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September 17, 2025 • 34 mins

"Lisa & Russell opened the phones to hear about your biggest fines. Ben O’Shea dropped by to review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. Former INXS frontman JD Fortune is headed to Perth, he shared stories from his time with the band and his early days as an Elvis impersonator. Plus, Russell got candid about his step count and Lisa brought all the Hollywood goss in The Shaw Report.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christmine empowered by the iHeart app from ninety six AIRVM
to Whenever You're Listening Today.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Lisa and Russell's podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
On the podcast Today, j D Fortune, who became the
lead singer of in Excess after winning a singing reality show,
will join us. He's headed to Berth next month with
two Inexcess tribute shows. Here the full interview.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Russell shares how he and also producer Liz have been
getting in their steps lately.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's become a competition. Robert Irwin just performed his first
dance on the US version of Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's Thursday, so we opened the book of records and
looked for the person who has copped the biggest fine.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
And ben O'she reviews A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey that
stars Margo Robbie and Colin Farrell.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
And Season four of Morning Wars is just premiered on
Apple Plus yesterday, and at the same time, it was
announced the show has been renewed for season five.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
The Sure Report on ninety six.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
AIRVM Robert Irwin stole the show is Dancing with the
Stars kicked off its US season last night. Bindy's been there.
She won now it's Bob's turn. He jumped off a
car for his premiere dance. He did a jive which
he pulled off in his signature khaki pants. Along with
his pro partner Whitney Carson. The duo danced and none

(01:20):
other than Steppenwill's Born to Be Wild in his khaki
is well a khaki dance.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
He would have gone the John Travolta look.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
At least Baby Bob performed another jump over the top
of Carston as they dazzled the live audience.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Not to mention the judges.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
It was Robert Irwin and Whitney who crack and rolled, bringing.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
Down first dance I've ever seen on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
We cut the dancers on post shell highly.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
He did it incredible. I am so proud.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Every success on the dance law is all her fault.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Classic Baby Bob plague it down the other person, making
the other person the stars.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Why nobody will always be Baby Bob to me?

Speaker 4 (02:05):
You heard the judge there, Derek Huff calling the performance
probably the best first dance he's ever seen on the show.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Ever seen on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I just heard crocod twenty four seasons.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Good on your Baby Bob, Aerosmith has announced a new
collaborative EP with British singer Young Blood called One More Time.
It features the first new music from Aerosmith in thirteen years,
and the first single, which is called My Only Angel,
will come out tomorrow. Aerosmith and young Blood teamed up
for a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the Mtvvmas the

(02:37):
other week doing Crazy Train and Changes You May Recall,
and Paramount has dropped the first trailer today for a
documentary that follows the last six years of Ozzy Osbourne's life.
It starts with his devastating twenty nineteen fall.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Oh smut, he'd broken his neck.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
He comes out of surgery and he's far worse.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
So the tour that was.

Speaker 8 (03:01):
Really his biggest heartbreak.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
That was obviously Jack and the other one, the other one,
but also the last one there, Kelly, But the last
one there that was Amy, the you know, the not
so the.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
One, yeah, the one who didn't want to be a
part of the whole Osborne.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
So they're all in this, Sharon, of course.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Ozsie.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
No Escape from Now covers the cancelation of his farewell
tour after the fall, his battle with Parkinson's and other
health issues, as well as returning to the studio to
create new music. It also gives us a look at
his final time on stage at that Farewell concert, just
weeks before he died. It'll be out on Paramount Plus
on October seven, and season four of Morning Wars premiere

(03:42):
on Apple Plus yesterday, and they celebrated.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
You were just a little bit Did I notice a
little bit of excitement from you yesterday?

Speaker 8 (03:47):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Morning?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yes, I love a season premiere and we all were
very excited because we love Morning Wars. And they celebrated
by announcing it's been renewed again for season five, starring
for Aniston and Reese Witherspoon and John If you haven't
seen it, the drama series follows the major players at
a morning news show, My Last Sunrise and the network

