Betoota Talks

Clancy Overell and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the midst of the religious freedom bill debate, and just hours before Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame took to stage at the National Press Club, the Betoota Advocate’s editors interview our town's local member David Littleproud MP. As he's known in the Maranoa Electorate, “The Thrilla From Chinchilla” explains to Clancy and Errol just how the ‘Coalition’ between the Nationals and Liberals works. Littleproud also details his personal plans for the future of the Nats, and what on earth they are going to do about China’s trade tariffs crippling just about every export industry in Western Queensland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the first DECODE interview profile, The Betoota Advocate’s editors are joined by former NSW Premier and current Federal Labor Senator, Kristina Keneally. Discussing her American upbringing, her path into politics, her criticisms of the current system - and the criticisms that she faces herself.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we launch our new podcast series aimed at explaining the 2022 Federal Election campaign, and politics in general. In this episode Clancy, Errol and Wendell run through the recent stories and issues that have shaped the run into this upcoming election - and introduce our new show. With multiple new episodes each week, Decode will seek to explain our convoluted political system and provide an alternative style of coverage to this election. The new feed will feature weekly wrap ups, interviews and explanations of how all the important cogs in our politician work (The Labor Party, The Liberal Party, Lobbying, The Culture Wars etc). So give it a listen and subscribe to the new feed here: https://omny.fm/shows/decodeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From playing league in Brisbane’s Browns Plains to directing Zac Efron in the Flinders Ranges, Aussie actor/writer/director/producer Anthony Hayes talks to The Betoota Advocate about the long slog from playing racist murderers and drunken yobbos on TV to directing and starring in one of the biggest Australian films of 2022. His new survival thriller ‘GOLD’ is premiering on Stan this January 26. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He joined us for US election run down, and he's back to talk Scotty vs Albo. The federal campaign is well and truly underway and Channel 9’s Charles Croucher helps Clancy and Wendell break down the candidates to watch, the seats to watch - and the messages that both parties are running on.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Betoota Advocate interviews NSW Opposition leader, Chris Minns. Talking about ICAC, toll roads and lock-out laws. What is it that Labor can offer the people of NSW that they aren’t already getting from the revolving door of corruption inquiries?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the editors are joined by Australia’s most treasured singer-writer Paul Kelly. An entire podcast with PK - talking about music, family and Christmas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You might know her from Succession, you might know her as the co-host of counter-cultural US podcast Red Scare. This week, the editors talk to Dasha Nekrasova, the Belarusian-American actress, filmmaker, writer, podcaster, playboy, philanthropist. Dasha discusses her directorial debut movie, The Scary of Sixty-First, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey Epstein.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s interview could have gone for hours, as the editors talk to one of Australia’s great writer’s about his transition into the world of printmaking. From semi-biographic thrillers to block printing. From angry young man to nuanced creator. He’s been described as “the bad boy of Queanbeyan Noir” - The town’s first ever triple-threat writer/poet/artist, Omar Musa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Part 2 of this interview, Spanian discusses the very harsh transition from Boys Homes into the adult prison system. From petty crime into organized crime, and from 13 years behind bars into publishing a best selling memoir. What was happening in the streets as Sydney made the clunky pivot into innercity gentrification? And what does life look like now for the kids who were raised in Woolloomoolloo and Redfern during the wild old days?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Betoota Advocate talks to one of Australia’s most unrefined and uncensored inner-city storytellers: Spanian. Between the 2000 Olympics and the NSW property boom, this week’s guest has a story that was never covered in Domain. In Part 1 of the long-awaited interview with Spanian, the editors dig into some of the most shocking stories that feature in Spanian’s new memoirs: The Unfiltered Hood Life. Car theft, break and enters, drug dealing and the jail time that follows. The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian (with Christopher Kevin Au) Hachette Australia, 1 December, $34.99See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve heard them on the radio, now hear them on our podcast. Matt Okine and Alex Dyson join The Advocate’s editors to talk about a range of topical issues. We recorded this episode a few weeks about and had a few time-sensitive podcast comes around so at long last, here it is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the eve of Australian boxing’s biggest showdown since well before the pandemic, promoter Georgie Rose jumps on the podcast to talk about the sport’s return to glory. It’s a glow up that has been led by both the Tszyu and Rose families. Timmy Tszyu takes on Takeshi Inoue this Wednesday at Qudos Arena in Sydney - and it’s only one of three epic fights that the Rose boys are putting on in November.