November 21, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
On the cutting room floor today. Are you a bit
of an entrepreneur?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Not really?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Are you me? You don't don't really know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
When I was a kid, I used to have a
mowing business. This is before Jim's Mowing. And it started off.
I'd use my dad's mo and I'm mowing Dad's lawn
and the lady across the road she said, oh, you know,
would you be out to mow my lawn? I'll pay
you and okay, and then she gave me five dollars,
which was a considerable amount of money.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What did you do with that?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I kept it and I went okay.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And then the guy next door to the lady said
would you my law and what are you charging?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I said, oh, you know, what do you reckon?
He goes, oh, I'll give you ten bucks, and I
went okay.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So that lady was giving me five, and then the
dude ten, then all the street. I ended up mowing
the whole street. So I started putting money back into
the business. I bought myself a whip, snipper as well,
and I used I would have been about fourteen, and
then I went to boarding school. So I lost the business,
but I gave it over to my business. I lost
the business, but I gave it over to my brother
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and my mate Cassa, you know Casa.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Anyway, one day, the lady the og she.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When I came back from school holidays, I went around
and said, you know, how's it all going. She says, look,
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't work with your brother
and his friend because that would sit there and argue
in the backyard about who was doing the whipper snipping
and who was doing the moa. And she said, one
day I just heard them talking about dog shit for
about twenty minutes, because you know, back in the days,
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that was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When no one picked up dog poop.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So they just me I'm not moment over that, you know,
And then she said she gave them twenty dollars and
said just go away. So when I built that business,
it took me probably about a year.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They destroyed it in two moning sessions. And that's the
story of my brother and Cassa.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What happened with the role of that went into someone's
front yard though a different story. That's right, Well, that's
for another Ginger megsigation for another sixty business was that ruining,
not yours. That was just us being children, youths. But
I do like the stories of entrepreneurs.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I'm well or I don't know if you're aware
of the group called swim Shady. So it's a former
NRL player and they've got these shirts and stuff the
sun protection and they've caught it swim shady and wearing
the water and it looks good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know, Oh, I've seen that their shirts instead of rashy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, and you look like a bit of a tool
and a rashy but their.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Shirts and they say, I don't know if this is
that brand, but you can wear it straight out of
the water and five minutes later sitting the cafes dry.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it looks it doesn't look like I'd like.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
To get one of those.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do they make girls ones?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't know. It seems to be a man thing,
but I'm sure they would.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But they've come foul of none other than Marshall Maver's
the original slim Shady eminem.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So so this is called swim Shade.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Swim Shady so he's they're suing, well, Marshall Mayo's people
and him are suing for I guess it's copyright on
the name swim Shady.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They have to change the name.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Eminem is renowned for protecting his brand after being embroiled
in multiple lawsuits over the use of his likeness and
music catalog, and a judge would deem that the people
would get youse swim Shady?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is is it a line to slim show?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's not a line, but you know to pun on it,
So you think, oh, fair enough, what's next? Fifty cents
going to sue the Australian government for having fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Come on people? That could happen.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That could happen.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
But I've was doing a show on Channel ten, I think,
and they had a bunch of ACDC pinball machines. So
the new ACDC pinball machine had been released. They had
a bunch of them, and I did a report on it,
and then we weren't allowed to play the music of
the ACDC pinball machine. You could play it on the
ACDC pinball machine, not on camera because it's been authorized
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by ACDC.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But once you put that on TV, it's a different deal.
It hasn't been authorized.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I remember once going to LA with the Living Room.
We were the only people in the history of the
universe who went to LA who were told to not
film the Hollywood Sign because it was owned by Hugh
Hefner and he might sue up. Real imagine if he
sued everyone who would film the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Draw the line?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Come on fatally for us.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
No one's ripping out stuff off just about that. We've
already stolen it. And if you steal from us, you've
stolen twice.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Everybody, it's time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And a man, what's on the cutting room floor today?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Friend, my son sent a photo the other day and
I had such a flashback.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Which son, Jack or Liam?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It was Liam who sent it, but Jack also responded
to it saying, what a weird time. And many of
us would have memories of how wed well, all of
us will memories of how weird this time was. It
was Christmas Day twenty twenty one. Oh yeah, Jack had
just had his school formal and this isn't this isn't
the event we.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Actually get to have a school formal.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That was the very last event before everything closed down
for lockdown.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But because twenty twenty twenty, let me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Just tell the story.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm to try now.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm twenty one. Jack had his school formal. This is
pre vaccination. This is all borders closed. This Oh no, no,
the borders weren't closed, but it was pre vaccination all
of that, and nearly everyone at that formal got COVID.
This was the first cases we had ever heard of
in our community of COVID and it was Jack's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So that was But that would have been Christmas twenty
at the end of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is it, Well, he thought it was Christmas twenty twenty one.
Is he a year out?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Because there was a bunch of And it's funny how
you say that, Because okay, let's go timeline twenty twenty.
That March of twenty twenty, that's when sko Ma did
the big breakthrough announcement. You were hosting Dance with the Stars,
and he said, you can't go out, you can't do anything.
And then we had Lockdown twenty twenty, and I saw
the Christmas at twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, anyway, it came back to the cash prizes. Well,
what happened here was that this photo shows Liam Harley's
taken the photo. It's Liam and I are sitting on
a couch. Jack is smiling. It's Christmas Day, but Jack
is on a iPad. He was in isolation on Christmas Day.
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And what had happened was he and a number of
his friends all got COVID around the same time, and
a group of them went into one house because someone's
parents said, okay, take the house. We're going to go
down the coast. You take the house. So four or
five of them went into isolation together. But they were
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all very, very sick. As a parent, it was very
alarming to not have him live at home during that
but it was so much easier that they could have.
