Earth Matters

 

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Past shows on Earth Matters 

 

20th May - Ask No Questions Tell No Lies: Surviving in a Digital Police State

The Environment Defenders Office is currently involved in legal action against the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) and is challenging police powers to collect and retain footage of people at protests in relation to a 2010 climate change protest at Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley.

Guests: Anthony Kelly, Flemington & Kensington CommunityLegal Centre; Anna Brown, Human Rights Law Centre; Jan Beer, Plug the Pipeline
Presenter: Nicky Stott

13th May - The Price of Oil: Deforestation in the Bornean Province of Kalimantan

Kalimantan is currently being deforested at one of the fastest rates in the world. The process of logging, burning and subsequent plantations of palm oil and mining is creating revenue for the Jakarta Government, but it has lead to Indonesia becoming the third highest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world after China and the US.

Guests: Members of Tembak Village, West Kalimantan, Rachael Lowry, Zoos Victoria, Martin Pritchard, anti-palm oil campaigner with Friends of the Earth, Cathy Henkel, DEFORESTaction; Jean Kern, Orangutan Outreach Nederland. 
Presenter: Holly Hutchinson

6th May – A Matter of Conscience

Arabunna Elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott's challenge to Fed Court approval of BHP-Billeton's Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion gets dismissed - BHP & the Fed Gov seek court costs from Uncle Kev, who is an elderly pensioner. Also, update from Portland Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

Guests:  Donna Jackson, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation & Australian Nuclear Free Alliance; Nectaria Calan, Friends of the Earth Adelaide; Aunty Sandra Onus (Gunditjamara Elder), Wungut Traditional Owners Corporation & Portland Aboriginal Tent Embassy 
Presenter: Nicky Stott 

29th April – Sovereign River

Twenty one Original Nations in New South Wales and Queensland have united to reclaim control over the water flows in the northern river basin. The Chairperson of the Northern Murray Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations, Fred Hooper (Murrawarri traditional custodian), says Original Peoples never gave up their sovereignty over the basin in the first place – and are calling for it to be returned. 

Guests:  Fred Hooper, Northern Murray Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) 
Presenter: Nicky Stott

22nd April – Joining the Dots

A wider picture on the systemic crisis facing complex, modern industrialised society & how the major issues which inform it – Peak Oil, Climate Change, water, food, economy – are all inextricably linked; what we are currently operating on is not sustainable and facing up to the solutions 

Guests:  David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator; Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotecture; Dr Stephan Harding, Gaian theorist/ecologist; Helena Norberg Hodge, The Economics of Happiness; Ian Dunlop, Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas 
Presenter: Nicky Stott 

15th April – Protecting Sacred Yindjibarndi Land

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation CEO Michael Woodley on campaign to protect the Yindjibarndi People’s sacred land & sovereign rights from iron ore giant Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) 

Guests:  Michael Woodley, Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation;  Les Malezer, Global Indigenous Caucus
Presenter: Nicky Stott

8th April – Clashing with the Coal Trolls 

Friends of the Earth campaigner Derec Davies updates on the Coal Port expansion at Gladstone Harbour and the direct action campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Rising Tide Newcastle spokesperson Nicola Bowskill on the annual harbour blockade success amidst plans to build a fourth terminal there.

Guests:  Derec Davies, Friends of the Earth; Nicola Bowskill, Rising Tide Newcastle 
Presenter: Nicky Stott

1st April – Policy, Economics & Impacts: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 

Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director & Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and the Co-Chair for the Working Group 3 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), speaks about climate change policy, energy economics & what the impacts will be on global energy supply chain as we attempt to transition towards a low emissions future.

Guests: Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Presenter: Jessie Boylan 

25th March – Protecting Forest, Protecting Rights: Non-violent Militant Resistance in WA

29th Jan - An iconic battle - nature refuge vs mega coal mine

There’s an iconic battle shaping up in inland Queensland, as mining magnate Clive Palmer attempts to build Australia’s biggest coal mine slap bang on top of a nature refuge. But what does it mean for climate, and the local economy? 

