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Speaker: On today's episode of The First Question, what is that blue head in a box on about? Can the Doctor get away from his death at Lake Silencio? And aren't we all really piling in giant robot versions of ourselves around from the day to day?
Speaker: None of these are the first question. This is the first question.
Speaker: Hey beloved, we have gathered here today to get through this thing called Doctor Who. Welcome to The First Question, a brand new podcast where we discuss an episode of Doctor Who and then make up a game show about it.
Speaker: I'm Mark Harrison, your Quizmaster, asking questions that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. Every week for the next six weeks we scoop two Doctor Who fans out of their own timelines and use the first question randomiser to create quiz shows out of some of our favourite stories.
Speaker: In Doctor Who, the end is always the beginning, so we'll start with the wedding of River Song, the balmy season finale that gives this podcast its name when the first question is revealed as... Doctor Who, a question most people listening to this will think about every single day.
Speaker: And this week... I'm joined by two contestants who are diving headfirst into the quiz chaos. Question is... Are they on the guest list? For the wedding of River Song. Well, they're both Scottish, so odds are they're either with the mother of the bride.
Speaker: Or they're Doctor Who podcasters. First up, a man who's been to all of Captain Jack's stag nights in one night and has still made it to the ceremony looking sharp. looking chipper and looking for the ball. Off the time lash, it's Mark Donaldson. Hello, Mark. How did you enjoy the wedding? Hello. um Yeah, you know, that's I love a wedding. Love a wedding. I've brought some cash.
Speaker: inside the wedding cards. And I'm wearing my best. Trousers We do weddings right? I hadn't really thought that one through. At least you're wearing some trousers.
Speaker: Yeah, we'll find you a shirt. Don't worry, Will. We'll sew it up. Next from the Paulist Box Live, a man who adjudicates over crimes against Doctor Who, which means he's definitely on the bride's side this time around. That might be why he's turned up wearing an L plate too, but I'm guessing that's L for Lee because it's Lee McMenemy.
Speaker: Hello! Lee, when I asked you to watch this one, you were just happy it was a Matt Smith episode rather than any of the other episodes we're going to do. Where does this sit in that era for you? Oh, no.
Speaker: I hadn't watched this episode in the longest time, probably not since it was originally broadcast. And the answer I would automatically give you in any question about Matt Smith, I'd put it really high. He's great.
Speaker: Then I remembered how terrible this episode was. Putz. ah It's not entirely without its redeeming qualities, but we'll get into that, I'm sure. Fair enough. So um as I say, the format is we're going to talk about an episode. and then make up a game show about it um you know at at the time of recording doctor who's out to tender and we don't know where it's going to be about the time this goes out but who knows maybe the problem is you're trying to raise the level of streaming drama where
Speaker: I can apply for the tender and go for, you know... Insane Quiz Game Show as a format for future Doctor Who. We've all re -watched The Wedding of Riversong recently, but for the listeners at home, just in case you need to jog your memory, here's everything you need to know about The Wedding of Riversong in 66 seconds.
Speaker: Sixty -six seconds. That seems very, very exclusive. Start the clock. Broadcast on BBC One on the 1st of October 2011, The Wedding of Riversong is the 13th and final episode of New Who's sixth series. It was written by Stephen Moffat and directed by Jeremy Webb and it stars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Alex Kingston. Guest stars include Frances Barber,
Speaker: Simon Fisher -Becker and Mark Gatiss, with Simon Calloway as Charles Dickens and Ian McNeice as Emperor Winston Churchill. The story sees the 11th Doctor navigate a stalled timeline to confront his predestined death at the hands of Riversong and the Silence. Other returning characters include Dorian Maldivar, now a talking head in a box, Madame Kavarian, the sinister leader of the Silence, and the Tessa Lecter, a time -travelling, shape -shifting robot. In the story's climax, the Doctor marries River in a battlefield ceremony atop the Great Pyramid in Cairo.
Speaker: After using the Tessellator to escape his destiny, he resolves to step back into the shadows, finishing the series with Dorian's cries of Doctor Who ringing in all our ears. On BBC3, it was followed by When Time Froze, the final episode of Doctor Who Confidential, which was cancelled in 2011.
Speaker: Footage from the wedding of Riversong later appeared in the Reality War, the final episode of the 2005 revival, when an Anita Benn from the Time Hotel peeped on the Eleventh Doctor playing live chess.
Speaker: Like Anita, you two have peeped on this episode as well. So let's let's jump into it. What did you make of this on Revisit? so I remember this going out at the time. And I remember, you know, the whole thing is like. oh, how's the doctor going to get out of it? Because, you know... Morfitt's set up.
Speaker: The gangers, he set up the test electors. Surely it's one of those things. Or maybe because it's Stephen Moffat, there'll be a third way. And then the previously on Doctor Who thing is very test elector heavy. And you just go, oh, well, that's that then, isn't it? That's that. That's that question solved.
Speaker: and yeah i guess Any surprises just removed instantly. yes It's really a game of two halves. I think the first... sort of 20 minutes is really good like sort of the doctor kind of investigating the silence across like sort of various positions in the galaxy it's like it's doctor who is as sort of james bond in a way uh that plays chess instead of poker, things like that. And then I think the wheels start to come off.
Speaker: when he's rescued by Amy and Rory and the... the big army, and then everything has to resolve itself. and i just i don't necessarily buy into the emotion of it in the way that i think For example.
Speaker: The Big Bang does. beautifully, like the big bang. destroys the universe all the stars are going out and then actually it's a really small character piece of sort of four friends.
Speaker: In an old museum. with a stone dalek in it and it really works and it really feels epic but also kind of personal. I don't think i think this is that thing the Doctor Who does often in the modern era where...
Speaker: The next series has to be bigger! And bigger isn't always necessarily better. Yeah, I was struck this time around by how similar the arc is between like this the Series 5 arc. and the Series 6 arc. You know, Series 5 is the TARDIS blows up, why someone's trying to kill the Doctor, why, we'll find out next time.
Speaker: Series 6 is kind of... they're doing it again but it's kind of with the stakes set up early on with both with both finales with the big bang and then with this with all the tunnels and stuff and this is sort of indiana jones is kind of the tonal sort of thing they're going for it's crypts and you know ancient secrets and things like that so it is a little bit like going from raiders of the lost ark to temple of doom like
Speaker: you know, without this being as gnarly as Temple of Doom is. It is, however, you know, more violence, more horror tinge, just... Cribber. I do think that heist mechanic... You mentioned the test selector thing being predictable.
