Podcast 131 - Rebel without The Corrs
Added 2022-10-23 17:00:07 +0000 UTCThis week, Jonny is in Ireland drinking Guinness, sadly not in the company of his favourite family-based band. Also in this episode, an old school night out, drunk electric scootering, great Opel upholstery, trying to draw the Vauxhall badge, the Rolls-Royce Spectre, the other cars Rolls owners have in their garages, the problem with the Peugeot 1007, the Smart #1, EVs being too eager, leisurely driving with drum βnβ bass, doing a careers talk with a tight head, getting distracted by a Eurostar train, the work of Heuliez, rubbish Cockney insults, sports showers, not liking Irish number plates, finding Jonny a new car, and a DnB theme tune.
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Very observant of Jonny to spot the alternative font favoured by car enthuiasts in NI. The font is actually called 'Metro' and is usually an MOT failure. This means the annual ritual of sticking a legal plate on for an hour to get the MOT. It's most popular within the VAG scene. We like the 3 letters and 3 numbers combo....as it has a bit of symmetry......in my own opinion a much neater approach than the high scoring game of scrabble type plates you have in England!!!! I still love you JS despite your lack of appreciation for the mighty Metro.
The Sloaner
2022-10-28 15:37:10 +0000 UTCA few years, during which I convinced her to get shot of the 1007 and replace it with a perfectly acceptable Citroen C3.
John Hammond
2022-10-28 08:21:37 +0000 UTCAre there English subtitles? If so, Iβll fire up the VPN!
Ed Storer
2022-10-27 23:28:18 +0000 UTCI agree. But the same applies to the Taycan, no?
Ed Storer
2022-10-27 23:27:23 +0000 UTCDid you date her for long afterwards?
Ed Storer
2022-10-27 23:24:57 +0000 UTCEvening lads, the Drum n Bass your referring to is most likely liquid DNB, melodic melody, lots of synth and sometimes dreamy vocals but some slightly filthy Basslines etc ππ»πΌbeen my favourite genre since the early 2000s
mark bacon
2022-10-27 18:44:26 +0000 UTCYou were discussing the prangworthiness of EVs recently. See if you can have a look at the insurance industry figures. I did some work with them about a year ago and there was quite a striking trend: low end EVs (e.g. Zoe) have lower accident rates than petrol equivalents. High end EVs have higher rates, the assumption being that lots of new EV owners do their best 'Mustang leaving a car show' impression before they get used to the torque.
Book of the Future
2022-10-27 16:11:24 +0000 UTCI've heard Richard's "night air" (the sudden realisation of drunkenness upon going outside) referred to as "the fresh air sniper" which I'm quite fond of. It's often followed by a tactical chunder.
Ben Payne
2022-10-27 15:55:37 +0000 UTCMind blown. The hours I spent in the Triangle snooker club in the late 90s, walking home in the wee hours past the kebab stall there. I never even knew it was called that! My friend's girlfriend even got knocked out by a charming gentleman right in front of it. Ahhhh, Bristol in the 90s.
Rupert Procter
2022-10-27 14:57:06 +0000 UTCIt's on GoogleMaps https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3903727,-2.4074198,3a,75y,233h,79.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDQBDw58uwkXhIHE49GKGdg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 I imagine it can't be called Jason's Donervan because that Kebab van famously occupies a spot at Clifton Triangle in Bristol.
John Hammond
2022-10-27 09:29:15 +0000 UTCI only moved back to the UK in December of last year after 22 years in Hong Kong, so I don't know that one, but it sounds like a missed opportunity to call it Jason's Doner Van... If they sell 'vegan kebabs' (which my better half who is not from the UK keeps insisting is a thing) then I may pay it a visit - just after a visit to the local flying pig farm...
Rupert Procter
2022-10-27 07:45:36 +0000 UTCAnd finish the night at the 'Jason's kebab' van on the Newbridge Road? Ample Voi scooter parking
John Hammond
2022-10-26 19:31:43 +0000 UTCBath's my home city and it does have an odd juxtaposition of the high brow and low rent about it. I had to chuckle when I was there yesterday (with Richard and Jonny in mind) when a rather posh lady told her daughter that she'd meet her, "arind the corner from pindland." Additionally, Richard knowing of, and mentioning on air, 'The Good 2 Bad and Hugly' AKA Jimmy Ryan of Ruff Kut! Records has aroused me disproportionately. As a local to the Bath area, I would like to provide Richard with an open invite to come over and thumb through my 1,500+ record strong 90s Jungle and Drum 'n' Bass collection any time he likes. Perhaps a piss in a local building site or drunken electric scooter ride to boot?
