Great start to the year, I listen to the podcasts at 2am when i can't sleep and that restaurant review had me laughing out loud, probably waking the rest of the house up.

El Presidente VIP is a huge tune, can't wait for that.

And that fact about vinyl pressings is very encouraging, long live vinyl!

Kez :)

Can't believe so many ignorant dickheads are whining about politalk.

Politalk or not, the writing is clearly on the wall with all of the Japan business and I for one didn't know the ins and outs of it until I heard it on the podcast.

So you can either take away some fresh new tunes and some information and awareness you may not have had in the first place, or you can come here and whine.

If you want music that hasn't been spoken over, then go out and buy it.. I know a place called hospitalrecords.com/shop if you've never heard it before. If nobody spoke on a podcast, would it really be that interesting? My guess is no.

Good to hear someone cares. About nuking Japan there's several theories about the aims, one of the strongest is that US had to force Soviet Army to push back from Europe without declaring the war to Soviet Union. SU was only few years behind from US for developing their own nuke. After WW II half of Europe fell under control of communist parties (would say under the control of SU) and only power that stopped communists from spreading was the fear for nuclear war. Today, 20 years after Cold War Russia is still the country with highest number of nuclear weapons.

Now it is 21st century and Russia is ruled mostly by former KGB. Who ever has hear about their working policy can imagine what that means for Russian and mostly international society. Oil price is running on lowest levels of last 10 years and Russia is losing one of it's most important state income - income from oil. That means if the price of oil won't exceed 50$/barrel, Russia as a country runs on tracks of bankruptcy. Unfortunately best way to get the oil prices to increase is through the war. That is a bitter reality for Ukraine and Georgia. Mostly for Georgia, because Europe has planned to build Nabucco gas pipeline through this country that would give Europe independency from Russian energy purveyance (note that Russia gets most of it's gas from Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan).

Although politics works mostly against former east block countries most important is to keep up the good spirit for better tomorrow. Past is something to keep in mind and where to study from, present is for enjoying the nice moments and future is for living for.

Thanks for great podcast!

and yeah kayaitch bring on the tea! tea makes the world go round :-)

in reply to Thom: this is not public access broadcasting, we pay the bandwidth costs so i can say whatever the fuck i want - the only shut down i'll accept is from my work colleagues or my wife.

You may be interested to know that before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, Germany had already surrendered, Japan was suing for peace through the Russians, the US air force had firebombed all major Japanese cities (including Tokyo 9 times the size of Hiroshima) reducing the Japanese threat to a totally ineffective level. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and 3 other possible nuclear targets were left totally untouched by conventional weapons so that wen they were nuked, all effects could be measured photgraphed and analysed to test the effects of a real world nuclear strike. It was indeed a real life experiment.

Coupled to that was the fact that the USA govt had spent billons of $ on developing the atom bomb and they were running out time to justify the expenditure - they knew if they waited for Japan to formally surrender then they could not justify the cost by using the weapons.

you know where the unsubscribe button is.

Totally, because if someone is in to politics, they will listen to what is said and be influenced by it, which is great, simply because that is how politics can work...

but for someone who doesnt really take an interest in politics it cant be harmful as all Tony is doing is voicing an opinion, his opinion, that obviously means alot to him. it did not bother me at all and plenty of people i have spoken to that listen to the podcast were not affected either, stop pickin at it... let opinions be heard, this country is becomining to supressed as it is.

Sunchase - You know

what a tune!!

Hi Tony,

Just a quick note to say that the latest podcast was wicked, def brought a reprieve to dark january weather and news. No longer doing search marketing with pugwash, but working at a tea company - www.jingtea.com - gimme a shout if you fancy some samples, drinking that stuff while listening to tunes is a great mix, cheers and happy new year!

Hey Tony,

Great podcast.

I think the fact a few people are getting slightly butthurt over the politik talk is hilarious, and in reality it's still your medium for expressing whatever you want (ranging from Hiroshima to the War on Vinyl).

Frankly, I think it's refreshing to hear something a bit different. Keep it up.

-kat.

The Fact that the previous user has the same name spelt as me has nothing to do with me or my views, im not big on politics and such.

safe.

This may have already been said but I feel so strongly about it that I thought I'd post it. I personally felt disgusted to hear Tony make false historical claims that the bombings of Hiroshima were "just an experiment" in a worldwide broadcast media. I don't subscribe to the Hospital Podcast to hear someone's political opinions. This also has reference to Tony's use of his "celebrity status" to voice his disapproval of Boris Johnson as a political candidate. Kids listen to this show and I think it's irresponsible to influence their ideals so crudely.

Just keep the show about drum & bass - that's what we're here for!

Cheers.