ABFM

Episode 30: Climbing Mountains And Killing Nazis

abfm — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:22:03 +0000

365ish days later ABFM in a non sports fantasy manifestation returns! I still haven't had to cycle to work in the snow yet. Given the recent weather it's more surprising that I haven't had to scuba to work yet. Shitty weather jokes aside you may struggle to understand me. That's because I seem to have an issue with my voice. It doesn't work. No idea why. It doesn't hurt or anything. It's probably cancer. If there's no Christmas episode next year it's because I died of throat cancer despite never having smoked in my life. Ah irony. Playlist August Burns Red - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Run The Jewels - A Christmas Fucking Miracle Teen Top - Snow Kisses Kenny Chesney - All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan Liam Lynch - My United States Of Whatever <-- Lukes Yesteryear Martin Garrix - Animals In Christmas (DJ Florum Remix) Amarna Reign - Black Christmas BR1GHT PR1MATE - JOY2WRLD Hark! Are those the dulcet tone of DMX I hear?

Fantacast #7

abfm — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:23:21 +0000

Another slightly longer one after missing last week. All 3 of your standard hosts return though the clarity of Adam is a little shabby. Damn you internet! This week we chat. Scores, predictions and damn immigrants taking real American jobs.

Fantacast #6

abfm — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:35:13 +0000

Stoo and Matt again as the team utterly fail to organise themselves for one night a week. Potential hot topic of the month (Kangerlussuaq Victory) is barely touched... unlike a certain Eastern European lady friend last week. PSYCH! In other news the Fantasy Soccer is still going apparently as is the Pick Em.

Fantacast #5

abfm — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:19:42 +0000

The long awaited Wembley Special Edition Fantacast finally arrives. I say special edition because that makes it seem like it will be worth it. Mostly I just forgot to edit and post the thing. It is an hour long though to cover the week missed when we were at Wembley. This week we are joined by Matt to talk about his first experience of NFL Wembley and Scott to compare this years experience with last year. Long sentence. We also chat about who is terrible, Matts preference in female associates, a Kicker who only Adam will have heard of ideas for improving the league next season as well as briefly bemoaning the loss of EU Grifball. Scott also provides some sound effects.

Fantacast #4

abfm — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:47:26 +0100

Adam is back this week. He's dumping some BREAKING NEWS on us, though you will need to wait for a while before he drops it. As per usual we talk NFL, Premiership Fusball and also cycling. Particularity Matt's woeful cycling performances this summer. Later in the episode we sack it off and start talking youtube.

Fantacast #3

abfm — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:35:53 +0100

This week Nav stops by to tell us about her gross leg. Matt challenges Old Rich to a poetry slam and Taco struggles with Bot controlled teams. If we had a sponsor we would maybe mention it. But probably not because that shits lame. Besides we aren't corporate sell outs! Kanye West is a moron.

Fantacast #2

abfm — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:06:02 +0100

This week includes record breakers, music reviews, Cake vs Bortles, how to Irish, hot transfer news and Fantasy Soccerball. This week also features a distinct lack of Fuck Brady.

Fantacast #1

abfm — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:10:40 +0100

This is going out to the 12 members of the Beetle Vale American Football Fantasy League. The greatest American Football Fantasy League going. If your not in it get over it. We've decided to try some sports discussion revolving around fantasy potential and screw ups. This was the first time recording more than 2 people at once. As a result my levels were a little duff and I sort of warp in and out. It will be done properly next time. Intro - NFaiL by TrucksOvertakingTrucks

Episode 29: The Smiling Man

abfm — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:43:14 +0000

These years. They wear on me. Did you know I cycle to work now? That's a thing I do. Still waiting for it to snow to see how I cope with that. Fortunately that hasn't happened yet. I know it's not impossible but living in South East Cambridge as opposed to say Quebec the chances of snow disruption to my commute are severely reduced. Even if it did snow it would be British snow so it wouldn't be a hassle anyway. Eoin, I didn't get a parcel from your mother yet. Is something wrong? Playlist: August Burns Red - Little Drummer Boy The Brett Domino Trio - Everybody Needs To Know It's Christmas Crayon Pop - Lonely Christmas X-Mas Allstars Ft. Fab - Last Christmas 2010 (Solid Sleep Remix) It Dies Today - Feliz Navidad The Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia <-- Lukes Yesteryear Vim - When A Child Is Born

Episode 28: Batshit Chatrooms Of Doggerland

abfm — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:59:45 +0000

During one of the breaks I took whilst recording this episode I idly looked at the mouse I use with my laptop and realised it's the same one I've had since 2010. 4 Years is a long time to have a mouse. That reminded me that 2015 will be the 10 year anniversary of the formation of Alexander Beetle. The band for whom ABFM is named... That's something isn't it, that means there have been 9 solid years of references to Eoins mom!

