FULL: Having Some Pleasure
Starting Friday's show with Double Thumbs Up before checking in on a surprisingly zen Pete, fresh from a hypnosis session designed to calm his nerves ahead of this weekend's Sydney Marathon.
Plus, we celebrate your wonderfully Useless Superpowers, build a People's Playlist featuring songs with names in the title, and continue the Sponsor a KM campaign for Pete's marathon challenge. And of course, there's a huge At Work Time Waster packed with marathon-themed band names
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Speaker 1: Patsy, what's yours this week?
Speaker 6: Yes, as per a listener's recommendation last week, I have
Speaker 6: started watching My Brilliant Career on Netflix, which is like
Speaker 6: a new adaption of a 1900 novel by Miles Franklin.
Speaker 6: We actually studied it at school, I think, in about
Speaker 6: year 11. But it was also a movie in 1979
Speaker 6: with Sam Neill and Judy Davis.
Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
Speaker 6: It was brilliant. And we watched the movie at school
Speaker 6: as well. But anyway, this is a new adaption and
Speaker 6: it's really beautifully shot in Aussie bushland. Like it's just
Speaker 6: so lovely. I can almost smell the gum trees watching it.
Speaker 6: It's fantastic. It's only a six-part series. I have to say,
Speaker 6: is it wrong of me to say I love a
Speaker 6: short season like that where you don't have to overly commit?
Speaker 2: No, I don't like it. It's just six. You put
Speaker 2: all that effort into the relationship. And he'd gone at six.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I also think you haven't got a lot
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: Oh, no.
Speaker 6: See, I don't mind it. I don't mind it because
Speaker 6: then I can move on to the.
Speaker 2: Next best thing. Ideally 12th.
Speaker 7: I was going to say, what's your eight to 12?
Speaker 2: Eight minimum. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, I'm not investing it if it's six.
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 1: Just as I get to know you, you're going to
Speaker 1: leave me.
Speaker 7: What about you, Ray?
Speaker 6: What's your ideal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Christian.
Speaker 7: I like him a bit longer because once you're in there,
Speaker 7: he's like, well, I want to stay in this world
Speaker 7: for as long as possible.
Speaker 2: It's like reading a book and you already get into
Speaker 2: it and you're saying, oh, no, I'm in the final third.
Speaker 1: And then it's all going to be over.
Speaker 2: And I go through a morning after a great TV
Speaker 2: show or a great book. I really miss that world.
Speaker 7: Yes, and how annoying is it having to find a
Speaker 7: new show? You've got to decide between all the different ones.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the worst.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 1: First world problems.
Speaker 2: How annoying is it to find a new show?
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to Google something. Or go like this.
Speaker 2: Click, click, wait.
Speaker 1: There's another billion shows.
Speaker 2: There's too much pressure.
Speaker 7: There's too much pressure.
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Speaker 1: We're doing double thumbs up. Our recommendations. Okay, mine.
Speaker 2: Brilliant TV show we are tailing through at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's called Furious. I've not seen a cat and mouse
Speaker 2: detective show like this before. Two female leads. One is
Speaker 2: an FBI detective. One is a female serial killer. It
Speaker 2: is gripping, savage, timely. It is very, very, very good.
Speaker 2: That's why a lot of people are saying this is
Speaker 2: TV show of the year. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: It's some show. I cannot recommend enough. It's called Furious.
Speaker 2: It's on Disney +. That's great. Guilty pleasure of mine,
Speaker 2: the brilliant new Reacher is back. Ludicrous. Don't you just
Speaker 2: want to see a very, very large man smashing bad
Speaker 2: people in the face and.
Speaker 1: Throwing them through the air into walls?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Every episode that happens and it pleases me.
Speaker 7: How many episodes are we talking?
Speaker 1: I've seen so far five episodes.
Speaker 2: All those family members who come in and they.
Speaker 1: Go, don't talk to your dad right now.
Speaker 2: He's with Reacher. He's with Reacher.
Speaker 7: He's with his other family.
Speaker 2: I think he's catnip for dads. In fact, I should
Speaker 2: just say, hey, dads. It's an early Father's Day gift.
Speaker 2: Our boy reaches back.
Speaker 7: Is he a spy?
Speaker 2: Your dad's favorite TV show. He's a former military cop
Speaker 2: who just drifts around. And where there's wrongdoing, suddenly, lo
Speaker 2: and behold, guess who's there? Richard. You got it, buddy.
Speaker 2: You got it. I love Sean McAuliffe. I think he's really,
Speaker 2: really is a classy, smart comedian. He's done this TV
Speaker 2: show called Sean McAuliffe's Origin Stories. And the episode I
Speaker 2: want to talk about is the one with the new
Speaker 2: king of comedy. Right now in Hollywood is someone every
Speaker 2: Australian should be very proud of, Aaron Chen. The episode
Speaker 2: with Aaron Chen is really surprising. Aaron has an act,
Speaker 2: a certain way of doing things. And so I watched
Speaker 2: it thinking, I wonder if he's going to stay in
Speaker 2: kind of character.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't.
Speaker 2: And there's a scene where they're having dinner where it
Speaker 2: actually moves Sean to tears. And then it moved me
Speaker 2: to tears as well. Just what an impact. And just
Speaker 2: how much he admired Sean McAuliffe. Cannot recommend that. It's
Speaker 2: on SBS on demand.
Speaker 1: Really good.
Speaker 7: Is that the show where he sits down to dinner
Speaker 7: with Aaron's aunt and uncle?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 7: I've seen a clip of that.
Speaker 2: It looked incredible. Watch the show. It's really, really good.
Speaker 2: And then a book I've just finished reading, which is brilliant,
Speaker 2: A Waiter in Paris. That is outstanding. It is so good. Really,
Speaker 2: really good. Cannot recommend that enough. I read it in
Speaker 2: two days flat. Brilliant memoir. Young guy trying to become
Speaker 2: a waiter in Paris. If you loved Anthony Bourdain's book,
Speaker 2: Kitchen Confidential, it's as good or.
Speaker 1: I'm going to whisper it. I think it was better.
Speaker 2: Wow. You know what?
Speaker 7: I tried to listen to the audio book of Kitchen Confidential,
Speaker 7: and the story is obviously incredible, but clearly Anthony Bourdain
Speaker 7: has no interest in reading the audio book, and he's
Speaker 7: so lackluster and has no energy.
Speaker 2: He's so bored in the audio book. Imagine being the
Speaker 2: producers that were like, because doing an audio book, it
Speaker 2: takes about three days. You better go two or three
Speaker 2: lines without fluffing up. You have to go back. I
Speaker 2: reckon none of them were brave enough to go, Anthony,
Speaker 2: I think you just fluffed up.
Speaker 1: Okay, now don't worry about Anthony, actually. I think the
Speaker 1: way you pronounce it is probably the right way.
Speaker 2: Don't bother Mr. Bourdain. No, I got it years ago.
Speaker 2: And it actually sounds like he's taking the piss. It does, no.
Speaker 2: Bloody hell, mate. I was interested in your story.
