The favourite podcast thread

[colinthewarriormonkey]

Oh God, Colin, I dont think that I have laughed so much in years. The magic eye ballbag story had my throat sore laughing.
Then in the Paul McCartney is dead conspiracy :
"You see back then the Beatles were really famous because there weren't that many singers or groups."
"What?! Well how many were there then, genius? "
" About six or seven. "

******
"How many Beatles were there?"
"Well how many do you fucking think then? Name them"
"Err, Ringo, George... erm... Matthew... "
" Matthew?!!! Who the fuck is Matthew?!! "
" I got confused!!!

The magic eye ballbag story is the one where I was standing in the woods bent over double with tears streaming down my face, and people were looking at me as if I was a fucking lunatic.

There's a great bit in another one where he's talking about some bloke with cancer and inadvertently tells him to stop fucking about.

I've only just started on series 3 - so haven't got to the Paul McCartney conspiracy yer.

I'm glad you like it, I think it's one of the best podcasts out there

[colinthewarriormonkey]

Fucking Hell - I nearly crashed my car listening to a segment when Barry starts explaining that men's cock and balls have got smaller since the 70's

[Basualdo]

Fucking Hell - I nearly crashed my car listening to a segment when Barry starts explaining that men's cock and balls have got smaller since the 70's

I havent heard that one yet. Ive that to look forward to .... Erm...listening to that episode , I mean, not having my junk shrivel.
I think I trend setted that seeing that I was born in the early 60s.



Someone earlier recommended a comedic Yank history podcast called The Dollop.
I have listened to a couple so far and theyre okay, not bad.
But fair play, given that they are a US based podcast for an overwhelmingly US audience from two US comedians (though one has strong family links to Blighty), its very strange -but welcome - that they devoted one entire recent episode of well over an hour to the life of Tommy Cooper, of all people!
Whose only US link seems to have been appearing on Ed Sullivan four or five times - Ed was a big fan apparently.

It was very good. The one who has UK links was a fan from his stays here when he was a kid and from stuff his family sent him, and his recounting of Tommy's life and act to his unknowing partner had the partner almost breathless with laughter.

Just one little - and probably petty, quibble from me.
Okay I know it ran until the 80s (I think) & would cause conniptions today in our sometimes slightly unhinged over sensitive times, but when the UK linked one mentioned Tommy's numerous appearances on The Black and White Minstrel Show starting from 1964 and went into an incredulous explanation of that show to his partner's disbelieving outburst of , "And they allowed this to go out on prime time TV in 1964?!!!"
I did think to myself, "Yeah, 1964. The same year that black folk in many US states were still legally prohibited from using the same schools, transport, restaurants, public toilets and even drinking fountains as white folk. That 1964,"
A crass but harmless and old fashioned TV show reflecting an almost ancient national musical tradtion seems mighty small beer in comparison to those legal requirements of the time from the great enlightened democracy across the Atlantic.

[colinthewarriormonkey]

Fucking Hell - I nearly crashed my car listening to a segment when Barry starts explaining that men's cock and balls have got smaller since the 70's

I havent heard that one yet. Ive that to look forward to .... Erm...listening to that episode , I mean, not having my junk shrivel.
I think I trend setted that seeing that I was born in the early 60s.



Someone earlier recommended a comedic Yank history podcast called The Dollop.
I have listened to a couple so far and theyre okay, not bad.
But fair play, given that they are a US based podcast for an overwhelmingly US audience from two US comedians (though one has strong family links to Blighty), its very strange -but welcome - that they devoted one entire recent episode of well over an hour to the life of Tommy Cooper, of all people!
Whose only US link seems to have been appearing on Ed Sullivan four or five times - Ed was a big fan apparently.

It was very good. The one who has UK links was a fan from his stays here when he was a kid and from stuff his family sent him, and his recounting of Tommy's life and act to his unknowing partner had the partner almost breathless with laughter.

Just one little - and probably petty, quibble from me.
Okay I know it ran until the 80s (I think) & would cause conniptions today in our sometimes slightly unhinged over sensitive times, but when the UK linked one mentioned Tommy's numerous appearances on The Black and White Minstrel Show starting from 1964 and went into an incredulous explanation of that show to his partner's disbelieving outburst of , "And they allowed this to go out on prime time TV in 1964?!!!"
I did think to myself, "Yeah, 1964. The same year that black folk in many US states were still legally prohibited from using the same schools, transport, restaurants, public toilets and even drinking fountains as white folk. That 1964,"
A crass but harmless and old fashioned TV show reflecting an almost ancient national musical tradtion seems mighty small beer in comparison to those legal requirements of the time from the great enlightened democracy across the Atlantic.

