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In this episode of the Skinny White Boy Kastpod I say a lot about the FCC. For people outside of the US that is the Federal Communications Commission. It feels rather dated now. The idea back in 2005 was that the FCC was going to try and regulate podcasts because we fancied ourselves the death knell to radio... which of course, in hindsight, is a bit of a delusion of grandeur, but hey... It did give us something to rally behind. I am downplaying the significance of podcasting a bit here, which I really shouldn't. Grassroots podcasting grew into something way bigger than the sum of its parts. So this one, I dubbed the FCC episode. It was originally released on August the 9th of 2005. Enjoy!

(IN ENGLISH) This is what it sounds like when I don't do interviews or podcasts and instead just yap in between songs. You can hear me every Sunday from noon (that's local time by the way) on https://997fm.com.au - Just a short clip, but now you know!

HALF DUTCH / HALF ENGLISH - After World War II the Netherlands made it easier for their citizens to move to other countries. This was done to battle the poor economic prospects caused by the occupation of the Nazis. Especially Canada and Australia became popular destinations for Dutch immigrants. A lot of these expats got together and formed clubs. One such club, Neerlandia, celebrates it's 70th anniversary in a few days. I spoke with the current president of the club who came to Australia with his parents in the 1950's when he was 12, but didn't discover the Dutch club until some 15 years ago... Gerry Smolders talks about his memories of the Netherlands, coming to Australia on the first passenger ship to travel the newly established Suez Canal and the 'requirements' to join the Dutch club.

In this long overdue repost of another episode of the award-winning Tulsa Police Street Stories (originally published on May 24th, 2007) officer Jay waxes philosophically, lyrically almost about coming together, as a police squad, as a community, as concerned citizens. He describes a particularly rewarding day in his policing career. More information will follow at the end of this podcast. But now, let's join the officers of the Tulsa Police Department for.... Street Stories. BOOM!

IF YOU SPEAK ENGLISH YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THIS! (well most of it, anyway) Former ballet dancer Iris van Herpen graduated as a fashion designer in 2006 and quickly became one of the world's most sought after creators. This Dutch darling of the international fashion industry delights celebrities and royalty alike. Jenifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and even Dutch Queen Maxima have all worn her dresses... and that's just a tiny grab from the long, long list. A retrospective of her work, that's much more than just an exhibition was six years in the making and after its run in Paris moved to Brisbane... And guess who lives there? Yours truly. a few days before the opening of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, I spoke with the curator of the exhibition, French architect, Cloe Pitiot.

IT'S A KASTPOD-AVERSARY! I am going a bit slow with reposting these old episodes of the Skinny White Boy Kastpod, but I assure you, it's not worth the wait... Did I I say that? I mean it is! This is Episode 10 - A milestone of some proportion. This episode was right after the fictitious band Cruisebox released "On a podcast", so there is a lot of that in this ep. I say fictitious, because of course they were real musos and all, but they never were a band... This was all cooked up in the studio. made up of bandleader (and sax and guitar player) Chris Hicks... Who used to tour with Reba I might add,,, and singer extraordinaire Josh Cruise (Go check out the Groove Merchants or Cruise and McMasters) with some session players thrown in. There is also historical sounds... and more music and a comedian doing (not in that way) George W. Bush This aired, or hit the megabits shall we say, on August 1 in the year of our good Lord 2005 ENJOY!

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH - It wasn't the easiest win of her career, but it was a win nonetheless. Dutch wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot won her, record breaking 21st singles grand slam title this Saturday at the Australian Open in Melbourne. I guess she isn't the world #1 for nothing... I got to talk to her, only hours after her massive win on the Japanese Yui Kamiji. We talked about how come Dutch wheelchair tennis players are so unbelievable strong, why all of them seem to come from the small town of Woerden, and if there is even still a challenge left after all this winning...

IN DUTCH - Sinds 1987 wordt er om het jaar een race georganiseerd om te zien wie er het snelste van Darwin naar Adelaide kan rijden in een voertuig volledig aangedreven door zonne-energie. De teams, dit jaar zijn het er 38, komen uit alle delen van de wereld. Ik sprak met de drie Nederlandse teams uit Delft, Groningen en Twente, die met hun uiterst futuristische voertuigen de 3000 kilometer lange tocht zullen afleggen.

IF YOU SPEAK ENGLISH YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THIS! It used to be "This is Gary's daughter Emily". Nowadays he is introduced as Emily's father Gary. Football runs in the family. Dad Gary used to play in the Dutch competition. While Gary was born in Australia, his dad was an immgrant from the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. He played for the Socceroos in the Seoul Olympics and is currently the coach of the Newcastle Jets woman's team. Daughter Emily is in the starting line-up for the Matildas at this year's world championship. We talk about Gary's time in Holland, how the Dutch government tried to draft him fr the Dutch military and I ask him the all important question. Who is the better footballer, Gary or his daughter Emily?

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH - Dutch Minister for sport Conny Helder, wants the women's world cup soccer in the Netherlands in 2027. To that end she was in NZ and AU (during this year's event) to have some chats with FIFA and to learn how things were organised over here. She also spoke with local sports organisations about equality and safety in athletics. I spoke to her about her aspirations for the WWC, the pay gap between male and female sporters, and how to best address issues like that. I tried to coax out of her which Dutch parliamentarians could do with some more exercise, but like a true MP (which she is after all) she remained stoically silent on that subject.

