Dan and Christie Are Back Ep 2

Dan and Christie have made it all the way to show 2.... who would have thought it?

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:02

Dan and Christie Podcast! Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Dan and Christie Podcast. Morning, everyone. Oh, we were releasing these in the morning. Who knows? This is the idea.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Yeah, we'll um I reckon we go morning because we want people to be able to listen to us in the car still like that. We used to for so long. And yeah, I guess now the good thing is you can catch up all the time wherever you're doing. Maybe you're in the gym right now, maybe you're in bed listening to the gym.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

What are you doing in bed listening to this?

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Thank you. Yeah, this show's not gonna get any cleaner than what it was on the radio. In fact, this is us basically unfiltered. Like we we do want our kid listeners to stay with us though. Like we know that it's really important to the families, my God, because the kids are so important to us, and even our kids. Wow, our children here in the news.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Yeah, I had to do it on uh Tuesday because I kind of thought it would happen, and Tuesday's meeting was you know devastating for us. It didn't go for very long. I timed it and it was four minutes. Yeah, I timed it. Well, I recorded it because like and our boss was just like, no, you can't record this. I'm like, I reckon I could. And I recorded and uh it went for four minutes. It's just like uh yeah, we're devastated. We don't have anything for you. Um we're gonna give you this amount of payout, which is great, good on you. That's the first time that's happened in the company because last time, like, you know, my contract ended and they just ripped it out of my heart. And the first time they just I was on casual contract on contracts, so like I was just taken out and I couldn't pay rent that week. Um, but like at least I've got a little bit of money to you know, this interim time to actually figure out my life. That's what's next, yeah. Yeah, what's next?

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Like we're lucky of this.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

So I did tell the kids and they just couldn't believe it. They're just like, What? No, Dan and Christy are on tomorrow. And I'm like, No, no kids, like dad doesn't have a job. And sh and even Isabel, who's a who's just about to turn eleven, she's like, Well, what are you gonna do? And I'm like, I don't know, is the answer. And that's a really hard thing to tell your kids. Because they're so used to the lifestyle that they've got, they they love the schools at Rune. Like, you know, both my kids adore Kingston Primary where they go to, and um to to think that they won't be going to that school or could things could change pretty quickly, like the unknown is uh is a really thing hard to hard uh to cast upon your family that quickly because even my wife, she's like, Well, what are you gonna do? I'm like, I don't have an answer.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

That's the thing, hey, like, and I know we've talked about this before because I just felt so guilty for the kids and their family because to say we moved now or whatever happens, because you have to kind of go in life where the work is, and heaps of people travel for work or have to remove their families from their current lifestyle, and it's hard. Like, so not only did the kids have to see us not be on the air, which would be really hard for them. I think one of the most devastating components was for my 10-year-old who's almost 11, he's been watching me cry a lot. Like I have two sons. Hendrix is highly autistic, as you know, and Henry doesn't understand what's going on. Um, but Harley has been watching me cry a lot, and I think normally for children, they look at their parents and their parents know everything. Like mum and dad, you know, parents are the ones that lead, parents are the ones that have the answers, parents are the ones that that lead the children and make them feel comfortable and like everything's okay. I mean, in our own family, before the kids go to bed every night, Hubby Justin and I say, something wonderful is going to happen to me tomorrow. Something wonderful is going to happen to me tomorrow. We say it five times over. You love the And the kids go straight to sleep. Yeah, if you want to knock the kids out, it worked. Um it absolutely wasn't pertinent the other day when I said it because I went to work and then you know the firing happened, all the redundancy, if you will. But that was hard too with the kids, just to see them as you said, and just to go, I don't know. But I think it's good for our children now, I think about it, to see that just because you're an adult doesn't mean you've got your life figured out and life comes in waves. It's like a tide, it comes in, it comes out, the good and the bad, the light and the darkness, all of those things, and they will see us be resilient and move forward and go on to wherever life brings us, and that's only a good thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I think the you they do say that too. There's an old saying, after the storm comes a rainbow, and you do have a silver lining always, so there's always something to look forward to. You know, even uh you could compare it to that great castaway movie with Tom Hanks, you know, where he loses Wilson and he's uh having a bad time, but the tide brings in enough stuff for him to get off the island, you know. Um you just have to be prepared for that, and uh, you know, that's what we have to do. We have to be on that island for a good four years. We have to befriend a volleyball.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

