim mine, did men not do that in the 90s? ugh the death penalty sucks...im reminded of The Player and also Dead Man Walking Mulder is like now you dont believe? weird "I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe."
"He was my father."
Mulders soft touch on her arm - what a chap
Humbug
season 2 ep 20
weird reddish face of guy in the woods hand all funky kids playing in pool green eyes something in the water weird red gloopy mouth? goes in water, scares gatorman kills gatorman 48 attacks!! same weird weapon sounds like a hungry monster, like flukeman Scully is stunned by the idea of being ugly the freak funeral is great suspects!
"they rod and thy staff"
pastor has no arms so uses his feet bearded lady is gatormans wife subway ghost from Ghost! Vincent Schiavelli
"i cant wait for the wake"
Jerry was an escape artist Hepcat Helm, artist that drew fishman Hepcat seems spooky
"Who are the rubes?"
"Its a tabernacle of terror." "Its a fun house"
Dead monkey sewn onto the tail of a fish a genuine fake
"you never where the truth ends and the humbug begins"
is the Fiji Mermaid real?
"Do you recall what Barnum said about suckers?"
lil man works behind the bar - is this the Man From Another Place? he reads Mulder!
"your unimaginative necktie design"
Larry loved the freak life he would show off his dead conjoinedbrother Leonard Mr Nutt, the kindhearted manager now he carries the luggage he says the bedbug thing lol
"dont let the Fiji Mermaid bite"
oof this song is terrible
"im in a frenzy, bwaaaaah"
Mermaid wastes the prop guy its Xenomorphin Time Mulder sees someone swimmin he has a fish! its the Enigma! the conundrum he runs off Scullys sleepin folks are trampolinin Larrys back shows bro, peeps Scullys boob new murder Mulder TOUCHED THE BLOOD ON THE WINDOW
"theyd have to be a contortionist, or just plain crazy, or both"
escape guy not going very fast under three minutes?
"Dr Blockhead does not perform tricks!"
he claims to be from Yemen? theres blood on the nail! Tieu Bu Shan
"did you know you can train your testacles to draw up into your abdomen?"
"oh Im doing that as we speak?”
the music sort of clangs off the goofs conundrum eats all manner of stuff Scully ate a live bug Mulder wasnt into it she was doing magic!
"everybodys uncles an amateur magician"
checkin out the freak museum Chang and Eng museum docent has a melty half face this guy has real Garak vibes hes in five xfiles eps canadian actor last role was in 2019 twilight zone, "The Blue Scorpion" the exotic life of the Dog-faced boy good mirror stuff with melty guy charging a cop to investigate is shady is he locking her in here?! treasure chest its empty door to rear exit opens? Mulder at trailer, snooping around find guy under trailer did Mulder just pretend to make a pass at him? an orphan discovered in the wild forest of Albania in 1943 Sheriff Hamilton was dog faced boy why did melty guy lead them to Sheriff? Sheriff be diggin doin somethin with a knife is this a setup? does he know theyre watching? show got me thinkin paranoid thoughts spooky bushes again hyperthrosis does not include lycanthropy theyre just calmly admitting to spying on Sheriff without a warrant Conundrums in a loincloth chasin a dog Trailer Manager is totes chill, takes a rent check from Conundrum in advance oh snap creature is trying to yank dude out little lady face mermaid screams at dude covered in blood Larry rolls in, says "Hes dead" Larry loved lil man weird spike thing with blood Sheriff settles Larry down
"If people knew the true price of spirituality thered be more atheists"
blockhead is a bit of a goofster he does some escape artist shenanigans knocks down Mulder Sheriff catches Blockhead someones stalking Lanny uh oh somethings arrived, Larry is trippin does he know what it is?
"I dont know why he hates me so. Ive taken care of him all our lives. perhaps that was the problem."
he thinks you cam be born bad
"how mobile could such a thing be?" "too mobile"
"What an act!" too bad hes a murderer, Blockhead
Mulder's somewhere spooky reminds me of basement in dresden files Mavra's vampire lair is this the tabernacle of terror? yep goblin laughing on string critter still lurkin Hall of Mirrors! gross creature noise she's just shooting at the creature? i know its killed but thats pretty rude they go outside - did she injure it? dog is coming too heres Conundrum critter attacks! did Conundrum eat him! Wtf
"Now you know howI feel"
Lanny died! he was a mega drunk
"Nature abhors normality. Maybe some mysteries were never meant to be solved"
"probably somethin I ate"
That was it? weird
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| The X-Files: Pilot | 25 Sep 2024 | 02:02:31 | |
In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff discuss the X-Files pilot episode. Also, if you're looking for a composer look no further than friend of the show James Lark! Find his website at Jameslark.co.uk - you'll be glad you did!
Next time: "Beyond the Sea" (season 1, episode 13) and "Humbug" (season 2, Episode 20)\
Please join our Discord server and get to know the fam! Lindsey's podcasts The Kurt Locker Cool Breeze over the Mountains Historical Hotties Jeff's podcasts Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show) James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities: jameslark.co.uk Recommendations None this week! Check the Links section for ideas!Social Media Lindsey Nelsen Instagram - LindseyCameronNelsen Tiktok - Noctisfilia (Darkness's Daughter) Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff’s livestreaming RPG show) Links Kumail Nanjiani's The X-Files Files X-Files "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" Doctor Who: "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" Extended Notes
"the following story is inspired by actual documented accounts"
Collum national forest lady running in the woods red hair and white ish night dress weirdo creep surrounded by wind spiral the dude zaps into white light leaves behind ladys body two red bumps
Karen Swenson, dead woman class of 89
2:11 "its happening again, isnt it?"
