S1: A listener production.
S2: William, this is our remembering project.
S3: Yep, we're a random day of the year is selected,
S3: and we look up the run sheets from all our
S3: shows from across the years to find any we did
S3: on that day over 20 years. That's about 2500.
S2: Shows and roughly 26,000 talk breaks. Today we pick one
S2: one talk break only and try to remember what happened
S2: based on what was written down on the run sheet
S2: from that day.
S3: As always, we've got podcast. Mike was here for any
S3: technical stuff.
S2: Hello, Mike, what date was randomly chosen today?
S4: No date. Special episode. Oh.
S5: This is Hamish and Andy's remembering project.
S3: Haim. No. Date. Special. Special episode.
S2: Special episode of The Remembering today. Because I found as
S2: I was cleaning out my study at home, our old cassettes.
S3: No no no.
S2: From sin FM, the radio student youth network. The first
S2: time we're ever on radio together. Um, technically, I mean,
S2: the whole the way this came about was I was
S2: working at the Village Bell Hotel in Saint Kilda, the
S2: pub you.
S3: Were.
S2: And we were trying to work out how we could
S2: possibly get on the radio and see.
S3: In between some. I remember the beer being quite well priced.
S3: They're very well.
S2: Priced for friends.
S3: I remember enjoying coming to visit you and and going, oh,
S3: for such a cheap beer. This actually tastes pretty good.
S2: Yeah. Tastes exactly the same. Actually.
S3: Tastes like a Carlton Draught. Yeah. How does he get it?
S2: How does he get to taste the same taste? Nothing. Because.
S3: Nothing. How does the publican get it across the bar
S3: for no money and still make a profit? But I
S3: guess he did.
S2: Yeah, well, I viewed you, and maybe I was ahead
S2: of time. I viewed you as an influencer. Yes. I
S2: thought you being in the bar would definitely attract more people.
S3: In in the word would spread.
S2: We would spread this.
S3: Fizzy amber fluid. We see this cool young man drinking. Yes.
S3: I'll try a cup of that.
S2: It's.
S3: So what does he pay for it? He drinks them
S3: for free. But for you, sir, it's 380. I'm willing
S3: to part with that.
S2: Weirdly. Two bucks.
S3: $2 pots, were they?
S2: Well, we had $2. We had dollar pots for a special.
S2: But when I was serving them at price was $2.30
S2: for a pot of beer when I was serving them
S2: back in those days.
S3: Jeez, I don't know how many shillings that is, but
S3: that was that was the day as well.
S2: Those were the days. So we weren't ripping off the
S2: owner that amount.
S3: But it was nice of the owner without even having
S3: to say it in as many words, to give you
S3: the authority to chop and choose who you saw as
S3: an influencer.
S2: Very cool of him to never reference. I didn't have
S2: to reference it back to him, and it was this.
S3: Cool, unspoken deal that as soon as you walked in,
S3: what was his name follow? Yeah. As soon as he
S3: walked in, you could see Ike Barlow is the kind
S3: of guy that doesn't even need to say if you
S3: made some free beers, because that's great for business, and
S3: you're the kind of employee that doesn't even need to
S3: acknowledge it hasn't been said. You're just. And I think
S3: all the time that saved and it.
S2: Was good of you out of respect to Barlow to
S2: when he walked in the room. Pay for a drink.
S3: Yeah, yeah. As a sort of a nostalgic joke to
S3: go look at. And he got the joke. He got
S3: the big of a joke.
S2: Yeah, that was good.
S3: It was a straight just three people on the same page.
S3: Nothing needs to be said.
S2: So it was right.
S3: We would we would set it the village bell and
S3: plot and plot. Well, basically just be like, well, we
S3: want to do this is remembered. So we're talking what
S3: are we talking in 2002.
S2: 2002.
