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Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of racism and antisemitic tropes, firearms, animal death and abuse, physical and mental abuse, medical anxiety, and alcohol
As we continue Witches Abroad, the witches are...abroad! Y'know, going boating, seeing the sites, getting day drunk, hustling card sharps...good times.
This week in the Disc-Course: heavy are the hips, just like Dark Souls, gun facts, scone strikes, pickles, neurotic and anti-union, forced sapiency, Greebomon, a dark and thirsty story, lawyah, love to see it, upclass slime molds, Okay Terry, prop mortar and pestle, tone switch, dancing lady emoji, +/- vajanias, sandwich extremists, Indigo Rum, the machismo ritual, more vests, Mugrat, hustling, and the essence of zen.
Click here for pictures from the Disney animators strike (The Disc-Course stands in solidarity with WGA and SAGATFRA)
Click here for Defunctland: The War for Disney's America
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 171 in Witches Abroad (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Remember some of your dreams?"
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Content warnings for this episode include: human and animal death, brief mentions of abuse, homophobia and the TERF wizard author,
Who's ready for vacation? As our hosts begin Witches Abroad, we follow everyone's favorite witches who love and hate each other as they hit the road for the city of Genua on orders from a dead fairy godmother.
Yknow, normal stuff.
This week in the Disc-Course: potato salad, green hair and pronouns, rincewindbussy123, mirrors, Gammer Beavis, just like theater, birth six billion demons, haunted mansions, thot goals, the devil's estate auction, a million tabs, sensei Dibbler, rice cookers, good to be back, ending of Tar explained, afab nonbinary moments, our Genshin, truck simulator, Terry write word good, and one of my favorite genders.
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For those playing along at home: Read up to page 127 in Witches Abroad (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'You sit up every night dealing Cripple Mister Onion with someone who's got a detached retina in her second sight and you soon learn how to play,' said Granny. "
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @ZlorfFlannelfoot on cohost, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Hey everyone, you ever forget you have a podcast for like 10 months?
Yeah...anyway please enjoy some goofs and follow our new cohost account at ZlorfFlannelfoot!
We'll be back with Witches Abroad on August 9th, see you then!
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Content warnings for this episode include: racism, body horror, queerphobia, suicide, and mentions of terminal illness
As we wrap up Reaper Man, kind and empathetic order is restored to the Discworld once again, but I can't help feeling like we're forgetting something...
This week in the Disc-Course: blind reaction, the cooler Windle, vore brat, muffled by accessories, old men shenanigans quotient, More Death, book freaks and wiki monsters, nerds from sheds, science lore, go woke go broke NASA, short king, sadness gremlin, mother I have transcended, big clock energy, chocolate facts, a dress made of diamonds, hungry little treat boy, skeleton music, undance, NTR November, caring is cringe, wheatcorn, and after credits scenes.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 53 in Witches Abroad (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Granny beamed. 'I knew 'e would have heard of me," she said.'"
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of insects and spiders, head injuries, and child murder, and discussion of ableism, body horror, fascism, racism, and antisemitism
As we reach the dramatic climax of Reaper Man, our friend Bill Door defeats the new Death who's a real jerk, and the members to the Fresh Start Club go to the mall :)
This week on the Disc-Course: a billion lesser podcasts, posting praxis, newt-rients, hoard mode, a capital idea, dead malls, divergent evolution, money now, communist bees, ew death, bony balls, he/it queen, the full scope of literature, von Grover Haus, escalator fear, hit da bricks, mid-2000's anime, head boomer, a normal person, special Jess edition, and flesh building.
Click here for a tiktok from the NY trucking convention
Click here for Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow
Click here for the gunshow comic that is Jess
Click here for the not good translation of book text into digital form
For those playing along at home: Finish Reaper Man!
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: racism, transphobia, and animal violence
As we continue Reaper Man, chaos ensues in Ankh-Morpork as the harmless snow globes turn out to not be harmless at all, and the future is now as our friend Bill Door meets the Combination Harvester.
