In the transparent 63rd podcast, we declare every penny of our expenses, including both fingers of a Twix, while discussing infinity, morality, hypocrisy, prejudice, sexism, racism, homophobia, the coming dandelion menace and what Jordan said to Richard when he met her on the GMTV sofa. For one week only, we include the Daily Telegraph among the newspapers we analyse - because it is at the centre of the expenses story - and find it much too big. Way too big. I mean, look at the size of it. It's ...
May 15, 2009
In our 62nd podcast, we take just about every ideological position under the sun on such complex issues as Gurkha justice, Nazism, bra size, MPs' expenses, the British position in India, the possibly fictional 'ugly' man with pitted skin and Hugh Cornwell's hairstyle suddenly accused of having something to do with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Jon Gaunt's panic over a word in Bono's poem about Elvis, the wisdom or otherwise of using a cartoon of a keyboard key for the word "by" in bylin...
May 08, 2009
In our 61st pigcast, from the very bottom of the iTunes charts, suffering from the hangover of fame, we present a balanced view of the swine flu pandemic-in-waiting, wonder if the world population couldn't in fact do with a little 'thinning out', celebrate some newly-discovered British Library cottaging graffiti, 'Get Britain Laughing' along with The Sun, ponder the fate of Michael MacIntyre and other successful comedians who seem to be enjoying success just to make us feel unsuccessful, and enj...
Apr 28, 2009
In this spontaneous podcast, nominally number 60, Andrew Collings and Richard Herrin shamelessly celebrate reaching number 6 in the iTunes podcast charts and overtaking Stephen Fry for at least one blessed moment before - we assume - plummeting back down again when our new subscribers hear this very podcast (or Stephen Fry actually records a podcast). In it, we talk mainly about our own brief taste of success, but also a bit about Tesco's push for Lebensraum, fat people causing global warming an...
Apr 21, 2009
In Collings and Herrin Podcast 59, we do something romantic that we've never done before and will never do again (you'll have to listen to find out exactly what). We also correct a heinous miscarriage of justice, consider the 39 complaints logged about ITV1's pornographic Saturday teatime talent show Britain's Got Tassles, support the campaign to moan about the red elastic bands left by postmen on your path, consider the almost self-defeating generosity of the British Legion raffle, and warn Mar...
Apr 16, 2009
In Podcast 58, we celebrate the good fortune of the man sitting next to the Guinness heiress on the plane, ask why the Great British bobby is wearing a balaclava, discuss the entire 43-year history of Star Trek, laud the courageous Sir Michael Parkinson for being in a wilderness, promote Old Jamaica Ginger Beer in the vain hope of being sponsored by them, and, as usual, act like a bit of fanny and a doormat in need of a hug, not that we would ever allow a single customer review on iTunes to get ...
Apr 08, 2009
We would like to make it clear - crisply, refreshingly clear - that Collings and Herrin Podcast 57 is not sponsored by Magners Light Irish Cider, created in the same authentic, time honoured tradition as Magners Original Cider, but with fewer calories. However, we did drink a 330ml bottle each during today's podcast, which led to a more sophisticated discussion than normal about the a united Ireland, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the intricacies of expenses claims, the changing nature of titila...
Mar 31, 2009
In our 56th podcast, we give equal, self-defeatingly critical airtime to both Magners Cider and Oatibix in an effort to confuse our potential sponsors. We pay tribute to the Essex Princess, worry about John Terry's mum, applaud Gordon Brown for making Princess Anne Queen, mouth the word 'bollocks' to see if it's offensive, and deconstruct David Jason's accidentally racist joke.
Mar 27, 2009
Hey! Collings and Herrin Podcast No. 55 is out of the traps. In it, we sensitively cover the trial of Josef Fritzl, read out some letters to the Sunday Times, squeeze one joke out of Keith Vaz, enjoy some crazy animal stories, but mainly talk about Richard's tour and the inherent tragedy therein. As an experiment, we try drinking some of the alcoholic drink Perroni while recording it. This was a huge mistake, but we enjoyed it.
Mar 18, 2009
In our 54th podcast, one of us is caffeine-free, the other is virtually insensible on the stuff. Ethical and moral discussion moves almost imperceptibly from Prince Charles's detox tincture to the quality of placard at the Luton anti-war protests; from monkey vengeance to sheepdog love; from the wheelie bin police to reincarnation as a bee; from just about anything to Richard's tour dates. Andrew remains in a Zen-like stated of decaffeinated calm throughout.
