Explore the timeless craft of South Australia’s dry stone walls with Bruce Munday, paired with a tasting of Raspberry and Finger Lime Gin from 23rd Street Distillery and an emotionally raw song from Hayli.
If you think dry stone walls are just rocks playing Jenga, Bruce Munday will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about early settler ingenuity. These 150-year-old engineering marvels, standing without a drop of mortar, tell tales that would make most modern buildings blush.
Meanwhile, we put 23rd Street Distillery’s new Raspberry and Finger Lime Gin through its paces with some creative mixing shenanigans, and Hayli delivers a raw, unflinching musical truth bomb that comes with its own explicit warning.
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Running Sheet: Those Dry Stone Walls Of South Australia
00:00:00 Intro
Introduction
00:04:05 SA Drink Of The Week
The South Australian Drink Of The Week this week is the brand new Raspberry and Finger Lime Gin from 23rd Street Distillery.
Who knew gin could spark an existential crisis about adult soft drinks? While tasting 23rd Street Distillery’s new Raspberry and Finger Lime Gin, our expert sipper John Gledhill from Gledhill Vignerons had us questioning whether dark chocolate should become mandatory with all future G&Ts. The gin’s three-week berry soaking ritual paid off, although watching John experiment with Fever Tree Raspberry Tonic was like witnessing a mad scientist at work – complete with raised eyebrows and knowing nods.
Plan your spiritual journey to 23rd Street Distillery‘s temple of gin.
00:18:30 Bruce Munday, Those Dry Stone Walls Revisited
If there were a Tinder for rocks, South Australian stone would be getting all the right swipes. Bruce’s stories about our locally-sourced stone had us wondering whether these inanimate objects might have more personality than some reality TV stars. His tales of early settlers’ wall-building prowess read like an architectural thriller – no mortar, no problems, just pure geological matchmaking that’s lasted longer than most dynasties.
While modern builders reach for cement faster than a barista reaches for oat milk, Bruce reveals how traditional wall-builders were playing 3D chess with rocks. These craftspeople weren’t just stacking stones; they were writing South Australian history in granite, slate, and limestone.
The conversation meanders like a perfectly constructed wall, following the natural contours of South Australian agricultural history while occasionally scaling heights of engineering insight that would make Isaac Newton jealous. And yes, we did ask about the great wall of China comparisons – turns out size isn’t everything when it comes to wall craftsmanship.
Want to get stoned the traditional way? Grab Bruce’s book Those Dry Stone Walls Revisited from Wakefield Press
If you enjoyed Bruce’s storytelling style, hop back to his 2017 appearance where he had us going down rabbit holes (literally – it was about rabbit history in South Australia)
01:03:50 Musical Pilgrimage
In the Musical Pilgrimage, we feature Sincerely Me by Hayli.
Just when you thought we were done with raw honesty, Hayli steps up to the microphone with “Sincerely Me.”
Fair warning: this isn’t your grandmother’s love song (unless your grandmother is particularly fond of explicit lyrics about betrayal).
When she’s not crafting musical truth bombs, Hayli’s shaping young minds as a music teacher at Seaview High School, where she’s been nominated for ARIA Music Teacher of the Year. If her students inherit half her commitment to authentic expression, the future of South Australian music is in good hands.
Here’s this week’s preview video
There feature video this week actually shows you some of Bruce’s work.
SFX: Throughout the podcast we use free SFX from freesfx.co.uk for the harp, the visa stamp, the silent movie music, the stylus, the radio signal SFX, the wine pouring and cork pulling SFX, and the swooshes around Siri.
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