FULL SHOW: An Idiot Abroad!

Amanda debuts her new reading glasses and quickly discovers not everyone appreciates her “fashion-forward” frames. The team tackles the Fast Five, debates whether concert encores are a cringe relic of the past, and dives into a fascinating conversation about the different types of friendships and why expecting one person to be everything can lead to disappointment.

Plus, Myf Warhurst joins the show to chat about her new memoir Middle Rage, navigating midlife, menopause, honesty, and why she's embracing her next chapter.

With NFL fever sweeping Australia ahead of the historic Melbourne game, Jonesy and Amanda share stories of confused tourists and their own travel blunders as the Tribal Drum beats for "An Idiot Abroad." From mistaken chocolate mousse in Hawaii to believing the Las Vegas Eiffel Tower was the real thing, these stories prove we're all capable of looking like fools when we're far from home.

Also in this episode:

• Amanda's reading glasses intervention
• The surprising psychology of adult friendships
• The most expensive things people are buying right now
• NFL stars discovering Australian coffee... and "nature"
• Why some people think encores should be banned forever

A laugh-filled episode about friendship, getting older, and the universal experience of being completely out of your depth overseas. 🎙️

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Are you ready, Jim?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Everybody online.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
The Jonesy and Amanda Show. Gorgeous Amanda. Mistress Amanda is
delivering discipline. It hurts, but.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Someone's got to do it.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Bad Amanda.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Bad, bad Amanda.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Am I going to see Jonesy?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
And the virile Jonesy. What a creep.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
I've heard them describe him as a drunken idiot.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Stay in school and learn school. Yeah, okay. Out of
the way, Dobie.

Speaker 6 (00:30):
Jonesy and Amanda, those are names that you would never forget.

Speaker 7 (00:33):
It's showtime.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, hello there, Amanda. How are you today?

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm well. I have been to the optometrist. Do you,
you don't wear any reading glasses or anything, do you?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, I've got a stigmata. No, stigmata is a religious thing.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Wow. That's an extreme pair of glasses.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
So my optometrist said to me, I'm short-eyed, sighted in
one eye, long-sighted in the other. I said, am I
some sort of freak? And he said, no, what it
means is you won't. I've got reading glasses, but the
prescription hasn't changed. I go there every two years. They
try to sell me more glasses because that's what happens.
They just want you to buy more glasses.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, I had my, is it LASIK surgery? Is that
where you have your stomach stapled or is that your
eyes shaved off?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, that's gastric band surgery.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I didn't have that. I had years and years ago,
maybe 20 years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I remember when you got it.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I had that. So when things started to get blurry
when I was reading, I thought, well, that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
You got it at the same time as my wife.
Like you and my wife got LASIK surgery at the
same time. And she's noticed lately that her eyes are
on the wane.

Speaker 8 (01:34):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Well, because I'd had them done, I kept thinking, oh,
I won't get glasses because I've had it done. Whereas really,
I still need reading glasses.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Because everything, it's quite, it's like a miracle when you
get LASIK surgery. I remember her saying to me, it's
like all, everything, you can see everything. It's like high
definition TV. And I noticed that when I walked past
her naked, she went, oh my God, it's all too much.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's all too little. But I need to experiment with
you because I've got a pair of just reading glasses.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Do you want me to walk past you naked?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
When I'm reading in bed, when I'm scrolling on my phone,
et cetera. These are the straightforward reading glasses.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I always imagine you're like the granny from Little Red
Riding Hood.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, look how cool these are. I may feel vomity
when I look at you now.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Have you gone crazy? What do you think? Hello, possums.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh, excuse me. These are really, I feel nauseous because
I'm supposed to be just looking down. They are great
for reading. Look at you. You don't like them.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
They look good.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
You don't like them.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
They look good.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Why are you laughing, Ryan? Are they making my eyes
look weird inside the glasses? Because they're for reading.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
They look good.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Here's the ones. I hate them.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can I have a go at those?

Speaker 7 (02:37):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (02:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Here's the ones because these are the ones I need
to practice with.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Because then we can compare our eyes.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, these are the ones that I need. Ryan, stop it.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So you've got more than one pair.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
These are the ones that I– so that's just straight reading.
This is for close-up reading and when I have to then.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Look up at you. They almost look like Groucho Marx
glasses without the nose and the moustache.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Brendan, I've spent a lot of money and chose them
because I like the look of them.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Did you go to Specsavers? Shut up.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Now, these ones are for absolute close-up and then so
I can look up and see you. So this is
a prescription for you. So if you make me nauseous
when I look at you, I can take them back
and fix them.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Ooh, I like those. I like those.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
I'm happy for you.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
They're kind of sexy.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
These work well close up, but when I look at you.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Like in a sexy secretary, Miss Tess Marcus sort of vibe.
I like them.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, the thing is I'm taking them back.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Go back with the other ones. Go to the other ones.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, actually, no, I've got to practice because.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, okay. We can do that during the song.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
All right, let's go back to the other one.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Let's go back to the grouchos.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
They're not the grouchos. These are very fashionable glasses. Ryan, Brendan.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I ought to join a club and beat you over
the head with it. No, they're getting better.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
They look good.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I came to work a couple of hours ago and said,
I need to try my glasses. You said, wait, let's
do it on air. And now you've just mocked me.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I haven't mocked you at all.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes, you have. And Ryan's giggling like a fool.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Look, let's just.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Let's just all take a breath.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's all take a breath because Myth Walhurst is joining us.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Not Myth. Myth.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Myth.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is joining us on the show. Also, Instagram makes its return,
and we can't do anything until we do the fast fire.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm going to put my glasses on to see if
I can read the screen.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, I like those ones. Sexy secretary.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
1352.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, 1355.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
22.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Are these driving glasses?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
They're driving you wild. It matters anyway.

Speaker 9 (04:41):
Damnation.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Let's do it.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
How fast can this thing go?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Faster than the speed of light.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Fast, fast.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
We have the Fast Five. Five questions. Can you go
all the way and answer all five questions correctly? If
you do that, Amanda will say.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
I feel a bit carsick. I'm getting used to, I've
got reading glasses for close-up and these are half and half.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you really need them?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Who are you to tell me? You know all those
texts that I send with all those terrible spellings and
those sexual things?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's because of my eyes.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I want a duck. I'm just saying to you what
the glasses people will do.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
And when I went and saw my optometrist, he almost
said to me, we want to sell you glasses, but
your eyes aren't getting worse.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I went to my optometrist because I could barely read
my phone. So I didn't go in and say, I
feel like spending money, what have you got?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Can you read that line there?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yes, the fast five.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Without the glasses.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, because they're for close up, not for long distance.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Can you read this?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's one giant middle digit.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Do you know that we have studio cameras?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes. I can see them too.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Tracy is in Cranbourne.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Hello, Tracy.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
I am.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Hi, how are you? Tracy, how are you? Do you
have reading glasses, Tracy?