Guests: Paola Cassoni, Bimbleblox Nature Refuge; John Hepburn, Greenpeace, 
Presenter: Dominca Settle

24th Jan - Sovereignty or Bust: Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary

Indigenous elders around the country are inviting all first peoples, supporters and other members of the general public, to come together at the 'Aboriginal Tent Embassy' site, on Thursday 26th January 2012, to celebrate "SOVEREIGNTY DAY" and be part of the Sacred Fire Ceremonial Gathering that will mark 40 years since the first protest on the site. 

Guests: Michael Anderson, Euahlayi Elder; Isabel Coe, Wiradjuri Elder & well known, veteran tent embassy activist 
Presenter: Nicky Stott

8th Jan - Diary of a Forest Activist: Part One

This week on Earth Matters Ta Ann is the new Gunns! Eco-Warrior Miranda Gibson simutaneously wrestles with economic ambiguities & high velocity winds in the treetops of southern-central Tasmania.

Guests  Miranda Gibson, Still Wild Still Threatened; Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre 
Presenter: Nicky Stott

1st Jan - Freeport: the military, the mine and its multibillion dollar blind eye (Part 2)

Indigenous West Papuans live in fear of the Indonesian security forces. In the last nine years Freeport McMoran paid them $US 65 million for protection. The second part of a two-part program on the Freeport mine focuses on the company’s complicity in brutal military repression.

Guests: Richard Chauvel, academic; Diarmid O'Sullivan, Global Witness;Kylie McKenna, PhD research student; John Ondawame, West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation; Abigail Abrash, human rights advocate; John Braithwaite, author; Pius Ginting, Friends of the Earth Indonesia.
Presenter: Jenny Denton   

25th Dec - 'Free for Some' - Part 1

Award winning, two-part documentary on the massive resource extraction operation at the heart of West Papua's environmental and human rights tragedy - the Freeport McMoran copper and gold mine. This first part focuses on the devastating impacts of the mine on the environment and on the indigenous Amungme and Kamoro people. 

Guests: John Ondawame, West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation; Abigail Abrash, human rights advocate; John Braithwaite, author; Pius Ginting, Friends of the Earth Indonesia.
Presenter: Jenny Denton  

18th Dec - Wild rivers & threatened forests

Environment East Gippsland is in court again over logging by VicForests it says is illegal. Meanwhile the government’s new timber industry plan would give VicForests control over where and how much to harvest. In Queensland there’s been good news, though, with the protection of three rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin under the state’s wild rivers legislation. 

Guests: Jill Redwood, Environment East Gippsland; Luke Chamberlain, Wilderness Society; Glenn Walker, Queensland Wilderness Society

Presenter: Jenny Denton

11th Dec -   Change the System, Not the Climate

In Mandingalbay Yidinji Country, an “Indigenous Protected Area” agreement has been signed in existing World Heritage areas for the first time in Australia since the European Invasion. Also, the UN Climate Change Summit winds up in South Africa. 

Guests: Vince Mundraby, Djunbunji Land & Sea Project (PDF), 3cr's Asia Pacific Currents producer, blogger Clancy Moore; Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth. 
Presenter: Nicky Stott

5th Dec -  Spraying carcinogens over Newcastle

Spraying carcinogens over Newcastle: A series of chemical leaks at Orica’s plant in Newcastle have raised questions, not just about Orica’s track record but also about how we handle chemical facilities across the country 

 

29th Nov -  Geo-thermal energy

An exciting new pilot geo-thermal energy project on Victoria’s south coast is a cleaner alternative to the local dirty brown coal industry. But a concerned rural community doesn’t want it in their backyard. Friends of the Earth say shut the coal mine down & build it there – it’s not rocket science!

Presenter: Nicky Stott

20th Nov- Who Owns It? Climate Change & Social Injustice 

Carbon tax/trading are solutions which suit a capitalist framework/model, but the people who reduce their consumption are the people least able to afford it. The privatisation of energy manufacture & distribution has left governments with few options that do not place price pressures directly on consumers to decrease the unacceptable levels of C02 emissions are currently pumping out 

Guests:  Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism, Sonia Qadir, Justice Project Pakistan, Duncan Roden, Parramatta Climate Action Network
Presenter: Nicky Stott

13th Nov - Power to the Community - Hepburn's Winds of Change

Hepburn community wind farm's official opening and launch festival 5 November with keynote speaker, climate scientist David Karoly. 

