Talk Until The Joy is Gone

We continue our tradition of starting the New Year by discussing a whole series, because we are clearly insane. We took a very earnest look at the Star Wars spin-off, Obi-wan Kenobi. And to aid us in our madness, we brought back a guest, the inestimable Ash, to join us as we start 2023 in our own questionable way! And then we got to talking about: clothes, selling scooters, starting a biker gang, a wanking Walrus, Darktide, and eating four kebabs a day...

Brace yourselves, because it's finally here! We rented a hall, gathered the Cultists together, let one of them organise a quiz, and attempted to make podcast episode out of it. These are the results (if you listen carefully, you can hear the moment Reggie stops trying to run it like a regular episode and gives in to the madness!). We have cracker jokes, some news stories about lie detectors and Santa fetishes, the Weeaboo Christmas Quiz (pitting "The Brain and the Boobs" against the "Fucksprockets"), and team Rooney were robbed! See you in 2023.

We get into a stone-cold Christmas classic this week, with Charles Dickens' seminal festive story: A Christmas Carol. We were also both exhausted (we'd recorded the 2022 TUTJIG Christmas Special the night before), but we certainly tried our best! We also dropped a tonne of teasers for next week's special, talked the London ULEZ (?!?!), gave lots of quotes, got made to look really stupid when we claimed we never get proper snow in the country any more, and we talked about talking words.

Let us start this blurb with an apology: we messed-up the audio, so Reggie sounds like he's in another room (which may or may not be a bad thing). We will do better! That aside, we watched Iron Man 3 this week as part of our continuing trek into the MCU, and discussed it's highs, it's lows, and the bits in-between! We also acknowledge Reggie's birthday, talk about the upcoming Christmas Special "A Weeaboo Christmas", discuss invoicing people for our time, chesses vs smut, propose TUTJIG and Humanists.uk should team up for parliament, and recommend chainsawing more monsters! Festive, right?

This week we get back into some dark stuff after two weeks of fluffiness and light, with the Ripper-inspired From Hell. Alongside grim Victorian murder and conspiracies, we also find the time to veer wildly off into talking tangents on such diverse sibjects as: The TUTJIG Twitch channel Our first guest booking of 2023 Questionable clothing The Shropshire Man-Monkey Rooney being a #Glasshole UK Cryptid hotspots and chasing that elusive SurfShark sponsorship money!

Our monthly catch-up with the weirdness of the internet is here again, and fair warning; this time we're both really tired, and falling back on our tried and trusted method of just making smutty jokes. We also as Daddy Bezos for a million pound investment, talk about "too much" porn, hooker ghosts, audio-infused foods, festive lube, and time-travelling Greta Thunberg!

In an attempt to lighten the mood after last week's episode, we watched - and I can't quite believe I'm writing this - Bedknobs and Broomsticks! But before - and indeed alongside - all that classic Disney silliness, we also talked about where Rooney draws the line, drunk Reggie, a rubbish "news" article, Elon Musk, Knight Templars, a re-incarnated Nostrodamus, and some more Nazi-bashing!

For this week's episode we leapt back to the 00's, to the suprprisingly dark thriller, The Butterfly Effect. In an attempt to lighten the mood (seriously, dark film), we also chatted about drunken walks home, how Rooney is still not a Twitch affiliate, Lions on the loose, masturbatory abstinance, Inuit's, and Pornhub's local favourites!

We finally emerge from the shadows of Spooky Month, and dive straight into one of the biggest cinematic events in the last decade: The Avenger's (or Avengers Assemble for us in the UK). But before we put on our super-suits, we meander our way through some ecclectic topics, such as: Tea! The Essex Ghostbusters Annoying surprise softcore porn on Instagram Sexy astral projection Marrying your ghostly lover Elon Musk and his Twitter takeover Neo-Nazi bashing And Avenger-brand sex toys...  Apologies to anyone listening for a sensible discussion of this seminal comic book movie!

For our Halloween Special this year, we revisited the very first film we ever covered on this podcast, way back in Episode 1 : Interview with the Vampire. But before we get into our love for foppish, sensual vampires with amazing hair, we rant and rave about the state of UK politics, Rooney really gets behind #EatTheRich, and we consider running for government. We also wonder if vampires are just misunderstood, reveal how quickly they would suck humanity dry, and ask if more media is a good or bad thing. And Rooney doesn't simp for Antonio Banderas once!

