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Gareth Roberts is joined by a Lemsip-powered Mo Stewart to talk all things Liverpool, from the glorious win at Manchester City to when title number 20 might land in the Anfield trophy cabinet.You can support us financially to keep the show going in two ways, either: 1. By subscribing to our Patreon show for as little as £1 per week. Just click this link and the "Join For Free" button to get a 7 day free trial that you can cancel easily at any time after watching over 40 subscriber shows: https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast 2. If you don't want to subscribe, you can make a one off contribution to support the show by clicking this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thelatechallenge We appreciate any support, no matter how big or small, and we also appreciate that times are tough for many people so if you can't afford to support the show financially we completely understand. If you'd like to help us in another way, please like our videos, subscribe to the YouTube channel and share the podcast with your friends and family.

Want your views heard on the show? Tap here to send us a message!Recorded pre-Christmas, man-flu ridden Matt and James are joined by much healthier Jez and Alex to discuss important home victories over Bristol Bears Women and Northhampton Saints, ahead of some crucial fixtures for both teamsFollow the Fezcast on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube to hear all our latest news first!Click here for subscription links[Disclaimer: The Fezcast is brought to you on behalf of the Saracens Supporters Association and is not an official product of Saracens Ltd]Title Music (from Season 4): "Herald" by This Winter Machine

Calum and Kirsty are joined by Jo Tanner who's nursing some Lemsip after Labour Party Conference. We delve into the recent Labour Party conference, exploring its significance, the challenges faced by the new government, and the public's perception of their performance. Kirsty and Joe provide insights into the conference atmosphere, the handling of controversies, and the implications of key policy decisions, particularly regarding winter fuel payments. The discussion also touches on the importance of effective communication and the impact of speeches on public sentiment, culminating in a humorous reflection on a notable gaffe made during the conference speeches. Support the podcast by becoming a member at: https://plus.acast.com/s/whitehallsources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to The Chelsea Echo and welcome to your preview of Chelsea's trip to the Emirates where we discuss Chelsea being Lemsip'd with the news of Cole Palmer's contract signing with Ambulance FC.  Also, Louis does a terrible impersonation of Gyptian, and Tom confirms his status as a swinger. If you're under 18, he really likes swings.

Join the lads as we recap a hectic week of football across the FA Cup, Premier League, Europa and Champions League! If you've enjoyed the episode, leave us a like, comment and subscribe/follow our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube! Don't forget to use the #SCOUTUK hashtag to join in the conversation on Twitter. Follow us on our social platforms too: Twitter: @SCOUTUK, @cxrnelius1, @suanzreal, @txdss__ & @ibjugg Instagram: @scout.uk YouTube: SCOUT UK TikTok: scoutukpodcast