We're in this caravan for the next four years.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Um, but uh, you know, it reminds me of Michael Cain when he's on the you know, he's Alfred from Batman, and he goes, Why do we fall, Marshall Wayne? Because we get back up again. You've blown the bloody dogs off. Um, you know, like there's so many movies like that that g that give you hope. And uh when all hope is lost, there's always something around the corner, like the tide will come in.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

I'm gonna cry again. I'm gonna cry again. I'm still bloody crying all week later.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

You and I have an analogy that there's two footprints in the sand, and then just all of a sudden there's one set of footprints, and that's where Jesus carries you through. So there's that. Uh you'll be carried by the good Lord Jesus uh on the way through. And I quite often say that, like when we had bad days on air, I'm like, there were one set of footprints and they were yours today, Christy. You carried me through that. You were strapped up like Chris Judd, you had that much weight on your shoulders. But like you have good days and bad days, don't you? And um, we've been through that on our show together, haven't we? Like you've had some of the worst days and and we got through it.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

We got through it, and our listeners help help us get through it, and they are now. Like we without those messages from people, because people like I think as well when you're I I'll message a radio show just to show love and support, just picture how much the people that you actually messaged truly loved reading it. Like, it's hard enough for someone to go to work and be made redundant quietly. It's really hard to go to work and be made redundant and the entire country know about it because there's the asshole comments that come with it, yeah, which was hard. And obviously, you know, Dan and I don't read that stuff, but obviously at some point we saw it without even wanting to, and like it it was really, really hard because you don't just get to go and have sort of a nice quiet dignity, go home, cry with your friends. Obviously, people know about it, and so the people that made noise for us loudly and lovingly, they and right now you're carrying us through and you're giving us a shot as we broadcast you from our friggin' backyard in a caravan, and like we promise you that we will um yeah, we'll make it worthwhile. Like, that's what we want to do, is just be here and do our show and have fun. And I'm I I I'm curious about where we're gonna go because that's the thing now. Our kids will be okay, our families will be alright, and wherever we wind up, it's gonna be worth it. I hope.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I hope so too. And you've got to start somewhere though, you've got to put it one foot in front of the other, don't you? Like I've always done that. Like, if even when you're faced with uncertainty, you've losed you you've lost everything in your life, you go, Well, do I put my bum down and just start working again? Like, and basically that's what I've done every single time. And um, yeah, it it you do see those disparaging comments, but it's quite funny because it happens to everyone in the industry. Some of the most talented people have all been shafted from radio, but then you're like, Who are they? Usually pops up. I listen to insert audio medium here. Um, I prefer this old, you know, show from 1970. Yeah. You're like, well, they're they're not making radio anymore because it's here with us. Um, but you know, um, it's disparaging, but also it's the peanut gallery that are doing it. It's not as if it's your peers saying those uh unkind words, but the majority of the stuff that we had was 90% positive.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

It's absolutely right.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

And that's what you concentrate on. Like imagine if you were the opposite and you had like we've got very thick skins, like we wear water off a duck's back, we are pluck-a-duck, you and I. Um like it doesn't bother me. And if it does, I will send pictures of pluck-a-duck to them until they stop. Because it never fails.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

That's what he does, right? Especially when people were really assholy about us at work, or especially if someone said something mean about me, Dan would just send them like a pluck-a-duck outfit, like just no context. He just send them a photo of pluck a duck. This guy threatened to beat you up in Bendigo, remember?

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Oh yeah, pluck-a duck in. Yeah. I plucked him up. Yeah, he gave up. He said, I'm gonna get you if you're ever in Benigo. We broadcast from Benego, he didn't show up. But you the first thing you do is Google this guy's name and he's been in jail. Yeah, that's and usually it is someone holding a fish or it's you know a picture of a car or something like that. And you do and one thing I do notice is one, they're colossal losers, but two, they don't have any friends. And you and I have a lot of friends. Um well, some some are fair weather friends and don't really like me and just add me uh for no great reason.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

