Your host Brent Andersen takes you on a casual conversational journey through life in Melbourne, Australia. Conversations vary from politics, Brent's existential crises, to the completely inane. Co-Hosts and interviews are also a common element of the show, along with Brent's own music. Enjoy.
EP86 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Robert Motton speak about his life and career as a Drama and Geography teacher at Ringwood Secondary College, his connection with Summer Heights High, musical theatre, the Australian Girls Choir, the bureaucracy of the Education Department, retirement, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP85 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Ilse Pickerd talk desert life in Alice Springs, puppet choreography, Papunya Tula Artists, kinship systems, Araluen Arts Centre, Australian bushfires and indigenous knowledge, philosophies for life, miserable chickens and happy rhinos, what is food?, apocalyptic thoughts, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP84 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Ash Andersen talk kitchen renos, becoming druids, Facebook isn’t cool Bin Laden.., African man makes a crater, 31st birthday wrong jackets, young hipsters with Ned Kelly beards, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP83 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Ash Andersen talk new year new me, Clive Palmers doey hands, atheism in Australia, boost juice isn’t Coachella, Stone henge IS Coachella, Finnish pants drunk all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP82 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Ash Andersen talk Trolley Man, RIP Stan Lee, Scomo’s social media, Duton and the wasp cake, Mila DeWit and insta stalking, and the Werribee poo cappuccino, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP81 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Andrea Funke discuss her job as a health professional, her new podcast Coming Home to You, personal development journeys, R’n’B Fridays, becoming a parent and seeing the world through your kids eyes, rapping Dads, Brent manages to drag the topic to boxing, all this and many more illogical tangents. http://cominghometoyou.libsyn.com/
EP80 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Ash Andersen discuss killing eagles and emus, crazy rich asians, Australians politics, instagram, vicroads, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP79 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Kelly Sargent discuss main stream media brainwashing, self improvement, hippy communes, wedding updates, thoughts on love and relationships, turning 30, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP78 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Shelley discuss bucks nights, healthy food options, Daniel Andrews train outer loop, the drought, the demise of Australian politics, a trippy yoga experience, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP77 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and special guest Shelley discuss bucket showers, Shelley’s wedding in Chicago, the Frankston line and familiar freaks, eating in season, reflections on Chicago, America’s temporary marijuana obsession and trust issues, sultry aussie accents, aussies in tune with reality television, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP76 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash discuss odd antenna hobbiests, friends on fitness journeys, shambling shame and sherbets in Richmond and the CBD, weddings in Chicago, what Chicago people love, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP75 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash discuss the resignation squared of Brent’s life, the the viral shaming of the racist lawyer, army symbolism, weddings, boxing, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP74 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash discuss the recent Batman bi-election, falling off the wagon, you’re never too old for Lego, Freudian tactile issues, hipster coffee shops, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP73 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent interviews aid worker and former ABC journalist Irene Scott. They discuss Irene’s upcoming aid mission in Bangladesh with Rohingya refugees, her early career as a radio journalist in regional Victoria, triple j, aid work in the Solomon Islands and Sudan, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP72 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash discuss marriage celebrants and gender fluidity, priestly cadence, church torture, wedding traditions, restaurant entertainment, the couch saga continued, indoor cats, imaginary countries like Australia, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP71 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash, new years resolutions, direction of smell, monkey escapees, Larry Nassar, the Australian Buddha and material possessions, Brent’s blasé attitude to littering, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP70 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent interviews a guest, Steve Keys, they talk about disability work, moving house to Queensland, kids youtube, 90s nostalgia, Christmas decorations, drunken escapades, zombie apocalypse, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP69 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk stormageddon, the royal engagement, hollywood sex pests, how money is made up, trial by social media, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP68 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk vietnam, old guys with young asian wives, torture parks, horse meat, Mark Zukerberg, marriage equality, food, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP67 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk marriage equality postal vote, American political satire, ironic masculinity, beg-packers, baby giraffes, how infidelity can make one pointlessly climb the worlds hardest mountain, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP66 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk beer in Adelaide, beer in the Czech Republic, our childhood McDonalds burning down, public toilets, favourite words, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP65 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks running over his phone, breaking dry july and drinker’s regret, Bernard Tomic and the world that created him, finding some resolve at this shitty time of year, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP64 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks dry July, winter being all depresso and shit, visual deficiency, snapchat hypocrisy, renos, football, vietnam, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP63 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks the ten commandments and full moon holidays, painting, knocking a bloke out, narcissistic festival whores, Pacman vs Horn, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP62 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk nangs, delicious Melbourne food, sexual concrete, typical white pedos, Carlton tech fails, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP61 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Ash talk one tenth models, sailing, bathroom renos, The Book of Mormon, belly button lint, greek trains, the Czech republic, all this and many more illogical tangents, and whiiiine.
