August 19, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jamny no fun fact about Home and Away.
It was inspired by residents of Kangaroo Point here in
Sydney objecting to them, the people that wanted to build
a refuge for troubled youth, and the people the fair
residence of Kangaroo Point said, oh, we don't want these
little near do world.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Kids hanging around. So the writer was inspired by that.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is that kind of the theme of Home and Away.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That was home and Away, and they originally wanted to
call it refuge, and then when oh no, that's probably
not very good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let's call it home and Away.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I lived in Kangaroo Point for a number of years
and I used to go for a run up the
hill where that that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Particular the refuge was built.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and it's fine. There was no trouble whatsoever. You
wouldn't even know it was there.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It was Home and Away, the one that was canceled
early and then moved to another ten.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah. Ten.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's not like ten to pass on a good show,
is it room not like them to do that's a
ten passed on it. Seven picked it up and I've
watched it over the years, dipped in and out of it.
But then Irene left home and away last night. Lynn
McGranger is a good friend of the show. Aida Nicodemo,
who's good friends of the show. I must haven't been
(01:09):
watching the show as much as I would like recently.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But the storyline, and Lynn took great pride in saying
that she was able, she was able to develop it
with the writers, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
She wouldn't tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I said, come on, Lenny, come on, is there an
elevator shaft to say something?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, well, her character has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and
so she made the decision to leave and go traveling
while she still could, which is what makes me anxious.
I used chat GPT to look at this this morning
to say, should someone with Alzheimer's travel alone? And I
don't know much about Alzheimer's and I'm sorry if I'm
(01:44):
stepping into territory that's not my business, but that it said,
look this, it takes all shapes and sizes, and you
know there's not a one fit for anybody, but it
would seem that sometimes it can make you unpredictable. It's
the it takes away some stability in your life to
be traveling on your own and all the arrangements that
(02:05):
need to be sorted. Who's to say when you start
to get a little bit worse and you don't know
how to teach care of those travel arrangements.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
For one thing, Having said that that she was worried
about forgetting all the people that she knew. So if
you go to another place, you're meeting new people all
the time, so you don't have that thing where you've
forgotten someone.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, but what if you've made a booking somewhere and
you know where am I staying? And it's sleeping in
the Venice canals?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So why would you go straight to the canals? You
always go straight to the canals?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What's with that?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think that's just you? So Lynn last on the
show last night, No, you know, I just found it
was a little underwhelming.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Do you think there'd be a big like a alien crash.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
There's been plane crash, there's been bomb explosions. There was
a stalker, remember a woman stalked all of Summer Bay,
which is quite the job to stalk a whole town.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
She was exhausted. She you can find her now swimming
in the canal.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's very hard. So they put out a bit of
a party for her. This is what Irene said.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Excuse me, everyone, name's her up for a minute. I
just want to say thank you all so very much
for coming here today and celebrating with me, and it
means a world to me. I have to leave now,
but I want you all to stay here. More music,
(03:27):
more talking, more doing what w joy I was making
these memories as honestly the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That you'll ever do.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's emotional. Why would you feel that was underway?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The four mentioned stalker bombs, plane crashes, shnami's all that
sort of stuff. John who Shane Withington plays the character
of John. They're not romantically linked, close friends, but at
the end Irene presents this to him.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Probably it presumptuous of mean, But you can tear yourself
away from the surf club from a few weeks. It's
a ticket to Paris. I want you to meet me
at the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I read so you see it. It's not goodbye, it's
all one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I will be there. You mark my words, Come hell
or high water, I will be there.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'll see you around.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Where though it made no plans, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There's no plans.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
There's no plans.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
John getting away from the surf club like he does
sweet fa around that joint anyway, how fully.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Find the time I serve. I think people probably found
that very emotional, because I really say goodbye to Lyne.
As much as I.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Read, the internet hasn't been kind.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
They seriously couldn't even get all the current main cast
in let alone previous characters low key a bit of s.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
This is what you said? You said there were many people?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There wasn't many people. There was about ten p people there.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Did she put the drinks on for free?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Where the well, that's a good no because Irene is
a boozehound and they can't they to have a mocktail.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's why no one was there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't have a going around classic everyone on the
last time.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
See that's the drama you're after. Irene goes a little
bit berserk.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Where the beep is the rest of the bay? Someone's written,
surely not working?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Why is only two percent of the cast at Irene's farewell?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Where's Cash?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tane and Mackenzie rosted day off?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And Cash is that one's incredibly hunky?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I saw him at the logis. I was having a
photo with some people along the way and he said,
let me take it. He's in real life because I
used to seeing hunks on TV. In real life. His
shoulders are massive. He's like a g I Joe doll.
His head's relatively normal sized, shoulders massive. He was wearing
a suit that he could not have got off the rack.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He spent a lot of time checking him out. But
he's too hunky for TV?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Is he too hunky?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You can have that problem. I've had that problem, too
hunky for TV.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Do you think this leaves the way open for Irene
to come back if you're not? But characters had their
heads lopped off and still come back. Her saying I'm
just going overseas for a little while. She's going to
come back.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I thought there would have been pulled the last minute
death on the beach or something.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was waiting for that I wandered off. I was
waiting for, like a piano.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
To drop it for an anvil, just to pull from
the sky.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They got me as a gift director. I would have
been there with my boorn.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I go piano now, post credits, post credits, that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, And then they play out the theme on piano.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You are a genius too, hunky for TV. Yeah, if
only you could buy a shirt off the rack.
