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Blogs > Nick & Jen at Breakfast > March 2012 March 2012Fuel, Singing and Muddling Through...30th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with James and Jen... Posted by Jennie at 9:46am James, Jen and #withoutnick29th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with James and Jen... So, today was the first day that James and I were on air together. It went really well, thanks for asking. We chatted about pasties, petrol and, the biggest news of the day: Anchorman: The Sequel. Yes, you read that right. Ron Burgundy is back! I am so excited about this news. There’s no way that I can possibly explain how excited I am. So I won’t even try. Just trust me; this is a BIG deal. BIG. HUGE. MASSIVE. If you’re not familiar with the film Anchorman, do yourself a favour and watch it immediately. It’s Will Ferrell at his finest. James and I were so giddy about it we almost forgot to do The Secret Sound...the travel and the weather. Sorry about that. It’s very hard co-hosting a show. You have to have such a good chemistry to be able to do it well. Nick and I are lucky in that, we're both similar in our satirical outlook on life. James is such an all round nice guy that we were worried it wouldn't work, but it did. It worked very well indeed, despite our despair at being #withoutnick. Anyway, we did just fine. The next couple of weeks should be ok. Don't worry. Thanks for the messages of support. Your messages are always welcome.* *Except when they’re nasty or stupid. Tune in again tomorrow morning between 6 and 9am to hear how Jame and I are getting on #withoutnick
Posted by Jennie at 2:00pm Nick's Holibobs, Dodgy Songs and Fish...28th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... It’s Nick’s last day today for a couple of weeks as he’s off on his holibobs, so our Hometime James will be subbing for him until his triumphant return. I know I shall miss Nick terribly. I don’t know how I’m going to cope without him to be honest. I’m bawling my eyes out just thinking about it, but James is pretty cool, so I’m sure we’ll have a laugh and we’ll muddle through the best we can. The ‘James and Jen at Breakfast’ combo begins tomorrow at 6am. On air, online, on your mobile and in your ears. Anyway, I must take my mind off the gaping hole that Nick will leave in my life for the foreseeable future. (And I do mean gaping – the Wednesday Weigh Off results this morning weren’t good.) Nick and I were chatting about the dodgy songs that you have on your ipod this morning. You know the ones. The songs that you secretly love but you’re a bit embarrassed about. We had the classic You Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer. Fill Me In and Seven Days both by Craig David and both, shamefully, from Nick’s ipod. Gav didn’t disappoint with admitting to loving Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic. (Watch the bumbag-tastic video on You Tube when you have a spare couple of minutes.) We also kicked off a brand new Secret Sound, worth 100 quid today, going up by a tenner every day until it’s won. Deborah Fish (yes, Fish. Her maiden name Anderson – I know! That’s exactly what we thought) came on air with us to hazard a guess. Unfortunately, it was the wrong answer, but Fish will always be a winner to us. Click on the audio link below for evidence of just how good natured some of our listeners are. I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow. #withoutnick blub blub.
Posted by Jennie at 1:22pm Sunscreen, Sunburn and Dictums...27th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Hello. Nick spent all afternoon outside in the sun yesterday, evidently treating himself like he was a little sausage under the grill. Therefore, a good deal of this morning’s show was spent talking about his ridiculously red face. Did he not heed Baz Luhrmann’s warning in 1997? After we’d played that ditty, in order to remind everyone else to wear sunscreen, we began to talk about other good pieces of advice. Rules to live by. A code of conduct if you will. Oh, we had such a fantastic response, so thanks for that if you were one of the thousands who got involved. “Treat others as you wish to be treated.” Mused Sue from Ripon. “Delete, delete, delete, deny, deny, deny.” Said anon. “It’s one thing for people to think you’re a fool, but another to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Opined Angela Bennett. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life, so make it count!” Yelled Christine Walker. We also took a few calls to air on the subject, which is always a little risky. (Anyone remember the Richard Madeley incident on This Morning?) Well, today was no exception. Some of the dictums were a little questionable: “When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the things you did do.” Not so sure about that one. I doubt I’ll regret not burgling people’s houses or not eating roadkill. Each to their own though – now that’s a good motto. Click on the audio link below to hear Red Face and I larking around.
