Gather Around Me
Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith help you make sense of the world.

Hello gentle listeners, and welcome to the final edition of Gather Around Me for 2012.

In this special episode, we asked Twitter for topics and talked about every topic offered.

The following topic-offerers occupy a special place in our hearts: @missamande @dcacoustic @jothornely @Brocklesnitch @rodcub @kpgriffin @wiredjazz @safzoro @kris_crox @shiftingplaces @vicuna78 @_cakehugs_ @tjlethal @shell_oz @miranda_maybe

Get it in you!

iTunes.

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Ahoy there. Welcome to Episode 146 of Gather Around Me starring your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling episode, we discuss Flowers In The Attic and some other stuff, like how vegetarians should just TRY KFC, and why do we never hear about the mums who leave their kids in the car at the casino and win big?

EMJOYB

iTunes?

Direct download: gatheraroundme146.mp3
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Hello gentle listeners, welcome to Episode 145 which is actually Episode 140 in a series of 1000 podcasts from your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

Listeners to the other Episode 140 might recall that we had to redo 140 because of wind issues. Here is that podcast with the really inaudible bits edited out.

Enjoy!

Direct download: gatheraroundme140.mp3
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Hello gentle listeners! Welcome to episode 144 in a series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling installment we get to the big issues a bit. It is all about how terrible God is, but not in a bad way. I mean God is terrible in a bad way, but our podcast isn't terrible. Just listen to it and you will be on board. We are not awful.

Direct download: gatheraroundme144.mp3
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Hello gentle listeners! Welcome to Episode 143 in a series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this podcast, at the behest of generous listener Alexina, we discuss the socialist undertones of Australian/Canadian horse-based children's television co-production The Saddle Club.

AND A FEW OTHER THINGS.

Enjoy!

Direct download: gatheraroundme143.mp3
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Hello gentle listeners! Welcome to a very special episode of Gather Around Me from your friends Ben Pobjie, Cam Smith and special guest-friend Adam Richard.

For this podcast, we fulfill our obligations to one indiegogo donator Andrew D., whom had requested we record a podcast entirely about Star Wars and/or Batman.

So please enjoy this podcast about Star Wars, Batman, The Sound Of Music, Ghost Whisperer, Mission Impossible, and much more...

iTunes!

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Hi Gentle Listeners, welcome to Episode 141 of Gather Around Me starring your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling installment, expect to hear some ZINGERS about such relevant topics as HIH, OneTel and Basslink. Also, we discuss Homeland, The Newsroom and Cannibal Holocaust. AND OTHER THINGS.

Give it a go!

iTunes?

Direct download: gatheraroundme141.mp3
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Hello gentle listeners and citizens of Gotham, it is your friends here with a new episode of Gather Around Me. You know the ones! Ben "The Greenwash Lantern" Pobjie and Cam "Judge Dreadlocks" Smith!

In this thrilling installment, many many topics are discussed!

Is Batman morally culpable for chucking people off buildings? Are you morally culpable if you don't date listener @LizzieA01? Can you wax your private bits with Ice Magic?

And more!

Get it in you.

Maybe even... subscribe on iTunes?

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Welcome to Episode 139 in a series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben "Ken Henry" Pobjie and Cam "Glenn Stevens" Smith.

In this thrilltastic installmentable, the terms of our podcast were dictated by listener/donator/donater Griffin Rhyne, who requested we discuss:

  1. Time travel
  2. Celebrity impressions
  3. Puns, spoonerisms, portmanteaus, wordplay
  4. Glengarry Glen Ross
  5. The perfect murder!
  6. Sandwiches, pizza
  7. Amphibious vehicles and castles
  8. 30s gangster patois
  9. Kung-fu movies
  10. Melbourne Nazis
  11. Hugh Jackman, George Clooney, Motorhead, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Meryl Streep, Wilford Brimley

Enjoy!

Direct download: gatheraroundme139.mp3
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Hullo, gentle listeners! This is the first in a series of podcasts in which Your Friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith must discuss the topics suggested by high-rolling Indiegogo financiers!

