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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda sad to hear about

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Speaker 1: Bert Newton's passing.

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Speaker 2: It's often when you hear that they've died that everyone

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Speaker 2: starts talking about how amazing they were and the role

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Speaker 2: that Bert played in Australian television history, in our childhoods

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Speaker 2: and up to present day. How you know that whole family,

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Speaker 2: we feel like we've grown up with them. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it was you know, I know he was eighty three,

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Speaker 2: I know he was unwell, but still a shock when

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Speaker 2: you hear he's gone.

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Speaker 1: You know what I liked about Bertie was a big

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Speaker 1: industry supporter. He was someone that and I only met

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Speaker 1: him probably a couple of times in my career, but

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Speaker 1: every time he always has things going. How's Amanda has

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Speaker 1: the show rating? He knew everything about our show. He

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Speaker 1: was like he was a true radio guy, but a

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Speaker 1: TV guy. But he was very generous. He was a

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Speaker 1: very it's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of performance and people were saying yesterday, whether it was

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Speaker 2: you know, Jane Kennedy or Tony Martin, and to me too,

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Speaker 2: he always was so supportive of the next batch of

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Speaker 2: people coming up and we're the old people now. But

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Speaker 2: he was always so generous with his time and his efforts,

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Speaker 2: and so was Patty through all the gold Logi stuff.

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Speaker 2: She came out as a big defender obviously of the

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Speaker 2: gold Logis, but of me. She was lovely because that's

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Speaker 2: also the mark of Bert. He wanted a gazillion times,

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Speaker 2: he hosted the Logis a thousand times. He's mister Logi.

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Speaker 2: But what a character and what a role, as I say,

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Speaker 2: he played in the history of Australian television right up

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Speaker 2: to present day.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that when he was working with

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Speaker 1: Graham Kennedy and then when Don Lane started his Tonight show,

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Speaker 1: Don really campaigned to have Bert as his second banana

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Speaker 1: as it were, and the executives, the TV executive said no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Bert's had his time go with someone else, and Don

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Speaker 1: really stood his ground and said, no, no, I want

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Speaker 1: Bert Newton to be on my show. And they really

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Speaker 1: became quite an amazing duo, almost eclipsing what he and

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Speaker 1: Graham Kennedy did. Like I always remember watching the Don

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Speaker 1: Lane show. I love that one when they had a

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Speaker 1: big prize or giving away some prize. There were fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand entries in this basket and the idea was that

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Speaker 1: Dom was going to pull this rape little hatch would open,

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Speaker 1: Bert standing with a butterfly net underneath it would grab

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Speaker 1: one envelope and they would win the prize. But that

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Speaker 1: didn't work. So what was going to be forty seconds

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Speaker 1: went on for fifteen minutes. And as it just goes

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Speaker 1: on and people are bringing in ladders and little Crown.

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Speaker 2: Lift truck getting funnier in front of Don.

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Speaker 1: Lane's just losing his poo and Burt so he's cranky.

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Speaker 1: He's cranky, and Bert's just stirring him up, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it was just I remember watching it as it

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Speaker 1: happened and just laughing my head off, and it was

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Speaker 1: just it was one of those moments where Bert would

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Speaker 1: see an opportunity and I think I almost based my

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Speaker 1: own career on this, where you see an opportunity and

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Speaker 1: you just run with it. And that's what I loved

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 2: And he was always quick to make fun of himself too,

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Speaker 2: and what a great guy. I remember in my we

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Speaker 2: spoke about this. Recently, I was interviewed by a journalist

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Speaker 2: and they said, tell us about shower time with Uncle Bert.

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Speaker 2: I said, what do you mean? And my Wikipedia page

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Speaker 2: had said that I had done a children's show called

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Speaker 2: show Time with Uncle Bert. So that's not true. It's

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Speaker 2: not true.

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Speaker 1: I know you and Bert had actually done a show.

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Speaker 1: That's not like Wikipedia to be wrong.

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Speaker 2: Oh the world is less without you. Bertuton and love

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Speaker 2: to the family, Jonesy and Amanda's ga