The Great and Secret Knowledge

By Jeff Richardson

A speculative fiction podcast by Jeff Richardson and friends, in which they dive deeply into the text of a variety of stories from all manner of different media.... more

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May 04, 2026 Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Part Three with Jessie Rye

This is it! Part three of our EveryOnce coverage is in and complete! Reward yourself with all these helpful recs and so many critically important opinions! Jessie Rye and Jeff Richardson love this film and you should also!

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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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

She's Just Tryin to Get a Snack

Except it Does Matter

We Need Kindness

Cushions For All

Recommendations

We Are Lady Parts

Heated Rivalry

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Dude Cinema

Links

Wicked

Amygdala hijack

The reptile brain

Basal ganglia

CPTSD/BPD

CBT/Schema work

Autistic meltdown

Legends of the Fall

Return of the Jedi

The Force Awakens

The Godfather

The Karate Kid

Lady Bird

Bridesmaids

Supercop

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max

Hamlet

The First Wives Club

Little Women

Stepmom

The Big Liebowski

Dude, Where's My Car?

Crazy Rich Asians

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

The Truman Show

The Cable Guy

Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion

The male gaze

Atomic Blonde

Suicide Squad

Birds of Prey

Justice League

Wonder Woman

Star Trek

Doctor Who

Thelma and Louise

A League of Their Own

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

River (2023)

Tank Girl

Furiosa

Thor: Ragnarok

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Taskmaster

Junior Taskmaster

Titanic

Mystery Men

Beaches

Drop Dead Fred

Snowpiercer

We Are Lady Parts

Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Star Trek: The Next Generation

...more
2h 28min
April 25, 2026 Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Part Two with Jessie Rye

In this exciting Part 2 of our coverage of this incredible film, Jessie and Jeff get into the middle bit of Everything, Everywhere All at Once. Stephanie Hsu is absolutely crushing it as Jobu Tapaki!

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

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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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

Don't Forget to Breathe

Happy as Larry

I've Seen Orange is the New Black

Careful With Those Boners, Gents!

Recommendations

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Stitchesinti.me

Stitches in Time: A Doctor Who Podcast

Heated Rivalry

Links

Doctor Who

Gallifrey One

Doctor Who Am I?

Fantastic Four

Dark Eyes

Star Trek

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Section 31

Watsu massage

Labubu

Orange Is the New Black

Star Trek: Lower Decks

My Dad Wrote a Porno

Fifty Shades of Grey

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Avengers: Endgame

Bisexuals sit weird

The Bisexual Intellectuals

Dawson's Creek

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Manic pixie dream girl

Dani Laidley, Australian footballer

Retired AFLer who came out as bisexual

A League of Their Own

Queer women in the ladies baseball league

Assassination of President Garfield

Death By Lightning

Australian Survivor

...more
1h 32min
April 16, 2026 Star Trek: TNG Season Two, Episode 6 "The Schizoid Man" with Sofia

It's Star Trek: The Next Generation time again and this one's a hoot! Some lonely scientist slips inside Data so he can live forever and romance young women who he watched grow up. Get ready for some real wild behavior, folks!

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Direct Download Link

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Possible Show Titles

To Know Him is to Love Him is to Know Him

A Fine, Full, Dignified Beard!

The Only Guy She's Ever Known

Data Gets Down

Funniest One So Far

Recommendations

Children of Time

Wheel Takes with Ali and Gus

Fluence

This Wretched Valley

Sako and the Moon

Links

Star Trek: Voyager

Enterprise

Hitchcockian

Huntington's disease

Alzheimer's disease

Nobody gets concussions in media

How It Should Have Ended

The Ig Nobel Prize

...more
1h 37min
April 12, 2026 Star Trek: TNG Season Two Episode 3 "Elementary, Dear Data" with Sofia

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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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Possible Show Titles

A Hallucinatory Eating Disorder

There's Nary a Net in Star Trek

I'll Still Fill You With Crumpets

Links

Star Trek: Voyager

The Expanse

Order of the planets

Colorism

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

The expression "heavy"

Doctor Who

Grand Theft Auto

The X-Files

HMS Victory

Star Trek: Generations

Booksheet Podcast

Sherlock Holmes

Japanese woman Sherlock Holmes

Shirley Holmes

Star Trek: The Original Series

Large language models

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Redshirts

Culture Series

Westworld

Murderbot

Witch King

Star Trek: Prodigy

...more
1h 45min
April 03, 2026 Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Part One with Jessie Rye

It's Part One of our epic three part series on this instant classic, Everything, Everywhere All at Once! Michelle Yeoh! Ke Huy Quan! Stephanie Hsu! Jamie Lee Curtis! There's so much here, people. Get into it with Jessie Rye and Jeff!

