1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: From the newsroom and news to come to you. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 2: Good day there. I'm Andrew Bucklow, and boy do we 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 2: have a fun episode coming up for you today, Just 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 2: what you deserve on a Monday. 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: I reckon you. 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: Are going to hear some wild stories from one of 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 2: our top overseas reporters. So news dot com dot au 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 2: has journals all around the world, but the top posting 9 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: you can get, the one everyone wants, is in New 10 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: York City. Benedict Brook is our man in the Big 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: Apple at the moment. He's been there for a couple 12 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: of years now. He has covered some amazing stories and 13 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: in today's episode, he's going to open up about his 14 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: most memorable moments. I'll give you a little bit of 15 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,639 Speaker 2: a tease of what you're about to hear. He'll tell 16 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: us how we almost got arrested near Donald Trump and 17 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: what it was like to meet one of the most 18 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 2: famous singers on the planet. Those stories are more coming 19 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: up in just a sec. Well. He is a British 20 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: Man working for an Australian news site in New York. 21 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 2: Benedict Brook aka b B all the way from the 22 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: Big Apple. 23 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: How are you. 24 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 3: I'm good? Thanks, Bucky. Good to hear from you. 25 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: It's good to hear from you too. 26 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 2: I absolutely laborating your articles on US dot com dot 27 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: au because you get to cover so many amazing events 28 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: over there in the States. 29 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: Am I jealous? Yes? 30 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: I want you to run me through the three best 31 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: things that you've had the opportunity to report on. 32 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: Okay, hit me with number one. 33 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 4: I think number one has been what was like the 34 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 4: story of last year aside from the election, and it's 35 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 4: still involved Donald Trump. It was the Trump trial of 36 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 4: the century, the hush money trial with. 37 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 3: Stormy Daniels and the porn star. 38 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 4: And the fascinating thing about that was that, whereas in 39 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 4: some court cases they do a live stream so you 40 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 4: don't even need to be there, in this case you 41 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 4: had to be down at the courtroom to see anything 42 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 4: at all. 43 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: So that meant the world's. 44 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 4: Media were down at this very dingy courthouse. It surprisingly dingy, 45 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 4: did not feel like it was actually you know, living 46 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 4: up to the case that was happening. And outside was 47 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 4: amazing because NBC was there, BBC was there, ABC was there? 48 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 4: ANYBC in the world was right there outside. It was 49 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 4: like it was like the red carpet of the Oscars. 50 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 4: But it was like members of Donald Trump's family walking past. 51 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: So did you get to see Donald Trump? 52 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 2: Well? 53 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 4: No, See, this is the thing, right after all of this, 54 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: So they had two courtrooms, one where Donald Trump was 55 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 4: in and one where the media was in. So what 56 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 4: we basically you had to queue up from like halft 57 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning, basically before dawn, in order to 58 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 4: sit in a room with a live video feed of 59 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 4: what was happening next door. 60 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 3: Right, And every time Donald Trump wanted to go for a. 61 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 4: Piss, they basically closed down the entire courthouse, including you 62 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 4: in the room you were in, so he could walk. 63 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 3: Up and down the corridor. It was. 64 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 4: It was quite the thing, Bucky, And I almost got 65 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 4: thrown out the police. 66 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: The police almost threw me out of the courtroom, right. 67 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 4: And I'm a pretty docile or bloke, right, so I 68 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 4: can tell you I was not kicking off. But in 69 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 4: this courtroom the media were there, and of course the 70 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 4: media were allowed to bring laptops and phones right and 71 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 4: use them, but the public couldn't. 72 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 3: Right. 73 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 4: And I just so happened to be sitting next to 74 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 4: a lawyer, but just a lawyer who was coming just 75 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 4: for lux right, and he was chatting away to me. 76 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 4: The police are roaming around as if somehow this was 77 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 4: a room for the criminals. 78 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: And he was. 79 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: He said, take my number and you can call me 80 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 4: if you want some hot takes on Trump or something. 81 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 4: So I gave him my phone and I said, look, 82 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 4: just put your number in my phone. 83 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 3: And the policeman saw it immediately was like, ohy, what. 84 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: Are you doing. 85 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 4: You know you're not allowed to have a phone to 86 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 4: this member of the public next to me, And I said, no, officer, 87 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 4: don't worry, it's. 88 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: Not his phone, it's my phone. I gave it to him. 89 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: And he's like, why did you give him your phone? 