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Beyond The Boardroom with Aleksandra KingIan Stringer: What The Apprentice Didn't Show You?Ian Stringer: The Apprentice, Addiction, and Resilience Against All OddsThis episode of Beyond the Boardroom is a fiery bomb from the start. Ian Stringer, best known for his time on The Apprentice and his impressive broadcasting career, doesn't hold back. Our conversation begins with tension — one-word answers, guarded replies — but when Ian opens up, he delivers in an unforgettable way.We dive deep into: 💥 The Apprentice Experience – How reality TV fame shaped and challenged his life. 📰 Media Scrutiny – Facing the harsh glare of the spotlight after the show. ⚖️ His Battle with the BBC – Why Ian t...
2025-05-0239 min
The Best Pictures Podcast83rd Academy Awards - The King's SpeechJoin out hosts for the 83rd Best Picture winner, A King's Speech. Ian and Maggie both appreciated the top notch performances, and understated but deftly executed visuals.
2025-04-111h 19
IMMPRankin/Bass' THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980)In 1980, three years after their animated adaptation of The Hobbit, Rankin/Bass returned to Middle Earth in a very confusing way. They jumped straight to the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, to bring us THE RETURN OF THE KING as an animated TV musical. Join Ian and Matthew as they try to makes sense of this baffling media artifact.Support IMMPLinks:Previously on IMMP: THE HOBBIT (Rankin Bass, 1977)Previously on IMMP: Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)More Rankin/Bass on the IMMPMonty DonSkeletor | Wiki Grayskull | FandomStarscream (G1...
2025-03-0358 min
What I REALLY Learnt at School - Alfredian VoicesThe VOICE of Ian Lush OBE, Class of 1978In this engaging episode of 'What I Really Learnt at School - Alfredian Voices,' Ian Lush, OBE candidly reflects on his challenging yet fulfilling journey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded in early 2021 via Zoom with Tamlyn Worrall, Development & Alumni Relations Director at King Alfred School, Ian shares his experiences managing NHS charities amidst unprecedented circumstances.Ian shares a detailed account of his year, primarily spent working from home as the Chief Executive of Imperial Healthcare Trust and Chair of NHS Charities. He reflects on the early move to close their office, his role a...
2025-01-1533 min
The KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #59 – Chat with former Hollywood talent agent assistant turned physical preparation coach Tom LegathAfter graduating from college with a double major in Film and Anthropology, Tom left his home state of Pennsylvania to fulfill a dream of living and working in Los Angeles. Before he knew it he was living the dream, just like Kid Rock’s ‘Tennessee Mountain Top’ song…
Palm trees and beautiful hips
Man it doesn’t get any better than this
…until he wasn’t.
Just like the character in Kid Rock’s song, he wanted to different outcome than the life and the person he was becoming, so he did what many do pos...
2023-12-0141 min
TwohundredpercentPodcast 324: On a Rafa TipOn this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are joined for a second time by Evertonian Sam Whyte (in addition to our now regular guest host, the fire alarm in Ian's house) to pick through the rubble of another week of top line soccer, including the departure of the Everton boss. Rafa Benitez wasn't backed to the hilt with transfer funds at Everton but he made his presence felt in a variety of other no doubt long-lasting ways. Sam ably helps us sift through each of these, as well as revealing where Anthony Gordon gets his hair c...
2022-01-201h 01
TwohundredpercentPodcast 323: FA Cupcast2022's first Twohundredpercent Podcast sees your heroes reflecting on a bumper week of FA Cup 3rd round upsets. Ian is somewhat concerned both for Nuno Tavares' long term career at Arsenal and also by the continual merry-go-round of blind hope and incompetence that has characterised Newcastle United's disappointing season. Meanwhile, Edward busily picks out the best goal of the round, from lowly Kidderminster Harriers' shock win against Championship Reading. But where is Reading? We look into it and pull out an unlikely conclusion. If all this excitement isn't enough, we are joined by the Twohundredpercent Ro...
2022-01-131h 01
TwohundredpercentEpisode 321: Muhammadu FaalcaastThis week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is split into two parts. In part one your heroes investigate what is going on at Everton, a club who are seemingly in freefall in spite of their European Cup-winning manager (cough) and their owner's almost infinitely deep pockets. There's considerable there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-I mirth at some of the Toffees' recent business in the transfer market and any attempt to calm the nerves of jittery Evertonians is soon kiboshed by Ian, who has been watching them play all season. In part two, Edward and Ian report on their trip to Bognor Re...
2021-12-161h 04
TwohundredpercentEpisode 317: The Neil Warnock ShowHow many times have all of YOUR toenails fallen out? None, presumably. But one of your regularly scheduled heroes on this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast's answer to that question may well surprise (and horrify you). It would certainly interest the subject of this week's conversation, Professor of Podiatry and English football's most experienced manager Neil Warnock. He's been a controversial figure for much of his career in the dugout, but his recent sacking by Middlesbrough gave both Edward and Ian pause for thought. They've realised that actually, Neil Warnock has consistently been one of the best parts a...
2021-11-181h 06
TwohundredpercentPodcast 315: Coping with lossThis week's Twohundredpercent Podcast has lofty ideals, as Edward and Ian tackle the thorny and ever-present subject of loss.We discover the reason why any loss by a big team is now greeted by pant wetting on a national and international scale, and fire a stinging riposte to any pearl clutching ninnies whose innocence has been so badly abused by Norwich City's failure to win a game so far this season that they believe they ought to be expelled from the league. Your heroes also finally address the poignant question: were things better i...
2021-11-041h 01
TwohundredpercentPodcast 313: Against Modern EverythingThis week's Twohundredpercent Podcast walks the fine line between moral outrage and slapstick comedy like never before. However, for once it is neither Ian nor Edward's fault, they are merely playing with the hands that footballing fate has dealt them. There are some serious ponderings on Newcastle United's new Faustian takeover agreement, as well as Manchester United's wanton disregard for both their sporting legacy and their carbon footprint. Your heroes also delve into Paul Merson's affecting BBC documentary about the secret shame of football's gambling problem, complete with some valuable personal insight from Ian...
2021-10-211h 12
TwohundredpercentPodcast 312: Big Mick EnergyThis week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a Listeners' Questions special, with the entire agenda set by a bumper crop of queries sent in by you. Naturally, these ended up with Edward and Ian learning more about themselves and each other than ever before, but in between the discoveries there is also plenty of football chat.Ian holds forth on the efficacy of the Pozzo brothers' approach to running Watford FC, as well as the prospect of a populist fan-led uprising changing British football forever and for the better.Edward, meanwhile, is very keen that no-one notices...
