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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. It is
Speaker 1: great to be with you on TGB and Sydney for
Speaker 1: be singing Brisbane and listeners on the two GB app
Speaker 1: all around Australia. On Sunday, the first day of June,
Speaker 1: Welcome to winter. That time of the year and a
Speaker 1: good sleeping and a good cuddle makes life that just
Speaker 1: a little bit better. Right. In fact, the Weekends program
Speaker 1: insists that sometimes today it's a symbolic homage winter. Stay
Speaker 1: in bed or return to bed and have a bloody
Speaker 1: good cuddle. It'll make you feel better. Remember that's what
Speaker 1: this show is largely all about. Actually, I went online
Speaker 1: this morning to get some idea about what this Australian
Speaker 1: winter is meant to be like. The Bureau's long range
Speaker 1: forecast from June to August. It says rainfall likely to
Speaker 1: be above average for much of mainland Australia. No strong
Speaker 1: indication of above or below average rainfall in the southwest
Speaker 1: and the southeast. It's kind of there could be, but
Speaker 1: there could not be. Warmer than average days are very
Speaker 1: likely across most of Australia, with an increased chance of
Speaker 1: unusually high daytime temperatures, particularly across the North and the south.
Speaker 1: If you're in the middle bit, go you. Warmer than
Speaker 1: average nights very likely, I say, across Australia, with an
Speaker 1: increased chance of unusually high overnight temperatures, particularly across northern,
Speaker 1: Southern and much of eastern Australia. If you're in the
Speaker 1: central bit, on the west of it, in particular, go
Speaker 1: you now. As you know, I talk each change of
Speaker 1: season to the long range forecaster Hayden Walker, who many
Speaker 1: of you remind me is a lot more accurate than
Speaker 1: the warmer, dryer word salads that rare their head every
Speaker 1: so often. Hayden certainly can't join us this weekend, but
Speaker 1: he'll be here next weekend, you betcha. I'll be intrigued
Speaker 1: to hear his thoughts on what lies ahead. He abases
Speaker 1: his predictions as you might recall on sun activity and
Speaker 1: observations going back more than a century. That might make
Speaker 1: him controversial, but as you tell me, it makes him
Speaker 1: accurate as well. In the meantime, have a cuddle now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the weather, Sydney mostly sunny after a foggy
Speaker 1: start again as it was yesterday. Surf conditions may be
Speaker 1: more powerful than they appear, and they're expected to be
Speaker 1: hazardous for coastal activities like rock fishing and swimming in
Speaker 1: the city twenty ten with twenty one Paramatta twenty Bondai
Speaker 1: and along the coast twenty Brisbane partly cloudy day with
Speaker 1: the medium chancel showers. They had to call the races
Speaker 1: offered to Eagle Farm yesterday after maybe five or six races.
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to seeing the Joe Pride Conveys
Speaker 1: Private Eye in one of the big races yesterday, but
Speaker 1: they called them off due to the rain, so party
Speaker 1: clouting in Brisbane, medium chancel showers tops in the city
Speaker 1: of twenty three, Airport twenty three, Ipswich twenty four, Gold
Speaker 1: Coast twenty three, Sunshine Coast twenty three. Now I don't
Speaker 1: normally start the show with an athletic story, but I
Speaker 1: will today because it's starting to look like we've got
Speaker 1: world class men's sprinters. Something in my lifetime, I can't
Speaker 1: ever remember having Australian one hundred meters sprinter. Lachland Kennedy
Speaker 1: has broken the esteemed ten second barrier in its scorching
Speaker 1: run at the kip Kino Classic in Nairobi. Kennedy stopped
Speaker 1: the clock at nine point nine eight seconds and says
Speaker 1: it's so good I can finally say I run nine now.
Speaker 1: The twenty one year old, he's become the first Assie
Speaker 1: to legally dip under ten seconds since Patrick Johnson's national
Speaker 1: record of nine point nine three set back in two
Speaker 1: doub three Gout Gout twice ran nine point nine of
Speaker 1: the AUSSY Championships, but you might remember both performances were
Speaker 1: ruled in valid because of wind assistance. Oh there are
Speaker 1: so many lines there. Will Smonton reports that Kennedy said,
Speaker 1: I was there to win today and bring it home.
Speaker 1: I'm super stoked to get the win and the time.
Speaker 1: I haven't wanted to rush it or put the pressure
Speaker 1: on myself. I take every race as it comes, and
Speaker 1: I knew it would come eventually. Now the Queenslander, yes,
Speaker 1: he's a Queenslander, won the event ahead of South Africa's
Speaker 1: Olympic medalist Bajandaba Lasa, who ran ten point zero three
Speaker 1: in Kenya's hometown favorite Ferdinand oman YAlO who ran ten
Speaker 1: point zero seven. He's put himself in the frame from
Speaker 1: metal at this year's World Championships at Tokyo Go. Lockie
Speaker 1: Kennedy's next event will be another two hundred meters showdown
Speaker 1: with Gout Gout at the prestigious Ostrava Golden Spike Meet
Speaker 1: in the Czech Republic on June twenty four. His breakthrough
Speaker 1: victory this season was beating Gout in front of the
Speaker 1: Melbourne crowd at the Peter Norman Memorial two hundred meters.
Speaker 1: Let's hype both of them stay fit and keep improving.
Speaker 1: Do we dare to dream? Hmm? You bet we dare
Speaker 1: to dream now. Just an update following James Willis's chap
Speaker 1: with me yesterday about the heat pump water heater story
Speaker 1: and the suggestion by the now New South Wales government
Speaker 1: that Matt Kean, the former New South Wales's Liberal Minister
Speaker 1: and now Albo's Climate czar, carries a blame for much
Speaker 1: of it and James, writing today, says Matt Kean has
Speaker 1: ripped into Anne Luke Chantowong after a spokesman for the
Speaker 1: new South Wales Fair Trading Minister accused mister Keane of
Speaker 1: making an utter mess quote unquote of a government incentive
Speaker 1: created to provide people with cheap access to hot water systems. Now,
Speaker 1: responding to the major criticism, a Keen told News Corp quote,
Speaker 1: Apparently we've reached peak Men's government. They can't get the
Speaker 1: trains to run on time, if at all. They're failing
Speaker 1: to deliver any housing. They're forced to open a series
Speaker 1: of coalition projects. They're blown the budget, they're raising taxes.
Speaker 1: Workers across the state of striking and the union's in charge.
Speaker 1: So they send out a hapless and hopeless fair trading
Speaker 1: minister to attack the previous government's cost of living measures.
Speaker 1: I suppose I should congratulate Minister Chantavong, says Keen for
Speaker 1: his first act as minister after more than two years
Speaker 1: in charge. But it's hard to when he evidently lacks
Speaker 1: the conviction to launch the attack himself and is true
Speaker 1: to form, hiding behind a spokesperson whoa finding words right there.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It comes after the Men's government announced the compliance blitz
Speaker 1: and vowed to protect consumers from the sale of dodgy
Speaker 1: heat pumps, blaming the former Liberal energy minister for the fiasco.
Speaker 1: And you'll know, of course, we spoke to James about
Speaker 1: this yesterday that this investigation by the Telly has uncovered
Speaker 1: some shocking examples of dangerous installations. And remember this has
Speaker 1: been described by Somer's pinkbacks two point zero and the
Speaker 1: heat pump units generally worth around fifteen hundred were provided
Speaker 1: to businesses for free and to households for about thirty
Speaker 1: three bucks at times during this New South Wales IPART
Speaker 1: issued a concerns notice about routing and aggressive sales techniques
Speaker 1: in March twenty twenty three, a few weeks before the
Speaker 1: then coalition government lost the state election. The scheme, interestingly
Speaker 1: wasn't scaled back by the Men's government until the following June.
Speaker 1: Then there was a mandatory co payment of two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Now there have been reports of shoddy installations of roaring noises.
Speaker 1: I mean imagine that you're there, your friend, maybe the
Speaker 1: friend you're having a cuddle with, is in the shower,
Speaker 1: lying there in bed, maybe listening to me going oh buddy,
Speaker 1: how luky's going well so far today? I wonder when
Speaker 1: all stuff things up and all of a sudden, Arah,
Speaker 1: you hear this roarings out and you go, what's that?
Speaker 1: You go outside? It's not a line, it's your bloody
Speaker 1: water heater. Hello. Anyway back to me. A spokesperson again
Speaker 1: for the New South Wales Fair Trading and Building Minister
Speaker 1: Annalyk Chanterevong added these examples of dodgy heat pumps or
Speaker 1: a hangover from the utter mess of a scheme that
Speaker 1: we inherited from that king might leave things right there
Speaker 1: because there's more serious things to talk about courtesy of
Speaker 1: police and ambulance. First off, police in New South Wales
Speaker 1: Company they're appealing for witnesses or vision as inquiries continue
Speaker 1: into a brawl following a local soccer match at Peakhurst yesterday.
Speaker 1: Officers were called to Gannon's Park around ten to five
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, responding to reports up to forty fans
Speaker 1: and players were fighting. Police were on the scene within minutes,
Speaker 1: but the crowd had dispersed at this time. There's been
Speaker 1: no reports of injuries or property damaged. Now, if you
Speaker 1: can help police out, one eight hundred triple three, triple
Speaker 1: zero and they would be most grateful. I told you
Speaker 1: yesterday about an event in Dubbo well an alleged crime.
Speaker 1: A Police have charged two men after three people were
Speaker 1: stabbed at Dubbo early yesterday. The officers were told three men,
Speaker 1: two aged twenty nine one twenty one were stabbed by
Speaker 1: two men. They were treated by paramedics and they went
Speaker 1: to Dubbobates Hospital. About ten forty pm yesterday police arrested
Speaker 1: a twenty seven year old man. A twenty three year
Speaker 1: old man was arrested about an hour later. They were
Speaker 1: taken tob police station. Older man charged with three counts
Speaker 1: of reckless wounding and companying a fray and use of
Speaker 1: an offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention. Remember he was
Speaker 1: not wishing to be dealt with by police. The younger
Speaker 1: man was charged with three counts of reckless wounding. They
Speaker 1: were refused bail to appear at Paramount of Bail Court
Speaker 1: two day. Sadly, a sixty four year old man has
Speaker 1: died following a fatal two vehicle crash in Irvine Bank yesterday.
Speaker 1: This is Marieba in Queensland. Around twelve fifty three pm
Speaker 1: a Toyota Corolla driving along Herberton Petford Road. It crashed
Speaker 1: into a Hilux driving in the opposite direction. The driver
Speaker 1: of the Corolla, a nineteen year old Atherton man, sustained
Speaker 1: non life threatening injuries. It was taken to Atherton Hospital.
Speaker 1: The passenger of the Corolla, a sixty four year old
Speaker 1: Atherton man, sustained critical injuries and died at the scene.
Speaker 1: The two occupants of the Highlux were assessed at the
Speaker 1: scene with minor injuries and the forensic crash Unit is
Speaker 1: investigating and two teenage boys on a motorcycle who have
Speaker 1: been seriously injured after a crash in the Hunter region
Speaker 1: in New South Wales. This is shortly after two am
Speaker 1: got that two AM officers from Lake Macquarie Police District
Speaker 1: on routine patrol drove across a crash between a motorcycle
Speaker 1: and a Master three hatchback. Police immediately stopped and rendered
Speaker 1: first aid to the occupants of the motorcycle. Paramedics arrived.
Speaker 1: The rider and pillion passenger, both sixteen, were taken to
Speaker 1: John Hunter Hospital serious but stable conditions. Both boys were
Speaker 1: wearing helmets at the time of the crash. The driver
Speaker 1: of the car of fifty two year old escaped injury.
Speaker 1: A crime scene has been established. The motorcycle was reported
Speaker 1: stolen earlier in the month. The motorcycle had not been
Speaker 1: involved in a pursuit prior to the crash. Again, if
Speaker 1: you can help police one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero.
Speaker 1: Goodness me bit going on there right on the show Today,
Speaker 1: we're off to the UK for the Sunday sweep. Host
Speaker 1: of Spectator Australia's Fire at Will podcast and contributor to
Speaker 1: gb and Sky News, Will Kingston will join me. With
Speaker 1: the Coalition on the nose here in Australia and the
Speaker 1: Tories even more on the nose in the UK. Where
Speaker 1: are true Conservatives heading now? I won't pretend we have
Speaker 1: the same issues as they do in Great Britain, but
Speaker 1: the rise of Nigel Faraj and the Reform Party is extraordinary.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's some polland today in the UK that
Speaker 1: has informing government in a few years now. Will is
Speaker 1: a great scholar on these matters. I'm keen to hear
Speaker 1: what he has to say about the future of Conservative
Speaker 1: politics and will die Donald Trump's latest tariff circus Taco's anyone.
Speaker 1: I'll explain soon after ten this morning, a remarkable Australian
Speaker 1: Sue would all. When Sue was in her late fifties,
Speaker 1: she was a high flyer in the public service, holding
Speaker 1: a senior state role in procurement. She was unstoppable until
Speaker 1: one day the awful breast cancer cancer monster rather ended
Speaker 1: her life. Not wanting to have her career and ambitions
Speaker 1: halted by the insidious illness, she did her best to
Speaker 1: negotiate her pathway back to work, but sadly, her employer
Speaker 1: eventually made it clear they couldn't hold her role open
Speaker 1: as if her health battles weren't enough. Not wanting to
Speaker 1: have her experiences replicated by others, she founded a group
Speaker 1: Live Work Cancer. We'll talk to her about that. She
Speaker 1: is a remarkable Australian who doesn't like a good streaming service.
Speaker 1: Many of us have one, a paid one or a
Speaker 1: free one nine hours brilliant. Yes we're part of the
Speaker 1: nine network. Just made that clear. The streaming reviewer at
Speaker 1: the finn Review, Terry Pontikus, will tell us about some
Speaker 1: new offerings Hacks season four. Do you watch that? On
Speaker 1: Stan Emmy winning comedy series with Gene Smart as the
Speaker 1: legendary comic Deborah Vance. It's been renewed for a fifth season.
Speaker 1: A Season four's finale dropped this week. Nine Perfect Strangers
Speaker 1: season two on Prime. This stars Nicole Kidman. I watched
Speaker 1: the first one. It was intriguing. I put the second
Speaker 1: one on through the week and I wasn't so intrigued.
Speaker 1: But I'll stick with a bit longer. And there's something
Speaker 1: new coming to Apple TV Plus called Stick, a ted
Speaker 1: Lasso esque golf comedy, which might be okay. I came
Speaker 1: across a fascinating piece in The New York Times this
Speaker 1: week about mini strokes. Heard of these things transient ischemic attacks.
Speaker 1: It highlighted new research which found that many or minor
Speaker 1: strokes aren't that minor at all. These attacks occur when
Speaker 1: there's a disruption of blood float of the brain, causing
Speaker 1: symptoms including weakness or paralysis, numbness, and tingling. The symptoms
Speaker 1: are similar to strokes, except they can go away in
Speaker 1: a few minutes, and that's partly the problem. They can
Speaker 1: go untreated. We'll talk about that. Stephen Fennick here to
Speaker 1: talk technology. Apart from taking your calls for help, the
Speaker 1: Apple Store has blocked two billion dollars in fraudulent transactions
Speaker 1: they reckon. That makes the app store a safe place
Speaker 1: for customers and developers. But I'll tell you what, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of scams going on. Away from that. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to Steve about all of that. Jim Haynes in our
Speaker 1: last hour here to reminisce movies in Australia. We are
Speaker 1: genuine trailblazers in this space, we really are and we
Speaker 1: should be proud of that. Jim will uncover more our quiz,
Speaker 1: all the breaking news and again plenty of time to
Speaker 1: talk to you. So that's what we have for you today.
Speaker 1: It's currently twelve in Sydney, nineteen in Brisbane. This is
Speaker 1: Weekends with Luke Grant on two GBN four BC. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about COVID. I really don't, but
Speaker 1: apparently the World Health Organization and here I am talking
Speaker 1: about COVID. Sorry about that. They're reported and increase in
Speaker 1: global infections attributed to the COVID nineteen variant NB one
Speaker 1: dot eight dot one, which China's Health agency has identified
Speaker 1: as a dominant strain designated as a variant under monitoring
Speaker 1: by the WHO. The previous week, the US Center for
Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a limited number of
Speaker 1: cases within the US. The who's update on May twenty
Speaker 1: eight indicator that the variant is contributing to rising case
Speaker 1: numbers in various global regions, specifically Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific,
Speaker 1: and the Mediterranean. Now only raise this to make you
Speaker 1: word of it. Firstly, and secondly, I'm going away in
Speaker 1: a few weeks and the question comes up every time,
Speaker 1: are you going to get the COVID booster? And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you and say I've not done that
Speaker 1: last time or the time before that I have had
Speaker 1: the flu injection. I really I just don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. I'm probably not going to have it again.