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Throughout the pandemic, home life became more like a job than ever before. With kids at home, and grandparents locked away - many young families had A LOT going on. This week’s guest has become Australia’s face of early parenthood throughout all of this. Mummy blogger, columnist and podcaster Amy Gerard joins the The Betoota Advocate to tell us about her year, her career, and her warts and all storytelling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever wondered what an NFT is? We’ll wonder no more as Artist Scott Marsh and man of the internet Adam Decata tell us what they are and how they’re pretty much the future of everything. If you want to make some crisp folding ones in the next year or so, sounds like you should know what an NFT is.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the show, tyrant of popular culture HG Nelson drops in to talk about his new book “The Fairytale: A Real And Imagined History Of Australian Sport” as well as a number of other topics such as the Brisbane Olympics, an Australian Republic and was Breaker Morant guilty or innocent?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of Australia’s most treasured authors, Andy Griffith joins the podcast to talk about his storied career. Starting off as a punk rock vocalist in Melbourne, before becoming a school teacher in the bush - and then pivoting into the nation’s first punk rock figure in children’s literature.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Toowoomba author and journalist Lech Blaine returns to The Betoota Advocate podcast this week. This starts out as a chat about Lech’s new memoir “Car Crash” - and ends up being a yarn about how Scott Morrison secretly hates rugby league and has never been pissed. Last time he joined us we were speaking about footy and happy clapping, this time we are talking about the Australian media’s perverted interpretation of the “Larrikin”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Streaming in from London, it’s one of Western Australia’s most valued exports behind iron ore and disgraced politicians. Nick Allbrook, frontman or Pond talks to the editors about being stuck overseas in a pandemic while trying to your a long awaited and critically acclaimed new album.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ross is a licensed private enquiry agent and investigations editor for Independent Australia. He's also putting together the Federal ICAC Now (FIN) Party to place senate candidates in the next federal election. With more and more questionable acts and policy coming out of Canberra, a Federal ICAC is needed more now than ever. https://www.federalicacnow.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave Gleeson from the Screaming Jets talks about the amazing career he’s had as one of the original pioneers of Newy rock. On the eve of their 30 year anniversary of their 1991 album ‘ALL FOR ONE’ - Gleeso fills the editors in on his life and times since they hit the charts. It sounds like it’s been a lot of fun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part 2 of this interview, the editors ask Brendan Cowell about living in London as a hedonistic Aussie thespian. Where was he when his beloved Cronulla Sharks won the 2016 Premiership? How did he celebrate? And how did his life change after getting a start on Game Of Thrones as the Ironborn sea captain, Harrag. Brendan imparts a lot of wisdom on these simply country folk from Betoota - his strongest words of advice, don't catch COVID-19 while living in a rat-infested underground basement apartment in Notting Hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He’s an actor, director, screenwriter, author and degenerate Cronulla Sharks fan. Brendan Cowell joins the editors for a ripping lockdown yarn about the dizzy heights of Australian TV dramas, and the low lows of hard living. He’s now a Hollywood star, with a new book out about middle aged men and the importance of mateship in the suburban pubs of Australia. Part 2 next week. Pre Order Plum by Brendan Cowell now - https://linktr.ee/BrendanCowellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Betoota Advocate is joined by Queensland’s Leader Of The Opposition this week. From North Queensland to the Goldie, David Crisafulli has come a long way from his days as a journalist in Townsville. As the newly appointed leader of the LNP, the member for Broadwater has a big job ahead of him after the Labor landslide. Crisafulli talks to Clancy and Errol about his plan to win back Queensland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Paralympic gold-medal-magnet, Kurt Fearnley joins the podcast to talk about the exciting few weeks to come in Tokyo. From his early beginning in the tiny central west NSW town of Carcoar, to his current roles as TV host and heavyweight disability advocate/lobbyist. Kurt talks about who we should be looking out for in this crop of Paralympians, and gives us the run down on his new show with the SBSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode discusses the shocking footage coming out of Kabul this week. The editors are joined by Harry Sanna, a videographer and freelance journalist who has worked extensively in Afghanistan and South Asia over the last two decades. Clancy and Errol ask Harry what his experiences were like in the “graveyard of empires” - as a rogue journo following American soldiers and paramedics on the job.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.