Episode 52 – Dave Loves America

Posted on October 31st, 2008 in Podcast Episodes by chris
 
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The Blueprint Podcast returns for this weeks’ adventure, and we’re trotting the globe and getting to grips with Stephen Hawking and Barry White, among others.

More of Dave’s pet hates are explored as we delve deeper into his inner fury, and find out why the letter “H” makes his blood boil.

In other stories, we’ve got it all sorted out for Professor Stephen Hawking, after Dave meets a party guest with some alarming views on the secret of the scientist’s success.

What’s more, if you’re listening in America, Dave’s got some kind words for you about your country, so that should make you feel good, whichever way you’re planning to vote in your upcoming election.

Speaking of popularity contests, make sure that you join us next week on Friday, November 7th, when we’ll be putting a few things into their proper places.

Stephen Hawking. He can fly.

Stephen Hawking. He can fly.

Episode 51 – Astrological Binoculars

Posted on October 24th, 2008 in Podcast Episodes by chris
 
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Hello, hope you had a good week. We’re back once again with episode 51 of The Blueprint Podcast, right here in the UK with Chris and Dave.

This week, we get to the heart of the Dave Russell phenomenon by discovering a couple of things that really grind his gears.

We warm up first with some talk of spherical stimulating toys for babies, and an astonishing Chris Fact is revealed, closely followed by a Chris Lie.

Astrology is described by Wikipedia as “a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent relative positions of celestial bodies and related details is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters”. It’s described by Dave as “nonsense”, and he pulls no punches with a scathing attack on the whole idea.

If you’re a firm believer in newspaper horoscopes, please have a quiet word with yourself.

Binoculars, or more specifically their misrepresentation in the cinema, are Dave’s second target, although Chris disagrees, and hilarity ensues.

It’s all happening.

Some astrology as seen through binoculars yesterday

This week’s image is the visual representation of Dave’s hate.

We’ll be back with Episode 52 at 5pm (UK Time) on Friday, 31st October. See you then.

Episode 50 – Introducing Dave

Posted on October 17th, 2008 in Podcast Episodes by chris
 
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As promised, we’ve now got new episodes of the Blueprint Podcast coming your way on Fridays at 5pm (UK Time) once again. Again, many apologies for the hiatus, and I hope you enjoy the new stuff.

This episode sees the podcasting debut of Dave Russell, an old friend of mine from Sixth Form College. Dave lives in France most of the time, so we’re lucky to have him on board for a while while he’s spending some time in the UK.

In this episode, we reboot with a brief history of The Blueprint, which leads us, of course, onto some allegedly topless blondes who robbed a teenager in the street recently. As with so many quirky stories, though, the briefest of investigations shows that not all is as it seems. Honestly, it’s like they start with the headline and then look for a story to sort of fit in with it, sometimes.

Then it’s a brief guided tour of the Amsterdam Sex Museum which, as you may expect, is a truly bizarre place, and one where visitors adopt those facial expressions. You know the ones – “I’m an enlightened modern person, this isn’t funny or crude, it’s simply the expression of our basic primal de… …look, there’s some breasts!”

Ensuring that Dave gets a proper baptism of fire (pun intended), we then get into religion and The Bible by way of a sulky priest who refuses to speak during services.

So, back with a vengeance, then. Please let us know what you think of the show, which you can do by emailing (link at the top of the page at www.blueprintpodcast.com) . If you have time (and you do, otherwise why are you reading this?) please take a minute to complete our Listener survey, which helps us to keep track of the general shape of our listenership.

Episode 51 will be right here at 5pm (UK Time) on Friday, October 24th.

Amsterdam - home of the Anne Frank house, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Stedelijk Museum, House of Bols Cocktail & Genever Experience, Coster Diamonds, and of course coarseness.

Here’s an aerial photo of Amsterdam, where you can combine elegance with coarseness within two or three strides, and be almost run over by a tram or cyclist whenever you like.

New episodes coming very soon…

Posted on October 9th, 2008 in General by chris

Hi all.

I’ve noticed that there have been a lot of people checking back on the website for new content, and I want to apologise for the lack of it for the last few weeks.

To keep you in the loop, sadly Greg has left The Blueprint Podcast due to constraints on his time. Fair play to the guy, he’s recently started a new job that keeps him very busy, and that’s got to be his priority.

Now to the good news. An old friend of mine by the name of Dave is going to come along and record some new episodes, so you’ll have brand new Blueprint to look forward to very very soon.

I hope that there are no Pete Best riots in the streets. I’m sure you’ll like Dave, he’s a funny guy and has a lot of interesting stuff to say. Watch this space for episode 50 in the very near future.

PS – Episode 50 will be here at www.blueprintpodcast.com (as well as iTunes etc.) on Friday, October 17th at 5pm (UK Time).