Sync Floyd

After listening to the album for 170 hours, James Barron and Gareth Blackler look back to discover what movies, actors, colours, and old men actually do sync with Pink Floyd's 1973 magnum opus The Dark Side of the Moon.   Music: Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license) and Tiki Bar Mixer by Kevin MacLeod (https://filmmusic.io/song/6836-tiki-bar-mixer) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

After 99 films, James Barron and Gareth Blackler are finally qualified to sync THE WIZARD OF OZ with The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, and discover the truth.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: James Barron's piano arrangement of "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))      

Popular cinema podcast "Sync Floyd" gives you a comprehensive analysis of all the characters, themes, and motivations of an 80's fitness tape.   Attempt the workout here: https://youtu.be/fwQ1PrED9IE, and the short story "The Husband Stitch" is by Carmen Maria Machado   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

Gareth lingers too long in James' house as they discover if the dark side of the force syncs with the dark side of the moon.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

We finally sync Stanley Kubrick's 196ape magnum opus with The Dark Side of the Moon, and it threatens the very nature of this podcast.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license) and Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod  (https://filmmusic.io/song/3736-fanfare-for-space) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

James and Gareth pull at all the threads of this classic film, only to unravel themselves, as they discuss villainous mentalists, the fashion of the 2000's and of course, a full psychoanalysis of the actor who plays Nate!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

We're syncing Pixar's latest gem with your fave boy band, Pink Floyd! We pitch ideas for Pixar's next movie, Gareth tells the fiery truth of his childhood boyband fandom and James offers a cautionary tale of being too good at beatboxing.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

Yes, we got drunk on mic in order to accurately sync this boozy movie with Dark Side of the Moon...   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

You've heard of a full moon, but what about a moon... fall? We sync this bonkers disaster film with a certain similarly named Pink Floyd album and James gets mad.    Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

James and Gareth reveal their opinion on every animal, and ponder the demise of the family-friendly-buffet, as they sync Disney's magnum opus The Lion King with Dark Side of the Moon.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)  

In a very special ep, Gareth chats with psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Sydney David Alais, to discover the psychology behind why we think movies sync with Pink Floyd.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd,and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

Dive down the rabbit holes and plot holes with us, as we tackle a movie that's more Sync Floyd than Sync Floyd!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)  

James and Gareth warm your heart with the history of their friendship, stories of rolling down hills, and some hot new catchphrases as they sync Rob Reiner's magnum opus The Princess Bride with Dark Side of the Moon!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

What's up teens! We're talking about all your favourite teen topics; a creepy Netflix stop-motion anthology film, Pink Floyd, and the word “The!” Plus a story about some flies that will make you lose all respect for Gareth.   Here's the building we think would sync with the album: tinyurl.com/DSOTMhouse   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

It's our first James Bond movie! We talk about everything that defines 007; the music, the gadgets, the cars, Tamagotchis, Pierce Brosnan's density, and whether or not a spooky jester is in the background of the pool scene!    Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

James and Gareth struggle to make sense of Shark Tale (aka Godfather 7: Deep Trouble), a movie slipperier than eels, eels, eels!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

This camp classic essentially invented the idea of podcasts, but does it sync with Dark Side of the Moon? Grab your New Zealand guidebook and favourite fonts, and get ready to send the kids to bed halfway through the episode for the authentic experience.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

"Dark Side of the Moon turns Mamma Mia into Midsommar"   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook, and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

If you can believe it, it's David Lynch's 80's attempt at making DUNE! A film full of pugs, forcefield blocks, and a cast of our old friends! Big baby got me like whoa. Put it on the poster.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

It's both our Dune (2021) episodes edited into one super episode, for you and your mum to enjoy while lost in the unforgiving deserts!    Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

We're piloting this podcast back into the sandstorms of DUNE, as we talk about cargo pants, 7/4 time, and the genius of Bautista and Zendaya, while inventing a bunch of merch our fans will hate! Does Dune sync with the Pink Floyd? Find out in this, the thrilling conclusion!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

It's the Dark Side of the Dune and we are getting as granular as the sands of Arrakis, asking all the big questions; Who's the most magnetic cast member? What parts did James' Dad like and dislike? Does the film twist the white-saviour-narrative enough? What's Pink Floyd's history with Dune? And regrettably, What's your Spit-Style? Tune in next week for Part Two!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd, Facebook and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

You're caught in a bass trap, now listener.   Enjoy a playlist of our non-Pink-Floyd recommendations! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3I3OAfbqZmnst1Jy6DGCZK   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Voxel Revolution by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7017-voxel-revolution)(License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

We're syncing a different album! Gareth's album of the year, Little Simz's prog-rap-magnum-opus, faces off with 1980's sci-fi/fantasy flop Krull. Plus, Gareth reveals a secret he's held on to for over ten months, and James rebrands sand! Happy Krullidays!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Voxel Revolution by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7017-voxel-revolution)(License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