90 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 4: If you don't take your phone back right now and 91 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 4: going to throw you out. 92 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 3: Of the courthouse. 93 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: Do you think that the policeman thought that you were 94 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: trying to pick up in the courthouse? 95 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: Well, I look, I don't know. 96 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 4: Like the day I went there was a porn star 97 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 4: who was giving testimony, So I mean, and I think that. 98 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: Pretty wild day of salacious happenings. 99 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: I can imagine. 100 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: All right, that is a great first example of one 101 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: of the best stories you've got to cover over there. 102 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: What is number two, Benedicte, Well. 103 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 4: I mean like just to take it down a little bit. 104 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 4: This one was perhaps a little bit more of a 105 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 4: serious one. But I went down to Orlando, and I 106 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 4: went down there to interview some people who'd been in 107 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 4: a mass shooting. 108 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 3: Right, I'd tracked some people down. 109 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember, but there was a 110 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 4: shooting at an LGBT nightclub called The Pulse in Orlando 111 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: some years ago. Really was one of the kind of 112 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 4: like it's awful to say, one of the kind of 113 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 4: more modern shootings where more people passed away. 114 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: And I found this. 115 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: I found the bar and the bar people there, This woman, 116 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 4: a mum, she'd been serving there that night and now 117 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 4: she's an estate agent. And I got in touch and 118 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 4: she was like, yeah, like let's have pizza, let's go 119 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 4: and have a chat about it. And she'd never spoken 120 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 4: about that night before, not to media anyway. 121 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 3: And I remember her telling. 122 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 4: Me that she hid under the bar when the shooting 123 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 4: was happening, and like all of the bottles and the 124 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 4: glasses were all being like shot up and falling around her. 125 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 4: And she says that she was hiding on there under 126 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 4: the bar quietly so the shooter wouldn't hear her, and 127 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 4: she she had this person smashing her on the back 128 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 4: and she was like turned around and he said, you've 129 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 4: got to stop screaming, right, And she was like, I'm 130 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 4: not screaming. 131 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 3: He's like, you're screaming your son's name. And she's like, 132 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 3: I didn't even know I was doing that. I didn't 133 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: even know. 134 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 4: I thought I was being really quiet, but actually I 135 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 4: was potentially letting this shooter know where I was. So 136 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 4: she she was an amazing woman, and it just so 137 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 4: happened at the nightclub was two blocks up the road, 138 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 4: So I said, how do you feel about showing me 139 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 4: that the club? And it amazed me that she was like, yeah, 140 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 4: I'll go and show you where the club is. I 141 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 4: mean it's closed and it's like a memorial. And she 142 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 4: allowed me to film her, and she was like pointing 143 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 4: out where the shooter came in and where the bar was, 144 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 4: and there was like all these pictures on the side 145 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 4: of the club of various people who've been killed. And 146 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 4: she was like, yeah, I know her, I know the 147 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 4: drink which she had, I know that he was a 148 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 4: lovely guy. It was just a very arresting thing, and 149 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 4: also it was just kind of like tragic. Yeah, that 150 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 4: that's happened so many times since. 151 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 2: Well that is heavy, baby, all right, let's move on 152 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: to number three. Okay, what do you got for me? 153 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: Well, look, I wouldn't say this is not heavy at all, 154 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 4: but this was kind of a fun one that happened 155 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 4: quite recently. Hamish and Andy opened a bar in New York, 156 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 4: and so I went down there on the opening day 157 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: and I was talking to Andy about it. 158 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 3: He's like an investor of some description in it. 159 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure, you know, if he going ninety 160 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 4: or just you know, Mars Bar's work of this bar. 161 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 4: But he was having a chat and he was saying, 162 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 4: how this bar isn't like an Australian theme that doesn't 163 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 4: have boomerangs or surfboards or anything as cheap as that, 164 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 4: but instead it's like very Australian. The carpets inspired from 165 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 4: the mcg have neighbors playing on the TV. There was 166 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 4: a framed Kylie album, Jimmy Barnes posters, there was Schnitti's 167 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 4: on the menu. 168 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 3: It was fantastic. 169 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 4: And I got there right and opened at four pm 170 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 4: because you want, I wanted to like chat toe him 171 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 4: and get some video and stuff, and every Australian in 172 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 4: New York had clearly realized what was going on, and 173 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 4: by like five pm they've grown out of Cooper's, so 174 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 4: we're onto the second to teerbers. 