But you notice that through the the lows, don't you? You you you honestly notice, and I can tell you the people um who have reached out, and I'm talking like friends or industry people, like you really notice when people make um an intention to be there for you when you're going through a hard time because it comes back to them, and people remember like no matter what your profession is, if you hear someone's gone through a hard time and lost their job, it's not just a job. Sometimes people do shit things that they hate, but still there's a an income attached or a place of purpose. And if people have that taken from their lives, and it's really taught me that reminder as well of a quick text message or a nice message, just however it is, whatever you can do to show love and support.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Words of encouragement. And anytime anyone's fired from the radio industry, and unfortunately, the industry is hammerrhaging at the moment. Like terrible, and it's just a sign of the times cost of living, cost of making the stuff, um, cost of giving a pay rise to some other people in exchange for us getting fired. Like, you know, we got two words and it was C attached. Then we got this like it didn't say anything about our show in this his email either. Like you said, the Den and Chrissy show is being taken off air, um, as is these two other shows, and then it said, and come can you please congratulate the minal management that have just earned a lot more money doing a lot more great things and living out their dreams? I'm like, yes, I will send them a lovely message.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

It wasn't the best feeling having like it's like David Brent when he gets made redundant, right, in the office. He's wearing an output. He's got the output on you guys are fired, but you've been promoted. We're like awesome, guys. That was probably the most tactful way to go about it. But look, having said that, like Dan and I keep saying, we walk away with nothing but good memories and great times. And I think as well, the funny thing is I did see one comment, um, only because someone screenshot it for me trying to show me the other good ones, but there was a mean comment and it said something like, Oh, then this explains why Christy's been crying the entire show. Watching. And I thought, if you hate me, why have you listened to the entire show? That was the funny thing. People that love to hate you. Like, I reckon now there'll be people that are saying so how happy they are that we're off the radio, but they might be listening to our podcast. It's weird how you kind of sometimes you say you don't like someone or whatever, but you still kind of lurk and see what they're doing.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

I think even Howard Stern, there were more people that hated him when he was on New York radio than the people that actually liked him. And but it made twice as many ratings. So it was like they just wanted to be outraged by him, and so they were waiting for it. And I think it's the same, like you and you can't take those comments to heart, really, because like like imagine, like, I don't like the band Nickelback, you know that really well. But imagine me going to Nickelback's page and just writing out just like, geez, Chad Kroger, I really don't like this music that you're making in the millions of dollars, and oh, I hate you so much, and I wouldn't even listen to this, and then just pressing enter. Like, imagine what a colossal loser that I am to get to that point. Like, and and you think about it, like, who cares? Like, it's it's about what you concentrate on, and I like to concentrate on the positives rather than negatives, and it happens to me quite often. Like, I've every radio station I've been at, like, anytime you say, I'm going, I hated that guy. I'm like, Yeah, good on you, mate. I just usually just send them a nice picture of Steve Urkel or pluck a duck. It works. Or send them a friend request. I quite often send them a friend request. I'm like, You hate me that much? And like, friend.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Let's be friends then. And the ironic thing is they wouldn't walk up to you in the street and say mean stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

It's never happened. It's never happened in my life, which is funny. 23 years and not one person has ever done it. There was one guy, I think, and I don't think he was mentally ill.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

It was probably like the full can of Coke, you know.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

No, he wasn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

And you do learn that his unhinged, yeah. Yeah, okay. And so look, we we we'll take the good with the bad, but the people that generally uh make the most noise, because it does, hey, the love always drowns out the the the bad stuff. So we're just here now to have fun, and and I don't know if we'll make it to Howard Stern's status, but we can certainly try, right?

SPEAKER_01 12:36

Let's bring back how green was my cactus.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Dan and Christie Podcast! Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 12:43

The Dan and Christie Podcast, live from a caravan in New Norfolk. Um it's still freezing. I'm glad you are nice and warm. Uh, you got your jumper on, which is very nice. I got my Creed t-shirt.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

You got your Creed shirt. You look good, but we're so comfortable. It's so weird, hey, because we talked about broadcasting from a caravan and we have the shittest chairs, just so everyone knows. Like these are these are wrestling chairs.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Are they? Yeah. I can show you a few moves if you like. Yeah, right. Well, we don't have a chance. We're scissoring. We are we've never been this close broadcasting to each other at all. It feels like I'm inside uh we are we are scissoring.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

