The Media Landscape

• Plenty of movement!

Will Garry do 360?

• Tim asked Garry whether he will do it
• Discussed work/life balance

Grand Final week

• The functions Garry and Tim do – and the ‘dropdown menu’ of stories they have in their repertoire
• Garry gives Tim some tips on how to improve his stories for functions

Melbourne Storm into the Grand Final

• Garry and Tim give their thoughts on the NRL

What will Tim do over the summer?

• Last day on Breakfast for 2024

FOOD – For Cobram Estate Olive Oil

RECOMMENDATIONS – for Nelson Irrigation – ‘Love is Blind’ TV show from Tim

FARMING – For Peninsula Kubota 

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Joys of live television

• Garry and Tim recount times they’ve been caught out on air due to technical issues

Grand Final week functions

• Advice, learnings from Garry and Tim’s time doing functions

The Brownlow

• Well done to Hamish McLachlan for his work as MC – preparation is key

Grand Final Footy Food – For Cobram Estate

• What will Tim be cooking up at home while watching the Grand Final?
• Garry’s advice for people going to the Grand Final – have a big breakfast

Grand Final Day

• The experience for the players – the nervousness, excitement, anxiety
• Do players deal with a Grand Final loss better these days?
• Fagan and Longmire – what it means for both of them this week

Recommendations – for Nelson Irrigation

• Tim has been watching Bad Monkey

Farming, for Peninsula Kubota

• Some technical advice from Garry re: lamb prices 

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MIKE SHEAHAN

• His fallout with Sam Newman and Don Scott
• Open Mike - and some of more controversial epsiodes (eg - Mark Jackson)
• He learnt his interviewing technique from Andrew Denton
• A great compliment he had recently from Nathan Buckley was that he always thought Mike was fair, even if he didn't agree with some of the articles
• Barry Hall story - Mike says in hindsight he got it wrong with the position he took for the Hall vs. McGuire incident
• Why he wouldn't like to be a journalist today
• His three years at the AFL
• His love for footy
• What gave him the biggest buzz during his time in footy
• The Kelvin Templeton / Peter Moore story was one of the biggest that he broke
• His take on Ginnivan and Hinkley
• Talking Footy memories
• The guests he would have liked to interview on Open Mike
• His Top 50
• His top 5 players of all time

FARMING TIPS - For Peninsula Kubota

Interview with Joe Otto from Peninsula Kubota

FOOD - For Cobram Estate Olive Oil 

RECOMMENDATIONS - For Nelson Irrigation

• Outlast on Netflix

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Hair transplants

Does September evoke certain memories for you?

• Garry revealed he used to leave work to go watch the US Open on TV with Todd Viney
• Discussed Todd Viney's move to coach Mark Philippoussis

Kane Cornes signs with Channel 7

• How has this gone down at Channel 9?
• Why did Ch 7 announce it?
• Garry says surely nobody at Ch 9 would be genuinely upset by it
• Kane Cornes' move to Ch 7 has created an enormous amount of publicity

Discussion on Bill Ferg and The Lobster Cave

Tim has been watching Drops of God on Apple TV

• Do people still have a family meal for dinner each night?
• Garry and Tim agree it is one of life's great pleasures

Recommendation of the Week - Fatboy Thai restaurant from Garry.

Tim recommends Blue Lights on SBS ON DEMAND

And the Holdovers - movie

Do you shop around for the best price, for big ticket items?

• Tim got 4 quotes for a pool he is getting installed

What's the best holiday you've been on?

• Tim - when they walked parts of the Camino
• Garry looking to go away with his 3 sons next year

Footy finals

• Is this the most difficult year to pick a premier?
• Garry and Tim reflect on great finals memories

Farming Tips - For Peninsula Kubota

• Virtual fencing for cattle

Food discussion - for Cobram Estate

• Stuffed capsicums

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Whisp wonders if he needs to wax some areas of his body ahead of a proceadure tomorrow

Footy trips - Garry explains the rules and structure of a footy trip from his days at Melbourne

The passion fans have for their teams

• Played audio from a Carlton podcast, which gave us a laugh

The race to the finals - never seen a year like it

Sam Pang's Logies performance - Tim is in awe of his timing and delivery

Farming tip for Peninsula Kubota - The Green Drought

Food chat - For Cobram Estate - Tim's Steak Sandwich

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It's function season!

• Tim puts his hands up, he's available
• Which Tim stories should he add to his routine?
• Garry's advice for how Tim can re-work and improve his stories
• Garry has added his Saddam Hussein to his routine
• Tim says the comedian at functions have a tough gig

Anxiety and panic attacks

• Have you ever had one on live TV?
• Tim says he didn't have a panic attack when he forgot Greg Hutchison's name.. He just forgot his name!

