September 6, 2026 • 54 mins
Let's admit what we suck at, music producer Benny Blanco talks about finding 'The One' in Selena Gomez, James Reyne talks Australian Crawl's upcoming reunion, Riverside's great...but what about when it's not, the movies that hold up...and the ones that don't, Father's Day: The Wrap-Up, getting nightmares as an adult and our first Amazing Story with an incredible tale of weight loss...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Rob and Kevin Corio. It's On Demand, the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So I watched a movie, the original from 1998, because
the sequel is coming out tomorrow and I'm going to
go and see the sequel.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So I'm taking my sister and we were like, oh,
we better re-watch it just to make sure.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you what
I thought. But can you guys think of any movies,
you know, from Prince that held up and the ones
that haven't?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because actually the other day I was talking about,
Corey's never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Bueller.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I think it'd hold up, but I can't tell without you.
You almost need to re-watch it. I'll think of another
one at halftime.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 7 (00:37):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, you were going to kick us off.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 8 (00:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh, man, I've got so many things. I suck at planning.
I thought I'd planned something spectacular for us for Riverfire.
I thought I'd planned the perfect get in, get out
scenario with parking and everything. We were stuck for hours,
for hours. And I'll give the full details of it
later on because we're going to talk Riverfire, but But yeah,
(01:07):
it's safe to say I had at one stage set
up the car at a fold seats down so that
Raph could sleep in the back while we were stuck
in traffic.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Because we weren't moving. It was like safe for him
to have a sleep in the boot.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We were that stuck.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I sucked at planning.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay. Mind you, to be Fair River Far is a
tough ask.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
True.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's many variables that you cannot control. I'm just going
to go with the fact that you suck at not
mentioning that even though we talked about Father's Day and
you not going up or you chose at the time.
Speaker 8 (01:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Not to go up to the sunny coast.
Speaker 9 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You failed to mention it was also your sister's birthday.
Speaker 9 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh, I suck at sending my sister a birthday message.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I sent your sister a birthday message.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Did you really?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Okay, your mother put it up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
On social media saying that Father's Day and Lisa's birthday
are the same day.
Speaker 9 (02:08):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I meant to do it later.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was going to do it later. I saw Mum's message.
I was like, oh, I'll do that later. And I didn't. See,
I suck at that too.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
But Tegan knows I suck at that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Golf Central is what we're offering.
Speaker 10 (02:23):
131065.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
If you have a Whiteman moment, this is your permission
to suck.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Sal out of Kippering. Hey, Sal.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, guys. How are we going?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Great.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I've got a couple of things, really, but one of them,
I play the video game to my grandson, and I cannot,
for the life of me.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
Keep a car on the road. Like, I go off.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
The road, I end up, you know, all over the road,
I'm on the side, I'm crashing into the back of cars.
It's ridiculous. I'm a great driver in real life.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Video game.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
A joystick does not make us a wheel.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Does it, Sal?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Oh, it is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is this just, like, on the controller, Sal, or, like,
an actual joystick, like, console?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
No, no, you know, the actual controller is kind of
similar to a steering wheel, I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You can laugh at it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Did you say you had another one?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, I am so bad at remembering people's names.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh, me too.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I can answer the phone at work and someone's telling
me their full name and I've got to transfer it
and I go, oh, I've got.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Oh, hang on a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'll have to go back.
Speaker 11 (03:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Two seconds and I can't remember someone's name.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's fair. This might hurt me later on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Thank you, Sam.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I'm like kids at school and like parents.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Oh, parents.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Tegan will be talking about people.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And she'll mention these names. I'm like, oh, yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And she'll go, I'm like, I have no idea who
you're talking about. She said, we spoke to him yesterday.
And I went, yeah, nah.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
Yeah, nah.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
God, God.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, nah. Permission to suck, Catherine of Nunda.
Speaker 12 (04:06):
Okay, I thought I'd do the nice thing. They did
the Father's Day thing yesterday morning, so I thought I'd
take a couple of the grandkids out to the movies yesterday.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Oh, nice.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
So the fathers could go to Sydney later.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Is that anywhere?
Speaker 12 (04:22):
So what happened is that these are five-year-old kids. Well,
we went to the Paw Patrol movie thinking, oh, they're
going to love this, they're going to love every 10
minutes we were doing something else.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
What, they needed to leave and go to the toilet,
get popcorn?
Speaker 12 (04:40):
Yeah, but they couldn't go at the same time. We
had to come back, sit down for five minutes and
go back down again.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh, God.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
And I felt sorry for the people behind us. I
really did. So I apologise for everyone at Chermside yesterday.
That was me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That was you. That was you, babe.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So would you say, yeah, you're stuck looking after your grandkids?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
No. No.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
I'm going to the movies with them.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Specifically movies.
Speaker 11 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Or choice of, you know, things to do with them.
But you'll be an awesome grandmother, right, Catherine?
Speaker 12 (05:09):
I am the best grandmother.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Good on you. All grandmothers, all grandparents are.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Because they give them everything they want.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Greg had a newbie's permission to suck.
Speaker 13 (05:24):
How you going?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Hey, Craig.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Good, mate. What do you suck at?
Speaker 9 (05:27):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Okay, I suck really big. Okay? I've always told my
wife I actually wanted to be an airline pilot.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Anyway, I went and bought two RC planes.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And one was a normal plane and the other one
was a jet. I spent about $ 800 on them.
Speaker 13 (05:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And I reckon they lasted five and a half minutes.
Straight up, straight down. completely in pieces and I said
to my wife I'll have to go to Airline training school.
Definitely not. So anyway, I suck at flying.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, let's see how you know. You got to live
your dream. You bought the remote control planes and crashed them.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My old man could tell you the same thing. He
sucks at that because we went to one of those...
What are they on the weekend? What do you call them?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Like hobby rallies or something?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No, like where the stalls pop up randomly.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, like markets?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Yeah, markets.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We went to like a bush one.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
They're big ones. And he bought this like $ 1, 000 helicopter thing.
Speaker 13 (06:40):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And we get home. He's pumped. I unpack it. It
runs out of range.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Straight up.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Straight up. Straight down, broken. I think the only.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
One I ever bought is still in a gum tree
at Fig Tree Cockerels.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They're so difficult. I don't know how people do them.
Kelly out of North McLean.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
G'day, Kelly.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I have a real sweet tooth, so I suck at
being healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I know, babe.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I've got no willpower.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's why you're not meant to buy it, hey, Kelly?
Speaker 13 (07:18):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Just leave it at the store.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Exactly. And what about if you start healthy, like you
have a really clean dinner, and then about an hour
later you think, what's in that freezer? Well, you know,
you've got to do what.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
You've got to do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I cannot have chocolate in the house.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I know.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
My boyfriend came back from Belgium on the weekend and
he brought me, like, proper handmade Belgian chocolate.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I know, right?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You got some?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But I'm like, I'm just going to have one. They're
so delicious. Three quarters of the box is gone.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You just can't have it in the house.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
You can't.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
This is what I brought up with Tegan for.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Stop buying me chocolate. She said, you don't have to
eat it. I went, waste of money then.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Chris out of Wellington Point, permission to suck.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
Yeah, morning, guys.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I suck at dancing.
Speaker 13 (08:06):
I suck so bad that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
About 20 years ago, when I could first start going
clubbing for the first time, I thought, you know what?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I'm going to go to time zone, and I'm going
to learn how to dance on these stepping machines where
you've got to use the arrows.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
And then I thought I'd use those same moves.
Speaker 13 (08:21):
In the night club.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
How did that go for you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
In the nightclub going, step forward, left, left, left.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Step right, step back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love your commitment though, Chris. That is super cute.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I tried, I tried.
Speaker 14 (08:39):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Listen, I want to give it to Greg today, the pilot,
the future pilot. We haven't heard him before on the show. So, Greg,
we've got a Golf Central voucher for you, mate. Landers
Pocket Brisbane's newest voucher. Entertainment Precinct with Golf Central, the
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Speaker 2 (08:56):
Because all of us suck at that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes, but I'm glad you took out your pilot dreams
and crashed the plane. There was remote control.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is that a new one now?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No people in it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So if you want to be a pilot, go buy
remote control. A plane, if you crash that, you can't
fly a real one. Let it go.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Let it go.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, Benny Blanco. Now, if he's coming up on your
feed a lot, Alana in our newsroom just told me
it's because he has his house set up as Big
Brother where there are cameras everywhere and then he puts
out these constant reels and invites all his famous friends.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
To come into his house and, you know, they shoot
little bits of him being normal and then they're interesting
and so everyone shares them.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because Benny himself is one of the most successful producers
and co-writers of the biggest hits that we've heard in
the last decade.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Really?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So Katy Perry, he did California Girl's Teenage Dream. Britney
Spears was Circus. Kesha was TikTok. Selena Gomez, Same Old
Love and Bluest Flame. Ed Sheeran. was Castle on the
Hill and Happier. Justin Bieber, Love Yourself and Lonely. And Rihanna, Diamonds.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Such a great.
Speaker 14 (10:10):
Song.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So many hits, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I think the reason why he's so successful is
he gets to know the artists and she had to
leave and he said, can you just give me 10
more minutes? I think I've got an idea for a song.
She raced back in because the Uber was late and
they put down diamonds.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow. For people who don't know who Benny Blanco is,
because I don't, I looked him up. He looks like
Red Food.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Red Food. Yeah, he's kind of got a fro. He's
a white guy with a fro.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And he's always wearing, it looks like he's always wearing
a tracksuit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, he's a pretty laid back guy.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Looks like he belongs on the side busking.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
This is a guy that every celebrity loves. He's very,
very talented.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And for decades he could not find a partner.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And so he got onto the Mel Robbins podcast and
he was talking to her about how he went about
trying to find the perfect woman.
Speaker 14 (11:05):
I wrote a list with my therapist.
Speaker 15 (11:06):
I said, I really want to find the right partner
and I'm.
Speaker 14 (11:10):
Doing something wrong.
Speaker 15 (11:11):
I can't find the person that I'm going to spend
the rest of my life with. And I want to
do that. We came up with some guidelines and a list.
He said, I want you to write down what you
think your ideal partner should be.
Speaker 14 (11:22):
The first thing on my list was age appropriate.
Speaker 15 (11:25):
The second thing on my list was someone who's nice, nice, caring, compassionate,
like someone who's a nice person. Third thing on my
list was I wanted someone who woke up generally happy.
Speaker 14 (11:37):
I want a maturity there. I wanted someone.
Speaker 15 (11:39):
who had been to therapy like I have. So they
knew like, I don't like to yell. I'm not like
a yeller. Like I don't yell. There's not like yelling
going on in my house. And now in our house,
you know, and Selena is definitely not a yeller.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He's married to Selena Gomez. But if he went on
to say, and I think this is really important because
I think a lot of people settled.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So they go, oh, here's my list. You kind of
tick two out of the ten.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That'll do.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But it'll do?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And he says this.
Speaker 14 (12:08):
Here's what you need to do.
Speaker 15 (12:09):
For your sake and for their sake, cut off all
the people that don't make the list you're about to make.
I think you need to find someone that's both nice
to themselves and nice to you. I think you need
to find someone that you can imagine spending the rest of.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Your life with.
Speaker 15 (12:23):
You're essentially trying to find your best friend, okay? Can
you be fine staying home And not going out with
any of your friends and not having FOMO because you're
with the best person in the world.
Speaker 14 (12:35):
Because I know I can.
Speaker 15 (12:36):
So I think you have to find out the things
that are really important to you. And you do have
to stick to them. Because it's like sometimes it's easy
to be like, oh, well, I can just like this
situation's right here. I can just stick in this. And
a lot of people don't know their own worth.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Interesting though, right?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
It is, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I reckon the biggest reason why people don't move,
and this is an imperative, you have to be okay
to be alone.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Here's a question for you. If the whole world said,
I'm not going to settle, I'm just going to wait
for the perfect person, do you reckon how many people
would actually find someone? Everyone has to settle a bit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh, that's called compromise.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Because I've got a mate who will not settle and
he's now 40 something and he's still single and he
won't settle because he's got this thing and you're like,
you've got to settle a bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
For him to say that, has he ever been invited
on a boys trip, like golfing and all that? You
don't say no to that. You don't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay. Would he come on air with us? I'm just saying.
