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It's part two of our bumper double Christmas Special! True ‘heads' will remember us chatting to TV producer Adam Tandy on episode 1 of Shift Run Stop, an astonishing 12 years ago. Well, he's back with tales of his adventures in the intervening years, including making The Detectorists, Inside Number 9 and the recent League [...]
Isolation continues, but we continue to defy the microbe by finding fresh ways to connect with you across the airwaves. This time we take to live-streaming service Twitch for a special interactive episode of Shift Run Stop. Obviously it's not live now, but don't worry if you missed it: next time you're washing your hands [...]
The first episode of Red Dwarf; the first episode of Shift Run Stop since Roo became a dad, and the first outdoor recording of the year. Your hosts have watched a bit too much Red Dwarf over the years: finally an opportunity to share our knowledge and opinions. Stick on your H, pour yourself a lager [...]
Christmas comes around quickly in "Shift Run Stop years", and here we are again, just five episodes later, with holiday snackfood and 45 minutes of talking about, around and over an early episode of The X Files. Crackers! You won't believe your mince pies! It's time for films, games, festive chain cafes, and partially melted [...]
Episode 006 - Waiting to be Directed to Destroy a Fax Machine In this episode Relly and Pauly discuss the joys of travel including comedy beds, the airlines who don’t understand tickets and the hotels who think that wicker is the height of sophistication. There are also updates on Elder Signs: Omens HD, Relly’s iPad woes and *that* story about the 3G spectrum auction, a fax machine and an axe. Here are the show notes: Runcorn on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuncornElder Sign Omens HD http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=187Player 2 Podcast twitter http://www.twitter.com/player2podcastPlayer 2 site http://www.player2.co.ukCharlie Brown’s Christmas app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/a-charlie-brown-christmas/id476508724?mt=8Snoopy’s street fair app http://www.snoopystreetfair.com/Theme Park app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/theme-park/id464151522?mt=8Tiny Tower https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tiny-tower/id422667065?mt=8iPad mini on UK apple store http://store.apple.com/uk/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad_miniEverything Everywhere http://ee.co.uk/Shift Run Stop http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/Runny centre scotch eggs M&S on The Grocer http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/fresh/eggs-and-poultry/runny-scotch-egg-makes-its-debut-at-ms/232090.articleCape town on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_TownPacking cubes on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0013KDS96/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B0013KDS96&linkCode=as2&tag=mydirtylaundr-21Venice Beach on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_AngelesAir New Zealand air plane http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/Star Alliance http://www.staralliance.com/en/Letraset pro markers http://www.letraset.com/products/8-ProMarkers/East Midlands trains http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/Alan Partridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge
Episode 002 - You Can be the One on the Rollercoaster Relly and Pauly attempt a transatlantic link-up as Relly recovers from XOXO and Pauly tries to interest her in the history of cheese. Relly’s been buying significant quantities of board games and getting excited about the Wii U, whilst Pauly has been discovering the ‘Sheffield Egg’ and looking forward to more interactive theatre. And they both want 3D printers. Theme music: Helix Nebula by Anamanaguchi, from the album Power Supply. We welcome your suggestions for brilliant catchphrases to start and end each episode. Let us know (or tell us anything else) via email, Twitter or a web form. Some of the things we talked about this week: [01:53] XOXO, festival [03:28] Moot / Chris Poole, founder of 4chan & Canvas [03:35] Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter [04:40] MC Frontalot - First World Problem [08:40] Julia Nunes, singer-songwriter [09:00] The Kleptones, band [09:35] Super Hexagon, iOS game [09:48] Ground Kontrol, 80s arcade [11:10] Etsy, handmade store [13:00] Sheffield Food Festival [13:30] Andy Swinscoe, cheese enthusiast [16:25] Tunworth, cheese [17:45] The Sheffield Egg [18:53] Brighton Food Festival [21:05] Cards Against Humanity, card game [23:27] Munchkin, card game [23:34] Say Anything, board game [23:48] Elder Sign, card game [23:50] Dixit, board game [23:52] Forbidden Island, board game [24:47] Wii U, games console [32:43] Twilight Princess, Zelda game [33:44] Assassin’s Creed 3, video game [33:46] Call of Duty, game series [34:16] Resident Evil 4, video game [36:02] Makerbot, 3D printer [36:30] Mark Stevenson, futurologist [36:40] Human organ printer [37:20] dconstruct, conference [37:50] James Burke talk on nano printing [40:09] Accomplice, interactive theatre / game [42:40] Project X, interactive theatre show [44:35] International Talk Like a Pirate Day [45:20] Paul & Storm - The Captain’s Wife’s Lament [48:16] Indie Game The Movie, film [51:50] Shift Run Stop, podcast [51:57] Nerdist, podcast This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License
