May 5, 2025 • 39 mins
Fitzy has learned a new term, "green banana" which means booking a band just before they go big and he brought some amazing moments where these artists are playing on these small stages with insane crowds. Nova legend, Tim "Rosso" Ross is in studio to talk his new Vivid show and re-live some of his old radio days. Ricki-Lee calls in to give us an update on the Nova Red Room Global Tour and we find out some of your work perks!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This Fits with Cape Ricky podcast Pitty.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fit with Cabridchie was on with the Tuesday podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mate Today, we're I learned a new word in the
music industry.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I've never heard of it before, but green banana is
when a.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Festival book A festival books in an act from way
out and then that act explodes right and before just
as they get to the festival.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
They're huge and probably.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The small stage that you've put them on at the
festival is not enough anymore. We have some amazing footage
of Billie Eilish at the Redding Festival in twenty nineteen.
Okay they booked her before she blew up and it
was just out of control. We've got some other acts
as well that you can hear in the podcast, the
(00:53):
opening acts that were actually bigger than the headliners.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Fitz and Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast UFC. You know what,
I watched these guys and they are the ultimate It's
the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC. But it is also they
are the ultimate air athletes. The exhaustion and what they
put their bodies through. Like I mean, when's Volkanovsky coming
on the show. He's a new world champion at the
(01:18):
age of thirty five. He trained for sixteen weeks and
remember he was telling us Whip that training is harder
than the actual fight on the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Day because you go to exhaustion.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
When have we got him, Tommy, he's co hosting from
eight thirty on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh great, love that Tommy. It's got to have an
effect on your body, though, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
We could say so. I mean a while ago they
introduced fitz.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
If you remember chess boxing, So you would have a
round of boxing, so round one, and then you would
sit down after round one and you had to make
a move on the.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Chess board and there was just a little table and
chess set up.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Then they'd move it off. Round two of the boxing
starts and as they went on they just couldn't compute
how to play chess.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, this is the other thing as well. It's I mean,
this is not a good thing. But the head knocks
that you get, it has to have an effect on you.
There's been a video that's been going around of Tito
Ortiz now Jacob Christopher Tito Ortez is a retired American
mixed martial artist. He was he was a great fighter.
He was huge in the UFC. He doesn't fight anymore,
(02:23):
he's fifty years of age. But there's this is when
he was fighting though. I mean, these were some of
his best bits. He spoke really fast, whip and he
tried to get everyone up and going before the fight
and stuff like that. But obviously he's had a few
head knocks. He's his first one that he got away.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
With kevi in here.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
One hundred percent mental. That's about one hundred percent of
his gam Okay, so mental, that's about one hundred percent
of this game. Good. Here's another one from Tito says.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
He's going to knock me out with devastated fashion. I
think gots the big words to fulfill those shoes.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He's got some big words to fulfill those shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I like this guy is an artist. This is one
of my favorites. This was before a big match.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I'm a totally different person than I was twelve years ago.
I'm faster, I'm stronger, I'm younger.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm younger.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm a totally different fighter than I was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm younger, awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Then he went into commentating with after he finished, he
did some commentating in the ring. Makes sense, and he
would interview the fighters after the fighter.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I listened to this question. I want to tell me
what you see. Let's go ahead and see you by
the fight. What you saw in the rings?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What are you saying? Mate?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Do you know where you are?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I'm glad And it was a natural step for someone
that can't talk to go into commentary.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
He's another one from Tuto. He found I never let
you dance on now. I want to start.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Awesome you fence tune? Can we play that one again?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Just because it was he fans tune in I'll never
let you down till now. I won't start.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'll never let you down until now. This this, this one,
there's a fabit.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We were talking about the one before where he's mixing
up a few, but this is this is one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Can't put off sentence together. Man, he's reason for he's
reason for those grapes.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
He's trying to make his wine and the wine's already
signing like a violin with that cheese and wine.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
What's going on? Much one of you drunk?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Tito?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And also this is and this is my favorite because
you ask how hard does a UFC fighter train?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And Tito tells us five days a week, I'll train
three days a week.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
One of those days, I will train two days of
the week.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So six days on WEEKD we trained. And he's how
hard he's trying to all those those up? Mate?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Do you know what I learned the other day in
the music industry?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Tell me something interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So when a music festival, right when they book in
a band, because they usually they'll organize the festival let's
say nine months to a year out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
There's a fair bit of planning that goes into it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But if they book in a ban or an artist,
whip yep, and then that artist blows up in between, right,
so they might release an album and they go to
the next level.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's called a green banana. You get the band as
a green banana.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, right, So and then when they get to the festival,
they're ripe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh my god, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
So you got it at the freshest, well pre fresh,
pre ripeness, and then it comes into season.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So for an example, this blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But the Redding Festival in twenty nineteen got this young
act that was coming up they'd heard about her and
they were.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Like, oh my gosh, this girl is unbelievable. We need
to book her into the festival.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Her crowd was bigger than the headliner on the day
at the Redding Festival. Her name was Billie Eilish. Wow,
have a listen to the crowd. So she's on a
smaller stage. This is twenty nine. She's playing bad guy.
Have a listen to the crowd.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Of course, gives me a Gooseby?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Doesn't it give you goosebuck?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Last?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Gotcha that it's just chockers. You can't get anywhere near it.
So what p did he be?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Like a brown, moldy banana in reverse fits if you
book somebody that then gets canceled. What do they call that?
Not a green banana, but sort of only for smoothies.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So it's a rotten peach. Here's another one for you,
go Lewis no.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I just needed to play this one because we were
talking about sing alongs also at festivals. But Lewis Capaldi
and we know, if you've seen his documentary, unbelievable, like
he's Tourette's in their home.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's also you know, mental problems.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so this was at Glastonbury in twenty twenty three,
so there only a couple of years ago. Lewis got
up there and he's singing one of his hit songs
and the turetts kicked in and the poor bugger just
couldn't sing and the crowd take over the song.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Have a listened to Lewis Capaldi. This was a huge
crowd as well.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He couldn't see where he couldn't see and he stood
there on the stage emotional as everyone sang his.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Song back to it. Oh my god, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
The other big one for an act that was on
a smaller stage and probably out did the headliner on
the day was nineteen ninety five and there was three
young kids from Newcastle.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Their name was Silverchair. They booked the Big Day Out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is a massive green Borough, well the biggest green
Banana in Australia was the Big day Out, the first
ever Big day Out. They booked Nirvana before never Mind
the album came out.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Yeah that's just a banana plant without in the banana
and started grussing it's like a banana parmas.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Then in ninety ninety five Silverchair blew up and they
booked them in for the for the well. This is
just unbelievable. So this is Sahara Herald. Sahara worked on
the Big Day Out for a very long time. But
they put Silverchair on a tiny stage and the Big
Day Out and things just got out of control.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Like with Nirvana, kenne Vive got lucky.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
They booked Silverchair just before they blew up.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
They were massive, and the stage was in the hindsight,
probably too small for them, well too small for the audience,
and the stage was being overrun.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And there's this photo of.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Me crouched next to a Silverchair roadcase with a radio
and it kind.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Of looks cool, but what's it in reality is happening?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
I'm calling for help, like I'm on the radio going hey,
we've got a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So kids started climbing roofs of houses around and then trees.
It got really, really dangerous. You can actually hear Daniel
Johns at the start of there's set pointing out the
guys that were in the tree.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Can I give you one more key?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Muss you up in the tree? That's good, mussy in
the tree. We've never seen.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
How young does he sound?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Can I give you one fits? This was an artist
by the name of Lady Gaga and she was supporting
a group called the Pussycat Dolls in two thousand and seven.
