Jodie & Soda

Jodie & Soda surprise Kickstart for Kids founder Ian Steel with special donations from South Australians who want to make sure every kid has breakfast.Phil from Glengowriecalled in during Adelaide’s Breakfast show and donated $1000  to the program with helps school children achieve positive educational and self-esteem outcomes through breakfast, lunch and mentoring programs.Steel was overwhelmed by the generosity of Mix1023 listeners like Phil willing to support the cause.“Just to open your wallet and your hearts like that means so much”Phil told Jodie & Soda he wanted to donate to help the future generations.“I look at it as paying it forward, these are out future”Mix1023 took donations all morning and announced at 9am SA Time they had raised over $25,000 for Kickstart for Kids. Jodie & Soda will be hosting a special broadcast from Victoria Square Friday December 8 to raise funds for the program. For more information: https://kickstartforkids.com.au/

All the highlights from Jodie & Soda week commencing Monday November 27 including Have You Been Paying Attention Host Tom Gleisner,  Hilarious street names, Whistleblower Beautician and Soda's duck problem. 

Jodie & Soda will be hosting a special broadcast from Victoria Square Friday December 8 to raise funds for KickStart for Kids.  They catch up with Founder Ian Steel on the programs which helps school children achieve positive educational and self-esteem outcomes through breakfast, lunch and mentoring programs.“We are serving 50,00 breakfast every week now in 360 schools around South Australia now…”“10-15% of primary school’s students go to school without breakfast”For more information: https://kickstartforkids.com.au/

Jodie & Soda catch up with Australian Media Icon Kerri-Anne Kennerley who reveals her our personal experience of sexual harassment in the media industry.“I was at a party once and the back of my dress was being unzipped”“As I turned to swing around and hit said person I realised it was a really really really important person in the network and I said zip it up or I’ll deck you”Kennerley indicates sexual harassment has been around in media since she first started and recent revelations of media personalizes like Don Burke doesn't surprise her.“Sexism, the discrimination and appalling behaviour went on for years…the difference between the 80’s and 90’s was there were no laws, so it is fabulous that a lot of women are acknowledging this behaviour because who wanted to talk about it before you more than likely got fired”“Having done a few stories with Don, I know about that and what I considered was unbelievably vulgar language and I’m not shrinking violet but even in those times it shocked me”She says her ne

Jodie & Soda speak with Channel 7 Reporter Mark Mooney on an alleged plot by two teenage boys to massacre students and staff at a Riverland high school.Two teenagers a 16-year-old and 18-year-old had allegedly been planning a massacre at a South Australian school using knives and explosives, but their plot was thwarted when fellow students alerted police.Police believe there would have been significant casualties if the attack had gone ahead before the end of the school year. It's believed the pair had been planning the attack since June 1.Mooney says friends and family alerted police that the students were talking about the attack but it’s still not certain on the motive for the plot.“As you can imagine in a country town, that fellow students on Facebook are talking about why they think the kids were going to do this but at this moment we don’t have a confirmed motive”  

17-year-old Jake Jureky was born with Spina Bifida, a birth defect affecting the spine and spinal cord and a few years ago he was told some life changing news which led him and his father Jason to start an incredible adventure together.   Jake told Jodie & Soda the news made him want to live life to the fullest and take every opportunity as it comes. “I was basically told I was going to lose function in my legs 3-5 years and that was two years ago.”“We’ve created a bucket list of things that are really difficult to do without legs think like Kokoda, the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb” Jake’s father Jason has been inspired by his son’s positive outlook when it comes to looking to the future. “I think I cried for about half an hour and Jake was the one hugging me and saying look Dad its’s going to be alight and he’s like it’s not like I’m dying I’m just going to be in a wheelchair …I’m the one that’s supposed to be the adult here and Jake’s attitude is just remarkable” Join us at the next fundraising event to

