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Your hosts spend 17 minutes talking about some tropes they didn't love in Snuff by Terry Pratchett, and then roughly two hours (cut down to a reasonable time) gushing about the rest of the book in the spoiler section so we can't talk about it. Vimes kind of has magic powers, his wife Sybil actually does things in the plot, and there's a character named Stinky (that's really all you need to know).Find us on Discord / Support us on PatreonThanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Get the book here: https://amzn.to/4dly5TZ "Night Watch turns out to be an unexpectedly moving novel about sacrifice and responsibility, its final scenes leaving one near tears. . . Terry Pratchett may still be pegged as a comic novelist, but . . . he's a lot more.” — Washington Post Book World Getting knocked back in time thirty years, Sam Vines, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch experiences a day like no other in which past, present, and future collide with hilarious—and poignant—results in this rollicking Discworld adventure from Terry Pratchett. One moment Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes is chasing a murderer across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying in the street below, naked—and back in his own tough past thanks to a lightning strike and a group of meddling, time-manipulating monks. It's a dark Discworld that is all too familiar. Worse, the cop-killing psychopath he'd been pursuing has been transported back with him, and it's the eve of a deadly street rebellion that took a few good (and not so good) lives. Vimes is determined to do his duty— track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion. By changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks, and steer a novice watchman straight—an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes. But if he succeeds, Sam knows it could cost him the future—including the job and the family he loves. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Night Watch is the sixth book in the City Watch series. The series includes: Guards! Guards! Men at Arms Feet of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant Night Watch Thud! Snuff

"Carrot is like Superman" - Andy "Vetinari is like Lex Luthor" - PJ Andy charts his loss of Disc virginity with a five-function diary and PJ reports in on his first time with the Feet of Clay audiobook. The most important man in the city has been poisoned and there's everything to play for. We rave and rant on golems, technology, the working class struggle, trans experiences, gender metaphors, relationships, class, and the psychogeography of Ankh-Morpork. We've got good at this. Deep dives into Cheri, Vimes, Angua and Carrot. Take a drink every time PJ says Jon Culshaw.

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El mundo es tan complejo y tan difícil que, a veces, nos vemos obligados a apoyarnos en recursos de ficción o de fantasía para entenderlo. Y pocos lugares mejores para comprender una realidad compleja que Mundodisco, ese planeta inventado por Terry Pratchett en la saga de mismo nombre, que viaja en equilibrio sobre el lomo de cuatro elefantes, que a su vez se encuentran sobre el lomo de una tortuga estelar.Un escenario de auténtica fantasía, que dio pie a una saga que solo en España vendió más de un millón de libros. Destacaba además la creación de Pratchett por su capacidad para establecer paralelismos satíricos sobre cuestiones culturales, políticas, económicas y científicas.De hecho, los libros del genial autor entre su fino humor británico también recogen brillantes reflexiones sobre la sociedad actual, tan similar en algunos aspectos a la de hace 40 años, cuando Pratchett empezó a escribir las novelas de la saga.Este entorno es el que recoge la 'teoría de las botas de Vimes', o sencillamente 'teoría de las botas', que trata de explicar el problema de la desigualdad y la injusticia socioeconómica. Aparecida por primera vez en 1993, en la novela 'Hombres de Armas', señala que las personas que viven en la pobreza tienden a comprar productos baratos y de menor calidad, que deben reemplazarse repetidamente, y lo que a largo plazo resulta ser más caro que haber comprado un producto de mayor calidad.Recibe este nombre, precisamente, porque es Sam Vimes, capitán de la Guardia de la ciudad de Ankh-Morpork, el que ilustra el concepto, poniendo como ejemplo unas botas, con una reflexión sobre lo caro que es ser pobre."La razón porque los ricos eran ricos, razonaba Vimes, era que se las arreglaban para gastar menos dinero. Tomemos el caso de las botas, por ejemplo. Él ganaba treinta y ocho dólares al mes más complementos. Un par de botas de cuero, realmente buenas, costaba cincuenta dólares. Pero un par de botas, las que aguantaban más o menos bien durante una o dos estaciones y luego empezaban a llenarse de agua en cuanto cedía el cartón, costaban alrededor de diez dólares". "Aquella era la clase de botas que Vimes compraba siempre, y las llevaba hasta que las suelas se quedaban tan delgadas que le era posible saber en qué lugar de Ankh-Morpork se encontraba durante una noche de niebla, solo por el tacto de los adoquines. Pero el asunto era que las botas realmente buenas duraban años y años. Un hombre que podía permitirse gastar cincuenta dólares disponía de un par de botas que seguirían manteniéndole los pies secos dentro de diez años, mientras que un pobre solo podía permitirse comprar botas baratas se habría gastado cien dólares en botas durante el mismo tiempo y seguiría teniendo los pies mojados."

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The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, a special Double Feature (ooOOooh) featuring Marc Burrows and Jon Culshaw! We chat to Marc about the Edinburgh Fringe; his rave reviewed live show, The Magic of Terry Pratchett; and his ultra-exclusive Footnotes interviews.But wait, there's more! Marc has very kindly shared the audio from his interview with voice actor extraordinaire Jon Culshaw, star of the Watch arc in the new Discworld audiobooks. Hear about Culshaw's love for Discworld and the process of finding voices for Vimes, Vetinari, and various other Ankh Morporkian heroes.Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:LIVE DATES - The Magic of Terry Pratchett Buy Marc's books Glom of Nit - Substack Listen to Audiobooks narrated by Jon Culshaw - Audible.co.uk The Dark Room – Mr John Robertson Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com 

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Tread Perilously starts a month of modern sci-fi and fantasy that either aired on Syfy or should have with The Watch episode "The Dark in the Dark." As the Assassins Guild and Thieves Guild continue their merger, Vimes becomes aware of the other artifacts the guilds need to complete their ritual. He dispatches Cheery, Angua, and Carrot to collect the Crown while he and Lady Ramkin hold the line at the Watch House. Will it be enough to withstand the attack of assassins and thieves? Also, will Cheery be able to reconcile her past within the mines and face The Dark in the Dark? Justin and Erik discuss the controversy surrounding the show and whether or not it maintains the spirit of Discworld author Terry Pratchett. They also discuss other fantasy shows, naturally enough, and the difficulty in bringing such stories to the screen. Other topics include how terrible a title "The Watch" is in the age of internet search, A Song of Ice and Fire characters who did not make it television, and interpretations of the Cheery metaphor. Erik once again admits he started Guards, Guards, but life got in the way of his finishing it. Justin's status as a Pratchett superfan definitely colors his views and both doubt the show's choice to let Carrot know about his destiny.

