July 23, 2025 • 22 mins
Clairsy & Lisa opened the text lines to ask what your favourite karaoke song is? The City Beach tornado gets a lock in. Michael Austin and Natalie Abbot phoned to chat about Season 2 of Austin. On The Shaw Report Kermit paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. Plus Ben O'Shea chats about his encounter with Pedro Pascal and touching not one but but two of his Pedro's hand. Tune in to hear more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Powered by the my Heart Radio app from ninety six
AIRFM to whenever You're listening Today This is Clezy and
Lisa's podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Coming up on the podcast, we take your calls on
your favorite karaoke song after our list of the top
songs with a scientific explanation was revealed.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Very nice. Benochet reviews The Fantastic four First Step, starring
the One and Only Pedro postcar.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Stephen Colbert has responded to President Donald Trump's comments about
his show being canceled.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We had a chat about yesterday's crazy weather, including the
tornado and City Beach.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And Michael Theo and Natalie Abbott chat about season two
of Austin, which starts on Sunday night on the ABC.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Wanted to win the Loki Well.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Season two of Austin starts on the ABC this Sunday
night at seven o'clock. Michael Their returning in the lead role,
and newcast member Natalie Abbott both joined us this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hello, welcome you too.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hello one duel.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How have you been.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I've been doing well? Thanks about you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I've been doing very well well, Thank you. Now, what
is happening in Austin's world in season two?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
In Season two what's happening is Austin publishes a book.
He becomes a bad boy poor instructions of his new agent,
but he also gets caught in a love triangle. So
love is an theme in this season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's a bad boy in a love triangle that I
love it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That sounds like, yeah, that sounds like a movie.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Not quite, it's show technically.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's where Natalie comes in.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Tell us about your role, Nte.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hi, everyone, I'm very excited to have joined Austin season two.
I play Hayley, who is a production assistant, and her
and Austin have a very quick and immediate bond. They
share a lot of similar interests and she kind of,
you know, is maybe a bit of an angel on
Austin's shoulder and sort of calls him out on a
(01:54):
few things.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Which is exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
See. I just need to know, Michael, there's some romantic
scenes in here. If you're in a love triangle, man,
how was that? How did that work for you?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't recall there being many romantic scenes, but there
there is a couple where Austin was performing a romantic
gesture for Haley. But I can't reveal too much about
that because you should see it for yourselves. Yes, but
what was a scene where Austin was yelling at Haley
a lot and inside I was dying?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh that's acting and truest.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, that's true. Even though it was just acting, it
felt real because I was required to yell at someone
that I immensely Adore's tough.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Michael Austin grapples with the sudden fame of you know
that comes from being a successful author. And I guess
in real life you had the same situation after Love
or the Spectrum made you very famous. So were you
able to, you know, use what you felt in real
(03:06):
life in the in the role?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Can you ask me that again? Please?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
When you were after Love on the Spectrum, people would
recognize you, do you sort of you dealt with sudden
fame and in the show in Austin you grapple you
have a similar situation where as a successful author, you're
suddenly a bit famous. So did you use the Love
on the Spectrum experience in the show.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I wouldn't say that I didn't because I get recognized
on the public a lot for Love and the Spectrum.
It's a very regular experience. But I'm flattered by people
coming up to me and all that. But I don't
go out out there looking for attention.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I just rather just let it come.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yes, And because people go about their lives and if
they ever asked for a selfie, I always allow it
because if a smaller the face that it makes their day, because.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Giving you a moment of their time is the least
you can do for their support.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, styles could learn from you. Michael. By the way,
have you practiced a LOGI speech? Just in case?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My friend I actually have one prepared it. I don't know.
I don't know a word by word yet. It's only
two paragraphs. Well, but I'm intending to thank my parents,
my siblings, their partners, my extended family, giant circle of
close friends and fan base. But also giving a special
(04:33):
mercy ball call to the cast and crew of Boston
that opportunity, especially the five people at Northern Pictures, because
it wasn't for them, I wouldn't even be in this
position today.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, you are just in case, so all the best
of it you have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You chosen what you're going to wear because I know
you like to look nice about that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's being worked on.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Good Okay, Nadly, we'll give you some some feedback, I'm sure,
and help you out with that one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh well, he looks wonderful all the time, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, guys, we can't wait to see Austin back on
the screen on Sunday night. It was such a beautiful
series the first time round. Thank you for joining us
this morning, pleasure.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're going to go online and vote.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You have two more coming from Perth, So all the.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Best, morey More podcast soon.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Doctor Tom Crawford is the Oxford professor who's declared bon
Jovi's Living on a Prayer to be the greatest karaoke
song ever using scientific research. He applied a custom formula.