2021-10-071h 14
TwohundredpercentPodcast 310: PenbargoIt's a(nother) bumper seaside special edition of the Twohundredpercent Podcast this week, as Edward and Ian return from the international break more fed up with everything than ever. Casual fans of Manchester United and people who vote Conservative should probably give this one a miss, as two weary old Trots do their best to pick through what's going on at Oldham Athletic, try to establish the numerically sustainable level of British football clubs and bitterly critique the BBC's new Premier League documentary series. But there's also hope for the future: Edward comes up...
2021-09-161h 19
TwohundredpercentPodcast 309 - A Loaf of Bread, Signed by Paul GascoigneOn this week’s all-thriller Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are thankfully joined by special guest Sam Whyte, who is artfully able to take both of your regular heroes – who had both been on the pop – by the hand through their weekly discussion of all things football. And what a week it’s been. Edward, Ian and Sam look on with grim faces at Manchester United’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, which is both inexpicable and wrong whichever angle one chooses to look at it.Arsenal’s recent travails are also revisited, with Sam revealing they’ve now made it...
2021-09-0159 min
TwohundredpercentPodcast 307: And Still He Has No HairThis week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is (probably) the only place that you'll get to both hear Sean Dyche talking backwards and admiration for Ron Atkinson's leather jacket. And that's just for starters, because Edward and Ian had all sorts of shit to unpack, what with it having just been the opening weekend of the Premier League season. Amongst their discoveries is that Pep Guardiola is (still) bald, Japhet Tanganga is now one of our own (if you support Spurs) and it's never not going to be too soon to make any jokes about Matt Busby.Ian imagines an...
2021-08-181h 10
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Fifty-One: Sportsnight with ColemanOn the final free-to-air This Is Our Everest until who knows when, sponsored by Bacon and Mustard, Edward and Ian have been watching a very special edition of Sportsnight from May 1969, when the assembled dignitaries were trying to find a new BBC football commentator. In addition to a potted history of the evolution of the Beeb's football commentary pool, David Coleman giving a cameraman what for, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and yet another appearance by Anglia TV's Gerry Harrison; your heroes finally call out Gary Sprake on a 52-year old bit of shithousery, Larry Canning gets the arsehole a...
2021-08-051h 01
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Fifty: So It Goes, 1976Get off your arse, because This Is Our Everest returns once again with your heroes watching So It Goes, the Granada TV music magazine show from August 1976. It's a notable programme too, as this was the national television debut of The Sex Pistols, a group of Dickensian herberts who were about to create a very big (albeit brief) stink.But what of the rest of the show? Edward and Ian encounter a geography teacher who should be at home with his family burping out some prog rock, Peter Sutcliffe playing upright bass, Peter Cook phoning it in...
2021-07-291h 02
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty-Seven: Public Information FilmsThis week's Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit a time when television was never explicit but nevertheless still fucking terrifying: the world of British Public Information films of the 1970s and 1980s. Their relentless efficacy is demonstrated early as Ian recalls exactly how the word SPLINK might save your life, before Les Gray, Kevin Keegan and Alvin Stardust step in with further handy hints.The general utility of a 30-foot long metal pole as a children's toy is considered, the dirty and disease-ridden European continent is thoroughly repudiated and your heroes are warned how to avoid gas...
2021-06-2457 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty-Six: The Golden Shot, 1974On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian visit some game show action from 1974 with The Golden Shot, ITV's terrifying crossbow-related teatime juggernaut. With Bob Monkhouse no longer on hosting duties, your heroes discover all they need to know about people casting a long shadow. Meanwhile, studio guest Frankie Holmes gives a terrified audience member guaranteed PTSD, something Ian no doubt makes worse by immediately trying to find her on Facebook. Ken Dodd does five minutes of material about Income Tax reform, demonstrating that he had at least a keen sense of irony if not a...
2021-06-1752 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty-Four: Bertha, 1985On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes have been watching an episode of the animated children's series Bertha from 1985. Ian has never encountered Bertha before so he's unaware of the incredible potential of this perhaps sentient machine that can make literally anything.However, there's still a business to run and as such we find ourselves needing to consider the impact of time and motion studies, the inadvisability of unilateral decision-making within the workplace dynamic and suggesting alternative revenue streams for the future of the compan, Edward grasses up the office's weak link and there's harsh...
2021-06-0345 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty-Three: Miss Anglia, 1980On this week's This Is Our Everest your heroes have their swimming costumes ready to go for the beauty contest-come-cattle auction that was Miss Anglia 1980, the kind of awful, degrading bullshit that was more or less completely obsolete at least a decade before this programme was broadcast and yet somehow or other still a thing in 1980. It stirs thoughts and feelings in your regular judging panel, who are taken aback both by Vince Hill's age and his undeniable Rainbow pedigree; reveal how often Ian thinks about Dr. Hook and are pleased to see the Peter Fenn Orchestra called from...
2021-05-2752 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty-Two: This England; SnookerThis week's emotional This Is Our Everest sees your heroes facing up to a 1978 episode of the Granada Television documentary series This England on the subject of Snooker, a game that both Edward and Ian found infinitely fascinating until watching this. Nevertheless, your regular correspondents rally to discuss the impressive common sense of John Virgo's career trajectory, the concept of excellence fatigue in professional sport and an idea for a lucrative new YouTube channel.Ian defends people's right to choose (specifically the right to choose to play billiards in this case), the word "hagiography" makes an appearance...
2021-05-2043 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Forty - The Russ Abbot Show, 1986On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching an episode of BBC1's The Russ Abbot Show from 1986. It allows your heroes to reflect both on Russ Abbot's lengthy some call it legacy as well as renewing our ongoing affair with the work of Les Dennis, now in his third appearance in the podcast. There's plenty of meat on these ravaged old bones, including a trek through some well weathered comedy landscapes, a consideration of the morals and ethics of doing impersonations of recently deceased people and a threat to withhold the licence fee.
2021-05-0651 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Party Thirty-Seven - Lift-Off With Ayshea, 1974This week, Edward and Ian have been watching Lift Off With Ayshea, a Granada TV-produced ITV pop music programme from October 1974. These were eventful and turbulent times and shows like this one did a lot of the heavy lifting with regard to helping people forget this. After a quick style guide to pronouncing Ayshea's name and a surprise appearance by no fewer than five old friends of the podcast, your heroes get stuck into the big issues. These include the perils of high-waisted trousers, definitive proof that Alvin Stardust is on the side of good and a consideration of...
