Episode 128 - Streaky September

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00:00:06Unidentified speaker: Thank you.

00:00:17Melissa Erbacher: Episode 128 of the parkrun Adventurers podcast is coming at you catchphrase free because we don't have that kind of creativity at this time of night. I am Mel of the clan Erbacher. I am on the Sunshine Coast and my co-host Scotty, who I believe to be in Melbourne at this present time, is also joining me.

00:00:37Scott Trickett: I am. I'm in Melbourne for one night only, Mel. I'm heading to Sydney tomorrow. Do you know why I'm going there?

00:00:45Melissa Erbacher: I do, actually. But would you like to share with everybody else?

00:00:48Scott Trickett: Well, remember a couple of months ago, I went to the UK for the parkrun UK annual conference. And the reason I was there is to pinch all the ideas to put on show at the parkrun Australia conference this weekend. I'm very excited.

00:01:03Melissa Erbacher: Kicks off on Friday. It should be a very, I'm hoping it's going to be a very entertaining and informative weekend. I have not had a lot to do with what's going on, so I'm going to sit back and relax and enjoy, Scotty.

00:01:17Scott Trickett: Good, good. Look, I hope it's going to be entertaining and informative. My fingers are crossed, my toes are crossed that it is. I've had a bit more to do, so I won't be sitting back and relaxing.

00:01:29Melissa Erbacher: But you know what it is. It's an opportunity for us to parkrun together in New South Wales again.

00:01:35Scott Trickett: Yeah.

00:01:36Melissa Erbacher: Which we may or may not be doing until next year at the parkrun Adventurers Listener Meetup 2019.

00:01:43Scott Trickett: It's probably a good chance we won't parkrun together in New South Wales. I'm pretty confident there'll be another chance before then.

00:01:54Melissa Erbacher: Oh, yeah, they will. I've already booked flights to Victoria.

00:01:57Scott Trickett: Cool.

00:01:57Melissa Erbacher: For December. So that's coming up too. I told you last week we've got adventures planned up the wazoo. I'm actually going to be parkrunning in New South Wales for the next three weeks.

00:02:12Scott Trickett: Wow, look at you.

00:02:13Melissa Erbacher: Oh, no, no, for at least three out of four weeks in September, I think.

00:02:17Scott Trickett: So should we have a showdown? So it's a new event for both of us on Saturday. Do you want to have some sort of showdown? It is. Wes isn't coming, is he? You're not going to use that excuse?

00:02:27Melissa Erbacher: No, he's not coming. Well, what kind of showdown? What are you talking about?

00:02:31Scott Trickett: A race. Buck runs a race every now and then, isn't it? A race between you and me.

00:02:36Melissa Erbacher: Oh, Scotty. Scotty, Scotty, Scotty. I don't need to use Wes as an excuse not to race you. Besides, if I wanted to race you, I would just get my henchmen to knock you down so that I could run off ahead. I wouldn't play clean, I can tell you that much. So I don't think you want to go down that route with me.

00:03:01Scott Trickett: Look, it's remarkable how slower I've got with my drop in kilometers, weekly kilometers. It's remarkable how quickly you lose it, Mel, and how long it takes to get it. It's a cruel mistress, this running thing.

00:03:18Melissa Erbacher: Is this your nice way of saying that you're potentially as slow as I am at the moment?

00:03:23Scott Trickett: Yeah, it's a possibility. It's a possibility.

00:03:26Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, maybe if you are lucky, I will let you streak with me on the weekend. I'm not sure I will do that at parkrun. However, on Sunday morning, if you're up for a little jaunt around the place before the conference kicks off for the day.

00:03:43Scott Trickett: Sure. I'll put it in my diary. Okay.

00:03:46Melissa Erbacher: Okay. And I'll try not to pull a Matt Fullerton on you and leave you for dust.

00:03:51Scott Trickett: Who?

00:03:53Melissa Erbacher: Exactly. Speaking of, you know what, this is not going to actually be – it's a new event for me, yes. However, I'm not – achieving anything towards any of my other clubs that I'm aware of. Although thank you to the several dozen people who, um, got in touch with us about the Wilson index last week after we had a chat and gave us a step-by-step instructions on how we could go and see how we are doing on the actual Wilson index. um, Yeah, that was much appreciated. And I'm glad to see, you know what it is, it's good to see people are listening to us, Scotty. Good, I know. You know, sometimes, some weeks it's just everything's quiet and you just don't know if anyone even tuned in. But it's weeks like that where, you know, you make a bit of a foible, you expose a weakness.

00:04:50Scott Trickett: A gap in your Toy Story knowledge.

00:04:53Melissa Erbacher: Well, yes, yes. Thank you also to the large population of people who corrected me that Jessie is actually in Toy Story 2. Obviously, I need to refresh my viewing, especially if I'm going to play the character in real life from time to time.

00:05:10Scott Trickett: I did enter a club on Saturday in one of the new unofficial clubs. I went along to my NENDY. I got a G, which you know what that means, Mel? Think about it. Gs, what are Gs good for?

00:05:27Melissa Erbacher: Well, Gs are good for the Bee Gees Club.

00:05:29Scott Trickett: Got it.

00:05:30Melissa Erbacher: The unofficial Bee Gees Club.

00:05:32Scott Trickett: I don't mind the Bee Gees Clubs. You need three Bs and three Gs. I'm in it now.

00:05:37Melissa Erbacher: You know what? Well, if that's the case, then Greenway may be my third G if I haven't. I know I've got one G already. I'm going to have to go looking through all my things again. Surely I've got enough of the Bs. Every event seems to be called started with a B these days.

00:05:52Scott Trickett: It's an easy one to get, but I got the Bee Gees Club and I also ticked off my Nendi, which was actually quite close to me. It was only about a 20-minute drive away. So it was a bit of a luxury I headed along to Gardiner's Creek.

00:06:03Melissa Erbacher: Awesome.

00:06:04Scott Trickett: And now my Nendi's a bit further. It's a bit of a challenge.

00:06:08Melissa Erbacher: I can't remember the last time I actually did a Nendi. It was probably when I did Nambour a couple of years ago. But you know what? I got a new Nendi on the weekend too, inadvertently.

00:06:20Scott Trickett: So tell us the story of your weekend and where you were, the mystery behind the event where you were.

00:06:28Melissa Erbacher: I did not get a new Nendi through my own pursuits in terms of I didn't go and do my previous Nendi and therefore a new one popped up. A new event launched on the Sunshine Coast at Majimba Beach parkrun, which has taken over from- What was the name of that? Majimba Beach.

