August 10, 2025 • 55 mins
Matty & Cooper go Backstage with radio legend Tim Blackwell, diving into his career from first gigs to the heights of brekky radio.It's got it all, radio feuds, ratings battles, celebrity roasts, and a few… unexpected tea bags.
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0:00-Intro
1:00-Cathy Griffin
2:00-David Copperfield!
3:30-Vegas
5:00-Radio
9:30-Hobart & Washington
13:00-First Radio Gig
17:00-Melbourne
21:00-Hughesy & Kate
23:00-Radio Then v Now
25:30-Hughesy
27:20-Moonman
29:30-Sam Pang
30:30-US Roasts
32:20-Brekky Radio
34:30-Triple M New York
36:00-Creating a Team
38:00-Hard Hitters
42:00-Radio Feuds
42:40-Guests
49:00-Stand Outs
52:00-Lone Survivor
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know he is scary. John's it apologies about my
Dickhead grandson and by Dickhead's son Matthew. But I really
appreciate it for you. Hit the follow but all the
best of all your old shaggers out there. Good luck boys.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So those nasty rumors as you leant over to hit record, Yeah,
I love that. That's right. What we do.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'd like to trap people. We don't tell them they're on.
None of the stuff we get out of them salacious.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, especially especially recording the Other Home. It's lulls me
into a false sense of curia. It does give me
a coffee and a hat. I'll tell you anything you
want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Scene in pulp fiction when yeah, Mrscello, Muscillus, Wallace and
Butch gets locked.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
In the room with z and Maynard. It will don't
get the gimp boys, Let's go gimps in the corner.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Kathy Griffin's in that movie, Yeah, yes, yes, in the
Bruce Millers car accidents.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's right. Was she the ones gets shot in the leg?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I think she's just as in this advice soundar that
runs around screaming with her red mop.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Had her first roll.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I don't know that's all my Kathy Griffer knowledge. This
is a movie podcast, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, seen three about ten minutes in the show.
There's the Ultimate.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Actually yeah, came on, came on. We asked her a question.
She basically abused us and page.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Kathy Griffin because she's Aussie. Right, No, she's not aussy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Trump's head members. Yeah, oh god, you get over this
way much.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I don't actually military roads a bitch.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, the lanes are so tiny. Everyone's with huge cars
and tiny little lanes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But it's a beautiful spot, you got. It's good spots.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You could see the ocean.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, we want to get closer to the ocean. I
think they're buying a house.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
But thank Jack's just holding up a picture.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah you're right. I know that's an old photo. See
if you can.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, there the holy fuck, oh my god, it looks
like But no, she's not Australian.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
To answer your questions, who's the comedian Carrot Top comic?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's a bad things about Carrot Top.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
He was performing in Vegas when we were over there.
They were horrendous.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He's just given up. Not as horrendous as David Copperfield.
So I interviewed David Copperfield over there, right, and I
mean he may or may not be allegedly whatever you
want to say on this, maybe on the Epstein list,
And I reckon. I know why because when we interviewed
him at the MGM Grand and it was just like
he basically has a private jet MGM Grand.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And he's with his own theory.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I think he's one of the highest tickets sellers of
anything music, any magic of all time. And he had
a lock on the top of his bathroom door, but
on the outside, like a full lock, like he wasn't
hiding and there was a lock.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, and you saw it. Did you ask him about it? Like,
what's the I couldn't. No, no, no, he's got out there.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Oh that is fa I mean, how competitive with the
magician market. Really, he's a prop paratos coming, is that dude?
Chris Angel mind freak?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, Homber that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Why don't you the magic's like song parodies on don't
you hear like the first like thirty seconds or see
the first thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm done now made? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Friend, people we know went and saw Carrot Top more
over there. They said it was just completely it was horrendous.
He just basically got up on stage. He had a
list that he was reading. They're doing jokes, and that
off off like a sheet.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He was looking at. The crowd were booing. Didn't go
good for Carrot Top.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
What do you actually think of Vegas in all seriousness,
because it's meant to be obviously the loose town. I
don't think it is. I think it's all talk. Really,
that's a hot take, hot take on Vegas. The only
reason I think you get that did well?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Thanks for joining us. Wow, there you go, Jack Clip.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Thanks to Vegas dot com, who actually sponsored by the
I think it's very I just I think it's too much.
But it's disney Land for adults. Every time I go in,
when that warm dryer hits your skin, when you start
flaking out like a bearded dragon.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
A couple of years ago. To him, we went over
there for the show. Well it wasn't actually for the show.
I just kept saying on the show they should send
us safe for an orientation. Anyway, someone went, okay, that
sounds great. Yeah, we had ten days there. I got home,
I jumped out of the car. He when I ride back,
I'd lost something like nine KOs go us, what have
you been doing?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I hate something talk about looking like Penny Wise. He
was that he was that white in the face. He
was like ashy, like an ash tray. And every time
he'd smile, because he's lip he wouldn't put chapstick on
over there, so every time he smiled, his lips would
crack and blood would start.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It was rank.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I remember when we did our radio show over there
years and years ago, and one of the first nights
was the Mariah Carey Show, and I wasn't allowed to
go because for some reason, like he spearing into my
schoony glass.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I feel like I heard the review of that show.
I'm the one that went.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Out, How's how's it has Joel and Ricky.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Lee really good?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I've come to you on ratings day. Obviously you're
a big radio guy.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Now, Yeah, to be fair, like I'm in radio, but
I actually don't know the first Like I don't even
know how the ratings work.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Whilst radio people love all that, you actually know how
the whole ratings and stuff work.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Well, Yeah, I mean it's changed a lot now, like
we take a lot more of like I think the
streaming involved now and all that stuff. But yeah, I
mean it is a bit of an archaic system. Yeah, yeah,
he's still diaries. Yeah, you meant to put on the
top of your fridge and then biz on like the
second Sunday or whatever you meant to fill it out.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's so bizarre in the person when you're knock on
the door, the only person you can take the book
is the person who answers, yeah the door.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And I mean then they asked would you like to
take a you know, the log book and market I
mean who does that?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Certainly no one under fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And also apparently the house the books go to has
to be a home address. It can't be an apartment,
so that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Rules out a lot, rules out a lot of young
folk listening to the FM.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, so that's what I mean, that's looking. But that's
why GB has been a powerhouse for so.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Long, because they wake their radio on in the corner
pass away.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Basically funeral homes and the rec oldish function are probably
so with that, then with that we just still look
like with that rating.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
System, man, could it very much be like when you
say two GB, the older demographic always would tick that box.
Could it very much be that they don't own that, like,
they don't have that much as Yeah, they don't have
the ratings that people think now.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, also because I think with FM radio, which
we're a part of, obviously you used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, I'm an old veteran, veteran of them, the old
Doug mull of Coloradi.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There he goes.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
They're moving around a lot, you know, they're flicking around,
so it is harder to get a more accurate depiction.
But we know when we do it all right, we
just leave it alone. We don't when I rustled through.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The weeds too much when we're doing okay, nothing's fine.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
From where I was sitting, Jamie and used to walk
in whenever we had a ratings lifting game, fantastic, this
is what we deserved. We knew it was going to
be big. And then when we invariably the next book
we would go down. He'd just go mate, so flawed.
It just doesn't it just doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I haven't heard that name for a while. I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I used to when I when I moved to Melbourne
from Sydney, when I got my first gig, I actually
recorded all his He used to drive on today FM.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I used to just record his talk.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Breaks and just listened to like basically nine hours of
talk breaks on my I set and my little Toyota
Starlett on the way down to Melbourne. Was he good?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He was great?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I didn't know j Actually yea was he was your
he was your boss at Triple Am.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, that's right, and we used to impersonate him on air.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Jammie Angel, Yeah, yeah, he loved Training.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I always remember.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Loving the band Soul System Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, drops
some Jupiter. I've never actually heard Train be the answer
to who's your favorite band?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Ever once in my life. I mean, really, who asked
Jamie his favorite was?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Anyway, Well, Tim, we have a we do have a
surprise question. It's Trained, It's trained in Jamie Angel, I.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Think I think the Trains dead. That's a shame.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He's actually you know Adam Levine from Ruine Fire right,
if you ever watched Howard Steren's birthday shows, he Prince
died like the day before and Adam Levine from Run five,
which is a shocking band, got up and did Purple
Rain and it's unbelievable, but they had the guy from
Training their book as a guest too, and he came
up with a diverse and completely fucked it. But look
that up on YouTube after list.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Hell Maroon five. Oh dear lord.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So you guys, your Drive show is we're talking number one.
We have been number one for a long time. Yeah,
we were talking upstairs before. It's just number one.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The rating is just number one, number one, number one
in people's hearts.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, because that's.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
With the surveys. They often say that it's stems from Breakfast, right,
But you guys seem like a bit of an anomaly
because obviously Coylin Jackie O are number one and then.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well in Sydney.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
In Sydney, sorry guys with books, But then you guys
to be number one Drive, Like is that sort of
does that happen very often?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Like? Yeah, I think I think nicely for us lately
all the last few incarnations of the show. Actually, I
feel like we've been a destination show. You can really
see that, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Perth is a jugger.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Nott like Perth just is like rating twenty percent of
Breakfast and then just carries through the day.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So that generally does work.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And that's why kissed us so well in Sydney too,
because you guys in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just keep people glued. Thank you appreciate anytime. So like
I was just like your Hobart boy, born in Hobart.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's got back last week actually to see the old man. Yeah,
my mum got me out of there when I was
in year five.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, give me to Washington do suit? Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I went to the Bill Clinton impeachment trial as an
excursion for school guilty. It turns out, oh god, yeah
he did have sectually that woman, what's.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know where a black dress do a party?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Does that make you an AFL man? If you're from home?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
One hundred percent? Hawthorne? Hawthorne? Are you Hawthorne? Yeah? No way.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Did you live down there at all?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I was born there and lived down there until year
five and then went back down I left America in.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The year ten and did year ten, eleven, and twelve
down there with my dad. And does anybody home school
by the way out of school?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But if you go to rugby league side then because
we're rugby.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
League I know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So this is the thing. I knew this coming in
because when we moved to Sydney, we lived in a
little flat in Rushcutters Bay and I just figured I
should be a Sydney rooster supporter, which I kind of like,
you know, when I kind of say it reluctantly, I go, yeah,
I go for the roosters.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Go Hawk. That's very very that's very ham FL. The
richest class, very AFL. That's very ludist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
So a question going from how old we went to
Washington thirteen to seventeen, how big was the culture shock.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Going from Hobart to Washington.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, we were in Hobart, Sydney, Washington, but still huge.
But the great thing was I was a thirteen year
old kid loving Seinfeld and Friends and stuff like that.
To move to America, it was like, literally it was
the best thing ever. Yeah, was it real?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Like that sort of school the school yard scene that
you see on TV. Is it all the same, Like
there's just blokes name Chad who are like the quarterback
chet Chadette, the cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Was Springton Lake Middle School for a while, and the
would go ghost Spartans and the locker. The thing that
shocked me the most was the lockers, Like the school
lockers literally were ones that you get stuffed into like
it's saved by the belt.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Oh wow. But you're living in DC?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Was crazy because we lived like on the Potomac River,
so we were technically in Virginia, but on the other
side of the Potoma River was was DC, and like
it was we're convinced that like the seasons and stuff
over there were controlled by the Pentagon because literally, on
the day one of winter, like a snowflake will fall
on your nose, just like you're in a Julia Roberts movie.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, exactly more movies on this podcast. Did you
get Like?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Was there many like people getting stuffed into lockers? Like
did you get stuffed in?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It was really hectic before they realized I was Australian.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Some kids at the back of the yellow school bus
with peg batteries at my head. Oh really, And then
I'll go, hey, get a guys, put it on the
strip on the barbie and I'm like, oh, get up
here with this. But the school bus driver I remember
one day, goes, my god, man, you're English is so good.
You've been here for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm like, are they that naive to it? Back then?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They were too, like Silver Chair were really big then
when I lived there, and really Steve Irwin and then
that was it. So you could pretty much tell them
anything and they'd go.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh really yeah, did they love it? Like once they
found out your popular.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, they're coming back home to reality and you were
the only Australian there.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, it's not funny.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
If you as an Australian going over there, you treated
so well, but if you came back here with an
American acts, they fucking hate it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I had to change my voge. I never had an accent.