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I do have reading glasses, yes.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Do you have half and half ones where it's half reading,
half something else?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
No, I don't have bifocals. I've had the laser thing too.

Speaker 10 (06:02):
The cataracts removed.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Right.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
How long ago did you get your laser surgery?

Speaker 11 (06:09):
About two years ago, three years ago.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Working well?

Speaker 12 (06:13):
Yeah, it's all right.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Good.

Speaker 11 (06:14):
It's pretty good, yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I remember when I first had my eyes lasered, I
thought I was trying to read The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo, that Swedish book, and the baddie was Mr. Jorgensen,
and the good guy was Mr. Jorgensen. And my eyes
saw everything completely blurred. I had a lot of trouble.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
But you got the LASIK done.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, that's after I'd had it done because, once again,
it takes a while for your brain to adjust. Like
this is. I've got to practice. I'm not going to
wear the glasses all the time, Brendan. Don't panic. You
can't laugh every day. I've got to practice so my
brain can adjust.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I didn't laugh. What happened, Tracey? I was taken aback
by the beauty.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
At the booty.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
At the booty.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Here's question one for you. As well as a small boat,
tinny is Australian slang for what? It's a tinny.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
A boat.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, as well as a small boat. Come on, Tracey.
What's its other meaning? A tinny.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
A tinny's a, yeah, I can see it in front
of me.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Tracey. If she's seeing it in front of her, she's
seeing double.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Honestly, we should be sending you to Christmas Island if
you don't know that.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh, it's un-Australian.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
That is un-Australian. Rowan's in Eltona.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Hello, Rowan.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hi, how are you going?

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Very well. As well as a small boat, a tinny
is Australian slang for what?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
A beer?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
A beer. A tin of beer.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Matter of fact, I got it now. Let's play Cover Me.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
I thought that was Rowan. Sorry, Rowan. That was a
recording of Brendan.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Let's play Cover Me, Rowan. I got you covered, boss.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Rowan, let me practice with my glasses here. This is
a marimba cover of which song? What do you think there, mate?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
No idea. Sorry, Rowan.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Would you like to burp again, Rowan?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Sorry, I've been drinking beer. Look at our faces. And
I've had a big look because I've got glasses on.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
How does he do that? How does he keep coming
up with this stuff? Jam Nation.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Let's do it.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
How fast can this thing go?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Faster than the speed of light.

Speaker 13 (08:24):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Stop. We are into the Fast Five.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
We're up to question number two, which is Cover Me.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Cover Me.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Cover Me.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Cover Me. I got you covered, boss.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
This is a marimba band and they are covering which song?

Speaker 9 (08:39):
Jodie is in Panania.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Hello, Jodie. Hi there.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
What's the answer?

Speaker 9 (08:54):
Oh, it's the answer to the other question. Viva La Vida.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yes, that's it. Question three is multiple choice. Which band
holds the record for the most encores at a concert? A,
The Cure, B, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,
or C, Pearl Jam? Pearl Jam.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
No.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
You said that with a degree of authority, but no, Jodie.
Wayne is with us in Liverpool.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Hello, Wayne.

Speaker 12 (09:25):
Hello, how are you?

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Maybe it was Lil Wayne.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Hi, Wayne.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Which band?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Lil Wayne.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Lil Wayne. I don't know. Do they do encores? Do
rappers do encores?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, Lil Wayne is just one guy.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, would he do an encore?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think they'd do an encore.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Less, less. That's what I'd be calling her. Which band
holds the record for the most encores at a concert? A,
The Cure, or B, Bruce Springsteen?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
The Cure.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
The Cure.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah. The Cure.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I thought the boss for sure.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
The Cure returned to the stage five separate times during
a single show. That's too much. The five encores added
12 extra songs.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm just going to come out and say it. Encores.
you've had your day.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know, it's interesting. We might put it to the
pub test because I think a lot of people would
agree with you.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Do you like Encores, Wayne?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I love them.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
So you go to see a band and then at
10 to 12, when your parking's up and you've already
paid the babysitter a million dollars, they'll play the one
song that you know.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
One song?

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well, you know, they save their best one till last,
don't they, usually for an encore?

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Mm-mm.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Wayne, I like our chats. They're really good.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
In DC Comics, what is the name of Superman's icy
headquarters located in the Arctic?

Speaker 11 (10:38):
In the Arctic?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh, Ryan was very quick on that buzzer.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Danny is in Ringwood.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Hi, Danny.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
In DC Comics, what's the name of Superman's icy headquarters
located in the Arctic? I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
You know this.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
No, I don't.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
That'd be the Fortress of Solitude.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
It is.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Never heard of it.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Man has got a place called the Fortress of Arrogance.
That's lovely. That was John Laws' place he used to,
where he used to broadcast from his Fortress of Arrogance.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Oh, really? Was it an ice?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, that's what he called it.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I didn't think he broadcast from a cave of ice.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Alongside the iPhone 18, Apple's new line-up includes a foldable
phone called what?

Speaker 11 (11:24):
Oh, God.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
It's nearly $ 3, 500 worth. It's an ice cave.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Ben is in Katoomba.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Hello, Ben.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
Hi, guys.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Hello. Alongside the iPhone 18... Apple's new line-up includes a
foldable phone called what?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
It's the iPhone Duo.

Speaker 10 (11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
It just came out today, I believe. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And it's got a foldable screen and everything.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
For what purpose?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Don't know. Ben, do you know?

Speaker 9 (11:55):
I think it's just to compete with Samsung.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Samsung had their phones.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Wow, what a sentence.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Samsung had their foldable phone. Remember, we used to have
a flippable phone.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
In the old days. The Nokia, that was a flippy phone.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
So we might go back to it.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
And I had a Samsung flippy phone. So now we're
going back. It seems to me like a lot of
technical difficulty.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
No, it doesn't flip up and down. It flips sideways.
It's like a little book.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
This is what Ryan was just demonstrating.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Like a prayer book.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thank you, Ryan. Ben, congratulations. You've won the jam pack.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Inside $ 250 Bevels Jewelry gift voucher. Are you modelling the
Bevels Jewelry today, Amanda?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, but I have been sent this. Can I give
it a quick... No, I won't because we're talking about
Bevels Jewelry. Good on you, Brendan.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, I just see a jewellery truck show up and
I presumed it's from the Bevels people. Obviously, I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
$ 250.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Bevels Jewelry gift voucher.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Don't miss Bevels' iconic diamond rush sale, Saturday the 12th
of September.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It ends tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
And we've been very grateful for their support all week.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
We love them. Bevels Jewelry. We only use them.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
In an ice cave.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Ben of Katoomba, anything you'd like to add?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
You're welcome, Ben.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
My wife will enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Very nice.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
But you can wear it too, Ben. If you want
to do it, you can.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
You never know.

