August 12, 2024 • 42 mins
In possibly our worst set up break ever by Fitz, we really started from the bottom now we here. We’re going through the spookiest stories about near death experiences that were thwarted by guardian angels. Do you believe in them or could it just be dumb luck? Plus Kate’s co-star Erik Thompson joins us ahead of the Logies on Sunday to reveal if he’s going to be her date... And it’s been revealed that people in the UK don’t eat fruit which is truly insane.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It Fit with Kate podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is Fit with Kate Richie, Welcome to the Tuesday podcast,
or would be one to day. We went down a
huge rabbit hole with this one, but I threw it
out there.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guardian Angels.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You'll hear me absolutely butcher a story about a guardian angel.
But then, isn't it amazing how small things from small things,
big things grow?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sounds like an.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I would have said something about how you butchered the story,
but then, with the help of a guardian angel, you
brought it back to live.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I woke up one night and I saw somebody sitting
on the edge of my bed. I was probably sixteen
or seventeen. It was the middle of the night and.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Sunday, and I was lying there, Ben and Jerry's is here?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Michael, is that a.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Guardian an angel? And it was my It wasn't It
was my sister's friend who was absolutely hammered. She was
hammered and urinated on the end of my bed. God, yeah,
Susan her name was. And she then pulled up her
pants while she was still winging, and then weat in
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The old lazy Susan, very.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Lazy, couldn't even get to the bowl.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
This is the Fitzi and Wibber with Cape Ritchie podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Tell us how long it's been since you've had a
piece of fruit. I do think that as you get
older you can tend to eat less of it because
you were forced to eat it as a child. I
know with my mom when we would walk around the
house and we were hungry, and we never had like
the fancy you know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like Uncle Toby's music bars or things in packets.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We just had food in the fridge and if we
were hungry, Mum would say, there's a fruit bowl full
of fruit. Oh that's great, go and have an orange.
Fruit was never sold into us as in a sexy way.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But look it lower's heart. It lowers heart, disease, stroke,
all of these things. It gets rid of constipation. I
mean I should be.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
You should be over it.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I should be.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
But in the UK they have done this survey where
they are saying that people who live in Britain are
hard up to have eaten a piece of fruit in
a four week period.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm not I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It says here the average UK adult goes three weeks
without a green vegetable like broccoli or spinach. And most
of the people who don't like veggies, but they say,
oh I still eat you know, legumes and what are
they called pulses the name, but when they're talking about
that that they are just talking about tins of baked beans.
(02:57):
So it's nothing nothing about it is fresh piece of fruit.
No apple. I mean, I know you love a good apple.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I love a huge fan of the pink lady.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, what is your number one go to banana? Out?
Does an apple? Doesn't it? It's just easy.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I always go for banana if I need more filling,
and I'm possibly exercising because you go. It's great sugars,
carbs as well. In the carbs in a.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Banana potassium lots of potassium. But it can. Bananas can
constipate you. I think.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I'm not talking about me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What it does because when you're feeding children, you know,
bananas were really expensive in Sydney. They got really expensive
and even like young mothers could could not. Maybe that's
that's the plungage.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Now I've lost my train of thought.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
When you feed kids, you know, they are, like you said, Fitz,
really good go to or they are in their own
packaging and you can give them to your kid at
the park. But if you give them too many bananas,
they won't pooh, right okay.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And then you need to back it up with blueberries
or prunes, which well you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Can't have you bought blueberries or raspberries or any kind.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of It's quite sad because there's a lot of kids
out there as well that you. I mean, we've been
to a couple of birthday parties for kids and you'll
get the parent that will just bring out the fruit
and just there's eighty percent of the children just scrunch
up their faces straight away.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A little wedge of watermelons?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Are you kidding? Met?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Lenni's mum? This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know how they always call you missus Lennie's mum,
missus Lennie's mum.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Why are we eating fruit? Like where are the lollie?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Why did you dip it all in chocolate?
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Like?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think your.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Parents do a fruit platter just to make themselves feel
better about all the other stuff. It's like we'll do
all this, we'll do that, We'll have the cake fruit platter, and.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Then we'll do the freak fruit clutter.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Imagine meeting like a British person, maybe a British girl.
If I was single, and you sit down for dinner
and she doesn't know what fruit is, she does it.
You show us some vegetables, she doesn't know what that is.
You show her a shower, she doesn't know what that is,
and you think, what a catch. What are they doing
besides fish, chips and pies. They love fish and chips
(05:23):
and they do.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And the big what do they call it in the
morning that the Heathrow in greasy They go to the
greasy spoons?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Isn't that what they do?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
When I was doing Panto, after we do the show,
we'd get up and we'd go to a greasy spoon,
which is not the name of the restaurant. It's like
it's a kind of restaurant, like when you can go
and get your big breakfast.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And you're eating your pork sausages for breakfast. Yeah, good
way to start the day. You're always your breath.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Just smells so fresh after a beautiful pork sausage first
thing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Let's get onto dental issues.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Ten.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
If you've made out with someone for the UK and
they were just.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Disgusted, this is the fitsy and with with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I am looking forward to this. This Stan original series,
A critical incident. It's now streaming only on Stan. And
this man one of our most respected actors across film,
television and theater.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's the magnificent Eric Thompson.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Wow, a color buddy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Good good, good morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
We're really good? Can we just first, Eric, establish the
depth of your relationship with Kate Richie, who continues to
talk about how much of a wonderful person you are.
Do you feel the same about her or it's sort
of more one way?
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Oh no, no, look like I can reciprocate that.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
We we have met over the years, but we work
together on the Claremont murdersh.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You were married. You guys were married married there.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
Yeah, And even though we were playing the kind of
the really difficult emotional stuff on camera, off camera, I
think I've laughed as much we haven't.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
We had a great time.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
So for real?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Are you going to the logis this Sunday?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Will you see Kate there?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I am, I'm going. We're going to go.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Clarmont Murders has been has been nominated for Best Mini
Series or something.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So Kate and I are going.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
To be there with a couple of other cast members,
and I'm very much looking forward. It's always great just
to catch up with people, you know, get that sense
that you know your career is in the toilet and
their careers is going really well.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So where do you think you're out?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
It could go either way.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Someone might might just be about to flush. But you
know in this business that the phone could ring in
a second and I could be the next Batman.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, we had Sam Pang on the show yesterday, Eric,
and he told us that you will be in his
opening monologue.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Oh really, No, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Just I'm joking, But there are there are some nervous
people when Sam Pang walks into the room. He did
such an amazing job last year that who he's going
to target?
Speaker 8 (07:59):
You know?
Speaker 10 (07:59):
Yeah, well look if it's you know, I think it's
the same with Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. To
be targeted is to be sort of united. I think
I would be very very happy to be.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's a form of flattery, really, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Eric? Can I ask about critical incident? Can you tell
us what the show is about? Mate?
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Well, you know, it's basically, you know, a critical incident
is a is a police term where there's something that is,
you know, really serious happens. Because of that, there needs
to be an investigation. But it's it's set in blacktown,
Western Sarah. Sarah Baswani, who wrote the show, worked as
a lawyer in that area, in the youth justice area,
(08:42):
and so she had a really amazing insight into the
complexities of the dynamics of the internal workings of the
police force. And so basically it's a it's it's it's
not your average cop show.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
But if you like cop shows, you like it.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
It focuses on a young, diverse cast, so it's got
a really kind of youthful vibe to it. And then
there's a couple of older fellas in it, and I'm
one of them.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
One of the youthful ones.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
No, I'm not one of the youthful ones. You know,
I reckon people.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
People are going to enjoy it, you know, it's I've
watched all six episodes, binged it awesome.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
I didn't just flick to all my.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You watched this again, I'm really amazing here.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's like my AFL career was very short, Eric, but
I reckon. I've shown my two boys my highlights. I
reckon about forty eight thousand times. It just happens to
come on the television regularly. You know how to do
that with your family?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
How long is that is your highlight?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It goes for two and a half minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And can't possibly further him Another job?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What was your first job in the industry?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like, did you do it? Did you do a commercial? First?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Up?
Speaker 10 (09:56):
My first probably the biggest thing was I am very
high rotation commercials with Lucy Lawless of Xena Fan and
I played a father to a child. It was embarrassing,
but it pete exceptionally well.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And Eric, you would have done about modeling though as well?
You're a good looking.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Rooster gas man or have you done any sort of catalogs?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Not yet?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But you know, I apologize, I'm sorry about this, Eric, you.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Know that's all right.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
No, I think I firstly, I appreciate the compliment, but secondly,
I think, as we're heading into the edge of the white,
middle class, middle aged man, you know, we could be
the next modeling sensation.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You Actually we spoke about Ben Affleck the other day
and he's broken up with j Low now and they're
saying that he's going through a midlife crisis as well. Eric,
and he was finally now that the relationship is over,
he could wear his red Hot Chili Pepper's T shirt.
He's black leather jacket, he's got a mohawk. Have you
have you made a purchase or have you Are you
(11:07):
a sports car man or have you done anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
What I did for my fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I was born in nineteen sixty seven, so I bought
myself in nineteen sixty seven Fender telecast.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh God, who played that guitar over the years?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Well God knows, but I'm sure. I'm sure someone vomited
or or you. And I'm sure of that because that
was me when I bought it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That is great, all right, Eric Thompson, The Stand Original
series A critical incident. Really looking forward to this. I'm
set in Western Sydney. He's a cop.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's now streaming only on Stand.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We love you, Eric, have a great night this Sunday
night at the Logis and I can't wait to talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Sir, Thanks very much for having me qu This.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is the Fitzian Whipper with Cape Ritchie Podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I want to get deep now, I want to get
into the supernatural. I want to go Guardian Angels. I
want to go spirits are around you that you think
that Hath saved you before four twenty four ten.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thanks Jess.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I've got goosebumps already, and I haven't even heard the story.
It's just bloody cold in the studio. It's because someone's
crossing my grave.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Amanda prows Prowse He was less devastated when she discovered
her younger brother, Simon, had suddenly died of a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now, she was told by her husband, Simon is gone.
I was really confused.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I thought he was mistaken and I meant my dad
because I thought of my father because he had heart
surgery a year or so before. I couldn't fathom it.
Simon was also he was always so fit and healthy.
We described him as invincible, invincible. But when he was gone,
I didn't know what to do. I knew I had
(12:48):
to be around my family the thing he was, though
my family was about one hundred kilometers away. So she
jumped into her car to go and be with her
family after Simon's death.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So she's in the car.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She's in second or third gear or whatever, and she's driving.
She's pulled in obviously, got a few snacks, and then
on the.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Way she listened to Tripped on Funham Age of Reason.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
All of a sudden, there was I've just got to
get to this story.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, mate, it's you doing thiswear on your ride.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This one hundred kilometer drive though, was quite difficult, Kate,
because there was a storm. It was rubbish weather, she said.
It was dark, it was drizzly, rain, lightning, thunder again.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
There was an earthquake, I think to the point.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But as Amanda was driving that night, she caught sight
of a strange orange light in the sky, visible in
the top corner of her windscreen. It was like a spark,
like a firework. I didn't even question it. I just thought, okay.
When I looked at it, it gave me strength. It
made me calm. I was trembling, but every time I
felt like I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I looked at the light and it comforted me.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
However, that wasn't the only beginning of Amanda's strange journey.
After driving for almost an hour and a half, she
discovered that the only road to the motorway that was
that she had to get to her family was blocked off.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh no, after a car.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
In the storm had driven off the cliff.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Around about ten minutes earlier, and police had taped off.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The area and were turning people around.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
She said, I hadn't cried yet at that point, but
I burst into tears, into frustrateds and feeling so panicked.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I begged the police officer to let me pass, but
he refused. Then another man came over. He had a
helmet and I'm not sure if he was a police
or a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He lifted up his visor and told me do it
for Josh, go steady.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It was bizarre. My son is called Josh. How could
have he known.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That I needed to hear those words just to calm myself.
So Amanda has established straight away here Kate that Simon,
her younger brother, he was the orange light moving her
away from the cliff, that someone had just driven off
just before.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Just not a great story, is that? How you put
all these people?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And then Simon has gone to the police offerer's.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Police officer, did you preread.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The police offerer?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And what's happened next? Mate?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Sorry? I didn't prep as well as I should have. Here, Tom,
I'm so sorry. It's apology accepted, money, just received it.
Simon's only just given me the story.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Ollie, can you please not print up the seventy three
pages of this story?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, but just dock points mate.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But how's that?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The police officer then knew her son's name, and so Simon,
obviously as the Guardian Angel, went over to the police officer.
Simon's gone to the police officer and said, can you
just can't down? Her son's name is Josh. Just used
the name Josh and the police office.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Did he float down?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, he's gone. He's the Guardian Angel, He's the Orange Light.
He's the one that kept her calm.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Tommy, are we alive? We are?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Unfortunately I can't add it with one stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I love these stories though, I mean I don't like
your delivery this one, but I do love the stories.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Do you think that there are Guardian Angels out there?
People that look over you and keep you safe, Kate?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
After they've gone?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I remember I told you that story. I mean, it's
quite a tragic story.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
When I was dating somebody who lived in Queensland and
i'd never heard of the coffee club, and he took
me to the coffee club because he just knowed, he
knew how to show her time. I'm just speaking the
way he spoke, anyway, I knowed what you would like, Kate.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'm taking you to the coffee club for afakarture and
a creamy lantepe's careful word for anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So I'm in the coffee club and what I would
normally do when we would have a lunch date is
cry into my toasted tuna melt pot and the lady
when I got up, when he's sorry. When he got
up to go to the toilet, probably to text his girlfriend,
(17:19):
I she came up to me and she said, because
she could see I was crying, she said it's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And I said fine, as.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I there's nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And she said, okay, that tune of milk okay.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Don't eat that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And she said, you'll be fine. I can see someone
here with you. Someone's here with you and they are
watching over you, and everything will be okay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Was it a.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Wasn't the path okay? So two pretty poor stories?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, are we going to go with Guardian Guardian Angels?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Have we got Lennie. There is Lenny from Cernella.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Yes we do. Thanks black Bee is paf as long
as your story?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
What are you going to Lenny?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
No one will fall asleep at this one.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
I'm hot stoking.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
My sister in law were sleeping upstairs. She was in
a really deep sleep. It was two or three in
the morning. There was a phone that kept going and kept.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Ringing and ringing and ringing, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
The old house stone, ring before you would be able
to pick it up. And she thought, oh my god.
Speaker 14 (18:34):
Who's ringing all the time?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
This is crazy. She went to wake my brother up
and realize he's not there. So she thought, oh, we
actually don't have the house stone. Everyone's got mobile phones
these days.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
But where is he?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
She went downstairs and there he was passed out on
the floor. He had a diabetic episode. It was three
in the morning, and they she woke him up, gave
him a bit of sugar, and he was okay. So
we actually think that was my dad doing a phone
call because he had passed away and brought it to
her at tension. You better go check, just get up.
It just didn't say how to get her up to
(19:05):
go check on him.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Moments in time.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wow, and he's using the home phone to call you
ELLENI interesting, Let's go to Rebecca and film me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Are you believing guardian angels back?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Hey, what's your story about your guardian experience?
Speaker 14 (19:26):
So we're coming up to five years now. But my
son had a pretty traumatic birth where he was rushed
from Campbelltown to Liverpool then to West me children for surgery,
and in the meantime we'd been told that he wasn't
going to survive twenty four hours, let alone a week,
so enjoy the time that you had with him. We
was asked to turn off his life support all the
(19:48):
other stuff. We said no, but they said he's not
going to survive. It is what it is. And I
went out for like a children's West Mean hostel was
like cafe five minutes up the road, so we went
with my sister and a girlfriend of one at the time,
and I was eating lunch, just minding my own business,
talking to my sister and a girlfriend, and someone come
out to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said,
(20:09):
I don't want to freak you out. I'm not normally
like this, but someone's telling me that your son's going
to be Okay, he's going to survive. Stop stressing. It's
gonna work out. Five years later, he's he's driving, you
willdn't even know that he's supposed to be branded.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But did you ever chase this person?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Did you ever see that person again? Or never again?