Posted by Jennie at 1:32pm Monday's, Moaning and Facebook...26th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... The Monday Moan In was a good one this morning. There was a lot of moaning about bad drivers, there always is. Lots of moaning about traffic, there always is, and lots about picking up after your dog, yes YOUR dog! You know who you are! My moan today was about people who write public messages on Facebook stating: “I’ve just sent you a private message.” It’s so pointless. Everyone gets notifications about receiving messages, you don’t need to tell people that you've sent a message in addition to actually sending the message. I’ve come to the conclusion that the only reason anyone ever does this is to show off that they’re having a private conversation with someone. As if anybody else is going to be intrigued by it. Get a life, if you were that interesting, it would already be apparent. It's the equivalent of having a face to face conversation with somebody whilst wearing a sandwich board that tells everybody else: "Look at me. I'm having a private conversation with this person!" It also gets my goat when people write things like this on their Facebook statuses: “I suppose I deserved that. Could my life get any more complicated?!” Anyone that writes that sort of sympathy seeking dirge needs to have a word with themselves double quick. More tomorrow. I have a feeling that it’s going to be a good one. If you’re fortunate enough to be out in the sunshine today, lap it up! Posted by Jennie at 1:55pm Oversleeping, Keys and Clatter...23rd March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Gav and Jen... I turned up to work as normal today and immediately noticed that something wasn’t right. Nick’s car wasn’t in the car park, then I saw that the studio lights weren’t on through the window and when I tried to get in, I couldn’t. The doors were still locked. The unthinkable had happened. Nick wasn’t here. I called him straight away. No answer. I left a message. “Nick, it’s Jen, I’m here, you’re not. Is everything ok? Call me back.” He called back. He’d overslept. He’d be here as soon as he possibly could. I called Gav. “Gav, you have keys to the building, don’t you? How far away are you? Nick’s overslept, he’s on his way, but until you or he gets here - I can’t get into the studio!” When Gav arrived this morning, he didn’t bother with the barriers, he just drove straight up the kerb, over the grass verge, through the trees and did an impressive handbrake turn into a car parking space. Rolling over the bonnet of his car, (which was a little over the top, to be fair) he legged it over to me with the keys. “Jen! Jen! I’ve got them. I’ve got them! Here are the keys!” We flew into the studio and literally dove across the mixing desk just as Daydream Believer came to an end. Hence the ridiculous clattering that you hear when the mics go live. Click on the link below. Poor Nick, everyone oversleeps from time to time, but when it happens to him, it’s a little more noticeable. Thankfully, he got here in record time and normal programming was resumed. Phew! Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for stopping by. Posted by Jennie at 1:23pm Tulisa, Petrol and Gout...again...22nd March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Tulisa was in the news today because her ex-boyfriend made a private film of theirs public. I feel sorry for her because someone she once loved and trusted has turned out to be a money grabbing cretin, but it was naive of her to take part in the film in the first place. How many celebrities has this happened to now? Once again, it serves as a reminder to us all - get hold of the tapes and THEN get out of the relationship. Get the tape, get on your toes. In that order. Nick, Hometime James and I nearly ran out of petrol on the way the Knaresborough yesterday, so we chatted about that for a while, but really there was only one topic of conversation that anybody cared about today... Gout. Since Nick hobbled out of the gout closet, fellow sufferers have come forward in their threes. So this morning Nick revealed that he’s begun a gout awareness movement. Gout appears to be a disease suffered largely in silence. (Probably because of its reputation as being an old man’s ailment, most popular in the 16th