Bacchus Marsh

Your childhood team needs you, Zach.

Can you please come to the Doggies? And since your parents live in Bacchus Marsh, it's quicker to drive to Mars Stadium than GMHBA."

Mm.

"And the Dogs have a really good midfield, and you will be unstoppable and win multiple flags."

... 'cause the government tax the shit out of us, and I need to make a profit."

Yes.

"Your parents live in Bacchus Marsh, so they know what a dump looks like.

So Geelong-

How does this get done?

I think it got done, apparently, through a little kid sending a, I don't know if you read, there was an article on the AFL.com today that was, that was, that Cal Toomey posted about, like, a kid ended up in a letterbox to Zach Butters, being like, he was a dog supporter, and he came, and he said something like, can you come play for the dogs? You would be closer to drive, because as we all know, Zach Budd is from Bacchus Marsh.

So they said, can you come play for the dogs? And then in itself it said, it's going to be closer for you to drive to Bacchus Marsh from Mars Stadium than it would be from GMHBA.

But in terms of, ha ha, very funny, good joke, little boy.

But I think how it got done was I think there was a lot of brains.

Today, we're going to be speaking about someone who is an ultimate queer bushranger who has been uncovered.

and has an amazing queer history and queer narrative that truly will tug on your heartstrings especially as we go through their story so i cannot wait to begin talking about the one the only captain moonlight yes sort of narrative when it goes across not only the west but it goes all the way up to ballarat in new south wales but he did have a very prominent kind of uh focus and understanding and also story and history within melbourne's west especially in places like Bacchus Marsh, Williamstown, and also a little bit more closer towards the city as well.

So I cannot wait to uncover this.

But Kyle, I think we have an amazing, intimate, special guest with us.

He said later on in court records that the reason he left the colonial militia was that he became horrified at the treatment of the Maori, particularly the killing of women and children and civilians in the conflict.

He ended up coming into Victoria in the 1860s.

Now, then he served for quite a while as a lay preacher in the Bacchus Marsh Anglican Church.

I came across a great quote about him from one of his parishioners.

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Bacchus Marsh, Melton, um, you know, Essendon.

There, there's a whole bunch of them.

Um-

Come on, mate

... at, uh, OHD in Maddingley, in brackets Bacchus Marsh, uh, with his parents back a couple of weeks ago.

Unbeknownst to me as I walked straight past him, oblivious of the local stardom, as I was taking my kid to swim lessons next door.

Uh, curiously for the details of the podcast, um, I asked my wife what Sam was eating, but she says she didn't see enough other than being seated outside on the picnic table.

So he was there, um, and yeah, it's a biggie.

He's from Bacchus Marsh, I think.

Yeah.

Yep.