You have to change your vocabulary over there, like you
say footpath and like huh, and you have to say
bathrooms at a toilet, so little.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Things like that. It's a bottle.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
So the first job in radio, well it was well,
the first unpaid job was to too n s B
Chatswood in a little room kind of like this, just
doing weekends and I had to do the weather. I
did the weather, so we took Macquariy National News and
then I remember the first day I had to do
the weather and my my finger was shaking as I
(13:35):
pulled the fader down and went the precipitation to the north.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But that was my first page job.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Then I did work experience that with Amanda and Denton
at Triple M, and then Jonesy. I just used to
take myself in my school uniform, so Jonesy, who's Jones
in the man? And now I was doing afternoons on
Triple AM. I always, weirdly, all I wanted to do
was work at Triple M. That's all I wanted since
I was a kid, and Doug Moray listened to Doug
Miray then into Danson and Keller and so Jonesy but
teaching me how to edit phone calls on reel to
(14:02):
reel where you'd have an actual like scalpel out and
you'd put some chalk on it and you'd work out
where to edit the callers and then you go. So
but the first job was out of afters radio schools
training Film Television radio school, and that was with dmg's
new license. So we had we bought Sydney, which was
NOV and then they were putting a new station into.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Melbourne and everyone was like, is it going to be
another Nov? What's going to be?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Because I was so young and I was their first hire,
they didn't want me to know, so had to sign
some kind of little agreement to say I wouldn't it's.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Just about my mouth off about where I was going.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And then that's when I packed my little toy out
of started up and drove down to Melbourne and started
on mid dawns at nover Melbourne. When I launched at dawn,
although because I had three months before that job started,
they put me at the hub so Star FM.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Was not owned by DMG two and I was in.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The Aubrey Hub and we had to network to like
nine stations, and I had like seven breaks an hour,
and five of those seven breaks were local breaks, so
you'd have to do five times nine local breaks per hour.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
As well as the other two. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It was the hardest I've ever worked still to this day.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, so midnight a dawn so what was that? Just
music or midnight till six?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I just I got a befriended like the guy at
the local server at the BP in Richmond and used
to get him on every day and talking like Nova
was loose like it was really like we'd never heard anything.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Like it before.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Obviously we had Today FM and Triple M and Fox
in Melbourne and all the other hit network stations now,
but Nova was like two ads in a row, which
you can never go.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
To the toilet mid dawns.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You couldn't automate it, so you're literally hitting off everything
as you're going. But it was midnight till six am,
and then Hughsey and Kate with The Brecky Show, which
is why they're still friends of mine today. Like they
were used to come in at five and would muck around.
It was just it was the best. Yeah, right, I'll
tell you what. The first shift, I.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Was really pumped because it was midnight.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I was like, yes, And as the sun started rising
over the city, I started shooting myself because I was like,
I'm actually on air in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It was pretty crazy and you're like, not drunk. I'm
actually not drunken.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Was there any like I'm sure you can say it
now because there was a long time ago doing midnight
to six am and imagine be hard not to have
like a beer or something.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Right, this is going to surprise you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But at the start of my career I was very nerdy,
very professional.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I was head down, bum up, like you know, I
was working six days a week and just living for it.
So really, yeah, it was unreal.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It surprises you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now I can suck move around the country Bridge.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, So then I moved to Sydney and then I
moved to Perth. So we moved to Perth, then to Sydney,
then Sydney back to Melbourne, Melbourne up to Brisbane and
then Brisbane back to Melbourne to do drive, then Melbourne
back to Sydney.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Every ever Adelaide and how old are you then, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Like from a twenty from twenty one, and then I
probably moved around every eighteen every eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I got a lot of regionals, no reason. It's just
boogie cap cities for me. And except for allbree at
the Star obviously, yes, the Globe shout out to the globe.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right right on the border as well.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And how different to because oftentimes like all here in
breakfast times they will get some Melbourne teams. It will
come in and you just there seems to me like
each capital city you've got to sort of change. It's
right to so change content slightly different.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yeah, Melbourne, especially Melbourne is in the art two different countries.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's so true.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, And I love that. I actually do love that
about Melbourn Melbourne really is that you could just mention
AFL in the line at the airport and everyone's on board.
You know, you got like it's just like a it's
a it's a big city but a country town attitude.
Like even I remember going like you go to the
Melbourne Cup and the whole stoff. The whole city would
stop for the Melbourne Cup and then the Formula One,
even before all this drive to survive stuff, the.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Whole city would be obsessed with F one. Like it was.
Actually it was very cool to live there, but very
very different cities. You're there five years? Five years? Yeah? Five? Yeah?
And where did you live in Melbourne?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Richmond, Wheelis Hill which is like quite far out east,
Ivanhoe and then Richmond. We lived with like a ninety
in my first year at Storm, Me and one of
the boys who was their first year as well. We
got a bill to be like ane year old couple.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Why did they do that, It's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
We were still like we were only like eighteen seventeen,
so like they think they thought, oh, it make you
feel comfortable to start.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And then put you with a nine years. Yeah, it's
a weird fit. I know.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
It actually was good because then we sort of learned
the city and then like after a couple of months,
we're like, all right, we'll go sort of do our
own thing because at that age as well. Right, yeah,
let's paint a picture a two eighteen year old Ragby
League players in a new city, finally moved out of
home on you know, decent money is. As young NRL players,
we want to go out on the beers like basically
(18:33):
every three nights. Yeah, and you know we're single as well.
So if you tell a girl when you're out, hey,
you want to come back to like a Billets place
who's two ninety year olds, It's not exactly a nice
environment for a girl to wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's not very warming.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Lady's taking the teeth out of the glass.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, but what did people did?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Did the city get behind the storm? Because I remember
when the storm started it was because I think I
was living there. I was on air with us and
Kate then pretty much and felt like the whole city
got behind you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Did it feel like that when you were playing?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah, Like, although they probably didn't know us individually as plays,
but everybody knew the Storm. It's like the brand the Storm.
Everyone's like, oh, you guys are so good, Like, so
people would come to the games. Most games were pretty
sold out and they just love the Melbourne and has
just love like any sort of sport. They get around
like an event tennis, Yeah, they just love an event
Australian Open, like anything.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They just go to the people you're living with names again.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Kayane Graham Middleton.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, yep, yep, I'm going there. And he took me
into the room this and he handed me a pebble
and he goes that pebble. He said, I went to
Gallipoli and I took that Glipoli that I went right,
He said, make take that home.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I said, yep, okay.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know what's funny. So we found out later that
was his like party trick. So he had like thousands
of fun He had hundreds of these rocks. So like
Daddy go, well, look I got this Gallipoli rock. And
then like a few of the other storm old boys
(20:03):
like Cooper Kronk and Robbie Kerns and these guys go, mate,
I got one too. Whenever boys have come over, Hey,
I got a glip.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It's funny, I said, you know, to assist the first
couple you've had stay in and the lady who was
so nice, she goes, oh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We've had a couple of bits. Oh how was it?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
How was having the boys? Oh they're lovely boys. Although
the last chap who lived here, we heard this strange
noise coming out of his room and he was going
to be he was training to be a tattoo artist
and he actually had a dead pig in his room
and he was tattoed with the dead pig, and I
was like, fucking.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Hell yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
There's some weird sort of a dead pig being dragged
around with a sleeve tat on his and he gave
the pig of pebbles of history.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thanks for joining. It was your first big break anchoring
for husing In.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That was the biggest thing. Is I always just like
again back to Jamie Angel. Just wanted to do that,
just wanted to do that. Was this is coming up?
Just like loved that idea. When I got afternoons at
over Sydney, that was like my peak. But then when
I went down to Anka hughsy Kate also that was
the best learning experience ever. Like Hughsey and Kate were
top of their game. Hughsey, I love him to be
still see him all the time. Now, but he was
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a hard task master. When I made a mistake, he
would let me know it in a great way and
he never wanted to do that again. And it was
actually really nice to me to because radio was always
such an individual thing for me, but now it like
to be it is a team, it's a real team thing.
And then my mistake would let the team down, and
then I reckon that we got that show on fire
by we had back to April where Nathan Buckley and
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Shane Crawford as our sports.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Guys, they come on like once weekend and as.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
A Hawthorne supporter.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
In two thousand and eight, which was our greatest win
against Gelong, we weren't supposed to win that Grand Final
and I bought a footy jersey from Rebel Sport and
Shane Crawff said, you're not allowed to sign in it.
Apparently the two teams, I'm not sure if this is
the same in the NRL, the two teams aren't allowed to
sign any merch the lead up to the Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because obviously they want to they want to make it.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, So he said, grab me a get a jersey
from from Rebel Sport and I was back into the
back of my car and throughout the week and got
the entire team, Buddy and Alisa, Class and the coach
and siall really to sign it for me. And then
then we won that two thousand and well my first
ever Grand Final. So that was a peak time in Melbourne.
What did you sell that for about fifty five?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Did you did you.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Ever have any of the NROL boys come in to
the show.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I think we might have Cooper Kronk in, but I mean,
but Hughsey became a like Husey's a real obsessive guy
in the best way, so he became like mad Melbourne
Storm fan that're like, oh, you know, I'll let you.
So we did have We're definitely at the start. And
I remember because I was, you know, publicly unfortunately a
Roosters fan down there when the first time the Storm
played the Roosters. They made a pretty big deal out
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of that. So yeah, that was good.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
And how when you look back at like I asked
someone this the other day, when you look at back
that time, radio seems like it was not a bigger
deal back then, but it seems like there was probably
a lot more you know, money with sponsorship and stuff
in it because now there's now there's so much podcast Yeah,
now there's so much podcasts, like even social media and that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, when you look back at that time.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Like somebody who's lived through probably three different decades of it, Yeah,
was there just way more hype around radio.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's huge hype when especially being involved in the launch.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I was the first voice on there at over in
Perth too, and we and out of all the launches,
we had the Red Hot Chili Peppers in as the
launch of the station. So it was like they came
in and they only meant to do like like five minutes,
ended up playing for an hour and a half. They
asked me, they said, at one point they said we'd
love to like Jebedi was going to be the first
live band because it was Perth. And they saw the
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instruments and and Chad and Flee said to me, there's
some instruments in there. Do you mind if we grab
them and play you a song? And they played by
the Way just for me in the studio live on
the nover Perth launch. And the boys from Jebidi I
got fucked off because they was supposed to be the
first first and they're.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Like, well, flease tune me base.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But I'll tell you the two key moments I think
in the how radios change in terms of parties. Right,
so Nover Melbourne we had a party where so the
Nover Perth party was girls walking around topless but with
Nover boys painted on their breasts as our waitresses.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And then you moved to Brisbane and there's short people
if you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Say sombreros, and the sombreros in the middle had hummus
and then around the sombrero were chips and they just,
oh my god, and I'm like, They're the two big
radio party moments that I went that the life has
changed for the better.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
For the better they save tripling at Bondi Junction. They
said that went on in there. And when they finally
basically moved out of there and went into World Squad,
when they pulled apart the studios, they found like basically
like bolivion amounts of cocaine.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
In the building.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Really they fell through the fader holes.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
It was everywhere Bacardi bottles.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Did mulray used to go to like the Malay for
lunch every day and have a king plus about two
leaders of Piccadis And then I fall asleep somewhere unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, and he taking that like, you know why I
always want to work a dribble. Yeah, if you think about.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
How good that show was. So you got mulray, but
you got his chief writer as the boy genius Andrew
Denton who's riding and sitting behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Weird Our Drawer. I remember Weird our Drawer.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh mate, it was I can't
say no, don't so Hughsy He said about.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hughes been a tough task master.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
In the best way though, like I wouldn't have been
able to learn, and I take a lot of that
with me now, like.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know, you've got to be tough but fair. You're
still in his business, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So how was the dynamic of that show with Kate
and Hughsey, because I imagine sometimes being the anchor, you
can be almost like the meat and the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Well, the beauty of the beauty for me always has
been I'm never a comedian, Like that's the key, Like,
you know, just you can be humorous in conversation, but
the fact that you're not a comic and you're selling
tickets otherwise every comic would hate your guts. So Hughsy
was always like if you like he actually said to
me once he said, like, why are you talking like that?
Like just talk like you do in the office. Because
of course I was like, oh yeah no, but had
it use you okay five months today, like doing what
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you thought you had to do.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And train.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But he goes, you know how you talk to me
in the office and you tell that story in the office,
Just do that for me, And like he encouraged me
to come out of my shell. And I mean I
would alter him and Kate because they were just I
guess you never realized that you could do that. I
always just thought I was that that was this is
guy and then sit back and let the other guys
do the thing.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well that old school like it's the old school mentality
of there's only one way to kind of do it right.
