Ja'mie with Dave Hughes (Hughesy), Kate Langbroek, and Dave O'Neil

Dave: Now there is a great show that was on called We Can Be Heroes by Chris Lilley, who won several Logies.
Hughesy: Well he's a documentary maker.
Kate: And he followed the lives of 6 prominent, well they weren't prominent at the time, Australians.
Hughesy: Well they were unknown Australians who were trying to achieve the ultimate goal of becoming Australian of the Year and it was, and a lot of them were humble people.
Dave: There was Ricky Wong who was great, the young Asian boy.
Kate: One of them was apparently not so humble.
Dave: The book is called We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year - The Journey.
Kate: She was very proud of her welfare work in Africa, her sponsor children...
Hughesy: This is a schoolgirl.
Dave: We're talking about Ja'mie and we've got her on the phone. Good morning Ja'mie!
Ja'mie: Hi!
Kate: Good morning Ja'mie.
Ja'mie: Hi.
Kate: Um, it's an honour to speak to you, particularly because you've really been keeping a low profile since the documentary went to air.
Ja'mie: I know, I haven't done that much media it's really weird. I've been really busy with school and stuff cause like I'm in year 12 this year.
Hughesy: But how has that gone really I mean as in, you've become a star through this TV show and I mean, it must be weird for you now to have to hang out at school with all these other sort of normal girls.
Ja'mie: I know, it's so weird like I was always like really known at school and really popular and that but now it's like, everyone wants to be friends with me, and like people's parents and stuff want their kids to hang out with me. It's really cool.
Dave: What about your besties like Emma and Brianna?
Ja'mie: They're still cool, like I'm really good friends with them but like, it's kinda weird...I have to be quiet cause Brianna's here, she's waiting outside to console me if the interview doesn't go that well. Um, but like I'm sort of, I dunno, like better than them now. Like I was always better but now I'm like way better.
Kate: Well the world sort of knows now, who you are, but the world doesn't know who they are, except for you.
Ja'mie: I know but like I'm still gonna be friends with them until the end of year 12 coz there's no one better at my school.
Hughesy: But why, I mean why not get rid of the dead wood now?
Ja'mie: Well seriously there's a lot of like, I don't wanna be racist but Asian girls at my school, so if I dump them then I'd probably have to be friends with them.
Kate: Right.
Ja'mie: Yeah, I know it's really mean.
Kate: Are they boarders, the Asian girls?
Ja'mie: Yeah, there's heaps of boarders. Like I was really good friends with Jess Wong, who's one of them um, in year 7 and I didn't even know she was Asian. It was so weird coz, and by the time I worked it out - I dumped her then - but seriously, coz she was really hot as well.
Kate: Oh OK, was she too hot to be friends with?
Ja'mie: No. It was sort of more the Asian thing, like she was really nerdy and stuff.
Kate: Now speaking of being hot, have you got a boyfriend? We're quite intrigued by you.
Ja'mie: This is a really weird thing coz I get a lot of offers and that, but I just, I'm so busy with school and stuff. Like I'm school captain this year and I'm organising the formal and stuff. I don't really have time. And like, the big thing is I really wanna invite Lee Harding to my formal at the end of this year, so I don't wanna have a boyfriend like hanging around and that. Like I pash guys at parties and stuff.
Kate: How do you meet guys?
Ja'mie: Like parties, we have parties and that. On the train station on the way to school I hang out, and like a lot of people sort of, I'm pretty sort of known on the train station so lots of guys come up.
Dave: It said in the book that you met Anthony Callea.
Ja'mie: Yes! Oh my God, at the Aria's. It was so cool.
Hughesy: Is he a bit short for you or is that alright?
Ja'mie: He's like up to my boobs, but that's cool. Like he's hot as, I seriously would marry him.
Dave: We're getting a lot of callers calling in. Sherryn, do you want to say something to Ja'mie?
Sherryn: Yeah. Sorry darling but you're quite full of yourself.
Ja'mie: Oh really?
Sherryn: Yeah like you're going 'oh you know I was so much better than her but I'm so much better than her now' it's like, sweetheart you're really, really full of yourself, sorry to say.
Ja'mie: Um, OK, well obviously you haven't seen the show then, because you would realise that I've done a lot of stuff. Like do you realise how much money I raised for the Africans?
Sherryn: Yeah that's fair enough, like I'm not bagging anything to do with that but I'm just saying, the way you were standing on the radio then is unbelievable, like really, really unbelievable how full of yourself you sound on the radio.
Ja'mie: Well, seriously, do you wanna like meet me face-to-face and you would realise that I'm actually quite attractive and I've done a lot for the world, OK?
Hughesy: Ja'mie do you think that Sherryn possibly...
Ja'mie: My God what a bitch
Hughesy: ...do you think Sherryn might have issues with herself, do you think Sherryn is, you know...
