Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
We are 40. (We are actually 41 if you count podcast number 37a.) The Collings & Herrin Podcast will soon be as old as me and it's already as old as Richard. In it, we say hello to all our female listeners, by name, individually, because we can; we also discuss foreplay in the Czech Republic; the loss of the old-fashioned, star-studded Woolworth's adverts; Frank Carson's opaque views on the Israeli occupation of Palestine; 118 118's racist joke service and the Deep House mix of me talking about Lion Man. We recorded it at the end of the afternoon, rather than first thing in the morning, so it has an entirely different timbre. More hysterical, oddly. I blame the half a cookie.
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As a female listener I thank you for that picture. Although the sooner you and Rich stop doing that with your eyes the sooner we can all get some work done.
I missed the chance to be mentioned on the podcast? Gutted! I'm a girl and have been listening since the beginning. So there.
Evangeline
I hope I get a mention! *hopes*
Shouldn't really clog up your comments by adding my name to the inevitable slew of wronged women who didn't get a mention cos you ignorant men aren't psychic, but what the hey. I will anyway.
I'm a female and I'm an avid listener. I must say your podcasts have a strange allure to them which always leave me not quite sure what to do with myself. Ladies? Are you with me? *awaits tumbleweed*
Anyway, you couldn't have mentioned me because of my stupid nerdy anonymous internet name. Had you had said it, everyone involved would have been very, very embarrassed.
I am yet another female listener who's seemingly jumping on the bandwagon but actually downloaded your podcast while I was travelling around New Zealand cos I couldn't get enough. Sad but true. Loving your work etc, Sheri (born in N'pton but hoping never to go back there)
The prospect of being mentioned gave me a weird nervous hysteria whilst listening... I maybe laughed more than I should have!
A mix of this hysteria and the evil words of Richard Herring turned me into somekind of misogynist and I found myself searching for ages to find the Army lady on the Daily Mail website (just for a leery Herring-style look after he said she was pretty). Thankfully I came crashing down to my wooly liberal ways when I read the comments, and was heartwarmed to find a 50/50 spread of opinion instead of the 100% moronic bile I was expecting. Are Daily Mail readers coming to their senses? Or maybe I just have incredibly low expectations from seeing every feminist issue on the internet turned into a carcrash of idiotic and ignorant opinions. At least I know Mr RKH is joking....
P.S. Paul O'Grady and Captain Sensible look exactly the same now. I can't be the only one who's noticed this.
I'm a girl (with a very bizarre name as you can see), and I'm straight I'm afraid. But I do listen every week. My brother is gay if that helps, and he listens too.
This podcast is a good un' unlike the Wehterspoons pub called The Wrong 'Un which is based is London! Anyways, good podcast, take care chaps.
Benjamin
Not directly related to the podcast but I thought this story and its accompanying photo would be very much up your street.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/26/disabled-boy-to-lose.html
I am not a female listener. Boo hoo :(
Why did I just have a flash-forward to a year's time, with a blog entry starting "Podcast 100 is out (though it's actually 105 if you count 37a, the Christmas Special, 54b, the live summer show from Glastonbury and that odd one where we both got drunk and Richard recorded me as he tried to bum me)..."
Can't wait to listen.
Glad to be one of your token women, lads. I feel I've arrived...
I am a woman, and a listener (not since the beginning, but since I got an iPod). BUT I am straight (or, in deference to Richard, mostly straight) AND I am older than you (46). Don't know how that fits with your demographic
I am also an actual girl, stright but 15 (14 when I started listening) so I can take the crown of the second youngest female listener.
ah christ...a four way with Phill and Phil? zzzz Shame...as much as I like the PnP podcast, it has started to get a bit full of itself... and I wish they would just get on with it than spend time reading out listeners emails? Who cares?
As to contributions from podcasters...that's when the whole thing started to go down hill.
I like PJ and PW but they do seem to try a bit too hard sometimes and it can turn out to be like two irritating people trying to get one up on each other..but more than that, does it mean that RH and AC will be edited? If it's their rules I can't see it being otherwise. As one commenter has already said, the beauty of your podcast was its 'naivety' and lack of technology. If you are using editing I can't see how you can use the internal mikes without a lot of fuss.
