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The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

Bonus Episode: The Puppetmaster

The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

The Extra Inch

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

BONUS CONTENT! Windy chats to Chris Thatcher, who was a puppeteer on the Netflix show The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. He's also proper COYS. Find Chris on Twitter @ImChrisThatcher. You've been listening to The Extra Inch, a Tottenham Hotspur podcast. Production by Nathan A Clark (Twitter @NathanAClark). Intro music by David Lindmer (https://soundcloud.com/dlindmer). Artwork by Adam Gardner. Email us at podcast@theextrainch.co.uk. Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheExtraInch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheExtraInch/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theextrainch #Spurs #COYS #THFC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Spurs in full cry here.

0:03.0

Lonella! Welcome, welcome, listeners to the extra inch, a bonus episode. My name is Windy, and I hope you're safe and well, listeners, in these troubling times.

0:36.6

In a week where the

0:37.7

fighting cock have made a fantastic podcast about COVID-19 and it's very wide-reaching sociological impact

0:43.7

that's for their patron subscribers you might expect the extra inch to be doing something similar

0:47.9

perhaps bringing in some data or medical experts to discuss this situation but no on this special

0:53.5

episode I'm joined by a

0:55.7

puppete. Chris Thatcher, welcome to the extra inch. Hello. Hello. Thank you for getting me on.

1:00.6

Thank you very much. Chris, you were a puppete on the quite incredible Netflix show, The Dark Crystal

1:05.5

Age of Resistance. Yeah. But you've got many other credits to your name too. But I'm very keen to

1:10.4

talk to you about spurs as

1:11.4

well and particularly how you ended up doing what you do but um can we start off by talking about

1:16.3

the dark crystal which i absolutely adored well thanks i'm glad you i'm glad you liked it um i'd like

1:22.0

to act really cool about it and say it was just another job for me but it wasn't um i think

1:27.4

any time that um henson's come

1:30.1

calling uh it's a it's a well you have to pinch yourself and i certainly did when they asked

1:35.5

for this project it's the second time that i've worked with them uh the first time being on on the

1:40.9

muppets film the muppets most wanted the Muppets Most Wanted.

1:46.4

And yeah, so when the Dark Crystal came around,

1:49.4

they called me on the day of the auditions.

1:52.1

I don't know why it was suddenly done at the last minute,

1:53.7

but they called me on the day of the auditions and said,

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