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Speaker 2: This is Neil Mitchell and this is my weekly view
Speaker 2: of the world today. Do you use food delivery? Do
Speaker 2: you use uber eats that sort of thing? If you do,
Speaker 2: why cost a fortune? Also a boomer stereotype destroyed. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about ghosts and collect your ghost stories.
Speaker 2: And I think it might be time for Australia to
Speaker 2: join the campaign against Iran, not with guns and bombs
Speaker 2: or solders in other ways. And remember Neil dot Mitchell
Speaker 2: at nine dot com dot AU. One letter writer this
Speaker 2: week accuses me of hypocrisy. Heaven forbid. Actually they might
Speaker 2: be right. They got a point that's ahead, and the
Speaker 2: more earnest stuff as well. But we wake up to
Speaker 2: the end of the world every day, so let's give
Speaker 2: that a rest for a while. Let's talk about money
Speaker 2: and what makes you feel good. Nobody except dear Gina Reinhardt,
Speaker 2: perhaps has enough money. But how we spend it is interesting.
Speaker 2: Air course bills, medical bills, mortgages, rent taxes, the school
Speaker 2: bills plus treats. A bunch of boffins had a close
Speaker 2: look at how Australians spend their discretionary money, not that
Speaker 2: there's much of it. They found that two thirds of
Speaker 2: us treat ourselves at least once a week with a
Speaker 2: treat of some sort. The average Australian spends two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty one dollars a week. That's thirteen and a
Speaker 2: half grand a Year's a lot of money. Two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty one dollars a week on treats. And by
Speaker 2: treats they mean non essentials, little luxuries like alcohol or
Speaker 2: vapes or tobacco, or fast food or food delivery or restaurants.
Speaker 2: They see it as a short term dopamine hit and
Speaker 2: we like one of those. Apparently, each week at least
Speaker 2: once a week fast food was out in front and
Speaker 2: this indulgence followed by alcohol of course. And what intrigues
Speaker 2: me is this, despite as surely of money, twenty one
Speaker 2: percent don't bother to go and pick up food. They
Speaker 2: use the delivery service like Uber eats in tough times.
Speaker 2: In fact, the average spend on this home delivery stuff
Speaker 2: was seventy four dollars a week. Now the boffins are surprised.
Speaker 2: They surveyed over a thousand Australians, so it's not definitive,
Speaker 2: but it is an indication. But we shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 2: The world is a mess. International tensions have erupted. We've
Speaker 2: got war in several places, tensions of building in our
Speaker 2: region alone. Climate change is threatening money short the economy
Speaker 2: is struggling. Every time you put your head up for air,
Speaker 2: some government taxes you for the oxygen. It's a pretty
Speaker 2: heavy old burden in the heavy old world. So who
Speaker 2: can blame people for looking for a bit of a
Speaker 2: sugar hit, for looking for a chance to treat themselves.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, although I'll be regionably sure. Big ticket
Speaker 2: items like holidays are down. So if you can't afford
Speaker 2: a holiday or a few nights in town on a staycation,
Speaker 2: of course you look for a little indulged in it,
Speaker 2: like takeaway food. There's no surprise, and before long businesses
Speaker 2: will twig and they'll start advertising to exactly this motivation
Speaker 2: for spending the sugar hit. Speaking of spending and surveys,
Speaker 2: this one is unrelated but also indicative. It comes from
Speaker 2: an advertising firm WPP, along with figures from the Bureau
Speaker 2: of Statistics and the Commonwealth Bank, so it's quite detailed
Speaker 2: analysis and it destroys. It destroys a stereotype, It shows
Speaker 2: it shows the big spenders in the community are baby
Speaker 2: boomers over fifties spend sixty four percent of the money
Speaker 2: spend on new cars, fifty five percent of money spent
Speaker 2: on travel. Over fifties, they outspend the millennials in all areas,
Speaker 2: perhaps except smashed avocado breakfast. In fact, boomers spend forty
Speaker 2: billion dollars a year more than millennials and Gen x's
Speaker 2: the age group sixty five to sixty nine of the
Speaker 2: big spenders, seventy to seventy four year olds are up there.
