Tess Nguyen
Host · asks the money questions
Ran a café in Adelaide’s west for years before swapping the espresso machine for a microphone. Will always ask what something cost.
Small Talk, Big Ideas
Honest conversations with the people who run Adelaide’s small businesses — the maths, the mistakes and the small ideas that worked.
New episode every second Tuesday · recorded in Adelaide, SA
Latest episode
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Demo player — there’s no audio file. The playhead runs in real time; “Room tone” is a soft hum generated in your browser, off until you switch it on.
Keys while the player has focus: K play/pause · J back 15s · L forward 30s
The tape log
Every episode, newest first. Waveforms are drawn from each episode’s own seed.
Your hosts
Two people who have run small businesses and still ask the awkward questions.
Callum Reid
Producer & co-host · keeps it moving
Spent a decade producing talkback radio. Edits out the ums, keeps the good tangents, and writes the chapter notes.
Hosts and guests are fictional characters for this concept demo.
Guest book
Some of the people who’ve pulled up a chair in the booth. All guests are fictional.
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Free, every second Tuesday. Pick however you like to listen.