Welcome to episode 263 of Erk Pod. As this episode is the final Erk Pod episode for the month, it is also a feedback episode.
- It is also close enough to the 3 year anniversary of Erk podcasting and Erk Pod so this episode will also celebrate that milestone.
- There was a big news story that will probably affect Erk at work (insert usual work disclaimer here)
- Shawno submitted a story about boobs
- Is spitting on a bus driver an assault? New York Transit authorities are looking at the issue.
- Ian submitted a story about the same train being involved in fatalities several hours apart
- Housekeeping
- There’s feedback from Shawno, Jen, Jennymaid, Ethan & Albert.
- MUSIC: I’ve Got Your Number – Cupero
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Welcome to episode 229 of Erk Pod. On this episode:
- Housekeeping
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 1: Man distracted, ends up in lake
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 2: Cat’s death leads to human death rumour
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 3: Man turns up to his own funeral
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 4: Erk’s Security Alert
- Drunk woman has lucky escape
- Spilled drink leads to evacuation
- Erk’s security alert
- Erk FM Song of the Week: When Will It End? - Erica Shine
- Special Song: Erk’s latest transition music. Greensleeves -What Child Is This? / I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In by Christmas At The Devil’s House
- Erk’s day at the Races
- Homebush derailment report (OTSI report – 4MB PDF)
- Feedback from Shawno re Erk Pod 228
- Feedback from Jennymaid re Erk Pod 227
- Feedback from David van Sunder re Erk Pod 227
- Erk’s Podcast Novel update
Thanks to Trucker Tom & Jennymaid for the Peanut of the Week Nominations and extra content.
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Episode Info
Duration: 82 minutes
Welcome to episode 226 of Erk Pod. In this episode:
- Judy update
- Housekeeping!
- Nannapoopoo
- Earworms
- Erk’s podcast novel debut - Dead Hunt by Kenn Crawford
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 1: Not safe if you are eating, a lawyer or on a jury
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 2: HSC students cry in exam & student reactions
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 3: Carjacker has transmission FAIL
- Erk FM Song of the Week: Bang! – Pulso (Columbia)
- Audio comment from Scott re Erk Pod 223
- Feedback from David van Sunder re Erk Pod 225
- Erk’s appearance on Dr Normal’s Nannapoopoo show Crazy Talk
- Feedback from Shawno re Erk Pod 225
- Schools hunt cheating parents
- Podcast of the Week: Portland Sucks
- Halloween is awesome? ORLY?
- Melbourne Cup is awesome? ORLY?
Contact
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Episode Info
Duration: 111 minutes
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 222. In this episode:
- Vegemite 2.0
- New CityRail timetable coming soon!
- Nannapoopoo?
- What do you say when you go to the toilet?
- Echo Romeo Kilo is coming back!
- Channel Erk 24/7
- AMPed New Music Weekly episode 200
- “The plane is going to crash but that’s ok!” – thanks Gem aka @snarkattack for the French!
- NBA bans Twitter
- Feedback from Shawno re Erk Pod 220
- Feedback from Jen re Erk Pod 221
- Feedback from Jennymaid re Erk Pod 221
- Voice comment from Shawno re Erk Pod 221
- Voice comments from Scott re Erk Pod 219
- Erk FM Song of the Week: About Sex - Nate Maingard (South Africa)
- Podcast of the Week: The Bugcast
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 1: “The cop should have went to the traffic light to cross the road”
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 2: Mother places daughter in box so it doesn’t blow away
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 3: Canadian breaks into zoo, gets mauled by tiger
- War Story of the Week: Police? We are the Police!
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Episode Info
Duration: 100 minutes
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 219. In this episode:
- 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks
- Erk’s Saturday of Hazard Reductions
- Frustration Stations
- Audio feedback from Scott on various issues including Emergency Batteries, Solar Panel battery charger, and The Academy (based on the Orange Country Fire Department)
- Voicemail from Shawno re Erk Pod 218
- Feedback from David van Sunder re Erk Pod 218
- Feedback from Jen re Erk Pod 218
- Strange Love Live is awesome! Video
- New Promos
- Erk FM Song Of The Week: Ironman – AMMP
- Podcast Of The Week: Cop Cast
- Peanut of the Week Winner from Erk Pod 218: It’s a hard decision!