Agent Dana Scully! she doesnt get out of a mans way and its boss mean roger ebert is her boss smoking creepo is there
Agent Fox Mulder oxford educated psychologist, profiled Monty Propps in 1998 nickname of Spooky
she got a bit huffy about being assigned to debunk the x-files
Mulder's office is a trip
for a messy office is isnt that messy
he thought she was sent to spy
shes a medical doctor, teaches at the academy, undergrad in physics
Einsteins Twin Paradox
he says Oregon wrong
two distinct marks can Dr Scully ID the marks?
synthetic protein seen in her death and two others, SD and TX
she doesnt think there are aliens also she doesnt think this woman was
8:10 "Thats why they put the I in FBI"
theyre flying they hit some heavy turbulence and Mulder is straight chillin
FBI got involved, didnt find anything, then shelved the case
they go through a weird zone where radio frizzes out, card ies Mulder gets some spray paint and marks the area
11:20 "What the hell was that about? Oh you know. Probably nothing."
they meet the locals at the graveyard Greatest American Hero drives up, his daughter doesnt want him to do this, he confronts Mulder
Dr Jay Nemmon
hes defensive and thinks Mulder is accusing him. daughter begs to leave
13:22 "Guy obviously needed a longer vacation."
Ray Soames, 3rd victim accused of the murder died of exposure
13:50 "How does a 20 year old die of exposure on a warm summer night in Oregon, Doctor Scully?"
strap breaks, body rolls, and Mulder opens it up. theres a chimp corpse inside
14:25 "Its probably a safe bet Ray Soames never made the Varsity basketball team"
Autopsy of the chimp Mulder takes photos
15:30 "If its not alien, what is it?"
Scully doesnt want to do more tests Mulder orders it Scully thinks it might be an orangutan but after her exam she isnt sure
16:25 "Who is it? Stephen Spielberg."
shes just in a big shirt! Mulder asks her to walk with him she says no he wants to know about implant she claims not to care, then we see her studying x ray
they go to mental hospital meet the boss
Billy Myles is in a waking coma Peggy and he were in an accident Mulder is really sweet to her Mulder says some shit to engineer her freaking out so he can look for her two bumps Scully is disgusted
she wants to know why he expected to see the bumps
alien abduction?!
she is not into this she thinks its something non alien Scully: "how did she get there? wht were those kids doing in the forest?"
theyre in the woods that night looking for clues she finds a circle of weird ash then hears a strange noise she investigates finds a white light behind a ridge some dude walks up
22:17 Scully says she's FBI
shotgun man tells them to split they dont like it how did she get all the way back to the car without realizing? weird for the guy to be out there Scully shows Mulder the ash
what if theyre in a cult? Mulder drives, sees compass being weird light flashes, car died, they lost 9 minutes
24:25 "We just lost nine minutes!"
abductees report unexplained time loss
25:09 "Time cant disappear. Its a universal invariant!"
Scully is writing a repory, light goes out runs a bath instead robe, candle, basic 90s underwear she sees something weird she goes to Mulder, asks him to look at it theyre just mosquito bites she is so relieved she hugs him she stays with him he tells her how his sister disappeared out of the room no one would talk about it he explains how he found the X-Files
[San Francisco kid counseling service rule requiring truth about the event that damaged them]
28:44 "There's classified government information I've been trying to access, but someone has been blocking my attempts to get at it."
he says shes a part of it she says she just wants to solve this he says she needs to know he explains doing hypnosis with a doctor Heitz Werber
someone calls and says Peggy O'Dell is dead she ran in front of a truck but she was in a wheelchair before her watch stopped at 9 something
they get to the motel and its on fire all their evidence destroyed
teresa nemmon comes up "You've got to protect me"
her dad is the medical examiner
he told her not to tell anyone about it he claims he can protect her she has the marks she has a bloody nose! dad comes in and is real pushy shotgun guy is Billy Myles's father Scully says they know who did the murders
Mulder doesnt get why they destroyed evidence
whats up with the other two graves? theyre both freshly emptied Mulder thinks he knows who killed everyone Billy Myles? she says vegetable *yeesh
He says Billy moved something took control of Billy during those nine minutes you think im crazy dont you
she tells him about the watch they say this stuff summoned by some alien impulse
she laughs he does too they split
Scully sees that Billy's feet are muddy she gets a sample from his feet same stuff from the forest
they decide to go back to the forest for a sample Detective Myles is parked there they hear a scream theyre running through the trees Scully gets brained by Myles
Mulder runs after scream Myles cocks his weapon at him Mulder tells him he knows its Billy
Billy is being tornadoed with someone Dad starts to shoot Mulder tackles him
Billy has the marks light swirls Scully sees light when it goes away, Billy is there and whoever he was holding is alive bumps are gone
Mulder runs, finds Scully it was incredible
Billy is being interviewed about the light Mulder is watching he talks about the testing place? talks about getting the implant theyd give him orders
Scully is behind the glass test didnt work im afraid theyre coming back smoking man whispers and mean Roger Ebert leaves with him
Ebert tells her its wack no evidence she shows him the implant
44:30 "the material could not be identified"
She leaves office and smoking man goes in she cant sleep nice blinds shadow on her face
Mulder calls no casefile, paperwork is gone
Smoking man stashes implant in a case thay seems especially made for them super long and tall aisle he comes put and locks the door its in the pentagon
music seems unorthodox ambient plonk plonk with whiny grinding opening theme was like that as well did they not write a full theme because it was the pilot?
