Episode 196 - #PALM20 LIVE!

Welcome

00:00:21Melissa Erbacher: Welcome everybody. Look at you all. Has anybody done a head count yet? No? Somebody do a head count and tell me, like then multiply it by seven and that's what will tell people how many people showed up. Because that's a good number to me. Now you might notice that I'm a little bit flying solo up here and that's because a certain Mr. Someone left me without a co-host about six months ago. But there have been a whole bunch of people who've been helping me out and been absolutely amazing in the meantime. But I was just wondering, do I have any volunteers for a co-host today? Because I'm not that organised. And there goes the thing. Anyone? Anyone? This guy over here in the back? Come on up. You just got triggered. Is this amplifying at all? Yeah, it is. I can tell. Okay.

00:01:19Scott Trickett: Get prepared.

00:01:20Melissa Erbacher: Oh, you've got your own wireless mic. How convenient. That works out really well, only we're going to have to share this one if we want to be amplified because there's no battery in that one. I would like it noted for the record that all the equipment that I bought for sound recording is fully charged. Okay, and plugged in where it needs to be plugged in.

00:01:42Scott Trickett: Cheap shot already. So who was at the last listener meetup? And we had this set up. It worked beautifully, didn't it? It did. This was all working. I just forgot to push this button in.

00:01:57Melissa Erbacher: Just a little bit. Yeah, so nobody else got to hear it. But everybody else has got their ears turned on. So if you're here, then you're going to hear what's going on. Before we properly get underway though, I just want to mention that each and every week in Australia we have the good fortune to be able to run parkrun in stunning places and this week in particular we find ourselves here at the very special Mount Barker. Thank you very much for having us Mount Barker team. Now, we all know how lucky we are to be here, but I just want to begin by acknowledging the people of the Peramangk Nation as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we meet today. And this beautiful place where Aboriginal people have performed age-old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal. And I acknowledge their living culture, their unique role in the life of the region and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. And I would also like to pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. So Scotty, welcome back to the podcast. It's been a while.

00:03:09Scott Trickett: Thanks, Mel. It's great to be back. I wanted to meet you two weeks ago. Awkward. You've forgotten already. I hope you all tuned in to that episode for my return. Great acknowledgement, Mel. Great acknowledgement from PK this morning too. Loved hearing it. Would love to hear it a lot more at our events. So I ask our audience to be champions in that cause, to see it introduced at more and more parkruns. And more and more parkrun podcasts, listener meet-up, intros. First time we've done it.

00:03:40Melissa Erbacher: It is. It was well overdue.

00:03:42Scott Trickett: Yeah. So yeah, I'm co-host. I'm not used to co-hosting, so take it easy on me. And we've got one mic. How does that work?

00:03:52Melissa Erbacher: I don't know. Can you guys hear us without the mic pretty well? Yeah. Yep.

00:03:59Scott Trickett: A great playlist too this morning we had at Mount Barker. I'm going to say, so here's my quick review of Mount Barker. A couple of years ago I did it as a Freedom Run. PK again came and met me and we did a Freedom Run. You weren't travelling too well then, so I did it myself and I got a bit lost around the wetlands and it turned into an 8K Freedom Run. I was travelling well at that time, but today... How do you get lost on an out and back course? I don't think PK explained it was an out and back, and I saw that there was a path going around the lake, and I thought, why wouldn't you go around the lake? So I went the other side. But the event itself is beautiful. Like, where you run through and walk through is great. But then the atmosphere coming through the finish line here, I love that everyone's staying around and in chat. But yeah, it's great to be back here for another listener meeting. So I have just come up from the audience. This was not planned at all, despite me wearing a microphone. LAUGHTER So I want to ask Mel, how's the last six months been?

00:04:52[laughter]

00:04:58Melissa Erbacher: Have you been listening? On and off. On and off. Oh my goodness. Well, you're definitely not the number one fan then, are you? So I want to talk about Mount Barker because I was here this morning. I had an experience.

00:05:10Scott Trickett: Didn't ask you. Yeah. So it was all about me. But go on, how did you do Emily?

00:05:16Melissa Erbacher: I had a great time. Like you, Scotty, I have been here for a Freedom Run before. It's a little bit more water out in the wetlands than last time, which was really nice. Cool to see the pelicans and all the birds and stuff, the bird wildlife. Emmett is a little bit confused about the time difference between Queensland and South Australia at the moment. It's that whole an hour forward for daylight savings, but half an hour backwards because that's different. And he's still, I can't figure it out. I've got too many clocks and watches, so they're all on different times. Adam texted me this morning to say that they'd slept in and wouldn't make it to parkrun and that's before I'd left and I knew I had a 40-minute drive and I'm like, what time is it? Am I going to miss parkrun? But it was all good. We got here with at least four minutes to spare. I did hear the pre-event brief, which is good, but Emmett, yes, he didn't feed so we had only got about 100 metres and he decided he wanted some milkshake. which is less convenient when he weighs 10 kilos and wriggles while you're trying to walk and breastfeed. So that was great fun. Just gave him a very little snack on the way. And then he was happy until about 4Ks out. He waited for his photo opportunity. Paul Barker was out on the course taking photos.

00:06:30Unidentified speaker: Butler. Butler.

00:06:33Melissa Erbacher: Paul Butler. Mount Barker, Paul Butler. Oh, here we go. Now we've got outtakes that we can use. Awesome. And they're mine. He waited until Paul took a photo of him and then he cracked it for the last kilometre. But as you mentioned, The finish line shenanigans really distracted him and he was finally happy. You know, as soon as he heard the clapping and the music and stuff, he stopped crying and we crossed the finish line all happy. So thank you very much to everybody who's cheering, everyone at the finish line. That's always awesome.

00:06:36[laughter]

00:07:05Scott Trickett: Should we hear more about Mount Barker from the Event Directors? Speaking of, Mr. Barker.

00:07:10Melissa Erbacher: Mr. Barker. Well, is Ros here as well, or is it just... No, she's gone.

00:07:14Paul Butler: I thought she was going to stay.