00:06:50Scott Trickett: Majimba Beach. Haven't heard of that.

00:06:52Melissa Erbacher: No, you won't have heard of it because it wasn't on the calendar. It flew under the radar. We did what they do in the UK and we had a soft launch. Very deliberately, it's been in the planning stages for several months, but we didn't want the – and I know this is ironic. I'm on a podcast called parkrun Adventurers, but we didn't want the adventurers and the tourists to know about it because we wanted the event to have a chance to settle in very quietly and without a massive fanfare for their launch into their new location because this is the event team that has moved across from town of Seaside parkrun, which is now closed. And it has become the second event in Australia to close. So, yeah. And that all went, I mean, obviously, some adventurers still managed to sniff it out and showed up anyway, which is fine. You know, people, in my experience, it's not adventurers that cause a lot of issues necessarily. They're not usually the fast, obnoxious runners that might get locals offside, that sort of thing. They're just out there to have a nice, gentle, good time. But obviously the congestion or potential for congestion if there was hundreds and hundreds was a real issue that we were trying to avoid. And we managed to avoid it quite nicely, which is very good. And I would still encourage everybody to give them a few months to settle in and just go along in dribs and drabs. Don't inundate them all at once. They're a very experienced event team, but the course and the locals are need to adjust to the changes.

00:08:30Scott Trickett: And the saddest aspect of all of this, from my perspective, is that we've lost the town of Seaside, which means we've lost the tosses.

00:08:39Melissa Erbacher: Yes, we can no longer refer to the tosses on the podcast.

00:08:42Scott Trickett: That's devastating.

00:08:43Melissa Erbacher: We don't actually have a parkrun there anymore.

00:08:46Scott Trickett: No. But good luck to the team at Majima Beach, and you were on the tools on Saturday, so I presume everything went well. All the rules were followed closely, and everybody did the right thing. Is that right?

00:08:58Melissa Erbacher: Yes, I was on barcode scanning, and even though people didn't show up with their barcodes, they were all very understandable, and I didn't have a single person create any issues about the fact that we wouldn't add them in.

00:09:11Scott Trickett: Well done.

00:09:11Melissa Erbacher: That was good. It was a good morning.

00:09:13Scott Trickett: Majima Beaches, nah. No. Tosses was heaps better.

00:09:23Melissa Erbacher: But, so, I completely hijacked your conversation, Scotty, because you mentioned you were at Gardiners Creek. What's the course there like? Obviously, I volunteered, so I can't give a course description, but... Well, we're doing the course description thing now, aren't we? Yeah, well...

00:09:38Scott Trickett: I had a couple of weeks on with me now, and now we're just course descriptions every week.

00:09:45Melissa Erbacher: Could I just bring to your attention the fact that we've always explained what the course was like after we've done a new event. Yeah, we've been doing that for two and a half years. Okay.

00:09:55Scott Trickett: I take that back then. Mr. High and Mighty.

00:09:57Melissa Erbacher: I take that back. Where have you been all this time just like zoning out when we've had these conversations?

00:10:04Scott Trickett: I focus on some things. And, okay, course description, Gardener's Creek. So I have done it before. I did the trial. This was back in summer when it was warmer, I do recall, or earlier on in the year. But it's a nice little gravel. It's very flat. It's around a creek. It's around Gardener's Creek. It's a sort of an out-and-back loop. And what I do like Trevor, the run director, he gets the big tick of approval from me because, one, he mentioned the podcast. Two, he mentioned Streaky September. And three, he gave a great wrap-up for Warrior Run, which we had on Saturday, and he put his own little spin on it. And I thought it went really well. It was a great, great event briefing. From Trevor.

00:10:51Melissa Erbacher: Awesome. And all unsolicited. He didn't know you were there. No. You didn't ask him, didn't pay him.

00:10:55Scott Trickett: Not at all. Not at all.

00:10:57Melissa Erbacher: That's very cool. Speaking of streaky September. Should we speak about that now or should we just save that for the end because we've got lots and lots of stuff to share?

00:11:07Scott Trickett: Let's break it up because good news, bad news. Good news is no guest this week because we're a little bit busy, a little bit pressed for time. It's just the Mel and Scotty show this week, but we do have a couple of roving reports. So let's go to them, Mel. Give the people a break.

00:11:24Melissa Erbacher: From our voices.

00:11:25Scott Trickett: From our voices, yep. And let's hear from Dave Moss, our UK correspondent. And Lyndell was out getting her eye. So she was on her hunt for her alphabet.

Channel 5 News Crew

00:11:45David Moss: Channel 5 reporting from the Conrhenny Community Woodlands, which is the alternate route for the Nobles parkrun on the Isle of Man. This is the first time they've used the alternate course, and the reason for that is that over the next few weeks, the Manx Grand Prix bike race is on, and in effect it will take over the island. The normal course takes place just behind the grandstand of the Isle of Man races, which is the same course as the TT race for those who are into motorbikes. A quick heads up for the listener, the Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea between... Northern Ireland and England. It's not considered to be part of the United Kingdom, although it certainly has a lot of business going on there and the United Kingdom is responsible for things like defence and power comes from there. But the people on the Isle of Man are very proud about being completely independent and you've got their flags, their signs all over the place. The flag is a bit unusual in that it's a picture of a I think it's triskelion, which is three legs joined together at the hip. The other thing that the island's pretty well known for is the Manx cat, which is a tailless, or at least stumpy-tailed, breed of cat. And I hate to guess how it got that way in the first place. Either way, we're off to do the course. This is a trail run, and I think it'll have a hill or two. And touch wood, catch up with one or two people afterwards.

00:13:20guest: Hello, and I'm with... Your mates, run director.

00:13:23David Moss: You're the run director? Are you the event director here as well at Noble?

00:13:26guest: Yes, most of it falls on my lap.

00:13:28David Moss: Lucky you. And how long has Noble's been going for?

00:13:32guest: We officially started back on the 17th of October last year, so we are still new, although we are conscious that the first birthday is looming.

00:13:41David Moss: Okay, so you're about 10 months into it now. Yes. And what got you starting?

00:13:48guest: Persistence I think is the key word. I left the south of England and was lucky enough to find myself working on the island. Mid 80s, I think it was 85 runs at that point on the local run, to come over and find there was nothing. Loads of events but nothing free and nothing following the parkrun process. So it took a good nigh on 18 months of me being here. to actually work around, get permissions, get everything sorted out, making sure that stuck in the middle of the Irish Sea meant that the insurance still covered us in bits and pieces and quite clearly from the TT and the bike events here, Nobles Park was the focus of our attention.

