How Picard can it be?

How Picard can it be?

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How Picard can it be? episodes

  • Be Our Guest! (Be Our Guest!)

    We’re joined by special guests/innocent bystanders Simon Brew and Jim McCauley for a musicals double-header! Join us for a collective flip-out as Cats and Hamilton come to the small screen in the lockdown week that might finally tip us over the edge. Meanwhile, Chris gives all his mics away, Jenny channels Hercules Mulligan, and Siri is our co-pilot.

    Cats chat (confusing if you’re French) starts at 3:38

    Hamilchat starts at 32:29

    Links:

    • Simon Brew on Twitter https://twitter.com/simonbrew
    • Jim McCauley on Twitter https://twitter.com/jimmccauley
    • Cats https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_2019
    • Hamilton trailer https://youtu.be/DSCKfXpAGHc
    • The first Hamilton White House performance https://youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE
    • Jenny’s Hamilton/anxiety roadtrip http://jennyphin.com/blog/my-epic-journey-to-see-hamilton-or-how-i-took-my-anxiety-disorder-on-a-road-trip-and-you-totally-can-too/
      • 1 hr 13 min
    • Jennifer Aniston Is Blameless

      We watch (some of) your recommendations in another Star Trek-free episode! Join us as we chat dystopian self-love in See, dubious apologies in The Morning Show, and ask if infertility can ever be funny after the fact. Meanwhile, Chris enjoys “tart with a heart” Billy Crudup, the Chris Evans Career Clinic gains an unexpected ally, and Jenny just wants to get through a kids’ film emotionally unscathed. Listen now! Or don’t!

      We watched:

      • The Morning Show https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/the-morning-show
      • Defending Jacob https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/defending-jacob
      • See https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/see
      • Grayson’s Art Club https://www.channel4.com/programmes/graysons-art-club
      • The Good Dinosaur https://www.pixar.com/feature-films/the-good-dinosaur
      • Onward https://www.pixar.com/onward

        • Links:

        • The Descent of Man https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Grayson-Perry/The-Descent-of-Man/20517435
        • The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Philippa-Perry/The-Book-You-Wish-Your-Parents-Had-Read-and-Your-Children/23504588
        • Grayson Perry on Twitter https://twitter.com/alan_measles
        • Philippa Perry on Twitter https://twitter.com/Philippa_Perry
        • Gifted https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4481414/
        • You Can Count On Me https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0203230/
        • Bonkers nursing in Fantastic Four https://youtu.be/xNjpuX5rLzQ

          • Thanks to everyone who got in touch – especially @antinbath and @bzamayo on Twitter.

          Final thing! We done got an Insta now! 

          ⓘ https://www.instagram.com/howpicard

          ⓣ https://twitter.com/howpicard

          54 min
        • 256 Shades of Grey

          Join us as we achieve a shocking 0% Picard in this Apple TV+ special episode! We discuss household favourites Defending Jacob, The Morning Show and Fraggle Rock: Rock On. Hold tight as Chris shares his tales of the Apple PR phone tree, Jenny is distressed by a crime scene coffee break, and absolutely no one knows who Jack Davenport is. Probably the most-qualified we’ve ever been to host our own podcast! And yet…

          39 min
        • Fin

          Picard concludes with one of the most obliging baddies in Star Trek history! We somehow find a way to both applaud and disparage the finale in equal measure. PLUS! Chris doubles-down on his Off Menu recommendation, Jenny fails to watch The Mandalorian, and everyone is tired. Join us, for possibly the only podcast in town recorded by people still in the same room! Maybe forever! Send snacks!

          Picard stuff ends at 16:30.

          Links

          • Off Menu with Joe Thomas: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/ep-50-joe-thomas/id1442950743?i=1000468742948
          • On Disney+: Vampirina, Aladdin (2019)

            • Plus!

            • Knives Out Twitter thread that made Jenny hysterical: https://twitter.com/knivesout/status/1227332234148970499?s=21
              • 31 min
            • Shame on you, Agnes!

              Two crash-landings but no one bats a synthetic eye, as the penultimate episode builds to an exciting† climax! Meanwhile, Chris pushes his Pill agenda, Jenny’s Disney+ expectations are sky-high, everyone loves Mae Martin, and we are the first people to mention Mickey Blue Eyes in at least a decade.

              † Excitement not guaranteed.