We then cut to to Nights Ago Rio de Janeiro,
Copacabana Beach, Brazil. Two and a half million people on
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the beach. This is what it sounds like, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The drone footages.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Audio is not that good, but I would dare say
that because he get does we'll get two and a
half million.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Two if we can get him in the one room.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
This is the fits and with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We do ad all this man.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
This is a big one because he's a part of
the Vivid Ideas program. Tickets for the Australian Dream are
available now at vividcity dot com. But you can go
see Rosso at the State Library of New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What a special building that is, and he joins us.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Now I get a you know what happened a little
bit late to come in here because I text Maddie,
your producer, and she's.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
On her honeymoon, of course, and I felt so.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bad about it. Did she reply?
Speaker 10 (11:38):
She did reply, and she said I'll get someone and
I said, I'm so bad.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
And then I felt really bad about it, but I
text her on a honeymoon and I did. I checked
the time zone for dapdo and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Rosso stick around? Well under all those and this.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Morning, well on of music were you introducing back? And
then when Ova first started we were sounds different rosso.
I mean, can you give us the range of music
that you were actually introducing because you were.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
The white house living on a what was that one?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Living on a prayer, hanging on a moment.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
Hanging on a wetas and there were shiploads of de rude.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Really can you get too much?
Speaker 9 (12:23):
You can't get enough sandstorm like and.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
You know you'd come here, people would come in. Can
I blow the whistle for druidhn?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But like we were playing pel g food Fighters, it
was it was all over the shop.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The music wasn't it live?
Speaker 10 (12:41):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Shaggy was big. Really it wasn't me remember that one
time when.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We started down in Adelaide, when Nova first started, American rosso,
Sherbet American rosso were the first all that were the
first voices that you heard on air in South Australia
and we had Missy Higgins Whip performed scar in the studio.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For us, that was a big day. Do you know what?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
When we started at no but they still had no
more than two ads in a row.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Policy.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Now as for somebody that was on an aera in
the studio, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
You couldn't go out to the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I couldn't go to the bathroom. I couldn't leave the
studio to get food. I was starving in the studio,
wetting myself from laughter.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
We were when they had the two ads in the road.
This is one for the media fans out there. So
I can't remember what year it was, but they called
a general election, and so the government has all the
parties have so much money to spend, right, and so
if you've only got two ads in a row, there's
only so many ads that you can put on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, of course, and it was full.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
So there was all this money and they couldn't sandwiche
it in. And I was in a meeting. I don't
know why I was there, but I suggested that they
could sponsor some competitions. Okay, so you could do a
thing like you know, I guess how many people we
can put into a barna sponsored by the ALP no
one thought it was a good idea. Always always on
(14:06):
the revenue was always the bottom line, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
When OVA was I mean there was a period there
when you first started. You guys went to number one
and money and budgets were huge.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can you tell us what.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The biggest extravagance the American rosso Show did, Like, did
you do anything? Did you take the team out anywhere?
Did you do anything that was like, wow, we've made it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Yeah, Well there was plenty of them. Actually, which one
would you do?
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You want to hear the story about how we got
the helicopter to the Blue Mountains?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, yes, did you really?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
We got to Yeah, I'd been at the time. What
had happened was I was an ambassador for Volkswagen and
I'd been on a and I'd been on a helicopter
to the Blue Mountains as part of a Volkswagen day.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, and it was the Sweet Ride great.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
And so there was a restaurant in the Blue Mountains
that was quite popular at the time, and I thought,
let's all go there and then we'll just we'll get
and we needed to.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Because you know what's because the bit was right, So.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
They had something gonna happened with that increased our our
budget for the entertainment budget a couple of reasons, right,
and so we were like they said, well, we you know,
we've got to give you more.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Money to take the team out because things are going well.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
And it was when the station was like pumping like
everything's number one. They were everywhere, you know, the top
of the pops and you know, it was rivers of gold,
and so we were doing things like again, well we
go to the Blue Mountains in a helicop to get limousine's back.
Oh lunch, our grange never tried that before. Let's get
to Let's and then let's.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Buy Michael Jackson's Chimpanzee.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
And so we get to the end of the year.
The station has.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Been number one for the whole year. It's Christmas part time,
everyone's really excited. And then they announced that we're having
a Christmas party at this really shitty sailing club with
don cast wine because they're taking the Christmas party money
halved and given it to us.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Because everyone standing around drinking sheep white wine.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We've worked hard all this year because we've taken the.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Hell you arrived at a helicopter to the Christmas party
what's coast coolers?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Do you know what's funny?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
On a broader topic, though, rosso on a broader topic
of things that happened back in the day that you
can't do now. In the office yesterday we were talking
about a meeting about a car promotion and we said, oh,
we couldn't do that one we did downstairs again, could we?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I said, which one are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Tommy?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
He said, you know where We tried to get as
many nude people as into a barrina or something like that,
and there were bits and bums and all sorts of
holes hanging out of and pressed against glass. I think
we had thirteen nude people. Because they love it, they
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
We had a competition where it was like something The
idea was to be to do something that makes you uncomfortable, yea.
And the idea was that to lose, you have to
come into the station and serve people in a sea
through apron completely naked. And this dude with red hair
and pups of fire.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
One and he was he was walking. We couldn't get
him out of the joint. It was like sexual harassment.
It was like, dude, you got to go now. People
haven't served yet.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Do you know the other one that I remember that
we took off you on our show was lick it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Do you remember lickt and you had to you had
to lick.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Something to win the prize Russo and they were licking
like they were looking sponges that had been in the
kitchen for six months. And it was like crazy, some
of the stuff we were getting people to lick just
to win a prize.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
This is podcast. If you're listening, guys, Russo is stuck around.
If you want to go see Russo, this is going
to be awesome. It's the Australian Dream. State Library of
New South Wales is on June twelfth. It's part of
the Vivid Ideas program.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Do you know what I think we still the Australian
dream is just as prevalent these days than it's ever
been before, because it is it's harder to get to
but to have your own home is still very important
to Australians.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Rosso you can't escape it, can we It's so deeply embedded.
Oh yeah, to own a house, but just sadly so
more expensive. But I always think it's interesting because there's
a lot of talk and rightly so about affordability. And
one of the things I talk about in the show
is that one of the houses that I look at
from the back from the nineteen sixties, the idea was
to make houses affordable, and you could buy that house
(18:41):
for the price of two cars. And so in today's money,
that's a three bedroom house for one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. That is crazy rre And now that same
house is a price of like nineteen cars. And you
had a backyard, you had a backyard, and but that's
the thing.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Everyone I was, Oh, you know, they were so much
cheaper then. But the house I grew up in.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
And had an asbestos roof, didn't it cost parents nothing.
One day we had a tree fell on the roof
and my old man got me and my brothers up
there to take it off, and then he said, oh,
we betle to just sand back.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
This is best as possible.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
And we didn't have like our house. They were just
they were also a bit rubbish, like our house didn't
have any insulation and we're just so and it was
cold Melbourne, it's so cold.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
And then we just me and my brothers, which get warm.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
You'd have to stand near the open fire, inflammable pajamas, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Melting to your.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Where we lived growing up, we had two fences and
I never understood why in the backyard, so one fence
was higher than the other, the inside fence. And I
asked Mum and dad later in life, why did we
have two fences at the old house And Dad said,
we bought it off a couple who ran a newdist colony,
so they were they would have parties in the backyard
(20:03):
and they built another fence so nobody could see into
that area when they had the nude parties.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Oh my god, your dad was hanging on to every
dream possible, wasn't he living?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Can I The other thing about the Australian dream and
the idea of what you talk about. And as we
go back in and look at some of the houses
that have dated beautifully now that the circle is complete again,
is it looks simple?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Life feels simple when you look back.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And that'll continue to happen and today will look simple
in twenty years time. And I think that's what people
are drawn to as well.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Oh, one hundred percent, when my freedom, when when my
when we're talking about my dad at his funeral, right
and we're talking about the things that he'd got. He
did when we were kids, and he would like be
in some theater group. He was a church that he
would as a Sunday school teacher. He was in the
local apex club. You do all these things, and he
(20:58):
had it and he was and he was a reasonable day.
