Gather Around Me

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.

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!

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!

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!

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. TH

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.

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?

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?

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!

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 i

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. SUBSCRIBE! On iTunes.

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. Get it on iTunes HERE!

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! iTunes!

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. iTunes?

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. Get it on iTunes HERE.

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. Download by right clicking the bit below, or subscribe on iTunes.

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!

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!

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!

Welcome to Episode 84 in a series of 1000 podchats from your esteemed colleagues Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith. In this action packed episode: Drink driving! Family! Wyclef Jean! Kim Jong-il! Charlotte's Web! Billy Joel! The IPA! Eventually everyone dies! Consume! iTunes?