1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: Helloood Club. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: It's a good start, ohod Club. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to book club. 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 3: Hello, this is our final book club. 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: If this is the first time you've joined us, where 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: the hell have you been? What have you been doing? 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 2: So we have been in know up ourselves way at all, 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: reading from our own books. 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 4: Do you think what we should have done? And I 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 4: know this is probably late to bring it to the past. 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: Read Shakespeare is read from each other's books. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: I was thinking of reading from the diary of Anne Frank. Yeah, okay, 13 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: it would make mine sound shallow. Sure, yes, I would 14 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: imagine it would. 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 3: Well. 16 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 2: We thought what we'd do today is read how our 17 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: books conclude. 18 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: What a relief you say, it's not you in a cupboard. 19 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: No, it's not. 20 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: Anyone who knows me loves my immense love of Barry Manilo, 21 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 2: and the bits I haven't shared with you about my 22 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: book is that Barry has been the through line. I 23 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: had a teenage diary. My best friend Melanie, who's still 24 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 2: my best friend. We loved Barry, and when we're in 25 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: our forties we went to see him in Vegas. 26 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 3: It was so exciting. 27 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 4: You would have been the ideal child, the ideal teenager. 28 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 4: If I was a parent and my kid was into 29 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 4: someone like Barry Mallal, I'd say. 30 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: Great, yes, he doesn't encourage you to slash up the 31 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: furniture and throw a TV out of the window. 32 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: Went into the sex pistols. 33 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 4: We no. 34 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: I used to dream of having a hot chocolate and 35 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 2: just mooching around his New York apartment in big, sloppy jumpers. 36 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 3: So did He probably didn't want any more than that 37 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 3: from me. So anyway, we heard that Barry was doing 38 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 3: a final show, having said that he's still going. How 39 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: annoying you money? 40 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 2: Melanie and I flew to Brooklyn. Remember I did the 41 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: radio show from Brooklyn for the week, and this is 42 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: how my book concludes with us at the concert. As 43 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 2: we approached the venue, which we'd imagine would be a poky, 44 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 2: old fashioned dive, we were stunned to discover it was 45 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: a twenty thousand capacity, state of the art stadium. There 46 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: was a huge queue at the box office. We were 47 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: finally handed our tickets, along with some glow sticks and 48 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: a wash. With relief, we made our way to the seats. Suddenly, 49 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: the enormity of the moment started to dawn on us, 50 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: and when Barry actually appeared on stage, I began crying 51 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 2: like a baby. The rush of emotion took me completely 52 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 2: by surprise. It was also confronting for the man sitting 53 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 2: next to me. Yes, there were men there. One minute, 54 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: I've been having a mature chat with him about life 55 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 2: in Australia. The next I was like an overwrought schoolgirl 56 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: crying over her teen crush. As Barry belted out songs 57 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 2: from his early days. I was transported back to in 58 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: Melonie to sit in the back room at Mum and 59 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: Dad's house, poring over his record covers and dreaming up 60 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: our futures. All three of us, Me, Melon, Barry had 61 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: come a long way together. Looking around the stadium lit 62 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: up with a galaxy of glow sticks, I imagined there 63 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: were nineteen nine hundred and ninety eight similar journeys. Mel 64 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: and I both bawled on and off through the whole show. 65 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 2: I tried to stop, but I just couldn't. As the 66 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 2: evening neared the end and our overwrought emotional state was 67 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: tinged with a little anxiety. An invitation for a brief 68 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: meet and greet with Barry after the show had been 69 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 2: included in the envelope with our tickets. Over the previous 70 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: hour and a half, we'd pushed our makeup, along with 71 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: a fair amount of snot around our faces with a 72 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: succession of tissues. How gar wee faced Barry looking like 73 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: Alice Cooper with a head cold. Well, there was nothing 74 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: for it but to present our crusted faces and shiny 75 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: red eyes backstage in a room dotter with other invited 76 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: guests who looked slightly less ravage than we did. After 77 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: Barry arrived, he politely made his way around the groups. 78 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: When he got to Melanie and me, we wished him 79 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: a happy seventy second birthday. God I loved him when 80 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 2: he was thirty two. Whoa and I gabbled something about 81 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: him being the through line to our lives, and we 82 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: had a photo taken with him. This wasn't the ending 83 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: I'd once planned in my diary. In that particular subplot, 84 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: Barry would have married me or mel or possibly the 85 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: two of us, and we'd all be strolling home to 86 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: our tastefully decorated apartment overlooking Central Park, where a steamed 87 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: hot chocolate would await us. 88 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: That's a euphemism for anything. 