Player 456: A Squid Game Podcast
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPlayer 456 is an unofficial podcast about Netflix's South Korean mega-hit TV series: Squid Game, made by two Scottish fans of the show. Hosts Jack and Colin take a deep dive into the nine episode series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. They will discuss their love for the show, why they think it has taken over television, grabbed millions of people’s attention and engage with the listeners in their trademarked “Questions. Queries. Theories” section of the show.
*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Seong Gi-hun (Player 456) is a degenerate and in masses of debt. He is offered the chance to win a huge cash prize - all he needs to do is compete alongside 455 other players in some children's games. Some of these games will bring back memories of the games you might have enjoyed in the playground at school. There are shades of Battle Royale, The Hunger Games and The Running Man and it is, quite simply: brilliant.
Like the show, our Squid Game podcast covers mature themes such as: extreme violence, murder, self-harm, suicide, sex and strong language. This might not be one for the children and, obviously, we recommend watching the show on Netflix before listening to this.
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Episodes
Science X Newsletter - Jack Reads Newsletters
August 23, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes - 7.06 MBJack reads Science X Newsletter: Monday, Aug 15. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-wheelbot-symmetric-unicycle-reaction-wheels.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter (The Wheelbot: A symmetric unicycle with jumping reaction wheels). https://phys.org/news/2022-08-nuclear-war-global-famine-billions.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter (Nuclear war would cause a global famine and kill billions, study finds). https://phys.org/news/...
Shit You Should Care About Newsletter - Jack Reads Newsletters
August 22, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes - 7.04 MBJack reads the Shit You Should Care About Newsletter: What Inspires You? What inspires you? An office day in the life! The Boy Bosses of Silicon Valley Are on Their Way Out Andrew Tate Explained Is this a carousel or a merry go round? An original production from https://quitethethingmedia.com/glasgower/ (Glasgower) by Jack Shaw.
Scientology Newsletter - Jack Reads Newsletters
August 21, 2022 06:15 - 16 minutes - 7.37 MBJack reads Scientology's Newsletter: Want to know the real you? and brings you his final personality results - it's not looking good. Now we’re reaching out with an opportunity for you to take a https://www.oxfordcapacityanalysis.org/?utm_campaign=scn-more-info&utm_medium=email&utm_source=scientology-free-inquery-3-20220813 (FREE PERSONALITY TEST). Just a click away. An original production from https://quitethethingmedia.com/glasgower/ (Glasgower) by Jack Shaw.
Scientology Newsletter - Jack Reads Newsletters
August 21, 2022 06:00 - 16 minutes - 7.42 MBJack reads Scientology's Newsletter: Want to know the real you? Now we’re reaching out with an opportunity for you to take a https://www.oxfordcapacityanalysis.org/?utm_campaign=scn-more-info&utm_medium=email&utm_source=scientology-free-inquery-3-20220813 (FREE PERSONALITY TEST). Just a click away. An original production from https://quitethethingmedia.com/glasgower/ (Glasgower) by Jack Shaw.
Martha Stewart Newsletter - Jack Reads Newsletters
August 20, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes - 7.01 MBMartha Stewart's Newsletter: 3 Entertaining Mistakes That Could Happen to You... https://www.marthastewart.com/8273147/summer-party-hostess-mistakes?did=826535-20220818&utm_campaign=martha-stewart-living_newsletter&utm_source=marthastewart.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=081822&cid=826535&mid=94909691635&lctg=197687997 (3 Summer Hostess Mistakes to Avoid So They Don't Happen to You) https://www.marthastewart.com/8121603/ways-keep-guests-cool-summer-party?did=826535-20220818&utm_campaign=mart...
The History of Butchery - Wrong Term Memory
July 25, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 30 MBJack and Colin will go through a brief history of meat, butchery, and also David Cox Butchers’ history as a 3rd generation, family-owned butcher dating back over 50 years. https://bit.ly/WTMbutcher (David Cox Butchers) is, literally, the best butchers in Glasgow (Scottish Business Awards 2021). Their https://bit.ly/WTMbutcher (online shop) is open and listeners can get free delivery until Wednesday 31 August using the code WTMFREEDEL on orders over £15. Support Wrong Term Memory on https://bi...