Would he give his list? I would love to talk
to someone who has that in their mind from a
male perspective.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'd love to find out.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Would he?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Or would he give you the list so that you
can tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Find out what the list is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He can remain anonymous that way.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm just super interested because my challenge would be right
back to him is, look at yourself first.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Because it's all about what he's looking.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
For, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
But look at you.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Maybe that's a new dating app, The List.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The list.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
These have all got your list.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's a good idea. Oh, there's so many things here.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Actually, that is a good app. If you have the
list and there's no matches unless everything on the list
is right, then it might take you ages to find someone.
There's none of this swiping right.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No one will find love on it because no.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
We could do a night where we set up the premises,
the list.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
The list.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And we put people together based on their list.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Their list.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Everyone's got to have all the tips.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know who your random bachelor friend is.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
But well done.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes. Okay, good.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, we're having the list night. Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's happening.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Rob and Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Another show's been announced, part of the Red Hot Summer
Tour with Aussie Crawl Men at Work on the River Stage.
That's happening on Friday, 20th of November. And there are
still a few tickets left to the Toowoomba Show, which
is on at Queen's Park on the 17th of October.
And we've had a bit of a chat with James Raine.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You are one of the icons of Australian music.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But what do you listen to? What do you like?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I listen to a lot of like old blues stuff.
But then when my daughter, which my daughter's like, she's 26,
but when she was younger, she would get in the car.
She'd commandeer the playlist in the car. And she'd play stuff.
Sometimes I'd go, hey, what's that?
Speaker 15 (15:20):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
So she would turn me on to a lot of stuff.
I'm now part of my kind of DNA. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Did she ever think you were cool?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
If she did, she'd never tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
She'd never tell me.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Is your dad ever cool?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Not really.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You'd never hear her belting out, the boys light up and... No,
we used.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
To have running family jokes about we'd be in the supermarket,
you know. peas and it would come on and I
can't stand it and I'd go.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Oh my God.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
So she'd laugh and then all I'd find embarrassing and
sing along loudly with it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Just walk it through all these.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Shut up. Shut up.
Speaker 13 (16:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Oh, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
When she grabs two packets of Tim Tams, don't be
so reckless.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
James, what has made you, I've seen you so many
times as a solo guy over the last couple, like decades.
What's made you put the band back together?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
I can't take credit for it. There was my manager, Scott,
a promoter called Dwayne McDonald. They all had this idea.
They said, do you reckon it's possible? They talked to
Simon Binks, who was the guitar player in the band,
and Simon was into it. Unfortunately, two of them aren't
with us anymore. And John Watson, who was the drummer
in the last four years of Australian Chord, plays drums
with me. So he was in it. And we thought, well, David,
(16:40):
my brother, was the original drummer, so David was into it,
and he's going to play some percussions.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Am I allowed to ask what What brought the band
to end? Like, you know, is there a reason or
was it just a.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, why did it just break up in the end?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Bands run their natural course and you spend your whole
life living in each other's pockets. Yeah. And you grow
up as human beings. You're a different person when you're 20,
when I was like 26 or 27 when the band finished.
So you change. But there was no big... I mean,
we've made a record. We paid for ourselves. The last
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record we made.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
It didn't work commercially.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
So we had a few debts. So we went on
the road for a year and a half to pay
off all the debts.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
And we had fun.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
That's one of those things that's really come back with music.
Like you were around at a time when pub music
and live music was absolutely out of control. I mean,
you must pinch yourself sometimes. You look back and a
lot of the– Like Midnight Early.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And like Boom Crash Opera, who are you going to
be doing this Red Hot Summer Tour with? Like the
pub band, the live music scene in Australia was so
healthy in the 80s. And I feel like it's not
so much pubs, but the touring scene is well and
truly back because it's the only way to really actually
make a living out of it, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, playing live is the only way to make a
living out of playing music. If you're a young band
building a career, you've just got to get out there
and play live.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, I remember Vance Joy, we spoke to him. He's
got like a billion streams. And it was like the
amount of zeros and the decimal points.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Would you make a hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was insane.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's really true. Looking at some of your early life,
like you were saying you grew up in Melbourne, but
you were born in Nigeria.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Yes, I was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So what was your family doing there and how old
when you came to Australia?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Well, my father had been in the Royal Marines. He
was an Englishman, and they met in Melbourne. He was
posted there. And he didn't want to be a career soldier,
so he left. They moved back to England. He got
the job with BP, which was petroleum, and was posted
to Nigeria. And while they were there, they had me
and my brother. And then they realized, you know what?
This is not a very safe place.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Let's move to Australia.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
So they came here, and we grew up in Australia.
And my sister and I were in Australia, and we
all grew up in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You don't know any Nigerian princes, do you? Because I've
got one who wants to send me $ 4 million. I
got an email about it the other day.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
You too?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes.
Speaker 14 (18:57):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
He's a generous guy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm giving him my account details.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
River Fire done and dusted for another year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Let's talk about the wonderful celebration that was for River Fire.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean, it is an extraordinary– My sister who was
up from Sydney, her partner works in pyrotechnics and he's
often done stuff on Sydney Harbour. And she said there
is no better location to see fireworks than Brisbane.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Because of the stretch of the river and the way
that we can have people getting vantage points all the
way along the river, plus up high. So you could
go to Mount Coot-tha and still see stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I saw, like, even as we were heading in, we
went past the Carina Bowls Club and it was heaving.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Like, it was so many people there because it's at
the top.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Of a hill.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So people just go there. There's all these different spots
all around Brizzy. You can check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I may have asked this before, but I don't care
if I have. What is River Fire? Why do we
do it?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Like.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Alana in the youth room has just covered her face
with her anus.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I know, but, like, why? Like, is it a celebration?
Speaker 11 (20:07):
I get it now, like, in the, like, that you've
followed the question up, but the initial fire, what?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No, like, why do we do it?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It is a firework show.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I know that. I... But, like, is there a celebration?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
So it kicks off Brisbane Festival, which is an arts
and culture festival.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's on right now.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
It's running until the 26th of September, and that's off
the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that's correct.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, it's a festival of Brisbane. It's an excitement.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
It's a festival of Brisbane. Also, 4,500 fireworks. I spoke
to Forge from the fireworks company.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's how many they fire off.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Months it takes for them to set it all up.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
The flyovers is probably– Possibly the best bit. That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
When those Hornets, is that what it was?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Super Hornets, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know. That scared me.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It was loud.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So powerful.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The Growler? The big one that came over? Like that
one I go, yeah, that goes into places like Nepal
and rescues people.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That other plane?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Not so much. The 100-metre-wide span plane flying through the city,
manoeuvring through buildings is safe. But the one that's tiny... Like,
you know, it's designed for that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I'm talking about what it's used for.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, but I'm just saying, like, that is what amazed me,
that big, massive plane maneuvering. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
Through buildings.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That is the coolest part.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I did have a moment with the Jets, though, and think, imagine, like,
it's so, like, for us, it's like, how cool is it?
But imagine being in a country where it's not cool.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The middle east.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Hearing that is terrifying.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It would be, like, the worst.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
What's that noise?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, we're sitting in a, like, we were in an
Uber at the time in a little Corolla going, oh,
this is crazy. Because we, so we stuffed it up.
And the City Cats... I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The City Cats, right? The City Cats, they ruined it
for everyone. Because we were going to take the City
Cat in, which we did last year, because we were
at South Bank. Channel 9 have their vantage point because
they telecast and they have a party there, which we've
been invited to, which is awesome. But getting in, so
I thought I had the master plan, which was a
mate of mine gets free parking at the casino. I
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think it's because he loses a lot of money. We
don't go into it. But he has free parking, and
he said, here, Use my park. I was like, this
is perfect. So I'm going to park there and with
Raph and Naomi, as Sienna said with Nanny Pearl, and
then we're going to walk across that bridge that's right
there at the casino. We'll walk over there to South Bank.
There we go.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We're up the top.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So we get there. We go in at 4 o'clock.
We leave at 4 in the afternoon. We know the
flyover's happening just after 5.
Speaker 15 (22:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Here we go. Everything's working great. We park. We land.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
We're walking.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Get to the bridge. In fact, we go, no, we're
not going to do the casino bridge. We're going to
go up further to the one that's up near the–
near the Maritime Museum.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I'm just googling what it's called because it's frustrating me.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Well, because it's closer to the Emporium where we're going
to be popping out.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
The Neville Bonner Bridge.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yes, right.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It's another footbridge. So we walk up to there, which
is about a 15-minute walk. No problems. A lot of
people getting their vantage points.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Get to the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Bridge at 4.20. Bridge is closed. Bridge is closed from
4 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, because they're using it to set fire. That's where
the river comes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They're going to have some fireworks on there.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you walk back.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So then we walk back. So now we're a half
hour on foot. With Rafi, who's seven. Get back to
the casino. That bridge closed also. Also closed.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Neville Bonham Bridge.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That one's closed.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you could have crossed it the first time.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Well, maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I think we would have maybe just missed that one
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No, they might have shut all the bridges at four.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They shut them all at four until eight, I think
it was. So now we're at the casino. So we're
on the wrong side of the river. At the casino,
which is heaving. There's people everywhere. So now we're getting
an Uber from the casino to South Bank.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You're nice.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Which is much further from where if we'd just gone
from home. And so we got an Uber. That's when
we got the flyover was inside the Uber. Like we're watching,
you know, we're trying to wind down the windows in
the Corolla.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You could not have done that worse.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And then just to really top it off, that's how
we had to get home. We had to then walk
across those bridges amongst all the people, get to the casino,
which then the car park and the casino... We took
a full hour to get out of the car park,
and we waited an hour before we walked back to
try and let people clear. So Raph ended up– I
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ended up folding down the seats at the back of
the Tez, and he had to sleep in the tray, basically.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Without you moving.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, we just didn't move at all.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean, think about the times that you've been stuck
in human– Mass.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Like trying to get out of something.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like State of Origin on Caxton Street.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
When, you know, it's a Queensland game and everyone's leaving.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
There's no cabs.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That would have to be. I reckon River Fire was
up there with the worst.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I've got one.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And it's the last place you'd ever think you'd be
stuck for an hour.
Speaker 15 (24:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Let's come back with that.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And whatever you've got, wherever you've been stuck.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
In humanity.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
In humanity.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Oh, the humanity.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
131065.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So river fires over again for another year. And without
the ferries, without the city cats running, there was 27,000
extra people that had to find a different way in
and out.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's so wrong. And it was terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The traffic was just so bad for everyone. It's always bad,
but it was worse than ever. But we want to
talk about times that you've been stuck. just for whatever reason.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Where was yours?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Mine was just, it was silly. So at Seabus, the
other weekend when myself and Renaud went and watched Jai
for the 99th game.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's the footy stadium, Gold Coast.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
At Gold Coast? Yeah. Now, the worst stadium to get
in and out.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Of, okay?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Like, just horrible. But, so we got a car parked
there just through a few people that Renaud knew. And,
you know, we go in there. He gets, like, swarmed
the whole game. like signing stuff, photos. So then as
we're watching, we go, you know, about 15 to go,
we'll start heading out and try and beat everyone. And
we did that, right? Right. Got in the car. There
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would have been at least 10 minutes left in the game.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Sweet.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All good. And there's two traffic dudes there at the
bollards where they close them off for the road and
then they usually open them so you can leave and go.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We jump in the car, get out, and there's four
cars waiting. I'm like, okay, sweet. Open them.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Not opening the bollards. They're just sitting there talking. No
people walking out of the stadium at this time.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (26:23):
Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No one.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So for pedestrian safety. There's no full traffic.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Mind you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They don't allow people out.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
One hour and 15 minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Whoa.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
We sat there and I was, I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I understand. I was 40 minutes in and I went around,
I'm done. I'm on the horn.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And I was just, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
There's nothing embarrassing about that for Paul Reynolds.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
No, but I don't care that people, I'm like, I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Isn't that Adam Reynolds from the book?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Isn't that a good fella? There's no reason to not
let us out.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Did you get out?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, and you know what I did?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I went in the window down and went past, said,
is this not an exit?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I was off it because I'm sick of it.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Let us go.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
There were people beeping the horn in that casino car
park on Saturday. I was like, but who are you
beeping at?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Where are we.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Going to go?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Hello, Alicia of Crestmeet.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Hi, how are you? Sorry, guys, fighting with my little one.
I work at 1 Williams Street. I didn't go this year.
I gave my tickets away, but the last two years...
One year I was actually able to get the, my
boss gave me his car park at 1 William Street
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because my mum doesn't walk very far.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
And there's like a little baby loop road that just
runs around the building of 1 William Street. It took
me one hour to get out of the car park
and get around that little loop. And then it was
straight onto the motorway and it was straight home. But
that little loop took me one hour.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
What do you reckon it is, like 200, 300 metres?
Speaker 10 (27:59):
Yeah, not even that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
And just a bit of a side story as well.
I remember Robyn... Excuse me, Arlo, please stop. Robyn was
saying that he was... I love your child. Sorry, my
son is so excited.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, tell me what your son's name is.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
My son is named Arlo and we're just sitting here
at Before School Care.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And how old is Arlo?
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Arlo has just turned seven.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Okay. Well, Arlo, sit quietly so we can hear Mummy.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Um.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
In 2000, and it was either 2013, 14, or 15,
I didn't really know much about river fire. And, Robin,
you were saying how you were scared. I was at work,
and I heard that. And I honestly thought, oh, my God,
you know, the run, like the bomb run. So I did.
I dove under the desk.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I covered my.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Head, and everyone was laughing at me. And still to
this day, I think about it. I was at work
the other day when they were doing the big jet flyover.
They were having the practice runs. And I'm laughing to
myself and everyone's like, what are you laughing at? And
I told them the story. So, of course, they were
all laughing. But every year I think of it because
it really freaks me out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You thought we were under attack. You thought.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Fair enough.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Fair enough, Alicia. Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Bread of Woodridge. Where have you been stuck in humanity?
Speaker 13 (29:20):
Okay, so I was at a Kylie Minogue concert at–
Boondall Entertainment Centre.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
It was the last night and it just was all
jammed up. It felt like hours getting out there.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Actually, the Kylie Minogue concert at Cirume, it was a
mud bath.
Speaker 13 (29:39):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You should have seen the drag queens trying to get out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
In the heels.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It was so bad. And Emily out of Heritage Park.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
How are you?
Speaker 11 (29:52):
Good.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
When were you stuck?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Well, you guys were so kind to let me win
a double pass to Harry Styles down at Seabus.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And I took my twins there, and the drop-off was.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Excuse the word, but shit show. But pick up, I
reckon we.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Were in traffic just around the stadium.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
For two and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
And then try and find two 17-year-olds in a mass.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Of like a gazillion people.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, no, that would be tough.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
And then I had to drive home to Browns Plains.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Oh, gosh.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
That's a shocker.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
They do need to fix that seat bus up, though.
They've got to do something. That's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Well, we promised these tickets, so let's give it to Alex,
who's got a little.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Alicia.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
Alicia, was it?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, the one with Arlo in the car.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, the one with Arlo in the car, who was
so well behaved after we asked him to be.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
He was.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You did well. You put on your mum voice. He
would have been like, what the fuck? So a double
pass to Dinosaur World, which is Dinosaur World Live, a
rawsome family adventure. You can book at dinosaurworldlive.com.au.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates. In the morning.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Halfway through the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So, yeah, movies. There are some movies that become iconic,
like Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like that still holds even though it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I go Jurassic Park straight away.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I've seen the musical, strangely.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
But not the movie. Weird, weird, weird. I'm Jurassic Park
every day of the week. I think that holds up forever.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
The original is great.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Original Beetlejuice, no, never, not once.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
No way.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
No.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Star Wars, I think.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I think the effects in it are.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, I prefer them to the digital effects.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
Really?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It felt realer because they were real. They were walking
amongst them. The actors weren't pretending to be standing next
to a giant thing.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, you're a Star Wars geek. You are a die-hard.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Star Wars fan, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
They got worse as they went on, all of them.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Do you reckon Terminator holds up, stuff like that?
Speaker 8 (31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, I reckon Rocky.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I mean, the premise of Terminator is coming so true
with AI.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I just thought of a really good one. Armageddon, the
first one. It was late 90s. Yeah. I liked it.
I can still watch it, weirdly enough.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Wasn't that the one where Liz Tyler, is it Ben Affleck?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And right at the end, I don't want to miss it.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And then they're walking out of the- Yeah. Ridiculous premise
of this, right? Let's just break this down for a second.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
The premise is they get a bunch of guys that
are good at drilling, right? Because they're going to go
and drill to blow up the astronaut.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
In the mines, it's easier for them to learn to
become astronauts, which takes so many years to learn.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'm sure they fast forward a few things.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Instead of learning, instead of getting astronauts to learn to
do drilling, which I'd imagine you could learn in about
three months, they get drillers to learn to become.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Astronauts and send them to space. Well, apart from the
time frame, I feel like when they got there, the
way they act is 100% the way you'd act.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
He takes a biggie out of it the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
So Practical Magic 2 is kicking off tomorrow night, the
Brisbane premiere, and it'll come out this week. And Nicole Kidman,
Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So I watched the original with Stockard Channing and Diane
Wise as well as Nicole. I don't know any of
those names. Oh, you do.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
You do.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You would recognise their face.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Stockard Channing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Stockard is a person?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah. She was in Grease.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Stockard Channing. Who was she in Grease?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She was, oh, gosh, the one who has the abortion
and look at me.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The one with the squeaky voice?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Rizzo.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Rizzo.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The squeaky voice chick, yeah?
Speaker 11 (33:35):
Okay, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Isn't that her?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
No, Rizzo.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Remember Rizzo?
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
My Lord.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Her name's Stockard.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, Stockard Channing. She's amazing. Anyway, I rewatched it and
it holds.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It's a dark movie, I've got to say. There's a
fair bit of witchy and woo-woo.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So, yeah, so it's, but I reckon it's going to
be good. The only thing that's going to bother me,
and I know it's going to bother me, is Nicole
Kidman's face now.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Ah, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
But she's had so much work.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Maybe she did a spell. She did a still spell.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Yeah, true.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I mean, it'd be interesting to see Sandra Bullock too.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
This'll test, yeah? Shawshank Redemption?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I think Shawshank could hold up.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Why?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Because the story's good. It's good. What, you reckon Shawshank's
not going to hold up? I know, I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'm just going through some absolute perler of movies.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, see?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I reckon you get two sides of this.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And can I tell you, this will be funny because
I don't even know what I'm going to do, but
the theme for the Queensland premiere of Practical Magic 2 is,
what is it? Witch couture. Oh, no, coven couture.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Coven couture. Oh, I don't know what that even means.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I know, wear black.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And put a pointy hat on.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Why don't you say that then?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Go full witch hat.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Why don't they just go wear dark?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You know what would be cool if you took a
cat You know, because witches famously have cats. Take a
cat with you. They love being out for an outing.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
On a leash.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
That would work.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
She'd be so angry and uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
This is.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
My accessory cat.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now, the weekend just passed. We had Father's Day again.
So we spoke a bit about in the lead up
to Father's Day. Is that a surprise for you, Kip? Honestly,
it was just like any other day for me. I
don't know about you, Corey, but for me, Sunday, I
woke up. I went downstairs. There's a pandemonium going on
between Sienna and Raph. They were arguing about something, and
Naomi was busy wrangling them, and so I just... I
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just made us all waffles. There was no breakfast in bed,
which I don't want anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And honestly, it's best for everyone if I make breakfast.
I know that I'm going to do it properly and
everyone's going to get fed. Nothing's going to get burnt.
It's for the best.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Are you talking yourself into this?
Speaker 8 (35:52):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Because it was Father's Day?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
No, I was just like, let's just do this. And
then we went up to the Sunshine Coast to see
my dad and my brother. So the kids all got
to hang out with the cousins and stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And did you see your sister?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
No, she's away. She's overseas at the moment.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Because Kip discovered this morning, thanks to me, that yesterday
was his sister's birthday.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
She's overseas, so you can say, oh, time difference. Yeah,
time difference.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, see, it's your birthday here today.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Try that, buddy.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'll try that. The fact that we're ahead of everyone
else in the world.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It doesn't help.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Sure, go for it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It doesn't help. I can't believe you sent her a
message as well.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I sent your sister a message for her birthday.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
That makes me feel worse.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
See, Robert should do it on your behalf too. You
should have. From all of us here at Kiss 97.3,
including your brother.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That is not going to fly, buddy.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
So what did you, did the kids, did you get
woken up with anything special, Corey?
Speaker 13 (36:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Well, Monty was awake first. She always gets so excited.
She even woke up and said, I just like, she
went back to bed. Well, went back in her room.
As soon as she heard me get up, which I'm
always first up. She walks out and she goes, I
just get so excited. I love waking up first on
birthdays and Father's Day and Mother's Day. That's the only
time she loves waking up first.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And so did she go into the kitchen?
Speaker 8 (37:04):
What did she do?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
No, no, no. Well, she just came in our room
and Tegan was like, go back to bed.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
She was tired.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yeah, it was like 5.30, 6 o'clock.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Anyway, so I get up with her and we just
hang out and play some games, waiting for Hux and
Tegan to get up and open the presents. So, you know,
the day started nice. Anything good? Well, I got some
new cologne.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Now, for people that don't know, Corey Oates is a
really big cologne guy.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Love cologne.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Love me cologne. And has like 15 bottles of cologne.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I've got 11. I've got 11.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Just 11.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Such a big time for it.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So that started great. Monty got me this cup. Best
dad ever. And she got it. It's a work cup,
she said. So I bought the work.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So you won it again.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
You won the best dad ever again.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Well done. Looking at him right here. Huxley made me
a cooking apron.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
He made you an apron.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Well, it was just a black apron where he painted it.
And Tegan said it took three sets of clothes, that apron.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Three sets of his clothes.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
His clothes.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Were destroyed in making that apron.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Apron, yeah. So I got all the kids' presents and notes.
And then let's just say the day went pretty normal
for a Sunday. So we moved house. So we thought
we'd get some new couches and wrong size. We measured
them and thought we'd just check. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Wrong.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So we had to then go back. Sorry, before that,
I washed the dogs. And washing the dogs, for me,
is like having a bath. I got soaked, covered in
dog hair.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
So it smelled great, awesome for the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So you could match it with your client.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
I did the dog.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Because we ordered the wrong size cat, had to go
back to the cat shop, spent two hours there. And then, anyway,
went to Tegan's parents for dinner with everyone and hanging
out with the in-laws. Yeah, having a good time.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Do you call your dad? Does he get a phone call, FaceTime, something?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, we spoke to all the dads in the morning
and the granddads.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Anyway, leaving, picking up because Marlon's 12. He's a big boy.
Can't jump as good as he used to. pick him up, bang,
headbutts me, splits me lip.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
He's a rock wheel of cross, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
He's a big boy. He's about 40 kegs. And because
he's 12, I'm like, mate, you'll probably hurt yourself. He
hasn't got the leap like he used to, just like me, actually.
Can't jump. And yeah, so I've got a great lip
for the next probably four or five days.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You've got a split lip.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, it's a great day.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
You got everything you wanted there.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Robin, Keith and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, so let's just quickly go around the room. With
you or your children, how many of them have night terrors?
Because it's about 10%.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So between all of us, we should have at least
a couple of kids that have.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Did you? Is that when they yell out?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, like it's like sleepwalking. They kind of live in
this different world, but the night terrors are specifically yelling.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Monty used to just get out of bed and walk in.
She goes, I had a nightmare. But, like, you didn't
hear anything.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Nothing about it.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
Nah. Huxton.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I don't know. He just yells out. It's almost like someone's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Just talking?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Someone's like kicked the footy away from him or something.
I don't know. He hasn't had any like that for
a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We heard one on the baby monitor that made us laugh.
Rafi spoke. I think he's okay, but Sienna, our two-year-old,
had a nightmare, if you missed this earlier in the show,
where it was obviously in her nightmare, somebody wasn't letting
her have a turn on something because she's just gone,
it's my turn, and then cried and that woke her up.
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So her nightmare was not having a go on the swings.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Said every youngest child on the planet.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
So does that bode poorly? Do you reckon it's going
to be more?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Well, here's the thing. I didn't realise this and I
was just Googling. So up to 10% of young kids
have it. And I said, well, what about adults? And
I don't know. I posted on our group chat that
my eldest son was playing in a rugby game with
with his work colleagues, dislocated his finger. And all I
get is a photo going, yeah, dislocated my finger, popped
(41:10):
it back in and I'm back on. And I went, okay, mate.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So I thought it was fine, right?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
But yesterday for Father's Day, we had this beautiful picnic
in New Farm Park with pizzas and everyone brought an
Esky and we just hung out for a couple of hours.
And I was seeing Finn with his finger and, you know,
he's got a brace and he's got to talk.
