Hello everyone!!!

Now, you will have noticed that we’ve been off the air for quite a while now. We explained a few reasons for this back in the last show we did but I just want to get across a few other reasons and then a couple of changes that will occur to the show so that you can all stop worrying.

The erratic recording schedule that kicked off for us back in about July was mostly down to me moving house. Two months after we moved, Tommy – for if you do not know, myself, Tommy and Producer John all used to live together, along with intermittent but extremely popular guest star Beth – also moved. Now Tommy and Producer John still live together in a lovely south London abode along with another very lovely guest Jon ‘JP’ Cooper and a man we desperately want to get in as a guest in the very near future, Big Sam.

The important thing to note now is that we live on different sides of the city. We are in the process of working out a new recording schedule, but the issue is finding the time to actually do this. I have been going through a very busy and stressful period at work, as has Producer John – Tommy may have, but he’s isn’t really a man to whom stress has that much impact, bad ass that he is – so that, along with settling into our new places, has meant that finding the time to record has become increasingly difficult.

Now, this does not mean we are done. Au contraire, mes petits singes effrontés, we will be returning to the air very soon. What is holding back, beyond the aforementioned moving and stress and shit, is that Tommy and I are working on a new way to do the show.

You see, though we haven’t been doing this podcast all that long, Tommy and I have been going to the movies together for a very long time. Over the course of this time, we have seen quite a significant amount of time-wasting crap. After a while, you begin to collapse into an existential funk and consider ‘why? Why do we put ourselves through complete crap like We Were Soldiers, Mothman Prophecies, Gamer, Transformers 2 or The Lovely Bones?’. It’s a good question. We have done it because, in my humble opinion, you should see crappy movies to appreciate the better ones. However, this point of view has somewhat shifted in recent years. The refined version of this now is: ‘Movies you don’t like are okay as long as there is something interesting about them’. I recently watched Somewhere, the Sofia Coppola film with Stephen Dorff. I was looking forward to the movie but really, really did not enjoy it. But that kind of thing is okay to pay money to see and then dislike. Because though I didn’t subscribe to what it was trying to say, it was at least trying to say something.

So, the new show format Tommy and I are working on will incorporate this and make things much easier for us to do a show each week. The length of the shows will likely drop somewhat, but again, when you’re knocking out 90 minute shows every week, often on films neither of us have that much to say about, it can get a little draining.

We should return by December, so look forward to a year-end list or two from us. Until then, I hope this will address some concerns of our listeners. I will update as soon as we know a little more about when we will return and exactly what the show will be when we do.

Out.

Sam