My favourite grand designs memory is Shaun Lock doing an impression of Kevin McLeod - " the winters coming in... they haven't got the fucking roof on yet" 😂
This video will live in infamy in Japanese literary circles forever. I've heard similar ridiculous claims from random podcasters and one ridiculous article in Smithsonian Magazine before (I imagine that's where the research was done for this), but this takes it to a new level😅
Shame you didn't explore royalty free music a bit deeper, as then you could have looked at Kevin MacLeod, who composed a lot of royalty free music you hear all over UA-cam and Kevin McCloud, host of Grand Designs, in the same episode.
Sorry, but the answer regarding production companies cleaning up after themselves is WRONG. Do a cursory search of UA-cam. The world is littered with abandoned sets and junk from old movie and television shoots. It's fairly obvious that if something is too big or too much trouble to remove, the company will just leave it. I suppose they realize that the local government -- especially if it is a poor one -- won't have the resources to come after them. It's arrogant and disgraceful behavior. Let's not pretend it doesn't happen.
Hate to fact-check the excellent Marina but 'The Tale of Genji' isn't actually about a cat, just boring old court politics (sorry to any Cat Lit fans). However, the first potential novel in English is about a cat. It's called "Beware the Cat" by William Baldwin so maybe this is also a proud British literary tradition too!
Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
I come to TRiE for my twice-weekly dose of slight misinformation. Last time it was Richard claiming that the Lion King (musical) is the highest-grossing entertainment product ever (it's not, it's GTA V).
Unfortunately there is so much of his recorded voice out there, it's only a matter of time till it's been cloned by AI. Hopefully we, I'm a voice guy, get some more legal protection, and recourse, from AI soon.
from Google: A massive sandstorm destroyed the Jawas' sandcrawler, which then had to be rebuilt in just one day. That same sandcrawler almost started a very real war when Muammar Gaddafi, leader of neighboring Libya, accused the Tunisians of preparing to stage an invasion, with the sandcrawler mistaken as a real military vehicle.
Marina, somehow you’ve mixed up Natsume Sōseki’s “I Am A Cat” from 120 years ago with Shining Prince Genji, a groomer yes, but not a cat. Adding… OK, so you know about “I Am A Cat”. And you are in SUCH a uniquely privileged position to really GET the Tale Of Genji, imagine a Rock Star who is a minor aristo and the kinds of shenanigans he would have got into during the 60s (bedding minors can’t be ignored) and the cattiness of his world. Everything changes, everything stays the same…
My voluptuous disease has been on youtube for 3 years. Was AI doing it's music thing then at that time? My god has Richard got one wrong. It had to happen eventually I suppose.
AI was being used to make music three years ago, but yeah, My Voluptuous Disease is by a father-son outfit called Mercurius. One of them runs a gym in Newcastle.
Kind of, yes. There was a thing launched in 2009 called Songsmith, by Microsoft, and it was mostly infamous for having a world-class awful advert. It would auto-generate terrible glorious inappropriate music to fit around any vocals you uploaded to it. People had a lot of quiet fun with making jazzy elevator backing to Metallica tracks for a bit. (Having just checked out the song... it actually does have the breezy generic vibes of Songsmith and the real vocals of people, so I can see it being hybrid AI. But I don't think it is)
@@MrOtistetrax Huh. It's been interesting to read the comments this week. I recognized the bit about film/tv crews cleaning-up after themselves as so wrong -- in fact production companies are infamous for leaving messes wherever they go. Now this bit about the music, and another guy commented about how out of left field they were with the whole Japanese Cat Lit thing. I guess saying things in a confident voice doesn't make them true. Will have to take these guys with a huge pinch of salt in future.
Speaking of car cleanup there was an episode of Taggart where they're investigating at a quarry, and you can still see the Hugo's car the mates pushed down the same quarry in Shallow Grave ...
Question I had regarding the Grand Tour finale was on the old BBC Top Gear footage edited in at the end… interesting to know who had those conversations and how much it cost.
Couldn't help myself. For shame. However I fully expected My Voluptuous Disease to be a piece of instrumental musak, but it actually has lyrics, including a chorus containing the title. The world is a peculiar place.
Yep, found it on Apple Music too. Have to say it doesn't sound like AI generated music. Just another unremarkable song by an obscure artist that somehow has surfaced to our consciousness. Bye someone called James Paul . Indeed, one wonders if there are two songs called My Voluptuous Disease. one real, and maybe trawled by an AI which basically"stole" the title?
@@kyqg2606 No spit mr. No one said he didn't have reason. You don't get to pick and choose the things people understand about you by acting as a perpetual adolescent, though. No one forced him to earn millions acting churlish. He could have easily stopped and been a VO guy or normal presenter and been fine. Instead he _chose_ to have the public see him as 14 to earn more money. No one forced this on him.
