The celebration of the Goat continues! In this episode, Isobel gloriously adapts the brief, and talks to me about the work of one of her favourite authors, the hilarious Jason Pargin (AKA David Wong), author of books including John Dies At The End and If This Book Exists, You're In The Wrong Universe. Following that, Jonny pops up to introduce me to a creative, award-winning (and memeable) episode of Community (Season 3, Episode 4 'Remedial Chaos Theory' from 2011). Shame I only had him for about 10 minutes, but I think you'll get the gist. Finally, James makes a spellbinding return to sing the praises of the iconic Buffy The Vampire Slayer spectacular (Season 6, Episode 7 'Once More With Feeling' from 2001) - and hopefully, we're not just going through the motions.
Part 3 coming soon...
0.00 Isobel on Jason Pargin
0.51 Jonny on Community
1.37 James on Buffy
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Isobel has previously appeared on episodes of the show, discussing aspects of the Star Trek franchise, the movie Happiness, and the band System Of A Down. You can find her on BlueSky.
Jonny Kiehlmann is a politics, maths, book and climbing nerd based in Aberdeen and London. He is on BlueSky as well. He was previously on the show chatting with me about Alan Moore's Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow and the endings of superhero stories in general, and discussing the remarkable abomination The Flash (2023, Alan Smithee).
James podcasts at Pex Lives, about Doctor Who, Bob Dylan, western movies and whatever else he pleases. He also co-hosts the marvellous Pop Could Never Save Us (check it out!) and his Springsteen project (with Kit) We Learned More From a Three Minute Record. He, too, can be got primarily via jamesmurphy.bsky.social on Bluesky. This is his fifth appearance on this show - for example, last year, he was on (with Kit Power) talking about seminal British gangster film The Long Good Friday. Listen to that here.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
