1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:00,920 Speaker 1: Sits in. 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 2: Let's go, well, this man has sold over this over 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 2: a million mills. Do not open this book. The series 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 2: it kicked off with that book, but there is a 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: Christmas edition that you can get now. 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: For the kids. 7 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 2: You'll not open this book, and the man himself joins us, 8 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: how any many? 9 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: Thanks much for having me? 10 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, buddy. 11 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: Do you know what the word you'll mean? 12 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Like it's it's a combination of you will 13 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 3: and what you do is you use an apostrophe and 14 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 3: that replaces the eye and you just have the two l's. 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: Yes, but in the sense that the word is why 16 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: U L E? I? Yeah? 17 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: You don't go for that angle nical term for a 18 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 3: collective group of people. 19 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: How did I go? 20 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: You're tied? What is it? Right? 21 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 4: It's another word for Christmas. It's Germanic. That's why I thought, 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 4: what women've got German roots? 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: I thought that that's why. 24 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 3: It's from Switzerland, actually, mate, but I had a long 25 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 3: at home. It's a completely different. Let's move on from that. 26 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 3: And when you sell a million copies of a book, 27 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 3: do you get some sort of pluk or recognition or 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 3: something to hang on the wall or give to the parents? 29 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 3: Gold album platinum. 30 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: That's gone platinum, hasn't it. 31 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: That's massive. 32 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 4: But the real problem was, guys, is when I when 33 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 4: I first wrote the original book, it was just my nephew, 34 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 4: was just a singular book, my nephew. 35 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: And then I felt a bit weird publishing it because 36 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: it was meant to be a special gift. So I 37 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: said to our my sister, I said, I'll look for George. 38 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: It was one at the time. 39 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 4: I said, oh, yeah, proceeds, I'll give him profits. 40 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: I had to go in for a bit of a 41 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: renegotiation on the. 42 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 3: Front with a three year old about that off of. 43 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 4: You should see him though, with his house is bigger 44 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 4: than mine. 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: Awesome and it must have been. I know you've done 46 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: a hard lockdown. But I saw the other day you 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: put up a photo the first time you've been to 48 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: a pub with a mate. How was that, bros? 49 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: How was what's that first beer? 50 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 4: Like? 51 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: Oh, jeepers. 52 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 4: I waited one hundred and twenty days for pubs to open, 53 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 4: and now I want them all closed. 54 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: It's just been It's like wanting to go to Vegas 55 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: after two days. You want to come home. 56 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: Yes, crying for your mom. It was been a pretty tough. 57 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: It's been. 58 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 4: It's been a pretty tough old five days for and 59 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 4: you live up. But that's okay. We've injected a bit 60 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: of money back into the economy. That's what keeps saying, Sorry, Darling, 61 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 4: I've got to go out to small business. 62 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: Keep the wheels of the industry turning, Darling, I'll see you. 63 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: Are you drinking carton draft? Yes? 64 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: Small business for yourself. I drink a couple more just time. 65 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 3: But that's that. Beck would be going into shock because 66 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 3: you guys have been living in each other's pocket for 67 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: such a long time and then all of a sudden 68 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: the love of her life is at every bar that's open. 69 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 3: You know, the poor thing would be having, you know, 70 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: withdrawal symptoms. 71 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: No, no, she's been off at her own bars. In fact, 72 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: she's done better than I have the times that I've 73 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 1: got home weight. She's not home yet. 74 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 4: Eas It might say a bit about about how much 75 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 4: we wanted to get away from each other after. 76 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 3: Running out the door. 77 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: What a year though, because you guys like to travel 78 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: as well, But it's been six yearge of six year 79 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: anniversary though, that are you and Beck? But what a 80 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: year to actually not travel, to be in isolation, locked 81 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: together to work out whether you want to spend the 82 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 2: rest of your life together? 83 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,839 Speaker 1: Andy, how has the decision have you made? The decision made? 84 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 4: We set up a huge, huge set of scales, one 85 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 4: each and and there's a yes pile of beans in 86 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 4: a no. And every time she did something annoying, I'll 87 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 4: wander across and stare in the eyes and drop a 88 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 4: no bean on the other side of the scale. 89 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: And how does it look? Storm? 90 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 4: The storm there after for both of us, after one 91 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty days of lockdown, there's not enough beans 92 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 4: in the world to bring this back positive result. 93 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: When you do get the result, and from the bean 94 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 3: counter and the scales, I reckon you do another version 95 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 3: of do not open this book because the results are inside. 96 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: You're going to be nervous. It's been a long with 97 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,559 Speaker 1: any other, a long time. 98 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 3: Do not open this book. 99 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: Comes Sorry, it's. 100 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 4: Coming back, coming back to the I'm going to move 101 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 4: off past this topic. So I'm going to get in 102 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 4: trouble and there'll be more beans on the on the 103 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 4: no side of the. 104 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: Coming back to the travel thing with a fit. Sorry. 