Ben Waterworth, Radio Host, Serial Podcaster, Famous for making Hobart Famous!

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Born and raised in Hobart, where I lived for the first 31 years of my life. In college (grade 11) I got into radio after starting my journalism studies and was offered a radio show on the spot after my first shift as part of our class schedule. That role grew, was at Edge Radio in Hobart for 11 years. Through that I interviewed numerous prominent people from Prince Charles to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, from Willem Dafoe to the lead singer of Eifel 65 and Kevin Bacon. Outside of interviews we started up a joke bid in 2005 for a 'Hobart 2016' Olympic Bid, which we eventually changed to 'Hobart 2020'. It was a constant segment that we would get 'support' from our guests including the Premier of Tasmania (a few of them even), prominent Olympians (Steven Bradbury, Jane Saville) and other big names. It eventually took off to the point where we were getting flown to Melbourne to sit with major companies wanting to sponsor us, being touted by global bidding agencies and having fans around the world show support from buying merchandise (pins & t-shirts) and taking photos of them with the logo in front of global landmarks. We were talked about on national TV & radio and were even talked about by John Coates at an AOC meeting (we heard at least this happened). It was a lot of fun, went a bit too far and somehow I was a finalist as Australian of the Year in Tasmania and got nominated for the Tasmanian Young Achievers for it. So, yeah. Some fun! But it was great to promote little ol' Tassie and Hobart on a global scale with the attention we got from a little radio joke. Which confirms as I mentioned that I'll be the least inspirational person you'll ever have on!
As for more about me, well, there's other random stuff along the way which has now seen me move here to Victoria in BC in Canada. You can check out my website (benwaterworth.com) if you want to read some other random stuff and see my other work, or just Google me to no doubt find some random stuff which will mainly be probably hate threads against me from the Survivor community from my days as a leading Survivor podcast host. Either that or you'll confuse me with the more famous Ben Waterworth sports broadcaster, somebody who I often get hate mail for. It's all a fun time!

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