00:07:15Melissa Erbacher: Oh, she must have caught wind of the fact that we were going to ask her for an interview.

Meet the ED

Interview Paul Butler — Event Director, Mount Barker parkrun (SA)

00:07:19Melissa Erbacher: Yes, but Paul, could you come up? I haven't prepped you at all for this either.

00:07:26Scott Trickett: At what point did you change your name to Mount Barker parkrun?

00:07:30Paul Butler: About the time I started parkrun, I thought, no, Butler's not going to do it anymore. It's got to be Paul Barker from now on. It was the only way. Middle name's Mount. Is it M-T or are you going the full Mount? No, M-A-U-N-T. You have to be formal. That's good.

00:07:47Scott Trickett: How long have you been Event Director?

00:07:50Paul Butler: Just over a year. How did that come about? Yeah, Ros asked me because Greta was moving on to other bigger and better things and she asked me if I'd be willing to do it and jumped to the chance. Lovely.

00:08:02Melissa Erbacher: So it's your anniversary pretty much round about now. It's actually the 17th of March. I did some research.

00:08:10Paul Butler: Well done. It's a first. And it's the anniversary of Mount Barker too. We're coming to our sixth on the 28th.

00:08:19Melissa Erbacher: Okay and so how's your experience been for the last year then?

00:08:23Paul Butler: It's been fantastic. We've got such a good group. There's nine of us in the event team and everyone's got a different style, different personalities that they bring which makes it a lot of fun and just works really well and we've got such a fantastic community. There's always people jumping in to volunteer without us even asking which is brilliant, um yeah and I think that's the thing about Mount Barker like so many parkruns people come along start coming along for the exercise and and the activity but as soon as they get there they make friends and then it's the community and we've just got such a beautiful community here um that uh keeps it all going you've got any questions yeah we take it in turns that hat that's how this works remember I'm really out of practice and you're all getting an insight into

00:09:10Scott Trickett: how we work and the dynamics. Or don't work as the case may be. Tell us about, so I know you specifically through your photos and your photography, photography is the same thing, and videos that you've done for parkrun. A bit infamous. Tell us a little bit about that. You've come on the podcast before, you and Charlie and you spoke about it. But just remind us, that's the beauty for parkrun, isn't it? You couldn't care about the run? Or am I putting words in your mouth?

00:09:40Paul Butler: No, I started off, I did probably about a year of just coming out and participating. But then I just saw the opportunity to jump in and take some photos. And we had one particular photographer who was here every week and doing a great job. And that's all he used to do. He used to come along and take photos. So I didn't really want to just come in and start taking over his role. But he also wanted to ease up a little bit. So I jumped in and started taking it and just absolutely love it. And then having the joy of being able to take photos and the joy of participating as a runner is brilliant. And then, of course, Charlie Butler, my son Charlie was getting into photography as well wanted a good excuse not to have to always participate in parkrun and so found a loophole and thought he'd start taking photos as well and that's been a very just great way of him getting involved and you know getting involved in the community and fantastic for me can I

00:10:38Scott Trickett: Can I tell you as well, so you share your photos with me every week. I see a lot of them from Mount Barker and I'm running today and I'm recognising these people that have no idea who I am. But I say, I see your photo every week. And so there's got some really photogenic people here. And there's been an over proportion of Mount Barker photos shared on our national channels.

00:10:59Paul Butler: Yeah, it sure has. Yeah, we've got some people here who are not camera shy. I'm not talking about anyone in particular, Brett and Joe. But yeah, one of the great things is you bring out the camera at Mount Barker and people are jumping in front to have their picture taken. So it's not a case of trying to go up and talk people into having their photos taken. Everyone seems to love it and enjoy it and look for their photos afterwards and it's all part of the fun.

00:11:23Melissa Erbacher: Awesome. Now, what I want to know is how excited were you when you found out that the next podcast listener meetup was going to be here?

00:11:32Paul Butler: Very. I don't know whether you remember, but I think you sent a message through and I probably responded within about 30 seconds saying yes. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, really excited. That's great.

00:11:43Melissa Erbacher: Well, it's very special because it's the third one. We're about to run out of pineapples. So who knows what the future is for the parkrun adventurers listener meetups. Thank you very much for, well, we should thank PK as well for run directing this morning. But we really appreciate you guys having a parkrun here for us to come and meet at and meet some new people and share some stories. So thank you, Paul. We'll let you go have a seat.

00:12:15Scott Trickett: Am I done?

00:12:18Melissa Erbacher: You're a bit demanding, Scotty. Are you done?

00:12:22Scott Trickett: I can be. I think, yeah, I'm done.

00:12:25Melissa Erbacher: You're actually done?

00:12:27Scott Trickett: Is everyone sick of me? That's the feedback I got. So when I left, people said, thank God he's gone. So I think...

00:12:36Melissa Erbacher: Every opportunity you get, you get, what about me? What about me? It's actually really difficult to work with.

00:12:42Scott Trickett: Yeah, it has been. It has been. So I'm glad we're going to formally end it now. So I've been hanging around. Like, I left six months. There were tears. There was drama.

00:12:52Melissa Erbacher: And that was just Scotty.

00:12:53Scott Trickett: And there was begging to come back on, and it finally happened.

00:12:56Melissa Erbacher: That was also Scotty.

00:12:59Scott Trickett: So I think my job? No, because we hide these. I'll just hang on.

00:13:06Melissa Erbacher: Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. Can I have your wireless mic, please?

00:13:11Scott Trickett: Okay.

00:13:12Melissa Erbacher: Sure. You ask a guy to help you co-host a pod and what does he do? He just gives up after, what, 20 minutes? Nice one, Scotty. Well, okay.