(04:11):
that airs it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right, it's unusual for shows on streaming to last that long.
So it's it's it's doing very well. Have a habit
of cancing one you know them after one or.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Two ss well, they make quality shows and they you know,
they put everything into it and then it's done. But no,
this is and this is you know, it's it's developed
in its storyline well too, it's not you know, sometimes
you've you've jumped the shark.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
You'll have to sign up to Apple TV.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
I suggest you do because Apple TV has got well
for starters, It's got the Studio on it, which for
mine and obviously at the Emmys is the show of
the year, so you must see that. And it's got
Bad Sisters, which is another great show which also has
been canceled after two seats.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Seasons but as usually happen.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, check it out.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Apple TV is a big Apple plus from me.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, alright, great.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
The flick with Ben Ben takes it for.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
The Sometimes sometimes it's a good experience, sometimes not so good.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah, well this.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Time this time pretty good, pretty good. It's a big, bold,
beautiful journey. A long title for a film that only
goes for one hundred and nine.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Minutes, A lot of title.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Colin Farrell and our very own Margot Robbie, can I
give you a controversial take? Yeah, you know, I love Margot.
Don't get me wrong. I love Margot. I think she's fantastic.
She's a great cultural export for Australia and also a
powerhouse behind the camera as well. She's amazing.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Having said that, having said that, I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
She's necessarily an amazing actor.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think she's great.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
I think she's a good actor to me. To me,
it's like she's like Brad Pitt. You love to watch
their movies and you try and convince yourself that they're
serious actors, but then you know, maybe in the back
of your mind there's this nagging suspicion that maybe they're
actually not really the.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
Best movie star.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
The movie stars more than actors.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Not Daryl, not Daniel d Lewis, not Daniel Day. He's
an actor and actually's a brand.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Really yeah, And in a movie like this, which is
high concept, I'm just not sure that Margot Robbie is
the perfect person for this sort of movie. Colin Farrell,
on the other hand, I think is fantastic. It's a
wonderful he's a great actor, and you see him in
movies like The Lobster, which also has a high concept film.
It's not so suited. Odd is the perfect word.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
He is.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Odd himself said, And so I don't know if you
saw another film with Colin Farrell that was also a
bit odd, after Yang, which was where he was the
sort of the father and his family and the daughter's
having some problems, so they buy the door a techno sapien,
sort of an artificial human, and it's sort of an
it's very art support art house support robot. The robot

(06:55):
malfunctions and then it sort of goes from there. So
that was by this American Korean direct Coganada, and he
is the director of a big, bold, beautiful Journey. So
he's reunited with Colin Farrell. He knows that he can
do the quirky high concepts, the conceptual stuff. The difference
is that film was written by Coganata, who is a

(07:16):
real art house guy. He didn't write this one. This
one is written by the dude who wrote the Menu
that with rape Vines, who is.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
A chefs out.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
So straight away you've got a couple of really interesting
things about this movie. But and it's kind of a
bit like a poor man's Charlie Kaufman film. So we're
talking Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind adaptation being John Malkovich.
Those films where they're built around a concept that you
either have.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
To a brilliant you either have they're brilliant.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
This one's maybe not as good, but it relies on
you have to get on board with the premise right,
and if you can't, you're going to struggle. And in
this case, two strangers meet at a wedding and then
they go on this sort of mystical journey traveling sort
of through through the country side in this rental car
that has a sort of a supernatural GPS that tells
them in twenty nine miles turn left, and then they

(08:07):
end up in this paddock where there's a doorway just
sitting there in the pad, the middle of the paddock,
and they walk through the doorway and end up at
a moment in one or the other person's past, a
critical moment, so whether it was in Colin Farrell's case,
they go back to his high school when he was
performing in a musical, which is a big moment where
he said to the girl that he loved, that he
had feelings for and she knocked him back and then

(08:29):
he cried his eyes out. And in the case of Margot,
Robbie is going to the hospital on the day where
her mom died, so stuff like that. So they kind
of fall in love while they get to know each
other through their biggest hobital life from their past, which
you know, as a concept I don't mind it, but
it is very conceptual, and some bits work better than others.

(08:49):
You know, it kind of finds this sort of lands
in this awkward ground between some bits of realism some
bits of fantasy. It's sometimes a bit awkward putting the
two pieces together. But in saying that, Margot Robbie is
so likable, you know, it's it's just hard not to
warm to her on the screen. And Colin Farrell is
legitimately excellent in this movie. He is the He's the

(09:10):
person that really elevates it. There's nobody else really in
the film. Phoebe waller Bridge is and the great Kevin
Klein are the two widowers running the car rental agency.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well think a lot. It sounds like I might have
to think about.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Probably the issue with this film is it doesn't make
you think enough. So it's it's high concept but ultimately
probably a little bit superficial that you know, if you
found films like Being John Malkovich frustratingly confusing, this is
a sort of an entry level, entry level version, which
I think is there's something to be said for that.