Speaker: It's a thing of like, to me, the the personal side of this is that. the story hinges on you know the test selectors as both getaway vehicle and bulletproof suits. But we're kind of ahead of them on that. It's River's song who's being let in on it.
Speaker: it's It's River Song who's going, no, I'm not going to kill you. And then finally looking her in the eye going, shut up. I love you. You're blowing my escape. wayside you've got that really exciting first 20 minutes where you know all of time's fracturing everything's happening then all at once you know They go to the pyramid.
Speaker: and then it just sort of flat lines from there. And you yeah you get the silence breaking out of their tombs later on. That is... it never really feels like it all sort of knits together.
Speaker: ah I can't work if it's too many ideas for 45 minutes or not enough ideas for 45 minutes. that something really falls flat. and the middle of the story. and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.
Speaker: which is a shame because it's a really good series of Doctor Who. I love series six. I know lots of people have a problem with it. It's got the mid -series break thing which kind of breaks the momentum if you're watching it in real time.
Speaker: as it went out but it just seems a little bit muddled at the end. like it just It's like tripping over the final hurdle. I wonder if it's because... I feel like this is a four part story.
Speaker: So rather than a... a series long. story if you know what i mean because i think you've got the um impossible asphalt day of the moon ah Maybe a full part is... isn't is straight is it's shrinking it down a bit because obviously you do have the rebel flesh the almost people which is there to be like amy's actually an imposter amy's not really there you have that you then have a good man goes to war And then I suppose, and then it kind of flatlines for quite a while. Once once Let's Kill Hitler happens.
Speaker: river knows who she is what she has to do uh they know what's happened to him in rory's baby the story kind of is then that's it We now just have to wait for... We now just have to wait forever to kill the Doctor. There's not really anything else extra that needs to be done. It's kind of about the the consequences of...
Speaker: The doctor's choice to... like how the doctor saves himself. but also how River refuses. to kind of fu fulfill her own destiny and how that kind of messes everything up I think the reason why it's a single -part thing is there's a difference between plot and...
Speaker: character -led stuff isn't it there is still i know what you mean about plot like somewhere in the middle of this you kind of all have to get to this point you have to get to the wedding of river song that's like right up there above the title And there's like ah there's a little bit there's a nice little bit of like screwball comedy stuff between Matt Smith and Alex Kingston where they why they're debating this.
Speaker: He says, I don't want to marry you. She says, I don't want to murder you. And it's a sparky kind of thing, but it's like, it's... but This one, to me, like sort of solidifies... the sort of family unit thing it's a big intergalactic family sitcom by this point isn't it you know with the the thing that amy realizes she's his mother -in -law right at the end of this but it kind of comes along right at a point that we're at the end of the river song mystery and that she appears again you know only once more with amy and rory when before they go out of it
Speaker: Even though this is an episode where it's the end of history. past, present and future. We're all happening at once. We're sort of... Zeroing in. on that screwball romance and that family unit, however briefly we get it, because we still don't really get loads of them all together. like between the end of this and Angel State Manhattan. I think that's a shame. Yeah.
Speaker: Anything else to say on this chaps? But ah it strikes me every time I rewatch this that I didn't pick up on the fact. that yeah we've got the big sort of farewell to the brigadier in this but that also everybody's wearing eye patches. I just didn't clock that the first time that episode went out. I didn't join those two dots together. And it wasn't until I think we did it for on the time lash. yeah I was like, oh, of course, everybody's. wearing And this is why Mikey Smith refuses to watch this episode.
Speaker: Is there no one left to bust? Had anyone clocked that the first question was going to be Doctor Who? It's that reveal that at the end of it, you're like, oh oh, you're like, yeah, I knew that was going to happen. I don't.
Speaker: Think so. Because I feel like the first question is kind of... Is this the first time it's mentioned? No, they mention it in Let's Kill Hitler, an episode in which he says Doctor Who a couple of times as well. Oh, of course, yeah. My name is the... Distracting info from... Robot Amy, isn't it? It's like, yeah.
Speaker: The one problem with the Doctor Who question though yeah and the whole i want to go you know i want to like I need to be a bit less noisy. a but you know i've been I've been a bit too kind of, I'm going to just disappear into the shadows for a bit, except for the fact that it's 2013 next year. flip series into the anniversary year that actually you don't really get a lot of time for the doctor but to be kind of mysterious and back to basics because you then have to kind of amp up The anniversary -ness of everything.
Speaker: Yeah. He was never going to successfully do it, though, it it's just as as a character as a back to point. This is where he sort of turns on his heel and runs, as much as it's kind of played as that. An execution loop. Never going to happen, Stephen.
Speaker: Yeah. Looking back at when this went out though, 2011 is really so much a a year of endings. for Doctor Who. Like, this goes out in in the year that Torchwood ends with Miracle Day. They didn't know it then, but Russell C. Davis took the show to the Americans and it got cancelled. Who'd have thunk? You know.
Speaker: Like... ah And the Monday after this goes out, the final short run of the Sarah Jane Adventures begins. uh because Elizabeth Sladen died not long after Nicholas Courtney, which obviously comes around in this. It's sort of a contraction.
Speaker: of Doctor Who with all its spin -offs and assorted programs. Right, it's just getting bigger than ever around the world. it's As I say, I like that ending. It's fizzing with what's coming next.
Speaker: the doctor who of all that this is going to be the central mystery going forward and as said i said i'd like It's reassuring to me that the end is always the beginning in Doctor Who. That's why I like to go back and watch this one. I think you may be hit up upon there why I found it underwhelming then because it's like you just said it's a continuation into the next series rather than being a full stop on a city's arc.
Speaker: So maybe that's why I found it slightly underwhelming there. Yeah, it's sort of an ellipsis, isn't it? It wraps up the going concerns, the stuff that... you may You may or may not have guessed. It's coming.
Speaker: But then goes, ah, what about this? So that's fun. Right. Well... Okay, so we're going to have to make a game show out of this. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? So, hello, Lee. Hello, Mark. You are our contestants today. Welcome to the show. um What would you both do if you won some money today, Lee?