2021-03-251h 04
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty-Six: Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way (1980)On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the BBC's monolithic dog obedience series Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way from 1980. It was a good opportunity for your heroes to top up on their own abilities to control their dogs (and children) as well as to receive some much needed group therapy, however bad it makes them look in the court of public opinion. Meanwhile, Ian is trialling a new ultra-patriotic theme to see if it will improve listening figures, the most famous dogs in Britain are assessed and Barbara Woodhouse's darts persona...
2021-03-181h 00
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty-Five: Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow (1988)On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched at episode of Noel Edmonds' Saturday Roadshow from December 1988. As the setting for these hi-jinx was purportedly The Kremlin, Edward and Ian are duly able to discuss the full scope of Perestroika albeit through the lens of multiverse theory, famously the last refuge of fatuous idiots and charlatans.NESR is a programme that Ian had never seen because he spent Saturday evenings at the time out and as such is only now able to face his demons. The results are predictable, with the ebb and flow of...
2021-03-1155 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty-Three: Shang-a-Lang (1975)This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the Bay City Rollers' 1975 ITV series Shang-a-Lang and found themselves grimly fascinated by it all. As one of our panel put it, it was the schadenfruede of a jaded middle-aged man watching young men present a terrible television programme.Your heroes ponder how much of an educational remit this programme must have had thrust upon it to justify its existence, dismiss the idea of a record of diesel locomotive hydraulics for being stupid and pointless and try to figure out the collective...
2021-02-251h 03
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty-Two: Cluedo (1991)This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the early 1990s celebrity panel whodunnit show Cluedo. Still reeling from the news that one of their most fervent regular listeners may have been done in with a snooker ball in a sock, your heroes discuss means, motive and opportunity all framed by one of the most gleefully cast and pantomimed shows from UK television history.Mollie Sugden, making her fourth appearance on this ridiculous podcast, chews the scenery and not even a technical breakdown which consigned over ten percent of the show's running time to...
2021-02-1853 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty-One: Triangle, 1981On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched Triangle, the BBC's North Sea ferry-based soap opera that was one of Auntie's most high profile disasters. It's a programme so glacially-paced, stupid and confusing that both Edward and Ian watched a second episode independently in the vain hope that they might find out what was going on. Edward has deep misgivings about the food while Ian offers a measured critique of Kate O'Mara's "system" at the roulette table. But if there's something they could both agree on, it's boobs. Everybody likes boobs. If you'd like to see Triangle...
2021-02-1147 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirty: All Creatures Great & Small (1978)On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching the BBC veterinary comedy-drama series All Creatures Great and Small. It's a programme with which Edward was already familiar but that Ian has never seen. Although he has seen Call The Midwife, which is in many ways very similar. Your heroes discuss the myriad design flaws with livestock, are disappointed by the contents of a tortoise and reminisce about a man Ian once knew who had an unfortunate and final encounter with a horse.But ultimately, all you're still here for is the arm...
2021-02-0450 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Eight: Hammer House of HorrorThis week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes visit the 1980 ITV horror anthology series Hammer House of Horror. Ian has a number of issues with horror, probably caused by his baffling insistence on living relentlessly in the real world. Edward - a gibbering, credulous buffoon - is, on the other hand, predictably quite a fan. They work their way through a number of paranormal and supernatural occurences with a critical eye, touching on the existence (or otherwise) of poltergeists and cryptozoological phenomena on the way. Are they real? Opinion is, predictably, divided.As if that wasn't...
2021-01-2148 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Seven: The Price is Right (1984)This Is Our Everest returns today, albeit as a far more sensible weekly edition, with Edward and Ian getting their RDA of The Price Is Right. Your heroes - one in particular - are both connoisseurs of the American programme, so how are they going to respond to the first edition of the Leslie Crowther-fronted UK series from March 1984? Pretty much as you'd expect, to be honest. In this bumper, seaside special, episode there's a gimlet eye run over the prizes on offer, endless talk of deep conspiracies and a rare mention of Carl Lewis.The parsimony...
2021-01-1447 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Four - Fanny Cooks For Christmas (1975)The final door of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably reveals the terrifying spectacle of Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas. Our heroes both watch this monstrosity every Christmas regardless and it doesn't disappoint. There are thoughts on hygienic food preparation, painting pissy leaves with melted chocolate and the best way to mix a Christmas cake.But really, you're all here for the same reason that we were: so settle down with a glass of something green, pop some mushrooms under your skin and crack open three dozen eggs as Edward and Ian do their best...
2020-12-2440 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Four - Please, Sir! (1971)The penultimate day of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar goes back 50 years to the black and white world of Please Sir! Ian is fascinated by any programme that depicts London in the early 1970s, even if it is just for the social documentary aspect, and as such is much more kindly disposed to this programme than his colleague.Your heroes discuss the potential emergence of a hitherto unheard London accent, the potential pitfalls of inviting only your enemies to your wedding reception and critique a preposterous incident in the annals of hospitality management. There's also...
2020-12-2332 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-Two: The Chas & Dave Christmas Knees Up, 1982Day 22 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian join Chas and Dave for their 1982 Christmas Knees-up. It is a programme that acts as a salve on both of your heroes' battle-scarred psyches and also one which allows Ian to expand upon his sitcom-worthy childhood family Christmases in North London (or Tier 4, as it is now better known).Expect pianos to be wheeled in and beer barrels to be breached by people who didn't really know which end was up. There's also thoughts on the career trajectory of Eric Clapton, the correct way...
2020-12-2235 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty-One: Yo Gabba GabbaDay 21 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Ian break all known rules for this already stupid and pointless exercise, picking a 2011 festive edition of Yo Gabba Gabba. Edward is keen to find out whether or not having two young children has now addled Ian's brain to the point that this is now the sort of television programme he enjoys and is not disappointed to discover the answer.That said, there are some excellent late gift ideas for the season courtesy of skateboarding royalty, Ian badly overestimates a 1990s TV heartthrob's age and a careful...
2020-12-2134 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twenty: Fat Albert, 1977Day 20 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1977 Fat Albert Christmas Special. It's your heroes' first encounter with this particular US television monolith but the helter skelter melding of the Nativity and A Christmas Carol soon takes a back seat to the inevitable questions. Can we really separate the art from the artist, when the artist in question did a Bill Cosby? How sanitary are junkyard clubhouses for human childbirth? And how exactly did Ian go a single day in his mad childhood without being murdered by strangers in a field, mangled on a dual carriageway...
