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

The Bitching Network (Week Forty-Seven)

Jun 30th, 2021 28m 54s

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 se

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

Jun 29th, 2021 27m 30s

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

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

Jun 28th, 2021 24m 26s

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

Escape From Karratha (Week Forty-Four)

Jun 27th, 2021 24m 24s

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

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

May 27th, 2021 23m 13s

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 pre

The NeverEnding Bore Me (Week Forty-Two)

May 22nd, 2021 27m 59s

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 focu

My Life as a Flog (Week Forty-One)

Apr 17th, 2021 26m 19s

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 tw

Terms of Embarrassment (Week Forty)

Feb 18th, 2021 29m 29s

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 endles

All Creatures Great and Flushable (Week Thirty-Nine)

Jan 14th, 2021 22m 57s

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, choi

The Three Faces of Benjamin (Week Thirty-Eight)

Dec 26th, 2020 25m 18s

What you're about to hear are some of the most embarrassing diary entries I've uncovered so far. It could be argued that there's been a constant stream of things I could easily classify as embarrassing already, and that this is just the thirty

The Princess Lied (Week Thirty-Seven)

Dec 22nd, 2020 24m 13s

So we're back with another week's worth of my relentlessly yawn-arrific diary entries to wade through and this time around I've invited my bestie and former ONE and ONLY ACTUAL girlfriend Trish to join me (Trish the Dish, who I dumped soon afte

The Empress Strikes Back (Week Thirty-Six)

Nov 23rd, 2020 26m 23s

Ever since I started this podcast, I've been mad keen to get my bestie and former co-worker Maria (aka The Empress, aka Killer, you'll learn the story behind BOTH those nicknames in this episode) to appear on it. She's a busy lady who doesn't s

The Bleak-fast Club (Week Thirty-Five)

Nov 17th, 2020 25m 24s

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

To All the Burps I've Loved Before (Week Thirty-Four)

Nov 16th, 2020 22m 58s

In previous episodes we learnt that the Wasley family has a propensity to burp and fart A LOT, we arrived at that decision after my little brother Tom questioned our Mum about why we is all so gassy, it's a family trait. I should add it's a Was

The Sound of Normal Music (Week Thirty-Three)

Nov 11th, 2020 25m 25s

Nothing normal here, once again we dive into another week of teenage diary entries, this time around we're back with my bestie Retna in Amsterdam. Once again there's a LOT to work through, it's been 33 weeks of constant work and it would seem t

The Good, the Bad and the Closeted (Week Thirty-Two)

Nov 4th, 2020 27m 30s

My bestie MJ, aka Mary the babysitter from my teenage diary, is back for another week of entries and to help me understand why the two of us where so HOT for John Laws in the 80's. In 1989 Lawsie was the actual 'King of Talkback Radio', his sho

Close Encounters of the Sassy Kind (Week Thirty-One)

Oct 31st, 2020 24m 8s

If there's one thing this diary has been delivering in abundance, its proof of my teenage obsession with filling every page of it with endless time keeping of the most mundane and boring of things. It's like I'm a scientist employed specificall

Barnesy, Parrots and Planes (Week Thirty)

Oct 22nd, 2020 20m 36s

My bestie and former roomie from Karratha, Lisa (aka Boofie, which is short for bouffant, because in 1990 Lisa had a news reading demo video where the cameraman actually cut the top of her head off, and when she showed it to me I asked her "wha

The Sisterhood of my JagMen Pants (Week Twenty-Nine)

Oct 19th, 2020 18m 32s

Okay so when we were last within the pages of my torturously inadequate diarising, we learnt that newly 20 year old me had just discovered the magical allure of non alcohol tasting punch at a party. That introduction resulted in me unleashing t

Punch and Spewy (Week Twenty-Eight)

Oct 15th, 2020 26m 31s

You're about to dive into a week of diary entries which ultimately record a moment that changed my life FOREVER! Those capital letters are warranted because this will be the week that a then 20 year old me will be introduced to the destroyer of

Twenty Candles (Week Twenty-Seven)

Oct 11th, 2020 20m 18s

Just like the movie 'Sixteen Candles' teenage me is totes the Molly Ringwald character in this episode of the podcast. The differences are I'm turning 20, I also don't have a crush on the high school senior, although maybe Bradley can take on t

Gone to Sleep with the Wind (Week Twenty-Six)

Oct 8th, 2020 20m 37s

There's LOTS of things you learn about yourself by keeping a diary, especially one like mine, for instance, teenage me chose to record for future posterity that I just casually dropped my guts after falling asleep, whilst at the drive in, WITH

Wankerman: The Lameness of Benjamin Wasley (Week Twenty-Five)

Oct 4th, 2020 28m 16s

My bestie MJ, aka Mary the 14 year old babysitter we first met in Episode 7, is back for another week of diary entries. She's returning to the podcast because on this week, back in 1989, she was doing work experience at my employer 6KA. While s

Poop Fiction (Week Twenty-Four)

Oct 1st, 2020 25m 16s

My former high school bestie Linda is back, although I'm not entirely sure she was happy about that, especially once she realised that there's no actual fiction around the poop that I allude to in the title of this episode. It would seem that t