This is the second time Ben has been to Thornbury this week. The first time was to get a microwave and see potential Gladiators contestants.

Stephen’s enjoyed something on TV this week. Ben [...]]]> Yoko Ono and a nice spread at the downstairs restaurant.

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This is the second time Ben has been to Thornbury this week. The first time was to get a microwave and see potential Gladiators contestants.

Stephen’s enjoyed something on TV this week. Ben thought the same programme was decidedly average.

It seems one man in America has the superhero-like ability to eat crisps calmly to diffuse potentially violent situations. But what superpower would our listeners like?

Four songs. One year. Just guess the year and win a prize, in our big competition: The Golden Minute.

Kate Winslet has a large opening. The Chinese were concerned about it.

Stephen plays a song that sounds remarkably like porno jazz. He reckons he heard it in a film, but – conveniently – can’t remember which one.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro and what’s on the show, MGMT.
03:15 – Ben’s free microwave, Gladiators contestants, Snackman®.
08:10 – Lana Del Ray and Axl Rose.
09:57 – The Week In TV, The Apprentice, Derek.
16:34 – Ben’s, Stephen’s, and the listeners’ super powers.
18:51 – The Golden Minute, another listener super power, online radio.
22:03 – Ann Summers, Peter Stringfellow, Ben Beckham, Beck and listener guesses at the competition.
27:24 – Tweet of the Week, Quality Street, Lady Gaga, The Darkness, Green Day, Golden Minute competition winner.
32:50 – Read All About It, Instagram, One Direction, spat-out toast, Dalek shortages, Titanic 3D, nudity, Kate Winslet, The Grand National.
39:34 – The Chillout Zone, and goodbye.

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Snackman. The guy who eats crisps to calm difficult situations.

In the week that Ben and Stephen were a tiny fraction late to the studio, the backup show kicked in and our live listeners heard us start the show with an ident proclaiming they were [...]]]> Samantha Brick, Freda Felcher, and catching crabs.

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In the week that Ben and Stephen were a tiny fraction late to the studio, the backup show kicked in and our live listeners heard us start the show with an ident proclaiming they were listening to the GlossFM “Solid Gold Sunday”, complete with a track by The Supremes.
Hopefully nobody noticed when Ben did an appallingly bad segueway into a loud Biffy Clyro track.

They’re making a sequel to Dumb and Dumber complete with the original cast. Stephen thinks this is a brilliant idea. Ben hasn’t seen it in years, but from memory – thinks the original was average. But what film would our listeners like a sequel made of?

Ben hasn’t seen much TV this week, as he doesn’t currently have a TV. He’s also been moving house, and hasn’t got any notes on what little TV he has seen. So who better to take part in the “The Week In TV” feature?
He’s also mistakenly thinking the Miriam Margolyes interview from Graham Norton happened this week. It turns out it’s an old clip from ages ago.

Stephen’s dragged a smelly cow into the studio. She’s not too happy about it. And nor is Ben.

If you’ve missed all the other available news outlets this week, you can catch up on the most odd, and least important stories in our big feature: Read All About It, which this week features Cheryl Cole and some cox.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, and what’s on the show, Easter.
03:41 – National Garden/Poetry/Beer week/month, STEPHEN!, Samantha Brick.
08:20 – Dumb and Dumber, sequels.
13:00 – The Week In TV, Miriam Margolyes, The Apprentice, The Fisherman’s Apprentice, crabs, Mad Men.
19:52 – The Golden Minute, listener suggestions of sequels.
23:23 – National Pet Month, Chloe, intelligence, mirrors, competition guesses, Ben’s suggestions for sequels.
27:35 – Tweet of the Week, Read All About It, vicious cats, Cheryl Cole, Russell Brand, One Direction, Justin Bieber, Oxford vs Cambridge boat race, N-Dubz.
36:04 – Most beautiful people in the world, Hunger Games, women like whales.
39:50 – Golden Minute winning answer, and goodbye.

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The Miriam Margolyes clip Ben thought was new (it’s quite old actually).

We kick off with Ben opening a tin of someone else’s Quality Street (other chocolates are available) and eating chocolate when he should be talking.

Stephen is a fan of April Fool’s Day, but it [...]]]> Whisky, drunken singing and potatoes stuck up arses.

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We kick off with Ben opening a tin of someone else’s Quality Street (other chocolates are available) and eating chocolate when he should be talking.

Stephen is a fan of April Fool’s Day, but it turns out that Ben hates the stupid jokes, and he’s got one from his childhood that still sticks in his mind to this very day.

