Irregular guest Roman Armstrong joins Liam & Ben to chat about underwhelming zoos, gritty reboots and decide once and for all which is the superior: waffles or stroopwafels.

We ask the important questions here folks.

SHOW NOTES

The Goes Wrong Show

The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company was first performed in 2012 and won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. The plot is a play within a play, with various mishaps including missed lines and set malfunctions.

The Goes Wrong Show is an adaptation for TV by the same that created the play. The first episode aired over Christmas 2019 on BBC.

Boys From Brazil

Ben was baffled by Liam’s reference to Hitler clones in Brazil. The Boys from Brazil is a novel, (1976) and film, (1978) in which Steve Guttenberg discovers that Gregory Peck has been secretly spreading Hitler’s DNA. He succeeded in creating 94 clones, (clones? Children? Whatever…), who were placed around the world. Peck’s plan involves attempting to recreate elements of Hitler’s childhood in the hopes of these boys turning out exactly like him - including murdering the clone’s respective fathers at the age Hitler’s father died. That’s exactly how DNA works.

This is referenced in the animated series Archer. The character Dr Krieger is supposedly one of these Hitler clones. That’s the only possible way Liam ever would have heard of this.

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