This week: Dem boffins are at it again and Kim is watchin' em, behold your new master: JIBO, Europe hates Google, Ebola and Roswell, Naked hijackers and much more! Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , Kim Monaghan , and Ken Eakins Higgs - Boson News - Link Google Glass no longer scares me; Jibo does - Link , Link Europe Hates Google Link Ebola: The Roswell Connection Link Elbow musical or musical elbow ? - Link Naked, Stick-Wielding Carjacker Gets Hogtied By Highway Drivers - Link Witchcraft, S...
Sep 15, 2014•49 min
This week: Gundam fans: size isn't everything, Don't cross the Dark Lord!, Glow in the dark Wild Boar, Net Neutrality, Ryan Gosling and incest, Don't be dissing my Montessori, Google Glass: The creepiness continues, and much more! Personnel – Matt Staggs , Frater Isla , Kim Monaghan , and Ken Eakins Links Anime Dweebs Plan Sixty-Foot Robot Link Dark Lord oppression - Link More than one in three wild boar in Germany too radioactive to eat - LINK How will Kim get his unspeakable porn? - Link The N...
Sep 05, 2014•59 min
This week: US Veterans are not fans of drugs, The great Washington body-double conspiracy, Germany does it analogue!, The cows come home, Archie takes a bullet...finally, and loads more great gumph in this return to CCN greatness! Personnel – Raymond Wiley , Matt Staggs , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Links US Veterans Stop Taking Their Meds Link Washington Body Doubles - Link Germany goes back to the future with typewriters - Link Freedom of choice...for cows - Link Archie Takes a B...
Aug 29, 2014•1 hr 12 min
This episode Kim the usurper takes the interview throne, and interviews our second female guest to date, the wonderful Annie Jacobsen . Annie has recently published a book called 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America', says it all really. World War II, Secret Nazi Scientists, what more do you need? Enjoy! [powerpress] Ken's (yeah...KEN'S) musical slices this week come in the shape of: Romdraculas - Mockobckne Okha Eyvind Kang - Pure Nothing...
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr 26 min
WHAT IS THIS?? A CCN RELEASED IN A TIMELY FASHION? This week: We salute the changing of the guard at DisInfo, Bad vibes in Isla-Town, Vlad the Impaler found!, Washington hippy news, Ouija boards now on the NHS, Get that vag in shape!, Soooo Normcore, Spotty Mars logic, and get your folk on with shirley Collins. Personnel – Kim Monaghan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins Links Farewell, Matt Staggs - Link Bad Vibes in Texas Link Dracula is buried in Italy...apparently - Link Stoned State: Weed in Was...
Jul 09, 2014•1 hr 29 min
Come and talk music with us on Facebook here . Tracklist Nomeansno - Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Ber Rosarotem Licht Weave - Go Ni Father Murphy - Bones Got Dry John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13 Dead Rider - Of One Thousand The Advisory Circle - Mind How You Go Sandfingers - Concrete Rainbow Canibus - Channel Zero Sunn O))) & Ulver - Eternal Return Greguy - Temps The Unsemble - Neon Teeth of the Sea - Open Up and Let the Devil In If you want us to p...
Jul 03, 2014•1 hr 21 min
This week: HAARPing back to the old days, Dead or Alive...or meditating?, Slender goings on, Freeze creep!. Farewell Rick Mayall, The Revenge of the Russian Yeti!, and Football has a new enemy! Personnel – Kim Monaghan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins Links: Farewell, Sweet HAARP. I Already Miss You Link Court to decide if guru is dead or just in deep meditation - Link Slender Man Stabbings Link Link Link Link Human Suspended Animation Trials This Month Link RIP Rick Mayall - Link The Russian Yeti...
Jun 23, 2014•1 hr 10 min
This week: California's mayor bullies bullies, That ain't no Yeti. Uri Geller...sigh, German Cat slinging, HR Dieder...too soon?, Florida: the endless story machine, plus much more. Personnel – Kim Monaghan , Frater Isla , and Joe Nolan Links CA Mayor to Bullying Victims: “Grow a Pair” Link Is Yeti a Bear? - Link Uri Geller’s Spoon Gorilla Link German Cat-Weapons of the Middle Ages - Link Goodbye HR Giger - Link FLORIDA WATCH: Representative Says Common Core Program Makes Kids Gay Link McScary -...