If "the Big Green Bus" is the episode I'm thinking of, it suffered massive fire damage and has been replaced on the latest series of George Clark with a set of (now quite pretty!) shipping containers as an AirBnB option instead.
There used to be circles similar to cue dots on cinema films - the film came as several 20 minute reels and was set up on two projectors so as reel 1 was about to end there was a mark to tell the projectionist to start the second projector with reel 2 and so on. Latterly you spliced all the reels into one when the film arrived at your cinema onto what was called a “cake stand” essentially a huge stand with flat turntables that took a whole film as a continuous loop through one projector. As the film had to be spliced together at the start of the run and then cut up again to return to the distributors you lost a few frames every time so each print had a limited life.
I think you’re conflating two different things perhaps with the aim of touching on a current news story. I doubt that they are an AI artist that’s uploaded simply to game the system fraudulently. It’s far more likely it’s just someone that creates royalty free stock music and has decided to post it to Spotify (why not, extra income), whether they use AI elements or not.
I learned from a TV show donkey's years ago that the cue dots were put on cinema reels so that projectionists knew to switch projectors at a certain time because the reels were about 10 minutes or some ludicrous number, so I imagine that was their original purpose and it just was retained for the move to television.
Thats correct! you get dots about 5 secs before the reel needs to change and then 1 sec. The projector has a 2 button mechanism (from memory ...). One to start the projector and the second to stop the other one projecting.
Even here in Australia, where we have our own Grand Designs, we watched Kevin on UK Grand Designs. They still play the classic episodes here regularly and my wife and I know them well. It’s our comfort show.
David O'Doherty's song about Grand Designs is absolutely brilliant. Well worth looking up if you haven't seen it. Also I'll add the cat cafe in Liverpool to the list with the others mentioned.
they probably make their life a LOT easier by getting oil and fuel and stuff out of it before the shot. The little drive off can be done without oil and almost no fuel. They probably have people to think about this stuff, to make the cleaning up less difficult, without ruining the shot. That Hignfy was awkward because the joke was kind of done after 10 minutes but Richard kept it going on and on and on. I think Clarkson was more bored by it then annoyed by the end. And taking it with a massive Amazon contract in the pocket probably helped. As he made clear in the show.
In the cheesy 2012 remake of Red Dawn, they filmed it ALL as the Chinese being the invaders, and then commercial reasons... in post they had to make it North Korea. And it's really obvious it was a patch job trying to hide all the references and imagery!
Keith Chegwin, who suffered with alcoholism during his life, wanted to call his autobiography "Cheggers can't be Boozers" which would have been the greatest title of any biography ever, had the publishers allowed it.
When they were talking about spy shows, one instance where people have to get things cleared is if the creators/writers have themselves worked for one of those agencies. It's the case of Joe Weisberg, the creator of The Americans, who used to work for the CIA. He said that the CIA had to review his scripts, not so much for geopolitical reasons, but so he wouldn't reveal confidential technology or spying methods.
If I was building a house and was selected to appear on Grand Designs I'd immediately re-examine my plans. The TV company, I'm sure, selects projects for their potentia lfor disaster , thats where the drama is.
Love this show, but Genji is not a cat, so you got that all wrong. Where did you get that from? But Haruki Murakami has cats in his novels and a lot of the quirky Japanese literature right now seems very Murakami-lite. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Just want to say , I love this podcast (sometimes I listen to it while running , and sometimes like today I watch it) and while I might not always agree with the analysis (and that does not matter at all really) , I do think you both do an outstanding job on this and thank you for what is now hours of entertainment.
I think Marina's point is still kind of correct. Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
@@thefxautopilot You obviously give a "flying fuck" enough to leave an empty comment. The original poster is perfectly within bounds to clarify that the Tale of Genji is "not about a cat". This book has historical and cultural importance, and since it receives so little coverage in Western media, it is perfectly valid that people don't want the work to be misinterpreted. If the work has much broader coverage and people are already familiar with its basic plot and premise, then I don't think people would be as concerned when seeing more "creative interpretations". Bottom line is what you care about, is not necessarily what others care about. You absolutely can continue to "not give a fuck", but please others give some if they want to.
I love Grand Designs, but it is a bit tedious when you see ambitious architects who transparently want to show themselves on there. I wish it wasn't so obvious sometimes.
