The Adelaide Show

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A weekly podcast recorded in Adelaide that puts South Australian passion on centre stage with a featured guest who joins us each week as a co-presenter to share how they're pursuing their passions. We venture across topics as diverse as history, wine, food, art, music, relationships, critical thinking, health, news, interviews, chat and quizzes. Every single interview, every single show, unlocks insights into what drives people to be doing what they're doing and what keeps them striving. The Adelaide Show is produced by Steve Davis and Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. Please subscribe to our In Crowd list; you get an email each Friday (when we have published a new episode) with an overview of that week's show. Plus, consider joining our Inner Circle; a small group of passionate South Aussies who allow us to pick their brains and gain interviewee suggestions. This podcast began life as Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide from episodes 1-79. read less

374 - This Medical Life And The Andrew Wakefield Fraud
Yesterday
374 - This Medical Life And The Andrew Wakefield Fraud
When Steve Davis is not recording The Adelaide Show Podcast, he's sitting in the co-pilot's chair with Dr Travis Brown as they create This Medical Life, a podcast that explores the history of different diseases and medical conditions, along with the latest insights in understanding and treatment. And what better way to give you a taste that wrapping a podcast within a podcast! And in the Musical Pilgrimage, The Public Servants will sing Four O'Clock Friday (make sure you stay for the end to hear it, and don't clock off early). You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: This Medical Life And The Andrew Wakefield Fraud 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week There is no featured drink this week. 00:08:10 Dr Travis Brown and This Medical Life Dr Travis Brown is a pathologist who has a passion for the stories of medicine. He's also Resident General Pathologist at Clinpath Pathology. His obsession for storytelling led him to create a podcast in 2020, called This Pathological Life. In late 2021, the podcast broadened its focus and became This Medical Life. Travis is 83 episodes into this journey and in every one of them he takes a particular disease or medical condition, explores the history behind it, and then covers our understanding and treatment of it today. Typically, he has an expert from the field handle the last part of each podcast. The enterprise is an open gift to the medical world. It is pitched at GPs and specialists and medical students, but he's also attracting a general interest audience of humans who are curious to learn as well as patients who want to know more about their particular illness. Our very own Steve Davis is the co-host of this podcast and because he is having his Covid booster and flu shot today, coinciding with an episode about vaccines and one about influenze just about to be released, it seemed the perfect time to throw the spotlight on this fellow Adelaidean podcast. We will hear the complete episode (Season 4, Episode 38), in which the special guest is Brian Deer, the award winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of The Doctor that Fooled the World, which blew the whistle on the great fraud carried out by disgraced former doctor, Andrew Wakefield, who wrongly linked the MMR vaccine to autism and fuelled parts of the ant-vax movement. As you will hear, this is not based on semantics, this truly was a fraud at many levels. It's a horrifying insight into how such evil can then lure well-meaning people not only off the safe path but into the thickets and weeds of conspiracy and pseudo science. 01:01:54 Musical Pilgrimage Our featured song this episode is Four O'Clock Friday by The Public Servants. This Adelaide band claims to be the world’s premier public servant-themed novelty punk rock band. And I think they're on the money. On Friday, June 16, 2023, The Public Servants will officially launch their debut full-length album ‘Code of Misconduct’ at the Hotel Metropolitan, with support from Adelaide’s Celtic folk rockers The Backyarders. You would expect public servants to have obsessive personalities and the band members do not disappoint. They are all vinyl buffs so their debut album has been pressed into luxury 180 gram brown vinyl. And it will be a limited edition, too, with only 100 copies made. Code of Misconduct on vinyl is available at The Public Servants’ shows and online at Bandcamp, with the music available through all the digital platforms. A final thought. Public servants also like statistics so it is no surprise that their media release contained this gem: 100,000 songs are released each day. They posit that as the reason they're striving a bit weird, because there's a lot of "noise" to cut through. To give you a taste of the content, ,the album opens with Blend 43 – a coffee staple in many a workplace. It's followed by Papercut, Stress Leave, and Bored. The song we're playing, to keep the episode family friendly is not, Flexitime Sexytime, but rather, Four O'Clock Friday. It's got to be four o'clock Friday somewhere, right? The Public Servants are: Frank N Fearless – Guitar and vocalsIndi Pendent – Drums and vocalsBeau Racrat – Bass and vocalsLinda from HR – Vocal harmoniesSupport the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
373 - Cunnos, Comedy, and Micallef with David M Green
May 21 2023
373 - Cunnos, Comedy, and Micallef with David M Green
When Shaun Micallef pulled up stumps after 10 years of Mad As Hell last year, the writers in the team had to start looking for work. One of those writers, who was part of 13 of the 15 seasons, David M Green, is an Adelaidean whose life has been dedicated to pursuing the craft of comedy. He joins us to share some great insights into writing, the nature of comedy, and the workings of a weekly comedy show. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Matt Cahill returns with a new Evoletah song. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Cunnos, Comedy, And Micallef With David M Green 00:00:00 Intro One of our former guests, Caroline Rowe, whose episode was, I Wouldn't Be A Baker If I Couldn't Eat The Cakes, has just launched in interesting quiz on her website that helps you identify your inner cook, so you can start the process of getting more confidence in the kitchen. During this week, while she's testing it, you'll find it on her homepage at carolinerowe.com. She'd love you to make use of it and the resources it points you too. Also, Steve is working with some university students on a project focussing on the City of Adelaide and would dearly love you to fill in one or both of their surveys today or within the next few days. As a thank you, when you complete the surveys you can opt to go into the draw for a $50 ByAdl voucher and a $30 Rundle Mall voucher! The first one reflects on living in, working in, or visiting the city: Resident/Visitor survey The second one is perfect if you work in the city but have had changes in where you work brought about by Covid: Working from home survey Ideally, they need you input by Saturday, May 27, 2023. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week There is no featured drink this week. 00:05:31 David M Green In recent years, there have been only two shows that have given me my money's worth in paying for the ABC. The first is Mediawatch. The second was Mad As Hell. So when Shaun Micallef pulled the plug late in 2022 after 10 years and 15 seasons, I was left, well, Mad As Hell. One of the people who created the magic  behind the scenes was a comedian and comedy writer from Adelaide, David M Green. He was invited onto the show by Shaun for season 3 and he stayed there until season 15 in 2022. Some might say that gig was a long way from his humble beginnings of producing the Channel 31 show, Good Afternoon Adelaide, in between popping down grab some bargains at Cunnos. David, welcome. Link to David's website: David M Green Link to David's youtube channel: David M Green on YouTube The movie referred to is not Mad Men or similar with Dustin Hoffman but rather Crazy People with Dudley Moore. Crazy People David, you might be pleased to know that even though I don't have a team of writers, I did revise my intro a few times. I'd like your opinion on one of the early drafts: After mentioning Micallef's decision to end the show I had this sentence: For Mad As Hell comedian and writer, David M Green, the end of the show meant he had to find a new gig so that he could continue being paid to release his Kraken (and by that, I mean, joke crackin'). Yes, I've opened this interview with a Bill Shorten-style zinger. Talk to me about revisions. I imagine gags and jokes follow some sort of arc. Can you tell me what the life cycle of a joke was like at Mad As Hell? Something I find intriguing and disturbing is that News Corp and many other outlets have twisted and ransacked journalism so much, that I find I get most of my news sense from comedy and satire programs like The Bugle, The BBC News Quiz, and Mad As Hell. Did you have any sense that you were helping us distill the silliness and the context of news in your comedy? Use by dates are severe in political writing. When I was a journo, I lived and breathed in the news cycle to the extent that it overtook my life. Did you need to be a news junkie to write for Mad As Hell? We'll be back in a moment, to talk about comedy through Covid, the limits of comedy, and Cunningham Warehouse Sales That is a classic ad that you wrote for Mad As Hell. There were many nutjobs and deluded people swanning around with various conspiracy theories during Covid. In fact, it was like covid became an incubator for lunacy. Were they easy gags or did you get some pushback? This brings me to the question of "the line". You reference online that you are quite the nerd, so I want to nerd it up for a moment and create a quadrant. From dry to the opposite, and safe to daring, where do you sit now, and where have you sat? This might be a good time to talk TJs three jokes because we've been talking about crafting some Division 12 footy playersWoman wiht axe in carArmed robbery at supoermarketProtester danglingA truck driver safely swerving all over the roadThe Crows doing pies in faces One of the main triggers for doing the quadrant was this Good Afternoon Adelaide visit by Santa (cancer and dead dad). What's your reaction to hearing that again. Let's turn to the VHS Revue. Some points for discussion include: Cunninghams Warehouse SalesSA Great CommercialLots of sung jingles including Southern Music Centre about Organs - we can make them big or make them smallForce Electronics with paper moneyMonday Morning Movie Why do VHS Revue nostalgia? Just fun, or important? What is next for a career in the arts? I want to finish with some Mad As Hell highlights: The 2019 wrong episodeYour favourite characterFavourite moment with shaunMost memorable momentWould you have done anything different 01:16:27 Musical Pilgrimage You might recall our special episode with Matt Cahill, reliving the history of the band, The Violets. One of his other projects, which had been brought to our attention by radionotes with John Murch, is Evoletah. They've just released a new son, Calliope Dream, and Matt tells me there's a new album on the way, too. This is a nice mellow end to the show which should transform us from mad as hell to mellow as the Ancient Greek heavans where Calliope was a muse to the Greek poets.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