Speaker 7 (41:30):
To a doctor.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It's actually broken. It's broken. Yeah, you either break them
or you tear ligaments when you dislocate them.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
So possibly playing on wasn't the smartest move.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
But, you know, he's really committed to his workplace and
he wanted to do that anyway. But his girlfriend told
me that he woke up with a night terror.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Oh, and is he 25?
Speaker 13 (41:48):
26.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
26 and he's having night terrors?
Speaker 6 (41:51):
I know. And I'm like, what?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
And she's going, that's probably the codeine.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Or painkillers.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I've had an instance. Hasn't happened in a long time,
but I think I was about 20. I don't know,
it was probably my eighth surgery at the time, but
I had back-to-back shoulder surgery and wrist surgeries two years
in a row, just opposite sides, worst timing ever. Anyway,
and I used to like love getting knocked out all
night because it's so painful when you've got a wrist
cast and your shoulder just had been done. So like
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trying to sleep is uncomfy. And I remember timing, I'd
have two endone, no, two targen, which were long lasting,
and then about half an hour later, I'd have two endone.
Speaker 9 (42:29):
Right.
Speaker 7 (42:30):
Keep it off your train.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
I'd sleep nine hours, eight hours, and it was comfortable,
which was what I wanted because it was so uncomfortable.
And I remember one night, I must have just mistimed
it or miscalculated, and I thought I had Scream, you
know the mask, Scream mask?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Oh, yeah, the white mask.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
The actual scary movie?
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Running through the house I was in.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That's what you thought was happening.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
And for five minutes, I was petrified. And then I went, oh, no, no,
I know what's going on here. He's not real.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
That guy's not real that I'm pointing at.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
And I'm like, okay, maybe I had too many.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Okay, children, do not do.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
This at home.
Speaker 8 (43:10):
No, do not.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Painkillers. But that happened once and I went, oh, wow, okay. Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Time to pull the brakes.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Fire out. And I thought it was a screamer. I'll probably...
Probably scared.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Let's just go back to Sienna.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
It's my turn.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Amazing stories. If you've got one for us, you can
go to our website, kiss97. com. au, because we'd love to hear
what you've been through, what you've done.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yes, and we've been told that this is an absolute
cracker to kick us off. Hello, Phil of Callum Vale.
Speaker 9 (43:53):
Hey, how are you going?
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Hey, Phil. Good, mate.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So what is your amazing story? What have you done?
Speaker 9 (43:58):
I used to weigh 360 kilos and dropped about 180
to 200 kilos.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (44:07):
It was big. To be fair, I am six foot
seven and a giant build.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Phil, how did you get there?
Speaker 9 (44:13):
I really don't know because it never really affected my life.
Everyone always goes, oh, you.
Speaker 8 (44:17):
Know, could you do this?
Speaker 9 (44:18):
Could you do that? I'm like, yeah, I can do everything. Like,
you know, we'd go out and do like a 10K
walk around the city or explore somewhere and I'd always
do it. Like, it would kill me, but I'd always
do it. I think I was just eating incredibly poor
food all right okay a lot of like those little
microwave lasagnas and like the stuff you can chuck in
the oven like like that's what I mean it's not
(44:40):
necessarily like I was going out and eat mac is
in case yeah it was just like not healthy food
and and also like you know I think probably I
wasn't moving around that much and.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
So what happened what was the moment when you're 360
kilos and what was the moment you decided to change.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
Things So it wasn't necessarily even a decision. I've always
been like pretty competitive. Like, you know, like you talk
to your friends and we, I had a bunch of
mates that went to the gym. We used to just
sit there and drink pre-workout and just sit at home.
Speaker 8 (45:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So you'd have a pre-workout, but then not work out.
Speaker 9 (45:13):
Yeah, exactly. Because I thought it was fun. My friend
who loved the gym, who'd been going for like 10 years,
was like, you should come to the gym. And if
you work out on pre-workout, it gets really strong. I'm like, oh,
that sounds fun. We went to the gym. And, you know,
when you're a big guy, you always think you're strong.
We went to the gym, and this guy was so
much stronger than me, it wasn't even funny.
Speaker 13 (45:35):
Right.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
I'm talking like I was struggling to do basic lifts.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (45:39):
And something in my head just went... nah, I can
do this. Like literally that was the exact, I remember
it so clearly. And I just started smashing weights. Like so,
so much surpassed him in about six months. And then
I was like, oh, I'm actually pretty strong. And I
just sort of kept going and going and going.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I'm guessing a man that weighs 360 kilograms is aware
of how he moves through the world. So are you
telling me it didn't bother you?
Speaker 9 (46:13):
I grew up sort of pretty charismatic, pretty popular, didn't
really have people necessarily ragging on me so much growing up.
I played in bands my whole life. I got lucky
and joined a band, did a whole bunch of international
touring for like 10 years. It was never really like
something that was holding me back from doing anything.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
What about flying, Phil? When you weigh that much, how
do you fly?
Speaker 9 (46:38):
Flying still sucks.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
It still sucks because your legs are so long.
Speaker 9 (46:43):
Yeah. Look, flying's not great.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
But when you're 360, I mean, what are you doing?
Can you get away with one seat?
Speaker 9 (46:50):
Yes, depending on the airline, like specific airlines, I would
definitely choose to fly.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
There must have been a point in which the weight
started to come off.
Speaker 9 (46:59):
Well, I remember when I first started doing that, I
started to sort of lose a little bit of weight because,
you know, obviously you start going to the gym, you
start paying for it, like, I'm going to make the
most of it, weigh yourself, do this. When I was
going through school too, I finished a chefing degree, so
I was like, I can cook, I can do this,
I can make this boring food easy. And just for
three years, ate nothing but steak and broccolini.
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (47:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
For three years? For three years. For three years, every
single meal.
Speaker 7 (47:27):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
This was the kicker. You know, like when you start working,
I start losing weight. I had a picture in my
head of what I was going to look like at
the end of it. I was like, you know, I'm
going to look like a movie star. If you just
keep putting in work and putting in work and putting
in work, obviously you're going to get to that level, right?
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (47:45):
This was about the two and a half year mark.
I dropped down to maybe like 175. So half. I
was getting really sick. I was getting really like just
like depleted, no energy, no nothing. Went to the doctor
and the doctor like gave me a scan and went
over everything and goes, I don't know what you've been doing,
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but he's like, you are malnourished. I was eating a
thousand calories a day for three years where I should
have been eating 4,000 calories a day.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Tell me about how your family's response to you as
a 360K man versus someone who's lost half that weight.
Speaker 9 (48:21):
I guess my parents were pretty happy that I started
losing weight. My dad passed away probably about a year
into it, so he didn't really see too much. Then
my mum also passed away probably about two and a
half years into it, but she saw when I was quite,
I guess, the smaller size that I was.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Mate, what you've achieved, I mean, I'd say 0.0001% of
people for a whole bunch of reasons from.
You know, just the willpower to like just the health,
the absolute belligerence that you have that is required and
you're so kind of like it's not a big deal.
(48:58):
Like I think you're extraordinary. Have the doctors told you
whether you've increased your life expectancy?
Speaker 9 (49:04):
Um, no, they didn't. The one thing I did go
and do was a DEXA scan. I don't know if
you know what that is. Yeah, body compositions.
Speaker 8 (49:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
My lean mass was 145 kilos.
Speaker 13 (49:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
So, yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:20):
I feel like I've gotten it down to a pretty
happy point.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So now you've got to a point, a doctor has
told you that you are malnourished, so you've clearly got
to stop the weight loss journey as it is. But
to lose that amount of weight.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
even if.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
You've done it slowly, you would have had an extraordinary
amount of skin.
Speaker 8 (49:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (49:42):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
So what happened to that?
Speaker 9 (49:47):
So just a narrow background, when I left that doctor's appointment,
he's like, you're done. He's like, you're done because you
can't lose any more weight. I remember I was saying
like I thought I was going to look like a
movie star. And I came home and looked at myself
in the mirror and just cried because Because I was like,
I put in so much work and so much effort
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and this is the outcome. It never even crossed my
mind that I wasn't going to look the way I
wanted to look. When mum was sick, she was in
hospital and we were talking about it and she's like,
when I die, I'm going to leave you some money.
I want you to go and get your skin surgery. Because,
you know, it's tens of thousands of dollars. It is
not cheap. I need it a lot.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So give me the stats.
Speaker 9 (50:31):
So I had two operations. The first one, they cut
off 18 kilos of skin.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Holy cow.
Speaker 9 (50:40):
I ended up with 1,800 stitches. It was about six
and a half foot of scars. And when I was
getting the operation done, obviously I had a budget that
I needed to stick to and And half of the
surgery is anesthetic. So I was like, just get it
all done, do it all. And my surgeon's like, no, no, no,
you can't do that. And stupid me, 25 years old going, no,
(51:03):
it's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Just do it.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
It's all good.
Speaker 9 (51:05):
Oh my goodness. It was rough. I was in the
hospital for a month. I like, honestly, my brain is
blocked out about a three month segment of my life.
It was so traumatic.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Did you feel, I mean, I guess it took so
long to recover that it'd be hard. It wasn't like
a next day thing, but just dropping 18 kilos from
one surgery. How different did that feel?
Speaker 9 (51:24):
Honestly like i was so out of it you don't
know that then that was the other thing because i
was such an odd size and like i mean like
i'm a big guy but i had a lot of
muscle and like a lot of skin so a lot
of fat cells and whatnot anesthetic works differently in every
person when i was talking to the anesthesiologist he was
like oh you know this is this anyway i don't
know if you've been put under for anything but usually
(51:45):
you bounce back in an hour or two like you
wake up you're all good i woke up And I
was so groggy for about four days after this. And
the anesthesiologist came and saw me the next day. And
he's like, how are you feeling? I'm like, oh, honestly,
pretty rough. He goes, oh, you know, it was a
bit touch and go there for a second. What? And
we're like, what?
Speaker 3 (52:05):
What?
Speaker 9 (52:06):
And he goes, oh, well, he goes, honestly, we've never
done anyone your size before, so there was like a
bit of guesswork to it.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Well, you've got to get out. It's about how much
anesthetic they put in.
Speaker 9 (52:16):
Well, he told me he gave me four times the
normal amount.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
Yikes. It's all about your heart rate. So they're watching everything, right?
And if certain things drop, they've got to give you
more and more and more.
Speaker 9 (52:26):
Yeah. And he did not want you to wake up.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
And that's the stuff that killed Michael Jackson, right? That's
the same gear, far out.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
So, Phil, for a guy who was not, Desperately unhappy
at 360 kilos. And now what do you weigh now?
Speaker 9 (52:43):
About 180.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Was it worth it?
Speaker 9 (52:47):
Oh, without question.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
And why?
Speaker 9 (52:50):
I can go to the shops and buy clothes. I
can fit in the majority of cars.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Okay. And then my final question is, because people will
be listening to this and thinking, I want what he's got.
I want to be able to do what he's done.
Three things, three tips.
Speaker 9 (53:08):
No one wants to go to the gym and just
sit on a treadmill. You can lose weight doing weights.
As long as you do lots of reps, lots of sets, whatever,
it's way more fun and it shreds weight off you.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:23):
Second thing is healthy food is very tasty.
Speaker 14 (53:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:30):
And I know, like, maybe someone doesn't know how to
cook or whatnot, but, I mean, people always go, I
can't eat this. I can't eat this. It's like you
can eat that. It's really easy. You just eat it.
Speaker 8 (53:39):
Right.
Speaker 9 (53:40):
And the third tip, like you're saying, is just be tenacious.
It is one of those really frustrating things that there's
no instant gratification when it comes to it. It is
just genuinely consistency, consistency, consistency.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
That is an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
That's incredible, man. Well done. That's unreal.
Speaker 9 (54:00):
Cheers, guys.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
Do you need anything in.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
Your life at the moment, Phil? Like a couple of
hundred bucks?
Speaker 9 (54:05):
I think I'm not going to say no to a
couple of hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (54:10):
$ 250.
Speaker 8 (54:10):
$ 250.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Sorted.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Actually, we'll give you how much weight you lost.
Speaker 1 (54:13):
How much did you lose?
Speaker 9 (54:16):
About 180, 200 kilos.
Speaker 13 (54:16):
Okay, $ 250.
Speaker 8 (54:17):
$ 250.
Speaker 9 (54:17):
We'll round it up to $ 250.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
I like $ 250.
Speaker 6 (54:19):
Sounds better.
