Speaker 1: Is It Just Me' podcast by a couple of Miches.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's time for talkback teams. Talkback teams, that's
Speaker 2: where I bring the little bits of gold that I
Speaker 2: find when I'm listening to talkback radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do love it.
Speaker 2: It's a really different world to the one that you
Speaker 2: live in the FM bubble.
Speaker 3: FM is crazy. I have so many like I've got
Speaker 3: like a really tight criteria that I have to fit into.
Speaker 2: Yes, no such criteria applies to AM radio. In fact,
Speaker 2: I don't think any criteria applies to John laws Ah if.
Speaker 3: You don't know him, if you're in the States. Howard Stern,
Speaker 3: I'm a radio fen so I love this year Howard
Speaker 3: Stern Australia like a car, Sanderlans, Alan Jones, Shock Jock bab.
Speaker 2: Even then like way older and way more withered. He
Speaker 2: literally retired with it in the year two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: But then he was just like I'm bored and he
Speaker 2: came back in twenty eleven. Did he retire, Yes, And
Speaker 2: it was like a big deal when he retired. He's
Speaker 2: now at two SM. Now, for context, two SM is
Speaker 2: the station that aren't even in the ratings anymore because
Speaker 2: they were rating so poorly that they just decided to
Speaker 2: opt out. They're like, we don't want to know.
Speaker 3: But then who pays him because he's on Jenna? Can
Speaker 3: you google how much his mental don't google that.
Speaker 2: We don't need to keep throwing you to google shit.
Speaker 3: I just want to know how much he makes. I
Speaker 3: want how much. I just don't have to confirm the
Speaker 3: Google either. Jenner Ah.
Speaker 2: But like he very famously retired in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: Like I said, he's now back at two s M,
Speaker 2: the Shiitter station in Sydney, and they will not pay
Speaker 2: for marketing. So there are so many people that literally
Speaker 2: don't know he's back on air. It's like he's like
Speaker 2: he's like a little off Broadway secret Now he's BCC
Speaker 2: to the radio or and so every single time utunity
Speaker 2: John Laws. By the way, my father listened to John Laws,
Speaker 2: so growing up it's all I heard. I'm very familiar
Speaker 2: with it. I'm gonna feel very nostalgic, but this is
Speaker 2: how he kicks off every single show on the world.
Speaker 4: I'm John Laws.
Speaker 2: Sounds very old fashioned.
Speaker 3: Of the matter, is this a married aren't you mad?
Speaker 3: Not that you're at a Goozman is on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: So he sounds quite quaint, almost wholesome, but he is
Speaker 2: he is prone to losing his patience pretty quickly. He
Speaker 2: tolerates no nonsense when it comes to his callers. Take
Speaker 2: a listen to.
Speaker 4: This nonetheless, be quiet, be quiet, be quiet, I will now, Susan,
Speaker 4: would you just shout up for a minute?
Speaker 2: Or this particular one, This is one of my old
Speaker 2: favorite It's one of my favorite tantrums of his.
Speaker 4: I'm second tired of having to listen to rude, arrogant,
Speaker 4: ill informed, stupid women like you.
Speaker 2: So, even though he's insulting these people, he has a
Speaker 2: way of stringing together words that just sound correct together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very eloquent.
Speaker 2: He makes insults sound eloquent, which is a skill I
Speaker 2: would love to have.
Speaker 3: You're almost there.
Speaker 2: I know I'm getting there. I'll just keep insulting you
Speaker 2: as my guinea pig until I get there. Okay. But
Speaker 2: he has this one particular caller who was like a
Speaker 2: notorious hater of his. He calls the show regularly. His
Speaker 2: name's Norman. Norman has been calling him for years. All
Speaker 2: through my teens, I heard Norman.
Speaker 3: He knows Norman.
Speaker 2: Yes, literally like a week ago, Norman called and started
Speaker 2: complaining about Kyle Sandaling, Oh our guy, and they played
Speaker 2: they played the order on Kyle and Jackie. O. The
Speaker 2: reason I bring that up is because how long have
Speaker 2: I been waiting to play this Norman audio and our show?
Speaker 3: Mitchell, Oh, as soon as we have the idea for
Speaker 3: this show. Yeah, this was happening.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't want to look like I'm copying
Speaker 2: Kyle and Jackie all right now. I was sitting at
Speaker 2: my death and they were playing Norman audio and I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm playing that on the show next week.
Speaker 3: And I wake up to a text and You're like,
Speaker 3: Kyle and Jackie are playing the Norman audio. I was like,
Speaker 3: did you be see them on this?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 3: This is a long time coming, the Norman audio exactly.