Speaker 14 (20:32):
So he was, he was there, and within five minutes
he was gone, and he just was like, just remember this,
And I just was like, what the hell?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 14 (20:41):
Like he was a young trade.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He was in.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
A part of his shirt.
Speaker 14 (20:46):
You just would never have thought he was just in
a trade. He must have been on his way to
work or on a lunch break or something, and he.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Was There's no way he could have known.
Speaker 14 (20:56):
Yeah, there's no way. There's no way. We were very
speacretive about it with our families and stuff, like, we
hadn't posted anything really on social media. It's like a
week or two until we knew what was going to happen.
You you just didn't know if he was going to provide.
There was no way. There was just no way, And.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That is such great news. Is your son at school
yet or is does he start next year?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
He go in this, there's no way You've done well memory.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
He certainly has a purpose, doesn't he he's here for
what's his name?
Speaker 15 (21:29):
Hunter?
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Yeah, worry.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I'm surprised that there are some some trade's out there
that are beneficial.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
That is unbelievable turning up on time. In fact, the.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Perfect time he was at a cafe was meant to
be struggle to unblock you your drains. But I'll tell
you what he will tell you. Your child's going to
be all right, Judith? In Blacktown? What happened to you?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Judith?
Speaker 12 (21:53):
I lived in the flat in Blacktown. I know it
wasn't very well. My kidneys were failing me and I
was dying, and I didn't know it at the time,
of course. And when I came out at the bathroom,
I fell down like you, fell on the carp and
the unit was pitch black because I was there by myself,
and just got darker and darker because I couldn't get
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up to put the elections in. I couldn't move anyway.
I tried to get up as much as I could.
I tried everywhere. I just could not get up off
the floor. I couldn't get to the water, I couldn't
get to my crutches, I couldn't get to the phone
because it was in the kitchen. I just laid there
and I just said to God, if I don't get
up from here, I'll die. And I just went unconscious again.
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And when I woke up, I was up on the
bed now. And then I edged my way around to
the kitchen, got the phone. I drank two bottles of
water straight away because I was so badly dehydrated. I
don't know how long I laid there on the floor,
but all I know is that when I woke up,
I was up on the bed.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh, Judas, who do you think it was? Judas? Who
is your guardian angel?
Speaker 12 (23:01):
Everybody's given a guardian angel when they're born, So I
think was my guardian angel who helped me get up.
Because I'll tell you the truth, as God is my witness,
I could not get up off that floor. I was
sixty something years old at the time, and I'm eighty
one now.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh wow, and you woke up on the bed.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Yeah, I woke up. I was on the bed, and
I didn't know where I was because I was laying
on my back on the bed looking up at the ceiling.
And I didn't know where I was because the un
it was pitched black.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The light went on.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Yes, it was a miracle, believed me. It was a miracle.
Because then on the Monday, when my lift came to
take me to go to shopping and everything, I couldn't go.
I was crawling on my knees. The ambulance came took
me to the hospital, Latown Hospital. I went in. I
just do it, A few little words. What's your name?
What's this is that? When unconscious again? The professor of
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kidneys came. Obviously, Brotheravan told me. He said, you were dying,
You were unconscious, your kidneys were failing you.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh my god, this.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is the Okay, Now that's freaked me out. Jeth So
I'm believing you. You think that everybody has a guardian angel?
Speaker 12 (24:18):
When they everyone everyone is born with the guardian angel.
It's God's gifted them to wash over them and helped
them in catastrophe or a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Can I borrow yours when I'm a bit old to do?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Is that okay?
Speaker 14 (24:35):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (24:35):
Yes, certainly.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I can tell you so many things. My mother she
was run over to buy a car when she was
forty nine. She lived up in Harden in the River
Arene at two hundred and eighty four miles row. I
was thirty one at the time and lived at right
down on the Ratley Traun Street Beunta in Maine, and
the night my mother was run over into by a
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car I knew, thank you, was two hundred and eighty
four miles away.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You know what, We've got such great stories when we
started with such a terrible story from fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you know what, sometimes you need to start started well,
what was Drake's line?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Started from the bottom now here?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah? What about Hey, I got one for you? What
about silver chair? Watching you watch jover me?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We start, We started badly and we ended really well.
You don't have to end. I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Are we taking more calls?
Speaker 11 (25:38):
Full boardcasts going.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Look at all the calls coming through, and Judith is
listening to our station as well. That's another miracle in itself.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Year old listener.
Speaker 16 (25:48):
Yeah, Ben Fordable, we shattered that we've stolen that one bid.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Huge, tell us we're what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
To your sister in law, Michelle.
Speaker 15 (25:56):
Good morning, guys, love the show, love your show. Just
thank you. My sister in.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Law, with her four months old baby, was driving home
had a horrific car accident with massive head injuries. First guardian,
angel Off Dudy paramedic happened to be two cars behind,
so was on the scene straight away. She went to hospital.
We were told that she would not make it through
the night and if she did survive, she would have
massive head injuries and the you know, the rehabbled to
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be intense and months. She had had some short term
memory issues, but she survived. She was home from hospital
in three weeks. And when she was at home, obviously
my brother was still really quite panicked about her being okay.
And she'd say, Mark, stop panicking. The lady at the
end of the bed with the comb in her hair
(26:47):
is looking after me. She's watching over me. And my
brother was dumbfounded. He said, So, none of my siblings
partners met my mum. She died when we were when
I was eighteen, when myther was twenty two. Sure, so
my sister in law never met her. She didn't meet
my brother Tilli. We had two thousand and one, and
she said, the lady at the end of the bed
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with a comb in hair, and my mom used to
walk around. My mum fostered lots of kids and walked
around with a comb ina here used to comb everyone's hair,
so she would never have known that mum had a
comb in the back of head.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, Ice Cub. Sorry, it wasn't like a comb like
Ice Cuba or anything. Was it just.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
A hair comb.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
She used to walk around brush at kid's hair growing up,
so she would never have known that that. And my
brother was just freaked out. She said, stop that. The
lady the end of the bed looking up to me,
she's got a comb.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In her hair.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Oh, Michelle, that is I mean, thank you for sharing.
I can hear the almost the nervousness in your voice
at the reality of what's happened there. That is freaking
spine tingling.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, Caitlin in Boulkham Hills, how are you saved? Kaylin?
Speaker 15 (28:00):
Regat? How are you going?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Sorry? Did you just call me Regut?
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Is that all you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Angel?
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Just the producers that they're not Guardian Angel's coat. Yes,
you better have a good story, Caitlin.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It is.
Speaker 15 (28:20):
It's very good. My mum was really really close with
my nana, my dad's mum, but she unfortunately passed away
and it was like maybe a couple of years ago
or something. She came to her in a dream telling
her to wake up at like two in the morning
or something and just to like walk outside or just
have a look around. And our electrical box was on
fire outside.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Really, isn't that bizarre? So in the middle of the
night something told her to get up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah she did.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
She woke everybody up and go over and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We've got one more, Andrew and Legano, do you believe?
Do you believe in?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
Look? I am a bit of a believer that I
haven't got I haven't really got a story. My call
is hopefully to inspire Ryan to I'm thinking, you know,
you've got the adult entertainment right of there. Perhaps fifty
you could start delivering horoscopes in the morning.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh so you think this spiritual angle on the show
is working for us? Do you? Andrew? Could?
Speaker 9 (29:24):
I think there's there's potential of the capital P. I
mean that was that story was beautiful and tragic, much
like break and two point zero.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Who are you? You sound like a bit of a
guardian angel calling. Don't really know if you're the real deal,
Andrew not an angel.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Judea's call obviously had an effect on you as well, Andrew.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Before did it. You can't my fum all over weekly
segment there.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
I love Guardian Angels.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's not a bad idea, but it's not a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Could we get could we get guy Sebastian to sing
the opener for it? Angels brought me here?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Where is the silk shirt? Wearing? Psychic Francis Bevan?
Speaker 16 (30:14):
Francis Bevan's laugh is always sort of watching over us.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So we've got Francis, Jess, what have you got under
Francis Bevan. I'm finding it hard to believe Francis.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, Francis would have he would be able to see
a Guardian Angel around you.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I just don't know if we can take him seriously.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
We met Booky Clown.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
We met Francis.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I would say, how long ago, boys, about thirteen years ago.