              Links

              • Utopia chic: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/9ygayn/we_need_these_outfits_from_tng_i_believe_it_was/
              • Pope/Pryce meme (can’t find the coronavirus one particularly): https://zodab.com/memes/meirl-89
              • Jonathan Frakes mashup meme: https://twitter.com/ShesSoOffbeat/status/1239756410805727232
                • 28 min
              • Beautiful Flower

                You don’t have to be Rios to work here, but it helps. El capitán finally gets some backstory in an episode that flies in the face of ‘show, don’t tell’ and lands directly in the path of ‘Ken’. Meanwhile, Chris gets an award, Jenny is broken by child wrangling in isolation, and no one wants the fancy pasta shapes.

                ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: Mild discussion of self-harm.

                Picard stuff ends 12 minutes in.

                Links

                • Old School podcast: https://www.thebiglight.com/oldschool
                • Northern Goal podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/aberdeen-fc-chairman-dave-cormack-on-scottish-footballs/id1494721739?i=1000468313550
                  • 37 min
                • Cabin Fever

                  Picard finds a slice of heaven with old friends, Rios demonstrates his incredible Y-ligament, and Alison Pill acts the pants off everyone else. Meanwhile, Chris turns 40 and falls asleep, Jenny loves cabins and Dead Eyes, and everyone bickers. 

                  Join us for another great episode of Broughty Ferry’s best* spouse-hosted Picard-themed pop culture podcast!

                  Picard stuff ends at 18:38.

                  Get in touch at twitter.com/HowPicard, or email [email protected]!

                  Links

                  • The pizza box https://twitter.com/jonathansfrakes/status/1236685565652643842
                  • Raising Steam (not Snuff, as Chris’s addled mind had it when we recorded…) https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Book:Raising_Steam
                  • Dog Loves Books https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000fzqw/dog-loves-books
                  • Dead Eyes https://headgum.com/dead-eyes
                  • How To Fail, with Elizabeth Day https://howtofail.podbean.com

                    • *only

                    33 min
                  • Soji Pants

                    Boom, shake the room! But please check the booking sheet first. The action heats up on The Artifact. Meanwhile, Lemsip-addled Jenny both loves and hates Birds of Prey, Chris reveals his insane podcast-listening strategy, and there are a lot of uncomfortable questions about the DCEU. This is less of a show description than a warning from the future.

                    Picard stuff ends at 16:23.

                    Links

                    • Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn: https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/birds-of-prey-and-the-fantabulous-emancipation-of-one-harley-quinn
                    • Shannon Keating’s article on heteropessimism: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/straight-romance-heteropessimism-marriage-story
                    • …and the one about finding a partner on a lesbian cruise that first introduced her writing to Chris: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
                    • Susan Calman’s Mrs Brightside with Sofie Hagen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/susan-calmans-mrs-brightside/id1495376244?i=1000465777327
                    • The Princess and the Frog soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/1gq7uhfNW4QMeRr9msV68P
                    • Not exactly the You’re Welcome clip Jenny referenced, but skip to 1:10  to hear Lin-Manuel add some extra bars: https://youtu.be/0DLzyvT4eUo
                      • 38 min
                    • Take a chill, Pill!

                      Do you love space heists and hate eyeballs? Then have we got the Picard episode for you! Meanwhile, Jenny slacks off to watch Snowpiercer, Chris enthuses about Canadian manufacturing, and no one wants to endorse Top Gear. Plus! Don’t miss a great SpongeBob Squarepants research opportunity. Dive in: it’s the incredibly low-energy episode you don’t deserve… and yet here we are.

                      Picard bit ends at around 8:50.

                      Some links for ya:

                      [Sadly only the first part of] That Alan Partridge episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7nl-so8MU0

                      The track from – except it turns out it isn’t – the debut episode of SpongeBob Squarepants: https://open.spotify.com/track/1PmXm1881bonBI1AlG5uaH

                      26 min
                    • Way of Absolute Meander

                      Hold on tight as Picard picks up pace! We get excited about warrior nuns and a familiar face, while the Borg cube makes another orbit of Planet Exposition. Meanwhile, Chris loves Mary Beard, bottoms are objectively funny, and Jenny hosts her bi-annual Chris Evans Career Clinic. All this plus Parasite, office Oscar comp news and not much more! Honestly, you could just do some Duolingo or work on your core.

                      Picard section starts basically at about 10 seconds in and contains spoilers, but you can skip to 13:50 if you want to mostly avoid the Picard chat — though there are mild spoilers about what we didn't see starting at around 41:32.

                      43 min

                    About How Picard can it be?

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                    Because there’s a criminal paucity of TV and film podcasts from white, middle-class, cisgender people. There will be spoilers.