Dan and Christie Are Back Ep 1

Were we axed because of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese?

We’re addressing the rumours from our freezing cold caravan… the i-Stream-Van.

After a whirlwind few days, a lot of emotions, and thousands of messages from listeners, we realised something:

We weren’t ready to say goodbye.

In our very first episode, we talk about the end of our radio show, what the last few days have really been like, why we couldn’t let our listeners go without finding them again, and what happens next.

In the words of Big Kev…

We’re excited.

Dan & Christie

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Dan and Christy Parkers! Yeah!

SPEAKER_02 0:05

Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's Caravan and Christy.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

It is.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

It's our podcast. We're starting one because we don't have jobs.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

We lost our gigs. I mean, we're literally sitting in an effing caravan. This is so funny. It's freezing cold.

SPEAKER_02 0:20

But at least you've got a blanket. And you're nice and comfortable.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

I bought a blanket down from our friends at Waverly Mills. They're a great company. And um No, it's funny because I you know when you go back to all the um the basics of home living, you know when you throw yourself into work so much that all the stuff that you've been kind of just not getting around to doing in your home life kind of comes back to you. Like, I know that sounds silly, but pulling out a nice warm blanket and coming down to the caravan. I mean, this is hubby Justin's caravan, and we've talked about this place for so many years on the air. My mum used to live in this van, and now we've made it a caravan for our studio to have our own podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

And also on Home and Away, you were in the caravan park where the Sutherlands live. That's right. So it really feels like a homecoming.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

It does, it does, and it's weird because we're used to like state-of-the-art equipment and cameras, and we, you know, we're lucky to have that here with Harvey, but um, I mean, what's in your hand now? You've got a drill.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

Because your husband is an absolute weapon, and I'm a massive spanner myself, so he needed that. But he's literally like put a camera up, uh, he set us up with microphones. Yeah, so we can we've still got a microphone, which is good. Because um, for those playing home, uh, we got made redundant as of Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

And um, you know what? We're starting to podcast because we just love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

So we are because we th we were like so, and we are still devastated by what happened. And how many messages do we have? We had so many people that were heartbroken with this, but also said start the podcast, start the podcast. So this happened a few days ago. Dan and I were talking and we're like, should we just start it? Like, it doesn't matter. They say that, don't they? Things don't have to be perfect, you just have to start. So here we are, we're doing it, we're doing it for you guys.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Us and a million other people who've started podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Remember when that happened in COVID? Everybody started a podcast. The funny thing is, we are so late to the party with having our own podcast because obviously we had them at the old show, but they just they've been deleted now because our network deleted them. That's what happens when you leave the network, you are forgotten.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

But all four listeners on that podcast are going to be devastated. But we did have some people listening to us from the States too. We had a big fan, and she'd listen to the podcast every day, and she goes, Where are the podcasts when we wouldn't upload them? She noticed. Well, uh, yeah, we can chuck it up on the internet if you like. Uh, but it is nice to have like because you don't realise the enormity of it until you are shafted that you meant something to people, and it was so heartwarming to see all those messages. I got messages from people through um, you know, some of the biggest stations around Australia that listen to us every day. Like it's crazy. Like iHeartRadio got in touch. The opposition. Yeah, we'd love a job, by the way. Yeah, we will. Um, this doesn't pay much. We're paid in screws and Ryobi.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

I am yeah, well, I am married to the guy who set us up, so I might have to screw him after this.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Well, I might have to too. I think there's no other option. Um, but yeah, you got all these messages from some of our greatest peers too, like some of uh my favourite bosses from around Australia, our favourite radio announcers got in touch. Um, and you know, it really, really uh meant so much because like we had a devastating week, it was heartbreaking. But to get that message of love just kind of says, Well, you guys are great and you'll go into better things, and but it's just this interim limbo stage, it's very strange.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

