Podcast 58 - The great smell of Sierra
Added 2021-05-23 18:01:01 +0000 UTCJonny has been driving an amazing 1980s Ford with just one thing missing.
Also in this episode, American podcast plum shaving promos, vasectomy memories, changing your wiper blades, a love of beading, smoking in cars with the windows up, the Lancia that looks like Norman Lamont, how to say spowaahtaaaaaaaah in Italian, the hilarity of MIDI music, absolute nonsense from hifi nerds, and a stereo shop man with some very unfortunate lavatory habits.
Plus, Cold War fears, car market hotness, Fiat 500 trim levels, Ford Explorer smells, businesses with UK on the end, and why doing percussion in an orchestra is like being a fireman.
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As a young boy my mate and I shared his bedroom whilst my dad built our new house, the Iranian embassy has just been stormed by the SAS, my mate and I were convinced that the Uk would be attacked, local to us was the ST Fergus gas site and my mate dad owned a vehicle dismantlers (Davidson’s of Rora) we convinced ourselves that the gas site and said vehicle dismantlers would be on the”priority attack list” as we chatted between our single beds my mother came through and told us to be quiet.. once she left the room we continued to discuss various scenarios before, during and after the attack, to that my mates mum came back into the room and switch the light on, she brandished a slipper… we were offered the choice of pyjamas up or down (the amount of slaps in creases if pyjamas remained up) I opted for pyjamas up… slap slap slap slap, my 9 year bum stung like you can’t imagine, we were told to go back to bed and ORDERED to STAY QUIET!! Not a word was uttered, to our astonishment there was no attack that night
Peter Stevenson
2023-04-22 13:28:54 +0000 UTCThat YouTube vid is a perfect example! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chris Jarrett
2021-05-26 17:08:16 +0000 UTCBahahahahahahahahaha! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chris Jarrett
2021-05-26 17:05:34 +0000 UTCChaps, that was hilarious
Bob Burr
2021-05-26 16:55:43 +0000 UTCA fascinating tour of British euphemisms for the testes. Well done. If I might make a suggestion, any time further news of a certain RX8-driving chanteuse threatens to rear its head, either Jonny or Richard could head things off with a gentle, "I think we'll just leave it, on that Sade of things."
Brendan McAleer
2021-05-26 03:24:34 +0000 UTCAs a freelance percussionist and timpanist, I can confirm that timpani/kettle drums are awesome and you’re both correct in thinking that we mostly sit around waiting for the parts when we have to do something. Unfortunately percussion instruments are generally a bastard to transport. Especially so if you try to fit two timpani, a bass drum and some cymbals into a 1995 Vauxhall Corsa like I did as a poor student... It didn’t go well.
Matt Fletcher
2021-05-25 16:35:27 +0000 UTCAbsolute jem of an episode. Wincing and laughing so hard during the first 5 minutes.
Richard Adams
2021-05-25 12:56:01 +0000 UTCInspired by the MIDI conversation, you might like this Volvo which plays an 8-bit version of Toto’s Africa as the door chime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ301QEoo9Y
Tim C
2021-05-24 22:19:35 +0000 UTCNot to give away recent topics of conversation in our house, but next up "Booking In My Clackerbag".
Ant Brown
2021-05-24 14:27:41 +0000 UTCDespite my current transport being just a lowly 2008 Citroen C4, I love to sit and look at it after a decent wash. It's silver, and looking at it in sunlight I realised that there are actually some quite nice curves and design details.
Chris Squirrel
2021-05-24 13:36:54 +0000 UTCTotally baffled by the man who only poops once a month. I mean, what's coming out in the eventual outpouring of grief? A couple of months ago, I was a little backed-up and nothing came out for two days. When it was eventually birthed, I let it go on the toilet on the 5th floor en-suite and it blocked the toilet on the ground floor. That was two days! Two! What the hell was he producing after four weeks? Where did he get rid of it? How did it emerge without either a caesarean section or epidural? So many questions around this.
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2021-05-24 11:55:49 +0000 UTCAnd this time around, Line of the Week goes to Richard with: "...like trying to shave a duvet!"
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2021-05-24 11:50:37 +0000 UTCWhat I imagine pooing once a month is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSULIZ0JJ6k and for the audio-world doing most of the work making fun of itself: https://wathifi.com/ this blog is amazing, but sadly doesnt seem to be active anymore.
