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0:23 Lee Good evening and welcome to horror. I'm Lee.

0:25 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam And I'm Adam.

0:28 Lee Hey, and we are here for episode 149 of the Welcome to Horror podcast.

0:35 Chris Oh, no. Getting close.

0:37 Lee old.

0:38 Chris Yeah.

0:40 Lee Us, not the show. I didn't mean like that.

0:43 Lee So we're here for our, our what we've been watching episode that we now do every third episode.

0:51 Lee so without further ado, let's get stuck straight in.

0:54 Lee There will be spoilers, there will be swearing.

0:58 Lee I am drinking for one of the first times in the last eight months because I forgot we were podcasting.

1:05 Lee I've only had one beer, but I am the man who three weeks ago went to the pub and had to come home after four pints because he was smashed.

1:13 Lee So,

1:14 Lee this could be fun.

1:15 Chris Could get messy.

1:16 Lee Or embarrassing or who knows, we'll see.

1:18 Lee so,

1:20 Lee Chris,

1:22 Lee what have you been watching?

1:23 Chris I'm gonna come straight in with a hard hitting.

1:27 Chris It is, it is ending, it's the second part of what I said last time, so that may give it away. Stranger Things season 4, volume 2. And I loved it.

2:18 Lee Yes.

2:19 Chris They just, for me, they got it all right.

2:22 Chris It was so much fun, they enhanced the the horror aspect as we kind of mentioned before.

2:31 Chris But when, when they split it and I didn't realize that it was split into two volumes this series 4 is like, oh, they're going to manage to keep up with this final bit.

2:41 Chris And yeah, absolutely. I just thought, so good.

2:45 Chris it's got comedy, it's got darkness, it's got the right references, all around great fun.

2:53 Lee They just never seem to miss a step with it.

2:55 Lee Like everything.

2:55 Lee They do, you know, all the new characters that they introduce you immediately, they just fit in and they feel right.

3:02 Lee It's, yeah.

3:04 Lee And when they have a dick, they're you you hate them.

3:07 Chris Yeah.

3:08 Lee They just do a fantastic job.

3:11 Lee And and I know, you know, people say, oh, you know, it's written by algorithm or whatever because it's Netflix.

3:15 Lee But, you know what, if it works and you get good stuff at the end of it, I've got no problem.

3:21 Chris Yeah, no.

3:22 Chris That's interesting. I wonder I I know that is said, but I wonder just how much the algorithm does.

3:26 Chris Because it seems, I think there's been a few misses lately, like surprising ones.

3:30 Lee Oh, yeah, some of the stuff Netflix has put out has been not as good as some of the previous stuff.

3:37 Adam Isn't there that thing though with the algorithm that essentially it

3:42 Adam can only fold back on itself eventually.

3:45 Lee Yes, yeah, like a Spotify daily playlist where bands you've never listened to it, it suddenly thinks are one of your best bands because they keep making you listen to it.

3:54 Chris Yeah.

3:55 Adam Yeah.

3:55 Adam So I think, yeah, that might be where the miss is coming in.

3:58 Chris

3:59 Adam Is if if if I mean, if indeed they are writing to algorithms, I don't know.

4:03 Adam obviously, obviously, I'm not, I've not seen.

4:06 Chris So I was going to say, yeah, Stranger Things.

4:08 Chris You've not seen one episode of it.

4:10 Adam I mean, I am, I am fully aware. I will say for any, anyone who could even give remote effort of a shit.

4:18 Adam for me, running up that hill will always be the show running scared with Christopher Ellison from the bill.

4:26 Adam going going on about his bins as in his sunglasses that had been.

4:32 Adam found by a young girl in a murder It was bloody good that was.

4:37 Adam Sorry, yeah.

4:39 Adam And the other thing, the guy who plays.

4:42 Adam Vecna I've only seen it written down so I'm assuming I'm pronouncing it right.

4:45 Chris Yeah.

4:46 Adam he was, he's been sort of doing the rounds like interviews and stuff like that, and I've seen a couple of clips and he does mention by name, Doug Bradley when he's talking about how he wanted to do the role.

