Gather Around Me
435 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBen Pobjie and Cam Smith get together for a relaxing fireside chat about the news of the day and the ways of the world. It will blow your mind.
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Episode 420: Got A Bad Feeling About This
May 11, 2024 12:30 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBThis episode we're talking about the first Omen, but not The First Omen.
Episode 419: Madame Bees
February 24, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThis week we are talking about the two hottest creepy crawly flicks of 2024: The Beekeeper and Madame Web.
Episode 418: Talkin' 'bout those Night Swims
January 13, 2024 05:39 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBVox populi, vox dei. The people demanded an indepth recap of haunted pool movie Night Swim and who are we to deny them?
Episode 417: Anachronistic Video Calling Technology
August 28, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBFolks, it's probably fair to say that nobody has been clamouring for an unpacking of the first three Insidious movies, including comparisons with turn-of-the-millennium Australian techno-thriller The Bank and yet that is precisely what you are listening to. It's a funny old world.
Episode 416: Mission Insomnibird
July 24, 2023 09:10 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBWe have a chat about that hot cinema property Mission Impossible 2 - as well as another impossible mission, successfully holding the Commonwealth Games.
Episode 415: Later Or Sooner We All Stop Lating
July 17, 2023 09:43 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBNot with a bang but with a podcast we finish our journey into the Queensland hinterland courtesty of Libby's synopsisizing skills.
Episode 414: Sooner Or Later We All Stop Podding
July 09, 2023 15:27 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBIt's episode 414 in a series of 1000 pods from your friends at Gather Around Me Inc. In this episode, we return to a series that I think we abandoned pre-Covid thanks to listener (and reader) Libby.
Episode 413: Gacy House 90210
December 11, 2022 06:15 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBThis week we're talking about a very bad movie.
Episode 412: Halloween Ends Tonight
November 07, 2022 09:18 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBThis week we are talking in great detail, scene-by-scene- about the film Halloween Ends. This approach to film reviewing seems to come as a surprise to some!
Episode 411: Murder Dolls Need Souls
October 15, 2022 13:32 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBThis week we're talking about 2021's Baby Oopsie, a film which surprised and delighted us in equal measure.
Episode 410: Everygam, Gammywhere, All At GAM
September 26, 2022 13:45 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBCam tricked Ben into seeing Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Continued discussion of the ever-expanding RCU. Ben wants to be like Jordan Peterson but not politically, just completely off chops on benzos and steak.
Episode 409: Mate Against Mate, Escape Against Escape
July 18, 2022 09:56 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBIn this, episode four hundred and nine out of one thousand, we discuss the State of Origin (2022) and Escape Room (2017) but not Escape Room (2019).
Episode 408: Beep Boop Beep
July 03, 2022 09:29 - 33 minutes - 23 MBThis week your friends BenTron 3.0 and Cambot 6000 take over the pod for some AI shenanigans.
Episode 407: An Election Is A Long Time In Politics
May 26, 2022 14:06 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBIt's your pals Cam and Ben with Episode 407 in a series of 1000 podchats about affairs of state and culture and such. This week we recorded the Monday after the election for fresh takes on the ascendant Albanese government and the Rebel Wilson vehicle Senior Year.
Episode 146: The One Poll That Counts
May 15, 2022 12:57 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week we have some grievances to share. Plus a spoiler alert for Dr Strange and The Northman.
Episode 406: The One Poll That Counts
May 15, 2022 12:57 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week we have some grievances to share. Plus a spoiler alert for Dr Strange and The Northman.
Episode 405: Bayme95
May 02, 2022 09:29 - 40 minutes - 28 MBWe discuss the election campaign and the film Ambulance (spoiler alert: both of them are careening out of control through the streets of LA). We have absolutely no proof that Michael Bay is not doing Dogme95 films on the side.
Episode 404: A Week Is A Long Time In A Week Is A Long Time In A Week
April 20, 2022 14:19 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIs A Long Time In Politics. A day can happen in a year and a year can happen in a month.
Episode 403: The Bellingcatman
April 11, 2022 13:06 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week Ben & Cam discuss (with spoilers) the films The Batman, Morbius and RRR. Cam is not impressed with The Batman's refusal to do even the most simple geolocation.
Episode 402: Content Warning: Racist Prime Ministers
April 05, 2022 08:07 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBFolks, huge content warning on this one: the Prime Minister is racist. And Ben saw Morbius.
Episode 401: Oscars So Fight
March 28, 2022 08:57 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBGather Around Me is back with our hot takes on the Academy Awards, Mark Latham, etc.
Episode 400: Paul On The Road To Cowes
December 06, 2021 10:38 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBA very special episode for Ep 400! Not really! Cam reads Ben some terrible stuff. At one point he says it's Friday afternoon, but actually this was recorded on a Monday. Says it all.
Episode 399: Halloween Kills
November 19, 2021 07:34 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBThis week Ben and Cam went to see Halloween Kills, a film about the aftermath of a movie about podcasters.
Episode 393: A Missing Episode
November 13, 2021 05:58 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBApparently this episode never went online? Anyway - enjoy these hot earthquake takes!
Episode 398: Stupid Ghosts
November 13, 2021 05:54 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBThis week we talk about a real idiot of a ghost.
Episode 397: A Little Bloke In The Telly
October 28, 2021 07:20 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBThis week we take a road trip out to Engadine to discuss the works of George Orwell.