Mar 11, 2009
What? A new podcast already? That's real value. In our 53rd podcast, recorded a matter of days after the last one because Richard is on tour or something, powered by homemade biscotti, we find out that grapefruit juice can cause heart failure, television can give you asthma, having a job can get you stripped of your University Challenge glory, teenagers can cost nine thousand pounds, Sir Fred Goodwin was named by William Makepeace Thackeray, Tesco's offer real baskets as opposed to surreal or fi...
Mar 04, 2009
In our 52nd podcast, we manage to largely avoid talking about the tragedy-filled news by discussing the legality and morality of secretly taking photos with mobile phones up ladies' skirts, Richard's special plan for Lent, the fact that bras used to be exciting, why we should actually have some compassion for Jade Goody, and the fact that, all being well, we will be on Channel 4 News because we are the news. Interestingly, it turns out that last week's podcast might not have been recorded using ...
Feb 26, 2009
In our 51st podcast, recorded for the first time ever on the professional podcast studio Richard bought and paid for while drunk before Christmas, we allow ourselves to be seduced by the professionalism of the equipment and dispense with puerile jokes and humour and just pontificate on free speech for ages. And there's a bit about the enraged, now-dead celebrity chimpanzee, and Peter Mandelson's swear at Starbucks, and Hitler's table manners, and the Church Of England school teaching ten year ol...
Feb 19, 2009
In this, our 50th podcast, we celebrate by not using the brand new podcast studio because we can't make it work yet. But in what may be the last ever podcast made using GarageBand - and indeed the last ever podcast, if we decide to stop it - we discuss Prince Harry's racism course, bears and cubs, Husker Du, the only good news to come out of the Australian Bush Fires (which involves a bear but not a cub), the complex morality of a 13-year-old having a baby with a 15-year-old and the fact that Ri...
Feb 13, 2009
Happy birthday to us! We are one year old! That's 51 podcasts over 52 weeks (don't ask), and in our 49th (don't think too hard about it), we try a Twitter experiment, consider where snow comes from, discuss the origins of the word 'Golliwog', have a pretty serious theological debate about Jesus, discuss the game of rugby and rise above any comments made against us on iTunes, because that's the kind of seasoned professionals we are. Warning: this podcast is not as good as the scripted, edited, pr...
Feb 05, 2009
In our 48th podcast, we mainly come up with a new book idea for Dave Gorman which is a surefire winner, but also find time to ponder what happens in the seconds before your death, marvel at Prince Harry's appetite and compare the original lyrics of the 1891 sea shanty What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor and the new politically-correct version that has probably been made up by the tabloids. Also, Richard's gearbox has broken and he's pretty circumspect about the amount it's going to cost him t...
Jan 30, 2009
In our 47th podcast, subtitled Hubris, we continue to ponder the fate of the Hitler moustache, give away the entire plot of Slumdog Millionaire (which is the feelgood film of the decade), continue to humiliate ourselves over Adam and Joe, and mark both the inaugurations of Barack Obama. Richard also returns to the burning issues of anarchist Christmas tree disposal and how to deal with a scary man with two black eyes - and he accidentally calls Andrew "Stew", which was bound to happen sooner or ...
Jan 23, 2009
In our 46th podcast, we fight off the cold of Richard's house by shouting at the tops of our voices about: how good Adam and Joe are (no, really, they are very, very good, much better than us on literally every level, you should subscribe to their podcast now, if you haven't already), how the pilot of the United Airlines flight that landed in the Hudson River should be rewarded for saving the lives of 155 people, whether or not Prince Harry is an idiot, whether it's socially acceptable to grow a...
Jan 16, 2009
In our first podcast of 2009, Richard tries out his new, chillaxed, non-hectoring, post-Caribbean persona and Andrew becomes a man of rational scientific thought and debunker of non-evidence-based myths. It takes us quite a while to get to the newspapers, but when we do, it's mainly the story about the UFO hitting the wind turbine that we cover. Don't worry, in the end, we have both returned to our usual selves. Except Andrew. It's great to be back, shouting at each other again at the tops of ou...
Jan 09, 2009
In this pre-recorded New Year's Eve Review Of The Year Looking Back On 2008 Roundup Special, Andrew belatedly gives Richard his Christmas present, which he really likes, and we discuss our most-missed dead people of the year, plus give a detailed analysis of such seismic events as the Beijing Olympics, the election of Barack Obama and when Iain Morris caught the pomegranate juice thrown by Kevin Bishop. We'll be back in 2009, when Andrew resolves to stop being the controversial one and Richard r...
Dec 31, 2008
In this special one-off Christmas podclash, we join Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding in their posh studio for The Perfect Twelve: four men and a hat, discussing twelve festive things, including Christmas films, Christmas foodstuffs, Christmas carols and outfits we'd like to see Christmas turkeys wearing. All powered by one warm can of Carlsberg. Note: this is the lo-fi, extra-length Collings and Herrin version, recorded on a laptop; the studio version - shorter and properly miked and equalised and...
Dec 23, 2008
In our 43rd podcast, the pre-Christmas special, we experiment with two pints of lager/stout and some noodles and coffee, to see what happens. Scientists can study the results, as we discuss, in a rational and non-hysterical manner, the Strictly scandal, the range of hampers available this year, the throwing of a shoe at a president, the throwing of a second shoe at the same president, still unprotected, and the continued joy of secret dancing. It's like the lethargy and indulgence of Christmas h...
Dec 17, 2008
In our 42nd podcast, we ignore the news for the first 27 minutes while we talk about very little, but when we do finally acknowledge the outside world and the events therein, it's Lisa Snowden's potentially dangerous jive, Terry Wogan's tumble dryer, a Hampshire lollipop man's tinsel-decorated sign, the Sun's Military awards and the decision to allow Andy McNab to appear in the judges photograph with a small blackboard over his face, and that's it. Sadly, Andrew mucked about with the computer an...
Dec 11, 2008
In our 41st podcast, we discuss our new lookalike service (pictured), secret dancing, Santa Claus being 'f----ing dead', the intelligence of sperm, the stupidity of people who eat fast food, the price of a dog for Christmas, the dangers of the clipboard brigade and what to ask famous film stars if you get 20 minute with them and know nothing about films.
Dec 05, 2008
In our 40th podcast, we say hello to all our female listeners, by name, individually, because we can; we also discuss foreplay in the Czech Republic; the loss of the old-fashioned, star-studded Woolworth's adverts; Frank Carson's opaque views on the Israeli occupation of Palestine; 118 118's racist joke service and the Deep House mix of Andrew talking about Lion Man. We also find out how old Fearne Cotton is.
Nov 27, 2008
In our 39th podcast, we dream of the pre-prepared lunches which are ready for us to eat afterwards: for Richard, a Marks and Spencer chilli and coriander king prawns; a Marks and Spencer nutritionally balance super-whole food salad; a Marks and Spencer freshly prepared pineapple, mango, kiwi, raspberry and blueberry; and for Andrew, his own�homemade organic chilli with courgettes, artichokes, pepper, coriander and broccoli; and his own homemade organic, wheat-free plum and apple crumble. Which i...
Nov 20, 2008
In our 38th podcast - 39th if you include last week's, 37a - we get back to basics and talk about what's in the newspapers, once we've established more logistical faults with Goodnight Sweetheart, tried to apologise to Jason Manford, set Charlie Boorman a new travel task, reminisced about the job offers we got at the Radio Academy, accused Michael MacIntyre of being the mastermind behind Sachsgate and made clear, once again, that Richard is doing better on telly than Andrew, despite benign posit...
Nov 13, 2008
In this extra bonus podcast, we do a presentation to the Radio Academy at Millbank in London, which is intended as an introduction to how we started the podcast, and why we do it, week in, week out. We hope you get something out of it. It's not this week's actual podcast, merely a little extra. Listen to the professional delegates from the radio industry, sometimes laughing at our swear words, other times totally baffled by our rambling chit chat after a day of professional presentations. Thanks...
Nov 10, 2008
In our historic 37th podcast, we HAVE A LAUGH about the new world we now live in, including: Morrisons' half-price beef offer, Gary Sparrow's paucity of ambition, the chances of Ed Milliband's picture being made into a giant hat in Kenya, Lewis Hamilton's big mistake, Blake Fielder-Civil's silver tongue, Jason Manford's paucity of ambition, and a man called Barack Obama, who is the President.
Nov 06, 2008
In our 36th podcast, we are the first to comment on the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross controversy, a subject thus far pretty much ignored by the rest of the media. There's just time for us to talk about the destruction of Brecht's 'fourth wall' in relation to the James Bond adverts, the origins of the phrase 'brave new world' in Shakespeare's The Tempest and whether Mike Tindall ever thinks about the fact that his girlfriend came out of a woman who came out of The Queen. We apologise for everythin...
Oct 30, 2008