Speaker 14 (13:10):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Good on you, Ben.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's how Mr. T started. Just one.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
Dack drops today. When I say Dack, I'm not talking
about pants. I'm talking about double A chattery. This is
the podcast that you do with your forensic psychologist friend,
Anita McGregor.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
And this episode is an interesting one. It's about the
different types of friendship. And you know sometimes in marriages
and relationships where you're disappointed because you find out that
your partner can't be everything to you and you know that.
But we do the same in friendships as well. We
want friends to be everything to us, but they can't be,
and there are certain types of friends.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You have to have many friends.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, have a listen to this guy, and he sort
of characterizes the six types of friends.

Speaker 13 (13:58):
She has six types of friends that you can have.
the good time friend who's there for the fun, going out,
they'll show up to parties. Then you have your bury
a body friend who you would call up in the
middle of the night without fear of judgment.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
You have your activity friend.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Who you do hobbies with, maybe you go on hikes
with them.

Speaker 13 (14:14):
You have your OG friend who you've known for a
long time, they've been with you through many phases of
your life. You may go months without talking, but you
know they're there. Then you have your work or similar
ambition friends who you share.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Future goals with.

Speaker 13 (14:25):
The last one she talks about is a North Star
friend who you look up to. They ground you. Someone
whose judgment and opinions you really value.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's like there was that show. It was a big hit.
What was it? Five Friends?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
That lady's got all the different friends from her life
and she takes them away on a weekend.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
And what happened?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
I thought this would have been right in your wheelhouse.
What happened? I wanted to watch it. I do want
to watch it. It's an actual show. a drama. Oh, okay. Yeah,
but all the friends from your life.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
I look at, like, if I've got my school friends
together and I've got my motorcycling friends.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Forget them.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
What friend am I? In this group here, to you,
which one am I?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
You would be barrier body.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
You're my barrier body.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Good time friend. You're my North Star friend.

Speaker 10 (15:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Actually, you pretty much fit most of the criteria.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
The activity friend.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Oh, no, no, you're not my activity friend. Well, you
don't like my activities. And I don't like your activities.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
So I guess we're saying we're not our activity friends.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
No, we wouldn't do activities together.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
As I say to Anita with the barrier body friend,
I said, I'd also, yes, you are my, Brendan, you're
my barrier body friend. But if I was to be yours,
and I said the same to Anita, I'll turn up,
I'll bring a bag of lime, but I'm not going
to dig a hole.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I don't want to do any physical labor if you've
killed anyone. Let it be known.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Righto.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
So I'll support you. I'll stay shtum, but I'm not
digging anything.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, you're ruining any alibis right now when I
talk about this.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
But so this is, while we're talking about this is
people get into trouble because they expect one friend to
do a number of those roles and then you get
disappointed if they don't.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
You know, I've never really thought about that like that,
but I think men and women are different.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't think men look for the same things in
their friendships.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
They just want a bloke to have a beer with.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah. Duncan. Mel Robbins talks about the three things that
make adult friendships work. Because there is an idea that
if you spend enough time with someone, you'll become a
very good friend of theirs. We all hang out at
work together and some of us are very good friends.
But those friendships are different because of these things. You

(16:24):
need these three tenets for the strong adult friendship. Proximity,
which we all get at work. Timing and energy. And
proximity is, yes, we all turn up at the same time,
we're all here. Timing is different. If you're having a baby,
if you're going through a divorce... A timing means you're
all going through the same thing at the same time,
which is why you make friends at university, which is

(16:45):
why you make friends in a mom's group, that kind
of thing.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Or when you're young parents.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
When you're young parents, your other friends are doing the
same thing. And energy is kind of the effort it
takes to be together. If you both have the same
energy to meet up and keep that friendship going. And
so as an adult, when some of those friendships drop off,
it's not because people don't like each other anymore. It's
because without those three tenets, you don't have the same
core nature of friendships. Interesting, isn't it? But there's also

(17:12):
an etiquette question here that came up on a Reddit thing.
If you meet a friend through someone else, what are
the rules? What are the etiquette rules around it? And
there are very strict etiquette rules. Anita spoke about meeting Elizabeth,
who's a mutual friend of ours. She met Elizabeth when
she was at a dinner with another friend. She and
Elizabeth kind of just met and fell into great conversation,

(17:34):
fell in love with each other intellectually. They really did.
And they kind of ignored the person that had come
along with them.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's you.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
No, no, no. This wasn't me. But Anita thought how
interesting that reading these rules of etiquette that say don't
leave that person out, don't socialize behind their back, make
sure they're included in everything, blah, blah, blah, initially. She
said she wished she'd been better at that then. So
there is an etiquette around forming a satellite friendship off

(18:05):
to the side.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
But guys don't think like this. Guys don't get their
feelings hurt. Guys don't get upset. And this feels like
schoolyard stuff. But when you look at all those shows.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
They get upset if you start hanging out with their wife.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
True. But when you look at what's it called, Married
at First Sight and all those housewife shows, Women still
behave like this. They still, you're my friend today and
tomorrow you're not, et cetera. So women, even though your
common sense says grow up, we still hold on to
these grievances. It's interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Very interesting.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
And are you sure you don't want me to bury
that body? It's in the boot of my car. I
said I'd get round to it, but you know I'm
no good with a shovel.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
You would get lost and you'd end up burying yourself.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
How did I get in here? Hey, I can dig
a hole.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
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Speaker 5 (18:50):
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Speaker 4 (18:59):
Miff Warhurst is one of Australia's most loved personalities. Who
doesn't love Miff? She's known for her warmth, her wit,
her honesty. And like many of us, she thought she
was cruising through middle age until she wasn't. That's what happens.
She felt herself go down from being bright and bubbly
to feelings of overwhelm. And I think we can all
relate to that. She's written a memoir called Middle Rage.

(19:22):
To join us right now, here she is, Miff Warhurst.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Here she is. Oh, man.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Hello.

Speaker 13 (19:28):
Hello, Joan Dean Amanda.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Hello. Miff.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
And that is such a common story. You think that
life is one sort of single trajectory and it's never
going to be that. You think you've sorted things out
and then kabooyah.

Speaker 12 (19:41):
You sure do. And it's like a huge jolt when
you hit midlife. And I don't know if you've experienced it,
but It's like the hormones. drop and everything just feels,
it's almost as if we become a new person. And
that's the bit that I find just quite exciting, to
be honest. I don't know who I'm going to become.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
But also without generalizing, I think we may be the
first generation of women to have a third act. Because
I don't think our mums had the opportunity post-menopause, post-jobs, careers, children,
to reinvent again. We're lucky to have this.

