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The Twohundredpercent Podcast emerges from its hidey hole this week with a lime and a coconut, just in time to discuss the fizzing excitement of the 4th round of the FA Cup. Unhappiness is the order of the day at Manchester United, where only drastic measures now seem likely to be able to save their season. Your regular correspondents are on hand to pontificate on just how radical these need to be. There's also a distinct side of aggro as Edward and Ian look back at the 200% Derby between Spurs and Brighton, from which only one of your heroes could emerge with a light heart.In what is a surprisingly concise edition by our rambling standards, we nevertheless also disavow anyone who is still holding onto the notion that Boreham Wood being FA Cup heroes is a Good Thing, come down hard on football's growing problem with tribalism and partisanship, and helpfully decide once and for all the identity of the biggest fish in the East Midlands football pond.Comments and complaints as ever to @twoht or @200percentpod on Twitter, or you can email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are joined for a second time by Evertonian Sam Whyte (in addition to our now regular guest host, the fire alarm in Ian's house) to pick through the rubble of another week of top line soccer, including the departure of the Everton boss. Rafa Benitez wasn't backed to the hilt with transfer funds at Everton but he made his presence felt in a variety of other no doubt long-lasting ways. Sam ably helps us sift through each of these, as well as revealing where Anthony Gordon gets his hair cut. Ian, meanwhile, is finally a convert to Team Rooney as your heroes try to identify some kind of strategy for Everton going forwards (which is perhaps more than their ownership have ever done). Also up for discussion this week is Arsenal's successful appeal to have their match with Spurs postponed due to their apparent lack of players. With Covid now reaching endemic levels in the super, soaraway, smashing UK, is professional football now at risk of teams gaming the system for their own advantage? As with everything Arsenal-themed on the Twohundredpercent Podcast, your correspondents give them a fair and considered hearing. Are football players now wrapped in cotton wool? And what is the solution to getting games played in real cases of mass absenteeism? Predictably, Edward has a solution. Make of that what you will. All this plus: footballers getting fat and the extraordinarily evergreen Barry Hayles. You can find Sam Whyte on Twitter (@samwhyte) and we recommend that you do. We are also there (@twoht/@200percentpod) or you can email us with thoughts and feelings: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

2022's first Twohundredpercent Podcast sees your heroes reflecting on a bumper week of FA Cup 3rd round upsets. Ian is somewhat concerned both for Nuno Tavares' long term career at Arsenal and also by the continual merry-go-round of blind hope and incompetence that has characterised Newcastle United's disappointing season. Meanwhile, Edward busily picks out the best goal of the round, from lowly Kidderminster Harriers' shock win against Championship Reading. But where is Reading? We look into it and pull out an unlikely conclusion. If all this excitement isn't enough, we are joined by the Twohundredpercent Robot to make the official draw for the 5th Round of the competition, a process that was far less straightforward than either we thought it would be and far less easy than The Sound of Football Podcast makes it appear. Nevertheless, the ties are all locked in, so prove Ian wrong and book your tickets early. If you'd like to get in touch with us, you can find us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or you could even email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's festive extravaganza Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are joined by podcasting stalwart and renowned Metal fan Chris Nee to look ahead to another scintillating year of football. Your heroes explore Chris's turbulent relationship with the beautiful game over the past year, before going on to touch on any number of hot topics. These include: the vital role the pornography industry must surely play in the normalisation and regulation of NFTs; the reason Edward's own Cryptocurrency never got off the ground; and weighing the thorny moral issues of the 2022 Qatar World Cup against the almost inevitable English success that would result from their boycott of it. Along the way, we successfully solve football transfer culture (although unfortunately too late to save Jack Grealish's soul) and almost inevitably damage the podcast's diplomatic relations with any number of countries. Luckily, none of us were planning on going anywhere for the forseeable anyway, thanks to the great gift of Omicron, which our experts also carefully unwrap and examine. Additionally, there's a white Bovril update and news from Carlisle United, where a dead fox nailed to a plank still mercifully has a major part to play in pre-match ceremonies. If you'd like to hear more from Chris, you can find him on Twitter (@ChrisMNee), where you can also find us (@twoht/@200percentpod). You can also email us if you wish: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is split into two parts. In part one your heroes investigate what is going on at Everton, a club who are seemingly in freefall in spite of their European Cup-winning manager (cough) and their owner's almost infinitely deep pockets. There's considerable there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-I mirth at some of the Toffees' recent business in the transfer market and any attempt to calm the nerves of jittery Evertonians is soon kiboshed by Ian, who has been watching them play all season. In part two, Edward and Ian report on their trip to Bognor Regis Town's 2-2 draw with Enfield Town. A splendid afternoon's entertainment was had by all, enriched by a radio commentator giving sass to the visiting team's bench, bickering stewards, a comedy red card and weather conditions that rendered proceedings "like a casserole". Could this finally be the season that the games your correspondents attend are actually going to be good? Not if Omicron has anything to do with it, so get vaccinated would be our advice. If you'd like to watch highlights of that Bognor v Enfield match you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXc5J2Bvmx8; and you can watch highlights of Everton's narrow escape from relegation in 1994 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3r1uhj_dE. We are, as ever, available for Bovril chat via Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or by email: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a football computer games special, with both of your heroes having been playing titles that promise to offer up something new to the table. Both fail dismally, of course, which causes some consternation as both Edward and Ian like dicking about playing computer games a whole lot. There are thoughts on the unique joy afforded by modern video games whereby the consumer also gets to be an unpaid product tester and the epochal FIFA versus PES rivalry for market dominance finally reaches its climax (FIFA won). Additionally, there is an idea for a new type of football video game so revolutionary that, it