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| Piranesi, Part 7: Matthew Rose Sorensen (and Recap) | 17 Sep 2024 | 02:28:52 | |
Beverly Crusher challenges the universe
We wrap up the final chapter and then talk about the entire book. Then we look at One Star Goodreads reviews!
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Star Trek: The Next Generation “Remember Me” The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Part 7: Matthew Rose Sorensen
Ketterley missing cops trying to find him no one remembers him being a boat guy Officer Askill thinks its related to the reappearance of Matthew Rose Sorenson Askill thinks he held Sorenson to manufacture evidence of the other world he killed himself out of shame or because they were onto him
"Undeterred, Askill has questioned me twice. He is a young man with a pleasant, good-natured face, little brown curls all over his head and an intelligent expression. He wears a dark blue suit and a grey shirt and speaks with a Yorkshire accent"
"And where were you?’ he asks. ‘While you were gone?’ ‘I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.’ Askill pauses and frowns."
Askill asks if he's getting treatment he is seeing a therapist but no meds Askill wonders if Ketterley kept him anywhere, he says no, he was free to travel P feels bad that he cant tell Askill more Askill says Raphael is amazing. P agrees Askill tells the story of Pinny Wheeler
"She sat down with Pinny Wheeller and she got him to stop throwing flaming newspaper everywhere and she got him to come down. Pretty brave, don’t you think?’ ‘Braver than you think. She doesn’t like heights.’"
Piranesi meets his family, theyre all very happy to see him they hold on to the idea that the house is a metaphor
"This love of clothes was something he shared with Piranesi. Piranesi frequently wrote about Dr Ketterley’s clothes in his journal and lamented the contrast with his own ragged garments"
Ps new personality doesnt care much about clothes
"Piranesi cannot bear to have so many possessions. I do not need this! is his constant refrain"
P uses the journals to help him learn who MRS was
"Piranesi has a strong dislike of money. Piranesi wants to say: But I need the thing you have, so why don’t you just give it to me? And then when I have something you need, I will just give it to you. This would be a simpler system and much better!"
he decides to write a book about Arne-Sayles Raphael teaches him how to find the path to the labyrinth he goes to Manchester, finds James Ritter, and offers to take him back to the house. Ritter wants to stay but P wont let him. he doesnt know how to care for himself he finds Ketterleys body and lys it at the feet of a man surrounded by snakes. here it will be picked clean by birds, then he'll move it next to the Biscuit-Box Man he continues to look to statues for guidance and strength. He thinks of one in particular
"It is the statue of a man kneeling on his plinth; a sword lies at his side, its blade broken in five pieces. Roundabout lie other broken pieces, the remains of a sphere. The man has used his sword to shatter the sphere because he wanted to understand it, but now he finds that he has destroyed both sphere and sword. This puzzles him, but at the same time part of him refuses to accept that the sphere is broken and worthless. He has picked up some of the fragments and stares at them intently in the hope that they will eventually bring him new knowledge."
then he think of LAS
"This statue represents a heretical pope seated on a throne. He is fat and bloated. He lolls on his throne, a shapeless mass. The throne is magnificent, but the sheer bulk of the figure threatens to split it in two. He knows that he is repulsive, but you can see by his face that the idea pleases him. He revels in the thought that he is somehow shocking. In his face there is mingled laughter and triumph. Look at me, he seems to say. Look at me!"
he thinks of one for Raphael
"In my mind Raphael is better represented by a statue in an antechamber that lies between the forty-fifth and the sixty-second northern halls. This statue shows a figure walking forward, holding a lantern. It is hard to determine with any certainty the gender of the figure; it is androgynous in appearance. From the way she (or he) holds up the lantern and peers at whatever is ahead, one gets the sense of a huge darkness surrounding her; above all I get the sense that she is alone, perhaps by choice or perhaps because no one else was courageous enough to follow her into the darkness."
he loves Raphael more than anyone the two of them return to the house often, sometimes together, sometimes apart
"Don’t disappear,’ I tell her sternly. ‘Do not disappear.’ She makes a rueful, amused face. ‘I won’t,’ she says. ‘We can’t keep rescuing each other,’ I say. ‘It’s ridiculous.’ She smiles. It is a smile with a little sadness in it. But she still wears the perfume – the first thing I ever knew of her – and it still makes me think of Sunlight and Happiness."
when he's stressed he thinks about the house, remembering the exact shape and turns he dreams of the gorilla statue leaving its plinth and coming toward him. P hugs him and says how happy he is to be home
"It began to snow. The low clouds made a grey ceiling for the city; the snow muffled the noise of the cars until it became almost rhythmical; a steady, shushing noise, like the sound of tides beating endlessly on marble walls."
he walks the park until he sees an old man. He recognizes him!
"He is shown as a king with a little model of a walled city in one hand while the other hand he raises in blessing. I wanted to seize hold of him and say to him: In another world you are a king, noble and good! I have seen it!"
last he sees a hotel
"Paper lanterns were hanging from the wires, spheres of vivid orange that blew and trembled in the snow and the thin wind; the sea-grey clouds raced across the sky and the orange lanterns shivered against them. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite."
thats it!