Yep that was 4 years before Martin Luth King got shot.

Another good podcast is "My Dad wrote a porno"

3 middle class hipsters reading the novel that one of their dads self published - I realise they are trying to be funny, and frankly they fail. But the actual porno is so badly written it's hysterical.

It is another one that makes me laugh out loud.

[Danabnormal]

Talk 2 me Radio podcast?
I'll just fuck off now shall I?

[Basualdo]

Talk 2 me Radio podcast?
I'll just fuck off now shall I?

I think its for the best, don't you?

[Basualdo]

Parapod again.
The Picture of the Crying Boy Curse.
"The artist, Bruno, who died in 1981, painted 65 different pictures of crying boys. He liked painting crying boys. Well he had a fire in his studio and it burnt to the ground....erm.. which thinking on it could have been the work of vigilantes."

[colinthewarriormonkey]

Parapod again.
The Picture of the Crying Boy Curse.
"The artist, Bruno, who died in 1981, painted 65 different pictures of crying boys. He liked painting crying boys. Well he had a fire in his studio and it burnt to the ground....erm.. which thinking on it could have been the work of vigilantes."

The great thing is that there's so many throwaway lines it'll still be worth revisiting
them all again later.

[Danabnormal]

But seriously,
The Parapod
Skeptics with a K
Answer me this
No such thing as a fish
When we waffle
Athletico Mince
Beef and Dairy network

[rorymac]

Could someone direct me to the 'magic eye ballbag' story .. which episode ?

[Carlos J]

Oh well. I will post here. A certainly interesting podcast so far. Enjoyable enough, but more like some yanks in a bar talking about something they have little knowledge about. Fair enough as the facts and fictions are massive and still preferable to listening to some Brits in a pub talking about something they have little knowledge about. Or on forums.

Fair enough, they have shows, many shows to do, but basic research is buggered. Talking about the dogs and the Renault Scenic, Devon says she hasn't seen the Dogs videos and, "I couldn't even find if the McCann's had driven to their holiday or not". They rented the Scenic after Maddie went missing. some talk about driving to PDL with a British licence plate, one voice of sense says they flew there and rented the car there.

Young Devon comes out with a banger about the dogs and cars.

"I don't know if it was done in Portugal or where. This is again, this is one of those frustrating situation where I wish there was more information but I can't find it. I'm sure it's in the original police reports but i can't requisition those because it's still an open case.".

FFS, Devon, this was one of the few cases and what flummoxed the McCann's where the near whole Police file was released to the public. The PJ files, barring what they kept, 11k plus pages were released in 2008 and are available to read widely: http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/

That is 37 mins down, another 40mins to go. Nah, not now. Arm oot for now, Bas.

Will try not to spoil the thread when listening to the rest. But fuck sake, if that is any evidence of their investigating skills, Junior Det. Del would be Head of CID on their podcast.

Sorry chaps. I'm going to post here to show the shite of this podcast. Starting back from 37mins.

Err, new Tannerman, the Brit tourist dad taking his girl home as revealed on 'Crimewatch (yeah). This anonymous chap apparently he sued for libel against Jane Tanner and the media. And won. Who was this?

Devon says "He did pretty good, he won. He won against all of them."

I think she is getting confused with Bobby Murat getting many out of court coin from the meeja, with an anonymous chap who kept his daughters PJs for years and then it was suddenly revealed on 'Crimewatch. Like you do.

Fuck me, a few more minutes in and horseshit facts.

Stop me now:

[Rainbowmonkey]

"Anything Ghost"

Same general idea as Jim Harold's Campfire, but the host reads out paranormal experiences sent in by listeners. Many such podcasts exist but hardly anyone who hosts them can actually read out loud or possibly at all, or at least won't edit when they fall over their words.

Lex Wahl presents this one, icy kind of great voice and the best I've heard at doing it. He is also a musician, and composes understated incidental music for the stories. There are some self-narrated stories too where listeners send in their own recordings, but it's mostly Lex reading. Back catalogue of 200+ shows on his website, a one-off subscription required to access those. New show every month on itunes for free. I love it. He looks like a ghost.

[Reg]

Didn't want to rush into this, so having thought about it carefully, I've finally come to my decision.

THIS is definitely my favourite podcast thread, and fully deserves its title.

[davidarthur]

The parapod is the funniest thing I've listened to in ages and thank you to whoever put this up - certainly makes dull car journeys flyby.

[AlcoholBrazil]

Didn't about this Red Dwarf audio-book "Last Human". In 4 parts.