Tag: Asterix

Episode Twenty Five – The Def Leppard Conundrum

Published August 19, 2019

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In which Young Southpaw asks are Def Leppard the Wounded Healer Beethovens of the musical world? Does there still exist a renegade Gaulish village inside of Sheffield? Why are all these ocelots obsessed with yachting? Why isn’t there an Asterix & Obelix adventure where they adopt a child with Kyle Minogue? Plus much more hijinx & intrigue

Taking in the films Beethoven, Who’s That Girl?, Wildcats, and Overboard, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Duran Duran, Rio, Led Zeppelin, jungle cats, On Through The Night, Pyromania, Hysteria, French, Tintin, The Wizard Of Oz, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, Bill Haley & The Comets, etc.

Episode Fifteen – Threading The Saltwater Boards

Published March 7, 2019

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In which Young Southpaw ponders how Mediterranean bees might give rise to a World Basketball League played on rafts, realizes the need for a regulation committee to keep players’ moustaches looking pre-1913, and ol’ President “Saltwater” Taft’s role in all this.

Taking in Burt Reynolds, Guided By Voices, golf, Greece, Ouzo, “All Greek To Me”, bathtub gin, bathtub djinns, world leaders’ facial hair, CBGB’s, Kingsley Amis, James Bond, Colonel Sun, Ian Fleming, Robert Markham, Asterix, Getafix, Aphrodite’s Child, Destiny’s Child, Hawaii, water, Ohio, etc.