The School of Everything Else Archive
by Alex Shaw
Around about 40% of the podcasts we have put out over the years cover TV, Video Games, Comic Books and other entertainment beyond movies. This feed is all of those shows in chronological order of release, beginning with the audio articles of Gonzo Gaming, then the discussion shows of Digital Gonzo, Digital Drift and currently School of Everything Else.
Episodes
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Audio Articles (Part 1)
[School of Everything Else 2010] This is a compilation of the first six audio articles I created back in 2010, before Digital Gonzo was even a thing. Digital Cowboys, my first podcast (begun in 2007) was going strong, but I wanted to start doing more solo material with a tighter focus. These…
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Gravity Falls (Show 2: Episodes 7-12)
[School of Everything Else 2020] Part 2 of 6 The second of three shows on Season 1 of Gravity Falls. Season 2 will be covered in 2021. We return to one of the best animated series' to grace the TV screen. A rich, hilarious, fast-paced puzzle-box of twisty mysteries and subversive, genre-savvy...
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The Sony PlayStation (Revisited)
[School of Everything Else 2018] I go back to the console everybody is talking about, but rather than making this all about the micro PlayStation Classic I endeavoured to find the alternative best way to play specific games I remember and love as well as a mix of some I missed before. It's…
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Bojack Horseman [Season 1]
[School of Everything Else 2017] This is the first of several episodes on the fantastic Netflix animated show Bojack Horseman. Next week will be an episode on seasons 2 & 3 and at some point we will probably do season 4. It starts off as a black adult comedy about show business and Hollywood and...
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To the Moon
[School of Everything Else 2017] A five hour, retro RPG with a story that will stay with you. We recommend everyone play the game before listening. It's kind of like a fun Inception. Laura Kate Dale joins us for a very textured, emotional and personal discussion about this extraordinary…
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Analogue: A Hate Story
[School of Everything Else 2017] A commissioned show from Mark Lucksch. First thing I said when I saw the art was "No anime." Mark assured me that with its writer based in the west and Korean rather than Japanese artwork, as well as lack of animation that this text-adventure available on Steam…
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The Second Coming
[School of Everything Else 2017] A commissioned show about a 2003 two-part TV miniseries wherein Christopher Eccleston plays a regular bloke from Manchester who suddenly realises that he is the son of God. The story is about how the world takes this news and how it affects his close friends. Also...
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Transmetropolitan
[School of Everything Else 2017] This is a Vertigo comics series which ran for 60 issues from 1997 to 2002, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson. It is set in a non-specified future where cities stretch out across the planet, filled with bored tech-fetishists all looking for the...
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Doctor Who: The Movie
[School of Everything Else 2017] We've had several requests over the course of our show to cover THE ENTIRETY of Doctor Who, or even just "Everything since 2005". Eventually one commissioning Whovian named Andy Nattan came around with a suggestion that would neatly incorporate our knowledge of…
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Ms. Marvel
[School of Everything Else 2017] In 2013 a brand new Marvel character was introduced to the world, one who is very reminiscent of classic Peter Parker, a goofy, hapless, sweet-natured teenager who just wants to help people. She's also the world's premier, headlining Muslim superhero, and very…
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Legends of Zelda III
[School of Everything Else 2017] This is the third show I have put together about the Legend of Zelda series. The first was back in 2010 for Digital Cowboys when we covered most of the games in the series. The second was in early 2012 on Digital Gonzo when we covered the contentious Skyward Sword...
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Nintendo
[School of Everything Else 2017] Welcome to a show which explores why, after decades of producing consoles and video games, Nintendo feels special in a way that the others do not. More than two dozen people have recorded their memories and insight and sent them to me to arrange. A picture begins…
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Hamilton
[School of Everything Else 2017] This is yet another very special episode. We get swept up in the Broadway musical phenomenon about one of America's relatively unsung founding fathers, presented to modern audiences as a hip-hopera. It was created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the songwriter for Moana.…
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The Sound of Gonzo: Vol 11 [Marvel]
[School of Everything Else 2017] Recently the excellent YouTube series Every Frame a Painting asked members of the public if they could hum any of the music from the Marvel films. Unsurprisingly they couldn't come up with anything. There are a few reasons for this, that I go into on the show, but...
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The Sound of Gonzo: Vol 10 [Disney]
[School of Everything Else 2016] We're bringing this classic show format back after three years away (somehow it skipped over the entirety of Digital Drift). This is the prologue to our 90s Disney Renaissance series of podcasts. Since the songs get so much love and attention and are going to be...
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Stephen King’s IT
The bestselling novel of 1986, this is a story set across two time frames 28 years apart. In the small town of Derry, Maine the locals enjoy relative success, their harmony only broken every three decades when children go missing. Something is lurking down in the sewers, and it is hungry. Seven...
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Big Data
[School of Everything Else 2016] This is an interview Sharon and I hosted with Ryan Estrada, writer, artist, producer of many many different projects, the latest being Big Data. (It was originally published in two parts and now, in its complete form it is patreon-only content) *There are seven…
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Resident Evil
[School of Everything Else 2016] This is a deep dive into the very first Resident Evil game, as well as the GameCube remake and the HD remake of the remake. By no means the first survival horror, but a definite landmark in the genre and a stone cold classic that is somehow better today than it…
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Episode 501
[School of Everything Else 2016] The second collection of clips from my shows, this time covering the period between 2013 and 2016 when Sharon became my co-host, Digital Drift and School of Movies. They are pulled from fewer overall episodes but they are more meaty and substantial with some of…
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Episode 500
[School of Everything Else 2016] Alex's 500th Podcast. I've been at this game for almost a decade and produced and hosted four media discussion shows, Digital Cowboys, Digital Gonzo, Digital Drift andSchool of Movies. What we have here is a collection of highlights from the first few years. This...
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He-Man and She-Ra
[School of Everything Else 2016] This week's episode is all about one of the first wildly popular toy and animated show tie-ins. Emerging in 1982 the Masters of the Universe toy line was hot on the heels of Star Wars and (thanks to the repeal of certain laws about ethics in programming) was able…
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Thundercats
[School of Everything Else 2016] This one has been a long time coming. Maybe the most significant animated series of my childhood, Thundercats (1985) was, for me, age 6, the promise of adventure. Seven cat-people escape the doomed planet of Thundera and find a new home in the lush, expansive new...
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The Hero's Journey
[School of Everything Else 2016] This show (which is one of the best individual podcasts we've ever put together) is all about The Hero's Journey. It explores the monomyth, the idea that nearly all of the tales that we embrace as a species are telling the same story. Carl Jung theorized with the...
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The Hobbit: Epilogue
[School of Everything Else 2016] Mirroring our Lord of the Rings Prologue recorded all the way back in 2012 and leading us into the Peter Jackson and Weta Middle-earth series, this is the bookend that marks its closing. Less of a celebration of the immense achievement pulling off this second...
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Bad Reviews Against Humanity: Vol. 5
[School of Everything Else 2016] The second half of the session with The Mana Pool (Following on from Vol. 4 these were previously combined into the frankly-too long Vol. 6) More rotten reviews from the terminally unreasonable. Special focus is given to an art print of British personality Paul...
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Star Wars: Rebels
[School of Everything Else 2016] The first part of this show is spoiler-free so if you need any more convincing to go track this down on DVD or Blu Ray, let this be it. Recorded many months before seeing The Force Awakens this was the perfect show to draw us back into the world of Star Wars. It…
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Bad Reviews Against Humanity: Vol. 4
[School of Everything Else 2016] To see in the new year and take a brief respite from Star Wars we're doing another round of reading out some of the most irrational, sarcastic and hilarious movie reviews from the @AmznMovieRevws twitter feed. Along with this is a series of dramatic readings from...
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Jessica Jones
[School of Everything Else 2016] A truly stellar cast join Sharon and I to discuss this critically acclaimed Netflix show; Laura Kate Dale of Destructoid and the Jimquisition podcast, Alasdair Stuart of Psudopod and the Escape Artists, Marguerite Kenner of Cast of Wonders and Joshua Garrity of…
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
[Digital Drift 2014] We bring our Terminator shows to a close with a discussion about the brief but brightly burning TV series. This managed two seasons, which is more than most Fox shows and the ending is abrupt but satisfying, hinting at greater depths in further episodes. However, in it's...
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The Seven Most Important Superhero Movies
[Digital Drift 2014] On this very special episode (in the week I'm celebrating eight years in the podcasting game) I gathered Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, Parris Lilly of "Gamertag Radio" and Joe Cunningham of the "Cinematic Universe" podcast, and along with my wife and co-host Sharon Shaw we asked...
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Daredevil [Season 1]
[Digital Drift 2014] The first season of the Netflix show. I’ll say up front this is not our favourite Marvel production. Not only do we bring up what we feel are its weaker aspects but just FYI it gets very vitriolic about the feature-creep of torture and mutilation into adult TV. This rant has...
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The Legend of Korra: Book 4 - Balance
[Digital Drift 2014] With the world unbalanced, Korra and her companions struggle to manage the repercussions from the pendulum-swing back from chaos to order. This time we're talking about Prince Wu, Kuvira, some old swamp lady, and the rather contentious coupling at the end of the series. In a...
