Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, California dream. And when we think California, we
Speaker 1: only think of one person. That's Rod Smith, our US correspondent,
Speaker 1: get A Rod.
Speaker 2: Get A Simon. Looks like you're on deck this morning.
Speaker 1: I am. Yes, Tony's just a little off color. Partner's been.
Speaker 1: It was a little crooking earlier in the week, and
Speaker 1: it's it seems that Tony's caught it. So he's taking
Speaker 1: a couple of days off.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, like if he takes say, three more days,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll be happy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll happily take the money anytime exactly. How's things
Speaker 1: going in California.
Speaker 2: How's the weather that I was going to say, Hey,
Speaker 2: it's a little overcast today, currently eighteen going for twelve
Speaker 2: of twenty two. Look, I'm sure it will progress pretty soon.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about till the warmer days. Because last weekend
Speaker 2: it was the unofficial start of summer here in California
Speaker 2: and the United States.
Speaker 1: And yeah, eighteen start of summer. That's not bad. That's well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not there to compare a year
Speaker 1: on year, but eighteen degrees not a bad start for
Speaker 1: the start of summer.
Speaker 2: I think now that's on the coast. Now if you
Speaker 2: go inland, the temperature goes up another ten to fifteen degrees.
Speaker 1: Oh does it really?
Speaker 2: Very quickly? So you kind of go, hey, it's good
Speaker 2: to be on the coast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, craky all right. Now, so a weather aside,
Speaker 1: what's happening in California, well around the US at this time?
Speaker 2: Well, gen Z is now they're signing up for adult
Speaker 2: one oh one classes their Simon. Now, gen Z is
Speaker 2: con code TikTok in their sleep, but can't really cook
Speaker 2: rice without looking at a YouTube tutorial. And gen Z
Speaker 2: is they're flocking to this Adulting one oh one. It's
Speaker 2: a crash course of doing things, and they're desperate to
Speaker 2: learn what previous generations called common sense. How do you
Speaker 2: find that? Well, they're trying to, but look, how to
Speaker 2: do laundry, budgeting for rents, or navigating a grocery store
Speaker 2: without Google finding out what our turn up is? Now?
Speaker 2: Adulting one oh one covers everything from healthy relationships to
Speaker 2: how not to set your kitchen on fire. And look, Simon,
Speaker 2: I was going to say, do you remember when we
Speaker 2: used to do home economics in high school?
Speaker 1: I was thinking exactly that. Hello, to missus Tyrrell if
Speaker 1: she's listening my home economics teacher from school.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. We used to cook things. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we had all these stoves in the classroom and you
Speaker 2: had to cook stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember it well. I was never good at it,
Speaker 1: but I remember it well.
Speaker 2: And some kids used to catch things on fire.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, go to lift a saucepan off. You were
Speaker 1: just boiling some water on the stove and it was
Speaker 1: a gas stove, and you go to lift the saucepan
Speaker 1: off with a tea towel so you don't burn yourself,
Speaker 1: but you set fire to the tea towel. I think
Speaker 1: most students did that at some point.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a learning curve, wasn't it, Simon. Yah,
Speaker 2: you only do it on gens is. They're looking to
Speaker 2: find those crucial life lessons now. I hope at all
Speaker 2: one oh one helps them.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I'm surprised that they don't do more
Speaker 1: of that at school. Yeah, Mike, two of my kids
Speaker 1: are driving the other to a learning Not one of
Speaker 1: them knows how to change a tire. I had to
Speaker 1: come and change a tire for my daughter the other
Speaker 1: day when she got a nail in it, and because
Speaker 1: I've said to it, do you know where the jack is?
Speaker 1: And she said, what's a jack? So these sorts of
Speaker 1: things I think could be useful to be taught in school.
Speaker 2: What are they going to do ring up RACV or
Speaker 2: NRMA all the other road organizations.
Speaker 1: Well, what they generally do is ring their parents and
Speaker 1: say what do I do now? So yeah, but I
Speaker 1: just you know, so much of school is you know,
Speaker 1: it's your maths, your chemistry, your sciences, your economics, legal studies,
Speaker 1: all of those things that you do at school. They're
Speaker 1: all based around what career you might want to take.
