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Rob Armstrong is the writer who first coined the acronym in The TACO Trade, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, in a column back in April. He wasn't trying to go viral, much less have the acronym circulate throughout Wall Street and the media, much less have President Trump be asked about it. But that's what happened. Armstrong is the Unhedged columnist and podcaster at the Financial Times. He also had a prior career at a hedge fund, which abruptly ended in the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. He also has a PhD in philosophy, making him an unusual figure in the world of finance and economics journalism. The topics he writes about reflect this varied background. He and Cardiff reflect on the strangeness of coining a term that has such reverberations in a prominent national conversation, in this case the one surrounding President Trump's tariff strategy, and whether the trade itself still applies. They also discuss how the feedback loops created by the acronym represent the fundamental nature of markets and the ways that societal narratives get around these days. But the main part of their chat is about US markets at the moment. Are they in a bubble? Why has there not been more of a negative effect from tariffs? And why has the US dollar fallen — and stayed fallen — while US stocks have returned to all-time highs just this week? What should we make of the horrific returns on long-term Treasuries this decade? And are higher interest rates truly here to stay? They also discuss Rob's switch from working in finance to writing about it, and his recent column on Rene Girard and the mimetic rivalries that seem to define this political moment. Finally, they close with a surprising topic that Rob frequently also writes and speaks about: men's fashion. Related links: The Unhedged Newsletter (Rob Armstrong)Unhedged Podcast (Katie Martin with Rob)A Wealth of Common Sense (Ben Carlson)The Overshoot (Matt Klein)Feed Me (Emily Sundberg)Rob's Life & Arts columnRob's FT style column Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We start off today's show checking out Opie's livestream from the morning. He claims he's having a romantic week while the kids are away but then we hear a very different story. After a riveting list of the things Opie has grilled this summer, Ron the Waiter joins the show to prove once again how utterly talentless he really is. Adam Busch gets very uncomfortable as he sees the similarities between him and Ron the Waiter. Stavros Halkias and Chris Distefano are taking over for 2 Bears, 1 Cave for the summer and they're killing it as they lay into Tom and Bert. The Fighter and the Kid is trying new ways to find an audience but I'm not sure it's going to be successful as Brendan Schaub never has anything to add to the conversation. Stuttering John continues to get beat up by Stephanie Miller and the guest that he booked as we check out his second episode working the board for Stephanie's happy hour show. Steel Toe completely embarrasses himself at his live show, he prepared nothing for an event he's been promoting for months. Review girl Megan joins us with another round of “Is It Gay?” Annie is also on as we play another round of “2 Minutes with Tom.” We check out some recent reviews and Spotify comments and finish up with your voicemails. Tickets on sale for WATP with Anthony Cumia at The Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, New York on September 5th – http://watplive.com/ Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Cardiff's channel – https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch this episode here – https://youtube.com/live/Qhg8sTPCgdw Take the 7 day challenge and get 50% off your subscription to Magic Mind - https://magicmind.com/watp50 use promo code WATP50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's nearly back! Leagues One and Two kick off this weekend. Following two successive relegations Luton are among the favourites in League One alongside the likes of Cardiff, Stockport and Bolton. At the other end could it be a long season for Rotherham, Peterborough or Wimbledon? In League Two Walsall will try to go again while Gillingham and MK Dons have high hopes. Who will be fighting to stay in the football league at the bottom?Fans across the country will be full of hope and expectation but will their hope prove well founded or misplaced? Former football league defender Gregor Robertson joins Tom Clarke to assess the runners riders and also rans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eve Conway joins Ger Gilroy and Colm Boohig ahead of Athlone Town's 1st round Champions League tie against Cardiff this evening in the midlands. OTB Breakfast on UPMC w/ UPMC #GetBackInAction
In Part 1 of our conversation with John Watton, senior B2B marketing leader and seasoned CMO, we trace his unconventional path from soldering circuit boards in Cardiff to leading marketing teams at global tech companies. John shares how a love of science fiction, prog rock and analogue synths shaped his worldview—and how a lifelong blend of creativity and curiosity has powered his career. He reflects on key early mentors, what it means to simplify complexity, and the value of doing what you're good at—even if it's not your ‘passion'.
In this captivating episode of Try That in a Small Town, the guys settle into their new studio space powered by e-Spaces to deliver raw, unfiltered conversations that swing between hilarious and profound.The conversation kicks off with a spirited debate about entitlement in the WNBA, questioning players wearing "Pay Us What You Owe Us" shirts despite the league never turning a profit in 30 years. This launches them into examining how social media amplifies controversies and shapes public perception, with reflections on the recent viral "Coldplay couple" scandal. Their authentic take on these cultural moments reveals their willingness to question popular narratives while maintaining respect for multiple perspectives.Between sips of Kentucky Coffee (courtesy of producer Jim, who unexpectedly joins the conversation with his own microphone), the guys share fascinating glimpses into tour life – the post-show adrenaline that keeps them awake until 3 AM, their adventures at the Oasis reunion concert in Cardiff, and the surprising number of podcast fans they encounter on the road. These stories peel back the curtain on the music industry through the lens of friendship rather than celebrity.The episode takes several unexpected turns, from Neil's jaw-dropping medical story about sneezing out a piece of surgical packing from a 35-year-old nose surgery, to thoughtful reflections on faith and common ground in our divided culture. It's these unplanned moments that showcase the genuine camaraderie that makes listeners feel like they're sitting around the table with old friends.Ready for unscripted conversations that cover everything from backstage secrets to current events with equal parts humor and heart? Subscribe now and join us for the ride – and stay tuned for some exciting announcements coming soon!The Try That in a Small Town Podcast is powered by e|spaces! Redefining Coworking - Exceptional Office Space for Every BusinessAt e|spaces, we offer more than just office space - we provide premium private offices designed for focus and growth. Located in the heart of Music Row, our fully furnished offices, private suites, meeting rooms and podcast studio give you the perfect space to work, create and connect. Ready to elevate your business? Book a tour today at espaces.comFrom the Patriot Mobile studios:Don't get fooled by other cellular providers pretending to share your values or have the same coverage. They don't and they can't!Go to PATRIOTMOBILE.COM/SMALLTOWN or call 972-PATRIOTRight now, get a FREE MONTH when you use the offer code SMALLTOWN.Original BrandsOriginal brands is starting a new era and American domestic premium beer, American made, American owned, Original glory.Join the movement at www.drinkoriginalbrands.comFollow/Rate/Share at www.trythatinasmalltown.com -Browse the merch: https://trythatinasmalltown.com/collections/all -For advertising inquiries, email info@trythatinasmalltown.comThe Try That In A Small Town Podcast is produced by Jim McCarthy and www.ItsYourShow.co
This week on the Fozcast, we dive into the wild world of football club owners — the good, the bad, and the ugly. From Vincent Tan trying to change Cardiff's kit colours to the chaos of the Venky's at Blackburn, we share some of the most outrageous owner stories in football. We debate whether you'd prefer an owner who pumps in cash into a club or tries to build a club slowly… are the Manchester United owners really that bad, and we uncover a potential Chelsea secret which includes Roman Abramovich and his nightclub plans under Stamford Bridge… Plus, we break down what PSR actually means in the Premier League and why Brentford's approach deserves more credit. This one's a belter! Let us know in the comments what owners you want us to look at next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
durée : 00:14:47 - Le Feuilleton - Où l'on rencontre un aristocrate britannique qui confond les espèces de primates. Où l'on découvre les secrets de Cardiff. Où l'on comprend que si l'on veut arriver à destination, il faut bien choisir ses escales. - réalisation : Sophie-Aude Picon
-February 7 in Landshut, Germany we muck it up one more time with the LA Ice Breakers vs Team Germany Old Timers-Building a family is how you win and Landshut Germany is a hockey town-Working with Warrior after the game and selling sticks to my Cardiff, Manchester and german fellas-Gold helmets can be fun when you win them together but they are stupid for the top scorer-The rich history and people of Landshut Germany that have left their mark on the game
In no particular order, here is this week's show playlist !but i accidently deleted the playlist Doh ! doh ! doh !Aja & ClaireRoads Are Falling (Part 1).Sampology - Samba Sampo .Dom Salvador -Minha Melanina.CRO-MAGNON_Mysterious_VibesSlaka The BEATCHILD -Ain_t_Nothing_Like_Hip_HopGary_Bartz - Ju_Ju_ManTom Misch and Yussef Dayes - What Kinda MusicChip Wickham - Nara BlackEddie Gale - African SunshineTall Black Guy & Moonchild - I Will Never Know (14KT IAMABEENIE Remix)The People's People Present The Spirit Of David - MonicaQwalia - Bricklane III.Strata Gemma - Rebellious Spirit of..DJ_Mitsu The Beats - SpireedomSwing Out Sister - Almost Persuaded.Kokoroko - Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel) [Brownswood Recordings]Mr. Yoshiaki - Truth In SpiritsTom Showtime - Where The Best Herbs Grow (Herbaceous mix)
We start things off with Mark Normand on Right Now with John Goblikon. Normally we review shows we don't like but for some reason we're starting with a show that we highly recommend. Then we get into Stuttering John's first day on the job of the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour show. He not only derails the conversation and hits on the guest nonstop, but he also is running the board for some reason and has no idea what he's doing. Adam is along as usual to discuss Steel Toe having his attorney drop him! Brendan Schaub misses LA but nowhere near as much as is producer Chin does. Chin HATES Austin! Adam was interviewed by Harrison Young on Topic Time. Cardiff joins the show as we watch Opie try to explain his failed bit and admit that he's completely given up on personal hygiene. Annie is on with another round of 2 Minutes with Tom and review girl Megan joins us with another round of “Is It Gay?” We finish up with a recent review and your voicemails. Tickets on sale for WATP with Anthony Cumia at The Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, New York on September 5th – http://watplive.com/ Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Cardiff's channel – https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch this episode here – https://youtube.com/live/ZcAQk2yDy3M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 379 - Prince of Wales Tim and Liam return after a successful weekend at the Welsh Open 2025 - the first ever XWA System Open - and chat about how they got on at the event, on and off the table top! We also chat generally about the event and how much we enjoyed the trip to Cardiff! Before we chat over Liam's games and route to the final we have a quick chat about the GFA Open from Hungary. Games from the Welsh Open can be watched back on Twitch AND YouTube - if you haven't done already please follow us on Twitch and subscribe on YouTube - both are free and you'll get notified when new videos go live! Be sure to check you're watching back in 1080p! https://www.twitch.tv/sith_taker_tim/videos https://www.youtube.com/@sith_taker_tim/streams If you want to support Tim's live streaming efforts please consider subscribing on Twitch (use your free Prime sub if you have it) or you can support directly via a Streamlabs donation here: https://streamlabs.com/sith_taker_tim/ Event links: X-Wing Welsh Open 2025 https://www.longshanks.org/event/26648/ Pattern Analyzer https://www.pattern-analyzer.app/tournament/listfortress/8846 GFA Open 2025 July https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/26807/ Cast - Rich, Liam, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 21/07/2025 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. Used without permission - it's just for fun!
