Friday, December 20, 2019

LA Podcast 297: Merry Christmas, Les Dennis!

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Stories this week include:
  • Concrete enema sex game goes exactly as expected.
  • Giant Christmas phallus unites neighbourhood.
  • Woman in eggless marriage elopes with lover.
  • Angelic child gives nativity audience a show to remember.
Wishing all our listeners a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

p.s. Please feel free to let Les Dennis know about this episode.

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Friday, December 13, 2019

LA Podcast 296: A Savage Punch-up and Thuggish Low Life Behaviour at Winter Wonderland

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Stories this week include:
  • Japanese man dials up restraining order.
  • Budding escapologist throws yule log at police.
  • Lightweight doppelganger found for heavy-boned cat.
  • Sex-mad duck has pecker removed.
We engage in a spot of advert calendar gaslighting...

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Friday, December 06, 2019

LA Podcast 295: A Masked Gimp Terrorising a Sleepy North Somerset Village

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Stories this week include:
  • Ex-Babestation model helps restore faith in humanity. 
  • Santa's sack captured in chocolate.  
  • Giant statue of baby Jesus reveals True Colours.
  • School shames fussy child by disclosing toilet habits.
Rob gets genuinely irritated...

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Friday, November 29, 2019

LA Podcast 294: Band of Kids with Greasy Hair and Black Clothes with a Liking for Death Metal Music (AKA The Pumpkin Film Production on Ebenezer Street)

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Stories this week include:
  • Questionable bed and breakfast opens in Norwich.
  • Doctor takes the p*ss out of airline passenger.
  • Suspicious sausages blight Bristol.
  • The New Forest Satanist Society denies knowledge of sheep murders.
The nob gags hit an all-time high...

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

LA Podcast 293: An Occasionally Eccentric Approach to Fried Chicken

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Stories this week include:
  • Police launch controlled demolition of family home to apprehend suspect.
  • Faecal shower health craze reaches Los Angeles.
  • KFC announces offensive gravy pot promotion just in time for Christmas.
  • Sex shop mannequin raid averted by enigmatic Good Samaritan.
We discuss our application for a Royal Warrant...

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Friday, November 08, 2019

LA Podcast 292: A Surprise Birthday Treat from KFC

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Stories this week include:
  • Romanian circus denies stealing drone operator's dog.
  • Steven Seagal returns to the limelight.
  • Entrepreneurial brothers launch door-to-door sewage collection service.
  • Aryan dingo sanctuary discovered in Australian Outback.
Rob discloses his military background...

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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

LA Podcast 291: A Booklet of Food Bank Vouchers Signed by David Cameron

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Stories this week include:
  • Man threatens drastic action after horse given haircut.
  • Flaming pillow extinguishes couple's lovemaking.
  • Drunk passenger clingfilmed.
  • Rolls Royce distances firm from employee's mashed potato comments.
LA Records is delighted to bring you the debut album from Air Hooligan Sex Connection...

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Friday, October 18, 2019

LA Podcast 290: Dirty Protests, a Growing Influence from Gangs and the Continued Use of Weapons

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Stories this week include:
  • Brexit cruise of the United Kingdom runaway success.
  • Suspect celebrates throwing table through window by emptying bowel.
  • Drunk man caught in compromising position with plastic cone.
  • Droopy eye defence overwhelmingly rejected by court.
We give a hot new take on the Extinction Rebellion protests...

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Friday, October 11, 2019

LA Podcast 289: Clichéd Ritual Sacrifice Horror Scene

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Stories this week include:
  • Paranormal investigator stalks man walking dog.
  • Marketing firm hires emotional support clown.
  • Builder deposits smelly treat in homeowner's chimney.
  • 'Mouldy Prison Cell' ad campaign was 'misstep' admits holiday camp.
Alex regales the listener with tales of daring toilet escapes...

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Wednesday, October 02, 2019

LA Podcast 288: A Troubled South West Holiday Resort

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Stories this week include:
  • SNARL splinters.
  • Holidaymaker outwitted by claw machine.
  • Harry Redknapp enjoys meatballs.
  • Former children's TV star victim of revenge attack.
This week's episode is sponsored by Centre Parcs and TripAdvisor (because, why not?)...

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

LA Podcast 287: Armed with a Garden Rake and an Empty Bottle of Tequila

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Stories this week include:
  • So-called expert injured after tampering with sex robot.
  • Missing dog last seen running off cliff.
  • Waitrose customer upholds stereotype.
  • Heinz unveils range of austerity products.
This is a local podcast for local people; we'll have no trouble here.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

LA Podcast 286: The International League for the Protection of Horses

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Stories this week include:
  • Couple experience miraculously visitation during celebratory meal.
  • Emotional support panther seen boarding plane at Bournemouth Airport.
  • 'Demon In A Box' the must-have toy this Christmas.
  • Amateur zookeeper skips town
Rob imparts his wealth of feline knowledge...