century.) Well, we’re going to sort that out and it starts now. We’ve already got a slogan ‘Get Gout Out!’ and we’ve got a chant too. Nick’s going to be the poster boy, obviously, he’s working on his ‘gout pout’ (TM) and we took dramatic action and outed Gav as another early onset gout sufferer, much to his surprise. He wasn’t having any of it. He’s clearly still in denial. Just be brave Gav, just be brave. Gout podcast from this morning’s breakfast show, below: Posted by Jennie at 12:02pm Gout, Claggy Mouths and Little Red Cases...21st March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... You might remember a few days ago, Nick told us about his sore foot. He went to bed and it was fine. He woke up the next day and could barely walk. Well, it turns out he’s been suffering from a disease that was most popular during the 16th Century – gout. Labelled “the disease of kings” due to a rich diet being liable to bring on an attack of gout, Nick will no doubt be treating his old-fashioned ailment with a course of leeches on his bottom. This is how gout is described in one medical reference: “For sooth! Gouty patients are generally men who’ve so worn themselves out in youth to have brought on a premature old age. Hey nonny! Of such dissolute habits! None more indulg’d in than excessive mead and meat. Oh lover of exhausting passions! The victim retires to bed, slumbers in good health, but, alas, is awoken abrupt by pain so severe as to render him tortured...” Trust Nick to start suffering from a retro ailment. In other news, The Apprentice 2012 starts tonight. We played some audio clips and took the mickey, in particular, out of sweepy-haired, claggy-mouthed Apprentice contestant, Nick Holzherr. Then the conversation naturally moved on to the unfortunate business of people who are afflicted with claggy mouth syndrome. Budget Day is upon us once again and out he comes with his little red case. We chatted about that too. Click on the link below to hear the ridiculousness that was me, Nick and Gav covering this story. We’ll see you tomorrow. (That is, unless Nick has been struck down by the first reported case of the bubonic plague since the 14th century.) Posted by Jennie at 10:43am Snot Watch, Rutter Germs and Superpowers...20th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Today, on Snot Watch: Nick feels worse than he did yesterday and so do I. We are wholeheartedly blaming Gav, because he came in to work with a stinking cold, day in, day out, all last week. (The selfish, germ infested, hard working, carrier monkey.) Nick is so disgusted with him at the moment that he can hardly bear to look at him – click on the audio clip below for proof. Gav says that we are being pathetic. He says that there’s no proof that he’s to blame for us being ill and that we are just using him to vent our frustration. Well, he would say that wouldn’t he? He feels guilty for infecting us with his filth. In other news, Nick asked ‘if you could choose a super power, what would it be?’ Nick said that he would like the power to detect BS. I said that was the worst superpower I’ve ever heard of and that he should be ashamed of himself for choosing such a lame power. I said that mine would be the ability to have three wishes per day. I would click my fingers, or something, to administer these wishes. (I haven’t thrashed out the finer details of my superpower yet.) These granted wishes would only last a finite amount of time. They would wear off after 24 hours. For instance, one of my wishes right now would be to have a lamb chop roast dinner appear in front of me on my desk. Later on I might take it up a notch and use one of my wishes to fly home. Then I might be a bit selfless and wish that I could heal sick people. (I’d sort Nick’s sore foot out quick as wink.) Nick said that my ‘three wishes per day’ superpower was an abuse of the system. Well, 1. There is no superpower system, and 2. You can forget about me healing your sore foot. We had huge listener response to this superpower chat. Here are just a few examples of some of the texts we received during today’s Breakfast Show: Pat: Hello Nick and Jen. Love the show. When I was a little girl, I always wanted to be an invisible time-traveller. I’m 61 now and still wishing. Rob: How do Nick and Jen? I would have an eye on the end of my finger. (We can only imagine where Rob wants to put his finger.) Fiona: Good morning Nick and Jen. I would have the power to spot when people are lying to me. Especially my boyfriend. Baz: Hi Nick and Jen, I’d be invisible. Although I think to my wife, I already am! Kaye: Will you two please stop moaning. There are people much worse off than you. There’s always one. Today it was Kaye.