We were down in a hair salon filming something and
it was a bit of a weird salon because on
the side you could get sort of your palm read
and stuff like that by a guy called Francis.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And we met.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We connected with him straight away, Kate, and then he
became a regular on the show.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Did he never well, he never.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Predicted anything right, but he would just became such a
beautiful character of the show.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You could say that he's our guardian angel. Tom could well.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
He certainly he was very in touch with with spirits.
Speaker 16 (31:13):
Unfortunately most of them were you're keeping your freezer Alca baseduff.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I always felt like he was watching over me. Unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I think he was because he used to mention that
every time he crossed Mount Street he'd think of Fitzy, is.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He still around? And when was the last time coming?
Speaker 11 (31:41):
We'll see Francis again soon? Why do we get him
on Tommy for the rest?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I would love to me.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I'm going to call him okay as Francis this time
tomorrow with Kate Richie podcast. Okay Richie, what's going on
in your world? Tell me something interesting?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Do you know what is really going on my world?
The fact that we just had a really lovely conversation
during that song about you know, pump up.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Songs the morning and get your getting kids to school,
because I know in my house it can be incredibly
difficult at times.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And I know there's people in the car right now
and they just.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Kick the kids out the school gate and taking a
deep breath and then are probably going on to the
next part of their day. That may be dropping the
other kids somebody somewhere, or it might be going to work,
or it might be going to look after an elderly parent.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And I'm sure that does get to you at times,
and you know it is. There's so many elements of family.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
So I just wanted to tell you a little story
about a survey and how I mean this has come
out of America, so I'd be really interested to hear
about what it's like here. But over half of Americans
say that their parent is their best friend. Know that
there's a lot of chat around that, especially when you
(33:02):
have young kids and you've got teens and still, yeah,
we've spoken about that too, where you try to find
the fine line between not being their friend really and
being their parent. That's really important. They don't need more friends,
they've got friends at school. But as parents get older
and they are heading into their golden years, the value
(33:24):
of having a friendship with them is incredible because you.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Get to.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You get to sometimes experience new things if they're well enough,
or you go out on shopping trips that you wouldn't have,
or you're trying new few foods or you're doing things
because you want your parents to experience continue to experience life,
and in turn you're doing great things as well.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I find it's strange though maybe it's different with dads
and their sons. But I would never go into detail
with my dad about, say a relationship, where to hear
that my sisters will go into detail about relationships and
things talking to mum. So maybe daughters and mothers open
(34:12):
up and share a little bit more traditionally than dads
and sons.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Do you remember what Matthew McConaughey said to us.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What did he say about his advice, his advice as
a father to his son. So he said, first of all,
first and foremost the first sort of eleven twelve years of.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A child's life, you have to be a father.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
You have to You've got to lay the ground rules
and you set that child moral's values to be like
that for the rest of their lives. And then after that,
remember he said, you've got to go from being a
father to being more of a brother. Remember he said,
so when they become teenagers, they can feel like they
can talk to you if there is something wrong as
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more of a brother figure.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Now you want to be more of a brother figure
than a father figure.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
They're going to need you to be a father the
entire way through.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Didn't he all so say, now that we're talking about
Matthew mcconae, something about that you should give you kids
kind of three wild cards or three free get out
of jail free passes, for example. And it doesn't matter
where you are or what has happened, or what the
hell you have done. Yep, you can call me. I
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will come and get you. We will go home safely.
I won't ask you anything.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You're just going to be all right, all right, all right, alright, alright,
all right. If he gives you three al rights.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
But I think he also said a successful parent or
the way he judges it is that if his kids
are around the age of eighteen and they still feel
they can still come to him and share, then that's
a win. Like do you and Heather, Like if you
meet a new guy, do you call you mamma? Go
And I've gotta believe it has it's your daughter Katie
here and she has found the love of her life.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I wouldn't make it that.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I wouldn't make a phone call like that because my
name's not Katie.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You'd go, Mum, that's your daughter.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Number one, Thank god for that music.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
It's your daughter number one here and I have been
kissing some hard bars.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
So you do that with Christine's number one son, that's Michael.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Look, some relationships can't be like that because there's not
open communication and there's a lot of you know.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Tom's that emails, but unfortunately he still writes the body
of the email in the subject line.
Speaker 11 (36:31):
Yeah, very very difficult to communicate with my dad long sub.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That is so cute, But you know what it's It's
important if you can.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's great that you're hanging out. That I love her
and I'm very grateful for her.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
About Granny, I.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Don't have grannies, nor do I have granddad's. I only
met one set of them.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Would say to Jess Malboy if she was in the studio.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I'd say, I hope your vocal cords are warmed up,
which is what I'll be saying to Borrow when she's
live in the studio performing for us.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
This is the song she's saying for the athletes, isn't it?
In Paris?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
High for the high jumpers.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Higher two meters higher, two five higher two ten gold.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
This is the.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Fitting and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm still coming down from the Olympics and obviously we're
still continuing with the Power Olympics.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
But it's just really tough.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You know, we don't realize how hard these people train.
We've spoken about this before last week about some countries
and what you receive if you get a gold medal,
which is unbelievable. But there are the smaller countries that
don't get many gold medals at all, and one of
them is the Philippines. There's a competitor in the gymnastics.
(37:47):
His name is Carlos Yulo. Carlos Juli has become an
absolute superstar in the Philippines because he took home not
just one, but two gold medals in the gymnastics whip.
And this is the thing, the Philippines haven't won a
gold medal for around about the last four or five
Olympics Games.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
He's a superstar.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
So this guy has become such a superstar that they've
actually written down all the stuff that he's received back home.
Now this is in sponsorships, this is in money, so
he is getting he will get a congressional medal and
at least three hundred and fifty thousand from three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars from the government.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Plus now I've got to now go stick with me
here because this is all over. The show casts a
free set of headlights and fog lights, also free wedding photography.
He gets free haircuts, and he gets furniture and more
food than he can eat in an entire lifetime.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Okay, so he's got like a boucher card or a
McDonald's or KFC discount card.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Now I've got to get this right because he's two
gold medals.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Sorry, unfortunately that is the.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
They're the only goal metals that they've won in their
entire Olympics history.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
So this is the thing when it comes to food
that I was just talking about before. Eulo has now
been offered a free lifetime supply of everything that he
could possibly eat and drink. Now we're talking coffee companies, Ramen,
We've got strawberry float, ice cream, grilled chicken, and mac
and cheese.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
And if you didn't already have.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Enough food, Eulo has now been offered free access to
a chain called Vikings Luxury buffet.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Do they just want this guy to retire? F well,
I mean it's making me want to get into gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's not going to be competing at the next Olympics,
that's for sure, because you'll be overweight. And then a
doctor has stepped up and said to you, like mate, oh,
I love you so much that I'm going to offer
you free colonoscopies the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
We won't know which order to do things in, but
I suppose if he's eating that much every now and
then it might be good if he's for colonoscoby just
to refresh the system.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
This is a I mean, this is an article that
has then gone through some other countries as well. In Kazakhstan,
they measure medals in rooms. So if you're a gold
medal a gold medal winner you receive a three bedroom apartment.
If you're a silver medal winner you get a two
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bedroom apart and the bronze medal gets one bedroom.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
How the Kazakhstan how.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Do they choose where the apartment is? I mean, is
it like a village where all olympians live that will
have won medals.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeldos met of who won Judo gold for Kazakhstan. He
also received a herd of one hundred thoroughbred horses Alexis
and the guarantee of a smooth ride no matter his
method of transportation.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Okay, so he walks outside each morning and doesn't know
whether to take a horse one of one hundred or
Alexis's local.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
It's local, and his local council as well actually built
him a road to his house driveway for free.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So in South Korea, Olympic medals are exempted from compulsory
military service. And in Poland, winners get an investment grade
diamond and a painting by a respected and a talent
and talented Polish artist.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Oh my god, better and better. I think I'd take
the one hundred stallions. I don't know why, but I
just think that'd be a great gift to give out
to friends over the years. Now, you've got to go
your receiver, Stallion.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
You've got to go to the Philippines, mate, and you've
got to take up gymnastics because if you can get
a lifetime supply of food, oh my god, imagine whip
rocking up the Vikings luxury buffet us.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Do us do another backflip for a sweep here. He
is the choice of life.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
You could come to my funeral in a year's time.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is Fit with Kate Richie, Welcome to the Tuesday podcast,
or would be one to day. We went down a
huge rabbit hole with this one, but I threw it
out there.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guardian Angels.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You'll hear me absolutely butcher a story about a guardian angel.
