The Twitter account Fesshole is like a modern day advice column, where people have the same reactions - "Oh god I'm glad that's not me" or "Oh wow, I do that..."
Marina, you have forced me to make a comment. As a group of 16-18 year old apprentices in the manufacturing industry during the early 90’s we used to spend our time during tea breaks writing letters to “Dear Deidre”. Many a letter was written , mostly from the perspective of a lady seeking satisfaction. On several occasions our letters were published and Deidre replied with help. On reflection now this probably wasn’t the most moral thing we could do at tea break but at the time this was quite exciting for a bunch of boys just out of school, especially waiting to see how many letters we composed would actually get published in the Sun. Just to confirm I do not condone this behaviour any more as the time spent by the agony auntie could have been spent helping genuine people. -
I've always suspected that it's a combo of both. If a letter matched a topic they wanted to cover, or isn't something they've just covered then it might get printed. Why pay someone to write it when it's there for free? After that I suspect they make it up. One thing to note, and I heard this directly from someone who worked with agony letters, is that there is no 'Deirdre' or whatever the column is called. It's a department of multiple people and they all answer the letters in the style of the agony aunt.
That raises the question of how much the incoming letters were screened to cull out obviously false and fabricated stories? So the challenge to the cheeky factory workers is to be as convincing as you can with the most absurd scenarios. I don't think it's morally unsound, it's all part of the game. In any case if the advice given to your I invented problem is genuinely useful to any readers at all, mission accomplished.
@@Elwaves2925It could very well be a team of people but Deidre Sanders, the Deidre from the column does exist though and is now an agony aunt on This Morning.
@@joetrent4753 Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that there wasn't an actual Deirdre in that case, just that it's a team and that who the responses are from, not just one person. 🙂
I just cannot bring myself to believe Richard's answer about the people being under the wheel 😂 It just seems so logistically difficult to raise the entire set so high, for very little - especially since every shot I've seen of the contestant rising (tbf only watched it a couple times) is cut so late, with you only seeing them raise the final couple of feet, with a suspicious amount of smoke
I saw the clip of the bit about the Euros weeks ago & couldn’t find the full episode. Now I’ve found the episode where it’s in the title & it’s not mentioned in the episode 🤷🤦♂️🙄
Marina, you are certainly not ‘the unattractive one.’ Thank you for your wisdom and wit in your Guardian column and in this brilliant podcast with Richard.
Logistics planners have to be amazing to plan how to get each venue set up and what the minimum number of complete sets of equipment that requires. I find it a fascinating challenge - but there's no way I could do it! The teams of people responsible for the packing, moving and unpacking are equally amazing, because they could stuff the whole operation up if they make a serious mistake. The concert tour logistics sound very similar to the way F1 teams move around from circuit to circuit. With F1 there's also multiple complete sets of equipment moving around the globe by ship, lorry or plane - and often not following the race calendar, but sometimes a set will just get shipped off, literally on a ship, to the next place it'll be used - in 6 months time, so it sits in storage, but it's cheaper that way.
ITV Bovingdon Studio is the home of The Wheel, Dancing on Ice and The Masked Singer. It is a vast studio. However it is a nightmare to get to, near Hemel Hempstead. I know someone who worked there, who said he found it hardest studio to get to.
My biggest bugbear with the Wheel is sometimes you will get an episode where someone has a go on the wheel and then they'll go down but come straight back and they might come back several more times, especially I think there's been one episode where someone got to the end and got the first two questions wrong but then got a third chance - I think it can still be random at that point but also allow for the other two contestants to have a shot, don't think it's fair for someone to get three cracks at the end. That would be the one change I'd make to the show
I was listening to a different podcast episode with these two, and Marina was quite the motor mouth. I need to watch the RU-vid version and slow down the speed. Always informative.
I made several sets/Backline cages for AC/DC whilst based at LSD Birmingham UK. Great band to work for. The first time I met Malcolm Young, he threw a can of beer at me in a most hospitable manner!
Glad someone else thinks Iron Man 3 is the superior Iron Man movie. Also totally agree with The Godfather Part 2 & The Empire Strikes Back. I'd also throw in "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King" "Frozen 2" "Dalek Invasion Of Earth 2150 A.D" "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2" "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" "Before Sunset" "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes" & "Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade"
Richard champions the work of Drew Pearce here with Iron Man 3 and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. As I know that Richard also enjoyed it a lot(it is a lot of fun), it is worth noting that Drew Pearce also wrote The Fall Guy.
Two of the more well known Agony Aunts in the US were Dear Abby and Anne Landers. They were done by twin sisters Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman.
Is there a reason why for some shows there is an absolute eternity between recording and broadcast? Examples... We were contestants on the Christmas edition of The 1% Club last December (2023)... which was recorded in February. (This one makes sense as they recorded the whole series as a block, and it was the last show to be recorded as I recall) On the other hand, we were in the audience for an edition of Tipping Point Lucky Stars which - as far as I can establish - has yet to be broadcast... almost 2 years after recording (which brings up a side question as to whether the charity has been given its prize money yet - knowing that game shows tend not to pay winnings until after broadcast, though I imagine that a charity win might be an exception).
*After the Thin Man* (1936) is a good sequel. Now, the original *The Thin Man* (1934) is not a bad movie, but the "thin man" moniker wasn't refering to Nick Charles (William Powell) in that one. It wasn't until the seqel, which in turn was followed by four more successors. The Thin Man series reached six feature films. For those who don't know it: It's a series of cosy murder mystery comedies. The murders are solved by Nick & Nora Charles , played by Charles William Powell and Myrna Loy. A great deal of the appeal is the banter between the two.