Ja'mie: Serious low self-esteem. I mean God, she's obviously fat, like no offence Kate.
Kate: Right. None taken Ja'mie, none taken. Ja'mie do you get a lot of that from women?
Ja'mie: I know it's weird, I do all the time but I think when I talk to people they think that but when they see me they go 'I get it - you're hot'.
Hughesy: What does Sherryn think, Ja'mie just automatically thinks you're fat, Sherryn.
Sherryn: Well that just says it all, like obviously she thinks that you know, she's better than everyone so whoever ring up her and says 'oh you know you're full of yourself' cause she is, well staight away she thinks automatically they're fat, they've got low self-esteem. It's totally wrong.
Kate: Sherryn what about her having a crack at Katie?
Sherryn: Yeah no I'm not agreeing to that either.
Kate: Thanks Sherryn.
Ja'mie: [talking to her mum] ...Dancing With The Stars. I mean sorry, not fat...
Kate: Sorry? Sorry Ja'mie?
Ja'mie: I'm not being mean I'm just saying did you see...oh don't worry. Oh my God, you people are like freaking out.
Kate: Sorry I just genuinely missed what you were saying about me on Dancing With The Stars.
Ja'mie: I was just talking to my mum before, OK I'm in the sun room doing the interview and my mum goes 'who are you talking to?' I went 'Hughesy, Kate and Dave'. She goes 'never heard of them' cause we're in Sydney right, and I said 'you know, the fat one from Dancing With The Stars.'
Kate: Right, and did she realise it was me?
Ja'mie: Yes!
Kate: Oh she did.
Dave: So how would you describe Hughesy? How would you describe Hughesy to your mum?
Ja'mie: Um, Hughesy, I dunno, that weird football person. I dunno. We seriously don't know you. I mean sorry guys. And it's not only Kate that's fat, pretty much all of you are fat.
Hughesy: No that's not funny actually. No I'm not, don't laugh at that.
Dave: I'm fat.
Hughesy: I'm quite offended.
Ja'mie: I don't mean to be rude, it's not your fault. I mean you're on radio.
Hughesy: Well you're a schoolgirl you know, I mean what do you know about life? I mean listen to what real people think of you.
Kate: Real people wanna talk to you Ja'mie.
Hughesy: What does Rick think?
Dave: What do you think Rick?
Ja'mie: Oh my God, I didn't realise I was gonna get abused.
Hughesy: Hang on just listen. Shut up Ja'mie, shut up for a minute. Just listen to Rick.
Kate: Hello Rick.
Rick: How you going.
Kate: Ja'mie's waiting to speak to you.
Ja'mie: Hi Rick.
Rick: How you going, I honestly have to say I've never heard anyone go on the way about themselves as you do and I'm blown away. What an idiot.
Ja'mie: That is so mean. Seriously. If you wanna like read the book, find out a little bit about me before you make this judgement.
Rick: I've got no doubt you've done some fantastic things but that doesn't put you on a pedestal above everyone else love. Sorry.
Ja'mie: Well at least I'm not having to call the radio station, the radio station calls me.
Kate: Thanks Rick.
Hughesy: She's made me angry now.
Ja'mie: Sorry Hughesy, you've got a hot face. I'm sorry.
Kate: Alright, maybe one listener can actually put her in her place. Is there someone who...Mark, what about Mark?
Dave: Mark, what do you reckon, Ja'mie?
Mark: Oh mate, get her off the air. I'm going to work, I'm about to throw up mate. She is so full of shit, it's not funny.
Kate: Oh Mark.
Ja'mie: Oh my God, seriously, do not swear on the radio please.
Hughesy: Yeah but you've driven him to that, Ja'mie.
Ja'mie: I cannot help the way I am, OK Australia? I'm sorry.
Dave: Let's hope Brianna's standing close by to give you a hug after this.
Ja'mie: Oh my God I'm freaking out. I am so not talking to Nova Adelaide.
Kate: You know what Ja'mie? I really did not realise...
Dave: We're in Melbourne!
Kate: ...I didn't realise that I was fat.
Ja'mie: OK, you're not.
Kate: No but you said I was and your mum said that she knew me.
Ja'mie: Well if you were one of my friends, we would probably say you were, but like in the adult world, you're probably average. You're usually fatter OK? I'm sorry.
Hughesy: Why don't you stay in Sydney, actually? Maybe we don't want you back in Melbourne.
Ja'mie: Well...I don't even care.
Kate: Hughesy!
Ja'mie: I'm about to cry in a minute. I'm not treated like this in my life.
Dave: Get Brianna and your mum and have a group hug, I think Ja'mie.
Ja'mie: Oh my God. Mum, I need to talk to you.
Kate: Bye Ja'mie. We'd like to say thank you but it's a bit hard to.
Dave: The book is called We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year - The Journey by Chris Lilley.