This is how close we are. That is we can share the blank.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Share the blank, no. Share the blank. It's all right, you have it. You're nice and warm.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Well, you know, we were talking about this and it's been like a big conversation too, because people were asking me if this was related. So, no, I wasn't made redundant um because of anything to do with baby goalie and maternity leave, right? Like, but having said that, because I never would have I didn't want to bring this up because you never want people to go, oh, well, Dan was made redundant, producer Matt was made redundant, heaps of people have that haven't had babies. But we've been talking about this, you and I, and one of our friends, AB, she's a radio host on on Mix FM on the Sunshine Coast, she was made redundant when she was actually on maternity leave. One in five women experience this in Australia, either getting made redundant, having a contract change, losing their job on maternity leave, um, when they've just returned to work after maternity leave, which is what happened to me, or just before they're about to go on maternity leave. Companies get away with that because it's legal as long as they then follow process with paying you what you're obviously owed. But putting that to the side, the money stuff and the legalities, it is such a, as you know, the time when you have a baby, because baby Goldie's only now seven months, so that's still very fresh. And I will kick myself forever now that I went back to our show when she was only four months.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

And you didn't have to have two more months of eternity left.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

I could have stayed, and Dan was so beautiful. Dan's like, oh my god, take all the time in the world family first. Like he always said that. The network didn't put pressure on me to come back per se, of course, but I came back because I thought, oh, well, you know, I want to keep my the ironic thing, oh, you know, I don't want to be off air for too long, I want to keep my job safe. You know, Dan and I gonna go into the ratings survey, and you know, I better not be off air for too long because then what damage could happen with work? And all of that stuff happened, and then I still got made redundant anyway. And you know what's happened? My baby girl, and I'll just tell you this, especially because we're on a podcast now and we can say all these things in depth. I've completely lost my breast milk now because I had to I'm gonna expect the look on your face, but just if you want to see me, but like because I was working toward sharing feeds with Hubby Justin, and I was thinking, oh well, when I'm back at work, it's gonna be hard to keep all the milk and balance that. And there was nowhere for me to. I mean, I could have, of course, snuck off and and pumped at work in the toilets, and they would have been supportive. Like their work was very much they were great. They were what what do you need? What can we do? But still, like that's what women go through when they get made redundant if they're about to have the baby or have had the baby on maternity leave at home, and it's friggin' isolating, your hormones change, it's devastating for women to go through that with a new baby.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

And that's it. Like uh Annabelle uh is one of our good mates in radio, and uh, she was just heartbroken by this. And and the fact that they did it to her during this time, it made you feel worthless, and that is the worst feeling in all of radio, like it you're built on confidence, and you know, it goes straight to the Fairwork Ombudsman when it comes to this, because I don't think they can do it technically, unless you've done something ridiculously wrong, like a Sandalans thing or something like that. But even he's got a nice little payout. A lot more than us. Oh geez, wouldn't that be nice? Those chairs are free if you're about ARN. Well, you could put us in any show, like I reckon, and we'd be okay, but um, we wouldn't do wouldn't say and do some of the things he's uh said and done. Big fan of yours, though, Kyle, do like you. Um, but um yeah, it it that's that's the worst feeling, isn't it? Like to know that you know you've you've got this new child in your life, it's supposed to be the greatest time of your life, and it really is. Like I I missed both my kids. Um, you know, I had to go straight back to work, like two weeks for both. Um, you know, Isabel was born, I had to find work. I and I literally didn't have any work. And thank God, you know, I ended up getting Chili FM breakfast in Lonceston, and we had to move the entire family. Um, the first night's sleep Isabel ever had was on the spirit of Tasmania overnight, and she was you know, three weeks old. She's just a little little baby, but I missed out on her entire you know, life growing up. Um, you know, there's things you missed out on. But it's way worse as a mother because you are needed, and that that absolutely um will destroy you. Like you just go, Well, why why did I put my heart and soul into this to not get it reciprocated? Couldn't they have told you they've probably known for a while beforehand?