Godfather 2 feels like a better movie that Godfather 1 the first couple of times you see it, because if the Sicily Scenes mainly which makes it feel more arty, but after a few watches most people realise that Godfather 1 is the better movie.
I agree with Marina that The Empire Strikes Back would make the top 3 but can you imagine that film without Irvin Kershner as director? It is by far the best directed of the nine main films with subtle touches you don't see in any of the others.
I've not listened to the full-length version of this, where presumably the football scheduling was talked about, but here I would like to ask this: why oh why is the same match played at the same time on both BBC and ITV?
Watching the fall guy and I noticed all the aerial shots. I know in the past they would have used helicopters and even hydraulic crane thingys, but do they use drones more often now?
If the Wheel is truly random I don't understand how it always is the correct length for the broadcast slot. Ok, I guess there can be a lot of live banter which can be edited out as necessary. But it could be first contestant is very knowledgeable or lucky and get straight to the end and win - and it could be a run of ignorance or bad luck with very few steps forward. Sort of 20 min straight through, or 2 hrs of agony.
I may be wrong, but my sense from the ones I've watched is that if a contestant gets a question wrong, the next time(s) that category is attempted it's a slightly 'easier' question, in order to increase the chances of it being answered correctly and reducing that endless slog you suggest. They still must build in lots of leeway to lengthen or shorten the edit though, just for the difference on the final alone where some contestants get the first question right in a flash while other times they burn through all the questions and nobody wins at all.
Can't agree with Godfather Pt.2, not because it's a cliche (which it is), but for context and the ability to *_stand alone_* . Probably true of all sequels to some degree, it's useful to have prior knowledge of the characters and situation, but all should become clear eventually, or could easily be back-filled. But with the prequel/sequel nature of Godfather Pt. 2, it's essential to have context for the characters. That's *really* the strength of the film, that it bookends the first film. As a stand alone, Pt. 2 throws away virtually all of Michael's arc. And the audience has to fill in the gap from the little boy waving from a train in Italy to the middle aged man celebrating his son's first communion in Nevada.
I wish the 3 (or 4, if you’re counting C5) terrestrial channels would get together and run a separate sports channel, still free to access with the TV licence, then the rest of us can carry on watching the normal repeats! 🙄
Slightly surprised me that Anna Raeburn didn't get a mention, surely the original agony aunt! On the strength of her Woman magazine advice page, she was employed by Capital Radio for many years for their radio phone in advice show. Countless radio stations later, she is still working in her 70's and her fine blog, Annalong or the occasional podcast guest.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iYZwMay-cls.htmlsi=JAIlUby2k2OPyqiv ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iYZwMay-cls.htmlsi=JAIlUby2k2OPyqiv
The actual podcast goes out on the days specified (I've tried it). I think the delay is in the video editing, whatever technical nonsense they get up to balancing their ying/yangs etc.
Hi Marina...This is really for Richard, but I do hope he will either see it or you could "pass it on to him"........I have a quiz format I would like him to view, how would I go about getting it to him please?
Yes The Souvenir part 2 is better than the first one but I don't think it can be enjoyed without having seen The Souvenir. So much of what is brilliant about it is playing off what happens in the first film.
FYI. Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88. A long roster of stage and films include M*A*S*H, Clute, Pride and Prejudice, The Hunger games.
On a practical level, the framing of Richard is really weird. It's as though his invisible fat friend is taking all the central space, leaving Richard squashed off to one side and leaning forward awkwardly. Subscribed though!
I think 'less attractive best friend' would be both kinder and way more accurate than 'unattractive', in by case all that means is 'less made over and well lit best friend'. So.
I knew a guy, 20 plus years ago, who was in the music biz, on the logistical side, who said he had arranged tours for a VERY famous performer. He said that he also arranged the "entertainment" for them, at their destination, including recreational pharmaceuticals, and person's who gave "physical relief". (I phrased it that way to stop youtube flagging the comment.) Who was it? I can't say for legal reasons, but let's say that when he told me, I wasn't that surprised.
I've organised moving bands gear - at a very low level ie here's the band and here is their gear, get it/them to the venue and set up. It's a feckin' nightmare! It's like herding kittens when wearing a blindfold and boxing gloves....in the fast lane of the M1 at noon. Not only do you have to get fragile goods from A-B....you have to get their electronics there too! I think the first qualification you should get is in psychotherapy - someone is going to have a breakdown and it may well be you.
I am amazed Paddington 2 didn’t get mentioned in the sequels chat, a film so good it toppled Citizen Kane as the highest rated movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes
Of course Iron Man 3 isn't better than Godfather Part 2, but it can be argued if you feel like it that IM3 is more better than it's predecessors than what Godfather 2 is better than The Godfather.
Really? Iron Man 3 is poor - Kingsley a legend that saved the film - I guess its better than Iron Man 2 but the first Iron Man is the best Marvel Movie
I was unaware of this podcast until the furor around the fossil fuel funding. I have always kind of liked Marina and Richard, all very witty and comfortably upper-middle class. But this podcast is absolutely dire, what an embarrassment, just so smug and cringe. As are Marina's complacent and whiny views on politics and change.
Do you ever bother to find out if you should be upset about something or just take your initial reaction as absolute fact and expect the world to accomodate your misguided perception?
They're two different kinds of movie - the former a suspense thriller, the latter an action movie... both good in their own right. (I'll say I prefer the former, but enjoyed both)