A sighting of a funny company name on a lorry sends Jonny and Richard down a food industry rabbit hole. Also in this episode, stage 3 Lemsip, a dull story about a broken train, short journeys kill diesels, submersible drones and magnet trailers, RIP Marcello Gandini, the pointlessness of tank turning cars, Jonny's running challenge, garaging worthless cars, an announcement about the Festival of the Unexceptional, spotting a manky Renault 12 in the wild, an algal Ford C-Max, Woollarding in Japan, a pub Uber update, why windfarms should use restomod windmills, and some new end music. patreon.com/smithandsniff Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yay! Other than a crappy cold, a very good week.  Won a Gold Bar with the Guild Of Photographers a couple of days ago which got me to thinking about competitions: why we do them, how to do them and the fear of failure (when in fact, the only failure is to not enter at all!) There are one or two other things to bear in mind and I step through them in the podcast. Enjoy! Cheers P. If you enjoy this podcast, please head over to Mastering Portrait Photography, for more articles and videos about this beautiful industry. You can also read a full transcript of this episode. PLEASE also subscribe and leave us a review - we'd love to hear what you think! If there are any topics, you would like to hear, have questions we could answer or would like to come and be interviewed on the podcast, please contact me at paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk.  Full Transcript: [00:00:00] I'm really sorry, it's just been one of those weeks. I have spent three days, three whole days at home feeling ill and mostly grumpy. Sorry, I don't take to being poorly particularly well. Whatever Michelle and Sarah had last week. Of course, I inherited it this week. It turns out that the word viral is not a joke. [00:00:25] It's just a cold, really, but it's been quite a horrible one. It hit my chest straight away, and I just felt awful, and if I'm honest, after three days off work this evening is the first time I've really felt sort of compos mentis. I've spent three days sitting in the lounge with the fire on. It's been cozy enough, but I've, I hate being unproductive. [00:00:46] I hate not getting through the lists that I've got to do. I hate the idea that I've wasted three days, but in the end, that had to be done. So as I sit here next to the fire watching back to back episodes of Law Order, I'm Paul, and this is the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast. [00:01:07] [00:01:20] So I hope you're all feeling a little bit better than me, and in terms of the catch up of the week, well, I can't really say that I've done that much out of the seven days or so. Three of them have been spent laid up doing very little. Obviously, I'm still doing some coding, writing emails, and an awful lot of judging has been flowing through my world. Not this time, not just as a judge or as a chair of judges but also as a contestant. It's been an interesting time. [00:01:47] So, I judged for the FEP this week, the first of the final rounds of their annual image competition. I'm one of the judges on the portrait category. [00:01:58] 647 images, I think, were there to judge. And if you think about that as a volume of judging and all of our, all of the judges. Whether it's for the BIP that I chair for, whether it's for the SWPP, the Societies, whether it's for the Guild, whether it's for the FEP, the World Cup, it doesn't really matter what the judging is. [00:02:19] It takes time and we do it for nothing. Well, I say nothing. We don't do it for nothing, but we do it for free. And so, if you think about all of that, 647 images. If I went at it hell for leather and judged one image per minute with no breaks, that's still basically 11 hours of judging, which is an awful lot when you think about it. [00:02:45] And yet, we put ourselves through it. And I do it because I really enjoy it. I really love the process, I love seeing the images, though there is some disappointment when we're judging and the images haven't come up to standard. But, nonetheless, it's cathartic, it's inspiring, it's very therapeutic, it's quite a rhythmical sort of thing to do. [00:03:04] And I really love it. [00:03:06] On top of that, if that wasn't enough, the results to the BIPP monthlies came out the first BIPP monthly round. So this is a new competition for us. We've set it up to run parallel to the print competition, which opens up in sort of June time and it's judged in September. And they run side by side and they are different beasts. [00:03:27] So the print competition, exactly what it says on the tin. Submit your prints in the category. Best print wins each category. That's it. Very simple to do. The monthlies are not that. The monthlies have been designed. [00:03:41] to reward consistency as much as really high quality inspirational work. With a print competition, you only need to shoot one image, and depending on what everybody else shoots, you could end up with the title of the print image of the year, the portrait print of the year, the wedding print of the year, whatever it is. [00:04:00] With the monthlies, it's been designed not to be quite like that. The monthlies It's about consistency more than it is about that one high scoring image. That's not to say that a high scoring image isn't a thing to be treasured and will get its accolades, but what we've done is design a competition at the BIPP, which is Sorry, the BIPP is the B I P P, the British Institute of Professional Photographers. [00:04:27] So we've designed a competition that runs for 10 months of the year. And we take, for every photographer, the top scoring image of theirs in each category. So it doesn't matter how many images you, you enter, that's irrelevant. Each month, we're going to take, for that photographer and each category they've entered, their top scoring image. [00:04:47] And over seven of the ten months, we're going to accumulate those scores. So you have the opportunity, if you wish, to take three months off. So you have ten months, take three months off if you wish, seven months. So your top seven scores for each category will be accumulated. So your top seven scores in portraits per month. [00:05:09] So in January Portrait. You enter five, we take the top one. February. You enter five in Portraits again, we still take the top one. And that's, that's two of your scores sorted. And the reason we're doing it that way is that each photographer in the BIPP gets one free entry every month. [00:05:28] So you have for free the ability to enter and win the monthly's competition for the year without laying out a single cent. All you have to do is find the time at the end of every month to pop in a high quality competition level image, upload it, put your name in, Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, off you go, you're done. [00:05:47] And you could win it. [00:05:48] So what amazes me, and there's a point to this story, not only is this how it works, but the point is, why don't more people enter? We had lots of entries, but it's not everybody, and I can never quite get my head around why, if it's free, and you have the opportunity to create some great PR, I'm looking at the PR on Facebook this week, and on various websites and Instagram, and people are really celebrating their success in all of the monthlies, not just the BIPs, and it's brilliant, and that's what it's designed for. It's designed to give photographers the opportunity to have something to celebrate and to share with their clients. This is, in the end, about clients. I think too often in the industry we think about it as being about, it's about photographers, and it's not really. [00:06:31] It's about our clients. And the monthlies create every 30 days or so, the opportunity to share success with your clients and you can do it for free. So why, with the thousands of members do we have, do we not have every photographer entering? [00:06:48] Still can't get my head around that and if you think I don't put my money where my mouth is. [00:06:54] This month, I did enter as I have done for the past year, I entered the Guild Monthlies competition. Obviously, I can't enter the BIPP competition, because I'm chairing the judging. So I entered the Guild, and this month, for the first time since I've been entering it, I got a gold bar, which is nearly the top standard. [00:07:12] It's not the top standard. The top standard is Platinum. But nobody's won a Platinum yet, so I'm happy with that. I got a gold and won an image of the month. Now, that's not the point of this story. It's not really to brag. Though I am really pleased with myself because it's an image I took of I think it's the bass player from the band The Sweet. [00:07:31] He was very cool. He was in our studio. It was just a normal session shot I took for him. all for the band. And I decided to try it, enter it as a competition, and see how we go. I think the point is that I entered. I gave it a go. Now, people get really nervous about entering competitions, and I don't really understand why. [00:07:51] Now, you know my views on this. Competitions are not the best way to hone your skills, because you get no feedback, and even if you produce the best image of your life If your competitor has produced the best image of their life, they may just win. and give you nothing really, no, certainly no winning image to celebrate. [00:08:13] Also, you know, with the judging process, you don't know how you're going to do. Every photographer enters an image thinking they stand a chance. But judging is what it is. We've got to rank all of the images and who knows? Maybe it doesn't do as well as you'd expect. And people take that really personally. [00:08:30] I take it really personally. But the difference is I still do it. I just don't tell anybody I'm doing it. I do it quietly. And the images that succeed, well, I celebrate those and we publish them. And Sarah in particular loves it because it gives her an opportunity to talk to our clients and put out some PR. [00:08:47] And she's been doing that all day since the result came out yesterday, which is fantastic. So, I give it a go, I do it. I don't always do that well, if I'm honest, and judges typically, they, there is a correlation between the judges and success in competitions, but it's nowhere near as marked as you'd think it is. [00:09:08] And you can see this while we're judging. So if I'm chairing a panel of judges, you'll see marks from each judge fluctuate quite widely. So a challenge is triggered when one judge's mark is 10 away from the average decision. So whatever the judges came up with, we take the average, and if one or more of those judges is 10 marks different, we have a challenge. [00:09:29] And we have plenty of challenges, which tells you quite a lot about the fact that every judge has things that they are looking for, and if the image that is in front of them doesn't have it, they won't score it as highly. Equally, if it does have those things, they will score it highly. There is volatility in scoring. [00:09:46] You cannot use print or image competitions. as a measure of you as a person, or you as a business, you as a creative, but when you do win, celebrate it. When you don't win, well, you have to figure out what to do with that. The great thing about a monthly competition is that there is the opportunity for at least a little bit of learning. [00:10:10] because you don't have to wait for a year to try again, you can just wait four weeks. Re enter some more images, keep an eye on what comes back, what gets into the bronze, silver or gold. If you haven't quite made it across the line, what makes it into the the commended, which is what we have at the BIP. I don't know what the other societies do for those things, but everybody has a sort of way of doing it. [00:10:31] So the trick is, celebrate your wins, keep your losses to yourself, and then there's a whole load of pressure removed for you. So It is slightly different in in the monthlies. So, back on, I'm gonna bang on this drum. If you haven't entered into one of the monthlies, into any association you're part of, why not? [00:10:52] What's stopping you? Think about it. What is actually stopping you? It's almost certain, almost certainly rather, a fear of not doing well. Well, I enter them every month, I tell you when I've done well, and I keep it very quiet when I haven't. And I'm still amazed at how few people do it. And with the BIPP, every entry is £5, but you get one entry for free. [00:11:15] And with the BIP, every image is £5 a go. But you get one for free. So that's a value of £5. So if you had entered 10 months of the year, that's £50 worth of free entries. [00:11:27] Who's going to turn down 50 quid over the year? And the value of the opportunity to talk to your clients is priceless. Now you can argue you might not win, and that's true. I don't. But when I do do well, I will share it. When I don't do well, quiet. I just keep it nice and quiet. [00:11:45] So the results came out for the Guild yesterday, so they're on the 21st, and the closing date for the Guild is at the end of the month, so it's a leap year, so it's the 29th of Feb. So I've got about somewhere between 8, 9, 10 days every month between the results to the previous month coming out and the new round to choose what I'm going to put in. [00:12:06] I know I'll keep entering and I know I'll keep learning and I will keep being surprised at what does well and what doesn't even though as a judge and as a chair of judges very often I'm in the position of determining that and even having just judged the portrait group for the FEP, the Federation of European Photographers, I can tell you now when the second round comes back to me in a couple of weeks I lay a bet. The images that come back will not be in the same order as I pick them out. That's life. I'm working with judges from all over Europe, I'm working with people of different tastes, different influences, different things they value in an image. So you can never be certain, but what you can be certain of is if you don't enter it, you ain't gonna win anything. [00:12:48] That's a dead cert. So why would I choose absolute certain failure over anything else? Sorry, you never use the word failure. It's not a failure. Nobody fails. Except when you don't enter. Yes, you do. You fail. You've failed to enter, you've failed to compete, in which case, failure is the only word I have for it. [00:13:07] If you enter and your image isn't successful this time around, there's a million factors to that. You can learn from some, you might not learn as much as you'd like, you can take those images because you have them. And you can show your mentor, or show a friend, or show another photographer, or show someone get a critique. [00:13:21] [00:13:21] So there's just a few things I have spotted over the past week to ten days. with competition images. This is accumulated from what I've seen on the judging side with the BIPP, or the BIPP Monthlies, and what I've seen from the competitor side, so as a judge rather than as a chair, on the FEP. [00:13:41] One, don't over sharpen, particularly when it's an online entry. The screens tend to be quite sharp. They tend to make things look a little bit sharper than perhaps they could be, in my opinion, anyway, maybe it's the screens I've got. So don't over sharpen. No one on any competition I have ever been involved in the judging has ever said they've under sharpened this image. [00:14:06] But every round I will hear someone say, that image is over sharpened. Don't overdo it. Alongside that There's a huge temptation, particularly with the users of Lightroom to use clarity and or detail enhancement. These are still, so there's no such thing as sharpening, it's just localized contrast. [00:14:24] Equally, clarity and detail are variations of the same thing. If you're quite keen on the clarity slider You can see it in the image. It starts to look like it's been heavily processed. For some categories, that's great. For some categories, that will get hugely rewarded. For others, it won't. So have a look at what's done well previously and tune your effects and your clarity and detail to suit that. [00:14:51] Don't blow out your highlights or block up your shadows. What do I mean by that? I don't want ever to see pure white, and that's tricky if you've got, let's say, a grey flat sky, and you've lit someone against what light there is. So get it under control, make sure there's detail in the highlights, and there is detail in the blacks. [00:15:09] And don't think you can cheat by raising up the blacks to be grey. Thinking, well that's right, nothing in the image is now black. If there's no detail in it, we're still going to see that the blacks were blocked up, they've now just become very dark grey, and still blocked up. If there's no detail in there, I would suggest you find an alternative image. [00:15:32] Colour grading. A lot of colour grading knocking around, and there are a thousand colour panels out there at the moment. Be careful, that the colour you're using is part of the story you're trying to tell. Don't just make it desaturated because it's desaturated, or make the shadows a bluey green because you've seen it on a Netflix film. [00:15:50] Tell the story with your colour. If you're going to use colour, tell the story through it. Be careful that you don't just process for processing's sake. It must be part of the storytelling. [00:16:00] If this podcast makes you feel uncomfortable because I'm sounding ill, trust me it's worse for me. I'm sounding ill. Where are we? Next one, number five, look for emotion, and then number six, impact. These two are intertwined. When you look at an image as a judge, we have to react to it. [00:16:20] Judging as a process gets criticised a lot as to why don't we prioritise creativity, emotion, impact, these words. Sort of soft, the soft skills, I suppose, of photography. The truth is, we do. That is the top scoring band. Impact. Bam! Get it in front of us. Work out what it is about the image. [00:16:43] Whether it's the way you've cropped and formed the story, where you've laid out the parts of the puzzle, where you've used colour, the way an expression just connects with you as a viewer, whatever it is. Make it about impact, because as judges, we want to feel something. We want to know that you felt it, too. [00:17:02] Number seven, do not enter the same images everywhere. I kid you not, there's an image I've judged I won't say exactly where, but I've judged it this week that I've seen now four times. Four different competitions, I've seen the same image. I wasn't always the judge. I was a fellow contestant in one. [00:17:22] I was Chair of Judges for two, and Judge for the fourth. I've seen it four times. Well, imagine the lack of impact by seeing it that many times. Now I know, as a contestant, you may not think the same judge is gonna see it every time. But, the truth is, there aren't actually that many judges. Not really. [00:17:45] So there's a lot of cross talk. So you get to see the same images quite a bit, if you're entering them into different competitions. As an extension of that, and this is So the first one's not that easy to avoid if you enter lots of competitions. It would be great if you could, prep a different image from the shoot for each competition, but I know it takes time and it's expensive if you're doing print, but I would still recommend it. [00:18:11] This next one, though, is slightly different. If you shoot images in series, what do I mean by that? If you shoot dogs running and jumping, one dog running and jumping, or you shoot a certain style of child portraiture, or a certain style of I'm talking portraiture in particular, a certain style of female portraiture, I don't know. [00:18:31] Don't put more than one of that style into any round of a competition at one time. Don't put them all in January. The idea that we're going to pick out the highest scoring image, the image we think is best out of your series of five, simply not true, because we judge them in a randomised order, but sequentially. [00:18:51] We get an image, we judge it, we move on to the next image, we move on to the next image. So you have no control over what order we see them in. We have no control over what order we see them in. And the idea that we're going to go to the last image of a set of five, and could you know I've seen all of these? [00:19:05] I think image one was the strongest, I should have given that more, more higher score. That's not how this works. We evaluate each image based on its own merits at that point in time. But if we then see four more of the same image, trust me, the impact on the last image isn't going to be as great, even though they are technically different images. [00:19:26] So what you're doing is you're sacrificing four incredible images to get one through. You have to make a decision over which one to put in. And then, guess what? February? Put another one in. March? Another one. There's no way, it's not a, it's not a thing where we can pick images out, because we have to judge them one after the other, so that every single image stands the same chance of getting the same score. That's why we do it. [00:19:51] And number nine, so another point on the judging, is don't forget to finish your images, each and every one of them, fully. So there's an image during the recent judging I did, stunning. I looked at it on the screen, small, beautiful. Hit the 100 percent button, zoomed into the pixels, moved around the image, because when you're doing online judging, this is how it works, and you could see that the photographer, it looked like, I don't know, their nan had called round midway through them doing the retouch. [00:20:23] And they just never went back to that image. They submitted it with holes in the background and gaps where They'd dropped a background in over the top of the subject, and you could see the overlaps so clearly. They were just hard, like they'd hit it with the pencil tool, not the brush tool. And it clearly, all they'd done is not gone back over the image with a fine tooth comb. [00:20:43] It really, it felt like, they're sitting there doing this beautiful retouch. It's a beautiful lady, she's got flowing hair, the background's nailed. She's resting on a bench, or whatever it was. And then bing bong. Mom's here. Mom. It's your mom, Paul. It's your mom. Come down. Alright, I'll be down. I'll be down in a minute. [00:21:00] No, now. All right, I'll come down now. And that was the end of it. It's as if I went back to the image and just never picked it up again. I must have hit send or something. This is not my image, by the way. I really felt for the creator of it, because it was a stunning image. And I even put, it's one of the rare times I've put in the comments field when I'm judging. [00:21:18] If the judge is surprised at why I've classed this as not competition standard, when clearly it's stunning. Clearly the photographer knows their craft. Please get them to look at it like I did and see the holes they've left in the retouch. So finish them properly. [00:21:37] So don't do that. So those are the things I've noticed this time round. [00:21:42] And the great thing about entering a competition is it gives you an opportunity to experiment. Experiment in January. If it doesn't work, change the experiment. Or, no, you never change the experiment. [00:21:51] You experiment. That's not how it works. Experiment in January. Change what you try. in February. It's the same experiment. And then March. And then, who knows, by June, you might have got the swing of it. Who knows? What I will say, though, is that this ability every month to have a go, see how you do, celebrate your successes, learn from those that aren't quite so successful, is hugely, hugely powerful. [00:22:16] I still, still don't think competitions are mentoring. They are different beasts. You know my views on that. But there is still something to be learned from. Entering a competition monthly. [00:22:30] And the best way of entering monthlies, or any competition really, is if you are organized. [00:22:35] Then spend time with your images. Print them, hang them up, look at them over time, keep an eye on them. Because if you do that You'll get to see those little niggles, you'll get to appreciate where things could be fine tuned. [00:22:49] On the other hand, if you're like me, and it's all a little bit last second, then just make sure when you do the prep for your client, you're always producing images at sort of competition level. [00:23:01] There is a difference between competition imagery, what we would choose, how we'd finish them, and there is with what we produce for our clients. But for me, that gap isn't that great. I think if you're a fashion photographer, there's almost no gap. If you're, one of the Fearless Wedding Photographers, there's almost no gap. [00:23:19] I think there is for many sectors in the industry though. So just make sure you're prepping your images essentially to competition standard. If that image that I talked about earlier had gone out to a client, the client would have sent it back to me laughing. I'd have had to sort it out. And it did happen to me once. [00:23:33] It wasn't my retouch, but I did see it. It was my image someone on at the time, an assistant had retouched it, and I knew the minute I saw it go out, it's like, that's coming back to me. And I knew because she'd over whitened the floor, and it looked like the object was floating. I don't do that kind of photography very much, but when I do, it has to be right, and it wasn't right, and it's really frustrating. [00:23:57] Do it to the best that you can. Get it to competition standard, or as close as you can, with only just a little additional finishing where required, because that way, I don't need to worry about having tons of time to get it into a competition. The image I entered and got my gold bar was not the one I thought would do well. [00:24:13] I just didn't think necessarily of the set that I entered, it was the strongest image. Turned out the judges felt differently. But it was certainly finished to that level because the band could have been using it on a poster. [00:24:23] So, the same criteria is still applied. [00:24:26] There's no jeopardy in entering. The worst that can happen is that you don't do as well as you'd hope. And that happens to all of us. The gold bar this month? It's the first one I've attained with the guild, and it's just a regular image. It's now out, of course, on social media. [00:24:43] Sarah's celebrating it everywhere. I'm a little slower to get it onto social media. But it gives me an interesting topic to talk about on here. And so the question I suppose you're asking is, how many other images did I enter? I don't know how the other images did, I've only won one gold bar and got it one image of the month. But I can't argue that you can do this anonymously and then, for me, not be anonymous. So I'm not going to tell you how many other images I entered, but it's definitely more than one. And so why not make this, this year, the year you'll give it a shot. If you're part of the BIPP, you've only missed one month, you still have plenty of months ahead of you, there's nine more to go, deadline always at the end of the month, images, image results come out on the 15th, to give you time to reassess and figure out what you're going to enter for the next month. [00:25:31] And you never know what might happen. And if you can do it for free, and this is particularly to the BIPP, if you can do it for free, Then we really, and I mean this, this isn't a figurative thing, you have nothing to lose. It's free. The clue is in the title. And on that happy note, I'm going to dose up on some Lemsip, some Benelin, some Nurofen, and I'm going to call it a night. [00:25:56] Thank you for listening as I sit here in my cosy little lounge to this podcast. As always, head over to masteringportraitphotography.com for lots of articles and stuff, and also it's the spiritual home of this podcast. On top of that Please do leave us a review, tell another photographer or someone you might think would be interested in it about the podcast, leave us some comments wherever you can, and hit subscribe on whatever podcast player you use. [00:26:21] That way, as soon as I get round to releasing an episode, there it is right in your ears before you even know it. Whatever else, as I sip my Lemsip, keep warm and be kind to yourself. Take care.

