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Fresh off the grill

Gabriel Teixeira

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Two lifelong friends get together and discuss a wide range of topics such as sports, movies, TV, and pop culture. With special episodes covering UFC fight reactions, Game of Thrones the old and the new! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freshoffthegrill/support
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Life On The Brink

Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

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**Next episode Monday 23 March** What drives someone to track kiwis in the rain, chase lions up trees, or jump on dugongs? And with so many species out there, does it matter if a few of them go the way of the Dodo? Join Gabriel and Alex talking with incredible conservationists and asking them the big questions: Should we bother saving a population of 400 black cockatoos? Why do all your favourite moments from researching big cats always involve them trying to eat you? How are flightless kiwi ...
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What a title hey? Apologies for this episode being a few days late, we're both still getting a handle on keeping this podcast running while now working full-time! But enough of that, it's time for Episode 18! Our guest on this episode, Dr Emily Roycroft, was supposed to be studying the family tree of eight species of extinct Australian rodents. She…
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Season 2 is heerrreee! Sorry for the delay! Gabe ended up getting and starting a new job since our last episode. So, to preserve what's left of his sanity, we thought it'd be best to push the start of our new episodes back by a week. But Episode #17 is worth the wait! We're bickering about bettongs with Caitlin Weatherstone. We talk about why the n…
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Our final update episode before we start Season 2! This Life On The Brink update features biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic and the Haast southern brown kiwi. The Haast population of southern brown kiwis is a unique group of kiwis that only numbers around 500. Denis has major updates for us on how the recent breeding season has gone for this tin…
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Another update on one of our first-ever stories, and this one's a big one!! Episode 15 of Life On The Brink features the regent honeyeater and Dr Ross Crates. While Alex was away, Ross patched in (on Christmas Eve - what a legend!!) to give Gabriel a rundown on what had happened since we last touched base. He mentioned some big news that was on the…
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SURPRISE STORY UPDATE! Episode 14 of Life On The Brink features Dr Daniella Teixeira and the glossy black cockatoo (again!!) Daniella has been busy since we last talked to her in what turned out to be the first ever episode of Life On The Brink. Listen in to hear about new data showing how the 2019/20 bushfires impacted the very rare glossy black c…
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Lions #2 electric boogaloo you're carbon credits are due! (Alex said we had to say that, sorry) It's Episode 13 of Life On The Brink, featuring LIONS. Didn't we already do lions? Yes we did... deal with it. But also this episode is very different from our first lion episode. Last time we focused on the tree-climbing lions of Uganda, this time we're…
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We're back in New Zealand for Episode 12 of Life On The Brink!! And this time, it's all for the tuatara! Some call it a "living fossil", others say they have a mystical third eye, but what we do know is there are a lot less of them than there used to be. In the episode, we run the tuatara rumours past our guest PhD Candidate Sarah Lamar and ask her…
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This is our third ever bonus episode!!! Last week's episode introduced us to Deborah Santos de Azevedo the incredible great hammerhead researcher who works with stressed-out sharks. She also happens to be a member of Minorities in Shark Science (MISS) an awesome organisation looking to build diversity in marine research and support minorities in th…
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What could possibly out a 6-metre hammerhead? Humans, of course. This is Episode 11 of Life On The Brink, and the third installment of our little four-part series on elasmobranchs, featuring the Great Hammerhead shark. In the episode we get into how to measure a shark's stress levels, what it's like breaking into the shark science field, and ask ou…
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It's our second ever bonus episode! Last week's full episode with manta biologist Asia Haines left a lot of cool stuff on the cutting room floor, including a story about when the organisation she works with (Project Manta) tracked a manta ray down a highway! She also talked through how absolutely anyone can help Project Manta discover more about ma…
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Welcome to the first of four episodes on ELASMOBRANCHS (rays & sharks)! Over the next month, we've got two full episodes and two little bonus episodes headed your way. We know we only just started out fortnightly schedule but we just can't help ourselves!! Episode 10 of Life On The Brink is all about the world of the ocean's wanderers: MANTA RAYS! …
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...is tigers are wonderful things! However we can't verify whether their tops are actually made of rubber nor their bottoms made out of springs. Episode 9 of Life On The Brink is full of tiger talk and more Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh references! Hear how hard it is to count one of the world's most elusive big cats, and how Arjun once came face-to-…
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Get ready to meet the cutest most baby-dragon-looking-est lizards we've somehow never heard about before on Episode 8 of Life On The Brink! Reptiles are so often overlooked in conservation and these cute critters are a perfect example. They live in family groups and make houses out of logs complete with outdoor dunnies. What's not to love?! In the …