372 - How A Green South Australia Can Thrive
May 7 2023
372 - How A Green South Australia Can Thrive
Imagine if we had enough housing in South Australia. It is possible, according to entrepreneur and developer, Barrie Harrop, our special guest this week. Barrie has plans afoot for building a tall hotel in Victoria Square out of timber, a quality resort in Whyalla, and housing developments that offer free electricity to occupiers while making best use of existing road and rail infrastructure and accommodates people who need affordable accommodation. John Gledhill returns to walk us through some new wines; this time they are fortifieds. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear a small snippet from South Australia's Kaurna Cronin, who is about to take his local music to Europe. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: How A Green South Australia Can Thrive 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:02:46 SA Drink Of The Week This week we are joined by local winemaker, John Gledhill from Gledhill Vignerons, who gives us a sneak peek at his two new fortified wines; a Fortified Durif and a Fortified Touriga. John also gives us a glimpse at the complexity of fortified winemaking. The wines will be available soon on his website: Gledhill Wines. 00:13:16 Barrie Harrop and a green South Australia Someone I've been watching in my LinkedIn feed for some time is Barrie Harrop. Barrie is there, every day, championing anything related to Green Hydrogen, Whyalla, and Sustainable Construction of buildings and houses using Cross Laminated Timber. Among many other things, Barrie is the chair of Thrive Construct, a building and development company that is committed to quality design, life time construction, carbon neutral living, free energy (subject to fair usage) and fast construction. Barrie, although much of your career has focussed on significant scale property development, the one term that seems to tie everything together is entrepreneur. My social media feed would have me believe that South Australia has 17 entrepreneurs for every square metre of the state - every week has some sort of powerful gathering of entrepreneurs, or some sort of award like Best Left Handed Entrepreneur Aged 35 - 30, but in your career, you actually get things done. Could we start by defining what you think makes an entrepreneur a true entrepreneur, and perhaps share a couple of your proudest entrepreneurial successes? Another theme I see running through various "self made" people in my feeds, is how everybody around them is small minded and negative. And I think there's some nuance here. Just because an idea is big or grand or new, does NOT mean it is worthwhile or good. You have had your share of dealing with naysayers, and, one of them that brings this issue to the surface is the Southgate building at the bottom end of King William Street.Back in the 90s, the atypical design for the Adelaide cityscape drew many critics.What was it like, being at the centre of that project, including being the subject of that persistant Financial Review story, entitled, "Developer Adelaide Loves To Hate"? So, Southgate was all about steel but a major theme in your posts over the past year or two has been CLT or Cross Laminated Timber. This material is the centrepiece of your proposed hotel tower for Victoria Square but before we get there, I want to share the story about CLT and also how it's related to building and construction practices in Australia, which I've seen you claim as some of the most wasteful in the world. Turning to Victoria Square, I'm surprised we need a new hotel because everything I have been seeing is talking about scarcity of residential properties in the Adelaide CBD. Can you talk us through why hotel accommodation is the approach you've taken? I'm working with some Flinders University students at the moment and they're grappling with scenarios where a city has a lot of vacant office space and crushing scarcity of residential accommodation. As an entrepreneur and developer, what do you think of the concept of refitting vacant office buildings as residential, or adopting a hybrid approach? Does that have legs, given that landlords traditionally make more money from commercial clients, don't they? Something intriguing about your approach to development is captured in this line on your website: "We're planning the world's largest sustainable and affordable housing projects and as part of the planning we will introduce micro grids (wired and integrated with solar and battery technologies) subject to fair usage clause our model is free energy for our occupients". And you took a shot at the Adelaide City Council's Bus Station redevelopment for its small percentage of affordable accommodation in the mix. How does the affordable accommodation aspect work; what stops investors using tricky methods to steal the affordable allocations away from those in need? Do you have any thoughts on our shrinking Housing Trust stock? Morphettville is being plundered and redeveloped at the moment and a part of me is sad that housing that once helped the less well off is now being converted into little McMansions. You wrote to the Department of Infrastructure a few years ago and you floated one idea to alleviate our lack of affordable housing options. You said 400sqm areas around train stations and tram stops in the suburbs should be rezoned to allow 8-storey developments because it puts people right where transport is and gets the balance right. Do you still hold this view? Have you seen the growth in Mount Barker? Large parts of me die when I see farming land turned over to low densite housing. We can't eat concrete. Where's our food going to come from? Back on the hotel front, you've been writing for some time now that Whyalla is the perfect place for accommodation investment because even broom closets can fetch $200 a night. What is the dynamic at work there and what has you so involved in the town? What makes Whyalla the perfect location for Green Hydrogen production to help us become a green South Australia? I am hearing a lot of criticism about the so-called "dumb" choice of governments backing electric vehicles as the shorthand answer for decarbonising transport, on the basis that our electricity grid, especially in apartment buildings, just can't cope with battery charging. Would hydrogen-fuelled vehicles be an answer or the answer? Finally, I just heard some research being discussed over the weekend about how our ideas get more extreme when we only mix with people who agree with us. How do you keep your ideas sharp and balanced and not given to simple idealism and wishful thinking? Do you have a Devil's Advocate in your circle? 01:07:14 Musical Pilgrimage Given that during the weekend of recording, England reminded us, through the crowning of their/our new king, that they sent people to Australia in the 1800s, it makes sense that we blow a few horns for local singer/songwriter, Kaurna Cronin who will soon be our export back to Europe. He has a number of dates planned - get details and music from the Kaurna Cronin website - but to finish this episode we're going to hear one of his latest songs, Our Way, from his recent album, Harsh Reality.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
371 - Not For Glory - Australian Women At War With Susan Neuhaus
Apr 18 2023
371 - Not For Glory - Australian Women At War With Susan Neuhaus
From the trenches of the Western Front to the ricefields and jungles of South-east Asia, Australian women have served and doctors and medical specialists from World War I until the present day. Not For Glory is a book that tells their stories of adventure, courage, sacrifice and determination as they fought to serve their country… and won. Co-author, Susan Neuhaus joins us to share some of those stories ahead of Anzac Day. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear a small snippet from South Australia's 2022 Dawn Service, lest we forget. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Not For Glory - Australian Women At War With Susan Neuhaus 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA drink segment this week. 00:03:22 Susan Neuhaus As we approach Anzac Day 2023, I'm reminded of a review I wrote about the play, Hallowed Ground in 2019. In the play we get to meet a number of women who have served Australia, our allies, and humanity in various locations and situations in response to a deep calling to "do their part", do their service. The production by The Shift Theatre, was adapted from the book, Not For Glory, by South Australian army veteran and surgeon, Colonel Susan Neuhaus CSC (Retd) and Dr Sharon Mascall-Dare. I wrote back then that in light of this production and this book, I will certainly be recalling these women’s stories as part of my emotional and historical journey every Anzac Day. And to prepare myself for this Anzac Day, and to share some extra insights with you, I have Susan Neuhaus with me now. This simplest link for finding Not For Glory is here: Australian Women At War bookshelf page. Susan, you spent 20 year5s in the military in both the Australian Regular Army and the Army Reserve as a clinician and a commander. You served in Cambodia, Bougainville and Afghanistan, and in 2009, you were awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross, followed in 2020 by being admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia for services to medicine. What compelled you to serve Australia in what is referred to as conflict medicine? How does medical work in the field differ from back in normal practice? In small business mentoring, I have found that often I end up playing the role of confidant and counsellor. Surely that must happen in the field to a much greater degree. Can you share an example? Are there any disciplines or procedures you learn in the military that make civilian life better (or worse)? I want to reflect on your awards because it connects directly to the title of your book, Not For Glory. When you and so many other service people join the military to "answer a call", how does one hold the notion of medals and awards, when that was not a part of one's motivation? What is so important about these women's stories, that has propelled you to go on the gruelling pathway of crafting a book? What impact would you like this book to have on readers and on the military itself? Can we look at some stories? Through what lens do you reflect on the current situation in Ukraine? 00:48:27 Musical Pilgrimage The most fitting music for this episode has been drawn from the 2022 Dawn Service at the South Australian War Memorial.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
370 - Can Wellness Tourism Heal The World?
Mar 25 2023
370 - Can Wellness Tourism Heal The World?
