The Bent Sack Variety Hour
by The Bent Sack Variety Hour
Contrary to the name, The Bent Sack Variety Hour has very little variety. Listen in as your hosts, Mo Bent and Ryland Sack, hand over the podcasting reigns to the show-within-a-show called "The Les & Phil Radio Drive Time Forum Live On Line" (or L&P RDTFLOL for short). Join your geriatric hosts, Les Johnson and Phil Ip, as they present their AM radio style talkback show that they have presented for several decades. Including popular segments such as Secret Sound, Plotline Bling, and even the news! It's just like the AM radio shows that your dad (or grandad) listens to! This is attempted comedy at its most average.
Episodes
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Episode 58 - A Christmas Chiro
Ebegeezer Stooge, a cranky old chiropractor is visited by three Christmas spirits on Christmas Eve. Stooge embarks on a journey of self-redemption to mend his miserable hip mobility and stiff rotator cuffs. A wonderful reimagining of the classic Charles Dickens' novel, that is not to be missed!
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Episode 57 - Monsters of Cranbourne
Teenager Dallas Edwards, and his derelict friends on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern Cranbourne.
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Episode 56 Harpception
Les and Phil star in this mind-boggling thriller about a thief who steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. He is wanted for his alleged role in his wife's murder and his only chance at redemption is to perform a nearly impossible task.
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Episode 55 - Daddy Dan Day Care
After getting fired, Les and Phil start a day-care facility to make ends meet. Once their business starts to pick up, the other already established day-care centre in town plans to bring Les and Phil down.
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Episode 54 - Composting Australia
Horticulture expert Costa Georgiadis stops by to give advice and show gardeners across the nation practical and credible ways to garden.
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Episode 53 - Trevor Wick Chapter 3: Cerebellum
Trevor Wick is declared "emphysemacado" and a hefty bounty is set on him after he coughs on an international crime lord. He sets out to seek help from Les and Phil to save himself from ruthless hitmen and bounty hunters.
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Episode 52 - Australian Pie: The Reunion
Les and Phil are back with a group of friends visiting their hometown after a decade. While they reminisce over their school life and await the upcoming reunion, another high school senior is on the lookout for the perfect date.
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Season 5 Trailer
HOOLEY DOOLEY! We are back for more! Have a little cheeky listen to our Season 5 trailer for just a taste of what is to come!
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Episode 51 - Rogue One: A Christmas Story
Phil's father is forcibly taken by the Grackle Empire to help them complete the Death Stork. When she grows up, she joins a group of resistance fighters who aim to steal the Empire's bluebirds.
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Episode 50 - The Rise of Storkwalker
The surviving members of the Resistance face off against the Falcon Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi Kingfishers and the Swan Lords reaches its peak (or beak?) - bringing the Storkwalker saga to its end.
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Episode 49 - The Last Jaybird
It's the worst in the Star Wars series, and we pay homage by deliberately having bad audio quality in this episode! (sorry in advance) Wren seeks to learn the ways of the Jaybird under Luke Storkwalker, its last remaining member, to reinvigorate the Robin Alliance's war against the First Order.
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Episode 48 - The Falcon Awakens
This is the 7th episode in this parody series- even though these episodes have almost no bird or Star Wars related content at all! Why am I like this? A new order threatens to destroy the New Republic. Finch, Wren and Poe Doveron, backed by the Robin Alliance, must find a way to stop this new…
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Episode 47 - Revenge of the Swan
The epic conclusion of the prequel Stork Wars trilogy is (finally) here! Anakin Storkwalker joins forces with Obi-Wan Kookaburra to save Chancellor Swan Palpatine from the evil clutches of Count Emu. However, the young Storkwalker falls prey to Swan Palpatine, who seduces him with the mysterious...
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Episode 46 - Attack of the Crows
The Stork Wars saga continues with the second instalment in the prequel series, based off of the original trilogy. It's the fifth one released, but the second one chronologically... even though these podcasts aren't at all linked, so... While pursuing an assassin, Obi Wan Kookaburra uncovers a...
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Episode 45 - The Phantom Magpie
Join Les and Phil as they go back to the story before the story from a galaxy far far away! The prequel trilogy begins with The Phantom Magpie. Two Jedi Kingfishers set out to search for someone who can bring peace to the Force. Their search ends when they come across a gifted boy, but the dark...
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Episode 44 - Return of the Jaybird
Luke Storkwalker attempts to bring his father Darth Vulture back to the light side of the Force. At the same time, the Robin Alliance hatches a plan to destroy the second Death Swan.
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Episode 43 - The Emus Strike Back
Les and Phil are back in the second instalment of the epic sci-fi space odyssey 'The Stork Wars.' Darth Vulture is adamant about turning Luke Storkwalker to the dark side. Magpie Yoda trains Luke to become a Jedi Kingfisher, while his friends try to fend off the Imperial Minors of the Grackle...