It is though, hey, and like we're so thankful for all that support, like from our beautiful listeners, but uh also from the industry, and it really showed me, and I mean, we even talked about this last week when we had a job, we talked about it on air at our old show um the importance of uh supporting people no matter what they're going through in hard times. Um, and the fact that people in the radio industry were sharing our stories, like sharing our goodbye video, like the ironic thing is it actually kind of highlighted the Dan and Christie show to so many people that it just reminded us how much love we have. And Dan and I were like, nah, we can't let this go. I mean, as he just said, we're literally obviously not getting paid money, we don't care, we're doing this for the love of it, so we can talk to our beautiful listeners because we just can't bear the thought of of not having this. And the fun thing is, there's no ads in this. There's not there's we can't get in trouble for it.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

There's no fate of aphilia by Taylor Swift that I have to back announce every day.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

That's right. This is our show. Like, this is a fresh start. This is actually really exciting because we can just bring our beautiful listeners along and like find new people, hopefully, yeah along the way.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I started getting friend requests for the first time, which is you know pretty bizarre in itself. I'm like, oh, who are these people and why do they care about me? And my my Instagram went up like a thousand people. Nice one. I'm like, oh great, like it I should always get fired then. I mean, it's not as if I've been trying to try and get social media likes or anything like that, but it just goes to show that like and we listened to people during our show, which is a lot of those commercial radio stations don't, like we said their stories, we celebrated with them, we cried with them. There was a lot there was a lot of stuff that we offered um our listeners, and to the fact that that comes back to us when we're in hardship times, it just means a lot, doesn't it? And we're not gonna cry again. We've cried enough this week, and poor old like people at work too. Like they're like every picture that Isabella Raldan sent us is just her bawling our eyes out, like and we adore her too, and our producer Matt, who doesn't show much emotions, but even even he cried, which is great. But but now he's gotta move on too.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Like he's gotta move on, and then um look, like working with our producer Matt was seriously such a joy. He's not our producer for this show because we can't paint.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

No, I think we're doing this. No, your husband will be chopping this up later, which is unfortunately. But you know what he has done, and this is so cool, is use Chat GPT to make the coolest logo ever in this garabat.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

This is our show logo. I mean, it's literally ChatGPT, for God's sake, guys. So if anyone wants to help us out with the proper logo in time, that would be good. But all these things will come. It doesn't matter, we don't care about the fancy bells and whistles. We we just wanted to be here for you, and we're excited to see where this podcast goes.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Yeah, and I'm wearing a Creed t-shirt too, so Alarms are water. I put this on and my wife said to me just immediately, she goes, You're not gonna wear that, are you? I said, Why wouldn't I wear this? And she goes, People would actually think you're a Creed fan. And that's what I said. I said, Well, Jane, I am Dan and Christie Podcast!

SPEAKER_00 6:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Dan and Christie Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

At least you don't have to back announce songs now, though, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Oh my god. Rolling out the awesome 80s. Um, I'm very good at back-announcing songs, you know. Every time we played Choose in Texas by Ella Langley.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Well, you missed the music.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

No, far out, no, not at all. Not the same songs every single day, because I've been waking up like with a new song in my head, and it's all all the you know the station songs, the top 40. And I didn't like one of them. Like really, like maybe five percent of the music. It's so funny. But it's it's like a version of hell, isn't it? Hearing the same music over and over and over. Yeah, and now that we're gonna be like, same rotation of 150 songs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Oh, yeah, because there was the same songs, and obviously when you work at a radio station, um, which we were very grateful for, of course, but you kind of have to be a little bit fake and say, Oh, how good's that song? Because you don't love every song, but now we're now we're not doing that. You can just be honest. No edge hearing. There were songs that we would play, and sometimes, like Dan and I on our old show, Dan would just change the music, like he was a legend, we'd just do a discreet little change.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Like, I can't hear this again. Like, and I I don't know how people can hear it too. Like, sometimes you go, if you're commuting into work and you're hearing the same song at the same time every day, it's like that would drive you insane, and and that would make me drive off to the side of the road and never listen to the station ever again.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