* *Listening to us is not mandatory. Posted by Jennie at 11:40am Feeling poorly, Portas and Pants...19th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Nick and I were not feeling well today. I had a sore throat and a high temperature and Nick was all bunged up and hobbling around on a bad foot. His bad foot is a bit of a mystery because he doesn’t even know how he duffed it up. All he can tell us is that he went to sleep last night with a fully functional left foot and woke this morning unable to walk properly. I can confirm that he’s not putting it on either. He whipped his grubby sock off to show me his swollen little trotter, which had a distinct bruise along the side. (He’s since concluded that his Sarah must have given him a swift kick during the night to stop him snoring.) As neither of us were feeling very well, it put us in the perfect mood to do The Monday Moan In. My moan was about car park etiquette – when people park across two parking spaces and when able bodied people have the cheek to park in spaces reserved for disabled people...and when people just abandon their empty trollies in the car park rather than take them back to the trolley park. Then Nick had a monumental rant about celebrities endorsing good causes. He’s got nothing against good causes, he just doesn’t like it when celebs put their names to things when they don’t seem to care about the cause, only about self-promotion. He cited the current Mary Portas programme (Mary’s Bottom Line) as the latest example. The premise of this programme being that 90 per cent of Britain’s clothes are now imported. Underwear was highlighted as being a particularly big market and yet so little of it is British made. Well, all hell broke loose. The switchboard went mad. Sue was on the line, giving Nick what for, Alana called in and had a go. We had to stop taking calls on it after fifteen minutes because, to be frank, not having even watched the Mary Portas Programme, Nick didn’t really know what they were going on about. At one point off air, I was in hysterics listening to Nick on the phone to an angry listener, defending himself and fielding questions on where his underwear was made. “Keep your nose out of my pants, Sue!” He shouted. Click on the audio link below to have a listen for yourself. Posted by Jennie at 2:09pm Mismatched Food, Friday's and Mother's Day...16th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Gav didn’t win Masterchef. I can’t say I’m surprised – what sort of idiot puts pork and strawberries together? I don’t like this new fangled food concept of putting things that don’t go together in the same recipe. Gav, I don’t care how much food cooking experience you’ve had, you won’t ever convince my taste buds that pork and strawberries is a better match that steak and mushrooms. In other news, Nick and I were on one today. We usually are on one on Fridays. We get a bit feverish. In fact the whole station goes a bit doo-lally on Fridays. It’s not unusual for the every single person working at Stray to spontaneously break into song, it’s like being in a musical. A musical full of tone-deaf people. One of us will start it off by innocently singing along to the radio, then another will join in and before you know it, the whole office is harmonising at the top of their lungs. It’s particularly enjoyable when we don’t realise that we’ve got visitors sitting in reception – which is exactly what happened about ten minutes ago. What with it being Mother’s Day on Sunday, Nick thought it’d be nice to have our Mom’s on the radio this morning. My Mom came on and said that even though she lives miles away, she listens to Nick and I on the Breakfast Show every day live online. “You really make me laugh, you two, you brighten up my mornings.” Mrs Hancock said that she lives far away and it’s quite a faff to log on to the computer every day, just so she can listen to this relentless drivel.
