Podcast 78 - Audis, Scenics and amazing facts about beavers
Added 2021-10-10 18:00:04 +0000 UTCJonny's been driving two Audis, Richard has discovered something about the Renault Scenic, and there's an unexpected diversion into the world of aquatic mammals. Plus, not letting Jonny get his maracas, Peugeots that sound like Scottish swear words, Nick Knowles' house party, places where they say ock-shun, and do narwhals actually exist? Plus listeners' tales of exploding smoothies and teenage car auction madness, and there's some extraordinary Sade news.
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On the Beaver side of things - 2002 mates stag weekend was to be in Estonia - Tallin. Place was pretty unspoilt by stag weekends back then. On the flight over despite overdosing on Viagra dissolved in czech beer (mad Dr friend spiked drinks with said drug) I managed to get through most of the Air estonia in flight magazine and learnt - to my interest - that Estonias still consume Beaver and that a Tallin delicacy is Warm Beaver Salad. This fact returned to me the next evening and my opening line to a couple of local girls in Tallins biggest nightclub (and they are astonishingly beautiful in Estonia) was "So - Do you eat Beaver?". This resulted in my wing man spitting a mouthful of beer over the two girls thus prematurely concluding the attempted transaction
Matthew Aves
2021-10-19 14:56:21 +0000 UTCQuestion for Jonny was the reg of his Audi KN21 HZF?
Nigel Hancock
2021-10-18 17:31:19 +0000 UTCI had to google that... yeah - deffo do that, lads.
Dark Newt
2021-10-16 15:33:38 +0000 UTCGotta say - I saw what I think was a normal E-tron GT the other day, and I'm not a fan. It looks like someone gave Audi the dimensions for a "cool low car", and then they hammerad away on a A7'ish car until it fit the numbers. Just like the OG R8, that looks like two cars halfassedly welded together. Audi should stick to sedans and wagons. Thier SUVs look like shit to IMHO. If I was filthy rich I'd take the Taycan Cross Turismo over that bulky looking shoe-car any day. On that side of things... 🤭
Roger Skagerström
2021-10-14 16:35:00 +0000 UTCYou're close to being Mr. MPV, but I'd say that one must have owned an Espace to really qualify (good try with the Scénic, though). Did you really think the Zafira was least practical? I loved my OPC (VXR in the UK). Brilliantly flexible, way overpowered, loads of fun and easy to clean the child and dog sick up after some spirited driving on curvy roads.
Chris Squirrel
2021-10-14 12:36:22 +0000 UTCAt the Manchester show, can Richard perform “Eddie Irvine lives in my wardrobe”? With Jonny on synths.
Adam Sillett
2021-10-14 10:49:45 +0000 UTCWhen companies have that automated voice on the phone that says “calls are recorded for quality and training purposes”, my brain refuses to acknowledge it as anything other than “for quality and training porpoises”.
James Dilkes
2021-10-14 09:54:38 +0000 UTCBoiz....the best pod ever..... So far! Hilarious, informative, derogatory, Beavers ...really 😂
Paul Fargher
2021-10-13 10:47:30 +0000 UTCI think I can call myself Mr MPV!! I owned a 1999 Renault Megane Scenic Monaco! I replaced this with a VW Touran in 2004. My wife leased a Vauxhall Zafira in 2008. That was replaced by another VW Touran in 2011 but a LHD version in France!! I would love a full electric version! The big advantage for me is the ability to remove seats we aren’t using which gives you even more luggage space. The Touran with the front seat folded flat forward it has enough length for your average IKEA flat pack!! With wifey sat behind me in the opposite seat! The Zafira was the least practical because of the way the seats could be configured. Not interested in SUV’s not as practical Steve
Steve Morton
2021-10-12 19:44:10 +0000 UTCAs a Canadian, it is deeply heartening to hear Britain's leading Wasp and Tortoise podcast weigh in on beaver trivia. Here is my favourite beaver-related fact. Starting in 1948, someone at the Idaho bureau of land management worked out that beavers would be very useful in reclaiming eroded land - their dams would slow the erosion and create wetlands. Problem being that actually getting the beavers to remote areas presented logistical issues. So they fitted them with parachutes. 76 beavers were parachuted in to the backcountry in tiny crates and parachutes, with the former designed to break apart on impact. It's known as the great beaver drop, and is pretty much the only time we had mass animal paratroopers.
Brendan McAleer
2021-10-12 00:45:54 +0000 UTC* cap doffing gif *
Ant Brown
2021-10-11 20:15:39 +0000 UTCAs someone in my mid 30's should I worry that I have once again taken to the Brut? I was near forcibly made to stop wearing it by an ex girlfriend a few years back. How long before it alternates with the Old Spice again...
MedicalFlyer
2021-10-11 19:39:01 +0000 UTCHe's world class
Barnogan
2021-10-11 18:40:23 +0000 UTCSay what you like about Jonny, he knows how to slap a euphemism down on the table.
Dark Newt
2021-10-11 17:35:04 +0000 UTCI like the subtle way Sniff handles Smith, if Jonny was given free reign the whole episdode would be a tortuous stream of consciousness piece interspersed with singing and endless synonyms for the penis.
Barnogan
2021-10-11 15:05:34 +0000 UTCBrilliant as always, particularly enjoyed the Beaver section. Keep up the good work!
Michael Lyth
2021-10-11 12:03:13 +0000 UTCWhat a Sadé call back!
