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Not two names I would ever have expected to link together. However, after the recent thread about Bez from the Happy Mondays starting a racing club, a podcast series about the disappearance of Shergar presented by early 90s rap star Vanilla Ice seems less unlikely that it perhaps would have done previously.
Next week, MC Hammer evaluates the controversy about Hawk Wings Lockinge OR.
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Haha Tatling
MC Hammer had a very a good horse called Dance Floor back in the day, so who knows?!Alice Cooper on the decline of Group 1 opportunities for top-of-the-ground turf horses in the UK is one I am looking forward to.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"One day we’ll find out that Bob Baffert was responsible for the Amy Winehouse drug abuse….
Now, THAT wouldn’t be too far off.“I believe Ozzy Osbourne is assisting Alice with that one Ian.”
Really?
I’d heard the former Black Sabbath frontman was working on a documentary on the evolving draw bias over sprint distances on all British racecourses – I was obviously told wrong!
Strange but true: I once wrote a feature on him.
Small world, innit? – https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-devil-in-mr-osborne-743725.html
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Love these podcast ideas! Worryingly, I would definitely listen to all of them as well.
Not yet had the pleasure of listening to Vanilla Ice’s contribution, but it’s on the playlist…
Rumour has it the great Mr. Ice is collaberating with a certain party animal Irish veteran trainer, to produce a re-boot of his most famous track. “Ice Ice Bolger” will probably cause SPOTIFY to crash due to demand.
Thanks for that link Ian, I’ll have a read of that later. Are you still a journalist? Interesting job / life I should imagine.
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No, I left journalism 20 years ago.
I was actually on the racing desk on The Independent, but it was the eccentric land of opportunity and if you wanted to write a feature on something outside your department, they were usually well up for publishing it.
As well as this, I had an interview with Garry Kasparov and a few more items besides.
Fun days.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"It sounds “fun days”. Interesting stuff. I nearly went for journalism but ended up Quantity Surveying. No idea why, just fell in to it. C’est la vie.
Did you open the Kasparov interview with, “Hi Garry, are you a Czech, mate?”. I’ll get my coat.
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I had already met him at a Chess tournament, we got along ok – he’s very polite and courteous – and he agreed to an interview.
He just told me his life story and answered a load of questions – mainly about his past matches and future plans.
It’s still out there online on the internet somewhere.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Might have a look at that too mate. I reckon you should resurrect your career for a one off exclusive with John Leng.
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The Shergar podcast I mentioned in this thread has now finished after seven episodes. To give a quick review in case it is of interest to anyone else (probably not!), I enjoyed it. If you already know the story in any degree of detail then I doubt you would gain any new insights, but I didn’t know it that well and found hearing more about this tragic and absurd set of events interesting.
It made a lot of use of archive recordings and I don’t think there was much in the way of original research, with the main aim being to tell a story. Having the aforementioned Mr Ice as the presenter was somewhat of a distraction, especially as the podcast kept reminding you of his presence, but this did settle down a bit after the first episode.
If you are looking for a scholarly investigation or a more sober documentary then it won’t be of interest. However, if you’d like a good overview of what happened and can get past some of the sillier aspects of the presentation it’s a worthwhile listen simply because of what a compelling story it is based on.
MC Hammer had a very a good horse called Dance Floor back in the day, so who knows?!
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