The Podcast Thread

[Danny]

Sounds interesting but they'll have to have someone I'm interested in to take the dive. They're all a bit pre my time or lower league journeyman.

Figured I had posted in here about this before. They had Kevin Campbell on this week, being ex arsenal might be one for you.

I am still liking this as an easy listen while I work, even if you have to take the stories with a pinch of salt. The Bruce Grobelaar one was a favourite

[igor_balis]

Football ramble bit hit and miss recently but the recent "ramble meets" with JONATHAN GREENING of all people was fucking excellent. Really great insight into the life of a footballer with specific focus on being a youngster under Ferguson at utd in the 90s. Would recommend to any football fans really.

[phonics]

Jesus that Richie Sadlier interview was way too real.

[Danny]

Football ramble bit hit and miss recently but the recent "ramble meets" with JONATHAN GREENING of all people was fucking excellent. Really great insight into the life of a footballer with specific focus on being a youngster under Ferguson at utd in the 90s. Would recommend to any football fans really.

I don’t even try and keep up with ‘daily’. I do the two regular shows, the meets if I like it and then the greatest games.

That Greening one was very good. The have been about 50/50 for me with the guests so far.

The Rangers vs Celtic 87 show was enjoyable.

[Giggles]

Jesus that Richie Sadlier interview was way too real.

That's a free to all one isn't it? Haven't got listening to it yet but I'd say it'll be decent from what he was saying on TV on Friday night even if he is a dose most of the time.

[Danny]

Looks like it is, I just found and downloaded it on the Apple podcast app.

[Giggles]

The Second Captains Players Chair is officially done now that Sadlier is having that fucking Blindboy cretin on it.

[Boydy]

Ok boomer.

[Giggles]

Ok boomer.

Ok Fred?

[Spikey M]

Boyd is atleast 10 years too old and 100% too Oxbridge tonget away with that.

[Shindig]

And Giggles is ... presumably Gen X at best.

[Spikey M]

Ok Boomer.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Boomers are all 60+ now if we're being strict about the definition.

[John]

Boyd's love of the very worst memetic horseshit the internet has to offer has long confused me. MugBull is a contrarian whopper who'll post anything he thinks will agitate, Phonics is stupid, and RL is a fucking pervert, so they all have excuses.

[Giggles]

I still don’t know fully what it means but you don’t need to be old to know that blindboy is a self indulgent blowhard. Even the majority of his most ardent fans I know have done a full 180 of late.

[Queenslander]

Cumtown is back in Australia next year. :drool:

[Giggles]

That John Malkovich part in Second Captains was class.

[Boydy]

Boyd's love of the very worst memetic horseshit the internet has to offer has long confused me. MugBull is a contrarian whopper who'll post anything he thinks will agitate, Phonics is stupid, and RL is a fucking pervert, so they all have excuses.
:D

What other 'memetic horseshit' do I love?

I'm sure there's plenty, I just can't remember what I've used in here.

[Boydy]

I still don’t know fully what it means but you don’t need to be old to know that blindboy is a self indulgent blowhard. Even the majority of his most ardent fans I know have done a full 180 of late.

It means you're acting like an old fart and shouldn't be taken seriously.

You just don't like Blindboy because you think he's a 'snowflake' for having the temerity to talk about mental health and he's a bit left wing.

[Giggles]

It means you're acting like an old fart and shouldn't be taken seriously.

You just don't like Blindboy because you think he's a 'snowflake' for having the temerity to talk about mental health and he's a bit left wing.

No it’s because he was swallowed up by his own arsehole a long time ago, though his mental health rubbish does belittle the subject for anyone with real mental health issues. You’re one of the few left that must lap up what he spews but I don’t find that at all surprising.

The only good thing about this interview is that he might actually learn something on the subject from
someone who actually knows what he’s talking about rather than just using it to peddle some shtick.

.

[Giggles]

Have to say Boydy, I wiped all preconceptions and what anyone has said and gave the SC interview a listen and found it good. The flow stuff is still a bit gimmicky, but pleasantly surprised.

[Spikey M]

Don't back down you twat. If you find out you're wrong on something, you double down on your initial wrongness and go down in a blaze of glory. Did Harold teach you nothing?

[Giggles]

When you’re right most of the time then you have to admit the few wrongs for balance.

