Best football one is The Game ,provided Alyson Rudd isnāt on .
The Spectator is pretty good .
Far and away my favourite is The Two Mikes. The format of two old soaks sat there waffling on with Mike Parry coming out with some complete and utter bollocks should be boring , but itās a great listen .
I once had the misfortune of listening to the Two Mikes, late at night, on the way back to Liverpool.
I was so struck by Parryās delivery that the minute I got in, tweeted the station telling them to āenjoy coke responsibly, boys!ā
Youāre not happy about that, are you? I think itās fair enough. I make a podcast and it takes up a lot of time and money, for something I give away for free. Thereās got to come a point, when you spend as much time as they do, where it has to start paying, and you go for some combination of adverts, paid additional content, or subscription. If I wanted to make a show as often as they do, Iād need to go part-time at work, as would my co-host and producer.
I think itās shite when anything becomes overtly commercial.
Theyāve got zero idea where the line is. Iām getting to the point where Iām not going to listen to them anymore, as I did with talkSPORT.
From the outset, their Friday show has been a heavy corporate betting tie-in. Donāt usually bother downloading that, but I understand the proposition.
Now it seems that their entire business model is about trolling people onto ACAST.
They, and you, can play it much smarter. Lots of podcasters already do. Herringās doing a kickstarter. If the Ramble had played it smart, theyād have waited a year, left the good vibes about the Ramble relatively intact, and come back with a new show. What theyāve actually done is decide they want to capitalise on the existing brand, fucking it up in the process.
Well, one of them is from Pompey
And most of them have gigs elsewhere that pay the bills.
Thatās fair enough. I donāt enjoy the commercial aspect of it either. But it becomes a necessity if you want to grow to a certain level.
Iād never have any advertising on my show, on principle. But then that means that weāll probably never get many more listeners than we already have, and we canāt spend what weād like to on improving it.
Been enjoying Hip Hop saved my life with Romesh Ranganathan. Not the biggest Hip hop fan myself but enjoy the chat and stories. Quite a few comedians have been on.
So I tried to write this the other night and the site seemed to have a breakdown.
Iāve listened to Russell Brandās Under the Skin podcast. Itās new (on itunes and I downloaded off some other site but not Acast). The first one is āCan We Really Stop Terrorā and his guest is Brad Evans (āpolitical philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specialises on the problem of violenceā). I found it quite interesting. Brand isnāt the annoying guy some people think he is, in this. I used to think he was awful until I saw him live a realised heās an intelligent guy.
Booked tickets to see 2 of Richard Herrings Leicester Square Theatre podcast. One with Adam Buxton (my favourite podcaster) and Sara Pascoe. Going on my own as my partner just doesnāt get podcasts.
I love buxtons podcasts. He went ages after Christmas not doing another podcast but there were some available last time I looked, I think. Unfortunately, none of them would download for me.
Yeah I noticed there was a big gap between them. It was a struggle. He gets me through going to different visits. Like and subscribe, like and subscribe.
A good podcast Iāve found is The Ref Show. It sounds really boring, but is quite interesting particularly if thereās contentious issues in the previous weekends games. A Journo,an ex ref & an ex pro basically discuss the performance of refs and incidents at various games. Theyāre quite scathing of the refs at times, and raise some interesting points of law. Itās only about 20 mins long, which is about right.
His podcasts are great. At least an hour talking in depth to fellow comics actors etc.