Speaker: Well, but it depends on how much money we're talking because I'm an employee of the Scottish Parliament. So say, for instance, it was a a prize of £400 ,000. I would spend it all on salt and pepper shakers, a motorhome and gold -encrusted Nintendo DSes.
Speaker: Hmm. Amazing. How about you, Mark? well Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, it does obviously depend on on what the cash prize is. but um I have been looking for somebody to put behind my tender bid.
Speaker: for the next series of Doctor Who. Oh, hang on, hang on now. What am I even doing? it All right, well, I'll tell you what, I'll take that as well. That sounds great too. I mean, I hope that both of you do win some money after we finish recording because there is no cash prize on this show. But I just thought I'd ask, what would you do if you won some money today?
Speaker: So before we troll from everyday London to the summit of the Great Pyramids, here's how the quiz is going to work. This episode pays tribute to the Brigadier, so we'll have five rounds rapid.
Speaker: of trivia questions and games. Mark and Lee will work together to build points for the first four rounds and then face off in a final head -to -head. And if you win that head -to -head, as I mentioned, we don't have a cash prize or even a Greg Davies head. That's more a Husbands of River song thing. But from the eighth transept, Stronghold of the Legless Monks, we've got the feat of Dorian Maldivar.
Speaker: We recognize your great feet with feet. I could donate them to Neil Cole's Museum of Classic Sci -Fi. That would be great. You could make a fortune on OnlyFans with those feet.
Speaker: So let's go over to the six -sided console that makes this baby fly. It looks a bit like a TARDIS console, but frankly a lot more like a Trivial Pursuit cheese wheel with delusions of grandeur.
Speaker: So in essence exactly like a TARDIS console. But before we go any further, does anyone here know of any reason why this Wedding of Riversong Game Show podcast should not proceed? May he speak now or forever hold his peace.
Speaker: Smash in. Right then. After the break, let the games begin. Geronimo.
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Speaker: Hello, hello, and welcome to the Wedding of River Song, the game show podcast. We begin, as expected, with a Stephen Moffat episode with round four, which is called Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once.
Speaker: It's the 22nd of April, 2011. It's two minutes past five in the afternoon. and the two of you find yourselves in the city of London where everything's happening. And everyone and everywhere are happening too. Pterodactyls prey on Britain's parks, horse -drawn chariots wait at traffic crossings, and Winston Churchill is the Holy Roman Emperor. It's basically every nostalgic boomer poem you've ever read on Facebook.
Speaker: On BBC Breakfast, Charles Dickens is talking about his new Christmas was special, which is funny because if it's always the 22nd of April 2011... We're not going to get to Christmas, are we? He never has to actually deliver that. Maybe there is no Christmas special. Maybe he's just saying it. Sorry, sorry we jumped streams for a second there. Back to the game, sure.
Speaker: It's too raw. It's too raw. It's too soon.
Speaker: Anyway. Everyone from history is here, just as long as they've been in the new series of Doctor Who. It's down to you to to sort real history from Doctor Who. You're going to take turns answering questions about history at Buckingham Senate in the court of Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill. Each answer...
Speaker: has two questions uh you're gonna take it in terms of these You can answer the first question, which is a history question. for two points. Or if you don't know it, ask for the Doctor Who related question that has the same answer. And if you get it from that, you'll have one point.
Speaker: All that okay? Okay. All right. Yeah. We'll take it in turns. Lee, I knew there was a reason you brought that L player. You're first alphabetically, so you can go first. Okay. All right, then. First question for two points. Lee.
Speaker: In The Simpsons... Milhouse is named after the middle name of which historical figure?
Speaker: It's Nixon. President Nixon. You're going with Richard Nixon. but Okay, you have two points to rate with that. Would you like to hear the Doctor Who question? Go on now, let's have that too.
Speaker: Which US president is played by Stuart Milligan in Doctor Who? Would you like to stick with Richard Nixon? I'll stick with Richard Nixon, Mark. Like America didn't. They should have stuck by Nixon, that's what I always say. That's two easy points to leave. Thank you very much. Right.
Speaker: Mark. No. Which English monarch's birth name was Alexandrina? For two points, which English monarch's birth name was Alexandrina?
Speaker: Queen Victoria? Going for Queen Victoria for two points. Would you like a Doctor Who question? See if you want to change it. Yeah, well, let's have the Doctor Who question.
Speaker: You could always just flat go, no, but it wouldn't be much of a Doctor Who Swiss podcast, would it? I mean, yes, please. That's better. so Which English monarch did Jenna Coleman play for three series on ITV after leaving Doctor Who? Are you sticking with your answer?
Speaker: I am indeed. Queen Victoria is correct. Two points to Mark. Lee! Which American historical figure was nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park?
Speaker: So which American historical figure was nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park? That is tough. um Can I take the Doctor Who related question for this one? You'd like the Doctor Who question for one point?
Speaker: Which American historical figure helped the 13th Doctor? fight the Scythra. at which American historical figure helped the 13th Doctor fight the Scythra. for one point.
Speaker: Only one that sort of springs to mind is Nikola Tesla's Night of... terror because i can't place him in any other episode so go thomas edison Thomas Edison is correct for one point.
Speaker: Mark. Yes, hello. Who did historian... Pierre Gaxot, described as Secretary of State for pleasure. Who did historian Pierre Gaxot... Describe as Secretary of State for pleasure.
Speaker: I think I'm going to need to take the Doctor Who question for this one. You want the Doctor Who question? Okay, for one point. The sister ship. of the spaceship SS Mary Antoinette is named after which member of Louis XIV's court?
Speaker: Ah well, matt Madame de Pompadour. It's Madame de Pompadour, one point. Lee. Yes. Who's fan club is called the Sons of the Desert? oh For two points, whose fan club is called the Sons of the Desert?
Speaker: Got them right on my wall here at Stan Laurel and Oliver Harvey.
Speaker: You didn't need the Doctor Who question, which would have been, in The Impossible Astronaut, the 11th Doctor is seen dancing to Shine On Harvest Moon with which comedy duo? It is Laurel and Hardy. Two points to Lee.
Speaker: Mark! As of 2026, who is the only President of the United States born in the 1960s? As of 2026, he was the only President of the United States born in the 1960s.
