Who else wants landline to start their own KZread channel so that we can just watch landline and not have to scroll forever on the ABC Channel

The way Dickie's face lights up whenever he smiles is magical

As an American I have been fortunate to meet Australians who have become my dear friends. Down to earth people with a good laugh to boot. What more could anyone want? GOD Bless Australia!

@Itsamemario1ns6666

Жыл бұрын

@@chris1960 there's crap people in the country and the city.

@jonathandunleavy-colgan8876

Жыл бұрын

God bless you all 🙏🏻

@brucelamberton8819

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate!

"I never miss a sunrise or a sunset". That's living life to the full.

@albertafarmer8638

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Ken, please give your life to JESUS CHRIST or you'll miss the very best!

@CrazyWhiteVanDriver

4 жыл бұрын

@@albertafarmer8638 Christ is Child Child is killed in etymology

@terrythekittieful

3 жыл бұрын

That could mean going to bed at 9 a.m. in the morning and waking up at 5 p.m in the afternoon.

@korranis1

3 жыл бұрын

Gordon Bricker mashalla

@craignielson6605

3 жыл бұрын

@@albertafarmer8638 why bring Jesus into this , other than to bible bash people

I love my country, especially the people of the outback, they're real genuine 🌞🦘👣

@brandonknight431

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to visit australia. Hope ypu werent top affected by those awful fires 😭

Coming from an old long haul trucker in the United States of America I can tell you we would live for great places to stop like that. And the owner adds more color to the place and makes the stay nicer and it harder to leave.

@Rusty_Gold85

Жыл бұрын

you would love the taste of our T Bone Steak

Just Beautiful old school AUSSIES. I feel at home just hearing the love for their country in their voice. BEAUTY.

These people are what made the Australian outback so good to visit.

Brought back some great memories. Blessed to have gone throughout the Outback. Great times. Great people. Thanks a lot. From Vancouver Island BC Canada.

I was lucky to meet Dickie last week on my way from Alice up north, such a lovely guy 😊😊

My wife & I spent 7 years on the road pulling our caravan with our Toyota 4WD, around & around & up & down this great land and still didn't see everything. Just the right type of rehabilitation after having open heart surgery & having been spurred on by my doctor who said I should get out there and enjoy life. Pulled into so many of those roadhouses & still remember the friendly atmosphere. Nothing quite like touring the outback. I can no longer travel because of my health and really miss those times.

Canadian here. I watched just this one then subscribed and thumbied and so on. I'd have loved to visit Aus but not this lifetime, being almost 75. Maybe next time round I'll just be born there, save me a trip from the other side of the Pacific.

Gotta love these old timers, great generation

These people are a part of what make's the Australia outback so beautiful.

It's not the life i would want, but it makes me happy to see people so fulfilled with what they are doing with theirs.

I'm from northern California and I just watched 3-4 of these land line videos for the first time. I must say that I really enjoyed them. Getting to OZ has always been on my bucket list. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll make it.

@shanoinoz

4 жыл бұрын

...bring all your money with you Leo.... your're going to need every cent you have mate....

@saltydog888

4 жыл бұрын

Do it mate. Your dollar goes further than ours. Getting here is the biggest problem at the moment.. might take a year or two.

@moro6957

4 жыл бұрын

Americans are always welcome mate!

@tonymccarthy6713

3 жыл бұрын

I hope so, I'm sure that you would enjoy it. I've travelled the world and there is nothing like that country that I have ever seen anywhere else.

@dennispicone6801

3 жыл бұрын

BIG TIP LEO. Please get yourself and whoever else out to Australia. You'll have a great time. Quite unique in many ways which a lot of countries are. However, you WILL enjoy it.😁🤣👍🍺

Love this man. He is so cool.

I love you "Dicky" for your passion of your outback life and your humor 1945 - 2045. Please change the label to 1945 - 2065.

I lived in Kununurra WA and I traveled the Stuart Highway and went to all these road houses, The people there are great and just so easy going. Seriously, every City person should do an Outback tour of Australia, they will learn what a beautiful country Australia is.

@nuck-

4 жыл бұрын

I used to manage the Capricorn roadhouse in Western Australia, damn great place with 50 years of rich history with drivers and travelers, it really was the place to stop and have a beer and feed and catch up with mates. Then corporate America bought it over, BP. Ruined the place within a month now it’s a ghost town full of foreigners who don’t give a damn about you or your day. Damn shame what capitalism can do in its current form, damn shame. RiP Cappy.

