The Pod & Chips Podcast

Pod and Chips: Not Football Weekly, Ricky Gervais, or BBC Radio 4.

That’s our not-so-subtle tag line for this episode as we look for ways of tricking people into downloading our podcast, instead of the ones they actually wanted.

Also James proves he is like a paranoid old Granny when it comes to privacy settings on Facebook, and a grumpy old man when it comes to general politeness in society.

As ever we have some of your comments and corrections from the last podcast, and another diary entry from the tour bus of Lady Gaga. Hurrah.

Go on, download it now. It’s free and all.

And finally, as an extra special treat for the new year we’ve added some exciting bonus online content to go with the podcast…

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James lives in Manchester now, which has led us to try our hand at recording one of these on Skype.

Needless to say it didn’t go very well and we ended up speaking to each other down the telephone.

Next time then we’ll try a different type of technology to help us sound slick and professional; something called a train.  I’m not sure how that will work either, but I’ve been told it doesn’t rely on the interwebs to make it work properly so it’s worth a punt.  We’ll have to wait and see if it works.

Anyway, this is just a mini Merry Christmas episode to prove that we are both still alive and that we haven’t forgotten about making these audio treats*.

That’s all there is to say about this episode.  Full service will resume in the new year. Promise.

Merry Christmas!

* not actually guaranteed to be a treat.

So the Pod & Chips podcast develops into what we’ll call a ‘mature infant’ in the second episode. We still don’t know what we’re doing, and the content hasn’t got any better, but at least we’ve refined the recording technique a bit. Hurrah.

In this episode we look for a podcast theme tune as Matt tries to create a Pod & Chips brand, there’s more from our resident expert Robin Tonyson who is out and about in a shit area of West London, and there’s another tale from the road as Lady Gaga gets her jump leads out and sets off in her tour bus.

Plus we talk about getting old and all the things James wants to do before he hits 30 and has an inevitable mid-life crisis, we take a look at some websites that don’t exist anymore, and we hear the strange tale of James’ bitter lemon.

Go on, download it now, you know you want to.

Oh, and thanks to the excellent and lovely Rory Auskerry for providing a bit of extra vocal talent this time around.  Read the rest of this entry »

The inaugural episode of the Pod & Chips podcast kicks off an East London vs West London debate, an argument over whether vinyl is a dead format or not, and Matt tackles James’s view that reality TV includes too much pointless conflict.

Plus we dip our toes into the world of comedy with The Secret Diary of Lady Gaga and Robin Tonyson’s Shit London amongst others.

Here’s how it shapes up…

1 – Welcome to the podcast
2 – East London vs West London Part 1
3 – Stick the radio on!
4 – East London vs West London Part 2
5 – The Secret Diary of Lady Gaga
6 – Is vinyl dead?
7 – Stick the TV on!
8 – Conflict on TV
9 – Robin Tonyson’s Shit London
10- Goodbye

This podcast uses the following sound files from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org):

• TV Turn off effect from orehek
• TV Turn on effect from THE_bizniss
• Baby Crying from MorganTJ
• Schoolyard & highway urban effect from cognito perceptu
• Shopping Mall effect from sagetyrtle
• Answering machine beep from NoiseCollector
• Dial Tone from hyderpotter
• Hang up from ondrosik
• Dial up modem effect from Jlew
• Creaking Door from HerbertBoland
• Harpsichord Dream effect from zerolagtime
• Car Door effect from patchen
• Car Door closing effect from Heigh-hoo
• City traffic ambience from lth_stp
• Diesel engine effect from klankbeeld

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