🇧🇪 Amazing News Stories from Belgium

Belgium delivers some absolutely brilliant news stories, and Richie and Chris are here to share.

⚽ The Football Season Is Back

The fixtures are underway, the optimism is fresh, and the football chat is already getting out of hand.

📚 Chris's Audience Book Giveaway

Chris has books to give away! Who wants one? This is your chance to acquire some literature without having to do the difficult bit of buying it.

👨‍👩‍👧 Richie Thinks His Family Is Out to Get Him

A family conspiracy? A series of innocent coincidences? Or has Richie finally uncovered the truth?

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinnerreview absolutely anything — from football and current affairs to everyday annoyances, bizarre news stories and whatever else ends up in the conversation.

This week, they uncover some remarkable Belgian news, welcome back the football season, offer Chris's books to the listening public and investigate Richie's increasingly suspicious relationship with his own family.

It's football, freebies, foreign news and domestic intrigue — with absolutely no guarantee that anyone comes out looking good.

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🐎 Horse Polo

Richie and Chris investigate the sport where horses, mallets and questionable levels of athleticism combine. What could possibly go wrong?

🗿 The Rudston Monolith

One of Britain's oldest and strangest landmarks gets the Mildly Informed treatment. Why is this enormous stone just... there?

📦 Storage Solutions

The eternal domestic question: where do you put all your stuff when you've already run out of places to put stuff?

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything — from sport and history to everyday annoyances and the things that make you wonder why nobody has come up with a better solution.

This week, they go from horses and mallets to ancient stones and the modern problem of having far too much stuff.

It's sport, archaeology and domestic organisation — three subjects that have absolutely no business being in the same podcast, but here we are.

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⚽ The Never-Ending Football Transfer Window

Just when you think the transfers are done, another player is somewhere having a medical. When will it actually end?

🎄 What Is a Caganer?

Richie and Chris discover one of the stranger traditions in Catalan Christmas culture. You probably won't forget it.

🏊 Lido Etiquette

Richie learns the unwritten rules of the lido. What's wrong with the lanes? How much space is yours? And what exactly is acceptable pool behaviour?

🌿 How Bad Is Spearmint?

A deceptively simple question leads to a surprisingly strong debate. Fresh? Horrible? Somewhere in between?

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything — from football and TV to food, everyday annoyances and the things that make you stop and think, "Hang on, why is that like that?"

For Episode 60, the lads tackle football's seemingly eternal transfer window, discover the frankly baffling world of Caganers, attempt to establish some basic standards of lido behaviour, and finally confront the important question: is spearmint actually any good?

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🛥️ Superyacht Facts

The world's biggest floating status symbols are somehow even more ridiculous than you imagined. Richie and Chris dive into some genuinely baffling superyacht trivia.

🔥 Love Island's Fire Pit Legacy

Some love from Richie for the fire pit. The lads investigate the surprising cultural influence of reality TV.

🛒 Richie Reviews Costco

Bulk buying, giant trolleys and enough free samples to count as lunch. Is Costco worth the hype?

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything—from TV and food to everyday life and the strange observations that deserve far more discussion than they probably should.

This week, they explore the absurd world of billionaire yachts, question why we're all sitting around fire pits these days, and hear Richie's verdict on one of the world's most beloved warehouses.

It's another episode packed with unnecessary opinions, surprising facts and just enough insight to leave you... mildly informed.

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🤕 Stupid Injuries

The completely avoidable accidents that somehow hurt the most. From everyday mishaps to spectacular own goals, everyone has a story.

🍦 Fab Ice Lollies

Richie thinks they're an all-time classic. Chris... isn't quite as convinced. A frozen dessert review with surprisingly high stakes.

📺 Silo

The Apple TV+ hit gets the Mildly Informed treatment. Is it worth descending into?

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything—from TV and food to everyday life and the strange observations that deserve far more discussion than they probably should.

This week, the lads swap stories of ridiculous injuries, settle a disagreement over one of Britain's best-known ice lollies, and head underground to review Silo.

It's another hour of strong opinions, questionable expertise and the sort of conversations you'll probably end up having yourself.

PLUS — over on Patreon, inspired by England's late-night World Cup exploits, Richie and Chris review the experience of pulling an all-nighter. Is it ever worth it once you're over 30?

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🌙 Late World Cup Pub Openings

The Women's World Cup means late-night kick-offs... but should pubs stay open for them? Richie and Chris weigh up pints versus bedtimes.

