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The Jeff Cavanaugh ShowBryan Broaddus tells us about the Dallas Cowboys predraft 30 visitsIn today's episode of Trust the Tape, former Cowboys scout Bryan Broaddus has about half of the names of Dallas' 30 predraft visitor list. What do these names tells us about Jerry Jones and companies draft plans, and where they're likely to target which positions? Wide Receivers - Tetairoa McMillen, Luther Burden, Emeka Egbuka Running Backs - Omarion Hampton, Bhayshul Tuten, Quinshon Judkins, TreVeyon Henderson Offensive Line - Kelvin Banks Jr, Jonah Savaiinaea Defensive Line - Walter Nolen, Alfred Collins, Shemar Stewart Secondary - Andrew Mukuba, Shavon Revel
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That Amazon Ads PodcastAmazon PPC Debate: Harvested Keyword Negation#thatamazonadspodcast #amazonppc #amazonads
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Meet Carly McMillen
04:00 Does PPC help with Organic Ranking?
06:30 The "Customer Happiness" Index
9:35 Why SEO Doesn't Always Work
13:37 How PPC can sometimes HELP your organic rank
20:52 How PPC can sometimes HURT your organic rank
22:45 Using Deals to boost organic rank
28:17 Testing and Re-testing your keyword ranking strategies
34:19 Does Amazon like you?
37:55 Ranking strategies with Helium 10
40:00 Final Thoughts and Conclusion
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2024-05-0842 min
BylinesEpisode #4: Andrew McMillen “Magazine writing is a weird job.”Andrew McMillen is the national music writer for The Australian newspaper and the author of Talking Smack: Honest Conversations about Drugs.
Andrew has been a particular inspiration for me over the last few years. I met him while attending Christmas drinks for The Australian’s Brisbane bureau in 2021, back when I worked as an intern on another podcast, Shandee’s Story. I remember being very, very nervous that night meeting some of my journalistic heroes, which include Andrew. His podcast from 2017, Penmanship, about Australian writing culture, featured several interviews with journalists which I found part...
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Big Grub's Storytime32. First Book of Diggers and Dumpers'First Book of Diggers and Dumpers' by Isabel Thomas.
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Deep Focus2023.06.12 Vijay Iyer on McCoy Tyner - 2 of 3Yes, I am starting to see the pattern! Vijay Iyer has joined Mitch Goldman for Deep Focus programs on Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, and Geri Allen. This Monday the lens turns to McCoy Tyner. Do you see what I see?
You will this Monday night from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.
Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: McCoy Tyner - Keystone Korner 1981 - Photo by Brian McMillen - This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution...
2023-06-2957 min
Big Grub's Storytime30. The Fire Truck (Hey Jack!)'The Fire Truck' from the Hey Jack! series of books by Sally Rippin, and illustrated by Stephanie Spartels.
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Big Grub's Storytime29. Adventures With Grandpa! (Paw Patrol)'Adventures with Grandpa!', from the Paw Patrol series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime28. Back On Track! (Paw Patrol)'Back On Track!', from the Paw Patrol series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime27. We Love Friendship Day! (Paw Patrol)'We Love Friendship Day!', from the Paw Patrol series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime26. Far-Out Friends! (Rusty Rivets)'Far-Out Friends!', from the Rusty Rivets series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime25. Grandude's Green Submarine'Grandude's Green Submarine' by Paul McCartney, and illustrated by Kathryn Durst.
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Big Grub's Storytime24. Nee Naw The Little Fire Engine'Nee Naw The Little Fire Engine' by by Deano Yipadee, and illustrated by Paul Beavis.
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Big Grub's Storytime23. Tiger The Police Dog (Doggy Defenders)'Tiger The Police Dog', from the Doggy Defenders series of books by National Geographic Kids.
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Big Grub's Storytime22. Kick With My Left Foot'Kick With My Left Foot' by Paul Seden, and illustrated by Karen Briggs.
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Big Grub's Storytime21. You Can't Call an Elephant in an Emergency'You Can't Call an Elephant in an Emergency' by Patricia Cleveland-Peck, and illustrated by David Tazzyman.
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Big Grub's Storytime20. When I Grow Up'When I Grow Up' by Tim Minchin, and illustrated by Steve Antony.
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Big Grub's Storytime19. Fire Truck Santa'Fire Truck Santa' by Nic McPickle, and illustrated by Nathaniel Eckstrom.
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Big Grub's Storytime18. 10 Reasons To Love A Whale'10 Reasons To Love A Whale' by Catherine Barr, and illustrated by Hanako Clulow.