This week in the Disc-Course: tranq-free since '93, the Millennial Hunger, big water, boys' night, the spell of ratio, male virtue names, industrialization is bad, one more end of history, a special scythe for a special boy, ghost rules, city ovipositor, mom bus, thought terminating sentence, poor little peats, weird technicolor alligator, and a Minnesota battle cry.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 286 in Reaper Man (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'And he owes me a farthing, too."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of severe bodily harm, animal and child death.
As we continue Reaper Man, the gang are introduced to the members of Undead Anonymous, and our bony blorbo saves a child and prepares to face down whoever took his job.
This week on the Disc-Course: cold music, shell jumpscare, the dark alleys, vampire accent, shorpses, Read at 3 AM, freak facts, a hundred writers, sad rooms pt.2, owl clocks, 420 Bink it, existential dread, trick shots, animal girl behavior, Death become human, textbook vitalism, security door, Frank Lloyd Wrong, a depressed skeleton, death app, one weird editing thing, and fuck the feds.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 227 in Reaper Man (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "He was halfway up his second row, and accelerating."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of transphobia and queer trauma, being buried alive, parental abuse, racist stereotypes, and misogyny.
As we continue Reaper Man, the wizards of Unseen University try their damndest to end their friend's life, but Windle Poons decides he's got a lot of unliving to do. We also meet Mrs. Cake and talk a lot about Mrs. Cake.
Also our good friend Bill Door gets a straw hat :)
Click here for Billy the Bullet
Click here for some Come and Take It flags
Click here for the Fresh Start Club print we reference
This week on The Disc-Course: You Can't Say That., wizard SWAT, Ridcully power rankings, Miss Holly Fakeman, throatcoin, ketchup that makes you explode, two pairs of pants, spiritualist busybody, Undead Anonymous, the grumpy glands, walking stairs, chief butt, one weird trick, how an egg feels, true crime almanac, you must post, Binky's Town, the telltale snake, improved his eyesight, the first floor and just homestuck.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 178 in Reaper Man (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Besides, I'm paying you sixpence a week. And sixpence is sixpence. "
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of racism and cultural appropriation, body horror, death and the undead, ableism, slavery and forced labor, and suicide.
Like the changing seasons from summer to fall, the gang begins a new book: Reaper Man. Death is fired for coming down with a case of self-hood, and this causes Problems for Everyone.
This week on the Disc-Course: no escape, blue eyes and pronouns, sources, galaxy boss, special metal cup, horse tools, the best genes, scampi in a casket, Holly heat, wizard kids table, thot moments, a toxic amount of Jimmy Buffet, Gundam Names, a podcast, fantasy jorts, a graffiti brush, evil Carl Sagan, monetize the spoilers, and the cool zone.
Click here for the L Space Annotated Pratchett File
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 116 in Reaper Man (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "After a while, there were faint metallic noises"
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: magical compulsion/mind control, building explosions, animal death, body horror, suicide, and discussion of implicit racism.
In our blockbuster finale, Mark is back, and we say goodbye to Holy Wood, once again wishing for better things for Terry's female leads. The day is saved, the monsters defeated, and our heroes wander off into the sunset. That's all folks!
This week in the Disc-Course: troll Hallmark movie, disctakes, bode check, another giant lady, oops all spoilers, the husband brigade, Death's Hallmark movie, dropping the ankle weights, 12 angry old men, reverse King Kong, museum pieces, Counterweight Continent Town, end of Evangelion, decidedly not woman, Wizards Find Corpse Take 3, ancestral memory, legitimate cthinema, Massachusetts brain poisoning, the power of uncles, broken dreams, and radiation poisoning.
Click here for Windle Poon's wheelchair
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 54 in Reaper Man (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "He turned and, hardly bothering to keep his own heart beating, went back to the University."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: mention of animal dismemberment, climate anxiety, school shootings, gun violence, racism, fatphobia, also a little discussion of right wing politics in India and nationalist myth making therein.
Nearing the grand finale, the gang goes to the grand premiere of Blown With the Wind...I mean...Gone Away...wait that's not right. Anyway, everything is super normal, don't worry about it.
