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Send us Fan Mail Noosa Now Sarah Sinclair    Real Estate Agent Sarah Sinclair comes into the DGMS (Dont Get Me Started) studio to chat about the Nossa and surrounding district's real estate market. As an agent with considerable local selling experience, she shares first-hand insights into the character of the Noosa housing market. Sarah has also worked in real estate overseas, which makes for...

Send us Fan Mail MATES and FRIENDS A mate generally means, for many cultures, someone you partner up with to share life - and mainly to do so for a lifetime. Of course, there are variations of that coupling but in Australia, the term mate signifies a very close, non-sexual relationship - almost like being joined to a sibling. To be a mate down here in Oz means you are more than a friend. To use an...

Send us Fan Mail NOOSA NOW  RYAN FOGG.    BLUE SKY DESIGN AND BUILD Ryan Fogg, local born and raised, second generation builder talks to Noosa Now about his family's construction and design business connection to the Noosa district. Through his company Blue Sky Designs he enjoys working closely with his customers, Ryan says. It's important to listen to their aspirations as much as constr...

Send us Fan Mail FIRST LOVES AND BROKEN HEARTS Very few of us don't have a first love that we can easily recall many years after the event. Whether puppy love or the real thing it remains an unforgettable memory. Some lucky couples go on to spend their lives together the whole way through. They grow into each other. Love does that to a person, it joins you deeply with your chosen other. Then...

Send us Fan Mail US POLITICS (WELL, TRUMP - AGAIN!) AND THE BEST AND WORST DAY OF OUR LIVES. In this episode, Keith and Lee set out to have a light-hearted discussion concerning the best and worst day of their lives but didn't get too far as the hot topic of the USA's political circus reared its bewildering head. Well, let's face it - with bombastic Trump and bumbling Biden, it&apos...

Send us Fan Mail NOOSA NOW Noosa Now podcasts the people of Noosa who have made the town what it is - and those who are shaping it today. They are the baristas, the builders, the business people, the surfers, the sports people, those of the arts and their patrons, the health and lifestyle gurus, the restauranteurs, the hospitality workers, and the shop managers along with the salt of the earth sim...

Send us Fan Mail THE OLYMPIC GAMES - A FUTURE OR NOT? Every four years the Olympic Games, the ultimate world sporting event, comes around via the host nation and our global TV screens. The athletes of the world's nations come together to celebrate sport, international fraternity and goodwill. At least that's the ideal - for despite astonishing levels of sporting performance the Olympics...

Send us Fan Mail THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR - REAL OR NOT? True to their brief that no topic will be left untouched, in this episode Keith and Lee discuss the possible threat of nuclear war as the conflict in The Ukraine gradually escalates. The discussion was prompted by an interview George Galloway conducted with Scott Ritter. Scott is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer and form...

Send us Fan Mail CONSPIRACY THEORIES - TRUE OR FALSE? You don't have to go too far these days to hear about conspiracy theories. From the weird and wacky, to naming names - with a certainty that something shadowy and sinister is about to take control of us all. Or even eliminate a vast percentage of us. It may come as a surprise to many that they aren't new. The popular spread of conspir...

Send us Fan Mail The implications of saying YES or NO These are simple words but can hold weighty consequences when said too easily to the wrong question. Sometimes saying yes not only pleases others but gives them an advantage that may leave you disadvantaged - or living with an unexpected and unwanted outcome. Plus damages our reputation as a "soft touch" that others can take advantage...

Send us Fan Mail THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES,  Pop Music, or more correctly, popular music is just that - popular. It is the music for the masses. That doesn't mean it cannot be great music. Or even prevent some of its songs and performers earning the tag of being classics within its own genre. The Beatles, of course, will always be held in such high regard. Probably The Rolling Stones as...

Send us Fan Mail Ten Questions Wanting to have a light-hearted episode Lee came up with ten life questions about likes, preferences and aspirations. Well, not exactly deep aspirations, which the boys want to discuss at another time, but fun aspirations. After Lee's initial correct guess at Keith's early answer, they both had a few raised eyebrows and laughs at some of the other's an...

Send us Fan Mail Heroes and Villians. It's said that it's best not to meet your heroes as you may be disappointed when you suddenly realize how human they are. And, certainly, most of us don't want to meet the villains that loom large in our minds. But we all have them. All sorts of heroes for all sorts of reasons - and the same regarding our villains. In this episode, Keith and Lee...

Send us Fan Mail 3. TRUMP AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Nobody these days seems to be able to avoid talking about the Donald. His shadow looms large, not only over the USA, but across the globe, even as far as Australia. And like most people, Keith and Lee have their views on the man, his past presidency, his current bumpy runup to the 2024 election and what it may mean should he win it - or not. This is...

Send us Fan Mail President Putin and Russia Having posted an episode on Mr Donald Trump, Keith and Lee decided to balance the ledger with that other controversial, international figure, President Vladimir Putin. But is he the real European threat that we are led to believe? Maybe most of us think that he is due to the constant portrayals of him in this negative light. Have the media manufactured o...

Send us Fan Mail MOVIES AND FILM STARS We have all been impacted by movies - we grew up with them. They are such an integral part of popular culture how could we otherwise? Perhaps more so in times gone by. Still, most of us have our favourite movies and movie stars. Particularly Lee who especially loves that era of movies when we all raced off to see them in a time before the rise of streaming se...

Send us Fan Mail SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS Sex … just the mention of the word gets our attention. For who isn’t interested? Well, maybe the rare few. Fifty shades of grey? Hmmm … maybe five hundred more like it for it’s been said that sex is one of the two things most people lie about. The other being money. And why so, mainly because both topics are so loaded with values. It can be dangerous to reall...

Send us Fan Mail LIFE AND DEATH At some point we all talk about these two big subjects. To make sense of life asking does it have meaning, is there a purpose etc? We might be faced with death or having to deal with the loss of someone close. All of us experience both but not everyone shares the same views. For some life as we know it is all there is, so treasure and enjoy it. While, others hold a...

Send us Fan Mail TECHNOLOGY - THE GOOD AND THE BAD. Technology today is all around us. Most likely more so than any other time in our history. Our new digital world is so deeply embedded into our everyday life there is barely an industry, a business, a sport or recreation that is untouched by it. Like most inventions that 'advance' our lives, modern technology is not without it's co...

Send us Fan Mail KEITH’S AUSTRALIA and LEE’S ENGLAND With a growing international audience, the boys wanted to give some background to the towns they grew up in – as well as their respective countries. Although Keith and Lee were born about as far away from each other as possible, they both come from historical, coastal towns. So, there are some similarities. However, their countries are very diff...

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Send us Fan Mail 1. PARENTING AND FAMILY Most of us have parents, become parents, and therefore value parenting relationships as our most important along with those with our partners. Being a parent or an offspring is not always easy, as we would wish it to be - or it is simply one of the most cherished dimensions of our family life. Keith and Lee discuss parenting reflecting on their own upbringi...

Send us Fan Mail 2.  LOVE AND HATE Very few emotions stir us as much as love and hate. We all experience one or the other frequently, and with various degrees of intensity, throughout our lives. It can be triggered by an unexpected encounter with other people (or a single person), a situation, a loss, a gain, or an experience. After a very surprising and candid conversation with a buddy at a recen...