Shack doesn't sound like Shack on the radio. Weird!

Thank you Spaced Out contributors.

Zoe apparently sent a text message, but we couldn't get it working and it was about the topic of sicky band names, which we dropped anyway after the exciting conker debate.

Sorry I didn't listen, Shack. I was all out and stuff. Next week, fo' sho'.

Why not use the handy Listen Again feature, as I am doing right now?

It's almost as if I told her to say that.

I didn't.

Is my fee in the post?

I'll send you a conker.

(you must listen to the show to understand)

Ah, Conker Bonkers.

I took three home with me last night.

I might plant them.

Excellent. I'm off to get a ticket to go down the big slide in the Tate Modern, but I'll have a listen when I get back.

Yes, good idea. And then, in three hundred years' time, you'll be able to play conkers with the post-nuclear cockroaches.

Fingers and tentacles crossed.

What. The. FUCK was that Wuthering Heights cover all about? Who's done that?

Bloody hell, we've angered her....

It's the Puppini sisters. I fucking hate them. Blame Fischer.

There's another album title right there.

I was pissing myself when that came on.

You'll only make her angrier......

They left a comment on our fictional myspace.

Aww, Adam & Joe #20 is the last one of this series. But it's extra long and extra good. *nod*

The bits on how Joe keeps the spark in his relationship and the trip to the zoo are the best

Nnnnngnnnggghhhhaaaaargh!

*pop*

Bugger. Avoid the Puppini sisters like the plague in future. Although by the sounds of it, they're probably deadlier than the black death itself.

Oh, and Gimp, Karen is very lovely. She wrote me a nice card and made me a CD because I've been having a rough time. Awwww.

Bless. It's lovely when that happens, innit?!

Awwwwwww.

It was a very sweet thing to do.

I've since sent her a card to cheer her up because her rotter of an ex-boyfriend was in doing the comedy talk on the show, and before he left he'd told her that he'd cheated on her while they were going out!!!

Bastard.

That little fucker. And you can tell her I called him that.

I think I called him a fucking wanker. But only a text message I sent to her. Next time I see him though he might get a punch up the bracket.

In case anyone wanted to know I'm on the radio twice tomorrow. Once in the morning from 10 with a few of my mates, which should be quite a ramshackle affair, and then another in the afternoon from 1 'til 3, which shall be me on my own playing lots of music and waffling a tad.

My sig has been changed as a result in case anyone wants the link.

Fab, listening to you now, just heard the Brian Eno tune. But you have no description on your website, put something there! please...

I'll get right on it.

*Fails to get right on it*

In the grand tradition of people off the forum on the radio, I'm on BBC Radio Cleveland again tonight (see sig for details), co-hosting for all my worth providing I don't fall asleep on the way.

On tonight's show I am only aware of two things that are confirmed.

One of those is some Darlington and Hartlepool football fans discussing the big derby game at the weekend and the other is that we're asking for people to mail in with their scary stories and tales of horror because it's Halloween next week.

If you have a story about feeling a presence in your bedroom or you once had the willies put right up you, then please send it to:

gobstopper@bbc.co.uk.

(Anyone who thinks what I said above is rude needs to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror)

Also, if that wasn't reason enough to tune it, I'll be hollowing out a turnip with a spoon live on air.

Beat that Moyles you fat twat.

I've just got the full running order from the official BBC mailout stuff...

On Gobstopper this week (Wednesday 25th October)

We look forward to the weekend’s big football match – it’s Hartlepool vs Darlington, and we’ve got a fans forum… with Pools-loving nutter LORD SMYTHE and Darlo Uncovered website supremo SCOTT THORNBERRY.

Music in the studio from brilliant Leeds/Teesside funk foursome CHICHINO.

And we’ll be looking forward to next week’s Writer’s Café night in Stockton, with Teesside writer TREVOR TEASDEL and star turn, punk poet extraordinaire ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER.

Plus (possibly) a surprise star guest (no promises though)!

All that plus all the latest reviews and tittle-tattle from BBC Tees Online’s KAREN SLATER. And music from The Futureheads, Amy Winehouse, The Damned, The Stranglers, Teenage Fanclub and loooooads more.

Gobstopper with Bob Fischer every Wednesday from 7-10pm on BBC Radio Cleveland 95FM. Amiable dogsbody of the week: Shackerooni.

Is it me?!

If you're that stuck for something to do on a Wednesday night, then it could be.

I'm not sure we'd class you as a guest though. You'd be in the bracket of "Shack's background chums" alongside my friend Philly Willy Slavin, who will hopefully laugh out loud in the background tonight whenever I say something funny.

It'll be like Entourage. But not as glamorous.

Unless you dress as a bridesmaid.

I am wearing the dress now, I am addicted to being a bridesmaid. I need to feel this special all the time!

Where's my white Rolls?

I was going to buy some white rolls so you could mop up the gravy left over from sausages and mash but your so-called grans 80th so-called birthday meal has got in the way.

Do you want me to tell my 80 year old Grandmother that I can't come to her birthday meal because you're making me sausage and mash?

I thought you were a nice boy.

A so-called nice boy. It's an act.

If you did fancy coming to the radio though, it can be arranged. Not from my point of view, you'd have to take two days off and you wouldn't be allowed to swear for 3 hours.

Fuck-ing hell.

Hmmmmmm though, hmmm indeed.

Your relentless bullying of Shack was amusing in the pub but could it really work on the wireless?









Yes. Yes, I rather think it could.

We've got our first fan Zozpot.

IN-JOKE - Shack knows. Nothing. About Film

when's her birthday?

my gran is 99 on the 2nd...

I still haven't found any conkers yet Shack, but that might be because I haven't been near Central Park in months.

And you call yourself Gobstopper's Official New York Correspondent?

Unbelievable.

You've got competition apparently. Last week a mail was received from a mysterious girl who lives in Canada. It'll be part of the show this week. You'll have to raise your game or we'll have a new North American Correspondent.....

We'll be Herring and Kennedy before the year is out.

I want to be Herring.

I love it when a plan comes together.

I think we're covering your mail today Julie.

Zooz - that's fine. As long as I can be mawkish.

Done and done, mawkio.

Thanks meatcakes.

That reminds me. I was listening to one of my old George Carlin albums yesterday, and he didst spake of 'meatcake'.