The Chronicles of Benjamin: The Lame, the Pointless and the Completion (Week Forty-Eight)

Holy shit balls, it's actually FINALLY done and it's all feeling a little bit weird as I type this description. The creation and recording of this podcast has taken me almost an entire year to complete, in fact, at the time of writing this I'm just 12 days away from my birthday, which will mark a f…

The Bitching Network (Week Forty-Seven)

Yes, before there was the Social Network, there was me, thousands of kilometres from home in the rural mining town of Karratha, bitching and moaning about all of the things, hence the Bitching Network for the name of this episode. Much of it seems to be directed at those that work above me, in part…

All Dull on the Diary Front (Week Forty-Six)

The title of this episode doesn't bode well, but I figure if you're this far in, you're hardly going to give up with ONLY 3 more episodes left to go...right? Also if you've been following this podcast from the beginning, you'll already be well across the fact that teenage me was really shit at reco…

We Need to Talk About Chicken Kevin (Week Forty-Five)

While recording this episode with my bestie Lisa (aka Boofie or even Bou-ffon-tee if you're feeling extra and wanna rock her full nickname) we came across an entry where teenage me happened to record a glowing memory of a lunch at the Karratha Tavern where I shoved a Chicken Kiev into my mouth hole…

Escape From Karratha (Week Forty-Four)

Yaas, finally, after weeks of teasing my very first holiday back to Adelaide, (remember all those useless numbers recorded on every page of my Collins Diary counting it down?) well it's finally arrived. We open this episode on the very last day before I jump on a plane and head home to my family an…

Eternal Dumbness of the Teenage Mind (Week Forty-Three)

The last time my former radio co-workers and besties Jessica and Taris joined me for this podcast was episode thirty eight. Together they had to endure teenage me trying to jazz up my diary entries by adopting ridiculous written accents and pretending I was a Russian spy, an LA surfer dude and even…

The NeverEnding Bore Me (Week Forty-Two)

I know there's only a few more weeks of diary entries left on this podcast, but I really do wish I could actually really travel back in time to 1989 and give the younger version of myself a good shaking and the heads up that everything I'm focussing on in this diary of mine is largely boring and th…

My Life as a Flog (Week Forty-One)

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 …

Terms of Embarrassment (Week Forty)

Meh, there's waaaaay too many embarrassing recollections unveiled in this episode, do I write that in every single one of these descriptions? This diary is obviously wall to wall embarrassing moments from 1989, but there's also an almost endless supply of other deeply embarrassing moments that were…

All Creatures Great and Flushable (Week Thirty-Nine)

If this podcast and my teenage diary have taught me anything, it's that looking back on who you were 30 years ago, is VERY enlightening, it's also shocking as all get out. Each week of entries leaves me a wee bit shook by my own decisions, choices, thoughts, theories and all the other inane this an…