They could roam around a house and we could roam
around our house. So but they're all very ill. We
forget what it was like before vaccination. And then when
the daughter of that house had come out of isolation,
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the family wanted the house back, so Jack had to
come home. So we went down the coast and Jack
was on his own for Christmas Day, and our neighbors
very kindly wrapped up Christmas food put it on the
doorstep for him, and a week later the daughter had
COVID and she's been I think it was her holidays,
sitting in the pool outside while everyone else was inside
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the house. But you forget what it was like. You
forget what it was like. And I had prepaid for
all our family, my Queensland family and everyone, my dad,
my brother, sister in law, my niss and nephew to
all meet in Noosa, and I'd prepaid to render house.
And because I was a close contact of Jack's, we
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couldn't go. That was the days where Anastasia Palichet.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It was going nuts for yes, if we would.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Have had to go into isolation in Queensland for two
weeks in a hotel. And so I was every morning illegally.
I took my dog for a walk at four in
the morning, and I cried and I cried and I cried,
and I'd crossed the street if I saw someone because
I thought I can't afford to breathe on them. You
forget how it was. And it's all right for people
now to complain about our vaccination program and being forced vaccination.
(09:04):
We forget what it was like before we had vaccinations.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It is true, and my memory is a deal dim
of it now. Because and it feels and this is
why we forget about world wide pandemics. This has happened
before to US, worldwide pandemically. Two thousand and nine, for example,
we had swine flu, but that weren't locked down, no,
but they still had a lot of cases. There was
a lot of cases and a lot of people that
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were in ICU, more though, more than what was actually
in ICU at the time when we went through COVID.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And that's why I used to look at the Sydney
Morning Herald.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
They had an article about we had fifteen hundred ic
ICU beds in New South Wales, meaning that they were
fully ventilated.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Beds, So fifteen hundred people.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
If they had that would be fully incubated, incubated and
they'd be fall on looked after.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We never got to that capacity.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Well, we could see the footage from America where bodies
are being put into the back of vans and mass graves.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And some people will say, oh, like this thought it
would do. The other day he goes, how did you
did you get vaccinations? I said, the art think I've
got about five or six of them, because why'd you
do that? And I said, well, I just didn't want to,
you know, I just I've been getting flu shots since
I was in my twenties, have been vaccinated for everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What does it matter? You know, like really, why wouldn't you?
Like I drink like a fish, you know, like there's
me and other Your.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Body's a temple, one of those temples. But monkeys throw
their feces around.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Like I didn't lean into the conspiracy theory out of
mate that was telling me that there were five g
like little tidy microbots being injected. I said, dude, that
is the most nuts unhinged thing. But people as well.
But I don't judge people for not getting vaccinated in
it because a part of it is there was a
great fear you didn't know. Of course, with astrazeneka, all
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of a sudden we're getting it and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're thinking, what, I'm going to get a blood clot now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's right. But having said that, people are looking back
at that time and saying, why did we have to
do that? We've forgotten why, we've forgotten how hard it was.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And you know what, in another.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What ninety five years from now, when it comes around again,
everyone'll be saying, oh, hang on, what well this.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Is like childbirth. Do you think we have more than
one child? If we remembered exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What childbirth was like, you just got to keep on living.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, I'll let you know when I have my next baby.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, we'll have a radio.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Competition and the Guinness Book of Records will be there too.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Hey, hey, everybody, here's some more Chelsea and a man's
curtain room for Hey. Hey, hey, get ready, everybody, here's
some more Chelsea and a man's curtain room for Hey, Hey, hey,
are you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Ready for on the cutting room floor today?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Gen Z are ready to quit their job over bathroom anxiety.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
This is interesting many gen Z. Did you say? You
said gen Z?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I say gen Z. It just rolls off the time.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Gen Z Washington. Gen Z is in the people in
their twenties. They're saying here that the workers are reporting
feeling uneasy using office bathrooms, with worries about noise, privacy,
awkward moments becoming a recurring stress point. Some even say
a single embarrassing incident has made them think about leaving,
highlighting how small discomforts can influence how younger employees view
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their workplace. I wonder if this is COVID. This is
the generation that did a lot of their schooling at home.
A generation that hasn't had those social norms, and privacy
was an easier thing. You're not leaving your embarrassments out
in an office setting and might be working from home
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a couple of days a week. I wonder if this
is one of the fallouts from that. Yeah, because the
toilets are embarrassing work toilets are embarrassing for men, probably
not so much for women. Usually embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Some people are more open about it than others they are.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I wonder if are they people have come from big
families or people who went to boarding school. You're a
bit of both.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I went to a big family and boarding school, and you, yeah,
you just had to go, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Go to the toilet.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That's what you had to do because you lived at
the school, That's right. So that was difficult and in
the workplace as well. I remember I used to work
at a factory making aluminion casings for various things, and
you'd run off to the duney to go and kill
twenty minutes, and then you have the boss being on
the door, what.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Are you doing in there?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Because you've been off the factory line for twenty minutes,
and I think with the in the main office here,
I try not to do a WP explain a work pooh, because.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You know there's a good chance you got to run
into someone that you know in.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
There that worry you. Girls would rather go into witness
protection than have to do that. How But what guys
don't seem to mind.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And then there's some people like Brad.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He one day I understood the urinal and he walks
into Go for a Borrington and he's just chatting away
and then he's doing a big pooh.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know that. I don't stop. Stop. I don't want
to hear. I don't want to know this.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But he's talking to me while he's going through emotions,
and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, well, and I'm
washing my hands. I'm thinking, well, at what point do
I wrap this conversation?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I should this one up.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He can't see me, but I'm outside and he's going anyway,
what about that?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Brad.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I'm leaving the room now because I didn't want I
didn't want him to be awkward that I've left the
room and he's still talking to an empty r.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's when you have to say I leave you to
it drop. This is Remember we used to work another
radio station that was very masculine, and no one cared.