Episode 27: Holes In The Moon

abfm — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:17:41 +0100

There are times when you know something historic went down and you wish you could have been there when the person who first suggested something epic did it. Like that one time someone was in a board room somewhere and said "People, listen. This gun has to fly. I know that we don't have an aircraft it will fit into so we build an aircraft around it". That was quite some time ago and the A10 is now being forcibly retired due to American budget cuts. A more recent example of this would be another meeting in another board room. The genius stands up... "People, listen. We dress everybody up to look like Hank Marvin, even a dog. Stay with me guys, stay with me. Then we get Danny Dyer to narrate it". They couldn't even stand up to applaud. Ears bled.

Episode 26: Victoria At Paddington

abfm — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:49:44 +0000

You probably won't have noticed but we have now switched the naming format of our episodes. That would be because we ran out of chapters for the book we were using. A long time ago we ran a competition where the winner would choose the new book to use for the episodes... no one entered so now that we've hit that point I just pulled out a book at random. So welcome to our new book Ack-Ack Macaque. Merry Fucking Christmas.

Episode 25: Crippled – Agent Tattletale

abfm — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:52:02 +0000

You know what winds me up? When people write “I never know what to put in these” in the bio section of a social network page. Though of late I haven’t seen much of that. Maybe it’s an age thing. Maybe the fact that nobody reads bios any more so no one bothers to even write that. All I know is I always bother to write something in here. It’s really easy too. You just mumble something that at least is vaguely correct structurally and then list the songs that appear in the episode. Though the fact that MS Word is throwing a load of green lines under lots of the above text would indicate the structure is not as good as I had hoped… No need to worry about that now though, we’re at the song listing part!

Episode 24: Speaking Bitterness – Comrade Snarky

abfm — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:35:11 +0000

I was going to get my Wife a Valentines gift this year. We don't normally do this because why should. I don't get here anything for the rest of the year so why should the 14th of February be any different? What I was going to get her was a really nice box and then fill it full of leaves. Then when she opened it and saw it she would go "What the fuck is this?" and I would go "I got that Bitch some leaves, cus Bitches love leaves" then I would have taken a photo like I did with that Burnt Face Man photo I took when she burnt her face. Apparently I'm going to pay for that. Going back to the leaves it seems my plan was foiled when I forgot that there are no leaves on the trees until like June. I really hate the South. Oh and Eoin, your mother is exempt from the buying shit on this day, there should be a bloke from InterFlora coming by at some point ;-) Playlist: Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is. The Mitchell Brothers - She's Got It All Wrong 3 Colours Red - Desensitise Taken By Trees - Sweet Child 'O Mine Slightly Offensive Steve - The C*** Song Gangstagrass - On The Run Astronautilis - Dimitri Mendeleev The Blow - Parentheses The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside The J. Arthur Keenes Band - Cluck

Episode 23: Product Placement - Chef Assassin

abfm — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:59:41 +0000

Not as regular as the ABFM Christmas special or Eoins mom coming round my house but never-the-less still vastly important. The ABFM awards enters a second year and identifies almost none of what 2012 had to offer. I was looking for a good Ice Hockey advert and couldn't find any for this year. Then I remembered the season got locked out this year, just like the NFL reffs. You know who didn't get locked out? Ski Jumpers.

Episode 22: Civil Twilight - Sister Vigilante

abfm — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:28:23 +0000

3 days ago today I thought about making today’s episode. Today I made today’s episode. I’m proud of this continuing distribution of telling you what I like. By the way I’ve been drinking Gin, podcast production works best this way. This episode is mostly Rock orientated. I Googled “Country and Western Christmas songs” but then closed the tab when I realized I could also Google “Enormous Boobs” So I did that instead. Jingle bells indeed.

