Try something new today
In the 38th Collings & Herrin Podcast - 39th if you include Monday's, 37a - having resolutely failed to get a job in radio, we get back to basics and talk about what's in the newspapers, once we've established more logistical faults with Goodnight Sweetheart, tried to apologise to Jason Manford, set Charlie Boorman a new travel task, reminisced about the credit crunch-beating free food and drink at the Radio Academy, accused Michael MacIntyre of being the mastermind behind Sachsgate and made clear, once again, that Richard is doing better on telly than Andrew, despite benign positional vertigo brought on by Marks & Spencer's ready meals. And we look carefully at the illustrations (pictured above) from a book available at Sainsbury's but not intended for eight year-olds, because it shows how to have sex in the bath. Keep the pic to hand when you listen to the podcast, because it's quite visual, that section. (Have we learned nothing?)
We've shot up the iTunes charts this week, after weeks and weeks in the doldrums, perhaps due to kind mentions on Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding's excellent and more successful Perfect Ten podcast. Every little helps. Welcome to the podcast brotherhood. (There is already loose talk of us doing a foursome for Christmas.)
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Does anyone know how to get the Perfect 10 podcast without having to install iTunes? I could do without that bit of bloat just to download an mp3. Google is not helping.
Don't worry, you'll still be my favourite podcast!
http://uspcontent.libsyn.com/
Follow that link it should help
Mr F, I just contacted Mr Wilding and he gave me this link. You can listen to it online here, without iTunes. That's the theory anyway. Try it out and report back.
Actually, it's gone up because I got a new toy and now download from iTunes instead of the sitcomy place. I am that influential.
You are going to have a foursome for Christmas?
Novel way of beating the credit crunch blues i guess.
Andrew, your eyes in that picture are spectacular. And is Herrin on the diet Coke again? I think I'm going to enjoy this...
Rose, my eyes are reflecting pure shock at the way Sainsbury's are trying to corrupt our eight year olds.
Actually, it's worth reading the Mail's story online, if only for the 100 or so comments posted beneath, some of which laugh at the ridiculousness of the story, but the majority see it as a portent of the end of civilisation.
Cue: somebody calling me a hypocrite for having written two book reviews for the Mail . . .
Yay Mr F, i'd just come on here to ask that exact question :) The link works Mr C!
Down with apple and their ituney stranglehold upon the podcast world! Free RSS feeds for everyone without forced corporate software! ;)
Never mind any reference to your having written for the Daily Bastard, I'm justdisappointed that there's no mention of the Sony Awards in this post.
Can we have an argument about music again please?
The Sony Awards? Am I missing something?
I think it's quite funny, but then I don't have a small child who's about to be poisoned by the liberals.
The comments on the page are probably interesting, but I suspect there are a few that will give me frothing rage at their ignorance, so I'm going to avoid it for now.
Sorry - was referring to the whole radio thing - you've used the Sony Awards as a point of reference twice on your blog titles...
On another topic - some people on the BBC messageboards who appear to be fervently anti-George Lamb (I myself am indifferent / wilfully ignorant) are using your podcast and one of my articles from June as ammunition in their 'get Lamb out' argument. It's a bit of a bother - I only know about this because they linked to WWM and it shows up in my blog stats.
I don't actually give much of a thought to George Lamb, ever... they seem very wound up about him.
Here's the link...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/F1950413?thread=5020256&skip=7860&show=20
Just listening to this episode - Richard's Northumpton accent seems to morph in to a pirate accent - were there a lot of pirates in Northumpton?!?
Re : Daily Mail comments.
Have you seen the 'Twat-O-Tron'? It's virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o-tron/
mr andrew
having been fairly cynical and sniffy about your podcasts in the recent past, i have to hold up my hands and say that you and the other one are getting better and better each and every week. my clammy-fisted kudos to the both of you and long may it continue.
mean mr mustard
I'm now amused/bemused at the offence of a group of people at a booklet they've probably never seen.
Should have also avoided it.
Jim
So that's it, my life is now officially worthless from this moment on.
I guess there is no point in going to the RBS Community Awards in Bromley next week, I have reached my life's ambition by being mentioned on a podcast by the film editor of the Radio Times and Percy the Shepherd.
I'm going to have a drink, anyone fancy joining me? It may be my last.
The having fun in the bath pics share an uncanny resemblance to the opening sequence of "You Can Choose Your Friends" with the lead character (played by the Right Honourable Herring) and an attractive brunette lady in a bath.
Is your podcasting pal a secret cartoonist, furtively trying to sabotage Sainsburys for insulting him many years ago regarding his purchase of a rather large number of yogurts?
This podcast co-op is reminiscent of The Wire, did you guys get Marlo to run off Ross and Brand?
ben
'There is already loose talk of us doing a foursome for Christmas'
In the bath perhaps?