[Baz]

Blindboy is a very interesting man. I think he’s great.

[Giggles]

Still wouldn’t be going back to his own podcast for all the flow and mental health rubbish, but if he was on a chat show or something I’d leave it on.

[Giggles]

One of the GAA ones I listen to told all the listeners to watch a couple of old games (one from 90’s and one from 00’s) and they’ll analyse them tomorrow as if they’d been on this weekend. Obviously I’m not saying to listen but it would be a good idea for a few soccer ones to do the same as well.

[phonics]

I've heard a series of calls for ESPN to put classic NBA/NFL games on in full but with their modern commentators doing the audio.

[Pepe]

Have the retired players commentate themselves.

[Ian]

I saw a tweet of somebody saying BBC and/or ITV (however the rights would work) should just show entire old football tournaments and honestly I'd be bang up for that.

[Giggles]

My podcast list is gone to fuck these days as I listen to too many sports ones. Only good thing is that I haven't been out on the road in about two weeks now though.

I am enjoying Isolating with David O'Doherty though.

[Bob Sacamano]

Cum Town sub has been on fire lately donning chapos

https://i.imgur.com/Hx6HZ3q_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[Queenslander]

Cum Town sub has been on fire lately donning chapos

https://i.imgur.com/Hx6HZ3q_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Are you a member of the private sub reddit?

[Bob Sacamano]

Are you a member of the private sub reddit?

Yeah, even though I don't really listen anymore because Stav and Adam are unbearable, it's just the closest thing to the old O & A sub there is and in glorious fashion it's starting to turn on the show too

[Queenslander]

I dont understand how anyone couldnt still love it?

[Luca]

HBR's Exponential View is really good.

[Giggles]

David O’Doherty is one of the only positives of of the coronavirus.

[Shindig]

I've suddenly got into Well There's Your Problem which is all about dumb engineering disasters.

[Queenslander]

Elon Musk on Rogan was so very gross. How close to lucky kid with legacy money is he to say the genius billionare all his simps claim him to be?

I could only watch the clips sitting through a whole 3 hour podcast would ruin my day.

[Spoonsky]

I'd never heard him speak. In my head he was always kind of smooth, but now I realize he's just that kid nobody was friends with in high school who was three levels ahead in math and physics, and thought he could get popular by working out.

[John Arne]

Elon Musk on Rogan was so very gross. How close to lucky kid with legacy money is he to say the genius billionare all his simps claim him to be?

I could only watch the clips sitting through a whole 3 hour podcast would ruin my day.

This. The more I hear Elon Musk speak, the more I wonder how on earth he has become this titan of industry and technology.

[Queenslander]

It would be nice if some of his money found its way back to South Africa.

[Bob Sacamano]

Completely abandoned all sport podcasts, I lasted a couple of weeks into lockdown and it just became such a chore.

In fact every podcast I listen to has gone to shit, it's a good time to purge most of them.

[Shindig]

In July 2017, Musk purchased the domain X.com from PayPal for an undisclosed amount, stating that it has sentimental value to him."

I've just been to X.com. Y'know, for sentimentality's sake. X.

[Queenslander]

I've just been to X.com. Y'know, for sentimentality's sake. X.

Such a strange thing to do.

[Shindig]

I also spotted his kid's name isn't legal in California. Hyphens aren't part of the English language, apparently. I was trying to think how he made his billions but it seems he's made the right, dumb moves. Travel software, online banking, electric cars, Private aerospace, etc. He's moved from everyday stuff to the premium wank only idiots with more money than sense would buy into. And there's always plenty of those around to give him capital. If he wanted to change the world, he would've taken Tesla in a more consumer friendly direction. Instead me makes 2 door mid-life crisis mobiles that are outsold by the Nissan Leaf.

And now he wants to tear up the ground beneath us to make special tunnels for his special cars. ENVIRONMENT!

[Queenslander]

I also spotted his kid's name isn't legal in California. Hyphens aren't part of the English language, apparently. I was trying to think how he made his billions but it seems he's made the right, dumb moves. Travel software, online banking, electric cars, Private aerospace, etc. He's moved from everyday stuff to the premium wank only idiots with more money than sense would buy into. And there's always plenty of those around to give him capital. If he wanted to change the world, he would've taken Tesla in a more consumer friendly direction. Instead me makes 2 door mid-life crisis mobiles that are outsold by the Nissan Leaf.

