Episode 119 - Highlight Reel

Episode 119 — open the full-size artworkShow artwork, January 2018

HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett

Roving reporterMelissa Ellis

Show notes

The parkrun adventurers are feeling sentimental. We revisit a selection of memorable moments from the past 117 episodes and reveal some of our personal faves among the highlights. And Channel 5 News Crew member Melissa Ellis continues to earn her keep with a roving report from Warragul (opens in a new tab) parkrun.

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In this episode

• Welcome starts at 0:16

  Scotty Trickett and Mel Erbacher, a brief intro in which they settle that this is episode 119 despite being the 118th episode, and joke they will get to 113 eventually.

• Highlight reel starts at 0:41episode 119 retrospective

  The whole episode is a clip show. Scott frames it "episode 119 is the traditional episode where we have a highlights package... we reminisce about all the episodes that came before it." The hosts talk over and between replayed archive extracts, adding new commentary. Clips replayed, in order: episode 1 (their own first self-introductions), episode 29 (Jess Trengove interview, plus Ross Pentland's reverse freedom run), episode 50 (Tim Oberg and Renee Gimbert's Christmas wishes; PSH interview), an earlier PK roving report from Bushy Park including PSH, episode 37 (Danny Norman), episode 59 (Nicola Forwood), episode 75 (Sean Southerland-Kirby), episode 78 (August Madness), episode 105 (Shellharbour listener meetup), episode 44 (Bruce Fordyce) and episode 68 (Martin and Svenja Beck).

• August Madness starts at 45:35

  Archive replay of the first edition of the hosts' parkrun quiz, originally episode 78: Melissa Ellis (Victoria, Berwick Springs) versus Steve (Queensland, Cairns), four parkrun questions, buzzers being each contestant's home parkrun, recorded in front of a live studio audience. The hosts agree in the surrounding discussion to bring it back next month.

• Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 1:07:24

  Melissa Ellis files a fresh roving report from Warragul parkrun (Victoria), no launch, no anniversary, just a regular Saturday. She walks the course with Tail Walker David, who talks about being pestered into his first parkrun in 2015, reaching 100 parkruns, 15-16 volunteer stints, losing over 20kg and his gout improving. The episode's show notes call her a "Channel 5 News Crew member".

• Launches and anniversaries starts at 1:13:49"Where is the cake?"

  This week's launch is Woy Woy in New South Wales ("so nice they named it twice"). Anniversaries: Atherton in Queensland, Aveley in WA, Cobram in Victoria, and Strathalbyn in South Australia.

• Poem Zone starts at 1:14:15

  Listener-submitted poem segment. Mel reads a limerick about Scotty written by Simon Mackley of New South Wales: "There once was a man from Westerfolds, a 21:05 PB he holds..." Scott objects that "the year and the year don't rhyme" and that the last line is factually incorrect, then declares it his favourite poem so far. He notes that the segment now has new theme music and is being cut back to one poem a week "because we don't want the segment to have a slow death".

• Sign-off starts at 1:15:21

  Scott said he had a plane to catch, literally, and that they needed to wrap up episode 119. They talked about his packing for an English summer - a few pairs of shorts and, under protest, one pair of pants required by a dress code - which prompted him to announce he was turning his running club into the Shorts Appreciation Society, a real lobby group with a Facebook page. He signed off saying Mel had a crying baby and he had a plane, and that he would speak to her from a different time zone next week for what he called the 120th, or 113th, episode.