Speaker 2: This really says two things. The advertising industry has been
Speaker 2: on the wrong tram. Many of those controlling advertising dollars
Speaker 2: are very young, and they're plugged into young buyers. They
Speaker 2: target young buyers, and they ignore or downplay the older buyer.
Speaker 2: They reckon they're only good for incontinence pads and funeral homes.
Speaker 2: This is proof they're wrong. I've thought for a long
Speaker 2: time they are. It's proof that the oldies have got money.
Speaker 2: They're keen, they're mobile, they'll spend it. They're not going
Speaker 2: to leave it for the kids. The second point is
Speaker 2: never never trust a stereotype. Boomers have money, they can
Speaker 2: spend it, and will, and as has been seen in
Speaker 2: so many areas, boomers have created a whole new attitude
Speaker 2: in life. Now they might be seventy, but the party
Speaker 2: goes on. And if you're over fifty, drop me a line.
Speaker 2: Neil Mitchell at nine dot com dot are you even
Speaker 2: in tough times? Where do you spend your money? What
Speaker 2: are the treats? What are the luxury buyers? Are you
Speaker 2: spending more as you get old? Or where does it
Speaker 2: all go once the kids leave home? Once the kids
Speaker 2: go out and start grizzling about how boomers have ruined
Speaker 2: the world. Once they leave home, you've got more disposable income,
Speaker 2: So how do you dispose of it? Neil dot Mitchell
Speaker 2: at nine dot com dot AU. Where does the money go? Now?
Speaker 2: The world has probably changed in the short time it
Speaker 2: took me to record and post this, so I won't
Speaker 2: go into the detail more broadbrush stuff. Starting point, it
Speaker 2: is difficult to wake up in the morning the way
Speaker 2: the world is unfolding. For decades, my habit has been
Speaker 2: to wake up and check the news feeds. Now, in
Speaker 2: the old days it was straight to radio and TV.
Speaker 2: Now that's straight to my iPhone. But with the mood
Speaker 2: of the world so ugly, I almost do it reluctantly now,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine a majority of people outside my industry
Speaker 2: of journalism are trying to disengage from news, but we can't.
Speaker 2: Russia continues its war against a legitimate government in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: China continues to eye Taiwan like some giant lustful panda. Way,
Speaker 2: did you know They've increased their military by forty four
Speaker 2: percent in the past few decades. They've increased their nuclear
Speaker 2: spending in China spending on nuclear capability four hundred percent.
Speaker 2: That doesn't ring alarm bell. Nothing does. Also, of course,
Speaker 2: we've got Iran and Israel bombing the life out of
Speaker 2: each other, and the signs are the United States will
Speaker 2: be involved very very soon. God only knows what that mates.
Speaker 2: Does that mean direct reaction from Russia, Well, they're already
Speaker 2: bit stretched. China is looking for a fight now. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's difficult to know what the US will do because
Speaker 2: Donald Trump runs his foreign policy like a Punch and
Speaker 2: Judy show. It may be sophisticated behind the scenes, but
Speaker 2: his tweets are bizarre, and that's the public face of
Speaker 2: their policy. He has told the people of Tehran evacuate
Speaker 2: get out as ten minion people. He threatens devastation the
Speaker 2: like of which has never been seen, which makes everybody
Speaker 2: worry about nuclear reaction. And maybe that's his aim. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's it's deliberate bluster rather than reality. Let's hope so,
Speaker 2: but it seems inevitable the United States will be further involved,
Speaker 2: which risks escalation. But then what is the option really
Speaker 2: with this country around what does Australia do too? Iranians
Speaker 2: are good people. The Iranian regime is a bad regime.
Speaker 2: It tramples human rights, it bashes, bullies, even kills its population.
Speaker 2: It develops nuclear weapon and lies about it. It funds
Speaker 2: terrorist organizations like Hamas and his Bollah to the tune
Speaker 2: of hundreds of minions of dollars a year, so it
Speaker 2: finances obscene actions like the raid on October seven on
Speaker 2: Israel by har Maas, and it supports the philosophy that
Speaker 2: says Jews must be wiped off the face of the planet.