89 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: Sadly, no, as it turned out, Barry would be heading 90 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: home to his stylish apartment, not with us, but with 91 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: his longtime manager and partner who had recently married. 92 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: His name was Gary. 93 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: Gary married Barry. 94 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: Still as we call a cab back to our hotel. 95 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: I appreciated the perfect plot twist. Sure Barry had married 96 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: someone else, but it was okay, so had Melanie, and 97 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: life was good. 98 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 3: Ah, that's nice. 99 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: That's how it finish it. 100 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: That's how it finishes, and everyone lived happily ever after. 101 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: I forgot to say that. 102 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: Bit mathematically, how old is Barry now? 103 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: One hundred and fifty eight? I cut him in half 104 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 3: an I count the. 105 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: Reena the rings like an old tree in an ancient forest. 106 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 3: Right. 107 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: But when we were in love with him, when I 108 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 2: was fifteen and he was thirty two, I remember thinking, oh, 109 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: thirty two will never catch up. 110 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: And you loved him because he was so obtainable. 111 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: Because he was obtainable, because he had a bit of 112 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 2: a rough head, and he sang emotional songs. 113 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 3: And I'm a sucker for a good story in a song. 114 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, because you look at the music around the time. 115 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 4: He would have had Cold Chisel. 116 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 3: The Angel Oh not when I was fifteen. 117 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: Really, yeah, they would have been the bands and you. 118 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 2: Know, I appreciate the poetry in those songs now that 119 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 2: Flame Trees beautiful poetry. 120 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 3: Then it just sounded rough to me. 121 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: Sure, sure, but this is coming from a kid that 122 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 4: had a crush on John Denver. 123 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: So I understand what you say. 124 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 3: I remember. 125 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: There's something I remember. When I first discovered John Denver. 126 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 4: I was about nine years of age, and I was 127 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 4: just I couldn't understand why I felt so compelled to 128 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:22,799 Speaker 4: love him so much. 129 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: But then I got into kiss. 130 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 3: So did you just kiss John Denver? 131 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: No? 132 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 4: No, no, it'd be weird nine year old kissing John Denver. 133 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: I'm not Michael Jackson. 134 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 3: I don't know if he was into John Denver. 135 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 4: Saved you there Mine finishes up and this is pretty 136 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 4: much about you coming to work with me. Oh really yeah, 137 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 4: and the angst getting you over here. And the possibly 138 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 4: the worst radio year I had was when I first 139 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 4: started at this radio station in two thousand and three, 140 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 4: Because you remember when I first started here, it wasn't good. 141 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: There was there were a lot of complain I thought i'd. 142 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 3: Just day you were. 143 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: Second day you were front page of the paper with 144 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: people calling for your head. 145 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't good. 146 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: In a prank call gone wrong to the terrorist hotline. 147 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 4: Everyone was pretty sensitive about that back then, but it 148 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 4: was and I didn't, you know, I really regretted at 149 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 4: that time coming here from and I was working at 150 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 4: Triple M all my life. All I want to do 151 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 4: is work at Triple M. And I've never done this 152 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 4: for money. I've always just done it for the present. 153 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: The bosses the radio station and it was pretty daggy here. 154 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: WS was terrible. 155 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 4: It was it was admirs well of being going back 156 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 4: to Woollongong. It was like a regional station, but. 157 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 2: For you to be asked to do a breakfast show 158 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: and that even though these hours are hard, this is 159 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: this is the dream gig if you want to do radio. 160 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 2: By and large, the breakfast show carries the most responsibility 161 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: and is the hardest job. 162 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 4: It's like waterfront Sydney, waterfront property in Sydney. If you 163 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 4: get offered it and you can afford it, you take it. 164 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 4: That's what you do because you're never able to get 165 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 4: that chance again. And that's why I did take it. 166 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 4: But it would only be for the first year. After 167 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 4: that they're already looking to replace me. So within that 168 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 4: first year, let. 169 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: Me pick up from the book. 170 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 4: When Kayleie this is my former co host, announced she 171 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: was leaving in two thousand and four, it came out 172 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 4: of the blue. Our radio marriage wasn't the greatest. 173 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 3: Was it an arranged marriage? 174 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: It was an arranged marriage. That was the other thing 175 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: when they asked. 176 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,559 Speaker 4: And I feel really bad for Kaylie because she worked 177 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 4: with hands tall for a thousand years at this place, 178 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 4: works and works works, and it worked out well. But 179 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 4: the thing was their breakfast show ratings were in decline 180 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 4: compared to the next competition or the other competition that 181 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 4: was coming through the markets. So at the time, their 182 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 4: content and on air was pretty much hands back announcing 183 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 4: a terrible seventy song, going into a very long weather break, 184 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: then into a live read which is an ad so 185 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 4: Bab's Bar and Grille get down there today, and Kaylee 186 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 4: sort of adding comment in the background. 