Bernie Brittain: People Don't Know That You Have a 1.5 km Long Tongue

Former colleague Bernie Brittain phoned in to share some memories as Clairsy wraps up his time at the station. When Lisa asked about working with Clairsy, Bernie had plenty to say especially about Clairsy’s tongue. He joked that these days everyone seems to have a podcast, but if Clairsy started one, people would actually listen. Join them for a trip down memory lane. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Bernie Brittain, we all work together back in the
nineties we did at that other joint, and you have
memories of mister Claire's I imagine.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning. Look, Berni guys, it's just great to talk
to you, and I am very sad to learn of
Dean's passing these retirements retirement that really that's very very
very moving. And you've been a huge part of the
place for a long time. And you know, the three

(00:33):
of us, we go back a very very long way.
You say, how long we go back, a very very long.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Way, certainly all the way back to the Eagle.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Look even for that, I mean, we go back so far.
We go back so far. Do you know how far
we go back? We go back so far that the
first radio boss we had was Moses. Do you remember
that I do of Moses with everything was recorded on
the tablet.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Tablet took a while.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was a very efficient broadcasting system.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I can assure you it was because the tablets were heavy.
Burn remember dragging those into the studio.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We were we are so old. You know, John the
Baptist was on morning. You know that. I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I remember you parking where Noah had his arc, never
heard the end of it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Look I am, but look it's just I am. I
am just delighted to talk to you. I'm honored to
be sharing the space with you. Claire's eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thank you, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
What's the story? People don't know that you've got a
you know, a one and a half kilometer long tongue friend,
and that's right, it's well hidden. But will you be
nursing the tongue in retirement as well?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I'll just be renting it out to the Oscars and
the Grammys.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I know the stone, the stone using when they too.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Last week tongue. Where's your tongue?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Got a Clarsy's tongue? I mean, that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
What what are some of your your memories of of
working with Clerzy?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh boy, oh man, Well let's see now, let me
ponder you never did anything. Clergy's not a controversial goal
but he was He was.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Always so so, you know, agreeable.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Easy going and where I was, I was self destructive
from the from the word go. And but no, I
find that someone is just such a nice person for
all that time. You just don't end up with anything
sticking out, like you know, they just see six of Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's almost suspicious, isn't It's.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's very suspicious, and I would be deeply, deeply suspicious
of him now the fact that he's leaping.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
In the eighties and nineties, you and I got into
a bit of trouble, you.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Did, Yeah, Captain Sensible. He drove every second I've Sensible
drove everyone home exactly. Hey Burne, do you remember at
the Eagle that was your music director. We had some
great conversations about the horrible music we were playing.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh I do, I do remember it. I do remember
it very well, Clesy, and I remember your your fondness
for Barbaroustris.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Years. It just doesn't suit the format.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I know. I just said that, But.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Look, we've had We've had a monster time together through
the years. I've just often think of you guys, you know,
getting out of bed at three o'clock in the morning. Cleu,
do you want me to ring you every day for
the next three months and about three fifteen just to
wean him? Offer?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Ye, I've got one thing to say that off if yah.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, you get it. But what I'll do, what I'll do,
I'll really it's three mid in the morning, and I'll
just say the sunge's fading out.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, yes, because you know what it's like when you
work in radio and you still have the radio recurring nightmares,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I think I'm having one now. But yeah, all
three of us are. Outside the time we work, we
work with some superb people through the years too. We
were with good old Gary Shannon and some folks may
not know, but there's a there's a beloved general manager
that we work with for a hundred years and probably

(04:35):
is about one hundred and twenty years old now, and
that's been wonderful Gary Roberts. Folks listening may not know,
but well he he talks like this the whole time.
He's got a very smar sophisticated style about him and
so way too close to the real thing. Because Gary,

(04:56):
Gary is a big part of our you know, working
because he was the one that nodded the head and
signed the check, you know. So it's a very important part.
But but all through those years, there're just a million
people that we've we've known the late great Brad mcnellly
Ninja with him, wonderful man et.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
The late great Paul Redmond Redmond.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, we lost too many of them.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
We have.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
We've seen radio change a lot burn in especially in
recent times. It continues to you know, people people, you know,
the demise of radio. People go oh, there's not going
to be radio anymore. It's just called audio and all that,
and it's absolute poppycock because we can't replace it.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Definitely, definitely canyon, but it's gone through some sort of metamorphois.
And I guess like podcasts and things that seem to
be really really important now that I don't think anybody
listens to need to be you know, like the leading
edge in broadcasting now, but I don't think that's the
case personally. I've had the radio one all the time.

(05:57):
That's that's the way I live. You know.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, I'm going to do a podcast and twelve blokes
will listen and just crap on about music. So don't
get told off.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I reckon you would get a decent audience for a podcast,
you know, because of your musical knowledge and you know
the fact that you're you're in esteem the chuck because
many of these podcasters are just people that you know,
you'll talk to them and you meet them at a
party and I'll say, I've got a radio shows, really
really really where were you broadcasting from podcast? Yes? Podcast,
Look you I've.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Got a microphone and tack.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
In my bed and pasty face.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
But anyway we we shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Wegress We did that?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, listen when you're when you're next in town lunch?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah you didn't, I play last time you did?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
He did? He did.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Baside kitchen, we have to go by the river burn Yeah, yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Only threw you in the river that day.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Big love, big thanks by by Boni, Bye bye, b