Speaker 12 (20:17):
We are so lucky to have it and absolutely no
shade on previous generations as well. For a lot of women,
they weren't allowed to speak about any of this stuff
that we're going through. But because we're Gen X, you
guys would know that, you know, we can't help it.
I can't pretend anymore. It's like I'm nude or something,

(20:37):
you know. I just can't be bothered not telling the truth.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
And also it's too hard to remember who you told
what to unless you're telling the truth.

Speaker 12 (20:45):
That is true. It's too hard to have a web
of lies, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (20:48):
How do people get away with a web of lies
these days? You know, that TV show, The Traitors, I
couldn't go in and I couldn't go on Survivor. I'd
just blow it straight away. I'd say, look, I don't
like you and I want to win this game.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Oh, you're being mean to me. I'm going to burst
into tears.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm just getting out of here. It's so true. I
was watching Bluey and I heard your voice and I
was sitting there and I was just reading, you're in Bluey,
but you play not one but two characters.

Speaker 12 (21:13):
I do play two and I can't remember the name
of the other one. It's one of the mums, but
it was a very brief cameo as one of the mums,
I think. But I'm Aunt Trixie.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (21:24):
Quite a regular character. I'm the mother of Muffin who is,
In Bluey, she's the chaos agent. And I feel like
if I ever had children, I would have had a
muffin because she just turns up and causes chaos and
drama everywhere she goes and she's delightful.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Were you a naughty girl when you were younger? I
was such a goody two-shoes. How about you?

Speaker 12 (21:46):
Oh, I was so naughty because I grew up with
three brothers, right? So I learnt from the best. I
can give a very solid cork to the thigh if
need be, that kind of gear. But my parents were,
I lived in a small country town. My dad was
the school principal and my mum taught there. So the
only way to go about my business, i.e. doing the

(22:09):
fun things, was to be incredibly secretive. So I was
probably one of the naughtiest kids at school because I
had to be like, secretly even go behind their backs
and not tell them anything. I got up to all sorts.
I got up to all sorts and learnt how to
do it. Without anyone noticing. So I had a good time.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
So you flew under the radar, not necessarily making a
web of lies because it'd be no good for you
now because you'd just dob yourself in.

Speaker 12 (22:35):
Totally, totally. And again, I'm too tired for any kind
of untruths or lies.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I've robbed the local bank, the end.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
You could never make it.

Speaker 13 (22:45):
I did it.

Speaker 12 (22:45):
I needed to pay my mortgage. That's it.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
You'd be no good in organized crime. Or even disorganized crime.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Actually, Jonesy thinks I'd be terrible in witness protection. I'm
so unobservant.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Amanda, if you wanted to abduct her, though, because she
has ill observational powers, so you wouldn't even need a blindfold.
You just put her in the front seat of the car.
You could put a GPS in front of her and
she'd still get lost.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
I still wouldn't know. I couldn't describe where I was.
I couldn't describe the height or weight of anyone around me.
I'd be hopeless.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
She'd just know where all the toilet stops were.

Speaker 12 (23:13):
Yeah, well, that's the thing. That's the other thing when
you get to midlife. You need to know where all
the toilets stop. And the other thing called a safety wee.
I've not come across it.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (23:22):
Until now. And it's like, oh, dear, do I really
have to think about that?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
My mother, every time I go anywhere with my mum,
she'd say, where's the toilet? And I'm out with my children.
I go, hang on, where's the toilet? They go, terrible.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
We're in the driveway, mum. We haven't left. Miff, it's
always great to talk to you. The book, Middle Rage.
is out now in all good bookstores. Miff Walhurst, thank
you for joining us.

Speaker 12 (23:47):
Oh, I love you too. Thank you so much for
having me on.

Speaker 13 (23:58):
It's a long game.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
When I was in New York with my sons a
couple of years ago, we were very excited to go
to a game.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
Oh, who'd you watch?

Speaker 8 (24:05):
It was the one that has Travis Kelsey's brother.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
The Philadelphia Eagles?

Speaker 7 (24:29):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
And they were playing a New York team.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
The Jets or the Giants?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
It was the Giants. And the stadium was outside and
it was snowing.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
And I was so excited. Then after about five minutes,
I thought, that's enough.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, it's hard to- That's enough.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
And even if it was great weather, it's a very
long game. And unless you know what you're watching, someone
catches a ball, runs a little bit, and then everyone cheers,
and then that's the end of that play.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
I must admit my attention span- You wouldn't be able
to handle it. It's good for a TV show or
that movie on any given Sunday.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Remember that? It was an Olive Stone movie and Al
Pacino was a coach in it. It was really good. Actually,
I might watch that again.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
See, this is the thing. If you're watching films or
TV shows about the game, you don't realise how long
that game goes for.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
You watch baseball and you go, well, bring out... You know,
the natural. Remember the natural? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
But having said that, they sneer at cricket that goes
for five or six days.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, but I sort of sneer at cricket as well.
You know, I need things to be quick.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Anyway, it's going to be played in Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's going to be.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Played at the MCG. The MCG is looking fantastic.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
This is the biggest crowd. to ever watch an NFL game.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's totally sold out.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, that's 100,000 people.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Do you remember how much, I won't tell you right now,
just have a guess how much a restricted ticket is.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
What's restricted mean?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, it means you're going to have something, there's a
pole in front of you, not Mr. Krabowski.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Meaning there is a pole or there isn't?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Restricted to me indicates there's something in front of you. Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
So a lesser seat.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
A lesser seat.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
$ 180.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Okay. We'll come back. You haven't gone too high, thank goodness.
All right.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
The MCG is a perfect venue for NFL, according to.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
The NFL architect.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Is it the shape of the field?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, there's a problem with that.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
The field is not perfectly central for the game of NFL,
but he likes it. And he said maybe it needs
some more LED lighting. And maybe some bigger screens.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
And also, I hope they're good with the snacks and
things because it's very easy to get something to eat
and something to drink.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
When you're in America. You know, one of my fondest memories,
my Uncle David taking me to the MCG to watch
Carlton take Rich Malone and he just gave me a
big hot Four and 20 pie. Yeah. And I'm just
sitting there eating it.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Pie at the footy. Is there anything better?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
It just takes me back.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
This is what I was saying earlier. This will be
the biggest crowd ever to watch an NFL game.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
100,000 people.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
100,000 people. The American stadiums aren't as big, except weirdly
the college stadiums are. But the professional NFL level, this
will be the biggest live crowd ever to witness one.
Can I ask you this question?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
One of the teams has been here for a whole week.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
One team has arrived today. How do they acclimatise?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's what they're testing.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
The 49ers have been here for a week and the
Rams have just arrived this morning.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, how are they going to acclimatise? Because this is
their first game of the season.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
This isn't a demonstration match. This is an actual game
of the season. They've outsourced a couple of them around
the world.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
So what they're banking on is they come here today,
the Rams, and then they leave. get back to the
States so they can play next week. But as you
and I both know, when you travel overseas, it's easy
when you come here, but when you go over there,
I remember going to LA, it felt like I slept
for about three days.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
But at the same time, the first team who've been
here for a week, aren't they going to be better
off than the team that just arrived?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Don't know. Don't know. I do know this. There's tickets
available if you would like to go.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
I thought it was a sellout.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
It is a sellout, but there's a, Gemma and I
have just been doing some Googling.