Posted by Jennie at 2:58pm Bouffants, Souffles and Masterchef Gav...15th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Joan Collins is doing the rounds promoting her book of style tips. According to her, people over the age of 40 shouldn’t wear jeans. Joan, 78, told us this whilst wearing jeans. Hypocrisy aside, I’m not sure if I can accept fashion advice from someone who dresses in head to toe leopard print, wears a huge wiggy bouffant and does her make-up Ronald McDonald style. You’ll be pleased to hear that Nick’s sideline of being a Freelance Recruitment Exec is going from strength to strength. Unlike some Gav’s I could mention, he doesn’t let his extracurricular work interfere with his day job. For some weeks now we’ve been referring to our Gav as ‘Tom from Masterchef’. (To be honest, he doesn’t look all that much like him, but we’ve been going along with it anyway because it amuses us to think of him living a double life.) So anyway, what with Gav moonlighting on Masterchef at nights and coming to work here, as usual, as a Broadcast Journalist every day, his news bulletins have inevitably started to suffer. This morning was a good example of how burning the candle at both ends is affecting his work. He used to be such a punctual news reader, these days we’re lucky if he even rocks up. He’s so preoccupied with food prep. Soufflé this, amuse bouche that. I can’t take a news reader seriously when they’ve got an apron on. I hope he loses the Masterchef final tonight. Click on the link below to hear a snippet of how badly Masterchef is affecting Gav’s professionalism: Posted by Jennie at 12:27pm Weather, Rubbish Superheroes and Basketball...14th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... A few of our listeners have taken issue with Nick for not correctly predicting the weather. He said it would be sunny yesterday, apparently it wasn’t. He said it’ll be sunny today. Well, there’s no evidence of that as yet either. To be fair to Nick, he is given the weather forecast by the Met Office. They are meant to be the experts on the weather, not Nick, he is merely the messenger. So please don’t shoot him. In fact, don’t shoot anybody. It is 100% the wrong thing to do. In bits from today's papers, we chatted about the Phantom Litter Man, an anonymous modern day superhero. An unidentified man is going round East Yorkshire, donned in a makeshift, all black, costume consisting of hat, mask, bodysuit and cape and he picks litter up off the streets. He won’t talk to anyone or reveal his identity. He doesn’t appear to have any super powers, he is just, quite literally, a rubbish superhero. Cameron has gone to visit Obama in America and rather than get some work done, have a bit of a chat about, I dunno? – current events and what to do about them, things like wars, terrorism, natural disasters or the recent atrocities in Afghanistan, the first thing they did was go and watch a basketball game. After that they had a game of tennis and joked around with Cameron offering to teach Obama how to play cricket. Do some work! Play with your toys afterwards. Posted by Jennie at 1:43pm Lawns, Leeds Fest and Interviews...13th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Nick mowed his lawn last night. Him and his wife, Sarah, they have their Mum’s coming round on Mother’s Day this weekend and Nick reckons that he gets judged very harshly on the state of his garden by their parents. I, on the other hand, went to The Cockpit in Leeds last night with our Gav. We had been invited along as local media types because they were announcing the official Leeds Festival Line Up. A great event where we found out first that the headliners this year are The Cure, Kasabian and Foo Fighters. Other bands to play are Florence and the Machine, The Black Keys and Kaiser Chiefs. I am officially excited for August bank holiday weekend. Where’s that vile smelling, muddy little tent of mine? Let me at it! The Apprentice starts up again next week and so Nick was asking you for your funny job interview anecdotes. I reminisced about how, whilst at Uni, I applied for a weekend job as a cafe pot washer, i think they thought they were interviewing me for a much more profound vocation when they asked: “Tell us...who IS Jennie Lees? Who is she really?” “Well, she’s a girl who lives to spend her weekends washing pots to the best of her ability, that’s who.” I didn’t get the job. I have always wondered what sort of brilliant person did though. Nick then told us his anecdote, which, I’m afraid, is too rude to put in print here. I only hope you caught it live when you had the chance. Thanks for stopping by. See you tomorrow.*
*I won’t actually see you, but you know what I mean.
