Speaker 1: The radio.
Speaker 2: So talkback tings is where we play the weird shit
Speaker 2: that happens on talkback radio. It's such a unique, cooked
Speaker 2: world of its own, isn't it talkback radio?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it isn't coming from FM radio? Tight bright,
Speaker 3: no dead air, You move on. You don't really have
Speaker 3: conversations unless that's the point of the whole segment. But
Speaker 3: talk back now they got a field endless amounts of air.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I heard something during the six hour drive back home
Speaker 2: to Bogenate Wearingham right now, and I thought, oh, that's
Speaker 2: very out there, that's odd. But I'm thinking, Mitch, you
Speaker 2: can implement it into your FM radio world. So John
Speaker 2: Law's right, the King.
Speaker 1: We've heard from.
Speaker 2: Him quite a few times. In this segment. He was
Speaker 2: taking a call from someone and halfway through he sort
Speaker 2: of just broke into song. What but he wasn't singing.
Speaker 2: It was more like poetry.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: It sounds weird, but give it a listen. I really
Speaker 2: think Mitch you should take this on board.
Speaker 3: I don't think I need it. I think my show
Speaker 3: is just fine. But all right, we have the audio.
Speaker 3: This is John Laws on AM Radio.
Speaker 4: One three hundred five six four sixty five two. Should
Speaker 4: you like to give us a call and tell us.
Speaker 1: What Sorry that fucking number. Simplify it. It's like one
Speaker 1: three hundred John Laws.
Speaker 2: It spelled his name.
Speaker 3: Hey, listeners already have damage frontal lobes, like, don't make
Speaker 3: them have to hours?
Speaker 1: Is thirteen one o six five easy? I'm sure you.
Speaker 2: Know when you use the text on a Nokia as
Speaker 2: the letters and numbers would be there. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: one three hundred whatever it is, that spells one three
Speaker 2: hundred John Laws.
Speaker 1: Oh my WSFM.
Speaker 3: Oh that's actually smart. So they catered for that back
Speaker 3: in the day when that was really cool.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't say that. He says the number four
Speaker 2: one three hundred five six four six fighter.
Speaker 3: His listeners can barely remember to take their blood pressure medication,
Speaker 3: not alone that number.
Speaker 1: All right here again, continuing the audio, is that.
Speaker 4: Is on your mind? We better talk to Ross Ross?
Speaker 4: Are you there? Yeah? Mite, Okay, what do you want
Speaker 4: to talk about? Ross?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, just dumb. I had a bit of a
Speaker 5: culture shock myself the other day. I drive a truck
Speaker 5: up and down the up the coast and Queensland coast
Speaker 5: and out as far as Mount Either and I was
Speaker 5: getting ready to find in me truck and the gear
Speaker 5: bag was missed five minutes on the front steps. And
Speaker 5: I come from a country team where you went down
Speaker 5: the pub and you left your wallet and your money
Speaker 5: on the on the bar when you went to the toilet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody touched a thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, god knows what's happened to that lovely attitude we
Speaker 4: used to have in little towns where you could do
Speaker 4: anything you like. You just got to be so careful
Speaker 4: these days because the world has become a much more
Speaker 4: violent place than a much more dishonest place than it
Speaker 4: used to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, everyone looked after everyone else.
Speaker 4: That's right, everyone.
Speaker 5: Looked up for everyone up now it makes you really
Speaker 5: paranoid about people, you know.
Speaker 4: I remember a story I did about little towns. I
Speaker 4: might read that for you.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: Okay, Russ, turn your radio on and listen, because it's
Speaker 4: a good story about little towns. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Where do you get a good town from?
Speaker 6: Let's just think about the magic of the little town.
Speaker 6: A little town is where everybody knows what everybody else
Speaker 6: is doing, but they read the weekly newspaper just to
Speaker 6: see who got caught doing it. A little town is
Speaker 6: where if you get the wrong number, you can talk
Speaker 6: for fifteen minutes anyway if you want to. In any town,
Speaker 6: the ratio of good people to bad people is one
Speaker 6: hundred to one.
Speaker 1: Where'd you get that statistic? From?
Speaker 6: One hundred are uncomfortable in a little town? The one
Speaker 6: is uncomfortable. The small town policeman has a first name.