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C'est le dernier mercredi pour méditer avec nous sur Radio Monaco Feel Good en compagnie de Sandrine Vimes ! 

Comme chaque mercredi Sandrine Vimes vous propose une méditation ! Une parenthèse de douceur et d'évasion.

Comme chaque mercredi, une méditation proposée par Sandrine Vimes

Comme tous les mercredis, nous retrouvons Sandrine Vimes, notre coach de yoga et de méditation... 

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In this very special episode, Liz and Ben are joined by fellow Discworld podcasters Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel on an existential journey deep into our very souls! Yes, it's part three of our Thud!-related trilogy, in which we discuss Where's My Cow? Every night at six o'clock, Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, reads the picture book Where's My Cow? to his one-year-old son, Young Sam. But tonight, in between doing the barnyard noises, Vimes starts to question whether this is really the right story for a child of Ankh-Morpork. Released at the same time as Thud!, Where's My Cow? is a picture book based on a novel inspired by a board game. Lavishly illustrated by newcomer to the Discworld Melvyn Grant, it takes the couple of pages explaining the book - and the "Vimes street version" - and brings them vividly to life, along with wonderful new visions of some of our favourite Discworld characters. But is Young Sam cute, or in the uncanny valley? What's the deal with that flying book? What do you think the Discworld's answer to duct tape would be? Are are you, in some way, looking for your cow? Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat62. Guests Joanna Hagan (chef, poet, playwright, author) and Francine Carrel (writer, editor) are the hosts of the Discworld podcast The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret, which is about to reach its 100th episode! Their format splits each novel up into three weekly episodes per month, and they're going through the Discworld books in mostly publication order, with side trips to Pratchett's non-Discworld work along the way. Find them wherever good podcasts are available, but also at their website, thetruthshallmakeyefret.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, TikTok and probably something else by the time you read this. If you like what they do, please consider supporting them on Patreon. You'll find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. As mentioned above and at the end of the episode, we've decided to cut ourselves some slack in the new year by extending the "Thud! trilogy" to four parts. In January we'll be welcoming back Matt Roden to discuss the Discworld short story "A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices", featuring A. E. Pessimal and available in A Blink of the Screen. We'll also tackle some more of your brilliant Thud! questions! If you have questions about the short story, send them via social media with the hashtag #Pratchat63 or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com. Finally, if you want to catch The Amazing Maurice before the rest of the Australia, and you're in Adelaide, the Australian Discworld Convention's fundraiser screening is on Saturday, the 10th of December, at 3 PM at the Palace Nova Prospect. Get details and book your tickets here! (We won't be there, but do tell us if you go!)

Designer and educator Matt Roden delves deep under Ankh-Morpork with Liz and Ben as they unravel the mystery of the penultimate City Watch book, 2005's Thud!. As the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley approaches, the dwarfs and trolls of Ankh-Morpork find their ancient enmity stirred up - not least by Hamcrusher, a conservative leader of the "Deep Down" dwarfs, who has preached hatred against the trolls. But now Hamcrusher's dead - not that the other deep downers want the Watch to know about it - and Vimes must solve the puzzle of his murder before tensions explode across the city. On top of that, he's also been sent a government inspector, he's had to take on the Watch's first vampire, someone's stolen the most talked-about painting in town - and he has to get home at 6 o'clock sharp, every night, to read Where's My Cow? to his infant son... While most Watch books have a mystery that needs solving, none so far have felt as much like a contemporary thriller as Thud! There's an awful lot going on, with politics, religion, art and history all in the mix. Is it too much for one book? Are there threads that get dropped along the way? Is Pratchett having his cake and eating it too with his fantasy abstractions of real world issues? And who do you think should star in Discworld legal drama "The Good Dwarf"? Join in the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat61 on social media! Guest Matt Roden is a graphic designer, educator and the Creative Learning Manager for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Matt has a long history with storytelling and education; he helped set up The Ministry of Stories in London, and was the first volunteer and a long-running Storyteller with Sydney's Story Factory. You can follow Matt on Instagram (where you can see photos of his dog) at @matthewrodeo. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. We apologise that this episode has gone out much later than planned. While our schedule has gotten a little out of whack, we'll still be continuing our "Thud! trilogy" next episode with our special crossover with sibling Pratchett podcast The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. We'll be joined by Jo and Francine to discuss Where's My Cow?, the hottest children's book in Ankh-Morpork! Plus we have plans to extend our Thud! trilogy to four parts - details coming in our very next episode.

Your hosts let the spoilers fly in their discussion of “Feet of Clay” by Terry Pratchett (although they avoid the main mystery so it's not actually that spoilery, overall). They consider Vimes's character flaws and how he still manages to be a sympathetic character, debate some of the cruder points of werewolf dating, and manage to agree on how great Nobby Nobbs is. Sara gets to enjoy Vetinari at his best, but still won't concede Carrot to Lilly for some reason? There's an awful lot of teasing all around.Thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Night Watch may be the pivotal Vimes book, but Going Postal is probably the pivotal Ankh-Morpork book--and the pivotal Vetinari book. It's a great read in terms of plot and writing, and it has a diamond-sharp message.We're joined this month by friend of the show and game design hero Kevin Kulp! Kevin Kulp (@kevinkulp) is the co-author of Swords of the Serpentine, GUMSHOE swords & sorcery out now in hardback and PDF from Pelgrane Press. Kevin's previous game was the investigative time travel rpg TimeWatch. When he's not writing games he's either smoking BBQ or helping 24-hour companies with shiftwork, sleep, and alertness.***Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Follow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, and @JustenwritesWe can also be found at www.compleatdiscography.pageOur art is by the indomitable Jess who can be found at @angryartist113Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chanceFuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-paradeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Comme chaque semaine vous apprenez à écouter et à poser votre respiration avec Sandrine Vimes. Elle est professeure et formatrice de Yoga. Retrouvez-la à Cap d'Ail au coeur du centre Kaladvaita. Ce mercredi vous découvrez l'art de s'allonger ! S'allonger : c'est tout un art !  C'est ce que l'on nomme Savasana. Il s'agit d'une posture qui imite celle d'un cadavre. Elle évoque un état ressemblant à la mort dans lequel toutes nos afflictions mentales s'effacent. La maitriser est essentielle car elle permet aussi de bien observer sa respiration. Alors pour bien la maitriser : allongez-vous sur le dos. Laissez votre corps se détendre et votre diaphragme se dégager naturellement. Le souffle va et vient tout seul, s'approfondit. Le mental s'équilibre. D'ailleurs, c'est souvent bien plus facile d'être aligné et confortable quand on est allongé plutôt qu'assis. Allongé, c'est aussi plus simple de ne plus bouger. Donc pas besoin de s'occuper de sa posture pendant la pratique du pranayama. On s'abandonne entièrement à son souffle ! Attention, il ne s'agit pas simplement de s'étaler sur le sol les yeux fermés ! Chaque étape du déploiement de cette asana demande une exécution minutieuse et attentive, afin de diriger le corps et l'esprit vers le calme, la spatialité et la sensation de neutralité. C'est une étape indispensable pour apprendre à établir le silence du corps. S'allonger en respectant les petits tips de Sandrine demande peu d'entrainement. Tous les cours de Yoga avec Sandrine Vimes ICI Elle propose notamment un cours de Pranayama le jeudi soir à 18 heures.

