Ep 200: Myf Warhurst, Highway Patrol, Surprise Guests

Author: Josh Kinal
Filed under: Podcast

Tagged with: cops • highway patrol • myf warhurst • spicks & specks

Monday
Oct 19,2009

200 episodes! Wow. It seems like only yesterday we were preparing for our 200th episode (and John’s 54th) and now it’s here already.

The beautiful and delightful Myf Warhurst joins us to talk about Spicks & Specks.

Also, “You’re under arrest” is not one of the things Acting Sergeant Alisdair Farrell says to us. We talk to him about how the police are portrayed in drama and also how they can do their jobs with cameras all up in their grill. He’s on yet another Cops-style show, Highway Patrol.

There’s some special surprises in-store including a guest appearance by our very own James Talia, live from some balcony at Channel 9. (Oh, now that’s no longer a surprise. Damn!)

Thanks so much to everybody who helped make this show wonderful. All the contributions were sublime.

Thanks also to the people who made the last 200 episodes an absolute joy: Marieke Hardy, Nerida Haycock, Tim Ferguson, Pete Smith, Wil Anderson, Daniel Burt, Anne-Marie Peard, Narrelle M. Harris, Jess McGuire, Wilbur Wilde, Ray Punjer, Jim Schembri, Ed Phillips, John Safran, Anna Brain, Josie Parelli, Jeff Jenkins, David Knox, Brian Nankervis, the man with the chicken, Tom Elliot, Matt Govoni, Gerard McCulloch, Ryan Shelton, Janet A. McCleod, Adam Richard, Corinne Grant, Rob Brearly, Leo Laporte, Justin Hamilton, Katrina Mathers, Marc Fennell, Dan Ilic, Alex Papps, Courtney Hocking, Toby Sullivan, Nelly Thomas, Lawrence Mooney, Scott Brennan, Javier Grillo-Marxauch, David Ashton, Damaris Baker, Jane Badler, Yael Bergman, Adam Zwar, Rob Buttery, Dr David Ranson, Andy Anderson, Alexandra Tynan, Lee Zachariah, Shannon Marinko, Doug McLeod, Rod Quantock, Genevieve Lemon, Peter Moon, Brendan Luno, Peter Lane, Sue Taylor, Sam Pang, and especially, Mr Ross McQueen.

If you watch one thing

We all agree: John Safran’s Race Relations, Wednesday 9:30pm, ABC 1.

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kerrie

Happy 200 from someone who came on board at episode 1 and hasn't stopped listening.

narrelle

Congratulations guys - a terrific show, of course. My favourite part is John fangirling Margaret Pomeranz.

David

Belated congratulations kids, thank you for putting together such a wonderful show.

Name

I preferred the 199th episode.

dalekboy

Ahhh, the Mighty 200! Doctor Who's 200th story was the Planet of the Dead. It was lazy eyecandy with no depth. Not so the Boxcutters 200th! A fabulous episode! I laughed, I cried, I got tasered.

Thank you guys for another great show. And thanks too for having your old episodes available.

Here's to the next 200!

Bolden

Yeah, I got on board at Episode 4 - The Safran Interview (and still one of the funniest "sound things you play between segments" (cannot think of the technical name!)), thanks to a relative of one of the Boxcutters crew.

Great work guys, great 200 episodes.... and 199 great interviews ;) /joke. Keep it up, listening to Boxcutters makes me smarter and lets me sound all TV knowledgeable around my friends, without having to subject myself to actually watching it!

;)

Facebook User

Have to say that stumbling across Boxcutters about two & a half years ago really did change my life... It's been a joy and a pleasure and I hopeit continues. YAY FOR YOU!

PS: The photos in public thing is true both ways, but cops don't like it much when it's turned on them, not that they can do anything about it.

Tristan Reimann

congratulations on making it to 200 episodes, i too was a late comer with my first ep being ep 170, since then i have listened to the lot. i was scanning randomly across the podcasts on itunes and happened to decide to randomly download it, one of the best choices i have ever made. y'all always give very interesting interviews and your reviews have given me prompt to obtain some of the greatest shows i have ever seen. keep up the good work

Bbox

Just a quick erratum: John Safran's Race Relations runs for 30 minutes. I think the incorrect 1 hour running time came from the Herald-Sun - should have seen that coming.

Daniel D Boxcutter

Sure, you all deserve some credit for putting together 200 shows but what about me? I've LISTENED to 200 shows. Where are my congratulations? Where are my e-cards? Where's my phone call from Margaret?

Anyhow, I just wanted to let you know, Boxcutters, that I couldn't have done it without you. So congratulations and well done. You are the wind beneath my wings.

Ian Boxcutter

Congratulations on making the bicentenary. Keep up the excellent work. Myf's interview was very good, as was Sgt Farrell's.

You *can* be fined for displaying P-plates when you're on a full licence. One of the police from the Highway Patrol spoke on a radio station recently (3RRR?). He'd pulled over a driver, who was over the alcohol limit for a P-plater. The driver got out the receipt showing he's now a fully licenced driver as of that day, and avoided the DUI. He got a ticket instead for incorrectly displaying P-plates.

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Yes, congratulations! I sent you a birthday e-card- check your spam folder!
I was a late joiner- I believe it was the Scott Brennan episode, but it may have been 163. I have since managed to listen to all of them, and every single one was brilliant. Even when I didn't know what you were talking about.
I wish I could say Boxcutters has been to exotic places with me, but mostly it's been on 14 hour bus rides to small towns in the middle of the woods, on school buses, and in bed. Congratulations and keep up the good work. The world needs Boxcutters.

Vzzzbx

Congratulations, guys.

It's an enormous achievement to hit 200 shows, especially considering the high quality of the production. Even more so, considering the fact that it's a podcast and not a traditional radio show.

Yours is a service that simply isn't available elsewhere. Televised Revolution is doing some great things on Brisbane radio (and the podcast, of course), but the guys don't seem to have the contacts you have, or the pulling power to generate such significant interviews. I've learnt more from the JT interviews than I did in third-year journalism at Swinburne.

I really appreciate, too, that you weren't tempted to blow out this episode to three hours, losing steam halfway through and buggering the celebration. But that, in my mind, describes Boxcutters best: all three of you understand the power of restraint, and use it to deliver the best podcast in the country.

Here's to another 200.

lyndal

so if brett does his best thinking in the shower, does that mean he only does 5 minutes of thinking a day or that he is a wally with water?

congratulations on the 200th show - great episode this week and good times over the past 4 years.

Sophie

Great ep, guys! I'm listening even as we speak. (Oh, people who do not password protect your internet, how I love you)

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