Ger O'Connor
2021-05-24 11:31:01 +0000 UTCYou guys had a bet on how many alternative names for the "old boys" you could mention didn't you? 🤣
Bruce Driffill
2021-05-24 10:55:06 +0000 UTCMy weekend alarm is a midi version of immigrant song by led zep that I've transferred from phone to phone for the past 15-20 years.
Duncan Dyer
2021-05-24 08:26:25 +0000 UTCSurprised that Johnny’s comment of noticing a misfire on the way home after he got the snip didn’t get more attention.
Andy Hogg
2021-05-24 06:03:30 +0000 UTCBtw, the ‘Kettle Drums’ in the orchestral percussion section are called ‘Timpanis’. They are fully tuneable via a spring-catch operated foot pedal. The percussion section are usually busy counting bars of rest if they are not busily playing. One notorious percussion section in Leicestershire used to hire a Transit van for gigs, which was also used at the tea break in between rehearsal & concert for various sexual encounters with female members of the orchestra. I was merely the principal Double Bass player.
Richard Fitton-Perkins
2021-05-24 05:42:44 +0000 UTCI was just starting to fall asleep towards the end of the podcast when the Air Raid Siren went off. Luckily, I’m far enough from GCHQ (a primary ICBM target), so I wouldn’t be flash vaporised. Instead, I would gradually starve while dying of radiation sickness and the EMP effect would mean my cars wouldn’t work anymore. Lovely soothing thoughts to fall asleep to. Thank you both.
Richard Fitton-Perkins
2021-05-24 05:22:49 +0000 UTCI had to look up the "Boys Are Back in Town" MIDI and now I can't stop listening: https://bitmidi.com/the-boys-are-back-in-town-mid
Kristof Kiraly
2021-05-23 23:38:03 +0000 UTCWhen I was growing up my neighbors who owned a carpet shop had a Bedford Midi as their work van, it's size perfectly suited to fitting many 12ft standard rolls of carpet. Incidentally the same couple also owned a series of Honda Preludes (culminating in the last gen 2.2), which they would only purchase on a 1st September so they could drive it home on the latest registration index the first day it was available. The midi was still going strong in the early 2000s when I left home when its arches were visibly rusted and the sign writing had faded.
Guy Thouret
2021-05-23 22:42:36 +0000 UTCYou set off all the speakers in my house, Rich. Fucker.
Geoff Evans
2021-05-23 20:36:15 +0000 UTCHello chaps, cracking podcast as usual, lots of relevent subject matter!!. Speaking of which the name given to the Air Raid siren, was the 'Banshee'. My late father was full of this sort of info. I don't know what the specific name given to the Siren to warn you when 'Gerry' was approaching but the all clear siren was called the 'Friendly Banshee' #OTSOT
Noel Huggett
2021-05-23 20:04:55 +0000 UTCChannels accepting irrelevant sponsors does bug me, especially RAID: Shadow Legends. Anyway I like an air-raid siren but I'd prefer an LTS Locktronic siren as featured in Mad Max.
Matt Tester
2021-05-23 19:40:27 +0000 UTCChops 1, Waltzer nil. Travesty...
Sean Hamerton
2021-05-23 19:34:11 +0000 UTCI'd also recommend anyone with the means to visit Orkney. The village Twatt carries enough justification, but it truly is an astonishing place.
Graham Dallas
2021-05-23 19:29:23 +0000 UTCIf you are interested in doing nc500 or visiting north Scotland in general. Advise going in May / June before the insects really take hold. Recommend A894 for a good drive. Great content as always guys!
Ryan
2021-05-23 19:18:08 +0000 UTCI was crying within 5 minutes today, great episode
Graham Dallas
2021-05-23 19:17:51 +0000 UTCGreat podcast guys and I hope Jonny got back to the UK safely
zain ali
2021-05-23 19:16:32 +0000 UTCVasectomy chat is always fun. Vulnerable is the single best adjective to describe the who experience...
Sean Hamerton
2021-05-23 19:15:02 +0000 UTCOH sewing kit was in view while listening to the vasectomy story. Stretch it over a darning mushroom after the hot bath?
Maurice Barnes
2021-05-23 19:05:54 +0000 UTC#prayforjonny TBH he's probably home by now
Graham Dallas
2021-05-23 18:08:57 +0000 UTC