187 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: There wasn't really any content. 188 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: So you came along and shook it up with it. 189 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: They wanted to make a show. 190 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 4: They didn't even have a producer, they had a phone girl, 191 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 4: but they wanted they wanted content on air because what 192 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 4: was happening things were changing at that stage. The iPod 193 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 4: had been released, people could download a thousand songs in 194 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,119 Speaker 4: their iPod, So the writing was on the wall. Also, 195 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 4: there wasn't the competition that we have now radios. The 196 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 4: radio landscape didn't have as many stations as it does now. 197 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 2: So that's the thing, isn't it is? If you can 198 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 2: have your own music whenever you want it. It's the 199 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: bits between the music that have to be compelling. 200 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: And also you've got to sell all the advertising. 201 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 4: So it's like a vegetable lasagna and you put your 202 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 4: meat in there and all the other stuff, but then 203 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 4: you're going to put some broccoli and some pumpkin and stuff. 204 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 4: It depends how tasty the other parts of the lasagna 205 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 4: are that you can get it over. 206 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 3: The weak with the meat or the vegetables. Were the meat? 207 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 3: Do people want vegetables? They're vegetarians. 208 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 4: Where the meat and the vegans and the more tasty 209 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 4: parts of the vegetarian part of the loser camp? 210 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: Where do I go from here? 211 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 4: I wanted Amanda to do it, but she had a 212 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 4: sweet job on the telly, two little kids, and no 213 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 4: desire to get up at four in. 214 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: The morning again, because I'd already done it. 215 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 4: And you told me that many times. My paranoia wasn't 216 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 4: helped when former two Day host Paul Holmes came over 217 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 4: to do drive and wordwors management were looking at him 218 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 4: and Wendy Harmer for Breakfast. The fact our Peter Clay. 219 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 4: Remember Peter Clay, he used to work with him, and 220 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 4: that didn't help. Further to that, Peter confirmed my fears. 221 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 4: He said he had proposed a national nighttime show for me, which, 222 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 4: considering I could have been doing a national drive show 223 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 4: with fefee Box at Triple M, didn't wash well with me. 224 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: After directing every Name under the Sun at Poor Pete, 225 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 4: I marched down to John Williams's office, our boss at 226 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 4: the time, and pointed out I still had a year 227 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 4: and a half to go on my contract and that 228 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 4: it was breakfast only. Willie is a good guy, and 229 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 4: he assured me that they were happy with me. But 230 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 4: who would I do the show with? I mentioned Amanda 231 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 4: was the one that I wanted, so I set up 232 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 4: a meeting with Graham, the PD, myself and Amanda. I 233 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 4: didn't want to spook Amanda, so I never really asked 234 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 4: her directly if she wanted to do the show. 235 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 3: I thought I was just coming for long because. 236 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 4: I don't want you to be overwhelmed. I never want 237 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 4: to overwhelm. 238 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: You with stuff. Oh really, I don't want to overwhelm 239 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: your stuff. 240 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: This came down to Pete because at the time you 241 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 4: were filling in on Wednesday, Kaylee had left and I 242 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 4: had Jonesy's Breakfast Bar, and I have a cavalcade of 243 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 4: women doing the show with me, Sonya Krueger, Tanya Pallmar, 244 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 4: Jessica Rowe yourself. One day, we're coming back after the show, 245 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: and Pete said, so are you going to do the 246 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 4: show next year? Amanda at the time said, oh, look, 247 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 4: I don't know. Pete added, it's only two years, no 248 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 4: big deal. This threw a rite off, as he said, 249 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 4: you just made up my mind. I don't want to 250 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 4: do it. 251 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 2: Well, I had already done breakfast Radio for about eight years. 252 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: I had a child that was five months old about that, 253 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 2: wasn't it, and a two year old, And so when 254 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 2: you say it's only two years, you think two years, 255 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 2: Look what changes in two years? 256 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 4: We were working on the softly, softly catchy monkey process. 257 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 3: And then the monkey started throwing feces. 258 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: Around me to just choked the monkey. 259 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 4: So after that I went straight into John's office, and 260 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 4: I said, we're losing her. We're going to bring We're 261 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 4: going to bring out the big guns. The big guns 262 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 4: was money. I previously told Willie that if he got 263 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 4: a man to do breakfast, he should pay her what 264 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 4: she wanted, and if we didn't go number one by 265 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 4: the same time the following year, I'd leave and he 266 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 4: wouldn't have to pay me for the remainder of my contract. 267 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 4: I was putting fuel in my bike one day when 268 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 4: I got a call from a manor. She sounded very upset. 