You know, we did spend time with this and he
played tennis and he caustioned, he'd run.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
With people, and you go, how did you do all
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's because his job.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
The phone didn't ring after five o'clock.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
He would get up in the morning, he'd go to work,
and then he'd come home and he literally it was
like severance.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
He wouldn't think about it until he got into work
the next day. Beautiful, and so that we've loaded up
our lives and also we did you know, they probably
didn't bother watching kids play for it.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
But you also had more of a structure because you
would come home and you knew that dinner was a
certain time.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
So as a kid, you go and play in the
street until dinner was ready.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And then because you didn't get to choose what time
you watched something, you would then your knew neighbors was
on seven o'clock or six.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Thirty and then home and away or whatever it might be.
So everything was kind of routine.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
You wouldn't binge anything like they stood about.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Like used to a show in Channel nine that was
on a ten thirty at night, and in certain places
in the country the ratings would fall off the cliff
in Brisbane because after whatever show was on at nine
point thirty, people just go to bed. Now people go,
I'm he just got to stay up forever because it's
on the death scroll.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, we got Will we ever go back to the
architecture that we had rosso? I know you and I
know this hurts you a lot now, but we modernize
everything so much now we need more space, we need
all this.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I mean, land's harder to find.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But do you reckon we'll ever go back to that
more affordable housing and that old architecture at some stage
you do, like Whip said, it's a circular thing that
comes around and fashions and stuff like that. Well, will
we try to modernize more and more and it will
get worse?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
I think what's going to happen here in Sydney is
some of those suburbs where they're going to density and
the buildings are going to go up, which they have to,
and there's nothing wrong with that. They've just got to
be better apartments. But we lose some of the heritage
in the name of progress, in terms of we need
to you know, when the population doubles, everyone we need
places for people to live. And we yes, we can
(22:54):
keep pushing out and we can do those sites where
we just housing development up to housing development, but you
need school, public transport for all that sort of stuff,
of course, and more people want to live in apartments.
That's the biggest change that's happened since I was a kid.
It's the people like living near the beach. You know,
you want to live near where the action is. I
was at the roads the other day and you go,
that's a great place to live. You can walk to
the shopping center and you can you're close to the
(23:15):
football stadium and close to all those things.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
There's great, great amenity there. And that's probably better than
half of the suburbs, with some with a home on
an eighth of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah sure, Rossie. How old is your house? How old
is your house that you live in? When was that built?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Late nineteen fifties, late nineteen fifties and you haven't hardly
changed that. It's the original. Well, what's the best thing
about that? What's the best time of day for you?
What's the best thing about about your house that you
sit down and you go, I love this place.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
When my children go to school and I don't have
to see.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Perfect silence could be anywhere, just the silence.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Like it's very simple. So the front of my house
is a wall of glass basically, and so the cops
the morning sun. It's not a big house, bony stretch
the imagination. It's in many ways it's about the size
on a large, larger apartment. But because it's got those
big windows, it feels bigger. And we're blessed in this
city to have an extraordinary climate when we can spend
(24:13):
more of the year outside. So if you've got a
house where you can just go out to a little
courtyard and sit in the sun, that's all we need.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
We don't need man magic.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Rosso.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Go to Vividsydney dot com if you want to go
get tickets for the Australian Dreamer.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Here's a talent.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
We love you.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Rosso. Thank you very much for coming in.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And with a with Kate Whitchie podcast.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Sunday is Mother's Day, so we thought we'd jump in
a couple of days earlier and organize a beautiful Mother's
Day lunch for this Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Actually, Moonpeak, it's pretty amazing these personalized cards. It's a
great way to look after your mum. You send in photos, videos,
they can help you with your message as well, and
then they send it out. You can create your masterpiece
at moonpeag dot com. But they said, why don't you guys,
we will look after you and throw a beautiful Mother's
Day lunch this Friday. All we want you to do
(25:01):
is get people to sit down and think about your
mum and what they mean to you, and write a
beautiful message for your mother.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Man pick two fits.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
They're going to put a gift back together for everybody
involved in Mother's Day lunch for the wonderful mums, including
cards and chocolate fudge cookies and also jam ration.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
But three luxury jams included in that Mother's Day kid
that you will receive as a guest of ours on Friday.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What's your favorite apricop would have to.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Be strawberry raspberry.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Oh, there you go, not aprilcop.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It's at the Asse Inner Bar and Lounge. It's the
Pullman Key, Grand Sydney Harbor. But you just need to
register on the name of player Apple got an over
a fm dot com?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Do are you like?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Christy has an Ingerdean? Hi Christy?
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Hey guys, how are you going?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Good, Christy?
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Do you mind?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Do you mind if you could share what you've written
about your mum? What's your mum's name?
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Her name's Tracy Trace.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Can you can you read out what you wrote about
Trace for us?
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Okay, I'll try and do the shortened version. Okay, here
we go.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Mum, you're the strongest person I know. I'm so impressed
by the courage and determination you've shown recently with everything
you're going through. Your advice and guidance has gotten me
through many challenges in my life. You're my best friend
and I'm so lucky to also call you my mum.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
I love you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's beautiful, Christy.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I don't want to ask too many personal questions, but
his mum okay, is everything on track?
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Yeah, she's having a bit of adversity at the moment
with her employer, right, okay, yes, so on medical leave
at the moment, but you're doing okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well this is perfect for the one wine, isn't it?
To sit around and you can meet some amazing mums.
You're going to meet our mums as well, Christy, Christine.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And how did they ask? How they put up with
you guys for so long?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Are you going to ask them on the day, Christy,
Mums of the world. Yes, our mums will be. I've
got plenty of questions for Claire Fitzgerald. My god, they
don't stop.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, she's with it at the moment, my mum.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'll tell you what she's had to put up for
the old Ryan Fitzgerald over the years.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But she's do you know what?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
She's so pumped mate, Actually, BJ's for How good is this?
My wife has found her address they were apparently trying
in on the other day. Mum, look, probably she's.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Not going to go or she was.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
It is.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
It's a leather dress, which is unbelievable, and the leather masker,
so that's probably too much Mum sweating and undo the
zip I can't. I don't know what you're replying with.
But no, she's They are very, very excited. So we
get to sit down and ask a few questions and
be great.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Christ there. Write a message for your mum.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Register on the Nova Player app or at Nova fm
dot com dot you and we could be calling you back.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I love it, guys.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
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Create your masterpiece at moonpig dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
This is the Fitz and Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
It started with Ricky Lee at the Overlaw Hotel and
then that girl right now, Gracie Abrams in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
This is Nova's Red Room Global too, guys, and then
we took off to La to see Lauren Spencer Smith
and of course Vegas plost Malone Jelly Roll.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Can I just say some of the experiences that you
can do through Nov At the moment, we've got Bruno
Mars in Las Vegas coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You just need to get on the show at any
time to.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Actually get into the running for that, but to experience
the Nova Global Red Room Tour.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Do you know how I'll describe Nova a launch pad
to the greatest experiences on the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Wow. Can we write that down please on a T shirt?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Tommy. Nova is a launch pad to the best thing
you will ever do.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
In your life.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You're a well fire.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Put that on Ricky Lee's business cards card because she
joins us now from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And she is flying business class as well. Fitsing your
spot on.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
In fact, there'd be some ranking in the team.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Oh it's just Ricky Lee out of the three of
you up the front, first class all the way for
Ricky Lee.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
Oh come on play around ours to me?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That feels right, Ricky Lee.
Speaker 12 (29:02):
We just going to say with you, you're not You're
not traveling up the back.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Oh yes i am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm here every day man, Absolutely not, absolutely no chance. Now,
Ricky Lee, you haven't just gone on the on the
Red Room Global Tour. You've you've had an unbelievable experience.
Can we just go through your itinery in some of
your highlights so far?
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Of course, of course we started. We started in Sydney
and I got to play the first show kicking off
the entire global Red Room Tour, which was amazing. And
the coolest thing is is that we've had listeners from
all over Australia that were phoning to Sydney. First we
did that first show and I got to perform for everyone.
