WEBVTT - The ChrissieCast: Dave Thornton Gets His Mind Blown 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:09.400 Welcome back, Dave Thornton. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:11.200 Good to be here. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.120 Look, I normally don't have an order of business, but 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.880 there's two stories that I've really been desperate to share 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:17.239 with you. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.120 Well, I'm here for up a stool. It's story team. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:29.720 The first one is yes, I can't. Oh my god, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.879 my brain is just so full of other sheet at 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.440 the moment. But when this happened to me at the supermarket, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.159 I was like, Dave's gonna love this. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.800 Don't feel bad about it. Last week I was so tired. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.920 You know, when you're doing the old I do the 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.040 old main click, you know, and it's something really easy. Yes, 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.959 you know when you're driving like a car. Yes, that's 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.519 what I was. That's the word. I was looking for. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.000 The click click? Yes, what do I do? 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:54.080 Do? 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.800 I do the click? I know, I go, I do 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.840 the shake, get the wave. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.160 Yeah, I'll get there. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.400 God. Anyway, I was at the IgA. Someone's doing it right, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.959 I know. And let me tell you I was. I 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.160 never go there, very very rarely, but I was in 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.520 such a rush and I hadn't done dinner, and I 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.760 was like, it's there, I'm going to get some chicken 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:20.320 or whatever. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:21.560 But does it throw you off? 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.839 Not being specifically I needed sour dough bread. My kids 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.920 won't eat wonder white. It's wrong with them. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.720 Okay, I love wonder Wine, it's wrong with your kids. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.679 But you know, when you're not on your home turf 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.960 for a supermarket, I get thrown off because I'm like, oh, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.120 I'm at six and sevens. Where's the aisles? I need this? 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:37.959 What's going on? 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:39.760 Have we talked about this before? God? 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.160 Those Yeah, it sends me batty not having Oh there's 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.760 nothing more stress. Yeah. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.480 I have left many supermarkets because I don't know where 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.400 anything is and I'm wandering the aisles, going I need 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.400 a paperback to breathe into because I just want some 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:58.800 sandray my egg pop there. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.880 You know what always does impress me though, I finally 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.680 bite the bullet, ask the staff, and I love it 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.760 when they got like they just go into their own zone. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.080 You're like, hey, mat, I just need you know, some paprika, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.240 and they just go at aisle three down the end 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.679 on the left. If you're coming from the fact the 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.639 left hand side, and you go, oh, that's incredible, You've 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:20.280 got it in there. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.679 But it's one or the other. You either get that 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.760 person or you get the equivalent of me or my 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.720 casual job going. I'm so sorry. I've got no idea, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:29.600 no idea, that's true. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.080 I've got a couple of guys who I think, because 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.919 I'm in Brunswick, I think they're in bands because they've 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.640 got mutton chops. Yeah for days, got the growth. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.480 They wouldn't know and they just go, Man, come on, man, I. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.880 Really wouldn't be here. Bro, Like, I get you, man, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:43.760 but I can't help you. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.680 I I think I'm about to blow your mind. Did 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.160 you know that at the end of every aisle is 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.360 a little plastic clipboard with where to find everything? 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.839 No? What, I thought you were going to talk about 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.079 the signs hanging from the roof because there's never enough information, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:59.200 But there's a clipboard. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.000 Yes, day fucking water. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.800 I know I don't know this. Yes, what do you mean? 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:06.480 A cook bloket? 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.280 So at the end of every aisle, or sometimes every 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:18.600 alternate aisle, there is a hard like perspecs file. Did 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:19.840 you know this, Marcel? 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.200 Yeah, a fire come out that NOD was condescending because 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:27.840 that's like yeah, most people. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.680 Because no, because I thought, I mean, this is an 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.520 ultimate community service announcement. If you don't know, I don't 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.040 know this is it's like on attached to the end 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.120 of the aisle on a big metal ring, and it 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.000 is not comprehensive, as in, not every single item is listed. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.640 But and I love playing this game too. Let's say 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.800 I need condensed milk. You'll go to see and it 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.600 might not have condensed milk. Having said that it might 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.040 condensed milk, and then it goes six and then you 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.280 go straight to L six if you're looking for condensed 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.120 milk and it's not there. It's the funnest game because 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.880 you go, if I was doing the categories for this 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.760 supermarket and I had to put condensed milk somewhere, where 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.760 would I put it? What I might put it with 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.799 baking goods? And then you look up b baking goods five, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.880 You go to five, Bang it's there. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.360 Yeah, what's your food friend? Like? Who were they sitting with? 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.240 What generally would you vibe with? Is what I do. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.320 This is freaking me out because I have proposed this 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.920 to mate, so I said, I wish I wish Google 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.799 Maps did supermarkets so that I could go, you know, yeah, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.720 where is it? Where is it in this little street section? 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.520 I what the minute you said you have to ask someone. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.680 I thought, Oh my god, he doesn't know about the 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.800 magic called clipboard. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.520 I didn't know. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.080 When do you have to go to the supermarket again. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.640 I'm forty four years old and I just learned this 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:08.640 right now. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:10.960 That is really amazing. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.719 Look it's not great, but we have a shopping center 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.560 that hasn't been touched I think for forty years, North 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.599 col Plaza. Oh no, this is Union Square in Brunswick, Okay, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.960 And we do call we do call it bag Dad 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.120 Coles because you're turning up and going nos. It's martial 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.120 law here. And I would I now need to go 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:32.919 to find out if they have the clipboards. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.080 Oh they will. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.200 You'll get a text either way. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.080 Particularly if it hasn't been changing forty years. Absolutely they'll 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.480 have a clipboard. They might not even have the perspex 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.359 ones like they might just have the vinyl clipboards that 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.880 you used to have to get for school, just in 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:48.760 case you went to the. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:56.200 Zoomah and oh this is this is going to change 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:56.760 my life. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.159 You must report back. I need a photograph of you 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.320 with the clipboard as soon as you can. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.680 And is it it attached like pens at a bank, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.760 like is attached by a little Metal. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.240 Metal Ring can't go anywhere. You love it so much, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.800 and I can't wait. Let's go back to when I 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.520 was at the checkout at the fair, very fancy. I 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.640 gae the woman that was putting through my It was 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.600 one of those shops where I had I'd had nothing 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.560 for school lunches. I had nothing, so I had to 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:28.359 pay full price for the the yo play tabs. Anyway, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:35.800 very annoying. Going through. She says to me, I'm nervous 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.080 to do her voice. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.599 Oh fuck it, I'll do it. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.800 He's still on the telly And I said, yeah, look, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.160 you know occasionally but you know, mainly radio, but yes, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.120 occasionally she goes I was on the telly recently. I said, oh, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.280 were you so exciting? What shows? She goes? So grant 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.000 genius deal or no deal? Oh yeah, And I went, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.640 He's great, isn't he's good value? Such a pro. I've 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.560 got the same lines that I use about people that 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.039 I know in the biz, like about you, I would say, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.960 one of the great assholes, isn't he? If if anyone 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:07.960 mentions you. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.640 Didn't explain the grand Danya story that I can never 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.040 get out of my mind of. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.360 You and him, of him dreaming of me breastfeeding him. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.320 And then, because I'm a yes and person, I said 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.559 on air, did I have you in the football hold 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.920 looking down at that big cheesy grid. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.080 Look at your wheedle. You're hosting a show, won't you, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.880 little fell Look at you you burping grand Danya over 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.000 your shoulder. We'll never leave. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.360 I might have to get him on this podcast with you, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.800 and we can just do a full deep dive on 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.880 that dream. I want all the details. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.640 Yeah, you and me and the scouts tea in the highchair. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.320 Back to great Dania in the check out check said 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.280 your thoughts on Delonde and I said, oh, you know, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.080 he's a pro. Was it great fun? She said, yea. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.040 I got to the last round and I had a 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.360 because are you familiar with how deal or no deal works? 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:04.920 Not? 