(09:47):
And and the chemistry of the lead character lead actors
is great. It just maybe just maybe doesn't say very much.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Ultimately, how many How has Colin Farrell never won an Oscar's?

Speaker 6 (09:59):
I know, I don't think he has.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Are you giving it?

Speaker 5 (10:01):
I'm going to give it three?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Really solid okay, so really solid.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I like.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
And if you're looking for somebody to do for a
date night, go along worth okay.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Worth one hundred and nine minutes of your time.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah, I reckon it could have been fit, could have been,
could have been twenty minutes, could have been twenty minutes shorter,
one or two of the doors. I reckon that's.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, classic ninety minute.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Ninety ninety minute film would have been.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Brilliant, medium popcorn. All right, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
We'll send you to the movies again to pick something
else for us. More Lisa More Russell More Podcast Soon.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
JD.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Fortune is going to be playing in Excess on Saturday
October twenty five at the rose Mount Hotel and Frio
Social on Satday, October twenty six. Got to tell you
the Rosemant show is sold out, but you can get
tickets for the Frio Social show through metropolistouring dot com.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
And he's joining us right now.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Good morning, morning, JD. Good morning well, guys, very well,
all right we do this morning.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
Well right now I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada, and yeah,
things are things are good, you guys.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
And you're packing your bags right well, you're ready to
come and see us in Perth.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
All my bags are pave.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Been to Perth before. I know you've been to Broom,
But have you been to Perth?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Yes, I've been to Perth. In a funny story, the
last time I was in Perth, I was sitting next
to Tim Ferris on the on the airplane. Yeah, and
he said, it's been so long since I've been out here, mate,
It's been so long since I've been out here, mate.
He said, it's been years, like ten years since up
and out here mate. And I went, oh wow, He's

(11:39):
like we're from here, and I was like really. And
then we landed and we did our first interview and
they're like, so, Tim, you were here last year.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
For the thing.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
He's like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
That's what happens. That's life on that's life on the road.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, that's life on the road.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, it's actually it's good that you're coming back and
you're doing obviously the Rise Mount hotel. That's all that
you're doing the free O Sucia, because that's that's kind
of how it all began for in Excess here before
they were in Excess, when they were the Farris Brothers,
it was it was playing the pubs of w y
They probably played the rose Mount once or twice.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Oh yeah, I bet they have. And it was, you know,
a grind for them back then. But you know, they've
told me stories about just playing across Australia back in
the day when you know, Original Sin was like considered,
you know, a really risk song to play on stage,
you know, and I really felt that because you know,
I've I've been in situations before where you know, you're

(12:36):
not sure how it's gonna go over, you know, and
to have people that you might not like what you're
doing but also love what you're doing is kind of
a weird headspace to be in, Like we love the band,
just don't play that freakin song, you know what I mean?
Like you know, so, yeah, so I'm glad that we've
moved on and everybody's sort of like, you know, over

(12:59):
that you know kind of thing. But I can't wait
to get down there.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
There are cover bands that pretend to be in excess
and then they're are shows by the guy that was.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
In in excess. How does the show tell us about
the show?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
How does it work.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
I'm a legitimate band member, Yeah, yeah, former band member,
but legitimately co wrote their last original album with them,
which was a true blessing and an honor. Love Andrew.
I love everybody, but Andrew is an incredible, you know,
force to be reckoned with. And he's a genius. They're
all geniuses, but it was really nice to be involved

(13:34):
in the songwriting process. So I got to understand how
seriously they all took it, whereas you know, other bands
that I was in, you know, like I'd written a
couple of songs with Andrew and we'd go back and
forth with lyric ideas. But the other bands that I
was you know before in Excess, they're like, whatever, whatever
rhymes with June, just throw it in their spoon or