Speaker: you know when you hear You know when you hear a question... and And you're like almost just immediately going to give the answer. And then you start saying, guessing yourself. I know it must be. President Barack Obama. Surely.
Speaker: I mean the Doctor Who question on this one is a funny one so I'll read it. Which president of the United States? It's played by Roger Haynes in The End of Time Part 1. Do you remember that guy? I did a pub quiz round the other week about... um about lookalikes, like bad lookalikes. And he was one of the ones that pops up in all the articles that clear these pictures. I was going to say, please. But yes.
Speaker: But yes, Roger Haynes played Barack Obama, the youngest president of the United States. The only one. um to be born after 1946.
Speaker: Lee! Yes, dear. who Who was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938? That's who was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938 for two points.
Speaker: Listen, I know I'm older than both of you but I'm not that old. um 38.
Speaker: I'm going to have to take the Doctor Who related question on this one I think. Okay, the Doctor Who question for one point. In an eponymous 2011 episode, who are the Tessellecta attempting to extract from history to punish for war crimes.
Speaker: That's who are the test selector. attempting to extract from history to punish for war crimes in a 2011 episode with his name in it. Well, in that case, it's Nigel Farage's man of the year himself. It's Adolf Hitler. It is Adolf Hitler, history's greatest monster and Doctor Who top Trump's character, Adolf Hitler.
Speaker: What are you talking about, a frudge? Mark. Yes. Who wrote at a book? on the mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Titled The Principia.
Speaker: Who wrote a book on the mathematical principles of natural philosophy titled The Principia?
Speaker: Oh. a No, I'll take the Doctor Who question. Doctor Who question for one point. In Wild Blue Yonder, who do the 14th Doctor and Donna Noble describe as hot?
Speaker: Sir Isaac Newton. It is Sir Isaac Newton for one point. One more question each. In round four. which is the first round. Shut up. um Two points lead for two points.
Speaker: Which pirate was the target of the first recorded worldwide manhunt? with the Privy Council and the East India Company offering a £1 ,000 bounty for their capture.
Speaker: For two points, which pirate was the target of the first recorded worldwide manhunt? with the Privy Council and the East India Company. offering a £1000 bounty for their capture.
Speaker: I will take the Curse of the Black Spot question please, Mark. Curse of the Black Spot question it is. For one point, what is the name of the pirate played by Hugh Bonneville in The Curse of the Black Spot and A Good Man Goes to War?
Speaker: I can picture him clearly but can I put a name to him? no Nah, you've got me on that one, Mark. I'm gonna have to pass. It's Henry Avery is the name of that one. very famous historical pirate so no points for that one one last question for you mark which historical figures many titles included.
Speaker: Grates of praises. Sweets of love. and lady of the two lands for two points. Which historical figures' many titles included a great appraisers?
Speaker: Sweets of love. and Lady of the Two Lands.
Speaker: Although... Mmm. Although, no, yeah. Just mentioned enough. I'm going to risk this. I'm going to risk this. Cleopatra. But I will take the Doctor Who question as well. Okay, you can change once you hear the Doctor Who question. So if you want to change for one point, who does Solomon the Trader demand the 11th Doctor hands over to him in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship?
Speaker: It's the other one. It's Queen Nefertiti. The other one. When I say the other one, I don't that didn't mean that in a... yet No, yeah. That was just a silence. and your points I certainly wasn't writing down you saying the other one. an awful air The other famous famous Egyptian queen, obviously, is what I meant.
Speaker: At the end of round four... You have scored between you 14 points. Emperor Winston Churchill is satisfied that you are soothsayers, just like his main soothsayer. The Beardy Doctor.
Speaker: who you came here with some time earlier in the story. You join the Doctor in telling the rest of the story. which picks up appropriately enough. in round two.
Speaker: Round two. Somehow landing second in the quiz. It's called Deadline. Near the start of this adventure... You are the Doctor's companions in his darkest hour. his final adventure. Hey, anybody's a step up from James Corden. So, you know, roll with it. You've ripped the space bar.
Speaker: Not like on a keyboard, a space bar at the docks of Callisto B. Met with the Tessellator, played live chess with Gantok, and probed the seventh transept for the head of Dorian Moldavar.
Speaker: You start to wonder if we're ever going to Utah. When are we getting to Utah, your eyes seem to say. And the doctor's eyes say. Nah. Instead, he decides to go on another jolly, rings up his old pal, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge -Stewart.
Speaker: only to find that he sadly passed away. This gives the Doctor the push he needs to face his destiny at Lake Silencio. Except, unfortunately... He turns to you two. and asks if there's anyone you two want to ring before you go.
Speaker: It's really awkward. You're too polite to just say no and you decide the best thing to do would be to keep ringing people who have sadly passed away so you don't cheer them up too much.
Speaker: You'll be working together on this round. The TARDIS form book will give you a choice of two people on each turn. And you have to call the one who has sadly passed away. Remember, it is the 22nd of April 2011. So some of these people are dead by the 22nd of April, 2011. Sorry, I've sadly passed away by the 22nd of April, 2011. But to paraphrase Russ Kemp on Bridge of Lies.
Speaker: Anyone who answers the phone. is alive. ah but but Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Very good. Every missed call is worth two big points of motivation for the Doctor. Are you ready? Yeah. Oh, as it'll ever be. Let's go. yeah you can You can confer with each other on this one.
Speaker: TARDIS phone book's giving you some choices. We're either a few years off a Beatles episode or one week, depending on how you look at it. But here are two people who claimed the rights to the Beatles songs at different times. Your choice. It's Michael Jackson. Or Steve Jobs? Who are you going to call?
Speaker: Oh, i it yeah, Jackson, isn't it? <unk>ite two thousand in a knife Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jobs was late. i remember I remember being in my nightcrub in in fact in and yeah a nightclub. in in Aviemore with my friend Ben who, not not that one who who's Father was Ethiopian and Ben at this time had a big afro and this drunk Scottish man staggered up to Ben and went...
Speaker: Is it true? And he was like, he's watching me. He goes. Is Michael Jackson dead? He goes. He is, mate. And why did you single me out of all the people in the club to ask?
Speaker: So, yeah, I'd like to call Michael Jackson, please. What was he wearing? A polyester tank top and some striped trousers singing Rocky Robin at the time. Because I can see how mistakes may be made.