Suddenly it washed over me - that odd euphoric sensation of contentment.  No idea what triggers it, but it's well worth holding onto!  Also in this episode, a quick review of ACDSee 10 (the Mac version).  If you'd like to try it yourself, please use this link (there is no kickback or finance attached, but it does let the guys at ACDSee know that the referral has come from me and the Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast!) Enjoy! Cheers P. If you enjoy this podcast, please head over to Mastering Portrait Photography, for more articles and videos about this beautiful industry. You can also read a full transcript of this episode. PLEASE also subscribe and leave us a review - we'd love to hear what you think! If there are any topics, you would like to hear, have questions we could answer or would like to come and be interviewed on the podcast, please contact me at paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk.  Full Transcript: EP146 On Being Content [00:00:00] Introduction and Studio Update [00:00:00] So in an effort to keep up my weekly episodes , I am recording this mid afternoon on a Tuesday, which normally would be fairly busy here in the studio, but given I've got two people who are off sick, with both Michelle and Sarah coughing and spluttering and generally not feeling very well. [00:00:16] So with a degree of persuasion, managed to get both of them to go home. I'm assuming they are now wrapped up in duvets drinking brandy or whiskey or possibly just Lemsip. And so I suddenly found myself with some time in the studio during normal working hours. So this is episode 146 being recorded when, well, I could be doing a million other things. [00:00:41] I'm Paul and this is a very distracted Mastering Portrait Photography podcast. [00:01:03] Now if you look at the list of things I should be doing, it's long, it's complicated, there's a lot to do in the studio just now, but I quite like recording the podcast, and so I am somewhat using it as a distraction. Displacement, I think is what it's called, and I'm going to record this episode. [00:01:22] Mastering Dogs and Their Owners Portraiture Photography Workshop [00:01:22] It's not that long since the last episode, so it's not like I've done a million different things, but yesterday we ran a Mastering Dogs and Their Owners Portraiture Photography, I can't remember the title, ah, uh, workshop, which essentially is a Photographing dogs with their owners. [00:01:37] Had the most incredible bunch of people as delegates and also as models. One of the great things about running these workshops, of course, is that we can bring in models who are regular clients. Steve and Ambra and their dog Luna, and then Gemma who came in the afternoon with her dogs Luke, and, archie. [00:01:58] It was just brilliant. Spent the whole day laughing, the whole day answering questions and discussing things about photography, not just how to take these pictures, but why we take these pictures. And certainly from the point of view of running a business. The weather held, it was gorgeous and sunny, a little too sunny, with that low raking February sunshine that we don't get enough of, and when we do get it, of course, as a photographer, I moaned that it was too harsh, uh, for some of what we were doing, particularly when we were trying to photograph in an alley where I needed both walls to have the same light, more or less, and of course the sun sort of threw that out the window, but hey, you know, what can you do when you get those days? [00:02:39] It was a fantastic day, and loved every second of it, I've created some images that I really like, and more importantly, I think our delegates went away with ideas and enthusiasm and determination and confidence, possibly more than they did when they arrived, which is the right way around, and if you ever give when we're delivering workshops, the great thing is not It's not about technical stuff really, it's about having the confidence to go and do it, because without that, it doesn't matter how good you are with a camera, or how good you are with Photoshop, you're not going to run any kind of business. [00:03:14] You'll never produce anything. You need the confidence to do it in the first place. So a big shout out to all the guys that came on the workshop yesterday, and a huge thank you to my clients. [00:03:22] ACDSee Software Review [00:03:22] Uh, before I get into the nuts and bolts of the podcast I want to give a quick shout out to the guys at ACDSee. [00:03:30] That's letter A, letter C, letter D, and the word 'See' S E E. A brilliant bit of software. It's a bit of software that I first used, I was trying to remember when they asked me to get involved. I was trying to remember when I last used it. I think I used version 1. I think it came free on the front of a magazine. [00:03:49] It was I think, recalling it was shareware back then. Shareware is not really such a common model, but back then, I'm guessing 15 or 16, maybe even longer years ago. Um, and it was an amazing piece of software primarily because it was super fast and It has the ability to preview files and organize files for you in an incredibly quick way. [00:04:13] And anyway, the guys at ACDSee asked me if I'd review it and then talk about it. So, cards on the table here. I have been given a free copy of ACDSee to see what I think. I'm on version 10, it's the MacStudio version. And so I've been bunged a free license, which I've been using for the past couple of months. [00:04:34] So it's not really, this isn't a paid commercial. Genuinely, I'm using the software and I said I would talk about it if I liked it. But I'd hate anyone to think that I wasn't being straight up and honest when I'm talking about it. And clearly I've been given a free license. But of course, here's the but in all of this stuff is I will never talk about anything on this podcast that I haven't had first hand experience of. [00:04:58] Somebody did ask me, there is someone has asked me to review like an energy drink from the US to use it for a while and then talk about what I think. Sadly though you can't get it in the UK so I had to go back to them and say I can't do that until you've got a supply chain or an importer over here. [00:05:15] And then of course I will try it and let you know what I think. So I won't talk about anything that I don't have first hand experience of there are many reasons for doing this podcast but being able to be authentic in the middle of it is the bit that under pins it. So what are my thoughts on this version of ACDSee? [00:05:31] So this is version 10, the Mac version. Um, so okay, straight up, slightly mixed bag, but don't I don't take that as anything other than there's just one little bit that I'm not happy about. So when they approached me, so when ACDSee approached me, I was beyond excited to do it. Firstly, I got to play with a bit of software that I used an awful lot back in the day. [00:05:57] And it was wonderful to be using the same software again. There's a degree of nostalgia, I suppose, about that. And it's always good to see a great piece of software, as it was, not only survive, but expand and become even more useful. The second reason I was excited about it, so I went and did a quick hunt around before I committed to giving it a go, is everything I read talked about the new AI keywording tools, and they looked incredible. It would help me enormously if using a bit of AI inside the software that I have on my computer, as opposed to going online and doing round tripping and all of those things, if I had some AI software that would help me identify with some very simple keywords. I'm not after that. Detailed keywords, but very simple keywords that would let me find, for instance, like a low key studio portrait, or a high key dog image, you know those, I'm talking really quite basic stuff. [00:06:50] Now we manage our catalogue really well, but stuff slips through, and with keywording, you know what it's like, you get one folder, I've got to archive it, I've run out of disk space, I need to move some stuff today, do I keyword it now? No, I'll do it later, and of course by do it later, what I actually mean is, it doesn't get done. [00:07:07] So, that was What I was looking forward to the the speed and the simplicity of this piece of software as it used to be, but also with some of the new AI stuff in particular, the keywording. And so I suppose the question is how did it do? Brilliantly, I think, is the word I'd use. It is still blazingly quick. [00:07:27] It's an unbelievable piece of software from that point of view. It's faster than using the Finder on the Mac or Pathfinder I also use. It's incredibly fast. Now, let me just clarify how I've used it or how I'm using it right now. Lightroom is at the heart of our workflow. All of our live catalogues. All of our live RAW files, all of our live PSDs are in Adobe Lightroom . [00:07:52] And what do I mean by live? Live just means the job is not yet archived. I looked earlier and there's about 75, 000 assets in Lightroom at any one point. That includes all of our live jobs but also our portfolio, our portfolio of heroes. Now, I've configured Lightroom in a very particular way so when I run an export of JPEGs that are going to go to the client, they're going to go into album designs anything that's flagged with five stars, the little bit of code in the background that I've written spits those out into a series of Dropbox folders that are organized in line with the jobs. [00:08:27] So, let's say there's a Le Manoir wedding Tom and Amy get married at Le Manoir on a date. When I spit those files out, there'll be an equivalent Dropbox folder that contains anything that was ranked with five stars. So it allows me to have these heroes in Dropbox. And we've been doing that for about eight years. [00:08:45] So you can imagine just how many images and folders we have in Dropbox running that little bit of the catalogue. But when I archive the folder away, when it's done, the job's finished, Tom and Amy have got their wedding album, then we remove all of the files off our live drives, remove the catalog components from Lightroom, and obviously new stuff has come in. [00:09:07] Those heroes, though, still need to be active, and they stay active in Dropbox, a series of Dropbox folders that I have. And it's always a little bit of a pain trawling up and down them. Well, ACDSee solves that, because once I visited a folder with this software, All of the thumbnails stay in its catalogue. [00:09:24] So it's as if I can browse things that go across folders. There's this thing called the Image Well, which is brilliant. I can find things by flags. I can find things by colour labels. It's absolutely phenomenal. So at the moment, I've got about a quarter of a million. There's about 250, 000 JPEGs in ACDSee. [00:09:47] It's really, really fast. And one of the things I really have liked about it, which is useful for me, is, and this is the bit of the AI that is working, is the facial recognition. Now, no Lightroom has facial recognition, but of course, in the end I don't use Lightroom for longer than the job is live for any folder. [00:10:05] Whereas this is folders that go back historically. And I'm not really that worried about identifying every face. What I am interested in is having the faces all looking at me in a series of thumbnails that I can scroll through and go, Do you know what, I remember that shoot or I remember that image. [00:10:22] That's what I'm looking for. Then I can find the shoot and then I can expand that to all of the other images. And on top of that, slightly weirdly, Hehe. I found myself just smiling this morning as I was trawling through this big page of thumbnails of my clients. It's all my clients faces looking back at me and smiling. [00:10:39] And it was really nice. It was a bit of a trip down memory lane, I think, for many of these. And I know that's not its intended purpose, but if you ever want a pick me up It's simply look in this folder on ACDSee of faces looking back at you, of all these clients, and of course the memories that go with it. [00:10:57] And it is rapid, I mean it's unbelievably quick in the way it does it. And it's really useful to have that. Now on the indexing side, it's a little bit, you have to get your head around it a little bit. It indexes any folder you've visited. Browsed. However, there is also a behind the scenes index that you can get ticking over, which will run whenever you're not using your computer and ACDSee is open. [00:11:20] So gradually over time, it picks up the files and it pops them pops all the thumbnails together and categorizes them for you. So it's really really useful. On top of that, a nice little touch that I've only really discovered this morning is that your license includes the use of a thing called SendPix. [00:11:38] This won't be useful to everybody, but it's quite a nice little bit of software. So it's, if you can imagine I suppose a hybrid version of something like Zenfolio which is a catalogue system for images for your clients and WeTransfer which is a way of sending files to your clients. It's sort of in between the two. [00:11:58] What it allows you to do is select a load of images, send them to someone but instead of sending them directly it creates a short lived online gallery. It's there for a couple of weeks, I think, looking at the dates it gave me. And that allows your client, or whoever you're sending them to, to log in, see the images, and download what they need. [00:12:15] So in a sense, it's like WeTransfer, but with an interactive component. And it's equally, it's a little bit like Zenfolio, but with a gallery that only lasts for a couple of weeks. So you don't have to worry about taking them up and taking them down, and all that kind of thing. It's only there for the time you need it. [00:12:30] And, surprisingly It's actually really useful, which I hadn't seen coming. It wasn't a bit of the software. I certainly didn't pick that up when I said yes to reviewing ACDSee, but it's incredibly useful. Now, sadly, the software doesn't integrate with Dropbox properly. There is no integration with Dropbox, which is a shame. [00:12:47] It would have been really nice. It does have an integration with iCloud, but I don't use that, so I can't comment on that part of it. But it would have been quite nice. It's no big deal. Doesn't really change my usage of it. And all in all, there are just dozens of little functions that make finding and retrieving files that you have on your folders and drives really easy. [00:13:09] It makes it fast, it makes it visually interesting. I haven't used the editing tools because for us, everything we do is edited in Lightroom on the RAW files and the PSDs. I suppose it could be useful if I do pick up a file, I just think, you know what? I wish that was slightly brighter, I wish that was slightly darker, or something like that. [00:13:26] I know there are some quite sophisticated tools in there, but that's not the part of the puzzle I've been interested in. And I think the license for the Mac version is about 99, and it's absolutely worth it. [00:13:38] Sadly, the AI keywording is in the Windows version but not the Mac, but still [00:13:42] I think it's absolutely worth it. Anyway, now whether that fits into your workflow is entirely down to you. [00:13:49] Only you can answer that question. Now bear with me, I'll come back in a minute. [00:13:53] Reflections on Happiness and Contentment [00:13:53] I've got a phone call to answer. [00:13:55] So sorry about that, I had to answer the phone. It was the editor, it was Terry, the editor of Professional Photo Magazine, who we regularly write for calling about the next edition, which is very exciting, as always. I've no idea, I've no idea in the final edit where I'll leave that cut in, or whether I'll just gloss over it. [00:14:15] Either way, as I was trundling in this morning, I don't know whether this happens to you, but it happens to me occasionally, where It's just this, it's almost a feeling of euphoria, and it's happened to me a couple of times today, whether it's just chemistry, whether it's just, I don't know, I've no idea. But today, I felt like everything was good in the world. [00:14:37] And, it's a real sort of skill, I suppose, in being completely comfortable with where you are. We had a text this morning. Someone was asking, how are things out in the industry? And I can only answer from our experience. And right now, we're doing well . Everything is busy phone's ringing, even this morning. [00:14:56] We had an enquiry for a wedding just come through. We've got enquiries for headshots and commercial. Portraiture feels maybe a little bit squidgier than it has been on the economy. But all in all, our business is running really well and I'm really happy. [00:15:07] I'm very satisfied with my lot. Now, I don't mean to be self satisfied, that's not what I'm saying, but I think the art of being content with your lot is a tricky one. Now don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly ambitious and driven and impatient. I want everything to happen and I want it all to happen now, but the reality of course is things are slower. [00:15:27] So I get frustrated with it, of course I do. But trying to find the space in my head to be content is a skill that I am still learning, I guess. It's really easy not to be happy. Even this morning, Sarah had the radio on, and the news came on, and I could feel myself just getting wound up. The state of our economy, we have a particularly crappy government at the moment, and I'd like to say that's specific to the UK. [00:15:57] I've got friends all over the world, and I keep, as best I can, I keep abreast of world news, and I think it might just be a global phenomenon. The kinds of people who you'd really want to lead you are not the kinds of people who we have leading us, I don't think. So it's easy to feel down, the weather's pretty rubbish, it's that time of year, you know, it's grey. [00:16:18] Yesterday we had this phenomenal day of beautiful weather, but today, well, it's back to normal, it's chucking it down. But yet, even though it was cold and dark, I still found myself skipping into work this morning. Life is okay. And being happy with yourself is not that straightforward, I don't think. Jake, our son, was asking me if I liked myself and I thought that's an interesting question and I don't really have a satisfactory answer. [00:16:45] Some days I like bits of me, some days I feel dreadfully insecure, but I'm always confident that on balance I'm alright. I feel alright, I'm on the whole nice to people, I try really hard not to be nasty to anybody. There are people I like more than others, of course there are. You know, you marry the one you like the most, right? [00:17:09] And she's incredible. So being happy with your lot. I think is something you can do and it just washed over me this morning, maybe it's the fact that we ran the workshop yesterday and I was around people who I liked [00:17:23] And even writing up the notes on ACDSee, it still feels really strange saying ACDSee, when I grew up in the 70s and the 80s, when ACDC was a band for those about to rock and all of that stuff. So it sounds really weird when I say it, but writing my notes on ACDSee I had to look through thousands of images that had dropped into our Heroes folders, which reminded me of the things we do. [00:17:46] And on top of that, of course, I put the facial recognition on, and that reminded me of all of the incredible people we do it for. And if it wasn't enough that I came in skipping down the road as an image, right? What we do for a living, the things we create, and the people we create these things for, what an honour. [00:18:05] not only ACDSee, but Sarah spent the past couple of days designing the most incredible book. A Tramontino book is the range from Graphistudio. And it's full of the same pictures, these pictures that we took in the past 12 months. It's a collection of some of our Favourite moments, I guess, out of 2023. A mix of clients and some dogs, all sorts of bits and pieces. [00:18:31] One or two award winning images. But mostly, it's just a celebration of the people we work with. And I can't wait for that to come, for Sarah to get it made, uh, and Graphistudio to get it, to get it made. [00:18:47] The Joy of Photography [00:18:47] It'll be beautiful, I know that. But more importantly, it will sit on our coffee table, and every time I feel flat, or I feel like, Oh, do you know what? I'm not sure how I feel about all of this. I can go down and have a look at it, just as I do with one or two other bits down there. [00:19:00] And it reminds me, just What a lovely job this is, and I can't wait to have that actually on our coffee table, not just as an advert for the product, and of course it is a great advert for the product, a Graphistudio product I may have mentioned we're ambassadors for Graphistudio, so there's my cards on the table again, but in the end, I am really lucky, and we are really lucky, to have a skill that allows me to create the pictures that we do, for the people that we do, the moments that we get to enjoy, the places that we get to visit, and the joy, that we get. [00:19:36] It's easy to get distracted by life, but sometimes it's worth focusing on what it is I do. And for whatever reason that happened subconsciously this morning, but I probably should make it happen more of a deliberate thing as I go. [00:19:52] Still ambitious, still competitive, still driven, still want it all to happen today. But maybe it just takes a little bit of time. . [00:19:59] Conclusion and Workshop Information [00:19:59] And on that happy note, I'm going to wrap up. If you're curious about our workshops, please do head over to Paul Wilkinson Photography and look for the coaching and workshops section. Eventually we're going to move all of those across into Mastering Portrait Photography, but for now they're all still on my normal website. [00:20:19] I'll put a link if you're curious about ACDSee and want to download a copy to have a play. I recommend you do actually, I've really I've grown to love it. I have two screens on my Mac, two huge 27 inch monitors, and ACDSee sits permanently on my right hand monitor whenever I'm doing any design work or doing anything for the websites. [00:20:39] It's there because I have easy and straightforward access to all of our hero images, all of my favourite images. It's incredible as a tool like that. It slots in alongside Lightroom for me. At least it won't replace it, though I'm sure the guys at ACDSee would love it too. That's not, for me, the function that it serves, but does that make it still worthwhile? [00:21:00] I think it does, and I, for one, will renew my license when the time comes up. So I shall put a link down in the show notes for you to head across. It does have my name in it. I don't get a kickback from it. I think it just allows the guys at ACDSee to see that it came through me. And I'll also put it on our Facebook group for all of the people that have been on our workshop community. [00:21:19] But All in all, I highly recommend it. [00:21:23] In the meantime, I hope the weather is a little nicer where you are. I hope it's more like yesterday than today. But whatever else, keep skipping, keep smiling, remember that what we do is an incredible job. I'm Paul, and whatever else, be kind to yourself. [00:21:38] Take care.

