Episode Transcript
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Hey, Brad, how you going?
[00:00:16] Speaker B: G'day, mate. Very well yourself. He's cheese to another edition.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Yep. This will be number seven.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Pair of old drugs it is.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: Disappeared tonight. Al's not with us.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: No, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a little bit different.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Without Al is a little bit crooked.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: We got his music all queued up, ready to.
And I didn't understand his. What the theme. I think I know what the theme.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Was, but I couldn't understand it either. And I'm thinking it's either like a mother's day thing or. Cause I was.
And probably next week, if he's well enough and joined us, it's probably a bit too late. I was going to make a special mention for his birthday last Thursday.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he left that go quietly, didn't he?
[00:01:01] Speaker B: And I forgot about it last Monday, but then I forgot. I remembered but forgot when I was on. Yeah, on the camera.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: So I text him on Thursday and then I thought, no, I got to mention on Monday.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Yep. And I totally never happened because Facebook. Facebook normally reminds me everyone's birthdays, but Facebook have been dropping the ball. Hey.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I missed one the other day too. I can't remember which one it was. It wasn't ours.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: Yeah. If it wasn't, I wasn't Facebook. I would have missed Mother's Day as well.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: I definitely thought this was prior to him, you know, his sickness. No, I was definitely all revved up to do a little bit of a special for him on Monday, but.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Was it to be. We can't kind of wait till next week because then it's a bit too late then.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep. But, um, I do have some, some news for us, though.
Um, I've, I'm trialing something. I haven't done all the, or the intros and the starting of the shows and things, which I've got to do and I've got to get some voiceovers from Al and yourself and me.
So from 09:00 Perth time. So that's 11:00 over in Brisbane and Victoria, New South Wales, an hour of a pair of old jocks.
It's the old jocks hour between nine and ten. And basically it's playing music from the eighties and nineties. And in between every third song there's a snippet from.
There's a between 30 seconds to three minutes of us gas bagging.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: So the memories of a particular song. We've djed in our lives on that song.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
So actually notice, um, it's just what I've done. I've got the recordings of our show and I uploaded them to a bit of, um, software that, um, it takes out viral. It cuts it down to. Into viral snippets for social media. And I thought, well, why don't I just extract the audio out of that? Then I can put it in between the songs. So then when people are listening to the pop rock radio, at least between nine, nine and ten, they can hear people talking as well. Be like a real proper, full blown radio station.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: That's a great event. That's what they do.
Like, they're all like 96 FM, triple m over here, etc. They've all got that. That Saturday morning where it's all the head jockeys in that, you know, highlights, and they're just all recorded and play them on a Saturday morning.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And when they all go on holidays, they just rehash the old shows as well. There you go.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: But, um. So that's. Yeah, so people can.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: Which is probably all you're really doing.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Between nine, nine and ten, western australian time. Every day people be able to listen to us. So every show I'll just take out more snippets.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: That's during the day, isn't it? Not night now.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: During the day. Yeah.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: I should do it at night so we can do it too. Not between nine and ten. And nine and ten.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: People on the other side.
Yeah, people on the other side of the world will be waking up at that time going, let's tune into a pair of old jocks.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Yeah, pair of old jocks. Make sure. You gotta be subscribed. You gotta subscribe.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Um, I've added it to the other videos when we upload them. I've managed to.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Work some in there, but not on this one yet. You just reminded me to do that again.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Yes. We need to. We need to put. We need to get subscribers in there and. Yeah, you mentioned the other last week, we're sort of growing, so it's. That's always a good thing.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Yep. No, it's good. Yeah.
Everyone's tuning in. Slowly but surely.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: We do look forward to our Monday nights.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: Yeah. They take forever. It's like a long time to become an overnight success.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: Is there. Is there ever actually an overnight success? Unless you're Thursday night powerball or something. I don't think so.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: Oh. Did anyone.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: It's about the patience.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: It's not Thursday night tomorrow, isn't it? Yeah.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah, you said that ten minutes ago. It feels like Thursday.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm like.
Because we missed we Monday night. And, um.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: So we decided we'll do it.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: You had no power.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Do it Tuesday. And then, um. Yeah, we had the western power across the road and transformer was leaking oil from the power pole down on someone's driveway was going to blow up, so they changed it. Then Tuesday, Al got struck down with his, uh, social disease. I mean, um, he's. Yeah, migraines.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: No, what's it.
I thought that was today.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Was it today? I thought he sent that message yesterday, cuz he might.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: No, no, hang on.
Geez. You got me. You've got Wednesday, isn't it?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Today's Wednesday.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So Monday was can on the power thing.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: And then you couldn't do it yesterday for some particular reason.
And I don't know what it was. I can't remember what it was. And then today you mentioned, can we do it later? Got a meeting, which I was fine.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: Oh, is that Tuesday? Tuesday, I know Tuesday. Al said send a message saying, sorry, guys, can we reschedule? Again, not feeling the best.
That was Tuesday. So then we transfer schedule.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: There you go.
There you go.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: And then this morning. Yeah, this morning at seven. Seven, eight. He sent the message out.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's where I'm getting it confused.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: Yes.
Yeah. Anyway, we'll forgive him.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: We spoke a bit last week about the old chasers nightclub, mate. And I've got to show you, this is a memory. So I've done my five songs.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: A few weeks ago we spoke about chases and etc. And this is the. This is the. The drink that reminds me of.
Oh, yeah, Kevin Mann of the chaser days as a hunter. I remember working and bar manager, not as a dj.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I had to work for him. At Zelda's.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: Yes. You and I must have, because I opened up Zelda's with him. I was bar manager of zeldas. Him and I opened it up. Well, he did his license, but I did all that shit.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: I was only there.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: And so you and I must have. Must have worked together. But we are talking about 30 years ago.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I was djing, um, 95 in Rockingham. 95.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Yeah. So 30 years ago.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: So I would have been. Yeah, that's about. That's about right. Mid late. Mid late teens. Yes. And I was 30 something.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Or 28 something, don't I?
I want younger than I am today.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Then I went to, um. Yeah, sort of, um. What this how Alan I met, he was at, um, the leisure and I keep. Last week I called the leisure in liquids. It's the other way.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: But that's the other way around.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah. It's leisure in. Me and a friend were on because I was in the navy at the time. We're on the terps having a few drinks at the front bar, the sports bar, whatever it is, and slipping onto the bar, mate, telling me how much of a good dj I was.
