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The Ood Cast S02E11 – Dream Wedding
May 20th
“The only thing missing for me was three of them in a bath rolling down the hillside.”
On this week’s Ood Cast, we face the consequences of leaving too much psychic pollen lying around our perfectly appointed studio and that’s as well as dropping in on the Doctor “acquiring” said narcotic substance, hearing what happened to the frozen Peruvian folk band, discussing what we made of The Shaun of the Summer Wine (sorry, Amy’s Choice) and, last but not least, a visit from a legendary 70s rock group …
So, make your choice …
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:51 — 29.5MB)
The Ood Cast S02E07 – Chocks Away
Apr 21st
“Would you like some cake? Dalek cake?”
Yep, the Daleks are the scariest of all the enemies the Doctor has ever faced. And they now serve Earl Grey …
This week on the Ood Cast, the boys are left alone to discuss Victory of the Daleks, we get a Speech Therapist to analyse the speech patterns of the tin-plated despots in an attempt to see whether their problems are just psychological, and we’re treated to a glimpse of what happened when some of them agreed to attend a group therapy session…
So sit back, relax and get your nearest mutated Kaled to serve you a brew. Oh, and would you like a biscuit with that? As reliable as they may be at improbably balancing tea trays on sink plungers, they always forget the digestives…
Stupid Daleks.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:51 — 32.2MB)
The Ood Cast S02E02 – Geeky Nuts & Bolts
Mar 17th
“I like to think of the Doctor as a Liver Fluke. Now if you don’t know what a Liver Fluke is, it looks a bit like a fried mushroom and you tend to find them in abattoirs …”
This week on the Ood Cast we discuss Chris’ attempt at a unified theory of time travel within the Doctor Who universe. That’s right, we spend half an hour earnestly debating a fictional concept. That’s how we roll on the Ood sphere. Apparently.
Despite acknowledging early on that the real reason that Doctor Who’s approach to time travel doesn’t make sense is because the writers make it up as they go along, we press on regardless and come up with a pretty reasonable explanation that encompasses water mazes, fixed points in time, a technological reading of evolution, calcified internal organs and the fact that the Doctor is probably part-TARDIS.
Bon appetit!
P.S We believe our theory of time travel to be bullet proof and challenge you to find examples that prove us wrong. Write to us at oodcast@me.com or at www.facebook.com/theoodcast. Or you could address your tweet to @theoodcast. Go on … we dare you.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:41 — 32.0MB)
The Ood Cast: Episood Six – The End of Time (Part 2)
Feb 22nd
“Perhaps it’s time. This is only the furthest edge of the Time War. But at its heart, millions die every second. Lost in bloodlust and insanity. With Time itself then resurrecting them, to find new ways of dying, over and over again. We have become a travesty of life. Isn’t it better to end it? At last?”
The end of an era, the passing of a baton. Another man saunters off.
This week, the intrepid crew of the Ood Cast tackle the final episode of the Tenth Doctor’s reign.
We took advice from Tom Baker’s final words as the Doctor (“It is the end. But the moment has been prepared for”) and made sure we all had drinks and snacks to take our minds off the upsetting events that unfolded on the screen.
It was the end. And we had certainly prepared for it. So well, in fact, that we were able to record a podcast afterwards.
So, listen in to see which of us was teary-eyed, which was just a bit ticked off that he took so long to actually shuffle off his tenth mortal coil, and just how much of that last sentence I invented…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:46 — 28.2MB)
The Ood Cast: Episood Five – The End of Time (Part 1)
Feb 15th
It is said that in the final days of Planet Earth, everyone had bad dreams…
To the west of the north of that world, the human race did gather in celebration of a pagan rite. To banish the cold and the dark.
Each and every one of those people had dreamt of the terrible things to come. But they forgot, because they must. They forgot their nightmares, of fire, and war, and insanity.
They forgot. Except for four…
Legends tell that these four intrepid humans used their rememberances only for good. To guard against evil, protect against invasion.
But the legends are wrong.
They used it to record a podcast.
And this week, in Episood 5, we look at the End of Time (Part 1).
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The Ood Cast: Episood Four – The Waters of Mars
Feb 8th
Tap tap tap tap.
Tap tap tap tap.
Do you remember the old days of “Classic Who”? You know, the days when budgets were the size of your mum’s weekly housekeeping allowance which meant that stories were claustrophobic and terrifying, even when the monsters occasionally seemed to be constructed from items you saw her making a cake with the week before?
No? Well, it doesn’t matter… Not all of us do either. But we’ve seen a lot of it on VHS…
But Who and isolated bases on the surface of a foreign planet is a marriage made in heaven, right?
Download the newest episood to find out what happened after we watched The Waters of Mars in a darkened room, complete with a few glasses of liquid handy, which members of our happy band then refused to touch a drink for considerable time afterwards.
Oh, and to find out what exactly caused an argument that might yet cause the premature end of the podcast …
Save your tissues though, because we’ve almost got to the final of the 5 death rattles Mssrs Tennant and Davies served up for our viewing pleasure. And those were where the real tear-jerking moments were… (well, that’s what it said in the Radio Times…)
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The Ood Cast: Episood Two – The Next Doctor
Jan 25th
A hearty, and slightly world-weary welcome to you.
Think back to Christmas Day 2008. The evening.
There you are – on the sofa – feeling a bit bloated because your nan insisted that you had that third helping of turkey and at least two goes at the Christmas pud. You’re becoming steadily more pickled as the afternoon draws on, and your eyes are feeling a bit heavy.
Then something lovely hits your screen. You hear some familiar music. You haven’t been paying attention to the first couple of minutes because you saw that a few weeks before on Children In Need night. But now you’re a bit more interested.
You start searching your mind for what it is like a brain surgeon wearing boxing gloves…
And then you see him. A skinny man with an unmistakable pin-stripe suit, spiky hair and glasses. You know what this is…
You yawn. Then your eyes start to flutter as you desperately try not to fall asleep. But you can’t combat such a force… Just before you do, you see a blurry thing that looks a little like a creature made from a milk bottle top and strips of crepe paper (a la early 1980s Blue Peter).
And the rest is darkness.
Wonder what you missed? Well, let us discuss it in your ear. For in this installment of the podcast, The Ood Cast Episode Two, we will be discussing The Next Doctor… because it started off the year of specials.
So come and join us.
Please.
We miss you when you don’t let us talk at you.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:49 — 26.5MB)
