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Requestline…wait..is this thing on? – 24th September 2009

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The continuing adventures of Ben’s #FAIL

In the week that Ben forgot to press record at the beginning of the show, he recorded 4.5mins of nonsense after the show ended instead. It features swear words.

On the upside

It was a terrible show. Nobody missed a lot. Here’s what we might have talked about in the live show:

- Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and how Ben enjoyed them a lot at the Bristol Comedy Gala he went to.

- Highlight of the Weeeeeek: The builders have FINALLY started doing some work on Ben’s house

- James May’s lego house was knocked down this week. If it had been a bit better promoted, they could havegot people to donate £1 each and save it….probably. Take a full tour of it (from when it was standing) here.

- We briefly mentioned the Microsoft Windows 7 launch party, and how terrible it sounds. Full details on Ben’s blog here.

- As Chas n Dave are no longer going to be working together, we played a mash-up of them, mixed with Dizzee Rascal. You can hear the full song here. It ISN’T our work. It’s by Soundhog – and you can hear more of his mixes here. I’m pretty sure the same guy also made this:

Requestline – 17th September 2009

The night of colossal Ben #FAIL and general all-round lack of communication

James took the night off, and notified Ben and Stephen.
Ben assumed (incorrectly) that Stephen would stay the full night to act as producer/station manager, then Ben turned up late, after notifying Stephen (who wasn’t at the studio anymore), causing the station’s automated backup show to kick in.

Regular Requestline show members Ed and Steff were unable to present a show, as neither has done their demo yet, and unfortunately for everyone, management were around to see what looks like several members of staff not turning up, while they were busily slating Stephen’s show.

So, when Ben eventually bumped into Ed, Steff, and Ian Pinkney (who presents the show before Ben’s), there was little point actually continuing en-route to the studio, as there was nothing to be done, except for a lot of explaining.

IF Ben had been slightly earlier, IF he hadn’t known about the management situation, and IF he had gone in, sat down and started talking, we’re not sure what he’d have talked about anyway, given his chosen topics. If management don’t like Stephen and Bones chatting amongst themselves and offering subjects they think the other might be interested in (which may or may not be of interest to the demographic), they’re not likely to enjoy what Ben had on his hospital radio running order.

This is what Ben had on his “stuff to talk about” list

- Derren Brown’s reveal – does anyone actually think it’s possible?
- Zoo Magazine – isn’t it sh*t? (Re: Frankenstein woman in recent issue)
- Product placement – good idea/bad idea? (Silly examples of bad ones)
- Lowlight of the week – two of Ben’s housemates moving out
- There was a minute’s silence for Patrick Swayze. If you were going to get a minute of something in honour of you, what would it be? Ben thinks his might be flatulence.
- Kanye West – what a c**t
(He’d also planned to play an unedited version of a song which has the F-bomb in the chorus)

Requestline – 10th September 2009

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If you heard the news that the remaining members of The Beatles were remastering their old stuff again, and thought “Boo! They’re flogging a dead horse! Bloody el!”, then you should hear the original “unremastered” version of “The Long and Winding Road”. We’ve left it in for podcast listeners – completely unedited. Pretty much.

James has fallen out with the council, Royal Mail, and people in duffle coats. He’s also struggling to keep up with the youngsters of today, and might be smuggling illegal immigrants via taxi.

Ben’s improved his working situation, but he has got a problem with alcoholism, which is odd for someone who is practically teetotal.

Despite the fact that we’ve had complaints that Apple conversation is coma-inducingly-boring, we can’t resist taking some time to talk about the new iPod nano.

James has a problem with his pumping. It’s possible he has to stick it in a different angle, and not too deep.

There’s a lot of debate about Derren Brown’s balls. It’ll likely all be resolved by the time anyone hears this podcast.

Ben and James debate how dreams work with some very high-pitched arguing. Maybe they’re not recorded in the right order, like a film or TV series?
Like…your brain does the opening credits after it’s shot the action scenes and edits it back in at the beginning…or something?

We’re unable to do any rummaging because someone has taken the boxes away, and Ben receives a text message which distracts James.

Podcast timings

00:00 – Intro, and another intro
01:38 – James’ highlight of the week, the council, royal mail, duffle coats and alcoholism
09:30 – Eurythmics, Apple chat
11:47 – Ben’s highlight of the week, Welsh things, James’ pumping problems,
16:35 – Derren Brown’s balls, Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington
29:07 – Ben’s dreams, Twitter,
36:05 – ‘For The Shortest Time’ build-up, not rummaging and goodbyes
39:24 – END

And

Here’s the full-length David Brent vs Mika video. A clip was shown on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and we talked about it during the show. It isn’t our work.

Requestline – 3rd September 2009

Unbelievably, after such a long time unemployed, Ben is now so busy with working and preparing to start a college course, that he doesn’t have time to prepare a show this week, nor to sit in front of a microphone and talk to James for 90 minutes.

As Ben records the show and edits the podcast version, there won’t be anything for Ben’s sister our online listeners to listen to this week.

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