He is Lion Man
We considered not calling it Podcast Number 13 as thirteen is unlucky, but we are not slaves to superstition. Whether it is actually unlucky or not is open to discussion. It's certainly the longest, and unique in that I had two sips of caffeine-based coffee while recording it and became unpredictable. (Richard is holding a bottle of wine in the photograph to hint that I may have been drunk on-air, but the eagle-eyed will spot that the bottle is unopened.) Maybe it's the humid weather. Anyway, unless the gods of superstition make it disappear, the podcast will be available to download from iTunes and the usual place. And then you can find out all about Lion Man.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 11:56 AM
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It's the empty bottles on the floor that we can't see that worries us!
AnonoNick
I have a coffee mug just like that one.
That's not any old wine, it's Cloudy Bay - for wine drinkers everywhere who relish the mouthwatering scent of an overmarketed, overpriced designer label.
(Suggest Richard try Jackson Estate for a similar expression at about half the price)
I'm listening to it now, and all I'm thinking is Andrew, lay off the caffeine! You sound incredibly hyperactive! The whole Lion Man section is verging on the demented!
Very funny though. Maybe more caffeine would get you higher in the iTunes actually!
I just listened back to the podcast and I'm glad to have got Lion Man out of my system. That was half a mug of coffee talking. Never again!
I got a case of that wine for Christmas - to be honest I am not quite sure who it was from and it might have been a mistake. But it cost me nothing, so don't worry!
I will give Collings LSD for the next podcast and see what we get out of him then.
Last time I drank proper coffee I shat myself. In public. Whilst taking the dog for a walk with my mum. And I'm 44.
I have many other instances of shitting myself in public (including during my graduation ceremony) if anyone wants to hear them...?
So Andrew, in the words of the Four Yorkshiremen, you were lucky.
Thanks for sharing, Paul. With friends like you, who needs ...
Your relative silence speaks volumes sir. But I shall press the subject no further.
... enemas. Ha ha, I'm not even the comedian.
Andrew - clever and funny are not the same thing. Surely hanging around with Lee Mack, you should know that.
Best podcast so far, I think! You should vary the choice of drugs each week and compare the results, like a kind of psychedelic version of the Curies.
I especially like the roles you've fallen into: Andrew - the exuberant, wild-eyed child; and Richard - the foul-mouthed, kill-joy uncle.
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I really think you should recreate this experiment in podcast form.
For science!
Definitely the best podcast so far - you must now dring caffeine before every podcast!
The podcast is turning into something ever-more wonderful (and hysteria-inducing)... many thanks to you both for choosing to spend your Friday mornings this way.
These podcasts are eerily like the Apollo space programme. No 11 reached its objective, everyone got back to earth and they were heroes. No 12 had technical issues but recordings were retrieved after the mission for all to enjoy. In no 13 they were short on oxygen. It was no longer about reaching the objective but rather getting back to earth with all alive and safe. And it took longer than previous missions. What will happen next? New technology? (lunar rover) Will the public lose interest after no 17? And what about the conspiracy theories? They never went, it was all done in a studio (by Gaunty and The Mail editorial team). Future idea: joint podcast with Soviet (or Chinese) peers?
The Lion Man podcast was very funny in a slightly uncomfortable way, but I don't think you should be drugged in pursuit of comedy gold, I prefer your performances straight edge. Also, if you're not keeping Richard in check he just swears too much! :-)
You learn something every day and I just learnt about the connection between mothers not brest feeding and asthma. (Thanks, Andrew.) This might help explain my late adult-onset asthma which has been mucking up my life a bit this year, as I had had 39 years without asthma before I started wheezing in February.
I did notice your book review in the Mail on Sunday, Andrew, but skipped past the page I'm afraid as bird watching is not one of my interests. (I realise it's each to his/her own and everything.)
On the number 13 thing, just do what Q magazine did when they published their thirteenth issue. Call it 12A.
And will we be getting "He Is Zion Man"?
Adam and Joe are away for the next two weeks and they haven't lined up deputies yet. I for one can't think of anyone who might be suitable...
"Your mother's a fucking idiot!"
Never has a well timed use of the f-bomb made me laugh so hard. That plus lion man and panda wanking. Top podcast.
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Am I alone in enjoying the whole Lion Man tale?
No, really.
I had just been in visiting my 100 year old Granny, she's not be good for a while now and won't be around much longer. I left her bedside feeling pretty crap, and useless, as there is nothing I can do for her now. However, the sun was shining, and I decided to walk home, it's only 4 miles, and listened to the Podcast on the way. And, the description of Lion Man, and his un-inhibited lover/chum, made me smile, in fact, I could picture the whole scenario in my head, just as I passed the spot where, as a boy of 14, I first kissed a girl. Properly.
The tale lifted my mood, and for that alone I thank you. The whole slightly shambolic nature of the Podcast is what gives it it's charm, and makes it all the more human. As long as you continue to enjoy doing it, keep doing it.
I'm glad you both care about the podcast. I think you'll find most of the subscribers feel the same.
The "fucking idiot" remark made me laugh out loud as well. So, although it was a bit awkward directing it at your mum specifically, he's on the mark - all mum's are idiots.
Mine told me not to sit on cold steps in case I got piles. Er, what!?
My mother? Let me tell you about my mother...
No don't get me started. But the Lion Man sequence, including the fact that it was dictated by a "hopped up" narrator, and the Your mother's a fucking idiot remark - precisely BECAUSE it was Collings's mom - all jolly spiffing.
Hi Guys,
Excellent podcast, it seems 13 isn't as bad as you think Andrew!
Ignore the haters - the shambolic, laptop-mic style is great. Who needs producers?
Keep it up! Cheers
I really liked the caffeine fueled podcast this week. It was better than The Word podcast (at least this week anyway) and as funny , if not funnier than the Adam & Joe podcast, in a different more sweary kind of way. Your mum's a fucking idiot was laugh out loud funny, which for me became even funnier as I was in a train at the time, so I was doing that trying not to laugh in public thing which just makes things more funny.
The whole Lion Man story was great and something I could relate to, as every morning on my train there is Hamster Man. The polar opposite to Lion Man, he twitches, fidgets and hunches up into a ball trying to take up the least amount of space as possible. He doesn't have a gorgeous woman draped around him, no, he has a grayish anorak draped around him most mornings (but I think it adores him), and hair that looks like a bunch of straw strapped to his head. But your Lion Man did make me think that there must be loads of other animal people who take the train so I'm looking out for them
So more caffeine podcasts please, although could I suggest every other week as I do enjoy listening to Richard and like it when he gets to say more than two sentences at a time before being interupted.
Thanks
I decided to give the infamous LionMan podcast a go, stupidly i did it at work and a torrent of rude words flew out of richards mouth into his Apple mac down the interweb and out my speakers to much embarrassment on my part, and possibly even a disciplinary!
Richards like Wolf from Gladiators, completely un-controlable.
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