Speaker 1: And if you don't do well in all of those subjects,
Speaker 1: school can be a hard thing for some people. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a great student. I just wasn't very good at
Speaker 1: those sorts of things. But if they were teaching us
Speaker 1: practical things that we're going to use in life as well,
Speaker 1: like how to change a car tire, how to cook
Speaker 1: a tuna casserole, you know, how to how to put
Speaker 1: on a wash, and whether you use fabric softener with
Speaker 1: this thing or that thing. There are things that you
Speaker 1: could learn at school, and at least you would not
Speaker 1: feel that school was a waste of time, which which
Speaker 1: for me, I think it largely.
Speaker 2: Was look, everyday things, they just need to learn them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're just common sense.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely yeah, Yeah, Well good on them for sighting
Speaker 1: up for those classes. I think it's wonderful. What else
Speaker 1: you got for us?
Speaker 2: Now, Look, when you go to swim, you know your
Speaker 2: brain is going to thank you there, simon, because swimming
Speaker 2: isn't just for fun. Neuroscience shows it provides a unique
Speaker 2: brain benefit from just you know, kind of getting rid
Speaker 2: of stress to improving your memory. Look, last weekend, like
Speaker 2: I said, it was the unofficial start to summer here
Speaker 2: in the US, and water based activities are really a
Speaker 2: great way to relax and stay cool. Exercise is good
Speaker 2: for the brain, as we well know, and psychologists and
Speaker 2: neuroscientists have covered of a variety of benefits that swimming
Speaker 2: seats to pride because look, it reduces stress, makes your
Speaker 2: brain work better, lowers blood pressure, and recent experiments showed
Speaker 2: that just two minutes as this, not even in the water, simon,
Speaker 2: just having a look at some lovely scenery, say waves,
Speaker 2: you know, crashing on the beach, or just looking at
Speaker 2: a beautiful lake, It is a great exercise for the mind,
Speaker 2: to for your blood pressure and heart rate. It can
Speaker 2: have that calming effect which is really good. Now, look overall,
Speaker 2: swimming is a great exercise and it makes us happier.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure, Simon, you know after work you'll be
Speaker 2: a lot happier when you go to swim in your
Speaker 2: infinity pool and look out to Port Philip Bay from
Speaker 2: your penthouse.
Speaker 1: Yes, a Carca de Owens, Yes, it's it's It's what
Speaker 1: I look forward to at the end of a long
Speaker 1: hard shift after my massuse gives me a rubdown as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now in seriousness, though, Rod, I've got a I've got
Speaker 1: a friend who's taken up windsurfing as a hobby and
Speaker 1: and in freezing temperatures she'll go out and windsurf and
Speaker 1: I look at her and go you are insane. You
Speaker 1: can be sitting in front of a telly keeping warm
Speaker 1: and yet you're plunging yourself into the ocean trying to
Speaker 1: cling onto a board and a sail. But she really
Speaker 1: gets something out of it, And I think that's exactly
Speaker 1: what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's working for her, i'm sure it's going
Speaker 2: to work for other people.
Speaker 1: To Yep, no good, good advice makes me want to
Speaker 1: join a gym Monday. Now you've got news on only fans.
Speaker 2: Look, a young woman called Marie Tamara earns millions each
Speaker 2: year for her six foot three inch stature. Now look
Speaker 2: she really she's got to just look after her legs.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: They're a great asset and she makes five thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a month their assignment. Yeah, she will do whatever it takes. Well,
Speaker 2: not five thousand dollars a month. Should I say she
Speaker 2: spends five thousand dollars a month because she'll do whatever
Speaker 2: it takes to maintain her money making long legs. Like
Speaker 2: I said, she gets millions each year. I don't know
Speaker 2: as she does that. In the five thousand dollars, it
Speaker 2: includes massages, leg facials. What's a leg facial? But that
Speaker 2: must be keeping the legs nice and smooth to eliminate imperfections,
Speaker 2: and so she cannot afford to get a bruise, and
Speaker 2: any imperfection could ruin a photo shoot. But apart from
Speaker 2: her doing that, you know you've got to look at
Speaker 2: other models there simon leg models like she is, ones
Speaker 2: that will get paid a mediocre price of sixty five
Speaker 2: thousand a year. Have at catwalk models five hundred to
Speaker 2: two and a half thousand dollars a show, and then
Speaker 2: you had the supermodels. They can command high fees of
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars a show. But have you ever thought
Speaker 2: of being a hand model? Well, rates for being a
Speaker 2: hand model there, Simon, go from one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: an hour to four thousand dollars a shoot. So if
Speaker 2: you're thinking about what else can I do in life? Well,
Speaker 2: have there being a hand model. If you've got good
Speaker 2: looking hands, sign up.