A Halloween book club episode this week, and we lost ourselves in the brilliant Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman. But before we started gushingly declaring our love for Genevieve Dieudonné and this book, we discussed Reggie as a proponent of avant garde punk music (and him being a germbag), Andrew Tasselmyer, people who live as real life vampires, cosplay and crossplay, and Rooney got angry over the latest updates from the upcoming Vampire Chronicles TV series!

For the second installment of vampire month, we had to go back into the 80's, for the childhood classic The Lost Boys, to see just how well it had aged... Along the way we discussed US President Biden being pro-weed, the pitfalls of getting old, 17th century vampire lore, King Charles III being a secret vampire, Rooney being head of a new Republic of Britain, #Treason, vampires in mythology, and burning ourselves because we were stupid! We also squeeze in a Shout out to Spirit Fingers Massage; congrats on getting your new premises!

TUTJIG sucks! That's right, it's Spooky Month, and we're all about the blood-suckers, as we delve into vampires, starting this week with the Rodriguez/Tarantino horror, From Dusk Till Dawn! We also indulge in some Tory bashing, do some catching up on what we've been up to, Rooney talks excitedly and bewilderingly about World of Warcraft, and we talk about TV shows. We also send an open invite to guests and potential interviewees (we're talking to you!), and about the upcoming Halloween book club!

This week we look at the state of the world (or at least, the bits we thought were funny), with September's slice of TUTJIGIA Today! On the list this time we have: #SmokeMirrorsandPenisJokes Rooney moaning about stuff The Sidemen charity football match Reggie outing himself to his colleagues as a pervert. Us mocking PETA Us mocking the Catholic Church Lord of the Rings vs Russia Nessie! And because we promised in the episode, here's the link to the USB cable article... https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/teenage-boy-gets-usb-cable-25036438

We return once again to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be introduced to the man with the shield in Captain America: The First Avenger. We also talk #Mournhub, Rooney moaning like an old man, throwing everyone from our past under the bus, a whole lot of waffling, conspiracy theories, a GMM shoutout, and so very much questionable content (and we don't mean the webcomic)!

For episode 122 we had a little nostalgia fest and chatted the 80's adventure classic Raiders of the Lost Ark! But before we put on our sepia-toned glasses, we took some time to catch-up with Uri Geller (this time hanging with John Lennon!), Rooney found a sound-effects box, we checked-in with Nippy Nigel (Yurii Tolotchko), .announce a new Instagram campaign that we may well live to regret, and discover "Jizz Jewellery"!

Brace yourselves people, because things are about to get earnest! We revisit our Book Club series and talk about the book that inspired both The Mandalorian and Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (probably): Star Wars: Kenobi. It's the perfect storm of Star Wars and a book, which means this episode is almost safe for work and sensible (for a given value of sensible). Aside form all that earnestness, we also talk about Invasion Colchester, The Essex Ghostbusters, work social events, other books, and #Kenobiisms.

This week Rooney forced Reggie to be all Otaku and watch another anime film - this time, the slice-of-life gamer fest, Summer Wars. But before that, we had to endure another Would You Rather, this time with the TUTJIG Minister for Filth and Fromage Rachel! Be warned folks, it's a real eye-opener... There was also talk of cryptids, Reggie struggling with names, cultural differences, and Rooney srtuggling with names!

Continuing our march through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this week we watched the introduction of the Norse gods to the MCU; Thor! We also branch out like the boughs of the Word Tree into subjects as diverse as: #BurnTheRich Conspiracy theories that were actually true Numerous subjexts that Rooney can talk about Seriously, Rooney talks a lot. Abusing America The realities of porn Cryptid erotica We reach out to Sir Anthony Hopkins for a guest slot!

We're back with our monthly delves into the profane, paranormal, and down-right bizarre news from around TUTJIGIA (aka, The Known Universe)! This month - after we get through moaning that it's been rather warm - we played a game of Would You Rather with long-time listener/Cultist/ginger person Will, and learn more about him than is probably healthy. Then we catch-up with famous spoonbender Uri Geller, take some time to create mental force fields, talk questionable sexual acts, and embarrassing sex stories!

