PODCAST: "Joe is Gonna Kill Ya"

Wotcha, kids. It's a Christmas Ramble. A Chramble, yes, that's correct.

Having said that, there's little actual festive content but there IS wrestling, Charles Dance, Arthur Scargill, Star Wars (1977's "Star Wars", no Force Awakens stuff here), Mean Girls 2, Tony Way, pushing the limits of what constitutes a "joke"etc.

It's 48 minutes of your life you won't get back, so maybe multitask while you listen. Merry things, and a happy new things!

Enjoy... JOE IS GONNA KILL YA

PODCAST: "Flattened by a McDonald's"

Now, be warned: it IS another ramble and it is mostly wrestling chat again but the main topic of conversation was prompted by a question on our Facebook group, what are our result predictions for this year's WrestleMania event.

If you'd prefer to have greater control over the future course of an episode, all you need do is ask us a question that requires much debate either via email, Twitter, or the Facebook group itself.

Anyway, to be honest, this episode largely exists because Joe and I wanted to be in the same place and have the kind of chat that would cheer us up. We just happened to record it as well.

Enjoy... FLATTENED BY A McDONALD'S

PODCAST: "Nude, eh?"

It's a Royal Ramble!

To be honest, Joe & Chris expected that this week's Thing would be an unthemed Ramblecast, taking in various topics that were on our minds at the time but we were completely over-run by our opening gambit, the 2015 WWE Royal Rumble and the reaction to it.

So, the long expected day (the day we SOLELY talk about pro wrestling) is upon us. Do we disagree on the Rumble outcome? Do we make Reigns look strong? Do we use Dolph Ziggler's real name? (yes) Do we use Dean Ambrose's real name? (no) Do we like half-assed wrestling stables thrown together because WWE has three black Superstars they don't know what to do with? (triple no).

With all the answers given above, it's almost not worth listening to JOE & CHRIS DO A THING!

PODCAST: Santa Claus: The Movie & Blackadder's Christmas Carol (Joe & Christmas Do a Thing)

Festive balls, kids! Episode 4 of our podcast intersects with the timing of that new craze, Christmas, so we thought we'd dip a toe in and really get a sense of what it's all about. Well, we didn't really. We just watched two things we liked and talked about them.

Chris is endlessly fascinated by things that are big news for a short space of time and then become almost obscurely small not too long after their initial release (like Peter Gabriel's legitimately big hit single Steam). One of the things he considers to meet these criteria is Santa Claus: The Movie, a curious mixture of festive whimsy and anti-consumerist polemic that, ironically, also had a major tie-in deal with McDonalds.

Joe, meanwhile, likes comedy that's funny. That may seem reasonable but we all know that there are entire series and channels predicated on the fact that some people don't care if a comedy is funny or not. This being the case, he's keen to share one of the most successfully funny Christmas programmes the UK has to offer (no, not the 2014 Catchphrase Christmas Special with Warwick Davies, but that's a fine guess), I, of course, refer to the merry, messy Blackadder's Christmas Carol.

Luckily, all this jollity gave us enough good tidings to plough through a particularly difficult and soul searching question from our listener Kirsten, in which we'll hope you'll indulge us our attempts to answer.

Anyway, that's enough of this overly-wordy blog entry, just sit back and relax as...

JOE & CHRISTMAS DO A THING.

PODCAST: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek: The Motion Picture - two sides of "slow sci-fi"

You'll always find contrary opinions to even the most popularly-held beliefs, but as a general rule, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is much loved, or at least respected, whereas Robert Wise's shepherding of the Star Trek crew to the silver screen eleven years later in Star Trek: The Motion Picture is frequently the subject of much scorn or mocking. Do we feel this opinion is fair, or are we hoping for the so-called "Slow-Motion Picture" to have a cultural renaissance?

Join Joe and Chris as they take a cursory look at "slow sci-fi", movies such as Solaris, Interstellar, Sunshine, Gravity and the like. This is very much an opinion piece rather than a researched attempt to review or educate, so there's going to be errors.

Listen to SLOW SCI-FI

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PODCAST: "Very Cute Trouble"

Welcome to episode 2. Just a ramblecast this week about stuff that's been on our minds and to ease us in as we get to grips with this kind of "without a net" format where we suddenly realise that our four years of podcasting experience means nothing.

Lots to talk about, of course: the Star Wars trailer, C.M. Punk's recent revelatory podcast appearance, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, trying to enjoy the Bayonetta games without feeling like a creepo perv and failing to create the right sense of detached coolness with our potential titles for the next James Bond movie.


Join Joe & Chris as they...  DO A THING!

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PODCAST: The Saw Series

Welcome to the pilot of Joe & Chris Do a Thing, from the creators of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour Podcast.

We're not experts on the subject of James Wan and Leigh Whannell's SAW franchise, but we are big casual fans and as such, we wanted to kick off this new podcast with a long but casual chat on the series without getting bogged down in something like "research".

We cover the whole seven-movie series, passing through the directorial hands of Darren Lynn Bousman, David Hackl and Kevin Greutert and the super-competent writing hands of Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan.

Join us as we take our first faltering podcast steps outside the Doctor Who universe and try not to yell at the podcast too much when we make any clear factual errors.

LISTEN TO "THE SAW SERIES"