Displaying 2 items of Vayse with the tag "jim henson".
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VYS0064 | Things Aren't Always What They Seem In This Place - Halloween 2026: Labyrinth
October 28th, 2026 | Season 5 | 2 hrs 12 mins
Halloween, Jim Henson, david bowie, faeries, folk horror, goblin king, goblins, jospeh campbell, labyrinth, magic, music, nature, occult, occult podcast, paranormal, sound, strange, supernatural, vayse, weird, weird fiction, weird stuff, weirdpod
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to the season 5 of Vayse. And to open this season, as a celebration of Halloween 2026, Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into the marvellous, mysterious and mighty muppety masterpiece: Laybyrinth.
A lot of ink has been spilled in service of examining the social/psychological/sexual subtext of this 1986 comedy/fantasy tour de force but rather than try to compete for an angle in this arena, the Vayse boys go back to their childhoods, examining the movie as an urtext of imagination and the supernatural: Buckley's obsessive twice daily screenings of the film during summer holidays as a child and his desire for escape into it's world as a teenager, Hine's fascination with how the story is woven together from illusions, magic and subverted fairy tales... and how every one of the main touch points of Vayse is explicitly or implicitly set out in this exquisite 1986 masterwork (recorded 19 October 2026)
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VYS0055 | Merry ChristMups! - The Muppet Christmas Carol - Vayse to Face with Phil Ristaino: Saturnalia 2025
December 22nd, 2025 | 2 hrs 8 mins
Jim Henson, a christmas carol, christmas, saturnalia, the muppet christmas carol, the muppets, yule, yuletide
God help us, every one! 'Tis the season of good will to all creatures and, even better, that jolly old elf, Phil Ristaino, returns to Vayse after an absence of only 4 episodes for an urgent meeting about the Muppet Christmas Carol, a film which he had never seen before researching for the episode!
With Phil's help and encouragement Hine and Buckley joyously delve into a film which has been a Vayse favourite for over 3 decades, discussing the sad and sudden demise of the genius that was Jim Henson, the connections between the muppets and spirituality, why the Muppet Christmas Carol is one of the best Christmas movies, if not one of the best movies ever made, how the spirit of Jim Henson visited his successor to the voice of Kermit... and how the Muppets got the best performance of his career out of Michael Caine (recorded 4 December 2025).