More than 60 bespoke wellness experiences and events are headlining the 2023 Wellness wander three-day weekend in the Adelaide Hills this coming weekend, March 31-April 2, 2023, so Steve arranged an interview with the event founder, Katherine Droga to not only discuss the event but also the whole topic of wellness tourism. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear an unplugged song by long time favourite of the podcast, Kelly Brouhaha. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Can Wellness Tourism Heal The World? 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA drink segment this week. 00:03:42 Katherine Droga This coming weekend, March 31 to April 2, 2023, the Wellness Wander Weekend returns to the Adelaide Hills. More than 60 bespoke wellness experiences will be staged from Stirling, to Hahndorf, Mount Barker to Lobethal, Crafers to Paracombe and the greater surrounds. At the heart of this event is Katherine Droga, Founder of Wellness Wander, Executive Producer of Well Traveller TV, and Chair of the GWI Wellness Tourism Initiative. Katherine, I have found that as I planned some questions for our chat, there are some challenging ones in the list because I do have this social justice bent in me in which I hate seeing vulnerable people exploited and the area of health is one of the danger zones. But I know you're up for it and I appreciate that. But first, Katherine, how do you define wellness? The wellness idustry attracts many types of people, from those who are unwell to those who feel called to help others. And the first thoughts that arose for me when hearing about the Wellness wander, were coloured by concern about potential opportunism. My initial analogy was that the wellness tourism operators were setting up stands around the edge of a broken and dangerous playground to make money from selling bandaids to injured people. But then I realised that even bandaids have a role to play in healing and maybe an event like Wellness wander might give people the breathing space they need to take stock. What are your thoughts? There is gold in the wellness hills. The Global Wellness Institute says wellness travellers spend 53% more than typical international travellers and 178% more than typical domestic travellers. How do we ethically balance the care factor  of wellness with the brute force of economic drivers? What role has Covid played in spurring interest in wellness travel? One major lens of an event like Wellness wander is at the personal level but no matter how much healing you might undergo, it doesn't change the fact that playground of the world is still a broken place. To fix the causes of suffering in the world is a much deeper task. In fact, I would love your reflection on this insight from Owen Eastwood's book, Belonging. He seems to suggest that our disconnectedness from ourselves and our society (which causes unwellness) actually relates to our lack of understanding of Whakapapa. This is a maori concept of noting that we are here as part of a long line of those who came before us and that the sun will shine on each of us brightly and our job is to try to leave a better legacy. Does that resonate with you? What has occurred on your journey that propelled you into this world of wellness? I was heartened to see The GWI has a strong focus on evidence, which is great because our podcast has a long history of supporting evidence-based enterprises and products. For example, we have long been appalled by the water that is sold as expensive homeopathic medicine. I can state right now that we stand against that sort of skullduggery. However, we're also aware that there are some alternative practices where although they claim a certain type of action is happening, what is really going on is a placebo effect based on the biopsychosocial factors arising from just having attention from a therapist (the patient– practitioner interaction). How do you apply safeguards in an event like Wellness wander to save people from themselves? We will put a link to the full program in the show notes, but I'd love to look into a few things that caught my eye from the program: Sensory Journey at the Ukaria Cultural CentreFamily digital detoxYoga The Wellness wander is an overarching event for the weekend with individual events 100% run by providers including setting their own price points for the event. However, there are plenty of cheaper options for those who are on a budget such as: Guided Meditation and Labyrinth Walk - $35 https://wellnesswander.com.au/activities/guided-meditation-and-labyrinth-walk-2/Introduction to Breathwork and Wander -$25 https://wellnesswander.com.au/activities/introduction-to-breathwork-wander/Candlelight Yin with Live Music - $40 https://wellnesswander.com.au/activities/candlelight-yin-with-live-music/Wellness wander through Hahndorf history - $10 https://wellnesswander.com.au/activities/wellness-wander-through-hahndorf-history/ What can other tourism operators learn from the Wellness wander and from this thing called wellness tourism? 00:39:01 Musical Pilgrimage The most fitting song in the Musical Pilgrimage this episode. It is Campfires by Kelly Brouhaha. There are three reasons this is the perfect song ahead of the Wellness wander. The Wellness wander is about reconnecting with your self and your place and that should also include connecting or reconnecting with our magnificent, homegrown talent. Kelly is an Adelaide-based singer songwriter and following her and supporting her is a great way to ground yourself in life-enriching local art.This song is about the goodness of gathering around campfires to tell stories and to just be (among other things). As referenced in the interview with Katherine Droga, Owen Eastwood argues for the importance of campfire storytelling in his book, Belonging, which is all on theme for this episode.And, finally, this is Kelly off her recent Unplugged album. If anything says simplicity and honesty in harmony with the Wellness wander, it's an artist communicating with us intimately "unplugged".Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
369 - The World Of Adelaide Music From Atlas Genius To Hayli
Mar 18 2023
369 - The World Of Adelaide Music From Atlas Genius To Hayli
Steven Jeffery from Atlas Genius asked us to listen to music from a new artist, Hayli, who he's convinced will take the world by storm, so Steve agreed. The result is this special episode diving deeply into the story behind the music industry, covering fame, fortune, and the preparation that goes into this career. Plus, we also taste Pirate Life's Strawberry & Watermelon Crush in the SA Drink Of The Week. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: The World Of Adelaide Music From Atlas Genius To Hayli00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:02:18 SA Drink Of The Week We sip an SA Drink Of The Week at Pirate Life because next month, April 16, 2023, Hayli will be launching her debut EP at the brewery. We taste the Strawberry & Watermelon Crush. 00:05:48 Steven Jeffrey and Hayli In episode 358 in August last year, we featured a song by Atlas Genius because the band had just taken the USA by storm with appearances on just about every US prime time talk show you could imagine. The single, Trojans, was the tune that got into the heads of Americans, selling more than 1 million copies, achieving Gold status, and reaching number 3 on the US Alternative Music Chart. Just another little export from Victor Harbor!! One of the founding members is Steven Jeffery, and he joins us with a superstar-to-be, Hayli. There's much to discuss today, from behind-the-scenes insights into the music industry, the grind of rehearsals, the creative process of writing or choosing songs, the unrelenting need to promote yourself, and the challenge of maintaining the joy that music is all about. But I want to start by joining some dots in the Atlas Genius story because for a youngish band, it's amazing how many different versions there are online about your formation. Steven, can you start by sharing "that moment" when you and your two brothers, Keith and Michael, decided to form a band back in 2009? An American ABC article says you've left, and the Wikipedia article about your band has a list of almost a dozen people who are (or have been involved). Has it been a case of musical chairs, and if so, why? Many US fans first learned about you when your song, Trojans, was featured in Greys Anatomy. Let's have a listen to that song and then come back and discuss how it came to be featured on the TV show and what the aftermath was like? TROJANS Trojans is a reference from Greek Mythology and, of course, Keith told reporter Taylor Dunn that the band name was also "a certain play on the Greek mythology". Was philosophy an area of interest for you boys? Every family has its own mythology, to a degree, which is something I hope to focus on this year as we reach 10 years of The Adelaide Show podcast. Performance coach and author, Owen Eastwood, goes deep into this in his book, Belonging, as he talks about the Maori concept of Whakapapa; the notion that oour ancestors came before us and the sun shines on each of us in our turn. In your case, your father was in a band, I believe. Is there much music and performance heritage in the Jeffrey family? Hayli, we're about to turn our attention to you but first I want to play another Atlas Genius song that Steve says is his favourite and your favourite. Why do you like The City We Grow? TO THE CITY WE GROW Hayli, when I first listened to the three tracks you currently have on Spotify, I wrote this to Steven: If we were going to draw a Venn diagram with Hayli, Kate Bush and Melissa Etheridge, I think there’d be some sizeable areas of overlap surrounding Hayli’s own features. Hayli, here you are, at the beginning of your career. What goes through your mind when listeners try to peg you to other singers like I did? What was the moment when you decided to throw everything into a music career? I hear that you've written your songs based on your life and the people around you - which must make it a bit scary if someone's about to hear themselves or their actions described in a song. What's been the process for writing songs? The Triple J Unearthed feature on you, specifically notes that you keep your songs ambiguous enough so that people don't really know who they're about - which might be important when the topic's more about hate or impartial romances - but how does that sit next to Leonard Cohen's belief that it's in the particular where we find the universal? In other words, do you lose any power by making references to people more general? Set us up for Mustang Crescent because that's the favourite Hayli song with my daughters. MUSTANG CRESCENT I've noticed your songs, and most Atlas Genius songs, run between 3:30 and 4:00 but I've noticed that DJs these days are either cultivating or responding to a mass sense of Attention Deficit Disorder by only playing 30 seconds of a song, or maybe a minute, or having songs overlaid on each other (remixed). For me, I'd be deflated that all the thought and effort had gone into verses, choruses, instrumental breaks, and lyrics, just gets wasted. I'd probably start just producing 45-second songs, or just 45-second of novel stuff and the rest on "repeat". How does this impact your planning around a song? Hayli, your voice is so strong and raw and sensual, that I get a little impatient with the music on your tracks - I just want to hear your voice. How do you balance that? There is one exception to my "vocal forward" attitude, and that's on the track, Mistaken, because if features some excellent Hammond Organ. [If you want to hear a great discussion about the Hammond, catch my chat with Evan Whetter from Lazy Eye in episode 303.] What made you both opt for the Hammond - was this Steven's keys background? MISTAKEN I've just read an excellent book called Chokepoint Capitalism, in which the stranglehold that Spotify and record labels have on the music scene is described in great detail. What does Hayli need to do to earn a good living from being a singing superstar, and has having a record label deal brought riches to Atlas Genius? At the time of recording, you have a big rehearsal scheduled tomorrow, Hayli. Take us through the planning and discipline that goes into setting yourself up to launch your career properly. Cryptic is your latest release. Can you decipher it for us? CRYPTIC Steven, Hayli is a singer/songwriter and that comes through in her songs but for Atlas Genius, I sometimes get the sense that the lyrics in the songs are almost like other instruments; it's not so much what they are saying but how they are sounding? What's your take? We're going to finish with Molecules, a track that has that anthemic, dance floor sound, with keys at the fore. Tell us about being the keyboard player, even though Wikipedia has you listed as the bass guitarist. Do you get your share of the limelight? Can you introduce Molecules, which features my favourite lines: We steal the molecules from the deadWe liberate inanimate objects MOLECULES Atlas Genius website Hayli (Tripe J Unearthed) Hayli InstagramSupport the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
368 - Adelaide Fringe MBA VS Wankernomics: What's Plagiarism Between Professors?
Feb 6 2023
368 - Adelaide Fringe MBA VS Wankernomics: What's Plagiarism Between Professors?
