Speaker 1: Talkbag Tings is where I bring you bits of gold
Speaker 1: that we find on talkback radio. It's a world of
Speaker 1: its own that our listeners are really missing out on
Speaker 1: some good stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh really, and we've found some gems. I mean we
Speaker 2: even we opened up a can of worms. The Lady
Speaker 2: Gaga conspiracy. Did she call the thro hotline?
Speaker 3: That's right, that was the most recent one.
Speaker 1: I figured out that if you search talkback Tings on
Speaker 1: the podcast app, which just brings up all the ones
Speaker 1: we've done, so it's easy to find them. So we've
Speaker 1: played John Laws a few times on Talkback Tings and
Speaker 1: I've really only ever showed you what a cranky bars
Speaker 1: that it can be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of yelling, a lot of frustration.
Speaker 1: Also, I just love his insults because you know how,
Speaker 1: I just think he's so eloquent, Like a weird part
Speaker 1: of me just really wants to be insulted by John
Speaker 1: Laws because he's so good at them.
Speaker 4: Kay for kill.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this week, I'm showing you a different side to
Speaker 1: John Laws. In fact, my sister messaged me the other
Speaker 1: day she was back at mum and Dad's place driving
Speaker 1: the tractor. Oh, she's listening to the radio and she goes,
Speaker 1: I'm in tears when she heard this piece of AUDEO.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to play later made her cry. And
Speaker 1: when I eventually track down the audio I got, I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you.
Speaker 3: I I did cry.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 2: Just feel good.
Speaker 1: Prepare your talk, all right, So today I want to
Speaker 1: introduce you to one of John's regular callers, Dale. Now,
Speaker 1: Dale is in his sixties and he's living with an
Speaker 1: intellectual disability, and he's been calling through to John every
Speaker 1: week for over twenty five years.
Speaker 2: That's how old I am my whole life.
Speaker 3: It's older than me.
Speaker 1: But everyone loves Dale, right, Like all of John's listeners.
Speaker 1: They're familiar with him, and he just completely uplifts the
Speaker 1: mood of the show.
Speaker 2: And that happens with radio shows. I've got usual callers
Speaker 2: that call my show every night, and I love to.
Speaker 1: Hear him the same deal, and everyone starts becoming familiar
Speaker 1: with him. He's like a piece of furniture yeah on
Speaker 1: the show. And he and John have formed this really
Speaker 1: beautiful friendship. You can tell that John really really cares
Speaker 1: for Dale after all these years.
Speaker 3: Every Friday they check in with each other, really, yes
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 1: So Dale works with one of those ability support services,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that have activities in programs set
Speaker 1: up yeah, out with intellectual disability so they can work
Speaker 1: and have some independence and dignity.
Speaker 3: Well, last Friday, Dale called through like he always does,
Speaker 3: with a bit of good news.
Speaker 1: Now take a listen to how instantly John's mood changes.
Speaker 5: Ok, here we go. I suggest that the victoria is
Speaker 5: mister Pacola, keep his mouth shut. Tell me what is on?
Speaker 5: Who do I have here?
Speaker 4: Dale?
Speaker 5: I've got Dale? Good morning, Dale?
Speaker 4: I want award? John?
Speaker 5: You won an award? Wow, you won an award? Isn't
Speaker 5: that wonderful?
Speaker 4: My first tern?
Speaker 5: Why did it? What? What was the award for working?
Speaker 5: For what? You won an award for working? You must
Speaker 5: have been working very hard, busy, busy, busy, busy, and
Speaker 5: you won an award for being a good Yes, isn't
Speaker 5: that wonderful?
Speaker 4: And now the Christmas para is coming up next on.
Speaker 5: The seventeen seventeenth.
Speaker 4: Is it of December?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Seventeenth of December, I hope December. Okay, so you go, Well,
Speaker 5: you've got a lot happening, You've won an award, and
Speaker 5: you've got to Christmas party coming up. Yeah, Now tell
Speaker 5: me this. What have you been doing? Have you been
Speaker 5: going to bed and sleeping middle to night in the
Speaker 5: middle of the night, But you haven't been walking around?
Speaker 4: Nah, the listening to my raasy when the ghosts say,
Speaker 4: listen to good.
Speaker 5: Easy, okay, So you listen to the music and the
Speaker 5: music helps put you to sleep. Yeah, well that's good.
Speaker 5: That's nothing wrong with that. No, nothing wrong with that
Speaker 5: at all. So you're not walking around in the middle
Speaker 5: of the night.
Speaker 4: Now I saw him, I've got I bought my Chistar
Speaker 4: present for Christmas?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what did you buy it?