2020-12-2033 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Nineteen: Concentration (1968)Day 19 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar and Edward and Ian are watching the Concentration Christmas special from 24th December 1968. Eschewing the commonly-held notion that the secret to a long life is mild cheese and exciting television, Edward has decided to try it the other way round with a 52-year old US game show and a honking lump of Epoisses. As two drunk Father Christmases do battle to win money for charity, Ian talks 1968, two Kennedys are assassinated and the intellectual rigour of The Price Is Right is called into question.No such charges can...
2020-12-1931 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Eighteen: The Lawrence Welk ShowDay 18 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees your heroes have their first encounter with the other-worldly Lawrence Welk, and The Lawrence Welk Christmas Show from 1972. Edward and Ian learn about what Republicans do to celebrate Christmas, most of them by the looks of it against their will. In amongst the songs and the forced child labour, Ian finally realises the awesome power Father Christmas has over children and fondly remembers The Andy Williams Show, which is far better than this.Meanwhile, you can rely on Edward to make several completely baseless accusations about what...
2020-12-1833 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Seventeen: Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game, 1973Day 17 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably sees Edward and Ian watching The Generation Game Christmas Special from 1973. Both of your heroes are thrilled to bits to see Frankie Howerd again and are effusive in their praise for both him and the show's titular host (he's in charge), Bruce Forsyth. Ian is very busy this episode, explaining the evolution of Christmas crackers, commiserating with the balding younger gentleman and wondering out loud whether your team's manager making a cameo on The Generation Game is what is really needed during a relegation battle. However, leave it to...
2020-12-1734 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Sixteen: Morning WorshipIn an entirely church-based 16th day of our Advent calendar, your heroes have been watching an episode of ITV's Morning Worship from 1993. It brings back all kinds of repressed childhood memories for Edward which is bound to have done him no good at all. Meanwhile, Ian learns about the Last Supper and offers some ruminations on the potency of language in the religious experience, something which can be easily undermined if someone decides to change the words of the Lord's Prayer.Freestyling clergy not withstanding, there are also thoughts on crib scenes as investments, high church Anglicanism...
2020-12-1631 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Fifteen: Christmas Night With The Stars, 1972In the 15th episode of our Advent calendar, it's a star-festooned Christmas extravaganza with the BBC's 1972 Christmas Night With The Stars. The normally risk-averse Ian gets another opportunity to engage with The Goodies for a reason you probably won't expect and also airs an inconvenient truth about Mike Yarwood. Edward is concerned that The Liver Birds may be hellbound for their lifestyle choices and whether or not any of this stuff is considered canon anyway.Your heroes also worry about the potential long-term effects The Young Generation may now be suffering as a result of their youthful...
2020-12-1536 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Fourteen: The Les Dennis Laughter Show, 1992Day 14 of this stupid Advent calendar sees your heroes watching The Les Dennis Laughter Show from 22nd December 1990. Ian is far from impressed with the programme, which delighted Edward who - uniquely among these festive selections - has chosen the episode. It's pretty thin gruel all round however, in the spirit of good will to all men, Les Dennis receives a full and unconditional pardon, conditional on us not ever having to watch this again.Why is Gazza unsuitable for Milk Tray adverts? Is two-and-a-half minutes enough time to really nail a yo-yo demonstration on national television...
2020-12-1433 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Thirteen: Micro LiveDay 13 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar looks at the world of home computing in December 1985 with the BBC Micro Live Christmas Special. With the eight-year age gap between Ian and Edward there's plenty of opportunities for some generational blindspots and your heroes gleefully walk right into them. There's the almost inevitable mention of the imminent robot uprising that defined the 1980s, hand-in-hand with its perky apocalyptic chum, the 1984 film Threads.Firebrand socialist rabble rouser Ian King speaks out passionately in support of the Drummers' Union and admits to being an accessory after the fact...
2020-12-1338 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Twelve: RunaraoundDay 12 of our Advent calendar sees your heroes watching another programme from the ITV schedule on Christmas Day 1980: Runaround, the energetic children's quiz presented by Mike Reid. It's a programme that provides Edward and Ian some blessed relief from the poundings that have gone and those that are yet to come. Up for discussion is plastics technology, taxidermy, Big Daddy's prospects as a breakout children's TV star and exactly how much animal abuse can really be tolerated in light entertainment. So now you'll know. If you'd like to watch the episode in question, you can find it here.
2020-12-1232 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Eleven: 321Day 11 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian revisit Christmas Day 1980 and an episode of 3-2-1. It's a programme that aggravates Edward in the extreme, not least because Ian remains entirely convinced it is some kind of Runic statement from another plane of human consciousness if he could only decode it.Whether he is right about this or not (he isn't), we discuss what primetime family entertainment was like 40 years ago with help from special guests Barbara Woodhouse, Quasimodo and a completely reprehensible man whose crimes went unpunished. No, not that...
2020-12-1134 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Ten: In Sickness & In HealthWhat would Christmas be if it didn't include at least one uncomfortable discussion about racism? Well, day 10 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1985 In Sickness and In Health Christmas special in order to facilitate this. It's a programme Ian finds so odious he doesn't even mention the fact it has a theme tune by Chas and Dave. Words such as "screed", "diatribe" and "bulwark" make an appearance. Our heroes speculate as to the exact way this programme got recommissioned and what it cost everyone involved, including society. If you'd like to be reminded of how...
2020-12-1031 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Nine: The Torvill & Dean Christmas Special, 1984Day 9 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian visit a curious and extremely topical festive extravaganza from 1984, The Torvill and Dean Christmas Special. The programme wasn't the light entertainment variety hour either of your heroes were expecting, but their initial relief quickly gives way to astonished disgruntlement once they realise there had been a key omission. Along the way, they discuss the Winter Olympics, pop a stalk in every church in two counties and casually invent the world's next great pornography franchise. If you'd like to see what Jayne and Chris did next, you...
2020-12-0934 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Eight: The Keith Harris Christmas Special, 1983Edward and Ian have both been to their fair share of honking parties, but Day 8 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar took them to Keith Harris' Christmas Party in 1983 and now all bets are off. Our heroes ponder whether or not Keith was a white supremacist, the exact wording of Orville's tenancy agreement and the potential incarceration of Stu Francis in a sweet-smelling sex dungeon. Ian reveals another telling part of this podcast's origin story and Edward rails against the duck. Can anyone stop either him or Cuddles before it's too late? Find out now. You can...
