Tim Minchin is one of the greatest artists in this Generation, it's a shame that not all the people are able to understand the complexity and quality of his work.... Religion fucks it all....
is not just the matter to be funny, he's not only a Stand Up comedian, he's an outstanding musician, a very inteligent man and also a great comedian.... poor people that can't admire all this....
Rich, you should get Rhik Samadder on! He does the excellent "Inspect a gadget" columns in the Guardian, which are just solid walls of puns, he should be good on this. Also, Marina Hyde off the Guardian is very funny, as might Barney Ronay but I'm less sure about that one because he mainly writes about football and stuff. Yeah, I read the Guardian, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE RIGHT? Matthew Berry would, I think, be a fantastic guest. Also there's a great black comedy on iPlayer called Fleabag, starring and created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She'd almost certainly be great. Finally, there are the obvious ones - I think some have refused in the past but can't remember which ones - Chris Morris, Richard Ayoade, Paul Foot.
Did you have to do 113 of these things before you realized your channel would be more popular if the name of the guest came first in the title?. I'm looking through the back titles and all I see is "Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with...." and the guest's name is out of sight.
Books are just as prone to error as other media. The trick is to be aware of the quality and accuracy of the stuff you absorb. I read a book about how to protect yourself from alien abduction, and another about the location of Atlantis and how all ancient sites are linked in a global map of the stars... and they were really fun to read. But clearly a pile of bollocks. It doesn't matter whether you get your information from a book, or a website or TV show... what is important is being able to absorb it in defined stages... suggestions and ideas, to serious claims, to reasonable hypotheses and then to evidence-supported ideas and then to facts and finally full explanatory theories. Each stage requiring careful and considered thought.
@33:40 "You don't give your people the vote on what not even the experts don't understand" So who then does decide? If the so called experts don't know, then why is better to listen to them?
But both sides had experts,what you are really arguing is you should listen to the people and their experts if their point of view agrees with your own.
You could always take time for the qualified people to actually do research and then decide when the stats are in and not on a date that's useful for election cycle and while experts are kept busy trying to find aspects that could be alluring for the voters instead of modeling the potential outcomes.
I'm not saying all experts in all fields should be ignored. If i get sick I will consult a doctor. If I need legal advice I will consult a lawyer etc. However, in the Brerxit matter that was the subject Tim Minchin was talking about. It is a subjective matter unlike particle physics. Therefore, he like all of us are prone to confirmation bias and as such will choose the opinion that reinforces his own. Do you really think Tim Minchin would be saying we should not give the choice to the people if the people's choice agreed with his own.
Tim has made a confusion between education and morality. If we favour the opinion of the 'educated' we forget that they have may have another agenda than the 'good of society' - They may be trying to make money. There exists a problem of private education in our country leading to an 'old boys network' that make up our bourgeoise favouring their own 'educated' voices. Indeed, the costs of education and university in this country now preclude working class intellectuals. It is also true that a lot of very average students do very well from the private education system and a lot of very intelligent working class kids are failed by the state education that the Elites (fail to) provide. I went to a grammar school and the principal of academic selection regardless of class (no fees) is a sensible one but still, 80% of the kids were from posh families and had gone to posh prep schools to enhance their chances of passing the 11+. It sounds nice to say 'favour the educated opinions' but this assumes the 'educated' - often simply the elites, are morally appropriate and responsible. They are not. We should favour the honest, the true and the charitable. We should favour those with decent values, those who are kind and selfless. Our leaders should have backgrounds in nursing or education, volunteering and charity work. Then the most educated of the honest can be listened to.
Also the elites teach their children the values that lead to social destruction. Selfishness, greed and pride are not virtues. You can't buy good manners.
This sort of comment makes me depressed. Don't watch if you don't want to, but why be a dick about it? The internet doesn't need to know that you don't like Tim Minchin.
+rob poynter Tim Minchin actually does a piece all about you in this podcast. The part where he talks about reading books or watching The Bachelor type shows. The others here will know exactly what I mean and it seems pretty clear which camp you fall into.