This week on the Disc-Course: old ass baby names, fast food training videos, go to Holy Wood and tell lies, yetis, Sydney Not Safe for Work, shoutouts to Archie, book covers, Dean Henry and John Hix, the Foot Man, a literal child, real fake beards, ribs wins, impure science, mountain smarts, poonnip, kids these days, Red Red Redemption, the Dibbler man, and the Eric Defender.
Click here for the hot drinks training video from Wendy's
Click here for Surviving Edged Weapons
Click here for images of the Sydney dust storm
Click here for French Discworld covers that kick ass
Click here for Unpacking RRR, Indian Politics, and Cinema
Click here for Josh Kirby's rose astronaut
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: the racism of Hollywood and Holy Wood, magical compulsion/mind control, and brief mention of CSA
This week the gang finds a spooky cave :)
This week on the Disc-Course: spoilers for Gone with the Wind, paint Pseudopolis green, troll nephew, McHarga's, filming in Sydney, dub jokes, the Bee Movie, a wizard told me, trebuckets, Gone with the Wind: Endgame, subliminal advertising, rowdy priests, the scary hole, dropes, Fred Astaire dancing, SNL ideas, aw Mr. Beans, and Roger Rabbit World.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 343 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "The lights went out."
Click here for the Paramount map of filming locations
Click here for Yogurt Night
Click here for the wikipedia article Jess was trying to remember for East Lynne (1931)
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: magical compulsion/mind control, brief description of gross food, mentions of animal death and the racism inherent in the movie industry
As we continue Moving Pictures, our protagonist is determined to do nothing with the information he has obtained thus far concerning the nature of Holy Wood because everything is fine :)
This week in the Disc-Course: praise kinks, Gamer For Life, Terry's rude dog, Ruby Rocks, two offices, stuck in a loop, Gaspode bimboification, John Wayne, miscellaneous tubes, a Holly secret, college boy, Live Laugh Love, bodes, stupid sexy Detritus, 9/11 movies, normal in here, a genre of shirts, buffeted by Johnny Depp, the Landiis, As Foretold by Ginger, and Spanish flea.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 290 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Because Holy Wood's disturbances in reality were extending weak but opportunistic tendrils even as far as Ankh-Morpork, a couple of little bluebirds flew around his head for a moment and went 'tweet-tweet-tweet' before vanishing."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: violence, creature abuse, discussion of racism and colonialism, and magical coersion/manipulation
Victor and Ginger get back down to the business of moving pictures, and the spirit of Holy Wood grows stronger every day. Meanwhile a thousand elephants are on the move.
This week in the Disc-Course: pillars of society, rock nose job, my Ginger's keeper, Detritus rocks, misery camera, old Hollywood techniques, hormone chamber, Bagged Dad, Discworld geography, meltdown May, dull as dishwasher, gator counter, and Numbers Riktor.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 235 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Behind him the door movied the tiniest fraction of an inch."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: creature abuse, magical compulsion/manipulation, brief talk of bees and big spiders, and discussions of bad transphobic celebrities
As a heads up Holly's audio is a little weird; I cleaned it up the best I know how but wanted to let folks know in case it bothers them.
Yes, the moving picture business is booming in Holy Wood! Literally film stock is exploding, and how could it not with hot talent like Victor Maraschino and Dolores De Syn--those actors you definitely know who definitely didn't get fired. Meanwhile the wizards at the University find a weird vase.
This week in the Disc-Course: accelerating scenery, prehistoric queers, fucked up camera, Waluigi's tax evasion, looney tune death, a movie man, whips all the way down, sequential filming, civilian gay name, new sausage, manic pixie movie girl, the ghost of Tasmania, memetic virus, huh weird, the smallest Depp, lighthouse fashion, and Grains Banged.
Click here for a teddy bear bee
Click here for Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury
Click here for an ancient earthquake detector
Click here for Terry's CRT Technohub
Click here for the Sword of Passione poster
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 176 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "The Bursar shoved the paper up the sleeve of his robe. 'Nothing important,' he said."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of irreality, explosions, and mind control/magical compulsion.