Rupert Procter
2022-10-26 09:40:14 +0000 UTCJust throwing it out there Johnny - a Panda 100hp can fit 4 and with the back seats down can carry a surprisingly large amount of stuff!
Tom Gillespy
2022-10-25 16:19:48 +0000 UTCAnd at Mach 5
Paul
2022-10-25 08:39:58 +0000 UTCI'm 100% with you here. Why would I want a turbocharged razor either. Dragging it down your face off boost and then it kicks in and takes an ear off.
John Hammond
2022-10-25 07:43:38 +0000 UTCRichard's description of the Peugeot 1007 as toss really doesn't go far enough. I started dating a girl back in 2006. In the early chats I mentioned I was a terrible vehicle bore. She enthusiastically announced that she had a car I would love that had electric doors. She was 22 and driving around a pensioners misery bus in that vivid bright orange popular across the Peugeot range at the time. It was a 1.4 8v and I can honestly say I've done farts that had more grunt than that insipid thing. Lifeless controls, terrible handling and as you say stupid stupid doors. When I questioned her choice of car she said "it's a lovely colour" and just a little bit of me died inside. I'd have had more respect for it if you could have driven round with the doors open like a Post Office spec Sherpa van.
John Hammond
2022-10-25 07:38:49 +0000 UTCAs well as shower names, what about random use of βturboβ, especially razors. What the merry hell is that about?
Paul
2022-10-25 06:17:15 +0000 UTCI don't know what your feelings are on US plates but guy on Instagram is ranking them he talks a lot about fonts https://instagram.com/thetravelingbeardd?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Bill
2022-10-25 02:18:34 +0000 UTCJust picturing the Archbishop of Mantabury with the edges of a Rudi Voeller style curly permed mullet sticking out from underneath his Mitre.
Tom Carter
2022-10-24 20:15:16 +0000 UTCI feel Richard missed a few staples of the early 2000s drunk walk home - a can of Tizer and stealing some milk from someone's doorstep on the way home before leaving the house keys in the outside of the front door. That said, a solid 8/10 meander down nostalgia road (and into the cul-de-sac of mild regret when your guts catch up).
Dibz
2022-10-24 14:16:36 +0000 UTCI listened to this in two parts and between last night and this morning forgot Richard suggested he might slip the dnb mix of the theme tune in. It took me totally by surprise and left me crying with laughter on my walk to work, especially with it being followed by some nonsense about Gulliver's travels! Excellent work as always chaps.
Michael Lyth
2022-10-24 11:43:57 +0000 UTCAnother good addition to the rear facing seat lounge-style collection of cars!
Calum Gillies
2022-10-24 09:32:04 +0000 UTChttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225210577312?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Ib-MPtBmQH2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=c0xC8n_SQGm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Here you go, 40k miles 306 estate π
Adam Riches
2022-10-24 08:57:57 +0000 UTCIn this episode: Five pints of lager and a packet of cowβs eyebrows πΊπΊπΊπΊπΊπ
Alex Moss
2022-10-24 03:37:01 +0000 UTCJonny - The Skoda badge IS already a Flying Green penis..... it was always known as The Flying Dick to an old departed mechanic friend of mine. He had a Skoda garage in the late 70s.
Mark Podmore
2022-10-23 23:54:09 +0000 UTCThe Heuliez Trafic you mentioned - was it the Deckup you were thinking of? Looks like a regular Trafic being humped by a Pontiac Aztec?
Ian Phillip
2022-10-23 21:53:25 +0000 UTCI just want to point out that Manta Manta is available on Netflix in Germany. It is all I hoped for
Sander Hop
2022-10-23 21:23:23 +0000 UTCForget being cheap, why doesn't Jonny just get a Matra Rancho and EV convert it. It's not like it's going to depreciate.
Matt Tester
2022-10-23 20:16:56 +0000 UTCManta banta
Paul
2022-10-23 18:56:38 +0000 UTCIsnβt soulful dnb just jungle? Espania also seems to have the classic βamen brothers breakβ in it
Jamie W
2022-10-23 18:56:00 +0000 UTCTheir factory is about 45kms from where I live here in France. They seem big in making buses these days!
Steve Morton
2022-10-23 18:13:31 +0000 UTCHeuliez seem to have been quite prolific - Renault 4 Decouvrable wasnβt too shabby!
Simon Atterwell
2022-10-23 18:04:07 +0000 UTCIβve just clicked on the cast, first thing I see is a picture of a Mira SPAWWAATTT , I fit these on a weekly basis. Iβm ashamed Iβve not mentioned this yet.
Joe Brudenell
2022-10-23 17:49:04 +0000 UTC