5:00 Adam and.

5:02 Chris You got to fill me in there, who's Doug Bradley?

5:03 Adam Doug Bradley is Pinhead from Hellraiser.

5:07 Chris Oh, okay. Yeah.

5:08 Adam And I follow him on Instagram and he was just so chuffed.

5:14 Lee Oh, really?

5:15 Lee Oh bless him.

5:15 Adam Yeah, he really was. He was like sort of like, you know, it's just like that, you know, he felt.

5:20 Adam He said it felt really sort of nice and respectful and he was just really.

5:24 Adam So, yeah, so cue us to Vecna.

5:27 Chris Yeah.

5:29 Chris Very good.

5:30 Lee Fantastic.

5:32 Lee Adam,

5:34 Lee what have you been watching?

5:36 Adam well, we had, we I thought I'd mention it. We did have an email, I've been meaning to mention it for a while from, Phillip, who had a couple of suggestions for us, one of which was Threads, which he.

5:53 Adam He did he did say on there, but I think that might be a bit too bleak.

5:57 Adam and he also suggested my next, my first film, which is Mad God on Shutter.

6:04 Chris Oh.

6:05 Adam Now, Mad, I don't know have either of you seen this?

6:08 Chris No.

6:08 Lee No.

6:09 Adam Right.

6:10 Adam It's, it basically, it's been, it was made by Phil Tippett, who is the, it's a a stop motion film predominantly, like predominantly stop motion, animated film about a sort of, I don't know, a descent into hell almost.

6:33 Adam quite abstract, but like really amazingly done.

6:39 Adam but, Phil Tippett apparently has been making this for 30 years.

6:44 Adam and like on and off, it's like his sort of pet project he'd been doing, but he was the stop motion guy on the original Star Wars trilogy.

6:52 Adam I think he did Force Awakens as well.

6:55 Adam Oh, it's because, yeah, he did the chess game.

6:57 Chris

6:58 Adam You know the little monsters on the chess boards on the Millennium Falcon.

7:02 Lee Oh, yeah.

7:03 Adam That's him, and then from Empire Strikes Back.

7:06 Adam He's did the At-Ats and the Ton-Tons and basically most of Hoth.

7:10 Lee Oh.

7:10 Adam So, and he did Temple of Doom, he did Robocop, he's, he did ED-209 for Robocop.

7:14 Lee Amazing.

7:15 Adam You know, it's, it's you know, Starship Troopers, Willow.

7:21 Adam he.

7:22 Chris Some top stuff, yeah.

7:23 Adam Yeah, and he became like, Spielberg and Lucas's go-to stop motion guy.

7:30 Chris

7:31 Adam And, yeah, apparently when he when he went to do Jurassic Park, he'd like started doing stop motion dinosaurs, and then they took him in and showed him the CGI ones.

7:40 Adam And he went, oh, right, okay, I suppose I'm out of a job then.

7:44 Adam but they, they sort of kept him on as an adviser for movement, because the guys had rendered the stuff really well, but they still needed someone to sort of, you know, get that aspect of it right.

7:53 Adam And, yeah, and then he so he basically then embraced CGI, so he can do stop motion, he can do CGI, and there's live action bits in there.

8:02 Adam Alex Cox, the director Alex Cox is in it for some weird reason, I don't know.

8:06 Adam but yeah, it's a, it's just incredible.

8:11 Adam It's one of those things where the story behind it is, is genuinely interesting, you know, it's this passion project.

8:18 Adam And then when you see it, you're like, holy fuck, this is your passion project.

8:24 Adam You're bonkers, mate.

8:26 Adam This is.

8:28 Adam You know, it's it's like, yeah, to have put the effort in and it's just, it's astounding, it really is.

8:35 Adam I can't, I I kind of can't describe it, it's just you have to experience it.

8:41 Adam But it's very sort of a bit like, Jan Van Sanameca or Sanamaker.