Il 4 luglio è partito da Cardiff, nel Regno Unito, il tour degli Oasis che ha battuto qualunque record di prevendita. A Cortona, in Toscana, si è aperta il 17 luglio la nuova edizione del festival internazionale di fotografia Cortona on the move. Al Pirelli Hangar Bicocca è stata allestita la prima grande retrospettiva europea dell'artista giapponese Yukinori Yanagi. La costituzione nelle parole è un libro che racconta l'origine e l'importanza della costituzione italiana a ragazzi e ragazze. CONGiovanni Ansaldo, editor di musica di Internazionale Paolo Woods, fotografo e direttore artistico di Cortona on the move Leonardo Merlini, giornalista di Aska News che collabora con InternazionaleSusanna Mattiangeli, scrittrice e collaboratrice di Internazionale KidsSe ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità . Vai su internazionale.it/podcastScrivi a podcast@internazionale.itProduzione di Claudio Balboni e Vincenzo De Simone.Musiche di Carlo Madaghiele, Raffaele Scogna, Jonathan Zenti e Giacomo Zorzi.Direzione creativa di Jonathan Zenti.Oasis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6MNCuw-S4&t=6215sCortona on the move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5GtVIWAQo&t=525sYukinori Yanagi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCCE5j-ILg&t=156sLa costituzione nelle parole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEQGBQoqmM
We've uncovered the Stephanie Miller vault - all of the happy hour episodes featuring Stuttering John. We're starting with John's first appearance on the show, before he worked there. John uses the guest stop as an opportunity to interview for a job. Adam Busch found a hilarious NY Post article about Stuttering John's embarrassing first week on the Tonight Show. We check in on the Golden Hour where these lunatics are defending Diddy and complaining about the victims of the MeToo movement. Aaron at Steel Toe is begging for the goal again, regretting trying to put on a golf tournament, and pretending that Mike David at Redbar likes him and his show. KarmicX is on Stuttering John's side vs. Shuli and me. Opie had a super heroic day at the beach and doesn't realize that he almost got his neighbor killed! Cardiff, Megan, and Annie join us to play another round of 2 Minutes with Tom and the brand new game “Is It Gay?” We finish up with recent reviews and comments as well as your voicemails. Tickets on sale for WATP with Anthony Cumia at The Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, New York on September 5th – http://watplive.com/ Tickets on sale for the Magic Bag on September 12th – https://www.themagicbag.com/concerts-magicbag/who-are-these-podcasts-hide-september-15-2023-hide Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Cardiff's channel – https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch this episode here - https://youtube.com/live/ax6uuKbNm2U Get 60% off the Magic Mind offer with our link and code https://www.magicmind.com/watp60 & WATP60 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In just a few short years, Cerys Atkin has authentically grown her platform Cardiff Love List to over 62k followers on Instagram and 11k followers on TikTok.She's a champion of Welsh businesses, a social media queen and a mentor for small businesses.Get a pen and paper at the ready, as you're going to want to take notes for this episode.Join us today as we discuss...What inspired Cerys to start Cardiff Love List and how she's built an engaged and authentic communityThe power of supporting local and small businessesSimple ways to stay energised and avoid overwhelm when creating contentHow to grow an engaged audience whilst staying true to yourselfCerys's top tips for helping you to stand out on socials (without doing cringey dances!)How to balance vulnerability and visibility Keep in touch with Cerys and Cardiff Love List...Follow CLL on InstagramFollow CLL on TikTokWork with Cerys to grow your own socialsCerys' content creator essentials (Amazon link)Loved this episode? Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe
MUSICBack to the Beginning, the all-day heavy metal festival this past July 5th that was capped off with the alleged last-ever performances by both Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, raised more than $200 million for three charities, making it the highest-grossing charity concert of all time according to Billboard, which has kept track of such events. https://www.billboard.com/lists/highest-grossing-charity-concerts-list-ozzy-black-sabbath/#recipient_hashed=d7e2073cbf285d42626dd51c3ccf4b92a8cec49e37b4097434b2ccfa625233f5&recipient_salt=f80646041cdff23b9f9b22c0f1f5b5826187324ef9aea232fc4d9d0f2ab155d8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=billboard_daily&utm_content=620886_07-15-2025&utm_term=10484669?utm_medium=&utm_source=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_id= Following last year's deluxe reissue of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' fifth album, 1982's Long After Dark, comes an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame of artifacts associated with it and the tour in support of it. https://www.tompetty.com/ Kendrick Lamar's performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2025-emmy-nominees-music-categories-list-1236021589/For years, there have been rumors that Stevie Wonder can actually see. Stevie talked about the rumors at a recent concert in Cardiff, Wales. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stevie-wonder-addresses-blindness-rumors_n_68757fffe4b02462fe7a5a54 TVThe nominations for the 2025 Emmy Nominations were announced on Tuesday. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emmys-nominations-2025-nominees-list-1236314909/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=687673c8e0fe3200010162e2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.netFred Armisen has a new album coming out. It's called "100 Sound Effects". And yes, it's a comedy album of real sound effects. Here's a preview, featuring what any guitarist knows too well. Tuning a guitar, but it's still out of tune. And the sound of a bar closing after the band finishes. https://consequence.net/2025/07/fred-armisen-100-sound-effects-album-2025-tour-dates/? MISC:Disneyland unveiled an animatronic Walt Disney, and it's kind of amazing how advanced it is. The attraction opens on July 17, the same day Disneyland turns 70. https://www.ign.com/articles/walt-disney-a-magical-life-impressions-a-remarkable-experience-that-honors-walts-legacy-in-a-powerful-way MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS: Everyone can agree that one of the best parts about the new "Superman" movie is Krypto, Superman's foster dog. And it's probably no coincidence that since the movie came out, there's been an increase in Google searches about pet adoption. The phrase "adopt a dog near me" has increased by 513%. https://consequence.net/2025/07/superman-pet-adoptions-krypto-james-gunn/ AND FINALLYThe cats and dogs that stand out in our minds the most from Movies and TVSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Hello and welcome back to the Oasis Podcast, the ultimate audio guide to Oasis Today we hear from Jemma and Daniel about their magic moment of Daniel being lifted up by Oasis fans to watch the band Plus I drop in the rest of my recordings from Cardiff, and all your voice messages!
Als 17jährige war Gwenno Saunders aus Cardiff, Wales, zwei Jahre lang Tänzerin für «Lord of the Dance» in Las Vegas . Zusammengefasst «drink, drugs, and eating disorders». Unter dem Namen ihres damaligen Lieblings-Clubs «Utopia» verarbeitet Gwenno nun ihr «musikalisches Erwachen» in dieser Zeit. Auf ihrem 4. Soloalbum singt die Ex-The Pipettes-Sängerin erstmals hauptsächlich auf Englisch, lässt aber Walisisch (die Sprache ihrer Mutter) und Kornisch (die Sprache ihres Vaters) auch diesmal wieder aufblitzen. Ein verträumter Vintage-Pop-Trip in eine längst vergangene Scheinwelt.
Gareth Rhys Owen and Matt Lloyd explain the Welsh Rugby Union's latest proposals for structural change as they consider halving the number of regions in Wales. The governing body says it's entering a formal consultation with the Professional Rugby Board (PRB) and could reduce the number of regions to three or even two. In a statement, the WRU said the current system is failing and is unsustainable, having already confirmed it does not intend to continue equally funding four professional teams in the men's game. Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets are the four current sides, with the WRU saying it wants a "more radical" strategy to be completed by October.