Speaker 8 (27:58):
Yeah, there's some verified resale tickets.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
So that's if someone can't go to the game.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
All of a sudden. So they're verified. They're not scalped
and whatever.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah. This is on Ticketmaster. So if we want to go.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Let's go. We should go. Before the show tomorrow, let's go.
How much? Because it's in the morning. We can go. Okay.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
So the average resale ticket, it's about $ 693 a ticket.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
So your shout, Janesie?

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Wow, that's the average ticket and it is a sellout.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Wow, that is very good.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
They're loving the country so far. Christian McAfee is loving
the coffee. He's from the 49ers.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
It's been great.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, the coffee's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know why nobody talked about that as much
as they should have beforehand.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Way to go. Because we love the cultural cringe, don't we?
You love us. You really love us.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, I know. We do need, we ask everyone how
they feel about us.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
The coach, Kyle, this is from the 49ers as well,
Kyle Shanahan, he's just confused.

Speaker 10 (28:56):
When I look at my clock and it says the time,
and then I try to see my family's time, and
it says the time, but it says yesterday.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't even get how that's possible.

Speaker 10 (29:03):
So I feel like I'm in the future. And then
also when we play on our Friday, which I think
is a Thursday in the U.S., we're such creatures of habit.
So I call today Tuesday. No, wait, sorry, I call
today Wednesday. which is the first day we put in
a game plan. But I think it's Monday. However, though,
it's Sunday in the present.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Have a little rest.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I think they might have to put Life 360 on him.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
But you know, Australians are such big travellers that we
know all this stuff. When people come here, they don't
know as much.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
They don't know that.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Whereas we're used to that stuff. We know.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Nick Bosser from the 49ers, he's just happy to be here. Ah,
not really.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
I don't know much about Australia, to be honest. I
heard they've coffee, so I'll try and take advantage of
that and have some good coffee. I think there's some nature.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
There's some nature.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Well, he's read up.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
There's some nature.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
There is some nature.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's right.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
We're talking about nature, human and otherwise.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Do you think he'll meet human nature?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Maybe he'll meet human nature.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
That would really blow his mind.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Keep away from Phil.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Who are holding a coffee.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
He's quite venomous.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Don't confuse him with the time.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
This is something, though, I reckon the tribal drum might
beat for on a few things when we travel around
the world.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, because I know that I've said Australians are generally
good travellers. Having said that, you can surprise yourself with
your own stupidity. Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 13 (30:21):
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Speaker 5 (30:25):
Let us not be accused of being bandwagon jumpers, but
we are the biggest bandwagon jumpers.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Well, you know, we bleed NFL. We bleed NFL. From
the minute I heard those two teams were here, I've
talked about little else.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Which are the teams again?

Speaker 4 (30:39):
There's the one that's the 49ers.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
And some Rams.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
The LA Rams.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
I knew.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I knew. You know the game.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
We're all excited. And when they come to our town.
We ask them questions about what do you think about us?
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
You want to live here? You want to buy real estate?

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Are you just so impressed by us? Remember how hurt
we were when Travis Kelsey, when he went back after
his tour with Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
He said he thought that Singapore was a more interesting place.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
He said Singapore.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
And we all turned on him.

Speaker 7 (31:04):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Are you joking? Have you not listened to the teachings
of Farnham? They'll cut your hair in Singapore.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Nick Bosser, he loves this place.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I think there's some nature.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I was watching that on the front bar last night
and I thought, yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
But let's not mock them because people are idiots everywhere.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
The classic story, I think Wendy Harmer tells this when
she was over at the Edinburgh Festival and she had
an American tourist going to Edinburgh Castle saying, well, it's great,
but why did they build it so close to the
railway station? You're going to find an idiot everywhere. Chances
are we've been the idiots.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I remember as a kid, I was down the beach,
beach fishing with the old man, and I caught a stingray.
It wasn't a big stingray, a little mini stingray. And
these two Americans, New Yorkers, were walking along. And she said,
what's that? And I said, it's a stingray. And she goes, hey, honey,
get a picture. Wait till they see this back in
the Big Apple. And it was like the piddliest stingray

(31:58):
in the world. So I'm standing there with that. The stingray.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
You're probably still up on their wall somewhere.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I could be. Little Jonesy up on their wall.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Little Jonesy.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Little six-year-old Jonesy.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Well, let's talk about this. An idiot abroad.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Oh, that's better.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Or at home. And we've all done it. Either you've
been the idiot, you've been somewhere, you've heard the idiot.
An idiot abroad.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I've got pigeons here.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, pigeons not worldwide. I've got pigeons around in England.
They're from Essex, those girls.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Is Spain a country?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
We have gone NFL crazy. We bleed. The red colours. Actually,
we do bleed red.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Well, what colours are the colours?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, they're the 49ers. They're red.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, what about the other team?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
The Rams, they're green and white and red. And then
they just got here. So I'm sort of a Ram guy.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
I think I'm a Ram guy.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Are you going to buy a jersey that says.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I've already got one.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Coincidentally, I got a Rams jersey many years ago and
I didn't even realise it was a Rams jersey.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
What are the chances?

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Well, that's a bad way to dig it out of
the rag bag.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
But it's going to be a great game tomorrow morning
at the MCG, 100,000 people.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
It'll be unusual being at the MCG in the morning,
an excuse for a lot of people to day drink.
And why not?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I love an excuse to day drink.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
And someone that is certainly looking forward to hanging out
here is Nick Bosser from the 49ers.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I think there's some nature.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
See, he's nailed it. Because in Australia there is a
lot of nature.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
That's right. But we can't poke or point fingers at them.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
No.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Because we're all idiots abroad.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Which is why the tribal drum is beating for this,
an idiot abroad. We've got pigeons here. Yeah, pigeons that world-wide.
I've got pigeons thrown in England.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
They're like pit bull.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
I was in Germany recently and we'd come out of
Dachau and it's.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
A very sombering experience.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
And we'd driven there in the car. So I've sort
of come out of the place just within my thoughts.
And they drive on the right-hand side of the road
in Germany.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
And- What do we drive on?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
We drive on the left.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (33:52):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So they're on the right-hand side of the road. I've
come out of Dachau.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
And I'm usually good driving overseas as long as there's
other traffic around because you do fall into the old habits.
So I'm sitting at the intersection and this bus comes along.
He's wanting to turn right into my road. And I'm
sitting there and I look at him and I said,
look at this joker. You get jokers like this back home.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Go on, mate. It's not going to get any greener.
Come on, Fritz. Hurry up. Hurry up. And he's looking
at me and he's got his hands on the wheel
looking at me. I'm going, mate. Your light's green. And
then all he does is point down. And I looked
down and then I noticed, looked to my left, I went, oh,
I'm in the wrong lane.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, it's when you have to turn. I'm in his lane.
Idiot Abroad.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Mel has joined us.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Hello, Mel.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Hello. I love your show, guys.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Thank you, Mel.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Who was the Idiot Abroad?