8:47 Adam I'm not sure what.

8:50 Adam yeah, sort of like his kind of stuff, like very, surreal and yeah.

8:55 Adam Anyway, that's as far as I can go with that because.

8:57 Adam As I say, I can't describe it, so I'm going to HP Lovecraft myself at this point.

9:02 Adam And describe it as indescribable but recommend it to watch.

9:07 Lee Excellent.

9:10 Chris I'm just going to say Phillip actually emailed us back in 2020 as well.

9:13 Chris I don't know if you remember.

9:14 Chris He gave us some great suggestions then and we actually did watch some of them.

9:20 Chris Candyman we watched.

9:21 Chris But he also he had a few Exorcists two and three.

9:24 Chris Carnival of Souls.

9:26 Chris Eyes without a face.

9:27 Chris Shivers.

9:28 Chris Or even something like Ravenous and or maybe some J horror.

9:31 Chris We did.

9:32 Lee We did.

9:33 Chris Yeah, maybe a horror comedy too, like Return of the Living Dead.

9:36 Chris And Tucker and Dale versus Evil.

9:39 Lee Love that film.

9:40 Adam Lee, Lee, is this, is this either me or you?

9:42 Chris Yeah.

9:43 Adam Doing like under a false pretending.

9:48 Adam Because, you know, this that's that's a fucking good list.

9:51 Adam So.

9:52 Adam Oh, no, it must be me because you wouldn't suggest Threads.

9:55 Adam So.

9:56 Lee Yes, true.

9:56 Lee Yeah.

9:58 Chris Yeah.

9:59 Chris So, yeah, so we've still got a few more to to get through.

10:02 Adam Yeah, Return of the Living Dead is one I've been thinking of a lot.

10:08 Adam

10:09 Lee Yeah, I keep, yeah, I keep thinking that needs to be bumped up the list as well.

10:13 Lee So, we'll definitely have to do that.

10:17 Adam We shall see.

10:18 Chris So what about yourself, Lee?

10:19 Lee So for mine, mine is also a listener recommendation.

10:24 Lee So it didn't make it, unfortunately, the wheel did not select it on our spin, but Leadbelt had asked us as his suggestion to see Wild Zero.

10:35 Adam

10:36 Lee And it was the only movie in that list that I'd never even heard of.

10:41 Lee so I tracked it down after about two days and managed to watch it.

10:48 Lee And what an absolutely fantastic I had to message him and say, yeah, thanks so much for letting me know about this.

10:55 Lee It was wild.

10:56 Lee It was so much fun, it really was.

10:59 Adam This is the, what is it? Guitar Wolf?

11:03 Lee It's the band Guitar Wolf.

11:05 Lee and basically a zombie outbreak happens, and there's a a lead guy who's kind of, he's a guitarist.

11:12 Lee And he wants to be in a band and he's kind of super cool.

11:14 Lee And it basically follows him, but he his story intersects the band Guitar Wolf.

11:21 Lee and they end up coming into it.

11:24 Lee But yeah, so it's a a Japanese.

11:27 Lee zombie, low budget movie featuring a band quite heavily.

11:33 Lee oh, and it it it's primarily comedy over horror.

11:39 Lee But it's it gets that balance really, really well.

11:43 Lee yeah, and I just loved every minute of it.

11:48 Lee It was such a good time.

11:49 Lee So I'll definitely be going back to that film regularly, I think.

11:53 Lee Cause it's.

11:53 Chris Excellent.

11:54 Lee It's one of those, you know, late night drunken, I want something stupid and that's going to make me laugh and put me in a good mood and just.

12:01 Lee Yeah, and it it's that all day long.

12:03 Lee So yeah, if you get a chance, find Wild Zero.

12:07 Adam Maybe, maybe we need to go,

12:13 Adam Well, you know, we we we're trying to sort of theme the months and things like that, you know, so and we know what we've got coming shortly and things like that.

12:21 Adam Is there something to be said for a punk, we'll just do a punk month.

12:28 Adam and do Return of the Living Dead and Wild Zero.

