My favourite grand designs memory is Shaun Lock doing an impression of Kevin McLeod - " the winters coming in... they haven't got the fucking roof on yet" 😂
Shame you didn't explore royalty free music a bit deeper, as then you could have looked at Kevin MacLeod, who composed a lot of royalty free music you hear all over RUclips and Kevin McCloud, host of Grand Designs, in the same episode.
Unfortunately there is so much of his recorded voice out there, it's only a matter of time till it's been cloned by AI. Hopefully we, I'm a voice guy, get some more legal protection, and recourse, from AI soon.
Hate to fact-check the excellent Marina but 'The Tale of Genji' isn't actually about a cat, just boring old court politics (sorry to any Cat Lit fans). However, the first potential novel in English is about a cat. It's called "Beware the Cat" by William Baldwin so maybe this is also a proud British literary tradition too!
Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
I come to TRiE for my twice-weekly dose of slight misinformation. Last time it was Richard claiming that the Lion King (musical) is the highest-grossing entertainment product ever (it's not, it's GTA V).
@@kyqg2606 No spit mr. No one said he didn't have reason. You don't get to pick and choose the things people understand about you by acting as a perpetual adolescent, though. No one forced him to earn millions acting churlish. He could have easily stopped and been a VO guy or normal presenter and been fine. Instead he _chose_ to have the public see him as 14 to earn more money. No one forced this on him.
Couldn't help myself. For shame. However I fully expected My Voluptuous Disease to be a piece of instrumental musak, but it actually has lyrics, including a chorus containing the title. The world is a peculiar place.
Yep, found it on Apple Music too. Have to say it doesn't sound like AI generated music. Just another unremarkable song by an obscure artist that somehow has surfaced to our consciousness. Bye someone called James Paul . Indeed, one wonders if there are two songs called My Voluptuous Disease. one real, and maybe trawled by an AI which basically"stole" the title?
My voluptuous disease has been on youtube for 3 years. Was AI doing it's music thing then at that time? My god has Richard got one wrong. It had to happen eventually I suppose.
AI was being used to make music three years ago, but yeah, My Voluptuous Disease is by a father-son outfit called Mercurius. One of them runs a gym in Newcastle.
Kind of, yes. There was a thing launched in 2009 called Songsmith, by Microsoft, and it was mostly infamous for having a world-class awful advert. It would auto-generate terrible glorious inappropriate music to fit around any vocals you uploaded to it. People had a lot of quiet fun with making jazzy elevator backing to Metallica tracks for a bit. (Having just checked out the song... it actually does have the breezy generic vibes of Songsmith and the real vocals of people, so I can see it being hybrid AI. But I don't think it is)
There used to be circles similar to cue dots on cinema films - the film came as several 20 minute reels and was set up on two projectors so as reel 1 was about to end there was a mark to tell the projectionist to start the second projector with reel 2 and so on. Latterly you spliced all the reels into one when the film arrived at your cinema onto what was called a “cake stand” essentially a huge stand with flat turntables that took a whole film as a continuous loop through one projector. As the film had to be spliced together at the start of the run and then cut up again to return to the distributors you lost a few frames every time so each print had a limited life.
I would have thought 'Canterbury Tales' would be up there - 14th Century, given how ubiquitous it was at a time before the printing press was invented.
I think Marina's point is still kind of correct. Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
I learned from a TV show donkey's years ago that the cue dots were put on cinema reels so that projectionists knew to switch projectors at a certain time because the reels were about 10 minutes or some ludicrous number, so I imagine that was their original purpose and it just was retained for the move to television.
Thats correct! you get dots about 5 secs before the reel needs to change and then 1 sec. The projector has a 2 button mechanism (from memory ...). One to start the projector and the second to stop the other one projecting.
Sorry, but the answer regarding production companies cleaning up after themselves is WRONG. Do a cursory search of RUclips. The world is littered with abandoned sets and junk from old movie and television shoots. It's fairly obvious that if something is too big or too much trouble to remove, the company will just leave it. I suppose they realize that the local government -- especially if it is a poor one -- won't have the resources to come after them. It's arrogant and disgraceful behavior. Let's not pretend it doesn't happen.
This video will live in infamy in Japanese literary circles forever. I've heard similar ridiculous claims from random podcasters and one ridiculous article in Smithsonian Magazine before (I imagine that's where the research was done for this), but this takes it to a new level😅
I think you’re conflating two different things perhaps with the aim of touching on a current news story. I doubt that they are an AI artist that’s uploaded simply to game the system fraudulently. It’s far more likely it’s just someone that creates royalty free stock music and has decided to post it to Spotify (why not, extra income), whether they use AI elements or not.
If "the Big Green Bus" is the episode I'm thinking of, it suffered massive fire damage and has been replaced on the latest series of George Clark with a set of (now quite pretty!) shipping containers as an AirBnB option instead.
Question I had regarding the Grand Tour finale was on the old BBC Top Gear footage edited in at the end… interesting to know who had those conversations and how much it cost.