In 2021, Professor Sebastian Longsword debuted with his Adelaide Fringe MBA in a show called, Lunchtime MBA, in which he promised attendees could come for lunch and leave with an MBA in 60 minutes. Fast forward to 2023, and the blurb for Wankernomics by Charles Firth and James Schloeffel has it described as a 60-minute MBA. Is this plagiarism, is this the inevitability of great ideas floating to the top and conjealing on the surface of life, or does it signal something else? In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a classy piece of jazz by local outfit, Monsoon June, entitled Triangle. And Steve plugs his 2023 Adelaide Fringe show: 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Adelaide Hills MBA vs Wankernomics: What's Plagiarism Between Professors? 00:00:00 Intro A quick plug for Professor Longsword's Adelaide Fringe show, 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:03:04 Professor Sebastian Longsword and Charles Firth [Interview by Professor Sebastian Longsword from The MBA School Of MBA Credentials] Hello. My name is Professor Sebastian Longsword from The MBA School Of MBA Credentials and I'd like to thank The Adelaide Show for making its studio available so that three grown humans can have a mature discussion about some prickly topics, as a model for the rest of society. By addressing each other with respect, I am certain we will finish debating as warm acquaintences, friends, or even lovers. But first, I have a formal introduction to read. Initially, I was going to ask Associate Professor Chat GPT to do this, but then decided to ask my assistant, Ms Paige Turner, instead, because I find nothing is quite as confident and reassuring as her hand. Let us begin. In 2021, I debuted my Adelaide Fringe MBA with a show called, A Lunchtime MBA, in which I promised attendees could come for lunch and leave with an MBA in 60 minutes. Fast forward to 2023, and the blurb for Wankernomics, Solutionising The Corporate World by Charles Firth (from The Chaser) and James Schloeffel (frome The Shovel) describes itself as, and I quote, a 60-minute MBA. Is this plagiarism, is this the inevitability of great ideas floating to the top and conjealing on the surface of life, or does it signal something else? I have summoned my Fringe colleagues to get to the bottom of it. Here are the link to the two 2023 Adelaide Fringe shows in contention: 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor LongswordWankernomics: Solutionising The Corporate World My approach to this "difficult" conversation will be following some guidelines from the NSW Education Department. Their three points are: Have the conversation sooner rather than later (which I why we're about to get stuck right in)Allow time and space (which is why I've made sure we are each in a different state of Australia)Reflect (which is why I have a mirror in front of me) Are you ready, Charles? Charles, if I may circle back to 2021, what puzzles me the most about your decision to mimic my previous work, is that I distinctly remember cradling you in my bosom and laying a hand on your shoulder as I slipped you a shiny, fully-sized, MBA Business Degree. Is it this small act of tenderness that's played in role in crafting these hijinks with James? As an aside, plagiarism detector dot net says 57% of your blurb is original and 43% has been plagiarised. What might surprise you is the sources it used for this report. The first was a site called estellar.com.au, the second was Bing, and the third was the New International Version of the Bible. Apparently, you got penalised for using the word, James. Did he steal his name from the Bible? So, if you are claiming that this show, Wankernomics, is your own work, please show us your workings. How did it come about? The ABC reported today that interest rates are expected to keep rising in 2023, not only making Reserve Bank Governor, Philip Lowe, the pinup boy in this month's Viagra Superstars Magazine, but it also means he would be the one with the hands pulling the leavers of Wankernomics in Australia. Are we right to admire Mr Lowe, or should we fear this currency cavalier? I asked my MBA students to share their favourite terms, the ones that make their bosses smile and admire their white collar status. I think it's wonderful to know you've got a saying you can use to get you out of trouble, a bit like a shibboleth (which is another term from the bible, James): Low hanging fruit. What are your thoughts about that?It's a no-brainer.Ducks in a row. In my research for my original Fringe show, 100% MBA Success - Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword, I uncovered a term that I had thought was pleasant but sweet but is actually considered passive aggressive. It's the term, Kind Regards. Apparently, Regards means I despise you but I'll grit my teeth and smile at you condescendingly, whereas Kind Regards means, gloves off, you little twerp, I truly despise you and am dreaming of ways to bring you harm. You'll be pleased to know I have done semantic research and come up with a replacement, it is Gentle Love And Kisses. Who would you love to receive a letter or email from, that's been signed off with Gentle Love And Kisses? And wouldn't that make workplaces warmer places to be? If I may, I would love to test you with a question I'll be putting to my audiences, just to see if you really are MBA quality. It's to do with coinhabiting office environments with other humans. Some of them speak loudly, all the time, robbing others of concentration. It's my contention that we can find punishments for these people while still keeping HR happy by staying within the guidelines of the 1949 Geneva Convention. So, Charles and James, imagine the most annoying people you know, standing close by and carrying on with a loud conversation about football, the opera, or their child's report card. Which of the following punishments is NOT permitted by the Geneva Convention A: Shoot them with a small calibre pistol, loaded with rubber bullets, and then lock them in the stationery cupboard until 5pmB: Convene a court and try them for crimes against humanity, provided you select a fellow employee or manager to represent themC: Lock them in boardroom for 2 minutes with Kyle Sandilands Of course the answer is C because the Geneva Convention strictly prohibits torture. Did you know two of our universities in SA are in merger talks - the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. And given how sharp you two seem to be, if we were to consider merger talks between my school and yours, what are your mandatory, non-neogiable requirements that you believe every business school needs? Our mandatory items are twofold. A school hot tub for faculty meetings. And a school sommelier. Have you any final thoughts or insights to share to encourage people to see your show, Wankernomics? 00:28:11 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Triangle by Monsoon June. Monsoon June is performing a few shows during the 2023 Adelaide Fringe, simply entitled Monsoon June, featuring songs from their latest album, Shadows. Monsoon June: Phil Banytis composer/guitarist, Alex Mcleod saxophone, Spiro Kolovos bass, Zed Crawford drums. They formed in 2018 and play contemporary, melodic jazz. Shadows, their latest album, was released last year. They're playing at three different venues during the Fringe, in Prospect, Port Adelaide, and Brighton, with full details at adelaidefringe.com.au.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
367 - Greg Fleet Is Torn At The Adelaide Fringe
Jan 20 2023
367 - Greg Fleet Is Torn At The Adelaide Fringe
Greg Fleet returns to the Adelaide Fringe with a new play, A Star Is Torn, so it was a perfect opportunity to spend a little time with him, digging through the arc of comedy during the time of his career, and the art of being brutally transparent about life's challenges on stage. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a song by an artist making her Adelaide Fringe debut, Emilie Kate. And Steve plugs his 2023 Adelaide Fringe show: 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Greg Fleet Is Torn At The Adelaide Fringe 00:00:00 Intro A quick plug for Professor Longsword's Adelaide Fringe show, 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:03:02 Greg Fleet, A Star Is Torn Greg Fleet, “the comedian who can act”, is back with a new play this Adelaide Fringe. That's how I began my 2021 review of Greg's previous play, The Twins, which I loved. This Fringe, he is back with a new show, A Star Is Torn, in which two stand up comedians meet, resulting in laughter, tears, and laughter. Greg, in A Star Is Torn, you play a "one-time king of comedy who is brilliant but is gradually drinking and drugging his way out of the limelight". Did you choose this autobiographical set of character traits because, when it comes to acting, you folloow the Stanislavski Method? Seriously, this play, The Twins, and an earlier piece, This Is Not A Love Song, all have very broken lead characters. What's your attraction to these characters? One thing I have noticed in your work is that when you have a character who is "drugging themselves out of the limelight", you put a lot of focus on how their actions impact those around them. Tears flow with your work. Do they flow in the writing process? Can you take us through the story of A Star Is Torn, and introduce us to your co-star, Krutika Harale? Your blurb says, "Stand-up comedy is internationally “sexier” than ever," why is this? And can you give us a potted history of the scene since you began? I am not a prude when it comes to explitives but I have a very low tolerance for comics who rely on vulgarity for laughs. To me, they're just scooping up the easy stuff. Ban them from swearing, and watch them flounder. Your thoughts? You go warts and all in your writing. Do you have any filter? I ask because I think I still have a parental filter at work in my mind. One step further on transparency. It's one thing to be personally open, but you also break down maleness. In reviewing your work with Ian Darling in Twins, I wrote: We might think that we primarily get “man stories” all the time due to white male privilege, but we don’t. What we usually get is male bravado and posturing. The Twins takes us behind the veil and into the swirling thoughtscape of imposter syndrome, anxiety, questioning, and vulnerability that still exists in even the most privileged of people; well, at least those who allow time for reflection. Do you get pushback from "blokes" about your work, especially in the blokey world of stand up? 00:37:34 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Walk by Emilie Kate. Emilie is making her Adelaide Fringe debut with Songs and Stories with Emilie Kate. The blurb for her show says, ‘Growing up. Absent father. Loving home. Country kid. Moving. Trauma. Self hate. Love. Broken heart. Moving. Loneliness. Self love. Moving. Falling in love. Moving. Getting everything you’ve asked for. Staying still. Living every single moment.’ Sounds intriguing and satisfying. All the best to Emilie with her show, Sunday afternoons at My Lover Cindi, with an hour of original songs and stories.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
366 - Of Droughts And Flooding Rains
Dec 18 2022
366 - Of Droughts And Flooding Rains
In Dorothea Mackellar's poem, My Country, she refers to Australia being a land of droughts and flooding rains. With the River Murray currently flooding many river towns and with people on the land preparing for a summer and its threat of bushfires, we've recording a dual podcast with Belle and Pods from the Adelaide Hills Farmcast. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a recent song by Lucas Day called, Without It. And Steve plugs his 2023 Adelaide Fringe show: 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Of Droughts And Flooding Rains 00:00:00 Intro A quick plug for Professor Longsword's Adelaide Fringe show, 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:04:28 The January Edition Of The Adelaide Hills Farmcast In this chat, hear a special episode of the Adelaide Hills Farmcast with Belle and Pods from Adelaide Hills Farm Services. They've been producing a monthly show in the style of a farming almanac coupled with feature interviews. It is aimed at small acerage landowners and farmers throughout the Adelaide Hills but now also includes the Fleurieu Peninsula. We arranged this joint recording as our effort to shine a light for city people on the challenges and responsibilities faced by rural landowners and producers; the deeper the mutual respect, the better for all of us. In your Farmcast, you usually start with an almanac of specific activities property owners and smal acreage farmers should plan for in the upcoming 4-6 weeks. You get lots of good feedback about that. This month, though, for January, we're just restructuring the almanac into a list of five things property owners and small acreage farmers should think about over the summer break. Water for stock and for essential supplies should there be a bushfireBushfire Risk - spraying, slashing, firebreaks, even farm firefighting unitsSummer weed spraying to keep on top of weedsAround the home garden and house paddock - mulching for water conservation and plant healthAnd if you’re going away over the summer - alerting neighbours and consider using sensors 00:43:37 Now, to the interview proper. I want to start with the most famous extract from Dorothea Mackellar's poem, My Country: I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains. Do you really love the sunburnt nature of parts of Australia? What goes through your minds as people from the land? What was life like on the farm around Christmas time growing up? I have family in Karoonda and often Christmas is pushed out or brought forward depending on weather conditions and crops. Some landowners close to the River Murray are having an anxious time either being flooded or being threatened by floodwaters or by having to come up with contingencies due to transport disruptions, what have you heard? What would you like us city folk to keep in mind when we head out and saturate farming areas for our Christmas holidays? 01:03:46 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Without It by Lucas Day from the album, Swell. Lucas says ‘Without It’ started as a song about the ego - but has come to mean something more. It’s a bell that chimes anytime his bad habits rear their ugly heads. He's hoping it will fuel positive change in anyone who needs it. It takes time to learnYou are not your thoughts That's the opening line of this song and Lucas Day is spot on. Trouble is, most of us go flat out all the time and don't get a chance to actually stop and notice our thoughts. Belle and Pods, do farmers get more of a chance to have time to reflect, when either sitting in a tractor for hours on end or travelling long distances or doing repetative mending or cleaning? Have you had any ah-ha moments of thought while out and away from distractions? And do you think it is due to not having distractions or is there something about being closely engaged with animals, plants, dirt, and weather? At the time of recording, Lucas has a busy December 2022 ahead: wed 21st - Cabana Clubfri 23rd - Marion Hotel 4pm DUO w/ Rachel Coppen]fri 23rd - Moseley Beach Club 7:30pmtue 27th - Fox Creek Wines 1pmwed 28th - Terra & Sol 6pmthu 29th - SandBAR 5pmfri 30th - The Stag 12pmfri 30th - The HWY 6pmsat 31st - The Stag DUOSupport the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Y Natural. Why Local?