This week, we take our suggestions from @FlaresSportsman, who directed us to converse regarding:

  • Misandry: Is there enough of it?
  • The disturbing closeness of space (it's full of menace and we don't know what most of it even IS)*
  • Is the Smiths' rendition of Tim Moore's "Rock n' Roll Love Letter" definitive?
  • Australian comedy: would it be kinder to put it to sleep?
  • Will vodcasting lead to the inappropriate sexualisation of Ben?

Enjoy!

Direct download: gatheraroundme138.mp3
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Hullo gentle listener!

Welcome to Episode 137 of the Gather Around Me podchat starring your friends Ben "The Artful Dodgy" Pobjie and Cam "Bam Thank You Ma'am" Smith.

In this thrilling installment:

  • Everything you wanted to know about Tragedy & Time's sketch show at the Melbourne Fringe but were afraid to ask.
  • Speaking with children.
  • Daleks.
  • Face tattoos.
  • Living in glass houses.
  • Ships of fools.
  • Memory audits.
  • John Cage.
  • Why we are not fantastic at math.

Enjoy!

(iTunes)

Direct download: gatheraroundme137.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:08pm EDT

Yeah - HUP. Episode 136 in a series of ONE THOUSAND podchats with your friends Ben "Split Enz" Pobjie and Cam "Crowded House" Smith.

In this thrilling installment, we are sitting in a bus stop in Northcote at midnight. Will the bus ever come? Find out!

But also, it includes:

  • The actual, real-life conversation we had with Tim Flannery just before recording.
  • Why you should follow @AlexinaRose on Twitter.
  • Askance looks from passers-by.
  • Celebrity guest appearances by Benjamin Law, Jess McGuire and Angie Hart.
  • Sesame Street.
  • Our power over the State Government.
  • Sick spoilers.
  • Beautiful Kate.
  • IMDb goofs.
  • Stuff on the wall in front of the bus stop.

ENJOY!

Direct download: gatheraroundme136.mp3
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Hola! Welcome to Episode 135 of the Gather Around Me podchat starring Your Friends Ben "Helter Skelter" Pobjie and Cam "Ticket To Ride" Smith.

In this thrilling installment!

  • Our almond problem.
  • The Amazing Spiderman.
  • Bide Magazine (bide.com.au)
  • Beatboxing.
  • The Babysitter's Club vs Cam's Childhood Detective Club.
  • Puberty Blues.
  • Spank Banks.
  • More reflections on that one McDonalds ad starring John Bunting.
  • THE END.

Get it on iTunes!

Direct download: gatheraroundme135.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:55am EDT

Hi everyone! Episode 134 in a series of 1000 starring Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith!

Today is our final dailycast! It has been an exciting journey! We have reached our target, but if you want to get the special donors-only podcast, I recommend you become a donor still: http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Our last-cast topic comes from @FlaresSportsman, a very generous friend of the show, who has asked us to discuss STAR FAME.

Enjoy!

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Hello! Welcome to Episode 133 in a Series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In today's edition, at the direction of @AlexinaRose, we discuss FASHION. And also Star Wars a bit, but only because they're all so fashionable.

ENJOY.

P.S. The Indiegogo is almost over! http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme133.mp3
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Hello! Episode 132 in a series of 1000 podchats with your friends Ben "Mother Hen" Pobjie and Cam "Archduke" Smith.

In this thrilling installment, @erinvk asked us to discuss COMEDY AS A VEHICLE FOR LIFE LESSONS.

Come along on the journey, won't you?

AND DONATE AT HTTP://INDIEGOGO.COM/GATHERAROUNDME

Direct download: gatheraroundme132.mp3
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Hola gentles listeners. Welcome to Episode 131 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

As the Olympics comes to a close, so too does our Indiegogo fundraiser. There are 4 days remaining. Will YOU help us reach our target? http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme.

Today's topic comes from @cjohnson397 and it is CLOSING CEREMONIES.

Enjoy.

Direct download: gatheraroundme131.mp3
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Hi there! Welcome to Episode 130 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this installment, at the request of @Steven_Savona, we discuss The Three Best Movies Ever Made.

Enjoy!

Donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme130.mp3
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HULLO! Episode 129 here! Ben "Shaq" Pobjie and Cam "Frack" Smith here with all the news!

