Title: Lockdown Love Poetry

acast Time: 1:11:19
Youtube Time: 1:10:47

Original Record Date: Unknown
acast Publication Date: August 12, 2020
Youtube Publication Date: August 12, 2020

Please Welcome a Man
Who’s just had his tarot cards read.

Acronym Modification
Richard Herring’s Locally-Sourced Twattery Podcast

Cool Kids
I was hanging around with the rhinoceroses at Whipsnade Zoo today, and that is a cool animal. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a rhinoceros up close before but it is the coolest animal I think I’ve ever seen. It looks like a sort of an animatronic version of a dinosaur that hasn’t quite been invented. It does not look real, unless they’re all animatronic then none of them are real. I don’t know. But there was a big one and a little one; it was the cutest thing I’d ever seen and endlessly fascinating. The coolest animal now, declared by me.

Guest Best Known
For playing a compère in the television programme Casualty.

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Emergency Questions

If you could take one item from any museum or art gallery – and you’re allowed to take it home with you – in the world, what would you take?

Any painting? Uh, gosh.  Might just go to the Natural History Museum. Just take anything because it’s not British; it’s just stolen anyway. Right? *Makes grabbing motion.* Now you know how it feels. Just get something. Anything.

Who’s the most surprising famous person you’ve been in a lift with? And which I mean, you can’t have gotten into the lift with them; they had to be in the lift you were in.

Gosh. In a lift with a famous person? Have I? You are overestimating my lifestyle, mate. *RH notes that it could be as simple as running into a minor celebrity at a shopping centre.* I go to Westfield. There’s too many people. I’ve ended up just, like, kicking somebody in the back of the head. Have I been in a lift with someone famous? Um, Lee Ryan from Blue. Yeah. Mm hmm. Is that good? He’s a bit of a geezer, mate. He’s down-to-earth. He’s like… I don’t know. For some reason I always think singers would be divas but, like, nah. I was like, “Hey dude.” And I was like, “Mate, you ‘re a singer, man. Be a diva. Tell me to shut up or something. Just look at me and go, “No pictures.'” He was a cool guy. Really laid-back.

Notes

This episode was live-streamed via Twitch, with RH and guest in each of their own homes due to COVID-19/coronavirus.

NC reads a poem he wrote about being in lockdown with his girlfriend.

At the 42:09 (acast) / 42:26 (Youtube) time mark, a video NC created is spliced into the podcast.