175 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 3: By this point they the place was crazy busy. 176 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 4: It was honestly, it was like being in like Melbourne 177 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 4: on a Friday night. But it was really confusing that 178 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 4: when you walked out the door there was the Brooklyn 179 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 4: Bridge and the cues around the block were hours long, 180 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 4: and they had to close down at nine pm because 181 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 4: they'd sold so many beers. 182 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 3: They'd run out of out of beer. 183 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 4: They'd sold beers in three hours, and I didn't know 184 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 4: whether to be appalled at my fellow Australians actually really impressed. 185 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: I love that an Aussie pub running out of beer 186 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: on day one. Stick around more with Benedict coming up 187 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 2: in just a moment, welcome back. I'm chatting to news 188 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: dot com dot I use Benedict brook who has been 189 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 2: over in the States working for US for a couple 190 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: of years. He's sharing some of his most memorable stories. 191 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: Bbe. 192 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 2: One of the perks of being based in the States 193 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: as a reporter, I'm assuming is that you have better 194 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: access to high profile people. I know that you've interviewed 195 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: a bunch of big name stars over there. Who tops 196 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 2: your list? 197 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 3: Well, Bucky. 198 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 4: Look, I mean it would be remissive me not to 199 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 4: say the number one person I've interviewed here in New 200 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 4: York is Share. 201 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 202 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 4: Royalty Royal, you know. I mean, as a journalist, you 203 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 4: try and be cool about this. You're like, it's just 204 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 4: another story. You know, they're just like us. They may 205 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 4: be famous, that they're real people. 206 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 3: And then there's Share. 207 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: What was she like and what were you interviewing her for? 208 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, weirdly enough, she was doing an Uber 209 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 4: Eats commercial for Australia. 210 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: I've seen the commercials on TV. 211 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, so for some reason, because probably she's running short 212 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 4: on cash or something and she needs a new and 213 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 4: a holiday or something, she decided to do this ad 214 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 4: and so she was rolled out to Australian media. There 215 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 4: must have been very peculiar because these ads aren't showing 216 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 4: in the United States, so no actual American press are allowed. 217 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 4: In whatsoever it was. It was pretty amazing. I mean, 218 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 4: you know, Share looks like you excpt them to look 219 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 4: a bit different, all these like mega starts, but Share 220 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 4: looks like Share. I don't think she's any different to 221 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 4: share for about the last fifty years really. 222 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 2: And what was she like, Like, was she friendly? Does 223 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 2: she have an aura about her? 224 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 3: She definitely had an aura about her. 225 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 4: There was just it was like walking into like royalty 226 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 4: or something. I felt like I needed to courtesy in 227 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 4: her presence. I really did. I mean, you know, her 228 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 4: face looked perfect. You know, I think they're seventies now. 229 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 4: I mean, like skincare tips. She could give the world, honestly, 230 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 4: I mean she was very sweet, she was and then 231 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: very self deprecating. These ads they had kind of took 232 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 4: the mick out of her a. 233 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 3: Bit, and she was like, well up for it, you know. 234 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 4: And that's one of things like Americans I feel sometimes 235 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 4: you know, it's the old stereotype, but it's based in truth. 236 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 4: Sometimes they don't really like getting the mick taken out 237 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 4: of them. Sometimes they don't really get sarcasm and stuff. 238 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 4: But she seemed to be all for it. But there's 239 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 4: been a few other people as well. I mean, look, 240 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 4: I would say that, you know, he's not American, but 241 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 4: I interviewed James Dyson here and he's very business like, 242 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 4: you know, the guy that you know, invented the bagless 243 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 4: vacuum and yeah, yeah, and you know all the you know, 244 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 4: the hand driers in the railway station lose that blow 245 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 4: very hard, so to speak. And and he was disarmingly, 246 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 4: just very honest. I asked him, what, like, you know, 247 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 4: the the one Dyson product that didn't work. 248 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 3: He didn't really hesitate. 249 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 4: He was very happy to just tell me the failures 250 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 4: that Dyson's had. 251 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: Was the thing that failed. 252 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw it was they launched 253 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 4: a year or so ago. It's called the Dyson Zone. 254 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 4: It was like these kind of mad Max style headphones 255 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 4: with a weird mouthpiece that blew air into your nostrils. 256 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,599 Speaker 4: It was like some kind of post COVID, post apocalyptic 257 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 4: the headphone situation. And he was like, yeah, yeah, that 258 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 4: didn't that didn't work out. 259 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: Imagine a Dyson guy making a product that sucked similarly, 260 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 2: did they're a little vacuum cleaner. 