The breakfast radio diaries 010: Jet engines and popcorn socks

I woke up with a start, frantically wondering why my phone was singing to me at 4:30am. Then it came to me as I switched it off, 'you're doing breakfast radio you clown, get up already!'.

The shower didn't really wake me up and strangely neither did the walk. But a coffee and a couple of segments in and things clicked into place again. After a 1st gear start, we kicked into the higher ratios pretty soon after that..

TALES OF A DIFFERENT ENGINE

I bought a car over the weekend (the very tiring walks to and from work and to and from school when picking the kids up coming to an end later this week!) but it was a different engine I talked about on the show today - a 9 cylinder Hellcat plane engine on display at the Jindera Swap Meet and Show and Shine on the weekend.

Not only did I (along with a lot of the crowd) get to see and more importantly hear this monster in action but I also interviewed Tom, owner and re-builder of this loud machine about his 40 year project which he got into after finding it in a field back in his 30s! Re-purposed from a plane to be a tank engine, it's current for sale and apparently a hot commodity for tank builders in the US (and one interested party in Holland).

(Also for the record it isn't his only project over 40 years, apparently he helped build a lot of custom Mustangs for people too.)

THE DIRTY LAUNDRY DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE

Comedian Clair Hooper dropped by for a chat about her appearance on the Aussie version of Would I Lie to You, the madness of Frank Woodley (in a positive sense, he's one of a kind) and online comedy gigs during lock down. As she quite rightly pointed out at the start of things you went all out to make sure what others saw of your spare room or garage (or wherever you had your camera set up) was all ship shape and above board - towards the end of lock downs though? No one cared. Dirty dishes, dirty laundry on display it mattered not. We're all human and all in lockdown together.

WE TALKED MOVIES AND TV

Movie man Shane A was up super early to get right into the 2022 Oscars, in his suit and popcorn socks when we called. Considering they didn't start until a couple of hours after our show ended shows how dedicated he truly is to what he called his own version of the AFL Grand Final.

Steve Malk talked TV, not lamenting the end to the latest SAS Australia series whatsover. Having never seen an episode (and that's a trend I intend to keep) I don't think I'm missing much there. Although being a Marvel fan, I am looking forward to Moon Knight kicking off later this week.

NO MATTER WHERE YOU WENT, THERE WAS SOMETHING HAPPENING

In no particular order we got into: 

-Albury Gold Cup and the amazing fashions (a shout out to the bloke wearing the Super Mario Brothers jacket! That looked the bomb!)

-Red Hot Summer Tour Wodonga - The Angels had a lot of fun, Living End rocked the house, James Reyne got up to his usual best (and he's bloody good no matter where he is) and Chocolate Starfish subbed in for Boom Crash Opera. I should have gone, the lineup looked amazing.

-Balloonfest Wangaratta - a shout out the giant sloth balloon!

-Jindera Swap Meet. Good luck finding a park near the showgrounds but that was the only minor gripe on a big and find day day out. Great range of stalls, brilliant looking cars in the show and shine. Oh and no shout out to the overpriced waffle pancakes too, the fact that the little caravan didn't have prices up was a bit stiff ($15 each? Seriously?) 

-Summer Night Albury on the Friday night

SO A BIG SHOW - AND TOMORROW WE DO IT ALL AGAIN!

We've got a hypnotist coming in, we'll take a look at the Oscars and grab a chat with Elliot from the Rubens, playing at the Cube in Wodonga this weekend. Also who is the funniest live comedian do you think?
And here's to me not staring stupidly at my phone alarm in confusion when it goes off tomorrow too!

Chat then

-Almigo