Recent decades have seen seismic changes to traditional gender roles, leading to deep and sometimes difficult questions about what it means to be a man today. Some argue it's provoked a ‘crisis in masculinity'. This term is debated, but there are growing rates of loneliness, poor mental health, and even suicide, in men. At the same time troubling forms of so called ‘toxic masculinity' are being promoted by some online influencers.Delyth Liddell and guests examine the issues. Is masculinity under threat or is it simply being redefined? What is masculinity anyway? And does scripture and Biblical manhood have any relevance to this discussion today? Reverend Will Rose-More is an ordained minister and is the author of ‘Boys will be Boys and other myths'. He's editing a forthcoming book on masculinities and trauma in church and theology. Charlotte Thomas is an honorary tutor at Cardiff University and is currently studying for a PhD in Theology on hypermasculinity and the Bible, particularly looking at an American Christian men's group called the ‘Promise Keepers'. Jon Stockley is the national director for Christian Vision for Men Wales. Father Sebastian Jones is the Superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Cardiff. He's also the Parish Priest of St Alban's Parish Splott, and lectures in Canon Law.
Welcome to the final episode of ‘Songs of the Skies'! Today I am joined by Mark Boden and Fennella Humphries to discuss 'Chasing Sunlight'! This incredible piece of music tells the story of the Arctic Tern, and how it takes part in one of natures greatest and most epic quests!First, we will hear about Mark's time learning from these birds on the Isle of May and Anglesey, and how that translated into song. Then Fenella will explain how she brought that music to life!Since this is the last episode of the series I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone on the Sinfonia Cymru team who invited me to take part in this event, it was an absolute honour. Useful LinksDon't forget to subscribe to the podcast and follow uson Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok & Instagram! We are @PangolinPodcast You can also follow Jack on Instagram @theonlyjackbaker!Follow Sinfonia Cymru on Instagram at @sinfoniacymruLearn more about Sinfonia Cymru here: https://sinfonia.cymruFollow Fenella on Instagram: @fenellaviolinFollow Mark on Instagram: @markdavidbodenThank you to Sinfonia Cymru for providing photographs for this cover art, taken by David Edmunds (@davidedmundsphotography77)Music Credits: At The Shore by Kevin MacLeod, Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3389-at-the-shore License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ AngloZulu by Kevin MacLeod, Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3372-anglozulu License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Some say that Johnny Vegas is still in the studio to this day.Welcome back to the Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast. Toby was in for Chris this week, and it was a busy one, with four Stereophonics tickets to be won, multiple guests and a few games thrown in as well!The legendary Chris Tarrant joined his son and our very own Toby Tarrant to talk about his new book: For The Love Of Bears. He spoke about the beauty the animals, as well as a few close calls he's had with them over the years. The Tarrants also chatted about their love for cricket and theories as to why Toby is ginger.Johnny Vegas came into the studio and was his usual chatty and comedic self! He told us about his new show on Quest: Johnny Vegas' Little Shop Of Antiques, but spent most of the time cracking jokes and discussing cannibalism.Danny Dyer and Ryan Sampson joined the team to chat about the new season of their show: Mr. Bigstuff. Dyer told us about how emotional he felt seeing Oasis live in Cardiff, and another impressive sight he managed to catch there.Finally, Toby went on an accent journey across the UK where listeners sent in voice notes saying hello in their local dialect and the team played the montage of accents for all to hear.Thankfully Chris is back on Monday, but until the, there's this: Edible underwearAlbum AvalancheMr JapanEnjoy!The Chris Moyles Show on Radio XWeekdays 6:30am - 10am
durée : 00:04:25 - Le Zoom de France Inter - Oasis se reforme pour une tournée historique, intitulée "Oasis Live '25", avec 17 concerts dans des stades emblématiques à Cardiff, Londres, Édimbourg, Dublin… Mais surtout chez eux, à Manchester, pour cinq dates exceptionnelles à partir de ce vendredi. Reportage sur les traces des frères Gallagher. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.
Open that cutoff filter the whole way up, listener!Synthesisers are the name of the game this week, but it's all very much still the real deal here at NO ENCORE as Matt Harris of Birthday Problem, HAVVK and Veta Records sits opposite to take us into the world of analogue oscillation for his favourite synth riffs.Meanwhile, over on the NO ENCORE Patreon, Adam's third instalment of his DISCUSSING THE IRISH MUSIC INDUSTRY series is now live, featuring a solo run from the Sonic Architect himself; industry chat within, not to be missed! And there won't be long to wait until the next volume of Film Club with Andy McCarroll and Dave dissecting the 2008 found footage monster horror movie Cloverfield– that lands this coming Monday. Sign up now to get your fix!But back to this week's show, and what a show we have for you...ACT ONE: Matt tells us all about Birthday Problem's latest offering, as well as an insight into what's coming next.ACT TWO (29:01): A NO ENCORE Roving Reporter fills us in on a night at Oasis in Cardiff, David Draiman discourse, Akon City down, Apple Music unveil their top 500 streamed songs of the decade and Iron Maiden make a mint (in a way)– it's the news.ACT THREE (1:08:44): Top 5 Synth Hooks-Birthday Problem links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Charlize Theron was recently a guest on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper. She made big news talking about her sex life but I was much more interested in Charlize pretending that Alex's traumatic childhood is equal to hers. The fact that Alex went along with that tells me she's a total narcissist. Adam Busch was checking in on Rob Saul again and he's back to the same insults that have never made sense. Brendan Schaub might actually not be liable in the new lolsuit that he was served by his former partner at that dumb CBD company. He should be sued for the promo videos he made. 2 Bears 1 Cave is taking the summer off but instead of doing it like Stern, they're going to let much more able comics take over for a couple of months… what could go wrong? Opie had to get a new phone and the result was a complete psychotic break from reality. He also announces a brand new podcast. Megan, Annie, and Cardiff join us for another round of 2 Minutes with Tom, we tease the next episode, read a recent review, and listen to your voicemails. Tickets on sale for WATP with Anthony Cumia at The Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, New York on September 5th – http://watplive.com/ Tickets on sale for the Magic Bag on September 12th – https://www.themagicbag.com/concerts-magicbag/who-are-these-podcasts-hide-september-15-2023-hide Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Adam's new project – Jamie Levine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNEZSherbA Cardiff's channel – https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch the episode here: https://youtube.com/live/BRkoiVX6p58 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Max Gomez viajó hasta Cardiff en Inglatera para el primer concierto de la gira de Oasis. Y en este episodio nos cuenta todos los detalles del evento. Desde la llegada, el merchardising y lo que fue vivir uno de los eventos más esperados del 2025. Además analizamos todo el setlist canción x canción.