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Speaker 2: We're doing double thumbs up. Rio, you recommended a podcast
Speaker 2: this week on the show. Obviously, we've been talking a
Speaker 2: lot about the late, great Dolly Parton. And I listened
Speaker 2: to it all day. Oh, no way.
Speaker 7: Dolly Parton's America?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Fascinating. It's so interesting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I honestly knew absolutely nothing about Dolly Parton until
Speaker 7: this podcast came out in 2019.
Speaker 2: It's about six 40-minute, half-hour episodes. I burned through it
Speaker 2: like an audio book. I couldn't stop listening to it
Speaker 2: this week, and it's fascinating. I didn't know the true
Speaker 2: story about I Would Always Love You. Yes. It's one
Speaker 2: of the greatest love songs, but unlike any other love song,
Speaker 2: it's not bitter. It doesn't have a hit-the-road-jack-or-screw-you moment in it.
Speaker 2: It's a song of grace, of an ending of a
Speaker 2: relationship with no bitterness or resentment, just of grace.
Speaker 1: And she wrote it.
Speaker 2: The guy that discovered her used to be like the,
Speaker 2: he had a big country and Western TV show and
Speaker 2: the young stars he discovered, he signed up and they
Speaker 2: were in pretty dodgy ironclad contracts. Portner Wagner was the guy.
Speaker 2: She said one day, I want to leave now. She
Speaker 2: wanted to take a breakout from his camp and see
Speaker 2: if she could go out into the world as a sound.
Speaker 1: He went, no way.
Speaker 2: She went and wrote, I would always love you. as
Speaker 2: a breakup song to him. She went into his office,
Speaker 2: played it to him. It's actually giving me goosebumps, this story.
Speaker 2: You know, in a couple of years' time, we're going
Speaker 2: to see this scene on a movie, aren't we? Yes,
Speaker 2: you can see it. She plays it to him. He says,
Speaker 2: that's the greatest song you've ever written. And he lets
Speaker 2: her go.
Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
Speaker 2: Years later, he sues her for a million and was
Speaker 2: bitter and mean throughout his whole life to her.
Speaker 1: Multiple lawsuits.
Speaker 2: In this interview, in the podcast series, though, they keep
Speaker 2: trying to push Dolly. They wanted to say how angry
Speaker 2: she was at the way he treated her. And she
Speaker 2: refuses to. And in the end, the interviewer says, you know,
Speaker 2: and in the end, how did you get over his
Speaker 2: unfair treatment to you? And she said, I forgave him.
Speaker 2: She says the most important quality in life is forgiveness.
Speaker 2: That's all there is.
Speaker 1: Incredible woman of real grace.
Speaker 2: I think what's amazing about the reaction to Dolly's death,
Speaker 2: it's like, it's not just all the music and the
Speaker 2: incredible output and writing over 3,000 songs. I must have
Speaker 2: checked that on Google a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's 300. That's a hell of a lot.
Speaker 2: Writing over 3,000 songs. The big thing that I think
Speaker 2: has really affected us is her kindness and generosity.
Speaker 1: It's one thing.
Speaker 2: It's enough to become an amazing singer and writer and
Speaker 2: do that over multiple decades, run your own business empire,
Speaker 2: but when no woman had done that before. But to
Speaker 2: actually create that imagination library, I donated money to it yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's a charity she set up. that's helped over 320
Speaker 2: million kids all over the world, is something, I think
Speaker 2: she's the greatest living American person ever.
Speaker 1: 100%.
Speaker 2: I think she reminds people, it must be quite sad
Speaker 2: for America, I was thinking about this, she feels like
Speaker 2: a bridge to an America that isn't there anymore. And
Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything more, I do not
Speaker 2: want to make it political because she wasn't about that,
Speaker 2: but that's what it feels like. She was an embodiment
Speaker 2: of what America dreamt it could be.
Speaker 7: There's a great line in the podcast about her being
Speaker 7: the great unifier. And they talk about how at the concert,
Speaker 7: there's drag queens, rednecks, lesbians, construction workers, gay guys, straight people.
Speaker 7: There's everyone there and they're all getting along, all talking
Speaker 7: to each other, having a great time. And I can't
Speaker 7: think of any single other person who's had that effect.
Speaker 7: especially this was in 2019 in a very divided America.
Speaker 7: And to be able to do that and to live
Speaker 7: with such wisdom and grace and to write incredible songs.
Speaker 2: In 2017, the New York Times asked their readers, what
Speaker 2: can all Americans agree on? the number one answer was
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. Is that the greatest question and answer? Everything.
Speaker 2: The one thing, they can't politically, but the one thing
Speaker 2: they could all agree on was Dolly Parton. I think
Speaker 2: it's incredible, just the reaction to her. And the last
Speaker 2: thing that I want to say really about it this
Speaker 2: morning is that there's still a reaction to her kindness, grace,
Speaker 2: and generosity, and service. She definitely lived a life of services.
Speaker 2: Those are qualities and things that, any of us can
Speaker 2: have every single day. You don't need to have written,
Speaker 2: I would always love you and Jolene in one day.
Speaker 2: We can all be, I wrote it down the other day,
Speaker 2: be more dolly. I think we can all be a
Speaker 2: bit more dolly. Maybe we can take that into a
Speaker 2: weekend to keep that spirit going.
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Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 4: Podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian, knock off Friday. Our weekend highlight is our son
Speaker 2: is playing his bass drum at the Gold Coast show
Speaker 2: today and over the weekend. We're all very excited. He's
Speaker 2: only 12 and a half years old. What age do
Speaker 2: you stop doing the halves? Great question. You remember writing
Speaker 2: in like Christmas cards and cards to like families and
Speaker 2: your nanas and And even if you're writing off to
Speaker 2: celebrities to get an autograph, you were always counting upwards.
Speaker 5: I reckon.
Speaker 2: Now you round down. Like, Pete will never tell you
Speaker 2: his age. You're just going, I'm 40. And it tails off.
Speaker 2: He won't put a number on it, sir. He's not
Speaker 2: saying 43 and a half. Honour those years. Honour those
Speaker 2: tree rings of your life, man.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: But we count down. It's a sort of round down,
Speaker 2: you know? Whereas when you were younger, you just on
Speaker 2: a claw... Away from the 11 and more focusing on
Speaker 2: halfway to 12.
Speaker 1: Or for some of us, the three quarters even.
Speaker 2: 11 and three quarters, sir.
Speaker 7: I'm 12 this year. 11 months away, but this year.
Speaker 2: In all future correspondence now, listeners, we want to know
Speaker 2: at a half or a quarter.
Speaker 7: I don't think I have the maths.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not sure. I'm thinking my fish oils yet.
Speaker 9: 53 and a half.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. 33 and... Tell you it's gone quiet.
Speaker 1: It's the man who doesn't like to ever put a
Speaker 1: number on it. Intern Pete.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've got to write it down and then sort
Speaker 10: of carry the.
Speaker 1: Catches in his throat, doesn't he?
