Spike Nesmith

Spike Nesmith

@nesmith.bsky.social

Award-winning radio broadcaster. Award-wanting audio producer. Award-losing wannabe writer. Scottish accent. Sarcastic bastard. Team Jacob. "Spike's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there". https://linktr.ee/Taskerlands

783 Followers 582 Following 2,834 Posts Joined Sep 2023
6 months ago
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It’s not unusual for radio presenters to share a weather forecast as they switch shifts. Just my luck that I’m on after The Richard Nixon Morning Zoo.....

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6 months ago

Look, I’ve got no skin in the game really, but I see Amanda Knox approves of the Hulu series about her. No surprises as to what the tone of the series is going to be (hint: she’s totally innocent and blameless), so much so that there’s not really a whole lot of point in watching it, is there?

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6 months ago

I really wanted to join two pieces of wood together with a small piece of metal.

I think I totally nailed it.

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6 months ago

I’ve got so many bots trying to follow me on here, I feel like the pied piper of Bluesky.

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6 months ago
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The Wednesday Selfie; a Scottish bloke wearing a Captain America tshirt.

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6 months ago

By now, everyone knows that Michael Jackson did the chorus for Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”, but hardly anyone praises Alvin And The Chipmunks’ backing work on Jackson’s slightly troubling “PYT”.

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6 months ago

Recorded two episodes of “Vinyl Judgement” with my son Moss last night. We listened to Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures”, and “The Best Of Petula Clark” back to back.

There should have been a gear crunch, but in fact we both enjoyed the two albums rather a lot!

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6 months ago

Good people do exist and practice their magic. This is a longer story featuring a thousand individual acts of kindness, but recently I had every single person in the Walmart automotive department trying to help me when my car conked out. Not for personal gain, just because they cared. It was amazing

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6 months ago

NP: Gordon Lightfoot, “Sundown”

I love my job.

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6 months ago
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Watching an educational film from 1980, starring Little Johnny Cusack. I think he should go for that haircut again, it’s a good look.

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7 months ago
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The Coltharts, fundraising for the Craighalbert Centre Help Jen Colthart raise money to support Craighalbert Centre

Our “in lieu of flowers” for my dad’s funeral last week was for a super super great cause, and one he’d absolutely approve of.

Even though we’re at an unbelievable 145% of our target, my sisters and I have extended the end date til the 15th, his birthday.

www.justgiving.com/page/archiec...

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6 months ago

Nice ref!!!

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6 months ago
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Thanks, the Book Seller! I guess my free article limit is…. What? A paragraph?

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6 months ago

Saying “cheerio” is easy. But saying “goodbye” is a different beast entirely.

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6 months ago
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I think I caught that bug that's been going round.

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7 months ago
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They mostly come out at night…

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7 months ago
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I have decided to sit down and watch some expertly-made, wholesome, educational documentaries on The PBS, so that I can broaden my mind and….

…wait, did I post the right picture? Shit! Where’s the delete key on this thing??

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7 months ago
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Literally the best* thing about today.

*(not including hugs from loved ones, or cat head boops)

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7 months ago

I used to love those CDs. We ripped off so many generic jingles from them back at hospital radio.

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7 months ago

The Imus one? “Nothin’ but class….”

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7 months ago

It seems there are two types of people in the world: people who say “WNBC” a specific way because they saw it in “Private Parts”, and people who say “WNBC” a specific way because that’s how they used to say it on WNBC.

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7 months ago

I really don’t listen to podcasts.

The saying of which is the 2025 equivalent to 1980’s “I really don’t like the Rubix Cube” I suppose.

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7 months ago

Not a day goes by where I don’t offer a personalised album recommendation to someone who didn’t even ask for it. Sometimes it’s because the person has a specific personality trait that reminds me of something, or it might be entirely situational.

Bet I’m not alone in doing this.

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7 months ago
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The Coltharts, fundraising for the Craighalbert Centre Help Jen Colthart raise money to support Craighalbert Centre

Our “in lieu of flowers” for my dad’s funeral last week was for a super super great cause, and one he’d absolutely approve of.

Even though we’re at an unbelievable 145% of our target, my sisters and I have extended the end date til the 15th, his birthday.

www.justgiving.com/page/archiec...

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7 months ago

Anyone else stuck for an unreasonable amount of time in the departure lounge of Glasgow Airport? My flight is in THREE HOURS and all I’ve got to do is eat impossible whoppers and cry.

Come find me and cheer me up for gawd’s sake.

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7 months ago

I don’t look good in pictures, I really don’t. My face looks like it was on fire and someone put it out with a rusty shovel.

Yet still, any time someone takes my picture and it’s half decent, I think “is that the one that will be on display at my funeral…? 😳

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7 months ago

Thank you so much!

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7 months ago
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The Coltharts, fundraising for the Craighalbert Centre Help Jen Colthart raise money to support Craighalbert Centre

My Dad’s funeral was today, but we kept it upbeat and happy, a celebration. Friends and family and love everywhere.

Particularly exciting was reaching 97% on his Just Giving. Can you push us over the top? It’s for an amazing cause, close to my Dad’s heart

www.justgiving.com/page/archiec...

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7 months ago
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The Coltharts, fundraising for the Craighalbert Centre Help Jen Colthart raise money to support Craighalbert Centre

My late Dad wouldn’t have wanted flowers at his funeral. I can guarantee it. He’d love for you to honour his memory instead with a small donation to an *amazing* cause.

Cheers, faither. Let’s change some lives for the better.

www.justgiving.com/page/archiec...

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7 months ago

Has BlueSky peaked, or am I just boring?

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