Speaker 1: If anyone really thinks I should not, that it's your business,
Speaker 1: it's mine, my doctor's business. He thinks I should, then
Speaker 1: let me know. But I think for many of us,
Speaker 1: like I was not really prepared to talk about the
Speaker 1: latest variant, which for those playing at home with NB
Speaker 1: dot one dot eight dot one, I'm over it is
Speaker 1: that silly. I really don't know. I mean, I'm struggling
Speaker 1: to deal with this. I need your support, your help,
Speaker 1: your assistance. Perhaps after you're done with going back to
Speaker 1: bed and cuddling you can think of. Well, no, don't worry,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I'll get through one three, one eight seven,
Speaker 1: three is a number on weekends. We will go to
Speaker 1: the UK in a moment or two. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the thirty now text messages advising me about having or
Speaker 1: not having a COVID booster. Wow, I'll have a look
Speaker 1: at all of them. Thank you so much quickly before
Speaker 1: we get to the UK. The New South Wales's Anti
Speaker 1: Slavery Commissioner acknowledges the New South Wales government may inevitably
Speaker 1: source bus parts and project components potentially linked to foreign
Speaker 1: slave labor, posing a challenge for Sydney's new transport fleets.
Speaker 1: Remember we told you this yesterday that the government was saying, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to get these buses built and narraw, how good,
Speaker 1: And they end up being sent to Australia without seats
Speaker 1: and a card reader to collect fares. I mean that's
Speaker 1: how we're building them. You'd like to think that made
Speaker 1: in New South Wales actually means a bit more than
Speaker 1: we'll toss in a few seats and a bit of tech,
Speaker 1: you know, just saying so now, the Anti Slavery Commissions
Speaker 1: acknowledging that there might have been foreign slave labor here.
Speaker 1: And if you look at all the stuff that we
Speaker 1: get from China, we absolutely convinced that there's no slave
Speaker 1: labor involved. I know, around some of the wind turbines
Speaker 1: and the like, there's a strong suggestion that there is
Speaker 1: foreign slavery. So that's okay, is it right? That's all wrong.
Speaker 1: You see, you've got to just pay attention. And all
Speaker 1: of the stuff seems to me to unravel. You just
Speaker 1: have to wait and it will, as it always seems
Speaker 1: to end up unraveling. It's extraordinary this telegraph revealing the
Speaker 1: first fifteen of one hundred and twenty six new electric
Speaker 1: buses were almost completely built in China, despite mister Means
Speaker 1: the premiere earlier in the episode saying that they'd be
Speaker 1: built at a new specialist facility in Nara. You just
Speaker 1: shake your head right.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: On weekends the Sunday Sweep looking at the stories of
Speaker 2: the week.
Speaker 1: Time for the Sunday Sweep, where we look back at
Speaker 1: the issues of the week and just talk about the
Speaker 1: body PolitiQ here and all around the world. And I'm
Speaker 1: delighted to say that again the host of the Spectator
Speaker 1: Australia's Fired Will podcast and contributed to GB and Sky News.
Speaker 1: Will Kingston is with us on the line from the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom. But you've been in Oz, haven't you? Will you?
Speaker 4: Alek I have?
Speaker 5: I got back to he throw a six am this morning.
Speaker 5: So yeah, nice incon City for a few weeks and
Speaker 5: now in Blighty lovely.
Speaker 1: We might start with the news at the Caterhan early
Speaker 1: yesterday on our show, which was that Donald Trump now
Speaker 1: hiking steal tariffs to fifty percent. He says he plans
Speaker 1: to increase tariffs on foreign steel imports from twenty five percent.
Speaker 1: The doubling of these levies taking effect on June four.
Speaker 1: These could further push up prices for material used in housing,
Speaker 1: vehicles and other goods. That adds already to our inability
Speaker 1: to build homes quickly and affordably. And this will have
Speaker 1: impacts all around the world made, yeah, it will.
Speaker 5: Look there's always two ways of looking at this, the
Speaker 5: politics of it, and then there's the consequences on the politics.
Speaker 5: Trump's actually got this acronym that's being labeled against him now, Taco.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've heard about this. Trump always
Speaker 5: chickens out, yes, and it's actually it's starting to get
Speaker 5: a bit of traction, and it's the kind of thing
Speaker 5: which Trump would really hate. So I do wonder whether
Speaker 5: if he then goes back on these tariffs like he
Speaker 5: has on some of the others, or if there is
Speaker 5: further judicial pushback, the reputation which he wants to cultivate
Speaker 5: as a strong man could actually take a bit of
Speaker 5: a hit. And we've got those midterm elections coming up
Speaker 5: next year, so there will be implications there. That's the
Speaker 5: politics side, But you're right to point out that the
Speaker 5: reality is with tarists, as with all the other tariffs,
Speaker 5: they will make things more expensive to make, which therefore
Speaker 5: will make things more expensive to buy for consumers. Now,
Speaker 5: if in the long term that this plays out, that
Speaker 5: he can somehow manage to bring more workers back to America,
Speaker 5: well that's hunky dory, but it doesn't change the fact
Speaker 5: that for American consumers and Australian consumers it's going to
Speaker 5: cost more to buy cars, and that's something which I
Speaker 5: think when we talk about costs of living, that's a
Speaker 5: real problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other point about Trump is, and I have
Speaker 1: heard the taco thing, but he does try to get
Speaker 1: a deal. Now, if he wants, for example, to get
Speaker 1: an extra hundred on something, he might initially go with
Speaker 1: two hundred. If he settles for a hundred, he's got
Speaker 1: what he originally wants. Is that the other way of
Speaker 1: looking at taco or the taco idea potentially.
Speaker 5: But this is the thing I struggle with, and that
Speaker 5: is he's at different times given different reasons to tariff's.
Speaker 5: At one time he basically says that it's really just
Speaker 5: a four D chess tactic to try and get trade
Speaker 5: deals with other countries and really get them to lower
Speaker 5: their tariff levels. And at other times he's basically saying, well, no,
Speaker 5: we're going to keep the tariffs forever, and they're a
Speaker 5: way for us to bring workers back to America. And
Speaker 5: those two things are in tension with each other. In fact,
Speaker 5: they're contradictory. So it would actually be helpful if he
Speaker 5: did provide more clarity on what's the real purpose of
Speaker 5: these But that, to your point, is not really the
Speaker 5: Trump mo. So time will tell it will.
Speaker 1: Now I want you to tell me about reform in
Speaker 1: the UK, the Reform Party. This is Nigel Farras, and
Speaker 1: I guess, as you well know, mate in a Australian
Speaker 1: politics now, the Conservative traditionally center right parties. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's unfair to say turmoil or at
Speaker 1: least they're having to rebuild. And over in the UK
Speaker 1: were seeing Nigel Faraj and his party do very well.
Speaker 1: I don't know if what happens there necessarily happens here.
Speaker 1: But give us your take on all of this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 5: I would say more than turmoil for the Conservatives in
Speaker 5: the UK and for the Liberal National parties in Australia,
Speaker 5: I think they're both in existential threat under threat. If
Speaker 5: you look at the Conservatives, they basically let the public
Speaker 5: down for fourteen years. Everything they said they would do,
Speaker 5: they didn't and as a result of that, there is
Speaker 5: a very real chance that they are wiped off the
Speaker 5: electoral at the next election, which would be extraordinary. They
Speaker 5: are the most successful party of any political party in
Speaker 5: modern Western political history, and Reform have capitalized on that.
Speaker 5: All of polls which comes out which is basically an
Speaker 5: amalgamation of all the different polls over the last couple
Speaker 5: of weeks, came out only an hour or so ago,
Speaker 5: and it pointed to what would be if an election
Speaker 5: was held tomorrow, a landslide win for Reform, which would
Speaker 5: put Nigel Forga's Prime minister. And basically, I think I
Speaker 5: think they've got about over just a thirty percent of
Speaker 5: the total vote. I think Labor came in at about
Speaker 5: twenty four and the Conservatives below that. If these numbers hold,
Speaker 5: and again keep in mind four years ago a long time,
Speaker 5: but you would see the Conservatives wiped off the face
Speaker 5: of the map. You would see Nigel Faraja's Prime minister,
Speaker 5: and you would see Labor be dumped after one term
Speaker 5: in government. And I think we'll get to this. But
Speaker 5: the enduring issue, the issue above all else, which is
Speaker 5: driving this real anger amongst electorate is both legal and
Speaker 5: ill immigration.
Speaker 1: Immigration isn't that interesting And the center right here, as
Speaker 1: you know, they were talking a big game about reducing
Speaker 1: immigration to nero the long term averages, and I think
Speaker 1: you've only got to look at the ability to get
Speaker 1: around our productivity problem, lack of housing and other infrastructure.
Speaker 1: It seems and it doesn't have to be necessarily forever,
Speaker 1: but it just seems to be common sense. But again,
Speaker 1: the Liberal National Parties went to the people and it
Speaker 1: ended up being the case from many of the likely
Speaker 1: suspects in the commentariat that you know that was anti
Speaker 1: anti the Australia, that we've become a migrant nation. It
Speaker 1: led to certain groups of Chinese. I often refer to
Speaker 1: Chinese Australians running away from the center right coalition. But
Speaker 1: it intrigues me that this is made about race and culture.
Speaker 1: It's purely here in mathematics. Is it mathematics in England
Speaker 1: or is it more to do with culture.
Speaker 5: So mathematics the issue? Or on a per capital base,
Speaker 5: its especially been more immigrations Australia than the UK in
Speaker 5: recent years. The feeling around how the culture is changing
Speaker 5: is worse than the UK. I was trying to work
Speaker 5: it out myself when I was back in Sydney a
Speaker 5: few weeks ago. I think it is because the Australian
Speaker 5: population is more spread out that therefore the effects of
Speaker 5: immigration are more diluted as opposed to the UK, where
Speaker 5: if you go now to parts of London, if you
Speaker 5: go to parts of Birmingham, to go to parts of Newcastle,
Speaker 5: you do not feel like you're in England. And look,
Speaker 5: there are too many people who say, oh well, it's
Speaker 5: racist to say that will be driving down Edgeway Road
Speaker 5: in the center of London's day and it could have
Speaker 5: been Islamabad. It was absolutely shocking. Now people go like
Speaker 5: this just doesn't feel like the England that they once did.
Speaker 5: And you put into the mix that and I think
Speaker 5: this is another distinction with Australia. There is a higher
Speaker 5: there is higher amounts of Islamic immigration, which has led
Speaker 5: to in many instances a real feeling of cultural fracture,
Speaker 5: feeling that particularly more conservative fundamentalist Islamic communities, their value
Speaker 5: are not com medal with Western liberal democracy. It's led
Speaker 5: to a real anger in parts of the UK. We're
Speaker 5: seeing that in parts of western Sydney. We're seeing that
Speaker 5: in parts of the area as you know, but not
Speaker 5: nearly to the same level of intensity. And as a
Speaker 5: result of that, people here are just fed up. And
Speaker 5: if they don't see the numbers go down in dramatically,
Speaker 5: then kiss Dharma is toast you've also got. And this
Speaker 5: is something which a luckily Australia's largely solved the illegal
Speaker 5: boat problem, which is just getting worse and worse here.
Speaker 1: Nigel farags, what sort of character, as you know, Peter
Speaker 1: Dutton and even just sent a Nampa jimper Price. Can
Speaker 1: you believe it? They were? They were at least compared
Speaker 1: or thought to be introducing Trump like politics to Australia.
Speaker 1: And again the commentariat, the likely suspects say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: Australians rejected that what are the similarities if there are
Speaker 1: similarities with Faraj and Trump.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you say that because I actually think Farage
Speaker 5: a bit like doesn't actually is trying very consciably to
Speaker 5: disassociate himself with Trumpian tactics. So he's making a very
Speaker 5: deliberate effort to move from my guess, the right to
Speaker 5: the center. And he's Engay. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: in terms of similarities, it's this sort of kind of
Speaker 5: right wing populism, which isn't necessarily right wing on economics,
Speaker 5: like he's still keen to spend money, probably more money
Speaker 5: than I would like, as more of a fiscal conservative
Speaker 5: kind of guy. But the similarities are kind of this
Speaker 5: right wing, almost like kind of populous economics, real hardline
Speaker 5: on immigration, and then a real plea to kind of
Speaker 5: bring back some pride in British identity in the same
Speaker 5: way that Trump would say, make America Great again. Trump
Speaker 5: Farage is playing off this feeling that this country in
Speaker 5: decline and you need to basically bring it back in
Speaker 5: some way. So he's playing with that sense of grievance
Speaker 5: and he's doing it very successfully at the moment.
Speaker 1: Ye for the Liberal Party, it's a very big question
Speaker 1: that I don't expect you to have every antwer to.
Speaker 1: But you've seen the ascension of Susan Lee as leader.
Speaker 1: There's been, of course, the little fight between the Coalition
Speaker 1: Party members or the Nationals and the Liberal Party. We've
Speaker 1: seen ministers that will shadow ministers dump like Sarah Henderson
Speaker 1: and Jane Hume, two women, and of course that's another
Speaker 1: area of discussion, more women or not. Is there an
Speaker 1: obvious way back that you look at this and with
Speaker 1: your knowledge and experience, what would you be saying.
Speaker 5: Well, number one, get some guts. Basically, you know, we
Speaker 5: have this argument around the broad church of the Liberal Party.
Speaker 5: And in the past there's been social conservatives and critical
Speaker 5: liberals and it's been how do you keep that group together?
Speaker 5: The broad church has been blown up and now you've
Speaker 5: just got these vaguely right wing people all wandering around
Speaker 5: in different and there's been no discussion, no real attempt
Speaker 5: to try and say what is the purpose of the
Speaker 5: Liberal Party in twenty twenty five. I cannot believe the
Speaker 5: Liberal Party went to an election basically promising higher taxes
Speaker 5: than labor and basically promising that they would spend money
Speaker 5: than labor at least in the first two years after
Speaker 5: the election. It's like, what that kind of got me thinking,
Speaker 5: what is the point of you in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: So they need to very quickly work out what does
Speaker 5: it mean to be a conserva party in politics in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. I suspect it is similar to the
Speaker 5: platform that Reform is running on in the UK, which
Speaker 5: is to be tougher on legal immagion and to reduce
Speaker 5: legal immigration numbers. It is to promote pro growth policies
Speaker 5: by just bringing in more migrants but by reducing taxes,
Speaker 5: but then also having the guts to spending commensarily at
Speaker 5: the same time. And it's also basically not shying away
Speaker 5: from cultural issues when appropriate and the way that Dutan did.
Speaker 5: The reality is that this was the Seinfeld election. Look,
Speaker 5: it was the election about nothing, and when you look
Speaker 5: back at the end, people said, you know, I need
Speaker 5: to have something to believe in from the right of
Speaker 5: poets and doesn't didn't give them that. Sadly, I don't
Speaker 5: think Susan Lee will either.
Speaker 1: Is net zero a thing you look at where the.
Speaker 5: World is going now? Nazeron ditched it recently, Reform will
Speaker 5: ditch it if they win government. I think the Labor
Speaker 5: Party even now will walk away from net zero. Quietly,
Speaker 5: the world and everyone that matters in the world is
Speaker 5: moving away from net zero, and Australia increasingly looks like
Speaker 5: this bizarre statistic outlier. The fact of the matter is
Speaker 5: you can do this sort of symbolic to singling nonsense
Speaker 5: and make no mistake, this is symbolic because it won't
Speaker 5: impact the global climate on one iota when times are good.
Speaker 5: But when times are tough for Australians, and times are
Speaker 5: going to get tougher with the economy in the next
Speaker 5: three years, you can't afford this sort of stuff. Cheap
Speaker 5: energy is one of the keepers to a strong economy
Speaker 5: and it's also one of the easiest ways that you
Speaker 5: reduced cost of living, and you just cannot do it
Speaker 5: when you're tying one hand behind your back with net zero.
Speaker 5: So the thing with the liberal Party, and I'm sick
Speaker 5: of them continue arguing about how to get to net
Speaker 5: zero and the whole nuclear thing. The argument should be
Speaker 5: we are going to ditch zero, but once again I'm
Speaker 5: not sure whether they have the guts to be able
Speaker 5: to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You can hear more of Will of course on
Speaker 1: the Spectator Australia's vire Will podcast. See him on Sky News.
Speaker 1: He's offten on with bolt GB News as well. We'll
Speaker 1: look after yourself, mate. Thank you for staying up for us.
Speaker 1: Great to hear your voice. We'll talk again soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks Uchiev made.
Speaker 1: It's twelve to ten one three, one seven three is
Speaker 1: a number. Good o, Greg.