Speaker 2: Caught you up.
Speaker 1: Actually, it makes me think he's way older than he
Speaker 1: says at 42. It's like a Benjamin Button.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he really is. I don't look at Charlie. Petey Button.
Speaker 2: Now listen, you know, when we talk about knock-off Friday...
Speaker 2: what we're looking forward to this weekend. You've got an
Speaker 2: incredible weekend lined up. You're doing the Sydney Marathon. Good luck.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And how are you feeling now?
Speaker 2: Because yesterday after the show, we hired a master hypnotherapist
Speaker 2: for Pete to help him focus a lot of the
Speaker 2: sprinkler energy I experienced with him, working with him on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: And I was concerned that you were going to leak, actually.
Speaker 2: We all do this when we've got a big event on.
Speaker 2: You can leak out a lot of energy that you
Speaker 2: really need to preserve your so that you can use
Speaker 2: it the right way on Sunday.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 10: I think I might have started going crazy on Wednesday,
Speaker 10: which it could have been a downward slope up until Sunday,
Speaker 10: and there would have been nothing of me left come Sunday.
Speaker 2: I doubt that.
Speaker 1: I think you're tapped into some source that none of
Speaker 1: us know about.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I didn't know what was going on, but a pretty,
Speaker 8: pretty cool experience.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear it, download Wednesday's podcast.
Speaker 2: You'll hear it. Oh, no, don't. I can only describe
Speaker 2: it as a garden sprinkler. Oh, but Times Reel and
Speaker 2: I were looking at each other going, is there a
Speaker 2: strange noise?
Speaker 7: You can watch a man descend into madness in real time,
Speaker 7: which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hell of a sell for the podcast.
Speaker 2: We should put that as a warning. Hey, this is
Speaker 2: Christian here. Just a warning.
Speaker 1: You're going to be listening to a man descending into madness.
Speaker 1: In real time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If that's your thing, press play.
Speaker 4: Oh, God.
Speaker 1: But anyway, how did it go? How did the hypnotherapy go?
Speaker 2: Did it help?
Speaker 10: Okay, very skeptical as a person. Like, I was very
Speaker 10: sort of worried, like, could I even go under? Like,
Speaker 10: I'm quite a hypo person in general, right? So I
Speaker 10: was like, are you even going to be able to
Speaker 10: get me there? I met him downstairs.
Speaker 2: Very.
Speaker 10: gives an aura like just a completely different person that
Speaker 10: I've never met before.
Speaker 8: Like just he had a very calming.
Speaker 2: Sort of vibe about him.
Speaker 1: You'd hope so, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: If he's more frantic than you.
Speaker 2: Would have been in all sorts of ways. Hey, it's working. Bing, bing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and that's the thing because once he started as well,
Speaker 10: I was a bit like, is this part supposed to
Speaker 10: happen here?
Speaker 8: Is that all that sort of stuff? But in all honesty–
Speaker 8: I feel super calm.
Speaker 2: I feel zen.
Speaker 1: You sound it.
Speaker 2: I have to be honest. I was just chatting to
Speaker 2: Pete before the show. You sound incredibly grounded.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'd never been.
Speaker 8: I think I tried it years ago.
Speaker 2: It couldn't happen.
Speaker 10: But either I was hypnotized or I had the greatest
Speaker 10: 45-minute nanny nap of my life. Like I just woke
Speaker 10: up feeling. You've had a lot going on this year.
Speaker 2: And so maybe whatever happened, it's helped you because you
Speaker 2: do sound a bit more grounded today.
Speaker 10: I feel grounded and I feel he's given me some
Speaker 10: things to think about, like just in regards to when
Speaker 10: I'm out there on the run, all that.
Speaker 1: Sort of stuff.
Speaker 10: Just like, you know, how to bring myself back if
Speaker 10: things are getting out of control and all that sort
Speaker 10: of stuff.
Speaker 1: So what have you got? Breathing techniques?
Speaker 5: Breathing, yes.
Speaker 2: Any phrases?
Speaker 8: Breathing is the key. Phrases... Oh, God, there was something,
Speaker 8: but I can't remember now.
Speaker 2: But he really, really maybe buried it deep in that subconscious.
Speaker 8: He did say that to me. He said, oh, do
Speaker 8: you remember that? I said, oh, not really. And he goes, oh,
Speaker 8: hopefully you'll remember the next few.
Speaker 4: Days as.
Speaker 2: Well. Sounds like you're going to have to have another
Speaker 2: session to try and retrieve what he hypnotized you. He's
Speaker 2: never worked with such a civilized mind. You don't remember
Speaker 2: any of these words. I said them 50 times.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 8: He repeated things over and over, and now I can't remember.
Speaker 8: Joel Fogel, he is very good, though, from Melbourne.
Speaker 10: He's a very, I couldn't believe, I mean, just like
Speaker 10: he put a light in my eye at the start.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, medics do that, check someone's alive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or if they've got internal kind of brain damage.
Speaker 2: I was definitely alive. I was spending three minutes, the
Speaker 2: lights are not on with this dude. Better get the
Speaker 2: old torch out. Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 2: Bloody hell, he's barely responsive.
Speaker 10: Yeah, look, I was watching back some of the footage
Speaker 10: as well and he was, you know, doing lots of
Speaker 10: things on his phones and I think it took him
Speaker 10: a little longer.
Speaker 2: Hook you an Uber. And wrap this up.
Speaker 8: No, not dinner or something, but an incredible experience.
Speaker 1: I really hope it helps. I hope it's useful, mate.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: I loved it so much.
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Speaker 1: Question knocking off today, 2pm.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to send off the last few days of
Speaker 2: winter at a wine bar tonight.
Speaker 1: That's from Emma. Is it the last few days of winter?
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 6: First day of spring on Monday.
Speaker 1: You're kidding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: We're back on Monday.
Speaker 1: We spring into spring.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
Speaker 2: That is genuinely great news. Emma, you're not going to
Speaker 2: stay in that wine bar until Monday, are you? It
Speaker 2: ain't coming out until spring. Oh, pucks a tawny fin
Speaker 2: in there. Christian, can you ask Pete what pace is KM's?
Speaker 1: What does he want to average at? Pete, do you
Speaker 1: have an ideal pace?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 10: So I've been given a very specific thing if I
Speaker 10: want to get the three hours and 30 minutes.
Speaker 8: So I've got to hold four minutes.
Speaker 10: 50 for the first 10 Ks, and then I can
Speaker 10: move to four minutes and 55 seconds for the pucks.
Speaker 10: Up until 36Ks and then do whatever I like.
Speaker 8: Just run my head out.
Speaker 2: For the last few.
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a lick you're going to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've never really done that.
Speaker 2: So fingers crossed. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Going to have an amazing race anyway. Yeah, that's going
Speaker 1: to be good.
Speaker 10: The weather is looking perfect conditions for Sunday too.
Speaker 1: So welcome everyone to Sydney, by the way.
Speaker 8: Everyone's flying in again.
Speaker 4: Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1: I thought I was joking again.