But then, isn't it amazing how small things from small things,
big things grow?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sounds like an.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I would have said something about how you butchered the story,
but then, with the help of a guardian angel, you
brought it back to live.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I woke up one night and I saw somebody sitting
on the edge of my bed. I was probably sixteen
or seventeen. It was the middle of the night and.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Sunday, and I was lying there, Ben and Jerry's is here?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Michael, is that a.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Guardian an angel? And it was my It wasn't It
was my sister's friend who was absolutely hammered. She was
hammered and urinated on the end of my bed. God, yeah,
Susan her name was. And she then pulled up her
pants while she was still winging, and then weat in
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The old lazy Susan, very.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Lazy, couldn't even get to the bowl.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
This is the Fitzi and Wibber with Cape Ritchie podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Tell us how long it's been since you've had a
piece of fruit. I do think that as you get
older you can tend to eat less of it because
you were forced to eat it as a child. I
know with my mom when we would walk around the
house and we were hungry, and we never had like
the fancy you know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like Uncle Toby's music bars or things in packets.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We just had food in the fridge and if we
were hungry, Mum would say, there's a fruit bowl full
of fruit. Oh that's great, go and have an orange.
Fruit was never sold into us as in a sexy way.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But look it lower's heart. It lowers heart, disease, stroke,
all of these things. It gets rid of constipation. I
mean I should be.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
You should be over it.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I should be.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
But in the UK they have done this survey where
they are saying that people who live in Britain are
hard up to have eaten a piece of fruit in
a four week period.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm not I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It says here the average UK adult goes three weeks
without a green vegetable like broccoli or spinach. And most
of the people who don't like veggies, but they say,
oh I still eat you know, legumes and what are
they called pulses the name, but when they're talking about
that that they are just talking about tins of baked beans.
(02:57):
So it's nothing nothing about it is fresh piece of fruit.
No apple. I mean, I know you love a good apple.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I love a huge fan of the pink lady.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, what is your number one go to banana? Out?
Does an apple? Doesn't it? It's just easy.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I always go for banana if I need more filling,
and I'm possibly exercising because you go. It's great sugars,
carbs as well. In the carbs in a.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Banana potassium lots of potassium. But it can. Bananas can
constipate you. I think.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I'm not talking about me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What it does because when you're feeding children, you know,
bananas were really expensive in Sydney. They got really expensive
and even like young mothers could could not. Maybe that's
that's the plungage.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Now I've lost my train of thought.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
When you feed kids, you know, they are, like you said, Fitz,
really good go to or they are in their own
packaging and you can give them to your kid at
the park. But if you give them too many bananas,
they won't pooh, right okay.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And then you need to back it up with blueberries
or prunes, which well you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Can't have you bought blueberries or raspberries or any kind.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of It's quite sad because there's a lot of kids
out there as well that you. I mean, we've been
to a couple of birthday parties for kids and you'll
get the parent that will just bring out the fruit
and just there's eighty percent of the children just scrunch
up their faces straight away.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A little wedge of watermelons?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Are you kidding? Met?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Lenni's mum? This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know how they always call you missus Lennie's mum,
missus Lennie's mum.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Why are we eating fruit? Like where are the lollie?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Why did you dip it all in chocolate?
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Like?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think your.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Parents do a fruit platter just to make themselves feel
better about all the other stuff. It's like we'll do
all this, we'll do that, We'll have the cake fruit platter, and.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Then we'll do the freak fruit clutter.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Imagine meeting like a British person, maybe a British girl.
If I was single, and you sit down for dinner
and she doesn't know what fruit is, she does it.
You show us some vegetables, she doesn't know what that is.
You show her a shower, she doesn't know what that is,
and you think, what a catch. What are they doing
besides fish, chips and pies. They love fish and chips
(05:23):
and they do.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And the big what do they call it in the
morning that the Heathrow in greasy They go to the
greasy spoons?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Isn't that what they do?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
When I was doing Panto, after we do the show,
we'd get up and we'd go to a greasy spoon,
which is not the name of the restaurant. It's like
it's a kind of restaurant, like when you can go
and get your big breakfast.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And you're eating your pork sausages for breakfast. Yeah, good
way to start the day. You're always your breath.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Just smells so fresh after a beautiful pork sausage first
thing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Let's get onto dental issues.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Ten.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
If you've made out with someone for the UK and
they were just.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Disgusted, this is the fitsy and with with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I am looking forward to this. This Stan original series,
A critical incident. It's now streaming only on Stan. And
this man one of our most respected actors across film,
television and theater.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's the magnificent Eric Thompson.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Wow, a color buddy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Good good, good morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
We're really good? Can we just first, Eric, establish the
depth of your relationship with Kate Richie, who continues to
talk about how much of a wonderful person you are.
Do you feel the same about her or it's sort
of more one way?
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Oh no, no, look like I can reciprocate that.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
We we have met over the years, but we work
together on the Claremont murdersh.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You were married. You guys were married married there.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
Yeah, And even though we were playing the kind of
the really difficult emotional stuff on camera, off camera, I
think I've laughed as much we haven't.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
We had a great time.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
So for real?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Are you going to the logis this Sunday?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Will you see Kate there?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I am, I'm going. We're going to go.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Clarmont Murders has been has been nominated for Best Mini
Series or something.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So Kate and I are going.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
To be there with a couple of other cast members,
and I'm very much looking forward. It's always great just
to catch up with people, you know, get that sense
that you know your career is in the toilet and
their careers is going really well.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So where do you think you're out?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
It could go either way.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Someone might might just be about to flush. But you
know in this business that the phone could ring in
a second and I could be the next Batman.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, we had Sam Pang on the show yesterday, Eric,
and he told us that you will be in his
opening monologue.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Oh really, No, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Just I'm joking, But there are there are some nervous
people when Sam Pang walks into the room. He did
such an amazing job last year that who he's going
to target?
Speaker 8 (07:59):
You know?
Speaker 10 (07:59):
Yeah, well look if it's you know, I think it's
the same with Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. To
be targeted is to be sort of united. I think
I would be very very happy to be.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's a form of flattery, really, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Eric? Can I ask about critical incident? Can you tell
us what the show is about? Mate?
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Well, you know, it's basically, you know, a critical incident
is a is a police term where there's something that is,
you know, really serious happens. Because of that, there needs
to be an investigation. But it's it's set in blacktown,
Western Sarah. Sarah Baswani, who wrote the show, worked as
a lawyer in that area, in the youth justice area,
(08:42):
and so she had a really amazing insight into the
complexities of the dynamics of the internal workings of the
police force. And so basically it's a it's it's it's
not your average cop show.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
But if you like cop shows, you like it.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
It focuses on a young, diverse cast, so it's got
a really kind of youthful vibe to it. And then
there's a couple of older fellas in it, and I'm
one of them.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
One of the youthful ones.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
No, I'm not one of the youthful ones. You know,
I reckon people.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
People are going to enjoy it, you know, it's I've
watched all six episodes, binged it awesome.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
I didn't just flick to all my.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You watched this again, I'm really amazing here.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's like my AFL career was very short, Eric, but
I reckon. I've shown my two boys my highlights. I
reckon about forty eight thousand times. It just happens to
come on the television regularly. You know how to do
that with your family?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
How long is that is your highlight?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It goes for two and a half minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
And can't possibly further him Another job?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What was your first job in the industry?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like, did you do it? Did you do a commercial? First?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Up?
Speaker 10 (09:56):
My first probably the biggest thing was I am very
high rotation commercials with Lucy Lawless of Xena Fan and
I played a father to a child. It was embarrassing,
but it pete exceptionally well.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And Eric, you would have done about modeling though as well?