Dec 7 2022
Y Natural. Why Local?
Recently, in an article entitled, Y Natural: The Inner Beauty Of Buying Local When You Say You Will, on his Talked About Marketing website, Steve wrote: "There is a resigned sadness among many small business owners like Barbara Gare from Y Natural, when they hear friends say they believe in buying local but don't actually follow through. As small business owners and leaders we are right to feel disappointed in these friends while at the same time making sure that we are living up to the shop local ethos ourselves. The magic of our economy is that it is the circulation of credit from one party to another that keeps the lights on and wheels turning, so this matter of following through on buying local is a win win win that is worth going the extra mile for." For those reasons alone, we're bringing back Barbara's delightful and detailed interview from 2016, but we're front loading it with Steve's small business segment on FIVEaa with Richard Pascoe. We hope you find it inspiring. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a "new" song by Courtney Robb. And Steve plugs his 2023 Adelaide Fringe show: 100% MBA Success: Whisky And Trivia With Professor Longsword. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Y Natural. Why Local? 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show, with fond mentions of two local podcasts that did well in the Australian Podcast Awards. radionotes with John Murch for winning Best Entertainment Podcast and This Medical Life with Dr Travis Brown for being a finalist for Best Education Podcast. Congratulations. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:06:21 Steve Davis and Richard Pascoe on FIVEaa, talking about Barbara Gare from Y Natural In this chat, we learn about the heartache small business owners like Barbara feel, when their friends say they will buy local but they don't really. You can catch more of Richard's interviews on his website: Richard On Radio. 00:22:08 Barbara Gare from Y Natural This is a reprise of Barbara's exhaustive and fascinating interview with Steve Davis and Nigel Dobson, from episode 134 in 2016. You learn more about the Y Natural story and the hideous surprises lurking in many, many products. 01:38:57 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Shaking You by Courtney Robb. This is from Courtney's album, You Are Not Alone. Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022 South Australian Music Awards
Nov 13 2022
2022 South Australian Music Awards
The South Australian Music Awards is an entirely locally run Awards ceremony, facilitated by not-for-profit Music SA. This is all broken down into three categories of award, Major Awards, Industry Awards and People's Choice Awards. Major and Industry Awards are judged by a panel of South Australian and Australian acclaimed music industry professionals. The People's Choice Awards are judged online, entirely by locals.  In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a new song by the Shaolin Afronauts. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: 2022 South Australian Music Awards 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:02:26 Christine Schloitte On November 17, 2022, the SA Music Awards will be held. To help tune in senses before the big event, we're joined by the CEO of MusicSA Christine Schloithe. But first, let's here a few snippets of artists who joined us in 2016 when we attended the SA Music Awards with then Musical Curator, Dan Drummond. Thom Lion and Troy Benson (hear Thom Lion tracks on episode 142 and episode 31)Nate, Chris and Jesse from Recreator after winning Most Popular Rock Artist (hear Recreator on episode 167)Zaachariaha and Michael from Electric FieldsHannah Yates (hear one of Hannah’s songs on episode 156)Tara Carragher (you can hear Tara singing on episode 148 and episode 65) I am dressed Dino Jag style with my tshirt and relaxed gym gear - so it doesn't matter if I sweat later when I shake a leg like Elvis. Now, Christine, the majority of your professional background has been in areas like, arts and cultural programming, producing, touring, and festival management, so your heart must have had a ringside seat as Covid struck. What was your journey like and what are some lessons learned from that unexpected curve ball of destruction? As we brace for another Covid wave, what are you expecting artists to do to prepare? My colleage at Talked About Marketing, David Olney, is a former Adelaide University lecturer, and he noticed a dramatic change in students as Covid struck (and things are still very, very different). From a music industry perspective, what are some of the trends or strands you can see from SA’s emerging artists, that might have been forged in the Covid cauldron? What are shaping as some of the more common pathways our artists are taking to “fame”? How would you describe the “business model” or models that seem to be working for our artists? Are record labels active in promoting local music? I ask because I just heard an interview with Jono Coghill from Powerfinger, saying how their record company did heaps for them and probably more than they realised at the time. What is the state of live performance venues and options in SA and nationally? Now that we don’t have just a few outlets for content, which meant airplay equalled success and fame for the likes of Cold Chisel and Aussie Crawl, are we moving into an era of splintered stardom, in which people have niche audiences rather than mainstream (as the main rule of thumb)? How are fans accessing music these days – are many still buying, or are they just streaming and artists are relying on concert tickets for income? We've featured one original song by a South Australian artist every episode since 2013, which is 360-odd songs. Probably a lot more than any mainstream radio stations have played. I haven't seen a lot of mainstream media coverage of the awards or playing of local artists - how frustrating is this? What needs to change to make it improve? Thoughts for young artists starting out – what would you advise them? And touching on some of the artists in contention this year, with any particular stories of struggle, interest, etc? In particular, And tell us about Hindley Street Music Hall. Where is it, what's special about it? Is there a budding singer or musician inside you? 00:51:21 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Abyssinian Suite Pt 4 by the Shaolin Afronauts. The song was only just released in September this year. Have you heard it or have you seen this band? The Shaolin Afronauts are an Afrobeat band based in Adelaide, Australia. Their music is heavily influenced by West African Afrobeat artists such as Fela Kuti, but also incorporates elements of avant-garde jazz, soul and other traditional African and Cuban percussive rhythms.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
363 - Farming Through Drought
Oct 30 2022
363 - Farming Through Drought
When the opportunity arose to interview Chris Thomas about his time of farming in the mid-north of South Australia during the great drought of 1982, not even flood-damaged roads could stop Steve from travelling to Crystal Brook to record the stories. Meanwhile, a different climate story was celebrated in Adelaide last week; 50 years of Seeley International and its mission to provide reliable, innovative, and affordable cooling to people everywhere. While we don't cover that story directly, there is a snippet in the introduction of Steve's recollection of the night at Ayers House, that uncovers a quirky bit of SA history. And as a board member of Radio 5mbs, Steve often listens to the station's Liston On Demand programs and during one recently he heard a song by local band, Suedan, that demanded to be played on this episode. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Farming Through Drought 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. This week this includes a recollection from the Seeley International 50th Anniversary dinnar at Ayers House, where Steve sat next to friend and client, Donald Kay, from Don Alan Pty Ltd. Steve mentioned this during his regular segment about small business on FIVEaa with Richard Pascoe, and it seems Donald will be hauled into FIVEaa before too long. However, Donald was mentioned because of some trivia about Sir Henry Ayers that he discovered and shared. Also, Steve recorded the rare and boisterous "Go Power" chant that Sir Frank Seeley is known for. He did a moderate version in front of the dignitaries on Wednesday night, which Steve captured for posterity. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:06:32 Chris Thomas One of Steve's clients, and a former guest from episode 353, Alex Thomas from the Plant A Seed For Farm Safety and Save A Life, Listen To Your Wife campaigns, was heading to Crystal Brook last week to see her father, farmer, Chris Thomas, who farmed during the dramatic 1982 drought. Given that Australia is currently experiencing flood, Steve thought it would be the perfect time to remind all of us of the extremes of nature that farmers need to contend with to keep us eating fresh food. Chris also got very ill during his farming career, due to Q Fever and a series of other complications, meaning Alex has had to care for him since she was 15; inspiring her to spearhead a down-to-earth farm safety business. She delivers talks and runs workshops all around Australia and as you'll hear in the interview with her dad, farmers have a certain mindset and make up which is all about "getting the job done" and not so much about "self care". That is changing but it's also how these dogged humans have been able to push through and craft farming enterprises to support society here in Australia. This is not an exhaustive documentation of farming or the drought; it is a story about passion and the eeking of a living in South Australia. 00:42:50 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have One Day by Suedan. Steve heard this on River Blues, a blues program on Radio 5mbs, which you can listen to via their website or by subscribing in a podcast app (there are also jazz, world music, and classical programs). Suedan was formed by Sue Filmer and Danny Filmer in 2016 as a musical duo. They had played in bands for many years but never together. Although Sue Filmer and Danny Filmer had played in many bands before they had never played together. Steve first became aware of them while working with them through his business, Talked About Marketing, helping them set up their website. To then hear them on 5mbs with a song befitting the mood and tone of farming through drought was too much of a coincidence not to feature the song in this episode. Suedan produces roots and blues music, using cigar box guitars, cajun drums, blues harp, and vocals. Catch their music, check out their upcoming shows, and hire them, via their website, Suedan Music.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
362 - Bay To Birdwood Fringe
Oct 16 2022
362 - Bay To Birdwood Fringe
When Steve was invited by Don Violi to go for a nice Sunday drive, he had no idea he was about to create the Bay To Birdwood Fringe episode of The Adelaide Show. With his clothes reeking of car exhaust, he's edited the episode and it is out and available before the sun has even set on the 2022 event. And we move nostalgia into top gear with a new song by Dino Jag, Shake A Leg Like Elvis. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Bay To Birdwood Fringe 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No SA Drink Of The Week this week. It now an occasional segment when stellar beverages are discovered. 00:02:52 Don Violi Adelaide's famous hairdresser and nostalgia historian, Don Violi, is also a car tinkerer and he invited Steve to go for an unofficial drive along with all the entrants in the 2022 Bay To Birdwood rally. Hence, we have this special episode, the Bay To Birdwood Fringe. You can intersect with Don in his day job at Khrome Hair Studio, Prospect. This segment contains an interview up at Birdwood, along with some edited moments of the livestream recorded early in the adventure. 00:22:32 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have  Shake A Leg Like Elvis, by Dino Jag. You can listen to and by the song from Apple Music, and Spotify. Or visit the Dino Jag website to hop onto Dino's mailing list to stay in his loop.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