And now he wants to tear up the ground beneath us to make special tunnels for his special cars. ENVIRONMENT!

Good read thank you.

On the recent Rogan podcast he seems to be completely obsessed with getting to Mars.

[Lofty]

Because he has likely realised he hasnt done anything really revolutionary that will write his name into human history for generations yet, despite his efforts. If he is instrumental in getting to Mars, despite the methods and the cost, that will be a notable achievement for the history books. I think based on his Tesla stuff however anyone going to Mars with Space X is going to die long before they arrive.

[phonics]

Today’s episode of Second Captains is exactly why I end up paying 5 quid a month. I had no idea that that Golden Era 94-98 Nigeria team was banned from the AFCON for killing a tribal leader protesting an oil spill on their land. Great interview.

[Giggles]

Today’s episode of Second Captains is exactly why I end up paying 5 quid a month. I had no idea that that Golden Era 94-98 Nigeria team was banned from the AFCON for killing a tribal leader protesting an oil spill on their land. Great interview.

Yeah I was going to skip it but I was short of others and gave it a go. Glad I did.

[Lofty]

Athletico Mince probably dead now after Andy tweeted a desire to chase Cummings (or Gove?) Down the street and kick him in the bollocks repeatedly in front of his wife and kids, which the pearl clutchers have seized upon resulting in his account deletion.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY8rfHUX0AA9zr8?format=png&name=small

[Jimmy Floyd]

He wouldn't actually, though, would he?

[Giggles]

I haven’t been following it all that closely but did they manage to spin it all around to him (Cummings) being a right lad or something?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven’t been following it all that closely but did they manage to spin it all around to him (Cummings) being a right lad or something?

It's Michael Gove's wife he tweeted to.

[Shindig]

What a massive radge.

[Kikó]

he's bringing shame to my name.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I find him quite entertaining on Mince, but his twitter feed is just a bitter, misjudged train wreck of unfunniness.

[-james-]

I dunno. For me, Mince is just proof you could put anyone next to Mortimer and it would be decent. His Twitter is indeed terrible too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I dunno. For me, Mince is just proof you could put anyone next to Mortimer and it would be decent. His Twitter is indeed terrible too.

I think this is it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I dunno. For me, Mince is just proof you could put anyone next to Mortimer and it would be decent. His Twitter is indeed terrible too.

He comes across as genial though rather than bitter and twisted. Maybe it's just the act.

[The Merse]

Anyone else on the Quickly Kevin live show tonight?

[Baz]

I’ve not checked any of it out yet (I only really listen to podcasts in the car and I’m WFH) but there’s a podcast ( [url=https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZD4p8eyBACTVI8p8pS4t0?si=6ye93WIvTgGYAWBm92y_wA) called Victory The Podcast which is the writer/cast of Entourage watching episodes of Entourage and talking about it. I hope it’s as good as it is in my head.

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The boys are back!

[Giggles]

God those Players Chairs are dreary. I know what Danny Rose has to say isn’t the cheeriest subject matter but Sadlier has an awful habit of thinking nobody wants anything other than dark.

[Manc]

Rose unable to string sentences together.

[Giggles]

The Second Captains/BBC Sounds podcast about the swimming coach is well worth a listen, tough going in places though. I’d never heard of him before.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08njhrm

[igor_balis]

RIP football ramble.

[phonics]

How so?

[igor_balis]

No more shows with the OG 4, it's just gonna be a DAILY podcast with a rotating cast of 3, seleced from Pete, Luke, Jim, Marcus and 4 randoms. The new four are fine, ish, but the whole point of the ramble is that it's just listening to four old pals with great chemistry chat shit with football as the general focus. Now it's just ANOTHER "serious" football show. I can just listen to 5live or football weekly or some shit for something like that.

[phonics]

I got incredibly bored of the daily shows with the 4 of them. They're not THAT entertaining.

[igor_balis]

I'd rather they just did 2 weekly shows with the 4 of them, as before, and then get the other jokers to do random shit on the other days.

[Giggles]

Even when I had more of an interest in the league I never liked that one. Always preferred FW and the spinoff.

[Lofty]

The Ramble haven't helped themselves by attacking anyone suggesting it isn't as good now on social media.