The guys just didn't give a right.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
They didn't care at all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
There's a certain freedom and not caring, but women care enormously.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah, Well when we worked at that particular radio station,
and I go in there in the toilet for a smoke,
and there's back when I used to smoke, So weed
all go in for a smoke.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I remember the boss, Dobbo, me and Gibbo because I
know this story. He goes, he says, are you guys
coming in for a smoke? And no, but I'll go
in for a shit.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
A social poop.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, we're having a smoke, and Gibbo's just in the
having a Barrington.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
My youngest son was working at a pub and it
annoyed him that he didn't like the idea that half
the cubicles were taken up by people doing drugs right
when he's trying to work. So he'd go on his break,
sit on his phone and do a number two and
people were snorting expensive drugs all around him while he
was just stinking up the place. That was his kind
of revenge.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And that's the weird thing where you say Cavali. You know,
I'm a big mate mate tone. We're one day at
his house and he lives just down the ray from
a pizza hut, and we're getting pizzas. So we walked
down to the pizza hut and while we're to pick
up the pizza and the guy said, oh, mate, there'll
be another six or seven minutes, and he goes, I'll
just go next door to the dunny. I said, we're
just at your house, and he goes, yeah, I'll go
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to do a shit, which Brandon please. So that's him
talking of course sorry, And I said, hey, god, your house.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is like literally one hundred meters away. Why wouldn't you
wait till you got home? And he didn't care.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
He just picked up Drum magazine and walked into the
pub toilet for a pub poop. Who does that except
your son?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
In big tone, Well, my son was working, didn't have
an option.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, but didn't you have to go?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And it wasn't a situation you had to go to
a pub at inner city pub and do a number two?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah you were telling me about it, Okay, you don't
share the news. People to think I don't have normal
bodily function.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You didn't walk in a drum media though, you walked
in with the form guide.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I hope you've enjoyed this delightful conversation.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Sorry on the cutting room floor, the stuff that we
couldn't get to on today's show.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Who asked you a simple question? Do you practice witchcraft?
You don't think you do, but maybe you do, and
maybe you have. Do you want me to keep going
with theatric?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I don't know my over selling getting the villagers together here.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I want to put your head on a stick. Well,
these are I saw a list of these childhood habits
that were actually witchcraft, childhood habits that we did as kids,
and our kids probably did them too, But I'll tell
you what their origins were. Sleeping with a favorite stuffed animal.
Every kid does that, but apparently this wasn't just comfort,
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it was spell work for protection. Should we have some
oogity boogide music and some ethereal music, probably some ethereal
music the theme from Bewitched.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Yeah, she's a witch, hot witch, too compliant.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She was a compliant, She's a witch.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
She would do the housework all right, and she wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Use her magic powers, although if I was married to her,
I would say that, Okay, honey, let's conjurrupt some.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What would you conjure up more money so I had
a better house? Yeah, animal, if she could conjure up something,
wouldn't she have a more handsome husband?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I thought he was all right?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Nah, iteration and iteration too were both ugly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, they were both Dick York and then Dick Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They changed dis She liked Dick but needed a different one, Dick.
Let's get let's get baked to this sleeping with a
favorite stuffed animal. It wasn't just comfort, as I said,
It was spell work for protection. Children intuitively charge objects
with emotion, turning them into guardians, and it's an adult.
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You can recreate this by keeping a small charm or
crystal on your pillow, letting it absorb your energy each night.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Do you do that? Brendan Matt Brocky was into the crystals.
Remember I think that's been holding.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
The cut him loose when he said, you know what,
We've got to put some crystals in the cars and holding.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, mate, maybe you can just get Peter.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They would just get a girl called Crystal to sit
in the car.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I think that was the problem.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That what about this one? Wishing on the first Star?
Classic celestial magic, and you know it's old world magic
because it's spelled m A g ic K. Children believe
the first Star listens more closely, and many traditions say
it does. You can return to this by speaking one clear,
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simple wish to the night sky and trusting the timing.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Remind me when it's bin night.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Blowing on dandelions. You thought this was just making a wish,
but blowing dandelion seeds is an old form of air
magic with a K on the end. Each seed carries
your intention into the universe. You can do it consciously
now by whispering what you want and visualizing the seeds
delivering it to the right place. Making potions out of
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leaves and petals. Have you ever done that? No, I've
seen you.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Cook when I was at art school with the gets
some waves in wed what Brendan nothing?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This was your first bit of kitchen witchcraft. Kids, stir, combine,
and mix with pure intention, which is the essence of spellcraft.
Try recreating this energy by making a simple herb infusion
while focusing on what you want to call in interesting
as they say, they call it witchcraft when women healed
with herbs, but science and a man put it in
a pill right on staring into the rain from a window.
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This is early scrying, s c R. Why I and
you haven't heard across gazing into natural movement to slip
into a soft intuitive state.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It's nice, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You can bring this back by sitting quietly during rainfall,
letting your mind wander upon clarity. Blah blah blah, blah blah.