There was only that one way up until now, Like
you look listen to radio. Now it's the best sort
of stuff is when it's actually like doing the opposite
of what you're supposed to do. You're talking, you know,
you're talking like it's supposed to be are supposed to
be tight and then like leave the audience on a
(27:02):
high straight to an ad break when you kind of
leave it awkward and then like to give people something
they haven't really heard before.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Interesting. That's what I've never liked.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I've never done the radio. I've been lucky in the
teams have worked with. They have been very anti like
prank calls, sketches like song parodies, all that's uppish. Here's
a Tony Abbot sketch.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Guys get or people doing. MA missed him. I missed
him on the radio the front bar.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I saw the front bar recently and they went we
get across now to the former Prime Minister and he
came up in his mouth on turnboil and I thought,
I've seen this a million times, mate. It was one
of the funny five minutes I've shoved the boys. It's
very funny, said, you got to watch this. There's one
thing where he gets here and he's talking about you know,
he's doing the eludist thing, and he crossing in from
the s CG members room and he goes, I tell
(28:01):
you something. He said, I believe that Sydney could sustain
another a f L team And they go, oh no,
there is a g W West Greater Western Sydney oh,
West and Sydney.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Where do they play our.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Homeboshing goes deal war and then they go, oh, who's
your favorite Swan of all time?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, I love Lance, Buddy Franklin and of course the Whiz.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Were a Kappa.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But if I had to say my favorite swe of
all time, it would be Swan Lake.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
He was a change of a man. I'm not a
g W West giant of course, on.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Western suburbs driving home, squidding in the sun every afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
How do they do it? Oh that is great? Beause
Moon did Moon take over from you guys? Yeah? He
said it was an interesting was good though?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Oh man, I went and saw here there was He's
a bit I reckon. I know this is controversial because
I mean, Joel Crazy's one of my good mates and
I'll work with him. But I think Moon is one
of the best stand up that I've ever seen, let
alone Australian stand up.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, then I went and saw the comedians, which was
Mick was like the ring master, and he brought Sam
Pang out. First of all, Sam was terrific. Then it
went Marty, okay, things are lifting here out and they
brought Lawrence on laugh.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh yeah, fucking hell. It was so fun. You know.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
The meeting went about the lineup of that, like who
would go first, second, and third?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sam Pang's bloody good too.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
He's so good.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
And I love how he's he's just edgy enough where
he can do like your your logis and those sort
of OWDs ceremonies without offending everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I do like.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I do like how they like bringing a bit more
of that American sort of Ricky Jason.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, let's just write.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Sam did one on the front part, and it was like,
I went, oh, they crossed to Is that Neil Danaher
struggling with M and D in your answer? So I
think it was they crossed him to, and he said
and he was, And they said, oh, Neil, who was
your toughest opponent? And he goes, oh, you know, I
explained or played against this guy, and and Sam went, oh, really,
(30:11):
I thought it would have been made in uranus disease.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
What he said to him, And he explained it after
and Mildan had pissed himself laughing.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He said, it's just a joke. We do all the time.
But the lives to you how Warrice just.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Went, oh, yeah, you wouldn't have had to react.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
The best race I ever heard was the roast of
Joan Rivers. And I won't be able to say that
obviously that Jones.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Rivers is so old her ah, that is fucking brilliant.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It is brilliant. It's just a shame. It's probably the
tho roast are probably the last bastion of that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Sort of human It's.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So weird because America in the media landscape is so conservative.
This confuses me about the US. They're so crazily like
do they do these roasts and they but then there's
such a conservative but you can't say goddamn on the radio.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Yeah, and then but then to get to these roasts
like the rest of Tom Brady, that one was crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
They hammited him so hard.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If they said to you, they said, like if you
were over there an actor and they said, would you
like to be part of one of these roasts, I'd say, no,
fucking no way.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I think it's such good promotion though for him.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
They did one with Pamela Anderson. I can't remember who.
He said.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It was like, but when you take a bath, they
call that they call the leftover water hepatitis soup.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
They do be fair. They're good sports too. Oh yeah,
they cop it on the chin. Yeah, like that Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh she's in the country at the moment.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, she's doing stand up here at the moment.
But she got like her big break on that Tom
Brady one.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
I love at Tom Brady's on because Kevin Hart was
hosting it, like he'd throw to his comedian and she said, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Thanks, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
You know you're such a small guy. She says, he's
five foot four and one hundred and fifty pounds one
hundred and fifty five. After the rock finishes, I love him.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Brecky Radio, You did you did that with Michelle and
Marty up in Brisol?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yes, I did it with the Michelle and Ash first
and then then Marty joined when Ash left.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Was that Asha Latzi?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love Latzi still.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Latsy's still kicking goals up there. He's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How did you find Breaky Radio? Well, like, how did
you find Firstly, was it Brisbane to I'm sorry said
Melbourne to Brisbane?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, Melbourne Brecky Radio. And then I went up to
Brisbane to do my own show. So that was like
leaving Hughsey and Kate to go up and get my
name on the show, which was a pretty big step.
But Brisbane, I was like kind of young and didn't
have kids, and yeah, it was real burning the candle
both and stuff. There was one time I had some
friends over for a.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Few drinks and it was quite a bit rowdy, and
then all of.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
A sudden in the corner, I was like, I heard
like my alarm go off, and I'm like, what's going
on here? Like it's Friday night, And I realized, no,
it was Thursday night, and and my alarm for Friday
morning was going off. The house was pumping, so splashing
cold water on my face, adopted the show, and then
came back and everyone was still there.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
In fact, there's some of your best shows, isn't When
you walk in there, there's something in your brain you
are trying a bit harder, yes, for your job, because
you're actually like your job.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
To get through it all nine. Yeah, that was the way.
The thing is.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
They just get through it all nine, You'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We did. It was great. I loved that. That was
a great station to work for, too.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And it's it was a proper radio station just still
is like No One six point n up there is
just it's a great station.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
That breakfast.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I can't tell you how many times I had to
get an uber into work or driving get Trish to
drive me into work and literally go in there completely
just blind rum and just breaking every card. But anyway,
I'm not there anymore. But we did a show in
New York. There was myself Paigey live. Yeah, we're live.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
In New York. What for New York Marathon. Yeah, it
gos to the New York Marathon and oh fuck.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
And firstly, the first night were there, didn't were only
guest Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
We were relentlessly just turned him over back after this
the boy from ours returns. We were one day we
went in there. We were so drunk on air because
our thing. I said, Jack, you've gotta come over. I said,
it'd be great.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're on air.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I think it was one o'clock, one o'clock, two, four o'clock,
two o'clock PM. Yeah, PM, two lineups, so two to five.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Guys, an afternoon shift.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You'll be fine, perfect, I said, what we'll do every morning? Jack,
we'll get up nine o'clock, we'll do a bit of
sight sting around the city. Then we'll go and do
the shower.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Every single day they literally got the stick out. They
drag us out of bed for the two o'clock shower
and mate, it was mate, but we went in there.
One day we were so blind on air that they
were down the line to Jamie Angels, just mate, we're
just we're doing complete breaks of just nothing but laughing
and just it was Jamie Angel The only goes well done, boys,
(34:57):
Congratulations might have cost your careers that sort of ship anyway,
win it winning a radio award for it?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No way, It just showed you what did you win
an award for?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Though it was it was something like best best break
without a word, but yeah, exactly best heavily intoxicated on air.
But Mulray used to say huge Jackman interview five times.
But Mulray used to say, back in the day, he
used to get there. Remember the was of the rock dog,
Oh yeah, so was. He used to always say, you know, Maddie,
(35:30):
he said, Muller's used to say, if you're having a
good time in the studio, whatever you whatever happens, in
the studio having a good time for your laugh and
he goes up through the pin and into the cars
and it's true, isn't like.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You get there?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That's yeah, I think you know, that's one of the
most crucial things that you've got to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
We can't fake chemistry either. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's why I just don't understand why radio executives put
people together that never met each other before. But everyone
still goes, oh, but hey, misd and he was so
great when they because they are mates.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, you a true friend exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, no, I've said that. I said to Coop once before.
I said, mate, I think in radio you've just got
to take your time and get to a point. You
don't be too big a rush, and you also want
to a position once you're about to move in one
of those key slots that if you're in a good
enough position that you can pick your own team. I
can only imagine black is what it's like sometimes where
they just throw it and say, right, you're with this
(36:19):
group on so.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That when that happened to most of my career, Like
you know, that's that's why I think, ultimately I got
so lucky like only I worked hard, but I got
very lucky to work with like that. That was the again,
the key to not being a comedian or anything. I
got to work with the best in the business and
got to learn from them all along the way as well.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And now hopefully I can kind of pat it's never
been a big fan.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
And I know there's a lot of comedians in radio,
and some of them are good, but they've never been
a big fan of like the comedian on radio every
break it's like rehearsed, Like they actually rehearse the jokes
and they come through it and you can sense the
fate laughter.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
People that are naturally kind.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Of work with someone, Ones who are used to in
the middle of past talking like this, that write a
question on a post it note and slip it to
me and that's the question I have to ask, or
you'd have to ask it.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Ow. Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah, I found it very, very difficult at times because
they had a punchline trying to get to that conclusion.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
They're trying to take you there.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Whereas Marty taught me years ago, like it's two hundred
and twenty shows a year, you'll get your thing across,
Like don't worry like again that don't rush thing, like
you know, there's another show.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
There's always another show.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, drip feed them, Yeah yeah, Marty, because mart we're
not listening to Marty on air. He Although Marty's a comedian,
I don't think he would class himself as a stand
up and he sort of like he didn't come across
this comedian on air.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
It was just sort of natural humor.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
That was just he's the funniest person I've ever met.
Slashould work with ever, like very dry too, right, yeah yeah,
and also a real craftsman too, like really loves the
business and really knew the business well.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
A couple of times we had a stand up not
going to say who it was, but if one of
the boys was sick, he'd come in or he come
in for guest slots.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
And and I found it very.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Very difficult work with him because he would start a
monologue and and that's what it was. It was a monologue,
and he would be trying to basically get to the punchline,
which could have been four minutes away, and you're forced
to just sit there and you know, and you go
to chime in, oh well tell me, like MG. Once
he goes oh, mate, tell me when you just said that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But then you'll hear them do that exact bit on
another radio show that they guest on them, Like, well,
you got your two jokes, and you're just like shitting
on all of us and we have to sit through it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
All the people you work with, So outside of Joel
and Ricky Lee, now, who was like, in your opinion,
the best team as far as chemistry is concerned.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Well outside of where I am now, because I've never
been happier and more confident in myself than I am
now with Like Ricky and I like best friends and
we kind of hang out all the time, and I
think that that shows on air. But but Marty, Marty,
Marty was just a cut above the rest in terms
of like you.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Were really weird.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
You were learning from him even though you were enjoying
every day, you know, and we talk about the show
every day before the show too, Like there wasn't this
idea that you just rock up and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That we talk about the show and really think about
the show. So definitely working with him was I think
has kind of set me up for where I am now.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Like, listen to like Marty and listen to Kyle. One
of the things that draws you to them is that
sense of menace and sense of danger, you know, isn't
it like?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
And also but he even money. You teach me things
like like you know you don't want to shit can
everybody because you're running to someone at the airport, picked
like three people and go hard on them. And I
remember once going hard on James magnuson the swimmer, Bladdy,
white Caveer, give yourself your own nickname when you came second,
good on your bro like all this stuff, and then
of course ran into him making his own toasted sandwich
(39:39):
at the Corners Club, and he'd looked at me like
he knew about the white caveat stuff. And we ate
our ham, cheese and tomatoes separately and separate corners at
the venue.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Yeah, I often wanted that with like some you can
some people god really hard at each other. But sometimes
you go, oh, like is it all just a bit
of like fun than that? Yeah, But as that happened
to You've worked with a lot that went really hard
at different people, Like Marty you scare very hard at people.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Yeah, But I think about it. The difference is because
he didn't go out, so I still go out. Oh yeah,
And he's very easy, Like I guess Kyle would be
the same, right, It's very easy to start kind of
throwing throwing grenades and then not leave your house, and
whereas if you do enter the world and run into people,
it's a bit more difficult to have that kind of
in your repertoire.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Jackie always says that Jackie's like because she goes out
all the time and Kyle doesn't. And even sometimes Jackie's
not even like in the conversation, and he just goes
on these rants. And then she always runs it, like
she said she run into at the Formula one last
year's running the Steve Price And at that time those
two were like Kyle and Steve Price were just going
that hard at each other, and she was like, oh
(40:46):
hi Steve, and she was like she come back on
it because he's actually really lovely god. And Carl's like,
now fuck it.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Marty and I used to go hard on Tim Minchin
and I met him, I'm like, actually, you were really nice,
really nice guy.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
We sort of do it a little bit, go hard
on them because we're just purely because we're jealous of
them was what did you used to call fits? There
was We had a couple ditsy and ditsy and witsy
and lit me the line and hardy.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Ha Heart's a buddy.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
La.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Radio teas, particularly breakfast, just hate each other. I know,
I know.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We have one team. We used to go really hard
on them. We did an outside broadcast and there are
a number of teams there and they're one and one
of the guys.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So that wasn't for that weird radio.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I did that in Brisbane where all the breakfast shows
broadcast from Queen Street.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Morning the pig and whistle, like, what's the purpose.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
We're down Darling Harbor. Its just dunk. It was so
shit anyway, and freezing cold anyway. This guy he walked
over quite with a bit of bravado and he goes, well,
here I am boys, and of course we have Mark
Gyer in our team. MG, who's six foot six and
like fire like a machine, has got a head trick
at Tampa. And he walked out and said, well, if
you boys, you've got anything to say, and MG said, yeah,
(41:55):
funk off, I'm going to drop.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
You right now.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
He goes, okay, I remember that bo b that was
ages ago, like that was ridiculous. It was for something
I can't remember what's the purpose of that. It was
for commercial radio something. I think the launch was it
the launch of digital radio?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
It was, and it was like a show of hey,
we're all big one one. What about guests over the years,
like you know, people who guess, some colleagues, people who've
come into the studio, and of course you have, yeah,
you have great experiences, and then with other people you
have just these awful experiences, people who just don't want
to be there. And firstly the real positive.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Ones you've had over the years with guests coming in.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Oh, that's a tough I don't know, Like I think, God,
Christopher Pine would be my favorite guest that we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, he's the politician. This an actor called Chris Pine.