(THIS ONE - ONCE AGAIN - IS IN DUTCH) Dwars door het midden van Australië in een auto op zonne-energie. Daar gaat het om bij de World Solar Challenge, een race van 3000 kilometer van Darwin naar Adelaide. Teams vanuit de hele wereld doen mee aan de twee jaarlijkse wedstrijd, die in het verleden al vaak is gewonnen door een team uit Nederland. Dit jaar hoopt Top Dutch Solar Racing uit Groningen aanspraak te maken op de overwinning met hun voertuig Green Thunder. Ik ben even gaan bellen met een van de coureurs, Mourad Mougou.

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN DUTCH - "When the mummified bodies came to the museum, a ceremony was held by elder Aunty Irene" - Visualizing Ancient Egypt in a modern way is what the exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt is about. Visitors can walk through a life-size temple and experience Ancient Egypt through art, jewelry, but also everyday objects. Curator and Egyptologist Daniel Soliman from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (NL), flew to Australia for the opening, to give a lecture. SBS reporter Jeroen Schouten (That's me!) spoke to Daniel about the exhibition. Visit Discovering Ancient Egypt at the WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth Cultural Center until Sunday, October 8. The exhibition will travel later this year to the National Museum of Australia, and will visit the Queensland Museum in 2024.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH - If you know your history, you know that the guy that discovered Australia (or at least parts of it) was a Dutchman. His name was Abel Tasman. Hence, one of the states in this great nation being called Tasmania. After world war 2 a little boy called Feiko Bouman traveled with his parents from Groningen (a province in the Netherlands) to Australia to resettle. Years later, this boy would become one of Australia's most sought after architects. Now Feiko Bouman wants to build a museum for Abel Tasman in the seafarer's hometown of Lutjegast. Time for SBS Dutch to ask some questions...

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH - De Zeeuwse voetbalster Angela Versluis maakte in juli haar droomtransfer. Ze verruilde Excelsior Rotterdam, die in de Nederlandse Eredivisie speelt, voor Queensland Lions FC in Brisbane. Eventjes bellen dus.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – Heleen is a film maker. She wants to make a docco (that's Aussie for documentary) about people from the Westland region in the province of South Holland that moved to Australia to try their luck in the rugged outback. I called her to see what plans she had for her film, how things were coming along and to find out if she still needed people (hint: Yes) - This originally aired on SBS Dutch

HOLY HOLE IN A DONUT, BATMAN... I haven't been here in forever. And in the process I have been really slack with posting new content for you to pod on... Let's remedy that! While this is isn't exactly "hot off the press", it's the last item I produced for SBS. Not last as in never again, last as in most recent. Even if most recent is 3 months ago... Oops! Anyway... THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH. A year or so ago Erica, Dutch immigrant to Queensland and experienced sailor, lost her, even more experienced sailor husband to a Crocodile attack in the mangroves of far northern Queensland. I decided to look her up and ask her how she is doing now that she sails solo. It was a few days before her late husband's memorial service on what should have been his birthday. Spoiler alert: Erica is a strong woman, and doing fine!

THIS ON IS IN DUTCH (AND ALSO A BIT OF ENGLISH) - Regular listeners know his name by heart. Jordy is the Dutch backpacker that decided to buy a boat to escape COVID19 and sail back to the Netherlands. Well, that was easier said than done. BUT! He is on his way and together with Yoga teacher, helmswoman, and partner (yes, all rolled into one) Loryn, he made his way to Indonesia. It only took a year but Loryn and Jordy finally made it to Indonesia. For SBS Dutch I called them while they were in quarantine off the coast of Kupang on the island of Timor. This interview originally aired on SBS on 21 October 2021!

And then there was this thing, all of a sudden... I was listening to an episode of the Daily Source Code (with Adam Curry) and there was this song, about podcasting... Catchy little number! Written by some unknown guy calling himself Greg St. Claire. Recorded and produced by Nashville recording artist Chris Hicks and sung by Oklahoma city vocalist Josh Cruise (Gee, I wonder where they got the band name from). It was basically a 3 minute jingle promoting podcasting. A bit of a circle jerk, really. But boy was it exciting! This is a Skinny White Boy episode, that isn't really an episode... I heard that song and wanted to blast it out to all 5 of my listeners. So it's the shortest episode ever. And the best song ever! Whatever happened to St. Claire, nobody knows. Chris is now teaching music production at an OKC college and Josh... well Josh is still performing around the vast state of Oklahoma. You can catch the Josh Cruise Duo weekly, somewhere around town.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH - What do you do if you are traveling back to Australia from your mother's funeral and have to spend 2 weeks in a lonely Covid-19 quarantine hotel room, without much in the way of support for your emotional wellbeing or indeed, anything to do at all. Weekly, in Australia, 100's of people find themselves isolated from the world because federal regulations mandate that all overseas travelers go into 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia. Monique Mach née Walraven decided to make the best of a dire situation and used the 3 brown paper bags she would collect each day from food deliveries to make... stuff. Sometime a hat, sometimes a dress, and even the Statue of Liberty. When she decided to post her creations on Facebook, the good news story went viral!

Today we learn what not to do in the left lane... or the right lane, if you happen to live in one of those strange countries where people drive on the left side and have their steering wheel on the right - I know weird right? Officer Jay once again calls upon the Gods of Hilarity to teach us the rules of Oklahomean driving. This episode originally went onto your interwebz on 16 May 2007.