Speaker: So, you're on the TARDIS phone and you'd like to call Michael Jackson. yeah I mean, it's an advisable thing. Get rid of your reputation. Okay. Shh, it's ringing.
Speaker: Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to... contact you Michael Jackson, indeed, sadly passed away in June 2009. Steve Jobs still around at this point, but sadly passed away in October 2011. So well done. That's two big points for Colin Jacko.
Speaker: Next, we know there's a wedding coming up in this episode, so it makes sense to ring someone who's gone through multiple marriages, don't you think? Get some advice? So, do you want to ring Elizabeth Taylor? Or Macho Man Randy Savage.
Speaker: gosh It's a question I often ask myself. So who do you want to talk to? Elizabeth Taylor, who played Cleopatra, the Doctor's ex, or macho man Randy Savage, who was randomly gay -bashed by Tobey Maguire's Spider -Man?
Speaker: um ah I think we owe it to our wrestling brethren in our various group chats, Mark. We have to go for Macho Man Randy Savage. I've no idea whether that's the right answer or not. I don't know. I feel like... It led towards him.
Speaker: I feel like Taylor's dead by 2011, but unless you're the... Macho man is. Yeah. Should we go Elizabeth Taylor? Ooh. Yeah, go on then. Yeah, but I'll go with you on this one. Yeah. Let's go Taylor.
Speaker: You're going with Elizabeth Taylor, all right? Yeah. Okay, it's ringing.
Speaker: hu
Speaker: Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to call... that's The correct answer. Hey!
Speaker: Elizabeth Taylor sadly passed away in March 2011 and Macho Man Randy Savage sadly passed away in May 2011. Next, how about an old friend and an old adversary of the Doctor? Do you want to call Caroline John, Liz Shaw herself? or Kevin Storny, serial Dalek and Cyberman collaborator. in the Daleks' master plan and the invasion.
Speaker: Would you like to call Caroline John or Kevin Stoney? No, I feel... Like. I would... Hang on a minute. Am I getting my ears mixed up? No, I feel like I was at... A wedding?
Speaker: Appropriate enough. When Caroline Jordan died. ah Because Carolyn John dies Oh, God. I hope you don't mean she was out the window and something terrible happened to her.
Speaker: Yeah. what did she What did she have? The the fish. Oh, good. I went for the chicken. ah Uh... No. Um...
Speaker: So wait, I i feels kevin i feel it's Kevin Stoney, but I might be wrong. See I was going to go for Caroline Johnson. Got a bit of an inkling that she might be slightly... at it I can't put a year on it, though. Because... stop i'm thinking Because it was Liz it was Nick Courtney. Liz Sladen. I feel like Hannah and John were still...
Speaker: Alive. Because otherwise, yeah, Jesus, they've laid waste to the... Mr. Ferris. iterations one fish course finishes off the entire firm doctor you know Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know. but what Let's go with your original hunch then. Let's go with your... Your first instinct. Let's go the other way. I'm hoping that if we're if we're wrong... The clip that Mark's going to play now is, Packer! I'm hoping that's what will happen, but we'll see. Yeah, shall we go Kevin Stoney? That's good enough reason to go with it. Let's go Kevin Stoney for that alone, yep.
Speaker: Okay, let's ring Kevin Stoney.
Speaker: Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to... chair It's the correct answer. ah Hey, back up! Rest in peace. Kevin Stoney sadly passed away in January 2008. You were right, Mark. Caroline John sadly passed away in June 2012. It's a bad couple of years for the unit family. Next.
Speaker: Oh, um this is... Okay, this is Odd from the TARDIS. There's two extremes here, but I can sort of see... what the TARDIS is getting at. Like in RTD2 logic, they're actually the anagrams of each other if you mix up the letters of the names and change some of them.
Speaker: um Would you like to call Sir Norman Wisdom? Or Osama bin Laden.
Speaker: Who would you like to put in the Douglas Cole history? Sir Norman Wisdom or Osama bin Laden? I mean, which of the two were the mastermind behind the 9 -11 attacks? Wisdom could have been flying that plane. He doesn't know what he's doing. oh Well, exactly. It would have been a whole thing, wouldn't it? It's like... guess He'd have missed.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: Instagram style! As he flows into the Hudson River. As he just flows straight. Through the gap between the two toes.
Speaker: So when did Barack Obama... announced that the U .S. Marines had killed Norman Wisdom. When was that? um Right. Zero Dark Thirty. right i'm trying to to I'm trying to time that. right Zero Dark Thirty came out the following year.
Speaker: Right. So he's definitely... dead Bin Laden must be dead by now. Should we go? Although it'd be very weird for the death of Bin Laden.
Speaker: Not to cheer the doctor up, but then I suppose I, my hunch was to go for Bin Laden because I think Norman Wisdom's fairly recent. Yeah. Okay. It's been, I say fairly recent, but I've been like the last seven, eight years. So yeah. ill Go bin laden.
Speaker: Okay. Yeah, let's go bin Laden. You're on the TARDIS and you want to call Osama bin Laden. Why not? Okay then. It's ringing.
Speaker: It's ringing.
Speaker: Alright. ah Is that wrong? Hello? I better not be another one of them Doctor Who podcasts. never ends it's the wrong answer Osama bin Laden on the end of the line um Sir Norman Wisdom was eliminated with extreme prejudice in... No, sorry, I've definitely got these mixed up. Sir Norman Wisdom sadly passed away in October 2010, and Osama bin Laden was eliminated for extreme prejudice in May 2011, the month.
Speaker: after um all of this shenanigans. So at the end of that round, the doctor is weeping into his Stetson. If you rang even one more dead person, you'd be putting Alice in Chains and Radiohead on all the way to Utah. Well done. He's on the way to La Excellencia and you've really put the sadly into him sadly passing away.
Speaker: Right, coming after round two for once is round... Three. which is called American History Moi. looked Like the Edward Norton film, yeah? That's how you pronounce that? American History. Mwah!
Speaker: Doesn't anybody else read all of those X's as kisses in movie titles? The moi files. Moi men. Moi men first class. Anyway.
Speaker: Yeah. The doctor has gone from his big sad phone call. It's a big sad phone box sesh. assembled all his friends for a picnic. on the edge of Lex Silencio.
Speaker: in Utah. We're Riversong. is about to either kill the Doctor or snog history to death. Amy and Rory are there. and River came twice. And of course, we're there. um We're carrying on with the...