Richard - you're wrong on some of the royatly free info - if its "The Gym" ... this music from Epidemic (at last count) ... a Scandinavian company that buy up loads of music from composers for a low one off fee ... and then they charge companies like The Gym and Costa etc to use this music instead of PRS music (your well known and not so well know commercial artists and reclusive production music composers ) so the gym / cafe / shop dont have to pay the PRS a yearly licence fee. Epidemic has also made in roads into broadcast too ... meaning composers lose out on their bread and butter re. performance fees. (Epidemic also feed into Spotify ... and guess what ... Spotify fill their playlists with it too)
Glad someone asked that question about the Grand Tour. I was thinking the same when watching that. It's not actually that obvious that they clean up their messes, especially when they're in a lesser developed country acting like they have the run of the place anyway.
Erm.... back in 1996 when I worked for BT Broadcast Services we automated the ITV network for the ITV companies. The adverts were inserted by computers and the in-band signalling (screen dot) was done by a PC. Literally NOBODY was involved and hasn't been for 25 years. ***The adverts are all served by computers.***
I remember James Bond shooting up the Nambutu embassy in Casino Royale because they didn't want to pick a particular African country. It almost sounds worse to just make up an 'African-sounding' country than use a real one tbh.
I would have thought 'Canterbury Tales' would be up there - 14th Century, given how ubiquitous it was at a time before the printing press was invented.
What I don't quite understand is how the guy made 10's of millions on Spotify, but on the other side of the coin the music industry is crying out about how unfair Spotify is and they don't make enough money? How does that work?
from what Richard was saying, he had bots "listening" to the music as well thus generating some money for each "listen". scale that up to 1000s of bots and you'll be raking in the cash
@@definedphotography yeah but proper artists get thousands of listens too and complain they don't get enough money. Surely the bloke would have made the number of bot listens something believable otherwise it would have been flagged up immediately. Maybe the artists have to share their income with the record labels and all sorts of other things, whereas he didn't have to pay the AI or his bots so he kept it all. Was he raking in more money than the biggest artists or is there something else about real musicians not making enough money?
@@definedphotographyhe was doing what the industry does itself to boast sales. But he got caught and he isn't one of the big labels. Also movie distributors do the same thing from time to time with cinema tickets on smaller films.
Read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys...all the stories, millenia ago, were originally Tiger's (all cats were grouped as Tigers) they belonged to them and they originated them.
Re earliest novel in English, Trollope, in a piece entitled 'On English Prose Fiction' cites' The Eupheus' by Lylie and 'The Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney, both written about 1580, as being 'the earliest English novels we know'.
Ironically if they didn't clear it up, it would probably be better for the environment..... Like how you see wildlife in the ocean loves wrecks and they love trash floating around, they thrive around it.... Maybe not nets though lol. Even plastic is great, birds love using it and small lifeforms eat it and obviously they feed the food chain. So I bet lots of wildlife would rip parts off the car to use and use it as shelter or somewhere to perch, then eventually it would corrode down and put nutrients into the ground. Like how Chernobyl was great for the area, the wildlife is doing better than when humans were living there and there are no mutants like scaremongers told everyone.
Question: What prop has appeared in the most movies/TV shows? For example I know that the clock tower from Back to the future has appeared in multiple movies. The wilhelm scream is an audio clip that been in multiple movies. In the TV show Psych there's a pineapple hidden in every episode, but that's just one show. Is there a physical prop that has been handed around and reused?
I've read Marina's offerings over many years, loved all of them and have now fallen in love with the woman herself. Such humanity and brilliance. Even the tics of her behaviour are delightful. Richard is good, too. They keep each other on the straight and narrow, just. Love the podcast.
My guess as a pub operator is that the gym doesn’t want to pay for the PPL PRS license which costs my pub about a thousand pounds a year to use copyright music. Using royalty free music is a lot cheaper!
He wasn't furious. It's a running joke in the final episode - don't bother complaining because they're never going to make another so who cares? I like this podcast but please - make that the first and last click bait title.
There should be a supercut of intros, starting with the first instance of Marina forgetting a detail through to now, where everything is fully polished, and dare I say, not as charming...
The major chain gym I go to sent out an email saying there were only going to play non royalty based music to save money. Everything is about cutting costs nowadays.
Grand Designs: “Unfortunately it started to rain the hardest it has in 100 years. Now the site is a bog and the project is running 6 months behind schedule!” Why are British builders continually surprised that rain happens in the UK?
Your own comment says that it rained more than it had for 100 years. Do you expect builders to be prepared for more rain that has been seen in a century. Something that has never happened in their lifetime?
There was a video on a notorious YT channel were they made an expedition to the cliff where the Duel movie finale was shot, in search for parts of the Duel truck and/or car, and they did find debris (medium to large sized) dating back to the '80s (not Duel, rather the Dukes of Hazzard likely, that cliff was used more than once) so about that "we're in the TV/movie business, of course we always clean everything up"... come on. Besides, that Beetle literally disintegrated, so good luck picking up every single bit of shrapnel, even if it was scattered in a well accessible area (look like this wasn't). Oh well.