I remember James Bond shooting up the Nambutu embassy in Casino Royale because they didn't want to pick a particular African country. It almost sounds worse to just make up an 'African-sounding' country than use a real one tbh.
What I don't quite understand is how the guy made 10's of millions on Spotify, but on the other side of the coin the music industry is crying out about how unfair Spotify is and they don't make enough money? How does that work?
from what Richard was saying, he had bots "listening" to the music as well thus generating some money for each "listen". scale that up to 1000s of bots and you'll be raking in the cash
@@definedphotography yeah but proper artists get thousands of listens too and complain they don't get enough money. Surely the bloke would have made the number of bot listens something believable otherwise it would have been flagged up immediately. Maybe the artists have to share their income with the record labels and all sorts of other things, whereas he didn't have to pay the AI or his bots so he kept it all. Was he raking in more money than the biggest artists or is there something else about real musicians not making enough money?
@@definedphotographyhe was doing what the industry does itself to boast sales. But he got caught and he isn't one of the big labels. Also movie distributors do the same thing from time to time with cinema tickets on smaller films.
I'm pretty certain that _My Voluptuous Disease_ track is not AI generated, it was released in 2021 and I'm pretty sure the AI generated music wasn't anything like good enough back then. The track does sound like it's been thoroughly quantised and autotuned (that is pitch and rhythm has been digitally corrected) so it sounds very artificial, but as generic and bland as it is, it is human composed and performed.
Erm.... back in 1996 when I worked for BT Broadcast Services we automated the ITV network for the ITV companies. The adverts were inserted by computers and the in-band signalling (screen dot) was done by a PC. Literally NOBODY was involved and hasn't been for 25 years. ***The adverts are all served by computers.***
Richard - you're wrong on some of the royatly free info - if its "The Gym" ... this music from Epidemic (at last count) ... a Scandinavian company that buy up loads of music from composers for a low one off fee ... and then they charge companies like The Gym and Costa etc to use this music instead of PRS music (your well known and not so well know commercial artists and reclusive production music composers ) so the gym / cafe / shop dont have to pay the PRS a yearly licence fee. Epidemic has also made in roads into broadcast too ... meaning composers lose out on their bread and butter re. performance fees. (Epidemic also feed into Spotify ... and guess what ... Spotify fill their playlists with it too)
they probably make their life a LOT easier by getting oil and fuel and stuff out of it before the shot. The little drive off can be done without oil and almost no fuel. They probably have people to think about this stuff, to make the cleaning up less difficult, without ruining the shot. That Hignfy was awkward because the joke was kind of done after 10 minutes but Richard kept it going on and on and on. I think Clarkson was more bored by it then annoyed by the end. And taking it with a massive Amazon contract in the pocket probably helped. As he made clear in the show.
Keith Chegwin, who suffered with alcoholism during his life, wanted to call his autobiography "Cheggers can't be Boozers" which would have been the greatest title of any biography ever, had the publishers allowed it.
In the cheesy 2012 remake of Red Dawn, they filmed it ALL as the Chinese being the invaders, and then commercial reasons... in post they had to make it North Korea. And it's really obvious it was a patch job trying to hide all the references and imagery!
Re earliest novel in English, Trollope, in a piece entitled 'On English Prose Fiction' cites' The Eupheus' by Lylie and 'The Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney, both written about 1580, as being 'the earliest English novels we know'.
If I was building a house and was selected to appear on Grand Designs I'd immediately re-examine my plans. The TV company, I'm sure, selects projects for their potentia lfor disaster , thats where the drama is.
Question: What prop has appeared in the most movies/TV shows? For example I know that the clock tower from Back to the future has appeared in multiple movies. The wilhelm scream is an audio clip that been in multiple movies. In the TV show Psych there's a pineapple hidden in every episode, but that's just one show. Is there a physical prop that has been handed around and reused?
I've read Marina's offerings over many years, loved all of them and have now fallen in love with the woman herself. Such humanity and brilliance. Even the tics of her behaviour are delightful. Richard is good, too. They keep each other on the straight and narrow, just. Love the podcast.
Love this show, but Genji is not a cat, so you got that all wrong. Where did you get that from? But Haruki Murakami has cats in his novels and a lot of the quirky Japanese literature right now seems very Murakami-lite. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys...all the stories, millenia ago, were originally Tiger's (all cats were grouped as Tigers) they belonged to them and they originated them.
Ironically if they didn't clear it up, it would probably be better for the environment..... Like how you see wildlife in the ocean loves wrecks and they love trash floating around, they thrive around it.... Maybe not nets though lol. Even plastic is great, birds love using it and small lifeforms eat it and obviously they feed the food chain. So I bet lots of wildlife would rip parts off the car to use and use it as shelter or somewhere to perch, then eventually it would corrode down and put nutrients into the ground. Like how Chernobyl was great for the area, the wildlife is doing better than when humans were living there and there are no mutants like scaremongers told everyone.
