Mildly Informed

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner settling in for another episode of enthusiastic chat, snack analysis and completely unqualified television criticism.

This week’s conversation swings comfortably between food nostalgia and prestige TV — exactly the sort of topics that deserve strong opinions formed almost instantly.

On the agenda (loosely):

🍪 Cookies & Cola Cao

A surprisingly passionate discussion about chocolate milk, international snacks and the drinks that defined childhood holidays.

⚔️ A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Hope, hype and cautious optimism as the Game of Thrones universe expands again.

🌊 Under Salt Marsh

Dark drama, coastal mystery and the eternal question: are we actually paying attention or just vibing with good television?

It’s relaxed, snack-heavy, and occasionally insightful — the classic Mildly Informed blend.

PLUS — over on Patreon, Richie and Chris dive into the lost art of IRL comments books. Public feedback, passive aggression and handwritten complaints make an unexpected comeback.

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ This week on Mildly Informed, Absolute Radio star Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner are back doing what they do best — chatting absolute nonsense and accidentally forming opinions along the way.

The conversation drifts (as it always does) from mildly awkward social situations to full cultural breakdowns, with several unexpected snack-based diversions.

Expect chat about:

🍽️ Solo Dining

Is it peaceful self-care or does it feel like you’ve been stood up by society?

🍫 American Chocolate

Why does it taste… like that? Scientific? Emotional? Slightly alarming?

🍗 Deep Fried Food

A culinary triumph or a cry for help? Possibly both.

📱 Richie’s Ongoing Pluribus Review

Is it useful? Is it confusing? Has anyone fully explained it? Not today.

This episode is loose, silly and packed with the kind of chat that feels like overhearing two mates loudly debating snacks in a pub.

PLUS — over on Patreon, things escalate dramatically as Chris enters Richie into The Hunger Games. Strategy, betrayal and surprisingly detailed survival planning all included.

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t train your dog, reduce the price of chocolate, or curate a museum… but will absolutely review all three

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they stumble through another week of domestic drama, cultural excursions and confectionery outrage. From canine chaos to Easter economics, nothing is safe from mild scrutiny

This week’s episode features:

🐕 More Dog Trouble – lessons not learned, mistakes repeated

🚨 Blue Lights – reviewed, discussed, and gently overanalysed

🥚 The Cost of Mini Eggs – who’s paying these prices?

🏛️ The Hunterian Museum – culture, cabinets and mild awe

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get you an autograph, save you from gym class humiliation, or explain the meaning of life… but will absolutely talk about all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they move seamlessly from low-stakes cringe to genuinely big questions. It’s an episode that starts with professional idiots and ends somewhere uncomfortably reflective.

John O'Leary 1955-2025. RIP.

This week’s episode features:

✍️ Autograph Hunters – harmless fans or exploiters?

🏃 Gym Class Embarrassment – memories that refuse to fade

🌌 The Meaning of Life – lightly discussed, conclusively unanswered

PLUS – over on Patreon, Chris unloads about supporting bad sports teams. Loyalty, suffering and the long-term emotional damage.

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get you into a lido, identify an orca, or bring back proper football… but will happily reminisce about all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they wade through another week of nostalgia, niche wildlife knowledge and the creeping sense that things were somehow better “back then”. Mild insight only, as ever.

This week’s episode features:

🏊 Lidos – bracing, brilliant, or completely unhinged?

🐋 White Gladys the Orca – internet icon or misunderstood menace?

⚽ Old Football – slower, muddier, and allegedly superior

PLUS – over on Patreon, the lads take on a true classic: Pickled Onion Monster Munch. A flavour, a feeling, a very strong opinion.

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t train your puppy, shut down dodgy pranks, or rename a storm… but will absolutely have opinions on all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they tackle another week of modern nonsense, canine temptation and meteorological branding. Expect mild insights, strong feelings, and no practical advice.

This week’s episode features:

🐶 New Puppies – unbearably cute, wildly disruptive

🏪 Pet Shops – helpful or hellscape?

😈 Pranks – poor Thomas Frank

🌪️ Storm Goretti – a name, a mood, and a nationwide controversy

PLUS – over on Patreon, the lads moan about Christmas sales. Too early, too loud, and somehow unavoidable.

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that can’t predict the future, fix modern technology, or improve the sporting calendar… but will happily review the year anyway.

In this episode, Richie Firth and Chris Skinner take stock of 2025 so far, casting their mildly informed eye over the things that have defined the year — from what we’re eating at lunchtime to the gadgets we’re apparently meant to care about.

This week’s episode features:

🥪 Lunch in 2025 – what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what we’re weirdly proud of

🌡️ Meat Probes – still essential, still slightly unsettling

🚗 Electric Cars – progress, prices, or pure pleasure?

🏟️ Sport in 2025 – what’s working, what’s broken, and what everyone’s arguing about

It’s a reflective episode packed with strong opinions, weak evidence, and just enough insight to leave you Mildly Informed.

👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t fix your loft, improve your tram network, or hit the right note at karaoke… but will absolutely overanalyse all of them.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they tumble through another week of questionable decisions, domestic chaos and surprisingly strong feelings about dried fruit. Mild insight only. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

This week’s episode features:

🥭 Top 5 Dried Fruits – raisins? apricots? a place for a prune?

🪜 Richie’s Loft Discovery – genuinely unbelievable

🚊 Trams – do we love them? do we trust them? do they exist everywhere?

🎤 Karaoke – the songs, the shame, the power ballads that should never remain private

PLUS – on Patreon, the boys delve into school concerts. Chaos, camcorders and kids singing wildly out of key.

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t secure your home, restore Victorian Christmas traditions, or finish your loft conversion… but will absolutely talk about all of them.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner for another week of vague investigations into modern life, festive nostalgia and one man’s ongoing battle with his roof space. Expect mild confusion, gentle opinions and no real answers.

This week’s episode features:

📱 Pluribus – the best new TV show?

🔔 Ring Doorbells – surveillance for your postman and your soul

🎄 Dickensian Christmas – charming tradition or cold, muddy nightmare?

🏠 Richie’s Loft – now includes train sets

PLUS – on Patreon, Chris reviews his work-from-home lunches. Expect limp sandwiches, rogue leftovers and one surprisingly elite discovery.

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🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t cure a hangover, shorten an inset day or tell you which Quality Street is best… but will absolutely debate it at length.

This week, Chris Skinner arrives noticeably hungover and Richie Firth does what any good co-host would do — prods him with questions and refuses to let him off the hook. From school schedules to seasonal chocolate, it’s a week of highs, lows and mild regret.

This week’s episode features:

📅 School Inset Days – educational for teachers, chaos for parents

🍾 Free Booze – delightful on the way in, devastating on the way out

🍬 Quality Street – what’s elite, what’s filler, what must go

📆 Advent Calendars – chocolate, cheese, Lego, whisky… has it gone too far?

PLUS – on Patreon, Chris opens up about getting his kit off for the doctor. A story equally vulnerable and very funny.

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