Hi there! It's me...Dan!
When I'm not slaving away on my award-winning* novel, I like to kick back with my good friend Rob and record my award-winning* podcast, which I like to call...the destruct\hour! It's a sort of online mix-tape, except sometimes I talk/giggle between the songs and occasionally play non-musical things of audio-interest. And I make it just for you. I hope I don't sound immodest* when I say that it's the best podcast in existence, ever, better than any other podcast out there. Sounds good, huh?
For the so many options, click below! Maybe you're reading the site via dial-up and can't really be bothered waiting a million years for the show to download. In that case, contact me and I'll ah, send you a limited* edition CD with ALL FIVE SHOWS on it as mp3s! That's money in the bank, baby!
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*not really
Maybe you have a portable music player? In that case you'll want to click here to download the show. (mp3, 56MB)
Or possibly you are at work/home and have an hour of 'quiet time' to listen to music in? In that case you might consider clicking here to stream it directly through your browser.
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hi Dan, can I please have a CD, you can give it to me as a Christmas present if you like!
Also can you please tag your casts the same way. Every cast comes differently tagged and I have to retag them.
I'll retag YOU!
Jayne, you want the mp3 CD or a regular CD-type CD?
Really good (got 10 mins left to listen to) but
why oh why oh why
did you have to make a big effort to suck sweets or eat and make a big noise with the wrapper. You ruin all the good work you do. It was really off putting.
I was hungry!
It's not like it was a live show. You could have taken a break.
You know if I was looking for talent on the web I would have hired you up until that point. After that point I would have stopped listening.
What really frustrates me, is that your pod casts are fucking brilliant. They really are good. I keep telling everyone to go listen to them. But then you do some things that totally make your hard work look like you don't care and it's pointless and it detracts from how good it is. Like watching an artists paint a great picture. Then just throw some red paint on it and piss on the red paint.
/shakes head.
Artists do crazy shit like that all the time!
I don't care. It is pointless. I'm just having fun. I was eating sweets and said to Rob: "Let's do this voicebreak whilst eating sweets." in much the same vein as saying: "Let's do this voice break disguised as robots." Fretting too much about what works and doesn't work would surely lead to something ludicrously bland.
I know. I think most artists deserve to have their work burnt down in a fire especially Tracy Emenin and Daimen Hurst.
Nothing wrong with having fun. But you are interesting without being stupid. You don't need to suck sweets to not be bland, you are not bland already. If you suck sweets to avoid being bland you're show is too shit and bland already.
If you consider it pointless why should I put time into listening? I know you enjoy making them and I know you like people to like them so they do have point and you do care. If you didn't care why make them? I refuse to believe you don't care. People don't put hours of work into things they don't care about. I would at least hope you care about the people who listen to your show. Guess not.
Anyway, as you say, it's your show and you can do what you like or what you care about. But as a listen, I'm saying your show is brilliant, but I find the sucks of sweets so off putting I nearly stopped listening. It really ruined the whole show for me.
You can take it as constructive criticism. Or you can take it as me being an arse and not give a fuck.
I guess I don't care if you don't.
It's unfortunate that Dan doesn't have the convenience of an ad break in which to suck sweets, etc... At least he didn't go to the toilet, as happened to an Irish tv presenter while he still had his radio mic on, which hadn't been muted by the sound engineer. It was muted a second or five too late...
Dan, maybe you should try an ad break? Not necessarily for real products or services, but a Destruct/Hour special ad break? I dunno.
Some people find the suck of sweets very soothing. That voicebreak was going out just for them. Sorry you didn't like it!
I think I can acknowledge something can be ultimately pointless and yet still be entertaining. In fact, almost everything entertaining is ultimately pointless. Because everything is ultimately pointless.
That depends on what you mean by 'pointless'. Dictionary.com defines 'Pointless' as 'Lacking meaning; senseless', whereas most things that are entertaining (at least most things I find entertaining) are full of meaning and, well, have a point.
I could rant a hell of a lot about this, but that is ultimately pointless. The point is, I work in 'entertainment'. The point is, it pays the bills.
'Because everything is ultimately pointless'- That sounds like something Adrian would say... :-)