Madness — Scott Trickettlive listener meet-up quiz

00:13:21Melissa Erbacher: Now that I don't have a co-host again, maybe it's a good time to go to the quiz. We've got Simon Mackley, who is our normal quiz master, was not able to make it down this year, so he spent weeks and months writing some very, very difficult quiz questions. And Melissa Ellis has taken on the baton. Yay! Yay! of being our Quizmaster this year. Now, I'm actually going to have to organise a little bit of extra technology, so I'll hook that all up. But first, we're actually going to need some participants. Now, we have one who is a dead cert because he has a pineapple to defend. Brendan, come on down. Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who don't know, this is the infamous Brendan Peel. He has won the quiz the two previous years and so we're going to need some really, really hot contestants to contest it this year. Do we have any volunteers? Anyone? Anyone? No. I need, oh, wait, Shultzy, come on. Come on down, Shultzy. You and Tracy are pointing at each other. Come on, come on up. I have got four things over here, four beepers, so I need four contestants.

00:13:43[applause]

00:14:45Unidentified speaker: What are you talking about? You're gonna be a contestant.

00:14:52Melissa Erbacher: I don't know if that's allowed. Scott, you can't, you can't. Come and stand up here, come and stand up here. Do we have at least one female representative? It is International Women's Day. Come on Janet, up you get.

00:15:08Unidentified speaker: Come on.

00:15:12Melissa Erbacher: We need a tutu up here. Now you guys have already, you've already chosen your weapons of choice.

00:15:18Unidentified speaker: Which one would you like?

00:15:26Melissa Ellis: Take it away Melissa. Welcome to Madness for 2020 at Mount Barker. Our first question is a where am I? I am an isolated parkrun with a very strong community. I have been running for 122 events.

00:15:43Melissa Erbacher: Alright guys, this is how it has to work. Melissa has to say your name after you've done the dinging or whatever your thing is. And we need to test the buzzers too. And then when she says your name, I'm going to point something at you and then you need to talk into it so everyone can hear your answers.

00:16:05Unidentified speaker: Okay. Okay.

00:16:06Melissa Erbacher: Has everyone got the rules? Nice, clean quiz this year, okay?

00:16:11Melissa Ellis: Let's try the buzzers. Yes. Janet. Daddy. Brendan. Now, Brendan, your answer is incorrect. Our largest attendance was two weeks ago at 158 homes. Kangaroo Island?

00:16:44Scott Trickett: Who am I? I have 128 runs to my name plus 84 volunteers. I started my parkrun journey on January the 18th 2014.

00:16:52[19 seconds of audio that could not be transcribed]

00:17:12Melissa Ellis: I've been to 16 different events. I used to be a regular on the parkrun adventurers podcast. My whole name has only six letters, but I've only grabbed the Y. My name will be very familiar to event teams, but most will not have met me. Ian Hay?

00:17:38Unidentified speaker: Correct.

00:17:41Melissa Ellis: Okay. Name two parkruns with point in the name.

00:17:50Unidentified speaker: Brendan? Point Cook and Sandon Point.

00:17:53Melissa Ellis: Correct. Name four parkruns with Mount in the name. Schultzy?

00:18:06Unidentified speaker: Mount Barker? Mount Penang? Yep. Oh, there's heaps of them.

00:18:17Melissa Erbacher: Is it time limited?

00:18:19Unidentified speaker: I can't think of the other two. I should know them.

00:18:22Unidentified speaker: Okay. Anybody else? Mount Gambier. Yes. That's it.

00:18:31Unidentified speaker: Mount Ainslie.

00:18:32Melissa Erbacher: Oh, okay. All right. I think that one means Schultzy gets two points. Yes. And one each for the others. Two for Schultzy.

00:18:39Unidentified speaker: Yep. One for Brendan and one for Janet.

00:18:48Melissa Ellis: Should I get one?

00:18:49Unidentified speaker: No, shush you.

00:18:50Melissa Erbacher: Although, although, Schulte got two. He should probably get half and each of the others get a quarter because it was only one question. Oh, yeah, but Toc can't work out those sums.

00:18:59Unidentified speaker: They don't keep it whole numbers.

00:19:02Melissa Erbacher: I'll leave it to Toc to score how he wishes.

00:19:06Melissa Ellis: Okay, next question. Question five. Which countries does parkrun Australia look after?

00:19:19Scott Trickett: Australia? Yes. New Zealand?

00:19:23Unidentified speaker: Yes.

00:19:23Scott Trickett: Japan? Malaysia? Singapore?

00:19:28Melissa Ellis: So I don't think Simon would have realised who was going to be partaking.

00:19:35Melissa Erbacher: Yeah, I would like it noted for the record. I haven't seen the questions. Nobody's seen the questions except for Melissa Ellis and Simon Mackley. It's not too late to vote. It's not rigged.

00:19:46Melissa Ellis: Question six. In which month will the parkrun adventurers podcast turn 200? April?

00:19:55Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:20:02Melissa Erbacher: Well, yeah, we might not have to be able to score that one until like next month.

00:20:06Melissa Ellis: All right, question seven. Mount Barker parkrun is not the only Australian parkrun with a canine reference name. Can you name the other one?

00:20:21Melissa Erbacher: I wish the audio could show you the expressions on the quiz contestants' faces. There's lots of eye rolling, lots of looking to the sky. If you were part of the figure out how to say the names of things in emojis, you might know what it was.

00:20:43Scott Trickett: Audience, can you help us out?

00:20:44Melissa Erbacher: There's no phone a friend in this quiz.

00:20:47Scott Trickett: That's just a really hard question.

00:20:50Unidentified speaker: Why is the quiz master?

00:20:53Melissa Erbacher: Are there any clues?

00:20:55Unidentified speaker: State? Give us a state.

00:20:57Unidentified speaker: State.

00:20:58Unidentified speaker: Oh, I thought this is South Australia. No. Oh. Can you show me? Oh, no. It's a shaggy.

00:21:08Melissa Erbacher: It's a shaggy kind of dog.

00:21:10Unidentified speaker: Collie.

00:21:11Melissa Erbacher: Oh.

00:21:20Unidentified speaker: And the name? Collie. Collie parkrun.

00:21:27Unidentified speaker: Collie River Trail, I believe, is the name of it.

00:21:29Unidentified speaker: Correct. Yeah, but I get a point for leading you in the right direction.

00:21:35Unidentified speaker: Of all the shaggy dogs, Janet figured out which one it was. All right.