Want to win a top prize? Just tell us how many nuts are in Stephen’s bulging sack.
OK – so podcast listeners can’t really enter now, but feel free to play along at home (or on the bus, or whatever), for a bit of personal self-praise.

Ben rather awkwardly confuses two different lighting-my-fire-themed songs. Hopefully, nobody notices.

The best tweet from the last week, according to official statistics, is – by pure coincidence – the same one Stephen has chosen for our big feature: Tweek of the Week.

Stephen tries to relax in The Chillout Zone, but gets constantly irritated by Ben, who didn’t even like the choice of record. Thankfully, podcast listeners don’t get to hear it anyway. Lucky you.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – What’s on the show, Quality Street, and shit April Fools jokes.
07:24 – Ben’s house move, petrol panic buying, stamps.
11:40 – The Week In TV, including Mad Men, The Voice, Britain’s Got Talent, The Syndicate, The Apprentice, Game of Thrones.
18:10 – Equipment failure, air conditioning, half-decent April Fools jokes.
21:52 – The Magic Number.
25:00 – Skrillex, what’s left on the show, Magic Number guesses, Anchorman 2.
31:53 – Tweet of the Week, Read All About It, megamillions lottery win, the pasty tax, transgender beauty queens, royal memorabilia, whisky, arse insertions.
40:04 – Competition winners, the chillout zone, drunken bohemian rhapsody, and goodbye.

We’ve stopped covering for someone else’s show, and moved to our own slot on Sunday afternoon, changing the name back to the Music and Waffle Show, as we go. Not that it makes any difference to [...]]]> Double gatefold vinyl, Tamworth and bondage.

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We’ve stopped covering for someone else’s show, and moved to our own slot on Sunday afternoon, changing the name back to the Music and Waffle Show, as we go. Not that it makes any difference to podcast listeners.

Stephen’s been away to Tamworth this week. He reviews it, the hotel, and the food on offer. Bristol’s a much sexier town though. Isn’t it? If only there was a poll to find out.

What have Ben and Stephen watched on TV since the last show? Find out, in The Week In TV.

How many balls are in the bag? If our listeners can guess, they can win a big prize.

Ben nearly went to his school prom. Maybe he’d have gone if Mike Stone had been organising it.

Just what is double gatefold vinyl?

Not on Twitter? Are, but can’t be arsed to keep up with EVERYONE IN THE WORLD? *tut* Talk about bone idle. Thankfully, we trawl through every tweet written to bring you the Tweet of the Week.

And what’s that? You haven’t read the papers either? We look through them to give you a digest of all the news in ‘Read All About It’.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, what’s on the show.
02:12 – What Stephen (and some other people) has been doing this week, and other celebrity news.
08:00 – A clock, bondage, Bill Roach, sexy towns.
10:41 – The Week In TV.
17:20 – The Magic Number.
20:03 – The New Radicals, Lana Del Ray, high school proms.
25:34 – Andrew WK, Tweet of the Week.
28:24 – Read All About It.
33:29 – Cash for dinner invites, competition winner, and goodbye.

With a slightly unconventional start, we kick off another episode of The Saturday Show, with some bad news.

Also, we’ve been banned from using the c-word on air. For f***s sake. Damn those infernal joy-stealing s*** c*****faced [...]]]> Guinness, flatulence, and geckos in space.

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With a slightly unconventional start, we kick off another episode of The Saturday Show, with some bad news.

Also, we’ve been banned from using the c-word on air. For f***s sake. Damn those infernal joy-stealing s*** c*****faced mo*******rs! Oh well. Can’t be helped.

Bear Grylls might have lost his job, but there’s another big-name job you could get, where you don’t have to drink dog urine. Good news.

We’ve got a big competition where you can win..well..no prizes..if you can just guess the year.

Our live listeners got 3minutes and 5seconds of relaxing music. Obviously it’s cut from the podcast. Erm, yeah. Well it’ll teach you not to listen live, won’t it.

This week’s Tweet of the Week is a great one from a TV presenter/journalist/author.

We’ve been through all the news of the week, and bring you the shortened condensed version of only the most important stories, in Read All About It.

Podcast Timings:

00:00 – Intro, what’s on the show, and some bad news.
04:33 – Flatulence, dead flies.
06:52 – Disagreement over what makes a good song, Stephen’s drink problem, Bear Grylls, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
12:08 – Plan B, The c-word.
14:56 – The Golden Minute competition.
17:48 – The Walking Dead, Andrew Lincoln.
19:29 – Rain, timing arguments, quality control, Gérard Depardieu.
22:07 – Time to relax, the Golden Minute winner.
26:49 – Tweet of the Week, Read All About It, geckos, fat police, Russell Brand, presents for Obama, David Cameron, and goodbye.

