On the Topic Podcast

Alex & Dan

Alex & Dan - everyday people talking about every day topics - from Music, Films to Graphic Novels - and everything in between. Get involved @onthetopicpod on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky or email us at onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com

  1. OTT #194 - Happy Birthday to OTT - AMA (8th Anniversary 2026)

    3d ago

    OTT #194 - Happy Birthday to OTT - AMA (8th Anniversary 2026)

    This week, the dynamic duo of the south coast are swapping the Pop Culture Beach for the nearby public house - because, you guessed it - it's birthday time! You know the drill; it's Ask Me Anything time and for another year, you did not dissapoint! From Smoked or Unsmoked Bacon (it's an important topic!), some of our favourite Thunderbirds episodes, what TV series we'd like to star in - to whether book to film adaptations should be a thing and whether blowing on hot food really cools it down.... we tackle all the big subjects at the beer tables! We also discuss Smutty Seagulls and who would win in a royal rumble of the Cryptids - sounds like a normal OTT episode to us! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #discussion #AMA #nostalgia #movies #popculture #birthday Do you want to be part of the show? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    2h 15m
  2. OTT #193 - The Curse of the Power Rangers

    May 22

    OTT #193 - The Curse of the Power Rangers

    This week Alex & Dan take to the internet to uncover a dark theory of one of the most iconic and much loved children's series of the 90's - the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers! Whilst many of us have fond memories of tight lycra-clad teenagers kicking butt and taking names in mega-bots, there's a subsequent sad tale to tell this week as it's often not a happy ending for those who don the suits. Is there a curse and are these actors doomed to suffer following their stint on the Hollywood circuit? Let's get into it. #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #discussion #90s #nostalgia #powerrangers#popculture Do you have a recommendation for a future episode? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Viewer guidance: Conversations about mental health and suicide can affect people in different ways.If today’s episode brought anything up for you, consider speaking with someone you trust or reaching out for support.Samaritans is available 24/7 in the UK on 116 123, free from any phone.You can also speak to your GP or contact NHS urgent mental health support through NHS 111 and select the mental health option where available. Credits: This wek's theme music: Objectivitst Guitarist, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme song - Epic instrumental cover Exit theme song: Go Go Power Rangers by Ron Wasserman Usual theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    59 min
  3. OTT #192 - Amazing Facts About the 90s - Vol.1

    May 15

    OTT #192 - Amazing Facts About the 90s - Vol.1

    This week, Alex & Dan once again get nostalgic as they make their way down memory lane to the 1990s! There were some crazy going's on during that decade and they've got so many to share, they've slapped a volume 1 on it! From racing home from school to spend the evening with friends on web chat forums downloading music (ahem), to the origins of some of your favourite childhood toys from old makeup boxes. From the must-have toys of Christmas secretly listening to your conversations, to the dawn of direct-to-tape movies which changed the way we watched our favourite films from then onwards... That and - when actors fall out with the giants of Hollywood, they get paid in Picasso paintings worth millions - and lazy magazine editors who inadvertantly change the course of pop music forever - there's plenty of amazing facts to discuss during this episode! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #discussion #90s #nostalgia #movies #popculture Did we miss any of your favourite memories or facts from the 1990s? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 6m
  4. OTT #191 - TWRAD Vault - Casting Calls - The good, the bad and the ugly

    May 8

    OTT #191 - TWRAD Vault - Casting Calls - The good, the bad and the ugly

    This week, Alex & Dan go down to the TWRAD Vault to delve once more into the entertainment industry to bring you their great, not so great and down right terrible casting choices from the silver screen! They discuss Harry Potter's Dumbledore, MCU's Iron-clad Avenger, an infamous casting of a Bond Girl and one of the most impressive castings of Wonder Woman in a failing DCU franchise - and many more, including some of yours, thanks to the power of social media and the Gramophone - where we get a listener's question through on the topic of being worthy! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #Movies #reviews #nostalgia #discussion Did we miss any of your favourite moments? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 12m
  5. OTT #190 - Dark Disney Theories - Vol.1

    May 1

    OTT #190 - Dark Disney Theories - Vol.1

    This week, Alex & Dan make it down to the Pop Culture Beach to bring you some dark content on what should arguably be off-limits - some of your favourite childhood animated movies growing up: Dark Disney Theories! That's right, these seemingly innocent films are not what you thought they were and the doors are blasted well and truly open, as the dynamic duo of southsea trawl through some of the dankest thoughts of the internet. From parasitic rats, discarded innanimate immortal toys to unlikely collaborations of ship wrecks and Mermaids, this episode certainly lives up to its title! Alex & Dan find the true villain of Beauty and the Beast and perhaps Captain Hook wasn't a bad guy after all! Who'd have thought?! Thanks to the power of social media, we have some of yours too! Come on down to the OTT beach and be prepared to have some of your favourite films absolutely ruined! Sorry not sorry. #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #Movies #reviews #nostalgia #disney #dank #theories #discussion Did we miss any of your favourite moments? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 2m
  6. OTT #189 - Childhood Beliefs You Might Still Believe