Speaker 9 (54:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (54:23):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
It's Rob and Kevin Corio. It's On Demand, the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So I watched a movie, the original from 1998, because
the sequel is coming out tomorrow and I'm going to
go and see the sequel.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So I'm taking my sister and we were like, oh,
we better re-watch it just to make sure.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you what
I thought. But can you guys think of any movies,
you know, from Prince that held up and the ones
that haven't?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because actually the other day I was talking about,
Corey's never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Bueller.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I think it'd hold up, but I can't tell without you.
You almost need to re-watch it. I'll think of another
one at halftime.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 7 (00:37):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, you were going to kick us off.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 8 (00:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh, man, I've got so many things. I suck at planning.
I thought I'd planned something spectacular for us for Riverfire.
I thought I'd planned the perfect get in, get out
scenario with parking and everything. We were stuck for hours,
for hours. And I'll give the full details of it
later on because we're going to talk Riverfire, but But yeah,
(01:07):
it's safe to say I had at one stage set
up the car at a fold seats down so that
Raph could sleep in the back while we were stuck
in traffic.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Because we weren't moving. It was like safe for him
to have a sleep in the boot.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We were that stuck.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I sucked at planning.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay. Mind you, to be Fair River Far is a
tough ask.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
True.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's many variables that you cannot control. I'm just going
to go with the fact that you suck at not
mentioning that even though we talked about Father's Day and
you not going up or you chose at the time.
Speaker 8 (01:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Not to go up to the sunny coast.
Speaker 9 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You failed to mention it was also your sister's birthday.
Speaker 9 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh, I suck at sending my sister a birthday message.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I sent your sister a birthday message.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Did you really?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Okay, your mother put it up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
On social media saying that Father's Day and Lisa's birthday
are the same day.
Speaker 9 (02:08):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I meant to do it later.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was going to do it later. I saw Mum's message.
I was like, oh, I'll do that later. And I didn't. See,
I suck at that too.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
But Tegan knows I suck at that.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Golf Central is what we're offering.
Speaker 10 (02:23):
131065.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
If you have a Whiteman moment, this is your permission
to suck.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Sal out of Kippering. Hey, Sal.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, guys. How are we going?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Great.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I've got a couple of things, really, but one of them,
I play the video game to my grandson, and I cannot,
for the life of me.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
Keep a car on the road. Like, I go off.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
The road, I end up, you know, all over the road,
I'm on the side, I'm crashing into the back of cars.
It's ridiculous. I'm a great driver in real life.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Video game.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
A joystick does not make us a wheel.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Does it, Sal?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Oh, it is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is this just, like, on the controller, Sal, or, like,
an actual joystick, like, console?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
No, no, you know, the actual controller is kind of
similar to a steering wheel, I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You can laugh at it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Did you say you had another one?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, I am so bad at remembering people's names.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh, me too.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I can answer the phone at work and someone's telling
me their full name and I've got to transfer it
and I go, oh, I've got.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Oh, hang on a minute.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'll have to go back.
Speaker 11 (03:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Two seconds and I can't remember someone's name.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's fair. This might hurt me later on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Thank you, Sam.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I'm like kids at school and like parents.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Oh, parents.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Tegan will be talking about people.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And she'll mention these names. I'm like, oh, yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And she'll go, I'm like, I have no idea who
you're talking about. She said, we spoke to him yesterday.
And I went, yeah, nah.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
Yeah, nah.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
God, God.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, nah. Permission to suck, Catherine of Nunda.
Speaker 12 (04:06):
Okay, I thought I'd do the nice thing. They did
the Father's Day thing yesterday morning, so I thought I'd
take a couple of the grandkids out to the movies yesterday.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Oh, nice.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
So the fathers could go to Sydney later.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Is that anywhere?
Speaker 12 (04:22):
So what happened is that these are five-year-old kids. Well,
we went to the Paw Patrol movie thinking, oh, they're
going to love this, they're going to love every 10
minutes we were doing something else.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
What, they needed to leave and go to the toilet,
get popcorn?
Speaker 12 (04:40):
Yeah, but they couldn't go at the same time. We
had to come back, sit down for five minutes and
go back down again.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Oh, God.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
And I felt sorry for the people behind us. I
really did. So I apologise for everyone at Chermside yesterday.
That was me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That was you. That was you, babe.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So would you say, yeah, you're stuck looking after your grandkids?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
No. No.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
I'm going to the movies with them.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Specifically movies.
Speaker 11 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Or choice of, you know, things to do with them.
But you'll be an awesome grandmother, right, Catherine?
Speaker 12 (05:09):
I am the best grandmother.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Good on you. All grandmothers, all grandparents are.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Because they give them everything they want.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Greg had a newbie's permission to suck.
Speaker 13 (05:24):
How you going?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Hey, Craig.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Good, mate. What do you suck at?
Speaker 9 (05:27):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Okay, I suck really big. Okay? I've always told my
wife I actually wanted to be an airline pilot.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Anyway, I went and bought two RC planes.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And one was a normal plane and the other one
was a jet. I spent about $ 800 on them.
Speaker 13 (05:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And I reckon they lasted five and a half minutes.
Straight up, straight down. completely in pieces and I said
to my wife I'll have to go to Airline training school.
Definitely not. So anyway, I suck at flying.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, let's see how you know. You got to live
your dream. You bought the remote control planes and crashed them.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My old man could tell you the same thing. He
sucks at that because we went to one of those...
What are they on the weekend? What do you call them?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Like hobby rallies or something?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No, like where the stalls pop up randomly.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, like markets?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Yeah, markets.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We went to like a bush one.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
They're big ones. And he bought this like $ 1, 000 helicopter thing.
Speaker 13 (06:40):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And we get home. He's pumped. I unpack it. It
runs out of range.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Straight up.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Straight up. Straight down, broken. I think the only.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
One I ever bought is still in a gum tree
at Fig Tree Cockerels.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They're so difficult. I don't know how people do them.
Kelly out of North McLean.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
G'day, Kelly.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What do you suck at?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I have a real sweet tooth, so I suck at
being healthy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I know, babe.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I've got no willpower.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's why you're not meant to buy it, hey, Kelly?
Speaker 13 (07:18):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Just leave it at the store.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Exactly. And what about if you start healthy, like you
have a really clean dinner, and then about an hour
later you think, what's in that freezer? Well, you know,
you've got to do what.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
You've got to do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I cannot have chocolate in the house.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I know.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
My boyfriend came back from Belgium on the weekend and
he brought me, like, proper handmade Belgian chocolate.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I know, right?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You got some?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But I'm like, I'm just going to have one. They're
so delicious. Three quarters of the box is gone.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You just can't have it in the house.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
You can't.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
This is what I brought up with Tegan for.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Stop buying me chocolate. She said, you don't have to
eat it. I went, waste of money then.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Chris out of Wellington Point, permission to suck.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
Yeah, morning, guys.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I suck at dancing.
Speaker 13 (08:06):
I suck so bad that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
About 20 years ago, when I could first start going
clubbing for the first time, I thought, you know what?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I'm going to go to time zone, and I'm going
to learn how to dance on these stepping machines where
you've got to use the arrows.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
And then I thought I'd use those same moves.
Speaker 13 (08:21):
In the night club.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
How did that go for you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
In the nightclub going, step forward, left, left, left.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Step right, step back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love your commitment though, Chris. That is super cute.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I tried, I tried.
Speaker 14 (08:39):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Listen, I want to give it to Greg today, the pilot,
the future pilot. We haven't heard him before on the show. So, Greg,
we've got a Golf Central voucher for you, mate. Landers
Pocket Brisbane's newest voucher. Entertainment Precinct with Golf Central, the
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Speaker 2 (08:56):
Because all of us suck at that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes, but I'm glad you took out your pilot dreams
and crashed the plane. There was remote control.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is that a new one now?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No people in it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So if you want to be a pilot, go buy
remote control. A plane, if you crash that, you can't
fly a real one. Let it go.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Let it go.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, Benny Blanco. Now, if he's coming up on your
feed a lot, Alana in our newsroom just told me
it's because he has his house set up as Big
Brother where there are cameras everywhere and then he puts
out these constant reels and invites all his famous friends.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
To come into his house and, you know, they shoot
little bits of him being normal and then they're interesting
and so everyone shares them.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because Benny himself is one of the most successful producers
and co-writers of the biggest hits that we've heard in
the last decade.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Really?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So Katy Perry, he did California Girl's Teenage Dream. Britney
Spears was Circus. Kesha was TikTok. Selena Gomez, Same Old
Love and Bluest Flame. Ed Sheeran. was Castle on the
Hill and Happier. Justin Bieber, Love Yourself and Lonely. And Rihanna, Diamonds.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Such a great.
Speaker 14 (10:10):
Song.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So many hits, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I think the reason why he's so successful is
he gets to know the artists and she had to
leave and he said, can you just give me 10
more minutes? I think I've got an idea for a song.
She raced back in because the Uber was late and
they put down diamonds.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow. For people who don't know who Benny Blanco is,
because I don't, I looked him up. He looks like
Red Food.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Red Food. Yeah, he's kind of got a fro. He's
a white guy with a fro.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And he's always wearing, it looks like he's always wearing
a tracksuit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, he's a pretty laid back guy.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Looks like he belongs on the side busking.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
This is a guy that every celebrity loves. He's very,
very talented.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And for decades he could not find a partner.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And so he got onto the Mel Robbins podcast and
he was talking to her about how he went about
trying to find the perfect woman.
Speaker 14 (11:05):
I wrote a list with my therapist.
Speaker 15 (11:06):
I said, I really want to find the right partner
and I'm.
Speaker 14 (11:10):
Doing something wrong.
Speaker 15 (11:11):
I can't find the person that I'm going to spend
the rest of my life with. And I want to
do that. We came up with some guidelines and a list.
He said, I want you to write down what you
think your ideal partner should be.
Speaker 14 (11:22):
The first thing on my list was age appropriate.
Speaker 15 (11:25):
The second thing on my list was someone who's nice, nice, caring, compassionate,
like someone who's a nice person. Third thing on my
list was I wanted someone who woke up generally happy.
Speaker 14 (11:37):
I want a maturity there. I wanted someone.
Speaker 15 (11:39):
who had been to therapy like I have. So they
knew like, I don't like to yell. I'm not like
a yeller. Like I don't yell. There's not like yelling
going on in my house. And now in our house,
you know, and Selena is definitely not a yeller.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He's married to Selena Gomez. But if he went on
to say, and I think this is really important because
I think a lot of people settled.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So they go, oh, here's my list. You kind of
tick two out of the ten.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That'll do.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But it'll do?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And he says this.
Speaker 14 (12:08):
Here's what you need to do.
Speaker 15 (12:09):
For your sake and for their sake, cut off all
the people that don't make the list you're about to make.
I think you need to find someone that's both nice
to themselves and nice to you. I think you need
to find someone that you can imagine spending the rest of.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Your life with.
Speaker 15 (12:23):
You're essentially trying to find your best friend, okay? Can
you be fine staying home And not going out with
any of your friends and not having FOMO because you're
with the best person in the world.
Speaker 14 (12:35):
Because I know I can.
Speaker 15 (12:36):
So I think you have to find out the things
that are really important to you. And you do have
to stick to them. Because it's like sometimes it's easy
to be like, oh, well, I can just like this
situation's right here. I can just stick in this. And
a lot of people don't know their own worth.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Interesting though, right?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
It is, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I reckon the biggest reason why people don't move,
and this is an imperative, you have to be okay
to be alone.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Here's a question for you. If the whole world said,
I'm not going to settle, I'm just going to wait
for the perfect person, do you reckon how many people
would actually find someone? Everyone has to settle a bit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh, that's called compromise.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Because I've got a mate who will not settle and
he's now 40 something and he's still single and he
won't settle because he's got this thing and you're like,
you've got to settle a bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
For him to say that, has he ever been invited
on a boys trip, like golfing and all that? You
don't say no to that. You don't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay. Would he come on air with us? I'm just saying.
Would he give his list? I would love to talk
to someone who has that in their mind from a
male perspective.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'd love to find out.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Would he?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Or would he give you the list so that you
can tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Find out what the list is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He can remain anonymous that way.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm just super interested because my challenge would be right
back to him is, look at yourself first.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Because it's all about what he's looking.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
For, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
But look at you.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Maybe that's a new dating app, The List.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The list.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
These have all got your list.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's a good idea. Oh, there's so many things here.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Actually, that is a good app. If you have the
list and there's no matches unless everything on the list
is right, then it might take you ages to find someone.
