Episode six

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Description

Sixth times the charm!

This time you'll gain a bit more knowledge about The Cube itself, all sort of dispersed throughout the ramblings you've grown accustomed to.

Come into our conversation about the Master of the Macabre Junji Ito's work, and leave after the King of the Quiz Roy Walker's favourite game.

CUBELORE CUBELORE CUBELORE CUBELORE CUBELORE

• Freaky Friday (13:24)
• The breath of life (15:31)
• The movies that won a Silmarillion awards (18:29)
• This is a non-political podcast (23:49)
• Cuber drivers and Cubeton visits (24:47)
• The language pattern of tall plants (29:24)
• Bad writing (30:16)
• Shyriiwook (33:25)
• David Lynch (37:42)
• Silly singers and amazing actors (40:10)
• TV show continuity (43:08)
• Regal Riegel (46:34)
• The best of a bad bunch (50:40)
• Cubic landmarks and popular Cubic sayings (53:46)
• Good Email Etiquette (55:22)
• Cubaganda (57:31)
• The secret ingredient to successful cubemail (59:14)
• The Tortoise and the Square (01:02:49)
• CUBEPHRASE (01:06:35)

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All movies, games, TV series, celebrities, directors etc. that were mentioned in this episode.

Some items mentioned in passing, others are discussed in more detail. All are trapped in the cube.

Movies

1. Freaky Friday
2. Lord of the Rings series
3. The Hobbit series
4. Star Wars series
5. Dune (David Lynch)
6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
7. Amazing Spider-Man series
8. The Cube films
9. Hypercube
10. Candyman
11. Venom

TV Series

1. Twin Peaks
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
5. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6. Brooklyn 99
7. The X-Files
8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Parks and Recreation
10. Gotham's Arkham Knight
11. Catchphrase (Roy Walker)

Celebrities

1. Junji Ito
2. Akira Yamaoka
3. Dave Mustaine
4. Sam Riegel
5. Seth Green
6. Will Smith
7. Andrew Garfield
8. Tony Todd
9. Tom Hardy

Directors & Producers

1. George Lucas
2. David Lynch

Games

1. Silent Hill
2. Pokémon franchise
3. Amazing Spider-Man games

Books & Comics

1. Lovesickness
2. Tomie
3. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
4. Aesops fables

Products

• Madri Beer

Lore & Theories

• There’s a town in the cube
• The cube is vast and has towns
• Cubeton is a nice place, rustic
• The albatrosses act as a delivery service for items such as Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray
• Albatrosses carry items bundled in a sheet like a stork
• The cube has a ride service called Cuber
• There is a chain of off-licenses called the local Cube
• Cubl is the local supermarket. Spend a Cubl, Live a Lot
• Cubemail is an email service in the cube
• There is a cube tax that funds the albatrosses
• You will be forced to watch the Hypercube film when you arrive at the cube
• The films are part of a larger body of Cubeaganda
• That’s just a cube having a gander
• Cubephrase is a gameshow in the cube
• Roy Walker is alive and well and living in the cube

Mike’s Hot Takes

• If you get in a Cuber it’s weird to sit directly behind the driver, or in the passenger seat, but not beyond the realms of posisbility
• Spiral condenser tubes (such as Friedrichs condenser or Graham condenser) are just silly straws for science
• Don’t @ me, Star Wars fans, I’m one of you
• I just love weird guys
• Madri beer is the worst of the best
• Trapped in the Cube is neither a political nor educational podcast

Mike’s Pitches

• The Bollock Has Breath - 80s style horror movie
• Alternate world terminology for ejaculation
• Was Beaker the original Groot?
• Groot is the Chewbacca the Wookie of the Marvel universe
• An episode of Trapped in the Cube where Mike communicates entirely in Shyriiwook
• Didn’t like Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie
• Andrew Garfield is a good Spider-Man but a bad Peter Parker
• A collaborative effort to write ideas for a new film