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Like when you go to a restaurant, do
1:03
you commend the chef
1:05
if you thought it was nice? Often hard to
1:07
find the chef, I reckon, but I have said,
1:09
I stuck my head in there and said, oh,
1:12
if there's a window, that was fantastic, you know what
1:14
I mean? I reckon a bit of... I don't think
1:16
they get enough, do they? No, they don't, because they're often hidden
1:18
away in like a basement or... Yeah, and
1:21
I think they do appreciate it. They don't take it for
1:23
granted.
1:24
No, because, yeah, you're right. But
1:26
what level do you go down to? So you
1:29
start at restaurant? Yes, you would. Definitely,
1:31
definitely. Down from that would be a... Cafe.
1:34
Or function? Function. A
1:37
buffet function sort of thing.
1:39
Would you commend the people you would?
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I mean, I do a lot of functions, and
1:44
sometimes the food's fantastic, and you
1:46
go, this is great, this food, you know, but
1:48
they're so far away from the actual physical
1:51
place. They're down corridors
1:53
and stuff. How low would you
1:56
go with your commending of the chef? Oh,
1:58
chicken shop. Is there a cut off?
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fish and ship shop. So you would not? Right.
2:02
No I'd go there. So you would have fish
2:04
and ships out the front of the shop
2:06
and then go back in and have a word to the chef. The
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old Greek lady. Yeah
2:12
hang on. I want a cheap
2:14
sense of fish. Would
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you? Yeah I think well.
2:18
I don't think you would. You know what
2:21
I would often do the next time we go in there
2:23
give them a compliment. I had these fish
2:25
and ships and I had an iPhone with someone.
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I go
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this, hey this
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chicken, this chicken George Grey,
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the chicken was fantastic. Loud enough for them to
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hear. Yeah I know you'd say it to them directly. This
2:38
chicken last time was fantastic. Oh right. So we're
2:40
looking forward to it. Then it makes them on their game.
2:42
So you would go as low as a fish and ship shop. Yeah definitely.
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Okay. Would you go McDonald's? No.
2:50
Because say the fifteen year old.
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Hey nice work on the chills today buddy.
2:55
Yeah yeah yeah. Well what have you done? I
2:57
was up in Sydney staying
3:00
with my brother Neil and we had
3:02
lunch with one of his
3:04
boys Nick. I've met one
3:06
of them. Which one have I met at the cake shop? I've met
3:09
Pat. Good looking young man. Yes. Like
3:11
you thirty years ago. Exactly.
3:13
Maybe fifty. Yeah yeah exactly.
3:16
I'm much better looking than I was back then. He's
3:18
good looking. Yeah very good looking. Had the
3:20
good looking girlfriend to match. Well you
3:22
sound creepy now. That's kind of creepy
3:24
now.
3:27
They're both big fans of the podcast. Nick
3:29
and Pat. I don't think Pat would
3:31
mind me saying that he lives overseas now. So he's
3:33
going to do a national. So he may well
3:36
be listening to this in the morning. Did he adopt
3:38
the attractive girlfriend? No not at all. She
3:40
went with him. Well yeah. Anyway
3:42
I can't remember. I can't remember. I'm there with
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the other brother. Somewhere with my brother Neil
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and my other brother. His brother
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son Nick. And
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we had burgers. So burger
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was great. Sitting in the street. Just
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a wooden table. My brother
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and I. a burger because lunchtime
4:01
didn't want to have anything. Too much. Too much.
4:04
But was he? But nothing wrong with that. And
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Nick had the whole burger. The guy
4:09
who we think cooked it comes out,
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stands there and I go, got
4:14
to say, great burger. All
4:17
three of us went, great burger. He then
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makes a movement with his hands and starts
4:22
applauding. So I
4:24
then come in too and I start applauding
4:28
and the other brothers come in and we're
4:30
all applauding at the table like this. Yeah
4:33
right. And I thought, oh that
4:35
was a nice moment. He's come out, we've told him his burgers
4:37
were good and we all did a round of applause for his burger.
4:40
Apparently he wasn't applauding.
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The move that he went for was to brush the salt
4:45
off his hands and I thought he was starting
4:48
to applaud. Which I thought was a
4:50
bit weird. Now in reflection I
4:52
think it was a bit weird that he was
4:54
applauding his own good burger. But
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it felt right, it felt good so there's nothing wrong with it. So
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I think my message is if you're out there
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and whatever level, except
5:04
drive through McDonald's, don't
5:07
commend the, you're worried about him
5:09
coming in aren't you? The guy that comes in and talks.
5:11
You can see your eyes wandering. The
5:13
guy lives upstairs, he comes in and he puts his head in the door.
5:16
Well last time he said, he just comes
5:19
and goes, who you got to eat him a guy's phone number? What?
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No. I've met him like twice.