00:14:25David Moss: Yes, and I didn't realise that the actual course starts at the back of the grandstand. Yes.

00:14:31guest: Yes, yes, we are in view of the start. It's unfortunate that we can't actually be there when the racing's going on.

00:14:35David Moss: It probably wasn't quite as noisy today as when the bike race is on. A lot of huffing and puffing and stamping of feet, but slightly different sounds. You've got quite a few volunteers out here today, which is a good sign.

00:14:46guest: Yeah, we do, we do. With the temporary course as it is for the next four weeks, we're actually half the number of volunteers required. But we're quite lucky on the island, we've got a very strong core group of volunteers, so it's actually hard to turn them away from volunteering. It's good to see today there's a half a dozen of them that have had the opportunity to actually run today, which is good.

00:15:06David Moss: And tomorrow there's a marathon, a half marathon?

00:15:08guest: Yes, yes, we have an event going on, not us as in parkrun, but the island has one of the many events that they do seven days a week it seems. a half and full marathon which is two laps at Ramsey tomorrow and that starts off the no rest for the wicked week so you do the half or the full marathon on the Sunday then there's a mixture over the following five days of a hill run, a 10k, a seven mile run on different terrain that obviously the island offers and circulates the island as well so For visitors and people staying, it's an amazing mix of road running, trail running, fell running, et cetera.

00:15:47David Moss: Thank you very much. Okay, that gives a fair idea. Great place. Brilliant.

00:15:50guest: All right, cheers. Thank you.

Channel 5 News Crew

00:15:51Lyndell Murray: Good morning, parkrun Adventurers. G'day, Scotty. G'day, Mel. It's Lyndell. I'm back reporting for the Channel 5 News crew. Fully inspired by last week's podcast, I have to say. I'm chasing an alphabet letter. I'm out at Ipswich parkrun in Queensland, so I'm going to get my eye. I'm decked out in my IMF supporters singlet, so celebrating Warrior Run. And look, it's the first weekend of September and I'm already pitching for the Christmas edition. So what more could you want, guys? Look, the run's probably about to start, so I'll leave it there and catch up with some people after the run. Okay, after the run, and I've tracked down one of our milestones. I've got Mark here with me. How are you going today?

00:16:40Mark: I'm doing awesome. 50th. 50th parkrun.

00:16:42Lyndell Murray: Excellent. And that's why you've got the red tutu and a red cape.

00:16:45Mark: You're looking stunning. Thank you. A whole lot of people turned out in tutus. It was awesome. Yes.

00:16:56Lyndell Murray: Now, you're a regular here at Ipswich parkrun?

00:16:59Mark: Yep, born and bred in Ipswich and we do a run beforehand and do a parkrun in Ipswich. It's fantastic.

00:17:05Lyndell Murray: Excellent. And 50, so how long has it taken you to get to your 50 runs?

00:17:10Mark: I started doing parkrun probably about 14 months ago. So I do it every week and I just love it. Love the parkrun, love the whole concept.

00:17:18Lyndell Murray: Yeah, it's wonderful, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And your running journey, can you tell me a little bit about that and how you got into running?

00:17:27Mark: I started the run when I was 52 because I was overweight and so I started the run I lost 25 kilos and just kept running and running and did my first marathon and then was training for my second marathon then I had my heart attack so heart attack two lots of surgeries later and I just decided I'm going to run even though the doctor at the time said I wouldn't be able to run again so finally I decided that I wanted to run one more marathon So two years to the day, almost, after I had my heart attack, I ran the Paris Marathon. And since then, I've run a whole lot of halves, no more marathons, and I'm just loving life and loving the parkruns. I just really do. I've met so many friends that it is just something that I want to do every Saturday. So that's my running journey.

00:18:15Lyndell Murray: Excellent, that's wonderful. And the running community here at Ipswich is quite an established community, I understand.

00:18:22Mark: There's a whole heap of groups and it's so collegial in that sense that everyone knows each other, we see each other on the street, but it's a very strong running community and very much together. We all cheer each other on and I just love it.

00:18:36Lyndell Murray: How wonderful. Well, thank you very much for talking to me, Mark. Well done on your 50. Here's to another 50 in the future.

00:18:42Mark: Absolutely. Thanks, Lyndell.

00:18:45Lyndell Murray: Now I've got with me Tom, today's Run Director. How are you today? How did today go for you?

00:18:50Tom: It was a pretty good day. It's the first day of spring and you can feel the warmth in the air. Yeah, I think so far so good. Only a few missing barcodes.

00:19:02Lyndell Murray: You're on the trail for them though, Tom, aren't you?

00:19:05Tom: I am. On the lookout. There's little bits of plastic in people's hands.

00:19:08Lyndell Murray: They're very important. Now, tell me about your parkrun journey. How did you get involved in parkrun and run directing?

00:19:18Tom: Well, my first parkrun was up in Cairns when we lived up on the Atherton Tablelands there and I actually travelled down and stayed overnight just to do my first parkrun. It was a two-hour journey and since then I've moved back down here to Ipswich and I haven't missed many weeks since then. I got my first place finish here at Ipswich and I just really enjoyed the community here so then slowly made my progression into photography, my first volunteering position and then run directing now which I really enjoy.

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00:19:56Lyndell Murray: Excellent. Now, that clanging in the background that we just heard, can you tell us about that?

00:20:02Tom: Yeah, that's new this week, actually. Someone's come up with the initiative of having a bell. When people run a PB, they go and ring the bell, so everyone knows.

00:20:13Lyndell Murray: So, course PB, I understand.

00:20:15Tom: That's coarse PB, and we've heard it ring a few times already this morning.

00:20:19Lyndell Murray: Excellent. So, I've never run here before. Can I ring the bell?

00:20:22Tom: Technically not, but...

00:20:26Lyndell Murray: there's no real fun do what you feel it's an honour system isn't it in parkrun so do what you feel right if you feel that you can do that go for it no I think that's a bit lame Now, tell me about the course here at Ipswich. My home run is Bunyaville, which is extremely hilly.

00:20:45Tom: Bunyaville, I've done that once. Enjoyed that course, actually. Did get lost in the way. But this course here, it's a two-lap course, concrete paths, and it is known for the Heartbreak Hill, a long, slow course. hill with many false finishes to it where it turns corners and continues going up. And that's the part people either love or hate here. I personally quite like it.

00:21:13Lyndell Murray: Which one was that? They all felt like that to me.