Meet Social Impact Pioneer - Hamzah Sarwar as he shares the challenges of combining personal and business purpose. Hamzah takes us on his personal journey, exploring the challenges of trying to create social good, whilst providing for his family. Hamzah is now the Global Social Impact and Partnerships Director at Reckitt, who are a global health, hygiene, and nutrition business, with a presence in over 45 countries and a portfolio including household names such as: Dettol, Harpic, Strepsils, Nurofen, Lemsip, and Durex. Today Hamzah's role extends beyond mere business operations to cultivating meaningful societal change. His journey, however, isn't just a story of open doors and opportunities. It's a tale of passion, resilience, and commitment to social innovation. With over 13 years of cross-functional leadership in marketing, insights & evaluation, brand purpose, and social impact, Hamzah is a living testament to the power of aligning corporate strategies with societal needs. Our conversation centres on the essence of corporate and personal purpose. We delve into how these concepts can drive a business forward and also create a tangible impact in the world. Hamzah, an award-winning practitioner, is celebrated by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum as one of the top global social innovators. His accolades include being a finalist in the Corporate Social Intrapreneur award for 2024, a Global Fellowship at the League of Intrapreneurs, a One Young World ambassador, and a member of the BMW Foundation responsible leaders' network. Get ready for a practical conversation on how to realise your own personal purpose and a pick-me-up on empowerment. One person can make a difference…and Hamzah humbly explains how. Links: DRUM, Reckitt's Hamzah Sarwar explores the innovation behind winning an award for community engagement: https://www.thedrum.com/tv/video/reckitts-hamzah-sarwar-explores-the-innovation-behind-winning-an-award-for-community-engagement Reckitt and social impact: https://reckitt.com/our-stories/2023/better-lives-for-8-million-people-our-biggest-impact-ever/ Reckitt, Fight For Access social impact investment fund: https://reckitt.com/our-impact/fairer-society/fight-for-access-fund/ Reckitt, WINFund: https://reckitt.com/media-landing/press-releases/2023/increasing-access-to-healthcare-and-climate-finance/ Reckitt, Dettol, The Hygiene Quest: https://www.dettol.com.au/hygiene-quest/ One Young World: https://www.oneyoungworld.com League of Intrapreneurs: https://www.leagueofintrapreneurs.com WEF, 10 Million Social Enterprises, 2024: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/10-million-reasons-for-the-private-sector-to-invest-in-social-enterprise/ Kate Raworth, Donut economics: https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