Direct Download Link

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

I Don't Know How I Feel About Weird Finger Stuff

An Asyouwishuation

All these Auteur Wankers

Chickens Are Just Little Dinosaurs

Recommendations

Crazy Rich Asians

Swiss Army Man

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Star Trek: Section 31

Star Trek: Discovery

Links

Doctor Who

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Silver Linings Playbook

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Swiss Army Man

Dude Cinema

Emperor Giorgiou

Star Trek: Section 31

Crazy Rich Asians

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Natural Born Killers

Lady Bird

Fellowship of the Ring

Get Out

Barbie

Sinners

Wicked

Triangle of Sadness

Death of a Unicorn

The Wizard of Oz

The Sound of Music

Little Miss Sunshine

Brazil

Time Bandits

12 Monkeys

Memento

Dark Knight Rises

Dunkirk

Blackout/All Clear

Xena

The Quick and the Dead

L.A. Confidential

Gladiator

Wild Girls (Bad Girls)

Scent of a Woman

Tombstone

Romeo + Juliet

Inception

Interstellar

The Prestige

Unbreakable

The Sixth Sense

Shutter Island

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

My Girl

Horrible Bosses

Office Space

Grace and Frankie

Death Becomes Her

Parks and Recreation

Big Trouble in Little China

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Wicked: For Good

Strictly Ballroom

King Ralph

RSD

The King and I

The One-Child Policy

David Muscavidge's dad's book

Bum bags

True Lies

...more
2h 17min
March 23, 2026 The Good Place Season One Episode 1 "Everything is Fine" with Jessie Rye

We're doing The Good Place! It's the first episode and it's wonderful! So many tangents packed into two hours, plus a great in-depth discussion about ethics and philosophy.

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

Maybe the Parties Are Lit

It Summoned the Collective Rage of My Fellow Countrypeople

Recommendations

The Dressmaker

The Dream Network: Sector 17

Matt Smith show - The Death of Bunny Monroe

The First Omen

King Me: A Stephen King Movie Podcast

Brand New Cherry Flavor

Links

The Chartists

David Bowie turned down a knighthood

Cal Wilson

Adam Richard gets a mention

Batman vs Superman

Made in America

Bring it On

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Veronica Mars

Bad Moms

Heroes

Mantzoukas on Taskmaster

How Did This Get Made?

Parks and Recreation

Man On the Inside

The Last of Us

Becker

Russian Doll

Torchwood

Call The Midwife

In the Midst of Life

Doctor Who

Heavenly Creatures

Holy Smoke!

First BloodThe Godfather

Donnie Brasco

The Departed

Shutter Island

The Godfather Part II

Scarface

The Dollop

Beans on Toast

Rejection sensitive dysphoria

Demand avoidance

How I Met Your Father

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

TerminatorTerminator Genisys

Pointy clown makeup

Round the Twist

Daniel Sloss

The War Between the Land and the Sea

Red Dwarf

Futurama

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Virginia Woolf

The Hours

Julie & Julia

...more
2h 19min
March 16, 2026 Star Trek: TNG Season Two, Episode 2 "Where Silence Has Lease" with Sofia

Sofia and Jeff find themselves a little bit baffled by this legendary yet muddled mess of an episode. Justice for Haskell!