2020-12-0831 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Seven: The AppleyardsDay 7 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian seek to once and for all answer the question: were the olden days better? Their chosen method is analysing an episode of The Appleyards from Christmas 1956. Pantomimes come in for some significant critique by one of our panel, there's an encounter with a racist magician and Ian lays bare the stark reality of eating out in St Albans in the early 1980s.Was the past idyllic? Is capitalism actually a force for good? Do you want peas with that? Most of these questions...
2020-12-0732 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Six: Big BreakDay 6 (yes, it is really only day 6) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1992 Big Break Christmas Special, regardless of where they'd rather be or what they'd rather be doing. Listen as your heroes deal with the conflict of watching one of their favourite people and one of their least favourite people simultaneously for half an hour, as all the while what Edward seemingly believes to be a ranking tournament on the professional snooker tour takes place.There's also talk of Ian's likely whereabouts when this programme was first...
2020-12-0632 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Five: The Telly Addicts Christmas Special, 1989Day five of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar begins with an unsolicited and completely unrelated television recommendation, then our heroes get back to business and watch the 1989 Telly Addicts Christmas Special. Ian gazes on with horror and fascination at the career trajectory of Noel Edmonds, members of the general public are held up to open mockery and we find out how to go about getting to see 12 seconds of Victor Borge in 1989.Edward is heartily disappointed by the lack of competitive purity and corinthian sporting values with which the contest is fought, while Ian's...
2020-12-0535 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Four: Delia's Classic ChristmasDay 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf...
2020-12-0436 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Three: The He Man & She Ra Christmas SpecialDay 4 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar takes in Delia's Classic Christmas. Edward and Ian disagree about food on an almost recreational basis but are both keen consumers of it, so expect a variety of hot takes and disagreements about parsnips, Quality Street, microwaves and dried fruit.Our heroes also find time to assess Delia Smith's cultural impact, recommend robbing Marks & Spencer, discuss how Sisyphus would have cooked his turkey and identify the correct topping for a trifle. But the real winner today is prawns and pigs in blankets. The original surf and turf...
2020-12-0333 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Four: The He Man & She Ra Christmas SpecialBehind door 3 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar, Edward and Ian found the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special and did it ever raise a number of important questions. Our heroes discuss the finer points of Skeletor's anatomy, the proper parental response to your children going missing and a potential skill gap in the Eternia employment market. Etheria's chances to become a major tourist destination are downplayed and a discussion about the issue of dynastic succession on either planet takes a dark, if entirely predictable, turn. If you'd like to be as confused as us, you can watch...
2020-12-0336 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part Two: The Des O'Connor Tonight Christmas SpecialDay 2 (door 2?) of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watch the 1991 Des O'Connor Christmas Special and just like Des they're packing them in. Edward guarantees his bins will never be collected again, Ian summarily chalks off one of Mariah Carey's UK number 1 singles and Bernard Manning gets a well-deserved kicking.Meanwhile, Barry Manilow sends corset buttons popping in all directions, Edward gets a tattoo and there's an unseemly argument about chestnuts which suggests that the pressure of this stupid project is starting to get to our heroes already. If you want...
2020-12-0231 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Christmas Everest, Part One - Saint & GreavsieOn the first of 24 daily Advent Calendar editions of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian ease themselves in slowly by watching an edition of Saint and Greavsie from the 22nd December 1990. With the exception of a ratty tinsel Christmas tree you'd be forgiven for forgetting this was a festive edition at all, in fact, which is pretty much OK by us.There are philosophical discussions about exactly how much like Jimmy Greaves something needs to be before it essentially becomes Jimmy Greaves, Peter Shilton's testimonial achieves fleeting prominence and we do our level best to...
2020-12-0126 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Six - Crown CourtOn today's valedictory episode of This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian give themselves a little treat and watch Crown Court, a programme they both love. They explore the origins of this stupid podcast, whether or not there should be degrees of treason and why they're looking forward to Brexit. The main virtue afforded by Crown Protection is assessed and Ian doesn't believe who is playing the prosecution counsel. If you'd like to watch Crown Court too and see whether or not you believe it, you can find the episodes here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.This is t...
2020-11-3039 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Five - Out of TownToday's bucolic episode of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian watch an episode of Out Of Town. There's some extremely questionable and troubling content about the annual Appleby Horse Fair and then a sheep orgy, all of which leaves at least one of our heroes feeling particularly sullied.But while Jack Hargreaves queries the sexual morality of the ewe, Ian is more worried about issues of consent and the general propriety of the whole sheep industrial complex. None of this is a problem for Edward, who lives in a make-believe Richard Scarry world and...
2020-11-2939 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Four - That's Life!On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian find their most amusing misprints from local newspapers and watch an episode of That's Life from 1986. It's a programme that provokes a number of thoughts and feelings, particularly a quite unprecedented swell of good will towards the British general public in Ian, who had thought such things were long behind him.Edward has some alternative names for disenfranchised cobblers, we grass up a consumer who ought to know better for aiding and abetting in a criminal offence and are decidedly lukewarm about a sitting Member of Parliament...
2020-11-2842 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Three - Channel Four Presents BasketballIn an ironic twist, today's episode of This Is Our Everest (not sponsored by Just Juice) is both the first to feature any basketball at all and also the episode least likely to appeal to basketball fans. However, Edward has a perfectly reasonable defence and Ian has been watching the 1985 NBA finals instead so couldn't care less either way. There's good news for Canada, bad news for Telford and a chiding for Leicester's lack of ambition.How believable is Tom Cruise as an American Football player? And why has this question even arisen, in a programme...
2020-11-2737 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-Two - Going For GoldOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian revisit everyone's favourite trans-European quiz express, Going For Gold. It's increasingly a relic of a forgotten era in UK-EU relations and our heroes try and pick through the finer points of the Maastricht Treaty to figure out why this might be. There's talk of a giant quiz warehouse, Henry Kelly's voting preferences and a suggested way for Dracula to enter the United Kingdom post 2021.There's up-to-the-minute news of exactly where Finland is and Ian points out once and for all where it all went wrong for the...
2020-11-2639 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty-One - The Black & White Minstrel ShowOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian provide exactly the service the world needs: two more middle-aged white men talking about racism. Yes, it's The Black and White Minstrel show, a truly despicable relic of a past we'd all hoped was firmly behind us, however reluctant it was to leave. Neither of our heroes particularly like the programme but it did give them a chance to properly examine their prejudices and assess a totemic cultural phenomenon that is often cited but rarely actually seen.Thankfully, they did also find some time to address other...
