Frithcast Episode 143 - Rune Spotlight Peorth: Caffeine is the fifth dimension

Episode 143: Rune Spotlight Peorth: Caffeine is the fifth dimension

 

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

Kerbal Space Program: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/

Jebediah Kerman: https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Jebediah_Kerman

Futret! D'ye nae ken fit a futret is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzS3AdzZ0Nw

Mustelids (otters are included): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae (And also yes, mice are murids, along with rats and voles.)

Peorth or Perthro rune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peor%C3%B0

Blazon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon

Johnny Storm, the Human Torch: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Storm_(Earth-616)

Blaze on; blaze off - "Wax on; wax off" - The Karate Kid (1984): https://youtu.be/-P11Bcpyw4g

"You must watch these points." An intermittently running joke in 'The Goon Show': https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/TheGoonShow (Scroll down to list of tropes and look for 'Lemony Narrator' for an example.)

Underpants Gnomes (South Park): https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes

Daniel Jackson nudges at Budge - "I don't know why they keep reprinting his books" - Stargate (1994): https://youtu.be/WskWZfFpWNI (Though Daniel does suggest the symbols "[may be] cuneiform" - and I'm no linguist, but no, that is NOT what cuneiform looks like, Daniel...)

"Dree your weird/wyrd", Scottish phrase: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dree_one%27s_weird

"Life is a storm" - The Count of Monte Cristo (it was Rome) - https://youtu.be/9dXxTAu2RCM

Superdeterminism: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/superdeterminism-free-will/

"Wibbly Wobbly Timey-Wimey Stuff"; from Doctor Who - 'Blink': https://youtu.be/LakwV3P3qII

"It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving." - Scotty, Star Trek (2009): https://youtu.be/jxzYTDX8bIg

 

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