November 11, 2025 • 8 mins
Barra reminisced on his chance encounter with Michael Jackson in the 80s, let's just say Fat Cat was involved. Plus, inspired by dinner disasters, Barra and Russell answer a food related question for all the parents out there.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time for Barry's bits.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's Lisa and Russell together with you and together with
Barrel this morning because it's Wednesday, mate, he joins us
for a bit of chit chat.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, guys, beautiful day, magnificent day.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Today is roast International Roast Inner Day. Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
No, I didn't know that. I love a good roasts
roast pork with you know, a bit of apple sauce.
I go down that path. Yeah. The quick crackling is
what gets you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Crackling is what That's why you have it. Just for
the crackling.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's hard to beat.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Are you a peas or a beans man on the side?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I think I think I think I'm a bit of
more of a peas man. Bit of gravy on it,
I overdo it. Hey, would you mind if I quickly
told you my Michael Jackson story?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, because we just talked to Lario. Who's who's the
man who's going to be Michael Jackson? Yeah? Next year.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Like I know, it all unraveled at the end, the
King of Pop and all that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But I was this is where, this is where the
unraveling starts. Bar met him.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This is why back in nineteen eighty five, and for
some reason I got invited to the Channel seven studios
to be there because I was a footy star, and
I took a couple of other footy stars.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hello Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It wasn't the gun meet Michael. It was just to
be on the power Michael, to meet you. Michael could
meet you. That's not what I was saying anyway. Yes,
So I work in the Channel seven and I walked
straight into Michael Jackson's entourage and Michael himself right okay,
And for some reason it just opened up and he
(01:37):
looks at me. He's got no clue obviously who I am.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Some boke, surprising, surprising in.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
My Perth in my Perth track suit, and he goes.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Hello, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's wonderful to be here. Thank you for having me coming.
My god, he spoke like it was amazing. It was
actually quite amazing. The other blokes couldn't speak. Boy he did.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He also said I like your mullet.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I bet he did. But of course he was in
Perth because he was buying that that back catalog of
all that stuff that the Beatles. He was the Beatles,
the purse Robert Holmes accord. He had an on Channel seven.
He said, mate, if you want to buy it, you
have to come to Perth and do this telethon what
I want to do? What? But I'll just quickly tell
you a couple of stories I found out when I
(02:26):
was there because I was wandering around. I was researching.
And then fat Cat comes out. This is noble. Fat
Cat comes out, and that gives Michael Jackson, sorry, okay,
get off. He gives the mental imagery he gives him,
(02:47):
and he's dressed up as the King of Pop. He's
wearing all that Black Cat was dressed. Michael Jackson was
wearing the son he's on. I don't know how he
sore in the corridors, you know. But the Fat Cat
rolls up and he pulls out a bright red cowboy
hat and gives it to Michael right and puts it
on his head. At a ba point, Michael really went.
(03:12):
He must have thought, what is going on? There's a
there's a gap. He must have really wanted the Beetle's speaker,
and then he did. And then he donated his own
white concert socks that he'd worn in the last concert,
and they had sort of what are those sparkles on him? Called,
you know, like I'd love to find them. Someone's got
(03:35):
them on their wall somewhere in Perth. And the other
funny moment was that they told me that in his
in the green room, he wanted a huge bowl of Smarties,
but he didn't want any brown Ones. So apparently Jeff
Newman had to go on there the brown one's egg spent.
And that Jeff Newman would never was Peter Waltham or Jeff.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Because fat cat couldn't do it, because so he couldn't.
Like he'd be taking red ones as well, he just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I would have eaten half of them if you
were the man for the job and you just eat
them all. And the thing that capped it off that
they told me as well was that Robert Holnes at
court so he sold the whole Beatles catalog except for
one song. And what he'd done he spoke to his
daughter Katherine. He said, Katherine, what's your favorite Beatles song?
And she said Penny Lane and he so he sold
(04:31):
every song except for Penny Lane. And so Catherine Homes
of Courts still Lane. Yeah, she still owns.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
She's got the loose change the information.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
This morning, mate, we.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Were going to talk to you about dinner disasters and dancing.
But that's way better.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we raised two point eight million. It was like
a record. Yeah, yeah, we two point eight million. You've
got to go back and watch. Peter Waltham tried and
because Molly came over and Molly had no clue how
Michael Jackson ended up in Perth at a telethon.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, the brown Smarties, I reckon, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Michael was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Time for your dad Vice Annie in Serpentine on The
text is on the do you to chat theme that
we've been on today and wants now, what do you
think is a good kitchen job to give your kids
when they're starting to learn to cook? Probably not anything
with knives? And what was the first thing did you
teach your kids to cook?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah? What about not knives? What about peelers? Would kids
be allowed to use pelers?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's a little bit safer.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, I would go potato peeling because that's pain
in the ass job.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
One of the hardest. One of the hardest jobs is
getting him to set the table. Yeah, that's a job
that I'm still trying to master with one of them. Yeah,
and we allow knives, got only butter knives.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And do you do it? Do you do spag bowl?
