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JOY Drive with Warren
by JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities
JOY Drive with Warren, 4-6pm weekdays on JOY 94.9FM. Great music, informative interviews and exceptional banter. Smart, Fun Radio.
Episodes
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Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: Why Did We Stop Inviting Friends Over for Dinner?
Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne explores why dinner parties and spontaneous visits are disappearing, from cost and exhaustion to social media perfection and digital entertainment, and whether lowering our expectations could help bring informal friendship back into our homes. Guest: Dr Lauren...
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Jye Marshall: Can Adidas Own Three Stripes?
Jye Marshall explores where inspiration ends and copying begins as Adidas takes White Fox to court, and whether fashion could even exist without designers constantly borrowing, recycling and reinventing ideas that came before them. Guest: Jye Marshall, Lecturer in Fashion Design at Swinburne...
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Yvonne Sillett: Fighting for the LGBT Veterans Forced Out of the Australian Defence Force
Yvonne Sillett reflects on losing the Army career she loved because she was gay, finding others who endured similar treatment and the decades-long fight to have LGBT veterans’ service, harm and history formally recognised. Guest: Yvonne Sillett, Australian Army veteran and LGBT veterans’ advocate...
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Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris: Eating Before Bed
Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris explains what eating late can do to our sleep, metabolism, blood pressure and gut, and whether moving dinner earlier could make a meaningful difference even when we eat the same food. Guest: Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of…
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Associate Professor Vincent Ho: Should You Avoid Sugar While Taking Antibiotics?
Associate Professor Vincent Ho explains what new research suggests about sugar, antibiotics and our gut bacteria; what the findings do and don’t mean for everyday antibiotic use; and how food may help our microbiome recover afterwards. Guest: Dr Vincent Ho, Associate Professor of Medicine and...
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Amelie Peters: Why Are So Many of Us Afraid to Sing?
Amelie Peters explores why so many of us happily belt out songs in the car or shower but freeze when someone is listening, and how Sink or SING! turns that fear into a joyful room full of strangers singing together. Guest: Amelie Peters, award-winning vocalist and international vocal coach...
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Associate Professor Theresa Larkin: What Happens to Your Body on a Long-Haul Flight?
Associate Professor Theresa Larkin explains what hours in the air do to our circulation, hydration, ears, gut and body clock, and the simple things we can do to make a long-haul flight easier on our bodies. Guest: Dr Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences at the University of...
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Suzy Wrong: Film Review – ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Suzy Wrong explores ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ through desire, self-consciousness and our habit of watching and analysing ourselves, asking whether overthinking an experience can stop us from ever fully feeling it. Guest: Suzy Wrong Presenter: Warren Andrew The post Suzy Wrong: Film...
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Troy-Anthony Baylis: ‘Let It Bleed’ – Bringing Queerness, Aboriginality, Humour, Pop Culture and Politics Together
Troy-Anthony Baylis reflects on three decades of art bringing queerness, Aboriginality, humour, pop culture and politics together, and what seeing that complex creative life gathered in Let it bleed revealed about the artist he has been and is still becoming. Guest: Troy-Anthony Baylis, artist,...
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Fiona Kelly McGregor: Reclaiming the Queer Sydney History We Nearly Lost
Fiona Kelly McGregor explores the real police scandal and hidden queer lives behind The Trap, bringing 1940s Sydney’s drag performers, nightlife and targeted men back into a history shaped by persecution, class, survival and joy. Guest: Fiona Kelly McGregor, author of The Trap Presenter: Warren...
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Thomas Jaspers: ‘Foundation Lakes: Y2K’ at the Melbourne Fringe Festival
Thomas Jaspers takes us back to Fountain Lakes before Kath & Kim began, exploring how he recreated the show’s unmistakable characters and comic rhythm in drag while imagining what Kath, Kim and Sharon might have been getting up to in 1999. Guest: Thomas Jaspers, creator and performer of Fountain...
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Dr Justin Ellis: What’s Driving Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate Crime?
Criminologist Dr Justin Ellis examines Victoria’s inquiry into anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crime, including technology-enabled attacks, under-reporting, online radicalisation and what prevention, policing and stronger support for victim-survivors could look like. Guest: Dr Justin Ellis, Senior Lecturer in...