00:21:15Tom: Oh, right. Yeah, there are a couple of hills just to warm you up for the big heartbreak hill. But then a long winding downhill to the finish. Yeah, great course, I think. One of the best I've run.

00:21:29Lyndell Murray: It sure is. Hills are good for the soul, yeah?

00:21:32Tom: I think that's very true. I love hills. Yeah.

00:21:35Lyndell Murray: Excellent. Well, thank you, Tom, for talking to me today. Thank you for your contribution to parkrun. And hopefully I'll get out to Ipswich and be able to ring that bell next time.

00:21:44Tom: That would be great. Yeah, see you next time.

00:21:48Lyndell Murray: Now, Kay is here with me. She is the event director for Ipswich and also one of the event ambassadors for the area. How are you going today, Kay? I'm good, thank you. Thanks for coming to our parkrun today. You're very welcome. I was on the search for an eye and I love hills, so it was a match made in heaven, really. You earn your eye out here for your alphabet, don't you?

00:22:09Kay: We go to flat parkruns and we forget that when we go to flat parkruns, we think we're invincible out there in the flat parkruns, but we're not because we've got no recovery to come down a hill.

00:22:21Lyndell Murray: I do the same thing. Every time I go to a different parkrun, I think, oh, it'll be flat and they're never really flat.

00:22:27Kay: they're not i went to new farm parkrun last week and i thought it was flat and little do you know there's some little tiny little creepy undulations in there but um we've got a really really good community um you can see parkrun's just about finished and everybody is still these are our core people that are still here till the end and um it's really more about Yeah, we're a community.

00:22:51Lyndell Murray: We're a big family, if you like. It looks like that. It feels like that. There's lots of people talking and hanging around, dogs, the volunteers. Obviously, you've got a fairly loyal crew of volunteers out here as well.

00:23:05Kay: Yep, that's right. One of the things that we're pretty good at here is we've generally got a full roster three or four weeks ahead. which is, and you put out the call, oh look, there's someone rang the bell, they got a PB. So, yeah, so we do, we've got a really good crew and somebody will always put their hand up. We started here, when I took over as, I wasn't founding event director, I was, I took over in, Parker and started here in 2014, I took over November 2015 and So we've seen parkrun grow from about 80 odd people up to some weeks we have about 230.

00:23:48Lyndell Murray: I was talking to one of your milestone runners earlier and he said that the running community in Ipswich is a tight and strong community.

00:23:57Kay: It is. It is. We've got little different groups. One of our guys today who did his 50th, they have a group that runs, they call themselves the Wolf Pack. I don't know why. Ipswich City Runners, we've got, it's just a social group of runners. And we're all a part of everything sort of thing. Yeah. And a couple of really big fun runs out here a couple of times a year as well. Park to Park. Yeah. Ipswich Hospital Foundation were the local sponsor for Ipswich parkrun. They gave us the funding to set up parkrun. And so we always like to give back. I set up a parkrun team and we encourage as many people as we can to come out and support back. It gives a bit back to the hospital foundation.

00:24:48Lyndell Murray: That's great. What a great connection. Yeah. Yeah. And your parkrun journey, so you've talked about how you got into run directing. You obviously run as well. So can you tell me a little bit about your running journey?

00:24:59Kay: Me, I hated running. I was a hockey player. And 2014 when parkrun started in Ipswich, my partner said, we should go and check that out. He couldn't run. I couldn't run. I couldn't even run 5K. So I think I was telling someone this morning, so in the last four years, I've done about 14 half marathons, and last year I did my first full marathon.

00:25:22Lyndell Murray: Oh, wow, awesome.

00:25:24Kay: And I still can't run that heartbreak hill.

00:25:28Lyndell Murray: The old Heartbreak Hill. Tom was telling me about Heartbreak Hill and I thought, which one was that?

00:25:32Kay: No, that's Heartbreak Hill. And, you know, some of the really speedy people, it's not well known, but, you know, the fast finishers, you often see them at the top of that hill. They stop, they walk for about 10 steps and then off they go. So, yeah.

00:25:48Lyndell Murray: I wonder what the hell they're doing there. All right. Well, thank you very much, Kay, for talking to me today. Thank you for all of the work that you've put into parkrun. Clearly it's paid off with such a fantastic community out here. Now I'm here with Gary. Gary is clearly the volunteer with the mostest. As we talk, he is pulling down the clock. How are you going today, Gary?

00:26:11Gary: I'm well and how are you today?

00:26:12Lyndell Murray: I'm terrific. Now I hear that you have volunteered over 200 times and never run a parkrun.

00:26:17Gary: I believe that's the case, yes. My strengths obviously lie elsewhere.

00:26:24Lyndell Murray: Wow, clearly. So what is it that brings you to parkrun?

00:26:30Gary: It's just a nice little community that's been built here. It's a lovely little group of people and it's just such a nice concept. It's a simple concept and it's not a huge obligation or commitment just to come out for a couple of hours on a Saturday morning. First day of spring, here we are out in the park. I mean, how nice is that?

00:26:51Lyndell Murray: How good is it?

00:26:52Gary: It's lovely. Absolutely fabulous.

00:26:54Lyndell Murray: Now, you said that running isn't your thing and your talents lie elsewhere. Is there a particular volunteer role that your talent suits most?

00:27:02Gary: Well, yeah, I do timing, tokens and event manager. The run director, yeah. That's the three I like to do.

00:27:12Lyndell Murray: And have you been here since the start of Ipswich parkrun?

00:27:15Gary: Yes, I have. Yeah, the young lady who started it, Rochelle Vaisnan, is a very dear friend of mine. And she came back from England to Australia. for health reasons, so she came back to get better and she'd seen parkrun in England and bought it here and did all the work, got it up and running and so I thought I'll go and give her a hand and it's been here ever since.

00:27:42Lyndell Murray: And you've been here ever since.

00:27:43Gary: Fundamentally, yes. Exactly.

00:27:46Lyndell Murray: Well, that's great. Look, parkrun doesn't run without people like you. Thank you very much on behalf of all of the parkrun community, not just here in Ipswich. You're a shining light, clearly.

00:27:55Gary: Thank you very much. It's my great pleasure to be part of this lovely little community that we've built here. I love it.

00:28:01Lyndell Murray: Alrighty. Scotty, Mel, that's it. That's a wrap. I've had a very successful parkrun day. I've ticked off my I for the Alphabeteer Club. I've kicked off Streaky September. And I've got myself back on your Christmas list. So, job done. I don't think there's anything else to say here, really. Until next time, this is Lyndell signing off for the Channel 5 News crew on the parkrun Adventurers.