[phonics]

tbf a lot of the complaints were 'WOMEN!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! AND A FUCKING ETHNIC? FOOTBALL JUSTICE WARRIORS'

[Lofty]

To be fair I have seen that but also seen plenty of valid criticism.

[Manc]

It all fell down the moment they took themselves seriously.

[Manc]

The Game podcast has a new host and he's an absolute weapon. First episode highlights include labelling Bielsa a fraud and comparing Harry Winks to Sneijder.

[phonics]

They’ve had more hosts than seasons at this point. Just an absolute failure of a podcast.

[Dquincy]

Interesting reading the ramble comments on here. I tend to agree that it's gone downhill big time and their USP was the fact it was 4 mates chatting football and a bit of nonsense.

Haven't listened to it for while now and probably won't bother in the future.

Has anyone listened to the new Alan Partridge podcast yet?

[Lofty]

Exactly, no-one is listening to the ramble for in depth analysis. I listened to the ramble because it was funny when there was handbags over some non-issue or Pete went off the deep end and the others were cracking up. They're never going to be FWE or Second Captains.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I still find Football Weekly the best. Some of the contributors are quite annoying (Lars Sivertsen), but others are really good and the general tone on it is the right balance between insight and fun.

I gave up on the James Richardson one quite quickly and now I see it's been swallowed up by The Athletic.

[phonics]

Second Captains is the best by far but it’s annoying when there’s a GAA and a Rugby podcast in the same week.

[Dquincy]

I think I'll give Football Weekly another go. I like Max Rushden as a presenter, has a good blend of serious and silliness.

Also like the dreary Irish bloke (assuming he's still on it).

[Giggles]

It’s only new but I need more than one Tommy and Hector podcast a week.

[Max Power]

The Second Captains/BBC Sounds podcast about the swimming coach is well worth a listen, tough going in places though. I’d never heard of him before.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08njhrm

The latest episode is a real tough listen.

[Giggles]

Have it first on the list for a long drive in the morning as I never got a chance today but I’ve seen a good few comments on it that it’s rough stuff alright.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Any F1 fans/nerds, the 'Bring Back V10s' podcast series is ace. Deep dives into various topics from the 90s and early 00s. They've managed to churn out almost 2 series of it since lockdown, a rotating cast of journos, people who were there (often Gary Anderson) and other randomers like Chandhok etc. Quality in-depth listen.

The episode on early 90s backmarkers was amazing, as is all the stuff on early Jordan and there was a great one on early Schumacher the other day.

[Shindig]

I'll give that a look.

[Disco]

Nice. I'd also like to find some decent history shows if anyone knows of any, I've just re-binged most of Dan Carlin's output and I need more.

[phonics]

The Dollop is a fun comedy/history one.

I reccomend the New York to Paris race is incredible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ogAPkGOVI

It should be made into the greatest animated film of all time.

[Shindig]

Well There's Your Problem pulled the trigger on 9/11. A surprisingly insightful drag into how the towers were built, why, by whom and how shit the fireproofing was. Lots of conspiracy debunking and a minute of maniacal laughter that comes out of nowhere.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Qop_64qqk

[Queenslander]

Ages of conquest: A kings and generals podcast is a favourite of mine.

The youtube channel is brilliant.


https://www.youtube.com/c/KingsandGenerals

Impressions of America: A History podcast is a cracker.

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

History in the Bible.

[Baz]

Not sure if it's too much of a niche but the four guys from Workaholics (3 stars, 1 writer) are starting a podcast called This Is Important (https://twitter.com/podimportant) and I'm beyond excited for it. Workaholics is one of my favourite TV shows of all time and I'm so happy they're doing something together. Hopefully it's better than that Game Over Man film they did for Netflix, although the Skintendo console was mildly amusing.

Also really enjoying Victory The Podcast, mentioned up the page, which is literally just some of the stars and the writer of Entourage talking about each episode, one at a time, with the odd cameo from other cast members. I bloody love Entourage, so it's right up my street. One thing I really can't shake is it started on June 8th and Kevin Connelly was MeToo'd (https://www.thedailybeast.com/entourage-star-kevin-connolly-accused-of-sexual-assault-i-want-it-to-be-known-that-he-is-dangerous) on July 15th, and they've not once mentioned it, and he's never missed an episode. Not even like a 'I'm sure you've heard the story, I just want to deny it and move on' or something. Very very odd.