But we're so lucky, like, because people would listen to the radio to hear us chat, and that is so so amazing.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

So and sit through nine minutes worth of ads, which you're gonna get on Monday.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Yeah, not from us though, ever. You won't get ads. We will make our own ads. Yeah, unless I don't think we have any advertisers.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Uh, we'll advertise this caravan. We're selling it because we don't have jobs.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

This is so funny, but like one of the theories that's been going around is that we lost our job because of the moment with Anthony Albanese that we had a couple of weeks back. Like, he was in our studio at the old show and um and we were challenging about femicide and you know the crisis in Australia. I'm not laughing about it, I'm just laughing at the uh um the irony. But we need to clarify we did not lose our jobs because of the Prime Minister. We are not that important. It literally had nothing to do with it. We are not a superstar, you know, like in the States, how you know uh Trump got rid of was it Fallon he got rid of, I think.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Yeah, yeah. And um that's no, you got rid of um Stephen Colbert. Yeah, Fallon still got a job, thank God. Oh yeah, we love Jimmy Kimmel was taken off air for about three days.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Jimmy Kimmel, that's what I was thinking of. A different Jimmy, but yeah, see that was see, imagine that, like the the president or the prime minister being able to cut the show because he didn't like what was said. We didn't have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

I don't think he liked us much after that. It was so funny because I saw the look on your face during that. I'm like, oh, this is headlines, like immediately, because he just was on the back foot. Like um, you know, and and you were so good, like that day you just challenged him to his face, and I could see that this was going to be big news immediately. And um for him to say that a royal commission does nothing when he's already done a couple of royal commissions too, yeah, you know, into the Bondi tragedy, which is you know absolutely a Royal Commission story, and you know, the the it was a Black Lives in Prison too. Like he did a royal commission into that, like royal commission is for everything, and he's like, ah, they don't matter. That's what I know they don't matter.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

That was unbelievable, hey. And now that we're not on a network, it's nice that we can speak freely about that and keep that chat conversation going, which we we definitely will. Like, we want you to know that the things that mattered to us before are just as important, but the good thing is now we can really go to places that we couldn't with restriction in commercial radio, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:08

I wasn't even allowed to say, you know, anything on air after seven o'clock. Yeah, it was always it's like Danyon that yeah, you've got a leash on now, mate. Like just uh and I had to bite my tongue a lot, like uh with a lot of stuff I'd normally say in my normal lives because um I'm a loose unit. But um, yeah, for people to think that the Prime Minister had that kind of power to just go, well, I don't like that show that's uh being taken off the air. It's like going, Thanks, Obama, you wrecked everything. Yeah, um, but no, I think it was just the big wigs, the corporate big wigs, and and you know, they've got uh I don't know, just an Excel spreadsheet uh with everyone's pay rises on it, and unfortunately we were it, and and it's happened to more talented people than us. I th I think our show was uh brilliant, and like it's it's a good life lesson, isn't it, to go, well, you can do everything right. Like we were a number one rating station. Um we also won like the national award for best on our team. Um we did we did everything right, and you still get taken out. Like it's a good life lesson to go, you can do everything in your power to be the best there is, and you can still lose, which is um you know a crazy thing. But it's the third time it's happened to me, so it's kind of like it's it's unexpected, but also like I'm like, yeah, this is this is the company that we worked for, and they did it to me three times, and the first time was the most devastating ever. And but then you know, the second time I wasn't like uh I just started dr day drinking. I just I just was told your contract's not renewed and you don't have a job and I had no money, and I I just kind of knew the universe would provide because the first time it happened it went to something better, and second time, same. Like that afternoon I had a job, like which was crazy, and and I think like isn't in this interim, like you know, we've been taken out, but I feel like there's something on the horizon, but you don't you just don't know what it is, which is the unknown. But that's life, isn't it? Life can change and it's and I love that.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