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Why would I have Eddie McQuiet? And then he goes, you asked
5:27
Glen for it. I said, Glen, I want an Abbott. I'll
5:29
give it to him. Eddie
5:33
would love to get a phone call
5:35
from the bloke who lives upstairs. So
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anyway, that is a good
5:39
thing to commend the chef. I think it's good. And a
5:42
round of applause on a table outside. It didn't
5:44
seem that bad but Nick did say
5:46
that I don't think he was applauding and you've embarrassed
5:49
yourself slightly. What about when
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I said to someone once, that was
5:55
a great parmigiana to the chef
5:57
or someone. He goes, oh yeah, they get
5:59
bought in. Oh I see. They
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get pre-made. So you're like, oh
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what? Don't take that. No, no, keep the magic
6:05
alive. I went round to
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someone well known, round to his house for dinner, and
6:10
I said, and it was Indian, I said great Indian
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food. And then I walked to the kitchen. There's all these takeaway
6:15
boxes? Yeah. But they took the compliment.
6:17
Ah, that's fantastic. You can't take the compliment.
6:19
I've got to be honest with you. At least
6:22
hide the evidence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But
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you couldn't tell it was takeaway Indian? No. You
6:27
bring it out in those really nice bowls with a nice way.
6:29
I'm sure, yeah. Put the rice in the thing and nobody
6:31
knows. You know. But I
6:34
think you can't have a dinner
6:36
party under the... He should have said, do
6:39
you want to come around for take away? Yeah, that's not a dinner
6:41
party. You're right. This is not a dinner
6:43
party. That's cheating. Yeah. I mean, when was the last time you went
6:45
to a dinner party? I don't like going to dinner
6:47
parties. Oh, I'm having one
6:49
next week. Oh, you're off the list.
6:52
You're off the list. I don't really
6:54
want to watch you eat. Yeah,
6:56
it's true. It's true. I don't want to sit across the table,
6:58
watch you eat. And then... And
7:01
then pontificate and get into an argument about politics with someone. Yeah,
7:03
yeah, yeah. Oh, the worst. My
7:05
theory is always the same. I don't think you've got
7:07
three courses in you as far as... It's
7:10
true. I go, I'm happy to have a coffee
7:12
and a cake with you. Yeah. But,
7:14
you know... Also, we often say,
7:16
this should be a good dinner party, didn't we? And then I always go
7:18
to Kieran, when do we have dinner parties? I don't think...
7:21
Over years. There was a time when it... It
7:23
was big, wasn't it? It was big. You go around to some... Late
7:25
80s, 90s? And they used to have progressive dinner parties. Oh, yeah.
7:28
Where they go and put people's houses and stuff. Absolutely.
7:31
But dinner party, overrated, I reckon. Overrated.
7:34
There's always some blowhard
7:36
talking at the top of their voice about politics
7:39
and what they think. If you said... What
7:41
they think. Oh, yeah. Once the politics comes into
7:43
the room... Oh, quick. Grab your coat.
7:45
Get out of here. Yeah. If
7:48
I said to you, dinner party, or meet me
7:52
for lunch on a Sunday at
7:54
the burger joint... Lunch at the burger joint.
7:57
Lunch at the burger joint. So then you're not putting
7:59
someone under pressure. to do all that cooking
8:01
and... Yeah and then it doesn't
8:04
go on and on and on. And do you have
8:06
something that you like to eat? Yeah.
8:09
Yeah. Does everyone like hamburgers? Yeah.
8:12
Yeah. If you don't like hamburgers let us know
8:15
because we don't want you listening anymore. Well
8:18
if you're a vegan you have a vegan burger. Vegan
8:20
vegan vegan burger. I've heard of it. Mushroom
8:22
burger. First thing the other day that artificial
8:24
meat in some circles is even better for
8:26
you. Oh yeah. I'll do that too.
8:29
Except it is processed and you should never have anything processed.
8:31
That's my rule of thumb. Can't be being interesting.
8:34
Yes that's the great Eric Banner said don't eat anything
8:36
out of a bag. I think Ollie said that.
8:38
Well he's saying it now. He said he's saying it now.
8:40
He's stolen my... My mind is... See
8:44
that's mine as well. That's another one of yours. Yeah. I'm
8:47
not trying to think. He also said don't
8:49
sleep with a prostitute in Spain on a Friday night.
8:58
There you go. That one of yours. Oh he
9:00
came for the music. Welcome to Suntow related
9:03
now.
9:14
Please welcome your hosts Glenn Robbins
9:16
and Dave O'Neill. I'm
9:24
going to watch that on Friday night. I'm
9:26
going to have a sip of my drink. I'll say welcome
9:28
to the podcast, Sumpow related. We
9:32
get two topics
9:34
and you've got to work out how they are related. There
9:36
you go. That's ice, ice baby in the
9:38
drink there. On a hot
9:41
day is there any
9:43
better noise than ice
9:45
tinkling in a glass? Ice is underrated though.