You're a good looking.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Rooster gas man or have you done any sort of catalogs?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Not yet?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But you know, I apologize, I'm sorry about this, Eric, you.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Know that's all right.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
No, I think I firstly, I appreciate the compliment, but secondly,
I think, as we're heading into the edge of the white,
middle class, middle aged man, you know, we could be
the next modeling sensation.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You Actually we spoke about Ben Affleck the other day
and he's broken up with j Low now and they're
saying that he's going through a midlife crisis as well. Eric,
and he was finally now that the relationship is over,
he could wear his red Hot Chili Pepper's T shirt.
He's black leather jacket, he's got a mohawk. Have you
have you made a purchase or have you Are you
(11:07):
a sports car man or have you done anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
What I did for my fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I was born in nineteen sixty seven, so I bought
myself in nineteen sixty seven Fender telecast.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh God, who played that guitar over the years?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Well God knows, but I'm sure. I'm sure someone vomited
or or you. And I'm sure of that because that
was me when I bought it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That is great, all right, Eric Thompson, The Stand Original
series A critical incident. Really looking forward to this. I'm
set in Western Sydney. He's a cop.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's now streaming only on Stand.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We love you, Eric, have a great night this Sunday
night at the Logis and I can't wait to talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Sir, Thanks very much for having me qu This.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is the Fitzian Whipper with Cape Ritchie Podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I want to get deep now, I want to get
into the supernatural. I want to go Guardian Angels. I
want to go spirits are around you that you think
that Hath saved you before four twenty four ten.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thanks Jess.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I've got goosebumps already, and I haven't even heard the story.
It's just bloody cold in the studio. It's because someone's
crossing my grave.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Amanda prows Prowse He was less devastated when she discovered
her younger brother, Simon, had suddenly died of a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now, she was told by her husband, Simon is gone.
I was really confused.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I thought he was mistaken and I meant my dad
because I thought of my father because he had heart
surgery a year or so before. I couldn't fathom it.
Simon was also he was always so fit and healthy.
We described him as invincible, invincible. But when he was gone,
I didn't know what to do. I knew I had
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to be around my family the thing he was, though
my family was about one hundred kilometers away. So she
jumped into her car to go and be with her
family after Simon's death.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So she's in the car.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She's in second or third gear or whatever, and she's driving.
She's pulled in obviously, got a few snacks, and then
on the.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Way she listened to Tripped on Funham Age of Reason.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
All of a sudden, there was I've just got to
get to this story.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Okay, mate, it's you doing thiswear on your ride.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This one hundred kilometer drive though, was quite difficult, Kate,
because there was a storm. It was rubbish weather, she said.
It was dark, it was drizzly, rain, lightning, thunder again.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
There was an earthquake, I think to the point.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But as Amanda was driving that night, she caught sight
of a strange orange light in the sky, visible in
the top corner of her windscreen. It was like a spark,
like a firework. I didn't even question it. I just thought, okay.
When I looked at it, it gave me strength. It
made me calm. I was trembling, but every time I
felt like I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I looked at the light and it comforted me.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
However, that wasn't the only beginning of Amanda's strange journey.
After driving for almost an hour and a half, she
discovered that the only road to the motorway that was
that she had to get to her family was blocked off.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh no, after a car.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
In the storm had driven off the cliff.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Around about ten minutes earlier, and police had taped off.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The area and were turning people around.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
She said, I hadn't cried yet at that point, but
I burst into tears, into frustrateds and feeling so panicked.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I begged the police officer to let me pass, but
he refused. Then another man came over. He had a
helmet and I'm not sure if he was a police
or a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He lifted up his visor and told me do it
for Josh, go steady.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It was bizarre. My son is called Josh. How could
have he known.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That I needed to hear those words just to calm myself.
So Amanda has established straight away here Kate that Simon,
her younger brother, he was the orange light moving her
away from the cliff, that someone had just driven off
just before.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Just not a great story, is that? How you put
all these people?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And then Simon has gone to the police offerer's.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Police officer, did you preread.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The police offerer?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And what's happened next? Mate?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Sorry? I didn't prep as well as I should have. Here, Tom,
I'm so sorry. It's apology accepted, money, just received it.
Simon's only just given me the story.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Ollie, can you please not print up the seventy three
pages of this story?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, but just dock points mate.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But how's that?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The police officer then knew her son's name, and so Simon,
obviously as the Guardian Angel, went over to the police officer.
Simon's gone to the police officer and said, can you
just can't down? Her son's name is Josh. Just used
the name Josh and the police office.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Did he float down?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, he's gone. He's the Guardian Angel, He's the Orange Light.
He's the one that kept her calm.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Tommy, are we alive? We are?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Unfortunately I can't add it with one stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I love these stories though, I mean I don't like
your delivery this one, but I do love the stories.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Do you think that there are Guardian Angels out there?
People that look over you and keep you safe, Kate?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
After they've gone?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I remember I told you that story. I mean, it's
quite a tragic story.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
When I was dating somebody who lived in Queensland and
i'd never heard of the coffee club, and he took
me to the coffee club because he just knowed, he
knew how to show her time. I'm just speaking the
way he spoke, anyway, I knowed what you would like, Kate.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'm taking you to the coffee club for afakarture and
a creamy lantepe's careful word for anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So I'm in the coffee club and what I would
normally do when we would have a lunch date is
cry into my toasted tuna melt pot and the lady
when I got up, when he's sorry. When he got
up to go to the toilet, probably to text his girlfriend,
(17:19):
I she came up to me and she said, because
she could see I was crying, she said it's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And I said fine, as.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I there's nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And she said, okay, that tune of milk okay.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Don't eat that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And she said, you'll be fine. I can see someone
here with you. Someone's here with you and they are
watching over you, and everything will be okay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Was it a.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Wasn't the path okay? So two pretty poor stories?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, are we going to go with Guardian Guardian Angels?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Have we got Lennie. There is Lenny from Cernella.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Yes we do. Thanks black Bee is paf as long
as your story?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
What are you going to Lenny?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
No one will fall asleep at this one.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
I'm hot stoking.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
My sister in law were sleeping upstairs. She was in
a really deep sleep. It was two or three in
the morning. There was a phone that kept going and kept.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Ringing and ringing and ringing, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
The old house stone, ring before you would be able
to pick it up. And she thought, oh my god.
Speaker 14 (18:34):
Who's ringing all the time?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
This is crazy. She went to wake my brother up
and realize he's not there. So she thought, oh, we
actually don't have the house stone. Everyone's got mobile phones
these days.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
But where is he?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
She went downstairs and there he was passed out on
the floor. He had a diabetic episode. It was three
in the morning, and they she woke him up, gave
him a bit of sugar, and he was okay. So
we actually think that was my dad doing a phone
call because he had passed away and brought it to
her at tension. You better go check, just get up.
It just didn't say how to get her up to
(19:05):
go check on him.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Moments in time.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wow, and he's using the home phone to call you
ELLENI interesting, Let's go to Rebecca and film me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Are you believing guardian angels back?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Hey, what's your story about your guardian experience?
Speaker 14 (19:26):
So we're coming up to five years now. But my
son had a pretty traumatic birth where he was rushed
from Campbelltown to Liverpool then to West me children for surgery,
and in the meantime we'd been told that he wasn't
going to survive twenty four hours, let alone a week,
so enjoy the time that you had with him. We
was asked to turn off his life support all the
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other stuff. We said no, but they said he's not
going to survive. It is what it is. And I
went out for like a children's West Mean hostel was
like cafe five minutes up the road, so we went
with my sister and a girlfriend of one at the time,
and I was eating lunch, just minding my own business,
talking to my sister and a girlfriend, and someone come
out to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said,
(20:09):
I don't want to freak you out. I'm not normally
like this, but someone's telling me that your son's going
to be Okay, he's going to survive. Stop stressing. It's
gonna work out. Five years later, he's he's driving, you
willdn't even know that he's supposed to be branded.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But did you ever chase this person?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Did you ever see that person again? Or never again?
Speaker 14 (20:32):
So he was, he was there, and within five minutes
he was gone, and he just was like, just remember this,
And I just was like, what the hell?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 14 (20:41):
Like he was a young trade.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He was in.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
A part of his shirt.
Speaker 14 (20:46):
You just would never have thought he was just in
a trade. He must have been on his way to
work or on a lunch break or something, and he.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Was There's no way he could have known.
