Flying Blind Podcast

This one started with frozen face washers relieving Benny’s eye balls from the unrelenting pain thanks to his continual case of severe hay fever and ended up with him flying solo thanks to the beckoning call of sick kids! There has never been more mowing done at Flying Blind HQ thanks to their newest family member, the Roborock robotic mower and it is a dead set game changer! Benny was up in Brisb...

It is third time lucky for Benny and Dan ‘Wardy' Ward as they had a couple of false starts before finally getting this chat in the book. Wardy brings unreal energy and has the story to match. He runs us through the moment he got hit by an out of control truck and the impact it has had on the rest of his life. The boys share tales of trekking Kokoda as Wardy is recently back from his first adve...

Benny has just rolled back in from a very wet and muddy Deni Ute Muster and has definitely seen better days and Ames is pumped as the NRL Grand Final is on in the background as she cheers on her beloved Newcastle Knights while we record this week’s episode. There’s been plenty happening over the past couple of week’s kicking off with a huge few days on the Gold Coast for Podcast Royale 3.0 with pl...

While on the Gold Coast for Podcast Royale 3.0, you get to meet some absolute legends. On night 1 Benny got the invite to jump into the Reuben’s Ranch limo that has been converted into a mobile podcast studio for plenty of laughs and yarns and then we switched it up for a very different interview with Reuben the next day. Benny went into this one thinking that he and Reuben from DMW would be talki...

It’s fight week and Benny and Ames are gearing up to head to the Gold Coast for Podcast Royale 3.0 this weekend!  Before they get to their plans for this weekend There is a lot of ground covered in this one. Memories are tested with  solar system songs, Ames hits us with a random general knowledge quiz along with her wish to go back to school, we ponder what’s worse, hot days,...

One of our great mates Ronald John Tully the III drops in for a yarn while he is in the big smoke for the NFL. We cover growing up on the coast, making the big decision to pack up and move out west, becoming a ‘Seaweed Cowboy’, and his impeccable record of getting through 100% of the shit days. Tully also brings a very special gift for Benny, a custom made 7 man blind fold championship belt that w...

Benny and Ames catch up on everything they have been up to lately, however they have to start with Benny’s big burnt lip! Turns out 30 seconds in the microwave is way too long to reheat a hot jam donut as benny found out the hard way. There was a rescue mission at a local festival as well as smoking meat, off chicken and a new addition to the backyard for Fathers Day. This week’s addition of ‘what...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind Ben sits down with drifter & dad, Tate Lindstrom, AKA the ‘One Arm Bandit’. Tate was born with one arm that wasn’t fully formed and even though it was a shock to his parents initially with a ‘can do’ attitude and plenty of trial and error, there hasn’t been much in the world of motorsport that Tate hasn’t had a crack at. Whether it was go karts, motorcros...

Merch is here! We wanted to drop in with a quick update on merchandise as you have all been asking for it and we are pumped to say that today is the day.    Our first batch of Flying Blind Podcast trucker caps have landed and our signature shirts are ready for pre order! The pre sale is live now and will close at midnight on Thursday the 3rd of September. Make sure you jump on and g...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind, Ames and Benny catch up and cover why blind people should be exempt from hay fever, Amy’s launch into #HomelyFans, how good a day at the local footy is, plus another instalment of ‘what caught your eye?’ with new buildings, fascinating stories, and penguins catching the attention this week.   Benny also shares the story behind his love for footy sh...

Childhood mate and AFLW player Kirsty Lamb catches up with Ben and shares her story from junior sport through to becoming a professional athlete with the Port Adelaide Football Club today. Initially Kirsty was the only girl playing with the boys until that was taken away and she had to find other pathways in sport. Cricket seemed like the sport that had the most open doors for women so she focused...

From Milo to bloody good neighbours to tight fitting superman costumes, Ben and Ames catch up for an hour and a bit about whats been happening in the last fortnight for them. Enjoy this episode full of everything and nothing which is sometimes the best kind of chat you can have. Ames also has a bunch of random recommendations which are listed below. Keep winging it! YEW! It's finally happened!! Th...