I reckon there is Oh god, he was funny.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
We were talking about we're talking about I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
He used to he used to go. He used to
go he called Kada bitch.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
It's standard. The standing in the hallway before he would
come on with a glass of a white wine.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Was just glad. He was good.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
I remember remember this stood out because I felt for
him to. But Alex Lloyd, the singer I remember was
one of my first interviews and it was live and look,
I'll tell you what I know. It wasn't a good question,
but it wasn't so he'd just become a dad. And
I'd said to him, said, oh, so you know, Alex,
because that's how I swoke, Alex, you know, would all
your songs now just be about changing nappies and sleepless nights?
(43:27):
And he literally just picked his headphones up, just left off,
put him on the desk, walked out. That stuck with
him because I find now, especially because like radio, we're all.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
We're filming everything.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
The guests have never I used to notice this about TV,
like you never have a bad guest on TV because
they've had their makeup done, they've got they've got nice
clothes on, and they've got their on camera.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
So everyone acts polite.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
But radio they never used to. But now that we're
all filming everything, everyone is really up and about and
they know that this is going to go.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
Everywhere because there's a you're one clip away from just
being like public enemy.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And also we're a show.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
One of the great things that we've done with our
Drive show over the years and all the incarnations.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
We have one guest a week, that's it.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Because we also realized that Brecky would, like I say,
if someone was in town, Brecky would have them, Knights
would have them, the other drive shows would have them,
So why don't we not have them and see how
that goes? And that was that was another thing that
Marty really pushed in, like why do we need to
have doctor Chris Brown on talking about Dancing with the
Stars have been on fifty eight different shows talking about
the same thing. Nothing against Chris Brown, but why don't
we just talk about Dancing with the Stars have it on?
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I just to laugh at Marty is year there sometimes
in that book you actually except maybe once get a
guest and he said something like, oh god, no, I'm
going to have that turd.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
And the sh guests are very overrated.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Because because you find, don't you find that you you
make try and make them feel comfortable, so then you
changed your whole out.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
If there's and we always find the best guess that
we have on here, it's like people we always tried
to just get people who we know are good blokes
or you know good female guests who we all just
bounce off each other.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
You're good. Yeah, we won't. We won't add we won't
use any of this y.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
They haven't it record yet.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
This is just a speak to guests.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Do recommend I like it now because the show is
so successful and yours will be the same. People really
know that coming into our show now means something. So
we kind of haven't had any about experiences lately. I'll
take them off their but.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine over the years you get well.
We had a couple coming once and oh was horrendous.
We're the losinger of placebo. Who I quite He.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Came in and.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Musicians don't go well in the morning, they don't.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And he came in and he's publicist or manager, came
in forehand and said, listen, he's got a fun He
was highly unusual guy. He's got a real phobious as
far as getting his photo taken, they're like okay, And
of course he walks in the studio and one of
our producers, Brendan wood Woody, who just managed to fuck
everything up all the time, comes in not only with
(45:57):
the camera with a long handled lens camera and just
go his bang takes a photo of him and made
he was made the blake from just exploded.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
That's a weird.
Speaker 5 (46:07):
So can I tell photos about Jake Bug?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
I love Jake Bug. Jake I love him.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Okay, well you all love this. So Dad was obsessed
when Jake Bug first come on the scene, right.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Had like two albums. Didn't he disappear? Where's he gone? Dad?
Speaker 5 (46:25):
Dad thought he was the best thing since sliced bread.
Every time he get drunk, which was like every second night,
so he would he would get the speaker out. Well
he didn't have a speaker, then you didn't have He
put the cup in the yeah, the phone in the
cup and he played Jake Bug and he go this,
Blakey is going to be the next Leam Gallagher. That
was his big thing, next Leam Gallagher. And then on
Triple M. Jake Bug finally came out to Australia to
do some media and Dad goes, guess what we've got
(46:47):
Jake Bug on the show torow, I'm not I'm that
stoked to get him on getting wine. Dad came home
that disappointed because Jake Bug was like blind, wasn't He
came in and.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
You know worse.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Now, it was worse than that. He wasn't blind. He
was just that fucking ridiculously hung over and he just
he just give nothing on He just give us nothing
and everything.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Question I said, he said, Jake, you know, blah blah
blah blah blah, and go. I don't know, man, I'm
just fucked. That happened about years ago.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
I had Rihanna in when Ponder replay came out and round.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
I just literally had head.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
And I think she was on the eighteenth. So they
had in a hand like this and she was to
do one word answers like this. I walked out going,
We're never going to see that woman again. And then
literally about what twelve months ago, I'm seeing in the
Pimont studio and over editing some ship and looking at
up her performing.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
At Super Bowl. I'm still in the same room. She's
up there. She did all right. She would be something.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
A friend of mine who did radio in Newcastle. One
of his first ever shifts. He's got John Williamson on.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Day True Blue and the a Mom with Dad.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
I mean, I lyrics don't take an iconic part, but
you know what, that's a great watch out.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Burt In your next rest in peace. Bert.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Anyway, he got him on and that weekend he was
going to perform live John.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Williamson at Bradman's funeral.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Right, say, my makos are And on a different note, John,
you're performing this week at so Donald Bradman's funeral. Wow,
what a thrill. There was just silence and he just
went thrill. The bloke's fucking dead, mate. Oh god, Ah,
(48:36):
things you do now, Okay, Tim, I'm gonna explain this.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
He was about to do what I think you're about
to do.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yep, that really may work. Gets very excited about this.
But before we do.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Any are there any notable shows over the years that
really stand out for you?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (48:55):
We actually one of the best ideas we had and
were able to do it was we decided to remember
and Royal HG used to commentate like the Grand Finals
and stuff for the A for Triple J yep, so
we wanted to go over and we commentated the Royal wedding.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
That was Harry Omegan.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
So it was Saturday and we were broadcasting live around
the country and we just sat in London. We flew
to London for it and we're watching it on the
BBC and we just shit canned it and talked.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
About it over the three and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Just commentating the Royal wedding, and it was absolutely it
was the most fun I've had on radio. Was sitting
there and bloody Royal wedding glasses and top hat, sitting
in London after a couple of pints down at Westminster.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
So you, in hindsight, you probably didn't have to be
in London, but that was the joke we got you.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
That is so funny. It was awesome. God, isn't she
a god awful person?
Speaker 4 (49:45):
She works hard though she's the Mum podcast, she's making
her jams now, so how does she do it?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Incredible? And have you heard her latest one of the
power of Yet no power yet? You think about this.
So she's talking to a person and she goes, she.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Was talking about mat like firstly, you're right about like
what she does as a mother. Oh, honestly, I mean
there's there's single mother's out there working three jobs.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
But but what she does.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
She goes, I get up in the morning six thirty
and I make their lunches and then I get them
out and address them.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Wow, this is going.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
And then I drive them to school. I'm thinking, yeah,
fucking sure.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
You do it.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
And then I get back and it's and goes. I
do all of that, and it's by that time it's
nine thirty and I'm exhausted, and you're going fucking my,
my god. And then she sits here and she starts
to talk about she's got this new thing. She goes,
I tell my children.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
The power of yet.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
Oh no, I am my book hasn't been picked up yet. Yeah,
and it just goes on not it is probably the
most sickening thing.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
I love.
Speaker 5 (50:53):
And the other girl's just smoking, like blowing up and
smoke up her ass.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yea horrible. Anyway, I'm more of a goop guy, you know,
with power Oh yeah, yeah, the older what is it?
The vagina smelling key candles?
Speaker 4 (51:05):
And she apparently she talked about Ben Affleck Tea bagging
her when they used to go out fantastic.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
So that's the power of bag. Yeah, Tea bagged by
Ben Affleck.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, Okay, Cooper explain it.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
So this segment, Dad loves it Loan Survivor, right, and
so he's going to do He's going to pick a
category and then one v one there's going to be
people and they kind of it's like a King of
the ring. You go through until there's only one left,
the winner of it.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
So this one, I was going to go.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Best Radio Talent Australia, but it's not fair because I'm
going I'm going to start to mention names you work
with in your work, and so I'm going to go
radio for talent you'd like to be sitting next to
in a twenty four hour flight.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Okay, now start with Alan Jones and John Laws John Lewis, Okay,
had lunch with him, did you Laws? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 4 (51:54):
I'm not lawsy but yeah, yeah, sorry guys, his wild
turkey and co so sip at the wild turkey then
a sip of coke doesn't.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Mix them, doesn't. What was that?
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (52:03):
A just remember when I when I went to lunch
with him, I said, I'm just going to do everything
that you do with this lunch because I was so
obsessed with him. And we went to Otto and I
just I ordered the same thing, drank the same thing,
absolutely blind.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
He does every single day he used to be, didn't
he same table? I've got a lawsy street after after that?
So John Laws or Fitzy, Dizzy, Fitzy Okay, fitz your
Jackie O. I love Jackie, but fifty okay, bias fifty.
(52:35):
I'll keep fifty going, Fitzy or Hamish Blake, I'll keep
fifty going. Okay, Fitzy, Andy Lee, Fitty exactly, Funny one
uh Laury, fitz Fitzy, Sam Pang.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Well, I know Sam, but I don't know. I think
he'd be more of a movie guy. And you know
so I would say fifty. Dave Hughes, Oh, no, Dave
Hughes will be boring on a flight.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
So fifty okay, It doesn't drink, hasn't.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
Drunk drunk for since he shut himself in the tree
and warnable did he? But he was up in the tree.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'll get him on to tell that story.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
Yeah, well he's in his twenties though, commits to it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
I love that, Okay Fits or Marty Marty, Oh Marty
or Kate lmbrook.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Oh Kate Lambrook Kate or fifty box O Kate Kate
or Merrick Watts, Kate.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Zach Kate, I read Cavali Okay, yeah, Kate or Chris
Page on where's the flight going? I have to work
when I get there. Let's press pause on that. Do
you remember Jack?
Speaker 3 (53:45):
So we're flying on our flight to New York. We're
going to stop over at LA and by the time
we reached LA, we had to give Page your carry
on to use as as crutches.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Because he couldn't even walk. So what had happened?
Speaker 3 (54:00):
He got on the flight and they cut him off,
so he crawled up into business class and stole a
bottle of champagne.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
Oh my god, class, it is real champagne.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Kate or McCloy, Mick mlloy, mcmcloy, col c LANs, Mick malloy,
mc malloy, Mick by your favorite.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Yeah, he's a good mate too. I love Mick again.
I've worked with him for a little while. He filled in
for Kate Lanebrook when she had one of her seven
hundred kids. When I worked with Hughsey and Kate so
and then Mick used to come up when we were
looking for our co hosts in Brisbane. We'd have it
was actually awesome. When Ash left and we were looking
for the next co host, Will Anderson came up and
did two weeks. Marty came up and did two weeks.
Mick came up and did two weeks and Mick and
(54:42):
I would be at the pub at nine point thirty.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Every morning in Brisbane, fucking good. Yeah, he'd have he'd have.
Speaker 4 (54:47):
His legal pad there, he writes the notes, he'd send
off a few texts and then that.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
Was it him and Tony Martin together. Oh. I used
to be on when it was Martin mlloy. I used
to be a call. I used to be Tim from
Tazzy used to call up.
Speaker 4 (55:00):
No, really, I think I might be on like a
poop Stoot album or something like that.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
That's right, the poop Shoot, the Brown album, the Brown album,
You Eat Your Peas.
Speaker 5 (55:08):
It would be very hard to fly commercial with with
Kyle as well.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
He doesn't do that.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
He doesn't do it.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
He doesn't want to flow scum with all the commercial
that's in his words.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
He loves flying.
Speaker 5 (55:16):
Private, even domestically. Why was you waste the money?
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Did it?
Speaker 4 (55:22):
How did you guys get to Melbourne that time for
your dig?
Speaker 2 (55:24):
A million dollar dig?