(29:44):
Then the next morning we all jumped on a plane
and we all went to New Zealand and we got
to go and watch Gracie Abrams at Spark Arena, which
was incredible, and before the show, Tim Joel and I
got to got to have a chat with her and
hang out with her, and she just beautiful and chill
and awesome and like even just that for the listeners
(30:05):
with such an incredible experience. And then we got on
another plane and went to LA and got to LA
and we got to see Laurence Spencer Smith, who if
you're not already a fan of her, She's one of
the most incredible vocalist, singers and songwriters that I've ever
heard in my entire life. I'm such a huge fan
of her. We got to see her in a beautiful
(30:29):
intimate red room and then we got to sit down
and chat with her. We got to talk to Benny Blanco,
and there was Q and A with all of our
listeners who wrote, like all of your favorite songs from
like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ede Sheer, he did that
sohole at Castle on the Hill, all of those amazing songs.
And then we had a night off in LA and
(30:53):
little Little fangirl Poulter over here got to head out
to Sofi Stadium and watched Beyonce and a bunch of
the listeners came along show tour of the Cowboy Carter Worldsool,
which was really really cool. A bunch of people went
to see the Lakers, and then we jumped on a
plane and went to Vegas and went to see Jelly
Roll on post Malone, and then after that show we
(31:16):
went to see John Dollar. Like, it's just been incredible.
You guys must be a cool wind of a week
so booked. I'm so tired, but it's like we we
we were going to do the show this afternoon and
then and then jump on the plane and come home
and we'll be back in the studio tomorrow. But it's
just amazing.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Since you landed in Vegas, can you just confirm for
me you've had eyes on Tim Blackwell, you do know
where he is.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Oh, he's never out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Okay, that is good.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
I feel like a real mother. I mean, Joel's the
hardest one for Wrangle. She's you know, she's she loves
sleeping in and losing her shit. Chaotic crazy is a
real thing. She's looming airport's losing luggage, but no idea
where Joel has no idea where he is at any
point in time. But that's what we love about him.
But it's been it's been incredible.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well it's over twenty years ago when we first saw
you on television, Ricky Lay, and it's unbelievable to think,
you know, to go on a trip like that. I mean,
even if even if you were in the position that
you're in now as a listener, imagine winning that prize,
Ricky Lee.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That the listeners must have been, I mean, this is
something they'll never ever forget.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
They'll never forget, and like we had, we had when
we landed in la last night. We were so delayed
from Vegas. We actually had to do our show yesterday
afternoon from the car going from LAX to the hotel.
But then we had dinner with all of the listeners afterwards,
and every step of the way it's just been incredible,
(32:47):
and every single one of them is stopping us and
just saying, how like this is a life changing experience
that we've been able to give them, and then we
get to experience with them, and you know, these these
these are people who you know, some of them haven't
left where they live, haven't left Australia, they haven't ventured out,
and this is just so amazing for them, and they're
(33:07):
so grateful and so thankful, and it's really amazing that
we get to kind of be there and experience it.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
One last thing to do with the listeners, all of
you straight down at the tattoo parlor and get some
sort of like red room.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
My body is a temple whipper, truly so true?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
How dare right? How dare I suggest that?
Speaker 12 (33:29):
Make sure you Okay's for breakfast yesterday airport?
Speaker 10 (33:32):
My body is you good food?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Make sure you're tuning into Ricky Lee, Tim and Joel
back from four today to get all the updates there.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Thank you so much for coming on Ricky Lee appreciate
it always.
Speaker 12 (33:43):
I see you guys when we're back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
See you.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
But to get home safely.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
This is the city in whip Her with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Let's talk about the top oussie companies for work perks
and if you get some, what's your little work perk
that they give you at work?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Thirteen twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I'd love to hear from you because nearly one in
ten Aussies switched jobs in the past year alone, so
this is some of the biggest companies around Australia have
had to ramp up employee perks in an effort to
retain their workers.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We need you to stay.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
So I'm going to go through a few of them here,
which is pretty interesting. I mean, holidays is a big
one for a lot of people. Okay, so people want
to go on holidays. I think real estate the real
estate group, Aria Group, they offer twenty weeks leave at
full pay. Do they That's not bad? That's I mean,
(34:35):
that's your five weeks right there. We know that Quantus employees,
well they get access to heavily discounted stand by flights,
so that's the big one for them. Plus you I
didn't know that you get twenty five percent off confirmed
Quantus flights.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The stand by flights are the tough one because you're
always going, oh are we going to get on the
stand by flight?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
But you also get twenty five percent.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Off there, that's an awesome deal.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
If Bank employees get five days of life leave a
year as.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
An incentive, is that the same as Nova's Douner day,
where if things just aren't working for you today and
you need to take an emotional one by all means
stay under the DOUNA on your doner day.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Santos employees they have a nine day, fortnightly roster. That
might get me over the mine. You know that you're
going to have a long week head every second week.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's not bad. What else do we have you?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
White Haven Coal employees receive an impressive referral bonus of
up to four thousand dollars. So if you refer someone
who is a technical operational employee and they go, oh,
he's pretty good, they'll give you four grand banks.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
We have a bit of an incentive here on level three,
I can announce we have the my muscle shift vending
machine for your healthy meals, well planned and pro Still,
you got to pay for them here, you do, but
you've got access to them.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
See.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I think more deals should be done like Temmy. If
the beautiful people at McDonald's are spending money on the show,
right and they come into commercial radio with a spend,
then let's do a deal where every Friday, nov employees
get free McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Just an example, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Turn up at your local macas show your novercard, and
ladies and gentlemen keep the burgers coming to the big
guy in the corner.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
All Amazon corporate offices around Australia are dog friendly, right,
So this one employee said, I have a four month
old puppy and he can join the many dogs that
come to our office on a regular basis. We're on
the tenth floor of Sydney's Amazon headquarters on Market Straight.
We've got a dog park on the tenth floor. You
(36:50):
can leave them in a dog park.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
So it's just they're just pooing on mod grass or
sand or something, are they?
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Has this one? It's windy up? I see behalf of
the poodles.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
The Australian Stock Exchange a SX Limited is an accredited
breast feeding friendly workplace with up to one hour of
paid leave a day for lactation.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Brain But you have to be a mum Tom with
a child, so we can't put you in there with.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Nikki's given us a call from a lamby Hi, it's
tell us about your workplace, nick.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Oh, well listen, I don't have a boss, I don't
have employees.
Speaker 12 (37:28):
I work from home. But I want to make a
steak at lunch. I can in the kitchen. If I
want to go out for a cheeky coffee with the friends,
I can if I want to have a nice lunch.
I just work for myself. I support families on the NDA.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
So yeah, so I just small business, certainly not a
big corporate business. But I won't mind a vending machine
in m kitchen.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Muscle chef. I'm going to fill it up with Yeah,
great idea.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
We'll sort that out. Nikki's stay on the line bill
in Bankstown. What's your work perk?
Speaker 13 (37:59):
We'll a lot of places before, but honestly, the way
I'm working now, we get obviously a weekly barbecue, yep,
we get every month, we get bonuses, and so every
three months bonuses which is like three hundred dollars, which
is very much year, one hundred dollars a month, And honestly,
that's one of the best. What do you do, bell
(38:20):
I rubs over Skipps and oast.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Oh, good work. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
That's I mean, I think it's bonding two fits. If
you do the I mean we have the bar here
at over two. But if you do sort of the team.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Barbecue on a Friday, that brings everybody together.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
And we all go. You know what we love, We
bloody love.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
We love skips and we love sausages, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
So bringing in boys. We've got an Aldi Snacks standing.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Right behind me at the moment as well, which been
Tom's been getting into the scrougen quite a bit this way,
which has been good and murdering it. Well, do you
know I've still got my Mitsubishi dev chair.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
From see what?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Three diamonds. Benny and Cronelly. You've got a perk?
Speaker 8 (39:05):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Ben?
