August 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Clairsy’s final week is packed! Captain Paul and Bernie Brittain call in with career highlights, WA Premier Roger Cook pitches for Clairsy’s job, and Hayden Young drops by with a special farewell gift and chats Fyfe’s retirement. Ben O’Shea reviews Liam Neeson’s new Naked Gun, and don’t miss the very last Clairsy’s Tragic Music Box!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
To wherever you're listening today. This is Claresy and Leas's
podcast on.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The podcast Today, the Festival of Clay Claesipaloosa continues, with
old mates Bernie Brittin and Captain Paul stopping by for
a chat.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Isn't that wonderful? The premiere Roger Cook called to apply
for the vacant position Frio.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Doctor Hayden Young talks about this weekend's huge, huge game
against the Lines and that five's huge announcement his's retirement.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Benochet reviews The Naked Guns, darring Liam Neeson.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Cleresy opens his Tragic Music.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Box one final time, and more celebrities have left lovely
farewell messages.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Coup believe it blew up the Tragic Box.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Delving deep into the archives of Earth music history.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Clezi's Tragic Music Box.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Can I have the little opener as my ringtone?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Absolutely? If you want to call that allay, well, I
want some passive income, so that'll cost you. But now
the final Tragic Music Box is not from one particular
year least just that we'd have a bit of the box. Yeah,
it's bitspecies so as you say, I collect everything. I've
got information and junk everywhere in this box is it's
getting bigger. So I thought, for the final Tragic Box
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episode from my unforgetable four and a half years here
at ninety six, I pluck a few favorite things. It's
a few of my favorite things that are popped up.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
My nineteen eighty nine tax return in there.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
The old it was yeah, yeah, well someone that did
the attacks.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm so responsible, mister sensible, is that what you're calling me?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
If I can be self indulgent, I'm going to start
with a few of my favorite gigs in Perth over
the years. So I have to start with my first
ever concert. I've never been to a gig. I was
fifteen and Kiss finally came to Australia in nineteen eighty
at the Old Entertainment Center and I vividly remembered not
only we're excited to be there, but the heat coming.
I was in the rafters. I was right up the
back right and I could feel the heat coming from
those giant buns and burners, the pyro gear that they
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had on stage, and also how the crowd was so
quiet during the first song Detroit Rock City. I could
not believe how quiet they were because we were basically
all kids, never been to a gig before, and it
was like we couldn't believe. We're in shock that the
boys were here. They face played at four oh and
by the way, it was bloody loud, long time ago
night and eighty yes indeed next next week member to
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nineteen eighty six and dire Strates played eight straight nights
at the Entertainment Center on that massive Brothers and Brothers
in Arms of World two.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How Mark North's fingers, how brilliant he is on guitar right,
How his fingers of playing guitar like that? Eight nights
in a row. I don't know, because a lot of
musics haven't night off in between, or they played two
and do.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know anyone who went to all eight shows?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I didn't. I remember that though, yeah, yeah, the distrates
head because that was such a huge album. The one
thing I remember is queuing up for tickets the previous
year for dire Strates and having the well so called
sleep outside the Ens sand and then on the night
my girlfriend and I had a barneie about halfway through
and I went through the bloody show after waiting for
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six months and killing right and Juliet. Oh, well, there
was somewhere in there something like that. So Distraatee's incredible
nineteen eighty six. I told you it was going to
be self indulgent. I had to mention my favorite band,
Steely Dan, who never used to never used to really
tour for some reason, and all of a sudden they
started touring, and they came to Perth in two thousand
and seven. Finally they came here. I couldn't believe it.
(03:20):
They played at Sandalford Winery. I have told you this
story before that I never buy merchandise, and I bought
merch I went nuts. I wore a cap. I never
wore a hideous green T shirt like a really horrible
green color playing card. I bought a pack of Steely
Dan playing cards that I never played, never had a
game off with them. I think, I just know, I
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think I just forgot time now, But I reckon, I
just went through the merchantself. I've won one of those,
one of those. I was Bye Lolly's like a little
kid at the deli, and as I walked down the
hill to my seat there at Sandleford The Boys opened
with a song called Time out of Mind's Steely Dan
so smooth and I because I love him so much,
I felt like I was walking on air. And yeah,
you go to a gig with some of your love,
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there's nothing better.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yours up with your full of merch.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Drop my play cards someone's oh god, Yeah that was great.
Time out of Mine Steely Dan. Now we mentioned a
few priced comparents of Parison's over time in the Tragic
Box Lease, but my absolute favorite was from nineteen eighty three,
and I did this fairly recently. It was the year
I started in radio. Eighty three was the time we
did rent a house in beautiful Shenton Park for seventy
five bucks a week. You could also buy a three
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bedroom townhouse and como for fifty nine grand. Or if
you wanted to build a new family home, your head up, Alexander.
Drive to the new suburb of Balladura, snap up a
seven hundred meter a square block for under thirteen thousand dollars. Now,
I know we're talking about forty two years ago, but
how bizarre is it?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's really quel I think the rates were that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Much this month, exactly exactly one thing I really want
to mention in the final Tragic Box is telethon because
I've been lucky enough to be involved in thirty six telethons.
The first one I did was I was in Bunbury.
I got on the TV and Bundery and I thought
I was famous.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
As soon as you sing a bar take you very.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Much for you really did staying up watching it, I
know how incredible, So that was pretty cool. So thirty
six telethons, so I've been very lucky. But I want
to talk about some of the incredible real stars who
helped raise over six hundred and eighty eight million bucks.
Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Harry Conock Junior, young
Whitney Houston, even younger Celine Dion. She wasn't a huge
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day yet, but she was on the way. Tina Turner
and Sammy Davis Junior of course stole the show. It
feels like one hundred years ago. What an entertainer a
Sammy Davis. I know where you're laughing at the real
stars of telethon, the telethon kids and you the people
of Western Australia, the most generous people on.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The planet, absolutely there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Soon it recently with our caring coats and I want
to wrap up today, and I think you know where
this are going because this would not be fitting up.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I didn't do this song in front of me.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, I did. I put a false song, there was
a decoy. In March of nineteen ninety, American rock band
Heart took an old Dobe Gray song completely smash the lyrics.
They did. They change the lyrics. Look, we joke about
it all the time. Let's be honest. It's a musical
crime to change a sweet love song into the story
of a desperate woman who seduces a hitchhiker just in
order to get pregnant without ever telling a partner. Then
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one day the dude rocks up and he's got the
same eyes as the kid. What were you thinking? So
damn creepy. So I thought that was a perfect way
to finish the final Tragic Music Box. Couldn't be more
perfect with one of our favorite this bloody songs, It's Heart.
All I want to do is make love to you,
And I think it's appropriate least up we blow up
the Tragic Music Box for the final time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What do you make it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yes, Kit it again.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
So much.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So Bernie Brishen.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
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 1 (06:56):
Good morning. Look, 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 of us,
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we go back a very very long way. You say,
how long? We go back, a very very long way.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Certainly all the way back to the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Look even for the 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 remember Moses was Everything was recorded on the
tablet tablet. It was a very efficient broadcasting system.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I can assure you it was because the tablets were heavy.
Burn remember dragging those.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We were. We are so old. You know, John the
Baptist was on morning. Did you know that?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
I remember?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I remember you parking where Noah had his ark never
the end of it.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Claire's thank you, mate.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
What's the story? People don't know that you've got a
you know, one and a half kilometer long tongue, my friend.
And that's right, it's well hidden. But will you be
nursing the tongue in retirement as well?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'll just be renting it out to the Oscars and
the Grammys.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know the Stones. The Stones use it when they tour.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Last week. Tongue, where's your tongue?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got? Clears his tongue?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Now that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What what are some of your your memories of of
working with Clery?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh boy, oh man. Well let's see. Now, let me ponder.