Jersey and Amanda Jamny no fun fact about Home and Away.
It was inspired by residents of Kangaroo Point here in
Sydney objecting to them, the people that wanted to build
a refuge for troubled youth, and the people the fair
residence of Kangaroo Point said, oh, we don't want these
little near do world.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Kids hanging around. So the writer was inspired by that.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is that kind of the theme of Home and Away.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That was home and Away, and they originally wanted to
call it refuge, and then when oh no, that's probably
not very good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let's call it home and Away.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I lived in Kangaroo Point for a number of years
and I used to go for a run up the
hill where that that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Particular the refuge was built.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and it's fine. There was no trouble whatsoever. You
wouldn't even know it was there.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It was Home and Away, the one that was canceled
early and then moved to another ten.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah. Ten.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's not like ten to pass on a good show,
is it room not like them to do that's a
ten passed on it. Seven picked it up and I've
watched it over the years, dipped in and out of it.
But then Irene left home and away last night. Lynn
McGranger is a good friend of the show. Aida Nicodemo,
who's good friends of the show. I must haven't been
(01:09):
watching the show as much as I would like recently.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But the storyline, and Lynn took great pride in saying
that she was able, she was able to develop it
with the writers, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
She wouldn't tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I said, come on, Lenny, come on, is there an
elevator shaft to say something?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, well, her character has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and
so she made the decision to leave and go traveling
while she still could, which is what makes me anxious.
I used chat GPT to look at this this morning
to say, should someone with Alzheimer's travel alone? And I
don't know much about Alzheimer's and I'm sorry if I'm
(01:44):
stepping into territory that's not my business, but that it said,
look this, it takes all shapes and sizes, and you
know there's not a one fit for anybody, but it
would seem that sometimes it can make you unpredictable. It's
the it takes away some stability in your life to
be traveling on your own and all the arrangements that
(02:05):
need to be sorted. Who's to say when you start
to get a little bit worse and you don't know
how to teach care of those travel arrangements.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
For one thing, Having said that that she was worried
about forgetting all the people that she knew. So if
you go to another place, you're meeting new people all
the time, so you don't have that thing where you've
forgotten someone.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, but what if you've made a booking somewhere and
you know where am I staying? And it's sleeping in
the Venice canals?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So why would you go straight to the canals? You
always go straight to the canals?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What's with that?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think that's just you? So Lynn last on the
show last night, No, you know, I just found it
was a little underwhelming.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Do you think there'd be a big like a alien crash.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
There's been plane crash, there's been bomb explosions. There was
a stalker, remember a woman stalked all of Summer Bay,
which is quite the job to stalk a whole town.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
She was exhausted. She you can find her now swimming
in the canal.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's very hard. So they put out a bit of
a party for her. This is what Irene said.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Excuse me, everyone, name's her up for a minute. I
just want to say thank you all so very much
for coming here today and celebrating with me, and it
means a world to me. I have to leave now,
but I want you all to stay here. More music,
(03:27):
more talking, more doing what w joy I was making
these memories as honestly the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That you'll ever do.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's emotional. Why would you feel that was underway?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The four mentioned stalker bombs, plane crashes, shnami's all that
sort of stuff. John who Shane Withington plays the character
of John. They're not romantically linked, close friends, but at
the end Irene presents this to him.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Probably it presumptuous of mean, But you can tear yourself
away from the surf club from a few weeks. It's
a ticket to Paris. I want you to meet me
at the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I read so you see it. It's not goodbye, it's
all one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I will be there. You mark my words, Come hell
or high water, I will be there.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'll see you around.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Where though it made no plans, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There's no plans.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
There's no plans.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
John getting away from the surf club like he does
sweet fa around that joint anyway, how fully.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Find the time I serve. I think people probably found
that very emotional, because I really say goodbye to Lyne.
As much as I.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Read, the internet hasn't been kind.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
They seriously couldn't even get all the current main cast
in let alone previous characters low key a bit of s.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
This is what you said? You said there were many people?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There wasn't many people. There was about ten p people there.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Did she put the drinks on for free?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Where the well, that's a good no because Irene is
a boozehound and they can't they to have a mocktail.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's why no one was there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't have a going around classic everyone on the
last time.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
See that's the drama you're after. Irene goes a little
bit berserk.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Where the beep is the rest of the bay? Someone's written,
surely not working?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Why is only two percent of the cast at Irene's farewell?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Where's Cash?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tane and Mackenzie rosted day off?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And Cash is that one's incredibly hunky?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I saw him at the logis. I was having a
photo with some people along the way and he said,
let me take it. He's in real life because I
used to seeing hunks on TV. In real life. His
shoulders are massive. He's like a g I Joe doll.
His head's relatively normal sized, shoulders massive. He was wearing
a suit that he could not have got off the rack.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He spent a lot of time checking him out. But
he's too hunky for TV?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Is he too hunky?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You can have that problem. I've had that problem, too
hunky for TV.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Do you think this leaves the way open for Irene
to come back if you're not? But characters had their
heads lopped off and still come back. Her saying I'm
just going overseas for a little while. She's going to
come back.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I thought there would have been pulled the last minute
death on the beach or something.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was waiting for that I wandered off. I was
waiting for, like a piano.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
To drop it for an anvil, just to pull from
the sky.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They got me as a gift director. I would have
been there with my boorn.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I go piano now, post credits, post credits, that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, And then they play out the theme on piano.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You are a genius too, hunky for TV. Yeah, if
only you could buy a shirt off the rack.
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