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Mikey and Sawyer discuss replacing broken Apple Watches, replacing broken Apple Watch straps, and replacing reality with Apple's face dingus. All this and more on the season premiere of You Chose Poorly! Links: Redesigned Apple Watch Series 4 revolutionizes communication, fitness and health Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 5 Apple reveals Apple Watch Series 7, featuring the largest, most advanced display Sony Bravia KDL-S3000 review: Sony Bravia KDL-S3000 - CNET Mikey's Series 7 Watch Face: Knockoff Apple Watch Straps: 45mm Eucalyptus Solo Loop - Size 10 Braided Solo Loop Nylon Breathable Strap For Apple Watch Band 44mm 40mm 38mm 42mm 45mm 41mm Elastic For Iwatch 7 6 Se 5 4 3 - Watchbands - AliExpress Metal Milanese Loop Strap For Apple Watch Band 7 45mm 44mm 40mm Iwatch Series 42mm38mm Stainless Steel Bracelet Magnetic 3456 Se - Watchbands - AliExpress New Milanese Strap For iWatch Series 7 6 SE 5 4 3 2 1 Bracelet Apple Watch Size 41mm 45mm 38mm 42mm 40mm 44mm WatchBand | Shopee Philippines Mikey Llorin (@mikeyllorin) / Twitter

Mikey and Sawyer talk about the Nintendo Switch OLED, and then dive into the Zune and how it might be one of the biggest You Chose Poorly objects so far, especially now that Windows has finally dropped all those live tiles. Links: Nintendo Switch – OLED Model - Nintendo - Official Site Stardew Valley Super Metroid - Wikipedia Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo - Official Site Nintendo Switch Online Metroid Dread amiibo 2-pack - Nintendo - Official Site Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia Apple's new iOS 14 home screen brings Windows Phone Live Tiles back to life - The Verge Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Zune Joke - See an Extended Deleted Scene With the Zune (esquire.com) Satya Nadella: "Microsoft was doing a lot of things out of envy, not ... things that we were meant to do" Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores - The Verge Isaacson on Gates and Jobs: One guy made the Zune, the other made the iPod - GeekWire Too Zune to pass judgment: a review of the Zune Marketplace | Ars Technica Zune HD made me wish I never bought an iPod | Windows Central Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US | Windows Experience Blog HD Radio - Wikipedia The Problem Is, The Zune Is Brown (anildash.com) Microsoft to Shut Down Zune Services (Yes, Zune!) | PCMag,from the Zune music service.&text=You'll also still be,and from your Zune player.) Zune Update ZuneModHelper Tutorial! - Bring Back Features to the Zune Software! - YouTube Zunepedia

Science comedian and public health nerd Alanta Colley joins Liz and Ben on their second trip through Discworld into Roundworld, as they join Rincewind and the wizards of Unseen University in Pratchett's second collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: 2002's The Science of Discworld II: The Globe. While on a team-building exercise in the woods near Unseen University, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and his faculty are accidentally swept along when something makes its way through the Discworld into Roundworld. That something turns out to be elves - nasty, parasitic lifeforms who feast on the imagination and emotions of others. Roundworld - the universe in a bottle created by the wizards' experiments, which somehow runs without any magic - has been altered by their presence. Now the wizards - including Rincewind, the long-suffering Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography - have to find a way to get rid of them without dooming the local human population in the process... Having entirely missed humankind in The Science of Discworld, the wizards are back for another go! And so are science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - but this time, they don't want to explain cosmology, basic physics and the history of the Earth, but instead sell you on the idea that storytelling is the essential ingredient that makes humans...human. Are we really Pans narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee, rather than Homo sapiens, the "wise man"? Is it wise to write a popular science book with an author who will guarantee the book will be read again twenty years later - and to include some "cutting edge" science, no less? What do a debunked psychological experiment, the term "overcommitment", and filthy explanations of fairytales have to do with it? And who's this shrewd and world-wise street wizard named Rincewind, and can we have some more of his adventures please? Let us know what you think using the hashtag #Pratchat47 on social media, and join in the conversation! Guest Alanta Colley is a comedian, science communicator and storyteller whose solo shows include Parasites Lost (about parasites), Days of Our Hives (about beekeeping) and The Origin of Faeces (you can probably work that one out yourself). She also wrote and performed the "comedy experiment" You Chose Poorly with our own Ben McKenzie. Since 2017 Alanta has also been the host and producer of Sci Fight, a series of comedy science debates; both Ben and Liz have been guest speakers, along with previous Pratchat guests Anna Ahveninen (#Pratchat35) and Nicholas J Johnson (#Pratchat38). You can hear Ben and Anna's last appearance on Sci Fight in this episode of the Climactic podcast, or see the first online debate for Melbourne Science Gallery on YouTube here. Visit scifight.com.au to sign up to the mailing list, and you can find Alanta as @lannyopolis on Twitter and Instagram, via Facebook or at alantacolley.com. You can find out more about what Liz has been writing by following her as @ElizabethFlux on Twitter or Instagram. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Next episode we read one of the few precious Discworld novels left to us, though luckily we got a little preview this time around; yes, we're joining up with Susan, Death and the history monks for the very timely Thief of Time, which we'll be discussing with journalist Ben Riley! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat48, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com