Jun 08, 2014•1 hr 10 min
Apologies for the lateness of this show, I (The Ken) have been ill. This week: The Big Dog is off the chain, yeah that's right, Ken's hosting again. That's really all you need to know....no?...ok, this week we discuss The latest activistprank from the Yes Men, New moons and hipsters, Hack your face!, Kim's analogue dream tape, Stuff, The weirdness of Mandella's interpreter, Brazilian football is Smash TV, Nintendo gayness, and Florida's cache of medieval weapons. Personnel – Kim Monaghan , Frate...
May 23, 2014•1 hr 6 min
Tracklist 1. Time of the Night People - Melancholy 2. Anaesthesiologist - Dirty Hit 3. Sailplanes - Underneath A Northern Sky 4. Porvort & Klangchester - Dolores In Wonderland (Magic Potion) 5. Northville Tunnels - You Are My Density 6. WHAM BAM ! - High Days 7. Sun Inside - Five Steps 8. Joev.Noise - Siren 9. Jucumari - Blekt Blondin 10. Minced Beats - Printer Jam...
May 13, 2014•1 hr 5 min
This week: Ken gets all nerdy about the Star Wars Episode VII cast announcement, The KKK gets all neighbourly and then sleeps with a gay black guy, Bees are little bastards!, Balls of purity, More fascism in the UK, Dem Vampire Ants be all up in my yard, E.T.'s sordid past, Locke and load, and Trippin' in Italy. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins Links STAR WARS Ep VII CAST ANNOUNCED!!! - Link KKK Starts Neighborhood Watch Link Ken’s Fascist Corner: KKK Grand Dragon’s gay black...
May 11, 2014•1 hr 29 min
This episode we talk to a personal hero of mine, Crispin Hellion Glover. Although probably best known for his mainstream roles in films such as Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels, and Willard, Crispin has blazed his own trail via art-house cinema, underground book publishing, and relentless touring. Join us once again as we venture into the world of Crispin Hellion Glover. Daddytank's musical treats this episode: Apostrophic - TXLS4 Dead Rider - Blank Screen Benjamin Shaw - Break The Kettles A...
May 04, 2014•1 hr 56 min
This week: Our glorious leader Ken is once again unable to reach the epic levels of fitness, and mental agility needed to traverse the rocky rhetoric that is CCN, however, the others are...so, that's good I guess. Anyway, this week they discuss: Catzilla!, Red Spain, Protestaganda, Lots of stuff about books to look intelligent, authors capitalising on our fascination with Florida, Magickal Magicky Magick, and the death of a legend! Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Kim Monaghan Links: Ca...
Apr 25, 2014•1 hr 26 min
This week: Sans-Ken, our fearless heroes attempt (in vain) to push on through with a 'show' for you lucky listeners. Listen to them discuss: Baby Poop, Chef Liar, Pomegranate Batteries, Bangingbig with the Big Bang (yeah I went there), Solar Moon Energy...man, Growing vegetables in space ...maaaaaan, Noah: Action hero. and Courtney Love: Plane finder. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Kim Monaghan Baby Poop Sausage... Link Chef Liar - Link , Link Hippy Watch: Pomegranate batteries - Link...
Mar 25, 2014•1 hr 8 min
Kim returns with his unsigned focussed show. Filled with the usual blend of weirdness and blathering from your host, and some great new choons. Yeah, really. Tracks. Blemishes - Outer Pluto Nebulae Apostrophic - SKE-3-RCV Sir Rocket Juice - The Toy Box Dino Felipe - Pea Cock Scandra - Steps Into Nowhere Fields of Ohio - A Satsung For Your Saturn Return Bit Cloudy - Washington Phillips Bouwakanja - Present Capitol K - GGiga Llamatron - Mirror Of War...