It's a return to the Discworld, and unfortunately there is trouble brewing. What will Vimes do about it this time as Your Generals read Terry Pratchett's Jingo? Support Zac's Patreon: www.patreon.com/ThumbsJ Zac's Recommendation: American Murder Song (Band) Tyler's Recommendation: Murder by Death (Film) Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at generalnerderypod@gmail.com

Put on your best Opera House hat and join Anika and Liz as we dive into the first of a three-episode deep dive into Kai Winn Adami. This week, we're looking at her rise to power -- covering the episodes "In The Hands Of The Prophets", "The Circle", "The Siege" and "The Collaborator." And along the way, we discuss... If you only watch the Winn episodes, and maybe even only the Winn scenes, DS9 is a really amazing show about two women fighting about religion and politics "In The Hands Of The Prophets" - just because Winn is wrong doesn't mean the Federation is right Winn asks questions the writers should have thought about themselves: why is a human the Emissary? Why should Bajor join the Federation? (Why is this botanist with no teaching qualifications running a school?) Winn is the target for so much misogyny, and it says a lot about how fandom perceived and still perceives women in power. Minister Jaro and Shaxs: the only sexy Bajoran men in the entire history of the planet (also we do not agree on how to pronounce Frank Langella's surname, but Anika's version is probably right) Contrary to popular belief, Winn has integrity: she hates the Cardassians even more than she loves power, and is loathe to collaborate with anyone -- even the Federation Unfortunately we have become Winn/Jaro shippers "The Collaborator": Kira becomes the Vimes to Winn's Vetinari Winn as a maternal figure for Kira, which is GREAT except when you think about what happened to Kira's actual mother and then what happens to Winn… It's the episode where we realise we don't NOT ship Sisko/Winn...

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The Trousers of Time end up in a knot as writer Nadia Bailey rejoins Liz and Ben and we go back to the Glorious Past in the twenty-ninth Discworld novel, 2002's Night Watch. While pursuing dangerous killer Carcer across the rooftop of Unseen University, a magical bolt of lightning (or something) sends Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch and Duke of Ankh, thirty years into the past - along with his quarry. Carcer kills Vimes' old mentor, Sergeant John Keel, and Vimes steps into Keel's thinly-soled shoes; he'll have to show himself the ropes to keep history intact. But he's not just reliving any old past: it's almost the Glorious 25th of May. The day the people deposed the paranoid Patrician Lord Winder; the day hundreds were killed in violent clashes across the city; and the day John Keel died... Night Watch is beloved by Discworld fans, no least because it gives a double dose of everyone's favourite "honest copper", Sam Vimes. But he leaves Sybil in labour as he's thrust back intp the best and worst days of his early career, forced to grapple with the darkness in his and others' souls with only the technobabble of a few time boffin monks for guidance. It's possibly Pratchett's darkest book, and certainly takes us into one of the darkest corners of the Discworld: Ankh-Morpork before the rise of Vetinari and the Guilds. Does Vimes knows where to draw the line in this book? Is Carcer an intriguing villain, or a cookie cutter evil psychopath? Could you teach your younger self everything you needed to know to become you? And is this book in your top five, or do you fail to see what all the fuss is about? Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat54 on social media. Guest Nadia Bailey is a writer, editor and critic. She's published a number of pop-culture related books about such diverse subjects as Stranger Things, Frida Kahlo and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her latest publication is The Deck of Crystals, a deck of cards which looks into the history, superstition and lore of gemstones. Nadia has just begun a PhD researching (among other things) the lives of queer women during World War I. You can find Nadia on Twitter as @animalorchestra, or visit her website at nadiabailey.com. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our website. Next month we're joining a ragtag crew of misfits on a desperate mission to save the Disc in the second big illustrated Discworld adventure, The Last Hero! And to help us navigate Paul Kidby's astonishing illustrations, we're welcoming back illustrator and comic book creator Georgina Chadderton. Send us your questions via the hashtag #Pratchat55, or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

Content 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.

Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, burning and exploding buildings, police violence, minor bodily harm, very brief mention of worms in food, animal death, and brief discussion of real life bombingsThis week as we continue Guards, Guards, the people of Ankh-Morpork are under fire as the Elucidated Brethren set in motion their totally real plan to reinstate the totally real king of Ankh. Who will step forth and slay this beast? Not Vimes; Vimes gets his shit rocked when the Watch House gets blown up.This week in the Disc-Course: auxiliary services, the cruel heel of society, armored volcano, need to breed, The Dragon Burning Houses Party, r/horsegirllivingspaces, RPG weapons, repainted PSPs, the breast of it, police talking points, The Orangutan in the Nighttime, waiting up for Santa, Sybilma Sins, Vimes Plinko, Sarah McLachlan mail, pandas and pigeons, weapons grade plucopium, frosty dragon milkshakes, and the ex wife (city).Click here for This is Our Fucking City, a thing that happened on live TV.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 226 in Guards, Guards! (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'Oh no,' moaned Vimes, 'Not again!'"-----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.

Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, fantasy racism, police violence, and immolationAs we continue Guards, Guards, the gang's all here: Vimes, the saddest man in the world, Colon, the bumbling second in command, Nobby, just a little guy, and Carrot, the new guy who is doing The Most, and they're here to solve the dragon mystery. Yup, definitely gonna do that right after Carrot beats up a whole bar.Also, we get to meet Sybil Ramkin.This week in the Disc-Course: Big Snow, Year of the Tigerkini, the secy pp, wary of Terry, nothing stops the Markster, turbonerd, Dry Dick Tommy, a wizard did it, Assigned Criminal At Birth, dick muzzle, anime translator's notes, special interest narc, little guy expenses, a city's a lot like a woman, sharing the Xbox, Jokes Luthor, the Australian Ibis, undercover clothes, out of the stink zone, and large wife.Click here for What if a dinosaur got in the lakeFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 167 in Guards, Guards! (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "And awoke to the sound of a mob."-----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.

Economic status is a major consideration in both world building and characterisation, and that's before you consider the fact that SFF is often concerned with confronting the reader with real world problems disguised as speculative fiction. This week, the dragons take a look at wealth versus poverty when it comes to creating a world and developing characters. From Terry Pratchett's Vimes' Economy of Boots to Trudi Canavan's Black Magician - where the being able to afford access to your own magic is a sign of wealth and status - to the difference between being a Malfoy and a Weasley  at wizarding school, Jules and Madeleine have got you covered.   Title music: Ecstasy by Smiling Cynic

For the first time we consider an actual pet as a pet. In this case it is Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm, also known as Errol the swamp dragon from the Guards! Guards! Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett (one of our favourite books!).And why wouldn't you want a badly run alchemical factory the size of a small dog as a pet? OK sure, he flames backwards and generates sonic booms in flight... but that honestly sounds like an "other people" problem, don't you think?Remember, whinny if you love dragons!

Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, death, mentions of domestic and police violence, and immolation.We did it; we finally got to Guards, Guards: The Vimes Factory. Unfortunately, not a lot of Vimes in this first installment, but we do get to meet the Disc's strongest himbo: Carrot. And also there's a secret society summoning dragons or something idkThis week in the Disc-Course: no ads, Terry is eternal, the dragon dimensions, learning nothing, Sad Towns USA, ye olde discord server, Skions of the Seventh Dawn, chocolate covered peanuts, a lifetime of concussions, coworker funeral, new dwarf just dropped, Discworld Inflation, Mark log off, 17 year olds, mystic runes, VR Experience, Thieves Guild!!, meeting again for the first time, and being sad at night.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 115 in Guards, Guards! (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'For a start, you could do your trousers up,' said Nobby, from behind the nearest wall."-----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.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is usually a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, a quick bonus episode about Jack Monroe, and the Vimes Boots Index.Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi ResourcesThe Trussell Trust - Stop UK HungerWhat to do if you need emergency help with money and food - StepChangeThings we talked aboutJack Monroe's original Twitter thread Call for evidence thread (for Vimes Boots Index)Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe's idea for ‘Vimes Boots' poverty index - The GuardianYour best ally against injustice? Terry Pratchett [by Marc Burrows]- New StatesmanIceland commits to price freeze on £1 value range as food costs rise - The GrocerCost-of-living crisis: Jack Monroe hails ONS update of inflation calculations - The GuardianRachael Hamilton says food bank users 'less well educated' on cooking – The NationalJack Monroe's stuffBlog/recipes: Cooking on a BootstrapTwitter: @BootstrapCookJack Monroe books - Hive.co.ukMusic: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Vimes takes another holiday, and it goes about as well for him as the last one did.

Welcome to an old podcast with a new name. Witches and Wizards Portal, et al. are now officially subsumed in Tales from the Drum. That's our new name.         Season 11 begins with a brief fanfare, a medium ramble, an extended metaphor, and some serious compare-and-contrast. All that in 43 minutes or so. No grass is growing under our feet! Facebook page: Tales from the DrumWebsite: https://www.podpage.com/Tales-From-the-Drum/YouTube channel: Tales from the Drum email: medievalgnome@gmail.Discord server: Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions Patreon page: Medieval Gnome Productions Medieval Gnome Productions is-- CEF: Holly Goze; Engineer: Ivy “Munchkin” McDoodles; host: The Medieval Gnome; and, our new consultant Artimas the Chill. 

Pairs, roughly. Come dip into my stream of consciousness for this week's look at pairs, monster evolution, and some other stuff. We have a new email address: medievalgnome@gmail.com. I'm working on transitioning all our MGP (Medieval Gnome Productions) related email there. Send us an email at the new addy—you never know what might happen!  And, PLEASE send me some new questions for Granny! You can ask her anything.Some places to visit:Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQOur new website: https://www.podpage.com/witches-and-wizards-portal. Our Discord community, “Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions.” https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPP. Btw, it costs nothing to join the server, and there's a lot of exclusive content on there.Our Patreon page if you're in the mood to underwrite the efforts of Medieval Gnome Productions (or just want to see some more exclusive content). There's also patron-only content there. Here's the URL. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueGNU Terry Pratchett The Turtle MovesMind How You Go

This week, James explores two universes at once in Valentine & Vimes by Aleaiactaest and Slyjinks (apologies for the pronounciations!), while Nick encounters an old frenemy in Fallout 4: Goose Game Redux by databytes. Grace also tells us about the strangest interdimentional meet-cute we've seen so far in He Looks Great, I Look A Mess by brennivin. Timestamps Valentine & Vimes - 6:00 Fallout 4: Goose Game Redux - 31:30 He Looks Great, I Look A Mess - 49:30 If your enjoying the show or have any fanfiction requests, feel free to reach out to us on twitter @theshipforecast, our tumblr we are The Shipping Forecasters or contact us the old fashioned way, at thefanshippingforecast@gmail.com. You can also support the show at ko-fi.com/theshippingforecast, where we also take podfic commissions if you would like to hear us read a whole fic.

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The Watch - Episode 1 - A Near Vimes Experience. Vimes is dead, or is he. His old partner is back from the dead and a new member of the Watch is annoying everyone. Also, someone stole a book from the library. A take of the Discworld book series. Hear what 3 non Discworld readers have to say about this TV series.