Speaker 2: How many welcomes?
Speaker 1: Look at me, I'm going to call you Welcome Pete.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, I'm happy with that because even yesterday, more
Speaker 10: tourists arriving, people getting their last little runs in.
Speaker 2: It's Sydney.
Speaker 1: We have them here every day in Melbourne. They're coming
Speaker 1: from all over the place.
Speaker 7: How do you know they're tourists?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 1: He thinks every foreigner is a tourist.
Speaker 7: He's here for the marathon. So I'm a third generation immigrant.
Speaker 2: Olivia, mate. Have you got your assets? This weekend, Christian,
Speaker 2: we're going to a Friends mob-themed birthday party. How do
Speaker 2: you know it's mob-themed? They might just be in the mob.
Speaker 2: Patsy calls us every weekend. We keep saying, that's not
Speaker 2: a theme, Pats. It's not cosplay.
Speaker 1: It's real play. Christian, this is Darren, my weekend highlight.
Speaker 2: Going to see The Lion King stage show over the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's an amazing show. Christian, knocking off at 4.30 today,
Speaker 2: the highlight of the weekend. We're watching Carlton Flog, your beloved. Darren,
Speaker 2: we don't need to listen to him. It's like crazy fog.
Speaker 2: Get some hypnotherapy.
Speaker 1: Patsy, what are you up to this weekend?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm running my own marathon this weekend. I'll let
Speaker 6: you know if anyone wants to sponsor me. I am
Speaker 6: getting Audrey ready, packed off for camp, a big, massive
Speaker 6: hiking camp. Another camp? No, this is like the same
Speaker 6: camp I've been banging on about for weeks, Rio.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry. We've all been on our own honestly with
Speaker 2: this one. Just without the seven years with Chalice Theron.
Speaker 6: She brought the backpack home she's got to take.
Speaker 2: You would think she's doing the Gobi Desert or something.
Speaker 2: She's staying in a car park in Frankston.
Speaker 6: She's not. They're camping in the wilderness. She's terrified. But
Speaker 6: she brought the pack home yesterday. It's about the size
Speaker 6: of a shoebox she's got to put her clothes in,
Speaker 6: and that's going to be very difficult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're giving a definitive sort of.
Speaker 2: Small things that don't bring too much.
Speaker 6: No, no. And we've got to go this weekend and
Speaker 6: get some dehydrated food because we've got to take everything.
Speaker 1: Oh, God, I remember all that. Those packets of stuff.
Speaker 6: Food, the whole lot.
Speaker 2: So we'll go. I found some in the cupboard the
Speaker 2: other day and I was home alone. That was dinner.
Speaker 2: I was camping.
Speaker 1: That's just sad.
Speaker 2: Doing it hard. Doing it hard.
Speaker 1: Netflix.
Speaker 2: Netflix and camp.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, so we'll be banging down the door at
Speaker 6: Kathmandu and all those stores this weekend.
Speaker 1: See you at Anaconda.
Speaker 6: Or anaconda, yeah.
Speaker 5: Either or, all.
Speaker 1: Ria, what do you want to do this weekend?
Speaker 7: My friends have taken a year off to build their
Speaker 7: own house.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, you see those couples who clearly aren't together
Speaker 2: anymore on the TV show that's called Grand Designs. Grand
Speaker 2: Designs has broken up more relationships than any other thing
Speaker 2: in modern life. If you see Kevin MacLeod outside the
Speaker 2: front of your house, shut the door. We've got company
Speaker 2: the wrong kind. MacLeod's here. Kevin's here. But Grand Designs,
Speaker 2: you always see that last shot. where they're like six
Speaker 2: feet apart. Well, yeah, you know, and then you can
Speaker 2: tell that they've just had enough of each other. The
Speaker 2: project always overruns.
Speaker 7: So we're going to go over there, try to save
Speaker 7: their marriage. And we're doing a working bee with about
Speaker 7: a dozen of our mates to go and help them.
Speaker 2: Well, where were you a year ago? They could have
Speaker 2: done more out six months ago, nine months ago. What
Speaker 2: are you going to exactly help with moving a plant pot?
Speaker 2: LAUGHTER Do the outdoor seating. You've waited out a year.
Speaker 2: They must have been through hell. Where are our friends?
Speaker 2: Our old mate Rios is here for the victory lap.
Speaker 7: But even the victory lap, I don't know what I
Speaker 7: can offer.
Speaker 2: I actually have no... Vibes. That's all.
Speaker 4: Vibes.
Speaker 7: There's an Excel spreadsheet and it says like.
Speaker 2: Cool refreshments.
Speaker 7: Cool, yeah, maybe making some like.
Speaker 2: Sing them a jingle.
Speaker 9: Nice.
Speaker 7: Do you need any radio jingles made up?
Speaker 2: There you go. That's the extent. The vibe goes here.
Speaker 2: Everyone needs to cheer squad. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's all.
Speaker 2: That's really all.
Speaker 7: I have no life skills, nothing to build a house without.
Speaker 6: You couldn't do that. We had to get old mate Jack.
Speaker 7: To trim the wood for your patio at the apartment.
Speaker 2: I think that man went crazy trying to do that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that home reno? Every Monday, I dread
Speaker 2: asking him. I had the weekend going, oh, he's working
Speaker 2: on the reno. Your poor friend's taken a year off
Speaker 2: to do that. What an amazing experience, though. Yeah, they've
Speaker 2: actually done so well. Is it done?
Speaker 7: It looks incredible. They've done one of the slanted roofs
Speaker 7: as well, like a sloped roof. It's majestic.
Speaker 2: But, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'm just going to be hovering around while other people
Speaker 7: work mostly, I think.
Speaker 2: Sounds familiar to this show.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Now we're all up to speed with the superheroes, the.
Speaker 1: Multiverse, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2: Give me Odysseus. That's my multiverse. That's my kind of superhero.
Speaker 2: A middle-aged man falling apart. Can't work out where he lives.
Speaker 2: Somewhere around here somewhere. We've all had nights like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I moved. Sorry, strong suburb. A
Speaker 2: little bit dusty. This morning I want to talk about
Speaker 2: your very useless superpower. I have one which the family
Speaker 2: are always amazed by. I can pick up a packed
Speaker 2: suitcase from my wife and my two daughters, and I
Speaker 2: can tell you to a K roughly what that weight is.
Speaker 2: Before we get the digital one, I go, this is 22.
Speaker 2: The human scale. Yeah, I know. The human scale. I
Speaker 2: could just work at the airport. Just picking up old
Speaker 2: nunner's bags. 19, you're fine. Go on through. 24, you're
Speaker 2: going to need the heavy bag tag. And you know it.
Speaker 2: You knew it's over.
Speaker 7: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I would love to test this. It's the only time
Speaker 2: my family are impressed. Wow. How does he do it?
Speaker 7: How do you think he developed such a superpower?
Speaker 1: I think it's something you're born with.
Speaker 2: I think it's something you're born with. At my eulogy,
Speaker 2: talk about this, please. Don't mention the radio show. Talk
Speaker 2: more about the human scale.