Speaker 11 (39:08):
It's actually my son's av in the car.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (39:10):
I work a McDonald's and I've got a fifty percent
discount every time I go in.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Spy who hey, Benny? Who in the family uses it
the most?
Speaker 12 (39:22):
I'm the one that always picks him up from work.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Here.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
You'd be pretty popular with your mates, I would.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
Have thought, Yeah, yeah, well I've actually got one of
my other.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Mates work there with that you one hundred percent off them.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It's just that you came home. You come home and
spend a night pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Though, don't you?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Don't you many?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Unfortunately, all right, great call, We'll we'll come and join
you at Macas very soon get half priced. It's Whippa
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fit with Cabridchie was on with the Tuesday podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mate Today, we're I learned a new word in the
music industry.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I've never heard of it before, but green banana is
when a.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Festival book A festival books in an act from way
out and then that act explodes right and before just
as they get to the festival.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
They're huge and probably.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The small stage that you've put them on at the
festival is not enough anymore. We have some amazing footage
of Billie Eilish at the Redding Festival in twenty nineteen.
Okay they booked her before she blew up and it
was just out of control. We've got some other acts
as well that you can hear in the podcast, the
(00:53):
opening acts that were actually bigger than the headliners.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Fitz and Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast UFC. You know what,
I watched these guys and they are the ultimate It's
the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC. But it is also they
are the ultimate air athletes. The exhaustion and what they
put their bodies through. Like I mean, when's Volkanovsky coming
on the show. He's a new world champion at the
(01:18):
age of thirty five. He trained for sixteen weeks and
remember he was telling us Whip that training is harder
than the actual fight on the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Day because you go to exhaustion.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
When have we got him, Tommy, he's co hosting from
eight thirty on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh great, love that Tommy. It's got to have an
effect on your body, though, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
We could say so. I mean a while ago they
introduced fitz.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
If you remember chess boxing, So you would have a
round of boxing, so round one, and then you would
sit down after round one and you had to make
a move on the.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Chess board and there was just a little table and
chess set up.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Then they'd move it off. Round two of the boxing
starts and as they went on they just couldn't compute
how to play chess.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, this is the other thing as well. It's I mean,
this is not a good thing. But the head knocks
that you get, it has to have an effect on you.
There's been a video that's been going around of Tito
Ortiz now Jacob Christopher Tito Ortez is a retired American
mixed martial artist. He was he was a great fighter.
He was huge in the UFC. He doesn't fight anymore,
(02:23):
he's fifty years of age. But there's this is when
he was fighting though. I mean, these were some of
his best bits. He spoke really fast, whip and he
tried to get everyone up and going before the fight
and stuff like that. But obviously he's had a few
head knocks. He's his first one that he got away.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
With kevi in here.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
One hundred percent mental. That's about one hundred percent of
his gam Okay, so mental, that's about one hundred percent
of this game. Good. Here's another one from Tito says.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
He's going to knock me out with devastated fashion. I
think gots the big words to fulfill those shoes.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He's got some big words to fulfill those shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I like this guy is an artist. This is one
of my favorites. This was before a big match.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I'm a totally different person than I was twelve years ago.
I'm faster, I'm stronger, I'm younger.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm younger.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm a totally different fighter than I was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm younger, awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Then he went into commentating with after he finished, he
did some commentating in the ring. Makes sense, and he
would interview the fighters after the fighter.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I listened to this question. I want to tell me
what you see. Let's go ahead and see you by
the fight. What you saw in the rings?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What are you saying? Mate?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Do you know where you are?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I'm glad And it was a natural step for someone
that can't talk to go into commentary.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
He's another one from Tuto. He found I never let
you dance on now. I want to start.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Awesome you fence tune? Can we play that one again?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Just because it was he fans tune in I'll never
let you down till now. I won't start.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'll never let you down until now. This this, this one,
there's a fabit.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We were talking about the one before where he's mixing
up a few, but this is this is one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Can't put off sentence together. Man, he's reason for he's
reason for those grapes.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
He's trying to make his wine and the wine's already
signing like a violin with that cheese and wine.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
What's going on? Much one of you drunk?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Tito?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And also this is and this is my favorite because
you ask how hard does a UFC fighter train?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And Tito tells us five days a week, I'll train
three days a week.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
One of those days, I will train two days of
the week.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So six days on WEEKD we trained. And he's how
hard he's trying to all those those up? Mate?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Do you know what I learned the other day in
the music industry?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Tell me something interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So when a music festival, right when they book in
a band, because they usually they'll organize the festival let's
say nine months to a year out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
There's a fair bit of planning that goes into it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But if they book in a ban or an artist,
whip yep, and then that artist blows up in between, right,
so they might release an album and they go to
the next level.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's called a green banana. You get the band as
a green banana.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, right, So and then when they get to the festival,
they're ripe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh my god, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
So you got it at the freshest, well pre fresh,
pre ripeness, and then it comes into season.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So for an example, this blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But the Redding Festival in twenty nineteen got this young
act that was coming up they'd heard about her and
they were.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Like, oh my gosh, this girl is unbelievable. We need
to book her into the festival.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Her crowd was bigger than the headliner on the day
at the Redding Festival. Her name was Billie Eilish. Wow,
have a listen to the crowd. So she's on a
smaller stage. This is twenty nine. She's playing bad guy.
Have a listen to the crowd.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Of course, gives me a Gooseby?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Doesn't it give you goosebuck?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Last?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Gotcha that it's just chockers. You can't get anywhere near it.
So what p did he be?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Like a brown, moldy banana in reverse fits if you
book somebody that then gets canceled. What do they call that?
Not a green banana, but sort of only for smoothies.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So it's a rotten peach. Here's another one for you,
go Lewis no.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I just needed to play this one because we were
talking about sing alongs also at festivals. But Lewis Capaldi
and we know, if you've seen his documentary, unbelievable, like
he's Tourette's in their home.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's also you know, mental problems.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so this was at Glastonbury in twenty twenty three,
so there only a couple of years ago. Lewis got
up there and he's singing one of his hit songs
and the turetts kicked in and the poor bugger just
couldn't sing and the crowd take over the song.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Have a listened to Lewis Capaldi. This was a huge
crowd as well.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He couldn't see where he couldn't see and he stood
there on the stage emotional as everyone sang his.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Song back to it. Oh my god, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
The other big one for an act that was on
a smaller stage and probably out did the headliner on
the day was nineteen ninety five and there was three
young kids from Newcastle.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Their name was Silverchair. They booked the Big Day Out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is a massive green Borough, well the biggest green
Banana in Australia was the Big day Out, the first
ever Big day Out. They booked Nirvana before never Mind
the album came out.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Yeah that's just a banana plant without in the banana
and started grussing it's like a banana parmas.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Then in ninety ninety five Silverchair blew up and they
booked them in for the for the well. This is
just unbelievable. So this is Sahara Herald. Sahara worked on
the Big Day Out for a very long time. But
they put Silverchair on a tiny stage and the Big
Day Out and things just got out of control.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Like with Nirvana, kenne Vive got lucky.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
They booked Silverchair just before they blew up.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
They were massive, and the stage was in the hindsight,
probably too small for them, well too small for the audience,
and the stage was being overrun.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And there's this photo of.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Me crouched next to a Silverchair roadcase with a radio
and it kind.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Of looks cool, but what's it in reality is happening?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
I'm calling for help, like I'm on the radio going hey,
we've got a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So kids started climbing roofs of houses around and then trees.
It got really, really dangerous. You can actually hear Daniel
Johns at the start of there's set pointing out the
guys that were in the tree.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Can I give you one more key?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Muss you up in the tree? That's good, mussy in
the tree. We've never seen.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
How young does he sound?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Can I give you one fits? This was an artist
by the name of Lady Gaga and she was supporting
a group called the Pussycat Dolls in two thousand and seven.