Just want to say , I love this podcast (sometimes I listen to it while running , and sometimes like today I watch it) and while I might not always agree with the analysis (and that does not matter at all really) , I do think you both do an outstanding job on this and thank you for what is now hours of entertainment.
He wasn't furious. It's a running joke in the final episode - don't bother complaining because they're never going to make another so who cares? I like this podcast but please - make that the first and last click bait title.
Speaking of car cleanup there was an episode of Taggart where they're investigating at a quarry, and you can still see the Hugo's car the mates pushed down the same quarry in Shallow Grave ...
My guess as a pub operator is that the gym doesn’t want to pay for the PPL PRS license which costs my pub about a thousand pounds a year to use copyright music. Using royalty free music is a lot cheaper!
There should be a supercut of intros, starting with the first instance of Marina forgetting a detail through to now, where everything is fully polished, and dare I say, not as charming...
24 (a pre-streaming DVD boxset binge hit) caused a lot of controversy at the time, for the way it portrayed middle eastern terrorists at a time of… errrm… middle eastern terrorism Also, for the way it portrayed torture scenes
The major chain gym I go to sent out an email saying there were only going to play non royalty based music to save money. Everything is about cutting costs nowadays.
I love Grand Designs, but it is a bit tedious when you see ambitious architects who transparently want to show themselves on there. I wish it wasn't so obvious sometimes.
Ok so, 1️⃣the pronunciation of Genji is NOT jenji as in jenga… It is Gen as in the the beginning of “get” A hard G , the ji is as written But that’s just a pronunciation problem 2️⃣Maybe Marina (or her producers) could have done just a little more homework on a classic novel written over 1000 years ago that is still being translated and studied even now 😢 And noted The Tales Of Genji are most certainly not about a freaking cat!! 3️⃣If the novel is too long for consumption then try reading Liz Dalby’s “The Tale Of Murasaki” for a more concise understanding of the whole 源氏物語 saga Huge novel Huge history behind it And most certainly NOT a novel about a freaking cat Please, oh please, if you are going to comment on historical novels, her the story right Pronunciation is a small problem to your understanding of the whole “Tales Of Genji” and how and why it was written
There was a video on a notorious YT channel were they made an expedition to the cliff where the Duel movie finale was shot, in search for parts of the Duel truck and/or car, and they did find debris (medium to large sized) dating back to the '80s (not Duel, rather the Dukes of Hazzard likely, that cliff was used more than once) so about that "we're in the TV/movie business, of course we always clean everything up"... come on. Besides, that Beetle literally disintegrated, so good luck picking up every single bit of shrapnel, even if it was scattered in a well accessible area (look like this wasn't). Oh well.
Two points, those shows were filmed in the US, and it was 40+ years ago. They did things very differently over there and back then. In fact, because of the mess caused in that era, we now have rules about cleaning up after stunts.
Glad someone asked that question about the Grand Tour. I was thinking the same when watching that. It's not actually that obvious that they clean up their messes, especially when they're in a lesser developed country acting like they have the run of the place anyway.
I sort of wonder doesn't Britain have insects? SOOO many of the Grand Designs seem to be taking the back off the house and filling it with expandable glass doors to open it up. The mosquitos and other summer pest would make that impossible to live with.
Grand Designs: “Unfortunately it started to rain the hardest it has in 100 years. Now the site is a bog and the project is running 6 months behind schedule!” Why are British builders continually surprised that rain happens in the UK?
Your own comment says that it rained more than it had for 100 years. Do you expect builders to be prepared for more rain that has been seen in a century. Something that has never happened in their lifetime?
Is it a more recent thing, this compulsion to clear up afterwards? There are lots of instances of smashed cars/ trains/ planes etc from movies that can still be found where they crashed. In the past, I guess they were less bothered...?
As someone not from the UK, the only time I've ever seen that box is on Jay Foreman videos, he has it pop up before his ad reads and I assumed it was some unique British thing. The reason behind it is so bizarre to me, the US which is an even bigger market that had multiple stations broadcasting the same live broadcast didn't need a 60 second que as far as I'm aware. Why would UK broadcasters need that?
@@angeskye go watch a Jay Forman video, right before he goes to a sponsor message a striped box will appear in the top right corner. That's what they are talking about.
I have a question. I hope this is the right place to post it. During Richard Osman's game show on BBC 2, House of Games. During the buzzer rounds, there is always about a 1 second delay between the end of the question and the first buzzer. Is this what actually happens, or is a silence edited in to allow the viewers to get the answer first?
@@steveconnor746 they did answer this on one of the previous q&a I think. If I remember it is edited to appear this way in order to give us at home a chance to answer.
I’m becoming less and less interested in the topics on this podcast (much to my dismay). I don’t want to hear about cats. But I do want to hear heaps more about how shows like Grand Designs are made and so on.
Yeah, I’m sure the producers will take your individual preferences into account when developing future podcasts…🙄 Let me guess: you’re a millennial, right? Or a Boomer who hasn’t figured out you can click on the video and forward to the next section…
@vjc2270 I'm an individual. I don't identify with generational definitions originally derived for marketing purposes. Ageist comments are discriminatory. Please stop obsessing about others and live your own life. Technology is designed to be used by people with basic intelligence. An interest in social media and a knowledge of how it works does not make one even slightly special.
