Podcast 83 show notes
Added 2021-11-14 19:01:03 +0000 UTCWhat did we talk about this week? God knows. Captions on the pics, and here are some links...
From New York to LA by Patsy Gallant - https://youtu.be/TohEJPjyi-U
A copy 'n' paste of that report on Craig Charles's 'Naughty Friday' - https://bit.ly/2YEHDci
Jonny's 5th Gear report on an autonomous Audi - https://youtu.be/Qdp4OlR8ABQ
A contemporary report on the Cizeta-Moroder V16T - https://bit.ly/3wDMXJs
Damon Albarn has done a fabulous cover of Don't You Want Me complete with a ssssuperb example of his sssssibilant vocal ssssssstyle at 0:44 - https://youtu.be/JLTpECL2cHc
Dry risers explained - https://www.elitefire.co.uk/help-advice/what-is-a-dry-riser/
That Cloverfield Statue of Liberty story - https://vfxblog.com/2018/01/22/cloverfield-teaser-trailer-vfx/
Comments
This is currently for sale. Formerly owned by music producer Giorgio Moroder. What a thing… and maybe something to spike Porter’s interest? https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/az22/arizona/lots/r0001-1988-cizeta-moroder-v16t/1147734
Ben Welham
2022-01-01 11:55:36 +0000 UTCNothing In Audi’s repertoire can compare to the sinister nature of a Brabus S700, which is in a different league of menace.
Bernard O'Connor
2021-11-21 10:29:18 +0000 UTCDrove home from a conference earlier this week and had to pull over because I was laughing too hard, not the first time either. On my arrival home I turned on my television of above average intelligence (not a smart tv just a moderately clever one with a Amazon stick thing) and YouTube recommended me a documentary about British drug dealers. Low and behold, what were the gun toting murderous crack dealers using for a spot of ‘drive by work’? An Audi RS8. Standard!
Sam Hopwood
2021-11-19 07:55:09 +0000 UTCI’m not an H’Audi fan but I’ve always liked the A7, although only in a dark colour. It’s got that Mercedes CLS / Jag rear roofline and a three body boot that gives it the ultimate ‘this is going to hurt you more than me’ look about it. I think it could be murdered out too, without looking to like a wannabe car (think The Offspring - Pretty Fly for a White Guy). Thanks for the laugh this week, even if you did make me inhale my coffee at the conversation about bongo mag trade ins!
John Dawson
2021-11-18 19:09:04 +0000 UTCDuring the VW buy back, apparently the only stipulation on the car's condition was that it be driveable. I read of one disgruntled VW owner that stripped out all the interior and anything else he could sell on ebay, then drove it to the collection point sitting on a milk crate.
Tim Gilbery
2021-11-16 22:42:05 +0000 UTCI was listening to the bit about sinister Audis last night on the drive back home and passed a 560SEC with the AMG wheels right when Jonny mentioned Mercs as occasionally being a bit criminal. I'd say the big coupe is up there (in-period at least), but the scariest AMG I've seen recently is one a friend spotted coming through the auctions in Japan: an E55 estate. What's sinister about that? Reg listed ex-DPRK.
Brendan McAleer
2021-11-16 16:25:29 +0000 UTCA very good point. Nice that Craig Charles was able to come back from all the grot mags and crack after such a rough ride.
Smith and Sniff
2021-11-16 12:36:11 +0000 UTCThis is true. I used to have one, bought because I'd had two cars with very firm suspension and decided to buy the softest car I could think of for reasonable money. Rover 75 = problem solved! Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-11-16 12:31:56 +0000 UTCYup snap, done that too.
James Patchett
2021-11-16 10:20:34 +0000 UTCGreat show again, OTSOT. Question for Sniff: TV's Richard Hammond said in a recent video that you (Richard Porter) are a massive fan of the Rover 75. Any truth to that? If so, what's the story behind the fondness for the 75? All the best from America! Cheers. - Ben
Ben Lucareli
2021-11-16 05:14:05 +0000 UTCI concur that driving a car with no seats is frightening. Driving a car off the end of a production line sat on an upturned parts box in lieu of a seat due to supply chain issues doubly so.
Bob Burr
2021-11-15 20:41:07 +0000 UTCSurely that's Henry Catchpole in the second picture.. In fact, he does have suspiciously fluffy hair at times, it's probably where he keeps the jazz mags
Thorbjørn
2021-11-15 17:28:12 +0000 UTCChaps, it's all very funny about Craig Charles' misadventures in class A's and grot mags - no, it is - but the surrounding factors deserve a mention. Namely that he was betrayed awfully by his driver and that he was still in the hellish psychological aftermath of a false rape accusation for which he spent 3.5 months in prison on remand, before being found not guilty on all charges by a jury in less than 2 hours. The mud stuck hard even back then before social media, #metoo and all that, innocent as he was. But I'm glad he did come back, because his 6music show is fabulous and because Red Dwarf belongs every bit in the pantheon of great British comedy. I wish I could believe the Beeb would show the same courage in supporting a star brought low by the mob today. PS, It is in fact the defining characteristic of old ladies that they have a dry riser.
Dark Newt
2021-11-15 13:07:56 +0000 UTCI swear I've seen that too! Plenty of cider purveyors round 'yer
Martin Mees
2021-11-15 11:25:25 +0000 UTCMy favourite daubed wooden sign was in Somerset, and appropriately it read: ‘Yer tiz - gert nice cider’
James Cowell
2021-11-15 08:56:13 +0000 UTC