00:28:23Scott Trickett: The Channel 5 News crew is on point today. What would you give that out of 10, Mel? Let's start rating the roving reports.

00:28:32Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, because that's not going to put any more pressure.

00:28:34Scott Trickett: I give him a 10. I give him a 10 this week.

00:28:38Melissa Erbacher: You know what? I'm especially excited that we got that audio from Dave at Nobles parkrun because he sent that through a couple of weeks ago. And congrats to Dave as well who actually did his 250th parkrun video. Just recently, in a couple of weeks, he snuck that one in overseas. But he sent through the audio and technologically challenged me, was not able to figure out how to play it. And I just like happened upon it this evening. So I was very excited that it wasn't audio lost and that we could share it with everybody. Nobles in the Isle of Man. It sounds like a very cool course.

00:29:19Scott Trickett: I give Dave a 10 out of 10, and I give Mel a 3.

00:29:24Melissa Erbacher: For my technology. Yes. That brings me – no, we can't talk about Streaky September yet because we haven't done anniversaries or the launches. Okay. So let's do that first, Scotty, and then we'll dive into Streaky September, which we know is the hot topic.

Launches and anniversaries ("Where is the cake?")

00:29:38Scott Trickett: Yes. We have no launches at the moment, so that's good, but we do have a couple of anniversaries. They are happening at Bega in New South Wales.

00:29:47Melissa Erbacher: Inverloch in Victoria.

00:29:49Scott Trickett: North Wollongong in New South Wales.

00:29:52Melissa Erbacher: And Wynnum in Queensland. So happy anniversary, guys. Hope you have fabulous costumes and or cake, if that is your poison. I did have cake last week, Scotty, but we did establish the fact that I was not giving up cake or baked goods.

Streaky September

00:30:11Scott Trickett: Yep. So let's touch on that now. So you're... You're a level up.

00:30:15Melissa Erbacher: Status update.

00:30:16Scott Trickett: Yep, status update on your extra streak. So remind us, remind us, are you going to give up Skittles and chocolate? And wine. And wine.

00:30:26Melissa Erbacher: I forgot about wine. Yeah, these are my major vices. Well, no, not – these are my major indulgences, but my indulgences have been leading to bulgences lately, and I'm having trouble fitting into my pants, which is the motivation behind – Like, I mean, streaky September was always going to happen, but I just thought, you know, it was possibly an opportune time to also coincide, abstaining from some of my favourite things just for a short period of while at least. Whether or not it sticks, I don't know. I have been hungering. You know what? Of all the things, and I thought it might have been the wine because I am very partial to a glass of red of an evening. or two, and I thought that was going to be the hardest thing, but it's the chocolate. Really? It's the chocolate. Yeah, and it's possibly because I ate Skittles to the point that my jaw was sore by the end of August. But yeah, I just really want chocolate. I think about it a lot.

00:31:34Scott Trickett: Chocolate?

00:31:34Melissa Erbacher: Really? Yeah, just chocolate. But I am four days straight. We are up to September 4th. We're recording on the evening of Tuesday, September 4th. And I'm four days clean. of chocolate, Skittles or wine thus far. How are you doing, Scotty? And this is the thing on a whim and these things don't usually end well, but coffee. You said in solidarity that you would give up coffee for the month of September because I was giving up these big things for me.

00:32:10Scott Trickett: Did you have to bring up the solidarity? I don't think I said that.

00:32:15Melissa Erbacher: I didn't use that term but I felt like that was your motivation. Okay.

00:32:20Scott Trickett: You read too much into it.

00:32:22Melissa Erbacher: Because it's not like you to just come up with these things off the cuff like bad ideas. That's my job, you know, run the date my way. Yeah, that's a great idea. No, it's not. Let's do that in March. No, that's not a good idea. That's more days in February. I have these ideas without thinking them through. But that's not you. That's not usually what you do. Although I feel like this one was a little bit on that side of maybe I'm rubbing off on you, do you think? Yeah.

00:32:48Scott Trickett: Well, so we're up to September 4 and – Yep.

00:32:54Melissa Erbacher: You sent me a picture on September 1 of a hot chocolate. So you started out strong.

00:33:00Scott Trickett: Before I reveal where we're at currently, I'll paint the scene. Okay. September 1 was Saturday. We did the post-parkrun thing and I had a hot chocolate and that was a big letdown. That was hard to – deal with okay so you started your day with disappointment yeah but i got through day one day two was it was father's day so we went along i was supposed to do a half marathon but we were short of volunteers junior parkrun and it was father's day meal so i wanted to spend it with my daughter because it's not running a half marathon yeah so So we went to Junior parkrun. I didn't do anything. I stood around. It was completely useless. It was quite good. And then we went and had some breakfast. So I'm sitting in – I got to choose. I'm sitting in my favorite cafe. It's one of my favorite cafes because they do really good chocolate.

00:33:56Melissa Erbacher: Really good chocolate?

00:33:57Scott Trickett: I mean really good coffee, really good coffee, really good coffee.

00:34:00Melissa Erbacher: See, so did you just say chocolate because I heard chocolate? If you said coffee, it's entirely possible that I still heard chocolate. No, I did say chocolate.

00:34:09Scott Trickett: No, I definitely said chocolate.

00:34:13Melissa Erbacher: Okay. I'm not going insane then.

00:34:15Scott Trickett: I meant coffee. I meant coffee. So they do really good coffee. Anyway, long story short, I lasted a day because I wasn't going to not enjoy my Father's Day breakfast. And part of that enjoyment is derived from drinking a really nice coffee. And I've enjoyed a coffee every day since just to make sure I wasn't making a mistake.

00:34:43Melissa Erbacher: But I tried. You got through one solid day. I'm proud of you, Scotty. You tried. I did. That's the main thing. But you know what the beauty is? You can always start a streak on any day of the week, on any date of the month. You don't have to start it on the 1st of September. So if you want to, you can start streaking again with no coffee tomorrow.

00:35:04Scott Trickett: So there's the update on that. So I'm glad that wasn't part of it.

00:35:09Melissa Erbacher: Streaky September. Oh, streaky bingo. Well, we haven't got there yet, Scotty.

00:35:14Scott Trickett: There's my segue, Mel.

00:35:16Melissa Erbacher: That's your segue there. Okay. Well, because we haven't given the status update on streaking. Are you still in the streaking game? You've struck every day.

00:35:23Scott Trickett: Streaking is going to be easy. Yep.

00:35:25Melissa Erbacher: Oh, it's going to be easy. Well, shut up because it's not easy for everyone. And on behalf of all those people who struggle from time to time, shush you.

