Oral War Crime
Hello and welcome to The New Podcast News Newsletter (TNPNN), from PodFUC - The Podcast Federation of Unionised Content [sponsored by CircleSpace, because everyone needs at least 10 websites. For 4% off your next purchase, go to Geospace.UK.httphttp//17620/greatwebsite and type in the offer code: 10282727772299999900002_sassy]. Here are your headlines:
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‘Bad Chat’ with Radio 1 breakfast host Greg James and “comedic personality” Alice Levine has been described by former Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, as an ‘oral war crime’. Widely known as the Duck by many (and the cheeky dictator by his harem), Assad was talking to local press after watching ‘Bad Chat’ with friends, live at the Crossed-Wires festival in Sheffield. When asked if the producers should be brought to trial at The Hague, Assad failed to respond and shuffled away nervously.
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In other dictatorship news, Steven Bartlett’s co-founder at ‘Diary of a CEO’, Jack Sylvester, has left the company. It was revealed that he left 4-months ago to go travelling in South America after a “bender involving 2 glasses of red wine”. When approached for comment, Sylvester told TPPNP that he can’t remember anything, as he didn’t jot anything down.
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The podcast Dish by Waitrose by Cold Glass by northern dandy Nick Grimshaw and chef Angela Hartnett has been confirmed as the world’s most successful branded podcast with well over a billion people saying that they also like food. “The success of the show was a hard grind”, explains an insider. “It took us a while before we could settle on a title for the show. In fact the first name for Dish was…
Thou shalt have a fishy on a little dishy, Thou shalt have a fishy when the boat comes in.
…which was the main reason The Grim-dawg decided to host it in the first place. In fact, we still pay him in fish.” The Podcast News News Podcast has yet to see Angela Hartnett’s salary, although it’s expected to be of equal weight.
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…and finally, Sebastian Hector-Rafferty Featherstonehaugh IV - director of ‘Podcasting Inclusion’, an off-shore charity based in the Cayman Islands - exclusively tells PodFUC that they have reached 1,000 members. “It’s such a milestone for an important cause. For an industry like podcasting to be leading the way on the topic of diversity, wow, it’s is so important to us. We won’t be satisfied until there’s equality for one and all.” (PodFUC understands that membership to Podcasting Inclusion begins at $10,400 per month per member, which includes x2 complimentary tickets to Podcast Movement and an opportunity to shake Joe Rogan’s hand).
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