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1230 AM
Hey- hey everyone... it's... been a while.
Yeah it. Yeah. Listen, while I HAVE taken a liking to this radio business.. I'm a busy man! I got shit to do! And I mean the antenna broke, that's the thing I had to do. For everyone listening in from a bunker, I don't even fuckin' know if that's possible but just, IF... uh, huge storm, there was a huge storm like three days ago. It knocked out the encoder- that's what's sending the signal.
Yeah, I'm REAL smart now by the way. I had a look into one of those "broadcasting for idiots" books that I foraged a while ago. Of course I knew that shit already, but now I've got the vocab for it too. So I have, hold on to your seats, I have what's called a MICROPHONE here which can-
[silence]
Yeah okay let's just- nevermind. ANYWAY long story short the stuff on my roof was fucked and turns out I can't really broadcast during storms anyway so... if I'm ever not broadcasting maybe just have a look outside. That might happen like, often I guess. Weather's pretty shit here, am I right? That's what you get for staying in apocalypse city.
Anyway, today my entire equipment decided NOT to break again so here you go, your favorite radio station is back! This is POG 12 30 AM with your host Tommy, and- yeah, let's just get to the songs.
This first one is one that I- listen, everyone watched Arcane right? I'm not gonna explain what Arcane is. Well so me and my roommate, we watched Arcane season two and then for a solid like- week we just kept blasting the soundtrack. A soundtrack that, let's just say I obtained by certain means and therefore kept after the whole society goes to shit thing. So, here is Ma Meilleure Ennemie!
1200 AM
A (young man, raspy voice): Hey, listen...
[pause]
B: What?
A: You said you do- song, song requests, right?
B: That I do, man! What's it gonna be for you?
A: Well- okay-... listen. It's kind of stupid but you did that fucking, you played that song for your best friend or whatever right?
B: The- yeah, the first song.
A: Right, so, it- it brought me, it gave me an idea. I wanna do the same thing.
B: Well then, man, what's the song?
[silence]
A: [exasperated] Do you know Waterloo?
[laughter from B]
[more laughter]
B: YOU MEAN ABBA?
A: ... yes.
B: Ok- I mean- [more laughter] yeah, yeah, I do.
A: So- can you play it?
B: I mean- I- sure. Sure. Yeah, whatever. Why that song though, it's like, painful to listen to innit?
A: ... You say ABBA is bad and turn around and play the fucking Arcane soundtrack and Taylor Swift?
B: HEY- listen, okay, the Arcane soundtrack is just- GOOD, it's literally good. And- and it's my fucking radio bitch.
A: Hey that's no way to talk to your listeners!
B: So what are you gonna do, huh, bitch?
[pause]
A: Just- play the goddamn song.
B: No, no, but WHY would I play this song?
A: ... It's an inside joke, okay? I'm not saying it's GOOD. But Char- my friend and I had it as like a bit. It was really stupid, but- today's his birthday so I wanted to do a special something.
B: So what, you'll both be listening to POG AM through the whole celebration? As you should, of course-
A: No.
A: I don't have a lot of time, I- I need to go scavenge anyway. Are you gonna play the song or what?
B: ... Oh...
B: Yeah, yeah of course.
B: I'm sorry about that.
1230 AM
Welcome back everyone, this is POG 12 30 AM and you're here with your host Tommy! For any listeners who might not like some of the songs I play, IT'S MY SHOW BITCH SO GO CRY ABOUT IT.
Anyway. You just heard New Romantics from Taylor Swift, it's- it's like okay. I actually have both versions of that album now, the like- the new one as well so that's fun. Oh AND of course, SOMEone called in and made a small request. And I would just like to say to this devoted listener: you brought this to my station, this is on you. To everyone else, this isn't MY music taste, I just wanna- say that.
So, give a... not that excited applause 'cuz we're listening to Waterloo by ABBA.
1200 AM
A (male voice): Hey this is- Tommyinnit, right?
B: SURE IS, who'm I talking to?
A: Uh- just- (quiet laugh) I can't tell you that, sorry.
B: ... Yeah okay fair, weird times. So, why'd you call?
A: Uh- ... I had a dream.
B: You- had a dream?
A: Yeah, and it's like- really weird honestly so I just wanna talk about it. And all of my- the people I'm staying with, they're no fun right now they are SO busy with- anyway.
A: So this dream, like, listen, it started I think with me being a child. Or not a child but I know I was the child of a fish.
B: ... Okay...?
A: Yeah, I think someone we met said that. The dude was totally lost I don't know what was going on with him, seriously. Anyway, so in my head I was the- I was still a human but my mom was a fish.
B: What kind of people are you meeting?
A: Eh, we didn't meet with him. We wanted to meet with his boss and just did a bit of small talk.
A: Anyway, and so I was just gardening but get this I had a whole like- a cottage, basically. Have you seen Lord of the Rings?
B: ... No?
A: Wh- no, come on. There's no way. Okay, just, I had this like hobbit house basically. You have to know these.
B: Yeah, of course I know hobbits, bitch.
A: Okay so I had this cottage and I'm just- minding my business and stuff, right. I'm gardening I think. But turns out the cottage is actually in the middle of the city and then I just see my friends speeding past in like a car and- and then another and another. And it's like a thousand cars basically like a horde. It's really weird. But anyway after that I went back to gardening.
[silence]
B: Is that what you called me for?
A: Yeah.
B: Okay... sure. You got some weird fucking dreams buddy.
A: I know... thanks for listening though. We're listening to your radio station, it's really interesting... actually, this is an open frequency right?
B: Yeah? We're in the apocalypse, there ain't any regulation for that shit here.
A: Oh... yeah, anyway, bye Tommy!
B: Bye...
1230 AM
And, I'm back! I know this song is a bit of a wildcard- okay I know the songs aren't- what was it that one idiot said, coherent? But it's just GOOD music, that can't be restricted to one genre!
So this is a bit random even for me but listen, I'm so glad I kept a copy of it. I like- I had to do that one school project, and it was just- it was- it was fucking terrible. I still hate that teacher and would leave him out on the open street with no regrets if he showed up here, but anyway, I had to do that project and I just COULD NOT FUCKING focus. But I got that song from like somewhere and just put it on and listened to it on repeat for a while. That helped, I FINISHED the project, so.
Anyway get this dear listeners I just had a WEIRD fucking call. No offense buddy, but you should get some help on those dreams. There was like- like someone fucked a fish and then they were gardening and then like a whole car race and just- huh? Anyway, if you wanna call in with your weird as fuck dreams you can do so at 1200 AM, our caller hotline. This is Tommy, Tommyinnit from POG 12 30 AM and I'm just gonna serve you up some more music.
The next one- it's cringe, okay? But my parents really liked it so like, I thought I could put it on or something... just, we can get through that together, right? [laughter] This is Angel by uhhh Madonna. I'm gonna be real I'm not even totally sure who that is but that's okay. Not like I can just use Wikipedia here.
And with this I'll be going on a short break, the clouds are looking a BIT like- dark so if that FUCKING storms shows up again I'm gonna lose it.
See you in a few minutes, Tommy out!