Speaker 1 (55:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (55:26):
I didn't. I flew commercially. He I don't know how
he got there. He might have just got like uber black. Yeah,
he's just giving all the way down.
Speaker 3 (55:34):
Yeah, thanks, I thank you so much for company mate,
I really appreciate mate.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
Thanks for the hat. Good luck going forward, mate, Thank
you very much. Good on your brother.
You know he is scary. John's it apologies about my
Dickhead grandson and by Dickhead's son Matthew. But I really
appreciate it for you. Hit the follow but all the
best of all your old shaggers out there. Good luck boys.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So those nasty rumors as you leant over to hit record, Yeah,
I love that. That's right. What we do.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'd like to trap people. We don't tell them they're on.
None of the stuff we get out of them salacious.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, especially especially recording the Other Home. It's lulls me
into a false sense of curia. It does give me
a coffee and a hat. I'll tell you anything you
want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Scene in pulp fiction when yeah, Mrscello, Muscillus, Wallace and
Butch gets locked.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
In the room with z and Maynard. It will don't
get the gimp boys, Let's go gimps in the corner.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Kathy Griffin's in that movie, Yeah, yes, yes, in the
Bruce Millers car accidents.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's right. Was she the ones gets shot in the leg?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I think she's just as in this advice soundar that
runs around screaming with her red mop.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Had her first roll.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I don't know that's all my Kathy Griffer knowledge. This
is a movie podcast, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, seen three about ten minutes in the show.
There's the Ultimate.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Actually yeah, came on, came on. We asked her a question.
She basically abused us and page.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Kathy Griffin because she's Aussie. Right, No, she's not aussy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Trump's head members. Yeah, oh god, you get over this
way much.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I don't actually military roads a bitch.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, the lanes are so tiny. Everyone's with huge cars
and tiny little lanes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But it's a beautiful spot, you got. It's good spots.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You could see the ocean.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, we want to get closer to the ocean. I
think they're buying a house.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
But thank Jack's just holding up a picture.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah you're right. I know that's an old photo. See
if you can.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, there the holy fuck, oh my god, it looks
like But no, she's not Australian.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
To answer your questions, who's the comedian Carrot Top comic?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's a bad things about Carrot Top.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
He was performing in Vegas when we were over there.
They were horrendous.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He's just given up. Not as horrendous as David Copperfield.
So I interviewed David Copperfield over there, right, and I
mean he may or may not be allegedly whatever you
want to say on this, maybe on the Epstein list,
And I reckon. I know why because when we interviewed
him at the MGM Grand and it was just like
he basically has a private jet MGM Grand.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And he's with his own theory.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I think he's one of the highest tickets sellers of
anything music, any magic of all time. And he had
a lock on the top of his bathroom door, but
on the outside, like a full lock, like he wasn't
hiding and there was a lock.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, and you saw it. Did you ask him about it? Like,
what's the I couldn't. No, no, no, he's got out there.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Oh that is fa I mean, how competitive with the
magician market. Really, he's a prop paratos coming, is that dude?
Chris Angel mind freak?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, Homber that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Why don't you the magic's like song parodies on don't
you hear like the first like thirty seconds or see
the first thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm done now made? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Friend, people we know went and saw Carrot Top more
over there. They said it was just completely it was horrendous.
He just basically got up on stage. He had a
list that he was reading. They're doing jokes, and that
off off like a sheet.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He was looking at. The crowd were booing. Didn't go
good for Carrot Top.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
What do you actually think of Vegas in all seriousness,
because it's meant to be obviously the loose town. I
don't think it is. I think it's all talk. Really,
that's a hot take, hot take on Vegas. The only
reason I think you get that did well?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Thanks for joining us. Wow, there you go, Jack Clip.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Thanks to Vegas dot com, who actually sponsored by the
I think it's very I just I think it's too much.
But it's disney Land for adults. Every time I go in,
when that warm dryer hits your skin, when you start
flaking out like a bearded dragon.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
A couple of years ago. To him, we went over
there for the show. Well it wasn't actually for the show.
I just kept saying on the show they should send
us safe for an orientation. Anyway, someone went, okay, that
sounds great. Yeah, we had ten days there. I got home,
I jumped out of the car. He when I ride back,
I'd lost something like nine KOs go us, what have
you been doing?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I hate something talk about looking like Penny Wise. He
was that he was that white in the face. He
was like ashy, like an ash tray. And every time
he'd smile, because he's lip he wouldn't put chapstick on
over there, so every time he smiled, his lips would
crack and blood would start.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It was rank.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I remember when we did our radio show over there
years and years ago, and one of the first nights
was the Mariah Carey Show, and I wasn't allowed to
go because for some reason, like he spearing into my
schoony glass.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I feel like I heard the review of that show.
I'm the one that went.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Out, How's how's it has Joel and Ricky.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Lee really good?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I've come to you on ratings day. Obviously you're
a big radio guy.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Now, Yeah, to be fair, like I'm in radio, but
I actually don't know the first Like I don't even
know how the ratings work.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Whilst radio people love all that, you actually know how
the whole ratings and stuff work.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Well, Yeah, I mean it's changed a lot now, like
we take a lot more of like I think the
streaming involved now and all that stuff. But yeah, I
mean it is a bit of an archaic system. Yeah, yeah,
he's still diaries. Yeah, you meant to put on the
top of your fridge and then biz on like the
second Sunday or whatever you meant to fill it out.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's so bizarre in the person when you're knock on
the door, the only person you can take the book
is the person who answers, yeah the door.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And I mean then they asked would you like to
take a you know, the log book and market I
mean who does that?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Certainly no one under fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And also apparently the house the books go to has
to be a home address. It can't be an apartment,
so that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Rules out a lot, rules out a lot of young
folk listening to the FM.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, so that's what I mean, that's looking. But that's
why GB has been a powerhouse for so.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Long, because they wake their radio on in the corner
pass away.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Basically funeral homes and the rec oldish function are probably
so with that, then with that we just still look
like with that rating.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
System, man, could it very much be like when you
say two GB, the older demographic always would tick that box.
Could it very much be that they don't own that, like,
they don't have that much as Yeah, they don't have
the ratings that people think now.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, also because I think with FM radio, which
we're a part of, obviously you used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, I'm an old veteran, veteran of them, the old
Doug mull of Coloradi.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There he goes.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
They're moving around a lot, you know, they're flicking around,
so it is harder to get a more accurate depiction.
But we know when we do it all right, we
just leave it alone. We don't when I rustled through.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The weeds too much when we're doing okay, nothing's fine.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
From where I was sitting, Jamie and used to walk
in whenever we had a ratings lifting game, fantastic, this
is what we deserved. We knew it was going to
be big. And then when we invariably the next book
we would go down. He'd just go mate, so flawed.
It just doesn't it just doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I haven't heard that name for a while. I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I used to when I when I moved to Melbourne
from Sydney, when I got my first gig, I actually
recorded all his He used to drive on today FM.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I used to just record his talk.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Breaks and just listened to like basically nine hours of
talk breaks on my I set and my little Toyota
Starlett on the way down to Melbourne. Was he good?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He was great?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I didn't know j Actually yea was he was your
he was your boss at Triple Am.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, that's right, and we used to impersonate him on air.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Jammie Angel, Yeah, yeah, he loved Training.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I always remember.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Loving the band Soul System Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, drops
some Jupiter. I've never actually heard Train be the answer
to who's your favorite band?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Ever once in my life. I mean, really, who asked
Jamie his favorite was?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Anyway, Well, Tim, we have a we do have a
surprise question. It's Trained, It's trained in Jamie Angel, I.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Think I think the Trains dead. That's a shame.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He's actually you know Adam Levine from Ruine Fire right,
if you ever watched Howard Steren's birthday shows, he Prince
died like the day before and Adam Levine from Run five,
which is a shocking band, got up and did Purple
Rain and it's unbelievable, but they had the guy from
Training their book as a guest too, and he came
up with a diverse and completely fucked it. But look
that up on YouTube after list.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Hell Maroon five. Oh dear lord.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So you guys, your Drive show is we're talking number one.
We have been number one for a long time. Yeah,
we were talking upstairs before. It's just number one.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The rating is just number one, number one, number one
in people's hearts.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, because that's.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
With the surveys. They often say that it's stems from Breakfast, right,
But you guys seem like a bit of an anomaly
because obviously Coylin Jackie O are number one and then.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well in Sydney.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
In Sydney, sorry guys with books, But then you guys
to be number one Drive, Like is that sort of
does that happen very often?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Like? Yeah, I think I think nicely for us lately
all the last few incarnations of the show. Actually, I
feel like we've been a destination show. You can really
see that, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Perth is a jugger.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Nott like Perth just is like rating twenty percent of
Breakfast and then just carries through the day.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So that generally does work.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And that's why kissed us so well in Sydney too,
because you guys in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just keep people glued. Thank you appreciate anytime. So like
I was just like your Hobart boy, born in Hobart.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's got back last week actually to see the old man. Yeah,
my mum got me out of there when I was
in year five.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, give me to Washington do suit? Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I went to the Bill Clinton impeachment trial as an
excursion for school guilty. It turns out, oh god, yeah
he did have sectually that woman, what's.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You know where a black dress do a party?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Does that make you an AFL man? If you're from home?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
One hundred percent? Hawthorne? Hawthorne? Are you Hawthorne? Yeah? No way.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Did you live down there at all?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I was born there and lived down there until year
five and then went back down I left America in.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The year ten and did year ten, eleven, and twelve
down there with my dad. And does anybody home school
by the way out of school?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But if you go to rugby league side then because
we're rugby.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
League I know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So this is the thing. I knew this coming in
because when we moved to Sydney, we lived in a
little flat in Rushcutters Bay and I just figured I
should be a Sydney rooster supporter, which I kind of like,
you know, when I kind of say it reluctantly, I go, yeah,
I go for the roosters.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Go Hawk. That's very very that's very ham FL. The
richest class, very AFL. That's very ludist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
So a question going from how old we went to
Washington thirteen to seventeen, how big was the culture shock.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Going from Hobart to Washington.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, we were in Hobart, Sydney, Washington, but still huge.
But the great thing was I was a thirteen year
old kid loving Seinfeld and Friends and stuff like that.
To move to America, it was like, literally it was
the best thing ever. Yeah, was it real?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Like that sort of school the school yard scene that
you see on TV. Is it all the same, Like
there's just blokes name Chad who are like the quarterback
chet Chadette, the cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Was Springton Lake Middle School for a while, and the
would go ghost Spartans and the locker. The thing that
shocked me the most was the lockers, Like the school
lockers literally were ones that you get stuffed into like
it's saved by the belt.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Oh wow. But you're living in DC?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Was crazy because we lived like on the Potomac River,
so we were technically in Virginia, but on the other
side of the Potoma River was was DC, and like
it was we're convinced that like the seasons and stuff
over there were controlled by the Pentagon because literally, on
the day one of winter, like a snowflake will fall
on your nose, just like you're in a Julia Roberts movie.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, exactly more movies on this podcast. Did you
get Like?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Was there many like people getting stuffed into lockers? Like
did you get stuffed in?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It was really hectic before they realized I was Australian.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Some kids at the back of the yellow school bus
with peg batteries at my head. Oh really, And then
I'll go, hey, get a guys, put it on the
strip on the barbie and I'm like, oh, get up
here with this. But the school bus driver I remember
one day, goes, my god, man, you're English is so good.
You've been here for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm like, are they that naive to it? Back then?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They were too, like Silver Chair were really big then
when I lived there, and really Steve Irwin and then
that was it. So you could pretty much tell them
anything and they'd go.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh really yeah, did they love it? Like once they
found out your popular.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, they're coming back home to reality and you were
the only Australian there.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, it's not funny.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
If you as an Australian going over there, you treated
so well, but if you came back here with an
American acts, they fucking hate it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I had to change my voge. I never had an accent.
