Archive for September, 2015
Suckers!
Money collected in tax should not be used to pay for pacifiers for idiots! The first official review into the health impact of e-cigarettes concluded that they should be provided on the NHS. The report says that smoking e-cigarettes is 95 per cent safer than smoking tobacco. You know what is 100% safer than smoking […]
Filed under: AFTRS, blog, Broadcasting, Comedy, health, NHS, Smoking | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Drugs, e-cigarettes, NHS, Nicotine Patches, Radio, Smoking, television
Radio in the UK has become very safe. This week I came across a video from the first British radio station I worked for. In February 1997, I moved back to the UK from Australia to present the Breakfast show on 2CRFM in Dorset. We did some crazy things on that show; naked skiing, a […]
Filed under: AFTRS, blog, Broadcast, Broadcasting, Comedy, ITV, Meridian, Television | Closed
Tags: 1997, 2CR, 2CRFM, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Bournemouth, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Commercial Radio, ITV, Meridian, Meridian Tonight, Radio, South Today
Amy shares BIG dating news! I talk about my half naked workmates and when I flew on the Last of The Summer Airline. Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and tweet a link. If you’d like to talk to me about it, call me on […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcast, Broadcasting, Comedy, Radio, Vlog | Closed
Tags: 2CR, 2CRFM, AFTRS, Aircheck, Alicante, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Dating, Last of The Summer Wine, Marine, naked, Radio, Spain, vlog, work
NICE can struck off!
What have the health watchdog, NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) got against doctors? NICE claim that GPs are over-prescribing antibiotics and as a result we’re facing an “antibiotic apocalypse“, where long-forgotten infections could kill again, due to rising numbers of bugs that are now resistant. That sounds scary but it’s not […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Australia, blog, Broadcast, Broadcasting, Computers, health, Politics, Radio, Television | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, antibiotic apocalypse, Antibiotics, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Doctors, Farming, GPs, Health Watchdog, infection, National Institute for Health Care Excellence, NHS, NICE, scapegoat, Vegan, Vegitarian
If you listen to Beatles singles, you’ll notice how clever their producer, George Martin, was at grabbing the listener’s attention at the very beginning. ‘The Beatles 1’, is getting the deluxe reissue treatment this autumn. It contains all 27 number one hit singles. All of the songs start with something designed to grab your attention. […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Beatles, Broadcasting, Music, Pop Music, Radio | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Beatles, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Broadcasting, Chicago, George Martin, Graham Mack, Liverpool, London, Morning Show Boot Camp, Radio, Tracy Johnson
That’s All Volks!
Volkswagen haven’t done anything wrong. I feel sorry for their former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, who resigned over the emissions cheating scandal. All new vehicles must pass emissions tests before going on sale to the public. This involves parking the car on a rolling road and running its engine in a series of ways. The […]
Filed under: Advertising, AFTRS, Broadcasting, Cars, motoring, Radio, science, Television | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Cars, emissions, Gear Knobs, Martin Winkerkorn, rolling road, TalkRadio, Top Gear, Volkswagen, VW
DAY 3 in The BOB Brother House.
I can’t remember the last time I went out and stayed out past midnight.
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Brodcasting, Comedy, Holiday, Radio | Closed
Tags: 3am, AFTRS, AirB&B, Aircheck, B&B, bizzaro, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Curry, Graham Mack, Holiday, Indian, midnight, New Years Eve, nightclub, Radio, Seaside, Seinfeld, Spain
DAY 2 in The BOB Brother House.
I’m sick, I never get sick, especially when I’m on holiday. The boss has flown the staff out to his villa in Spain. Last night, while everyone else went out to a restaurant, I spent a quiet evening throwing up at the villa. Everything is the wrong way around on this trip. People who are […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Radio, sick | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, BOBfm, Broadcasting, illness, Radio, Spain, villa, work
BOB fm, Insane in Spain.
I feel like I’m in a bizzaro world. Everything I know is the wrong way round right now. I don’t do ‘sitting in the sun’ type holidays but right now, I’m sitting by the side of a swimming pool in southern Spain. The sun is shining and the temperature is over 30 degrees Celsius. Our […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Brodcasting, Holiday, Radio, work trip | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, bizzaro, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, holliday, Hot, Spain, villa
Enviro-Mental!
