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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nason. Godfree is one of the country's

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Speaker 1: largest vacuum cleaner retailers and supplies of specialist floor cleaning

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Speaker 1: products has collapsed.

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Speaker 2: Remember just a few days ago on this show we're

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Speaker 2: talking about we did a phone topic. I cutmy what

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Speaker 2: was and someone mentioned Kenneth Godfree Wigans.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Kenneth Godfree, Wiggans a big chain and godfreees a big

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Speaker 2: part of our Australian culture. They're very famous ads where

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Speaker 2: he'd pick up a bowling ball with a vacuum cleaner.

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Speaker 2: This cleaner is so easy to use and such, it's

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Speaker 2: got enough to pick up the sixteen pound bowling ball.

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Speaker 1: Did really well, not just for vacuums, but for bowling

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Speaker 1: balls as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many people have bowling balls around

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Speaker 2: their rooms. Need to be tidied up and clean up

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Speaker 2: your room.

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Speaker 1: You go and get the bowling ball and you put

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Speaker 1: on your vacuum, but you had to have the special

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Speaker 1: suction cone to put on the polling.

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Speaker 2: But it's a changing nature of where we purchase our

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Speaker 2: stuff because I think Godfrees was selling those old school

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Speaker 2: vacuum cleaners and people with the new modern dice and

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Speaker 2: and all that they don't sell them through Godfreeze. People

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Speaker 2: are now buying stuff online, so it's been an inevitable

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Speaker 2: change of people's buying habits. And also people aren't replenishing

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Speaker 2: that stuff as often as they used to because the

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Speaker 2: cost of living.

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Speaker 1: Ironically, as well, they started in the depression. In nineteen

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Speaker 1: thirty one, Old Godfreeze.

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Speaker 3: Still had bowling balls that had to be cleaned up

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Speaker 3: in those days.

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Speaker 1: Those were the times I met the guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: the guy that man. I met him many many moons,

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Speaker 1: mister Godfrey, mister Godfrey with the camover because we were

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Speaker 1: talking about and the camover was his thing. He loved

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Speaker 1: the come.

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Speaker 3: Well it did match the bowling ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And that was the because I met his

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Speaker 1: son at a lunch and we're having a great chat.

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Speaker 1: But I said, you were your dad with the combover.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm always fascinated about the camover. There must be

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Speaker 1: a point where you've got enough hair and you do

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Speaker 1: the camover and then you just stick with it. And

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Speaker 1: then well I'm worried because I got the DP on

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Speaker 1: me gets bigger.

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Speaker 3: Explain what the DP means.

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Speaker 1: The DEVN patch at the back.

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Speaker 2: As I get older, your brother calls it the devon

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Speaker 2: patch because it's a patch of skin that gets bigger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: But so you're saying to this man's son, your father

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Speaker 2: has a weird comb over.

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Speaker 1: But everyone knew it. He even knew it. Everyone talked

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 2: And so with that conversation, and then how did you

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Speaker 2: meet the man himself? He came along from a different tapes.

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Speaker 3: I can hear what he's saying.

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Speaker 1: And I congratulated him on his success. They did, all right,

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Speaker 1: they did really.

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Speaker 2: But you remember, as you said, the company started on

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Speaker 2: a hundred years ago and people were buying vacum cleaners.

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Speaker 2: It used to be that old narrative of you know,

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Speaker 2: there'd be a vacuum cleaner salesperson who go from the

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Speaker 2: house to house.

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Speaker 3: It was a big deal that you had to have

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Speaker 3: a good vacuum clean.

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Speaker 1: You had to and you go to the lady of

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Speaker 1: the house. Ye, the lady of the house would purchase

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Speaker 1: the vat.

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Speaker 3: And these days you can have a dust buster and

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Speaker 3: that'll do you.

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Speaker 1: Dust busters, Dad, waste my time in those things. They

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Speaker 1: never work.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes if a dog care everywhere, they do, you know.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't take the skin off of pudding what do

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Speaker 1: you vacuum in your house? Volleyballs skin?

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Speaker 3: What else is that? Euphimism?

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Speaker 1: Brenda's skins he got? Did you using.

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Speaker 3: It on yourself? Well, look we salute you God Freeze.

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Speaker 2: You have been part of the Australian landscape for all

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Speaker 2: those years.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have, like you know, there's they've

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Speaker 1: managed to keep some stuff and they've had to lose

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Speaker 1: it they have.

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Speaker 3: And that's always sad in Australian business closes like that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there could be a Sarah le thing, but how

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Speaker 1: they saved Sarah Lee. That could happen.

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Speaker 3: Maybe someone could come on in with a cape and

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Speaker 3: save it all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe we should get into the vacuum clean

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Speaker 1: a business. Okay, what do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Okay, what do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Well, you've been sucking up everyone's old jokes for years.

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Speaker 2: If we can regurgitate those we've been sucking for years

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Speaker 2: and you're working on your comb over okay't see