Speaker 9 (34:41):
Well, it was me and my mum. So I was
around 11 or 12 and we were holidaying in Hawaii
at the time. and we'd just gone and done the
hotel buffet dinner thing, and I said to Mum, oh, Mum, Mum,
there's chocolate mousse, please, can I have some? She's like, yeah, yeah,
eat your greens and blah, blah. So off I went
to get the chocolate mousse. She said, get me some too,

(35:03):
why not? So we both got our spoons ready to
tuck into the chocolate mousse. To the horror of our
taste buds, it was not chocolate mousse. It was, it's
actually called poi.

Speaker 11 (35:15):
Oh, poi.

Speaker 9 (35:16):
Which is a, it's made of... It's a taro starch paste.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Oh, so it's like a potato starch or something.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
No, it's a brown paste.

Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah, and it looks mashed up. It looks like chocolate mousse.
If you look it up, it 100% looks like chocolate mousse.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oh, yeah. Jim Y.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Rice got something up on the screen. You know, it does.
It looks like a tapenade, olive.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, like olive tapenade. And probably that would be nice
if that's what you're expecting. But if you're expecting ice cream,
I remember I went to Hong Kong with my parents
when I was about 15. And we went to a
big sort of chain restaurant and it was all confusing
and food was arriving and there was, I realise now,
a finger bowl and mum drank it thinking it was
the soup. It can happen.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
It's like the Beverly Hills. And we'll go swimming in
the cement pond. Jam Nation. NFL fever has swept the nation.
We're into it.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Someone who's beside themselves for being here is Nick Bosser.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
From the 49ers.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
I think there's some nature.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
You know, Nick.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
He's read up.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
You want nature. You'll get nature around here. We got
all kinds.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
He's read the brochure.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yes, we do have nature. We got a hot and
cold nature.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
But, you know, we shouldn't be too critical of people
who don't know much about Australia because we, when we
go overseas, we know nothing.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Lots of people come here, don't know anything.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Tribal drama's beating for.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
An idiot abroad.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Could be me.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
We've got pigeons here. Yeah, pigeons not worldwide. I thought
pigeons were only in England.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Colleen has joined us.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
Hello, Colleen. Who was the idiot?

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Hi.

Speaker 11 (36:50):
Well, my mum and I were the idiots. My mum
more so about nature. When we moved here first time
from the States, she was excited because she thought there
was going to be opals on our lawn for the picking,
kangaroos jumping across the yard and koalas in the trees.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (37:11):
I was about 11 years old and my dad said
we were moving to Australia. And I said, but I
don't want to go because they don't speak English there
because I had never heard of Australia and I had
only heard of Austria. And so I was very confused,
wrong hemisphere and everything, but love it here. And, um,

(37:32):
We'll stay forever.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
Oh, good.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
You have to dig a bit deeper to get the
opals than just looking out on the lawn.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Maybe that time you say, this is if you're going
to see kangaroos running down the main drag and then
a kangaroo went across the Harbour Bridge, except for today.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
When I was a kid and we moved from Brisbane
to Sydney, I remember Dad saying, we're going for a
drive across the Harbour Bridge. I remember being in my
nightie in my little brunch coat, drove across. I thought
I was so disappointed because we didn't go over the top. Well,
why do people... It's just a bridge. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (37:58):
What's the big deal?

Speaker 4 (37:59):
What's the point? I thought it'd be like a big rollercoaster.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Jess has joined us.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Hello, Jess.

Speaker 11 (38:04):
Hello, good afternoon.

Speaker 7 (38:06):
Hello.

Speaker 11 (38:07):
I once went on a tour around America and I.

Speaker 12 (38:10):
Ended up in Las Vegas.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
And in Las Vegas, I got fairly intoxicated and.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
I was having the best time ever.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
And I ended up outside the.

Speaker 12 (38:19):
Eiffel Tower and all the people that I was with said, yeah,
it's the real Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
It's the one.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
that was gifted to us here in America.

Speaker 11 (38:27):
It's so great.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
And I was so.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Drunk and I just burst into tears and I was
so excited because I'd always wanted to, like, have a
kiss underneath the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 12 (38:35):
And I thought I'd really seen the Eiffel Tower and
it was, like, the best night ever.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Wow. Because it's not to scale. Let's face it, the
one in Vegas is part of a nightclub arrangement. It's
not to scale.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
It's a lot. It's considerably small.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
But, you know, the French could have gifted that as well.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
A little one to be getting a little aperitif.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Exactly. Did you get one under the Eiffel Tower, Jess?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Just a little peck, yeah.

Speaker 12 (38:57):
It was very nice.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Okay. Thank you, Jess.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Jess is reliving those memories.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Craig has joined us.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Hello, Craig. Who was the idiot abroad?

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Hello, that idiot would have been me.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
So, long story short, went on a cruise with my family.
It was myself, mum, dad, my brother and my cousin.
New Year's Eve cruise to the Pacific Islands. Absolutely stunning, but... I,
on New Year's Eve night, met a suitor and didn't
make my way back to my room. So I forgot
to tell my brother that I wouldn't be back there.
So I wake up the next morning to my name.

(39:30):
over the speaker system through the entire ship. I walk
down to customer service. The first thing they say is,
are you Craig? I say, yes. They say, turn around.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
I turn around.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
There's my parents, mom's in tears with a printout of
my transaction listing. There's a printout of CCTV. My dad's
pacing the boat.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
My brother, everyone thought I went overboard essentially.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
So I was the idiot for not saying anything. And
it was a very quiet day trip that day, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
And did you run into the suitor again? I did.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
You can't really escape anyone on the boat. So unfortunately
saw them many times during the cruise itself and also after.
Happened to run into them a few times after the cruise.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Of course you did.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Nice little memory.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Thanks for the memories. There's nothing worse than a big
PA announcement. Lock it in, Eddie.

Speaker 10 (40:22):
Friday for your sessions tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
You know who's coming on tomorrow? No, don't say right now.
I'm going to spill your guts.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
Well, you asked me. I opened my mouth to answer.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
It was kind of a rhetorical question. Oh, okay. The
Friday Feel session. What a masterstroke.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
It's been brilliant. The idea of this is that we
have an artist or a band coming here into our
very studio and perform on a Friday. It just makes
everyone feel good. It's the right energy for a Friday.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
We are so privileged to have this. Here is just
a handful of the acts we've had. Richard Clapton, we're
both weeping.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
I'll say no.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
James Ray. Went reggae. I don't even like reggae, but
I like James Ray. How about the Hoodoo Gurus? Nailed it.