Louis Spinetti
2021-10-11 11:40:36 +0000 UTCLike corduroy in eastern Europe, Manchester is a common term for bed linen in Australia. most department stores have a 'Manchester' section
George Robertson
2021-10-11 10:30:54 +0000 UTCI try not to but usually that doesn't go to plan.
George Wade
2021-10-11 09:33:34 +0000 UTCI usually look at the show notes as a teaser! 🤣
Daniel Rolph
2021-10-11 09:14:11 +0000 UTCBrilliant brilliant start to a Monday - literally prefer it to TV !!
KP
2021-10-11 08:21:04 +0000 UTCGah! I always listen to this before bed on Sunday night and last night I must of dropped of at the crucial time and missed the Sade news, can someone fill me in? Everything else mentioned in the description I heard.
Mark Elliott
2021-10-11 07:49:42 +0000 UTCThoroughly enjoyable podcast gents but no show notes yet? 🤔
George Wade
2021-10-11 05:59:45 +0000 UTCStill cant get out of the habit of downloading the YouTube version on a Monday. Just keep adding the episodes to a USB stick in the car, once I have listened to them all go back to E1 and by the time I'm back to the top I have 5 or 6 new episodes. Time line does extend these days
Nigel Hancock
2021-10-10 20:44:10 +0000 UTCSpeaking of things exploding in cars, I'd like to share a little story, which perhaps may be the most harrowing automotive liquisplosion tale you'll ever read. For the first six months of the year 2000, I had to commute from St Neots in Cambridgeshire to Cardigan in west Wales. It's a 308 mile journey if you go A1 > M4 > A48 and the last chunk of the commute was quite entertaining, especially in the lovely Azure blue Lotus Elise I had at the time. A colleague of mine had to make the same journey in his Impreza Turbo and, with us both being 20-years old and carrying natural stupidity of himalayan proportions, this developed into a time trial. Every week, it was a competition of who could set the best time. I could just about do the journey on a single tank of petrol in the Elise and once I realised that, it was then a matter of seeing where else I could cut time out of the journey. Stopping to eat? Not a chance. Stopping to stretch my legs? Hah, no, I'm young and flexible. Stopping for a slash? I'm 20 and my bladder could probably hold more piss than the Elise could hold fuel. Well, it would under normal circumstances. It didn't on the day I decided to neck a 750ml bottle of Oasis Citrus Punch whilst traversing the M25. In hindsight this was a poor choice for an endurance commute. This became more clear the further west I went along the M4 but I was determined to make it to Cardigan without wasting valuable time pissing in a hedge. As each junction passed, the pressure grew, the concentration fading and replaced by thoughts of waterfalls and babbling brooks. I became paranoid that everyone on the radio was taunting me: "...and there's The Moody Blues with Running Water, and now over to our interview with the lead guitarist from Guns'n'Roses." etc I wasn't going to give in. I decided to deal with the situation. I still had the empty Oasis bottle, after all. If 750ml went in then 750ml is going to come out, isn't it? On a very straight section of the M4, which let's face it is most of it, I unzipped, positioned the Oasis bottle between my legs and pushed it up so that the bottle aperture met up with my winkle, creating a decent, safe seal. I imagine sort of like how a shuttle docks with the ISS. The relief. The sweet relief. It was so good. This was excellent pissing. It was excellent for roughly the first 300ml, anyway. My brain neglected to take displacement into consideration. With a perfect seal to avoid spillage, there was nowhere for the air to go. The bottle started to feel quite pressurised as the dawning realisation of physics came into play. With the reluctance at the forthcoming, depressing inevitability, I tilted the bottle downwards to create a tiny opening to relieve the pressure. It sounded a bit like a party popper as the cramped interior of the Elise was filled with steaming hot atomised piss. It was all over my tshirt, the seat squabs, the footwells, the driver's side window and sills, and most of the way up my right arm. It was just everywhere. I didn't have enough eyes to take it all in and continue pissing, oh and do that whole driving thing, which somehow seemed less important now. I didn't stop, though. I finished my business, capped the bottle and left it stood up in the passenger footwell. Drove the rest of the way to Cardigan in a piss-soaked Elise. Finally stopped at a garage, bought a big pack of wet wipes and cleaned the interior as best I could. If anyone reading this ever bought Elise chassis number #8004 and wondered why there was a faint smell of seafood and fairground hotdogs on hot summer days, now you know why. Sorry.
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2021-10-10 20:42:23 +0000 UTCI’ve not listened yet, but mention of Nick Knowles has reminded me that he released an eye-poppingly awful album of cover versions a couple of years ago.
Paddy Campbell
2021-10-10 19:54:40 +0000 UTCExcellent as always. I often ponder to send an email of a car related incident that may raise a chuckle, but given the standard of ones you read out I'd have no hope. Really liked this one chaps, look forward to next week.
Graham Dallas
2021-10-10 19:09:58 +0000 UTCWindows 7 shut down noise is the first note from Carly Simon's song, and Bond's ,of course, Nobody does it better from the Spy Who Loved Me. As far as i'm aware there has been no copyright strike in any direction..
Ian Miles
2021-10-10 19:09:03 +0000 UTCWhen is there not extraordinary Sadé news?
Daniel Achterhuis
2021-10-10 19:04:48 +0000 UTCOxygen therapy is worth the experience. Did an O² first aid course for divers and volunteered as the casualty. 30mins of gas later it was time for the pool session... Swam 4 30m lengths underwater without coming up.
Maurice Barnes
2021-10-10 18:26:52 +0000 UTC