Direct Download Link

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Possible Show Titles

Klingon Clash of Titans

A High Ceiling Moment

Sorry I Killed Your Son

Let's Never Meet Again

Ensign, If You Encounter Any Holes

A Little Bit Believable

Recommendations

Termination Shock

Film Reroll Podcast

Blackout/All Clear

Links

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Bananas in Pyjamas

The Clash of Titans

IT: Welcome to Derry

Abbot and Costello

...more
1h 24min
March 15, 2026 Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 8 "Family of Blood" with Jessie Rye

Jessie and Jeff finish off this incredible two-parter with perhaps the densest coverage we've ever done. Strap in, folks!

Direct Download Link

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

He's a Good Gnasher

The Time Head

She Brought it on Herself

Recommendations

Man on the Inside

Preacher

He Died With a Falafel in His Hand

Til Death Do Us Blart

Links

Torchwood

Two Watch Who

Australia Day/Day of Mourning/Invasion Day

Triple J

Demand avoidance

Broadchurch

The Killing

Deadloch

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Many Jennys Theory

The Hack

Wicked: For Good

The Power of One

The Boer War

Finding Richard the Third's remains

Richard the Third

The Lost King

World War I

The development of the armored tank

Titanic

Battle of the Somme

Legends of the Fall

The new Feist book (A Darkness Returns)

A Midnight Clear

Downton Abbey

Shattered Worlds RPG

RETIRED

Witches and the medical establishment

Outlander

Dead Poets Society

Unspooled

My Old Ass

Wild Things

Gregg Araki films

Sex and the City

The Wizard of Oz

The Prime Directive

The Duras Sisters Podcast

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Discovery

Below Deck

House

Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD)

Flight Through Entirety: A Doctor Who Podcast

Australia's drinking culture

Little Britain

Jim Henson's The Storyteller

Stand By Me

Batman Begins

Star Trek: Voyager

The trolley problem

Doctor Who: Dalek (Target Novel)

Severance

Rings of Power

Andor

Ted Lasso

Dumplin'

Worst Idea of All Time

...more
3h 4min
March 01, 2026 Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 7 "Human Nature" with Jessie Rye

In this excellent episode, Jessie and Jeff tackle this enormous beast of a Doctor Who episode, Human Nature, in their own inimitable style. This one goes everywhere!

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

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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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Jessie Rye

@kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky

Possible Show Titles

A Rube Goldberg Situation

Recommendations

Among Others

Outlander

A Darkness Returns

Vulcan's Glory

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Links

Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter

Emilia Clarke

Sophia Myles

Bridgerton

Lark Rise to Candleford

Shakespeare

Star Trek: Prodigy

South Park

Wolf Hall

Mastermind

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Crown

The Death of Bunny Monroe

Star Trek: Voyager

Govt funded private schools in Australia

Anti-choice representative loses in Australia

Adam's Many Jennys Theory

Downton Abbey

Britain and the welfare state post-WW2

There She Goes (TV)

Titanic

Love, Actually

The Queen's Gambit

Game of Thrones

The X-Files

Scent of a Woman

The Chocolate War

Round the Twist

World Newspaper Series

Rube Goldberg Machine

Star Trek: Discovery

Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale

Social media ban for kids in Australia

Wicked: For Good

Les Misérables

The Book of Mormon

Lion King musical

TOFOP

Home and Away

FOFOP

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Die Hard

...more
2h 34min
February 21, 2026 3 Issues of Bamse: World's Strongest Bear with Sofia

Just a quick diversion from our Star Trek coverage to read three issues of Sweden's most beloved cartoon bear, Bamse! This little guy is so strong! We've got issues spanning from 1973 to 2002, including a Winter issue with Christmas stuff! Sofia and Jeff love this comic!

Direct Download Link

Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!

https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd

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

Social Media

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

Possible Show Titles

It's Bigger on the Inside!

Dog Zoo

Christmas Goat

The World Champion of Meanness

Recommendations

The Ark (Swedish band)

Dungeon Crawler Carl

The Unspoiled Star Trek Project

Links

Donald Duck

Archie

World's first ethanol vehicle

Star Trek

Tomte the Christmas gnome will kill your bulls

Lulyuluyu song

Snall

Burning of the Xmas goat

Bandy

Krösus Sork the Vole

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

...more
1h 32min

FAQs about The Great and Secret Knowledge:

How many episodes does The Great and Secret Knowledge have?

The podcast currently has 90 episodes available.