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Yes I listened to the first 49 mins of the BS-MG one. Fantastic stuff, I could listen to Gladwell all day (and BS too). I was going to start a thread about 'how to improve the Olympics'.

Gladwell has just finish his first season of the 'Revisionist History' podcast which was great.

Yes, been listening to Revisionist History too - fascinating - but am going slowly through those as they aren't really timebound, like a lot of the staff I listen to (e.g. TMS, or The Game from The Times).

I loved his idea about the field events. High jump as a stand alone event in a 6,000 seater stadium. Brilliant!
 
Yes, been listening to Revisionist History too - fascinating - but am going slowly through those as they aren't really timebound, like a lot of the staff I listen to (e.g. TMS, or The Game from The Times).

I loved his idea about the field events. High jump as a stand alone event in a 6,000 seater stadium. Brilliant!

I think something like high-jump in a tennis court would be brilliant. I guess that long-jump and triple-jump would need run-up space, i'm not sure if they'd fit. Google suggests 55m for a longjump runway + pit, which is a lot of space really. Also it'd have implications for multi-event sports.

Personally I think the decathlon and heptathlon should be lucky dip at the opening ceremony. Jess Ennis doing weightlifting and the parallel bars?!
 
I think something like high-jump in a tennis court would be brilliant. I guess that long-jump and triple-jump would need run-up space, i'm not sure if they'd fit. Google suggests 55m for a longjump runway + pit, which is a lot of space really. Also it'd have implications for multi-event sports.

Personally I think the decathlon and heptathlon should be lucky dip at the opening ceremony. Jess Ennis doing weightlifting and the parallel bars?!

Come on, let's do a new thread here :thumbsup:
 
Hanging Up The Boots - a football podcast with Danny Gabbidon, Sam Parkin and Rhys Weston. This week their special guest is the one and only Mark Gower. And the last episode they had Ben Coker on who was excellent.
 
Hanging Up The Boots - a football podcast with Danny Gabbidon, Sam Parkin and Rhys Weston. This week their special guest is the one and only Mark Gower. And the last episode they had Ben Coker on who was excellent.

Had a listen to a bit of this and was interesting listening to Ben but had to turn it off after about 15 minutes after they said "to be fair" for the 78th time.
 
Had a listen to a bit of this and was interesting listening to Ben but had to turn it off after about 15 minutes after they said "to be fair" for the 78th time.

It seems all people in football have their sayings they repeat. Tilly's famous "like I say".
 
Just listened to the latest Dave/The Magic Sponge with Rob Beckett and Jimmy Bullard and this one was the best so far.This was with John Sitton and his 90's Nightmare who had some interesting tales delivered hilariously albeit with a lot of bleeps !.
 
Just listened to the latest Dave/The Magic Sponge with Rob Beckett and Jimmy Bullard and this one was the best so far.This was with John Sitton and his 90's Nightmare who had some interesting tales delivered hilariously albeit with a lot of bleeps !.

I gave up with that. Rob Beckett's over the top and most of the time unnecessary laugh just got on my nerves. I know it's funny but you don't have to spoil it for us all!
 
Coming to this late (episode 50)....not convinced as yet.....

It takes an episode or two to get used to it. Is #50 the one that starts with the passenger announcements at Newcastle train station?

I'm enjoying The Totally Football League Show (Slipperduke's new venture, focusing on 'the 72')
 
It takes an episode or two to get used to it. Is #50 the one that starts with the passenger announcements at Newcastle train station?

I'm enjoying The Totally Football League Show (Slipperduke's new venture, focusing on 'the 72')

It is mate.
 
Just been absolutely captivated by The Thread With OZY - short podcasts that look into the relation of huge histocal events and the causes, working backwards.

Starting with the murder of John Lennon, it's spooky to hear Holden Caulfields' words come out of Lennon's mouth ("phony" was repeated time and again, the word the Salinger uses in Catcher In the Rye)....and then onto Salinger himself, his mental state caused by the things he saw in WW2 and having his heart broken by Oona O'Neill (who marries a much older Charlie Chaplin).

Fascinating and perfect at 20 mins each.
 
Quickly Kevin (...will he score). with Josh Widdecombe and friends.

It's focused on 90's football, they've had some great guests on there. The first 3 episodes of Season 2 were Frank Skinner, Darren Anderton and Dermot Gallagher. In Season 1 Matt Le Tiss, Merson, Jim Rosenthal and Iain Dowie.
 
Tell Me Something I Don't Know - the chap who wrote Freakonomics gets guests to "tell me something he doesn't know"....very American QI. For example, one bloke counted to 1 Million for charity and it took him 89 days. :stunned:
 
Started Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect...all about internet porn. Fascinating stuff - apparently the peak time for porn use is Monday mornings and female "artistes" struggle to get simple bank accounts as the bank managers (probably) think they're not fit to hold one, despite (probably) tugging themselves off in the works bathroom on a monday morning.
 
Started Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect...all about internet porn. Fascinating stuff - apparently the peak time for porn use is Monday mornings and female "artistes" struggle to get simple bank accounts as the bank managers (probably) think they're not fit to hold one, despite (probably) tugging themselves off in the works bathroom on a monday morning.

And making it and starring in it sounds absolutely depressing.
 
Started Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect...all about internet porn. Fascinating stuff - apparently the peak time for porn use is Monday mornings and female "artistes" struggle to get simple bank accounts as the bank managers (probably) think they're not fit to hold one, despite (probably) tugging themselves off in the works bathroom on a monday morning.

Is that Monday morning as in Sunday night or Monday morning as in during work hours?

And is that Monday morning in the UK (which would be 5-8 hours behind the US)?
 
Is that Monday morning as in Sunday night or Monday morning as in during work hours?

And is that Monday morning in the UK (which would be 5-8 hours behind the US)?

It's a US analysis done by those who run a wealth of free porn sites, so Monday morning there (work hours).
 
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