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Get This
Get This hosts: Ed Kavalee (left) and Tony Martin
Genre	Comedy
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Australia
Language(s)	English
Home station	Triple M Melbourne
Syndicates	Triple M Sydney Triple M Brisbane Triple M Adelaide KOFM Newcastle
Starring	Tony Martin Ed Kavalee
Creator(s)	Tony Martin
Producer(s)	Nikki Hamilton
Air dates	April 3, 2006 –
No. of episodes	174 at January 31, 2007
Opening theme	Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives Hate To Say I Told You So cover by Richard Cheese for the 2nd hour intro
Website	Official Melbourne Site Official Sydney Site
Podcast feed	Get This

Get This is a comedy radio show hosted by Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator Richard Marsland. A different guest co-host is featured on the show each day. The show includes music played throughout the show.

Frequent topics previously discussed on the show include movies, current affairs, popular culture, Martin and Kavalee's own lives, Richard's acting and writing exploits on Rove Live, amusing news articles from around the world, and gossip from "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines. Soundbites also feature regularly, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been a popular target for using his soundbites in various jokes, interviews and songs.

Martin and the others create various comedy sketches that include edited recordings of politicians of the day, musical parodies, advertisements and other sketches.

Get This first aired on April 3, 2006, with the final episode for 2006 season airing on December 1, 2006. The show returned in 2007 on Monday, January 29. The new time slot now consists of 11am - 12pm AEST being hosted by Tony and Ed, whilst from 12pm - 1pm a different co-host will join in each day^[1].

1 The Get This team
2 Guest co-hosts
3 Talkback Mountain
4 Notable events and episodes & running gags
5 Key phrases
6 Podcast
7 CD
8 Ring tones
9 References
10 External links

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	Anna, Bianca & Cecilia

Guest co-hosts

Main article: List of guest hosts on Get This

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, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Angus Sampson and Lachy Hulme.

Talkback Mountain

Talkback Mountain is a segment in the show where a number of listeners 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 banshee?'.

The segment begins with a theme tune featuring a sample of the song Detachable Penis and a phone tone ringing effect and a sheep bleating - previously it has been a sample of the song Tainted Love, and range of sound effects and yodeling.

Notable events and episodes & running gags

Main article: List of Events and Trivia on Get This

For a number of weeks when Get This started on air, "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 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 Ed 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).

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.

Satiny Caftan Day - Martin and Kavalee found a picture of Kamahl wearing a colourful kaftan. From this, they had ordered a set of kaftans and held a "all-kaftan" day when they were delivered on 31 October 2006.

Calling for listeners to vandalize Wikipedia.

"Passiona High" logo

Greg Fleet came up with the concept of a TV show called "Passiona High" the cast of which would be formed from the Get This team. The cast list is featured on the Get This page on the Triple M website. The cast of Passiona High includes Ed, continuing his role as Gus on his KFC ads, as 'Groundskeeper Gus', Richard Marsland as school jock and a dopey character known as 'Nodge'. Martin plays the captain of the Chess Club spending every lunch time at lonely chess club meetings.

On the 19 March 2007 broadcast, a caller used the term "fucking little cunt" on-air before getting promptly cut off, leaving Tony and Ed to scramble to cover and change the subject.

Tony and Ed have discussed often that April 2007 be redesignated as "Capril" (aka Cape April), a month where all listeners should wear capes in public, conducting day to day activities. The tagline for this month is: "Are you capable?"

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 has "caught his attention" during the show. 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. Due to copyright reasons, the podcast cannot include most of the music used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's 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

Get This Illegal Download

Martin announced on the Friday September 8, 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 November 3, 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:

1. You Dirty Bird (28/04/06)
2. Car City Eyes (26/07/06)
3. Penis Painting (05/05/06)
4. Tom Gleisner: The Golden Mile (05/04/06)
5. Angus Sampson: Ready To Rock (20/04/06)
6. Ross Noble: Up J'Taime (21/04/06)
7. Grant Spatchcock Gourmet Pizza (02/06/06)
8. Tasty Treats (29/05/06)
9. Knife Amnesty (17/07/06)
10. Zebra Damage (08/08/06)
11. Robyn Butler: Artist's Impression (14/07/06)
12. What's Eating Laurie Oakes? (19/07/06)
13. Servo Bargains (14/07/06)
14. Beazley Cheese (05/04/06)
15. Craig Eagle: 10 Year Stiffy (29/06/06)
16. Sex News (23/06/06)
17. Dave Graney: Old Vinyl (07/07/06)
18. Greg Fleet: On The Buses (11/07/06)
19. Ooh Me Plums Again! (11/07/06)
20. Ed's European Vacation (13/07/06)
21. Kevin Smith: Nerdsville (25/08/06)
22. Scott Edgar: Return To Nerdsville (09/08/06)
23. Not Having Kids (04/08/06)
24. Greg Fleet: Delivery Man 2 (01/05/06)
25. Ten A Penny (07/09/06)
26. Musical Finale (16/08/06)
27. Breakfast In Dubbo (From Lolly Scramble by Tony Martin)

Ring tones

There are a variety of ring tones available on the Get This official website which are made from soundbites used on the program. Some of these include "John Howard falling off a cliff" and Rex Hunt "I got my rocks off" tones.