1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 2: Did you guys go to work with your parents when 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 2: you might. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 3: Have had a day off? 5 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 4: Unfortunately I did so. 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 5: Dad was a sparky and he worked for a major corporation, 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 5: but he had to go into some huge warehouses and 8 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 5: just there was some horrible conditions and I'd have to 9 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 5: sit next to Dad while he was just twiddling away 10 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 5: with wires. 11 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 3: Hold up in the ceiling. They're just ripping off the pensioners. 12 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 5: And want me to be He wanted me to be 13 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 5: a sparky and take over from the family business fits 14 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 5: his electrical where he'd rip off pensioners. 15 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 4: And I said, Dad, i'd like elderly people. I can't 16 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 4: do that. 17 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 2: I' they's wrong with them. 18 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 4: You know what. 19 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 5: I know, you're installing ceiling fans, but they can't catch 20 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 5: on fire after three or four years. 21 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 4: And you think you can get away with that. 22 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 3: Clean up your mess too when the job's finished. I mean, 23 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 3: you're at the cop shop and Steve, won't you. 24 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 6: Sometimes when I wouldn't get onto the train, I would 25 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 6: go into Campbelltown Police station down there on Queen Street 26 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 6: and go up to the counter talk to Dad. Is 27 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 6: my dad here, and then when I didn't speak like 28 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 6: that and my. 29 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 7: Mom Kate, that so exciting, really sure? And then would 30 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 7: you hold a gun? No, damn never. And then my 31 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 7: mum worked for a doctor. Directly if you walked. 32 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 6: Out of our driveway on Chamberlain Street and across the 33 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 6: road and into the driveway that was opposite, that was 34 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 6: the house that mum worked at, the doctor search. So 35 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 6: if we were doctor David Rail, the neurologist, and so 36 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 6: if if he stayed home, we wouldn't have to go 37 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 6: to work with mum. We could just stay in our 38 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 6: bed and she'd wander over and check on us. 39 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: From the cop shop to the doctor's rooms. That is great. 40 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 3: This will this ties in beautifully because this guy has 41 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 3: taken his son talk. 42 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: Although he's an emergency doctor, Kate Ritchie. 43 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: So he's in er and he's been fired as a 44 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 3: surgeon unfortunately, because you would think the emergency surgeons, the 45 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: good ones, would be. 46 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 4: Hard to find. 47 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: A lot of training, required a lot of pressure, a 48 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: lot of experience. The thing was he bought his thirteen 49 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 3: year old son to work because he was having a 50 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,839 Speaker 3: day of school. And when a guy came in from 51 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: a forestry accident. He was hit on the noggin and 52 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: he had some swelling on the brains. Obviously they need 53 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: to drill through the skull to release the pressure. He 54 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: said to he's thirteen year old. Can they jump on 55 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: the drill? No, Barry, you can do what made? I 56 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 3: have a crack at it? 57 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 4: How exciting for me? 58 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 8: That's where is it when there's thirteen year old drilled 59 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 8: a hole in the patient's skull Thailand during in Austria 60 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 8: during the emergency operation. 61 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: Isn't that extraordinary? 62 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 5: Remain great show and tell the next show and tell 63 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 5: that you have at school out when he's at it 64 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 5: is me helping that out at work. 65 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: You've got to do it the first time, don't you 66 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: when you're a doctor. 67 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, not as a thirteen year on. It's not like 68 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: hang on, take the training wheels off. I think I 69 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: can ride it down. 70 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 5: I've got a mate who's a surgeon. He takes my 71 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 5: calls during surgery. That's weird, isn't it. 72 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 9: No? 73 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, he goes fits. Can't talk at the moment. I'm 74 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 4: mid surgery, but I'll give you a call when I'm done. 75 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: And you can just hear them chopping through a leg. 76 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: Of the Yeah, what kind of surgery is he does? 77 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 2: Music? 78 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 4: They have? He has a lot of bit of rock 79 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 4: music in the background. 80 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 5: It's it's like a party atmosphere in there with everyone 81 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 5: around him. 82 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 4: That's the thing. 83 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: The menut you'll put to sleep? 84 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: What really goes on? 85 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 5: Alright? 86 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: You wouldn't know stories? Do you know what scar really happens? 87 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: On the operating table? 88 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: And I have it? 89 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, well I've had it done. But I don't want 90 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 3: anybody to be listening right now. I'm going to get 91 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 3: their wisdom teeth out. 92 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: But oh no, my sister's about to have is she back? 93 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 9: Yeah? 94 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 6: Monday? 