please empty your brain below
Not sure about this - sound difficult to hear. Please keep the day job going. Another brilliant epistle.

Dave B | 05.07.21 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Not quite sure what you're saying here? - is the daily text post continuing or being replaced by the spoken word?

I hope not - my morning read between the first and second cups of coffee is (almost) the highlight of my day.

BTW - a lot of the links in today's text aren't working.

Rob Gullen | 05.07.21 - 7:57 a.m. | #

I think Rob is new here.

David | 05.07.21 - 8:00 a.m. | #

I feel unnecessarily proud to have read to the very end without clicking a link, because I think that I sensed some heavily disguised irony in today's blog post.

Frank F | 05.07.21 - 8:01 a.m. | #

Ditto Frank.

I think you're behind the times too - podcasts now seem to be 2 or more people having a conversation that should have stayed between the two people. I say 'seem' because I've listened to exactly two such narcissistic outpourings before wondering how boring people's lives must be that they have the time/inclination to listen to such tosh.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Good grief, DG, do you think we have time to burn? Unless you can reduce all your content on to a steady stream of 45 second TikTok videos, I’m outta here.

Philip | 05.07.21 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Tuesday’s No. 1 podcast - I just can’t hear the apostrophes. Aren’t they supposed to have a trumpeting sound?

I did click on the final link in case you had inserted something not to like and subscribe to.

Herbof | 05.07.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #

I would genuinely enjoy a 'DG Guided Walk around the Olympic Park' or perhaps an alternative commentary on the Dangleway with actually interesting facts.

R2 | 05.07.21 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Please, can we listen to kittens?

Bob L-S | 05.07.21 - 9:06 a.m. | #

I look forwards to a new world of making you sound alternatively drunk or chipmunk by playing all your podcasts at half or double speed.

TomH | 05.07.21 - 9:10 a.m. | #

I'm worried after hearing DG's voice for the first time after years of reading the blog. Has it just been an AI the whole time?

This would explain a lot.

Boris | 05.07.21 - 9:19 a.m. | #

The DG podcast is currently on 234 listens, how many got to the end?

The majority of media is just a variation on what has gone before, eccentric detective investigates yet another murder, something is about to wipe out the universe only the at can save us, can you value/sell/buy/recondition this old stuff, etc. etc.

Still Anon | 05.07.21 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Instant DG podcast - just cut an paste your favourite article into this website, and choose the soothing voice you wish to imagine belongs to DG:
https://ttsreader.com

Mike Newman | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 9:27 a.m. | #

I do by some freak chance happen to have grew up in Coney Hall and I'm frustrated to find that the link to the podcast does not work

Filbert Cobb | 05.07.21 - 9:47 a.m. | #

I too managed to get to the end without clicking on the links. But then I thought I would compare the verbal bus ride with the written one. Identical as far as I listened. But,please DG, stick to the written word. Much easier to comprehend and take at one's own speed.

Mike Roberts | 05.07.21 - 9:51 a.m. | #

Find out what an apostrophe sounds like from Victor Borge here here.

Joho | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Where do I click to accept cookies?

Nigel | 05.07.21 - 10:05 a.m. | #

What about those of us with a hearing disability? Where are the transcripts?

Malcolm of Kent | 05.07.21 - 10:10 a.m. | #

The spoken voice sounds suspiciously robotic on my player. Something’s not quite right. Bring back the text.

Chris | 05.07.21 - 10:17 a.m. | #

What really unnerved me was that the 'voice' sounds exactly like the one purporting to come from the Inland Revenue inviting me to press '1' to stop myself being taken to court.
(I usually reply and tell them it's the Fraud Squad, the 'phone goes down remarkably quickly).

RogerB | 05.07.21 - 10:23 a.m. | #

For several years I have enjoyed
READING DG's daily outpourings.
His latest technological revolution is of no use to me as my laptop does not have any 'audio' facility whatsoever.
Bye-bye DG it has been good while it lasted.

Pierre | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 10:27 a.m. | #

Re: Pedant's Corner

I remember the letters page of Private Eye a few years back having a long-running series of arguments about Pedant's vs Pedants', before eventually settling on Pedantry Corner. I assume your podcast will come to the same non-conclusion?

gooneruk | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 10:34 a.m. | #

Excellent stuff!
As my attention is prone to wander when listening and/or doze off altogether, it's great to now have the opportunity to listen while reading along - really is the best of both worlds!!
And the perfect educational tool for your ESL subscribers.