Speaker 2: So here's one of my favorite Norman blow ups. And
Speaker 2: I want you to take note of just how eloquent
Speaker 2: he is, even though he's like dealing with a hater
Speaker 2: and basically getting into a beef with this guy. Take
Speaker 2: a listen, give.
Speaker 4: Us a call, tell us what's on your mind? One
Speaker 4: three hundred and five? Oh is it really Norman? Is
Speaker 4: it you?
Speaker 5: It's me?
Speaker 4: Don't you?
Speaker 5: Didn't you say that your program goes all over the country. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: aren't they bored about Sydney traffic? Probably you're doing the
Speaker 5: rest of the nation about Sydney traffic.
Speaker 4: But it's very important to the people in Sydney, Norman.
Speaker 1: But the worst of.
Speaker 5: The country, I couldn't give a stand.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, Norman, Norman, Norman. There are people
Speaker 4: out there in the bush saying, oh God, listen to that.
Speaker 4: Aren't we lucky to live in the bush? We give
Speaker 4: them the opportunity to extol the virtues of their own environment.
Speaker 5: Now you're just boring them senseless like you usually.
Speaker 2: Do, extol the virtues of their own environment. Isn't that beautiful?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jenna, are you compiling about this job? You're beach,
Speaker 3: But you just need to extol the virtues of this environment.
Speaker 2: Isn't that just like he's so eloquent. That was impressive, right,
Speaker 2: it goes on? Okay, I want you to listen out
Speaker 2: for the rest of this, Norman call. I want you
Speaker 2: to listen out to the most perfectly phrased insults you've
Speaker 2: ever heard in your life. I'm not over hyping right now.
Speaker 2: Take a listen, Norman.
Speaker 4: I've been getting reports about you? Are you? Are you fat? Overweight?
Speaker 5: I don't answer your question, Sean with Fetcher's funeral?
Speaker 4: Have you cleaned jaws?
Speaker 5: Have you written it all?
Speaker 4: You have? You?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Going into you know the funeral. Who's going to speak?
Speaker 4: No? Norman nor Norman? Norman, Norman, Norman. You've got to remember,
Speaker 4: I won't know I'm dead here, but.
Speaker 5: Your feet weren't anybody lining the streets? And go and
Speaker 5: cry over your death?
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, Norman Norman, why do you listen to
Speaker 4: the program? I can now the truth is coming through
Speaker 4: you secretly? Love me?
Speaker 5: No, I don't, John, I hate you, I hate you?
Speaker 5: You care?
Speaker 1: You care?
Speaker 4: Norman Norman? What a what a screwed up, dreadful little
Speaker 4: grub of a human being? I think I might I
Speaker 4: think I might have be stretching it a bit calling
Speaker 4: you a human being. But never mind, We'll give you
Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt. Norman.
Speaker 5: Somebody retire. I just think of you. Why won't you
Speaker 5: do it?
Speaker 4: Listen? Norman Norman. When I did retire the it was
Speaker 4: a front page in his story and the big headline
Speaker 4: was the end of an era. How do you like that?
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 5: It's going to be such a joyous occasion when you.
Speaker 4: Die, Norman, You're forgetting on this momentous occasion. I'm going
Speaker 4: to be dead.
Speaker 5: It won't be long. It won't be long, John, everybody
Speaker 5: out there voicing and hoping.
Speaker 4: Norman, Norman, Norman and Norman. Enough is enough is enough? Norman,
Speaker 4: enough is enough. You're just a nasty human being, and
Speaker 4: really you're a bit entertaining for about the first five
Speaker 4: minutes or so. After that you become well, you show
Speaker 4: your true covers, which aren't very pleasant. Yellow in the main,
Speaker 4: I might say, but you're just a nasty human being.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how you've got anybody around you
Speaker 4: probably haven't got anybody around you, and that's why you
Speaker 4: have to bother me. Please don't bother to bother.
Speaker 2: How savage but graceful.
Speaker 3: Please don't bother to bother sound Edgar Allan Poe repeat
Speaker 3: after me.
Speaker 2: Screwed up, dreadful, little grub of a human being.
Speaker 3: Let's all say it, Jenny, you two three two one
Speaker 3: screwed dreadful.
Speaker 2: I want that on my gravestone.
Speaker 3: That was intense, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Just can you play that last bit again? I just
Speaker 2: want to hear that one insult.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a screwed up, dreadful little grub of a
Speaker 4: human being? You?
