1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: From the newsroom at news dot com today. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 2: You good day there, I'm Andrew Bucklow. Did you know 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: that roughly fifteen million Aussies listen to FM radio every 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: single day? Isn't that crazy? That is a lot of people. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: I think one of the reasons it remains so popular 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: is because we have so many incredible radio hosts on 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: air in this country every single day. They make us laugh, 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: they make us cry, they make us cringe. Carl Sandalans. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: But here it is. 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 3: Dot com dot Au. 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: We want to know who you think is the greatest 12 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 2: Australian radio star from the past twenty five years. Okay, 13 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: it is a big question. I've done the hard yards. 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: I've whittled it down to a short list of ten. 15 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 3: Which we're going to run through in this episode. 16 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 2: I'll be honest, there are one or two controversial inclusions, 17 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: but hey, you're just gonna have to deal with it. 18 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: Have a listen to this episode and then I want 19 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 2: you to jump online and vote at news dot com 20 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 2: dot Au. 21 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 3: But let's get into it. 22 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: Who is the best oussy radio host from the past 23 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: twenty five years? It's a question I know I ask 24 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: myself all the time. 25 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: I'm going to try. 26 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: I answer it right now with my guest Mitch Chruri, 27 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: who's a radio star himself. 28 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: Hello, Mick, thank you great to be here. 29 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 3: You have hosted several national radio shows. 30 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: Everyone in the industry agrees that you are basically the 31 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 2: future superstar of radio two, so you're an expert on 32 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: this topic. 33 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: I am, yes, thank you. I was also fired in December, 34 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: so you know, interesting how they play into each other, 35 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: but a comeback is imminent. When you text me to 36 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: say do you want to take part in this? I 37 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: thought this is so nice. He wants to get the 38 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: number one in so it's like an in person. There'll 39 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: be like confetti party poppers. Can't see one around me, 40 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: so I can't wait to see I would be eleven, right, 41 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: is that in the ring? Yeah? 42 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,919 Speaker 3: So we've done a short list of the top ten stars. 43 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: You were number eleven, but we're only going to talk 44 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 2: about ten today. 45 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: Yeah that's fine. Yeah, that's a right. When they start 46 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: to die, I can come in and. 47 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: Who's going to die first? Actually, let's what we're going 48 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: to do is go through the short list of. 49 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 3: Ten one by one. We'll talk about what makes them 50 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 3: special and if you've got a story about them. Share it. 51 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: Okay, great, you're looking at these people I have. I 52 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: think I've got an intimate story actually looking at Amandakella. 53 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: That's the face she gave me when we had that 54 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: intimate moment. 55 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: When you say intimate, maybe we'll get in yeah, way 56 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: later later. All right, Let's start with the man known 57 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: as Hamish Blake. Was He known as Hamish Blake because 58 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: it's his name. He is one half of Hamish and Andy, 59 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 2: which dominated radio from twenty and six to twenty seventeen, 60 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: one of the biggest most successful shows of all time. 61 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 3: What makes Hamish so bloody. 62 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: Good Hamish is just no one has been Hamish since 63 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: Hamish was on air, and everyone tries to be Hamish. 64 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: You go to radio school, you start out, you get asked, 65 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: who is your inspiration in radio, especially someone of my generation, 66 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: It's Hamish Blake. Everyone wants to be Hamish and I 67 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: think he was the first person to kind of be 68 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: authentically himself, be very funny, and also just bring his 69 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: creative mind that worked for him outside radio onto the airwaves. 70 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: Like he was just that generational shift in genre. That 71 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: is still you listen to radio so much radio commercial 72 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: radio that He's made today is based on Hamish and 73 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: Andy and more so Hamish Blake. He's so funny and charming. 74 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 2: They had so many amazing pieces of content on Hamish Andy. 75 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: Is the one that stands out in your mind, go, 76 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: oh my god, that was the best. 77 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: Yes, you know why because I found it in my 78 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: garage last week. So I live at home, depressing radio 79 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: star that lives at home, because I'm really selling myself here, 80 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: aren't I? And I found Haymish and Andy's gravy chips. 81 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 3: That's right. 82 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: So they got Australia to make a packet of chips 83 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: with them, and they came out with the People's Chip 84 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: Gravy flavored with Smith. 85 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: Yes, they were massive because you remember. 86 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 2: I remember because I was working for a radio show 87 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: at the time and we got to hand out some 88 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: of those chips. People were lining up around the blocks 89 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 2: around Australia to get their hands on these limited edition chips. 