Retronauts Episode 221: Alien
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🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The last survivors of the Nostromo—Jeremy Parish, Benj Edwards, Chris Sims, and Ben Elgin—transmit from deep space to pay tribute to Ridley Scott's film Alien and its influence on pop culture and video games.
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| 0:00.0 | This weekend, RetroNots, in Space, no one can hear you podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Everyone, welcome to episode some such. I don't know what is it. I'm going to say episode |
| 0:31.6 | 220. Let's see if I'm right. Episode 220 of RetroNots, my goodness, that's so many |
| 0:36.9 | RetroNots. And I'm Jeremy Parish still here, 220 episodes later, talking about video games |
| 0:44.2 | and things related to video games, mostly things related to video games in this episode. And with |
| 0:48.2 | me here as my accomplices and this criminal act we have, Ben Elgin. I might have been on like |
| 0:54.0 | 20 of these maybe. I don't know, maybe up to that by now. Perhaps. Chris Sims, the ultimate |
| 0:58.7 | and alien terror. Ben Jedwards, and I've probably been on like 40 of these now, right? |
| 1:04.2 | Right. And you have like an inside mouth, a mouth inside your mouth that comes out and like |
| 1:09.0 | clamp into people's faces. Yeah. Talk like this. The mouth and sound. Uh-huh. That's... |
| 1:14.7 | I cannot imagine anything that would freak me out more than a tiny penchant. How we got a |
| 1:19.6 | freaking oversized penchant? We're going to stop thinking about that right now. Yeah. So this horrifying |
| 1:27.6 | episode is... it's appropriate because the topic we're delving into this week is the movie Alien. |
| 1:34.8 | Not the Alien franchise, not aliens, and not really that many alien games. Just alien the movie, |
| 1:40.8 | because it just turned 40. Oh my god. 1979, April 26th, is that correct? Was the 40th anniversary |
| 1:49.2 | or the original release of 1979? Yes. Was the original release of the movie Alien? And that means |
| 1:55.6 | it is 40. And this movie had such a massive impact on pop culture. Maybe not so much as |
| 2:03.2 | its sequel, but it was significant in a different way. And it's... it stands, you know, 40 years later |
| 2:10.0 | as a singular work. Like there's never been a movie quite like it. And certainly none of the sequels |
| 2:15.6 | have managed to succeed in the same way that the original Alien did. And because of that and |
| 2:22.5 | because of the video games that it inspired and the comic books and the many, many other things, |
| 2:27.3 | we're going to talk about Alien and why it was one of the greatest movies of all time. Do you guys |
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