Speaker 6: We'll weigh your casket. We need you there.
Speaker 2: Do you know what? We should test it out one
Speaker 2: day on the show. Let's pack some suitcases. Let me
Speaker 2: just pick them up. It is so useless.
Speaker 1: It only works really within the house.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because at the airport, you've got all the scales everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to stream this live for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh, shoot, shoot. Can you speak to KO Sports? Start
Speaker 2: to negotiate the rights for that. Great idea. Speak to
Speaker 2: sales right now. Stop working on the one-pager. Patsy, what's
Speaker 2: your use of superpower?
Speaker 6: I have an uncanny knack of always finding a shopping
Speaker 6: trolley that isn't locked. Because I've never got a gold
Speaker 6: coin anyway.
Speaker 1: That's actually useful.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: I always sniff them out. There's always one in the
Speaker 6: turnstile that has no lock on it. And I always
Speaker 6: get it, which is just as well. I never have
Speaker 6: a gold coin. And I always, I get those little
Speaker 6: trolley tokens, but I always lose them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: Or I leave them in another bag.
Speaker 1: That's a sign you're an adult, isn't it? You've got
Speaker 1: those tokens.
Speaker 6: But I always get one. And off I go into
Speaker 6: the supermarket.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 7: Hey, life hack with that. If you are really struggling,
Speaker 7: there are always, always free ones. You know where you
Speaker 7: put them next to the cars in the car park?
Speaker 7: Because everyone just chucks them in there.
Speaker 2: They just throw them in there and leave.
Speaker 1: Maybe like pants.
Speaker 2: Not a returner.
Speaker 7: If you sniff around there, you'll always find a loose
Speaker 7: shopping trolley.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're right.
Speaker 1: You're right. By the way, how smug as a grown-up
Speaker 1: do you feel when you take your bag in?
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: You turn up with that bag.
Speaker 2: Bag, bag. Yeah, you've got the bag within the bag, actually,
Speaker 2: because it could be a two-bagger. It could be a
Speaker 2: three-bagger shop list. Another use of scale, I can look
Speaker 2: at shopping lists and go, this is a three-bagger. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's very useful. This is a three-bagger, Sarah. I'm going
Speaker 2: to take four just so I'm stress-free shopping, but this
Speaker 2: is not a one-bag situation.
Speaker 7: I always take an extra one because it's the worst.
Speaker 2: And then if I see this is a four or five-bagger,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not doing that. I've got no time
Speaker 2: for this beer, Sarah.
Speaker 1: That's on an online order.
Speaker 2: Online orders. Online, I only go over four. It's an
Speaker 2: online order. Let some of the young kids struggle with
Speaker 2: this young man's game there.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Patsy, what is your Chemist Warehouse product of the week?
Speaker 6: Mine this week, I can't believe the amount of stuff
Speaker 6: that Chemist Warehouse has.
Speaker 1: Believe it, Pats.
Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness. Every time I go, there's always something
Speaker 6: different there. And this week, I found that they have Clarins,
Speaker 6: which is a beautiful skincare range.
Speaker 1: I've got my wife loves Clarins.
Speaker 6: I've used it since I was sort of like in
Speaker 6: my 20s, and they have Clarins now. They have some
Speaker 6: of the Clarins stuff, which is just the most beautiful
Speaker 6: sort of botanical foundations and stuff.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm using– It just smells– I love the Clarins stuff.
Speaker 6: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: My wife has always loved that.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's like a body mist.
Speaker 2: What's it called?
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, the fragrance.
Speaker 6: It's a classic. The red bottle.
Speaker 1: You know that one?
Speaker 6: Yes, in the big round bottle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, I've always used their Beauty Flash Balm, which is.
Speaker 2: And it shows.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2: Am I growing today?
Speaker 1: Whenever you see Pats, she's been embalmed.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Don't say that.
Speaker 2: No, sorry, balm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I must have misheard her.
Speaker 2: How dare you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just getting ready for the big off. The next journey.
Speaker 6: No, I use this Beauty Flash Balm every morning. It's
Speaker 6: in my makeup kit. And what it does, it just
Speaker 6: gives you, you put it on top of your moisturizer.
Speaker 6: You can even mix it in with your foundation, like
Speaker 6: your makeup and stuff. And it just gives you a
Speaker 6: nice cool boost.
Speaker 1: You write this down, Ria, mix it in with your foundation, mate,
Speaker 1: because I notice sometimes you don't mix that foundation.
Speaker 7: I put it under the moisturizer.
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter. You can go under or over.
Speaker 2: Proper way to have a cup of tea, proper way
Speaker 2: to do that foundation.
Speaker 6: But it just gives you a bit of a pick-me-up
Speaker 6: in the morning, and it's nice and cool when you're
Speaker 6: really tired. So mums will know this. It's a classic.
Speaker 6: It's Beauty Flash Balm, and it's so cheap.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's sexist.
Speaker 1: What about us dads? Well, yeah, Chris sometimes uses it.
Speaker 2: I need a flash balm.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I need a flash balm in the morning.
Speaker 6: Well, you'd love it. In fact, all the team would
Speaker 6: love it because it gives you a nice little pick-up
Speaker 6: in the morning. You know, it wakes you up a bit.
Speaker 1: I'd say the team are 20 years younger than us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They don't need it yet. No, I used to use
Speaker 1: it in my 20s. Water's fine for them. They don't
Speaker 1: need anything. That's why I look so good now.
Speaker 2: They've got that unlimited creatine being produced in their collagen
Speaker 2: oozing out their pores. It's the rest of us dry
Speaker 2: lizard people that need the balm. Leave our balm.
Speaker 7: Leave some balm for us.
Speaker 2: Leave some balm for.
Speaker 1: Us, young'uns.
Speaker 6: You won't be all scaly if you use Clarence Beauty Flash.
Speaker 6: Trust me, I love it.
Speaker 2: All right, these useless superpowers are brilliant. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for sending them in. This is a great one. Christian,
Speaker 2: my useless superpower. I can get the lettuce in the
Speaker 2: bag within two seconds.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: You know when you're just trying to squish it back
Speaker 1: in and it's arms like, no! Don't get in there.
Speaker 2: That's exactly how it goes. Christian, my use of superpower,
Speaker 2: changing toilet rolls. It doesn't matter where I am. It's
Speaker 2: always me who is the person.
Speaker 1: Same here. Change the loo rolls. My house, my sister's house,
Speaker 1: my best friend's house, my parents' house, friend's house.
Speaker 2: Public toilets. It's always me. Good morning, Brian and Sydney.
Speaker 2: This is the show. We'll say good luck to Pete Rio,
Speaker 2: I had a similar conversation with my group of mates.
Speaker 1: We've been helping them move house.
Speaker 2: Simply providing lunch and reminding people to drink water can
Speaker 2: go a long way on these working bee weekends.
Speaker 7: That is what I'll do.
Speaker 2: Christian, if you have a friend with a 3D printer,
Speaker 2: they can print you off trolley keys.