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Like, because you just hit the nail on the head, like we will never get that time back. And all right, maybe people that are making decisions looking at graphs and paperwork and spreadsheets and stuff don't know our family history, and heaps of people have families and things like that. But you go to the time when you have a new baby for for mothers, for fathers too, of course, my God. But but I'm talking about the hormonal drop for the mums and you know, the not keeping your breast milk now anymore because you weren't at home enough to pump consistently or breastfeed your child, like um, it it's just devastating. And I think now the push will be in Australia, which I 100% want to get behind, as I know you will. There is a massive conversation with this about, yeah, it's legal, but should it be? Should you be able to make uh a mum who's just returned to work made redundant at that time? Can factors be brought in to support that journey here here on out or beforehand? Like, I mean, I could name drop networks now that have made um friends of ours on the air uh and off the air too, my god, off the air, redundant, um, on maternity leave, and that's a time like where you want to be you're exhausted. You've had a baby, we've had babies, like there is no such thing as sleep, there is no such thing as consistency, and then especially in the entertainment industry, you have to hustle, you know, you have to think what's next. You can't do that with a baby. It's just it's really unfair, and um, and I think that we need a a long way to go in that space, right?

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Well, we're good friends with Albow now, so um we can change some laws in Australia. It isn't fair, and and it shouldn't happen, and but unfortunately it does, especially in this industry. Like um, because you know, you you you s said yourself, you're like, oh, after four months, are people gonna forget about me? Are people gonna like you know, um, am I still gonna retain my job at the end of this? All these questions happen, and that's why, like, you know, even with my second baby, I was only away for two weeks because I'm like, well, the work like the one, there wasn't anyone at the work that could press the bloody buttons. I was the only guy there that knew what I was doing, and so like taking time off like really affected work, and and you felt guilty about that, which is crazy to think. Like, I could have said I could have taken enough way more time, but I felt like I needed to be there, which is funny. But like, really, you know, that's time lost with our little Maddie, who's now eight. Um, we've missed out on so much of our kids' lives.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

And we're not doing that again. No, we are not, we've learned a massive lesson that the show does go on, they'll be fine. Don't ever prioritize your place of business, ever, over your family. Don't rush back to work if you don't have to. Look, we all need we've all got to pay the bills, we understand that. But if you're in a position where you don't have to kill yourself, if you can do something else to make it work, pick home. You I keep saying it, but you're replaceable at work. Everybody's replaceable at work, you are irreplaceable at home.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

And you and you did a lot of work from home too, like during that time, during pregnancy. Like, how how far along were you during that time?

SPEAKER_00 20:34

I was on air like two weeks before we had Goldie.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

Two weeks before you had Goldie.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

I know, and then you know, I'm like, oh, have have Goldie and and I mean, went back to work as quickly as I could, and we still ended up here in our in our caravan and Christy.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

This is uh an enchanted caravan that we always were going to get back to. And here we are.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Dan and Christie Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

The Dan and Christie podcast, uh, fresh from getting fired or made redundant, just replaced pretty much. And now we are in the back of a caravan, which is very cold. Um, but mate, it's uh nice and warm to be in your presence always. Um I uh really struggled with this after getting the boot and the axe. Is what do I actually do from here on in? And now I've had some crazy ideas.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

I can't wait to hear them.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

I was thinking the mayor of Bernie.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

I like that food. I like that food. Bernie into Tasmania is your hometown.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

You are so well loved there. Your parents are there. I reckon you would be a tremendous mare because you would lead with heart, you would lead from the heart, you'd make uh decisions from empathy from a good place. You have to be able to speak well. You can do that in spades.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

I can kind of.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

I uh you will get my vote. We could even take the caravan that we're broadcasting in now.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

You have to live in Bernard, so that's gonna be a technicality.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Well, this is what happens. A lot of people when they lose their job or their place of placement, a lot of people go home. They go home to their roots where they started where their lives were, where their childhoods were.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

I've had a lot of roots in that town. Uh but mum and dad still live there. So I do have an address and that's like 101. I looked into it. You do have to have an address in the town that you're going for the mayor in. Okay. But also would I have the support not living there for half my life?

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Um I reckon you would because you've gone out, you've seen other things, you come back with fresh perspective. You need a mayor from from wherever it is. You need someone that's actually lived like especially in small towns they they love it. They live and breathe it but then they go and see the world see how other things can be done. You don't want to keep your mind in backward thinking. Come back to come back to where it is because they say that you bloom where you planted.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

