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Ventin' Quarantinos

by Jim Trinca, Steve Burns and Dave Mills

A podcast about life under lockdown – a series of one on one conversations about hope and fear while living through history.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 7: Curating Crime

    Jim talks to Louise Blain; writer, producer, true crime connoisseur, Assassin's Creed obsessive and all round murder enthusiast, about how she is on a mission to curate True Crime podcasts with her podcast about podcasts, Killt. Find out more about her work in this podcast about a podcast that's...

  2. Episode 6: Making a Full Cast Audio Drama During COVID

    Jim is joined by celebrated game developer Mike Bithell, creator of indie hits Thomas Was Alone, Volume, the Circular series of adventure games, and John Wick Hex which is out now on PS4.

  3. Episode 5: Can you knit while playing DnD? She'll be the Judge of that

    This week we’re joined by presenter, writer, video producer and all-round games media personality Alysia Judge.

  4. Episode 4: Every Era of Video Games Is Happening All At Once

    Jim chats to acclaimed indie game creator Xalavier Nelson Jr, while Burns and Dave wonder if it would be ethical to crowdfund the purchase of a Californian mansion with inadequate boat parking simply because it was featured in The Godfather part II.

  5. Episode 2: Wrestlemania, normalcy, and old friends

    Ventin' Quarantinos, a podcast about Attempted Normalcy in the face of lockdown, returns with a very special guest: Simon Miller, face of WhatCulture, former VideoGamer, and future WWE Hall of Famer (probably).

  6. Episode 1 or 35: When life gives you lemons, play PES

    Welcome to Ventin' Quarantinos, the "new" podcast from Jim and Burns (and Dave) about nothing, normalcy, and trying to make the best of it. To keep sane, Burns has been playing PES, while Jim has been watching travelogues on Britbox and adding Live It Up by Mental As Anything to every one of…

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  7. PRE LOCKDOWN EPISODES START HERE: Episode #34

    This is a special episode where we chat to Dan, a communications officer for Sony PlayStation QA. Not about the PS5, though, which launches holiday 2020, despite us never mentioning it here.

  8. Episode #33: Imagining a Terminator Game

    In this episode, which we recorded a billion years ago, we try to think up a Terminator video game that would be good, but ultimately decide that Creative Assembly should just do one.

  9. Episode #32: David Cage Was Right

    Jim and Burns love Wolfenstein, Dave loves being on holiday, and everyone loves real-world locations being depicted in videogames. Also: Times David Cage has been right, more Tory sports, and how the best games often tell the smallest stories.

  10. Episode #31: There's Only One Song About The Boys Being Back In Town

    Jim reckons that Amazon Prime's version of The Boys is miles better than their botched take on Preacher. But first, in a rare moment of intra-podcast camaraderie, everyone agrees that critics were wrong about the Lion King remake – we think it’s wonderful. Also: Burns is excited about The…

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  11. Episode #30: Henry Cavill's Manky Hairpiece

    We talk about Netflix's Witcher series, the best Doctor Who and why she needs to swap her sonic for an Uzi in an increasingly cold and hostile universe, and we find out that Dave used to play lacrosse, bringing his working class credentials into disrepute.

  12. Episode #29: Hyde Park on the Hudson

    Jim went to see Spider-Man, Dave worked on a film with Bill Murray which nobody has ever heard of, Jim’s old boss looked like Bill Murray, Dave interfered with a seagull in Brighton, Burns didn’t mention Alien 3.

  13. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #28

    Jim went to a screening of the DS9 documentary in Bristol, where he was accidentally rude to someone, the imbecile, the moron. Burns found a sense of spiritual clarity about the nature of fandom after revisiting the Street Fighter movie. Dave likes dogs.

  14. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #27

    After E3 in 2018, we recorded a podcast and never published it, cos we forgot. We're publishing it now cos it's just been sitting in the vault.

  15. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #26

    Burns returns from E3, Jim falls in love with Godzilla, and Dave has to put up with them both.

  16. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #25

    Star Trek: Picard sounds alright, eh?

  17. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #24

    Jim, Burns and Dave are back with their first podcast of 2018 in which they talk about God of War, Westworld, and Infinity War while Jim goes off on a series of weird tangents. Many of your questions from Twitter are answered. Also, the boys are excited about going to E3.