You never did anything clergy. He's not a controversial goal.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
But he was. He was always it's so so you know, agreeable.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Easy going and yeah, 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, did you see?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, it's almost suspicious, isn't It's.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's very suspicious, and I would be deeply, deeply suspicious
of him now. The fact that he's leaping was.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
The eighties and nineties, you and I got into a
bit of trouble.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You did, Yeah, Captain said he drove every second. I
have the sensible drove everyone home exactly. Hey Burne, do
you remember at the Eagle? Uh? That was your music director.
We had some great conversations about the horrible music we
were playing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh, I do, I do remember it. I do remember
it very well. Cley, I remember your your fondness for Barbaroustris. Oh, yes,
it just doesn't suit the format.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I know I just had that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But 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. Cle Do you want me to ring you
every day for the next three months and about three
fifteen just.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
To wean him off.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I've got one thing to say, that off if.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You get it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But what I'll do.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What I'll do, I'll read you it's three mid in
the morning, and I'll just say the sun is fading out.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yes, yes, because you know what it's like when you're
working radio and you still have the radio recurring nightmares.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I think I'm having one now. Yeah. Ute the time
we work, we worked with some superb people through the
years too. We were with good old Gary Shannon. Yeah,
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 and probably is about one hundred and
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twenty years old now, and that's been wonderful Gary Roberts.
Folks listening may not know, but well, he talks like
this the whole time.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
He's got a very.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Sophisticated style about him.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And so we way too close to the real thing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Because Gary, Gary is a big part of our you know,
working life, 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 was sposed to Ninja with him, wonderful man, etc.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
The late great Paul Redman Redmond.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah, we've lost too many of them.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
We have.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
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 1 (12:21):
Definitely definitely canon, 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 ei the radio one all the time.
(12:42):
That's that's the way I live.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, I'm going to do a podcast and twelve blokes
will listen and just crap on about music, so I
don't get told off.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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 an esteem the dis chocking
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?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Podcast?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You I've got a microphone and tack in my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Podcast by face.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But anyway, we we shouldn't. We did, though, Well listen
when you're when you're next in town lunch?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeahs on you didn't I pay last time you did?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He did?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He did. Baside kitchen, we have to go by the
river burn Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right, only threw you in the river that day, Big.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Big boy, Bye bye, more.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Cleary, more podcast soon.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
All right. Well, as you know, he's going clear, he's leaving.
So I've I've got to find someone by Monday.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And one person who knows his way around replacing people
is our premier, Roger Roger.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Hello, Hello, is that the ninety six FM recruitment hotline?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It is?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It is?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You got the right number?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well that is indeed, I'm pulling out all the stops, Roger,
What are you doing on Monday morning at six a m.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Good morning, guys. Look, it's great to be with you.
And look, my day's a chock a block, But I
reckon I could sit in a few hours breakfast radio
each day. I think we're looking at a great opportunity here.
Just to make sure that I, you know, don't get
you know, don't get, you know, make sure I filled
my days up.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Probably comprehensively, maybe one of those special cushy I'll start
at seven breakfast radio people.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've worked with those before.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Now it's just coming from popular slot.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, how's your radio voice?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Look, I could talk about ninety six and rock and roll,
you know, commercial free rock and Roll Classic, thirty minutes
of commercial free Legends.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
The game, Commercial Free Roll.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Rock and Roll A long time, long time since we're done, idea, how's.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Your how's your pop culture knowledge?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I know you, I know you're good with the sporting
codes and I need it.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
But well, I'm good. Yeah, no, I'm good right up
until about the late nineteen eighties. After that it all
gets a bit shaky, I'm afraid. Yeah. So, but you
know I could I could crank up some of those
tunes from the seventies and eighties, you know, the occasionally
they get a Geransey.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
You know, you're on the hill at that pop gig
in King's Park, be Witched and all those pop bands
were playing that time. It was a few years ago.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
One of the best contents of my life.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Clay Prime Minister. Every time we talked to him, mister
Albanez cannot.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Wait to tell you how much he loves the Triffers
and music credit it makes him really cool about a
war zone, and he will say, so, you know, I
love the trippers.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Unfortunately, there's nothing cool about me. But look, I could
do I could do wall to wall dad jokes. My
kids say that, you know, I'm pretty good on those.
I exactly, I could, you know, I'm sure I could
you know, engine into the banter, you know, I reckon,
I could could do it. And look, let's take it
by now. I'm pretty used to a wild media packs.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I reckon exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Up a few tips on how to interview difficult guests.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Would how would you go if you have to talk
to the opposition? Though that could be an issue? Did
you just do it?
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Don't be one of the harsher interviews give him a
hard time.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Man, It's diplomacy, that's what what whatever skills?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Diplomacy part of the gig's part of the gig.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well, listen, we really really appreciate your replication.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We really really appreciate you allowing us to chase you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, you know, well, well we'll be in touch.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I'm busy enough as it is, but I reckon, I
could squeeze one more day job.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
In you know my number, you know, not to answer
that one more morning job, Roger, I.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Won't call you, you call me something like that. Yeah, Look, Cleasi,
I just want to say, Look, congratulations mate. You know
it's it's an incredible, incredible ride forty years in media.
There's not many people that can you say that they've
they've got that sort of longevity. They've come in and
performed day and day out. You are such an amazing guy,
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so so so proud of everything that you've done, and
you should be too.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Think about it. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Thank you. We will well he won't, but I will
talk you soon.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
All the best.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
He's a good sport in me.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
He's a good spot.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You imagine what's on his plate today. I'll effositely chat
with know.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Can you imagine him fitting in three hours of breakfast
radio in the morning as well?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I would imagine he might get a bit distracted by
messages on his phone and the people around him telling
him things that are coming up, Oh every day.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Would have to have the studio sweat like they come in.