Guests: climate scientist, David Karoly
Presenter: Nicky Stott 

5th Nov - Dirty Dozen

How money back when you recycle a drink container could create 1,000 jobs (and how Coca-Cola is blocking this); why smarter fishing could be worth nearly a billion dollars to our economy; and how a school kitchen garden is getting kids eating sustainably.

Guests: Jeff Angel, Total Environment Centre; Laura Eadie, Centre for Policy Development; Kim Albert, Foster Primary School,
Presenter: Domenica Settle

30th Oct - Waking the Angry Lizard 

BHP Billiton gets free ticket to expand their dirty, destructive & dangerous Olympic Dam project in SA. Nov 17 protest planned outside BHP’s Annual General Meeting in Melbourne. Interviews: Arabunna & Larrakia activists & Friends of the Earth

 

23rd Oct - Coal = carbon

 

16th Oct - Arab Spring to Global Summer 

The global Occupy movement is being compared with the great civil disobedience movements of the 1960s & 70s. But just how radical is it really, especially in the context of our dire environmental situation? And isn’t the use of the word “Occupy” kinda, sorta just a little bit dodgey in the context of post-colonial countries such as Australia?

Guests: Lisa DePiano, Mobile Design Lab; Viv & Maya, Indigenous Liaison Working Group, Occupy Melbourne
Presenter: Nicky Stott

9th Oct - What mining boom?

The Australia Institute says that the mining industry has us fooled and its impact on the economy isn't that big. And Christine Phelps has a more personal take on the impact of mining, as her neighbours decide to leave a shire riddled with mines.

Guests: Christine Phelps, Muswellbrook Shire Council; Richard Denniss, The Australia Institute
Presenter: Dominca Settle.

2nd Oct - Coal seam gas - coming your way?

We get the perspective of one scientist and two environmentalists on the industry that’s busting out of Queensland’s borders and looks set to get a clear run in Victoria.

Guests: Peter Stone, CSIRO's Gas Industry Social & Environmental Research Alliance; Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth; Drew Hutton, Gate Alliance
Presenter: Jenny Denton 

25th Sept - Restoring the balance between river and land

Will the new Murray-Darling Basin Plan restore the balance between water for the environment and use for industry and agriculture? Hear a panel of experts discuss this complex issue that’s dividing scientists, farmers, local communities and conservationists.

Guests: Kerry O'Brien, host; Arlene Harriss-Buchan, Australian Conservation Foundation; Danny O’Brien, National Irrigators Council; Ben Gawne, The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre; Neil Byron, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists; Barry Hart, Murray Darling Basin Authority.
Presenter: Christie Stott 

18th Sept - No Harvey No!

A new non-violent direct action organisation called The Last Stand is targeting retailers who stock products made from Australian native wood – the Harvey Norman retail chain is first on their list & Oct 8th is a Global Day of Action!!

Guests:Tim Birch, Markets for Change; Nicola Paris, The Last Stand
Presenter: Nicole Stott

11th September - Logging unites Black Saturday community

After surviving Black Saturday, the community just north east of Melbourne is being united by the fight to stop one of the few nearby bits of unburnt forest from being logged. And the trees are being turned into to Reflex paper. 

Guests: Sarah Rees, My Environment; Luke Chamberlain, The Wilderness Society
Presenter: Dominca Settle

4th September - Sustainable House Day

Around Australia, Sunday 11 September is Sustainable House Day, when you can go and visit green buildings and their owners to find out what sorts of changes are possible and how best to go about them. Today we hear from three women who’ve taken matters into their own hands to create these sorts of buildings – and to develop like-minded communities in the process.