Speaker 2: The Uranian ambassador to Australia last August, in a tweet,
Speaker 2: advocated the violent removal of Israelas from what he called
Speaker 2: the Holy Lands of Palestine. Her Maas says openly called
Speaker 2: for the death of every Jew on the planet. These
Speaker 2: are bad. It's an evil and dangerous regime. Israel's arguably
Speaker 2: doing the world of favor if it can destroy Iran's
Speaker 2: nuclear capability without provoking something horrible, It's already paying the
Speaker 2: price with death of its own civilians. Now, be realistic.
Speaker 2: Australia means very little of the Middle East, but we
Speaker 2: clearly must stand for decency, and that means we must
Speaker 2: stand against Iran. There are those in this country, and
Speaker 2: we've seen them over recent months, who believe Israel is
Speaker 2: the devil, but even they've been quiet so far. It's
Speaker 2: a challenge for the left. Iran tramples the sorts of
Speaker 2: rights that they usually live by, so it's difficult to
Speaker 2: stand with them against Israel, even though they hate Israel,
Speaker 2: and the left with an anti Semitic passion that defies logic.
Speaker 2: That brings me back to Australia. At the moment, we
Speaker 2: continue diplomatic relations with Iran. The US and Canada do not,
Speaker 2: Bahrain and Saudi Arabia do not. The question is whether
Speaker 2: it is now time for us to end that recognition.
Speaker 2: Should we continue diplomatic ties with a state that is
Speaker 2: at war with some of our strongest allies. Now it
Speaker 2: would be a gesture if we ended relationships to be
Speaker 2: a pretty powerful one. Is there any real benefit, We've
Speaker 2: got to ask, is any real benefit to keeping those
Speaker 2: relations open? Does anybody actually trust what is said by Iran?
Speaker 2: Is there any chance they will listen to Penny Wan
Speaker 2: when she tells them to behave themselves? Of course, so ah, yes,
Speaker 2: Penny will do what you say. I think the most
Speaker 2: compelling reason to cut ties with Iran is the message
Speaker 2: it sends here in Australia. Jewish people are hurting. They're disenfranchised,
Speaker 2: they feel under threat, in danger in their own country.
Speaker 2: They feel abandoned by a country that has sat on
Speaker 2: the fence over the war in Gaza and the people
Speaker 2: who've taken to the streets calling them murderers. If Australia
Speaker 2: did end diplomatic ties with Iran, it would send a
Speaker 2: powerful message of reassurance to every Jewish person in Australia.
Speaker 2: It will be saying we are with you. Look, there
Speaker 2: are questions about the way the war in Gaza has
Speaker 2: been managed, the strategy of the Israeli government, no argument
Speaker 2: this is different. This regime is a threat to the
Speaker 2: world so will it happen. Will we break tires? Probably not,
Speaker 2: But I'm a bit surprised it's not being publicly discussed
Speaker 2: or canvassed or argued. Yes, it is symbolic, of course,
Speaker 2: It's just symbolism. But at a time like this, symbolism
Speaker 2: is crucial. Now I have a letter here, I want
Speaker 2: to go too. It's about government in action. It was
Speaker 2: reported in Melbourne a few days ago an elderly man
Speaker 2: had died bled to death after calling for an ambulance
Speaker 2: twice and nobody turned up to help for five hours.
Speaker 2: He died. That's despite the fact there were five ambulances
Speaker 2: waiting at a hospital a matter of kilometers away, but
Speaker 2: the hospital was jammed and they couldn't leave. This sixty
Speaker 2: nine year old man probably could have lived. He fell
Speaker 2: and cut his head, but he didn't. He's not the first.
Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty one, a woman young woman with
Speaker 2: a katheine overdase overdose waited seven hours died. September last year,
Speaker 2: man waited four hours for an ambulance died. It still
Speaker 2: happens now. The letter I got came from man called
Speaker 2: David Edwards. His father died in January twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: He collapsed on the front lawn and despite many attempts
Speaker 2: to get the ambulance, it didn't turn up until he
Speaker 2: was dead. Now, I talked to David at the time
Speaker 2: on radio, who was destrawed. Of course, he was angry.
