Frithcast Episode 150 - It Was Just Supposed to be Plastic Helmets

Episode 150: It Was Just supposed to be Plastic Helmets

 

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

 

"Hell, Bermuda Triangle, Wagner - Excitement?" - CinemaSins running gag: https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemaSins/comments/q7k4vw/someone_explain_the_excitementsin/
"...flavoured with citrus!" - Drag queen BenDeLaCreme appearing as Dame Maggie Smith in the 'Snatch Game' section of 'RuPaul's Drag Race', season 6
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams..." - 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven', by WB Yeats: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/he-wishes-cloths-heaven/
Sean Bean and Christian Bale in 'Equilibrium' (2002) [Content Warning: Poetry and Gun Violence]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJf9Pf9rjO4
What3Words location for "Damp With Sleet": https://w3w.co/damp.with.sleet
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
10 Downing Street What3Words address - "Input Caring Brain" (not "insert"): https://w3w.co/input.caring.brain
Danelaw: https://www.britannica.com/place/Danelaw
Teutoburg Forest, AD9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
Cate Blanchett as Hela; 'Thor: Ragnarok' (2017): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501632/mediaviewer/rm4123809792? ft0=name&fv0=nm0000949&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame&ref_=tt_ch 
Letters of Marque (sometimes "...and Reprisal"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
Patents of Nobility - the documents certifying a lord's right of title (an early plot point in 'A Knight's Tale' (2001): https://youtu.be/Hwl-RX5Pmxo

Carl Emil Doepler’s costume designs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/54525871@N05/sets/72157624969947145/

Frank, R ‘The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet’ https://www.scribd.com/doc/51267328/Frank-Invention-of-Horned-Helmet#

 

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