Speaker 1: The garden through the barrel, it down aig. There a battle,
Speaker 1: come down the garden to the under Yep. We touched
Speaker 1: up with in the Brady in the United Kingdom on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday yesterday it was Wednesday. We spoke to him
Speaker 1: yesterday and he's been gracious enough to join us again
Speaker 1: on Thursday. You would you'd be familiar, of course, with
Speaker 1: the great Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Co Incidentally, Inda,
Speaker 1: we happen to be talking about him in the last hour,
Speaker 1: having a bit of fun with some Beach Boys music,
Speaker 1: and the news came through just ten pasts of the hour,
Speaker 1: or near not to ten pasts of the hour. He's
Speaker 1: only just passed away, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2: Morning, Tony. Do you know what. It's quite coincidence because
Speaker 2: I was flying back, as I told you yesterday, from Peru,
Speaker 2: and I had with me Elton John's amazing new autobiography
Speaker 2: called Me, and he was talking about how crazy life
Speaker 2: was in the seventies, and he said, out of the blue,
Speaker 2: just as he was getting famous in America, he was
Speaker 2: invited for a coffee at Brian Wilson's house in California
Speaker 2: and Elton rocked up by himself. The door was opened
Speaker 2: by Brian Wilson. His family were inside, and he said,
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson, the song that was in the chart at
Speaker 2: the time was your song, which Bernie Taupin had just
Speaker 2: finished writing with Elton John. And Elton said in the
Speaker 2: book that he opened the door, knocked on the door
Speaker 2: and it was opened, and Brian Wilson opens the door
Speaker 2: and he kept singing I hope you don't mind, I
Speaker 2: hope you don't mind in words, and he brought Elton
Speaker 2: into his to meet his family and he said, look
Speaker 2: who it is. It's the man who wrote your song.
Speaker 2: And Elton John in the book says it was quite
Speaker 2: a surreal experience to meet someone that he had idolized
Speaker 2: for his music and to have Brian Wilson singing Elton's
Speaker 2: music back at him in front of his kids, who
Speaker 2: look quite amused.
Speaker 1: Great in that wonderful well you know those sort of people.
Speaker 1: I probably they went through a very difficult time the sixties,
Speaker 1: and Elton has been well and truly documented he's having
Speaker 1: medication drug issues, which presume is in this book. Is
Speaker 1: it a good rate sopher?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Rip roaring I raced through it, so I was
Speaker 2: cherishing every chapter. If you see it around or if
Speaker 2: you're looking for a good holiday read, it's called me.
Speaker 2: And he holds no punches. He pulled no punches. And
Speaker 2: there's loads of tittle tattle in there. People he's fallen
Speaker 2: out with people, he's fallen back in with another. Just
Speaker 2: a little anecdote for halftime. Tony, he had a dinner
Speaker 2: party one night, and Elton John being Elton John, he
Speaker 2: was able ring up Princess Diana and she came for dinner.
Speaker 2: Then he rang up Richard Gear and he come for dinner,
Speaker 2: and who rocks up as well, Sylvester Stallone, And they're
Speaker 2: all having a nice time. And then Diana is relaxing
Speaker 2: in front of the fireplace and the fire and just
Speaker 2: kind of chilling out. And then Elton sees Richard Gear
Speaker 2: making a bee line for her and chatting her up.
Speaker 2: And then he said, about half an hour later, his husband,
Speaker 2: David Furnish, arrives back at the table and whispered to him,
Speaker 2: we've got a situation. And Elton said, what's the situation?
Speaker 2: And apparently Sylvester Stallone was extremely jealous of Richard Gear
Speaker 2: chatting up Diana, and it almost ended in blows between
Speaker 2: the two men before Stallone stumped off with the immortal words,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have come if I'd known you'd invited effing
Speaker 2: Prince Charming, which was how he referred to Richard Gear
Speaker 2: who was trying to steal Diana's attention.
Speaker 1: It's a great story, I'll tell you it's not such
Speaker 1: a great story. Let's go to the north of Ireland.
Speaker 1: A big call for backup now that I've had a
Speaker 1: fair bit of rodney, a couple of knots of rioting
Speaker 1: in northern Ireland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very serious now and the police have
Speaker 2: actually asked for reinforce months from Police Scotland to come over.
Speaker 2: So eighty officers are transferring right now to the north
Speaker 2: of Ireland town called Ballymena and widely hear what has happened.