S3: 2002. So it's like the internet obviously exists, but you know,
S3: this is Hotmail was big news back then. Obviously no
S3: social media, no Facebook, no no anything. So a guy
S3: that worked.
S2: There had said, hey, you should check out the sin
S2: FM student.
S3: Community radio.
S2: And I was like, that'd be fun, fun. And you said, well,
S2: I've got to make good rye that we used to
S2: muck around doing, doing some fun comedy. Funny. So I
S2: reckon we should involve him. And I said, this is weird.
S2: I said, well, I've got to make quid, whipper. Yeah.
S3: We're out.
S2: Wow, that maybe we should get him involved. And this
S2: one cassette tape was part of this show. Whip was
S2: on the entire show. It was you, me, Ryan and Whipper.
S2: And now I don't recall whipper b, I remember him
S2: being a guest, maybe at times, but he's been part
S2: of this entire show.
S3: I remember vaguely the whipper being somewhat around and involved.
S2: I thought he came in twice. Maybe it was just twice.
S3: But maybe it was just because. Also, we had no
S3: idea what we were doing was just like, hey, anyone
S3: jump on? Like, let's just try and get flying hours.
S2: Yes, we should point a whipper whipper now.
S3: Sydney breakfast icons on radio and been there for many years. Um,
S3: whipper celebrity Apprentice it's in whipper one season. I think
S3: of 20 to 1. Possibly did two. I don't know
S3: if it was it. Two does. Yeah, possibly so. Certainly
S3: no stranger to fame and fortune. But do you know
S3: what else was around at the time in Melbourne and
S3: this would this appeared in other radio markets around the
S3: country was a popular format on triple M was the cage. Yes.
S3: And so it was. It was you didn't have a
S3: breakfast show of just some people you knew. The idea
S3: was more just, here's a bunch of people. Yes. And
S3: you don't even need to know who they are. They're
S3: just in the cage. It was like the thing we've
S3: trapped them in is the famous thing. Yes. We want
S3: you to know the show by the by the the vessel.
S3: They live in the cage. Which was. Which was. It
S3: doesn't matter what animals are in there, it's just the cage.
S2: Sometimes there was five in the cage, sometimes was.
S3: Doesn't matter. You're not coming to the zoo for the animals.
S3: You're coming because of the quality of the cage.
S2: James Brayshaw was in the cage.
S3: James Brasher was a cage man. Bridget.
S2: Pete Berner.
S3: Pete Berner there's a lot of people rotating throughout the
S3: cage now.
S2: There are pros and cons for having a cage like
S2: system or a radio network. The pro is this is
S2: the big one.
S3: No one can get more famous than the show.
S2: Yes, so you can. If you don't like a performer. Yeah,
S2: you can shift them away.
S3: Hey, no, but this is. People love me on this show.
S3: No they don't. They love the system. You're trapped in
S3: the cage and they love your containment system.
S2: So you did end up having to pay 5 or
S2: 6 on air talent opposed to just two. That's it.
S3: But you never had a Colin Jackie situation where they
S3: were like, hey, we could leave and destroy you. Yeah.
S3: You can't. They'd be like, no, we we own the cage. Yeah.
S3: You just come in and out of the door.
S2: Occasionally we open the door. You're allowed out.
S3: Yeah. That's it.
S2: We might remove you and lock the door. You can't
S2: come back in.
S3: We've got 25 other lemurs that would love to be
S3: in the cage. Yeah, so Ali Mo might have been
S3: in the cage.
S2: Yes. Anthony Lehman.
S3: Yeah. Lima. Lima, Mo. So the reason I mentioned the
S3: cage is because I think that would have been us
S3: just being like, we would listen to the cage and
S3: we would go, and this might have been our idea
S3: of being like, oh, just get whipper in. Like doesn't
S3: you don't show doesn't have to be about people. It's
S3: just a general gathering of whoever's around.
S2: What are your memories of our first ever community radio shows?
