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🎙️ Episode 47 – Roland Allbrook (Part 1)Empire, Boarding School & The Blindfolded Boy This episode is different. No hype. No outrage clips. No culture-war bait. Just a manuscript. In Episode 47 (Part 1), I sit down with Roland Allbrook — a man I first met in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, between Kimbe and Rabaul. We were both teaching there between 2017 and 2020. I was teaching construct...

Episode 46: Brady Gunn — Standing Alone What does real courage look like? Not the loud kind. Not the social media kind. Not the “I told you so” kind. The quiet kind. The kind where a man stands in a park… alone… for nearly three months… before anyone stands beside him. In Episode 46 of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz sits down with Brady Gunn — founder of Stand In The Park — for a conversation that goes fa...

Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller (Part 2) — Pottsville Part 2 hits different, legends… this is where the story gets raw and a bit teary. Dane takes us back to the years after moving to Melbourne — the loneliness, the chronic depression he didn’t even recognise at first (sleeping 18 hours a day and thinking he was physically dying), and the way quick labels and quick fixes can numb a bloke ins...

Rock Bottom to Real Talk: Dane Miller (Part 1)When Drift Turns Into Decision There’s a moment in every man’s life where he either keeps drifting… or draws a line in the sand. Episode 45 of Who Is Your Hero isn’t about success. It’s about survival. It’s about how easy it is to lose direction when you’re young, adapting, trying to fit in, trying to belong — and sometimes rebelling against systems yo...

🐎 Episode 44 – Horses Don’t Lie (Part 2)Pause. Breath. Freedom. Part 2 of this conversation goes somewhere different. If Part 1 was about survival — anxiety, addiction, and the weight people carry quietly — Part 2 is about what comes after. What happens when you stop pushing, stop forcing, and finally learn to pause. In this episode, Buzz and Kim Daley explore freedom — not the loud, flashy kind,...

🐎 Episode 44 – Horses Don’t Lie (Part 1) Some lessons don’t come from words. They come from presence. In this episode of Who Is Your Hero, Buzz sits down with Kim Daley for a raw, unscripted conversation about horses, humans, and the things we carry beneath the surface. Horses don’t respond to ego, pressure, or performance. They respond to who you are when everything else is stripped away. This e...

EPISODE 43 – PART 4 is LIVE 🔥Paul Fidler (aka Freddy Fiddler / “Jim Morrison”) takes us behind the curtain of commercial radio and the music industry… 🎧 Record label parcels every day🎶 The songs that should’ve been hits🐒 The infamous “monkey on air” story (YES it’s real)🚨 The smoke machine “fire” prank that… may have ended a job 😳🎤 Why talent isn’t enough — marketing + momentum matters🔥 An...

In Episode 43, Part 3, Paul Fidler takes us from teenage DJing and record-shop life to a 30-year career behind the mic, where he created the on-air alter ego Jim Morrison and helped shape playlists across regional Australia. The episode explores music programming, the shift from local stations to networked shows, the responsibility of influencing daily soundtracks, and how love for music and commu...

A candid family conversation between cousins exploring their grandfather's wartime return, how toughness, humour and silence were passed down, and the everyday stories that bind a family. They mix laughter and honesty while discussing aging fathers, music, pranks and the realities of health—especially the importance of blood tests, blood pressure checks and mental wellbeing. This episode is a...

Two cousins sit down to talk family, upbringing and the hidden costs of a life behind the radio mic. They trace how mothers, fathers and childhood shaped a man who spent decades shaping the sound of regional Australia. This episode explores memory, responsibility and identity — from Sunday lunches and Johnny's story to the roots that forged a gatekeeper of music and culture. Part two will div...

Host Buzz sits down with Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, to hear his raw testimony: a violent past, a radical conversion, and nearly three decades rescuing and protecting children in Uganda through schools, trade training, wells and daily feeding programs. This episode highlights Sam’s faith-driven obedience, the challenges he’s faced with governments and personal loss, and the new documen...

Episode 41, is a prelude with Greg Mackay about Sam Childers — the man known as the "machine gun preacher." Greg shares lived experiences, showing how Sam's faith, sacrifice and action changed his life and inspired real, ongoing work to protect children. This short episode focuses on impact over controversy, personal stories of mentorship and courage, and sets up the full interview...

🎙️ NEW EPISODE DROPPEDEpisode 40 | Sunday Sessions with Buzz & Gypsy“The Truth Hits Harder Than Tinsel” This one isn’t comfortable — and it was never meant to be. We’re not cancelling Christmas. We’re not anti-kids. We’re not anti-joy. We are questioning one of the biggest stories we’re told never to question. In this episode, Buzz and Gypsy unpack:• The Santa myth — and why adults get more de...