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.200 It's the one that involves the briefcases and like some 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.720 sort of clairvoyance, because you've got to hold the briefcase 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.600 and get a vibe from it and guess how much 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.280 money is in it. I mean, it's the hardest game ever. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.400 Yeah, but I mean it won't die. It's nice. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.320 Anyway. So she's made it to the last round and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.880 she's holding this briefcase and it's come to the psychic 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.160 medium part of the show, where you've just got to 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:38.000 get a vibe from what's inside. And she says, is 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.360 it five dollars? And she goes to me and I 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.120 guess it was five dollars, but it turned out to 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 be one hundred thousand, and we just looked at each 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.680 other and I didn't know what to say. And then 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.559 she filled the silence with grant gave me a nice 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:54.640 stubby holder though. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.880 Oh, a stubby holder. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.320 Then she just kept beeping, beeped my I play six 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.400 pack while berry and. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.240 Then moved on and did you see like the color 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.319 in her eyes just drop? Like did you see her thinking, oh, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:14.560 that was a real fork in there. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.280 I don't think she thought it was as sad as 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.080 I did. But as soon as I heard it, I thought, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.280 I've got a tell Thorne. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.240 I know. And just as you said, the silence is 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.959 then broken by you have fly bys. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.319 I don't have fly bys at THEA. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.720 And you can't get out of that awkward conversation, can you, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.000 because you're like, I need this food. I got to 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.839 stand here and sit in this awkwardness. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:46.280 Oh it was really, Oh, five dollars could have been 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.720 one hundred thousand dollars. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.720 Yeah, next time he's nuzzling in on me, like, grand 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.520 you could have done better what you're doing, and good 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.560 on you for like as in you're still holding on 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.080 to it, like you know what I mean, Like you 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.360 haven't gone it sucks to be you and moved on. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:07.040 I'm very sensitive to people's hopes being dashed though. It's 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:12.079 the one part of my radio job that even yesterday 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.080 we had a carryover champion mechanic at work on the radio, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.640 where you know, someone calls up on Monday, and then 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.920 if they get through to Tuesday and win against someone else, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.319 and then they get through on Wednesday, they've got to 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.920 get through to Friday. And then this woman was set 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.920 to win a you know, a return flight to Hong 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.240 Kong to eat um. I mean, it was just such 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.920 a gorgeous prize and she wanted it so badly. Of course, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.960 I wanted her to have it so badly. But the 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.679 day before she's done four in a row, and then 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.040 the day before it was laid out miss of course 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.800 she was going to and someone beat her. And then 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.120 I just heard her little voice going, oh, well done, Nikita, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.160 and to the person that one, and I just was like, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.040 I just don't like it. I don't like people. I 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.200 don't like to see people dealing with disappointments. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.360 I know, because it's in that situation they've been not 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.480 set up. But you know what I mean, the hopes, Well, of. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.800 Course, you know, when she's driving along, she'd be thinking, oh, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.440 I'm going to get a new pair of walking shoes 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.319 because it was just so much walking in Hong Kong, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.000 or you know, all I better shait my passport, God 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.160 haven't oh. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.640 And then done, And then just like that, I remembered 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.480 the situation where when I was younger, I was a 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.440 single man and met someone. Things went okay to the point, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.959 went back to her place, and then there was a 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.079 grand piano just in the in the apartment. Because it 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.000 didn't stand out. I was like, that's a big piano, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.600 and how did you get it up here? And then 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.440 she was she just said, oh. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.720 She said, we're gonna we're gonna relive the scene from 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.559 Fabulous Baker Boys. But if I've arrives all over the. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:07.559 Gold while I played chopsticks, then the one with the knuckles, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.360 how about it? That got you in the mood. But 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.640 she but she said that. She said, ah, I was 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.920 a classical pianist, and I said, okay, I've got a classical, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.559 but I. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.520 Member check out this concerto. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.920 But honestly, she said, oh yeah, I spent like when 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.320 I was young, from when I was eight, becoming a 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.840 classical pianist. And I remember I got to an age 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.600 in my late teens and they said your fingers aren't 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.520 long enough and I said, no, no, I will make 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.040 this happen. And she said she kept pushing till she 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.120 was like twenty eight, but it didn't happen. And then 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.080 she's like, yeah, it was always my dream and now 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.280 it sits there and I can't play it because it's 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.160 just represented for my broken dreams. Sick. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.800 You didn't sleep with her. Then it was. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.680 Almost like she, you know, was willing to press on 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.760 and I was like, I don't think I kid really, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.560 I just felt really, I was like, oh, this is 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.480 I'm sorry. It was just an absolute mood killing. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.240 Then you just organized for that piano to be removed. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.959 Either the piano goes or I do. This is how 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:24.560 it works. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.240 I would not if there was something that reminded me 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.520 of something sad, I get rid of it. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.000 It was this like we were just having a really fun, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.360 just night and then it was like it sucked the 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.640 oxygen out of the room moment. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.400 Oh I'm so did you ever see her again? No? 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.640 Because I was yeah, no we weren't. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.480 So she missed out on a career as a concert pianist, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.000 and she missed out on a relationship with you Dodge 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.440 two bullets. That is a sad story. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.280 I just I mean, yeah, it was. It was, honestly, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.880 I mean it was. It wasn't an elephant in the room, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.680 was it. It was the ivory in the room that 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.000 was just like why is it here? You know what 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.320 I mean? Yes, I was like that. I'm like, this 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.480 is You've got this huge reminder of all your broken dreams. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:17.800 I no, no, no, it killed me. Did you have 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.800 a dream of anything growing up? Did you did you 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.280 want to be something and then you didn't get there? 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.360 Or have you ever dealt with a massive disappointment? Have 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.760 you loved someone that hasn't loved you back? 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:34.000 Or oh yeah, plenty of that? Oh yeah yeah, I 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.200 would four for people real quick. And then and but 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.320 the funny thing is when I was a young teenager 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:41.760 and like, what do you want to be I wanted 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.160 to be a stand up comedian or a professional basketball player, and. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.840 So well, then you would have understood the fingers girl. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.320 Yeah, I mean yeah, because you're. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.840 Not tall enough to be a basketball player. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.320 No, and so like I'm pretty lucky like that I'm 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:56.680 doing it. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.840 That felt quite insulting to say, but it's a fact. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.360 When I said you're not tall enough to be a 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.000 basketball player, it came out. It sounded mean coming out 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.040 of my mouth. And when it was coming out of 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.880 my mouth and I was looking at your beautiful face, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.840 I thought I'd never say these sorts of things. But 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.880 it's a fact. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.440 I'm not tall enough. I'm about six two and a 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.400 half or so. My voice broke. Then was I confident 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.080 in that? Ah? And I haven't hit puberty evidently, hah. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.520 But did you because you've got a like you've got 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.480 an awesome career, and I'm sure yeah, it was always 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.720 an accident, No, but it was just always something that 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:32.600 you wanted to know. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.040 Really Nope, No, never crossed my mind. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.560 You're very good at this. I always feel like like 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.560 you've obviously dedicated hours and do you know what I mean, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.600 you're an extremely good broadcaster. I would think that that 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.040 only comes from someone doing something that they love. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.680 No, I think, I mean, thank you very much for 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:55.160 saying so, But I think for me, this whole career 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.800 was a complete surprise, and there is no way I 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.560 have known that I could do it, no way. Like 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.360 I was a sort of kid at school that in 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.920 the school arts festivals when my how my whole house, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.600 you know, they have colors and whatever, and they would 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.560 have their turn in the big performance the concerts. I 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.560 would not only never put my hand up to be 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.400 on stage doing anything, I would sit in an opposing 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.720 house when they were performing. I would hide in playing 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.880 sight to avoid being part of anything performance related. I 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.560 never like, I would never accept awards. I wouldn't have 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.600 all of that stuff, absolutely not. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.400 So then what flicked the switch? 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:49.560 I really enjoyed radio? That was it? So are you 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.640 talking about why did I give radio a go in 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:52.360 the first place? 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.000 So memory serves because it was Big Brother? Was it not? 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.920 Yeah? Twenty one years ago? 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:58.680 What year was that? 0:16:58.840 --> 0:16:59.600 Two thousand and three? 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.880 See, because I've heard this before. You know, early in 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.720 your career it was quite often you know, Chrissy from 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.960 Big Brother. But I was I was a dirty backpacker. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.639 Then I was away, right, so I never saw I 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.919 remember seeing the first season of Big Brother and then 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.600 I missed. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.600 It was massive in Australia. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.560 Seven or something. So you did that, But did you 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:17.600 do that on a whim? 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.399 Yes? I did that because at that time there was 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.400 nothing else on Australian television. Was the biggest show. You've 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.960 got no concept of it now, Like I try and 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.160 explain it to my kids, It's like, can you imagine 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:37.239 everybody you know watching one show and then talking about it, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.880 talking about it, talking about it was massive. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.200 Absolutely, it was a completely different experience watching something. Last 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 time I ever felt it was Game of Thrones. That 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.000 was the last I agree show where people are like, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.960 I can't wait for next week, what's going on? But 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.440 that was every show, every primetime show. It was very 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.120 much like, oh, what's happening next week? 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.960 Well, that's right. And I was thirty at the time, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.199 like I was old and old, but do you know 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:07.480 what I mean? I wasn't nineteen, and you know, and 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.520 me and my griovy friends, I was a copywriter advertising 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.639 at the time. Me my grivy friends would watch it religiously, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.359 religiously and back before WhatsApp or whatever. There were text 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.160 messages and phone calls and I would have viewing parties 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.560 at my house where I would make you know, vegan 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.919 dull and we would drink red wine, and you know, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.800 we just loved it, absolutely loved it. And you know, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.719 in a way that thirty year old creatives that live 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:35.679 in South Aera I love. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.560 Something working advertise it's not a big thing. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:44.240 We were addicted, and I thought so that the biggest 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.560 event on our calendar for the viewing party was opening night. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.840 And if you cast your mind back to be brother 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.680 opening Night, it was on a Sunday night at dream 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.400 World Live, and it was the first time we got 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.239 to see the housemates that were going in. And you know, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:05.400 there would have been teasers in the newspapers, leaks apparently 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.560 there's a twenty one year old from dalrymple wway and 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.119 a shadowed out photograph of their silhouette. I mean, it 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.200 was just massive, you can't believe it. Anyway, we would 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.320 have a viewing party and we would eagerly be watching 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.639 on my little tiny television in my apartment and chowing 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:29.719 down on the aforementioned vegan curry. Anyway, I hatched an idea. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.159 Wouldn't it be funny if everyone was watching it at 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.399 the viewing party and they were like, who's that in 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.840 the open top audi arriving at Dreamworld on opening night? 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.879 Oh my god, it looks like Chrissy. Fucking hell, it's Crissy. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.320 I thought that would be an amazing moment. So I 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.919 sort of applied, and then, you know, got on with 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.399 my life, and I just kept on getting to the 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.119 next stage. And it got to the stage where it 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.800 was back before the casting call one where everybody would 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.280 turn up to the showgrounds and you know, put on 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.040 lipstick with their boobs or whatever. You know. It was 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.560 before that. It was you had to send in an application. Basically, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.320 that was it. If it was a casting call, I 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.920 never would have done it anyway. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.520 So you weren't doing because a friend of mine did 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.800 do that casting call and said I couldn't. He was 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.160 in line going what is with these people? Because people 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.800 are just going bananas to try and get the. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.960 Taller That's right. Yeah, So I wouldn't have done that anyway. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:27.760 Keme on getting too the next stages, and then I 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.800 got a phone call saying you're in. We want you 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.399 to be in the house, and I remember where I was. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.480 I was visiting my mum and I was in her 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.800