Do you have a way of doing spag bol Oh?
You guys like you have a special way of doing
spaghetti bolonnaise, Like you know, garlic and your onion, and you're.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Lots of garlic. I used three different types of mints,
and I had a couple of different cheeses.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, my wife's half Italian, so I don't even bother
to interfere yes.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But so she teaches the kids how to make spag bowls. Yeah,
because that's where.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's a good one interesting to teach them.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I count three three types of meats.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh yeah, you've got to have veal, pork, and beef.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's a good tip.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
She got that from watching Good Fellas.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm going to try that. My son hurt me the
other day when he said, Dad, you haven't really taught
me a lot. You know, dad's are supposed to teach that.
You know, there's sons a lot of stuff. I go, yeah,
it's like you haven't taught me how to shave. Oh,
so I'm doing that next time. I'm going to go
so because there is a skill to shaving isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
As you can see, I gave up.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But we all have electric ones. My spag bowls stories.
One day I wanted to make a pasta dish for
the kids and there was a bit of spaghetti fed
a chini penne, bit of spirals, so I thought, I'll
just put it all in the one bowl, a bit
of a medley, just absolutely backfive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
They all cook at different times, is that why we probably?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, but I think just getting them started on those
real basically, go and make yourself a sandwich, right, master that,
go and make now, go and make a toasted sandwich,
all right, Yeah, so you just take it level by
level by level, and now it's to the point where
my daughter cooks for herself.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You are a good dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well no, probably more her mum. But anyway, but it
does get a lot of crowded in the kitchen though,
if the timing is not right.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, that's My worst kitchen story was the smoothie incident,
as it's known.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It do take us out with the smooth.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Strawberries, banana yogurt, bit of milk, you know, you put
chucked it in and then of course I fired it
up before I put the lid back on the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Everywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It was on the dog, it was on the cupboards,
you're the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You're in no position to be teaching kids how to cook.
You can't give it smoothie.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then there's the popcorn story where I put it
on for five minutes, you know, the microwave popcorn and
it just almost caught on fire and set off the alarm,
the alarm and the and the smoke alarm, and in
the getchet because it would have known because you.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Lie down, you can't stand reading the instrum.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
There is how to do it on the packet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I was going to come back, you know, you
light and you're watching the footy and what the hell
is going on in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Anyway, so there's there's some bad chat advice.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Not to take from.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Annie. Good question.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Thank you, thank you very much
Time for Barry's bits.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's Lisa and Russell together with you and together with
Barrel this morning because it's Wednesday, mate, he joins us
for a bit of chit chat.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, guys, beautiful day, magnificent day.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Today is roast International Roast Inner Day. Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
No, I didn't know that. I love a good roasts
roast pork with you know, a bit of apple sauce.
I go down that path. Yeah. The quick crackling is
what gets you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Crackling is what That's why you have it. Just for
the crackling.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's hard to beat.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Are you a peas or a beans man on the side?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I think I think I think I'm a bit of
more of a peas man. Bit of gravy on it,
I overdo it. Hey, would you mind if I quickly
told you my Michael Jackson story?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, because we just talked to Lario. Who's who's the
man who's going to be Michael Jackson? Yeah? Next year.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Like I know, it all unraveled at the end, the
King of Pop and all that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But I was this is where, this is where the
unraveling starts. Bar met him.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This is why back in nineteen eighty five, and for
some reason I got invited to the Channel seven studios
to be there because I was a footy star, and
I took a couple of other footy stars.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hello Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It wasn't the gun meet Michael. It was just to
be on the power Michael, to meet you. Michael could
meet you. That's not what I was saying anyway. Yes,
So I work in the Channel seven and I walked
straight into Michael Jackson's entourage and Michael himself right okay,
And for some reason it just opened up and he
(01:37):
looks at me. He's got no clue obviously who I am.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Some boke, surprising, surprising in.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
My Perth in my Perth track suit, and he goes.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Hello, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's wonderful to be here. Thank you for having me coming.
My god, he spoke like it was amazing. It was
actually quite amazing. The other blokes couldn't speak. Boy he did.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He also said I like your mullet.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I bet he did. But of course he was in
Perth because he was buying that that back catalog of
all that stuff that the Beatles. He was the Beatles,
the purse Robert Holmes accord. He had an on Channel seven.
He said, mate, if you want to buy it, you
have to come to Perth and do this telethon what
I want to do? What? But I'll just quickly tell
you a couple of stories I found out when I
(02:26):
was there because I was wandering around. I was researching.