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Juan's back baby ..... and with a baby!!!In Episode #389 of 'Musings', Juan & I discuss: my latest contracting of Covid (most likely), why there are 3 big babies in these parts, general preventions we take to avoid getting sick, psychological tricks to reduce the suffering, recent changes that have made us less selfish and a new test of the Boostagram Lounge at the end.Huge support from McIntosh, Chris Fisher & the double from Petar! Massive appreciation to these early adopters.Timeline:(0:00) - Live & coughing(0:57) - We usually don't get sick(4:45) - But we're big babies when we do(12:16) - Prevention tactics(26:47) - Panadol, hydration & Lemsip(31:52) - Training whilst sick(35:20) - COVID & Vienna has made us less selfish(41:08) - Summary(48:51) - Boostagram Lounge(57:50) - Housekeeping(1:00:53) - V4V: Try getalbyIntro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':https://podcastindex.social/@SignsOfNewGrowthConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcast

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New episodes broadcast live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sotdcast Click 'Show More' for timecodes. On this week's episode, the guys discuss all manner of topics – Friday The 13th: The Videogame, good ol' Steve King's The Dark Tower, Resident Evil Vendetta, as well as a lengthy rant on the logistics in Season 7 of Game of Thrones. It's your regular mixed bag of off-topic natter. Oh and we would be remiss if we didn't also mention speedrunning, so that's in there too. This week's homework was of course Little Nightmares, the superbly designed if somewhat lacking plot-wise Indie game wot we played. The guys go into what they liked (a lot), what they didn't like (a little bit), and their frustration with the casual ambiguity the game plays with – it wants to be open, yet also wants to be understood? We're too sick for this. Well, one of us is. There ain't enough Lemsip in the world that can save Tom's disintegrating mood. Axton: https://www.twitch.tv/axton10_61 Matticus Finch: https://www.twitch.tv/immatticusfinch Garlips: https://www.twitch.tv/garlips Recorded: 2017/08/06, Remastered: 2022/06/14

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W/C 14th February 2022 Very last minute this week, but only because I have a bit of a cold and I am feeling quite sorry for myself. I am a shocking invalid - in fact if you have ever seen that episode of Frasier when he has the Flu then you will get some sort of idea. I just go all pathetic, and everything is a gargantuan effort. What also doesn't help is that over the last couple of years, Lemsip seems to exacerbate the problem and give me a real dry tickle. Now I am not somebody that takes medication, so when I reach for the Lemsip box (blackcurrant flavour, obvs) it is a signal to those around all is not going well. But now even that seems to be fraught with complication. Anyway, enough about me - how are you? Stay safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTP0v_fai7A (Stormy Weather - Magnum) https://nerdlegame.com (Nerdle) https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_gb/feature-phones (Nokia Feature Phones) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-60395669 (Downham Market Mass Council Walk-Out) Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair. If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on https://www.facebook.com/ashortstoriespodcast/ (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/ashortstories (Insta), https://www.twitter.com/ashortstories (Twitter) or https://www.patreon.com/ashortstories (Patreon). Thanks for getting this far.

