A listener production.
William, this is our remembering project.
Yep, we're a random day of the year is selected, and we look up the run sheets from all our shows from across the years to find any we did on that day over 20 years. That's about 2500.
Shows and roughly 26,000 talk breaks. Today we pick one one talk break only and try to remember what happened based on what was written down on the run sheet from that day.
As always, we've got podcast. Mike was here for any technical stuff.
Hello, Mike, what date was randomly chosen today?
No date. Special episode. Oh.
This is Hamish and Andy's remembering project.
Haim. No. Date. Special. Special episode.
Special episode of The Remembering today. Because I found as I was cleaning out my study at home, our old cassettes.
No no no.
From sin FM, the radio student youth network. The first time we're ever on radio together. Um, technically, I mean, the whole the way this came about was I was working at the Village Bell Hotel in Saint Kilda, the pub you.
Were.
And we were trying to work out how we could possibly get on the radio and see.
In between some. I remember the beer being quite well priced. They're very well.
Priced for friends.
I remember enjoying coming to visit you and and going, oh, for such a cheap beer. This actually tastes pretty good.
Yeah. Tastes exactly the same. Actually.
Tastes like a Carlton Draught. Yeah. How does he get it?
How does he get to taste the same taste? Nothing. Because.
Nothing. How does the publican get it across the bar for no money and still make a profit? But I guess he did.
Yeah, well, I viewed you, and maybe I was ahead of time. I viewed you as an influencer. Yes. I thought you being in the bar would definitely attract more people.
In in the word would spread.
We would spread this.
Fizzy amber fluid. We see this cool young man drinking. Yes. I'll try a cup of that.
It's.
So what does he pay for it? He drinks them for free. But for you, sir, it's 380. I'm willing to part with that.
Weirdly. Two bucks.
$2 pots, were they?
Well, we had $2. We had dollar pots for a special. But when I was serving them at price was $2.30 for a pot of beer when I was serving them back in those days.
Jeez, I don't know how many shillings that is, but that was that was the day as well.
Those were the days. So we weren't ripping off the owner that amount.
But it was nice of the owner without even having to say it in as many words, to give you the authority to chop and choose who you saw as an influencer.
Very cool of him to never reference. I didn't have to reference it back to him, and it was this.
Cool, unspoken deal that as soon as you walked in, what was his name follow? Yeah. As soon as he walked in, you could see Ike Barlow is the kind of guy that doesn't even need to say if you made some free beers, because that's great for business, and you're the kind of employee that doesn't even need to acknowledge it hasn't been said. You're just. And I think all the time that saved and it.
Was good of you out of respect to Barlow to when he walked in the room. Pay for a drink.
Yeah, yeah. As a sort of a nostalgic joke to go look at. And he got the joke. He got the big of a joke.
Yeah, that was good.
It was a straight just three people on the same page. Nothing needs to be said.
So it was right.
We would we would set it the village bell and plot and plot. Well, basically just be like, well, we want to do this is remembered. So we're talking what are we talking in 2002.
2002.
2002. So it's like the internet obviously exists, but you know, this is Hotmail was big news back then. Obviously no social media, no Facebook, no no anything. So a guy that worked.
There had said, hey, you should check out the sin FM student.
Community radio.
And I was like, that'd be fun, fun. And you said, well, I've got to make good rye that we used to muck around doing, doing some fun comedy. Funny. So I reckon we should involve him. And I said, this is weird. I said, well, I've got to make quid, whipper. Yeah.
We're out.
Wow, that maybe we should get him involved. And this one cassette tape was part of this show. Whip was on the entire show. It was you, me, Ryan and Whipper. And now I don't recall whipper b, I remember him being a guest, maybe at times, but he's been part of this entire show.
I remember vaguely the whipper being somewhat around and involved.
I thought he came in twice. Maybe it was just twice.
But maybe it was just because. Also, we had no idea what we were doing was just like, hey, anyone jump on? Like, let's just try and get flying hours.
Yes, we should point a whipper whipper now.
