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July 15, 2025 13 mins

We're genuinely concerned for Fitzy's well-being right now. First, he accidentally stabbed himself with a pen hard enough to pierce the skin. On top of that, it seems his wife may have been taking out some frustration on him with a massage gun—likely due to his new sleeping habits starting to take a toll on her...

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is it sits in with.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Kate podcast Half Things You Home, buddy, you've got a
feeling that your partner's trying to kill you. No, it's
there's been a couple of moments where I've looked a look,
I've changed up a few things with my sleeping. I
put a pillow over my head.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
You do all she does. We've been trying for years.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So what it does It cuts out all the noise
around me, and I've been getting a better sleep. But unfortunately,
because I'm getting a better sleep, that means apparently I'm
snoring more.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
So hang on a minute. Are you one pillow under
the head, one pillow over in a pillow sandwich?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, right, yes, I'll have a pillow over at the
top of my head on my other ear.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Some people think about using earplugs.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
As yes, now, I actually find it really comfortable having
a pillow on your head. So there's been a So
I've waken up a couple of times whip and my
wife's not in bed. She's gone down into the spare
bedroom because of my snoring. Then on the couch the
other night, there was a moment where we were watching
something on the couch and she i looked at her,

(01:07):
and she was staring at me. And you know what,
there's a lot of people out there probably going, oh,
that's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Your wife's staring at you. But she sort of had
an evil look on her face.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Do you know That's why they call it a death stare?
You do realize that day is it?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Death's there she's thinking.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
About I just didn't know you. I didn't know what
was ticking, what was going on, and.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You gone, They're thinking that couch would look beautiful without
you on it.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Then the other night, I I've got a saw back
and it's and I've I've hid a nerve in my back.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Right, I've done something to my back. I've got a
knot in my back and every time I turned my
head to the left, I've just got this sharp pain
that goes all the way up to my neck. There's
a knot in my back. So I said to BJ,
I said, honey, can you grab the massage gun?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
I need you to do.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
There's like a knot in my back that I need
you to get out. She did, and all I heard
was all I heard was this, and off she went,
and I thought, oh, this is great, she's doing it.
So I lay down on the carpet in the bedroom
and she goes hell for leather right for about five minutes,
and then I'm like, Okay, no worries, wasn't I went

(02:20):
to bed really.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Saw that night and it didn't really didn't really work.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Woke up for work the next morning and I jump
into the shower and I have this pain down my
back and I've realized that my wife's trying to kill me.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Give me a long, hang on a minute, shirt off,
guys had off, shirt off, headphones off.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Oh what is that?

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Taking so much skin off my back?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
It looks like a tattoo.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
The massage gun.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh my god, that looks like a bird. That's like
and do you know what? I realized she while she
was doing that, she would have seen what she was doing.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
But she's gone hard.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
She would have seen it start to bleed, and still
she wants she kept pounding, didn't she? Oh my god?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I just and like I said, I've got a mushroom
pie for lunch today. I don't know what's going on
with my wife. I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Were you instructing her, you're on the spot, keep going please,
or did she go.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
This, we'll fix it.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, you just just before we went to ash at
the seven o'clock news there you just did. What's what's
the sign that your relationship is due?

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, when you reckond Maybe the four layers of skin
she's taken off my back could be a sign.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
And did she wake up the next morning? Go hi Ryan?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
How are you? Tommy? Where do you register for the
singles party? It's not too late, Never too late.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Bjay's already registered. Sorry mate, we can't take exos.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
This is the Fitzian Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Have you accidentally stabbed yourselfe? Twenty fourteen? I didn't know
this is this is really really dangerous. So Fitzgerald put
his hand up for the goal umpiring duties in the
under thirteens Portland Crocodile was going over the weekend and Chrissy,
I take this job seriously, especially when my son's having
a shot for goal for goes over the post.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'm still calling it a goal sheet as much as
I can. That's been passed down from father to son,
Mick Fitzgerald to do it regular in cricket.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Once I nick the ball through the second slip and
Dad said, I didn't hear anything.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Awesome, and the other the other team was looking at him, going.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh my god, that guy over there quarter it no
how far away he is from the bat, and Day goes,
I didn't hear anything because he didn't have his hearing
aids in total sheet. So anyway, so I was given
Actually you know, I was really tough with this. They
gave me a great pen.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I got this. Who gave you a pen? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
The footy club, Go FITZI. Here's your score, here's the
score sheet, and here's your fine point big pen.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
And that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
So you've got you've got to put on a white
pair of overalls. Now, in the white overalls, there's a
pocket that's sort of up around your hip area, and
that's where I put my score sheet. Swanni, and the
fine point pen. Now there was one old the old bic.
So when someone has a shot at goal, you've got
to actually navigate where it is, is it over the line,

(05:14):
and then you've got to give your decisions straight away.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
You put your two fingers out for a goal, one
finger out for a point.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Someone's had a shot at goal, and I've gone down
to signal one point I've gone the point. Then you've
got to get your flag up and signal down the
other end to the other goal umpire that they've seen
that there's been a point scored.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Just a line's ability.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
So many things to do.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
So as I've gone down to pick up the flag,
I've stabbed myself in the gart with the fine point pen.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm not joking. It's gone in, has it?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Really?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
I've got a bit of it. You see it there?
Oh my god, Yes, it's gone. It's gone. Writing god.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
That happened to me the other day with a monjarro
pen right in the gap. But I that would have
held fits.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
But do you know what, I had a couple of
people from the football club going, mate, this has happened
to me before where I've had something in my pocket
and sat down.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Keys are a big one.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I had a guy who said, I, actually I key
pieced my skin after I sat in my back pocket
once fits.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
And I think this happens more often than we think.
Have you been accidentally stabbed? Can I take you back
to grade two? No, I would have been grade four.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
I'm sitting cross legged on the floor and we've been
asked to shuffle round and I'm holding a pencil in
my hand, in my fist in my right hand, and
we go to shuffle around. I lift my bum up
and sit down straight on the pencil. The pencil goes
through my shorts, through my undies, and the lead breaks
off to my right cheek. I go through the whole