Speaker 3: Oh? I feel I feel a bit upset because the
Speaker 3: way he talks to his callers is he's got power.
Speaker 3: On my show at night, I did the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: I take calls constantly for three hours and my callers
Speaker 3: talk to me like that.
Speaker 2: It's the opposite dynamic.
Speaker 3: They're so rude to me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call you with my phone on privates you
Speaker 2: don't know, and be like, what I screwed up dreadful
Speaker 2: little grub of a human being?
Speaker 3: What do they say to you?
Speaker 2: That's so rude?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I like last week I had the privilege of giving
Speaker 3: out business class fights to the UK. Yeah, yeah it
Speaker 3: thanks to who Eddie Ad. The reason I ask is
Speaker 3: give me I've got the credit wrong. Who did you say?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 3: Don't matter.
Speaker 2: I legally can't say this another airline that begins with me,
Speaker 2: But thank you?
Speaker 3: Who should have you said? Eddie ad? Eddie?
Speaker 2: Thanks to Eddie, I've got a great deal on the
Speaker 2: moment to be Jenna and I flew Eddie had to
Speaker 2: London and it was like not because of them, it
Speaker 2: was horrible. The flight to London is just horrible in general.
Speaker 2: But I had made it as good as they could.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, of god, I didn't where that was going.
Speaker 2: Then did you keep your Eddie had I'm asked dinner.
Speaker 4: I sure do, I have it.
Speaker 3: I have it at my house and.
Speaker 2: We work breakfast radio hours. Sometimes the sun's still up
Speaker 2: with my birth fleet. We've got to use that ship.
Speaker 3: Indeed, Eddie adds great. Anyway, they gave me business class
Speaker 3: fights to give away on the show. All week. It
Speaker 3: was huge, and then this week I've gone back on
Speaker 3: air and I do my usual programming and on Tuesday nights,
Speaker 3: so I do a ten cent Tuesday and I don't
Speaker 3: get a budget, but there's a coin person in the office,
Speaker 3: so I take ten cents and then I flip it
Speaker 3: and people have to guess heads or tails, and they
Speaker 3: get it right, they win the money. I send them
Speaker 3: the ten cents and postage is a dollar twenty. The
Speaker 3: station's at a loss. Anyway. Some girl caught it last time.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you want to play ten cent Tuesday? She's like,
Speaker 3: last week, didn't you give away business clients business class flights?
Speaker 3: What's this shit? I'm not sorry Juliet, she I don't
Speaker 3: even want to play give it back the way? Can
Speaker 3: we do it? Can I bring some audio next week?
Speaker 3: I don't love you.
Speaker 2: You got to start collecting them and then play them
Speaker 2: for It's the way that your callers treat you is
Speaker 2: the same way that John Laws treats his callers with
Speaker 2: absolutely no courtesy or respect.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll start collecting them.
Speaker 2: He can be charming when he wants to be John Laws,
Speaker 2: but he can also tear you a new asshole, as
Speaker 2: you just heard.
Speaker 3: How much is you get? Paiger? Did you find out he.
Speaker 2: Has a net worth of twenty million?
Speaker 3: What's your net worth? If you had to assume based
Speaker 3: on everything?
Speaker 2: You've got the same budget you've got for giveaways on
Speaker 2: your night show? Ten cents? I love the podcast, but
Speaker 2: what more in between episodes?
Speaker 1: Then join a group, sport you lazy third, or go
Speaker 1: borrow a library book. Meanwhile, you can follow the show
Speaker 1: online as a couple of minchens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give us a follow, leave us a review, don't
Speaker 3: forget five stars please. Speaking of groups, bour it's brad
Speaker 3: Olvia guys.
Speaker 4: Just so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, did you what did you do growing up?
Speaker 2: Well? Nothing that therein lies the issue while I was
Speaker 2: quite a large child.
Speaker 3: Oh you couldn't run on the grass in bergan Gate
Speaker 3: because that was the crops. I was gonna play soccer down.
Speaker 1: No, don't run on that.
Speaker 3: That's the Livelihart, that's the car.
Speaker 2: Apparently I played soccer when I was five, but the
Speaker 2: coach had to politely after my mum to stop bringing
Speaker 2: me because I wasn't playing soccer. I was running around
Speaker 2: the field picking up leaves.
Speaker 3: Missus Coombs, you're gonna have to pick yourself up. He's
Speaker 3: using the ball as a disco ball hole and he's
Speaker 3: grinding on the field. The other boys are very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: He's pole dancing against the goalposts.
Speaker 3: The ball isn't even a ball, it's a pumpkin.
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