S2: Mine was we tram down from Melbourne University because it
S2: was at a different university, and we do one kind
S2: of meeting before it.
S3: We go to the pub.
S2: Yep. Yeah, go to the pub and often we, one
S2: of us would say I've read the odd spot.
S3: It was kind of a race to the odds.
S2: In the paper. I want to read that out in between.
S2: That's and I've got the jokes.
S3: And there was also a free newspaper at the time
S3: on trains and trams, Amex. And didn't it. It had
S3: its own little thing.
S2: It had multiple kind of odds, body type things. That
S2: was a boom. That was a boom scene.
S3: Because honestly, this is the very first time where, you know,
S3: this is how you get into radio or you get
S3: into this sort of thing. You go, hey, we're pretty funny.
S3: I like being funny. We have fun together. Wouldn't it
S3: be fun to do it on, on air? And we
S3: could spread that fun. Yeah. That's good. Oh, what a
S3: dream would it be if all day we could just
S3: be having fun? Yes, that. That's good. That's a good intention.
S3: And it's not until you are walking in the building.
S3: There you go. But hang on. What are we going
S3: to be funny about? What are we going to say? Yes.
S3: And then the other person, we like just funny things
S3: and you'd be like, yeah, that's what I was thinking.
S3: But if you thought more about what they will be,
S3: what will they be? The things we talk about and
S3: you're like, just what's going on? And then you go, yeah,
S3: but what is that? And then you start to go,
S3: oh no, what am I going to talk about? Oh
S3: my God, I've got to talk about something. Then you
S3: literally sit there and go, what do people talk about?
S3: And you, that's when the penny drops. That's when the
S3: penny drops. Like you actually need to have something to
S3: say if you're going to ask people to listen. And
S3: then we just had we're like, the only thing we
S3: can think of that wouldn't be arrogant to talk like
S3: it wouldn't be just self-centered to talk about. No one
S3: cares about us talking about current news. No one cares
S3: about our personal lives. Because at that time you're like, well,
S3: no one knows who you are. Yeah, I guess it's
S3: odd spots. Yeah. That's fun. And factoids. Yeah. Tidbits. That's fun.
S3: It's always nice.
S4: You got spots?
S2: Oh, sorry. In the age.
S3: Oh, it would be like, oh, a man, you know,
S3: left his entire fortune to his donkey. And now it's
S3: the richest animal in America. Or, you know, $71 million. Yeah,
S3: it was on the front page. Last of the age.
S3: We saw Sydney Morning Herald equivalent. It's a true.
S4: Story.
S3: It was just it was a it was an odd
S3: spot of news. Yeah. And then then you would hear,
S3: if you're lucky enough to tune into senior FM, you'd
S3: hear out 221 year olds, then teeing up three minutes
S3: of witty observations about what that donkey might do with
S3: the money. Yeah, if other animals were jealous of the money. Yep.
S3: List goes on. Anyway, this goes on of the comedy
S3: that would open up from there.
S2: I'm. I was pressing the buttons for us and all
S2: songs were played off CD.
S3: And they were our own music too.
S2: And our own music.
S3: I remember you played Air the French, the front of
S3: the French soft lounge electronic act air every show. You
S3: loved it and I loved it. I loved You got
S3: me into air. But it's it's like absolutely the music
S3: that you put on it to in the morning to
S3: wind things down.
S2: And the other thing am is between you, me and Ryan.
S3: What a mix.
S2: We would have spot.
S3: Comedy in here.
S2: We would have such different music tastes that if you
S2: were tuning in to try and get some kind of
S2: level of entertainment, it was bouncing so far around, and
S2: then you get a knock on the door from the
S2: station manager there, Matt, saying, hey, we have to support
S2: one band.
S3: The Aussie music as well. Oh no, University music and music.
S2: You'd end up playing something really out there. But we
S2: we would try and do a lot of Aussie music.
S2: John Butler definitely got a hell of a run. I know.