Speaker 2: He was promised government action. They promised they'd fix it,
Speaker 2: and this latest death a few days ago prompted this
Speaker 2: from him. It's been one two hundred and sixty days
Speaker 2: since my dad died because there was no ambulance, and
Speaker 2: it is still happening. Another elderly man has died waiting
Speaker 2: for help and for me and my family. Still no
Speaker 2: contact from the government. Still nobody says sorry. Still no explanation,
Speaker 2: Still no care, no responsibility. What has changed, nothing, just words.
Speaker 2: I'm more angry today. The poor man died on the floor,
Speaker 2: scared and helpless, and he goes on. I says to
Speaker 2: the roy if I usually let it, yes, go for
Speaker 2: he says, the government needs to own up. I want
Speaker 2: three things one and this is after what he say
Speaker 2: twelve hundred days. I want three things One why were
Speaker 2: our calls not answered? Two? Who was responsible of cause
Speaker 2: not being answered? And three personal apologies verbal and written
Speaker 2: from the relevant Premier and ministers involved. I will never
Speaker 2: give up or stop criticism until I'm sure the government
Speaker 2: has fixed the problems. I'm not holding my breast. Thanks again,
Speaker 2: And that's that's from David Edwards. You can hear the
Speaker 2: passion there. David doesn't forgive. The government promised to talk
Speaker 2: to him and explained it all apolo as they didn't look.
Speaker 2: Errors happen, people die, But there have been too many
Speaker 2: avoidable deaths in Victoria, and too many promises not fulfilled,
Speaker 2: and it just goes on and on and on. Now,
Speaker 2: when it happens, when you get people like David's dad
Speaker 2: who die in these circumstances, the old man the other day,
Speaker 2: the politicians get all sorry and serious about it. No,
Speaker 2: we're going to investigate. Oh, this is unacceptable. Then they
Speaker 2: move on. I hope everybody forgets David hasn't even had
Speaker 2: a telephone call from these people, the people who run
Speaker 2: the system, the government that runs the system that failed
Speaker 2: his father. That's quite outrageous. The system fail his father,
Speaker 2: Diet The government is responsible for that system. David Edwoods
Speaker 2: deserves decency, He deserves an apology from government. He deserves
Speaker 2: answers more than three years he's been waiting, no sign
Speaker 2: of any of that. It is disgusting. Okay, some letters
Speaker 2: for the podcast specific I remember Neil dot Mitchell at
Speaker 2: nine dot com dot you and I'd love your thoughts
Speaker 2: on ghosts. Ever seen one believe in them? Drop me
Speaker 2: an email whether you believe in them or not. Skeptics
Speaker 2: want of you from skeptics too. Neil Mitchell at nine
Speaker 2: dot com dot Au. My podcast this week. Neil Mitchell
Speaker 2: asks why it's available now. It's about chasing ghosts. I
Speaker 2: talk to a man who was arguably Australia's leading ghost chaser.
Speaker 2: And he's not a nutter. He's a very well qualified
Speaker 2: academic doctor. Vladimir Dubai is a neuroscientist. He's a parapsychologist.
Speaker 2: He's been ghost hunting for years. He started off skeptical.
Speaker 2: He's changed. This is what he told me. You've said
Speaker 2: several times, there a lot of reports about this. Are
Speaker 2: there enough reports for you to feel convinced there's something
Speaker 2: going on we don't understand.
Speaker 1: For me, yes, But for me it's evidence that I've
Speaker 1: gathered over my own investigations. So I've done a lot
Speaker 1: of site investigations where I went into the field also anecdotes.
Speaker 1: For example, when I created my group, I went into
Speaker 1: the bank to create an account for the organization once
Speaker 1: the bank manager, which you.
Speaker 2: Must spend a long time ago, you had a bank manager.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he actually told the talo when he comes in,
Speaker 1: please get him to come and talk to me. So
Speaker 1: I thought something something's going on. I went in there
Speaker 1: and he told me his story about his recurring ghosts.