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Friday, August 30, 2019

LA Podcast 285: A Crucifixion Playset for Children

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Stories this week include:
  • DWP website signposts benefit claimants to jobs as village halls.
  • Former fast food mascot believed to have amassed band of street urchins for criminal endeavours. 
  • Teen finally secures date with family cat. 
  • Pregnant hedgehog denies attending Conservative Party Conference.
Warning: This episode contains explicit Jacob Rees-Mogg related content.

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Friday, August 23, 2019

LA Podcast 284: The Pockets of a Greedy Bad Loser of a Gambling Conglomerate

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Stories this week include:
  • Lotto loser implicated in hot cauliflower cheese altercation.
  • Mum celebrates son's 21st birthday by opening tin of vintage baked beans.
  • Medical expert advises women against sex games such as 'hide the chocolate'.
  • Squirrel given wheels.
Someone celebrates a significant birthday...

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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

LA Podcast 283: A £7 Bill for a Destroyed Inflatable Lilo

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Stories this week include:
  • Deviant refrigerates McDonald’s burger for later.
  • Metallica prevents another cougar attack.
  • Airline approves the use of miniature horses.
  • Giant’s burial ground discovered in Wiltshire.
The Blue Lagoon dream is dead...

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

LA Podcast 282: A Late Night Mass Brawl in the Buffet Area (Following an Alcohol-Fuelled Afternoon of 'Patriotic' Partying)

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Stories this week include:
  • Boyfriend forced to concoct fanciful excuse for disappearance of partner's dog.
  • Paranormal investigator claims he was chatted up by haunted doll. 
  • Serial excreter to star in new six-part documentary.
  • Police p-p-pick up a suspected trespasser.
Alex reveals his aspirations of becoming a newsagent...

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Friday, July 19, 2019

LA Podcast 281: The Usual Little Englander Brexit Party Head Cases

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Stories this week include:
  • Banksy suspected of holidaying in Skegness.
  • Westlife reveal beloved turnip gifted by fan.
  • Massive phallus spotted exiting plane.
  • Postman criticised for attempting to slam-dunk parcel into wheelie bin.
Rob prepares to emigrate...

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Friday, July 05, 2019

LA Podcast 280: A Root Vegetable with the Face of Noel Edmonds (Mini Episode)

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No headlines this week, so just imagine Jon Pertwee buying pick 'n' mix from Woolworths in the 1980s...

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Saturday, June 29, 2019

LA Podcast 279:The Hyper-Regulation of Everyday Life (Mini Episode)

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No headlines this week, so here's a lovely poem (courtesy of the Liverpool Echo's comment section):


'Bottle of Robinsons made up juice, 
Spam sarnies on Sunblest bread,
Golden Wonder,
Waggon Wheels,
Coach going to Blackpool lights and no stabbings.
Good days.'

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Friday, June 21, 2019

LA Podcast 278: A More Conventional Loaf

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Stories this week include:
  • Campanology competition ends in right old ding-dong.
  • Customer becomes enraged after restaurant refuses iguana as method of payment.
  • Infantilised raven makes bid for freedom.
  • Gym goer discovers mysterious shampoo-like substance on towel.
We discuss the delights of a glazed ring...

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Friday, June 14, 2019

LA Podcast 277: A Hilarious Photo of Nicolas Cage Instead of a Covering Letter for a Job Application

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Stories this week include:
  • Remorseful thief writes to farmer to say strawberry sorry for fruit theft.
  • Nation celebrates the lesbian pugs of Weston-super-Mare. 
  • Police helpfully try to reunited lost bag of class A drugs with owner.
  • Airline tells passengers to fly first class if they want to avoid dried vomit on seats.
We discuss a day trip to Eynsford...

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Friday, June 07, 2019

LA Podcast 276: Boules, Shuffleboard and a Covered, Solar-Heated Swimming Pool with Internal Seating Area

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Stories this week include:
  • Somerset man finally offloads the ol' war machine.
  • Butcher banishes balls at vegan activist.
  • Woodpeckers suspected of spying on nudists.
  • Festive ornament causes bomb scare.
We discuss the mental capacity of a stick insect...

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Friday, May 31, 2019

LA Podcast 275: Face to Face with a Grinning, Inch-Thick, Disc of Sausage Meat (AKA Meat Face)

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Stories this week include:
  • Supermarket admits that Welsh language signage errors were result of 'mainly guesswork'.
  • Turkey Cock Lane loses out to Fingringhoe.
  • DIY enthusiast pioneers new plastering technique.
  • Drunken rampage man propositions dog.
Rob has done himself an injury...