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Big Grub's Storytime17. Daddy's Embarrassing Exploding Farty Shorts'Daddy's Embarrassing Exploding Farty Shorts' by Ed and Arnold Kavalee, and illustrated by Jack Laurence.
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Big Grub's Storytime16. How A Fire Engine Works'How A Fire Engine Works' by Lara Bryan, from the 'Usborne Peep Inside' series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime12. A Super First Day (Super Wings)'A Super First Day' by Steve Foxe, from the Super Wings series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime11. Fire Trucks (Mighty Machines)'Fire Trucks' by Mary Lindeen, from the Mighty Machines series of books.
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Big Grub's Storytime10. Mighty, Mighty Construction Site'Mighty, Mighty Construction Site' by Sherri Duskey Rinker, and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld.
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Big Grub's Storytime2. The 12 Diggers of Christmas'The 12 Diggers of Christmas' by Christie Hainsby, and illustrated by Stuart Lynch.
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Big Grub's Storytime1. Emergency! Emergency!'Emergency! Emergency! Vehicles To The Rescue' by Rhian Williams, and illustrated by Tom Jellett.
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Big Grub's Storytime7. Let's Build A House'Let's Build A House' by Mike Lucas, and illustrated by Daron Parton.
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Big Grub's Storytime5. The Worry Tiger'The Worry Tiger' by Alexandra Page, and illustrated by Stef Murphy.
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The Gentlemen's BrotherhoodBeing a Man in an Age of Chaos with Angel MillarWhat does it mean to be a man in an age of chaos? In this episode of The Gentlemen's Brotherhood, we our joined by Angel Millar, the Author of The Path of the Warrior-Mystic: Being a Man in an Age of Chaos. Angel is a consulting hypnotist and personal growth mentor (with more than two decades of experience in meditation and related mindfulness training techniques, over a decade of experience in the martial arts, and several years as a public speaker on self-development, symbolism, and spirituality). Equipment used: Did you like the quality of our video, here are some...
2022-03-2952 min
The Gentlemen's BrotherhoodTurning Tragedy into Opportunity with Marcus EngelImagine permanently losing your vision in an instant and having to rely on the compassion of the health care workers who have your recovery in charge. Wouldn't you want those health care workers to be empathetic to your pain? In this episode of The Gentlemen's Brotherhood, we hear the inspiring story of Marcus Engel, a man who instead of becoming bitter against the lack of compassion he found in the doctors that were caring for him, he embarked on a mission to spread empathy and compassion through the health care system. Equipment used: Did you like the quality of our v...
2022-03-0934 minThe Gentlemen's BrotherhoodLessons from the Forge from Forged in Fire Champion Alex RuizTransformation often requires hard work and sacrifice. Like the forging of a blade from the raw material of the cold steel to the blazing edge that emerges from the fire. Life is Forged in Fire. On this episode of The Gentlemen’s Brotherhood, we are joined by Alex Ruiz, one of the celebrated bladesmiths featured on the TV show Forged In Fire. Alex earned the title of Champion on Season 5 of the show. Listen to our insightful conversation that reveals some interesting behind the scenes looks as well as some lessons we can forge out of the fire. ...
2021-10-1449 minThe Gentlemen's BrotherhoodAre You Happy?What would your answer be if a complete stranger approached you in public and asked you “Are you happy?” On this episode of The Gentlemen’s Brotherhood, we uncover what the typical answers are when complete strangers are asked this very question. In this episode, I’m joined by Atdhe, a talented filmmaker who is creating a documentary where his team of volunteers scour the streets of the world to answer this simple, yet profound question “Are you happy?”. Equipment used: Did you like the quality of our video or audio, here are some of the tools an...
2021-09-2541 min
Ghoulish100. The Death of Max Booth III (A Host)In the 100th episode of GHOULISH, Max Booth III is murdered with a poisoned egg—potentially by a previous guest of the podcast. Andrew Hilbert takes over hosting duties and investigates the crime by analyzing over 30 eulogies sent in following the news of Max's death. Did one of these psychotic sons of bitches kill him? Listen and find out. Featuring Jon Lovitz, Kelby Losack, Cynthia Pelayo, Todd Keisling, Miguel Villa, Zach Chapman, Josh Malerman, Jessica Leonard, Lucas Mangum, Joshua Chaplinsky, Jessica McHugh, Sarah Read, Stephen Graham Jones, Betty Rocksteady, W. P. Johnson, Alan Baxter, B.R. Yeager, Jo...
