The Looking for a Third Podcast

Kurt Charnock has taken on some of the toughest running and cycling challenges, and lived to tell the tale.  He sees every challenge as an adventure, yet to us mere mortals they are momentous tasks of endurance, hardship and being so far out of our comfort zone it‘s in a different time zone. The trials and tribulations Kurt has been willing to put himself through, would make members of the ar...

The first sunshine of the year saw our hosts Rodney and Tanya out of the studio and on the road, to experience the annual celebration that is the Portsmouth Chilli & Gin Festival.  Located within the old walls of Fort Purbrook just on the outskirts of Portsmouth, the festival drew more than 2000 visitors per day. The grounds were packed with over 40 different vendors, selling and giv...

Karissa Kwok Karissa Kwok is going to be a CEO and a titan of business someday if the Law, her chosen area of study doesn’t work out. She’ll be firing the likes of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, or tying them up in legal knots if they cross her. Karissa has built up a very healthy business selling plushies. Now I know you don’t know what they are, but the kids do and her handmade plushies...

Henrietta Fernandez For the first time in this series the show hits the road and goes wild foraging with food forager Henrietta Fernandez and her hired hound for the day Woody. Our hosts go routing through the undergrowth, leaf picking and twig tasting to find some tasty morsels that are growing through the concrete or flowering in the forest. Now, it can’t be emphasised enough that you really nee...

A local stand-up comedy legend is what you call a comedian that’s been around a while and managed to survive and thrive. This accurately describes our guest Kevin McCarron with more than 30 years under his belt. He’s done it all from one man shows, club comedian and numerous visits to the Edinburgh Fringe. In his chat with the duo he freely and openly talks to our hosts, both of whom have a vested...

Stephen Dixon   In this episode our hosts talk to mild mannered financial adviser Stephen Dixon about his passion for growing chillies. He not only grows, cultivates and nurtures chillies, his passion for chillies goes much deeper than that. He’s also a bit of a Victor von Frankenstein, as he’s also had ago or two at cross pollinating different plants in order to create even hotter chillies....

Brighton and Hove Albion football club has spurned at least 8 different podcasts separate to the official podcast run by the club. Joe Sayers is the host of the ‘Albion Obsessed’ a fan lead podcast, for the fans by the fans. We talk about the obsession and fanatical nature of being a football fan, as well as fan dress sense and kit faux pas. We talk about the personal and generational link to the...

There’s no polite way to put it, but Laura is nut’s about rollercoasters. She’s on them in her lunch break and would ride them all weekend if she were able to. A season pass holder to the Palace Pier in her adopted hometown of Brighton, it’s fair to say she may have even moved there just to be close to the fun fair at the end of the pier. Either way she’s on first name terms with the operators of...

Seasoned DJ and turn table aficionado Dumani Ncube, or Dustee Du as he’s know on the decks, has been flipping vinyl and seamlessly blending tracks together for over 25 years. One of the OG’s (old git's) of Brighton soul, funk, R&B and rare grove, he heads up the DJ collective Soul Casserole. They are responsible for some of the best R&B nights out available in the south east of the UK. Hav...

Annabel Dunston is a swimming nut, and is part fish. As the title suggests she is in the sea - the English channel to be exact - all year round, unlike Rodney who only swims in the summer. Tanya however, doesn't float and has had Green Peace intercept Japanese whaling vessels on her behalf before now. In this opening episode the dingbats talk to Annabel Dunstan. Annabel’s a wild swimmer that got t...

In this podcast, the crash test dummies meet Lou Channon; the driving force behind a Brighton based community gospel choir open to all. Over two decades, the acclaimed 'Brighton Goes Gospel’ choir has grown from just a handful of like minded people - with a love of gospel - to over a 140 strong membership. Lou talks about the choirs' first small get-togethers, to their numerous live performan...

A great giggle from the get go, the final episode of series one joins the non-geniuses back to where it all started, as they revisit Gary Grant and his bees. Things are very different in the height of the honey making season. The bees are active, and their numbers have grown. Dressed in fabulous, all in one white numbers for protection, the pair finally get close to these hard working little honey...

In this episode, our guest has appeared in more than 30 films and television series’, alongside such Hollywood luminaries as Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren. He’s been in numerous commercials ranging from sci-fi, action and adventure to costume dramas and has even made it into the Harry Potter movies! And yet, many of the A listers wouldn't know his name or even remember him.&...

In this episode we meet Debbie Flack, who volunteered to act as an eyewitness to the daily struggles and unjust treatment the Israelis are subjecting the Palestinians to on a daily basis. Now, we know what you’re thinking, not a funny topic, and what are the two village idiots doing, wading into geopolitics? Rest assured, there are plenty of laughs in this episode; thanks mostly to the quality of...

This week’s guest Laura Heywood is unusual for the podcast, because she has been a British, European and World champion. It’s rare we talk to people who can call themselves world class, and delightfully Laura insists we don’t. She’s been a winning competitor in the field of Obstacle Course Racing for several years now, and really is a bit of a legend in the sport. Like most of the people on our sh...

 Jim Higham is a runner who came to running relatively late after spending time working abroad in Africa. By his own admission he's become a little addicted to it. He gets restless if he can’t get a tiny run in of at least 10k a day. Now, to normal people in a city, it's about a 20 minute car ride or a 30 minute bus journey, and around 6.2 miles too long a walk. He normally clocks up ove...

 Edi Mandala is an amazing self-taught, ever evolving artist, with a remarkable back catalogue of mosaic art works and commissions. His home is adorned with some painstakingly intricate mosaic artwork that really deserve their own retrospective show at some point in the future. However, like all true artists, one medium isn’t enough, and he’s now moved on to create a mash up of spoken word poetry,...

The dynamic dunces are back to talk to the enlightening Miles Borman, a self-styled mens health fitness and wellbeing guru. An advocate of fasting he regularly goes without food for 24 and 48 hours. He talks us through the how, when, why and where of fasting. Plus his personal philosophy, approach and shed's light on the numerous benefits of going without food for set periods. Miles also talk...

The crash test dummies that claim to be hosts of the show, are joined in this episode by UK and Eastbourne based comedian Claire Carty. Now don't worry about it if you've never heard of her. All you really need to know is that she's very funny, funnier than the male crash test dummy that hosts the show, and she'll be on your screens some day soon. She's that good! Claire talks about her early year...

In the very first episode of The Looking For A Third Podcast, the Mensa rejects talk to Gary Grant a long suffering friend of Tanya's about his passion for bee keeping. Gary talks about the how, when, where and why he got into bee keeping, but goes on to talk about the fascinating behaviours, the societal structure and the greater wider world of bee keeping. However, he is unable to do t...