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Mike & Jon

Mike Senior & Jon Whitten survey the project-studio world over a cuppa.

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59:45

PSTB #39: R2-D2's internal monologue, hair-raising...

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2021/07/01

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 distractions from Monkey Nuts & Wizzo and the *other* Montero. Via pioneering brain-controlled resynthesis, we also bring you R2-D2's internal monologue, aka the musical thought crimes of an early-2000s scratch DJ. But if you're bored of modelling Hans Zimmer's pedal creak, then it's time to welcome some hair-raising

59:48

PSTB #38: Kentucky-fried Huapango, off-piste DX7, and...

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2021/05/31

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-fried Huapango. Meanwhile, Mike's gone full Karate Kid in a world of Don LaFontaine's chewy syllables, while slapping himself with his own gauntlet and pinch-zooming a perspex shield. They're not alone either: MIT's finest have been playing 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' on an off-piste DX7 and expressing amino acids

59:59

PSTB #37: Rotcod Zzaj, faux-Italian solfeggio, and...

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2021/05/01

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 suit to discuss X-rated puppet escapades, the world's second-richest musician, and the Broadway-Disney Silk Road. Mike, on the other hand, has been stitching himself up like a kipper with four Harry Potters, while investigating the lobotomised Trapp family and persisting in romantic notions of vile retirement

57:13

PSTB #36: The Skelecaster, THX Zelda, and Kanye's...

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2021/04/02

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 innocence amidst an apathetic Eyes Half Shut orgy, playing Skelecaster solos over a bed of foetal synths. Mike's been riding The Circle Of Death to deter any proto-Eilish from starting a podcast while ruining his QWERTY keyboard with superhumanly amateur toast Foley. There's celebrity coverage too, featuring Kanye

59:53

PSTB #35: Audio umami, slam-dunking tubas, and the...

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2021/03/01

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 sanitised Tower Of Power and some mysterious guitar noodlimen. Returning from his busman's holiday aboard the Bisto awards gravy-train, Mike's been a fresh whirlwind of self-destructive thought-crimes, performing his artisanal lead-time lament to the accompaniment of sweaty, loincloth-clad Taiko drummers and

59:56

PSTB #34: Dubstep rectangles, a glass countertenor,...

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2021/02/01

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 successes, been fixing the cat with his soldering iron, as well as tumbling the walls of Jericho with pastoral platitudes and the sharpest of punctuation marks. So, in an emergency violation of quarantine rules, several members of the broad Church of Be-Bop Botherers join us to help liven up proceedings. A

01:02:46

PSTB #33: Grammy nominations special! (feat. kittens)

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2021/01/01

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 tearfully hoovering around the wet-ass elephant in the room. Jon, with his usual grammatical pedantry, has been chewing on pulled pork in the tidy mess of Haim's two-car garage and wishing that Chris Martin were swearing at Jacob Collier. Neither of them can deny the cultural impact of 'Moo', however, or the

59:53

PSTB #32: The Elvis schwa, hipster faireez, and an...

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2020/12/01

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 Master Breakers have decamped to a Scottish space ghetto to investigate Saint Dolly, a duckfaced Norah Jones, and Percy Jackson's epicly burnt Scotch egg. And why Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Johnny Cash have all evolved just like hummingbird moths. Jon's been impersonating Rocky Balboa with hipster faireez in

59:52

PSTB #31: Batman's barberpole, Palestrina parties,...

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2020/11/01

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 drinking, and making bagpipes even more hellish. His intern Mike, broadcasting from the Millennium Falcon, has been juicing his own apples, irradiating problematically heteronormative alligators, and hammering himself in the face with a pair of HD650s. Top of the agenda this month is the sound of electric cars, with

59:15

PSTB #30: The Philuminati, Cadbury's gorilla, and...

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2020/10/02

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 Keynes Henge, and their shadowy links with the Cadbury gorilla's magic break. Tracing the sinister web to the balmy tropics of Walter Mitty's secret Iceland, he's been stubbing his toe and screaming at waterfalls Pansori-style while marvelling at The Biebster's ecological trail of destruction. In the meantime,

59:51

PSTB #29: Sub-SubKick, guppy impressions, and RIPQ

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2020/09/01

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 weeks? What about the rumours of equine stampedes, otter wave-machines, and biological lava lamps? What about the nauseatingly real sense-memories of proto-sub-SubKick, or the crowds of one-fact wonders helping Franz Ferdinand's bassist tie his tie? It all adds up to random squared. Not that this episode has no

55:08

PSTB #28: Bass fire-hose, 1.237 microBiebers, and the...

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2020/07/29

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 Caravaggio, and politely ask small shrubs to switch off their blackberries. Mike, freshly unmasked as Martin Green of Venezuela, has been pwning Tiktok's algorithms in four-part harmony using the immense untapped potential of floppy-haired teenage angst. Jon, on the other hand, has registered a likeability rating

56:23

PSTB #27: Bridgeolian harpjo, carpet-underlay music,...

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2020/07/01

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 #TeamNik on account of the artist formerly known as Einaudi. Nothing can keep Jon from the ongoing influencer battle, however, putting up his own musical carpet underlay against Mike's 30-year-old VHS instructional-video underscore. Plenty of other musical curios abound too: San Francisco's bridgeolian harpjo, some

58:07

PSTB #26: Simon Cowell's shock collar,...

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2020/06/01

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 of kibbles. John's doing battle with a Sarlaac drum machine, underscoring the Queen's life with Korn, and whacking the 'make it bigger' button. Still, they're both knuckling down once more to investigate all the month's most pressing project-studio matters. For instance, it appears Ed Milliband may have been

59:57

PSTB #25: Hamstering, airborne jacuzzis, and fixing...

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2020/05/02

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, training a rock-and-roll chicken, and spreading jam on ducks. Laura Marling's refusing to wash her baritone ukelele ever again. Neil Young's in a photo booth with a sleeping dog. Meduza and Einaudi are both suing themselves. King Louis XIV's inciting theatrical arson and (even worse!) mime. The Wolf of the tenor

57:52

PSTB #24: Thumpsy-thumpsy, manual Iron Man, and the...

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2020/04/01

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, intellectual thumpsy-thumpsy listener -- or anyone else directing their Marmite sneer at the weaponisation of Classic FM. Jon is dedicating his restocked facepalm bouquet to new best friend Rob, and doing a manual Iron Man at the intersection between acrobatics and too many percussion sticks. Mike's been

53:46

PSTB #23: Thunderfinger Royale, sneezing gnomes, and...

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2020/03/01

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-wrangler Jon has been navigating impending Abmeldung from his throne of radical leftist literature, as well as waxing lyrical about nasty nonsense and twiddling his hand-forged toasting fork. Self-styled ball of smug Mike has been watching Thunderfinger Royale and Groundhog's Eve while suffering a

58:57

PSTB #22: Luthierism, feline schadenfreude, and The...

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2020/02/01

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 with grisly apolcalyptic visions of the Uncanny Valley. Blacksmith to the stars Jon Whitten warns of the dangers of hubris-powered Luthierism, while ruining his co-host with The Curse Of Happy Village. Mike fights back with electric-guitar birthday cards, sample-library parlour games, and multiple Mary Poppins

54:49

PSTB #21: Chew Yourself Fit, The Joy Of Theft, and a...

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2020/01/01

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 own facepalms and rejoicing in the exquisite URL innuendos of Mole Station Nursery and Pen Island. Jon has drained his choir chalice, emboldening him to resist the thrall of ker-chunk and deliver an anarcho-feminist roar with deep mahogany sonorities. Your hosts join forces to investigate earworm antigens,

58:00

PSTB #20: Bublé's Irish Cream, sleighbell taxes, and...

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2019/12/01

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-house feline support specialist Mike reveals that all Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is Jah, and also waxes non-lyrical about Selena Gomez's finest hour. Meanwhile, rhythm-murderer Jon discusses synth tax rebates, as well as raising the sons of earth with a rousing 'Hark the HAIR!' In other news, Jon's

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