To the "Of course someone goes and clears it up quote" I live in Wales and two years ago an old died when the house next to his exploded taking his home with it, due to the stupidity of his neighbour. To this day, his house still looks like a victim of the Luftwaffe. Busy street in a major UK city and every time I drive past I am disgusted by the lack of action by the gas company who explosion destroyed this man and his home, the local Labour council or insurance company that have done nothing about clearing it up or the police who threatened to send anyone to jail who tried to clean it up themselves. This is the state of the UK today.
Loved the old Top Gear, and the Grand Tour, but towards the end some of the forced stunts got super cringey, and even though they 'cleared up' afterwards, it was still a waste of money that could have been put to a better purpose and damaging to the environment. Gosh, I'm getting as old as Clarkson, May and Hammond!
I really do not like the fake backgrounds and the aggressive editing. listening to 2 people having a real conversation is so much more preferable than hearing clips prepped up for tiktok.
30 minutes long video, barely 3 and half minutes of it are dedicated to the topic of the title/thumbnail of the video. Pathetic clickbait. I guess it worked since I'm here, but I'll make sure to not come back. Enjoy this free engagement.
Describing your apparent anger at something so inconsequential would be a more worthy use of the word 'pathetic'. Besides, would the headline on the front page of newspaper be the analogue equivalent of clickbait? It's the same thing surely but you normally only get two or three pages about the subject of the headline
You and people like you have taken away all meaning from the word genocide. This is not genocide, it is war. It is a brutal, bloody war that is causing severe civilian casualty and devastation, but it is war.
My favourite grand designs memory is Shaun Lock doing an impression of Kevin McLeod - " the winters coming in... they haven't got the fucking roof on yet" 😂
Shame you didn't explore royalty free music a bit deeper, as then you could have looked at Kevin MacLeod, who composed a lot of royalty free music you hear all over RUclips and Kevin McCloud, host of Grand Designs, in the same episode.
By the way, despite what the description says, the surname of the guy from Grand Designs is McCloud, not McLeod.
Kevin MacLeod is not only a wonderful presenter but he has a beautiful voice. If he ever gives up the architecture game a career in voiceovers awaits.
You're clearly a big fan of Kevin McCloud, LOL
Each to their own... his voice irritates me
@@kubricksmith The Kevin union 😂
Unfortunately there is so much of his recorded voice out there, it's only a matter of time till it's been cloned by AI.
Hopefully we, I'm a voice guy, get some more legal protection, and recourse, from AI soon.
Hate to fact-check the excellent Marina but 'The Tale of Genji' isn't actually about a cat, just boring old court politics (sorry to any Cat Lit fans). However, the first potential novel in English is about a cat. It's called "Beware the Cat" by William Baldwin so maybe this is also a proud British literary tradition too!
Maybe she was thinking of “I am a cat” by Soseki Natsume
Maybe she's thinking of The Tail of Genji
Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
I come to TRiE for my twice-weekly dose of slight misinformation. Last time it was Richard claiming that the Lion King (musical) is the highest-grossing entertainment product ever (it's not, it's GTA V).
@@Melaisishe also said he didn’t believe that it was the highest, but that was what was reported at the time they looked into it
The RUclipsr Jay Foreman puts the black and white box in his videos before he does an ad read
I used to think ya'll knew what you were talking about but then you said "Tale of the Genji" is about cat named Jenji. Maybe stick to TV duders?
Clarkson spends 40 years cultivating an aura of chaos and devil may caredness and then gets angry when we believe him
If you actually watch anything he's done, it's been clear for quite some time he does that for publicity and comedic effect.
@@kyqg2606 No spit mr. No one said he didn't have reason. You don't get to pick and choose the things people understand about you by acting as a perpetual adolescent, though. No one forced him to earn millions acting churlish. He could have easily stopped and been a VO guy or normal presenter and been fine. Instead he _chose_ to have the public see him as 14 to earn more money. No one forced this on him.
Couldn't help myself. For shame. However I fully expected My Voluptuous Disease to be a piece of instrumental musak, but it actually has lyrics, including a chorus containing the title. The world is a peculiar place.
Yep, found it on Apple Music too. Have to say it doesn't sound like AI generated music. Just another unremarkable song by an obscure artist that somehow has surfaced to our consciousness. Bye someone called James Paul .
Indeed, one wonders if there are two songs called My Voluptuous Disease. one real, and maybe trawled by an AI which basically"stole" the title?
Two uses of 'by and large'
Exactly that
If Marina was Bi this could also be their comedy duo name.
God I have found myself saying By and Large ALL THE TIME since they started making this podcast
Omg... 😂@@asl2025
I was just going to say I'm bi and large
Great minds@@asl2025
My voluptuous disease has been on youtube for 3 years. Was AI doing it's music thing then at that time? My god has Richard got one wrong. It had to happen eventually I suppose.