Posted by Jennie at 1:07pm Sunshine, Fat Midgets and Dumb Blondes...12th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Hope you all had a great weekend. The sun came out and reports of people having their very first barbecues of the year came in! (And when I say ‘people’ I mean ‘me’.) We kicked off the brand new Secret Sound this morning. It starts at £50 and goes up by £10 for every day that it’s not won. Gav recorded this latest sound, by the way. So when the jackpot is eventually won and the inevitable backlash begins - when we get accused of the sound sounding nothing like what it actually is - you know who to take your frustration out on. It’s gavin.rutter@strayfm.com More amazing Singing in the Shower took place today at 9:40am. Glenda won a lunch for two at the Hotel du Vin. She correctly guessed that the song Nick and I were singing was ‘Under Pressure’ by Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. God knows how she guessed it from the racket we made, but she did. Well done Glenda (who’s got a stinking cold at the moment, so get well soon and remember to drink plenty of fluids.) Nick mused that whenever people meet us they nearly always tell us that we don’t look like they imagined us to. One of the most common misconceptions is that people expect Nick to be taller and fatter (which is odd because he’s neither all that short nor that much overweight) and they don’t expect me to be blonde. We don’t know why this is, but it happens a lot. I guess it just proves that age old proverb; that you shouldn’t judge a radio deejay’s book by the sound of its cover. I think we can all learn a lot from that. Catch you again tomorrow. Have a great day and enjoy the sunshine.
Posted by Jennie at 11:02am Skills, Plots and Endless Love...9th March 2012 Get up to no good with Nick and Jen... TFI Friday! Great show today. Nick and I had a lot of laughs and loads of you got in touch, which is always appreciated. As always, we kicked off the show by relaying the main stories of the day. ‘Bits from the papers’ we call it - there’s some media jargon for you. The Queen began her Jubilee Tour yesterday and for some unknown reason thought that wearing a bright pink coat and matching top hat would be a good idea. The Duchess of Cambridge, thankfully, upped the style stakes by dressing like an Air Hostess from the 1940’s – she carried it off though, thanks to her hardy good looks. A council worker was awarded compensation because he slipped on some ice and injured himself whilst he was working. He was erecting warning signs urging people to take extra care in wintry conditions at the time of his accident. Good skills. #6wordfilmplots was trending on Twitter today, so we had some fun with that. Nick and I came up with a few of our own. Here are a few highlights, see if you can guess the films: Fitty lodges with load of smalls. Good news! Pregnant. Bad news. Satan. Big ship can’t sink. It sinks. I can’t bloody speak, wails heir. War breaks out. Horse runs around. Milf seduces college kid. Nice one. Student invents Facebook. It’s quite popular. Go fetch the bike, Elliot lad. Back, due to popular demand (allegedly), Nick and I did some more Singing in the Shower. (You guess the song. You go into a draw. Someone wins the prize.) Today’s prize was a bottle of champagne to enjoy in the bar at Hotel du Vin. Don’t mind if I do. Thank you very much. Today Nick and I performed a heart rending rendition of Endless Love. Get your lugholes around this. Just click on the link below and brace yourself, for it is a haunting performance liable to move you to tears, just as it did with our Gav. Posted by Jennie at 10:43am Substandard Metaphors, being told off and The Wanted...8th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... If today’s Breakfast Show was a car, we’d have been cruising along in about third gear. We were speeding along in fifth gear for about ten minutes in the 7 o’clock hour, but we stalled, metaphorically, at around 08:15. (I’m not keen on this car metaphor. I don’t think I’ll use it again.) Nick told us that he loves prisoners who listen to the radio, predominantly because they often don’t have a choice about the station they’re listening to. They are, quite literally, a captive audience. Nick was in prison once (not for committing a crime - they didn’t have enough evidence for that in the end - but because he was taking part in some sort of promotion). He reminisced about the prison cells being even smaller than Gav’s News Booth at Stray. Poor Gav, he has to shoehorn himself into that News Booth every twenty minutes to do the bulletins at Breakfast, and now - added to that indignity - he’s getting mocked for resembling Tom from Masterchef.
