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Interrobang Podcasts
Fajer Al-Kaisi and Erik Jensen talk DnD and storytelling (and get weird) with creative professionals.
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WTF?! That's what Travis and Tybee are asking! There's so much in this world that boggles our minds and we want to figure it out with you! So join us every Thursday! Trust us, you're gonna like us when we're angry.
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The official podcast for the Interrobang Film Festival which takes place during the Des Moines Arts Festival the last weekend in June downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The views and opinions expressed in the interviews heard on this podcast are not necessarily reflect the views of the Interrobang Film Festival or the Des Moines Arts Festival.
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Ian is an award-winning comedy writer with MS and in the current series, Almost a Radio Show, he teams up with his singer/comedian mate, Dave Prior, for a weekly half-hour of great music, trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.
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Pandiculate is the word of the week. All humans and most animals do it daily! We’ve goy Tom Petty’s first band, Mudcrutch… a great cover by Natalie Imbruglia… a one-hit-wonder from Chip Taylor and Merilee Rush… Bryan Adams covers a Beatles song and lead singer Al ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson died way too young after going up the country on the road again……
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Drum roll! Bring on the noctambulist! What about J.J. Cale’s first band, Leather Coated Minds? Who could forget the classic, Cows with Guns or the one-hit-wonder by Men Without Hats? What is the accidental invention and what Beach Boys song did Paul McCartney say was the greatest song ever written? What Beatles song did Chris de Burgh cover beautif…
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An Illeist refers to himself or herself in third person. Donald Trump is good at it… Have a listen to Ozzie Osbourne before Black Sabbath… AI is no longer about Artificial Insemination… who wins the best version of the 1966 song Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Cher or Nancy? Whi did Bob Marley buy two BMWs? And what Beatles song did 10CC cover?…
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Apricity is catching the warmth of the sun in winter! Did you know Beyonce started in a band called Girls Tyme? Not good. Did Paul McCartney really die in 1967? Do you remember Pilot of the Airwaves? Stevie Wright fronting The Easybeats before he discovered heroin and brain damage… plus fun factoids and a great cover of Yesterday that has its debut…
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Interrobang! Gosh. Episode 30. And apart from interrobang, Almost a Radio Show has Neil Diamond’s first band, Neil & Jack… Santana with a cover that is better than the original… Right Said Fred with a one-hit-wonder… INXS with Australia’s greatest ever song… Marianne Faithful with a sweet version of Yesterday as well as the usual banter around triv…
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Almost a Radio Show - Glabella & Philtrum!
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29:20Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by Glabella & Philtrum. They are not lawyers or accountants but features as plain as the nose on your face… There’s a cover song performed by a group who also wrote the original (hint – the first song written by Jagger & Richards) … and a band that included Jim Messina, Stephen Stills and Neil Young before they…
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Please don’t absquatulate from Almost a Radio Show because there are lots of goodies like trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention, a boke called Sting before he became famous, a bloke called Eddie Cochran before he became 21 and Henry Deutschendorf Jr. does a lovely rendition of Yesterday!By Ian
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Almost a Radio Show - What Rhymes with Pint?!
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28:27Nothing rhymes with pint, orange, silver, bilge, month, ninth, dangerous or marathon… bit something rhymes with purple! Carly Simon sings (before she became famous), The Beatles do a cover and the late Peter Woolnough is part of Almost a Radio Show… You know Pete… He was the grandson of George who had been all around the world, but lived no special…
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Billingsgate is home to London’s fishmarkets and the resident fishmongers have such colourful vulgar language it is actually called Billingsgate language. Also part of Almost a Radio Show this week – Tom Jones, the Mamas & the Papas, Katy Perry, The Bee Gees and, as an extra special treat NO Billy Ray Cyrus!…
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Just what is nugacity?! What band did Shirley Strachan front before finding fame in Skyhooks? What song did Cyndi Lauper cover and make her own? What Beatles number one song has not one Beatle playing an instrument? And, as usual, there's trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention and a cover of Yesterday.…
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Almost a Radio Show podcast this week is brought to you by the word tarradiddle… and includes an occupation called luthier… Ronnie Burns in a band called The Flies… Manfred Mann covering Bruce Springsteen… The Troggs’ biggest hit… a Bob Dylan hit and miss… a Barrett Strong one-hit-wonder that was covered by The Beatles… an accidental invention, fun…