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The Legend of Korra: Book 3 - Change
[Digital Drift 2015] The long awaited, much-demanded continuation of the Avatar podcasts is here. We're releasing four podcasts throughout this month, two each for Books 3 & 4 of The Legend of Korra. It's the last we'll see of the series, maybe forever, but certainly for a while, so let's take…
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The Legend of Korra: Book 2 - Spirits
[Digital Drift 2014] We cover the divisive second season of one of the most talked about and exceptional animated shows ever created. This time round the Miyazaki influence is even more prominent, the animation veers from a little bit sloppy to more breathtakingly beautiful than it's ever been,...
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The Legend of Korra: Book 1 - Air
[Digital Gonzo 2012] This covers the first season of the follow up to The Legend of Aang. Major spoilers throughout so we heartily suggest that you not only see the entirety of Korra first but seek out the original series in case you weren't aware how highly we regard it. Joining me once again to...
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Dramatic Readings
[Digital Drift 2014] After the uproarious reception that the Bad Reviews Against Humanity shows brought, we decided on a series of dramatic readings. This is based on a sci-fi convention game wherein one of the worst pieces of fantasy literature in history; The Eye of Argon' gets read aloud. If…
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The Xbox One vs. The Ps4
[Digital Drift] We pit the two most powerful consoles of the age against one another.
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Never Mind the BuzzGeeks: The 90s
[Digital Gonzo] A return to the pop culture quiz show, this time covering that most overlooked decade, the 90s.
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Bad Reviews Against Humanity: Vol. 3
[Digital Drift 2014] This week, we tracked down some of the funniest reviews all over the internet for all kinds of products, not just movies and not just Amazon. The main reason was variety but we also had the pleasure of Joseph Grabinski the editor of the @AmznMovieRevws Twitter feed as a guest...
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Bad Reviews Against Humanity: Vol. 2
[Digital Drift 2014] We're back for more incisive, scathing and occasionally insane critique from some strange people. The first installment was met with adulation from everyone. In fact this is an official warning not to listen while driving, your uncontrollable fits of hysterical laughter could...
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Bad Reviews Against Humanity: Vol. 1
[Digital Drift 2014] Amazon has a long tradition of unreasonable, miserable and occasionally downright cretinous user reviews. The Twitter feed @AmznMovieRevws is a treasure trove of some of the silliest of these. For this episode Sharon and I got together with former Digital Cowboy Paul Shotton...
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Gamergate
[Digital Drift 2014] This is the full, combined trilogy of podcasts about GamerGate; How it developed, what its effects have been and how we can move forwards. For the first show I had eight contributors, two of whom would like to remain anonymous, the other six were; M.P.J. Dillon, Holly Dotson,...
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Transformers Prime
[Digital Drift] This is both parts combined into one mega-podcast. The Transformers road trip finally emerges from the ugly, industrial wasteland and like Outrun we find ourselves suddenly experiencing a completely different and altogether more fascinating vista. Yes, this animated TV show…
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The Spectacular Spider-Man
[Digital Drift 2014] For this last Spider-Man podcast for some time we're focusing on a high note in the character's history and my very favourite representation of him in any media. The short-lived two-season animated show 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' which ran from 2008-2009. Developed by Greg...
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Rihanna Pratchett
[Digital Drift 2014] For this episode we are very proud to interview writer Rhianna Pratchett. She has worked on some of our favourite games, and very specifically helped to craft some of the best female characters in the medium. Her experience includes Heavenly Sword, Overlord, Mirror’s Edge,...
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The Video Game Crashes
[Digital Drift 2014] We talk about why the video game market crashed twice before.
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The Fifty Shades Trilogy
[Digital Drift 2014] It's taken over a year, but Sharon has finally completed her read through of E.L. James' Fifty Shades trilogy. This episode is a compilation of material from different shows to give you a full review series. In principle it's a two and a half hour rant on her part about this...
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We Hate Movies
[Digital Drift 2014] This week we talk to two of the hosts of one of the funniest, most insightful movie podcasts we've yet heard; Andrew Jupin and Eric Szyszka of We Hate Movies. As is discussed on the show, don't let the name fool you. You'd be hard pressed to find a bunch of chaps who love...
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The Married Gamers
[Digital Drift 2014] We interview The Married Gamers, Chris and Kelly Brown.
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Special Effect
[Digital Drift 2014] In this, the first non-movie-related episode of the third volume of our shows, we speak to the charity Special Effect, who help disabled and disadvantaged people play video games.
About this show
Around about 40% of the podcasts we have put out over the years cover TV, Video Games, Comic Books and other entertainment beyond movies. This feed is all of those shows in chronological order of release, beginning with the audio articles of Gonzo Gaming, then the discussion shows of Digital Gonzo, Digital Drift and currently School of Everything Else.
Hosted by
Alex Shaw