MSing About

It is our 21st podcast! Woohoo!!! And with 2024 approaching, we started thinking about what shape future podcasts should take… We decided it was time to get obscenely wealthy by making Katrina an influencer… but then, because she often talks crap, we decided to make her an effluencer! This podcast is all about planning that journey…

A chat about addiction lends itself to how slogans and advertising can kick addiction along with flashbacks to some old-time radio commercials like young Johnny Farnham lending his vocal talents to Coca-Cola and doctors promoting cigarettes. 

Katrina has been training to be a train driver so while the conversation tried to stay on track it occasionally ran off he rails to incorporate coupling, shunting, Jethro Tull, Thomas the Tank Engine, Menu on the Orient Express and Bullet Trains. All aboard!

Concerts. Most of us have been to concerts, some good ones, some not so good ones. In this podcast Katrina and Ian share concert memories that include The Bee Gees, Midnight Oil, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Joe Cocker, Robbie Williams, INXS, Cat Stevens, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull and The Wiggles. 

A bit of reminiscing about Ian's 20 years of working in radio with some stories about radio pioneers and personalities like Grace Gibson, John Laws, Mike Carlton and Ward 'Pally' Austin.

What’s in a Name? Katrina Christensen (Scandinavian names) and Ian Heydon (Scottish and English names) got chatting about surnames being patronymic, locative and occupative, which sounds awfully serious but it isn’t! There’s a privately owned village in Norfolk in England called Heydon. Ian stayed there and it is where Monty Python filmed their Village Idiot sketch. Coincidence? 

As always, this MSing About podcast was a lot about nothing and a bit about something. Somehow a whole heap of trivia flowed from cockatoos to chickens to dolphins to seahorses to Monty Python to astrophysics to spider wasps to Siamese twins to unicorns to the history of the universe. Ian blames Katrina. Katrina blames Ian. Still, a lot of fun!

Unhappy Campers… Most Aussies and Kiwis love the idea of camping out… the great outdoors… the inexpensive adventure… the yarns and songs around the campfire. Ahhh yes… the flames flicker in the fire, the smoke floats higher and higher, and the sound of the wind in the wire… What could possibly go wrong?!

What do Mel Gibson, Rod Stewart, Bob Hawke, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Johns, Humphrey B. Bear and the last man hanged in Australia have in common? Us!!!

What’s your favourite sitcom of all time? Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier, The Office, Happy Days, Mother and Son, Fisk, Blackadder, Ab-Fab, Fawlty Towers, Fleabag, The Simpsons? And is the world ready for a new sitcom starring an aging bald man in a wheelchair?!