Episode 396: We Got Shooters
October 21, 2021 08:10 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBThis week we talk about shooting ranges, Olympic and otherwise. Plus would Ben be a good liar?
Episode 395: Some Ideas For Matthew Guy
October 14, 2021 08:04 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBWe've been asked by the Victorian Liberal Party to brainstorm some ideas and we are not ones to leave our state in the lurch!
Episode 394: Thirty Odd Poste Of Grunt
October 07, 2021 09:30 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBSometimes you get the Zodiac Killer's name slightly wrong but then you repeat that mistake for 20 minutes. Anyway, in this ep we discuss the only news that matters: the revelation of the real identity of the Zodiac Killer.
Episode 393: Sportsball
September 30, 2021 07:27This week we talk about Sportsball, earthquakes and other silly things.
Episode 392: Color Out Of Setka
September 23, 2021 08:36 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBFolks, this week we're talking: Filing cabinets John Setka Color Out Of Space The Entire 2 Billion Year Future-History Of Humanity A Dream That Could Be A Movie
Episode 391: Cheap Rent & A Three Day Ghost
September 17, 2021 00:25 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week we're talkin' spooky boys and mockdowns, baby. See you down the gardens, folks!
Episode 390: Saving On Towels
September 09, 2021 07:27 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBThis week your pals Ben & Cam discuss the impending ascent of Matthew Guy to the leadership of the Victorian Opposition + Stockholm Syndrome and some SPOOOOKY STORIES.
Episode 389: Goodbye Crood World
September 02, 2021 08:05 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBHi there folks, it's time for a little bit of normal-sounding GAM in your earholes. This week we discuss: The Croods Bostik Swastika Fergburgers and a spooooky story
Episode 388: Deep Thoughts
August 26, 2021 10:22 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBHi there folks, it's a little poddy with some rona chat and some movie recaps. Thanks to a fun technological mishap, one of our voices gets a little bit deeper than usual.
Episode 387: The Devil Made Me Do It
July 02, 2021 12:52 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBYour pals Ben and Cam went to the movies to watch The Conjuring Part 3: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Episode 386: She's All Hardly Waiting
February 10, 2021 11:21 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBHi folks, ep 386 in a series of 1000! Please replace the reference in this podcast to 'Can't Hardly Wait' with 'She's All That'.
Episode 385: By Any Other Name
January 31, 2021 05:52 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBHey folks, a tiny lil Confession for yas from the murderous but sunny foothills of Adelaide.
Episode 384: #WonderWomanFromMarketing
January 21, 2021 11:04 - 28 minutes - 13 MBHi folks, it's ya pals Ben & Cam back for 2021. We are back on set with Lucy Lawless and discussing a few things from the news and popular culture, as we are wont to do.
Episode 383: Let's Get Freaky
December 09, 2020 07:57 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBHey there folks, we are back! We talk about the films Freaky and The Dark Tower, plus some war crimes.
Episode 364: Sock It To Me
October 22, 2020 16:45 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBHi there folks, welcome to another edition of GAM with ya pals Ben & Cam. This would be Episode 383 but we realised we never did an Episode 364 and we don't want to have to do a heap of contractually-obligated extras once we get to Ep 1000. We talk about lots of up-to-the-minute current affairs and then have TWO confessions: a spooky one and a saucy one.
Episode 382: The Germanic Thirst For Peace
September 16, 2020 15:24 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBFolks, it is ya pals Ben Pobjie & Cam Smith discussing a series of problematic topics: war criminal bath-artists, ambitious 1930s sci-fi, sociopathic nephews and THE DEVIL (or at least a minor demon).
Episode 381: Private Dickensian
August 18, 2020 14:40 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBFriends! It's a new ep of GAM - there are confessions, there's Sister Ghost, this episode has everything.
Episode 380: Brewster's Ark
July 29, 2020 16:12 - 51 minutes - 40.9 MBHey there folks, it's ya pals Ben & Cam taking a break from setting the agenda for the national discourse to talk about daleks, sharehouse ghosts & Bollywood Agatha Christie adaptations.
Episode 379: To All The Roys I've Loved Before
May 30, 2020 09:30 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBfolks, it's ya pals Ben & Cam with a spooky tale from That's Life + discussion of Home & Away, Beauty & The Geek and Angel Is Down.
Episode 378: Fess Up
April 08, 2020 09:17 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBHey folks, it's ya pals Ben & Cam here with some CONFESSIONS.
Episode 377: Pod In The Time Of Coronavirus
March 22, 2020 07:16 - 46 minutes - 53.7 MBHey folks, it's ya mates Ben & Cam reporting from quarantine on some of their Coronavirus Gripes & Grumbles!
Episode 376: Baboon Fever
March 02, 2020 07:47 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBHi folks, Your friends Ben Pobjie & Cam Smith are back talking about baboons, coronavirus and Mayor Pete (R.I.P.).
Episode 375: Hindsight Is 2020
January 13, 2020 09:51 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBFolks, new year, same old GAM. We're back on the set of My Life Is Murder discussing the war in Iran and bushfire conspiracies between takes.
Episode 374: Waiting Out The Decade In A Fridge
December 24, 2019 13:56 - 46 minutes - 53.1 MBHi there folks, one last ep of GAM to send off 2019. Have yourself a merry little everything and we'll be back in 2020 with more hot takes and Dean Koontz recaps.