Betoota Talks

Ian Moss joins The Betoota Advocate Podcast this week to discuss his new COVIDsafe touring dates, and his decision to go acoustic in these old halls. Mossie tells the editors about how a little Alice Springs boy found himself in Chisel all those years ago, and how another couple gigs together is never out of the questionSee 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.

After years of festering away in the shadows, the game of Rugby Union seems to have had some new life breathed into it. So, in the hope that we can return to the former glory of Digby's Caterpillar and John Eales poking one through the sticks on the siren, our sports reporters have decided to release a new podcast about the game they play heaven. It's called Ruck Me Dead. It's out every Wednesday. Have a listen to this week's episode and subscribe here: Ruck Me Dead PodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He’s back. The opal tonsils of Hamish Blake joins Clancy and Errol for a rambling 40-minute conversation with a treasure chest full of hilarious tangents. How shit was lockdown in Melbourne? What is life like now post-lockdown? How does he keep fit? What is his favourite type of firearm? How did that LEGO show do so well? All that and more.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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s guest is a very special one for our editors. On the eve of the launch of his new album, The World Today, Troy Cassar-Daley tells Clancy and Errol about his new return to form with songwriting. TCD discusses lending songs to Barnesy and how his upbringing as a Maltese-Koori kid who grew up between Grafton and Surry Hills shaped him into one of Australia’s greatest country musicians of all time. Sit back and listen to one of the great yarn’s with The Bundjalung Falcon.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 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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author, advocate and journalist, Georgie Dent speaks to The Betoota Advocate about the universe we now live in where government employees don’t really have to answer to the allegations of their horrific crimes against women. After publishing her memoir “Breaking Badly” in 2019 Georgie Dent has become a leading voice in the conversation around destigmatizing mental health, as well as gender equality. On Monday she’ll be front and centre at the Women’s March 4 Justice at Parliament House.For more in for not eh Women's March 4 Justice visit hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve heard one of these voices try to analyse cricket, now, hear him try to work out the most imminent problems facing Australia today. Dave Edwards and Dane Eldridge are tackling the biggest issues in Australia on their new podcast Have A Go. Their podcast is out now on DM Podcasts.Listen to the Have A Go Podcast hereSee 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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Sydney copper turned investigative journalist, Duncan McNab joins the editors this week to discuss a range of different yarns he’s chased over the years. From Roger Rogerson to the Bondi Gay Hate Murders - he’s told a lot of stories that a lot of people wanted to ignore. His new book, “The Ruby Princess” tells the behind the scenes story of the bin fire that was Australia’s index cluster of COVID-19 on the high seas.Click here for on the book " The Ruby Princess"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Western Sydney’s greatest rock music export, The Rubens join the Betoota Advocate podcast this week. Sam and Elliot talk about their new album and what it was like to finish making it in lockdown. The lads are zooming in live from a Tamworth hotel room as the 2021 tour begins. Uncertain times!!!To see the tour dates for the current tour visit hereSee 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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What goes on tour stays on tour - unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to work for a who's who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you're the only woman in the road crew and the #metoo movement is still 40 years away.Whether wrangling Iggy Pop across Europe, climbing trusses while seven months pregnant, drinking shots of JD with Bon Scott backstage at Wembley, or donning a tailor-made suit to do lights for Elton at Windsor Castle, Tana did it all.Loud is rock 'n' roll like you've never seen it before, by a woman who not only survived the all-male world on the road but climbed to the top and lived to tell the tale. Tana joins our editors to talk about it all and more.www.tanadouglas.comLoud available now in all good book shopsSee 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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Betoota Advocate editors interview Father Jon from the iconic Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross. A charismatic man known for opening his doors to society’s most troubled and most vulnerable. In a time where a large portion of the Australian middle class are depending on next week’s JobKeeper payments to keep their heads above water - Father Jon represents the last semblance of a safety net for those who have already slipped through the cracks.https://donate.waysidechapel.org.au/valentinesSee 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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maddie Nixon and Jessica Adie from the Australianarama podcast join Clancy on The Betoota Advocate Radio Show this week. These two Queenslanders have just launched the go-to podcast for all Aussie history and pop culture buffs! Each week they take turns to research and dissect a different topic that shaped the nation​. The Harold Holt memorial swimming pool, the cultural impact of Kath & Kim, The Emu War, Cathy Freeman and Expo 88 are just the tip of this hot and sweaty iceberg.Listen and subscribe to Australlianarama here - https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/DMN6216670941See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's an ornament to Australian film and television, and she's told a different story for every era of life. From The Secret Life Of Us to Love My Way - Claudia Karvan has been pivotal as both an actor and producer in some of the biggest hitters. In 2021, she's back with Stan's new series BUMP - and as could be expected, it's rating its arse off and has already been cleared for a second season. Claudia joins Clancy and Errol to talk about her amazing career, growing up in the cross, and the occasional bad theatre production.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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s podcast, the editors are discussing why Australian sports fans are some of the biggest dribblers in the world, and why are professional cricketers always such weirdos? Tom and Eddy from the Hello Sport Podcast are back talking to Clancy and Errol about adults who are paid to take part in an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for the entertainment of people who think they should be out there themselves. Beers soon.