Speaker 4: I bought a ninety A ninety.
Speaker 5: What a lovely present?
Speaker 4: Is a lovely present?
Speaker 5: What a love? Aren't you? Aren't you a good brother?
Speaker 4: You are a good brother.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you are a good brother. A good man, Yeah,
Speaker 5: good man, A very generous man.
Speaker 4: It's John's roy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, John is right, you bet. Are you going to
Speaker 5: sing a song for me?
Speaker 4: You ain't going to sing?
Speaker 5: What are you going to sing?
Speaker 4: I think good? Doughtor and nurse Reggie have a very shiny.
Speaker 5: And you have litten.
Speaker 4: Even ever say crawl or y have the Reggie you
Speaker 4: sit under? Call me name? And they both rudo John
Speaker 4: any raindy gay? Then saw the Christmas saying, they just
Speaker 4: say weird. Well you don't know someone once you shine
Speaker 4: my stay tonight and now that they need love sing
Speaker 4: and then I soundly we were othering noose Brady use
Speaker 4: another history.
Speaker 5: Very good. The last note was terrific, very good, very good.
Speaker 5: Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. It's a classic old Christmas song.
Speaker 5: You sang that very well. That was very good, very good,
Speaker 5: very good. All right, mate, Well, I better go and
Speaker 5: earn a dollar or something.
Speaker 4: I saw Mama kissing change under the mitchell Son ad
Speaker 4: didn't see me see under tendance, tenden be apart. I
Speaker 4: do see my my paper fastesty and I well, mamasy
Speaker 4: say under the missing Charlie. Why wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, that was a pretty couple of high notes in there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: very good, very good.
Speaker 4: Nacles is still still around.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's listening. Yeah it's Friday morning. He listens Friday mornings. Yeah.
Speaker 5: You can say hello to Santa, Hey.
Speaker 4: Santa, excuse me, sir. I want I want lots of
Speaker 4: present for Christmas Day. I want lots of needy.
Speaker 5: You want lots of dale. I don't know. You mustn't
Speaker 5: be greedy, mate, you can't say I want lots. Just
Speaker 5: say I'd love some presents on Christmas Day.
Speaker 4: I got some presents for Christmas Day.
Speaker 5: Yeah. That that's a very nice way to do it.
Speaker 5: You don't say you don't want to be greedy, do you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, I don't want to be greedy at all. All right,
Speaker 5: my mate, I've got to go now. You've got to
Speaker 5: go now, yep, gotta go to strike a blow. Got
Speaker 5: to make a dollar or fifty cents at least, do
Speaker 5: my best.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas? I went out, Have you the merry Christmas?
Speaker 5: Who are you talking to Santa?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Santa's listening, Yes, yeah, he listens. So you till I
Speaker 5: just don't say I want a lot of presents. Just
Speaker 5: say I hope you remember me on Christmas Day, Santa.
Speaker 4: I hope you remember me on Christmas Day, Santa.
Speaker 5: That's the boy. That's a nice way to put it.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure that Santa will remember you.
Speaker 4: He will remember you.
Speaker 5: He will, don't you worry about it?
Speaker 4: That's right?
Speaker 5: All right mate? Well, I better go strike a blow,
Speaker 5: earn a dollar, do something. Yeah, Okay, we'll talk to
Speaker 5: each other next week.
Speaker 4: I told you next week. Okay, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 5: Going bye, Dale, talk to you next week.
Speaker 4: Told you next week.
Speaker 2: I'm the number one Dale supporter in the world, my
Speaker 2: fan club until the day I dine.
Speaker 3: He's so sweet and that's your first time hearing him right, and.
Speaker 2: I very I've never heard him before.
Speaker 3: I want to hear more of him. Well, I have
Speaker 3: got some more.
Speaker 1: It's funny that you've you've connected with him so instantly,
Speaker 1: because I can't even remember when I first heard Dale,
Speaker 1: but I remember it was always a case of my
Speaker 1: dad being like everyone.
Speaker 3: Shdale's on and would be like, oh, Dale's back, kids.
Speaker 1: He has been calling in every Friday, usually around eleven,
Speaker 1: and his life story has pretty much unfolded on the
Speaker 1: John Laws Show. So he used to live with his mum.
