Get This

Get This hosts: Ed Kavalee (left) and Tony Martin (right).

Get This is a comedic radio talk show hosted by Tony Martin (of Martin/Molloy infamy), and co-hosted by Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator Richard Marsland. A different guest co-host is featured on the show each day. The show is also interspersed with music, with tracks from Nickelback, James Blunt, P!nk and Men At Work currently on repeat.

The show is broadcast around Australia, originally spawned from Melbourne. It began broadcasting on April 3, 2006, and can be heard between 9:00-10:00 am weekdays on Triple M in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, and between 5:00-6:00 pm on Triple M in Adelaide. On Monday 25 September 2006 the program began airing on KOFM in Newcastle from 12:00-1:00pm.

Frequent topics discussed on the show include movies, current affairs, popular culture, Triple M's lack of programming originality, Martin and Kavalee's own lives, Richard's acting and writing exploits on Rove Live, amusing news articles from around the world, and "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines. Soundbites also feature regularly, and have in the past included Rex Hunt's comments regarding his sex scandal.

Martin and associate Matt Dower often create comedy sketches that include edited recordings of politicians of the day and musical parodies.

The Get This team

Role	Name
Host	Tony Martin
Co-Host	Ed Kavalee
Panel Operator	Richard Marsland
Producer	Nikki Hamilton
Sketch Production	Matt Dower
On The Phones	Katie

Guest hosts

Get This features a different guest co-host (both local and international) every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and old Triple M/EON FM DJs making regular appearances. Regular co-hosts include Greg Fleet, Fifi Box, Glenn Robbins, Cal Wilson, Peter Rowsthorn, Angus Sampson and Lachy Hulme.

Main article: List of guest hosts on Get This

Talkback Mountain

Talkback Mountain is the final segment in the show where a handful of listeners (usually) call in to briefly discuss a chosen topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners. In this segment there are also 'dovetails', where Kavalee will ask callers a follow-up question that runs counter to the main phone-in topic. This was a semi-regular concept also used on Triple M's drivetime program The Shebang in 2004-2005, which featured 'sub-questions' after the main question, such as 'what's your favourite bun?'.

Notable events/running gags

• For a couple of weeks "Prize King" Ed Kavalee awarded prizes to the best callers during the shows Talkback Mountain segment. He claimed to have purchased the items from Variety Gift Shops. Callers were often indifferent after having been awarded a prize, one for example was a small dolphin trinket.

• It became public knowledge that Ed Kavalee embellished (or outright lied) about his sexuality and was moved from "Panel Worker" to "Co-host and Garbage Disposal Unit to all in-studio food items".

• It was announced during an early show that during Santo Cilauro's radio career at Triple M he often received mail with misspellings of his name, the most notable being "Snato Ghauro". Cilauro is now constantly referred to as Ghauro on the show. The lack of Snato Ghauro in the podcasts is constantly lamented, and one of Martin's gotcha calls failed when the victim recognized his offered alias as Snato Ghauro.

• Constant references are made to Kavalee's other public forays, including a recent KFC TV commercial in which co-host Ed Kavalee appeared as a customer ordering new menu items, and his being mistaken for TV commercial characters ("GE Money Genie" and the "Carpet Court Jester" respectively).

• Lachy Hulme regularly takes part in "Movie Show" editions of the show.

• Trying to inform the world that Karl Stefanovic is not a human, and is in fact a robot.

• Repeated airing of Rex Hunt's rant regarding his wealth and sexual prowess.

• Beasley ring tone is available at www.getthis.reclaimaustralia.net

June 2006

• During the 2006 FIFA World Cup the show turned the spotlight on Togo's German football coach Otto Fister, with Kavalee's "Constant Fister Updates", (which never really shed any new light on the goings on of the 2006 FIFA World Cup) invented headlines such as "Fisticuffs!" and Martin's song tributes "Fister in the Sun", "Magical Fistery Tour", "Fister Madly", "Fister Dobalina, Fister Otto Dobalina" and "Let's Fist Again".