90 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 4: The People's Chip is. 91 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 5: On nineteen thousand and forty nine votes Gravy Chip. Hoae, 92 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 5: you bunny badger ladies and gentlemen, you have voted for it. 93 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 5: It is the chip elect Gravy is officially the People's flavor. 94 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 6: Two weeks from today there will be five hundred packets made. 95 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 6: We should get that increase after nineteen thousand votes. 96 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 3: Like we are now under supply. 97 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 6: I mean, it's the kind of thing Jesus would come 98 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 6: back to make. 99 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: More of, just to break them. 100 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 5: Normally, Andy, I would say that's blasphemous and a big call. 101 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 5: But really in the context, yes, I agree. The miracle 102 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 5: of the gravy chips. Give him three potatoes, he shall 103 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 5: produce nineteen thousand packets. 104 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: So I got center pack at the chips and I 105 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: had a little segment on Hamishandy when I was about 106 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: eleven or twelve, Mitch's wise words. So that was my 107 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: first radio moment with the boys when I was in 108 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,679 Speaker 1: primary school. And I got sent a packet of chips. Anyway, 109 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: fat little radio nerd ate the chips and then made 110 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: Mum take the bag to work and laminate it. And 111 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: I found it in my garage last week. So that's 112 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: the legacy that Hamish and Andy can send off into 113 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: the world, gravy chips. 114 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: I love that they paid you in chips child labor. 115 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to another one on the 116 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: short list. Carry Biechmore. She started out as a news 117 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 2: raader on radio in the early two thousands, then obviously 118 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: went to star on On the Project and it's been 119 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: hosting a radio show alongside Tommy Little since twenty seventeen. 120 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: Unreal. 121 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: She's really good. She's made that jump from TV to radio, 122 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: which I don't think hot take works every time. I 123 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: think radio to TV works really well, but the reverse. 124 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,239 Speaker 1: I love your thoughts, it doesn't always stick. Radio requires 125 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: you to be on the fly, off the cuff. There's 126 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: no teleprompter on radio, there's no scripts. So I find 127 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: TV talent struggle in radio. Carrie Buck the trend. She's 128 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: so organic, she's so natural, she's real, she's herself. 129 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 2: One of my favorite pieces of content from carry On 130 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: Radio was where Tommy Little arranged for Sam Smith, her 131 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: favorite singer, to be in her apartment. 132 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 3: Yea had no idea if she came home. I'm gonna 133 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: drop some of the audio in right now. 134 00:05:45,320 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 4: Enjoy, You've got to go in. Don't run away, you 135 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 4: gotta go in. 136 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: What a great moment. 137 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to Australia's most talked about 138 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 2: radio star. 139 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: It's not mixed, true. 140 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 2: It is Kyle Sandalans who dominated Sydney F and Breakfast 141 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: for years, obviously broadcasting into Melbourne as well. Now on 142 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 2: Kiss FM, he cops a lot of shit, has a 143 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: lot of haters, but there's no denying that he is 144 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: one of the all time greats. 145 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, he's brilliant. 146 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 3: You know him very well, well, you know him a 147 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 3: little bit, yes, No. 148 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: I do know him very well. He taught me everything 149 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 1: I know in radio. I mean, my first job, paid 150 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: job in radio was at Kiss FM and I was 151 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: Mitched the coffee Bitch. That name was coined by Kyle. 152 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: I was nineteen and I would make the man's coffees 153 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: eight a day if you want that exclusive eight eight 154 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: lates with a sugar a day. Oh my gosh, I know, 155 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: full cream milk. I'm sure he's changed that now with 156 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: his health concerns, you hope so, But yeah, he gets 157 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: the craft unlike anyone else. He still panels his show 158 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: to this day with assistance, mind you, but there someone 159 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: there guiding him. But he still panels Mike's on and off. 160 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: And that is the lost craft of radio that I 161 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: don't think many listeners understand. 162 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 6: It is. 163 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: It's almost like flying a plane. You've got this giant 164 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: panel in front of you with thirty plus buttons. They 165 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: all do a very specific job and to be able 166 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: to host, be entertaining, also be an authority on air 167 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: and then panel the show is it's a lost art 168 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: form and he can still do it, and he does 169 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: it brilliantly. 170 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, and he just is fearless on radio, which is 171 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: what I love. It doesn't matter what the consequences are, 172 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: He'll say it. And I don't think there are many 173 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 2: people that do that on radio. 174 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, And you know what, I'd be interested to 175 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: see how he fares in this next kind of five 176 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: year window in the changing landscape of media. It'll be 177 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: interesting to see how that show adapts. 