S3: And I actually remember thinking this is like the the
S3: arrogance of like being 21 or whatever in the studio.
S3: You think you're helping him? Yeah, yeah. Like if we
S3: bump into John Butler, I'd be like, yeah mate, we've
S3: been spinning your music. We've been just just letting you know, mate.
S3: Fighting the good fight, getting the word out. If you
S3: notice a few more people at Byron like going to
S3: your gigs.
S2: So I said to marshy, marshy. There's no round sheets
S2: for this. Of course not. We didn't have producers in
S2: our run sheet. So marshy is the guy that puts
S2: these beats together for us. I said, pick out what
S2: you want, pick out two bits. He said, well, there
S2: was three bits. He goes, there was kind of a
S2: story from Hamish. There's a story from you, Andy, and
S2: there's one from whipper, but I don't think the one
S2: from whipper is worth listening to, because he didn't really
S2: put any effort into it, and there's no real direction
S2: that was going.
S3: Can we hear that one, please?
S2: I know you'd want to hear that. And I said,
S2: now let's just leave the whipper one.
S3: I reckon this was almost one of the first day
S3: I met whipper, because you were like, I know this guy.
S3: And because we met by the Yarra. But like, we'd
S3: park at a secret park near the. There's. It sheds
S3: along there that like private schools, use for rowing. And
S3: there was a few unregulated parks and that was kind
S3: of the best free parking in the city. So I
S3: remember we met down on the Yarra and he had
S3: a toolbox with him. This is my mate. I was like,
S3: what are you. What do you do? And he was like,
S3: he introduced himself as a handyman. Yeah.
S2: Yeah. So what we're going to hear is I said,
S2: I want the start of a show. Okay, so we're
S2: about to hear the start of a show.
S3: Yeah, well, you go.
S2: Somewhere, and then I said, and then pick out another one.
S2: But let's let's this the start of what I think
S2: we called cruise control, which was the name of the show. No,
S2: we'd been going with the cage theory. Get a good,
S2: strong brand.
S3: To ourselves, though we should have been the ones calling
S3: ourselves Hamish Andy to get the name out there. We've
S3: we've sided with management, build up, cruise control, cruise control,
S3: cruise control, cruise control. Tell you what, when the when
S3: you kicked into French banned air. Yeah. Boy, did we
S3: cruise at 12 k's an hour.
S2: Here we go. No date.
S6: Year 2002.
S3: Come on. Oh my God. Two.
S2: Yes. In a very good afternoon. You're on cruise control 90.7.
S2: I'm here with Michael Whipple. Whipper. Hello, Randy. Very, very well.
S2: And yourself? Ryan. Sheldon. Yes, I'm good too. And boy,
S2: do we have an average show for you today. Go
S2: above average for today. Yes. I'm subpar, though. I feel
S2: up to it. We're going to go live to. We're
S2: tweaking right now, but he's in the exam, so we're
S2: going to cancel that. We've got a brand new segment
S2: for you to catch up with all the World Cup fever. Yeah.
S2: And amongst other things, all that in the next hour
S2: on cruise control. Looking got the best reading show in
S2: Melbourne largely due to statistical errors. But the second magic
S2: welcome to Hamish Blake just entered. Oh here he is
S2: from his exam. Ladies and gents out there.
S4: Hey welcome everyone. I'd just like to know I started
S4: that applause. Pretty good bloke. So he took it up
S4: quite quickly there. Yeah, I've just come from an exam,
S4: as I'm sure everybody knows and all wishing me the
S4: best job. Everyone knows appreciate the wishes and. But they
S4: might have fallen on deaf ears because I think I
S4: performed quite badly in this exam. Um, needless to say,
S4: had to ring in a few of the old tricks,
S4: such as writing after pens down and elaborate cheating cheering these.
S7: Along with that.