9:47
I love ice. Underrated? I
9:50
think so. Remember when we were
9:52
kids it was like a luxury. If you went around
9:54
and someone had ice in their drink. Well if someone had one of those
9:56
preachers where you could just tell you who you push the button. Chomp
9:58
chomp chomp. I've
10:01
never had one of those. No, it's like something like the Brady Bunch.
10:04
Oh, we've got one in a, we've got an ice maker in a freezer
10:06
now. So that's cool. Yeah, my mum had
10:08
one of those and was, yeah, quite good. It's
10:10
just very basic. But how does the water get into it? No,
10:13
no, so you've got to fill two trays of water and
10:15
then basically you just flip the trays
10:18
when they're frozen. Oh, that's just
10:20
basic. It's the same thing. I know,
10:22
it's the same. It's not an ice maker. No, because what you
10:24
want is a machine that chops it up and yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:26
that's the real deal. Yeah. It's
10:29
a sealed water one that comes out the other hole. Oh, same.
10:32
Yeah, it is. It's got everything. That's
10:34
when you know they were loaded. Yeah, yeah. Unbelievable.
10:37
What next? Yeah. Should
10:39
we get our topics? Have you said what the show's about? Yeah, you were
10:41
having a drink. Oh, sorry. Yeah. All
10:44
right, here we go. What are they, Sam? The topics are
10:46
trapeze and leotards. Well, you would have worn a leotard. Why
10:49
are you saying that? Because you were a drama student. Oh,
10:51
you have nailed it. Yeah, drama students. How
10:53
did you know that? Well, I went to the same teachers
10:56
college as you. Did you see us wandering around an outlet? I
10:58
saw people. You saw it in the
11:00
crack of the door. Yeah. Because
11:02
I did music in that same building. I think I was
11:04
around level four. Yeah. And there
11:06
was this video there. Yes, I'm never going to see plays there. Yeah, and
11:09
they're always wearing leotards and holding candles
11:11
or something. Yeah. The
11:13
good thing about it is everyone was the same because
11:15
you're allowed to wear a leotard. Yeah. And
11:18
a leotard then, because I get confused, a leotard is something
11:20
that has a top and a bottom,
11:23
doesn't it? Yeah, it's like a one-piece bathing
11:25
suit for women that... Ours had flared bottoms.
11:27
Oh, wow. They looked awful.
11:30
It was not in any way enhancing
11:33
of the penal area. Why would you wear
11:36
leotards doing drama? Because you know,
11:38
it's... Move around. I
11:40
guess it's complete freedom and you're
11:43
not connected to anything. You're neutral. Did
11:45
you wear like a cricket box, Dad? Yeah, absolutely. I
11:48
wore a strap on the first 12 months.
11:50
No, of course not. No, did you wear any protection
11:52
or anything down there or... For
11:54
what? Well, when I was in the gang show... Oh, yeah. We
11:58
had to wear leotards. in the opening number
12:01
called We Are Australia or something. We're
12:03
coming in green and gold leotards and
12:07
after the first rehearsal the director, Ken.
12:10
Ken. Oh they're worried about you the being old.
12:13
Yeah. So you had to sort of... Now some
12:15
of the older boys that are reaching
12:17
manhood have to go to the ballet
12:20
shop and get a box. Oh
12:22
really? Because we are seeing everything. Isn't that
12:24
called an athletic support? I
12:26
think it's been being crooked as a cricket box. So they
12:28
wore a cricket box on stage and they... I still
12:30
remember where the
12:33
ballet shop, a dance shop in
12:36
the city and buy... Did you weigh the
12:38
bigger boys? Apparently. Never
12:41
been called that before or since but
12:43
anyway yeah I had to go and buy a ballet support
12:46
I think they're called. Yeah. Yeah
12:48
support. Yeah. Jock strap.
12:50
No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A strap on. Yeah.
12:52
Yeah. Yeah but... No it's not a strap on. Did you
12:54
see that great fact on the internet? It'll be
12:56
good. The first ever cricket box
12:59
was used in like 1779
13:01
or some like years ago. The first helmet
13:04
was used in 1975. So what do
13:07
you recommend value more? Their brains
13:10
or their balls? Well it's interesting isn't
13:12
it? What other occasion would
13:14
you wear a leotard? Oh. Well I think
13:16
of... Who else? Ballet obviously. Ballet
13:18
figure skating? Oh they wear leotards.
13:20
Yeah. Wrestlers? Oh they're wrestlers.
13:23
That's very macho but they do sort of wear leotards. Yeah
13:25
I remember that would be probably the first time world championship
13:28
wrestling I saw a leotard. Some would wear
13:30
trunks. Some would wear a leotard
13:32
that came right up. Yeah oh yeah
13:34
like a strong man too. They wear a leotard. White
13:37
litter or strong man? What both of them used
13:39
to wear leotards actually. Old school.
13:42
Dances, ballet, skating.