We then cut to to Nights Ago Rio de Janeiro,
Copacabana Beach, Brazil. Two and a half million people on
(10:25):
the beach. This is what it sounds like, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The drone footages.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Audio is not that good, but I would dare say
that because he get does we'll get two and a
half million.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Two if we can get him in the one room.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
This is the fits and with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We do ad all this man.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
This is a big one because he's a part of
the Vivid Ideas program. Tickets for the Australian Dream are
available now at vividcity dot com. But you can go
see Rosso at the State Library of New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What a special building that is, and he joins us.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Now I get a you know what happened a little
bit late to come in here because I text Maddie,
your producer, and she's.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
On her honeymoon, of course, and I felt so.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bad about it. Did she reply?
Speaker 10 (11:38):
She did reply, and she said I'll get someone and
I said, I'm so bad.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
And then I felt really bad about it, but I
text her on a honeymoon and I did. I checked
the time zone for dapdo and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Rosso stick around? Well under all those and this.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Morning, well on of music were you introducing back? And
then when Ova first started we were sounds different rosso.
I mean, can you give us the range of music
that you were actually introducing because you were.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
The white house living on a what was that one?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Living on a prayer, hanging on a moment.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
Hanging on a wetas and there were shiploads of de rude.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Really can you get too much?
Speaker 9 (12:23):
You can't get enough sandstorm like and.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
You know you'd come here, people would come in. Can
I blow the whistle for druidhn?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But like we were playing pel g food Fighters, it
was it was all over the shop.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The music wasn't it live?
Speaker 10 (12:41):
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Shaggy was big. Really it wasn't me remember that one
time when.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We started down in Adelaide, when Nova first started, American rosso,
Sherbet American rosso were the first all that were the
first voices that you heard on air in South Australia
and we had Missy Higgins Whip performed scar in the studio.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For us, that was a big day. Do you know what?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
When we started at no but they still had no
more than two ads in a row.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Policy.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Now as for somebody that was on an aera in
the studio, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
You couldn't go out to the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I couldn't go to the bathroom. I couldn't leave the
studio to get food. I was starving in the studio,
wetting myself from laughter.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
We were when they had the two ads in the road.
This is one for the media fans out there. So
I can't remember what year it was, but they called
a general election, and so the government has all the
parties have so much money to spend, right, and so
if you've only got two ads in a row, there's
only so many ads that you can put on.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, of course, and it was full.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
So there was all this money and they couldn't sandwiche
it in. And I was in a meeting. I don't
know why I was there, but I suggested that they
could sponsor some competitions. Okay, so you could do a
thing like you know, I guess how many people we
can put into a barna sponsored by the ALP no
one thought it was a good idea. Always always on
(14:06):
the revenue was always the bottom line, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
When OVA was I mean there was a period there
when you first started. You guys went to number one
and money and budgets were huge.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can you tell us what.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The biggest extravagance the American rosso Show did, Like, did
you do anything? Did you take the team out anywhere?
Did you do anything that was like, wow, we've made it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Yeah, Well there was plenty of them. Actually, which one
would you do?
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You want to hear the story about how we got
the helicopter to the Blue Mountains?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, yes, did you really?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
We got to Yeah, I'd been at the time. What
had happened was I was an ambassador for Volkswagen and
I'd been on a and I'd been on a helicopter
to the Blue Mountains as part of a Volkswagen day.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, and it was the Sweet Ride great.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
And so there was a restaurant in the Blue Mountains
that was quite popular at the time, and I thought,
let's all go there and then we'll just we'll get
and we needed to.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Because you know what's because the bit was right, So.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
They had something gonna happened with that increased our our
budget for the entertainment budget a couple of reasons, right,
and so we were like they said, well, we you know,
we've got to give you more.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Money to take the team out because things are going well.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
And it was when the station was like pumping like
everything's number one. They were everywhere, you know, the top
of the pops and you know, it was rivers of gold,
and so we were doing things like again, well we
go to the Blue Mountains in a helicop to get limousine's back.
Oh lunch, our grange never tried that before. Let's get
to Let's and then let's.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Buy Michael Jackson's Chimpanzee.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
And so we get to the end of the year.
The station has.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Been number one for the whole year. It's Christmas part time,
everyone's really excited. And then they announced that we're having
a Christmas party at this really shitty sailing club with
don cast wine because they're taking the Christmas party money
halved and given it to us.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Because everyone standing around drinking sheep white wine.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We've worked hard all this year because we've taken the.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Hell you arrived at a helicopter to the Christmas party
what's coast coolers?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Do you know what's funny?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
On a broader topic, though, rosso on a broader topic
of things that happened back in the day that you
can't do now. In the office yesterday we were talking
about a meeting about a car promotion and we said, oh,
we couldn't do that one we did downstairs again, could we?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I said, which one are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Tommy?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
He said, you know where We tried to get as
many nude people as into a barrina or something like that,
and there were bits and bums and all sorts of
holes hanging out of and pressed against glass. I think
we had thirteen nude people. Because they love it, they
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
We had a competition where it was like something The
idea was to be to do something that makes you uncomfortable, yea.
And the idea was that to lose, you have to
come into the station and serve people in a sea
through apron completely naked. And this dude with red hair
and pups of fire.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
One and he was he was walking. We couldn't get
him out of the joint. It was like sexual harassment.
It was like, dude, you got to go now. People
haven't served yet.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Do you know the other one that I remember that
we took off you on our show was lick it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Do you remember lickt and you had to you had
to lick.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Something to win the prize Russo and they were licking
like they were looking sponges that had been in the
kitchen for six months. And it was like crazy, some
of the stuff we were getting people to lick just
to win a prize.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
This is podcast. If you're listening, guys, Russo is stuck around.
If you want to go see Russo, this is going
to be awesome. It's the Australian Dream. State Library of
New South Wales is on June twelfth. It's part of
the Vivid Ideas program.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Do you know what I think we still the Australian
dream is just as prevalent these days than it's ever
been before, because it is it's harder to get to
but to have your own home is still very important
to Australians.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Rosso you can't escape it, can we It's so deeply embedded.
Oh yeah, to own a house, but just sadly so
more expensive. But I always think it's interesting because there's
a lot of talk and rightly so about affordability. And
one of the things I talk about in the show
is that one of the houses that I look at
from the back from the nineteen sixties, the idea was
to make houses affordable, and you could buy that house
(18:41):
for the price of two cars. And so in today's money,
that's a three bedroom house for one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. That is crazy rre And now that same
house is a price of like nineteen cars. And you
had a backyard, you had a backyard, and but that's
the thing.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Everyone I was, Oh, you know, they were so much
cheaper then. But the house I grew up in.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
And had an asbestos roof, didn't it cost parents nothing.
One day we had a tree fell on the roof
and my old man got me and my brothers up
there to take it off, and then he said, oh,
we betle to just sand back.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
This is best as possible.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
And we didn't have like our house. They were just
they were also a bit rubbish, like our house didn't
have any insulation and we're just so and it was
cold Melbourne, it's so cold.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
And then we just me and my brothers, which get warm.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
You'd have to stand near the open fire, inflammable pajamas, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Melting to your.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Where we lived growing up, we had two fences and
I never understood why in the backyard, so one fence
was higher than the other, the inside fence. And I
asked Mum and dad later in life, why did we
have two fences at the old house And Dad said,
we bought it off a couple who ran a newdist colony,
so they were they would have parties in the backyard
(20:03):
and they built another fence so nobody could see into
that area when they had the nude parties.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Oh my god, your dad was hanging on to every
dream possible, wasn't he living?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Can I The other thing about the Australian dream and
the idea of what you talk about. And as we
go back in and look at some of the houses
that have dated beautifully now that the circle is complete again,
is it looks simple?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Life feels simple when you look back.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And that'll continue to happen and today will look simple
in twenty years time. And I think that's what people
are drawn to as well.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Oh, one hundred percent, when my freedom, when when my
when we're talking about my dad at his funeral, right
and we're talking about the things that he'd got. He
did when we were kids, and he would like be
in some theater group. He was a church that he
would as a Sunday school teacher. He was in the
local apex club. You do all these things, and he
(20:58):
had it and he was and he was a reasonable day.