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| Piranesi, Part 5: Ketterley and Part 6: Wave | 15 Sep 2024 | 02:04:14 | |
Thanks for listening to The Great and Secret Knowledge: A Speculative Fiction Podcast! In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff cover Part 5: Ketterley and Part 6: Wave.
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Fancast as Raphael Rashida Jones in Silo Roxann Dawson in Voyager
Fancast as Ketterley Roger Delgado in Doctor Who Mads Mikkelsen
Fancast as Arne-Sayles Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times at the El Royale Jesus Christ Superstar guy Anthony Hopkins Mads Mikkelson
Links
Erica Knapp on Everything is Awesome Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Doctor Who "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"
Recommendations
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Never watch Knock Knock Plugs Lindsey's podcasts The Kurt Locker Cool Breeze over the Mountains Historical Hotties Jeff's podcasts Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here’s James website for all his activities:
Extended Notes
Part 5: Ketterley
are you familiar with Berlioz? Hector Berlioz "inside the house there was a smell of rain, clouds and air, a smell of limitless space. A smell of the sea"
berlioz is "the soundtrack of catastrophe"
Ketterly stopped academia 15 years earlier "Academia was never very welcoming to me. I had the wrong sort of ideas and the wrong sort of friends.’"
MRS thinks maybe AS wont talk to him cuz hes ashamed "Ketterley gave a short, sharp, humourless laugh. ‘Hardly. Laurence has no shame. He’s just perverse. If someone says white, he’ll say black. If you say you want to see him, then he won’t want to see you. That’s just the way he is.’"
we learn about MRSs journals - hes a very good record keeper
we get MRSs opinion of AS
On not liking the word Conjuring:
"Of course I object to the fucking word,’ he said irritably. ‘You’re suggesting that Laurence was some sort of stage magician and we were all his wide-eyed dupes. It wasn’t like that at all. He liked you to argue with him. He liked you to put the rationalist point of view.’
interesting cult where its oky to challenge the leader he would destroy you verbally tho which is textbook cult behavior Sylvia Dagostino was devoted. AS told her to break ties with parents and she did
"There was absolutely no advantage to him in cutting her off from her family. It didn’t benefit him in the slightest. He did it because he could. He did it to cause anguish for her and her parents. He did it because he was cruel.’"
Interesting to see K talk about this, as if he isnt cruel. Is he judging AS? or just speaking facts
"I don’t like you very much,’ he said. I laughed. ‘I can live with that,’ I said"
why did K think it was a labyrinth? K explains - AS claimed not to need a ritual, but the others did Also Sylvia could slip in and out could K do it? he felt it and once he saw it
K asks the scariest question in media "Does anyone know youre here?"
the suspense! a twelve minute ritual? not likely hes also feeling suspense while writing it! MRS just thinks K is lying, not that he's about to murder him interesting to get MRS first impressions of the House K says some wack stuff
"Forgive me for not saying anything before now,’ he smiled, ‘but I really am delighted to see you. A young, healthy man is just what I wanted.’"
this is his supervillain moment - this guy that isnt cruel
PART 6 - Wave
P vomits, realizes K is not his friend He is my enemy
"I had forgotten, but the Other remembered. I could see now that he was apprehensive in case one day I remembered. He called me Piranesi so he would not need to use the name Matthew Rose Sorensen. He tested me by speaking words such as ‘Battersea’ to see if they sparked any memories. I had been incorrect when I said that Battersea was nonsense. It was not nonsense."
multiple revelations this is how it hits when you realize your partner is cheating or stealing from you
how to make sure i dont forget?
for his own advantage! K needs a slave to do his work for him he's wishing he hadn't warned K about the flood I could kidnap K and tie him up killer monologue wink
"maybe i'll give him water, maybe i will not Perhaps I will give him water to drink. Perhaps I will not. Perhaps I will say to him: ‘Soon you will have plenty of Water!’ And on Thursday he will watch the Tides pouring in through the Doors and he will scream and scream. And I will laugh and laugh. I will laugh as long and as loud as he laughed at Matthew Rose Sorensen when he brought him here …This is where I lost Myself."
P fantasizes about killing K he gets food and thinks about what he read MRS had this stuff happen to him and he resides within P
"I placed my hand on my chest. Hush now! I said, Do not be afraid. You are safe. Go back to sleep. I will take care of us both"
"MRS thought these things. 'As far as I can tell, Matthew Rose Sorensen was in his right mind when he wrote them. Neither he nor I had ever been mad.'"