And then Al walked in. Yeah, I walked in and he said he was, um, their dj man and asked if they're looking for any dj's and he said, I'll come down on the Friday night or something and, um, you know, have a. Have a bit of a play and see how I go. I said, I'll come down tomorrow. I'll come down tomorrow. Said, no, you can't come down tomorrow. We've got the strippers on. So. Ah, done. Strippers before. Done. I've done it all. I can do the stripper. So I went down that night or the next night when he had the strippers on and that was it. Started playing and never left.
It was crazy.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: So you've. You've done the work under Brian Walker and Spencer Black and so on.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Um, Spencer, yeah, I remember Spencer, but I didn't really have much to do. Them was more just throughout.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: So.
Because it was, um.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah, Brian was the pub manager and I was music promoter or something. Yeah, yeah, music manager, something like that.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
And then. Then from there, what happened? Oh, I think, yeah, I got set. Got what? The boat I was on got sent away. So, yeah, that was the end of that.
And then come back.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Then I come back on the boat and away you go.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Yep. And then come back. When I come. When we come back. I think it was 98 when I started again.
98, 99 or around 2000. Around that period. 98 in 98. I started mucking around. We started mucking around at equator room. 98 99.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Equator room.
It was. Yeah, there was. That was the new chases. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: That's when, um. John Blake.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: That's right. Because his elders.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Hey, John Blake, was that.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Yes, Blakey. Yeah. And, uh.
So it was Zelda's in the equator room, wasn't it?
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Was it zeldas and chasers?
[00:10:18] Speaker A: Um, I remember it later in. But it might have been, yeah. When it.
When it start.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Because he had that big sign on the corner that had Zelda's.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Cocktail bar or something like the big massive yellow sign. I remember him and I, we didn't lift it up. They had got a crane to do it. But it was a lot of fun in that day.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Lifting that sign up.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: A lot of fun. And, of course, Kevin Mann hasn't got the most.
A lovely bloke.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Very tight businessman. But he's. He doesn't have a very long. Sorry. He has got a very short fuse.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I found that I played a song. I think I spoke about this the other week, or last week. I said I played a song on and he didn't know it, and he went off his tree.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Get rid of that song or get out.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: He was. It was all. Even a Reggie that I was bar manager there. Or even if I was just up there getting pissed, he'd say the same him. And I'd be telling you, what's this shit? Get this shit off.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: You know, and it could be. It could be Reggie Blakey and yourself. Brandon, I think, did a couple of gigs there as well.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it was, um. Yeah, it was really, really bizarre he was there, but I never actually. After Zelda's, I never. Never really had much to do with him, even back around, because I used to muck around in a quiet. Never used to get paid to play there. But that's how. How I met Brandon and.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Oh, God, yeah. Yeah.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Because I was in there mucking around one night and he turned around, said, oh, we're going up. He's going to be going up to liquids to run then if I wanted to work there with him.
Yeah. I said, yeah, that's when.
Yeah. I said, I'll be in that. That's when the Merko brothers split and Peter Co took over. And then I said to him, so I said, I wanted to go there. I'll take someone else to come and play with me. And that was Alex, who had six CDs to his name at the time, and he wanted to learn. So I was like, yeah, come on. Come on, learn. It's not that hard to really. To learn how to do it. And I had heap of CDs that he could use as well. So I went up there to have a look around to do a bit of investigating because all I heard from Brandon was, do you want to come up and play? Here's my number. Give me a call. And I called him and he was telling me, yeah, yes. All happening, but don't tell anyone. Sort of secret squirrel stuff. But no one could ever. Yeah, no one could say anything. And I went up there looking, what's going on? You know, the next thing you know, we're in the dj. And it was. It was dead.
It was.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Took a long time to get off its heels.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we took it, we went from, this is what my gripe was with the club was that we were told that we'd get paid $200. That was the rate we were offered for the weekend's work and for the.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Weekend or per night?
[00:13:10] Speaker A: The weekend.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, because only, because they, they only had 450 people through the door on their peak nights through for the whole night. So they had they sitting, accounting people going in and coming out. And the max I had was 400, 450 people. The places license was 2000 people downstairs, 200 upstairs.
And then.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's that capacity. So you'd want that place pumping. And we got it.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: And what's the entry? $10. Yeah, at that. Back in the nineties.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Um, it took us eight weeks to get it. Within eight week mark we had a full to capacity.
We got, we had that place rocking and pumping. Um, and one of the issues was when I went up, say, well, when, when do we get our increase? And there was no increase coming. I. Well, I'm not sticking around for this because we're, I kid you not, we were there, I was there most of the time, rebuilding the lights, building the sound system, rewiring the cameras. So the cameras, the cameras that were controlled from the DJ box worked.
They're hanging off scaffolding, pulling lights down, putting lights up, reprogramming the computer because I was the only one that could work out how to reprogram the computer because when they left, they just destroyed everything.
And Jesus had it, had it literally rebuilt. And yeah, I was there from Thursday to Sunday and you know, my girlfriend at the time, you know, she never saw me. I was there doing stuff and. For $200.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: For $200.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And then it never comes, so. But I think, I think, um.
I don't know how long Brandon was there for.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Oh, look, he made his wife there. Is that Barbara, a few other people as well.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: He would have been. He was pretty sure he was. He was the original, wasn't he? Started it up, didn't he?
[00:15:16] Speaker A: No, it was the DJ on the.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: Night they opened up.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Not that I'm aware. He coming after, he coming after, he coming like he coming after the split and when Peter, the Merko brothers split it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he coming after that.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: So he finished his Zelda's gig.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: The strippers. And then went to liquids. Or did he go upstairs and then after that went to liquids? Because upstairs only now upstairs would have a 03:00 a.m.. License. Upstairs where chases or equator.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah, I think he went up. He might have gone there. So I.
Because I was in there, obviously, at equator and mucking around. So he must have been downstairs. I'm not. I'm not sure. This one. I catch up with him and find out. He's, um.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: He's stories, right?
[00:15:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, there'll be some stories on that one. Because it was a viewers.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Pardon? Yeah, because I want to find out, because there was a manager there.
I can't remember the manager's name from liquids because they'd all come.
They come up. It was all weird. Something weird went down that I wasn't privy to, but. But I left there and ended up going to Kalgoorlie.
I was running, um. Yeah, had to. Had a club and bar.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: What's that one out there? Is that the national? What's the one out there now?