Two points, those shows were filmed in the US, and it was 40+ years ago. They did things very differently over there and back then. In fact, because of the mess caused in that era, we now have rules about cleaning up after stunts.
I sort of wonder doesn't Britain have insects? SOOO many of the Grand Designs seem to be taking the back off the house and filling it with expandable glass doors to open it up. The mosquitos and other summer pest would make that impossible to live with.
Is it a more recent thing, this compulsion to clear up afterwards? There are lots of instances of smashed cars/ trains/ planes etc from movies that can still be found where they crashed. In the past, I guess they were less bothered...?
24 (a pre-streaming DVD boxset binge hit) caused a lot of controversy at the time, for the way it portrayed middle eastern terrorists at a time of… errrm… middle eastern terrorism Also, for the way it portrayed torture scenes
That show was pure War on Terror propaganda. It might as well have been directly produced by the CIA for the message it was sending out. Jack Bauer tortures practically everyone he meets on that show. Including his own father and brother.
My favourite grand designs memory is Shaun Lock doing an impression of Kevin McLeod - " the winters coming in... they haven't got the fucking roof on yet" 😂
This video will live in infamy in Japanese literary circles forever. I've heard similar ridiculous claims from random podcasters and one ridiculous article in Smithsonian Magazine before (I imagine that's where the research was done for this), but this takes it to a new level😅
Shame you didn't explore royalty free music a bit deeper, as then you could have looked at Kevin MacLeod, who composed a lot of royalty free music you hear all over UA-cam and Kevin McCloud, host of Grand Designs, in the same episode.
By the way, despite what the description says, the surname of the guy from Grand Designs is McCloud, not McLeod.
Another time Macleod !
This feels like it should be an episode of No Such Thing As A Fish
Person in Japan here, the conditions of animal cafes here are mostly deplorable. Please don’t give your money to them.
Personal favourite autobiography name is vic Reeves’ Me:Moir.
The UA-camr Jay Foreman puts the black and white box in his videos before he does an ad read
Interesting!🙂 I'll go and look for it now.
Map men map men map map map men meeeeen!
Sorry, but the answer regarding production companies cleaning up after themselves is WRONG. Do a cursory search of UA-cam. The world is littered with abandoned sets and junk from old movie and television shoots. It's fairly obvious that if something is too big or too much trouble to remove, the company will just leave it. I suppose they realize that the local government -- especially if it is a poor one -- won't have the resources to come after them. It's arrogant and disgraceful behavior. Let's not pretend it doesn't happen.
Hate to fact-check the excellent Marina but 'The Tale of Genji' isn't actually about a cat, just boring old court politics (sorry to any Cat Lit fans). However, the first potential novel in English is about a cat. It's called "Beware the Cat" by William Baldwin so maybe this is also a proud British literary tradition too!
Maybe she was thinking of “I am a cat” by Soseki Natsume
Maybe she's thinking of The Tail of Genji
Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
I come to TRiE for my twice-weekly dose of slight misinformation. Last time it was Richard claiming that the Lion King (musical) is the highest-grossing entertainment product ever (it's not, it's GTA V).
@@Melaisishe also said he didn’t believe that it was the highest, but that was what was reported at the time they looked into it
Kevin MacLeod is not only a wonderful presenter but he has a beautiful voice. If he ever gives up the architecture game a career in voiceovers awaits.
You're clearly a big fan of Kevin McCloud, LOL
Each to their own... his voice irritates me
@@kubricksmith The Kevin union 😂
Unfortunately there is so much of his recorded voice out there, it's only a matter of time till it's been cloned by AI.
Hopefully we, I'm a voice guy, get some more legal protection, and recourse, from AI soon.
Famously 'Star Wars left the dinosaur skeleton that C3PO walks past in the Tunisian desert. It was still there decades later...
from Google: A massive sandstorm destroyed the Jawas' sandcrawler, which then had to be rebuilt in just one day. That same sandcrawler almost started a very real war when Muammar Gaddafi, leader of neighboring Libya, accused the Tunisians of preparing to stage an invasion, with the sandcrawler mistaken as a real military vehicle.
I think most countries have made some laws about these things since the 1970's tho..... :)
Marina, somehow you’ve mixed up Natsume Sōseki’s “I Am A Cat” from 120 years ago with Shining Prince Genji, a groomer yes, but not a cat.
