It's a new era in The Scotch Podcast, as Tess and Poppy (who was late, just quietly) take over for Seb as co-hosts. They are joined by Mr Leigh Harder and Mr Nick Scalzi to talk all things eSports and competitive gaming, both in and out of school. After a chat, 2024 Sport Captains Reuben and Grace join Mr Harder and Warren King in some live Mario Kart while Poppy and Tess do their best to fire distracting questions!

On Seb Henderson's final episode as host of the podcast, it's a special lunch time occupation of the Year 12 Common Room with a number of guests to talk all about Year 12, their time at Scotch, 2024 plans, teaching the Class of 2023, editing the podcast and more, all before Seb's emotional final sign off and mic-drop.

00:00 Billy Starling

03:36 Amy "Double A" Abbott

05:00 Ned "Year 7 Ned" Ruston

05:40 Mr A, David Albano

07:13 Annabel Kidman & Lily Thompson

11:12 Warren King, Head of Marketing

14:29 Hendo signs off one last time

In episode lucky number 13, Seb Henderson is joined by the 2023 Captains Louis and Ella (plus special guest Year 7 Ned) to bid farewell to the 2023 school year before welcoming 2024 College Captains Hugh and Poppy (with whoosh noises) to talk about what lies ahead. Finally, Tess joins the panel to discuss her and Poppy taking over hosting duties for the podcast as Seb finishes up Year 12. A lot of topics of discussion ranging from research project to leadership, to advice and more.

01:40 Reflecting with Louis & Ella

07:50 Welcoming the 2024 Captains, Hugh and Poppy

12:40 Meeting Tess & Poppy, your new podcast host team

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pxHyqdJRfwk

Episode 12 of The Scotch Podcast is here, and this week's special guest hosts Mollie Wilson and Billy Starling turn the tables on their very special guest, Seb Henderson, podcast host extraordinaire! Mollie and Billy mix in some fun and some truly insightful questions for Seb about his time at Scotch, leadership roles, being a "yes" person, pineapple on pizza and so much more.

00:38 (Not So) Rapid Fire Questions

02:32 How did hosting The Scotch Podcast come about

04:13 Special Moments at Scotch for Seb

05:29 Memoirs of a Girls First XVIII Runner

07:15 Being Stewart House Captain

09:46 Stewart's Big Sing Let Down Examined

10:45 Advice for Next Year's Year 12s

12:16 Podcast Host Secrets

13:20 Favourite Year 12 Memories

14:30 Being Someone Who Says Yes

In episode 11 Seb welcomes Mrs Emma Grave (Head of Torrens Park Campus) and Mr Tony Ritson (Head of Senior School) to wrap up a massive Term 3, talk about surprising and memorable moments for them so far this year, preparing for Term 4 and looking ahead to summer sports, hidden talents and how they'll be spending the term break before finishing with some valuable advice for Year 12s and the soon-to-be-announced leadership group for 2024.

As discussed on the podcast, Mr Ritson along with 26 others’ will be riding to Melbourne during term break to raise money and awareness for Lions Heart Learning. Lions Heart Learning provides a free playgroup/pre-school service face to face and online (OnLion) as well as education and activity resources to children impacted by cancer, whether it be their own, a sibling’s or a parent.

*** If you have a spare minute and dollar, you can support Mr Ritson's fundraising drive here: https://lionheartsride.com/tony-ritson ***

01:03 Recapping a Massive Term 3

02:42 Surprising & Memorable Moments

05:20 Looking ahead to Term 4

06:41 Hidden Talents

07:54 How to spend your term break - Mr Ritson is raising money for charity!

09:48 Advice for the 2024 Leaders

10:38 Advice for Year 12s this term break

This week on The Scotch Podcast, Seb is joined by Port Adelaide Rising Star and OC Matilda Scholz, OC Adrienne Davies and Issy McTaggart (Year 9) to talk about all things women's footy and women's sport in general, Matilda's experience getting started in footy, career highlights, looking into the future, and of course, Seb tries to get a guest to call him an inspiration. Also wish Seb a happy birthday!

00:00 Welcome

00:18 Seb sledges Adrienne

00:38 Matilda's football journey (so far)

01:30 Women's football - growth and future

04:14 The life of a professional athlete

05:38 Favourite footy moments

09:18 Changing attitudes to women's sport

10:32 Inspirational figures

11:17 Looking forward

On Episode 9 of The Scotch Podcast, we hear from GAIL Champion Mr David Albano to talk all things GAIL, global learning, global citizenship, what innovation looks like and more. Also, Mr A arrived first and made Seb switch to the other side of the desk. Pure chaos.

00:00 Welcome Mr A

00:34 What is GAIL, and what is a GAIL Champion?

01:27 What does innovative learning mean?

03:26 Being responsible global citizens

06:21 Collaboration & Creativity

10:27 Getting out of comfort zones

12:03 Favourite destinations

14:28 Looking forward

The sensational 2023 Vice Captains Billy Starling and Mollie Wilson join the podcast to chat with Seb about all things Scotch, the challenges of being a Vice Captain (including the Year 12 Common Room issues), what is in the role description, what animal they would fight one on one, their formative experiences at Scotch and advice for the incoming 2024 leadership position hopefuls.

00:40 Getting to Know Billy & Mollie

03:05 What Does a Vice Captain Do?

03:50 Special Opportunities

05:38 Challenges, Learning & The Common Room Shutdown

08:22 Role Models & Influences

10:35 Moments of Impact

13:26 Highlights of the Year

This week Seb welcomes Archie Ryan and Tom Nolan (Year 9) to unpack the themes of personal heroes and human nature, what makes us act the way we do and the impact we can have as individuals thanks to the examples set and inspiration taken from the role models in our lives.

00:22 Heroes, Human Nature and Personal Heroes

01:53 Showing Our Values

03:03 Heroes and Role Models in Everyday Life

04:18 Personal Inspiration & Making an Impact

06:21 Archie & Tom Being Good Blokes

08:10 Personal Growth & Internal Motivation

10:43 Caring for Others Around Us

Hands down the best librarians in the southern hemisphere, Nikki Reid and Louise Laurendi (aka Agatha Christie and Amelia Earhart) join Seb this week to chat all things books, reading, arsenic, mysterious disappearances, the Ligertwood Library, Book Week and more.

00:00 Agatha and Amelia

01:51 What's Great About Book Week?

03:10 Seb Sledges Books

04:00 What Makes a Good Book?

04:35 More Than Just a Library

06:31 Being a Librarian

08:45 Lightning Round Questions