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Fivers, congratulations for your decision to download for free the latest episode of Favourite Five. This podcast experience has been enhanced for your listening pleasure. The least best 2% of jokes have been removed for after a rigorous quality assurance process, and the “normaliser” that automatically adjusts volume levels throughout the podcast has been adjusted and renamed the “above averager”. A team of boat people have been recruited and given temporary protection visas in return for listening to several draft edits, providing their feedback and powering the editing suite with a series of human-sized hamster wheel generators (Tony Abbott, please don’t stop the boats). And lastly, rather than trusting the usual free-downloaded FTP program we use to upload the podcast file to the Internet, I personally drove to the Internet’s reception centre and gave them a USB stick for the mainframe. In short, this podcast has could not have been better prepared for your ears (but we apologise for the late upload nonetheless).

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Let’s talk about flanno shirts. Right now at Coles or Woolworths stores you can purchase a flanno for under $10. There’s a wide range of colours and sizes, from medium (which is really a large with small arms) all the way to XXXXL (which is freaking huge). I urge you, NOT to buy them. The reason? Because my collection is now four flanno’s strong, and I have my eye on a couple of other colours that I haven’t yet found in medium. So don’t buy them, particularly not in that size, because a) they’re a rare find, almost like a baseball card of Bugsy Malone; and b) stop copying my style, alright? Anyway, in this podcast we talk about movies that shouldn’t have been made, and Brad is back! You’re welcome. podcast@favouritefive.com

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Happy week following the weekend of Easter, everyone. This week we present to you a tournament edition of Favourite Five, where we battle out our favourite fictional characters, from cartoons and the comics and the movies and that.

If you’re a comic fan in particular, you will probably dig this podcast for all the references to those girls you’ve seen in those magazines, and if you’re not a comic fan you’ll have to stick around for the witticisms (I’m not a comic sort of person myself, but I managed just fine because I went to my happy place inside my head).

So thanks again for downloading and listening (PS every download in the month of April will mean Nick Riewoldt gets a hug from me when I’m in my happy place).

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I was watching an old episode of Smallest Room In The House the other day (one of the most underrated tv shows ever, imho), in the episode that Greg Fleet tells his story “10 Years In A Long Sleeved Shirt”, which is very funny. It’s on YouTube, so I recommend looking for it. Anyway, there’s one bit where he’s talking about meeting this girl and sharing a perfect moment with her – not in a way that’s overly exciting on paper, but just a simple moment where everything just syncs nicely in order. It made me think about some of my own personal ‘perfect moments’.

I guess the one that sticks out for me the most is right after year 12. Me and my friends had all finished our exams and we had our first night as a glimpse of to what the future would hold for  us – all that “the world is at your feet” type shit. But we can worry about that later, because for this night, we’re going to get absolutely retarded drunk. And we did. It wasn’t really that much fun though – My memory blacked out half way through the night, but apparently I was quite the life of the party. But the next morning, I woke up in the middle of a friends lounge-room completely naked. It was a crisp November morning, and I woke up without a hint of a hangover, which was quite rare for me. There was just another mate of mine who was awake, and we were in need of some pre-emptive greasy food in case ‘the reverse hangover’ struck us later in the day, so we headed down to the local fish and chip shop that, for some weird reason, was open at 10am on a Sunday morning.

So there we were, me and my best friend, sitting out the front of our local chippie like we had dozens of times before over the years, eating chips and drinking Coke, trying to piece together the night before and laughing at the bits we remembered. We also spoke of the year as a whole, and plans of what we were going to do over the next few years, After briefly exchanging our ‘pipe dreams’ we both stopped talking and as if in unison, just happened to take stock in what had happened, and what was about to happen. There was a weird sense of pride and reflection. Right in that silent moment, everything was perfect. I knew that regardless of what was going to happen, we were going to be okay.

And like Greg Fleet said of his own perfect moment, I’ve done much more exciting things than that since then, and had experiences that have expanded my mind in ways that at the time, I would never be able to fathom, but just that pure essence of what was in that particular moment? It’s a feeling that’s rarely been beaten since.

Dan here again!

Here’s our second episode! Today’s topic is “Lies Children Believe”, where we break down the super-powers contained within vegetables, evil ice-cream vans and the hard truth that your children are not cool.

This podcast starts to get a little bit more … well, let’s just say that we truly do earn our “explicit” tag on iTunes with this one. Barely 10 minutes in to the podcast, and already I’m accusing Santa Claus of being a kiddie fiddler, and Brad’s telling everyone about how much he loves bush. There’s also a few wanking jokes in there too.

Another little reminder that if you’re using iTunes to download these podcasts (just search for ‘favourite five’ and we’ll be there), don’t forget to go and give us a rating and say something nice about us! Remember that everytime you say something nice about FavouriteFive.com, something good will happen to you in return. Although I have no way of proving this, you’ll just have to take my word for it. If you don’t believe me, go ask your father, he’ll tell you.
oh, and here’s that link to the greatest video ever:
Simon Smith & His Amazing Dancing Bear:

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