1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Well. After an extraordinary twenty two years as sports anchor 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: on Australia's number one Brecky program Sunrise, in thirty years 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: with the Seven Network, Mark Barretta has decided it's time 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: to make a change and he is signing off from 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: that role tomorrow, but right now he is with us. 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark Barretta. 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 2: Lisa Russell, How are you morning, Barrettes good? 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: How are you feeling? 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 2: A real mixture? I'm part sad, part excited, a bit 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 2: of everything. It's hard to leave because it's been such 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: an incredible part of my life for so long. But 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: it just feels like, after twenty two years of those 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: three am wake up calls, it's time to do something else. 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: I think you can see my challenge. 15 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: Twenty yeah, well twenty two years there, But I mean 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: you and I be getting up early for a long time. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, I think it's as you 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: well know, it is tough on the body, and I'm 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: sort of looking forward to just seeing a different side 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: of life. And I find too, you get anxious about 21 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: it at night, the night before each night, and you 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: know they're trying to get to bed early, and can 23 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: I get enough sleep? And don't drink too much and 24 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 2: all those things. I just, you know, I just want 25 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: to try something different. And my mum's have been crooked. 26 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 2: I need to spend some time with her, and I 27 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: need to see a bit of Australia. So I'm going 28 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: to get a little camp a van and head around Australia, 29 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: head your way and enjoy the Pilger and all those 30 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: beautiful parts. 31 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: Of w A pop in for a visit. 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: I would love to, so I'll do that. 33 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 3: We always need someone to read the sport here from 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 3: time to time. 35 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: I might need the petrol money. That's going to be great. 36 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 3: Weekn throw you a couple of dollars a week and 37 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 3: a couple of dollars. So Mike, are you mentally are you? 38 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 3: Are you emotionally prepared for tomorrow? Because that is such 39 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: a long stint. You know, they're going to make a 40 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: fuss about your mate. 41 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: I think it's unavoidable. Yeah, no, I'm not. I was 42 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: thinking about it this morning and I started to get 43 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: a bit, you know, just a little bit emotional about it. 44 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's hard to believe it's sort of this 45 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: time tomorrow. It's after all the years, and I guess 46 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 2: it's all consuming, the breakfast thing. You know. We've been 47 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: in a battle for twenty two years to try and 48 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: be and stay number one, and you just don't stop 49 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 2: thinking about it. You're always looking for a new angle 50 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: and then a better interview and something else to do, 51 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: and all of a sudden that all switches off. So 52 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: it'll be quite different. And it's also the friend to 53 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: two things that it's the colleagues you work with that 54 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: makes you make in work, but also, as you know, 55 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 2: the connection with people outside, you know, the people who 56 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: you talk to each day, and that's been really special. 57 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: You know, retirement's a wonderful thing because people are really 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: nice to you and they say good things when you're 59 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: for your funeral, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. 60 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: You know they're going to make a big fuss tomorrow, 61 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: and I know you don't like the big fuss unless, 62 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: of course, all the TV fame has changed you. No, 63 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: I didn't think it had. 64 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: Now. 65 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: Sporting moments, you've been involved in a few, What what 66 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: are the ones that really stand out? 67 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: Oh, gosh, I lived here. 68 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: Sport in general. 69 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me just scan through thirty quick years. 70 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: Can you do that? There's so many good ones. It's 71 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: hard to Kathy for I got to host the seven 72 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 2: telecast of the Olympic Games that the night in twenty 73 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: twenty fifth of September, the night Kathy Freeman ran her 74 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: four hundred meters Okay, and yeah that was Yeah. So 75 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: in my mind, my career peaked twenty five years ago, 76 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 2: so that was that was great. But then it's something 77 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: that's the interview. It's it's the people you get to 78 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 2: talk to. Like for me, people like Roger Fedderer, always 79 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: a really special person to talk to and just such 80 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: a humble, lovely guy. You know, you can see why 81 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 2: that that guy was such a great champion. Lewis Hamilton's 82 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: another one who've I really enjoyed. And a lot of 83 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: people give Lewis a hard time, but I under found 84 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: him to be incredible and a guy one of those 85 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: guys who when he walks into the room, the whole 86 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: room just stops. You know, he's got such an aura 87 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: and presence. For me, he was he was one of 88 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: the great ones. But yeah, we've had some had some 89 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: good ones. Yeah. 90 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 3: So tomorrow is well, it's not your last day technically 91 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 3: with the network, but obviously it's the last day with Sunrise. 92 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 3: Do you cast your mind back, Do you remember what 93 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 3: it was like when you walked in for the first time? 94 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, coss Cossy gave me the coach talk, like 95 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: he's done so unsuccessfully at Port Adelaide. He said, look, 96 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: when you walk into the show, he said, you leave 97 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: your ego at the door, you said, He said, you 98 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 2: are who you are. Some people won't like you, hopefully 99 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: most will and you'll keep your job and you just 100 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 2: but you can't not be who you are, you know. 101 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: And he made it very clear from day one that 102 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 2: you are who you are and you've got to be 103 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 2: true to yourself and you say what you think and 104 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 2: you know, it's just the workout, all right. So it 105 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: was pretty pretty good advice. It was dawning. I think 106 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 2: we had a million stuff ups on that first morning, 107 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 2: because you know, when you introduce extra people to the show, 108 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: it all goes a bit crazy. But yeah, we came 109 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 2: to accept that as just the Sunrise way, that we 110 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: did stuff things up, and we owned it when we did, 111 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: you know, and we've stuffed up a lot of stuff 112 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: over a lot of a lot of times. 113 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: You just turn it into entertainment, don't you. 114 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Well as so long as you laugh 115 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: it off and be honest with people that you made 116 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 2: a mistake, it's okay. 117 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: Well, last day at sunrise tomorrow. I doubt it will 118 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: be the last time we see you doing something, perhaps 119 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: some kind of special project, because I can't imagine you're, 120 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: you know, being gone from this world for good. But 121 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: in the meantime, enjoy your motor home. 122 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: Will do. I'll take you for a ride around perfect. 123 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 3: Fantastic, that'd be good. And yeah, drop in when you 124 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: need some petrol money. 125 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Mate, do all right soon? 126 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 3: That's great. There you go, twenty two years on the 127 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 3: one show. That is amazing. Yeah, thirty years, becoming unheard 128 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 3: of in these turbulent times. Well done, Brett's yes, well done. 129 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: Time to hang up there, I mean back a bit. 130 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: The reason he's lasted that long like that is because 131 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: he is dead, said such a nice guy. What you 132 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: see is what you. 133 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 3: Get, and that's authentic. That's what we want.