The post-Pitt emotional hangover is real. Plus: a Bill Lawrence TV quiz, the case for and against letting kids watch Alien, a brush turkey nesting mound on the Greenway, and why everything in the eighties is a lot more hardcore.

Mentioned in this episode:

• John Maus — live music attended that evening
• Sydney FC — Clara featured on their Instagram

• Muttley — Wacky Races
• The Pitt season 2
• Rooster
• Scrubs
• Shrinking
• Ted Lasso
• Spin City
• Rush Hour
• Cougar Town
• Bad Monkey
• Bosch — long-avoided show
• Perry Mason — Apple TV remake, avoided
• Matthew Rhys — The Americans, couldn't remember his name
• Jack Rooke / Big Boys — three series, highly recommended
• Bait — Riz Ahmed, Patrick Stewart voice episode discussed

• The Jim Henson Storyteller — 1987-1989, John Hurt
• Alien
• Aliens

• Predator: Badlands — watched on a plane, enjoyed
• Prey — previous Predator film, also recommended

• An American Werewolf in London — childhood viewing
• Robocop — childhood viewing
• The Goonies — rewatched recently
• Indiana Jones — mentioned as problematic

• Percy Jackson — kids won't watch it
• Junior Vets — kids' current viewing
• Operation Ouch — kids' current viewing
• Pet Stars — kids' current viewing
• Giants of the Deep Blue — Nat Geo orca documentary
• Supersized Sharks — referenced again

• Greeking Out — podcast the kids are listening to
• Jason and the Argonauts — classic film, attempted with the kids
• Neighbours — childhood TV
• Newsround — childhood TV
• Blue Peter — Tracy Island mentioned
• Home and Away — childhood TV
• Mr. Freeze — childhood ice lolly
• The Barbarians (not Twin Barbarians) — childhood VHS memory

A crash course in Pierre Bourdieu, two very different time travel films, and the ER theme tune composed in fifteen minutes. Plus: The Magic Faraway Tree holds up, a record player in an Airbnb reminds everyone why physical media matters, and Emile Mosseri deserves your full attention.

Mentioned in this episode:

Maisonrickie / Rickie Ho — Instagram/YouTube creator

Pierre Bourdieu — Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Nara Smith — Instagram/TikTok creator

Derek Guy — menswear writer on Twitter/X

Philosophize This — podcast

Ortega y Gasset — philosopher

Folding Ideas — YouTube channel, flat earthers/QAnon video and cryptocurrency video

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein)

Grease — Film musical

Calamity Jane — Film musical

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Film musical

Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie — highly recommended

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice — (not recommended

Andrew W.K. — She Is Beautiful

The Pit — TV show, season 2

ER — theme tune, composed by James Newton Howard

Kajillionaire (2020, Miranda July) — Emile Mosseri score

Emile Mosseri — composer

Last Black Man in San Francisco — Emile Mosseri score

Minari — Emile Mosseri score

Glenn Powell - capybara man

Practical Magic 2 — trailer

Magic Faraway Tree - Film

Paddington the Musical — Original Cast Recording

The Female Quotient — social media account

Supersized Sharks — Nat Geo Kids, full episode on YouTube

Churchill's off the banknote, the British public are outraged in Benidorm, and nobody can remember what he actually did in the war. Plus: Pub Choir is stressful in the best possible way, Riz Ahmed might be James Bond, and a Manchester band named after a song by a band called Women.

Mentioned in this episode:

• eBird — bird listing app
• iNaturalist — nature identification app
• No Doubt — reunion shows
• Hop (2011 film) — Easter movie with James Marsden
• Hoppers — Not at all about Easter
• The Magic Faraway Tree — 2026 film
• Bait — TV show, created by and starring Riz Ahmed and Guz Khan
• Paradise — TV show, Hulu/Disney+, season two
• Titus Andronicus — Shakespeare play
• Upstart Crow — TV show
• Hamnet — film
• The Good Weekend Quiz
• International Banknote Society — website
• Bermuda $5 note — banknote of the year
• Bank of England — re: wildlife banknote announcement
• Brits in Benidorm aren't happy Churchill's being taken off banknotes
• Pub Choir — Astrid Jorgensen
• Better the Devil You Know — Kylie Minogue - Pub Choir Cover
• Westside Cowboys — link to Bandcamp
• Shaking Hand — Manchester band, Bandcamp, track Mantras specifically
• Women — the band Shaking Hand take influence from
• Victory Land — New York band
• Geese

A documentary about competitive bird watching turns out to be one of the best things on YouTube. Plus: the Criterion Channel recommends feel-good films, a small Iranian boy tries to return a notebook, fiction gets a bad reputation, and nobody can remember the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Listers — documentary, free on YouTube
• eBird app
• Merlin app
• The Criterion Channel
• Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami)
• Where is the Friend's House? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)
• The Rest is Entertainment
• Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel,
• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut, novel and graphic novel
• The Maniac — Benjamin Labatut
• When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamin Labatut
• Exhalations — Ted Chiang
• Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
• Victory Land — the New York band recommended

Image used in episode art by Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The tyranny of the sandwich, a brief history of Marmite, and the nineteen twenties rebrand that absolutely nobody asked for. Plus: Vegemite gets a verdict, Kim Gordon gets a recommendation, and crumpets get completely forgotten the moment someone walks through their front door 🫠

In this episode:

• ⁠Lunchbox Envy podcast⁠
• OH!Bento exhibition⁠
• Lunchables (now Lunchers!)
• Marmite
• Vegemite
• Gentleman's Relish
• Kim Gordon — PLAY ME
• London Belongs to Me — Norman Collins

We're back?

After a short, five-year hiatus, Perception Issues returns with a brief reintroduction — covering crochet axolotls, the surprisingly brilliant green screen tech Disney invented in the sixties and then lost, and the eternal struggle of spelling onomatopoeia.

Mentioned in this episode:

Corridor Crew look at Disney's Prism

Sodium Vapor Process