Sydney breakfast icons on radio and been there for many years. Um, whipper celebrity Apprentice it's in whipper one season. I think of 20 to 1. Possibly did two. I don't know if it was it. Two does. Yeah, possibly so. Certainly no stranger to fame and fortune. But do you know what else was around at the time in Melbourne and this would this appeared in other radio markets around the country was a popular format on triple M was the cage. Yes. And so it was. It was you didn't have a
breakfast show of just some people you knew. The idea was more just, here's a bunch of people. Yes. And you don't even need to know who they are. They're just in the cage. It was like the thing we've trapped them in is the famous thing. Yes. We want you to know the show by the by the the vessel. They live in the cage. Which was. Which was. It doesn't matter what animals are in there, it's just the cage.
Sometimes there was five in the cage, sometimes was.
Doesn't matter. You're not coming to the zoo for the animals. You're coming because of the quality of the cage.
James Brayshaw was in the cage.
James Brasher was a cage man. Bridget.
Pete Berner.
Pete Berner there's a lot of people rotating throughout the cage now.
There are pros and cons for having a cage like system or a radio network. The pro is this is the big one.
No one can get more famous than the show.
Yes, so you can. If you don't like a performer. Yeah, you can shift them away.
Hey, no, but this is. People love me on this show. No they don't. They love the system. You're trapped in the cage and they love your containment system.
So you did end up having to pay 5 or 6 on air talent opposed to just two. That's it.
But you never had a Colin Jackie situation where they were like, hey, we could leave and destroy you. Yeah. You can't. They'd be like, no, we we own the cage. Yeah. You just come in and out of the door.
Occasionally we open the door. You're allowed out.
Yeah. That's it.
We might remove you and lock the door. You can't come back in.
We've got 25 other lemurs that would love to be in the cage. Yeah, so Ali Mo might have been in the cage.
Yes. Anthony Lehman.
Yeah. Lima. Lima, Mo. So the reason I mentioned the cage is because I think that would have been us just being like, we would listen to the cage and we would go, and this might have been our idea of being like, oh, just get whipper in. Like doesn't you don't show doesn't have to be about people. It's just a general gathering of whoever's around.
What are your memories of our first ever community radio shows? Mine was we tram down from Melbourne University because it was at a different university, and we do one kind of meeting before it.
We go to the pub.
Yep. Yeah, go to the pub and often we, one of us would say I've read the odd spot.
It was kind of a race to the odds.
In the paper. I want to read that out in between. That's and I've got the jokes.
And there was also a free newspaper at the time on trains and trams, Amex. And didn't it. It had its own little thing.
It had multiple kind of odds, body type things. That was a boom. That was a boom scene.
Because honestly, this is the very first time where, you know, this is how you get into radio or you get into this sort of thing. You go, hey, we're pretty funny. I like being funny. We have fun together. Wouldn't it be fun to do it on, on air? And we could spread that fun. Yeah. That's good. Oh, what a dream would it be if all day we could just be having fun? Yes, that. That's good. That's a good intention. And it's not until you are walking in the building.
There you go. But hang on. What are we going to be funny about? What are we going to say? Yes. And then the other person, we like just funny things and you'd be like, yeah, that's what I was thinking. But if you thought more about what they will be, what will they be? The things we talk about and you're like, just what's going on? And then you go, yeah, but what is that? And then you start to go, oh no, what am I going to talk about? Oh
my God, I've got to talk about something. Then you literally sit there and go, what do people talk about? And you, that's when the penny drops. That's when the penny drops. Like you actually need to have something to say if you're going to ask people to listen. And then we just had we're like, the only thing we can think of that wouldn't be arrogant to talk like it wouldn't be just self-centered to talk about. No one cares about us talking about current news. No one cares
about our personal lives. Because at that time you're like, well, no one knows who you are. Yeah, I guess it's odd spots. Yeah. That's fun. And factoids. Yeah. Tidbits. That's fun. It's always nice.
You got spots?
Oh, sorry. In the age.
Oh, it would be like, oh, a man, you know, left his entire fortune to his donkey. And now it's the richest animal in America. Or, you know, $71 million. Yeah, it was on the front page. Last of the age. We saw Sydney Morning Herald equivalent. It's a true.
Story.