This week we start Moving Pictures, just taking them off the wall and putting them somewhere else; also we're reading a new book! A new media craze is sweeping the Disc, but nobody really seems to know or understand where it came from or why. Grab some banged grains and join us, won't you?
This week in the Disc-Course: the Hundred Years War, Break-My-Own-Kneecaps Dibbler, smile and nod, different types of nerds, the sausage chain, pouring the Kipling, bi bear, the promised land, peep the horror, banged grains, most normal name, old special effects, special test for a special boy, lucky charms robe, Cheers money, and LumberJacquelyns.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 116 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "After a few minutes he stopped chewing and sat with his mouth open, staring and staring and staring at the flickering images."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: implications of child abuse, the inherent racism and misogyny of being a white British man, and human sacrifice and torture.
This week, everybody's favorite rat man Rincewind is back; now he and a young demonologist go on a time and space adventure and thwart the corporate legions of hell. It's not a very good book.
This week in the Disc-Course: a street rat starting a one man band, local water parks, Rincewind and Squeaky Voiced Teen, one of those guys who hates me, monkey's pawed, the worst tortillas, a big wooden horse, Blind Iowa, the anti-Holly, plot critical sandwich, ten thousand years detention, quicksand, Rincewind goes to Hell, Ted Dancin', and so many colored pencils.
Click here for the Water Country jingle
Click here for a not great cover song
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 56 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'His fingers closed around a small, unexpected rectangle. He pulled it out and looked at it. Silverfish's card."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: animal body horror?, exploding buildings, violence (police and otherwise), drowning, and plummeting to ones death.
There are a million stories of short kings and big wives in the full frontal city of Ankh-Morpork, and this is just one of 'em.
This week in the Disc-Course: dragon beans, sodomy hedgehog, Chekov's Pond, wet good, IRA moments, inside jokes, they stoned a cloud, American Discworld, da waw, hype gremlin, shitheads by majority, toy of the law, ADHD representation, apes all around, Let Holly Cry, rough but smooth Robert Pattinson, teacher voice, Dibbler ointment real, globehead, and moon dragons.
For those playing along at home: Read Faust Eric--we said in the episode we'd be doing two parts but...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include mind control, animal abuse, immolation, and abduction.
As we continue Guards, Guards, so too does the dragon king of Ankh-Morpork continue his ruinous reign, and progress demands sacrifice. Human sacrifice to be exact! And y'know what, as long as it's nobody we know, it's totally fine to throw people to the violent machine :)
Oh wait, it's Sybil? Aw, geez...
This week in the Disc-Course:the trial of Speepy, Dragonfuckers of Pern, sad lads, Tortured Silence Academia, the rats and the worms, a case of Goemon ass, one good citizen, state violence is the same, Nobby and the Good Cops, plume allowance, Columbo scene, the guy who wrote the laws, bake him away, Discworld Cosmo, dungeon snakes, baby bow, wife isn't an emotion, and the lizard brain.
For those playing along at home: Finish Guards, Guards!
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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Content warnings for this episode include: immolation, police violence, animal abuse, discussion of antisemitic tropes, and racism.
This week, as we continue Guards, Guards, RIP to the Elucidated Brethren, RIP to Vimes' career, and I for one welcome our new dragon overlord.
This week in the Disc-Course: the movie that kills you, [Death voice] I'LL BE IN THE CAR DUDES, a world without Italians, Johnny Liveforever, noir juice, pictures that Vimes took, a million blorbos, Karen moment, sad clown shit, spare banquets, a righteous stabbing, SCPs, the gold vibes, You've In-Salted Me, de-jollying, hell-world, Terry Pratchett vs. Columbo, frantically whittling, worst blunt in the universe, and slopeless.
For those playing along at home: Read up to page 342 in Guards, Guards! (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "Vimes made an animal - a mammalian animal - noise in the back of his throat, and ran out into the empty streets."
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You can email us at [email protected], follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!
Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules.
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