the Other is the one trying to drive him mad, not 16 he considers 16s last message, realizes hes probably Ks only victim
"why had 16 come? Because she was looking for Matthew Rose Sorensen. Because she wanted to rescue him from the slavery of the Other. I saw it clearly now. It is 16 that is my friend and not the Other"
"16 was patient, resolute and ingenious. 16 was still looking for me"
he discovers that someone wiped away Ps warning about the flood for 16 as well as her question to P P decides that K did it he thinks K is intentionally tricking 16 into dying in the flood he moves the deads bones he stashes his journals high up he gathers up all his rain bowls
in the hall of horned giants he sees a bag full of gear:
"I took out all the contents. They were as follows: • a Gun • a quantity of folded material made of a dense, heavy plastic. This was by far the largest object in the bag; it filled most of the bag and was coloured blue, black and grey. • a small cylindrical container with a secure lid. This contained other small objects the purpose of which was unclear. • a thing like a slice of a larger cylinder cut down at an angle, with a yellow hose coming out of it • two black plastic rods extendable to a length of approximately 2 metres • 4 black paddle-shapes"
he thinks maybe the house left the bag for him he decides its the Others because theres a gun day of the flood he eats some soup he tries to guess where K would send her
"I remembered the words of the Prophet: The closer 16 gets, the more dangerous Ketterley will become. My hope was that I could find 16 before she reached the Other"
he goes back and forth between boat area and the first vestibule the Other appears! Other is dressed casually and wearing a life jacket P flllows him to the boat, still no sign of 16 tides are beginning to converge Other pumps up the boat waves start thudding he realizes 16 is clever and may be watching
"I had a mental image of both 16 and Myself hiding in the First Western Hall, both waiting for the other one to appear. I could not afford to remain hidden any longer: I stepped down from the Niche and walked towards the Other"
the gun is out in the open Other is angry P starts quoting his journal at the other
"I visited him in mid-November,’ I said. ‘It was just after four, a cold blue twilight.’"
other isnt listening, starts giving orders K says to bash Raphael (16) in the head P keeps quoting
"The afternoon had been stormy,’ I said, ‘and the lights of the cars were pixelated by rain; the pavements collaged with wet black leaves.’"
"When I got to his house I heard music playing,’ I said. ‘A requiem. I waited for him to answer the door to an accompaniment of Berlioz.’"
K is getting spooked
"What are you talking about?’ he asked again in a voice made hoarse with fear. ‘Battersea,’ I said. ‘You asked me once if I remembered Battersea. And now I do.’"
K tries to distract P by calling him Matthew
"He laughed suddenly, an odd sound: hysteria masquerading as relief. ‘No, no!’ he said. ‘You don’t get me that easily. Those aren’t your words. They’re someone else’s. You don’t really remember. Raphael put you up to this. Really, Matthew, how stupid do you think I am?’"
he goes for the gun P kicks away the gun K asks what hes going to do 16 calls Ks name she says shes looking for MRS K grabs P and says here he is P warns her about Ks gun waves rush in 16 steps out K tries to hit P P gets loose, runs to 16 he takes her hand, they run to the wall
he climbs up the Father and son she's too short to follow he comes down and pushes her higher up the make it 20odd feet up cracking sounds K is shooting at them! P warns him to get in the boat
they have to move to avoid the shots they hide behind statues back P peeks out, sees K going to boat hes wading, boat is swirling
boat is dancing around the hall K is hopelessly swimming after it boat comes at him then flies away P shouts for him to climb a big wave crashes and the spray goes way up if they hadnt hidden from shots they would have been thrown destiny?
"The Spray caught the Sun; it was as if someone had suddenly thrown a hundred barrelfuls of diamonds into the Hall"
K eats it boat keeps whirling about waves continue, time passes they dont speak to each other cuz its too loud waves settle down
"16 had large dark eyes and an elfin face. Her expression was solemn. She was a little older than me – about forty, I thought. Her hair was black with wet. ‘You are Six … You are Raphael,’"
she says hes MRS and that she doesnt know him shes here because shes a police officer P thinks theyre both freaked by Ks death she tends to his wound it Looks like he was hurt by shrapnel, not a bullet she cant get down so he goes off to find something to help her
he collects some gear, returns to 16 he feeds her seaweed he ties nets together and makes a web she can climb down
"Our clothes were plastered to our bodies with wet. My hair – which is dark and curly – was as full of droplets as a Cloud. I rained every time I moved" he talks to birds "It’ll be gone soon,’ I told them. ‘Don’t worry.’ ‘What?’ asked Raphael, startled. ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘I was talking to the birds,’ I said. ‘They’re alarmed by the great quantities of Water that are everywhere. I’m telling them that it’ll soon be gone.’"
she wonders why he talks to birds, he mentions that she did too she asks why he scrubbed her writing he says because K said she was evil and would make him go mad she says we should go home, he can come to her place and then she can take him home he says i am home she doesnt respond she tells him why he should leave
"There’s something I have to tell you,’ she said. ‘I don’t know if you remember this, but you have a mum and a dad. And two sisters. And friends.’ She gazed at me intently. ‘Do you remember?’ I shook my head. ‘They’ve been looking for you,’ she said. ‘But they didn’t know the right place to look. They’ve been worried about you. They’ve been … ’ She looked away again to find the right words to express her thought. ‘They’ve felt pain because they didn’t know where you were,’"
"You don’t think of yourself as Matthew Rose Sorensen?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘But you have his face,’ she said. ‘Yes.’ ‘And his hands.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And his feet and his body.’"
