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Happy 50th! podcast@favouritefive.com

In other news, we’re looking at recording our 50th episode really soon and are looking around for big, fun, celebratory topics. Got an idea? Write that idea into an email, address the email to podcast@favouritefive.com, and then push the send button. You’ll get some credit and that, totally promise. Enjoy!

Jeb’s also taken a visit to his local Asian supermarket, and has brought back some treats for us, so there’s some great radio in the form of listening to us eat some chocolate that Lil’ Jon would approve of, as well as gender-specific chocolate.

Oh yeah, and we also discuss some days that are so special to us, that we think are good enough to turn into a national holiday.

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).

If you’re a Beatles fan or don’t know too much more than Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, the theme song to 1980’s American drama “Life Goes On” which, of course, was the first show to have an openly down-syndromed character (as opposed to closeted one – you have to watch out for those).

Or of course, you may know think that The Offspring wrote that melody into their song “Why Don’t You Get A Job” before The Beatles had even thought about downies. If so, you probably shouldn’t listen. Everyone else probably should. podcast@favouritefive.com

This podcast is a bit of a quick and easy one to kick off our new season, and we’re accompanied by our good friend Dan C (or DC, as you may hear us refer to him).

And if that’s not enough to wet your whistle, in the second half of the podcast we refer to Barnaby Joyce again, simply because we respect the man a whole bunch. If you want to friend him on Facebook I suggest you visit this link: http://www.facebook.com/people/Barnaby-Joyce/591837959. Enjoy!

Also, I would write more but I’m stealing internet because my damn modem blew up after I disconnected it BEFORE the Melbourne storms last night and then Dick Smith at Knox City couldn’t supply me with what I needed to fix it and said I should go to Preston instead, which is actually closer to my house. Have you ever heard of someone who chooses to go to Preston?

Anyway, I’ll finish ranting about the suburban Melbourne and finish this intro to the podcast. Hello to our listeners who don’t live in Melbourne, I value your suburbs as well. podcast@favouritefive.com

Speaking of predicting, I was doing some web stat work while I was waiting for this to upload, and found that in the past month some of the search phrases people have used to find our podcast included fuck off! fuck on!, over fifty podcast, my valentine mixes podcast, men without hats biogrphies [sic], and weirdly but unsurprisingly wanking jokes.

What is it that you listeners are doing out there??? Why don’t you let us know, podcast@favouritefive.com. Enjoy!

P.S. this podcast contains a special, never-before heard thing in the middle of the podcast. Now you HAVE to listen…

We’ll be back with more of our Summer Series throughout the rest of January. In the mean time, feel free to comment on our iTunes page, email us at podcast@favouritefive.com, or put in a collection to get us one of those portable air conditioner units.

And stay tuned, the much discussed Favourite Five best of will be out soon, which much like a best of album by some flailing M.O.R band, features some never-before-heard content which won’t be released separately, forcing you to purchase (in this case, free download) the whole thing. Sizzle sizzle sizzle. Here’s to 2010.

Speaking of being drunk and comatose, here’s our latest podcast episode! We managed to coerce our special guest Rob Lloyd. You know that we’ve got a quality episode when we manage to make Josef Fritzel gags within the first 2 minutes.

Given that it’s coming up to the end of the year, we’ve taken time to reflect of the events of 2009, and we’ve pointed out those that have been doing it wrong and politely pointing this out, in the only way that we know how! Mind you, we’re not all full of doom and gloom, so we’re also going to flip that coin and point out those that are also doing it right! Jono wanted to call this “Fuck Off/Fuck On”, but I kinda thought that it was a little too rude to say – but I can’t really find any better ways to describe it, so this week, we bring you the Fuck Off/Fuck On episode!

This time we tackle the topic of movies we’ve actually seen that maybe you haven’t. Or maybe you have, you prolific cine-buffs. But if you have, of course that means you’re cooler than all the other listeners. So listen to the new episode of Favourite Five to find out if you’re as cool as you think you are. And then email us at podcast@favouritefive.com to let us know (because letting someone know you’re cool is step 2 on the cool ladder, right after listening to us, and right before quoting lines from the Voltron 80’s television cartoon). There’s a link dump  after the cut, to help with some of our obscure movie references

Enjoy!

LINK DUMP:
Jason & The Argonauts – the bit where Dan mentions about fighting skeletons

The scene at the end of Lethal Weapon 3

Sean Astin in BRAT Patrol (I think he’s the one in the middle)

A recent photo of Gordon Joseph-Levitt lookin’ bad ass

Atari 2600 – the model with the wood panel

The IMDB page for Lethal Weapon 5

Dan’s “I have good boots” reference from the shitty movie Just Visiting

Scroobius Pip’s Myspace page

The original version of The Touch by Stan Bush

The new version of The Touch, which is the worst sound ever recorded in the history of everything

On Sunday I awoke to the news that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had told some of his staffer to “get fucked”. This is exactly the advice that Brad gave as part of his Favourite Fives. Not only that, it appears Lindsay Tanner, the Finance Minister, has also been listening to us, because when Kevin Rudd told people to [go and] “get fucked” he was amused by it, much like how we giggled we Brad said it.