[00:16:29] Speaker A: The one I was at was no longer there anymore. Was, um, 181. Not 181, 105. 151. The hook is a one eight one. The nightclub is 151, straight across.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Good to see you still got those numbers in your head.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: But, um. Yeah, yeah, that's another thing. We. I went there too, because they were. They were struggling and they had to have. They had a goal. They needed to make 18 grand a weekend on Friday and Saturday night. So they needed to make 18 grand to make. That's what the owner wanted to make. To make budget.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Budget or profit? To get into profit.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: To get into sucking into profit.
18 grand was the minimum he needed to make. And. Yeah, and that paid everyone's bills.
Paid everyone. And I went in there and within.
Within about two weeks, we were doing 18 grand a night.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: Holy shit.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah, the place was pumping.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: No doubt getting a bit more than $200 there.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I was supposed to. I had a deal with the owner that I would go in there, increase the revenue to exceed what he wanted, and then he would. Then he would lease it to me.
I'd take over the lease of the, um, the hotel and the bar downstairs, the nightclub upstairs.
But the man. But what happened was instead of giving me full power, he had a manager on top of me. So I would have only do. I'd only have certain powers to do things. And the manager knew that. Well, the manager knew he was out of a job because I wasn't going to keep him on. And so, um. Yeah, he. He caused a lot of grief, a lot of grief for me. And so I ended up just walking away from the deal. I said, look, my reputation is worth a lot more than then running your pub. Running your bar.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: And, uh, that's what I learned from Al, you know, like you, the music side of it, it's pretty much music and cold tap beer.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: And if you've got two there, you. That's your flour and sugar.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: And everything else will make the trifle or make the pub work.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Pretty much it.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Yep, that's right. And you get the, you get the right music going. Because the way we. Why I said I should like divide the bar up into groups of people and I would just move them around the club. You have your drinkers, you have your dancers and people on toilet break and you make people drink at the bar. If you're not drinking at the bar, you're not making any money, you're not gonna have any job. So. And, um. And if the bars too full, no one can get served. So you put on good music that drags people away from the bar to make it easier for the bar staff.
Now you go into a nightclub or anything and the dj's, there's got his same half a dozen songs on repeat on his laptop there and he's just auto sync and it's so easy to do. You just drop the base on one and the base up on the other as long as you're in the ballpark of the beats per minute and the, um. And you're on the same key or around the same key.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: There's no distortion or anything like that.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: No. Yeah, you just.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: We went to a. I'm going to tell you a story about that. Similar to that one. Went to a Melbourne. We went to Melbourne last Christmas from a wife's Christmas party and went to a piano bar in, I think was in Carlton.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: And. Lovely place. A typical Melbourne weather. Pissed down raining. It was all inside, obviously. We go outside for dark, pissed down raining, but humid. And we've come from Brisbane so there's no jacket required.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: Is that a Phil Collins? That's Phil Collins, yeah. No jacket required. Anyway, um, so the way it was set up is they had the piano bar at one side. They had a little bit of an entry into another side, which at that time, early in the evening was just open.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Very smart move the way they do it. So they have everyone have their dinner and they build up the momentum on their, on their duet. Piano. Great, great duet. And, and then they deliberately stop and I think from memory it's 09:00.
And they go, you know, the hotel guests upstairs, we have a curfew now of 08:00. However, 09:00, whatever is, however, if you want to continue on merge next door, we've got piano set up in there. We're going to continue there. Point I'm making here is what a great setup. You've got some entertainment while you're having dinner.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: You get the. As long as you see feet moving, you've got them. Doesn't matter how. That's how I always did a week, looking at people's feet. And then you, um. Then you. Then you're separating the people that have got babysitters to meet.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: And the people that want a great night out.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: And then you change the momentum. Music post 09:00 p.m. And then everyone leaves at midnight with a great vibe.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: Yep. Yep.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: It's the same thing to a pub. You pick your corners where people are watching the footy or the rugby, having a smoke and that. And then you pick the corners of. As a hench party. Yeah.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: No, it's not hard to do, but nowadays it's so much harder. It is hard to do now because you can't.
You can't do anything.
No, you can't, um, you know, responsible service of alcohol. Yeah, that's okay. Understand that. But you go out and you see it all the time. People getting one punch, knockouts and deaths and, ah, people just want to go out.
[00:21:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Stabbings. The disco line.
Happens in every city.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I think a lot of that. Well, there's a lot of different reasons for that, but in a club itself, they can control that by the music they play.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Which attracts the market. You say if you go in and you start playing music that's aggro and crazy music, you're gonna attract angry people.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: You play music or create them into an angry person.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you pump that vibe up. That's what happened when we're at liquids. If we. When we were there, we knew the security staff really well and we could, you know, we could just pinpoint if there's any issues happening, security could get there before anything broke out and we could change the music and bring the vibe down so they weren't so hyped up or anything. But nowadays it's. Yeah.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: Wasn't the security manager there, Eddie Kiwi guy, he came from equator, which Kevin, he went over to liquids and he. Him and him and Kevin got a massive argument. And Eddie, which is what we are talking 30 years ago.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I know there's a guy there. He was. He was well dressed in a suit. He used to turn up in a suit. He made sure. All he. Because he ran the security business. They had a, like a proper security business going.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: It would have been night watch security. Uh, I'm not sure either rumble d or, uh, coming the other guy's name. But they were partners. They're now. Not yet.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: But because I know that premium security had chases.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: And this is how I got to know Ron. Ron, who's the proprietor of premium security. Yeah, I got to know him 30 years ago with being the bar manager at Chase's.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: And he gave me my bodyguard license 13 years ago.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. No, all I remember is they used to be well dressed. They were not intimidating.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: They were not very polite.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Yeah, very polite. And they knew how to escort people out without making a scene.
Now that, now you just get a bouncer in there and they just want to beat the shit out of everyone.
So pumped up.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: It's actually a funny, a funny story about that. I was there. I think it was would be 20, probably 21 years ago.
My wife at the time and I were at the park just having a few drinks.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: These couple of guys came over, started harassing us. We weren't doing anything wrong, etcetera. Anyway, um, we go back to the one punch hit. So I had the one punch hit, and then they started on her. And there was about three of them. So it was literally less than 100 meters away from liquids.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: So we're probably talking in 102.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: And so I ran over there and spoke to the bouncers in, like, my wife's over there with two or three guys, but. And there was two of those bouncers that came over. They got them, but they only held them for the. For coppers. They didn't get. They weren't Superman.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Um, but that's just reiterating what you were saying there, you know, like, that's what they were like.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Nowadays, I did say we're not supposed to do this, but. Yeah.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Yes. They go outside of the building. They're not covered, are they?