The British government and their friends, the large supermarkets, are encouraging the destruction of the planet and are charging YOU for the privilege. There’s now a 5p charge on supermarket plastic bags. A penny of that goes straight to the government as VAT. They say the policy will reduce litter, waste and protect wildlife. They […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Australia, Broadcasting, Enviroment, green party, plastic, polution | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, British Government, Broadcasting, congestion charge TFL, Earth, Enviroment, Graham Mack, green party, green taxes, grenpeace, planet, plastic bags, polution, Radio, San Francisco, scam, sea turtle, supermarket, Tax, Tesco, VAT
Shemail.
When your wife reads your emails you sometimes have some explaining to do. Julie reads all of my email. She has the passwords to my personal and work accounts. I don’t mind, I’ve got nothing to hide. I’m sat here at my desk in the BOB fm office and everyone is excited about the weekend. […]
Filed under: block, blog, Broadcasting, communication, Email | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Email, junk mail, office, passwords, Spain, wife, workplace
We Shouldn’t Stand For It!
The normal rules of business don’t apply to Britain’s train operators. I found out yesterday that neither do the rules of Einsteinian physics. For the first time in my life, I was a commuter. I attended a radio conference in London that ran from 8:30 till 5:30. That meant that I had to keep normal […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Comedy, public transport, Tavel, Trasport | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, British Railways, Broadcasting, Commuter, Great Northern Trains, Hitchin, Kings Cross, Railways, Travel
All Black To My Place.
New Zealand is a very special place and Kiwis are a unique group of people. We met some very important New Zealanders in London yesterday. The Rugby World Cup is only days away! As Julie & I met and got married in New Zealand (I even took out citizenship), we’re going to be supporting the […]
Filed under: Rugby, Rugby World Cup, Sport, Travel | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, All Blacks, London, New Zealand, Rugby World Cup
In London yesterday, tens of thousands of people marched towards the prime ministerial residence in Downing Street, calling for the UK government to do more to help with the current migrant crisis. Europe is struggling to cope with an enormous influx of people, mostly from Syria, who are fleeing violence and poverty in their own […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Migrants, Politics, Refuugee Crisis | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Arab, Bahrain, Blog, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Downing Street, Euope, GDP, Graham Mack, Great Britain, ISIS, Kuwait, London, Mediterranean, Migrant crisis, Oman, Qatar, Radio, refugees, Saudi Arabia, Syria, television, UAE, UK government, World Cup
I’ve been having a lot of fun on BOB fm lately. In case you missed any of it, here’s a recap which includes: Why selfies are dangerous. One Direction’s marketing mistake. The dad who taught his kid to lie. The naked contestant. Electronic mutiny. Our Nazi Queen. Your embarrassing photos. The smell of fake leather. […]
Filed under: Broadcasting, Radio, Television | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Birth, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, DeWalt, Jelly Fish, Leather, Migrants, Nazi, One Direction, Radio, Random Act of Kindness, selfie
Hot and Steamy Down Under!
I almost asked my in-laws to watch soft porn. Julie’s parents live in New Zealand. When we speak to them on the phone they always mention British TV shows that they get on the telly over there. I know when they watch anything that’s filmed in England they try to imagine what it must be like […]
Filed under: BBC, Broadcasting, Drama, film making, Radio, screen, Sex, Television | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BBC, BBC1, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Doctor Foster, film crew, Hertfordshire, Hitchin, in-laws, New Zealand, Radio, sex, sex scene
Once I was given a dead fish. It was in 2009 when I was the Breakfast Show host at TFM Radio in the North East. I’d been the guest of honour at the birthday celebrations at a local lifeboat station. I don’t know why I was booked and I had no idea I was the […]
Filed under: Broadcasting, Godfather, Lifeboat, Mafia, Movies, Radio, RNLI | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, dead fish, Fish, funny, Lifeboat, North East, RNLI, Teesside, TFM, TFM Radio, The Godfather
