30 March 2006

March 30th - Show 99 - Podcast 12

The One With chavscum!

Wow....another ranty show....oh, don't get me started about leanne bloody black (she doesn't deserve capitals, I didn't miss them by accident). Britains youngest drink driver (12) punches out the prosecutor in the court room and her parents claim to be proud of her...no wonder the countrys going to the 'dogs' (oddly, her and her mum caused trouble, can't imagine why 'dogs' sprung to mind) Hear the full rant on this show and some suggestions for all chavscum (the liberals amongst you won't like it)


In The News (or 'stolen from Digg')

Quiet Digg day today...only this:
Propaganda remixes - http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=9654&display=photoshop#entries

In other news, an Irish pilot (yes, really) landed his jet on a Northern Ireland military airfield yesterday rather than the intended Dublin airport 5 miles away. (We know this sounds like the beginning of a joke but it really did happen).
This radio transcript was released by air authorities:
Co-Pilot - "are you sure we're landing at the right airport captain?"
Captain - "not really, but whats the worst that can happen?"
Co-Pilot - "Jesus, Captain the runway's not very long"
Captain - "I know, but look how wide it is......"
(alright....that bit was a joke)

Listener Feedback
We have new members on the Frappr Map - www.frappr.com/thesnug - and they deserve a namecheck, so welcom to : Mark Sloane, Roach, Elmp, TheWitchDoctress (another listener from Canada)

Pirate Dave sent us this letter about problems accesing the Live show.
Uncle MAF Attached is a screen print of the web page 365. One hour trying to get on "what do you think I is doing wrong" (gangster speak) I will have to listen yet again on the old trusty pod cast, I might get to hear the show live yet. Pirate Dave

We nicely ask some of our 'active' live listeners about the possibility of a 'Listening to The Snug live for Dummies' guide (Cheers Girls)


This Is True
Kimberly Du, 36, of Des Moines, Iowa, had racked up several traffic tickets. To get out of the fines, police now allege, Du faked her death, sending a falsified death certificate to the judge, who canceled an arrest warrant. But like most bad drivers, she kept getting tickets. A month after her supposed death, police stopped her for speeding and driving with a suspended license, and court investigators noticed the ruse. Du now faces two years in prison for forgery.

Show 100: Next week is Show 100 and we want you to send us your Snug stories. Wether you are a live, repeat or podcast listener, you must have a Snug story to tell. How did you stumble upon us etc?
Show 100 is dedicated to our dedicated listeners so be a part and send us something. audio recordings, text singing, anything goes...just send it to us! We'll also have Michelle (recurring guest) live in the studio to celebrate.

Tamara sings : Be My Alice (Parody of Be My Yoko Ono by Barenaked Ladies)

Music tonight:
Mary J Blige & U2 - One
Barenaked Ladies - Be my Yoko Ono
Never The Bride - The Living Tree (http://www.neverthebride.com)

Hari-karaoke: Baby Love - Supremes


Have a good week and see you in Show 100


http://www.snugradio.co.uk/Shows/20060330Snug.mp3

23 March 2006

March 23rd - Show 98 - Podcast 11

The One With Rants

After a slow start (from our perspective) we really got into rant mode... (not like us at all) We tackle Religion, Big Corpoations, Piracy and Australians, so we're bound to piss off at least someone.

On Tonights Show:
Stephen Hawking sings 'The King of Spain' by Moxy Fruvous. He's an occasional listener and really wanted to get in on the 'Tamara sings' slot.

Lee reviews the new Pink Panther films...and remembers to play the theme tune (loudly)

In The News (or 'stolen from Digg')

The New Numbering system - http://www.infoverse.org/octomatics/octomatics.htm

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority -
http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find

Coca-Cola Blak - http://www.hotguygadgets.com/

Select 10 notes and listen to PI to 10,000 places - http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html

China blocks VoIP for two years - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18561430^15322^^nbv^,00.html

Downloading doesn't hurt business: Canadian Record Industry Association - http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/murmurs/archives/2006/20060320_downloading.html

Apple: French Law Is 'Piracy' - http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70466-0.html?tw=rss.index

HOWTO become an early riser - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/


Listener Feedback
Uncle Maf,
Should I have done a dissertation on the following. "Who is the hardest TV cop?" For a kick off, Who would you rate as the hardest cop!!!! Jack Regan Sweeney or DCI Gene Hunt LOM? attached is some sound bits from the unofficial Sweeney web site http://www.missingimages.com/thesweeney I think that it would make a good debate covering topics such as:
Who could drink the most whiskey!!!
Who would make the best pirate sound "aaarrrrraaagghhh you slag!!!!" "Tits in a jumper meee hearteeessssss"
Who would win an arm wrestle, etc
The list could be endless and may be worth pursuing?
Your ever trusted podcast listener (p.s just finished listening to the 9th March)
DL


