Speaker 1: Our next guest has been doing the same gig for
Speaker 1: twenty years. He clocks up the special anniversary this week,
Speaker 1: and he's joining us via FaceTime. Here he is hello,
Speaker 1: Oh there he is com Hey, mister Stefanovak.
Speaker 2: Just came out of the loop.
Speaker 3: We called you at a bad time.
Speaker 4: Did we just try it?
Speaker 2: You catch up on everything? You know how it is
Speaker 2: then the breakfast shift.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Carl, week for you.
Speaker 1: If you don't get canceled within the next twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: you're going to make twenty years.
Speaker 4: My friend, well, I don't know how.
Speaker 5: I haven't got canceled before. And now, as you guys know,
Speaker 5: it's like yourselves. I did have a course. I was
Speaker 5: canceled for a year, but.
Speaker 6: Oh you did. I've known many people make the comeback,
Speaker 6: do they?
Speaker 1: I've been my relationship for about twenty years, Carl. We
Speaker 1: called it the quarter life crisis when the missus and
Speaker 1: I had the break So that was your little the
Speaker 1: midlife crisis of the Today Show. Let's refer to it
Speaker 1: as that.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: It wasn't going to go first on this interview, but
Speaker 5: if you're happy to, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Matter it all started. I had a great time.
Speaker 5: I got to go and travel around with my wife,
Speaker 5: and you know, it was if you're going to have
Speaker 5: a year off, it may as well be you know, overseas.
Speaker 6: And yeah, it was quite good timing for you to
Speaker 6: get that year off. You've got like an extended honeymoon.
Speaker 3: That's a dream.
Speaker 4: What are you doing to celebrate twenty years?
Speaker 2: Well? I was talking about this the other day and
Speaker 2: I don't think there's much planned.
Speaker 5: I mean channel lines, we're going through, you know, some
Speaker 5: budget cards. This is why we can't afford Clint on
Speaker 5: the Today Show.
Speaker 6: I was about to say, can you get your hands
Speaker 6: off our man, Carl.
Speaker 2: No, I'm pursuing him with great gust.
Speaker 5: As you know, I've tagging upon myself to he's the
Speaker 5: only person I've ever mentored at the nine network.
Speaker 4: And look at how that's turned out. He's got there.
Speaker 2: No, they're all lining up to be mentored by me.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: What would you say is the single greatest thing you've
Speaker 2: learned from me?
Speaker 4: Oh, there's a few, there's a few.
Speaker 2: There was.
Speaker 5: There was a log years after party in in your
Speaker 5: room at.
Speaker 4: Crowd which I really thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 3: I popped into one of them.
Speaker 4: Might as well, Yes, well.
Speaker 5: And the thing is, I think the great thing about
Speaker 5: when you mentor someone and they not only equal you
Speaker 5: to go better than you is when I saw you
Speaker 5: guys are gathered around last time, and boy, I mean
Speaker 5: that night for Clint when he was on that that
Speaker 5: little popper and then he was on a scooter, you know, and.
Speaker 2: He got lost, he got locked up.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is all stuff that I would never
Speaker 5: have done.
Speaker 3: He's hoping to get the year off.
Speaker 1: Carlos was leaving, leaving Adelaide after gather around, and there's
Speaker 1: Clinton carl sitting there, both outside the lounge because they
Speaker 1: couldn't get in, both just in the food court, sitting
Speaker 1: in the chairs, looking so somber.
Speaker 6: They was so hungover and you couldn't get into the lounge.
Speaker 3: I think we saw you sitting on the floor at
Speaker 3: one point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, there it is in all of glory,
Speaker 4: that's the future.
Speaker 5: In good Well, the thing is we get that we
Speaker 5: unfortunately we get breathalyzed, the only people in the world
Speaker 5: to get breath liized before we go into a loud
Speaker 5: as part of the rich tapestry of being in the
Speaker 5: relationship that we're in. But hopefully he'll I think we've
Speaker 5: still got some time to get Clint on board.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think you and I are going to have to
Speaker 6: have an actual fight over him.
Speaker 2: I know, well, I'm happy to do Actually, why don't
Speaker 2: we do that.
Speaker 4: Where and when? I'm happy for you to take him
Speaker 4: and I'll throw in Lauren.
Speaker 3: That's because he wants Sarah Arbo. He's trying to try.
Speaker 2: It's smart.
Speaker 5: What about I mean, we could do one of those
Speaker 5: jelly wrestling. Can they do that these days?
Speaker 3: I don't care, but I'll fight you anyway for Clint.