Speaker 6: I care a very interesting discussion with the Will. You're expert.
Speaker 6: Guess there one thing I wanted to hopefully clarify with
Speaker 6: you was or.
Speaker 4: Will was.
Speaker 6: Anyone with any brains knows that if you've imposed Harris,
Speaker 6: the cost of the goods goes up and the you know,
Speaker 6: the people affected by that would be the Americans in
Speaker 6: this case. But I believe that the Trump counter to
Speaker 6: that was, well, all of this tariff revenue that we
Speaker 6: get is passed on in the form of massive tax
Speaker 6: cuts to this American public and that would offset the
Speaker 6: higher prices. Now we all know, anyone with any brains
Speaker 6: knows that the reason why the cost of cheap imported
Speaker 6: goods is because they pay them nothing. Over in our
Speaker 6: own countries. You know, you can get a T shirt
Speaker 6: for two dollars or something, and we would have had
Speaker 6: that standard of living that we've got here. So it
Speaker 6: was back in the sixties. I remember you needed your
Speaker 6: mum needed your own jumper for you because suppuire was
Speaker 6: about the equivalent of the two hundred dollars to get
Speaker 6: it made a strain locally, and that's why all the
Speaker 6: imports have taken destroyed local industries in America and the
Speaker 6: UK and here and anywhere else in the developed world.
Speaker 6: So am I missing something there? That is that what
Speaker 6: Trump is going to do to make it affordable again
Speaker 6: for them?
Speaker 1: Well he certainly talked about tax cuts, absolutely, but it
Speaker 1: seems to me that you get the initial Whilst things
Speaker 1: might be more affordable because they've got more expendable income,
Speaker 1: the prices go up, doesn't that fuel inflation and everything else?
Speaker 6: It was beyond my pa grade that one I left
Speaker 6: to ask an economist, well.
Speaker 1: Last sumone was what were you saying before anyone with
Speaker 1: any brains.
Speaker 6: That's not me obviously, Well you know what made.
Speaker 1: You know what made it? Mightn't be me either. Good
Speaker 1: to be the care greg thanks a lot. I look,
Speaker 1: I don't have the degree in economics that would allow
Speaker 1: me to evaluate all of this. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: you put up the prices, that's that's good to be inflationary,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. If old mate says we'll take les tax,
Speaker 1: then you know, maybe you can afford to pay double
Speaker 1: or more. I don't know, but I understand the theory,
Speaker 1: and I'm largely supportive of Trump. I can't pammel. I
Speaker 1: know I disappoint you by having a subtle shop at
Speaker 1: the Trumpster from time to time. I cannot support everything
Speaker 1: because just because he says it doesn't mean I have
Speaker 1: to embrace it, and I simply don't. I love the
Speaker 1: way he's upset. The predictable bureaucrats and others hangers on,
Speaker 1: the rent seekers in the body POLITICU are there each
Speaker 1: year they turn up and get their lavish lifestyle funded
Speaker 1: by taxpayers. They need to be upset because if you
Speaker 1: look at governments, I don't care where you look, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence that they generally screw much of
Speaker 1: things up, which is not what they're elected to do
Speaker 1: or appointed to do it, but they seem to retain
Speaker 1: their position. So I'm all for disrupting. I'm a conservative,
Speaker 1: so I do you know, I believe in the conservation
Speaker 1: of order, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, enough's enough.
Speaker 1: We've been taken for a ride. Actually they're taking the
Speaker 1: hit and miss, aren't they Across Australia. It's back to
Speaker 1: weekends with look Grant, good morning, Thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us on the first day of winter. I hope your
Speaker 1: Sunday morning is flying three one eight seven three. That's
Speaker 1: the open number. Open line number here. Do you give
Speaker 1: me a call? The text is zero four six zero
Speaker 1: eight seven three eight seven three. You can email me
Speaker 1: me at two GB dot com, four BC dot com
Speaker 1: dot AU. I think I made I thought was a
Speaker 1: generous question to you earlier in program as I'm having
Speaker 1: a break in a few weeks and going overseas if
Speaker 1: you or me, would you have another COVID booster. I've
Speaker 1: had the flu shot. I told you what I had
Speaker 1: last year. I had that RSV you heard of that.
Speaker 1: That is wow, next level the cough that comes with that.
Speaker 1: I think you can get you can get the JAB,
Speaker 1: can't you vaccine? RSV Jack Center vaccina. It should be
Speaker 1: available to people of a certain age for free because
Speaker 1: it's pretty expensive and it is wow, next level. I've
Speaker 1: had lots of advice. I will take this up with
Speaker 1: my doctor who's already said, Luke, have it. But there's
Speaker 1: lots of people saying don't you dare And I guess
Speaker 1: there's an issue here around the science and the medicine
Speaker 1: something I want to talk about in the moment or
Speaker 1: two in relation to this zenpic drug, which we've raised
Speaker 1: from time to time. We are going to find time
Speaker 1: to talk about that issue in detail in a week
Speaker 1: or two. But I'll have a thing or two to
Speaker 1: say about that and the so called settlements of science.
Speaker 1: It is that, following past the Gate, the Labor Party
Speaker 1: have finally decided to let Chris Bowen loose. He was
Speaker 1: on the ABC this morning responding to new government figures
Speaker 1: showing that Australia's emissions rose by zero born zero five
Speaker 1: percent last year. Now, despite the evidence, he's somehow of
Speaker 1: the belief that Australia will meet its target to reduce
Speaker 1: emissions by forty three percent by twenty thirty and have
Speaker 1: eighty two percent of our electricity generated by renewables. Rather,
Speaker 1: can you believe this. I've had a number of listeners
Speaker 1: say you should have seen the armchair ride he was
Speaker 1: given on the ABC this morning. So we had a
Speaker 1: report yesterday that clearly illustrated that we were no chance
Speaker 1: with the missions rising, of getting near this target of
Speaker 1: forty three percent. But Bobo says we're on track. Have
Speaker 1: a listen well on both targets.
Speaker 7: If you look at eighty two percent, again very encouraging
Speaker 7: figures in the last quarter. We went out forty six
Speaker 7: percent renewables in the last quarter last year and forty
Speaker 7: three percent in the first quarter this year. It moves
Speaker 7: from quarter to quarter and again fifteen gigawatts that's three
Speaker 7: snowy hydros added since we came to office and a
Speaker 7: big pipeline of investment coming through. So yes, the eighty
Speaker 7: two percent target does have challenges. I've never suggested that
Speaker 7: it's a linear line and it all happens easily or
Speaker 7: it's all automatic. But with the right policy settings, which
Speaker 7: we do have, and the right approach from government, yes
Speaker 7: we can continue to be on track, facing headwinds and
Speaker 7: challenges from time to time, of course, but we're seeing
Speaker 7: very strong investment figures.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry to infect upon. You went on to say
Speaker 1: that he'll wait until you received advice from the Climate
Speaker 1: Change Council before he announces the twenty thirty five target.
Speaker 1: But no matter the advice, it will be winded, ambitious
Speaker 1: and achievable apparently. Yeah, good on you, Pam. Good morning.
Speaker 8: The main reis and Trump's imposing these tariffs on all
Speaker 8: the important goods. I mean, as a result the American
Speaker 8: people having to pay. In its belief all the American
Speaker 8: companies long gone from America will all come back. But
Speaker 8: the thing is some will, but with the volatility and uncertainty,
Speaker 8: and the infrastructure for manufacturing sort of died in lots
Speaker 8: of cases in America when they took all their money
Speaker 8: to South America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's that. And look that isn't it, Pam.
Speaker 1: It's the case in many countries like ours, around the
Speaker 1: world that we've subcontracted manufacturer to Southeast Asia. Now we're,
Speaker 1: you know, worried that all will be and I'm not
Speaker 1: having a crack at barristas, but we'll just make each
Speaker 1: other coffee. This is why the idea of Trump appeals
Speaker 1: to me, because it says to the status quo, which
Speaker 1: has just allowed us to get into the state we
Speaker 1: are now in, it doesn't have to be like this.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be like this. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: will get manufacturing back, gosh. I heard him speak a
Speaker 1: little while back, and he was saying, you know, this
Speaker 1: company's coming back and they're building a new plant here
Speaker 1: and they're investing billions in and it sounded good. I
Speaker 1: guess in the fullness of time we'll know if that's
Speaker 1: true or not. But I take the point. Thank you
Speaker 1: for calling Grant.
Speaker 9: Good morning, mate, Miss Luke Grant.
Speaker 5: Love your work.
Speaker 10: Which is the wrong side of history with this one.
Speaker 1: My friend yep.
Speaker 9: When Biden was in near the end, you were a
Speaker 9: Department Commerce and Fed Reserves said thirty three percent of
Speaker 9: manufacturing in the world is in China. By two thirty
Speaker 9: to forty five percent are going to get worse, and
Speaker 9: quote unquote things have to change now. Whether Trump's doing
Speaker 9: it the right, I don't know. So far as the
Speaker 9: economist that Chap Chris Ray here from excess economics that
Speaker 9: we are going to become a country of people to
Speaker 9: buy coffees from a coffee shop. I just go around
Speaker 9: shopping malls by cheap important clothes. That's all we're going
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well made you. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what you said about my view, but I agree
Speaker 1: with what you said there. Something has to change and
Speaker 1: that's the that's the reason why the idea of Trump
Speaker 1: appeals to me. Now I can, I can, And I've
Speaker 1: just got to say to people, I can actually enjoy
Speaker 1: or embrace the idea of Trump without supporting every aspect
Speaker 1: of Trump, the idea of the disruptor, Because what's the
Speaker 1: status quo goddess, what's the body politic made up of
Speaker 1: bureaucrats and elected career politicians? What's that, goddess? You're happy
Speaker 1: with that? Really? Are you making stuff everywhere but here?
Speaker 1: And now? On reports we're getting buses that were meant
Speaker 1: to be made in New South Wales may in China
Speaker 1: and they can't discount the fact that they might have
Speaker 1: been in part built by foreign slave labor. I mean,
Speaker 1: is that okay? We're giving that a tick. I can't
Speaker 1: find myself in a situation where I give any of
Speaker 1: this stuff a tick. Because and this is not surprising,
Speaker 1: and how often have we been saying, you know, the
Speaker 1: idea of insanity is doing everything you've done the same
Speaker 1: way but expecting a different result. That's why the idea
Speaker 1: of Trump appeals to me. Someone's got to say enough.
Speaker 1: And it seems to me to me that the case
Speaker 1: that the Americans in big numbers said enough. Now in
Speaker 1: four years, I might also say enough about I'll mate
Speaker 1: the Trumpster. But a lot of people are fired up
Speaker 1: about this. I understand that, and I get plenty of
Speaker 1: feedback from people who think I don't go strongly enough
Speaker 1: or around Trump, and people that are horrified that I'd
Speaker 1: even like the idea. But frankly I do because something
Speaker 1: has to change. Or we can just you know, make
Speaker 1: each other a coffee and work to support all the
Speaker 1: free stuff we provide Australians and see how that goes
Speaker 1: for it. I think we know which way that'll go
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: Opinions that matter is you can trust and now look
Speaker 2: grand comments.
Speaker 1: Look, I want to talk today about the idea that
Speaker 1: the science has settled, but not about climate. Just generally speaking,
Speaker 1: the science is settled, and I reflect on a medication
Speaker 1: that I used to take I used to get terrible
Speaker 1: back pain, and this medication was withdrawn from the market.
Speaker 1: But the science was settled. It was this is called viox.
Speaker 1: It was so settled that it made its way into
Speaker 1: the PBS. You go to your doctor, they prescribe it.
Speaker 1: If you were on a benefits card, you got it
Speaker 1: for next to nothing, and even if you weren't, it
Speaker 1: wasn't that expense. They took it away because of the
Speaker 1: risk of heart attack. But hang on, the science was settled.
Speaker 1: It was so settled you could get it on the PBS.
Speaker 1: So I never accept it is I think there's always
Speaker 1: hang on a minute. Who knows what's next. But we
Speaker 1: read today dozens of a zepic, Munjarro and we gvery
Speaker 1: users are reporting drug induced hepatitis, prompting medical experts to
Speaker 1: call for regular checkups to avert permanent liver damage. Complaints
Speaker 1: of flu like symptoms for tea, crippling, abdominal cramps, and
Speaker 1: severe vomiting thought to be linked to drug induced liver
Speaker 1: injury of being reported among users in severe cases. People
Speaker 1: on the revolutionary drugs, which are sold off label for
Speaker 1: weight loss, have told of incidents of being hospitalized after
Speaker 1: presenting with symptoms associated with information of the liver. Now,
Speaker 1: the TGA, that's the Therapeutic Goods Administrations also received three
Speaker 1: reports of titus or drug induced liver injury associated with
Speaker 1: the active ingredient, which is a thing called Semaglue tide
Speaker 1: marketed in Australia as ozenpic and we guy. One woman
Speaker 1: asked an Australian social media site, any of you on
Speaker 1: Munjaro have had to stop taking it due to affecting
Speaker 1: your liver. I'm in hospital with medication induced hepatitis and
Speaker 1: they're positive it's from the drug. Now. I raised that
Speaker 1: because this follows a significant report in the Australian yesterday
Speaker 1: about ozenpic and look, I don't speak to you as
Speaker 1: a scientist. You've got to talk to your doctor. But
Speaker 1: I am reflecting on the notion that the science is
Speaker 1: settled and thank goodness, it's not tick that off put away,
Speaker 1: never look at it again. And they refer to a
Speaker 1: bloke called Les Bridges, a man who enjoys a big
Speaker 1: appetite six if he's dozens of cigarettes, bacon and egg
Speaker 1: toasties for breakfast, burgers for lunch, guinness after work, wine
Speaker 1: for dinner. He says, I've been very good excess. He's
Speaker 1: fifty seven. I like to let my hair down, but
Speaker 1: as I got older, my body started keeping score. I
Speaker 1: got to over one hundred and twenty kilos. My feet
Speaker 1: were killing me. I had high cholesterol. Last year. My
Speaker 1: heart specialists asked me, would you be having more than
Speaker 1: seven standard drinks a week? I said, jeez, doc, I'd
Speaker 1: spill more than that. And he says the doctor suggests
Speaker 1: that he try a zen pic. Now what he says
Speaker 1: after people said, look at you, Les, you look really good,
Speaker 1: he says he's getting I won't say what. He says,
Speaker 1: lots of attention, and he's loving it. He's actually lost
Speaker 1: his appetite. All the cravings are gone. He says, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: But he says, I've lost the desire for the things
Speaker 1: I used to love. And the suggestion is that it's
Speaker 1: not just the food you used to love. And they're
Speaker 1: just wondering to what extent this drug affects your mind. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you a report that I've seen out there,
Speaker 1: and if it was the only one i'd seen, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even bother. But for weeks now, me and my
Speaker 1: producer Nelson have been looking at this stuff coming in
Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot more to this story.
Speaker 1: I'm not warning people that there's a problem with it,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying there is a lot of reporting
Speaker 1: around it. And as I made clear to you earlier
Speaker 1: and perhaps even last weekend, we will find someone expert
Speaker 1: in the field to tell us, Mate, I think you're
Speaker 1: over doing this a bit, or this is something worth
Speaker 1: looking at. I started by saying the science has settled.
Speaker 1: I'm a scientist, but I've got enough lived experience to
Speaker 1: know that perhaps you know what the science isn't really
Speaker 1: ever settled. Twenty four after ten o'clock at that time,
Speaker 1: and a Sunday where we chat to extraordinary Australians, well,
Speaker 1: as we say, ordinary Australians doing extraordinary things, and today
Speaker 1: we're talking to Sue Woodhall. Now, Sue was in her
Speaker 1: late fifties. She was a high flyer in the public service,
Speaker 1: holding a senior position. It looked as though nothing would
Speaker 1: stop her. Then one day along comes that awful breast cancer.
Speaker 1: She tried to negotiate pathway back to work after going
Speaker 1: through treatment and the like, but as a full extent
Speaker 1: of well, symptoms following treatment became clear those hopes seemingly disappeared. Eventually,
Speaker 1: her employer made it clear that they couldn't hold the
Speaker 1: role open. Now what she decided then, and this is
Speaker 1: what makes the people we speak to it this time
Speaker 1: on a Sunday so remarkable. What she wanted to do
Speaker 1: was to say this doesn't happen to anyone else. So
Speaker 1: she founded the advocacy group Live Work Cancer, a Britain
Speaker 1: organization supporting those negotiating their entry and exit from work
Speaker 1: around their diagnosis, while pushing businesses to show compassion to
Speaker 1: employees battling cancer. Let's find out more about the work
Speaker 1: and life of Sue. What all I'm delighted to say
Speaker 1: is on the line. Good morning, Sue, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time. How's your health? I have to
Speaker 1: start there.