(06:47):
day in pain till I find myself standing next to
the kitchen table while Mum has a needle and a
pair of tweezers picking the lead out of my bum
like I've been shot in the wall.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Wow, shrapnel is rares.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
One would call it wrapnel in the right cheek.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Or Tommy, you stabbed yourself with a broom that went
missing in the kitchen once.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Don't think that was an accident? Yes, I yeah, I
must apologize to the cleaners.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I will replace those, but yes, safely removed after a
number of hours. Oh my god, Ash, he's given us
a girl from Castle Hill. Ash, have you accidentally stabbed
yourself before?

Speaker 4 (07:23):
I have?

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Guys, do you know the sunbtacks? A lot of teachers
used them at school and I was helping the teacher
one day putting up all the posters on the wall,
and I thought I'd get myself organized, and I laid
out ten of them with the needle facing up, and
I lost my balance and my knee went through ten
ooh your knee, it's my knee. I just landed right

(07:47):
on them straight in. I couldn't bend my knee. I
just kind of rolled over, you know what to do? Awful.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
The kids would have thought you were so tough though,
have a thumbtack hanging out of your knee.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Ash.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
I did look like a bit of a woopye cushion
pin cushion at the time, and I was trying to say,
really brave and look it was awful, like a gold
plate on my knees.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, sometimes a thick Sheryl and Sonandrews.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Hello, Hi, good morning, Happy mondayyl Well. I was sewing
dance costumes for the school and as I threaded, you know,
I was doing the applicquet and the needle went straight
through my finger and when I went to take it
off at the piece, the end of the half of
the needle stuck in my finger, the right three the
nail and the finger and and the worst thing is

(08:43):
the tweezers wouldn't pull it back out because it had
gone writing and where it snapped off under the skin.
So I had to go to the doctors and they
had to cut my finger to get the needle out.
I didn't get any blood on the costume.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Share are priv every time I've been sitting here thinking,
oh gosh, I don't think I've ever done anything like that.
And Cheryl, I've done exactly the same thing on a
sewing machine. Yeah, I put my and I recognize that
you're talking about the sewing machine because I've done the
same thing.

Speaker 9 (09:18):
It just went bang, yeah THEMII time, Cheryl, Cheryl just quickly,
how tough are your thumbs?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Is the skinner around your thumbs? Like, is it really
tough skin that the needles don't go through it?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It is. It is tough. My hands are soft at
the skin. But it's just a way, you know, like
my skin. It's just weird. It's just how it happens.
And it can happen so easy because when you're treating
something like when you're sort of trying to glide it neatly.
And because I was doing appl Kaper, I wrote these
costumes and as she was doing it, and it actually
just went my finger went under and the time Elma.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
And Camden, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Did you what did you stab yourself with.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
My reading glasses?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
How did you do that? Elma?

Speaker 7 (10:08):
About hanging up washing had them in my pocket and
bent down to pick up some pigs and heard the
almighty snap and the actual glasses snapped in half.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
And the.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Lens Did it draw blood? Elma?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
A little bit?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:28):
And spectacles.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't think we'll be able to beat that, Elma,
reading glasses in the leg?

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Bridge it in paramatic? Can you beat that?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh? Not sure. I was having a lean cuisine and
preparing it. I was holding down the frozen food and
scabbing it with a fork and I accidentally stabbed and
went with the four quick right through the tip of
my fingers.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Shot. You were really violent with that.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Reason.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
He must have been very hungry.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I can only assume Bridge hungry angry.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Cuisine still around.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Cuisine the pastor and Salmon line cuisine is one of the.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Great Do you know it's it is a great It's
a quirky name. That's it's very catchy, isn't it? Arleen cuisine?

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Queiz a pop quiz? Can you remember the company that
made us?

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Was it a was it craft?

Speaker 6 (11:31):
No?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Finders clean cuisine.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
I don't know why I know that.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
Oh God, you've stabbed us with an important fact this
morning corner.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Isabelle's only eleven years of age. Isabelle, please don't tell
us that you've stabbed yourself.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hi there, Yeah, I pay per clip myself. Why? I sorry?

Speaker 7 (11:54):
I I stabled myself.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Why stabling paper?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh no, go through?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Go through your thumb, Isabelle? Or where did it go through?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
It went through my finger and I had to rip
it out.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
And I was like, wow, you just don't when I
put a sewing machine needle through my finger, the shock
of it. I was just looking at it, going, oh
my god. And then it didn't bleed until I took
the thread out. Did that happen to you, isabel Like
as soon as you took the staple.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Out, then yes.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
Then I took the staple out started bleeding.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
You we got the strength to tell the story. Good
on you, isabel Thank you, Rosa. Hello, Hey, how are
you home?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Renolds went wrong? Did they?

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Yes? A friend bought an old house and pulled down
the fence.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
So I had all the big nails and whatever else,
and I was walking over with a pair of songs
and straight through foot nail that would not come out,
so I had to take They had to cut the
timber around me, and I had to go to the
doctors with the timber in tow and get it removed
and get a text shot and everything else through that
And in.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
The was it in the art of your foot, Rosa,
And you.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Permanently now have a thong just stuck to your foot
for the rest of your life.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
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