There's none of this swiping right.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No one will find love on it because no.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
We could do a night where we set up the premises,
the list.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
The list.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And we put people together based on their list.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Their list.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Everyone's got to have all the tips.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know who your random bachelor friend is.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
But well done.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes. Okay, good.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, we're having the list night. Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's happening.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Rob and Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Another show's been announced, part of the Red Hot Summer
Tour with Aussie Crawl Men at Work on the River Stage.
That's happening on Friday, 20th of November. And there are
still a few tickets left to the Toowoomba Show, which
is on at Queen's Park on the 17th of October.
And we've had a bit of a chat with James Raine.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You are one of the icons of Australian music.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But what do you listen to? What do you like?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I listen to a lot of like old blues stuff.
But then when my daughter, which my daughter's like, she's 26,
but when she was younger, she would get in the car.
She'd commandeer the playlist in the car. And she'd play stuff.
Sometimes I'd go, hey, what's that?
Speaker 15 (15:20):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
So she would turn me on to a lot of stuff.
I'm now part of my kind of DNA. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Did she ever think you were cool?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
If she did, she'd never tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
She'd never tell me.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Is your dad ever cool?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Not really.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You'd never hear her belting out, the boys light up and... No,
we used.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
To have running family jokes about we'd be in the supermarket,
you know. peas and it would come on and I
can't stand it and I'd go.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Oh my God.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
So she'd laugh and then all I'd find embarrassing and
sing along loudly with it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Just walk it through all these.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Shut up. Shut up.
Speaker 13 (16:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Oh, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
When she grabs two packets of Tim Tams, don't be
so reckless.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
James, what has made you, I've seen you so many
times as a solo guy over the last couple, like decades.
What's made you put the band back together?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
I can't take credit for it. There was my manager, Scott,
a promoter called Dwayne McDonald. They all had this idea.
They said, do you reckon it's possible? They talked to
Simon Binks, who was the guitar player in the band,
and Simon was into it. Unfortunately, two of them aren't
with us anymore. And John Watson, who was the drummer
in the last four years of Australian Chord, plays drums
with me. So he was in it. And we thought, well, David,
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my brother, was the original drummer, so David was into it,
and he's going to play some percussions.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Am I allowed to ask what What brought the band
to end? Like, you know, is there a reason or
was it just a.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, why did it just break up in the end?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Bands run their natural course and you spend your whole
life living in each other's pockets. Yeah. And you grow
up as human beings. You're a different person when you're 20,
when I was like 26 or 27 when the band finished.
So you change. But there was no big... I mean,
we've made a record. We paid for ourselves. The last
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record we made.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
It didn't work commercially.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
So we had a few debts. So we went on
the road for a year and a half to pay
off all the debts.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
And we had fun.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
That's one of those things that's really come back with music.
Like you were around at a time when pub music
and live music was absolutely out of control. I mean,
you must pinch yourself sometimes. You look back and a
lot of the– Like Midnight Early.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And like Boom Crash Opera, who are you going to
be doing this Red Hot Summer Tour with? Like the
pub band, the live music scene in Australia was so
healthy in the 80s. And I feel like it's not
so much pubs, but the touring scene is well and
truly back because it's the only way to really actually
make a living out of it, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, playing live is the only way to make a
living out of playing music. If you're a young band
building a career, you've just got to get out there
and play live.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, I remember Vance Joy, we spoke to him. He's
got like a billion streams. And it was like the
amount of zeros and the decimal points.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Would you make a hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was insane.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's really true. Looking at some of your early life,
like you were saying you grew up in Melbourne, but
you were born in Nigeria.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Yes, I was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So what was your family doing there and how old
when you came to Australia?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Well, my father had been in the Royal Marines. He
was an Englishman, and they met in Melbourne. He was
posted there. And he didn't want to be a career soldier,
so he left. They moved back to England. He got
the job with BP, which was petroleum, and was posted
to Nigeria. And while they were there, they had me
and my brother. And then they realized, you know what?
This is not a very safe place.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Let's move to Australia.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
So they came here, and we grew up in Australia.
And my sister and I were in Australia, and we
all grew up in Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You don't know any Nigerian princes, do you? Because I've
got one who wants to send me $ 4 million. I
got an email about it the other day.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
You too?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yes.
Speaker 14 (18:57):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
He's a generous guy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm giving him my account details.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
River Fire done and dusted for another year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Let's talk about the wonderful celebration that was for River Fire.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean, it is an extraordinary– My sister who was
up from Sydney, her partner works in pyrotechnics and he's
often done stuff on Sydney Harbour. And she said there
is no better location to see fireworks than Brisbane.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Because of the stretch of the river and the way
that we can have people getting vantage points all the
way along the river, plus up high. So you could
go to Mount Coot-tha and still see stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I saw, like, even as we were heading in, we
went past the Carina Bowls Club and it was heaving.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Like, it was so many people there because it's at
the top.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Of a hill.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So people just go there. There's all these different spots
all around Brizzy. You can check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I may have asked this before, but I don't care
if I have. What is River Fire? Why do we
do it?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Like.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Alana in the youth room has just covered her face
with her anus.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I know, but, like, why? Like, is it a celebration?
Speaker 11 (20:07):
I get it now, like, in the, like, that you've
followed the question up, but the initial fire, what?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No, like, why do we do it?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It is a firework show.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I know that. I... But, like, is there a celebration?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
So it kicks off Brisbane Festival, which is an arts
and culture festival.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's on right now.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
It's running until the 26th of September, and that's off
the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that's correct.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, it's a festival of Brisbane. It's an excitement.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
It's a festival of Brisbane. Also, 4,500 fireworks. I spoke
to Forge from the fireworks company.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's how many they fire off.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Months it takes for them to set it all up.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
The flyovers is probably– Possibly the best bit. That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
When those Hornets, is that what it was?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Super Hornets, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know. That scared me.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It was loud.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So powerful.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The Growler? The big one that came over? Like that
one I go, yeah, that goes into places like Nepal
and rescues people.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That other plane?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Not so much. The 100-metre-wide span plane flying through the city,
manoeuvring through buildings is safe. But the one that's tiny... Like,
you know, it's designed for that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I'm talking about what it's used for.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, but I'm just saying, like, that is what amazed me,
that big, massive plane maneuvering. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
Through buildings.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That is the coolest part.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I did have a moment with the Jets, though, and think, imagine, like,
it's so, like, for us, it's like, how cool is it?
But imagine being in a country where it's not cool.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The middle east.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Hearing that is terrifying.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It would be, like, the worst.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
What's that noise?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, we're sitting in a, like, we were in an
Uber at the time in a little Corolla going, oh,
this is crazy. Because we, so we stuffed it up.
And the City Cats... I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The City Cats, right? The City Cats, they ruined it
for everyone. Because we were going to take the City
Cat in, which we did last year, because we were
at South Bank. Channel 9 have their vantage point because
they telecast and they have a party there, which we've
been invited to, which is awesome. But getting in, so
I thought I had the master plan, which was a
mate of mine gets free parking at the casino. I
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think it's because he loses a lot of money. We
don't go into it. But he has free parking, and
he said, here, Use my park. I was like, this
is perfect. So I'm going to park there and with
Raph and Naomi, as Sienna said with Nanny Pearl, and
then we're going to walk across that bridge that's right
there at the casino. We'll walk over there to South Bank.
There we go.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We're up the top.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So we get there. We go in at 4 o'clock.
We leave at 4 in the afternoon. We know the
flyover's happening just after 5.
Speaker 15 (22:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Here we go. Everything's working great. We park. We land.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
We're walking.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Get to the bridge. In fact, we go, no, we're
not going to do the casino bridge. We're going to
go up further to the one that's up near the–
near the Maritime Museum.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I'm just googling what it's called because it's frustrating me.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Well, because it's closer to the Emporium where we're going
to be popping out.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
The Neville Bonner Bridge.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yes, right.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It's another footbridge. So we walk up to there, which
is about a 15-minute walk. No problems. A lot of
people getting their vantage points.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Get to the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Bridge at 4.20. Bridge is closed. Bridge is closed from
4 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, because they're using it to set fire. That's where
the river comes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They're going to have some fireworks on there.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you walk back.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So then we walk back. So now we're a half
hour on foot. With Rafi, who's seven. Get back to
the casino. That bridge closed also. Also closed.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Neville Bonham Bridge.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That one's closed.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So you could have crossed it the first time.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Well, maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I think we would have maybe just missed that one
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No, they might have shut all the bridges at four.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They shut them all at four until eight, I think
it was. So now we're at the casino. So we're
on the wrong side of the river. At the casino,
which is heaving. There's people everywhere. So now we're getting
an Uber from the casino to South Bank.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You're nice.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Which is much further from where if we'd just gone
from home. And so we got an Uber. That's when
we got the flyover was inside the Uber. Like we're watching,
you know, we're trying to wind down the windows in
the Corolla.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You could not have done that worse.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And then just to really top it off, that's how
we had to get home. We had to then walk
across those bridges amongst all the people, get to the casino,
which then the car park and the casino... We took
a full hour to get out of the car park,
and we waited an hour before we walked back to
try and let people clear. So Raph ended up– I
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ended up folding down the seats at the back of
the Tez, and he had to sleep in the tray, basically.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Without you moving.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, we just didn't move at all.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean, think about the times that you've been stuck
in human– Mass.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Like trying to get out of something.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like State of Origin on Caxton Street.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
When, you know, it's a Queensland game and everyone's leaving.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
There's no cabs.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That would have to be. I reckon River Fire was
up there with the worst.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I've got one.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And it's the last place you'd ever think you'd be
stuck for an hour.
Speaker 15 (24:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Let's come back with that.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And whatever you've got, wherever you've been stuck.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
In humanity.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
In humanity.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Oh, the humanity.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
131065.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So river fires over again for another year. And without
the ferries, without the city cats running, there was 27,000
extra people that had to find a different way in
and out.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's so wrong. And it was terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The traffic was just so bad for everyone. It's always bad,
but it was worse than ever. But we want to
talk about times that you've been stuck. just for whatever reason.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Where was yours?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Mine was just, it was silly. So at Seabus, the
other weekend when myself and Renaud went and watched Jai
for the 99th game.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's the footy stadium, Gold Coast.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
At Gold Coast? Yeah. Now, the worst stadium to get
in and out.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Of, okay?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Like, just horrible. But, so we got a car parked
there just through a few people that Renaud knew. And,
you know, we go in there. He gets, like, swarmed
the whole game. like signing stuff, photos. So then as
we're watching, we go, you know, about 15 to go,
we'll start heading out and try and beat everyone. And
we did that, right? Right. Got in the car. There
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would have been at least 10 minutes left in the game.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Sweet.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All good. And there's two traffic dudes there at the
bollards where they close them off for the road and
then they usually open them so you can leave and go.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We jump in the car, get out, and there's four
cars waiting. I'm like, okay, sweet. Open them.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Not opening the bollards. They're just sitting there talking. No
people walking out of the stadium at this time.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (26:23):
Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No one.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So for pedestrian safety. There's no full traffic.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Mind you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They don't allow people out.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
One hour and 15 minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Whoa.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
We sat there and I was, I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I understand. I was 40 minutes in and I went around,
I'm done. I'm on the horn.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
And I was just, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
There's nothing embarrassing about that for Paul Reynolds.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
No, but I don't care that people, I'm like, I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Isn't that Adam Reynolds from the book?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Isn't that a good fella? There's no reason to not
let us out.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Did you get out?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, and you know what I did?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I went in the window down and went past, said,
is this not an exit?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I was off it because I'm sick of it.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Let us go.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
There were people beeping the horn in that casino car
park on Saturday. I was like, but who are you
beeping at?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Where are we.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Going to go?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Hello, Alicia of Crestmeet.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Hi, how are you? Sorry, guys, fighting with my little one.
I work at 1 Williams Street. I didn't go this year.
I gave my tickets away, but the last two years...
One year I was actually able to get the, my
boss gave me his car park at 1 William Street
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because my mum doesn't walk very far.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
And there's like a little baby loop road that just
runs around the building of 1 William Street. It took
me one hour to get out of the car park
and get around that little loop. And then it was
straight onto the motorway and it was straight home. But
that little loop took me one hour.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
What do you reckon it is, like 200, 300 metres?
Speaker 10 (27:59):
Yeah, not even that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
And just a bit of a side story as well.
