Athletico Mince

[dunelm]

Andy's mango 'songs' are beyond shit. That is all.

[Mantis Toboggan]

The latest episode had seemingly a perfect Scottish tale natural ending, but no, Andy pipes up with a diabolical rushed fucking mango song that tainted the WHOLE episode for me.

Yeah, that was absolute torture. Surely to god bob recoils at some of the dogshit he churns out.

The guru is one of the only Andy things that's amused me the first time it was introduced. However,  I've never understood why he flips from the guru's voice to that Tourette's type Scouse(?) growl. It's just another little indicator that the bloke has no fucking clue what about the character may be tolerable and what is utter drivel.

I really really hate him.

[Ferris]

The latest episode had seemingly a perfect Scottish tale natural ending, but no, Andy pipes up with a diabolical rushed fucking mango song that tainted the WHOLE episode for me.

Yes, to all of this.

[mr. logic]

Thought the latest episode was pretty poor, tbh.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Bob asks The Guru what sort of music he likes. The Guru replies, "Reggae". Bob cackles.

At the risk of sounding like Iain Lee, that was funny.

[bgmnts]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VoHdpj2ZA bit of Barry.

The Nigel Pearson stuff was grim.

[phantom_power]

Which 3 utter arseholes gave that video a thumbs down?

[Mantis Toboggan]

Which 3 utter arseholes gave that video a thumbs down?

Could be a solitary Mackem.

[the]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VoHdpj2ZA bit of Barry.

Those were great. Where did they come from, has Bob been releasing them through Twitter or something?

[phantom_power]

I think he has been putting them out on Twitter or Instagram on a semi-regular basis for a few months

[Blue Jam]

Bob asks The Guru what sort of music he likes. The Guru replies, "Reggae". Bob cackles.

At the risk of sounding like Iain Lee, that was funny.

Yes it was. I didn't mind the mangoes song either.

Can I just confess: I don't like The Nonsense Potter
Ta.

[Dewt]

It's all about his "this is beyond the pale" rage voice. Very middle-class pathetic British man thing.

[Blue Jam]

It just doesn't do it for me, sorry. Very sick of Bob's quizzes too.

Thought the last episode was pretty poor, apart from Jurgen Jorgen Klopp. A bit of Kloppo is always welcome.

[Non Stop Dancer]

Very sick of Bob's quizzes too.

Yeah, they were shit early on IMO. The show as a whole can still be incredible of course, but I do tend to start fast forwarding though various bits I don't like, which on a bad day can account for almost half of it. Long and short of it is that Andy is absolutely fine, vital even, as an assistant to Bob, but he just isn't funny enough to come up with original characters and write funny material for them, especially when he'd doing it cheek by jowl with one of the best to ever do it.

Now that I think about it, the last thing they did that had me literally convulsing and gasping for breath is the first appearance of Adrian Lewis, which they ran into the ground within a couple episodes.

[bgmnts]

Wow, I can't think of anything of Bob's that doedn't work for me.

The Nigel Pearson in the latest nonsense pottery was brilliant.

[DoesNotFollow]

Could be a solitary Mackem.

[Swoz_MK]

Andy seems to fucking hate that Train Guy is getting popular among those that don't seem to know that Mince/Barry exists

[Old Gold Tooth]

Oh christ, really? Fucking hell, he needs to calm down and realise he's already punching above his weight by creating content with Bob at all.

Maybe he should roll out Two Large Mangos on his own Twitter, I'm sure it won't go down like a lump of shit like it does in the pod.

(Fair fucks, the guru still gives me the odd chuckle, but I am also dreading the "Best of the Guru Vol.1" that will inevitably be released on Parsnips.)

[DrGreggles]

I am also dreading the "Best of the Guru Vol.1" that will inevitably be released on Parsnips.

I think we'd all take that over a Lenny Biscuits compilation.

[Old Gold Tooth]

I think we'd all take that over a Lenny Biscuits compilation.

Good point. Also Andy does seem to have awareness that nobody wants his bits in compilation format.

[beanheadmcginty]

I barely read Twitter so only just saw how Bob's videos really seem to have taken off. They've got millions of views. The curious thing is that he doesn't seem to be making any attempt to inform people that the character is called Barry Homeowner rather than "Train Guy". Maybe he's actually doing it to wind Andy up. Train Guy is an incredibly shit name though. Completely unworthy of Bob.

[Mantis Toboggan]

I barely read Twitter so only just saw how Bob's videos really seem to have taken off. They've got millions of views. The curious thing is that he doesn't seem to be making any attempt to inform people that the character is called Barry Homeowner rather than "Train Guy". Maybe he's actually doing it to wind Andy up. Train Guy is an incredibly shit name though. Completely unworthy of Bob.

I think that's the beauty of it. Bob can knock up some brilliant comedy totally off-the-cuff without the need to dress it up or really think it through.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I think that's the beauty of it. Bob can knock up some brilliant comedy totally off-the-cuff without the need to dress it up or really think it through.

Yeah, but the point is that Train Guy is Barry Homeowner from Athletico Mince, which most people who enjoy Bob's videos won't be aware of. It's Bob's character, he can do what he likes with it, but I guess it would be quite nice if he acknowledged the podcast in some way.

[bgmnts]

I think Bob is just free and easy with reusing characters and material. like the Palmer brothers and rodney plonket and stuff.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I agree, it's fine, but I get why Andy might want fans of Train Guy to check out Athletico Mince. Seems fair enough to me.

[magval]

I barely read Twitter so only just saw how Bob's videos really seem to have taken off.

Enough people were talking about it the last time he posted that it was 'trending', which is something I don't fully understand but at its basic concept seems to reflect a high volume of chatter. Just the words 'Train Guy' at the side of the screen alongside the usual stuff (Trump, Covid etc).

I was so surprised when I clicked on it to see it was him. I agree the acknowledgment of Barry and the podcast in some way would be nice.

[phantom_power]

How little effort did Andy put into that Amazon review quiz on the latest Parsnips? It is a shit idea anyway but all of the answers were genuine so he couldn't even be bothered to think up realistic fake ones.

[Ferris]

How little effort did Andy put into that Amazon review quiz on the latest Parsnips? It is a shit idea anyway but all of the answers were genuine so he couldn't even be bothered to think up realistic fake ones.

His attempt to turn "powerful" into a running joke were pitiful. He shoehorned it in after every segment regardless of whether it made any sense, but Bob didn't engage and just let it die on its arse. And then, weirdly, he made the choice to leave those bits of floundering material in the final podcast (or at least couldn't be arsed to edit them out).

Add to that, it was Bob's little phrase in the first place. I see he's started receiving .wav files as well. A perfect microcosm of the comedic imbalance between the two hosts.

[beanheadmcginty]

I'm no Andy hater. I think he's perfectly decent in the role he's found himself in. But I have started to wonder whether Bob is subconsciously asserting dominance. That man is so inherently and effortlessly funny he can thrive in whatever social media he decides to adopt. He could drop Mince tomorrow and it would have no effect on his life, whereas it would destroy Andy.

[the]

Ah, the power struggle - this happens in all comedy duos apparently, and isn't usually in the imagination of bored comedy fans or anything.

They've got AM live dates coming up, just for a bit of context.

(That said, it wouldn't surprise me that much if Mince came to an end sometime soon, 100 episodes worth of stuff is a fair body of work and a bit of a milestone.)