#876 - All Talk with Michael Chammas
5/5/202627 min
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First 90 secondsTom Birmingham· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You are listening to the Outwest Board podcast.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:02
So it's been a, it's been a very interesting trip. It's been fantastic. Obviously, um, you know, we, um, we are, we called out, we called you out on the podcast I think, um [laughing] last week, sort of, you know, asking for this. Uh, w- uh, how hard was it to turn something like this around? 'Cause I mean, like, obviously the visa thing was a fucking nightmare.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:26
Yeah.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:26
But, like, for you logistically to get it all happening and to get all of us over here.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:31
Well, to be fair, you asked for a private jet.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:32
Yeah, we did.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:33
Yeah. You asked- So you've already let us down there ... I let you down there.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:36
Yeah.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:36
But economy was, was- No business either [laughing] ... yeah, via Brisbane as well.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:41
Yeah, yeah.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:42
Yeah. And like- At 6:00 in the morning.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:43
[laughing] Which is up at 4:30.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:45
Not quite the Jerome treatment.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:46
No.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:46
But not far off.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:48
No, that's all right.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:48
Uh, look, logistically, yeah, like we obviously... There was lots to, to, to get across the line, but Lorna was outstanding in terms of getting you guys the [laughs] visa.
Eddy Simpson· Host0:56
Yeah.
Michael Chammas· Guest0:56
I was actually at the airport following your updates, laughing my ass off.
Eddy Simpson· Host1:00
Mm.
Michael Chammas· Guest1:01
But it, at the same time worried that probably have to send you back from Brisbane to Sydney, 'cause this is not gonna work.
Eddy Simpson· Host1:07
Yeah.
Tom Birmingham· Host1:07
I know. Well, we were sort of, we were sort of like, worst case scenario, it's funny content if we- [laughing] ... don't get on the plane. Um, but thankfully it did. It was down to the wire there. It was... And we were having not... We didn't know Lorna at the time, but you could just, we just got the sense of like her s- she was sort of giving updates, and then she just went dark for like maybe 40 minutes. We're like- [laughing] ... she's just grinding here, just doing her best to,