Speaker 1: It is Jason Lauren clint here as well, and so
Speaker 1: is this man.
Speaker 2: Our next guest has reached the heights of television, receiving
Speaker 2: a glowing review from the one and only Margaret's Polar Ads.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen a TV host so unhinge since David
Speaker 3: got into my shrooms and burning Man.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show. Post of Deal or.
Speaker 3: No Deal blowing review.
Speaker 2: I thought that go to air, and I was terrified
Speaker 2: because I knew the ABC was doing a piece on
Speaker 2: a commercial TV show and it's normally never a good
Speaker 2: outcome in the decided to do that, I thought, I'm
Speaker 2: up for a roasting here. I watched it and it
Speaker 2: was so hilarious and amazing. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: Have they ever roasted you on goggle Box? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been done on goggle Box two.
Speaker 4: Can you remember what they said? I was making word?
Speaker 4: How many sessions of trauma have you have you tried
Speaker 4: to heal?
Speaker 3: Done on Google?
Speaker 5: The voice though she's a friend of the show, you're
Speaker 5: allowed to do the voice Anastasia, she said.
Speaker 3: Ah, she went from a wag to a TV host here.
Speaker 4: And a Stagia pops up to several of our recordings.
Speaker 4: Quite regal.
Speaker 3: She came in here once too, invited herself in.
Speaker 1: She came in and said, I'm starting work at seven. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you mean you're starting work? We said, just
Speaker 1: come on in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we love and we do hate. Now, Grand Danielle,
Speaker 3: we'll get to deal or no deal in a minute.
Speaker 3: But Clinton and I were just having an argument off
Speaker 3: hosts the Weekend Today Show, and I was formerly the
Speaker 3: weather girl on the Weekend Today Show. Now Dan Nancety,
Speaker 3: does you're me sister, and you're a weather guy. And
Speaker 3: I said to him, it's way harder being the weather
Speaker 3: person because when you host it, you've got an autoque,
Speaker 3: You've got people doing your hair and makeup. You've got
Speaker 3: people bringing your coffee and toast. When you're doing the weather,
Speaker 3: you're out in the alum solo, dressing ourselves, brushing our
Speaker 3: own head.
Speaker 4: One person operation cakes, drinking lat cables.
Speaker 1: I don't know the satellite dishes.
Speaker 3: On the car. Job was way harder.
Speaker 1: You are kidding yourself.
Speaker 2: How many fools did you ride or crocodiles did you
Speaker 2: wrestle in the studio.
Speaker 1: I never seen you in a cheerleader outfit. Clinton, You've
Speaker 1: seen some of the stuff I've had to share recently.
Speaker 5: I can't get the image of you as a football
Speaker 5: cheerleader out of my mind.
Speaker 4: That was like two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: Of that's right, look at the damage you've done it.
Speaker 4: You know about my career in twenty five years?
Speaker 3: Is that the prownest moment?
Speaker 1: That's all I remember? Really.
Speaker 4: I remember one of the.
Speaker 2: Cheerleaders they were also professional let's say, dancers, and they
Speaker 2: gave me this tip because they had it was a
Speaker 2: female's outfit I had to put on. And they said,
Speaker 2: word of warning, I'm going to give you a slice
Speaker 2: of bread. And I said, what for the what's that?
Speaker 1: And you?
Speaker 3: How do you know? You don't answer that question?
Speaker 1: She goes.
Speaker 4: I said, what do I do with this?
Speaker 2: She goes, Just you put it down the front and
Speaker 2: it smooths out all the edge. So you end up
Speaker 2: looking like you've sort of got a slight Kendle situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, down down the.
Speaker 3: Front for women too, just men.
Speaker 2: That's a really good questionading Yeah, not on breakfast television?
Speaker 4: Remember having having me nuture?
Speaker 1: Great?
Speaker 4: So did it work?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Still?
Speaker 3: And did you help people comment?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can't look at like a Roger David catalog now
Speaker 2: with all the blokes going, yeah, he's he's packing the
Speaker 2: wonder wonder bread.
Speaker 3: Do you reckon? That's what Chervo did when he ran
Speaker 3: at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: No, he chucked the bag down there.
Speaker 4: That was a cran skin.
Speaker 1: Make deal or no deal? Seven o'clock. Can you be
Speaker 1: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Nauto the dizzy heights of primetime baby, No, we've already
Speaker 2: shot them anyway, But it is it's nice to move
Speaker 2: into a block where there is a lot more families
Speaker 2: who are sort of settling down.
Speaker 1: For the evening.
Speaker 4: So it's a good chance for you to fly.
Speaker 2: But that comes with also pressure you are, I've got
Speaker 2: to deliver in this market as well for the network.
Speaker 1: But it's good.
Speaker 2: It's to be honest, like you know how you would
Speaker 2: know this with your listeners.
Speaker 4: You talk about this stuff every day. But such a
Speaker 4: high cost.
