May 17, 2026 • 7 mins
Alex shares his family link to the Siege of Tobruk, which sparks listeners to call in for "What's Your Fame In The Family?"
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one of four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the Free iHeart Appyes. On
the show, I was talking about this very famous story
in the Second World War about the Siege of to Brook,
and a couple of you actually emailed the show. And
then Alex Alex was telling us about a link in
his family to this very very famous story which saw
(00:33):
the birth of the desert rats, who are what the
Sas were originally known as. In the siege or to Brook,
your family were evolved.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, so Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Moore said, is my
great uncle he commanded to Brook. He led the ninth
Division at Ta Brook and later at l.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
L A.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Mayin And that is incredible. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it.
And I'll send you that photo of him and Winston
Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Winston's got his It couldn't be any more Winston Churchill
or the great Commander. He's got cigar there and what
a photo. He's also effectually got his left hand on
your uncle's shoulder.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah. So Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield.
So he went. That's a photo from Cairo that was incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What snapshot of history for your family.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's crazy, isn't it. Yeah, it's up at the Australian
War Memorial that that particular photo.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, your great uncle. Then I can see as well.
Obviously I'm looking at all his rankings as well, so
he must have been he must have done a lot
of acts. Services on the wall.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Very decorated. Yeah, he's captain at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yeah,
and there's a very famous photo of him at Lone
Pine and he's looking up onto the trench and there's
just littered with bodies, a really really moving, kind of
sad photo and it's him there just looking up. And
then the one I sent you, the one with Churchill.
But yeah, he retired in Sydney and born in regional Victoria.
(01:56):
Was a school teacher originally and then and joined the
army and went over to How.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Old was he when he joined the army?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Was just young. My granddad fought the Secraine War. He
was sixteen. He lied about his age was actually fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Wow, he was in his early twenties and came a
captain at twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, they were just young guys.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So so young and yeah, retired in Sydney and yeah past.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Your family must be so proud, very proud. Yes, yeah,
such a great photo as well though. Yeah, my mum's
Maden name.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
More said, and just there's photos of him everywhere at well,
my grandparents' house and you're very proud of him.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Now, all we want to talk about now is fame
in the family. You go through your family tree. These
days with ancestry and DNA testing, you can uncover so
much about your family. Often when we start talking about
fame in the family, there's a smell that comes in
the studio of BS and I can see Rio is
prime with a story that is a little bit of BS.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
If the man who invented the jeff l.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Come on, you listen to a man, a man who
took down Romel and you're going to drop the dreffel maker.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Who very decorated ancestors. My grandfather, doctor Ernest Smithers, invented
made up names.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, exactly, Patch is right, she's calling it out, gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He had mate Homer Simpson, it was his name was
the Simpsons existed? Doctor Ernest Smithers, look it up. Invented
the jaffle maker, the trademark is in his name. He
invented it.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
So every time you have a toasty you crunch into
a delicious ham cheese and tomato number, think thank you,
Rio and thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You're all well. Surely though, you should be starting a
family dynasty now.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, he was.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Actually he was a bit of a rogue operator. He
had a number of inventions and would just invent them
and then sell the trademark straight away.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
My parents touched.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
My mum was actually quite poor, yeah, they He invented
a lot of things. Invented the true sliced bread knife,
which was a top selling bread knife back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We have form and just painting in different things.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yes, also the surfer plane, which only our older listeners
would know. But it was the original boogie board, the
Aussie original boogie boards, like an inflatable while but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, that is incredible.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
The only thing we've got to our name from him
is a lawn bowls green in his name at Sussex
Inlet on the Sydney South Coast.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So he invented the jefful Yeah, the jaffle maker, yeah
it was. It wasn't a thing. And then he came
up with that yeah, and then he goes, how I
want you shouldn't suos, you should be like your family
should be like a billionaire dynasty. No, no, no, we're
not on the forming grilling machine. Yes, the original you
shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I know, I know he was.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He was a strange unit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My mom tells me, all.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right, then, what have you got? Fame in your family?
We'd love to hear your story. Christian. My great great
grand auntie heard Ned Kelly.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I wonder when the old Ned Kelly's We're going to
start a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Than I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, it was about twenty two links to Ned Kelly,
imagine in the last three minutes and fed him for
a period of time. Sure, okay, Al, what are those odds?