Oasis returned to the stage in Cardiff for the first time in over a decade, drawing both fan excitement and media access concerns. While audience members were able to livestream from inside the venue, accredited press photographers faced time-limited licensing agreements on how long their images could be used. Andy Moger from the News Media Coalition and Metro's Danni Scott discuss the band's approach. During President Macron's state visit to the UK, attention turned to the media's role in covering migrant crossings of the English Channel. A report by the BBC captured footage of French police deflating an inflatable boat on a beach in northern France. Reporter Andrew Harding gives the background to his story and Catherine Norris Trent from France 24 explains what coverage the issue gets in the French press. There is growing interest in how fact-checking is approached within the book publishing sector after claims about a best-selling book were made by The Observer newspaper last week. Heloise Wood of The Bookseller explains why in publishing, legal responsibility usually rests with the authors themselves. Presenters: Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Assistant Producers: Lucy Wai and Martha Owen
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Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 23rd July 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references: Sam Mullins, Trustee at SS Great Britainhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sammullins/https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/ Transcriptions: Paul Marden: What an amazing day out here. Welcome to Skip the Queue. The podcast for people working in and working with visitor attractions, I'm your host, Paul Marden, and today you join me for the last episode of the season here in a very sunny and very pleasant Bristol Dockyard. I'm here to visit the SS Great Britain and one of their trustees, Sam Mullins, who until recently, was the CEO of London Transport Museum. And I'm going to be talking to Sam about life after running a big, family friendly Museum in the centre of London, and what comes next, and I'm promising you it's not pipes and the slippers for Sam, he's been very busy with the SSGreat Britain and with other projects that we'll talk a little more about. But for now, I'm going to enjoy poodling across the harbour on boat number five awaiting arrival over at the SS Great Britain. Paul Marden: Is there much to catch in the water here?Sam Mullins: According to some research, there's about 36 different species of fish. They catch a lot of cream. They catch Roach, bullet, bass car. Big carpet there, maybe, yeah, huge carpet there. And then your European great eel is here as well, right? Yeah, massive things by the size of your leg, big heads. It's amazing. It goes to show how receipt your life is. The quality of the water is a lot better now. Paul Marden: Oh yeah, yeah, it's better than it used to be years ago. Thank you very much. All right. Cheers. Have a good day. See you later on. So without further ado, let's head inside. So where should we head? Too fast. Sam Mullins: So we start with the stern of the ship, which is the kind of classic entrance view, you know. Yeah, coming up, I do. I love the shape of this ship as you as you'll see.Paul Marden: So lovely being able to come across the water on the boat and then have this as you're welcome. It's quite a.Sam Mullins: It's a great spot. Isn't it?Paul Marden: Really impactful, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Because the amazing thing is that it's going this way, is actually in the dry dock, which was built to build it. Paul Marden: That's amazing. Sam Mullins: So it came home. It was clearly meant to be, you know,Paul Marden: Quite the circular story.Sam Mullins: Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Paul Marden: Thank you. Wow. Look at that view.Sam Mullins: So that's your classic view.Paul Marden: So she's in a dry dock, but there's a little bit of water in there, just to give us an idea of what's going on. Sam Mullins: Well, what's actually going on in here is, preserving the world's first iron ship. So it became clear, after he'd come back from the Falklands, 1970 came back to Bristol, it became clear that the material of the ship was rusting away. And if something wasn't done, there'd be nothing left, nothing left to show. So the innovative solution is based on a little bit of science if you can reduce the relative humidity of the air around the cast iron hull of the ship to around about 20% relative humidity, corrosion stops. Rusting stops. It's in a dry dock. You glaze over the dock at kind of water line, which, as you just noticed, it gives it a really nice setting. It looks like it's floating, yeah, it also it means that you can then control the air underneath. You dry it out, you dehumidify it. Big plant that dries out the air. You keep it at 20% and you keep the ship intact. Paul Marden: It's interesting, isn't it, because you go to Mary Rose, and you go into the ship Hall, and you've got this hermetically sealed environment that you can maintain all of these beautiful Tudor wooden pieces we're outside on a baking hot day. You don't have the benefit of a hermetically sealed building, do you to keep this? Sam Mullins: I guess the outside of the ship is kind of sealed by the paint. That stops the air getting to the bit to the bare metal. We can go down into the trigger, down whilst rise up.Paul Marden: We're wondering. Sam, yeah, why don't you introduce yourself, tell listeners a little bit about your background. How have we ended up having this conversation today.Sam Mullins: I'm Sam Mullins. I'm a historian. I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian that worked in museums and had an opportunity to kind of share my fascination with the past with museum visitors. So I worked in much Wenlock in Shropshire. I worked created a new museum in market Harbour, a community museum in Leicestershire. I was director of museums in St Albans, based on, you know, great Roman Museum at Verulamium, okay. And ended up at London Transport Museum in the 90s, and was directed there for a long time.Paul Marden: Indeed, indeed. Oh, we are inside now and heading underground.Sam Mullins: And you can hear the thrumming in the background. Is the dehumidification going on. Wow. So we're descending into thevery dry dock.Paul Marden: So we're now under water level. Yes, and the view of the ceiling with the glass roof, which above looked like a lovely little pond, it's just beautiful, isn't it?Sam Mullins: Yes, good. It sets it off both in both directions, really nicely.Paul Marden: So you've transitioned now, you've moved on from the Transport Museum. And I thought that today's episode, we could focus a little bit on what is, what's life like when you've moved on from being the director of a big, famous, influential, family friendly Museum. What comes next? Is it pipe and slippers, or are there lots of things to do? And I think it's the latter, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yes. Well, you know, I think people retire either, you know, do nothing and play golf, or they build, you know, an interesting portfolio. I wanted to build, you know, something a bit more interesting. And, you know, Paul, there's that kind of strange feeling when you get to retire. And I was retiring from full time executive work, you kind of feel at that point that you've just cracked the job. And at that point, you know, someone gives you, you know, gives you a card and says, "Thank you very much, you've done a lovely job." Kind of, "Off you go." So having the opportunity to deploy some of that long term experience of running a successful Museum in Covent Garden for other organisations was part of that process of transition. I've been writing a book about which I'm sure we'll talk as well that's been kind of full on this year, but I was a trustee here for a number of years before I retired. I think it's really good career development for people to serve on a board to see what it's like, you know, the other side of the board. Paul Marden: I think we'll come back to that in a minute and talk a little bit about how the sausage is made. Yeah, we have to do some icebreaker questions, because I probably get you already. You're ready to start talking, but I'm gonna, I'm just gonna loosen you up a little bit, a couple of easy ones. You're sat in front of the telly, comedy or drama?Sam Mullins: It depends. Probably.Paul Marden: It's not a valid answer. Sam Mullins: Probably, probably drama.Paul Marden: Okay, if you need to talk to somebody, is it a phone call or is it a text message that you'll send?Sam Mullins: Face to face? Okay, much better. Okay, always better. Paul Marden: Well done. You didn't accept the premise of the question there, did you? Lastly, if you're going to enter a room, would you prefer to have a personal theme tune played every time you enter the room. Or would you like a personal mascot to arrive fully suited behind you in every location you go to?Sam Mullins: I don't know what the second one means, so I go for the first one.Paul Marden: You've not seen a football mascot on watching American football or baseball?Sam Mullins: No, I try and avoid that. I like real sport. I like watching cricket. Paul Marden: They don't do that in cricket. So we are at the business end of the hull of the ship, aren't we? We're next to the propeller. Sam Mullins: We're sitting under the stern. We can still see that lovely, gilded Stern, saying, Great Britain, Bristol, and the windows and the coat of arms across the stern of the ship. Now this, of course, was the biggest ship in the world when built. So not only was it the first, first iron ship of any scale, but it was also third bigger than anything in the Royal Navy at the time. Paul Marden: They talked about that, when we were on the warrior aim the other day, that it was Brunel that was leading the way on what the pinnacle of engineering was like. It was not the Royal Navy who was convinced that it was sail that needed to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah, Brunel had seen a much smaller, propeller driven vessel tried out, which was being toured around the country. And so they were midway through kind of design of this, when they decided it wasn't going to be a paddle steamer, which its predecessor, the world's first ocean liner, the Great Western. A was a paddle steamer that took you to New York. He decided that, and he announced to the board that he was going to make a ship that was driven by a propeller, which was the first, and this is, this is actually a replica of his patent propeller design. Paul Marden: So, this propeller was, is not the original to the show, okay?Sam Mullins: Later in its career, it had the engines taken out, and it was just a sailing ship. It had a long and interesting career. And for the time it was going to New York and back, and the time it was going to Australia and back, carrying migrants. It was a hybrid, usually. So you use the sails when it was favourable when it wasn't much wind or the wind was against. You use the use the engines. Use the steam engine.Paul Marden: Coming back into fashion again now, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, hybrid, yeah.Paul Marden: I can see holes in the hull. Was this evident when it was still in the Falklands?Sam Mullins: Yeah, it came to notice in the 60s that, you know, this world's first it was beached at Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands. It had lost its use as a wool warehouse, which is which it had been for 30 or 40 years. And a number of maritime historians, you and call it. It was the kind of key one realised that this, you know, extraordinary, important piece of maritime heritage would maybe not last too many war winters at Sparrow cope had a big crack down one side of the hull. It would have probably broken in half, and that would have made any kind of conservation restoration pretty well impossible as it was. It was a pretty amazing trick to put it onto a to put a barge