October 16, 2025 • 19 mins
OK! So, this Quick Fix is a snippet from waaaaay back in Episode 51, recorded live at the Long Jetty Markets.
We've got a whole bunch of guests with short stories like: The most mortifying thing a dog can possibly do at work, what it feels like when a theme park ride malfunctions while you're upside down, a useless superpower involving only lips, and a dare that ended with a bloke becoming a temporary nude statue in a small French town.
Good times!
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(00:02):
It's the part thing. Quick fix with Robbie.
It was supposed to be 1 episode of 50 guests for episode 5050
guests in 50 minutes. And apparently I'd forgotten who
I was and I don't mind a bit of a chat.
And so the 50th episode is now in four parts, and this is part
number 2 with Robbie guest #14 who's next?
(00:27):
Who's next? Donnie Zen was a proud moment in
your life. Having my daughter.
Oh yeah. She's 22, yeah.
And being a single mum, it's thebest thing in my life.
You know what it's like to be a parent?
Watching them grow, watching them challenge, watching them do
things. The best thing doing with her
was going to Disneyland. Oh.
Cool. When she went through COVID,
(00:49):
yeah, couldn't do her formal. She couldn't do graduation
because everything was in lockdown and she was in year 12.
Yeah. So two years later, I decided to
take her to Disneyland. What was your proud moment?
I haven't had one yet. I keep waiting.
I hear this from all these otherparents.
I know at some point they'll do something.
Are you kidding? Like, look, look right outside
(01:10):
that door there. Yeah, there they are, just
there. I know one's doing the post
interview when people jump out of the van.
The other one's, I think gettingsigning legal forms or
something. And yeah, I said to Saif, did
you rope them into this? Like, tell them, hey, come on,
it's Dad's 50th episode. Be good.
If you not, not, not at all. They just saw.
It on Facebook. They saw it on Facebook and went
well. Are we invited?
(01:31):
And so, yeah, I just had to allow them to come down.
But yeah, thanks for coming down.
That's all right. Guest #15 I have not had a
single dog in this van. Come on in.
Oh, oh, yeah, you've got your own 10.
That's right. Joe is in for the second time in
the pod van. Because you were in here with
the tongue drums. I was.
And the kalimba. Which current Gold Logie nominee
(01:52):
did you hire to be a singer in your band in 1987?
Anybody that's local from the Central Coast would guess this.
So Julia Morris is from the Central Coast.
Oh yeah, I was in a band when I was in high school and we used
to do lots of work for Tujio. Yeah.
And John Farnham did an open airconcert at Acock Park on Ease,
even 1987 really. And they got to pick 2 local
(02:13):
bands to be the support act. So there's about 20,000 people
there. Yeah, that's my 15 minutes of
fame by being and dusted. Amazing, but our.
Singer wasn't available. So I went, I'm not missing out
on this, I'm going to start hiring.
So we just put an ad out and oneof the people that came into my
parents house and sat down and auditioned for me was Julia
Morris. And I ended up hiring her.
What? So she was, she was an absolute
(02:35):
hoosh. She spent just as much time
recording the Talking and the Paddock in between the songs as
she did the songs. So yeah, when I found out like a
couple of years after that, thatshe was gonna be a comedian
wasn't a surprise at all becauseshe was that focused and that
dedicated to the craft. She's like driven and she's a
very clever, talented. We're joking.
(02:55):
So I'm A Celebrity. Get Me Out of here.
That that Julia Morris, right? She auditioned in your parents
house? Yeah.
In the band. 17. Yep.
That's cool. I'm a talent spotter.
Yeah, you are. I mean, look.
It's right here in front of you.Sometimes it.
Is exactly. Guest number. 16 and 17.
Yeah, that's right. 2. People equals 2.
(03:17):
Guests. Because I make the rules around
here. Yeah, it has to be IE entrance,
that one. OK, right.
Jim and Sonia are in the van. That's your new Jingle.
Maybe you guys, First off, can Ijust say Jim wearing a
Parramatta Eels hat? We're about to play you guys
this week, I believe, Thursday. What?
Oh, is it maybe next round? My bunnies have got to buy again
(03:39):
this weekend and. Parent take two points.
We need them, I said away. But then I I asked Google what
the next game was and it said Parramatta Eels Thursday nights.
I haven't looked. We got Newcastle tonight so I
haven't looked any further and the.
Question here is what have you got in your bag?
Interesting. Oh wait, it's Sonia.
(04:00):
Sonia, my mind is now gone to and don't.
Oh no, because you might really let me down.
My mind has gone to Sonia Bakes.Lovely treats.
And gluten free. What's in the bag, Sonia?
Well, it's gluten free. Oh, caramel slice.
Caramel slice. So looking after your figure,
I've only given you 3 bits. Excuse me, I'll take care of
(04:21):
looking after my figure if I ever want to again.
Oh, thank you. Oh great.
Yeah, that was our oldest son. Who's who's his request, because
Sonia bikes for both their sons as well.