  18. THE JIM & DAVE (NOT BURNS) PODCAST #23

    A Burnsless Jim & Dave take a rare opportunity to relax, share some Christmas cheer, and talk about their favourite games, films and telly of what has been a stellar year for culture, if not for the human race.

  19. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #22

    Burns gives his full review of Wolfenstein 2, then we talk about our weirdest moments in film, the worst lines in good films, and wonder which movie stars they would have liked to have had as parents.

  20. THE JIM & BURNS (& DAVE) PODCAST #21

    Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein 2 and Super Mario Odyssey – Jim's played the biggest games of 2017's Christmas rush and he talks about them on this podcast for some reason. As it's Halloween we talk about what makes a great horror film, which allows Burns to gush about The Shining. Also...

  21. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #20

    Star Trek: Discovery, movie tropes, the uselessness of a flame thrower against the T-1000 and of course, the double down.

  22. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #19

    Good films from bad directors, Japan trip, Burns complains

  23. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #18

    Jim's back, and he's seen Blade Runner 2049, so we talked about that for a bit before quizzing Dave about life on a film set, the importance of actor chemistry, and what exactly Ron Howard would have had to do when he took over directing the Han Solo movie.

  24. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #17

    A Jimless Burns (& Dave) discuss seventies cinema and the incredible personalities who emerged from it.

  25. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #16

    Jim's off on a wee adventure so Burns (and Dave) take us on a tour of favourite movie scores, Red Dead 2, and the SNES mini. There's also some chat about Tom Cruise. Obviously.

  26. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #15

    Jim and Dave compare 2017's IT with the 1990 miniseries, Jim discusses Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek love letter The Orville, and Burns fondly recalls the time we tried to leave Europe (via an airport) but cocked it up.

  27. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #14

    IMDB Top Ten, Jurassic Park doesn't have an ending

  28. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #13

    Nuggetgate, Game of Thrones, Film Noir

  29. Alien: Covenant Spoilercast

    A Jimless Burns & Dave talk a load of old cobblers about Ridley Scott's latest attempt to cack all over the glories of his youth, Alien: Covenant.

  30. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #12

    Jim gushes about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the Nintendo Switch. Burns and Dave have thought long and hard about their favourite documentaries. Everyone agrees that one of the Terminator films is James Cameron's best work but they can't decide which.

  31. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #11

    This week we talk about our favourite books, except Jim doesn't read, because he's too busy doing elaborate drawings of penises and complaining that Hollywood stole his gimmick.

  32. The Jim And Burns (And Dave) Podcast #10

    We talk about Hidden Figures, our favourite foreign films, The Japan Centre in London, and then imagine a buddy cop show starring Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mugabe.

  33. The Jim & Burns (& Dave) Podcast #9

    Jim plays Mass Effect. Dave digs out his PS1. Burns buys a BB gun.

  34. The Jim And Burns (And Dave) Podcast #8

    Star Wars Rebels, Vader comics, Jurassic Park vs Westworld

  35. The Jim And Burns (And Dave) Podcast #7

    JBD discuss Rogue One, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Christmas shite

  36. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #6

    Burns and Dave (not Jim) talk about their recent trip to Japan while Jim (not Burns or Dave) tosses off about Forrest Gump

  37. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #5

    This week, like everyone else, we're all excited about Nintendo Switch and Red Dead Redemption 2. Then we respond to a listener question about which TV show had the best pilot/opening episode, and there's only one good answer.

  38. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #4

    Passion projects, stuff we're doing, Bernard Cribbins and Romans with nukes.

  39. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #3

    "Best opening shot", "songs you can't disassociate" and "walking sims are bad, except Virginia"

  40. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #2

    Jim and Burns (and Dave) discuss remakes, spoiler culture, shite films with great trailers, and Burns says shocking things about Terminator 2.

  41. The Jim and Burns (and Dave) Podcast #1

    Using Twitter questions for navigation, Jim and Burns quiz Dave about his life that's been massively more accomplished than theirs. Later, they talk a little about what they've got planned for YouTube, but it's going to take a while... Also going forward we're going to film this, but it's audio...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast about life under lockdown – a series of one on one conversations about hope and fear while living through history.

HOSTED BY

Jim Trinca, Steve Burns and Dave Mills

Produced by Jim Trinca

CATEGORIES

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