Episode 39 – Part 2: Strength & Softness The School That Said: “Nah… We’re Doing This Properly.” G’day tribe — Buzz here. This one’s a ripper… and I’m not saying that because I’m biased (I am), I’m saying it because Melissa Thomson is the real deal. In Episode 39 (Part 2), we yarn with Melissa from Agnes Water — and we kick off with something genuinely hero-level:she helped bring a real school...

📝 PODBEAN BLOG POST (Episode 38 — Part 4) Title: EP38 (Part 4) — The Schuey Story: Own the Fear. Call Out the BS. Be the Mate. Body:This is the grand final quarter. The final beer. The last chapter of a 4-part series that turned into something way bigger than a normal interview. In Episode 38 — Part 4, Shuey and I go straight into the stuff most blokes avoid:✅ why men still struggle to talk abou...

Podbean Blog Post — Episode 38 (Part 3)The Schuey Story: Standards, Respect & Raising Young Men Welcome back, tribe — Buzz here — and this is Episode 38: Part 3 of The Schuey Story with Steve “Schuey” Schuman. If Part 1 and Part 2 were the foundation — the medals, the military, the hard-earned discipline — Part 3 is the real battlefield… the one happening right now in Aussie homes, schools, cl...

🎙️ Episode 38: Part 2 – The Schuey Schuman Story“I Promise I’ll Come Home” If you thought Part 1 of the Schuey story was big, Part 2 walks straight into your chest and sits there. This episode isn’t about tactics, rank or medals. It’s about what really matters when the dust finally settles: Family. Stephen “Schuey” Schuman opens up about the moment every soldier dreams of and fears at the same tim...

🎧 PODBEAN / SPOTIFY / APPLE DESCRIPTION Episode 38 – Part 1Stephen “Schuey” Schuman – Soldier On Tonight there’s no satire, no politician roast, no five-minute warm-up. This one starts with respect. Stephen “Schuey” Schuman is a WO1 (Ret.) with 32 years in the Australian Army – from tiny Tingha to Townsville’s 4th Field Regiment, East Timor, Helmand Province with the Brits, Kabul on Operation Sli...

Episode 36, Part 2 Sunday Sessions with Buzz & Gypsie“Camel-Saving, Dialysis Disasters & The Digital Bong” Strap in, legends — Episode 36, Part 2 is a full-blown circus of truth bombs, belly laughs, and the kind of raw honesty only Buzz and Gypsie can deliver. Buzz is recording mid-dialysis with the Starlink pointing the wrong bloody way… Gypsie’s in a paddock saving camels with AI… and so...

In Part 3 of this raw three-part yarn, PGA pro Mark De Jong and I rip the band-aid off what really keeps blokes stuck – shame, labels, depression, and the fear of actually talking. We get into why casual, non-clinical spaces like golf clubs and “Grab Life By The Balls” brekkies work better than beige pamphlets, why you should tell your mate the truth before you tell your GP a watered-down version,...

“Welcome back, legends…This is Part 2 of the Mark de Jong story — and if you thought the first round had depth, grit, and heart…mate… you haven’t heard anything yet. Because this conversation goes right into the stuff most blokes never talk about out loud. The stuff we hide behind bravado, beers, banter, and bullshit. The stuff that shapes us more than any trophy, bank balance, or highlight reel e...

🎧 PODBEAN EPISODE INTRO Episode 37: Grab Life, Swing Harder – The Mark De Jong Story (Part 1) In this powerful opening chapter, Mark De Jong sits down with Buzz and opens up like never before. From growing up with nothing…to using golf as a sanctuary…to sitting on a bridge in the darkest moment of his life — rope in hand — and choosing to live because he had a tee time with his mates the next mor...

“Sunday Sessions with Buzz & Gypsie — Humans Are Cooked in 2025” Strap in, legends — Episode 36 (Part 1) of Sunday Sessions with Buzz & Gypsie has officially dropped, and this one is a certified mind-bender. From dialysis machines to desert-wizard philosophy, meat-tray heartbreak to why humans in 2025 are mentally fried… this episode hits every corner of the modern Aussie psyche. If you’ve...

🚨 SUNDAY SESSIONS WENT LIVE – AND IT GOT WEIRD (IN THE BEST WAY) 🚨 Last night, strapped to a dialysis machine like a Christmas ham tied up in medical tubing, we hit a new milestone… For the first time ever, “Who Is Your Hero” went LIVE for Sunday Sessions – Episode 35 with:🎙️ Buzz (from the dialysis chair in North QLD)🧠 Carly – the calm brain, translator & sanity checker🌀 Gypsie – the spir...

Episode 34 – Part 2: “How the Hell Did We Get Here?” (Buzz & Gypsie) The boys are back — and somehow still not cancelled. 😂In Part 2, Buzz and Gypsie go from chaos to clarity: freedom, love, dogs, dialysis, and the moment you realise you’re still enough. It’s raw, it’s funny, it’s real Aussie talk about life, loss, and laughing through the madness. Plus, a sneak peek at what’s coming next: Pa...