In this exciting episode, author @angsavage asked us to talk about "Usain Bolt. What else?" WE DO!

Donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme!

Direct download: gatheraroundme129.mp3
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Hullo! Welcome to Episode 128 of the Gather Around Me podchat starring your friends Ben "Mother Hen" Pobjie and Cam "Shadow Dancer" Smith.

In this thrilling installment we tackle some big issues. @stephendevice requested that we discuss: Can science ever find the answers to the deeper human needs?

WELL CAN IT? FIND OUT!

And also donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme128.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 127 of the Gather Around Me podfunk starring Ben "Beats" Pobjie and Cam "Rhymes" Smith.

In this edition, we take our topic from @_carnavas, who asked us about The Worst Gigs We've Ever Been To.

And don't forget to donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme 

Direct download: gatheraroundme127.mp3
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Hullo gentle listenerers! Another daily podcast from your friends Ben "The Pobj" Pobjie and Cam "A-Lama-Ding-Dong" Smith.

Today's topic comes from @MagicalBrunette, who asked for us to speak on the topic of "Penis size LOL".

RULES ARE RULES.

Donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme126.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 125 of the Gather Around Me podcast starring your friends Ben "Oaky Finish" Pobjie and Cam "Muskrat" Smith.

In this fun-sized edition of the 'cast, we have yet again taken a topic from the Twitterati. Today our first respondent was @itsme_tif, who suggested we should talk about HARDCORE PORN. And so we do.

If you would like to donate: http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme125.mp3
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There's gonna be a new podcast! The kids are gonna start it up! Yeah-hup! It's your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith with an all new podcast!

Today's topic comes from @lockhartbeth and it is VODCASTING. Hold up, a podcast about vodcasting? Yeah, it's crazy.

Donate at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme124.mp3
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Hi there,

Welcome to Episode 123 of the Gather Around Me podcast. Today's topic comes from @MagicalBrunette and it is GAY MARRIAGE, or as we like to call it, GARRIAGE.

ENJOY. (and donate: http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme)

Direct download: gatheraroundme123.mp3
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Hello gentle listener! Welcome to Episode 122 in a series of 1000 podposiums from your friends Ben "Donatello" Pobjie and Cam "Michaelangelo" Smith.

In this thrilling installment, we take our daily podcast topic from Friend Of The Show @FlaresSportsman, who suggested we discuss Existential Crises.

As this is what we mostly talk about off-air, it was not terribly difficult.

What is also not terribly difficult is making a donation at http://indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme! Please do!

Direct download: gatheraroundme122.mp3
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Hello podcast fans! Ben Pobjie! Cam Smith! Here to podcast it up from the Podcasthaus with a topic selected from the Twitter.

Today's podcast topiceer is @sanderlands, who suggests THINGS OSCAR WILDE SHOULD HAVE SAID, BUT DIDN'T.

Get it up in your cerebrum. (No offence, Oscar)

Direct download: gatheraroundme121.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 120 of the Gather Around Me infocast starring your informative friends Ben "The Magnificent" Pobjie and Cam "Ranchero Flavour" Smith.

In this episode, at the request of @chrisbrownie, we discuss the Olymbics. And also the Olympics.

Donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme! And keep on keeping on, y'all!

Direct download: gatheraroundme120.mp3
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Hey hey hey! Welcome to Episode 119 of the Gather Around Me funcast starring Ben "The Rock" Pobjie and Cam "Gone In 60 Seconds" Smith.

Today's topic comes from @phantomdiorama, and it is FLOPPY HATS.

Please do a donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

CIAO!

Direct download: gatheraroundme119.mp3
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Hello gentle, genteel and gentile listeners! Welcome to Episode 118 of the Gather Around Me funcast starring your friends Ben "Danger" Pobjie and Cam "Jackrabbit" Smith.

Every day of our Indiegogo fundraising campaign we have been doing a podcast! The topics are determined by the first person to respond to our Twitter call-out. Innovative, yes? Today's topic comes from @annaspargoryan who asks, "Can I repeat mine from earlier?"