Guests: Pia Vogrin, Dorotee Brown, Kerry Shepherd - www.sustainablehouseday.com - www.shmeco.com - www.theecovillage.com.au
Presenter: Jenny Denton 

29th August - Don't end it, mend it

Are we losing the skills to repair items? Or do people spend too much time buying stuff to bother fixing things? Eight creative collaborators pair up at The Repair Workshop to investigate how to fix and reimagine items that were on the way to landfill.

Guests: therepairworkshops.blogspot.com - Emma Grace and Leyla Arjarloo (organisers) and  Will Campbell, Timothy Denshire-Key, Scott Mitchell, Lizzy Sampson, Gregory Crocetti, and Yvette King (creative inventors)
Presenter: Christie Stott

21st August - Combating food waste to connect communities

The world produces enough food to feed everyone, yet one in seven people go hungry. We take a look at efforts around Melbourne to connect people through cultivating local produce and combating food waste.

Guests: Russell Shields,SecondBite; Jennifer Alden, Cultivating Community
Presenter: Christie Stott

14th August - Arkaroola saved and SA hits windpower milestone

Good news! For a while now there's been a campaign to save Arkaroola in outback SA from uranium mining. At the end of July it won. And South Australia has reached a milestone, with 20 percent of its energy production now coming from wind power.

Guests: Marg Sprigg, Arkaroola resident; Tim Sonnreich, Clean Energy Council
Presenter: Dominca Settle

7th August - Bees: the Asian incursion & other threats

Compared to the US, where the term 'colony collapse disorder' was coined, Australia's got healthy honey bees. What's got beekeepers and scientists worried though is an invasion from the north. Asian bees have hitched a ride from PNG into Cairns, where they've set up house and started to spread. Dr Denis Anderson from the CSIRO explains the threats to the environment, the bee industry and possibly agriculture of the apis cerano.

Guests: Dr Denis Anderson, CSIRO
Presenter: Jenny Denton

30th July - Urban forestry: towers through the trees

Green urban spaces are places to reinvigorate our minds and keep our bodies healthy, so why do we allow them to be overrun by pollution, disease, sprawl and drought? Urban Forestry identifies trees as a critical element of urban infrastructure and is a method for creating sustainable urban ecosystems.

Guests: Dr Cecil C Konijnendijk, Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning; Dr Rod Marsh, Netbalance; Dr Dimity Williams, Doctors for the Environment Australia; Natasha Mitchell, ABC RN (host)
Presenter: Christie Stott

24th July - Lurujarri Songline; Protecting Land & Sea

The incredible story of the James Price Point Blockade in the Kimberley where 25 people were arrested for protesting this month & Joseph Roe is inspiring a divided community to reunite & save the ancient Songline of the Goolaraboloo People. Also, Gunns' Triabunna Woodchip Mill, SOLD!!

Guests: Kevin Blatchford, Save The Kimberley; Jenny Weber, Huon Valley Environment Centre
Presenter: Nicky Stott 

17th July - Solar hot water and people power

A vision to set up a workers’ cooperative building solar hot water units in the Latrobe Valley, which ultimately wants to involve people across the country and change our economy. Plus other ideas for changing our economy, starting in your own neighbourhood.

Guests: Dave Kerin, Latrobe Valley
Presenters: Domenica Settle  

10th July - Blue heart on code red

Blue heart on code red - When 27 ocean experts from around the world met at Oxford University earlier this year to compare research, they concluded that the speed and extent of marine degeneration had been even worse than the worst predictions, and that we’re on track for a marine extinction event of a magnitude not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs.

Guests:  Professor Chris Reid, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science; Jeff Hansen, Australian Sea Shepherd; International expert panel on oceans report, www.stateoftheocean.org; Tooni Mahto, Australian Marine Conservation Sustainable Seafood Guide; make a submission on South West marine sanctuary planning process - www.environment.gov.au
Presenter: Jenny Denton

3rd July - Community powering change

Hepburn is a community powering change. After six years community stalls, planning, permits, environmental monitoring, locals investing up to 9 million dollars, the wind farm turbines are now spinning. And finally a scheme for recycling TVs and computers – new legislation ensures ewaste will be recycled.