Here's looking at you kid... and listening to you Pink Floyd! It's Casablanca and we're coming in with takes hotter than devil sticks at a party!   Sync Floyd will return January 11th! We're on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

[unsettling music continues]   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) (License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

James and Gareth talk Hollywood dogs, toxic masculinity, the Wizard of New Zealand, and their own failed fight training, as Rocky battles his greatest challenge, Pink Floyd!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

The war between Tom Hanks and Pink Floyd continues in an episode that goes off the rails quicker than the Polar Express itself!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

This is what it sounds like when doves cry... and you can't hear those doves because Pink Floyd is playing over them.   (Content warning: We discuss the scenes of domestic violence in this movie)   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

We synced a bananas Japanese horror movie that's flexing, perplexing, and may have invented My Chemical Romance...?    Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Merry middle of November! We sync an anime that makes our souls grow back, and talk about the delicious filmmaking of Satoshi Kon, when to watch Christmas movies, and how many syllables are in your favourite words.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

In a twist of all twists, turns out both the hosts of this show are perfect Digimon Experts™, and no, it does not help us understand this baffling movie.   (Click on this wonderful jpeg at one hour 32 minutes: https://cutt.ly/IRMAtn7 )   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

"Sync Floyd: Twice as good as Hemingway"   Music: James Barron's piano arrangement of "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))   Send us your sitcom Pink Floyd cover band ideas to @SyncFloydPod, or SyncFloydPod@gmail.com!  

James and Gareth accidentally encourage talking to strangers as they ask if this spooky friend syncing with Pink Floyd is a Nosferatu or a Yessferatu!    Send us your spooky Pink Floyd cover band ideas to @SyncFloydPod, or SyncFloydPod@gmail.com!   Music: James Barron's piano arrangement of "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Pink Floyd provide a lovely blanket to get us through the scares, as we talk with untethered enthusiasm about Jordan Peele, the cinematic history of dabbing, and how we'd defeat our own doppelgängers!   Music: James Barron's piano arrangement of "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!   

Sync Floyd Spooky Season begins with a gimmicky 1950's film classic, ghoul traps, pro-skating-scare-takers, and a glimpse into Pink Floyd's own haunted history!   Music: James Barron's piano arrangement of "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!         

James turns into a dad live on air, as the boys fall in love with a Netflix rom-com that's not for them

We synced a VHS, with ads, from another dimension. It boggles the brain comma fantastic.   Watch along and witness the Kidvision: https://youtu.be/BGFikFSYRx4   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Two peasants stop staring at vases to bring you Skeleton News, Godly Gossip, and the secret origin of Sync Floyd itself.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Two arrangements of the Camille Saint-Saëns' 1874 tone poem Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3601-danse-macabre License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license) and Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)    

"Just basking in the glory of the 'guins"   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Grab a cool english teacher and fire up powerpoint! We synced the Matrix with Pink Floyd!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

James and Gareth break a new record for metaphors-per-podcast as they confess to their crimes (loving this movie), while slowly bleeding out (love for this movie).   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))  

Foodfight! is a mess of terrible animation, misguided innuendo and baffling creative choices, but somehow the music of Pink Floyd helped us understand it?!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

"Who Hitches the Hitch?"   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Sure, Jaws set the gore law, but does it sync ...or SWIM?   (Here's that eel article we talked about despite not reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-come-from)   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Two cops pretending to be Gareth and James talk party-punctuality, being meta vs being insecure, the power of Ice Cube, and how Pink Floyd sync with this fun movie!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

We snuck headphones into the cinema to watch this with Dark Side of the Moon playing, and... oh boy... it wasn't even close to the strangest part of the movie.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Come on and slam, as we FINALLY sync the unholy team-up of Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Big Mouth Billy Bass, the merchandising department, and of course, the lads in Pink Floyd.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

In a special episode, we synced some of the hottest trailers of the year with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here!   WHAT WE TALK, AND WHEN: DUNE (00:10:41 – 00:27:00) Get Dune'd up! THE GREEN KNIGHT (00:27:00 – 00:38:50) Dev Patel Summer! OLD (00:47:20 – 00:58:01) Scary beach! CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG (58:01 – 01:05:32) A rusty lab!   Sync Floyd's on Twitter, like Clifford, @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube, like all these trailers are!    Music: Blippy Trance, Cipher and Tiki Bar Mixer by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses)) 

"This movie is to Mario, what this podcast is to Pink Floyd"   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))

Gareth and James battle all kinds of curses to talk about their favourite Studio Ghibli films, ye olde fantasy maps, the best movie steeds, and how this bleak bleak masterpiece syncs with Pink Floyd.   Sync Floyd's on Twitter @SyncFloydPod, Letterboxd and Youtube!    Music: Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (License http://creativecommons.org/licenses))