261 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is I'm laughing. I'm laughing. 262 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 4: And then I also interviewed Jason Alexander from Seinfeld, and 263 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 4: I just think he was such a lovely guy. 264 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 3: He was such a sweet guy. 265 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 4: Clearly a bit of an Australia file, you know, really 266 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 4: liked his time down Under, and he was the you know, 267 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 4: it's nice and new, I mean, Bucky. 268 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 3: I come from a news background, so. 269 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 4: I have an interviewed as many celebs as you have, 270 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 4: so I don't really know, like I'm a bit newbie 271 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 4: to this, and so I assume they're all going to 272 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 4: be awful to you. So when you get something like 273 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 4: Jason Alexander, who was just like very cheery and very 274 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 4: very lovely, you know I was, I was blown away. 275 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 2: So you're more blown away by Jason Alexander than the 276 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: Dison guy. There we go, another vacuum cleaner, Drake. All right, 277 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 2: let's move on. BB. You've covered such a wide variety 278 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: of topics over there in the States. I want you 279 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 2: to tell me about the weirdest story you've covered. 280 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: I think, the weirdest thing. 281 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 4: And there's been and there's been a few in this 282 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 4: interesting country. But I went to the Republican National Convention 283 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 4: in more Walking and that's where Donald Trump, days after 284 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 4: assassination attempt, was nominated to be the candidate. Right, so 285 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 4: this was like Disneyland, but magaland right, red hats everywhere, red, white, 286 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 4: and blue, stars and stripes. 287 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 3: You know. 288 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 4: It was a pretty intense kind of like a sports match, 289 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 4: but a religious convention, you know, and as was the 290 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 4: Democratic one as well. I was there for about a 291 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 4: week and I started we started seeing on social media 292 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 4: there were people who were wearing these bandages on their 293 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 4: ears because Donald Trump had worn them, right, so there 294 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 4: was so like in sympathy to his predicament and the 295 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 4: fact he's almost been killed, people started wearing these bandages 296 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 4: on their ears like they'd been almost killed, right, And 297 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 4: so I went out to try and find these people, 298 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 4: and honestly, I felt like a madman. I was walking 299 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 4: through these crowds of people, like just looking at everybody's ear, yeah, 300 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 4: you know, like have you got a bandage? 301 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 3: Have you got a band No, you haven't got a bandage? Like, 302 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 3: and I was like, where are these bandages? 303 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 4: You know, I've seen them, you know on social media. 304 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 3: Where the hell are they? 305 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 4: And I got into the big stadium where they were 306 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 4: doing the convention properly, and eventually I got onto the 307 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 4: floor of the stadium where the really committed people were 308 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 4: and I went down there and I was like, and 309 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 4: they do it by state, so there's like new York 310 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 4: here and Alaska there, and I was like, it's got 311 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 4: to be Texas, right, It's got to be Texas. Texas 312 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 4: is going to be the people who put the bandages. 313 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: And I walked up. 314 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 4: There and sure enough, there was this like twenty or 315 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 4: thirty people had all these bandages. And you know, people 316 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 4: don't do these things because they're meek. Right, They're not 317 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 4: going to be doing this because they don't want to chat, right, 318 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 4: they want to chat. 319 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: So I know my camera, I was like, would you 320 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 3: like to talk? Like, yes, we'd like stop, we'd like 321 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 3: to stop. Yeah, film us, film us, take pictures of us, 322 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 3: you know. 323 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 4: And so I did that video and I think, honestly, 324 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 4: I think that was one of the biggest video as 325 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 4: we did over that period because it was I think 326 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 4: to a lot of Australians that was such an emblematic 327 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 4: kind of Trump support a thing to do that I 328 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 4: think it just kind of like you really like, people 329 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 4: couldn't turn away. 330 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 2: Oh baby, I loved that story. I love all of 331 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 2: your stories. Keep working hard over there. I'm sure you're 332 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 2: having plenty of fun, but yeah, keep doing what you're doing, 333 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: and thank you for chatting to from the newsroom. Okay, 334 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: well that was Benedigbrook and news dot Com got to 335 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: use man in New York. Here is such a legendar. 336 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: Before I let you go, a little bit of an 337 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: announcement from me, I'm taking some time off, going on holidays. 338 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 2: Only a week and a half, okay, But my wonderful 339 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: colleague Emily will keep you entertained and informed on this 340 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: podcast in my absence. 341 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: So thank you so much for listening. 342 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: I'll catch you later. 343 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 4: Follow or subscribe to from the newsroom wherever you get 344 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 4: your podcasts.