Raphael is not contentious, P likes it she asks if he would make a visit to MRSs family and he could come back he explains that he takes care of the bones shes surprised to hear there are other people shed like to see the others to id them hes like oh theyre dead shes all what? he thinks they were dead before he got there, but he cant be certain
he asks if she has dead do they visit them and take them offerings then he says he has to collect Ks body she says theres plenty of time she touches his shoulder he starts crying it must be MRS inside him crying he asks if she'll come back she will come back
she asks if he'll think about seeing MRSs family he will
"My last thought before I fell asleep was: He is dead. My only friend. My only enemy"
he finds K he explains how he'll treat the corpse
"I will put you in good order and you can rest in the Sunlight and the Starlight. The Statues will look down on you with Blessing"
P finds the boat
"I wish that you had saved him,’ I told it. I did not feel that it responded in any way. It seemed drowsy, dozing, only half alive. Without the Rushing Waters to animate it, it was no longer the devil that had danced on the Waves, first mocking Dr Ketterley and then abandoning him"
Raphael asks what she should call him. he starts to say Piranesi but falters. K used to call him that but K was a dick
R tells him how she found him an owl flies in. P has never seen a real live one R interviews Sayles. He explains what happened to MRS P talks about how things from the older world are represented by statues she promises to come back whether he visits the other world or not he gives R a tour of the halls
"She said, ‘It’s such an astonishing place. A perfect place. I saw some of it while I was looking for you, but I kept having to stop at the doors to write out the directions back to the minotaur room. It got very time-consuming and frustrating and of course I didn’t dare go too far in case I made a mistake.’"
he remembers that early on he had to use chalk to mark his path - more internal wrestling with truth R asks if she can take photos. P says yes and thinks how nice it is tthat shes respectful of the house P shows her the people of the alcove.
"Raphael regarded them gravely. She gently rested her hand on one of the bones – the tibia of one of the males. It was a gesture conveying comfort and reassurance. 'Don’t be afraid. You are safe. I am here.'"
she apologizes for his experience.
"I was astonished, even a little alarmed. No one has ever been as kind to me as Raphael; no one has ever done more for me. That she should apologise seemed to me inappropriate. ‘No … No … ’ I murmured and I put up my hands to fend off her words"
The two types of being sorry
he wants to avoid the thought that they were murdered.
"Mostly I wanted Raphael to come away from them so that I could stop thinking of them the way she thought of them – as murdered – and go back to thinking of them the way I always had before – as good, and noble, and peaceful."
he shows her the Coral Halls
"There are Figures horned with coral, or crucified on coral branches, or stuck through with coral arrows. There is a Lion enmeshed in a cage of coral and a Man holding a Little Box. The coral has grown so profusely over his Left Side that half of him appears to be engulfed in red- and rose-coloured flames, while the other half is not."
she expresses appreciation that there are no people in the house. he asks if she doesnt like the people in her own halls.
"Don’t you like the people in your own Halls?’ I asked, puzzled. ‘I like them,’ she said, with no very great enthusiasm. ‘Mostly I like them. Some of them. I don’t always get them. They don’t always get me.’"
he considers why one might not want to be around people.
"Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means."
he resolves to leave with Raphael.
"I have returned all of the Dead to their allotted places. Today I walked through the Halls as I have done a thousand times before. I visited all my most beloved Statues and as I gazed on each one, I thought: Perhaps this will be the last time I look on your Face. Goodbye! Goodbye!"
what must it be like to leave your entire life behind? he puts all his ornament back in his hair. Raphael seems astonished.
"I took one last look at the Eternal House. I shivered. Raphael took my hand. Then, together, we walked into the corridor."
Recommendations
Camp Damascus
not erotica he's autistic!
talk about horror?
X-Files Making a Murderer
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| Piranesi, Part 4: 16 | 13 Sep 2024 | 01:41:44 | |
Thanks for listening to The Great and Secret Knowledge: A Speculative Fiction Podcast! In this chapter, Piranesi learns more about the mysterious 16. He studies the scraps. We critique the character of Laurence Arne-Sayles. We hope you enjoy our coverage of Piranesi, Part 4: 16
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P prepares to go collect the scraps of paper in the nests some paper falls apart but others stay together
he makes a fire and uses warm water to dab away the droppings 79 scraps from 35 nests
"I rely on him to bring me food and water - which only underlines my status as a prisoner, a slave. He leaves the food in the room with the minotaur statues."
he feels bad for the writer, wishes he could teach him how to fish
"with only a little foresight he need never go hungry, how the House provides for and protects its Children."
"Had the concealed person tormented the Biscuit Box Man? Or the other way round?" the writer thought a statue spoke to him. he's convinced he's losing his mind. He wants to kill someone "before I forget why I HATE HIM."
all caps - dude is losing it he puts the scraps in different envelopes he isnt sure whether to tell the Other about the people he's read about
"Supposing he said: Where did you hear of these people? Who told you? I would not know what to say. He must not know that I have spoken to the Prophet. He must not know about the entries in my Journal."
Ketterley says he's planning to do the ritual but it's been two months
"Something had just happened. What was it? What had just happened?"
he moves around until he finds the scent of lemons, geranium leaves, hyacinth, and narcissi. (I wish I could identify all those scents, it would help in my writing) a beautiful perfume the scent originates in the first vestibule and goes as far as the doorway to the corridor leading to the first southwestern hall. he knows the smells of Ketterley and Arne Sayles. 16 was here!
"It was surprising to me that someone like 16, someone so wedded to destruction and madness, should wear a perfume so lovely, so redolent of Sunshine and Happiness."
"It is very likely that he will be pleasing to the eyes. His manners will be friendly and insinuating. This is how he intends to destroy you."
He tells K about the perfume. K is chill about. He's relieved that they're coming to the halls because he thinks its best to kill him.
"I do not think I could kill someone however wicked they are," I said. "Even the wicked deserve Life. Or if they do not, then let the House take it from them. Not me." (is there a name for this? its not quite pacifism...not sure how to google it)
even K doesnt think he could kill someone up close. he thinks he'll have to practice. (the idea of K practicing is kind of ridiculous) K says a old man might come by, he describes him, its definitely the prophet.