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Gardyloo is the word of the day in Almost a Radio Show. It’s what people yelled from upstairs windows to warm passers-by below that they were about to empty their chamber pot onto the street. There’s Rod Stewart in a band before he became famous… Daryl Braithwaite has a cover song and Lou Bega has the one-hit-wonder… there is a surprising version o…
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In Almost a Radio Show the word ‘textpectation’ enters the language… John Paul Young enters a band called Elm Tree… there are more portmanteaus than you can poke a podcast at… a Bob Dylan cover that knocks Bob out of the park…there’s Dexys Midnight Runner’s one-hit-wonder… Buddy Holly calls it a day… a heavy metal band takes on Yesterday… plus fun …
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It’s Almost a Radio Show podcast 21 and what do these have in common – buffleheads, bustards, boobies, bushtits, dickcissels, goat suckers, bog suckers and honeycreepers? Who is the famous rocker whose first band was called The Golliwogs? Which Bob Dylan song has been covered by Bryan Ferry, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, Leon Russell and Timot…
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Brouhaha brings you Episode 20 of Almost a Radio Show… Who is that famous muso in a band called The Pink Finks? Who is that singer who loves rock and roll? Who fooled around and fell in love? Who was just a red brassiere to all the boys in town? And how did the humble teabag get invented by accident? Maybe Judy Collins has the answer… plus trivia a…
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This Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by the word ‘bumfuzzled’. It’s an old word meaning confused, baffled or puzzled. As in “I am bumfuzzled as to why Donald Trump was voted in as President again. Was it because Joe Biden spent three years looking totally bumfuzzled?” Freddie Mercury is in a band before Queen, The Ferrets perform thei…
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Almost a Radio Show, podast number 18… Where would you find your acnestis? Who was in Rick and the Ravens before finding fame? What do you know about asparagus? What would be the Richie Valens cover? What was Barry McGuire’s one-hit-wonder? Who doesn’t like Israel Kamakawiwo’ole? What wonderful thing did Dom Pierre Perignon invent by accident? What…
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This week's Almost a Radio podcast is brought to you by discombobulate... There’s Madonna's first band before found fame as Madonna... Blind Faith with a Buddy Holly cover... Remember Abigail's sexy one-hit-wonder?... Warren Zevon makes an appearance... There's an accidental invention that some people can't live without... plus trivia, fun factoids…
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PeterFrampton in a band before he became famous...a cover of a Jimmy Webb classic by Donna Summer... The Buggles with their One-Hit-Wonder... Glam-rocker Marc Bolan... a fabulous accidental invention, trivia, fun factoids and a surprise cover of Yesterday.By Ian
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This week's podcast is brought to you by the lovely smell of rain on dust, petrichor. There’s a stack of goodies including a cryptic pregnancy, jobs celebrities had before they became celebrities, a famous muso with a song before he found fame, a one-hit-wonder, drummer extraordinaire John Bonham, an accidental invention, fun factoids and a bossa n…
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Quafftide – it is a time of day, week, month or year that drinkers enjoy… there’s an Australian inland city that has a beach, that saw the first ever Chiko Roll and gave birth to The Eurythmics… John Farnham belts out a cover… there’s some funky music for the benefit of Mr. Kite, an accidental invention, fun factoids and more!…
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Just what can jentacular tittynopes be? There’s another accidental invention, fun factoids and a pot pourri of performers in Ray Charles, Herman’s Hermits, Gary Shearston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boys II Men and the Starland Vocal Band with a delightful one-hit-wonder…By Ian
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Pot-Valiant is a quaint term for alcohol inspired bravado or stupidity… David Bowie sings when he was still known as Davy Jones… Zager & Evans sing the only song they are known for as Zager & Evans… It’s a mad world for Gary Jules and an even madder one for Who drummer, Keith Moon plus an accidental invention, fun factoids and a surprising cover of…
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This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Winklepickers! We’ve got Brian May and Roger Taylor in a band before they became part of Queen… an Aussie band covering Eleanor Rigby… a one-hit-wonder from John Fred and his Playboy Band… plus an accidental invention, fun factoids and phobias.…
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Serendipity is the word in this week’s podcast… those wonderful parts of life that are totally unplanned but make for unforgettable memories. There’s music from 16yo Billy Field in a band called King Fox, Johnny Cash with a terrific cover, a one-hit wonder from The Vapours, Leonard Cohen remembering The Chelsea Hotel and Placido Domingo performs Ye…
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This week’s podcast is called Euphoric Phlegm because we reveal a survey’s finding of the five worst and best sounding words in the English language. There’s Neil Young in a band before he became famous, movie trivia, a great cover from Urge Overkill, Bobby McFerrin is the one-hit-wonder and you mightn’t know the singer Noel Harrison but you’ll kno…
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Almost a Radio Show - An Ultracrepidarian!