Speaker 1: I believe she was his full time care for a
Speaker 1: long time. So he was always telling stories about his
Speaker 1: mum and John was always you know, how's mum, Dale,
Speaker 1: and oh good John, and then one week it was oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Mum's sick, John, And then you know, after
Speaker 1: some time went on and Dale called through with the
Speaker 1: unfortunate news that his mum had passed away. So I
Speaker 1: want to point out as well that just this year
Speaker 1: John Laws lost his wife yeah, remember that. But it's
Speaker 1: been a few years since Dale lost his mum. And
Speaker 1: you heard in that first audio I played. You're right
Speaker 1: that John was asking if Dale's been getting enough sleep? Yeah,
Speaker 1: asking if he's been walking around. Yeah, well there's a
Speaker 1: reason for that. Now this is the sad part.
Speaker 2: Take a listen.
Speaker 5: One three hundred and five six four sixt five two.
Speaker 5: Tellphone number if you'd like to give us a call. Oh,
Speaker 5: I think I might have found Dale.
Speaker 4: Dale.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Dale.
Speaker 4: I had a fall last night.
Speaker 5: Oh you didn't? You have a nasty fall or just
Speaker 5: a little fall?
Speaker 4: A bad fall?
Speaker 5: A bad fall? What happened.
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 4: There was her his head on his fall on my head?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 4: He hit your what did you hit your head on
Speaker 4: on on a their the cot hand on my head?
Speaker 5: Oh, the coat hanger. Yeah, that's no good. But you
Speaker 5: you're okay. I'm fine, Yes, so long as you're fine,
Speaker 5: because you know I worry about you. I want you
Speaker 5: to be fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 5: Now, Now what have you been up to? Tell me?
Speaker 5: What have you been up to? Have you been going
Speaker 5: to sleep? Apart from hitting yourself on the head, you
Speaker 5: been going to sleep? Not yet? Oh? Mate? Not yet,
Speaker 5: But I know you're walking around and you're looking for Mum.
Speaker 4: Still walking around looking for mum.
Speaker 5: Mate. Oh no, mate, You're not going to find.
Speaker 4: Mum and never going to find mom now, You're not.
Speaker 5: One day you will, not yet. You can't fight have no,
Speaker 5: not not yet. So you've got to be You've got
Speaker 5: to be patient.
Speaker 4: You must see your Monday.
Speaker 5: You will you don't. Don't worry. One day you'll be
Speaker 5: back with Mum. I promise you. Yeah, okay, So you
Speaker 5: just think about that. She's waiting for you, She's she's
Speaker 5: watching you, don't. Don't you think she's not got an
Speaker 5: eye on you, because she has. She's looking down and
Speaker 5: making sure that her dale is is good and healthy
Speaker 5: and happy. She wants you to be happy, mate.
Speaker 4: He wants you to be very very happy.
Speaker 5: She wants you to be very very happy. So you
Speaker 5: must you must try and be happy. And the way
Speaker 5: to be happy is to think about the lovely memories
Speaker 5: you had of Mum, and the good fun you had
Speaker 5: together with Mum, and the love you share still with Mum.
Speaker 5: Because she's still loves you, even though she's up there,
Speaker 5: she still loves you.
Speaker 4: He still loves you up there.
Speaker 5: That you bet she loves you and you love her.
Speaker 5: I do. I know you do, I know you do.
Speaker 5: So everything's pretty good. Really, when you're stopp and they
Speaker 5: have a close look at it, you you know, things
Speaker 5: are pretty good, aren't they. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, bless Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the one that got me when I
Speaker 3: heard it the first time.
Speaker 2: You can hear in his voice that he has to
Speaker 2: sort of stop and check and then move on. That's
Speaker 2: that's Yeah, he's such a good friend to him. Many
Speaker 2: radio announcers you just move on and wouldn't give Dale
Speaker 2: the time of day.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: I love I love seeing that side of John because
Speaker 1: we are used to the ruthless, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we'll have very little patience recallers. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: and Dale have had this really beautiful relationship over the years.
Speaker 2: So and then I mean John is also very recently
Speaker 2: his wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I that's what I mean. I think
Speaker 3: he would be a good person to to tell about,
Speaker 3: you know, grief.
Speaker 2: He could relate. Yeah, that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: Oh, sorry to end up a bit of a down Yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Miture Jesus Christ. Next week we'll be back ridiculing people though.
Speaker 2: So it's fine, back to what we do best.
Speaker 3: And I know I was going to do this next week,
Speaker 3: but I thought, like our last show, it's meant to
Speaker 3: be a bit of fun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we could be silly in the last show.
Speaker 2: It's just good to get it out of the system.
Speaker 1: But I know that, you know, Christmas can be a
Speaker 1: tricky time for some people because it reminds them of
Speaker 1: people that aren't there anymore.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know it can. But John had a
Speaker 2: great point. You know, you just remember them they are
Speaker 2: they are still there, They're always there.
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