Stu fills us in on his favourite Anning, Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, Chris talks to Alanta Colley and Ben McKenzie about their upcoming science comedy show "You Chose Poorly" and we also try out an experiment in our microwave to see if we can get sparks to fly from a grape!

In our seventeenth episode we join everyone's favourite dysfunctional coven - and guest, writer Nadia Bailey - as we return to Lancre for the 1992 Discworld novel, Lords and Ladies! The Lancre coven have returned from their trip abroad, but despite the impending royal wedding of Magrat and King Verence, all is not well in the Ramtops: it's circle time, when the walls between worlds are thin, and in the witches' absence someone has been toying with powers beyond their understanding. As usual Granny Weatherwax thinks she can sort everything out herself: facing down a young witch wannabe and keeping the Gentry at bay. But Granny is off her game. Is it the arrival of an old flame? Or is her time as a witch of Lancre nearly up? She'll need Nanny and Magrat's help to see off the threat of the Lords and Ladies... Bringing us back to the witches after only one book away, Lords and Ladies is a particularly Pratchett take on the ancient Celtic stories that inspired modern ideas of fairies and elves. One of the few novels to cross the streams between the witches and wizards, it also gives us more of a glimpse into Esme Weatherwax's past, hints at the future of witchcraft (and royalty) in Lancre, and introduces the infamous "Trousers of Time". Is this your favourite witches novel? What do you think of the parallel universes, other dimensions and alternate timelines it describes? And is this the best take on elves since Tolkien? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat17 on social media to join the conversation. Don't forget that you can see Liz and Ben at both Speculate 2019 on March 15 and 16, and at Nullus Anxietas 7, the Australian Discworld Convention, on April 13 and 14! Plus Ben's new show, You Chose Poorly, plays at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from April 1-7. Next month, to tie in with our appearance at Speculate, we'll be leaving the Discworld and blasting off into outer space as we discuss one of Pratchett's early sci-fi novels, The Dark Side of the Sun, with writer Will Kostakis! We'll likely be recording around the time of Speculate 2019, so get your questions in via social media before March 15th using the hashtag #Pratchat18. Show Notes and Errata: Nadia Bailey is an author, journalist and critic whose work has appeared in The Australian, The Age, The Lifted Brow and many others. The Book of Barb, an unofficial celebration of the surprisingly popular supporting character from the first season of Netflix "kids on bikes" drama Stranger Things, was her first book; it was followed by The Stranger Things Field Guide in December 2018. In between Nadia wrote The World's Best BFFs, a book of profiles of celebrity best friends. All three are published by Smith Street Books. You can find Nadia online at nadiabailey.com, and she tweets at @animalorchestra.There are two examples of Steven Moffat writing women who marry men who follow them around in Doctor Who - first in his most famous episode, Blink, and then in the Christmas special The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. There are similar behaviours in his other work, going all the way back to Press Gang. We previously mentioned The Craft in our Witches Abroad episode, but it's worth mentioning here that one of its stars, Fairuza Balk, made her major screen debut in another film referenced this episode: Return to Oz (see below).The Last Unicorn (1982) is an adaptation of the 1968 fantasy novel by American writer Peter S. Beagle, and has a pretty star-studded voice cast including René Auberjonois, Alan Arkin (who plays the incompetent magician Schmendrick), Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow (who plays the titular unicorn), Angela Lansbury and Death himself, Christopher Lee! It has music written by Jimmy Webb, including songs performed by the band America.Narnia is a fantasy world invented by English writer C S Lewis in his Chronicles of Narnia books. The White Queen first appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950),

