Speaker 1: Talkback Kings is where I bring the little bits of
Speaker 1: gold that I find when listening to talk back. Because
Speaker 1: you work in FM radio, you're very much stuck in
Speaker 1: your own little bubble.
Speaker 2: I am, And I have to say for those of
Speaker 2: you who will listening, we have a lot of overseas
Speaker 2: listeners which discovered FM and AM radio the two waves
Speaker 2: that the two wave bands we have. FM is where
Speaker 2: you have the pop music and the shows, and AM
Speaker 2: is talkback. Yeah, very little music, a very right wing,
Speaker 2: right leaning.
Speaker 1: Typically a lot older people listen to talk back, but
Speaker 1: there's plenty of people that are disinterested in using current
Speaker 1: affairs that are young that listen. But predominantly I think
Speaker 1: that's like, did they forty plus is who they have
Speaker 1: in mind there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty sixty plus. But the thing is there's so
Speaker 2: many more shows and stations on AM that there's just
Speaker 2: more room for crazy.
Speaker 1: They have to talk all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to feel a talk break about Louis
Speaker 2: Tomlinson for a minute and I freak out.
Speaker 1: They talk for an hour on coal seam gas exactly
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 2: And a lot of them have a live stream camera
Speaker 2: streaming that do that, yes, on their sites I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure two GB.
Speaker 1: Does bless you.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't even know what that means.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even know that. Constantly on there is
Speaker 1: seemingly a relinking in the room that.
Speaker 2: I didn't approve.
Speaker 1: Today, we're not listening to John Laws. We're listening to
Speaker 1: the guy that does the night show on the same
Speaker 1: station to SM.
Speaker 2: So I'm competing with him.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he technically arrival at nighttime. So his name's
Speaker 1: Graham Gilbert. And as Wikipedia very generously phrases it, it
Speaker 1: says in two thousand and two, Gilbert's nighttime show on
Speaker 1: two SM scored a rating of zero point one in Sydney,
Speaker 1: the lowest rating ever recorded for a commercial program in
Speaker 1: metro market in Australia. Two of them subsequently withdrew from
Speaker 1: the Sydney radio ratings, So now they don't really have
Speaker 1: any way of knowing how many people do or don't listen.
Speaker 1: But he does get callers, He does get it, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that. But unfortunately, most of those callers calling
Speaker 1: through to Graham Gilbert are prank callers. I don't know
Speaker 1: why he's just become a target for prank callers. I've
Speaker 1: done it before. I'm not gonna lie. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just so easy. He's such an easy target. He
Speaker 1: had a lot of them over the years. Most famously,
Speaker 1: I would say, would be the India prank calls.
Speaker 2: This is so so funny.
Speaker 1: I can't explain to you've heard it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard this.
Speaker 3: Have you heard Jenna? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I've got a quick example for you, just
Speaker 1: to hear that. So basically, people call in and troll
Speaker 1: him by answering every question he asks in his quiz
Speaker 1: with the answer India. Here it is.
Speaker 4: Question one which Australian gymnast won Commonwealth Games Goald in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety and again in nineteen ninety four for his
Speaker 4: performance on the pommel horse India.
Speaker 3: I didn't think you were that done. I didn't think
Speaker 3: you were that done. Lincoln. That clearly I was wrong.
Speaker 4: Hello Thomas Graham, Yeah, mate, God.
Speaker 1: He's bloody idiots calling up again.
Speaker 3: Then that you'll have the answer. What do you think moment?
Speaker 1: India?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Thomas, it's bedtime.
Speaker 3: Now, off you go, Okay, off you go. Thirteen twelve
Speaker 3: sixty nine.
Speaker 4: Hello there, Marcus, Yes, yes, mate, have you got an
Speaker 4: answer for US India?
Speaker 3: Are you Marcus? Grow up, you grow up. Good on
Speaker 3: you boys are going to be one of those nights,
Speaker 3: Robert good evening.
Speaker 4: Hello Graham, Hello, not too bad mate, Sorry after all.
Speaker 1: That nonsense, could you repeat the question?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the question is mate. Which Australian gymnast won Commonwealth Games?
Speaker 4: Goald in nineteen ninety and again in nineteen ninety four
Speaker 4: that his performance on the pommel horse step on megaphone.
Speaker 3: Wasn't even clever mate, not even clever? Hello Ev him? Yes,
Speaker 3: who do you think it was?
Speaker 1: India?
Speaker 2: Eve?