Adding… OK, so you know about “I Am A Cat”. And you are in SUCH a uniquely privileged position to really GET the Tale Of Genji, imagine a Rock Star who is a minor aristo and the kinds of shenanigans he would have got into during the 60s (bedding minors can’t be ignored) and the cattiness of his world. Everything changes, everything stays the same…
My voluptuous disease has been on youtube for 3 years. Was AI doing it's music thing then at that time? My god has Richard got one wrong. It had to happen eventually I suppose.
These two are factually incorrect *constantly*.
AI was being used to make music three years ago, but yeah, My Voluptuous Disease is by a father-son outfit called Mercurius. One of them runs a gym in Newcastle.
Kind of, yes. There was a thing launched in 2009 called Songsmith, by Microsoft, and it was mostly infamous for having a world-class awful advert. It would auto-generate terrible glorious inappropriate music to fit around any vocals you uploaded to it. People had a lot of quiet fun with making jazzy elevator backing to Metallica tracks for a bit.
(Having just checked out the song... it actually does have the breezy generic vibes of Songsmith and the real vocals of people, so I can see it being hybrid AI. But I don't think it is)
@@MrOtistetrax Huh. It's been interesting to read the comments this week. I recognized the bit about film/tv crews cleaning-up after themselves as so wrong -- in fact production companies are infamous for leaving messes wherever they go. Now this bit about the music, and another guy commented about how out of left field they were with the whole Japanese Cat Lit thing. I guess saying things in a confident voice doesn't make them true. Will have to take these guys with a huge pinch of salt in future.
Speaking of car cleanup there was an episode of Taggart where they're investigating at a quarry, and you can still see the Hugo's car the mates pushed down the same quarry in Shallow Grave ...
Question I had regarding the Grand Tour finale was on the old BBC Top Gear footage edited in at the end… interesting to know who had those conversations and how much it cost.
Couldn't help myself. For shame. However I fully expected My Voluptuous Disease to be a piece of instrumental musak, but it actually has lyrics, including a chorus containing the title. The world is a peculiar place.
Yep, found it on Apple Music too. Have to say it doesn't sound like AI generated music. Just another unremarkable song by an obscure artist that somehow has surfaced to our consciousness. Bye someone called James Paul .
Indeed, one wonders if there are two songs called My Voluptuous Disease. one real, and maybe trawled by an AI which basically"stole" the title?
I used to think ya'll knew what you were talking about but then you said "Tale of the Genji" is about cat named Jenji. Maybe stick to TV duders?
They say "it's never the countries/agencies involved" who object, but look at how Bolivia reacted to *Ghost Recon Wildlands*...
Wasn’t it the Mabinigion 12-13th century first British novel?
Two uses of 'by and large'
Exactly that
If Marina was Bi this could also be their comedy duo name.
God I have found myself saying By and Large ALL THE TIME since they started making this podcast
Omg... 😂@@asl2025
I was just going to say I'm bi and large
Great minds@@asl2025
Clarkson spends 40 years cultivating an aura of chaos and devil may caredness and then gets angry when we believe him
If you actually watch anything he's done, it's been clear for quite some time he does that for publicity and comedic effect.
@@kyqg2606 No spit mr. No one said he didn't have reason. You don't get to pick and choose the things people understand about you by acting as a perpetual adolescent, though. No one forced him to earn millions acting churlish. He could have easily stopped and been a VO guy or normal presenter and been fine. Instead he _chose_ to have the public see him as 14 to earn more money. No one forced this on him.
I've always assumed that, at least for a small % of people, going on Grand Designs is a way to advertise a property you want to sell
If "the Big Green Bus" is the episode I'm thinking of, it suffered massive fire damage and has been replaced on the latest series of George Clark with a set of (now quite pretty!) shipping containers as an AirBnB option instead.
There used to be circles similar to cue dots on cinema films - the film came as several 20 minute reels and was set up on two projectors so as reel 1 was about to end there was a mark to tell the projectionist to start the second projector with reel 2 and so on. Latterly you spliced all the reels into one when the film arrived at your cinema onto what was called a “cake stand” essentially a huge stand with flat turntables that took a whole film as a continuous loop through one projector. As the film had to be spliced together at the start of the run and then cut up again to return to the distributors you lost a few frames every time so each print had a limited life.
The “Mafia” did NOT like THe Godfather nor its sequels. They tried to stop the original. 23:53
I think you’re conflating two different things perhaps with the aim of touching on a current news story. I doubt that they are an AI artist that’s uploaded simply to game the system fraudulently.
It’s far more likely it’s just someone that creates royalty free stock music and has decided to post it to Spotify (why not, extra income), whether they use AI elements or not.
I learned from a TV show donkey's years ago that the cue dots were put on cinema reels so that projectionists knew to switch projectors at a certain time because the reels were about 10 minutes or some ludicrous number, so I imagine that was their original purpose and it just was retained for the move to television.