They come in when the premier comes in, you know,
talking into.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
The little pool.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, that the FBI.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Does that mean you'd insist that you get a driver
as well, because that'd be funny.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I think so I might insist on that anyway.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
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Speaker 6 (18:57):
Mate, Good morning, Hello, what a week, What a week.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Week it's been and it's still going.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I know it's a very exciting time.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Obviously, big game this week, and yeah, obviously good to
get over the line last week, but some a lot
of things happening in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That was such an exciting game because all of a sudden,
the docors are the fourth quarter come from behind win specialists.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I know, I know, what do you want to be?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
It is a great thing to have, but probably to
the dislike of a lot of our fans because it
can be quite stressful. But it's good that we're coming
back and winning it. Is annoying sometimes we get put
in those situations. But I mean one of the positives
is when we look at each other that three quart
a time, we know that we've got a lot of
belief in ourselves that we're going to be able to
find a way to win. And it's a good thing
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to have when we're coming up against teams in the
back end of the year where we know probably going
to be some close games or that's probably what we're expecting.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
So it's good to know that we can run out games.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
And yeah, I was pleasing on the weekend to be
able to find a way despite you know, the first
three quarters probably not going the way we wanted.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, I've never seen the word defibrillator mention in some
social posts as I have, especially on the weekend. But
to have the captain come back and play again, get
his body right and come back and then drift down
forward and take that MACS and then kick the goal
that wins pretty amazing.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Saying I was watching at home and I was, yeah,
I was very stressed, and then went into that mark
I just erupted and it was I couldn't help but
things about Leo Barry, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's what I thought drifting across the mark.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yeah, it was just a massive mark, and I suppose
I wasn't expecting to see him down there either. I
know it's part of our game plan, but I think
I was like I was watching for Vossi because he
sort of had the hot hand.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Where'svossy, Where's Vossy?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
And then out of nowhere, Moose just tastes this amazing
mark and then goes back and kicks a goal, and yeah,
we're able to hold on. But yeah, it was a
great moment and it was very clutch by the skipper.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It really wasn't anything to not love about the game,
because also it's the first time you've ever beaten Port
in Adelaide. So well, single box was ticked, including the
team now sitting forth on the AFL ladder. If you
can hold onto that spot with two games to go,
one of them being a real tough one this weekend,
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you get the double chance in the finals.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
I mean, it's yeah, it's quite appealing, very appealing. And yeah,
I suppose our focus at the moment is just on
this week because we know that that's the most important
one at the moment, and if we can win this
game puts us in a great position to sort of,
you know, push towards the back end of the year
and solidify a spot in that top four, which is
what we want obviously. So yeah, it is quite appealing,
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but obviously we can't get to hurt ourselves because we've
got a very tough opponent this weekend who've been playing
some pretty good footing, particularly away from home, so they're
going to ring the challenge.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
B for Brisbane to have a couple of losses though
this time of year, isn't it, And obviously you won't
be thinking about that as opposed to the other do
Lockie Neil at the moment, So that does upset the
apple cart with it. That sucks for him Premiership.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Star, Yeah, but you definitely can't underestimate him. They've got
a lot of depth in that midfield and sometimes a
team coming off of a bad loss is you know,
a bit scary because you know they're going to want
to respond and we're going to expect that, and I
think every game you play it now, you've got to
expect your team's best. I think on the weekend we
probably started against Port and thought maybe this is a
(22:13):
bit easier. We're obviously going pretty well, and we got
a reality check in that second quarter. So you can't
get ahead of yourself in this game. And it doesn't
matter who's in or out. For them, you've got to
expect their best would.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Have been by ninety eight and then eighty eight points
and then they kicked eight goals in a quarter or something.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Yeah, it was insane.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It was insane, that fine retiring. Who doesn't love a
fairy tale? And I mean, it just it's just too much,
isn't it. I mean, is this the extra fuel to
the fire that the team needs to Yeah, I don't
think you need any more fuel to the amazing.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
It has come in a good time, to be fair,
because we're obviously at the point end of the year,
and that extra bit of motivation is, you know, pretty powerful,
even someone like me who's going through another rehab and
I just want to get back and play and to
see sort of his resilience this year and his drive
to get back and to see with them, Yeah, to
see how much it would mean to him. It's it
(23:08):
almost it's not about me and getting back. It's about
me getting back and playing for that trying to do
what we can for the team, so that gives as
a huge driving factor for me and for everyone within
the club.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So it's going to be a pretty special this weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's the kind of attitude I think that we'll get
you there though.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah exactly, And to think that he was part of
that team twelve years ago sitting there afterwards, just.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Exactly exactly, so it would be a fairy tale.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
But I think we're just super excited this weekend to celebrate, yeah,
but particularly being his last home game, home and away game.
Hopefully we do play another game at Optus, but it'll
be pretty special for our fans.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
We're going to have a massive crowd. You know.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
If our fans aren't coming, we encourage them to sell
their tickets so we can get as.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Many as we can.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
We're hoping to sort of break the record for our
biggest non derby crowd, so it could be massive and
it's going to be a great night.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
We will now the sixty four thousand dollars question, of course, Yeah,
are you what about you?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
I've got to see the medicos today, but I trained
yesterday and they just wanted to see how I pulled
up so I felt pretty good. So yeah, we'll have
that conversation this morning, which is strange because it does
feel like I should know we're playing tomorrow. Yeah, yeah,
but it's just the nature of sort of a Friday
night game and ye training yesterday.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
So but yeah, all good signs, which is good.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, they feel like all finals at the moment day
they in a lot of ways.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
They do two weeks away, they do well. It's just
it's kind of is crazy. If you look at the
top eight, there's a lot of things that can still
play out, so every game is so important for us,
but also for every team. No one's really sort of secured.
So yeah, it's going to be great for footy fans
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The Bulldogs to kick a lot of goals, just sitting
just outside, desperate too, their way back in.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, the latter predictors, everyone doing that.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Yeah yeah, which is definitely not what I do.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I hate all the now.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
This is this is your last chat with no.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Very sad, very sad. But he's excited and he could.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Have waited to the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well I could have. I could have a method in
my manness, you.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Know exactly, But no, I did want to bring a
little gift on behalf of everyone at the Dockers, but
in particular May to sign and jump out from all
the players.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Coach.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Wow, that's sensational.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
But yeah, I just want to say massive thank you
for thanks, congratulations on forty years ago.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Cool, Just a piece of gratitude from the club for
all your efforts and the relationship we've had. So thank
you very much and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Thank you very in the wash clear, No, I'm wearing
it tomorrow for my last day.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Are you crying?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
No, I'm saving. Thanks, I said to Kelly Black at
the club, and this year I said, I've been working
for the club of twenty five years now. But what
I don't want to see is you me interviewing you
at the club because that means you'd be injured.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
So yeah, yeah, that's beautiful man, No worries.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
All.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Good luck, whether you're there or watching from the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Thanks, Men's pleasure game.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, thank you, More pleasya, More podcasts soon.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
The penultimate ultimate day. We used to hear that word
a bit, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Oh my god, Captain Paula, we're still a team.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I was still a paid mate.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We're at our radio made of many, many years. I
don't want to count the numbers all the years we're
back together, mate, I.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Was, I was going to, but I think what two
ten is to twenty nineteen? I think it was about
nine years. I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But no, you were still with me in twenty ten,
if you don't mind, I think it was about twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Were God.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, the joy of me in your life for about
seventeen years.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
So much joy, so much joy.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now let's cut to the chase, Claire. He's leaving me
hind and dry. What are you doing on Monday at
six A.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I'll go. I'll head up or jump in the
car and I'll come back on the while I see you.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Why not you got your joke book?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
We've got the old Yeah you got still got the
old joke books on the page. Get a bit o.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
How look apart from how the hell are you? How
is life down in you know, down south?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It's lovely? Yeah, fantastic. Just just I'm glad that just poured.
That had hail storm just a minute, but there just stop,
thank god. But I look at some fantastic I'm doing
lots of drone and lots of photography stuff and enjoying,
enjoying my life. Bell is still kicking. It's pretty old now.
She's got twelve and a half's fourteen. They're old.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
They're old dogs where old Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I can nearly get the pension. Look at.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I'm just going to present a clerzy with a photo
you've sent through this morning.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
And you were on the cover of Mixing.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yea, oh my goodness in bis Oh man, that's a classic.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You and Captain Paul and Shane looking like the starters
like you were love it every minute of it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
We were. We got fake, fake tans, and we have
bikinis on I think well socials.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And a girl came out of me for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Remember that time we were doing a road trip up
north and that guy told you for flying your drone.
He was really cranky. I think it was in Col
Barry or something. He was not a happy man. Yeah
you whatever, mate.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
When you Nelli lost your drone on a on a
ship mast, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's rights.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The tables of the yacht that make you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yes, missed it by that much. Yes, that was a
close call.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
And so you've been going through it like it's forty
years forty or something. But to get right, wow, wow,
absolutely underlore. We just got so many. I've got so
many fond memories of looking through all my broados and
when we went away on a couple of trips.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What are some of your memories of those trips that
you can tell us about from behind the scenes, other
than you having a food baby every night.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, I don't know. I think it was all just
so wonderful and just sort of just a blur.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
We're just so many we had, we had we were
with brands and what we did him from. We had
John Clees, We had all sorts of things snake round
the round your neck and right too.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I had John because someone said I'd big warned John,
you've got to call him please not clice and he
might be a bit cranky, and he was so lovely.
We were talking about he would be a cats or whatever.
He loves you. It was great.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, we were told we were tolded you like photos,
but I've got a great photo with him.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, it was fine, it was fine, really amazing classic.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So yeah, so look, it was just lots of wonderful times.