This week Sam and Daniel sit down to talk about the resurrection and the ease in which various groups of people can slip into a supremacy mindset. To note, Sam isn't well in this conversation and that does come across here and there. The video version of this conversation can be found here on our YouTube channel 12 hours after the audio version goes live. Recourses mentioned in this show: The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History by Dale Allison The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland You can find/follow Daniel here: Twitter The video version of this conversation can be found here on our YouTube channel 12 hours after the audio version goes live. We hope you enjoy our show. When Belief Dies aims to honestly reflect on faith, religion and life. Your support via Patreon enables us to cover the costs of running this show and look to the future to make things even better as we build upon what we already have in the works. Please take a look and consider giving. Alternatively, you can support the show with a one-off gift via PayPal or Bitcoin. Use the following link to navigate to the website, to find us on social media and anywhere else we might be present online. #Podcast #Deconstruction #God #Agnostic #Christian #Atheism #Apologetics #Audio #Question #Exvangelical #Deconversion #SecularGrace #Exchristian

Put down the Twinkie, and move the spores, molds, and fungus to one side - we've been to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife! We talk about our history with the franchise and our spoiler-free thoughts about the film, before peeking behind the portrait of Vigo and going for full-on spoilers. Don't go past 29:00 if you've not seen the film! If you'd like to see a walkthrough of the Ghostbusters 8-bit video game Mark mentions click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXL56R2zyxU And, at the end of the episode, Mark also references The Ghost Busters from 1975. For more (and to see the gorilla!) click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPfUYgY6nw ALSO: Sorry, we've both got colds at the moment, so apologies for the sniffles. Who ya gonna call? Lemsip and Vitamin C! You can follow us on: Twitter - Instagram - Letterboxd We'd love it if you could leave us a review on Apple Podcasts

"I still consider myself a proud fundraiser." We are joined this week by the dynamic duo behind fundraising everywhere and fundraising everywhere +. With an ambition to change the world they connect and educate fundraisers, empowering them to do just that.James bravely limps his way to the studio carrying his Lemsip for a chat about influencing positive change, launching Reject-Fest and finding a board of directors to act as your personal mentors. Simon uncovers roles in his past he didn't know he held, Nikki contacts the gas board with a wheelbarrow full of exposure and Kenneth launches a big-money rebrand as Kevin. There's a potentially untrue story about Simon's sister, an impressive CV and a discussion around the definition of an entrepreneur. We talk all about accessibility, throw in some mindful crochet and head to Wendy's for dinner.Best of all the guests offer a months free membership to Fundraising Everywhere for listeners with the discount code DOMOREGOOD. Head to www.fundraisingeverywhere.com to make the most of their generosity. ---You can find us on www.domoregood.uk or follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Get in touch if you'd like to feature or star on the show. It goes without saying really but the episodes contains our opinions - essentially things we overheard in meetings, stole from presentations and read in magazines. Thanks for listening.

Recorded 16 October. In the midst of some of the darkest days, when all hope seems lost, as the world burns down around you, them Happy Accident Boys appear in the flames! Forced into hiding...

This week on TBP's new music show: Andy Cooper from Ugly Duckling has no egrets, Osees, Oh Sees and/or Thee Oh Sees are caught by the fuzz and James Williamson and Denis Tek are offering Two To One on their album sounding like Stooges-meets-Birdman 40 years on (get on at that price). Also: old grooves, inexplicably big in Europe, personal commissions, even more still hungry, coffee shop sugar theft, grime guests, fixating on the seventh-best Beatles album at the expense of listening to anything released in the last decade, west coast Beasties, insufficient Patreon tierage, washed dads, writing about your lived experience, Do Not Want, interestingly weird vs unlistenably weird vs just weird, amplifiers full of gravel, where are we going and why have we taken so many drugs, hinging off ancient runes, our Blues Explosion classic albums ep, driving through mud, Sydney nightlife: it always sucked, some working parts, second divorce Guardian boomer energy, wandering off into the countryside, #DocReadsBios, Harry Styles styles, sick as a parrot, no we have no idea what Doc is saying either but we're very very sorry and last week tonight. Next week: Elderbrook, Didirri and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boom, shake the room! But please check the booking sheet first. The action heats up on The Artifact. Meanwhile, Lemsip-addled Jenny both loves and hates Birds of Prey, Chris reveals his insane podcast-listening strategy, and there are a lot of uncomfortable questions about the DCEU. This is less of a show description than a warning from the future. Picard stuff ends at 16:23. Links Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn: https://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/birds-of-prey-and-the-fantabulous-emancipation-of-one-harley-quinn Shannon Keating's article on heteropessimism: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/straight-romance-heteropessimism-marriage-story …and the one about finding a partner on a lesbian cruise that first introduced her writing to Chris: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise Susan Calman's Mrs Brightside with Sofie Hagen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/susan-calmans-mrs-brightside/id1495376244?i=1000465777327 The Princess and the Frog soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/1gq7uhfNW4QMeRr9msV68P Not exactly the You're Welcome clip Jenny referenced, but skip to 1:10 to hear Lin-Manuel add some extra bars: https://youtu.be/0DLzyvT4eUo --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howpicard/message

RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Where’s Paddy?  Just who is Tom Nugent?  Ruby’s Brussel sprout revelation (01m 00s) • PART 1b: The week in racing: Clan Des Obeaux retains his Kempton Crown; Barry Geraghty suffers back to back falls; a three-way photo at Cheltenham ; and what’s up with Samcro? (05m 00s) • PART 2: A chat with Mick Fitzgerald (10m 30s) • PART 3: Why the Long Face? (17m 00s) • PART 4: Frankel  - a great but not a GOAT (21m 00s) • PART 5: Tips with Frank Hickey (25m 00s) • PART 6: Mailbag (33m 30s) Find out the latest racing odds at Paddy Power (https://www.paddypower.com/horse-racing) From The Horse's Mouth is a Muddy Knees Media production for Paddy Power

Episode 36! BudSquared! It’s a telephone pod! Pierre Novellie and Phil Wang talk about the rugby world cup, learning mathematics from 17thcentury warfare games, we admit being in the Illuminati again, being near water makes you wise, Japan is a nation of ASMR. We also discuss how the Tories have kicked off their election campaign by returning to their insane, evil roots and how the population might be a gimp. Some good correspondence too! Phil went on a DREAM date with HOOP earrings, Number Weapons Matt gets back in touch to describe a very cringe moment indeed and Angus breaks Phil’s heart with regards to the blackcurrent flavour Lemsip. Get in touch at @thebudpod on Twitter or thebudpod@gmail.com! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy Halloween! Rebecca and Alex have (sort of) recovered from their party to chat about lots of Premier League, Champions League and Carabao Cup action from the last week. We start with Liverpool and their big wins over Genk, Tottenham and Arsenal. There's a lot of love for Oxlade-Chamberlain's screamers and questions about whether he should be starting more regularly, Jordan Henderson's second half revival vs Spurs, Trent and Fabinho being brilliant, Origi strikes again, odd media narratives, and Firmino's scouse accent. We also delve into Tottenham and Arsenal's performances and the current state of the clubs - including discussion about the fans and Granit Xhaka, Harry Kane continuing to be irritating, and whether Jose Mourinho could pop up at one of the north London clubs soon. Chelsea have also had a pretty good week - the loss to Man Utd in the Carabao Cup was disappointing but the win vs Ajax was massive, while Christian Pulisic stole the show with his perfect hat-trick vs Burnley. And yes, we also find time to discuss Leicester City's 9-0 annihilation of Southampton and how they could be a top four stalwart for seasons, as well as yet more confusion about VAR in the Premier League - even when the officials lower the bar, they still manage to get it wrong! Plus, the powers of Lemsip, Lampard's Time-Turners, Nutella goals, fridge spinning, Cap-tricks, Anders confusion, and how Marvel editors could help improve football. **Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, as it makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!**

33! It’s the Jesus Episode! Midlife Christis! Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie discuss the different stages of life crisis, monks trapped in statues, what would you burn yourself to death for? Lemsip or crusty rolls? Deadline news! Gregory P Mango! (We now think he is some kind of journalist!) Novellie talks dice collections and shiny shiny rocks for fish tanks. We talk about Pierre’s pogs and Phil’s obsession with Detective Barbie. Correspondence! It turns out we are VILE AND ABSURD, Billy’s dad shat on a runway, walking like a testicle duck and Phil is off to do Roast Battle with our very own Fern Brady! Get in touch thebudpod@gmail.com or @thebudpod on Twitter! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

INT’L BREAK: A stats-filled Paddy and a Lemsip-filled Johnny look back over the opening four gameweeks and international break with a wee look ahead to GW5.

Even though Abby was feeling a bit under the weather this week, she's still managed to collect her latest Sydney music faves and join Joe in the studio - If you're feeling a bit under the weather too here's a perfect opportunity to grab yourself a Lemsip (we swear we aren't being sponsored!) and snuggle up to your favourite Sydney music pod and a healing dose of heartwarming tracks! Plus Abby gives us a rendition of Swing by Savage - arguably (?) the best time of the week! This weeks Tracklist: Collarbones - Haunted Sampa The Great - Heaven (feat. Whosane) Rebecca Hatch - Brown Girl Chronicles Scram - Water Polo Julia Why - Starman Julia Why - Manchild Arona Mane - Westside Skinny Legions - Rollin' Link to Junkee's profile of Collarbones: https://junkee.com/collarbones-futurity-profile/220579

Episode 63: We Need Lemsip & Cuddles Guests: @acprobeatz @flight_ferg / @akio_officialmanga @marshaeya / @thetechover Social Media, Cuddles, Dating situations & MORE! Intro: J Favs – Sunshine Happiness Outro: Ling Hussle - One Question Twitter / Instagram: @kithandkinpod / @kithandkinpod @dopersamurai / @dopersamurai @jamcasj / @jamalcasual Any questions or topics for the podcast – kithandkinpodcast@outlook.com Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/kithandkinpodcast Spotify & Playlist – Type 'Kith & Kin Podcast' & Playlist https://spoti.fi/2LkJXcj YouTube for Highlight Reels – https://bit.ly/2JhqTuR Hit up YouTube, Soundcloud & iTunes (RATE US!) #KithAndKinPod Thank you for the support! Recorded and Engineered at Cellar Tapes, Bristol *Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS*