We're getting down toward the bottom of  the alphabet with this episode, which is the first of two covering STUV. Mostly it's about two characters, Vimes and Vetinari, who dominate the V's. We also give a nod to Stibbons, Ponder, and briefly consider one of the Disc's odder religious traditions. No elephants, though.Come join our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions! Just go to the main Discord page and enter “Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions.” Alternatively, you can use this link: https://discord.gg/45JxBKUYuA. Btw, it costs nothing to join the server, and there's a lot of exclusive content on there.You can also pop onto our Patreon page if you're in the mood to underwrite the efforts of Medieval Gnome Productions (or just want to see some more exclusive content). There's also patron-only content there. Here's the URL. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=true The Turtle MovesMind How You GoGNU Terry Pratchett

Author, editor and journalist Stephanie Convery returns to Pratchat as newspapers and conspiracy hit Ankh-Morpork in the same week! It's The Truth, the 25th Discworld novel, first published in 2000. William de Worde has made a reasonable living writing a monthly newsletter for notables, keeping them informed of goings on in Ankh-Morpork. But when he's nearly run over by Gunilla Goodmountain's new movable type printing press, he soon begins producing a different kind of "paper of news" - one that anyone can buy on the street, full of the important stories of the day. Before long "the Ankh-Morpork Times" - soon employing writer Sacharissa Cripslock and vampire iconographer Otto von Chriek - is a hit...and has ruffled a few feathers. But William has a powerful drive to spread the news, only intensified when Lord Vetinari is found unconscious next to a horse loaded with money after supposedly having stabbed his clerk. The Patrician being arrested for attempted murder and embezzlement is big news, of course - but is it the truth? Pratchett cut his teeth as a writer as a journalist, and had for many years used his work as inspiration - but nowhere as directly as in the 25th Discworld novel, which introduces the Disc's first newspaper journalists, William de Worde. Apart from William, the novel also brings us the Times' staff, most notably Sacharissa and Otto, who pop up in many future books, and the unforgettable "New Firm" of Mr Pin and Mr Tulip - plus the triumphant return of Gaspode! The books also draws on sources as broad as Shakespeare, the history of printing, Watergate and Pulp Fiction for inspiration, references and jokes, while still packing in themes as serious as public interest, prejudice, class privilege and...well...the truth. Is it weird seeing Vimes as a secondary character through the eyes of a journalist? Do you wish the staff of the Times had more books of their own? Where do you come down on the debate over public interest vs "of interest to the public"? Share your truth with us via the hashtag #Pratchat42 on social media, and join the conversation! Guest Stephanie Convery is a freelance writer and Deputy Culture Editor for Guardian Australia. Since she was last a guest on this podcast (discussing Mort way back in #Pratchat2, "Murdering a Curry"), Stephanie has published her first book: After the Count, a critically acclaimed "history and interrogation of boxing as art and a cultural examination of sport", framed around the death of boxer Davey Browne following a knockout in the ring. You can check out Stephanie's work at Guardian Australia, or follow her on Twitter at @gingerandhoney. We're planning to be part of the line-up for the Australian Discworld Convention's online event, The Lost Con, on Saturday 3rd July, 2021. More details on that soon! We'd also love to know if you want us to do an episode about The Watch television series, and whether you'd support Ben making a similar podcast about the works of Douglas Adams. Next time we're jumping ahead into the future as we continue to spread out Tiffany Aching's story: yes, it's time to grab A Hat Full of Sky! We'll be joined by writer and poet, Sally Evans. Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat43, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site. This month (April 2021) you can also help raise money for Meals on Wheels in the US as part of the #Reviews4Good initiative! We'll respond and double the donation, too. Just review the show (or an episode) on Podchaser.

Steve & Colm discuss Vimes' final outing, as the Commander of the City Watch takes a jaunt to the country with his family. They discuss the risk of homogenisation during cultural integration, parse the plot to unpick its uneven attempts at narrative tension, and try to remember who was supposed to eat who in Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

The Blind Eyes want a new ship and turn their gaze towards the wealthy of Whitecrowne. One family owns a hull swan boat. It moves under its own unnatural power and needs no crew to run, making it an invaluable asset to the crew. Of course, liberating it from its current owners is easier said than done. This episode's artwork is a group portrait of The Blind Eyes by Patsy McDowell! From left to right: Vimes, Salvage, Salty, Flake, and Audra Baz - Salty / Oberon Matias Declarmont the Spider Birk - Audra the Whisper Aaron - Salvage the Leech Caleb - Flake the Cutter Bill - Vimes/Seth the Slide

Come with us down the rabbit hole as we head back to conspiracies this week, as Dawn enlightens Jade and Taby on the many aspects of the QAnon Conspiracy theories. It's beginnings, multiple side tangents and where they are now. We also manage to offend Trump supporters, Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh Day adventists and Mormons. Sorry, not sorry. We'll leave you with one of Tabys favorite Terry Pratchett Quotes“There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called 'the people'. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he'd never met The People.People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. It'd be people who were frightened and panicking. It was what happened when the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down. And when that happened, humans were worse than sheep. Sheep just ran; they didn't try to bite the sheep next to them.” Taby's recommended reading, Night Watch - Terry Pratchett, Earth - David Brin, The Harlott by the side of the Road - Jonathan KirschDon't forget to like and follow us on all our platforms.Facebook:   The-maid-the-mother-and-the-otherInstagram:   @maidmotherotherTwitter:         @MotherOtherEmail:           maidmotherother@gmail.com  

Vimes teams up with the only other good cop in Ankh Morpork: Samuel Vimes.

Ankh-Morpork continues to grow, and so do it's inhabitants. Your Generals have peeked in on the evolution of the City Watch in the past, and due to a new adaptation being out they've decided to return. Vimes, Carrot, Colon, Nobbes, Angua, Detritus and now Cheery? It's time to get caught up with new and old Discworld friends and remember just how bad kings can be. Zac's Recommendation: The Repair Shop (TV Series) Tyler's Recommendation: The Mouse and the Mask (album) by DANGER DOOM (Danger Mouse and MF DOOM) Listen to more General Nerdery at www.GeneralNerdcast.com Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at generalnerderypod@gmail.com

OK, one perennial favorite. But he's a big boy! Come enjoy some passages reflecting the earlier appearances of Detritus the troll, of whom the l-space wiki says “Detritus may very well be the single most successful character in the entire Discworld canon, moving from a semi-sentient, brutalized bouncer chained to a wall to a highly-regarded (at least by Vimes) senior sergeant in the Watch who makes very important and significant contributions to plot development in many of the major events in Ankh-Morpork.Remember, you can email me at randy@mindkindle.net with questions, comments or PayPal donations. The show's Patreon page is at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueand our Facebook page is , https://www.facebook.com/TheMedievalGnome/Hoping this finds you in good health and better spirits, the Portal production team: The Gnome (voice artist), Holly (the producer) and Ivy (the engineer). The Turtle MovesGNU Terry Pratchett

Colm & Steve go back to the well on Pratchett going back to the well of Dwarf-Troll tensions. They discuss brilliant atmosphere building, less than brilliant plotting and whether Vimes still works as a protagonist post-Night Watch.

We finished Guards Guards! So, obviously what you all wanted was for us to use this book as a jumping off point to talk about communism for like an hour, which is what we did. Topics include: rocket dragons, fried food, Kierkegaardian existentialism. Happy Glorious 25th of May!

People say that polite conversation should stay away from politics, religion and cryptids... in which case call us uncivilised because that's all we talk about for the first 20 minutes. Eventually we do get on to the middle third of the book 'Guards! Guards!', in which dragons are still causing trouble, Vimes is realising he's in detective fiction and Nobby is learning to social climb.

Ah! Discworld! A place of fun and frivolity and fairly large flying reptiles that breath fire. That last bit is rather new and has the populace of Ankh-Morpork a touch worked up. Enter the Generals! Zac and Tyler this week take a look in at the genius of Sir Terry Pratchett's wonderful gift to us all, Discworld. To do that they open up (or listen to) the fantastic Guards! Guards! and get their satirical, fantasy, noir crime drama on! Also with news from Digimon:, Space Jam 2, and more! Listen to more General Nerdery at www.generalnerdcast.com Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com

Colm and Steve tackle Night Watch, Terry Pratchett’s sprawling yet intimate time travel political thriller/character study. It’s Les Miz meets A Tale of Two Cities! It’s Demolition Man meets The Death of Stalin! It’s Vimes meets Vimes!

This week we take another look at Jingo, to explore Fred and Nobby's (and especially Nobby's) experiences in their second undercover operation of the book. We also learn about quantum, technology, and the Trousers of Time in looking at Mr. Vimes' curious experience with his dis-organizer. With a few other morsels to bring Season 3 of the Discworld Portal to a close. We learned that Tony and Jessica were co-champions of this season's trivia contest, and that Tony has gallantly ceded the championship, and the book that is its prize to Jessica. We also heard that karma can be a good thing. The Gnome's weekly reminder to you about committing a random act of kindness has blossomed into a listener's kindness in sending a few of his (or her) hard-earned dollars. Or pesos or kopecs or Euros or Klatchian silver pieces. Whatever the currency, the kindness of sending some financial support to the show is one that I deeply appreciate and which I find as further motivation to make Season 3 worthy of the consideration. The Portal will take a week off before Season 3 begins, so there will be no show aired on Friday September 6th. We'll be back with a new, and, one would hope, improved season 3 on Friday September 13th. That will also be the date for the roll-out of a proper Discworld Portal website.  In the meanwhile, as always, you can send me a clacks* to/at randy@mindkindlenet. And as always, I promise to answer. And I've had a 100% success rate in responding so far. The Turtle Moves *clacks, or c-mail. The Disc's version of e-mail. 

Vimes! Vetinari! Carrot! A dragon! VIMES!!

RIP Dracula 2019-2019.

Oh, and some other surprises! Vimes is an idiot.

CATCH THIS SICK WAVE OF SHITERARY DIARRHEA, MY DUDE! Vimes loses his cigarettes, causing an on-air crisis.

Peter and Dee's respective PDFs are a lil fucky, but Vimes has the correct layout. It still fucking sucks either way.

Vimes died with his eyes open. Dee takes over as host.

This is my life now. This, is my life.

Trashochists Present is an ongoing supplement to The Trashochists' Guide to Modern Shiterature. Each episode will be a simple read-through of a given Trashketeer's choice of poem or other piece of text. In this very first episode, Vik Vimes reads his favourite poem of all time, "To Speak of the Woe that is in Marriage", by Robert Lowell. Additional notes and trivia: -The structure of the poem is that of a sonnet; it rhymes in a smooth, casual AABBCC... format, and includes a feature called a 'turn', wherein the last two lines of the sonnet flip and reframe the rest of the poem thematically. -Vimes likes to picture the narrator of this poem as a burnt-out housewife, sick of her selfish husband and yet not quite able to leave him. Their relationship seems to be toxic, and she is desperate for physical contact and affection even from him. He can picture her wearing curlers and a ratty bathrobe, smoking a cheap cigarette on her front porch while she speaks with a friend. -"To speak of the woe that is in marriage" is a line lifted directly from The Wife of Bath's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer. This, too, is a text narrated by a sharp yet weary woman, and a very fitting title for this sonnet.

For our tenth episode it's back to the Discworld - and Ankh-Morpork - as academic, writer and broadcaster Dr Dan Golding joins us for Moving Pictures. The tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures was published in Pratchett's most prolific year: Good Omens, Eric and both sequels to Truckers also came out in 1990! Student wizard Victor Tugelbend has been happily failing exams at Unseen University for years...but when alchemists suddenly invent "moving pictures", Victor finds himself drawn to Holy Wood, the mysterious coastal home of this new entertainment industry. He's not the only one: hopeful actors, ambitious producers and even talking animals have all been caught up in the glamour of the "clicks". It's not magic in the wizard sense, but there's definitely something unnatural going on - and it'll take Victor, fellow star Theda "Ginger" Withel, Gaspode the Wonder Dog and the faculty of Unseen University - including new Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully - to solve the mystery of Holy Wood. Bringing modern world concepts to the Disc had always been a feature of the series, but Moving Pictures really kicks off the tradition of "X comes to the Discworld" main plots. Pratchett takes broad aim at Hollywood in a mix of homage and parody, referencing everything from the pre-talkie era to the Golden Age and 1980s blockbusters. It also features first major roles for Detritus and Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler (both introduced in Guards! Guards!), and is the first appearance of Gaspode the Wonder Dog (who returns in Men at Arms) and the stable, ongoing cast of Unseen University wizards. There's so much happening in Moving Pictures, and we'd love to hear what you thought of it! Use the hashtag #Pratchat10 on social media to join the conversation. In our next episode we'll be joined by television captioner and Discworld mega-fan Sarah Pearson as we reunite with Death for the eleventh Discworld novel, Reaper Man! If you have questions you want answered on the podcast, send them in by  via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat11. Show Notes and Errata: Dan Golding is on Twitter at @dangolding. His next book Star Wars After Lucas will be released on May the 4th, 2019, but you can see his ABC series What is Music? with co-host Linda Marigliano right now! Check it out on ABC iView or the triple j YouTube channel. You can find all the info about Dan's excellent podcast Art of the Score with Andrew Pogson and Nicholas Buc at artofthescore.com.au. They also have a Twitter account at @ArtoftheScore. To hear Dan talk about Star Wars music, check out the five Star Wars episodes of Art of the Score (the original film actually gets three episodes!), or watch the video he made for the ABC explaining why the theme is so great. The previous book that kicked off with Death overseeing the passing of a previously unmet character was Sourcery, in which Ipslore the Red dies but tricks Death, passing his soul into his staff. We almost get this sort of beginning in Pyramids, but Pteppic's father only dies after the school days flashback section of the book, and again in Guards! Guards!, though Gaskin dies before the book starts and we instead join Vimes after the funeral. In the real world, cellulose is an organic compound vital to the structure of cells in green plants, while celluloid (eventually a trademark name) was the first kind of thermoplastic, made from cellulose nitrate, used to replace ivory in billiard balls (as discussed in episode one) and widely as a filmstock before the development of safer, cheaper and easier to make acetate film in the 1950s. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in which multiple (fictional) plots to kill nazi leaders during World War II converge on a Paris cinema at the premiere of a new propaganda film. Liz refers to the 1903 film Electrocuting an Elephant, produced by the Edison Film Company, in which Topsy the circus elephant, who had killed several people,

Vimes is a boutique consultancy focused on trade and investment opportunities between Ukraine and UK. Dmitriy Gilgur, director and founder of the firm, talks about the major activities of the company and its efforts to put Ukrainian tech startups in front of British and EU VC's. https://vimesvc.com/

In this, the next episode after our seventh one, writer, performer and librarian Aimee Nichols talks with us about the ninth-but-one Discworld novel: Guards! Guards! Published in 1989, it kicks off the longest-running and arguably most popular Discworld sequence: the adventures of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The Night Watch has seen better days: the Thieves' Guild has made them all but obsolete, and with the recent death of Herbert Gaskin, their company has dwindled to just three: career Sergeant Fred Colon, former street urchin Corporal Nobbs, and perpetually drunk Captain Samuel Vimes. They're shaken up by new recruit Carrot - a human raised (as far as possible) by dwarfs - who not only volunteered to join, but actually tries to uphold the law. But they'll need all the help they can get as a secret cabal of resentful men are manipulated by a charismatic leader for an incredible purpose: to bring a dragon to Ankh-Morpork... Vimes, Colon, Nobby and Carrot all make their debuts here, as do Lady Sybil Ramkin (in her biggest role), Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Detritus the troll and the concept of L-Space, and both the Librarian and the Patrician feature prominently. It's also the first Discworld novel set entirely in Ankh-Morpork, though after appearances in all of the previous novels it already feels like home. Even nearly 30 years later, Guards! Guards! feels incredibly relevant and funny, but it's also weird to go back to Sam Vimes' beginning when he still has so much evolution and redemption ahead of him. (If you'd like to head straight to the next book, just go back in time to episode one of Pratchat when we read Men at Arms with Cal Wilson.) We'd love to hear what you thought of Guards! Guards! - use the hashtag #Pratchat7A on social media to join the conversation! (If you use the...er...other number we'll probably find you too.) It's time to step out of the Discworld again when we return from L-Space next month, when author Amie Kaufman will join us to talk about the first book of the Nomes: Truckers. As usual, if you want us to answer your questions on the podcast, get them in as soon as you can! Ask them via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat9. Show Notes and Errata: You can follow Aimee (and by proxy, her dog Winston) on Twitter at @wordsandsequins, or check our her web site at aimee-nichols.com. You can read Aimee's wonderful piece about the passing of Sir Terry on Medium. Get Smart was a sitcom created by Mel Brooks in 1965, starring Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for the spy organisation CONTROL which worked to thwart various ridiculous villains, especially members of rival agency KAOS. Despite being highly trained in espionage and combat, Max frequently exasperated his professional and romantic partner Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) and their boss the Chief of CONTROL (Edward Platt). One of the classic sitcoms of the '60s, it contributed many famous catchphrases to popular culture in its original run of five seasons. It's since been repeated many times, and spawned two film sequels, a short-lived revival/sequel series, and a surprisingly good film remake in 2008 starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. Monty Python’s Argument Clinic sketch is...well, if you haven’t seen it, you should just watch it. “Incels” are so-called “involuntary celibates”, an online community of men who believe they have been unfairly denied sex by women. Jia Tolentino’s piece “The Rage of the Incels” for The New Yorker is a good introduction, but go gently - it’s unpleasant territory. "Thatcherism" is descriptive of the politics of the Conservative party of the United Kingdom, particularly under party leader and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, from 1975 to 1990. They were a marked change from the period of the "post-War consensus", in which the two major parties broadly agreed on things like state regulation and ownership of industries. Thatcher changed all that; she and her allies believed in much more economic...

Radio Morpork is a podcast that discusses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Colm and Steve watch Ridley Scott's The Fifth Elephant with Harrison Ford as Vimes, Rutgar Hauer as Wolfgang and, eh, Imelda Staunton as Lady Margolotta. Well, not quite, but have a listen and you'll see what we're getting at here. We went to Uberwald expecting fat and uncovered a gem instead.

Author Dave Rudden joins Alan and Sarah so that they can feel all the emotions about Terry Pratchett. This is a long one so make a pot of tea or plan a long drive somewhere. We focused mostly on the Discworld novels particularly Vimes and the witches. There’s lots of enthusing and lots of quoting from memory. Hopefully it’ll make you pick up a Discworld book or any Terry Pratchett book really. They’re pretty much all good. Enjoy. Dave’s books Knights Of the Borrowed Dark and The Forever Court are out now. The Forever Court is nominated for Senior Children’s Book of the Year a the BGE Irish Book Awards. If you’re quick you can still vote for it here Sarah’s book Spare And Found Parts will be out in Ireland, the UK, and Australia in Feb 2018. Alan has another podcast running until Christmas. It’s called Roast Chestnuts. He reviews a made for TV Christmas movie with Jeanne Sutton and a special guest every week. If you like Juvenalia, you’ll like Roast Chestnuts. Relevant Twitter accounts for this episode: Dave Rudden (@d_ruddenwrites) Sarah Maria Griffin (@griffski) Alan Maguire (@alan_maguire) Juvenalia (@Juvenalia_Pod) If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan

Mister Mustache - V------------------------------------------------------------------Vintage & morelli - lullaby (original mix)Vintage & morelli feat. arielle maren - sweet surrender (original mix)Vimes - celestial (gardens of god remix)Vincenzo & florian kruse feat. lisa shaw - all about you (original mix)Vincenzo feat. cari golden - around the sunVintage & morelli - allure (original mix)Vintage & morelli - contrastsVitalic - poison lips (extended mix)Vinny Troia feat. Jaidene Veda - do for loVe (matt lange remix)Vitodito & talamanca - gran Via (original mix)

In this, our most fourth episode to date, we discuss Anhk Morpork's assimilation of minorities into the metropolis via the police force as equal opportunity employer, how Vimes is LITERALLY in love with the city, and more! Is it ever okay to like a cop? Probably not, but we like detectives. TW: we talk about cops a lot, also allegorical racism on the Disc. We mention fictional police brutality on the Discworld in passing, and allude to actual police brutality IRL.

My guest for today is Benny Vimes. He is a trans man whose new blog, Scrappy Deviation, can be found on The Orbit. Today we’re going to talk about his backstory, and why autism acceptance is better than awareness.Links:•Scrappy Deviation: http://the-orbit.net/scrappy/ •Benny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BennyVimes •The (Secular) Barbershop: http://www.thesecularbarbershop.com/ •Save Our Scene: http://www.avoicefortheinnocent.org/sos/ •Shift to Reason conference: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brainstorm-podcasts-shift-to-reason-conference-tickets-18531444048 •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

My guest for today is Benny Vimes. He is a trans man whose new blog, Scrappy Deviation, can be found on The Orbit. Today we’re going to talk about his backstory, and why autism acceptance is better than awareness.Links:•Scrappy Deviation: http://the-orbit.net/scrappy/ •Benny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BennyVimes •The (Secular) Barbershop: http://www.thesecularbarbershop.com/ •Save Our Scene: http://www.avoicefortheinnocent.org/sos/ •Shift to Reason conference: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brainstorm-podcasts-shift-to-reason-conference-tickets-18531444048 •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

A deeper more introspective mix to drift off to this month. With tracks and remixes from Cubicolour, Tiefshwarz, Lane 8, Brian Cid, Kasper Bjorke, Claes Rosen, Vimes, Aumcraft and Solarity.

This month BBM's very own Dave Minns takes you through an epic 2 hour show featuring dance label NEEDWANT. Our free download of the month comes from the one and only Fatima Yamaha, ­ What's A Girl To Do [D1 Recordings] Enjoy the show and don't forget to check out www.bbmlive.com for more new music and travel ideas throughout the month Warm Up: 1. Ruckus Roboticus ­ Be All Right (Mister Gavin Remix) [Dance or Die US] 2. Kraak & Smaak ­ Back Again (Hot Toddy Remix) [Jalapeño Records] 3. Slam Dunk'd ­ No Price (Wayward Remix) [Baked Recordings / Columbia] 4. Drew Hill ­ Talk To You (Groove Armada Remix) [Danse Club Records] 5. Asadinho & Ingrid Hakanson ­ Love Capacity (Lonely Boy) [RvS] 6. DoppelHerz ­ Our Girls (Leo Kane) [Love Harder Records] Pick Of The Promos: 1. Eli & Fur ­ Feel The Fire (Journeyman Remix) [Anjunadeep] 2. Booka Shade ­ Back To Monza [Embassy of Music] 3. Sam Smith ­ Like I Can (Jonas Rathsman Remix) [Capitol Records] 4. Kry Wolf ­ Church Road Shuffle [MadTech Records] Future Classic: Yakima ­ Energy (Courage Remix) [Boom Ting] Dancefloor Destroyer: Ruffneck featuring Yavahn ­ Everybody Be Somebody 2014 (Mousse Ts Back In The Days Mix) Free Download Of The Month: Fatima Yamaha ­ What's A Girl To Do [D1 Recordings] http://bit.ly/1EMN9mc Featured Label: [Needwant] http://www.needwant.co.uk/ 1. Kim Brown ­ Other People's Space 2. VIMES ­ Celestial (Gardens Of God Remix) 3. Mario Basanov ­ We Are Child Of Love (The Mekanism Remix) 4. Ejeca ­ Together One from the Vault: Sandy B ­ Feel Like Singin' (Def Mix Club Mix) [Nervous] BBM Bassheads: 1. Pirate Jams ­ R U Ready [Gutter Gutter] 2. Plump DJs ­ U BELONG 2 US (Instrumental) [Grand Hotel] 3. WHAT ­ Say What Again [DirtyLemon Recordings] 4. Rhythm Riders feat Aswad, Renegade Soundwave & Brother Culture ­ Give Me A Sign [Sub Slayers] 5. Kove ­ Still High [MTA] 6. BenZel ­ Wasted Love (SpectraSoul Remix) [PMR / Friends Keep Secrets] BBM Live Club Mix: 1. Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo ­ Rhymes [White Label] 2. Dubrocca ­ Withdrawal [Love & Other] 3. Maceo Plex ­ ENTER.Space [Minus] 4. Basement Freaks ­ Soul Intoxication (Lonely Boy's Detox Dub) [Jalapeño Records] One More Tune: Paul McCartney ­ Let Em In (Jimi Bazzouka Re­Edit)

As demonstrated in Vimes’ theory of boots, sometimes it saves money long term to spend more up front.  What items are worth the splurge and which are not? Quality versus cost is not about being fancy and always buying the most expensive version of everything or being cheap and always buying the least expensive version of things.  It’s about making sure what you buy lasts as long as possible so you don’t have to spend more money constantly replacing the same item. Technology is a great example.  Apple products are less vulnerable to viruses than pcs.  A virus will cost you money either having to pay for repairs or replace the computer entirely. A good rule of thumb on where to spend the extra money is “anything that comes between you and the ground.”  So shoes, mattresses, and tires.  You spend a third of your life in bed so mattresses are not the place to save some money. Anything that needs to last a long time is worth the extra money.  Things like cushioned furniture and appliances.  What you put into your body.  You don’t have to buy only the most pure, organic vegetables harvested at the light of the full moon by Buddhist monks, but thinking you’re getting a deal by eating from the dollar menu everyday is a costly mistake in the future. Where can you choose the less expensive option?  Matt says clothes.  I would say you can spend less on casual, around the house clothes but a little more in dress and office clothes.  Wood furniture will last a long time without spending a fortune.  The only caveat would be weight bearing furniture like book cases which can bow if they’re the ultra cheap press board ones. Let’s hear from you in the comments.  What do you spend more on and where do you save? Show Notes Terrapin Mosaic Red Rye India Pale Ale: “A liquid art form.” Sierra Nevada Blindfold Black IPA:  Bright hops and roasty darkness. Betterment:  Our favorite investing tool.  Use this link and get six months free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices