No podcast this week :-(
Sorry to say that there won’t be a podcast released today due to unforseen circumstances. We’ll be back next week in all out glory though, so stay tuned for the next one on Friday, July 25th at 5pm (UK Time).
Episode 44 – Brutal Pasta
This episode starts off with some rather unlikely claims about the self flagellation methods of former British Prime Minister William Gladstone. Apparently, he used to whip himself on the back. He was a strange cookie in some respects, fair enough. But whether these acts of autobashing were executed using pasta has probably never been discussed before we entered the historic debate. Which is what we do today.
Nintendo’s probably very clever but difficult to understand marketing and production policies are brought into question over their Wii Fit game (if “game” is the correct term). Frustrated shoppers can’t buy Wii Fit anywhere, but it’s still being aggressively advertised. How does that work, then?
(Note that we are not affiliated to Reebok, although if they want to send us some free stuff to thank us for our glowing review of their exercise equipment, we will make friends with them.)
Greg’s lottery madness provides us with our very own quirky story, and we’ve got photographic evidence courtesy of Greg’s girlfriend, who captured him at the height of his panic…
We’ll be back with episode 45 of The Blueprint Podcast at 5pm (UK Time) on Friday, August 1st. Until then, please complete our very short Blueprint Podcast Survey, which helps us to make the podcast better.
Episode 43 – Two Northern Men Talking
We’re back with episode 43 of The Blueprint Podcast.
Sorry it’s gone online a little late in the day – it won’t happen again, but we hope you’ll forgive us as we have been out doing work for cherridy.
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Episode 42 – Custard Creams
Have you got a loft, or attic at your place? If so, what have you got in there? Do you think you’ll ever really use any of it? We kick off the episode with talk of wasted real estate in our homes, but Greg soon finds the existence of revolving tables more interesting by half.
We sort out the world economic crisis, the credit crunch, sub-prime loans and house prices. If only the governments of the world would realise that idle chit chat is the way to go. Then we take on the Oxford English Dictionary, and talk about the way that people use words, in particular words like “gazetteer” (which means a reference for information about places and place names, and not Microsoft Autoroute, as someone Chris knows thinks), and the custard cream biscuit, which is now available in your local dictionary, before Greg takes a view on “easy” words being included.
After that, it’s all about the biscuits. Oh, and a chimp, a rude new Mr. Man, The Krays, and how to avert nuclear war.
Here’s Andy Warhol’s famous Custard Cream painting.