Speaker 6: The small town school teacher has the last word. The
Speaker 6: small town preacher is sometimes a full time The small
Speaker 6: town farman takes turns. And you say, why would anybody
Speaker 6: want to live in one of these tiny, blinker New
Speaker 6: Missic towns. I don't know. Maybe because in the class
Speaker 6: play there's a part for everybody. What in the town
Speaker 6: jail there's rarely anybody? And then you're still among friends.
Speaker 1: Oh my, Mitchell, what did you think when you heard
Speaker 1: that live?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'll be honest, I did think, what
Speaker 2: the fuck is going on? Where did this come from?
Speaker 2: And I also did think, oh, he's clearly not reading
Speaker 2: that life. His voice sounds way younger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was in the mid eighties. At least the
Speaker 3: pleme wasn't on his throat as well at that point
Speaker 3: in time.
Speaker 2: But then I thought this is John Laws we're talking about.
Speaker 2: He has been in radio for four hundred years, and
Speaker 2: so there must be some key to his longevity, and
Speaker 2: I feel that that might be the fact that he
Speaker 2: really thinks outside the box. So, Mitchell, I think you
Speaker 2: should take an inspiration from his poetry. I was quite inspired.
Speaker 3: And what starts some poetry on the night show or
Speaker 3: the national breakfast show that I'm doing.
Speaker 2: No, precisely, that's what I'm thinking. You've got this new
Speaker 2: fancy radio gig. You're doing breakfast hours at the moment,
Speaker 2: and I was thinking you should call your boss and
Speaker 2: find some gentle guitar music similar to what John Laws
Speaker 2: has with the pan fleute, and then just say to him, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I've got this idea. Can you let me know what
Speaker 2: you think of this and then wing it? Just improvise
Speaker 2: something similar to that.
Speaker 3: Hold on, wait a second, now, I don't want to
Speaker 3: implement this in my show.
Speaker 1: I've got enough content. I'm more than a cross it. Ay.
Speaker 2: If it's good enough for the great John Law, it's
Speaker 2: good enough for you. BUCKU exactly can learn a thing
Speaker 2: or two from him. I feel like poetry could be
Speaker 2: your thing.
Speaker 1: I found some music. This is perfect this is lovely
Speaker 1: sounds like something from Banjo KAZUOI.
Speaker 2: Okay, so call your boss dB.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm going to call my producer. I'm going
Speaker 3: to call my producer, Alex Alex. Yeah, Alex is my
Speaker 3: producer for the Winter Breakfast show.
Speaker 2: That I oh wait, that is that the same intern
Speaker 2: Alex that we had on this podcast. We brought her
Speaker 2: into Oust Jenna, Oh my god, yes we did, and
Speaker 2: then we offered her a role on this podcast as
Speaker 2: a producer. And then she ghosted it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she fucking did.
Speaker 2: We did a welfare check and we just presumed she
Speaker 2: was dead. So she's back from the dead working on
Speaker 2: your radio show, is she?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she got the call up. She's my head producer.
Speaker 2: She's alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow. I can't believe she faked her own death just
Speaker 2: to get out of working on this podcast. That's unbelievable
Speaker 2: something I would do, sho.
Speaker 1: You should imagine myself when I got a call from
Speaker 1: a number, I.
Speaker 2: Thought it's a polter guys anyway, So maybe call Alex
Speaker 2: then your producer and just say, oh god, this is
Speaker 2: actually better, because she'll be really polite. She won't have
Speaker 2: the heart to tell you that it's fucking stupid. Yeah, like, hey, babe,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking outside the box. I want to bring something
Speaker 2: fresh to the radio show next week.
Speaker 1: What do you think of it?
Speaker 2: And then what do you want your poem to be about?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Maybe ask her now, what's what's my poem to be?
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna have to have an idea for a poem?
Speaker 3: What about Princess Diana's mural?
Speaker 7: Nah?
Speaker 2: You do better, You do better when you're improvising. Maybe
Speaker 2: ask her to give you a random topic.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah, okay, I'm going to dial her through.
Speaker 3: I'm going to connect my phone so she knows it's me.
Speaker 1: Fucking hell.
Speaker 2: Can I hear the music again?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I've got options on this gentle guitar number three, which
Speaker 3: you've heard. Okay, this sounds like the final Ballad of
Speaker 3: the Titanic as it's something to the North Pacific does.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That one's too emo.
Speaker 1: It needs to be a bit inspiring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one sounds like New Poise panty line if
Speaker 2: by Libra it does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. I like the bat trash.
Speaker 3: I truly throw milk because I don't want the kathium
Speaker 3: and take from regular milk.
