Fraggle Shrugged

The epic conclusion to the bonkers adventure. When we last heard from Sigfred, he had gotten captured by the Eternians, his co-host Robo-Henrik had been killed and turned into an Amazon Alexa device. And Skeletor had ordered his evil army to invade the poor, unsuspecting Fraggle Rock.

How will all this madness resolve? Will Sigfred be able to escape from Eternia? Will the Fraggles survive? And is there a deus ex machina element that's gonna save them all? Listen along to find out!

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more weird and entertaining projects at maanegal.dk

To those that have listened to the series: Thank you so much! Sigfred has worked hard on it, so he hopes you enjoyed it.

Written, performed, produced, composed, mixed, rehydrated etc. by Sigfred Nielsen. Featuring Henrik Viking.

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Things have gone horribly wrong for Sigfred and Robo-Henrik. Their quest to Eternia has backfired horribly, and instead of enlisting He-Man's help to protect Earth from the evil Skeletor, they have ended up in a dank and moist dungeon. But things are about to get much, much worse...

Luckily, they still find the time to discuss Zarathustra's speech “On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions” and the 5th episode of the He-Man cartoon, “The Curse of the Spellstone”.

NEXT WEEK: Episode 7 – Escape From Eternia

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more weird and entertaining projects at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed, mixed, catered etc. by Sigfred Nielsen.

The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

After the dramatic events of the last episode, Sigfred has made a big decision. He cannot stand idly by, as evil forces decimate Earth. He must do something (also because this is kinda, sorta all his fault).

Robo-Henrik is back again, so luckily Sigfred will be in good company on his perilous journey to the distant and dangerous dimension of Eternia…

NEXT WEEK: Episode 6 – The Death Of A Hero

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more weird and entertaining projects at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed, mixed, catered etc. by Sigfred Nielsen.

The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

Things are little different on the podcast. Robo-Henrik needed the week off, but luckily, Sigfred was able to find a replacement. He met a fellow named Dave in the laundry room of his building, and it turned out that this guy was really into the idea of cross-analyzing Thus Spoke Zarathustra and He-Man.

So they get into what "Believers in a World Behind" believe, and what happens when "Colossor Awakes". But Dave has a deep, dark secret that threatens the fate of our entire world. Suddenly, there is much more at stake than whether this is a good concept for a podcast (which it is).

NEXT WEEK: Episode 5 – Where No Sigfred Has Gone Before

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more weird and entertaining projects at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed, mixed, catered etc. by Sigfred Nielsen.

Featuring Mads Storm.

The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

Sigfred gets deeper into his big passion project: uncovering all the deep, hidden connections between He-Man and Thus Spoke Zarathustra that are obviously there. Obviously. This time we cover the He-Man episode "Teela's Quest", and Zarathustra tells us about the Three Transformations. So that's exciting!

Sigfred has got a really good feeling about this show. He thinks it’s a good match with these two items of intellectual property. Everything’s going nice and smooth, and he and Robo-Henrik can just take it easy from here on out.

NEXT WEEK: Episode 4 – A Guest Stops By

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more cool stuff at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed etc. by Sigfred Nielsen.

Featuring Emil Rothstein-Christensen.

The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

This week we really begin to dig into Thus Spoke Zarathustra and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Sigfred and his buggy robotic companion Robo-Henrik go through the entire opening section of the book, and get their first taste of what Nietzsche thinks about the world. And in particular, his infatuation with what he calls an “Overhuman”. A fitting counterpiece to this, is the first episode of He-Man to be broadcast, “The Diamond Ray of Disappearance”. Here we learn about the odd and confusing world of Eternia — good thing that that place doesn't exist!

And thus we are off on our epic podcast adventure into the boundless promise of an very good premise.

NEXT WEEK: Episode 3 – A Very Good Idea For A Podcast (Seriously)

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more cool stuff at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed etc. by Sigfred Nielsen. The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

Finally the time has come – the podcast event of the year.

Sigfred has had the great idea to start a new podcast comparing the cheap 80s cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the nihilistic and fantastical philosophy book by Friedrich Nietzsche. Robo-Henrik – the AI recreation of Henrik that Sigfred has made to replace his lapsed friend – gets dragged along, despite being rather skeptical about the whole endeavor.

In this episode, Sigfred introduces the concept for the show, still blissfully unaware of the evil that he is about to unleash…

NEXT WEEK: Episode 2 – The Overhuman!

Thus Spoke He-Man is a miniseries made by Månegal Media, as part of our podcast Fraggle Shrugged. Find more cool stuff at maanegal.dk

Written, performed, produced, composed etc. by Sigfred Nielsen. The show makes use of short clips of copyrighted content, for satirical purposes. If you represent the rightsholders, you can contact us at [email protected]

Fraggle Shrugged is finally back for season 2. In this episode, Henrik and Sigfred are preparing for part 2 of Atlas Shrugged by doing a quick recap of part 1 and laying out their expectations for the next ten chapters. They have also watched the remaining episodes of season 1 of Fraggle Rock. However, something may be off this time. In fact, the podcast of Fraggle Shrugged may be facing the crisis of a lifetime, as dark and dirty secrets are revealed and difficult decisions made…

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There’s a video version of this episode with clips and other good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNFX2CxAXI

This is it, guys! We finally got to put down that brick of a book for a moment and kick back with a movie instead. We met up and made a day of it, and watched the 2011 film “Atlas Shrugged: Part I”. We also watched the last episode of the first season of Fraggle Rock, “The New Trash Heap in Town”. To get some fresh perspective, we brought along our friend Kaare Olsen to help us make sense of all this.

The movie fails spectacularly, both in delivering Ayn Rand’s trademark bombastic word salad, and just as movie in general. And Fraggle Rock gets darker than ever as it finally fully embraces its suicide-cultiness. This marks the end of Season 1 of Fraggle Shrugged. We’ll take a few weeks off to regain our breath, and maybe a shred of our sanity, and then we’ll be back with more moist metal and freaky Fraggles.

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Finally, we get to the end of Part 1 of Atlas Shrugged, with chapter 10: “Wyatt’s Torch”. Here, Dagny goes on a long and mostly pointless quest to find the man behind the magic moter, and like all mythical heroes, she finds the answer at the top of a mountain (in a greasy diner). Meanwhile in episode 10 of Fraggle Rock, “Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk”, Doc invents his own kind of magic motor and it is wonderful. And Gobo gets trapped in the human world, causing the other fraggles to do the only logical thing: to sing a merry song about how sad they are, and do their darndest to not cry over spilled milk.

We celebrate reaching the end of part 1 of the book by trying – and failing – to record a short and focused episode, and looking forward to watching the movie adaptation next time. We also get a heavy dose of the always delightfully sassy Lillian Rearden, the return of the one-minute summaries that went so well last time, and a taste of Doc's vision of the music of the future.

And for those of you who are into narrative structures and storytelling technique, here is a little bonus section that we didn't get around to in the episode: Sigfred's analysis of Ayn Rand's use of the Threshold Guardian, as defined by Joseph Campbell. Yay! Get it here: https://maanegal.dk/fraggleshrugged/chapter-10-threshold-guardian/

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