[00:25:01] Speaker B: They're not covered. No, but they. If they're contractors, but it doesn't matter. But anyway, yeah, so they did the right thing. And, you know, as you say, you wouldn't get too many of those now. No, because, yes, they'd be putting their gloves on as they're crossing the road.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Guys.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: Now.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Taking their scaffolding gloves off and putting their boxing gloves on.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Oh, mate. So many, so many concerts I've worked at.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: You know, with the front stage, backstage. Doesn't matter. And you hear it, you're hearing it on your two way radio that you know so and so here's got into a fight and you go and have a chat to them because you're a senior guard and it's like, what happened? And he might have called him a name or something like that.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: It's like, come on, you know you're.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Supposed to be professional behind that high vis shirt with a badge around your neck.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: Doesn't make you a police officer.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Queensland cops are.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: They probably are, yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Was it.
I'm trying to think of that comedian, dude.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Oh, shit, mate. There's a few of them.
[00:26:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
Rodney Roode.
Ever song Queensland cops back in the day? Yeah, I think probably.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Did he.
Is it Rodney Root or Kevin bloody Wilson? Nice. Kevin Bloody Wilson lives on West Coast highway.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Kevin Wilson. Yeah.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Yeah. He lives next to Peter Pete.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't even know who that is from P real estate.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: All this. Real estate agent in. Yeah, yeah, on West coast over there.
Where's Rodney Rudley? Is he wa man?
[00:26:45] Speaker A: No, he's over east.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: He's always one of our cause.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I'm pretty sure he used to be ex navy as well.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: I've got a feeling he was too. Yeah, he's still constantly. Is it. Isn't he still out there?
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Ah, I'm not sure.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: He doesn't advertise.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he does.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure Wilson doesn't do anymore. Pretty sure he doesn't.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So, um.
Yeah, we could have our speed break.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I don't need one. We got. We have to look after Al. I know that.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
I just got a sense of message coming. I'm being rude and sending text messages while working.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah, as long as it's not where you're driving.
Did you know. Did you know what the fines are over here, mate? We were pissed ourselves laughing last week when the New South Wales government were putting up their fines.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: And if in New South Wales, I think it's July 1, whatever you get caught on your phone, it's $435 and three demerit points.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it is over here somewhere.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: It's gone up.
You know it. Is he, mate. Twelve hundred dollars and four points. First offense. Doesn't matter. No, no, first offense. Highest in the country. Cordon, can't you seat belt. If you see belts here like this, you do put your seatbelt like that. If you go like this just to stretch it to loosen shoulder or something and the camera gets you 1200 bucks.
They are ripped.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: But you've got a hell of a crime rate in the city in that, don't you? And kids running a mark. It's almost as bad as our gold coins.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: Gold coast man is shocking. Yeah, Gold coast and Logan, Logan's like, or whatever you say it's like, it's probably Logan. Well Logan's, Logan's like a, like a Rockingham and then you've got all, you know, waikiki and safety bay and all that around us. So Logan is like Rockingham and you've got all these suburbs, subdivisions under it. Yeah, don't get in there at night. No, don't get along.
Yeah, it's Logan on the Gold coast. Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: Pretty crazy, isn't it?
[00:29:02] Speaker B: It is, yeah, it is. It's, it's pretty hard over here.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: So we know. We've been talking about Brandon a bit. So he's still djing, is that right?
[00:29:11] Speaker B: He's got his own business. Off, off the wall promotions. Yeah, he does it. Does all the weddings. He does dj festivals and expos. Yeah.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Oh wicked. That's good. Yeah.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: So if any, any viewers want to dj for upcoming weddings off the war.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: Promotions because I know, I just, I couldn't do weddings. I did a few and not for me. I'm too busy partying on.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: When I did them there was some where you look at you thinking, fuck, is it only 1030? I thought, yeah, twelve enemy.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: You still got an hour and a half to go. And then there's some going, geez, that not went quick, man. I was having a blast. It really, it depends on the crowd you're going to be playing. Your eighties or nineties or o's and you know, some people might still want the sixties and some want today.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I remember telling how, I don't know if you're in on the story.
I got asked if I could do a, an engagement party.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: No, I didn't.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: Tell me this one, huh? Yeah, it was a local one in Rockhampton. That's an engagement party. And the guy said, oh, all the gears going to be there when you turn up. But when I got there, um, the guy that, who was leaving had to go to a gig because he was, it was a guy who asked me to do it. It was his son or stepson or something. He was going off to do a gig so I jumped in and he packed up his CD players and left me with one CD player. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, DJ engagement party, DJ anything with one CD player. I said, oh, didn't he tell you? I said no. He said everything would be here, ready to go. And I'm like, oh, man, that's a.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: How did you get out of that one?
[00:30:54] Speaker A: I did. I just played, um, play a song and then stop. And while I'm queuing up the next song, I was talking on the mic doing mc stuff and then put the next song on and then play.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: So I see you just pretty much microphoned it every three and a half minutes.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, people get sick of me.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: But 10 seconds.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, people get sick of me.
[00:31:18] Speaker B: If you, if you, if you're good with the bullshit coming out of your mouth, sometimes you get them to laugh and sometimes I'll chuck letters at you.
[00:31:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, it was all right. We survived and got through it. Yeah. That's when I know that I'm not doing any more of them gigs. I'd rather work in the clubs.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: It's, it's weird. Like, to me, weddings are the most easiest because at the end of the day, whether you're mcing, whether you're not, you're physically really only playing music for two and a half hours at best.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: At best.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Because I am.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: But you're getting paid for eight or 9 hours.
[00:31:53] Speaker A: Yeah. I did a couple of jobs in like some weddings when I was djing up in Cannes.
And the guy I worked for, he would, he would go out and make all these promises to the client, tell them that I had certain music and I'd be playing. I have. What? He'd sit down and go, yeah, DJ's got that wedding song. That wedding song. Yep, no worries. And I'll turn up to the weddings and I'll be like, where's your music for the, for the bridal waltz and the rest of it? They go, no, no, you're supposed to have it. I'm like, nope, not this man. Not me. You're supposed to spot this music.
And many a time I got caught out and I was like, no, I can't do this anymore. I'm not.