And then fat Cat comes out. This is noble. Fat
Cat comes out, and that gives Michael Jackson, sorry, okay,
get off. He gives the mental imagery he gives him,
(02:47):
and he's dressed up as the King of Pop. He's
wearing all that Black Cat was dressed. Michael Jackson was
wearing the son he's on. I don't know how he
sore in the corridors, you know. But the Fat Cat
rolls up and he pulls out a bright red cowboy
hat and gives it to Michael right and puts it
on his head. At a ba point, Michael really went.
(03:12):
He must have thought, what is going on? There's a
there's a gap. He must have really wanted the Beetle's speaker,
and then he did. And then he donated his own
white concert socks that he'd worn in the last concert,
and they had sort of what are those sparkles on him? Called,
you know, like I'd love to find them. Someone's got
(03:35):
them on their wall somewhere in Perth. And the other
funny moment was that they told me that in his
in the green room, he wanted a huge bowl of Smarties,
but he didn't want any brown Ones. So apparently Jeff
Newman had to go on there the brown one's egg spent.
And that Jeff Newman would never was Peter Waltham or Jeff.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Because fat cat couldn't do it, because so he couldn't.
Like he'd be taking red ones as well, he just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I would have eaten half of them if you
were the man for the job and you just eat
them all. And the thing that capped it off that
they told me as well was that Robert Holnes at
court so he sold the whole Beatles catalog except for
one song. And what he'd done he spoke to his
daughter Katherine. He said, Katherine, what's your favorite Beatles song?
And she said Penny Lane and he so he sold
(04:31):
every song except for Penny Lane. And so Catherine Homes
of Courts still Lane. Yeah, she still owns.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
She's got the loose change the information.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
This morning, mate, we.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Were going to talk to you about dinner disasters and dancing.
But that's way better.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we raised two point eight million. It was like
a record. Yeah, yeah, we two point eight million. You've
got to go back and watch. Peter Waltham tried and
because Molly came over and Molly had no clue how
Michael Jackson ended up in Perth at a telethon.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, the brown Smarties, I reckon, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Michael was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Time for your dad Vice Annie in Serpentine on The
text is on the do you to chat theme that
we've been on today and wants now, what do you
think is a good kitchen job to give your kids
when they're starting to learn to cook? Probably not anything
with knives? And what was the first thing did you
teach your kids to cook?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah? What about not knives? What about peelers? Would kids
be allowed to use pelers?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's a little bit safer.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, I would go potato peeling because that's pain
in the ass job.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
One of the hardest. One of the hardest jobs is
getting him to set the table. Yeah, that's a job
that I'm still trying to master with one of them. Yeah,
and we allow knives, got only butter knives.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And do you do it? Do you do spag bowl?
Do you have a way of doing spag bol Oh?
You guys like you have a special way of doing
spaghetti bolonnaise, Like you know, garlic and your onion, and you're.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Lots of garlic. I used three different types of mints,
and I had a couple of different cheeses.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, my wife's half Italian, so I don't even bother
to interfere yes.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But so she teaches the kids how to make spag bowls. Yeah,
because that's where.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's a good one interesting to teach them.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I count three three types of meats.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh yeah, you've got to have veal, pork, and beef.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's a good tip.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
She got that from watching Good Fellas.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm going to try that. My son hurt me the
other day when he said, Dad, you haven't really taught
me a lot. You know, dad's are supposed to teach that.
You know, there's sons a lot of stuff. I go, yeah,
it's like you haven't taught me how to shave. Oh,
so I'm doing that next time. I'm going to go
so because there is a skill to shaving isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
As you can see, I gave up.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But we all have electric ones. My spag bowls stories.
One day I wanted to make a pasta dish for
the kids and there was a bit of spaghetti fed
a chini penne, bit of spirals, so I thought, I'll
just put it all in the one bowl, a bit
of a medley, just absolutely backfive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
They all cook at different times, is that why we probably?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, but I think just getting them started on those
real basically, go and make yourself a sandwich, right, master that,
go and make now, go and make a toasted sandwich,
all right, Yeah, so you just take it level by
level by level, and now it's to the point where
my daughter cooks for herself.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You are a good dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well no, probably more her mum. But anyway, but it
does get a lot of crowded in the kitchen though,
if the timing is not right.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, that's My worst kitchen story was the smoothie incident,
as it's known.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It do take us out with the smooth.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Strawberries, banana yogurt, bit of milk, you know, you put
chucked it in and then of course I fired it
up before I put the lid back on the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Everywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It was on the dog, it was on the cupboards,
you're the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You're in no position to be teaching kids how to cook.
You can't give it smoothie.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then there's the popcorn story where I put it
on for five minutes, you know, the microwave popcorn and
it just almost caught on fire and set off the alarm,
the alarm and the and the smoke alarm, and in
the getchet because it would have known because you.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Lie down, you can't stand reading the instrum.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
There is how to do it on the packet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I was going to come back, you know, you
light and you're watching the footy and what the hell
is going on in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Anyway, so there's there's some bad chat advice.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Not to take from.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Annie. Good question.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Thank you, thank you very much
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