🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 357 - AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME A podcast on the history and legacy of The Spy Who Shagged Me? Oh, behave! As for the time travel, I suggest you don't worry about that sort of thing and just enjoy yourself. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 357... The history and legacy of... Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

What would you do with a future Grays Sports Almanac?

Episode 357 - AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 17th September. It puts the grrr in "indie from history podcast hosted a girl", baby. Yeah! ♂️

Ok, so you had to wait a while for Part II. Over 100 episodes. 😬 It's worth the wait, though. Clever people will have hopped in a Delorean and gone back to the future to listen, anyway. More sequels to existing episodes to come this month! Sequeltember is back, baby!!

"You're quasi-evil. You're semi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough."

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 356 - BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II Back to the Future was never originally intended to be anything other than a one and done story, but its huge success meant a sequel was all but guaranteed. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 356... The history and legacy of... BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II

No one likes listening to ads during a podcast, but unfortunately they're necessary for many shows to keep the bills paid. Verbal Diorama has been proudly ad-free for seven years. There's never any guarantee it'll stay that way, but at the moment Patreon support helps verbaldiorama.com/patreon

Verbal Diorama is back in your ears on Thursday, and I'm back working after a week's break. It's good to be back! Back to where, though? 😉

🚨 FROM THE ARCHIVE 🚨 BACK TO THE FUTURE Back in the days when Ronald Reagan, the actor! was president and you needed a nuclear reaction to generation 1.21 jigowatts of electricity, a young man called Calvin Klein changed the course of his own personal history. Available in your podcast app 📱🎧

Podcasting is hard. Solo podcasting is harder. Solo podcasting about the history and legacy of movies you know, and movies you know...? You get the gist. I'm taking a break this week, but like all good sequels, this podcast is To Be Continued... 😜

"Shark still looks fake."

🎁 EM'S BIRTHDAY EPISODE🎉 Episode 355 - CHICAGO By the time Miramax greenlit a film version of Chicago, the movie musical had been functionally extinct as a mainstream genre for years, and all Chicago has to do was give Hollywood the old razzle dazzle... Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 355... The history and legacy of... CHICAGO

There's so much to talk about in Tropic Thunder... but what about the EXPLOSIONS! 💥

Let's talk about five-time Academy Award-winning method actor Kirk Lazarus. To me, his role as Father O'Malley was his best performance by far. Was Satan's Alley robbed at the Oscars?

You have plenty of time to rouge your knees and roll your stockings down... and all that jazz.... for the history and legacy of Chicago! Coming in ten days!

"Chicago's own killer dillers, those scintillating sinners"

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER In 2008, Ben Stiller made a war movie about people making a war movie, and in doing so, made one of the more prescient satires of 21st-century Hollywood egos. It was also not without its controversies. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

It's only taken 353 episodes to feature a Quentin Tarantino movie on this podcast...! Which one should I do next? 🤔

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 354... The history and legacy of... TROPIC THUNDER

The Verbal Diorama podcasting guarantee: ✅ No uncomfortable silences ✅ No bullsh*t ✅ No swears (yes, even an episode on Pulp Fiction is family friendly!)

Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER is now available for $5/£4+ Patrons on their exclusive RSS feed at verbaldiorama.com/patreon. It'll be available for everyone on Thursday 20th August. I don't read the script. The script reads me.

"Man, I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary."

🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 353 - PULP FICTION Pulp Fiction has become iconic, influential and immortalized. It showed us the brutality of life, in a way that was somehow palatable to the masses, and became the template for a new generation of indie imitators. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧

It's only taken 352 episodes to feature a Stephen King adaptation on this podcast... maybe I'll do an actual horror one next! 😅

Tomorrow, 6am GMT... Episode 353... The history and legacy of... PULP FICTION

The Shawshank tree may no longer be with us, but hope springs eternal...