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The Disc-Course
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Holly and Julie, known Discworld lovers, discuss Terry Pratchett's magnum opus series with Mark and Jess, who've never seen a Discworld in their lives.
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Episode 46: Ancient Animal House
Aug 10, 202202:06:41Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: mention of animal dismemberment, climate anxiety, school shootings, gun violence, racism, fatphobia, also a little discussion of right wing politics in India and nationalist myth making therein.Nearing the grand finale, the gang goes to the grand premiere of Blown With the Wind...I mean...Gone Away...wait that's not right. Anyway, everything is super normal, don't worry about it.This week on the Disc-Course: old ass baby names, fast food training videos, go to Holy Wood and tell lies, yetis, Sydney Not Safe for Work, shoutouts to Archie, book covers, Dean Henry and John Hix, the Foot Man, a literal child, real fake beards, ribs wins, impure science, mountain smarts, poonnip, kids these days, Red Red Redemption, the Dibbler man, and the Eric Defender.Click here for the hot drinks training video from Wendy'sClick here for Surviving Edged WeaponsClick here for images of the Sydney dust stormClick here for French Discworld covers that kick assClick here for Unpacking RRR, Indian Politics, and CinemaClick here for Josh Kirby's rose astronaut-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 45: Terry Pratchett Predicted Foodfight
Jul 27, 202201:31:56Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: the racism of Hollywood and Holy Wood, magical compulsion/mind control, and brief mention of CSAThis week the gang finds a spooky cave :)This week on the Disc-Course: spoilers for Gone with the Wind, paint Pseudopolis green, troll nephew, McHarga's, filming in Sydney, dub jokes, the Bee Movie, a wizard told me, trebuckets, Gone with the Wind: Endgame, subliminal advertising, rowdy priests, the scary hole, dropes, Fred Astaire dancing, SNL ideas, aw Mr. Beans, and Roger Rabbit World.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 343 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "The lights went out."Click here for the Paramount map of filming locationsClick here for Yogurt NightClick here for the wikipedia article Jess was trying to remember for East Lynne (1931) -----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 44: Good Girl Holly
Jul 13, 202201:24:41Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: magical compulsion/mind control, brief description of gross food, mentions of animal death and the racism inherent in the movie industryAs we continue Moving Pictures, our protagonist is determined to do nothing with the information he has obtained thus far concerning the nature of Holy Wood because everything is fine :)This week in the Disc-Course: praise kinks, Gamer For Life, Terry's rude dog, Ruby Rocks, two offices, stuck in a loop, Gaspode bimboification, John Wayne, miscellaneous tubes, a Holly secret, college boy, Live Laugh Love, bodes, stupid sexy Detritus, 9/11 movies, normal in here, a genre of shirts, buffeted by Johnny Depp, the Landiis, As Foretold by Ginger, and Spanish flea.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 290 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Because Holy Wood's disturbances in reality were extending weak but opportunistic tendrils even as far as Ankh-Morpork, a couple of little bluebirds flew around his head for a moment and went 'tweet-tweet-tweet' before vanishing."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 43: June of Jess
Jun 29, 202201:24:00Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: violence, creature abuse, discussion of racism and colonialism, and magical coersion/manipulationVictor and Ginger get back down to the business of moving pictures, and the spirit of Holy Wood grows stronger every day. Meanwhile a thousand elephants are on the move.This week in the Disc-Course: pillars of society, rock nose job, my Ginger's keeper, Detritus rocks, misery camera, old Hollywood techniques, hormone chamber, Bagged Dad, Discworld geography, meltdown May, dull as dishwasher, gator counter, and Numbers Riktor.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 235 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Behind him the door movied the tiniest fraction of an inch."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 42: Best Picture
Jun 15, 202201:41:11Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: creature abuse, magical compulsion/manipulation, brief talk of bees and big spiders, and discussions of bad transphobic celebritiesAs a heads up Holly's audio is a little weird; I cleaned it up the best I know how but wanted to let folks know in case it bothers them.Yes, the moving picture business is booming in Holy Wood! Literally film stock is exploding, and how could it not with hot talent like Victor Maraschino and Dolores De Syn--those actors you definitely know who definitely didn't get fired. Meanwhile the wizards at the University find a weird vase.This week in the Disc-Course: accelerating scenery, prehistoric queers, fucked up camera, Waluigi's tax evasion, looney tune death, a movie man, whips all the way down, sequential filming, civilian gay name, new sausage, manic pixie movie girl, the ghost of Tasmania, memetic virus, huh weird, the smallest Depp, lighthouse fashion, and Grains Banged.Click here for a teddy bear beeClick here for Fuck Me, Ray BradburyClick here for an ancient earthquake detectorClick here for Terry's CRT TechnohubClick here for the Sword of Passione posterFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 176 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "The Bursar shoved the paper up the sleeve of his robe. 'Nothing important,' he said."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 41: Ankh-Morpork's Funniest Home Videos