underneath, to raise it up out of the water, and to tow it into Montevideo and then across the Atlantic, you know, 7000 miles, or whatever it is, to Avon mouth. So it's a kind of heroic story from the kind of heroic age of industrial and maritime heritage, actually.Paul Marden: It resonates for me in terms of the Mary Rose in that you've got a small group of very committed people that are looking to rescue this really valuable asset. And they find it and, you know, catch it just in time. Sam Mullins: Absolutely. That was one of the kind of eye openers for me at Mary rose last week, was just to look at the kind of sheer difficulty of doing conventional archaeology underwater for years and years. You know, is it 50,000 dives were made? Some immense number. And similarly, here, you know, lots of people kind of simply forget it, you know, it's never gonna, but a few, stuck to it, you know, formed a group, fund, raised. This is an era, of course, you know, before lottery and all that jazz. When you had to, you had to fundraise from the public to do this, and they managed to raise the money to bring it home, which, of course, is only step one. You then got to conserve this enormous lump of metal so it comes home to the dry dock in which it had been built, and that has a sort of fantastic symmetry, you know about it, which I just love. You know, the dock happened to be vacant, you know, in 1970 when the ship was taken off the pontoon at Avon mouth, just down the river and was towed up the curving Avon river to this dock. It came beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which, of course, was Brunel design, but it was never built in his time. So these amazing pictures of this Hulk, in effect, coming up the river, towed by tugs and brought into the dock here with 1000s of people you know, surrounding cheering on the sidelines, and a bit like Mary Rose in a big coverage on the BBC.Paul Marden: This is the thing. So I have a very vivid memory of the Mary Rose being lifted, and that yellow of the scaffolding is just permanently etched in my brain about sitting on the carpet in primary school when the TV was rolled out, and it was the only TV in the whole of school that, to me is it's modern history happening. I'm a Somerset boy. I've been coming to Bristol all my life. I wasn't alive when Great Britain came back here. So to me, this feels like ancient history. It's always been in Bristol, because I have no memory of it returning home. It was always just a fixture. So when we were talking the other day and you mentioned it was brought back in the 70s, didn't realise that. Didn't realise that at all. Should we move on? Because I am listening. Gently in the warmth.Sam Mullins: Let's move around this side of the as you can see, the dry dock is not entirely dry, no, but nearly.Paul Marden: So, you're trustee here at SS Great Britain. What does that mean? What do you do?Sam Mullins: Well, the board, Board of Trustees is responsible for the governance of the charity. We employ the executives, the paid team here. We work with them to develop the kind of strategy, financial plan, to deliver that strategy, and we kind of hold them as executives to account, to deliver on that.Paul Marden: It's been a period of change for you, hasn't it? Just recently, you've got a new CEO coming to the first anniversary, or just past his first anniversary. It's been in place a little while.Sam Mullins: So in the last two years, we've had a, we've recruited a new chairman, new chief executive, pretty much a whole new leadership team.One more starting next month, right? Actually, we're in July this month, so, yeah, it's been, you know, organisations are like that. They can be very, you know, static for some time, and then suddenly a kind of big turnover. And people, you know, people move.Paul Marden: So we're walking through what is a curved part of the dry dock now. So this is becoming interesting underfoot, isn't it?Sam Mullins: This is built in 1839 by the Great Western Steamship Company to build a sister ship to the Great Western which was their first vessel built for the Atlantic run to New York. As it happens, they were going to build a similar size vessel, but Brunel had other ideas, always pushing the edges one way or another as an engineer.Paul Marden: The keel is wood. Is it all wood? Or is this some sort of?Sam Mullins: No, this is just like, it's sort of sacrificial.So that you know when, if it does run up against ground or whatever, you don't actually damage the iron keel.Paul Marden: Right. Okay, so there's lots happening for the museum and the trust. You've just had a big injection of cash, haven't you, to do some interesting things. So there was a press release a couple of weeks ago, about a million pound of investment. Did you go and find that down the back of the sofa? How do you generate that kind of investment in the charity?Sam Mullins: Unusually, I think that trust that's put the bulk of that money and came came to us. I think they were looking to do something to mark their kind of, I think to mark their wind up. And so that was quite fortuitous, because, as you know at the moment, you know, fundraising is is difficult. It's tough. Paul Marden: That's the understatement of the year, isn't it?Sam Mullins: And with a new team here and the New World post COVID, less, less visitors, income harder to gain from. Pretty well, you know, all sources, it's important to keep the site kind of fresh and interesting. You know, the ship has been here since 1970 it's become, it's part of Bristol. Wherever you go in Bristol, Brunel is, you know, kind of the brand, and yet many Bristolians think they've seen all this, and don't need, you know, don't need to come back again. So keeping the site fresh, keeping the ideas moving on, are really important. So we've got the dockyard museum just on the top there, and that's the object for fundraising at the moment, and that will open in July next year as an account of the building of the ship and its importance. Paul Marden: Indeed, that's interesting. Related to that, we know that trusts, trusts and grants income really tough to get. Everybody's fighting for a diminishing pot income from Ace or from government sources is also tough to find. At the moment, we're living off of budgets that haven't changed for 10 years, if we're lucky. Yeah, for many people, finding a commercial route is the answer for their museum. And that was something that you did quite successfully, wasn't it, at the Transport Museum was to bring commercial ideas without sacrificing the integrity of the museum. Yeah. How do you do that?Sam Mullins: Well, the business of being an independent Museum, I mean, LTM is a to all sets of purposes, an independent Museum. Yes, 81% of its funding itself is self generated. Paul Marden: Is it really? Yeah, yeah. I know. I would have thought the grant that you would get from London Transport might have been bigger than that. Sam Mullins: The grant used to be much bigger proportion, but it's got smaller and smaller. That's quite deliberate. Are, you know, the more you can stand on your own two feet, the more you can actually decide which direction you're going to take those feet in. Yeah. So there's this whole raft of museums, which, you know, across the UK, which are independently governed, who get all but nothing from central government. They might do a lottery grant. Yes, once in a while, they might get some NPO funding from Ace, but it's a tiny part, you know, of the whole. And this ship, SS Great Britain is a classic, you know, example of that. So what do you do in those circumstances? You look at your assets and you you try and monetise them. That's what we did at London Transport Museum. So the museum moved to Covent Garden in 1980 because it was a far sighted move. Michael Robbins, who was on the board at the time, recognised that they should take the museum from Scion Park, which is right on the west edge, into town where people were going to be, rather than trying to drag people out to the edge of London. So we've got that fantastic location, in effect, a high street shop. So retail works really well, you know, at Covent Garden.Paul Marden: Yeah, I know. I'm a sucker for a bit of moquette design.Sam Mullins: We all love it, which is just great. So the museum developed, you know, a lot of expertise in creating products and merchandising it. We've looked at the relationship with Transport for London, and we monetised that by looking at TFL supply chain and encouraging that supply chain to support the museum. So it is possible to get the TFL commissioner to stand up at a corporate members evening and say, you know, you all do terribly well out of our contract, we'd like you to support the museum as well, please. So the corporate membership scheme at Transport Museum is bigger than any other UK museum by value, really, 60, 65 members,. So that was, you know, that that was important, another way of looking at your assets, you know, what you've got. Sometimes you're talking about monetising relationships. Sometimes it's about, you know, stuff, assets, yeah. And then in we began to run a bit short of money in the kind of middle of the teens, and we did an experimental opening of the Aldwych disused tube station on the strand, and we're amazed at the demand for tickets.Paul Marden: Really, it was that much of a surprise for you. And we all can talk. Sam Mullins: We had been doing, we've been doing some guided tours there in a sort of, slightly in a one off kind of way, for some time. And we started to kind of think, well, look, maybe should we carry on it? Paul Marden: You've got the audience that's interested.Sam Mullins: And we've got the access through TFL which, you know, took a lot of work to to convince them we weren't going to, you know, take loads of people underground and lose them or that they jump out, you know, on the Piccadilly line in the middle of the service, or something. So hidden London is the kind of another really nice way where the museum's looked at its kind of assets and it's monetised. And I don't know what this I don't know what this year is, but I think there are now tours run at 10 different sites at different times. It's worth about half a million clear to them to the museum.Paul Marden: It's amazing, and they're such brilliant events. So they've now opened up for younger kids to go. So I took my daughter and one of her friends, and they were a little bit scared when the lights got turned off at one point, but we had a whale of a time going and learning about the history of the tube, the history of the tube during the war. It was such an interesting, accessible way to get to get them interested in stuff. It was brilliant.Sam Mullins: No, it's a great programme, and it was doing well before COVID, we went into lockdown, and within three weeks, Chris Nix and the team had started to do kind of zoom virtual tours. We all are stuck at home looking at our screens and those hidden London hangouts the audience kind of gradually built yesterday TV followed with secrets of London Underground, which did four series of. Hidden London book has sold 25,000 copies in hardback, another one to come out next year, maybe.Paul Marden: And all of this is in service of the museum. So it's almost as if you're opening the museum up to the whole of London, aren't you, and making all of that space you're you. Museum where you can do things.Sam Mullins: Yeah. And, of course, the great thing about hidden London programme is it's a bit like a theatre production. We would get access to a particular site for a month or six weeks. You'd sell the tickets, you know, like mad for that venue. And then the run came to an end, and you have to, you know, the caravan moves on, and we go to, you know, go to go to a different stations. So in a sense, often it's quite hard to get people to go to an attraction unless they've got visitors staying or whatever. But actually, if there's a time limit, you just kind of have to do it, you know.Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Everybody loves a little bit of scarcity, don't they? Sam Mullins: Should we go up on the deck? Paul Marden: That sounds like fun to me.Sam Mullins: Work our way through.Paul Marden: So Hidden London was one of the angles in order to make the museum more commercially sound. What are you taking from your time at LTM and bringing to the party here at the SS Great Britain?Sam Mullins: Well, asking similar, you know, range of questions really, about what assets do we have? Which of those are, can be, can be monetised in support of the charity? Got here, Paul, so we're, we've got the same mix as lots of middle sized museums here. There's a it's a shop, paid admission, hospitality events in the evening, cafe. You know that mix, what museums then need to do is kind of go, you know, go beyond that, really, and look at their estate or their intellectual property, or the kind of experiences they can offer, and work out whether some of that is monetisable.Paul Marden: Right? And you mentioned before that Brunel is kind of, he's the mascot of Bristol. Almost, everything in Bristol focuses on Brunel. Is there an opportunity for you to collaborate with other Brunel themed sites, the bridge or?Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, I think probably the opportunity is to collaborate with other Bristol attractions. Because Bristol needs to. Bristol's having a hard time since COVID numbers here are nowhere near what they were pre COVID So, and I think it's the same in the city, across the city. So Andrew chief executive, is talking to other people in the city about how we can share programs, share marketing, that kind of approach.Paul Marden: Making the docks a destination, you know, you've got We the Curious. Where I was this morning, having coffee with a friend and having a mooch around. Yeah, talking about science and technology, there must be things that you can cross over. This was this war. This feels like history, but it wasn't when it was built, was it? It was absolutely the cutting edge of science and technology.Sam Mullins: Absolutely, and well, almost beyond, you know, he was Brunel was pushing, pushing what could be done. It is the biggest ship. And it's hard to think of it now, because, you know, you and I can walk from one end to the other in no time. But it was the biggest ship in the world by, you know, some way, when it was launched in 1845 so this was a bit like the Great Western Railway. It was cutting edge, cutting edge at the time, as we were talking about below. It had a propeller, radical stuff. It's got the bell, too,Paul Marden: When we were on, was it Warrior that we were on last week at the AIM conference for the first. And warrior had a propeller, but it was capable of being lifted, because the Admiralty wasn't convinced that this new fangled propeller nonsense, and they thought sail was going to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, this ship had, you could lift a you could lift a propeller, because otherwise the propeller is a drag in the water if it's not turning over. So in its earlier configurations, it was a, it was that sort of a hybrid, where you could lift the propeller out the way, right, set full sail.Paul Marden: Right, and, yeah, it's just, it's very pleasant out here today, isn't it? Lovely breeze compared to what it's been like the last few days. Sam Mullins: Deck has just been replaced over the winter. Paul Marden: Oh, has it really. So say, have you got the original underneathSam Mullins: The original was little long, long gone. So what we have replaced was the deck that was put on in the in the 70s when the ship came back.Paul Marden: Right? You were talking earlier on about the cafe being one of the assets. You've done quite a lot of work recently, haven't you with the team at Elior to refurbish the cafe? What's the plan around that?Sam Mullins: Yeah, we're doing a big reinvestment. You always need to keep the offer fresh anyway, but it was time to reinvest. So the idea is to use that fantastic space on the edge of the dock. It's not very far down to where the floating harbour is really well populated with kind of restaurants and bars and an offer, we're just that 200 meters further along the dock. So perhaps to create an offer here that draws people up here, whether they visit the ship, you know, or not. So it's money, it's monetising your assets. So one of the great assets is this fabulous location on the on the dockside. So with early or we're reinvesting in the restaurant, it's going to go in the auto into after some trial openings and things, Paul, you know, it's going to have an evening offer as well as a daytime offer. And then it's been designed so the lights can go down in the evening. It becomes, you know, an evening place, rather than the museum's all day cafe, yes, and the offer, and obviously in the evenings would similarly change. And I think our ambition is that you should, you should choose this as the place to go out in the evening. Really, it's a great spot. It's a lovely, warm evening. We're going to walk along the dockside. I've booked a table and in the boardwalk, which is what we're calling it. And as you pay the bill, you notice that actually, this is associated with Asus, Great Britain. So, you know, the profit from tonight goes to help the charity, rather than it's the museum cafe. So that's the,Paul Marden: That's the pitch.Sam Mullins: That's the pitch in which we're working with our catering partners, Eli, or to deliver.Paul Marden: Andrew, your CEO and Claire from Eli, or have both kindly said that I can come back in a couple of months time and have a conversation about the restaurant. And I think it would be rude to turn them down, wouldn't it?Sam Mullins: I think you should test the menu really fully.Paul Marden: I will do my best. It's a tough job that I have. Sam Mullins: Somebody has to do this work. Paul Marden: I know, talking of tough jobs, the other thing that I saw when I was looking at the website earlier on was a press release talking about six o'clock gin as being a a partnership that you're investigating, because every museum needs its own tipple, doesn't it?Sam Mullins: Absolutely And what, you know, I think it's, I think what people want when they go to an attraction is they, they also want something of the offer to be locally sourced, completely, six o'clock gym, you know, Bristol, Bristol beers. You can't always do it, but I think, I think it's where you've got the opportunity. And Bristol's a bit of a foodie centre. There's quite a lot going on here in that respect. So, yes, of course, the museum ought to be ought to be doing that too.Paul Marden: I was very kindly invited to Big Pit over in the Welsh Valleys about 8 or 12 weeks ago for the launch, relaunch of their gift shop offering. And absolutely, at the core of what they were trying to do was because it's run by Museums Wales, they found that all of their gift shops were just a bland average of what you could get at any of the museums. None of them spoke of the individual place. So if you went to big pit, the gift shop looked the same as if you were in the centre of Cardiff, whereas now when you go you see things that are naturally of Big Pit and the surrounding areas. And I think that's so important to create a gift shop which has things that is affordable to everybody, but at the same time authentic and genuinely interesting.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I'm sure that's right. And you know I'm saying for you is for me, when I when I go somewhere, you want to come away with something, don't you? Yes, you know, you're a National Trust member and you haven't had to pay anything to get in. But you think I should be supporting the cause, you know, I want to go into that shop and then I want to, I want to buy some of the plants for my garden I just seen, you know, on the estate outside. Or I want to come away with a six o'clock gin or, you know, whatever it might be, there's and I think, I think you're more likely to buy if it's something that you know has engaged you, it's part of that story that's engaged you, right, while you're here. That's why everyone buys a guidebook and reads it afterwards.Paul Marden: Yeah, it's a reminder, isn't it, the enjoyable time that you've had? Yeah, I'm enjoying myself up on the top deck. Sam Mullins: But should we go downstairs? The bow is a great view. Oh, let's do that. I think we might. Let's just work our way down through.Paul Marden: Take a sniff. Could you travel with these smelly passengers? Oh, no, I don't think I want to smell what it's like to be a cow on board shit. Sam Mullins: Fresh milk. Just mind yourself on these companion, ways are very steep now. This is probably where I get completely lost.Paul Marden: You know what we need? We need a very good volunteer. Don't we tell a volunteer story? COVID in the kitchen. Wow. Sam Mullins: The Gabby.Paul Marden: Generous use of scent. Sam Mullins: Yeah, food laid out pretty much based on what we know was consumed on the ship. One of the great things about the ship is people kept diaries. A lot of people kept diaries, and many have survived, right? You know exactly what it was like to be in first class or in steerage down the back.Paul Marden: And so what was the ship used for? Sam Mullins: Well, it was used, it was going to be an ocean liner right from here to New York, and it was more like the Concord of its day. It was essentially first class and second class. And then it has a founders on a bay in Northern Ireland. It's rescued, fitted out again, and then the opportunity comes take people to Australia. The Gold Rush in the 1850s. Migration to Australia becomes the big kind of business opportunity for the ships. Ships new owners. So there's more people on board that used to it applies to and fro to Australia a number of times 30 odd, 40 times. And it takes, takes passengers. It takes goods. It does bring back, brings back gold from because people were there for the gold rush. They were bringing their earnings, you know, back with them. It also brings mail, and, you know, other. Kind of car goes wool was a big cargo from. Paul Marden: Say, people down and assets back up again.Sam Mullins: People both directions. Paul Marden: Okay, yeah. How long was it taking?Sam Mullins: Well, a good trip. I think it did it in 50 odd days. Bit slower was 60 odd. And the food was like this. So it was steerage. It was probably a bit more basic. Paul Marden: Yeah, yes, I can imagine. Sam Mullins: I think we might. Here's the engines. Let's do the engines well.Paul Marden: Yes. So now we're in the engine room and, oh, it's daylight lit, actually. So you're not down in the darkest of depths, but the propeller shaft and all of the mechanism is it runs full length, full height of the ship.Sam Mullins: Yeah, it runs off from here, back to the propeller that we're looking at. Okay, down there a guy's stoking the boilers, putting coal into into the boilers, 24 hour seven, when the engines are running. Paul Marden: Yes, that's going to be a tough job, isn't it? Yeah, coal is stored in particular locations. Because that was something I learned from warrior, was the importance of making sure that you had the coal taken in the correct places, so that you didn't unbalance the ship. I mean,Sam Mullins: You right. I mean loading the ship generally had to be done really carefully so, you know, sort of balanced out and so forth. Coal is tends to be pretty low down for yes, for obvious reasons.Paul Marden: So let's talk a little bit about being a trustee. We're both trustees of charities. I was talking to somebody last week who been in the sector for a number of years, mid career, interested in becoming a trustee as a career development opportunity. What's the point of being a trustee? What's the point of the trustees to the CEO, and what's the benefit to the trustees themselves? Sam Mullins: Well, let's do that in order for someone in the mid part of their career, presumably looking to assume some kind of leadership role. At some point they're going to be dealing with a board, aren't they? Yes, they might even be doing, you know, occasional reporting to a board at that at their