Thats correct! you get dots about 5 secs before the reel needs to change and then 1 sec.
The projector has a 2 button mechanism (from memory ...). One to start the projector and the second to stop the other one projecting.
I learned it from an episode of Columbo.
@@DavidF-y4t YES! That's what it was. I couldn't remember the show until I read your comment. :D
Even here in Australia, where we have our own Grand Designs, we watched Kevin on UK Grand Designs. They still play the classic episodes here regularly and my wife and I know them well. It’s our comfort show.
David O'Doherty's song about Grand Designs is absolutely brilliant. Well worth looking up if you haven't seen it.
Also I'll add the cat cafe in Liverpool to the list with the others mentioned.
There's a fabulous cat cafe in Glasgow. Been open for years.
they probably make their life a LOT easier by getting oil and fuel and stuff out of it before the shot. The little drive off can be done without oil and almost no fuel. They probably have people to think about this stuff, to make the cleaning up less difficult, without ruining the shot.
That Hignfy was awkward because the joke was kind of done after 10 minutes but Richard kept it going on and on and on. I think Clarkson was more bored by it then annoyed by the end.
And taking it with a massive Amazon contract in the pocket probably helped. As he made clear in the show.
Thanks for making the effort to dress the part, Richard. Nice to see you managed to scrape up a jacket for the Sky shill, though.
In the cheesy 2012 remake of Red Dawn, they filmed it ALL as the Chinese being the invaders, and then commercial reasons... in post they had to make it North Korea. And it's really obvious it was a patch job trying to hide all the references and imagery!
Some video recorders could look for the cue dots and pause recording during ads
Richard Osman is jealous of Clarkson..
Keith Chegwin, who suffered with alcoholism during his life, wanted to call his autobiography "Cheggers can't be Boozers" which would have been the greatest title of any biography ever, had the publishers allowed it.
All Anime character faces are shaped off cats. Japanese people love the Cute ness of cats. that's why Anime have such big eyes and pointy nose etc.
When they were talking about spy shows, one instance where people have to get things cleared is if the creators/writers have themselves worked for one of those agencies. It's the case of Joe Weisberg, the creator of The Americans, who used to work for the CIA. He said that the CIA had to review his scripts, not so much for geopolitical reasons, but so he wouldn't reveal confidential technology or spying methods.
These titles are getting increasingly click baity.
Aside from it being accurate and not at all click bait.
If I was building a house and was selected to appear on Grand Designs I'd immediately re-examine my plans. The TV company, I'm sure, selects projects for their potentia lfor disaster , thats where the drama is.
Love this show, but Genji is not a cat, so you got that all wrong. Where did you get that from? But Haruki Murakami has cats in his novels and a lot of the quirky Japanese literature right now seems very Murakami-lite. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Why am I not surprised that Clarkson had a hissy fit when a mere mortal asks him a question 🤔
Like when he smacked that producer for not getting him food? Man child
Richard Osman?
A mere mortal?
I don't know what circles you run in, but ..blimey.
Clarkson should be on bended knee around such TV royalty
@@zittyrrrs7082 🤣🤣🤣
So how much is "expenses?" is furniture an expense? that WAS the question after all
Having listened to the podcast I’m somewhat amused by the title of this.
Anyone notice how there's always a question about Islam on every single episode of The Chase? On every episode.
Wheel of Fortune in the 80s instead of having a 'Cue Dot' had a spinning wheel as the cue dot for when an ad break was coming up.
Just want to say , I love this podcast (sometimes I listen to it while running , and sometimes like today I watch it) and while I might not always agree with the analysis (and that does not matter at all really) , I do think you both do an outstanding job on this and thank you for what is now hours of entertainment.
'Developments in Gaza.' Death and destruction, perchance?
Tale of Genji is not about a cat
Maybe she means The Tail of Genji
I think Marina's point is still kind of correct. Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
Is it about Overwat?
who gives a flying fuck though?
@@thefxautopilot You obviously give a "flying fuck" enough to leave an empty comment. The original poster is perfectly within bounds to clarify that the Tale of Genji is "not about a cat". This book has historical and cultural importance, and since it receives so little coverage in Western media, it is perfectly valid that people don't want the work to be misinterpreted. If the work has much broader coverage and people are already familiar with its basic plot and premise, then I don't think people would be as concerned when seeing more "creative interpretations".
Bottom line is what you care about, is not necessarily what others care about. You absolutely can continue to "not give a fuck", but please others give some if they want to.
The VW beetle is obviously CGI. His answer is clever.