Jun 1, 202201:24:48Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: discussion of irreality, explosions, and mind control/magical compulsion.This week we start Moving Pictures, just taking them off the wall and putting them somewhere else; also we're reading a new book! A new media craze is sweeping the Disc, but nobody really seems to know or understand where it came from or why. Grab some banged grains and join us, won't you?This week in the Disc-Course: the Hundred Years War, Break-My-Own-Kneecaps Dibbler, smile and nod, different types of nerds, the sausage chain, pouring the Kipling, bi bear, the promised land, peep the horror, banged grains, most normal name, old special effects, special test for a special boy, lucky charms robe, Cheers money, and LumberJacquelyns. For those playing along at home: Read up to page 116 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "After a few minutes he stopped chewing and sat with his mouth open, staring and staring and staring at the flickering images."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 40: Disrupting the Damnation Industry
May 18, 202202:04:47Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: implications of child abuse, the inherent racism and misogyny of being a white British man, and human sacrifice and torture.This week, everybody's favorite rat man Rincewind is back; now he and a young demonologist go on a time and space adventure and thwart the corporate legions of hell. It's not a very good book.This week in the Disc-Course: a street rat starting a one man band, local water parks, Rincewind and Squeaky Voiced Teen, one of those guys who hates me, monkey's pawed, the worst tortillas, a big wooden horse, Blind Iowa, the anti-Holly, plot critical sandwich, ten thousand years detention, quicksand, Rincewind goes to Hell, Ted Dancin', and so many colored pencils.Click here for the Water Country jingleClick here for a not great cover songFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 56 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'His fingers closed around a small, unexpected rectangle. He pulled it out and looked at it. Silverfish's card."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 39: Schrodinger's Big Wife
Apr 27, 202202:08:25Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: animal body horror?, exploding buildings, violence (police and otherwise), drowning, and plummeting to ones death.There are a million stories of short kings and big wives in the full frontal city of Ankh-Morpork, and this is just one of 'em.This week in the Disc-Course: dragon beans, sodomy hedgehog, Chekov's Pond, wet good, IRA moments, inside jokes, they stoned a cloud, American Discworld, da waw, hype gremlin, shitheads by majority, toy of the law, ADHD representation, apes all around, Let Holly Cry, rough but smooth Robert Pattinson, teacher voice, Dibbler ointment real, globehead, and moon dragons.For those playing along at home: Read Faust Eric--we said in the episode we'd be doing two parts but...¯\_(ツ)_/¯-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 38: Rage Pee
Apr 13, 202201:32:29Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include mind control, animal abuse, immolation, and abduction.As we continue Guards, Guards, so too does the dragon king of Ankh-Morpork continue his ruinous reign, and progress demands sacrifice. Human sacrifice to be exact! And y'know what, as long as it's nobody we know, it's totally fine to throw people to the violent machine :)Oh wait, it's Sybil? Aw, geez...This week in the Disc-Course:the trial of Speepy, Dragonfuckers of Pern, sad lads, Tortured Silence Academia, the rats and the worms, a case of Goemon ass, one good citizen, state violence is the same, Nobby and the Good Cops, plume allowance, Columbo scene, the guy who wrote the laws, bake him away, Discworld Cosmo, dungeon snakes, baby bow, wife isn't an emotion, and the lizard brain.For those playing along at home: Finish Guards, Guards!-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 37: Nobby Pussy Indulgence
Mar 30, 202201:48:12Tap to summarizeContent warnings for this episode include: immolation, police violence, animal abuse, discussion of antisemitic tropes, and racism.This week, as we continue Guards, Guards, RIP to the Elucidated Brethren, RIP to Vimes' career, and I for one welcome our new dragon overlord.This week in the Disc-Course: the movie that kills you, [Death voice] I'LL BE IN THE CAR DUDES, a world without Italians, Johnny Liveforever, noir juice, pictures that Vimes took, a million blorbos, Karen moment, sad clown shit, spare banquets, a righteous stabbing, SCPs, the gold vibes, You've In-Salted Me, de-jollying, hell-world, Terry Pratchett vs. Columbo, frantically whittling, worst blunt in the universe, and slopeless.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 342 in Guards, Guards! (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Vimes made an animal - a mammalian animal - noise in the back of his throat, and ran out into the empty streets."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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