642: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Retronauts I want to be the first person of Retronnought intro to say fuck. Oh, yeah. Hey, you get it, I get it! |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another very British episode of Retronauts, |
| 0:35.0 | the Retro Gaming Podcast that sometimes goes slightly |
| 0:37.8 | askew and talks about things that aren't strictly speaking games, |
| 0:41.6 | although there are some games involved involved and the author did very much enjoy games |
| 0:46.5 | we'll get to it will get to it the subject today is disc world the very well-known fantasy, comedy, book, multimedia series by the late great |
| 0:59.0 | Sir Terry Pratchett. Now, if anything I'm saying comes off as me being quite unfamiliar with it that's |
| 1:04.5 | because I'm not that familiar with it. I've liked it since I was a child but I've |
| 1:09.5 | never really taken the leap and jumped like you dived in and read loads of books I've read some of the |
| 1:14.9 | books I used to sort of think I was a big enough fan that I had the um gosh what's that book the unseen |
| 1:20.9 | university like the it's like like the, it's like an atlas, not an atlas, |
| 1:25.0 | it's like a dictionary of terms, a glossary of disqualifying. |
| 1:27.6 | Companion, this was a companion, that's it, that's the one I had. |
| 1:31.6 | But I wasn't fooling myself because I just didn't read that many of them. I read a couple and I watched the animated stuff which was not great. But we'll get to that. The point is we're here to do an episode of Retronauts and that means there's more people here than just me because |
| 1:45.6 | imagine how awful that would be if there wasn't and with us once again the ultimate man but you landed on the truth quite quickly |
| 1:57.8 | the ultimate man |
| 1:59.6 | d bummer is it they bomber's it hello Dave bummer yes I'm Dave Bulmer is it. Hello Dave. |
| 2:03.0 | I'm Dave Bulmer from another podcast and I am often told that I'd make a good rinse wind. |
| 2:08.0 | Oh wow, yeah, now that I think about it, yeah. |
| 2:11.0 | I don't know whether they're just talking about the fact that I'm a ginger with a beard, but they might have been |
| 2:15.6 | That is probably a little bit as an aspect of being annoyed with the world going wrong, but hey whatever And also has magic powers that don't always work right, yeah. |
| 2:27.2 | Anyway, also with us, after the first time on retinels, is Al Kennedy. Hello, how are you? Hello. Hello. I am good. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for having me on. |
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