Oh well, I for one will not bother to listen...
be careful collings...don't get too 'self aware'...you'll lose the sparkle of the C&H podcast...mark my words.
Also, is this going to replace the H&C or the PnP podcast in terms of editions?
The plan is to record the P&P&C&H podcast in their studio, but record it, in full, on my laptop, so that you will be able to download their pristine version, or our lo-fi, unedited version, with extra bits at either end. This seems to be in the spirit of both.
Richard and I are going to try and pre-record two Collings & Herrin podcasts that week, to tide you all over the festive period. So, the P&P one will be the official podcast in the week before Christmas, and the pre-recorded ones (a Christmas special and a review of the year) will come out in Christmas week and the week after. We'll try and record a new one in the first week of the New Year.
The idea of the four-way is for it be a lot of fun, with a different dynamic for one week only. I'm really looking forward to it. It'll be like a bitter 6 Music reunion. With a hat.
Further to the podcast, can I say how gutted I was that you weren't on Now That's What I Call 1983. Presented by, not Fearne but Denise Van Outen, it was a celebration of the 25 anniversary of the the first Now! album released in 1983. And when I say celebration, I mean another chance to watch Christmas TOTP 1983, but a bit less good. And Paul Young was the only one to mime. Nice to see Nik Kershaw though. I can't say who he reminded me of though. As it would be very insulting to Mr Kershaw.
And those party blower things that uncoil and make an ironic noise, like in the old Alka-Seltzer advert? Hope so.
I was so pleased to get name-checked on the podcast! Not once, but twice! I do already have a son so I'm afraid I can't help with Herring's plans of world domination.
I think you should set up a Paypal page for Radiohead style contributions, so we could decide to give money if we wanted to. I bet you'd get quite a few people putting in to it. I like the idea as I have got so much enjoyment out of the podcasts it would be nice to give something back! Maybe the price of a modestly sized orange juice every few weeks or so.
Well, that was embarrassing.
I hope your "this will be your main story lesbians!" about the soldier was ironic!
I rarely remove the cloak of irony, Natassia!
There was something i meant to say last night but forgot due to my hyper state (and then the morning-after crushing embarrassment). The whole Paypal thing has probably been explained to you by now, so I just want to say that I think a lot of people would donate if something was set up to do so. Voluntary payment for podcasts, or just a one off thankyou present. It might at least buy you each a whole biscuit every week? (Sorry for commenting twice.)
You say "Richard and I are going to try and pre-record two Collings & Herrin podcasts that week"
Are not all your podcasts pre-recorded?
In fact aren't all podcast pre-recorded full stop?
Who ever heard of a live podcast?
Now that I think about it, why do you call it 'pre-recorded'? Isn't it just 'recorded'? 'Pre-recorded' seems like a redundant tautology (see what I did there?)
I am worried for your sanity...but still wholly loving the podcasts...keep making them please before you go entirely off the deep end.
Fat Steve from America (USA...i.e. the place you're boycotting)
www.thebigcigarette.com
I am female, but I listen with my husband, so maybe we cancel eachother out?
Another female listener checking in here, and also gay!
If it helps your need for demographics, I'm 31...
i'm not female or gay...does that mean I can't listen?
(if it does...i suppose I wouldn't mind some gentle bumming from RH if it helps)
Oh, also, to Fat Steve on the topic of live podcasts, it has been done. I'm kind of embarrassed to tell you which podcast it is (Mugglecast) but they've done several live ones and on one occasion a twelve hour live podcast. They broadcast it live on the internet and release it later unedited to download. In the case of the 12 hour one, this was in several chunks.
Richard needs to wash his hair; it appears rather lank.
Yey to me, I got a mention!
I'm with Nikki and Fran re the voluntary contribution thing on Paypal. Its the least we can do to remimburse your oatmilk-based refreshments/tube travel/newspapers/heating of Richard's attic for an hour. Though I doubt we'll be able to run to covering the cost of Richard's numerous M & S food-based purchases; does he ever eat anything that hasn't been pre prepared?
