WEBVTT - GUEST: Lara Jean Marshall from The Saddle Club 🐴 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:01.720 Is It Just Me? 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.400 Podcast by a couple of mitches. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.440 All right, it's time for the big guests that I've 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.160 been mentioning the whole episode. Jenna and I are quite excited. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.040 So last year how this came about. We got an 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.160 all staff email that just made mine and Jennis jaws drop. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.440 It was one of those emails announcing a new staff member, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.680 and it basically said, oh, please, welcome to Power Friend, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.040 which is one of the stations that Kiss owns. A 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.600 brand new radio announcer. Her name is l j as 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:38.440 in Lara Jean Marshall, who played Lisa on The Saddle Club. Yes, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.519 come on. Jenna and I were big Saddle Club fangirls 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.640 and we were children, and so we thought, should we 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.879 just like shoot her a quick email using her internal 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.120 work email address and say I want to come on 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.520 the podcast And we did and she said sure, So 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.920 here she is today, Lara Jean Marshall, Welcome to. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.840 Is It Just Me? Hi? Lara? Does that song bring 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.080 back good memories or bad memories? This song. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.240 Mixed memories? Yeah, I have. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.240 I remember hearing you know people you know say it, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.199 say it and sing it down the road to. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.959 Me, and I thought, yeah, yeah, I know, and you know, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.679 they'd ask me to do the moves and I have 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:17.720 like moves. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:17.920 To go home. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.360 God, But then it brings back the beautiful memories of 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.480 just being a kid and being with the girls and 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.399 around the horses. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:25.320 So it was lovely. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.759 Did they tell you before you like sort of got 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.559 cast on the show that you'd be required to sing 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:30.840 the bloody opening theme song. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.120 No, I went into it like not knowing you know, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.720 how big it was going to be or anything. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.520 And yeah, the albums came later, We had albums. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.760 I loved the album. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.600 Yeah, I know this is kind of weird that right 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.120 now we're just talking as to adults, but it's weird 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.120 to know that as a child I had like posters 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.760 of you and CDs and there was multiple multiple albums. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.280 They saw a real cash grab there. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.240 Hold on. So I hate no disrespect Laura, but I 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.200 have never seen it's a saddle club and I just 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.400 was not a horse boy, more into Pokemon And no 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.040 offense to you. I love what you did with the animals, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.600 but you were made to write albums. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.560 Yeah, we didn't write them, but obviously there's other people 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.400 who wrote them for us, and we ended up with 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:20.320 like three gold albums and we sung around every Westfield. Yeah, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.600 we do, like the whole signing and having the microphone. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.280 We had those headsets where they were like that and 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:31.000 they're like, you know Ricky, yeah, Brittany Britney vibes. Yeah, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.520 there's quite some weird instances as well, when you know, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.080 I'd be going up an escalator and someone would just 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.080 reach for my hair. Like very weird things happening at 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.520 these centers. But yeah, it was a lot of fun, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:43.600 a lot of fun, and. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.080 I suppose even to this day you get a lot 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.480 of people like us who were still after all these years, like, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.960 holy fuck, it's Lisa Saddle Clubs. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.520 Oh my god, Lisa. I can't tell you that the 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:58.000 exit not Lisa. Oh sorry, sorry, Lara, that's a right. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:02:59.800 I called me Lisa. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.360 The week, we had a guy come in and do 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.360 an interview and he actually had this bargain at work 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.720 with his mates and they're all putting their loves of 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.480 their lives on the wall or something, and there was 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.280 like Mark or Robbie, there was something else because there 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.120 was Lisa from the Settle Club. So he actually came 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.000 in and on an interview and he's like can I 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.440 hug you? Can I give you a hug? And I 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.200 was like, yeah, sure, And he's the same age as. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.880 Mate, So I love that. I'm telling you one of 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.400 these it's it's one of those things that sticks with 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.359 you if you're obsessed with it as a child. Even 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.120 though I'm not obsessed with the Saddle Club now, it 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.960 just kind of sticks with you. I'm like, oh my god, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.280 it's Lisa. You also don't look like you've aged that. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:34.520 Much, but. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.640 Oh thank you. It must be my mum's skin. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.240 Yeah maybe, so wait, can you Did you know how 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.120 to ride a horse when you got cast on the show? 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.520 Was that how you got cast? 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.880 No? No, not at all. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:54.720 So basically I Keenan actually got her role first, who 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.600 played Carol, and I got my role and then they said, okay, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.480 we're going to trying you up with the Lord of 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.920 the Rings trainers for a month, and so we did that. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.800 The Lord of the Rings train as well, I guess, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.480 because they were big in the horse department at that 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.320 At that point in time, those movies were big. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.280 Yeah, and Lord of the Rings is going on at 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.760 the same time. So I was in love with orlanda Bloom. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:20.080 So one of the guys actually grabbed his signature for me. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.680 Oh I love it. Yeah. Can I just point something out, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.000 Mitchell that Jenna is actually skewing a little saddle club 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:28.799 today herself. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.600 Did you put on this outfit knowing that you were 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.000 going to be chatting to Lara today because you're very 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:34.479 thought of glove? 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.839 It's a dryser bone pink shirt. You've got horse flies 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.000 surrounding what's going on, and she's got a salt lick 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:41.680 on the desk. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:46.240 Clara, I know, well, you know she's got that ponytail 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.039 as well, like Lisa always had a ponytail, so she's 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.159 looking more Lisa. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:50.240 Than I am. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.159 And I also don't think that you two have discussed 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.640 how bigger fans you actually were, So Mitch, you had posters, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.800 Jenna went to all the meat and greets. How intense 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.680 were you guys into this show when it was at 0:04:58.720 --> 0:04:59.159 its peak? 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.480 It was just like my favorite show, my sister's favorite show. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.359 We loved it, and it was always starting as we 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.360 got home from school because I was a country kid, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.480 so the bus took forever, and if the bus was 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.800 running late, i'd get so antsy. I'm like, fuck, it's 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.919 already started. I'm missing the start of the Saddle Club 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.039 and I'd do that thing where I'd tape it on 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.320 a blank VHS. Yeah, I would tape the Saddle Club. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.679 Yeah, I know, because we have videos like I sell 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.880 the tapes too. It's it's ridiculous now, It's like, how 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.119 would we even watch that stuf? 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:27.320 Now? 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:28.960 Were you the same Jenna? Were you obsessed? Did you 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:29.600 have posters? 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.080 I loved the Saddle Club and the Saddle Club made 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.200 me want to learn how to ride a horse? You? 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.400 Yes, I did. I did a questrian and showed you. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.360 Why does A's secret backstone yet? 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.200 Lara Jenn' is a type of person. I'm like, oh, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.000 I've got to go get an ingro and tone our removed. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.159 She's like, I'll do it. I've got a p dietary ticket. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.440 Yeah, it sounds like a Jenny. You're just a woman 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.400 after my own heart. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.520 Well, Jenna's an nepotism baby, so she had a very 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.080 big house growing up, so she would have had her 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.920 own stables. She is, she's an epotism baby, and so 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.919 she's very wealthy, so she had an estate. So it 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.919 makes sense, Mitchell, we should have put the together that 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:03.400 she went. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:08.560 Sta so you know, not a NEPO baby. So you 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.200 you said Mitch that you never really watched the Sato Club, right, never. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.400 My sister's did. But I never watched it, and I'm gay. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.360 I don't know why I didn't watch it. Like I was, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.320 I was trying to indoctrinate myself into straight culture. I'm like, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.520 I've got to like Pokemon and you gi oh, but 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.480 I really should have been watching Saddle Club. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.880 Okay. Well, I did dig up an old scene from 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.080 back in the day, a scene that Lara would have done. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.200 It was Lisa arguing with her mother about whether or 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.560 not she was going to boarding school. Her mother's trying 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.359 to pull her out of Pine Hollow. She won't be 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.080 part of that club. You're off to boarding school. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.159 Disgusting. All right, here's the Saddle Club. Here's a little 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.400 trip down memory lane, Laara. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.440 I just concerned about your priorities. I know you're right. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.080 I shouldn't be putting writing before her work. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.320 A study harder, I promise, but I can do that 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.359 without leaving. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:54.719 Please. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.600 I totally belong here. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.760 You mate, your friend Toney, not. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.719 Like Stephen Carroll. They're my best friends. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:04.600 They're always there for me. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:05.719 No, matter what? 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.840 Well can she say? 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.040 Okay, all right, yeah I'm staying. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.320 Let's celebrate, how right? 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:20.239 Okay? 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.880 Hold on? So half into the sunset on the horse. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.120 I haven't seen the show, Lara, but is that how 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.040 every confrontation was sold in the saddle club? She's got 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.640 debilitating Maya grains and she no, no, you know what 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.240 we need to do right? 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.160 Writing makes us happier, doesn't it? 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.400 Sleepy hollows flooded? You know what we need to do 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:46.440 sleep right? Does that bring back memories? Lara? You were 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.160 such a cutie? 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.920 Oh thank you? 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.720 Yeah, it does bring memories, and yeah, they're very heartwarming memories. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.120 And I kind of remembered what I was doing on 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.280 the day, but I look back to the faces. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.360 I was pulling, and it was always like this, I've 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.120 always just had. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.400 This was always just a little bit concerned, wasn't she? 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:04.800 Yeah? 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.600 She was always confused. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.280 You know, I just always confused or you know, constipated either. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.920 Yes, I relate to that. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.920 I've got to say, though, I wouldn't have picked Lisa 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.880 to turn out with this gorgeous radio voice of an adult, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:19.360 don't you reckon? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.920 And this is what I got excited because these two 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.600 love Saddle Club. I'm a radio nerd, like I'm obsessed 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.800 with radio through and through, and then hearing that you've 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.360 got the Brecky Show on Power FM is so exciting 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.120 to me. So how did that come about? Did you 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.520 love radio? Did you fall into it? Did you get 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.160 off of the gig? 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.160 Well, guys, I know that you're you've been in radio 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.640 for for a long time, but I'm very new to radio. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.400 So you know, I gave up acting maybe two years ago, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:55.280 and then I my first job out of journalism school 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.440 was the news. So I was in Hamilton, in the 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.880 middle of nowhere, surrounded by just liquor stores and pubs everywhere, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.480 and I was doing the news around there. But it 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.280 was really lovely because I got to connect with the community. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.959 And then I kind of fell in love with radio. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.000 I kept him falling in love with interviewing people and 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:15.360 connecting with people. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.559 Can you give us a little peak at your new 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.080 three to voice. I want to hear that. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:21.880 It's Laura J. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.520 Marshall and it's news Today and on the ble oh Jack. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.120 That was really good. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.280 I love that. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.280 I don't know, I'd have to remember one of the 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.400 little bulletins I've done but yeah, after that, Yeah, it 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.720 was Jack because. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.720 It's LJ and Jack for breakfast. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.880 And Jack actually met my sister in law at a 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.320 party or something and he was saying, I'm looking for 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.400 a co host and she said Laura would be great 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.840 for this and sent me through and then we just 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.760 had a connection on radio. We just couldn't stop laughing, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.960 and we're very ying and Yang's very different to me. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.480 Well that's Mitch and I. We are very different from 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.880 each other. Half the time we forget Jenny's here. So 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.640 it's actually a perfect little trio for us to have. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.680 But once you find that magic, like it takes years 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.040 to get that, especially in radio because bosses love to 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.480 just cram two people that don't work together the amount 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.720 of love it, and contestants have tried to oh my god, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.679 I've got bigger tips and half these girls never fucking work. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.320 But it sounds like you're not a total newbies to radio. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.920 You had the journalists and background, which makes total sense. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.400 And so you're in Ballarat now right, we're already living there. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.839 No, no, I moved to Ballarat for the job. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.960 It was a little bit of like I love Hamilton, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.920 don't get me wrong, but it was a little closer 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:40.280 to the Melbourne city in the metro and yeah, it's 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:41.840 nice to be closer to family. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.720 And it's really lovely around here. Like I'm loving the lake. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.880 I actually I am the big sailor, so I stay 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:52.400 on Wednesday nights on the lake here. Yeah, I like 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.760 to be active, so you know, it's got the walks, 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:55.680 it's got the hikes. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:56.920 It's really lovely. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.400 So it's just kind of worked out that way. And 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.560 the Breakfast show is going really well, Like the listeners 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.360 have been so lovely and just you know, giving me 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.199 helpful hints, offering. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.400 To help me move all of this stuff, and I'm just. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.280 Like you're also okay, No, I will say Lara though, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.680 like I've been in this for a while, don't trust 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.400 them all the time because the listeners they can be 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.000 absolutely crazy. So don't eat listen to food. Have you 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.960 been sent to listen to food before, like a meal 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.880 or a baked good that's been made for you by 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:25.480 the listeners. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.400 No, but I've been sent flowers, a book, right, and 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:32.720 a candle. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.520 Okay, the books bomb. The candle is actually it's probably 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.240 made with seamen. And then the flowers just don't go 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.360 near them. They've probably got a spy camera in them. Like, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.800 just just my word of advice. I once was sent 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.160 cookies and the woman had spat in them. She sat 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:47.360 in the. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.680 Wait until after you'd eaten them to tell you. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.480 Yeah. Yeah. Also, someone here Kiss FM sent Kyle Sandalan's 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.120 lemon cello, but it was urine, it wasn't I remember. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.040 I remember Kyle telling a story where someone sent Lamington 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.760 to the station. She up and said, did you get 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.760 the Lamington's And they said, yeah, yeah, we've eaten them. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:07.319 She goes, good because I pieced in the mix. Okay, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:08.319 just take. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:10.440 Away from all of it. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.800 Over at Jones and Amanda and we get listener food 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.520 and we eat it. Yeah, you've got wholesome listeners. I'd 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.200 say it sounds like it sounds like powerful ballerette listeners 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.040 would be quite wholesome to Did you move there by yourself? 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.000 What did you move with the family? 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.760 No, I moved by myself. I'm definitely you girl in town. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:26.240 I love that. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.720 Ye oh your single? Oh my god? Should we should do? 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.319 We should speak? Play matchmaker? Sure you? 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.959 I really want to be matched up now. I think 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.200 I'm ready to date. I'm ready to go out there. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.920 You know, I dabble in this and. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.319 That, so no find me someone? 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.800 Is it just the podcast by a couple of mitches. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.040 Ballaratte reminds me a lot of Forbes, which is near 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.679 where I grew up. And I feel like there's what 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.840 maybe five pubs in town. Have you tried them all? 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.840 No, I've only tried a couple. I did go on 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.440 a date the other night for really fine's day. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.480 Oh how did it go? 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.520 Where's the hot date spot in Ballarati? 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.160 Yeah, so for I would I would say, look, I've 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.640 only been on one date in like six months, but 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.000 now now I'm ready to get out there. But I 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.720 would say, yeah, Mitchell Mitchell Harris wines like any of 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.079 the wine places, you know, they're a little bit you know, upscale. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.440 They always have like a you know, a three course 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.800 meal inclusive thing. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:29.080 You know. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.719 Okay, Ballerati is nothing like forb because it turns out 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:32.960 much much more. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.800 Don't settle, Lara, because you are you're the queen bee 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.160 of town, You're an actress, you have the breakfast radio show. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.599 Don't settle. I want you to, you know, have a 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.040 couple of dates before you settle down. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.320 Although I will say this. It is tricky dating when 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.920 you've got to get up super early, right, Yeah. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.280 Well yeah, I mean I always have naps. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.200 You know, it gets to I do four till twelve, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.880 so I always have like a bit of a nap 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.440 after and then my day's gone. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.000 You get there before I am in the night. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.400 Yeah, so four am. So we get to the studio 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:03.560 at four thirty. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.360 Yeah, oh that'll change that. Trust me. I'm on air 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.640 at seven o'clock and I'm in at six fifty and 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.440 I get a cup of tea and I sit down, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.079 the ambition goes. Maybe a bad lesson, don't fall into 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.439 my happen, but that is so exciting. So yeah, power FM, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.680 that is What are some segments you do? 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.720 I got to say, I was trying to check out 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.200 the show and there's no podcasts. You've got to get 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:26.560 them onto that come on. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.200 Yes, yes, we're trying to get onto that. We did 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.680 have TikTok for a couple of days. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.000 What happened Disappear just disappeared. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.840 We had a lot of listeners though, but yeah, no, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.280 we'll have to definitely get into that. But our segments 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.080 are kind of around what are we doing tomorrow? We're 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.160 saying like best cure for a hangover. We had like 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.480 what is the oldest thing in Ballarat? And everyone was 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.560 going wild about that, and we went to the fire station, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.720 we went to the Sailing yacht Club and we're finding out, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.320 you know, on this hunt for the oldest thing in Ballarat. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.800 We have talked about the fascination of serial killers today. Wow, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.600 and why everyone's so into it? 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.720 Got the station? Your station sounds way more fun than 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.200 the one that I had growing up. We used to 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:20.000 have funeral announcements. I'd hit snooze on my bloody clock 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.040 radio alarm and nine minutes later to go off again. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.640 Still going with the general announcements. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.600 They're not done in the middle of the song. Actually 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.480 four people have died since original announcement. We have to 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.160 actually retroactively, add Betty. That's so funny. Well do you 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.360 do a quiz? Do you do a game? Any games 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:35.600 that you guys do? Oh? 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:36.720 Yeah, we do games. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.960 So I have this, Well we do that the would 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.440 you rather of course? And then we do that, are 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.280 you for real? We do the reverse game. We're basically 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.880 have to hear the song reverse. Oh, and then you have. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.720 To figure out what it is. I'm really good at 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.480 that one. And I don't know why I've had that. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.200 I've heard other radio shows do that, and I think 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.440 I'm quite excellent at it too. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:15:58.680 Do that. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.400 Maybe we should all play each other girls against the 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:04.080 two mitches. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.560 Oh my god, we have to do a rematch. We'll 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:07.400 have to get your back. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.560 We have to. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.680 That could be really fun. Let's do it. Let's set 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.640 a date. We'll get you back on hopefully to have 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.320 a partner. IM not hopefully. You don't need you don't 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:15.840 need anyone. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.800 But you know, I've been by myself. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.800 Flowers, Mitch exactly, exactly again, Well, that is so great 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.320 to meet you. I'm going to go back and rewatch 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.320 out club. It's streaming. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.360 It's actually all on stand. I found that out today. Yeah, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.360 by the way, you said that you gave up acting 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:32.960 a couple of years ago. What made you want to 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:33.200 do that. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.200 I think it was just there's a lot of pressure 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:43.120 on women, you know, in that industry, and yeah, I 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.280 think I just didn't find it fun anymore. You know, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.760 I love I love acting, but the industry was quite 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.200 harsh and quite harsh on women's bodies and body image, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.560 and you know, it wasn't something that I kind of 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.200 wanted to stay in anymore just because of that reason, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:00.800 not because of not be acting. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.960 Yeah, fair enough. Have they got like a local music 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.560 and drama society that puts on music in Balarat? 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.920 I'm sure they do. I mean they've got a performing 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.320 arts studio here. They've got Steve O actually coming to 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:13.880 town soon. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.560 Oh from Jack Wow. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.520 Yeah, they've got him coming, so we're actually trying to 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.760 get an interview with him. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.440 Ballaratte sounds dope, I said, it reminds me of four 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.760 nothing like totally. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.320