105 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 4: The strange thing was I realized, you know we traveling 106 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 4: going out but that's kind of my experien it has 107 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 4: been playing golf, like I don't really want for. 108 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: Anything much more. 109 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: So I said to Hamish, I said, oh gosh, I'm 110 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 4: saving so much money and he went, what do you mean? 111 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: And then remember that he is addicted to online shop. Yes, 112 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: what is these days? 113 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 2: What is he picking up on the internet? 114 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: Andy? What it's the latest one? He brought an LED hat. 115 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 4: Well, it's like a billboard that goes across the front 116 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 4: and you have to obviously it requires you have to 117 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 4: take out the USB point. 118 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: You plug it into your You might good morning Zoey like. 119 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 4: He might walk into the bedroom just with a hat 120 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 4: to the LED screen that malfunctions and so Zoe he 121 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 4: doesn't know what the hell? 122 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, money, well spent the podcast you're working on at 123 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: the moment, mate, remembering the remembering oject, it feels I'm 124 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 3: not using the word lazy. So you're just getting the 125 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: best bits and just chopping it up over the past 126 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 3: fifteen years, packaging it together. So all those worst. 127 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: Bits, that's what's been exciting. It's actually not the best bits. 128 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 4: The worst bits seem to be made nice. 129 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: So whip you're on, You're on. 130 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: It can you just tell anyone, can you, because I 131 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 2: don't think we've had this verified Andy, but we've worked 132 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: on your show early days. 133 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 3: How strap boy? 134 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 2: How long did he last? 135 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: And why did he get the sack? 136 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 3: So? 137 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 4: Hey, well this has been what's fun? In fact, we 138 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 4: and I and ha him have a long history. Whip 139 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 4: an eye longer one. But then he chose him over me. Friend, 140 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 4: I did have a full roster, and it's quite all right. 141 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, Whip. I found all of our sin our student 142 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: youth network, he said, tape right, okay, and I've got 143 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: them all digitized. And there I found our original radio 144 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: shows at university. 145 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: Mate, we've got to get it on the show. 146 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 4: And uh, and there's one there's one show where we 147 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: start and we just say and Hamish is running late 148 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 4: after a lecture, but should be here anymore? 149 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: God, that's how loose it was. And also, hey wouldn't 150 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: have been at alector. He never went, so he's he's 151 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: text us that and that was the that was the 152 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: excuse for giving out to her. But yeah, Whipper was 153 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: our our street guy for a while. And look the 154 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: station didn't like Whipper in a rough start. Yeah, why 155 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: did he get the sack? Did he get the sack. 156 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 3: Well no, no, no, no, Andy tell it. 157 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 2: I feel like you're tainted. 158 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 4: What is it? 159 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: And how do you get the sack? So Whi was 160 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: our street guy. 161 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 4: We kept pushing for him to also do some paneled 162 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 4: work on air, trying to get him in the building more, and. 163 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: He was this isn't if I remember this correctly. There 164 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: was another announcer. 165 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 4: Called Beco and around he was doing a cross from 166 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 4: Westfield right and Whipper and and Beco was is a 167 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 4: super super announce and he would be very professional and 168 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 4: test out what he's going to say during this song. Yeah, 169 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 4: so Wipper plays the song, doesn't bring down Beco's little 170 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 4: volume controller and goes off to the toilet. 171 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: Well, becho over whatever. 172 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 4: So it might have been probably I'm Like a Bird 173 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 4: by Nellie Potato. 174 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: Well, Becos there going, it's Fox, You're he's Fox. If 175 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: you're he's rehearsing for a whole song. 176 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 3: Back all right, mate, you're ready to go? 177 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: All right? Awesome? 178 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 3: Do you know what happens at a radio station? Endo 179 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 3: is when something's going wrong, like if there's someone talking 180 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 3: out the top of a song of this dead air, 181 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 3: it's like emergency and people come running down hallways to 182 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 3: get into the studio to fix the problem. But this 183 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 3: didn't seem to be anybody rushing on that day. 184 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't know. 185 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 3: I was in the toilet and Becca, I was just 186 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 3: it's Becco coming to your life. 187 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 4: And that was, yeah, one of many misdemeanors that we've had, 188 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: but it was to straw the prof of Camel's back. 189 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 4: And then and I know we've gone over boys but 190 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 4: the and then Ripper gets fired Haim and I get 191 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 4: him back to still do our show as the street guy, 192 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 4: and Hayman I get called in to the bosses office 193 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 4: going it's a bad look when we're fired someone and 194 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 4: you're still calling him up on the radio. 195 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 3: But then you know, I made the ski trip for 196 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 3: the whole company, came along. I had a good time. 197 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 3: It just snuck into every party. 198 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 2: We've got to get that audio with the original University 199 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: show at some stage, and. 200 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: But I can find it. The sad thing is we 201 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: haven't improved. I thought to be hilarious. I was like, oh, 202 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: this is going to great. Listen back just doing the 203 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: same old graphs. Brilliant. 204 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: So you'll not open this book with Christmas edition Andy Lees. 205 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: It's out now. 206 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 2: It's available online as well. Mate, love you work, Thank 207 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 2: you very much for coming on the show, buddy. 208 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 4: We've got Cricket Front Bar coming up, yes really in 209 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 4: a couple of weeks and I'll see you next week buddy. 210 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:19,599 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. 211 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 3: But on you guys.