I just think it was. It was great and I look,
I've got the utmost respect for you, because I don't
think i've.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
A bad word. Clears he ever except for me when
he's coming an asshole.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
But yeah, that's different.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, but that's not in the room.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, at least I said, were getting wrong. I went
that guy. Really, I was there for your farewell mate
from the other place, and you.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Were, and I'm glad. I'm very glad that I'm here
for yours.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I wish.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Must respect for you.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
What done in your career, which Lisa and I had
a dollar for. Every time someone goes, how is Captain
Paul going? And we go he's great, he's loving life.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
And I do get asked a lot, are you well.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm well, yeah, no, can't. That's five years. Yeah, yeah,
I told that to get lost. Yes, all right, to
swear on your last day.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
On your last day, listen what you can do for us.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You've got a Captain Paul joke of the day.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh oh gosh, okay, I'm going to okay you pressed
without notice. Yeah, so I just remember that when I
was fourteen. Yeah, Dad came into the room and he goes,
drop that Paul, you go blind, And I said him
over here, Dad.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
The memories, the memories.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Every single.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
When you're fine, they're playing juggling the joke book and
in the.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Paul, thank you so much for catching up with us
this morning.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh my pleasure, pleasure.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It feels like one hundred years since so you used
to do those superannuation jokes on you and pretend just
to see to look into your face, and I'll go
money joking.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Actually speaking speaking you super because I actually you my
fear backing now, so come some of yours.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Oh that's funny. Forty two years, not counting divorces.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Enjoy it all.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Thanks Bud.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Wonderful talking to you. Guys man.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
We're still We're still a team.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're still.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Captain Paul Shepherd. A lot of people ask us about
how he's going from there in Perth.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Great we been.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I actually got actually too busy seeing movies that are
all late at night. All the movies happen at nighttime,
so I can't I can't be breakfast radio.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You won't be here at five for or six o'clock.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
No, no, but look it is. It is a great
tragedy that you are leaving us clzy. Yet we still
seem to be subjected to Liam Neeson movies. Oh my god,
put that guy out to pasture. Sorry, but it's really
like once like I love Liam Neeson once upon a time,
Like I think he's probably twenty years past his use
(33:36):
by date in the last if anything, the older he gets,
the more movies, it doesn't make a lot, doesn't He
is prolific. I would say in the last ten years
he's made out of twenty movies. Every single one of
them has been terrible.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
See he was on the farm and who's trying to
save the farm? Shoots everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Every movie is basically the same plot. Someone he loves
is taken away from it, and eventually it gets to
the point where it's like, you've got to look at yourself.
Why does this keep happening?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
I know so anyway, so he's so with. Liam Neeson
is now in a comedic role in The Naked Gun.
It's kind of like a reboot.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
It's kind of like a Seelie Nielsen. He's not technically.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Playing Frank Drebben. The horse was made iconic by Leslie Nielsen.
He's playing Frank Dreben Junior, his son of Frank Drebbond.
But it's very similar to the believed brother hang on
was the original Naked Gun movie in nineteen twenty eight. No,
(34:37):
it's you knows. There are some films that you think,
as soon as you think of them, you can instantly
picture the cover of the VHS in the civic video store,
and the Naked Gun in nineteen eighty eight is one
of those. Leslie Nilsen sort of surfing the bullet through
the guy while he's holding a police ID and the gun.
It is just you just picture it straight away. And
it was such a comedy classic. And there was two
(34:58):
films that came afterwards in nineties ninety one and ninety four,
I think that were also commercially successful. Critically, they were
pretty well received and certainly by the fans, they were
beloved because Leslie Nielsen is Frank Dreben.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Nice Feaver having good stuff.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
It was just joke after joke after joke, and the
films and the films were also they also featured O. J.
Simpson before he murdered two people, and so when it
was okay to laugh at him. But and you think,
surely those have an aged very well, but you go
back and watch them and it's just basically, you know,
nineteen minutes of O. J. Simpson getting the absolute you
(35:36):
know what, getting beaten out of him, and yeah, good
on it.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
You almost laugh even hard chair in the Grand seventy
four there exactly oh he.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Does absolutely cop it. So this time around, Leslie Nielsen,
Leslie Wilson, Liam Neeson. It's hard to say that both
Liam Neeson plays Frank Dreben Junior, who very similar kind
of character, sort of a bumbling cop of classic sort
of you know, sort of film noir vibes, and he's
got to solve this murder of this kind of tech
(36:08):
developer who worked for this tech guru like Elon Musk
electric vehicle kind of manufacturer who maybe has you know,
some kind of agenda to take over the world, and
the murder is linked to that, so kind of like again,
it's quite similar in plot to the original film. And
the sister of the guy who dies played by Pamela Anderson.
(36:30):
She's the classic fem fatale, damsel in distress sort of character.
Which that set up sounds fine, right, like that sounds okay,
but the problem comes in because Liam Neeson is just
so ancient he barely is able to talk in a
way that you go, what is he even saying right now,
(36:53):
his voice is so crotchety, his face.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He's turned into Clarsy's impersonation.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Look, I think now's a perfect time. Let's let's hear
bring me back my daughter.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I will I will find you. I have a particular
set of skills.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
That's not bad.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
You've been practicing, honestly, honestly, that's better. That is that
sounds better than.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Did you play that from my eye?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
And just move you on?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
I did you notice that I'm canny. I'm actually shook
by that, discombobulated to be honest, and so yeah, and
so like you remember Leslie Nielsen right like he could
do so much with just like one cocked eyebrow, like
a character would say something and he'd be like yes,
and you would be in stitches. Not only can Liam
Neeson not do that, his face is in a grimace.
(37:39):
He honestly looks like he's a corpse. It's like a
weekend at Bernie's kind of situation. And then you've got
Pamela Anderson as his love interest. And look, Pammy, I
love her, and she's had a bit of a renaissance
in recent years. But if we're being honest, she's never
really the best actor, like, she's.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Not watch.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
I don't that was acting and I'm not sure which
bits of our actor anyway, and so so she's not great,
Liam Neeson's not great, and they're the center of the film.
And so then you've really got nothing that you're enjoying
as you're watching it. And the jokes, you know, you'd think,
how hard is it to get some naked gun jokes?
Even though we live in a more politically correct time,
(38:20):
you can still there's plenty of slapstick humor opportunities, but
they're not funny because the guys, the guys who wrote
this movie, right, do you know what the biggest achievement
on their resumes is Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. Oh yeah,
Like I'm not even joking you. The guys who wrote
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers are the people who wrote
the Naked Gut and it's made even worse strips and no,
(38:44):
nothing to do with those Dales. And they're talking about
the squirrels, the squirrels, the chipmuns, and to make matters
even worse. So you've got these guys who are probably
a little bit out of their depth. The producer is
Seth McFarlane, the guy who created the Family Guy. So
I reckon, I reckon these two right, we're trying to
impress Seth McFarlan sounds like so and so that some
of the jokes are honestly so crass and not crass
(39:07):
in a kind of a naked gun Leslie Nielsen funny way,
in a crass, in a ted way, in Superbamily Guy way,
And honestly I couldn't even repeat some of them on
this on this show.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Here's what I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Why do they keep trying to remake really good movies
remake crap movies and then you've got somewhere low to
start with. Don't do things like naked gun, don't touch
flying high.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's about Leslie Nielsen. You just can't recreate that. You
can't because at him, just looking at it, you cannot like,
maybe it's done.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Maybe you could have Steve with Steve Martin ten years
ago age, but like you need, you need a comedian, right,
Leslie Nielsen. His his brilliance was he was once like
a classic Hollywood leader. He was he's very handsome, and
then and then he evolved into this comic actor with
flying high and then obviously the naked gun movies. Liam Neeson,
(40:00):
He's just not funny what was in Shindley's list, But like, honestly,
Shindle's list was funny than this wonderful.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
All right now, Clzy, if you will, would you ask
Ben for a writing as Liam Neason plays, Then I.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Know, my friend, you have a skill. How many no
makeup pammies? Would you give this one?
Speaker 6 (40:22):
A fine?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh my god, h for the two of them skills?