Australian singer & songwriter plus all round legend, Brad Cox drops into the Flying Blind studio before his Melbourne show last week as part of his current national tour. The boys dive into what it has taken to chase a career in music, the importance of switching off, why Brad believes constantly grinding isn’t the only way to success and the impact that ego and comparison can have in al...

Ames has just landed back refreshed and re-energized after 9 days on the coast and she has come back to some nice new additions to the studio that Benny and his old man have knocked up while she was away. It is the first chance the two of them have had to properly catch up in a while so they take the time to check in with each other, go through what’s been happening as well as another instalment o...

We have our first blind guest on Flying Blind this week with Matt Formston joining Ben for our first ever blind to blind chat!   Matt is a big wave and world champion surfer, Paralympian, speaker and author. He has a list of achievements a mile long that to most of us would just seem outright ridiculous however driven by the question and title of his new book, ‘Why Not?’ combined wi...

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Benny and Ames are back and introduce some new segments to these catch up episodes. Benny runs us through a hectic day as a blind dad which included getting on the wrong bus and somehow getting lost in the bra section of K-Mart! Amy feels like a new woman thanks to Pilates and together they bring up a number of things that have so called ‘caught their eye’.&n...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind Ben sits down with podcaster, punter and proud parent, Blair ‘Gibbo’ Gibson, for a yarn. Recorded back at Sandstone Point on the morning of Alpha Fest, Gibbo runs us through a bit of everything from passionfruit farming and saving lives through to building a life that is centred around gratitude, family, mateship and just trying to be a bit better every week....

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Ben and Amy sit down and catch up on what’s been happening. Ames has been hiking mountains, cooking calamari and wrangling kids while Benny has been on the road again delivering 22 different sessions from Adelaide to Port Augusta and everywhere in between! They then dive into why every year we find ourselves saying that every year feels like it is going by qu...

Mitch Watt has a big love for living life, having a crack and chasing goals!   Only hours after landing back home from his latest FIFO swing in the mines, Mitch jumped in the ute and headed down to Robe in South Australia to catch up for a yarn while Benny was there a couple of weeks ago.   From 13 years old, Mitch has had his eyes firmly set on becoming a commercial pilot and...

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Ben & Ames find a minute to sit down while they were on the road last week in the South East of SA. Benny was meant to be doing this roadshow with Mike but when Mike had to pull out last minute due to being unwell, Ben and Ames had to wing it to make it work.  They recap some of the highlights from the week, the people they met, including the one and...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind, Benny catches up with one of his great mates Ian ‘Lummy’ Lumb from On Track Meals. This one has plenty of There are plenty of tales in this one from guiding a blind bloke across the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, falling in love with the girl behind the bar and building an Aussie Owned, Aussie made food business that is changing the game when it comes to...

Benny & Ames are back from the first ever Alpha Fest – The Mateship Muster held at Sandstone Point in Queensland! They sit down to recap an epic couple of days that was absolutely stacked from the minute they touched down to the time they boarded the plane 48 hours later to head home.  Benny had to wrangle a surprise goanna on stage, was in charge of shooting guineapigs (toy ones) in...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind, Benny packs the recording gear on his latest trip to Mildura in Victoria’s North West for a speaking tour with his great mate Mike ‘Legless’ Rolls. Together Mike and Ben form the duo ‘Legless & Blind’ on stage and have travelled the country together delivering a whole range of sessions over the past 10 years.   While they were in Mildura,...

Imagine living life to the fullest, getting married, growing your own business, starting a family and the next thing you know, you’re getting diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.   This was the sudden reality that Lisa Briggs faced 12 years ago. At the time she had a toddler, a 4 month old, her own business and a whole life ahead of her, yet no one could even guarantee her tomorrow. ...

Todays episode is a big shout out to the Mum's in honour of Mothers Day but also to one special Father, Ben's Dad Tim. Happy 60th birthday to the man who fostered Ben's "give anything a go" attitude by simply saying to him, in the early days of losing his sight, "All those things you love to do, we'll find another way to do it". And so they did. Ben gives us an insight in to how, with the un-waive...