You know, we did spend time with this and he
played tennis and he caustioned, he'd run.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
With people, and you go, how did you do all
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's because his job.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
The phone didn't ring after five o'clock.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
He would get up in the morning, he'd go to work,
and then he'd come home and he literally it was
like severance.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
He wouldn't think about it until he got into work
the next day. Beautiful, and so that we've loaded up
our lives and also we did you know, they probably
didn't bother watching kids play for it.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
But you also had more of a structure because you
would come home and you knew that dinner was a
certain time.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
So as a kid, you go and play in the
street until dinner was ready.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And then because you didn't get to choose what time
you watched something, you would then your knew neighbors was
on seven o'clock or six.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Thirty and then home and away or whatever it might be.
So everything was kind of routine.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
You wouldn't binge anything like they stood about.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Like used to a show in Channel nine that was
on a ten thirty at night, and in certain places
in the country the ratings would fall off the cliff
in Brisbane because after whatever show was on at nine
point thirty, people just go to bed. Now people go,
I'm he just got to stay up forever because it's
on the death scroll.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, we got Will we ever go back to the
architecture that we had rosso? I know you and I
know this hurts you a lot now, but we modernize
everything so much now we need more space, we need
all this.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I mean, land's harder to find.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But do you reckon we'll ever go back to that
more affordable housing and that old architecture at some stage
you do, like Whip said, it's a circular thing that
comes around and fashions and stuff like that. Well, will
we try to modernize more and more and it will
get worse?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
I think what's going to happen here in Sydney is
some of those suburbs where they're going to density and
the buildings are going to go up, which they have to,
and there's nothing wrong with that. They've just got to
be better apartments. But we lose some of the heritage
in the name of progress, in terms of we need
to you know, when the population doubles, everyone we need
places for people to live. And we yes, we can
(22:54):
keep pushing out and we can do those sites where
we just housing development up to housing development, but you
need school, public transport for all that sort of stuff,
of course, and more people want to live in apartments.
That's the biggest change that's happened since I was a kid.
It's the people like living near the beach. You know,
you want to live near where the action is. I
was at the roads the other day and you go,
that's a great place to live. You can walk to
the shopping center and you can you're close to the
(23:15):
football stadium and close to all those things.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
There's great, great amenity there. And that's probably better than
half of the suburbs, with some with a home on
an eighth of a quarter.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah sure, Rossie. How old is your house? How old
is your house that you live in? When was that built?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Late nineteen fifties, late nineteen fifties and you haven't hardly
changed that. It's the original. Well, what's the best thing
about that? What's the best time of day for you?
What's the best thing about about your house that you
sit down and you go, I love this place.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
When my children go to school and I don't have
to see.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Perfect silence could be anywhere, just the silence.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Like it's very simple. So the front of my house
is a wall of glass basically, and so the cops
the morning sun. It's not a big house, bony stretch
the imagination. It's in many ways it's about the size
on a large, larger apartment. But because it's got those
big windows, it feels bigger. And we're blessed in this
city to have an extraordinary climate when we can spend
(24:13):
more of the year outside. So if you've got a
house where you can just go out to a little
courtyard and sit in the sun, that's all we need.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
We don't need man magic.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Rosso.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Go to Vividsydney dot com if you want to go
get tickets for the Australian Dreamer.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Here's a talent.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
We love you.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Rosso. Thank you very much for coming in.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And with a with Kate Whitchie podcast.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Sunday is Mother's Day, so we thought we'd jump in
a couple of days earlier and organize a beautiful Mother's
Day lunch for this Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
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we will look after you and throw a beautiful Mother's
Day lunch this Friday. All we want you to do
(25:01):
is get people to sit down and think about your
mum and what they mean to you, and write a
beautiful message for your mother.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Man pick two fits.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
They're going to put a gift back together for everybody
involved in Mother's Day lunch for the wonderful mums, including
cards and chocolate fudge cookies and also jam ration.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
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Speaker 2 (25:23):
What's your favorite apricop would have to.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
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Speaker 4 (25:27):
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Speaker 4 (25:37):
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Speaker 2 (25:38):
Christy has an Ingerdean? Hi Christy?
Speaker 11 (25:40):
Hey guys, how are you going?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Good, Christy?
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Do you mind?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Do you mind if you could share what you've written
about your mum? What's your mum's name?
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Her name's Tracy Trace.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Can you can you read out what you wrote about
Trace for us?
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Okay, I'll try and do the shortened version. Okay, here
we go.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Mum, you're the strongest person I know. I'm so impressed
by the courage and determination you've shown recently with everything
you're going through. Your advice and guidance has gotten me
through many challenges in my life. You're my best friend
and I'm so lucky to also call you my mum.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
I love you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's beautiful, Christy.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I don't want to ask too many personal questions, but
his mum okay, is everything on track?
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Yeah, she's having a bit of adversity at the moment
with her employer, right, okay, yes, so on medical leave
at the moment, but you're doing okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well this is perfect for the one wine, isn't it?
To sit around and you can meet some amazing mums.
You're going to meet our mums as well, Christy, Christine.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And how did they ask? How they put up with
you guys for so long?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Are you going to ask them on the day, Christy,
Mums of the world. Yes, our mums will be. I've
got plenty of questions for Claire Fitzgerald. My god, they
don't stop.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, she's with it at the moment, my mum.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'll tell you what she's had to put up for
the old Ryan Fitzgerald over the years.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But she's do you know what?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
She's so pumped mate, Actually, BJ's for How good is this?
My wife has found her address they were apparently trying
in on the other day. Mum, look, probably she's.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Not going to go or she was.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
It is.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
It's a leather dress, which is unbelievable, and the leather masker,
so that's probably too much Mum sweating and undo the
zip I can't. I don't know what you're replying with.
But no, she's They are very, very excited. So we
get to sit down and ask a few questions and
be great.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
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Speaker 6 (27:52):
It started with Ricky Lee at the Overlaw Hotel and
then that girl right now, Gracie Abrams in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
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You just need to get on the show at any
time to.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Actually get into the running for that, but to experience
the Nova Global Red Room Tour.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Do you know how I'll describe Nova a launch pad
to the greatest experiences on the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Wow. Can we write that down please on a T shirt?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Tommy. Nova is a launch pad to the best thing
you will ever do.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
In your life.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You're a well fire.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Put that on Ricky Lee's business cards card because she
joins us now from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And she is flying business class as well. Fitsing your
spot on.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
In fact, there'd be some ranking in the team.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Oh it's just Ricky Lee out of the three of
you up the front, first class all the way for
Ricky Lee.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
Oh come on play around ours to me?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That feels right, Ricky Lee.
Speaker 12 (29:02):
We just going to say with you, you're not You're
not traveling up the back.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Oh yes i am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm here every day man, Absolutely not, absolutely no chance. Now,
Ricky Lee, you haven't just gone on the on the
Red Room Global Tour. You've you've had an unbelievable experience.
Can we just go through your itinery in some of
your highlights so far?
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Of course, of course we started. We started in Sydney
and I got to play the first show kicking off
the entire global Red Room Tour, which was amazing. And
the coolest thing is is that we've had listeners from
all over Australia that were phoning to Sydney. First we
did that first show and I got to perform for everyone.
(29:44):
Then the next morning we all jumped on a plane
and we all went to New Zealand and we got
to go and watch Gracie Abrams at Spark Arena, which
was incredible, and before the show, Tim Joel and I
got to got to have a chat with her and
hang out with her, and she just beautiful and chill
and awesome and like even just that for the listeners
(30:05):
with such an incredible experience. And then we got on
another plane and went to LA and got to LA
and we got to see Laurence Spencer Smith, who if
you're not already a fan of her, She's one of
the most incredible vocalist, singers and songwriters that I've ever
heard in my entire life. I'm such a huge fan
of her. We got to see her in a beautiful
(30:29):
intimate red room and then we got to sit down
and chat with her. We got to talk to Benny Blanco,
and there was Q and A with all of our
listeners who wrote, like all of your favorite songs from
like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ede Sheer, he did that
sohole at Castle on the Hill, all of those amazing songs.