I love that because you're right, we did everything right, and then the universe still interjected and and took us on this detour, and I hadn't experienced it before because I'd never been made redundant, and you've really taught me that over the last couple of days, especially when you do everything right and they still let you go and you're greedy and then you're sad and you're angry and you're shocked and stuff. But what I've really learned now is that I did know this before, but it's really been driven home to me now that you can do everything right at work and still be you are you are replaceable, but you are irreplaceable at home. So I'm gonna lose the expression now moving forward and work hard, but replace it with work well. Like when you're at work, throw yourself in, be fantastic, be a great colleague, do your job to the best of your ability. But when you go home, don't bring it home with you unless you love it and you work for yourself and it's working for you, but just being identified by you by where you work and having the sense of that's what my belonging is know. Like you you are loved by your people, by your family, by your friends, and I'm learning that now after the first time I've been made redundant. I can see why the second time and the third time you get stronger, which you have been so strong, because I know that something else will come along for us wherever life takes us, and and that's all you can do, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:19

And a lot of people will ask you, like, who who are you as a person? And I would never say a radio announcer first. I'd say I'm a father, I'm a husband, I'm a son, I'm a brother. Um, radio was a big part of my personality, but it was never everything. It's just a job in the end, but it's something I love doing, but it's not who I am altogether. And it's it and it was kind of like insulting when you get like you know, one of these corporate bigwigs saying, There is nothing within this station you can do. I'm like, you don't know me at all. Like at all. Like you don't know who I am, you don't know where I've been, you don't know I've done this for 23 years, you don't know I'm a great you know, audio producer, I can create video. Like we did all the videos through myself, like I did it all. Um there's stuff I can do. I'm also a qualified journalist, and you got offered the journalist job. It's so funny because my brother works in radio too, and he got offered a journalist job, and I'm like, oh curse you, because I spent 30 grand on a UTAS degree I've never used. Um, but then they offered you the journalist job. I'm like, I'm I'm actually like he's the journalist, I'm not done four years of journalism degree, but it's crazy, isn't it? And I've written, you know, for lots of uh you know magazines and stuff like that, and there's so much you could do. I could hold a camera if you wanted me to, I can operate that stuff. Like, but there's nothing. There's nothing sorry, mate. And you were in the meeting, which was quite funny because you were like, Yeah, I got offered a journalist job. I'm like, oh cool. And it's like, damn, we have nothing for you. Like, it just shows those, doesn't it? Like Yeah, I don't I don't take it personally, I find it very funny.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

And we have to laugh it off because the people that make these choices, did they the big people, like after the Channel 7 merge with the old network? I have this theory now when they make these decisions to cut a show. I'm like, they should come to the market, they should live as a listener, they should hear the show, they should recognize how it's going to damage their local advertising and small businesses and people that rely on it. Yes, of course, the show always goes on and no one's saying that it won't, and we wish them all the luck in the world. But when they say things that like it was a difficult decision, I always go, Well, how difficult was it? Did you take it home with you? Did you cry? Did you have sleepless nights? Did you tell your kids? Because we did all those things, and we still we still feel the way that we feel, but we are moving on now, and we're not defined by our place of work. I mean, we're literally broadcasting of a caravan for God's sake.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

So thanks, Albo.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Dan and Christie Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Dan and Christie podcast from The Caravan and Christie. It's uh very bloody cold in here, and I still can't feel my legs, but um, thank God you've got that beautiful blank.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

No, you can sponsor the show now, Waverly Mills, because uh now you're part of it. Uh my legs aren't yet. Um I can put this around me. There you go. There's my jacket.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Put your jacket on.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Oh, it's very cold in New Norfolk.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

That's where we are.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

We're in New Norfolk in home show. Beautiful day outside, by the way. We should go along the river and take your husband's dinghy for a spin, the massive dinghy I see out there.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

It's a big one.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

It's huge. All right, three things you'll miss about radio, Christy Hayes. Three things you'll miss. What do you reckon?