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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the show, Nats What I Reckon joins our editors north of the border in our cosmopolitan desert republic for a chat about his meteoric rise. The first YouTuber that The Advocate as interviewed, Nats What I Reckon has released a book of recipes that’ve made him a runaway best-seller. You can find it at any bookseller in the Top 10 section.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 Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey start the new year with wrap up all the biggest stories from the last week of 2020 - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a Christmas Special, The Betoota Advocate editors are once again interviewing one of our first ever guests, Brooke Boney from the Today Show. When Clancy and Errol first spoke to Bones back in 2018 she was still the newsreader for Triple J, since then she’s moved to the screen, cementing herself as the first ever black woman on Breakfast TV. Don’t worry the fame hasn’t gone to her head, she’s still a Muswellbrook girl at heart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week our editors interview a relatively influential Liberal politician who believes in Climate Change. NSW Minister for Energy and Environment, Matt Kean MP. Is he a secret greenie? Do his federal counterparts know his name yet?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's gone solo, but they haven't officially broken up yet. One of Australia's most talented vocalists and rock legends, Hayley Mary, joins The Betoota Advocate Podcast this week.Hayley talks about the differences in running her own show after all of those years on the road with the Jezabels. The editors ask about how the band started and how the solo project started, and what was it like the grow up in Byron before all the linen yuppies.https://www.hayleymary.com/Recorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the eve of Powderfinger’s new release, Bernard Fanning joins the Betoota Advocate Podcast to explain how a band that isn’t together was able to get a new album together. Bernie tells us the story of Queensland’s favourite rock export, how they met, how they toured, and what was the go with that plane?Recorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothYoutube version: https://youtu.be/wq6mzPkCJR0See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell and Errol Parker wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For his third appearance in The Betoota Advocate studios, UFC fighter Tai “Bam Bam” Tuivasa is still defending the title for the most swear words in one single interview [SEVERE LANGUAGE WARNING]. This time he’s joined by his uso, fellow MMA fighter and fashion model Tyson Pedro. These two Mount Druitt icons talk to Clancy and Errol about the UFC Fight Island, training in quarantine, working the corner while injured, and all the other little business tings they have cooking. Tyson and Bam Bam also have their very own DM podcast, known as “The Halfcast Podcast” which they host with Cronulla Sharks legend Andrew Fifita.Listen to the Halfcast Podcast hereRecorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With their first show on Netflix, the Aunty Donna boys come a long way since the community theatre stages of Ballarat. Through the wonders of technology, editors Clancy and Errol are able to break through the steel ring around Melbourne and interview these blokes in the last days of Stage 4Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of fun now streaming on Netflix visit www.auntydonna.com for more infoRecorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He’s the 2018 winner of the Tamworth Toyota Star Maker and he’s now one of the busiest musicians in Australia. Even in COVID, Brad Cox has been able to keep recording songs and playing shows right around this big wide brown land - cementing himself as one of the next big country music exports. The editors talk to Coxy about growing up in Jindabyne, jackarooing in Katherine - and drinking his way through the dive bars of Nashville. This is must listen for the CMC diehards.Recorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Betoota Advocate Radio Show hosted him during the Democrat nominations, and now he's back to share his wisdom in the final hours of the 2020 Presidential Race. The editors are joined by the Male Model From Maitland, Nine's political maestro Charlie Croucher who has just moved back to Australia from the Divided States Of America. Crouch also touches on the weekend's election in Queensland. Are the LNP on the nose? and why are One Nation voters swinging back to Labor up North? There's a big couple days coming up in global politics, so get your dinner party talking points sorted and have a listen to one of the experts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’ve heard of Rocky, you’ve heard of Ivan Drago. The greatest athlete the USSR ever produced. But have you heard of the Finding Drago Podcast? The minds behind the runaway success that is the Finding Drago Podcast joined our editors this week to talk about their latest project, Finding Desperado. A story about someone’s quest to get into the Guinness Book of World Records, at all costs.Finding Desperado & Finding Drago PodcastRecorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.This podcast is brought to you by the new show, Brave New World. Live on Stan now!Go to Stan.com.au for a FREE 30 day trial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This guest needs no introduction. You’ve heard him at parties, at weddings, at funerals, on worksites, in taxis, even in elevators. It’s Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes. The editors were obviously very excited to nab an interview with the Working Class Man, and probe him with questions about growing up in Glasgow and Adelaide, how the ten pound poms from South Australia make such a big mark on pub rock music... and how loose was it on the road with Chisel?Recorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothYoutube Version: https://youtu.be/RMUYdsn9MxwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clancy Overell, Errol Parker and Wendell Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from another week in news - live from the Budgy Smuggler Booth in downtown Betoota.This podcast is brought to you by the new show, Brave New World. Live on Stan now!Go to Stan.com.au for a FREE 30 day trial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the podcast, one of our greatest exports. Matthew Reilly has sold million upon millions of books - and for good reason. His books have brought millions of people into his realm of action, adventure and escapism. Matthew speaks of how he writes and what’s spurs him on everyday. His new book is out today, Two Lost Mountains.Recorded from the Budgy Smuggler BoothYoutube Version: https://youtu.be/0-KfQL8MjEoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.