Episode 171 - The Butler Boys
2019-08-29
— open the full-size artworkShow artwork, 20 February 2019HostMelissa Erbacher
Guest co-hostPaul Kitching
Roving reportersLyndell Murray Mark Scarborough Tony O'Connell
GuestsCharlie Butler Paul Butler
Show notes
From the Facebook post
Well folks, it's time for a new adventure.
Channel 5 News Crew Member PK joins Mel as co-host this week and we chat to parkrun Australia Photography & Video Ambassadors Paul and Charlie Butler about their volunteer adventures. Plus the ever-prolific Channel 5 News Crew are out and about at Chermside (opens in a new tab) parkrun, Nhill (opens in a new tab) parkrun and Dubbo (opens in a new tab) parkrun.
Herein starteth the next chapter
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The parkrun adventurers set off on our new adventure and Paul Kitching (AKA PK) joins Mel at the helm as the journey begins. Mt Barker parkrunners and parkrun Australia Photography & Video Ambassadors Paul and Charlie Butler stop by to share their volunteer adventures. And the Channel 5 News Crew are out and about at Chermside (opens in a new tab), Nhill (opens in a new tab) and Dubbo (opens in a new tab) parkruns.
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Paul Butler
The newly created parkrun photography and video ambassador role; finding parkrun through the local paper in 2014 and bringing Charlie along; discovering volunteering as a photographer; what weekly community photography means to a parkrun; tips for nervous first-time photographer volunteers; the Ambassador Conference; and upcoming projects including a New Year's Day Double advert.
Charlie Butler
Using volunteering as an excuse to get out of running and ending up loving the community; growing his video work from a Mount Barker second-birthday clip to parkrun Australia Volunteer Week content; the parkrun adventurers vodcast he made with PK; his Tropfest short film, in which his dad won best actor; and building confidence to approach strangers as an event photographer.
Roving reports
In this episode
Welcome starts at 0:23
Melissa Erbacher hosts with Paul Kitching (PK) as the first of the Channel 5 news crew caretaker co-hosts following Scotty's departure, and both reflect on the emotional episode 170. PK run directed Mount Barker's event 291 and pedalled a borrowed bike out with the defib on a report of a collapsed runner that turned out not to need it; Mel walked across the NSW border to photograph at Kirra during the parkrun Australia Ambassador Conference on the Gold Coast, where she was emcee and the dinner had a Hawaiian theme, and Gary Murphy's propeller hat drew a magpie swoop. Will Barlow's 250th at Ginninderra is coming up, and Mel explains the Wilson Index for PK.
Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew starts at 34:58
Three roving reports back to back. Lyndell Murray at Chermside parkrun (Brisbane) for its fourth birthday, "bright and shiny" themed and run as a fundraiser "shining for Eva" for the Amy and Friends Cockayne Syndrome charity, she interviews Eva's parents Alicia and Dan, vision-impaired runner Henry and his guide Robert from the Achilles Running Club, and Event Director Bradley, who is also wearing gold tights. Tony O'Connell (TOC) at Nhill parkrun in western Victoria, interviewing young Zane, who tripped on a rock and "joined the parkrun stack club", and founding Event Director Bev. Mark Scarborough at Dubbo parkrun ahead of the Dubbo Stampede, collecting his "D" for the Alphabet Challenge, interviewing Simon from The Ponds, a group of visiting and local parkrunners, and Run Director Tim. Back in studio PK and Mel recap all three.
Launches and anniversaries starts at 1:04:51"Where is the cake?"
One launch on the calendar for the coming weekend: Bill Rose Sports Complex parkrun at Scone, New South Wales. Prompts a discussion of parkrun's naming convention (events named for the place they start and finish in) and a run of banter about how the town is pronounced and whether there will be scones at the launch. Chermside parkrun's fourth birthday and Dubbo parkrun's fourth birthday (pyjama theme) also feature this week, but inside the Channel 5 News Crew reports rather than here.
Streaky September starts at 1:05:52
The annual challenge returns from 1 September. Mel sets out the rules, a minimum 2K walk, run, swim or ride every day of the month, at your own pace, any time before midnight, and confirms Streaky bingo will be back with extra challenges. She notes people who started on 1 September last year are still streaking, and points listeners to the open Facebook group "Streak Your Way Every Day", which began life as last year's Streaky September group. PK clarifies for new listeners that "you don't have to run naked"; Mel: "Clothing on is actually preferred." Listeners are asked to tag both #StreakySeptember and #parkrunAdventurers.
Sign-off starts at 1:09:32
Mel asked PK where he was headed on parkrun day: he might check out Pakapakanthi, which has a new course after tree-root damage, or Jubilee Way, with other adventures planned later in the month; Mel was rostered to run direct at Kawana, home for the first time in a few weeks before back-to-back adventures through September. They compared Scott's event tally, 77 each as at his last episode and agreed the current Channel 5 News crew, rather than Mel, should set the challenges for prospective new roving reporters. Mel then thanked PK for what she called a wonderful first episode without Scotty, and PK said it had been an honour to help spread the word and thanked her for keeping the podcast alive.