12:31 Chris

12:32 Adam Cuz I've not seen it.

12:33 Lee Adam, make a note of that and we will definitely be doing that, because yeah, I would love an excuse to rewatch this film.

12:38 Lee And we were just saying we need to do Return of the Living Dead, and yeah, actually, they're perfect companion pieces, I'd say.

12:45 Lee So yeah, that'd be a good month.

12:46 Adam Brilliant.

12:47 Chris Cool.

12:48 Lee Fantastic. Excellent.

12:49 Lee So yeah.

12:51 Lee Thank you very much, Leadbelt for letting us know about that.

12:52 Lee Chris, back to you, son.

12:55 Chris So, my next one is Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is not, not exactly horror.

13:03 Chris But it it does have close enough.

13:08 Chris Yeah, yeah.

13:09 Chris It's got, it's got everything in there.

13:12 Chris Everything.

13:12 Chris It's, it's, yeah, no, like it's.

13:17 Chris What was really surprising, it is kind of like non-stop craziness and yet somehow you can follow it and enjoy it and it doesn't feel like an overload.

13:25 Chris Like they just somehow achieved that.

13:29 Chris

13:30 Chris Yeah, like it's like, you know, surely you should be slowing down at some point.

13:34 Chris But it kind of just doesn't.

13:35 Chris and even the end when it's, it's all, you know, it starts to get nice, I guess.

13:41 Chris instead of more chaotic, and it's, it but it's still done at sort of a higher pace.

13:44 Chris And it was just fascinating how they could manage to sort of achieve that.

13:50 Chris It's like such a skill of cinematography and storytelling.

13:55 Chris

13:56 Chris Yeah, I I think I've got to watch it again.

13:59 Chris But.

14:00 Lee I said the same.

14:01 Lee We got to the end and I was like, I'm watching that again, so I need to really take it all in.

14:05 Lee Because as you say, it feels nicely paced, it doesn't feel rush, but when you get to the end, you go, shit, a lot.

14:11 Chris It's a lot happened in there.

14:13 Lee A lot happened in there.

14:16 Chris Yeah.

14:17 Adam I think, I've, I've yet to see it and it.

14:20 Chris Yeah, I was I was trying to a little bit.

14:22 Chris I wasn't quite sure.

14:23 Adam No, thank you. I appreciate that.

14:25 Adam I'll definitely, I'll definitely have to watch it in the week.

14:27 Adam But it's, yeah, because obviously I get the gist of it being someone traversing the multiverse in a way or experiencing the multiverse and yeah, if they've managed to do that coherently, then yeah, that is a, that is a real achievement.

14:50 Adam Because it usually.

14:52 Adam There are a lot of things that pretend to put a lot more thought into that that fuck it up really badly.

15:00 Adam So, you know.

15:02 Lee It's.

15:03 Lee Yeah, I.

15:04 Lee I was going to say, I knew I was on to a winner with it when, I think three people whose opinions I really trust all said to me.

15:13 Lee It's the best film I've seen, best film I've seen in a while.

15:15 Lee I think one of them said it was possibly the best film he'd seen this decade.

15:18 Lee And I was like, he's got extremely high standards.

15:22 Lee So, yeah, well done, Claudio, you were not wrong.

15:24 Lee Oh, but yes, so just to warn you, Adam.

15:28 Lee Just so because someone had warned me and I'm so glad they did because otherwise it would have bugged the shit out of me.

15:33 Lee The main guy in it.

15:35 Adam Yeah.

15:36 Lee You know his voice.

15:38 Chris Oh, yeah.

15:38 Lee But he doesn't look familiar.

15:40 Chris Yeah, that was so funny.

15:42 Lee The reason for it it's data from the Goonies.

15:46 Lee who you wouldn't have seen on.

15:48 Adam Oh.

15:48 Lee Anything apart from,

15:51 Chris Indiana Jones.

15:54 Lee But he sounds exactly the same, his voice hasn't changed.

15:57 Chris Yeah, it's really strange.