Then, later in the week I found out that the government had put a new citizenship test into action, without Don Bradman. This is exactly what I said we should do! No word yet on whether the questions about Malcolm being the best Aussie film of all time or 10 slang terms for breasts made the cut, although I do understand Boonie’s tinnie drinking record is now part of the quiz.

And one of Dan’s suggestions was to have more access to alcohol, so he could get more pissed more betterer and more fasterer. Now, not that we condone his behaviour, but it appears that Carlton’s Brendan Fevola may have taken this advice a little too close to heart. It is a comedy podcast after all, Brendan.

So thanks to all the power players, celebrities and ordinary lovely people that listen. We’ll be back really early next week with another podcast (apologies, this week has been a little crazy, what with the… um, stuff… that has been really.. um.. yeah, no I fucked up and didn’t organise my week properly. New podcast should be up Tuesdayish).

All the best,
Jonathan

p.s. go Saints.

Anyway, from listening to any of the past 37 podcasts (of which only 21 have made the grade, i.e. are legally broadcastable), you may have come up with the idea that we’re violent towards small things. For example, children in shopping centres, Kate Langbroek’s sexual appeal and Kyle Sandiland’s penis. Muppets are generally also small. Except the big ones. Anyway, we thought what would happen if we pitted them against each other, muppet e muppet. And this is our podcast.

Ten episodes ago we established who was the hottest female celeb over 50. Now we’re turning our unflinching gaze to the residents on the unattractive side of famous street. How ugly? Imagine if Ugly Betty had sex with an Ugly Duckling on the bar from Coyote Ugly…you’d wind up with some half-human-half-duck mutant with foetal alcohol syndrome or something…I suggest you don’t think too hard about it, but you’ve gotta admit it’d be seriously ugly.

To be fair, we appreciate that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so now we be holdin’ our ugly tournament (get it? No, I’m not sure I do either). Anywho, we’ve gathered up 16 of the least attractive bodies and souls ever assembled and we’ve pit them head to unappealing head in a battle for the prize that no one really wants to win.

Yeah yeah, I know, we did take a bit of an unscheduled break from the podcasts. We’re not just a lazy bunch though, because we’re such famous internet celebrities*, we’re constantly flying around to the many exotic locations that the world has to offer! I’ve been spending time with my lovely girlfriend in Scotland, Brad took his ever-wonderful wife to Shebangabang, and Jono … well …. you know, god bless Amy for being such a trooper and sticking around, because Jono took her to Maitland of all places. Really Jono? MAITLAND? I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with Maitland, but …. I actually don’t know how to finish that sentence. Mind you, it can’t be all bad – from the look of the photo in that link, Maitland is situated on a river made entirely of Chocolate Yogo.

So, I think I may have given a little bit too much away about our personal lives, but I think it kind of goes with the theme of today’s podcast. Everyone likes to think that they’re cool, and most of the time when out in public,  you’ll always subconciously act like there’s someone you’re trying to impress, whether it be someone you actually know or just the general public. But behind closed doors, far away from the ever-watchful eye of the public, every now and then we like to indulge ourselves a little and get pleasure from things we’re normally embarrassed about (and no, I’m not referring to my Friday nights spent at home in front of the computer Googling phrases like “up-skirt”, “unshaved” or “covered in glad-wrap”. Please don’t judge me). I’m talking about our guilty pleasures. Whether you be one of those people who can eat an entire 2L tub of Caramel Dream Entice Ice-Cream while watching re-runs of ‘I Dream Of Genie’ (I refuse to either confirm nor deny that that was Brad’s #6 choice), or someone who likes have a good nose-pick, now is the time to come out and be proud of these once sacred times. We’re all friends here, we can be honest with each other … Just not too honest though, I’d hate for things to get awkward between us.

Now, given that this was our first time that we’d gotten the band back together, we were all a little drunk while recording this, but I’d like to think that the added layer of booze just adds to our charm.

Lots of love,
–Dan

*this may or may not be true

Sure, it’s easy to be a critic (and it’s fun too) but sometimes you’ve got to make a stand in the face of overwhelming public and professional opinion. You’ve got to fling open your podcast sized window and shout out “To hell with what you all think, I REALLY like Rob Schnieder movies!” …well, maybe not that exactly but something along those lines…I did kind of like him in that Adam Sandler one though…ok I’ll shut up now.

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.

As you can see, we’ve updated the look of the site! Sexy, right? RIGHT. We’ve got a new podcast coming soon, so we’ll talk about some changes then, but we’ll be tweaking a few things here and there. We’ll be having some more regular updates on the site, so we’ll be writing some blog posts a little more regularly, and adding a few other features along the way, so there’s reason to come and check out the site more than just about once a week (or whenever we get around to recording a new podcast). We need to set up a mailing list too. Hmmm … maybe I should do that next.

Anyway, that’s about it for now!

–Dan

Peace out, Jonathan

In other news, Favourite Five is taking a short mid-season break for Easter. In the mean time YOU can contribute to FavouriteFive. We’re planning for one of our comeback shows to use listener contributions as the basis of our topic(s). So email us at podcast@favouritefive.com with any of your suggestions, stories, your own favourite fives for topics we’ve already done, or offers to do cool stuff for us for free. We’ll name you and you can look cool in front of your friends (assuming they also listen and didn’t contribute as good an idea). Looking forward to speaking to you on episode 10 – Brad, Dan and Jono.

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