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Season One – A Yank Down Under

If you’ve never seen actual gold, the way it comes from the ground, you have no idea how magical it can be.  

I didn’t either until I met this guy in Melbourne who went out from time to time prospecting.  

He invited me along one day and gave me the experience of a lifetime.  

It’s easy to imagine why people have gone nuts over the stuff for eons.

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Written and produced by Chris Wallace

Music sourced and licensed from  Olentangy Music

Podcast artwork by Richard Milholland

Published by Nearly Media

Season One – A Yank Down Under

Somehow I found out that they were looking for people to be spear carriers for a Russian opera that was coming to the Melbourne International Festival. 

I’d never considered doing anything like that, but a gig’s a gig, so I put my hand up. 

It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever done. 

Before it was over, it nearly became an international incident. 

John Howard and Vladimir Putin got involved. 

It also turned out to be very revealing. 

Pun intended.

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Written and produced by Chris Wallace

Music sourced and licensed from  Olentangy Music

Podcast artwork by Richard Milholland

Published by Nearly Media

Season One – A Yank Down Under

I was at a block party in Toorak, minding my own business, when this woman came up to me and told me I have a great face.  

That chance meeting resulted in a religious conversion and my portrait being submitted for the Archibald Prize.  

The twists and turns of this story, the triumph and tragedy, would be unbelievable if you wrote the story as fiction.  

But it all happened.

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Written and produced by Chris Wallace

Music sourced and licensed from  Olentangy Music

Podcast artwork by Richard Milholland

Published by Nearly Media

Season One – A Yank Down Under

I was out of a job. 

At lunchtime, I often went to Channel 5 in New York to play a nerf basketball game in the art department. 

I go there this one day and two of my former colleagues from Channel 5 were in town to prep for a huge gig they’d landed in Hollywood, the first Ali-Frazier fight from Madison Square Garden. 

It was the biggest sporting event in the world. This podcast is all about the unlikely story of how I became associate producer and the things that happened leading up to and during THE FIGHT. 

Ray Martin and I were probably the only two people in Australia who were there that night.

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Written and produced by Chris Wallace

Music sourced and licensed from  Olentangy Music

Podcast artwork by Richard Milholland

Published by Nearly Media

As much as I’d like to be thought of as a fair dinkum Aussie, and I would, I live with the fact that I’m not.

I am an immigrant. 

But here’s the way I like to put it: I’m Greek by blood, American by birth and Aussie by choice. 

I’ve been here 25 years and counting. 

These years in Australia have been some of the most creatively productive years of my life. 

And this podcast demonstrates that I’m still not finished.

I’ve had amazing experiences both here and before I got here, a few of them I can hardly believe myself. 

I want to share a few of my stories with you and hope they’ll entertain you for a little while. 

If you get anything else out of them, that’s an unintended bonus.

Welcome to The Chris Wallace Chronicles.

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Written and produced by Chris Wallace

Music sourced and licensed from  Olentangy Music

Podcast artwork by Richard Milholland

Published by Nearly Media