You're a super Baker. Family Baker.
Every now and. Again, I'll get a message from.
One or. Both of them and say.
(04:41):
I'm out of mama's snacks. Mama's snacks.
You could set up a stall in here.
Mama and you guys have been walking the streets.
Anything to say they're delivering the streets, They're
walking the streets delivering Flyers into letter boxes.
Thank you guys so much. It's all.
Right to our pleasure. Caesar's here, I mean Anglanus,
sorry. Alright, thank you guys for
(05:04):
coming down. It's all right to our.
Pleasure. It's lovely to see you.
I hope it's a really successful day.
You might not. Have a voice.
By the. End of it.
That's all right. Everyone at home will be happy.
Thank you guys. Thanks, Mike.
Guest #18 I don't know why this took so long.
I'm getting my first dog in the van and Candace Wendy, come
(05:24):
here. I She's got to get hair all over
come. On I don't care, Candace, what
is your useless superpower? I can play one stupid tune on my
lips. On your what lips?
You can. Guess that.
If you like. I can guess it.
Oh yeah, Yeah, that's exactly what I'll do.
OK, OK. Close to the mic please.
(05:51):
So funny you sound like dress. I was not expecting that I.
Have not played. That tune.
Since I was a teenager. OK, tell me what it is and then
I can hear and then I need to hear it again.
Bonanza. Ready.
Hey, wait, how's it? How's Bonanza go?
(06:15):
That is funny, boy. I don't know what you do with
with that talent. No, that's not.
I don't know when the next Australia Got Talent auditions
are, but. On the pod van so.
Yeah, who knows? Yeah, Although I'll keep your
details just in case. Like a a talent scout, he's
(06:37):
listening. He goes, oh, we can take that on
the road. It's guest #19.
Y'all, Dominique. Hey, how are you?
Good. Thank you.
Do I know you or do you know this?
What's going on? Or I was.
I used to listen. To you every morning on the.
Radio. Oh, OK all.
Right, you disappeared. Wait, is this morning the first
(06:59):
you've heard of where I am? It is.
That's the whole point of me being here.
I've seen you live. So I disappeared off the radio
in December. You sure did.
And then you have not seen or known where I am or what I'm
doing since this is my that's mybiggest challenge is getting
people to know what I'm doing. Now where?
So do you do all the markets around the place?
No, this is the first time doingthis.
I can go anywhere. And you know how Julie Goodwin
(07:22):
used to be on the show with me years ago.
Did you listen back? Then just no.
OK, so. I saw that in your pamphlet.
Yeah, yeah. So Jules and I used to do the
show together right back at the start of when I came to the
coast, so eight years ago. Silly Poppy.
Yeah. Yeah, OK.
Because. She was on TV last night.
Yeah, Dancing with the Stars. No.
Their homes and gardens. That's right, because someone,
my mum texted me and she said I'm watching Better Homes and
(07:44):
Gardens and I just saw, saw yourface on the wall behind Julie.
There was a sign from when we'reon the radio.
But yeah, she's been on like 20 episodes on on here.
So this is the 50th episode today.
Wow, you're on it. Yeah, 50 guests in 50 minutes.
What number am I? I have absolutely no idea.
What's your favorite podcast? I alternate between true crime.
(08:06):
Yeah. Oh, everyone loves them true
crime stuff. I haven't done one of them yet.
Gary Jubelin's very good Interesting.
But yeah, I'd alternate between that and humour.
Yeah, I like somehow related with Dave O'Neill and Glen
Robin. Ohh I.
Can't know them. No, no, don't know of that
podcast. OK, very clever.
Great. Very interesting.
I drive a lot, so I listen to a lot of podcasts.
(08:26):
Really breaks up the time. Yeah.
Yes, I know of 1 you could checkout.
I do too now. I do too.
Well, this is the thing. If you enjoyed what what we did
on the radio, yeah, I mean, it'sexactly that, just in longer
form. Yeah, no, I've had many.
Laughs whole bunch of different guests over all of the episodes.
So the first ones on Monday is it?
It was. 1st What first episode of this?
(08:48):
No. Of your show, No, this is.
This is the 50th. Episode.
Yeah, so are. You doing 50 in 50 minutes?
Uh huh. Yeah.
So yeah, you've got 49 other episodes to listen to before
getting up to this one, right? Yeah.
Don't. Get me dizzy.
Yeah, it'll get you busy. About a kilometres.
Good for driving a podcast. Oh, they're the best.
You just, you turn up at your destination, you're like, how
(09:08):
did I even get here? I'll go.
And quickly do my job and then Ican get back in and listen to
the end of it. Yeah.
Hey, well, thank you for jumpingin.
No worries. Great to see you.
So. Oh, that's so cool.
So you were walking along here and saw this?
Yep, Just about to leave and I said to Greg, let's go back, I'm
gonna do it. Yeah, awesome.
Great. Thank you for jumping.