These two are factually incorrect *constantly*.
AI was being used to make music three years ago, but yeah, My Voluptuous Disease is by a father-son outfit called Mercurius. One of them runs a gym in Newcastle.
Kind of, yes. There was a thing launched in 2009 called Songsmith, by Microsoft, and it was mostly infamous for having a world-class awful advert. It would auto-generate terrible glorious inappropriate music to fit around any vocals you uploaded to it. People had a lot of quiet fun with making jazzy elevator backing to Metallica tracks for a bit.
(Having just checked out the song... it actually does have the breezy generic vibes of Songsmith and the real vocals of people, so I can see it being hybrid AI. But I don't think it is)
There used to be circles similar to cue dots on cinema films - the film came as several 20 minute reels and was set up on two projectors so as reel 1 was about to end there was a mark to tell the projectionist to start the second projector with reel 2 and so on. Latterly you spliced all the reels into one when the film arrived at your cinema onto what was called a “cake stand” essentially a huge stand with flat turntables that took a whole film as a continuous loop through one projector. As the film had to be spliced together at the start of the run and then cut up again to return to the distributors you lost a few frames every time so each print had a limited life.
Having listened to the podcast I’m somewhat amused by the title of this.
The first Novel in the UK was the semi autobiographical " Fanny Hill " which was written in the 1600's ..........
Wasn’t it the Mabinigion 12-13th century
I thought that the first novel to be published in the UK was the Bible, afterall it is a work of fiction...
I would have thought 'Canterbury Tales' would be up there - 14th Century, given how ubiquitous it was at a time before the printing press was invented.
@@karonroberts5888 A book and a Novel are slightly different .
Tale of Genji is not about a cat
Maybe she means The Tail of Genji
I think Marina's point is still kind of correct. Tale of Genji is not specifically about a cat, but there's a section of it that focuses on a cat. Specifically, you can refer to the section with Kashiwagi’s cat. A cat was the focal point of one of the stories, but it wasn't a main character of the novel.
Is it about Overwat?
who gives a flying fuck though?
I learned from a TV show donkey's years ago that the cue dots were put on cinema reels so that projectionists knew to switch projectors at a certain time because the reels were about 10 minutes or some ludicrous number, so I imagine that was their original purpose and it just was retained for the move to television.
Thats correct! you get dots about 5 secs before the reel needs to change and then 1 sec.
The projector has a 2 button mechanism (from memory ...). One to start the projector and the second to stop the other one projecting.
I learned it from an episode of Columbo.
@@DavidF-y4t YES! That's what it was. I couldn't remember the show until I read your comment. :D
Sorry, but the answer regarding production companies cleaning up after themselves is WRONG. Do a cursory search of RUclips. The world is littered with abandoned sets and junk from old movie and television shoots. It's fairly obvious that if something is too big or too much trouble to remove, the company will just leave it. I suppose they realize that the local government -- especially if it is a poor one -- won't have the resources to come after them. It's arrogant and disgraceful behavior. Let's not pretend it doesn't happen.
This video will live in infamy in Japanese literary circles forever. I've heard similar ridiculous claims from random podcasters and one ridiculous article in Smithsonian Magazine before (I imagine that's where the research was done for this), but this takes it to a new level😅
Famously 'Star Wars left the dinosaur skeleton that C3PO walks past in the Tunisian desert. It was still there decades later...
I think you’re conflating two different things perhaps with the aim of touching on a current news story. I doubt that they are an AI artist that’s uploaded simply to game the system fraudulently.
It’s far more likely it’s just someone that creates royalty free stock music and has decided to post it to Spotify (why not, extra income), whether they use AI elements or not.
If "the Big Green Bus" is the episode I'm thinking of, it suffered massive fire damage and has been replaced on the latest series of George Clark with a set of (now quite pretty!) shipping containers as an AirBnB option instead.
They say "it's never the countries/agencies involved" who object, but look at how Bolivia reacted to *Ghost Recon Wildlands*...
Question I had regarding the Grand Tour finale was on the old BBC Top Gear footage edited in at the end… interesting to know who had those conversations and how much it cost.
Personal favourite autobiography name is vic Reeves’ Me:Moir.
Why am I not surprised that Clarkson had a hissy fit when a mere mortal asks him a question 🤔
Wasn’t it the Mabinigion 12-13th century first British novel?
Oh my god not another batman/comic character related tv show. Someone for the love of god please make it stop.
Is it another of those "You're forced to watch it" shows?
I just don't get it!
I remember James Bond shooting up the Nambutu embassy in Casino Royale because they didn't want to pick a particular African country. It almost sounds worse to just make up an 'African-sounding' country than use a real one tbh.
I always felt terrible for the COVID builds
Also, what about Three Days of the Condor...