And then we had a night off in LA and
(30:53):
little Little fangirl Poulter over here got to head out
to Sofi Stadium and watched Beyonce and a bunch of
the listeners came along show tour of the Cowboy Carter Worldsool,
which was really really cool. A bunch of people went
to see the Lakers, and then we jumped on a
plane and went to Vegas and went to see Jelly
Roll on post Malone, and then after that show we
(31:16):
went to see John Dollar. Like, it's just been incredible.
You guys must be a cool wind of a week
so booked. I'm so tired, but it's like we we
we were going to do the show this afternoon and
then and then jump on the plane and come home
and we'll be back in the studio tomorrow. But it's
just amazing.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Since you landed in Vegas, can you just confirm for
me you've had eyes on Tim Blackwell, you do know
where he is.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Oh, he's never out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Okay, that is good.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
I feel like a real mother. I mean, Joel's the
hardest one for Wrangle. She's you know, she's she loves
sleeping in and losing her shit. Chaotic crazy is a
real thing. She's looming airport's losing luggage, but no idea
where Joel has no idea where he is at any
point in time. But that's what we love about him.
But it's been it's been incredible.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well it's over twenty years ago when we first saw
you on television, Ricky Lay, and it's unbelievable to think,
you know, to go on a trip like that. I mean,
even if even if you were in the position that
you're in now as a listener, imagine winning that prize,
Ricky Lee.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That the listeners must have been, I mean, this is
something they'll never ever forget.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
They'll never forget, and like we had, we had when
we landed in la last night. We were so delayed
from Vegas. We actually had to do our show yesterday
afternoon from the car going from LAX to the hotel.
But then we had dinner with all of the listeners afterwards,
and every step of the way it's just been incredible,
(32:47):
and every single one of them is stopping us and
just saying, how like this is a life changing experience
that we've been able to give them, and then we
get to experience with them, and you know, these these
these are people who you know, some of them haven't
left where they live, haven't left Australia, they haven't ventured out,
and this is just so amazing for them, and they're
(33:07):
so grateful and so thankful, and it's really amazing that
we get to kind of be there and experience it.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
One last thing to do with the listeners, all of
you straight down at the tattoo parlor and get some
sort of like red room.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
My body is a temple whipper, truly so true?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
How dare right? How dare I suggest that?
Speaker 12 (33:29):
Make sure you Okay's for breakfast yesterday airport?
Speaker 10 (33:32):
My body is you good food?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Make sure you're tuning into Ricky Lee, Tim and Joel
back from four today to get all the updates there.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Thank you so much for coming on Ricky Lee appreciate
it always.
Speaker 12 (33:43):
I see you guys when we're back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
See you.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
But to get home safely.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
This is the city in whip Her with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Let's talk about the top oussie companies for work perks
and if you get some, what's your little work perk
that they give you at work?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Thirteen twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I'd love to hear from you because nearly one in
ten Aussies switched jobs in the past year alone, so
this is some of the biggest companies around Australia have
had to ramp up employee perks in an effort to
retain their workers.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We need you to stay.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
So I'm going to go through a few of them here,
which is pretty interesting. I mean, holidays is a big
one for a lot of people. Okay, so people want
to go on holidays. I think real estate the real
estate group, Aria Group, they offer twenty weeks leave at
full pay. Do they That's not bad? That's I mean,
(34:35):
that's your five weeks right there. We know that Quantus employees,
well they get access to heavily discounted stand by flights,
so that's the big one for them. Plus you I
didn't know that you get twenty five percent off confirmed
Quantus flights.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The stand by flights are the tough one because you're
always going, oh are we going to get on the
stand by flight?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
But you also get twenty five percent.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Off there, that's an awesome deal.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
If Bank employees get five days of life leave a
year as.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
An incentive, is that the same as Nova's Douner day,
where if things just aren't working for you today and
you need to take an emotional one by all means
stay under the DOUNA on your doner day.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Santos employees they have a nine day, fortnightly roster. That
might get me over the mine. You know that you're
going to have a long week head every second week.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's not bad. What else do we have you?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
White Haven Coal employees receive an impressive referral bonus of
up to four thousand dollars. So if you refer someone
who is a technical operational employee and they go, oh,
he's pretty good, they'll give you four grand banks.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
We have a bit of an incentive here on level three,
I can announce we have the my muscle shift vending
machine for your healthy meals, well planned and pro Still,
you got to pay for them here, you do, but
you've got access to them.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
See.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I think more deals should be done like Temmy. If
the beautiful people at McDonald's are spending money on the show,
right and they come into commercial radio with a spend,
then let's do a deal where every Friday, nov employees
get free McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Just an example, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Turn up at your local macas show your novercard, and
ladies and gentlemen keep the burgers coming to the big
guy in the corner.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
All Amazon corporate offices around Australia are dog friendly, right,
So this one employee said, I have a four month
old puppy and he can join the many dogs that
come to our office on a regular basis. We're on
the tenth floor of Sydney's Amazon headquarters on Market Straight.
We've got a dog park on the tenth floor. You
(36:50):
can leave them in a dog park.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
So it's just they're just pooing on mod grass or
sand or something, are they?
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Has this one? It's windy up? I see behalf of
the poodles.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
The Australian Stock Exchange a SX Limited is an accredited
breast feeding friendly workplace with up to one hour of
paid leave a day for lactation.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Brain But you have to be a mum Tom with
a child, so we can't put you in there with.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Nikki's given us a call from a lamby Hi, it's
tell us about your workplace, nick.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Oh, well listen, I don't have a boss, I don't
have employees.
Speaker 12 (37:28):
I work from home. But I want to make a
steak at lunch. I can in the kitchen. If I
want to go out for a cheeky coffee with the friends,
I can if I want to have a nice lunch.
I just work for myself. I support families on the NDA.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
So yeah, so I just small business, certainly not a
big corporate business. But I won't mind a vending machine
in m kitchen.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Muscle chef. I'm going to fill it up with Yeah,
great idea.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
We'll sort that out. Nikki's stay on the line bill
in Bankstown. What's your work perk?
Speaker 13 (37:59):
We'll a lot of places before, but honestly, the way
I'm working now, we get obviously a weekly barbecue, yep,
we get every month, we get bonuses, and so every
three months bonuses which is like three hundred dollars, which
is very much year, one hundred dollars a month, And honestly,
that's one of the best. What do you do, bell
(38:20):
I rubs over Skipps and oast.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Oh, good work. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
That's I mean, I think it's bonding two fits. If
you do the I mean we have the bar here
at over two. But if you do sort of the team.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Barbecue on a Friday, that brings everybody together.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
And we all go. You know what we love, We
bloody love.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
We love skips and we love sausages, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
So bringing in boys. We've got an Aldi Snacks standing.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Right behind me at the moment as well, which been
Tom's been getting into the scrougen quite a bit this way,
which has been good and murdering it. Well, do you
know I've still got my Mitsubishi dev chair.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
From see what?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Three diamonds. Benny and Cronelly. You've got a perk?
Speaker 8 (39:05):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Ben?
Speaker 11 (39:08):
It's actually my son's av in the car.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (39:10):
I work a McDonald's and I've got a fifty percent
discount every time I go in.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Spy who hey, Benny? Who in the family uses it
the most?
Speaker 12 (39:22):
I'm the one that always picks him up from work.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Here.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
You'd be pretty popular with your mates, I would.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
Have thought, Yeah, yeah, well I've actually got one of
my other.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Mates work there with that you one hundred percent off them.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It's just that you came home. You come home and
spend a night pickle juice.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Though, don't you?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Don't you many?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Unfortunately, all right, great call, We'll we'll come and join
you at Macas very soon get half priced. It's Whippa
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