Guests: Simon Holmes à Court, Hepburn Wind Farm; Jeff Angel, Total Environment Centre
Presenter: Christie Stott

26th June - Plan B: Manufacturing Climate

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in Lima this week to talk about the very real likelihood of going ahead with Plan B - widescale geo-engineering experiments on the planet (such as injecting massive amounts of sulphur into the atmosphere or massive amounts of iron filings into the ocean) as a last ditch, desperate solution to global warming.

Guests: Diana Bronson, ETC Group & Hands Off Mother Earth Campaign
Presenter: Nicky Stott 

19th June - The Raging Battle Over Marine Parks

There's a raging debate going on over how much of our oceans we should protect in marine parks. But despite how the debate's portrayed, it turns out not to be as simple as environmentalists on one side and fishers on the other.

Guests: Jim Harnwell, Fishing World Magazine; Jill St John, The Wilderness Society; Dr Stephen Sutton, James Cook University; Info on proposed marine park network for south west of Australia www.environment.vic.gov.au
Presenters: Domenica Settle 

13th June - In Search of the Hermit Within (Part 2)

Part 2 of Peter Davis and Stewart Nestel's documentary features interviews with people who've lived as solitaries in Australian forests. And in the last part of the program, environmentalist Cam Walker discusses how people camping in forests can minimise their environmental impact.

Guest Presenters: Peter Davis and Stuart Nestel

 

5th June - Plugging the people

Victoria's water infrastructure projects are failing on a number of fronts – but what the government didn’t count on was violating the rights of protesters against the projects when allowing private construction companies access to police and government records. Or did they?

Guests: Christopher Heislers, Watershed Victoria; Elizabeth McKinnon, Victorian Environmental Defenders Office
Presenter: Christie Stott

29th May - Paradise is a Radioactive Waste Dump

Corporate Mining Heavyweight Lynas plans to ship radioactive minerals from WA to Malaysia. Where will they dump the radioactive waste & what if something goes wrong?

Guests: Fuziah Salleh (ahli parlimen kuantan); Lee Tan: Australian Conservation Foundation, Mia Pepper: Australian Conservation Foundation.
Presenter: Nicky Stott

22nd May - The  Kimberley Gas Hub: Negotiations, money and what now

Traditional owners agreed to a gas hub in the Kimberley earlier this month. What was the story of those negotiations? What’s mining’s track record when it comes to Indigenous people’s incomes? Could the economic impact be “miniscule”? And what no

Guests: Various
Presenters: Domenica Settle

17th May - The Hermit Within (Part 1)

The first part of Peter Davis and Stewart Nestel's documentary meditation on 'solitaries' - people who drop out of the mainstream and live in Australian forests. Part two will go to air on 10 June.

Guest Presenters: Peter Davis and Stuart Nestel

8th May - Chernobyl = Fukushima

The ongoing Crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and what this terrible global disaster signifies for Australia’s uranium export industry.

Guests: Tomohiro Matsuoka, Japanese for Peace; Dr Jim Green, Friends of the Earth, Australia; Dave Sweeney, Australian Conservation Foundation; Dr Chris Busby, Green Audit; Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists
Presenter: Nicky Stott

1st May - What is the world worth? Nature and the balance sheet

A lecture delivered by Pavan Sukhdev, an economist and the head of the UN Green Economy Initiative. Pavan was in Australia in 2010, as a guest of the Centre for Policy Development in Sydney.

Guests: Pavan Sukhdev, UN Green Economy Initiative
Presenter: Rachel Maher  

24th April - No right to say no

Coal and coal seam gas projects are moving in on people's land, and there's little land owners can do to stop them. But the issue is uniting people across the country, who will be converging on the Darling Downs at the end of the month to voice their opposition.
Guests: Ruth Armstrong, Save our Darling Downs, Rob McCreath, Friends of Felton,
Cassie McMahon, Friends of the Earth; Information on Rock the Gate Festival
Presenter: Domenica Settle

16th April - Carbon tax time

It looks like Australia's finally going to get some government action on carbon reduction, but how effective will the scheme be in cutting our greenhouse gas pollution and transforming the economy? Today's show struggles to come to grips with the carbon tax, and asks the big question: is it better than nothing?