Jodie & Soda speak with Whistleblower Wendy who's been a beautician for over 20 years and reveal what really happens in the waxing room... "Waxing down there is like looking an eyebrow to me I do more of them than eyebrows" "We had a young bloke come in for a wax, i popped the powder on and I turned to grab my wax and i heard 'erghh' and it was all over" Wendy reveals some people have some bizarre requests when it comes to with some piercings in unusual body parts. "I had someone who did eight piercings in one sitting because he was trying to beat his record and it was in the 'do de dad'" 

Have You Been Paying Attention host Tom Gleisner test Jodie & Soda’s memory from the past decade to see if they have been paying attention… Jodie Oddy celebrated 10 Years in Radio so Gliesner questioned if they could remember the number of different co-hosts she has had to sleeping in and missing the show. “Jodie I believe you are celebrating a big ten years on the show not even Cassie Sainsbury got that long so that’s an incredible effort, we might see if Soda has noticed enough about you over the ten years” “Jodie how many times have you slept in over the last decade?” Jodie “Three times…” Soda “What?! Tommy it’s easily it’s in double figures you should have 24!”

Masterchef Judge Matt Preston is in Adelaide launching his new book "Yummy Easy Quick" and revealed to Jodie & Soda before his love for food he had a big passion for music! “I love music, I was a punk-rocker I spent time as a teenager being a DJ with my mate Jeremy, I know more about music pre-1993 than I know about food I’m weirdly obsessive”Preston says even though he's made many television appearances from The Bold & the Beautiful to Neighbours he still has a dream of one day being in a Bollywood film. "I reckon I could do a bit of Bollywood...probably not dressed as a woman but if I have to wear a Sari to get in a Bollywood I'm up for it"  Matt Preston's new book 'Yummy Easy Quick" out on sale ahead of Christmas. 

SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens tells Jodie & Soda a new initiative SAPOL & Neighbourhood Watch have made to revamp the program and encourage younger people to get involved. “We’ve actually expanded into an online and digital forum now we’re making it easier for people to become engaged and making it easier for young people can contribute to Neighbourhood Watch and making their neighbourhood safe” More information visit: https://www.police.sa.gov.au/nhw 

All the highlights from Jodie & Soda week commencing Monday November 20, 2018 including celebrations for Jodie's 10 Years in radio, Soda's Mum Betts on her love for the Titanic and they talk about the one text message that completely changed your life! 

Jodie & Soda speak with a UK Tabloid Journalist who reveals the extreme lengths they go to, to get a great story.Sarah says social media has been a great platform for many reporters to get a comment from friends or family when it comes to celebrity stories.“You might read in the paper ‘a friend says they’re an amazing person etc.’ in a story most of the time reporters have made fake Facebook accounts and coned their way in to being one of their friends and then before you know it you’re on their Facebook and can see what they’ve posted”She also explains that sometimes journalists go undercover to get a find out is a well-known Footballer had spilt with his wife.“I dressed up as a delivery person, knocked on the door with a parcel for the wife and when they said she didn’t live there anymore that was the proof we needed”

In Australia, an average of one woman is killed every week at the hands of a current or former partner. In the Adelaide metro area alone, South Australian police receive around 400 call each week on domestic violence matters, with 10% of these considered high risk. SA Vinnies CEO David Wark tells Jodie & Soda they are opening a Women's Crisis Centre to complement our existing men's shelter and support women with short term, emergency accommodation.Authorities often have no choice but to temporarily house women in motel style accommodation, where many make the decision to return to a dangerous and abusive relationship.Wark hopes the news facility will provide a safe place for women in Adelaide and hopefully will change the behaviour on many returning to unsafe homes. “The statistic is 8 times a woman will leave and go back before they make the hard call I’m out permanently”Located in the Northern Suburbs the centre is a 20 room facility anticipated to accept guests from October 2017 and will be staffed 24

Jodie & Soda are joined by Australian Music Legend Paul Kelly as they celebrate his most recent album Life is Fine taking him to the top of the ARIA charts.The 10-time ARIA winner and ARIA Hall of Fame inductee says he has fond memories of growing up in Adelaide’s Kensington Gardens and tells the story of how he was born in a car just outside the Calvary Hospital in North Adelaide. “Just didn’t quite make it I was number six so I came out pretty quick!”

