The Friday Night Experiment on Stafford FM

Jay Eames

Jay Eames

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Hi one and all,

I thought it was about time we let you know about a new(ish) show on Stafford FM that you might not have been aware of. It's called "The Friday Night Experiment", and is hosted by myself and the "lab rats" (albeit singular rat at the moment - Chris). This week will be our fourth glorious broadcast, and we have already been extended from 2 to 3 hours!

We are on from 10pm until 1am each and every Friday, and we bring a light hearted look on news and events in Stafford and world wide. So far we have covered topics ranging from the local "Top Totty" beer story to ridiculous Japanese Urinal Video Games ...

The eventual aim is to be a show more driven by our listeners than us, and we actively encourage listener interaction - hence my post here. When we are on air, you can interact by the usual phone/voicemail/text/e-mail/facebook, but people can also contact the show during the week if they want to leave us a story they want us to look at.

We are also looking for people to interview each week. If anyone feels they have an interesting or strange hobby or profession and would like us to interview you on the show then please give us a message. We hope to kick that off on next weeks show - tune in tonight for more info!

As I mentioned above, there is only one "lab rat" at the moment, and we would love to find another one or two to join us to balance things out. Preferably female, purely because we do not think there are enough ladies on the station at the moment, and we'd like to readdress the balance! If anyone is interested then please give me a shout.

Anyway, if you are bored and looking for something to do on a Friday night then please give us a listen. It's like car-crash TV ... only much much worse ... and on your radio!
 
Mrmat

Mrmat

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Hi Jay,

I'm matt that used to work with you!
(the tall one)

Is Stafford fm on actual fm yet? Also, how does one become a lab rat?
 
Withnail

Withnail

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I have been paintballing exactly once (at the old Greenham Common airbase, which was very cool), and have done the lazer-stylee one exactly once also (more prosaically at Centre Parcs).

What the latter lacks is a true sense of peril and fear. Also, with paintballing you know where the f**kers are firing from as the 'bullets' whizz past your head, upping the fear, granted, but at least giving you an idea of where the 'enemy' are. With the lazer whatsit you don't have a clue - next thing you know you're dead.
 
Andreas Rex

Andreas Rex

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I've just tuned in and am still finding it confusing hearing things about Stafford mentioned fairly often (compared to national stations) and now hearing Chris's voice WHEN I CAN'T SEE HIS FACE! Some would consider that a bonus...

Looking forward to hearing your random banter chaps!
 
Withnail

Withnail

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It is a possibly littler, these days, known fact that one of the more common cravings of pregnant women used to be to eat coal.

I say used to be coz it's not so readily to hand these days - whether pregnant women go out of their way to procure it is, as far as i'm aware, an understudied phenomenon.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Women proposing on the 29th are more than likely to be thin on the ground - open the question up to the entire world and i'd be willing to bet you'd get no more than two.

Proposals and weddings are perhaps not the very last bastion of gender divided roles but the walls hold strong. I went to a wedding (coincidentally, of the couple to whom i had gone paintballing at Greenham Common on the Stag 'do' of the Groom) where the Bride insisted on giving a speech as part of the after-dinner run of things. Not for her just sitting back and listening to the men puffing their chests out, she'd thought, Strong Woman that she is, My voice deserves to be heard. She dissolved into tears about two minutes into her speech, saying, and i paraquote, "there's a reason there isn't a 'Bride's Speech' isn't there".

I'm not for one moment suggesting that women really should leave the whole 'proposal' business to the male of the species but really, women should leave the whole 'proposal' business to the male of the species: there is no place for emotion, marriage is a serious business proposal.
 
Jay Eames

Jay Eames

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Well, I hope you enjoyed the show tonight, and thank you to all of you that tuned in. Hopefully we haven't put you off from tuning in next week as well!

Sorry we couldn't read out all of your messages, but rest assured they were read an appreciated!
 
Jay Eames

Jay Eames

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Hi Guys,

We have another cracking show lined up for tonight.