What I don't quite understand is how the guy made 10's of millions on Spotify, but on the other side of the coin the music industry is crying out about how unfair Spotify is and they don't make enough money? How does that work?
from what Richard was saying, he had bots "listening" to the music as well thus generating some money for each "listen". scale that up to 1000s of bots and you'll be raking in the cash
@@definedphotography yeah but proper artists get thousands of listens too and complain they don't get enough money. Surely the bloke would have made the number of bot listens something believable otherwise it would have been flagged up immediately. Maybe the artists have to share their income with the record labels and all sorts of other things, whereas he didn't have to pay the AI or his bots so he kept it all. Was he raking in more money than the biggest artists or is there something else about real musicians not making enough money?
@@definedphotographyhe was doing what the industry does itself to boast sales. But he got caught and he isn't one of the big labels. Also movie distributors do the same thing from time to time with cinema tickets on smaller films.
I'm pretty certain that _My Voluptuous Disease_ track is not AI generated, it was released in 2021 and I'm pretty sure the AI generated music wasn't anything like good enough back then. The track does sound like it's been thoroughly quantised and autotuned (that is pitch and rhythm has been digitally corrected) so it sounds very artificial, but as generic and bland as it is, it is human composed and performed.
Erm.... back in 1996 when I worked for BT Broadcast Services we automated the ITV network for the ITV companies. The adverts were inserted by computers and the in-band signalling (screen dot) was done by a PC. Literally NOBODY was involved and hasn't been for 25 years.
***The adverts are all served by computers.***
I've still got the manual for the Customer Controlled Scheduling and Switching!
You should definitely email them and let them know! Stop the misinformation.
Richard - you're wrong on some of the royatly free info - if its "The Gym" ... this music from Epidemic (at last count) ... a Scandinavian company that buy up loads of music from composers for a low one off fee ... and then they charge companies like The Gym and Costa etc to use this music instead of PRS music (your well known and not so well know commercial artists and reclusive production music composers ) so the gym / cafe / shop dont have to pay the PRS a yearly licence fee. Epidemic has also made in roads into broadcast too ... meaning composers lose out on their bread and butter re. performance fees. (Epidemic also feed into Spotify ... and guess what ... Spotify fill their playlists with it too)
Although I'm sure Epidemics road map is AI music create by pressing a button and paying no composers.
(They fake the Artist names btw on Spotify - these people dont exist.)
These titles are getting increasingly click baity.
Aside from it being accurate and not at all click bait.
they probably make their life a LOT easier by getting oil and fuel and stuff out of it before the shot. The little drive off can be done without oil and almost no fuel. They probably have people to think about this stuff, to make the cleaning up less difficult, without ruining the shot.
That Hignfy was awkward because the joke was kind of done after 10 minutes but Richard kept it going on and on and on. I think Clarkson was more bored by it then annoyed by the end.
And taking it with a massive Amazon contract in the pocket probably helped. As he made clear in the show.
Keith Chegwin, who suffered with alcoholism during his life, wanted to call his autobiography "Cheggers can't be Boozers" which would have been the greatest title of any biography ever, had the publishers allowed it.
In the cheesy 2012 remake of Red Dawn, they filmed it ALL as the Chinese being the invaders, and then commercial reasons... in post they had to make it North Korea. And it's really obvious it was a patch job trying to hide all the references and imagery!
Re earliest novel in English, Trollope, in a piece entitled 'On English Prose Fiction' cites' The Eupheus' by Lylie and 'The Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney, both written about 1580, as being 'the earliest English novels we know'.
If I was building a house and was selected to appear on Grand Designs I'd immediately re-examine my plans. The TV company, I'm sure, selects projects for their potentia lfor disaster , thats where the drama is.
Question: What prop has appeared in the most movies/TV shows? For example I know that the clock tower from Back to the future has appeared in multiple movies. The wilhelm scream is an audio clip that been in multiple movies. In the TV show Psych there's a pineapple hidden in every episode, but that's just one show. Is there a physical prop that has been handed around and reused?
I've read Marina's offerings over many years, loved all of them and have now fallen in love with the woman herself. Such humanity and brilliance. Even the tics of her behaviour are delightful. Richard is good, too. They keep each other on the straight and narrow, just. Love the podcast.
Love this show, but Genji is not a cat, so you got that all wrong. Where did you get that from? But Haruki Murakami has cats in his novels and a lot of the quirky Japanese literature right now seems very Murakami-lite. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys...all the stories, millenia ago, were originally Tiger's (all cats were grouped as Tigers) they belonged to them and they originated them.
Wheel of Fortune in the 80s instead of having a 'Cue Dot' had a spinning wheel as the cue dot for when an ad break was coming up.
Ironically if they didn't clear it up, it would probably be better for the environment..... Like how you see wildlife in the ocean loves wrecks and they love trash floating around, they thrive around it.... Maybe not nets though lol. Even plastic is great, birds love using it and small lifeforms eat it and obviously they feed the food chain. So I bet lots of wildlife would rip parts off the car to use and use it as shelter or somewhere to perch, then eventually it would corrode down and put nutrients into the ground. Like how Chernobyl was great for the area, the wildlife is doing better than when humans were living there and there are no mutants like scaremongers told everyone.