Orlando bloom. Maybe I get to date Katy Perry too and go on a paddleboard and get my dick out.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Yeah they'd make headlines in Bernie.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Yeah it would oh well everyone gets theirs out in Bernie Green's Hotel. But yeah like it's a it's a brilliant little city and um I do get back of often there and mum and dad uh always they said if you ever like if anything turns to shit in life you've always got a home here which is crazy to think like isn't it? Because like we may have to sell like we own a house in Launceston it's becoming ridiculous how much money you need to actually sustain a house and have someone live in it and it's hammering money. So it's like maybe sell the house in Lanceston uh we're renting here which rent is ridiculous. Bernie rent pretty good. I think all signs are pointing to Bernie you and I are going together we I'm writing your coattails. You would have you I mean like I I'd say that but you love where you live here. I do like to you hate to leave.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

But look I do by the beach by the beach city by the sea. You know what? Mimi Bay Yes and oh wood a fresh start like we've yes we love where we are but hubby just and I uh have loved a lot of regions a small I love small cities. Anyone who knows me knows that I love small towns. Yep closer you can still you know jump on a plane if you had to go somewhere close enough to civilization.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

There's a windy airport.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

That's all I need is is is good people that's all you need around you is because again it comes back to what we do with our eight hours in the day to kill some time that's just killing time before we come back to our family and our home. Like that is more important and moving forward that's how I'm going to be in life I got a Bernie as long as I'm in a happy environment and close to you.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Yeah they've got a radio station 7 B U and CFM.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Actually I think I saw messages about that wasn't there well I know there was a petition to bring us back to our radio station. Thank you to our beautiful listens at Pink Honey like that was so sweet. It actually started a petition I don't know how many people signed it but it's not going to work we've we've moved on from that and everyone has moved on from that now like as in what our former employees was everyone's moved on the show will go on. But I I would like to see you doing politics if you wanted to I mean you are born to be on the radio but you could also do politics.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Oh that they don't do much a lot of uh spinning yeah well we chatted to Albo I mean what was that God exactly and we're good friends with the premier he sent us a message Jeremy Rockliffe he's he's just like I can't believe they take local radio away and that is a really good point like because to take local radio away they have done it to all the Victorian stations with us like our show was syndicated to like all these amazing places like Bendigo, Shepherd and Albury um you know uh Miljura and um and to take it away from Hobart though like a capital city um that we don't have a local voice and detached from the mainland as we Tasmanians call it like of course you it's it's just bizarre but we were so thankful to Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe he he actually said something really sweet which was Tasmania needs more of a voice not less and and it's true every region deserves to have someone that speaks up and advocates for them and that's what we want to keep doing and I reckon you could do it in Bernie. I mean I reckon you could do it anywhere but well Hobart need a new mayor Lonces and I could probably be the deputy mayor because Matthew Gow is pretty damn popular. And he was on the voice he was on the voice uh but I'll be his offsider hey Matt I'll be your wingman anytime all you've got to do is get on big brother I remember you auditioned for big brother and then you'll make it mayor of Bernie. As soon as I got fired fired I'm just like I should have been on Big Brother when I said no to the majors ago so I I literally put in my application for Big Brother the day I got fired. I'm like I'm gonna do radio in the opposite because usually it's big brother contestants that take over you and I'm like I'm gonna become Big Brother I'm gonna become Fitzy or Galen or hot dogs.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Or Reggie she reached out to us as well.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Reggie was on Big Brother I love Reggie Big Brother03 she's um the salt of the earth she's a wonderful person and her sister Anita lives down here too who's lovely and uh been through hell herself she lost a job too so um yeah a lot of people going through the same thing in my group chat uh out of six blokes five of them this year and including me have lost their jobs which is crazy it's unbelievable so many of us have been made redundant or being fired or just the shit hitting the fan like you've got to just laugh through it.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

And it's funny like if you just tell people your story I reckon I reckon and like I said in the last step most people when they get made redundant at work they go they sit down with each other have a quiet meeting um they don't have like the whole country that knows about it. But I'm actually glad now that we didn't just that people it's embarrassing yes and it's you know it exposes you but with that comes more support right and I think it's important for people to talk about the shit times that they're going through in life and we've always said that on our former show.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

It's true and it's the first time we got advertised too yeah they didn't put us on a poster they didn't put us anywhere in the market there was no billboards or buses, buses. They did it for our opposition there was no like we were promised that like there were going to be videos that would be Facebook promoted it didn't ever happen. So like to have this happen is the greatest advertising ever like we don't need to do an air check or anything like that. We don't need to send our CD out to any PDs. They know about it.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