Episode 21: Ritual - The Matchmaker

abfm — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:21:53 +0000

10 months is a long time to go without an episode of ABFM. It might be more or less but that is the figure I'm settling on. But really you know whose fault it is? Yours. Literally less than 1 email containing nude photos of yourselves advertising your favourite podcast/radio show appeared in our inbox. Where's the motivation for us eh? Just be glad I found the Gangnam remix which appears at the end of the episode, that got me in the mood for sharing again... You do know that in the actual video the person dancing in yellow is a woman right?

Episode 20: Punch Drunk - Reverend Godless

abfm — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:16:44 +0000

I recently videoed a mug. Several weeks prior I videoed a trio of dancing moose. I once gave a speech about the plurality of a moose and now for the life of me I cannot remember what the official verbatim is, other than it's not meese. These is all a clever link into Christmas. You see it? No? Here I'll spell it: Mug -> Moose -> Canada -> Snow -> White Christmas. Now whilst I've kept you distracted with that I've pilfered your stocking. You didn't need any of that trash anyway. Just what I've left in it's place. A great big, steaming pile of ABFM Christmas episode.

Episode 19: Exodus - Director Denial

ABFM — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:42:05 +0000

Remember how we promised to upload a bunch of episodes all in one go? Well we only recorded two and forgot to upload the second (this) one after uploading the first. Well now we remembered so here it is. Though if you are downloading this any time in the future other than now this doesn't really matter. Get over yourself.

Episode 18: Post Production - Mrs Clarke

abfm — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:51:47 +0000

So internet has returned to ABFM. Though if were honest. This doesn't necessarily mean that ABFM will be any more frequent. Just that we can't use a lack of internet as an excuse for a lack of itself. Anyway, an episode. Playlist: Ashes Divide - The Stone Dirt Bike Annie - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things Oh Atoms - Sugar Mouse Mollies Way - The Great Deciever And I Looked And Beheld A Pale Horse... - From Here I Can See The Stars Pagan Wanderer Lu - Memorial Hall <-- Lukes Loved RushJet1 - Our Revolution Gramaphonzie - Why Don't You AnBerlin - A Whisper And A Clamour Radical Face - Welcome Home

Episode 17: Ambition - The Duke Of Vandals

abfm — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:51:18 +0100

Before I forget, in the rush of revealing the big announcement that will be revealed about [redacted] through this episode. I forgot to mention that Eoin Redmond Vs. The World (the biographical series following Liviter Eoin around the Far East and Australasia) is available on both youtube and facebook. Do you think gay/lesbian people get turned on by their own bodies? In Soviet Russia ABFM turns on you.

Episode 16: Dog Years - Brandon Whittier

abfm — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:42:03 +0100

ABFM's well documented Speech Impediment was ultimately controlled, if not eliminated, through the unorthodox therapy techniques of a half Australian, half British, half German guy in a suit. It is because of this miracle of alternative medicine that ABFM was able to lead its country though 6 long years of war to final victory.