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Um uh I know this sounds ridiculous, but the early starts, being a morning person, I loved that positive feeling of you and I watched the sunrise together every morning from work. Like, so you'd be listening to music, you'd be watching the sunrise. It was a really positive start to the day. Um secondly, it goes without saying our listeners, our connection, the phenomenal uh listeners that we had that we worked for many years to win over, and they say this, but I really have learned that I reckon radio shows and audiences are it's like being set up on a blind date. The network have an expectation that they fall in love with you and that you fall in love with them, right? And sometimes you have shitty relationships and it doesn't work, and people don't get loved by the by their listeners and whatnot, and and it's just not there, but you and I had like a soulmate blind date, right? It worked, and that's you know, it rips your heart out when we lost that because we made a difference to so many lives. Like we got behind the microphone and and we took that seriously, and and people know that. And obviously, lastly, seeing my best friend every single day. Although we fixed that problem now, haven't we? In our caravan.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

My brother is pretty fun to hang out with and your husband. Um yeah, well now we're in a caravan together. Uh we were always gonna be part of each other's lives, regardless. Like I I just lived in constant fear that I'd be old yelled every single day just to tap on the shoulder to say, hey mate, see through this, um, but you're gone. Um so when it actually does happen, you're like, Oh yeah, yeah, fair enough. Like um, I just constantly I think most radio announcers, if they've done it for a long time, have that feeling.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

I didn't see it coming for us. Not this one. No, no, no, not this time.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Not in the middle of a survey. Hobart are in a survey right now, and we've already like won a couple of surveys. And um and so you're like, uh oh, they won't get rid of us. If they'll get rid of anyone, uh, surely it it's not us, and then you go, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys. Um uh there's the rabbits, Danny Christine. Uh just look at the rabbits. Look at the rabbits, bang!

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Straight away. Oh my god, that was out of all the media jobs I've heard about, many, not not the most brutal, of course. Like, you know, but it was a brutal accident in Australian media for us and for the other state show in Queensland that got they lost their job too.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Oh yeah, Bronte and Lakey uh brilliant people, and uh in Mandura, um, I know, you know, Carly and I can't remember the other guy's name. Yeah, Rob, yeah, um, they were loved too, like and beloved. And um, you know, I started following them all on social media because I'm like I understood where they were coming from, sent the messages saying it will get better. Um, because it is a hard thing, but you and I are like this, we're both very kind people and will help out. Like, and I've done that my whole life, like in radio, I've trained people, I've you know, they've got better jobs than me. Like I've I've helped out every time, and so like to see them lose their jobs too was devastating for me because I know how they felt immediately. And um, I'm like, if you ever need hand, if you never need contacts, I've got them everywhere around Australia, even internationally. Like, we've got a couple of contacts, and um so yeah, for us to lose our jobs just all of a sudden, I was like, Well, it I can help other people. There's things you can do. You can you can either treat it with anger or you can treat it with love, and I just choose to treat everything with love because I'm like, Well, you you can't live in this world and and not have change like that happen all of a sudden, but um, it's what you give, and uh then you know you'll get it back in spades, and you know, that's what we did during our show too. Like we raised thousands of dollars for charities, for example, um, hundreds of causes. We made headlines all throughout those four years. Um, well, thanks to you and your platform.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

That's not a good idea. I mean, I didn't make a headline. We're a team. We didn't.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

I mean, yeah, I was I was there, absolutely. Just giving you the handball. Chris D. Hayes. Don't be silly.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

No, no, no, my god, no, no, no. Never ever think that. You and I being the team that we are or were there, that's what did it is the safe space that we both created for each other to talk about these things, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Yeah, well that's right. And um and three things you'll absolutely not miss about radio. What would that be?