    Apr 24

    OTT #189 - Childhood Beliefs You Might Still Believe

    This week, we reveal listener...you've been lied to. Well, sometimes. Because there might be some truth to the stories which your Parents / Grandparents / Guardians told you. But some? Absolutely nonesense and we blow the lid off them during this episode! Square eyes sitting too close to the TV? Touching that frog will give you warts? How about venturing outside with wet hair will give you a cold? We talk about Cheese - alot of it. And troughs. Specifically one in 90s swimming pools and the question as to where they have all gone now. We also discuss swimming and how we might be able to get some vivid dreams! Come down to the OTT beach and be prepared to have some myths dispelled which might well rock your world! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #Movies #reviews #nostalgia #HarryPotter #wizards #magic #discussion Did we miss any of your favourite moments? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 8m
  7. OTT #188 - TWRAD Vault - Your Favourite Harry Potter Moments!

    Apr 17

    OTT #188 - TWRAD Vault - Your Favourite Harry Potter Moments!

    This week, Alex & Dan go down to the TWRAD Vault where they are joined by the channel's (and arguably, the nation's) foremost expert on Harry Potter, taking you the listener through the world's most favourite Wizard and his coming of age story. The trio recall their most memorable moments from the books and films and thanks to Vicky, explore some of the back story behind these events. From the humble beginnings of the boy Wizard's entry into the Wizarding World, to the final moments of the flash forward at the end of The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (which no one asked for!) - they take you on a magical journey with plenty of discussion and debate along the way! With revelations of drastic joy riding given alternative magical means of transportation (speak to an adult!), the demise of a Star Trek Red Shirt (and Riker's Majestic Beard!), a Scottish accented-Dan and the Marauder's Map showing a strange visitor to the boy's dormitory and no one noticing - this would surely have you scrambling for the DVD collection to start watching the films! Alex and Dan also have a rather public spat over the 4th film - do they recover, or is this the end of the channel? Download, sit back and relax to find out! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #Movies #reviews #nostalgia #HarryPotter #wizards #magic #discussion Did we miss any of your favourite moments? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Previous episodes: Absolutely Terrible Film Sequels: ⁠https://anchor.fm/theweeklyroundup/episodes/Absolutely-Terrible-Film-Sequels-e35top⁠ Casting Calls - The good, the bad and the ugly - ⁠https://anchor.fm/theweeklyroundup/episodes/Casting-Calls---The-good--the-bad-and-the-ugly-e5c571⁠ Your All Time Favourite Baddies! - ⁠https://anchor.fm/theweeklyroundup/episodes/Your-All-Time-Favourite-Baddies-e4dcqm ⁠ Soundclips: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Warner Bros. Pictures (2001) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Warner Bros. Pictures (2002) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -  Warner Bros. Pictures (2004) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Warner Bros. Pictures (2005) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Warner Bros. Pictures (2007) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 - Warner Bros. Pictures (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 - Warner Bros. Pictures (2011) Credits: Theme music: Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter Theme Tune) - The London Symphony Orchestra, CineConcerts in partnership with Warner Brothers.Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 49m
  8. OTT #187 - Harry Potter and the OTT Episode of Plot Holes

    Apr 10

    OTT #187 - Harry Potter and the OTT Episode of Plot Holes

    This week, Alex & Dan try to dispel some of the plot holes riddled throughout the Harry Potter franchise, following feedback from other episodes. From Unbreakable Vows, not-so Invisible Cloaks to trusting entirely untrustable people with your safety and life - some of these plot holes, just can't be explained, no matter how much you swish and flick your wand at it. And thanks to the power of social media, one listener sets the Dynamic Duo off on a swear-laden tirade, after it comes to light a particularly underutilised magical object is treated very poorly at Hogwarts! Grab your broom, because you're in for a ride this episode! #GITS🌊 #Onthetopic #TWRAD  #Southcoastsounds #Portsmouth #UK #Spotify #Podcasts #Movies #reviews #nostalgia #HarryPotter #wizards #magic #discussion Did we miss any of your plot holes? Simply leave us a voice message or comment on Spotify, DM via our social media or carrier pigeon (if that's your thing) to be in the next episode. NEW! We now have our website - head on over to www.onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com for all of your channel needs! Alternatively share your thoughts or comments with Alex & Dan by email - onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com, visit their Facebook page, tweet or IM on Instagram at @onthetopicpod or alternatively check us out on Tiktok. Never miss an episode! Subscribe to our newsletter via our web page, visit onthetopicpodcast.wordpress.com - or alternatively stream all of your favourite OTT episodes straight from YouTube! Like, smash the Subscribe button, the notification bell and listen to the podcast on your favourite viewing platform, anywhere you get your podcast fix! Credits: Theme music: Funky Feel by Oliver Lyu (Licensed)

    1h 5m
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Alex & Dan - everyday people talking about every day topics - from Music, Films to Graphic Novels - and everything in between. Get involved @onthetopicpod on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky or email us at onthetopicpodcast@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Alex & Dan
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    270
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Alex & Dan
  • Show Website
    On the Topic Podcast