13:46
Skates wear a leotard. But are they
13:48
always loose at the bottom? Well I always
13:50
tight fit. And what do you call
13:52
the things ladies wear to the gym? You
13:55
know. Just active wear? Yeah the tight
13:57
ones that they just wear on their bottom. Yeah,
14:00
they look like bikes. They like bicycle pants. They
14:02
are, aren't they? Bike shorts. They're very
14:04
revealing though. Oh my god, they don't lead much
14:06
to the imagination, do they? What do you mean? Well,
14:09
like you see young people wearing them just down
14:11
the street now. Bike shorts down the street. They're
14:13
like a fashion item. Everything's covered up? Kitty
14:16
Flaggon does a routine about it. She saw them.
14:18
And there's flesh coloured ones. When you wear those flesh coloured
14:20
ones, she saw a guy coming towards her
14:22
and she thought he was in the nude. Yeah.
14:25
Because the black are very popular.
14:28
Yeah, but I saw a girl. We were driving on yesterday
14:30
and there was like a girl in
14:32
the car, me and Kieran and two of the kids. And
14:35
there was a young woman standing on the street corner right
14:37
near here. And Kieran goes, she's
14:39
wearing underwear. Look at that. Look
14:42
at the young folks. Are we getting creepy? No.
14:45
Okay, we're sounding the creepy
14:47
alert right now. No, but it's very brief.
14:51
I don't understand why they wear like
14:53
a black bottom and then they wear a G-string over
14:55
the top. What is that all about? Oh yeah,
14:58
that's like a mate. That's like a flash dance kind
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of thing. Yeah. It's like a fashion
15:02
thing. Is that to show off, to make your
15:04
bottom more defined? Maybe. Maybe.
15:08
Because I've been doing a bit of work on my glutes lately. Really?
15:11
Yeah. Get atoned. Well,
15:13
because no, because I don't have any. Oh. Yeah.
15:16
And because I'm not getting them firm enough, my
15:18
back is having to do too much work. Oh, yeah, you're
15:20
firm. See, my back is doing the work that my glutes should be doing.
15:23
Oh, that's interesting. You don't have a big ass either, do you? No. You've
15:26
got a bit of a flat ass. Yeah. So,
15:29
wetsuits aren't leotards, are they? No. No.
15:32
I think leotard really
15:34
is in that fitness, dancing.
15:37
Artistic, some artistic. Yeah, yeah,
15:39
yeah. Mime, a mime artist might wear one,
15:41
you know? I think it's specialized
15:45
physical. Yeah. As opposed to what the ladies
15:47
wear down to, because then there's that whole
15:49
line of aerobics, the whole period of that
15:52
stuff came out, you know, tight tops, tight bottoms. Yeah,
15:54
yeah, yeah. And colourful. Colourful. Yeah.
15:58
Because if you're a guy, you'd... do have to
16:00
wear something tight underneath your shorts
16:02
because that's like a
16:04
leotard. Yeah. Remember that was like it's
16:07
pretty cool to have your shorts on and then a bit of
16:09
a leotard packing out from underneath. Oh yeah.
16:11
Which meant that you were safe if you were in a class
16:14
and you know you were up on all fours and you
16:16
know someone behind would get a bit of a look at you.
16:19
Good Lord. Yeah terrible. I'm
16:22
hoping I never have to wear a leotard. I reckon I've only ever
16:24
worn one once in the gang show. Yeah
16:26
well that was a triggering experience.
16:28
I could hear my scouts
16:31
from my triple-r thing as I came on stage.
16:33
Yeah and there's nothing good about
16:35
the top, the singlet part of it.
16:38
Nothing about that is good unless you're built
16:40
like Harold Schwarzenegger. Oh yeah or
16:42
you're really well-toned you're right. And then
16:44
you go anything would look good on you. Yeah.
16:47
You would have worn them in Whizbang Theatre Company
16:49
wouldn't you? Oh well spotted.
16:51
Michael Veach and you was it the comedy
16:53
company or fast forward? Fast forward. I'm
16:56
Glenn and I'm Michael together we
16:58
make the Whizbang Theatre Company and
17:00
they were a theatre company that used to go out
17:02
to schools. We've talked about it before
17:04
for sure. Stephen Curry's first appearance
17:07
on television. I broke that guy.
17:09
Oh he was the kid in the crowd wasn't he? Yes and
17:11
he'll tell you the story that when the camera pulled back
17:14
after they were doing a trust game you
17:17
were meant to catch me. Me or Michael
17:19
I can't remember. They just let him go and
17:21
he landed on the hard floor then then
17:23
Steve Curry just lent out from the line
17:25
and looked right down the barrel got
17:28
his head on television more than the other guys.
17:30
Smart move. Take the opportunities when you can
17:32
get them. You were parroting
17:35
a parody of a theatre in education
17:37
sort of. I was a drama teacher and you were kind
17:39
of what that was and that they would you know you okay
17:42
everybody but not a normal class today we've got the
17:44
Whizbang Theatre Company and they're gonna do some mimes
17:47
they're gonna do some songs and they're gonna do some
17:49
audience participation. A bit
17:51
of improv. So if you're about 14 or 15
17:54
you're on. You're here.
