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Speaker 3: Well. Good morning, everybody. Good to be here for Australia overnight. Gee.
Speaker 3: I haven't said those words in about four months, I
Speaker 3: reckon it's been Tony's such a workhorse. He just doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to take the time off. But fear not. Look
Speaker 3: Tony McManus is alive and well. But he's well. When
Speaker 3: I say well, he's just a little under the weather
Speaker 3: and thought it best not to come in. His partner's
Speaker 3: been a touch unwell for the last couple of days
Speaker 3: and it's managed to get its grips on him and
Speaker 3: so he's off this morning. He'll probably be back tomorrow,
Speaker 3: but if not, he'll be back certainly by Monday, so no,
Speaker 3: have no fear about the health of your regular host.
Speaker 3: But for those who haven't heard me before, if you're
Speaker 3: new to the Australia Overnight Program across three A, W,
Speaker 3: five A and six PR and some other stations as
Speaker 3: well named Simon Owens, I usually do weekends on three
Speaker 3: AW weekend nights Saturday night as I do my show,
Speaker 3: The Simon Owen Show and Sunday nights. I do remember
Speaker 3: when with Andrew McLaren. So I'm just stepping in for
Speaker 3: this morning whilst Tony years off. It has been four months.
Speaker 3: Last one I did was January fifteen, when Tony was
Speaker 3: just about to come back. Excuse me, Oh, I'm off
Speaker 3: to a good start, when Tony was about to come
Speaker 3: back from his Christmas holidays. Jay is here this morning.
Speaker 3: Morning Jay, Good morning, Simon. Nice to have you back
Speaker 3: with this a little while. Yeah, thank you, good to
Speaker 3: be here. So as would that have been the last
Speaker 3: time we worked together? Would have been did you work
Speaker 3: through Christmas? Yes?
Speaker 4: On and off through Christmas? Yeah, it would have been
Speaker 4: back in January. So yeah, been this year? Has this flown,
Speaker 4: hasn't it?
Speaker 3: I'm still not used to writing when I fill out
Speaker 3: a date on something, and I've had a lot of
Speaker 3: paperwork I've had to fill in in the last three weeks,
Speaker 3: and every time I go to write the date, I
Speaker 3: go twenty two five. Yeah, So here we are in May,
Speaker 3: and I still struggle with the fact that it's not
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four anymore.
Speaker 4: Yes, And I think the weather is a bit of
Speaker 4: a big factor in that, because we we obviously are
Speaker 4: very cold at this time of the year. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: we've had those mild days and we think, well, well,
Speaker 4: we're still a bit of autumn, you know, still mild days.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's really throwing the brain out as well.
Speaker 3: It has. Yeah, that and old age.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, I was trying to actually birthday next week?
Speaker 3: Oh is there to avoid that one? Which is that
Speaker 3: fifty one for fifty fifty one? Yeah, you're just you're
Speaker 3: just a pump Wait wait till you get to fifty
Speaker 3: three like me.
Speaker 4: Oh, you wouldn't tell, You wouldn't be able to tell.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's because that's because I don't have much
Speaker 3: in the way of gray hair. That's exactly right. Nothing.
Speaker 3: How have you been, Have you been well? Yeah? Good? Thanks?
Speaker 4: You all going well? Keeping out of trouble as best
Speaker 4: I can. So paid off my last car for speeding fine.
Speaker 4: That's that's all good.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I was only it was four six kilometers.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah in a twenty zone. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: In a forty zone. Forty z own forty six It
Speaker 3: is rough.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know people were walking past me.
Speaker 3: People on scooters, Uber eats delivery people exactly, and cyclists. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I paid that one. That's out of the way now.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's about it. I got a speeding fine.