(13:55):
moon or whatever.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Just let's just yeah, it's not like that.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
I'm like, it makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, and it's.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Like he told me, tell me a very valuable lesson,
write a song that people can sing along to. That's
your biggest you know. And then and then and then
make it real and make it something that's special. So
that's uh, that's the lesson that I learned from Andrew
and in excess. And sorry, like I said, I didn't
know I was gonna have to put clothes on, so.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I thought, all right, at least it's a waist high
shot and he's got a T shirt on this orbit
matters were all right.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
You don't want to know what's going on down here,
and I can say.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
The same for you cats on Thursday here.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
So I've always wondered what it was like for you
to have to feel to fill the shoes of someone
like Michael Hutchins.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
He was so huge, so loved, such a rock star.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
It must have been I mean, it would have been
an offer you couldn't refuse.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
But at the same time, I'm incredibly daunting.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
Oh absolutely, yeah, Lisa. It's like it's like the dog
that catches the car then he's chasing down the street.
What do you do with it once you fight the tire?
What do you do with it once you've got the
tire in your mouth? Okay, you've made it this far,
mat Yeah, no, now what Yeah? And if you're not careful,

(15:22):
you're gonna get run over, so I had to approach it.
Uh yeah, when I don't think I've ever filled Michael's shoes.
I try my best just to be myself, which I
think is the essence of rock and roll, and the
act of music is be yourself. Leave leave yourself on stage.
That's what I've grown up with. Leave yourself on stage.
No one wants to see you pretend to be something.
And I've never pretended to be anything other than myself,

(15:44):
which has sort of sometimes gotten me into uh uh,
more trouble than I anticipated, but it also got me
out of that trouble because I'm just myself. And I think,
I think the reason why we all got along is
because there was a good natured vibe amongst all of
us and in excess, and we all were good natured people.
There's no maliciousness. There was nothing was ever malicious, and

(16:07):
I think, you know, and just speaking from previous experiences,
I've worked in situations where people are like malicious and
they're like, and how do you expect to be creative
when someone's, you know, trying to do that? So I
was really grateful for in access to just give me
the freedom to be myself. And when they did that,
it was like I finally caught the car, and now
we're going to drive it. Now you know what the

(16:27):
dog does, and he catches the car, he puts that
he puts that thing in overdrive and drives it down
the highway as fast as he can. That's me.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
I've had it. Some people may not know you you
were did a bit of Elvis impersonating in your in
your earlier years.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
Does that I wouldn't call it exactly impersonating my friend.
I wasn't that good. Like I said before, I'm about
as much as of an Elvis impersonator as Jamie Foxx
is a grig Charleston personal.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
But he was a great right, yea, he was great.

Speaker 7 (17:07):
But like I took dramatic arts in school, I took
you in school. I took acting in school, and it
was a gig that came along.

Speaker 9 (17:14):
Yeah, And like I worked with some real Elvis impersonators,
like guys that were twenty four to seven sideburns and
and you know, and and and they're from like they're
from Ireland.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
But they're like, hey man, you want to get in
a few Oh hey man, what happened? We're not gonna
go out and grab a few of sandwiches. Like that's
not your real voice. Like when they were out in public,
they were Elvis and and and it was like it
was weird, Like I had cyburns that I could like
take off at the end of the night because I
was acting in a role. And they were like living.

(17:47):
Have you met my wife?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Her name is Jenny, but I call her Scilla, And
I'm like Jesus man, and now your wife has to
be Priscilla, Like that's a bit heavy, dude, Like.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
For you, you couldn't get that follower man.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
I was working for a company out of Las Vegas
and uh, and then one in Toronto, and I got
to meet and it was always funny because we'd have
like the people that were just doing it as a gig.
We were musicians and singers and we needed work, and
we'd meet the people that were really like, you know,
I am Neil Diamond and you're like, no, you are not.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's the mind thing.

Speaker 10 (18:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
I'll tell you this quick story where I was working
with a guy named Dave. I won't give you his
last name data And Dave Batta was a Rod Stuart
impersonator and we were in Montreal, Canada, and he said,
after a show, Hey, uh, I've got reservations at this restaurant.
I think it was called Thirsty's or Thirstdays or something
like that, like as in like having a punt.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Anyway, we get there and it's like red carpet. I mean,
people are freaking out. They're taking photos, and he's dressed
with the Rod hair yeah, and he's got the glasses.
And in his defense, when he dressed like Rod Stewart,
he looked at the same stature. We get inside, people
are snapping photos. There's about six of us. We sat down,
we ordered a drink, and about ten minutes after we

(19:09):
got inside, the owner comes up and says, get up
out of here now, do not come back to my bar,
and we're like, what is happening. Come to find out,
he called the place and said I can get Rod
Stewart down there as himself, and I was like, okay, jeez, man,
show business is hard. So he pretended to be his

(19:30):
own manager who's managing Rod Stewart, and then pretended to
be Rod Stuart Dave. If you're listening, sorry, mate, but
you know you know the score.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Pussy absolutely so when you when you come to town next month. Obviously,
once again, rose Mount Hotel sold out freeo social on
the twenty sixth of our tickets still available through Metropolis
touring dot com. What's the range of inexcess songs that
you do? Are we talking right from the beginning through

(20:03):
to your time with Switch? I mean, basically, what's the
reports why I like?