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Welcome to the first Life On The Brink bonus episode! Launching Life On The Brink has been a very humbling experience. The response we've seen so far blew us away, so we kept pushing weekly episodes out so you could get to know who we are and what this podcast is all about. But we've now kicked into our on-going fortnightly release schedule to main…
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It's time to float like a migrating butterfly for Episode 7 of Life On The Brink! Insects make up more than 90% of species on this planet, and yet we know so little about them. In this episode, we unravel the complete mysteries of butterfly migration with Ph.D. candidate Shawan Chowdhury. We hear how Shawan fell into the world of butterflies as a s…
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Episode 6 is bringing us back-to-back bird episodes woo!!! This edition of Life On The Brink takes us on the incredible journey of the world’s largest migrating shorebird from Australia all the way to China and features Professor Richard Fuller as our guide. Get ready to learn all about these goofy birds, their marathon journey, their enormous pecs…
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Welcome to the world of songbirds for Episode 5! Episode five of Life On The Brink features the regent honeyeater and Dr Ross Crares. In this episode, we learn about how researchers figured out regent honeyeaters are singing the songs of other species because there aren't enough older mentors for them to learn their own song from, listen to the sou…
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Time to give the big blue some love on Life On The Brink number four! This is episode four of Life On The Brink featuring the green turtle and marine biologist Melissa Staines. Melissa is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland who researches the effects of temperature and rainfall on sea turtles with support from the World Wide Fund For Na…
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Installment three of Life On The Brink is here! This is episode three of Life On The Brink featuring biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic and the Haast southern brown kiwi. In this episode we hear what drives someone to ditch a PhD in geology halfway through to go exploring the natural wonders of New Zealand and discover what a biodiversity ranger …
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Episode 2 electric boogaloo… well actually TREE CLIMBING LIONS! On the second episode of Life On The Brink Gabriel and Alex chat to big cat biologist and NatGeo explorer Dr Alexander Braczkowski about the rare lions that spend most of their days up in trees. So get ready to learn about how one of the most iconic species is threatened with extinctio…
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Heeeeyyyyyoooo…welcome to the first episode of Life On The Brink with Alex and Gabriel! We speak to the incredible Dr Daniella Teixeira about the endangered Kangaroo Island Glossy Black Cockatoos. So get ready to learn about how these birds and Daniella felt the heat of the 2020 bushfires, discover how they both unknowingly ended up on a David Atte…
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Everything has to start somewhere, and Life On The Brink starts here! We are Gabriel & Alex, a couple of conservation scientists and science communicators. During our time studying and researching the natural world, we've been lucky enough to meet some of the most incredible people - people who have dedicated their lives to saving species they love…
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We tackle the important topics: is the 1994 techno track "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex racist? Patrick "Kermit" Mahomes wins the super bowl. The joys of teaching toddlers to swear and we give our fight picks for UFC Fight Night 167 Anderson Vs. Blachowicz --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freshoffthegrill/support…
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A very special guest Charity "Charizard" Martin sits in with us as we discuss the Patriots this week, Ordering at Starbucks, and how death is a beautiful thing. We react to UFC on Espn 7 and give you our picks for UFC 245 Usman Vs. Covington--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freshoffthegrill/support…
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Join the boyz as they go over this week in the NFL as well as review the previous week of fights before looking ahead to the PPV tonight featuring the middleweight championship unification bout Robert "the reaper" Whittaker vs. "The last sylender" Israel Adesanya --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freshoffthegrill/sup…
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Just because the UFC takes a week off doesn't mean that the BOYZ do. We talk about UFC 241 Cormier vs Miocic 2 and our thoughts on the card as a whole, and we bring in special guest Andrew Bell of Mass Kicks a local high end shoe collector and distributor to talk about the upcoming NFL season and we give our VERY early predictions for some of the a…
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The boyz discuss and go over the fights from this past weekend, as well as looking forward to the big card on ESPN Covington vs Lawler which has an early start time of 3:00pm eastern so set a reminder! we also discuss Gabe's love of P-town and the fond memories he had as a child there.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
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The Boyz discuss some new news in Chinese MMA, talk about Cowboy cerrone's big fight against Justin Gaethje, look back at least weeks fights, and forward to the fights tonight. We also debut a new Fresh off the Grill Top 5 segment, this week being our top 5 favorite knockout artists!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/…
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