(41:34):
Bachelor Girl.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
This all happened here.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
We witnessed this. Mossy, Troy Cassidaly.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Look, I'm prickling up.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Then the Screamin' Jets. Please understand Won't someone Anthony Kalia

(42:09):
last week blew everyone away.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
I'll give it to you So beautiful.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Only coming first to this little guy.

Speaker 7 (42:20):
Young Miles.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
We've had everyone in here. Have we? And guess who's
coming in tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (42:33):
You say, you say, you say.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
We've had everyone in this studio until... Vicar and Linda Ball.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
I love these chaps.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You know what I'd like to hear them do? When
Will You Fall For Me. I think Mark Seymour wrote that. Oh, okay.
You're doing all the DJ stuff.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
That's the only words I've said this entire segment.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, this is my wheelhouse. You do all the emotions
and the feelings and all that stuff. Wow. There's no
wow about it.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Have you got any more information?

Speaker 2 (43:10):
There'll be wow tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
You've got any more information?

Speaker 2 (43:12):
No, this is called a hook.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Tomorrow you listen and you'll hear it.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Do I need to be here?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I don't know. Do you?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Okay, Kyle.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Come on, friend.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Come on. Next, am I allowed to speak? You're good
to me. People are splashing. So much for Cozzy Libs.
I'm going to talk you through some of the most expensive,
three things I've just read about this morning where you go,
people have too much money. Let me ask you this question.
You have a daughter.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Would you spend $ 600, 000 to buy her a falcon?

Speaker 2 (43:48):
What sort? Has it got registration?

Speaker 4 (43:51):
It's got feathers.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
That's a bird falcon, not a forward falcon.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
It's a bird falcon. This is a father in Abu
Dhabi who spent.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Oh, he's a rich Arab.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
He's got extra money. But still.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
That's glove box change to him.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
It's a pure, a rare, pure white Gyre, G-Y-R falcon
sold for Australian $ 600, 000, making it this year's most expensive
falcon sale.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
They have pet falcons over there.

Speaker 10 (44:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
And they have the big falcon sales.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Excuse me.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
I'm swearing, isn't it? And apparently if you fly at
certain times, you can sit next to one.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah, on the plane.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
People book seats for their falcons.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
That's how good they're doing. The falcons are sitting on
the plane.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
And it's getting a special meal and you're stuck down
the back.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Imagine there's an albatross flying next to the plane, looks
in and sees the falcon.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Hang on.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Hang on a minute. Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
What's going on here?

Speaker 4 (44:46):
It's like that time I was flying with a Beyond
2000 trip in South America and And I was brushing
a fly off my meal. I thought, I'm on a plane.
How did a fly get in here?

Speaker 2 (44:53):
It's one of the less salubrious airlines.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
You must get out and think, oh, my God, no
wonder I'm exhausted. I've crossed continents. Well, so that's a
lot to spend, I would think.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
How much?

Speaker 4 (45:04):
600,000. Yep. It's rare white feathers helped make the bird
highly valuable. And he's there with his daughter and she
comes up and goes, thank you very much. What about this?

Speaker 7 (45:14):
Right.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
This is what Australians are spending money on, the $ 800
Dyson toothbrush. It's an AI toothbrush with a camera in it.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah. Why?

Speaker 4 (45:26):
Well, this is what they're calling it, a complete oral
care routine in one toothbrush. Isn't that what a toothbrush is?
It's got a little camera in it that apparently, or
it's jet washers, liquid flossing, mouthwash, blah, blah, blah. All that?
But it gives you feedback on how you're cleaning your teeth.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
It's like having your mum standing over your shoulder.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Or Mrs. Marsh.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
It does get in.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
I don't know. We're going to have cameras in the
toilet paper next to tell you how your health is.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
We don't want that.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
What about this? If you've got too much money, you
might be interested in this. This is Hermes has released
a set of three band-aids for $ 749. They look like
they're kind of leather. They've got the Hermes label on them.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
Three Band-Aids for $ 749. Can you reuse them?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
I don't think so. That's what they used to do
in World War I.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Well, yeah, I think that.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
When the diggers would take it on the turn.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
I've got crutch rock. Give me the Hermes. No, I
think this is just if you've had a scratch from
a blood diamond. I think that's what happens. I don't know.
I've got no further information because my Googling stopped there.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Possibly impossible for the best.

Speaker 10 (46:44):
See a whole lot more of Jonesy and Amanda on
our socials.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Jonesy and Amanda!

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
Perfect day to get on down to the Jonesy and
Amanda arms for the pub test. For today, I'd like
to put this to the pub test and see if
it passes. Encores, do they pass?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
The good old-fashioned pub test.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Thank you, Sam.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
There's a New York Times opinion piece that says, Encores
are corny and cringe and pointless. It's time we put
an end to them. We shouldn't have to beg you
for it, it says here. It's deeply contrived to pretend
the band has played its final song, to beg them
to come back. We're all better than this. The band
shouldn't have to debase itself with this pantomime and the

(47:22):
audience shouldn't have to debase itself with performative adulation.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's like standing ovations when you go and see a
theatre show.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
But that's nice because the theatre performers, I imagine, want it.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Yeah, but you see a theatre show and you're like, okay, well,
it was all right. A Gemini Rise show when he
did Kingdom of Fools.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
We stood up then. Yeah, because everyone else was standing up.
Only because my legs had pins and needles.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
But can I commend you? Yeah. You didn't do the
milk it. You know when you stand up at those
theatre shows, everyone's clapping, and then you sit down.

Speaker 8 (47:54):
Yeah, and they do multiple bows.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
And then everyone comes out again.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I hate that.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
Well, what do you think here, though? That's a standing ovation.
This is an encore. Some of the comments are interesting.
It's an adult peekaboo.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah. It is.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
This is an interesting one. I agree that the planned
encore is lame. I think a legit encore to reward
an enthusiastic crowd or to keep the night going a
bit longer is awesome. Someone here said, this is interesting,
I've played in bands for 20 years and always hated
the encore ritual.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Are they a big deal, that person? If you're in
a band that You'd have to be a band of note.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
I don't know. That's just in the comments section. I
saw Oasis, one of the best shows I've ever seen.
But some people I know left early. And the songs
that were played as the encore, Don't Look Back in Anger,
Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall. You would have missed maybe arguably
their three biggest songs and you know that they're coming
at the end and the whole crowd just went bang.

