JOY 94.9 (The Hump Day Crew)

Australian Idol's Casey Barnes shed some insight into the workings of Idol after his journey ended on Sunday.

Tobias Holfelt shares about gay life in Sweeden as well as days with 23 hours of sunlight and suggests that the Swedes may not be as good at massage as we are led to believe.

Australian Idol has kicked off for 2009 and one week after the Top 12 lit up the stage it was time for the first elimination. The victim...Ashleigh Toole.

Julian Shaw is the acclaimed young director of the feature doco Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, which won him a British Film Institute Award and IF Independent Spirit Award. Darling!, which Shaw commenced production on at the age of sixteen, was released theatrically in South Africa and won a Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, as voted by 20,000 cinema-goers. An AFI Award-winning film journalist, Shaw authored the groundbreaking photo novel Modern Odysseus. Shaw wrote and directed the dramatic short Clearing the Air, starring AFI Winner Marcus Graham and AFI Nominee Rhys Wakefield. He also stars as All Black legend John Kirwan in the biographical drama All Blacks Don’t Cry.

The other day in the neighbourhood park, little Ferdinand whacked his playmate Bruno with a stick, breaking two teeth. So it is important that the parents of the boys set the right example and sit down to discuss the matter calmly and reasonably. After all, nothing will be gained by behaving like children... Human nature, red in tooth and claw. Yasmina Reza, the writer who drew maximum laughs from Minimalist art in Art, uses her corrosive wit to strip away the thin veneer of civilization. Geoff Morell takes time out to chat to the Hump Day Crew about the show and performing with Hugo Weaving.

We know and love her as Jodi from The L Word, and on top of hitting our shores next year for The L Word Convention in Sydney, we learn that there is more to Marlee Matlin than the oscar winning actress who has fought many a battle in her life.

United L Events CEO Carla D'Agostino exclusively annouces Guest no.6 of The L Word Convention in Australia on The Hump Day Crew as well as a few other surprises up her sleeve!

During your lunch hour on Friday, September 18 - log onto The Gloves Are Off at 12pm. Cathy and Jill will be hosting a call in quiz with questions based on previous episodes of The Gloves Are Off and about Sweet Adventure Vacations - so if you do your homework - you could well be on your way to some Sweet Cruisin' this November!

With Climate Change becoming an increasing factor of our futures, it is time for the YOUth to stand up and make their views count when it comes to the global conference regarding Climate Change this December

RnB/Soul Singer Carmen Hendricks, who's toured with the likes of Kate Cebrano, Kanye West and Rihanna stops by to chat to The Hump Day Crew about her gig coming up mid December and the possible launch of an EP

Hump Day Health and Healing covering body, mind, soul and energy kicks off with Chris Gregoriou, owner of Joy Sponsor Metro Body Fitness. With the changeover from Winter to Spring, he talks about how important it is to keep hydrated for all aspects of health.

Zak Mbhele talks about living in the only African country that allows gay marriage and how they celebrate.

Australian Idol has a new judge after a certain individual got more truth than he bargained for with a lie detector. The HDC want to find out exactly what Jay Dee Springbett has to offer

Art. Politics. Dogs. Chesapeake is a magical tale about a bisexual performance artist from New York, a conservative Southern politician and a dog that unites their fates forever. It’s a one-man play about the role of the arts and rolls in the dirt. Bringing Blessing’s trenchantly funny, agitprop romp to the stage are actor Alan Brough and director Todd MacDonald. Alan joins The Hump Day Crew in the studio to talk through his up coming show and more about that strange role he had on Kiwi TV.

The Hump Day Crew has a real thing about Penguins at the moment and maybe it's Ginni's bird fettish or The Bish's love of rubber.....who can tell!?! This week they discuss the crazy new trend in the Penguin world of wetsuits or is it the strange going things happening in the UK??? Listen here to get their take on RUBBER, PENGUINS and the SCIENCE around it!!