The Great and Secret Knowledge

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  • Supernatural Season One, Part 1: "Pilot" with Jessie Rye

    In this one, Jeff and Jessie Rye take on one of the all-time great fantasy franchises. It's Supernatural time, baby! Sam, Dean, yellow-eyed demon, the gang's all here! Get your car brands correct and let's put on some tunes!

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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

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    jameslark.co.uk

    Social Media

    Jeff Richardson

    @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

    Possible Show Titles

    Anyone Who Says They Don't Love Queen is Wrong

    #TeamDean

    Get Him, Girl!

    Demon Misandry

    Recommendations

    Yonks Ago

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Riot Women

    Fleabag

    Hacks

    The Stormlight Archive

    Dear Life

    Links

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    Wayne's World

    Adam Lambert and Queen

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    True Blood

    Warehouse 13

    Law and Order

    The 100

    Lost

    Do men enjoy strip performances?

    Destiel

    SuperWhoLock

    Timeless

    Game of Thrones

    The Walking Dead

    Star Trek: Discovery

    Friday Night Lights

    Star Trek: Picard

    Outlander

    Skins

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Promising Young Woman

    Lovecraft Country

    Castle Rock

    Dracula

    The X-Files

    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

    Riverdale

    Archie

    Betty and Veronica

    Annie Bot

    Ghost World

    Demand avoidance

    1 hr 55 min
  • Star Trek: TNG Season Two Episode 14 "The Icarus Factor" with Sofia

    This is the one where Riker gets a new job offer and has some touching scenes with his starship family! Also his jerk dad is there. It's Star Trek: The Next Generation season two, episode 14 "The Icarus Factor". Jeff loves it, but will 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

    Riker Does Not Give a S**t

    I'm Not Bitter!

    Sorry, Americans!

    I Hope There Isn't Any Murder

    That Thing's Much Too Large

    Man Musical

    Recommendations

    Hacks

    Confessions with Sammy Petersen

    Annie Bot

    For All Mankind

    Links

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Ares

    Aries

    The Expanse

    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Star Trek: Lower Decks

    The Vor Game

    Platform Decay

    Piranesi

    The Legend of the Condor Heroes

    The Mars Trilogy

    1 hr 45 min
  • Doctor Who Season 11, Episode 1: "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" with Adam Richard and Jessie Rye

    The Fabulous Adam Richard from the Doctor Who podcast, Adam Richard Has a Theory, joins Jessie Rye and Jeff to talk about the first appearance of the Thirteenth Doctor as played by the incredible Jodie Whittaker!

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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 Instagram

    Possible Show Titles

    Parking Level One

    The Scary Kohls

    Was I?

    I Love Him From That!

    We've Got Initials At Home

    We Know It's Not a Knife

    Swiss Army Spork

    That is Not Actionable

    Recommendations

    The Magic Faraway Tree

    Light the Lanterns by UTS Writers

    "The Panic Merchant"

    Restoration, Book 5 of the Dekra 9-2-6 Series

    Links

    Service Model

    Wall-E

    Spicks and Specks

    Grandmaster Flash

    Young MC

    Mariah Carey

    Eminem

    Shane Warne

    Play School

    Jon Pertwee Nursery Rhymes

    MacGyver

    Adam Richard Has a Theory

    Years and Years

    Rooster

    Torchwood

    Sharon D Clarke crime show (Inspector Ellis)

    The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa

    The Vanishing

    Happy Valley

    Knife crime in the UK 2010s

    The Simpsons

    Joanie Loves Chachi

    Frasier

    A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    Aditya Gautam

    1 hr 23 min
  • Star Trek: TNG Season 2 Episode 13 "Time Squared" with Sofia

    Sofia and Jeff take on one of the creakier episodes of Season Two, Time Squared! Picard sees himself in sickbay and he is not into it. Will he hold it together long enough to solve this space problem?

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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

    Hellscares

    That's Too Interesting, Let's Get Back to Time Squared

    I'm Getting Bored Looking At My Notes

    Recommendations

    Madame Terror

    Confessions with Sam Petersen

    Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    Links

    Swedish elections

    The Labor movement

    Doctor Who

    Knots Landing

    Dark Shadows

    Tau Zero

    Möbius strip

    Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home

    The Blinovitch Limitation Effect

    A movie where the time duplicates are totally chill with each other

    Persian flaw

    Friends

    Mistborn

    1 hr 47 min
  • Doctor WhoDis Season One Episode 5 "73 Yards" with Jessie Rye

    In this one, Jeff and Jessie Rye get back to their core competency, Doctor Who! This is about "73 Yards", one of the best Fifteenth Doctor episodes from the WhoDis era, and it barely features the Doctor! Is this the new Blink?

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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 Referendum on Ruby Sunday

    Just Makin' It Weird

    Head Canon Accepted

    Recommendations

    Wuthering Heights (2026)

    Promising Young Woman

    Saltburn

    Oh Boy Podcast! Spoiled Tomatoes

    What Went Wrong Podcast

    Malkia and the Battle for the Moyo

    Links

    The War Between the Land and the Sea

    Faerie stories

    Ruching

    German compound words

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Snow in Wales

    Colonisation of Wales

    Doc Martin

    House renovation in the United Kingdom

    Product placement and the BBC

    Christian extremism in rural UK

    Call the Midwife

    Queen Victoria and the German Windsors

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Norman castles

    Welsh castles

    Pride (2014)

    Project Hail Mary

    Arthur C. Clarke's magic science thing

    Westminster elections system

    One Nation

    MAGA

    Jimmy Saville and Prince Andrew

    Temperature control in your 40s

    Hatpin violence

    Nazi pope

    Tulpa

    Juno Dawson on The Guilty Feminist

    The Shining

    Star Trek: Voyager

    Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale

    Friday Night Lights

    Skins

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    Veronica Mars

    Beverly Hills: 90210

    2 hr 16 min
  • Jeff's Report From the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026

    Listen to Jeff report his time in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026! [Speaking as Jeff, I can say it was a very good time!]

