The Adam Buxton Podcast

[popcorn]

I couldn't get through the recent one with the Harvard academic. She's just too much of that world, it's dripping off her voice and she wasn't very interesting (in the third of the podcast I listened to). Also writes books about privacy but describes VPNs as a "voice protocol" or something.

Yeah, I know what you mean. The "voice protocol" thing did destroy credibility for me, as did her habit of saying "Adam" every three sentences.

[Jim_MacLaine]

I wonder what happened to that Limmy interview Buckles was supposed to do?

Limmy said tonight on Twitch that Ad hasn't contacted him.

[popcorn]

Adam!!!!!!

[Blinder Data]

I couldn't get through the recent one with the Harvard academic. She's just too much of that world, it's dripping off her voice and she wasn't very interesting (in the third of the podcast I listened to). Also writes books about privacy but describes VPNs as a "voice protocol" or something.

She didn't seem bad, I just have eight hours of stuff I will actually enjoy lined up.

I'd already heard here on another podcast but I still listened - there's something soothing about the extremely careful way she speaks. Quite hypnotising.

[Mobbd]

I'd already heard here on another podcast but I still listened - there's something soothing about the extremely careful way she speaks. Quite hypnotising.

Agree! Such clarity.

I enjoyed the episode, pretty much for the reasons Adam laid out in his intro. It's too important not to think about. "Hiding in our everyday lives," etc. And that house burning story - jeez.

The "voice protocol" thing stood out to me as being a bit odd too, but we all fuck up sometimes and, in her defence, she was eating one of the all-time great salads.

[rasta-spouse]

It was when Harvard started reading that poetry slam excerpt near the end that the podcast hit rock bottom.

Even Buxton knew it. I bet he wanted to put on Ken Korda and shout "ERM! STOP TALKING! SYNDROME!".

[Dusty Substance]

Really enjoyed the two parter with scary Uncle Chris Morris. Bit disappointed Buckles didn't ask him where he gets his crazy ideas from.

[gmoney]

Part of me always wants him to do the "Weller, weller, weller, weller, TELL ME MORE..." thing to every interviewee, even though it would not make sense to do it to anyone other than Paul Weller, and it didn't go down well then,

[HAVANAGILA]

Part of me always wants him to do the "Weller, weller, weller, weller, TELL ME MORE..." thing to every interviewee, even though it would not make sense to do it to anyone other than Paul Weller, and it didn't go down well then,

I would love to hear those Liza Tarbuck shows again - there was a great warmth between her and Adam (definitely a more enjoyable listen than the *d*th B*wm*n shows), and the buildup to the final frosty Weller exchange was hilarious. I'd have happily listened to a whole series of Adam and Liza, whatever channel it was on.

[Dusty Substance]

The Emily Dean episode was a good one but, Christ, it was grim.

I used to be a dedicated listener to Frank Skinner's podcast (obviously a man like me wasn't going to be awake to hear the live broadcast on a Saturday morning) but, as things go, I stopped listening around 2015. Anyone heard her Dogwalking Podcast? Any good?

[Utter Shit]

The Frank Skinner podcast is still a lovely, relaxed chat once a week. I've listened to a few of her Walking the Dog podcast, but it's more of a dip in and out one, I listen if it's a guest I like.

[idunnosomename]

be nice if he got Rolf Harris on to show theres no hard feelings

[lankyguy95]

The Frank Skinner podcast is still a lovely, relaxed chat once a week. I've listened to a few of her Walking the Dog podcast, but it's more of a dip in and out one, I listen if it's a guest I like.

I broadly agree on both counts.

[McFlymo]

EDIT: Ooops wrong podcast. LAWWWL....

[peanutbutter]

Speaking of Buckles being on thin ice, I started relistening to a few of the really old XFM A&J shows recently, and right from the off Joe is problematic as hell, calling the Wachowskis transvestites and whatnot.  I have a free afternoon.  I might cancel him.

Hold on though, wasn't this circa 2007 or so? At which point neither of them was out and it was a mixture of hearsay alongside other stuff about their sex lives (iirc one of them had a dominatrix or some shit for a few years prior?). It was very much the general consensus that they were a pair of creeps prior to coming out as trans iirc

[lankyguy95]

Just relistening to the Louis Theroux podcasts. These really are some of my favourite podcast episodes ever.

[Old Gold Tooth]

They're so funny, aren't they? It's been mentioned in this thread before but if you only knew Louis from his own work you'd have little idea he was such a wonderfully silly chap.

I still laugh when I think of him immediately apologising for his joke about a celebrity husband (can't recall who) sticking his dick up through a vegetable patch to get 'eaten'.  "Oh, I'm sorry that was uncouth."

[lankyguy95]

They're so funny, aren't they? It's been mentioned in this thread before but if you only knew Louis from his own work you'd have little idea he was such a wonderfully silly chap.

I still laugh when I think of him immediately apologising for his joke about a celebrity husband (can't recall who) sticking his dick up through a vegetable patch to get 'eaten'.  "Oh, I'm sorry that was uncouth."

