Podcast 149 - The cars of The Gold
Added 2023-03-05 18:00:02 +0000 UTCRichard has been suffering MOT day nerves while Jonny’s experienced a frost-damaged hose humiliation. Also in this episode, what’s wrong with the cars in BBC true crime drama The Gold, the extreme shouting at hand car washes, a shady car park encounter with a man in a tidy XC90, the eye-watering cost of going to the fair, fear of transportable rides going wrong, a dissection of 50 Cent’s Ayo Technology video, losing friends in a club and drinking a whole round of drinks to yourself, garages based on cocktail bars, the influencer Zeus, more zany Instagram posts from the CEO of Fiat, kestrel-faced singers, Jonny’s new idea for Puber, a cruise control in reverse update, and what happens when cruise gets jammed on.
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I bore my wife by explaining that most of the cars in period dramas are a) far to shiny as the actual owners will not them get dirty, b) end up being top spec versions of whatever model it is (e.g. Ghia/GXL) as Pop Plus basic versions are rarely kept. To be fair The Gold did well on cars actually looking like they were being used and not just come from a detailing session.,
Dave Smith
2023-03-10 10:06:28 +0000 UTCWell, that's 4 minutes 38 I'll never get back.....on that side of things.
Simon bland
2023-03-08 21:06:49 +0000 UTCI agree watching “recent” period dramas with wrong vehicles can be very stressful but I also get horrified by the retro computers sometimes used and being a plane geek as well the horror continues: something set in circa 1979/80..oh it’s an A320 interior…oh it’s a 737-300 in the air…then next shot is landing as a DC-9… Yes they need more research in so many areas not just clothes and hair cuts!
David Heath
2023-03-07 15:19:47 +0000 UTCMy wife also does not like mobile fair rides. She wants to know she will get hurt SAFELY! I grew up in Michigan. No MOT and no emissions checks. I am not saying that is a good thing but at the time I didn't really think anything of it. Had to buy thicker carpet to cover up the hole in the floor of my Triumph Spitfire and thought straight-piping passed the catalytic converters on my Firebird was OK.... I wouldn't do that today mind you.
Andy Pinchock
2023-03-07 15:17:04 +0000 UTCAs the co-owner of several old buses, I definitely get a twitchy eye when I see films or TV dramas with buses that are out of period. You can bet that any WW2 film involving scenes in London will feature an AEC Routemaster because it's red and says London Transport on the side. The Routemaster wasn't introduced until 1956. On the Brinks Docklands connection, the redevelopment of Docklands via 'dirty' money was alluded to in the 1980 film 'The Long Good Friday' in which the lead protagonist gangster Harold Shand is trying to go legit by getting the Mafia to help fund the Docklands redevelopment. Clearly the script writer Barry O'Keefe knew such things were in the pipeline.
John Hammond
2023-03-06 22:57:49 +0000 UTCIt must be hard to budget for era- appropriate cars for TV nowadays given most ordinary spec cars get scrapped and a derelict Escort Popular is £000s
Jim Galbraith
2023-03-06 10:52:58 +0000 UTCMy Dad, who is a tax consultant, was invesgated after the Brinks Mat robbery. His name and number were found in a notebook belonging to Kenneth Noye. They were sure he must have been involved, but, it turned out Noye had been given my Dad's number because he used to do moble discos. I guess he was planning a celebration party. My Dad loves telling that story.
Panda
2023-03-06 09:28:42 +0000 UTCFor anyone that's interested, the Brinks Mat story isn't done, apparently. Wensley Clarkson's book "The Curse of Brinks Mat" makes for fascinating (and slightly scary) reading.
Chris Squirrel
2023-03-06 09:19:28 +0000 UTCBoth of you worked on TV how actully hard is it for a prop person to get an accurate car in budget and on time for production
Bill
2023-03-06 02:28:13 +0000 UTCYou cant tax a vehicle withouth an MOT so picking up an untaxed one also catches most of MOT failures within the last 12 months
Sergey Baskakov
2023-03-05 20:37:29 +0000 UTCI work at a carwash, and I can confirm that my hands and feet are like sandpaper in winter.
Nick
2023-03-05 20:17:09 +0000 UTCI have an app on my phone that I use to keep a track of MOT dates etc. it’s called calendar! 😝
Peter Grogan
2023-03-05 19:46:42 +0000 UTCI attended a preview screening of The Gold at the BFI on 17 January, and during the Q&A afterwards Neil Forsyth made a point of saying that because relatively little had been written about the robbery it gave the production team more freedom to be creative without the risk of being challenged on the details. I was sorely tempted to put my arm up and say, "Yeah, but what about the Granada?" but I thought better of letting my inner nerd out.
Declan Berridge
2023-03-05 19:45:14 +0000 UTCI'm disappointed I'm Jonny's music taste, the fact that one of the very few 50 Cent songs he likes is on one of 50's weakest albums is disappointing though I enjoy the song. Also it is not early 2000s, it's late 2000s, the song was probably released in 2006ish and the album it was on was released in 2007. I recommend 50 Cent's first 2 albums, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. May I also add the song about 'being in a club' is literally called 'in da club'.
Julian Hale
2023-03-05 19:11:19 +0000 UTC47 mins - what do you do if your nose is on strike? Picket.
Graham Dallas
2023-03-05 19:06:09 +0000 UTCOne way to absolutely guarantee a MOT failure is to nervously check online while it's away.
Stgls
2023-03-05 18:59:51 +0000 UTCMOT tomorrow for our MX-5. Then need to sell it.
Stephen Archer
2023-03-05 18:54:49 +0000 UTCThe fair will be coming into Stamford on Mothering Sunday, love the fair, the slight sketchiness of it being chocked up on bits of wood adds to the excitement
Vincent Grey
2023-03-05 18:24:29 +0000 UTCJust found an import plate or Z plate as per last weeks pod. Came off an 83 fooorrddds Orion ghia injection - German limited edition. will go back on the wall. Dads last car.
Kevin Rushton
2023-03-05 18:13:35 +0000 UTCPainting n decorating ain’t never been so good! Will drag it out a bit!
Kevin Rushton
2023-03-05 18:12:12 +0000 UTCI love taking my cars for an MOT, even got a "best presented car I've had had for MOT in years for my 2014 Porsche 981 S
Nigel Hancock
2023-03-05 18:06:18 +0000 UTCSaw that Zeus guy in Paris once, he drove past me in his aventador. Boring story, boring man
Gabriel Grist-Parker
2023-03-05 18:01:29 +0000 UTC