LET'S FIND OUT and also let's donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme118.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:15am EDT

Welcome to Ep 117 of Ga' Ro' M'. Sorry, we don't have time for the full words of anythi anymo, we are go-getters and HUNGRY for It. What is it? We don't know, but we have it? Or we want it? Can we have some pizza? Sorry, 'za.

This is the 117th episode of our little podcast, and also, like, the 14th of our daily podcasts? That is too many podcasts to do in a row, really. Guess what! There are still a bunch more to come! OH EM GEE.

Today's podcast topic was contributed by @erinvk. She is lovely and the topic suggested is YOWIES.

SO... shall we find out about these amazing animals? Yes!

Shall we also donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Yes, that's a good idea too!

Direct download: gatheraroundme117.mp3
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Hi there! Welcome to Episode 116 of the Gather Around Me podchat starring Ben "San Diego" Pobjie and Cam "San Antonio" Smith.

In this amazing installment of our daily podcast series, we have taken a topic from @middleclassgirl. That topic is LEGO.

Come along on a journey of discovery?

AND DONATE AT HTTP://WWW.INDIEGOGO.COM/GATHERAROUNDME

Regardos!

Direct download: gatheraroundme116.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

Hello Gentle Listener, welcome to a politically-charged episode of Gather Around Me starring Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling installment, things get a bit political, as - at the request of @Citizen_Cam - we get to the bottom of the Labor-Greens Spat & What It Means For The Prime Minister.

Donate at: http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme115.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 114 of Gather Around Me starring Ben Pobjie, Cam Smith and with special guest Andy Slackbastard.

Today's topic, requested by @Shellity, is Lions & Antelopes.

Please donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme114.mp3
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Hello! Welcome to an incredibly controversial episode of Gather Around Me starring Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this episode we tackle the taboo topic of The Difference Between Men And Women.

Donate at: http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme113.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:30am EDT

Hello! Welcome to Episode 112 of the Gather Around Me funcast! With Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith and Jonah Pobjie!

The topic for today's episode was suggested by @mrgrumpystephen and it is: DICK JOKES.

Please help us make our vodcast series a reality by giving us a few dollars at: http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme112.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 111 of Gather Around Me!

Today's topic comes from @HeathC and it is PIZZA SHAPES.

Check out http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme for our amazing new target!

Ciao!

Direct download: gatheraroundme111.mp3
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Welcome to Episode 110 in a series of 1000 podchats with your friends Ben "Ben" Pobjie and Cam "Cam" Smith.

Today's topic, as suggested by @becpobjie, is MILO.

Donate at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Direct download: gatheraroundme110.mp3
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Hello gentle listener! Welcome to Episode 109 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben "Muscles" Pobjie and Cam "Boney M" Smith.

This is the sixth of our daily fundraiser podcasts. Why not pop over to http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme and chuck us five bucks?

Today's topic was selected by @itsme_tif and it is ORANGES.

ENJOY!

Direct download: gatheraroundme109.mp3
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Hello gentle listener! Welcome to Episode 108 in a Series of 1000 podchats starring Ben "Willy Wonka" Pobjie and Cam "Marquis de Sad" Smith.

This is the fifth in our series of daily Indiegogo podcasts. Perhaps you would like to go to http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme and give us some money?

Today's topic, selected by @stephendevice, is GENITALS = OVERRATED?

Let's find out, shall we?

Direct download: gatheraroundme108.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:34am EDT

Hi! Welcome to Episode 107 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben "Joh For PM" Pobjie and Cam "Zombie Joh For PM" Smith.

This is our fourth daily podcast in aid of our Indiegogo. Find out more at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme!

Today's topic has been selected by @Brocklesnitch. She writes: "Why should Queenslanders stay in Queensland? Asking for a friend."

And verily we have pontificated upon that very subject.

Check. It. Out.

Direct download: gatheraroundme107.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:17am EDT

Welcome to Episode 106 in a series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben "Dustin Mothman" Pobjie and Cam "AAAAARGH" Smith.

This is the third in our Indiegogo daily podcast series. Donate at: http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme

Today's topic, suggested by @cjohnson397, is The State Of Music Today And What It Takes To Be A Popstar.

Enjoy!