All right, thank you Ben, Thanks guys, and thank you
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Crazy and Lisa
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To wherever you're listening today. This is Claresy and Leas's
podcast on.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The podcast Today, the Festival of Clay Claesipaloosa continues, with
old mates Bernie Brittin and Captain Paul stopping by for
a chat.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Isn't that wonderful? The premiere Roger Cook called to apply
for the vacant position Frio.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Doctor Hayden Young talks about this weekend's huge, huge game
against the Lines and that five's huge announcement his's retirement.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Benochet reviews The Naked Guns, darring Liam Neeson.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Cleresy opens his Tragic Music.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Box one final time, and more celebrities have left lovely
farewell messages.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Coup believe it blew up the Tragic Box.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Delving deep into the archives of Earth music history.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Clezi's Tragic Music Box.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Can I have the little opener as my ringtone?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Absolutely? If you want to call that allay, well, I
want some passive income, so that'll cost you. But now
the final Tragic Music Box is not from one particular
year least just that we'd have a bit of the box. Yeah,
it's bitspecies so as you say, I collect everything. I've
got information and junk everywhere in this box is it's
getting bigger. So I thought, for the final Tragic Box
(01:15):
episode from my unforgetable four and a half years here
at ninety six, I pluck a few favorite things. It's
a few of my favorite things that are popped up.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
My nineteen eighty nine tax return in there.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
The old it was yeah, yeah, well someone that did
the attacks.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm so responsible, mister sensible, is that what you're calling me?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
If I can be self indulgent, I'm going to start
with a few of my favorite gigs in Perth over
the years. So I have to start with my first
ever concert. I've never been to a gig. I was
fifteen and Kiss finally came to Australia in nineteen eighty
at the Old Entertainment Center and I vividly remembered not
only we're excited to be there, but the heat coming.
I was in the rafters. I was right up the
back right and I could feel the heat coming from
those giant buns and burners, the pyro gear that they
(01:53):
had on stage, and also how the crowd was so
quiet during the first song Detroit Rock City. I could
not believe how quiet they were because we were basically
all kids, never been to a gig before, and it
was like we couldn't believe. We're in shock that the
boys were here. They face played at four oh and
by the way, it was bloody loud, long time ago
night and eighty yes indeed next next week member to
(02:17):
nineteen eighty six and dire Strates played eight straight nights
at the Entertainment Center on that massive Brothers and Brothers
in Arms of World two.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How Mark North's fingers, how brilliant he is on guitar right,
How his fingers of playing guitar like that? Eight nights
in a row. I don't know, because a lot of
musics haven't night off in between, or they played two
and do.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know anyone who went to all eight shows?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I didn't. I remember that though, yeah, yeah, the distrates
head because that was such a huge album. The one
thing I remember is queuing up for tickets the previous
year for dire Strates and having the well so called
sleep outside the Ens sand and then on the night
my girlfriend and I had a barneie about halfway through
and I went through the bloody show after waiting for
(03:00):
six months and killing right and Juliet. Oh, well, there
was somewhere in there something like that. So Distraatee's incredible
nineteen eighty six. I told you it was going to
be self indulgent. I had to mention my favorite band,
Steely Dan, who never used to never used to really
tour for some reason, and all of a sudden they
started touring, and they came to Perth in two thousand
and seven. Finally they came here. I couldn't believe it.
(03:20):
They played at Sandalford Winery. I have told you this
story before that I never buy merchandise, and I bought
merch I went nuts. I wore a cap. I never
wore a hideous green T shirt like a really horrible
green color playing card. I bought a pack of Steely
Dan playing cards that I never played, never had a
game off with them. I think, I just know, I
(03:41):
think I just forgot time now, But I reckon, I
just went through the merchantself. I've won one of those,
one of those. I was Bye Lolly's like a little
kid at the deli, and as I walked down the
hill to my seat there at Sandleford The Boys opened
with a song called Time out of Mind's Steely Dan
so smooth and I because I love him so much,
I felt like I was walking on air. And yeah,
you go to a gig with some of your love,
(04:02):
there's nothing better.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yours up with your full of merch.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Drop my play cards someone's oh god, Yeah that was great.
Time out of Mine Steely Dan. Now we mentioned a
few priced comparents of Parison's over time in the Tragic
Box Lease, but my absolute favorite was from nineteen eighty three,
and I did this fairly recently. It was the year
I started in radio. Eighty three was the time we
did rent a house in beautiful Shenton Park for seventy
five bucks a week. You could also buy a three
(04:27):
bedroom townhouse and como for fifty nine grand. Or if
you wanted to build a new family home, your head up, Alexander.
Drive to the new suburb of Balladura, snap up a
seven hundred meter a square block for under thirteen thousand dollars. Now,
I know we're talking about forty two years ago, but
how bizarre is it?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's really quel I think the rates were that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Much this month, exactly exactly one thing I really want
to mention in the final Tragic Box is telethon because
I've been lucky enough to be involved in thirty six telethons.
The first one I did was I was in Bunbury.
I got on the TV and Bundery and I thought
I was famous.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
As soon as you sing a bar take you very.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Much for you really did staying up watching it, I
know how incredible, So that was pretty cool. So thirty
six telethons, so I've been very lucky. But I want
to talk about some of the incredible real stars who
helped raise over six hundred and eighty eight million bucks.
Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Harry Conock Junior, young
Whitney Houston, even younger Celine Dion. She wasn't a huge
(05:23):
day yet, but she was on the way. Tina Turner
and Sammy Davis Junior of course stole the show. It
feels like one hundred years ago. What an entertainer a
Sammy Davis. I know where you're laughing at the real
stars of telethon, the telethon kids and you the people
of Western Australia, the most generous people on.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The planet, absolutely there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Soon it recently with our caring coats and I want
to wrap up today, and I think you know where
this are going because this would not be fitting up.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I didn't do this song in front of me.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, I did. I put a false song, there was
a decoy. In March of nineteen ninety, American rock band
Heart took an old Dobe Gray song completely smash the lyrics.
They did. They change the lyrics. Look, we joke about
it all the time. Let's be honest. It's a musical
crime to change a sweet love song into the story
of a desperate woman who seduces a hitchhiker just in
order to get pregnant without ever telling a partner. Then
(06:14):
one day the dude rocks up and he's got the
same eyes as the kid. What were you thinking? So
damn creepy. So I thought that was a perfect way
to finish the final Tragic Music Box. Couldn't be more
perfect with one of our favorite this bloody songs, It's Heart.
All I want to do is make love to you,
And I think it's appropriate least up we blow up
the Tragic Music Box for the final time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What do you make it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yes, Kit it again.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
So much.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So Bernie Brishen.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
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 1 (06:56):
Good morning. Look, 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 of us,
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we go back a very very long way. You say,
how long? We go back, a very very long way.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Certainly all the way back to the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Look even for the 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 remember Moses was Everything was recorded on the
tablet tablet. It was a very efficient broadcasting system.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I can assure you it was because the tablets were heavy.
Burn remember dragging those.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We were. We are so old. You know, John the
Baptist was on morning. Did you know that?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
I remember?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I remember you parking where Noah had his ark never
the end of it.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Claire's thank you, mate.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
What's the story? People don't know that you've got a
you know, one and a half kilometer long tongue, my friend.
And that's right, it's well hidden. But will you be
nursing the tongue in retirement as well?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'll just be renting it out to the Oscars and
the Grammys.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know the Stones. The Stones use it when they tour.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Last week. Tongue, where's your tongue?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got? Clears his tongue?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Now that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What what are some of your your memories of of
working with Clery?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh boy, oh man. Well let's see. Now, let me ponder.
You never did anything clergy. He's not a controversial goal.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
But he was. He was always it's so so you know, agreeable.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Easy going and yeah, 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, did you see?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, it's almost suspicious, isn't It's.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's very suspicious, and I would be deeply, deeply suspicious
of him now. The fact that he's leaping was.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
The eighties and nineties, you and I got into a
bit of trouble.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You did, Yeah, Captain said he drove every second. I
have the sensible drove everyone home exactly. Hey Burne, do
you remember at the Eagle? Uh? That was your music director.