2020-11-2537 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twenty - Tomorrow's WorldOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World from 1984. Edward is in an especially silly mood for whatever reason but is nevertheless able to provide an update as to the progress of the robot plan to take over the world. Ian, who usually missed most of Tomorrow's World getting ready to watch Top of the Pops, takes one for the team and watches the lot, potentially risking a seizure to do so.There's also some facts about the historical development of picture resolution for television sets and...
2020-11-2436 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Nineteen - Pebble Mill At TenOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian get into a festive mood to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pebble Mill, by watching Pebble Mill At 10. This is not, as Edward thought, a racy after-hours version of the BBC's venerable lunchtime magazine show but rather a shambling birthday party complete with a car rally, parrots and a really, really old 71-year old woman.Aided and abetted by two of their favourite Teds - Heath and Bovis - our heroes, now rapidly reaching the point of no return with their stupid project, celebrate the TV and...
2020-11-2338 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Eighteen - Wartime Kitchen & GardenOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian take a jaunty trip back to World War 2, with Wartime Kitchen and Garden. Ian finds it difficult to see the appeal in yet another British thing crowing on about the war and isn't even swayed by a plate of dried apple rings. Indeed, there's even the risk that programmes like this one are going to spoil the war for him entirely.Nevertheless, some important ground is covered: having already accurately described a pig, Ian learns about pig clubs and busts some common misconceptions about incest. Edward drops...
2020-11-2239 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Seventeen - HousepartyOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been invited to Southern Television's Houseparty, a cursed daytime TV discussion show that leaves one of our heroes absolutely foaming at the mouth. Meanwhile, Ian provides another potted history about an ITV franchise and we assess the right way to lose with grace and step aside with dignity, somehow without mentioning Donald Trump once.Richard Stilgoe makes an appearance, rattling the keys but doesn't stick around for the party, most of which is taken up by anchovies, sewing machines and corporal punishment. If you'd also like...
2020-11-2140 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Sixteen - Songs of PraiseOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch a 1977 vintage episode of the BBC's long-running religious programme, Songs Of Praise. Our heroes discover the secret to its success is the relentless and unchanging nature of its format, but they also find out a lot more. There's some unexpected but probably warranted dramatic criticism, an expose of a particularly strong-armed charitable scheme and the groundless impugning of a major cultural institution.Dinosaurs are - inevitably - discussed, in spite of the ever-present threat of smitings. Meanwhile, Edward owns up to having a special interest, pilgrims...
2020-11-2036 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Fifteen - Open DoorOn today's community-minded This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian examine two episodes of the BBC's Open Door from 1974. Public access television's many faces are examined closely, particularly those dealing with issues of sexual health and anarcho-communist syndicalism.Our heroes discuss the stark realities of being a volunteer answering telephones in a sexual health advisory drop-in centre, the future prospects for anarchy in the UK and finally establish once and for all the much- anticipated link between Jean Shrimpton, Al Pacino, Selma Hayek and Bob Hoskins. There's fungus facts and Ian's past life as a concrete...
2020-11-1943 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Fourteen - The Two of UsToday's episode of This Is Our Everest is the fourteenth, which means we're now half way through Lockdown 2 and feelin' fine. We're not, of course, particularly Edward who has done himself a mischief involving extra strong lager. The topic of the episode is the ITV sitcom The Two Of Us from January 1990, a programme simply bound to make you get your Doctor Whos muddled up. Our heroes marvel as a simple case of lost property quickly deteriorates into a charge sheet of criminal offences as long as either your arm or Nicholas Lyndhurst's head. There's also t...
2020-11-1837 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Thirteen - Friday Night LiveIt's episode 13 of This Is Our Everest, which is unlucky for some. Particularly, it turns out, Harry Enfield, who gets an absolute reaming as Edward and Ian watch Channel 4's questionable alternative comedy variety show Friday Night Live from 1988. Our heroes speculate about Green Room practices and Feargal Sharkey's life choices as well as digging into Ian's childhood cultural life and schoolboy crushes.But it's the Loadsamoney section you're all here for and you won't be disappointed. Unless you're the sort of tory scumbag who shouldn't be listening to this podcast to start with. They can...
2020-11-1746 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Twelve - Top GearIn today's alpha male edition of This Is Our Everest, the lads have been watching Top Gear. However, anyone expecting bants, pranks and racially insensitive remarks will be sad to hear that it was an episode from 1989. As such, our heroes are just as likely to be discussing the strange evolution of Top Gear from pokey, dry as a bone motoring magazine programme to international culture juggernaut.There are also thoughts on Jeremy Clarkson's schooldays, the price of both super unleaded and the human soul, and the value of an anti-corrosion warranty to Lancia drivers. The...
2020-11-1638 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Eleven - The Six O'Clock ShowOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian continue their odyssey through non-current Current Affairs with The Six O'Clock Show from July 1982. It's a programme Ian remembers fondly from his childhood and as such this edition is filled with memories and insight. Up for debate are walkmans, vegetable show grift and the futility of live traffic reports on teatime live broadcast television.Greg Dyke is given his due, there's some hard-hitting investigative journalism looking into the fried chicken market and Conservative governments - both past and present - are assessed with an even hand. There's...
2020-11-1542 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Ten - Ulysses 31On today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian pay a visit to the 31st Century with Franco-Japanese cartoon series Ulysses 31. What they discover is that very little in the 31st Century makes any sense. In amongst their aghast fury at the incomprehensibility of it all, our heroes try to unpick Ulysses' real motivations, bemoan the absolute liberties taken with the concepts of time and space and learn a salutary lesson about revisiting anything from your past. France emerge as a world leader in technology and there are stark warnings for geese. You can watch what we did here.
2020-11-1434 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Nine - NationwideOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and a lurgy-riddled Ian tackle the 8th June 1981 edition of the BBC's venerable flagship current affairs magazine programme, Nationwide. There are some particularly strident views about the BBC's archival policies and how well Frank Bough is aging; a terrifyingly up close and personal encounter with a tennis professional and a tour of London with Fred Housego.Our heroes also run the rule over the political prospects of Roy Jenkins and Ian fondly recalls the good old days of scamming, before it all gets too much and the plight of...
2020-11-1348 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Eight - Junior KickstartToday's This Is Our Everest brings you sporting entertainment courtesy of Junior Kickstart. Watching teenagers fall off motorcycles, however, had limited appeal for Ian, who spent most of his time worrying about safety and wondering how they got the bikes in the first place. There are also thoughts on watching television at school, British Leyland cars, scrap metal yards, the dark art of holiday time TV scheduling and a perhaps slightly overstated claim in an obituary. As ever, you can watch what we're on about here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you ca...