I remember Robyn... Excuse me, Arlo, please stop. Robyn was
saying that he was... I love your child. Sorry, my
son is so excited.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, tell me what your son's name is.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
My son is named Arlo and we're just sitting here
at Before School Care.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And how old is Arlo?
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Arlo has just turned seven.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Okay. Well, Arlo, sit quietly so we can hear Mummy.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Um.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
In 2000, and it was either 2013, 14, or 15,
I didn't really know much about river fire. And, Robin,
you were saying how you were scared. I was at work,
and I heard that. And I honestly thought, oh, my God,
you know, the run, like the bomb run. So I did.
I dove under the desk.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I covered my.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Head, and everyone was laughing at me. And still to
this day, I think about it. I was at work
the other day when they were doing the big jet flyover.
They were having the practice runs. And I'm laughing to
myself and everyone's like, what are you laughing at? And
I told them the story. So, of course, they were
all laughing. But every year I think of it because
it really freaks me out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You thought we were under attack. You thought.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Fair enough.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Fair enough, Alicia. Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Bread of Woodridge. Where have you been stuck in humanity?
Speaker 13 (29:20):
Okay, so I was at a Kylie Minogue concert at–
Boondall Entertainment Centre.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
It was the last night and it just was all
jammed up. It felt like hours getting out there.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Actually, the Kylie Minogue concert at Cirume, it was a
mud bath.
Speaker 13 (29:39):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You should have seen the drag queens trying to get out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
In the heels.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It was so bad. And Emily out of Heritage Park.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
How are you?
Speaker 11 (29:52):
Good.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
When were you stuck?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Well, you guys were so kind to let me win
a double pass to Harry Styles down at Seabus.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And I took my twins there, and the drop-off was.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Excuse the word, but shit show. But pick up, I
reckon we.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Were in traffic just around the stadium.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
For two and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
And then try and find two 17-year-olds in a mass.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
Of like a gazillion people.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, no, that would be tough.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
And then I had to drive home to Browns Plains.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Oh, gosh.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
That's a shocker.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
They do need to fix that seat bus up, though.
They've got to do something. That's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Well, we promised these tickets, so let's give it to Alex,
who's got a little.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Alicia.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
Alicia, was it?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, the one with Arlo in the car.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, the one with Arlo in the car, who was
so well behaved after we asked him to be.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
He was.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You did well. You put on your mum voice. He
would have been like, what the fuck? So a double
pass to Dinosaur World, which is Dinosaur World Live, a
rawsome family adventure. You can book at dinosaurworldlive.com.au.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates. In the morning.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Halfway through the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So, yeah, movies. There are some movies that become iconic,
like Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like that still holds even though it's kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I go Jurassic Park straight away.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I've seen the musical, strangely.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
But not the movie. Weird, weird, weird. I'm Jurassic Park
every day of the week. I think that holds up forever.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
The original is great.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Original Beetlejuice, no, never, not once.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
No way.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
No.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Star Wars, I think.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I think the effects in it are.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, I prefer them to the digital effects.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
Really?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It felt realer because they were real. They were walking
amongst them. The actors weren't pretending to be standing next
to a giant thing.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, you're a Star Wars geek. You are a die-hard.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Star Wars fan, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
They got worse as they went on, all of them.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Do you reckon Terminator holds up, stuff like that?
Speaker 8 (31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, I reckon Rocky.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I mean, the premise of Terminator is coming so true
with AI.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I just thought of a really good one. Armageddon, the
first one. It was late 90s. Yeah. I liked it.
I can still watch it, weirdly enough.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Wasn't that the one where Liz Tyler, is it Ben Affleck?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And right at the end, I don't want to miss it.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And then they're walking out of the- Yeah. Ridiculous premise
of this, right? Let's just break this down for a second.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
The premise is they get a bunch of guys that
are good at drilling, right? Because they're going to go
and drill to blow up the astronaut.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
In the mines, it's easier for them to learn to
become astronauts, which takes so many years to learn.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'm sure they fast forward a few things.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Instead of learning, instead of getting astronauts to learn to
do drilling, which I'd imagine you could learn in about
three months, they get drillers to learn to become.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Astronauts and send them to space. Well, apart from the
time frame, I feel like when they got there, the
way they act is 100% the way you'd act.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
He takes a biggie out of it the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
So Practical Magic 2 is kicking off tomorrow night, the
Brisbane premiere, and it'll come out this week. And Nicole Kidman,
Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So I watched the original with Stockard Channing and Diane
Wise as well as Nicole. I don't know any of
those names. Oh, you do.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
You do.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You would recognise their face.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Stockard Channing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Stockard is a person?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah. She was in Grease.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Stockard Channing. Who was she in Grease?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She was, oh, gosh, the one who has the abortion
and look at me.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The one with the squeaky voice?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Rizzo.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Rizzo.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The squeaky voice chick, yeah?
Speaker 11 (33:35):
Okay, yes.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Isn't that her?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
No, Rizzo.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Remember Rizzo?
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (33:39):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
My Lord.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Her name's Stockard.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, Stockard Channing. She's amazing. Anyway, I rewatched it and
it holds.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It's a dark movie, I've got to say. There's a
fair bit of witchy and woo-woo.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So, yeah, so it's, but I reckon it's going to
be good. The only thing that's going to bother me,
and I know it's going to bother me, is Nicole
Kidman's face now.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Ah, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
But she's had so much work.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Maybe she did a spell. She did a still spell.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Yeah, true.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I mean, it'd be interesting to see Sandra Bullock too.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
This'll test, yeah? Shawshank Redemption?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I think Shawshank could hold up.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Why?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Because the story's good. It's good. What, you reckon Shawshank's
not going to hold up? I know, I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'm just going through some absolute perler of movies.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, see?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I reckon you get two sides of this.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And can I tell you, this will be funny because
I don't even know what I'm going to do, but
the theme for the Queensland premiere of Practical Magic 2 is,
what is it? Witch couture. Oh, no, coven couture.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Coven couture. Oh, I don't know what that even means.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I know, wear black.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And put a pointy hat on.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Why don't you say that then?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Go full witch hat.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Why don't they just go wear dark?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You know what would be cool if you took a
cat You know, because witches famously have cats. Take a
cat with you. They love being out for an outing.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
On a leash.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
That would work.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
She'd be so angry and uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
This is.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
My accessory cat.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now, the weekend just passed. We had Father's Day again.
So we spoke a bit about in the lead up
to Father's Day. Is that a surprise for you, Kip? Honestly,
it was just like any other day for me. I
don't know about you, Corey, but for me, Sunday, I
woke up. I went downstairs. There's a pandemonium going on
between Sienna and Raph. They were arguing about something, and
Naomi was busy wrangling them, and so I just... I
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just made us all waffles. There was no breakfast in bed,
which I don't want anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And honestly, it's best for everyone if I make breakfast.
I know that I'm going to do it properly and
everyone's going to get fed. Nothing's going to get burnt.
It's for the best.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Are you talking yourself into this?
Speaker 8 (35:52):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Because it was Father's Day?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
No, I was just like, let's just do this. And
then we went up to the Sunshine Coast to see
my dad and my brother. So the kids all got
to hang out with the cousins and stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And did you see your sister?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
No, she's away. She's overseas at the moment.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Because Kip discovered this morning, thanks to me, that yesterday
was his sister's birthday.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
She's overseas, so you can say, oh, time difference. Yeah,
time difference.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, see, it's your birthday here today.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Try that, buddy.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'll try that. The fact that we're ahead of everyone
else in the world.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It doesn't help.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Sure, go for it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It doesn't help. I can't believe you sent her a
message as well.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I sent your sister a message for her birthday.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
That makes me feel worse.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
See, Robert should do it on your behalf too. You
should have. From all of us here at Kiss 97.3,
including your brother.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That is not going to fly, buddy.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
So what did you, did the kids, did you get
woken up with anything special, Corey?
Speaker 13 (36:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Well, Monty was awake first. She always gets so excited.
She even woke up and said, I just like, she
went back to bed. Well, went back in her room.
As soon as she heard me get up, which I'm
always first up. She walks out and she goes, I
just get so excited. I love waking up first on
birthdays and Father's Day and Mother's Day. That's the only
time she loves waking up first.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And so did she go into the kitchen?
Speaker 8 (37:04):
What did she do?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
No, no, no. Well, she just came in our room
and Tegan was like, go back to bed.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
She was tired.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yeah, it was like 5.30, 6 o'clock.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Anyway, so I get up with her and we just
hang out and play some games, waiting for Hux and
Tegan to get up and open the presents. So, you know,
the day started nice. Anything good? Well, I got some
new cologne.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Now, for people that don't know, Corey Oates is a
really big cologne guy.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Love cologne.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Love me cologne. And has like 15 bottles of cologne.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
I've got 11. I've got 11.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Just 11.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Such a big time for it.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So that started great. Monty got me this cup. Best
dad ever. And she got it. It's a work cup,
she said. So I bought the work.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So you won it again.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
You won the best dad ever again.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Well done. Looking at him right here. Huxley made me
a cooking apron.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
He made you an apron.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Well, it was just a black apron where he painted it.
And Tegan said it took three sets of clothes, that apron.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Three sets of his clothes.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
His clothes.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Were destroyed in making that apron.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Apron, yeah. So I got all the kids' presents and notes.
And then let's just say the day went pretty normal
for a Sunday. So we moved house. So we thought
we'd get some new couches and wrong size. We measured
them and thought we'd just check. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Wrong.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
So we had to then go back. Sorry, before that,
I washed the dogs. And washing the dogs, for me,
is like having a bath. I got soaked, covered in
dog hair.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
So it smelled great, awesome for the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So you could match it with your client.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
I did the dog.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Because we ordered the wrong size cat, had to go
back to the cat shop, spent two hours there. And then, anyway,
went to Tegan's parents for dinner with everyone and hanging
out with the in-laws. Yeah, having a good time.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Do you call your dad? Does he get a phone call, FaceTime, something?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, we spoke to all the dads in the morning
and the granddads.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Anyway, leaving, picking up because Marlon's 12. He's a big boy.
Can't jump as good as he used to. pick him up, bang,
headbutts me, splits me lip.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
He's a rock wheel of cross, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
He's a big boy. He's about 40 kegs. And because
he's 12, I'm like, mate, you'll probably hurt yourself. He
hasn't got the leap like he used to, just like me, actually.
Can't jump. And yeah, so I've got a great lip
for the next probably four or five days.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You've got a split lip.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, it's a great day.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
You got everything you wanted there.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Robin, Keith and Corey Oates in the morning.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, so let's just quickly go around the room. With
you or your children, how many of them have night terrors?
Because it's about 10%.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So between all of us, we should have at least
a couple of kids that have.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Did you? Is that when they yell out?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, like it's like sleepwalking. They kind of live in
this different world, but the night terrors are specifically yelling.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Monty used to just get out of bed and walk in.
She goes, I had a nightmare. But, like, you didn't
hear anything.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Nothing about it.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
Nah. Huxton.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I don't know. He just yells out. It's almost like someone's, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Just talking?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Someone's like kicked the footy away from him or something.
I don't know. He hasn't had any like that for
a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We heard one on the baby monitor that made us laugh.
Rafi spoke. I think he's okay, but Sienna, our two-year-old,
had a nightmare, if you missed this earlier in the show,
where it was obviously in her nightmare, somebody wasn't letting
her have a turn on something because she's just gone,
it's my turn, and then cried and that woke her up.
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So her nightmare was not having a go on the swings.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Said every youngest child on the planet.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
So does that bode poorly? Do you reckon it's going
to be more?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Well, here's the thing. I didn't realise this and I
was just Googling. So up to 10% of young kids
have it. And I said, well, what about adults? And
I don't know. I posted on our group chat that
my eldest son was playing in a rugby game with
with his work colleagues, dislocated his finger. And all I
get is a photo going, yeah, dislocated my finger, popped
(41:10):
it back in and I'm back on. And I went, okay, mate.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So I thought it was fine, right?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
But yesterday for Father's Day, we had this beautiful picnic
in New Farm Park with pizzas and everyone brought an
Esky and we just hung out for a couple of hours.
And I was seeing Finn with his finger and, you know,
he's got a brace and he's got to talk.
Speaker 7 (41:30):
To a doctor.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It's actually broken. It's broken. Yeah, you either break them
or you tear ligaments when you dislocate them.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
So possibly playing on wasn't the smartest move.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
But, you know, he's really committed to his workplace and
he wanted to do that anyway. But his girlfriend told
me that he woke up with a night terror.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Oh, and is he 25?
