Podcasts – Thwipping Boys

The Thwipping Boys have never made a secret of their love for the works of Joss Whedon and Firefly in particular holds a very special place in their hearts.

So the first canon post-Serenity story, written by *cough* Whedon no less, should be a thing of beauty, right? Right?

BWAH!

PS. Before you Browncoats get all shirty (or…coat-y?) Jon realised as soon as we’d recorded that Mal’s line in Serenity is “No more running” rather than “We’re not running”.

Before we undertook this in-depth look at Busiek and Pacheco’s Avengers Forever we were bright-eyed young podcasters, optimistic about a future filled with awesome stories like this one, which we’d been led to believe was one of the great standalone Marvel tales.

By the end of this podcast we are somewhat different…men who have stared too long into the abyss perhaps.

And we’re only halfway there…

Important Notice:

If you heard our review of the first issue in the preview we did and can’t face listening to it again, then skip forward to 26:15!

An in-depth discussion on the Season 4 finale, with a few rambling discussions and out-there theories about ASoIaF in general thrown in for good measure.

Loads to talk about this week so probably best just to let you get on with it!

PS. Since recording Jon’s handed in his nerd-card after referring to Qyburn as Harwin. Any idiot knows that Harwin was a former member of the Stark household guard who joined the Brotherhood Without Banners, while one Maester Harwin only featured in the Xbox 360 game. What a loser.

PPS. A bird, yesterday.

Because we only cover the most recent events in comics, we decided to return to the New 52 and take a look at Death of the Family.

What we have here is a fine example of how one carries a podcast when 50% of your presenting team seems to have nothing to say. To be fair, Jon does admit this pretty early on but his struggle to get through this is both obvious and pretty funny.

It shouldn’t be a struggle for you though dear listeners, because of Simon’s herculean efforts – he’s like the Shawn Michaels of podcasting, carrying a useless lump to something much greater than he deserves to be involved in.

We were led to believe this week’s battle would pitch a Wildling army of 100,000 against our tiny band of 102 plucky crows…and that’s not really what we got.

However what we did get was another awesome hour-long battle set-piece to match up to Season 2’s “Blackwater” – directed by that episode’s Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent). Join Simon and Jon for a brief discussion on this mostly excellent penultimate episode of Season 4.

Come on, let’s all say it together…”In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight!” waitaminute, no, “I stand between the candle and the star. We stand between the darkness and the light!” no…dammit…”I AM THE SWORD IN THE DARKNESS! I AM THE WATCHER ON THE WALLS! I AM THE SHIELD THAT GUARDS THE REALMS OF MEN!”

Jon and Simon return to the world of comics with a preview of their in-depth look at Busiek and Pacheco’s Avengers Forever!

Plus at the halfway point of 24: Live Another Day, the boys wonder if Jack Bauer still has a valid place in today’s post-Homeland world, as well as making some predictions for how the rest of the series will play out.

Show notes for Fingers in Everyone

In the second edition of our spinoff show, The Irish Whipping Boys, Simon gives an in depth review of the recent WWE PPV, Payback. What did he like? What did he hate? Make sure you give us a watch/listen to find out.

As always, you can download the podcast in the handy link just below this paragraph. You can listen on itunes or watch via the embedded Youtube video, and make sure you subscribe!

Hope you enjoy and see you at Money in the Bank!

The Red Viper by Zippo514

Way back in October 2011 for Episode 6 – Disco Badger, back when we were mere podcasting babes, we covered a series of internet videos called People Just Do Nothing, following the ups and downs of MC Sniper, DJ Beats and the rest of the Kurupt FM pirate radio crew in their struggle to wrest control of the airwaves from that total wanker DJ Funky, to provide the best in UK Garage and Drum & Bass to the Brentford area…and to stamp out the evil that is dubstep (and paedos…and spiders).

Almost three years on and now the BBC has got in on the act (a little behind the curve of trend-setters like us but they do get there eventually), following our favourite MC (now known as Grindah), Beats, Decoy, Steves and the rest of the crew, with four half-hour documentaries now available exclusively on BBC iPlayer. Basically, there probably isn’t a funnier British show around right now. And we knew about it first because WE ARE COOL, KNOW WHAT I MEAN? Innit.

People Just Do Nothing – Decoy, Grindah and Beats…doing reasonably little.

Following that we talk about this year’s most shocking Game of Thrones episode…to date at any rate…there’s still two left! The Red Viper of Dorne (or…Doom?) takes on The Mountain That Rides to avenge his sister, embarrass Tywin Lannister and save the life of everybody’s favourite dwarf! What could possibly go wrong?! Apart from Jon’s audio being a little undefined for this segment?! Apologies!

Show notes for A little bit Junkion

00:00 – People Just Do Nothing

Thanks to the guys at @KuruptFM for saying we could use some of their early interview material in our show.

– BBC Three Series

Evenin’ all.

When Jon and I decided to bring the podcast back we wanted to do things just a little bit different. We decided not to be so strict in what we talk about, how long we talk and when we talk about it. We want to cover things we’re passionate about and we’re pretty happy with going it alone if need be.

That’s where we are now, because this is episode one of THE IRISH WHIPPING BOYS, my Thwipping Boys spinoff show dedicated to the world of wrestling. The episodes will mostly consist of me giving my opinions on the latest PPV or “special event” as they’re now known and just chatting to myself about wrestling. Every so often Jon may join me as he’s an old man when it comes to wrestling fans and he hasn’t consistently watched for quite a while. When it’s appropriate others may pop in for a few words as well, but it’ll mostly be me.

With that, I hope you enjoy my thoughts on last night’s NXT Takeover event. As always you can download here, subscribe on iTunes or subscribe on Youtube, where the show will be posted within the next few hours.

As an additional note, as some may know we lost our audio magician and so there may be teething problems at first when it comes to getting the audio levels correct. If you listen to any of our stuff and you couldn’t hear or it annihilated your ear drums then let us know.

For those who are listening, here is the promised youtube video to what the much discussed botched move SHOULD have looked like.

Peace out thweeple.