Anyone else agree to making a contribution?
Stay lovely Andrew.
Alright, pedants - we "record" our podcasts on a Thursday or Friday and they are available to download on that very day. By "prerecord" clearly I mean record but not make available to download on that day. Keep up. And stop being so ungrateful!
Please do not mistake my drunken ramblings for ingratitude. That whole 'pre-recorded' concept has never made sense to me, clearly you aren't the first person I've heard use the term.
After all, I did say how much I loved the podcasts. In fact, your podcast was very influential in me starting my own webcast! I record a lot of local bands but had never thought of using my studio for something like that, so thanks for the inspiration.
I wonder how many of your listeners were similarly inspired to start doing a web/podcast, I can't be the only one.
Fat Steve from America (Atlanta GA)
www.thebigcigarette.com
I was joking about your ingratitude, Steve. (David Hepworth from the Word podcast has to remind pedants once a week now that it's free, and it's become a running gag.)
When I say "prerecord", I mean "record and sit on."
I did my first podcast last week, and it was definitely indirectly inspired by Collings and Herrin cos I did it with the internal mic on my macbook, thinking "well theirs sounds ok and I listen to it." (The "OK" part refers to the sound quality only, clearly the comedy and entertainment value are better than ok, but I wasn't trying to do that bit).
I think it would be a good idea for the future for you to do a live streaming podcast as a one-off. You could take calls and everything.
Add me to the list of "people who would donate via paypal".
Thanks!
Great idea Claire,
In fact I have plenty of free space on my shoutcast server (I'm paying for a 24/7 thing and use it only for an hour and a half per week,) so, Andrew, if you'd like to use my server for a webcast I would be happy to donate the bandwidth. In fact if anyone else wants to do a a show on my 'station' for free, that would be cool with me too, as long as it's not something akin to the 'BNP I Love Nazi Hour,' or the 'Man Boy Love Show.' Contact me at fatsteverecords@gmail.com
I will be doing my first macbook based webcast this week, as I'm going to be in Amsterdam and will not be taking my entire studio with me (I'm not going to use the internal mic, I'm too tech-y for that, but this will be a major experiment.)
errr...sorry, Andrew, for talking about myself so much...this is your blog...
Fat Steve from America
www.thebigcigarette.com
I too would be willing to make a donation. I am recovering from a bout of depression and the podcasts have made me laugh a lot and helped me on my way out of a dark time. Also female and straight and 35 (for your demographic information..)
have also just been laughing at very funny message board on the imdb section for Argentina Brunetti. Who knew the film director Colling Herrin was so prolific?
Yey! I got a mention! I also will shyly admit to finding the experience of being chatted about on your podcast, strangely thrilling :-D
Tina With The Lezza Sister x
PS When I'm brill and talented and interesting enough to have my own podcast myself, you will be the first two people I mention. It's the least I can do.
I was sorry to hear you were only able to buy one cookie due to the credit crunch. However, this morning i was delighted to find a tall latte from Starbucks has gone down by 6p. Maybe good times are ahead.
I am a man and not (yet) a lesbian. But I'm willing to try if it gets me some action.
I love the podcast and would willingly sell my house and all its contents to help Richard Herring and Andrew Collins.
Did you recently hear Shami Chakrabarti's support for Jon Gaunt - she said that 'the airwaves of a great democracy would be the poorer for his absence'...
And while I understand your disdain for Facebook, there is a terrific group which might provide you with still further material regarding the crime against humanity which is The Daily Mail. Subtly, it's called 'The Daily Mail really are a bunch of fucking twats'. Which I felt was an appropriate tone for your chatter.
Chris
I am a lady but i am not a lezzer. I do however own a pair of Birkenstock sandals. I like your podcast.
The end.
Another female listener. Bi. And I recently inherited Frank Carson's lamp (this is not a euphemism, I really did just acquire Frank Carson's lamp). I don't like it much but hey, it's a talking point.
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