Speaker 1: That he had a lady ghost with him for the
Speaker 1: last twenty thirty years, ever since he was a child.
Speaker 1: So he told me about this.
Speaker 2: She visited him regularly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just he said. She always wear a I think
Speaker 1: it was a green dress, and she would just appear
Speaker 1: during the night in his bedroom. And it wasn't it
Speaker 1: was kind of a reassuring kind of apparition.
Speaker 2: You believed it. He believed it.
Speaker 1: He believed it. And again when I first started investigating,
Speaker 1: I was hardline. Sorry not I wouldn't say skeptic, but
Speaker 1: I was critical in terms of accepting evidence. And as
Speaker 1: I said, if one individual would have this experience, I
Speaker 1: probably would discount it, saying there's too many psychological processes
Speaker 1: going on. But the more I look into it, the
Speaker 1: more I'm starting to accept that, Yeah, perhaps they did
Speaker 1: see these things. Would be great to also get other corroborating.
Speaker 2: Kind of evidence as well, so you no longer have
Speaker 2: skept it.
Speaker 1: No, I've experienced a few things myself, and i'd liked
Speaker 1: I lost to.
Speaker 2: Get to that. Doctor Dubai gives examples of unexplained reports
Speaker 2: of things he has seen, of likely explanations and those
Speaker 2: that defy logic. It's not scary or spooky, it is
Speaker 2: intriguing and he's seen some weird things himself. Neil Mitchell asks,
Speaker 2: wire is available in the usual places now and let
Speaker 2: me know what you think. Neil dot Mitchell at nine
Speaker 2: dot com dot au. And one of the ghosts came
Speaker 2: from a man I know, Luca Ganano, who's head of
Speaker 2: football at three AW in Melbourne. He was working in
Speaker 2: the media at the time. Carlton Footy Club about nine
Speaker 2: years ago. He walked into the club gym at night.
Speaker 2: The lights were off and a censor turned them on
Speaker 2: so as he came in, so assume nobody in the rooms,
Speaker 2: he says. Quote as I walked in, I saw a
Speaker 2: figure in the room. He was wearing a trench coat
Speaker 2: and a hat. He just suddenly disappeared into a wall,
Speaker 2: walked through it. Always thought i'd be frightened if I
Speaker 2: ever saw anything like that, but I do remember I
Speaker 2: was calm. That's what Lucas said, and we analyze that
Speaker 2: with doctor Dubai. Your stories pleased. It's estimated twenty percent
Speaker 2: of people think they've seen a ghost, fifty percent believe
Speaker 2: in them. Also, Neil dot Mitchell at nine dot com
Speaker 2: dot are you critical? Email from Michael, I think it's critical.
Speaker 2: Last week I was talking about the football shop Jock
Speaker 2: Cane Corns great football and I've quite liked his commentary,
Speaker 2: but he's pushed it a bit too hard. He's looking
Speaker 2: for outrage that doesn't exist. And this is from Michael.
Speaker 2: I'd like to understand your message about Canecorns. You label
Speaker 2: him a shock jock. You imply he does it for ratings.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your commentary and acknowledge. I don't necessarily agree. However,
Speaker 2: the title of your podcast is why Canecorns is trying
Speaker 2: to You spoke about Caine for about a minute at best.
Speaker 2: I think you may be trying to get in the
Speaker 2: Corn's slip stream. Come on, kneel and it's headed hypocrisy.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's right. That's it. Read my podcast. Neil Mitchell
Speaker 2: asks why and if you don't believe in ghosts, you
Speaker 2: need to hear why you should. If you do believe
Speaker 2: in ghosts, would be intrigued. Coming up on, Neil Mitchell
Speaker 2: asks why in the weeks ahead the housing market is
Speaker 2: there really any hope left for the average Australian, the
Speaker 2: up and coming generation to ever buy a house. We'll
Speaker 2: have a look at that and what you can do
Speaker 2: to get there. And the retail industry is struggling. Big
Speaker 2: names are going under, local shops are going under. Retail
Speaker 2: is on the verge of massive change and it will
Speaker 2: touch everybody whoever shops for anything. And that is all
Speaker 2: of us took to you next week