is fair to say, it leaves one of your panel unenthused despite their colleague being keen to get it crowdfunded. However, your regular correspondents are also aware of the real world, so you will also find some consideration in defence of defenders and the seemingly unglamorous art of defending, as well as the impossibility in the human mind of a team winning the FA Cup 15 years before their foundation. As always, you can get in touch with any comments, queries or suggestions. On Twitter we can be found @twoht or @200percentpod, or you can email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast focuses on the new arrival at Manchester United, Germany's intellectual powerhouse coach Ralf Rangnick. But what do your heroes - or indeed anyone else in Britain - know about this international man of mystery? Very little, it turns out. Nevertheless, it's a gap in all our knowledge that seemingly eats an hour of your lifetime. After a weekend in which Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher had a circular argument in which both men were simultaneously right and wrong, Edward and Ian bicker fruitlessly and ultimately discover nothing about Ralf Rangnick or each other. Or Jamie Vardy, as it turns out. Although we are able to explain why a Whitehawk game in 2016 missed out on a nice round attendance figure of 320, which will potentially be a help to someone. And Edward's extreme vexation at the Little England mentality demonstrated by Paul Merson (amongst others) surprises and delights his colleague to such an extent that he takes a deliberately contrarian viewpoint simply to entertain himself. Whether or not it entertains you is yet to be seen. But by gar, like a Ole Gunnar Solskjaer-lookalike sex dwarf, we tried. If you'd like to get in touch with us you can find us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or by emailing twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a right-up-to-the-minute look at a goalkeeper Liverpool signed 40 years ago, as Edward and Ian consider the career and legacy of Bruce Grobbelaar. Your heroes childhoods were both touched by the acrobatic exploits of this outstanding player to some extent, so they try to get a handle on where he came from, who he managed to beat to the role and whether or not a chimpanzee in a green jersey could have done just as effective a job playing in goal for the brilliant Liverpool team of the 1980s. There's also our thoughts on some of the darker moments from the Grobbelcareer, of which there has been no shortage in the life of this remarkable man. Fans of more recent footballing matters will be no doubt heartened that we also give some time and thought to the latest inevitable bed shitting accident at Manchester United and speculate who might be first in line to clean it all up. If you'd like to get in touch with any questions, quandries or Grobbelthooughts, you can find us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or you can email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How many times have all of YOUR toenails fallen out? None, presumably. But one of your regularly scheduled heroes on this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast's answer to that question may well surprise (and horrify you). It would certainly interest the subject of this week's conversation, Professor of Podiatry and English football's most experienced manager Neil Warnock. He's been a controversial figure for much of his career in the dugout, but his recent sacking by Middlesbrough gave both Edward and Ian pause for thought. They've realised that actually, Neil Warnock has consistently been one of the best parts about a game that, as Ian explains, only matters when it does. And as we all mellow with age, the realisation that we're probably all a little Neil Warnock sometimes is greeted with a Zen-like acceptance by all those who've had the fight battered out of them. This week, we look at both the career and life of one of British football's most fascinating characters with a fond eye because we're all grown-ups here. After this, we talk about toenails falling out and bald eyebrows, because we are also idiotic children. Such are the vagaries and complexities of life. Deal with it. If you can't, you can get in touch with us on Twitter (@twoht/@200percentpod) or via email (twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com) to complain bitterly. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's emotive FA Cup special Twohundredpercent Podcast, we join your heroes as they recount their trek up to Hertfordshire from their homes on the Sussex coast to watch St Albans City play League 2 leaders Forest Green Rovers in the First Round Proper. It was a red letter day for the Saints, too, as they emerged with a 3-2 victory to secure their first win against League opposition since the English Civil War. Not much time to dwell on anything else, or so you'd think: in fact, the ever-prolific Ian manages to drag us deep into a wormhole of Association Football in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, before joining his colleague in a ripe assessment of many of the Premier League's flaws and foibles. But it is St Albans City who keep drawing us back, and this edition is dedicated to the magic of the FA Cup and City's long-suffering supporters, particularly the ever-excitable (and forever present) Wolfman. We explore the game, the town and the history before dealing with the most singular and poignant question of our times: Do they know it's Christmas? If you'd like to get in touch with us, you can find us as See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast has lofty ideals, as Edward and Ian tackle the thorny and ever-present subject of loss.We discover the reason why any loss by a big team is now greeted by pant wetting on a national and international scale, and fire a stinging riposte to any pearl clutching ninnies whose innocence has been so badly abused by Norwich City's failure to win a game so far this season that they believe they ought to be expelled from the league. Your heroes also finally address the poignant question: were things better in the olden days? (They are not). Are things, therefore, better now? (They are also not). Nevertheless, Ian defends the right of modern football to be like it is, even in the face of grumbling old bastards like the pair of us, who go as far as to share some booing tips designed to keep your mental well-being on an even keel. If you'd like to get in touch with us, you can find us on Twitter @twoht/@200percentpod, or email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast (sponsored by Smithy's Kaff) is all about identifying problems and finding solutions.After a week where the Premier League's top three teams absolutely battered anything put in front of them, your heroes are keen to work out if this kind of competitive gulf is here to stay.If so, what is the answer? A Brentford-style, statistics-led "Moneyball" approach? A return to long ball tactics? Or the wilful neglect of all the technological trappings of the modern game until every playing surface is a midden? Our conclusions may or may not surprise you, particularly if you happen to be Paul Scholes.There's also news of Edward's visit to the West Country for a society wedding and Ian - who had been laid up all weekend with a stinking cold - offers some dialectical advice