Speaker 1: Well, if ever varicus vains come into fashion, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe there's my chance.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sure you don't, Simon.
Speaker 1: I know I'm fit and healthy and trim, taught and terrific.
Speaker 1: But that reminds me of Catherine back or Back who
Speaker 1: was Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazard. I remember
Speaker 1: reading once that during the filming of The Dukes of Hazard,
Speaker 1: her legs were ensured for a million dollars. I don't
Speaker 1: know whether that was fake news at the time, but
Speaker 1: I just remember that being a story.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that was on the money there, Simon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rod, we've got a squeeze in a break here
Speaker 1: where time's really getting away from us. Back with more
Speaker 1: of Rod after this. It's always a pleasure when I
Speaker 1: fill in for Tony to chat to Rod Smith in
Speaker 1: the US. And Rod, you've got a great story here
Speaker 1: about an anti aging cocktail.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, we always look for that fountain of youth,
Speaker 2: don't we there to give Simon? But look, ciders have
Speaker 2: tested an eighty aging drug cocktail in mice and found
Speaker 2: it extends the animal's life span by around thirty percent. Now,
Speaker 2: the mice stayed healthier for longer, with less chronic inflammation
Speaker 2: and delayed cancer onset. Now the two drugs are rapper
Speaker 2: micin and train metanib now both used to treat different
Speaker 2: kinds of cancer. And these two drugs that scientists were
Speaker 2: researching could help people to stay healthy and disease free
Speaker 2: for longer late in life. But both drugs are already
Speaker 2: approved for use here in the US and also Europe,
Speaker 2: so further studies are continuing their Simon's not bad to
Speaker 2: find out about that, because an extra thirty percent goes
Speaker 2: a good long way, don't it.
Speaker 1: What it does? If the average person's living to eighty
Speaker 1: or so, you know, an extra thirty percent gives you
Speaker 1: another twenty odd years there. That's that's quite remarkable. And
Speaker 1: if they're already available, I imagine it's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those things like o Zimpic where people just
Speaker 1: rush out and buy it without even reading the small print.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and find out what the after effects are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, yes, yeah, you grow a second, but then
Speaker 1: at least you've got company while you age.
Speaker 2: It's okay, exactly what have you got for us to
Speaker 2: leave us with? On this Day in Music, On This
Speaker 2: Day in Music, nineteen sixty nine, Crosby, Steels and Nash
Speaker 2: released their self titled album, spawning two top forty hits,
Speaker 2: Marracush Express and Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. Nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 2: The Beach Boys started a two week run at number
Speaker 2: one in the US with helped Me Ronda. Twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson's never Land Rents went up for sale for
Speaker 2: one hundred million. In nineteen seventy five, Sydney band Hush
Speaker 2: went and had a number one hit in Canada with
Speaker 2: Bernie Maroney. It was only a number nine hit in
Speaker 2: Australia and went to number two in the US, and
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, Natalie and Brulia Ossie, actress and singer.
Speaker 2: She was the new face of Laurel, signing up a
Speaker 2: deal worth one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. And here's
Speaker 2: his song that went to number one in the US
Speaker 2: and also Australia Torn.
Speaker 1: What a great song it is. Rod, It's always a
Speaker 1: pleasure to chat to you, Rod Smith with the US
Speaker 1: Report at this time each and every week.
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