We had some great conversations about the horrible music we
were playing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh, I do, I do remember it. I do remember
it very well. Cley, I remember your your fondness for Barbaroustris. Oh, yes,
it just doesn't suit the format.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I know I just had that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But 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. Cle Do you want me to ring you
every day for the next three months and about three
fifteen just.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
To wean him off.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I've got one thing to say, that off if.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You get it.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But what I'll do.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What I'll do, I'll read you it's three mid in
the morning, and I'll just say the sun is fading out.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yes, yes, because you know what it's like when you're
working radio and you still have the radio recurring nightmares.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I think I'm having one now. Yeah. Ute the time
we work, we worked with some superb people through the
years too. We were with good old Gary Shannon. Yeah,
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 and probably is about one hundred and
(11:21):
twenty years old now, and that's been wonderful Gary Roberts.
Folks listening may not know, but well, he talks like
this the whole time.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
He's got a very.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Sophisticated style about him.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And so we way too close to the real thing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Because Gary, Gary is a big part of our you know,
working life, 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 was sposed to Ninja with him, wonderful man, etc.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
The late great Paul Redman Redmond.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah, we've lost too many of them.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
We have.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
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 1 (12:21):
Definitely definitely canon, 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 ei the radio one all the time.
(12:42):
That's that's the way I live.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, I'm going to do a podcast and twelve blokes
will listen and just crap on about music, so I
don't get told off.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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 an esteem the dis chocking
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?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Podcast?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You I've got a microphone and tack in my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Podcast by face.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But anyway, we we shouldn't. We did, though, Well listen
when you're when you're next in town lunch?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeahs on you didn't I pay last time you did?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He did?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He did. Baside kitchen, we have to go by the
river burn Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right, only threw you in the river that day, Big.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Big boy, Bye bye, more.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Cleary, more podcast soon.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
All right. Well, as you know, he's going clear, he's leaving.
So I've I've got to find someone by Monday.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And one person who knows his way around replacing people
is our premier, Roger Roger.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Hello, Hello, is that the ninety six FM recruitment hotline?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It is?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It is?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You got the right number?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well that is indeed, I'm pulling out all the stops, Roger,
What are you doing on Monday morning at six a m.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Good morning, guys. Look, it's great to be with you.
And look, my day's a chock a block, But I
reckon I could sit in a few hours breakfast radio
each day. I think we're looking at a great opportunity here.
Just to make sure that I, you know, don't get
you know, don't get, you know, make sure I filled
my days up.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Probably comprehensively, maybe one of those special cushy I'll start
at seven breakfast radio people.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've worked with those before.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Now it's just coming from popular slot.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, how's your radio voice?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Look, I could talk about ninety six and rock and roll,
you know, commercial free rock and Roll Classic, thirty minutes
of commercial free Legends.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
The game, Commercial Free Roll.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Rock and Roll A long time, long time since we're done, idea, how's.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Your how's your pop culture knowledge?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I know you, I know you're good with the sporting
codes and I need it.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
But well, I'm good. Yeah, no, I'm good right up
until about the late nineteen eighties. After that it all
gets a bit shaky, I'm afraid. Yeah. So, but you
know I could I could crank up some of those
tunes from the seventies and eighties, you know, the occasionally
they get a Geransey.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
You know, you're on the hill at that pop gig
in King's Park, be Witched and all those pop bands
were playing that time. It was a few years ago.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
One of the best contents of my life.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Clay Prime Minister. Every time we talked to him, mister
Albanez cannot.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Wait to tell you how much he loves the Triffers
and music credit it makes him really cool about a
war zone, and he will say, so, you know, I
love the trippers.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Unfortunately, there's nothing cool about me. But look, I could
do I could do wall to wall dad jokes. My
kids say that, you know, I'm pretty good on those.
I exactly, I could, you know, I'm sure I could
you know, engine into the banter, you know, I reckon,
I could could do it. And look, let's take it
by now. I'm pretty used to a wild media packs.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I reckon exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Up a few tips on how to interview difficult guests.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Would how would you go if you have to talk
to the opposition? Though that could be an issue? Did
you just do it?
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Don't be one of the harsher interviews give him a
hard time.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Man, It's diplomacy, that's what what whatever skills?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Diplomacy part of the gig's part of the gig.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Well, listen, we really really appreciate your replication.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We really really appreciate you allowing us to chase you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, you know, well, well we'll be in touch.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I'm busy enough as it is, but I reckon, I
could squeeze one more day job.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
In you know my number, you know, not to answer
that one more morning job, Roger, I.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Won't call you, you call me something like that. Yeah, Look, Cleasi,
I just want to say, Look, congratulations mate. You know
it's it's an incredible, incredible ride forty years in media.
There's not many people that can you say that they've
they've got that sort of longevity. They've come in and
performed day and day out. You are such an amazing guy,
(17:45):
so so so proud of everything that you've done, and
you should be too.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Think about it. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Thank you. We will well he won't, but I will
talk you soon.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
All the best.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
He's a good sport in me.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
He's a good spot.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You imagine what's on his plate today. I'll effositely chat
with know.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Can you imagine him fitting in three hours of breakfast
radio in the morning as well?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I would imagine he might get a bit distracted by
messages on his phone and the people around him telling
him things that are coming up, Oh every day.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Would have to have the studio sweat like they come in.
They come in when the premier comes in, you know,
talking into.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
The little pool.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, that the FBI.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Does that mean you'd insist that you get a driver
as well, because that'd be funny.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I think so I might insist on that anyway.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I've got a leaf left foot strong.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Grab that from your ninety six their van's own free metal.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Dogger hat it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
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Speaker 6 (18:57):
Mate, Good morning, Hello, what a week, What a week.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Week it's been and it's still going.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I know it's a very exciting time.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Obviously, big game this week, and yeah, obviously good to
get over the line last week, but some a lot
of things happening in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That was such an exciting game because all of a sudden,
the docors are the fourth quarter come from behind win specialists.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I know, I know, what do you want to be?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
It is a great thing to have, but probably to
the dislike of a lot of our fans because it
can be quite stressful. But it's good that we're coming
back and winning it. Is annoying sometimes we get put
in those situations. But I mean one of the positives
is when we look at each other that three quart
a time, we know that we've got a lot of
belief in ourselves that we're going to be able to
find a way to win. And it's a good thing
(19:42):
to have when we're coming up against teams in the
back end of the year where we know probably going
to be some close games or that's probably what we're expecting.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
So it's good to know that we can run out games.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
And yeah, I was pleasing on the weekend to be
able to find a way despite you know, the first
three quarters probably not going the way we wanted.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, I've never seen the word defibrillator mention in some
social posts as I have, especially on the weekend. But
to have the captain come back and play again, get
his body right and come back and then drift down
forward and take that MACS and then kick the goal
that wins pretty amazing.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Saying I was watching at home and I was, yeah,
I was very stressed, and then went into that mark
I just erupted and it was I couldn't help but
things about Leo Barry, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's what I thought drifting across the mark.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yeah, it was just a massive mark, and I suppose
I wasn't expecting to see him down there either. I
know it's part of our game plan, but I think
I was like I was watching for Vossi because he
sort of had the hot hand.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Where'svossy, Where's Vossy?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