SPEAKER_00 20:31

You think uh getting fired, getting fired, getting fired. Um three things I won't miss. I guess all the bullshit, you know, like the the stuff that is just manufactured, the I don't know, uh the ads, the meetings, the people that don't get it that talk to you and tell you uh what you should be doing, and that's not shade to anyone specifically that we worked with, but there is a a a removed kind of point of view sometimes from the big wigs who don't live and breathe it, don't understand it, haven't experienced it, but just look at graphs to tie people together. Like that I I won't miss is the way that they don't truly at times understand and love radio, and and that is evident sometimes, I think, with with decision making.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

But oh yeah, yeah. And and we we were we were part of that for the entire Victorian teams too. Like that was a weird decision. Like our our show became syndicated to all of Victoria, which was a Tasmanian t show.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

And we felt bad about that.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

It was awful. I like I immediately felt sick. I'm like, these are four breakfast shows that are losing their livelihoods because of this, but they all got put in different places, which is quite interesting because that is not the same conversation that you and I had with anyone. I was like, Oh, surely you can put me anywhere in Australia or with me and Christianity. Yeah, just yeah, muzzlebrook. You're not doing much. Um Snow FM. Um not not no like I'd work anywhere. Like, honestly, that's what I do.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

We love everything. I don't mean In fact, that's what I love. You and I love community. We love that. We don't want um we're not trying to chase or take people out or anything like that. We just want to do our thing. And I think that's why we had to start the podcast because we wanted to be back talking to everyone. But what are the things that you absolutely will not miss about radio? Can you think of, you know the alarm.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

When I turned off the alarm, oh my god, that was pure relief. Like it was just the thought of another winter getting up at like 3:30 in the morning. I'm like, I hated the drive into work and I hated how cold it was. You'd always have frost on your bloody car windscreen. It was cold as a witch's tit. Like I always hated winter. Like, so the thought of just going, hey, tomorrow you don't have to get up. That is the greatest news I've ever heard. And to get up to my kids, you know, we've missed that. We made a lot of sacrifices for this job. And that isn't rarely seen. Like, you don't see our blood, our sweat, our tears, what we actually put into it. We're like we're like chips in the night when it comes to that station. They don't see what we actually do every morning. Everyone gets in at nine o'clock and like, oh, like you look exhausted. You don't even want to have a conversation with people at the end of it. And but you still have to and you still work hard. And um, you know, to wake up to your kids, something you you know, uh I don't take for granted, like waking up next to them and just taking them to school, so simple thing, but just to wake up next to them, like uh and and you've got three kids, and you know, baby Goldie needs a mum, doesn't she?

SPEAKER_00 23:27

She does, and that's exactly where we were going. Like the thing they say, you know, what we w won't miss about it. You and I will not miss being away from our children, and you cannot put a price on that. You know, I will never again prioritize the the working over the mothering. Not that I'm a bad mum, I love and adore my children, but I mean, you know, you would come home tired, of course, or you'd take a nap when you could be out playing with the children, and of course, we have to be balanced. But like I I went back to work when my daughter was four months old because I thought, oh my god, but what if the show gets damaged or if the listeners need me? And baby Goldie was fine, of course. She's with Hubby Just and I came home, but it's but it's not the same. The other day you and I took our children to school, and never again will I ever underestimate how vitally important that is for our children.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Oh, there goes our logo.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

There we go, there it's back. The caravan, are you still here?

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Yeah, hey, the caravan's telling us uh wrap it up, guys. No, no, no, you were saying beautiful words. Um, because you know, Hendrickson Harley and Goldie, um, they love their mum, and uh, you know, it's it's it's huge for our partners. Like our partners go through a lot. Um, Justin is working as well, you know. My wife um has been all around Australia with me and you know, supported me all along the way, and just um, you know, I've done this for 23 years, and that's that's a lot of load for her too. And your husband has a lot of loads. Um yeah. This podcast isn't going nowhere, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 24:56

You won't have any meetings till after today, though.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