It's the Crawford formula, based on the songs tempo, number
of verses, chorus repeats, and release date, among other factors.
He also did it in America. Yeah Okay, Even on
(06:00):
a Prayer scored ninety one out of a possible one
hundred on the Crawford scale, followed by Whitney Houston's I
Want to Dance with Somebody with a score of ninety.
The top five also included Oasis as I Don't Look
Back in Anger, Shanaia's twain Man I Feel like a woman,
and the Proclaimers I'm going to be five hundred miles.
Crawford found that karaoke singers prefer average beats per minute
(06:21):
of one hundred and twenty six. I didn't know they
were so discerning, as well as a ratio of three
chorus repetitions for every two verses, which he calls the
standard structure of most pop songs. I think the number
of beers you've had plays a imp factors into it
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, and it's about stickability, isn't it. You know if
something becomes an earworm easily. And there are certain songs
that are and some that are just a little more forgettable.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now I would probably rather stick pins in my legs
than go to karaoke.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But I really, yes, come here, I reckon.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If I did, it would have to be I Will
Survive You. Yes, that strikes me as the ultimate karaoke song.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Great disco classic, wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like I said, I'm terrible at remembering lyrics, so it
have to be something with very few lyrics. So for me,
I'm thinking rock and roll. No, come on, thanks very much.
I sticking not true? But I was thinking more Kiss
rock and roll a night part every day did they
sing it over and over? But one song that I
do really love that I do remember the lyrics too,
is Lionel Richie and the Commodorees or Faith No More
(07:24):
doing Easy, Yeah Easy, like Sunday Morning. I think that's
a great karaoke song.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I reicon Sweet Caroline's a great carry out.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
People love their that's always hands reaching over hands.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What's your go to karaoke songs? On the text line,
Melon Woodridge says, my baby Jimmy Barnes is the go
to always Matthew and Belden. His go to karaoke song
is one of my favorite driving songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's this, Oh you go on the driving song of
this one?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh the great dais Learal real good one.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Matthew, I love that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's stick in your head all day, the one to
go to wellen Brook.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Josh, Hey, yeah, are you going to sing it?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Go and sing it?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yeah, I'm going to sing it. Oh, by the way,
I'm I'm the boy with the javelin through my brother's.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Anyway, remember the story?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, all right, all right, you can get this one, okay.
I work hard. He works hard. Every day of my life.
I work till I and my bone at the at
the end of the day, I take home my pride all.
I just gotta get out of this prison. So one
(08:34):
day I'm gonna be free.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think you know that song?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Why did you say?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Because I wanted to hear more of Josh.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, that's good, Josh done, Josh, thank you, both the
vocals and the backing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, that was beautiful. You were I'm a.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Little bit I'm a little bit autistic, so that's I
love it, love it, Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I really didn't want to cut him off because I
was enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was, I wasn't there yet.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Okay, is a bohemian waiting for a big miller, Carolyn.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
In your counk of morning, more money, all right, now
hit us with it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Okay, what do you.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Got you're.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Resty?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Oh my god, that's don't be e garrassed.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That was very I want to hit duke box money,
come on upstairs, upstairs, nice one.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thanks Carolyn, well done, by.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
God? Did you couldn't have got that one quicker than.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Mel just melon Woodwinde just wanted to sort of qualify
that it's cold.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Because it's yours. We know my baby, my baby.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My baby. Jimmy is always in there as well.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's hanging around me.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He never let someone sink on their own. You could
be humming and it's louder than singing belladuro, what's yours?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Some day somebody's going to make you want to turn
around and say goodbye baby?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Are you gonna let him hold you down and make
you cry?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Don't know thing to change, thing to go away?
Speaker 9 (10:17):
If you hold.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
One Monday, if you one Monday.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Way, that's brilliant. Stop you just let you go and
stop that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was really good, le, very good.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Thank you Lane.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've had We've had lots come through. Also on the text,
Nicole in Mouchet says, depending on my mood, it's the Angels,
Am I ever going to see your face skin? Or
it's Neil Diamond's sweet Caroline Adley in Winthrop goes way
back and says this Onela Brand's not old last one,
(11:08):
that's a good choice The Sure Report on ninety six
air FM. You know someone really made an impact when
even Kermit the Frog pays tribute to the Muppets official
social media channels of shared a statement on Ozzy Osbourne.