269 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,719 Speaker 4: She told me that the ABC weren't going to a 270 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 4: new Mondo, fingering they'd offer some part time show called 271 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 4: Spicks and Space. 272 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: What was that? 273 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I never heard of it. 274 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: But WS had come through with a very attractive offer. 275 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 4: At this point, a voice came through on the service 276 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 4: station PA with the man on his phone. 277 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: Please hang up. It's an offense to speak on the 278 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: phone at the bow side. I just remember that something. 279 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: Excuse me now. 280 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 4: I sort of just said, look, it's up to you, 281 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 4: but I tell you it won't be hard. You can 282 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 4: show up five to six if you want, and leave 283 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 4: it five past nine. 284 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 3: Just so you know, I don't do that as long 285 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 3: as you. 286 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 4: Show up to her credit rights. In the book, she 287 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 4: doesn't show up at five to six and doesn't leave 288 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 4: at five past nine. Eight months later, after she said yes, 289 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 4: Willie rang me and said, it looks like you're going 290 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 4: to be sticking around for a while because you jokers 291 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 4: have just gone number one. We've beaten American rosso before 292 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 4: Carl and Jackie O got to beat. 293 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: Them, so there was a big deal for us. 294 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 4: We now considered a heritage breakfast show, and we still 295 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 4: managed to hold our own ratings. 296 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: Wives with minimum marketing. 297 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 4: We've interviewed five different prime ministers, seven New South Wales premiers. 298 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 4: We've also seen four CEOs, four general managers, five different 299 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 4: program directors. 300 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: As well. 301 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 4: As I write this, Amanda and I have signed off 302 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 4: on another three years working together on radio and I 303 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 4: couldn't be happy. 304 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 3: Oh is that how your book ends? 305 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 1: Yeah? 306 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 4: Pretty, there's a little bit there, but she's well, it 307 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 4: just also says also, my agent just rang it. Apparently 308 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 4: Channel ten want me to do an audition for a 309 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 4: new travel show. 310 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: Why don't they ask Merrick, what's you know what? I'll 311 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: keep that suggestion to myself. 312 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,239 Speaker 2: You know, the fact we're still going is pretty extraordinary. 313 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 2: And that's what I love about this job and the 314 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: people who listen to us, is that twenty twenty has 315 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 2: been a radio year unlike no other. To wake up 316 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: in the morning in your city, in a year of 317 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: border closures, job losses, health fears. 318 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 3: You say, what is the mood today? 319 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 2: And it's been a privilege to be on air and 320 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 2: ride this frightening wave. 321 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: With people, with our people every day. 322 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: It's been great, been terrifying, not just now, this has 323 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: been cathartic. I fine, the radio has been a great outlet. 324 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 3: Well for us, but I hope we are that for 325 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 3: other people. 326 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: Yes, I certainly hope. 327 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 2: And I hope that when we all come back together 328 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 2: next year, we'll ride whatever wave. 329 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 3: That is too, because we're all in this together. 330 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 4: And should we have a look at the acknowledgments? What's yourn? 331 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 4: Where do I feature in your acknowledgments in your book? 332 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: Where are they at the front or the end? 333 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: The acknowledgments in the back? Acknowledge? Do you not don't 334 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: even have acknowledgments? 335 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 3: Are their photo acknowledgments? 336 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: No? The acknowledgments of the people that helped you get 337 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: to where you are. 338 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 3: I don't have that. 339 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: Well, you don't even have that. There's no thanks to 340 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: Jonesy for being a super Jonesy. 341 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 3: Well, I write that in the book. That's that. Didn't 342 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 3: you read what I wrote about acknowledgements were yours? 343 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: Well, I've got you right there acknowledgment thanks to my family. 344 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: You know that stuff. 345 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: No, I don't have it because the people I've written 346 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 2: about you, I've written it. 347 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: That's what's called. Well, you get mentioned in my acknowledgement. 348 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: Let's not fight about acknowledgments. 349 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: No, are you sure? I'll look again what you're handwriting 350 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: it in with pen? 351 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 3: I'm hand wroting it in with pen. Let's have a look. Oh, 352 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 3: here they are thanks to Jonesy. Yeah, I see it. 353 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: Hang on, that's written in pen. Give me a look 354 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: at that pencil. 355 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: It's coming out the second I leave this room. 356 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: Until next time. Goode, We'll catch you on the radio. 357 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 3: Jones High. 358 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 4: For more Jonesy and Demanded podcasts, download the free iHeartRadio 359 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 4: app baby Face. 360 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: It's one of their favorites.