How To Train Your Dragon vs The Long Ships: How To Tame Your Viking

Join us on the isle of Berk this week, as we go lizard taming with the vikings in the new live action remake How to Train Your Dragon. And then stay with us as we set sail for an unnamed 10th century Moorish city in the 1964 action epic The Long Ships. It’s a manly podcast about Gerard Butler and Richard Widmark, with more beards that you can shake an axe at. But is there a gentler message at the heart of either of these films? How does the new film quote from the old one? Which film takes us into a mirror world? And what’s the real reason why this new version of an animated classic was made at all?

Plus Tom Cruise goes all Jesus on us, we investigate dinosaurs’ mating habits, we discover what a Norse AmEx card looks like, we thrill at the mare of steel, we drink some sheep’s milk, we meet some Viking red shirts, we learn about the origins of Bluetooth, and finally we hide in a vestibule…

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