Episode 135 - Intern Pete
2018-10-25
— open the full-size coverHostMelissa Erbacher
Guest co-hostTim Oberg
GuestPeter Deppeler ("Intern Pete")
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Episode 135 of the parkrun adventurers podcast is here and this week we have hotshot new co-host Tim joining Mel for a chat with KIIS 1065's very own Intern Pete!
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The parkrun adventurers are mixing it up with co-hosts this week as Scotty takes time out and parkrun Big Cheese Tim Oberg picks up the mic. We speak to KIIS 106.5 radio producer Intern Pete about his parkrun story. Plus we go all existential with another probing Hotline Q!
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Peter Deppeler ("Intern Pete")
Intern Pete's parkrun story: how a texting mix-up with NRL player Beau Ryan put parkrun on air at KIIS and got him noticed by parkrun Australia; growing up on a dairy farm at Simpson near Timboon in Western Victoria (Timboon parkrun uses his old school cross-country "snake track"); his 2016 debut at St Peter's parkrun in Sydney, a two-year gap, then a 13-minute improvement from 35:35 to 22:55 between April and July 2018 with trainer Richard Kerrigan; losing 16kg; parkrun as a mental-health reset that "washes the week away"; his first volunteer stint tail walking at St Peter's in a sling after a spider bite; parkrun tourism at Torrens and Albert Park, a win for his show at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, and a planned parkrun in Moscow.
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:16
Melissa Erbacher with Tim Oberg as first-time co-host while Scott is away. Tim pushed the double pram around Airlie Beach parkrun with his family, explaining that the right-hand side of the pram is the high-fiving side, and son Jack knocked two minutes off his PB and followed it with a fast junior parkrun on the Sunday. Mel pushed Wes around Kawana while Adam marshalled, handed Wes over at the 4km mark, then had a Strava fail when the phone left in the pram hood recorded the last kilometre in the car and earned her four segment trophies; the run still completed her sloth challenge virtual run.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 33:16"Where is the cake?"
Mel opens with "where are we launching this week, Tim?", the launch is Bourke Racecourse parkrun in NSW ("as in the saying, the back of Bourke"), which sets Tim off inventing joke clubs along the way (the "Sayings Club", a "food club" off Cloncurry and Orange, an "animal club" off Kangaroo Island). Then "Where's the cake happening this week?" and the anniversary roll-call: Bunbury (WA), Cloncurry (Qld), Darwin (NT), Highfields in Toowoomba (Qld), Kangaroo Island (SA), Kawana (Qld, Mel's own event, 6th anniversary, prompting Tim's story of winging the Kawana launch with a 5.5km first course and ED Kelly Daly), Mudgeeraba (Qld), Orange (NSW), Port Macquarie (NSW), Railton (Tas, parkrun Australia's 250th event), Shelley (WA), and Westerfolds (Vic), which Tim notes was started by "the former co-host of the parkrun adventurers, Scott Trickett, Serious Scott".
Hotline starts at 41:42
Mel: "should we go to the hotline?", followed by a jingle and a listener question credited to "Dorothy Dix": "if you were a snack, what kind of snack would you be?" Mel answers something sweet, probably chocolate; Tim answers nuts ("people that know me well would agree I am a bit nuts"), which spins into a long tangent about the Coles self-serve nut dispenser and Tim confessing to topping up the cheap mix with extra macadamias, Mel dubs it "Tim Oberg's nut ha[ck]s" and suggests it as a poll question.
Sign-off starts at 54:39
With Tim guest co-hosting in Scott's absence, Mel asked where he was headed for parkrun on Saturday: Airlie Beach, where it was pacer week and he would be the 30-minute pacer while pushing the double pram; Mel said she would be at Kawana for its anniversary with a spooky theme, on the tools timekeeping and app-only since their stopwatch died. Tim praised Mel for what she had given the event over the years, thanked her for having him as co-host, said how much of a commitment the weekly podcast was, and offered to guest host again any time the pair needed a break, noting Scott would be back next week.