NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 336: "The Bells of Saint John" Is Up!

 
"This whole world is swimming in wi-fi. We're living in a wi-fi soup! Suppose something got inside it. Suppose there was something living in the wi-fi, harvesting human minds, extracting them. Imagine that. Human souls trapped like flies in the World Wide Web, stuck for ever, crying out for help."
"Isn't that basically Twitter?"
-- The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald, Doctor Who: "The Bells of Saint John"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "The Bells of Saint John", the sixth episode from Doctor Who Series 7 in 2013, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, Celia Imrie as Rosemary Kizlet, and the return of Richard E. Grant as the Great Intelligence!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse having mixed emotions during the Mavericks/Lakers game, finally getting the premiere date of Doctor Who Series 15/Season 2, annoying internet rumors that Ncuti Gatwa and Russell T Davies have been fired from Doctor Who, Alan Cumming returning to Doctor Who as the voice of Mr. Ring-a-Ding, more on Steven Moffat trying to be too clever with his script, the title "The Bells of Saint John" being a reference to the phone built into the TARDIS' police box disguise, Steven Moffat trying to get kids frightened of wi-fi, the only other time the TARDIS' police box phone has rung, the Doctor not being aware that the Great Intelligence was behind everything, the original plan to have a female voice on the TARDIS phone implore the Doctor to trust Clara and take her with him, the prequel to "The Bells of Saint John", the Eleventh Doctor becoming a monk in 1207 Cumbria, the Summer Falls tie-in book written by James Goss as Amelia Williams, Missy giving Clara the Doctor's phone number so she could call him for tech support, Matt Smith looking better in the purple coat than the tweed jacket, Clara's rushed first time entering the TARDIS, wondering why the Doctor doesn't have access to money when in modern-day London, Rosemary Kizlet as a tragic villain, the Doctor defying gravity with his motorbike, Moffat's fucked-up revelation that Kizlet was taken by the Great Intelligence as a child and wakes up in a much older adult body, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Dave Proctor, Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, watching the animated reconstruction of "Galaxy 4", the order for watching David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Galaxy 4", the first serial from Doctor Who Season 3 in 1965, featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Maureen O'Brien as Vicki Pallister, Peter Purves as Steven Taylor, and Stephanie Bidmead as Maaga!