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Speaker 1: It is time for Bob's Wire. Barbara Friedman is our
Speaker 1: digital content editor and her top three peaks after I
Speaker 1: guess a very busy weekend for you trawling the internet.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was a lot going on, but I've
Speaker 2: gone for the slightly well sighted alternative ones, although not
Speaker 2: maybe not the first one. So, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw this trending all over the videos of Beyonce
Speaker 2: singing from a car. It's one of those what do
Speaker 2: you call them, those special kind of effect things. It
Speaker 2: was this big s of open convertible car that she
Speaker 2: sits in, suspended high up off the ceiling. This is
Speaker 2: on her Carboy, her Cowboy Carter tour. This was in
Speaker 2: her hometown of Houston. She was on her second from
Speaker 2: the end last song of the evening and she then
Speaker 2: felt something was wrong. She felt the car was taulting
Speaker 2: and stopping and she then shouts stop, stop, stop, And
Speaker 2: I thought, let's just play the video as they then
Speaker 2: start to lower her down, obviously to make sure that
Speaker 2: she doesn't it doesn't come to you know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: have an accident to the stop start, stop, start, stuff stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, if you head there is the crowds below
Speaker 2: or like sort of putting their hands up and kind
Speaker 2: of like, you know, just ready to help.
Speaker 1: Not that.
Speaker 2: And then as the car lows under the stage, you know,
Speaker 2: people are like the stage hands. I'm a s I
Speaker 2: was sort of helping and she gets off. She goes
Speaker 2: off stage, briefly comes back on and sings out the
Speaker 2: rest of the concert and said, I want to thank
Speaker 2: you all, she told the audience for loving me. If
Speaker 2: ever I fall, I know y'all will catch me, she said,
Speaker 2: which obviously was appropriate considering that that was exactly what
Speaker 2: might have happen.
Speaker 1: So there was a technical little there was a technical glitch.
Speaker 2: They haven't explained exactly what it was, but the car
Speaker 2: was tilting. She could feel it. You know, this is
Speaker 2: part of this They two stadium showed tour that she's
Speaker 2: been on since April and in her hometown. Yeah, she
Speaker 2: could feel that the car wasn't quite right. Apparently not
Speaker 2: the first time something's gone wrong with a stunt on
Speaker 2: one of her shows. There have been a couple of
Speaker 2: other incidents over the years where things kind of went wrong,
Speaker 2: and she's weathered them quite well. But it is scary.
Speaker 2: You know, she was very high in the air and
Speaker 2: you know, I can imagine it yet cling on the
Speaker 2: side of it. So I'm just glad that she was
Speaker 2: okay and that everything seems to have worked out, worked
Speaker 2: out fine.
Speaker 1: And like John Mathan, I don't even know what she
Speaker 1: looks like, but I have seen her on TV over
Speaker 1: the past weekend though, that what she looked like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, look, I mean she's yeah, she's pretty much
Speaker 2: an icon. And those fans are super fans, the Bee Hive,
Speaker 2: they are every word. John actually when he sent me
Speaker 2: stuff from the concert, he sent me one of the
Speaker 2: guys standing in front of him who was kne every
Speaker 2: word of my Heart and sang through the entire concert,
Speaker 2: and he said he was.
Speaker 1: So Africa is a big fan as well, and Amy
Speaker 1: is huge.
Speaker 2: Isn't.
Speaker 1: Is it possible?
Speaker 2: It's very possible. Didn't you ever know the lyrics to
Speaker 2: someone that you loved? No, maybe not.
Speaker 1: Every word, every word, but some of the words.
Speaker 2: The second story, I don't know if you might. You
Speaker 2: will recall last week the story about the the rits
Speaker 2: plats of the iconic building in three Ancobert Here in
Speaker 2: Seedpoint is being sold between two hundred and forty million
Speaker 2: and three hundred million rand, and it did. It was
Speaker 2: a very big viral trending story online for all the
Speaker 2: media sites that shared it. And what came up of
Speaker 2: this weekend on my socials was a series of posts
Speaker 2: of photos and a video that was taken by armand
Speaker 2: how that he goes by the name online of the
Speaker 2: Human Narrative. He's a brilliant, brilliant photographer and videographer. I
Speaker 2: think he's actually was in the weekend August, but we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about it anyway that he because he
Speaker 2: did share it himself, and these were photographs and videos
Speaker 2: of what it looks like inside the Writs right now.
Speaker 2: And I think if you are curious, because this has
Speaker 2: been such an iconic and strange story for so long,
Speaker 2: go I will hopefully pop it up on our website,
Speaker 2: will embed his video and others go find him on
Speaker 2: the Human Narrative. And I think the thing which fascinates
Speaker 2: me is just the history of the Writs. It was
Speaker 2: I finally built in nineteen seventy. I was seven and
Speaker 2: so in the seventies as a young teenager. I mean,
Speaker 2: I remember this place so well that we called it
Speaker 2: the revolting restaurant. You know that revolving restaurant and it
Speaker 2: was just a joke and you know there's a property
Speaker 2: broker has actually she actually posted on her on her
Speaker 2: ex post ash Miller, a fantastic history of the place.