He's so willing to go off on gloriously silly tangents. Was just listening to one of them where he was talking about the pressure in his porn film documentary to actually have sex on film.

Buckles: They'd have pixelated your gonads though.
Theroux: But it's not the ugliness of the actual testicles, the ball sack, the glands, the shaft... it's not that specifically.

Utterly unnecessary level of detail and fucking hilarious.

[billyandthecloneasaurus]

if you only knew Louis from his own work you'd have little idea he was such a wonderfully silly chap

i dunno, i think you can definitely tell in weird weekends, and to a slightly lesser extent "when Louis met..."

it's part of why i've been so disappointed by everything he's done since then.  he's fucking brilliant as the cheeky bumbling posh english bloke making friends with american oddballs, but for my money a pretty bang average "serious" documentary maker.  refusing to editorialise and give his opinion is fine when he's spent a week with backyard wrestlers, but with the more serious stuff, that stance makes it a bit fucking pointless.  louis spends a week with some crackheads, it is sad, the end.  great, nice one.

[marquis_de_sad]

I had to delete what I originally wrote when it read like a variation of "Stupid people think it's cool, smart people think it's a joke, also cool".

But basically the gist was I think ironic Louis had more depth.

[Ferris]

Total fucking Mexico!

[peanutbutter]

i dunno, i think you can definitely tell in weird weekends, and to a slightly lesser extent "when Louis met..."

it's part of why i've been so disappointed by everything he's done since then.  he's fucking brilliant as the cheeky bumbling posh english bloke making friends with american oddballs, but for my money a pretty bang average "serious" documentary maker.  refusing to editorialise and give his opinion is fine when he's spent a week with backyard wrestlers, but with the more serious stuff, that stance makes it a bit fucking pointless.  louis spends a week with some crackheads, it is sad, the end.  great, nice one.

He comes across as being extremely uneasy with his position I feel. I wonder if he feels like due to the fact he attracts a pretty solid audience that he has a responsibility to cover meaningful things meaningfully. Or maybe he's just afraid of being caught out as a fraud, his work on the whole is pretty trashy in comparison to great documentarians but you'll encounter loads of people who treat Theroux as if he were a national treasure... that's gotta feel weird.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

it's part of why i've been so disappointed by everything he's done since then.  he's fucking brilliant as the cheeky bumbling posh english bloke making friends with american oddballs, but for my money a pretty bang average "serious" documentary maker.  refusing to editorialise and give his opinion is fine when he's spent a week with backyard wrestlers, but with the more serious stuff, that stance makes it a bit fucking pointless.  louis spends a week with some crackheads, it is sad, the end.  great, nice one.

I sort of agree with this, but I also think the subjects of his serious documentaries open up, or subtly reveal things about themselves, due to his innate empathy and sensitivity. He's a very good interviewer.

Then again, yeah. His documentaries are always worth watching, but your immediate response after watching pretty much every one he's made over the last fifteen years is, "Fuck me, that was depressing. I hope these people manage to sort themselves out somehow. They probably won't, though. Christ."

They're not misery porn, Louis isn't a nasty, cynical journalist, but they do seem quite pointless sometimes.

Then again, the best ones from his 'mature' phase still succeed both as insightful character studies and explorations of difficult issues. They linger with you. The documentary he made about chronic alcoholism was an unbearably sad and brutal illustration of how people's lives can collapse entirely due to mental illness and substance abuse, and his first Westboro film is an all-time classic.

It is quite funny, though, watching these thunderously depressing programmes in the knowledge that Louis is a man who enjoys singing Yes Sir, I Can Boogie in a ridiculous falsetto.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Gawd almighty, Louis' Baccara karaoke really is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4v-eN_rcQ

"I'm quite comfortable in the falsetto range... I'm totally in command of my instrument."

[SteveDave]

The one thing I look forward to amongst the arsehole misery of Christmas is a new Buxton podcast with Buckles and possibly Louis.

[Ham Bap]

The one thing I look forward to amongst the arsehole misery of Christmas is a new Buxton podcast with Buckles and possibly Louis.

It's become a Christmas Day tradition to have that on when I'm making Christmas morning breakfast.

[Twit 2]

They're so funny, aren't they? It's been mentioned in this thread before but if you only knew Louis from his own work you'd have little idea he was such a wonderfully silly chap.

I still laugh when I think of him immediately apologising for his joke about a celebrity husband (can't recall who) sticking his dick up through a vegetable patch to get 'eaten'.  "Oh, I'm sorry that was uncouth."

That whole section, discussing celebrity routines, is one of my fave parts of any of the podcasts.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I enjoyed the Guz Khan episode, he's a funny, likeable fella. So there you go.

[Twit 2]

Yes, and I enjoyed the pleasant clash of Buxton's posh, pained politeness with Khan's brash street lingo.

[Twed]

That's what I got from it too. Guz is very likable. I am very much in the same category as Adam when it comes to middle-class sensibilities looking ridiculous in the face of literally any other culture, so it was cathartic for him to suffer that mild indignity as a proxy.