178 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 2: Let's move on to Dave Hughes aka Hughsey. He's been 179 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: on radio pretty consistently for the last twenty years. He's 180 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: not on air at the moment, but he was previously 181 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 2: on Sydney TODAYFM Breakfast. 182 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 7: Yeah. 183 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: You've got to be pretty good to last on radio 184 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: for as long as Hughsey did. What makes him so special? 185 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: You know what I think what makes Hughsey so special 186 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: is the pairings that he picks himself with. He puts 187 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: himself with Kate Lanbrook, the original Husy and Kate. I mean, 188 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: come on, great show. It's so good and I think 189 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: that kind of gave him the license to beat himself. 190 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: And similar to Kyle, he doesn't hold back. Yeah, you know, 191 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: he says what he wants. He's just got that really 192 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: cynical Hughsey take. It's that voice as well, Like it's 193 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: so annoying but it's brilliant. You go, well, that's Husy 194 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: or it's either a dog that they're airing the audio 195 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: of a dog being hit by a bus, or it's Husy. 196 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 2: One thing that always surprises me about Hughesy is you 197 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 2: hear him on radio and he never swears, but you 198 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 2: meet him in real life, every second word is fuck. 199 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: I know, he's like a swears like a sailor. It's crazy, yeah, 200 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: I know. And how that man manages to buy every 201 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: house on the block every season, that baffles me. I mean, 202 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: we need to talk about the money in radio because 203 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: clearly there's still quite a bite. 204 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 3: Box is the next person on our short list. 205 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 2: She's currently on air Fiefe favor Nick on Fox at 206 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: Them in Melbourne, the Breakfast Show. 207 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 3: People love her. She's so relatable yeah, why do you 208 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 3: love it? 209 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: Fifi? She's like the mum figure. You know. I remember 210 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: listening to Fife and Jules when I was in high school, 211 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: like it was in my drivetime show, and then it 212 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: was when she went on maternity leave and had her baby. 213 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: It like I was invested. It was my royal baby. 214 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: It's it's bizarre. We kind of put these like radio 215 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: hosts on a pedestal, but they let us in and 216 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: that's the art of good radio, letting the listeners in 217 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: on your life. So I this, I don't know. Fourteen fifteen, 218 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: sixteen year old guy was like, is Fifi in labor? 219 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: Has FEFI given birth? Turning on Today FM? Has she 220 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: had the kid? I don't care about many celebrities in 221 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: that way, but Fifi allows the audience to feel like 222 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: we're a friend, and that's very hard to do. 223 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 3: Stick around. 224 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: In just a moment, we're revealed who else is on 225 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: the short list of Australia's best radio stars from the 226 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 2: past twenty five years. 227 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 6: Welcome back. 228 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: You are listening to me and Mitch Churi running through 229 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: the short list of Australia's best radio stars from the 230 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 2: past twenty five years. The next person on the list 231 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 2: is Jackie Oh, the other half of Kyle and Jackie O. 232 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 2: Has been incredibly successful for over twenty years. Again you noah, 233 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 2: what does she like in real life? 234 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 1: She's good. She's the brains behind that machine. Is she really? 235 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 6: Yeah? 236 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: She is. People often say that she knows the image, 237 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: she knows the brand so well and the key to 238 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: their success. I think is a genuine friendship, like it's 239 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: a marriage work wife, work husband. Jackie's smart and in 240 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: my early days, she'd often instill in me do the work. 241 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: You have to do the work. She was a phone 242 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: girl in her early days with ugly phil Phill O'Neil, 243 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: who she married like she was so into the industry. 244 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: She married her co host that. I just think she's 245 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: put in the hard yards. She also gets a lot 246 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: of flak for phoning it in. They both do these days, 247 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: a lot of flak the Melbourne results, but you know 248 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: they hustled, They really did. 249 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 3: The next person on the list is Mick mlloy. 250 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: Again, he's been on radio for more than twenty years. 251 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 2: Is a big Triple M identity. Yeah, he's currently on 252 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 2: Triple and Breakfast in Melbourne. But we had a long 253 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: run on the Hot Breakfast alongside Eddie maguire. There was 254 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: obviously Martin mlloy. He's one of those guys that can 255 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 2: just make you laugh so easily. 256 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 5: Got cout wing in the pool was. 257 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: From the diving board. 258 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 3: What do you love about me? 259 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: I think he's he's very smart, knows that audience like 260 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: no one else, like the Triple M audience is. I 261 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: think of all the commercial stations in Australia, it's very peculiar. 262 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: Their audience know exactly what they want and he gives 263 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: it to them every time. And he's never been my like, 264 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: I've never looked at me and gone, that's exactly who 265 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: I want to be on radio. But he knows who 266 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: does any targets and caters to them. He's he's a genius. 