(All the following quotes unless otherwise attributed are of course Shaun Micallef, believe it or not I got fed up of having to type or paste ‘Shaun’)

Shaun's intro: ‘We’re...radio’s answer to a very badly-worded question’

Right over my head: ‘Elvis Costello there, not joining his brothers Peter and Tim on their trip’*

Word of the Day: Shaun is ‘Apostatic’ today**

‘According to Beverley’s watch, which I’ve stolen, its 6.33’

Discussion topics:

People taking the day off work after staying up late to watch the cricket:

‘If you are taking the day off today, presumably you won’t be awake yet...I might be a horse talking to you in your dream, if so... call us’

The petrol price rise: apparently people have been stealing car numberplates to get petrol with and do a runner without paying for it.

‘Do they put them on a car, or just run in wearing them.., fore and aft?’

Denise’s sons 21st is coming up: she’s done nothing for the party, and she says he’s invited ‘everyone in his life he has ever spoken a syllable to’ and is worried there won’t be enough room for the older relatives

Shaun’s advice: for his own 21st, he dealt with elderly relatives by insisting his parents

‘Cordon off an area old people can’t go past’

Denise’s own 21st party was combined: with her Grandpa’s 80th birthday, and Uncle Fred and Auntie Edna’s 25th Wedding anniversary!

‘...a very complicated cake inscription for that one’

Beverley was discussing football with Nick Hain, and he remarked that one player had a very ugly hip and shoulder

‘John Merrick had a very ugly hip and shoulder...is he playing?’

‘With you for the next two hours, providing you with...things, let’s just leave it at that’

Shaun Facts:

SFX: Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan call

‘ I knocked that up in my shed....’

Beverley: ‘Your shed is magnificent’

‘We used to use it for decoupage....’

Shaun's Interview: Glen Manton, bobsleigher

‘Why do you put weight on, is it ballast?’

Selected serious bits:

More on Telstra:

‘The measures the Prime Minister has used to remove the bunsen burner from his tush...’

Anti-terror legislation. The government wants to bring in preventative detention: you can be held for 14 days without being charged.

‘We should get the Guildford Four on the phone, see what they think’

The rescue efforts in New Orleans.

Gameshow segment: Beatles Backwards was Real Love

Guests: ‘We’ll be talking to Julie Dawn Cole. "Who’s she?",  you scream. How rude, you didn’t let me finish...’

She was the original Veruca Salt from ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. Shaun asked her about working with Gene Wilder:

‘I’d like to think of him as a very nice man, could you go on and shatter my illusions?’

(She didn’t, apparently he is very nice.)

Audio Origami with Professor Stephen Hawking:

SFX: rustling paper. Voiceover: (electronic) ‘It’s a flying swan’

Quotes of the day:

‘The idea is we play a little snatch...can I say that?!...of a Beatles track’