Reggie gets his revenge on Rooney for last week's film, and chose the outlying Kevin Smith film Red State. In between bouts of talking about crazy religious fundamentalists, we got into: Being tired Famous spoonbender Uri Geller Adult baby! #SexBucketList Smoking on TV And Reggie gets to show off that he has a specialist subject!

We finally finish the a trilogy we started way back in episode 3, by watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. And whilst we know we love to go off on tangents, we were really on one this week, because we struggled to stay on topic, and spent half the episode just rambling (we blame the heat.... again). We talked about football, ghosts, and the application of the Jack Sparrow Methodology to the Medium of Podcasting...

We return to the MCU for the slightly under-whelming sequel, Iron Man 2, taking time to discuss the highs and lows of thisfoundation of the Marvel juggernaut. Somehow we also manage to include discussions about the Tory leadership contest, the Questionable Content webcomic, the Gimp Man of Essex, some business planning, and do a little plugging of our merch!

Amidst record-breaking heat waves, we got together and discussed the surfing/bromance/crime/action romp, Point Break! But before that we spoke about some other stuff, such as: Music Merch Crossdressing Reggie Piracy Kenobi (the series and the book) Space Arks and Princess Di mastubation groups...

This week we braved the heat to get together and talk about the early noughties dystopian sci-fi film Equilibrium. And obviously because we couldn't talk about a film for two hours (probably), we also talked staying-up late, the discovery of a new god, another Great Woman of History (this time Mary Anning), Shadow People, and beach trips!

Another TUTJIGIA Today episode, gathering the best (read: weird) news from around the globe, and bringing it to you through the lens of our nonsense! This week (metaphorically) bounced around a fair bit: Rooney talks clothes Dead dad jokes #HowTheSausageIsMade Merch! Religion Socks on during sex?!? The Gimp Man of Essex LINKS: The "Joe Biden is dead" story discussed in the episode 

For episode 111 we dip back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the foundation to the entire empire: Iron Man. We also manage to keep Reggie awake long enough:  For Rooney to talk D&D Some El Chupacabra chat Country Life ghost stories A randy ghost, and a randier ghost hunter  He does yawn a lot though, so brace yourself for that.

We start this blurb about episode 110 with an apology - the audio quality is not great this week, due to brain malfunctions caused by the heat! Rooney's tried to sort is as best he could during editing, but it's not up to our usual standards. We're blaming the heat, and the fact that our brains were basically melted candles whilst recording this week! But we still watched and then chatted about the cult British horror film Dog Soldiers, which fitted with neither the weather, the season, nor the other stuff on the episode! We also discussed paranormal events at Cannock Chase, Uri Gellar being mental again, northern accents, Alice bloody Iriving, a game organised by one of our Cult Ministers, and we offer NASA to run their podcast for them.

We brought a guest onboard for this week's episode, as everbody knows that mreder documentaries are really not Rooney's thing... but fortunately, Aimee loves them, and was happy to come along and talk with us about the Netflix documentary miniseries Don't Fuck With Cats. We also had some thematically appropriate chat beforehand on the mysterious death of Elisa Lamb (during which Rooney reminded everyone that nothing is sacred on this podcast), introduced the Elevator Game urban legend, and spoke about snuff films online. So, yeah, a nice up-beat episode!

Before the boys get all cerebral talking about "high concepts" after watching the Will Smith/Isaac Asimov crossover I, Robot, they took some detours... Reggie gets a little paranoid he may have actually upset Rooney (spoiler: he hadn't), we introduce "Cultist of the Month", talk about Uri Geller, Russian missiles, and aliens, discover sex doll Instagrams, and start a sex club!

We tried something new this week, and got drunk at Rooney's 40th Birthday rather than watching/reading anything. But because we're conscientious podcasters, we spun even that into content!  We stuck a digital recorder in front of a bunch of drunk people, an asked them a series of "Would you rather?" questions, and... well, you can hear the results in the episode... Howeverm because we have a pthological aversion to staying on theme, we also had Reggie confirming that this podcast is indeed entertainment and not a true journal of our lives, time travel conspiracies, some strong views, a (probable) ban from entering America, and new Pride merch!

In an attempt to recover from the struggle of covering two films in a row that he didn't like, this week Reggie chose something he's been saving since we started this 'pod: Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. There's plenty of Batman fanboying from him, And Rooney tries not to say anything too offensive about the film (with varying degrees of success). Aside from that, there's party talk, drugs (#LegaliseIt!), MK Ultra, and time for questions!