267 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: He's really smart. 268 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: The number eighth person on the list is the guy 269 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 2: that I think is underrated in Australian radio. It's Tim Blackwell, 270 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 2: who has been hosting Nobah's National Drive show since twenty eleven, 271 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: currently co hosting with Ricky Lee and Joel Creasy. 272 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 6: The more money you have, you know, I think PDD 273 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 6: one said, more money, more problems. 274 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 5: Beautiful. 275 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: Now that he's in the problem. 276 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: Earlier you talked about people who control the panel and 277 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 2: also co hosts the show. Tim Blackwell, I think is 278 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 2: one of the most phenomenal hosts on radio because he 279 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 2: does the panel, he does the comedy. Yeah, he keeps 280 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 2: the show moving and I think he comes up with 281 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 2: a fair chunk of the content ideas as well. 282 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 3: Why is he one of the best. 283 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: I also think he plays an executive producing role. Yeah show, 284 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: he's doing it all. You know. I filled in for 285 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: Tim he was he was off sick a few months ago. 286 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I was in for Tim and I 287 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: was paneling and I was hosting, and I almost had 288 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: a stroke. Like the work that that man does is 289 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: more than any broadcaster in this country. Like, hands down, 290 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: He's been doing it since he was a kid. He 291 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: commandeers that show. Like I completely agree, he's slept on. 292 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: He should be higher, he really should. 293 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 3: Well, this is not in order, because this person would 294 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 3: be much high. 295 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: Number nine on my short list is Amanda Keller, apparently 296 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: my god co hosting Jonesy and Amanda on Gold FM 297 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 2: and Sydney. She's an icon adored by all. What do 298 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: you love about miss Keller? 299 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: Amanda Keller on off Air the exact same person, and 300 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: she's smart, something that you and I lack. You know, 301 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: we are gorgeous people. But Amanda Keller is an intelligent woman. 302 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: It's wit. It's that intelligence and wit that we all 303 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: wish we had. And then it's also an ability to 304 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: be really earnest and really honest with her audience. And 305 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: I think having a breakfast radio show requires you to 306 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: just lay everything bare on the table. But she is 307 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 1: one hundred percent herself and she's not afraid to get 308 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: on there and cry like she cries her eyes out, 309 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: and then the next break with Jonesy, they're a brilliant pairing. 310 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: She is making you laugh your ass off. 311 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 7: You're, with all due respect, a bit of a pin head, 312 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 7: meaning meaning you've got a narrow head and neck. But 313 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 7: it's not an insult. You have a narrow head and 314 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 7: neck in the same way you've once told me I 315 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 7: have a thick athletic neck and adelaide legs. Oh, you 316 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 7: know exactly when you said that. 317 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: She's a very very special talent. 318 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 2: The last person on the short list bit of a 319 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 2: controversial one. He's one of my favorites of all time. 320 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 2: Marty Sheer Gold. 321 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 5: Wow. 322 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: He parted ways with Triple Am back in February after 323 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: making some dodgy comments about the matildas. Let's just pretend 324 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 2: that didn't happen, because I don't want that to erase 325 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: his legacy, in my opinion, one of the funniest people 326 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 2: to ever be on radio. He just cracked me up 327 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 2: every single time. Your thoughts on. 328 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: Marty Marty is hilarious. Kate, Tim and Marty, Michelle, Tim 329 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: and Marty like whatever variation with Marty on that Nova 330 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: Drive show was peak radio. One of the only radio 331 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: podcasts I ever listened to. 332 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: You might still go back and listen to Kate, Tim 333 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 2: and Marty episode Yeah now, and they're still so funny. 334 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what he does. It's you look at 335 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: someone like Tim or Kyle who panel and in control 336 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: of the show, and that's why we listen. We go, Oh, 337 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: you can hear that they're in control and they're driving 338 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: the ship. Marty's the opposite. He is very much a 339 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: passenger and I don't need him to talk in a 340 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: break more than three or four words because that little 341 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: percentage of time that he does speak is gold where he. 342 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: Just chips in a little snarky comment. Yeah, all right, 343 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: we've spoken about ten people who've made the show. You 344 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: had to pick your top three. 345 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: Who would they be out of these ten people? 346 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, not in order, just three people. 347 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: Okay we have to Amanda Keller. Ok Tim Blackwell, yes, 348 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: I agree completely. And then you know what, let's put 349 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: Jackie in there. 350 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 3: Okay, Jackie have a Kyle expect an angry text. 351 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: No, yes, you're right. I think it's going off as 352 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: we speak. He's got Google that's for his name. On 353 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: twenty four seven. 354 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: Mich Due. Thank you so much. 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