🏰 The Maunsell Forts

Abandoned sea forts sitting in the Thames Estuary. One of Britain's strangest landmarks—and quite possibly its coolest.

🏏The Women's World Cup

Chris went to the big game, it was exciting!

🚇 Idiot Men on the Tube

Some men are just total eejits. We discuss.

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything—from current events and TV to food, everyday annoyances and the wonderfully random things they stumble across.

This week, it's late-night football, bizarre wartime history, life on the London Underground and a reminder that Britain is full of places you really should visit.

It's another episode packed with opinions, observations and just enough facts to leave you... mildly informed.

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🚆 Melting Train Tracks

Every summer, Britain seems to discover that heat exists. Why do our railways struggle the moment the temperature creeps into the twenties?

🍫 Melting Chocolate

A minor inconvenience or the best thing ever? Richie and Chris investigate the science—and etiquette—of chocolate in hot weather.

✈️ Ryanair's Wild Approach to PR

Some companies hire expensive PR agencies. Ryanair simply opens Twitter and starts swinging.

🖼️ Richie's Contempt for Art

Can you appreciate culture without actually liking it? Richie has... thoughts.

🎙️ Mildly Informed is the comedy podcast where Absolute Radio's Richie Firth and The Bugle's Chris Skinner review absolutely anything—from current events and TV to food, everyday annoyances and life's bigger questions—so you can leave... mildly informed.

This week it's heatwaves, transport chaos, corporate social media and cultural criticism. A perfectly normal combination.

Think of it as the conversations you'd have after a couple of pints—except someone's remembered to press record.

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📺 ITV vs BBC: The World Cup Studio Debate

Who does tournament coverage better? Better pundits, better presenters, better theme music? The lads enter one of British sport's most important arguments.

📈 Jevons Paradox

A surprisingly fascinating economic theory that somehow finds its way into a comedy podcast. Efficiency goes up... so why do we end up using more of something?

🐦 Richie Is Not Much of a Bird Spotter

A revelation that shocks absolutely nobody. Binoculars remain firmly unused.

🚲 The Arsenal Puncture

Chris discovers a cycling phenomenon affecting riders in Islington. Is it real? Is it coincidence? Is it somehow Arsenal's fault?

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again combining niche knowledge, local observations and wildly varying levels of expertise.

This week's episode jumps from World Cup broadcasting politics to economic theory, before detouring through birdwatching and ending up in North London's cycling community.

It's one of those episodes where you learn something, immediately forget it, and then remember a completely unrelated story about a bicycle puncture.

PLUS — over on Patreon, the lads continue the conversation with even less structure and even stronger opinions.

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👓 Meta AI Sunglasses

The future is here. Apparently it involves talking to your glasses and hoping nobody notices. Can you do it without being creepy?

🎥 Ref Cam

Football from the referee’s perspective. Revolutionary broadcasting innovation or a guaranteed route to motion sickness?

🚗 Sunroofs

A luxury feature, a forgotten relic, or the quickest way to create unexpected wind noise?

🫐 Boysenberries

What are they? Where did they come from? And why do they sound like they were invented in a children’s book?

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again investigating technology, sport, motoring and fruit with equal levels of expertise.

This week’s episode is a journey through modern innovation and old-fashioned curiosity, as the lads debate AI-powered eyewear, football broadcasting, car design and one of the lesser-known berries.

It’s exactly the sort of conversation that starts with wearable tech and somehow ends in a discussion about fruit.

PLUS — over on Patreon, Richie and Chris discuss their World Cup Sweepstakes. Who gets the favourites? Who gets the no-hopers? And who immediately regrets the draw?

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🚽 The Life of Thomas Crapper

Inventor of the toilet? Not quite. Legend of British plumbing? Absolutely. Richie and Chris separate fact from flushable fiction.

🗣️ Words Unique to Your Family

Every family has them — strange phrases, made-up words and expressions that make perfect sense until you say them in public.

🚗 People Who Park Badly

A topic guaranteed to generate strong opinions. Crooked bays, abandoned trolleys and the quiet fury of a badly positioned car.

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again taking everyday observations far more seriously than they deserve.

This week’s episode covers Victorian plumbing history, family linguistics and one of Britain's favourite hobbies: judging strangers in car parks.

It's part social anthropology, part public service announcement and part excuse for Richie and Chris to get mildly annoyed.

PLUS — over on Patreon, the lads embark on a local council rant. How many emails can we send them in a week?

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