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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

    Comments and Compliments

    The Death of Tim Curry

    A Comedian of Sorts

    Recommendations

    Ting Lim

    House of Leaves

    Not Another Crime Podcast

    Confessions with Sammy Petersen

    Links

    Zachary Ruane: Comedy

    Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?

    Mary Oliver

    Rumi

    Emily Dickinson

    Sylvia Plath

    It

    Command and Conquer

    Rocky Horror Show

    Frankenstein

    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Dru Cripps

    Dolly Parton

    Omniversal Escapades

    Shattered Worlds RPG

    Star Trek: Enterprise

    The Odyssey (2026)

    Spider-Man (2026)

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Steve Burns: Alive

    Billy Kirkwood

    To-Do Lists by Amy Lever

    30 min
  • Star Trek: TNG Season Two, Episode 11 "Contagion" with Sofia

    Sofia and Jeff discuss this fair-to-middling episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This one is difficult, but the podcast episode is great!

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    Possible Show Titles

    Wow, I'm Getting Bored All Over Again

    What is China?

    Barrels Full of Cyanide

    Why Are You Saying Obvious Things, Worf?

    Recommendations

    Bury the Chains

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Links

    True Blood

    Japanese battleship Yamato

    Star Trek: Section 31

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Tetris

    The "Discovery" of China

    Frances Wood and Marco Polo

    Starship Tempest

    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

    1 hr 27 min
  • The Prestige, Part 2 with Jessie Rye

    In this episode, Jeff and Jessie continue their discussion of The Prestige. Turns out Angier is a real piece of work!

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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

    The Regularverse

    Which Borden is Which?

    This Whole Movie is About Obsession

    Get Him!

    All For Bloody Attention

    Pour the Champagne on Each Other

    Recommendations

    Now You See Me

    Now You See Me 2

    Penn and Teller: Fool Us

    Riot Women

    Doctor Who: 10th Doctor Tales

    Links

    Netball rules

    The Club (1980)

    Rollerball

    Ready Player One

    The Hunger Games (film)

    The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    Unspoiled! The Hunger Games

    Juxtaposition Trilogy

    Space Jam

    Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters

    The Legend of Bagger Vance

    Field of Dreams

    A Knight's Tale

    Dude Cinema

    Edison smear campaign against Tesla

    The Man in the Iron Mask

    The Count of Monte Cristo (book/film/tv)

    Cocktail

    Penn and Teller: Fool Us

    Frasier

    The Greatest Showman

    Metropolis

    The Stanislavski Method

    Les Misérables

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Logan

    X3

    Matrix Revolutions

    Outlander

    The Last of Us standalone episode

    The Odyssey

    Circe

    Pink Floyd - The Wall

    Lin-Manuel Miranda talking about why he loves wrestling

    The Greatest Showman

    Nolan being knighted

    Back to the Future

    Days of Future Past

    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

    The Banshees of Inishiran

    Now You See Me

    Now You See Me 2

    Morgan & West

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Star Trek

    The Sixth Sense

    Unbreakable

    The Usual Suspects

    Doctor Who

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Mission: Impossible 2

    Magnolia

    Vanilla Sky

    Game of Thrones

    Shutter Island

    Memento

    From Hell

    Fight Club

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

    Scream (1996)

    Deadloch

    David Tennant magician film

    1 hr 50 min
  • Star Trek TNG Season Two Episode 10 "The Dauphin" with Sofia

    This is the one where Wesley meets a really cool girl and has his first love go south. Sofia and Jeff get into the artistry and romance of it all. Also, Madchen Amick is in it!

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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

    The A**holes You Shall Have With You Always

    Use the Ladder Because You Are Too in Love

    Very Not Useful

    Recommendations

    Twin Peaks

    The City in the Middle of the Night

    Bury the Chains

    Links

    Kristi Noem firing

    Pam Bondi firing

    Star Trek: The Original Series

    Genghis Khan

    Are Swedish moose getting drunk?

    Abolition of the British slave trade

    Riverdale

    1 hr 26 min
  • The Prestige, Part One with Jessie Rye

    In this episode, Jeff and Jessie get into one of Nolan's finest, The Prestige! In Part One of this thrilling two-parter, they tackle subjects as broad ranging as patriarchy, workhouses, Tesla v. Edison (and the US government), Love Island, and more!

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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

    Not Written By a Woman

    Recommendations

    Einstein and Eddington

    What Went Wrong

    The Untitled Star Trek Project

    Riot Women

    Deadloch

    Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult

    Links

    The Dark Knight Rises

    Memento

    Inception

    Tenet

    Interstellar

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Jurassic Park

    Dunkirk

    Westworld

    Workhouses

    Oliver Twist

    Alex Jae of Dude Cinema

    Tesla v. Edison stories

    Empire of the Sun

    Harry Houdini

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Star Trek: Picard

    The Nanny

    Blade Runner

    Minority Report

    Naked Lunch

    Pride and Prejudice

    Doctor Who

    Jersey Shore

    Love Island

    Albert Hall

    BBC Proms

    Quantum Leap (2022)

    Tesla coil

    Zero-point energy

    The Crystal Palace

    The Bartimaeus Sequence

    H.H. Holmes

    Tesla's obsession with pigeons

    Mildred Pierce

    The Simpsons

    Circe

    1 hr 51 min

About The Great and Secret Knowledge

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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.