Direct download: gatheraroundme106.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:55am EDT

Welcome to Episode 105 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben "Money For Nothing" Pobjie and Cam "Chicks On Speed" Smith.

This is the second in our month of daily podcasts! Today the topic was selected by @AlexinaRose.  Cheers Alexina!

The topic is: "You could talk about how reality tv isn't real, the same way social media has made us less social than ever?"

And please, chuck us a few dollars over at http://www.indiegogo.com/gatheraroundme.

Direct download: gatheraroundme105.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:33am EDT

Welcome to Episode 104 in a series of 1000 podchats from your friends Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

This is the first of our 31 daily Indiegogo-casts and today our topic is CROCODILES.

Thanks @alliewonder for the suggestion. You can donate to the Indiegogo HERE.

Direct download: gatheraroundme104.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Hi there, gentle, genteel and gentile listeners! Welcome to Episode 103 of the Gather Around Me lecture series with yr friendly professrs Ben "Sandalwood" Pobjie and Cam "Tuscan Sunrise" Smith.

In this installment, you will find considered analysises of such up-to-date and of-the-now issues as:

  • Tokyo Drifting
  • Nirvana
  • Catch 22
  • OJ Simpson
  • The Carbon Tax
  • Aileen Wuornos
  • Waking us up before you IndieGoGo
  • And so on

Please, for the sake of the future, ENJOY IT.

Direct download: gatheraroundme103.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:18pm EDT

Hello gentle listeners! Welcome to Episode 102 in a series of 1000 podchats starring Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith!

In this thrilling installment!!!

  • Rent-A-Rabbi and other failed business ventures!
  • The End of Civilisation!
  • The Gold Coast, incl. Theme Park Reviews!
  • Real Gossip about the band TAKE THAT that you will not hear ANYWHERE else!
  • The Death Of The Media!
  • Gina Rinehart!

Get it on iTunes!

Direct download: gatheraroundme102.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:20am EDT

Hello, gentle listeners, and welcome to episode 101 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friends Ben "Oceania" Pobjie and Cam "Eastasia" Smith.

In this special edition, Ben and Cam have a cheery discussion about their deepest, darkest fears.

Also, they talk about:

  • The OneTel collapse.
  • SoCal punk band Pennywise.
  • The heat death of the universe.
  • The A-Team.
  • The King of Thailand.

Because say what you will about these chaps, they are always relevant.

Get it in your ears now!

Or on iTunes?

Or listen on Stitcher!

Direct download: gatheraroundme101.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:13pm EDT

Gentle listeners!

Please, join Ben Pobjie, Cam Smith and Special Guest Marieke Hardy in celebrating reaching the milestone of 100 podcasts. 900 to go!

Woah woah woah, what's that? Marieke Hardy? Not famous author, TV writer, fashionista, terrible enfant Marieke Hardy?

YES! The very same. We all sat down in the Podcast Parlour and had a good chat about:

  • Rodney Dangerfield
  • Scandals of 2009
  • Blackmailable Secrets
  • Bob Ellis
  • Marty Monster & Agro
  • Bindles
  • How this will probably end up on Mediawatch
  • The trial and travails of television writing
  • Game of Thrones - has anyone ACTUALLY watched it?
  • Delicious Ketamine

Subscribe on iTunes!

Direct download: gatheraroundme100.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:12am EDT

Oh my giddy aunt, gentle listener! Things are certainly heating up in the world of adventures that you choose yourself!

Come with Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith on another THRILLING installment of Gather Around Me, when we find out what happens when you reject the State and attempt to, like Fleetwood Mac - both the band and the Rock & Roll Detective - go your own way.

There are so many ways to listen to this that it is NOT FUNNY.

Just it is not funny the number of ways, I mean. The podcast itself, no matter which delivery system you employ, does remain somewhat funny.

ONE.

Subscribe on iTunes.

But Ben and Cam! I don't have iTunes?

You don't have iTunes! It is 2012.

I don't have a Mac because I like to be able to right click on things and so it was all a bit of trouble to put it on and WinAmp does me just fine plus it has cool visualisations involving llamas.

Look, you have convinced me! Perhaps you would like to try...