Episode 15: Swan Song - The Earl Of Slander

abfm — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:36:02 +0100

Link Dump: Categories: Film, TV Show, Trailer, Game, Advert, Soundtrack/Score, Book, Website that isn’t Beetlevale.co.uk, Car, Mindfuck, ABFM Track Film: 1. Iron Man 2 2. The Social Network 3. Unstoppable 4. Tron: Legacy “because the other movies were not as good” * 5. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World TV Show 1. Top Gear 2. Chuck * 3. The Big Bang Theory 4. Big Fat Gypsy Weddings Trailer: 1. A Town Called Panic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY55bTlZJEE) 2. Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4) “The trailer managed to gain my interest without spoiling the ending” * 3. Fallout: New Vegas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlDxPsJp7I) 4. Portal 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tax4e4hBBZc) Game: 1. Halo: Reach "best all round gaming package, even if the campaign was a bit disappointing" * 2. Limbo 3. Mass Effect 2 4. Fallout: New Vegas Advert: 1. History Of Celebration (Coca Cola - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3Q54rPjQw&NR=1) 2. The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Old Spice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE) * 3. The Specs Effect (Specsavers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89xAXHd2l8) 4. There's A Soldier In All Of Us (Call of Duty: Black Ops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pblj3JHF-Jo) 5. Adam/Jane Pregnant (BT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5bkniCUAow) 6. Social Networking (Fosters - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPgSa9djYU8) 7. Kevin Bacon Fan (Logitech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQb192-CPQ) Soundtrack/Score: 1. The Social Network “Apparently it has Radiohead, I like that and I like trent reznor, It beats Scott Pilgrim narrowly” * 2. Tron: Legacy 3. Halo: Reach 4. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Book 1. Room - Emma Donoghue 2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery. 3. Pop Co. - Scarlett Thomas * 4. A Week In December - Sebastian Faulks 5. The Fry Chronicles – Stephen Fry Website That Isn't beetlevale.co.uk 1. Failblog – (http://failblog.org/) 2. BBC – (http://www.bbc.co.uk/) 3. XKCD - (http://xkcd.com/) * 4. Twitter – (http://twitter.com/) Car 1. The Daimler Super Eight 2. The Infiti G Convertible 3. The 2010 Hummer H3 4. The 2010 Fiat Multipla - "It's ugly. It's slow. It's badly made. It's Italian. But it will carry 7 people. And that makes it a winner." * Mindfuck 1. A Town Called Panic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY55bTlZJEE) * 2. Inception 3. Paul the Octopus 4. Vuvuzela ABFM Track: 1. HeeHaa HooHaa - Whiskey 2. Ricardo Autobahn - The Golden Age Of Video “It reminds me of the Cuban Boys” * 3. Birds Of Wales - Cinderella (Has Nothing On You) 4. Emie - My Thoughts 5. Jim's Big Ego - The Ballad Of Barry Allen

Episode 14: Slumming - Lady Baglady

abfm — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:03:05 +0100

Website design is tricky for somebody who doesn't know how to do it. I know what HTML is and certain codes. Kind of like how people know how to say "Please" or "Goodnight" in Spanish. Although to be honest you don't need to know those words because the people you are saying it to are foreign and should learn English. I find knowing how to put a space between paragraphs is probably more useful. All that being said the ABFM website cannot be built on 'paragraph space' and 'bold lettering' alone. So episode 4 of ABFM will not be the first one hosted on a new website.

Episode 13: Green Room - Miss America

abfm — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:31:35 +0100

Take a look around your most Christmas-ised room. I'm sensing that amongst the glamorous decorations with flashing lights, high quality paint work, and delicate materials is something cheap, tacky and fairly ugly. This Christmas episode of ABFM is dedicated to that Christmas decoration.

Episode 12: Foot Work - Mother Nature

abfm — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:23:00 +0100

I was once sat at a drive-through. I was trying to be funny, you know you pull up and the dude goes in that horrible tinny voice "Welcome to this fast food franchise what can I get you?" and so I'm like "Dude is this machine running?" and the chump at the other end is like "errrr..." and I yell "WELL YOU HAD BETTER FUCKING CATCH IT THEN!!!" then you stop your foot down and zoom off going "lololololololol". Except you don't because Episode 2 has nicked your car and already gone. So you're left standing in a drive-through and the guy you just pranked throws a milkshake at you.

Episode 11: Guts - Saint Gut Free

abfm — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:11:55 +0100

I was one of the first in the UK to see The Expendables and my god I don't know what it was. But I'm pretty sure Sly ripped all of his ideas for that film from ABFM I mean we did the whole shooting down a helicopter with a shotgun two years ago. I'm also fairly certain that the idea of assembling a crack team of Hollywood action heroes was done in the Download special. That said the film did have one original idea. So were going to rip that from it. Fair is fair... This is how it starts...

ABFM In Limbo

abfm — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:25:17 +0100

A long time ago in a country far, far away the beginnings of the final episode of ABFM Season 1 was started. Then technology stepped up and went "Oh sorry that seems convenient and something you would like to achieve. We'll have to sort that out" and took away the episode. People were frustrated, 3s in fact wrote written complaints about the lack of Eoin's mom jokes in their lives. So here for you dear listener we present an interim, intermediary, indeterminate, in limbo episode of your favorite radio station of all time. Season 1 can't be finished so Season 2 can't be started.

Episode 9: Wading In MIDI

abfm — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:17:52 +0100

So there I was sitting underneath a star when a second one appeared. The star gradual grew in size until I realised it was rushing towards me and that rather than being a celestial object it was in fact a godly one. There before me stood an angel who offered to me 1 gift. I did not need to think I knew exactly what I wanted. I asked for that wish no one else could have, that which no one else could dream of. The angel thought for a moment and then departed telling me what I asked would take more than a moments thought to come up with. 7 Days later he returned bring with him Episode 9.

Episode 8: All Kinds Of Other Instruments

abfm — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:05:29 +0100

See a pretty lady and tip your hat to her for a kiss. See an ugly politician and throw a lead brick at him wrapped up in Episode 8 of ABFM.

ABFM Download 2009 Special

ABFM — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:56:14 +0100

I been to mushroom mountain, Once or twice but who's countin', But nothing compares, To these blue and yellow purple ABFM Download Specials.

Episode 7: No More Drummer Jokes, Please!

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:14:07 +0100

Knock Knock… Whose there? HIGH FIVE TO THE FACE! But seriously, now that you’ve wiped your face clean I’ve got some news for you, I was just going through some old filling cabinets and HIGH FIVE TO THE FACE AGAIN! In due course you will possibly learn to see it coming but in all honesty you probably won’t. Not when ABFM is so extreme and hardcore and in your face, HIGH FIVING YOUR FACE! Yeah like that. LIKE THAT IN YOUR FACE! Cool story Bro.

ABFM SXSW 2009 Special

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:08:32 +0100

Hows this for some Golden Nuggets? You've heard about the he says, she says right? Well what they're all talking about is this. The newest podcast to give you the biggest headache yet. And whose that putting the crowbar in your earhole? That's right. A dual presentation. Get your follicles round this one.

Episode 6: Getting The Guitar Sound

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:03:37 +0100

Oi! You in the Corner! Yeah you! What are you doing? You don't know! Are you not aware that there is currently serious business underway? ARE YOU NOT! Well Douglas Bader is and he has no legs and doesn't afraid of anything! So you better damn well get in the know! We call it episode 6 of ABFM!

Episode 5: Keyboards And Synths

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:57:42 +0100

There was once a time when there was nothing. Before this time was Episode 4 then you listen to it and what else is there to do? NOTHING! In response the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster has seen fit to provide Episode 5. Actually I lie. No flying pasta did anything. It was all me and I am the focus of your attention. Especially for the next hour. So now there is something. You should probably listen because there will otherwise be nothing until next time.

Episode 4: Listen To You

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:54:23 +0100

Just like how every old East-Asian man is actually a Ninja master ABFM is back again with more crap metaphors, more references to Eoins mom and a hint of really bad concepts. Will Anna return next episode after the mistreatment in this one? Will Luke ever like decent music. Will Eoin ever provide a retaliation for the continual ribbing? None of these questions can be answered since you’ve not even listened to episode 4 yet let alone episode 5.

Episode 3: Assembling Your Digital Studio

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:47:41 +0100

BOOM! ABFM back with a vengeance! Got your tampons strapped in? Good, ‘cus you’ll need em. Where is Microsoft Mary you ask? Gone until people want to know what comes after rule number 5 we say. Right nuff speaking. Load this Lumberjack up and spray sawdust everywhere!

Episode 2: Choosing Your Space

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:42:31 +0100

Due to BT bringing major fail and suck episode 2 of ABFM is shorter by half an hour. This episode has been uploaded from the great state of Minnesota and is brought to you by the US Airforce.

Episode 1: So You Want To Be A Star?

ABFM — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:35:33 +0100

The first episode of ABFM. The show includes news, sport, the rules of the internet and more. The set list is as follows: 1. Our New Hospital Sucks - Pagan Wanderer Lu 2. I Hear You Calling - Gob 3. Rent A Wreck - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names 4. You Are A Conductor - The Constantines 5. Salvation For A Broken Heart - Nullsleep 6. Luminous - Hall 7. Tribe - Mad Capsule Markets 8. Just For Tonight - One Night Only <– Luke Loaths 9. Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go) - Dierks Bentley 10. The Dance One - The Blue Collars <– Conks Pick of the Week 11. Fight The System - Crazy Anglos 12. Still Alive - Jonathon Coultan