Speaker 14 (20:56):
Yeah, there's no way. There's no way. We were very
speacretive about it with our families and stuff, like, we
hadn't posted anything really on social media. It's like a
week or two until we knew what was going to happen.
You you just didn't know if he was going to provide.
There was no way. There was just no way, And.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That is such great news. Is your son at school
yet or is does he start next year?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
He go in this, there's no way You've done well memory.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
He certainly has a purpose, doesn't he he's here for
what's his name?
Speaker 15 (21:29):
Hunter?
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Yeah, worry.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I'm surprised that there are some some trade's out there
that are beneficial.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
That is unbelievable turning up on time. In fact, the.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Perfect time he was at a cafe was meant to
be struggle to unblock you your drains. But I'll tell
you what he will tell you. Your child's going to
be all right, Judith? In Blacktown? What happened to you?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Judith?
Speaker 12 (21:53):
I lived in the flat in Blacktown. I know it
wasn't very well. My kidneys were failing me and I
was dying, and I didn't know it at the time,
of course. And when I came out at the bathroom,
I fell down like you, fell on the carp and
the unit was pitch black because I was there by myself,
and just got darker and darker because I couldn't get
(22:13):
up to put the elections in. I couldn't move anyway.
I tried to get up as much as I could.
I tried everywhere. I just could not get up off
the floor. I couldn't get to the water, I couldn't
get to my crutches, I couldn't get to the phone
because it was in the kitchen. I just laid there
and I just said to God, if I don't get
up from here, I'll die. And I just went unconscious again.
(22:36):
And when I woke up, I was up on the
bed now. And then I edged my way around to
the kitchen, got the phone. I drank two bottles of
water straight away because I was so badly dehydrated. I
don't know how long I laid there on the floor,
but all I know is that when I woke up,
I was up on the bed.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh, Judas, who do you think it was? Judas? Who
is your guardian angel?
Speaker 12 (23:01):
Everybody's given a guardian angel when they're born, So I
think was my guardian angel who helped me get up.
Because I'll tell you the truth, as God is my witness,
I could not get up off that floor. I was
sixty something years old at the time, and I'm eighty
one now.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Oh wow, and you woke up on the bed.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
Yeah, I woke up. I was on the bed, and
I didn't know where I was because I was laying
on my back on the bed looking up at the ceiling.
And I didn't know where I was because the un
it was pitched black.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The light went on.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Yes, it was a miracle, believed me. It was a miracle.
Because then on the Monday, when my lift came to
take me to go to shopping and everything, I couldn't go.
I was crawling on my knees. The ambulance came took
me to the hospital, Latown Hospital. I went in. I
just do it, A few little words. What's your name?
What's this is that? When unconscious again? The professor of
(24:01):
kidneys came. Obviously, Brotheravan told me. He said, you were dying,
You were unconscious, your kidneys were failing you.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh my god, this.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is the Okay, Now that's freaked me out. Jeth So
I'm believing you. You think that everybody has a guardian angel?
Speaker 12 (24:18):
When they everyone everyone is born with the guardian angel.
It's God's gifted them to wash over them and helped
them in catastrophe or a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Can I borrow yours when I'm a bit old to do?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Is that okay?
Speaker 14 (24:35):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (24:35):
Yes, certainly.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I can tell you so many things. My mother she
was run over to buy a car when she was
forty nine. She lived up in Harden in the River
Arene at two hundred and eighty four miles row. I
was thirty one at the time and lived at right
down on the Ratley Traun Street Beunta in Maine, and
the night my mother was run over into by a
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car I knew, thank you, was two hundred and eighty
four miles away.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You know what, We've got such great stories when we
started with such a terrible story from fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you know what, sometimes you need to start started well,
what was Drake's line?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Started from the bottom now here?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah? What about Hey, I got one for you? What
about silver chair? Watching you watch jover me?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
We start, We started badly and we ended really well.
You don't have to end. I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Are we taking more calls?
Speaker 11 (25:38):
Full boardcasts going.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Look at all the calls coming through, and Judith is
listening to our station as well. That's another miracle in itself.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Year old listener.
Speaker 16 (25:48):
Yeah, Ben Fordable, we shattered that we've stolen that one bid.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Huge, tell us we're what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
To your sister in law, Michelle.
Speaker 15 (25:56):
Good morning, guys, love the show, love your show. Just
thank you. My sister in.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
Law, with her four months old baby, was driving home
had a horrific car accident with massive head injuries. First guardian,
angel Off Dudy paramedic happened to be two cars behind,
so was on the scene straight away. She went to hospital.
We were told that she would not make it through
the night and if she did survive, she would have
massive head injuries and the you know, the rehabbled to
(26:25):
be intense and months. She had had some short term
memory issues, but she survived. She was home from hospital
in three weeks. And when she was at home, obviously
my brother was still really quite panicked about her being okay.
And she'd say, Mark, stop panicking. The lady at the
end of the bed with the comb in her hair
(26:47):
is looking after me. She's watching over me. And my
brother was dumbfounded. He said, So, none of my siblings
partners met my mum. She died when we were when
I was eighteen, when myther was twenty two. Sure, so
my sister in law never met her. She didn't meet
my brother Tilli. We had two thousand and one, and
she said, the lady at the end of the bed
(27:08):
with a comb in hair, and my mom used to
walk around. My mum fostered lots of kids and walked
around with a comb ina here used to comb everyone's hair,
so she would never have known that mum had a
comb in the back of head.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, Ice Cub. Sorry, it wasn't like a comb like
Ice Cuba or anything. Was it just.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
A hair comb.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
She used to walk around brush at kid's hair growing up,
so she would never have known that that. And my
brother was just freaked out. She said, stop that. The
lady the end of the bed looking up to me,
she's got a comb.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In her hair.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Oh, Michelle, that is I mean, thank you for sharing.
I can hear the almost the nervousness in your voice
at the reality of what's happened there. That is freaking
spine tingling.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, Caitlin in Boulkham Hills, how are you saved? Kaylin?
Speaker 15 (28:00):
Regat? How are you going?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Sorry? Did you just call me Regut?
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Is that all you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Angel?
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Just the producers that they're not Guardian Angel's coat. Yes,
you better have a good story, Caitlin.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It is.
Speaker 15 (28:20):
It's very good. My mum was really really close with
my nana, my dad's mum, but she unfortunately passed away
and it was like maybe a couple of years ago
or something. She came to her in a dream telling
her to wake up at like two in the morning
or something and just to like walk outside or just
have a look around. And our electrical box was on
fire outside.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Really, isn't that bizarre? So in the middle of the
night something told her to get up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah she did.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
She woke everybody up and go over and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We've got one more, Andrew and Legano, do you believe?
Do you believe in?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
Look? I am a bit of a believer that I
haven't got I haven't really got a story. My call
is hopefully to inspire Ryan to I'm thinking, you know,
you've got the adult entertainment right of there. Perhaps fifty
you could start delivering horoscopes in the morning.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh so you think this spiritual angle on the show
is working for us? Do you? Andrew? Could?
Speaker 9 (29:24):
I think there's there's potential of the capital P. I
mean that was that story was beautiful and tragic, much
like break and two point zero.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Who are you? You sound like a bit of a
guardian angel calling. Don't really know if you're the real deal,
Andrew not an angel.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Judea's call obviously had an effect on you as well, Andrew.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Before did it. You can't my fum all over weekly
segment there.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
I love Guardian Angels.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's not a bad idea, but it's not a good one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Could we get could we get guy Sebastian to sing
the opener for it? Angels brought me here?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Where is the silk shirt? Wearing? Psychic Francis Bevan?
Speaker 16 (30:14):
Francis Bevan's laugh is always sort of watching over us.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So we've got Francis, Jess, what have you got under
Francis Bevan. I'm finding it hard to believe Francis.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, Francis would have he would be able to see
a Guardian Angel around you.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I just don't know if we can take him seriously.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
We met Booky Clown.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
We met Francis.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I would say, how long ago, boys, about thirteen years ago.