Speaker 2: So a teenage girl was allegedly the victim of a
Speaker 2: sexual assault earlier this week. Now two fourteen year old
Speaker 2: boys were arrested. They've been charged, they've appeared before the
Speaker 2: local court and the case will go through the courts. Now.
Speaker 2: The boys spoke through a Romanian interpreter, so clearly they're
Speaker 2: not Irish and they're not from the area, and what's
Speaker 2: been happening is a lot of violence against migrants in
Speaker 2: the town, a lot of racism, a lot of racist abuse.
Speaker 2: People have taken to the streets. Property has been damaged,
Speaker 2: houses have been damaged, and then they've turned their attention
Speaker 2: on the police force PSNI Police Service Northern Ireland. Thirty
Speaker 2: two officers injured two nights of rioting and the Assistant
Speaker 2: Chief Constable, basically one of the top cops in the
Speaker 2: North of Ireland. He has come out today and said,
Speaker 2: do not riot tonight. Do not risk your future. He said,
Speaker 2: you will end up being prosecuted, you could go to jail.
Speaker 2: So it's got really really out of hand there, and
Speaker 2: all of these kind of community tensions stoked because of
Speaker 2: an alleged sexual assault on a young girl this week.
Speaker 1: Gee, allan's got some issues. We'll do that another day
Speaker 1: and talk about some of them. Illegal asylum seekers too.
Speaker 1: About fifteen thousand a year for the year, and that's
Speaker 1: just a date.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we're not even halfway through June. The end
Speaker 2: of June obviously will mark the halfway point of the year.
Speaker 2: And we're told today that the number of illegal asylum
Speaker 2: seekers coming across from France and these little dinghies, massively overcrowded,
Speaker 2: extremely dangerous, risking their lives, has reached fifteen thousand for
Speaker 2: the year as of now. Now that's a town that's
Speaker 2: a new town every six months of people popping up.
Speaker 2: It's costing about eight million Australian dollars a day in
Speaker 2: the hotel accommodation for these people, and clearly that can't
Speaker 2: go on now. The government has in the past couple
Speaker 2: of hours announced plans to stop hotel accommodation for these
Speaker 2: asylum seekers by twenty twenty nine, so they're giving themselves
Speaker 2: a four year window to get this under control. I mean,
Speaker 2: it is one really serious issue here that riles people up.
Speaker 2: A lot of taxpayers cash people feel is being wasted.
Speaker 2: And the footage I've seen today on all the news
Speaker 2: channels French police on the beaches, these dinghies being pushed
Speaker 2: out the sea, people clambering on board and no cops
Speaker 2: intervening whatsoever. So the French are quite clear, you know,
Speaker 2: it seems to be from the top down in France.
Speaker 2: Let them off. We don't want them here, and if
Speaker 2: they're happy to sail across to England. It's the English problem.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of England, what's going with the England footage team?
Speaker 2: OLSN so a bad night last night really so it
Speaker 2: finished obviously seeing the great news Australia qualified automatically, no
Speaker 2: more playoffs or any of that stress to go through.
Speaker 2: England played a friendly last night at Wembley and honestly
Speaker 2: the players looked like they were on the beach already,
Speaker 2: or certainly they wanted to be. England won Senegal three,
Speaker 2: England's first ever defeat to an African nation ever in history,
Speaker 2: only a friendly, but they've had a really bad week.
Speaker 2: They went to Andorra last weekend to play a World
Speaker 2: Cup qualifier, and Dora if you can't find it on
Speaker 2: the map, there's a very good reason. It's basically a
Speaker 2: ski resort wedged in between France and Spain. How they
Speaker 2: can field eleven international soccer players is beyond my comprehension.
Speaker 2: And England only beat Andorra one nil and then go
Speaker 2: well last night and lose three to one to Senegal.
Speaker 2: So the newspapers have turned on the team. The back
Speaker 2: pages are all turning on the German manager of England
Speaker 2: now Thomas Tukel and we are twelve months out from
Speaker 2: a soccer World Cup and England look in complete disarray.
Speaker 2: The only thing I would say, Tony in their favor.
Speaker 2: It's been a hell of a long season and these
Speaker 2: players are pushed from pillar to poll on club matches,
Speaker 2: Premier League, Champions League, Oh England need you internationals, friendlies
Speaker 2: and clearly a lot of the wives and family are
Speaker 2: in the background saying can we not just go to
Speaker 2: Spain and have a holiday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Holiday holiday, Mike, lovely to talk to you and
Speaker 1: do it again next week. Thank you into Brady bringing
Speaker 1: us up today.