We have two very special guests this week, one of which we've been trying to get on the pod for a long time, and that is Triple M Junior Player Of The Week, Ignatius Jukes.

The kid is the oldest 10 year old I've ever met and is swiftly becoming my junior Council as far as planning for the future for young people.

We also have Bec Marciano in who plenty of you would know, but how much to do you actually know?

Did you know she ran away and joined the navy at 16 years old or that she thought Robinvale was going to be like Wolf Creek?

We're going to chat to Bec more regularly now and hope to give other women in positions of leadership a voice.

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We get two of the coaches together to have a bit of banter on air before the big day - Steve wasn't interested in banter, but Matthew came to play.

We shall see what happens on Saturday.

Watch the game live streamed on YouTube and Facebook with guest commentators Clavin Henry and Andre McDonald

Apparently some of you enjoy when it's just the three of us sitting around the table chewing the fat.

It's probably not as candid as when the mics are off but you get the idea.

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Donny needs to remember to treat every microphone as if it's hot. Right after he signed off on this week's episode he made a little remark with I think, he thinks, I didn't record.... but I did. And I left it in.

We chat hail storms & cricket with Donny, we touch on Interleague which is not going ahead this year, we get into all sorts of things as we tend to do and I must say, this is the most positive I think I've ever seen D Falvo on the eve of picking so things must certainly be looking optimistic out on the block.

We also check in with Dr Anne Webster and touch on the Tongan tsumani crisis and the levels of aid that Australia is offering.

Kato Holani who you might know as Kato from the pharmacy was in ICU for weeks after contracting Covid-19.

Kato was unvaccinated. Past tense. Kato didn't believe in coronavirus or the vaccine and thus had even ended her employment because it required her to be fully vaccinated.

Kato has changed her mind.

Kato has also recently lost her mother after she contracted Covid-19 leaving her major organs unable to recover.

Kato has an important message for her Tongan community and the wider community and as always, it great to sit down and have a chat with her.

People are everywhere and no where at the same time.

There are those that are crazy busy preparing for the upcoming grape and nut harvest, those that have gone MIA for the first weeks of the year, and those in isolation because they either have Covid or could possibly have covid and are awaiting test results. It's a really odd time, but we will solider on as we always do.

Next week we hope to have our Federal MP Dr Anne Webster back on the podcast for a chat and you better believe she'll have a lot to say, and we do love a good discussion with her. We always learn something new.

For now though it's just Jade and Ethan having a post festive chat.

We cover all manner of topics this week from the Albanese Christmas Board of Directors to the Euston Micro-Grid to the Robinvale Euston Rangers Cricket Club's farewell to Daryl McClure.

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We made our way to The Workshop this week for the launch of the new summer issue of Mildura Living Magazine and who do we find? Robinvale's own Ash Falvo!

We find out how life has been for her and what she's doing now.

Charlie also enlightens us on the state of ESTA and what happens when you actually call 000.

We also chat about the Mildura Living tea towels which are now available at The Jack and how everyone is getting one from me for Christmas, because, why not!

There's so much going on this week with the Christmas carnival coming up, the festival of golf and almond classic on this weekend and of course cricket is back in a big way in the Vale so we're trying to celebrate it all.

Jess Smythe is in for kick us off to tell us all about the Christmas carnival, I caught up with Liam Wood at The Workshop as part of our Mildura Living feature for this week and we got some gold from our commentary team from last week's cricket match at Len Arnott oval.

After 16 years the Robinvale Euston Rangers Cricket Club are playing their first home game this weekend at Len Arnott oval in Robinvale.

Luke comes in to chat about it all because everyone else voted that it was his turn, and it was actually a good excuse for us to catch up and have a conversation without the distraction of the kids screaming "Mum... I'm hungry!" "Dad I'm finished doing poos!" "Mum, Parker's being annoying!" So it was actually quite nice.

We also have the second part of our chat with Solunar's Brad Fyfe who had some really positive feedback from his first part and even had some new customers who mentioned they'd heard the podcast and were in to try the vegan dumplings!

I know they wouldn't have been disappointed!

I also discovered the gift of the vegan chocolate chip cookies in my Solunar bag this afternoon and needless to say they didn't make it back to Robinvale! I love those things!

Toni is talking tea towels too which will be available to by just in time for Christmas! Watch this space!