Kermit wrote, no one rocked harder than the great Ozzy
Osbourne recording Born to Be Wild with Miss Piggy. It
(11:31):
was the perfect song for both of them.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Down we were wow, Wow.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Why.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Cant continued.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We feel so lucky to have known him. Every time
we bumped into Ozzie over the years, he made us
feel just as cool as he was.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You would have heard that US Late Show host Stephen Colbert,
great show. He's had his show canceled. They've been coming
up with all sorts of excuses. He is still on
air this week, and last night he responded to President
Donald Trump's very unkind online posts celebrating the cancelation. Doesn't
he have other things to do?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Should be busy, so dancers on graves.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Many believe that CBS's decision to cancel Colbert's show was
influenced by political pressure stemming from its parent company's merger.
It's all very murky. It's putting the murk in merger.
Colbert was understandably unimpressed with the President's response.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
On Friday, Donald Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert
got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.
How dare you, sir, an untalented man, be able to
compose the following satirical witticism got yourself yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Didn't end there.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Jimmy Kimmel is going after Donald Trump after he hinted
that his show is next. Trump posted the word is
and it's a strong word at that. Jimmy Kimmel is
next to go in the untalented late night sweepstakes.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Roy it again, doesn't he have other things to do?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Sawcer milk, and shortly thereafter Fallon will be gone as well.
Jimmy Kimmel took to Instagram to report to repost Trump's
post and captioned it, I'm hearing your next actually, or
maybe that's just another wonderful secret from the book Ways
to Waste one hundred million dollars Number forty six. Megan
Markle and Prince Harry's deal with Netflix is not going
(13:45):
to be renewed. It runs out next month. The pair
signed a multimillion, multi year deal back in twenty twenty.
A couple of years into the reported one hundred million
dollar partnership, a report emerged about all the Netflix projects
that reportedly did not work out out for the Royals.
They promised this, they promised that, and then they didn't deliver.
(14:05):
Sources now say the deal is done. No more shows
will be made. Netflix fills They've got all they can
from the couple. So what did we get? We got
an interview and a really weird cookie thing with Meghan
a couple of months ago.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I think they might need some royal money again.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Season five of Only Murders in the Building has a
premiere dated. It'll be back on September nine at streams
on Disney. Of course, new cast members for season five, now,
let's just keep in mind these people are joining Martin Short,
Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane. New ones include Bobby Carnavale,
Rene Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Tayo Leoni, and Diane Weese.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I was going to do a little ding sound effects
for it, but I would have burned a finger.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They say about all Killer, no Feller, that is amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just start with the Stellar Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Inter Yeah in Interstellar, Yeah, people, it's incredible. You know
it's been on my list for so long Because I
play musical streaming services, I will have one for a
while and then I'll drop it, and I keep dropping
Disney and before I've watched only Murders in the Building,
and then I keep getting it back to watch it,
and I don't get I don't know what it is
(15:17):
that's stopping me from getting around to watching it, because
by the sounds of it, it's one of the best
shows on telling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You need to make a list and check it twice
more pleasy, Oh, Lisa, More podcast soon, Great per flick
with Benohe oh.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Ben Hello, hello, Hello, you've been off on a junker.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Here's the hands. There's the hand that has touched Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Don't watch it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
There was a queue to touch your hand this morning
because it's touched Pedro Pasca. Can you tell us quickly
why the hand ended up in the hands?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Yes. So I interviewed Pedro Pascal and that interview is
on the cover of Play magazine in the West Austrain
on Saturday this weekend. And so I went to Sydney
to interview Pedro Pascal and his cast mates from the
Fantastic four First Steps movie and we hit it off.
We really got on very well. And at the end
he came across the room and shook my hand, took
(16:12):
my hand in both of his and held it double hands,
and he held it tight as he stared into my
eyes and said, Ben, thank you so much. I really
appreciated your questions today. Very insightful, really lovely to meet you.
And he probably talked to me for another minute or so,
just staring into my eyes. I was hypnotized. And connections
(16:36):
five stars, No, no, not five stars. But so the
Fantastic Four First Steps comes along. For the Marvel cinematic universe,
it's in a kind of a bit of an awkward
phase at the moment. They've had a couple of duds.
They've had some off off camera issues and some and
some of their main characters had some scandals and had
(16:56):
to get the boots. So they've kind of sort of
reimagined where the future of this franchise is going, and
the Fantastic Four itself is going to be a key
part of that future. It So it's the first movie
of the Marvel Phase six slate of films, which finishes,
I think in twenty twenty seven with Avengers Doomsday. So
they map all this stuff out. Billions of dollars at
stake if these films don't work out. And the Fantastic Four,
(17:19):
you might remember, was originally adapted for the big screen
back in the early two thousands with Ian Griffin as
Mister Fantastic, Jessica Alba as the Invisible Woman, Chris Evans
as the Human Torch. Those movies weren't that great. Did
have Julian McMahon, the late Great Julian as Victor von Doom,
(17:41):
and so those films, they weren't that amazing. They made
a bit of money at the box office, and then
in twenty fifteen they rebuilt the franchise. Yeah, okay four,
But then in twenty fifteen The Fantastic Four was the terrible.
It was an absolute stinker and it was a huge
bomb at the box office. It had a pretty good cast,
Miles Teller Mister Fantastic, Michael B. Jordan was the Human Torch,
(18:05):
but it just was not good. So most of the
Fantastic Four movies honestly have been pretty average. This is
by far the best of all of them, and it
does so by really leans into the sixties aesthetic of
the original comic book, which was released in nineteen sixty
one by Jack Kirby and Stanley and so, but it's
(18:25):
not set on our version of Earth. So in the
Marvel world, as everybody knows, it's a multiverse, so there's
parallel universes. So this is a different version of Earth,
which means they don't have to really be that authentic.
It's sixties, but it's also futuristic, retro futuristic, and so
that's why they've got flying cars and and other kind
of quite advanced technology. But everyone's wearing you know, turtlenecks
(18:48):
and the brown leather jacket, so the vibe is cool.
I would say, for my money, this is the best
looking superhero movie that has ever been made. Beautiful every frame.
You could print it out and hang it on your
wall as a piece of art. It is absolutely beautiful
to look at. Director Max Shackman, who made the wander
(19:10):
Vision Marvel TV series, is a bit of a visionary.
It's stunning film to look at. And you're Pedro Pascal,
who is perfectly cast as mister Fantastic. Most of the time,
he's not fantastic. He's mister anxious, which is which is
Pedro in real life has some anxiety issues. So it's
so believable when he's worried about his incoming baby with
(19:31):
with Vanessa Kirby, who plays the Invisible Woman, his wife.
So they're having this baby, they're not sure.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Can you be sure?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, that's visible Princess.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
She actually gives birth during the film and it turns
in visible in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I know, yea, and just want to make it for
this to.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Make it more interesting. It's also in space in zero gravity.
It's a crazy sequence. You've also got Julia Garner from
Ozark and the and a Delvi story as the Silver Surfer.
Ralph Inoson, who's a fantastic character actor, is Galactus, who's
the big bad guy who's coming to destroy the Earth,
and he Galactus does a deal basically, I will spare
(20:12):
the Earth on one condition, mister fantastic, You've got to
give me a baby.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's a deal.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
That's a deal that mister Fantastic doesn't want to do.
So then, of course, you know, the whole fate of
the Earth comes down to whether or not they can
they can save So not only does it look good,
you have some great performances from Pedro Pascal and Vanessa
Kirby in particular, you've got Evan Moss Backrack from the
From the Bear who plays that thing Backrack. He's an
(20:46):
amazing actor. Cousin the cousin from the From the Bear
and so he's the thing clobroom time. And you've got
Joseph Quinn who was Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, who's
amazing English actor. He plays the human Torch Johnny Storm.
He's fantastic as well. So the cast is really good.
You could make the case that maybe the pacing is
(21:06):
a little bit slow, and they really put the emphasis
on the family dynamic of the Fantastic Four at the
expense of other aspects of the film, which I think
is very interesting and I think, you know, good on
them for doing that. Like it's not very often where
a superhero movie starts the opening sequence is, you know,
one of the characters sitting on the toilet, but that's
(21:27):
Vanessa Kirby doing the pregnancy test.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Which isible.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
So they they make some choices like that, which I
think a little bit left of center for a superhero blockbuster.
Some people might find it a bit slow going at times,
but you've got to stick with it, and I think
it really bodes well for the future of the Marvel
cinematic universe if you've got these characters as a part
of it. At times it's a little bit like The
(21:55):
Incredibles because you've got a baby in there. But then
you know, the Incredibles is really spied by the Fantastic
Four originally, So it all goes around and comes around
and it looks good and it looks very wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, how many are calling Pedro Pascal mister Fantastic is
basically a cameos?
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Are you basically just being himself?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Isn't he?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I'm going to give it three and a half, So
this and Superman. Recently, we've had two good superhero movies
in a row, which is very unusual these days.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The genre has been in a bit of a low
kind of times, maybe very promising
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Crazy and Lisa
Powered by the my Heart Radio app from ninety six
AIRFM to whenever You're listening Today This is Clezy and
Lisa's podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Coming up on the podcast, we take your calls on
your favorite karaoke song after our list of the top
songs with a scientific explanation was revealed.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Very nice. Benochet reviews The Fantastic four First Step, starring
the One and Only Pedro postcar.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Stephen Colbert has responded to President Donald Trump's comments about
his show being canceled.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We had a chat about yesterday's crazy weather, including the
tornado and City Beach.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And Michael Theo and Natalie Abbott chat about season two
of Austin, which starts on Sunday night on the ABC.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Wanted to win the Loki Well.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Season two of Austin starts on the ABC this Sunday
night at seven o'clock. Michael Their returning in the lead role,
and newcast member Natalie Abbott both joined us this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hello, welcome you too.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hello one duel.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How have you been.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I've been doing well? Thanks about you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I've been doing very well well, Thank you. Now, what
is happening in Austin's world in season two?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
In Season two what's happening is Austin publishes a book.
He becomes a bad boy poor instructions of his new agent,
but he also gets caught in a love triangle. So
love is an theme in this season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He's a bad boy in a love triangle that I
love it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That sounds like, yeah, that sounds like a movie.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Not quite, it's show technically.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's where Natalie comes in.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Tell us about your role, Nte.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hi, everyone, I'm very excited to have joined Austin season two.
I play Hayley, who is a production assistant, and her
and Austin have a very quick and immediate bond. They
share a lot of similar interests and she kind of,
you know, is maybe a bit of an angel on
Austin's shoulder and sort of calls him out on a
(01:54):
few things.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Which is exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
See. I just need to know, Michael, there's some romantic
scenes in here. If you're in a love triangle, man,
how was that? How did that work for you?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't recall there being many romantic scenes, but there
there is a couple where Austin was performing a romantic
gesture for Haley. But I can't reveal too much about
that because you should see it for yourselves. Yes, but
what was a scene where Austin was yelling at Haley
a lot and inside I was dying?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh that's acting and truest.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, that's true. Even though it was just acting, it
felt real because I was required to yell at someone
that I immensely Adore's tough.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Michael Austin grapples with the sudden fame of you know
that comes from being a successful author. And I guess
in real life you had the same situation after Love
or the Spectrum made you very famous. So were you
able to, you know, use what you felt in real
(03:06):
life in the in the role?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Can you ask me that again? Please?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
When you were after Love on the Spectrum, people would
recognize you, do you sort of you dealt with sudden
fame and in the show in Austin you grapple you
have a similar situation where as a successful author, you're
suddenly a bit famous. So did you use the Love
on the Spectrum experience in the show.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I wouldn't say that I didn't because I get recognized
on the public a lot for Love and the Spectrum.
It's a very regular experience. But I'm flattered by people
coming up to me and all that. But I don't
go out out there looking for attention.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I just rather just let it come.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yes, And because people go about their lives and if
they ever asked for a selfie, I always allow it
because if a smaller the face that it makes their day, because.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Giving you a moment of their time is the least
you can do for their support.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, styles could learn from you. Michael. By the way,
have you practiced a LOGI speech? Just in case?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My friend I actually have one prepared it. I don't know.
I don't know a word by word yet. It's only
two paragraphs. Well, but I'm intending to thank my parents,
my siblings, their partners, my extended family, giant circle of
close friends and fan base. But also giving a special
(04:33):
mercy ball call to the cast and crew of Boston
that opportunity, especially the five people at Northern Pictures, because
it wasn't for them, I wouldn't even be in this
position today.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, you are just in case, so all the best
of it you have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You chosen what you're going to wear because I know
you like to look nice about that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's being worked on.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Good Okay, Nadly, we'll give you some some feedback, I'm sure,
and help you out with that one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh well, he looks wonderful all the time, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, guys, we can't wait to see Austin back on
the screen on Sunday night. It was such a beautiful
series the first time round. Thank you for joining us
this morning, pleasure.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're going to go online and vote.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You have two more coming from Perth, So all the.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Best, morey More podcast soon.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Doctor Tom Crawford is the Oxford professor who's declared bon
Jovi's Living on a Prayer to be the greatest karaoke
song ever using scientific research. He applied a custom formula.
It's the Crawford formula, based on the songs tempo, number
of verses, chorus repeats, and release date, among other factors.
He also did it in America. Yeah Okay, Even on
(06:00):
a Prayer scored ninety one out of a possible one
hundred on the Crawford scale, followed by Whitney Houston's I
Want to Dance with Somebody with a score of ninety.
The top five also included Oasis as I Don't Look
Back in Anger, Shanaia's twain Man I Feel like a woman,
and the Proclaimers I'm going to be five hundred miles.
Crawford found that karaoke singers prefer average beats per minute
(06:21):
of one hundred and twenty six. I didn't know they
were so discerning, as well as a ratio of three
chorus repetitions for every two verses, which he calls the
standard structure of most pop songs. I think the number
of beers you've had plays a imp factors into it
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, and it's about stickability, isn't it. You know if
something becomes an earworm easily. And there are certain songs
that are and some that are just a little more forgettable.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now I would probably rather stick pins in my legs
than go to karaoke.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But I really, yes, come here, I reckon.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If I did, it would have to be I Will
Survive You. Yes, that strikes me as the ultimate karaoke song.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Great disco classic, wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like I said, I'm terrible at remembering lyrics, so it
have to be something with very few lyrics. So for me,
I'm thinking rock and roll. No, come on, thanks very much.
I sticking not true? But I was thinking more Kiss
rock and roll a night part every day did they
sing it over and over? But one song that I
do really love that I do remember the lyrics too,
is Lionel Richie and the Commodorees or Faith No More
(07:24):
doing Easy, Yeah Easy, like Sunday Morning. I think that's
a great karaoke song.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I reicon Sweet Caroline's a great carry out.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
People love their that's always hands reaching over hands.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What's your go to karaoke songs? On the text line,
Melon Woodridge says, my baby Jimmy Barnes is the go
to always Matthew and Belden. His go to karaoke song
is one of my favorite driving songs of all time.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's this, Oh you go on the driving song of
this one?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh the great dais Learal real good one.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Matthew, I love that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's stick in your head all day, the one to
go to wellen Brook.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Josh, Hey, yeah, are you going to sing it?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Go and sing it?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yeah, I'm going to sing it. Oh, by the way,
I'm I'm the boy with the javelin through my brother's.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Anyway, remember the story?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, all right, all right, you can get this one, okay.
I work hard. He works hard. Every day of my life.
I work till I and my bone at the at
the end of the day, I take home my pride all.
I just gotta get out of this prison. So one
(08:34):
day I'm gonna be free.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think you know that song?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Why did you say?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Because I wanted to hear more of Josh.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, that's good, Josh done, Josh, thank you, both the
vocals and the backing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, that was beautiful. You were I'm a.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Little bit I'm a little bit autistic, so that's I
love it, love it, Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I really didn't want to cut him off because I
was enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was, I wasn't there yet.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Okay, is a bohemian waiting for a big miller, Carolyn.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
In your counk of morning, more money, all right, now
hit us with it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Okay, what do you.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Got you're.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Resty?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Oh my god, that's don't be e garrassed.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That was very I want to hit duke box money,
come on upstairs, upstairs, nice one.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thanks Carolyn, well done, by.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
God? Did you couldn't have got that one quicker than.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Mel just melon Woodwinde just wanted to sort of qualify
that it's cold.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Because it's yours. We know my baby, my baby.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My baby. Jimmy is always in there as well.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's hanging around me.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He never let someone sink on their own. You could
be humming and it's louder than singing belladuro, what's yours?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Some day somebody's going to make you want to turn
around and say goodbye baby?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Are you gonna let him hold you down and make
you cry?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Don't know thing to change, thing to go away?
Speaker 9 (10:17):
If you hold.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
One Monday, if you one Monday.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Way, that's brilliant. Stop you just let you go and
stop that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That was really good, le, very good.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Thank you Lane.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've had We've had lots come through. Also on the text,
Nicole in Mouchet says, depending on my mood, it's the Angels,
Am I ever going to see your face skin? Or
it's Neil Diamond's sweet Caroline Adley in Winthrop goes way
back and says this Onela Brand's not old last one,
(11:08):
that's a good choice The Sure Report on ninety six
air FM. You know someone really made an impact when
even Kermit the Frog pays tribute to the Muppets official
social media channels of shared a statement on Ozzy Osbourne.
Kermit wrote, no one rocked harder than the great Ozzy
Osbourne recording Born to Be Wild with Miss Piggy. It
(11:31):
was the perfect song for both of them.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Down we were wow, Wow.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Why.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Cant continued.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We feel so lucky to have known him. Every time
we bumped into Ozzie over the years, he made us
feel just as cool as he was.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You would have heard that US Late Show host Stephen Colbert,
great show. He's had his show canceled. They've been coming
up with all sorts of excuses. He is still on
air this week, and last night he responded to President
Donald Trump's very unkind online posts celebrating the cancelation. Doesn't
he have other things to do?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Should be busy, so dancers on graves.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Many believe that CBS's decision to cancel Colbert's show was
influenced by political pressure stemming from its parent company's merger.
It's all very murky. It's putting the murk in merger.
Colbert was understandably unimpressed with the President's response.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
On Friday, Donald Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert
got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.
How dare you, sir, an untalented man, be able to
compose the following satirical witticism got yourself yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Didn't end there.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Jimmy Kimmel is going after Donald Trump after he hinted
that his show is next. Trump posted the word is
and it's a strong word at that. Jimmy Kimmel is
next to go in the untalented late night sweepstakes.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Roy it again, doesn't he have other things to do?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Sawcer milk, and shortly thereafter Fallon will be gone as well.
Jimmy Kimmel took to Instagram to report to repost Trump's
post and captioned it, I'm hearing your next actually, or
maybe that's just another wonderful secret from the book Ways
to Waste one hundred million dollars Number forty six. Megan
Markle and Prince Harry's deal with Netflix is not going
(13:45):
to be renewed. It runs out next month. The pair
signed a multimillion, multi year deal back in twenty twenty.
A couple of years into the reported one hundred million
dollar partnership, a report emerged about all the Netflix projects
that reportedly did not work out out for the Royals.
They promised this, they promised that, and then they didn't deliver.
(14:05):
Sources now say the deal is done. No more shows
will be made. Netflix fills They've got all they can
from the couple. So what did we get? We got
an interview and a really weird cookie thing with Meghan
a couple of months ago.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I think they might need some royal money again.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Season five of Only Murders in the Building has a
premiere dated. It'll be back on September nine at streams
on Disney. Of course, new cast members for season five, now,
let's just keep in mind these people are joining Martin Short,
Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane. New ones include Bobby Carnavale,
Rene Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Tayo Leoni, and Diane Weese.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I was going to do a little ding sound effects
for it, but I would have burned a finger.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They say about all Killer, no Feller, that is amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just start with the Stellar Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Inter Yeah in Interstellar, Yeah, people, it's incredible. You know
it's been on my list for so long Because I
play musical streaming services, I will have one for a
while and then I'll drop it, and I keep dropping
Disney and before I've watched only Murders in the Building,
and then I keep getting it back to watch it,
and I don't get I don't know what it is
(15:17):
that's stopping me from getting around to watching it, because
by the sounds of it, it's one of the best
shows on telling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You need to make a list and check it twice
more pleasy, Oh, Lisa, More podcast soon, Great per flick
with Benohe oh.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Ben Hello, hello, Hello, you've been off on a junker.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Here's the hands. There's the hand that has touched Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Don't watch it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
There was a queue to touch your hand this morning
because it's touched Pedro Pasca. Can you tell us quickly
why the hand ended up in the hands?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Yes. So I interviewed Pedro Pascal and that interview is
on the cover of Play magazine in the West Austrain
on Saturday this weekend. And so I went to Sydney
to interview Pedro Pascal and his cast mates from the
Fantastic four First Steps movie and we hit it off.
We really got on very well. And at the end
he came across the room and shook my hand, took
(16:12):
my hand in both of his and held it double hands,
and he held it tight as he stared into my
eyes and said, Ben, thank you so much. I really
appreciated your questions today. Very insightful, really lovely to meet you.
And he probably talked to me for another minute or so,
just staring into my eyes. I was hypnotized. And connections
(16:36):
five stars, No, no, not five stars. But so the
Fantastic Four First Steps comes along. For the Marvel cinematic universe,
it's in a kind of a bit of an awkward
phase at the moment. They've had a couple of duds.
They've had some off off camera issues and some and
some of their main characters had some scandals and had
(16:56):
to get the boots. So they've kind of sort of
reimagined where the future of this franchise is going, and
the Fantastic Four itself is going to be a key
part of that future. It So it's the first movie
of the Marvel Phase six slate of films, which finishes,
I think in twenty twenty seven with Avengers Doomsday. So
they map all this stuff out. Billions of dollars at
stake if these films don't work out. And the Fantastic Four,
(17:19):
you might remember, was originally adapted for the big screen
back in the early two thousands with Ian Griffin as
Mister Fantastic, Jessica Alba as the Invisible Woman, Chris Evans
as the Human Torch. Those movies weren't that great. Did
have Julian McMahon, the late Great Julian as Victor von Doom,
(17:41):
and so those films, they weren't that amazing. They made
a bit of money at the box office, and then
in twenty fifteen they rebuilt the franchise. Yeah, okay four,
But then in twenty fifteen The Fantastic Four was the terrible.
It was an absolute stinker and it was a huge
bomb at the box office. It had a pretty good cast,
Miles Teller Mister Fantastic, Michael B. Jordan was the Human Torch,
(18:05):
but it just was not good. So most of the
Fantastic Four movies honestly have been pretty average. This is
by far the best of all of them, and it
does so by really leans into the sixties aesthetic of
the original comic book, which was released in nineteen sixty
one by Jack Kirby and Stanley and so, but it's
(18:25):
not set on our version of Earth. So in the
Marvel world, as everybody knows, it's a multiverse, so there's
parallel universes. So this is a different version of Earth,
which means they don't have to really be that authentic.
It's sixties, but it's also futuristic, retro futuristic, and so
that's why they've got flying cars and and other kind
of quite advanced technology. But everyone's wearing you know, turtlenecks
(18:48):
and the brown leather jacket, so the vibe is cool.
I would say, for my money, this is the best
looking superhero movie that has ever been made. Beautiful every frame.
You could print it out and hang it on your
wall as a piece of art. It is absolutely beautiful
to look at. Director Max Shackman, who made the wander
(19:10):
Vision Marvel TV series, is a bit of a visionary.
It's stunning film to look at. And you're Pedro Pascal,
who is perfectly cast as mister Fantastic. Most of the time,
he's not fantastic. He's mister anxious, which is which is
Pedro in real life has some anxiety issues. So it's
so believable when he's worried about his incoming baby with
(19:31):
with Vanessa Kirby, who plays the Invisible Woman, his wife.
So they're having this baby, they're not sure.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Can you be sure?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, that's visible Princess.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
She actually gives birth during the film and it turns
in visible in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I know, yea, and just want to make it for
this to.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Make it more interesting. It's also in space in zero gravity.
It's a crazy sequence. You've also got Julia Garner from
Ozark and the and a Delvi story as the Silver Surfer.
Ralph Inoson, who's a fantastic character actor, is Galactus, who's
the big bad guy who's coming to destroy the Earth,
and he Galactus does a deal basically, I will spare
(20:12):
the Earth on one condition, mister fantastic, You've got to
give me a baby.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's a deal.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
That's a deal that mister Fantastic doesn't want to do.
So then, of course, you know, the whole fate of
the Earth comes down to whether or not they can
they can save So not only does it look good,
you have some great performances from Pedro Pascal and Vanessa
Kirby in particular, you've got Evan Moss Backrack from the
From the Bear who plays that thing Backrack. He's an
(20:46):
amazing actor. Cousin the cousin from the From the Bear
and so he's the thing clobroom time. And you've got
Joseph Quinn who was Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, who's
amazing English actor. He plays the human Torch Johnny Storm.
He's fantastic as well. So the cast is really good.
You could make the case that maybe the pacing is
(21:06):
a little bit slow, and they really put the emphasis
on the family dynamic of the Fantastic Four at the
expense of other aspects of the film, which I think
is very interesting and I think, you know, good on
them for doing that. Like it's not very often where
a superhero movie starts the opening sequence is, you know,
one of the characters sitting on the toilet, but that's
(21:27):
Vanessa Kirby doing the pregnancy test.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Which isible.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
So they they make some choices like that, which I
think a little bit left of center for a superhero blockbuster.
Some people might find it a bit slow going at times,
but you've got to stick with it, and I think
it really bodes well for the future of the Marvel
cinematic universe if you've got these characters as a part
of it. At times it's a little bit like The
(21:55):
Incredibles because you've got a baby in there. But then
you know, the Incredibles is really spied by the Fantastic
Four originally, So it all goes around and comes around
and it looks good and it looks very wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, how many are calling Pedro Pascal mister Fantastic is
basically a cameos?
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Are you basically just being himself?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Isn't he?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
I'm going to give it three and a half, So
this and Superman. Recently, we've had two good superhero movies
in a row, which is very unusual these days.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The genre has been in a bit of a low
kind of times, maybe very promising
Speaker 7 (22:26):
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