And then, um. No, yeah, because in the club you can just.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: I know Brandon. He's, and he's only just pulled out. Uh, there was, there's a bar just up the other side of Matagara bridge, Madagara bridge, whatever it's called. It's a small bar there. Everyone just meets up and they have fully games.
[00:32:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: And he does it there.
I think it was 4 hours, I think from memory, whatever. It was $500.
[00:32:54] Speaker A: What? It was in Perth.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Just, just behind Gloucester park.
Yeah. The whacker.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: All right. Yeah. Yep.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: There's a little bar. When we get him on we'll chat about it.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Anyway, but he's. I asked him if he still does that. He said no. He said because what it basically is everyone really goes to the beat, the pubs or I go to the footy early or whatever it is. So, so it's really only catering for maybe 500 people.
[00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: And when you're paying a DJ to be there for 4 hours and you've got 500 people that might be spending say $50 each, it's two and a half, maybe $3,000. So let's go 4000 at best. He's chewing 600. Plus you got past half. Got worth it.
[00:33:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:33:36] Speaker B: And that Sunday, if it's a Sunday game, it's even worse.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I wouldn't mind knowing what the rates are nowadays. So.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: I fucking no idea, man. Yeah, no idea. Well he does. When he does, like there's one that I could not do anything bar on a wedding because you know, like I've done eighties parties and all that. But you're looking at engagements and eighties and 21st. You've got to play music for, for minimum 6 hours or dance music for probably four at the minimum.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: And you got to be good to keep that dance floor pumping. You got to know what they want.
[00:34:10] Speaker A: Oh yeah. And it's good if you come. If you're doing it at a time when there's a viral song on because you can just slip that in every second song and they're too drunk to know.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Regardless of the age. That last hour, it always seems to be a seventies hour.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: Because the 18 year olds all of a sudden sing and dance to the seventies music between eleven and twelve before they gotta shut the bar.
[00:34:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy how people get old really quickly at the end of the night knowing all this old shit.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Oh, so that John, that was it. John Denver. What's the song? John Denver.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: Any song.
What's his big country road.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: That's it. That's it. Country road. So I think Brisbane Lions are the only ones that do it.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: When they play at the Gabba.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: They don't do it. Any other stadium they have. Goal kickers have their own song. So Charlie Cameron, country road is his song.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: Every time he kicks a goal they'll play 30 or 40 seconds of country road.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:21] Speaker B: And it's funny because the camera will go around the stadium and you'll see 10, 12, 15 year olds singing word for word to a 32nd version of the chorus.
So whether they've been. Whether they've inherited that from Charlie Cameron, AFL, I've got no idea. And then you look at Jim Beam. Who's Jim Beam? Advertising with Neil Diamond. Sweet Caroline.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't. That guy's going crazy. It's bloody throwing my head in.
Everywhere you go. Sweet Caroline. And it gets in your head, you can't get it out. It's like, oh, you just got it in there. Now.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: What was, you know, like, how long has that extended chorus been out for? Unbelievable.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Which one?
[00:36:06] Speaker B: The, you know, it's got sweet Carol.
So good, so good, so good.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Someone's probably remixed it.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely been a remix. And it's. I said to my wife, it was. It was when I first heard it, which was literally only last year. So whether it's been out for years and I just haven't heard her, I don't know.
And I said, you know what sanitarium may be spewing on that because they got that probably out at the moment called. So good.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: And, uh, I bet you they lost out the marketing rights for that, so.
[00:36:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We should get a hold of some of them liquor companies or something. Get them to sponsor. Sponsor, sponsor art.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: I reckon that's worthy of it.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: Yeah, they should. Yep.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: I don't know what's. I don't know what's involved. I've got no idea how to get.
[00:36:58] Speaker A: In front of them.
Yeah, you do know or don't know?
[00:37:02] Speaker B: No, I don't. No idea.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: No. We're only small fries. We wouldn't get. Wouldn't be anywhere near them.
Wouldn't be. They wouldn't do anything.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: I mean, you'd be the only one that would be able to sort of get in front of them, you know, and do the disc jockey type or the rad, not disjoint. Sorry, the radio announcing type talk of, you know, we can do this because I'm sure as hell don't know that. The computer inside of it.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: Yeah. If we can get in front of someone, be great. But lot of people just have their wallets.
That's crazy.
[00:37:32] Speaker B: So what's the sort of advertising? What, they have a. Like a ten second pocket or they. They have it, like, us three. Mention their particular name every two minutes. Or, like, how do those sort of contractual areas work?
[00:37:46] Speaker A: Oh, we'd have to. We'd have to say, mention them all the time.
But, yeah, you know, it'll be like the.
For Al and we're just switching over to the palt.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: So if it's a two minute statement, it'll work with Al.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: And then we can, we can, like, put it on the radio station. You know, it's sponsored by, you know, whatever the beer company or whatever company it is. It could be anything.
And then we can decorate the website.
You know, we can put advertising banners on the website, links on the website and everything is.
Yeah, we've got every base covered. It's just a matter of finding people because we.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: I don't know who the company is that does Jim Beam. I mean, Jim beams in one now.
[00:38:39] Speaker A: Yeah, but see that they want markets where they've got, you know, tens of thousands of people.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So that all the big boys do.
[00:38:49] Speaker A: Yeah, we're in a bucks. Yeah.
We're yet to crack. Ten k we got going through the numbers were five, eight on one Facebook channel, 1500 on another Facebook channel, a few hundred on YouTube.
Yeah.
[00:39:11] Speaker B: So people are just gonna subscribe, just listeners just out there and subscribe and.
[00:39:15] Speaker A: Yeah, but we got.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: The more we get, the better chance we've got.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: Yeah. We get about 300 listeners on both. Across both radio stations every day.
So that's not too bad. So hopefully, because what it is is basically you got to sink money into just to promote the radio station. And bits and pieces.
[00:39:37] Speaker B: Like we said earlier, mate, it's. You got to spend it to make it. But, yeah, what's the ratio? Who knows? There's no crystal ball.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: No. So you need the advertising revenue to come in to be able to sink back into the radio station to boost.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: That up and into the station.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but it'll happen. It'll happen. It's been growing since day one, so it's not like it's not growing.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: It's funny, when I. When Al first told me that, that he created a podcast, he said, you know, paul, I might know the face and the list goes on.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: And he was excited.
Exactly. And you put a. Yeah, he was. So he was like a kid opening up on top of toy.
[00:40:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: Telling me about the first or second episode that you did of recording. So, yeah, definitely honored to be that special guest. And then, you know, you have like a permanent fixture.