Speaker 11: Well, firstly, good morning Luke, and thank you for the
Speaker 11: opportunity to chat with you this morning. Absolutely, my health, well,
Speaker 11: it's good. I feel that cancer is not in my body,
Speaker 11: but we don't really know. We never really know. But
Speaker 11: I'm coming up for my fifth anniversary next month, so brilliant,
Speaker 11: in a good place, and I'm doing something that I'm
Speaker 11: really passionate about. I believe in it. I've got both
Speaker 11: a lived experience but the understanding from so much research
Speaker 11: into this area of when cancer arrives when we're working.
Speaker 1: This is again full credit to you. Firstly, I'm delighted
Speaker 1: to know that you're coming up to five years. But
Speaker 1: turning into what was such a negative outcome in your life,
Speaker 1: to turn it into what you're doing now is brilliant.
Speaker 1: So I'll remind people at the end of our chat
Speaker 1: to go to livework cancer dot com. Tell me what
Speaker 1: happened to your career if you can. How did you
Speaker 1: find yourself in the position where the career was just
Speaker 1: about done?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I guess, Luke. It starts with firstly the diagnosis,
Speaker 11: and then I got a treatment plan from Young Core
Speaker 11: Logists which said two and a half years of act
Speaker 11: what they call active treatment, and then another sort of
Speaker 11: five to seven years of treatment because of the type
Speaker 11: of breast cancer I had. And so after you know,
Speaker 11: a couple of surgeries, five months of chemo radiation therapy
Speaker 11: and the first lot of the called targeted therapies, I
Speaker 11: felt that, yeah, twelve months I could probably start to
Speaker 11: consider returning to work. So developed a return to work
Speaker 11: plan which really needed to consider all of the side
Speaker 11: effects and some of the challenges for not just our
Speaker 11: buddies at work, but also our families, our friends to
Speaker 11: understand the real impact that the treatment imposes on us.
Speaker 11: And many of these are invisible. So the three that
Speaker 11: i'll i'll talk about this morning that probably made it
Speaker 11: very difficult in terms of just switching from not working
Speaker 11: to going back to work was what they call brain
Speaker 11: fog or chemo chemo brain. The technical term is cancer
Speaker 11: related cognitive impairment. Yes, and that basically I couldn't think
Speaker 11: I was one of the fortunate ones because I had
Speaker 11: income protection, but I couldn't fill up the income protection forms.
Speaker 1: So can I ask you this might be such a
Speaker 1: stupid question, Sue, but did you know could you understand
Speaker 1: what was going on? Was the impairment your ability not
Speaker 1: to complete the form or were you completely unattached from
Speaker 1: a sense of reality?
Speaker 11: If you will, Well, yeah, I like, you know, put
Speaker 11: your name here, your first name and then your second name.
Speaker 11: I couldn't get that right. I couldn't get the address
Speaker 11: in the right boxes. So what happens with and it
Speaker 11: doesn't happen to everyone that has chemo, and it depends
Speaker 11: on the type of chemo, and there's many different types,
Speaker 11: but for some of us, the change in our cognition,
Speaker 11: our executive functioning, is real, and it was one of
Speaker 11: the side effects I had absolutely no idea about. I
Speaker 11: did expect the second one, which was fatigue and that
Speaker 11: sort of you do nothing in the day and you're exhausted,
Speaker 11: but the cognition issues were really front and center. So
Speaker 11: when I was thinking about returning to work, you know,
Speaker 11: I had to explain that, you know, meeting with ministers,
Speaker 11: meeting with secretaries, you know, fronting up with an audience
Speaker 11: of very seeing your public servants or suppliers or whomever,
Speaker 11: I wouldn't be able to do that. I wouldn't be
Speaker 11: able to do it to the same level that I
Speaker 11: could do before my diagnosis. And it was a shock
Speaker 11: to me, and I think it was a learning for
Speaker 11: those around me, both at work and also in my
Speaker 11: friends and my family. And I was talking to a
Speaker 11: researcher who does a lot of work around cancer related
Speaker 11: cognitive impairment, Darren Haywood, and sort of said, well, why
Speaker 11: don't why don't we get told about this? And it's
Speaker 11: a really you know, it's a really important question. That
Speaker 11: we don't want to sort of frighten everyone say well,
Speaker 11: if you have chemo, you may you know, you may,
Speaker 11: your brain might sort of stop working. But the having
Speaker 11: the conversations with your cancer nurse, you're oncologist, you're psychologist.
Speaker 11: They help you to understand that what you're experiencing is
Speaker 11: real and and also it's not.
Speaker 1: You're not unique, you know on one on one level,
Speaker 1: if a doctor's brave enough, well a doctor's not brave enough.
Speaker 1: But if doctor fronts you with the confronting news that
Speaker 1: they have discovered a tumor, then you would imagine that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's tough enough, but what follow should
Speaker 1: be the tough conversation about it just worries me that
Speaker 1: we say, oh, you know, it's a bit difficult to
Speaker 1: talk about. I know you're not saying that, but you know,
Speaker 1: this is not you can't just have certain aspects of
Speaker 1: the illness and the treatment. This is a whole box
Speaker 1: and dice. So what I what I want to understand
Speaker 1: to is in your workplace or with your employer, because
Speaker 1: you sound perfectly like the sort of person would say, well,
Speaker 1: if I've got a cognitive impairment, I can't be expected
Speaker 1: to make, you know, very big decisions. Well what do
Speaker 1: we want our employers to do? What? Where do they
Speaker 1: kind of miss the boat because it's equally wrong to say, well, sorry,
Speaker 1: you can't work anymore.
Speaker 11: Yes, yeah, look there's a few things. And let me
Speaker 11: say the outset that when I realized the impact on
Speaker 11: my work and then the inability, we tried to get
Speaker 11: a passway back from me, but it just didn't happen.
Speaker 11: Wasn't possible. They did their best. But once I started
Speaker 11: to get a bit of cognition back and I started
Speaker 11: to read some of the research, I then was able
Speaker 11: to walk in my boss's shoes. And I had been
Speaker 11: a leader and manager for many decades, and I felt
Speaker 11: that if I had been leading managing Sue, how would
Speaker 11: I have actually responded? And that was one of the
Speaker 11: a har moments to set up Live Work Cancer because
Speaker 11: it's not my boss's fault, it's not even I mean,
Speaker 11: it's no one's fault. What we need is better advocacy
Speaker 11: and awareness of what are cancer experiences like? And that
Speaker 11: answers to answer your question, Luke, I mean, the first
Speaker 11: thing is make assumptions about what your friend, your colleague,
Speaker 11: your family members going to go through because there's so
Speaker 11: many different there's over one hundred different types of cancer.
Speaker 11: There's many many different subtypes. And if you make the
Speaker 11: assumption that I've got breast cancer, so my colleague who's
Speaker 11: just been diagnosed with best cancer is going to go
Speaker 11: through the same experience, that's the first mistake, that's the
Speaker 11: first trip. And so it's about understanding that cancer and
Speaker 11: its treatment and how our body responds to all that treatment,
Speaker 11: that it is truly unique. So what workplaces need to
Speaker 11: do firstly to start the conversation about cant in the
Speaker 11: workplace because fifty percent of us, unfortunately will be will
Speaker 11: experience cancer and somewhere around forty percent will be working
Speaker 11: when they're here their words, you've got cancer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And then since two thousand, the number of people with
Speaker 11: that are diagnosed with cancer has nearly doubled. So it's
Speaker 11: a growing issue, it's a growing health condition, and we
Speaker 11: need to become more understanding and have greater awareness. The
Speaker 11: other thing that's really important, Luke is to have flexible
Speaker 11: guidelines for managers and gives the manager the ability to
Speaker 11: adapt them to the unique needs of each colleague. So
Speaker 11: it's not about you know, it's this way or the highway.
Speaker 11: It's sort of saying, Sue, well, she's told me that
Speaker 11: her executive functioning or her brain's not working as it
Speaker 11: used to, so we're probably going to need some different accommodations.
Speaker 11: But for somebody else, Joe, for example, he's had a chemo,
Speaker 11: but his brain's working well. He tells me that's he
Speaker 11: understands his capacity. He understands his capability, so we can
Speaker 11: continue to get him back into a similar role, et cetera.
Speaker 11: The other thing that's really important is is training, training
Speaker 11: managers and leaders how to respond with compassion, not just
Speaker 11: empathy and empathy and action, that's what compassion is, so
Speaker 11: that they're trained and prepared for the person that comes
Speaker 11: in and says that've got cancer. And workplaces have made
Speaker 11: some amazing inroads into support for people with mental health issues. Absolutely,
Speaker 11: and now I think most workplaces have really solid parental
Speaker 11: supportive environments, safe work environments. But when we're talking about
Speaker 11: a chronic illness, we lack the training and we lack
Speaker 11: the I guess what we call reasonable adjustments inside the
Speaker 11: world place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think there's I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to that workplaces have made enormous grounds. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the workplace I'm in at nine Radio
Speaker 1: and compared to the company that I worked for the
Speaker 1: same organization, you know, maybe five years ago, the strides
Speaker 1: made in in you know, HR for example and elsewhere
Speaker 1: is remarkable. Who should go to livework cancer dot Com?
Speaker 11: So okay, So firstly, anyone that's trying to balance work
Speaker 11: in cancer. So we provide one on one coaching to
Speaker 11: help them determine what their goals are. You know, do
Speaker 11: they want to go back to work, do they want
Speaker 11: to do they feel that they've you know, got the
Speaker 11: ability to go back to work. How do they want
Speaker 11: to go back to work? What are they worried about?
Speaker 11: So that coaching at one on one. We've set up
Speaker 11: network groups. Now at this stage it's only for women.
Speaker 11: Men tend not to like to come into a support
Speaker 11: group environment. But if the men say otherwise and they
Speaker 11: want to participate in a network group, we will set
Speaker 11: one of those up again. And then we go to
Speaker 11: the workplaces. And that's a combination of just you know,
Speaker 11: having a one hour forty minute conversation with the workplace
Speaker 11: like an all staff meeting. This is what the cancer
Speaker 11: experience can look like this is what the research tells us,
Speaker 11: this is what you might be able to consider and
Speaker 11: then help them with their strategies, their policies.
Speaker 1: Well, if I look, Vagen intervene here and I know,
Speaker 1: I know the station manager of this place is listening. Greg.
Speaker 1: This sounds like a master, it seems to me. So
Speaker 1: I have to go. But gosh, I've learned so much
Speaker 1: talking with you. I wish you'd continued good health. And
Speaker 1: thank you for what you're doing for people who have
Speaker 1: had their battles or will have their battles.
Speaker 12: It's so very important, so great, thanks, thanks, thank you
Speaker 12: to not at.
Speaker 1: All, not at all, Sue what all? And again the
Speaker 1: website is lipworkcancer dot com. Where would we be with
Speaker 1: our people like zooa hashtag just saying.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you've got a tech question for Stephen, jump
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Speaker 1: Stephen when he's not here. How are you mate?
Speaker 13: Well, look, how are you doing buddy?
Speaker 1: I am traveling very well. Look we'll start off talking
Speaker 1: about cyber criminals and scams, and particular in particular these
Speaker 1: AI power scams. I don't even know what one of
Speaker 1: those is. Can you tell me?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Well they will for start, AI just makes it a
Speaker 13: higher quality scam. So sorry to say, it's just phishing
Speaker 13: emails sound a bit more professional. They look a bit
Speaker 13: more professional in this instance. This was a big report
Speaker 13: that was put out by gen which is a big
Speaker 13: company behind internet security software, and they found that a
Speaker 13: lot of big name brands were imitated, including here in Australia, Telstra.
Speaker 13: There was a scam being sent out to people that
Speaker 13: looked like it was from Telstra with a link to
Speaker 13: a to reset to the Telstra login page.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 13: It would say you know, you've got an issue with
Speaker 13: your account, We're here to reset it. And then you
Speaker 13: click on the link and think, wow, this literally looks
Speaker 13: like the Telstra login page and a lot of people
Speaker 13: unfortunately fell for that. They put in their details and
Speaker 13: their password and basically just gave up their information to
Speaker 13: these criminals. But it's becoming like the number of the
Speaker 13: number of the phishing scams has increased. Would you believe
Speaker 13: from one the end of last year at the beginning
Speaker 13: this year four hundred and sixty six percent increase.
Speaker 4: Mate, So it's getting worse.
Speaker 13: So my advice is assume everything is a scam until
Speaker 13: approven otherwise, don't think it's real, and then find out
Speaker 13: if it's a scam. Assume everything's a scam and work backwards.
Speaker 13: I think it's a safer thing to do. The other
Speaker 13: safe thing to do is also, of course to have
Speaker 13: internet security software, the software that's all constantly updated, because
Speaker 13: that's what that's the strength of internet security software is
Speaker 13: that the latest version has all protection against the latest threats.
Speaker 13: So whether it's I use nought in three sixty, whether
Speaker 13: it's Casperski, whether it's trend Micro McAfee, you need to
Speaker 13: pay for it. There's no such thing as good free protection.
Speaker 13: Pay for it. It normally comes with five licenses, so
Speaker 13: you know, for your laptop, for someone else's laptop, desktop, phone, tablet,
Speaker 13: you've got to protect your or because when you click
Speaker 13: on these links and if the security software will protect you,
Speaker 13: so that's a suspicious website. You don't want to go there,
Speaker 13: so it'll protect you. Without that protection, you're wandering into
Speaker 13: the wilderness and anything can happen.
Speaker 1: You know what made you and I talked about that
Speaker 1: expect everything is a scam some time ago and ever
Speaker 1: since then. And it's almost a little anti social. But
Speaker 1: I can't help it. If I don't know the phone number,
Speaker 1: I won't answer the phone. If they really want me,
Speaker 1: they'll send me a text or leave a message. If
Speaker 1: I get unto listened email, I I just delete it.
Speaker 13: You have to assume, and I've got to tip if
Speaker 13: you receive a call from a number you don't recognize.
Speaker 13: What I do is I answer the phone, but I
Speaker 13: say nothing. I just there silently. Normally if it's a scam,
Speaker 13: So scammers use computers to dial a number every two seconds, right,
Speaker 13: so if it doesn't hear a voice, it's going to
Speaker 13: hang up immediately. So I normally say nothing. If it's
Speaker 13: a real course, all your hear noise in the background
Speaker 13: of someone saying hello, and and then you'll know that's
Speaker 13: a legit call. But if if you say nothing, and
Speaker 13: you'll find nine times out of ten it'll hang up
Speaker 13: because it's a scam call.
Speaker 1: Wow, Scott, how can we help you mate?
Speaker 15: Yes, Steve, I just wanted to.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 15: I've been trying to transfer my photos from my internal
Speaker 15: memory on my SANDTNGE to an SD car but it
Speaker 15: doesn't seem to do an album formatting.
Speaker 16: It just puts them all on it randomly?
Speaker 17: Is the way I do that?
Speaker 18: Do you have?
Speaker 13: There's not a micro SD card in your Samsung that's
Speaker 13: got no expandable memory.
Speaker 15: So downitly. I just want to transfer everything from my
Speaker 15: internal memory.
Speaker 13: To my memory, okay, because I.
Speaker 15: Don't get to do it in album format.
Speaker 4: But yeah, well that's there.
Speaker 13: There was there was an application. It was called Android
Speaker 13: Transfer if Memory Serves, and that year that was an
Speaker 13: app I downloaded on my computer. So whenever there was
Speaker 13: an Android device connected, it would mount like a USB
Speaker 13: drive and I was able just to basically drag and
Speaker 13: drop the photos into wherever I wanted them to go.
Speaker 13: So maybe look for.
Speaker 1: That and Android transfer Good luck, I Peter.
Speaker 16: Hey, how you going to look good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 13: They're good.
Speaker 16: I don't know if this is everyone's got this Microsoft
Speaker 16: outlook messenger. Yep, they have suddenly gone to having your
Speaker 16: name before who the your email is from. So I
Speaker 16: get Peter and then the email. But what happens is
Speaker 16: you have to open every email to see who it's from,
Speaker 16: which is very time continuing because you know, we all
Speaker 16: get a lot of spam. Yeah, so used to be
Speaker 16: able to just see who it was from, saying not interested?
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: So you are you.
Speaker 13: Talking about Messenger or Outlook?
Speaker 4: Which one?
Speaker 13: Is it a messenger or is it email? Is a message? Email?
Speaker 16: Emails?
Speaker 1: Emails?
Speaker 13: Okay, well that's you're yeah, and you're using just the
Speaker 13: Outlook on your on your computer.