Who would have guessed the word 'plaque' had a different pronunciation within the same context without this indispensable service!

Cornish Cockney | 05.07.21 - 10:47 a.m. | #

Sounds great but I shall be giving the Friday pod a swerve. Bus routes not really my thing.

I shall be disappointed if DG doesn't sound exactly like Jack Hargreaves from How (one for the teenagers there...)

Arlu | 05.07.21 - 11:00 a.m. | #

Please stick to the written blog DG, although I suppose I could use the 456 bus podcast to help me get to sleep instead of Neil Nunes reading the Shipping Forecast!

Richard | 05.07.21 - 11:04 a.m. | #

Some people just don't get it do they? Unless they are double bluffing.

Mel | 05.07.21 - 11:05 a.m. | #

I yell at the electric newspaper that if I want to watch a video (blown up Miami apartment block excluded), I would turn on the tv.

I'm outta here.

Andrew | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 11:13 a.m. | #

Guaranteeing we will never visit described locations seems to underestimate the incentive provided by DG's prose to go and explore these very places. But then again, will it actually happen?

cau1khead | 05.07.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #

I have been listening to different podcasts for over 60 years. I call them 'the radio.'

Chris | 05.07.21 - 11:58 a.m. | #

Worth listening to just for "rollercoastersworth" at 5:35.

miker | 05.07.21 - 12:15 p.m. | #

I'm most impressed that the very first DG podcast had half an hour's worth of background noise (as far as I heard) yet clocked up 5 'likes'. Maybe I missed something, but I'm not going to go back and check.

I'd like to hear a podcast of the Ladies Who Bus on the bus.

NickW | 05.07.21 - 1:47 p.m. | #

I get very frustrated when some website or other wants to show me a video instead of giving me written instructions or information. Reading is so much quicker than listening to someone else reading out loud.

Also, if I'm just listening to something, I feel that I should be doing something useful with my hands at the same time.

Long may DG continue to be my breakfast reading!

Sarah | Homepage | 05.07.21 - 3:34 p.m. | #

I genuinely can't tell if people here are keeping up the kayfabe of today's post, or are taking it seriously.

Jamesthegill | 05.07.21 - 3:39 p.m. | #

Presumably the Coney Hall podcast has been delayed while waiting for an exclusive interview with Nigel Farage about what it was like to go to school on Corkscrew Hill. If he’s not available I’m happy to talk about my memories of Corkscrew Hill in the 1980’s.
I will also be writing in to the Pedant’s Corner podcast to pedantically point out that Corkscrew Hill is the wrong side of Addington Road so is technically not part of Coney Hall.

Cjw714 | 05.07.21 - 6:25 p.m. | #

I do very much hope there will be a premium subscription service available (perhaps advertised in the same way as the Guardian seeks your money - you have to say "I'll sign up", or "Not yet" to read anything) so that devoted Geezerites can obtain access to the podcast as much as a full hour before the unwashed part of the readership.

DominicH | 05.07.21 - 7:44 p.m. | #

After

Dominic Sayers | 05.07.21 - 8:29 p.m. | #

Ha ha! Yes the use of podcasts has indeed become rather excessive, the idea that instead of walking around a park reading notice boards, we instead walk around the park scanning QR codes so we can instead get an audio description.

Mikey C | 06.07.21 - 12:37 a.m. | #

Loving the intonation on the podcast, DG.

Colly | 06.07.21 - 8:18 a.m. | #

A very enjoyable post! I think I've been reading you too long, DG, as from the first sentence I guessed where this was heading and yet still - still! - clicked that first 'Coney Hall' link just to be sure my guess was correct. And the robot voice was a nice touch. I was wandering the city yesterday and thinking I could be walking past you and never know it, which was quite sad, in a way.

Jayne | 06.07.21 - 9:38 a.m. | #

Saturday's podcast on snowballing self-isolation has already inspired a Guardian article and a BBC news story so I think I'm on a winner here.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.21 - 9:12 p.m. | #

Route 456, as narrated by Moon Man

Matt | 07.07.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #

Brilliant. Another one for the best of DG list. Just for a few seconds, I was genuinely freaked out that the Soundcloud voice was DG's. Stepping out from behind the curtain and all that. Then I felt silly. Fair enough!

Colin | Homepage | 11.07.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #











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