(48:51):
But there is a theatre that they go off and
you think, well, they haven't played that. They've got to
come back on.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
I saw Bruce Springsteen and I do like the encore
because I know that I can get out of there
before everyone else.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
So I grabbed my wife.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
You used it. I grabbed my wife.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
I said, we're out of it. She said, but he
hasn't finished.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
He hasn't played Born to Run.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
So I said, he's not going to play it. As
we're walking to my motorbike, ding, ding, ding, ding. And
she had this look. I went, ah, you know.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Yeah, it's not for you, Brendan.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I've heard Bruce Springsteen do that song a few times.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
But other people here are saying, no, an encore is
usually the best part of a concert that many miss
by leaving early. I don't know. But is it weird that,
you know, it's an artifice. You know they're going to
do it. They know they're going to do it. It's performative.
Do the bands want to go off and change their
shirts and take a swig of whiskey before they come
back out? Is it for them?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I don't know. Well, I saw Cher. She went and
did an encore.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Had a swig of whiskey?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
She went out the back and came out sitting on
an elephant and then somehow appeared out of the elephant's bum. See,
that was worth hanging around for.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
How many whiskies did that take?

Speaker 2 (49:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
The whole audience needed one. Let's put it to the
pub test. Encore's, do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 5 (50:07):
Crazy man, 10 questions, 60 seconds on the clock. You
can pass if you don't know an answer. We'll come
back to that question if time permits. If you get
all the questions right, $ 1, 000.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
You can make it $ 2, 000. You can double your money
by answering a bonus question, but it's double or nothing.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Madeline, oh, Madeline. is with us.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Hi, Madeline.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Hello, guys.

Speaker 7 (50:27):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 11 (50:27):
I'm so excited I got through.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Oh, I'm thrilled. I love your show.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
That's very nice of you.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Anything we can do to make your listening experience better?

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
You're doing everything right.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Thank you. We're happy to hear it.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Good. All right.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Well, let's see if we can give you money and
praise you as well.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, imagine if we give you money as well.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Ten questions. That would be wonderful. Yeah, well, we have
to get the questions right. I can't fake it any
more than that. Ten questions, 60 seconds, Madeline. If you're
not sure, say pass because we might be able to
come back, okay?

Speaker 7 (50:55):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Thank you. All right. Good luck because here we go.
Question number one. What does a chicken say?

Speaker 8 (51:01):
Cluck, cluck.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Question two. What colour are blueberries?

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Blue.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Question three.

Speaker 9 (51:07):
Purple.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Finish this. Incy Wincy Spider climbed the?

Speaker 7 (51:12):
Water spout.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Question four. I Knew It, I Knew You is the
latest single by which artist?

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Park.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Question five, what gas makes balloons stay up?

Speaker 14 (51:25):
Helium.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Question six, what sport do the Harlem Globetrotters play?

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Basketball.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Question seven, foxtrot, hip-hop, salsa are types of what?

Speaker 6 (51:34):
Dance.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Question eight, which city is often referred to as the
city of love?

Speaker 12 (51:39):
France or Paris.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Sorry, Pooh, we have to take the first answer.

Speaker 7 (51:46):
Yes, I know. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Madeline.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You knew it too.

Speaker 7 (51:49):
You did.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
I was close.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
I was close.

Speaker 14 (51:52):
Oh, never mind.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
I Knew It, I Knew You is the new song
by Taylor Swift, which is for Toy Story.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
Ah, okay.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Madeline. You gave us some nice feedback. We'll put it
in the boss's pigeonhole.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
We'll put it in our suggestion box.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
I mean it. I love you guys.

Speaker 11 (52:08):
I really do enjoy you.

Speaker 13 (52:10):
You're a lovely couple.

Speaker 11 (52:11):
Oh, isn't that nice?

Speaker 4 (52:14):
That's a very nice thing, and thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
A work couple.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Better than a work throuple. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Wow, do you want things to get saucy now?

Speaker 4 (52:21):
No, thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
We'll bring someone else in.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
I don't want to see other people.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Oh, you have Gemma Rye watching us each day.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Look at the look on his face. He feels like
a weirdo now.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Jam Nation.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
The pub test.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Pub test.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
If something sounds unlikely, then it should fail. The pub test.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah, the pub test.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Doesn't pass the sniff test.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Stop it. It's not helpful.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Today, encores.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
We're putting encores to the pub test. I read a
New York Times opinion piece that said, encores are corny, cringe,
and pointless. It's time we put them to the back,
send them out to pasture. We are sick of them.
They're embarrassing. They're performative.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
I'm not very embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Well, it's embarrassing for the band. We sit there like
performing seals going, come on, we adore you, and they go, okay,
here we come, we'll play the one big song we
haven't got around to. It's all fake.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
You look at it, and I look, now bands put
the whole song list on the website.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Yeah, so you know what to stick around for.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
And you even know what's going to be in the encore.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
So as someone said here, it's just adult peekaboo. Everyone
knows when the venue has to shut down, so they'll
just keep playing until then. It's 11 o'clock, it's the
end of it. How do you feel? Are they cringy?
Are they dramatic? Do you love them? Encores, they pass
the pub test.

Speaker 7 (53:33):
Oh, mate, most certainly do. That's the best part of
the night, I reckon, the encores. People get up, you
get up and dance and sing along and it's just wild.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
You know.

Speaker 7 (53:43):
Don't worry about the traffic. You'll get home eventually. Might
be three or four hours before you get out, but
that's all right. You've got your money's worth.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
No, not really.

Speaker 14 (53:52):
If you know they haven't played their best songs, you
know that they're going to come up.

Speaker 7 (53:55):
But I went with my.

Speaker 14 (53:56):
Wife to see Go West on Friday, and they just said,
we're not going to do this encore thing. These are
the last songs, and that's it. And they played all
their best songs. They didn't go off stage and come
back again. We didn't have to stand there clapping and
clapping like crazy. So I think they're a thing of
the past.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah, they do.

Speaker 12 (54:13):
I think it's pretty fun.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Good to have a little exciting bit of the show
at the end and maybe listen to a song that
everyone didn't get to hear but everyone likes.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
Yeah, no, because you know you have to stay for
the encore because you know that for the best songs
they're going to come 90% of the time. It's simple
as that. But, interesting fact to say, Elvis has left
the building. That came across because he never did encores
and they had to come out to some estate and
tell the audience, go home, Elvis has left the building. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Wah-wah knee have left the building, everyone.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
The knee have left the building.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
The knee has gone.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
The knee has gone. You don't have to go home,
but you can't stay here.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Righto, UT.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
That's enough.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
We have our encore show coming up.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
That's us for the day.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Yes, we will be back again tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Friday field session, Vicar and Linda Ball. I'm so excited.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That just happened. Instagram, if you would like to play,
surely we've got to give it away. Friday's always a
good day. If you would like to play, jonesyandamanda.com.au.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Or if you'd like to hear any of the show,
any of those things, jonesyandamanda.com.au.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Ditto. Good day to you. See ya.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Well, thank God that's over.

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