It was just it was a it was an odd spot of news. Yeah. And then then you would hear, if you're lucky enough to tune into senior FM, you'd hear out 221 year olds, then teeing up three minutes of witty observations about what that donkey might do with the money. Yeah, if other animals were jealous of the money. Yep. List goes on. Anyway, this goes on of the comedy that would open up from there.
I'm. I was pressing the buttons for us and all songs were played off CD.
And they were our own music too.
And our own music.
I remember you played Air the French, the front of the French soft lounge electronic act air every show. You loved it and I loved it. I loved You got me into air. But it's it's like absolutely the music that you put on it to in the morning to wind things down.
And the other thing am is between you, me and Ryan.
What a mix.
We would have spot.
Comedy in here.
We would have such different music tastes that if you were tuning in to try and get some kind of level of entertainment, it was bouncing so far around, and then you get a knock on the door from the station manager there, Matt, saying, hey, we have to support one band.
The Aussie music as well. Oh no, University music and music.
You'd end up playing something really out there. But we we would try and do a lot of Aussie music. John Butler definitely got a hell of a run. I know.
And I actually remember thinking this is like the the arrogance of like being 21 or whatever in the studio. You think you're helping him? Yeah, yeah. Like if we bump into John Butler, I'd be like, yeah mate, we've been spinning your music. We've been just just letting you know, mate. Fighting the good fight, getting the word out. If you notice a few more people at Byron like going to your gigs.
So I said to marshy, marshy. There's no round sheets for this. Of course not. We didn't have producers in our run sheet. So marshy is the guy that puts these beats together for us. I said, pick out what you want, pick out two bits. He said, well, there was three bits. He goes, there was kind of a
story from Hamish. There's a story from you, Andy, and there's one from whipper, but I don't think the one from whipper is worth listening to, because he didn't really put any effort into it, and there's no real direction that was going.
Can we hear that one, please?
I know you'd want to hear that. And I said, now let's just leave the whipper one.
I reckon this was almost one of the first day I met whipper, because you were like, I know this guy. And because we met by the Yarra. But like, we'd park at a secret park near the. There's. It sheds along there that like private schools, use for rowing. And there was a few unregulated parks and that was kind of the best free parking in the city. So I remember we met down on the Yarra and he had a toolbox with him. This is my mate. I was like, what are you. What do you do? And he was like,
he introduced himself as a handyman. Yeah.
Yeah. So what we're going to hear is I said, I want the start of a show. Okay, so we're about to hear the start of a show.
Yeah, well, you go.
Somewhere, and then I said, and then pick out another one. But let's let's this the start of what I think we called cruise control, which was the name of the show. No, we'd been going with the cage theory. Get a good, strong brand.
To ourselves, though we should have been the ones calling ourselves Hamish Andy to get the name out there. We've we've sided with management, build up, cruise control, cruise control, cruise control, cruise control. Tell you what, when the when you kicked into French banned air. Yeah. Boy, did we cruise at 12 k's an hour.
Here we go. No date.
Year 2002.
Come on. Oh my God. Two.
Yes. In a very good afternoon. You're on cruise control 90.7. I'm here with Michael Whipple. Whipper. Hello, Randy. Very, very well. And yourself? Ryan. Sheldon. Yes, I'm good too. And boy, do we have an average show for you today. Go above average for today. Yes. I'm subpar, though. I feel up to it. We're going to go live to. We're tweaking right now, but he's in the exam, so we're going to cancel that. We've got a brand new segment for you to catch up with all the World Cup fever. Yeah.
And amongst other things, all that in the next hour on cruise control. Looking got the best reading show in Melbourne largely due to statistical errors. But the second magic welcome to Hamish Blake just entered. Oh here he is from his exam. Ladies and gents out there.
Hey welcome everyone. I'd just like to know I started that applause. Pretty good bloke. So he took it up quite quickly there. Yeah, I've just come from an exam, as I'm sure everybody knows and all wishing me the best job. Everyone knows appreciate the wishes and. But they might have fallen on deaf ears because I think I performed quite badly in this exam. Um, needless to say, had to ring in a few of the old tricks, such as writing after pens down and elaborate cheating cheering these.
Along with that.