No, Dan, what happened there? I get that a lot. It's like uh you did do some innuendo there, mate. I'm like, yeah, but that's what the point of innuendo is that uh the kids don't get it.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

And now that's one thing we won't miss is me being pulled up as well, you know.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

And pulled off.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Dan Christie Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

The Dan and Christie podcast from a caravan in New Norfolk. Uh morning, everyone. We're doing this every single day this week. Uh, this is the first episode, and we don't actually know what the show is yet, do we? Like we could go in any direction, we could talk about any topic we want. We're not uh hindered by anything. Uh there's no ads, there's no Taylor Swift. There's there's no money, obviously, as you'll be able to tell. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

So we don't have prizes, we just need to clarify. Um, you won't be getting big giveaways at the moment. We wish we could do all those things, but all we can do is just be with you. But we're so thankful that you're here with us and we're gonna keep doing a show for you every single day. Because I think, as well, one of the things over the copious amounts of sobbing that I've done for the last couple of days, as I know you have, just reading the like now in the thousands from from from people, the messages that we've got. Um a lot of them were just talking about how our our time with our listeners in the car, going to work or coming home, like how much that meant. And so we thought, well, we want to obviously it goes without saying we want to be there for you, we want to um you know have our lives shared with you, but that's why we were like, we're gonna do this every single day. We're gonna pick a day a week, we're gonna release five episodes. Like that's um that's the least we can do to show up for our listeners. And I know that our listeners will see us through these hard times because we've got to sit together and I believe we'll have that support. And we can't give the thousands and thousands of dollars, but we can just give you everything. Thousands of high fives and thumbs ups. And our show will be, I think, exactly what it was before. But I reckon gonna go even better. We can really go to places now, and we want to do that. And the good thing now about having a podcast too is that we can reach people in various other regions, not just uh beautiful Hobart or regional Victoria, different places that we were, but that's the good thing as well, is like inviting new people along for the ride too.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Yeah, so if you have suggestions, I guess we'll start up maybe uh an email.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

Yeah, well I started all right, so I started. So, guys, can you follow us please? I did start an Instagram for us, right? Because they took away our old Dan and Christie page, our network. Because it belonged to them, so that that's not gonna say Dan and Christie anymore.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

It'll say something else.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

So if you want to start Turbo and the Chook, just search Dan and Christie, and you'll see us with our great ChatGPT logo that we've made. Um, I'll make that our profile picture. But you literally message us there and just tell us what you want us to start doing on the show and things that you want to hear. And we'll absolutely love to have you on our show as well at some point when we can figure out.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

If we can get guests, uh we could get another mic, I'll just go buy one uh with my no money. Um but I thought I thought of a few ideas too. Like I thought we could start bog casting. Okay. So if we go to events like the logies coming up, we just do one from the toilets. Like we could we can set these microphones to just be in the toilets while it all happens. Because like you think about how many celebrities would be walking through there going to a stall, you know, like you'd meet everyone.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Like you'd literally, especially in the girls' bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Oh, what happens in there?

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Oh, well, like women have a tendency, even if it's not an event show, but girls, as soon as they go into the bathroom, that's when we become best friends. That oh, hey hun, can you do up my skirt? Or hey hun, can I borrow some lipstick? Or I mean you would love it. You would love the VIPs.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Am I lapstick about toilets at the lucky stuff? It's like I reckon I'd be escorted out by security. But if I'm I mean, I could go incognito.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Well, if you're bogcasting, you have an excuse, right? That's right, yeah. I like it, I'm here for it. We can do it, we can do anything. That's the beauty of this. We can bogcast, we can throbc.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

So you're going to sex poke. All right.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Well, you've been to sex poke. I like it. We should go and do it.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