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Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: Can Governments Convince Us to Have More Babies?
Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne explores why cash payments, childcare and generous parental leave have struggled to lift birth rates, and whether governments should focus less on producing more babies and more on helping people create the families they actually want. Guest: Dr Lauren...
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Jye Marshall: Why Is Fashion Raiding the Wardrobes of the Past?
Jye Marshall explores why corsets, petticoats, extravagant silhouettes and centuries-old ideas are returning to modern wardrobes, and whether fashion’s renewed appetite for drama is a reaction to how casual our clothes have become. Guest: Jye Marshall, Lecturer in Fashion Design at Swinburne...
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Geraldine Quinn: When Your Unfinished ’90s Horror Film Comes Back to Haunt You
Geraldine Quinn takes us inside ‘Campervan: An Ozploitation Horror Musical’, her gloriously Australian horror musical about old friends resurrecting an abandoned ’90s slasher film and discovering that unfinished creative dreams can become considerably messier decades later. Guest: Geraldine…
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Conor Curran: ‘Eat More Greek’
Conor Curran explores how his Yia Yia, Greek heritage and queer identity shaped Eat More Greek, and why carrying a family’s food forward can mean honouring tradition while giving yourself permission to change it. Guest: Conor Curran, food creator, mixologist and author of ‘Eat More Greek’...
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Dianne Ma: Is Pasta a Type of Noodle?
Dianne Ma unpacks the surprisingly serious argument over pasta and noodles, revealing how migration, culinary history and cultural status shape both what we call our food and what we think it is worth. Guest: Dianne Ma, Lecturer in Culinary Arts and Gastronomy at Auckland University of Technology...
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Sean Dooley: Why Are Birds So Loud Right Now?
Sean Dooley explains the extraordinary spring chorus happening around us, what our birds are actually saying, how to recognise them by sound and how 20 minutes in the upcoming Aussie Bird Count can help reveal what is changing in Australia’s birdlife. Guest: Sean Dooley, National Public Affairs...
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Suzy Wrong: Film Review – ‘To Freely Flourish’
Suzy Wrong explores To Freely Flourish through family sacrifice, cultural expectations and Australia’s marriage equality debate, asking whether loving someone means wanting the life you imagined for them or giving them the freedom to choose their own. Guest: Suzy Wrong Presenter: Warren Andrew…
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Dr Mia Cobb: ‘The Lassie Effect’ – Would Your Dog Really Save You?
Dr Mia Cobb puts the legendary “Lassie effect” to the test, explaining what science tells us about whether dogs recognise when we need rescuing, why problem-solving matters and how our dogs may be helping us in less dramatic ways every day. Guest: Dr Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Canine Welfare...
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Jens Radda: When Church Becomes High-Fashion Cabaret
Jens Radda takes us inside Mass Hysteria, where communion, hymns and religious ritual collide with drag, original music, high fashion and the gloriously absurd idea of turning a cabaret audience into its own congregation. Guest: Jens Radda (Skank Sinatra), cabaret performer Presenter: Warren…
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LGBTQIA+ Commissioner Joe Ball: Ageing With Pride, Connection and Community
Pride, Connection and Community: Joe Ball explores how the Victorian Seniors Festival is creating connection and visibility for older Victorians, why LGBTQIA+ elders can face distinct risks of isolation and why ageing should remain a time of creativity, pride and belonging. Guest: Joe Ball,...
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Lorraine Hook: 40 Years Since Elton John and the MSO Made History
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s first violinist Lorraine Hook looks back on performing with Elton John before 30,000 fans on their legendary 1986 Australian tour, the moments she still remembers four decades later and what it means to bring that music back to the stage. Guest: Lorraine Hook,...
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Alexandra Lopes: Is Your Pelvic Floor Coping With Your Workout?
Pelvic health physiotherapist Alexandra Lopes explains what our pelvic floor should be doing when we run, jump or lift weights, why tighter isn’t always better and what leakage or other symptoms can tell us about how our body is handling the load. Guest: Alexandra Lopes, pelvic health...
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Tom Ballard: What Really Matters in the Grand Scheme of Things?
