The Massive Attack Podcast

Welcome to the strange world that is Massive Attack.

This is the first of our new series of mini-sodes we will be posting each month between our main shows. Each one will focus on something we enjoy, starting here at episode 1 with our guilty pleasure films. Mitch pulls out an obscure one, and then revels in bagging out Joe's for being much more main stream than expected.

This month we dive in with TV including the new DC series "Legends of Tommorrow", talk food and British panel shows with "Great British Bake-Off" and "Would I Lie To You?" and gaming with our new addiction, "WWE: Champions".

We then move on to movies with the new Tarantino flick "The Hateful Eight", Mitch attends a press screening of "Deadpool", Joe was dissapointed with "The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2" and neither of us can really understand why they bothered making "Jem & The Holograms".

After that, inspired by David Bowie and Toby Keith (who looks an awful lot like Mitch) we wrap up the show with a disussion of musicians who tried there luck in the acting world.

We start off the new year with a bit of a chat about the

gaming we’ve done over the Christmas break, including “Rage” and “Borderlands

The Pre-Sequel” on 360, and Mitch’s new ios addiction, “WWE: Champions”.

 From there it’s on to TV, including a non-spoiler chat about

“Mr. Robot” and "Making A Murderer", re-cap of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s “Wrestle Kingdom 10” and a pointless conversation about UK game show “Pointless”.

After that we chat movies, movies and more movies,

especially going over some plot points about “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, so

if you don’t want spoilers, skip from around 41 minutes to 51.30. We also spoil

“Good Will Hunting”, but figured Joe was the last person on earth to actually

see it.

Then, for our third year running, we have a look forward to the

upcoming big cinema releases that we are keen to check out. We even manage to squeeze

in a little tribute for David Bowie as well.

Christmas Eve is here, but it's not the end of the world, it's just the end of our 12 Days of Christmas Specials Specials

However, it just might be the end of the world for The Goodies in this Christmas epsiode from way back in 1977. Watching this again brought back many fond memories of our childhoods watching repeats on ABC, and made us yearn for a simpler time when comedy just worked.

There are a couple of different versions of this available on YouTube, most are broken up into parts, but there is a full one here if you can handle the fact it isn't full screen.

For Day 11, the penultimate as Mitch rightfully pointed out, we put on our Puffy Shirts and headed back to the heady days of late 90's New York for the "Seinfeld" episode "The Strike".

Not only does it bring up the concepts of the "two face" and making up fake charities to donate to as a way of avoiding buying actual presents, it was also the episode that made us all aware of that magical time of year that is Festivus.

So grab your aluminium pole, get set for feats of strength and prepare to air your grievences!

As we head into the final stretch, Day 10 brings us another serving from "Bob's Burgers" with the Christmas episode from Season 3 called "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins". It has all the usual strange asides that we've come to expect, plus the added bonus of Zach Galifianakas.

 If you want to watch it for yourself before we do, there is a very good HD rip on KissCartoon.me you can check out.

Much like "The Simpsons", the origins of "South Park" stem from a Christmas episode too, so for Day 9 of our 12 Days of Christmas Specials we go back to where Trey Parker and Matt Stone started it all, and watch not one, but two specials, each called "The Spirit of Christmas".

Firstly it's the 1992 one, also known as Jesus vs. Frosty, and then the slightly more advanced 1995 one which became known as Jesus vs. Santa, that went on to pave the way for the actual first season of "South Park".

Both eps are pretty easy to find online, especially at YouTube if you want to see for yourself.

Just like last year, Joe being the big Simpsons fan, he chose a Christmas themed episode from Springfield's favourite disfunctional family to add to the list for our 12 Days of Christmas Specials. So, for Day 8 this year we watched the Season 12 episode, "Skinner's Sense of Snow".

When the Simpson kids and the rest of their class get snowed-in at school with Principal Skinner and grounds keeper Willie, Homer and Flanders plan a rescue. There are lots of classic moments in this one, and a couple of surprisingly adult references too.

We watched this one on KissCartoon.me if you want to see it for yourself before we ruin the jokes.

Christmas is a time for family and friends, and maybe watching old TV specials, but not a time for maths as we struggle with the concept at the start of this episode.

Once we get our heads back around the numbers, we look at Season 2 Episode 11 of "Community" called "Abed's Uncontollable Christmas", which is a stop motion tribute to the classic 60's Christmas shows like Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Although it's pretty hard to find Community online legally, the DVD for this season has a pretty neat making of mini-doco which can be found on YouTube here.

The Tick is one of Mitch's favourite comic book characters, and it just so happens there is a very good Christmas themed epsiode of "The Tick" animated series called "The Tick Loves Santa". What better way to celebrate the half-way mark of this years crop of specials.

We watched this one on kisscartoons.me, but there is also a good rip up on YouTube if you want to watch it for yourself.