I fucking love Tim Minchin! So glad for his return in this podcast.
tim and richard that was brilliant thank you x x x love love love
Yay! Tim Minchin! Would love to see Rob Newman on RHLSTP at some point .
Jerry Sadowitz would be something, doubt he'd do it though.
Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning and Benny Hill confirmed for next series.
Chris Morris is a great shout! I'd love to see David Kay.
Just put down £60 for the Kickstarter (that's not a brag, I am quite poor). Cheers for the excellent content, Richard. Long may it continue.
Excellent stuff, chaps.
thanks for the much needed title format-change.
Tim Minchin... Wow! Can't wait to watch this one.
The main problem is that the actual useful information is already locked away behind University paywalls.
This was awesome, thank you :)
Loved it. :)
That was fantastic.
This episode reminds me of my periods because mine are in sync with my friends', just like how both your hairstyles are in sync with each other.
Two fists, one heart.
Due pugni , un solo cuore.
Amazing episode, I love RHLSTP.
Tim Minchin. Don't use the word lightly but he is a genius.
A master at all he tries. Puts him in pretty exclusive company.
I can turn my eyelids inside out.
I went to school with a guy who could do that. 30 years on, it's still the most disgusting thing I've ever witnessed. 🤢
I used to be able to do it.
I haven't tried in 30 years,
i might still be capable.
Loved the new episode of AIOTM (aiotm).
Can't wait for the new series.... oh well, I guess I'll have to.
THIS WAS FUCKING AMAZING
Another music Joke for Rich.
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Knock, knock. - Who's there?
Philip Glass
Tim Minchin is one of the greatest artists in this Generation, it's a shame that not all the people are able to understand the complexity and quality of his work.... Religion fucks it all....
...or maybe some people don't find him that funny.
is not just the matter to be funny, he's not only a Stand Up comedian, he's an outstanding musician, a very inteligent man and also a great comedian.... poor people that can't admire all this....
Hmmm I think it's mainly the thing I mentioned
I also remember a time when there wasn't avocado.
Time travel; clearly Wagon Wheels from about 22 years ago Richard.
Great episode this.
the ones that go on too long and become uncomfortable are my favourites. RHLSTP!
Rich, you should get Rhik Samadder on! He does the excellent "Inspect a gadget" columns in the Guardian, which are just solid walls of puns, he should be good on this. Also, Marina Hyde off the Guardian is very funny, as might Barney Ronay but I'm less sure about that one because he mainly writes about football and stuff. Yeah, I read the Guardian, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE RIGHT? Matthew Berry would, I think, be a fantastic guest. Also there's a great black comedy on iPlayer called Fleabag, starring and created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She'd almost certainly be great. Finally, there are the obvious ones - I think some have refused in the past but can't remember which ones - Chris Morris, Richard Ayoade, Paul Foot.
Soooo sorry Tim's three predictions did not come true :-(
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Richard you look very gorgeous in the intro video
THought this was Frankie Boyle in a wig.
Tim was good.
I would take a chicken back to the age of dinosaurs to compare it to how dinosaur chickens taste
Dinosaur chickens would probably end up tasting you.
it's a shame Tim Munchkin wasn't a bit less tired but he's still great.
loving Rich's Pacman shirt ♥️
Did you have to do 113 of these things before you realized your channel would be more popular if the name of the guest came first in the title?. I'm looking through the back titles and all I see is "Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with...." and the guest's name is out of sight.
Couldn't agree more. Can someone rename them all please.
If you're going to be pricks about it we'll go back to the old way. We don't care about popularity. You have to do some work to be a fan of this show.
Thought Rich had got Reeves hunt & tony on for a chat ;-)
Books are just as prone to error as other media. The trick is to be aware of the quality and accuracy of the stuff you absorb. I read a book about how to protect yourself from alien abduction, and another about the location of Atlantis and how all ancient sites are linked in a global map of the stars... and they were really fun to read.