Movie Review: Parasite
July 18, 2022 04:56 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBA Parasite movie review from Jack, Colin and special guest Hugh McStay. Hugh writes for The London Horror Society and brings some brilliant insight on to our first ever movie review. The Oscar-winning movie ranks highly on both Colin and Shuggie's list of top films of all time, while Jack wasn't blown away on first time viewing. Tune in to hear why 2/3rds of the guys rank it so highly. An original production from Glasgower Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan
One Lucky Day: Squid Game episode 9
June 16, 2022 13:15 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBEpisode nine of Squid Game is “One Lucky Day”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they finally deep dive into the ninth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. “When we were kids, we would play just like this, and our moms would call us in for dinner. But no one calls us anymore.” An original production from Glasgower Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan Twitter...
Front Man: Squid Game episode 8
December 08, 2021 04:56 - 34 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode eight of Squid Game is “Front Man”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the eighth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They want to hear more of your questions, queries and theories - along with your hopes for season two, so please get in touch! The shortest episode of Squid Game by some way, but the show’s eighth instalment, “Front Man,” is full of deaths that matter. With only one episode to go, perhaps that was to be expected? Every rem...
VIPS: Squid Game episode 7
December 01, 2021 04:56 - 55 minutes - 30.5 MBEpisode seven of Squid Game is “VIPS”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the seventh episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. VIPs overall purpose: an introduction to the horrible, wealthy men this organized homicidal tournament is meant to entertain. The Front Man juggles searching for Jun-ho and greeting the VIPs while the players get one potato...
Gganbu: Squid Game episode 6
November 24, 2021 04:56 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBEpisode six of Squid Game is “Gganbu”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the sixth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Squid Game has largely eschewed tugging on the heartstrings - until now… Apart from a short scene in which Jun-ho overhears the Front Man taking a telephone call about the arrival of the games’ VIPs, the action is focused on ...
A Fair World: Squid Game episode 5 part 3
November 18, 2021 04:56 - 34 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. **Sorry we're late - Jack forgot to upload the file** Back in the main room, Gi-hun notices there’s something wrong with 001 and realizes that he has a fever. He helps the old man lie down, and Sae-byeok gives him a bo...
A Fair World: Squid Game episode 5 part 2
November 17, 2021 04:56 - 23 minutes - 13.6 MBEpisode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. At the control room, a square guard watches as the doctor and a triangle guard move through the colourful maze of staircases, Just like last time he erases the footage afterwards. Jack and Colin discuss the theme of lu...
A Fair World: Squid Game episode 5 part 1
November 16, 2021 04:56 - 35 minutes - 20.6 MBEpisode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Squid Game episode 4 ended with a big cliff-hanger, episode 5 begins with people falling off that cliff. Sang-woo comes up with a last-minute plan and his team wins the tug of war. Somehow he convinced everyone to take ...
Stick to the Team: Squid Game episode 4 part 3
November 11, 2021 04:56 - 27 minutes - 15.3 MBEpisode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Before the third full game begins, the players are told that they will be playing as a team. They have ten minutes to split into groups of ten. Between Gi-hun, Sang-woo, Ali, Sae-byeok, and Player 001, they still ...
Stick to the Team: Squid Game episode 4 part 2
November 10, 2021 04:56 - 34 minutes - 19.3 MBEpisode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. In the hidden room where the guard led Player 111, Player 111, a doctor, is secretly harvesting organs for a group of corrupt guards in exchange for information about the games and Jun-ho has changed into a square...
Stick to the Team: Squid Game episode 4 part 1
November 09, 2021 04:56 - 24 minutes - 13.9 MBEpisode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Episode 4 picks up right where the previous episode left off at the end of the honeycomb game. Player 111 (the doctor - Yoo Sung-joo) is led by one of the guards down to a secret area as another guard in the contr...