We were down in a hair salon filming something and
it was a bit of a weird salon because on
the side you could get sort of your palm read
and stuff like that by a guy called Francis.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And we met.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We connected with him straight away, Kate, and then he
became a regular on the show.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Did he never well, he never.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Predicted anything right, but he would just became such a
beautiful character of the show.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You could say that he's our guardian angel. Tom could well.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
He certainly he was very in touch with with spirits.
Speaker 16 (31:13):
Unfortunately most of them were you're keeping your freezer Alca baseduff.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I always felt like he was watching over me. Unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I think he was because he used to mention that
every time he crossed Mount Street he'd think of Fitzy, is.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He still around? And when was the last time coming?
Speaker 11 (31:41):
We'll see Francis again soon? Why do we get him
on Tommy for the rest?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I would love to me.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I'm going to call him okay as Francis this time
tomorrow with Kate Richie podcast. Okay Richie, what's going on
in your world? Tell me something interesting?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Do you know what is really going on my world?
The fact that we just had a really lovely conversation
during that song about you know, pump up.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Songs the morning and get your getting kids to school,
because I know in my house it can be incredibly
difficult at times.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And I know there's people in the car right now
and they just.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Kick the kids out the school gate and taking a
deep breath and then are probably going on to the
next part of their day. That may be dropping the
other kids somebody somewhere, or it might be going to work,
or it might be going to look after an elderly parent.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And I'm sure that does get to you at times,
and you know it is. There's so many elements of family.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
So I just wanted to tell you a little story
about a survey and how I mean this has come
out of America, so I'd be really interested to hear
about what it's like here. But over half of Americans
say that their parent is their best friend. Know that
there's a lot of chat around that, especially when you
(33:02):
have young kids and you've got teens and still, yeah,
we've spoken about that too, where you try to find
the fine line between not being their friend really and
being their parent. That's really important. They don't need more friends,
they've got friends at school. But as parents get older
and they are heading into their golden years, the value
(33:24):
of having a friendship with them is incredible because you.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Get to.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You get to sometimes experience new things if they're well enough,
or you go out on shopping trips that you wouldn't have,
or you're trying new few foods or you're doing things
because you want your parents to experience continue to experience life,
and in turn you're doing great things as well.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I find it's strange though maybe it's different with dads
and their sons. But I would never go into detail
with my dad about, say a relationship, where to hear
that my sisters will go into detail about relationships and
things talking to mum. So maybe daughters and mothers open
(34:12):
up and share a little bit more traditionally than dads
and sons.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Do you remember what Matthew McConaughey said to us.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What did he say about his advice, his advice as
a father to his son. So he said, first of all,
first and foremost the first sort of eleven twelve years of.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
A child's life, you have to be a father.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
You have to You've got to lay the ground rules
and you set that child moral's values to be like
that for the rest of their lives. And then after that,
remember he said, you've got to go from being a
father to being more of a brother. Remember he said,
so when they become teenagers, they can feel like they
can talk to you if there is something wrong as
(34:52):
more of a brother figure.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Now you want to be more of a brother figure
than a father figure.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
They're going to need you to be a father the
entire way through.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Didn't he all so say, now that we're talking about
Matthew mcconae, something about that you should give you kids
kind of three wild cards or three free get out
of jail free passes, for example. And it doesn't matter
where you are or what has happened, or what the
hell you have done. Yep, you can call me. I
(35:20):
will come and get you. We will go home safely.
I won't ask you anything.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You're just going to be all right, all right, all right, alright, alright,
all right. If he gives you three al rights.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
But I think he also said a successful parent or
the way he judges it is that if his kids
are around the age of eighteen and they still feel
they can still come to him and share, then that's
a win. Like do you and Heather, Like if you
meet a new guy, do you call you mamma? Go
And I've gotta believe it has it's your daughter Katie
here and she has found the love of her life.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I wouldn't make it that.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I wouldn't make a phone call like that because my
name's not Katie.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You'd go, Mum, that's your daughter.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Number one, Thank god for that music.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
It's your daughter number one here and I have been
kissing some hard bars.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
So you do that with Christine's number one son, that's Michael.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Look, some relationships can't be like that because there's not
open communication and there's a lot of you know.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Tom's that emails, but unfortunately he still writes the body
of the email in the subject line.
Speaker 11 (36:31):
Yeah, very very difficult to communicate with my dad long sub.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That is so cute, But you know what it's It's
important if you can.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's great that you're hanging out. That I love her
and I'm very grateful for her.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
About Granny, I.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Don't have grannies, nor do I have granddad's. I only
met one set of them.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Would say to Jess Malboy if she was in the studio.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I'd say, I hope your vocal cords are warmed up,
which is what I'll be saying to Borrow when she's
live in the studio performing for us.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
This is the song she's saying for the athletes, isn't it?
In Paris?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
High for the high jumpers.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Higher two meters higher, two five higher two ten gold.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
This is the.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Fitting and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm still coming down from the Olympics and obviously we're
still continuing with the Power Olympics.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
But it's just really tough.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You know, we don't realize how hard these people train.
We've spoken about this before last week about some countries
and what you receive if you get a gold medal,
which is unbelievable. But there are the smaller countries that
don't get many gold medals at all, and one of
them is the Philippines. There's a competitor in the gymnastics.
(37:47):
His name is Carlos Yulo. Carlos Juli has become an
absolute superstar in the Philippines because he took home not
just one, but two gold medals in the gymnastics whip.
And this is the thing, the Philippines haven't won a
gold medal for around about the last four or five
Olympics Games.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
He's a superstar.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
So this guy has become such a superstar that they've
actually written down all the stuff that he's received back home.
Now this is in sponsorships, this is in money, so
he is getting he will get a congressional medal and
at least three hundred and fifty thousand from three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars from the government.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Plus now I've got to now go stick with me
here because this is all over. The show casts a
free set of headlights and fog lights, also free wedding photography.
He gets free haircuts, and he gets furniture and more
food than he can eat in an entire lifetime.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Okay, so he's got like a boucher card or a
McDonald's or KFC discount card.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Now I've got to get this right because he's two
gold medals.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Sorry, unfortunately that is the.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
They're the only goal metals that they've won in their
entire Olympics history.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
So this is the thing when it comes to food
that I was just talking about before. Eulo has now
been offered a free lifetime supply of everything that he
could possibly eat and drink. Now we're talking coffee companies, Ramen,
We've got strawberry float, ice cream, grilled chicken, and mac
and cheese.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
And if you didn't already have.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Enough food, Eulo has now been offered free access to
a chain called Vikings Luxury buffet.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Do they just want this guy to retire? F well,
I mean it's making me want to get into gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's not going to be competing at the next Olympics,
that's for sure, because you'll be overweight. And then a
doctor has stepped up and said to you, like mate, oh,
I love you so much that I'm going to offer
you free colonoscopies the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
We won't know which order to do things in, but
I suppose if he's eating that much every now and
then it might be good if he's for colonoscoby just
to refresh the system.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
This is a I mean, this is an article that
has then gone through some other countries as well. In Kazakhstan,
they measure medals in rooms. So if you're a gold
medal a gold medal winner you receive a three bedroom apartment.
If you're a silver medal winner you get a two
(40:23):
bedroom apart and the bronze medal gets one bedroom.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
How the Kazakhstan how.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Do they choose where the apartment is? I mean, is
it like a village where all olympians live that will
have won medals.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeldos met of who won Judo gold for Kazakhstan. He
also received a herd of one hundred thoroughbred horses Alexis
and the guarantee of a smooth ride no matter his
method of transportation.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Okay, so he walks outside each morning and doesn't know
whether to take a horse one of one hundred or
Alexis's local.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
It's local, and his local council as well actually built
him a road to his house driveway for free.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So in South Korea, Olympic medals are exempted from compulsory
military service. And in Poland, winners get an investment grade
diamond and a painting by a respected and a talent
and talented Polish artist.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Oh my god, better and better. I think I'd take
the one hundred stallions. I don't know why, but I
just think that'd be a great gift to give out
to friends over the years. Now, you've got to go
your receiver, Stallion.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
You've got to go to the Philippines, mate, and you've
got to take up gymnastics because if you can get
a lifetime supply of food, oh my god, imagine whip
rocking up the Vikings luxury buffet us.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Do us do another backflip for a sweep here. He
is the choice of life.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
You could come to my funeral in a year's time.
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