for those forced to deal with anti-vax campaigners.If you'd like to get in touch, we are as ever on Twitter @twoht/@200percentpod or you can email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We're now also available through Acast, right here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast walks the fine line between moral outrage and slapstick comedy like never before. However, for once it is neither Ian nor Edward's fault, they are merely playing with the hands that footballing fate has dealt them. There are some serious ponderings on Newcastle United's new Faustian takeover agreement, as well as Manchester United's wanton disregard for both their sporting legacy and their carbon footprint. Your heroes also delve into Paul Merson's affecting BBC documentary about the secret shame of football's gambling problem, complete with some valuable personal insight from Ian, formerly the manager of a bookmaker's shop in London Colney. Luckily, there is some light relief from all of this furrowing of the brow, thanks to legendary Northern Irish team Glentoran's goalkeeper punching his own centre half. Ah football. We knew there was a reason we keep coming back. If you'd like to get in touch with us you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or you can email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a Listeners' Questions special, with the entire agenda set by a bumper crop of queries sent in by you. Naturally, these ended up with Edward and Ian learning more about themselves and each other than ever before, but in between the discoveries there is also plenty of football chat.Ian holds forth on the efficacy of the Pozzo brothers' approach to running Watford FC, as well as the prospect of a populist fan-led uprising changing British football forever and for the better.Edward, meanwhile, is very keen that no-one notices how good a job Graham Potter is doing at Brighton & Hove Albion, having seen this movie before and knowing what inevitably happens next.There's also significant consideration of onions, high winds and post-apocalyptic survivalism, all of which time and again brought us back to a similar conclusion about our current favourite Premier League football manager.If you'd like to submit a question for us to percolate on for the next edition, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, and you can download today's episode to listen to at your leisure by right-clicking and saving here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We're now also available through Acast, right here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian - two weary, middle-aged old duffers - met during a torrential rainstorm that at times sounded like being inside a car wash in order to harvest their ripest takes about a sport that has long since stopped caring what they think. On the slate was the embarrassing Tottenham performance in last weekend's North London Derby which has cast serious doubt over both Nuno Espirito Santo's future at the club and also the number of follicles on the top of his head. Your heroes also cast a critical and heartily unapologetic eye on the latest thing to infest professional soccer, players issuing public apologies for mistakes they have made. On the field of play, at least. All this, plus! Three new Jamie Vardy facts that leave at least one of our panel distinctly underwhelmed, a disagreement about who Rastamouse supports and some fond reminiscences of terrible, awful football matches that we went to in the bad old days. If you would like to see the highlights of this week's Match of the Week - which was neither terrible nor awful - you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVectMaEDY. If you'd like to ask a question for a future episode, you can get in touch via Twitter (@twoht or @200percentpod) or you can email us, twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a(nother) bumper seaside special edition of the Twohundredpercent Podcast this week, as Edward and Ian return from the international break more fed up with everything than ever. Casual fans of Manchester United and people who vote Conservative should probably give this one a miss, as two weary old Trots do their best to pick through what's going on at Oldham Athletic, try to establish the numerically sustainable level of British football clubs and bitterly critique the BBC's new Premier League documentary series. But there's also hope for the future: Edward comes up with an embargo-busting solution that works for everyone and somehow doesn't suck, we celebrate animals getting onto the field of play and come out as strong proponents of football players being high on recreational drugs at all times. Ian even finds time to commission an epoch-making television series, perhaps not that much of a surprise when you eventually find out that this episode is easily half an hour too long, for which we can only apologise (but don't). If you'd like to get in touch, perhaps to ask a future listeners question or to be extremely rude you can find us on Twitter @200percentpod or @twoht. If you'd like to see this week's Match of the Week you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F8K33fXtas See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's all-thriller Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are thankfully joined by special guest Sam Whyte, who is artfully able to take both of your regular heroes – who had both been on the pop – by the hand through their weekly discussion of all things football. And what a week it's been. Edward, Ian and Sam look on with grim faces at Manchester United's signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, which is both inexpicable and wrong whichever angle one chooses to look at it.Arsenal's recent travails are also revisited, with Sam revealing they've now made it onto her Critically Endangered list of the eight clubs who cannot possibly avoid relegation this season and Ian still lost in admiration of Nuno Espirito Santo's beard. We also remember Wigan Athletic's very own Keith the duck – whose death this week caused shockwaves across the region – as well as Speckles the chicken, a much less-heralded but equally dead bird from north-west England who met with an igniminious fate.Match of the Week sees more fond reminiscence, as your panel of experts pine for the golden era of the FA Cup: inflatables, haddocks and pitches like ploughed fields aplenty, as Terry Phelan scores a worldy to break Grimsby hearts.You can find Sam Whyte on Twitter @SamWhyte, while we are as ever @twoht and @200percentpod. If you'd like to watch our Match of the Week, you can find it here.