The Man with the Umbrella: Squid Game episode 3 part 3
November 04, 2021 04:56 - 25 minutes - 14.6 MBEpisode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week... Seong Ji-hun chose the umbrella because his mother chastised him for losing one when he was young… Jack and Colin discus...
The Man with the Umbrella: Squid Game episode 3 part 2
November 03, 2021 04:56 - 29 minutes - 17.1 MBEpisode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week... The players start to find teams. Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) gets Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Ali Abdul (Anupam Tripath...
The Man with the Umbrella: Squid Game episode 3 part 1
November 02, 2021 04:56 - 24 minutes - 14.2 MBEpisode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week... The Man with the Umbrella picks up with the players returning to the game as the camera scrolls over a cavalcade of Hyun...
Hell: Squid Game episode two part 3
October 28, 2021 04:56 - 28 minutes - 16.4 MBEpisode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. As fate has it, Gi-hun runs into Player 101 (Il-Nam) and Jack and Colin discuss his role here - as a method of vocalising and reiterating the themes of the show so far. Further backstories are revealed and Jang Deok-su’s (101) ...
Hell: Squid Game episode two part 2
October 27, 2021 04:56 - 31 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. All the players have been deposited back to their normal lives, with some dropped off in pairs (coincidence - we think not). Jack and Colin, again, look at some of the clearest foreshadowing so far from Hwang Dong-hyuk and disc...
Hell: Squid Game episode two part 1
October 26, 2021 04:56 - 34 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. The episode opens directly after the events of “Red Light, Green Light” with Jack and Colin offering their insight into Korean funeral coffin rights, with a nod to the Korean girl band: BLACKPINK. Clause three of the Squid Game...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one part 3
October 21, 2021 04:56 - 33 minutes - 19 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. The game eventually gets underway under the careful watch of a giant robotic doll. If players are caught moving, they are “eliminated”. Jack and Colin chat about the use of the ticking clock as a character, how...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one in-depth 03
October 21, 2021 03:56 - 32 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. The game eventually gets underway under the careful watch of a giant robotic doll. If players are caught moving, they are “eliminated”. Jack and Colin chat about the use of the ticking clock as a character, how H...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one part 2
October 19, 2021 04:56 - 31 minutes - 18.2 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. There is a massive turning point for Seong Gi-hun and the themes of love and desperation are again hit home in the first 20 minutes of this episode. Jack and Colin discuss the soundtrack, especially the use of ...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one in-depth 02
October 19, 2021 03:56 - 30 minutes - 17.7 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. There is a massive turning point for Seong Gi-hun and the themes of love and desperation are again hit home in the first 20 minutes of this episode. Jack and Colin discuss the soundtrack, especially the use of cl...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one part 1
October 17, 2021 04:56 - 37 minutes - 21.2 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Watchers are introduced to Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) - a down on his luck, degenerate gambler but all round decent guy. Jack and Colin discuss the brilliant character building techniques used to qui...
Red Light, Green Light: Squid Game episode one in-depth 01
October 17, 2021 03:56 - 36 minutes - 20.8 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Watchers are introduced to Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) - a down on his luck, degenerate gambler but all round decent guy. Jack and Colin discuss the brilliant character building techniques used to quick...
Red Light, Green Light (Squid Game episode one in-depth 01)
October 17, 2021 03:56 - 36 minutes - 20.8 MBEpisode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. Watchers are introduced to Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) - a down on his luck, degenerate gambler but all round decent guy. Jack and Colin discuss the brilliant character building techniques used to quick...
Player 456: A Squid Game Podcast (Coming Soon)
October 15, 2021 04:46 - 32 seconds - 404 KBAn unofficial podcast about Netflix's South Korean mega-hit TV series - Squid Game. Coming Soon. A https://bit.ly/QTThome (Quite The Thing Media) production. Support this podcast