I love Grand Designs, but it is a bit tedious when you see ambitious architects who transparently want to show themselves on there. I wish it wasn't so obvious sometimes.
the best autobiogrphy title is still one that was never released - cheggars cant be boozers
Richard - you're wrong on some of the royatly free info - if its "The Gym" ... this music from Epidemic (at last count) ... a Scandinavian company that buy up loads of music from composers for a low one off fee ... and then they charge companies like The Gym and Costa etc to use this music instead of PRS music (your well known and not so well know commercial artists and reclusive production music composers ) so the gym / cafe / shop dont have to pay the PRS a yearly licence fee. Epidemic has also made in roads into broadcast too ... meaning composers lose out on their bread and butter re. performance fees. (Epidemic also feed into Spotify ... and guess what ... Spotify fill their playlists with it too)
Although I'm sure Epidemics road map is AI music create by pressing a button and paying no composers.
(They fake the Artist names btw on Spotify - these people dont exist.)
I keep meaning to say this but, Mariana, I love your nose.
Glad someone asked that question about the Grand Tour. I was thinking the same when watching that. It's not actually that obvious that they clean up their messes, especially when they're in a lesser developed country acting like they have the run of the place anyway.
Common sense would suggest they would. Can you imagine how much regulation they need to deal with being UK based where you need a form for your form.
Erm.... back in 1996 when I worked for BT Broadcast Services we automated the ITV network for the ITV companies. The adverts were inserted by computers and the in-band signalling (screen dot) was done by a PC. Literally NOBODY was involved and hasn't been for 25 years.
***The adverts are all served by computers.***
I've still got the manual for the Customer Controlled Scheduling and Switching!
You should definitely email them and let them know! Stop the misinformation.
Didn't they say it started in the 80s?
So maybe this is why it was removed in the 90s?
Two rights don't necessarily make a wrong 😉👍
@@zittyrrrs7082 Richard was using the current tense, perhaps in error.
I always felt terrible for the COVID builds
Andy Wilman is brilliant. Brilliant.
I remember James Bond shooting up the Nambutu embassy in Casino Royale because they didn't want to pick a particular African country. It almost sounds worse to just make up an 'African-sounding' country than use a real one tbh.
Oh my god not another batman/comic character related tv show. Someone for the love of god please make it stop.
Is it another of those "You're forced to watch it" shows?
I just don't get it!
I think the term should be “kit lit” or “kitty lit”.
Nice click baiting on the title card
The first Novel in the UK was the semi autobiographical " Fanny Hill " which was written in the 1600's ..........
Wasn’t it the Mabinigion 12-13th century
I thought that the first novel to be published in the UK was the Bible, afterall it is a work of fiction...
I would have thought 'Canterbury Tales' would be up there - 14th Century, given how ubiquitous it was at a time before the printing press was invented.
@@karonroberts5888 A book and a Novel are slightly different .
Also, what about Three Days of the Condor...
What I don't quite understand is how the guy made 10's of millions on Spotify, but on the other side of the coin the music industry is crying out about how unfair Spotify is and they don't make enough money? How does that work?
from what Richard was saying, he had bots "listening" to the music as well thus generating some money for each "listen". scale that up to 1000s of bots and you'll be raking in the cash
@@definedphotography yeah but proper artists get thousands of listens too and complain they don't get enough money. Surely the bloke would have made the number of bot listens something believable otherwise it would have been flagged up immediately. Maybe the artists have to share their income with the record labels and all sorts of other things, whereas he didn't have to pay the AI or his bots so he kept it all. Was he raking in more money than the biggest artists or is there something else about real musicians not making enough money?
@@definedphotographyhe was doing what the industry does itself to boast sales. But he got caught and he isn't one of the big labels. Also movie distributors do the same thing from time to time with cinema tickets on smaller films.
Defoe first novel claim is heavily disputed .
@@Est-os9yc Defoe is not really a novel. It's a series of episodes. There is no weave. I think that's the main objection.
Too many adverts 😮
Read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys...all the stories, millenia ago, were originally Tiger's (all cats were grouped as Tigers) they belonged to them and they originated them.
Re earliest novel in English, Trollope, in a piece entitled 'On English Prose Fiction' cites' The Eupheus' by Lylie and 'The Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney, both written about 1580, as being 'the earliest English novels we know'.
Ironically if they didn't clear it up, it would probably be better for the environment..... Like how you see wildlife in the ocean loves wrecks and they love trash floating around, they thrive around it.... Maybe not nets though lol. Even plastic is great, birds love using it and small lifeforms eat it and obviously they feed the food chain. So I bet lots of wildlife would rip parts off the car to use and use it as shelter or somewhere to perch, then eventually it would corrode down and put nutrients into the ground. Like how Chernobyl was great for the area, the wildlife is doing better than when humans were living there and there are no mutants like scaremongers told everyone.