00:21:44Melissa Erbacher: Question eight. Wait, wait. Should we go and get an update on the point score? Oh, yes. Go ahead, please.

00:21:50Tony O'Connell: Score check. Schultzy, three. Scotty, three. Brendan, two and a half. Janet, one and a half. Get on the social media. All right.

00:22:02Melissa Ellis: Which episode did Scott come back for a one-time only appearance?

00:22:08Melissa Erbacher: One time only. We use the term loosely. Two weeks ago.

00:22:15Unidentified speaker: Which was episode number... One... 194. Yes, that's correct. Just note that please, TOC. Thank you.

00:22:30Tony O'Connell: That's one point for you, one point for the social media reference. Thank you.

00:22:36Melissa Ellis: Number nine. Recently, Mel has developed an itch that she needs to scratch. What is it?

00:22:44Scott Trickett: I'm not allowed to answer?

00:22:46Unidentified speaker: I don't know what it is.

00:22:48Scott Trickett: She wants to start her own event. I know where it is.

00:22:54Unidentified speaker: You're not allowed to tell everyone. It's a secret. Oh, that melt.

00:22:59Unidentified speaker: I thought you meant me. Me? You're a melter. Oh, yeah.

00:23:04Unidentified speaker: Well, no, it hasn't been.

00:23:05Unidentified speaker: Sorry.

00:23:05Melissa Erbacher: So you don't itch. Brendan is looking for loose reasons about why he's not winning. Okay.

00:23:12Melissa Ellis: Moving on. Last week, a new country joined the parkrun map.

00:23:18Melissa Erbacher: They've got to answer. Wait, wait, wait. Melissa's got to say who was the winner. Did anybody notice?

00:23:26Unidentified speaker: Chelsea. Netherlands.

00:23:29Melissa Ellis: No, because I didn't finish the question. It borders with what other parkrun country?

00:23:43Scott Trickett: Germany.

00:23:44Melissa Ellis: Blind guess. Okay, question 11. It's a bit of a geography one. If you boarded a boat at the Sydney Opera House and headed west, which parkrun could you access first with a short walk to the start? Scotty?

00:24:00Scott Trickett: Parramatta?

00:24:01Melissa Ellis: No.

00:24:02Scott Trickett: Hang on, where do you get on?

00:24:04Melissa Ellis: Sydney Opera House and head west. Brendan?

00:24:10Scott Trickett: Rhodes?

00:24:12Melissa Ellis: I'm trusting Simon's geography.

00:24:17Unidentified speaker: Mosman. No.

00:24:18Unidentified speaker: That's a good guess.

00:24:21Scott Trickett: You don't go very far.

00:24:25Unidentified speaker: I thought that you just went across on the ferry.

00:24:27Scott Trickett: You hit Circular Quay. Camo.

00:24:31Unidentified speaker: No.

00:24:31Scott Trickett: No, it's wrong.

00:24:32Melissa Ellis: Yeah, I know.

00:24:34[crosstalk]

00:24:34Unidentified speaker: Does the audience have any ideas? Greenway. Greenway, yes. Head west from Sydney Opera House.

00:24:47Melissa Erbacher: That seems contentious to me. Everybody gets a negative one for that.

00:24:54Unidentified speaker: Except me.

00:24:57Melissa Ellis: Question 12. If no more events start this year, where could you join an unofficial club by running a New Year's double and the next day?

00:25:08Unidentified speaker: Everywhere. Everywhere that does it. I mean, is that what you mean by the question?

00:25:13Melissa Ellis: What club would you join?

00:25:16Unidentified speaker: Oh, the club? Where could you join a club?

00:25:19Scott Trickett: Lyndell knows. Okay, so. What's your question again? Lyndell, come and join my team.

00:25:24Unidentified speaker: No, my team. Lyndell knows. She'll listen to my answer. You may.

00:25:31Melissa Erbacher: She's got a proxy. I think you could be a Northern Territory Territorian by doing two parkruns on New Year's Day and then the next day is a Saturday, parkrun day.

00:25:44Unidentified speaker: Yes. Yes. There we go.

00:25:48Melissa Erbacher: Simon Mackley logic makes logical sense to Lyndell. Okay.

00:25:54Melissa Ellis: This is multiple choice. How many registered parkrunners are there with the surname Mount? A, 57. B, 65. C, 99. Or D, 102. 99? No.

00:26:13Melissa Erbacher: Well then the next was? B. 65? No. O.

00:26:20Unidentified speaker: 102.

00:26:21Melissa Erbacher: Correct. So how many questions have we got left? We've got two left. Two left. Point check.

00:26:29Tony O'Connell: Score check. Scotty's on five. Janet's on three and a half. Schultz is on three. And Brendan's on three and a half.

00:26:39Melissa Erbacher: So it's anyone's game at this stage. We won't add any bonus points because it's nice and close.

00:26:47Melissa Ellis: Another multiple choice. How many registered parkrunners are there with the surname Barker? A, 1,420. B, 2,220. C, 3,230. D, 33,000.

00:26:55[13 seconds of audio that could not be transcribed]

00:27:08Melissa Ellis: C. Correct. So this is it. It's all down to this one. And it's a multiple choice. How many females with the surname Barker are in the Mount Barker fastest 500 list?

00:27:26Unidentified speaker: A.

00:27:26Melissa Ellis: Zero. Zero.

00:27:30Unidentified speaker: Zero. Zero.

00:27:33Unidentified speaker: No. Janet's a little bit excited over there.

00:27:38Unidentified speaker: B, one.

00:27:38Unidentified speaker: C, two. Or D, five. Short C. C. No.

00:27:52Unidentified speaker: What was C? I rang my bell. Wait. What was C? I'm going to say two. C. What did I say? I forgot what I was going to say. It's all your fault. Two. Is that two as in two females?

00:28:05Melissa Ellis: Yeah. No.

00:28:06Unidentified speaker: Wasn't that the answer?

00:28:08Melissa Ellis: I mean the question. How many females of the surname Barker are in the Mount Barker fastest 500?

