The Ploy

The Ploy 89: The King is Dead

The Ploy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:28:21 +0000

Back from our one month mid-year hiatus, The Ploy is coming to you recorded live this week, for the first time we did a live show using UStream. While this episode didn’t involve any call ins from listeners we did get a call-in from ‘Daisy’ aka Shannon. Ben’s ‘partner’ and that is something to stick around for. By doing the show Live you can also now watch the video of the show as it happened, unfortunately we could only organise video of Paul this time around, we hope to change that in future episodes.

Also this week… We officially welcome Paul Tevis as the third host, Dead Celebrities (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays), Paul Shaved his head!, Mike and Ben get into a fight over Leo Laporte, Australian Politics are C.R.A.Z.Y., Paul’s Family Reunion, Tech With Ben on the new iPhone 3GS and the Macbook range changes plus Shannon calls in and loads more.

For details on future LIVE SHOWS follow us on Twitter and check out theploy.com.au/live

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The Ploy: Angela Bishop

The Ploy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:22:02 +0000

For 20 Years Angela Bishop has been Network Ten’s National Entertainment Reporter and one of Australia’s most recognisable faces.

Reporting on key Entertainment News stories for ‘Ten News’, ‘HINCH’, ‘Alan Jones Live’ and ‘E! News’ as well as contributing to ‘The Panel’ and ‘Good Morning Australia’ she has covered some of the major Entertainment News stories of the last 2 decades.

She can be seen regularly on Ten News at Five and she presents an extended Entertainment Wrap Thursday Mornings on Ten Morning News at 11am. Angela can also be found on Twitter.

Angela spoke to Mike from Ten’s News Centre in Sydney about her career, some of her favourite interviews including one of the final with Audrey Hepburn and why she has stuck around at Ten for 20 Years.

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The Ploy: Broadcast Australia

The Ploy — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:18:01 +0000

Paul Tevis presents this weeks episode in which Mike speaks to Martin Farrimond the General Manager for New Platforms and Salvatore Mattera Business Manager for Commercial Broadcast from Broadcast Australia, an organisation overseeing the Digital 44 Digital Television trial in Sydney and Digital Radio in Australia.

Mike asked about the trials and digital radio and posed some questions sent in from listeners.

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The Ploy 88: Fun with Zombies

The Ploy — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:18:02 +0000

Mike Beckham and Paul Tevis bring you Episode 88. On the rundown this week; Paul is writing a Zombie story and it stars Megan Fox!, Mike visited an Optometrist, Nancy Pelosi is in trouble, What is Torture? Is it Madcow Muller’s radio show?, Chk Chk Boom Chick is a fake! and Conan takes over The Tonight Show in June!

All that and more, this week on the only podcast that guarantees instant weight loss!

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The Ploy 87: Three’s a Crowd

The Ploy — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:06:56 +0000

Ben May, Mike Beckham and an intoxicated Paul Tevis are all here this week to inform and entertain. We covered the 2009 Australian Federal Budget (with a long argument), West Australians are scared of the sun, we mention the sad passing of legend Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell and a discussion about the NRL Sex Scandal.

All that and so much more, all made lovingly just for you.

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The Ploy 86: Traveling Sideshow

The Ploy — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:10:45 +0000

Was 'Today' show host drunk?

It’s a bumper show this week as Ben is back from seclusion, following his battle with the Swine Flu.

This week Ben & Mike cover Ben’s trips to New Zealand and the Gold Coast, the evil Swine Flu, Karl from Today Drunk?, Online DVD Rentals (Netflix, Bigpond Movies etc…), Printers! Printers! Printers! and we all get ready for Ben’s trip to Sydney for CeBIT 2009!

Make sure to listen again next week for Ben Live at CeBIT!

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The Ploy: Renai LeMay

The Ploy — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:28:05 +0000

Paul Tevis from Women Need Us anchors this episode featuring Z DNet Australia News Editor Renai LeMay who joined Mike to talk about the upcoming National Broadband Network plans – what effect will it have on your internet connection and what prices can we expect?

Plus his views on the Clean Feed proposal, the upcoming Windows release ‘Windows 7′ and we hear about the hottest tech news out of ZDNet Australia.

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The Ploy: Kirsty DeVallance / Vincent Giarrusso

The Ploy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:24:42 +0000

We have a jam packed special this week! Paul Tevis from Women Need Us hosts this special edition of The Ploy featuring interviews with Kirsty DeVallance and Vincent Giarrusso.

Kirsty DeVallance is a co-founder of ‘A Cast of Thousands‘ a company which casts various reality programs including ‘Project Runway Australia’ and ‘Masterchef’. Mike spoke with her about how the company works and what should someone do if they want to get on Television.

Vincent Giarrusso was part of ARIA award winning group Undergound Lovers who wrote, directed and composed the beautiful AFI Award winning film ‘Mallboy‘. In which its lead Kane McNay won a AFI for his portrayal of Shaun a troubled adolescent. Partly inspired by Giarrruso’s experience in Social Work. Mike asked Vincent how the movie came about and a bit about his work with Underground Lovers.

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The Ploy 85: Teaparty

The Ploy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:59:55 +0000

It’s an old fashioned Tea Party this week! The Ploy Senior Contributor Paul Tevis joins Mike Beckham this week as we cover the Tea Parties in the United States, A Fire that turned Paul’s brother on and a special story about Nicole.

Also this week we have an interview with Special guest Aaron Barnhart, a writer for Kansas City Star and blogger at TVBarn.com.

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The Ploy 84: Faster Connection

The Ploy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:56:30 +0000

This week Ben & Mike are back, we are all over the National Broadband Network plans including a special extended interview with friend of the show Dr. Ron from Tech Talk Radio.

Also this week: The Golden Girls’ Bea Arthur has a special message for women, Kanye West is a gay fish, old names are dying off (Hello Cock?), Diddims the Cat speaks out about Broadband, Plastic Bag ban in South Australia and heaps more!

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