Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Monday September 27th 2021 The Blurb - After the 15 hour slog of Sunday night’s shift, I got to sleep at around 9am and woke at 3:30pm. We looked at some properties to hopefully book some viewings, because time is running out, despite the fact that money is also not an easy thing to get hold of at the moment. Work went relatively well, and I listened to some top podcasts.  The ‘casts - My Guest List Pod - (0:57) S2 #14 Bonus Episode: September 23rd 2021: Darren is chatting with YouTuber, Blogger, Actor, Musician Imari Reynolds. He gives a countdown of his ten favourite albums. Darren suggests using mypodcastreviews.com  The Delta Flyers - (0:47) S2 e17: December 7th 2020: Garrett & Robbie are looking at the Star Trek Voyager episode Dreadnought. They discuss changes to health issues on sets these days. Written by Gary Holland and directed by Levar Burton. Nancy Hauer & Raphael S’Barge. The eye of the bun. “The Delta Quadrant Deception”. Towards the end when they were trying t

  Sunday September 26th 2021 The Blurb - I had so much difficulty falling asleep again, eventually dropping off at around 9am, and then waking at 1:15pm to prepare to record an episode of Pods Like Us that I’ve been really looking forward to; chatting with the guys from the Inner Monolog podcast. Two o’clock came, and it was hopefully not obvious, but I was very nervous. Ricky, Jose & Marcus were so much fun, and it was unfortunate that Julio had already left for work. I mean it wholeheartedly when I say that I’d be so up for a separate episode with Julio, or if he wanted to join in on a group chat at some point. The talk went to so many places I had not expected, which is the magic of chat based podcasts in my opinion.  I also succeeded in a first by sharing stories and video from my computer in the zoom chat.  I think it’s going to be a great episode when it comes out, but also one with plenty of bad language, most of which I think was from me! Subjects discussed included stupid

  Saturday September 25th 2021 The Blurb - Not the greatest of sleep. A long call out cut into the latter half of the shift, which ate into the time I had gained from being a little bit quicker on my routine jobs.  Got the work done, and some great podcasts listened to. Looking forward to my chat with the guys from The Inner Monolog tomorrow! Work hours were 2700-0500. The ‘casts - 2 Legs - (0:53) episode 141: September 25th 2021: Tom and Andy are chatting about the new deluxe book Press To Play At 35. Tom has been buying new records that were based on shouts that Andy chose from their previous YouTube video of non-Beatle related albums that they love. The book includes interviews with producer/engineer Hugh Padgham, remix engineer John “Tokes” Potoker, and co-writer Eric Stewart. Very open interviews they are too #ouch Song reviews from Paul Sinclair, along with bits from Hugh. I’ve got to agree with Andy - “when Spies Like Us is the last song by Paul to hit the top ten in the US, why

  Friday September 24th 2021 The Blurb - Woke up at two o’clock,    but should have stayed in bed longer considering that I didn’t fall asleep until after 10am. I was so tired, making the warm night at work even worse. I worked from 5pm until 5:30am, and a steady night it was too, with me arranging the podcast listening to fit with the shift’s flow, considering that Andy on the other run wasn’t feeling great, and wanted to chat. I went to Morrison’s on the way home, and got in at 6:30am, taking until after 9am to drop off to sleep.  The ‘casts - The Queenpod - (0:19) mini episode 16: September 21st 2021: Ro, Sooz, John & Simon are looking at the classic We Will Rock You. #PlayQueenLoud all those facts about the song!!! Replica guitar in the video destroyed in 1982 by Brian, who got fed up and threw it over the amplifiers on frustration. The Freddie response quote, lol. Ad for the Off Menu podcast. The Dixieland cover version of it!  Live Life Loud: The Decibolic Podcast: (0:21) Sep

  Thursday September 23rd 2021 The Blurb - So after getting to sleep late (around 4:30am), I had to get up at 7:30 to take the Clio for it’s MOT, so had breakfast, coffee, and a bit longer than intended to go out - I went out at nine instead of the originally planned 8am - tired AF!  Whilst watching the BBC Breakfast News, I noticed that one of the experts in a news article was a guy from the great podcast The Naked Scientists! Trust me to notice that - “podcast here,” “podcast there…” The car has gone in for the MOT. Fingers crossed. That’s suicide watch right there, because I just can’t handle another disaster on top of the rest of the shit we’re going through at the moment.  I had left the car at Sherwood Motors for it’s MOT at around 9:15am, walked back home, and at around half past twelve I went back to bed for a few hours, as I had a really bad sleep. I woke at around 3:45pm, received a phone call from Steve at Sherwood Motors with news about the MOT.  It’s not hit me well.  Ther

  Wednesday September 22nd 2021 The Blurb - So, I think that I actually woke up at around about 9:15am as opposed to the intended 7:30am. I was able to make myself a drink and breakfast cereal, as well as prepare for the supposed hour to an hour and a half show with Antony Rotunno, who has already appeared on the show in the inaugural season (season one, episode seven) for his show Glass Onion: On John Lennon. This time we were talking about his show Life And Only Life which, to quote him, is about “a search for inner and outer truths”, looking at alternative news sources, psychology, self-help, empowerment, and much more. It started recording at 10am, and finished at around 1pm! Notes taken during and after recording an episode with Antony from Life & Life Only. Notes for editing - we both recorded it, with Antony planning to use some footage as a two part episode for his own show in the future.    I’m now wondering how to edit this, as I could cut huge swathes out to make it mana