Speaker: The game's short. We're just sat on the pond's picnic blankets, quietly eating picky bits and chugging the remaining wine. While the others watch on the lakeside as the astronaut approaches the doctor, the suspense is unbearable because this is a still point in time.
Speaker: which makes it easier to make a fixed point. It's really quiet though. Do you fancy a quiz while we wait? Go on. I'll pass it. All right, this one is all about American history in Doctor Who. You know, the most un -American show imaginable. It's a point builder and it's timed. You'll have 60 seconds, one minute, of course, probably between two minutes past five and three minutes past five. You'll be taking it in turns to answer. and you need to score for a player to pass on to the other player. You're still...
Speaker: Working together, your points will all go in the pot. You're both pretty level pegging in the scores. You've both scored 11 points so far. So Mark, we'll start with you this time. And on the beep. It will be 5 .02pm.
Speaker: and zero seconds. Beep. Mark, in The Gunfighters, what type of doctor is Doc Holliday? Dentist. Correct. Lee, who was US President during the events of Daleks in Manhattan?
Speaker: Oh. Oh, pass. Herbert Hoover. The final scene of the TV movie is set in San Francisco in what year? Ninety -ninety -nine 2000. Oh, God.
Speaker: Rudolph Walker plays an American Civil War soldier called Harper in which Doctor Who story? other the board games. Correct. Mark. in Which US s state is Truth or Consequences, the real -life town featured in the Saigon invasion?
Speaker: Is it New Mexico? Correct. Lee, Andy Stone, Mia Bennett and Roman Groom were American representatives on a historic space mission to which planet? Paz.
Speaker: It's Mars. According to Graham O 'Brien and Grace O 'Brien, James Blake was an infamous bastard in what profession?
Speaker: Beeps! And time is up. It was Bus Driver. He's the bus driver in Rosa. That's right.
Speaker: Four points scored by Mark, two points scored by Lee. Okay. Which means at the end of that round you've scored six. points and People have taken notice. The people around you have taken notice while i we're at this crisis point in history. And River is so fed up with you. She empties the charge on her sonic gun into you two.
Speaker: Instead of the Doctor making an absolute mess of the remains of the picnic. But also reality whites out because she can now no longer... Kill the Doctor. And that brings us to the end of round three. It was round three and it was third. Who knew? Round three.
Speaker: ah and Seems like a good place to fade out to a jingle.
Speaker: Right, so with 28 points, we arrive at the climax of the story of round five, which is called re Rewind, where the crowd says, test selector.
Speaker: Abducted. From Buckingham Senate by Special Agent Boss Lady Amy Pond. In a parallel timeline, you're taken to Area 52 in Cairo, located in the Great Pyramid. You enter and see the Silence, suspended in fluid in containment tanks.
Speaker: You look away and across the far side of the room, you notice the silence suspended in fluids in containment tanks. You look away and across the side of the room where you've just been, you notice the silence suspended in fluids in containment tanks.
Speaker: You run away, but notice the silence suspended in fluid in containment tanks. This goes on for a while. So once you get out of there... And have a confrontation with Madame Kavarian.
Speaker: And everyone's wearing eye patches. You make your way to the top of the Great Pyramid. and the long -awaited wedding of River Song, where River pleads to the Doctor not to die until finally He takes off his borto. gives River the end of it and whispers something in Aria.
Speaker: She smiles the biggest smile you've ever seen as she looks in the eye of the Tessellector and sees another miniature version of the man she loves. Excited, she realizes that the Doctor's two companions, who are somehow still here,
Speaker: Must also be Tessa Lecters. So she runs over to Mark and Lee, realizing they must also be robots. Looking into Mark's eye, she sees a little casual Capaldi waving back sheepishly.
Speaker: Confused, she looks into Lee's eye and sees another little guy in an Android Invasion t -shirt with his head in his hands. Happy Android Invasion Day, by the way, Mark. ah You know what's happened, don't you?
Speaker: I knew this would happen when I started a Doctor Who podcast, but each of you has been piloting a life -size robot replica of the other the whole time. The whole show.
Speaker: I hope this is special. Okay, be cool, be cool. Time is witnessing this. A lot of rides on this. We have to persuade everyone that Leah's robot mark is the real mark.
Speaker: And Marcus Robot Lee is the real Lee. And the only way I know how to do that is asking quiz questions. So what's up the great pyramids at the wedding of river song. Let's play.
Speaker: Mr. and Mrs.
Speaker: um I'm... I'm going to pop in the TARDIS. I'll get on the TARDIS phone. I'll get on TARDIS WhatsApp. I'll flash back. to earlier in the story. We've been doing it the whole time. I'll ask you both some questions.
Speaker: before we even started all of this and then i'll ask the other player the same question You get two points for every answer you match and you lose a point from the pot for every answer that differs from the person you're meant to be. Have we gone cross -eyed yet in these Tessellators?
Speaker: We'll ask Lee, I mean Mark first. And for the listeners at home, we'll do another flashback to some questions I asked you both before the quiz. Welcome to the first question I will now ask you three questions and you cannot speak falsely or fail to answer.
Speaker: Got it! Good. No expense spent on the sound effects. Not at all. Not at all. Right, Lee, we'll come to you first. You have to match Mark's answers. to the following three questions.
Speaker: Okay, go. Your first question, Lee, I mean Mark. is Name a US president from the past 50 years.
Speaker: For the past 50 years, I reckon. What would Mark say? How well do you know Mark? Which which US president would Mark Sayre from the last 50 years? I've got... I've got... I've got...
Speaker: so i've inclination that Mark might go Bill Clinton. on this one. You're going with Bill Clinton. what Yeah, not the first one you'd think of, but I reckon he'd try to.
Speaker: Put the least obvious answer there. So yeah, Bill Clinton, I'll say. Okay, let's have a look. Woo! Mark Donaldson, name a US president from the past 50 years.
Speaker: You've been Bill Clinton is correct. You must be Mark. Two more questions to go.
Speaker: Mark. You are definitely Mark. Lee, Mark. Name your favorites. series companion.
Speaker: Wait, am I Mark? Wait, hang on. No, no, no. Shut up, Yully.
Speaker: Sorry. sorry Mark, name your favourite classic series companion.
