The Breakfast Radio Diaries 105 - Greats, pies and storms.

Today I'm a kid with spikes on my shoulders but not enough room in my stomach for cake, courtesy of the best gourmet pie in Australia..

WHAT A RUSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It's Friday again, it's 80's celebration time once more and today we thought we'd get a look at people's favourite 80's sporting stars. To help get the conversation started, I whipped up this little masterpiece in Photoshop last night. 

Now if you can't tell your goal shooters from your grapplers, allow me to elaborate.
From left to right top row: Eddie the Eagle, Larry Bird, Torvil and Dean, Bjorn Borg.
Middle row: Hulk Hogan
Bottom: Steffi Graf, Hawthorne football team.   

Not pictured: Every other great sporting superstar from the 80s. 

While Lu loved her tennis heroes, for me it was all about the almost cartoony characters of the World Wrestling Federation including the excellence of execution (what a great line!) himself Bret Hitman Hart and my favourite tag team at the time, The Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal, formerly known as The Road Warriors.) 
Being a big fan of podcasts currently with the occasional wrestling one thrown in for good measure, I've since found out that if The Legion of Doom liked you as opponents then you'd have a great match but if they didn't, well they would have been as forgiving as crashing into a freeway retaining wall at high speed. 
Hopefully you didn't run into them with their spikes on..

Other great sporting stars from the 80's brought up by our fans across the morning included:

Cliff Young - Turned up to take on the Melbourne to Sydney Ultramarathon in his sixties and in a pair of gumboots. Since nobody told poor Cliffy that he could take breaks along the way, he just kept going and going and going like a true Everyready battery. What a champion.

Muhammad Ali - Nominated by Schwatta in our chat about this weekends AFL action, most of The Greatest's fights were done by the 80's but he was still a legendary figure across the sports world. 

Michael Jordan - Today we hear that the last 'Last Dance' top he wore has just been auctioned off for a staggering 14 million dollars. 

Larry Bird - 'The Hick from French Lick', one of the greatest basketballers of all time. 

Merv Hughes - Great cricketer with a moustache to match

Steve Monaghetti - One of Australia's most famous long distance runners.

Peter Brock - Master race car driver, sadly missed. 

Hilariously someone also nominated Daniel LaRusso as their great 80's sporting superstar and while I didn't recognise the name, I certainly worked out who he was from the Google images..

Well played Danielson!

I PASSED ON THE CAKE

And if you know me well, that's a pretty rare occurrence in the history of me and cake - especially when it's anything to do with chocolate you pair it with a nice coffee and give me the time to savour them both equally. But today in a fully catered quick all staff meeting (and mini birthday celebration for one person in the board room) there was a glorious looking cake, covered in icing and fruit ready to go.
Only my stomach decided 'You know what? We're good' and instead I wandered off to finish my daily duties and get home ready to pay some truly exciting bills. 

No it's not watching out for the waistline (which is even rarer than me passing on cake) it's because I ate Australia's best gourmet pie 2022 for breakfast during the show. And between that and the post show feed, well there simply wasn't enough room for a decent sized wedge. 

The pie was a Chinese BBQ pork belly and mother of the gods was this good. Choc full of tender meat, not drowning in enough fat to make your teeth feel uneasy, lightly spiced and encased in a golden crust, this truly hit the spot. The brainchild of one of the pie guns at Miss Amelie Gourmet, amazingly they were about to drop this pie from the menu due to lack of sales but the team jumped in, tweaked it a little and created something that beat every other entry of the gourmet division of the pie awards. Now they have the trophy to match!

So thanks to Ken for dropping around some of the winning pies to test on the show this morning and thanks to Lu also for telling me 'I have a surprise and it's food related for the show today..'
Considering how much time we talk food (a lot), I'm very happy to have those moments when I get to test some of the best in the business.

(I'd show you an Instagram drool worthy pic of this pie too...but I just ate it. Take my word, it's delicious.)

I'd like to also thank the cafe around the corner from the studios - Cafe 2640 for their $10 Friday special of an egg and bacon sandwich and big bucket of nourishing coffee, fit for a king uh...Earl (I keep forgetting, I'm an Earl now). I have it with a slice of cheese, no relish and served on two slices of thick as your arm toast and it's to die for. 
So between that and the pie this morning, now you can clearly see why giving the cake a miss may have been a very safe idea... 

FINALLY, GREETINGS TO THE STORM

No no, not that storm (although I still love my comics to this day.) Nay to the Melbourne Storm NRL team too. No I mean the storm that woke me at 12:40am today with a fantastic light and sound show as the rain thundered on down.
Naturally while I was in bed safely tucked away under a pair of doonas listening to all of this, my thoughts we working overtime: 

I wonder if the kids left my car windows open slightly again when I picked them up from school earlier? 

Thankfully they didn't and thankfully I didn't get up to check that at the time either. 

The weekend begins now!

-Almigo