00:28:15Scott Trickett: I researched this because I knew it was coming up. So it's definitely five.

00:28:20Melissa Erbacher: No, it's two. No. Okay, you know this is multiple choice, Mike. There are four choices.

00:28:27Unidentified speaker: I'm so confident with my answer. The one that's left.

00:28:31Melissa Ellis: The answer is B, one.

00:28:37Unidentified speaker: There you go.

00:28:38Melissa Ellis: And it's Cass Barker.

00:28:40Unidentified speaker: Well done, Cass.

00:28:42Melissa Erbacher: Okay, TOC, you're going to have to give us a score because this has all been a bit of a schmozzle.

00:28:47Tony O'Connell: Rightio, at the... Tail end of the field wearing our apricot or our orange for our Tail Walker is Brendan and Janet on three and a half points each. Second place, we have Schulze on four and our leader and outright champion is Scotty on five.

00:29:16Unidentified speaker: I think this is a redemption for when we went head-to-head.

00:29:30Melissa Erbacher: Finally, it's all come back.

00:29:31Scott Trickett: It's finally all come back, so thank you. I'm honoured.

00:29:34Melissa Erbacher: Try not to break it when you go home. At least you're not on a plane. Oh, well, thank you, Melissa Ellis.

00:29:43Unidentified speaker: Thank you.

00:29:46Melissa Erbacher: All right, guys, I'm going to keep Melissa Ellis up here for a little while since she did such a good job as the quiz master. And she didn't actually parkrun here this morning. So true adventurer that she is, she skipped over to, where did you go? Cleland. Cleland. You went to Cleland today. Yes. Are you going to come back on Sunday and do it again? Yes. Okay, tell us about that. How was your morning?

00:30:15Melissa Ellis: Firstly, can I tell you about my 24 hours? Please do. Because there's probably three statements that have come out of my mouth that were that were really stupid okay this one was we can drive overnight the second one was I can sleep in the car and the third one was Cleland, it's along a Ridge line it won't be that hilly and so that's this man over here he's not feeling too good at the moment Hasn't slept. Nor is he very impressed with me. But Cleland was beautiful. Awesome. But very hilly. But very hilly. Yes. A small field. Okay.

00:31:00Melissa Erbacher: And you'll be back again on Sunday? You loved it so much.

00:31:02Melissa Ellis: Yeah, yeah, because that's when I can take all the photos and walk.

00:31:06Melissa Erbacher: And Zoe can partake. She didn't partake this morning.

00:31:09Unidentified speaker: Oh, okay, cool.

00:31:11Melissa Erbacher: Did you get any more challenge progress by going there this morning? No, I couldn't find an Adelaide parkrun with a Wilson Index I needed.

00:31:20Melissa Ellis: Not a single Adelaide parkrun? Well, not within reach or halfway between Adelaide and here.

00:31:25Melissa Erbacher: yeah nice watch bingo no I'm still missing one yeah I'll see I am obviously pk didn't get the money that I sent through because I was two seconds off again happens every time every time okay cool well while I've got you up here Melissa I might get your help oh actually I forgot we've got prizes I'm going to give everybody a prize. There are three DVDs and three books. So these are all very parkrun, Adventurers podcast related prizes. Now I'll get all our participants who were in the quiz to come back up and I will present them to you. And I'm going to choose who gets what as well. You don't get to choose. So everybody goes home with the prize today. Everyone's a winner. Everyone is a winner. All right, I'll explain as we're going as well. Brendan, you get to take home Happy Gilmore, the DVD, and the Ultimate Book of Dad Jokes, which we purchased that for Scotty when he was going through a phase of trying to be funny.

00:32:37Unidentified speaker: No, no, Scotty, you won the pineapple.

00:32:41Melissa Erbacher: You didn't win the pineapple. Well, I'm sorry, the pineapple is the ultimate prize. These are the consolation prizes. Okay, and then we have got, I'm going to give The Landy Era, which is the book Scotty went through a phase, some of you will remember in the very first year. Let's read a book and we'll do a book review. And he was reading The Landy Era at that time and so I went online and I hunted it down and it took three weeks to be posted to me. I never read it because he never finished it and we were never gonna talk about it. Apparently it's a really good book. So The Landy Era and Grease, that goes to you, Schultzy. Yep. Grease because also Scotty loves musicals. So that's why we had that. And then finally, we have got, we did want the very first year we had Palm, we asked Turia Pitt if she would come and be our guest, our special guest. And she never got back to me. However, I had met her at a book signing and she very kindly signed this copy of Unmasked for me with... to parkrun adventurers, anything is possible, Turia Pitt so that one and anchorman because we all know how special our channel 5 news crew are and their inspiration came from this dvd that goes to you Janet and my husband will be very happy that stuff is no longer in my house it's only been there for about three years so thank you for participating guys

Roving reports & the Channel 5 News crew

00:34:27Melissa Erbacher: We have some other little bits of things to present, and I would like to call up, please, PK and Greta, our South Aussie Channel 5 News crew. Now, last year at the Beaches, we had the largest contingent of the Channel 5 News crew that we've ever had. We've got a bigger one here this year because we had all of last year's plus two extras. But these guys unfortunately missed out on being presented with their official press passes. which we have for them today. So, in recognition of all the hard work that you guys do.

00:35:04Paul Kitching: That's fantastic, thank you.

00:35:05Melissa Erbacher: You're very welcome.

00:35:07Paul Kitching: I love it. I love it. Wow. That's awesome. Forever.

00:35:11Melissa Erbacher: Thank you. And I'm sure Melissa can, you know, welcome you officially as an existing Press Pass holder.

00:35:18Paul Kitching: I feel very important just here.

00:35:20Melissa Erbacher: get me into the tennis didn't get you into the tennis oh yeah I can pretend I'm reporting something yeah that's it exactly yeah yeah yeah you're backstage like on wayne's world yeah it's crew there's a crew pass backstage yes yeah triple a I love it now um can I have the rest of the channel 5 news crew who are here to come up please as well we've got lindell we've got TOC we've got Dave Where's Dave?

