Talk Until The Joy is Gone

For their festive Book Club, the boy read Terry Pratchett's Hogfather . And they also tried to keep this episode a little more sensible, a little more " safe for work " than previously. It didn't work, but they tried! They did, however, confirm that the mysterious "Lou" is actually a man, they got really angry of inspirational home decor, and reached a theological decision. Intro music is taken fr...

A reading of the Tim Burton's original Nightmare Before Christmas poem, done by Rooney. And yes, the tags are correct, this is totally safe for work, and even children!* *TUTJIG is not responsible if your child is a wimp and can't handle Jack Skellington being awesome and living his best life.  

Stevey McGrinch presents more festive factoids. And we ruin Christmas for little Timmy.* *No Timmy's (little or otherwise) were harmed in the making of this episode.

Sexiness at Christmas. Apparently, you're all at it throughout the advent, you dirty buggers! or at least that's the impression we get listeing to Steve the Grinch's "Sexy Christmas Facts"...

Steve the Grinch has rooted around and dug up some Christmas facts. Because what is Christmas without cold, hard, facts?

For day 2, Steve the Grinch brings us all some alternative christmas traditions.

In the first of our festive episodes, the boys cover the Halloween/Christmas hybrid that is The Nightmare Before Christmas . Well, at least they cover it after they waffle on about The Mandalorian (again). Then they really get on-topic with discussions (and memories) of snow, the strong parallels between this film and their real lives(!), the sexual possibilities of Sally, and a brief bout of danc...

Merry pegging christmas TUTJIGers! We've got 24 days of (dubious) quality content lined up for you, one for every day from now until Christmas, so grab a mince Pie, put the Reindeer out, and strap in...

Despite being afflicted with the Corona virus, Steve bravely joins Rooney (remotely of course) in discussing the Tom Cruise film The Last Samurai . And despite his affliction, they still manage to drop more spoilers for The Mandalorian , plan to found their own country, rant about racism, and discuss spiritualism! It's a packed episode, and we've no idea what happened to Steve's audio from about 3...

The boys descend into the gritty, shadowy streets of an animated Gotham City this week, discussing part 1 on the animated version of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , based on Frank Miller's seminal comic book of the same name. But of course, they are pathologically incapable of staying on topic, so we're also treated to their run-ins with the long arm of the law, The Mandalorian egg-eating scanda...

For this month's Book Club , the boys dip their toes back into the Star Wars universe, and it opens the floodgates. From the Force, to the prequels, to the Sequels, to the Mandalorian, nothing is out of bounds - so if you're not a Star Wars fan, you may want to skip this one! In between rants about a galaxy far, far away, Steve manages to trigger Rooney (and outs another fetish), and adopts yet an...

This week the boys watched the 90's blockbuster classic Independence Day , and really got in touch with their inner Will Smith fan! But before they could even start talking about the film, they made the mistake of mentioning the current state of the world... and proceeded to rant and rave about the 'rona for about the first 20 minutes, touching on lockdowns and teachers as well - you have been war...

Trees. Shaky camera work. plaid shirts. Cheesy spooky sound effects. It can only be one thing... the first ever TUTJIG Halloween Special ! The boys chose a thematically appropriate film for the season, and dug through the stones and leaf-mould to get the heart of the genre-defining horror film The Blair Witch Projec t. But somehow they managed to justify a detour into a (mercifully brief) D&D...

Tackling the film that brought to a close the golden age of 80's action heroes, the boys get stuck into the original 1990 version of Total Recall . In a remarkably streamlined episode (barely 2 hours!), they still manage to cover subjects as diverse as political power struggles, Howl's Moving Castle, and the correct way to comfort someone after a nightmare...

Another book club episode, this time on Ernest Cline's amazing Ready Player One . In addition to geeking-out about the book (including detailing their own dream OASIS avatar load-outs - really detailed in Rooney's case) they also managed to discuss discrimination, Ska punk, and whether aliens invented COVID-19 in an attempt to bring humanity together. What a ride!

Strap yourself in folks, we're in for... a really long episode actually. When it came to James Cameron's awesome sequel Aliens , apparently the boys had lot to say. Like, a lot . Clocking in at over three and a half hours, they manages to cover: The end of the modern world The death of the internet Their own PR company for has-been TV stars A campaign to keep wholesome actors wholesome Rooney sell...

This week the boys take a look at Zack Snyder's genre-bending (and somewhat divisive) film Sucker Punch . Along the way they question themselves, discuss body clocks and routines, hairstyles, and undertake a really bad rendition of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song... And to think, they were worried they wouldn't have enough content for a full length episode this time!

To mark the twentieth episode of the podcast, the boys... do absolutely nothing special! Instead they spend nearly three hours reminiscing about being drunk, being high, nights out, and assorted shenanigans. Oh, and they also talk about the brilliant Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , where they realise they're actually just a couple of Johnny Depp fanboys. Suprisingly light on profanity and twisted...

The return of the Book Club! In this months episode of Read Until The Joy Is Gone we fall in love with J.R.R Tolkien's children's masterpiece The Hobbit .  In between earnest discussions about why we love it, and our favourite things about the book, we also get an update on Steve's "beef" with a friend of the pod, realise that Tolkien inadvertently invented almost everything, discuss moral am...