This is the exact script that I sent to Danny Bruder for the Radio:24 radio show or podcast, which he used in the Pierats Volume 1 Show. Enjoy!


A week or two ago I asked SBP to write something for me to put on the air. One could naturally have dismissed what he wrote as typical nerd fantasies, but I asked him to write another show all the same. Coming right up then, we've got Part Two of SBP's Radio Rampage. But first, a word from our sponsor!

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THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM IS ON THE AIR, ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING, ALL SQUEAKING. WE HOPE THAT YOU CONTINUE NOT TO BE AFRAID. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BREATHE IN HELIUM BALLOONS TO REPLICATE THIS VOICE. THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM'S BALLS ARE YET TO DROP.

Friends, Romans, Espians! Last time we had a nice friendly chat about the Plexnet Practical Philosophy or PPP. Hundreds of you wrote in to the show to ask questions, so we're going to answer a few of your letters right here, right now, live on the air.

Our first letter is from little Jenny Pemberton, aged nine from Camberley-on-Trent. "Dear SBP", she writes. "Mummy made me listen to your radio show and I thought that I wouldn't like it but it was a lot of fun. I still don't understand what the Plexnet is though. Please can you explain? Is it a really big pony that you can ride on the internet? Lots of love, Jenny. P.S. I would like a pony for Christmas again. I want to be a pony breeder when I am older."

Sean replies: "Yo Jenny. Yes, the Plexnet IS a lot like a pony. It sits in the stable when you're not using it, but it's always ready to be your friend when you want to take it out for a ride. It can go FAST or it can go SLOW, but as long as you feed it the occasional mint it's willing to go through bush and briar to get you to wherever YOU need to GO. Most of all, it happily shits all over the place when you're not looking. Thanks for writing in, Jenny!"

Our second letter is from Professor Todd Oddjob of the Institute for the Manly Arts, at the University of Grangeborough. Professor Oddjob writes: "Dear Mr. Palmer. You will recall that some time ago I patented a new kind of super efficient Stirling Engine for powering toy racing cars. This super efficient Stirling Engine is light to the touch even when running at its maximum speed of TWENTY THOUSAND revolutions per second. That, sir, is fast. VERY fast indeed. My question, sir, is this: if I want to write a shaila about my brand new Stirling Engine, how ought I to go about that? What, sir, should I do? Yours in compatriately respectfulness, Professor Todd Oddjob."

Sean replies: "What up, Professor Oddjob? Great to hear from you. My homie Jeffry Archambeault has been having a bit of trouble with shailas recently. The problem is that it takes so long to write a shaila! I've proposed that instead of GROUPING all of the bits of discussion by THEME, he writes brief SUMMARIES of the key action and then LAYERS more detailed information about what's going on on top of that. As long as you start with something useful and then add layers of usefulness you can stop at any time and you still have a useful, finished product. All you need is a few quotes here, a longer summary there, a considered response here, a link to the original discussion there, and on and on and on. Hopefully you can apply this to your Stirling Engine just as well. Thanks for writing in, Professor Oddjob, and all the team here at Radio:24 hope that you have every success in the Manly Arts."

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Welcome back to Part Two of the SBP Radio Rampage, brought to you by Danny Bruder and THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM. We just heard some questions from Jenny Pemberton and Todd Oddjob, but what about the 24 Weeks TEAM? What have they been getting up to? Let's catch up with all the latest news and happenings from the 24 Weeks headquarters, on Planet Earth's fascinating internet.

First up, what's going on in the brain of Tav? THE BRAIN OF TAV. THE BRANE OF THE TAV. TAV'S MAGNETIC AND HYPER-ECSTATIC DRIVING AND WRITHING DISPARATE COMBINING BRAIN-IN-HIS-HEAD. THAT MONSTER MACHINE, STUFF OF LEGEND AND DREAMS, THE THING THAT WE CALL THE NOGGIN OR BONCE: THE BRAIN OF THE GIVEN, AMAZING CONDITIONED AND ULTRA-MAGICIAN, OUR TAV-IN-A-BOX. OH TAV WITH HIS MOXIE AND MAGNANIMOUS FOXY OLD TEACHINGS AND WAYS, IT'S OUTSTANDING, EXPANDING, WITH ITS FEARLESS DEMANDING, IT'S TAV!

Tav's back from holiday and his mojo has returned. The dude has MOXIE. The dude has SPUNK. The dude has vitality and WIT and vibrance. The dude has been gardening the wiki SO HARD that it is almost naked. He has plucked petal after petal from our wiki flower until only the beautiful fibonnaci sequenced interior remains. Yes tav is back, and he's actually documenting things. It remains to be seen how everything will turn out, but when you're documenting things you're at least doing SOMETHING. Excelsior, tav!

Next up, how is Mamading? Mr. Mamading "Evangineer" Ceesay, of Rich Mix? He's brought out his Community Engine NG and the thing is looking OH-SO-GOOD. The idea is that you give groups a place to really COMMUNICATE and get together, but you treat them as living processes. You give them voting facilities; you give them ways of being creative; and you give them ways of maintaining a paper trail. Good idea, Mamading!

So why can't we work on one of these project proposals? Surely the idea of an Internet Operating System has to start somewhere. Maybe we should BRAINSTORM what the idea of an Internet Operating System could be, to avoid falling into the pitfalls of Persistent P2P and other such traps. After all, there are MANY operating systems available today. It's very hard to say which one is QUANTITATIVELY better than any of the others. There are just as likely to be many different ways of making an INTERNET Operating System too.

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You've been listening to SBP's Radio Rampage. That's it for today, but if enough people have been having a chuckle over this, we might return for future editions. If not, have fun, and keep watching the skies!

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YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM. DID YOU REMEMBER TO NOT HAVE BEEN AFRAID? DID YOU DISCARD ALL OF YOUR HELIUM BALLOONS AND OTHER VOICE ENHANCING SUBSTANCES? IF YOU DID, THEN THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM IS VERY VERY PLEASED WITH YOU. SO PLEASED THAT ITS BALLS MAY SOON DROP EARTHWARDS. MAYBE NOT TODAY, AND MAYBE NOT TOMORROW--BUT SOMEDAY. THE SBP BROADCASTING SYSTEM HAS LEFT THE HOUSE.

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Radio:24 is brought to you by BURGERNET, the internet for burgers. Are your meaty innards lacking tomato and lettice? Whether you want to crank up the razzmatazz or spank the gonzo, BURGERNET will serve whatever you deserve.

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Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com