You know the email, send over mp3s if you have them. Happy to consider.

½DC

Since November last year we’ve had a new Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) here in oz, after 11 years of being led by George Bush’s greatest fan. Although Rudd is a middle-aged white guy there are some similarities between his campaign and Obama’s. One of the most common ‘insults’ to be thrown at him during the campaign was that he is too educated. Huh? Surely you cannot be TOO educated to run a country? Surely even a small-ish country in the middle of nowhere would be well served by someone with the intelligence, drive and thirst for knowledge to educate themselves out of poverty. I despaired that in my Big Brother-loving, shock-jock listening, sports-mad country a well-educated, bi-lingual (he speaks fluent Mandarin), non-sports playing/watching person who looks like a nerd couldn’t get elected but my country folk surprised the heck outa’ me and voted him in by a landslide. When, as his first official order of business, Rudd made an emotional and genuine apology to our indigenous people for the abhorrent way they were treated by successive governments right up until the mid 1970’s (aboriginal kids were routinely taken from their parents and given to white families or orphanages ‘for their own good’) there was barely a dry eye in the country (even my staunchly non-Rudd voting parents admitted to crying their eyes out). Everyone I know who voted for Rudd talks about how they were, for the first time in their lives, glad they’d had the opportunity to vote and proud of the choice they’d made.

I hope, for all our sakes, your country gets to experience the same: it’s a bloody fantastic feeling.

John–drat, Greg thought it was something like that. It is a good game, even if level 4 is a–well, let’s just say it’s a “rather challenging level.” :) Welcome to UFR, and we hope you’ll stick around!

T.R.

Many thanks for a very honest review. Very much appreciate your equal curiosity & befuddlement.

To clarify a few points:

(1) http://crack.podbean.com is an inherited web address from the pre-½DC days when the show was called ‘Mind The Crack’. We’d love to change the url to something more TWR related, but the logistical/administrative task is far too much of a sharp incline for us to approach at this time.

(2) the music we play is pretty much sourced worldwide, & not restricted to the UK. In fact, the vast majority is American. The show takes in an average of 24 tracks per show, per week. To drill the playlist down to 24, approx. 1,000+ songs (independently sourced/requested by ½DC, as well as a large amount submitted by bands, labels, etc.) are listened to each week.

(3) the show isn’t scripted in the slightest & entirely ‘off the cuff’, + recorded live at broadcast. Even the pre-recorded shows are recorded ‘as live’, with minimal editing. The only exception to this is the odd occasion when pre-recorded ’skits’ or set-ups are employed.

(4) The Woman of The House, or TWoTH, isn’t actually ‘the wife’, but is in fact The Woman of The House. Clear? :o)

Cheers again for being as kind as you were & not mauling us for our scattergun train of thought or narrative. We Brits may be plum crazy, but we have manners to die for, eh?