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 1: Wilco the Dog
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 2: Cough syrup shoplifter
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 3: Everyone involved in the Queensland Pedo relocation
- Railway Job Of The Week: Train Driver
- Erk’s War Story Of The Week: Trolley & Otto
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Episode Info
Duration: 119 minutes
Welcome to episode 218 of Erk Pod. On this episode:
- NSW Police to get new vests
- Samoa changes the side of the road they drive on
- DYSPHAGIA? More info here
- Voicemail from Robert Gasperson re Erk Pod 217
- Feedback from Shawno & Jen re Erk Pod 217
- Erk FM Song Of The Week: Failure – Verismo
- Podcast Of The Week: Plane Crazy Down Under
- Retweeted Story Of The Week: Cops Shocked by pre-teen crime spree
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 1: Melbourne man makes a bomb threat on plane bound for LAX on 9/11
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 2: Roadwork on the M4 to fix a billboard at 10pm
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 3: Erk
- Peanuts of the Week Nomination 4: Bonking In A Stolen Car
- Peanut of the Week Nomination 5: Woman Filling Jerry Can at service station
- Railway Job Of The Week: Train Guard
- Railway Station Of The Week: Chatswood
- Erk’s War Story Of The Week: “Batter Up!” – Erk gets into a sticky situation and almost gets hit for a home run.
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Duration: 110 minutes
Welcome to episode 217 of Erk Pod. On this episode:
- Blast & Blast FM is back this week
- There’s a man on my roof!
- Domain name FAIL
- Spoonman reappears from nowhere!
- Feedback from Jen re Erk Pod 215, 216 and “Stupid Questions From Retail Hell”
- Voicemail from Robert Gasperson re Erk Pod 216
- Erk FM Song Of The Week: Can You Hear Me? – All Mankind
- Podcast Of The Week: 2 Schooners
- Retweeted Story Of The Week: Tasers could be banned in Queensland
- Retweeted Story Of The Week II: Tourists use Uluru as a toilet
- Railway Job Of The Week: Communications Operator
- Railway Station Of The Week: Central
- Erk’s War Story Of The Week: “You had a man but now you have a woman?”
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Episode Info
Duration: 105 minutes
Welcome to episode 216 of Erk Pod. On this episode:
- No Blast or Blast FM this week
- 2009 Erk FM Musical United Nations Tour
- AMPed New Music Weekly episode 194 hosted by Erk
- TV Review: Recruits
- Tom reappears from nowhere with Podwatch!
- Feedback from David van Sunder & Shawno re Erk Pod 215
- Voicemail from Robert Gasperson re Erk Pod 215
- Voice file from Trucker Tom re Erk Pod 213
- Erk FM Song Of The Week: Around The World by Natalie Brown
- Podcast Of The Week: The Rock Deli & The Metal Deli by Kimmi
- Retweeted Story Of The Week: Multi-taskers distracted by everything
- Railway Job Of The Week: Revenue Protection Officer/Transit Officer
- Railway Station Of The Week: Town Hall
- Erk’s War Story Of The Week: “You have the right to remain silent!”
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Duration: 108 minutes
Welcome to episode 215 of Erk Pod. In this episode:
- New theme music: White Rabbit by Jay Gordon & the Penetrators
- Studio Update
- Website Update
- House Painting
- Erk makes an important purchase
- Birthday Week
- Operation ADSL
- Equal Pay Day 2009
- Erk Pod 200 Prize Winner receives his prize
- Feedback: Scott Roche re recent interview
- Feedback: Jen re episode 213
- Feedback: Shawno & Jen re Plain Dudes Radio episode 1
- Erk FM Song Of The Week: White Rabbit by Jay Gordon & the Penetrators
- Podcast Of The Week: Copy Code Three
- Retweeted Story Of The Week: Michelle Obama Wears Shorts
- Retweeted Story Of The Week: Strange Questions Asked At London Tourist Info Centres
- Railway Job Of The Week: Customer Service Attendant
- Railway Station Of The Week: Circular Quay
- Erk’s War Story Of The Week: Man Inside The Machine
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Duration: 107 minutes
Welcome to episode 213 of Erk Pod recorded very early in the morning. Erk decided to wake Anastacia the Erk Pod Bunny up so she decided to talk. In this Bunny-interrupted episode:
- Painting the studio
- Channel Erk on the iPhone/iPod Touch
- Sydney Twitteratti
- Twitter was down?
- Terror plot on Sydney military installation
- Man blames cat for downloading pron
- Police Officer has lucky escape near SLO and also somewhere else (video)
- Assaults on NSW Paramedics increasing
- Tourists suffer GPS Navigation FAIL
- New Digitial TV station launches & Digital TV update
- Digital Radio launches in Australia
- Plain Dudes Radio (Facebook group here)
- Podcasting Under The Kilt
- Competition update
- Feedback from Jen, Robert, Shawno & Judy
News sources: News Limited, Fairfax, Yahoo, SLO Tribune
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Episode Info
Duration: 67 minutes
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 212. In this episode:
- Feedback from Shawno & Jen from Hyper Nonsense
- Announcement of the episode 200 competition winner
- Interview with author and podcaster Scott Roche (30 minutes approx)
- Australian radio lie detector scandal (including post-production post-script)
- Scott from the Uncommon Sense podcast tells us about when he entered a competition
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Duration: 92 minutes
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 211. In this episode:
- Bus driver refuses to carry a veiled woman
- 25 year old woman has had 70 jobs
- More drink driving and speeding peanuts
- Paramedic strips for alcohol
- Major fire at ……. the Fire College of Knowledge
- Operation ADSL
- Erk’s thinking of getting an iPhone?
- Kelly’s no iPhone challenge
- Dancing My Ass Off – Erk almost threw up in his mouth
- #seapatrol
- Podcast review – Betty In The Sky With A Suitcase
- DVD review – The Tube
- Movie review – Ninjas V Zombies
- Movie review – Shaun of the Dead
- Movie review – The Hangover
- Feedback from Shawno, Jen, Robert & Richard
News source: News Limited, Daily Mail
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Duration: 88 minutes
Welcome to an action packed episode of Erk Pod. It’s a long episode with a couple of rants, news, opinion and more. On this episode:
- Announcements – new schedule, American voicemail number, episode 200 competition
- Podcasters Emporium
- Excellent on-time running!
- Sydney Metro is a bad idea says Erk
- More about train driving, training etc
- NYPD still use typewriters
- Who decided who would walk on the moon first? [Various Firsts in Space - Wikipedia]
- Women in space
- Kelly marries Kelly thanks to Facebook
- Speeding Peanuts
- Hooters – NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Screw you, Triple M!
- Staycation IS a word!
- Stressful jobs
- Our Prime Minister, the Twitterer
- Erk’s suggestion for Mx
- Here’s Looking At You, Over Heard
- Feedback from episodes 200 & 209
News sources: Fairfax Media, News Limited, First Coast News, NASA, The Space Review, UPI.
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Duration: 108 minutes

Welcome to Erk Pod episode 200! This episode was streamed live on uStream and is also available as a podcast episode. It was live but a different format to a Round Table that was held in 2008. It commenced at 12 noon (Sydney time) on Sunday 5 July 2009. There were people live in the chat room as well.
It is a big show and it will be released as one episode. There are a couple bits of strong language & themes but not enough for an explicit tag!
Guests:
- Colin from the Ourobouros podcast
- Shawno & Jen from Hyper Nonsense
- Judy (my mum) who hosts Blast From The Past & Judy’s Blast FM
- Carl who is a young actor and writer
- Cami Kaos & Dr Normal from Strange Love Live
MUSIC: Do Si Do – Julie The Band. Hear more music like this and a lot more on Erk FM!
Introduction voices (in order):
- Jamie the Podmedic from the MedicCast
- Cherie from the CherieCast
- Richard from the Wasting Time podcast
- Scott from the Uncommon Sense podcast
- Steve & Jeff from Some Guys In A Car
- Trucker Tom from the Trucker Tom podcast
There were some highlights from previous shows featuring many voices that have featured on Erk Pod. Thank you to everyone who has played a part big or small in Erk Pod. There are too many people to name here but they know who they are. There were also messages from Trucker Tom and Squeak.
On this episode, we find out about some people’s highlights of Erk Pod, find out a bit more about the 4th of July in America, find out who is going to be on TV soon and a lot more. You can also see the low quality web cam footage here but it is most Erk just looking at the camera. Erk Pod isn’t designed to be a video podcast!

There is also an episode 200 competition! Guess how much US money is in this plastic cup from Erk’s US trip and the nearest guess to the correct amount will win. You will win the cup complete with money and a couple of other Erk Pod related items. Multiple entries are allowed and email entries ONLY sent to erkpod@gmail.com will be accepted. Entries close on July 31, 2009. Winner will be announced on the first Erk Pod episode in August.
There is only American currency in this cup including pennies (1c), nickels (5c), dimes (10c) and quarters (25c) so unlike if it was filled with Australian coins, there may be an odd amount! So get your guesses in!
And Erk will even pay the postage!
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Duration: 122 minutes
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 170. In this episode:
- We have a studio audience!
- No BJ, we have not podfaded!
- Where have we been?
- Two new episodes of Drue and Ben’s podcast Danovad
- Free coin from Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd?
- Don’t forget to go back to school on the wrong week, kiddies!
- Extreme weather conditions
- Calling for an Ambulance in London
- Nee Naw – Observations from Nee Naw Control
- Police now targetting man (often) who strips (often) while dressed a cop (often)
- Man gets tap stuck in eye and man has a 17cm kidney stone [story]
- Crazy x-rays
- Zombie alert in Texas
- Erk’s speed camera update
- Anastacia hates her voice. Maybe we should get her to do an audio book
- New promo idea for Erk Pod
- Girl gets jail time for doing graffiti
- Feedback from Pat (Donut Boy), Shawno, Jen, Kaine
- Twitter 365 update
- Obama screwed up?
- Round Table update
- Goodnight interweb
News sources: Fox, News Limited
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Episode Info
Duration: 55 minutes
Welcome to Channel Erk!
Channel Erk features a series of audio podcasts & other media projects produced in Australia. Ranging from news, music, variety & more, Channel Erk is dedicated to entertaining you each and every week!























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