In thank you, you got a great laugh.
And now to guests 20 and 21 and yes.
(09:29):
One of them is a. Dog, Oh my God, boy, that was my
hand, bro. That noise you're hearing is
Caesar's tail whacking the microphone.
Caesar and his whom and Glennis have just come into the man.
(09:50):
Now Caesar's been in here before, as have you.
Yes, he is a Wellness dog. Yes, he's on the well-being team
at. On the well-being team?
Wait, who else is on the well-being team?
I just picture like 5 dogs on a committee, couple of cats but
they got kicked out but. Cats aren't welcome.
No, of course they're not. No, the rest is humans, so he
has the most important job. You could just see that it's
(10:10):
like a TikTok video or something, though the the
Wellness committee and it's justa bunch of golden retrievers
sitting in a room. No Labrador, Labrador.
Labrador. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give me your most embarrassing moment at work.
So it's got to do with him surprise, of course it does.
So at our school, we have devotions at 8:15 in the morning
where we're all rosted on as staff to run it once just for
(10:32):
staff at 8:15 in the morning, right?
Christian School and yeah, OK doin the community.
And so every morning we're there.
So she usually comes in with me and just sits on the floor until
it's time to go out to Carline's.
Yeah. So he's got into a bit of a
routine where there's favorite teachers and one of them does a
trail of shmakos down into our office.
And so he pulls and pulls. So he got out of the habit of
(10:53):
doing his morning poo because he'd just get out of the car and
race in for the shmako. He, Oh yeah, One morning we're
in devotions at 8:15 and one of our more nervous staff members,
he's on devotions and he's really restless and I'm there
going. I think he just wants to go off
with Sue, who gave him the treats and do the morning run
with him. Yeah.
And I kind of ignored him. And so then the staff member
(11:15):
starts a devotion and he just takes the poop position and we
are in his staff. Caesar, not the staff member.
I just want to clear up the story here for anyone who's
going he watch. Boy, this guy really was
nervous. So I grabbed him by the harness
(11:41):
and just go no. No, no, no.
No, oh, no. Him out of this, out of the big
room with 100 staff in there. Yeah.
And I just hear the roaring laughter as I'm leaving.
I take him out to the garden. I'm like, oh, my goodness, I
hope he didn't. I hope I got him out.
And he does his big dump in the garden.
I think, OK, so I'm OK. So I come back into the office
and I said to somebody in admin who wasn't in there, I said I
think my dog. Just pooped in.
(12:01):
Devotions. And she's like your dog, so
pooped in devotions. And no.
And apparently he'd done about 3pops and this stuff is so good
that they just went and grabbed the paper towel and grabbed a
bit each and. Oh man.
But, and I was so embarrassed. I've still got issues.
Like I still struggle to go intodevotion if he's restless and I
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he hasn't done a poo. I'm like, yeah, I just can't.
I can't. And they always thought it was
hysterical. And I think I did car lines, I
went out early to car lines, didthat.
And then I came back and sent anall staff e-mail from Cesar with
his photo. Apologising for Cesar sent an
e-mail. Blaming me, of course.
Oh boy. Daddy dropped you, right?
(12:43):
In it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He won't take responsibility foranything.
Yeah. It's never his fault.
Look at that face. Oh.
Look at that face. How old is he?
He's 6 1/2. 6 1/2 year old giantgolden Labrador and he's lovely
and he goes to school and kids can talk to him.
Yep. Yeah, talk to him, they pat him,
they cuddle him, they love him. I just need to make sure he
(13:04):
doesn't do too much of the wrongthing and get expelled.
Yeah, you're treating it the same way.
My parents instead when I was atschool she's gotta she's gotta
hope he doesn't do too much to get some expelled.
Awesome. Thank you so much for coming
down and. I want to say congratulations on
50 episodes. It's so good.
I'm loving listening to them, but I'm so happy to see you
doing so well. Thank.
(13:24):
You so thank you so. Much.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling guest 22.
Tina's in and we've got another funny story from a theme park
that's great. Go.
Funny for who? I don't know.
Oh dear. But I was at the Royal to show
many, many years ago, and I was in one of those rides that would
go upside down and you're in a bit of a.
(13:45):
Cage Yeah, don't do those. Thank goodness I was in a cage
because the thing that was meantto be keeping me in, yeah, come
loose. So I was hanging upside down,
hook my feet in, hooked my thinggoing am I going to survive
this? Oh.
No. Upside down and spinning and I
went. Got off.
Never been on again. No, yeah, you do.
(14:07):
The restraints came. That's the word I'm looking for.
On a ride, yes. Well, that's everyone's worst
nightmare. Exactly, but it was lucky I was
in a cage because even if I did.Let go, yeah.
I would have stayed in the cage,but I would have been rolling
around. Yeah.
Completely loose. Do you know when they say, you
know, if you want to stop the ride, just put your hand up
more? So I did that on one.