@BatMan-oe2gh

4 жыл бұрын

@@nuck- Went to the Capricorn roadhouse in 1991. And you are right. All the roadhouses taken over by Corporations are crap these days. Money over people. Cheers

@johnw2026

4 жыл бұрын

Shane Jackson I'm a country person from the U. S., And that idea sounds like a lot of fun!

@BatMan-oe2gh

4 жыл бұрын

It is, get out of the cities and see how the rural people do it. A lot tougher than the city people. And the Outback Of Australia is quite beautiful, even though it can be very harsh. Similar to USA in many ways. Cheers

@ladydi4runner

4 жыл бұрын

Shane Jackson Appreciate your input! Still have experience Australia on my Bucket List. Hoping I’ll get to it soon. 👍

When I was a child in India, I read about the Australian outback in a National Geographic magazine in our school library. Since then, any time I see a video or an article about the Australian outback I somehow have to see/read it...and it still fills me with wonder and fascination....

What an asset to this country that lady and guy are. Salt of the earth. ❤️❤️👏👏

I lived in Kununurra back in the early 90's and went to all these road houses in my travels around the Outback. Just so brilliant the people, and the country was just so harsh but beautiful at the same time. All Aussies should do it and experience what the Outback has to offer. I now live in Suburbia and I still miss the Outback

How many sunrises and sunsets do we miss? An appreciation of beauty. A sense of purpose. Meaning. A reason to get up in the morning. A sense of humour. Resilience. And big beautiful statues.

What FANTASTIC PEOPLE 👏

King & Queens of the Outback. Bless them all.

That push bike is 33 yrs. Old. Bought in 1988. The bike never let me down. As of june 2021 I still ride that bike everyday. The outback is a beautiful place.

It never ceases to amaze me how different people's lives can be.

I just love the Australian people that I have met. Smart hard working honorable people.Beautyful woman and men tougher then leather all with a heart of gold.

That’s the secret “Never miss a sunrise or a sunset”

@toddtomaszewski6820

4 жыл бұрын

FIJI BATI ISLANDER a friend of mine told me that his Dad would always say, Don't waste the day. Equally good words to live by.

@fijibatiislander7219

4 жыл бұрын

Todd Tomaszewski too right mate .. life’s short 😊👍

The REAL Australia👍🏼 Honest & direct. I’m a Victorian, but my sister & family lived in Alice Springs for over 30 years. My nephew still lives there. I loved visiting & our late father’s second home was The Alice. I’d head north just for one of those feeds!🤤

I miss Australia and her inhabitants and their ways. Good memories.

What a character.... it’s what makes this country great.

what wonderful people! Australia is definitely a special place!

@23draft7

Жыл бұрын

Love Australia. Great times, Great 👍 people. Enjoy going there.

A lifetime of service is the secret to life. The sunrises and sunsets are gifts from the divine.

Came here in 85. Worked across Australia in the mining and minerals area. Mount Isa, Kalgoorlie, Weipa, Port Hedland, Olympic Dam, Argyle. Fantastic times. Real people, real sunrises, real life. It really is like that.

Beautiful land, beautiful people. 💖

"Dickie" is a gem, as is the lady down the road. Top people... I'm moving there, NOW..! I've wanted to move to Auz, from the UK, since watching The Flying Doctor in the 1960's, and Chips Rafferty in The Overlanders (1946).

Gary at Dunmarra is an absolute legend of a bloke. Nothing he wont do for you. best roadhouse in Australia by far. Miss running up to Darwin each week but soon enough i'LL return, its a way of life

I live in Sydney and I could not be any unhappier. Alot of people here would not know about being a proper Aussie.

@ridethatslapthat

3 жыл бұрын

It's cause everything around Sydney is superficial, the further out you go from a city the better I reckon, my ex lived in Bathurst and I always reminisce it purely for the fact that people around there are so much nicer and the country is more relaxing than the shit show Sydney.

I stopped there on my push bike coming from the top end heading to Sydney via the great ocean road. Sometimes I get tears in my eyes when I look at my push bike in my lounge room. At the end about all we have left are memories.

@kellymillward6375

3 жыл бұрын

I like that your push bike is in your living room

@MelDundee2

2 жыл бұрын

I biked that road in 76 from Darwin to Cloncurry with a Kiwi friend Dave, we hit every roadhouse over ten days with a stop in Katherine Gorge and Hot Springs out of Adelaide River. Dave did his achilles heel in in Isa, we parted and planned to meet in Townsville but he caught up with me again almost to Cloncurry so we took the train from there. But I had been on that road before and Dunmarra and some other roadhouses were not nice places for Native people and young city women tricked into working those roadhouses.

