It’s the final MAD Wednesday as JOY heads in a new Drive direction, so Rach and Dean opened up the phone lines to have you, the listeners be their guests for their final show.

There are laughs, tears, memories and madness with a host of special guests.

We always said it was your voice, your radio station – and we thank you for welcoming us into your lives every hump day.

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Adam Bold from Points of Difference Touring and Events joined Rach and Dean for their final MAD Wednesday to talk about Gay Ski Week Australia, coming to Falls Creek in September.

With people concerned about the Covid Restrictions, Adam was happy to talk about how the event would move forward allowing people to hit the slopes and paint the mountain rainbow.

Everyone is welcome to Gay Ski Week Australia, join the fun at Falls Creek 4th- 13th September.

Find out more about Gay Ski Week Australia here.

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Damien Stevens-Todd joined Rachel and Dean for one last time on MAD Wednesday for Country Cousins, taking us through some of the amazing regional events for Victoria’s LGBTIQA+ communities.

One of those exciting events is Pride-solation, and we were joined by Claudia from Throne Harbour Country to find out all about it.

Pride-Solation is an Australian first. COVID-19 isolation has inspired 15 regional LGBTIQA_ organisations and community groups to come together online to celebrate their communities and pride in a one-off live streamed event highlighting the uniqueness of rural and regional Victoria and unify the community in Pride.

The organisations participating are, Koori Pride Network, OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton (Goulburn Valley Pride Inc.), Mallee Pride, Gippsland Pride Initiative, Wimmera Pride Project, Geelong Rainbow Festival (Geelong Rainbow Inc), Ballarat Frolic Festival, Castlemaine Pride, Trans and Gender Diverse Bendigo and Beyond, ChillOut Festival (Daylesford) and Thorne Harbour Country (part of Thorne Harbour Health) who will program health and wellbeing content with the event live-streamed on Facebook by LaNCE TV from 12-6pm AEST on Saturday 20th June – Each festival is programming content to highlight local artists and community members.

Find out more here.

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Vika & Linda Bull joined Dean for the final MAD Wednesday to talk about their first best of album, ‘Akilotoa’ – an anthology looking back at more than 30 years in their careers.

They both have such a strong and distinctive sound that travels across the landscape of Australian music and it was a joy to have them join us on the show.

Hear and download their album here. 

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Art Simone chatted to Dean and Rach on MAD Wednesdays about what he COVID shutdown has been like for a busy drag entertainer like her. On her way to Piano Bar Geelong, we find out how strange it is to go from lockdown to audiences again.

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Are wanting to learn more about making rainbow families for lesbian, gay, bi+, intersex, trans and gender diverse folks but don’t know where to start?

Amelia joined Rach & Dean on MAD Wednesday to talk about a fertility webinar and Q&A she is hosting with Monash IVF on Tuesday 16th June.

Their fertility specialists will explain the fertility treatment options available for LGBTIQ+ people, and answer any questions you may have in a space that understands the diverse needs of our communities, specifically queer cultural safety and TGD affirming language in an area that largely operates under a medical model.

Registration for this free online event is essential.

Book your place here: https://monashivf.com/seminar/free-fertility-webinar-series/

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Spiro from MQFF joined Rach and Dean to talk about the festival winning a Time Out Melbourne’s Time In Award for Favourite Virtual Event for their Virtual Film Night.

And they are celebrating with another one,  combined with it being Pride Month, with a Netflix Party screening of Pride on Saturday 13th June.

Join MQFF from 7pm, (link will be posted on their Facebook page) and the film will be paused  until 7:10pm, before pressing play to allow for others to join – get all the details here.

The film Pride is about London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales. Together realising they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, as they form an unlikely alliance against a Thatcher government who’d made it an offence to teach pro-homosexual relationships in school—the age of homosexual consent was also 21 at the time, punishable by law—and branded the striking miners “enemies of the people.”

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Ben Norris & Alana McLean from the new streaming morning show Ticker Jumpstart joined Rach & Dean on MAD Wednesday for a fun chat about their early morning shenanigans. How early do they have to get up to look so good?

Plus, with Big Brother Australia hitting our free to air screens we get previous winner Bens take on the new format.

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Damien Stevens-Todd joins Dean & Rach on MAD Wednesday to let them know what events are happening in regional Victoria for our LGBTIQA+ communities.

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In this episode of MAD Wednesday, Dean and Rach hand over the mics to queer people of colour to share whatever they would like to on the JOY Drive airwaves.

Racism and injustice aren’t just happening in America, but in our own country as well.

They acknowledge their privilege and are using their platform to listen and learn.

Black Lives Matter.

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