Erk Pod Round Table 5, May 2008 (episodes 107-109). Show Notes

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ROUND TABLE WITH HOSTS ERK & DRUE WITH PANELISTS LEIGH THE VOICE OVER GUY, ORANGE TIM, BEN, BJ, RICHARD, SHAWNO & JEN

SATURDAY 24 MAY 2008, 1.45PM (SYDNEY TIME)

WARNING – THE VIDEO STREAM MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND OTHER CONTENT THAT THE AUDIO ONLY EPISODES WILL NOT FEATURE. DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Erk Pod Round Table 5 was recorded on Saturday 24 May at the Erk Pod Studio commencing at 1pm Sydney time (GMT +10). Panelists were:

• Erk (host)
• Drue (co-host)

In the Erk Pod studio with Erk & Drue were:

• Leigh the Voice Over Guy
• Orange Tim
• Ben (co-host, Erk to the Diary Room)

Joining in via Skype were:

• Richard (host, Wasting Time Podcast)
• Shawno & Jen (hosts, Hyper Nonsense)
• BJ the Research Guy

PART 1

Erk Pod Round Table 5 – Part 1. 71 minutes [Right click to download]

Hosts: Erk & Drue

Panelists: Leigh the Voice Over Guy, Orange Tim (Studio), BJ the Research Guy, Richard, Shawno, Jen

• Introductions to Erk Pod Round Table 5 and panelists
• People hitting Erk up for benefits
• Various weather reports
• Erk has a new microphone – so much for Erk not buying any new stuff!
• Song: Star Trekking – The Firm. Special song for Orange Tim!
• Erk is celebrating 1 year of podcasting!
• Erk was on Hyper Nonsense Live yesterday as Shawno & Jen had a dry run.
• The Secret Sound competition continues, Round Table style
• Erk Pod merchandise
• Shawno has an idea for a new movie
• Leigh’s telling of the Dark Sucker Theory
• WE WANT THE BUNNY! Find out more about Bunny here
• Shout outs
• Train Wreck Check
• Planes fly slower to conserve fuel due to price rises
• Petrol price check and theories
• Australia V America Pronunciation Bee/Accent Bee!
• Eating With Erk
• Song: 90 Miles an Hour by Andrew Handrick

Above – Signal Box similar to one where Drue has worked.

PART 2

Erk Pod Round Table 5 – Part 2. 99 minutes [Right click to download]

Hosts: Erk & Drue

Panelists: Leigh the Voice Over Guy, Orange Tim, Ben (Studio), BJ the Research Guy, Richard, Shawno, Jen

