July 17, 2024Celebrity
Howzat? 0.2 / 6 “Mums, we’ve all been there. Your kids are playing up and you need to send them to the naughty corner.” Have I accidentally stumbled into a time machine and now we find ourselves in the 1970s, surrounded by the unapologetic patriarchy? WTF! I’ve not even pressed play and already this new
July 16, 2024Podcast Review
Howzat? 4.7 / 6 (Tuesday Teaser) We don’t usually write about true crime but, fucking hell, the Aussie’s do crime well. For some reason, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) are one of only a few organisations that have nailed the “Serial-esque” true-crime narration thing since it “became a thing”, so this should be a real
July 12, 2024Celebrity
Howzat? 4.5 / 6 “Fake! fake! fake!”* It’s a very vague remit of a podcast but hey, it’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, so it’s all good. And, it’s produced by Lemonada Media, which means we’re in safe hands. I haven’t got time to write a complete review but all I will say is that it’s worth a
July 10, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 4.2 / 6 There was a danger here that this podcast, in the hands of shiny-mega-commercial-radio-company Global, would be produced within an inch of its life, sucking all the glorious comedy freestyling from a trio of Scottish comedians so blasé, they make Snoop Dog (Snoop Lion?) look like accountants on the verge of a
July 9, 2024Entertainment
Howzat? 1.2 / 6 As any young content creator is told, it’s up to the audience to heap praise on whatever you decide to showcase to the world. It portrays class and humility, helping forge a stronger bond with an appreciative audience who want to keep coming back for more. ALT: there’s nothing worse than
July 8, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 5.1 / 6 Whatever a podcast is (nobody really knows, do they?), Sketchplanations – a show that explains things via the visual medium of cartoons – seems to offer it in bucketloads. The format? Well, it’s not rocket science, however, if it was, it would aptly be explained neatly in a lovely
July 5, 2024Chat show
Hey! You! What’s eeeuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppp? Here it is, this week’s Friday Slips. Take them or leave them but please don’t ignore them… Comfort Eating with Grace Dent – “Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian” Howzat? 3.2 / 6 Grace Dent is a personality and, boy, don’t we know it. She presents as she walks: quaint, dainty, breathy
July 4, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 3.8 / 6 Let’s be honest, if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re primarily listening for Russell Howard’s wry comedic take on the world. And, indeed, within the first minute of this episode, Howard and his guest – fellow British comedian and football enthusiast Maisie Adam – start joking about how children running in
July 3, 2024Business
Howzat? 4.2 / 6 It feels a little ‘icky’ talking about the latest podcast by “internet celebrity” PJ Vogt and his accomplice colleague Sruthi Pinnamaneni, in what appears to be their first public creative podcast outing since, well *ahem*, their colleagues outed them for fuelling somewhat of a hostile working environment at Reply All (All
June 27, 2024Chat show
Howzat? 2.8 / 6 Before we get into it, what is with the title of this show? It’s way too long and I would go as far as saying it’s annoyingly long – like there was a table of Hollywood agents who wouldn’t allow the project to go ahead without referring to absolutely every element