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Episode 42 - A Brand New Hope
Les and Phil star in the epic beginning on 'The Stork Wars' saga. After Princess Leia-bird, the leader of the Robin Alliance, is captured and held hostage by Darth Vulture, Luke Storkwalker and Han Swallow must free her and destroy the powerful weapon created by the Grackle Empire.
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Episode 41 - The Tiger Prawn King
An exploration of the true story behind a big prawn breeding zoo and its bizarre underworld, populated by eccentric characters. The rivalry between the big prawn eccentrics takes a dark turn when Joe Erotic, a controversial Tiger Prawn park boss, is caught in a murder-for-hire plot.
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Season 4 trailer - How is this still a thing?
Hooley dooley, friends! We are back for a manic, continuity-error riddled fourth season. From Australia Day quizzes, to dealing with COVID-19 and having to record shows via Skype, your favourite fictional geriatric radio hosts are back for another round! And this time, it's personal!
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Episode 40 - The Nonnas Who Knew Too Much
BONUS EPISODE! Les and Phil are holiday, and they forgot to lock recording studio before they left! The Nonnas snuck in and decided to make the most of it. Listen in as they're joined by several celebrity guests, and absolute mayhem ensues!
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Episode 39 - Christmas with the Kronks
Les and Phil star in this family-friendly fun fadventure. The Kronks scandalise everyone when they declare that they won't be celebrating Christmas. But, when their daughter decides to visit home, they get off on a mad rush to organise a spanking Christmas.
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Episode 38 - Citizen Dundee
A journalist (Les) travels to Australia to interview a unique crocodile poacher (Phil). When he saves her from a crocodile, she invites him to New York. Despite being citizens of different countries, they fall in love.
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Episode 37 - You Sunk My Battleship
Les and Phil star in this critical flop of an action movie based on a stupid board-game, for goodness sake. When an international fleet of ships encounter an alien armada and discover their destructive goals, they are forced to fight an intense battle on sea.... is anyone reading these anymore?
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Episode 36 - Interdependence Day
Les and Phil are on a mission to save the Earth in this action-adventure epic for the ages! An alien race invades Earth and destroys major cities of the world with their advanced weaponry. Uniting with a geek, a pilot, the US President and a group of ragtag survivors, they set about saving…
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Episode 35 - The Italian Job Seeker
Les and Phil star alongside Michael Caine and Mark Wahlberg in this fast paced action-crime thriller! After Charlie Croker is betrayed and left to die in Italy, he hires a team of Italian con artists who are in need of work, and retaliates with a plan to conduct an elaborate gold heist against…
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Episode 34 - Uptown Abbey
Les and Phil star in the continuing story of the Crawley family, who are wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century.
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Episode 33 - The Shape and Bodies of Water
The one with the water. (This is a long-play joke, so listen now to get the reference)
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Episode 32 - Hollow Ween
Les and Phil star as Ichabod Crane and Achibode Crumb, a pair of police detectives, who are sent from the city of New York to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of unnerving crimes, where hollowed out phalluses have been appearing in public places. The detectives soon have a lead and set off…
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Episode 31 - When Andie Met Sandra
Les and Phil star in this seminal 1998 rom-com. A chance encounter between two graduates culminates in a short-term friendship. But when fate brings them back together five years later, they are forced to deal with how they feel about each other. As in, sexually. They feel sexually about each...
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Episode 30 - Down, Watership
Les and Phil embrace their spirit animals and become one with the rabbits. Based on the adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, set in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home.
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Episode 29 - Going Posting
Les and Phil star in this retelling of the popular Terry Pratchet novel. Con artist Moist Von Lipwig lands a job at the post office, and discover that sometimes going slow and steady is more rewarding than going express.
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Episode 28 - Zulu 2: The Return of Jafar
Les and Phil star alongside the great Sir Michael Caine in an epic for the ages. The year is 1879, and Jafar looks for revenge against Aladdin and his companions. With in the help of the treacherous Iago and the Zulu nation, they seek to find a way back into power. Holing out in a nearby British...
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Episode 27 - International Treasure
Les and Phil return to feature in the 3rd instalment of the series. The two of them star as historian and code-breaker Ben Gates, who has been searching his whole life for a rumoured treasure dating back to the creation of the United States. Joining an expedition led by fellow treasure hunter Ian...
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Season 3 trailer - We Are Still Going!
Join Les 'The Cock" Johnson and Mr. Phil as they return for the 3rd season of the revival spin-off reunion series of the Les and Phil Radio Drive Time Forum Live On-Line Show! This season is going to be jam-packed full of celebrity guests, poor sound quality, jam, intermittent giggling, and…
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Episode 26 - We Bought A Poo
Les and Phil star in this heartfelt family movie alongside Matt Damon. Set in Southern California, a father (Les) moves his young family to the countryside attached to a dilapidated poo farm. Struggling with grief since the passing of his wife (Phil), Benjamin takes on the responsibility of...
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Episode 25 - The Godfarter
Les and Phil star in this epic tale about a 1940s New York Mafia family, the Corleone's. The family struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.
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Episode 24 - Snipped in 60 Seconds
Les and Phil star as a pair of hairdressers who are forced to snip 50 luxurious haircuts in one night in order to save the life of their brother, who has fallen foul of a dangerous crime lord. Once the most successful hairdressers in California, the pair must reassemble their old gang to fulfil…
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Episode 23 - Honey, I Shanked the Kids
Les and Phil star as a teenage girl and boy who, alongside with two friends, are accidentally shrunk to the size of insects by their scientist father. Now one-quarter of an inch tall, the teens must survive the journey back to the house through a yard where sprinklers bring treacherous storms and...
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Episode 22 - The Renonnassance Man
Les and Phil star in this uplifting drama about twin down-and-out divorcées, Bill and Ben Rago, who land a gig teaching English at a nearby army base. There, the pair take on a group of underachieving students from poor backgrounds who seem apathetic about their education. Bill and Ben become...
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Episode 21 - Adam's Patch
Les and Phil star in this semi-biographical comedy drama based on the life story about a pair of misfit medical students whose unconventional approach to healing causes headaches for the medical establishment, but works wonders for the patients. They encounter a sick patient, Adam, and together,...
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Episode 20 - Dude, Where's My Nokia 3310?
Les and Phil star as two bumbling stoners, who wake up one morning from a night of crazy partying and can't remember where they put their Nokia 3310s. This prompts them to go on a journey of discovery to recover them. Along the way, they encounter a variety of people who include their angry...
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Episode 19 - Apes in the Fog
Les and Phil stars as Dian and Dion Fossey, in this true story about the Fossey's study of the large primates, and their tendency to congregate in strange weather conditions.
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Episode 18 - Stoning the Romance
A drugged-out romance writer is hurled into a real-life adventure in the Colombian jungle in order to save her sister, who will be killed if a treasure map is not delivered to her captors. She is helped out by a blazed mercenary, and together they search for the priceless doobie located in the…
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Episode 17 - Training Day starring Denzel Washington
A rookie on his first day is teamed up with a veteran officer in the LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. Pretty soon, the rookie finds out what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing grey zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at…
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Episode 16 - On and Nonna Don
Jesus 'Nonna' Christ has gathered all of the nonnas together again for one last supper. But somebody forgot the pasta sauce! Chaos ensues as JC scrambles to prepare a last minute menu, but soon finds out that when you put the good things in, you wear the Dolmio grin.
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Episode 15 - Stop Right Now, Thank You Very Much
Johnny loves his job as a traffic controller, always telling drivers when to stop and when to go. But Johnny dreams of something more. He's always loved the Spice Girls, so he invents an atomic transformation machine so that he can time travel to see the Spice Girls Reunion tour. But things go...
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Season 2 Trailer - We're Back, Baby!
Your fifth favourite geriatic duo is back due by no amount of demand. Join us, Les "The Cock" Johnson and Mr Phillip, as we return for another season of mindless natter, catchy jingles and silly segments. Returning soon for your podcasting desires!
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Episode 14 - The Fanta, the Solo and the Holy Sprite
It’s that Merry time of year again! In the Christmas Spectacular, Dr. Who and his band of Merry men journey far and wide to find the lost Ark of the Convenant. But the Wicked Witch of the West has them in her sights! Will Jack Bauer be able to save our heroes within 24 hours? Tune in to find out
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Episode 13 - Abid You Adieu
Follow the untold story of Abid Klein, the would-be 8th child actor in The Sound of Music. Though it is widely known as a kind and sweet family movie, the mood on-set was the complete opposite. Learn about the behind-the-scenes tension during the filming of the fateful "So Long, Farewell" musical...
About this show
Contrary to the name, The Bent Sack Variety Hour has very little variety. Listen in as your hosts, Mo Bent and Ryland Sack, hand over the podcasting reigns to the show-within-a-show called "The Les & Phil Radio Drive Time Forum Live On Line" (or L&P RDTFLOL for short).
Join your geriatric hosts, Les Johnson and Phil Ip, as they present their AM radio style talkback show that they have presented for several decades. Including popular segments such as Secret Sound, Plotline Bling, and even the news! It's just like the AM radio shows that your dad (or grandad) listens to!
This is attempted comedy at its most average.
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