Speaker 6: Let my hands of him, get your hands on a
Speaker 6: huge was just the fiftieth as well, fifty Look at
Speaker 6: Hill recovering from you. So if you didn't have the
Speaker 6: year off, your twenty years and your fifty years would
Speaker 6: aligned now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you've got to You've got a printing
Speaker 5: things together with as you guys know. Look, I know
Speaker 5: I've known you guys for a long long time and
Speaker 5: and no one hits it harder in breakfast than all
Speaker 5: four of us.
Speaker 2: So it's a miracle.
Speaker 5: It's a miracle too, you know, to be still part
Speaker 5: of this, and it's a it's a lovely thing to
Speaker 5: wake up in the morning, as you noted, to go
Speaker 5: to your listeners and for me to go to my
Speaker 5: viewers is a real privilege. So long may it continue.
Speaker 2: I say, we've.
Speaker 1: Got you quite close up on facetom. You're looking good.
Speaker 1: Is someone going to Turkey recently? How's the how's the top?
Speaker 5: That's all fake? They're just put this wedget in there
Speaker 5: at night. It's Ray Martin's. I've got a few of
Speaker 5: them here.
Speaker 4: Actually, can you just leave them for me on a weekend.
Speaker 4: We do share a dressing room.
Speaker 2: I need it, mate, look it, just take your shirt
Speaker 2: off for me.
Speaker 1: Give you speaking out Speaking of photo shoots, stella paddling
Speaker 1: around in the water there and your suit big fella. Yeah,
Speaker 1: front page of Stellar mag is coming out of the
Speaker 1: ocean and a suit man.
Speaker 4: The man.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I obviously take a great delight and
Speaker 5: checking these things out before.
Speaker 2: I do them a metatorial approval.
Speaker 5: They said, met at Maruba Beach, and I met it
Speaker 5: there and then I was coming out of the ocean.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. You know.
Speaker 5: You've just got to You've got to get into character
Speaker 5: when you're doing these things.
Speaker 3: It's very Hailey Berry and James bond, So this.
Speaker 1: Isn't a green screen job. Actually put you in the
Speaker 1: ocean in a suit strides.
Speaker 5: Now it's all about the cutbacks. We don't have green
Speaker 5: screens here anymore.
Speaker 1: I loved seeing the locals of Maruba beach going look
Speaker 1: at this guy has been on a again.
Speaker 4: Cooked.
Speaker 2: These these kids were going fast. Hey Steph a your wanker.
Speaker 2: No one goes in the water with a suit on
Speaker 2: your wanker.
Speaker 5: Anyway, it was it was an invaluable experience me reconnecting
Speaker 5: with my roots in Marubra.
Speaker 4: Do you often get that support when you're out and about.
Speaker 5: Car a lot of it when I'm leaving leave the
Speaker 5: race trackers, Clip would know only too well. It's generally,
Speaker 5: Hey Carlos, Coushie, you're a waker.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wanker star Hey Steven O Dick.
Speaker 5: You know it's a beautiful I love leaving the race trail.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 6: Hey Carlos, who's the worst person you've interviewed in twenty years?
Speaker 5: I think Julia Robinson. It's a bit shocking, really, yeah,
Speaker 5: but it was. Look apparently it was just a bad film.
Speaker 5: This moment List, which I never watched. Have you watched
Speaker 5: the film. I said yes, and she goes what happened
Speaker 5: in the first time? I said, well, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: who didn't watch it? And so she was just frightfully bad.
Speaker 5: But I think the bad day and the bad film.
Speaker 5: So but that's always the one I say is that
Speaker 5: is the worst experience I've had on air?
Speaker 3: And who's your favorite to interview? Who's been nice?
Speaker 2: I think you guys. You guys are right up there
Speaker 2: the commitment.
Speaker 5: How you guys have crossed over face of sheer adversity
Speaker 5: and cut back from it. That's a great Australian story
Speaker 5: and a great media story. I'm looking forward to going
Speaker 5: to the ABC and replacing Michael Rowland having a similar
Speaker 5: effect on the order.
Speaker 1: Trust him to relate to us getting fired. Hey Carl,
Speaker 1: congratulations mate. Twenty years is huge in this industry and
Speaker 1: in a job like that. Well, mate, we couldn't remember
Speaker 1: the Morning TV without you.
Speaker 2: I love you. I see it Karaoke and Melbourne and
Speaker 2: we'll have that fight there.
Speaker 4: Bring it on and I love you mate. You've done
Speaker 4: a lot for me personally and professionally, So thank you, mate.
Speaker 2: Take your shirt off, give the people what they want.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: In our dressing room, just you and me. Do right.
Speaker 2: I'll take the hair off for a second.
Speaker 4: Lauren Lauren wake Up.
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