Speaker: Favourite classic series companion? I... Breakin'. We are... Gotta to go. Let's go route one with this one. Let's go for Sarah James.
Speaker: You're going for Sarah Jane. All right, let's see what Passmark said. BOO! Mark Donaldson, name your favorite classic series he's companion.
Speaker: Ace. Probably. It's the wrong answer you went with ace Ace's favourite classic series, yes. All right. It's looking a little shakier. You may not be Mark. We'll find out, won't we? Three big points of such to this last question. So Mark.
Speaker: What are your top three? 15th Doctor Stories In any order you like, what are your top three? 15th Doctor Stories ah Right, 15th Doctor.
Speaker: Devil's Court. I reckon it'll be one. ah let's say 73 yards And... And... solely because it's set in a cinema lux.
Speaker: Okey -dokey. Let's see what Mark said. who Mark Donaldson. Name your top 3 15th Doctor stories.
Speaker: Devil's cards. storing and and the well. So one out of three. Mark did go with the Devil's Chord, but he also went with the story and the engine and the well.
Speaker: So... Okay. Lux. Lux! Mocs. Shut up, Lee.
Speaker: What if Mark's leg's looking a little bit wonky? He's looking a little bit you know out of control. We're not sure about this. Let's let's move over to Lee, see what Lee thinks. Let's ask Lee some questions. Lee! Hello.
Speaker: Name a UK Prime Minister from the 21st century. ah ah ukip Who is Lee McManamy going to go for? Is he gonna go?
Speaker: For pig fucker Cameron.
Speaker: Is he going to go for Tony Blier? That never really worked, did it? Tony Blier. uh
Speaker: Or is he gonna... Do you know what? I'm going to say Gordon Brown. Because, you know. Going with Gordon Brown. Okay, let's see what Pastley said.
Speaker: Lee McMenemy. Name a UK Prime Minister from the 21st century. I will go for the Richard Hundle of yeah UK Prime Ministers of the 21st Century.
Speaker: Gordon Brown. Correct. He did say Gordon Brown. Okay, nice. It's two big points. Lee. Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee. Lee was definitely Lee. Name your favourites.
Speaker: New series, companion. oh who is oh i know this one i think i know this one Martha Jones. Going with Martha Jones. Let's check in with Pastley.
Speaker: Lee McMenemy, name your favorite new series companion. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, queen of my heart, Marfa Jones.
Speaker: It's correct, Martha Jones, of course. I mean, that was an open goal. Much neglected, but much loved, Martha Jones. Here we go, Lee. Three answers for this one. Name your top three favourite Seventh Doctor stories.
Speaker: oh Oh god, right, okay. What does Leela... Oh, God. You mean, what do you like, right? Well, I mean, what do I what do i love?
Speaker: Oh, I bloody love... ah ah I can see Leah's a bit of a survival fan. I'm going to say survival. maybe a cheeky delta and the bannerman in there And...
Speaker: Happiness Patrol. Let's see what Pastley said. but Lee McManamy, name your top three Seventh Doctor stories. Number 3 They'll turn the banner, man.
Speaker: Number two. Remembrance of the Daleks Number 1 Silver Nemesis. One out of three, once again. So Delton and the Bannerman, right, but minus one for each of the other two. He said Remembrance of the Daleks and Silver Nemesis. Wow. So for them, is this?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. don't you make I'll buy you some for Nemesis. Yeah. so lee is definitely looking like lee um satisfactory answers there on all three questions um He's you know holding one end of the bow tie perfectly normally. Mark's struggling. I think i think that robot has somehow shit itself. but um Just struggling to hold together. But the main thing is...
Speaker: Time. has witnessed. you're joining Time bloody loves Mr. and Mrs. and thinks they should bring it back properly. ITV Saturday night would be great. Anyway, hold in one end of the Doctor's bow tie each.
Speaker: You give your answers. And you score between you a total of... Five big points. Yeah. Also, I should mention I did a lot of prep for this game show, including getting ordained on the internet. So playing Mr. and Mrs. on top of a combat zone while holding either end of a bow tie in Wedding of Rivers song rules means you're married. Congratulations.
Speaker: I mean, Mark's obviously punching above his weight here, but you know. but around Mark, how does it feel to be a big robot husband? Good, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm very happy on behalf of my wife and I. um just like to see how delighted we are to be here.
Speaker: Okay. And... The first question. I don't know. My wife's been out of the country less than 12 hours and already already I'm just married to Dan Orman. What will the rest of this be coming for? My next question Lee, how will your wife feel about this?
Speaker: relieved mainly Well... Should be fine. um The wedding of River Song to the Doctor just went on somewhere in the background. We've got through the important bits. Two big robots. One shambolically is just barely holding it together. Jesus Christ. I've both got married, so it's all good.
Speaker: Which brings us at last... to round one.
Speaker: Round one. hidden in plain sights. Back at the start of this adventure, a Doctor Who podcast pub crawl took Lee and Mark to the docks of Callisto B and a space bar where bounty hunters lurk and punters play live chess because too many people died at the last pub quiz.
Speaker: You follow the Doctor, you know what you're like, and you wind up on this adventure chatting to the severed head of Dorian Maldivar about the first question. I'm not the one in that pub quiz, the one where one woman stood up and went, I don't watch it.
Speaker: And when the quiz master said, it's just a TV round. You don't need to have seen it. And she repeated, I don't watch it. And noisily left. It's a true story. Don't have Doctor Who rounds in your pub quiz unless you've told people that's what it is.
Speaker: Anyway. We've gone back um since before you were married. So it's not so much the honeymoon period is over as it just never started. And, you know, it's just not the same as when you were too big for a robot standing on top of a pyramid. So you decide to to very sadly get divorced.
Speaker: Um, Over the course of the quiz so far, you've accrued 33 points. and you know it's fair enough to um give you each half the points you earn together. So you have 16 and a half points each as you go head to head in a quartz round. As Dorian Maldivar gasps as the doctor removes the hood of his cassock to show, yes, it's the doctor. And then opens the big stupid cassock to find that you two are crouching inside, still tugging along because he's your lift home.
Speaker: um And Dorian Moldavar shouts the Doctor back to the TARDIS with the question, hidden in plain sight that must never be answered. Doctor Who! Doctor Who! Doctor Who! ah You're going to go head to head in this round. I'm going to give each of you 60 seconds on the clock.