00:35:45Paul Kitching: He's over at the back there. Who have I missed?

00:35:47Melissa Erbacher: Have I got everybody? Everybody's here. I haven't missed anyone. One, two, three, four, five, six. Okay, yeah, so last year when Scotty was in charge of recording the audio, we actually asked all our Channel 5 News crew a little bit about themselves and I might walk up and down the line with the How much better amplified it is when you talk into the microphone? There you go. This is something that nobody, apart from the people that were actually present last year, got to hear because we didn't record it very well. But we did go around and we asked everybody a little bit about joining the news crew and things, so I thought we would revisit that again today and record it this time. So, Dave, your first cab off the rank. You're looking very dapper in your jacket.

Interview Dave — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter

00:36:36Unidentified speaker: I've got to keep warm.

00:36:37Melissa Erbacher: Yes, you're probably the only person who is warm today. Now, Dave, tell me, what first inspired you to join the Channel 5 News crew?

00:36:45Unidentified speaker: I think you asked. I must have been visiting somewhere and you said, could I do a recording? And I had a go at it.

00:36:54Melissa Erbacher: Do you remember where your first one was?

00:36:57Unidentified speaker: I wouldn't have the foggiest idea. No, sorry. It's a long, long time ago. It feels like a long time ago.

00:37:02Melissa Erbacher: Do you remember where your last one was?

Interview Lyndell Murray — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter; co-host

00:37:04Unidentified speaker: To be honest, no.

00:37:05Melissa Erbacher: Okay, all right. I'm not going to continue to ask you the difficult questions. We'll move on to Lyndell. Lyndell, I think you'll remember where your first roving report was. Pretty sure my first one was Nambour parkrun. This isn't a quiz.

00:37:19Unidentified speaker: Like, I don't know the answer.

00:37:21Melissa Erbacher: I'm pretty sure it was. If you say it with confidence, then we'll believe you. Yeah, okay. I'm pretty sure my first one was Nambour parkrun. I picked the hardest course going around to do the hardest task. going round of recording a roving report. And how have you found being part of the Channel 5 News crew? It's been a few years now. Yeah, look, it's really fun, actually. When I first started doing the roving reports, I was doing a lot of touring and being a bit disorganised, I used to just make my mind up on Friday night where I was going to go the next day. So I'd turn up at random parkruns by myself. And being a roving reporter, it was just a good excuse to talk to people. So without being too random. So it was fantastic. Heaps of fun. Everybody loves a little bit of random anyway. I think so. And has anybody ever said no to you when you asked if you'd speak to them on the pod? A couple of people, but they're far and away the minority. Most people say yes. Some people come up to me and say, hey, are you Lyndell? Will you interview me? Yeah. I know. It's like, oh, how do you know? How do you know who I am? So that's a bit surprising. But, yeah, it's a lot of fun.

Interview Grette Wilkinson — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter, South Australia; palm20 co-organiser

00:38:31Melissa Erbacher: Excellent. All right. Well, we'll move on to Greta now then. So, Greta, thank you very much for having us here in South Australia.

00:38:39Grette Wilkinson: We were so excited when we heard you were coming. Well, we had to get you guys at a palm eventually, so we figured we'd bring the palm to you.

00:38:46Melissa Erbacher: Bring the mountain to us, right? Exactly. And you provide Mount Barker for us. Exactly. So everybody wins.

00:38:54Grette Wilkinson: Do you know who my inspiration was?

00:38:56Melissa Erbacher: Tell me.

00:38:57Grette Wilkinson: This man right over here in pink.

00:39:02Unidentified speaker: How so?

00:39:02Grette Wilkinson: I think the first time I was on the pod, PK interviewed me in the cafe that we'd just had breakfast in. Yeah. And I think I sat there like this.

00:39:13Melissa Erbacher: freaking out I was so nervous but he made me feel so comfortable and then he inspired me to try it myself so thanks pk and and okay so this is a little bit of a different environment to find yourself in it's it's different when you're one-on-one with somebody and you're asking the questions and controlling it how how is this

00:39:33Grette Wilkinson: This is very nerve-wracking. There's all these eyes looking at me. But it is great to see everyone here. So thanks, everyone, for coming.

00:39:41Melissa Erbacher: So where are you next travelling to that you think you might get a roving report in at?

00:39:45Grette Wilkinson: Well, my next goal is actually to get out over to Yeldulknie Weir.

00:39:50Melissa Erbacher: That's the one that's on the other side of the peninsula? In Cleve, yes.

00:39:53Grette Wilkinson: Yeah, a bit of a travel, bit of a travel to that one. So I've been there before. I got to fly to it for one of the trials. Very, very lucky. But we've got to go and do it officially. So stay tuned.

Interview Melissa Ellis — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter; co-host

00:40:04Melissa Erbacher: Awesome. Oh, well, good luck with that. We look forward to hearing all about it. Thanks, Mel. Now, Melissa Ellis. So you mentioned you had a long trip? We did. In the car. Thank you, Paul, for doing the driving and bringing her. Thank you. So you did well to get your family all the way here. You have been doing some awesome work in the Army Reserves lately, and it was nice to hear in the quiz that even Kangaroo Island featured, which was a nice touch from Simon. I'll have to thank you for that later. How has it been missing out on parkrun? You haven't been able to make it very frequently, but... And, of course, then your whole Channel 5 News crew status has been... Look, you were serving the people, so we're not going to say you're going to lose your status.

00:40:51Melissa Ellis: I co-hosted from Puckapunyal. You did co-host from Puckapunyal. I missed four. I wasn't counting, but I missed four. And it was kind of hard. So that first one that I was plucked from the family and... taken away and having to miss that parkrun that was a bit uh a bit hard on the mental health um but I did a roving report I went out and I ran at eight o'clock I made sure they they wouldn't give me leave they wouldn't let me go out of a one a half an hour zone that I that I had where I could travel um sadly uh two nearest parkruns were 40 minutes away that hurt couldn't get there so anyway I've got a course at Puckapunyal though so um

00:41:33Melissa Erbacher: So that's one that we should keep an eye out for in the future.

