Pollie Love In - Opposition Styles

For the final Morning Mag of the radiothon we pulled out the big guns and got the second most powerful figure in West Australian politics, leader of the opposition - Eric Ripper. 

Do not think, for a single second however, that Mr Ripper was the only morsel on the Morning Mag plate, we also had the smorgas board that is merely half of Eagle and the Worm platoon, Jarrad on guitar, Liam on trumpet [hiding behind out monitors], Emily on trombone and Ross on the Sax.

What's that I hear you ponder? How could Bren possibly have had more on his plate? Well obviously he had friday resident sexologist Dr Gareth Merriman

Morning Mag might be over for Radiothon, but that's no reason to not keep the subscriptions coming in, we run through until Sunday folks!

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Breakfast Power! [Fin]

The final breakfast for Radiothon went off like preservative free food left in the sun. Pete was joined by a rich swathe of  guests - musical and otherwise - including Tristan Fidler and Simon Morado from movie squad.

Tristan, in addition to being hilarious, is also a talented artist [who knew right?] and rendered this uncanny likeness of our intrepid breakfast presenter.

Zoe and Adam From Emperors here belting out a tune.

As well as Kav and Joel from Eskimo Joe, who spoke [among a plethora of other topics] on selling out.

Breakfast might be done for radiothon, but you still have until midday on Sunday to subscribe!

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Old Boys Out To Lunch Tuesday Spectacular

A shot too good not to share, former RTRFM music director, and currently Thursday's Out to Lunch presenter Dave Cutbush, guesting with Office Manager Chris Wheeldon on current RTRFM music director Adam Trainer's Tuesday Out to Lunch.

Peter Barr was involved in this old fella palaver via the magic of technology over in the phone room too.

But it's not just RTRFM institutions mixing it up on today's Out to Lunch, Usurper of Modern Medicine popped in to have a big of a chin wag as well.

Gulls came in to show their love for RTR:

And then Tristan Fiddler also came in to visit Mr Trainer:

The tastiest new music, local or otherwise, every weekday on Out to Lunch. If you want to keep it around, please help us out and subscribe. 9260 9210!

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One big, happy, slightly smelly, family

Normally, our radio studios are islands of calm and professionalism, broken up by the guests from time to time.

During radiothon however, this is not the case. [although we're totally still super duper professional]

Unsurprisingly Micah and Ben M are filling the studio with stacks of electronic music gremlins

But Jo Lettenmaier holds the record so far with monday's out to lunch.

Let's hope we don't reach critical mass, eh?

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**edit**
Upon hearing that they'd lost out to Out to Lunch, Full Frequency upped the ante.

7 is the new number to beat.

Radiothon Day One - Battlestations!

No amount of meticulous planning can adequately prepare for the insanity that is Radiothon.

Day one is always a testing of the battlements, seeing which sections of the wall will hold, and which will be over run by the onslaught of subscribers. Our trebuchets have been tested, our pikemen at the phone room have been tempered in the forge of a run of busy shows, and we [just barely] emerge.

It's the funnest kind of insanity, when the stations numbers swell and you can barely turn around without stumbling into somone hard at work doing something to encourage subscribers. Sometimes it gets so busy we spill over into the street outside.

It's not just behind the scenes that get hectic though, the studios have such an steady flow of guests that the soundproof double doors get left propped wide open. Like when former morning mag presenter Bren McGurk and sexologist Dr Gareth Merryman speak to current Friday Morning Mag Presenter Stacy Gougoulis.

Speaking of sassytimes, check out one of the mad spot prizes we've got for the [engage mental Barry White voice sythesis for the next word] Laaaaaaadies. Sorry girls, our vollie doesn't come with the prize.

Speaking of spot prizes, wanna see how many of them we've got [not that it's a competition or anything, but I bet it's more that you]

What's that I hear you say? "Golly RTRFM, that sure is quite a lot of spot prizes, but I think I might still have more." Well, to you sir/madam [sirdam?] I say the following...

... I wasn't finished.

 
One of these has a very good chance of landing in your hands for subscribing during the next nine and a half day, not to mention that you then go into the running to win some epic major prizes.

So, even if you don't think subscribing in order to have the warm and fuzzy feeling of moral superiority over others is enough reason to subscribe, rest assured that your cold, calculating, reward driven mind will be well rewarded too.

RTRFM 92.1, covering all the bases.

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2 days to go!!

Only two days to go until we slap the rump of the radiothon warhorse with the flat of our greatswords!

It all kicks off with an outside broadcast from 78 records where the first 80 people through the door get a double pass to a special RTRFM screening of "Submarine" at Luna on SX.

Now, in celebration of there being only two days left until the best time of year, a collection of dynamic duos.

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Getting *everything* ready

As radiothon approaches RTRFM kicks into über high gear. Every facet of the station gets some attention, whether its retrofitting the conference room into a phone bank, stacks more people milling about stuffing envelopes and folding hats...

We even get volunteers to do things like this:

If we've got vollies cleaning the loo, do you think we'd be asking for a subscription unless we really needed it?

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