S4: These are the thing though I rely. Andy and I
S4: have a very similar study pattern. Whereas we attend, we
S4: selectively attend. It's selective attendance. Yes. Or some people call
S4: it null attendance. Yeah, but then I really rely on
S4: the more I procrastinate and procrastinate. Procrastinate on the 15
S4: minutes in the car park, before the exam, during reading
S4: time to learn my stuff.
S2: Yes, you skipped reading time. Reading time. Wasting time.
S4: I think I'm not an idiot. I can't just go
S4: into a digital systems exam like this morning and do
S4: it off the top of my head. I need to
S4: 15 minutes of learning to reproduce that semester's work.
S7: You can't push it the last minute. It's crazy. Okay, so.
S4: Here's here's a deal. I'm in my car. The pony,
S4: as the gents in the booth know and has probably
S4: not many of the listeners know I have a car.
S4: What do you do now? I'm on my way to
S4: the exam and the pony decided to, well, play up
S4: a little bit. I break down. Yeah, just really getting
S4: in the exam spirit. Hey, Hamish. Yeah. Big morning. Huh?
S4: Like we just let's just mix it up a bit
S4: and I'll break down. And what happened is my Hamish car.
S2: Is similar to Herbie. It talks to him.
S4: Yeah, it does actually. It's got a look computer that
S4: says okay, which is a big lie because it's never okay.
S4: It's always breaking down. The car decided it overheats a
S4: fair bit, and that's all I can deal with that.
S4: If it wants to run hot, then let it run hot. Yeah,
S4: but it did. I had overheated the brakes, and they
S4: swelled up to such a point that when you press
S4: on the brakes, normally they go onto the wheel. Then
S4: you take your foot off and they come back off
S4: the wheel. I get it, yeah. Spring loaded. Well, I'm
S4: doing a lot of hand actions, but I think it
S4: really gets to the idea they don't like that come
S4: across on radio that way. I'll say.
S7: The swelling. Yeah.
S4: The diagram you bought into the you project the. But
S4: today they overheated so much that they just swelled up
S4: and pressed against the brakes. So when you took your
S4: foot off the brakes, the car's still stopped. The car
S4: is not going to go anywhere.
S2: So you go with rice rest, ice compression, compression elevation. Yeah.
S4: Enhancement of breaking down the. And so I just had
S4: to set the car to turn it off and let
S4: her have a bit of a cool, like just cooling
S4: upon a windowsill. I was having fun. It didn't have
S4: to be anywhere except my exam, which was worth 80%
S4: of my mark. So I was just kicking back. It
S4: was a one line kind of thing, kind of rides
S4: everyone behind me. Hey, Hamish, how are you going? Oh,
S4: sorry about your car. Although I could read it in
S4: their eyes. Their mouth was saying a lot of expletives.
S4: And why did you break down here and just head down?
S4: I didn't mean it. It would have broken down at
S4: home if I could have. Or in a petrol station
S4: or never. So at the end of the story, at
S4: the end of the line, the car got better. It
S4: brakes cooled down enough for me to limp to the exam.
S7: The pie was cool, was cool.
S4: People were questioning that. What's that by doing? I don't
S4: know the but I've had to take. Now my car
S4: has a few things that it's just not able to
S4: do that other cars can it kind of go over
S4: a hundred and I know. Yeah. On the bad, on
S4: the bad day it won't activate which is other cars can.
S4: I've had to really I'm starting to notice I'm taking
S4: a lot of things out of its repertoire now. It
S4: kind of driving traffic because it stops art, makes its
S4: brakes overheat. It can't stop. It's getting to the point
S4: where if I'm standing on a long, flat piece of
S4: gently downward sloping road and you're at the other end,
S4: Andy and I want to get to you. And it's
S4: about 18°C. It's just been serviced. There's a cool wind
S4: blowing and the gods are with me. I could probably
S4: start the car and drive down to you. You mess
S4: with any of those factors, puts dampening curves in the road.
