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!

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?