We get all musical for the first episode of TUTJIG Year 3, which proves to be a mistake as we are reminded that Reggie hates musicals. But nonetheless we watched the Johnny Depp singalong Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Despite not having many notes, and we still managed to talk for well over two hours, on such varied subjects as eating people, Reggie and dating apps, Borely rectory, UFO's, conspiracy theories, and Nuclear annihilation. So a standard episode really!

To celebrate the second anniversary of TUTJIG, we decided to just chat rubbish for two hours! We have some moaning (about work and other things), "Sex is nice, but...", a lot of rambling, weird news (including incest), a dead kitten (!) and more of Rooney's accents....

For episode 103 we took another recommendation from a listener, and watched the lesser-appreciated Nicholas Cage Marvel movie, Ghost Rider. Suffice to say Reggie was not impressed! Along the way we also spent about half an hour talking about food and, travel, before moving on to ghostly voices, sex-toy hickies, OnlyFans, porn, Reggie lamenting not being an attractive woman, and Rooney outs himself as a big fan of Miraculous Ladybug!

This week we inhaled deeply on the metaphorical bong of Pineapple Express, and for a wonder, didn't just spend the whole time arguing in favour of legalising weed! We did however get in some moaning about work, defending Reggie's mum, learning about a Great Woman of History/Now, and alternate future Nazi coins.

For episode 101, we decided to revisit a classic, if only to stop Reggie moaning about the score he gave it way back in Episode 6. So we watched Predator again, so that we can hopefully do it justice (now that we have some idea of what we're actually doing as podcasters!). Along the way, we also managed to turn TUTJIG into a full-on cult, complete with glorious leaders, and jobs for those elevated in our site (which basically means we're palming-off the actual running of this cult to others).  We also discuss the possiblilities of "TUTJIG On Tour", and rebranding the whole of Year One...

Achievement unlocked: 100 episodes! We've officially made it to triple figures! And to mark the occassion, we passed the buck to our listeners.... we convinced some of them to out themselves as TUTJIG fans, and record a voicenote for us as a form of audio greeting card, then we played them hear for your listening pleasure, and respond to them. We also had a rather odd selection of news (including deaths and stolen cheese), centenary facts, and ruminations on the last 100 episodes and the necxt 100.

The last of our episodes in double figures... episode 99 sees us wathcing the sweariest comic book movie: Deadpool! We also have a request for voicenotes, Reggie gets his period (!?!), an alternative therapy clinic, Mr. Vanilla's new website, conspiracy theories, Rooney chatting Elon Musk, dead dad jokes, and hate-fucking!#TotallyNotACult

In a return to "normal", we watched the Spielberg love-letter, Super 8, and were a bit... meh. But, before then we talked about that Oscar night drama (video: https://youtu.be/BUkOVDUd9qw), Reggie thinks everyone should get off the Internet, Skinwalkers, the Amityville horror house, Reggie being the lowest common denominator, and the revelation that Rooney actually knows people other than Reggie.Intro music is taken from Discovery by Scott Buckley (CC BY 4.0)

In a diversion from the established norm, we decided to sack off a particular topic, and just trawled the internet for weird/interesting/ridiculous news articles to discuss! So, aoming other things, we cover: Positive Reggie Arguing on the Internet Road rage Brazilian pirate ships The Terror Alien love affairs Doors vs wheels. Giant rats Pigeon love If nothing else, it's eclectic. And we laughed a lot.

Being the little trooper that he is, Reggie fights through his Man-Flu to meet up and discuss - among other things - the second installment in the Cornetto Trilogy, Hot Fuzz! And because we are who we are, we also get into music talk (and lots of it), AI girlfriends, spider bites on your dick, masturbation stations, and perfect Sundays. Oh, and remember - "10% Less Disinformation!"