00:35:37Scott Trickett: Look, I mean, some days are going to be harder than others. Tomorrow, I think, is going to be a challenge for me. I'm traveling a bit, doing a few little chores and errands and in unfamiliar surrounds, but I think I'll sneak something in.

00:35:51Melissa Erbacher: Well, I should hope so. Yes. Otherwise, you'll break your streak.

Streaky BINGOE

00:35:55Unidentified speaker: Yep.

00:35:55Scott Trickett: But we've been asked the question. We've been asked the question, is bingo with an E going to return? And it is. Of course it is. It's tradition.

00:36:02Melissa Erbacher: We are not going to leave people without challenges to just mix it up a little bit throughout the month. And yes, streaky bingo is back.

00:36:11Scott Trickett: But we wouldn't be the parkrun adventurers if we didn't change it a little bit. So it's not the same challenges that we had last year. We've added some new ones. We got rid of some old ones. So we're keeping you on your toes.

00:36:24Melissa Erbacher: Upload the bingo card to Facebook in the group. Thank you to everyone who has joined the group for Streaky September. So we have a parkrun adventurous group. It's our first group, Scotty, which is a bit exciting. We started the month out with the event in Facebook. However – Facebook is a little bit silly sometimes, and in this particular circumstance, I think it's a bit prohibitive in that they don't allow you to create month-long events. They only let you create day-long events. And short of creating a new event every day and asking people on Facebook every day to join the new event, And then losing all the continuity from people sharing pictures and posts and experiences and motivation, we thought it was best to just dive in and create a group where we could have all those things kept together. And, you know, we can keep it for next year as well and it's always going to be there, which is awesome.

00:37:18Scott Trickett: Great. Great idea, Mel.

00:37:19Melissa Erbacher: So thank you to everyone who has joined the group thus far. And if you haven't, just get in there. It doesn't matter if you haven't started streaking yet. You can come and enjoy the fun. But we digress. What were we talking about, Scotty? Streaky bingo.

00:37:31Scott Trickett: Yes. Let's tell people what we've come up with. So the one thing we've kept from last year, we've kept two things from last year. Well, two things.

00:37:39Jackie: Yep. Yep.

00:37:39Scott Trickett: So these are givens. These are the givens that we've got to include. So you have to do a parkrun, which was pretty easy because September 1st was parkrun day. Okay, here's the thing.

00:37:49Melissa Erbacher: Nobody has to do anything. If people want to try and get bingo, these are the challenges that people need to factor into their streaks this month.

00:38:01Scott Trickett: But why wouldn't you, Mel? Think of the rewards that come with doing, becoming, getting streaky bingo.

00:38:07Melissa Erbacher: Yes, well, Melissa Ellis won Streaky Bingo last year, if I recall correctly, and now she's a member of the Channel 5 News crew. Coincidence? I don't know.

00:38:16Scott Trickett: And the other challenge was with a friend. Make sure you streak with a friend. Now, everyone's got friends, and if you don't have friends, you've got a month to make a friend and convince them to come for a run or a walk with you.

00:38:30Melissa Erbacher: Now, we've got a whole bunch of new things. We've got six new things actually to add. So there are going to be eight standard challenges for Streaky Bingo to start off with. And the first of the new ones is Streaky Strava Art. We're partial to a bit of Strava Art, as you may be aware, and we don't have any rules for what the art should be, do we, Scotty? The only real sort of recommendation is that it's – recognizable as what it's supposed to be does that seem fair absolutely there are no hard and fast rules around strava up just as you know art is in the eye of the beholder yeah except don't just go and grab whatever parkrun you did last week and it's a single loop and then send it to us and tell us it's a deflated ball because you know what that's not cool you've got to be a bit creative with this okay so what's the next one The next one is one that you suggested. Yes. So I'll let you explain it.

00:39:28Scott Trickett: Yeah, because we introduced this segment a couple of weeks ago and it's an absolute fizzer. I blame Alan Ruck. He just didn't get off to a good start. But we want hotline questions and we've got one coming up.

00:39:42Melissa Erbacher: bit later on if we ever get to it so what we want you to do is while you're streaking ask us a question and send it in record a hotline question so this is going to require some dexterity with not turning off If you're like me with your phone and you've got Strava going and you're trying to do something else at the same time, don't press stop on Strava while you're still moving. Just keep an eye on that sort of stuff because it happens and it deprives you of wanted kilometers and time.

00:40:15Scott Trickett: You know, Mel, I don't think many people actually use the app. I think you're a bit on your own there. I think most of our listeners have got watches.

00:40:23Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, this is your opportunity, listeners, to write in and correct Scotty because I'm sure there are heaps of people who do it on their phone. And that's the crickets that we're all hearing. However, hotline questions. Yeah, so if you don't know how to do it, remind everybody how to do it, Scotty.

00:40:44Scott Trickett: Ask us a question.

00:40:46Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I know, but we need them to record the audio.

00:40:49Scott Trickett: Oh, yeah, just record it into your voice memo app. on your phone, or you can even do it directly using Facebook Messenger. You just press the audio, the microphone button, and you can ask us a question directly through Facebook Messenger.

00:41:06Tom: It works.

00:41:07Scott Trickett: Trust me. People are doing it.

00:41:09Melissa Erbacher: Yes, and as we've previously advised, you know, the questions don't have to be articulate or parkrun related. They can be the most random thing that you're thinking about while you're out there streaking for the month. Love to have them. The next one on the list, and this is a fave of mine, but we identified the fact that it could be a bit challenging for some people, so we added a little bit of an asterisk to it. So we want you to streak with a dog, with a park dog or a pooch. If you don't have one or even if you do have one, instead you could potentially streak with anyone named Max, Charlie, Jack, Bella or Jessie. So if you don't have access to a dog but you've got a buddy named Max or a buddy named Jack or Charlie or Bella or Jessie, streak with them and it counts. And, you know, for proof, we probably want to see a selfie of you with said dog or said friend named Max, Charlie, Jack, Bella or Jessie.

00:42:13Scott Trickett: And I just wanted to – we also – we're going to be flexible here. If you do have a mate called Buster, Champy, Clover or Eno, we'll accept those as well.

00:42:23Melissa Erbacher: Yes, those are also popular dog names that could also be people.

00:42:32Scott Trickett: The next one is… The next one is my concoction, yes. Yes. Because I did this, I think, a couple of times last year.

00:42:39Melissa Erbacher: So basically, he's looking for an easy way to get on the board.

