The siblings, Ben and Claire join me to discuss all things brotherly and sisterly. Before we even get to that Claire takes us through her absolutely gnarly car accident story. Plenty of all over the place chat, East 17, Soup, treasure hunts, dancing and tackling in the lounge room. How many variables are in your house?
(51 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 34.9 mb – 17/05/24)
Katherine Tammaro is mighty. I’ve known Katherine since a diminutive year 7 student marched through the door. In our chat we cover those teenage years, our 2012 school trip to Japan, dance lessons, Victorian era toilets and I guess slightly wrong what ornamental things Katherine has collected.
(54 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 36.1 mb – 10/05/24)
I am joined by two lovely friends, Ludwik and Emily, for a chat about their friendship for the past 11 years. Both were students of mine in 2018-19 and had very different experiences in English. They discuss what values they teach each other, how they make each other do the hard things and not worry so much. The origin story of ‘The Thinius Card’ is explained too.
(45 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 30.9 mb – 3/05/24)
Amber Quigley (Episode 137) was once a student in my English class and is now an Art and English teacher. We talked about their love of ceramics, being a glass sibling, being a man stealer, and the benefit of knowing all the places in the school to hide.
(50 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 35.5 mb – 26/04/24)
It’s the end of term so nothing got done with my brain this week. Stay tuned for more episodes… in another week possibly?
Alyson Hill joins me yet again for a virtual coffee catch up. I had a series of questions prepared and at the end of the interview Alyson wondered if she answered any of them. It doesn’t matter because we have more cartoon accordion spines to talk about, a healthy dose of poopin and stoopin, and some seasonal priorities. We got lost in some weather and ailment chat too.
(52 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 35.9 mb – 5/04/24)
Nick Maniatis and Wiggo are back and we are chock full of metaphors and imagery. Plasticine man, arms and hands, tetris bodies and hats on top of hats. We go over our friendship again and discuss the specificity of our brain talk, singing and supporting each other. Nick tells us about incredible internal building and sentences are uttered that have never been said before. Why is Nick in the boot of the car?
(67 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 44.9 mb – 29/03/24)
Adam Bode joins me for the first time but not for the last time. Adam has done many amazing things, studying gymnastics in Texas (they are skills not moves or tricks), studied a language, danced the night away, is currently studying biological anthropology, and a fascinating psychological phenomenon we all will be familiar with.
Got more questions for Adam – please send them through to chatteringpod@gmail.com
(46 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 34.4 mb – 22/03/24)
Wiggo takes over the hosting job and talks to Nick Maniatis and me about the 17 years we’ve known each other. The intensity of discussion, fandom and interests and my issue with skipping between my two friends. Which sports make us lose it and how we think about what the other person is thinking. Vague scary movie descriptions scared Ben too.
(57 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 39.4 mb – 15/03/24)
My lovely wife joins me again to discuss the 10 nominees for best picture at this years’ Academy Awards. I just really liked all of the 10 films and wanted to talk about them. We go over the films that we absolutely loved and the performer Justine would love even if he smelled really bad. Which of the 10 will win?
Who cares, judging art is pretty silly.
(67 mins – Right click / long press here to download – 49.3 mb – 8/03/24)
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