Podcast news & the return of episode 4
Craig & I are currently looking for a new host & trying to get all the previous episodes online. Soundcloud only gives you 2 hours of space & that ended up allowing us to have 3 episodes online at any given time, which is why episode 4 was only 6 mins long.
I think we’re going with podomatic, but Craig thinks we’ll only have space for 15 episodes. They also have a monthly bandwidth cap.
I have thought about paying for the media upgrade on wordpress, but that would create an rss problem that i can’t seem to find a solution for. We should be back on track in under a fortnight, regardless.
Also, Episode 4 made it’s way on to youtube. We originally talked about just putting it on there instead of having it as a real episode, so i guess it worked out that way in the end.
Podcast 8: Google Is…
Craig and Martin discuss Dalry’s economic state and economics in general, the Scottish schooling system, the concept of spare ribs, Murphy’s Law, Salò (or 120 Days of Sodom), the move towards a police state, google’s suggestive nature and a whole lot more.
Podcast 7: A Selection Of Cheese
Not Quite An Atrocity Exhibition
Back in 2003, I wrote a little about suggestive pop videos & how strange it was to see them on early morning television. I never posted it online, but it went something like this…
Imagine you’re a seven year old girl. You walk downstairs on a Saturday morning, grab the remote & turn the television on. Your favourite Saturday morning show is on, your favourite ‘pop star’ (wearing leather chaps , tight red knickers & almost a bra) is on promoting their latest single. You watch them mime sexual acts on other men & women for three and a half minutes while they sing lyrics that are nothing more than playground innuendo.
Seven years later, the Home Office is trying to ban exactly that.
My original point was that the parents shouldn’t let their kids watch it, I think I said something along the lines of…
…if mummy seen daddy watching it on his own, she would deliver a swift kick to the balls & file for divorce on the grounds that “if he’ll shag that, he could be getting weekend pussy from that tart across the road”…
That’s the point of these videos though, is it not? Shakira & co. want to look like they’d shag you in an instant because if you’re attracted to them, you’re more likely to buy the album or see them live (and probably pull a “Paul Rubens” in the venue, you dirty bastards). A few weeks ago, someone told me they were going to see Girls Aloud next time they had a show up here, just so he could ask Cheryl Tweedy/Cole (depending on what “news” paper you read & if it’s the early edition or not) to take a shit on him.
Something that happened recently on the aintitcoolnews.com message board made me think “Do the dads buy the CD for the kids & have a crafty wank to the album cover when the wife and kids are out?”
“Probably not,” I thought, “The Internet has made that kind of behaviour obsolete*.”
Has it, though? I’m pretty sure you could find a picture of Lady GaGa’s fanny, or Christina Aguilera’s tits on google images, but would someone waste time waiting for the computer to load up when the album is sitting right beside them?
Fathers of the world, get your answers on a postcard**.
* It didn’t make the AICN related thing obsolete.
** I’m pretty sure none of you will get distracted by the picture of Millport (other seaside towns are available) that’s on the front of them.
Podcast 6: Beggars Belief
Podcast 5: Tune In Next Week
Stuart joins Craig and Martin to discuss The Conservative Party, the Spiderman reboot, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and a whole lot more.
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