2021-07-042h 30The Gentlemen's BrotherhoodBuilding Lasting HabitsWe are all in the same boat, there are things we do that we know we can do better and often we know exactly what to do. But why is it so darn difficult to stick to a good habit and why are bad habits so insidious? On this episode of TGB, we will discuss the biology of habit formation and how we can use that knowledge to establish better habits in our life and remove those that don’t serve us well. Today's Episode Sponsor: Brothers & Bonds https://www.brothersandbonds.com/ On...
2021-05-0821 min
OverClocked PodCast79 - MAGFest 2018Direct Download: https://ia601503.us.archive.org/2/items/OCPC79/OCPC%2079.mp3This is the OverClocked PodCast, a regular dose of video game music and conversation from OC ReMix.org!This week we gather ‘round with our segment contributors for batch of Secret Songs, journey to the depths of MAGFest for some on-the-scene interviews, and start the new year with 17 songs from 2017 in Playlist form!Next Week's Playlist: My First VGMReMix ReWindThe Journey Never Ends - Super Mario Bros. 3 (JohnStacy, Juan Medrano)Beautiful Rise - NieR:Automata (Ro...
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PenmanshipEpisode 42: Katharine Murphy (live)Katharine Murphy is political editor of Guardian Australia. Having spent more than two decades as a member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, Katharine has earned a reputation as one of the nation's sharpest political analysts. While based in Canberra, she has worked as a reporter for The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Age, and more recently, she has been a part of Guardian Australia's team since the website launched in 2013. In addition to her daily reporting and editorial duties, Katharine also writes occasional longform essays for the Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin. In late...
2017-10-181h 08PenmanshipEpisode 41: Nick FeikNick Feik is the editor of The Monthly. Since its inception in 2005, The Monthly has been one of the few Australian publications to strongly invest in longform journalism. Each month, the magazine publishes a handful of essays from some of Australia's best writers and critics, which regularly run in excess of 5,000 words apiece. Because of this dedication to funding and promoting serious journalism that concerns the nation's culture and politics, The Monthly has built a large and devoted base of subscribers and readers. Nick Feik has been in the editor's chair since April 2014, after joining the magazine's publi...
2017-09-201h 08PenmanshipEpisode 40: Gideon HaighGideon Haigh is an author and freelance journalist. Since he began as a cadet journalist at The Age in 1984, fresh out of high school, Gideon's main subject areas in journalism have been in sport and business. For most of his career, Gideon has worked as a freelancer, and his writing has been published in more than one hundred newspapers and magazines around the world. As an author, he has written 32 books to date, with at least two more underway. The breadth and depth of his body of work is simply astounding, and I've been an admirer of hi...
2017-08-161h 50PenmanshipEpisode 39: Sarah ElksSarah Elks is Queensland political reporter at The Australian. During her decade of writing for the national newspaper, Sarah has reported on many of the biggest news stories that have taken place in Queensland. It takes tenacity and passion to be a daily news reporter, and Sarah clearly has an abundance of both of these qualities. After extensively covering the fall-out from the closure of the Queensland Nickel refinery in late 2015, Sarah was named Journalist of the Year at the Queensland Clarion Awards for her stories that uncovered Clive Palmer's use of the alias 'Terry Smith' to...
2017-07-181h 31PenmanshipEpisode 38: Marcus TeagueMarcus Teague is an editor, freelance writer, songwriter and musician. His contribution to Australian music journalism during the last decade has been significant. After co-founding a magazine and website devoted to independent music named Mess+Noise, Marcus went on to work as music editor at The Vine for six years from 2008. Under his editorial guidance, this pop culture-centric website became one of the most popular and respected outlets for music writing in the country. It also provided a regular home for thoughtful, longform journalism and criticism for many freelance writers, myself included. Writing for Marcus at The Vin...
2017-06-141h 49PenmanshipEpisode 37: Richard GuilliattRichard Guilliatt is an author and staff writer at The Weekend Australian Magazine. When it comes to the art of writing magazine feature stories, Richard is among Australia's masters of the form. He has been writing magazine-length articles for more than two decades, and has won a couple of Walkley Awards along the way. His subject matter and profiles are diverse, which he admits is part of the job description when writing for a general interest publication like The Weekend Australian Magazine, where he has been a staff writer since 2006. He has also written two books about vastl...
2017-05-171h 38PenmanshipEpisode 36: John ClarkeJohn Clarke was a freelance writer, performer and author. John died suddenly on Sunday, 9 April 2017, aged 68. I had spoken to him a few days beforehand, and we had made plans to record a conversation for this podcast while I was visiting Melbourne that weekend. Since that cannot happen, I am bringing you a special episode based on a day that I spent with John in November 2014, when I was reporting a story for The Weekend Australian Review about the creative process behind Clarke & Dawe, the weekly political satire program that John wrote and performed alongside longtime collaborator...