15:58 Lee He's an adult now.

15:59 Adam Has his voice not broken?

16:02 Lee It doesn't sound like it has.

16:04 Chris But he has got a great voice, it's very there's something so fun about him when he's talking.

16:10 Lee And the action scenes in that film blew me away because that's what he's been doing apparently.

16:14 Lee Someone was saying he's been a a fight choreographer since the 80s up to now.

16:19 Lee And this is his first acting role again since.

16:22 Lee Yeah, and you can totally see it because those fight scenes were just amazing and hilarious.

16:28 Lee It just.

16:30 Lee Again, all the boxes.

16:32 Chris Yeah, yeah, definitely.

16:35 Chris So, yeah, big thumbs up for that one.

16:38 Lee Nice.

16:39 Lee Adam, grinning away there like Cheshire cat.

16:43 Adam Do you know what?

16:44 Adam I was just looking at myself.

16:46 Adam And that's terrible, isn't it?

16:47 Chris Yeah.

16:48 Adam But, yeah.

16:51 Adam yeah, my next one is, literally, well, hot off the presses we recorded but probably everyone's seen it by the time this comes out, I don't know, is pray.

17:13 Adam which is the latest installment in the Predator franchise.

17:21 Lee Oh, yes.

17:23 Adam And it's fucking great.

17:26 Chris Really?

17:27 Adam Yeah.

17:28 Adam It's genuinely, it's it's my second favorite.

17:33 Lee Wow.

17:33 Adam On like based on one watch pretty much.

17:36 Adam And now, and don't get me wrong, I like Predator 2 because I think because it's fucking mental.

17:43 Adam So I'm quite happy with that.

17:44 Adam And I know and the and I still think the reason that people shit on Predator 2 was because Arnie wasn't in it, because the expectation was if if there was a franchise, Arnie was the franchise.

17:56 Chris

17:58 Adam And, you know, it's like Terminator.

18:01 Adam They even sound the same, so I think it's like, well, you know, it's not Arnie in it.

18:06 Adam And, yeah.

18:10 Adam

18:12 Adam But this is set before those and it's in the.

18:20 Adam in the 1700s.

18:23 Adam And basically, it's the story of a girl from, a Comanche, from the Comanche Nation.

18:32 Adam sort of her sort of moving on to become a hunter, like sort of and sort of progressing in terms of like acceptance and so on and so forth.

18:42 Adam And then you shove a fucking predator in it.

18:45 Chris Yeah.

18:46 Lee Wow.

18:46 Adam And it is just, it feels, it has the same, it feels the same as the first one in so much as it's just an exercise in tension.

18:56 Chris Yeah.

18:57 Adam You know, it's just sort of like, it's, right, and how do you defeat this and watching and also being not necessarily being.

19:08 Adam as strong as the opponent, but as smart as the opponent.

19:12 Chris

19:13 Adam You know, and and working things out and everything else like that.

19:16 Adam And it's, yeah, it's really good and

19:19 Chris So it's interesting, I'm I'm just wondering like there technology.

19:23 Chris will be much older, so it's kind of interesting, that sounds like that'd be a difficult.

19:25 Adam But so's the predators.

19:27 Chris Oh, okay.

19:29 Adam Because it's kind of like, I I I'm assuming that it's meant to be because the predators are however many hundred years back.

19:36 Chris Yeah, okay.

19:37 Adam So the one thing he doesn't have a plasma cannon, he doesn't have the shoulder gun thing.

19:42 Chris Yeah.

19:43 Adam So it is a lot more, you know, it's it's more sort of darts, the blades that come out the arms and stuff like that.

19:49 Adam So it's all that kind of, it's much more matched.

19:52 Chris Yeah, yeah.

19:53 Adam I mean, it's still fucking mad aerial grenades and shit like that, you know.

19:58 Adam But it's still, but essentially it's like, yeah.

20:01 Adam but no.

20:02 Adam It was just it was like a total surprise.

20:05 Adam Because that and Sandman, the series of Sandman has started.