We did a bit of accidental slander this morning. It’s nothing to be proud of and our Producer was not very happy about it at all. Nick had to do a public retraction and I got berated off air. It might seem like this job is all about messing about and having a laugh (and a lot of the time, it is), but it’s alarming how quickly the laughter stops when you casually accuse public figures of things they (allegedly) haven’t done. Nick said that it makes no difference if I pre-fix statements with the word ‘allegedly’. That guy cracks me up! The big news today was the announcement that heartthrob boyband of the moment The Wanted are coming to Harrogate for one night only on Sunday 15th July. They are playing at the amazingly beautiful venue of Ripley Castle. Wow! Elton John and now The Wanted – can this summer in Yorkshire get any better? * *If you’re not fans of those musicians, I guess your answer is ‘yes it can’.
Posted by Jennie at 1:06pm Motley Crews, Beards and 'OH YEAH!'7th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Nick fell in with a bad crowd when he was at Boston Grammar School and he places the blame firmly on the broad shoulders of his fellow pupil Ryan Motley. According to Nick, his boyhood chum, let's call him Motters, had a full beard by the time he was 12 and was once told by the headmaster to go home at lunchtime and shave. ("I don't care if you miss Rosie and Jim, Motley. Get the Remmington out.") Nick was reminded of that anecdote because of the story in today’s papers about how scientific research found that women aren’t keen on men having beards. Oh really? You don't say? Well, they needn’t have spent too much time and money on that experiment. Ask any sane, red blooded woman if she finds beards attractive and you’ll get only one answer: “HELL, YEAH!” Just take a look at these glorious beardy specimens and tell me I’m wrong. Thanks for stopping by. You stay classy.
Posted by Jennie at 10:39am The Smiths, binning stuff and bizarre backlashes...6th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Nick told us today that his Mrs, the lovely Sarah, has a habit of surreptitiously throwing away items of his that she's not keen on. The latest item to have been binned is his green Smiths t-shirt. Nick explained that this is usually a drawn out process. For instance, the Smiths T-Shirt Saga went like this: At some point Nick realised that he hadn’t seen his t-shirt for a while. He casually asked Sarah if she’d seen it, she saed that she hadn't seen it recently (not a lie because she hadn't seen it recently, due to the fact that she'd binned it ages ago). Then Nick might start idly looking for it. When it becomes evident that he's started actively searching for it, then he’ll be told to just forget about it, it's suggested that he might have left it somewhere (not a lie because he might have left it somewhere if it hadn’t have ended up in the bin). At some point Sarah will confess that she has a vague recollection of throwing it out because it was a)past its best b) didn’t suit him anyway and/or c) makes her sick whenever he wears it because it is such a revolting garment. Now, as bad as this might sound, perhaps it’ll make you feel better to know that virtually every woman does this when she’s in a relationship. We had some pretty funny responses when we asked: Which item of your partners would you most like to get rid of? John: My wife’s house keys. Mandy: A hideous pair of terry towelling, skin coloured shorts. Shelley: His way too big check shirt that makes him look like a square with legs. Jodie: His annoying ex girlfriend. We’ll be introducing a brand new Secret Sound over the next few days, so stand by for the chance to win more money. I’m rather glad that this one’s gone to be honest. (It was the sound of Nick checking his engine oil with a dipstick.) The more money it accumulated (the winnings go up by £10 per day if it’s not won) the bigger the crazed backlash seemed to become, with cries of: “It’s a con!” “This Secret Sound is the bane of my life.” “Just give the money to charity.” “It sounds nothing like that! I’ve checked!” “I’m so damn sick of hearing this infernal two second noise clip that it’s threatening to ruin my entire life. My health, my peace of mind and everything I’ve worked for is in jeopardy because of your despicable competition.” * See you guys in the morning. You stay classy Yorkshire. *I might have exaggerated the last complaint, but the others are verbatim.