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Monday, May 27, 2019

LA Podcast 274: An Amalgamation of the Market Deeping Model Railway Club and the Plymouth Mermaids UK Group

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Stories this week include:
  • Trainee mermaids spotted off Devon coastline. 
  • Man-made disaster befalls small Lincolnshire town. 
  • Drunk men rescue terrified restaurant staff from 'confrontational' duck. 
  • Specsavers customer gobsmacked at eye-watering price of dry eye treatment. 
We give the NATO alphabet a long-overdue avian rebrand...

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

LA Podcast 273: Fake / False / Misleading Stories Created by Idiots without a Shred of Journalistic Talent

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Stories this week include:
  • Terrified mother photographs tree.
  • Truck passenger banishes pocket alligator at police.
  • Drone operator captures adorable video of neighbour's cat.
  • Liverpudlian influencer has bike stolen.
Warning! You may want to lower your volume around 43:10.

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Friday, May 03, 2019

LA Podcast 272: A Banner Bemoaning the Impact of a Builder's Yard on a 'Depressed' Cat

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Stories this week include:
  • Pathological liar goes to extreme lengths to see Eiffel Tower.
  • Lifetime supply of octopus and bi-annual barnacle removal fails to turn alleged spy.
  • Sex feet prove one step too far.
  • Government official vows to prove his sobriety during racist rant. 
We discuss the probable causes behind the closure of Eagle Heights Gambia...

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Monday, April 22, 2019

LA Podcast 271: Noel's Most Memorable Peculiarities

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Stories this week include:
  • Entitled child rejects grammatically incorrect meal.
  • Unemployed fisherman spots deadly predator.
  • Woman fails to sue Woolworths over shallot mishap.
  • Bystanders disgusted after shopper leaves deposit outside pub.
We regret to report that Blow My Recorder was unceremoniously cancelled...

Also, apologies for the quality of Alex's audio.

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Friday, April 12, 2019

LA Podcast 270: Overpriced Sweet Frothy Shaving Cream

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Stories this week include:
  • Hostilities between Mr Softy and Mr Whippy leads south coast to brink of war.
  • Julian Assange [REDACTED] in [REDACTED][REDACTED] for [REDACTED] during office hours.
  • Bovine dating app infiltrated by opportunistic perverts.
  • Pigeon cavity search marks start of national holiday celebrations.
We release our revised 'professions for deviants' list...

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Friday, April 05, 2019

LA Podcast 269: Spiny Barbel Protrusions and a Spicy Condiment for Chips

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Stories this week include:

  • Old banger spotted on the side of the A1.
  • Essex shopper outraged after being mistaken for catfish.
  • Company's refusal to change name is final nail in the coffin.
  • Ronnie Pickering finally gets the recognition he deserves.
We discuss the life and work of Richard Gere...

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Friday, March 29, 2019

LA Podcast 268: An Irate Great-Grandmother's Absent Sofa

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Stories this week include:
  • Spoon bender attempts to stop Brexit.
  • Psychic twins predict brothers' children will probably meet each other.
  • Furious gran sits defiantly in discomfort.
  • Rural resident perpetuates stereotype.
Rob issues a recorder-based ultimatum...

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Friday, March 22, 2019

LA Podcast 267: A Parliament of Idiots Governing a Nation of Fools

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Stories this week include:
  • Husband of former Peruvian beauty queen describes deaths of 500 animals as 'normal for a zoo'.
  • Woman makes video of crisp packet grand opening.
  • 'Unhinged' rabble of conspiracy theorists go on 'futile' outing.
  • Man makes perfectly rational decision to stockpile toilet paper. 
Rob manages to name ten animals...

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Friday, March 15, 2019

LA Podcast 266: Earthling Ed and the Protest Against Pork

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Stories this week include:
  • Homeowner fawns over doe-eyed intruder.
  • Man admits adulterous tryst with saucy Mexican.
  • Drunk woman loses keys (and grasp of spatial-awareness).
  • Thieves left dumbfounded after escapology-trained eagle disappears.
We extend an open invitation to OJ Simpson to become a regular contributor...

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

LA Podcast 265: Tubby the Rat and the Winterbacon Adventure

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Stories this week include:
  • Disturbed jogger maims malnourished lion cub.
  • Ghostly apparition revealed to be map of the Sudan.
  • 'Batman' sends fishmonger unwanted mermaid.
  • Bird of prey sanctuary adds to it's 30-strong pack of huskies.
Alex manages to contain the bloodlust...

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