361 - The High Tide And Low Tide Of Mental Health
Oct 1 2022
361 - The High Tide And Low Tide Of Mental Health
Adelaide podcaster, Leesa Scanlan, is shining the spotlight on mental health Anxiety and depression get talked about a lot but it's taking a South Australian podcaster, Leesa Scanlan, to bring a dose of gentle, frank reality to the high tide and low tide of mental health. We start our discussion about mental health in the SA Drink Of The Week segment, which features a beer from Shapeshifter Brewing Company. And we bring our discussion home in the Musical Pilgrimage, with a new song by Rhys Howlett. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Please note that in this episode we will discuss mental health and all that it entails. Some time we will talk about suicide and self harm, if this is triggering for you please take a moment to decide if you should continue to listen. If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help now, call triple zero (000). You can also call  Lifeline  on 13 11 14 — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Other helplines available in Australia include Mens help line (24/7)- 1300 78 99 78 BeyondBlue (24/7)- 1300 22 46 36 Sane Australia (10am-10pm)- 1800 18 72 63 Suicide Call Back Service (24/7)- 1300 659 467 Running Sheet: The High Tide And Low Tide Of Mental Health 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:03:00 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is Fading Light by Shapeshifter Brewing Company. In preparing for our chat, I've been thinking about your comments about diving on a recent episode. You said diving was the great escape from issues and worry because it's just you and your breathing and the ocean. It made me wonder if drinking has become my "diving". I've always prided myself on drinking for the flavour, not for the buzz, but during the time of Covid I think I've started using alcohol as a pressure relief valve. I'm not saying diving and drinking are similar - beyond their relief they bring to stress and worry. Ultimately, diving leaves you fitter and healthier, drinking just leaves your body with a little extra work to do in processing alcohol. So I am dropping the SA Drink Of The Week as a permanent segment on this podcast. It will still appear when I have an amazing drink to share, but I want to model a lifestyle in which drinking is something done as a pleasureable and mindful activity, not as a medicinal "necessity" or a fait accompli when people get together. I'm not throwing the bottle out with the bath water, I'm simply severing the ties of habit. 00:13:43 Leesa Scanlan The host of fellow South Australian Podcast, High Tide Low Tide, is Leesa Scanlan. Leesa and her guests talk about all things mental health because in Australia, one in five people have a diagnosed mental health condition and nine Australians die from suicide every single day. Having been diagnosed with depression and anxiety more than 16 years ago Leesa truly understands the power there is in being able to share your story, not only for the person themselves but for every single person listening and relating to parts of it. And her storytelling is disarmingly frank and insightful, which is why she's joining us today. Leesa, the blurb for your podcast says: This podcast is for the one person who needs to hear it today. What do you mean by that? How do you define Mental Health? Do you think it's possible to have "perfect" mental health? RUOK Day happened recently and for the first time I saw some cynical push back on social media - things like, if one more person asks me if I'm okay, I'm gonna punch them. Can you understand that? I've read parts of your diaries, Leesa, starting when you were age 7. Well, to be clear, I've watch you read them on your Instagram feed. Have you always been reflective? Socrates is believed to have said, "the unexamined life is not worth living" and it makes me wonder, is there a fine line between healthily reflecting on our lives and obsessively being consumed by mulling things over and over again and getting stuck? Leesa, the reason I wanted to get you on The Adelaide Show was episode 10 of your podcast in which you talk us through your lived experience of dealing with mental health, especially the way it manifested itself as cutting. I had known that cutting is a thing but your explanation was so clear, this action which I had never been able to process, became understandable. Can you define cutting and why it worked as a solution for you at various times in your life? You lived in Indonesia for six years, during which time your work with tourist ventures and diving gave you enough money to survive on, I think you say you basically you were poor while living in Indonesia. This gives us a chance to ask the $64 question, literally: were you able to be poor and happy? Was any happiness due to being poor or due to working in an enjoyable industry? I want to return to diving, mentioned during the SA Drink Of The Week segment, would you say diving just brings symptomatic relief to mental health issues, or does it actually help change things in an ongoing way? Finally, you have an episode in which you list 10 tactics for helping to cope with mental health issues. Could you share a few of them to finish off our chat? 01:04:11 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have  Dutch Cream Potatoes, by Rhys Howlett. Rescue Dogs is a collection of songs that Rhys has written over the past 10 years.  And Dutch Cream Potatoes is a perfect song for this episode because it touches on the weight and endurance of sad memories, and the healing power of walks on the beach. In the lyrics, Rhys writes: Sometimes the best of intentions can lead to the saddest outcomesAnd I don't work hard but I laugh a lot and the thing about walks on the beach that I loveIs how storms will pass, when you're out in the open you can see the blue skyIf it's off in the distance at least you can see itAnd wait just a minute you'll be walking right in itSo maybe when people feel isolated it's a matter of getting out into the openTo breathe in the sky, to stop asking why and start asking how, to make things better And another lyric that seems poignant: I think a lot about patterns of behaviourHow factory settings restore when we're troubled and stressed You can buy and stream Rescue Dogs and other albums on Rhys Howlett's Bandcamp page.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
360 - Horse Riding And Horse Loving Around Adelaide
Sep 19 2022
360 - Horse Riding And Horse Loving Around Adelaide
According to one of our guests in this episode, Andy Ide, there are 1.5 million horses in Australia and about 5,000 horse businesses. So the question is, why does our love affair with horses linger, given it's been 100 years since we replaced them as our transport partners? We then pick up the sound of horses as modes of transport in the Musical Pilgrimage, thanks to a song we were introduced to by Libby Green of Classic Carriage Drives in the Adelaide Hills. The full spotlight, however, goes to South Australian horse, Noddy, who works with people with disabilities in southern Adelaide as part of disability services provider, Heartfelt Support. The SA Drink Of The Week is a Nippys Cloudy Apple Juice which we try guest taster, Dr Travis Brown from fellow South Australian podcast, This Medical Life. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Horse Riding And Horse Loving Around Adelaide 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:04:30 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is Nippys Apple Juice, which Steve tries with guest taster, Dr Travis Brown, from the This Medical Life Podcast. We chose this drink to honour the connection between horses and apples/carrots, but also because Travis referenced horses in a recent episode of his podcast about blood pressure, in which a horse was an integral part to the first measurement system. Discover the episode from the fellow South Australian podcast, This Medical Life: Hypertension, Too Much Of A Good Thing. 00:11:02 Robert Godden and Noddy Earlier this year, I met Noddy, a brumby who is an integral part of a program for people with disabilities. He is co-owned by, Robert Godden; a political contributor to The Adelaide Show who also co-runs Heartfelt Support, a disability support service in Southern Adelaide. I was prompted to do this interview because brumbies evoke a lot of love from keen horse people and, tragically, they made the news for the wrong reasons recently when 11 horses were slaughtered in Kosciuszko National Park. So the South Australian we're really shining the spotlight on today is Noddy, but his spokesperson will be Robert Godden, which is the next best thing to hearing these stories straight from the horse's mouth. Robert, let's start with brumbies themselves: how are they different from other horse breeds? Why do so many people love them? Of course, on the other side of the equation are people who view brumbies as a community that requires "management"; we're looking at you, governments of NSW and Victoria. What's the latest we know about these eradication activities in Kosciuszko National Park, involving Arrowboy and 10 other brumbies? Here's a media release on the topic from the Australian Brumbies Association. Is their method the only way of dealing with brumbies? Was Noddy ever at risk of a similar fate as Arrowboy? What's his story? Beside horse riding, what are the bonds and interactions like between Noddy and his riders? 00:35:09 Andy Ide Owning horses is similar to having children; you're responsible for a lifelong adherence to care for them. This means keeping records of their health and development, whether or not you plan to sell them or their heirs. Enter Any Ide and his software product called Horse Records. As Andy explains, Horse Records is a locally-developed package that delivers everything you need to record performance, veterinary, farrier, feeding, dentistry, chiropractic, serving, foaling dates, pedigree, progeny and much more! 00:48:02 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Singing Shoes, by Pete Denahy. We are breaking the rules slightly because Pete is not a South Australian singer songwriter however the horse-loving community let us know he was heading over to SA for some local concerts and his song is all about that lovely sound of horses hooves clip clopping along our roads arising from horse riding and horse and carriage travel. So, we've made an exception in the way a ridden horse will dodge obstacles and adapt its path on the way to its destination. One of Pete's fans is Libby Green who runs Classic Carriage Drives in the Adelaide Hills. So we have a chat and a ride with Libby who then introduces Pete's song.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
359 - Showtime for Palaeo Jam
Sep 1 2022
359 - Showtime for Palaeo Jam