(14:28):
Yeah. Luna Park, the Gravitron thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah. It started and I come in which
one of them is probably on that with Jordan.
And now it wasn't him that had to put the hand up.
I I stopped the ride. I don't like I was making my
tummy feel. Yeah.
See, I wouldn't go on that, no. No, you're smarter.
Obviously. Who could it be?
It's guest 23. Frank.
(14:49):
No, don't let him. Oh, hello, mate.
Great to see you. Frank has a note?
Yep. Funniest thing you've done on a
dare. Oh good.
Quite a while back with my for my brother's wedding.
Yeah, we had been drinking in the morning from about 7:00 in
the morning till about 9:00 at night.
Not on the day of the wedding. The day before the wedding.
This makes sense. And he lived in a small town in
(15:12):
France. And there was a big rain about.
And in the middle of the rain about, there was an obelisk.
Part of the statue had been taken away to be cleaned and
repaired. The whole yard, there was a
platform. And my brother said to me, we've
been drinking. Why don't you go on the obelisk
and just do a strip and just go there?
And I did. Like a like a the statue of
(15:35):
David kind of thing. Kind of thing, Yes.
And everybody which we're driving it around about, we're
beating their own. And so I was there for a good
about 10 or 15 minutes. Yeah.
And in the Jordan decided to come and wave me off.
Yeah. Instead of actually waving me
off, they started taking pictures.
The police, we're taking photos.So I was there for a good 25
minutes and Ruby was A lot of people were just running around
(15:58):
the runabout and having lots of fun with my good.
Friends, that's great. You know those photos are still
out there. Is it probably?
Yeah, that's probably going 25 years ago.
Yeah, they probably have it on brochures as part of the
touristy thing. Come to this town, see the
famous statue. Awesome.
Good short story, Frank. Thank you very much.
(16:19):
And now? Guest 24.
Who's coming in? Look, I'm quite the fan of your
social media. You do so good at it.
When did you get lost is the question here.
Just got my first car, got my first phone.
I was way too late into this. I was probably 20 ish at the
time. Oh wow.
(16:39):
But decided to be independent. Decided to go on my first trip
away by myself to see my friend in Sydney.
He just moved out and gonna go visit him.
Heading into Sydney. Pouring pouring rain. 2 lanes
say Sydney, both say go straightso I just pick one.
Can't see him anyway. End up going the complete
opposite direction. I end up in Red Fern.
Oh, yeah, during the days where Red Fern's not the great place
(17:01):
to randomly show up. Yeah, nearly midnight.
Phone is out of battery. I don't have a car charger
because didn't even know they existed at this stage.
Yes, I'm like calling my mum, going mum.
I don't know where I am, like. My battery's dying, yeah.
My battery's dying. I'm like low on petrol.
It's pouring, pouring rain. I have no idea where I am.
She gets out. The Gregory's on the other end
of the phone. Tell me what street signs you
(17:21):
can see. 100% yeah. And then she like navigates me
on my last 2% of phone battery to the other side of Sydney
where I was supposed to be. Oh.
Wow. It was not not fun.
That's quite stressy. It was very stressful, yeah.
Was that your first time drivingdown to Sydney?
Yes, yes, ohh. Man.
On my piece. Ohh that's scary.
It was a bad Ohh there's a book in that.
(17:45):
I'm sure there's been a lot of people with that experience.
You, I've been following all your stuff since you jumped in
the van and we talked about how you you had new books, I think,
coming out around then. So I.
Had a book launch last night, yeah.
Oh, just last night, yeah. Yeah, last night.
I bet he loves books in Newcastle.
Oh, yeah, it was awesome. I was totally freaking out,
thinking no one would show up. Yeah.
And then I was in a room of people I didn't know.
(18:06):
And yeah, I we were there for anhour and I did 40 book sales and
I was cheering. So cool man.
Really good, yeah. And can I just say you're the
stuff you do on social media is so, so good.
Yeah. I don't know where you get all
these ideas from, but the way you do it is.
And it's just, I don't know, even if, even if you're not into
(18:26):
books or that style of books, it's just nice to watch your
stuff. Thank you.
So well put together, so many clever ideas.
The five, the when you had the handout over the five books and
each finger represented a different book styles,
everything. Instantly my daughter went, oh,
I want to do that. And she ran off and got her
books and she did the photo withthem.
And I love how you sent it to metoo.
That was so good. Be really happy when people
(18:47):
engage and interact. Oh, totally, yeah.
Yeah, it just makes me feel likeI'm doing something right.
Yeah. How is it all going?
So you're now a publisher yourself, right?
Yes, as in like other authors can come and publish through
you, Correct? Yeah, Yep.
So Waddles Press. Wattle Tree Press.
Yes. So I'm starting local and hoping
to find some really good authorsin the next few months.
Actually, I've got a few Flyers out there good for I'm holding a
(19:11):
writing competition, so we have officially released the theme,
which is dreaming. OK, So people can take that in
any which way that they want. Yeah.
