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PSTB #54: Project Studio 54, life-threatening Nickelback, and a Fun Lovin’ Criminal from 2022-11-01T17:00
This month sees the ultimate embodiment of toast Foley, Project Studio 54, sneaking in the back door of The 27 Club on a technicality, thereby clearing the decks for a forthcoming cinematic rele...
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PSTB #53: One-of-one-so-far space-vinyl, swearing by proxy, and Ray Of Sunshine Against The Machine from 2022-10-02T23:08:46
In this month's individually hand-marbled episode, Mike welcomes Whon Jitten into his world of vocal-editing pain, tormenting him with James Blunt, a unionised bee in a Tupperware box, and a tru...
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PSTB #52b: Episode? What episode? from 2022-09-13T09:38:16
In a spectacular double facepalm, Jon and Mike were completely unable to coordinate a podcasting date last month (or even early this month), but -- never fear! -- we have a couple of juicy extra...
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PSTB #52: Googlewhack drum enhancement, iPod Skywalker, and The CPU Sizzler from 2022-08-01T23:08:03
It seems like only yesterday that Mike was dancing on block-colour backgrounds with 905 songs in his pocket, but his extraodinarily slow-acting curse has finally been fulfilled as Darth Cassette...
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PSTB #51: Martian breakfast, lip-sync ballet, and The Dukes Of Haphazard from 2022-07-04T09:56:02
By the power of the shiny-haired Hrímnir frá Hvammi, a shiny-headed Jon has been doing his Gollum-inspired Riverdance over a functional horse-keyboard, causing the word 'utilise' to vanish beaut...
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PSTB #50: MIDI boiled eggs, exploding headpumps, and other unskeptical noisies from 2022-06-03T23:38:19
Inspired by Vidal Sasson, this month's episode is full of sparkletubes, slideyfarts, bashable barcodes, exploding headpumps, and many other unskeptical noisies. MIT are back to their old tricks,...
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PSTB #49: Agent-swap Bumble, herringbone origami, and Bela Fleck’s musical chicken from 2022-05-06T02:50:58
Recorded from tea-cup perspective for maximum authenticity, this episode explains how to get from Douglas Adams to Terry Pratchet (via Brian Wilson) in a sleepy country voice. Jon, as befits a m...
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PSTB #48: The Tamagotchi recorder, BV shred-concealment, and a fretless foghorn from 2022-04-01T19:25:52
This month, a densely-woven Jon's been struggling to keep his mind out of the gutter by smearing a microphone thinly over the top of a modest vape rig and pushin a pre-1994 Barbie doll into a re...
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PSTB #47: Screamo ceilidh, the anti-Donda, and toothbrush orchestration from 2022-03-02T20:36:49
Jon, the King Of Kittenz, is back in the Land Of Hope And Corbyn, and working surprisingly hard on an Ode To Sinusitis with his electrotango sitar and 50 guitars in unison. Kelly Clarkson's lend...
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PSTB #46: GRAMMIES SPECIAL! (feat. WYSIWYG Doja and The Abbanator) from 2022-02-02T01:24:15
It's another star-studded Grammy Awards extravaganza, with DJs of all stripes, a suavely bearded Jon spreading his rebar wings, a grizzled Mike slapping himself in the face with American cheese,...
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PSTB #45: Proto-Twitter, snorkelling mimes, and The Magic Of Pegasus from 2022-01-01T11:13
Jump into the PSTB DeLorean, plug in 1kW of guitar pedals, and let's go for a star-studded ride! See Tina Turner, Mick Hucknall, and the drummer from Eastenders clamouring to jump into Puff Dadd...
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PSTB #44: Sleighbellitis, infrabeer, and The Rebeccaverse! from 2021-12-19T14:42:51
Welcome to the Rebeccaverse! Yes, you read that correctly, because we're joined by the smack-talking Angel of Christmas herself for our end-of-year spectacular. As you can imagine, the excitemen...
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PSTB #43c: Jon‘s first single has landed! Yay! from 2021-11-19T01:31:42
The day of Truth has arrived. The day of Justice. The day of Friday. But, even more importantly, it's launch day for Jon Whitten's first ever single under his own name! Yay! The song's called 'H...
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PSTB #43b: Sharks and Muppets from 2021-11-18T10:00
We told you all about Jon Whitten's single release tomorrow, but did you actually go to https://bit.ly/whittenand and immediately follow all his socials in feverish anticipation of the song's ar...
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PSTB #43a: Steak and potatoes (a capella) and Flamenco wrestling from 2021-11-17T15:50:56
Casting the veil of anonymity boldly aside, our very own Jon Whitten will be releasing his first ever music under his own name on November 19th -- ie. in just a couple of days' time! It would he...
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PSTB #43: Karmic blunderbusses, a purring cheetah, and curated nothing from 2021-11-01T18:15:53
It's another episode stuffed with carefully curated nothing, beneath a comforting veneer of adventure, polished with insanity. Creativity meets the laws of physics with a bump, as Jon trains him...
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PSTB #42: Granstein, Bing Kerching, and The Quirkening from 2021-10-02T00:57:21
Despite claiming this whole episode against tax, your intrepid hosts search once more for the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Jon has been chuntering joyously through all the most ...
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PSTB #41: Hula mics, spy pencils, and 2W of pure power from 2021-09-01T19:12
We're back again with a full two watts of pure podcasting power and a shirt full of double-necked electric guitars! Our indoor cat Jon has been busy scaling 30-metre mountains, painting an SM58 ...
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PSTB #40: A floppy screw, surefire noob tests, and Clarkson overwhelm from 2021-08-05T20:44:32
As our podcast slips on its Gucci (or is it Prada?) loafers and slides into sloppy middle age, it's time to brew some hot water, suck on a teabag, and ask 'What is a wall?' in a Swedish accent. ...
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PSTB #40-ish: Mind the stop-gap! from 2021-08-01T13:27
The Mike & Jon Of Yestermonth valiantly tread water while present-day Mike & Jon pull their finger out and finally find a time they can both record a full episode. Consider it a kind of meta-fac...
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PSTB #39: R2-D2's internal monologue, hair-raising Bulgarian women, and the *other* Montero from 2021-07-01T12:12:21
Amidst the chocolate-brown upholstery of the PSTB studio, Jon has been using his tennis racquet to bake pizza, while Mike does his best zebra-finch impressions -- albeit with occasional distract...
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PSTB #38: Kentucky-fried Huapango, off-piste DX7, and Don LaFontaine's chewy syllables from 2021-06-01T01:12:16
Welcome to the Murder Booth! From his shallow grave, a fully organic Jon has been braving slugs and worms to bring you his best mycelium impression, with a penitential side-order of Kentucky-fri...
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PSTB #37: Rotcod Zzaj, faux-Italian solfeggio, and the ultimate hipster flex from 2021-05-01T20:52:31
This month's episode sees your effervescent hosts comprehensively outmanoeuvred by the mastery of Rotcod Zzaj. Having lost any claim to irony, Jon uncrumples his cummerbund and dons a rubber sui...
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PSTB #36: The Skelecaster, THX Zelda, and Kanye's bingo card from 2021-04-02T19:16:52
Once again, your visibly more radiant hosts are abusing their enormous media power by pandering to viola players and financially exploiting ever younger artists. Jon's lost his child-like innoce...
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PSTB #35: Audio umami, slam-dunking tubas, and the alien guitar womb from 2021-03-01T11:28
Your offensively second-talented hosts have been rejoicing in an Energy Quotient rating of 4.97 this month, while clearing the very lowest bar of brass-necked press relations with a dizzyingly s...
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PSTB #34: Dubstep rectangles, a glass countertenor, and The Great Tissue Controversy from 2021-02-01T11:19
It's been a long lockdown. A hatless Jon has been frightening timid voles while baking up Chekhov-grade disaster on his Fisher Price Singalong Radio. Mike has, amongst other lightly qualified su...
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PSTB #33: Grammy nominations special! (feat. kittens) from 2021-01-01T12:57:43
Following a suitably down-home Christmas, your intrepid hosts battle Spotify fatigue to huddle round the PSTB dartboard for a Grammy nominations special! Mike has officially melted, and is now t...
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PSTB #32: The Elvis schwa, hipster faireez, and an epicly burnt Scotch egg from 2020-12-02T01:42:43
Finally available in hardback, this month's festive episode promises gingerbread Foley and a Warlock's drinking anthem. Due to lack of demand for their eulogy-writing services, your intrepid Mas...
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PSTB #31: Batman's barberpole, Palestrina parties, and lo-res heliox huffing from 2020-11-01T20:46:20
Welcome to your favourite ever PSTB episode! Jon, the accidental clothes horse, is emerging in a blizzard of metaphors from his hectic program of theatrical wrestling, all-night business drinkin...
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PSTB #30: The Philuminati, Cadbury's gorilla, and Ozzy's anechoic bat-trap from 2020-10-03T00:15:02
Who better to lead you through today's post-truth apocalypse than two renowned purveyors of nonsense? Mike, that blessed innocent, has been blithely investigating the Philuminati at Milton Keyne...
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PSTB #29: Sub-SubKick, guppy impressions, and RIPQ from 2020-09-01T18:24:52
In a spirit of RIPQ, this month we ask: who the hell do Mike & Jon think they are? Do they really expect us to believe they've just been swimming in cottage cheese doing guppy impressions for we...
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PSTB #28: Bass fire-hose, 1.237 microBiebers, and the ideal platonic sausage from 2020-07-29T11:08:45
It's a flora and fauna special this month, so boil your mix-referencing kettle as PSTB's octogenarian park rangers play guitar to budgies at elevated sample rates, expose non-flamingos to Carava...
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PSTB #27: Bridgeolian harpjo, carpet-underlay music, and the nuclear kerchief from 2020-07-02T01:23:22
Despite the cosy domestic scene here at PSTB headquarters, baking scones and sharing long involved stories about the British monarchy, there have been rumours of sedition in the ranks of #TeamNi...
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PSTB #26: Simon Cowell's shock collar, passive-aggressive guitars, and the Sarlaac drum machine from 2020-06-02T00:52:06
It's a worrying time for your two intrepid tea-breakers. Mike's battling his Eurovision withdrawal symptoms by composing aleatorically with a dandelion, while precariously balancing a small bowl...
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PSTB #25: Hamstering, airborne jacuzzis, and fixing Gal Gadot from 2020-05-02T03:51:15
It's mayhem in this month's crisis edition! Mike's singing at gerbil-threatening volumes while pioneering rehooker Maxo's 8-bit funk is exploding his brain. Jon's hamstering drum-sticks, trainin...
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PSTB #24: Thumpsy-thumpsy, manual Iron Man, and the end-of-X-Files face from 2020-04-02T01:17:08
This month we challenge all you podfasters to brave our break-neck pace, as a puddlish Jon (or is it Geraldine eating crackers?) and the hollow shell of Mike reveal good news for the serious, in...
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PSTB #23: Thunderfinger Royale, sneezing gnomes, and Friday-sus-Wednesday from 2020-03-01T08:29:23
It's awards season this month at the NAMM show, where we're doling out those coveted PSTB gongs for Silly Name, 3D Poster, Dusty Controls, and (of course) Straight To Landfill! Veteran spam-wran...
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PSTB #22: Luthierism, feline schadenfreude, and The Curse Of Happy Village from 2020-02-01T12:07:20
As we head further into the official Year Of The Echo, we capture the cinematic Zeitgeist by sneaking through doors, picking up swords, and filling our cup of feline schadenfreude to the brim wi...
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PSTB #21: Chew Yourself Fit, The Joy Of Theft, and a human Frappuccino from 2020-01-01T18:55:30
On this month's virtual C60 we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Walkman, as well as Sony's recent assault on the retro Goldilocks Zone. Mike, our human Frappuccino, has been airbrushing his...
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PSTB #20: Bublé's Irish Cream, sleighbell taxes, and The Sucker Punch Of Derision from 2019-12-01T16:30
In this special festive edition, we settle down with a sackful of Maltesers, a bottle of Bublé's Irish Cream, and an emergency spatula to survey the best and worst of Christmas singlage. In-hous...
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PSTB #19: Snug-verbing, virtuoso electricity, and The Four-letter Count from 2019-11-02T01:20:49
Bellingstropp-Smythe & Sons proudly present this month's Oolong Hour, replete with snug-verbing, potty-mouthed sponsors, sensual mastication, and goodly chunks of papier-mâché. John (aka The Sal...
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PSTB #18: Madonna fixations, Scaramanga's axe, and unrappabilityto from 2019-10-01T22:51:01
The Master Breakers return refreshed and alert from their summer travels with fresh crisp-packet metaphors and an unhealthy Madonna fixation. Jon's been gate-crashing perfume adverts at The Roya...
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PSTB #17: Audio bacon, Spot The Toast, and chatting with Miss T from 2019-09-01T12:45
It's a holiday facepalm special this month, with Mike destroying his means of production and co-hosting with a sock puppet. Meanwhile, Jon has tracked down the elusive Miss T for an in-depth dis...
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PSTB #16: Reverse hallelujahs, stereo hoovering, and a bag of smashed crabs from 2019-08-02T00:00
This month it's a Superbooth special, with intense dubstep typing, motivational sawtooth waves, and a bag of smashed crabs that's blown the lid off Indiegogo. In other news, the Dark Prince Of C...
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PSTB #15: Hobbit feet, old submarine bits, and tonsorial option-paralysis from 2019-07-01T23:22:43
It's no holds barred this month as Leo Tolstoy and Jean-Jacques Nattiez square up in a musical version of Celebrity Deathmatch. Meanwhile, your intrepid Master Breakers consider displaying their...
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PSTB #14: Heavy-metal kittens, karmic pest control, and musical guacamole from 2019-06-01T14:04
Armed with their best picardy thirds, the guys start up their viral factory once again with heavy-metal kitten videos and Chewbacca singing Nessun Dorma. There's exciting news too of dubstep's k...
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PSTB #13: Oxtail filtering, harmonikazoos, and the 'f*** you' delay from 2019-05-01T15:44:44
Heading into festival season, your intrepid crowdsurfers park their inflatable car so that Jon can wreak quiz-based revenge and explain the origin of the 'f*** you' delay. Speaking of Bangface, ...
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PSTB #12: Count Duckula, gourmet risotto, and bunraku puppet twerking from 2019-04-01T13:20:40
Defying ancient Mayan prophecies of the apocalypse, your intrepid Master Breakers explain how to raise 40 grand in three quarters of an hour, while making 40 percent of a joke about The Danish S...
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PSTB #11: Syllabist poetry, John Cage's evil twin, and The 100k Per Foot Rule from 2019-03-01T17:42
For this month's episode your intrepid Project Studio procrastinators cut like a knife through their favourite lyrical cliches, plan a Syllabist poetry slam, and resist the urge to shout 'Hey' w...
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PSTB #10: Pigmy elephants, flamboyant boxer shorts, and the Marquis's crystal sword from 2019-02-01T17:48:44
This month, Mike succumbs to Brexit-fever and receives entirely unnecessary divine assistance in looking foolish. Meanwhile, Jon skips through fields of daisies with his new robot roadie, stuffs...
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PSTB #9: Imaginary edits, Bearable Brass, and the original Wobbly Jefferson from 2019-01-01T10:26:46
It's time, once again, to join your two favourite master-breakers, as they laugh off the evil eye of TC Electronic, strut their stuff to the Monkey Banana Dance, and revel in sensitive performan...
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PSTB #8: Spray-on acoustic stubble, vegan suspense, and Neil Finn naked from 2018-12-01T13:51
It's a veritable sugar high this month, with Jon lathering himself in maple syrup to talk about the inventor of the jello shot and how he himself miraculously dodged a speeding facepalm bullet. ...
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PSTB #7: Auditory dog hair, erotic mic cables, and The A-Team Musical from 2018-11-01T10:25
It's time to join The Numerical Suffix Twins and The Ultimate Frisbee Conspiracy for another bout of testing concepts (and SM58s) to destruction! Nibbling their hand-monogrammed biscuits, your i...
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PSTB #6: Invisible gorillas, All Star (but...), and insane amounts of clarity. from 2018-10-01T01:44:34
It's a star-studded caffeine pitstop this month, as our intrepid project-studio podcasters count the syllables of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with Eminem, The Carpenters, and D...
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PSTB #5: Masking-tape snobbery, fake artists, and Creme Egg evolution. from 2018-09-08T00:46
It's a culinary adventure this month, as Mike and Jon sit down at their mahogany podcasting table, pour themselves a creamy lactose-adjacent fresh drink and ponder Marmite theatre, the evolution...
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PSTB #4: The Straight To Landfill Award, smirking cucumbers, and beards with everything. from 2018-08-07T15:01
This month, there have been tough questions about the latest NAMM show product releases: Can Yamaha restart the 'marketing valve' gravy train? Should TC Electronic be shipping their new plug-in ...
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PSTB #3: The inverse McGherkin, T-Pain's Uncle Vanya, and the facepalm motherlode. from 2018-07-07T02:00
This month has plenty to appeal to our apparently core demographic of single Russian women. Horrifying numbers of musical theatre directors. Mike's patchy DIY history, featuring the Lego podium and...
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PSTB #2: Mics for melee, homeopathic guitar solos, and The Ladderflirter. from 2018-06-07T15:02:29
Your intrepid Chippendale hunk-biscuits refuse to rest on their laurels for the second episode of Project Studio Tea Break. No sir! Mike's got his cape and stage fan at the ready, and is prepari...
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PSTB #1: The SM57 tuning dial, The Phantom Facepalm, and Minecraft’s mullet-mod. from 2018-05-07T15:01
The inaugural episode of Project Studio Tea Break sees Mike Senior and Jon Whitten settle down with their cuppas to ponder the big issues of project-studio existence. The SM57's tuning dial, for...
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