current role, but they certainly will be if they want to be chief executive. So getting some experience on the other side of the table to feel what it's like to be a trustee dealing with chief executive. I think he's immensely useful. I always recommended it to to my gang at the Transport Museum, and they've all been on boards of one sort or another as part of their career development.Sam Mullins: For the chief executive. What's the benefit? Well, the board, I mean, very directly, hold the chief executive to account. Yes, are you doing what we asked you to do? But also the wise chief executive recruits a board that's going to be helpful in some way or another. It's not just there to catch them out. Yeah, it's it's there to bring their experience from business, from IT, from marketing, from other museums into the business of running the place. So here we've got a range of Trustees. We've been we've recruited five or six in the last couple of years qquite deliberately to we know that a diverse board is a good board, and that's diverse in the sense not just a background, but of education, retired, still, still at work, young, old, male, female, you know, you name in.Paul Marden: In all of the directionsSam Mullins: Yeah. So a diverse board makes better decisions than one that just does group think all the time. It's, you know, it's a truism, isn't it? I think we all kind of, we all understand and understand that now and then, for the trustee, you know, for me, I particularly last couple of years, when the organization has been through huge changes, it's been really interesting to deploy my prior experience, particularly in governance, because governance is what it all comes down to in an organisation. You do learn over the course of your career to deploy that on behalf, you know, this is a great organisation, the story of Brunel and the ship and and, you know, his influence on the railways. And I travel down on the Great Western railways, yeah, the influence of Brunel is, you know, is enormous. It's a fantastic story. It's inspiring. So who wouldn't want to join? You know what in 2005 was the Museum of the year? Yes, I think we'll just go back there where we came. Otherwise, I never found my way.Paul Marden: Back through the kitchen. Sam Mullins: Back through the kitchen. It looks like stew is on the menu tonight. You've seen me at the mobile the rat.Paul Marden: And also the cat up on the shelf. He's not paying a lot of attention to the ratSam Mullins: Back on deck. Paul Marden: Wonderful. Yeah. So the other great endeavor that you've embarked on is writing, writing a book. Tell us a little bit about the book.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I've written a history of transport in London and its influence on London since 2000 since the mayoralty, elected mayoralty was, was started, you know, I was very lucky when I was running the museum where I had kind of one foot in TfL and one foot out. I knew lots of people. I was there for a long time, yes, so it was, it was easy to interview about 70 of them.Paul Marden: Right? I guess you've built trust levels, haven't you? Yeah, I don't mean that you don't look like a journalist walking in from the outside with an ax to grind. Sam Mullins: And I'm not going to kind of screw them to the Evening Standard, you know, tomorrow. So it's a book based on interviews, oral reminiscences. It's very much their story. So it's big chunks of their accounts of, you know, the big events in London. So what was it like to be in the network control room on the seventh of July, 2005 when the bombs went off? What was it like to be looking out for congestion charge the day it started? Yep. What was it like to kind of manage the Olympics?Paul Marden: You know? So you're mentioning these things. And so I was 10 years at British Airways. I was an IT project manager, but as well, I was a member of the emergency planning team. Yeah. So I got involved in the response to September the 11th. I got involved in some of the engagement around seven, seven, there's seminal moments, and I can, I can vividly remember myself being there at that time. But similarly, I can remember being there when we won the Olympics, and we were all sat in the staff canteen waiting to hear whether we'd won the Olympics, and the roar that erupted. There's so many of those things that have happened in the last 25 years where, you know, you've got, it's recent history, but it's real interesting events that have occurred that you can tell stories of.Sam Mullins: Yeah. So what I wanted to get in the book was a kind of sense of what it was like to be, really at the heart of those, those stories. And there are, you know, there are, there are people in TfL who made those big things happen? Yes, it's not a big, clumsy bureaucracy. It's a place where really innovative leadership was being exercised all the way through that 25 years. Yes, so it runs up to COVID, and what was it like when COVID struck? So the book's called Every Journey Matters, and it comes out in November.Paul Marden: Amazing, amazing. So we have, we've left the insides of the ship, and we are now under, what's this part of the ship? Sam Mullins: We're under the bow. There we go, and a bow spread that gets above our heads. So again, you've got this great, hulking, cast iron, black hull, beautifully shaped at the bow. Look the way it kind of tapers in and it tapers in and out.Paul Marden: It's a very three dimensional, isn't it? The curve is, is in every direction. Sam Mullins: Yeah,it's a great, great shape. So it's my sort of, I think it's my favourite spot. I like coming to look at this, because this is the kind of, this is the business, yeah, of the ship.Paul Marden: What have we got running along the front here? These these images in in gold.Sam Mullins: This is a figurehead with Victoria's Coat of Arms only sua Kim Ali points on top with it, with a lion and a unicorn.Paul Marden: It's a really, it's not a view that many people would have ever seen, but it is such an impressive view here looking up, yeah, very, very cool. And to stand here on the on the edge of the dry dock. Sam Mullins: Dry Docks in to our right, and the floating harbor is out to our left. Yeah.Paul Marden: And much going on on that it's busy today, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, it's good. Paul Marden: So we've done full loop, haven't we? I mean, it has been a whistle stop tour that you've taken me on, but I've loved every moment of this. We always ask our guests a difficult question. Well, for some it's a difficult question, a book recommendation, which, as we agreed over lunch, cannot be your own book. I don't think, I think it's a little unfair Sam Mullins: Or anything I've ever written before.Paul Marden: Yes, slightly self serving, but yeah.Sam Mullins: It would be, wouldn't it look the first thing that comes to mind is, I've actually been reading my way through Mick Herron's Slow Horses series, okay, which I'm a big fan of detective fiction. I love Ian Rankin's Rebus. Okay, I read through Rebus endlessly when I want something just to escape into the sloughhouse series Slow Horses is really good, and the books all have a sort of similar kind of momentum to them. Something weird happens in the first few chapters, which seems very inconsequential and. Suddenly it turns into this kind of roller coaster. Will they? Won't they? You know, ending, which is just great. So I recommend Mick Herron's series. That's that's been the best, not best, fiction I've read in a long time.Paul Marden: You know, I think there's something, there's something nice, something comforting, about reading a series of books where the way the book is structured is very similar. You can, you can sit down and you know what's going to happen, but, but there's something interesting, and it's, it's easy. Sam Mullins: It's like putting on a pair of old slippers. Oh, I'm comfortable with this. Just lead me along. You know, that's what, that's what I want. I enjoy that immensely.Paul Marden: And should we be? Should we be inviting our listeners to the first book in the series, or do they need to start once, once he's got his, got his, found his way? Sam Mullins: Well, some people would have seen the television adaptation already. Well, that will have spoilt the book for them. Gary Oldman is Jackson lamb, who's the lead character, okay, but if you haven't, or you just like a damn good read, then you start with the first one, which I think is called Sloughhouse. They're all self contained, but you can work your way through them. Paul Marden: Well, that sounds very good. So listeners, if you'd like a copy of Sam's book, not Sam's book, Sam's book recommendation, then head over to Bluesky and repost the show notice and say, I want a copy of Sam's book, and the first one of you lovely listeners that does that will get a copy sent to you by Wenalyn. Sam This has been delightful. I hope listeners have enjoyed this as much as I have. This is our first time having a @skipthequeue in real life, where we wandered around the attraction itself and hopefully narrated our way bringing this amazing attraction to life. I've really enjoyed it. I can now say that as a West Country lad, I have actually been to the SS Great Britain. Last thing to say for visitor, for listeners, we are currently midway through the Rubber Cheese Annual Survey of visitor attraction websites. Paul Marden: If you look after an attraction website and you'd like to share some information about what you do, we are gathering all of that data together to produce a report that helps people to understand what good looks like for an attraction website. This is our fourth year. Listeners that are interested, head over to RubberCheese.com/survey, and you can find out a little bit more about the survey and some of the some of the findings from the past and what we're looking for for this year. Sam, thank you so very much.Sam Mullins: Enjoyed it too. It's always good to rabbit on about what you do every day of the week, and being here and part of this really great organisation is huge privilege.Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. 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With the biggest reunion tour in years kicking off in Cardiff last weekend, the culture show asks if Oasis were just too Irish to be the best Britpop band in the first place?The New Statesman's commissioning editor Finn McRedmond sits down with colleagues George Eaton, Nick Harris and Faye Curran to discuss the Gallagher brothers real allegiances.READOasis are the greatest Irish band of all time - George EatonSo you want to be Irish? - Fay Curran Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MUSICBlack Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne played their final sets at the Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park in Birmingham, England on Saturday.Kelly Osbourne got engaged during the show, too. A video shows Slipknot's Sid Wilson popping the question, telling Kelly, "You know I love you more than anything in the world", with Ozzy quipping, "F*** off, you're not marrying my daughter." Oasis opened their reunion tour Friday and Saturday night in Cardiff, Wales by playing some deep cuts -- and making a couple of cracks about ticket prices. Foo Fighters continue to celebrate their 20th anniversary this week, first dropping a cover of Minor Threat's "I Don't Wanna Hear It" with a video sharing images throughout the band's early days. TVLess than two years after its launch, TV psychologist Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media company has filed for bankruptcy, with liabilities ranging from $100 million to $500 million. Craig Robinson from "The Office" is retiring from comedy. He says he's starting some kind of business, but he's being vague about it right now. RIP: Julian McMahon, known for roles in television shows like Nip/Tuck and Charmed, has died. He was 56. MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:'Jurassic World Rebirth', the seventh film in the franchise, took a bite out of the box office with $26 million earned domestically on July 4th Friday. The dino film earned $147 million over the entire weekend! While it ruled the box office over the July 4th holiday, it's the lowest opening of any 'Jurassic' film to-date. RIP: Actor Michael Madsen has died at 67. AND FINALLYIn celebration of America, let's revisit this ranking of the Top 50 AMERICAN Bands of All Time, according to UltimateClassicRock.com.1. The Beach Boys2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers3. Van Halen4. Creedence Clearwater Revival5. Aerosmith6. The Doors7. Talking Heads8. R.E.M.9. Eagles10. Simon & GarfunkelAND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