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, while the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast sees your heroes turn their gimlet eye onto two stories from the Football League. The first is a horror story, that of Nottingham Forest and their dismal start to the season under Chris Hughton. We explore key issues such as: who is responsible for editing his Wikipedia page? Are monkeys in suits any match for modern football data analysts? And are all these questions moot, when the prophecised Chosen One is consolidating his power right now in Sherwood Forest, waiting to scatter his magic beans and lead Forest back to domestic and European glory? The second story is far more redemptive, as Edward and Ian celebrate Rochdale AFC's seeming deliverance from yet another murky takeover attempt in the EFL. There's also news of Sean Dyche, a monstrous road junction in Chesterfield and some more potential solutions to the thorny issue of male pattern baldness; as well as action from the 1989 Full Members Cup, if anyone cared. If you'd like to get in touch with us, to suggest a future Match of the Week or pose a listener question, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. If you'd like to bask in this episode's Match of the Week, you can find it here. There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is (probably) the only place that you'll get to both hear Sean Dyche talking backwards and admiration for Ron Atkinson's leather jacket. And that's just for starters, because Edward and Ian had all sorts of shit to unpack, what with it having just been the opening weekend of the Premier League season. Amongst their discoveries is that Pep Guardiola is (still) bald, Japhet Tanganga is now one of our own (if you support Spurs) and it's never not going to be too soon to make any jokes about Matt Busby.Ian imagines an alternative universe in which Manchester United are only as good as Sheffield Wednesday, Edward reveals which bird Paul Pogba looks like this week and Arsenal's collective buttocks receive a traditional garnish. Meanwhile, as VAR enters its rebellious and nihilistic teenage years, your heroes also answer more listeners' questions, helpfully establishing Harry Kane's exact cash value and helping to doom a number of previously distinguished top flight clubs to the most igniminious relegation of all. If you'd like to ask a question of your own (or suggest a future Match of the Week) you can find us on Twitter: @twoht and @200percentpod, or you can email us at twohundredpercentpodcast@gmail.com.If you'd like to watch this episode's Match of the Week, you can find it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Association Football returns as the mainstay of the Twohundredpercent podcast from this week and it is like Edward and Ian have never been away. Except for the fact that FC Barcelona have run out of money and been forced to let Lionel Messi run away and join the circus. There's also news from Derby County (a club in crisis to a lesser extent, but try telling that to Wayne Rooney), FA Cup Quarter Final action (from 1982), listener questions and praise for the awesome natural power of rhizomes. It's the podcast that finally dares to lay bare the intricacies of The Banks-Shilton-Wallington Contiuum, a rolling set of transfer moves that kept East Midlands football clubs in goalkeepers for more than 20 years. If you'd like to join us in watching our Match of the Week, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVst4ZayCm4 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the final free-to-air This Is Our Everest until who knows when, sponsored by Bacon and Mustard, Edward and Ian have been watching a very special edition of Sportsnight from May 1969, when the assembled dignitaries were trying to find a new BBC football commentator. In addition to a potted history of the evolution of the Beeb's football commentary pool, David Coleman giving a cameraman what for, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and yet another appearance by Anglia TV's Gerry Harrison; your heroes finally call out Gary Sprake on a 52-year old bit of shithousery, Larry Canning gets the arsehole and Idwal Robling quits his job at the toffee factory.  We also reveal the best way to never miss an edition of Trans World Sport as Ian admits he doesn't know how to work his phone and we try and ascertain for sure whether or not Ian was molested during his time in the Boy Scouts, with only a website and three dozen greyhounds for assistance. There's news of a new campaign we thought of that is actually quite good and there's news about the future direction of the Twohundredpercent podcast which will no doubt have you heading here to subscribe in your droves.  There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.  If you'd like to watch Sportsnight With Coleman, you can find it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Get off your arse, because This Is Our Everest returns once again with your heroes watching So It Goes, the Granada TV music magazine show from August 1976. It's a notable programme too, as this was the national television debut of The Sex Pistols, a group of Dickensian herberts who were about to create a very big (albeit brief) stink.But what of the rest of the show? Edward and Ian encounter a geography teacher who should be at home with his family burping out some prog rock, Peter Sutcliffe playing upright bass, Peter Cook phoning it in and Charles Shaar Murray being torn a new hole. It's very possibly the birth of Yoof TV, so now you know who to thank for *that*.Edward successfully establishes that there was at least one person in the UK not in attendance at The Sex Pistols' epochal gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4th June 1976, Ian uncovers a potential conspiracy involving Glen Matlock and a microphone stand and we look into the possibility of a TV show about the Mayor of Aberystwyth that involves full-frontal nudity. Business as usual, then. If you'd like to watch what all the fuss was about both then and now, you can find it here.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. And you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's Bonus Everest there's a special treat for all of you long-suffering listeners who miss Ian desperately and are yearning to be free. Because this time, Edward has been joined by Chris Oakley from (among many other things) The Football Attic: Rewind podcast, a fellow avowed enthusiast of all things retro, to help take you through five episodes of the venerable Rank Organisation documentary series Look At Life. As Edward and Chris look on and learn about subjects as varied as dangerous jobs, waste disposal or the rise of the supermarket, there's no shortage of issues for discussion. We meet a 55-year old man called Tornado who rides the Wheel of Death on a professional basis, while Chris recounts similarly precarious circumstances from his own CV involving two ladders, a plank and a recklessly negligent Kiwi signwriter.Britain is rebuilt using her two most abundant natural resources: rocks and household waste, we encounter the hippest and most pallid cats on the coffee bar scene and Tubby Isaac is on hand with lashings of malt vinegar to top the whole thing off to a nicety. How might Sid James have felt about Brexit? Was Jack Brabham a closet Englishman? And what is the best thing to serve as an accompanimet to a tin of bees? We attempt to find out. You can find all the episodes of Look At Life we watched here. You can keep up to date with Chris by looking at his website, www.kitbliss.co.nz. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's bonus Everest, it's time for you to tune up (or detune) your mind to the exacting and often challenging universe of The Professionals. Patriotism, a sense of duty and an almost psychopathic, whisky-addled, disregard for life or property will get us out of this mess: particularly as the world's fattest, wheeziest and most unhealthy group of middle aged white men are hoping to prevail in an all-out race war.Your heroes reveal the secret number to dial to get the nuclear bomb squad, unpick the "aaaaah..." element of the surprise twist ending and watch a young man tie Tony Booth to a chair with the cord that was holding his trousers up. All in all, it's been a revelatory experience all round and one it turns out we almost never had at all, thanks to the vagaries of Ian's vast and ever-growing archive of old television programmes. Lucky, lucky us. This episode was originally released as part of our Patreon subscriber This Is Your Everest series. If you'd like to hear more stuff like this, why not consider joining us?There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, while the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We're now also available through Acast, right here.And you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Everest sees Edward and Ian revisit a time when television was never explicit but nevertheless still fucking terrifying: the world of British Public Information films of the 1970s and 1980s. Their relentless efficacy is demonstrated early as Ian recalls exactly how the word SPLINK might save your life, before Les Gray, Kevin Keegan and Alvin Stardust step in with further handy hints.The general utility of a 30-foot long metal pole as a children's toy is considered, the dirty and disease-ridden European continent is thoroughly repudiated and your heroes are warned how to avoid gas explosions and IRA car bomb attacks. Then, in a scintillating finale, we decide once and for all whether not it is a good idea to give the time of day to strangers (spoiler alert: it isn't). Why is all this stuff suddenly our fault? And why don't they make a public information film about the real danger facing us all on a daily basis? Let's find out.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We'd also like to remind you that you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian visit some game show action from 1974 with The Golden Shot, ITV's terrifying crossbow-related teatime juggernaut. With Bob Monkhouse no longer on hosting duties, your heroes discover all they need to know about people casting a long shadow. Meanwhile, studio guest Frankie Holmes gives a terrified audience member guaranteed PTSD, something Ian no doubt makes worse by immediately trying to find her on Facebook. Ken Dodd does five minutes of material about Income Tax reform, demonstrating that he had at least a keen sense of irony if not a commensurate sense of humour. Marxism is dismissed completely out of hand, Ian reveals what he got up to of a Sunday afternoon in 1974 and Edward reveals a deep-seated dislike of The Brotherhood of Man. We ask: why does he hate Britain and democracy so much? If you'd like to see The Golden Shot, you can watch it here.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, while you can download today's episode to listen to at your leisure by right-clicking and saving here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We'd also like to remind you that you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes reach an important (to them) milestone: their 69th episode overall, including the 24 Christmas Everests. To celebrate, if that is the correct word, Edward and Ian watched the bawdy 1974 sex comedy Confessions of a Window Cleaner. We quickly gain an insight into the jaded state of the former's addled mind now, while the latter not only undergoes all seven stages of grief but even finds time to invent an eighth.It's hard to know where to start with this curdled film's shortcomings: Is it the unrealistic dialogue and situations? The lazy and anachronistic sexual politics? Maybe it's the ease with which the parents of newborn babies are able to find adequate childcare to attend their sexually incontinent brother's shotgun wedding. Whichever way to look at it (including from beneath) it's an unruly mess down there. If you'd like to be both unamused and unaroused, you can watch the film here.There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. We'd also like to remind you that you can subscribe through Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes have been watching an episode of the animated children's series Bertha from 1985. Ian has never encountered Bertha before so he's unaware of the incredible potential of this perhaps sentient machine that can make literally anything.However, there's still a business to run and as such we find ourselves needing to consider the impact of time and motion studies, the inadvisability of unilateral decision-making within the workplace dynamic and suggesting alternative revenue streams for the future of the compan, Edward grasses up the office's weak link and there's harsh criticism of a blacklegging tea lady. All of this plus our weekly delve into the racial sensitivity of 36-year old television programmes and Ian's update on The Professionals. If you'd like to see what Bertha has been up to, you can watch it here. There's a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here.We'd also like to remind you that you can subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We release extra episodes that go off-piste every week now, weeks and weeks and weeks (I'm not sure how many weeks) before they're released to the public. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest your heroes have their swimming costumes ready to go for the beauty contest-come-cattle auction that was Miss Anglia 1980, the kind of awful, degrading bullshit that was more or less completely obsolete at least a decade before this programme was broadcast and yet somehow or other still a thing in 1980. It stirs thoughts and feelings in your regular judging panel, who are taken aback both by Vince Hill's age and his undeniable Rainbow pedigree; reveal how often Ian thinks about Dr. Hook and are pleased to see the Peter Fenn Orchestra called from the bar.Meanwhile, Ian inexplicably turns out to have an encylopaedic knowledge of a musical turn that Edward has never heard of, with predictable consequences. And, at last, he also reveals that he has climbed aboard the ducks eating peas train. It's possibly the only positive thing that could have come out of this avalanche of old tripe. Nevertheless, if you'd like to watch it you can find it here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's emotional This Is Our Everest sees your heroes facing up to a 1978 episode of the Granada Television documentary series This England on the subject of Snooker, a game that both Edward and Ian found infinitely fascinating until watching this. Nevertheless, your regular correspondents rally to discuss the impressive common sense of John Virgo's career trajectory, the concept of excellence fatigue in professional sport and an idea for a lucrative new YouTube channel.Ian defends people's right to choose (specifically the right to choose to play billiards in this case), the word "hagiography" makes an appearance and we reveal the main expenditure for a jobbing professional snooker player on the road. If you'd like to have your love of snooker tamped down, you can watch the programme here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Google Podcasts here and Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This edition of the podcast is dedicated to Katie Coxall, a bold, daring, brilliant artist and friend of ours who lost her battle with cancer earlier this week. She will be much missed and fondly remembered in equal measure.On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching one of the first Channel 4 programmes, Splash! with David Wilkie from 1982, an intermediate-level instructional television programme about swimming that (seemingly) also dabbles in inadvertent softcore pornography.Indeed, your intrepid heroes aren't particularly interested by any of the swimming content on display, giving at least equal billing to subjects like male pattern baldness and the evolution of an accidental combover, the danger of using electronic equipment near bodies of open water, the importance of putting children in their place and pre- and post-pandemic boner etiquette.The panel are dismissive of David's special guest, darkly suggesting that ulterior motives unconnected to swimming were largely responsible to their star status while a far more qualified expert is relegated to a few desultory widths at the end. There's also news of the Top of the Pops motherlode, our ongoing admiration for Bananarama and a largely tangental tale of taking a Swedish woman out to see an elderly soul legend live in concert. If you would like to watch this episode of Splash! you can find it here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching an episode of BBC1's The Russ Abbot Show from 1986. It allows your heroes to reflect both on Russ Abbot's lengthy some call it legacy as well as renewing our ongoing affair with the work of Les Dennis, now in his third appearance in the podcast. There's plenty of meat on these ravaged old bones, including a trek through some well weathered comedy landscapes, a consideration of the morals and ethics of doing impersonations of recently deceased people and a threat to withhold the licence fee.The dismal failure of Russ Abbot's two hair transplants is discussed and his internal struggle is laid bare in Freudian terminology. There's a calamitous miscarriage of justice brought about solely by the unconfined male libido, a discussion of the basic level of professional discretion you should expect from a bin man and a fond reminiscence back to the golden age of document shredding. All this plus! Ian offers a strobe lighting warning for viewers a mere 35 years after the fact. If you'd like to watch the programme (bearing in mind the opening titles contain strobe effects), you can find it here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, your intrepid heroes are at the beach for the BBC's Seaside Special from August 1975. It affords them ample opportunity to explore their relationship with light entertainment, as all the while Tony Blackburn fights for his life against the cruel tides of the English Channel. Fortunately for everyone involved he was rescued by the Royal Navy just in time, allowing the tragic life and death of Lena Zavaroni to test Ian's faith in God and children telling jokes test Edward's, only for a lousy golf-based comedian to challenge him yet further. Roy Hudd chastises the elderly, there's a slightly incongruous appearance by a music hall legend and once again we ask the poignant question: was there any real need for the creation of Orville the duck? If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Is Our Everest returns from our Easter/house moving break with one of your heroes' favourite television programmes of all time, Crimewatch UK from May 1986, an edition that Edward picked for reasons it turns out are far more frivolous than the content of the programme, which essays crimes by at least two of Britain's most odious and notorious 1980s crime syndicates. It's an opportunity for Edward to reveal his controversial views on facts flagged as "citation needed" on Wikipedia as well as for Ian to reminisce about his past life as a line-filler in police identity parades as well as reliving the traumatic moment in his own childhood when he realised bad things could happen to ordinary people.The authorities scrutinise our lockdown internet search histories with some concern, while your regular correspondents brazenly plan doing over an off licence. But which one of them is more likely to be a spree killer than a serial killer when they inevitably snap? Are abbatoir owners trustworthy? And is anyone still listening to Progressive Rock? We look into it, trying not to have nightmares at every twist and turn. If you'd like to watch the programme in question, you can find it here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Edward and Ian have been watching Lift Off With Ayshea, a Granada TV-produced ITV pop music programme from October 1974. These were eventful and turbulent times and shows like this one did a lot of the heavy lifting with regard to helping people forget this. After a quick style guide to pronouncing Ayshea's name and a surprise appearance by no fewer than five old friends of the podcast, your heroes get stuck into the big issues. These include the perils of high-waisted trousers, definitive proof that Alvin Stardust is on the side of good and a consideration of the scarcity of information about Paul Hogan in the 1980s.Ian tries hard not to get involved in any moral crusades but fails on at least two separate occasions, as well as finding time to try high heels. Meanwhile, Edward gets extremely deep into a conspiracy theory entirely of his own construction, one which ultimately ends in the necessity of making a public appeal for information from no lesser person than Les McKeown from the Bay City Rollers. Pretty standard, really. If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here, on YouTube.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the BBC's monolithic dog obedience series Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way from 1980. It was a good opportunity for your heroes to top up on their own abilities to control their dogs (and children) as well as to receive some much needed group therapy, however bad it makes them look in the court of public opinion. Meanwhile, Ian is trialling a new ultra-patriotic theme to see if it will improve listening figures, the most famous dogs in Britain are assessed and Barbara Woodhouse's darts persona is established.Mainly, however, it's just a reflection on the application and efficacy of choke chains that is up for debate, a subject whose vague sexual undertones sends at least one of our panel mad with pent-up desire. Is Barbara Woodhouse's vulcan mind grip teachable? Are the BBC communists? What are the realities of finding international fame late in life? And what was the root cause of white dog poo in the 1980s? All or none of these and more questions are inadequately answered, as per usual. If you'd like to watch Barbara jerk some dogs around, you can find the episode here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched at episode of Noel Edmonds' Saturday Roadshow from December 1988. As the setting for these hi-jinx was purportedly The Kremlin, Edward and Ian are duly able to discuss the full scope of Perestroika albeit through the lens of multiverse theory, famously the last refuge of fatuous idiots and charlatans.NESR is a programme that Ian had never seen because he spent Saturday evenings at the time out and as such is only now able to face his demons. The results are predictable, with the ebb and flow of Noel Edmonds' reputation picked over and his role in the wider trend for television treating the general public with the contempt they almost certainly deserve thoroughly assessed.Meanwhile, Mark Heap takes a dive in Ian's estimation, the contents of Edward's hard drive are revealed and Ian fills in the details of his mysterious school trip to the USSR in 1990, during which he broke a television set and lost both his belief in hardcore State Socialism and his virginity. The Four Stages of Edmonds are revealed and we discover whether or not people are less inclined to pay attention to your opinion if you've just been injured being shot out of a cannon. If you'd like to watch the programme on YouTube, you can find it here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On This Is Our Everest this week, your intrepid heroes watched the 1985 ITV quickfire comedy sketch and impressions show Copy Cats, an innocuous enough sounding task which actually pushed both men to the limits of human endurance. It's a show designed by history to explain why "Alternative Comedy" had to happen exactly when it did and nobody emerges unscathed from the whole sorry affair.There's something for everyone here: discriminatory humour, childish jokes, Bobby Davro and, inevitably, Peggy from Hi-Di-Hi; as well as largely unexpected appearances by E.L. Wisty and C.U. Jimmy, both of whom were fictional characters as far as we knew. It's neither big nor clever, and even Edward - a card-carrying juvenile buffoon - found the programme almost entirely unsatisfactory. Come gather round and bask in the warming glow of our pent-up rage and frustration. If you'd like to watch the programme, you can find it here on YouTube. More fool you, if you do. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the first episode of the Bay City Rollers' 1975 ITV series Shang-a-Lang and found themselves grimly fascinated by it all. As one of our panel put it, it was the schadenfruede of a jaded middle-aged man watching young men present a terrible television programme.Your heroes ponder how much of an educational remit this programme must have had thrust upon it to justify its existence, dismiss the idea of a record of diesel locomotive hydraulics for being stupid and pointless and try to figure out the collective brainfart that were (and still are) Lieutenant Pigeon, Coventry's leading two piano, bass and drums, mother and son pop group.Ian has a number of strident remarks about Tam Paton which were probably well-deserved, but never fear: before things get too heavy he brings out the idea book, full of suggestions for new podcasts that take your heroes to the very edge of both sanity and social decorum. It's Shang-a-Tastic. If you'd like to watch Shang-a-Lang on YouTube, you can find it here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian watched the early 1990s celebrity panel whodunnit show Cluedo. Still reeling from the news that one of their most fervent regular listeners may have been done in with a snooker ball in a sock, your heroes discuss means, motive and opportunity all framed by one of the most gleefully cast and pantomimed shows from UK television history.Mollie Sugden, making her fourth appearance on this ridiculous podcast, chews the scenery and not even a technical breakdown which consigned over ten percent of the show's running time to the dustbin of history is able to prevent Ian "Sherlock Holmes" King from collaring the guilty party. A splendid time was, by all accounts, had by everyone involved. Except perhaps you, dear listener. You'll have to be the judge of that. If you'd like to see Cluedo for yourself, you can find it on YouTube here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes watched Triangle, the BBC's North Sea ferry-based soap opera that was one of Auntie's most high profile disasters. It's a programme so glacially-paced, stupid and confusing that both Edward and Ian watched a second episode independently in the vain hope that they might find out what was going on. Edward has deep misgivings about the food while Ian offers a measured critique of Kate O'Mara's "system" at the roulette table. But if there's something they could both agree on, it's boobs. Everybody likes boobs. If you'd like to see Triangle, you can watch it here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, Edward and Ian have been watching the BBC veterinary comedy-drama series All Creatures Great and Small. It's a programme with which Edward was already familiar but that Ian has never seen. Although he has seen Call The Midwife, which is in many ways very similar. Your heroes discuss the myriad design flaws with livestock, are disappointed by the contents of a tortoise and reminisce about a man Ian once knew who had an unfortunate and final encounter with a horse.But ultimately, all you're still here for is the arm up a cow's backside which is of course is discussed at length. Pretty much arm's length, in fact. If you'd like to watch All Creatures Great and Small, you can find it here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here.And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's This Is Our Everest, your heroes get their glad rags on for the 1979 EMI World Disco Dancin' Championships. There's much discussion to be had about whether or not disco sucks (it doesn't) and what the alternative might have been, which brings a sobering conclusion. Racism is, once again, roundly criticised after a particularly unfortunate interview with a blameless Japanese dancing superstar, the dreamscape is explored and Ian rejoices to discover the identity of the competition's overall winner.However, intrigue and tribulation awaits when Edward reveals his choice for next week's podcast. It's safe to say half of our panel were significantly underwhelmed. You can watch the 1979 Disco Dancin' Championships on YouTube here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, and you can download today’s episode to listen to at your leisure by right-clicking and saving here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's This Is Our Everest sees your heroes visit the 1980 ITV horror anthology series Hammer House of Horror. Ian has a number of issues with horror, probably caused by his baffling insistence on living relentlessly in the real world. Edward - a gibbering, credulous buffoon - is, on the other hand, predictably quite a fan. They work their way through a number of paranormal and supernatural occurences with a critical eye, touching on the existence (or otherwise) of poltergeists and cryptozoological phenomena on the way. Are they real? Opinion is, predictably, divided.As if that wasn't already more than enough entertainment, all of a sudden Ian revolutionises proceedings by dropping a new feature in on the fly. What could be better? If you answered, "the re-emergence of a damn-near completely inexplicable 15-year old private joke", then you're most definitely in luck. You can watch a house bleeding to death here. If you enjoy this podcast and would like to support us, you can do so via Patreon.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Is Our Everest returns today, albeit as a far more sensible weekly edition, with Edward and Ian getting their RDA of The Price Is Right. Your heroes - one in particular - are both connoisseurs of the American programme, so how are they going to respond to the first edition of the Leslie Crowther-fronted UK series from March 1984? Pretty much as you'd expect, to be honest. In this bumper, seaside special, episode there's a gimlet eye run over the prizes on offer, endless talk of deep conspiracies and a rare mention of Carl Lewis.The parsimony of the British race is given a kicking and, as always, there's a history lesson with regard to ITV regional franchises. It's what you are all here for, let's face it. If you'd like to see Leslie Crowther run wild for yourselves, you can find the episode here.