2017-04-191h 48PenmanshipEpisode 35: Amelia LesterAmelia Lester is the editor of Good Weekend. For the first episode of 2017, I could think of few more qualified guests than Amelia Lester. Penmanship is all about exploring the gritty details of how to build a life around working with words, and Amelia has done just that at the very highest level of magazine publishing. After graduating from Harvard University, she worked at a literary agency for a year and then achieved her dream of working at The New Yorker, which has long been regarded as one of the leading homes for longform journalism in the Engli...
2017-03-151h 26PenmanshipEpisode 34: Andrew StaffordAndrew Stafford is an author and freelance journalist. In 2004, UQP published his landmark book, Pig City: From The Saints To Savage Garden, which covered three decades of Queensland's musical and political history. Three years later, the book was followed by an event of the same name, staged by Queensland Music Festival and featuring a headline performance by the original line-up of Brisbane punk rock band The Saints, who had not played together in almost 30 years. Sometimes authors live to see their book made into a film; it is much rarer that a book is made into a music...
2016-10-192h 01PenmanshipEpisode 33: Holly ThrosbyHolly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and author. As an accomplished singer and songwriter, Holly has been performing since 2004, and has released five albums. In 2010, she joined forces with her friends Sarah Blasko and Sally Seltmann to form the indie pop group Seeker Lover Keeper, which released one album the following year. In 2016, she became an author: her first novel was published in September by Allen & Unwin. It's named Goodwood, and it's about what happens to a small town in New South Wales when two prominent members of the community go missing within a week of each oth...
2016-10-051h 08PenmanshipEpisode 32: Liam PieperLiam Pieper is an author and freelance journalist. Since the publication of his first book in 2014, a memoir named The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, he has quickly followed it up with two more. Last year, he published a collection of short essays called Mistakes Were Made, which I reviewed for The Weekend Australian, where I described his writing as "electric: charged with meaning and energised by surprising comedic turns". With his third book, Liam has proved that he's supremely talented at writing fiction, too. Named The Toymaker, his debut novel is based on an ambitions, multi-layered narrative tha...
2016-09-071h 21PenmanshipEpisode 31: Richard FidlerRichard Fidler is an author and host of Conversations. Since 2005, he has hosted a national radio program that sees him interviewing a wide range of guests, for around an hour at a time. Named Conversations, Richard likes to think of it as a form of guided storytelling, and over the years he has spoken with everyone from prime ministers to average Australians who have a remarkable story to tell. The host records four of these conversations every week, and the results are never less than fascinating: to my ears, he is among the top interviewers in the countr...
2016-08-241h 03PenmanshipEpisode 30: Kate HennessyKate Hennessy is a freelance writer and editor. I first read Kate's work in about 2009, when we were both contributors to the Australian music website Mess+Noise, where she was a critic and feature writer whose work I admired greatly from afar, since she was based in Sydney. It wasn't until 2016 that we met for the first time, at the Rock & Roll Writers Festival in Brisbane, where we were both guest speakers. In the intervening years since I first saw her byline, Kate has worked as a music and arts critic for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guar...
2016-08-101h 28PenmanshipEpisode 29: Erik JensenErik Jensen is an author and founding editor of The Saturday Paper. At the age of 15, he fronted up to the office of a Sydney street press and became a music critic and journalist, then received a job offer from The Sydney Morning Herald after finishing high school. Since then, he has written a biography of Australian artist Adam Cullen and became the founding editor of The Saturday Paper, a Schwartz Media publication which recently celebrated its second birthday. Now 27, Erik has seen the business of journalism change from up close, and the weekly newspaper he edits has be...
2016-07-271h 20PenmanshipEpisode 28: Tim Levinson (Urthboy)Tim Levinson is a songwriter and musician. Within the Australian hip-hop scene, he's better known by his stage name, Urthboy, under which he performs as a solo artist and as a member of the eight-piece band The Herd. I've watched and listened to his music closely for more than a decade, and I've interviewed Tim several times, including for my book Talking Smack. When he visited Brisbane on a Saturday in early June while touring for his latest album, The Past Beats Inside Me Like A Second Heartbeat, I met at his hotel room during the afternoon, w...