Tom Ballard explores what 20 years in comedy have taught him about getting older, caring deeply, redefining success and working out which of life’s apparent crises really matter in his new Melbourne Fringe show In the Grand Scheme of Things. Guest: Tom Ballard, comedian Presenter: Warren Andrew…
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Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: Are We Becoming Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne explores the growing public anxiety around increasingly autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI), the language of rogue agents and existential threats, and whether we can take genuine risks seriously without allowing fear to dominate the conversation. Guest: Dr...
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Dr Luke Heemsbergen: What Happens When Your Smart Watch Is Always Listening?
Dr Luke Heemsbergen explores the privacy problem created by Apple Watch features that can capture and summarise conversations, asking whether one person should be able to opt in to technology that everyone else in the room never agreed to use. Guest: Dr Luke Heemsbergen, Senior Lecturer in...
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Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris: The Weird Things Coffee Does to Your Body
Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris explains coffee’s surprisingly strange effects on everything from our gut, reflux and cholesterol to migraines, medication, iron absorption and even our eyes and ears. Guest: Guest: Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition...
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Tegan Higginbotham: ‘Follow That Turtle!’ – Melbourne Fringe Festival
Tegan Higginbotham explains how an opportunity she probably shouldn’t have taken unravelled badly enough to make her consider quitting stand-up, before becoming the true story behind her Melbourne Fringe show, Follow That Turtle! Guest: Tegan Higginbotham, comedian and performer Presenter: Warren...
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Nadine Browne: ‘Gone Guru’ and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Who We Are
Nadine Browne explores how growing up expecting the Rapture, finding herself in New York literary circles and learning to live without inherited certainty shaped her funny, dark debut mystery Gone Guru. Guest: Nadine Browne, author of Gone Guru Presenter: Warren Andrew The post Nadine Browne…
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Associate Professor Theresa Larkin: What Songs Match the Beat of Your Heart?
Associate Professor Theresa Larkin puts our hearts to music, explaining what controls heart rate, how fast and slow a healthy heart can beat, what happens when its rhythm goes wrong and why Stayin’ Alive became the soundtrack to CPR. Guest: Associate Professor Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor…
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Suzy Wrong: TV Series Review – ‘Furious’
Suzy Wrong explores Furious through our fantasies of being the hero, the seductive appeal of vigilante justice and the uncomfortable question of why violence can feel satisfying when we think the person on the receiving end deserves it. Guest: Suzy Wrong Presenter: Warren Andrew The post Suzy...
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Kon Karapanagiotidis: What Could Australia’s Migration Crackdown Mean for People Seeking Asylum?
Kon Karapanagiotidis explains the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s concerns about the Federal Government’s latest migration enforcement measures, possible changes to work rights and protection claims, and what those seeking asylum should be watching next. Guest: Kon Karapanagiotidis, CEO and…
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Lucy Street: Why Are So Many Men Lonely?
Sex and relationship therapist Lucy Street explores male loneliness, why romantic partners can become men’s entire emotional support network and how friendship, vulnerability and ordinary social connection can build a healthier life. Guest: Lucy Street, sex and relationship therapist with SHIPS...
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Dr Lauren Cortis: Could Statins Help Healthy People Live Healthier for Longer?
Dr Lauren Cortis explains what statins actually do, why they may be prescribed before someone develops heart disease and what emerging research can and cannot yet tell us about healthy ageing and dementia prevention. Guest: Dr Lauren Cortis, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at Adelaide...
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Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: Ed Sheeran Controversy – Should Musicians Leave Politics Off the Stage?
Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne explores the debate over musicians using the stage for political expression, the competing expectations of artists and audiences, and what happens when promoters, venues and performers draw different lines. Guest: Dr Lauren Rosewarne, Associate Professor in…
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Jye Marshall: How Bob Mackie Turned Costume Into Pop Culture
Jye Marshall explores how Bob Mackie helped create the unforgettable visual identities of Cher, Diana Ross and Tina Turner, and what separates a beautiful outfit from a costume that becomes part of cultural history. Guest: Jye Marshall, Lecturer in Fashion Design, School of Design and…
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Associate Professor Matthew Ahmadi: Fewer Steps or Faster Steps? Both Can Count
Associate Professor Matthew Ahmadi explains why meaningful health benefits don’t depend on hitting 10,000 steps, with different combinations of how much and how briskly we walk associated with a lower risk of early death. Guest: Associate Professor Matthew Ahmadi, Monash University and the...
