Mildly Informed

🎙️ It’s Episode 50 of Mildly Informed — somehow.

To celebrate the milestone, Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner bring together everything the podcast does best: strange observations, everyday frustrations, TV chat and conversations that spiral almost immediately.

From futuristic drones to old-school civic duty, this episode covers an alarming amount of ground while remaining only mildly informative throughout.

Fifty episodes in, and remarkably little personal growth.

🚁 Drone Deliveries

Convenient future technology or deeply unsettling flying takeaway system? The lads investigate.

🍻 Expensive Pub Hire

When did booking a room above a pub start requiring a small business loan?

📺 Legends

A new TV obsession enters the chat — reviewed with the usual level of highly questionable authority.

🕵️ Richie’s Secret Mission

Details are limited. Speculation is not.

🗳️ The Honour of Voting

A surprisingly sincere discussion arrives… briefly… before things drift off course again.

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🚫 Richie’s Broken iPhone

A modern crisis. Panic, denial, and a new iOS

🛒 Supermarket Delivery Etiquette

Where do you stand? What do you do? And how loud can someone knock?

🧱 Tiling Companies

Are they all doomed?

🏫 Parents’ Evening

Short slots, big stakes, and have they got better?

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again navigating everyday chaos with confidence and very little expertise.

This week’s episode leans into modern inconveniences, awkward social interactions and the strange systems we all just accept.

It’s relatable, mildly stressful, and exactly the kind of chat you didn’t know you needed.

PLUS — over on Patreon, Chris unveils a major summer life hack. Potentially life-changing. Potentially nonsense.

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This week...

🚗 Blackwall Tunnel Fines

How bad can it really be? Turns out… quite bad. Admin, confusion and accusations of immorality

🍻 Outdoor Drinking

A national pastime the second the sun appears. Glorious!

💅 Why Do Humans Have Fingernails?

Useful tool or weird evolutionary leftover? The kind of question that probably didn’t need answering… but gets it anyway.

🚇 Tube Strikes

Disruption, debate and everyone suddenly becoming a transport expert.

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again tackling life’s most important questions… and answering almost none of them.

This week’s episode drifts from infrastructure frustration to pub garden philosophy, with a brief but committed detour into human biology.

It’s another episode that goes exactly where it wants — and nowhere particularly useful.

PLUS — over on Patreon, the lads get stuck into the football concept of “must win”. What does it actually mean? Is every game “must win”? And why does it always feel slightly dramatic?

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🍺 Why is Lidl Building a Pub?

A sentence that raises more questions than it answers. Is this genius or has everyone lost the plot?

👓 Why Do New Glasses Take So Long?

You’ve already chosen them. You’ve paid. What’s actually happening behind the scenes?

😂 The Best Kids’ Jokes

Simple, terrible, and somehow impossible not to laugh at.

⛳ The Green Jacket at The Masters

Golf tradition, quiet prestige, and a garment doing a lot of heavy lifting.

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again tackling life’s most important questions… and answering almost none of them.

This week’s episode is a proper mixed bag — retail confusion, everyday frustrations and a surprising amount of golf knowledge.

It’s one of those episodes that jumps from topic to topic with zero warning — exactly how it should be.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again throwing around ideas, observations and inventions that probably shouldn’t exist.

This week feels particularly experimental — both in terms of food and general life philosophy.

Here’s where the chat goes:

🍽️ British Tapas (Invented Live)

What if tapas… but British? Small plates, big confusion, and at least one terrible idea.

📊 Football Nerds

A man has visited every football ground. Respect? Concern? A bit of both.

📍 Tractive

Tracking your pet sounds sensible… until you actually think about it.

💷 Tip Workers

Who deserves a tip, who doesn’t, and why does it always feel slightly awkward?

It’s inventive, loosely structured and full of the kind of ideas that sound better the longer you talk about them.

PLUS — over on Patreon, it’s a full-on Easter Egg review special. Rankings, revelations and at least one controversial take.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again bouncing between big topics, great TV and oddly specific social observations.

It’s one of those episodes where the conversation starts in space and ends in a very British emotional cul-de-sac.