2016-07-131h 35PenmanshipEpisode 27: Cory TaylorCory Taylor is an author and screenwriter. In May 2016, she published a book named Dying: A Memoir. As the title suggests, it will her last public writing, for Cory is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Structured around three essays, Cory writes of how her body has failed her since the initial diagnosis in 2005, just before her 50th birthday. While her once full life has since contracted to just two rooms – her bedroom and her living room, where she spends most of her days now – her mind remains sharp and active, and in the book she describes the arc of h...
2016-06-2949 minPenmanshipEpisode 26: Sarah FergusonSarah Ferguson is a journalist and author. Last year, ABC television screened her three-part documentary series The Killing Season, which examined the forces that shaped the Australian Labor Party during the recent years in which Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard led the party, and the nation. Based on Sarah's lengthy and insightful interviews with key political players, and filmed with the drama and style of the Netflix series House Of Cards, it was pitch-perfect television that resonated strongly across the country, attracting around a million viewers each episode. The series further established Sarah's reputation as one of Austra...
2016-06-1532 minPenmanshipEpisode 25: Luke WilliamsLuke Williams is an author and freelance journalist. I first became aware of his writing when The Saturday Paper published his feature story, 'Life As A Crystal Meth Addict', in August 2014. In that story, he wrote about his decision to investigate the issue of crystal methamphetamine abuse by moving into a sharehouse with a couple of addicts, but it wasn't long before the writer became addicted to the drug, too. It was an eye-opening article for which he later became a finalist in the feature writing category at the Walkley Awards that same year. I emailed Luke after I re...
2016-06-011h 24PenmanshipEpisode 24: Benjamin LawBenjamin Law is an author, freelance journalist, columnist and screenwriter. Since I first ventured into full-time freelance journalism in 2009, he's been someone that I've greatly admired, not only for his ability to write well across a range of publications and styles, but also for the simple fact that he's a generous and enthusiastic supporter of other writers. I first met him in early 2010, when I emailed him to introduce myself and ask for a meeting, and from that point, he has remained as a firm friend and mentor. I interviewed him for The Courier-Mail that same year, for...
2016-05-181h 16PenmanshipEpisode 23: Anne SummersAnne Summers is an author, journalist,
editor, publisher and columnist.
The fact that I need to use five adjectives to accurately
describe her role in Australian writing culture speaks volumes
about Anne's impact, influence and ability. To my knowledge,
she is the first guest of Penmanship to appear
on an Australian postage stamp, as part of a series
celebrating Australian legends
in 2011. Her career began with the publication of an
ambitious and controversial book named Damned
Whores and God's Police in 1975. Anne has written eight
books so far, but it's the updated 2016 edition of that first title
which bri...
2016-05-041h 10PenmanshipEpisode 22: Bernard ZuelBernard Zuel is senior music writer
at The Sydney Morning
Herald.
He was visiting Brisbane in early April as a guest speaker at
the inaugural Rock
and Roll Writers Festival, so after a day of inspiring and
enlightening discussions about all things music writing, we went
back to his hotel room in Fortitude Valley to talk more about that
very topic. I've been reading his album reviews and features
in The Sydney Morning Herald for years, so it w as a
treat to pick the brains of one of Australia's most prolific and
enduring writers in this fiel...
2016-04-201h 47PenmanshipEpisode 21: Tony MooreTony Moore is a senior reporter at Brisbane Times.
He was one of the original team recruited to work at Fairfax Media's new online news outlet when it was launched in 2007, and today he remains one of only a couple of reporters who has worked at Brisbane Times since its inception. Before that role, though, Tony has enjoyed a long career as a journalist in Queensland. I first met him about a year ago, when I sent an email to ask whether he'd be open to sharing one of his sources with me for a story I wa...
2016-04-061h 17PenmanshipEpisode 20: Kathleen NoonanKathleen Noonan is a journalist and weekly columnist at The Courier-Mail.
For 13 years, she has written a column in the Saturday Courier-Mail named 'Last Word'. It's a blank canvas where she is tasked with writing one thousand words about whatever has caught her eye or piqued her interest out in the world that week. It seems no topic is too big or too small for this canvas: I've been reading her every Saturday for about six years, and that column is among the most consistently fascinating, moving and insightful pages I'll read all week. Besides being an emin...
2016-03-231h 34PenmanshipEpisode 19: Baz McAlisterBaz McAlister is editor of Qweekend.
When we meet at the News Queensland offices in late February, he is only a couple of months into his new job in charge of The Courier-Mail's weekly colour magazine. I had not met the man prior to this interview, but I had observed his Irish charm and wit from a packed auditorium during the 2015 Clarions, the annual Queensland media awards that Baz co-hosted and wrote the script for. Thanks to his background as a stand-up comic and snappy newspaper headline writer, his clever, media-centric jokes were a clear hit with the c...
2016-03-091h 13PenmanshipEpisode 18: Ed KuepperEd Kuepper is a songwriter and musician.
If you’re a regular listener of Penmanship, you’ll already be familiar with at least one of his many songs, as the podcast’s theme music is ‘Eternally Yours’ by his band Laughing Clowns, which he formed in Sydney in 1979. But if you’re a fan of Australian music, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a few others, too: perhaps the title track to the 1977 album (I’m) Stranded by Brisbane punk rock band The Saints, or a single named ‘The Way I Made You Feel’ from his 1991 solo album Ho...
2016-02-241h 35PenmanshipEpisode 17: Jenny ValentishJenny Valentish is an author, freelance journalist and editor.
In 2014, she published her first novel, Cherry Bomb, a teenage psychodrama set in the music industry. She’s currently working on a book of immersive journalism about addiction to be published in 2017. Before writing books, though, she was better known as an accomplished magazine editor, having moved to Australia from England in the mid 2000s and worked on titles such as Time Out Melbourne and Triple J Magazine. The latter publication is where I first met her, in 2009, when I was a new freelancer and still very much le...
2015-12-161h 21PenmanshipEpisode 16: David AstleDavid Astle is an author, freelance writer and cruciverbalist.
That last word might be unfamiliar to you, so allow me to explain: a cruciverbalist is a person skilled in the art of creating and solving crossword puzzles, which is something that David has been doing for most of his life. Since the mid-1980s, he has been crafting cryptic crosswords for readers of Fairfax newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, but for most of that time, he was known only by his initials. It wasn't until 2010 that 'DA' exposed himself as David Astle, with a boo...
2015-12-091h 14PenmanshipEpisode 15: Tim RogersTim Rogers is a songwriter and musician.
As frontman of Australian rock band You Am I, his writing and performance has been a huge part of my musical education from a young age, when I first heard the band's 1996 album Hourly, Daily blasting through the wall of my older brother's bedroom. Over the years, I have seen You Am I play more often than just about any other band, and I've been consistently impressed, as their professionalism and enthusiasm for the task at hand is peerless. Away from the band he has fronted for more than 25 years, Tim i...
2015-11-251h 21PenmanshipEpisode 14: Fiona StagerFiona Stager is a bookseller and co-owner of two independent bookshops.
Positioned side-by-side on Boundary Street, in Brisbane's inner-city suburb of West End, her shops Avid Reader and Where The Wild Things Are cater to a wide range of readers. The latter store was launched in March 2015 and specialises in titles for children and young adults. Its neighbour, Avid Reader, opened in 1997, and has since established itself at the centre of the city's literary culture by hosting regular book club meetings and author events.
Avid is where I launched my first book, Talking Smack, in Aug...
2015-11-111h 14PenmanshipEpisode 13: Hedley ThomasHedley Thomas is an author and national chief correspondent at The Australian.
He has been a journalist for 30 years, most of the time while based in Queensland: first on the Gold Coast, and later in Brisbane, where he is based while reporting for The Australian. A multiple Walkley Award winner, Hedley has been involved in some of the biggest national stories of this century, including investigations into the wrongful arrest of a suspected terrorist, a natural disaster whose damaging floodwaters could have been avoided, and the behaviour of a negligent surgeon.
In 2007, he published a bo...
2015-10-282h 00PenmanshipEpisode 12: Chris MastersChris Masters is an investigative journalist and author.
His name is practically synonymous with the craft of investigative journalism, as his face was regularly beamed into living rooms across Australia when he worked on the ABC television program Four Corners between 1983 and 2010. One of his programs had a huge effect on my home state of Queensland: in 1987, Chris’s report, The Moonlight State, led to the Fitzgerald Inquiry into corruption, which resulted in the deposition of the premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, as well as the jailing of three former ministers and the state’s police commissioner, Terry Lewis.
2015-10-141h 35PenmanshipEpisode 11: Susan JohnsonSusan Johnson is an author and staff writer at Qweekend.
Susan has recently published her eighth novel, The Landing, which takes its name from a fictional lakeside community north of the Queensland capital of Brisbane, where all of the 200 or so residents intimately know each others’ business. In addition to her prolific fiction work, Susan has published two non-fiction books, including a memoir, and also works as a staff writer at The Courier-Mail’s Saturday magazine, Qweekend. I’m more familiar with her fine work in the magazine, but when we met at the News Queensland offices in mid-S...
2015-09-301h 30PenmanshipEpisode 10: Brent DeBoerBrent DeBoer is a songwriter and musician.
I first met him in unique circumstances in September 2010, when my partner and I won a competition to fly to the United States and interview The Dandy Warhols at their studio in Portland, Oregon. This was a promotional tie-in because the band were booked to play at Parklife Festival that year, so we were accompanied by a cameraman for Australian website Pedestrian.TV, who filmed the encounter and cut a short video about our experience. (The entire interview was later published on TheVine.com.au). I’m a big fan of...
2015-09-161h 06PenmanshipEpisode 9: Steve KilbeySteve Kilbey is a songwriter, musician and author.
Steve is best known as the songwriter and frontman of Australian rock band The Church, a role which he has inhabited for 35 years across the band’s extensive and respected career. In 2014, he became a published author with the release of his memoir, Something Quite Peculiar, which explored his history working as a professional musician, from his first job playing in a popular cover band in Canberra as a teenager, through to more recent years as he approaches 60.
I first met Steve in February 2013, when I interviewed him...
2015-08-261h 04
WalkleyTalks PodcastWalkleys Podcast - Freelance Is Just The Beginning (Freelance Focus 2015)Our Freelance Focus conference in Brisbane saw some of the best writers in Australia and abroad talk about the future of the industry and how to get ahead as a freelancer!
Freelance is just the beginning
Our panel discuss the different paths available for diversification, and how these can help your career take off. Turn your passion into productivity and profit. Learn from other freelancers who’ve diversified, and get the lowdown on lucrative sidelines like professional business writing, ghost writing, and content creation.
Matthew Condon, author & journalist, The Courier-Mail
Andrew McMillen, freelance journalist
Tiana Templeman, freelance journalist and academic
Mo...
2015-08-1355 minPenmanshipEpisode 8: Kate KyriacouKate Kyriacou is an author and chief crime reporter at The Courier-Mail.
By coincidence, I met with Kate at News Queensland’s offices in Bowen Hills on August 3, the day that her first book was published. It’s called The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer, and it’s a true-crime narrative about a case well-known to every Queenslander, and most Australians, I’d wager, given the high-profile nature of the disappearance of 13 year-old Daniel Morcombe in December 2003. Besides writing and publishing The Sting, Kate is chief crime reporter at Queensland newspaper The Courier-Mail, where sh...
2015-08-121h 27PenmanshipEpisode 7: Jon ToogoodJon Toogood is a songwriter and musician.
Jon is the lead singer and guitarist in a band named Shihad. Formed in Wellington, New Zealand, the band are well-known among Australians following the success of their breakthrough album, The General Electric, in 1999. Jon and his bandmates have been based in Melbourne since around that time, and have released a string of great albums. The most recent was FVEY, released in 2014, a hard rock record with a political agenda, which we discuss in some detail in this episode.
I first met Jon Toogood in 2011, when I interviewed...
2015-07-291h 25PenmanshipEpisode 6: Everett TrueEverett True is a freelance music critic and author.
Born in England, True was involved with several key British music magazines throughout the 1990s and 2000s, including NME, Melody Maker and Plan B. He moved to Brisbane in 2008 and immediately made a name for himself by deriding popular bands such as Silverchair, The Vines and Savage Garden as “musical abominations” in a memorable article for The Guardian.
At the time, these comments caused significant waves among the Australian music writing fraternity. As an arrogant, opinionated young writer myself, it took some time for me to see...
2015-07-151h 27
EnpsychedeliaEP1 - Harm Reduction Victoria and Andrew McMillenThis is the first episode of Enpsychedelia on 3CR. Nick, Ash and Greg cover news in the first segment.INTERVIEW #1Jane and Nadia from Harm Reduction Victoria (HRV) join the program to talk about their roles at HRV, how they became involved with harm reduction and their hopes for the future.INTERVIEW #2Andrew McMillen is the author of Talking Smack and joined Enpsychedelia to discuss his book and how it was received across Australia more broadly.Of all the creative industries, the most distinct link between drug use and creativity lies within music. The two elements seem to be intertwined...
2015-07-0500 minPenmanshipEpisode 5: Lizzie LoelLizzie Loel is a restaurant critic at Qweekend and freelance writer.
As a regular reader of Qweekend, I’ve been intrigued by Lizzie’s reviews in the last couple of years she’s been in the role. Her writing is sharp and evocative, but what has interested me most is that her ratings are on a scale of 20, and she rarely awards a score higher than 15. This has created the perception in my mind, and in the minds of others, that she’s a tough marker – a critic who’s hard to please.