Wow…Love that. When I was a kid, we regularly ran Hedland to Perth, and later travelled Australia over the top and down the centre. Now I live outside Melbourne and have travelled ‘home’ to Perth eight times over the Nullarbor. Very special to do that. Something everybody should do is experience Australia by road outside of the cities. Fantastic. Can relate having grown up in these more remote regions of this great country..

Gregory looks really bloody good for his age!

Proud of us Aussies.

This is what it makes outback beautiful! Real Aussie mate!🍻

I'm extremely fortunate to have driven from Canberra to Perth, and from Uluru to Darwin, and also Uluru to Adelaide. I love Australia, and especially the big sky landscapes. I've overnighted in many roadhouses there. Great country, fun people. ( I'm a born and bred Kiwi, and live in southern South island, NZ, btw )

Amazing country with amazing people. So looking forward to visit

Cold beer is all I think about when I see this landscape.

god bless miss it. true out back country. 2023. )

Lucky people. Thank you for sharing your beautiful homeland.

Love them indegenious people they are the spirit of the land ♥️

Hard land and hard (but good) people! Respect from New Zealand!

@martinjenkins5471

4 жыл бұрын

Good old outback Aussies the best. Tough country tough people, not for soy boy's from the cappuccino strip.

@johneller5856

3 жыл бұрын

NZ are family!

@jayebuss5562

3 жыл бұрын

Kiwis are tough buggers also, family across the ditch.

@gaius_enceladus

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayebuss5562 - Cheers Jaye! I've always loved Aussies and always will! We give each other a hard time now and again but that's what you do with your mates!

@jayebuss5562

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaius_enceladus friendly rivalry mate, but when the shit hits the fan then we both have each others backs

Australia would not work without people like them total diamonds in the rough people like them will always have your back

What magnificent people.

As NZers , we have done several Outback trips including a 2 year wander all the way round, " the big lap". All have been different and the roadhouses and campgrounds are unique and overflowing with interesting characters. Small towns are great, big ones - no. Love the outback.

I was born in the Alice and boy do I miss that beautiful country.

@0Zolrender0

3 жыл бұрын

I am born and bred in the Alice too. I am still here as well.

hope his still there in a few years. seems like he would have plenty of good stories! can't wait to hit the road full time in this awesome country of ours 🇦🇺

"that my coffin over there" that man has his coffin sitting there in his shop, I hope he doent need it till 2045

Can't beat that Aussie humour,,pass it down please,,, generation,to generation.......

I visited Australia in 2015/16, but wasn't in that part. However, I ignored the cross country advice I got from a couple of people, and drove across to Perth anyway on the Eyre Highway and back. "There isn't anything out there", they would say. Nonsense, there's always something there, the roadhouses for instance. You can't really see a country if your 7,620 meters high in a plane.

Wonderful Down to Earth People who represent an age that may one day disappear for ever. I for one truly hope that True Australians never let that happen. From Chris in Derbyshire, England

@keithbagshaw3146

4 жыл бұрын

They may disappear, but memories don't! I love Aus. came here in 1968 and have am immersed in the history...

That's true Australia to me. Best times of my life were working hard and visiting the local roadhouse for some beers.

4:57 - Birds in background: 'Oi, fellas, some nice roadkill 'ere!'

And that's just the way it is! Genuine,caring, decent people!

Loved watching this awesome video. What a real Aussie ledgend. Way it used to be when i was a kid in the 60's. Miss those times. Feel like I've known old fella for years. Cheers to old timer, hope you go past 100 mark mate. 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

I am a Californian, but lived in Australia 1970-1973. I once drove from Melbourne through the outback of NSW to Queensland. I will never forget that trip. The huge distances, very few small outposts to refuel and the country pubs.

I went through this road last week. I loved everything there.

What a great story. Beautiful

Love the Aussies !! Back in the 90s I was with a security crew on assignment in the Kalgoorlie area, and my sidekick and I stopped at a roadhouse in the outback. Had a good steak !

It is when you meet such people you realise how impatient and materialistic you've become

@OlympusHeavyCavalry

4 жыл бұрын

Well met :-)

@penelopepitstop197

4 жыл бұрын

Deffo love the australians they are like us but straight talking 🇬🇧

@thomasfrith2721

4 жыл бұрын

Well said man!!! So true!😣😣😣😣

@petesgoproxboxchannel5581

3 жыл бұрын

I don't fully agree. Life is how you make it I'm surrounded by tat Nintendo Switch But I only use the Ringfit to keep in shape Xbox 1 But only really play the 2 game's I clame a DSP & am on Centrelink does this piss people off YES do I care NO why would I ? I work as a Gardner Part Time & it's amazing doesn't bring in crazy Money but most I know HATE THEIR JOB'S I've had full time work in the past & IT SUCK'S ASS less you truly love what u do I guess. I have time to workout see my family & friend's regardless of my nice car (ECT) dose my back in anyway.