Speaker 16: Outlook, Yes, that's correct, mate, yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, right, and are you running an older version of Windows,
Speaker 13: knowing it's Windows ten, Windows ten? Okays, just just so
Speaker 13: we be fine. There could be a number of reasons
Speaker 13: why that is, mate. Oh you know what I would do.
Speaker 13: I would log in and out of the account, so
Speaker 13: I would wipe, I'd get out of the account. So
Speaker 13: delete the account from your your your Outlook and then
Speaker 13: log back in again and let everything else come back
Speaker 13: in from the server again, or just make sure, like
Speaker 13: go in the settings and have a look at some
Speaker 13: of the you can set rules for your mailbox. So
Speaker 13: some of your rules could be that if you if
Speaker 13: the person's not in your contact book, their name's not
Speaker 13: going to come up. So just check the rules that
Speaker 13: you've said in the settings and see if that could.
Speaker 13: Then you know that the names are going to be
Speaker 13: accurately portrayed.
Speaker 1: All right, good luck, peterbook. Now we've got people to
Speaker 1: talk to and Steve and we don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of time, so let's come straight back in if you call,
Speaker 1: it can be quick, Sam, get he to you.
Speaker 18: What would you like to say, Hey, guys, Stephen, Sorry
Speaker 18: you mentioned nineteen three sixty premium. I've got that every
Speaker 18: and suddenly when I got to clean this system, they
Speaker 18: keep asking me to buy more things. So I don't
Speaker 18: know what to do.
Speaker 13: Well is it is it expired or you still got
Speaker 13: some time on it? Because this all goes for no.
Speaker 18: I just I just bought a month ago and it's
Speaker 18: keip like every time to use it. That keeps want
Speaker 18: me to buy fifty nine dollars or one hundred and
Speaker 18: fifty nine dollars to clean this office.
Speaker 13: You can always not take them up. Just just just
Speaker 13: say no and just let it do its think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Sam, it's a good point. I'd say
Speaker 1: that when I subscribe to something. It's very annoying.
Speaker 6: Dean A Dean, get a gents, listen.
Speaker 19: I have a five G Optus broad and motem, but
Speaker 19: I live in a three three level terrace.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 19: I also have a Nokia Fast Mile five G gateway,
Speaker 19: which I used to use now on my top level
Speaker 19: because I've got data cabling patched all the way through.
Speaker 19: If I had plug in my Nokia Fast Mile five
Speaker 19: G gateway, is that going to just be a plug
Speaker 19: and play situational it is?
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 13: You should have Ethernet ports on the back of the modem,
Speaker 13: so plug me into one of your ports and then
Speaker 13: out at the other side of the other cable junction
Speaker 13: the other cat switch and plugging. Then what you need
Speaker 13: to on that level and that you should be It
Speaker 13: should take a while wired the signal up the top.
Speaker 1: There there you go, Jody good Jody, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 20: I did a reset on my sister in law's phone
Speaker 20: and unfortunately she lost her iPhone. I tried to reconnect
Speaker 20: and she didn't know password, so I had to look
Speaker 20: on the bottom of the modem. YEP, but that password
Speaker 20: didn't work. How else can I find.
Speaker 13: She saved it in her like? Is she using an
Speaker 13: iPhone or what she's using.
Speaker 20: She's using an iPhone. Yeah, I had a look. There's
Speaker 20: nothing saved.
Speaker 13: Nothing in the passwords, so she didn't. Usually as a
Speaker 13: password app on there should be should be able to
Speaker 13: find it, and then you'll need to do another security
Speaker 13: check what face ID to make sure it's you, and
Speaker 13: then it should reveal the actual password and allow you
Speaker 13: to copy it and then paste it where you needed
Speaker 13: to go. So if she hasn't got there there, she
Speaker 13: needs to just remember it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the password app I've got that, and you
Speaker 1: it looks at your face and says, yeah, right, I argue.
Speaker 13: With that, and then you can look at all your passwords.
Speaker 1: They're based on the all but if it's if it's
Speaker 1: not there, I don't know how it's not there.
Speaker 4: But if it's you've got to remember it.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you can't, Apple, I guess make you come
Speaker 1: through all sorts of hoops to get it, do they
Speaker 1: they would?
Speaker 13: Well, no, well just that that particular, Well, this is
Speaker 13: a this is a Wi Fi pass but there's no no,
Speaker 13: it's forgot password. If you're too with your wireless network password,
Speaker 13: you've got to remember it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, mate, great to chat. See you next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Stephen Fennick tech guide dot com dot are you.
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Speaker 1: hope things are good? It's the first day of winter.
Speaker 1: If you've just joined us, that's what it is. But
Speaker 1: as I look out of the studio here in Sydney,
Speaker 1: I know it's not the same in Brisbane. There's cloud
Speaker 1: and raining stuff and all that kind of gear going
Speaker 1: on there. But goodness me, it's a beautiful day. It
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Speaker 1: the voice of Cruden's Clearwater Revival, has released a new album,
Speaker 1: Legacy the Creudens Clearwater Revival years and it's to mark
Speaker 1: his eightieth birthday. He fully owns his songs for the
Speaker 1: first time, done one of those deals like Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I think she's brought her back catalog back or a
Speaker 1: catalog backs she now owns. It's bizarre how all that
Speaker 1: stuff happens, but it does. And he's recorded the songs
Speaker 1: on the album from a new with backing from his
Speaker 1: sons Shane and Tyler Fogerdy. He's eighty now. I hate agism,
Speaker 1: you know that. I don't like using that word, but
Speaker 1: I do and I don't want a stereotype anyone that.
Speaker 1: You know, at eighty you can't be a rock singer again.
Speaker 1: But when I play some of his songs in a
Speaker 1: moment from this new album, you well, I'm sure like, ah,
Speaker 1: you be going what Catherine telling me? It's a beautiful
Speaker 1: day in Brisbane too. Oh that's nice, Catherine. They told
Speaker 1: me it wasn't going to be. I should get my
Speaker 1: camera up and have a lot. Thank you for your note. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I play some John Fogerty. Soon we will look at
Speaker 1: streaming and what's available. There's some new things hitting the
Speaker 1: streaming channels. If you have a free one or a
Speaker 1: paid one. Terry Pontikas will be here. Pontikus rather will
Speaker 1: be here to walk me through all of that, and
Speaker 1: lots of time to talk to you on one three
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Speaker 1: feedback because it's been a little while and we get
Speaker 1: a deluge, which we really appreciate it. So look, why
Speaker 1: are politicians still saying we're a long standing friend of
Speaker 1: the US. The PM and Penny Wong have been destroying
Speaker 1: that friendship for the past three years. Left wing allegiance
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Speaker 1: and Israel in favor of our spotic government. Kerry, thank you.
Speaker 1: This listen says if you log into your modem router,
Speaker 1: you can find your WiFi password, and my audio producer
Speaker 1: Liam says it might even be on your modem. I
Speaker 1: think we've got a fridge magnet with our details on
Speaker 1: when we originally got what I like to call modem. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I did last week? I decided, because
Speaker 1: I couldn't get really good Wi Fi in our upstairs bedroom,
Speaker 1: I thought I'm going to do what Stephen says, get
Speaker 1: myself one of those mesh router systems, which I did,
Speaker 1: and of course you read the reviews and I say, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that pretty easy to install. Oh this works really good.
Speaker 1: You should get one. Then you get someone I couldn't
Speaker 1: even turn the thing on. He did right over. That's
Speaker 1: I think a review of you rather than a review
Speaker 1: of the product. So a day after buying it, I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to connect it. So I think to myself,
Speaker 1: the thing to do here is to not think you
Speaker 1: know everything about everything, but get the help of an expert.
Speaker 1: So I went to my tell co's phone line, and
Speaker 1: of course you ring that and then we should be
Speaker 1: able to get you in a couple of hours. And
Speaker 1: who wants to do that? Fear of holding on? So
Speaker 1: I went to the chat, the online chat. You know,
Speaker 1: they say you can contact us via the chat. So
Speaker 1: I did that, and another day passes an old mate
Speaker 1: in the chat had me putting my contrangulated who knows,
Speaker 1: into my full foo, which was never going to work.
Speaker 1: And you know how I know that because I relented
Speaker 1: and rang an expert who actually came to my joint,
Speaker 1: very nice bike, and I said, mate, they told me
Speaker 1: to whack my thinking about it into my full foo
Speaker 1: and he said no, no, no, no, no, don't do that,
Speaker 1: because there's only one incoming. I think you referred to
Speaker 1: it as a quality, only one of those incoming into
Speaker 1: your full foo. And if you put into your full
Speaker 1: foit it's not. And it didn't. He fixed it in
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, fixed it in twenty minutes. And look, I've
Speaker 1: worked out a long time ago that in fact, I
Speaker 1: don't know everything about everything, but I've worked out now
Speaker 1: that in my adult years, let's just call them that.
Speaker 1: To be kind to me, you better get someone that
Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. It's a first world problem. And
Speaker 1: in the end of the day, you you know, I
Speaker 1: would have wasted a couple of days. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get them back sunshine. So I'm off them,
Speaker 1: the online chat, the waiting, three hours off them. One
Speaker 1: of my listeners tells me it's raining in Shanghai today. Okay,
Speaker 1: good to know, Alan says Luke. Two words Trevor Long.
Speaker 1: I feel guilty because sometimes I ask Trevor for advice
Speaker 1: and I think, gosh, yeah, I only have a I
Speaker 1: love Trevor. It's a very nice man. But if I
Speaker 1: only go there for advice, and what sort of person
Speaker 1: does that make me? I don't want to be that person.
Speaker 1: Australia's second biggest brewer, Line has accelerated its digital transformation.
Speaker 1: It's partnered with a German software Titaned, to develop an
Speaker 1: AI app dubbed Joey, which will allow customers to pick
Speaker 1: beers they're more likely to enjoy. Normally, apps that are
Speaker 1: built like this can take many to come into reality,
Speaker 1: but the people at Line have really fast tracked this.
Speaker 1: And the idea will be that you, you know, you
Speaker 1: go into the app and it will tell you what
Speaker 1: beer would be ideal for you. Do you reckon? It
Speaker 1: might be a line product? You know? Part of that
Speaker 1: I'm thinking there are so many beers you can't have
Speaker 1: all of them. I know you probably can, but it's
Speaker 1: probably not good that maybe an app that simplifies things
Speaker 1: as a good thing. Fancy that the world has become
Speaker 1: so advanced that to know what bees should drink you
Speaker 1: just use an app? What the hell? Hey? With this
Speaker 1: first day when it's important to tell you that the
Speaker 1: government and through them, the fire people, asking us to
Speaker 1: check our smoke of arms, Fire and Rescue New South
Speaker 1: Wales annual winter fire safety campaign. It's been launched today
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter where you're listening. I guess it
Speaker 1: makes sense to do this stuff. As winter begins and
Speaker 1: temperatures drop, farm from rescue crews typically see a thirteen
Speaker 1: percent increase in house fires. From June one to August thirty.
Speaker 1: Last year, more than one thousand fires broke out in
Speaker 1: New South Wales, homes killing twelve people injuring more than
Speaker 1: one hundred. In forty four percent of winter home fires,
Speaker 1: there was no working smoke alarm, so I guess the
Speaker 1: thing to do is to make sure you check them.
Speaker 1: Throughout twenty twenty four, there were nearly four thousand home fires,
Speaker 1: killing twenty five people. Forty five percent of these had
Speaker 1: no alarm. Be vigilant, they say, around the use of
Speaker 1: lithium iron batteries this winter. There have been one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen lithium iron battery incidents so far in the
Speaker 1: state so far this year, forty two related to eat
Speaker 1: bikes and eat scooters. Devices with lithium iron batteries should
Speaker 1: be handled with care, Always follow safe charging, storage disposal
Speaker 1: practices to prevent fires, explosions and other hazards. And yeah,
Speaker 1: things are really difficult. Then it's triple zero anyway. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that lithium ion battery stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: we report fires that are somehow related to them. It
Speaker 1: seems like every day it seems it's no easier to
Speaker 1: or it's no more difficult to buy a product. I
Speaker 1: suppose it's part of the hazards. If that's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say of living in twenty twenty five, maybe
Speaker 1: it is. Social media giants are leaving deadly bullying pages
Speaker 1: to flourish online, taunting students and circulating vile images of
Speaker 1: them for years, despite their tough talk on teen safety.
Speaker 1: This is a News Corps story. Today they reveal a
Speaker 1: simple search found dozens of bullying accounts targeting students from
Speaker 1: private and public schools on Instagram and TikTok posted newd
Speaker 1: images known as leaks on their pages almost daily. Social
Speaker 1: media platforms only took the pages down following their inquiries.
Speaker 1: Some examples include social media posts where young female pupils
Speaker 1: were labeled all sorts of things. It doesn't you don't
Speaker 1: need me to repeat it, while the boys also mocked
Speaker 1: them with certain emojis. Some Instagram accounts, which had been
Speaker 1: actively posting since twenty twenty three, showed extreme cases of bullying,
Speaker 1: including featuring students full names and social media handles in
Speaker 1: the posts. They seem to be almost unable to deal
Speaker 1: with social media government. So they do talk a tough game,
Speaker 1: don't they. But when when it comes down to it
Speaker 1: keeping people safe by moving some of this wild stuff,
Speaker 1: how many times do we hear it's still there?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Pretty weak. Now we'll take a break, we'll come back
Speaker 1: talk about streaming eighteen after eleven, twenty two after eleven.
Speaker 1: It is entertainment is something that we enjoy obviously, because
Speaker 1: let's be honest, sometimes what's thrust before us as news
Speaker 1: can be somewhat confronting, and we'd like to talk about streaming.
Speaker 1: We do that with the streaming reviewer at the Finn Review,
Speaker 1: Terry Pontikus, who joined us a little while back and
Speaker 1: is joining us again right now. Good day, Terry, how
Speaker 1: are you mate?
Speaker 4: Good morning lecome very well, thanks.
Speaker 1: Mate, excellent, great to talk to you all. Right now
Speaker 1: a few things to chat about, including on Stand, which
Speaker 1: is owned by nine this radio station is and the
Speaker 1: Finn reviewers. Actually as Hacks season four, we've had the finale,
Speaker 1: I think, and will there be another season? Mate?
Speaker 10: Yes, the show's been green lit for a fifth season Luke,
Speaker 10: and the success is due to the strength of the
Speaker 10: writing from creator Paul W. Downs, plus the great performances
Speaker 10: of the actors who live in the two lead characters.
Speaker 10: Deborah Vance is a leaf andry stand up comic who's
Speaker 10: played by Gene Smart. Listeners might know her from Designing
Speaker 10: Women in season two of Fargo, where she plays a
Speaker 10: crime matriarch. The original premise is of this fading star
Speaker 10: about to lose her headlining spot in Vegas and her
Speaker 10: manager manages to talk her into mentoring a young comedy
Speaker 10: writer who'd been canceled on social media for so it's
Speaker 10: been when there's this great sort of relationship between the pair,
Speaker 10: a mentorship and Jean Smart is a fantastic actor, winning Emmy.
Speaker 4: Awards for this role.
Speaker 10: And of course the series has moved on, but it's
Speaker 10: earned a reputation for being one of the best comedies
Speaker 10: of the streaming era, built around these two lead actors.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I've heard a lot of people speak glowingly
Speaker 1: of it. That's hacks on Stan. Now this is on
Speaker 1: Prime and I've watched series one. I've started watching this
Speaker 1: new series season two. It's called Nine Perfect Strangers. It stars,
Speaker 1: amongst others, Nicole Kidman. I have to be honest Bat
Speaker 1: and say that the first episode hasn't grabbed me the
Speaker 1: way as the first episode of season one did, But
Speaker 1: I guess you've got to give things some time. Nine
Speaker 1: Perfect Strangers tell us about it.
Speaker 10: Yes, Look, Nicole Kerman returns as the mysterious Russian wellness
Speaker 10: guru Marsha dimitri Chenko. This time has set in shadow
Speaker 10: in the Austrian Alps. There's new guests, but it's the
Speaker 10: same kind of unsettling spa vibes as the producers, you know,
Speaker 10: dial up the dosage of psychedelics.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 10: I actually enjoyed it, Luke, maybe due to not being
Speaker 10: familiar with season one and with the Aussie author Leanne
Speaker 10: Murriarty's best selling novel which was adapted for the first season,
Speaker 10: so that original material ran dry and producers have commissioned
Speaker 10: a purpose built script to keep this going as an
Speaker 10: anthology series. So you know, it's not getting a lot
Speaker 10: of love from critics, but I enjoyed it. It's got
Speaker 10: Murray Bartlett in it.
Speaker 4: He's the actor.
Speaker 10: Who's starred in season one of The White Lotus.
Speaker 4: Yes, really good.