You have to change your vocabulary over there, like you
say footpath and like huh, and you have to say
bathrooms at a toilet, so little.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Things like that. It's a bottle.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
So the first job in radio, well it was well,
the first unpaid job was to too n s B
Chatswood in a little room kind of like this, just
doing weekends and I had to do the weather. I
did the weather, so we took Macquariy National News and
then I remember the first day I had to do
the weather and my my finger was shaking as I
(13:35):
pulled the fader down and went the precipitation to the north.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But that was my first page job.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Then I did work experience that with Amanda and Denton
at Triple M, and then Jonesy. I just used to
take myself in my school uniform, so Jonesy, who's Jones
in the man? And now I was doing afternoons on
Triple AM. I always, weirdly, all I wanted to do
was work at Triple M. That's all I wanted since
I was a kid, and Doug Moray listened to Doug
Miray then into Danson and Keller and so Jonesy but
teaching me how to edit phone calls on reel to
(14:02):
reel where you'd have an actual like scalpel out and
you'd put some chalk on it and you'd work out
where to edit the callers and then you go. So
but the first job was out of afters radio schools
training Film Television radio school, and that was with dmg's
new license. So we had we bought Sydney, which was
NOV and then they were putting a new station into.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Melbourne and everyone was like, is it going to be
another Nov? What's going to be?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Because I was so young and I was their first hire,
they didn't want me to know, so had to sign
some kind of little agreement to say I wouldn't it's.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Just about my mouth off about where I was going.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And then that's when I packed my little toy out
of started up and drove down to Melbourne and started
on mid dawns at nover Melbourne. When I launched at dawn,
although because I had three months before that job started,
they put me at the hub so Star FM.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Was not owned by DMG two and I was in.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
The Aubrey Hub and we had to network to like
nine stations, and I had like seven breaks an hour,
and five of those seven breaks were local breaks, so
you'd have to do five times nine local breaks per hour.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
As well as the other two. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It was the hardest I've ever worked still to this day.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, so midnight a dawn so what was that? Just
music or midnight till six?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I just I got a befriended like the guy at
the local server at the BP in Richmond and used
to get him on every day and talking like Nova
was loose like it was really like we'd never heard anything.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Like it before.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Obviously we had Today FM and Triple M and Fox
in Melbourne and all the other hit network stations now,
but Nova was like two ads in a row, which
you can never go.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
To the toilet mid dawns.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You couldn't automate it, so you're literally hitting off everything
as you're going. But it was midnight till six am,
and then Hughsey and Kate with The Brecky Show, which
is why they're still friends of mine today. Like they
were used to come in at five and would muck around.
It was just it was the best. Yeah, right, I'll
tell you what. The first shift, I.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Was really pumped because it was midnight.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I was like, yes, And as the sun started rising
over the city, I started shooting myself because I was like,
I'm actually on air in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It was pretty crazy and you're like, not drunk. I'm
actually not drunken.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Was there any like I'm sure you can say it
now because there was a long time ago doing midnight
to six am and imagine be hard not to have
like a beer or something.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Right, this is going to surprise you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But at the start of my career I was very nerdy,
very professional.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I was head down, bum up, like you know, I
was working six days a week and just living for it.
So really, yeah, it was unreal.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It surprises you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now I can suck move around the country Bridge.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, So then I moved to Sydney and then I
moved to Perth. So we moved to Perth, then to Sydney,
then Sydney back to Melbourne, Melbourne up to Brisbane and
then Brisbane back to Melbourne to do drive, then Melbourne
back to Sydney.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Every ever Adelaide and how old are you then, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Like from a twenty from twenty one, and then I
probably moved around every eighteen every eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I got a lot of regionals, no reason. It's just
boogie cap cities for me. And except for allbree at
the Star obviously, yes, the Globe shout out to the globe.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right right on the border as well.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And how different to because oftentimes like all here in
breakfast times they will get some Melbourne teams. It will
come in and you just there seems to me like
each capital city you've got to sort of change. It's
right to so change content slightly different.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yeah, Melbourne, especially Melbourne is in the art two different countries.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's so true.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, And I love that. I actually do love that
about Melbourn Melbourne really is that you could just mention
AFL in the line at the airport and everyone's on board.
You know, you got like it's just like a it's
a it's a big city but a country town attitude.
Like even I remember going like you go to the
Melbourne Cup and the whole stoff. The whole city would
stop for the Melbourne Cup and then the Formula One,
even before all this drive to survive stuff, the.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Whole city would be obsessed with F one. Like it was.
Actually it was very cool to live there, but very
very different cities. You're there five years? Five years? Yeah? Five? Yeah?
And where did you live in Melbourne?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Richmond, Wheelis Hill which is like quite far out east,
Ivanhoe and then Richmond. We lived with like a ninety
in my first year at Storm, Me and one of
the boys who was their first year as well. We
got a bill to be like ane year old couple.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Why did they do that, It's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
We were still like we were only like eighteen seventeen,
so like they think they thought, oh, it make you
feel comfortable to start.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And then put you with a nine years. Yeah, it's
a weird fit. I know.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
It actually was good because then we sort of learned
the city and then like after a couple of months,
we're like, all right, we'll go sort of do our
own thing because at that age as well. Right, yeah,
let's paint a picture a two eighteen year old Ragby
League players in a new city, finally moved out of
home on you know, decent money is. As young NRL players,
we want to go out on the beers like basically
(18:33):
every three nights. Yeah, and you know we're single as well.
So if you tell a girl when you're out, hey,
you want to come back to like a Billets place
who's two ninety year olds, It's not exactly a nice
environment for a girl to wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's not very warming.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Lady's taking the teeth out of the glass.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, but what did people did?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Did the city get behind the storm? Because I remember
when the storm started it was because I think I
was living there. I was on air with us and
Kate then pretty much and felt like the whole city
got behind you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Did it feel like that when you were playing?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah, Like, although they probably didn't know us individually as plays,
but everybody knew the Storm. It's like the brand the Storm.
Everyone's like, oh, you guys are so good, Like, so
people would come to the games. Most games were pretty
sold out and they just love the Melbourne and has
just love like any sort of sport. They get around
like an event tennis, Yeah, they just love an event
Australian Open, like anything.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They just go to the people you're living with names again.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Kayane Graham Middleton.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, yep, yep, I'm going there. And he took me
into the room this and he handed me a pebble
and he goes that pebble. He said, I went to
Gallipoli and I took that Glipoli that I went right,
He said, make take that home.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I said, yep, okay.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know what's funny. So we found out later that
was his like party trick. So he had like thousands
of fun He had hundreds of these rocks. So like
Daddy go, well, look I got this Gallipoli rock. And
then like a few of the other storm old boys
(20:03):
like Cooper Kronk and Robbie Kerns and these guys go, mate,
I got one too. Whenever boys have come over, Hey,
I got a glip.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It's funny, I said, you know, to assist the first
couple you've had stay in and the lady who was
so nice, she goes, oh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We've had a couple of bits. Oh how was it?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
How was having the boys? Oh they're lovely boys. Although
the last chap who lived here, we heard this strange
noise coming out of his room and he was going
to be he was training to be a tattoo artist
and he actually had a dead pig in his room
and he was tattoed with the dead pig, and I
was like, fucking.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Hell yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
There's some weird sort of a dead pig being dragged
around with a sleeve tat on his and he gave
the pig of pebbles of history.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thanks for joining. It was your first big break anchoring
for husing In.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That was the biggest thing. Is I always just like
again back to Jamie Angel. Just wanted to do that,
just wanted to do that. Was this is coming up?
Just like loved that idea. When I got afternoons at
over Sydney, that was like my peak. But then when
I went down to Anka hughsy Kate also that was
the best learning experience ever. Like Hughsey and Kate were
top of their game. Hughsey, I love him to be
still see him all the time. Now, but he was
(21:21):
a hard task master. When I made a mistake, he
would let me know it in a great way and
he never wanted to do that again. And it was
actually really nice to me to because radio was always
such an individual thing for me, but now it like
to be it is a team, it's a real team thing.
And then my mistake would let the team down, and
then I reckon that we got that show on fire
by we had back to April where Nathan Buckley and
(21:44):
Shane Crawford as our sports.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Guys, they come on like once weekend and as.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
A Hawthorne supporter.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
In two thousand and eight, which was our greatest win
against Gelong, we weren't supposed to win that Grand Final
and I bought a footy jersey from Rebel Sport and
Shane Crawff said, you're not allowed to sign in it.
Apparently the two teams, I'm not sure if this is
the same in the NRL, the two teams aren't allowed to
sign any merch the lead up to the Grand Final.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because obviously they want to they want to make it.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, So he said, grab me a get a jersey
from from Rebel Sport and I was back into the
back of my car and throughout the week and got
the entire team, Buddy and Alisa, Class and the coach
and siall really to sign it for me. And then
then we won that two thousand and well my first
ever Grand Final. So that was a peak time in Melbourne.
What did you sell that for about fifty five?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Did you did you.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Ever have any of the NROL boys come in to
the show.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I think we might have Cooper Kronk in, but I mean,
but Hughsey became a like Husey's a real obsessive guy
in the best way, so he became like mad Melbourne
Storm fan that're like, oh, you know, I'll let you.
So we did have We're definitely at the start. And
I remember because I was, you know, publicly unfortunately a
Roosters fan down there when the first time the Storm
played the Roosters. They made a pretty big deal out
(22:56):
of that. So yeah, that was good.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
And how when you look back at like I asked
someone this the other day, when you look at back
that time, radio seems like it was not a bigger
deal back then, but it seems like there was probably
a lot more you know, money with sponsorship and stuff
in it because now there's now there's so much podcast Yeah,
now there's so much podcasts, like even social media and that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, when you look back at that time.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Like somebody who's lived through probably three different decades of it, Yeah,
was there just way more hype around radio.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's huge hype when especially being involved in the launch.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I was the first voice on there at over in
Perth too, and we and out of all the launches,
we had the Red Hot Chili Peppers in as the
launch of the station. So it was like they came
in and they only meant to do like like five minutes,
ended up playing for an hour and a half. They
asked me, they said, at one point they said we'd
love to like Jebedi was going to be the first
live band because it was Perth. And they saw the
(23:48):
instruments and and Chad and Flee said to me, there's
some instruments in there. Do you mind if we grab
them and play you a song? And they played by
the Way just for me in the studio live on
the nover Perth launch. And the boys from Jebidi I
got fucked off because they was supposed to be the
first first and they're.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Like, well, flease tune me base.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But I'll tell you the two key moments I think
in the how radios change in terms of parties. Right,
so Nover Melbourne we had a party where so the
Nover Perth party was girls walking around topless but with
Nover boys painted on their breasts as our waitresses.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And then you moved to Brisbane and there's short people
if you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Say sombreros, and the sombreros in the middle had hummus
and then around the sombrero were chips and they just,
oh my god, and I'm like, They're the two big
radio party moments that I went that the life has
changed for the better.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
For the better they save tripling at Bondi Junction. They
said that went on in there. And when they finally
basically moved out of there and went into World Squad,
when they pulled apart the studios, they found like basically
like bolivion amounts of cocaine.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
In the building.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Really they fell through the fader holes.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
It was everywhere Bacardi bottles.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Did mulray used to go to like the Malay for
lunch every day and have a king plus about two
leaders of Piccadis And then I fall asleep somewhere unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, and he taking that like, you know why I
always want to work a dribble. Yeah, if you think about.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
How good that show was. So you got mulray, but
you got his chief writer as the boy genius Andrew
Denton who's riding and sitting behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Weird Our Drawer. I remember Weird our Drawer.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh mate, it was I can't
say no, don't so Hughsy He said about.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hughes been a tough task master.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
In the best way though, like I wouldn't have been
able to learn, and I take a lot of that
with me now, like.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know, you've got to be tough but fair. You're
still in his business, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So how was the dynamic of that show with Kate
and Hughsey, because I imagine sometimes being the anchor, you
can be almost like the meat and the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Well, the beauty of the beauty for me always has
been I'm never a comedian, Like that's the key, Like,
you know, just you can be humorous in conversation, but
the fact that you're not a comic and you're selling
tickets otherwise every comic would hate your guts. So Hughsy
was always like if you like he actually said to
me once he said, like, why are you talking like that?
Like just talk like you do in the office. Because
of course I was like, oh yeah no, but had
it use you okay five months today, like doing what
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you thought you had to do.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And train.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But he goes, you know how you talk to me
in the office and you tell that story in the office,
Just do that for me, And like he encouraged me
to come out of my shell. And I mean I
would alter him and Kate because they were just I
guess you never realized that you could do that. I
always just thought I was that that was this is
guy and then sit back and let the other guys
do the thing.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well that old school like it's the old school mentality
of there's only one way to kind of do it right.