Mar 20, 2014•56 min
This week: We doff our hats to the head Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Indian big cats scare Isla and Kim, Kurt Cobain is immortalised in stone, 13 year old flipflop, South America and Europe don't know how the Internet works, and Ass robots! The future now! Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins Linkydinks RIP Harold Ramis - Link Indian Leopard Strolls Through Hospital and Cinema Link Crying Cobain Statue Unveiled - Link Possibly the coolest 13 year old girl ever - Lin k Brazil and the...
Mar 03, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Come and talk music with us on Facebook here . Tracklist OvO - Pandemonio Pierre Raph (Requiem for a Vampire) - Crotch Batterie Public Service Broadcasting - Night Mail Crowhurst - Time Lapse Lake Kawaguchi - Recess Herbert Eimert & Robert Beyer - Klangstudie 2 Ennio Morricone - Placcaggio Necro DeathMort - Titan Master Musicians of Bukkake - Arche Sospetto - Agente D'oriente The Hacker - Deterritorial Army Poppy Ackroyd - Mechanism Secret Chiefs 3 - La Chanson de Jacky If you want us to pla...
Feb 27, 2014•1 hr 35 min
This week: Isla promos the homo..wait, I fancy some human heads with my Ramen, Ken has that sinking feeling, The Bible: the gift that keeps giving, Isla's Florida report, Crowd-sourcing the cure for cancer, and those crazy Aztecs and their manuscripts. Personnel – Frater Isla , Kim Monaghan , Roejen Razorwire and Ken Eakins Linkydinks 8 US States with “No Promo Homo” Policies Link Get some Human heads in your belly Link Fucking Sinkholes in the UK now! Link More Down Home Bible Based Madness - L...
Feb 17, 2014•1 hr 14 min
This week: Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Goodnight sweet prince, Isla's got his hands all over your Japanese bra, Go hack a fridge, Remove the pox of the Internet with one nifty plugin, Enigmatic Castaways, Git your Drones off my yard!, Cyberflora on MY Internet?, and Raymonds Oathorama! Personnel – Frater Isla , Raymond Wiley , Roejen Razorwire and Ken Eakins Linkydinks Japanese Invent ‘True Love Bra’ Link Now fridges are at it! Link De-bullshitter plugin Link Desert Island Depression Link Beer Dron...
Feb 11, 2014•1 hr 9 min
This week: Seperation between Church and...oh forget it, Pope blood is so hot right now, Himmler's does TMZ, Like shooting chickens in a barrel, County pot awards, Ex-pat pricks, and Obama-care breakdown. Personnel – Kim Monaghan , Frater Isla , Raymond Wiley , and Ken Eakins Linkydinks: Louisiana Schools Enforce Christianity Link Rough Week For Popes - Link, Link Himmler’s the new Anne Frank - Link Hunt cows with a rocket launcher - Link Pot Awards at the County Fair! Link Porsche-Owning Ex-Pat...
Feb 03, 2014•1 hr 4 min
This week: Kanye West is a dick, The janitor that confused the Internet, Hitchcock's most miserable moments, Ahoy there and stuff; The Pirate Bay still afloat, Urban Freeclimbing makes me mouth-vomit, and Incest for the new generation. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins Linkydinks: But he could have bought humility and talent - Link Janitor secretly worked on unsolvable puzzle! - Link Hitchcock’s Holocaust Link , Link The Pirate Bay: Still Afloat Link Altered:Urban Freeclimbing...
Jan 28, 2014•55 min
This week: The CCN crew stumbles drunkly into 2014 still a man down, Rest in Peace Al Goldstein you rough and ready diamond, Sex makes you done smarter, Dem robots took our joooobs, I've heard of pussy power...but this?, and those wacky DEA boys are at it again. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins Links RIP Mr Goldstein - Link How Sex Affects Intelligence, and Vice Versa Link The Future Lends a Hand Link Cronenberg would be proud! - Link Confirmed: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mex...
Jan 21, 2014•57 min
This week: Ho Ho, Kin' Ho! Satan to get a statue?, Tila Tequila turns to Hitler, Print your food!, Mysterious puzzles on the interwebs, Playstations: the refuge of the damned!, Blockbuster Video: good night sweet prince, and NSA getting their Judgements. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Frater Isla , and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Link Oklahoma Leaders say Satanic Monument Unlikely - Link Thefuturenowreport: Print your fucking food! - Link The Internet’s Most Mysterious Puzzle Link Playstations are for perv...