17:57
And these guys were shit. It was very funny. Look
18:00
up the whiz bang and here's the thing,
18:03
Kitty Feynigan has a car. She
18:06
told you the story? No, I
18:08
know she calls it whiz bang. She
18:11
calls it whiz bang. Because the door opens with a whiz and
18:13
a bang. Yeah, that's not coincidence
18:15
is it? Because it all goes whiz
18:17
bang. That's a sliding door.
18:19
Like on a combi or something. Is she aware of the Whiz Bang
18:22
Theatre Company? Well I think she told me and then I
18:24
think I brought it up. But I don't think it was named after
18:26
the Whiz Bang Theatre Company. So there's a bit of
18:28
information that I don't think Kitty would
18:30
mind us sharing. No one really
18:32
needed to know. But she has mentioned
18:35
that before. How many sketches
18:37
did you do as a whiz bang? Not that many. Probably
18:40
about 6. Maybe you
18:42
did one at a shopping centre. Shopping centre, that's right.
18:46
I don't remember the jokes but usually it was just embarrassing.
18:48
You and Vich were great together. What
18:51
about soggy pockets? Soggy pockets
18:53
were... Drunken office workers. Based
18:57
on the theory that when men get alcoholic they tend
19:00
to get a little bit more open
19:02
with their feelings. I
19:05
was working at an office when that came
19:07
on TV. I reckon it was so spot on.
19:09
And then was there a hint that the urinal, remember? Yeah,
19:12
and I had all of these. Oh
19:14
my gosh, there's a hint. We
19:19
did those in front of a live audience which is always fun
19:22
to get your timing right. No,
19:24
they were funny. What else can we say about spanks?
19:27
Is there a brand of litter? Oh, spanks. They're
19:30
different again. Then there's Hosea or something. Hosea
19:35
department. That's an old fashioned term. For
19:38
stockings and stuff. Have you ever worn a pair
19:40
of stockings? I have. Yeah,
19:43
you would have. No,
19:45
I don't think I have. You
19:47
would have been a skis, surely. It
19:50
is weird because it's
19:52
not accommodatory and it's quite pressing
19:54
on the... Oh hang on, I've worn a
19:57
stocking for an injury. I've worn
19:59
a... Oh really? Yeah, so
20:01
when you have an operation or something
20:03
they put a... Oh yeah they do, yeah. And on
20:05
a plane of all those... Oh the... what
20:07
was that
20:09
called again? Thrombosis? Yeah,
20:12
Thrombosis. Yeah, you gotta move your... That
20:14
was a bit of a thing for a while. Oh yeah.
20:16
And now it's not. Well no, I think on long
20:19
flights you wear them, but... I don't think when
20:21
you go to Melbourne City you have to wear them, but I think definitely...
20:24
Deep vein Thrombosis. Thrombosis,
20:28
yeah. TBT. But yeah, I've
20:30
certainly worn them, yeah, for sure. I
20:32
can't think of anything else. Alright, well let's talk about...
20:34
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That wouldn't have been... it would have always been part of the circus,
21:11
wouldn't it? No, not the old medieval
21:13
circuses I reckon. Oh, well spotted. I reckon
21:16
more, uh, Industrial Revolution
21:18
kind of? Well, 18. Well, I
21:20
had to build a... no, I reckon earlier than that. I
21:22
can turn... I can like sit... 1800
21:25
maybe. When was it? Industrial
21:27
Revolution? I don't know. 1800, 1800. Well,
21:30
okay, let's just break it down. A
21:32
trapeze is... It's the moment they fly
21:34
and they grab onto each other. A horizontal
21:36
bar. Yeah. And there's one guy...
21:40
the simplistic version, there's all different versions and
21:42
they have lots of people called the O'Neill
21:44
brothers and stuff like that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's... It's
21:47
not that good. The phone just takes...
