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Mike Bennett – Myke Bartlett

The latest episode of The Mike Bennett Podcast is now online and available in your podcast app. In it, I chat with Australian author and podcaster Myke Bartlett about his return to podcasting and the world of Salmon and Dusk.

Many may remember Myke’s podcasts How to Disappear Completely and Electricity from the days of the much-missed free audiobook library, Podiobooks. The good news is, Myke is now back podcasting again with a new version of How to Disappear Completely and plans to expand the Salmon and Dusk universe in years to come. So give our interview a listen. I think you’ll enjoy it.

Visit the Salmon and Dusk website here: https://salmonanddusk.com/

Music on the podcast:
Hep Cats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Check out My Instagram

Hey! Are you an Instagram user? If you are, why not take a look at my profile – and maybe follow me there? It’s not endless selfies or pics of my dinners, instead, it’s views of my ordinary day-to-day world. Exciting? No. Interesting? Maybe.

Here’s a sample of my recent shots. I hope you like them, and that you’ll come and join me over at the Gram, or Insta, or whatever cool people call it. This is me: https://www.instagram.com/mikebennettauthor/
Huzzah!

Podcast: November 2023

Hi. I have a new podcast online in which I talk about why this site recently went weird (big red Google warning slapped on it), my unknown allergy, where I am with my writing at the moment, getting inexplicably weepy about Princess Diana in 1997, and naturally, Pauline and I discuss what’s been on our TV lately. You can listen to the episode on your podcast app of choice, or listen right now by clicking this link: Listen to “MBP November 2023” on Spreaker.

Links to things mentioned in this episode
If you have the BlueSky app, you can find me here: @mikebennett.bsky.social

The Persuaders theme by John Barry: https://youtu.be/b6Ljwz7SueY?si=6FDVDp5BIfQ4n_BM

Harsh criticism for The Crown, Season 6: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/16/the-crown-season-6-review-so-bad-its-like-an-out-of-body-experience-netflix

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TikTok?

So, like the old geezer I am, just as half the world is talking about banning TikTok, I finally got around to opening an account. So if you use the platform and would like to check out my vids, follow me, maybe like a few vids or add them to favourites, I’d appreciate it. Gotta have “likes”, right? “Likes” make the algorithm world go round
This is me: Mike’s TikTok

The Mike Bennett Podcast Begins

I just posted the first episode of a new monthly show: The Mike Bennett Podcast (it took me seventeen years of podcasting to think of that title). It’s a “me talking about stuff” podcast, and this first one features an update about what’s going on with me, the latest on the possible U&F TV series, and some listener feedback I received regarding the “cut scene” episode from U&F Season 4. It was the one where Ronnie Bishop told David about an old flame called Isobel May, who disappeared after becoming involved with a mysterious (vampire) figure called “Vincent”. So if you’ve unsubscribed from my podcast, resubscribe to get plugged back in. I’ll be posting a new podcast every month from now on.

Also, I ask a listener question in the show: Which Actress Would You Like to See Cast as Lydia Flinch? Do you have anyone you can see in the role? Someone who always “plays” Lydia in your head whenever you hear her in U&F? If so, I’d love to hear from you.

If the show ultimately gets the green light, I’ll pass on all the listener feedback on this to the TV people. It would be so cool if U&F’s listeners could actively influence who gets cast in the role (assuming it gets greenlit, of course. We live in hope)

You can leave your Lydia casting feedback either here (if you have a WordPress account), SubStack, Twitter, or Facebook.

U&F Season 8 Begins at Patreon

Season 8? It’s complicated. Basically, it will go like this …
Season 1 – Underwood and Flinch
Season 2 – Blood and Smoke
Season 3 – Underground Part 1
Season 4 – Underground Part 2
Season 5 – Underground Part 3
Season 6 – Underground Part 4
Season 7 – The Devil of Claverton
and so now …
Season 8. Starting today at my Patreon. There’s no book title yet as it’s still a work in progress.

U&F Season 4 Finale is Now Live!

It’s a big one! Over an hour of Season Finale goodness. Check your podcast app, or click here for a direct stream/download: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/53655677

Huzzah!!!

Grotesque and Hilarious Underwood and Flinch Images

A while ago I used the A.I. art generator, DALL-E, to create some images of Underwood and Flinch. The results were … er … not good, and caused much amusement among U&F fans at Facebook. For that reason, I’m now sharing the whole nightmarish gallery in a video at YouTube. Take a look, but be warned, you can’t un-see some of this stuff

U&F Season 4 – Episode 14

Just posted the latest episode, in which David and Ronnie’s pub conversation takes an interesting turn.

Click to listen live or download