Speaker 2: I mean we know that in I think twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, there was an attempt to reopen it by
Speaker 2: businessman Nikki fund a Vault and that went pear shaped
Speaker 2: because he hadn't paid occupational rent and it went to
Speaker 2: court and apparently the High Court said that he had
Speaker 2: hutspo of the first order to think that he could
Speaker 2: take over this thing before the rent, and so it
Speaker 2: never took off the ground after a soft launch. Now
Speaker 2: finally it seems as though the new buyers are going
Speaker 2: to actually make a go of it. But just fascinating
Speaker 2: to see the history that Ashley posted on x about
Speaker 2: the whole history of but how in Mandela stayed there
Speaker 2: for quite a while after he was released, and she
Speaker 2: writes that the hotel manager told her that he would
Speaker 2: He would was the only guest he ever knew to
Speaker 2: make his own bed and clean his own room every day,
Speaker 2: and he would go for a walk on the Seapoint
Speaker 2: prom every morning at four thirty am or security he
Speaker 2: would return from his walks and have tea with the
Speaker 2: hotel manager and he would tell him how the Ritz
Speaker 2: was the one building he could always see above the
Speaker 2: skyline from Robin Island, and how sitting in the Ritz
Speaker 2: and looking back at Robin Island was fascinating for him.
Speaker 2: Actually goosebumps reading that. That just is such a bit
Speaker 2: of history that I didn't know. And then obviously the
Speaker 2: whole story of how it went up and down, up
Speaker 2: and down. I mean that area of three Anchor Bay,
Speaker 2: will you point, And that's something we would it's three
Speaker 2: Anchor Bay. There's always a little bit at the crime
Speaker 2: levels went up there, the hotel went down, and I mean,
Speaker 2: just to see what it looks like inside now in
Speaker 2: this video is just it's trashed, trashed, But have.
Speaker 1: You seen how many cranes eye in Seapoint at this
Speaker 1: moment time? But there's all That's.
Speaker 2: Another point is Sepoint is going through such a facelift change,
Speaker 2: much of which people in the area are complaining about.
Speaker 2: Other people are saying it's great. Mixed views on it
Speaker 2: always difficult. I supposed to see the place you like
Speaker 2: living going through changes because some of the old buildings
Speaker 2: end up getting knocked down, and I mean, who knows
Speaker 2: what's going to happen to the Ritz. I mean it
Speaker 2: was such a strange architectural building of its time. You know,
Speaker 2: it was actually award winning and innovative, and at the
Speaker 2: time it was because it was built in modular form.
Speaker 2: And Ash Miller talks about this too. You know how
Speaker 2: they built these modular bathrooms and other things off site
Speaker 2: and they were dropped in I suppose like lego pieces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cutting its technology.
Speaker 2: Cutting edge now totally out of fashion in many ways
Speaker 2: and very square.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: So anyway, just a fascinating story and a fascinating video
Speaker 2: to watch. And then finally, on a lighter note, although
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people are going to say, why is
Speaker 2: the mere cut being domesticated? And I don't have the answer.
Speaker 2: It's a video of a mere Cut in the living
Speaker 2: room of some South Africans home hugging one of those
Speaker 2: South African iconic favorite heaters, you know, that fan heater
Speaker 2: which you can get close to those plastic I think
Speaker 2: they made by Pineware or something. They like, these iconic
Speaker 2: South African little heaters that blow hot air out and
Speaker 2: you can kind of go right up to it. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna burn you. And so the little meer Cut
Speaker 2: is hugging the heater and the oak who obviously looks
Speaker 2: after the mere cut, and I thought, let's just plaid out,
Speaker 2: just picture the scene. It's in the lounge, the meer
Speaker 2: Cuts like holding on for deal. I'm looking as cute
Speaker 2: as anything. Let's just quickly plate and see if you
Speaker 2: can get a sense of it.
Speaker 1: To me care, we got Huka.
Speaker 2: And then to Mey's luck checking him out, and people
Speaker 2: on the comment saying these heaters carry the nation. Arthur
Speaker 2: was so funny, and people saying trying to climb into
Speaker 2: the heater is so relatable. And I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know about you, but this last weekend, Saturday definitely was
Speaker 2: a hibernation day. It was so rainy and so cold.
Speaker 1: I was walking on the beach in Muscle Bay.
Speaker 2: So, oh you in Muscle Bay. Okay, Saturday here I
Speaker 2: was terrible. Yesterday got better. And I certainly think up
Speaker 2: north it's freezing. So I think everybody's seeing that video
Speaker 2: just went viral because that mere cut was all of
Speaker 2: us this weekend.
Speaker 1: A happy meal cut and on that note, thank you.
Speaker 1: Barbara Friedman, digital content editor, Bob's Wire three other topics
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