Get This
Get This was an Australian radio comedy show which aired on Triple M and was hosted by Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator, Richard Marsland. A different guest co-host was featured nearly every day on the show and included music played throughout. On the 15 October 2007 episode, the "Get This" team announced that Triple M/Austereo would not be renewing the show for 2008. The final broadcast was on 23 November 2007. During its lifetime and since its cancellation, "Get This" developed a strong cult following. Guest co-hosts. "Get This" featured  a different guest co-host (both local and international) nearly every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and old Triple M/EON FM DJs making regular appearances. Regular co-hosts included Ross Noble, Greg Fleet, Fifi Box, Glenn Robbins, Cal Wilson, Scott Edgar, Peter Rowsthorn, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Angus Sampson, Andrea Powell, Lachy Hulme, and Josh Lawson. Show content. Frequently discussed topics on "Get This" include movies, current affairs, in-jokes, popular culture, Martin's and Kavalee's own lives, Marsland's peculiar interests and perverse hobbies, amusing news articles (particularly news involving nudity) from around the world , and gossip from "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines. Martin and the others created various comedy sketches that included the edited recordings of politicians such as then politicians John Howard, Peter Costello and Kim Beazley musical parodies, advertisements and other sketches. Soundbites also featured regularly, with humorous comments, sounds, or sayings from politicians or the popular media included in various jokes, interviews, and songs. The show contained frequent references to Karl Stefanovic being a robot. Talkback Mountain. "Talkback Mountain" was a segment in the show where a number of listeners called in to briefly discuss a chosen  topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners. In this segment there were also 'dovetails', where Kavalee would ask callers a follow-up question that runs counter to the main phone-in topic. The segment was originally introduced by a sample from the Cliff Hangers pricing game on "The Price Is Right". An alternative theme tune which is used is a sample of the song "Tainted Love", and a range of sound effects including a goat bleating and yodeling. In the latter half of 2007, the show's sketch producer, Matt Dower, began creating new "Talkback  Mountain" themes on a more regular basis, including one based on the Sonny & Cher song "I Got You Babe" and one based on the Jive Bunny version of the "Hawaii Five-O" theme. Timeslots. "Get This" first aired on 3 April 2006, running for one hour from 9am - 10am, with the final episode for the 2006 season airing on 1 December 2006. The show returned in 2007 on Monday, 29 January in a new two-hour format. The timeslot consisted of 11am - 12pm AEST being hosted by Martin and Kavalee, whilst from 12pm - 1pm  a different co-host joined in nearly every day. On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 12pm - 1pm. On 17 September 2007, after a two-week break, "Get This" moved to the "sexy new time" of 2pm - 4pm weekdays, however it retained the same two-hour format. On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 3pm - 4pm. The constantly changing timeslots became a running gag on the show, particularly when referencing Adelaide listeners. Downloads. On the "Get This" website, there were  a variety of items to download, including ringtones which are made from soundbites used on the program. Some of these include "John Howard falling off a cliff" and Rex Hunt's "I got my rocks off" ringtones. Also available on the site was an archive of selected sketches under the banners of "Recent Offences" and "Prior Offences". These included Kim Beazley's rants on cheese and dog's breakfasts, and Tony Soprano calling Channel Nine to complain about his timeslot. Podcast. Highlights of the show were made available as free bi-weekly podcasts (not a link to the actual podcasts ) downloadable from the Triple M website and the iTunes Store. Due to copyright and licensing reasons, podcasts could not include most of the music that was used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's comedy sketches could not be heard on the podcast. Earlier sketches containing copyright music were included on the ends of later Podcasts, from #144 (29 October 2007) onwards. Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts were often also released - for example those featuring a notable guest or a milestone episode. The show's podcasts were removed as of 1 January 2008  from the Triple M website, and were also removed from iTunes. From 4 August 2009 all of the 163 Get This podcasts were reinstated to the iTunes Store under the name of "Get This - Richard Marsland Lives Podcast", however they have since been removed. CD. Martin announced on the Friday 8 September 2006 show that an audio CD based on the show was in the planning and production phase, with only 1000 copies to be pressed. On the Friday 3 November 2006 show, the finished CD "Illegal Download", was unveiled on-air as the new prize for callers to the  Talkback Mountain segment. The CD features various guest co-host interviews as well as Martin reading a chapter of his book "Lolly Scramble". The track listing of "Illegal Download" is as follows: After all copies of the album were given away as prizes, tracks became available for free download at the Triple M website. iOS App. A "Get This" iOS app was made available in late 2009 called The Marsland 5000. It features a number of classic soundbites from the show. Cancellation of "Get This". On 15 October 2007, it was announced on-air that "Get This" would be finishing  up at the end of 2007, with the final show being aired on 23 November. The reason cited was that Triple M would be concentrating on their breakfast shows., such as The Shebang in Sydney and a new, multi-million dollar Melbourne-based show presented by Peter Helliar and Myf Warhurst. An article in the Herald Sun Guide 2 January 2008 perpetuated the rumour that "Get This" was ""Axed to make way for Helliar's alleged $1 million plus salary"". Separate to that, in broadcasts aired on 16 and 17 October 2007, Martin made mention of a petition that  various listeners of "Get This" had mounted in an attempt to save the program. Several media outlets have published stories regarding the cancellation of the program. The non-renewal of the program was also a surprise considering the ratings that the show was generating. Shortly before the cancellation of the show, local papers described "Get This" as 'so popular that the Austereo network doesn't know what to do with them'. In Melbourne, "Get This" was second in its slot, while the station is fifth overall. In Sydney "Get This" was fifth, Triple M ninth; in Brisbane "Get This" was  second, Triple M fourth; and while in Adelaide the program was in third place, while the station lags in sixth place. Another article in The Age noted that ""In a pattern repeated across the country, figures jumped from about 5 per cent audience share to about 11 per cent during the two-hour program, when it aired from 11am. They fell back to near 6 per cent when the station returned to music."" The final show was broadcast on 23 November 2007. The final sketch depicted Tony, Ed and Richard getting in a bus, replete with Vengaboys' song "We  Like to Party" playing, before fading the broadcast out. Excluding this sketch, and the musical montage that preceded it, the final live sentence said on the show was, "and here endeth the sizzle" by Tony Martin. The final words heard were by John Howard: "Oh no, that's not funny at all". Richard Marsland tribute podcast. Tony and Ed reunited to release a final "Get This" podcast (not broadcast on radio) on 24 December 2008 as a tribute to Richard Marsland after his death, with some of Marsland's best moments. In true Get This tradition, it ran over time . Preservation. In February 2013, Tony Martin gifted the recordings of every "Get This" episode to the National Film & Sound Archive. The recordings, in the form of 545 audio CDs, will be stored by the archive both physically and as digital files. At the same time, Martin also donated his personal collection of recorded highlights from the "Martin/Molloy" Show.