20:09 Adam we has come out.

20:10 Chris Neil Gaiman.

20:10 Lee Yeah.

20:11 Adam Yeah.

20:12 Adam I'll come, I'll come back to that, when I've finished it.

20:16 Adam But at the moment, as speak I read Sandman back in the day and

20:22 Adam Yeah, it's it's it's Sandman.

20:26 Adam It just feels right in much in the same way, weirdly enough.

20:30 Adam Even though I don't think it went that way.

20:32 Adam But much how Preacher seemed quite accurate to the like close to the comic or certainly initially.

20:37 Adam And,

20:39 Adam Yeah, I think this is, this this as long as they don't fuck up badly somewhere along the line, I think this is going to be a good, this is going to be a good adaption.

20:49 Chris

20:50 Adam So.

20:51 Adam but yeah, so Prey, yeah, just came out on.

20:53 Adam It's I think it's on Disney Plus and Hulu.

20:58 Adam and that came out yesterday or Friday.

21:01 Adam And, yeah, like I say, it was just but again, it's one of those things where.

21:05 Adam You have all these things where, you know, all the sort of Star Wars TV shows and everything where there's always this hype about, oh, they're doing a new Master Universe and then then it takes them fucking months to actually bring it to you and everything else like that.

21:20 Adam Whereas with this, I mean, okay, I'm not, I'm not.

21:24 Adam I don't follow #predator, you know, it's not sort of like something that I'm keeping that up to date with as a franchise or whatever like that.

21:32 Adam But still, yeah, just for it to suddenly be like, oh, there's this film, oh, yeah, you watch it, oh, yeah, and it's the new credit film and it's probably the best one that you've done since the first one.

21:41 Lee Yeah.

21:42 Adam You know.

21:43 Adam It's it's just kind of.

21:46 Lee It's a great concept just dropping them against a different opponent in time.

21:50 Lee Because in theory, you could just drop them in feudal Japan or, you know, the era of the the knights of the round table, like you could literally, there's endless amount of times.

21:59 Lee You could just go, right, you've got a group of warriors, just drop some predators in and just see how they deal with it with everyone.

22:04 Lee As you say, as long as they've retrospectively taken the Predators technology back, so they're always.

22:10 Lee They're always better.

22:12 Adam Because I mean, isn't that just that, what was that, wasn't there that fucking mad show that was like.

22:21 Adam Samurai versus Verhmacht soldier and Roman Centurion versus barbarian.

22:27 Lee I'm deadliest warrior, I think it was.

22:28 Adam Yeah, that.

22:29 Lee I've watched far too much of that show.

22:32 Adam

22:33 Lee Yeah.

22:34 Lee Just.

22:36 Lee An embarrassing amount really.

22:38 Lee Yeah, but.

22:39 Lee Yeah, it's it's entertaining, it's nonsense but it's highly entertaining.

22:43 Adam Yeah.

22:44 Adam But I recommend, I recommend Prey really highly and Claire's not seen any of the others and she watched it and followed it.

22:50 Adam yeah, and it's so I think it passes the newbie test as well.

22:53 Chris Excellent.

22:54 Adam But there's loads of bits in there, well, not actually, no, there's a couple of nice touches in there where I'm like, oh, that's a reference back or that feels like this.

23:01 Lee Oh.

23:02 Adam But it's not like whackin you over the head with it, sort of, you know, just like every five minutes we find out that he's related to the fucking.

23:09 Adam You know.

23:11 Adam Turns out that one one guy like there's a French bear trapper and he was actually related to one of the gang members in Predator 2.

23:17 Lee Nice.

23:19 Adam By adoption and accident of birth.

23:21 Lee Yes.

23:22 Lee Yeah.

23:23 Lee Nice.

23:25 Lee

23:26 Lee Adam.

23:27 Lee What did you watch next?

23:29 Adam I think I well, I'm going to go with.

23:30 Adam it was something that I heard with my ear holes, which is the sitcom Damned Andrew.

23:38 Adam Which is, the comedian Andrew O'Neill's.