Speaker 13 (41:48):
26.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
26 and he's having night terrors?
Speaker 6 (41:51):
I know. And I'm like, what?
Speaker 2 (41:53):
And she's going, that's probably the codeine.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Or painkillers.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I've had an instance. Hasn't happened in a long time,
but I think I was about 20. I don't know,
it was probably my eighth surgery at the time, but
I had back-to-back shoulder surgery and wrist surgeries two years
in a row, just opposite sides, worst timing ever. Anyway,
and I used to like love getting knocked out all
night because it's so painful when you've got a wrist
cast and your shoulder just had been done. So like
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trying to sleep is uncomfy. And I remember timing, I'd
have two endone, no, two targen, which were long lasting,
and then about half an hour later, I'd have two endone.
Speaker 9 (42:29):
Right.
Speaker 7 (42:30):
Keep it off your train.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
I'd sleep nine hours, eight hours, and it was comfortable,
which was what I wanted because it was so uncomfortable.
And I remember one night, I must have just mistimed
it or miscalculated, and I thought I had Scream, you
know the mask, Scream mask?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Oh, yeah, the white mask.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
The actual scary movie?
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Running through the house I was in.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That's what you thought was happening.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
And for five minutes, I was petrified. And then I went, oh, no, no,
I know what's going on here. He's not real.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
That guy's not real that I'm pointing at.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
And I'm like, okay, maybe I had too many.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Okay, children, do not do.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
This at home.
Speaker 8 (43:10):
No, do not.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Painkillers. But that happened once and I went, oh, wow, okay. Okay.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Time to pull the brakes.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Fire out. And I thought it was a screamer. I'll probably...
Probably scared.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Let's just go back to Sienna.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
It's my turn.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Amazing stories. If you've got one for us, you can
go to our website, kiss97. com. au, because we'd love to hear
what you've been through, what you've done.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yes, and we've been told that this is an absolute
cracker to kick us off. Hello, Phil of Callum Vale.
Speaker 9 (43:53):
Hey, how are you going?
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Hey, Phil. Good, mate.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So what is your amazing story? What have you done?
Speaker 9 (43:58):
I used to weigh 360 kilos and dropped about 180
to 200 kilos.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (44:07):
It was big. To be fair, I am six foot
seven and a giant build.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Phil, how did you get there?
Speaker 9 (44:13):
I really don't know because it never really affected my life.
Everyone always goes, oh, you.
Speaker 8 (44:17):
Know, could you do this?
Speaker 9 (44:18):
Could you do that? I'm like, yeah, I can do everything. Like,
you know, we'd go out and do like a 10K
walk around the city or explore somewhere and I'd always
do it. Like, it would kill me, but I'd always
do it. I think I was just eating incredibly poor
food all right okay a lot of like those little
microwave lasagnas and like the stuff you can chuck in
the oven like like that's what I mean it's not
(44:40):
necessarily like I was going out and eat mac is
in case yeah it was just like not healthy food
and and also like you know I think probably I
wasn't moving around that much and.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
So what happened what was the moment when you're 360
kilos and what was the moment you decided to change.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
Things So it wasn't necessarily even a decision. I've always
been like pretty competitive. Like, you know, like you talk
to your friends and we, I had a bunch of
mates that went to the gym. We used to just
sit there and drink pre-workout and just sit at home.
Speaker 8 (45:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So you'd have a pre-workout, but then not work out.
Speaker 9 (45:13):
Yeah, exactly. Because I thought it was fun. My friend
who loved the gym, who'd been going for like 10 years,
was like, you should come to the gym. And if
you work out on pre-workout, it gets really strong. I'm like, oh,
that sounds fun. We went to the gym. And, you know,
when you're a big guy, you always think you're strong.
We went to the gym, and this guy was so
much stronger than me, it wasn't even funny.
Speaker 13 (45:35):
Right.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
I'm talking like I was struggling to do basic lifts.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (45:39):
And something in my head just went... nah, I can
do this. Like literally that was the exact, I remember
it so clearly. And I just started smashing weights. Like so,
so much surpassed him in about six months. And then
I was like, oh, I'm actually pretty strong. And I
just sort of kept going and going and going.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I'm guessing a man that weighs 360 kilograms is aware
of how he moves through the world. So are you
telling me it didn't bother you?
Speaker 9 (46:13):
I grew up sort of pretty charismatic, pretty popular, didn't
really have people necessarily ragging on me so much growing up.
I played in bands my whole life. I got lucky
and joined a band, did a whole bunch of international
touring for like 10 years. It was never really like
something that was holding me back from doing anything.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
What about flying, Phil? When you weigh that much, how
do you fly?
Speaker 9 (46:38):
Flying still sucks.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
It still sucks because your legs are so long.
Speaker 9 (46:43):
Yeah. Look, flying's not great.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
But when you're 360, I mean, what are you doing?
Can you get away with one seat?
Speaker 9 (46:50):
Yes, depending on the airline, like specific airlines, I would
definitely choose to fly.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
There must have been a point in which the weight
started to come off.
Speaker 9 (46:59):
Well, I remember when I first started doing that, I
started to sort of lose a little bit of weight because,
you know, obviously you start going to the gym, you
start paying for it, like, I'm going to make the
most of it, weigh yourself, do this. When I was
going through school too, I finished a chefing degree, so
I was like, I can cook, I can do this,
I can make this boring food easy. And just for
three years, ate nothing but steak and broccolini.
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (47:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
For three years? For three years. For three years, every
single meal.
Speaker 7 (47:27):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
This was the kicker. You know, like when you start working,
I start losing weight. I had a picture in my
head of what I was going to look like at
the end of it. I was like, you know, I'm
going to look like a movie star. If you just
keep putting in work and putting in work and putting
in work, obviously you're going to get to that level, right?
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (47:45):
This was about the two and a half year mark.
I dropped down to maybe like 175. So half. I
was getting really sick. I was getting really like just
like depleted, no energy, no nothing. Went to the doctor
and the doctor like gave me a scan and went
over everything and goes, I don't know what you've been doing,
(48:06):
but he's like, you are malnourished. I was eating a
thousand calories a day for three years where I should
have been eating 4,000 calories a day.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Tell me about how your family's response to you as
a 360K man versus someone who's lost half that weight.
Speaker 9 (48:21):
I guess my parents were pretty happy that I started
losing weight. My dad passed away probably about a year
into it, so he didn't really see too much. Then
my mum also passed away probably about two and a
half years into it, but she saw when I was quite,
I guess, the smaller size that I was.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Mate, what you've achieved, I mean, I'd say 0.0001% of
people for a whole bunch of reasons from.
You know, just the willpower to like just the health,
the absolute belligerence that you have that is required and
you're so kind of like it's not a big deal.
(48:58):
Like I think you're extraordinary. Have the doctors told you
whether you've increased your life expectancy?
Speaker 9 (49:04):
Um, no, they didn't. The one thing I did go
and do was a DEXA scan. I don't know if
you know what that is. Yeah, body compositions.
Speaker 8 (49:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
My lean mass was 145 kilos.
Speaker 13 (49:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
So, yeah.
Speaker 9 (49:20):
I feel like I've gotten it down to a pretty
happy point.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So now you've got to a point, a doctor has
told you that you are malnourished, so you've clearly got
to stop the weight loss journey as it is. But
to lose that amount of weight.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
even if.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
You've done it slowly, you would have had an extraordinary
amount of skin.
Speaker 8 (49:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (49:42):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
So what happened to that?
Speaker 9 (49:47):
So just a narrow background, when I left that doctor's appointment,
he's like, you're done. He's like, you're done because you
can't lose any more weight. I remember I was saying
like I thought I was going to look like a
movie star. And I came home and looked at myself
in the mirror and just cried because Because I was like,
I put in so much work and so much effort
(50:07):
and this is the outcome. It never even crossed my
mind that I wasn't going to look the way I
wanted to look. When mum was sick, she was in
hospital and we were talking about it and she's like,
when I die, I'm going to leave you some money.
I want you to go and get your skin surgery. Because,
you know, it's tens of thousands of dollars. It is
not cheap. I need it a lot.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So give me the stats.
Speaker 9 (50:31):
So I had two operations. The first one, they cut
off 18 kilos of skin.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Holy cow.
Speaker 9 (50:40):
I ended up with 1,800 stitches. It was about six
and a half foot of scars. And when I was
getting the operation done, obviously I had a budget that
I needed to stick to and And half of the
surgery is anesthetic. So I was like, just get it
all done, do it all. And my surgeon's like, no, no, no,
you can't do that. And stupid me, 25 years old going, no,
(51:03):
it's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Just do it.
Speaker 8 (51:04):
It's all good.
Speaker 9 (51:05):
Oh my goodness. It was rough. I was in the
hospital for a month. I like, honestly, my brain is
blocked out about a three month segment of my life.
It was so traumatic.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Did you feel, I mean, I guess it took so
long to recover that it'd be hard. It wasn't like
a next day thing, but just dropping 18 kilos from
one surgery. How different did that feel?
Speaker 9 (51:24):
Honestly like i was so out of it you don't
know that then that was the other thing because i
was such an odd size and like i mean like
i'm a big guy but i had a lot of
muscle and like a lot of skin so a lot
of fat cells and whatnot anesthetic works differently in every
person when i was talking to the anesthesiologist he was
like oh you know this is this anyway i don't
know if you've been put under for anything but usually
(51:45):
you bounce back in an hour or two like you
wake up you're all good i woke up And I
was so groggy for about four days after this. And
the anesthesiologist came and saw me the next day. And
he's like, how are you feeling? I'm like, oh, honestly,
pretty rough. He goes, oh, you know, it was a
bit touch and go there for a second. What? And
we're like, what?
Speaker 3 (52:05):
What?
Speaker 9 (52:06):
And he goes, oh, well, he goes, honestly, we've never
done anyone your size before, so there was like a
bit of guesswork to it.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Well, you've got to get out. It's about how much
anesthetic they put in.
Speaker 9 (52:16):
Well, he told me he gave me four times the
normal amount.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
Yikes. It's all about your heart rate. So they're watching everything, right?
And if certain things drop, they've got to give you
more and more and more.
Speaker 9 (52:26):
Yeah. And he did not want you to wake up.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
And that's the stuff that killed Michael Jackson, right? That's
the same gear, far out.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
So, Phil, for a guy who was not, Desperately unhappy
at 360 kilos. And now what do you weigh now?
Speaker 9 (52:43):
About 180.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Was it worth it?
Speaker 9 (52:47):
Oh, without question.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
And why?
Speaker 9 (52:50):
I can go to the shops and buy clothes. I
can fit in the majority of cars.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Okay. And then my final question is, because people will
be listening to this and thinking, I want what he's got.
I want to be able to do what he's done.
Three things, three tips.
Speaker 9 (53:08):
No one wants to go to the gym and just
sit on a treadmill. You can lose weight doing weights.
As long as you do lots of reps, lots of sets, whatever,
it's way more fun and it shreds weight off you.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:23):
Second thing is healthy food is very tasty.
Speaker 14 (53:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:30):
And I know, like, maybe someone doesn't know how to
cook or whatnot, but, I mean, people always go, I
can't eat this. I can't eat this. It's like you
can eat that. It's really easy. You just eat it.
Speaker 8 (53:39):
Right.
Speaker 9 (53:40):
And the third tip, like you're saying, is just be tenacious.
It is one of those really frustrating things that there's
no instant gratification when it comes to it. It is
just genuinely consistency, consistency, consistency.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
That is an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
That's incredible, man. Well done. That's unreal.
Speaker 9 (54:00):
Cheers, guys.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
Do you need anything in.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
Your life at the moment, Phil? Like a couple of
hundred bucks?
Speaker 9 (54:05):
I think I'm not going to say no to a
couple of hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (54:10):
$ 250.
Speaker 8 (54:10):
$ 250.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Sorted.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Actually, we'll give you how much weight you lost.
Speaker 1 (54:13):
How much did you lose?
Speaker 9 (54:16):
About 180, 200 kilos.
Speaker 13 (54:16):
Okay, $ 250.
Speaker 8 (54:17):
$ 250.
Speaker 9 (54:17):
We'll round it up to $ 250.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
I like $ 250.
Speaker 6 (54:19):
Sounds better.
Speaker 9 (54:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (54:23):
Robin, Kip and Corey Oates in the morning.
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