I only listen to podcasts while driving, and do very little of that now the world's ending, but I've been managing to keep on top of the Entourage one. Now the Workaholics one is coming, I might struggle to stay upto date. I've already completed abandoned the Blindboy Boatclub one, but I think that was less to do with me not having time and more to do with him always going over the same ground.

But yeah, Workaholics guys talking about dumb stuff - count me in!

[Giggles]

Tommy and Hector just shows how much the west and east here might as well be two different planets these days.

[Baz]

But yeah, Workaholics guys talking about dumb stuff - count me in!
Yep, it's hilarious.

[Bob Sacamano]

Sad to see Kevin Mccarra died, always wondered what happened to him as I don't recall him being on football weekly for years, turns out he was diagnosed with alzheimers in 2012.

[Don]

He wasn't the one that never ate veggies, was he?

[Bob Sacamano]

He was the Scottish bloke who always sounded like he had a really dry mouth

[Ian]

He wasn't the one that never ate veggies, was he?

That's..... I wanna say Mark Langdon? Somebody who's still on it sometimes, anyway.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Only recently realised there was a Confessions podcast with Simon Mayo. Used to catch some of the Drivetime show after work when they were on so happy to see I've got loads to work through.

Have found myself trying to disguise my hysterics from other drivers when out in the car.

Incredible how the BBC managed to catastrophically fuck it up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fucking that programme up was an absolute textbook example of managers just not getting it. They must have achieved overnight the holy grail of losing millions of listeners and also having an objectively worse programme, and all so that someone with breasts could be on the radio at five instead of nine o'clock.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Do you know if there's anywhere that has all the older shows? Only goes as far back as 2017 on the BBC website.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvdq/episodes/downloads

[phonics]

A GAA episode AND a Hurling one and it's only Wednesday? This is not what I want my 5 euro a month going to.

[Giggles]

A GAA episode AND a Hurling one and it's only Wednesday? This is not what I want my 5 euro a month going to.

Hurling is GAA. There’s no real soccer on anyway.

[Offshore Toon]

I like a lot of the topics covered in the Joe Rogan podcast but ultimately he's fairly annoying and the vocal levels are too all over the place to comfortably send me to sleep.

Any recommendations for similar that explores tech, politics and random weird shit?

[Giggles]

As expected, Ken Earley was in flying form today.

[Giggles]

I love when someone gets bull raging on one of these :D

https://play.acast.com/s/the-tommy-and-hector-podcast-with-laurita-blewitt/manorhamiltonacademicals

[phonics]

How has Melissa Reddy got a career. In an industry that hates women, how has someone with the most annoying voice in the world got such a prominent position? It's like Posh Indian Scouse with a blocked nose.

[Manc]

She looks precisely how you'd imagine.

[niko_cee]

How has Melissa Reddy got a career. In an industry that hates women, how has someone with the most annoying voice in the world got such a prominent position? It's like Posh Indian Scouse with a blocked nose.

The cynic would say she ticks a lot of boxes.

[Shindig]

Well There's Your Problem has been going nuts lately with two episodes a week. Their one on gulf vanity projects is 3 hours of chaos.

[Reg]

I like a lot of the topics covered in the Joe Rogan podcast but ultimately he's fairly annoying and the vocal levels are too all over the place to comfortably send me to sleep.

Any recommendations for similar that explores tech, politics and random weird shit?
Oldish post but... Tim Ferriss? Bar the politics.

Stuff I'm enjoying:
- Usual football pods (Totally Football, Football Weekly; occasionally when I've run out of those - Zonal Marking, Golazzo)
- Off Menu
- Hip Hop Saved My Life

[igor_balis]

Well There's Your Problem has been going nuts lately with two episodes a week. Their one on gulf vanity projects is 3 hours of chaos.

Having never heard of it I took a shindig inspired leap and listened to the whole of the gulf vanity projects one. Excellent stuff. At first I was worried the pronouns stuff was alt right hilarity, but when I realised she was actually trans my lefty sensibilities were eased. It was really great, cheers. Gonna rinse the lot now. Have all of my rep.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Been catching up on The New Day podcast and just listed to both episodes of their Best Action Film Tournament. There were some awful decisions along the way (John Wick losing to Speed sticks out) and some weird omissions (for example Rambo I not being in but Rambo II and IV in there) but overall, unlike their TV tournament, they came to the right conclusion I feel.