Just want to say , I love this podcast (sometimes I listen to it while running , and sometimes like today I watch it) and while I might not always agree with the analysis (and that does not matter at all really) , I do think you both do an outstanding job on this and thank you for what is now hours of entertainment.
He wasn't furious. It's a running joke in the final episode - don't bother complaining because they're never going to make another so who cares?
I like this podcast but please - make that the first and last click bait title.
Speaking of car cleanup there was an episode of Taggart where they're investigating at a quarry, and you can still see the Hugo's car the mates pushed down the same quarry in Shallow Grave ...
My guess as a pub operator is that the gym doesn’t want to pay for the PPL PRS license which costs my pub about a thousand pounds a year to use copyright music. Using royalty free music is a lot cheaper!
Anyone notice how there's always a question about Islam on every single episode of The Chase? On every episode.
There should be a supercut of intros, starting with the first instance of Marina forgetting a detail through to now, where everything is fully polished, and dare I say, not as charming...
24 (a pre-streaming DVD boxset binge hit) caused a lot of controversy at the time, for the way it portrayed middle eastern terrorists at a time of… errrm… middle eastern terrorism
Also, for the way it portrayed torture scenes
The bus burnt down a couple of years ago...errant smouldering bbq left under the bus, I believe...
Person in Japan here, the conditions of animal cafes here are mostly deplorable. Please don’t give your money to them.
of course Spotify will have returned any revenue generated from AI music to the advertisers...
The major chain gym I go to sent out an email saying there were only going to play non royalty based music to save money. Everything is about cutting costs nowadays.
I remember them saying the only difference between the BBC and Amazon. Was access to certain countries.
I love Grand Designs, but it is a bit tedious when you see ambitious architects who transparently want to show themselves on there. I wish it wasn't so obvious sometimes.
I've always assumed that, at least for a small % of people, going on Grand Designs is a way to advertise a property you want to sell
Marina's See You Next Tuesday this week should have an Only Fans account!
Don't you mean those felines were the catalyst for those books Marina? You are welcome 😊
That famous phrase "It's gone down like a delicious sandwich" 🤣
the best autobiogrphy title is still one that was never released - cheggars cant be boozers
Ok so,
1️⃣the pronunciation of Genji is NOT jenji as in jenga…
It is Gen as in the the beginning of “get”
A hard G , the ji is as written
But that’s just a pronunciation problem
2️⃣Maybe Marina (or her producers) could have done just a little more homework on a classic novel written over 1000 years ago that is still being translated and studied even now 😢
And noted The Tales Of Genji are most certainly not about a freaking cat!!
3️⃣If the novel is too long for consumption then try reading Liz Dalby’s “The Tale Of Murasaki” for a more concise understanding of the whole 源氏物語 saga
Huge novel
Huge history behind it
And most certainly NOT a novel about a freaking cat
Please, oh please, if you are going to comment on historical novels, her the story right
Pronunciation is a small problem to your understanding of the whole “Tales Of Genji” and how and why it was written
And you have to add I absolutely love love love this podcast but I may just love the novel a little more!
Fact check fact check fact check
Really wanted to see Marina's reaction to the RUclips family
Oh my lordy it was glorious to hear Marina mention Guy Ritchie. 😂😂😂
you missed a trick by not putting the cue dots on the end of your video. Would have been a nice touch.
I’m 100% certain that Richard’s next cat will be called Genji.
I keep meaning to say this but, Mariana, I love your nose.
Spotify plays My Voluptuous Disease... its hilarious!
😂 see you next Tuesday (cough cough). You get away with that? 🎉
My Voluptuous Disease is my new band name now...
Is there ever an episode where Marina doesn’t pick her nose?
I think the term should be “kit lit” or “kitty lit”.
"... all of your assets are now dead." 😄😄😄
HHhmm not bad, quite enjoyed that this time.
Cat Cafe in Westfield White City - or there was
There's a cat cafe in Newcastle
There was a video on a notorious YT channel were they made an expedition to the cliff where the Duel movie finale was shot, in search for parts of the Duel truck and/or car, and they did find debris (medium to large sized) dating back to the '80s (not Duel, rather the Dukes of Hazzard likely, that cliff was used more than once) so about that "we're in the TV/movie business, of course we always clean everything up"... come on. Besides, that Beetle literally disintegrated, so good luck picking up every single bit of shrapnel, even if it was scattered in a well accessible area (look like this wasn't). Oh well.
Two points, those shows were filmed in the US, and it was 40+ years ago. They did things very differently over there and back then.
In fact, because of the mess caused in that era, we now have rules about cleaning up after stunts.
See you next Tuesday guys 😅
Glad someone asked that question about the Grand Tour. I was thinking the same when watching that. It's not actually that obvious that they clean up their messes, especially when they're in a lesser developed country acting like they have the run of the place anyway.
Common sense would suggest they would. Can you imagine how much regulation they need to deal with being UK based where you need a form for your form.
