When Would We Die? Tom Ward & Doogie Chapman
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- TV & Film
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Ever wondered when you'd snuff it in your favourite movie? Well, so have Tom and Doogie, a couple of average guys (albeit with magnificent beards). Tackling a different movie each week, they'll enlist the help of experts to help them answer the ultimate question: when would they die?
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Episode 20: Jaws (Part 2)
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis had just delivered the atomic bomb to the Pacific - what happened next is famously the subject of Quint's monologue in Jaws. Join Doogie and Tom for a special season finale focused on the events of those next five days featuring Doug Stanton, best-selling author of In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of It's Survivors.
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Episode 19: Jaws (Part 1)
It's time to head to Amity Island for Tom's favourite ever film, Jaws. Hopping aboard the Orca with Doogie, Tom and Quint, Hooper and Brody are marine biologist, Yannis Papastamatiou (10:28); as well as Neighbours legend and star of 2023's Great White, Tim Kano (30:32).
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Episode 18: Ghostbusters
Doogie and Tom strap on their proton packs and jump in ECTO-1 for a wild ride through downtown Manhattan in stone cold 1984 classic, 'Ghostbusters'. But who are they gonna call for help? Well, along for the ride, and to give both sides of the story on the whether ghosts even exist, are bio-paranormal investigator, Dolly Adamson (07:25), as well as scientific sceptic & author, Sharon Hill (30:43).
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Episode 17: Up
Go up, up and away with Doogie and Tom in their beautiful balloon, as they retrace the steps of Carl and Russell in the beloved Pixar classic. Journalist and ageing specialist, David McManus, explains how they wouldn't be the only OAP's looking for adventure these days (11:01), before hot air ballooning legend Troy Bradley gives them the benefit of his first hand experience flying houses through electrical storms (25:05).
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Episode 16: The Blair Witch Project
There's a witch in the woods, and Doogie and Tom are paying her a social call. To help them work out if they'll get on famously or end up in the naughty corner, they chat to the mayor of Blair/Burkitsville, MD, Michael J. Robinson (07:07); writer and historical witch expert, Dr. Malcolm Gaskill (24:09); and real Modern Witch and lead singer of 90's sensation Def FX, Fiona Horne (37:14).
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Episode 15: The Thing
Ring in the New Year in Antarctica, with Doogie, Tom, Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell's flamethrower and 'The Thing'. Glacial archaeologist, Dr. Will Taylor and paleobotanist, Dr. Isaac Hart (8:55), help work out if the frozen alien they dig out of the ice will do them in; whilst polar expedition veteran, David Knoff, works out what will get them first - the 20-hour days, the creeping paranoia or the mistrust (31:25).
Customer Reviews
Snack-sized LOLs
Love the banter between these two beardy fellows and their sometimes-bemused, always-amused experts.
Can’t wait for them to do Merchant Ivory. Five stars!
Original. Interesting. Thoroughly entertaining.
The premise for this whip-smart conversation is clever enough. When it’s multiplied by the power of two equally clever, self-effacing and admittedly un-Hemsworthish hosts, it goes to utterly joyous levels.
Aided by an enviable posse of experts, the hosts probe their way through the hypotheticals to uncover when they would die in some of their favourite films.
If this podcast was a book it’d be a page-turner as the conversations take as many surprising twists and turns as the movies they cover. I hope there’s another season. And I really hope they call it When Would We Dies.