So funny too. Like, and that was on commercial radio too, but um, I got to interview some of the best porn stars in the world. And I was out of my element because I just wasn't expecting what our conversations were going to happen, and none of them really made it to air. Because I'm like, well, if we're gonna be playing this, we'll have to play it at like 5 a.m. Because our show used to start at 5 a.m. I'm like, so I played a couple of things, but even then, I'm like, this is getting into some really weird eras. But like I fell in love with one, and her name's Katsooni. If you haven't looked her up, just do yourself a favour. I think she's out of the industry now. I think I wrecked it for her. Um, but um, she was so lovely, like she's French, and um she does some great work on the internet if you want to go check that out. Like, just look up videos. Um, but like so lovely, like the nicest person in the world. And um, and I realize that, like, I'm like everyone's human. We we've talked to all walks of life during our show, and that's what we'll do on this, like, once we get another microphone and we pay for it with our no money.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

We'll buy it, don't worry. Hubby Justin's still employed, so he can buy some microphones.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

But um, yeah, we could we can go anywhere and do anything because we've got a caravan that can go anywhere around the world, really.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Well, we did talk about that, didn't we, once about doing a competition called Caravan and Christie, and it just never happened.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

So maybe now none of our ideas. What else? We we were going to go to New Zealand. Like, I really wanted to go to New Zealand, and we could still do that in this caravan, um, to Lord of the Rings 25th anniversary, and wanted to take a fellowship with us and wanted our sponsors McDonald's, who are not sponsoring now, but m guys, if you want to send us some money, go for it or just pay us in Big Macs. But um, we were gonna do Lord of the Wings, because they've brought wings into McDonald's, and so like raising money for Ronald McDonald House charities, which we've done before, raised about 10 grand for them uh over the years, but like go to McDonald's all around New Zealand, uh Lord of the Wings style with a fellowship, like bring listeners along for the ride, and just raise more money for charity uh for these kids that need it most who are in these hospitals, and that devastated us going to you know all all the places around Country Victoria and Melbourne um seeing these kids, um, and really brought home what's important in life and and that is you know to look after your family is and to have that support around you when you're going through hell. And some of these kids, you know, they they no no kids should go through what they're going through, and it hurt us so much to see that. So we were trying to do a good thing for charity and trying to use our you know microphones as power and and a voice uh for those families who need it most. And yeah, the stories that we heard and the people we met along the way, like I'll never forget that. That's that's the most rewarding thing that happened in those four years, was to be that change and to raise money for such a cause that they needed in the community.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

That was totally our highlight over the years, like when we went, we started in Hobart at Ronald McDonald House Charity, then we went up to Mildura, then we went down to Bendigo, Shep afterwards, Albury with Donga. Oh my god. And shook a tin the whole time. Yeah, and like everyone showed up. Everyone was generous, everyone was generous, and that was what we truly loved the most about being on the radio, but we're gonna keep doing that now and just from toilets, just from toilets without podcasts.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

The logies are now called the the Gorogies. If we could raise money in a toilet though, I think all the celebrities coming in, and if you had a tin to shake for Ron McDonald out charity, great idea.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Absolutely, why not? And like we just want to say too, we all the charities that we worked with, please know that we will continue these chats. We um it's really important to us to keep having the conversations that we did, whether we're at Sexpo, the Logies, uh, wherever we end up, we just want to keep making a difference and helping everybody, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:34

That's right. That's uh what we're about. Because we're good, decent humans um that don't have jobs.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

We're very, very unemployed.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

We've got a lot of time on our hands so we can help. But it it's not until you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. So and what do you do with your life? Like and that's a big question and an existential one, but you're like, what do you do? And uh for us it's always help.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

It is, and this is what we have really realized. Like, yes, we got made redundant, yes, it hurt and it ripped our hearts out, but still at the end of the day, what really matters is is your family and your friends, people messaged um who have experienced true loss in their lives, and we recognize that we have air in our lungs, now we've got the mic, we're gonna keep this going bigger and better. Um, and I'm excited about where we're gonna go. In the words of Big Kev, I'm excited.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

I didn't know Big Kev would come into this conversation. I haven't thought about him in 30 years. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Dad and Christy Park!