📻 This Year Marks 100 Years Of Australian Radio

Let's take a look back at our own experiences in radio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nason. Well, this week marks the
one hundred years of radio. So we had songs about
the radio. I had who listened to the radio?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sports and you had that?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
But what a big deal that is? On Channel nine
News last night, Mike Dalton had this report from the
lounge rooms of backyard tinkerers. Australian radio would first transmit
one hundred years ago, and it wasn't long before the
live concerts and radio plays became requisite family listening. And
here it is.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Stop he jumped through the window.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You are right here.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
The quiz show would also soon be a regular one
contestant a young future Prime minister in John Howard.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey, John, not bad, Thank mister Davy.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
That's all right. What do you do for living?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I still go to school?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh you do?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's cool?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Kennery Boys High School?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's that's John Howard, Jack da Yes.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey John not bad?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Thank mister Davey. That's all right. What do you do
for living?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh? I still go to school?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh you do?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Kenny Boys?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Nice girl.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
A cut out the bit where Jack David asked him
what his favorite sex position was.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
That's modern radio.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's well you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's interesting though, in the length and breadth of this
celebration one hundred years of Australian radier.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I've been in it for thirty three years.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm surprised they didn't use some of your earlier work,
Brendan as part of that package on the news last night.
Remember your very first broadcast it was you know, this
is can I just preface this. This isn't a joke.
This sounds like a Joseph.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
This is my audition.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
This have a listen. This isn't a joke. This is
Brendan Jones. What year would this have been?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
This is nineteen eighty eight, and.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Listen to it in all its glory.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is my first radio program. My name is Brendan Jones.
My homing being here tonight is to improve my communication.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
News happening now on two m I now.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
The News in Detail. Academy graduates Rick Juleen, Creig Milne,
Les Hart and Craig Danya, executives of the West Radio
Keep Going Keepers Keep By the two w S life
the A w A network and it came in into

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the open, open market late in nineteen.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Eighty You know that was as you said that wasn't
broadcast that. That wasn't broadcast.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
But this was.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
You too.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
There from the Joshua Tree album with without or with
with with or without you? Sorry, a bit of a
tonguelean tongue twist there to kill the sunrise before that,
and reasons Johnny Farnham led it up first.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
He let it up first. It's everything that was becoming.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's community rad He've come along way community. This is
just a few years ago on this very station. You
insisted on calling a competition. Let me say I can
say fuster club. You insisted on calling that. Everyone said no, you.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Don't trust you, meeting saying I'm not going to muck
it up.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
And here's what happened. Day two. You got a little
bit confused. You've got to be classified. Oh I knew
you'd do it, Old Brendan. You wanted to call this
competition that and I said, don't do it because you
can't do it. Day two, that is day two.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Look I've got better, old Brendan.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
And now let's look at the clock.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's five passing eight s eleven away seven.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's nine to eight nine six s away six end
of seven.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's a quarter past seven. Came be up on six
six quarter past six.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Thank you Radio.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's come a long way when the prime favorite sexual position, well,
I'm glad to be a part of it.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh yeah, I wish you would