Speaker 7 (20:07):
Well, I don't want to give too much away, Russ,
but it's touching on all of the peaks of where
the crew, Yeah, on the eras that when it started,
So you know, I don't want to give too much away,
but let's just say let's just say that Rise. Let's
just say you will not leave disappoint it and probably

(20:29):
more fulfilled because my whole mission. First of all, I
would love to get in access inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame here in North America. That'd
be amazing. I think they've deserved it for a long
time now. And secondly, if you're in the audience and
you buy a ticket, what you're going to see on
stage is a guy who loves those songs as much
as you do. And That's where I'm coming from. It
has nothing to do with like just just my experience

(20:50):
with them. My experience with them is you know, I
was three years old when they played their first gig. Yeah,
and so you know, by the time I was twelve,
I have been introduced to the band and to the
sound and have fallen in love with it ever since then.
And so it's my interpretation of everything that has happened

(21:10):
to lead me up to that. And I tell a
few anecdotes in the show, and and but we keep
it moving. It's not going to be like, oh this
guy is still talking, Holy jeez, come on.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Mine and what we will what we will get as
songs we can sing along.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
With absolutely just like and like he.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Said, all right, well, the tickets are for the Frio
Social Show through metropolistouring dot com. You're gonna have to
find someone who's got some tickets for the rose Mount show,
so if you can go with Yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Everybody over there, thank you, and thank you to.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
You guys, especially thank you to you guess this morning.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well I had to get dressed at some point.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
So.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
It's time.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
The day is just beginning.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
As you were now.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Thank you, bye, see you next month. Ja Lisa more
of Lisa and Muscle's podcast, It's on the way Suit.
We have a couple of producers here, Lisa obviously, Susie
and Liz, who we were introduced to yesterday. You may
remember Liz from yesterday morning's new segment The Life of Liz,

(22:18):
focusing on her adventures with Tinky the violent psychopathic that
she's supposedly looking at sitting, I should say, more likely
avoiding for her own health. But when we finished the
show yesterday, we were just doing some you know, some
sorting out some stuff after the show, and through the
studio glass I could see Liz just jogging up and
down on the spot.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
But not I mean jogging would look normal.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Liz was walking well.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
But she was lifting her knees up really high, like
it was very over emphasized.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
It was over.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
And I'm looking at going what the hell is she doing?
And then Susie comes on the intercom and go, I'm
getting Liz is getting her steps up. She's got to
get to ten thousand and steps. And I'm like, do
you have to do that? Do you have to jog
up and down on the spot at work?

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Step up and down?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
I don't need to do that. No, And I beat
ten thousand steps I was. I surprised a few people
about how many ideas I actually took a note. Yesterday
I did eleven thousand and forty one. Yeah, Tuesday I
did eleven thousand, three hundred and eighty three. Monday I
did eleven thousand, eight hundred and forty five.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Over achiever.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Big weekend Sunday sixteen thousand, six hundred and thirty nine.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Good heavens.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
But Saturday I kicked out, stepped out. Twenty four thousand,
two hundred and twelve. Do it steps? Just walking?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Walking?

Speaker 10 (23:43):
Where?