Craft a poem or a short story tosubmit to an anthology and I am
ready to publish. I'm ready to get some people's
names out there and help a few other people to kick start their
author journey. Love it.
(19:31):
Yeah, awesome. Thank you.
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Rabbit.
It's the part thing. Quick fix with Robbie.
It was supposed to be 1 episode of 50 guests for episode 5050
guests in 50 minutes. And apparently I'd forgotten who
I was and I don't mind a bit of a chat.
And so the 50th episode is now in four parts, and this is part
number 2 with Robbie guest #14 who's next?
(00:27):
Who's next? Donnie Zen was a proud moment in
your life. Having my daughter.
Oh yeah. She's 22, yeah.
And being a single mum, it's thebest thing in my life.
You know what it's like to be a parent?
Watching them grow, watching them challenge, watching them do
things. The best thing doing with her
was going to Disneyland. Oh.
Cool. When she went through COVID,
(00:49):
yeah, couldn't do her formal. She couldn't do graduation
because everything was in lockdown and she was in year 12.
Yeah. So two years later, I decided to
take her to Disneyland. What was your proud moment?
I haven't had one yet. I keep waiting.
I hear this from all these otherparents.
I know at some point they'll do something.
Are you kidding? Like, look, look right outside
(01:10):
that door there. Yeah, there they are, just
there. I know one's doing the post
interview when people jump out of the van.
The other one's, I think gettingsigning legal forms or
something. And yeah, I said to Saif, did
you rope them into this? Like, tell them, hey, come on,
it's Dad's 50th episode. Be good.
If you not, not, not at all. They just saw.
It on Facebook. They saw it on Facebook and went
well. Are we invited?
(01:31):
And so, yeah, I just had to allow them to come down.
But yeah, thanks for coming down.
That's all right. Guest #15 I have not had a
single dog in this van. Come on in.
Oh, oh, yeah, you've got your own 10.
That's right. Joe is in for the second time in
the pod van. Because you were in here with
the tongue drums. I was.
And the kalimba. Which current Gold Logie nominee
(01:52):
did you hire to be a singer in your band in 1987?
Anybody that's local from the Central Coast would guess this.
So Julia Morris is from the Central Coast.
Oh yeah, I was in a band when I was in high school and we used
to do lots of work for Tujio. Yeah.
And John Farnham did an open airconcert at Acock Park on Ease,
even 1987 really. And they got to pick 2 local
(02:13):
bands to be the support act. So there's about 20,000 people
there. Yeah, that's my 15 minutes of
fame by being and dusted. Amazing, but our.
Singer wasn't available. So I went, I'm not missing out
on this, I'm going to start hiring.
So we just put an ad out and oneof the people that came into my
parents house and sat down and auditioned for me was Julia
Morris. And I ended up hiring her.
What? So she was, she was an absolute
(02:35):
hoosh. She spent just as much time
recording the Talking and the Paddock in between the songs as
she did the songs. So yeah, when I found out like a
couple of years after that, thatshe was gonna be a comedian
wasn't a surprise at all becauseshe was that focused and that
dedicated to the craft. She's like driven and she's a
very clever, talented. We're joking.
(02:55):
So I'm A Celebrity. Get Me Out of here.
That that Julia Morris, right? She auditioned in your parents
house? Yeah.
In the band. 17. Yep.
That's cool. I'm a talent spotter.
Yeah, you are. I mean, look.
It's right here in front of you.Sometimes it.
Is exactly. Guest number. 16 and 17.
Yeah, that's right. 2. People equals 2.
(03:17):
Guests. Because I make the rules around
here. Yeah, it has to be IE entrance,
that one. OK, right.
Jim and Sonia are in the van. That's your new Jingle.
Maybe you guys, First off, can Ijust say Jim wearing a
Parramatta Eels hat? We're about to play you guys
this week, I believe, Thursday. What?
Oh, is it maybe next round? My bunnies have got to buy again
(03:39):
this weekend and. Parent take two points.
We need them, I said away. But then I I asked Google what
the next game was and it said Parramatta Eels Thursday nights.
I haven't looked. We got Newcastle tonight so I
haven't looked any further and the.
Question here is what have you got in your bag?
Interesting. Oh wait, it's Sonia.
(04:00):
Sonia, my mind is now gone to and don't.
Oh no, because you might really let me down.
My mind has gone to Sonia Bakes.Lovely treats.
And gluten free. What's in the bag, Sonia?
Well, it's gluten free. Oh, caramel slice.
Caramel slice. So looking after your figure,
I've only given you 3 bits. Excuse me, I'll take care of
(04:21):
looking after my figure if I ever want to again.
Oh, thank you. Oh great.
Yeah, that was our oldest son. Who's who's his request, because
Sonia bikes for both their sons as well.
You're a super Baker. Family Baker.
Every now and. Again, I'll get a message from.
One or. Both of them and say.
(04:41):
I'm out of mama's snacks. Mama's snacks.