[Giggles]

THL was a great listen today being the first one back since Hectors brother suddenly died a couple of weeks ago.

[Dark Soldier]

Speed is better than John Wick, easy.

[Lofty]

Agreed. Speed took a ludicrous concept and made it work. John Wick took a good concept and made it ludicrous. I say that as someone who owns the JW trilogy 4K boxset.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Heathens.

Die Hard 3 being chosen over Die Hard was also a massive mistake but I guess you fools will also disagree with me.

[Dark Soldier]

Die Hard is the better film but its been so raped on TV and in culture I'd prob go 3.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery_img_ml/public/all/2020/09/20200911_NEWDAY_FEELTHEPOWER_GreatestActionMovie_a rticle_final--1bd324f04e90fce5d95830350e2f0ad4.jpg

Here's the full tournament bracket they had.

[Spikey M]

There's a ridiculous number of films on there that I haven't seen. Mission Impossible getting to the Semi is akin to when Wales did it. Mental.

[Lofty]

The Warriors beating Highlander and The Terminator beating Aliens are serious errors.

[Manc]

Does The Raid actually have a story?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Warriors beating Highlander and The Terminator beating Aliens are serious errors.

Warriors is amazing.

As an overall film I'd have Aliens ahead of Terminator. As an action film I think you've got to give Terminator the edge. Just.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Does The Raid actually have a story?

Squad of elite forces has to go in and raid an apartment block which is being run by a drug overlord.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's a ridiculous number of films on there that I haven't seen. Mission Impossible getting to the Semi is akin to when Wales did it. Mental.

It's MI Fallout which is from 2018. I haven't seen it but it does have some really good reviews.

[Spikey M]

It's MI Fallout which is from 2018. I haven't seen it but it does have some really good reviews.

Perhaps, I've never seen it, but better than Die Hard, Rambo, Taken, etc? Have a word.

[Kikó]

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[phonics]

For someone who's non-stop banging on about 'English Arrogance', constantly referring to the team who beat Celtic as 'Midgetland' isn't a great look.

[phonics]

Ken Early called me ‘an ominous sign for the future of civilisation’ today. :cool:

[Baz]

I appreciate this might be a bit niche but I have to recommend Life Of The Record. https://lifeoftherecord.com/

I’ve recently listened to the Heatmiser episode and it’s fantastic. It’s literally just cutting between clips of those involved talking about the recording process, how the songs came about, who did what, relationships between those involved etc. with literally no input or narrative from any kind of host or interviewer. So good.

I absolutely can’t wait to listen to the Elliott Smith self titled record episode next. Larry Crane’s on it who is like THE Elliott Smith production guy who so can’t wait to hear him.

I definitely wouldn’t listen to any about bands I’m not into, but I’ve seen there’s also a Walkman episode so if I’m ever looking for something to fill time I’ll probably give that a go too.

[phonics]

Jonathan Liew had a rather excellent dig on todays Football Weekly. Thanking the listeners saying how they couldnt do it without you etc and then saying "because if we wanted to spend ages making a podcast that no-one listens to we'd all just go work for The Athletic"

[Jimmy Floyd]

No one does vicious digs better than him. The more unnecessary the better.

[Ian]

Jonathan Liew had a rather excellent dig on todays Football Weekly. Thanking the listeners saying how they couldnt do it without you etc and then saying "because if we wanted to spend ages making a podcast that no-one listens to we'd all just go work for The Athletic"

:D

I love Liew.

[phonics]

Think I got an audiobed on Second Captains :cool:

[Boydy]

What the fuck is an "audiobed"?

[Giggles]

What the fuck is an "audiobed"?

Filler. More specifically some quotes put over music and used as filler.

[phonics]

Did you enjoy it giggles. Ken slagged me off.

[Giggles]

Haven’t listened in a good while because it’s been mostly epl and rugby. I think they’ve gone all in on afcon now too.

[Giggles]

The Madden one actually, that’s the last one. Think it was last week.

[Manc]

Are there any decent football analytics podcasts knocking about?

[-james-]

Are there any decent football analytics podcasts knocking about?