This Is True
Forget throwing "a shrimp on the barbie" -- Australia is getting serious about attracting foreign visitors with its new slogan. After showing lovely scenery and things to do Down Under, the announcer in the Tourism Australia ads demands to know, "So where the bloody hell are you?" Minister for Tourism Fran Bailey loves the tagline, calling it "plain speaking and friendly." Prime Minister John Howard says no one should be offended by the mild swearing -- but won't say the line himself. When asked to by a radio interviewer, Howard replied that he is "not somebody who uses that expression, certainly not on radio." (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian AP) ...Well bugger him, then.

Tamara sings : Tainted Love by Soft Cell

Music tonight: Let It Be by Journey South

Hari-karaoke: Glass of champagne by someone...cut short due to time (and us not knowing it)


Have a good week and see you next time

http://www.snugradio.co.uk/Shows/20060323Snug.mp3

16 March 2006

March 16th - Show 97 - Podcast 10

The One With Barry Arieff


A show that starts almost on time. Seems to throw some of the live listeners who appear a few minutes in...looks like we trained them with our usual tardiness.

During the last week The Snug has seen unprecedented snow for this area (and time of year) so it took over the first few minutes of the show with Maf telling us about his train trip (and rogue snowballers).

We swiftly (and smoothly) moved into a quick review of the new version of The Hills have eyes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454841/. As remakes go, this one should be pround as it's stuck to the original faithfully but turbo charged the gore and shocks. If you like your films bloody, this ones for you.

Digg (www.digg.com) has a lot to answer for again this show as we fill our 'in the news' segment from it, so...:

In The News:
Lego Instructions - http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brickfactory/index.htm
First Broadband TV station - http://television.aol.com/in2tv
The Drug Trial gone wrong - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4808836.stm
Man dates girl on net for 6 months then arranges a meet up - http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20051209/113414040002.html

The Great Debate - The bacon sandwich
Last week David Lewis emailed UIncle Maf about the best way to produce bacon sandwiches. He has since provided some other options that we didn't mention such as: - pre-sliced or self-sliced, type of bread, brands of sauce, additions? etc! This could spiral out of control if we're not careful. Check out www.snugfans.blogspot.com for some more additions from our vegetarian fan base. Have we missed something? Do we need a spreadsheet poll-ie type thing?

Listener Feedback - Random mails to the Snug mailbox
snugradio@yahoo.co.uk

From: Scaredy pants... E-Mail: *****
Comments: Dear Maf and Lee I've been to the site several t times since you've added the "soopa doopa" sound... It has made me jump several times! LOL It's kinda like the web pages that have the smiley ads that say "HELLO!!!!". Late at night both have made me jump out of my skin! lol Especially when I have my headphones on...

From: North American Blog "Babe" E-Mail: *****
Comments: Hey the snugfans blog has been updated...While in some ways it seems like a shopping list of what went on in the show, I did try to add my listener perspective. I was up late listening to the pod cast (after listening to the 2 hr show and snug 2, which rocked BTW) http://snugfans.blogspot.com/ Anyay have a peek...

This Is True
SMOKING IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH: Mike Hartnett, 36, of Omaha, Neb., had found a firework shell in his son's closet. He pulled it out to get rid of it when a hot ash fell from his cigarette and ignited the fuse. He told his son to run, but didn't drop the device. It exploded, blowing out the window and shredding his hands. "Some of my fingers were off, some were still hanging," Harnett said. Doctors considered removing both hands entirely, but a plastic surgeon managed to save two fingers on each hand. "He saved me," Hartnett said, and "gave me a fighting chance." And the lesson he learned? "I'd tell people to soak fireworks] in water and get rid of them as fast as you can." (Omaha World-Herald) ...Of the hundreds of thousands of people who will read this story, I'll bet more than 99 percent will see a far different lesson.

There's plenty more stuff going on this show, including a joke at the expense of a future guest star Rachel Arieff which ended up making into this weeks title.

Don't forget to do all those things a good listener should:
1. Tell your friends (more listeners please, live or podcast, either is fine with us)
2. Get on over to the Frappr Map www.frappr.com/thesnug - it's easy and free!!!
3. Mail the snug snugradio@yahoo.co.uk (why not mail us a sound file of yourself!)
4. Visit the forum...It's always very busy but you should have no trouble getting in. www.snugradio.co.uk
5. If you listen via Live365, try a podcast and vice versa! www.live365.com/stations/maf9000
6. Vote for us on www.podcastalley.com , Itunes, and Live365
7. Keep listening.