TWO.

Just download the podcast by right-clicking and save-asing on the little thing below.

THREE.

You can stream this sucker through the Facebook page.

FOUR.

If you have some sort of other podcast-getting machine, use the RSS. 

Direct download: gatheraroundme99.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:09pm EDT

Welcome, gentle listeners, to Episode 98 in a Series of 1000 podchats with Your Friends, Ben "I'm Not A Racist But" Pobjie and Cam "If Life Is A Series Of Accidents, Why Can't I Sue?" Smith.

This episode is our most current and up-to-date ever. It is breaking news. It is this current moment crystallized into podcast form. It is zeitgeist. It is ala mode. It is now. It is.

Gentle listener, I invite you to listen. LISTEN NOW OR RISK BEING FOREVER LEFT BEHIND!

iTunes?

Like us on Facebooks.

Direct download: gatheraroundme98.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:06am EDT

Gentle listeners, welcome to Part 4 of our Choose Your Own Adventurestraza starring Ben "Wavox Gravox" Pobjie and Cam "Zunebeam" Smith.

In our last thrilling installment, you were given a choice!

Yeah, thanks, of course we were, it's a Choose Your Own Adventure podcast.

Alright, alright, no need to cop an attitude, gentle listener! I am getting to the point.

Yeah, so's Ramadan.

What? That doesn't even make sense!

Your face doesn't make sense!

The choice we were given was: SHOULD WE GO THE AIRPORT AND TRY TO STOP THE MAFIA DUDES, OR SHOULD WE LOOK FOR OUR BROTHER AND SAVE HIM FROM GETTING TRAPPED ON A BOAT TO LONDON?

You, the listener, being forever concerned with the safety of the world, elected to go look for our brother. Hang on. That's crazy. You're crazy, gentle listeners! Surely we should try to stop the terorrists! Well, it's up to you, I suppose.

FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE MAKE YOUR CRAZY DECISION!

iTUNES?

Direct download: gatheraroundme97.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:45pm EDT

Hola gentle listeners, welcome to Episode 96 of the Gather Around Me podchatte starring Ben "Danger" Pobjie as himself and Cam "Flanger" Smith as himself, and Jonah "Stranger" Pobjie as himself.

In this episode, we drive around Cranbourne. Don't worry, we're not looking to purge the streets of "filth". That's for another podcast.

LEARN ABOUT CRANBOURNE NOW!

iTunes, anyone?

Direct download: gatheraroundme96.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:16pm EDT

Gentle listeners/adventurers, please enjoy in your earholes the third installment of our CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE SERIES.

What will happen when you join Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith in... INVESTIGATING INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE?

It's UP TO YOU.

Subscribe on iTunes!

Vote on Facebook!

Direct download: gatheraroundme95.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:54pm EDT

Hi gentle listeners! Welcome to Episode 94 in a series of 1000 free markets of ideas from your intellectual friends Ben "Graham "Chook" Fowler" Pobjie and Cam "John "Completely Legitimate Businessman" Ibrahim" Smith.

Look, there is nothing about crime in this podcast, but hey Underbelly 3: The Golden Mile, it was kind of a bit weird that you kept on cutting away from all these crime people (crimers?) doing crimes to a completely normal guy just trying to run a nightclub. I mean, really.

I'm getting distracted by things of a past nature, gentle listeners! This podcast is all about the HERE and the NOW. Here is the general gist of the things that are discussed:

War Pigs.

Life saving.

Clive Palmer.

The press gallery.

Peter Slipper.

Craig Thomson.

TWITTER WARS.

and weird small burgers at Hungry Jacks.

Wow, how do you stay so relevant guys? Well, a relaxing long weekend at Kangaroo Island every now and then certainly doesn't hurt.

ENJOY THE PODCAST PLEASE. If you like it, why not tell a friend? If you don't like it, why not tell a frenemy?

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Direct download: gatheraroundme94b.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Gentle listeners! Things are heating up in our Choose Your Own Adventure series!

JOIN! Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith as they investigate THE ADDRESS BY THE DOCKS.