Lisa
Gah. People can get in a stooshy about anything. If that's the most shocking thing little Laura's ever been exposed to then her father should be grateful for that.
We're having a discussion on 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' here:
http://watchwithmothers.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/never-mind-the-buzzcocks/
And someone,okay me(and maybe Dave, but he works in a call-centre,so ignore him)suggested yourself and Richard as new team captains.
Sounds like this would ignite a currently flaccid and tired old format - I can see I'm really selling it to you here.
Anyway, let me know where I can sign the petition. I assume you're drawing it up right now?
Just thought I'd note that I listen to quite a wide range of podcasts, and for "two blokes talking", Collins and Herring is easily, easily the best out there by quite a margin.
I don't know why you two are so self-deprecating because you genuinely have something that none of the others have achieved yet -- including the recent upstart "The Perfect Ten" -- and that is you literally don't care about whether or not the content going out is "good". After listening to C&H something like Phill and Phil's Perfect Ten sounds contrived and artificial. The only podcasts currently available that I'd put "up there" with you two are Football Weekly (with James Richardson) and Adam and Joe (which is a completely different format).
We've been talking about it here: http://forum.preys-world.com/viewtopic.php?t=21518&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
I think the charm of the pod is that you don't consciously try to be entertaining, everything is much more relaxed because of it. Allow me to quote myself briefly:
"If Collins and Herring is like a 10/10 'just two blokes talking' podcast, then The Perfect Ten is a 6/10, Miller and Armstrong is a 5/10, and anything with Danny Wallace and Dom Joly is a 2/10. Robin Ince's "Perfect Shambles" thing (although more than two blokes) can get up to a 8/10 depending on the guest. Brand was a 7/10 when he was on, 4/10 after Matt Morgan disappeared."
On a side note, I thought Richard seems subdued on Buzzcocks. I was a little irritated though by the fact that he was STILL introduced as "one half of 90s comedy duo Lee and Herring", as if he's basically done nothing in the past ten years. I hate that about TV, if something doesn't happen on TV it's like it didn't happen at all. Also, did anyone else think Simon Ansell's treatment of Mel C came across as more nasty than funny? It was quite uncomfortable viewing because he was being pretty harsh to her while she was just trying to be good natured -- uncalled for in my book.
Apologies for yet another long and rambling post Andrew.
Andrew, I am pleased that you raised the issue of ITV's new show exploiting animals in the name of entertainment.
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Me-Corner-Adventures-Celebrity/dp/0091897866/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226688885&sr=1-9
check the 'about the author' section
the secret life of mr collins revealed?
yours,
terry fuckwit
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrp
it never gets old
Personally, as a long time listener of all things podcast, I find yours the most enjoyable available by a country mile. Seriously, it’s brilliant. (Adam and Joe’s is good but theirs is a radio show and should somehow be considered exempt - as they surely pocket a princely sum)
It's clearly only a matter of time before the groundswell of public opinion concurs.
Stick with it. You’ll make millions. And if you don’t, at least you can never be accused of having the paucity of ambition of that notoriously inconsistent character Gary Sparrow, or for that matter Nicholas Lyndhurst himself. (not that I have anything against him personally - surely that's not actionable)
I've never liked "I'm a Celebrity..". It appeals too much to attitudes that are slightly morbid and cruel IMO.
With Richard gloating about his current ubiquity on TV, I'm sure the balance is about to be redressed this coming Friday night.
Glancing at The Guide, I see that ITV1 are showing a programme called 'Now That's What I Call 1983'. Surely Andrew ... how on earth could you not be involved?
Actually, on reading the write up. Denise Van Outen ... studio ... pary ... Kajagoogoo. I sincerely hope you were too busy making radio documentaries.
I was just about to write EXACTLY that but Mr. Vickers beat me to the punch. I've just finished browsing this week's TV guide and it was my immediate thought. Ha ha.
If Andrew's not involved then, frankly, the show has no right to use that title.
I'm slightly conceerned as to the subliminal advertising within the podcast. Listening, as usual, on the bus, I had to get off 3 stops earlier than normal, just to go to the Co-op to quench my overwhelming desire for Diet Coke.
I'm an advertisers dream. Gullible and easily led astray.
Hi Andrew,
Just to let you know (in case you don't!)that there's a discussion about the podcast over on the Word website! Maybe you could let Richard loose on the people who don't like swearing!!
Thanks for the link to the Phil Jupitus podcast - I too cannot be bothered with iTunes! I love the Collings and Herrin podcast, and I am a girl (just wanted to say that, because Richard did say the other day that he didn't think there were any female listeners). My boyfriend occasionally pulls a sad face at me, ever since I explained Richard's idea that women should take pity on sad-looking men and flash their boobs at them. Sometimes it works, if I think no one else is looking ;-)
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