I sort of wonder doesn't Britain have insects? SOOO many of the Grand Designs seem to be taking the back off the house and filling it with expandable glass doors to open it up. The mosquitos and other summer pest would make that impossible to live with.
We don’t have that many insects these days, probably a result of overuse of pesticides.
Grand Designs: “Unfortunately it started to rain the hardest it has in 100 years. Now the site is a bog and the project is running 6 months behind schedule!” Why are British builders continually surprised that rain happens in the UK?
Your own comment says that it rained more than it had for 100 years. Do you expect builders to be prepared for more rain that has been seen in a century. Something that has never happened in their lifetime?
I call BS on the clearup of the Beetle. Years ago Top Gear threw a Renault Twingo into the Irish Sea. You can guarantee they didn’t fish it back out.
Is it a more recent thing, this compulsion to clear up afterwards? There are lots of instances of smashed cars/ trains/ planes etc from movies that can still be found where they crashed. In the past, I guess they were less bothered...?
Why the Clickbait?
As someone not from the UK, the only time I've ever seen that box is on Jay Foreman videos, he has it pop up before his ad reads and I assumed it was some unique British thing. The reason behind it is so bizarre to me, the US which is an even bigger market that had multiple stations broadcasting the same live broadcast didn't need a 60 second que as far as I'm aware. Why would UK broadcasters need that?
As an Australian, I had and still have no idea what they are talking about.
@@angeskye go watch a Jay Forman video, right before he goes to a sponsor message a striped box will appear in the top right corner. That's what they are talking about.
There is a cat cafe in York (on Goodramgate). Not been in as you have to be over 8 i believe so the youngest cant go plus the missus is allergic!
There's one in Leeds too.
Like yanks and brits aren't obsessed by cats. Remind me, what is the most popular meme on the internet?
Skibidi toilet.
Fake streams are an issue, A.I music however is perfectly fair if people like it.
But not having 100s of bots listening to them to create income
Richards hands are HUGE with that camera angle. :D
Reminds me of Brother Lee Love on the Kenny Everett show
Defoe first novel claim is heavily disputed .
@@Est-os9yc Defoe is not really a novel. It's a series of episodes. There is no weave. I think that's the main objection.
I have a question. I hope this is the right place to post it.
During Richard Osman's game show on BBC 2, House of Games. During the buzzer rounds, there is always about a 1 second delay between the end of the question and the first buzzer. Is this what actually happens, or is a silence edited in to allow the viewers to get the answer first?
@@steveconnor746 they did answer this on one of the previous q&a I think. If I remember it is edited to appear this way in order to give us at home a chance to answer.
@@kevinsoutham I suspected as much. Thanks.
I’m becoming less and less interested in the topics on this podcast (much to my dismay). I don’t want to hear about cats. But I do want to hear heaps more about how shows like Grand Designs are made and so on.
Yeah, I’m sure the producers will take your individual preferences into account when developing future podcasts…🙄 Let me guess: you’re a millennial, right? Or a Boomer who hasn’t figured out you can click on the video and forward to the next section…
@vjc2270 I'm an individual. I don't identify with generational definitions originally derived for marketing purposes. Ageist comments are discriminatory. Please stop obsessing about others and live your own life. Technology is designed to be used by people with basic intelligence. An interest in social media and a knowledge of how it works does not make one even slightly special.
To the "Of course someone goes and clears it up quote" I live in Wales and two years ago an old died when the house next to his exploded taking his home with it, due to the stupidity of his neighbour. To this day, his house still looks like a victim of the Luftwaffe. Busy street in a major UK city and every time I drive past I am disgusted by the lack of action by the gas company who explosion destroyed this man and his home, the local Labour council or insurance company that have done nothing about clearing it up or the police who threatened to send anyone to jail who tried to clean it up themselves. This is the state of the UK today.
Loved the old Top Gear, and the Grand Tour, but towards the end some of the forced stunts got super cringey, and even though they 'cleared up' afterwards, it was still a waste of money that could have been put to a better purpose and damaging to the environment. Gosh, I'm getting as old as Clarkson, May and Hammond!
I really do not like the fake backgrounds and the aggressive editing. listening to 2 people having a real conversation is so much more preferable than hearing clips prepped up for tiktok.
You guys are getting click baity on your title cards.
Please Marina, Tale of Genji is not about a cat.
30 minutes long video, barely 3 and half minutes of it are dedicated to the topic of the title/thumbnail of the video. Pathetic clickbait. I guess it worked since I'm here, but I'll make sure to not come back. Enjoy this free engagement.
Describing your apparent anger at something so inconsequential would be a more worthy use of the word 'pathetic'. Besides, would the headline on the front page of newspaper be the analogue equivalent of clickbait? It's the same thing surely but you normally only get two or three pages about the subject of the headline
Significant pause there where Marina searched for a word to substitute for genocide and came up with "developments in Gaza"
You and people like you have taken away all meaning from the word genocide. This is not genocide, it is war. It is a brutal, bloody war that is causing severe civilian casualty and devastation, but it is war.