S4: Start raising the heat a little bit. Introduce one other
S4: car as traffic. Not a chance. We just let's just jog.
S2: Incidentally, how much you selling an Audi prefer?
S4: Not to mention the the brand name, mate, call 999925 3711.
S4: She's a great car. Runs perfectly. Yeah, she's topped cruise control.
S3: I mean, it's your first time on radio. Yeah. You're
S3: having a go at telling a great story. It's a
S3: great story. You're racing through it.
S2: And I'm trying to be a supportive as possible. Yep.
S3: But I didn't leave a lot of room for whipper,
S3: did we? I mean, even here.
S2: That line right.
S7: There as.
S3: Well, right? He doesn't even get a microphone.
S2: Maybe we'll rotating people. I don't know, guys. Okay.
S3: We have a sub cage. We had a pen that
S3: you'd sit in. It's funny, isn't it? Because I can
S3: hear I mean it's funny. I've often you think back
S3: to those early days and I don't really have an
S3: answer when people go, well, you you guys started as like,
S3: it wasn't Hamish and Andy always like, why did it happen?
S3: And I can even hear it. They're like, I'm just
S3: talking to you. I'm just talking back to you.
S2: It was like, look.
S3: Pretty rough for the other guys in the room. I
S3: think we just.
S2: That was the thing I noticed the most is you
S2: and I are in sync. Talking with each other, finishing
S2: each other's sentence.
S3: What he was like on the batch. You know, I
S3: referenced Sam Woods season of The Bachelor. You can tell
S3: him in snares, we're in love from the moment they
S3: said eyes on each other. And you had to go
S3: through the whole season with him pretending. I think it's
S3: a little bit Sam and says, well.
S2: We've heard one of your stories. It's only fair to
S2: hear what I'm buying. That's marshy. Put it. So, Mike,
S2: you give a nod to the sponsors, will. Yeah.
S3: If they're still willing to be associated with this quality
S3: of radio.
S2: Thanks, Mike.
S3: You're nervous, and we're about to hear your story.
S2: It's going to be worse. All right.
S3: If we were going back to coach this show now,
S3: feel like. Okay, guys, we've we've now. Hi. We're Hamish and.
S3: Don't worry about the time travel stuff, but we've been,
S3: you know, we've had. We've been in the industry for
S3: a while. I think I mean, as people that are
S3: doing their very first show because you've got to start
S3: somewhere you can't you don't want to create a culture
S3: of like, don't have a go know. And, you know,
S3: we're like, we're so young. I think we're like 21 here.
S3: So I think you'd go so young to how I
S3: feel now, but you'd I think you go like, guys,
S3: story selection. Great. You know, talk about something that is
S3: relevant to you. Probably rushing. You're rushing quite a bit,
S3: but I don't think you're confident in any of your points.
S3: And you know what? I definitely wouldn't have written any down.
S3: I would have gone. I know the gist of it.
S3: I only know that because then I did that for
S3: the rest of my career. Yes, like I know the
S3: gist of this story and I'll it'll reveal itself as
S3: as I tell it, but.
S2: The nervous I can just even the red light going
S2: red and just being on air. I was just so
S2: nervous every time it started when it started, because it's
S2: like we are broadcasting, we're putting ourselves out there for
S2: this and you can't. It took ages to get to
S2: the point where I don't really care. Oh, and you.
S3: Also are so used to in real life and doing
S3: stand up, which I was doing at the time, to
S3: do go like if you get a laugh. That's funny. Yeah.
S3: If you don't, you've missed something. Yeah. And that's not
S3: how it happens on radio. You obviously aren't getting laughs
S3: the whole time. You have to kind of learn to go.
S3: I'm confident in what I'm saying. Yes is connecting. Like
S3: you don't have to just keep rushing until you get
S3: like people falling off their chairs laughing. Yeah. So that's
S3: and that's the thing. But that's why you say that's
S3: like a whole new world. Yeah. It would have been.
