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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.

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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 Centre
• Family digital detox
• Yoga

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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".

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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.

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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 dead
We liberate inanimate objects

MOLECULES

Atlas Genius website

Hayli (Tripe J Unearthed)

Hayli Instagram

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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: [email protected]

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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 Longsword
• Wankernomics: Solutionising The Corporate World

My approach to this "difficult" conversation will be following some guidelines from the NSW Education Department. Their three points are:

1. Have the conversation sooner rather than later (which I why we're about to get stuck right in)
2. Allow time and space (which is why I've made sure we are each in a different state of Australia)
3. 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 5pm
B: Convene a court and try them for crimes against humanity, provided you select a fellow employee or manager to represent them
C: 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.

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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: [email protected]

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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.

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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: [email protected]

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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.

1. Water for stock and for essential supplies should there be a bushfire
2. Bushfire Risk - spraying, slashing, firebreaks, even farm firefighting units
3. Summer weed spraying to keep on top of weeds
4. Around the home garden and house paddock - mulching for water conservation and plant health
5. And 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 learn
You 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 Club
fri 23rd - Marion Hotel 4pm DUO w/ Rachel Coppen]
fri 23rd - Moseley Beach Club 7:30pm
tue 27th - Fox Creek Wines 1pm
wed 28th - Terra & Sol 6pm
thu 29th - SandBAR 5pm
fri 30th - The Stag 12pm
fri 30th - The HWY 6pm
sat 31st - The Stag DUO

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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 Fields
• Hannah 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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 outcomes
And I don't work hard but I laugh a lot and the thing about walks on the beach that I love
Is how storms will pass, when you're out in the open you can see the blue sky
If it's off in the distance at least you can see it
And wait just a minute you'll be walking right in it
So maybe when people feel isolated it's a matter of getting out into the open
To 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 behaviour
How 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.

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