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Iain tweeted about doing a 24 hour phone in show, Talkradio replied saying yes.
Can't wait for that one!! But there are only 19 hours per day of TalkRadio!
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3 hours straight-to-air has been done, ok. What about 3 hours of a completely presenterless show? Like a total show version of when Iain takes a back seat.
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3 hours straight-to-air has been done, ok. What about 3 hours of a completely presenterless show? Like a total show version of when Iain takes a back seat.
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Didn't he do a show on LBC presenterless?
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The call that tickled me the most on Friday night was from Jonathan (no, not the infamous racist). He renamed himself after his Twitter name because he said the name Jonathan had been soiled. He is famous for phoning Iain on Absolute to try and get new friends in Cambridge after he moved there by getting people to meet him at a certain time. It was even elevated to a feature with a catchy name that I can't remember at the moment. He is very mild-mannered and he phoned up specifically to get into an argument so he could find out what it felt like. However, the argument happened sooner than he expected and it got very uncomfortable, very quickly and Jonathan extracted himself from the discomfort as quickly as possible. That was Iain at his subtle best.. Quote:
Yes, if i remember correctly the c-bomb got dropped 5 times in a row, LBC dumped the audio however the dump only worked on DAB and it went out and as a result the show was cancelled after an hour.
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The call that tickled me the most on Friday night was from Jonathan (no, not the infamous racist). He renamed himself after his Twitter name because he said the name Jonathan had been soiled.
He is famous for phoning Iain on Absolute to try and get new friends in Cambridge after he moved there by getting people to meet him at a certain time. It was even elevated to a feature with a catchy name that I can't remember at the moment. He is very mild-mannered and he phoned up specifically to get into an argument so he could find out what it felt like. However, the argument happened sooner than he expected and it got very uncomfortable, very quickly and Jonathan extracted himself from the discomfort as quickly as possible. That was Iain at his subtle best.. I also wish Trevor Pal would discover Iain again, someone phoned in the other week pretending to be a impersonator of him. I also hope Smudge calls in however i still reckon Smudge was Rob Burnett. Quote:
The management pulled the presenterless show after an hour and then the show continued as a normal Sunday night Triple M. The problem with the dump button occurred then. It was a coincidence that the pulling of the presenterless show was in the same show as the failure of the dump button.
Ahhhh i knew something happened on that show with the dump button but couldn't remember exactly what. Didn't they play a Clive bull repeat though for half an hour after the show got cancelled ?
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Ahhh i thought i recognised him from somewhere. Wasn't it Cheer Up Saturdays or something ? I wish the guy who did the film reviews for Iain on Absolute would discover him again, would love to hear him on film ring. What was his name ?
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Ahhhh i knew something happened on that show with the dump button but couldn't remember exactly what. Didn't they play a Clive bull repeat though for half an hour after the show got cancelled ?
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The management pulled the presenterless show after an hour and then the show continued as a normal Sunday night Triple M.
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I also hope Smudge calls in however i still reckon Smudge was Rob Burnett.
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Did management actually pull it or was that not all part of the 'act'?
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Thanks for that. That last hour laid to rest a ghost from 11 years ago. I knew it could work.
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Did management actually pull it or was that not all part of the 'act'?
I always thought Smudge was Watko. Quote:
Yes, it was certainly "Cheer Up" some day of the week. I can't remember who did the film reviews. .
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Here's one thing I don't get about the dump button. It needs to build back up and there's a complooter that inserts little pauses over a period of time. But why is it so necessary for the build-up to be unnoticeable? I would have thought it far easier for the 7 seconds (or 14) to be restored immediately. It's not very long! Maybe have a 7-second message stored in a buffer so when it needs to be built up again there's a voice saying "Well, dear listeners, I had to use the dump button there." That can easily take 7 seconds, and then voilà it's back to full power.
Maybe I've misunderstood it. |
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Here's one thing I don't get about the dump button. It needs to build back up and there's a complooter that inserts little pauses over a period of time. But why is it so necessary for the build-up to be unnoticeable? I would have thought it far easier for the 7 seconds (or 14) to be restored immediately. It's not very long! Maybe have a 7-second message stored in a buffer so when it needs to be built up again there's a voice saying "Well, dear listeners, I had to use the dump button there." That can easily take 7 seconds, and then voilà it's back to full power.