Speaker 10: He plays this puppeteer who was the star of a
Speaker 10: famous kids TV show who was canceled after a Christian
Speaker 10: Bale type rant went viral. So he's working on his
Speaker 10: anger management. But I think the thing to keep in
Speaker 10: mind with Nine Perfect Strangers is it's had the misfortune
Speaker 10: of following the White Lotus for season one and season
Speaker 10: three of the White in both its incarnations so far.
Speaker 10: For a little bit of better timing, you know, it
Speaker 10: could have it could have sort of grabbed a lot
Speaker 10: of those a lot.
Speaker 4: Of that attention that the White Lotus got.
Speaker 10: It's it's filled with you know, travel porn in the
Speaker 10: same way that my White Lotuses.
Speaker 1: There's a degree of quirkiness, isn't there if that's the
Speaker 1: right word.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 10: I mean I liked it for it's just sheer escapism.
Speaker 4: I hadn't seen season one.
Speaker 10: There's these rich types who are sort of you know,
Speaker 10: rattling around these luxurious sort of locations. So so it's
Speaker 10: it's one of those things that, like I say, it
Speaker 10: does tread familiar ground to the White Lotus, but it's
Speaker 10: got its own sort of sci fi element to it
Speaker 10: all or the science element to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I found they've quite enjoyable.
Speaker 1: All right, that's on Prime nine. Perfect Stranger season two.
Speaker 1: Now David Wenham we remember from some great work in Australia,
Speaker 1: The Australian. He's in a film on Binge called Spits Right.
Speaker 10: Well, this Starshim as John Spitzpittiri. He's an ex con.
Speaker 10: He's been on the lamb for twenty years in the UK.
Speaker 10: He gets banged up in immigrations attention upon re entry
Speaker 10: to Australia on a false passport. So it's a case
Speaker 10: of mistaken identity and he becomes a type of ambassador
Speaker 10: the country really doesn't need, as he's teaching his fellow
Speaker 10: detainees what it means to be an as. It's a
Speaker 10: sequel to a two thousand and three film called Getting Square,
Speaker 10: where Wenham's cult sort of favorite character literally stole the show,
Speaker 10: you know. And the strength of this film is obviously
Speaker 10: when into rendition of this lovable assie low life, but
Speaker 10: it also stars well known local actors David Field and
Speaker 10: Gary Sweet.
Speaker 1: Oh excellent, all right, that's bit and coming up next week.
Speaker 1: This intrigues me. This is called stick and this is
Speaker 1: ted lasso esque is it a? But it involves golf.
Speaker 10: Yes, definitely. Yeah, I'll be reviewing this one the next
Speaker 10: Saturday's week. In addition of the Finn Luke, Look, Hollywood's
Speaker 10: enjoyed a long love affair mixing sport and comedy. And
Speaker 10: when you consider how most people play golf, you know,
Speaker 10: especially me, it's tailor made for last really, but you've
Speaker 10: got to think back to classics like Caddyshack in the eighties, yes, nineties,
Speaker 10: yeah exactly, and in the mid nineties Tin Cup and
Speaker 10: Happy Gilmore. But it seems to be enjoying a bit
Speaker 10: of a renaissance now with Stick and there's also a
Speaker 10: talk of Happy Gilmore two being in.
Speaker 4: The works as well.
Speaker 10: Look, this star is a very popular Luke Wilson. He's
Speaker 10: alongside Mark Maron. He's playing a former USPGA champion who's
Speaker 10: down on his luck. A public milkdown ended his career
Speaker 10: on a sour note, and he's looking for redemption by
Speaker 10: mentoring a teenage prodigy that he's accidentally discovered.
Speaker 4: So it's familiar territory for fans of.
Speaker 10: Luke Wilson playing the lovable loser. I enjoyed it. It's
Speaker 10: got its share of laughs, it's got a lot of heart.
Speaker 10: The show does a good job keeping things light and
Speaker 10: there's a lot of really nice generational humor. But yes,
Speaker 10: as you pointed out, Luke Gappel's obviously trying to bertie
Speaker 10: the ted lasshole hohole again, I'd say, yes.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it. I wonder if there's anyone that
Speaker 1: has played golf or is still playing golf, that hasn't
Speaker 1: had a crack at the happy Gilmore three steps into
Speaker 1: the drive. I've probably had half a dozen guys I've
Speaker 1: missed every time. Have you gone with that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 10: Look, you know, as a as a more of a
Speaker 10: cricketer in the background, I have taken to that to
Speaker 10: that it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Great work. The first reverab I'll say is kick your
Speaker 4: head still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right, which is pretty out of your moving around. Hey, Terry,
Speaker 1: Greg to chat again. Mate, We'll talk again soon. Take
Speaker 1: care of yourself.
Speaker 4: Thanks very much, Lee, Thanks mate.
Speaker 1: Terry pontikas the finn Review streaming reviewer. I'll be having
Speaker 1: a look at that one for sure, the golf thing
Speaker 1: stick And you know what, I haven't got into hacks yet.
Speaker 1: I should, I should, you know, an aging failing star
Speaker 1: not that I'm one of them, of course, not even
Speaker 1: a star. The failing and aging bit. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: cop that, Barbara says, Luke, great show, Last Anniverse on
Speaker 1: Binge is good. Sit around the Hawkesbury Islands another Leanne
Speaker 1: Moriarty adaptation. Thank you Barbara very much. I asked earlier
Speaker 1: about the COVID booster because I'm going on a holiday soon.
Speaker 1: Get a Luke to read the COVID booster. This booster
Speaker 1: won't stop one from getting COVID if the immune system
Speaker 1: is down, but it will dissipate the severity. If people
Speaker 1: are visiting nursing retirement homes, they should ensure they're not
Speaker 1: at risk of putting COVID into these areas for obvious reasons. Okay, well, Paul,
Speaker 1: thank you mate. I appreciate that feedback. I'll have another
Speaker 1: chat to my doctor who says, yes, go and get it.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you how many people have said
Speaker 1: don't do it, and people have said, for goodness sake,
Speaker 1: do it. Split down the middle, and it's not a
Speaker 1: popularity contest. It's about science, right, So yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: for the contribution. I do struggle with that. I simply
Speaker 1: don't know and I still don't know. Frankly, back in
Speaker 1: a second now, I mentioned just a little while back
Speaker 1: that John Fogerty is about to release Legacy, the Creden's
Speaker 1: clear Water Revival years. He's eighty, John Fogerty, Nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. The album's released in August. It's a twenty
Speaker 1: track collection features newly recorded versions of some of his
Speaker 1: most beloved songs, including this one, which might just pop
Speaker 1: in your head and go, oh yeah, remember he's eighty.
Speaker 1: This is him and his sons up and around the bend.
Speaker 1: Just have a listen to this voice from John Fogerty.
Speaker 1: How about that John fog Fogudy? Rather than the album's
Speaker 1: called Legacy, and if you get it, you'll find this
Speaker 1: song on it as well. It's been more than more
Speaker 1: than a relevant in Australia given the weather we've had lately.
Speaker 1: Don't you think ever seen the rain? John Fogerty at
Speaker 1: eighty unbelievable? Yeah, it's that in August. It's called Legacy,
Speaker 1: the album Ever Seen the Rain? Eighty John Fogerty. Someone
Speaker 1: Matt saying his age better than meat Loaf. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to make of that, but thank you Matt Right.
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Speaker 17: Listen? I mean, we all love to travel, and I
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Speaker 17: I mean, Europe's always lovely, and you know, in Japan's
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Speaker 17: will probably go again in another six months. But the
Speaker 17: last trip I did was to Turkey and it was
Speaker 17: crazy we know we're Cappadocia in these hot air balloons
Speaker 17: to see you like one hundred one hundred or something
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Speaker 17: like like nothing he's ever seen, and is Stanbul is
Speaker 17: just you know, it's where, it's where history began. I think,
Speaker 17: like it was crazy, crazy, lovely food, not very expensive.
Speaker 17: It's one of those things there. But you know, if
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. One of the things he said there
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Speaker 17: Probably I suppose look two answers to that. One. A
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Speaker 17: like it is another planet. It's just so beautiful, super
Speaker 17: super lovely. And then I suppose going to there's a
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Speaker 17: bit like Turkey, these places haven't been overrun, so they're
Speaker 17: not they're not like going to some of these main
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Speaker 1: dot com. Forward slash Events had a look at a
Speaker 1: fascinating piece in the New York Times this week about
Speaker 1: mini strokes or I think they're properly known as transient
Speaker 1: ischemic attacks, and it highlighted some new research that found
Speaker 1: that these mini or minor strokes aren't that minor after all.
Speaker 1: They curve and there's a disruption of blood flow to
Speaker 1: the brain, causing symptoms including weakness or paralysis, numbness and
Speaker 1: tingling that might just go away in a few minutes
Speaker 1: and then people think, oh, well that was nothing. Well
Speaker 1: perhaps it wasn't nothing. So I just want to get
Speaker 1: more on this better understanding and maybe help you in
Speaker 1: the process. The CEO of the Stroke Foundation of Australia
Speaker 1: is doctor Lisa Murphy, who joins me on the line.
Speaker 1: Doctor Murphy, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 12: Good morning, no worry, good to chat.
Speaker 1: I hope I said that right right. See into ischemic
Speaker 1: attacks or mini strokes, is that as it was reported correct,
Speaker 1: that they you know, they can come along and disappear
Speaker 1: pretty quickly and they're a warning sign and people think, oh,
Speaker 1: well that was nothing, let's get on with life. That's
Speaker 1: a danger, isn't it.
Speaker 21: It is now that.
Speaker 20: Article was completely correct.
Speaker 22: So a trangient a scheme MAK attack, which is a
Speaker 22: bit of mouthfull, as you say, otherwise known as a
Speaker 22: mini stroke, is exactly that. So it's a stroke, but
Speaker 22: all the symptoms and signs result within twenty four hours.
Speaker 22: So that's why it's called trangent, which means you know, short,
Speaker 22: short amount of time or a mini stroke.
Speaker 1: So what sort of what does a person go through
Speaker 1: they're having a mini stroke, and you know that's one
Speaker 1: of those things that they want to move past because
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're right again, what are the
Speaker 1: things to look out for?
Speaker 20: Good question?
Speaker 22: So, symptoms and signs are exactly the same as a stroke.
Speaker 22: So the commonest ones are of a face on one side,
Speaker 22: inability to lift both arms above the head, slurred speech,
Speaker 22: and we call those the fast signs. That's FAF and
Speaker 22: then there's a T at the end, which means that
Speaker 22: it's always a medical emergency. So no matter whether it's
Speaker 22: the symptoms resolve or whether it's a stroke itself, you
Speaker 22: always have to seek medical attention, and for a stroke,
Speaker 22: that's calling an ambulance.
Speaker 1: Right if you have If you have a mini stroke,
Speaker 1: does it necessarily mean you'll have a more significant event
Speaker 1: later or does a mini stroke actors? You know, a
Speaker 1: bit of a warning sign that you can change your
Speaker 1: lifestyle or whatever, be medicated and that might reduce the
Speaker 1: risk of something more serious.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 22: Absolutely, the tia or mini stroke is a warning sign.
Speaker 22: So nearly one in six people who experience a TIA
Speaker 22: then go on to have a full bone stroke within
Speaker 22: about three months. So it should be taken really, really seriously.
Speaker 22: It's your chance to do something about it. So yeah,
Speaker 22: take it seriously.
Speaker 1: What about this cognitive decline that might follow such an event?
Speaker 1: This was quite key in this New York Times piece.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what you know about that?
Speaker 22: Yes, So, when anything happens to the brain, so if
Speaker 22: the blood supplies, the brain gets cut off, even if
Speaker 22: it's for a short amount of time, and particularly if
Speaker 22: that's happening on an ongoing basis, and that's going to
Speaker 22: lead to difficulties with memory and other cognitive functions. So
Speaker 22: that's definitely something that the article brought out, and it's
Speaker 22: something that people need to be aware of as another
Speaker 22: reason why you know, you need to get these things
Speaker 22: checked out.
Speaker 1: So that's really important. Cognitive decline, I think most of
Speaker 1: us except that it can be a part of aging,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, but it can be so if you're dismissing
Speaker 1: the mini stroke and you're dismissing the cognitive decline or
Speaker 1: those around you are goodness me, you've dug a half
Speaker 1: for yourself, haven't you.
Speaker 22: You have it's you know, however brief those symptoms are.
Speaker 22: You know, it could be just a clock just passing through. Really,
Speaker 22: you know, go to a doctor, get it checked out.
Speaker 22: It's an indication that something more sure is around the line.
Speaker 1: Okay, And again that fast test is face arms, speech
Speaker 1: and the important last bit time you've got to act.
Speaker 11: Quickly, right, absolutely.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 22: One million brain cells dye every minute after a stroke,
Speaker 22: so you can get the treatment, but by the outcome.
Speaker 22: That's why we always know strokes and medical emergency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant, Dr Murphy, great to talk to you. Thanks
Speaker 1: for all that information. It's so very important. I appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. Good on you. Take care. The Stroke Foundation
Speaker 1: is of Australia is a place to go if you
Speaker 1: want further details on what we talked about there. But
Speaker 1: that's that cognitive declinent aspect of that is I think
Speaker 1: new well new Wish from the research we've seen come
Speaker 1: out of the US during the week cross Australia, it's
Speaker 1: back to weekends. We look grand, good afternoon. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much spending the first day of winter with us. Gosh,
Speaker 1: your kind, nice to be with you. Finally, out of
Speaker 1: the show. Today, we'll get to the continuous call team
Speaker 1: who pick up the bat horn that we passed to them.
Speaker 1: After one o'clock. We'll see if the one iron's good
Speaker 1: to go. He's been well. Did he have COVID? I
Speaker 1: think he had COVID? Didn't he? The One Iron might
Speaker 1: have been a week or two back. I know we
Speaker 1: had Daryl. Did we have Daryl last week? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: did have Daryl. That was wonderful to have the big one,
Speaker 1: but hopefully one he's back today. Funny, well, it's not
Speaker 1: funny to have to have COVID. And we started today
Speaker 1: by talking about this new strain that's the WHO World
Speaker 1: Health Organization. I think a few people in apology. I'm
Speaker 1: not looking seriously into where this thing began. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's a completely other issue. We've been talking about the
Speaker 1: vaccine because I'm going away in a few weeks and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day my doctor will advise
Speaker 1: me because we talk about this stuff. Odd I don't
Speaker 1: get my health advice out of the Naily Telegraph or
Speaker 1: Facebook and even with respect listeners. I mean, we're trying
Speaker 1: to gauge where we are on the issue of vaccination
Speaker 1: on COVID nineteen now, and it seems to me from
Speaker 1: the feedback I've got that many people the view, you know,
Speaker 1: not now. Well it was a thing here absolutely, but
Speaker 1: not now people have But again that's not me telling
Speaker 1: you what to do. You decide that with your doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm not qualified, even though that might surprise you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm amazed by some of the feedback. Paul says, which
Speaker 1: eye does one?
Speaker 23: I use?
Speaker 1: No, it's one iron, Paul, not one eye, one iron.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Phil on the email today, Phil Luke, I've suffered TIA,
Speaker 1: that's the mini strokes since school days in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Initially given medication, told to get in the dark space.
Speaker 1: I joined the police, did forty years and suffered during
Speaker 1: this time. In later years, I've had MRIs and other
Speaker 1: exploratory treatments. My symptoms go from the partial loss of eyesight,
Speaker 1: the total loss effects of left hand side of my body,
Speaker 1: mild headache. Last treatment has been ASPEN for ten years
Speaker 1: or more. Only had my eyeside effected a few times.
Speaker 1: Last for half an hour not progressed. I'm very glad
Speaker 1: I had it looked at and what your guest said,
Speaker 1: have it investigated. I encourage people to get it checked.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Phil. Yeah, we're talking about many strokes for
Speaker 1: listenings in camera. Hello camera on two double C. Welcome
Speaker 1: to our show for the first time today. Nice to
Speaker 1: hear from listeners around all of this, even though some
Speaker 1: of the memories aren't comfortable, just some of the news
Speaker 1: about today. I was talking to Nelson, my EP earlier yesterday.
Speaker 1: We got to work and we had an idea about
Speaker 1: what we'd talk about, and then we were just knocked
Speaker 1: for six with breaking news that came to us from
Speaker 1: every every corner. If it even comes to you from corners,
Speaker 1: it does hear it appears to do that here, but
Speaker 1: today it's just you get that. At least seven people
Speaker 1: are dead and thirty injured after a Russian passenger train
Speaker 1: was derailed near the border with Ukraine following a bridge collapse.