S3: This would have been. Yeah. That's early, early days. Early
S3: early days. I remember that funnily enough, I, I remember
S3: that digital systems and microprocessors exam.
S2: Well, the car also is a big part of our lives.
S2: Huge part of our lives.
S3: We then yeah, we did a road trip, made a
S3: comedy show about it. You and I.
S2: Did comedy festival show off the back of that.
S3: And it kind of was like the template for every
S3: travel show we ever did then afterwards. But the I fail,
S3: I failed digital systems of microprocessors. I've got a 46.
S3: Oh yeah. Yeah. Because I remember I went to argue.
S3: I'd heard that if you get close enough to, you
S3: can argue.
S2: Yeah, we got told that.
S3: I tried to argue and that was where I learnt that. Gee,
S3: you need a good argument. Yeah. Because my argument was
S3: I would have liked my argument was you'd have to agree.
S3: I'm pretty close. And they're like, yeah, but that's why
S3: we have the rule of 50. We draw a line there. Yeah.
S3: All right. I just heard that if you were, if
S3: you really wanted it.
S2: Let's have a listen back to what I was up
S2: to him. One thing Marshall pointed out about this is
S2: that apparently there was a renovation going on in the
S2: studio next door, or like a shop next door at
S2: the university. I don't remember this, but he said it's
S2: quite obvious that.
S3: There's building going construction. Remember then what the whole uni
S3: was being rebuilt, remember? And you'd walk out and you'd
S3: be in scaffolding, right. And because I remember that because
S3: remember I used, they used often had a sausage sizzle. Yes.
S3: And there was like a quadrangle outside of this part
S3: of the university. And, and the day we did our
S3: show was always the day they had the sausages along.
S3: And I loved getting a sausage after the show. And
S3: then they were close for months while they were renovating.
S3: I still remember the disappointment that these renovations shut the quadrangle,
S3: therefore no sausage and bread for home.
S2: Well, what it seems like is they were down tools
S2: looking for their own sausages. The workers, when you told
S2: your story about the car and Marty says that I
S2: think they're back working construction. You might be able to
S2: hear some construction.
S3: Just awesome. Awesome. Good on anyone that ever listened to
S3: this show. Anyone ever did. Yeah, like if someone's out
S3: there that listened for more than a minute, considering the
S3: options you had of how to spend a minute of
S3: your life. Thank you. Yeah, if you did, there's no
S3: evidence anyone ever did. But if you did, that just
S3: blows my mind.
S2: Here we go.
S6: No date year 2002.
S8: Welcome back. You're from Cruise Control 90.7.
S2: That was, uh, la the wise guys there. And before that,
S2: we had Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson. Now we've got
S2: Andy Lee talking about work related incidents.
S4: And the third person we'll just sit back.
S2: Might be gentlemen you are familiar with my work. But
S2: next door there's a Thai restaurant and we're trying to
S2: establish a relationship with this, this guy whose name is Dez. Um,
S2: so we can get the discount, obviously. So Wednesday, it's
S2: green curry. Wednesday.
S4: Can I just say something? Certainly, man. I think I'd
S4: like to go and establish a relationship with the carpenters
S4: next door. I don't care what the relationship is, just
S4: as long as I end up with the hammer afterwards.
S4: Not gonna hit him. I just think it would be
S4: good for the radio show if they weren't banging on
S4: the wall. Just want to contribute. Yeah.
S2: Well, on Wednesdays down at.
S4: Mine, keeping the bait. Yeah.
S2: My work. We have green curry Wednesdays. All right. Whereby
S2: we order. A grain carry on a Wednesday. So very.
S4: Yeah. No that's like that.
S2: Yeah that's good but and so I'm in there. I
S2: got called up by my work by Paul to go
S2: in and establish the relationship. A bit of gags going down.