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29:09This week’s Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by an Ultracrepidarian. There’s Phil Collins before he joined Genesis in a band called Flaming Youth… A cover of a Prince song knocks Prince out of the park, Gallery provides the one-hit-wonder, there is an unlikely duet from Janis Joplin and Tom Jones plus unscripted silliness, trivia and fun facto…
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This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Bumfiddling, and that may not be what you are thinking! There’s AC/DC’s Bon Scott singing bubblegum, a fabulous cover song that had its origins a century earlier, a terrific one-hit wonder and a surprising version of Smells Like Teen Spirit plus trivia, fun factoids and some random remini…
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In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast we ask the question, Are You a Tidsoptimist? We have Ringo Starr drumming up a storm before he joined The Beatles in Rory Storm and The Hurricanes… There’s a fabulous cover song that most people think is the original… The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band drop in with their one-hit-wonder… There’s the first ever post…
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This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is called Ocker Shocker because of something embarrassing that happened to Dave… There’s a song from Tom and Jerry – that was the duet’s name before Simon and Garfunkel… Jimi Hendrix provides one of the best ever covers… Minnie Ripperton’s perfect love song is the one-hit-wonder… We dig up another member of t…
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This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast has Elton John performing as Reggie Dwight in a band he called Bluesology… Sting performing a cover of an Elton John classic… a one hit wonder from The Cascades… we dig up Brian Jones for a trip down Rolling Stones Lane and Elvis enters the building… plus regular segments of fun factoids, trivia and an invent…
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In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast we ask the question, Are You a Scurryfunger? As well as trivia, fun factoids and random chat, there’s Billy Joel in a duet called Atilla before he became famous as The Piano Man… The best cover ever of Sound of Silence… in Stone Cold we dig up the marvelous Mama Cass and Ray Charles makes an appearance.…
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Almost a Radio Show - Show Us Your Tittles!
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28:18This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is called Show Us Your Tittles but tittles may not be what you think! As usual, there's some great music including a song from a singer before he became famous, a cover song that may surprise, a one-hit wonder, a super-group single and a beautiful rendition of Yesterday plus fun factoids, trivia, random chat …
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Almost a Radio Show - Meet the Clatterfarts!
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29:42Clatterfart is a Northern England and Scottish word that dates back to the 1500s. It means a talkative person and that describes Dave and Ian, the hosts of this new 30-minute podcast series called Almost a Radio Show. There's some great music along with trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.…
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Very excited about the upcoming MSing About podcast series, Almost a Radio Show. Dave Prior will be joining Ian each week for a 30-minute podcast that has great music, quirky music and one-hit wonders plus Word of the Week, trivia, obscure factoids, inventions that happened by accident and spontaneous silliness because neither Dave nor Ian will be …
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Ernie Dingo played Uncle Tadpole in the movie Bran Nue Dae. He also taught me how to tickle trout. He is just one of several Indigenous (and non-Indigenous) Australians who helped shape my social conscious.By Ian
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Still MSing About with Australian history and this week, Black Bushrangers from 1788 to 1901 – six blokes and a lady!By Ian
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The Frontier Wars between British settlers and Indigenous Australians went from 1788 to 1934 and this podcast looks specifically at one horrendous massacre and two rather extraordinary Aboriginal people.By Ian
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For 28 years Nosey Bob Howard was the official hangman in New South Wales. Of the 62 hangings, 19% were a bit botched leaving good marks to 81% of the executions. Somewhere between a Credit and a Distinction, I guess. But what about the poor journalists who had to witness and graphically describe the events for the newspapers? Warning. Some gruesom…
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This time of year always brings up the debate about whether January 26 is Australia Day or Invasion Day. Ian offers his thoughts and looks at some of the Indigenous people who greeted the First Fleet settlers like Bennelong, Pemulwuy, Barangaroo and Bungaree.By Ian
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Two major recent discoveries... one, that there were 12 black American ex-slaves aboard the First Fleet and one of them, John Randall, sits on a distant branch of the Heydon family tree.By Ian
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This week’s podcast is MSing About with writing tips and pointers on how to write sketch comedy with a few examples from my archive…By Ian
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It’s 2025 and the first podcast for the year – it’s time for New Year Resolutions!By Ian
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It's the final podcast for 2024. There's some general memoir tipping using a memoir I co-wrote with my mate, Dave Prior, who is a musician and comedian. You don't have to be either of those to use the tips, but getting to meet Dave should be enjoyable in itself!By Ian
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My Christmas has certainly changed since I was a kid. Has yours? Christmas memories can easily find their way into a memoir.By Ian
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Sometimes nature can serve up a lifetime of memories in just a few seconds, minutes or hours and there's a place in a memoir for such events... could be a cyclone, an eathquake, a green flash, an eclipse or a turtle giving birth.By Ian
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This week’s memoir podcast is titled Flights of Fancy because it is mainly about crossing paths with two aviation adventurers, Bob Gannon and Dick Smith.By Ian
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This week’s memoir podcast is titled A Few Famous Failures… three joint ventures I shared with an actor mate, Shane Withington.By Ian
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This week's podcast is about two well-known people who started as colleagues and became friends, Noeline Brown and Kev Golsby... and one venture that almost went very pear-shaped.By Ian
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Good friends you make on your life journey say a lot about the person you are and they, in turn, contribute to the fabric of your character. This podcast is mainly about a friend I have had for 58 years and the chapter is titled, The Day I Met the Swami.By Ian
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