We’re back. Sorta. No – it’s not The Music and Waffle Show. It’s Ben and Stephen filling in, doing a show on a weekend. This one went out 9-11am on a Saturday, in place of Chris Mountain’s show on Gloss FM. It’s [...]]]> Right click here and ‘save target as’ or ‘save link as’ to download show (40:09, 55.2mb)

We’re back. Sorta.
No – it’s not The Music and Waffle Show. It’s Ben and Stephen filling in, doing a show on a weekend. This one went out 9-11am on a Saturday, in place of Chris Mountain’s show on Gloss FM. It’s called “The Saturday Show”, perhaps.

Other than the time of broadcast and the fact we’re just covering, there’s some other differences too. We’re using slightly different equipment (Stephen’s laptop instead of Ben’s), there’s no Donald McDonald, no James, no Don Chico, no Richard Cook, no outside broadcasts. And much as our jingles suggest it, we’re not actually broadcasting on FM. So there.

We get off to a shaky start, with our microphones a long way from where we’re sitting. All soon resolved. After about a minute, Stephen is even audible. Brilliant.

What do you lose? We put this question to our listeners.

Kim Kardashian. Why was she famous originally? Can anyone remember? Ben’s definitely seen her in something(?) but he can’t remember what.

We’ve borrowed a competition from our other show, in the form of The Golden Minute. It sounds very familiar. Odd. Still, you can win some big priz…oh…no..there’s no prizes. Just the pride of winning.

Ben thinks he’s seen the northern lights, and drives around the area chasing them.

What’s the big news stories of the week? The only way to find out* is to check out Read All About It – our news feature where we debate the news.
(*Many other ways are available.)

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, what’s on the show?
03:51 – Foo Fighters, Britain’s richest man, losing things
08:20 – Jamie Oliver crying and getting fat
11:34 – Tweet of the week
13:44 – Sleeping on the job, Super Tuesday
17:07 – The Golden Minute
20:12 – Gotye, solar storms/dogging
26:04 – Bad lookalikes, Ed Sheeran,
29:59 – Read All About It, Ben’s dislike of cats, overspending, BBC’s rival to iTunes, Michael Barrymore, TopShop, men’s t-shirts,
37:28 – Golden Minute answer, and goodbye.

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The BBC newsreader who fell asleep [YouTube]

The Fox News guy who fell asleep [YouTube]

The Kim Jong-il lookalike who is lonely [The Metro]

It’s the last in this series of the Music and Waffle Show. I can’t believe it’s over. I watched the whole thing fall, and I never saw the writing that was… yeah.. enough Michael Buble.

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It’s the last in this series of the Music and Waffle Show. I can’t believe it’s over. I watched the whole thing fall, and I never saw the writing that was… yeah.. enough Michael Buble.

We’ve got a new remix of Kirsty MacColl. Well, no.. it’s 2.5 years old actually. But it’s good to hear it again (unless you’re a fanatical obsessive fan and you hate us repeating old features, in which case, sorry).

We’ve had a slight problem with our ‘guess how many’ competition The Magic Number this week, in that someone has stolen our bag and balls. However, our listeners can win some great prizes, if they can tell us how many nuts are in the sack. It’s easy – you can even look at it on the webcam. Probably.

Amazingly, Britain has come first in something. Well done us. Well, not me, James and Stephen. But well done to the others who put in some effort.

James has been using the toilet in an incorrect manner. But what have our listeners been doing wrong?

Local newsreader Donald McDonald is possibly not giving the reading of news his full attention this week, although it does feature grapes, Yorkshire, and a chicken.

James has been watching endless dross on TV, so he’s here to put together a roundup for us, and also to give you tips on who to put money on, for winning The Young Apprentice and XFactor.

Ben has finally found someone else who disliked The Hangover as much as he did, and Stephen adds another food to his “the tools of Lucifer” list.

There’s another episode of The Only Way is Bradley Stoke. Everyone is preparing themselves for the local Need For Quickness car race. Come on, Joey!

After forgetting about it for the first two weeks, and promising it the third and running out of time, we’ve finally managed to get Tweet of the Week together for the final show.