00:42:42Scott Trickett: Well, it was a little bit of fun. There's a story to tell when you… When it's getting to the end of the day, you're panicking, you're going to run out of time. But if you streak after 11 p.m., that's a big tick in my book. And it's a challenge that you can tick off for bingo this year. So it's a streak after 11 p.m.

00:43:02Melissa Erbacher: Which is called the last minute streak. The next two are actually also brainchilds of Scotty's, but I'll introduce the next one and he can talk us through the last one. So the next one is Groundhog Day. And for this one, we want people to run in the same time or walk, same place and the same distance. I should say run at the same time. So you need to start at the same time and do the same route that you did the day before and distance, et cetera, two days in a row.

00:43:37Scott Trickett: Yes, two days in a row. So it can't be you went to parkrun one week and you went back to the same parkrun the next week. It has to be back-to-back days.

00:43:44Melissa Erbacher: Yes, which you've got the whole month to find two back-to-back days where you can squeeze this one in. So it shouldn't be too challenging.

00:43:53Scott Trickett: And the last one I came up with, last year we had streaking your PJs, which I think that was your idea, Mel, because you never get out of your PJs. And so this year it came back on me and, you know, I love to run with my cap and the cap always has to be backwards. So I want to see some backwards cap running, some backwards cap streaking. Easy for the blokes. I don't see too many females running with their cap on backwards. So that's my main motivation there. I want to see some selfies. And I want to grow the, I just want to grow the club, backwards cap running club, club.

00:44:31Melissa Erbacher: Is a backward visor acceptable?

00:44:33Scott Trickett: Yeah, it is. A backward visor doesn't look as good, but it is definitely acceptable.

00:44:38Melissa Erbacher: Oh, really? That's what looks weird, a backwards visor, because there's any difference?

00:44:43Scott Trickett: Well, if you do it regularly and if you're in the know, there is a style and there's a technique and we judge.

00:44:50Melissa Erbacher: Oh, okay.

00:44:51Scott Trickett: Yeah. It's a fashion statement, Mel.

00:44:54Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Well, I will see what I can do about dicking out a cap. Otherwise, I may have to do my backwards cap in a visor and be subject to your judgment. So that's Streaky Bingo.

00:45:05Scott Trickett: Streaky Bingo. So it's all Streaky Bingo.

00:45:07Melissa Erbacher: Can I just say, Streaky September is going off this year. I am so excited by the amount of people that have jumped on board. and are taking up the challenge. You know, I feel really proud that people are getting out there and moving and challenging themselves as part of this little thing that we set up.

00:45:26Scott Trickett: Yeah, well, it has a purpose too. So it's all about getting out of the funk of winter. I'll give you an example. Tonight, Mal, it got late. we we all went out as a family kasha and i ran together ivana walked and it was lovely you know we had half an hour we said this last year we had half an hour outdoors and when you finish it you think why don't we do this more often so this is all about creating a habit that hopefully will carry on i'll admit i'll put my hand up we didn't carry it on beyond september last year i never said to ivana and kasha let's go for a 2k run or a walk beyond september but We've got to keep doing it, Mel, because we're going to create these habits.

00:46:10Melissa Erbacher: We're doing it all as a family again this year, and I'm hoping that everybody manages to maintain it as well. Wes hasn't broken the streak yet. He's up to day four. The dogs have only been along for two of the four streaks, so they're at a 50% success rate. However, it's not really at their discretion yet. to choose when they get to come, that's sort of not been their fault that they've missed out on a couple. However, I'm hoping we can keep that strike rate up or even improve that strike rate for the rest of the month, even for the pooches.

00:46:45Scott Trickett: I'm prepared to cut them a bit of slack. Because they can't understand us for starters. So they don't really know what's going on. And they're not on Strava. Yep.

00:46:53Melissa Erbacher: Although, you know what? One day I'm going to just attach. In fact, I might even do it during Streaky September. On the day that I streak with the dog, I might attach a watch to Clover. And we'll take her over to the dog off-leash park as part of our streak. And then we'll see how many more kilometers she does than everybody else. Because that dog doesn't stop moving until she's ready to pass out. Yeah.

00:47:16Scott Trickett: I wouldn't have picked it. She's such a cute little dog. I thought she would just sit around and look pretty.

00:47:21Melissa Erbacher: She looks like a fat sheep at the moment. Actually, no, we've decided to start calling her Toy Newfoundland because that's exactly what she looks like. She just had a bath last week, so she is 100% fuzz at the moment. It's adding about six inches to her girth. She's just like this round ball of fluff. It's ridiculous. Very soft, and she smells nice, though, which is good.

00:47:46Scott Trickett: That's always good. My boys stink at the moment, and I'm not bathing them.

00:47:51Melissa Erbacher: I paid somebody else to come and do it this time.

00:47:54Scott Trickett: Do you know how hard it is to get a dog washer in Melbourne? Like you ring everyone and it's like, I'm free in two weeks. Well, I don't know what I'm doing in two weeks. I'll call you back. And then, of course, two weeks comes and I'm not doing anything. So I could have had them.

00:48:07Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, Scotty, you work from home. Yeah, this is true. Just lock it in. This is true. And then put it in your diary so that you make sure that you're home on that day.

00:48:17Scott Trickett: Well, in the moment, I think I'm really busy when I'm not.

00:48:20Melissa Erbacher: Okay. Fair enough.

00:48:22Scott Trickett: Hey.

00:48:23Melissa Erbacher: But hey, so we've outlined all the streaky bingo stuff, including the hotline question, but we actually got a question. We did. Sort of relatively unsolicited this week. We may have reminded people about it last week. It's always good when this happens.

00:48:38Scott Trickett: We're excited. We're more excited about getting hotline questions than anything we've done this year.

00:48:44Unidentified speaker: Bye. Bye. Bye.

parkrun adventurers hotline

00:48:47Jackie: Hi, Scott and Mel. I have a question for you. You guys live in completely different states. How did you guys meet and get to the point to where you could do a podcast together?

00:49:03Melissa Erbacher: So that question came to us from a Jackie Exilin of Gungahlin, parkrun. Jackie has very kindly explained to me how to pronounce Gungahlin, even though I'm pretty sure we've mentioned that one in the podcast before. However, she didn't tell me how to pronounce her surname. So, Jackie, I apologise in advance if I got that wrong. I also suffer from a surname that people do not commonly pronounce correctly. Really? So I feel your pain. Yes. My brother-in-law, he graduated from university and he had his graduation ceremony, cap and gown, full kit and caboodle, and somebody said, Ryan Erbacher? Yeah, I get it. Because we saw the video of it. And so we said, oh, yeah, you know, same old, same old. And he said, well, actually, it's not as bad as this other girl who the person in front of her didn't show up. So she got introduced to some boy's name. And she's walking across the stage not looking impressed.

