WEBVTT - Travel with Steve Collins - Fri 20 Jun, 2025 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.680 On the road again. Just can't wait to get on 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:05.600 the road again. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:14.240 He's mean, he's nasty, he's grumpy. He is Steve grumpy Collins. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:23.439 Grubby, you're too well tony. Yes, very very mean, very glumpy. Yes, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.280 never never laughed at anybody in my life. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:34.200 No, that's not in your spirit at all. Yes, yeah, good, yeah, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.040 good as golder grums. So, because we've been asking the 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.600 question about people that you may have admired over the years, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:46.239 who's someone that you really admire or admired and for 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.880 what reason? Now, clearly I'm going to be at the 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.920 top of your list. You want me to do, you 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.160 want the second choice, your statue, give me the give 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:56.560 me your second person. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.360 What a person that basically no one has ever heard of. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.319 He's a guy called Ben Carlin, and he had an 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.560 aquatic jeep called half Safe, which he saw when he 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.800 was in World War Two, when it was an American one. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.000 It was a Ford aquatic jeep, and he said, you 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.639 could drive one of those around the world. So after 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:26.040 the war he moved to New York. He bought two 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.800 of them, one aparts, and he built this car which 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.120 he called the Half Safe. But bear in mind that 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.520 you could drive it across water and that, and he 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.440 literally drove it around the world. Now, the first attempt 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.920 from New York, he was unsuccessful. Gives us out in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.560 the Atlantic Ocean and he was almost surrounding, so a 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.400 tanker pulled him up and took him to Montreal. Was going, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.840 so he stayed there, he did some adjustments to the car, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.120 and then he drove it across the Atlantic Ocean to 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.960 the Canary and from there he drove it across to Africa, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:10.320 and then up through Africa and across the Mediterranean to Gibroad, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.800 and then up through Europe and then across the English 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.960 Channel to Great Britain. Stayed there for a while. Then 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:22.079 he drove it back right across Asia to the Bay 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.720 of Bengal and across across the water there, then up 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.480 through Asia, across the water to Japan, through Japan, and 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.640 then across the North Pacific where there's ice to Alaska, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.679 and then from Alaska he drove over land to Montreal. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:44.040 The most incredible card journey in the world. Really, anyone 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.040 knows about it. And you can see half safe if 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.639 you visit Guilford Grammar, because he was a Guildford Grammar 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.080 and he left it to them at his will. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.000 Is of that a fantastic ship. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.280 There's a there's a book called The Other Half of 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.720 Half Safe, which I read many many years ago, and 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.480 I think you might be able to get it from 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.520 Guilford Grammar. But you look at this thing and it 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:14.480 is basically the size of a normal sedan car. And 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.640 it was amazing because he had to carry his own fuel, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.560 so we invented these great, big sort of leather balloons 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.040 basically that he towed behind him so that he could refill. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.679 And he took his wife with him. His wife got 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.639 seasick and they went through They went through a typhoon 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.200 and a tornado out in the Atlantic Ocean, and I 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.160 bopped on the on the surface of water like a cork. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.480 I didn't think. And it was just an amazing adventure. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.440 What a wonderful, wonderful story. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.040 What was his name again, Grumpy Ben Carl and C 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:53.920 A R. L. I N. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.840 Ben Callen. I'll do some researchency if we can. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.920 Find you love your cars you would be amazed at 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.960 this story. But he does. He had a great things 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.560 of humor as well, And so when you read the book, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.040 it's not it's fantastic, but it's also quite funny his 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.360 observations of people and stuff like that. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.040 In what decade was he doing this. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.120 He started in the nineteen fifties and the journey took 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.120 him a bit over ten years. He didn't do it 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.039 in one go because he used to fund it. He 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.920 would sort of go to Europe and then he put 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.880 it on display in Paris and places like that, and 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.640 he went to London. He was in quite in London 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.720 for about three years. He traveled all over the UK 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.360 just people would pay to look at it and sit 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.760 in it, and that was how That's how he financed everything. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.440 And he had the King of Belgium was sitting in 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:56.039 at once and he was sitting in the passenger seat. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.279 What the King of Belgium didn't know was if you 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:04.200 lifted that. That was the onboard talk as well. So 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.360 he said, I had the King of Belgium sitting on. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:13.599 Microone as one does. Just before he came on, we 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.480 had a regular contributed Julie, and Julian's a great bloke. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.599 He story into some degree and loves bits and pieces 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.320 about things that happened all around Australia. He asked me 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.680 to ask you the question about Heard Island. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.479 It's called Herd Island and the McDonald Islands. It's a 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.880 group of islands, and it's about four thousand, just over 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.760 four thousand kilometers south west of Perth. It's right down there, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.960 it's right, it's in the it's in the Southern Ocean, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.000 not all that's far from Antarctica, and it's run by 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.839 the Antarctic Division. And so yes, you do have to 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:57.520 have special permission to go there because why because it's 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.760 protected alier. Okay, it's a it's a World Heritage site. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.720 And he's right that there are only seals and penguins 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.520 that lived there. And by the way, when Donald Trump 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.919 introduced his tariffs, he was charging those seals and Big 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.839 wasn't heard on anything. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.799 That's funny. That is just so funny. He was charging 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.159 them fifty percent and they do nothing. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.320 There were nothing. You could have had some big iguado. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.120 I guess that would have been. I don't I mun 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.320 sell that foot, to be honest. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:39.800 But no. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.600 But it's got two of it's not the only two 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.599 active volcanoes in Australian territory. And one of them is 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:56.440 called Big Ben and that's the highest mountain in Australian Territory. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.599 It's it's over nine thousand feet bearing him, but Mount 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.520 Kosiosco is about seven thousand something and so Big Ben 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:13.640 Towers over that. And there's another one called Mawson Peak 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.920 or Morson Peak is part of because Mawson would have 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.280 been there of course. So yeah, but they send scientists 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:26.120 there to study it. But yeah, they're protected areas. That's 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.400 why you can't go there. You've got our permission to 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:28.960 go there. 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.760 Favorite or least favorite destinations because why what touched on 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.200 neve for you about that? 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.400 Well, I was just thinking about some of the places 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.160 I've been, and yeah, I love trouble and I love 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:46.080 going places, but there are some places that they disappoint you, now, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.040 I mean, for me, let's take the USA for instance. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.000 I loved I love the USA. I love Chicago. That 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.360 is my favorite city in the USA, which is hard. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.440 Was a hard choice because New York. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.600 Is fabulous as well. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.680 But Chicago surprised me, I think because it's actually a 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.680 beautiful city. Of the architecture there is wonderful, and it's 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.040 it's unlike Erie, and it's and they've got beaches right 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.000 in the middle of the city. You know, right on 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:17.800 the edge of the city and stuff like that, which 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.760 I didn't expect, and I just just loved it. You know. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.200 Of course, New York is just exciting, you know, Will's 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.880 most exciting city as far as I'm concerned. But what 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:35.600 disappointed me was San Francisco, because I guess certain part 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.959 of it is the weather there. San Francisco is pretty 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.360 shocking weather, or did when I was there. But it 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:45.200 was the homelessness there. It's unbelievable, the homelessness, and it's 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.720 very very open, and it's basically anywhere you go in 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.520 San Francisco, there's homeless people everywhere, and a lot of 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.839 them are begging and stuff like that, and some of 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.160 them aren't too friendly, and I just thought it was 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.400 it was it was really disappointing to see that in 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.840 one of the actually the world's richest country. Really to 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:13.080 see that level of homelands, homes brighton, it's right out 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.280 on the streets. I mean, if you go to the 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.520 pier and all that outbreak there, you know, And I 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:24.280 just found that very very disappointing about San Francisco. I mean, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:29.080 I loved the rest of America, but that was something 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:33.840 that I don't know. It made me feel sad for 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.280 the city. To be honest with you. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:36.840 Well, we'll get some calls. I hope we get some 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.120 calls about those best and wish or if you like 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.360 the favorite or the least favorite destination that you've truveled 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.240 at the computis straight at the commedia in the world. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.640 One double three sixt nine three. Don't leave us here 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.839 by ourselves, Jump on board. You've been around something where 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.640 you went and you thought, no, this was a little unwhelming. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.880 Just going back to you, we'll get some calls shortly. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.560 One double three six' nine three love to hear from. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.719 You the the host of the three W brickey, Program Ros, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.720 stevenson last year had the pleasure with some friends and. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.160 FAMILY i think he tells the story. Openly he, said 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:14.080 he goes To chicago for The Rolling stones. Concert Passionate stones. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:18.440 Fanatic SO i went there for their exhibition AND i, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.280 said If i'm going to see, This i'm going to 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.680 see it In chicago because it was The chicago blues 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.880 that influenced, them and that was. BRILLIANT i loved every 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:28.240 minute of. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.240 It, yeah but he made the observation About chicago comparing 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.480 it To New. York he, said it is now so 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.199 far ahead in how they do, it how it, looks 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.040 how it, feels each way ahead of Where New york ever. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:48.080 Was it's a very very friendly, city and the public transport's. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.840 Good BUT i, MEAN i got good weather WHEN i was, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.199 there and it is a beautiful. CITY i wasn't expecting 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.600 the lovely architecture and stuff like. THAT i didn't expect 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.320 to see beaches there and people were swimming, there and 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.000 it's just it's Got Millennium, park which is a fabulous. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.280 Park there's all these artworks, there and there's this massive 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:16.440 fountain which has got projected faces on it and stuff like. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.360 That it's a really interesting city to go and. See 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.640 and you, know it's The Chicago. RIVER i, thought, oh 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.160 it's going to be like it was absolutely, beautiful you, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.199 know and it's a tributary of The. MISSISSIPPI i didn't 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:36.440 realize that, Either so it's, yeah IT'S i just fell 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:42.280 in love With. Chicago and the, hotel, well the HOTEL 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.920 i say that was there due The prohibition. Years and 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.160 they have a bar there that was just like one 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.120 of the secret bars they would have had during The. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.480 Prohibition you go in there and you're order a drink 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.240 and you get it in a coffee cup sort of, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.640 it you, know so nobody can tell you drink it. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.080 OUT i love those great. Stories So grubby stay. There 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.320 we'll take some calls very. Shortly join. Us you get 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.440 through a straight, away plenty of lines. Free one double 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.880 three six nine three question With Steve Grumpy collins is 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:16.280 simply this favorite and all least favorite destination anywhere around 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.400 at anywhere in the world that you've just, thought, well 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.600 there was an observation it was somehow a little. Underwhelming 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.679 where would that have been for? You one double three six'. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.920 Nine Three I'm. Tony Max Steve grumpy collins is Here for. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.880 Australia overnight so your brother's bound and gagged and then 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.760 chained him to. A jam won't you please Come to 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.959 chicago just to seeing? 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.520 You know then that's not? 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.200 As freedom how can such you think? Be fair won't 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.960 you please Come to chicago for the help that we. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.800 Can bring we. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:13:04.840 Cantwer you'd Hope for gruppy that over the years they 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.120 would have used that song to promote to a destination 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.640 point for the great City. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:08.719 Of. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:13.319 Chicago, Wow, Wow yeah well they've got there so many Songs, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.520 about chicago chic cog. Chic coog that one ONE said 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.480 i shouldn't sing It because i've got the world's worth. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.360 Singing voice, but, yeah, no, no no was it's a great. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.760 City because there was very scenata. Of you That little 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.360 chicago song was a Hit For. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:33.200 Graham, nash yes, That's right and Of course chicago the 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.480 band was. Used to their original name Was Shared Chicago. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.120 Transit authority if you recall they had that they hit 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:41.800 twenty five. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.360 Sixty four, oh, yes year what a song twenty five or. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.400 Sixty four now earlier we were talking about great cities 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.160 around the world And Including new york as to why they. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.880 Were so there was a lot of issues around violence 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.240 and crime in a City Like, new york which well 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.880 and truly documented, the time and they talked About The 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.960 New york city's broken, windows, policy which According to rich 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.760 who sends a lot of, information through is based on 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.320 the theory that cracking down on minor offenses during that 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.040 time helped prevent more. Serious crime was credited with contributing 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.680 to the dramatic dropping crime during the nineties and into the, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.600 two thousands which sort of worked for a, little while 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.920 and then it stopped working the zero tolerance because it 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:34.320 looked really overly aggressive zero tolerance and stop and disproportionately 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:39.400 affecting so called. Minority communities and Even in, gladwell's BOOK 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.640 which i think Was Called The, tipping point later walked 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.720 back his support of citing unintended. Social consequences but it 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.240 just goes back to one of the topics we're talking 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.640 about earlier great cities around the world that you, would 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.840 visit and what that looks like when you, GET there, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.080 i guess is the real challenge for anybody who's doing 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:57.600 any visiting. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.080 OR touring i mean a lot of people go THE 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.400 places i dreamed of going to places and they either 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.400 did like it, all disappointed. You know WITH, the uk, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.800 FOR instance i DON'T like i Didn't. Like london i've 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.240 been there about. FIVE times i Don't. LIKE london i 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:17.600 find it to be not all, that friendly to be honest, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.760 with You and i've looked easy to, get around and 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.320 of course you go And See buckingham palace and, all 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.760 THAT and i just there's something about it. To me 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.240 it's not all, that CLEAN and i find the people 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:36.880 there to be, pretty UNFRIENDLY and I just i've had 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.600 the Worst meal i've. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.440 Ever had. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.239 Really, the yeah At The hotday Inn In. Berkeley square 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.160 we were going. To out we were going To see 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.440 phantom Of the opera and, we thought well we'll have 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.200 a we'll have a meal before. We GO so, i, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.320 Thought well i'll have some. Traditional food i'll have a steak. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.920 Kidney pie, you Know, it's brittish it must. Be good 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.040 it was, the worst. SO bad i remember years later 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.920 it was, just dodge. You know so there's Something ABOUT 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:15.520 london i. Don't like on the, Other HAND edinburgh. I 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:20.840 love i Just see edinburgh's fantastic because it's it's a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:26.160 really walkable city and it's got lots of other towns 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:32.000 IN the Uk a Bath and Chester and york and places. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.040 LIKE that i think they. Are fantastic london doesn't do 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.880 it for. ME somehow i don't. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.000 Know why there's always been a lot of Romance about 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.080 london for a range. Of reasons pulic has been so 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.000 documented for certainly all. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.560 Our, lives yeah well. That's Right And bobna regis that's 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.400 ANOTHER place i can't have you Ever Been. Ton, regions 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.600 oh it's on the it's on the south coast OF 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:07.280 the uk and it's a holiday destination and it Has a. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.639 Buttland there we were visiting some friends who are living 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.919 there and we went for a Drive To. Bocto reaches 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.359 it's A speech i've ever. Been to, it's stone there's. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.240 No same there's another place IN the uk simply Known. As, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:27.200 brighton Yeah and i've never, been THERE but i already 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.879 know that for, Whatever reason i'm not going to. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:30.080 Like. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:35.000 It, yeah well, you know there are plenty of seaside 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:39.280 pounds that, are beautiful Particularly around cornwall and some of 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.399 certain places. Like that But There's bogner regions like people 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.800 flock there and they've Got A BUTTLANDS and i Walked 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:51.800 into buttlands and honestly it's like it's like a concentration 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.800 camp where people smile all. The time it's. Just ALTABLE 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.440 but I can't we're Going to buttland for. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.479 It's dreadful we'll take. Some calls one double three six 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.280 nine three is our, telephone number one double three six' 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.040 nine three if you'd like. To join us it's been 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.760 very Very good at chilly so it's a bit quiet 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.480 on the, Phones. This morning grabs we'll get, some calls. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.040 Shortly no doubt one double three. Six nine three the 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:20.720 topic is favorite and all least favorite places you've ever 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.320 visited and why one double three. Six nine three lots, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.080 of text though. Which is, GREAT one says i Was, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.359 Born in Elizabeth Elizabeth. In south australia we happen to 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.719 be talking about that in the, last hour too and 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.040 how tough that was where they were really making a 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.280 lot of holdings back. In, Those days correct and it was, 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.280 a pretty tough, dirty old town. But it survived and 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.040 THIS tech says i only saw it when it was 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.600 A place where, i WAS born and i was born 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.600 there and only saw it for the first time really, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.040 in NINETEEN ninety but i was born there a long, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:56.840 time before that but it was little and never went 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.760 back there until. Later, In life dan good. Morning to 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.160 you sails? Too Were, grummy hello dan? 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:04.840 Offend? 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:05.040 Your? 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.160 Tea? Mac hello? 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.400 Yeah got you did you want to Say Something? 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.320 For grumpy collins, not, AT all, mate i said you're. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.760 A listed son, that's that's very very kind. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:17.840 Of. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.320 Your word dan that's, going along beautifully consistent with the theme. 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.760 Of the program dan's everything is everything when. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.240 He's Here and grumpy and we've had a couple, of good. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.160 Combos, haven't we. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.159 Yeah we've had lots of conversations. Over the years we have, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.240 we have mate did you did you used to call 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:38.479 in on the? By swapping? 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:46.040 CELS you know i, LOVE you, know i know good. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.720 On your dad i've been watching the foot You know, what, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.040 i'm saying grumpy good. On your dad keep in touch. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.600 With THE program just i love some. Of these calls 0:19:54.640 --> 0:20:03.000 they're just. Hysterical. They do now so you've, GOT your 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.560 list i would think the great list for me Would 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.159 be and i'm keeping It back TO australia because i 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:09.000 want to take some calls on. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:09.320 This as. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.320 Well OF course see i think one of the highlights 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.000 and we, talk about it but probably. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:14.159 Does. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.080 Not sufficiently really you Go. To the kimberley's that's going 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.919 to be a. Highlight, for anyone. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.080 Yeah ah well see that's on my LIST of places i. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:31.520 LOVE and dislike I. Love the. Kimberleys it's fantastic it's, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.600 an amazing place Especially the bungle bungles and the. Gorges 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.879 and that but there are two, Places up There Derby 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:45.400 and fitzroy crossing that are, really really. Shocking You Know 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.600 the derby derby it's probably not A spot because derby 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.680 has got the second highest tides. In the world they're about, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.760 eleven meter tides and of course when the, tide goes 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.359 out when, it's eleven meters all you got is mud. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.760 Flats around it So that's. Not derby's fault so, when 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.199 the water when the tide ind. It's quite nice but 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.800 when the, water goes out the, tide goes out it 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.639 goes out for miles and miles and miles and miles 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.120 a mile. And That's it fitzroy crossing on, the other 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.679 Hand Now. The fitzwoyd crossing, two years ago they had 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.000 a massive flood there and a lot of the town. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.480 Was badly affected but it's it's got a lot of 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:32.000 social problems there and, and you know it's it's not 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.520 a nice. Place to visit i've been there a, couple 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.200 OF times and i just, think it's. 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:37.560 Very. 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.080 Very sad really it's a sat you go there and 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.320 you said that you're sad, to be, there you know 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.960 because you can tell that there's a lot, of problems 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:50.880 there and it's just it's just one of these places 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.720 where you could you feel that there's no hope, for 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:57.720 the town if YOU know. What I mean, so i 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.960 mean the Rest of the kimberleys, is just fantastic but 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:06.840 it's just it's just So sad that fitzroyd crossing is 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:12.120 basically the, way it is and, it's you know everything. 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:13.520 CAN be distressing i. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.960 Agree, with, it yeah yeah the. ULTRA security there i 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:17.440 Know you love. 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:21.199 Darwin For example so darwin's norther terurachies obviously had some 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.160 issues over, many many years and they managed. That Pretty, 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.440 well but david a great friend, of this program said 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.800 he wasn't going up there to watch the races. Over 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:30.760 the weekend then he, sent, a texting well my, Mom 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.080 and way i've got to leave bass mother beaers put 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.120 some money into the chill and led me to jump. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.560 On a plane he's just texted THROUGH and said i got. 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.400 On the Plane quickest flight Melbourne Through the darwin. I've, 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.440 ever had said it's. Absolutely fantastic here. 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:50.160 Oh this time of year it is magnificent because it's 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.200 a dry season up there and. It's very warm weather 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:59.359 gets about thirty but, there's no humidity. So it's fabulous 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.320 now my son, is up there you. Can hear it 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:04.639 you'll he'll be able to hear the cars because he 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.720 lives not all that far, from the, racetrack but no 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.880 it's fantastic and at this time of year the, sunsets 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:16.800 are magnificent but they've Got all these the Food scene 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:20.840 in darwin. Is absolutely brilliant they grow a lot of 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.480 tropical crops up there and they get a lot of Them, 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.920 from from Karanara from the. Oord irrigation area so and 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:33.000 of course the seafood up there is just brilliant because 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.879 the waters are. Very very clean but it's. Just the 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:40.040 atmosphere they've got all these laneway bars and, restaurants and 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:44.679 stuff and it's just a tremendous place to go and. 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:48.920 Visit it is it is a. Genuinely beautiful place the 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.600 harbor front. Is just lovely they've got a lot of 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.399