These are the thing though I rely. Andy and I have a very similar study pattern. Whereas we attend, we selectively attend. It's selective attendance. Yes. Or some people call it null attendance. Yeah, but then I really rely on the more I procrastinate and procrastinate. Procrastinate on the 15 minutes in the car park, before the exam, during reading time to learn my stuff.
Yes, you skipped reading time. Reading time. Wasting time.
I think I'm not an idiot. I can't just go into a digital systems exam like this morning and do it off the top of my head. I need to 15 minutes of learning to reproduce that semester's work.
You can't push it the last minute. It's crazy. Okay, so.
Here's here's a deal. I'm in my car. The pony, as the gents in the booth know and has probably not many of the listeners know I have a car. What do you do now? I'm on my way to the exam and the pony decided to, well, play up a little bit. I break down. Yeah, just really getting in the exam spirit. Hey, Hamish. Yeah. Big morning. Huh? Like we just let's just mix it up a bit and I'll break down. And what happened is my Hamish car.
Is similar to Herbie. It talks to him.
Yeah, it does actually. It's got a look computer that says okay, which is a big lie because it's never okay. It's always breaking down. The car decided it overheats a fair bit, and that's all I can deal with that. If it wants to run hot, then let it run hot. Yeah, but it did. I had overheated the brakes, and they swelled up to such a point that when you press on the brakes, normally they go onto the wheel. Then you take your foot off and they come back off
the wheel. I get it, yeah. Spring loaded. Well, I'm doing a lot of hand actions, but I think it really gets to the idea they don't like that come across on radio that way. I'll say.
The swelling. Yeah.
The diagram you bought into the you project the. But today they overheated so much that they just swelled up and pressed against the brakes. So when you took your foot off the brakes, the car's still stopped. The car is not going to go anywhere.
So you go with rice rest, ice compression, compression elevation. Yeah.
Enhancement of breaking down the. And so I just had to set the car to turn it off and let her have a bit of a cool, like just cooling upon a windowsill. I was having fun. It didn't have to be anywhere except my exam, which was worth 80% of my mark. So I was just kicking back. It was a one line kind of thing, kind of rides everyone behind me. Hey, Hamish, how are you going? Oh, sorry about your car. Although I could read it in their eyes. Their mouth was saying a lot of expletives.
And why did you break down here and just head down? I didn't mean it. It would have broken down at home if I could have. Or in a petrol station or never. So at the end of the story, at the end of the line, the car got better. It brakes cooled down enough for me to limp to the exam.
The pie was cool, was cool.
People were questioning that. What's that by doing? I don't know the but I've had to take. Now my car has a few things that it's just not able to do that other cars can it kind of go over a hundred and I know. Yeah. On the bad, on the bad day it won't activate which is other cars can. I've had to really I'm starting to notice I'm taking a lot of things out of its repertoire now. It kind of driving traffic because it stops art, makes its
brakes overheat. It can't stop. It's getting to the point where if I'm standing on a long, flat piece of gently downward sloping road and you're at the other end, Andy and I want to get to you. And it's about 18°C. It's just been serviced. There's a cool wind blowing and the gods are with me. I could probably start the car and drive down to you. You mess with any of those factors, puts dampening curves in the road. Start raising the heat a little bit. Introduce one other
car as traffic. Not a chance. We just let's just jog.
Incidentally, how much you selling an Audi prefer?
Not to mention the the brand name, mate, call 999925 3711. She's a great car. Runs perfectly. Yeah, she's topped cruise control.
I mean, it's your first time on radio. Yeah. You're having a go at telling a great story. It's a great story. You're racing through it.
And I'm trying to be a supportive as possible. Yep.
But I didn't leave a lot of room for whipper, did we? I mean, even here.
That line right.
There as.
Well, right? He doesn't even get a microphone.
Maybe we'll rotating people. I don't know, guys. Okay.
We have a sub cage. We had a pen that you'd sit in. It's funny, isn't it? Because I can hear I mean it's funny. I've often you think back to those early days and I don't really have an answer when people go, well, you you guys started as like, it wasn't Hamish and Andy always like, why did it happen? And I can even hear it. They're like, I'm just talking to you. I'm just talking back to you.
It was like, look.
Pretty rough for the other guys in the room. I think we just.
