For this weeks worth of diary entries, I'm joined by my bestie and former co-host Amanda, who was flung together with me on air in the early 90's after management decided to sack my best mate, give me his job AND his co-host Amanda to hang out with too. Naaaw radio, you're so considerate of nobodies feelings. Anyway, we swiftly became mates and the rest is history, fortunately Amanda remembers way more stuff from that history than I do, PLUS she's a huge fan of the podcast, so of course she's back. Together we'll have to navigate the sudden arrival of what is, at this stage, my bleakest diary entry ever, it's sad, but also abusive, and it makes me feel sorry for 20 year old me kinda, but not really, suck it up you teeny princess hehe. Anyway aside from that, we also have work through entires about me having a zit filled facial crisis, I stupidly agree to installing a home phone in the radio station share house, much to my mothers disgust, she was right of course. I also attend the 'Karratha Citizens of the Year' Awards and get bored to snores, and one of the two share house kittens gets adopted, but will it be mine? It won’t be, there's also a great memory care of Amanda when she reveals how she lied her way into a career in radio. It's a top tip, but probably not something you should entertain, unless you're really savvy, or you're more than willing to be fired a few days into being hired, so swings and roundabouts really hehe.

<div>For this weeks worth of diary entries, I'm joined by my bestie and former co-host Amanda, who was flung together with me on air in the early 90's after management decided to sack my best mate, give me his job AND his co-host Amanda to hang out with too. Naaaw radio, you're so considerate of nobodies feelings. Anyway, we swiftly became mates and the rest is history, fortunately Amanda remembers way more stuff from that history than I do, PLUS she's a huge fan of the podcast, so of course she's back. Together we'll have to navigate the sudden arrival of what is, at this stage, my bleakest diary entry ever, it's sad, but also abusive, and it makes me feel sorry for 20 year old me kinda, but not really, suck it up you teeny princess hehe. Anyway aside from that, we also have work through entires about me having a zit filled facial crisis, I stupidly agree to installing a home phone in the radio station share house, much to my mothers disgust, she was right of course. I also attend the 'Karratha Citizens of the Year' Awards and get bored to snores, and one of the two share house kittens gets adopted, but will it be mine? It won’t be, there's also a great memory care of Amanda when she reveals how she lied her way into a career in radio. It's a top tip, but probably not something you should entertain, unless you're really savvy, or you're more than willing to be fired a few days into being hired, so swings and roundabouts really hehe.</div>

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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For this weeks worth of diary entries, I'm joined by my bestie and former co-host Amanda, who was flung together with me on air in the...

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