I've stayed there a number of times. Great place, great people.

This is exactly why I Love Australian so much . ❤

Salt of the earth these people

Aileron is a great spot to stop. It’s well off the road and you can have a decent sleep. Get up in the morning and walk up the hill to the sculpture and take in the view, then go down and have breakfast. Perfect! It’s true about Dunmarra as well, it’s a popular stop for truck drivers. I’m sure I know that bloke Prickles who was at Dunmarra. If it’s him he worked at the Warrego Mine near Tennant Creek back in the late ‘70s. It would be interesting to find out.

Enjoying the simple things in life. 👍✌️

Love this place I was only there last Sept2019.

Just Beautiful . Great country amazing people what more do you want out of life.

I never miss a sunrise, best therapy you'll ever get, just you and dawn...and a few bird calls to stop you dreaming.

Getting to few and city people don't know enough about the struggles of the bush . These are the modern pioneers and their words should hold true for most of the bush .

Bloody great story, special people out there!

Good to see a very different statue.. magnificent art work..👍🤟👏👌🏆👊🤛

Good on you cobber. Hope that there are more like you in the Outback .

Big shout out to Old Lorrie at the innamincka roadhouse. He looks after us drivers that go bush. Cheers bud.

I love this places... every time I am in this lands I am bewitched..

I love that old bastard Dickie, what a wonderful character.

It's beautiful with 20% of the Australian population spread across remote and regional Australia coastal towns, semi rural, outback towns, remote communities, small bush towns, desserts, wild scrub big rolling plains, cattle stations the size of European nations. It is a smorgosboard of nationalities, rugged individuals with the world's oldest First Nations People over 1=2 million who speak over 340 different languages an incredibly robust nation within a nation. Australia is so vast it enjoys 3 different temperate zones, vast and wild all the way to the tropical Zones of the Top End. The world's largest reef marine Park and a truly remarkable country, enjoy it's awesome.

great story abc, dicky, may you make it to 100, salt of the earth.

WOW... just WOW ........ respect !

What a cool guy, I'd love to sit with a beer and listen to some of his stories.

Reminds me of the way ranch country use to be in the Western US. Everyone was friendly and then city people showed up with their know it all attitude. Wish it was the way it use to be. Either way, great video. One day I’ll make it the Outback!

Great story , there is good people still out there folks doing their best for everyone , and a pub in the middle of nowhere is a welcome relief to a tired traveller up that direction 😅 , good on yah guys 😊

Woof! As desolate as it is out there I'd think it's important to have as many good friends and acquaintances as possible

I would move there in a heartbeat!

@seltonk5136

Жыл бұрын

I only speak one language, English, but I want to go to Australia . I can't find any Australian talk language courses. Rosetta's Stone or the like

I live in suburbia as most do and feel somewhat less as a person after watching this.

@Conn30Mtenor

3 жыл бұрын

then leave burbia. DONE.

@jimmyohara2601

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, most persons that have an opinion & point of view on any given subject/s have never heard, seen, touched, nor experienced said subjects & yet they have the biggest voice. I lived in the outback for 12 yrs, loved it much & I much love suburbia too (where I live now) nothing is as good as it is conveyed to you, until you physically see for yourself. Hmmm 🤔👀🙄😐😊

What a life. I yearn for such freedom.

Greg is a deadset legend 👍

The Northern Territory and Crocodile Dundee is what I think of when I think of Australia ! The US once had a mystic like that , it’s gone with the lefties !

“I never miss a sunrise or sunset everyday. “

Special kinda people out there. True Aussie Spirit lives out there. City folk could learn a lot from the People of the Bush. Generally speaking real people are in the bush and out back area's. Unlike Canberra etc.

@ne1273

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Veness I couldn’t of said it any better myself.

@m2heavyindustries378

4 жыл бұрын

"City folk?" What are you, american?? Mate you're not fooling anyone, this is Australia

@steveveness3829

4 жыл бұрын

@Homer Simpson yawn🙂

@steveveness3829

4 жыл бұрын

@Homer Simpson yawn🙂

@navaho5430

4 жыл бұрын

Mate there not special my mate built the big aborigine Mark Egan, we went to school together (Dickson high) yep Canberra.