You could set up a stall in here.
Mama and you guys have been walking the streets.
Anything to say they're delivering the streets, They're
walking the streets delivering Flyers into letter boxes.
Thank you guys so much. It's all.
Right to our pleasure. Caesar's here, I mean Anglanus,
sorry. Alright, thank you guys for
(05:04):
coming down. It's all right to our.
Pleasure. It's lovely to see you.
I hope it's a really successful day.
You might not. Have a voice.
By the. End of it.
That's all right. Everyone at home will be happy.
Thank you guys. Thanks, Mike.
Guest #18 I don't know why this took so long.
I'm getting my first dog in the van and Candace Wendy, come
(05:24):
here. I She's got to get hair all over
come. On I don't care, Candace, what
is your useless superpower? I can play one stupid tune on my
lips. On your what lips?
You can. Guess that.
If you like. I can guess it.
Oh yeah, Yeah, that's exactly what I'll do.
OK, OK. Close to the mic please.
(05:51):
So funny you sound like dress. I was not expecting that I.
Have not played. That tune.
Since I was a teenager. OK, tell me what it is and then
I can hear and then I need to hear it again.
Bonanza. Ready.
Hey, wait, how's it? How's Bonanza go?
(06:15):
That is funny, boy. I don't know what you do with
with that talent. No, that's not.
I don't know when the next Australia Got Talent auditions
are, but. On the pod van so.
Yeah, who knows? Yeah, Although I'll keep your
details just in case. Like a a talent scout, he's
(06:37):
listening. He goes, oh, we can take that on
the road. It's guest #19.
Y'all, Dominique. Hey, how are you?
Good. Thank you.
Do I know you or do you know this?
What's going on? Or I was.
I used to listen. To you every morning on the.
Radio. Oh, OK all.
Right, you disappeared. Wait, is this morning the first
(06:59):
you've heard of where I am? It is.
That's the whole point of me being here.
I've seen you live. So I disappeared off the radio
in December. You sure did.
And then you have not seen or known where I am or what I'm
doing since this is my that's mybiggest challenge is getting
people to know what I'm doing. Now where?
So do you do all the markets around the place?
No, this is the first time doingthis.
I can go anywhere. And you know how Julie Goodwin
(07:22):
used to be on the show with me years ago.
Did you listen back? Then just no.
OK, so. I saw that in your pamphlet.
Yeah, yeah. So Jules and I used to do the
show together right back at the start of when I came to the
coast, so eight years ago. Silly Poppy.
Yeah. Yeah, OK.
Because. She was on TV last night.
Yeah, Dancing with the Stars. No.
Their homes and gardens. That's right, because someone,
my mum texted me and she said I'm watching Better Homes and
(07:44):
Gardens and I just saw, saw yourface on the wall behind Julie.
There was a sign from when we'reon the radio.
But yeah, she's been on like 20 episodes on on here.
So this is the 50th episode today.
Wow, you're on it. Yeah, 50 guests in 50 minutes.
What number am I? I have absolutely no idea.
What's your favorite podcast? I alternate between true crime.
(08:06):
Yeah. Oh, everyone loves them true
crime stuff. I haven't done one of them yet.
Gary Jubelin's very good Interesting.
But yeah, I'd alternate between that and humour.
Yeah, I like somehow related with Dave O'Neill and Glen
Robin. Ohh I.
Can't know them. No, no, don't know of that
podcast. OK, very clever.
Great. Very interesting.
I drive a lot, so I listen to a lot of podcasts.
(08:26):
Really breaks up the time. Yeah.
Yes, I know of 1 you could checkout.
I do too now. I do too.
Well, this is the thing. If you enjoyed what what we did
on the radio, yeah, I mean, it'sexactly that, just in longer
form. Yeah, no, I've had many.
Laughs whole bunch of different guests over all of the episodes.
So the first ones on Monday is it?
It was. 1st What first episode of this?
(08:48):
No. Of your show, No, this is.
This is the 50th. Episode.
Yeah, so are. You doing 50 in 50 minutes?
Uh huh. Yeah.
So yeah, you've got 49 other episodes to listen to before
getting up to this one, right? Yeah.
Don't. Get me dizzy.
Yeah, it'll get you busy. About a kilometres.
Good for driving a podcast. Oh, they're the best.
You just, you turn up at your destination, you're like, how
(09:08):
did I even get here? I'll go.
And quickly do my job and then Ican get back in and listen to
the end of it. Yeah.
Hey, well, thank you for jumpingin.
No worries. Great to see you.
So. Oh, that's so cool.
So you were walking along here and saw this?
Yep, Just about to leave and I said to Greg, let's go back, I'm
gonna do it. Yeah, awesome.
Great. Thank you for jumping.
In thank you, you got a great laugh.
And now to guests 20 and 21 and yes.
(09:29):
One of them is a. Dog, Oh my God, boy, that was my
hand, bro. That noise you're hearing is
Caesar's tail whacking the microphone.