Emma and Tom return to their roots with a podcast episode featuring just the two of them - it's been a while! Tom's also relieved to be back in the land of the living after recording the last three episodes back-to-back while suffering from terrible man-flu. With a two-weekly release cycle, that's over a month he's been missing in action on the podcast, occasionally croaking an intervention and then subsiding behind the controls and quaffing Lemsip... now he's sounding much perkier and ready to make a proper contribution! Episode 15 is another episode discussing a learning strategy that we can all try out from time to time: the flipped classroom. Emma and Tom discuss how they used it to reduce the amount of 'death by powerpoint' in their very limited teaching time with the PGCE students, how to get round concerns about technical knowhow and planning workload, and what they've found in the literature about the strategy. Tom's wellbeing tip turns into a fairly epic story, but with a useful message for us all about seeking out the people we think are better than us. Emma shouts out to the students who joined us to record episode 16 (definitely tune in for that one in a fortnight!) and also points out that most of us were never taught how to take notes in classes. Of course, she's found a handy idea to give us a much-needed system for capturing all that vital information from our teachers. Please do rate or review us, and tell your friends about the podcast - we love getting new listeners! Join us next time when we squeeze four students into Emma's cosy office to discuss the Minister for Education's vision for the future of education here in Wales.   The article about PowerPoint in the Guardian that Tom mentioned is here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information The article about the teacher who gave up flipped learning is here: https://plpnetwork.com/2012/10/08/flip-love-affair/ The pupil who thinks flipped learning is just teachers slacking off is here: https://www.thewrangleronline.com/13877/opinion/the-flipped-classroom-doesnt-work/

“Deck it out with antiques - they don’t have to be new ones!” None of us can make head nor tail of what’s happening this episode as we don’t know if Lovejoy knows what the others think that he knows even though they don’t know if he knows that they know he knows. You see what we mean? By the end of it we weren’t even sure if jewellery is a real thing any more. Helen can blame the Lemsip and Pol the codeine but Em has no excuse!Still, we enjoy finding out when Pol lost her avocado virginity, all about the great Crisps Conspiracy and why Lovejoy is to blame for the lack of East Anglian theme parks. We’re drawing up a LovejoyLand proof of concept as we speak, and want you to tell us what squares you would have on a Lovejoy Bingo sheet - helpless widows? Embarrassed Poshos? Eric’s lying? Or something else?The original Lovejoy episode was written by Roger Marshall and directed by Bill Hays. Antique of the Week: the original Walkers crisp packets.

IT'S A BUMPER POD. Fran and Katy are back after a week off! Katy has the plague and we chat about Paul Manafort, the national emergency, and Bernie Sanders, before tackling Labour, antisemitism and The Independent Group. There's a lot of Harry Potter and Lemsip discussion. We disagree? We're still friends? This is what politics COULD be?

It's winter time and everyone is sick. Luckily for you, the sisters have all the tips and tricks you need to get through the holidays sickness-free!    Also, our thoughts on netti pots, swine flu, and brain-eating amoebas!

This week professional drinkers and amateur podcasters Shiv & Nikki take a trip down memory lane. Yes, that's right, the awkward teenage years! From head-braces to hustling for "boyfriends' on MSN messenger the duo, who this week have exchanged limoncello for Lemsip, spare no dignity in sharing a blast from their past. 

Grab your tissues and Lemsip - cold and flu season is upon us! This week, Hannah, Sarah and Frankie discuss the misery of minor illnesses and ailments, and how not to be an idiot when you're sick. WARNING: This podcast contains a few swears. Follow us on all the social media at @NoIdiotsPodcast

Hello! Ed and Geoff are back in the same room after their summer holidays / "lads tour". This week we hear from Saasha Celestial-One and Lindsay Boswell about the disgusting situation of food waste the country has gotten in to, despite so many below the breadline going hungry. We look at the Foodshare and Olio programmes and what they're doing to roll us back to the era of making the most of everything we have and hopefully reduce the UK throwing one-third of all food away.ANDComedian Phil Wang takes on groups of pedestrians, inconsistent bigots, Lemsip defaults, Whitewashing, eating at restaurants, Summer, saying "we" when speaking about your favourite sports team... and the School syllabus avoiding teaching about the British Empire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo (unfortunately, this one's not extinct) land in a jungle on a spaceship. The Human race lives in a draw and some mute, one-eyed ping pong ball swallowers with Beatles hair cuts suffer death by sneezing. The time travellers administer some Lemsip and leave…… Only to return immediately – hundreds of years later – to find the Human race are now slaves and the balls-in-mouth aliens have invented talking jewellery and picked a fight with a planet full of invisible giants while Steven searches for an exploding head. The time travellers free the Human slaves and leave…… Only to return immediately – hundreds of…NOOOooooooooooooooooooooo

What is purpose? Where does it come from? Why do some find it hard to uncover?Mastin Kipp is an American entrepreneur, best-selling author, and renowned public speaker. Mastin is the creator of Functional Life Coaching™, an innovative, unique and accelerated approach to creating lasting personal and business change. So what happens when Robin high on Lemsip and codeine meets Mastin?Star Wars, Purpose, the state of the world, and more!     More About Mastin Kipp Find out more about Mastin and his work - http://mastinkipp.com/ Buy Mastin's latest book 'Claim Your Power' on: Kindle - http://amzn.to/2BCSMKv Paperback - http://amzn.to/2nkPOXZ Hardback - http://amzn.to/2BtmyQH Audiobook - http://amzn.to/2BrCpiS   Meanwhile at Coaching for Geeks Robin is running a free webinar on finding your geeky purpose - http://bit.ly/2i68KUS We've joined forces with Projekt Indie to do a MASSIVE Steam Key giveaway - https://gleam.io/zrxJJ/the-great-projekt-indiecoaching-for-geeks-christmas-indie-steam-key-giveaway And don't forget to join our geeky gang on Facebook for your daily geek life awesomeness - www.cfgshortcut.com   Don't forget to be awesome, we'll see you next week.

On this week's episode, the guys discuss all manner of topics – Friday The 13th: The Videogame, good ol’ Steve King’s The Dark Tower, Resident Evil Vendetta, as well as a lengthy rant on the logistics in Season 7 of Game of Thrones. It’s your regular mixed bag of off-topic natter. Oh and we would be remiss if we didn’t also mention speedrunning, so that’s in there too. This week’s homework was of course Little Nightmares, the superbly designed if somewhat lacking plot-wise Indie game wot we played. The guys go into what they liked (a lot), what they didn’t like (a little bit), and their frustration with the casual ambiguity the game plays with – it wants to be open, yet also wants to be understood? We’re too sick for this. Well, one of us is. There ain’t enough Lemsip in the world that can save Tom’s disintegrating mood. Recorded: 06/08/17 Check us out on SoundCloud: https://tinyurl.com/sotdscloud Or rate and subscribe on iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/sotditunes We’re also on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/sotdyoutube Matt’s Channel: https://tinyurl.com/sotdmatt Chris’s Channel: https://tinyurl.com/sotdchris Tom’s Channel: https://tinyurl.com/sotdtom

Recapping the Lemsip & hot drink discussion following Andrews brief illness, before moving on to follow up with the use of tabs, Jordans new Sharbo LT3 and the new Campfire Field Notes. Andrew then discusses his new iMac, the setup process and how he’s finding the trackpad. Finishing up with some casual talk about personal financial management, modern banking and how AI’s could help with management and investments.

Does a Lemsip count as a hot drink? The ongoing debate is sparked again, in a discussion of why Andrew doesn’t drink hot drinks. Then moving on to an introduction in to the hosts stationery, notebooks and daily-carries.

We finally reach show 596 and we take a moment inbetween the birthdays of our gracious hosts and realise we have not got any plans for show 600. So before we go away and plan something, here's nine great songs from Cut, Powersolo, Fake Billy & The False Prophets, You Want Fox, Silent Noise, The Soap Girls, The Routes, Daggerplay and Bolshy.Comedy Suburbs, Tony has your Facebook comment, Mini, You Want Fox, Tony's ill, Lemsip and vodka, The Canalhouse, music at the Pelham, hello The Dukes Arms, show 600, From the Vaults, tonic, Tony's International Gig Guide, Paulyb picks a gig in the world yeah, Tony talks about his birthday, Bath, unofficial openings, Paul's off to Antwerp, Women and Laptops, stupid but happy and a reminder of the stations which carry us.Song 1: Cut – You Killed Me FirstSong 2: Powersolo - FranticSong 3: Fake Billy & The False Prophets – Celine DionSong 4: You Want Fox – Liar LiarSong 5: Silent Noise – I’ve Been Hurt (So Many Times Before)Song 6: The Soap Girls – Rather Be DeadSong 7: The Routes – No PermanenceSong 8: Daggerplay – My Friends Are Mental And I Am Mental TooSong 9: Bolshy – Ignorance is Strength

From the same region in Costa Rica that gave us the wonders of Finca de Licho and Herbazu (i.e. the Western Valley in Lordes de Naranjo, in case you're wondering), we're super excited to have Finca La Casa Vista al Valle back once more! Located between 1,500 and 1,600 metres above sea level and owned in partnership by Oldemar Arrieta Lobo and Marlene Brenes Morera, the name Vista al Valle translates as 'view of the valley'. I'm sure you'll understand why if you take a look at some of the pictures on the left of this page. Oldemar and Marlene are also processing this coffee through a virtually brand new micro mill, which is in only its forth year of production. They both learnt their skill while working for other people, but now they have a mill of their own. They own three farms; this one surrounds the home where they live, and the other farms are called Zapote and Fidel. Fidel won the Costa Rican Cup of Excellence two years ago! The varietals on this farm are Villa Sarchi and Caturra. They use the sun dried processing method in their poly tunnel, and the Yellow Honey process. In the cup there's sweet and juicy lemon but think cloudy lemonade / Lemsip rather than fresh lemon juice. The sweetness for me is white sugar and there's a hint of black tea, all finishing off with a red apple sweetness. Country: Costa Rica Region: Western Valley Micro-Region: Naranjo, Lourdes City: Naranjo de Alajuela Farm: Finca La Casa Micromill: Vista al Valle Farmer: Oldemar Arrieta Lobo and Marlene Brenes Morera Farm Size: 20 Hectares Coffee growing area: 15 Hectares Altitude: 1,500 - 1,600 m.a.s.l. Varietals: Villa Sarchí Drying Method: Poly Tunnel Sun Dried Processing System: Yellow Honey

