Swamp Podcast 7: Grover's Mill, Leonard Cohen, Smashwords, Star Trek Wrath of Khan, The Apartment

The Year of the Underdog

Donald Trump has just been elected and Rui and Russ, like most people, can’t believe it. So necessarily they felt the need to talk about it. Russ asserts the more important happening this week was the death of Leonard Cohen, which triggers yet another tribute, and a Grover’s Mill tune that references Cohen is played. Thinking about Trump, the Chicago Cubs, the Western Bulldogs, Rui identifies this as ‘the year of the Underdog’. Russ laments the San Francisco Giants’ ... See More failure to keep their streak going, but accepts the Cubs deserved their World Series win. Online digital publishing and sites like Smashwords are then discussed off the back of Russ’s latest attempts to get published in that arena, and Rui cites the amazing stat that sales of digital books superseded hard print copies last year. Russ then shares his (and director Nicholas Myer’s) thoughts about Star Trek’s Wrath of Khan, and renews his crush on ‘the young, short-haired Shirley McLaine’ with the old Billy Wilder film The Apartment.