For episode 95 Rooney indulges his nostalgia, and we watched the 80's sci-fi classic Robocop. But before talk of shattered illusions of corporate towers, childhood trauma, and physical acting, we have to deal with an obnoxiously happy Reggie, planned flirting with his mum, a genuinely good TV pitch idea (copyright TUTJIG!), and of course, dogging! #RimjobReggie

You all knew it was coming - we loved the book so much, that it was never a question of if we'd cover the film, but rather when. And that when is now, as we "link start" (10 nerd points to anyone getting that reference) into the film adaptation of Ready player One! (We covered the book way back on Episode 23 , in case you missed it!) but before we started fanboying about the film, we also had time to bepress everyone with talk of war (#FuckPutin), how Texas hates trans kids (#TransRightsAreHumanRights), jars of poop, sex, and the internet.

This week we slipped on those rose-tinted shades for a walk down nostalgia lane, as we watched the Rooney-suggested flop Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Which maybe wasn't the best idea, but it's an Ivan Reitman movie, and it just felt right. But of course, because this is TUTJIG and we are physically averse to staying on topic, we veered off into some crazy conspiracy theories, some more Yuir the #HardNippleAmbassador, adult nappies, and the potential of a cooling-off period for sex toy purchases... NOTE: Apologies for the awful Reggie audio. Rooney takes full responisbility (he didn't reconfigure the mic properly) and will be suitably chastised.

Picking up something they started way, way back in episode 2, the boys revist the perrenial favourite Firefly, and once again each pick an episode. This time they picked the two parts of the Niska storyline: The Train Job & War Stories.  But first they took a stroll down the winding avenues of their off-topic conversation, and took in such sigts as physiotherapy, the NFL, space colonies, stopping off for a brief bit of Boris Bashing before exploring the Church of Euthanasia, old people and sex dolls, and yet more talk about the #HardNippleAmbassador!

As we enter the countdown to the 100th episode, we take a little dalliance into the surprisingly dark world of Constantine, via the 2005 film of the same name. But before dipping our toes in the world of the Hellblazer, we first indulge in... well, just chatting and moaning for half the episode! We distill the British psyche down into "Tea and colonisation", reveal that Reggie is seemingly being framed, Talk about Rooney and his road rage incident, moan a bit more about cars, come up with the should-be-award-wiining reality TV series "Richi and Reggie", the #CrownofPorns, do a bit of light Catholicism bashing, bad Scouser impressions, and talk about short brunettes.Reggie didn't even get to talk about any of his articles this week! But we did talk about Will. Oh boy did we talk about Will....

For episode 90 we turned to the found-footage monster flick Cloverfield, because who doesn't love a rampaging monster smashing a city up? But before we get to the handheld camera goodness, there's a whole bunch of other stuff to get through, which this week includes: Car troubles The state of the music industry Chupacabra Cave sex/death pacts A Rooney-centric music quiz more ghosts and of course, smut.  And, as an edded bonus, Reggie has requested that two of our ol band's songs be included at the end: Not one of the Crowd, and Broken Wings, so be warned that they're lurking at the end of the episode!

Everyone needs more Arnie in their lives, so this week we took a dive into the Arnold Schwarzenegger buddy cop/school comedy Kindergarten Cop! But obviously we couldn't just stick to that, so we also dabbled in moaning about work, haunted castles, the new TUTJIG Facebook Group, dead drug dealers, Bad Dragon hosting Anne Summers style parties, pre-loved sex dolls, and selling Rooney's bath water! We also beg for someone to run our social media accounts, and discuss our first user-submitted content articel: Pennywise/Mary Poppins!

We conclude our own mini-arc this week with our review of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Pt.2 (we watched the first part way back in November 2020 on Episode 28), and are reminded yet again that Reggie is a Batman fan.  Aside from all this violent vigilantism, we also moan about takeaways, moan about Work, discuss the humble Slut Drop, dive beak-first into the "Birds aren't real" consipracy, laugh at Space Nazis, and join the #HardNippleAmbassador for yet more talk of sex robots. It's a weird episode..

Another 3-hour recording this week, as Reggie got a little carried-away with his topics for the intro! We watched Jack Black's hilarious School of Rock, and prefaced a discussion abou the the film and music in general with some chit-chat including: Sex tips from Reggie Queen Boudicca The Loch Ness Monster bad irish accents Reggie's teenager crush (according to Rooney) We plan a film adaptation of how Rooney met Nessie The Battersea Haunting Discuss making a living prentending to be a puppy The "Dub vs Sub" debate and a shout-out for everyone to go watch RichiCrypt's 2021 review vid  Not really surprising we managed to fill 3 bloody hours, is it?