"It was always amazing to me that no one killed him while he was in prison."
Piranesi realizes he's lying by omission by not mentioning talking to the prophet. He's glad that the prophet said he'snot coming back its raining bad. he's real anxious about 16 out there plotting to make him go mad he goes to a hall full of rooks (crows?) he feeds them. one pecks at his ear and he laughs he sees a mark made on a door with yellow chalk! he used to do this, but he never had yellow chalk 16 wrote on the floor! P is worried about madness he isn't sure if words would make him go mad or if its just listening to 16 speak its only directions! by where they put the chalkmarks P surmises that 16 is between 12 and 15 cm shorter than him)
Piranesi writes a wild note to 16 in all caps -
he wasn't sure how to sign it its other day so Piranesi grills him about reading 16's words. Other says we shouldnt read his words but also that it's okay. He actually pats Piranesi on the shoulder! (i was surprised P didnt wax ecstatic about being touched) K gets a gun, admits he's bad at shooting P suggests maybe 16 will see his response and stop coming. K shakes his head.
"There's not a chance of it, Piranesi. I know this person. 16 is relentless. 16 will keep on coming."
its cold, he gets waken up but doesnt know why. all is calm someone has a flashlight! they're searching around, possibly for someone specific? The Other is there, shouting "Raphael!" He threatens to hunt down his enemy. He drops his flashlight and curses. He sees some weird shadows but dismisses them he sees 16! also with a flashlight, he's really studying the statues. 16 looks at the note P had left for him. 16 writes a ton of stuff he sees the message but tries not to read it he sweeps up the chalk then looks at the results he warns away 16 P gives the Other the business, doesnt like being lied to 16 is a woman! Could it be Sylvia Dagostino? Ahgavad Scott? when he's caught, Ketterley comes clean. He says that he didnt want P to get all swept up.
"The reason I didn't say anything is that I know you, Piranesi. You're a romantic...I knew it was going to be hard enough as it was to convince you of the threat that 16 poses. But I thought it would be even harder once you knew she was a woman."
he thought P might fall in love with her!
"16 is fundamentally untrustworthy"
P thanks him for looking out for him but tells him not to keep stuff from him. O wonders how P heard her voice, he explains she was talking to the rooks P decides to look up Arne-Sayles in the index! now we're talking
"It is not the fact 16 is a woman that fascinates me and excites me - or at least, not entirely; it is the fact she is another human being. I want to learn everything I can about her - or as much as I can learn without going mad."
interesting that P doesnt want to be kept in the dark but hes still keeping secrets from K 16 mentions Ketterley
"Certainly groomed other potential victims and I ... is 16 boasting of her victims? Of the harm she has done and intends to do? Unclear."
"Been here for almost six years ,did you" unclear what this refers to."
P looks up Arne-Sayles Discussion with self about feasability of writing a book about Arne Sayles. Scott is helpful with book stuff. Is she anti Arne Sayles or pro Piranesi? she sounds great pros and cons Tali Hughes is emotionally unstable and possibly delusional? i wonder if thats true or if she was speaking sense talk to Ritter?
"Spending a long time writing about a deeply unpleasant man could be emotionally taxing. It's universallyagreed that AS is malicious, vindictive, manipulative, spiteful,arrogant, a complete and utter prick. Con"
we read Arne Sayles's ideas about how we used to see the world as interacting with them
"When they observed the world, the world observed them back." at all related to the Observer effect in physics?
"The world was constantly speaking to Ancient man"
"Nature was willing to bend to men’s desires, to lend them its attributes. Seas could be parted, men could turn into birds and fly away, or into foxes and hide in dark woods, castles could be made out of clouds"
magic was real and then it wasnt. but it didnt die, it went somewhere else the Marepool bodies at Manchester museum one is the head of a king and seer and thus begins the quest for the great and secret knowledge the museum wont let AS use the head. hes shocked by this? organizes student protests "Free the Head" during xmas break someone breaks into the museum and does a ritual with the head AS has an alibi with a rich couple called the Brookers. Is this our first indication of a cult patron? we get the correct spelling of Addedomarus, a Romano British seer Tony Myers told the cops about the breakin later, putting AS, Ketterley, and Robin Bannerman there Myers claimed the heads lips moved AS leaves behind the quest for the lost beliefs and powers but rather seeks to find where theyd gone AS lays out his Theory of Other Worlds
"Picture it, said Arne-Sayles, like rainwater lying on a field. The next day the field is dry. Where has the rainwater gone? Some has evaporated into the air. Some has been drunk by plants and animals. But some has seeped down into the earth. This happens over and over again. For decades, centuries, millennia, the water, seeping down, makes a crack in the rock under the earth; then it wears the crack into a hole; then it wears the hole into a cave entrance – a kind of door in fact."
"it was necessary to cleanse one’s vision in order to see the door. To do this one must return to the place, the geographical location where one last believed the world to be fluid, responsive to oneself. In short one must return to the last place in which one had stood before the iron hand of modern rationality gripped one’s mind."
"The then-owners (dull exemplars of the prevailing mediocrity)"
"surrounded by the roses my mother had planted (though now forced to share their beds with flowers of insufferable vulgarity)"
this guy tells on himself so much
"All around me doors into other worlds began appearing but I knew the one I wanted, the one into which everything forgotten flows. The edges of that door were frayed and worn by the passage of old ideas leaving this world."
he goes through the door between pink roses and finds the halls
"eight massive statues, each one different, each depicting a minotaur"
I Remain Calm - i love how the title answers our first question
"I feel certain that the Other learnt of Addedomarus from Laurence Arne-Sayles. (‘All his ideas are mine,’ the Prophet said)"
"One sentence puzzles me: The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man. I do not understand why this sentence is in the past tense. The World still speaks to me every day."
