Mmmmmmmm
On the 54th Collings & Herrin Podcast, one of us is caffeine-free, the other is virtually insensible on the stuff. Ethical and moral discussion moves almost imperceptibly from Prince Charles's detox tincture to the quality of placard at the Luton anti-war protests; from monkey vengeance to sheepdog love; from Horden to Corden; from the wheelie bin police to reincarnation as a bee; from just about anything to Richard's tour dates. I remain in a Zen-like stated of decaffeinated calm throughout. In the picture you can see Richard eating his pathetic fish fingers and me tucking into a superb spicy seafood, bacon and asparagus bake, which I brought in a Tupperware tub and decanted onto a plate Richard kindly gave me.Incidentally, despite the deluge of well-intentioned technical advice two weeks ago, we still can't make the podcast studio work in the USB port of my laptop. I think we need to go to the next level of advice, whatever that is. Help!
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Great stuff - I may sneak out of work to steal some wifi if it's up soon.
I'd say the next level of advice would be taking up the offer of one of the folks who've said they'll come round RKH's secret lair to set it up. RKH is unlikely to allow that, it seems.
Perhaps you could meet them (with your equipment) in a coffee shop in the Westfield shopping centre and get the tech-guru an orange juice as payment.
Still only got the 53rd 'cast up at the moment...
Also the verification word is 'barsarld' which looked very much like 'bastard' at first sight. Trying to tell us something?
AC: re usb port is you port actually working on your mac do other things work on it? it's not a usb 1 and 2 issue?
oh and why didn't you share your lunch?foxim
The sharp intake of breath around twenty minutes in made me laugh more than anything in a long time. It seems I am very easily pleased.
USB: have you tried both USB ports ?
Neil Simon might have something to say about you two.
Due to circumstances beyond my control I've been pod-constipated over the last couple of weeks.
Over the last two days I've listened to numbers 50-53. The upshot of this is that it feels like you and Richard are the voices in my head, constant ear companions.
Does this mean I get some of your seafood bake? Unlikely, but it certainly looks better than The Captain's Fishy Fingers.
Re. getting the podcast studio to work - why not take it to the nice people at the Apple genius place. Or, you could trust one of your knowledgable technical correspondents not to be a stalking lunatic, as probably none of them are, and let them install it.
Or ask 'someone you know' at the BBC to do it.
Your options are only limited by your imagination.
1. Silly question but does the USB interface work in Richards Laptop, or if you have access to a Windows PC or another laptop try it there.
2. The USB interface should work without installing any drivers so if you've installed drivers you may need to remove them.
3. When you plug the USB Interface in does the little green light come on?
4. Also, have you tried plugging headphones into the mixer and made sure you can hear what is coming out of the mic?
5. Does the Mac have a socket for plugging in a mic or and external sound source, if it does you could connect the mixer directly to that and bypass the USB box altogether. You'd need a Twin Phono to 3.5mm stereo jack lead;
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=31700
6. Can you post a picture of what you see in Garage Band when you try and select the incoming sound source in Preferences?
P.s Maybe ask Adam & Joe they're good with Garage Band...perhaps get them round on false pretences as a crafty way of getting them to come on the podcast.
Great podcast again, I agree with you about Forgen Morgan and Borgen Yorgan...
I think as a bee, Rich would have to find you and talk to you in bee language before he stings people though, because that would kill him... Let him make his presence known to you, then he can stinas likes... well, once...
Also, I don't know why wikipedia says the reason for the name cappuccino is unknown... as far as I can tell, seeing as cappuccio means "hood" and a cappuccino has a froth hat on, it makes sense...Doesn't it? Apart from anything else, we have the word cap, and capital (and capital punishment) to mean a "head" or a top... Cappuccinos have a head on...
Anyway, it was my birthday today and so a podcast was as great a present as I could have wished... Cheers!
A very nice podcast, very mellow, at least up to the last two seconds.
Lovely as always, but a bit too mellow for me - I like Rich shouting and you gamely trying to restrain him. Last week's ludicrous outburst about getting the studio-thing set up had me in stitches.
Also, Andrew - your haircut takes years off you. Well played!
Is this the person Rich was trying to remember on the podcast? At one point a film was going to be made but it seems to have been abandoned. I remember at the time people being interviewed on the news about it, including a couple of his 17 year old girlfriends who hadn't realised how old he really was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_MacKinnon
Mooncat
Come on Andrew, you've had 15 minutes! I'm dying to know your verdict on 1980!
Really enjoyed the podcast. Hilarity surrounding bee reincarnation hugely infectious.
On a serious note, I felt the Luton councillor's remark was fair and was prompted by what I felt was a huge misrepresentation and overreaction by the media. For example the local BBC news (I guess you may have grown up with Look East or is N'pton more midlands?) was anchored live from Luton the following evening "in the aftermath of yesterday's protests". From what I could gather, only 10-12 protesters were present drawn from a town with one of the largest Muslim populations in the UK. In other words a tiny tiny minority. Yet the Mail, Sun and others, perhaps because of the tenuous link between Luton and the London bombers, are trying desperately to fan whatever flames they can and to read their coverage would leave an uninformed reader with the view that Luton is a seething nest of discontent. It isn't and the fact that it isnt gets right up the noses of the right-wing press. I think that may have been what the councillor was getting at.
On another tack completely, perhaps after Richard's lenten embargo on "his favourite subject" is lifted he could be allowed to speculate on how the Slag Brothers might have produced Captain Caveman. I'm sure he has some ideas.
And on the embargo note, I've stumbled upon a scientific paper that you and Herrin should definitely have a look at. It's got everything you two love! Ducks and bumming, and ducks bumming, it's like a perfect storm...
"On 5 June 1995 an adult male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) collided with the glass façade of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam and died. An other drake mallard raped the corpse almost continuously for 75 minutes. Then the author disturbed the scene and secured the dead duck. Dissection showed that the rape-victim indeed was of the male sex. It is concluded that the mallards were engaged in an ‘Attempted Rape Flight’ that resulted in the first described case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard."
http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?itemid=1930&instanceid=16
I must say, those fish fingers that Richard is eating look lovely. Are they your bog-standard Birdseye fayre, or something flashier? They look flashier, definitely.
Harry Ramsden's?
Steady, Birds Eye fish fingers are not bog standard, they are the gold standard. When Shami Chakrabarti said that she was raised on fish fingers and Blue Peter, what brand do you think she was talking about? Only the best for the Captain's table.
But are they as good as Young's Chip Shop fish fingers, or Harry Ramsden's? I'd argue they're not. Yes, they're a cut above your value fish fingers, but there are fish fingers out there of a better quality than the Captain's.
The ones Mr. Herring is eating look superior to Bird's Eye's. They look like they come from Waitrose, or possibly even Marks & Spencer's.
I need to get to the bottom of this mystery as it's interfering with my work.
They are Captain Birdseye's fish fingers. They are the best. Mmmmmm. I am going to make Andrew some after the next podcast on Tuesday and we're going to drink beer. And then, if all goes to plan, make sweet fishfingery love.
Well I'll be damned. Here was me thinking they were some sort of fancy fish fingers, and all along they were the Captain's finest.
I'm switching back from Young's Chip Shop fish fingers to Birds Eye's on the evidence of this photograph.
Thanks for your help.
P.S. Enjoy your fishy love. It sounds monstrous.
There's far too much ketchup on the fish-fingers Mr Herring is eating.
Way to spoil a fish-finger, yeah?
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