There was only that one way up until now, Like
you look listen to radio. Now it's the best sort
of stuff is when it's actually like doing the opposite
of what you're supposed to do. You're talking, you know,
you're talking like it's supposed to be are supposed to
be tight and then like leave the audience on a
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high straight to an ad break when you kind of
leave it awkward and then like to give people something
they haven't really heard before.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Interesting. That's what I've never liked.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I've never done the radio. I've been lucky in the
teams have worked with. They have been very anti like
prank calls, sketches like song parodies, all that's uppish. Here's
a Tony Abbot sketch.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Guys get or people doing. MA missed him. I missed
him on the radio the front bar.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I saw the front bar recently and they went we
get across now to the former Prime Minister and he
came up in his mouth on turnboil and I thought,
I've seen this a million times, mate. It was one
of the funny five minutes I've shoved the boys. It's
very funny, said, you got to watch this. There's one
thing where he gets here and he's talking about you know,
he's doing the eludist thing, and he crossing in from
the s CG members room and he goes, I tell
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you something. He said, I believe that Sydney could sustain
another a f L team And they go, oh no,
there is a g W West Greater Western Sydney oh,
West and Sydney.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Where do they play our.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Homeboshing goes deal war and then they go, oh, who's
your favorite Swan of all time?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, I love Lance, Buddy Franklin and of course the Whiz.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Were a Kappa.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But if I had to say my favorite swe of
all time, it would be Swan Lake.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
He was a change of a man. I'm not a
g W West giant of course, on.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Western suburbs driving home, squidding in the sun every afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
How do they do it? Oh that is great? Beause
Moon did Moon take over from you guys? Yeah? He
said it was an interesting was good though?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Oh man, I went and saw here there was He's
a bit I reckon. I know this is controversial because
I mean, Joel Crazy's one of my good mates and
I'll work with him. But I think Moon is one
of the best stand up that I've ever seen, let
alone Australian stand up.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, then I went and saw the comedians, which was
Mick was like the ring master, and he brought Sam
Pang out. First of all, Sam was terrific. Then it
went Marty, okay, things are lifting here out and they
brought Lawrence on laugh.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh yeah, fucking hell. It was so fun. You know.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
The meeting went about the lineup of that, like who
would go first, second, and third?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sam Pang's bloody good too.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
He's so good.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
And I love how he's he's just edgy enough where
he can do like your your logis and those sort
of OWDs ceremonies without offending everyone.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I do like.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I do like how they like bringing a bit more
of that American sort of Ricky Jason.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, let's just write.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Sam did one on the front part, and it was like,
I went, oh, they crossed to Is that Neil Danaher
struggling with M and D in your answer? So I
think it was they crossed him to, and he said
and he was, And they said, oh, Neil, who was
your toughest opponent? And he goes, oh, you know, I
explained or played against this guy, and and Sam went, oh, really,
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I thought it would have been made in uranus disease.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
What he said to him, And he explained it after
and Mildan had pissed himself laughing.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He said, it's just a joke. We do all the time.
But the lives to you how Warrice just.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Went, oh, yeah, you wouldn't have had to react.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
The best race I ever heard was the roast of
Joan Rivers. And I won't be able to say that
obviously that Jones.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Rivers is so old her ah, that is fucking brilliant.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It is brilliant. It's just a shame. It's probably the
tho roast are probably the last bastion of that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Sort of human It's.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So weird because America in the media landscape is so conservative.
This confuses me about the US. They're so crazily like
do they do these roasts and they but then there's
such a conservative but you can't say goddamn on the radio.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Yeah, and then but then to get to these roasts
like the rest of Tom Brady, that one was crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
They hammited him so hard.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If they said to you, they said, like if you
were over there an actor and they said, would you
like to be part of one of these roasts, I'd say, no,
fucking no way.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I think it's such good promotion though for him.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
They did one with Pamela Anderson. I can't remember who.
He said.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It was like, but when you take a bath, they
call that they call the leftover water hepatitis soup.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
They do be fair. They're good sports too. Oh yeah,
they cop it on the chin. Yeah, like that Nicky Glazer.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh she's in the country at the moment.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, she's doing stand up here at the moment.
But she got like her big break on that Tom
Brady one.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
I love at Tom Brady's on because Kevin Hart was
hosting it, like he'd throw to his comedian and she said, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Thanks, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
You know you're such a small guy. She says, he's
five foot four and one hundred and fifty pounds one
hundred and fifty five. After the rock finishes, I love him.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Brecky Radio, You did you did that with Michelle and
Marty up in Brisol?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yes, I did it with the Michelle and Ash first
and then then Marty joined when Ash left.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Was that Asha Latzi?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love Latzi still.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Latsy's still kicking goals up there. He's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How did you find Breaky Radio? Well, like, how did
you find Firstly, was it Brisbane to I'm sorry said
Melbourne to Brisbane?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, Melbourne Brecky Radio. And then I went up to
Brisbane to do my own show. So that was like
leaving Hughsey and Kate to go up and get my
name on the show, which was a pretty big step.
But Brisbane, I was like kind of young and didn't
have kids, and yeah, it was real burning the candle
both and stuff. There was one time I had some
friends over for a.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Few drinks and it was quite a bit rowdy, and
then all of.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
A sudden in the corner, I was like, I heard
like my alarm go off, and I'm like, what's going
on here? Like it's Friday night, And I realized, no,
it was Thursday night, and and my alarm for Friday
morning was going off. The house was pumping, so splashing
cold water on my face, adopted the show, and then
came back and everyone was still there.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
In fact, there's some of your best shows, isn't When
you walk in there, there's something in your brain you
are trying a bit harder, yes, for your job, because
you're actually like your job.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
To get through it all nine. Yeah, that was the way.
The thing is.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
They just get through it all nine, You'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
We did. It was great. I loved that. That was
a great station to work for, too.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And it's it was a proper radio station just still
is like No One six point n up there is
just it's a great station.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
That breakfast.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I can't tell you how many times I had to
get an uber into work or driving get Trish to
drive me into work and literally go in there completely
just blind rum and just breaking every card. But anyway,
I'm not there anymore. But we did a show in
New York. There was myself Paigey live. Yeah, we're live.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
In New York. What for New York Marathon. Yeah, it
gos to the New York Marathon and oh fuck.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
And firstly, the first night were there, didn't were only
guest Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
We were relentlessly just turned him over back after this
the boy from ours returns. We were one day we
went in there. We were so drunk on air because
our thing. I said, Jack, you've gotta come over. I said,
it'd be great.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're on air.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I think it was one o'clock, one o'clock, two, four o'clock,
two o'clock PM. Yeah, PM, two lineups, so two to five.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Guys, an afternoon shift.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You'll be fine, perfect, I said, what we'll do every morning? Jack,
we'll get up nine o'clock, we'll do a bit of
sight sting around the city. Then we'll go and do
the shower.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Every single day they literally got the stick out. They
drag us out of bed for the two o'clock shower
and mate, it was mate, but we went in there.
One day we were so blind on air that they
were down the line to Jamie Angels, just mate, we're
just we're doing complete breaks of just nothing but laughing
and just it was Jamie Angel The only goes well done, boys,
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Congratulations might have cost your careers that sort of ship anyway,
win it winning a radio award for it?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No way, It just showed you what did you win
an award for?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Though it was it was something like best best break
without a word, but yeah, exactly best heavily intoxicated on air.
But Mulray used to say huge Jackman interview five times.
But Mulray used to say, back in the day, he
used to get there. Remember the was of the rock dog,
Oh yeah, so was. He used to always say, you know, Maddie,
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he said, Muller's used to say, if you're having a
good time in the studio, whatever you whatever happens, in
the studio having a good time for your laugh and
he goes up through the pin and into the cars
and it's true, isn't like.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You get there?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That's yeah, I think you know, that's one of the
most crucial things that you've got to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
We can't fake chemistry either. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's why I just don't understand why radio executives put
people together that never met each other before. But everyone
still goes, oh, but hey, misd and he was so
great when they because they are mates.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, you a true friend exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, no, I've said that. I said to Coop once before.
I said, mate, I think in radio you've just got
to take your time and get to a point. You
don't be too big a rush, and you also want
to a position once you're about to move in one
of those key slots that if you're in a good
enough position that you can pick your own team. I
can only imagine black is what it's like sometimes where
they just throw it and say, right, you're with this
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group on so.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That when that happened to most of my career, Like
you know, that's that's why I think, ultimately I got
so lucky like only I worked hard, but I got
very lucky to work with like that. That was the again,
the key to not being a comedian or anything. I
got to work with the best in the business and
got to learn from them all along the way as well.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And now hopefully I can kind of pat it's never
been a big fan.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
And I know there's a lot of comedians in radio,
and some of them are good, but they've never been
a big fan of like the comedian on radio every
break it's like rehearsed, Like they actually rehearse the jokes
and they come through it and you can sense the
fate laughter.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
People that are naturally kind.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Of work with someone, Ones who are used to in
the middle of past talking like this, that write a
question on a post it note and slip it to
me and that's the question I have to ask, or
you'd have to ask it.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Ow. Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah, I found it very, very difficult at times because
they had a punchline trying to get to that conclusion.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
They're trying to take you there.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Whereas Marty taught me years ago, like it's two hundred
and twenty shows a year, you'll get your thing across,
Like don't worry like again that don't rush thing, like
you know, there's another show.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
There's always another show.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, drip feed them, Yeah yeah, Marty, because mart we're
not listening to Marty on air. He Although Marty's a comedian,
I don't think he would class himself as a stand
up and he sort of like he didn't come across
this comedian on air.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
It was just sort of natural humor.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
That was just he's the funniest person I've ever met.
Slashould work with ever, like very dry too, right, yeah yeah,
and also a real craftsman too, like really loves the
business and really knew the business well.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
A couple of times we had a stand up not
going to say who it was, but if one of
the boys was sick, he'd come in or he come
in for guest slots.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
And and I found it very.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Very difficult work with him because he would start a
monologue and and that's what it was. It was a monologue,
and he would be trying to basically get to the punchline,
which could have been four minutes away, and you're forced
to just sit there and you know, and you go
to chime in, oh well tell me, like MG. Once
he goes oh, mate, tell me when you just said that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But then you'll hear them do that exact bit on
another radio show that they guest on them, Like, well,
you got your two jokes, and you're just like shitting
on all of us and we have to sit through it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
All the people you work with, So outside of Joel
and Ricky Lee, now, who was like, in your opinion,
the best team as far as chemistry is concerned.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Well outside of where I am now, because I've never
been happier and more confident in myself than I am
now with Like Ricky and I like best friends and
we kind of hang out all the time, and I
think that that shows on air. But but Marty, Marty,
Marty was just a cut above the rest in terms
of like you.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Were really weird.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
You were learning from him even though you were enjoying
every day, you know, and we talk about the show
every day before the show too, Like there wasn't this
idea that you just rock up and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That we talk about the show and really think about
the show. So definitely working with him was I think
has kind of set me up for where I am now.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Like, listen to like Marty and listen to Kyle. One
of the things that draws you to them is that
sense of menace and sense of danger, you know, isn't
it like?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
And also but he even money. You teach me things
like like you know you don't want to shit can
everybody because you're running to someone at the airport, picked
like three people and go hard on them. And I
remember once going hard on James magnuson the swimmer, Bladdy,
white Caveer, give yourself your own nickname when you came second,
good on your bro like all this stuff, and then
of course ran into him making his own toasted sandwich
(39:39):
at the Corners Club, and he'd looked at me like
he knew about the white caveat stuff. And we ate
our ham, cheese and tomatoes separately and separate corners at
the venue.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Yeah, I often wanted that with like some you can
some people god really hard at each other. But sometimes
you go, oh, like is it all just a bit
of like fun than that? Yeah, But as that happened
to You've worked with a lot that went really hard
at different people, Like Marty you scare very hard at people.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Yeah, But I think about it. The difference is because
he didn't go out, so I still go out. Oh yeah,
And he's very easy, Like I guess Kyle would be
the same, right, It's very easy to start kind of
throwing throwing grenades and then not leave your house, and
whereas if you do enter the world and run into people,
it's a bit more difficult to have that kind of
in your repertoire.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Jackie always says that Jackie's like because she goes out
all the time and Kyle doesn't. And even sometimes Jackie's
not even like in the conversation, and he just goes
on these rants. And then she always runs it, like
she said she run into at the Formula one last
year's running the Steve Price And at that time those
two were like Kyle and Steve Price were just going
that hard at each other, and she was like, oh
(40:46):
hi Steve, and she was like she come back on
it because he's actually really lovely god. And Carl's like,
now fuck it.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Marty and I used to go hard on Tim Minchin
and I met him, I'm like, actually, you were really nice,
really nice guy.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
We sort of do it a little bit, go hard
on them because we're just purely because we're jealous of
them was what did you used to call fits? There
was We had a couple ditsy and ditsy and witsy
and lit me the line and hardy.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Ha Heart's a buddy.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
La.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Radio teas, particularly breakfast, just hate each other. I know,
I know.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We have one team. We used to go really hard
on them. We did an outside broadcast and there are
a number of teams there and they're one and one
of the guys.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So that wasn't for that weird radio.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I did that in Brisbane where all the breakfast shows
broadcast from Queen Street.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Morning the pig and whistle, like, what's the purpose.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
We're down Darling Harbor. Its just dunk. It was so
shit anyway, and freezing cold anyway. This guy he walked
over quite with a bit of bravado and he goes, well,
here I am boys, and of course we have Mark
Gyer in our team. MG, who's six foot six and
like fire like a machine, has got a head trick
at Tampa. And he walked out and said, well, if
you boys, you've got anything to say, and MG said, yeah,
(41:55):
funk off, I'm going to drop.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
You right now.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
He goes, okay, I remember that bo b that was
ages ago, like that was ridiculous. It was for something
I can't remember what's the purpose of that. It was
for commercial radio something. I think the launch was it
the launch of digital radio?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
It was, and it was like a show of hey,
we're all big one one. What about guests over the years,
like you know, people who guess, some colleagues, people who've
come into the studio, and of course you have, yeah,
you have great experiences, and then with other people you
have just these awful experiences, people who just don't want
to be there. And firstly the real positive.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Ones you've had over the years with guests coming in.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Oh, that's a tough I don't know, Like I think, God,
Christopher Pine would be my favorite guest that we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, he's the politician. This an actor called Chris Pine.
