1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: City and with her with Kate Ritchie podcast. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 2: We've been talking about Liz Hayes memoir quite a bit lately. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: This man was not married to John Singleton, but he 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: has a memoir out. It's called big Mouth. I'm just 5 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: coming through it now and at the end the acknowledgments 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: my family, my book family, my television family, my radio family. 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: So we'll have a look just to see. 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: How many on the list there is our name. 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: Damn it, we don't get a mention. It's matt question. 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 3: It is amazing how many people I know the first 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: thing they really think. And everywhere I go by there 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 3: and I go, well, you're not my mom. 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: You know, and my mom to Mattie Preston, what's exciting? 14 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: What's exciting about this book? Big Mouth is one. You've 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: got a lot to say. Also, you love eating. I've 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: got a big mouth. You have a big man, I've 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: got good hair, big moun a huge hit. But do 18 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: you know what I don't know. I don't know a bet. 19 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: He's better storyteller than you, matt Preston. And you've got 20 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: a lot of great stories there are. 21 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 3: I'll give you a start that Matthew Riley would be 22 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: good that's true. I think I'd be about two thousand 23 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: and nine and eighty five, and that would just be 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: my six and that'd be just my part of my 25 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 3: part of maulven No. I have got some stories to tell, 26 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 3: and that's then. And I think the main thing I've 27 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 3: realized doing this book is, so is everyone this whole 28 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 3: thing about family secrets and scandals and things we keep 29 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: to ourselves and they have power? Can you keep thoselves 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: the mumment You go blah and you talk about it. 31 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: Other people come up and say, oh, you know, I 32 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: lost my brother died this way, or or my mum 33 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: had an eating this daughter, or my uncle was my 34 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 3: uncle was actually adopted and wasn't Actually. 35 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: You do share a lot in the book. Can you 36 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: share the story of your brother? 37 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure, Yeah. My brother was twenty two, he'd had 38 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: one apleptic attack. He'd gone to hospital for that. He 39 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 3: came back out. Five years later. My mum came down 40 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 3: and found him dead in the bedroom we shared together. 41 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: He had a thing called so that which is called 42 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: it's just sudden under stay and explained death from epilepsy 43 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't known about it at the time. No one 44 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: knew about it that kills about one hundred and seventy 45 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 3: adults in Australia at the moment, but it's it's that rare, 46 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 3: but it's more than sid's. So they've give you an 47 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 3: idea of like you know, but because gps don't know 48 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: about it, often very hard when when young people are 49 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 3: diagnosed with epilepsy to give them the right advice because 50 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 3: with the right advice that number can be halved, so 51 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 3: you can actually dramatically reduce the incidents in that case 52 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: when when no one knew about it. It basically we 53 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 3: had no idea. My folks had no idea. We had 54 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: an idea that he was under that risk and then 55 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 3: then he died, so that, bizarrely, I think for me, 56 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: that's the hardest story to tell, but it's also the 57 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: story I'm proud is to tell one because of how 58 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: my mother dealt with it, which was set up a 59 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 3: charity with other reed mums to provide support in that situation. 60 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 3: But also in terms of people who are worried about it. 61 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: You know, ask your GP, go to Epilepsy Action Australia 62 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: and there's all this there are all this resource online, 63 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 3: there's all this support online. That's available. 64 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: I see you. 65 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 2: I've been doing radio for nine one year is and Maddie, well, 66 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: when did you start mastership? When? 67 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: When did we get to know? The time when I 68 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 3: started about the same. 69 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: Time interviewing you for close to twenty years. You're probably 70 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 2: one of the most experienced of life guests I've ever 71 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: had in my life. Where you've traveled around the world, 72 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: the people that you've met around the world, and. 73 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 3: The stories that you have. 74 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 2: You must have so many different groups of friends. Maddie, 75 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: did you ever get you? Did you ever get you? 76 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: Did you go travel and travel? 77 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 3: I painted and decorated house as a hung wallpaper. 78 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: Wow, this is what's gig. 79 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: It's a it's a skill. You've done everything. 80 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: Where did you go doing that? 81 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: I'm just just around the suburb I grew up in. 82 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: Can I just tell you the one thing you never 83 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: want to do is try and hang wallpaper behind a 84 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 3: toilet because because when you when you when you get 85 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: the steamer out, you have to steam all the paper 86 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 3: off behind the toilet. There's like one hundred years, one 87 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: hundred years and missus is soaked into the pa and 88 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: when you steam it, everything comes back. 89 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: When you talk about jobs, that stink. You also had, 90 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: at one stage a review and a writer on a 91 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: show called Home and Away. 92 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: Yes, I did. 93 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: You had to You had to write it, and that 94 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been an easy task to break down the 95 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: talent on that show. 96 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 3: It was Britain. I got paid to watch every single 97 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 3: episode of Neighbors and Home and Away from nineteen ninety 98 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,799 Speaker 3: three through to nineteen ninety six. That's why I'm always 99 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: slightly in awe now, Richie is. 100 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: And that's when we first met, when I knew you 101 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: were a TV writer or. 102 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: You know, did you interview Kate in the nineties, Adam Lee? 103 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: Do you know what what's awkward about this fits? I 104 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: don't know if you know, Matt, but I am about 105 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: to release my first book and Kate's got a couple 106 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: of books. I have three books, You have three books. 107 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: So we're all authors except you at this stage, think. 108 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 3: You yours hasn't been picked up. So you've written a 109 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 3: book you don't read. 110 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: So I would love you so to come back and 111 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: do a reading of the book. We're just waiting for 112 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: the copies to arrive. It's called The Far Too Personal 113 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: Trainer and it's an erotic fiction that really float your 114 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: boat about erotic fiction. 115 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 3: You wrote the voice for it rotic fiction. Yeah, I 116 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 3: can't do any better. I mean, I mean, assuming there 117 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: are no rude words in this, we're here to promote 118 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 3: your book. 119 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: And but that's that's okay. 120 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: I think it's important to support your friends in whatever 121 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: they're doing, and no matter how misguided that might be. 122 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: I need to jump in quickly. It is Christmas in 123 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: a minute. 124 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 3: What do you want to know? 125 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: Okay? 126 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: I just want to know what's kind of go to 127 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: on the Christmas table. 128 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: Rules Number one rules, don't buy a turkey, buy chicken. 129 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 3: Buy two chickens because turkeys are really hard to cook, 130 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 3: they're really dry. And then have all the trimmings, have 131 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 3: the sausage wrapped in bacon. If you're any cranberry sauce, 132 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 3: your bread sauce, all that stuff goes with chicken. That's 133 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 3: number one. Number two, delegate as much you can. Number 134 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: three before the day starts, say you're not cooking. You're 135 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 3: not cooking, so therefore you are doing the watching up. 136 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 3: The other really important thing is with your fridge. About 137 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 3: a week before, go through and throw out anything you 138 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 3: haven't opened in the last six months. That's true. Four 139 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: tips then they'll make your Christmas. 140 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: Farleaes big Mouth is out right now. It is a 141 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: memoir of Maddie Preston's life. He's been in our lives 142 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 2: for the last twenty years. We love you, Maddie. Thank 143 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: you very much for coming in, but I love you. 144 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: Thanks Bud, what a pleasure. 145 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 2: Thank you. 146 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: Gitsy and Wefer with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast. 147 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: For more great comedy shows 148 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: Like this, head to novapodcast dot com dot au.