All right, let's get to Rob here now, Rob, good morning,
welcome the show. Thank you very much, Thanks you cording
so fame in the family, what's it for you?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Rob Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The two people that started chibis Regal Whiskey, my first
cousins four times removed, so I think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's I think it was two brothers.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
James and John Chivers.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yes, well my first cousins.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And have you been over there. You've been to Scotland.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I certainly have going again in there about four weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a beautiful part of Scotland as well, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's gorgeous, Absolutely gorgeous. And when I went to the
Estual Distillery and they treated us like kings and they
just kept feeding me whiskey out of the twenty five
year old.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
My god, no wonder you're going back.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
We've only just refilled the barrels. Have a safe trip
out there and enjoyed lovely story as well. Thanks you
calling Rob Okay Fenn, good morning friend, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Fame in your Family? What's the story?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
We did some deep diving on my mum so I
don't found out Nick Cave is my fourth cousin.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's a good one. Patsy went to school with him
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, that's awesome. He was nominated for an OSCAR this
year for one of his songs for Franken starting. I think, yeah, yeah, Fenn,
thank you, that's the one. Fenn, thank you very much
to give us a call mate.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Ey a good one?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Is this the Dick van Dike one?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
In radio they always say end with if you can
end with the Dick van Dike, and we are fulfilling
that grace.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good morning, good morning, how are you. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I am very very excited. He's still alive. Dick Van
Dyke is over. I think he's one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Hundred now, yeah, I think he is. I think he's
he's in that Colt play video. Not aware, not aware,
he's in your family. I seem to know more about
it's even in my family. So tell us about Dick Vandyke.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
My grandfather was a dancer in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
against be signed him.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh wow wow old pitty Titty bang Bang, Kitty Jitty Bank.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So when did you find this out? Is it a
story that's been in your family for years since you
were a kid, or a recent.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Thing the first time we watched it as children. Every
time I watch it, my MoMA goes, daisyr grandfather days?
Your grandfather? Did you know your grandfather was in Citty
Chitty Bang Bang? What a great flav And she tells
everyone when they watch it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, that's brilliant. I love that. Grace. Thank you very much.
You give us a call.
iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one of four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the Free iHeart Appyes. On
the show, I was talking about this very famous story
in the Second World War about the Siege of to Brook,
and a couple of you actually emailed the show. And
then Alex Alex was telling us about a link in
his family to this very very famous story which saw
(00:33):
the birth of the desert rats, who are what the
Sas were originally known as. In the siege or to Brook,
your family were evolved.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, so Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Moore said, is my
great uncle he commanded to Brook. He led the ninth
Division at Ta Brook and later at l.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
L A.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Mayin And that is incredible. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it.
And I'll send you that photo of him and Winston
Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Winston's got his It couldn't be any more Winston Churchill
or the great Commander. He's got cigar there and what
a photo. He's also effectually got his left hand on
your uncle's shoulder.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah. So Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield.
So he went. That's a photo from Cairo that was incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What snapshot of history for your family.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's crazy, isn't it. Yeah, it's up at the Australian
War Memorial that that particular photo.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, your great uncle. Then I can see as well.
Obviously I'm looking at all his rankings as well, so
he must have been he must have done a lot
of acts. Services on the wall.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Very decorated. Yeah, he's captain at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yeah,
and there's a very famous photo of him at Lone
Pine and he's looking up onto the trench and there's
just littered with bodies, a really really moving, kind of
sad photo and it's him there just looking up. And
then the one I sent you, the one with Churchill.
But yeah, he retired in Sydney and born in regional Victoria.