95 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: Oh my god. Just the idea. I mean, you can 96 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: have a general. Are you gonna have a local as well? 97 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 3: Depending on what you want. 98 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 2: But the general, I believe if there's a tough one 99 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 2: to get out there, up on your chest, plies. 100 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 4: At hand, knees, they knee you in your chest. 101 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 5: That's why I went local as well, because I got 102 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 5: told the same thing. Local at least they have to 103 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 5: be on the ball because you're with it, You're watching 104 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 5: the whole thing. They're not going to stick their knee 105 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 5: into your chest to get your tooth out. 106 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 3: Mim was the most painful thing I've ever had done 107 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 3: back because they opened up and kept bleeding, so I had. 108 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: To go back without anesthetic. 109 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: I had to go back into the hospital two days 110 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: later and they were grinding the blood vessels on my 111 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: jawbone where they'd remove the teeth to stop the bleeding. 112 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 4: There's a couple pieces of Porterhouse in there as well. 113 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 4: Unfortunately they told you not to wait. 114 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 2: They found three pork bumps. 115 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 5: Instead, you made a local for the visectomy as well, 116 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 5: which was which I was told as well, go local 117 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 5: because then your ease. They've got to do the right thing. 118 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 5: Once you're out, you don't know. 119 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: What's happening, going to rather just be like see you later. 120 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: Bless What are they going to do down there? That 121 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: could be good? It's rosy? No, this is mess piece. 122 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 4: Oh I don't think it. 123 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 5: That's an Instagram account that people would like, would they? 124 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: People love? The people are mad crazy things. 125 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 3: The picks, the sectomy picks, the Marley dar would do 126 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 3: a clickbait on that, willn't they? Do you recognize this 127 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 3: celebrity body part? 128 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 4: Fitzi's piece doesn't look like this anymore. 129 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: Remember it from the Big Brother House. Have a look 130 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 2: for Hell, okay, what went wrong. 131 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: When you went to work with your mom or dad? 132 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 4: Mark and Holes were yelling in and working with the aldies. 133 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 4: What happened Mark? 134 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 10: About sixty odd years ago. You've got to remember it 135 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 10: before computers, Mate, Yeah, I think it. Documents to and 136 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 10: from officers. You had to put them on a conveyor belt. 137 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 10: And I thought, oh, I'll go and have a look 138 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 10: at this convey a belt. And I thought, oh, that's 139 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 10: interesting how the convey ball goes down into that machine. 140 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 10: And so I sort of booking fingers into the bits. 141 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 2: A funny, is it not? 142 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 10: The spin teed off a bit. But however, hey, what's 143 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 10: the name of that surgeon that you have previously? 144 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 2: Oh my god, so you lost some skin off the digits. 145 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 8: Mark. 146 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 10: Yeah, but it's all right, It's okay. I can still 147 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 10: do things typed. They would have thought I was real cool. 148 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: Doing There wouldn't have been a guard on the machine 149 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: or anything. 150 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 4: Mark. Speaking another lang years ago, my mum worked. 151 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 5: At a dental surgery and when faxes came out, Kate, 152 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 5: I got obsessed. Going into work with mum one day 153 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 5: and I was just sending a facts of faxes to 154 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 5: random people. I actually got I actually did. I sent 155 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 5: a fax into Triple M and I got them to 156 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 5: play Counting Crows. 157 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 2: Send your facts through. Now we'll play them through weeks time. 158 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 6: I couldn't get my head around there. 159 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 4: And what happened when the kids came to work done? 160 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 9: It actually wasn't me, it was my boss. He's already's 161 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 9: done into work and I think he's done. Was maybe 162 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 9: six or seven, still a little bit like too young. 163 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 9: He left alone in the office day. He would always 164 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 9: have to follow his dad around the office. And it 165 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 9: was a Thursday morning and the boss got called until 166 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 9: a meeting with HR and end up getting sacked. He's 167 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 9: done in the room and yeah, my boss or my 168 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 9: old boss. I broke down and his son was so confused, 169 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 9: and they all came out of the meeting, and it 170 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 9: was the most awkward situation that the boy was packing 171 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 9: up his crowns and his dad was packing up his desk, 172 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 9: and yeah. 173 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 4: As you have to pick a different day, wouldn't you? 174 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 4: You would do it on the day that your kids 175 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 4: in there. 176 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 3: It's like one of those killings where they go not 177 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 3: in front of my son, not in front of me son, 178 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 3: it's in whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast 179 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: or great shows like this, download the Nova player by 180 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 3: the app store or Google Play.