I've got one of those apps that I've downloaded. I
haven't had to use it yet, that we recreate the
sound of rain.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And you do you use that?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Because it makes me anxious. I haven't closed the forgola.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This one. You don't You for gola open all night?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Talking to the moon stop that, That's what I say.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Kids do that.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Kids naturally speak to the moon because if it listens,
because energetically it does. I've never spoken, well, you would
have as a kid.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I know I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I know myself as a kid, I speak to any
of the and I never spoke.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
To the moon.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I've seen I imagine you, as a kid would have
looked for the man in the moon. Yeah, definitely, And
I reckon your neighbors would have stopped you mooning. Collecting
special rocks was your first crystal practice. I can see
you getting bored. How about one more? Drawing symbols on
a fogged up window? D and B doesn't count, Brendon,
you were unknowingly casting siggles, sigils, s I g oh,
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don't yet, don't wrap me up? S I G I
l s. Kids draw hearts, swells and shapes that carry emotional.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Meaning and a good old D n B.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Why do I bother?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Maybe should go and talk to Uranus bee witch bee
witch be witch be witch bee witch on the cutting
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room floor today.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now this probably is rage bait, but I'm going to
read it out anyway. Testos, which is a UK supermarket,
has renamed its Christmas trees evergreen Trees, and they're calling
Christmas cake fruitcake, and people are saying, why are you
stripping us of our traditions discuss Furious customers have branded
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the store hypocritical, suggesting it's rebranding Christmas. But someone has said, hey,
test Gooes, you don't want to have Christmas anymore, but
you'll still take our money, you know all that.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yes, I was in at my local km art store
and they had festive tree instead of Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What percentage of our population. I know we're multicultural and
different religions, etc. And people who don't have religious affiliations, but.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I think celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But people would still accept the nature of a Christmas
tree at Christmas. You either have one or you don't.
No one's you don't need to rename them.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, And you're right about the rage bait.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I don't know if then this is when it comes
down to virtual virtue signaling.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
When big corporation.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Does that mean, Well, it means that, hang on, I'm
going to before there's any offense taken right or caused,
I'm going to nip it in the butt and that
happens all.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I saw a story this week and I'm glad we
didn't do it on our show. Some other radio stations did.
Now we're being asked to ask our babies permission before
you change a nappy. It's just rage bait. The papers
lean into this too. There'll be one person who wants
to stop kids singing Christmas carols and that'll be the headline.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, there was one time, keep it in perspective on
the talk back radio stations. I had a thing about
how they were going to cancel Easter East was gone,
and that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And then when you got to the number of it,
no one had suggested it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But what it does is people buy into it. They
ring up the radio station, they're outraged. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, the media outlets like we feel, we feel
three hours a day. Media outlets and content creators are
looking for stuff to talk about constantly, so they lean
into this stuff because it fills the space.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, we could make up all sorts of stuff, and
this is what Joe Rogan does.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Joe Rogan is very good as a podcaster.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Of what he does is he asks people's questions about
anything from vaccine efficacy to Donald Trump's election campaign chance
and what he does he tells people what they.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Want to hear. So in a way, we could quite
easily be like that.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
We could say, oh, you know, the vaccines that they
do cause autism or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We could say any of those things. But I don't know.
I'm not a scientist. I'm just a radio DJ.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But I do I do appreciate the science.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of course, you understand.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But I take this job as a broadcaster. I think
it's a privilege, and I take it with the responsibility.
I know, we like our poo and our wee jokes
and all that kind of stuff, but the information matters
to me. Yeah, And I do not want to disseminate misinformation.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But I've noticed there's a lot of rage bait in
the motorcycling world, particularly from various social media posts.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
They'll have a car cut me off, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Because everyone's got a helmet cam now, and you can
see the car coming from miles away, and the ride
is blowing up to likes, and you think, is he
doing that just to get rage bait because people go, oh,
that's outrageous that this car has cut this motorcycle earth off.
But in actual fact, the motorcycle has no doubt seeing
the car. The car certainly hasn't seen him, because that's
(25:34):
just what happens when you're on a motorcycle. But there's
this victim mentality which gets put out and becomes rage bait.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So therefore you get more clicks, more likes, more followers.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And not just that, the tech companies themselves know that
people lean in to conflict and anxiety. Exactly, you stay
online longer and they make more money that way. And
so even simple things like a woman I saw the
other day who was making a tiramassu in her vegetable crisp. Yeah,
(26:05):
and she said, look how effective this is. And you
know it's just to in fly.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It's just rage bait.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
And now remember the old days when you had you
just followed what you followed, that would all pop up
in your feed. Now the algorithm just gives you whatever
that you click on, good, bad or ugly. If you
click on it, that picks up your what you're into.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And you know what, Apparently your screen it follows your
finger scrolling. So even if you're clicking on something just
out of curiosity, it will register that, which is why
you get flooded.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
With more and more of it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So I try not to lean into my lower self
by clicking on clickbait yep, because that just feeds on it.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
But also on that on have you seen those all
those phone bots. So you've got places like China where
they've got just banks and banks of phones, Android phones,
and there I've got fake Instagram accounts and their ais
making them comment, So they're fighting with each other, fighting
with humans.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So if it's not for political gain or what's its gain,
is it just to keep people online?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Long y, Yes, And it's all about advertising as sure
as we do. And we're probably a bit more thick
skinned about it because we've been in this business for
a long time. And when I first started, they used
to say sell the sizzle, not the steak. So the
thing was about what the smell of the steak is.
It's not about the actual the actual steak. That's not
what you're selling. You want people to go five minutes
(27:32):
more so someone will listen to this, and you want
them to stick around, so they have to listen to
five minutes of ads and then they'll come back. You
have to be that compelling that people will come through.
What's happened in time. Now you've got pop ups that
come up on your screen. There's all sorts of different
advertising that pops up, but it's all part of the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I stopped listening when you said steak because I'm a
little bit hungry. So who's selling that steak?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Then Boon Star Steakhouse and Salot that I waited for.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That awesome more Jonesy and Unmanas honing
Speaker 2 (28:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Seas floor.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
On the cutting room floor today. Are you a bit
of an entrepreneur?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Not really?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Are you me? You don't don't really know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
When I was a kid, I used to have a
mowing business. This is before Jim's Mowing. And it started off.
I'd use my dad's mo and I'm mowing Dad's lawn
and the lady across the road she said, oh, you know,
would you be out to mow my lawn? I'll pay
you and okay, and then she gave me five dollars,
which was a considerable amount of money.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What did you do with that?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I kept it and I went okay.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And then the guy next door to the lady said
would you my law and what are you charging?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I said, oh, you know, what do you reckon?
He goes, oh, I'll give you ten bucks, and I
went okay.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So that lady was giving me five, and then the
dude ten, then all the street. I ended up mowing
the whole street. So I started putting money back into
the business. I bought myself a whip, snipper as well,
and I used I would have been about fourteen, and
then I went to boarding school. So I lost the business,
but I gave it over to my business. I lost
the business, but I gave it over to my brother
(01:49):
and my mate Cassa, you know Casa.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Anyway, one day, the lady the og she.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When I came back from school holidays, I went around
and said, you know, how's it all going. She says, look,
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't work with your brother
and his friend because that would sit there and argue
in the backyard about who was doing the whipper snipping
and who was doing the moa. And she said, one
day I just heard them talking about dog shit for
about twenty minutes, because you know, back in the days,
(02:17):
that was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When no one picked up dog poop.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So they just me I'm not moment over that, you know,
And then she said she gave them twenty dollars and
said just go away. So when I built that business,
it took me probably about a year.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They destroyed it in two moning sessions. And that's the
story of my brother and Cassa.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What happened with the role of that went into someone's
front yard though a different story. That's right, Well, that's
for another Ginger megsigation for another sixty business was that ruining,
not yours. That was just us being children, youths. But
I do like the stories of entrepreneurs.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I'm well or I don't know if you're aware
of the group called swim Shady. So it's a former
NRL player and they've got these shirts and stuff the
sun protection and they've caught it swim shady and wearing
the water and it looks good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know, Oh, I've seen that their shirts instead of rashy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, and you look like a bit of a tool
and a rashy but their.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Shirts and they say, I don't know if this is
that brand, but you can wear it straight out of
the water and five minutes later sitting the cafes dry.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it looks it doesn't look like I'd like.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
To get one of those.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do they make girls ones?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't know. It seems to be a man thing,
but I'm sure they would.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But they've come foul of none other than Marshall Maver's
the original slim Shady eminem.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So so this is called swim Shade.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Swim Shady so he's they're suing, well, Marshall Mayo's people
and him are suing for I guess it's copyright on
the name swim Shady.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
They have to change the name.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Eminem is renowned for protecting his brand after being embroiled
in multiple lawsuits over the use of his likeness and
music catalog, and a judge would deem that the people
would get youse swim Shady?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is is it a line to slim show?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's not a line, but you know to pun on it,
So you think, oh, fair enough, what's next? Fifty cents
going to sue the Australian government for having fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Come on people? That could happen.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That could happen.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
But I've was doing a show on Channel ten, I think,
and they had a bunch of ACDC pinball machines. So
the new ACDC pinball machine had been released. They had
a bunch of them, and I did a report on it,
and then we weren't allowed to play the music of
the ACDC pinball machine. You could play it on the
ACDC pinball machine, not on camera because it's been authorized
(04:42):
by ACDC.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But once you put that on TV, it's a different deal.
It hasn't been authorized.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I remember once going to LA with the Living Room.
We were the only people in the history of the
universe who went to LA who were told to not
film the Hollywood Sign because it was owned by Hugh
Hefner and he might sue up. Real imagine if he
sued everyone who would film the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Draw the line?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Come on fatally for us.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
No one's ripping out stuff off just about that. We've
already stolen it. And if you steal from us, you've
stolen twice.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Everybody, it's time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And a man, what's on the cutting room floor today?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Friend, my son sent a photo the other day and
I had such a flashback.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Which son, Jack or Liam?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It was Liam who sent it, but Jack also responded
to it saying, what a weird time. And many of
us would have memories of how wed well, all of
us will memories of how weird this time was. It
was Christmas Day twenty twenty one. Oh yeah, Jack had
just had his school formal and this isn't this isn't
the event we.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Actually get to have a school formal.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That was the very last event before everything closed down
for lockdown.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But because twenty twenty twenty, let me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Just tell the story.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm to try now.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm twenty one. Jack had his school formal. This is
pre vaccination. This is all borders closed. This Oh no, no,
the borders weren't closed, but it was pre vaccination all
of that, and nearly everyone at that formal got COVID.
This was the first cases we had ever heard of
in our community of COVID and it was Jack's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So that was But that would have been Christmas twenty
at the end of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is it, Well, he thought it was Christmas twenty twenty one.
Is he a year out?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Because there was a bunch of And it's funny how
you say that, Because okay, let's go timeline twenty twenty.
That March of twenty twenty, that's when sko Ma did
the big breakthrough announcement. You were hosting Dance with the Stars,
and he said, you can't go out, you can't do anything.
And then we had Lockdown twenty twenty, and I saw
the Christmas at twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, anyway, it came back to the cash prizes. Well,
what happened here was that this photo shows Liam Harley's
taken the photo. It's Liam and I are sitting on
a couch. Jack is smiling. It's Christmas Day, but Jack
is on a iPad. He was in isolation on Christmas Day.
(07:12):
And what had happened was he and a number of
his friends all got COVID around the same time, and
a group of them went into one house because someone's
parents said, okay, take the house. We're going to go
down the coast. You take the house. So four or
five of them went into isolation together. But they were
(07:33):
all very, very sick. As a parent, it was very
alarming to not have him live at home during that
but it was so much easier that they could have.
They could roam around a house and we could roam
around our house. So but they're all very ill. We
forget what it was like before vaccination. And then when
the daughter of that house had come out of isolation,
(07:53):
the family wanted the house back, so Jack had to
come home. So we went down the coast and Jack
was on his own for Christmas Day, and our neighbors
very kindly wrapped up Christmas food put it on the
doorstep for him, and a week later the daughter had
COVID and she's been I think it was her holidays,
sitting in the pool outside while everyone else was inside
(08:15):
the house. But you forget what it was like. You
forget what it was like. And I had prepaid for
all our family, my Queensland family and everyone, my dad,
my brother, sister in law, my niss and nephew to
all meet in Noosa, and I'd prepaid to render house.
And because I was a close contact of Jack's, we
(08:35):
couldn't go. That was the days where Anastasia Palichet.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It was going nuts for yes, if we would.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Have had to go into isolation in Queensland for two
weeks in a hotel. And so I was every morning illegally.
I took my dog for a walk at four in
the morning, and I cried and I cried and I cried,
and I'd crossed the street if I saw someone because
I thought I can't afford to breathe on them. You
forget how it was. And it's all right for people
now to complain about our vaccination program and being forced vaccination.
(09:04):
We forget what it was like before we had vaccinations.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It is true, and my memory is a deal dim
of it now. Because and it feels and this is
why we forget about world wide pandemics. This has happened
before to US, worldwide pandemically. Two thousand and nine, for example,
we had swine flu, but that weren't locked down, no,
but they still had a lot of cases. There was
a lot of cases and a lot of people that
(09:29):
were in ICU, more though, more than what was actually
in ICU at the time when we went through COVID.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And that's why I used to look at the Sydney
Morning Herald.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
They had an article about we had fifteen hundred ic
ICU beds in New South Wales, meaning that they were
fully ventilated.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Beds, So fifteen hundred people.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
If they had that would be fully incubated, incubated and
they'd be fall on looked after.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We never got to that capacity.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Well, we could see the footage from America where bodies
are being put into the back of vans and mass graves.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And some people will say, oh, like this thought it
would do. The other day he goes, how did you
did you get vaccinations? I said, the art think I've
got about five or six of them, because why'd you
do that? And I said, well, I just didn't want to,
you know, I just I've been getting flu shots since
I was in my twenties, have been vaccinated for everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What does it matter? You know, like really, why wouldn't you?
Like I drink like a fish, you know, like there's
me and other Your.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Body's a temple, one of those temples. But monkeys throw
their feces around.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Like I didn't lean into the conspiracy theory out of
mate that was telling me that there were five g
like little tidy microbots being injected. I said, dude, that
is the most nuts unhinged thing. But people as well.
But I don't judge people for not getting vaccinated in
it because a part of it is there was a
great fear you didn't know. Of course, with astrazeneka, all
(10:48):
of a sudden we're getting it and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're thinking, what, I'm going to get a blood clot now.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's right. But having said that, people are looking back
at that time and saying, why did we have to
do that? We've forgotten why, we've forgotten how hard it was.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And you know what, in another.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What ninety five years from now, when it comes around again,
everyone'll be saying, oh, hang on, what well this.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Is like childbirth. Do you think we have more than
one child? If we remembered exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
What childbirth was like, you just got to keep on living.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, I'll let you know when I have my next baby.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, we'll have a radio.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Competition and the Guinness Book of Records will be there too.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Hey, hey, everybody, here's some more Chelsea and a man's
curtain room for Hey. Hey, hey, get ready, everybody, here's
some more Chelsea and a man's curtain room for Hey, Hey, hey,
are you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Ready for on the cutting room floor today?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Gen Z are ready to quit their job over bathroom anxiety.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
This is interesting many gen Z. Did you say? You
said gen Z?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I say gen Z. It just rolls off the time.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Gen Z Washington. Gen Z is in the people in
their twenties. They're saying here that the workers are reporting
feeling uneasy using office bathrooms, with worries about noise, privacy,
awkward moments becoming a recurring stress point. Some even say
a single embarrassing incident has made them think about leaving,
highlighting how small discomforts can influence how younger employees view
(12:17):
their workplace. I wonder if this is COVID. This is
the generation that did a lot of their schooling at home.
A generation that hasn't had those social norms, and privacy
was an easier thing. You're not leaving your embarrassments out
in an office setting and might be working from home
(12:39):
a couple of days a week. I wonder if this
is one of the fallouts from that. Yeah, because the
toilets are embarrassing work toilets are embarrassing for men, probably
not so much for women. Usually embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Some people are more open about it than others they are.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I wonder if are they people have come from big
families or people who went to boarding school. You're a
bit of both.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I went to a big family and boarding school, and you, yeah,
you just had to go, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Go to the toilet.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That's what you had to do because you lived at
the school, That's right. So that was difficult and in
the workplace as well. I remember I used to work
at a factory making aluminion casings for various things, and
you'd run off to the duney to go and kill
twenty minutes, and then you have the boss being on
the door, what.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Are you doing in there?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Because you've been off the factory line for twenty minutes,
and I think with the in the main office here,
I try not to do a WP explain a work pooh, because.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You know there's a good chance you got to run
into someone that you know in.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
There that worry you. Girls would rather go into witness
protection than have to do that. How But what guys
don't seem to mind.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And then there's some people like Brad.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He one day I understood the urinal and he walks
into Go for a Borrington and he's just chatting away
and then he's doing a big pooh.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know that. I don't stop. Stop. I don't want
to hear. I don't want to know this.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But he's talking to me while he's going through emotions,
and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, well, and I'm
washing my hands. I'm thinking, well, at what point do
I wrap this conversation?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I should this one up.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He can't see me, but I'm outside and he's going anyway,
what about that?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Brad.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I'm leaving the room now because I didn't want I
didn't want him to be awkward that I've left the
room and he's still talking to an empty r.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's when you have to say I leave you to
it drop. This is Remember we used to work another
radio station that was very masculine, and no one cared.
The guys just didn't give a right.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
They didn't care at all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
There's a certain freedom and not caring, but women care enormously.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah, Well when we worked at that particular radio station,
and I go in there in the toilet for a smoke,
and there's back when I used to smoke, So weed
all go in for a smoke.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I remember the boss, Dobbo, me and Gibbo because I
know this story. He goes, he says, are you guys
coming in for a smoke? And no, but I'll go
in for a shit.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
A social poop.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, we're having a smoke, and Gibbo's just in the
having a Barrington.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
My youngest son was working at a pub and it
annoyed him that he didn't like the idea that half
the cubicles were taken up by people doing drugs right
when he's trying to work. So he'd go on his break,
sit on his phone and do a number two and
people were snorting expensive drugs all around him while he
was just stinking up the place. That was his kind
of revenge.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And that's the weird thing where you say Cavali. You know,
I'm a big mate mate tone. We're one day at
his house and he lives just down the ray from
a pizza hut, and we're getting pizzas. So we walked
down to the pizza hut and while we're to pick
up the pizza and the guy said, oh, mate, there'll
be another six or seven minutes, and he goes, I'll
just go next door to the dunny. I said, we're
just at your house, and he goes, yeah, I'll go
(15:51):
to do a shit, which Brandon please. So that's him
talking of course sorry, And I said, hey, god, your house.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is like literally one hundred meters away. Why wouldn't you
wait till you got home? And he didn't care.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
He just picked up Drum magazine and walked into the
pub toilet for a pub poop. Who does that except
your son?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
In big tone, Well, my son was working, didn't have
an option.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, but didn't you have to go?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And it wasn't a situation you had to go to
a pub at inner city pub and do a number two?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah you were telling me about it, Okay, you don't
share the news. People to think I don't have normal
bodily function.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You didn't walk in a drum media though, you walked
in with the form guide.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I hope you've enjoyed this delightful conversation.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Sorry on the cutting room floor, the stuff that we
couldn't get to on today's show.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Who asked you a simple question? Do you practice witchcraft?
You don't think you do, but maybe you do, and
maybe you have. Do you want me to keep going
with theatric?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I don't know my over selling getting the villagers together here.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I want to put your head on a stick. Well,
these are I saw a list of these childhood habits
that were actually witchcraft, childhood habits that we did as kids,
and our kids probably did them too, But I'll tell
you what their origins were. Sleeping with a favorite stuffed animal.
Every kid does that, but apparently this wasn't just comfort,
(17:28):
it was spell work for protection. Should we have some
oogity boogide music and some ethereal music, probably some ethereal
music the theme from Bewitched.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Yeah, she's a witch, hot witch, too compliant.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She was a compliant, She's a witch.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
She would do the housework all right, and she wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Use her magic powers, although if I was married to her,
I would say that, Okay, honey, let's conjurrupt some.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What would you conjure up more money so I had
a better house? Yeah, animal, if she could conjure up something,
wouldn't she have a more handsome husband?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I thought he was all right?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Nah, iteration and iteration too were both ugly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, they were both Dick York and then Dick Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They changed dis She liked Dick but needed a different one, Dick.
Let's get let's get baked to this sleeping with a
favorite stuffed animal. It wasn't just comfort, as I said,
It was spell work for protection. Children intuitively charge objects
with emotion, turning them into guardians, and it's an adult.
(18:34):
You can recreate this by keeping a small charm or
crystal on your pillow, letting it absorb your energy each night.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Do you do that? Brendan Matt Brocky was into the crystals.
Remember I think that's been holding.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
The cut him loose when he said, you know what,
We've got to put some crystals in the cars and holding.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, mate, maybe you can just get Peter.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They would just get a girl called Crystal to sit
in the car.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I think that was the problem.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That what about this one? Wishing on the first Star?
Classic celestial magic, and you know it's old world magic
because it's spelled m A g ic K. Children believe
the first Star listens more closely, and many traditions say
it does. You can return to this by speaking one clear,
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simple wish to the night sky and trusting the timing.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Remind me when it's bin night.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Blowing on dandelions. You thought this was just making a wish,
but blowing dandelion seeds is an old form of air
magic with a K on the end. Each seed carries
your intention into the universe. You can do it consciously
now by whispering what you want and visualizing the seeds
delivering it to the right place. Making potions out of
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leaves and petals. Have you ever done that? No, I've
seen you.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Cook when I was at art school with the gets
some waves in wed what Brendan nothing?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This was your first bit of kitchen witchcraft. Kids, stir, combine,
and mix with pure intention, which is the essence of spellcraft.
Try recreating this energy by making a simple herb infusion
while focusing on what you want to call in interesting
as they say, they call it witchcraft when women healed
with herbs, but science and a man put it in
a pill right on staring into the rain from a window.
(20:15):
This is early scrying, s c R. Why I and
you haven't heard across gazing into natural movement to slip
into a soft intuitive state.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It's nice, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You can bring this back by sitting quietly during rainfall,
letting your mind wander upon clarity. Blah blah blah, blah blah.
