📻 FULL SHOW | Putting the 'Fun' in Funeral

**Kip Wightman** (0:05)
Hey, welcome to the show. We don't... This Friday 21st was one of... Let's mark this down as one of the great shows that we've ever done.

**David Lutteral** (0:12)
History will tell us that.

**Kip Wightman** (0:13)
What is the date?

**Susie O'Neill** (0:14)
Our 21st.

**Kip Wightman** (0:14)
We had fun Funeral Fridays, which I think we... I want to bring it back in different iteration next week. I don't know how long we can milk that cow, but...

**Susie O'Neill** (0:21)
Funeral or you mean change the thing?

**Kip Wightman** (0:23)
I mean, funerals is fun, but I suppose there's only...

**David Lutteral** (0:25)
Just death-centric.

**Kip Wightman** (0:26)
Yeah, death-centric Fridays are kind of fun.

**David Lutteral** (0:28)
See, our point of difference is a breakfast show.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:30)
That's what we do.

**Kip Wightman** (0:31)
That's how we're going to move the needle.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:32)
Get known. That's how we get talkability. Talkability. Talkability.

**David Lutteral** (0:35)
We all die.

**Kip Wightman** (0:36)
That's how we get females 25 to 34 back into radio.

**David Lutteral** (0:38)
Damn straight.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:39)
Yeah. Probably.

**Kip Wightman** (0:41)
Anyway, it's a great show. Just enjoy it. The topic of death has been, you know, upon this show all week, Suse.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:52)
Well, I don't know. I just always wonder what... Why don't we ask more questions about what we're doing here?
Literally, what are we doing on Earth? What is the reason for us being here?

**David Lutteral** (1:04)
It can be positive, but then you can go too deep into it.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:07)
The funeral song?

**Kip Wightman** (1:08)
Or living here?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:09)
No, just while we're here. While we're here.

**Kip Wightman** (1:11)
Here for such a short period of time too.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:12)
It's so short.

**Kip Wightman** (1:13)
So short.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:14)
But it's a long time now. Remember back in the 1800s, it would have been 40 years.

**David Lutteral** (1:18)
It would all be gone. Nick, it's still a couple of years left. The rest of us would be gone by now.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:23)
So it got me thinking about the ceremony of the funeral.

**David Lutteral** (1:26)
Yes.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:26)
And how you would like that to look.

**David Lutteral** (1:28)
Celebration of life.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:30)
Yeah.

**Kip Wightman** (1:30)
Funeral songs.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:31)
And there must be other people that have thought about their funeral and have funeral songs. Give us a call if you have one that we can try and...

**Kip Wightman** (1:36)
Yeah, 13 24 10

**SPEAKER_6** (1:37)
play a little bit of.

**David Lutteral** (1:38)
Funeral Fridays.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:40)
Oh, there you go.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:41)
Feel Good Funeral Fridays.

**David Lutteral** (1:42)
Feel Good Funeral Fridays.

**Kip Wightman** (1:44)
Because like you got the traditional ones. Like the sad, you know, beautiful moving songs.

**David Lutteral** (1:51)
This would probably get a run at mine. This is the one Coldplay song I play at mine.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:55)
This is a beautiful song. Nice song.

**Kip Wightman** (1:57)
Very sad though when they're wheeling out Susan.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:01)
Kind of happy. Happy sad.

**David Lutteral** (2:02)
One thing you do do at funerals is listen to the lyrics and think, what's he mean there? Who's he trying to fix?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:08)
True, actually. True, actually.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:10)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:11)
There's no connection to that person.

**David Lutteral** (2:13)
Because most songs, for me, most songs are about like relationships. Like he was single.
Who was he trying to fix? You know what I mean?

**SPEAKER_5** (2:21)
Like, there's no, like, uh.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:22)
Maybe yourself.

**David Lutteral** (2:23)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:24)
There's a hallelujah, hallelujah one by Jeff Buckley. Always gets played.
Often gets played. How's that?

**Kip Wightman** (2:29)
I'm pretty sure it's Jeff Buckley.

**David Lutteral** (2:30)
Well, Leonard Cohen wrote it, but Jeff Buckley is probably the most famous. See, I'd play, because I'm an Alex Lloyd fan, I'd play his version.

**SPEAKER_10** (2:42)
It's a good one.

**Kip Wightman** (2:43)
Yeah, this is also, yeah, it takes its time.

**David Lutteral** (2:46)
Why are you trying to make people sad?

**Kip Wightman** (2:49)
Miss me forever, everyone. It's a bit self-serving, isn't it? Now, funerals are more celebrations of life. They are a bit more vibrant. People wear colors, there's a lot of traditional black.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:57)
You don't have to be mourning for the 10 years. Yes. I've got a fun one.

**Ash Bradnam** (3:01)
Do you want to play it?

**Susie O'Neill** (3:02)
Susan Vega, Left Of Center.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:10)
I don't know, I've never heard this.