Speaker: And in that time, you're going to have the titles of several Doctor Who stories. For each one, I want you to tell me whether the first question... features in the dialogue of that story or not. Right.
Speaker: Love to eat now. So if somebody says Doctor Who in that story, you have to say Doctor Who. And if it's a story where nobody says it, then say just the doctor. So if you don't know, have a guess. Try and make it Doctor Who or just The Doctor.
Speaker: And the player who gets to the most points wins the feat of Dorian Maldivar. No, you've been pretty level pegging all the way through. But Mark, you scored more in the previous round. So I'll let you choose. Would you like to go first or second?
Speaker: On round one. On goal. yeah I'll go second. I want to see how this plays out. Yeah, I thought you might do that. Cheers, Mark. Look, we're divorced now, all right? You used to care for me.
Speaker: You've changed man. My mother warned me about you.
Speaker: ah Lee, you have 60 seconds on the clock for each of these stories. All you have to do is answer Doctor Who or just The Doctor. and your time. Starts Now, the Husbands of Eversong.
Speaker: Doctor Who. Just the Doctor. The War Machines. Just the Doctor. Doctor Who. Loving monsters. Uh, just a doctor.
Speaker: Correct! doctor Doctor Who and the Silurians. Just the Doctor. Just the doctor's correct. Flux, all of it. ah Doctor Who.
Speaker: Just the Doctor. Sylvan Emesis. Oh, oh, um Don't. Doctor Who? Correct. Black Orchid. Just a doctor.
Speaker: Doctor Who. Rose. Uh... Doctor Who. Just the Doctor. Let's kill Hitler. Go be Dr. Who.
Speaker: Here's Doctor Who. I mentioned that one earlier on. Boot Town. Just a doctor. Doctor Who! Robot! ah Just a doctor. Correct. Wishworld. Beep.
Speaker: you're out of time go for it it's Doctor Who Right, so we did get through all of those, so um Mark, slow it down if you want. to go through this next one you We're the same number. You've got the same number of Doctor Who titles. But Lee, you scored...
Speaker: Five there. You got five right. So, Mark, that's what you need to beat to win. Are you ready, Mark? Okay. All right. um Yes. Mark, but before we start, can I just say, in the interest of sporting fairness, I'd just like to say to Mark, my former husband, I hope you lose this, you beep!
Speaker: ah I'm not bitter about the divorce. I'm not bitter.
Speaker: This is just like the roses.
Speaker: Right, Mark. Your time. Starts Now Asylum of the Daleks. Doctor Who. Correct. Trial of a Time Lord, all of it.
Speaker: Just the Doctor. sir Correct. an unearthly child. Doctor Who? Correct. The day of the doctor. Oh, that shit, mmm.
Speaker: Ah, um... Doctor Who? Just the doctor. Castrovalva! um Just a doctor. Correct. Uh, the Highlanders.
Speaker: Dr. Who, but in German. Correct. Sort of. The Lazarus Experiment.
Speaker: Uh... Just the Doctor? Correct. The Christmas Invasion.
Speaker: Doctor Who. Correct. The doctor dances.
Speaker: Just the doctor. Let's try. Doctor Who. The TV movie. You've just got time. Doctor Who the TV movie. Just the Doctor. And Mark, at the end of that...
Speaker: Lee managed to finish all of his Doctor Who episode titles. uh getting five out of fourteen you didn't manage to get all fourteen however you did get Seven correct. So who's to say?
Speaker: Who was right or wrong on that one? I am. That's who. The winner of the first episode of The First Question is Mark Donaldson. Yes!
Speaker: if I was to lose to anybody I'd want to lose to my former spouse well done Mark but As everyone says, yeah, sure. So that brings us... That brings us to the end. of uh the the wedding of river song the game show podcast and but there's just time to ask where people can find you both if they want to lee Well, fans of both Justice and Doctor Who can find us on YouTube. uh support us box live
Speaker: We do fortnightly episodes. we Take an episode of Doctor Who, put it on trial, decide whether it's worthy of a place in our official, unofficial canon of Doctor Who. We're also on Blue Sky at the Bulls Box.
Speaker: Terrific. And Mark? Yeah, and Mark Donaldson on Blue Sky. um The leftist terrorist website. and uh yeah on the time last the podcast that i've been doing with my Podcast partner, Ben Vras. for the past. for 12 years, for the past 12 years, since 2014.
Speaker: ah So, yeah, we've been doing it for 12 years. So if you haven't listened... Bye now. It's probably not for you. um but But I have a go anyway. The BBC has stopped. replying to my calls, and I'm hoping that this will be the thing that finally spurs them into action. Let's get this going. This could be a pilot. We could have a series of Wedding of Riversong game show pilots. oh I don't know. Maybe we could do other Doctor Who episodes. Well, thank you very much to my contestants today, to Mr. Mark Donaldson.
Speaker: Thank you. I've had a lovely day, Jim. like for Super smashing. Great. And to Mr. Lee McMenemy. Where's my bloody car, I've had? I was promised a caravan. What best people can have a speaker? How about that? Bendybilly?
Speaker: No, thank you. I had a good time. and as they go back to their own timelines look at them they're just divorced It only remains for me to say thank you very much for listening and we'll be back soon with even more of The First Question.
Speaker: The first question was created, written and hosted by Mark Harrison. This podcast is 100 % unofficial and has no affiliation with the BBC, BBC Studios, BBC Wales, The Silence or Norman Wisdom. Theme tune arrangement is by DrMusicMaster.
Speaker: Thanks to both our contestants and special thanks for this episode go to Brendan Connolly, Mikey Smith, andrew blair and the late great simon fisher becker osama bin laden played himself As always, you can follow The First Question by following First Question Pod on Blue Sky YouTube and Instagram and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker: next episode. The Devil's Code.
Speaker: Instagram style! Did you just straight? through the gap between the two toes. That's right, listeners at home, we're making fun of the biggest atrocity committed on US soil. On the first episode of Mark Harris' podcast. Yeah, we ruined it.
Speaker: And if I open this envelope, it says... They will make fun of the biggest atrocity committed on American soil. in the first episode ah what It's going to be like the pilot episode of Doctor Who where some bits are unusable. wow It's the pilot episode so good they made it twice.