We were a bit rushed at the end of the show, so sorry about that. You’ll hardly notice really. I don’t know why I mentioned it, to be honest. As you were.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, previously, and what’s on today’s show
05:33 – Britain wins something, James’ political manifesto, and his struggles with something
11:31 – Wilso’s Reality Check
17:22 – Donald McDonald Donald
22:03 – What has Ben been doing wrong? And the listeners?
24:22 – Top 5 stories of the week
28:36 – The National Day of today
29:50 – The Magic Number competition
33:00 – Star Trek, Christian Bale, and other movie news
36:24 – TOWIBS
42:09 – Magic Number guesses
43:54 – Kirsty MacColl remix
48:16 – Tweet of the week, world marriage news
49:47 – The Magic Number final guesses and goodbye.

This is the end of the series, so we’re all off for a bit now. Thanks for listening (if you have been).

It’s the penultimate week of this series. We’ve made an intro, in the style of an oldskool one that some of our long-time listeners might remember. For the rest of you – it’s completely original and new.

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It’s the penultimate week of this series. We’ve made an intro, in the style of an oldskool one that some of our long-time listeners might remember. For the rest of you – it’s completely original and new.

James and Stephen are missing a football match being televised while we’re live. But they hardly mention it, at all. (Ben: And certainly not off air, while every record is on. At all.)

Ben’s been putting some things off until he can do it no longer. But what about the listeners?

Donald McDonald Donald has all the latest local news on payrises, name changes, and sightings of bigfoot.

The Magic Number is yet another rollover, with an ever-expanding list of prizes to be won. But just wow many balls are in that bag?

The drama…erm.. reality.. real..unscripted..drama, continues in The Only Way is Bradley Stoke aka TOWIBS.

Sadly there wasn’t time for “Tweet of the week” as advertised by Stephen. Never mind.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – New intro, previously, what’s on this show?
05:06 – Trips to London, and what Ben’s been putting off,
10:21 – Wilso’s Reality Check
15:04 – Donald McDonald Donald
18:55 – Berlusconi’s love songs, listener responses,
21:33 – Top 5 stories of the week
27:47 – Half time – what’s left on this show?
28:40 – The Magic Number
31:45 – Uma has it, viral videos,
34:13 – Dirge, GOHARD, sexiest males
35:58 – TOWIBS
42:21 – The Steve Jobs biopic, bad musical collaborations,
45:55 – Kerry Katona, Magic Number guesses, psychic horses, and goodbye.

We all sound a bit tired today. Ben’s been busy, but not as busy as Stephen. James…well…who knows what he’s been doing?

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We all sound a bit tired today. Ben’s been busy, but not as busy as Stephen. James…well…who knows what he’s been doing?

There’s a few things that annoy Ben. Luckily he’s had a few days to calm down since his effing-and-blinding-outside-the-supermarket breakdown.
But what annoys the listeners? There’s only one way to find out. Erm, ask them.. yeah?

James has a big update on all the reality TV shows. Well…only The Young Apprentice and Xfactor really, but “Wilso’s Apprentice+Xfactor Check” doesn’t really work as a name.

Donald McDonald is here with all the latest news headlines, about gold, Almondsbury super groups, and the location of the best place in the world.

The Magic Number is back, but how many balls are in that bag? If live listeners let us know, they can win some big big prizes.

We’ve got some about-average TV news. 10 o Clock Live is back. We keep calling it “The 10 o Clock Show” for some reason.

There’s also a gold Kirsty MacColl and gold Dr Ben (repeats, in other words).

Podcast Timings

We’re back. Stephen sounds terrible. We managed 15 minutes before we got a complaint.

James has his finger on the pulse of reality TV dross, and he brings it to the listeners in his ‘Reality Check’.

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We’re back. Stephen sounds terrible. We managed 15 minutes before we got a complaint.

James has his finger on the pulse of reality TV dross, and he brings it to the listeners in his ‘Reality Check’.

But never mind national reality shows. What’s happening on a local level? South-West? No, even more local than that! Find out in our award-winning* The Only Way is Bradley Stoke.
(*Hasn’t actually won any awards.)

Donald McDonald is back with the factual local news (not that TOWIBS isn’t factual, obviously), packaged and brutally grafted for the listeners.

What do you have an irritating uncontrollable obsession about? We put this question to our listeners.

If you’ve not read any newspapers, online news sites, not heard the radio, or watched any TV this week, what are the top 5 most important news stories you should hear about? We do a round up for you.

We’ve got a big competition where you can win** some great prizes. It’s called The Magic Number, and it’s simple but brilliant.
(**Live listeners only. Podcast listeners: it’s just for fun.)

You’ve got a million songs. 10 million. 100 million. How do you pick enough music for a 2 hour show though? We use The Randomizer – an enormous wheel covered in numbers. Unfortunately we edit all music we don’t have permission to use, out, so you don’t get to hear it. But never mind.

Podcast Timings

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