Thursday, 29 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 070


Poison, floppies, art and Sci-Fi, what else would you expect? A dash of music of course!




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Song1 Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
http://www.poisonweb.com

Poison
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8648218.stm

Song 2
Alexx Calise - Break Me

from her new album, "In Avanti"
http://www.myspace.com/alexxcalise

End of the floppy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8643844.stm
Banksy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/25/banksy-exit-through-gift-shop

Song3
Kevin Merritt - Wonder Why
http://www.kevinmerritt.com

Spock!
http://www.beatweek.com/news/4965-spock-no-longer-to-be-brought-to-you-by-leonard-nimoy/

Song 4
Little Invisibles - Wonder Why
http://www.myspace.com/littleinvisibles

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 069

Bond postponed, Scouting gaining popularity and have you lost your phone?

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Paralysis - Regulate
http://www.myspace.com/paralysis2006

Topic 1
Bond Bombshell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8631245.stm

Song 2
Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way
http://www.matthewebel.com/

Topic 2
Scouting on the resurgence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7603978/Scouting-sees-huge-membership-surge-after-introducing-adventurous-new-badges.html

Topic 3
English are the least patriotic in Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267230/England-branded-patriotic-nation-Europe.html

Song 3
Alexx Calise - Out Of Sight
http://www.alexxcalise.com/fr_home.cfm

Topic 4
Apple worker loses iPhone v4
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7102497.ece


Song 4
Kevin Merrit - Time Comes
http://www.kevinmerritt.com/

Thursday, 15 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 068

Volcanic ash, Twitter, Dr Who and iPod Touch apps all packed in to this show with lots of podsafe music!

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Song 1: Electric Touch - Sound of the Underground http://www.myspace.com/electrictouch

Twitter To Begin Advertising
Will advertising spoil Twitter and what's the general feeling of advertising on the Internet?

Song 2: Little Invisibles - Closer http://www.myspace.com/littleinvisibles

Eyjafjallajoekull glacier volcano grounds all UK flights.
All over the news today but Darren mainly wanted the chance to try and pronounce the name of the glacier.

Transitions between Doctors to be "LSD like" (man, wooh)
Quick chat about the new Doctor Who.
Video link: http://www.vimeo.com/10606790

Song 3: Alex Calise - Good Enough
http://www.myspace.com/alexxcalise

4 Square day April 16th 4sqr being 16
http://blog.foursquare.com

Song 4: Secret Pop Band - Saccharine Smile
http://www.myspace.com/secretpopband

iPod Touch Apps'
Opera
Carpool
Meebo
Formula1.com
StepTrakLite

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 067

Lance and Darren talk weed and Facebook with the usual spattering of music.

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Song 1: The Polymorphines - Constant Reminder http://www.myspace.com/thepolymorphines

Growing Weed
An American writer arrested after authorities said they found a large marijuana growing operation in his barn. LINK

Song 2: The Volume Brothers - Sonny You're The Reason That Your Mum And I Are Getting Divorced http://www.myspace.com/volumebrothers

The Expensive Facebook Habbit
Just how much do you want that extra barn in Farmville?

Song 3: Wiser Time - Free http://www.wiser-time.com

Monday, 22 March 2010

Tell Us A Joke

The Dumbed Down Life podcast is recored by Doug, Darren and Lance. Over the years we've had guest presenters too and some contributions from friends and family.

Bobbi, Doug's wife was a special guest in show 66.

Ben recorded a show with Lance last year.

"I hear pod people" which is used at the start of some of our shows is a recording of Darren's daughter.

Ken from Derby has contributed a few times.

What we're looking for now is some recordings of you telling a joke, just something short and corny to fill a gap between two songs. MP3 or WAV file formats are fine.

Email your joke to ddl.podshow@gmail.com and we'll email you back to let you know which of our shows your joke is in.

Also, if you have a podcast, blog or web site that you would like to promote we'd love to hear from you. Record something simple like "Hi this is Fred from Fredsfishshop.com and you're listening to the dumbed down life" or if you have a full promo track for your podcast we'd love to hear it!

Friday, 19 March 2010

Dumbed Down Life 066

We have a special guest this week and talk about porn shown on childrens TV, police officer attacked by a dick and Darren's five minutes of fame as and extra on The IT Crowd.
Parental advisory, recording contains unnecessary swearing.


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Song 1: Victims of Science - The Device Has Been Modifiedhttp://www.myspace.com/victimsofsciencegxp

Porn On Kids TV
Doug and Bobbi's local TV channel has a slight programming error.

Song 2: The Ropes - Kill Her Offhttp://www.theropesonline.com/

Police Officer Attacked By Dick
Could this really be considered assault with a deadly weapon?

Song 3: Jennings - Umbrellahttp://www.jennings-music.com/

Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
Darren tells us about his day in the life as a extra on the set of The ITCrowd.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd