Level 2 with a View

Appears in 11 episodes, first in episode 260.

Every appearance

• Episode 422 - Potato, Potarto

  The comfy-chair slot, this week filling the whole episode: Danny Norman of the With Me Now podcast joins Mel as guest co-host because regular co-host Simon Mackley is off for his 50th birthday.

• Episode 384 - Indeed

  The hosts open in the show's 'level two' office. Rather than an interview from the comfy chair, this week the slot is used to announce that The Office Lady, Sam Schroder, has left the team, Melissa thanks her publicly for spell- and grammar-checking published posts, orchestrating the adventurers tops (designed by her son Julian) and the buffs, dealing with the shirt supplier and sales, and scheduling social media. Her replacement as 'equal opportunity employee' is announced as Dave Bravos, from the West Side, who gets a new stand-up desk in the corner of the office.

• Episode 381 - Ah-sigh-ee

  The studio conversation that frames the whole episode: Simon Mackley hosts and Sarah Jefferson takes the guest chair, covering National Volunteer Week and the volunteer roles they have yet to do, Simon's local run at Sirromet and Sarah's trip south to the new Ridley Place Foreshore parkrun, Whit Monday special days across the Netherlands, parkrun Global's decision to keep French events suspended, and feedback on Calum Burrell's first roving report.

• Episode 364 - Bumping Uglies

  The Office Lady's Christmas message from the comfy chair on level two with a view: she is taking the break to go adventuring in South Australia, thanks listeners for the year's social media engagement (Instagram episode posts, Friday "Where Are You Headed" and Saturday Dazza's posts on Facebook), invites suggestions for special days to celebrate in Dazza's during 2024, and says Dazza's returns on 13 January with the first 2024 episode not long after.

• Episode 345 - Level 2 with hygge

  TOC is back in the studio after a European trip and Mel asks for his top three highlights. He picks Vaxjosjon parkrun in Sweden (a lake lap with an ABBA warm-up and a post-parkrun swim off the jetty) and Bushy Park (1,200 finishers, position 1,038, run alongside Jack); 10 parkruns and two junior parkruns across 10 countries, event teams turning up with Prosecco and homemade cake, and Caffarella in Rome.

• Episode 342 - 26

  Ollie hands over: "our Office Lady did a bit of catching up with our shipwreck parkrun co-ED Phil Gore, who just happened to run 102-odd laps in the Dead Cow Gully Backyard Masters Ultra there." Sam Schroder interviews Phil Gore from "the comfy chair on level two with a view" about his new Backyard Ultra world record, following up her earlier interview with him in episode 279.

• Episode 335 - Soldier’s Five

  Sam Schroder presents from her usual slot, "the comfy chair on level two with a view", but this week the slot carries the Dazza's recap rather than an interview.

• Episode 311 - Green Eggs & Snoods

  The Office Lady (Sam Schroder) returns to the comfy chair and plays "who am I?", feeding the audience clues, 12 City to Surfs, a 56:25 PB, a 2016 Sydney Marathon, five M2M Challenges, Eurovision and the Socceroos, wife Cathy, daughter Hannah's chemistry degree, before revealing the guest is co-host Oliver Spake, then interviewing him about his 250th volunteer stint.

• Episode 295 - Aidan Hobbs

  Sam's interview slot, presented from "the comfy chair on Level 2 with a View", this week a 15-minute interview with Aidan Hobbs about his 23 parkrun course records.

• Episode 285 - Better together

  Sam Schroder's interview slot, recorded away from the studio "from the Comfy Chair on Level 2 with a View". This week, tied to National Volunteer Week, she interviews Pippa White in the UK about her 250th parkrun and 250th volunteer occasion falling on the same day (00:20:24-00:35:41). Sam also opens a shorter Level 2 clip earlier in the episode, issuing Melissa a fine for mispronouncing a surname the previous week. Ollie closes the interview "Thank you also to Sam for being an excellent interviewer" and Melissa "She's got the comfy chair."

• Episode 260 - The Wild Card

  Post-outro office sketch: the stand-in who read the stats berates his colleague for sprinting after the Mr Whippy van and coming back with a single plain ice cream cone, 'that is so beige of you', no choc chip, no flake, no Tim Tam, no Milo, not even sprinkles. Ties back to the beige-trousered man described at the top of the Informant segment.