Episode 126 - Clinton Bishop
2018-08-24
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, January 2018HostsMelissa Erbacher Scott Trickett
Roving reportersGrette Wilkinson Melissa Ellis Tony O'Connell
GuestClinton Bishop
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From the Facebook post
Sixteen sodium atoms walk into a bar...
Followed by Batman.
The not-quite-caped crusader himself joins us all the way from WA this week, following the launch of Burswood Peninsula (opens in a new tab) parkrun! Plus the roving reporters were out at Willow (opens in a new tab) parkrun, Westerfolds junior parkrun and Meningie (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
The Dark Knight rises here:
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The parkrun adventurers converse about costume shenanigans and have showdowns with kids. Burswood Peninsula Event Director and Bunbury Batman Clinton Bishop pulls up a couch for a chat about launching parkruns and podcasts. And the Channel 5 News Crew are out in force with roving reports submitted from Willow (opens in a new tab) parkrun, Westerfolds juniors (opens in a new tab) and Meningie (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
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Clinton Bishop
Launching Burswood Peninsula parkrun around the new Perth (Optus) Stadium, the jurisdictional runaround between council, Venues Live and the Burswood Park Board, and the letter of support from the state treasurer that unlocked it; becoming the closest two parkruns in the world to Claisebrook Cove across the river; how he came to parkrun via friends launching Canning River; the Batman shirt, the "Batoo" tattoo and the hand-painted bat signal hung off the Narrows Bridge at the 2015 Perth Marathon; starting the Middle-Aged Mixtape music podcast with retiring Mount Clarence (Albany) ED Bill Irving; and his philosophy on developing Run Directors so an ED role isn't for life.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:14
Melissa Erbacher hosts with Scott Trickett, noting the podcast has been landing on Saturday mornings and the downloads are healthy. Mel ran the Sunshine Coast Marathon 2K family event dressed as Jessie, with husband Adam a crowd-favourite Woody and Wes a mini Buzz Lightyear. Scott went to Brimbank parkrun's first anniversary, where sore ribs forced him to walk and he was well beaten by a young Westerfolds rival, Marshall; the rain left the river-crossing course wet, and three roving reports later in the episode also come from rain-soaked events.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 40:15
Three roving reports in a row, all from rainy Saturday events: Greta at the Meningie parkrun launch in South Australia (interviewing local photographer Marianne Caneen, Coorong Council Deputy Mayor Sharon, participants Jenny and Kirsty, and ED Matt); TOC at the Willow parkrun launch in Wodonga (interviewing co-ED Maria, 186 finishers in the rain); and Melissa Ellis at Westerfolds junior parkrun in Melbourne (interviewing volunteer Justine and her daughters Olivia and Hannah). Scott and Mel wrap the block-, with Scott calling the Westerfolds report "my favourite roving report in the history of roving reports", and remind listeners that you don't have to be in the Channel 5 News Crew to submit a report.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 57:01"Where is the cake?"
Co-hosts alternate through the coming week's calendar. Launches: Eastern Gardens (Vic), Shipwreck (WA), Wimmera River Horsham (Vic), Wynyard Foreshore (Tas). Anniversaries: [Balyang] Sanctuary (Vic), Cairns (Qld), Chermside (Qld), [Hervey] Bay (Qld), Lake Joondalup (WA), "Barabunong" (Vic), Mount Clarence (WA), Port Lincoln (SA), Singleton (NSW), Wilson Botanic (Vic). Mel notes next year on this weekend there will be 15 anniversaries, "a record for Australia".
Sign-off starts at 1:05:58
Scott said that to take them out this week he might sing along himself and ruin everyone's week, after copyright infringement notices had killed the sing-along - Nina, Bonnie Tyler and Giorgio being in his good books, unlike the others. He then asked where they were off to: he was heading to the Eastern Gardens launch in Geelong, would be on Sunrise again and wanted people to come and say hi early, about 7am, because he had a job for them; Mel refused to say where she would be.