Episode 135 - Intern Pete
2018-10-25
HostsMelissa Erbacher Tim Oberg
GuestPeter Deppeler ("Intern Pete")
Show notes
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!
From the Facebook post
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! Check it out in all the usual places!
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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
Launches and anniversaries ("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
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.