Question: What prop has appeared in the most movies/TV shows? For example I know that the clock tower from Back to the future has appeared in multiple movies. The wilhelm scream is an audio clip that been in multiple movies. In the TV show Psych there's a pineapple hidden in every episode, but that's just one show. Is there a physical prop that has been handed around and reused?
I've read Marina's offerings over many years, loved all of them and have now fallen in love with the woman herself. Such humanity and brilliance. Even the tics of her behaviour are delightful. Richard is good, too. They keep each other on the straight and narrow, just. Love the podcast.
My guess as a pub operator is that the gym doesn’t want to pay for the PPL PRS license which costs my pub about a thousand pounds a year to use copyright music. Using royalty free music is a lot cheaper!
He wasn't furious. It's a running joke in the final episode - don't bother complaining because they're never going to make another so who cares?
I like this podcast but please - make that the first and last click bait title.
Don't you mean those felines were the catalyst for those books Marina? You are welcome 😊
There should be a supercut of intros, starting with the first instance of Marina forgetting a detail through to now, where everything is fully polished, and dare I say, not as charming...
of course Spotify will have returned any revenue generated from AI music to the advertisers...
I remember them saying the only difference between the BBC and Amazon. Was access to certain countries.
That famous phrase "It's gone down like a delicious sandwich" 🤣
The bus burnt down a couple of years ago...errant smouldering bbq left under the bus, I believe...
The major chain gym I go to sent out an email saying there were only going to play non royalty based music to save money. Everything is about cutting costs nowadays.
Marina's See You Next Tuesday this week should have an Only Fans account!
Really wanted to see Marina's reaction to the UA-cam family
you missed a trick by not putting the cue dots on the end of your video. Would have been a nice touch.
Oh my lordy it was glorious to hear Marina mention Guy Ritchie. 😂😂😂
😂 see you next Tuesday (cough cough). You get away with that? 🎉
I’m 100% certain that Richard’s next cat will be called Genji.
Spotify plays My Voluptuous Disease... its hilarious!
Grand Designs: “Unfortunately it started to rain the hardest it has in 100 years. Now the site is a bog and the project is running 6 months behind schedule!” Why are British builders continually surprised that rain happens in the UK?
Your own comment says that it rained more than it had for 100 years. Do you expect builders to be prepared for more rain that has been seen in a century. Something that has never happened in their lifetime?
Richards hands are HUGE with that camera angle. :D
Reminds me of Brother Lee Love on the Kenny Everett show
Is there ever an episode where Marina doesn’t pick her nose?
There was a video on a notorious YT channel were they made an expedition to the cliff where the Duel movie finale was shot, in search for parts of the Duel truck and/or car, and they did find debris (medium to large sized) dating back to the '80s (not Duel, rather the Dukes of Hazzard likely, that cliff was used more than once) so about that "we're in the TV/movie business, of course we always clean everything up"... come on. Besides, that Beetle literally disintegrated, so good luck picking up every single bit of shrapnel, even if it was scattered in a well accessible area (look like this wasn't). Oh well.
Two points, those shows were filmed in the US, and it was 40+ years ago. They did things very differently over there and back then.
In fact, because of the mess caused in that era, we now have rules about cleaning up after stunts.
My Voluptuous Disease is my new band name now...
I sort of wonder doesn't Britain have insects? SOOO many of the Grand Designs seem to be taking the back off the house and filling it with expandable glass doors to open it up. The mosquitos and other summer pest would make that impossible to live with.
We don’t have that many insects these days, probably a result of overuse of pesticides.
"... all of your assets are now dead." 😄😄😄
HHhmm not bad, quite enjoyed that this time.
I call BS on the clearup of the Beetle. Years ago Top Gear threw a Renault Twingo into the Irish Sea. You can guarantee they didn’t fish it back out.
Is it a more recent thing, this compulsion to clear up afterwards? There are lots of instances of smashed cars/ trains/ planes etc from movies that can still be found where they crashed. In the past, I guess they were less bothered...?
Cat Cafe in Westfield White City - or there was
24 (a pre-streaming DVD boxset binge hit) caused a lot of controversy at the time, for the way it portrayed middle eastern terrorists at a time of… errrm… middle eastern terrorism
Also, for the way it portrayed torture scenes
That show was pure War on Terror propaganda. It might as well have been directly produced by the CIA for the message it was sending out. Jack Bauer tortures practically everyone he meets on that show. Including his own father and brother.
There is a cat cafe in York (on Goodramgate). Not been in as you have to be over 8 i believe so the youngest cant go plus the missus is allergic!
There's one in Leeds too.
There's a cat cafe in Newcastle