Caesar and his whom and Glennis have just come into the man.
(09:50):
Now Caesar's been in here before, as have you.
Yes, he is a Wellness dog. Yes, he's on the well-being team
at. On the well-being team?
Wait, who else is on the well-being team?
I just picture like 5 dogs on a committee, couple of cats but
they got kicked out but. Cats aren't welcome.
No, of course they're not. No, the rest is humans, so he
has the most important job. You could just see that it's
(10:10):
like a TikTok video or something, though the the
Wellness committee and it's justa bunch of golden retrievers
sitting in a room. No Labrador, Labrador.
Labrador. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give me your most embarrassing moment at work.
So it's got to do with him surprise, of course it does.
So at our school, we have devotions at 8:15 in the morning
where we're all rosted on as staff to run it once just for
(10:32):
staff at 8:15 in the morning, right?
Christian School and yeah, OK doin the community.
And so every morning we're there.
So she usually comes in with me and just sits on the floor until
it's time to go out to Carline's.
Yeah. So he's got into a bit of a
routine where there's favorite teachers and one of them does a
trail of shmakos down into our office.
And so he pulls and pulls. So he got out of the habit of
(10:53):
doing his morning poo because he'd just get out of the car and
race in for the shmako. He, Oh yeah, One morning we're
in devotions at 8:15 and one of our more nervous staff members,
he's on devotions and he's really restless and I'm there
going. I think he just wants to go off
with Sue, who gave him the treats and do the morning run
with him. Yeah.
And I kind of ignored him. And so then the staff member
(11:15):
starts a devotion and he just takes the poop position and we
are in his staff. Caesar, not the staff member.
I just want to clear up the story here for anyone who's
going he watch. Boy, this guy really was
nervous. So I grabbed him by the harness
(11:41):
and just go no. No, no, no.
No, oh, no. Him out of this, out of the big
room with 100 staff in there. Yeah.
And I just hear the roaring laughter as I'm leaving.
I take him out to the garden. I'm like, oh, my goodness, I
hope he didn't. I hope I got him out.
And he does his big dump in the garden.
I think, OK, so I'm OK. So I come back into the office
and I said to somebody in admin who wasn't in there, I said I
think my dog. Just pooped in.
(12:01):
Devotions. And she's like your dog, so
pooped in devotions. And no.
And apparently he'd done about 3pops and this stuff is so good
that they just went and grabbed the paper towel and grabbed a
bit each and. Oh man.
But, and I was so embarrassed. I've still got issues.
Like I still struggle to go intodevotion if he's restless and I
(12:22):
he hasn't done a poo. I'm like, yeah, I just can't.
I can't. And they always thought it was
hysterical. And I think I did car lines, I
went out early to car lines, didthat.
And then I came back and sent anall staff e-mail from Cesar with
his photo. Apologising for Cesar sent an
e-mail. Blaming me, of course.
Oh boy. Daddy dropped you, right?
(12:43):
In it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He won't take responsibility foranything.
Yeah. It's never his fault.
Look at that face. Oh.
Look at that face. How old is he?
He's 6 1/2. 6 1/2 year old giantgolden Labrador and he's lovely
and he goes to school and kids can talk to him.
Yep. Yeah, talk to him, they pat him,
they cuddle him, they love him. I just need to make sure he
(13:04):
doesn't do too much of the wrongthing and get expelled.
Yeah, you're treating it the same way.
My parents instead when I was atschool she's gotta she's gotta
hope he doesn't do too much to get some expelled.
Awesome. Thank you so much for coming
down and. I want to say congratulations on
50 episodes. It's so good.
I'm loving listening to them, but I'm so happy to see you
doing so well. Thank.
(13:24):
You so thank you so. Much.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling guest 22.
Tina's in and we've got another funny story from a theme park
that's great. Go.
Funny for who? I don't know.
Oh dear. But I was at the Royal to show
many, many years ago, and I was in one of those rides that would
go upside down and you're in a bit of a.
(13:45):
Cage Yeah, don't do those. Thank goodness I was in a cage
because the thing that was meantto be keeping me in, yeah, come
loose. So I was hanging upside down,
hook my feet in, hooked my thinggoing am I going to survive
this? Oh.
No. Upside down and spinning and I
went. Got off.
Never been on again. No, yeah, you do.
(14:07):
The restraints came. That's the word I'm looking for.
On a ride, yes. Well, that's everyone's worst
nightmare. Exactly, but it was lucky I was
in a cage because even if I did.Let go, yeah.
I would have stayed in the cage,but I would have been rolling
around. Yeah.
Completely loose. Do you know when they say, you
know, if you want to stop the ride, just put your hand up
more? So I did that on one.
(14:28):
Yeah. Luna Park, the Gravitron thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah. It started and I come in which
one of them is probably on that with Jordan.
And now it wasn't him that had to put the hand up.
I I stopped the ride. I don't like I was making my
tummy feel. Yeah.