(01:56):
Was a school teacher originally and then and joined the
army and went over to How.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Old was he when he joined the army?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Was just young. My granddad fought the Secraine War. He
was sixteen. He lied about his age was actually fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Wow, he was in his early twenties and came a
captain at twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, they were just young guys.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So so young and yeah, retired in Sydney and yeah past.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Your family must be so proud, very proud. Yes, yeah,
such a great photo as well though. Yeah, my mum's
Maden name.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
More said, and just there's photos of him everywhere at well,
my grandparents' house and you're very proud of him.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Now, all we want to talk about now is fame
in the family. You go through your family tree. These
days with ancestry and DNA testing, you can uncover so
much about your family. Often when we start talking about
fame in the family, there's a smell that comes in
the studio of BS and I can see Rio is
prime with a story that is a little bit of BS.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
If the man who invented the jeff l.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Come on, you listen to a man, a man who
took down Romel and you're going to drop the dreffel maker.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Who very decorated ancestors. My grandfather, doctor Ernest Smithers, invented
made up names.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, exactly, Patch is right, she's calling it out, gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He had mate Homer Simpson, it was his name was
the Simpsons existed? Doctor Ernest Smithers, look it up. Invented
the jaffle maker, the trademark is in his name. He
invented it.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
So every time you have a toasty you crunch into
a delicious ham cheese and tomato number, think thank you,
Rio and thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You're all well. Surely though, you should be starting a
family dynasty now.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, he was.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Actually he was a bit of a rogue operator. He
had a number of inventions and would just invent them
and then sell the trademark straight away.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
My parents touched.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
My mum was actually quite poor, yeah, they He invented
a lot of things. Invented the true sliced bread knife,
which was a top selling bread knife back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We have form and just painting in different things.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yes, also the surfer plane, which only our older listeners
would know. But it was the original boogie board, the
Aussie original boogie boards, like an inflatable while but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, that is incredible.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
The only thing we've got to our name from him
is a lawn bowls green in his name at Sussex
Inlet on the Sydney South Coast.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So he invented the jefful Yeah, the jaffle maker, yeah
it was. It wasn't a thing. And then he came
up with that yeah, and then he goes, how I
want you shouldn't suos, you should be like your family
should be like a billionaire dynasty. No, no, no, we're
not on the forming grilling machine. Yes, the original you
shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I know, I know he was.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He was a strange unit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My mom tells me, all.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right, then, what have you got? Fame in your family?
We'd love to hear your story. Christian. My great great
grand auntie heard Ned Kelly.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I wonder when the old Ned Kelly's We're going to
start a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Than I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, it was about twenty two links to Ned Kelly,
imagine in the last three minutes and fed him for
a period of time. Sure, okay, Al, what are those odds?
All right, let's get to Rob here now, Rob, good morning,
welcome the show. Thank you very much, Thanks you cording
so fame in the family, what's it for you?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Rob Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The two people that started chibis Regal Whiskey, my first
cousins four times removed, so I think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's I think it was two brothers.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
James and John Chivers.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yes, well my first cousins.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And have you been over there. You've been to Scotland.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I certainly have going again in there about four weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a beautiful part of Scotland as well, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's gorgeous, Absolutely gorgeous. And when I went to the
Estual Distillery and they treated us like kings and they
just kept feeding me whiskey out of the twenty five
year old.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
My god, no wonder you're going back.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
We've only just refilled the barrels. Have a safe trip
out there and enjoyed lovely story as well. Thanks you
calling Rob Okay Fenn, good morning friend, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Fame in your Family? What's the story?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
We did some deep diving on my mum so I
don't found out Nick Cave is my fourth cousin.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's a good one. Patsy went to school with him
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, that's awesome. He was nominated for an OSCAR this
year for one of his songs for Franken starting. I think, yeah, yeah, Fenn,
thank you, that's the one. Fenn, thank you very much
to give us a call mate.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Ey a good one?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Is this the Dick van Dike one?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
In radio they always say end with if you can
end with the Dick van Dike, and we are fulfilling
that grace.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Good morning, good morning, how are you. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I am very very excited. He's still alive. Dick Van
Dyke is over. I think he's one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Hundred now, yeah, I think he is. I think he's
he's in that Colt play video. Not aware, not aware,
he's in your family. I seem to know more about
it's even in my family. So tell us about Dick Vandyke.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
My grandfather was a dancer in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
against be signed him.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh wow wow old pitty Titty bang Bang, Kitty Jitty Bank.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So when did you find this out? Is it a
story that's been in your family for years since you
were a kid, or a recent.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Thing the first time we watched it as children. Every
time I watch it, my MoMA goes, daisyr grandfather days?
Your grandfather? Did you know your grandfather was in Citty
Chitty Bang Bang? What a great flav And she tells
everyone when they watch it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, that's brilliant. I love that. Grace. Thank you very much.
You give us a call.
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