Episode 0.7.3: They're Popping Out!
It's been a while, and for once it's not (just) because of how long it took me to edit this episode. Subsequently we have a lot of nothing to talk about. I should have cut this into multiple episodes, but can't be bothered. Instead, I recommend the "pause" button on your media playing device of choice.
In this episode:
- Ruben sits too far from the microphone making it sound like I keep him at the bottom of a deep dark well, which is not entirely true.
- Are you cycling? Are you doing it for the right reasons? Who are you trying to impress?
- Michael Foot is Ruben's hero.
- Paul is losing perks.
- Brisbane's own Boris Bikes.
- Matthew is like the Mekon.
- Inflatable helmets.
- @cdbragg is an excellent MC. He could have bothered to dress up, though.
- Paul and Rodney beat the crazy Christian lady in the 2011 NSW State election. Democracy works! And we all have lots of scrap paper!
- Matthew and Ruben are sceptical about Bitcoin, but only in an entirely uninformed way. Paul meanwhile is mortgaging his house to buy GPUs.
- Gravity: It's got potential.
- 21st century man, the fearless hunter of Doctor Who episodes.
- Tulips, aka. Bitcoins.
- How to woo women with ASCII Art.
- While Ruben was having fun uncovering hidden smugglers' caves, we poor Australians were stuck at home, washing the Brady Bunch.
- The delights of congealed milk.
- @andyc's army of followers slashdotted us. But he'll stop listening once he finds out we don't know anything about football.
- We love archive.org.
- The Pentagon Papers have been released, officially this time.
- We remember Whispering Ted Lowe. Well, Ruben doesn't, because he was out discovering smugglers' caves.
- We remember the remarkably talented and beautiful Elizabeth Sladen. So does Tom Baker, who has a great website.
- We remember Osama Bin Laden, and conclude the way he shuffled off this mortle coil (or had it shuffled off for him), wasn't quite sporting.
- We go a bit meta, before finally passing out from exhaustion (and wine).
Special guest foley work provided by Allison, who created some very convincing kitchen noises.
So many samples from Freesound.org that listening to them end to end would make your ears bleed.
We also have some nice piano work from Winifred Atwell who has pretty nimble fingers for somebody 100 years old and dead. And a couple of samples from http://ccmixter.org, who've not helped us before, but certainly will again.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Sladen whom we all loved and, it must be said (with no disrespect intended), fancied.
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