Speaker 6 (23:43):
What did you you have to walk home from?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I was into state and I didn't have a higher
car and was staying. Happens happens, So twenty four thousand,
that's not about it.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
But can I say what impresses me about your steps
is you haven't got a fitbit on your wrist. No,
you've got something that's on your phone in your pocket.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's the one that comes with the iPhones, just the apples,
so fitness.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Thing that that doesn't even count the steps that you're
doing when your phone's not in your pocket because it's
not attached to you.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Twenty four hours a day, not twenty.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Four hours a day. But you know when I walk around.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's I mean, I keep my sometimes, but sometimes it
won't be.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, sometimes it won't be. Yeah, so maybe I hit
thirty thousand.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
Here's the thing, though.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
You know a study came out a couple of weeks
ago that says you don't need to walk ten thousand steps.
Seven thousand will be sufficient. Ten thousand steps per day
has been widely recommended as the standard benchmark for physical activity,
but a new study from the University of Sydney suggests
seven thousand is enough to boost essential health markers.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
So that's all well and good, But they didn't see
me step on the scales a couple of weeks ago
and realized that I was the heaviest I'd been in
I think I worked it was it ten or twenty
years is a long time.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
So you know, there's one.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Step too many. You could do without that.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
That was that was the step I should never have taken.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
A step too far? Is the step onto the scales?

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Do you do you weigh yourself first thing in the morning,
stark ballocky naked after your bet to the toilet.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Sell do you.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Only and only there.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
And only once a week?

Speaker 4 (25:23):
You should only do it once a week, definitely, because
you're just asking you if you do that.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
On a Sunday. Oh yeah, yeah, on a Sunday like
you just pick. You said that you've got a constant marker.
But anyway, look after that one fateful step that I took,
I think there's a few more twenty four thousand step
days still ahead of me.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
I'm afraid all right, well seven will do. But can
we pass that seven information onto Liz?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
She will be through so that she does, because it
just looks weird, It just looks well. Wait, so I
think it's time to add another page to a big, bold,
beautiful book. Another record, incredible world records.

Speaker 10 (26:03):
Around Russell's Folk of records.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
We've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
We're building it. You'll find it at ninety six FM,
dot com dot are you.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
But we can't build it without you.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
We can't build it without you. Today, our entry is
the biggest fine you've copped. We want to find way's
biggest fine. Maybe it's the work swear ja maybe maybe, although.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
I think we can do bigger than that.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Oh maybe it was one of those Christmas double demerit
situations and you were doing one hundred and forty because
you were overtaking someone. I hang on that to me,
so first entry, no there was Luckily it was just
a white man on the side of the road.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
I thought I was done for.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Oh I spent four weeks waiting for this death notice
to come in the mail.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
Isn't that the work I did?

Speaker 3 (27:00):
It's the waiting. Did I did I not do? Is
it coming in the mail?

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Check a while now, so you know Andrew in Kelmscott,
good morning.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Good morning guys. How are you?

Speaker 6 (27:15):
What have you got for us?

Speaker 2 (27:17):
So? I'm an uber driver ride share driver. So I'm
heading down towards Channel seven studios and the red lights
really sensitive coming off the freeway ramp there. I had
a customer in the front seat, and I thought, I've
got this. I don't want to break card. None of
them hit the dash so big flash red light. Three

(27:37):
hundred dollars fine. A week and a half out from Christmas.
There goes my two cards of Heineken and Corona.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Because you were trying to save your passenger.

Speaker 10 (27:48):
I was trying to do the right thing, and I thought,
and there's so sensitive, like the slightest reaction there, and
I was devo just on my cards a bit that
I've Christmas week and a half out.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I've been done by that one. At least you had
a good reason for it. I have no reasons.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (28:09):
I got done going through a red light because I
thought the camera was for the red light, so I.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Sped up to get through.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
They're both both feed not for the red light.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
The kicker. The kicker, Lisa was the lady said I
think you've just been flashed.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
Oh no, yeah, Sherlock, and I thought I.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Kind of already knew that. And I thought, being a
ride shed driver, you know what the fines are. Yes,
a week and a half out from Christmas. The beer
just devastated me.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm sorry to hear that it's a three hundred dollars
fine in the uber.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
She should have paid her.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Thank you, Andrew, don't do it again.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Angela in Angela and Hocking, Hello morning, Angela good good.

Speaker 11 (29:00):
Mind's a bit of a tricky one. So what it was?
I got six demerit points for using the phone because
I was texting. But the reason behind it was that
it was supposed to be my day off. My boss
said that he was too busy to go and deliver
the clients all their bottles of booze, and I had
a trunqui full of curtains, like fifteen carton. And what

(29:21):
happened was I actually pulled up to a set of lights,
found out that he was actually too busy having a haircut. Yeah,
and so I started texting furiously. Didn't realize that there
was a copper standing next to the back of my door,
and he tried to open my passenger door. The lights changed.
I started taking off with the copper halfway through my door.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 11 (29:40):
Luckily I was going slowly, so he was like at
walking pace. So that was good.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Oh my gosh, it's like a friend.