Yeah, I'm now the vase.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
So I was on to him for ages going, yeah, what are you doing? What are you doing? Because he kept saying to me, what's the go with your radio station? I said I'd keep explain it. I said, do you want to do a show? Do you want to do a show? And he's like, yeah, no, I'm retired. I'm retired. I said, ah. And then I said to him one day, I said, do you want to do a podcast?
So let's do a podcast.
I said, we'll call it a pair of old jocks. There's two of us there chewing the fat, having a drink, and, uh. Yeah, and that's it. So now we. We just wait for him to get all the other guys, Reggie and Brandon, and have a chat with them and.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: Lee Brandon with me. I'll leave him with me on that one.
It's a pity I'm in Perth in July.
[00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: And it would really be good. And I don't know if we're going to struggle with time because obviously I'm okay, but you guys still got to work. I can take time off, you know, it'd be great. Even.
[00:41:30] Speaker A: It's.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Even if it's just a beer at a pub and just get someone to take a photo of the. Of the three jocks.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Oh, no. What?
[00:41:36] Speaker B: The trio jocks.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: I'd come down with and put that on a.
No, I'd come down with a laptop. I'd come down with a laptop. I'd come down with a computer and the cameras. And a camera. And a couple of cameras and would sit in the pub doing it. Yeah.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Oh, wouldn't that be. How good would that be?
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Oh, it'd be great. It'd be even be better if they could sit up on a stage and just chew the fat and take questions from people as well. That'd be.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: See, that's.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: We'll take it on the road then. We're on the road then.
[00:42:09] Speaker B: It's unfortunate. Like, I'm there for. I'm best mad at my mate's wedding.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: Yeah. We can all go there. We can all go there and take a turn DJing.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: And Brandon's djing it.
There you go.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: Look at that.
[00:42:25] Speaker B: That's about the first time. I'll probably get him on. Would be live.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Oh, no, it'd be great.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's, um. Would have been perfect. But, you know, obviously I'll have wedding formal duties on the Saturday morning, but. Yeah, what a way that would have been.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And we get in, or get in a van and start driving across Australia.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: Big flashy neons on top of the.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: Van, owl on the back, dressed up like Priscilla.
[00:43:00] Speaker B: Pair of old priscillas.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: Yeah. That would be crazy.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: That would be a. That's. That's a mate. Yeah. That would be a great idea for that to happen.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Just for. Just for shits and giggles to start with.
[00:43:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: See how the subscribers go.
[00:43:17] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we'll get it going.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: And, uh.
[00:43:20] Speaker A: Because what we're doing now is that because of the software I got, it creates all these little shorts. I don't know if you've seen the channel, the YouTube channel, lately. I was doing a quick refresh on the screen over there.
Yeah. What? The latest video. The latest videos. Brad killed Prince.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: Brad called Prince killed.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Killed.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Ah, Brad killed Prince.
[00:43:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
We're talking about, um.
It's. It's funny because I rushed is pretty. It's rushed. And all you can see is Al there with his, uh, he's, um, brown hat.
Yeah. So I've been, um.
[00:44:07] Speaker B: Al and his brand hat. Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: See, uh, YouTube.
[00:44:12] Speaker B: Here we go.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: Excuse me. Yes. It's the very first short.
It's partially blocked.
It's been broke because it's got the.
[00:44:20] Speaker B: Word killed in it.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: No, it's been blocked because of the print song.
Ah, yeah, you can hear the prints in the background. It's only. It's blocked in, um, Belarus and Russia, so.
[00:44:33] Speaker B: No, here we go. You killed off. There it is.
[00:44:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: That's a pair of old jocks. Yep.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: There's not too bad, considering we've got only a handful of subscribers on there at the moment. It's not doing too bad.
See if we can get it go viral.
It's gonna say. Here we go. Looking at the analytics. Oh, it's going up and up and up.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's.
Why did we.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Pardon?
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Um, it's. It's one of those, uh. I can't believe we, um.
We got locked out of that one.
[00:45:16] Speaker A: I know. I've got it sort. It's all back. We've got it back. We got it all.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: We've got it back in.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Yeah, no, we're all. We're back in the good books with them, so.
Yeah, they know because we get a fine. Yeah, well, I had all the music queued up for out.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: Well.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: What, mate?
I don't know what. I don't know what.
[00:45:37] Speaker A: We'll keep it for next week.
[00:45:39] Speaker B: We'll go right back to the beginning. So the theme is, to me, it was either Mother's day or about his birthday.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Yeah. What is what I say in the chat?
[00:45:49] Speaker B: Something about, I think you said Mother's day.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Yeah, tasmanian Mother's day.
Yeah, because something like.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: Yeah, but I, looking at it, I sort of read into it a little bit and I thought you were on it. I thought, no, you're on that.
[00:46:07] Speaker A: You can't, because, like, I want to kiss you all over. You can't send that to your mom unless you're tasmanian.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: You can't send that to your mom. And that's.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: That's with a tasmanian. Mother's day coming to it, buddy. Uh, are you allowed to say that.
[00:46:18] Speaker B: I don't know, back or. They got the china girl. Yeah, you did, uh, Betty Davis eyes, so it's eyes.
[00:46:27] Speaker A: I know.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: I think I know what lips.
[00:46:29] Speaker A: I know what the theme is.
I'm just pouring myself another drink. I'm using the responsible service of alcohol. 30 mil drink into my glass.
It was hits that you didn't know were covers.
Okay, so David Bowie didn't know what covers?
[00:46:56] Speaker B: Or these are the covers.
[00:46:57] Speaker A: No, what he's got. I've downloaded both versions, the original and the COVID so.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: Oh, well, he's. He's actually spelt that in here.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: Bennett. Oversized Kim Khan's. Also Jackie Daddada. Have a guess what the theme is. Yeah, he's told us what the theme is. Exactly what you've just said.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So if you put. If we put this one on.
Let me see if I can get it.
Yeah. Here we go.
This is Jackie Shannon.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: Never heard that version. Never heard it.
Well done, Al.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So this was, I think, early seventies.
The 72 or 74.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Puberty.
I'll have a count. This song.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: I have never heard of this song. So did Kim can't buy the words to this song or did she write it and Jackie bought the words?
[00:48:09] Speaker A: No, Kim Khan's would have.
[00:48:10] Speaker B: No, Kim Kards was the copy of it. It was an 80 song for her.
[00:48:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So that was like ten years later. This is it.
Where is it? Where's the volume? Oz?