Soda couldn’t believe that he’s related to someone who was on the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912.His mum Betts revealed she found out a few years ago that a long-lost relative survived the sinking of the iconic ship and it led her to start researching her family history."My Auntie by marriage was on the Titanic, she was 8 years old and she was deaf she was with her father so when they said, ‘all the women and children on the lifeboats’ her father was allowed to go with her because no one could communicate with her except him because she was deaf" “I have a fascination with the Titanic like some people do and there’s a Titanic Theatre Restaurant we were meant to go there last week you were in Melbourne but you couldn’t come…”

Jodie was surprised with a special ‘10 Years on Radio’ tribute at Mix1023 and the biggest surprise was Soda’s emotional tribute to Jodie after spending 4 years by her side in breakfast radio.“I love that every day I’ve been able to cast the rod and most of the time I don’t even need the bait to get a bite from you…”“You’re the one person in Adelaide media who drives agendas and you have the ability to connect with people and I’ve sat back and watch you make a difference to hundreds and perhaps even thousands of people here in Adelaide”

AFL Women's and Olympic basketball star Erin Phillips told Jodie & Soda she’s still emotional after the announcement of Australia voting 61.6% ‘Yes’ for Same-Sex Marriage and is excited on how it will change life for her family for the future. “Little things like being able to put Tracey on Health insurance right now it’s just me and the kids there’s a lot of separation with things here in Australia. There’s a lot of little things that will make our life a lot easier and happier” The AFLW champion and basketball legend married her wife Tracy Gahan, in Hawaii three years ago and said it may be awhile until they renew their vows in Australia but she’s thankful Australia is making the change. ​“To everyone out there who voted ‘Yes’ thank you from the bottom of our hearts, one more step to go!”

Jodie & Soda speak with Westminster student Abigail Wicks who along with fellow students have won the Year 10 section of the National Maths Talent Quest.Abigail says they used their own research and mathematical formulae to discover if Titanic’s Jack & Rose could have survived the sinking of the historic ship in1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. “Using maths, we were able to find out if they both could have fit on the door and floated”“We found out if they put both their life jackets under the door they both would have survived”  Abigail Wicks, Christy Zhang and Julia Damato from Adelaide’s Westminster School took out the national competition after winning their section of the state-based MASA Junior Secondary Mathematics Enrichment Project Awards.

South Australian Senator Penny Wong told Jodie & Soda they are on a mission to have the same-sex marriage bill passed by Christmas.“It’s a really momentous occasion to have a bill supported by the two major parties and so many people from the cross bench, the motion we passed also will require that bill to be dealt with by the Senate by the end of November 30, my word is we should all be working to finish this by Christmas”Whilst Senator Wong said she’s in no rush to propose to her partner Sophie but she hopes it will change the way Australians think for future generations including her daughters.“I think about our daughters Alexandra and Hannah and the world I want for them”“And the love and the commitment we have is seen for what it’s worth and not diminished in anyway and I think it’s about the country and the world I want for them”

Jodie & Soda chat with Whistleblower Renae who explains who she likes sleeping with married men and has done it for the past 5 years. Renae said she doesn’t feel guilty about seeing men who at times had a wife and kids at home who were completely unaware.“No I don’t feel guilty, I’m not after anything I’m just after having a bit of fun, I’m not trying to take him away from his wife I don’t want a relationship”Renae’s controversial chat sparked angry callers like Fiona who has known firsthand what it’s like for a woman to have an affair with her partner.“That woman makes me absolutely sick! She is disgusting a vile creature, I don’t know how she can do!”