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Associate Professor Nick Fuller: Does Exercise Really Make Us Hungrier?
Associate Professor Nick Fuller explains what exercise actually does to our appetite, why we can overestimate how much food we’ve “earned” after a workout and how to use exercise sensibly when the goal is losing weight. Guest: Assoicate Professor Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director in the...
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Nicole Rich: How to Avoid Buying a Used-Car Regret
Nicole Rich explains what to check before buying a used car, how to spot an unlicensed trader, why your rights depend on who you buy from and what to do when the car you bring home turns into an expensive problem. Guest: Nicole Rich, Director, Consumer Affairs Victoria Presenter: Warren Andrew…
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Dr Dean Murphy: Why Are We Still Missing Opportunities to Diagnose HIV?
Dr Dean Murphy explains what newly diagnosed Australians reveal about missed HIV tests, outdated assumptions about who is at risk, gaps in prevention and why today’s reality of living with HIV is dramatically different from the past. Guest: Dr Dean Murphy, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian...
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Dr Edith Hill: Social Media News – Why Do We Spend Longer Avoiding a Job Than Actually Doing It?
Dr Edith Hill explores the social media finds that finally made her tackle an 18-month-old plumbing problem, plus how humour can make a colonoscopy less intimidating and why tiny jobs become enormous in our heads. Guest: Dr Edith Hill, Associate Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Innovation at...
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Kristian Bezuidenhout: Hearing Mozart and Beethoven As They Once Sounded
Kristian Bezuidenhout explores how the fortepiano and harpsichord can transform music we thought we knew, and what centuries-old instruments reveal about Mozart, Beethoven and the freedom hidden inside classical music. Guest: Kristian Bezuidenhout, keyboard player and conductor Presenter: Warren...
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Suzy Wrong: Film Review – ‘Here The Whole Time’
Suzy Wrong explores Here The Whole Time through body shame, gay male beauty standards, bullying and first love, asking whether another person can ever convince us we’re desirable when we don’t believe it ourselves. Guest: Suzy Wrong Presenter: Warren Andrew The post Suzy Wrong: Film Review –…
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Dr Mark Giancaspro: Can a Business Legally Ban Smart Glasses?
Dr Mark Giancaspro explains why banning smart glasses isn’t as simple as putting up a sign, with privacy, covert recording, disability discrimination and accessibility all complicating where businesses can draw the line. Dr Mark Giancaspro, Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide Law School...
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Andy MacNamara: From Radio Microphones to Children’s Books
JOY’s Andy MacNamara reveals the creative life beyond the microphone, exploring how he became a children’s author, where his stories come from and whether his radio colleagues should be worried about becoming characters. Guest: Andy MacNamara, JOY presenter and children’s author Presenter: Warren...
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Clare Bartholomew: ‘The Portrait’ – Melbourne Fringe Festival
Clare Bartholomew takes us inside The Portrait, a wordless Melbourne Fringe comedy where two gallery attendants, one important unveiling and an increasingly desperate attempt to remain professional collide in meticulously choreographed chaos. Guest: Clare Bartholomew, creator and director of The...
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Hanna Hosking and Bianca Hall: Do We Overthink Being a Good LGBTQIA+ Ally?
Hanna Hosking and Bianca Hall explore why allyship doesn’t require perfect words or grand gestures, and how small, visible actions can help LGBTQIA+ people feel safer, supported and able to belong. Guests: Hanna Hosking, Senior Manager – Network Roadmaps at NBN and former NBN Pride Co-Chair…
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Dr Sara Webb: Did Our Sun Swallow a Planet?
Dr Sara Webb explores the extraordinary possibility that our Sun once swallowed a super-Earth, the mysterious changing rings of Chariklo and a stellar explosion 45 million light-years away that amateur astronomers can see for themselves. Guest: Dr Sara Webb, astrophysicist at Swinburne University...
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Dr Leigh Barlow: Could We Soon Get an STI Result in 20 Minutes?
Dr Leigh Barlow explains how rapid PCR testing could deliver chlamydia and gonorrhoea results in about 20 minutes, making testing easier, helping people get treated sooner, and reducing opportunities for infections to spread. Guest: Dr Leigh Barlow, sexual health doctor and Medical Director...
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