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Added 2024-04-28 17:01:00 +0000 UTCRight then, what’s going on in the show notes this week? Well, in pictures we start with a slightly sweaty and over-excited Richard (and a Blue Steel-faced Jason Barlow) posing with Pet Shop Boys. Then we have Jonny’s lavish JDM Nissan Bluebird Sylphy nail care kit, an actual Nissan Bluebird Sylphy, and the cover for ridiculous Steven Seagal’s ridiculous first album. In other news we have the Cobus 3000 airside bus that Jonny finds quite sporty, a classic Traaaaaansit Dormobile, the slightly weird grille of the Alfa Milano that’s now called the Junior, and the Alfa Tonale and mk4 Polo looking like their tracks aren’t quite wide enough for the mid-section of their bodies. Finally, two of Jonny’s favourite car colours, Alfa Romeo Montreal Green and that Audi green which is actually called Sonoma rather than, as Jonny said on the podcast, Sumatra. Now some links…
The ridiculous Steven Seagal song Jonny mentioned
Dormobile still exists, sort of
Alfa’s official statement on changing Milano to Junior
Documentary about Pet Shop Boys
Article about Chris Lowe’s Z1 when it was up for sale a few years ago
Comments
is this where i come clean and say the main reason i signed up to Patreon was to see the Nissan nail care kit (and to see if i needed one)
Russell Rhodes
2024-07-03 04:55:19 +0000 UTCRecently purchased a Polo 9n3 for daughter's first car, it's a great car
Daniel P
2024-05-07 19:13:37 +0000 UTCChris Lowe smiles?!?!?
Mark Richards
2024-05-06 20:00:39 +0000 UTCChrist's Chin! It's good to be back
Al Scott
2024-05-06 15:05:25 +0000 UTCWhile we’re on Steven Seagal, if you haven’t seen this it’s well worth 26 minutes and 33 seconds of your life https://youtu.be/3aCMTpJx2cs
Gordon Moar
2024-05-04 07:09:04 +0000 UTCYou all have to listen to Seagal’s music. I didn’t think that guy could get weirder. He can and did. Jonny reading out lyrics to Strut is nothing compared to the man himself vibing out a Carribean accent. A truly gifted human OTSOT.
Richard Barry
2024-05-03 21:39:39 +0000 UTCYou did Top Gear He’s a stroker You sell us things We love it You bring us Spowahtaaaaaah We need it An Eagle Quest You bought it
Gordon Moar
2024-05-03 16:56:53 +0000 UTCDid you know there was a Teletext quiz called Eagle Quest? Neither did I until about three minutes ago https://youtu.be/fXBClK4C_YY
Gordon Moar
2024-05-03 16:45:18 +0000 UTCYou lucky boy Rich.. Pet Shop Boys car chat.... Always into the pet shop boys... Well jealous.
Paul Fargher
2024-05-02 10:03:28 +0000 UTCI'd like to hear Neil sing the 'smith and sniff have merchandise' outro
Jim Galbraith
2024-05-01 17:59:47 +0000 UTCPorsche has the best green. Hands down. https://www.rennbow.org/porsche-colors/MambaGreen%20Metallic
Zoona
2024-05-01 15:34:01 +0000 UTCThat alfa green the touring is on the bucket list of cars to own 😍
Olly B
2024-05-01 11:58:21 +0000 UTCWhat’s all this Patreon stuff then? Is it like OnlyFans???
HowieG
2024-04-30 19:20:14 +0000 UTCSpeaking of greens....I feel like the green of the new-ish Peugeot 308 doesn't get enough appreciation.
Matthew Porritt
2024-04-30 17:25:50 +0000 UTCSounds like a Jackie Stewart tribute act.
Iain W
2024-04-30 11:51:09 +0000 UTCNow that Richard is besties with Neil and Chris, can you ask your mates to record a contrafactum of "Go West" with "Eagle Quest"? Along the lines of: Eagle quest, where the limos are long, Eagle quest, where we all belong, ... p.s. So pleasing to hear how happy meeting them made you feel :)
Oliver Dell
2024-04-30 11:37:28 +0000 UTCSo happy for Richard meeting the PSB’s. Jealous but I appreciate how much that would have meant to him. Guest appearance on the pod one day ? Send them some of your compositions - I can see them having a chuckle !
Mark Heeler
2024-04-30 07:56:16 +0000 UTCDid the Pet Shop Boys previously own a ln Eagle Quest Limousine?
David H
2024-04-30 07:44:02 +0000 UTCSteven Seagal driving a Nissan Quest minivan. Seagal Quest.
Brendan McAleer
2024-04-30 02:28:01 +0000 UTCWhenever I see a Hymer, I automatically think it says HYMEN.
Ross & Nicola Would
2024-04-29 21:57:01 +0000 UTCHey Mr Porter Catchup with TPSB ( Pet Shop Boys) while guests on 6Music with LaLa last week Thursday . They will also be picking their favourite tracks for a very special Desert Island Disco. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y9bj
Rob Stannard
2024-04-29 21:01:24 +0000 UTCOh. That's not the generation of Polo I thought you were talking about...
Niall Oswald
2024-04-29 18:11:28 +0000 UTCAccording to Range Rover nomenclature rules, Jonny's bungalow is clearly a House SPOWWWaaaaaaat.
Brendan McAleer
2024-04-29 17:12:58 +0000 UTCHaha Richard looks like a competition winner.
Ross Hetherington
2024-04-29 16:48:52 +0000 UTCThis is going to upset Jonny but Kate Beckinsale doesn't drive, so probably doesn't have much interest in cars. Then again neither does Noel Gallagher but he still owned a rare Jaguar MKII drop head conversion, so you never know.
Gordon Segar
2024-04-29 16:23:09 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday Richard, a sweet sweet guy. Lovely.
Andy N
2024-04-29 13:37:26 +0000 UTCJason Barlow has morphed into Max Zorin off of A View to a Kill, an’ all that.
Simon Gauci
2024-04-29 12:34:08 +0000 UTCjust leaving this here re: the saab nanna yarn https://www.saabplanet.com/how-tough-is-a-saab/
Jarrod
2024-04-29 12:17:05 +0000 UTCSo glad Richard got to meet his idols. Apart from Messrs Smith and Sniff whenever I have met someone of any level of fame they have been absolute twats of the highest degree. The worst was meeting Bobby LaBonte a NASCAR driver of whom my Dad was a great fan. When I got to meet him in 2014 he was so disinterested in giving me an autograph or my story I was physically shaking. It was an autograph sessions and I wasn't holding up a line or anything so there was no reason for him being like that. Jacques Villeneuve was also pretty twatty. Nice to hear that some real celebrities haven't got their heads too far up theirs....
Andy Pinchock
2024-04-29 11:58:56 +0000 UTCThis is incredible work!
Smith and Sniff
2024-04-29 11:23:14 +0000 UTCIt's really cool to hear someone you would like to meet, fanboy over someone they would like to meet that went well.
Stephen Voss
2024-04-29 08:42:19 +0000 UTCBMW Oxford Green Metallic 2
Mark Rutherford
2024-04-29 07:54:03 +0000 UTCLTD Update… In my pursuit of the truth with regard to wrong key being featured on the License to Drive poster I reached out to the director of the film, Mr Gregg Beeman, to see if he could help. After a couple of days I received the following response “I have no idea FOX marketing was in charge of the poster. Sounds like a 1988 photoshop mistake. “ And so Fox marketing is my next port of call… another quest continues..
Rus Clark
2024-04-29 07:53:09 +0000 UTCYup, my first thought too!
Peter Heamon
2024-04-28 21:51:44 +0000 UTCTwo things 1) Green cars- Hyundai’s Mangrive Green, as on my wife’s Bayon, is quite pleasant and also I find it inexplicably amusing that the tag on the keys from the dealer seems to call it Mongrove Green. 2) The American military thing is called a Cadence (the one in Full Metal Jacket obviously being the best version)
Robert Hempsall
2024-04-28 21:07:46 +0000 UTCGood to see you with the Pet Shop Boys and Christopher Walken
Craig Mathieson
2024-04-28 20:24:55 +0000 UTCNothing brings me more joy than my favourite car based podcast crossing over with my favourite duo based pop group
Stuart Richards
2024-04-28 19:54:17 +0000 UTCThey do say never meet your hero's, but here we can see the exception, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe must be made up, I can see a song being formed as we speak
Noel Huggett
2024-04-28 19:29:43 +0000 UTCI’m genuinely delighted for you to have met your heroes Richard. I once got very drunk with Jimmy Anderson and he was as great a guy as you could have hoped.
Dandydandan
2024-04-28 19:28:18 +0000 UTCWhen is "barnfinds with bekensale" starting?
James MacDougall
2024-04-28 18:53:51 +0000 UTCA quick play with Google lens translates most of the nail care set instructions. Most disturbing is the reusable ear cleaner! Translation: “Ear oyster - Clean inside your ears.”
DrivingForever
2024-04-28 18:52:35 +0000 UTCCan we please get Jack Spowart, Scottish Illustrator, to make an illustration of the Eagle Quest? https://www.jackspowart.com No really, that is his name.
H982FKL
2024-04-28 18:36:34 +0000 UTCSegal's band is called "Thunderbox" which quite frankly is where all his recorded output should go. The second album features such "hits" (rearrange the letters for a more accurate description) as "Talk to my ass". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_Priest
Daniel Withington
2024-04-28 18:19:47 +0000 UTCI will need a French version of 'On that side of things' something like 'De ce côté-là des choses' !!
Steve Morton
2024-04-28 18:05:54 +0000 UTCAccept no imitations.
Ronnie Whelan
2024-04-28 18:03:40 +0000 UTCBarlow looks very much like Christopher Walken
AL Dickens
2024-04-28 17:50:37 +0000 UTCThat personal care set looks amazing!
Andy Pinchock
2024-04-28 17:25:36 +0000 UTCLooks like you've won a competition on Going Live to meet the Pet Shop Boys.... In all honesty, I'm quite jealous of you
Andy Hicks
2024-04-28 17:15:08 +0000 UTCRichard has when your mum asks 8 year old you to pose for a nice photo vibes.
Adam McConkey
2024-04-28 17:05:13 +0000 UTC