Not that I'm aware of. There have been a few I've liked in the past but the people involved always end up getting hired by clubs and sacking it off.

This (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mk-messi-matching-psgs-possession-an-interview/id1488523269?i=1000541597877) from a while ago was quite good.

[-james-]

The most popular one is this (https://play.acast.com/s/thedoublepivot) but I find the hosts both utterly clueless and nails on chalkboard levels of annoying.

[-james-]

Could do with something to binge, any recommendations? Audiobooks also accepted.

[phonics]

The It's Always Sunny podcast has been added into my rotation recently if you like the show.

[Giggles]

I just scrolled down through my subscriptions and realised every single one was from here. I hadn’t noticed it turn that way. That would also say there’s little point in a recommendation to James of all people.

[Queenslander]

The Always sunny podcast is definitely worth a listen.

[-james-]

Could do with something to binge, any recommendations? Audiobooks also accepted.

Blitzed through Exit Scam this week. Very good. Surprised I hadn't heard of the story before.

[phonics]

Blowback is a good political one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(podcast)

[Manc]

I'd encourage people to seek out the Stuart Webber episode of Mike Calvin's podcast. So many Brent-esque quotes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I need some new podcasts, any recommendations? Sport / comedy / anything not too dry sought. Would rather avoid Americans gassing on for 4 hours at a time, I have a couple of those in the feed already and that's enough.

[Baz]

My mates brother does one. Words From Our Mouths.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Three Bean Salad.

[phonics]

Check out The Kirk Minihane Show. Start with The Best of from Christmas the year before last to get a feel for it and learn the inside jokes. I think it'd quite speak to you Jim.

[Giggles]

You need some Joe Brolly in your life Jimmy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Recently discovered Swindled which I'm really enjoying.

[igor_balis]

Been watching some old RHLSTPs, some are pretty good

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a format which really benefits from the guest being pissed.

[igor_balis]

It's a format which really benefits from the guest being pissed.

Id love to hear the Ricky Wilson one which rich shelved for him being so hammered

[-james-]

I've been enjoying binging Real Dictators lately. Some of it maybe a bit entry level for the boffins out there. Narration and theme music are excellent if nothing else.

[Dquincy]

I strongly recommend The Belgrano Diary podcast. It's about the sinking of the Argentine battleship during the Falklands and the fallout following it.

Podcast was in the New York Times top 5. Just finished it, really good.

[John Arne]

Aye listened to that a few months back. Decent.

[John Arne]

The Litvinenko Affair from a British Scandal is a decent retelling of events. The male presenter is a bit annoying, and their other topics are pretty crap - but the Litvinenko one is decent.

[Ben]

Good stuff lads. Keep it rolling.

The Bellingcat podcast series about MH17 is tremendous too.

[Lofty]

Character Limit audiobook on Spotify about Musk taking over twitter is great, though I ran out of listening minutes 15 minutes from the end :moop:

[niko_cee]

For lovers of wild and unacknowledged irony don't miss out on [y]our man Gary the economics doomsayer on the High Performance Podcast.

Grift meets grift, brought to you by huel, hustle culture and an array of crypto payment scams, I mean systems.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think fans of Gary need to accept that grifts can be more than money-based. His is an ego grift.

[niko_cee]

I just love the image of very concerned professional huckster Jake [dad was a CEO, probably had a pretty gilded life] Humphrey sitting there saying what can we do Gary with nary an eyelid batted, whilst shilling absolute shite like huel, fora and xtb or some other shit.

[Boydy]

He's getting his message out beyond the left wing internet echo chamber. I don't think that's a bad thing at all.

He was on Novara the other week but anyone listening to that probably already agrees with him.

[-james-]

Huel is good tho

[niko_cee]

He's getting his message out beyond the left wing internet echo chamber. I don't think that's a bad thing at all.


I guess it's probably a book tour thing, but he was on Piers Morgan the other day and it must be working to an extent as his youtube channel looks to have grown about 25% subs-wise [600k to 750k] in a couple of months. He's gittin gud grrr.

Shame he sort of fell out with Dan Neidle as I think his cause needs that sort of person to try and work out the nuts and bolts of it, but I think the general tax lawyer perspective is to just throw their hands up in the air and say this is just all too complicated to fix, which may or may not have an element of self-interest to it.