It's got the 86 going.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: Mmm.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: Her hair is hollow gold.
This is the first one.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: We all know she looks old and wrinkly now.
I saw her. She was.
She was the supporting act to Barry Gibb.
[00:48:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: The palladium in Victoria. In Melbourne. St. Kilda. Probably ten years ago. 2014.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Kings can't support a Barry Gibbie.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:49:01] Speaker B: And then, um, brought this table and we go. No, we're from Perth.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: No.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Jesus, you must love Bee geez.
My wife loves them.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
Who did we lose recently?
Eric Carmen.
Remember Eric Carmen died a few months.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: Back when I did.
Didn't hear that.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: You know. You do know Eric Carmen. I don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hungry eyes and. Yes.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Yes. That was the moment. Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: He died a few months back.
[00:49:39] Speaker B: Did not know that. Yeah, I thought I was going to reach out and go, Tina Turner. But that was. And that was last year.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: Yeah, she's.
That's how you know when you get old. Is that all the people that you used to listen to on the radio? Ones that falling off the perch?
Yeah.
[00:49:52] Speaker B: So I want to kiss you all over us. So I know the exile one.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Yeah, this is the exile one.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: I love this song.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: I can't remember hearing no mercy.
[00:50:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Um. Where is it gonna find it? Here it is.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:14] Speaker A: I remember this one. I think I have heard this one before.
Oh, my God.
I don't know if you can take.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: It seriously, but you would win a fancy dress coming in like that, mate. What are you dressed as? Exile.
[00:50:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I remember, yeah.
[00:50:43] Speaker B: Oh, I did not know this is what the band looked like.
That looks like Glenn Shorrick.
[00:50:51] Speaker A: I do remember this version. I know it was a remix.
I just wanted to get to.
[00:50:59] Speaker B: So exile bought the words.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: This is original.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: That's original.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: So no mercy is the cop. So they wrote it. Exile wrote.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: This is no mercy.
They put the.
I have spanish version, the spanish guitars to it.
This is good music to nightclubs and pubs and get my girlies up dancing massively.
Yeah.
[00:51:45] Speaker B: This is a great version.
[00:51:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it is.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: I'm actually gonna put that on my Spotify. I like that.
I think my partner's daughter, she's 21, she'd love this song.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: She probably goes, and then I'll play the exile version.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: These guys had a couple of hits. I can't remember the other one.
Yeah, they've done all right.
[00:52:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they've done all right.
[00:52:16] Speaker A: See the video clips back then?
[00:52:18] Speaker B: I like that version.
[00:52:19] Speaker A: Yeah. In the early nineties and that. You could like the video clips.
You could have a couple of you. Yeah. You try to do a video clip like that now, unless you're pitbull or someone or a rapper.
Excuse me.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: Nah, nah, wouldn't work, mate.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: We'll get rid of that.
And then this one was the one that got me.
[00:52:45] Speaker B: China girl. David, Iggy Pop. Guess the fame.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Okay.
Was he the original? He didn't pop the original.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: That's a good question.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: I think he was.
[00:53:01] Speaker B: I think he was.
Because David Bowie released this, I think, in 84, 85.
[00:53:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: Iggy Pop was in his hit writing music in the late seventies.
[00:53:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: So I'm gonna put money on eggy pot rotor.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: He looks like one next door neighbor.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: I thought they were guitarist. The bot was David Bowie.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: No, but the icky pop looks like he's got a music gear at the back.
I could be living next door to Iggy Pop. I don't know about. Does Iggy Pop living wa.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: I thought Iggy Pop died about two years ago, but anyway, we'll go with that.
I'm pretty sure he did. Let's google it.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: So I'm on my phone.
Yeah.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Iggy Pop.
Yeah.
[00:53:49] Speaker A: I didn't know you died.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: American singer. He lives in America, so you're not far off there, mate. We'll leave it at that.
[00:53:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:55] Speaker B: Wikipedia.
47.
No, he's still alive. He got an award in 2020.
So.
Original born.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:54:10] Speaker B: No, he's still alive and kicking at 77. Good luck in the great song.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: Hang in there. Keep going.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: Alive and kicking.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:54:21] Speaker B: Don't just. You just prove me wrong. God, he doesn't look. He doesn't look much different from mended. It does now. No, I know.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: It doesn't. Keep you young, keeps you locked in at whatever age you're at.
[00:54:35] Speaker B: It does. This is one song I never. I never took a look liking to. I don't know. I went and saw David Bowie's, my first concert at the entertainment center in Perth. I was on row six and my girlfriend at the time. And I was in 1983, David Bowie. I think it was November 4 or something. November 5. We went to this warehouse in Northbridge. We just met up with some strangers and some friends. Have a couple of joints back then. That's what you do. And went and saw David Bowie modern love concert and he had the yellow suit on.
First concert I've ever. In fact. This will blow you away, Paul. I still. When we unpacked everything when we moved to Brisbane. Yeah, I still have the entertainment center ticket.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:55:24] Speaker B: Which could actually be even worth money now. Who knows?
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Frame it. Frame it. Yeah.
[00:55:28] Speaker B: And Duran Duran.
[00:55:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
Was it. My first show that I went to that I remember was Underworld.
[00:55:41] Speaker B: That's what was their song.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: Under the. Nice.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: That's it. They won here. Wonder they can't be if you went to a concert now.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: They had underwater have had a few, but they're more on the dance trance, techno, electro scene, so.
[00:56:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that makes. That makes sense.
I never took a liking to this song and I don't know why.
[00:56:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: The other one I did like from David Bowie was the movie Mister Lawrence. Merry. Is it merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence.
[00:56:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Merritt. Yep. That's the one.
[00:56:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And what was the song out of that one?
There was one of his hit songs on there.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: I like modern love. That's probably the one I like.
[00:56:29] Speaker B: Modern love. Yeah, that's his. Yeah, that. I agree. That's his best song. That's that song I still put up for born the cow.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'm surprised they went with China girl instead of modern love in the wedding singer.
[00:56:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But you know, Al, he'll just pick three and he's probably got 30 in his head.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: Very similar to me. When you say, Brad, give us your top five. Well, can we make it ten? Because I missed out, you know.
[00:56:59] Speaker A: Is it your top five from which genre of music, which era?