00:41:36Unidentified speaker: Yeah.

00:41:36Melissa Erbacher: There might be a Puckapunyal parkrun.

00:41:38Melissa Ellis: There could be.

00:41:39Melissa Erbacher: Say that ten times fast.

00:41:41Melissa Ellis: Yeah, no, but there's some beautiful tracks up at Pucka, and I did enjoy running them when I got the opportunity, so...

00:41:48Melissa Erbacher: yeah well we we missed you even though you did manage to uh yes co-host while you were there and you still got some audio sent in from other days and things like that I look I'm the last person to judge I missed four parkruns this year so far and I don't have anywhere near the excuse you had so thank you for your service we really appreciate it on behalf of everyone and thank you very much to one of my fellow channel five uh

00:42:15Melissa Ellis: reporters who helped me get to Kerang Regional, took pity on me and allowed me to jump on board with one of his travels. So thanks, Tony and Jacqui.

Interview Paul Kitching — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter, South Australia

00:42:25Melissa Erbacher: It's a crew that works together. That's what we like to see. All right, we'll move over to PK, the man who needs no introduction.

00:42:32Paul Kitching: Thank you very much. G'day, g'day. How are you?

00:42:35Melissa Erbacher: Good.

00:42:35Paul Kitching: Thank you so much for coming up here.

00:42:37Melissa Erbacher: Thank you very much for having us this morning, PK. So what has been the highlight of the day for you so far?

00:42:43Paul Kitching: Your tights. For those playing at home, Mel does have pineapple tights on. Just imagine them and, yeah, they're pretty special. I may steal them from you. No, no, it's okay. You can wash them.

00:42:57Melissa Erbacher: Oh, okay. So you'll let me change first, you know, because I'm not going to be dragged from my car. Correct, correct.

00:43:03Paul Kitching: That's okay.

00:43:04Melissa Erbacher: That's good, that's good.

00:43:06Paul Kitching: They're great. I love them, I love them. Now, thank you so much and it's awesome. I know you've said shout-outs to lots of people, but it's brilliant to have so many people and so many people in the audience here today as well. Locals as well, thank you to a lot of our regulars who have hung around this morning. So it's been a beautiful morning out here at Mount Barker and thank you to the weather gods for shining on us, literally.

00:43:26Melissa Erbacher: The parkrun weather fairies.

00:43:27Paul Kitching: That's it, exactly. And to TOC for helping with all the gear and to David Jocks as well for all the audio gear. So well done to all your legends.

00:43:36Melissa Erbacher: So many people to thank. I do have a big list. Oh, sorry.

00:43:39Unidentified speaker: No, no, no.

00:43:39Melissa Erbacher: It's all good. I will thank some people later. Where is your next adventure planned to, PK?

00:43:47Paul Kitching: Actually, it's going to be Goolwa parkrun, which I have done before but haven't done. I think I did the first one with Scotty, I think. The Medibank Private launch. Was it the Goolwa launch and then Medibank Private were there giving out merch. That was a bit of fun. We did, and we filmed it, that's right. We did a report for parkrun, I think even Facebook Live maybe for, anyway, for parkrun, which was a bit of fun. So I'm hoping to go down there. It's changed a bit, I believe. There's a new cafe down there. We've got some holiday coming up down that way, down Clayton Bay. So I figured, yeah, I'll get along there. That's coming up in April. It's a bit harder to get out and about and it's so awesome that there are so many other reporters because when I first started, I think there was only me and one other maybe.

00:44:26Melissa Erbacher: It was a small crew.

00:44:27Paul Kitching: Yeah. So I kind of like felt it's awesome. That's why I love how many we do now have in our team and very proud to be wearing this awesome badge. But no, it's great and it's just awesome to have so many people involved I do have a prop, though, that I want to share with you one moment for business at home. I just went to the shop and bought some because I thought you might like to try. What is this?

00:44:49Melissa Erbacher: A pasty.

00:44:50Paul Kitching: No, no. I'm eating it. It's a pasty. It's amazing. Thank you. This is a pasty. Who thinks this is a pasty? Who thinks it's a pasty?

00:45:02Melissa Erbacher: The English think it's a pasty. I think it's a... Pasty? A pasty. Where's team pasty? No. Oh, there we go. I've got two lovely young ladies over in the back. Rigged. Not rigged at all. I'll give them their money later.

00:45:19Paul Kitching: Well, cheers. I just thought I had to have a prop of some degree.

00:45:21Melissa Erbacher: Is it a Cornish pasty?

00:45:23Paul Kitching: No. Oh, maybe it is. It's got the little things there. It is vegetarian. And I am actually eating it as a year, I thought. Why not?

00:45:29Melissa Erbacher: You could have got one for me. I skipped breakfast to set up the audio equipment. Damn it. You'll all be hearing my tummy rumble very shortly.

00:45:36Paul Kitching: Good times.

00:45:36Melissa Erbacher: Thank you very much for sharing your pasty with us.

00:45:39Paul Kitching: My pleasure. Thank you.

Interview Tony O'Connell — Channel 5 News Crew roving reporter; co-host

00:45:42Melissa Erbacher: TOC. Good morning, Mel. We've come to the end of the line, but last and certainly by no means least. Thank you for coming to another Palm.

00:45:51Tony O'Connell: It's definitely my pleasure. Third one up and all of them have been exceptional.

00:45:55Melissa Erbacher: Excellent. Now, I hear you had a little bit of a hiccup with your travel arrangements and I should say big thank you to everyone who's come from far, far, far. Thank you to the near people too. But the people who've come from far have spent a lot of time in airports and getting luggage wet and all sorts of things like that. So I think there'll be phone calls to Qantas next week, perhaps.

00:46:18Tony O'Connell: Oh, look, it was probably just, you know, part of their service. You know, they washed our clothes on the way over for us. I haven't been indebted to them for that. It was really good. They were clean to start with, but... Yeah, no, look, minor inconvenience on the way over. And with the weather we've got today and this great audience here and so many friends to catch up with again, so many friends that we haven't seen probably since last Palm, it's just really great to catch up with everyone. And if something like that happens on the way, it's part of the experience, part of the adventure.