I know it's so funny the irony of well they say that it any publicity is good publicity. Not that you and I cared about that. We just laughed because you know it was funny how through such a a grief stricken time for us like true pain for us. Dan and I don't give a shit that we lost money. Dan and I care that we lost our microphone because with that microphone came an ability to make a difference and that's why we we cried we got up we dropped the kids at school and on the way driving home from school I'm thinking about Dan the whole time and I I'm like crying and sobbing because I felt like I had no place and I got home and the first thing I did was message you and left you a voice note and I said we've got to do our podcast we need the microphone we need to start back and we've got to get back to work immediately.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

And with great power comes great responsibility we've got a microphone and we're gonna use it. Dan and Christy podcast Dan and Christie podcast in the back of the caravan and Christy right now and Christy Hayes I have to ask um are you going back into acting because you've got plenty of time on your hands now. Do you have time I can help you as an agent I'm not sure what else I can do but hold your bags as you walk in to maybe home and away neighbours you could go back on any soap opera in Australia.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

Well it's funny that you say that like okay so I don't have offers at this point in time. Hopefully they do because like people have been saying that as well ever since you and I were made redundant um at the former radio show. Because I was like I actually would love to podcast with Dan so he and I always have our platform on our show to help people and have our connection but I have really missed acting over the last couple of years too like I do miss it. The last thing I did it was like why 2024 it came out in America it was like I was in a small part of this lovely little Australian movie and it's called Finally Me. And like I'm talking one scene right more scenes than I've ever done in the international film. But it was like it was funny because we went to LA at the end of 2024 just before the what they called the wildfires happened actually which was devastating but but we just got out of LA at the time and um and we went to our Airbnb that we were staying in and we put on Tubi the streaming company and the movie was there and I couldn't believe it. Like I went holy hell and I told my son Harley who was so excited and it was like a really cool feeling because I've always loved acting my entire life but it's just something that I hadn't been pursuing too much because of radio and mothering and things like that. But I love acting I love acting in a different way to radio or podcasting if you will broadcasting because um acting something that like I feel you do for yourself like you love it. It's just for you you're a part of an ensemble or whatever but it's that thing in you that you love um whereas broadcasting is for other people you know you talk to people and you have to conduit to others aren't you and you just you know my name is Christy I'm not gonna sit here and call myself Kirsty for God's sake like which was my home no way name. So yeah I I'd like to go back to it.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