[00:57:02] Speaker B: Which. Yeah. Or was it yesterday on the radio station? Top hit eighties. Now I like.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: I know it's crazy, but. Yeah.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: Anyway, but then obviously three weeks ago, whenever it was, you know, I didn't realize of the severity of. Of downloading and licenses of music, etc, etc. So it's not like, you know, we're sitting there playing golf on the way. 03:00 in the morning and. Yeah, let's put YouTube, this song on. It's a little bit more.
[00:57:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:31] Speaker B: Serious than that.
[00:57:33] Speaker A: But you're talking about, um, DJ gonna be doing. There's a guy at work, he DJ's and, uh, he reckons he does all this stuff. But I want to find out for a friend who knows him. He goes by the name of Pat Boy Slim.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: I've seen his van.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: Have.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. When I was a rep in Perth. Yeah, Pat boy Slim, I didn't know.
[00:57:55] Speaker A: If he had a van or.
[00:57:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I've seen the van. Yeah, yeah. I've got a feeling he's got private number plates as well, but I've seen it.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Because I remember seeing at the lights or on the freeway, that's. I've been out of Perth for three years.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I don't.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: Is it his business or. He's just a dj contracted for them and he'd have to be his business because.
[00:58:17] Speaker A: Well, he goes by that name, Pat boy Slim, but I reckon he's copied. He's probably copied someone because he's, he's, he's not. It's not his full time DJ is not his full time gig.
[00:58:27] Speaker B: Well, it's. I don't know if there's a legal loophole with the spelling. So one could be phat, one could be Pat. And you can't use fat.
[00:58:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Gonna have to Google that shit. Thank God. Where would we be without Google?
[00:58:43] Speaker B: Oh, fuck, mate, I've gotta go and see. I've got a site meeting tomorrow and I ring up the boss going, what I do about XYZ? He has, mate. Just google it, it'll tell you.
[00:58:52] Speaker A: Yeah, they got fat boy slim but not fat boy Slim.
[00:58:59] Speaker B: No, I'm pretty sure, madam. I'm 99% sure. That rings a bell.
[00:59:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: Seeing that van or car on the.
[00:59:04] Speaker A: Freeway, this guy, I asked him about DJ. Oh, yes, easy. You just play with the girls want. You just play r and B. And I'm like, no, no, no.
[00:59:19] Speaker B: You can't, Mike, you can't.
[00:59:21] Speaker A: Yeah, because I was trying to get something going with the leisure, at the Leisure Inn, bringing bands in. Because they say they support local bands. They have one band every month at them at the most.
Access to all these bands was going to get them to come up. The under rock will come down to Rockingham and play in there. It was so hard. I thought, well, in between sets we'll put a dj on to keep the crowd going so you don't, you know, lose that atmosphere in between sets.
[00:59:45] Speaker B: Lose it. Yeah.
[00:59:46] Speaker A: And I said to him, said, look.
[00:59:47] Speaker B: Still how to get it back?
[00:59:48] Speaker A: Yes. Would you be keen to do something? He said, oh, yeah. So what type of music would you play? Said I'd keep the girls interested. I'll play r and b stuff. Said, no, no. I said, you're playing music to rock bands.
You can't put r and B music in between bands. And so girls don't want r and b. They want girl music they can dance to.
And.
[01:00:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:00:12] Speaker A: He's one of the guys that, like, he doesn't understand the science behind you. Got to make the bar money. If you don't make the bar money, you don't have a job.
[01:00:20] Speaker B: That's right. Yeah, exactly right. And you can't, you can't underestimate the band who's getting paid more but cost him more to get there. And the headline act.
[01:00:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:30] Speaker B: And you're going to kill it for, you know, three, three blocks of 15 minutes, 20 minutes.
[01:00:35] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:00:36] Speaker B: Anywho, you got to have at least the same beat.
[01:00:39] Speaker A: We're coming up to our, our mark.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Oh, shit, it is turn.
[01:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna wind up and say goodnight so I can.
Well, um, but this one's gonna probably have a nightclub. Yeah, but you can do. Go open up a nightclub.
[01:00:56] Speaker B: No, gonna have a nightcap.
[01:00:58] Speaker A: Gonna go open up a nightclub.
[01:01:01] Speaker B: Well, it is, it is, it is a. The old DJ. So, you know, I'm expecting you to say something like that.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. How many, how many dj's have always gone, I'm gonna open up my own club.
[01:01:12] Speaker B: Ah. And I wonder how many dollars for everyone. I'd be fucking wealthy.
[01:01:15] Speaker A: I wonder how many of them actually did.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: Ah, very good question, mate.
[01:01:22] Speaker A: So now I know I always used to say it and never managed to do it.
[01:01:26] Speaker B: I think Reggie would be the closest. I don't think he actually did, but I'm pretty sure he went into serious conversations financially and to get into partnerships with Kevin.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: To the extent where. No, it might have been Blakey.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: You. Blake.
He was part like.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: He did. Yeah, he was with equator.
[01:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:01:52] Speaker B: Blakey had nothing to do with zeldas.
[01:01:53] Speaker A: No, Kevin.
[01:01:55] Speaker B: Kevin would let anyone touch zeldas.
[01:01:57] Speaker A: No, that was his little thing. He loved it.
[01:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah, he loved it.
Big beef burger bar across the road.
[01:02:04] Speaker A: I don't remember the beef burger bar. I remember the kebab shop on the corner. Just down. Or just down from equatorium.
[01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that was. That big beef burger bar. Might. That was. That was Hollywood. Absolutely Hollywood. No, that's. Yeah. So Blakey would be the closest and only person I'd know that would be closest to a DJ slash nightclub owner.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Reggie. I'm not sure on Alabama. Confirmed.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Excuse me. It's not too late. You can still do it.
Yeah.
[01:02:36] Speaker B: You can always do it. Yeah, but, you know, tomorrow night's Thursday, mate, so one Powerball and the three, the three shock jocks will be partnerships in old club in each city.
[01:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
Instead of going on the road in a van, we'll be flying over in the personal jet.
[01:02:52] Speaker B: Absolutely, mate. Just chucking out pamphlets from the. From the cockpit. Beautiful work.
[01:02:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
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[01:03:01] Speaker B: Gotta subscribe, guys. You gotta subscribe. The more we get, the more chance we've got them advertising.
[01:03:06] Speaker A: Yep. You know, I'm gonna wind it up. You hang back. Hang around there. I'll just hit the buttons and stop it and then.
[01:03:13] Speaker B: And then we'll catch with you next week, hopefully. Back on normal time.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: Yeah, this one's going to be up late, but anyway, let me finish this off. Do that and then do that.