Episode 001 - Hungry Hippos Relly and Pauly talk about board games with big manuals, the podcasts that they’ve been listening to and where to start with the Zelda series. They’re big fans of Tabletop and Penny Arcade and want to sneak into a game store and record people playing Dungeons & Dragons. Theme music: Helix Nebula by Anamanaguchi, from the album Power Supply. We would love your feedback on this episode, suggestions for future episodes, questions, or comments. You can email us, talk to us on Twitter or ask us something via this site. (Most of the) things we mentioned in this episode (though some of them were really briefly): [01:29] Jonathan Coulton, singer/songwriter [01:30] Paul & Storm, professional singing persons [01:44] MC Frontalot, nerdcore star [03:03] Ticket To Ride, board game [03:10] Tabletop, web show [04:02] Game of Thrones, board game [04:08] Game of Thrones, TV series [05:27] Diplomacy, board game [06:56] Geek & Sundry, web channel [08:47] Board Game Geek, gaming website [09:08] Gloom, card game [09:17] Fiasco, role-playing game [11:47] Penny Arcade, gaming website [12:03] Penny Arcade, board game [12:48] XKCD, webcomic [14:10] PAX, video games expo [14:24] Childs Play, charity [15:30] Penny Arcade Report, gaming news [16:44] Acquisitions Incorporated, podcast [16:52] Wizards of the Coast, games company [16:55] Dungeons & Dragons, role playing game [17:23] Paul isn’t 34 yet. He should be able to remember his own age. [18:32] Dungeons & Dragons, animated series [20:20] Memories of the Futurecast, podcast [25:00] Encounters, D&D campaign [26:33] Shift Run Stop, podcast [26:57] GDS, doing exciting things with government digital services [28:12] 5by5, podcast network [28:18] Back To Work, podcast [29:17] Radio Free Burrito, podcast [29:50] Zelda, gaming universe [30:58] The Minish Cap, Zelda game [31:00] A Link to the Past, Zelda game [31:03] The Wind Waker, Zelda game [31:06] Ocarina of Time, Zelda game [33:37] Twilight Princess, Zelda game [35:00] Majora’s Mask, Zelda game [42:43] Magic 2013, iPad game [43:18] Skyward Sword, Zelda game [43:26] Skyrim, video game [44:22] Toca Boca, iOS games for kids [45:48] Board Game Geek iOS blog [46:30] The World Ends With You, iOS game [46:47] Phoenix Wright, video game series [52:06] XOXO, festival [52:26] Mythbusters, TV show [52:46] Indie Game The Movie, documentary [53:15] Brighton Digital Festival
We were slumbering, as usual, in our misty Shift Run Stop cryo-pods, when through the liquid nitrogen we heard it: the unmistakable call of a Raspberry Pi in the wild. So here we are again, temporarily reanimated for a very special and rare chat with credit-card sized computer creator, Eben Upton. As Eben reflects on a trajectory [...]
After a bit of a break, Shift Run Stop is back in your ears – on an occasional basis, at least. This month, we meet Ed Jefferson, aka Ben from @shippamspaste, Danny O'Brien (from episode 34) tells us about the life of an Englishman in New York and Lee Maguire is back with Snack Time. We also work [...]
We chat to a games-creator this week, the talented Minkette, and hear about some of her extraordinary projects - which range from mindbending ARGs to a radio-transmitted theatre production on the Tube. All that plus Kinect hacking, real world point-and-clicks, and Rockband with Grannie in this foil-fresh square of your Shift Run Stop advent calendar. Now [...]
Pepys blogger, Pretend Office worker and former Aardman animator Phil Gyford was kind enough to not only bring himself to Shift Run Stop towers, but also his Mega Drive. We natter with the Internet's Dave Green about the BAFTA Film Awards (which Roo also went to) and dorkbotlondon (which Leila also went to). Leila meets a previous [...]
In this week's fun-packed edition of Shift Run Stop we hear the sounds of ponies, meet real life author, Guardian columnist and dad Chris Cleave, learn about the San Francisco weather system from our foreign correspondent Anna Pickard, get a topical confectionery newsflash from our snacks expert Dave Green and more besides! Something for everyone, [...]