MINI: Footy Lunch

Christian had an eventful day at the footy.. and a very short lunch with Mick Molloy!

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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(00:33):
What a legend, Nil Danna here is. Yesterday I was
invited to before the game to a lunch and I
was invited along with Mick molloy. Now, Mick is one
of my radio heroes. I've been lucky enough to meet
Mick a couple of times. He's a lovely guy. So
I was very excited that Mick and I were going
to have a long lunch together. And Mick is a
legend for his love of a long lunch. So we

(00:54):
were told to get to this Olympic room where there's
going to be six hundred people there. Ben Danaher goot
up and did an incredible speech about his dad and
the charity and all the money they're raised and what
they're doing with him. It was incredible. So anyway I
get there, I'm very excited. I go to our table
and I see that my name is next to Mick
and take a photo of it. I send it back
to my wife because she knows what means to me

(01:14):
in the show Martin and Maloy I still have. The
first radio boss I had was in Australian in nineteen
ninety eight, and obviously there was no podcast in them,
but he would tell me about this ossie duo called
Martin Molloy and I thought it was just one person.
Went no, no, no, it's two people. Okay, very Australian way,
just crunched two names together and don't belong together.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And he gave me a couple of CDs of.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Theirs Poop Shoe and Eat It Grease, which I still
have for this day. So actually I took a photo
to my wife and I was actually taking it to myself, like,
oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
If I had known those years ago and I first
heard how.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Great they were and how the kind of radio you
could do, I would have got such a kick. That
eighty is twenty seven years later, I'm here, I'm sat
next to Mick.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
We're both doing Redford shows in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, how cool, Mick a rives. He sits down. We're
having our first beers. Great atmosphere. Everyone's table is all
talking about one thing that I can't talk about for
legal reasons. Second beer turns up the atmosphere. The atmosphere
is great then because the tables are crammed into this
function room. It's beautiful room, the Olympic room at the
mcg glorious afternoon and a long day ahead of us, right,

(02:19):
and there's a lot of it's young kids who are
bringing trays of drinks over.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't know how this happened. I don't know how
this happened, but.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Mick sat there and there's a girl at his shoulder
with a tray crammed full of frothies. Somehow she stood
there and then the next second she's chucked up. She
obviously not chucked it publicly, but it just got all
of them. And I'm talking about eleven beers right overflowing
onto Mickey boy.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh and you didn't catch any no, no, no, no no,
But I saw it all happen. What's he going to do,
poor girl? What's your move from that? What can you
have to wear it? And I don't mean just like
it's he's brushing off. I mean he's poor me. He's drenched,
ringing beer.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah he's drenched and being she's so apologetic, like really
really girl, Yeah no, no, no no. So then you know,
and there's six hundred people there, right, everyone knows like
the clashing of grasses.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
They will look around to our table.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
They could see Mick brushing himself and because these days
you can't react, and not that Mick would have them,
because you know, suddenly.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Your phones y headline.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
And let's way he said, triple and breakfast. They've had
a couple of years. It goes as Okay gets up
and he sees that and you can see it's it's
all down his shirt and not just that, it's all
over his pants. Now Mick lives in Richmonds. He goes,
I'm gonna go home and change outfit. As soon as
he walked up at Mick never came back.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
He never came back. So my lunch with time, it
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