With the crew on holiday, we reach back into the vault and share our original SOA Album Club review of the 2008 release Dig Out Your Soul, the final (as of now) release from Oasis. Whether you have travelled to Cardiff or are blowing up stuff in the States, have a great one and we will be back next week. Rock On!Theme music Mama's Got to Ramble and Trance from The Steepwater Band. Follow them @steepwaterband. On tour now!Website: https://ridiculousrockrecordreviews.buzzsprout.comContact us! e-mail: ridiculousrockrecords@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/R4podcastTwitter/X: @r4podcasterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/r4podcaster/
Author Raynor Winn is accused of fabricating parts of her memoir The Salt Path, which she denies. We ask Alexandra Pringle, former Editor in Chief at Bloomsbury, how publishers respond when a book's authenticity is called into question. Oasis are performing together for the first time in 16 years, kicking off in Cardiff at the weekend. Music journalist Ted Kessler was there. Sadler's Well has team up with Pete Townshend to turn Quadrophenia into "A Mod Ballet". Director Rob Ashford talks about bringing this story, complete with stylish suits designed by Paul Smith, to a new generation."It's the 80th anniversary of An Inspector Calls. Critic Michael Billington and cultural Historian Irene Lofthouse discuss J. B. Priestley's cultural legacy.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Harry Graham
Emily Grey's been living with a condition known as PSSD for six years now. PSSD can lead to the effective erasure of a person's sexual sensation and functioning.The SSRIs that seem to be at the heart of this condition are selective serotonin uptake inhibitors, a group of antidepressant drugs that have been around for decades. The latest numbers indicate that nearly 20% of Canadian women and 10% of Canadian men are now taking these drugs. It is generally known that potential side effects include a loss of libido. But what we're talking about today and what advocates like Emily have been saying for years is that the side effects can be very extreme. They might persist even after you stop taking SSRIs.We'll also be speaking with Dr. David Healy, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cardiff in Wales. Dr. Healy has been involved in SSRI research for decades. He's the author of over a dozen books on psychopharmacology, including Let Them Eat Prozac, the Unhealthy Relationship Between The Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression.Also on our panel is Dr. Caroline Pukall professor of psychology at Queen's University whose research focuses on sexual wellbeing and includes sexual psychophysiology.Credits: Host: Jesse BrownCaleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)Fact checking by Julian AbrahamAdditional music by Audio NetworkFurther ReadingPSSD websiteDr. David HealyDr. Caroline PukallSponsors: oxio: Head over to canadaland.oxio.ca and use code CANADALAND for your first month free! Article: Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. To claim, visit article.com/canadaland and the discount will be automatically applied at checkoutBetterHelp: Visit betterHelp.com/canadaland today to get 10% off your first month.If you value this podcast, support us! You'll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You'll also get our exclusive newsletter, discounts on merch at our store, tickets to our live and virtual events, and more than anything, you'll be a part of the solution to Canada's journalism crisis, you'll be keeping our work free and accessible to everybody. You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's a bonus Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Steve is here to give you a run down of this weekends events in Cardiff and London as he witnessed the return of Brit-pop legends Oasis and thrash metal royalty Slayer
Feliks Banel's guest on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY is musician Scott Sutherland, a deep thinker, historian and philosopher of American music and Northwest bands and culture. Going back to the 1980s, Sutherland played in Seattle bands including the Dwindles, Chemistry Set and Model Rockets, and has been a fan of British band Oasis since the mid 1990s. Sutherland saw Oasis play at the old Seattle Center Arena 30 years ago, and he's headed to Manchester later this month to see the band's much-heralded reunion tour, which kicked off in Cardiff, Wales on July 4. We also play an excerpt from a recent BONUS EPISODE featuring Ronald Holden and a rare piece of family audio from Europe during World War II. This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Time on Sunday, July 6, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via space101fm.org from historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.
Hello and welcome back to the ultimate audio guide to Oasis. What a night! This is my initial 'morning after' review, I did loads of recording on the day which I will put out over the next few days support on Patreon.com/oasispod
Russian drones and missiles hit nearly every district of Kyiv overnight. A record 539 drone and 11 missiles strikes were recorded by Ukrainian authorities. Meanwhile, Dutch and German intelligence agencies have warned that Russia's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is intensifying in both frequency and strength. Also on the programme: Donald Trump is due to sign the "Big Beautiful Bill." And music's "bad-boy" brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are onstage together for the first time in sixteen years as Oasis play their first reunion show in Cardiff. (Picture: A drone explodes in the skies above Kyiv. Credit: Reuters)
HERE WE GO! Oasis Reunion is happening TODAY in Cardiff. Today's interviews are with Pierre and Tanguy - check out Tanguy's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@tanguydai Jonny Kirkham - Wonderwall Beer UK. Check them out @WonderwallBeerUK Thanks to @semolinapilcard on TikTok for the intro audio Next time I release an episode I will have seen oasis again If you are coming down to Cardiff come and see me. STAY YOUNG!!!
The US tax and spending bill suggests that to subsidise electric vehicles and solar panels. President Donald Trump is also trying to encourage American allies in Europe and Asia to buy more US liquid natural gas and oil. But experts are arguing that this could allow China a free run at becoming the world's first electricity superpower. Also, US President Donald Trump says his administration will probably start notifying trading partners from Friday of the new US tariff on their exports effective Aug. 1. And fifteen years after their explosive split, music legends Liam and Noel Gallagher are reuniting for an Oasis tour that kicks off today in Cardiff, Wales.
French police have made a rare intervention to stop a migrant boat from crossing the Channel to the UK. BBC News witnessed the officers suddenly charge into the sea to slash the overcrowded dinghy, as it struggled in shallow water. Everyone was able to get off the boat safely. Also: President Zelensky says he and Donald Trump have agreed to work together to strengthen Ukrainian air defences. And the first concert of the Oasis reunion tour kicks off in Cardiff this evening.
Johnny and The 4 Til 7 Thang Gang were live from a central Cardiff pub ahead of Night 1 of Oasis, Live '25, bringing you all the build-up, welcoming some special guest performances, and taking in the most significant cultural moment of the century.Hear Johnny on Radio X every weekday at 4pm across the UK on digital radio, 104.9 FM in London, 97.7 FM in Manchester, on Global Player or via www.radiox.co.uk
Bush & Richie head to Cardiff to soak in the atmosphere ahead of the HUGE Oasis reunion gig.
SHORT SHARP SHOCK MINI-EPISODEToday's topics are 2) A recap of Slayer's righteous return to the stage 3 July 2025 in Cardiff, Wales... including the setlist. 1) Some speculation on what comes next. And 3) commentary on it all.DEEZ NOTES, as referenced in the show:One Slaytanic playlist of pretty much the entire Cardiff show, plus all other video available at the moment, including alternate angles and takes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udwtTElHXPM&list=PLAnZUI4s4LrJHDgS-7EObx_eikCoGeIOuEpisode 61 of Talkin' Slayer, in which I recapped the band's first reunion show, in Chicago, 2024.https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zz29hNdcHJGBytpiPscXv?si=1fbea994fd244fdf#Slayer #Cardiff #Wales #CardiffGiant #BackToTheBeginning #BlackSabbath #Sabbath #Slayer2025The new & improved & updated & embiggened book Ferris reads from every week, "Slayer 66 2 /3: A Metal Band Biography..., or, How Fkin' Slayer Kicked F*kin' @ss" — all four versions.Free listeners miss every other episode.Patreon supporters get an episode every week, plus more bonus Slaytanic content. Packages start at less than $1 an episode. Premiums include stickers, a shout-out on the show, and a free version of the audbiobook when it's finished.Learn more at Patreon.com/SlayerBook .If you want to drop some ducats in the virtual tip jar... or you'd rather make a one-time payment for a VIP all-access pass, you can do it at ko-fi.com/slayerbook .GRATITUDE.
President Donald Trump's massive finance bill has cleared its final hurdle in Congress — but what could it mean for the U.S. economy and for poorer Americans who rely on government support programmes? Also, Superman is back on screen — but is the superhero genre starting to lose its shine? And as Britpop legends Oasis prepare to kick -off their long-awaited reunion tour in Cardiff, fans are snapping up merchandise from pop-up stores across the UK and Ireland.
It is the penultimate day before the big reunion of Oasis, Bush and Richie are getting prepared to head down to the pub before the big gig with some very exclusive Absolute Radio merch you won't want to miss out on!
It was a wild week for Steel Toe. He was arrested for both a felony and a misdemeanor charge of revenge porn in late summer last year. After listening to Aaron brag about his plea deal for months, on Wednesday he finally had his day in court. And he couldn't wait to finally be able to really speak his mind about this whole ordeal. Well, turns out he was wrong about everything and he actually ended up getting booked into jail. I share some juicy Brendan Schaub gossip with Adam Busch right before a Cringe of the Week that involves Adam. We check in on Quadfather who seems to be obsessed with gay sex. Mike Wolters from TDC Podcast joins us to watch Opie talk about the weather and scream at the chatters who are actually making good points. KC Armstrong interviewed Adam so we break that down and compare it with the other shows Adam has guested on. Tom Myers is now posting videos of other people's shows on his channel. Megan, Annie, and Cardiff join us as we play another round of 2 Minutes with Tom, read some reviews, and listen to your voicemails. Tickets on sale for the Magic Bag on September 12th – https://www.themagicbag.com/concerts-magicbag/who-are-these-podcasts-hide-september-15-2023-hide Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Adam's new project – Jamie Levine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNEZSherbA Cardiff's channel - https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch the episode here: https://youtube.com/live/OWpvU9AQ7RE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices