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Clancy Overell and Errol Parker, editors of the explicitly raw but iconic Outback Australian newspaper known as The Betoota Advocate report fiercely - without fear or favour.

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INTERVIEW: Shane Richardson

From Cunnamulla to Tigertown, esteemed NRL administrator Shane Richardson has travelled around the world resuscitating struggling rugby league clubs. A man with a head for both club politics and commerce, he was only at Penrith for 2 years when he brought them a Premiership. At the Rabbitohs it took a little longer - but the glory was addictive. Now, as Interim CEO for Wests Tigers - Richo faces the task of rebuilding an embattled club from the ground up. Or from the top down. Betoota on Instagr...

Dec 24, 2023•46 min•Season 6Ep. 96

WEEKLY BULLETIN: “Holy Shit. This Has Gotta Stop” Says Albo After Reading Folder Titled ‘Gaza’ That Sat On Desk For 60 Days, Crowd At Foo Fighters Break World Record For Most Pockets In One Place, “Put On Sunscreen? What Am I? A Leftie?” & White Collar Man Who’s Nearly 30 Face Difficult Choice Of Getting Into Bouldering Or Buying A Drone

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

Dec 15, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 95

INTERVIEW: Reese Bros

This week on the podcast we sit down with a couple of loveable young up and comers from the brave new world of TikTok. The new TikTok Comedy Creators of The Year, the Reese Brothers stop by to talk to us about the journey from flipping couches on the coast to flipping vids for millions and millions views. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 10, 2023•32 min•Season 6Ep. 94

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Government Bans Vapes Again For The 4th Time, Nation’s Aging Emos Now In Their Picnic Blanket Concert Era, Caravaner Prepares To Drive Slightly Above Speed Limit & Spending Ten Years Trying To Ban Greyhounds And Nightclubs Doesn’t Actually Help Anyone’s Commute

Clancy Overell, Wendell Hussey and Effie Bateman wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 08, 2023•7 min•Season 6Ep. 93

INTERVIEW: Gideon Haigh

With a blockbuster summer of cricket ahead, one of the most well respected voices in the game joins the Betoota Advocate Podcast. Taking a breath after a whirlwind of Australian victories, Gideon Haigh jumps on the show to discuss why it's the summer of the Big Bash, franchising teams, the Indian cricketing establishment, and of course, what happened to his much loved podcast... Buy Gideon's Book HERE Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for ...

Dec 03, 2023•49 min•Season 6Ep. 92

WEEKLY BULLETIN: White Collar Bloke’s Spotify Wrapped, Peak of Aus Cinema, 5’5 Mate Off to Work in Santa’s Factory & Foreign Tradie Mocked for Completing Job Quickly

Dec 01, 2023•8 min•Season 6Ep. 91

INTERVIEW: Jet, 20 years since Get Born was released

Mark Wilson, the bassist from the iconic Australian rock band Jet speaks to The Betoota Advocate about the warp speed success they saw the moment their debut album was released in 2003. The iconic ‘iPod’ advertisement, The Rolling Stones tour and the Japanese fans. Mark is very generous explaining just how weird and fun it all was. Twenty years later and they have just been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, and are ready to hit the road again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Nov 26, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 90

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Cost Of Living Tips, Fired Up Dogs, Hoarding Grandparents & Making Money Off Going Woke

This week on the Betoota Advocate's weekly news bulletin, Effie, Errol and Wendell discuss some handy ways to save money in these tough economic times, the new minimalism trend sweeping the country, angry little dogs and making money off going woke. Have a listen. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 24, 2023•12 min•Season 6Ep. 89

INTERVIEW: The Top 10 Sydney Movies Of All Time with Alexei Toliopoulos (Live SXSW Sydney)

It says it all in the title! Live on stage at the Sydney SXSW Festival, Effie and Clancy are joined by the cinematic rainman Alexei Toliopoulos, who knows every film ever made. He also knows every director, every set designer, every actor in every movie and the actors who were supposed to play their roles. He brings his own list of the best films ever set in the city hosting the podcast. If you liked hearing Alexei go full cinemaniac - he’s got a brand new podcast Sunburnt screens coming out Nov...

Nov 19, 2023•47 min•Season 6Ep. 87

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Controversial Bill Enters Tasmanian Parliament To Finally Legalise Marriage Between Mainlanders And Locals, Which Bank Can Make A Quarterly Profit Of $2.5 Billion During An Economic Crisis? CommBank Can & Country Lad Living In Inner City Share House Keeps Getting Told Off For Leaving Front Door Unlocked

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. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 17, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 86

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Optus Compensates Users with "Valuable" Magic Beans Amid National Outage Chaos, Dumb and Dumber 3: "Death to Hamas" Debuts to Lukewarm Reviews, Bank Passes On Interest Rate Hikes, Somehow Rakes in $7 Billion Profit & Owner of Puppy-Farmed Border Collie in 1-Bedroom City Apartment Says Nup To The Cup

Clancy Overall, Effie Bateman and Wendall Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 12, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 84

INTERVIEW: Rohit Bhargava The FuTuRisT (Live from SXSW Sydney)

Live again from the inaugural South by Southwest Sydney festival of tech and culture, The Betoota Advocate talks to the type of unconventional expert that you can only hear speak at events like this. Author, futurist, social commentator and diehard Olympics enthusiast, Rohit Bhargava talks about the near future. What can we expect from technological developments? Are these technological developments in safe hands? And of course…. Artificial Intelligence See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Nov 12, 2023•22 min•Season 6Ep. 85

INTERVIEW: Miss Double Bay (Live From SXSW Sydney)

The first of a series of live interviews The Betoota Advocate recorded on stage at the inaugural South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Sydney. Betoota’s reporters Clancy Overell and Effie Bateman give the crowd a brief run down of their media careers thus far, before introducing to the stage the Queen of New Media (influencing)… she goes by the name of Miss Double Bay. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 05, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 83

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Poor Woman Who Innocently Asked Bloke About His Tool Shirt Given Thirty Minute Lecture On Polyrhythms, Heavily Lawyered Up NRL Superstars Finally Able To Prove Their Innocence In The Face Of Lying Senior Cops, Kim Kardashian Releases Range Of Male Undies That Makes You Look Like You Have A Stiffy & Trick-Or-Treaters Terrify Local Boomers By Dressing Up As Respectful Indigenous Leaders With A Generous Proposal For A Non-Binding Voice To Parliament

Clancy Overall and Wendall Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 03, 2023•7 min•Season 6Ep. 82

INTERVIEW: Chris and Ben from Silverchair

Australia’s last superstar rock band joins The Betoota Advocate to discuss their lightspeed journey from the car port in Newcastle to sold out stadiums around the world. These musical maestros share some of the great yarns of this ride, and explain why they felt inclined to publish their new memoir ‘Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and outside Silverchair’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Oct 29, 2023•32 min•Season 6Ep. 81

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Australia Launches Injunction To Stop European Winemakers From Using Passion Pop Name Unless It’s From Passion Pop Region Of The Cenny Coast, Nation Patiently Waits For Documentary About The World’s Actual Greatest Pop Culture Power Couple, USA Getting That Familiar Urge To Leave Another Country With Average Age Of 15 And No Libraries & Chubby Baby Sits Up In Pram To Survey Her World Like A Gluttonous Ancient Warlord

Effie Bateman and Wendall Hussey wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Oct 27, 2023•8 min•Season 6Ep. 80

INTERVIEW: ONEFOUR (Spenny, Celly, and filmmaker Gabriel Gasparinatos)

Western Sydney drill rap group ONEFOUR (Spenny & Celly) jump on the Betoota Advocate Podcast with Clancy - three days out from the global Netflix release of a new documentary centered around their meteoric rise. Joined by Gabriel Gasparinatos, the filmmaker behind this classic Australian doco, group members Spenny and Celly open up about their journey from prison, to police censorship, to stadium performances - and the many sliding door moments that made this story possible. ‘ONEFOUR: Agains...

Oct 22, 2023•33 min•Season 6Ep. 78

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Jacinta Price Figures That Optus Must Be Down After Not Receiving One Phone Call From Coalition Colleagues Since Campaign Ended, Local Man Smiles At Teenagers Drinking In Park As He Realises He Will Never Have As Much Fun As Them Again, Engineer Mate Slightly Odd & Waiter Doesn’t Know How Much Trouble He’s In After Rich Old Duck’s Skim Decaf Cap Isn’t Hotter Than The Surface Of The Sun Like She Asked For

Effie Bateman wraps up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 20, 2023•6 min•Season 6Ep. 79

INTERVIEW: Vichara Edirisinghe from Astral People

In this week’s podcast, the Betoota Advocate interviews one of those rare Australians that are committed to hosting parties for a living. Joining the editors is Vichara Edirisinghe, a promoter and events guru who cut his teeth in the depraved nightclubs of post-Olympics Sydney. Vichara tells the story of forming his artist management and touring company Astral People in a pizza restaurant in 2011. He explains to The Betoota Advocate exactly what is holding Australia’s nightlife back, and how the...

Oct 15, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 77

WEEKLY BULLETIN: New Netflix Doco Tells Story Of A 48-Year-Old Englishman Unable To Convey Emotion With His Face, Melbourne Man In Sydney Gets Lost Again Because Life Is Difficult When It’s Not Presented To You In A Perfectly Symmetrical Grid System & Local Midwife Has Baby Advice That Contradicts Everything The Other Midwife Said On Previous Shift

Effie Bateman and Clancy Overall wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Oct 13, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 76

INTERVIEW: NRL journo Andrew Webster discusses the power and pathology of Wayne Bennett

SMH sports editor Andrew Webster joins to podcast to explain the complexity and hypocrisies of every Queenslander's adopted grandfather. A week after the thrilling NRL Grand Final and the Betoota Advocate is still dwelling on the soap opera of rugby league. However, to take our minds off last weekend's Greek tragedy of Queensland sporting collapses - we've decided to discuss one of the most succesful footy exports to ever come out of our proud state. Super-Coach and the master of man management,...

Oct 08, 2023•42 min•Season 6Ep. 75

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Mecca Cosmetics Release Tutorial For How To Perfect Those Smokey Reece Walsh Eyes, Marketing Manager Reclines With Glass Of Scotch After Several Hours Discussing What Font To Use In Brochure, Local Young Couple Decide To Try The Rental Market On Hard Mode By Getting A Dog & Local Woman Not Sure She Can Be Into F1 Boys Anymore After Finding Out Most Of Them Are Under Six Foot

Oct 06, 2023•7 min•Season 6Ep. 74

INTERVIEW: Kick Gurry

After moving heaven and earth, Kick Gurry finally joins The Betoota Advocate podcast to discuss his career in Australian film. From the skippy heart throb in Looking for Alibrandi to the Aussie comedy writer/director/star. Good yarn this one See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 01, 2023•29 min•Season 6Ep. 73

WEEKLY BULLETIN: What Is Bogancore?, Dan Andrews Resigns To Spend More Time With Family, Bill Gates And The Chinese Government, Brisbane Lions Fan Bonds With Broncos Fan About How The Rest Of Australia Can Suck Their Dicks & Narcos Season 4 To Be Set In A Suburban Australian Tobacconist

Sep 29, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 72

INTERVIEW: Koori Knockout Special with Dean Widders

It’s that special time of the year again, on the same weekend as the NRL grand final, NITV will be broadcasting the iconic Koori Knockout Rugby League tournament. Former Rabbitohs and Parramatta legend Dean Widders joins The Betoota Advocate Podcast to give everyone a run down for what’s in store for 2023! It’s a modern day corroboree, starring some of the biggest names in Australian sport. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 24, 2023•43 min•Season 6Ep. 71

Bureau of Meteorology Says Property Developers Are About To Learn Why They’ve Been Warning Them Against Building These Fucking Windless Black And Grey Hell Scapes On The Low-Lying Outskirts OfWEEKLY BULLETIN: Major Cities Without So Much As A Fucking Tree To Sit Under, Referendum Providing Best Material For A Social Media Cull Since Vax Rollout & Local Bloke Utterly Obsessed With Roman Empire Because He Too Would Like To Be Destroyed By Goths

Effie Bateman and Clancy Overall wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Get an Exclusive NordVPN deal here: https://nordvpn.com/betoota . It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 22, 2023•8 min•Season 6Ep. 70

INTERVIEW: Thomas Mayo (Indigenous Voice) Part 2

Part 2 of The Betoota Advocate’s interview with Darwin wharfie and Indigenous activist, Thomas Mayo. This episode discusses his upbringing, his work in the maritime union and the conspiracies currently being peddled about him and his family in the lead up to the Indigenous Voice referendum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 17, 2023•23 min•Season 6Ep. 69

WEEKLY BULLETIN: HR Manager Agrees That Sucks But Have You Considered Shutting The Fuck Up And Pretending You’re OK, Nation Shocked The Same Old Men Who Thought Gays Should Stay The Fuck Away From Marriage Also Think Indigenous People Should Stay The Fuck Away From Parliament & 65-Year-Old GP Takes Off Stethoscope After A Long Hard Day Of Fat-Shaming And Telling Depressed People To Buy Some Runners And Wake Up To Themselves

Sep 15, 2023•8 min•Season 6Ep. 68

INTERVIEW: Thomas Mayo (Indigenous Voice) Part 1

Part one of the betoota advocates interview with MUA officer and Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo. From waterfront disputes on the wharfs to campaigning for the referendum across Australia. Mayo explains to The Betoota Advocate the DETAILS of both the Voice To Parliament and the Uluru Statement. A must listen for those who want to know more about the national vote. Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 10, 2023•23 min•Season 6Ep. 67

WEEKLY BULLETIN: Cost-Of-Living-Crisis Sees Local Girl Return To The Broke Woman’s Mecca, Local Woman Realises Mates Grew Up In Significantly Different Socio Economic Bracket, New ‘Feed A Family Of Four For $10’ Ad To Include A $2 Bag Of Rice, $3 Tomatoes And A Map Of Ibis Hotspots

Errol Parker, Effie Bateman and Clancy Overall wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota. Get an Exclusive NordVPN deal here: https://nordvpn.com/betoota . It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee Betoota on Instagram Betoota on TikTok Produced by DM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 08, 2023•7 min•Season 6Ep. 66

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