nesmith.bsky.social
Radio broadcaster. Audio producer. Wannabe writer. "Spike's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there".
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Yes!! Louis is a master!
If you can find any of his work, Nick Broomfield is very good. Clearly an influence on Louis Theroux, but in a good way. Gay Byrne was fantastic, too. His Meaning Of Life series was top shelf. He was so good at making guests comfortable.
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THESE JOKES MUST BE TOLD!!!!!!!!!
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I forgot to ask; who are the other two?
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I’ll be looking for more, he really made a very good impression on me. Until now I knew the name because of Radio One, but had never seen or heard him.
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Fair enough. I get that.
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Not even “Your Town”? The production on that is… ‘ow you say…. **mwah!**
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The Razzies is a one-joke counter punch to something most people respect. It stopped being funny or shocking or even relevant years ago.
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That’s fantastic!! Did you know that with the PS1 version, once the game was loaded, you could open the lid, and put in any music CD? It would play random tracks from it depending on the vehicle! Because I’m a massive geek, I made a CD with tracks of real radio stations on it. It only sorta worked.
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That’s the very one!!
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My ladies? Bare naked.
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Wasn't that the case with Belushi's body as well? That the coffin was too big to be in the hold, so they had to put it upright somewhere and then prop him into a seat for the flight? I'm pretty sure that was in Woodward's "Wired".
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b-but I was going to throw away my Gaultier and grow my hair again....
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Same here, but it was an accent thing rather than getting it wrong. But I still to this day, make sure the passengers in my car have put on their "sayfetty belt"
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We’ll reach for the skyyyyy….. Douglas.
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I didn’t know you needed a different aerial! I worked in Belfast for a bit and used to fiddle with the telly to try and pick up RTE. That explains why I could never get anything! I did listen to a lot of 2FM though (I was 20!).
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It was on in the afternoon, if that gives you any indication on how good it was! The only good afternoon sit-com was Rainbow.
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Amazing. I’d love to see Mrs O again, quoting the great Tom Robinson, “just to remember that it was true”. You are literally the only other human I’ve met that remembers it. I thought I was going daft. Nobody doubts me when I tell them that Radio Nova dabbled in pirate TV, but Mrs O? Naaaah!
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There is an RTE sit-com that I can only find scant evidence of, called “Leave It To Mrs O’Brien”, about a housekeeper at a parochial house, looking after a set of daft priests. I often wondered how much, if at all, it inspired Father Ted.
Ulster TV showed it in the 80s, which is when I saw it.
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Oh i can;t wait to hear this. Thanks! I’m working right now, but I’ll listen soon!!
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that’s amazing! Hahaha!! I need to find that.
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It’s insane, but the pirate radio scene in Ireland around 83 makes it totally on-brand.