VOTE! On which direction the story should TAKE NEXT.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:51am EDT

Hola, gentle listeners! Welcome to Episode 92 in a series of 1000 podchats starring your friendos Ben "Ranger Stacey" Pobjie and Cam "Smarter Than The Average Carebear" Smith.

In this special park-based episode, we take a short break from Choosing Your Own Adventure while the votes continue to flood in, and visit a park to engage in park-related discussions.

TOPICS ADDRESSED (spoiler alert):

What are some things happening in the park right now?

What's the deal with the Hungry Games?

What's some stuff that happened at Ben and Cam's respective Comedy Festival shows?

And so on. It is a delightful lark. In a park. Gorgeous.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:35am EDT

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of Gather Around Me with your Very Special Frenemies with Frenefits, Ben "Brown Sugar" Pobjie and Cam "Brown Stevia" Smith.

This episode marks the beginning of an adventure that may have many more chapters... or maybe just a few? It is, indeed, an adventure that you choose. It's Gather Around Me Presents: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.

For your listening entertainment, a completely unauthorised reading from a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. When we come to a decision, do we choose it? No! It's Your Adventure! Vote by tweeting at us which page to turn to, voting in the Facebook poll, or commenting on the blog. IT'S UP TO YOU!

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:13pm EDT

We join our heroes Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith in medias res! Unorthodox? Episode 90 of the Gather Around Me podcast is like that in every way, except religiously. Obviously we still belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

In this episode:

  • Getting a Mac
  • Gender-based changey songs
  • Brandi
  • Wikipedia Vandalisms
  • Some good burns on Neil Young - very timely stuff.
  • Ben's throat
  • Do humans have free will?
  • And so on.

Please enjoy.

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Direct download: gatheraroundme90.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:21pm EDT

Welcome to Episode 89 of the Gather Around Me podchat starring your friends on benefits Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling installment, Ben and Cam reflect on why the Wollongong Podcast Festival is superior to the Busselton Podcast Festival, recall the highlights and lowlights of the WPF, and even find the time to reveal why everyone is wrong about Joseph Kony.

It is a podcast that no parent can afford to miss.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:34pm EDT

Hi guys/gals,

Ben and Cam here. You might be wondering, did we record a special podcast on our way to the Wollongong Podcast Festival? The answer is a resounding YES.

Please enjoy our amusing takes on politics, the environment, classic fables and nursery rhymes.

Get it into your brain.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:58pm EDT

Hello! Welcome to episode 87 in a series of 1000 pod-symposiums from your good friends (maybe something more?) Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith.

In this thrilling installment, we discuss all matters. All of the matters. Here are some of them:

  • Clam Labs
  • Apricots
  • The Spill!
  • Derwents!
  • Ricky "Richard" Nixon!
  • Unprofessional Police
  • Upstairs / Downstairs
  • A goat that Ben saw in a car!
  • Nude Neighbours!
  • And more!

Please tune in and enjoy. You may find it upon iTunes HERE, or download it with the thing on this page. Huzzah!

Direct download: gatheraroundme87.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:08pm EDT

Close your eyes and let your ineffable hosts Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith take you on a journey of the imagination.

The West Wing! Wolves! Why Ben was a Year 6 Prefect!

And also other things that don't begin with W, but also maybe some stuff that does!

Listen! Enjoy! Tell your friends! Tell your mum! Don't tell your dad, he is set in his ways.

You can subscribe on iTunes if you like by clicking on this.

Otherwise just click on that downloady bit undearneath this bit. You don't need me to tell you how to suck eggs. Sorry, I am not suggesting you are like a professional egg-sucker. Look. can we start over?

Welcome to Episode 86 in a series of 1000 po- actually, you could just start reading from the top. Bye!

Direct download: gatheraroundme86.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:02am EDT

Hello gentle listeners! The spill is on! The Labor leadership is in question and your affable hosts Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith have been sent to Canberra by their respective news publications to cover the highs, the lows, the dogfights, the catfights, the turtle races, the netball, and also the leadership spill.

Tune in as they discuss the unfolding events from the comfort of their fancy hotel suites.

Also available via iTunes subscription because let's face it, you've had a busy day and the last thing you want to do is have to manually download all your podcasts. HERE!

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:07am EDT