Speaker 3: Don't fall for their silly games. Okay your match too
Speaker 3: nice for those?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love how he says. Oh another
Speaker 1: one of those nights. This must happen a lot.
Speaker 2: So what the fuck is a pommel horse?
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone actually knew the answer.
Speaker 1: Paul Eve just like, couldn't do it all I know?
Speaker 1: But who are these people? I've done so much research
Speaker 1: I cannot find out how the India call started, And
Speaker 1: I like, I don't know if they're still happening, but
Speaker 1: they've happened plenty of times. It's all over YouTube. But
Speaker 1: obviously he's aware of those prank callers. Often he just
Speaker 1: plays music because he gives up trying to do talk back.
Speaker 1: But some prank calls do slip through the cracks and
Speaker 1: he doesn't realize that they're a prank caller.
Speaker 3: I think I know what you mean.
Speaker 1: So this one that I'm about to play, someone called
Speaker 1: through and rather than talking to him, they just recited
Speaker 1: the lyrics to the family Guy theme song I've given
Speaker 1: you the themes one over there. It seems today that
Speaker 1: all you see is viole, you know, classic, but were
Speaker 1: it good or fresh? And and so someone called through
Speaker 1: with those lyrics to see if he would notice. He's
Speaker 1: how it went.
Speaker 4: Talk Tonight on thirteen, twelve sixty nine. Hello Brian, good.
Speaker 3: Even Graham, how are yes good?
Speaker 4: Thanks mate? It seems today that all you see is
Speaker 4: violence and movies and sex on TV. Right.
Speaker 1: Where are the good old fashioned values on which we
Speaker 1: used to rely.
Speaker 3: Well that's a good point, isn't it.
Speaker 4: And it's interesting that they've done a couple of surveys
Speaker 4: of late and people are not going to movies as
Speaker 4: much as they used to. And the reason they give
Speaker 4: is because of the unnecessary language, the unnecessary sexual scenes.
Speaker 3: And you're right, people are simply.
Speaker 4: Wanting to go back to movies where the whole family
Speaker 4: can go and it can be wholesome.
Speaker 1: We're lucky, there's the family guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Okay, good on you, mate. I thought he had more
Speaker 4: to say. Thirty and twelve sixty nine and talk tonight the.
Speaker 2: Best fuddy is and old fashioned values on which were
Speaker 2: used to like, couldn't agree more. The movies, the movies,
Speaker 2: the jars.
Speaker 1: It's awful, I know, right, And he took the baby,
Speaker 1: had no idea. And so the challenge is, because Graham
Speaker 1: Gilbert is so hyper aware of prank callers, is to
Speaker 1: try and slip through the cracks. So what you just heard, Mitch,
Speaker 1: I bet you're wondering why I asked to push back
Speaker 1: the recording time this week a bit later at night.
Speaker 2: My actual night show starts very soon.
Speaker 1: Yes I know. And Jenny, you've miss Lumba for this
Speaker 1: No Pump class and he's on seven till midnight, so
Speaker 1: there's like a two hour window and we are currently
Speaker 1: in that window. So I I was thinking, oh, do.
Speaker 2: You want us to to call in?
Speaker 1: I want you to call and like that person did
Speaker 1: recite some lyrics that sound like a conversation and see
Speaker 1: if he notices. So thirteen twelve sixty nine is the number?
Speaker 1: Get it ready?
Speaker 2: I don't think I can.
Speaker 1: You knew this was coming though, Like I you act
Speaker 1: so like, oh, you're gonna make me do this. But
Speaker 1: like every time we do talk back things, I always
Speaker 1: came to make you do something. I'm like, what have
Speaker 1: you looked from that? You do it? You do something
Speaker 1: off the back of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, if you give me the lyrics, I'll do it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: A couple of the ones that I thought of were
Speaker 1: Partying in the USA by Miley Cyrus. Here's the lyrics.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so just say hello ready, good mate? Oh Graham,
Speaker 2: I hopped off the plane at l As with a
Speaker 2: dream and my cardigan. Welcome to the Land of Fame excess.
Speaker 3: Oh am, I gonna fit in.
Speaker 1: It's the rhyming is too obvious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of that, So then I jumped in Graham,
Speaker 2: here I am for the first time.
Speaker 3: No, you right, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: The other one, another one I came up with, was
Speaker 1: all Star by smash Mouse.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, do you want to try? So?
Speaker 1: You know that song from Shrek Jenner? Yes, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I talked to Night Graham, Gilbert Good Evening Graham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me,
Speaker 2: Andy Graham on the first tour of mine. I ate
Speaker 2: the sharper still in the shep. She was looking kind
Speaker 2: of damn right with her finger and thumb.