From the same region in Costa Rica that gave us the wonders of Finca de Licho and Herbazu (i.e. the Western Valley in Lordes de Naranjo, in case you're wondering), we're super excited to have Finca La Casa Vista al Valle back once more! Located between 1,500 and 1,600 metres above sea level and owned in partnership by Oldemar Arrieta Lobo and Marlene Brenes Morera, the name Vista al Valle translates as 'view of the valley'. I'm sure you'll understand why if you take a look at some of the pictures on the left of this page. Oldemar and Marlene are also processing this coffee through a virtually brand new micro mill, which is in only its forth year of production. They both learnt their skill while working for other people, but now they have a mill of their own. They own three farms; this one surrounds the home where they live, and the other farms are called Zapote and Fidel. Fidel won the Costa Rican Cup of Excellence two years ago! The varietals on this farm are Villa Sarchi and Caturra. They use the sun dried processing method in their poly tunnel, and the Yellow Honey process. In the cup there's sweet and juicy lemon but think cloudy lemonade / Lemsip rather than fresh lemon juice. The sweetness for me is white sugar and there's a hint of black tea, all finishing off with a red apple sweetness. Country: Costa Rica Region: Western Valley Micro-Region: Naranjo, Lourdes City: Naranjo de Alajuela Farm: Finca La Casa Micromill: Vista al Valle Farmer: Oldemar Arrieta Lobo and Marlene Brenes Morera Farm Size: 20 Hectares Coffee growing area: 15 Hectares Altitude: 1,500 - 1,600 m.a.s.l. Varietals: Villa Sarchí Drying Method: Poly Tunnel Sun Dried Processing System: Yellow Honey

We're back:Episode Three Hundred And Twenty SixSimon has been ill, and Iszi gave him too much Lemsip.

By Jove, it's only the hotly anticipated return of Gone By Lunchtime, the Spinoff's epoch-defining politics pod with Annabelle Lee, Ben Thomas and Toby ManhireThe Gone By Lunchtime podcast team has been roused from its slumber to fearlessly tackle the big political topics of the day/week/month/etc. Equipped with nothing but Lemsip, ginger beer, some decidedly odd tasting strawberry champagne flavoured Tim Tams and their cold-addled wit, Spinoff politics editor Toby Manhire, The Hui producer Annabelle Lee and Exceltium man Ben Thomas talk Brexit, Winston Peters, Paula Bennett under pressure over housing, Te Puea Marae, Simon Bridges, Hone Harawira's return, the Shewan review of trust laws, and the Lindauer paintings on shower curtains. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first of our April special guest episodes, and joining us at Wikishuffle HQ is Scroobius Pip super-fan, cross stitcher extraordinaire, canaleer and all-round good egg Keith Clark. It takes us a while to get onto any actual Wikipedia articles because Keith is too busy embarrassing Jack and showering Chris with gifts. But we've got a real humdinger for you. Eventually. (Phil has a cold, so apologies for the Lemsip smell and tissues everywhere). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cards on the table, this isn't a review of the WWE's latest supershow in our usual match-by-match style. Instead, Adam and Stewart discuss their experiences in Dallas and the week's festivities while we stick "NXT Takeover: Dallas" on in the background as Paul hadn't seen it. It's Episode 60 of 'The New Generation Project Podcast' and for the very first time we spend an entire show discussing modern wrestling as we talk "Wrestlemania 32"! Featuring; pretty much everything you wanted us to cover, Paul takes over as host, we talk through ice hockey, Wrestlecon, Evolve, the WWE shop, Axcess, Takeover and the 2016 Hall of Fame, Horse-Riding with Mark Henry, Roman Reigns possibly gets booed, Adam does 'that' with his hand, Hunstanton Pier, many incorrect pronunciations of various names, everyone loves Sami Zayn and Shinsuke Nakamura, snore-gate, plenty of raw booze, Denny's Bacon Maple Sundae, Bob Backlund takes our e-mail addresses, a stupid mushroom tattoo and Adam finds a new favourite diva. Plus the answers to the questions; which is better - Mars or Snickers? Was the travel package good value for money? How did Adam like Hooters? Exactly how awesome is American food? Who had the best acceptance speech? Did anyone at all show up to The Ginger Man? How was 'The Dallas of South-West England'? Did we actually get into "Wrestlemania"? What was the best match of the weekend? What is Paul's new catchphrase? Did we meet Richard Queree? Do they sell imitation Lemsip in Dallas? How do you compare Zack Sabre Jr to Ronnie O'Sullivan? And was D'Lo Brown there?

So, I'm too hopped up on Lemsip to really put any heart in to this description and I can't remember when I last went to the loo, let alone what we talked about on this podcast. That being said, we can all be sure that Andy will make some sort of sound that resembles a man who is exhausted by the world... you know, like an "eurgh"... it'll be in there. As for Kel, he'll probably manage to squeeze a Dark Souls conversation out of two blokes who still don't care. He really doesn't mind either, he'll just keep talking about Dark Souls. Alex eats cookies. It takes him way too long to eat two cookies. but catching 'em all is hungry work so we'll let him off. Oh and yes I did speak in third person just then. YOLO. GGG www.thegoodguygamers.com

Just one day after broadcast on Bucks101 radio, Owen Hughes and Paul Rutland are back with the latest bitesize podcast edition of their show. This week, Paul is suffering from some serious, heavy studying over the weekend. After being all night drinking Lemsip and popping paracetamol like Smarties, he was just about able to crawl into the studio to play through some tracks and round-up the week in sport. Meanwhile, Owen reviews another documentary in the Movie Review section, albeit one that's slightly lighter in tone than last week's My Nazi Legacy. Following its screening through BBC's Storyville series, Owen discusses The Great Gangster Film Fraud - still available to watch the iPlayer - leading to a conversation about the merits of Storyville in general. The die is cast again at the end of the show, rolling on the number one, prompting a chat about the very broad topic of 'television'. Top Gear's new host and Jeremy Clarkson's obnoxiousness, as well as the ensuing battle between streaming and... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Disafterdark Disney Podcast , Series 2 Episode 4 From Screen to Theme, to Fantasyland, then to the Pub.   Welcome back to the Mouses Head and thank you for the download.   We are joined this week by Brent Dodge, author and awesome fancy dress costumier.   This week, Paul B is on Pepsi, and Paul D is drinking 'Hobgoblin' Nick is on Lemsip and Brent is on Dasani water   We talk to Brent about his first book, and his latest book as well as his exploits at Mickeys not so scary halloween party   http://www.amazon.com/Closer-Look-Kingdoms-Fantasyland-ebook/dp/B00F9UQS9S/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1383390950&sr=1-1&keywords=brent+dodge     We chat about some news..   With heavy heart, we report that the Cool wall has been involved in a little altercation.   Nick has a very soft rant about the shops in Disneyland Paris   and the pub singer gives us a rendition of “Its a Small World”   We are joined in The Mouses Head by    Don’t forget to have a look at our sponsors app. Magical Trips by Emily Rawling We would really appreciate it if you would head over to iTunes and subscribe to the show and leave us a review. Even if you don't use iTunes, it will really help us build up the awareness of the podcast or if you listen on Stitcher Radio, please leave us a review there too. Listen to us via Stitcher for your 

Stardate 5th February 2012... [It’s Mike Vs Kris in the Final of High Stakes James Bond Top Trumps] In which Mike Royce deletes Lemsip, awards a movie 11 out of 10, provides a guide to buying clothes from Asda, is poisoned by 91% ‘Spiritus’, and introduces the January Drones ‘Stiffometer’. Kris Heys hates films slipping through his neck, examines ‘Spidey-Realism’, doesn’t know when to lick his hand, and displays an unhealthy knowledge of the ‘My Little Pony’ mythos. Chronicle is reviewed. The Watchmen prequels are revealed and debated. The Star Wars TV Show dives into Time Travel, and The Legend Of The Stretch King lives on... All recordings are issued under official license from Manchester Radio Online.

First time marathon runner (to be) and parkrun 100 Club member Diane Aykroyd popped into the studio, the Kenyan men rounded of their full house of World Marathon Major victories AND World Marathon Major course records, Tom got smaller, Martin hit the beach, and Tony got stuck in to a nice hot Lemsip!

Hello.Episode Forty EightThis week, Ever Decreasing Circles, Michelle Obama, home birthing, Swine Flu, Malaria, iszi's germs and Ed Balls.

Listener requests aplenty as AAUK answers the questions of the universe.

Who stole the Leg Of Time? Why does everybody Fail? The answer to these questions lies within this informative yet sassy show as we don't discuss Sonic and the Black Knight. You heard me.

The Matt & Dan Podcast triumphantly returns with a new bitesize format. This chunk contains discussions on Cuprinol, Oxygen and a trip down memory lane. What a feeling!

This is a version of Dr. Gilbert's Reel.  I could do with the services of the same Mr. Quack as my hearing, breathing and tuning are all away with it.  I Think it's just what's known as a cold but I intend moaning about it all the same.  Sorry if this sounds worse than normal.  It's hard to sneeze and maintain in-tune-producing breaths down a flute at the same time.  Maybe I should try dissolving the Lemsip rather than snorting it.