It'd be cool if you and I could take our show on the road and do something with acting right what about we make a radio show I mean we've talked about this a lot off air like there's so much humour when it comes to radio like the stories that we hear every day there's something hilarious that happens all the time whether it be production or promotions like when you go and do a live broadcast from somewhere things that people say to you too like there's so much comedy in it and it's just an untapped gold mine I think of content. Yeah it is so we can finally start doing our little projects that we always talked about but never had time to do now we've got all the time in the world to you know write something I know your husband's been writing something amazing too which uh we'll keep hush hush for now but you know he's a creative genius oh yeah oh he is and he's got a part for you yes and of course um because I can't act though this is the problem no no no I can't I was on Rosehaven and uh I auditioned to be the bad guy from Rosehaven and um I realized pretty quickly like at the audition in front of like the executives I'm terrible at this no you're not yeah and Luke McGregor is a good mate of mine and I'm so glad he gave me that opportunity to do it. He thought I could do it yeah but it was apparent like as I'm acting I'm like I don't know how to act I think I even said that to him at one stage and I'm like he goes could you just do like be yourself in this and I'm like I don't think I can it's me hey guys um yeah I just was like a deer in headlights yeah of course I mean it comes with time you know if I'm myself I reckon I could pull it off but yeah well you'd pulled off a lot I know you could pulled off so much even this week jeez in the world now don't you have way more time on my hands you wouldn't know what's on my hands these days they need a bit of a wash um no it's um you are very talented as an actress and and like I I'd pinch myself every day knowing that I was with like because I watched Home and Away with my dad everything from nine on channel seven and I pinch myself every day because like he was stoked to hear that I was working with Kirsty Sutherland and I just couldn't believe it because like most of my life has been missing out on shit. Like it's just like hey you're in the conversation no we're not gonna go with you Dan because you're a piece of shit is basically my entire life in a nutshell but when I got the job with you like it was such a a coup it was just like oh I've finally done something in my life that means something. Oh my god oh well like it's um it's it's just something that like literally like it it was a dream job that was given to me with a person that you know I I never thought I knew and you know become best friends with too thank you and can you know what I don't think we've ever said this on the air but Dan is one of the people that pushed for me to get this job.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Oh I was Dan is Dan and I went and did um a radio demo as they call it we were in different places you were um in Lonces in Tasmania I was on the central coast of New South Wales just up from Sydney and we had to like talk to each other we called each other and had like an hour chat beforehand and I was like I love this guy he's amazing obviously knew Dan's working radio and and Danny's a freaking amazing comedian he's so funny you know we could never really play Dan's stuff on on our previous show but we definitely will on this oh yeah and um and you spoke to like the the powers that be and you went like because I was obviously in the mix with a few other girls who are amazing as well.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Isabella one of our great friends who is an incredible broadcaster brilliant brilliant and Izzy filled in for me when I was on maternity leave you know and and you were the one that said Christie um like take a chance like put Christie in this role like and and I don't think I've ever said that to like really publicly praise you for that because yeah the shit hit the fan but it brought us together and that happened because for you and and those four years were brilliant outlook and what we achieved in that I've never achieved in my life with any other that's a co-host and I love them each individually. Of course brilliant I've had so many like it's been a lot of rotating door because they're like oh hang out for six months and they're like see you Dan uh catch you later and they go on to better things. That's the weird part too like is you know I've lost a lot of uh friends over the years and and my co-hosts too but um they've always gone on to better things which is a funny thing like it's like sometimes it's kick up the ass to go do something better. Like a great example is Katie my old co-host on Chili FM Katie Parkinger is one of the most talented people you'll ever meet in your life and she just took it so naturally to radio and she was always brilliant I always had faith in her she she like has her own self-confidence issues I'm like Katie you are bloody brilliant at what you do and she went off and now she gets paid to just travel the world with over half a million social media followers and she goes to Fiji she goes all around New Zealand she like her whole life has just changed for the better yeah thanks to those six months in radio but she she really got the confidence in herself it was always in her yeah but it but it's funny that someone needs to elevate you someone needs to go you can do this and I feel like I'm a part of it but it was always her that's so but like it like I I've always been empowering others like you know and our show was that it was just going well you are talented we say to Izzy all the time she's got self-confidence issues she's a rock star at it like and and if you're watching now Izzy you are you are honey and don't quit because I know I know that we're gone but like you will be here in this industry for a very long time because you're very talented. But I think it's that to just go like well here's the kick up the arse let's do something completely different and that's what she did and I'm so proud of her like she's amazing. And follow her it's what Katie did next she's only just got her social media following back she's so funny and so brilliant and just fearless too like she's she's great and adore her.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Oh I love the sound of that.

SPEAKER_01 36:24

So she's traveling the world going to Fiji I mean we could do that if we want so how do we get what she we get to go to New Norfolk we could probably go to the agrarian kitchen and get a free meal if we asked really nicely I mean you've got you've got powers you've got you know people in high places you could go and do anything you wanted to like but would you so same you know what everyone knows what it's like to fall down and have to get back up and I probably did lose my confidence with acting for a bit which is silly but I think now that I just kind of have a total reset and you think about the things that you love I loved radio I still love radio I've no doubt that those things are waiting for us but Hubby Justin and my mum especially my mum because both of our mums have been us with us since the beginning know our strengths and our talents and you know what we talk about growing up I know your beautiful parents are like that with you and so is Mama Deb.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

And she said Christy focus on acting now this is what you also love like the the radio will come back and it's always a part of your life and it's your skill and it's your gem she said but there's no reason you can't also love other things that have loved you back. You know and for you listening okay you might not love acting but you might also have a career and something else that you feel like oh maybe I'm also supposed to follow that path like whatever it is life is life is they say and they say if you follow you're happy whatever that might be don't be scared no matter how old you are like I'm almost 40 right I'm 39. Did not think I'd be made redundant just for my 40th birthday but I mean if we didn't get to celebrate your birthday god damn it but um but you know it happened there's nothing I can do about it. I didn't quit I didn't walk away it just the universe just went hey guys let's we're going to the left now and they say that when nothing goes right go left and if that brings me back to acting which I really hope it does it will especially not with those lame speeches then I'm up for everything that's what the show's called life gives you uh go left go right what was it I've forgotten already when nothing goes right go left the musical man and Christy podcast yeah