Speaker 1: Anthony, I don't know what kind of guys you're hanging
Speaker 1: out with.
Speaker 2: I don't have anyone in my friendship group who has
Speaker 2: a 3D printer.
Speaker 1: And I don't think any of.
Speaker 2: Our listeners will. I don't know if we've got anyone
Speaker 2: listening who's got a domestic. We have one here.
Speaker 8: We have one at the radio station.
Speaker 1: At home, you're not going to have a 3D printer.
Speaker 2: Why does a radio station need a radio printer?
Speaker 10: I don't know, but one day I needed a guitar
Speaker 10: pick and we could not find anywhere.
Speaker 8: So the tech went and made one for me.
Speaker 2: What would you need with a guitar pick?
Speaker 8: I was playing the guitar.
Speaker 2: Good answer.
Speaker 1: An actually good answer.
Speaker 2: Touche. Thank you.
Speaker 1: What yet unknown bit is.
Speaker 2: Working for us around the corner that is Pete with
Speaker 2: a guitar?
Speaker 1: Acoustic Depler.
Speaker 8: Unplugged.
Speaker 1: Unhinged.
Speaker 2: Unplugged.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 2: Go on.
Speaker 4: Podcast.
Speaker 2: Big weekend. Sidney Mouthen and our man, Intern Pete, is running. Yes.
Speaker 2: He's talking to himself live in his station toilets right now.
Speaker 2: It's part of his hypnotherapy he's at.
Speaker 1: Pete, back in the room.
Speaker 2: Back in the room. Here, here. So yesterday we got Pete,
Speaker 2: a very good hypnotherapist that we've used before on the show.
Speaker 2: If you're interested, he's a master hypnotherapist, Joel Fogel. You
Speaker 2: can find him on The Grams. Joel Fogel, hypnotist. How
Speaker 2: did you get on? Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Do you feel different? You sounded today a bit more chilled.
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely more chilled. Felt it.
Speaker 10: I was very sceptical because some people call me a bit.
Speaker 8: Of a hypo sort of person, a bit hyperactive.
Speaker 2: Who the hell? Who is who?
Speaker 8: Quite strange.
Speaker 10: So I did worry, would I be able to get
Speaker 10: there or not? And I thought I was under probably
Speaker 10: for a few minutes, but it was about 45 minutes
Speaker 10: that I was actually under.
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 10: And he also said this, he goes, you went very,
Speaker 10: very deep. Like as in like, we looked at the
Speaker 10: footage back as well and I'm just slouching, like just
Speaker 10: fully asleep, but just in this deep, I mean, you've
Speaker 10: had it done before. It was just, I could hear
Speaker 10: what he was saying and repeating things and bits and pieces.
Speaker 1: But you're somewhere else, aren't you?
Speaker 8: Totally somewhere else indeed. So, and he's very, it was just.
Speaker 1: Being out of this world.
Speaker 2: I wish I could be hypnotized every night to go
Speaker 2: to sleep because actually you, one thing you get right,
Speaker 2: is a very nourishing, like the greatest nap ever. You
Speaker 2: come out feeling very, very different. You actually experience, oh,
Speaker 2: this is who I'd be if I was fully rested.
Speaker 2: I've always wondered what that would feel like. It's a
Speaker 2: shame you just can't have that five or six nights
Speaker 2: a week. And it's a shame for the people around you.
Speaker 2: I might hire Joel to sit in a chair in
Speaker 2: the corner of my bedroom every night.
Speaker 1: Hector ties me, Joel.
Speaker 2: It would be so good.
Speaker 8: I just think, yeah, I feel so fresh.
Speaker 10: I know, again, I do apologise for Wednesday's show.
Speaker 1: That was a very different theatre.
Speaker 2: You don't need to. I was just very, very great.
Speaker 2: There's no point you needed whatsoever. You've actually got a
Speaker 2: big thing going on. To be fair, you've had a
Speaker 2: real life quake in your show. Obviously, some of you
Speaker 2: will appreciate, you know, intern Pete.
Speaker 1: How many years were you with Carl and Jackie O?
Speaker 8: Almost 13 years.
Speaker 2: Long, long time. Long time to be with a very big, crazy, troubled,
Speaker 2: radio show and you know now we've picked you up
Speaker 2: on the free transfer market and happy to provide like
Speaker 2: uh i guess it's like a lot of those wildlife
Speaker 2: sanctuaries a former performing tiger yeah yeah that's right now
Speaker 2: doesn't need to perform anymore actually a bit though actually
Speaker 2: a bit though pete it is.
Speaker 10: No no you're absolutely i was thinking about this after
Speaker 10: this yesterday because it was probably the most relaxed i've
Speaker 10: actually been all year because it has been i'll be
Speaker 10: honest with you absolute turmoil like yeah um just from
Speaker 10: a work perspective, the craziest year of my life ever.
Speaker 8: And I'm really happy in this new home that I've
Speaker 8: got here.
Speaker 2: Like I've never been.
Speaker 1: We love having you as part of our family, Pete.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 8: I really love being here. So thank you so much.
Speaker 10: And just all the opportunities and the support you're giving
Speaker 10: me for Sunday's marathon is just.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: I think it's an incredible thing to do.
Speaker 2: And here's what I want. All the brights is out
Speaker 2: this morning. I want us to be with Pete every
Speaker 2: step of the way. He is going to be running
Speaker 2: it alone. It's an incredible thing to do. And all
Speaker 2: the other 40,000 people are doing it, uh, this Sunday.
Speaker 2: And then in October, we've got the big Melbourne Marathon
Speaker 2: as well. It's an incredible thing to watch someone and
Speaker 2: cheer them on. So what I want us to do
Speaker 2: is we're dedicating every single K to one of you.
Speaker 2: I think this will help motivate Pete. It breaks it
Speaker 2: down a K at a time of the 42 and
Speaker 2: it personalises it. You know, you are part of this
Speaker 2: family of ours that we're building up every single morning
Speaker 2: on the show, The Bright Side of the Dial. So
Speaker 2: I think it'd be a really nice thing to help
Speaker 2: Pete is that every single K that he's about to start,
Speaker 2: It's somebody's name somewhere. It might be a family. And
Speaker 2: I think it makes it closer to your heart to
Speaker 2: remind you, that you're part of something bigger, Pete. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8: And, yeah, again, good luck to everyone.
Speaker 10: I'm going to name all them during the run, whether
Speaker 10: it's a scout group or I think there was Spat,
Speaker 10: someone called Spat the Cat or something.
Speaker 2: Splat. Splat, sorry. He's waiting for you at K13, mate.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for him.
Speaker 2: Don't get that wrong. You know I'm upset, Splat the Cat,
Speaker 2: or you'll be splat at the end of the race, mate.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 10: I don't want to sound fussy, but can we have
Speaker 10: no hard-pronouncing names, please, because I don't want to muck
Speaker 10: up anyone.
Speaker 2: Just white people, please. Oh, no, no. No.