Michael Mills of Heaps Good Productions has crafted a new podcast about palaeontology and we hear episode one in this episode. The SA Drink Of The Week is Pepperjack Shiraz by Saltram. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a song from singer/songwriter and fellow, SA-based podcaster, Alison Newman. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Showtime For Palaeo Jam 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:04:42 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is the 2020 Pepperjack Shiraz by Saltrams. 00:07:14 Palaeo Jam Enjoy episode one of Palaeo Jam, which was produced for National Science Week by Michael Mills and his company, Heaps Good Productions, in collaboration with The Adelaide Show Podcast and the Flinders University Palaeontology Society. 00:37:12 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have When I See You, by Alison Newman. Alison also produces a podcast called The Art Of Being A Mum, but in a special Father's Day edition coming out on September 4, 2022, she's sat down with our very own Steve Davis to talk about the art of being a dad. He probably overshares a bit, but that's one of Alison's gifts! You can hear more of Alison's music here: Alison Newman MusicSupport the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
358 - War Torn Adelaide In Ukrainian Solidarity
Aug 24 2022
358 - War Torn Adelaide In Ukrainian Solidarity
Adelaide commercial photographer, Drew Lenman, has created a realistic rendering of an Adelaide panorama in which our city has been ravaged by war. Drew's goal is to inspire us to feel more deeply for Ukrainians and contribute to UNICEF's fundraising options. The SA Drink Of The Week is from Artis Wines in the Adelaide Hills, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a song from Mad Dog Malcolm that's probably unlike any song you've ever heard. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: War Torn Adelaide In Ukrainian Solidarity 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:03:55 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is the Artis Wines 2019 Adelaide Hills Grüner Veltliner, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. As you'll hear (and see) in our tasting with Glenn Malycha from Wine Pro Australia, we learn that the winemaker Andrew Miller, applies much attention to detail, from the wine to the labels. 00:16:24 Drew Lenman A commercial photographer from Adelaide, South Australia, Drew Lenman, has found a unique and powerful way to raise funds and awareness for victims of war in Ukraine. Using photo editing software, Drew Lenman has transformed images of Adelaide into a landscape of war and destruction in a project titled “Imagine Our City”. In a bid to evoke empathy and compassion for victims of Putin’s war in Ukraine, the imagery comprises two high resolution ‘before and after’ photographs in registration which have been edited into a graphic video, below. Drew has an aim to raise at least $50,000 for trusted charity UNICEF and is appealing to fellow Australians to dig deep and support those whose lives have been thrown into turmoil. Please help by donating to UNICEF relief fund 00:39:45 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Elegant Strangers, by Atlas Genius. This South Australian band has certainly lived up to the "Atlas" name, having toured overseas, conquering the USA in their travels. Appearances on the US late night TV shows has helped this band build a strong following and we look forward to learning more about their journey in an upcoming episode.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
357 - Magic In Adelaide
Aug 7 2022
357 - Magic In Adelaide
Have you ever found yourself in awe of magic tricks being performed right under your nose? Steve has been, which is why he invited Adelaide-based magician, Barry "Baz" Seeley onto the podcast to explore the discipline and the mindset of doing performance magic. The SA Drink Of The Week with a Brockenchack Shiraz from Eden Valley, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a song from Mad Dog Malcolm that's probably unlike any song you've ever heard. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Magic In Adelaide 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:02:30 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is the 2019 Brockenchack Zipline Shiraz, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. As you'll hear (and see) in our tasting with Glenn Malycha from Wine Pro Australia, we learn that the winemaker behind this wine is Trevor Harch, who is a "former" Queenslander who's fallen in love with our patch of turf! 00:17:35 Barry "Baz" Seeley If I had three cups and a ball and performed a trick in which you lost track of where my ball was, I'd be performing one of the first magic tricks in history, dating back to about 3BCE. We would both know there was no "magic" going on. We'd both know I was using your senses to deceive you. But we'd all enjoy this moment of illusion. Over the history of The Adelaide Show podcast, we've chatted with illusionists, Michael Boyd and Laurence Leung, but in this episode we are sitting with an official magician of many years' standing, Barry Baz Seeley. Links and references mentioned in the podcast: We recorded in the underground home of SA's magicians: Bombshelter Magic Adelaide Magic Clubs: Australian Society of Magicians (ASM)Phil Ahrens 0438 055 1882. International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM)Steve Burford 0402 462 881  Barry, before we get lost in the world of magic, magicians were long associated with the devil and the occult. I mention this because we're recording this episode underground in a WWII Air Raid Warden's "bomb shelter" in Adelaide and I'm worried about being made to disappear. Will there be some dark arts performed down here today? Which clubs use these clubrooms and how did they come to use them. It seems like the clubs are taking the cloak of secrecy quite literally? I was watching The Prestige with my daughters a few weeks ago and they demanded it be turned off after a scene in which the magician came off stage and had to empty the dead bird out of his magic trick equipment. We'd all thought he'd made a bird disappear. He had, but in a gruesome way in which the cage collapsed lightning fast, killing and squashing the bird out of sight. He later pulled a similar looking bird out of his pocket to release to the crowd. Do you think that was based on truth and, if so, how many birds do you go through? There was a strong focus in The Prestige on the secret craft of developing an elaborate stage trick, most of which was all based on pure mechanics. How does that still of complex magic compare with the magic you do which I've experienced first hand, in which you are up close and personal and don't have the benefit of distance to disguise what's going on? There is a murky area that lies between logic and wonder and I feel this is where your craft exists. It's why I've been talking in terms of dismissing "magic" and focussing on the art of illusion. How do you react to that? In other words, what mindset do you embrace when performing or thinking about magic? What mindset should audiences adopt to get the most out of a magic show. I'm particularly thinking of us older, jaded theatre goers. Is there something we can or should learn from children? Do you make up your own tricks? And, if so, what's the inspiration and the process? Let's talk about the discipline of being a magician. How long does it take to perfect a trick? And what are the obstacles you must overcome? Does it get boring doing the same trick many times? Is there any such thing as a new trick? What happens if you forget what you’re doing when you’re in the middle of a trick on stage? What happens if a card trick does not work, you’ve made a big thing with choosing a card and it turns out to be the wrong one Can (and do) you apply magic craft in daily life? We're going to film a trick in a moment but can you teach us a trick just through audio? And can you tell us what happens in this bunker during meetings? 01:22:19 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have Cha Ching, by Mad Dog Malcolm from the newly released album, The Adventures of Mad Dog Malcolm, The Street Fighting Cabaret Artiste. Mad Dog Malcolm is known around comedy circuits as an undefeatable street fighter who has embraced a career as a cabaret singer to lift himself out of his rut of shady deals and living on the edge. He is the alter ego of singer and comedian, Gerry Masi, who will be stealing Mad Dog's work on Saturday, August 27, 2022, at the Laugh Lounge in Adelaide. The song we're about to play is not for the faint hearted. It is dark, black satire of the fact that whenever there are terrible catastrophes, some entertainment promoters cash in and make a fortune as people try to escape the bleakness of life. So, you have been warned. Pause this now if you have kids listening or you're at work, but if you're still here, listen on and marvel at the affrontary of Mad Dog Malcolm. Mad Dog Malcolm on Bandcamp.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
356 - Lest We Forget Ukraine
Jul 24 2022
356 - Lest We Forget Ukraine
Our media outlets have amnesia when it comes to stories that "drag on" for longer than a few days and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is one of them. So in this episode we sit down with Adelaide-based, Ukrainian expat, Natalya Boujenko, to get a deeper understanding of Ukraine's history and culture, of the war, and of the various things we can do to help Ukrainians. The SA Drink Of The Week with a Sorby Adams, Jutland GSM, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a new song from Vince Contarina, whom you might know better as the front man from The Zep Boys. He has a whole lotta original songs going on, and we're going to hear one. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Pitch-black Podcast From Our Dark Sky Reserve00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:06:15 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is the 2019 Sorby Adams, Jutland GSM, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. As you'll hear (and see) in our tasting with Glenn Malycha from Wine Pro Australia, we learn that the winemaker behind this wine is Simon Adams, who spent about 20 years at Yalumba as a senior red winemaker, so there's plenty of experience that the Sorby Adams label draws upon. 00:17:57 Natalya Boujenko On 22 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military forces to enter the breakaway Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, calling the act a "peacekeeping mission", just 48 hours before launching a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in what he called a "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" the country. For many Australians, we'd been aware of Ukraine but not actively focussed on it until our natural spirit to support the underdog kicked in and many of us instinctively felt great anger towards Vladamir Putin for his vicious and illegal war. Our media outlets jumped onto the Russian Invasion story and "milked it for all it was worth" until the inevitable lure of sport and celebrities drew their attention away. Today, I had to go to page 38 to find a mention of Ukraine in The Advertiser, despite the signing of a deal to allow wheat exports from the country having significant importance for avoiding widespread hunger around the world. To help deepen our understanding of Ukraine and to sift through some of the details of what life's been like for her fellow Ukrainians, Adelaide-based expat, Natalya Boujenko, has agreed to join us and share what she knows. Help Ukrainians Australia Kozak Bar & Kitchen I read through the sprawling history of Ukraine in preparation for this interview, and I must say it is one of highs and lows and waves of invasion and shifting alliances. Down here in