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FEAR: an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm
Throughout this world there lives only 2 kinds of people: those who have conquered their fears, and those who are living their fears because they are forced to read about them in a book. This month, Sophie lives through her worst nightmares, we talk about Mike Carey, and then actually to Mike Carey himself.
Come listen to Mike Carey open up about his experience with Ozzy Osbourne, how both Lucifer and John Constantine got put together, and how the film adaptation of The Girl with all the Gifts interacted with the creation of the book.
Sorry in advance for the audio quality of the interview.
Over the years, we've covered musicals in bits and pieces. But we heard you: you wanted more. In this month's episode we brought on special guest Nick Gonzo to adjudicate and decide which of us has the best taste in musicals.
Come and listen to us talk about how terrible it would be to be in a musical, being a third-wheel on your own podcast and why this podcast is not as horny as you might think.
You think you know what art is? Oh, you sweet summer child.
What you need is to see the revolutionary Pre-Raphaelites with a style of painting that will blow your mind out of the water with its innovation and middle finger to the hoighty-toighty upper class. They will...paint models in natural light?
SOPHIE - DID YOU GIVE ME THE WRONG INFORMATION TO WRITE?
Come and listen to us talk about becoming the establishment you rebel against, whether or not you can have both authenticity and success and the podcast coins a new measure of quality.
Jump in your time pod and travel back to an episode where Past Mark mentioned in passing to Past Sophie that he didn't like her topic of conversation. Cut to the present and Present Sophie has conspired to have her revenge. Grab a headphone splitter (whatever that is) and listen to our new episode!
Come and listen to us talk about the reclamation of rom-com clichés, listening to music with a total stranger, how James Corden and Adam Levine are both insufferable, and the discomfort of having a different reaction to music than the characters.
Just don’t call it “authentic”.
Get off the cat bus. Hang up your leaf umbrella. Wipe away the soot gremlins. Grab a hot cup of tea, put your feet up and listen to us talk about My Neighbour Totoro.
In this episode, we talk about the definition of a comfort movie, the importance of first viewing experiences, Sophie's secret favourite genre of movie and whether or not the Russian Revolution is comforting.
Jousting is love. Jousting is life. At least that's the story that A Knight's Tale tells.
In this episode, we talk about the deliberate anachronisms, more peak 2000s aesthetic, whether or not Middle-Aged people were hot and if kidnapping does indeed equal love.
Distinguished guests. We are gathered here today to say farewell to a medium that has given Mark so much joy.
As a coda to his time reading comics, Mark talks to a crowd of talented professional comic creators about their thoughts on the state of the mainstream US publishers, the increasing cost of comics, the toxicity of the community and all of the benefits of exploring different cultures.
Thanks to everyone who gave up their time to help make this episode.
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I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. People will say: "Let's hear about Mark, Sophie and the Podcast!"
But they'll have left out one of the chief characters: ALL OF THE RESEARCH WE DID FOR THIS EPISODE.
Get ready to learn all about the origins of high fantasy, the influences that Lord of the Rings had on literature, how to or how to not say "Tolkein" and the information that can be gleaned by a layman reading so many graphs.
The raw information on movies mentioned in the episode.
Arrrr me hearties. Walk the plank and yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Also other pirate things.
The Bristol natives (and therefore pirate experts) talk about famous historical pirates, the differences between pirates and privateers, why we give pirates the benefit of the doubt and one of the two reveals their slightly competitive nature.
This is not a joke. This is not an imaginary story. A throwaway joke made eight months ago in an episode about time travel planted the seed for a lifelong obsession with one of Britain's most hated monarchs: Richard III.
We cover audience complicity in fiction, villain classification, demonstrate our acting ability and discuss the finality death can provide to rival claimants to the throne.
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