I've got one of those apps that I've downloaded. I
haven't had to use it yet, that we recreate the
sound of rain.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And you do you use that?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Because it makes me anxious. I haven't closed the forgola.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This one. You don't You for gola open all night?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Talking to the moon stop that, That's what I say.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Kids do that.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Kids naturally speak to the moon because if it listens,
because energetically it does. I've never spoken, well, you would
have as a kid.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I know I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I know myself as a kid, I speak to any
of the and I never spoke.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
To the moon.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I've seen I imagine you, as a kid would have
looked for the man in the moon. Yeah, definitely, And
I reckon your neighbors would have stopped you mooning. Collecting
special rocks was your first crystal practice. I can see
you getting bored. How about one more? Drawing symbols on
a fogged up window? D and B doesn't count, Brendon,
you were unknowingly casting siggles, sigils, s I g oh,
(21:34):
don't yet, don't wrap me up? S I G I
l s. Kids draw hearts, swells and shapes that carry emotional.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Meaning and a good old D n B.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Why do I bother?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Maybe should go and talk to Uranus bee witch bee
witch be witch be witch bee witch on the cutting
(22:14):
room floor today.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now this probably is rage bait, but I'm going to
read it out anyway. Testos, which is a UK supermarket,
has renamed its Christmas trees evergreen Trees, and they're calling
Christmas cake fruitcake, and people are saying, why are you
stripping us of our traditions discuss Furious customers have branded
(22:37):
the store hypocritical, suggesting it's rebranding Christmas. But someone has said, hey,
test Gooes, you don't want to have Christmas anymore, but
you'll still take our money, you know all that.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yes, I was in at my local km art store
and they had festive tree instead of Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What percentage of our population. I know we're multicultural and
different religions, etc. And people who don't have religious affiliations, but.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I think celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But people would still accept the nature of a Christmas
tree at Christmas. You either have one or you don't.
No one's you don't need to rename them.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, And you're right about the rage bait.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I don't know if then this is when it comes
down to virtual virtue signaling.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
When big corporation.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Does that mean, Well, it means that, hang on, I'm
going to before there's any offense taken right or caused,
I'm going to nip it in the butt and that
happens all.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I saw a story this week and I'm glad we
didn't do it on our show. Some other radio stations did.
Now we're being asked to ask our babies permission before
you change a nappy. It's just rage bait. The papers
lean into this too. There'll be one person who wants
to stop kids singing Christmas carols and that'll be the headline.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, there was one time, keep it in perspective on
the talk back radio stations. I had a thing about
how they were going to cancel Easter East was gone,
and that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And then when you got to the number of it,
no one had suggested it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But what it does is people buy into it. They
ring up the radio station, they're outraged. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, the media outlets like we feel, we feel
three hours a day. Media outlets and content creators are
looking for stuff to talk about constantly, so they lean
into this stuff because it fills the space.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, we could make up all sorts of stuff, and
this is what Joe Rogan does.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Joe Rogan is very good as a podcaster.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Of what he does is he asks people's questions about
anything from vaccine efficacy to Donald Trump's election campaign chance
and what he does he tells people what they.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Want to hear. So in a way, we could quite
easily be like that.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
We could say, oh, you know, the vaccines that they
do cause autism or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We could say any of those things. But I don't know.
I'm not a scientist. I'm just a radio DJ.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But I do I do appreciate the science.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of course, you understand.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
But I take this job as a broadcaster. I think
it's a privilege, and I take it with the responsibility.
I know, we like our poo and our wee jokes
and all that kind of stuff, but the information matters
to me. Yeah, And I do not want to disseminate misinformation.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But I've noticed there's a lot of rage bait in
the motorcycling world, particularly from various social media posts.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
They'll have a car cut me off, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Because everyone's got a helmet cam now, and you can
see the car coming from miles away, and the ride
is blowing up to likes, and you think, is he
doing that just to get rage bait because people go, oh,
that's outrageous that this car has cut this motorcycle earth off.
But in actual fact, the motorcycle has no doubt seeing
the car. The car certainly hasn't seen him, because that's
(25:34):
just what happens when you're on a motorcycle. But there's
this victim mentality which gets put out and becomes rage bait.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So therefore you get more clicks, more likes, more followers.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And not just that, the tech companies themselves know that
people lean in to conflict and anxiety. Exactly, you stay
online longer and they make more money that way. And
so even simple things like a woman I saw the
other day who was making a tiramassu in her vegetable crisp. Yeah,
(26:05):
and she said, look how effective this is. And you
know it's just to in fly.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It's just rage bait.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
And now remember the old days when you had you
just followed what you followed, that would all pop up
in your feed. Now the algorithm just gives you whatever
that you click on, good, bad or ugly. If you
click on it, that picks up your what you're into.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And you know what, Apparently your screen it follows your
finger scrolling. So even if you're clicking on something just
out of curiosity, it will register that, which is why
you get flooded.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
With more and more of it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So I try not to lean into my lower self
by clicking on clickbait yep, because that just feeds on it.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
But also on that on have you seen those all
those phone bots. So you've got places like China where
they've got just banks and banks of phones, Android phones,
and there I've got fake Instagram accounts and their ais
making them comment, So they're fighting with each other, fighting
with humans.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So if it's not for political gain or what's its gain,
is it just to keep people online?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Long y, Yes, And it's all about advertising as sure
as we do. And we're probably a bit more thick
skinned about it because we've been in this business for
a long time. And when I first started, they used
to say sell the sizzle, not the steak. So the
thing was about what the smell of the steak is.
It's not about the actual the actual steak. That's not
what you're selling. You want people to go five minutes
(27:32):
more so someone will listen to this, and you want
them to stick around, so they have to listen to
five minutes of ads and then they'll come back. You
have to be that compelling that people will come through.
What's happened in time. Now you've got pop ups that
come up on your screen. There's all sorts of different
advertising that pops up, but it's all part of the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I stopped listening when you said steak because I'm a
little bit hungry. So who's selling that steak?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Then Boon Star Steakhouse and Salot that I waited for.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That awesome more Jonesy and Unmanas honing
Speaker 2 (28:16):
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