Australia, our neighbours are states and there is little more than state rivalry; we don't have Victoria getting all "miliatary" against us. So, just in general terms, can you help plot Ukraine's history and it's place in its part of the world for us? In my reading, I discovered that decorated Easter eggs seem to have been developed in Ukraine, well before it became Christian. Is that widely practiced today; the painting of eggs and using wax in the process? I also saw that so called "Cossack Songs" are considered a rich part of your musical history. Earlier this year, I heard about Ukrainian punk band, Beton's cover of London Calling, renamed Kyiv Calling. What are your understandings of Ukraine and music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQUkRKqp2E And are their any traditional dishes that make you homesick or proud of Ukraine? When I moved to Hungary (Alexis, take a sip) I realised that few people in Australia appreciated the advanced, modern, historical, layered histories of other countries in the world, especially those in the "eastern bloc". Could you find some ways to describe Ukraine to help us get a sense of where it is really similar to Australia and where it is really different, perhaps looking back 4-5 years, prior to this war? Poland and Germany and Russia and Austria all have "history" with Ukraine. Has that been stable in recent history? When you and I met at an event recently, you made some comments about the gritty reality of life on the ground in Ukraine, with details that did not match was I was reading about in the media. I told my family and my 12yo responded with a set of questions that are just as good as any I would come up with, so I promised Caitlin I'd ask them on her behalf. What’s happening that they don’t show us in the news?Is it still happening or is it just the news not showing us any more?How do you feel about this? I've never experienced what it must be like when a foreign nation invades my country. Have you got any way of describing this for us? And living in the aftermath: A bomb blast takes seconds but there is no quick fix to the infrastructure. We grumble if the power is out for half an hour, but having no power or water or gas, that's hard to truly comprehend. Especially the myriad ways it would dominate all our thinking and decision making every moment, just to survive. And what can we do that really has an impact in Ukraine (I always fear that donations to some places evaporate and never make it through to do good). For example, very early on I discovered that the people behind Crocobloc, a collection of plugins for WordPress websites, were based in Ukraine, so I used the support channel to send this message: Hi team. This is not a support request. I just wanted to say that our little team here in Adelaide, Australia, is right behind Ukraine and we are disgusted by Russia’s evil invasion of your country. We hope you can survive well and prosper and we hope our western allies in the EU are able to support you better. The person I was talking to was completely taken by surprised and very grateful, saying it helped make her day. I've also made a donation to a Ukraine magazine but am considering subscribing to Kyiv Independent to show support to fellow journalists. Is that sort of thing useful, in your opinion? I know you have been involved in arranging support. Is there a good source of news? I've turned to Al Jazeera to have a constant supply of solid reporting. 01:22:41 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have What Things? by Vince Contarino from his new album, Goin' Home. It's tight, loud, blues-infused rock, with plenty of respect given to the riffs, meaning songs have long intros allowing the guitars and sometimes the Hammond organ to "get their groove on". Vince has some dates coming up performing songs from the album 'Goin' Home' with special guests (and favourites of The Adelaide Show) Lazy Eye, and Stuart Day. We'll put a link in the show notes but basically they include Friday August 12 at Pepper Tree in Aldinga, Saturday, August 20 at the Three Brothers Arms in Macclesfield, and Friday, August 26, at the Naval Association in Port Adelaide.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
355 - Pitch-black Podcast From Our Dark Sky Reserve
Jul 9 2022
355 - Pitch-black Podcast From Our Dark Sky Reserve
In this episode, we stay very still to let our eyes adjust before recording interviews at night time in the River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve. We met the originator of the Dark Sky Reserve idea for the Mid Murray region, Chris Tugwell, former SA Chief Scientist-turned-astrophotographer, Don Bursill, and astronomer, Joe Grida. We didn't get to interview Ivy from the Ngaut Ngaut Aboriginal Site but we hope to get back for a separate episode because her stories of her people and the land were deeply intriguing and impressive. We also have a chat with Captain, Max Lindsay, on board the PS Marion, which had docked on the side of the river, along with Michelle de Leeuw-Smeets, Tourism & Heritage Officer – Mannum Dock Museum of River History. The SA Drink Of The Week has made its mark in the space-time continuum; a non vintage Rosé from David Franz Wines, ably supported by our guest taster, Glenn Malycha. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a new song from Kyan Burns, which has a big sound for a big mission. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of wine? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for News and Current Affairs in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Running Sheet: Pitch-black Podcast From Our Dark Sky Reserve 00:00:00 Intro Introduction to the show. 00:03:51 SA Drink Of The Week This week's SA Drink Of The Week is the 2021 Cuvee Non-Vintage Red Rosé from David Franz Wines. As you'll hear (and see) in our tasting with Glenn Malycha from Wine Pro Australia, this wine features 108 varieties in every bottle - that would make for a fun wine night! 00:16:16 PS Marion interview We recorded this episode on the PS Marion, a fully restored heritage paddle steamer built in 1897 and one of the last operational, heritage, steam driven, wood fired, overnight passenger carrying side paddle steamers in the world. Captain, Max Lindsay, has a lot of experience on the river and driving boats, and I'm told he loves the PS Marion. As does Michelle de Leeuw-Smeets, Tourism & Heritage Officer, Mannum Dock Museum of River History. Max,  what is it about a vessel made of wood and steel that can make a grown man LOVE it? Can you sort out one discrepancy for me? The official website says the Marion was built in 1897 but some accounts say it was built in 1896 as a barge them converted to steam power in 1900. Will we ever know the exact dates? The Australian National Maritime Museum: Although planned to be a steamer PS MARION was originally built as a barge. In 1896, shipbuilder A.H. Landseer from Milang on Lake Alexandrina South Australia was commissioned to build a steamer by Mr. George Swan Fowler, a prominent Adelaide business man. Unfortunately Mr. Fowler died soon after building began, and his trustees decided that the hull should be completed and offered for sale as a barge. It was named MARION and first floated in February 1897. The Marion played an important role in the early years of Federation by being the platform for the openings of lochs, even at one time having Prime Minister Andrew Fisher on board. Who else has graced its boards? One thing that sets the Marion apart is that its owners and designers were very good at making sure the vessel could change with the times. I believe it's configuration changed a few times from simply carrying goods to being able to carry passengers, and its big funnel is of an adjustable height. What else can you tell me about what it carried? Most of us experience the Murray as a quiet, meandering old soul but does danger lurk under the surface for riverboat captains? Tell me about the Mannum Dock Museum? What do you get from hopping on board while the PS Marion is stationery? Should we return to paddlesteamers for moving freight? 00:39:37 Dark Sky Reserve Eight out of every 10 people on this planet, live under night skies that are ruined by light pollution. And, yes, that includes Adelaide and surrounds. While it's nice to see the Adelaide Oval lights juxtaposed against a deep red sunset, what happens when we lose sight of the stars at night is that our sleep patterns become disrupted, nocturnal habitats of our native animals become disturbed, and we get cut off from being reminded just how spellbinding the night sky can be. To me, this means we forget the healthy reminder, captured beautifully by Carl Sagan many years ago, that we are living on a pale blue dot amid a vast, vast, incomprehenisible universe. I think this is healthy because it can remind us to look out for each other as humans, and not get swept up into our fickle vanities. But before I get too deeply lost in philosophical meanderings, let's meet tonight's guests who are joining me in the dark on a cold night on the PS Marion, in the middle of the River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve; Chris Tugwell, .... The IDA (or International Dark Sky Association) defines an International Dark Sky Reserve as a location on public or private land where we can experience starry nights of exceptional quality and becomes protected for its scientific, natural, educational, cultural, heritage and/or public enjoyment. At the moment, the River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve is the only IDA reserve in Australia. Chris, there are many questions but first, where is this River Murray reserve? What criteria did you have to meet to get listed, what things have to keep happening to maintain the listing? How should or can South Australians interact with the Dark Sky Reserve? What do we think about Elon Musk's dozens of broadband internet satellites that are apparently visible in the night sky? How connected are we to the stars - not re astrology but in relation to understand space and time? 01:19:22 Joe Grida interview Joe is an astronomer who entertained passengers on the PS Marion Dark Sky Reserve cruise, and he shares his thoughts on the night sky and star gazing. One bit of trivia: Do you have any idea why this being episode 355 is perfectly linked to the topic of the stars and time? It's because our calendar is based on 24-hour days but the orbital period of the Earth is not an exact multiple of 24. Over time, calenders get out of step with the actual orbital period. After moving from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, we had to do a little jump in time. So, in 1582 the date jumped from 4th October to 15th October, making that year the only one in history that had 355 days! What other delights and stories can we gather from the night sky access? He also referenced former guest, Vic Gostin. Here is a link to Vic's interview: 220 – Vic Gostin On Time, Rocks, And Space You can have the "Joe Grida" experience as part of one of the Day/Night tours arranged by Juggle House. Here are the details for the Dark Sky Gold Stars Sunset Dinner 01:29:29 Musical Pilgrimage In the musical pilgrimage, we have We Won't Let Them Win by Kyan Burns. Kyan wrote this song after observing kids struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic by being isolated from their peers and more exposed to bullying due to being online more. It features hip hop artist, Boffa, and a kids choir. We've also embedded the official music video in the show notes, plus there's a link to Ditto FM to make it easy to add the song to your playlists on your favourite streaming services.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.