And then out of nowhere, Moose just tastes this amazing
mark and then goes back and kicks a goal, and yeah,
we're able to hold on. But yeah, it was a
great moment and it was very clutch by the skipper.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It really wasn't anything to not love about the game,
because also it's the first time you've ever beaten Port
in Adelaide. So well, single box was ticked, including the
team now sitting forth on the AFL ladder. If you
can hold onto that spot with two games to go,
one of them being a real tough one this weekend,
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you get the double chance in the finals.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
I mean, it's yeah, it's quite appealing, very appealing. And yeah,
I suppose our focus at the moment is just on
this week because we know that that's the most important
one at the moment, and if we can win this
game puts us in a great position to sort of,
you know, push towards the back end of the year
and solidify a spot in that top four, which is
what we want obviously. So yeah, it is quite appealing,
(21:33):
but obviously we can't get to hurt ourselves because we've
got a very tough opponent this weekend who've been playing
some pretty good footing, particularly away from home, so they're
going to ring the challenge.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
B for Brisbane to have a couple of losses though
this time of year, isn't it, And obviously you won't
be thinking about that as opposed to the other do
Lockie Neil at the moment, So that does upset the
apple cart with it. That sucks for him Premiership.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Star, Yeah, but you definitely can't underestimate him. They've got
a lot of depth in that midfield and sometimes a
team coming off of a bad loss is you know,
a bit scary because you know they're going to want
to respond and we're going to expect that, and I
think every game you play it now, you've got to
expect your team's best. I think on the weekend we
probably started against Port and thought maybe this is a
(22:13):
bit easier. We're obviously going pretty well, and we got
a reality check in that second quarter. So you can't
get ahead of yourself in this game. And it doesn't
matter who's in or out. For them, you've got to
expect their best would.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Have been by ninety eight and then eighty eight points
and then they kicked eight goals in a quarter or something.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Yeah, it was insane.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It was insane, that fine retiring. Who doesn't love a
fairy tale? And I mean, it just it's just too much,
isn't it. I mean, is this the extra fuel to
the fire that the team needs to Yeah, I don't
think you need any more fuel to the amazing.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
It has come in a good time, to be fair,
because we're obviously at the point end of the year,
and that extra bit of motivation is, you know, pretty powerful,
even someone like me who's going through another rehab and
I just want to get back and play and to
see sort of his resilience this year and his drive
to get back and to see with them, Yeah, to
see how much it would mean to him. It's it
(23:08):
almost it's not about me and getting back. It's about
me getting back and playing for that trying to do
what we can for the team, so that gives as
a huge driving factor for me and for everyone within
the club.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So it's going to be a pretty special this weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's the kind of attitude I think that we'll get
you there though.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah exactly, And to think that he was part of
that team twelve years ago sitting there afterwards, just.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Exactly exactly, so it would be a fairy tale.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
But I think we're just super excited this weekend to celebrate, yeah,
but particularly being his last home game, home and away game.
Hopefully we do play another game at Optus, but it'll
be pretty special for our fans.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
We're going to have a massive crowd. You know.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
If our fans aren't coming, we encourage them to sell
their tickets so we can get as.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Many as we can.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
We're hoping to sort of break the record for our
biggest non derby crowd, so it could be massive and
it's going to be a great night.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
We will now the sixty four thousand dollars question, of course, Yeah,
are you what about you?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
I've got to see the medicos today, but I trained
yesterday and they just wanted to see how I pulled
up so I felt pretty good. So yeah, we'll have
that conversation this morning, which is strange because it does
feel like I should know we're playing tomorrow. Yeah, yeah,
but it's just the nature of sort of a Friday
night game and ye training yesterday.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
So but yeah, all good signs, which is good.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, they feel like all finals at the moment day
they in a lot of ways.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
They do two weeks away, they do well. It's just
it's kind of is crazy. If you look at the
top eight, there's a lot of things that can still
play out, so every game is so important for us,
but also for every team. No one's really sort of secured.
So yeah, it's going to be great for footy fans
this weekend.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The Bulldogs to kick a lot of goals, just sitting
just outside, desperate too, their way back in.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, the latter predictors, everyone doing that.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Yeah yeah, which is definitely not what I do.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I hate all the now.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
This is this is your last chat with no.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Very sad, very sad. But he's excited and he could.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Have waited to the end of the season.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well I could have. I could have a method in
my manness, you.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Know exactly, But no, I did want to bring a
little gift on behalf of everyone at the Dockers, but
in particular May to sign and jump out from all
the players.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Coach.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Wow, that's sensational.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
But yeah, I just want to say massive thank you
for thanks, congratulations on forty years ago.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Cool, Just a piece of gratitude from the club for
all your efforts and the relationship we've had. So thank
you very much and congratulations.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Thank you very in the wash clear, No, I'm wearing
it tomorrow for my last day.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Are you crying?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
No, I'm saving. Thanks, I said to Kelly Black at
the club, and this year I said, I've been working
for the club of twenty five years now. But what
I don't want to see is you me interviewing you
at the club because that means you'd be injured.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
So yeah, yeah, that's beautiful man, No worries.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
All.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Good luck, whether you're there or watching from the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Thanks, Men's pleasure game.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, thank you, More pleasya, More podcasts soon.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
The penultimate ultimate day. We used to hear that word
a bit, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Oh my god, Captain Paula, we're still a team.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I was still a paid mate.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We're at our radio made of many, many years. I
don't want to count the numbers all the years we're
back together, mate, I.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Was, I was going to, but I think what two
ten is to twenty nineteen? I think it was about
nine years. I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But no, you were still with me in twenty ten,
if you don't mind, I think it was about twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Were God.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, the joy of me in your life for about
seventeen years.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
So much joy, so much joy.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now let's cut to the chase, Claire. He's leaving me
hind and dry. What are you doing on Monday at
six A.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I'll go. I'll head up or jump in the
car and I'll come back on the while I see you.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Why not you got your joke book?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
We've got the old Yeah you got still got the
old joke books on the page. Get a bit o.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
How look apart from how the hell are you? How
is life down in you know, down south?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It's lovely? Yeah, fantastic. Just just I'm glad that just poured.
That had hail storm just a minute, but there just stop,
thank god. But I look at some fantastic I'm doing
lots of drone and lots of photography stuff and enjoying,
enjoying my life. Bell is still kicking. It's pretty old now.
She's got twelve and a half's fourteen. They're old.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
They're old dogs where old Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I can nearly get the pension. Look at.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I'm just going to present a clerzy with a photo
you've sent through this morning.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
And you were on the cover of Mixing.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yea, oh my goodness in bis Oh man, that's a classic.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You and Captain Paul and Shane looking like the starters
like you were love it every minute of it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
We were. We got fake, fake tans, and we have
bikinis on I think well socials.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And a girl came out of me for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Remember that time we were doing a road trip up
north and that guy told you for flying your drone.
He was really cranky. I think it was in Col
Barry or something. He was not a happy man. Yeah
you whatever, mate.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
When you Nelli lost your drone on a on a
ship mast, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's rights.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The tables of the yacht that make you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yes, missed it by that much. Yes, that was a
close call.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
And so you've been going through it like it's forty
years forty or something. But to get right, wow, wow,
absolutely underlore. We just got so many. I've got so
many fond memories of looking through all my broados and
when we went away on a couple of trips.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What are some of your memories of those trips that
you can tell us about from behind the scenes, other
than you having a food baby every night.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, I don't know. I think it was all just
so wonderful and just sort of just a blur.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
We're just so many we had, we had we were
with brands and what we did him from. We had
John Clees, We had all sorts of things snake round
the round your neck and right too.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I had John because someone said I'd big warned John,
you've got to call him please not clice and he
might be a bit cranky, and he was so lovely.
We were talking about he would be a cats or whatever.
He loves you. It was great.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, we were told we were tolded you like photos,
but I've got a great photo with him.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, it was fine, it was fine, really amazing classic.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So yeah, so look, it was just lots of wonderful times.
I just think it was. It was great and I look,
I've got the utmost respect for you, because I don't
think i've.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
A bad word. Clears he ever except for me when
he's coming an asshole.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
But yeah, that's different.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, but that's not in the room.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, at least I said, were getting wrong. I went
that guy. Really, I was there for your farewell mate
from the other place, and you.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Were, and I'm glad. I'm very glad that I'm here
for yours.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I wish.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Must respect for you.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
What done in your career, which Lisa and I had
a dollar for. Every time someone goes, how is Captain
Paul going? And we go he's great, he's loving life.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
And I do get asked a lot, are you well.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm well, yeah, no, can't. That's five years. Yeah, yeah,
I told that to get lost. Yes, all right, to
swear on your last day.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
On your last day, listen what you can do for us.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You've got a Captain Paul joke of the day.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh oh gosh, okay, I'm going to okay you pressed
without notice. Yeah, so I just remember that when I
was fourteen. Yeah, Dad came into the room and he goes,
drop that Paul, you go blind, And I said him
over here, Dad.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
The memories, the memories.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Every single.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
When you're fine, they're playing juggling the joke book and
in the.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Paul, thank you so much for catching up with us
this morning.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh my pleasure, pleasure.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It feels like one hundred years since so you used
to do those superannuation jokes on you and pretend just
to see to look into your face, and I'll go
money joking.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Actually speaking speaking you super because I actually you my
fear backing now, so come some of yours.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Oh that's funny. Forty two years, not counting divorces.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Enjoy it all.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Thanks Bud.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Wonderful talking to you. Guys man.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
We're still We're still a team.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're still.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Captain Paul Shepherd. A lot of people ask us about
how he's going from there in Perth.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Great we been.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I actually got actually too busy seeing movies that are
all late at night. All the movies happen at nighttime,
so I can't I can't be breakfast radio.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You won't be here at five for or six o'clock.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
No, no, but look it is. It is a great
tragedy that you are leaving us clzy. Yet we still
seem to be subjected to Liam Neeson movies. Oh my god,
put that guy out to pasture. Sorry, but it's really
like once like I love Liam Neeson once upon a time,
Like I think he's probably twenty years past his use
(33:36):
by date in the last if anything, the older he gets,
the more movies, it doesn't make a lot, doesn't He
is prolific. I would say in the last ten years
he's made out of twenty movies. Every single one of
them has been terrible.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
See he was on the farm and who's trying to
save the farm? Shoots everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Every movie is basically the same plot. Someone he loves
is taken away from it, and eventually it gets to
the point where it's like, you've got to look at yourself.
Why does this keep happening?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
I know so anyway, so he's so with. Liam Neeson
is now in a comedic role in The Naked Gun.
It's kind of like a reboot.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
It's kind of like a Seelie Nielsen. He's not technically.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Playing Frank Drebben. The horse was made iconic by Leslie Nielsen.
He's playing Frank Dreben Junior, his son of Frank Drebbond.
But it's very similar to the believed brother hang on
was the original Naked Gun movie in nineteen twenty eight. No,
(34:37):
it's you knows. There are some films that you think,
as soon as you think of them, you can instantly
picture the cover of the VHS in the civic video store,
and the Naked Gun in nineteen eighty eight is one
of those. Leslie Nilsen sort of surfing the bullet through
the guy while he's holding a police ID and the gun.
It is just you just picture it straight away. And
it was such a comedy classic. And there was two
(34:58):
films that came afterwards in nineties ninety one and ninety four,
I think that were also commercially successful. Critically, they were
pretty well received and certainly by the fans, they were
beloved because Leslie Nielsen is Frank Dreben.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Nice Feaver having good stuff.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
It was just joke after joke after joke, and the
films and the films were also they also featured O. J.
Simpson before he murdered two people, and so when it
was okay to laugh at him. But and you think,
surely those have an aged very well, but you go
back and watch them and it's just basically, you know,
nineteen minutes of O. J. Simpson getting the absolute you
(35:36):
know what, getting beaten out of him, and yeah, good
on it.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
You almost laugh even hard chair in the Grand seventy
four there exactly oh he.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Does absolutely cop it. So this time around, Leslie Nielsen,
Leslie Wilson, Liam Neeson. It's hard to say that both
Liam Neeson plays Frank Dreben Junior, who very similar kind
of character, sort of a bumbling cop of classic sort
of you know, sort of film noir vibes, and he's
got to solve this murder of this kind of tech
(36:08):
developer who worked for this tech guru like Elon Musk
electric vehicle kind of manufacturer who maybe has you know,
some kind of agenda to take over the world, and
the murder is linked to that, so kind of like again,
it's quite similar in plot to the original film. And
the sister of the guy who dies played by Pamela Anderson.
(36:30):
She's the classic fem fatale, damsel in distress sort of character.
Which that set up sounds fine, right, like that sounds okay,
but the problem comes in because Liam Neeson is just
so ancient he barely is able to talk in a
way that you go, what is he even saying right now,
(36:53):
his voice is so crotchety, his face.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He's turned into Clarsy's impersonation.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Look, I think now's a perfect time. Let's let's hear
bring me back my daughter.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
I will I will find you. I have a particular
set of skills.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
That's not bad.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
You've been practicing, honestly, honestly, that's better. That is that
sounds better than.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Did you play that from my eye?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
And just move you on?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
I did you notice that I'm canny. I'm actually shook
by that, discombobulated to be honest, and so yeah, and
so like you remember Leslie Nielsen right like he could
do so much with just like one cocked eyebrow, like
a character would say something and he'd be like yes,
and you would be in stitches. Not only can Liam
Neeson not do that, his face is in a grimace.
(37:39):
He honestly looks like he's a corpse. It's like a
weekend at Bernie's kind of situation. And then you've got
Pamela Anderson as his love interest. And look, Pammy, I
love her, and she's had a bit of a renaissance
in recent years. But if we're being honest, she's never
really the best actor, like, she's.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Not watch.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
I don't that was acting and I'm not sure which
bits of our actor anyway, and so so she's not great,
Liam Neeson's not great, and they're the center of the film.
And so then you've really got nothing that you're enjoying
as you're watching it. And the jokes, you know, you'd think,
how hard is it to get some naked gun jokes?
Even though we live in a more politically correct time,
(38:20):
you can still there's plenty of slapstick humor opportunities, but
they're not funny because the guys, the guys who wrote
this movie, right, do you know what the biggest achievement
on their resumes is Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. Oh yeah,
Like I'm not even joking you. The guys who wrote
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers are the people who wrote
the Naked Gut and it's made even worse strips and no,
(38:44):
nothing to do with those Dales. And they're talking about
the squirrels, the squirrels, the chipmuns, and to make matters
even worse. So you've got these guys who are probably
a little bit out of their depth. The producer is
Seth McFarlane, the guy who created the Family Guy. So
I reckon, I reckon these two right, we're trying to
impress Seth McFarlan sounds like so and so that some
of the jokes are honestly so crass and not crass
(39:07):
in a kind of a naked gun Leslie Nielsen funny way,
in a crass, in a ted way, in Superbamily Guy way,
And honestly I couldn't even repeat some of them on
this on this show.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Here's what I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Why do they keep trying to remake really good movies
remake crap movies and then you've got somewhere low to
start with. Don't do things like naked gun, don't touch
flying high.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's about Leslie Nielsen. You just can't recreate that. You
can't because at him, just looking at it, you cannot like,
maybe it's done.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Maybe you could have Steve with Steve Martin ten years
ago age, but like you need, you need a comedian, right,
Leslie Nielsen. His his brilliance was he was once like
a classic Hollywood leader. He was he's very handsome, and
then and then he evolved into this comic actor with
flying high and then obviously the naked gun movies. Liam Neeson,
(40:00):
He's just not funny what was in Shindley's list, But like, honestly,
Shindle's list was funny than this wonderful.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
All right now, Clzy, if you will, would you ask
Ben for a writing as Liam Neason plays, Then I.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Know, my friend, you have a skill. How many no
makeup pammies? Would you give this one?
Speaker 6 (40:22):
A fine?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh my god, h for the two of them skills?
All right, thank you Ben, Thanks guys, and thank you
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Crazy and Lisa
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