Episode twice-the-number-which-must-not-be-spoken (i.e. sixteen) takes us inside the Church of Om for a story of faith, religion and truth as we're joined by the Reverend Doctor Avril Hannah-Jones to discuss the 1992 Discworld novel, Small Gods! Brutha is a lowly novice in the Omnian Citadel, dismissed by his superiors as a simpleton whose only notable talent is an extraordinary memory. He's the last person expecting to hear the Voice of the Great God Om, though Brutha has his doubts: Om is supposed to manifest as a mighty golden bull or pillar of flame, not a one-eyed tortoise. Om's not happy either: this isn't how he planned his return from the celestial realm, and no-one but Brutha can hear him. Before god or novice can figure out what's happening, Brutha is recruited by Deacon Vorbis - head of the feared Quisition - for a mission to nearby Ephebe: a nation of heretics, democracy and philosophers, one of whom has dared to pen a treatise describing the world as a flat disc which travels through space on the back of a turtle... One of the few truly standalone Discworld novels, Small Gods focuses on how humans of the Disc create gods, rather than the other way round - for good and for ill. Drawing on the best and worst traditions of monotheism, Galileo's defiance in the face of Catholic censure, and big philosophical questions, Small Gods still manages to be full of Pratchett's trademark humour and humanism, and a long-time favourite for many fans. Do you rate it amongst the best Discworld novels? Would you recommend someone start with it? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat16 on social media to join the conversation. It's been a big year already for the Pratchat crew: we've launched our subscription service - a huge thank you to all our supporters! - and Liz and Ben will be appearing at both Speculate 2019 in mid-March, and Nullus Anxietas 7, the Australian Discworld Convention, in mid-April! Plus Ben will be performing a new show, You Chose Poorly, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from April 1-7. Next month it's back to the Ramtops as the witches return home in Lords and Ladies with writer, critic and editor Nadia Bailey! ! We're recording that episode hot on the heels of this one's release, so get your questions in via social media before February 16th using the hashtag #Pratchat17. Show Notes and Errata: The Reverend Doctor Avril Hannah-Jones is a Minister in the Uniting Church and an all-round wonderful human being. Always a geek, Avril rose to fame in 2011 via Adam Hills' ABC comedy show In Gordon Street Tonight with the foundation of the Church of the Latter Day Geek, which for some reason got more attention than any of the work she has done advocating for LGBTIAQ rights or asylum seekers. Avril also appeared in the Seven/Religion episode of Splendid Chaps (mostly in part two, but you may also want to listen to part one), and on Doctor Who and the Episodes of Death. You can read about her adventures at her blog, Rev Doc Geek, follow her on Twitter at @DocAvvers, or head along to a Sunday service at Williamstown Uniting Church.The film Highlander (dir. Russell Mulcahy, 1986) stars Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, the titular highlander, who discovers he is one of the immortals - seemingly ordinary humans who cannot die unless decapitated, and who are drawn to fight each other, stealing the magical power of other immortals whom they defeat until only one remains to collect "the Prize". As well as being very 1980s, it has a killer soundtrack by Queen, songs from which can be found on their 1986 album It's a Kind of Magic.We're pretty sure the cake Liz is thinking of is Breudher, a delicious buttery Sri Lankan cake with a Dutch influence. Teen Power Inc. is a series of thirty books written by Australian author Emily Rodda (and others), first published in the 1990s. They feature six teenaged protagonists who create the titular agency to make some extra cash,

Mikey and Sawyer cap off the first season of You Chose Poorly by talking about what comes first (hint: it's people, not products), the impossibility of buying the right camera, and when you have to turn off the "product hunt" and just deal with what you've got. Show notes and links at http://youchosepoorlypodast.tumblr.com