I'm SUCH a flog throughout this weeks worth of diary entries, I know, who would think I could possibly be more foggy than I've already been, then again, aren't most of us just out and out flogs left, right and centre when we're teenagers and twenty somethings? Trust me, we totally are. Fortunately I'm joined by my bestie Yvie for this episode and she is well versed in my flogtastic pursuits having been my bestie since the early 90's in Perth. Together we'll work through my reaction to news of a horrific hot air balloon accident, which unsurprisingly I manage to make all about myself, seems pretty standard by now. The pilots strike inspires me to ask the deep questions, like are we even the lucky country anymore...really? Yes really, I also find another opportunity to praise talkback radio host John Laws, ewwww just stop dude, and it would seem all these flight dramas trigger some depression and I get snappy and say nasty things to the people I work with, soooo much floginess. Trust me when I say that I'm not even detailing ALL of the utter whack stuff I do within this weeks diary entries, you're in for another hectic but largely boring ride littered with moments of flog throughout. I also audition to be the voice of a mining company, I know blurk, who even was I? I also get served a bunch of bunghole as someone decides to flash me their butt while I’m talking live on air so there's that visual to process too. The fact that I still remember said butt in detail really upsets me when I think about all the things I've actually forgotten. So my deepest apologies for what you're about to experience but promise there's giggles to be had within.

<p>I'm SUCH a flog throughout this weeks worth of diary entries, I know, who would think I could possibly be more foggy than I've already been, then again, aren't most of us just out and out flogs left, right and centre when we're teenagers and twenty somethings? Trust me, we totally are. Fortunately I'm joined by my bestie Yvie for this episode and she is well versed in my flogtastic pursuits having been my bestie since the early 90's in Perth. Together we'll work through my reaction to news of a horrific hot air balloon accident, which unsurprisingly I manage to make all about myself, seems pretty standard by now. The pilots strike inspires me to ask the deep questions, like are we even the lucky country anymore...really? Yes really, I also find another opportunity to praise talkback radio host John Laws, ewwww just stop dude, and it would seem all these flight dramas trigger some depression and I get snappy and say nasty things to the people I work with, soooo much floginess. Trust me when I say that I'm not even detailing ALL of the utter whack stuff I do within this weeks diary entries, you're in for another hectic but largely boring ride littered with moments of flog throughout. I also audition to be the voice of a mining company, I know blurk, who even was I? I also get served a bunch of bunghole as someone decides to flash me their butt while I&rsquo;m talking live on air so there's that visual to process too. The fact that I still remember said butt in detail really upsets me when I think about all the things I've actually forgotten. So my deepest apologies for what you're about to experience but promise there's giggles to be had within.</p>

My name is Benjamin Wasley, you may remember me from my work as Giggling Ben on Hamish and Andy, or even Bad Boy Ben with the Vixen back in the 90's, but way before any of that, when I was 19, I moved from the seclusion of my bedroom at my parents house in Adelaide, all the way to the isolated Western Australian mining town of Karratha, to start work as a radio announcer for the very first time at a little radio station called 6KA. My Godmother gave me a diary to record every momentous occasion and now, 30+ years later, I'm going to find out how weird, arrogant, lame, self absorbed and closeted the teenage version of me was. To hold my hand while we revisit the end of the 80's and work our way through 365 days worth of embarrassing diary entries, I'll be joined by the people who've know me the longest, so we can have a giggle at the teenage version of me, and compare it with who I am now, and also revisit the world as it was at the end of the 80's, compared to how we're living right now.

Inside the Diary of a (Wannabe) Radio Announcer

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