23:44 Chris

23:44 Adam sitcom written and co-written with Tom Deville, which is a name you may know, but he wrote.

23:52 Adam Do you remember Urban Gothic?

23:53 Lee Yes.

23:54 Adam The TV series, it was like an anthology series where I would actually like, I'm thinking, it sort of putting in my head to show Chris a couple of episodes of that.

24:01 Adam Because there are a couple of stunners in there, you know, genuinely really, really good.

24:06 Adam As well as being a pretty high level show, budget not withstanding, but you know, it was some good ideas and stuff.

24:12 Adam

24:13 Adam But yeah, and it's basically, the story of Andrew going through their day-to-day life.

24:22 Adam But having accidentally opened a portal to hell and contaminating the entire of London and a bit of Leeds with demons.

24:31 Chris

24:32 Adam And.

24:33 Adam But it's the same sort of thing of it has that sort of like mighty Boosh feeling of the mundane with the very strange.

24:40 Chris Yeah.

24:40 Adam Because because obviously it's London, so everyone's dealing with it as Londoners, which is, well.

24:50 Adam You know, if well, if there's a demon covering the central line.

24:53 Adam Well, if I take the northern and then go.

24:55 Lee Fire.

24:55 Adam fire.

24:57 Adam So it's just, yeah, it's just about sort of like them coping with day-to-day life.

25:02 Adam But also all the madness of the demons involved and everything.

25:07 Adam And obviously Andrew's sort of ridiculously.

25:11 Adam funny anyway, but also but also and there's plenty of like metal references in there.

25:16 Adam And, occult and a lot of the occultism obviously because it's.

25:21 Adam an an occult sitcom essentially.

25:24 Adam

25:25 Adam But yeah, so you've got, and there's like Toby Hadoke on there and Sanjeev Kohli and, like a lot of other comedians.

25:31 Adam But, and this is one of the key things.

25:33 Adam It's narrated by Alan Moore.

25:35 Lee Nice.

25:35 Adam And it's so, yeah, just everyone starts off with Alann just talking about non-binary comedian Andrew O'Neill.

25:44 Adam Opened a portal in their living room.

25:46 Adam And,

25:47 Adam Yeah, it's but it's just genuinely piss funny.

25:49 Adam I, yeah, just right.

25:51 Lee What was it called, sorry?

25:52 Adam It's called Damned Andrew.

25:53 Adam Now, there was I think there was only four episodes, it was on Radio 4 but it's on the BBC Sounds app, I think for like at least a year on Iplayer.

26:01 Adam Cool.

26:02 Adam

26:02 Adam On Iplayer.

26:03 Adam So, yeah, it's well worth a listen and also just in the hopes that if enough people listen to it, they might do another series.

26:11 Adam Because.

26:12 Adam Yeah, I just.

26:14 Adam Yeah, I just think.

26:15 Adam They they did it great, especially there's a part towards the end where.

26:20 Adam as part of a mental journey through a demon's mind, they resurrect the Astoria.

26:27 Lee Oh, nice.

26:28 Adam Where it's meant to be the demon was trying to give Andrew places that they felt comfortable in.

26:36 Adam So it was, so it's like, what's this? It's like sticky floors and.

26:42 Adam Hang on.

26:44 Adam This is the Astoria.

26:45 Lee Oh.

26:46 Chris Excellent.

26:47 Adam So yeah, definitely worth if you've enjoyed his.

26:50 Adam If you enjoy his standup and stuff, definitely.

26:53 Chris Sounds great.

26:54 Adam Yeah.

26:54 Lee Yeah, massive fan of his stand-up stuff, so I'll definitely, yeah.

26:57 Lee Definitely be checking that out.

26:59 Lee my final one, I'm literally going to do a 30 second job.

27:02 Lee Because, we've got to announce our 150th episode.

27:05 Lee and we're down to five minute warning.

27:07 Lee So.

27:08 Lee I, again, back to Netflix.

27:11 Lee just finished the last season and it is the last season, of Umbrella Academy.