Speaker 1: At officials are blamed on illegal interference. The bridge on
Speaker 1: the border of Ukraine was damaged as a result of
Speaker 1: illegal interference in transport operations, according to Moscow Railways in
Speaker 1: a statement, the railway tracks ran underneath the bridge. Russia's
Speaker 1: federal road transportation agency Rozavtador said emergency services of rush
Speaker 1: to the scene of the accident, which was reported I
Speaker 1: think initially about eight o'clock our time this morning. Interesting
Speaker 1: this story in the Telegraph today. The Bulldog's been to
Speaker 1: end their twenty one year premiership drought has received to
Speaker 1: boost from confidential benchmarking NRL documents which show why their
Speaker 1: roster is ready made and challenge for a title now.
Speaker 1: They obtained the NRL's confidential benchmarking on the salary cap,
Speaker 1: which outlines the average wage for each position and a
Speaker 1: breakdown of how much the top earners in each spot receive.
Speaker 1: It also provides a window into the makeup of the
Speaker 1: top four sides in recent seasons based on their age
Speaker 1: and their outlay on their roster and keem make key
Speaker 1: playmaking positions. So the NRL says, you need the top
Speaker 1: four sides spend forty percent of their salary cap on
Speaker 1: their top five plays and sixty percent on their top
Speaker 1: ten plays, meaning the top five paid players are paid
Speaker 1: four point five million, have three players earning an excess
Speaker 1: of eight hundred grand a year. Average age of their
Speaker 1: spine is twenty six. The Bulldogs have top five earners
Speaker 1: taking home four and a half, so that's a tick
Speaker 1: three players Crichton kick our Burton taking home more than
Speaker 1: eight hundred tick average age of the spine twenty five
Speaker 1: once Lachland Galvin starts tick. The Panthers in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four had Cleary Yo Fisher, Harris, Edwards Lewy earning a
Speaker 1: combined four and a half million Cleary Yo Fisher Harris
Speaker 1: earning more than eight hundred grand final spine and average
Speaker 1: age of twenty six point seventy five years. Well that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of wow. So the benchmarking from the NRL,
Speaker 1: and when you hold it up to what the Panthers
Speaker 1: been through, that's extraordinary, isn't it. They even did better
Speaker 1: than we thought they did and they won four in
Speaker 1: a row, but they went in a row.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: I love seeing winners keep winning, but I don't know
Speaker 1: a bit tough, isn't it. A man will face court
Speaker 1: after a pursuit in Sydney, Southwest today about three am.
Speaker 1: Officers from the Highway Patrol Command and others were doing
Speaker 1: stationary speed enforcement on Cumberland Highway at Fairfield West, They
Speaker 1: tended to stop a motorcycle being ridden dangerously allegedly. When
Speaker 1: the rider allegedly failed to stop, a pursuit was initiated.
Speaker 1: A short time later, the pursuit was terminated. The rider,
Speaker 1: a thirty five year old man, was arrested after the
Speaker 1: motorcycle crashed into a hedge. Checks revealed the motorcycle was
Speaker 1: stolen from Edmondson Park On Wednesday. Police also seized methamphetamine
Speaker 1: GHBN two knives. He was subjected to a roadside drug test.
Speaker 1: Positive to methamphetamine, went to Fairfield Police station. Oral fluid
Speaker 1: sample obtained sent for further analysis. A bunch of charges
Speaker 1: obviously two outstanding warrants on drive motor vehicle during disqualification period,
Speaker 1: not give particulars to other driver, the old driving whilst
Speaker 1: disqualified thing fair Dinkham allegedly refused bailed to appear at
Speaker 1: Fairfield Local Court tomorrow. We're about to talk OSSI movies
Speaker 1: with Jim Haynes. We don't and Jim made this point
Speaker 1: to me off here last week. We don't properly appreciate
Speaker 1: just the significant role we've played in the history of movies.
Speaker 1: So Jim's going to be here to talk about all that.
Speaker 1: In a moment or two, we were wondering, just amongst
Speaker 1: us this morning, is there a Knock Him Dead Ossie
Speaker 1: movie theme song? And I actually reckon there is. And
Speaker 1: not everyone will remember this, but this was a massive
Speaker 1: number one song from an era where people like me
Speaker 1: were growing up. See if you remember Smacker fitz Gibbon.
Speaker 24: Adventures of Baty McKenzie, thinking details of.
Speaker 1: True Blue.
Speaker 24: Fresh from the shores, of the hand of Bodies, wafting
Speaker 24: the sand on the you coment treats if you want
Speaker 24: to get your sister.
Speaker 23: In a frenzy.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you think hearing that. If you've
Speaker 1: never heard it before, There's plenty of strings and plenty
Speaker 1: of coral vibes, and you might be thinking, oh, I
Speaker 1: bet that's a kid love story. And if you are
Speaker 1: thinking that, I encourage you to have a look at
Speaker 1: the Adventures of Barry McKenzie and then get back to me.
Speaker 1: Back with Jim. In just a moment, I am Australia.
Speaker 12: I rode with Clancy, I flew with Smithy, I sailed
Speaker 12: with Cook, I trecked with Kidman, explored with Morrison, I
Speaker 12: held Kakoda, I held Gamers, ned Kelly and Janda Morrel.
Speaker 1: I am the sound of what did you redo?
Speaker 12: I am Australia, I'm silver stars on a flag that's
Speaker 12: trew blue.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed they are the wonderful, wonderful tones of my
Speaker 1: friend and next guest, mister Jim Haynes. Hello to you.
Speaker 1: What did you think of me playing the Adventures of Barry?
Speaker 12: It just brought back so many memories of Barry McKenzie
Speaker 12: and and Barry Humphreys and the songs that he would
Speaker 12: have written that I think. But he also wrote so
Speaker 12: many very politically incorrect songs, one of which I actually
Speaker 12: recorded called Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea?
Speaker 17: What and that was?
Speaker 4: They were?
Speaker 12: I think that they were part of the two Barry
Speaker 12: mackenzie movies, right, And a few other songs that you
Speaker 12: know we shouldn't mention the.
Speaker 1: Chunder and the Old Pacific Sea. Sorrys if you're having lunched,
Speaker 1: that was appalling, very poor judgment. But you'd used to
Speaker 1: that from me by now. Surely is a song especially
Speaker 1: about what, well, you don't say, being sick of the
Speaker 1: Pacific Sea?
Speaker 12: Well, would you like a snippet? I haven't got the
Speaker 12: you guys, you would have bought the Ukulelean. I was
Speaker 12: down on Manly Pier drinking chubs of ice. Coyle be
Speaker 12: here with a bucket of primes upon me knee. When
Speaker 12: I swallowed the last prime, I had a technic color on. Yes,
Speaker 12: I undered in the old Pacific Sea. Very political, but
Speaker 12: a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I love that. Did he ever explain why he wrote that?
Speaker 12: Well, the thing about the Barry Mackenzie movies, the two
Speaker 12: of them, and you know, like GoF whitlam appeared in
Speaker 12: them and all sorts of they were really out there.
Speaker 12: But it appealed on two levels, you know, because of
Speaker 12: course Barry Humphreys was sending up like Australia's Yobo sort
Speaker 12: of of course he was. But on the other hand,
Speaker 12: the people who were the targets of his satire actually
Speaker 12: thought the movies were wonderful. Yeah, very funny. Yes, I
Speaker 12: always thought what a clever bloke he was. He was
Speaker 12: a wonderful man, Barry humphreyes but and a man of
Speaker 12: many talents, great artists and art critic, all sorts of
Speaker 12: amazing things.
Speaker 1: You know, my very good friend who knows everything, let's
Speaker 1: just call him Gary Ougle, he tells me Chunda in
Speaker 1: the Old Pacific Sea was written by Frankie Davidson. Was
Speaker 1: it maybe performed by Frankie Davidson?
Speaker 12: Maybe performed? Yeah, Frankie didn't write a lot of song
Speaker 12: as I knew him quite well. He passed away about
Speaker 12: two years ago. And his big hit was have you
Speaker 12: ever been to see King's Cross? Where Sydney siders meet?
Speaker 12: There's a million faces going places, walking up and down
Speaker 12: the street. Oh, two rists everywhere in their travelers do
Speaker 12: declare I've seen the world. You can ear the cry,
Speaker 12: But I bet you a dollar to a dead man's eye.
Speaker 12: You haven't seen the luck till to day you die
Speaker 12: if you haven't been to see Queen's Cross. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: What's up there?
Speaker 21: Now?
Speaker 12: I can't remember what I was supposed to buy at
Speaker 12: the shop, but you can remember whether all that sort
Speaker 12: of rubbish.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not a bad thing. That's that's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing. I've now I'm looking at the music. He
Speaker 1: go words to music by B. Humphries and P. Bess.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, it would have been written by bar Christian.
Speaker 1: Now movies, we're talking about movies yesterday.
Speaker 12: Oh wow, I had a lot of fun researching this
Speaker 12: or re researching it because I knew all this stuff,
Speaker 12: but it's been years since I've delved into it. And
Speaker 12: I've got two of it.
Speaker 23: Now you have to.
Speaker 12: I've got two special packages. I've got the book that
Speaker 12: perhaps I'm sentimental book with all the radio sixty something
Speaker 12: poems that I've done on two GB over the years,
Speaker 12: and the Smile album or my favorite songs that I
Speaker 12: never used to sing on stage because they're really nice
Speaker 12: and other people wrote them. And then the Essential and
Speaker 12: Non Essential, which is forty songs that I wrote a
Speaker 12: lot of them and performed. And that package. Now I'm
Speaker 12: going to be very serious about this.
Speaker 1: That's a prize. Yeah, I'm going to.
Speaker 12: Give one of these packages. I'll send it out and
Speaker 12: one is for Sydney and one is for Melbourne.
Speaker 14: Sorry, Brisbane. This isn't Live LI Live, but they're quite
Speaker 14: specific questions.
Speaker 4: So here we go.
Speaker 12: Now, in ninety twenty four, you could remember nineteen twenty
Speaker 12: four the Prince Edward Cinema Theater opened in Sydney and
Speaker 12: it showed a movie that broke the previous record and
Speaker 12: ran for thirty six weeks.
Speaker 1: So thirty six weeks.
Speaker 12: Thirty six was when nineteen twenty four of course, and
Speaker 12: I want to know what that movie was. So that's
Speaker 12: the Sydney one. And now here's a Brisbane question. The
Speaker 12: Realita Cinema still exists, Luke. It's still there in West
Speaker 12: End and it was built in nineteen twenty six. And
Speaker 12: when TV came in the late fifties through the sixty seventies,
Speaker 12: you know, most of our cinemas were demolished. It was horrible,
Speaker 12: you know, really sad because a lot of them were
Speaker 12: beautiful Art Deco buildings. Yeah, but the Realto survived. Now
Speaker 12: here's a question for our Brisbane listeners. After television came in,
Speaker 12: it survived and it still exists today. But the only
Speaker 12: reason that PIDs survived it started playing foreign movies in
Speaker 12: foreign languages, which was the most common foreign language that Now,
Speaker 12: if you live in Brisbane you'll know this the Alto Cinema,
Speaker 12: which foreign language movies saved the cinema.
Speaker 1: One three, one eight seven three ring that number. We
Speaker 1: want to we want to win her in Sydney and
Speaker 1: one in Brisbane as well. They're different questions. So do
Speaker 1: they know the answers? My friends out there?
Speaker 12: Oh no, they probably they don't, right, we're not as
Speaker 12: organized so we'll have to get it on the text
Speaker 12: or we'll have to get it on a phone call.
Speaker 1: Well, just you just give us a call and we'll
Speaker 1: sort you outvery quickly one three one eight seven three
Speaker 1: and you get the Well we'd like to call here
Speaker 1: the Jim Haynes Prize Pack.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's that's what we'll call it. Yeah, all that stuff,
Speaker 12: so and very quickly. I've got to mention this my
Speaker 12: dear friends at the co Center for Seniors. I've been
Speaker 12: doing things for them for years. It's a wonderful organization
Speaker 12: out there at Little Bay. And I'm doing a talk
Speaker 12: there on the eleventh of June, which is only two
Speaker 12: weeks away, and it's about Sydney Harbor history and art.
Speaker 12: So just go to the website.
Speaker 1: It's just the.
Speaker 12: The Coast Center for Seniors. And I forgot I should
Speaker 12: have mentioned that ages ago.
Speaker 1: Never mind, Right, let's see if we can get some
Speaker 1: winners or have I don't want to say losers, because
Speaker 1: no one loses by winning to us. Listen to us. Hey, Roy,
Speaker 1: do you know the name of the movie.
Speaker 20: Look Gone with a Wind?
Speaker 23: No, no, no, gee.
Speaker 12: That came a lot later. Yeah, it was a long
Speaker 12: time before that.
Speaker 1: Thank you mate, James high go good morning morning. What
Speaker 1: have you got?
Speaker 4: I think I think it's the solemn version of Ben
Speaker 4: Herb Right?
Speaker 14: No, but you're so close, so close, Okay, we should
Speaker 14: have said good afternoon to each other.
Speaker 1: Two mate, Thank you Rick? Did I? Rick? What have
Speaker 1: you got for us?
Speaker 16: Here?
Speaker 4: You going? Guys?
Speaker 5: Was silence ten command It was?
Speaker 12: It was the Ten Commanders, and it broke the record
Speaker 12: which was held by another cinema which had been thirty
Speaker 12: five weeks, and that was The Sheik. And they were,
Speaker 12: of course they were silent movies, of course, Rudolph Valentino
Speaker 12: the Sheic. But then along came the silent version of
Speaker 12: the Tener Moments and it ran for thirty six weeks.
Speaker 1: Wow, good on your Rick. Now Greg's in Brisbane. Have
Speaker 1: you got an answer for us? Greg? What was the question?
Speaker 12: First off, the rialto cinema survived the television era and
Speaker 12: didn't get knocked down because it started playing foreign movies
Speaker 12: which were quite popular for the locals.
Speaker 1: So what do you got, Greg?
Speaker 2: Greek?
Speaker 12: Yes, absolutely, of course it was Greek greed. They started
Speaker 12: playing Greek movies and all the New Australians as we
Speaker 12: used to call them, Yeah, they all kept going to
Speaker 12: the cinema and it didn't get knocked down. Isn't it terrific?
Speaker 1: Hey, just to our caller, did I call you Greg
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't have me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 23: I'm Lorraine, Lorraine.
Speaker 11: I'm Lorraine, and I grew up in those theaters.
Speaker 25: Did you wonder stand and realto mister Wright ouns them?
Speaker 12: Okay?
Speaker 1: Did you ever roll Jeffers down the aisle?
Speaker 23: Or were you to respond to the boys?
Speaker 12: Now, Lorraine, Lorraine, everyone says that did you roll you?
Speaker 5: Mate?
Speaker 12: When I went to the Saturday matinee? If I had Jeffers,
Speaker 12: I wasn't rolling them. I was eating them. I didn't
Speaker 12: give Jeffers away. They must have been middle class people.
Speaker 12: Ah right, you know? And Lorraine might also not anyone
Speaker 12: in Brisbane because the cinema that another cinema that survived
Speaker 12: all that is that well, it's changed its name several times,
Speaker 12: but it's the one that is now owned by Hillsong.
Speaker 12: It was the Lyceum, then it became the Elite Tribal.
Speaker 12: It's weird, isn't it for the elite tribal? And it's
Speaker 12: one hundred and eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: This cinema.
Speaker 12: Goodness, but I know that Hillsong have bought it. They
Speaker 12: bought in twenty eighteen. And I would like to know
Speaker 12: Brisbane listeners tell us, if you've been there, how much
Speaker 12: of the area was preserved because it lasted all that time,
Speaker 12: but it did get renovated a few times along the way.
Speaker 12: I just wonder if that if they kept the interior
Speaker 12: because it had this wonderful balcony and so on. So
Speaker 12: anyone knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven three, well done the rain. The answer was Greek,
Speaker 1: and the other answer the Ten Commandments. Well done, Rick. Okay,
Speaker 1: what we'll do here is take a break. We've got
Speaker 1: so much more to talk about because Australia, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: in Jim, I'm right, we are a tour de force.
Speaker 14: Absolutely in the cinematic feature films ever ever was an
Speaker 14: Australian one.
Speaker 1: Beauty back in a second twenty five to one o'clock
Speaker 1: the Continuous Call team after our news at one, I
Speaker 1: have a chat to the one iron who's at the
Speaker 1: ground shortly. But before we do that, we're talking movies
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to say to you, Jim, and
Speaker 1: let you have a chat to see a Rentzer who's
Speaker 1: listening to us in Brisbane, and you were talking about
Speaker 1: the rialto Cinema, won't you.
Speaker 12: Yes, it's still there. It's one of the few that survived.
Speaker 1: Well, say good to see your Rensa.
Speaker 12: Hey you Rensa, Hi.
Speaker 8: How are you.
Speaker 21: I'm actually in Sydney. But my parents owns a reality
Speaker 21: for many many years and we used to have pantomimes
Speaker 21: and I think Rocky Horror Picture Show was played their
Speaker 21: stage show and just a lot of it was more
Speaker 21: Greek orientated. But every Sunday they used to have Indian
Speaker 21: movies and things like that.
Speaker 23: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Look, you had to be creative to survive the onslaught
Speaker 12: of television. Really, wasn't it the kill that killed the
Speaker 12: beautiful cinema?
Speaker 21: Driving, the Drivings and the video show?
Speaker 12: Yes, oh that's true too, the Drivings. Yes, But anyway,
Speaker 12: your parents obviously were creative people and they made it
Speaker 12: so and it's still there, still there today.
Speaker 18: Yes.
Speaker 21: Well, they owned the Beach Theater in Sangay, they owned
Speaker 21: the Vogue and Cinema in Nambo, and a few of
Speaker 21: my has and so owned Driving in Gimpi and Calandra.
Speaker 5: And sure, yeah, so I grew up in the movies.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you this because I'm kin to
Speaker 1: know growing up in the movies, what was the best
Speaker 1: fringe benefit? Was it free chock tops or seeing all
Speaker 1: the movies whenever you wanted?
Speaker 12: What was it?
Speaker 21: I had the best birthday patties because on a Saturday
Speaker 21: at the masterin As you used to get two movies.
Speaker 21: So everyone from my class. I used to invite them
Speaker 21: and so they were invited and then meet through that.
Speaker 21: They used to get lolly from the Confederary and top
Speaker 21: chops and everything. Oh wow, birthday parties.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Now can you help us out with the old lyceum
Speaker 12: and whether it's it's been preserved inside or not? I
Speaker 12: know it's Hillsong now no.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 5: I've been in Sydney in like forty years.
Speaker 9: Ok.
Speaker 17: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 21: But when I heard you talking about the real so
Speaker 21: that I've got to read.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so glad you did. I mean you grew
Speaker 1: up there on your parents owner. That's sir Arenza. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling. That is just extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I love the way we get these these stories out
Speaker 1: of our cats about nostalgia and things that you know,
Speaker 1: we sadly perhaps don't do so much now, So is
Speaker 1: there a capital city gym in Australia that really excelled
Speaker 1: in the in the movie making business.
Speaker 12: Or well, well, I have to say, you know the
Speaker 12: old Sydney Melbourne rivalry. What do you think was the
Speaker 12: first movie ever shown of anything in Australia. What would
Speaker 12: you guess out of all the things that happened in Australia,
Speaker 12: what would be the first thing that got that was
Speaker 12: filmed and shown for.
Speaker 1: You know two people?
Speaker 12: Melbourne Cup, Yes, oh wow, eighteen ninety six Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 12: But then there are two other than it's all Melbourne,
Speaker 12: I'm afraid. The first ever narrative drama film presentation was
Speaker 12: in Melbourne in nineteen hundred and one and it was
Speaker 12: a funny thing. No one had thought of this idea
Speaker 12: of making a story and filming it and making it up.
Speaker 1: And that happened a bit later in Melbourne.
Speaker 12: But the first thing was this thing called Soldiers of
Speaker 12: the Cross and it was made by the Salvation Army
Speaker 12: and it was an illustrated lecture. It had two hundred
Speaker 12: glass colored slides and fifteen film segments with orchestral and
Speaker 12: choir music, and it told the story of Jesus and
Speaker 12: it was made by the Salvos Limelight Department and it
Speaker 12: ran for over two hours, two hours.
Speaker 1: Of religious stuff.
Speaker 12: So there you are, and that was the world's well,
Speaker 12: you can say it was the world's first entertainment. It
Speaker 12: wasn't a content newest film. It had bits of film
Speaker 12: and had other stuff in it too. But then of
Speaker 12: course along came the Story of the Kelly Gang, which
Speaker 12: is the first time someone said let's make up a
Speaker 12: story and film the whole thing. And so it's the
Speaker 12: first feature movie ever And it was opened in Melbourne
Speaker 12: on Boxing Day nineteen o six and there's still quite
Speaker 12: a bit of it left. You can see it at
Speaker 12: the Melbourne Library.
Speaker 1: And it's the.
Speaker 12: Story of the Kelly Gang. Unfortunately, it created the myth
Speaker 12: of need Kelly because they didn't stick to the facts
Speaker 12: very closely. They just made basically a cowboy movie sort of, ok,
Speaker 12: although cowboy movies hadn't been invented at that stage. Yes, say,
Speaker 12: it's very much a nonsense, but of course people to
Speaker 12: this day still believe the Kelly Gang were a bunch
Speaker 12: of wonderful blokes and the truth is different.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this opens in Melbourne Boxing Day nineteen six yep.
Speaker 1: And the first, the first movie first in the world,
Speaker 1: the first.
Speaker 12: Made up feature movie where they've put a story together
Speaker 12: and trying to film the whole thing. Now, the first
Speaker 12: in the world. Yes, and we had quite a movie industry.
Speaker 12: We had terrific silent movies made the Dad and Dave,
Speaker 12: the sentimental the sentimental Bloke, which is poetry, was made
Speaker 12: into a very successful silent movie. It really imagine it was,
Speaker 12: and it's a very good movie. It was made by Longford,
Speaker 12: who was a great movie maker. And look, I think
Speaker 12: we're going to run out of time, but I was
Speaker 12: going to ask listeners, what is your favorite quote from
Speaker 12: an Australian movie? And I bet I know what we'll get.
Speaker 1: But I've got another one.
Speaker 12: And also, you know what's your what's your favorite moment
Speaker 12: in and of course your favorite song. There's so much
Speaker 12: to talk about. Do you remember the Smiley movies? They no,
Speaker 12: you're a bit.
Speaker 1: Way too young. Yeah, you're a.
Speaker 12: Younger than me anyway, But you know, our listeners might
Speaker 12: remember there were two Smiley movies and he wanted something
Speaker 12: in each one. And the title of the second Smiley
Speaker 12: movie still makes me laugh at when I shouldn't. But
Speaker 12: it's so amusing to think they could make a movie
Speaker 12: called that these days. So there was what did he
Speaker 12: want in the first movie? And what did he want
Speaker 12: in the second one? Was pretty obvious because there's the
Speaker 12: title of the movie. So look, anyone who's got their
Speaker 12: favorite moments, their favorite quotes from you know, from the
Speaker 12: great days of Australian cinema, you know, give it. Give
Speaker 12: us a call and tell us your favorite.
Speaker 1: And we'll continue this next week as well. I think
Speaker 1: we're happy to Pamela, what have you got for Your
Speaker 1: dad used to work in the cinema business?
Speaker 12: Did he no?
Speaker 26: Well what he used to do? My dad was born
Speaker 26: in nineteen twenty five from Summer Hill when you so
Speaker 26: wild and dad was doing a tool making apprenticeship. We
Speaker 26: went on to have a tool making business, but that's
Speaker 26: another story in Australia. But he used to drive and
Speaker 26: pick up the reel on his motorbike this Fellows motorbike
Speaker 26: and drive them from well summer Hill, Ashfield. But what
Speaker 26: I guess, so they you know, when one movie finished,
Speaker 26: the reel had to be taken to the next season
Speaker 26: to be shown and crowd then west taking the movie
Speaker 26: reels round on his motorbikes meant his apprenticeship wages.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, what a great story, thanks, you said.
Speaker 12: The Lloyd movies in the big tin cans, and they
Speaker 12: would go from one cinema to the other. There were
Speaker 12: back lanes around Sydney George Street where all the cinemas were,
Speaker 12: and the guys who used to have the lolly tray
Speaker 12: you know, yes, and the sort of funny little pill
Speaker 12: box hat, and they would the cinemas in Sydney would
Speaker 12: make sure that their intervals didn't coincide because those those
Speaker 12: boys and women too with the lolly trays. They had
Speaker 12: to run around the back backstreets and into the back
Speaker 12: of all the different cinemas. And you know, they would
Speaker 12: go to the Capitol and then they'd run off to
Speaker 12: the to the next one, sell their ice cream or
Speaker 12: whatever it was. It would take the real somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Jackie, have you got an answer?
Speaker 11: Yes, Smiley wants a gun.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's what it was, smiling, I think it was
Speaker 12: Smiley gets a gun. But can you believe making a
Speaker 12: movie better?
Speaker 23: Kid?
Speaker 12: The whole point of the movie is that he's trying
Speaker 12: to get a gun. And do you remember what the
Speaker 12: first we wanted in the first movie. What was he
Speaker 12: after in the first movie with Chips Rappid.
Speaker 25: I don't, yeah, I know, I thought Chips Rapidy was
Speaker 25: in both the movies and they were filmed up at
Speaker 25: at and I think up in Queens and andersonwhere but
Speaker 25: Colin Peterson who played Smiley, he then was the drummer
Speaker 25: for the be.
Speaker 1: Well Done.
Speaker 12: That's a great road of trivia. He was, yes, And
Speaker 12: in the first movie he wanted a bicycle. He was
Speaker 12: saving up for a bis and then he wanted to
Speaker 12: go so he could do a drive.
Speaker 1: Boy had now to be Smiley wants to lease a
Speaker 1: capital city port or Smiley wants a nuke or something
Speaker 1: like something like that. And before we wrap up this week,
Speaker 1: Brian Grad we're talking earlier about movie themes and I
Speaker 1: don't know why they stick in my head because now
Speaker 1: they are wonderful bits of music and reflective of the time.
Speaker 1: Have a listen. That's the theme song to Alvium Purple
Speaker 1: and the voice of Brian kad.
Speaker 12: It is and my favorite scene and you know, next
Speaker 12: week tell us your favorite scene from us or the
Speaker 12: favorite moment in it. My favorite moment is in album
Speaker 12: and it's where Graham Blundele as a young schoolboy comes
Speaker 12: roaring down the hill on his bike after school in
Speaker 12: his school uniform because he's having doing things he shouldn't
Speaker 12: do with But the husband has found out and he's
Speaker 12: closed the garage door. So he comes down the hill,
Speaker 12: go back the door, and that's the end of the
Speaker 12: young dream of adolescent love.
Speaker 1: Right, Dennis says, favorite scene or movie break him a rant,
Speaker 1: explaining rule three three. Oh yes, that scene gives me
Speaker 1: goose bumps. Thanks mate. Back in the late seventies and
Speaker 1: eighties he used to travel out west to the Russels
Speaker 1: with artists from the Mike Walshow and Frankie Davidson many
Speaker 1: many times. What a great entertainer with his rhuebarb you
Speaker 1: barbe like to see that. There had a series of
Speaker 1: songs he wrote called A Long Way around the World. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: great memories, thank you Glenn very much. Indeed, not all
Speaker 1: of that I can share with you. When I was
Speaker 1: a kid we went to the Five Ways Picture Theater
Speaker 1: in Pado, Paddington, Sydney. I kind of remember that. I
Speaker 1: have to say I love the movie. Jedda says leone
Speaker 1: I saw a decade ago and recently still enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: and there was another about a movie. Oh this is it?
Speaker 1: Thank you Sue for getting in touch. Great ozy movie
Speaker 1: is Struck by Lightning with Gary McDonald and the best
Speaker 1: ever is Dad and Dave on our Selection.
Speaker 12: Yes, which has been made twice of course as a
Speaker 12: silent movie, and then later with.
Speaker 1: The singer Dame James Sutherland. We'll take note about callers
Speaker 1: and come back to you next week. Yep, this is
Speaker 1: a great stuff.
Speaker 12: I think we're going to be There's so much minderful
Speaker 12: stuff in here. I think we might keep this going
Speaker 12: there until you go on your holiday.
Speaker 1: Okay, bringing Nikolela next week?
Speaker 12: I will.
Speaker 1: I might sing it. No, no, please don't, but I'll
Speaker 1: bring it in Okay, nice, I'll scare them. Jim Haynes,
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Speaker 1: The Continuous Call team is ready to join us. You
Speaker 1: me us together after the news at one o'clock. They're
Speaker 1: coming to us from Combank Stadium at Paramatta today the
Speaker 1: Bunnies are playing the Warriors. Not there, they're playing at
Speaker 1: a core. But that the early game of two they'll
Speaker 1: be calling the Panthers and the Eels. It's a flip
Speaker 1: of the coin. I think Jamie Soward calling that one
Speaker 1: with the Big Man. Big Man loves well, he loves
Speaker 1: working with everyone, but particularly Jamie Soward and Piggy. Wow.
Speaker 1: Piggy on the sideline fantastic And at the helm it's
Speaker 1: the one iron. Gavin Peachford, Hey, Gon, good night.
Speaker 23: Here you go. Hey, there has been a change of
Speaker 23: late change.
Speaker 1: What happened? What happened?
Speaker 27: Piggy's not on so oh what happened? He's called in
Speaker 27: a little bit sick. He called in on Friday for
Speaker 27: a Sunday ship. It is so Breenie's making his taboo
Speaker 27: on the sideline today, Luke. So we're all looking hard
Speaker 27: for that Reenie. Ah, that will be that'll be next level.
Speaker 23: You'll get you's been shown where to sit as well.
Speaker 1: Oh good, okay, Lloyd, it's going to be told. He'll
Speaker 1: be able to tell you what's going on at at
Speaker 1: the same time exploding exposed some fleabag who's selling imported
Speaker 1: imported solar panels and ripping off pensions. He'll be able
Speaker 1: to do. He'll tell you it would be the video
Speaker 1: rare and at the same time expose some fleabag who's
Speaker 1: into people smuggling.
Speaker 23: Oh you think you will?
Speaker 1: Beautiful?
Speaker 27: How are you, Gav Yeah, I'm good about COVID the
Speaker 27: last week looks so that's still a thing. So just
Speaker 27: trying to recover from that mode. But it's a beautiful
Speaker 27: day out here at Combank Stadium. So the Battle of
Speaker 27: the West. We're looking forward to this one out here.
Speaker 1: So have you had COVID before?
Speaker 10: I have.
Speaker 23: I've had about three or four times, so.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, you're a bit of a COVID magnet,
Speaker 1: it sounds to me. And was this one worse or
Speaker 1: better than the previous editions?
Speaker 23: Probably worse, Luke, So everyone stays safe out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's your No, I'm not going to ask you
Speaker 1: your advice. Well, I'm glad you're feeling a little bit better,
Speaker 1: and I'm unhappy that you've been unwell, but because you've
Speaker 1: got such a strong immune system because of the healthy
Speaker 1: diet and other things you practice.
Speaker 23: The Carlos paws yet.
Speaker 1: Ah right, Okay, maybe no mate? Who's going to win this?
Speaker 1: Do you think Panthers will?
Speaker 27: Yeah, as you said, it's a toss of the coin.
Speaker 27: I reckon, but I have tipped the Panthers. I think
Speaker 27: with their origin stars returning, it might be a good
Speaker 27: day for them. And it is a home home game
Speaker 27: for the Panthers today are common, so that's a little
Speaker 27: bit weird as well. So I'm going Panthers.
Speaker 1: Look good on you, mate, good stuff, Get well soon.
Speaker 1: And again we can't wait to hear Jamie Soud the
Speaker 1: big man in co commentary and on the sideline Neil Breen,
Speaker 1: who'll tell you exactly what's happened and then expose some
Speaker 1: fleabag who's ripped off a pensioner. Okay, because time hoop,
Speaker 1: I got here. I've got Lisa, Hello, Lisa, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1: Question one Premier Chris Means is facing criticisms after it
Speaker 1: was revealed the buzzers and News Wales. It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be built in Nara. Were built overseas? Were they
Speaker 1: built in China or Botswana?
Speaker 10: They were built in China.
Speaker 1: Thank you. The winners of the Cooper's Hill Cheese role
Speaker 1: in the UK took home a wheel of double Gloucestershed
Speaker 1: cheese as a prize this week. How much does it weigh?
Speaker 1: Three kilos or three tons? Hang well, you hang on,
Speaker 1: You're not going to take home three tons of cheese,
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 23: No?
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 1: It's going to correct the winner of the Australian A
Speaker 1: League soccer last night? Was it Melbourne City or Arsenal
Speaker 1: in Australia? Melbourne or Arsenal? Oh say Melbourne? Will you?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 18: It was Melbourne?
Speaker 1: Yes it was it just like that. You've got the
Speaker 1: spinal as pillow. Well done. Thanks for your company this weekend.
Speaker 1: Thank you to my hard working tea I mean here
Speaker 1: as well Cain and Liam and Nelson and the Kitty
Speaker 1: and Janet who helped us out today. Yay, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Have a great week everyone, catch next weekend. Bye bye