See, I wouldn't go on that, no. No, you're smarter.
Obviously. Who could it be?
It's guest 23. Frank.
(14:49):
No, don't let him. Oh, hello, mate.
Great to see you. Frank has a note?
Yep. Funniest thing you've done on a
dare. Oh good.
Quite a while back with my for my brother's wedding.
Yeah, we had been drinking in the morning from about 7:00 in
the morning till about 9:00 at night.
Not on the day of the wedding. The day before the wedding.
This makes sense. And he lived in a small town in
(15:12):
France. And there was a big rain about.
And in the middle of the rain about, there was an obelisk.
Part of the statue had been taken away to be cleaned and
repaired. The whole yard, there was a
platform. And my brother said to me, we've
been drinking. Why don't you go on the obelisk
and just do a strip and just go there?
And I did. Like a like a the statue of
(15:35):
David kind of thing. Kind of thing, Yes.
And everybody which we're driving it around about, we're
beating their own. And so I was there for a good
about 10 or 15 minutes. Yeah.
And in the Jordan decided to come and wave me off.
Yeah. Instead of actually waving me
off, they started taking pictures.
The police, we're taking photos.So I was there for a good 25
minutes and Ruby was A lot of people were just running around
(15:58):
the runabout and having lots of fun with my good.
Friends, that's great. You know those photos are still
out there. Is it probably?
Yeah, that's probably going 25 years ago.
Yeah, they probably have it on brochures as part of the
touristy thing. Come to this town, see the
famous statue. Awesome.
Good short story, Frank. Thank you very much.
(16:19):
And now? Guest 24.
Who's coming in? Look, I'm quite the fan of your
social media. You do so good at it.
When did you get lost is the question here.
Just got my first car, got my first phone.
I was way too late into this. I was probably 20 ish at the
time. Oh wow.
(16:39):
But decided to be independent. Decided to go on my first trip
away by myself to see my friend in Sydney.
He just moved out and gonna go visit him.
Heading into Sydney. Pouring pouring rain. 2 lanes
say Sydney, both say go straightso I just pick one.
Can't see him anyway. End up going the complete
opposite direction. I end up in Red Fern.
Oh, yeah, during the days where Red Fern's not the great place
(17:01):
to randomly show up. Yeah, nearly midnight.
Phone is out of battery. I don't have a car charger
because didn't even know they existed at this stage.
Yes, I'm like calling my mum, going mum.
I don't know where I am, like. My battery's dying, yeah.
My battery's dying. I'm like low on petrol.
It's pouring, pouring rain. I have no idea where I am.
She gets out. The Gregory's on the other end
of the phone. Tell me what street signs you
(17:21):
can see. 100% yeah. And then she like navigates me
on my last 2% of phone battery to the other side of Sydney
where I was supposed to be. Oh.
Wow. It was not not fun.
That's quite stressy. It was very stressful, yeah.
Was that your first time drivingdown to Sydney?
Yes, yes, ohh. Man.
On my piece. Ohh that's scary.
It was a bad Ohh there's a book in that.
(17:45):
I'm sure there's been a lot of people with that experience.
You, I've been following all your stuff since you jumped in
the van and we talked about how you you had new books, I think,
coming out around then. So I.
Had a book launch last night, yeah.
Oh, just last night, yeah. Yeah, last night.
I bet he loves books in Newcastle.
Oh, yeah, it was awesome. I was totally freaking out,
thinking no one would show up. Yeah.
And then I was in a room of people I didn't know.
(18:06):
And yeah, I we were there for anhour and I did 40 book sales and
I was cheering. So cool man.
Really good, yeah. And can I just say you're the
stuff you do on social media is so, so good.
Yeah. I don't know where you get all
these ideas from, but the way you do it is.
And it's just, I don't know, even if, even if you're not into
(18:26):
books or that style of books, it's just nice to watch your
stuff. Thank you.
So well put together, so many clever ideas.
The five, the when you had the handout over the five books and
each finger represented a different book styles,
everything. Instantly my daughter went, oh,
I want to do that. And she ran off and got her
books and she did the photo withthem.
And I love how you sent it to metoo.
That was so good. Be really happy when people
(18:47):
engage and interact. Oh, totally, yeah.
Yeah, it just makes me feel likeI'm doing something right.
Yeah. How is it all going?
So you're now a publisher yourself, right?
Yes, as in like other authors can come and publish through
you, Correct? Yeah, Yep.
So Waddles Press. Wattle Tree Press.
Yes. So I'm starting local and hoping
to find some really good authorsin the next few months.
Actually, I've got a few Flyers out there good for I'm holding a
(19:11):
writing competition, so we have officially released the theme,
which is dreaming. OK, So people can take that in
any which way that they want. Yeah.
Craft a poem or a short story tosubmit to an anthology and I am
ready to publish. I'm ready to get some people's
names out there and help a few other people to kick start their
author journey. Love it.
(19:31):
Yeah, awesome. Thank you.
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