That was the thing I noticed the most is you and I are in sync. Talking with each other, finishing each other's sentence.
What he was like on the batch. You know, I referenced Sam Woods season of The Bachelor. You can tell him in snares, we're in love from the moment they said eyes on each other. And you had to go through the whole season with him pretending. I think it's a little bit Sam and says, well.
We've heard one of your stories. It's only fair to hear what I'm buying. That's marshy. Put it. So, Mike, you give a nod to the sponsors, will. Yeah.
If they're still willing to be associated with this quality of radio.
Thanks, Mike.
You're nervous, and we're about to hear your story.
It's going to be worse. All right.
If we were going back to coach this show now, feel like. Okay, guys, we've we've now. Hi. We're Hamish and. Don't worry about the time travel stuff, but we've been, you know, we've had. We've been in the industry for a while. I think I mean, as people that are doing their very first show because you've got to start somewhere you can't you don't want to create a culture of like, don't have a go know. And, you know, we're like, we're so young. I think we're like 21 here.
So I think you'd go so young to how I feel now, but you'd I think you go like, guys, story selection. Great. You know, talk about something that is relevant to you. Probably rushing. You're rushing quite a bit, but I don't think you're confident in any of your points. And you know what? I definitely wouldn't have written any down. I would have gone. I know the gist of it. I only know that because then I did that for
the rest of my career. Yes, like I know the gist of this story and I'll it'll reveal itself as as I tell it, but.
The nervous I can just even the red light going red and just being on air. I was just so nervous every time it started when it started, because it's like we are broadcasting, we're putting ourselves out there for this and you can't. It took ages to get to the point where I don't really care. Oh, and you.
Also are so used to in real life and doing stand up, which I was doing at the time, to do go like if you get a laugh. That's funny. Yeah. If you don't, you've missed something. Yeah. And that's not how it happens on radio. You obviously aren't getting laughs the whole time. You have to kind of learn to go. I'm confident in what I'm saying. Yes is connecting. Like you don't have to just keep rushing until you get like people falling off their chairs laughing. Yeah. So that's
and that's the thing. But that's why you say that's like a whole new world. Yeah. It would have been. This would have been. Yeah. That's early, early days. Early early days. I remember that funnily enough, I, I remember that digital systems and microprocessors exam.
Well, the car also is a big part of our lives. Huge part of our lives.
We then yeah, we did a road trip, made a comedy show about it. You and I.
Did comedy festival show off the back of that.
And it kind of was like the template for every travel show we ever did then afterwards. But the I fail, I failed digital systems of microprocessors. I've got a 46. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because I remember I went to argue. I'd heard that if you get close enough to, you can argue.
Yeah, we got told that.
I tried to argue and that was where I learnt that. Gee, you need a good argument. Yeah. Because my argument was I would have liked my argument was you'd have to agree. I'm pretty close. And they're like, yeah, but that's why we have the rule of 50. We draw a line there. Yeah. All right. I just heard that if you were, if you really wanted it.
Let's have a listen back to what I was up to him. One thing Marshall pointed out about this is that apparently there was a renovation going on in the studio next door, or like a shop next door at the university. I don't remember this, but he said it's quite obvious that.
There's building going construction. Remember then what the whole uni was being rebuilt, remember? And you'd walk out and you'd be in scaffolding, right. And because I remember that because remember I used, they used often had a sausage sizzle. Yes. And there was like a quadrangle outside of this part of the university. And, and the day we did our show was always the day they had the sausages along.
And I loved getting a sausage after the show. And then they were close for months while they were renovating. I still remember the disappointment that these renovations shut the quadrangle, therefore no sausage and bread for home.
Well, what it seems like is they were down tools looking for their own sausages. The workers, when you told your story about the car and Marty says that I think they're back working construction. You might be able to hear some construction.
Just awesome. Awesome. Good on anyone that ever listened to this show. Anyone ever did. Yeah, like if someone's out there that listened for more than a minute, considering the options you had of how to spend a minute of your life. Thank you. Yeah, if you did, there's no evidence anyone ever did. But if you did, that just blows my mind.
Here we go.
No date year 2002.
Welcome back. You're from Cruise Control 90.7.