Speaker 2: Of living at the moment where everyone struggling the table
Speaker 2: and keep a roof over their head being the bloke
Speaker 2: that's kind of a human at m spewing out cash
Speaker 2: to really Australians.
Speaker 5: But we get that feeling as well, like you give
Speaker 5: way a thousand dollars and you hear somewhere means to them,
Speaker 5: and it's just this a cool job to do.
Speaker 4: This The game show, I mean it never went anywhere,
Speaker 4: but I feel it's back. It's cycles, but yes, because
Speaker 4: it's a fun watch to have fun.
Speaker 5: My kids play Deal or No Deal, the board game
Speaker 5: at home. Yeah, Deck weavyr Phone, they've got.
Speaker 1: The app.
Speaker 3: Board game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think your face is on it body. It's the
Speaker 1: guy from the leading.
Speaker 3: Bang of Game show hosts and all friends.
Speaker 4: It's a really good question.
Speaker 3: Hard for Todd Woodbridge from the Tipping Point to see
Speaker 3: because he's a tennis I love the Tipping Point as well.
Speaker 3: But is it a club? Is it a game?
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 2: The only reason I go to the logis at the
Speaker 2: end of the day is to just punched Home Gleason
Speaker 2: in the face. Let's be honest, because it's war and
Speaker 2: people it's so funny because well, let's be honest, I'd
Speaker 2: have to put Larry on my shoulders to punch him
Speaker 2: in the face. But it's everyone thinks that we all
Speaker 2: hate one another, like we meet up at some sort
Speaker 2: of back alley and just sort of have it out
Speaker 2: with one another at some point. But I gotta be
Speaker 2: honest when I break my back in a Monster Truck
Speaker 2: crash and Larry Mda sat on my bedside for for
Speaker 2: weeks and just kind of just you guys, great mates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're playing the deal and didn't know your game
Speaker 1: board games?
Speaker 5: Can we ask com you would sing to me? Can
Speaker 5: I ask a serious question? I'm just on that when
Speaker 5: you break your back and I know you went through
Speaker 5: a real ship time in life, and I think it
Speaker 5: was a podcast or an artic who I was reading
Speaker 5: and I was still in the guys the other day.
Speaker 5: Is it true you were filming a show at the
Speaker 5: time when you decided it's all just too much, I
Speaker 5: need to go overseas for help. And you went to
Speaker 5: the airport, just chuck your phone in the bin and
Speaker 5: got on a plane. And at that exact moment, there's
Speaker 5: a studio audience in a studio waiting for you to
Speaker 5: rock up and film like they were all ready to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit hazy, to be honest, that memory,
Speaker 2: that chucking the phone in the in the bin at
Speaker 2: the airport definitely did happen.
Speaker 3: What show were you supposed to be filming?
Speaker 4: I think it might have been. I thought it was
Speaker 4: it was called it was a quiz show.
Speaker 1: When I read that. I was like, you know this
Speaker 1: entame industry.
Speaker 5: You know how much work goes into productions and stuff
Speaker 5: like that, and you don't take that lightly and you're
Speaker 5: very proud of the work you do.
Speaker 1: But it stood out to me how.
Speaker 5: Much of a bad spot or place you must have
Speaker 5: been for you to go I've got to stop right now.
Speaker 1: You know what it was.
Speaker 2: And if you if you google a picture of me,
Speaker 2: you know, in my last days of Sunrise, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's not a pretty looking picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the one thing that it kind of broke my
Speaker 2: heart for a long time, but I'm okay with it now,
Speaker 2: is that no one, not one single person, ever said
Speaker 2: are you okay?
Speaker 3: Really one? Did everyone know how much you're struggling?
Speaker 4: Or were you not good?
Speaker 3: Because I've had friends in similar situations and they're pretty
Speaker 3: good at hiding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look I looked on well, I was. I was
Speaker 2: just I was absolutely proper burnt out. But I think
Speaker 2: no one wanted to ask the question because the machine
Speaker 2: was still going and if they asked the uncomfortable question,
Speaker 2: then that means they have to respond to an uncomfortable answer.
Speaker 2: So no one asked, and it was extremely lonely because
Speaker 2: I was struggling and I was was a workaholic and
Speaker 2: my life would was was television.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's changed since then? Like I would
Speaker 1: proudly say, with this team, which we know awareness when.
Speaker 5: One of us is off the other tour was like
Speaker 5: go take the time, never feel bad or like you know,
Speaker 5: we're you guys pretty good at flagging it with me
Speaker 5: and calling me if I seem off or you yeah, advice.
Speaker 4: That's that's a great environment. Is it like that from
Speaker 4: a management level?
Speaker 2: I don't know that's great that you're spotting each other
Speaker 2: like that, But I think and this is the yeah,
Speaker 2: we really do.
Speaker 4: And I felt like whilst the money was coming in for.
Speaker 2: The network, no one wanted it to stop, and it
Speaker 2: was only me that was like if I don't do something,
Speaker 2: I'm going to die. And I just and I broke
Speaker 2: every rule in my own personal rule book of I
Speaker 2: blew up the relationship. I just I just burned the
Speaker 2: bridge and just for my own safety, my own health
Speaker 2: and also the future that I had to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was the moment where you went that I
Speaker 3: actually need to put myself first because a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't.
Speaker 4: Do that yeah, it was so.
Speaker 2: I was struggling in the recovery of the broken back,
Speaker 2: and I had an addiction to the pain medication, and
Speaker 2: it's it's something that no one warns you about, Like
Speaker 2: you go to hospital, you'll get an injury, they'll treat it,
Speaker 2: they'll send you out with a bunch of prescriptions, and
Speaker 2: no one will sit you down and go, hey, this
Speaker 2: could be the road to hell. These things may happen.
Speaker 2: And I'm still so ashamed and embarrassed about the things
Speaker 2: that I said and did to my wife in that
Speaker 2: period of pain addiction. It was just it was humiliating
Speaker 2: and destructive. And I remember, there's this, There's one picture
Speaker 2: I always try and remember because you know, you've got
Speaker 2: to monitor your own behavior, right, and we all know,
Speaker 2: am I drinking a little bit too too much?
Speaker 4: A little bit too often? Is my behavior slipping a
Speaker 4: little bit?
Speaker 2: And there's one thing that I always try and learn
Speaker 2: and remember to catch myself, and it's an image of
Speaker 2: in the addiction.
Speaker 4: For some reason, that night, I wanted I wanted Scotch.
Speaker 4: I was living in an apartment in the CBD.
Speaker 2: I left it in the middle of the night, just
Speaker 2: in my undies walk around no clothes on, just dundies
Speaker 2: for Scotch, in a delirium. And then I got lost.
Speaker 2: And then my wife's looking looking for me for three hours,
Speaker 2: like just where the hell is he gone? And I
Speaker 2: could barely walk right, like freshly broken back, and I'd
Speaker 2: got lost in the building. And she found me three
Speaker 2: hours later in the fire escape, asleep on the ground,
Speaker 2: just curled up in the corner, just stuck and lost
Speaker 2: next to someone else's pooh, like it was just someone
Speaker 2: had taken a dump in the fire escape. And here
Speaker 2: I am asleep on the on the ground in my undies,
Speaker 2: lost and I just try and remember, I try and
Speaker 2: remember that.
Speaker 5: Slipping or There's not many people that would have turned
Speaker 5: things around that you have.
Speaker 1: So I hope you take a moment be proud of
Speaker 1: yourself with how fa you've.
Speaker 3: Come to putting yourself first, Like that moment of going
Speaker 3: I'm not doing this anymore must have been so hard
Speaker 3: but so powerful for your family as well, to go
Speaker 3: he's recognized it and he's going to deal with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lost script on reality and.
Speaker 3: You yourself when you're in that state. I've had friends
Speaker 3: in very similar situations, and I've looked at them and gone,
Speaker 3: that is not the friend I know and love. And
Speaker 3: I really sincerely hope they're able to turn a corner
Speaker 3: and you can offer someone so much help, but quite
Speaker 3: often you do really have to look within. And I'm
Speaker 3: the only one that can fix this right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: No one else is going to help me. If it
Speaker 4: was meant to be, it was up to me, and
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't be here. I absolutely would not
Speaker 2: be here if I didn't do something about that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think conversations like this massively help for
Speaker 5: people who are in a similar situation.
Speaker 3: Your life now is great, you're living on it. I
Speaker 3: mean you're living on a farm. You've bought a fump,
Speaker 3: You've rolled in here into turtleneck and the leather jacket.
Speaker 1: You don't see.
Speaker 5: Clemping on a turtle neck. The other day and I
Speaker 5: was waiting for the details of the new iPhone, I
Speaker 5: was like, what is going on?
Speaker 3: You still look like a guy and you're now a farmer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we had some cows and beautiful Scottis Highland
Speaker 2: cows and then we re raised them there and.
Speaker 3: We love you on the telly mate, just quickly I've
Speaker 3: got I know Jason's looking at the clock. I don't care.
Speaker 3: This is a big question. Chus he's still going to
Speaker 3: witch school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she went to.
Speaker 1: Minutes. I'll give you, don't we'll give you. I'm not
Speaker 1: blow on this show out to talk. Which school she's
Speaker 1: got a broom?
Speaker 3: She's filig she went to a college in the UK
Speaker 3: to become a witch.
Speaker 1: So they do it? Which school?
Speaker 4: Medium ship? They teach you how to talk to the dead?
Speaker 3: I love this stuff?
Speaker 1: Can we get that's a special podcast?
Speaker 3: Can we get cheesy?
Speaker 1: That's not a live thing.
Speaker 3: Many questions about the farm, but being the fun we.
Speaker 1: Must stop granted had to hit the Telly seven am
Speaker 1: weeknights deal or idea. We love you mate many times there.
Speaker 3: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the Socials.