Speaker 11 (29:49):
And yeah, I made my boss pay for the pine though.

Speaker 12 (29:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
So that was four hundred haircut.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
That was four hundred dollars, was it?

Speaker 11 (29:57):
Yeah, four hundred dollars back in the day, six doublets
and the cops. Sorry, I said, I don't even drinking.
I've got this bootle here.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Ah, so you're one hundred dollars in front. Now you're
in the league.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, Yeah, that's made a cop to pick him up,
drag him out. Dorothy in Rivervale on the text says,
both of my kids got to find because of a
kerfuffle in a mixed netball game ended up in court
and they got fined just under both of them got

(30:32):
fined just under two grand eas.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
Oh wow, quite the kerfuffle.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
That must have been like a truffle. It would have
been bibbs everywhere, attack over, Yes, a gold, No, it's expensive.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Lee in Bustleton had a shocking news day about a
years ago. Got pinned going out and then.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Still when Lee came home.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
So I got home e one hundred dollars and extra
merit points down. There's nothing worse than getting pinged going
and coming back, coming and going.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
I did that once on the freeway. I was, you
know the freeway.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
It sounds like I keep getting fine.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
It's not that bad.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
This is over.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
One day's going on, you know, early in the morning
to work on the freeway and got pinged by the
you know the fixed one.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yes, next day did it again.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
How stupid are you to get pinged by a fixed
camera two days in a row.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I don't know, Lisa, tell me how stupid are you?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
My dad would have called me a drongo, that's how stupid.
Melan Woodridge had never seen anything like this. Husband's a
rev head had his beloved SSV eight Commodore under you know,
undercover for a while, took it out obviously, had to
give it a bit of a test drive along the
Indian Ocean drive and no cars in sight, so got
it up to about movie one hundred and fort ish. Then,

(32:01):
of course there was the dreaded white van who put
the brakes on, but it colssed him a one hundred
and thirty nine.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
So we got a fourteen hundred dollar fine that day.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
See no one for a library card. Yet it all
seems to be hooning, including.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
You Nikki in Amlaalou.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
Hello, Hi the Hi You doing good? What did you get?

Speaker 8 (32:22):
I got a five hundred UIs dollar fine in Mozenbique
about twenty five years ago, wearing sunglasses, armed crop on
the side of the road. Pulled this over and decided
he he tech unbidge to the fact that we were
wearing sunglasses at Disney wasn't a lot, and took our

(32:43):
passports and red in the next couple of hours driving
around trying to find some bank or ATM or some
way of giving money, and ended up having to find
a very dodgy hotel to spend the night and because
it was too late to keep traveling.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
He obviously thought you looked He obviously thought you looked
a little shady.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Oh, I apologize, Sorry, had to be done.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Oh my god, you had to drive it around.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
I wouldn't be able to drive without my sunglasses in
a fish kills.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Me and five hundred US. That's nearly a grand in
our money, wows us.

Speaker 8 (33:21):
Yeah, and the partner I had at the time, and
I had such a huge fight apart we en could
have picking up that holiday and we thought all about
that fine. So it was a really extensive fine.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yes, good heavens, I think that would go in the
book of records.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Is the weirdest, the weirdest one.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
The strangest nine we've ever had.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
I think you'll get an asterisk inclusion in the book there, Nikki. Yeah,
thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 12 (33:45):
Nick.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
I bet the cop confiscated her, but he's wearing them
right now. All right, Last call, Steven orange Grove.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
What do you got for a Steve.

Speaker 12 (33:55):
I've got a bit of a boozy. But it's really bad.
My wife and I we had to close down our
little transport business that we had because the bills were
getting fairly high.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (34:07):
And after I closed down the business, the taxman sent
me a bill for sixty two thousand.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Dollars just to drive the knife in as they do,
no sixty two grand.

Speaker 12 (34:20):
Oh, yes, And we've been struggling to, you know, as
everyone knows nowadays, to catch up with all the accounts.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
But I feel sick for you, that's so.

Speaker 12 (34:31):
Ye. It's a bit of a saw point for my
wife and I, but we were planning along with it.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, I might earn you an entry in the I
don't think it's going to Russell Book of Records, if
that's any consolation. I don't know what it is. M.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
Russell ninety six FM
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