July 2006

• On the 26 July, 2006 & 31 July, 2006 shows Martin acknowledged that Get This had its own Wikipedia article. On the 31st July, 2006, the announcement of the Get This Wikipedia article was talked about having regular intrusions and people changing the article. One caller into the radio program claims to be able to beat co-host Ed Kavalee in a game of Ping Pong and publicly announced it in this article. After learning of the changes, Kavalee subsequently accepted the ping pong challenge. As of August 2006, the hosts regularly mention the Wikipedia page, and how it is constantly vandalised.

August 2006

• During early August, Ed Kavalee had a new segment on the show called "Believe It Or Not". This was accompanied by hilarious versions of the theme from the Greatest American Hero, butchered to include some of the tasks Kavalee was to undertake. The segment was based around Kavalee performing unbelievable tasks, such as listening to Nickelback's album. The segment seemed to die after a couple of weeks after Kavalee appeared to lose interest. However, Kavalee continues to ask Talkback Mountain callers a "Believe It Or Not" question, where callers need to decide whether the headline Kavalee calls out is really from Take 5 magazine, or was simply made up by Kavalee.

• On the 16 August, one listener emailed in and challenged Martin, Kavalee and Marsland to a Goldeneye 007 tournament, after reading about Martin's experiences with his Goldeneye infatuation in his book, Lolly Scramble.

• Kidnapping Gussy Sampson from a movie set to feature as a guest host was raised as a joke during August 2006. Sampson appeared on the August 30 edition of the show but refused to divulge too much information about the movie, which is an adaption of the Maurice Sendak children's book, "Where The Wild Things Are".

• Ever since Ross Noble's appearance, there have been constant references to the vintage British comedy On The Buses. Also Tony and Ed (also some guests) often do impersonations of Inspector "Blakey" Blake.

• On 24th August, Get This reached its 100th show milestone, with former Martin/Molloy cohort Mick Molloy as co-host. One of the songs played during this show was Be My Lover by La Bouche, as an example of the song genre they had to play, since 'Martin/Molloy' was broadcast on the Today Network. During the 100th show the hosts had hoped to be able to play the full version of Hate to Say I Told You So by The Hives, which forms the intro music for the show and was the kind of music Triple M play orginally used to play. However station management turned down their request and instead allowed the La Bouche song.

• During the show on 28 August, reference was made to eccentric British TV presenter, David Dickinson and his show Dealing With Dickinson, with Martin emphasising the presenter's constant reminder of his "25 years experience".

September 2006

• Martin announced on September 8, 2006 that a limited edition free audio CD of the show is in the planning and production phase.

• Martin and Kavalee found a picture of Kamahl wearing a colourful kaftan. They have apparently ordered a set and plan to hold an "all-kaftan" week once they are delivered.

• It was noted that the show's sponsor shares a name with cross dressing WWE superstar Vito.

Key phrases

At the end of the program, Martin will pick a key phrase from that days show. This is usually a joke or phrase that during the hourly show has caused amusement amongst the panel. In the past this philosophy has extended to fancy sound effects and news soundbites.

Podcast

Highlights of the show are made available as a weekly podcast downloadable from the Triple M web site. Unfortunately for copyright reasons, the podcast cannot include most of the music used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's best comedy sketches cannot be heard on the podcast.

Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts are often also released. The entire 100th episode is one of these, with other examples being a "Fleetcast", a podcast containing nothing but Greg Fleet's rantings from his first few appearances; the "Bertcast", a similar podcast showcasing a visit from Australian television legend Bert Newton; the "Smithcast", a podcast of filmmaker Kevin Smith's appearance on the show; and the "Wigglecast", a podcast of Wiggles Anthony Field and Murray Cook.

CD

Martin announced on the Friday September 8, 2006 show that an audio CD of the show is in the planning and production phase, at present sorting out what to use and seeking the permission of those involved. The limited edition CD is reportedly an effort "just for the fans", and will be free, with only 1000 copies being pressed.

External links

• Official Get This page on Triple-M's Melbourne web site
• Official Get This page on Triple-M's Sydney web site
• Offical Get This page on Triple-M's Brisbane web site
• Get This podcast (XML feed)
• Listen to Get This live (Windows Media stream) - This is only available during the show's broadcast time.