2020-11-1238 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Seven - Oh Happy Band!On today's This Is Our Everest, the laughter and joviality of the last few editions is brought to a grinding halt as Edward and Ian watch Oh Happy Band!, a comedy series from 1980 that is so relentlessly boring and unfunny it hasn't seen the light of day since. Until now!There's much wistful reminiscence about how every other Croft and Lloyd sitcom is far better than this one, an explanation of how twitching an birdwatching are not quite the same thing and some thoughtful consideration of the likelihood that a home-stuffed rare bird with an electric...
2020-11-1133 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Six - Bangers & MashOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch Bangers and Mash, a 5-minute long children's cartoon. However, this does nothing to stop them having a frankly bizarre discussion about parenting techniques, Chas and Dave and ape taxonomy for nearly eight times that long. Ian is not at all convinced by the punishments meted out to the titular characters and isn't shy about saying so. Meanwhile, Edward encourages you to beat your children, a view not shared by this podcast as a whole. If you want to see what all the fuss is about (and you should), you...
2020-11-1037 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Five - Emu's Broadcasting CorporationOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watch Emu's Broadcasting Corporation from November 1978. With our heroes already showing distinct signs of battle fatigue, only Emu could possibly bolster their spirits. Or so you'd think. They discuss the utter believability of Emu as a sentient being, tear Michael Parkinson a new one and ponder life as it was in 2007. Ian's long-repressed fear of Billy Dainty is brought screaming back to the surface, while Ed suggests a classification and categorisation system for Milk Tray advert parodies. If you want to watch Emu in full flight, you can do so...
2020-11-0935 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Four - A Question of SportThe fourth episode of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit an episode of television's longest-running sports quiz, A Question of Sport. Both of our heroes choose their ideal line-up of Question of Sport guests and will probably regret it at some point in the future.There's also ruminations on David Coleman, the advisability (or otherwise) of professional cricketers publicly espousing dog fighting and a realistic assessment of the uncling credentials of both of the team captains. There's also some vigorous critique of rugby and Ian Botham, and an exposé of a clearly fraudulent conversation b...
2020-11-0832 min
TwohundredpercentThis is Our Everest, Part Three - Calendar Goes PopOn today's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian revisit Yorkshire in December 1980 and the music magazine programme Calendar Goes Pop. No-one is particularly pleased about this, particularly Tom Robinson. Up for discussion are the relentlessness of Richard Madeley, the value of historical perspectives in popular music shows and the current whereabouts of The Yorkshire Ripper.There's also live Googling (always a crowd favourite), a test of sphincter control and Ian chooses what gig he'd most like to have gone to, had he been in West Yorkshire 40 years ago. All this, plus live music from Vardis! If...
2020-11-0742 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part Two - Les & Dustin's Laughter ShowEpisode 2 of This Is Our Everest sees Edward and Ian bravely tackle the potentially poignant but probably not that funny Les & Dustin's Laughter Show from December 1985. Both of our heroes remain particularly mindful of the sad, premature demise of Dustin Gee which took place just days after its original transmission.However, there's only so far anyone can hold back under such sustained provocation. What's the best way to make cow pats look realistic on television? Is Roy Walker in Combat 18? Are we laughing at the right places? Who the hell is the completely uncredited musical guest...
2020-11-0637 min
TwohundredpercentThis is our Everest, Part One - Whittaker's World of MusicA second pandemic lockdown has begun, with the prospect of plenty more days sat forlornly in front of the television ahead. Then again, it could have been worse: it could have happened in the pre-digital age. As it is, the fact it is happening now can't save Edward and Ian from their own stupidity. This Is Our Everest sees our heroes shut inside watching whatever analogue TV had to offer, to see what they can learn. Why? BECAUSE IT'S THERE.The first episode sees them visit Whittaker's World of Music, an ITV musical variety show from 1971...
2020-11-0536 min
TwohundredpercentPodcast 220: Scorchio, Part 10 - International Superstar SoccerIn this week's season finale, Edward and Ian play International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, the plucky cousin of the Winning Eleven Series of games that have long since cornered the market along with their FIFA counterparts. Much resolution is reached, too, with the definitive call on all coin tosses, Global Hypercolour kit designs and (after admittedly some initial shots are fired) signs of a rapprochement in the Sega-Nintendo console wars. Is Turkey in Africa? Would a robot that just barks out factual statements of the thing that just happened be better than Peter Dru...
2020-06-051h 03
TwohundredpercentPodcast 219: Scorchio, Episode 9 - FIFA 20 & Football Manager 2020This week, Edward and Ian forgo the usual rigmarole of playing old video games and instead have been playing brand new ones.Ian has been gawping in wonderment at all that FIFA 20 has to offer, leading him to curate an increasingly impressive selection of balls, ponder the vissisitudes of inflation and contemplate the idea of FIFA 21 being entirely played behind closed doors due to an outbreak of a disease that none of the computerised participants could even reasonably contract.Meanwhile, Edward does battle with Football Manager 20 and finds himself riven with indecision, too scared...
2020-05-291h 16
TwohundredpercentPodcast 218: Scorchio, Part 8 - StrikerThis week, Edward and Ian have been playing Striker on the Mega Drive, one of a number of Striker games that were available during a period of the early-to-mid-1990s now known to historians as The Striker Era.It's an all-encompassing arcade-style football game which seems to have pleased them both and brought memories of halcyon days of video gaming flooding back. Gaming histories and peccadillos are laid bare all over the place, and our heroes give due consideration to whether or not being good at video games should be considered a life skill....
2020-05-221h 03
TwohundredpercentPodcast 216: Scorchio, Part 7 - Fantasy GamesThis week on Scorchio, Edward and Ian give their thumbs a rest and their brain holes a workout, each coming up with some football video games that they would like to see made. Chiefly because they would like to play them. What happened next was potentially psychologically revealing or potentially the genesis of the next generation of football games. Or both. Time will tell.There's plenty of meat on these tasty bones, though, with talk of kicking cans, a vengeful Peter Shilton, mailing forms in duplicate to the County FA and a jaunt through the Roy...
2020-05-151h 02
TwohundredpercentPodcast 214: Scorchio, Part 6: World Championship Soccer 2This week, Edward and Ian continue to be cockteases of the worst possible kind, playing a football game programmed by Sensible Software that isn't Sensible Soccer, while you all sit around on tenterhooks. Vinegar strokes or no, World Championship Soccer II on the Sega Mega Drive is an interesting curiosity, part fun-filled arcade romp and part calamatously shonky and infuriating missed opportunity. A slap in the face for anyone who ever thought that World Cup football might be good and pure.Can England overcome the odds at Italia 90 this time around, now that United Arab Emirates...