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The final door of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar inevitably reveals the terrifying spectacle of Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas. Our heroes both watch this monstrosity every Christmas regardless and it doesn't disappoint. There are thoughts on hygienic food preparation, painting pissy leaves with melted chocolate and the best way to mix a Christmas cake.But really, you're all here for the same reason that we were: so settle down with a glass of something green, pop some mushrooms under your skin and crack open three dozen eggs as Edward and Ian do their best to convey the mighty mincemeat omlette in audio form. If you'd like to see it for yourselves, you can watch Fanny on YouTube here. (There are five fifteen minute long episodes.)And that's it! We made it! Twenty-four Christmas shows throughout this version of the lockdown, over twenty-four days. We wanted to take the opportunity to thank everybody who has subscribed to and listen to this podcast for tuning in. We've been surprised at the popularity of these, and are happy to confirm that This is Our Everest will be returning in the new year on a weekly basis. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The penultimate day of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar goes back 50 years to the black and white world of Please Sir! Ian is fascinated by any programme that depicts London in the early 1970s, even if it is just for the social documentary aspect, and as such is much more kindly disposed to this programme than his colleague.Your heroes discuss the potential emergence of a hitherto unheard London accent, the potential pitfalls of inviting only your enemies to your wedding reception and critique a preposterous incident in the annals of hospitality management. There's also a new proposal for a traffic light system for the dogging community and Edward trials the central running gag in his forthcoming, terrible, sitcom. If you'd like to watch Please Sir!, you can find it here.Tomorrow, we reach the end of our festive journey, and it's time for a Christmas cracker. From 1975, it's Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas, and there are five fifteen minute episodes for your delectation, starting right here. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Day 22 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian join Chas and Dave for their 1982 Christmas Knees-up. It is a programme that acts as a salve on both of your heroes' battle-scarred psyches and also one which allows Ian to expand upon his sitcom-worthy childhood family Christmases in North London (or Tier 4, as it is now better known).Expect pianos to be wheeled in and beer barrels to be breached by people who didn't really know which end was up. There's also thoughts on the career trajectory of Eric Clapton, the correct way to woo Patti Boyd and speculation as to the official line of succession to get into The Travelling Wilburys. If you'd like to watch Chas & Dave (and you probably should), you can find it here. For those of you who haven't had enough over-exaggerated Cockneyism, tomorrow's podcast will be on the 1971 Please, Sir! Christmas episode. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Day 21 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar sees Ian break all known rules for this already stupid and pointless exercise, picking a 2011 festive edition of Yo Gabba Gabba. Edward is keen to find out whether or not having two young children has now addled Ian's brain to the point that this is now the sort of television programme he enjoys and is not disappointed to discover the answer.That said, there are some excellent late gift ideas for the season courtesy of skateboarding royalty, Ian badly overestimates a 1990s TV heartthrob's age and a careful eye is run over the entire cBeebies schedule in case they're trying to recruit their viewers for far right extremism. Turns out, they are almost certainly not. If you'd like to watch Yo Gabba Gabba, you can find it here. Tomorrow - and we're on the final stretch of these wretched things now - it's time for The Chas & Dave Christmas Special, from 1982. There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Day 20 of our Advent calendar sees Edward and Ian watching the 1977 Fat Albert Christmas Special. It's your heroes' first encounter with this particular US television monolith but the helter skelter melding of the Nativity and A Christmas Carol soon takes a back seat to the inevitable questions. Can we really separate the art from the artist, when the artist in question did a Bill Cosby? How sanitary are junkyard clubhouses for human childbirth? And how exactly did Ian go a single day in his mad childhood without being murdered by strangers in a field, mangled on a dual carriageway or drowning in the fishing pit? We do our best to find out. You can watch Fat Albert right here.Tomorrow morning, we're coming right up to the modern age, as Ian chucks all the rules about this podcast out of the window in order to make Edward sit through The Very Awesome Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas Show, from 2011.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Day 19 of the This Is Our Everest Advent calendar and Edward and Ian are watching the Concentration Christmas special from 24th December 1968. Eschewing the commonly-held notion that the secret to a long life is mild cheese and exciting television, Edward has decided to try it the other way round with a 52-year old US game show and a honking lump of Epoisses. As two drunk Father Christmases do battle to win money for charity, Ian talks 1968, two Kennedys are assassinated and the intellectual rigour of The Price Is Right is called into question.No such charges can be made against this podcast though, when we deal with important topics like: how many pints is the correct amount of lunchtime pints when you're at work? Find out now. If you're British, the correct answer is probably exactly what you thought it was, just one of the many reasons this country is such a respected global power. If you want to watch Concentration, you can find it here. Tomorrow we’re going back to the 1960s again, with a Christmas special episode of the American game show Concentration.There’s a bunch of different ways in which you can subscribe to the 200% podcast. You can do so through Spotify, which you can find right here, whilst the podcast RSS feed is here and you can subscribe through Itunes here. And finally, a humble request. These podcasts take a lot of effort to write, record and release, and we would be extremely grateful for your financial support, in whatever way you can manage. We have our Redbubble shop, for the sartorially minded amongst you, and subscribe through joining us on Patreon. We even now have a Kofi button on the site, so do feel free to send us whatever you’re able to. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.