21:49
I've got a... a... a hydronic
21:51
heating broke. That's water,
21:54
isn't it? Water through pipes in
21:56
the floor or in the... Yeah, like a radiators, radiators. Yeah,
21:58
that's right. Through the floor up into the radiators. beautiful
22:00
heat great he's ringing you're
22:02
getting your plumbing fixed no we have
22:04
what happened last week the
22:06
power went off and it kept going off
22:08
when I you know you turn off around the electrician
22:11
Ian and he's like turn off all
22:13
the you turn off all the lamps
22:15
and stuff and that the fridge and
22:17
then turn them on one by one and if it goes off again that's it I
22:20
know but I didn't think of outside powerpoint
22:22
so he actually came around and he said well this
22:24
is a very small circuit you've got the fridge you've got
22:26
about a few lamps they're all off what
22:29
about the outside powerpoints I'm like of course
22:31
and it was the hydraulic heating was triggering the
22:33
safety switch it was snapping stepping off listen
22:36
us we're like electricians practically we could do it you
22:38
get a ticket down you need a trade I mean
22:40
that's one of those trades where you go you really got to know
22:42
what you're doing because shocking literally
22:45
literally but anyway
22:47
so then so I said to my
22:50
partner Kieran the you know the guys coming over
22:52
she sent his message he had a man got
22:54
here he knows Gemma he was friends
22:56
with biv and the fireball fans
22:59
they're talking about bands he said he talked to you
23:01
before and you on to the band shout
23:03
snout oh yeah it's
23:05
all making sense now
23:10
oh yes I know this guy the
23:12
electrician or the yeah the heater guy
23:14
this is a heater guy yeah this is the guy
23:16
the company sent over to fix the heater it's great
23:19
if you know that now I know you're gonna get a really good
23:21
job he's a rock and roll out this guy I remember
23:23
it really put the music on it just eel and relax and
23:25
do a really good job the my geodentricity
23:27
valve when they're doing it do
23:29
you stand and watch them look
23:31
with the electric I start
23:34
off we had a guy come over and do fix
23:37
a washing machine who was another rock and roller
23:39
guy who had like a motley crew
23:41
shirt on because it's the hairdo in the shirt isn't it yeah
23:44
yeah yeah the T yeah
23:46
you know he was into those sort of band
23:48
oh yeah tattoos too and for a little
23:51
bit for about a minute I'll leave you to it
23:53
I think you know I had a guy fix on the front
23:55
gate the other day and I went you know what I'm gonna leave you
23:58
if you stand there it's like and they I haven't
24:00
quite worked it out. I would feel under pressure.
24:02
Sometimes they go, no don't mind. I know my
24:05
brother doesn't like it. I know, I don't think he doesn't,
24:07
no. Phil wouldn't like it. No, he doesn't, no. So
24:10
I give him their time and I go in and I make a coffee and
24:12
I bring it out and I'm a little apron. That's
24:14
right, you little. Bit
24:17
no underpants on. No, he's turn around, quite
24:19
confronting. I don't stay and watch
24:21
them, no. I told you we had that guy once
24:23
and he was leaning on the floor fixing,
24:26
what was he fixing? And he was looking at my CD
24:28
and he just goes, a bit of
24:30
a Devo fan, are we Dave? And
24:33
I'm like, yeah, I love Devo. I gotta say this inappropriate.
24:36
Don't pass the comment on my thing.
24:39
No, I'm a big Devo. You know what, I don't mind. They're
24:41
a fan of the same music or books.
24:43
I think I told the story before, but I had a guy putting on, this
24:46
is back in the day when we had Galaxy. He
24:49
goes, let me grab this place. And the guy
24:51
obviously said, oh, what's it like? He started
24:53
to look around the room and he goes, yeah,
24:55
not bad. Not bad
24:57
story. What do you mean it's
24:59
not bad, mate? Yeah, not bad. That's up there with
25:01
you when the guy on camera stopped you and said,
25:03
one question, one question. I don't
25:05
like your show. I don't like your show. That's not a question.
25:09
So, Trapeze,
25:12
it's circus. You
25:14
don't often see it anywhere else, but as you said, you
25:16
would have seen it with the court jester or whatever
25:19
in the courtyard in the ye olde days, maybe.
25:22
It's Ringling Brothers, it's Barnum
25:24
and Bailey. There'd be music playing.
25:27
It's usually Brothers. It's
25:29
male, female. Sometimes they get imported from Spain
25:32
or Russia. Yeah, and they're probably just.
25:34
And they're not big guys, they're little guys. They're
25:36
like, not jockeys, but they're big. They don't have one big
25:38
one, don't they? Oh, it's the center kind of. Yeah, yeah.
25:41
The earthing kind of one. Like
25:43
Hans, Hans would be big. Hans. Hans,
25:47
you're a grouler. That's basically it. What's a Trapeze
25:50
act? Seven minutes, 10 minutes?
25:53
Yeah, probably. A bit of music. Dun, dun,
25:55
dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. That's not
25:57
a bad gig. Dangerous though. But as I
25:59
saw in the. circus when I saw it the other day, when
26:01
you get off the trapeze, no
26:03
disrespect. But sometimes they go to other
26:05
things that hold ropes, they
26:08
do sometimes there are clown in there. Yeah.
26:11
And the girl who climbed up the chairs at this one
26:14
sold us a hot dog. Oh, they're doing everything. Yeah.
26:17
We drove past the circus. There's a circus just near here
26:19
in a some of them called Balfield,
26:21
which is near West Harleburg. And there's a circus
26:23
there at the moment and they were packing up. I
26:26
said to. Oh, God. Imagine that.
26:28
So hard. And they all got to
26:30
chip in. Not just a strong man. That's when
26:32
you want the strong man. Who would be slack in the circus?
26:35
The clowns. The clowning. Maybe
26:37
he'd be hungover. Yeah. You
26:40
probably get up Gary. You've got a buddy.
26:42
Come on. Now, I'm an artist. I
26:45
need my I made my reference. I need to wreck my hands.