27:17 Adam

27:19 Lee which I've thoroughly enjoyed and I didn't realize just how bad shit it was until we watched the catch up of the previous season.

27:25 Lee And you when they just do it in like a 10 minute run down of what you've been watching, you go, yeah, that's mental.

27:30 Lee I just.

27:31 Lee but I particularly wanted to mention it because, Aidan Gallagher, who plays Five.

27:38 Lee is just, his performance, so his character is a teenage boy, I think he's 16 or 17, but because he's been lost in time, he's been living for 50 years.

27:48 Lee So it's a teenage actor playing a very wise, older, middle-aged man in a child's body.

27:53 Lee And he does it exceptionally well.

27:58 Chris

27:59 Lee yeah, and I just, yeah, I just can't get over that.

28:02 Lee So I just wanted to mention it.

28:03 Lee But.

28:04 Lee We are running out of time, so we shall jump in.

28:07 Lee So episode 150 is our next next episode.

28:11 Lee we're hoping this is going to be entertaining.

28:14 Lee but we don't know.

28:15 Lee You might decide we're all frauds after it.

28:18 Lee Or you might find it boring, but you know, I we we shall see how it goes.

28:22 Lee So for episode 150.

28:25 Lee We are going to go back and play a board game that we used to play many moons ago before we were podcasting, myself and Adam with Lady Jennifer and previous guest Dean, it became a bit of a weekly ritual for six months, eight months every weekend, we'd get together, we'd have a catch up for an hour and then we would play the 2002 board game called Goth.

28:49 Chris Very good.

28:51 Lee

28:52 Lee It's a board game in which you have to answer questions on horror related topics.

29:00 Lee in order to earn gravestones to fill up your grave plot, and the first one to 13 stones is the winner.

29:09 Adam I think.

29:10 Lee

29:10 Adam I think I've surpassed that.

29:11 Lee Yeah, it got.

29:12 Adam I've passed 13 star.

29:14 Lee yeah.

29:15 Lee And I say and we really enjoyed it and played it for a long, and we haven't played it now in probably, I'd say conservatively, 15 years since we last had a game.

29:21 Lee So we have dug it out.

29:23 Lee And we're going to dust it off and give it a go, and see how Chris fares with all things that he's been learning.

29:28 Lee It isn't just horror movies, it's horror movies, literature, serial killers, unusual deaths.

29:36 Adam Music.

29:37 Lee Music.

29:37 Lee

29:39 Lee But yeah, all all kind of horror-based.

29:42 Adam Everything.

29:42 Lee And it's a really good it's good fun.

29:45 Lee It's got, you know, other squares where you can steal other people's gravestones and your full moon squares and all that.

29:50 Lee But we will be joined, so Lady Jennifer.

29:54 Lee will be joining us, she will be our Eddie from Stranger Things for the night.

29:59 Lee Because she will be the game master.

30:03 Chris Oh.

30:04 Lee and we'll be doing all of the dice throwing and counter moving and we're all going to do it over zoom.

30:08 Lee So.

30:10 Lee That is the plan.

30:11 Chris It's going to work perfectly.

30:13 Lee Yeah.

30:14 Lee I say, if anyone's interested and isn't the same stuff as us, if you can track a copy of this board game down, it's so worth doing, because as I say, Jennifer bought it just because it was called Goth and thought it'd be funny and we got absolutely obsessed with it for quite a long time.

30:29 Lee So,

30:30 Lee Yeah, if you can track a copy down, do.

30:32 Lee we what we'll try and do is we'll try and leave a little gap between the questions and the answers in case people want to play at home and just make a, you know, give you a 10 second thinking time or whatever.

30:45 Lee so you can mark down whether you get them or not.

30:47 Lee and yeah.

30:50 Lee So if you're interested in that, bring a paper and pen, and we will see you in a Fortnite's time for episode 150 for a game of Goth.

30:57 Lee Thanks very much, and good night.

30:59 Chris Good night.

31:00 Adam Good night.