Modern Media Review Podcast

ASMR: That Tingling Feeling by Rowan Tallant

MMR #19: ASMR: that tingling feeling

12 May 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Wake up, it’s the 21st century! When people rubbing their hands clock up more YouTube views than Ed Sheeran (figures not verified). Yes, it’s ASMR. Not sure if you can dig nine minutes of pickle chewing or half an hour of keyboard typing? Then you’re in the right place, with Robin and Sean. Contains triggers.

John Lee Hooker and Nas by Rowan Tallant

MMR #18: John Lee Hooker and Word Is Bond

5 May 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Is the TV music doc a shagged formula? Can we get Keith Richards in and is he actually black? What way up do you play and are you in a non-ego zone? Can you find out watching John Lee Hooker: Boogie Man and Word Is Bond? Robin and Sean give it a try. Contains bum notes.

Change UK and the Brexit Party by Rowan Tallant

MMR #17: Change UK and the Brexit Party – who’s the best?

26 Apr 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: It’s exciting. New parties are springing up like plague buboes on the body politic. But have Change UK-The Independent Group (catchy) or the Brexit Party got anything fresh? Robin and Sean unbox the websites. Contains spoiled ballots.

The Brexit Party: let’s get this party finished

20 Apr 2019 Robin Gibson

Nigel Farage’s new party has carefully pre-selected its candidates. Presumably they thought they could sieve out the wonky veg and present a sane line-up. But given they’ll be beneath the Farage banner that’s a bit optimistic.

Dare You Enter the Cashless Economy? by Rowan Tallant

MMR #16: Buying a pint in the cashless society

13 Apr 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Do you wave a card in the general direction of the bar, or hand over a tenner? Folding fans are being left behind – and the elders can’t get their Parker pens to work with their banking apps. Robin and Sean count the cost. Contains loose change.

Britain’s Favourite Takeaway: will the celebs ever escape?

11 Apr 2019 Robin Gibson

It’s a C-list humanitarian crisis in here. The captive slebs have had their guts crammed with sweets, chocolate and crisps and now they’ve had to scarf down chips, pies, burgers, kebabs and parmo in one sitting.

On tour: The Doors. The Dan. The Dead. Dead or alive? Who knows?

3 Apr 2019 Misty Whyte

British music mags, once a seething pit of pathologically antisocial vibes, are now a library of wistful epistles to the last century. Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Neil Young and the bloke who mowed the lawn at the place Led Zeppelin recorded Houses Of The Holy (really though). You name it.

Britain's Favourite Crisps: Ben Ofoedu, Vanessa Feltz, Basil Brush by Rowan Tallant

MMR #15: Britain’s Favourite Crisps – Wotsit all about?

29 Mar 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: The celebs are back on Channel 5 with Britain’s Favourite Crisps, in the series that’s turned into a cult. Dom Joly, Vanessa Feltz, Basil Brush and all that lot, holed up in the studio, chewing fatty snacks. Robin Gibson and Sean Gollogly crunch the numbers. Contains salt and vinegar.

Mail Online: Descent Into Hell by Rowan Tallant

MMR #14: Mail Online: Scrolling to the bottom of the barrel

24 Mar 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: You browse the Sidebar of Shame every day? You know Vogue Williams, Lauren Goodger, Carol Vorderman? You like fights in Wolverhampton, nipple removal (in Wolverhampton) and Brexit? Who doesn’t? Well, no one, and some people, on MailOnline. Robin and Sean scroll right down. Contains fake tan.

Letter from America, part six: So you’re getting divorced …

17 Mar 2019 Ben Diamond

So you’re getting divorced. That European chick, huh? She was never right for you. She didn’t speak your language and she didn’t share your values. She didn’t like your bitter beer, your shepherd’s pie, or your Led Zeppelin.

Cheltenham Festival - Bet Now! by Rowan Tallant

MMR #13: ITV Racing at the Cheltenham Festival: Bet now!

13 Mar 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Robin and Sean get their betting boots on for the Cheltenham Festival on ITV Racing with Ed Chamberlin, Matt Chapman and all the rest of them. And the bookies’ ads. When the fun stops, should you stop? Contains heavy going.

Masterchef: John Torode and Gregg Wallace by Rowan Tallant

MMR #12: MasterChef: The kitchen never closes

8 Mar 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Robin and Sean digest MasterChef – the bottomless stew of sustenance where the beating, boiling, grinning and gurning go on for ever and ever.

Letter from America, part five: Big Pharma chases Big Poop

5 Mar 2019 Ben Diamond

Medical research has gone to shit! Literally! The New York Times reports that the US pharmaceutical industry is prepared to spend billions researching human feces.

MMR #11: The government’s EU exit Brexit website: let’s go!

2 Mar 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Robin and Sean discover the UK government’s Brexit advice website. But is it definite, or maybe? Will you need to come back next week? And how do you handle an EU car crash – literal, or figurative? Who knew there was so much in it? Contains uncertainty.

BRIT Awards 2019: Jack Whitehall by Rowan Tallant

MMR #10: The BRIT Awards 2019, a Whitehall farce

22 Feb 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: It’s the BRITs. But was there any upset, chaos or controversy? Or was it the proof of the rise of the poshos with a side dish of seventies-style smut served up by Jack Whitehall? Robin and Sean watch and listen in search of the zeitgeist, or a good joke. Contains bad jokes.

The Independent Group: Do you know where you’re going to?

19 Feb 2019 Robin Gibson

Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and five (now six) other ex-Labour nobodies gambling on becoming somebodies have launched an independent group. To run away from the party, Brexit and pretty much everything else, apart from the Tories, as three of them have joined too. Making it look a lot more Tory.

MasterChef, episode one: wet-bottomed soufflés make the cooking world go round

11 Feb 2019 Robin Gibson

You cannot beat the first round of the first episode of 239 of a new series of MasterChef. Clumped noodles (Gary). Soggy plums (Maria).

Letter from America, part four: 21 Savage and the New British Accent

10 Feb 2019 Ben Diamond

This week a curious, novel incident occurred. Atlanta-based, Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was arrested by US immigration and faces deportation. He raps about the rough streets in Atlanta, Georgia, but he’s really a UK national who overstayed his visa!

MMR #9: Icons, Turing, Bowie and Bandersnatch

8 Feb 2019 Robin Gibson

Podcast: Alan Turing is the greatest. Fair enough, you might say. But what about Mandela? Ali? Bob Nudd? Or some women? Robin and Sean lament the all-male Icons final, and search for alternatives. Like in Bandersnatch. Contains greatness.

Letter from America, part three: Bird Box cloaks the key to the Trump tweets

4 Feb 2019 Ben Diamond

Thank you Netflix for putting a marketable name to Trump’s tweeting syndrome. But why disguise it? Why not write a story where people literally die when they read Trump’s tweets?

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MMR #45: We’re coming out. Of lockdown.

MMR# 44: Lockdown style – top hats, slippers and Buckfast BBQ sauce

MMR #43: American Zoombomb!