Maybe I've misunderstood it. |
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Yes, if i remember correctly the c-bomb got dropped 5 times in a row, LBC dumped the audio however the dump only worked on DAB and it went out and as a result the show was cancelled after an hour.
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He did presenterless Triple M for the first half hour of the Sunday LBC show as well for a time, remember. I fell in love with it around then as a concept. It properly reminds me of Jam sometimes, and a caller the other week phoned in and played some Jam down the line, as if to labour the point
![]() Without that style of lo-fi, plunderphonics-esque music in the background it doesn't work half as well. It's a collage, an art piece. |
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Iain talked about the recent DS discussion on here just after midnight and also mentioned the "poisonous arses" on the LBC thread back in the day such as when gurney-slade wrote something nasty about him and then said "morning all!"
![]() (I still say 'morning all'. It's good manners. )
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One thing that was interesting the other night when Iain was talking to Miranda is that he let the cat out of the bag that the interview he did with Tommy Boyd on Absolute that got really tense was setup. I had always thought it had been as they had always got on well and Iain did a one off Christmas Show where Tommy phoned up again and they both hinted that it may have been staged.
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In the early days of commercial (independent) radio, probably until the late 80s or early 90s, they would play a 7 second jingle to get the delay back straight away. Iain always tells the audience that the dump button has been pressed but other presenters will carry on as if nothing has happened. The presenter just introduces a new caller or talks about other stuff.
I suppose with a show like Iain's it's not shocking to have some random audio for 7 seconds interjecting into the middle of a convo. I imagine JHB wouldn't appreciate it. Would be funny to hear! Although she'd need to get some callers for there to be any need of a dump button anyway. Meeaow
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Where's "Id" these days?
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Last night, the last half hour or so was a big argument between Iain and Russ about whether a matador who died during a bullfight in Spain deserved to die. Iain requested clips of what Russ had just said to back up his argument. Iain thought it was just a good bit of sport and suggested to Russ that he doesn't go and post loads of messages on Facebook etc. about it but that's what he's done. Russ claims that the podcast vindicates him. Russ has previously posted on Facebook that he thought his call was no good and he won't be calling in again. He's a great caller but he takes it too seriously and puts himself under so much pressure. Quote:
Where's "Id" these days?
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Last night, the last half hour or so was a big argument between Iain and Russ about whether a matador who died during a bullfight in Spain deserved to die. Iain requested clips of what Russ had just said to back up his argument. Iain thought it was just a good bit of sport and suggested to Russ that he doesn't go and post loads of messages on Facebook etc. about it but that's what he's done. Russ claims that the podcast vindicates him. Russ has previously posted on Facebook that he thought his call was no good and he won't be calling in again. He's a great caller but he takes it too seriously and puts himself under so much pressure.
He went on holiday to New Zealand. He Tweeted (@swiftynz} 8 hours ago in Auckland airport about to go back to London. |
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Lots of people take lots of radio shows seriously and I don't know why they have that affect on people unlike TV. This subforum had a warning specifically when others on DS didn't. Why is that?
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Where's "Id" these days?
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He's in NZ visiting Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, he'll be back when he's finished reading the signpost.
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That reminds me, where does that rhythmic chant come from? Iain used to play it on Absolute. Possibly before then as well. It's double or triple tracked and is a man saying that thing which ends "...mickey tora". I remember Barry used to try to say it. Ahh I love Barry; he talks exactly like my Granny used to, especially with the vague "you know" every so often.
eta: ah right, of course that reminds me of it. It is it! So it's a chant of some town in NZ? Where's Mickey Tora got to at the end of it?
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That reminds me, where does that rhythmic chant come from? Iain used to play it on Absolute. Possibly before then as well. It's double or triple tracked and is a man saying that thing which ends "...mickey tora". I remember Barry used to try to say it. Ahh I love Barry; he talks exactly like my Granny used to, especially with the vague "you know" every so often.
eta: ah right, of course that reminds me of it. It is it! So it's a chant of some town in NZ? Where's Mickey Tora got to at the end of it? ![]() |
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