Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Reasons To Be Mad At Sony

In todays free mp3 download Alex aged 11 from Loughton got so fed up with Sony that he emailed topofthepods@gmail.com with his 10 top reasons to be mad at Sony, next time we suggest emailing customer services instead:-

  • 10 - No new movies
  • 9 - No more PS2
  • 8 - Blue Ray Disks
  • 7 - Chinese
  • 6 - Manuals
  • 5 - Publicity
  • 4 - Cost
  • 3 - No site
  • 2 - Updates
  • 1 - Late arrivals

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten People Who Died Too Soon And Who To Swap Them For

Imagine God lets you have ten people back who died too soon, but the catch is that you have to swap them for someone similar. We thought of our top ten people who died too soon and who we'd swap them for:-

  • 10 - Karen Carpenter for Victoria Beckham
  • 9 - Peter Cook for Jim Davidson
  • 8 - Steve Irewin for Bono
  • 7 - JFK with someone
  • 6 - Freddie Mercury for Coldplay
  • 5 - Marilyn Monroe for J-Lo
  • 4 - Bruce Lee for Steven Segal
  • 3 - John Lennon for Yoko Ono
  • 2 - Diana for Camilla
  • 1 - Eric Morcolm for Jimmy Carr

If we are missing any obvious ones out then please use the comments boards on www.topofthepods.com or just email them to topofthepods@gmail.com. We can't do anything about it, but its just interesting to hear about your gribes with death.

We also requested that you ask Radio Times to review us on their Good Podcast Guide, so here's the email address radio.times@bbc.co.uk

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Things We Should Look Forward To In 2007

It is the start of the year and Oli from Guildford has sent us a list of the top ten things we should be looking forward to in 2007:-

  • 10 - More podcasts
  • 9 - Government changes
  • 8 - Summer
  • 7 - Evenings
  • 6 - Sports
  • 5 - Celebrities
  • 4 - Transport
  • 3 - Computer games
  • 2 - Movies
  • 1 - Technology

Keep those emails coming in to topofthepods@gmail.com, we love to hear from you. If you've got any further suggestions as to anything good to look forward to this year then pop it down on the www.topofthepods.com comments board.

Monday, January 08, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Ways To Tell The Brits From The Yanks

Linda of Podcast User Magazine fame has sent us a novel set of audio comments which make up the top ten ways to tell the Brits from the Yanks:-

  • 10 - Eggplants
  • 9 - Whilst
  • 8 - Overtaking
  • 7 - Plumbing
  • 6 - H
  • 5 - Revision
  • 4 - God Save
  • 3 - Marmite
  • 2 - Take the Mickey
  • 1 - Kurb

We hope you thought that was a fun way to do a show, if you'd like to read out some short clips of your list then email your mp3's to topofthepods@gmail.com.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Annoying Things That Everybody Does

New listener Adam from Bingham in Nottinghamshire got upset and provided us with his list of the top ten annoying things that everybody does:-

  • 10 - Wrist pointers
  • 9 - Exam talking
  • 8 - Question askers
  • 7 - Bus questioners
  • 6 - Laughing at crude things
  • 5 - Five minutes early
  • 4 - All the time in the world
  • 3 - Cinema talkers
  • 2 - Girlfriend and parents
  • 1 - Afraid of new things

Are you a new listener like Adam? If you've only just started downloading Top Of The Pods then we'd love to hear from you - email topofthepods@gmail.com and tell us how you found out about our show, what you think of it and even if you've got a top ten list for us to read out.

Tell us what annoys you by going to www.topofthepods.com and using our comments board.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Things To Do With A Snickers Bar

As if 20 tonnes of chocolate for Christmas wasn't enough, Ian from Bolton has written a chocolate based list about top ten things to do with a Snickers Bar:-

  • 10 - Lovers Name
  • 9 - Snickers Smoothie
  • 8 - Deconstruction
  • 7 - Hot Day Mess
  • 6 - Snicker Chip Cookies
  • 5 - Ice Cream Cone
  • 4 - Melt It On Toast
  • 3 - Freeze It
  • 2 - Pimp It
  • 1 - Deep Fry

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Monsters

Paul from Greensboro wrote us his top ten list of monsters:-

  • 10 - The BoogeyMan
  • 9 - The Loch Ness Monster
  • 8 - Mothman
  • 7 - Werewolves
  • 6 - The Jersey Devil
  • 5 - Giant Alligators In The Sewer
  • 4 - Alien Greys
  • 3 - Vampires
  • 2 - Bigfoot
  • 1 - Chupacabra

Wanna send us your list? Then email topofthepods@gmail.com with your ten of the best of something you feel passionately about.

Monday, January 01, 2007

TOTP - Top Ten Pretentious Things

At Top of the Pods our new years resolution is to start podcasting regularly again, we'll start off with the top ten list of pretentious things:-

  • 10 - Perfume adverts
  • 9 - Apple adverts
  • 8 - Clothes stores
  • 7 - Dance music
  • 6 - Bars
  • 5 - Car TV shows
  • 4 - French names
  • 3 - Fancy foods
  • 2 - Coffee shops
  • 1 - Sandwiches