The Yearly Check-up: Recent Episodes
RMIT Media Pods
A six-part series exploring how the events of this year have changed the soundtrack of our everyday lives. 2020 has been a difficult and emotion-charged year. And each episode focuses on a different emotion - from fear and anger, to happiness, surprise, grief and importantly, hope. Produced by RMIT Media students in Melbourne, Australia.
Throughout this podcast, we’ve experienced an array of different emotions. But in the tumultuous year that is 2020, we can’t forget the most important one, Hope.
The final episode of The Yearly Checkup is brought to you by Maddy, Evelyn and Kaleisha.
Transcript available here.
Did you know there are 16 symptoms of grief?
In this episode of 'The Yearly Checkup' we take a look at three of them - detachment, anxiety and frustration by talking to people about their lived experiences during this global pandemic.
Chau chats with her friend Amy about the grief of breaking up, Sarah chats to Michael about the grief of surviving a bushfire, and Simon speaks with Georgie and Jean about the grief of losing a loved one and not being able to say goodbye.
Find the transcript here
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It is one of the most interesting emotions we have, the emotion of surprise. It comes in many different shapes and sizes, and in this episode, Billy, Leith and Zhen all share their biggest surprises in the year of 2020.
Transcript available here:
An exploration of anger in a time of intense change and isolation.
Warning: this podcast contains a discussion of domestic violence. If this raises concerns for you or you need help, please contact 1800 Respect, the National Sexual Assault, Family & Domestic Violence Counselling Line (for Australian listeners).
Transcript available here
In a year full of obstacles, what are the things that make us happy? Join Joel, Chelsea and Mason as they explore what happiness has meant to us in 2020.
Link to transcript HERE.
Link to show notes HERE.
Music:
- Hiraeth by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 | Free Download /Stream: http://bit.ly/al-hiraeth | Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iZdPxAXsd5k
- Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 | Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship | Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-FrY1jeHB2s
- Goosetaf - Bumblebee - https://thmatc.co/?l=36843D34
- whitesand - Forgotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7YRbVWx4w
- Music for Video Library - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TboWOSW7qCI
SFX:
- ‘Pump turn machine on MONO’ (https://freesound.org/s/524016/) by stiffman (https://freesound.org/people/stiffman/) of Freesound.org
- ‘Melbourne street with trams passing XY.WAV’ (https://freesound.org/s/360760/) by dnlburnett (https://freesound.org/people/dnlburnett/) of Freesound.org
- ‘Alarm clock short.wav’ (https://freesound.org/s/219244/) by ZyryTSounds (https://freesound.org/people/ZyryTSounds/) of Freesound.org
- Page Turn - Please Turn Over (PTO) - paper_turn_over.wav (https://freesound.org/s/63318/) by flag2 (https://freesound.org/people/flag2/) of Freesound.org
- ‘Wind Chimes, A.wav’ (https://freesound.org/s/353194/) by InspectorJ (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/) of Freesound.org
- ‘Tavern_Ambience_Inside_Laughter.WAV’ (https://freesound.org/s/326313/) by ivolipa (https://freesound.org/people/ivolipa/) of Freesound.org
- ‘TrainCoal.wav’ (https://freesound.org/s/267544/) by mshahen (https://freesound.org/people/mshahen/) of Freesound.org
In this episode we hear from people who have encountered fear in 2020, and how this has provoked new anxieties for the future. In these three stories we're discussing a first pregnancy, an unexpected saving grace from the hostility of loneliness, and a nation in social ruin at the hands of two men.
Transcript available here