2020-05-081h 00
TwohundredpercentPodcast 212: Scorchio! Episode 5 - Match Day & Match Day IIThis week on Scorchio! Edward and Ian have been playing Jon Ritman's seminal Match Day series, perhaps the first football simulation game to prove that they don't all have to be just garbage, absolute garbage. As they thrill at its pioneering advances in game physics, rakish multiplayer functionality and a version of the Match of the Day theme tune seemingly played down a tin can telephone by the murderer who is currently upstairs in your house, there's also consideration of any or all of the following:Was 1984 the most 1980s of all the years of the 1980...
2020-05-011h 03
TwohundredpercentEpisode 210: Scorchio, Episode 4: Super SoccerThis week on Scorchio!, Edward and Ian venture behind enemy lines in the console wars to assess the lasting cultural impact of the SNES game Super Soccer. Both of our heroes have a variety of fruity and completely groundless thoughts and feelings about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Perhaps it was karma from these which saw one of our panel receive the kind of hiding from the CPU normally reserved for characters in lazily-written 1990s sitcoms during play testing? There's analysis of Ian's income in 1992, an empty threat to invade a sovereign European nation and wistful reminiscence about characters as...
2020-04-241h 04
TwohundredpercentPodcast 209: Scorchio, Part 3 - Why Did Video Games Hate The World Cup So Much?The FIFA World Cup is such a beloved global carnival of soccer funtimes that there's simply bound to be a series of downright mercenary, dismal and shonky video games devoted to it. Or so you might think. And you'd be right. This week Edward and Ian look at the first three officially licenced World Cup video games and quickly find themselves dissolving into a world of acrimony, crushing disappointment and swivel-eyed frustration. How can you keep the ball when you can't see your player? Is the possession game redundant if you can't pass backwards? And how many players can you...
2020-04-171h 01
TwohundredpercentPodcast 206: Scorchio, Part 2 - FIFA Soccer 95This week on Scorchio, Edward and Ian have been battering their B buttons as they got back to grips with FIFA Soccer 95. In many ways it is the first modern FIFA game, in that it came out a year after the previous one and a year before the next one and if you didn't get them all your peers would shun you. FIFA revolutionised the genre 25 years ago, so now two bitter old men pass judgement on whether or not it still holds up today. Can Scotland win the World Cup? Are All-Stars teams cheating? And how is it possible...
2020-04-101h 01
TwohundredpercentPodcast 204: Scorchio, Part 1 - Football Manager (1982)Hello everybody, and welcome to the first episode of Scorchio, our new series revisiting the football video games of the past. Every week, we'll be tearing down a different game and delivering the results to you. Apologies for the slightly rough and ready nature of this first episode, but it'll be improving over the coming weeks.In this first episode, Edward and Ian relive Ian's childhood with the classic, pioneering football management simulator, Kevin Toms' Football Manager for the ZX Spectrum. How does the granddaddy of them all stack up against the competition, 38 years after it...
2020-04-031h 13The KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #55 – Chat with former US Olympic Athlete Carrie SheinbergCarrie Sheinberg was a technical skier who competed at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics in slalom. She was named to the US Ski Team when she was 17-years-old and stayed on the team for eight years. Sheinberg won US titles in combined in 1995 and in slalom and giant slalom in 1997. She later attended the University of Utah and became a sports reporter. She worked for several years as a producer for ESPN Radio and also for Sirius XM Satellite Radio.
Carrie met Ian King in the mid 1990s during camps with the Canadian National Ski Team and took...
2020-02-2558 minThe KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #54 – Chat with KSI Coach Keith MinikusWhen pain becomes your teacher with physical preparation coach Keith Minikus
Keith is a physical preparation coach based in Texas USA with a long history of strength sports training – football, powerlifting and Olympic lifting. Over time Keith developed some series injuries that were threatening this ability to continue what he loved to do, train. Frustrated by not being able to find solutions, Keith stumbled upon the KSI Coaching Program and begun to get quick results in injury rehab. Ironic as it was back in about 2001 when Keith first read an Ian King article but was put off by...
2020-02-1540 min
Ian Jeffrey KingIan King - The Lone Tree EPClips from the 2019 remastered version "The Lone Tree EP" by Ian King.
2019-10-1202 minThe KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #52 – Chat with KSI Level 2 Coach Jason LomondIn the late 1990s, Jason was first exposed to Ian King’s writing. Then in 2000, at the annual SWIS Convention, Jason was live in Ian’s presentation and enjoyed some in-person exchanges during that event.
Jason then went off on a journey of self-discovery, moving through experiences in the physical preparation industry and allied professions.
Now, some 20 plus years later, Jason journey has brought him back to KSI, in the KSI Coach education program. Jason has moved quickly through the first three levels of the program – L0, 1 and 2, and plans to attend L...
2019-09-181h 10
The Best Pictures Podcast22nd Academy Awards - All The King's MenThis week, Maggie and Ian are back to award winners, dissecting the clusterfck that is All the King's Men. It's a textbook how not to do a book adaptation with editing that makes you say "just why?". Have our hosts found a new least favorite Best Picture winner? Listen to find out!
2019-04-131h 09The KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #48 – Celebrating 20 years of Get Buffed!™20 years ago the bodybuilding community got its first taste of Get Buffed!™ when a series of programs were published in the online magazine t-mag.com (as it was known then).
"Ian King has gained a great deal of popularity amidst the hard-working and smart-working core of bodybuilders who want a more complete understanding of the "why" and "how come" beneath the surface of muscle building. He gives the student of weight training insight into every practical question he or she would ever ask about getting bigger, stronger and leaner: how to determine the true training effect of working out; how to...
2019-03-011h 28The KSI Huddle Podcast with Coach Ian KingHuddle #46 – Chat with Eric Chessen, Founder of Autism FitnessIn this podcast Ian King chats with Eric Chessen, founder of Autism Fitness. The mission for Autism Fitness as a business is to provide not just fitness programs, but effective and reliable fitness programs for every individual with autism and related disabilities. Autism Fitness also serves as a bridge between the professional fitness and autism communities (families, educators, and therapists). The business also provides the Autism Fitness Toolbox and the Autism Fitness Certified Practitioner program. Learn more in this podcast!
2019-02-041h 11