The Rest is Entertainment podcast

I've given up on it too. I love Marina but she talks quite quickly and needs to get into a flow and Richard constantly interrupts her. The ads are also out of control for what's actually quite a short podcast.

I do love TRIE though, even when they are talking about things i have no knowledge of (modern pop stars and their beefs with each other is one) and am baffled by Marina's apparent inability to understand how a top 10 works.

The insights into how the world of celebrity works is amazing. I love that Richard never has a bad word to say about anyone.

That's really funny about Glen Powell/Glen Campbell. I'm going to have 'Rhinestone Cowboy' as an earworm for the rest of the day.

I'm not sure where Marina's obsession with him arose either -- is he one of those actors about whom she wonders whether they're in on the joke of themselves? Like Steven Seagal, another of her left of field loves?

I only just started listening to this with the Traitors episodes. Marina can barely finish her thoughts. It is very stressy.

Meanwhile on the Rest is History, the two hosts manage to discuss everything like adults.

I'm glad it's not just me! He's such a lovely & clever guy but his interruptions & constant 'actually I'm right' assertions get a little much.

Oh to have the confidence of a man!

Me too, I am showing my age, I wonder why Marina is obsessed by him I mean he is "good looking " but hardly an iconic interviewee.

That must be how my brain is working too @FrostAtMidnight

Every time they mention Glen bloody Powell and think they are talking about Glen Campbell.

This is Glen Powell, He was the smirky modern-day Iceman character in the Top Gun sequel. I think this is what he does -- he takes off his shirt and makes gorilla triumph noises, or he smirks. Sometimes both. In Twisters he smirked while wearing a Stetson and some regrettable jeans.

I have never heard of Glen Powell before and am struggling to remember now who he is. I assumed he was a country singer.

I think they interrupt each other. I also think (and this is not my normal feminist position!) that Marina can more than hold her own. I love hearing their behind the scenes knowledge, and I would LOVE to get them both drunk and indiscreet!

Well, it's often about film and TV and journalism, or publishing, as well. Maybe reality TV has ramped up in terms of TRIE content recently with the Celebrity Traitors, but I'm actually enjoying their episodes on that, though my interest in Beckham family feuds and whether Taylor Swift is being unpleasant to some other popstar is minimal. I very much liked recent-ish episodes on the Saudi comedy festival and the mechanics of undercover reporting.

(I'm also interested in why Richard, who was asked to be on Celebrity Traitors, really declined, when he has so many ideas about the best way to play it. I know why he says he declined, but I suspect it was more to do with not looking like an idiot on TV when his ideas don't work in practice.)

I really recommend the Private Eye podcast. It's only once a fortnight.

I’d happily pay into a Patreon for that!

plus a new side podcast the rest is questionable psych experiments from the past (TRIQPEFTP)

I do love the Traitors episodes, and think their insights into how celebrities work and how that is translating in the castle is fascinating

I'm afraid it's not a very intelligent one (well, it is within the bounds of the premise, I suppose). It's a paranormal podcast called Mysterious Universe. Will only really be of interest if you enjoy stories of the supernatural/esoterica/etc.

For intelligent podcasts, I can recommend Weird Studies (much more academic than it sounds), Hardcore History, and Ologies.

How odd! I've watched it once after following a link about Celebrity Traitors. My impression was that Marina was interrupting Richard 😳

I tried it once and couldn’t do it to myself again. My friend recommended it because I’m an avid listener of TRIP UK and US and also TRIH. I hated it. I like Richard but found him extremely irritating on this. Maybe I’m not the target market though, I don’t really know much about reality TV and such.

Perhaps a producer could give him a small electric shock for interruptions. Increasing in intensity like the Milgram experiment...? 😀

Do you mind me asking what that is? I'm ridiculously very new to the world of podcasts and still looking for stuff that's intelligent but also diverting.

I’m a weekly listener and originally thought Marina was unbearably smug but now I think she’s brilliant and bright and funny and Richard desperately needs a better producer or more preferably a live editor to control him, stop him from interrupting and encourage him to be brief in his answers rather than saying the same thing 8 times in a 5 min monologue.

I really liked them both before the podcast, and listen every week but Richard Osman has definitely gone down in my estimation due to the way he speaks over Marina. Yes, he’s knowledgeable but she is much cleverer than him and it’s so frustrating.

on another note, I started listening to Louis Theroux’s podcast as I like his tv shows and he’s absolutely terrible. I had to switch off the one with Steve Coogan as he kept interrupting, asking another question before he’d finished answering the last one and generally being annoying

Yes, the subscription is ridiculous. I pay just a little bit more for a different podcast and, in return, get an extended episode each week (can be around 60-90 minutes extra) and a whole extra 90-minute episode every week too!

He wasn't talking over Ben Elton, though. (Though I suspect Ben Elton would be extremely difficult to talk over -- it was pretty much wall-to-wall monologue, despite technically being a Q and A in response to listener questions.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one gobsmacked by the monthly membership subscription! I really like the podcast, interruptions notwithstanding, and I'm particularly enjoying their Celebrity Traitors episodes, but that's too much.

Ah I like it, and lots of people in telly listen to it - Richard constantly affirming what it's like to work in telly is comfort during a very difficult period.

I quite like all the silly puns and in jokes, but can sometimes sense Marina's frustration with Richard (which can also be quite funny). I think it's obvious that he really admires and respects her work, but he can sometimes ger a bit over excited when he thinks of a new pun.