That was, uh, la the wise guys there. And before that, we had Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson. Now we've got Andy Lee talking about work related incidents.
And the third person we'll just sit back.
Might be gentlemen you are familiar with my work. But next door there's a Thai restaurant and we're trying to establish a relationship with this, this guy whose name is Dez. Um, so we can get the discount, obviously. So Wednesday, it's green curry. Wednesday.
Can I just say something? Certainly, man. I think I'd like to go and establish a relationship with the carpenters next door. I don't care what the relationship is, just as long as I end up with the hammer afterwards. Not gonna hit him. I just think it would be good for the radio show if they weren't banging on the wall. Just want to contribute. Yeah.
Well, on Wednesdays down at.
Mine, keeping the bait. Yeah.
My work. We have green curry Wednesdays. All right. Whereby we order. A grain carry on a Wednesday. So very.
Yeah. No that's like that.
Yeah that's good but and so I'm in there. I got called up by my work by Paul to go in and establish the relationship. A bit of gags going down. I've gone in and I've gone, yeah. Liz how are you doing green curry Wednesdays Liz a yeah. You know going back.
And.
I've gone the green Caribbean thing real.
Bad nickname.
I go pull the green car is looking really good. I think I really headed off with Liz and he said, sorry, come again. And I said, Liz. And he went, It's Des. And I thought, oh no good down days deep a discount L for Liz, L for losing the discount I think, which was a real problem for me. And I thought, I've ruined it forever. And I thought, I've got to establish this. I've got establish this relationship back. Yeah. I can't let this slide. I've got to go back back
in and work it out. So I got out the my work letterhead and wrote a letter for him. And here's how it went, guys. Okay. Uh. Dig it. There it goes. Um, where's that paper? Dear des, I'd like to apologize for my speech impediment. Sometimes I get DS mixed up with L's. Let me give you an example. Hi, Liz. How's it going? Quote Andy Lee 12th of June 2002. Nice. I'm sure you can see past this picture. I'd like you not to tell people because it's close to my heart. Dave. Andy. Oh, there I go again.
Seems to be a writing impediment.
So yeah, no. Won't work back from Liz so far.
Well, we will stay tuned. Wednesday is only two days away. Yeah, and I've just come from an exam, so I'm in maths mode. Yeah.
You're listening. Calling 9925 3711. And we can have a talk about it, mate, I'd like to patch things up. Anyone can call. Really? Yeah. Similar to callers who people look like sporting equipment. 9927 3711 that's right. No it's not. No, no.
It doesn't matter.
No, 9 to 5.
It'll just throw all those callers off because we get a lot for the real callers. 9925 30 711 are perfect.
Thank you very much. Time is Shaun cruise control. Oh.
What.
What a lot to unpack this.
Summer of flurries. First of all just barreling through the story which is great. We're really good. Good story I mean forming an alliance with with leaseholders. Yeah. Just the banging. So funny that we reference it once ago, but I think it's because it's like we were only allowed in once every two weeks, like, yeah, this was our time to do radio. We weren't going.
And you're only allowed six week lots. That's right.
So we had one a weekly show for six weeks and then you wouldn't get one for the next year.
I think it was the next.
6 or 12 weeks. It was a long wait. So it was like, we don't get many chances and I think we have to play 2 or 3 songs in a row or two. So if there's a carpenter, if there's someone's building a house next door, we must keep going. Yes. And good on you, because you're like, I'm going to get the flying out, I am. I don't care if I'm flying in a storm. I'm getting the hours in.
I've written a funny letter that I.
Need to read out.
I don't care how much banging is going on.
And then right at the end, I don't think that was a joke. Where we went, if you look like sporting equipment.
Yeah.
The phone topic of do you look like. I mean, considering we never got any calls anyway, I don't think we would have even tried that on a national radio show where you have millions of people listening. I feel like percentage wise, I don't think we get 2 or 3 calls out of it. Certainly not getting it, certainly not getting it on a on a community radio station. It has a broadcasting range of about 30km outside the
Melbourne CBD. While everyone's turned off minutes ago, too, because they're sick of the banging as.
An afterthought.
With with the wrong number twice. But it's really good. Remember every.