• Welcome back!
• Have Shawno and Jen spoken to Bunny during the break?
• Elmo wants to play too
• Solar powered bra to charge up your mobile phone or iPod in Japan
• Richard’s on a 911 call
• Jen’s bookstore, book writing & teaching experiences
• Leigh the Voice Over Guy dressed as Leigh the Supermarket Clown
• Farewell to Leigh the Voice Guy and Richard
• Leigh and Erk’s Karaoke story
• Known long Skype call re-connection issue. I was going to cut this bit out but there was some funny bits so I left most of it in. The joys of live podcasting!
• Drugged Wookie
• Bunny chooses a GOLD moment to talk!
• Welcome Ben from the Peanut Gallery
• Don’t run off the road, Richard!
• Is Twitter down?
• Drue takes his hat off and Mrs Orange Tim likes Drue’s natural colour better.
• Drue’s laptop problem didn’t help us monitor the uStream chat
• What Ben wants: Drue’s old laptop, a boat, Oprah’s money, a platypus (to be continued in part 3)
• What Drue wants: Bunny
• What Erk wants: Bunny
• TV Man watches pron but broadcasts it on TV in Tahiti
• Sequel to “The Levers of Katoomba” – “It’s the Quick & The Dead Around Here, Tim”
• Woman gets wolf whistled in New Zealand then strips
• educateerk@gmail.com
• Erk gets wolf whistled and buffed up?
• Stereotype – Kiwis “worship” sheep
• Thieves break into house wearing undies
• a tEEnAgE gIrL and cOrEy enters the studio
• Drue’s not feeling well
• “Stop waiting for Bunny and get on with the show” – Drue
• Female teacher strips for woman’s magazine, gets suspended
• Upskirting action in the playground at Ben’s school
• Bunny is doing Tai Chi
• Jen’s fluent in Spanish, Erk struggles to be fluent in English and Drue is fluent in Wheelbarrow
• Ben uses Wheelbarrow in real life
• New Erk Pod merchandise ideas
• World Catholic Youth Month latest
• Erk’s doing a better job of spreading the world than the Catholic Church :P
• Bunny tries to talk Australian
• Re-using Olympic plans
• Flu season hits the Erk Pod studio. Yes Tim, we did get a recording of it! :)
• Bunny chant
• Tim proposes to move World Catholic Youth Month to San Luis Obispo, California (home of the Hyper Nonsense podcast)
• “Oprah Pod: All Oprah, all the time”
• Platypus At the Peak of Weird Science
• Erk’s nomination for the World’s Highest Selling Fiction Book
• Drue the Newsreader quits and Erk takes over mid story
• Bad visual on uStream
• Where is OG (host of the Brains Matter podcast) when you need him?
• Dog beer
• Good afternoon, BJ!
• Bundy Bear is BJ’s special friend
• Surgeons probed after filming man being operated on and putting the footage on You Tube
• Various items being placed in un-natural locations
• People magazine is a lot different in the US and Australia
• Song: “My Glasses Are Too Thick” – Rocket Propelled Geeks

Above – Solar powered bra

Above – A platypus

Above – 2 classic snippets from Bundy Bear Commericals

PART 3

Erk Pod Round Table 5 – Part 3. 45 minutes [Right click to download]

Hosts: Erk & Drue

Panelists: Orange Tim & Ben (Studio), BJ the Research Guy, Shawno, Jen

• Welcome back!
• Shawno & Jen watching us dancing around like idiots on uStream with our Erk Pod shirts on
• Bunny has been having problem with Onion lately
• How Shawno & Jen got into podcasting and raised money to get Bunny
• Having a voice good enough for radio (having a voice for radio is better than having a head for radio!)
• Jen’s Dodgem Car/Bumper Car commentary (sound effects: Orange Tim)
• Guess who was on the booze in the Erk Pod Studio. You’ll be surprised!
• Lost Parrot tells Vet where he lives
• What Ben wants (continued from part 2): a swearing parrot, a zoo, somewhere to store these animals, jewelery, electrical goods, a black Mac, dangerous animals, a duck (he got a plastic one)
• They have Japan on the interweb now?
• How Bunny pronounces some words
• Fund raising for Drue’s new laptop
• Sponsorship for Erk Pod?
• Special guest: Steve Irwin the Croc Hunter
• Man assaulted cab driver, claimed he was hunting aliens
• Taking photos of people while podcasting
• Ben injured himself while dancing during the last song (you peanut!)
• This is Shawno & Jen’s longest stretch at the mic. Erk thinks that Shawno won’t have to put out another episode for a month!
• Googlemail
• Answer Me This podcast promo and Erk asking them questions
• What does “root” mean to you?
• The alcohol’s run out!
• The Breathalyser 5000 is back!
• How Tim’s headset got broken the last time he was calling in from home
• Duck pron?
• Mental Health Pressure valve release at work
• An excellent place for an Erk Pod studio!
• BJ’s Bundy update
• “I have to be at work in X hours” – the phrase that pays at the end of a Round Table
• Shawno is worried about our Google Alerts.
• Goodnight, interweb!

Sources: News Limited, Yahoo News

Music: Podsafe Music Network

Above – Erk and his first Digital Voice Recorder, what he used to start podcasting one year ago.

Above – From little DVR to the current setup in 12 months.

Above – The new Erk Pod microphone, a Behringer C1 Studio Microphone.

Above – Drue has a little drinkie-poo in front of the new Erk Pod sign

Above – Orange Tim (left) and Ben (right)

Above – Ben

Above – Orange Tim

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