Speaker 1: That's why I drink thir good. All right, now, I
Speaker 1: like three, this is it?
Speaker 4: This is it?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call it, but I'm going to get her
Speaker 3: opinion on which.
Speaker 1: It's me. You're not.
Speaker 3: You won't speaker phone rule number one, like I taught you. Oh,
Speaker 3: I had an idea for the show. I'm thinking you
Speaker 3: know how you have Tom Gleisman from Have You Been
Speaker 3: Paying Attention?
Speaker 1: Monday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking on Tuesday, just to like tie into
Speaker 3: that comedy aspect and the fun we should do, Like
Speaker 3: I should do poetry on the air, okay, like live poetry,
Speaker 3: live lyrics about a topic that's current.
Speaker 6: Okay, cool fun. It'd be like, yeah, like a like
Speaker 6: a slam poetry kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not even slam, like inspiring, Like I want to
Speaker 3: inspire like like people like kids listening, what's topical, what's
Speaker 3: happening at the mow in like culture? Well, I mean
Speaker 3: you could you know, kind of do something inspiring in
Speaker 3: terms of Brittany you know Britney spears, people control.
Speaker 1: You, Oh my god, Britney Spears. Coolpie. I just like
Speaker 1: get some music out and I'd like I'd sing to music.
Speaker 4: Ideas.
Speaker 3: It'd be like.
Speaker 7: We knew you from a girl titan c but now
Speaker 7: look at you like an old haggard boot free Brittany.
Speaker 7: Let her out of that cage.
Speaker 1: Poor poor Brittany. It makes me filled with rage.
Speaker 3: Blonde hair, blue eyes, her father doing this.
Speaker 1: I desp.
Speaker 3: Something like that, you know, like a poem, a current, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that could work.
Speaker 1: Or what else is topical?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 7: I mean royals, topical royals?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You shouldn't have got in
Speaker 1: that taxi cab. I'll die.
Speaker 3: Why did you have to die? You would have been
Speaker 3: sixty today. It's the sixty of three.
Speaker 1: Of her life.
Speaker 3: There was a statue made for die and it was
Speaker 3: built from concrete and live.
Speaker 1: Concrete and line. A beautiful sons attended.
Speaker 3: Tension was at an all time no sign of Queen Lizzie,
Speaker 3: no sign.
Speaker 1: Philip wasn't there. I guess he probably couldn't, because Philip died,
Speaker 1: just like die, Princess die. Yes see, I think there's
Speaker 1: something you die too.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, well we can talk Monday and then
Speaker 3: we'll send it to men, because I reckon that's good
Speaker 3: to center like dB and the buses.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love that. Okay, fabulous, all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks Alex, We'll talk to you over the weekend. Love you,
Speaker 3: love you see thanks the tips. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Now that didn't That didn't even feel like a prank call.
Speaker 2: That felt like a genuine fucking brainstorm. And you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm soul.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I actually might run that allio on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. That was Inspirationior.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that was actually quite impressive. You know what,
Speaker 2: Maybe save it for when you're back doing nights radio,
Speaker 2: because I believe you don't have a news reader.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, I have no newsreader.
Speaker 2: That could be your way of keeping people in Ford.
Speaker 2: You just sing the news at them. Imagine Sandra Sully
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, twelve dead in a car crash on
Speaker 3: the Hume high Away this morning.
Speaker 2: Do you know what? The most impressive part what?
Speaker 1: What? What?
Speaker 4: What? What?
Speaker 2: The fact that John Laws's poem wasn't actually rhyming. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you realized that, but you managed to
Speaker 2: make your rhyme even though you didn't need to.
Speaker 1: Because I've been to fucking theater school. I studied improv.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing in life I can.
Speaker 3: Do, I will never be a builder, never be a salesman.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing I can do, it's fucking rhyme
Speaker 1: on a song.
Speaker 3: I don't know where that is ever going to come
Speaker 3: in handy, but you know what, I've got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've found your niche and you need to go
Speaker 2: for it. I think this is your new thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm saying this now, like, oh, you should definitely start
Speaker 2: doing this on radio or on our podcast. But I
Speaker 2: think if if one week you came in and said
Speaker 2: I have another poem, we'd be like, oh, the moment's passed.
Speaker 1: We've been caught up in the moment. Now, is it
Speaker 1: just me?
Speaker 2: You should follow these idiots online search a couple of
Speaker 2: mitches