This week, the chat includes:

🌕 The Moon Landings

A small step for man, a giant leap for podcast chat. Still impressive? Still unbelievable? Still worth discussing. And where do they poop?

📺 The Pitt

High praise where it’s due — finally, something everyone can agree is actually good.

🚓 The Return of a Classic British Cop Show

Comfort viewing, familiar faces and the joy of a proper case-of-the-week format.

🤝 The Science of Men Praising Each Other

Why is it so hard? Why does it sound sarcastic? And why does everyone feel slightly uncomfortable?

It’s space, screen time and social awkwardness — all loosely connected and confidently analysed.

PLUS — over on Patreon, Chris shares his hangover cure. Is it science? Is it nonsense? There’s only one way to find out.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed goes on the road (sort of), as Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner record this episode from a hotel room at a wedding - and launch our first ever campaign!

On this week’s agenda:

🏨 Podcasting from a Hotel Room

See how elite podcasters do a weekend away

🏊 Duncan Goodhew

A genuine legend gets the Mildly Informed treatment. LET'S MAKE THIS MAN SIR DUNC!

🎀 Bow Ties

Stylish statement or formalwear panic button?

It’s loose, it’s slightly sleep-deprived, and it’s exactly what you’d expect from two people recording a podcast instead of fully committing to a wedding.

PLUS — the episode continues on Patreon, where Richie has some serious backtracking to do. No spoilers, but it’s worth it.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed is back: This week’s episode takes in architecture, PR nonsense and attempts at self-improvement…

Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again chatting their way through culture, chaos and confectionery — with absolutely no plan and just enough opinion.

On the conversational menu:

🎬 A Listed Cinema in Milton Keynes

A cultural landmark? A horrible relic? Either way, it gets reviewed.

📰 Bad Press Releases

Who are they for? Who is writing them? And why do they all sound slightly unhinged?

🍬 Dolly Mixture

A chaotic sweet selection that raises more questions than answers.

🏃 New Fitness Goals

Ambition is high. Execution… pending.

It’s a free-flowing episode full of mild confusion, strong snack opinions and the usual level of completely unqualified analysis.

PLUS — over on Patreon, Chris recounts being attacked on his bike (again). At this point, it’s becoming a series.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed returns with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner, once again drifting through the week’s cultural discoveries, strange internet finds and the sort of conversations that start serious and end somewhere completely different.

This episode takes an unexpectedly dark turn — before quickly becoming ridiculous again.

On the agenda this week:

📺 Northern Irish TV Noir

The lads dive into the growing wave of brilliant Northern Irish drama, including Say Nothing, Blue Lights, and Trespasses. Gritty storytelling, serious themes… and two mildly informed reviewers.

⚖️ Prison Sentences

How long is too long? And how do people actually wrap their heads around huge sentences?

🐕 Dog Treadmills

Yes, they exist. And yes, Richie and Chris have thoughts.

It’s a classic Mildly Informed episode: big topics, strange detours and plenty of enthusiastic but entirely unqualified analysis.

PLUS — over on Patreon, the tone softens dramatically as the lads discuss spring and seedlings. Gardening advice may or may not occur.

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🎙️ Mildly Informed returns with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner, once again solving life’s smaller mysteries through loosely structured conversation and questionable personal anecdotes.

This week the chat wanders through dogs, seasonal food politics and one deeply questionable evening out. As ever, strong opinions are formed quickly and supported by almost no research.

In this episode:

🐕 Crufts

The world’s most prestigious dog show… and possibly the most intense dog-related event ever broadcast on television.

🍞 Hot Cross Buns

Are they an adult-only food? The lads investigate the strange cultural status of Britain’s most seasonal baked good.

🍷 A Weird Date Night

A story that starts weird and becomes increasingly uncomfortable.

🛒 Chris’ Terrible Food Shop

An all-time bad supermarket run that raises serious questions about planning, hunger and impulse purchasing.

It’s another wandering, snack-adjacent conversation packed with everyday observations, mild outrage and the usual level of highly questionable expertise.

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