Guests: Professor Bill Mitchell, Centre of Full Employment and Equity at Newcastle University; Matthew Wright, Beyond Zero Emissions
Presenter: Jenny Denton

10th April - I gotta padlock 'n chain!

Environmental activists/Sydney band,the Lurkers, speak about how their “homespun, subversive, blue grass” music is bringing songs of rebellion to a new generation. Also, the latest update from the Stop HRL campaign about an action planned in opposition to the likelihood of the Victorian EPA approving Victoria's new coal-fired power station.

Guests: Mithra Cox (Desert Rat Shorty), Nick Mueller (the Weary Hobo), Martin Cubby (Pretty Boy Floyd), The Lurkers; Shaun Murray, Stop HRL Campaign
Presenter: Nicky Stott

3rd April - No penalties for marine pollution

Australia’s worst marine oil blowout can’t stop the boom – it’s business as usual for oil companies, but who's keeping an eye on them? And Your Home, a practical guide to more environmentally sustainable building and renovating.

Guests: Michael Power, Victorian Environmental Defenders Office; Paul Downton, sustainable architect and contributing author
Presenter: Christie Stott

27th March - Energy Futures and Desert Knowledge

This week Earth Matters heads to Alice Springs for the Energy Futures and Climate Week, a series of free events happening aimed at public education.

Guests: Alex Kelly, Desert Knowledge Australia; Jimmy Cocking, Arid Lands Environment Centre
Presenter: Rachel Maher  

20th March – Pesticides in your drinking water?

A recent study has found 56 pesticides in a river which supplies some of Melbourne's drinking water. But is the problem bigger than that? Also, hear how WA's plans to massively expand coal power are not going quite to plan.

Guests: Anthony Amis, Friends of the Earth; Jo Immig, National Toxics Network; Louise Morris from the Conservation Council of Western Australia
Presenter: Domenica Settle

13th March – Uncontacted tribes & Tasmania's forest agreement

Forests - some hope for the safety of some uncontacted tribes in South America. And what’s going on in Tasmania? There's no sign of the logging moratorium that was supposed to start this month.

Guests: Sarah Shenker, Survival International; Miranda Gibson, Still Wild Still Threatened
Presenter: Jenny Denton

6th March – Learning to live without fire

Michael Reynolds (aka “The Garbage Warrior”) public presentation on Earthship Biotecture at CERES Environment Park, Feb 2011 . Interviews with Daryl Taylor (Biotecture Australia) on high risk fire zone rebuilding, local projects and the new Australian Biotecture Academy initiative; and Nathaniel Coombs (Earthship, Australia) on the CERES project.

Guests: Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotecture & CERES Environment Park; Daryl Taylor, Biotecture Australia; Nathaniel Coombs, Earthship Australia
Presenter: Nicky Stott

 

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 Get to Know Your 3CR, June 2011:

We're a damn fine weekly show looking at environmental issues from a social justice and grassroots point of view. We're produced at 3CR and played by community radio stations right across the country, and we're about to turn 15 - covered in pimples!

What is it about 3CR that rocks your socks off?
That it speaks to so many people, from little old ladies listening to marching bands on a Sunday evenings to, it seems, the entire Tamil community of Melbourne, to people wanting to know what's happening in the world of pansexual issues.

What’s your most memorable moment from 3CR?
Sitting in a studio hearing people's stories, whether that's West Papuan activists, farmers trying to protect their farms from coal seam gas, or Sea Shepherd members fighting whaling in the Antarctic.

Why should people donate to 3CR?
Because the mainstream media would have you think that chicken on Masterchef was last week's most important issue for humanity -- who knows what trite issue will be the hot topic next? Independent media is for real issues, real people and their stories. And needs real financial support!

You’re stranded on a deserted island. What people-powered invention will you create to get past your boredom?
A catapult to fling flaming coconuts at passing ships so that they notice we're there and rescue us, and get us back to the studio before deadline!