Speaker 1: I reckon. That one's okay. That one's better than the
Speaker 1: party in the rhymes, though the rhymes throw us off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you reckon, Jeneral, Let's go with that one. Can
Speaker 1: you think of any others? No, that one's the best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's better than anyway.
Speaker 3: No, I've got it. I've got one.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't want to tell you what it is,
Speaker 1: but I've got one. What is it?
Speaker 2: I don't want you to know.
Speaker 3: God, I mean three thousand stuff over a long period
Speaker 3: of time. Talk tonight. Your name please, Vern, you're on here. Vern.
Speaker 3: What did you want to say? Mate?
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about ancestry dot Com and genealogy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very quickly, Grahame, you wouldn't believe it, but I just
Speaker 2: took a DNA test and turns out I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent that bitch.
Speaker 3: Yeah that sounds right, Vern, So, oh my god, he.
Speaker 1: Didn't take the bait at all.
Speaker 4: Burned.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it came. So that was what
Speaker 1: was Wait? Which song was that again? I can't remember what.
Speaker 2: Let me get it, Lizzo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. It's a lizo lyric classic your he
Speaker 1: caught up with last week Dragon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my bff, miss.
Speaker 1: You can only play five seconds. That's around five seconds
Speaker 1: that I just took a DNA test. Turns out I'm
Speaker 1: one hundred person. Oh my god. I like the time
Speaker 1: with the ancestry dot Com. Yeah, I've just been an
Speaker 1: ancestry like. That's that's how I wanted his old Bard
Speaker 1: callers would start. You wouldn't belave it. I found the internet,
Speaker 1: said ancestry dot com. You keep it quick. I didn't
Speaker 1: have time for Burns. But do you have flashback on there? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: can you go and find two s M and then
Speaker 1: just like scold to what just happened and send it
Speaker 1: to me. I want to know what he said after,
Speaker 1: because I reckon he would have like slagged you off
Speaker 1: a bit more.
Speaker 2: Go on, he said, Oh my god, what did he say?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I don't remember I just asking the wrong person again.
Speaker 1: Can we just talk about the fact that that was
Speaker 1: way too easy to get on air.
Speaker 2: He didn't even vet me. Like normally, when someone rings
Speaker 2: my show, I go hi, it's kids nights. What do
Speaker 2: you want to talk about? What's your name? Get the
Speaker 2: name and if they're ship I get rid of them,
Speaker 2: or if they want to talk about something stupid, I
Speaker 2: don't put them on. But I never go straight to
Speaker 2: air with someone. No.
Speaker 1: And like if you call a talkback station, which is
Speaker 1: different to kiss, they still go through the basic what's
Speaker 1: your name of? What do you want to talk?
Speaker 3: Speak? Phone?
Speaker 1: Usually get your suburb to Jane from Croydon. That was
Speaker 1: weird that he put it straight on air and says,
Speaker 1: what's that I was going to say asking to be based?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't believe that just happened. That
Speaker 1: was we were in and out so quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's over before it even started. It's like
Speaker 2: getting a needle.
Speaker 1: Have you got a dinner? Yeap? Just sent it.
Speaker 2: I can get it in the system right there. Hold on,
Speaker 2: do you say call it to a sm flash?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've got.
Speaker 1: To get it. What else would tom flashback be? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she got it. I don't know what could what would
Speaker 1: that be?
Speaker 2: So this is after he hung up on me. We
Speaker 2: obviously didn't hear what he said on air, but this
Speaker 2: is him carrying on after the print calls.
Speaker 3: Here we go Talk Tonight. Your name please, Vern, you're
Speaker 3: on air.
Speaker 4: Vern?
Speaker 3: What did you want to say? Mate?
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about ancestry dot Com and genealogy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very quickly.
Speaker 2: It's great. You wouldn't believe it, but I just took
Speaker 2: a test. Turns out I'm one hundred percent that bitch.
Speaker 3: Yeah that sounds right, Vern. So you hung on for that,
Speaker 3: did you? Yeah? I think you've described yourself one hundred per.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: We've got your numbers, so we won't put you back
Speaker 3: on Talk Tonight.
Speaker 1: On thirteen twelve, That wasn't too bad. Actually better, it's
Speaker 1: actually better hearing it from the other point of view. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very smug, I reckon. We can easily go back
Speaker 1: on that was that was not hard enough. You're well done.
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