The National Obsession

The National Obsession

By Charlie Baker & John CadiganSports
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The National Obsession episodes

  • Episode 110 - Straight Back Down
    It's Episode One Hundred and Ten of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.There's a ton of National League news to catch up on! So we chew the fat on the season start date, the playoffs and all the latest transfers. Plus there's discussion about Marie Kondo, Charlie's new pyramid scheme SherbertLife, playing golf with Andy Cole and there's a phonecall from everyone's least favourite Cornishman Ivor Dewdney...

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    36 min
  • Episode 109 - Badly Drawn Birds and Broken Chimineas
    It's Episode One Hundred and Nine of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.So much has happened over the last few weeks we've broken the glass on an emergency podcast! Featuring a call to Madeira Trike Tours after Barrow's promotion, a very respectful tribute to Dame Vera Lynn, a call to Norfolk and a check-in with Trowell Services on behalf of Jamie Reid...

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    38 min
  • Episode 108 - Does anyone know where Guy is?
    It's Episode One Hundred and Eight of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.In this audio/visual season finale, we check up on our friends at Trowell Services, get some homeschooling advice from a headteacher FOF, speak to our sponsored player Liam Davis and close things with an emotional musical montage...

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    50 min
  • Episode 107 - President Business
    It's Episode One Hundred and Seven of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.It's week six of the lockdown and we have some actual National League news to report! There's also news of an unlikely Corona cure, a re-watch of Walsall 8-4 Torquay, a chat with a postman and a bulging sack of your lovely letters!

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    37 min
  • Episode 106 - The Bernard Matthews Obsession
    It's Episode One Hundred and Six of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.It's week five of the lockdown and we get completely sidetracked by Bernard Matthews and his bootiful turkey, the Queen performing the work of Jethro, David Attenborough in a garden and we do a live re-watch of a classic Torquay match...

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    37 min
  • Episode 105 - Big Nev's Tiny Willy
    It's Episode One Hundred and Five of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.It's week four of the lockdown and talk turns to Vera Lynn suing the queen, the latest on Whittling Live, why Gordon Ramsay needs to GET OUT OF THE COUNTY and Alan Bennett performs the first of his isolation diaries...

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    32 min
  • Episode 104 - Get out of the County!
    It's Episode One Hundred and Four of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.It's week three of being stuck indoors and the inevitable cabin fever leads to lengthy discussion of whittling, a replaying of the 2008 FA Trophy Final with dice and a phonecall from a furious Ivor Dewdney...

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    36 min
  • Episode 103 - It's Come To This
    It's Episode One Hundred and Three of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.This week we're still at home with no sport to talk about as the lockdown continues. But that doesn't stop us wittering on about not very much for twenty minutes.

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    21 min
  • Episode 102 - Putting the Elation into Self-Isolation
    It's Episode One Hundred and Two of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.This week is the first episode of goodness knows how many from home under self-isolation. But the good news is we still try and find some joy in briefly being Europe's top league, play a dice-based football simulator, have a big interview with comedian Ivo Graham and Hearse calls in...

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    32 min
  • Episode 101 - From Sutton to Cheltenham
    It's Episode One Hundred and One of the podcast all about life in football's National League, brought to you by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan.This week we're on the road again with comedian Tim Vine taking us for a day out at Sutton United, plenty of horsey atmosphere at the Cheltenham Festival and more of your lovely letters...

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    28 min

About The National Obsession

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A podcast celebrating all that's great about football's National League, by two Torquay United fans - comedian Charlie Baker and talkSPORT's John Cadigan

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