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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's couple lost a couple of great people.

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Speaker 2: Murray one, ninety seven years of age, the f one commentator.

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Speaker 2: I loved his stuff.

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Speaker 3: A blow on the head with a helmet an't doesn't

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Speaker 3: hurt nearly as much as a blow to the head

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Speaker 3: without one. The body language of the benetto mechanics that

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Speaker 3: they are had solutely curious. Oh Jean, you may well

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Speaker 3: look a bit worried. You've got a major problem sometimes

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Speaker 3: with that lunited Who there is he's changing the confliction

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Speaker 3: of the race, and where is mister halfway now walking

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Speaker 3: round the track?

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Speaker 2: He was actually an advertising executive, did you know that?

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Speaker 2: And he retired from that and became a commentator. He

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Speaker 2: sort of picked it up laid in his life.

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Speaker 1: They always said that he sounded like he was speaking

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Speaker 1: with his trousers on fire, that incredible enthusiasm that he

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Speaker 1: brought to everything.

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Speaker 2: I met him one time. I was with Alan Jones,

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Speaker 2: race car driver Alan Jones and Murray Walker. This is

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Speaker 2: what I was doing that on Channel ten halp PM,

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Speaker 2: and he was just a very very nice fellow.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice. Well, Yes, A lot of people mourning the

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Speaker 1: loss of Murray and the radio industry lost an absolute

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Speaker 1: radio great on the Weekend, a man called John Brennan.

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Speaker 1: He passed away at the age of eighty nine. I

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Speaker 1: was very good friends, or I am very good friends

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Speaker 1: with his son, Peter Brennan. And I met John when

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Speaker 1: I was a production assistant along with Peter at the

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Speaker 1: Midday Show when Ray Martin first took over the Midday Show.

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Speaker 1: That's how I met his son, Peter. And there before

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Speaker 1: I met John, long before I was on television on

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Speaker 1: Beyond two thousand or anything. John said to me, you

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Speaker 1: should be on radio. And I remember thinking, I don't

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Speaker 1: know anything about radio. Iout to have any opinions. I've

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Speaker 1: got nothing to add to anything. But he was that

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Speaker 1: kind of guy. He knew that about me before I did.

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Speaker 1: He's so nart people and he got them. He is

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Speaker 1: responsible for the careers of John Law's, Alan Jones, Ray Hadley.

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Speaker 1: He has shaped Sydney radio in the eighties and the nineties,

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Speaker 1: and so many people, the accolades over the Weekend from

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Speaker 1: all kinds of people who said that he just was

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Speaker 1: such a charming boss and such a good man. He

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Speaker 1: loved his family, loved his job, and in an industry

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Speaker 1: that can be Naki and all those things. He was

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Speaker 1: never that. He is a lovely, lovely man who loved

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Speaker 1: radio and saw it in everybody. And he'll be much

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Speaker 1: missed very much.

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Speaker 2: And he had the gift, didn't He picked you?

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Speaker 1: He had the gift. He picked me before I knew

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Speaker 1: that I needed to be picked.

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Speaker 2: Amazing, So do you reckon? Those skills will kick in anytime, So.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping, so still want to make him proud.

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Speaker 2: With Joins and Amanda