Have fun till next week

http://www.snugradio.co.uk/Shows/20060316Snug.mp3

9 March 2006

March 9th - Show 96 - Podcast 9

The One With New Listeners

Yay, a show with no tech problems...well no more than normal. We should start off by welcoming the new influx of listeners... a mix of live snugsters and podcast snugsters. Thanks for joining us

Talk like a pirate...go on! do it now! Aaaarrrrrrggghhhhh! see, don't you feel much better now.

Show 100 is just round the corner - 4 weeks away - How should we celebrate??? Suggestions please (and try and keep within our £3.64 budget.
Uncle Maf talked a thorny problem sent in by one of our newer listeners, Dave Lewis. He even had to draugt in Uncle Lee to get some concensus.
We also thanked - Rich (Bubba71uk) - http://www.richardharveyphoto.com - for the replacement for the old soopa computer...My Ebay purchase has now been chistened the soopadoopa computa. Thanks Rich.

In the News this week:
DNA Computer http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html
2G/s Broadband to premier in Shoreditch, London and will be the Fastest in the world
A US man raises anti-terrorist alarms by paying off his credit card: http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06
Here's an old manual for making laughing gas: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/07/the-gas-that-makes-you-laugh/
And Finally: The Nemesis of the kitchen hotplate: http://www.cuisinetechnology.com/antigriddle.html

Aaaarrrrrrggghhhhh!

This is True
A police dispatcher in West Fargo, N.D., thought it was a joke when someone called at 3:15 a.m. and asked where to buy marijuana. The dispatcher told the woman that marijuana is illegal, but the woman insisted. Fine, the dispatcher said: they had some in the evidence locker and if she stopped by, he could "hook her up." Sure enough, "the dispatcher got on the intercom and said, 'You know what? She's here. She just handed me $3 for marijuana'," said an amazed officer, Ken Zeeb. He stepped to the station lobby and arrested Grace Sium, 20, a junior at North Dakota State University. Zeeb says Sium didn't appear high or drunk, and didn't seem surprised to be arrested. This is something that you couldn't even make up, he said. (Fargo Forum). Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

Mafs shrine to DCI Hunt (Life on Mars) gets ever more extensive at http://www.mafster.co.uk/space/files/audio
and there's a good chance it'll soon be moving to Mafs new site SoopaDoopa.tv. If you watch a tv show that inspires you enough to write something about it then SoopaDoopa.tv is looking for you. Maf is after submissions (essays, episode guides, trivia etc) about TV that's ...well...SoopaDoopa. Mafs current favourites are: Life On Mars, Hustle, Lost, Prison Break.

Tonights songs were:
You can't drink a fat girl thin! by Jeff Daniels
something by the Sugarbabes


Harikaraoke tonight was: Celebration by Kool and the Gang

Here's the show: http://www.snugradio.co.uk/Shows/20060309Snug.mp3

Aaaarrrrrrggghhhhh!

2 March 2006

March 2nd - Show 95 - Podcast 8

The One With Technical Difficulties

Not only do we start a good 45 mins late for our live listeners, but the 'super computer' (Lees Laptop) decided its a good time to stop running the DJ software...sheesh.

Anyway...We soldiered on. I'm frazzled at show end, so these notes will be more hit and miss than usual and not up to their high slick standard...but what do you all care anyway? You probably dont read them :)

We talked about cold callers (St Helens Glass!!)
Islamic fundaMENTALists wanting strict Islamic law enforced in Britain!! (including Stoning???!!)
and The BIG snowball. We also sing the praises of www.digg.com. If your reading this then your probably techie enough to find something cool on digg. check it out!

*** Special *** Tamara Sings on tonights show!!!
No1 international listener, Tamara from Canada has taken time out of busy schedule to record us her favourite song. She blows our socks off...We didn't realise our listeners had talent too!!! Have a listen and let us know what you think. Maybe we can encourage her to do us some more.

Mafs been working on a new project and would like you get have a look and Beta test it for him...it constructed round the free CMS software called Drupal www.drupal.org. Now if only he could think of a useful application for it...have a look round and let him know. Its at www.mafster.co.uk/space. When you find problems (which I assume you will) feel free to drop 'admin' a private message on the site.

Music tonight was some tribal stuff
Harikaraoke was Live and Let Die by Wings

Tonights show is shorter than normal and is available at:
http://www.snugradio.co.uk/Shows/20060302Snug.mp3