We talk about this perc...
2015-07-011h 15PenmanshipEpisode 4: Matthew CondonMatthew Condon is an author and staff writer at Qweekend.
Like John Birmingham, he's a man who can alternate between writing fiction and non-fiction with apparent ease. I first met Matthew in 2010 when I interviewed and profiled him for The Weekend Australian Review, around the release of his excellent book Brisbane, which offered a unique and literary insight into the city where he grew up and later returned to while raising his family. Matthew is an acclaimed fiction writer who was first published in 1988 with The Motorcycle Café, a novel inspired by his experiences working at a pe...
2015-06-171h 08PenmanshipEpisode 3: John BirminghamJohn Birmingham is an author, columnist and freelance journalist.
Since I began venturing into freelance journalism six years ago, John has loomed large in my life. At first, I admired him from afar by devouring his autobiographical books, including his cult classic He Died With A Felafel In His Hand and its sequel, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco. I read his journalism in magazines like The Monthly, his online columns on Brisbane Times, his cannabis travelogue Dopeland and his collection of essays with the memorable title, Off One’s Tits.
All of that writing was rooted in...
2015-06-031h 31PenmanshipEpisode 2: Amy RemeikisAmy Remeikis is Queensland state political editor at Brisbane Times.
Amy’s role sees her covering Queensland’s political machinations from Parliament House during sitting weeks. She’s a journalist with serious skill and dedication to the task of holding Queensland’s politicians to account. As a feature writer, I’m far removed from the demands of daily reporting, so I was thrilled when Amy agreed to speak with me and offer her insights into this aspect of the news media.
Our interview took place in April in Amy’s living room at her home in Bowen Hills...
2015-05-201h 31PenmanshipEpisode 1: Trent DaltonTrent Dalton is a staff writer at The Weekend Australian Magazine.
He’s one of the most influential journalists in my life, and I'm honoured that he's my first guest on Penmanship.
Trent’s writing moves and inspires me with shocking regularity. Judging by the volume of praise-filled letters to the editor published in The Weekend Australian Magazine following each of his stories, I’m not the only one.
Our interview touches on Trent's upbringing in Bracken Ridge, Brisbane; his early interest in magazine journalism; working at an auto-electrical parts supplier for a year a...
2015-05-041h 41
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old13 - Andrew McMillenFreelance journalist Andrew McMillen writes about all sorts of fascinating stuff. While I was in Brisbane I sat down with him to briefly discuss dead bodies and Wikipedia, but we spent most of our time focussed on getting high.
Andrew's book Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs saw him interview big names in Australian music about their relationship with and opinions on illegal drug use. I asked him what he learnt from putting the book together and we talked about the history of drug criminalisation, the relationship between drugs and creativity, the problems with the public debate abo...
2015-04-141h 01
The Chopped Podcast#007: StumbleUpon Marketing for Food Bloggers with Andrew LevineA lot of food bloggers are familiar with StumbleUpon as a great way of helping your blog have a greater reach. That can translate into some serious traffic for bloggers. Check out these tips on StumbleUpon Marketing for Food Bloggers with Andrew Levine.
2015-04-0150 min
Music Business Facts- with Rodney Holder24. Andrew McMillen- Music JournalistAndrew McMillen is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane Australia.
He has had articles and reviews published in publications such as Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, Wired, The Sydney Morning Herald, Triple J Mag and Australian Penthouse (to name a few).
Today he speaks with Rodney Holder from Music Business Facts about how to best engage with the media in order to gain their attention for your music projects.
2014-05-2740 min
WFO Radio NHRA Nitro!09/01/2012 - WFO Radio from the U.S. NationalsWFO Radio from the 58th Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. Join us for our Rain Delay Spectacular with Eddie Krawiec and Andrew Hines, Blake Alexander, TJ Zizzo, and Terry McMillen. Provisional #1 qualifiers Courtney Force, Erica Enders, Spencer Massey, and Andrew Hines stop by after the days action, as well as ESPN Stat Guy Lewis Bloom.
2012-09-011h 35
Roguelike RadioEpisode 11: The Binding of IsaacWelcome to this week's episode of Roguelike Radio. Episode 11 features the Binding of Isaac, a roguelike shooter inspired by in part by the Biblical story of the same name. Talking this week are Ido Yehieli, Oddmund Strømme and Andrew Doull and we are joined by the designer and artist of the Binding of Isaac, Edmund McMillen. This week's episode is a little longer than usual because we both discuss the game and interview Edmund within the single show - there's also some swearing, if you are concerned about that sort of thing.
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2011-11-1100 min