Dec 29, 2013•1 hr 18 min
This week: We're a man down, but hunkier than ever, America goes gaga for molly, Art bell: we hardly knew thee ... on satellite, Ikea CATastrophe, Mars barred, Did you father a child at a Megadeth concert?, and William Burroughs: Scientologist. Personnel – Joe Nolan and Ken Eakins Links: America finally notices MDMA - Link Art Bell Cancelled - Link IKEA let 100 cats loose in a store - Link The Trouble with Mars (Space News) - Link Chick gets knocked up at a Megadeth show, tries to find father on...
Dec 01, 2013•1 hr 19 min
Ken and Matthew delve into the weird and wonderful world of Doctor Who, and the even weirder world of collecting. This week we look back at the 50th anniversary special, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, The Minisodes, and much more. Matt gives us a report back from the Doctor Who 50th event at the Excel Centre in London, and we delve into some of the rumours surrounding the fate of Doctor Who action figure collecting. We also review some of the latest releases, including the Doctor/Dalek Toys R Us ...
Dec 01, 2013•1 hr 42 min
I tried to find a more unwieldy title for this podcast but couldn't. As I appear to have said over and over again, I was recently asked to be one of the judges of a new music award as conceived of by Paul Ackroyd . If you want more info about it you can go and read the article . It was very difficult being restricted to 5 choices as there was so much great stuff so this is a way of expanding on those choices a little. Enjoy. [powerpress] Tracklist Chris Watson – Winter Lee Gamble – plos 97s Ela ...
Nov 19, 2013•1 hr 26 min
Come and talk music with us on Facebook here . 1. Gastric Band - Sexy Grandad 2. Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards - Go Calligula, Go Go Go 3. Feverdream - The Story Of Joanna 3. Ageing Children - Mothership 4. Separation Device - Synaptic Inputs 5. Horse the Band - Taken by Vultures 6. Heartless - Cede 7. Vasia Bratchuk - Prelude No. 6 8. Suuns - 2020 9. Maruosa - Shit Power In A Showdown 10. Amenra - Boden 11. NAILS - Suum Cuique 12. Pombagira - Maleficia Lamiah If you want us to play your band/no...
Nov 07, 2013•1 hr 42 min
This week: Pussy Riot update, the slow television of Norway, Detroit bark city?, Matt Forney is a massive dick-bag, Dark Wallet and BitCoin: a good idea?, and a Canadian Astronaut snorts at Hollywood. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Kim Monaghan , and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Links: Pussy Riot Hunger Strike - Link Norway does TV...wrong - Link Investor to Create a Forest in Detroit - Link Matt Forney - Modern Caveman - Link Dark wallet - Link Canadian Astronaut booted out of screening of Gravity for heck...
Nov 05, 2013•1 hr 27 min
This week: Ken and Kim cause the entire SittingNow Media podcast production line to grind to a halt because of Grand Theft Auto V, and then talk about it in length, Is gold really space swag?, Kimensional news, Giallo Fever, Drugs and America, more drugs, and ancient presidents go UFO spotting....ah, it's good to be back! Personnel – Joe Nolan , Kim Monaghan , and Ken Eakins Linktastico: Is Gold from Outer Space? - Link Jefferson’s UFO sighting Link Dimension News - Link Amer - Link Blood on Bla...
Oct 26, 2013•1 hr 18 min
This week: Area 51 ain't no thang, bring on Area 52!, Diana conspiracy: The people say 'meh', L Ron Hubbard: Jazz Legend, Some Space News from the mouth of Kim Monaghan, and Film Taaaalk. Personnel – Joe Nolan , Kim Monaghan , Joseph Matheny , and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Linkywotsitnows: Area 51 declassified Link Too old. Don’t care - Link L. Ron Hubbard’s musical hubbub -Link Black hole action - Link Interludes April March, BS 2000, The Apollo Stars, and Cloroform...
Sep 19, 2013•1 hr 18 min