Speaker 7: No, there's funky foreign names.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't mean it like that.
Speaker 1: And you're running for One Nation.
Speaker 6: Aren't you?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Just Wayne's, Daryl's, please.
Speaker 8: You've taken my words out of context.
Speaker 2: Well, you said it, mate. I mean, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: I did too. My bad. Maybe he needs to get
Speaker 2: you back with Joel. Sorry, Hasan. I'm not going to happen.
Speaker 2: Can you make him a bit less racist, please?
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 10: We will.
Speaker 2: Gladly take it. So would you take Christian, or is
Speaker 2: that too much of a hard name for you? No,
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's fine. He gets my name wrong sometimes as well.
Speaker 1: I called you Christian the first time.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: There's so much.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: In turn, Pete, doing the Sydney Marathon this weekend, and
Speaker 2: we're dedicating every single one of the 42Ks. Christian, can
Speaker 2: I have K3? I'm a volunteer also for the Sydney Marathon.
Speaker 2: I want to sponsor it, dedicate it for all the
Speaker 2: fellow volunteers. We have to start shifts at 3 a.m.
Speaker 2: to get there in time to make sure the marathon
Speaker 2: runs smoothly for everyone on the day. Kylie, thank you
Speaker 2: very much for what you're doing. Look out for Pete. Now, Christian,
Speaker 2: the marathon is actually 42.195 Ks. Can I have the
Speaker 2: last 195 metres? Yes, Stephen.
Speaker 10: Moonhole.
Speaker 2: Okay. Good. That's going to be maybe the hardest bit. Yes.
Speaker 2: 195 metres.
Speaker 1: He's struggling with that.
Speaker 2: No, no. I've actually worked out where.
Speaker 8: It's from Alan Jones's house to the finish line.
Speaker 2: Not the name to mention today. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just that building there near the Aria restaurant. Probably
Speaker 8: should have just said Aria restaurant.
Speaker 2: Aria restaurant.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Oh, well. You'll even learn. Okay, so we're giving away
Speaker 2: K's on his, the hypnotherapy didn't work. So a lot
Speaker 2: of you got very different reasons for why you want
Speaker 2: to dedicate a K. And this is a lovely one
Speaker 2: from Sonia and My best friend went through this the
Speaker 2: last couple of years with their dad. Christian, I just
Speaker 2: sponsored and turned PM off my dad, Roger, who is
Speaker 2: late-onset Alzheimer's. And just so that people can know that
Speaker 2: exercise is one of the best ways to beat Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: It is like 45%. It reduces your chance of getting
Speaker 2: Alzheimer's by around 45% regular exercise. It is really important. Christian,
Speaker 2: it's heartbreaking and it's such an insidious disease. It is.
Speaker 2: My best friend just went through this the last couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. The more we can shine a light
Speaker 2: on how to avoid and best push back, which is
Speaker 2: why I'd love if Pete can dedicate a K to
Speaker 2: my great dad, Roger. Absolutely can. Sonia, I'm sending love
Speaker 2: to you and your dad as well. Pete, you all
Speaker 2: right there? It's Roger. Roger.
Speaker 8: Easy to pronounce.
Speaker 2: Perfect. Got it.
Speaker 1: Jane, let's go to Jane here. You don't make it easy,
Speaker 1: does it?
Speaker 2: It can be easy. Sorry.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just turn it off for a bit.
Speaker 2: Jane, the morning... I didn't do that earlier. It's always
Speaker 2: an option. You're like a subs bench. Doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be out and over for the whole game. Jane's on
Speaker 2: the line.
Speaker 1: Jane, good morning.
Speaker 2: Jane? Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 1: Jane, you want to dedicate a K? Which one would
Speaker 1: you love, Jane?
Speaker 3: I'm happy with any K because I have never, ever
Speaker 3: done a marathon, and this way I can say that
Speaker 3: I've done a marathon.
Speaker 1: LAUGHTER Then I might grab one as well.
Speaker 2: Great idea.
Speaker 1: Jane, have a lovely weekend. Thanks for calling me.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, bye.
Speaker 1: Let's go to John.
Speaker 2: Good morning, John.
Speaker 5: Yes, 18 is my good luck number, and I wish Pete,
Speaker 5: intern Pete DePeller, I think that's his name.
Speaker 2: It is. Yeah, well done.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir. All the luck in the world. I mean,
Speaker 5: barely any of us can walk 10 Ks, let alone
Speaker 5: run 42 Ks in the prep to do it. Representing
Speaker 5: our favorite radio station. Best of luck.
Speaker 1: He's our representative.
Speaker 2: Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John. Lovely words to have a
Speaker 1: lovely weekend.
Speaker 2: Lovely chilling words. I'll take that to my grave. No,
Speaker 2: my bed tonight. Book me in to see Joel ASAP.
Speaker 1: Can you? Saskia, good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Saskia.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. And which K would you want
Speaker 2: dedicated to yourself?
Speaker 9: Well, it's actually for my husband, and I would love
Speaker 9: the 20th kilometre for two reasons. Firstly, it's about to
Speaker 9: be our 20th wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 9: But my husband, thank you. My husband was due to
Speaker 9: run the Gold Coast Marathon last year, and sorry, Paul,
Speaker 9: but being 50, his body just decided.
Speaker 9: It just gave up like literally a couple of weeks before.
Speaker 2: Oh, no.
Speaker 1: So he'd done all the hard yards, all the training.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Oh, he must have been devastated.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 9: He had his ticket. We were ready to go. So,
Speaker 9: intern Pete, I would love it if you could run
Speaker 9: that kilometre for my husband who is still trying to recover.
Speaker 2: Oh, with honour. Absolutely. What's his name?
Speaker 9: His name's Paul.
Speaker 5: Paul.
Speaker 2: Okay. Lovely.
Speaker 1: We'll definitely do that. Saskia, have a lovely weekend. Thanks
Speaker 1: for your call.
Speaker 9: Thank you all.
Speaker 2: Now, Pete, just want to play this to you. Maggie
Speaker 2: was a lovely woman that called the other day, a Spartan.
Speaker 2: Maggie is in her 70s. She's done 10 Melbourne Marathons.
Speaker 2: She knows what she's talking about. She's left you what is...
Speaker 2: a really inspirational pep talk have a listen.
Speaker 3: To this hi intern Pete Spartan Maggie here again look
Speaker 3: I just wanted to touch base with you before you
Speaker 3: undertake the Sydney marathon on Sunday most important person that
Speaker 3: you're running against is yourself dig deep put the photo
Speaker 3: of your mum into your pocket Then put one foot
Speaker 3: in front of the other and get this job done.
Speaker 6: Good luck.
Speaker 3: Drink as you go. And don't forget to throw your
Speaker 3: arms up for the photo at the finish. And take
Speaker 3: no prisoners, Pete. Then come back safe to your gold family.
Speaker 3: This is Maggie signing out.
Speaker 1: Isn't that lovely? We've got the kindest listeners in the world. Maggie,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2: Did that help, Pete?
Speaker 8: Thank you, Maggie.