These sorts of people and life are not just found up north or other desert outback places. You also see them in rural Victoria and NSW where these old run down Roadhouses, general stores etc often double up performing a variety of unexpected functions. They play a very important role for the locals as well as all the long distance haulage trucks passing through. In one such place I lived in as a teen, we knew when certain big trucks would passing through the locality, with very tired, hungry, cold, thirsty drivers, often around 3am. So we made sure there were lights on to greet them (little Christmas lights, would you believe???). And there would be bacon and eggs, chops, steaks, sausages etc and a huge old dirty big black pot of hot tea ready for them and we just waited for the trucks to arrive. We were keen to see them because the brought news from further up the line we needed to know, being so isolated... But,although there are a few such places still left, they are dying out. Partly due to local councils passing laws etc they cannot afford to comply with, as they make very little money, as much tourists want to visit such run down old places surrounded by old junk machinenery,old BOMB cars, rusted out old trucks etc, with torn curtains and fly blown walls, fly strip full of dead flies hanging at the entrance etc. They are probably not the safest or most hygienic of places and it's probably necessary to make these places at least cleaner and safer. However, without forcing them to be removed because they look so old and run down and uniquely Australian. They serve an important factor action for a forgotten section of the community and are hurting nobody, apart from annoying the prejudiced new age types. I know of two such places in my general locality. One also offers "quality modern accommodation with all mod cons". Some musician friends want to stay there and entertain the rough outdoorsy type workers who stayed there or are there and invited me. But, after going past such places and having been forced in youth to live in them on occasion,I had to say a polite no, thanks... I'll pass. I know what they are like inside.... But it doesn't bother the patrons or those who work in such places. You need to be pretty adaptaptable, make do with whatever conditions you find there and be grateful, not whinge about everything not being to your liking and, above all, have a sense of humour and don't judge others trying to do the best they can in difficult circumstances and conditions. In such places you can find some interesting "exhibitions" eg of art work, inventions, ingenuity etc and hear more incredible (and sometimes also highly improbable) stories, hear obscure musical performers, poets and such creative types all the locals believe ought to be famous. In a sense, they are, even if nobody else has ever heard of them. The locals love them. They don't get paid but consider being among good people who buy them a drink or a meal etc is pretty good "free entertainment", for performers and patrons alike. No need to buy fancy latest style ultra cool fashions and pay a fortune to go to some Melbourne night club for entertainment and risk being arrested, raped bashed,murdered on the he mean city streets. They are not the most glamorous of ritzy glitzy social scenes to be seen in but these old run down joints out middle of nowhere play a very important social connection role for rural communities. It's not always possible for all to have friends in high places eg Melbourne or Sydney. But,sometimes, friends in low places can be more important to have. Especially if you run out of good, water etc out middle of nowhere and need help from one of these Roadhouses. They seem to cater for all emergencies and to anything. Rough country outdoors working men knew how to deliver a baby on the side of a road with just work tools as "surgical instruments" long before it became trendy for this era's males to be involved in the child birthing process and these men were not scared to do it, though sometimes they might argue about best way to go about the birthing, depending on whether the baby had decided to come head first or feet first,which might be a bit more dignified, but such births were often a bit riskier and needed an older more experienced man to take charge, like the road workers gang leader boss man who gave instructions to the mother in labour and to his men helping her birth. OK, luv,you keep pushing hard. You boys,on the count of three, all pull... Mind the head, though... It's my best mate's baby... He'll get here as fast as he can... On horseback... Despite these men not being related to the pregnant mother and doing such an intimate thing to help her, when her husband or father or brothers etc couldn't be there, because they often had to be away working hundreds of miles away, for weeks on end, these women depending on men for help with birthing were never sexually abused by them. They had to depend on men to help them because men outnumbered women in remote rural Australian places and there was no communications or easy access to medical help. Just the bush nurse who can versed hundreds of miles daily to visit new mothers and show them what to do. She did a good job but could only usually help after the birth, not during pregnancy or at the birth. Nobody bothered with monthly pregnancy check ups or even getting a pregnancy confirmation. The women figured you'd soon know it if you were. Morning sickness, rapidly increasing baby bulge etc. So who needs a doctor to tell them what they could tell for themselves, or ask an older mother who knew?

@Itsamemario1ns6666

Жыл бұрын

You wrote a novel.

I have done a lot of work for Greg Dick at his road house some years ago he is a good man. They never said that he used to own Tee Tree road house further up the road or that his coffin was the liquor cabinet in the bar at Tee Tree.