Posted by Jennie at 11:25am Number Ones, Ping Pong and The Groover from Vancouver...5th March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... This morning Nick and I revealed that UKRD, our parent company has been voted the No.1 mid-sized company to work for in the UK for the second year running! The Sunday Times officially published the results yesterday. Amazing news, we’re all very happy here at Stray FM. We couldn’t do it without you, we really couldn’t, we’d just be talking to ourselves if it wasn’t for you, so thanks for listening. Continuing the ‘great achievements’ theme – Nick and I then talked about some of our own personal achievements. Nick’s was that he was the No.1 table tennis champion at his Primary School when he was a nipper. Mine was that I came first in a Michael Jackson dancing contest on a family camping holiday when I was about 10. (I might have been 15, but I don’t believe there’s any photographic evidence of this still in existence, so I’m sticking with 10.) The Secret Sound didn’t go at Breakfast...again. I was so certain that it’d go this morning. (It ended up going in Alex’s show at 12:05 today. Well done Laura, enjoy spending your £1200. I’m told that the only other thing you won through Stray FM was a Bryan Adams CD many years ago, so you deserve a decent prize for a change. See you guys tomorrow, have a lovely day, the sun is shining at the time of writing. Spring has most definitely sprung. Happy days. Posted by Jennie at 1:57pm Engelbert Humperdinck, Big Money and Soundchecks...2nd March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... On today’s show Nick and I were banging on about Engelbert Humperdinck. For some unknown reason he’s been chosen to represent us in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Nevermind that he’s 75 years old and forget that he hasn’t had a top ten hit since 1969, he’s the perfect candidate. I can’t believe that we didn’t think of this sooner. Like, in 1969, for instance. Joking aside, Nick and I think he’s a great guy and this is a great idea. It’s not like anyone really takes this competition seriously is it? And even if we did, it’s not like we’d ever stand a chance of winning anyway, given the blatant political agenda.* We were convinced that the Secret Sound was going to go on the breakfast show this morning, but it didn’t. We’re so close to someone winning it now though. I would be very surprised if we’re still on the same sound after today. The winnings currently stand at £1,190. OMG. Finally, the latest Soundcheck survey is up and running as of today, so we were going on about that. It’ll run for a couple of weeks so get in there quickly and get your opinions on the music we play noted. You have no reason to dislike the songs you hear on Stray FM because you can directly influence our playlists. Have a great weekend. We’ll see you on the other side, bright and early on Monday morning. Stay classy Yorkshire. *That’s what one of our listeners said. (Although, we wholeheartedly agree.)
Posted by Jennie at 1:26pm Rudding, Telepathy and Hacking...1st March 2012 Get up to no good in the morning with Nick and Jen... Dry your eyes. There wasn’t a breakfast blog yesterday because Nick and I didn’t do a breakfast show yesterday. We, along with nearly everyone else who works at Stray FM, were at Rudding Park for the day doing presentations for, and entertaining, clients. Safe Hands Freelancer - Mike Nicholson, stood in for us and did his usual sterling job. Thanks Mike. Nick and I were back with a vengeance today though and as if by magic, we arrived at work dressed in some sort of unofficial uniform. Telepathy or coincidence? You decide. (Though, you’d be 100% wrong if you decided that it was telepathy.) With the news that James Murdoch has transferred to New York in a bid to distance himself even further from the phone hacking scandal, Nick and I did our Rupert Murdoch ‘this is the most humble day of my life’ impression at least 30 times in tribute. Each time we said it, it got more exaggerated, until, by the end of the show, the impression didn’t even resemble a human being saying words. It was just in indecipherable noise. We found it amusing anyway. So that someone could win something in a competition, we did another ‘singing in the shower’ a club-style duet, (where to win, you have to correctly guess the song Nick and I are singing). Today’s rendition of Especially For You was delightful and we meant every word of it. (Except for the bit where it says ‘if dreams were wings, you know, I would have flown to you’ because a dream is about as far away from being a wing as it’s possible to get.) Tomorrow is Friday and that can mean only one thing: the possibility that tomorrow’s show will be marginally above average. So hold on to your trollies and tune in! Or just tune in. Or don’t. Whatever. You have yourself a great day!
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