26:48
Yeah. I said, please don't interrupt me again. You
26:51
have to learn to live in the caravan. I think it'll be an adventurous
26:54
life because. For a little bit. And
26:56
then I don't know. I don't want to put down
26:59
circus people. They're taking entertainment to the people.
27:01
I reckon it's amazing what they do. But it'd be a hard
27:03
life. Yeah, it'd be a hard life. And there are those. I
27:05
don't think in Australia has a town. But in America, there's
27:08
a town in Florida where all the circus
27:10
people go in winter. And
27:12
they all live in the same place. I mean, I
27:14
think there's a in Vegas. They have
27:16
some circus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
27:20
That's right. That's right. The
27:23
circus. I had a water one. Her
27:25
sisters were both in the circus. They
27:27
started off in Aubrey in the fruit fly. Then
27:30
they went to Circus Oz. And then they went to Cirque
27:32
du Soleil. These two girls.
27:35
Do you think it's a career move? Because you go Cirque du Soleil. You're
27:37
going to have work. You get to. That's
27:39
the pinnacle. You're never short
27:41
of work. Yeah. If you're a circus actor.
27:44
Yeah. And I suppose what you can do, you got your act. And
27:46
then you can just after work with them for
27:48
a while, you can work with the other one for a while. It's
27:50
like any kind of performing, especially physical
27:52
performing, like being a plumber. You can't
27:54
be on the tools when you're very hard to be
27:56
our agent, be a circus performer.
28:00
days of 1070 just became a grandfather
28:02
still on the tools he said I'll
28:05
go crazy if I don't keep on working what's he doing plumber
28:07
yeah well you give him a hug
28:10
and it's like he's
28:12
so fit yeah I taught spongy
28:17
and burgers like hugging spongebob
28:19
square pants and I said enough
28:21
about yeah to praise yeah we've
28:23
had enough let's have some figgy music
28:25
we can have a bit of you know that
28:27
circuses have what
28:35
are they the main guy that talks remaster
28:38
remaster what was that film that
28:41
Hugh Jackman did did he do some better
28:43
circus yeah the greatest showman was that
28:46
a better circus I don't know he looked like he was in the circus
28:48
in the post didn't he they
28:50
had the tails and I said we can have
28:52
a clip from that there's a few movies
28:54
about circuses water for elephants
28:56
it was about a circus are
28:59
big top Pee Wee, Pee Wee Herman's,
29:03
not many circus movies or
29:06
we could do what about a leotard
29:09
what about a yoga class do you
29:11
really do we let us from the
29:14
old room just relax putting
29:16
your knee behind you or how
29:18
about we do
29:21
the day
29:23
trapeze was invented
29:26
one guy invented it and another guy turned
29:28
up to learn as a job yeah sure all right
29:31
you want to be you want to be will you be the master okay I'll
29:33
be the apprentice all right are
29:35
we ready are we ready so okay
29:38
are you good at it no you're
29:40
good at it though you're the master you're good
29:42
at it I'm just learning so you just coming off the street
29:45
yeah you've answered the paper
29:47
okay okay here we go okay here we go
29:50
play the only thing for this Ah,
30:01
you answered the ad on the paper to
30:04
become my trapeze partner. That's
30:06
right. Are you the amazing Alfonso? Amazing
30:09
Alfonso. It's written on my top. It
30:12
would be good if you had a name. I'm the very average
30:14
steward. Is that okay? Well,
30:17
look, we can go with that for now. I'll
30:19
first need to know whether you can be a trapeze
30:22
artist, because that's what you will be. What is a trapeze
30:24
artist? Well, see that rope over there with
30:26
two pieces of rope with the... Like a swing. Yeah, like
30:28
a swing. I love swings. I love
30:30
the monkey bars. Big
30:33
on the monkey bars at school. Yeah, don't get
30:35
carried away. It's a lot harder than that. Oh,
30:37
sure it is. Yeah, I'm pretty confident.
30:40
What I'm going to do, follow
30:42
me, listen to me. I'm going to hang
30:45
by my knees. I'm going to swing out on the swing.
30:47
And I'm going to come out. I don't want you to put
30:49
your hands out. I'm going to catch you. And
30:52
there's a net down there, by the way. Okay, and then you'll
30:55
catch me and swing with me, and then I'll go back to the platform. Yeah,
30:58
go back to the platform. I can do that. Okay,
31:01
here we go. Right, okay. Do
31:04
we have music?
31:05
Oh, yeah. Okay. Tony,
31:07
Tony.
31:09
Put the cigarette out. Tony
31:11
an alcoholic? Put the drink down. Oh,
31:14
he's a clown. Yeah. Is he a clown?
31:16
He's fed the line. Oh, gosh. Can
31:19
you play a bit of music for us? Okay, all right. Thank
31:21
you, Tony. All right, here we go.
31:23
Okay, I'm ready. Right,
31:26
when I say I want you, put your hands out.
31:31
Okay. Two, three.
31:36
Your hands.