00:50:05Scott Trickett: Well, why doesn't she just wait for her name to be called? What does she go on with?

00:50:08Melissa Erbacher: Well, that's what I would have done. I would have just stood there and waited too.

00:50:12Scott Trickett: Why would you go off and accept it under someone else's name? That's fraud.

00:50:20Melissa Erbacher: I'm pretty sure she probably took the correct degree, the one with her name on it.

00:50:25Scott Trickett: Hey, none of this answers Jackie's question. And we've also got to mention Jackie's a bit under the weather. So she apologizes for a croaky voice.

00:50:34Melissa Erbacher: But Jackie wants to know how you and I met, Scotty, and at what point or how did it come about that we are podcast co-hosts?

00:50:46Scott Trickett: But I'm going to let you answer this, Mel, because I think I've told the story before on the podcast. But let's rehash it in a different tone.

00:50:55Melissa Erbacher: Well, how did we actually meet, though? Was the first time we met in Victoria at the Ron Clarke Memorial Service? It could have been.

00:51:04Scott Trickett: In person? It could have been. Yep.

00:51:07Melissa Erbacher: I think it may have been. So that's where we met in person for the first time. However... Scotty and I were both part of the original intake of a group of volunteers for parkrun Australia called Territory Directors. And, God, I think there was only about a dozen of us at that stage.

00:51:29Scott Trickett: Yeah, I think there was. There was a couple from each state, yeah.

00:51:32Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, and some states or territories didn't have any at all still at that stage. It's grown and it's now sort of morphed into an ambassador, an event ambassador program is what they get called instead, territory directors. But as part of that sort of volunteer group, we were added. to a private group on Facebook. And I guess, you know, sharing knowledge and experiences and things like that in that group is probably where we first started to get to know each other a bit. You know, it's quite a small group. So when everybody chimes in, you know, that's how you start to build friendships.

00:52:18Scott Trickett: And Mel was very sensible with all her answers. And I like sensible people.

00:52:23Melissa Erbacher: Oh, is that what it was? I was sensible. Not cheeky or obnoxious.

00:52:29Scott Trickett: No, I think Mel had a sense of humor that I liked. So I think I reached out to you and said, let's do this thing together. And we did. And this is the way of the world, Mel. I'll tell another story. With technology now, you can be friends with anyone, anywhere. And my good mate's daughter, I heard a story on the weekend, her best friend lives in Coffs Harbour. And they met up on the weekend in Melbourne. Now I find that concept bizarre because my best friend was the guy, was the family I was living next door to for 10 years. So we've been best friends. He was the best man at my wedding. But now my daughter will have best friends on social media, I'm sure, in the next few years, all her YouTube buddies. I don't know how it works. I'm an old man. But that's how we stay connected, even though Mel's in Queensland and I'm in Melbourne. We talk every day and we text every day on all the socials, on all the platforms. So it's quite easy to stay connected. Yeah, I think I reached out to a couple of people when I wanted to bring the podcast, bring a podcast back, and Mel was always my first choice. So I'm really glad that she said yes.

00:53:40Melissa Erbacher: At least that's the story he tells people.

00:53:43Scott Trickett: And hand on heart, Mel, it always is. It always is. You were always number one.

00:53:48Melissa Erbacher: So he's lucky I said yes. Well, no, actually, I don't think you're so much lucky I said yes is that I think it's turned out okay.

00:53:59Scott Trickett: Yeah, I'm pretty happy.

00:54:00Melissa Erbacher: We have enough to talk about every week or at least, you know, we make drivel up sometimes. But, yeah, I think it's turned out okay.

00:54:09Scott Trickett: And I think also, like, I think my voice is quite unique and so is yours and we contrast. Quite a bit. Even though we're very similar in a lot of our thinking, I think we've got enough contrast there to keep people mildly amused or to hate me and love you and vice versa because that's what you need with a dynamic.

00:54:30Melissa Erbacher: Are we being a bit self-indulgent now? Maybe. Yeah.

00:54:33Scott Trickett: We're probably going to answer that in 30 seconds. But that's where the hotline takes us.

00:54:40Melissa Erbacher: Yes.

00:54:41Scott Trickett: And we said there's no guest today, so you're getting to know us a bit more.

00:54:45Melissa Erbacher: Speaking of getting to know us a bit more, my battery on my laptop says 5% left, so this podcast may end at any moment.

00:54:53Scott Trickett: No, no, let's end it now. Let's end it now. As we mentioned, we're going to be parkrunning together on the weekend. It's a new event for both of us, which I'm a little bit gutted about, but I'll still look forward to it. Because you're not going to get ahead of me. Yeah, because I still can't get ahead of you, but I got one closer. On the weekend. So that made me happy.

00:55:10Melissa Erbacher: You did. You did. And, you know, like you're going to have to get on top of that because I'm chasing down quite a few more by the end of the year as well.

00:55:18Scott Trickett: Yep. Good luck with that.

00:55:21Melissa Erbacher: Thanks again, Jackie, for contributing to the hotline. We can't wait to see what everybody comes up with with Streaky Bingo and all the fun stuff. We actually will be back with a guest next week. So please make sure you come back and have another listen.

Sing-along

00:55:38Scott Trickett: And to end, which is a new tradition, so the sing-along returned last week, Mel.

00:55:45Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, it just wasn't the same though, Scotty, was it?

00:55:48Scott Trickett: So let's make the decision now. Again, we haven't pre-planned this. But I always wanted to – it needed to have a Tiffany song. The sing-along wasn't complete without having Tiffany's. I think we're alone now. My karaoke song of choice, my little teenage crush. I wasn't even a teenager. I think Tiffany was the first girl that I thought, oh, I think she's pretty good.

00:56:15Melissa Erbacher: She's a bit all right. Yeah.

00:56:18Scott Trickett: So I think we should probably just end it there. I mean, it was a terrible version.

00:56:23Melissa Erbacher: It was. It just wasn't quite the same. I think it really has to stop there.

00:56:29Scott Trickett: Yeah. So don't blame us. Blame the corporate greed of big music. And one day, one day, Mel, we'll have a lawyer or we'll have enough sponsors that we can buy off these.

00:56:43Melissa Erbacher: We can pay.

00:56:44Scott Trickett: We can pay big music. So this is just going to peter out with our theme music. Try and sing along to that. I'll let it play a bit longer this week.

00:56:48[music]