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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the City with Kate podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey guys, got to be an entry for the worst
human that's ever lived.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
One of those entries about yourself and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Certainly not me. I haven't feel performed.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's actually love. We love you, mate, you have your pro.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
There's some ups and downs at the end of the day.
I'm here and anyway, this girl, this woman, she's married
to the man and they don't have a lot of money,
but she's so focused on her daughter's education. She has
said to him, why don't you sell one of your kidneys?
You know, we don't have a lot. Our life is
(00:44):
nearly over, but we have a daughter who could excel
and start a new life when if we had the
money for her to be educated.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, this is a huge industry, isn't it. I first
heard about this on squid Games.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Must be real. I thought it was always an urban
myth sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The body organ trade is roaring, Who on earth would
do that?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Kidney?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Can you give us their heads up? If you donate
a kidney? What what that? What happens to your body?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Then?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Deficient?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are you like it? Does it? Does it affective? When
you consume alcohol and stuff like that isn't that a situation.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's like a filter for the body. Tommy is our
resident nurse. Tommy, what happens with your kidneys? You've got
two of them?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, you can pepe.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Most people can live a full healthy life with one kidney,
which is which is amazing. But you might have you
might get some high blood pressure and reduce kidney function
because it's all, of.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Course, all going on to the one you can get.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Can't you get a piece of kidney put in these days?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, we'll do that for you after nine.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Fine, he's already got to it. Though. Good for spare parts,
pig valves, everything. I'm getting one of those little curly
tails added to the back of my spine.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It looks so cute on you, cute.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Little holes cut out of all my pants.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
To watch that, to carry you back on it. How
much do you get for a kidney these days?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He's twenty thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars sort of the
kidney right. So for a family that has nothing and
wanting the daughter to excel in life and have a
proper education, he said, do you know what I'm going
to do it. I'm going to sell my kidney for
the twenty thousand dollars. Right, So you're thinking, where's the
terrible part of this story. I understand that these guys
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are doing it tough. The saddest part is the money
came through. The wife, on seeing the money come through,
took the twenty thousand dollars and ran off with her
boyfriend that she'd had on the side for the past
two years to start another life.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So he lost a kidney and the love.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Of his life, and the daughter goes on to achieve nothing.
Now is that the worst human on the planet?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That is diabolical? That poor man, you know what he was?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Then he passed out because of the operation, was eaten
by a pig.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Look ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I was going to invite him to Backyard Crickets.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And sits in with Richie podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I'm a very unusual person. We know, very unusual.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Which part do you think is weirdest?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What do you think is the weirdest?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Knowing me as your session with children's food?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Mmm, Jesus, three bottles in your backyard? I found and
there for a.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Tea the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I did not authorize that drone footage and Big Brother
housemates igor he buried himself Caine with a k all dead.
What I want to tell you is something that happened
yesterday when I came up to play with you guys
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from Melbourne to Sydney. I've so enjoyed it. By the way,
had I loved it? I you know, I'm not a
high powered career woman, so I don't travel for work,
you know what I mean. I had to buy some
carry on luggage to go on the plane. Ten year old. Yes,
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anyway I arrived. And because I'm not really o'fai with everything.
One of the unusual things about me is that I
don't do well in rooms with windows that don't open,
and so for hotels, on the rare occasions i stay
in them, I have to ask does the window open?
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Because otherwise I feel like I'm in a cell. Right.
So when the good people at Nova said, so you're
going up to singing and play with the boys, where
would you like to say? I said, I don't. I
don't really mind, as long as there's a bed and
the windows open. Sure, And then they looked at me, Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh god, so formula ones out of the question, yes,
and let's put her only on level one or two.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So anyway, I stuck my nose in where it shouldn't
be because I don't I don't book hotels and I
don't know what I'm doing. But I think I know
what I'm doing. So I was booked into a hotel
and I arrived on Sunday night and lobby great. Yeah,
(05:38):
We checked in, got my little swiping cart, and I
went into the room and I thought. My initial reaction was,
am I on the run from the police? Is this is?
Is this where I'm staying to avoid detection from the authority.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It wasn't escape room, was it. It was an actual hotel.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Honestly, I am not fancy, but it was depressing. And
I think it's the lighting. The lighting was fluid. The
lighting was fluo, and it was a giant rectangle with
no windows anywhere. There was a door at the end
with a view of you know, Vivian's living room across
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the road. And then I was like, oh my god,
I feel very sad in here, feel sad. And then
I went to the toilet, Oh my god, are we
And there was a big, very clinical room. It reminded
me of where I got ready for my colonoscopy, and
it had a top loader washing machine and a dryer
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and a huge tub. And then I looked at the bin,
at the rubbish bin, and it had a big push
sign on the top of it. I had a push
on it, and I thought, I can't stay here. I
can't stay here. So I made other arrangements. I've never
done that before.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You it down to reception.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, So here's the thing this is. This was my
initial reaction is I'm just going to leave my key
card on the table and go. And then by the
time I'm in the uba, they'll realize because I only
just checked in, remember saying the same crew was there
that checked me in. And then I thought, no, your
New Year's resolution, your intention is to say what you mean,
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say it, don't be don't your light under it. So
I thought, this is a good opportunity. I've done nothing
wrong and I'm going to communicate that I am going right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I find this hard to do, very hard hard.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's very hard, and I didn't rehearse it. See, and
I should whip whippers.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The opposite. He's gone into a hotel room, clogged the
toilet and then gone back down and said he wanted
a change room. I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, the toilet flush didn't have push on it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I did not make in Hollywood. I'm not joking. What
did you, Tommy, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
To the next room that he moved in absolute.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I moved rooms because of the noise at a pool party.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's why I moved room. I didn't plog the toilet. No,
it sounded like you left because of the Pooh party
and for one So this is what I said. I
got down in the lift and I had my little rolling,
new new luggage behind me, and I looked at the
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girl at reception and I thought, oh god, I haven't
I haven't planned what I'm going to say. So I
put the key down on the top of the counter
and I said to her, I have to go.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Wow, and did you a moment important?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And then he said, she said okay, and I went
and then I pushed the cart a little bit closer
and I said, this place is.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Not for me, and she's pressing the emergency button underneath
the desk, going oh my gosh, this woman is suck.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And does she say what place is for you?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
No, she said okay, she probably understood. And then I
walked out and I was fifty percent proud of myself
for saying something in the fifty percent, horrified with how
weird I am and waiting for my uber. Guess what
the girl behind the candle did what She came out
and spoke to me when I was on the street
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and said, whoa. She said, would you like to see
another room? We can upgrade you up. I was like,
I said, no, no, I have to go. I have
to go, and and she said, please, we can. We
can send you further up the thing up, further up
the hotel. I said in the window, I've already booked
another hotel room, I've already found I've already found myself
(10:08):
something else. Power move And I said no, no, please,
And then I just could not wait for the uber
to come.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So the moral of the story is just stay cowardly.
You don't have to tell people. You don't have to
tell people. Storm out all right, don't don't look someone
in the eye who's quite normal, and go I have
to go. I can't be here.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And if you're really angry, block the toilet. Yeah sits
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Speaker 1 (10:37):
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