Real Risk Podcasts

S3 E11 Sideways Around the Globe with Rally Champion Molly Taylor

To see lots of Molly’s thrills and spills, be sure to listen to the interview on your favourite platform!. For the last episode of the series, I bring you a chat with an extraordinary Australian who is currently dominating in the highly competitive world of rally driving. After winning the Australian Rally Championship in 2016…

Read More

S3 E8 MotoGP and the Man Behind the Winners – Jeremy Burgess

Enjoy the audio version on your favourite platform! At the top end of town in motor sports – Formula 1 and MotoGP, the budgets are eye watering. The technology is beyond comprehension and the competition to get a seat or a ride is extraordinary with countless young wannabes vying for a tiny number of opportunities….

Read More

S3 E10 February Dragon Came Early – Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins

Check out the video version on YouTube under Real Risk Podcast. The 2019/20 bushfire season in Australia was the worst on record. The first ever recorded “giga-fire” that burnt across multiple states. And Greg Mullins was one of the experts who knew it was coming. Greg fought his first bush fire as a young lad…

Read More

S3 E9 Muay Thai Magic with Carly ‘Cupcake’ Gangell

See the video of Carly’s interview on YouTube under Real Risk Podcast. At 24 years of age, Adelaide Muay Thai and Karate expert has already won national and world championships. She is a successful business woman and has a passion for enabling women to be confident, strong and safe on the streets and in life…

Read More

S3 E7 Underwater Investigations – Police Diver Sergeant Dave Bacchus

Check out the video version on YouTube Like all elite branches of law enforcement or the military, the Water Operations Unit of the South Australian Police demand high standards of fitness, stamina and intelligence in their recruits. More than just divers, the team are police officers first and foremost, conducting their duties at sea and…

Read More

S3 E6 From Top Gun to Red Bull Racer – Australian Pilot Matt Hall

Check out the video version on YouTube! Matt Hall can fly pretty much anything from an airforce jet fighter to a composite MXS race plane in the Red bull air races. This Australian is a third generation pilot from New South Wales. During a high octane career spanning over 35 years, he’s learn’t a thing…

Read More

S3 E5 Thirty Eight Miles of Terror – Racing the Isle of Man TT with Davo Johnson

Image – The Grinning Dingo. Watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube at Real Risk Podcast! As Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear once said: “Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.” An on-site account of the 2003 race by Sports Illustrated writer Franz Lidz called the spectacle “38…

Read More

S3 E4 Back to Thailand – Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure

Check out the video version of Real Risk Podcast on YouTube. Craig Challen is a Perth based technical and cave diver who is equally comfortable diving deep shipwrecks and exploring caves. He and your podcast host became friends in the mid 2000’s when they discovered a shared passion for exploration, in particular in the niche…

Read More

S3 E3 Down the Barrel and the Lens – Big Waves and Surf Photography with Russell Ord and Shanan Worrell

Watch the full video interview on YouTube Russell Ord (surf photographer extraordinaire) and Shanan Worrall (big wave surfer and water safety expert) are the true definition of watermen. Both of these hardy souls come from the south west of Western Australia where the Indian Ocean swells roll onto the shore at spots like the infamous break…

Read More

S3 E2 The Theory and the Practical – Professor Simon Mitchell

Check out the video podcast on the REAL RISK YOUTUBE channel! Image by Pete Mesley Few individuals can claim to have truly expert knowledge and mastery of the practical aspects of their discipline. Dr Simon Mitchell is the Professor of Anaesthesiology at Auckland University and is widely acclaimed in the field of diving and hyperbaric medicine….

Read More