Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 13 segments
Mead, Monsters and Myths. We put a Beowolf adaptation and box office bomb starring Antonio Banderas on the slab for our 57th episode.
Pete SwanHost
This podcast contains spoilers galore, words that end with uck and unt, and a lot of depictions of violence, which are medieval figuratively and literally.
What if they weren't simply barbarians, but some of the most extraordinary adventurers the medieval world ever produced? Stout-hearted men who crossed oceans in wooden ships, traded from the North Atlantic to the Middle East, founded settlements, conquered kingdoms, and stared without flinching into a world that, to most Europeans, was barely imaginable.
The Vikings are at the heart of tonight's specimen, but when released at the end of the last century, it was treated as a failure by the industry.
An expensive epic that audiences largely ignored, critics dismissed, and seemed destined for obscurity, but was saved by a later acquired cult status far more powerful than any opening weekend.
To fans of the Vikings, amongst whom I now humbly consider myself, this makes sense, because this story wanted to make these men larger than life, warriors emerging from the fog, ships cutting through black water, steel, fire and ancient codes of honour.
He wants to observe these magnificently terrifying people, but from a safe distance.
With a runtime of 103 minutes, The Real, on a cold marble slab tonight, spins a yarn of warriors, monsters and myths.
am a man who will follow.
I met a beautiful woman who belonged to another man.
I was banished from my home and from all that I knew, a
country far to the north.
He comes to ask Pulwai for help.
His father's kingdom is under attack.
She says 13 men must go.
He says the 13th man must be known as man, the 13th warrior is you.
I am not a warrior.
My
father's father always warned of it.
He said it was an ink of all types.
Prepare yourselves.
No doubt I see my father.
When the brain...
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