Speaker 2: That was beautiful.
Speaker 8: I got goosebumps, honestly.
Speaker 1: That is amazing.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Up for grabs on a time wasted day for the
Speaker 2: best in show. $ 250 worth of Funday Natural Sweets. No
Speaker 2: added sugar. 100% tasty. Loads of great flavours. Head of
Speaker 2: the marathon this weekend. We're looking for your marathon bands.
Speaker 2: Oldest person to do a marathon was over 100 years old.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
Speaker 1: Oh, is that Pete's actual age?
Speaker 2: No. Look, I ain't buying 42, mate, okay? I've seen
Speaker 2: you up close behind the nips and tucks.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I reckon there's 20 more on that. I'm going to
Speaker 2: have you carbon dated next week. All right, marathon bands.
Speaker 2: Twisted blister. That's gold. Go vest. Silver?
Speaker 1: Need Some Water Boys.
Speaker 4: Gold.
Speaker 1: And John Cougar Runner's Cramp.
Speaker 2: Gold plus. Wow.
Speaker 1: What have you got, Rio?
Speaker 2: Marathon Bands.
Speaker 7: The Gibb Brothers are doing well.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they're doing.
Speaker 7: The PBGs.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, that's what I was trying to find, a PB1.
Speaker 2: Well done, Gold.
Speaker 7: Kate Sobrano's got a new pair of Asics for the race.
Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
Speaker 7: She's Kate Kayano.
Speaker 2: My whole family have got those. Gold.
Speaker 7: And ELO, they need some hydration.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: Their electrolyte orchestra.
Speaker 1: Obvious as anything. We could all see it coming over
Speaker 1: the horizon.
Speaker 2: No, we could.
Speaker 1: All right, what have you got?
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Time waste today is Marathon Band's Best in Show, $ 250 worth.
Speaker 1: Of Funday Natural Sweets. You ready to mark Rio?
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Transvision Cramp.
Speaker 2: Oh, gold.
Speaker 1: Very good. Nike and the Mechanics.
Speaker 2: Silver.
Speaker 1: Madame Tracy. Garbage.
Speaker 2: Bags.
Speaker 10: Silver.
Speaker 1: Enduran. Duran.
Speaker 2: Oh, very good.
Speaker 1: American Giants, you know.
Speaker 4: Yes, gold.
Speaker 1: Old Bruce Spring in his step.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 1: Good. Starting Guns and Roses.
Speaker 2: Silver.
Speaker 1: The Cranberries.
Speaker 2: Gold.
Speaker 1: Talc Powder Vigor.
Speaker 2: Silver Plus.
Speaker 1: Tracy Chapthighs. Limpin Park.
Speaker 2: Silver Plus. Cold Spray. Oh, right. Gold.
Speaker 1: Alana's finished yet. That's great.
Speaker 2: That is good. Mick Jogger. Silver Plus.
Speaker 1: The B42s. Clever.
Speaker 2: Silver. The Goo Goo Gels.
Speaker 4: Gold.
Speaker 1: Donner Runner.
Speaker 7: Gold.
Speaker 1: Cardi B hitting the wall.
Speaker 5: Bronze.
Speaker 9: Bronze.
Speaker 1: John, that's Farman. Amazing.
Speaker 2: Gold plus. There's a Daryl Braithwaite coming up in a
Speaker 2: bit as well, but I do like John, that's Farman.
Speaker 1: Tim Corrigan, very good. Daryl Braithwaite, wait for me.
Speaker 2: Silver. Not as good as the John, that's Farman. That's
Speaker 2: going to take some beating. Cyprus up the hill.
Speaker 4: Gold.
Speaker 2: Always hard.
Speaker 1: Make sure you wear zinc, Floyd.
Speaker 6: Bronze.
Speaker 1: So runners trots a lot.
Speaker 2: Silver. Do a lapper. Gold. Wow. Brilliant.
Speaker 1: Mick T, well done. Nick Cave and Bad Knees.
Speaker 2: Silver.
Speaker 1: Sia at the finish line.
Speaker 2: Silver plus. Kenny Joggins.
Speaker 5: Gold.
Speaker 1: And Lactic Monkeys.
Speaker 2: Very good, too. Gold.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Who is the winner, Rio? Is it John Thusfar, man?
Speaker 2: Of course it is. God is. Well done, Tim Corrigan.
Speaker 2: You are the winner.
Speaker 1: Brilliant work. All right. So next week is about one thing.
Speaker 2: And I really want us to celebrate and elevate what
Speaker 2: is the most underwhelming event of the year, Father's Day.
Speaker 1: It's a non-event.
Speaker 2: This weekend, as you're going around doing your shopping and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, you'll notice the lackluster nod. It's a
Speaker 2: nod to Father's Day. You know, I said I was
Speaker 2: in a clothing store this week, and they had a
Speaker 2: table for Father's Day gifts that was three T-shirts.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 1: Cream, brown, and black. These are normal T-shirts just shoved
Speaker 1: over here.
Speaker 2: Showing what?
Speaker 1: The emotional range of dad? Cream, brown, black. That's the
Speaker 1: emotional range of an Aussie dad.
Speaker 2: No, we deserve more. You go into any of the supermarkets.
Speaker 2: Father's Day cards. They're right by the people offering you
Speaker 2: piano lessons and guitar lessons. There's only ever two choice
Speaker 2: of cards. The old cricket bat or the old leather ball.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. We say no, not on this show. Dads,
Speaker 2: I've got you. We're going to look after the dads
Speaker 2: next week because we are searching for... Australia's toughest dad, mentally, physically, sexually,
Speaker 2: and spiritually. I said one of those just to wake
Speaker 2: up the Chuckle Sisters because we were talking to each other.
Speaker 2: Then they just stopped in their tracks. It's a new
Speaker 2: thing I'm going to do once a show. They're listening now.
Speaker 2: Head to the gold website, dot com dot au. Register
Speaker 2: your dad. And dads, nominate yourself. You probably have to.
Speaker 2: Head to thegoldwebsite.com.au. Register your dad or dad. Nominate yourself.
Speaker 2: And dads, you will not be underserved by this show. Dads,
Speaker 2: we see you. Thanks to Harvey Norman. Great price. Fire
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Speaker 2: burner barbecue. It's what we're talking about. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Speaker 2: This is great.
Speaker 1: This is high-level dadding. Why wander out there and turn
Speaker 1: it on?
Speaker 2: Get your phone out.
Speaker 7: Call your steak.
Speaker 1: Yes, come on. You're not done yet.
Speaker 2: Large 71 are you writing these down dads large 71
Speaker 2: get the tape get that dad tape measure out that
Speaker 2: you got in that drawer with all the spare batteries
Speaker 2: large so why do i need the dimensions producers they
Speaker 2: get it then they go how big is this thing
Speaker 2: anyway that's what you win Have a great weekend. Pete,
Speaker 2: good luck Sunday. I'll see you at the finish line, buddy.
Speaker 2: You've got this, Pete. Good luck, Pete. Thank you, guys.