We have the usual round up of the crazy stories from around the globe, Chris has another rant, the usual chicken update etc ...

This week, we also have some guests on the show ... tune in tonight to find out more!

Don't forget that we welcome your input as always! I hope you can join us.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Now that he's got all that money, right, what that guy who won the lottery, right, should do, right, is get someone to plant an explosive charge in Eyjafjallajokull, you get me, while he's in Magaluf, right, and he'll get an extra week's holiday for free.

Innit?
 
Withnail

Withnail

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What about a Twitter 'Paranormal Orb Liminal Location Observational Controlled Kinetic Site'?

If not solely confined to observations of the paranormal it could be sited in Burslem.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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One can't help but note that your 'how can you get in touch' shout-outs have dropped the forum as a way to do so.

I'm sorry if my attempts to get involved are not welcome - i promise not to do it again - somebody else more welcome might do so, though, so don't give up on it entirely.
 
Jay Eames

Jay Eames

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The shout outs haven't dropped the forums as such. We were just a little remiss in our mentioning them due to distractions of a technical nature, for which I apologise. Yours and anyone elses inout on here is welcomed and apreciated i can assure you. For various reasons of which i will not go into right now, we were struggling to get updates to the studio tonight. I can only apologise.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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If you were to apologise for anything, surely it should be for the choice of 'special' guest?

I had thought that having 'Experiment' in the title, and involving 'lab-rats', the show would be free of the kind of nonsense encountered elsewhere on the station. Are we to expect more Ghostballs next week?
 
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Withnail said:
If you were to apologise for anything, surely it should be for the choice of 'special' guest?

I had thought that having 'Experiment' in the title, and involving 'lab-rats', the show would be free of the kind of nonsense encountered elsewhere on the station. Are we to expect more Ghostballs next week?
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Got up in the wrong side of bed this morning, Withnail? ;)
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Tee hee.

I don't wish to appear harsh, and i certainly don't think Jay Eames has anything to apologise for. I like to 'turn on, tune in and crap spout' for a bit of the old solidarnosc. Perhaps i have misinterpreted the intentions of the show, but it did seem a bit odd that Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd were the 'special' guests - it's not like 'Ghostbusting' and 'Alternative Therapeutical' mumbus jumbus (to give it it's Latin name) is underrepresented in other shows on the station.

It would appear i'm in a minority in being fantastically bored by this particular branch of nonsense, but that's cool - if that's what people want, then i suppose you'd better give them it. I hadn't thought that this was that kind of show. It may even have not been, i kind of 'zone out' when listening to people like that and started looking at other things, so it was only in my peripheral 'vision' - on the upside i now have a better understanding of steam flooding as a method of oil extraction.

In conclusion, no offence either meant or taken TFNE (as the cool kids are now calling it :)), and good luck with the show.
 
Jay Eames

Jay Eames

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Back to normality tonight guys ... no guests, just the usual fun and f rollicks!

As always, we have the Rant of the Week and the Chicken Update, as well as probably insulting some countries along the way. We will have our usual text-in subjects (though of course it doesn't have to be sent by text!), a Fashion section, Crazy Councils, Facebook Fopars and much much more.

As always, we look forward to your company.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Chuck Long is just the best name for a Quarterback, and Misty Hyman is perhaps a hitherto unknown side-effect of swimming butterfly - surely the most pointless of all strokes.

The chap who oversaw my driving test passed me the paperwork to sign underneath where he had signed - his name was A Jellyman. It had been rather tense, and i nearly lost it, but managed to bite my cheek hard enough to see it through, fearful that he might change his mind if i laughed at his name
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Re. the passport story malarky - the fitness of a referee to countersign a passport photo is not adjudged on whether they have a 'proper' job, but whether they have a position of some social standing - essentially whether they can be trusted when they say that the person in the photo is who they say they are.

Given that actors, by their very nature, spend their working lives pretending to be someone they are not, it could be argued that they are possibly not the most trustworthy of individuals.

Just saying, like.
 
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