EP60 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks tardiness, Margaret Court, BJJ, chats to Kyle on the phone about getting concussion, and Steph makes her MM debut, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP59 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Kelly Sargent discuss the evils of advertising, smashed avo and housing affordability, gut bacteria, soulmates, life regrets, resting bitch face, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP58 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent and Shelley discuss overseas travel, being an American in Australia, renovation, the roll of fitness in her life, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP57 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks about being arrested in Sweden, celebrity receding hair shame, peeping toms, dead fish parenting, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP56 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent talks about failing at not drinking, being a tight ass, and dealing with grief.
EP55 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent & Ash discuss camping at easter, cyclists vs the world, aussie rules football, science denial, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP54 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent & Ash discuss white people singing Happy Birthday badly, comfort food, calling out racism, LGBTIQ, Cory Bernardi, and another movie pitch, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP53 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent discusses his life reaching rock bottom and jumping on the wagon, Queensland and cyclone Debbie, culture in football, what made me cry this week, how snapchat stories are the end of life as we know it, my gigolo friend, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP52 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent discusses his life unravelling, sea monsters and sailing, the facebook fap algorithm, McDonalds hacks, dad bods and the footy is back, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP51 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent and Ash discuss getting hit hard, near death experiences, is beer political and the whole Coopers debacle, Wilsons Promontory and bad snake advice, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP50 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent and Ash discuss colonising Mars, moving house, medium paced zombies, arbitrary beard lines, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP49 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent discusses his week, immoral Tupperware, the fake news Oscars debacle, a pie eating goalie, all this and many more illogical tangents.
EP48 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent and Ash discuss corporate bullshit, how to count out change, a movie pitch, all that and many more illogical tangents.
EP47 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent discusses nightshift, rituals, money between friends, economics 101, how there’s only so many heads in the world, all that and many more illogical tangents.
EP46 Melbourne Musings Podcast – This week Brent discusses things that made him cry, being on the precipice of lazy, sexualising women, making homophobes feel awkward, falling asleep on the train, all that and many more illogical tangents.
EP45 Melbourne Musings Podcast –This week Brent and Ash talk about the arrogance of tennis, the distraction of technology, our parents and technology, having a local and many more illogical tangents.
EP44 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Hello!! This week Brent and his bro Ash talk about the insincerity of the internet, the cat that ruined Brent’s day, peak celebrity, valuing your life at $6, all that and many more illogical tangents. Melbourne Musings Podcast EP44.
EP43 Melbourne Musings Podcast – I’m alive!!! Brent is back and babbles about where he went and why he’s back, buying a house, shit that made him cry, being out of touch with modern fashion, weird racism, and joining a boxing gym, all that and many more illogical tangents. Get back on board the Melbourne Musings Podcast.
EP 42 Melbourne Musings Podcast – this week Brent discusses working with Big Foot or Bunyip - that is, people that are rarely seen, rarely work but are an enigma, technologies that never took off and their early adopters – Betamax, LaserDisc, MiniDisc, Google Fact some men prefer women who wear less make up – cue feminist shitstorm, and people who murmur into their phones – speak up! All that any many more illogical tangents. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast
Melbourne Musings Podcast Episode 41 – This week Brent chats about the whole Billy Brownless/Garry Lyon scandal and how he thinks it says more about our male chauvinist culture, Banksy the Street Artist and his great one finger salute to Advertisers, and Labour Day – you know that whole reason we just had a public holiday and other assorted tangents. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast
Melbourne Musings Podcast Episode 40 – Brent discusses some freaks he encountered at the Spiderbait gig in Melbourne, his unlikely fascination with combat sports – which he then tries to explain with some misinterpreted first year uni philosophy, toy stores indoctrinating kids and just plain old missing the mark on what’s fun, and other assorted tangents. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast
Melbourne Musings Podcast Episode 39, Brent discusses the moral dilemma of buying a homeless man dinner, Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun – the art movement and how what it means for us all, memories of a Spiderbait gig in 1996 and much more. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast
EP38 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent chats with Ilse Pickerd, Ilse talks about her career as a Zookeeper, Ecologist, Melbournian who moved to Alice Springs (Bush woman) and then Broome, sailor of the Caribbean, Cameleering, creativity and finding meaning in life, free range ethical organic artisan butchers, taking the podcast on the road and much more. Apologies for being a terrible interviewer and interrupting so much, I was just excited to catch up with a friend.
EP37 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent covers Oasis’s Wonderwall, talks his new pets – 3 Chickens, the fitness regime and how exercise has inspired me already after one run, camping and all its primal goodness and much more. Oh yeah and did I mention I sing a song. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast
EP36 Melbourne Musings Podcast – Brent chats with Kate Bruce, a Londoner on a gap year in Australia. They discuss the outpouring of grief for David Bowie and the whole internet bandwagon game, Brent’s shame reduction theory – that is society getting over things like BO and nudity, the value of a healthy debate, Kate’s plans for 2016 and much more. www.facebook.com/melbmusings melbmusings@gmail.com melbournemusings.libsyn.com/podcast