S2: I've gone in and I've gone, yeah. Liz how are
S2: you doing green curry Wednesdays Liz a yeah. You know
S2: going back.
S4: And.
S2: I've gone the green Caribbean thing real.
S4: Bad nickname.
S2: I go pull the green car is looking really good.
S2: I think I really headed off with Liz and he said, sorry,
S2: come again. And I said, Liz. And he went, It's Des.
S2: And I thought, oh no good down days deep a
S2: discount L for Liz, L for losing the discount I think,
S2: which was a real problem for me. And I thought,
S2: I've ruined it forever. And I thought, I've got to
S2: establish this. I've got establish this relationship back. Yeah. I
S2: can't let this slide. I've got to go back back
S2: in and work it out. So I got out the
S2: my work letterhead and wrote a letter for him. And
S2: here's how it went, guys. Okay. Uh. Dig it. There
S2: it goes. Um, where's that paper? Dear des, I'd like
S2: to apologize for my speech impediment. Sometimes I get DS
S2: mixed up with L's. Let me give you an example. Hi, Liz.
S2: How's it going? Quote Andy Lee 12th of June 2002. Nice.
S2: I'm sure you can see past this picture. I'd like
S2: you not to tell people because it's close to my heart. Dave. Andy. Oh,
S2: there I go again.
S4: Seems to be a writing impediment.
S2: So yeah, no. Won't work back from Liz so far.
S4: Well, we will stay tuned. Wednesday is only two days away. Yeah,
S4: and I've just come from an exam, so I'm in
S4: maths mode. Yeah.
S2: You're listening. Calling 9925 3711. And we can have a
S2: talk about it, mate, I'd like to patch things up.
S2: Anyone can call. Really? Yeah. Similar to callers who people
S2: look like sporting equipment. 9927 3711 that's right. No it's not. No, no.
S4: It doesn't matter.
S2: No, 9 to 5.
S4: It'll just throw all those callers off because we get
S4: a lot for the real callers. 9925 30 711 are perfect.
S2: Thank you very much. Time is Shaun cruise control. Oh.
S3: What.
UU: What a lot to unpack this.
S3: Summer of flurries. First of all just barreling through the
S3: story which is great. We're really good. Good story I
S3: mean forming an alliance with with leaseholders. Yeah. Just the banging.
S3: So funny that we reference it once ago, but I
S3: think it's because it's like we were only allowed in
S3: once every two weeks, like, yeah, this was our time
S3: to do radio. We weren't going.
S2: And you're only allowed six week lots. That's right.
S3: So we had one a weekly show for six weeks
S3: and then you wouldn't get one for the next year.
S2: I think it was the next.
S3: 6 or 12 weeks. It was a long wait. So
S3: it was like, we don't get many chances and I
S3: think we have to play 2 or 3 songs in
S3: a row or two. So if there's a carpenter, if
S3: there's someone's building a house next door, we must keep going. Yes.
S3: And good on you, because you're like, I'm going to
S3: get the flying out, I am. I don't care if
S3: I'm flying in a storm. I'm getting the hours in.
S2: I've written a funny letter that I.
S3: Need to read out.
S2: I don't care how much banging is going on.
S3: And then right at the end, I don't think that
S3: was a joke. Where we went, if you look like
S3: sporting equipment.
S2: Yeah.
S3: The phone topic of do you look like. I mean,
S3: considering we never got any calls anyway, I don't think
S3: we would have even tried that on a national radio
S3: show where you have millions of people listening. I feel
S3: like percentage wise, I don't think we get 2 or
S3: 3 calls out of it. Certainly not getting it, certainly
S3: not getting it on a on a community radio station.
S3: It has a broadcasting range of about 30km outside the
S3: Melbourne CBD. While everyone's turned off minutes ago, too, because
S3: they're sick of the banging as.
S2: An afterthought.
S3: With with the wrong number twice. But it's really good.
S3: Remember every.