31:39
Lucky that was there. Oh, your
31:41
hands were as greasy. What
31:44
were you doing this morning? I just had a sivlaki
31:46
on the train for lunch.
31:47
I didn't get a napkin, so they had a bit of zigzag
31:50
on it. Sorry about that. Yeah. I want how
31:52
I wipe my pants. Just wipe it
31:55
with this towel. Okay. Wipe it with this towel. Okay. All
31:57
right. Yeah. All right. Okay. What's
31:59
next? again this time grab
32:01
you by what I'm gonna swing by my hands
32:03
yeah and you're gonna grab my feet oh easy yeah
32:06
feet easy okay cool okay here we go yeah
32:08
hit the music Tony
32:10
Wow Swing
32:12
it And here I come with my
32:15
feet Ohhhhhh
32:16
Ahhhhhh
32:19
You idiot I take my feet and put my pants
32:21
down You pull my pants
32:23
off and you've gone down So
32:25
my hands took I had pizza for breakfast so
32:28
I've really got a lot of grease on my hands today
32:30
okay look okay hang
32:32
on hang on hang on Tony Tony bring
32:35
us that bit of sandpaper yeah and that big pot
32:37
of salt
32:38
okay yeah okay what I want you to rub your hands
32:40
with the sandpaper yeah now
32:42
now put your hands into the salt oh
32:44
yeah yeah oh they're rough as and
32:46
now and now some and now some bit
32:48
of alcohol to make it stick a bit of alcohol
32:51
on yeah yeah now how your
32:53
hands now will stick Oh I so stick that yeah
32:55
look at that alright okay what we're gonna do
32:57
now do I get my pants put it back on I
33:00
think you know like the Greeks they used to do the Olympics in the
33:02
nude I think this is not such a bad thing to make you freer
33:04
Tony because we don't really have like we should be
33:06
wearing vaders or some kind of invention
33:09
that prevents but
33:10
anyway you go you go you go you
33:12
know you sang a particular outfit that works
33:14
perfectly for about it but I just grab
33:17
my pants out there will you yeah and my underpants
33:20
yep fine the pants well so what am
33:22
I grabbing now your
33:25
feet
33:26
grabbing my feet okay here we go here I
33:28
go
33:51
Tony's
33:55
grab my feet though
33:59
Get off!
34:02
Okay,
34:09
I'll take your point. We should invent something. We
34:11
should invent something and that's gone.
34:14
And what's your middle name again? Leo? Leo
34:19
Tard! Leo Tard!
34:27
Wow Amazing.
34:29
That was fun. Incredible. Alright,
34:31
you want to have a go? Well, I just think yeah,
34:34
I think Leotards were
34:36
invented for the trapeze. Yeah, I do too.
34:38
Is that it? What's the answer Sam? On
34:41
the 12th of November 1859 The
34:44
first flying trapeze routine
34:46
was performed by Jules Leotard
34:48
on three trapeze bars at the Cirque
34:50
Napoleon The costume he invented
34:53
was a one-piece knitted garment streamline
34:55
to suit the safety and agility concerns
34:58
of trapeze performance
35:00
Wow We
35:02
were right. With our make-believe. We
35:04
were right. We predicted the future. Incredible.
35:10
You have been
35:10
listening to Somehow Related with
35:12
Glenn Robbins and Dave O'Neill. I
35:23
mean, I
35:24
didn't go on to say that he had his
35:26
penis. No, that's why he invented it. He
35:28
invented it. But uh, I wonder if he... Anyway,
35:33
so therefore he invented an outfit
35:35
which was because smart
35:38
isn't it? Because your top would go all
35:40
over the place, your bottoms would be going all over
35:42
the place So therefore you invent
35:44
something that... But I reckon their leotard
35:46
would have been tied around the bottom, wouldn't it? Yes, it would
35:49
be. Absolutely. Yeah, it's a fitting. Oh,
35:51
that's amazing. What do you say? Try
35:53
to bring the leotard look back. Me
35:55
and you wear it at the next gig or whatever.
35:57
I can wear it at the gigs. Yeah, you can wear it.
36:00
Now that would be a look, do you come out in a leotard? Oh,
36:03
people remember you. Yeah,
36:06
they would. They're about to have that in their leotard.
36:09
Losing his mind. Do
36:11
you have any leotard jokes? No, I've got
36:13
no leotard. Circus jokes. Circus
36:16
jokes. No, I can't think
36:18
of a good circus joke. It'd be good, you know, like clowns.
36:21
No. Jeez. We're running
36:23
on empty with clowns. We're talking
36:25
about clowns a fair bit actually. Yeah.
36:29
Well, how do we say goodbye without a laugh or
36:31
some sort of up moment? Well, we can
36:33
just, you know, say goodbye. Say goodbye.
36:36
Oh, we're about to run out
36:38
of space on the disk. I've
36:40
just got time for this one joke. So
36:43
there's two circus acts that we're just about
36:45
to be on the...
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