Light & Shade in broadcasting

• How long can you go on air being serious, without a gag?
• Garry says self-awareness is important - you need to know how you sound
• The balance between keeping a game alive in a broadcast sense, but making sure you're not barracking

Momentum in footy

• Have you ever seen such big swings within games? Why is it happening?

Retirements

• Dyson Heppell announced his retirement this week
• Tim loves the way the AFL industry acknowledges retirements now

Food discussion, for Cobram Estate Olive Oil

Farming Tip, for Peninsula Kubota

• Importance of servicing your equipment

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The King’s Club facilities at Coventry St

When did you stop caring what others think about how you look?

Is the wallet a thing of the past?

Men’s health – Garry and Tim discuss recent experiences and the importance of check ups

Technology

• Garry suggests that there should be a company that shows non-tech savvy people how to set up their phone to make their life easier

Olympics

• It brings out the patriotic nature in us all
• Once every 4 years, we will sit down and watch anything!
• Which sport would you pick up if you put your mind to it?
• Gerard Whateley’s performance as the chief commentator for the track events

Farming and Cooking tips

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Special episode – Johnny from Epping joins us in studio

• He’s brought in almond cake, eggs, blood orange juice
• He has always called talkback radio – started calling Rex at 3AW
• When Johnny heard something he didn’t like, he felt he needed to call into the station to fix it!
• When Rex finished, he switched to SEN – calling KB, Harf, Garry and Tim
• He was working for the council and thought he would get in trouble from the boss for calling off the work phone
• Spoke about his days hunting quail
• Growing up in Italy – started working at the age of 9 and did lots of hunting
• He was 9 when his mother passed away – and he stepped up into a guardian role for his siblings
• His youngest sibling was 6 months when his mum passed away – he used to carry his brother around the town and asked other mothers with new borns to breast feed his brother to keep him alive
• They had a donkey which he says they used ‘like a truck’ to help transport things
• Lived in Switzerland for two years
• Came to Australia on a boat – took one month, arrived at Port Melbourne and went to live in Thomastown. Worked in a factory to make doors
• Why he barracks for the Roos – Tom Hafey, Ron Barassi… He watched the 1977 Grand Final and it took off from there
• Used to tell his boss he was sick each week and he’d go watch the Roos train… But got caught on TV one day!
• Doesn’t like all the rule changes in the AFL
• Spoke about getting recognised in public because of his voice
• Advice for Garry – thinks the AFL is paying him under the table
• Advice for Tim – wearing those smart arse glasses 

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Woodchopping

• Garry and Tim talk us through last week, when they spent two days together chopping wood
• Garry gives his review of Tim’s work
• Tim says one of the great feelings in life is when you’re physically exhausted from hard work – at the end of the day, shower, comfortable clothes and relax

Comfort Zone

• VCE students – discussion about students not doing exams due to anxiety
• Spoke about the benefits of getting out of comfort zone, the confidence it can provide
• How we raise kids and out pets – do we spoil them?

Olympics

• How much of it will you consume?
• Would the surfers feel disconnected, in Tahiti?
• Garry and Tim discuss their favourite sports – Tim: Team sports, Garry: Swimming
• The brutal nature of it – devastation, a lifetime of work can be finished from one small error
• Tim had stories about how hard the weightlifters train
• Enduring memory of the Olympic games – Tim and Garry give their nominations

Shoutout for Ray Chamberlain, Chris Donlon and Michael Saunders

• How Razor Ray built his profile

Farming, for Kubota

• Discussed termites

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Coaching departures

• The money shot the media is after is to get a tear out of the coach
• Do you need to be subjected to the media conference if you’re an outgoing coach?
• Inglorious sackings – and the audio of Damian Drum at Fremantle
• The West Australian’s front page showed no empathy to Adam Simpson this morning
• Tim spoke about his departure from St Kilda – the paper ran a photo to make it look like he broke down
• The responsibility of a coach – Tim discussed how much falls on the coach – there are so many decisions to make every single day
• Picking senior coaching is a difficult task too, because you are never 100% sure until they get in the seat
• Re: the text message story last week – Tim had a story about Kevin Sheedy’s first preseason at Essendon – if there were text messages around then, there would have been plenty sent around!

Parking changes

• Garry frustrated by councils changing parking time limits on streets

Sleeping tip

• Garry says that Nicky has started taping her mouth shut while she sleeps – and never slept better!

Media Bias

• If you were at the start of your media career, would you foster more relationships with media outlets to report favourably on you?

Farming – for Peninsula Kubota

Cooking – for Kubota

• Garry has been watching Matt Moran, who has some amazing techniques with Salmon

Woodchopping

• Garry and Tim are having a day of wood chopping next week!

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