But clearly a pile of bollocks.
It doesn't matter whether you get your information from a book, or a website or TV show... what is important is being able to absorb it in defined stages... suggestions and ideas, to serious claims, to reasonable hypotheses and then to evidence-supported ideas and then to facts and finally full explanatory theories.
Each stage requiring careful and considered thought.
A geek writes: Windsor Davies was indeed in Doctor Who. Evil of the Daleks with Patrick Troughton. 1967.You're welcome.
But was Mathew Crosby's wife ever in Doctor Who?
Yup and she dies
I know a few six-foot bottoms.
@33:40 "You don't give your people the vote on what not even the experts don't understand" So who then does decide? If the so called experts don't know, then why is better to listen to them?
so better to give it to people who don't have the slightest fucking clue? Weird logic.
But both sides had experts,what you are really arguing is you should listen to the people and their experts if their point of view agrees with your own.
You could always take time for the qualified people to actually do research and then decide when the stats are in and not on a date that's useful for election cycle and while experts are kept busy trying to find aspects that could be alluring for the voters instead of modeling the potential outcomes.
Also, since most physicists don't really know _why_ particles have mass, the Large Hadron Collider should be staffed by means of a raffle.
I'm not saying all experts in all fields should be ignored. If i get sick I will consult a doctor. If I need legal advice I will consult a lawyer etc. However, in the Brerxit matter that was the subject Tim Minchin was talking about. It is a subjective matter unlike particle physics. Therefore, he like all of us are prone to confirmation bias and as such will choose the opinion that reinforces his own.
Do you really think Tim Minchin would be saying we should not give the choice to the people if the people's choice agreed with his own.
In the very end of the podcast did he say (i just wanna get off of chest islam).. i'm confused why he had to ruin it completely?! I was loving it.
No, you misunderstood. It was the last instance of a running joke about the podcast being too long.
Tim MinchIAN
Get Nigel Farage on
#VeganPower
Tim has made a confusion between education and morality. If we favour the opinion of the 'educated' we forget that they have may have another agenda than the 'good of society' - They may be trying to make money. There exists a problem of private education in our country leading to an 'old boys network' that make up our bourgeoise favouring their own 'educated' voices. Indeed, the costs of education and university in this country now preclude working class intellectuals. It is also true that a lot of very average students do very well from the private education system and a lot of very intelligent working class kids are failed by the state education that the Elites (fail to) provide. I went to a grammar school and the principal of academic selection regardless of class (no fees) is a sensible one but still, 80% of the kids were from posh families and had gone to posh prep schools to enhance their chances of passing the 11+. It sounds nice to say 'favour the educated opinions' but this assumes the 'educated' - often simply the elites, are morally appropriate and responsible. They are not. We should favour the honest, the true and the charitable. We should favour those with decent values, those who are kind and selfless. Our leaders should have backgrounds in nursing or education, volunteering and charity work. Then the most educated of the honest can be listened to.
Also the elites teach their children the values that lead to social destruction. Selfishness, greed and pride are not virtues. You can't buy good manners.
16th comment :-)
Yuck. Not watching. Tim Minchin sucks. Next
that's nice
This sort of comment makes me depressed. Don't watch if you don't want to, but why be a dick about it? The internet doesn't need to know that you don't like Tim Minchin.
Thanks for letting us all know.
I think this show makes me more of a fan of people I otherwise wouldn't like (like Russell Kane last week).
+rob poynter Tim Minchin actually does a piece all about you in this podcast. The part where he talks about reading books or watching The Bachelor type shows. The others here will know exactly what I mean and it seems pretty clear which camp you fall into.
lwaves I've never seen the Bachelor. I don't watch television.
Why STOCKHAUSEN?! Tsk-tsk.. Low jab, mr Herring. Objectively, it's better to listen to "STOCKHAUSEN" than to minchin.
because Minchin syndrome wouldn't be a pun on Stockholm Syndrome.
But Minchen Syndrome sounds dirtier...