P remains calm despite all the strange words and phrases he thinks he mustve gone into a trance state to come up with this stuff There Will Be a Great Flood talk about foreshadowing. King does this a lot, just whets your whistle so youre in a heightened state of awareness P realizes he hasnt checked his tide book in two weeks and now a huge flood is coming. He loses it and shouts the f word over and over
"I spoke to Myself sternly, telling Myself that it was no good bewailing the Past; what was needed now was to plan for the Future"
he tells the other there will be a great flood O says its fine cuz he wont be there on Thursday. P asks where he'll be and O blows him off the Other asks him "Will you be ok?" wild change, is he softening? P says he needs to warn 16. The Other doesnt understand why
Are you Matthew Rose Sorensen?
"As I walked I thought about the last message I had left her – the one begging her to leave these Halls. Perhaps in the intervening time she had replied. Perhaps the reply would be something like: Dear Piranesi You are right. Today I will return to my own Halls. Sincerely 16"
he expands on this, hoping 16 will come clean and pledge her willingness to change her wicked ways P warns her about the flood in his message
"SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF CAUGHT BY THE FLOOD, THEN CLIMB QUICKLY! THE STATUES ARE GRACIOUS AND WILL PROTECT YOU"
he goes to a hall witha slope made of pretty white translucent rocks finds some rocks have been scooped up. he wonders if its the rooks. 16 had laid them out to write a message! He read it before he could think to look away! are you matthew rose sorensen? he has a vision of life in the city.
"Dark forms filled the streets; I thought at first that they were statues, but they moved and I saw they were people. Thousands upon thousands of people. More people than I had ever conceived of before. Too many people. The mind could not contain the thought of so many. And everything smelt of rain, and metal, and staleness. This vision had a name and its name was …"
16 was successful, leaving a message that wpuld drive P mad he starts to accept that he is MRS, but then the old familiar feeling hits him with the words I Am the Beloved Child of the House Other explains why he calls him Piranesi. Its a name associated with labyrinths he resolves to look up MRS in the journals MRS is British, Scottish, and Ghanaian reading his own words about AS:
"I found it interesting that Matthew Rose Sorensen believed that Laurence Arne-Sayles had denied Science and Reason. In this he was not correct. The Prophet was a scientist and a lover of Reason. I spoke out loud to the Empty Air"
a reference to Doctor Who! timey wimey, 10th doctor, by steven moffatt
"time traveling architecture"
Pgets mad.
"I had learnt nothing. I felt a strong urge to shake my Journal, as if I could somehow shake more information out of it."
he decides to look up the Other and see if he ever mentions MRS he looks at the entries for The Other then he looks up Ketterley son of a soldier and occultist Ketterley turned on AS in 1992, called for AS to be fired they waited until the Ritter incident to pull the trigger Ketterley lives near Battersea Park! he discovers the missing pages! all related to Ketterley
"Who could have done this? Could it have been the Prophet? I knew that he detested Ketterley. Perhaps his hatred would cause him to destroy writing about his enemy? Or could it have been 16? 16 hated Reason. Perhaps she also hated Writing, a medium by which Reason can pass from one Person to another. But that made no sense. 16 had employed Writing to leave me a long message. And in any case how could the Prophet or 16 find my Journals."
he accepts that only he could have torn out those pages he puts the scraps together and discovers "The events of 15 November 2012." | |||
| Doctor WhoDis Season Two, Episode 2 "Lux" with Jessie Rye | 29 Apr 2025 | 02:08:41 | |
In the second of our eight-part series on the latest season of Doctor Who on Disney Plus, Jessie and Jeff go to town on one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever and at least a dozen other fascinating subjects!
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| Doctor WhoDis Season Two, Episode 1 "The Robot Revolution" with Jessie Rye | 22 Apr 2025 | 02:47:04 | |
In this episode, Australian trivia expert and lifelong Doctor Who fan comes on to share her thoughts about the Season 2 premiere of Doctor Who on Disney Plus. If you don't know anything about Doctor Who, you probably don't understand how the 46th season can be Season 2, but just trust us on this one.
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Links
Children's Favorites by Jon Pertwee
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| Star Trek: TNG Season One Episode 6: "Where No One Has Gone Before" with Sofia B | 20 Apr 2025 | 01:24:15 | |
Sofia and Jeff break down a very important episode full of space talk and weird phasey alien stuff. Wesley meets The Traveler and some jerk with a bad attitude. You're gonna love it.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series Buck Rogers in the 25h Century
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One Episodes 1 and 2: "Encounter at Farpoint" with Sofia B | 18 Apr 2025 | 01:45:18 | |
In this exciting episode, Sofia and Jeff get to business analyzing the first 2-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Picard, Geordi Laforge, Doctor Crusher, the gang's all here! Stay tuned for next time when we'll be covering
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| The Vor Game Recap with Sofia B | 11 Apr 2025 | 02:09:40 | |
Sofia and I are back to recap the wonderful Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold! We cover our favorite things from the book and tackle some issues raised by folks on Goodreads (don't worry - there aren't many!)
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