00:46:47Melissa Erbacher: That's what we like to hear. What has been the highlight of being a member of the Channel 5 News crew for you, Toc?

00:46:55Tony O'Connell: There's been a lot of highlights. I really love getting out and just going up and meeting random people at parkruns and introducing them myself and saying I'm with the Channel 5 News crew and I help with this little podcast. And some people look at you blank and I've had some people so excited. At one parkrun we did at Portland in Victoria, we had a couple of people that just really wanted to get on the podcast because they listened to it all the time and they were really excited. And I thought it was really random. You go to some places, no one knows what you're on about, and everyone takes the details down because it's new and exciting, a new podcast about parkrun.

00:47:33Unidentified speaker: I'm not so new, but yeah. Wow.

00:47:37Tony O'Connell: But that reminds me, Mel, just before we go on, I'd like to call another special guest up if I can, and you don't know about this one, so this is random.

Interview Em — Child parkrunner from Shellharbour parkrun (NSW); "the original special guest from year…

00:47:46Tony O'Connell: All right. Em, come on down.

00:47:50Unidentified speaker: Come on down.

00:47:51Tony O'Connell: This is the original special guest from year one. Em is awesome. Em's from Shellharbour. And I just love Em. So Em, what do we got?

00:48:00Unidentified speaker: It's for you from all of us. Oh, thank you, honey. It's pineapple chocolate.

00:48:07Tony O'Connell: Well done Em, that's awesome. And how's Shellharbour Em?

00:48:10Em: Oh, it's been a little bit windy this week. I've heard from Dad that Shellharbour's parkrun needs to be a little bit more, need a little bit more people coming. So I think we need a bit more cracking.

00:48:25Tony O'Connell: Alright mate, well thank you very much for bringing that chocolate up. Yes, thank you Em. Much appreciated. Probably Mel, just reflecting back, you're asking first interviews and I can remember my first interview that I actually did and it was with Brendan. And I can remember grabbing Brendan and dragging him off into a kid's playground inside a pub at Churchill. Not weird at all. Four or five years ago, we went off and did a little interview. So yeah, I can remember that one quite clearly because like a couple of the others have said, I was a little bit nervous about doing an interview and yeah, no, it went really well.

00:49:03Melissa Erbacher: Okay, so several of you have mentioned being nervous doing the interviews and just challenging yourselves and getting out there and doing it.

00:49:12Tony O'Connell: what advice would you give to somebody who's considering doing a roving report because you don't have to be a regular on the channel 5 news crew to do it you can just do it anyway randomly look I just say to people give it a go we're hearing quite a few people sending in reports at the moment and it's really great to get that diversity of different people but it's not that scary and if you go up to one or two people it's not a large group So it's not too bad way of introducing yourself into people. And when you go to a new parkrun, it's a way of meeting people. You talk to them at the parkrun, do a quick roving report, then you end up sitting next to them at coffee later and you've got something to talk about. So yeah, just have a go at it. It's not that scary. It's actually a lot of fun.

00:49:52Melissa Erbacher: We love having you on the news crew. Thank you everybody for coming today. And... We've got people from Queensland, people from Victoria, formerly known as the greater state, but not anymore because this is a Queensland-based podcast. And I can say it because Scotty hasn't got a microphone.

00:50:10Tony O'Connell: And I'd say currently known as the greater state because I do have a microphone.

Sign-off

00:50:16Melissa Erbacher: Thank you very much for that, TOC. All right, guys, please give them a round of applause. Woo! All right, guys, well, that pretty much wraps up the podcast portion of the palm20 weekend. I do just want to say thank you, and I've written down the names so that I don't forget people. So I would like to thank the whole organising crew, and that is Chris Fraser, Paul Kitching, Grette Wilkinson and Paul Butler. who've done an amazing job. These guys are the ones who have found the locations for dinner all weekend. They have scheduled all the freedom runs and this morning's podcast, all that sort of thing. They've arranged for AV equipment to be here so you can hear what we were talking about. They've done a brilliant job and they've taken over very kindly from the awesome Gary Murphy who unfortunately couldn't make it this year. Hopefully he's back next year as well and it'll be another awesome event. Who else do I have to thank? For the quiz, yes, I mentioned Simon Mackley. Thank you very much for writing all those fabulous questions for the quiz and very big thanks to Melissa Ellis for delivering them to the team. Thank you to TOC for scoring so that we didn't have to try to keep a running count on the numbers, although I'm pretty sure you skewed it in Scotty's favour. I reckon there's a lot of money changing hands this weekend for all sorts of favours on the podcast. But anyway, thank you to Paul Butler. I got noticed that he changed his name back from Paul Barker to Paul Butler by the end of the podcast, so I thought I would update, you were getting used to it okay it was great having you on as a surprise guest thank you especially for being willing since I didn't even tell you that was going to happen and who else Who else, who else, who else? Oh yes, obviously I would like to thank all the Channel 5 News crew who have joined me as co-hosts for the last six months. As we mentioned a little bit earlier, it has been a roller coaster and they've all been amazing stepping in because let's face it, when it's just me talking, it does get a bit boring. And it's much nicer to hear other voices and other perspectives and other stories from all around the place. And finally, last but not least, I would like to thank Tracy and Jackie for holding on to Emmett and keeping him from crying throughout the whole podcast. Normally we record very late at night while he's asleep and down the other end of the house because he, yeah, I just have to walk into a room and he bursts into tears, I have that effect. And they've done a wonderful job and I really appreciate not having to worry about him while this has all been happening. So I forgot that we didn't actually introduce the podcast right at the very beginning so Ladies and gentlemen, welcome and thank you very much for being here for episode 196 of the parkrun adventurers podcast. And now this is the awkward part where I just stop all the recording things and you guys watch me awkwardly. So I'm going to press stop.

00:50:18[applause]

00:54:11Unidentified speaker: Thank you.