I reckon there is Oh god, he was funny.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
We were talking about we're talking about I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
He used to he used to go. He used to
go he called Kada bitch.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
It's standard. The standing in the hallway before he would
come on with a glass of a white wine.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Was just glad. He was good.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
I remember remember this stood out because I felt for
him to. But Alex Lloyd, the singer I remember was
one of my first interviews and it was live and look,
I'll tell you what I know. It wasn't a good question,
but it wasn't so he'd just become a dad. And
I'd said to him, said, oh, so you know, Alex,
because that's how I swoke, Alex, you know, would all
your songs now just be about changing nappies and sleepless nights?
(43:27):
And he literally just picked his headphones up, just left off,
put him on the desk, walked out. That stuck with
him because I find now, especially because like radio, we're all.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
We're filming everything.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
The guests have never I used to notice this about TV,
like you never have a bad guest on TV because
they've had their makeup done, they've got they've got nice
clothes on, and they've got their on camera.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
So everyone acts polite.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
But radio they never used to. But now that we're
all filming everything, everyone is really up and about and
they know that this is going to go.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
Everywhere because there's a you're one clip away from just
being like public enemy.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And also we're a show.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
One of the great things that we've done with our
Drive show over the years and all the incarnations.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
We have one guest a week, that's it.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Because we also realized that Brecky would, like I say,
if someone was in town, Brecky would have them, Knights
would have them, the other drive shows would have them,
So why don't we not have them and see how
that goes? And that was that was another thing that
Marty really pushed in, like why do we need to
have doctor Chris Brown on talking about Dancing with the
Stars have been on fifty eight different shows talking about
the same thing. Nothing against Chris Brown, but why don't
we just talk about Dancing with the Stars have it on?
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I just to laugh at Marty is year there sometimes
in that book you actually except maybe once get a
guest and he said something like, oh god, no, I'm
going to have that turd.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
And the sh guests are very overrated.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Because because you find, don't you find that you you
make try and make them feel comfortable, so then you
changed your whole out.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
If there's and we always find the best guess that
we have on here, it's like people we always tried
to just get people who we know are good blokes
or you know good female guests who we all just
bounce off each other.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
You're good. Yeah, we won't. We won't add we won't
use any of this y.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
They haven't it record yet.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
This is just a speak to guests.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Do recommend I like it now because the show is
so successful and yours will be the same. People really
know that coming into our show now means something. So
we kind of haven't had any about experiences lately. I'll
take them off their but.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine over the years you get well.
We had a couple coming once and oh was horrendous.
We're the losinger of placebo. Who I quite He.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Came in and.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Musicians don't go well in the morning, they don't.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And he came in and he's publicist or manager, came
in forehand and said, listen, he's got a fun He
was highly unusual guy. He's got a real phobious as
far as getting his photo taken, they're like okay, And
of course he walks in the studio and one of
our producers, Brendan wood Woody, who just managed to fuck
everything up all the time, comes in not only with
(45:57):
the camera with a long handled lens camera and just
go his bang takes a photo of him and made
he was made the blake from just exploded.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
That's a weird.
Speaker 5 (46:07):
So can I tell photos about Jake Bug?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
I love Jake Bug. Jake I love him.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Okay, well you all love this. So Dad was obsessed
when Jake Bug first come on the scene, right.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Had like two albums. Didn't he disappear? Where's he gone? Dad?
Speaker 5 (46:25):
Dad thought he was the best thing since sliced bread.
Every time he get drunk, which was like every second night,
so he would he would get the speaker out. Well
he didn't have a speaker, then you didn't have He
put the cup in the yeah, the phone in the
cup and he played Jake Bug and he go this,
Blakey is going to be the next Leam Gallagher. That
was his big thing, next Leam Gallagher. And then on
Triple M. Jake Bug finally came out to Australia to
do some media and Dad goes, guess what we've got
(46:47):
Jake Bug on the show torow, I'm not I'm that
stoked to get him on getting wine. Dad came home
that disappointed because Jake Bug was like blind, wasn't He
came in and.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
You know worse.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Now, it was worse than that. He wasn't blind. He
was just that fucking ridiculously hung over and he just
he just give nothing on He just give us nothing
and everything.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Question I said, he said, Jake, you know, blah blah
blah blah blah, and go. I don't know, man, I'm
just fucked. That happened about years ago.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
I had Rihanna in when Ponder replay came out and round.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
I just literally had head.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
And I think she was on the eighteenth. So they
had in a hand like this and she was to
do one word answers like this. I walked out going,
We're never going to see that woman again. And then
literally about what twelve months ago, I'm seeing in the
Pimont studio and over editing some ship and looking at
up her performing.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
At Super Bowl. I'm still in the same room. She's
up there. She did all right. She would be something.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
A friend of mine who did radio in Newcastle. One
of his first ever shifts. He's got John Williamson on.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Day True Blue and the a Mom with Dad.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
I mean, I lyrics don't take an iconic part, but
you know what, that's a great watch out.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Burt In your next rest in peace. Bert.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Anyway, he got him on and that weekend he was
going to perform live John.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Williamson at Bradman's funeral.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Right, say, my makos are And on a different note, John,
you're performing this week at so Donald Bradman's funeral. Wow,
what a thrill. There was just silence and he just
went thrill. The bloke's fucking dead, mate. Oh god, Ah,
(48:36):
things you do now, Okay, Tim, I'm gonna explain this.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
He was about to do what I think you're about
to do.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yep, that really may work. Gets very excited about this.
But before we do.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
Any are there any notable shows over the years that
really stand out for you?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (48:55):
We actually one of the best ideas we had and
were able to do it was we decided to remember
and Royal HG used to commentate like the Grand Finals
and stuff for the A for Triple J yep, so
we wanted to go over and we commentated the Royal wedding.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
That was Harry Omegan.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
So it was Saturday and we were broadcasting live around
the country and we just sat in London. We flew
to London for it and we're watching it on the
BBC and we just shit canned it and talked.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
About it over the three and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Just commentating the Royal wedding, and it was absolutely it
was the most fun I've had on radio. Was sitting
there and bloody Royal wedding glasses and top hat, sitting
in London after a couple of pints down at Westminster.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
So you, in hindsight, you probably didn't have to be
in London, but that was the joke we got you.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
That is so funny. It was awesome. God, isn't she
a god awful person?
Speaker 4 (49:45):
She works hard though she's the Mum podcast, she's making
her jams now, so how does she do it?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Incredible? And have you heard her latest one of the
power of Yet no power yet? You think about this.
So she's talking to a person and she goes, she.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Was talking about mat like firstly, you're right about like
what she does as a mother. Oh, honestly, I mean
there's there's single mother's out there working three jobs.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
But but what she does.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
She goes, I get up in the morning six thirty
and I make their lunches and then I get them
out and address them.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Wow, this is going.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
And then I drive them to school. I'm thinking, yeah,
fucking sure.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
You do it.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
And then I get back and it's and goes. I
do all of that, and it's by that time it's
nine thirty and I'm exhausted, and you're going fucking my,
my god. And then she sits here and she starts
to talk about she's got this new thing. She goes,
I tell my children.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
The power of yet.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
Oh no, I am my book hasn't been picked up yet. Yeah,
and it just goes on not it is probably the
most sickening thing.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
I love.
Speaker 5 (50:53):
And the other girl's just smoking, like blowing up and
smoke up her ass.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yea horrible. Anyway, I'm more of a goop guy, you know,
with power Oh yeah, yeah, the older what is it?
The vagina smelling key candles?
Speaker 4 (51:05):
And she apparently she talked about Ben Affleck Tea bagging
her when they used to go out fantastic.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
So that's the power of bag. Yeah, Tea bagged by
Ben Affleck.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, Okay, Cooper explain it.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (51:22):
So this segment, Dad loves it Loan Survivor, right, and
so he's going to do He's going to pick a
category and then one v one there's going to be
people and they kind of it's like a King of
the ring. You go through until there's only one left,
the winner of it.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
So this one, I was going to go.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Best Radio Talent Australia, but it's not fair because I'm
going I'm going to start to mention names you work
with in your work, and so I'm going to go
radio for talent you'd like to be sitting next to
in a twenty four hour flight.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Okay, now start with Alan Jones and John Laws John Lewis, Okay,
had lunch with him, did you Laws? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 4 (51:54):
I'm not lawsy but yeah, yeah, sorry guys, his wild
turkey and co so sip at the wild turkey then
a sip of coke doesn't.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Mix them, doesn't. What was that?
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (52:03):
A just remember when I when I went to lunch
with him, I said, I'm just going to do everything
that you do with this lunch because I was so
obsessed with him. And we went to Otto and I
just I ordered the same thing, drank the same thing,
absolutely blind.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
He does every single day he used to be, didn't
he same table? I've got a lawsy street after after that?
So John Laws or Fitzy, Dizzy, Fitzy Okay, fitz your
Jackie O. I love Jackie, but fifty okay, bias fifty.
(52:35):
I'll keep fifty going, Fitzy or Hamish Blake, I'll keep
fifty going. Okay, Fitzy, Andy Lee, Fitty exactly, Funny one
uh Laury, fitz Fitzy, Sam Pang.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Well, I know Sam, but I don't know. I think
he'd be more of a movie guy. And you know
so I would say fifty. Dave Hughes, Oh, no, Dave
Hughes will be boring on a flight.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
So fifty okay, It doesn't drink, hasn't.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
Drunk drunk for since he shut himself in the tree
and warnable did he? But he was up in the tree.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'll get him on to tell that story.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
Yeah, well he's in his twenties though, commits to it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
I love that, Okay Fits or Marty Marty, Oh Marty
or Kate lmbrook.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Oh Kate Lambrook Kate or fifty box O Kate Kate
or Merrick Watts, Kate.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Zach Kate, I read Cavali Okay, yeah, Kate or Chris
Page on where's the flight going? I have to work
when I get there. Let's press pause on that. Do
you remember Jack?
Speaker 3 (53:45):
So we're flying on our flight to New York. We're
going to stop over at LA and by the time
we reached LA, we had to give Page your carry
on to use as as crutches.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Because he couldn't even walk. So what had happened?
Speaker 3 (54:00):
He got on the flight and they cut him off,
so he crawled up into business class and stole a
bottle of champagne.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
Oh my god, class, it is real champagne.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Kate or McCloy, Mick mlloy, mcmcloy, col c LANs, Mick malloy,
mc malloy, Mick by your favorite.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Yeah, he's a good mate too. I love Mick again.
I've worked with him for a little while. He filled in
for Kate Lanebrook when she had one of her seven
hundred kids. When I worked with Hughsey and Kate so
and then Mick used to come up when we were
looking for our co hosts in Brisbane. We'd have it
was actually awesome. When Ash left and we were looking
for the next co host, Will Anderson came up and
did two weeks. Marty came up and did two weeks.
Mick came up and did two weeks and Mick and
(54:42):
I would be at the pub at nine point thirty.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Every morning in Brisbane, fucking good. Yeah, he'd have he'd have.
Speaker 4 (54:47):
His legal pad there, he writes the notes, he'd send
off a few texts and then that.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
Was it him and Tony Martin together. Oh. I used
to be on when it was Martin mlloy. I used
to be a call. I used to be Tim from
Tazzy used to call up.
Speaker 4 (55:00):
No, really, I think I might be on like a
poop Stoot album or something like that.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
That's right, the poop Shoot, the Brown album, the Brown album,
You Eat Your Peas.
Speaker 5 (55:08):
It would be very hard to fly commercial with with
Kyle as well.
Speaker 4 (55:12):
He doesn't do that.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
He doesn't do it.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
He doesn't want to flow scum with all the commercial
that's in his words.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
He loves flying.
Speaker 5 (55:16):
Private, even domestically. Why was you waste the money?
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Did it?
Speaker 4 (55:22):
How did you guys get to Melbourne that time for
your dig?
Speaker 2 (55:24):
A million dollar dig?
Speaker 1 (55:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (55:26):
I didn't. I flew commercially. He I don't know how
he got there. He might have just got like uber black. Yeah,
he's just giving all the way down.
Speaker 3 (55:34):
Yeah, thanks, I thank you so much for company mate,
I really appreciate mate.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
Thanks for the hat. Good luck going forward, mate, Thank
you very much. Good on your brother.
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