Speaker 3: I got my first speeding fine, and I reckon, It's
Speaker 3: been ten years since I've had a speeding fine. That's
Speaker 3: the joy of driving a Yaris is that you don't
Speaker 3: really get speeding fines because you know, you've got a
Speaker 3: pedal really hard to get to a speed where you're
Speaker 3: breaking the limit. But now that I've got so Philip Brady,
Speaker 3: I have Philip Brady's car now. He left that to
Speaker 3: me very kindly, and and that's a that's a Ford
Speaker 3: Falcon XR six with a three point nine liter engine
Speaker 3: and you know, sports stuff on it. So it's a
Speaker 3: very You're get in that car you started and it
Speaker 3: just goes and all you do is point it in
Speaker 3: the direction you want it to go. You don't actually
Speaker 3: to drive, you just point it where you need it
Speaker 3: to go, and so old it would know the roads
Speaker 3: around it does. Yeah, yeah, because's twenty two years old.
Speaker 3: Or say, but I was picked in a I was
Speaker 3: in forty nine and a forty zone and it was
Speaker 3: it was that homes Glenn for Victorian listeners will know
Speaker 3: Homes Glenn Tafe is the hot spot for speeding fines
Speaker 3: because it's a forty zone twenty four hours a day
Speaker 3: and it's a major road and you're coming down a
Speaker 3: hill before you get to it, so your roll in
Speaker 3: there naturally doing sixty. Well that's my excuse. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: car rolls quickly, Yeah, exactly. So so that I got
Speaker 3: my first one because I was in Phil's car and
Speaker 3: not my car. So first one in ten years disappointing.
Speaker 3: All right, now I've just said the studio line's wrong.
Speaker 3: You better go and find out who that is and
Speaker 3: I'll just chat to myself and get promo some call.
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Speaker 3: It's exciting for me. So I want your calls. I
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Speaker 3: do see everyone that comes through. So zero four double
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Speaker 3: so you're welcome to do that. Zero four double seven
Speaker 3: six nine three six nine three. And because it's been
Speaker 3: a while, and I'll just refresh sort of my philosophy
Speaker 3: on talkback, we don't screen your calls. When you ring,
Speaker 3: Jay's going to ask your name, your suburb and then
Speaker 3: Bang puts you to air, so we don't ask what
Speaker 3: you want to chat about. We don't do any of
Speaker 3: that stuff. Name suburb, you go to wear. So if
Speaker 3: you're one of those people who say you buyers, you're
Speaker 3: horrible radio, you can't trust him. Now you have your
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Speaker 3: in its purest form. All calls are welcome. So let's
Speaker 3: get to something. We might as well kick it off
Speaker 3: before we get to the first break, Van's intra ralgon
Speaker 3: Hi vern A.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what all I can say, Bingo, bingo, bingo.
Speaker 6: Come on and be happy.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what Simon. I've been waiting for you
Speaker 5: to come on here because at the moment Tony started
Speaker 5: you off and I've.
Speaker 7: Got to see.
Speaker 5: You're on six, Tennis is on seventeen, Perison is on sixteen,
Speaker 5: and Tony's on twenty one.
Speaker 3: Oh he's doing very well. So before you go on, Vern,
Speaker 3: I'll just explain for those who don't know, Vern has
Speaker 3: a role in quiz going with all the night and
Speaker 3: late night hosts. He's only managed to We've only done
Speaker 3: it once. For me, So I got I'm on six
Speaker 3: points because I've only done it once. I think the
Speaker 3: others are all beating me because they've been doing the
Speaker 3: quiz a lot more often than I have. But all right,
Speaker 3: let's get into event because we've got we've got other callers,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to keep them waiting too long.
Speaker 3: So yeah, let's get into your quiz.
Speaker 5: There, Tony only alpha, vet H J K L M L.
Speaker 5: I couldn't get a name of these are names of cars.
Speaker 8: It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 5: There's a make, it could be a name. So now
Speaker 5: all of these that I'm going to ask you will
Speaker 5: be one point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so uh l M and oh, what do you got?
Speaker 3: So I've got to come up with so sorry, just
Speaker 3: to be clear on the question, because you haven't phrased
Speaker 3: it terribly well, I have to give you a car
Speaker 3: that starts with L, a car that starts with them,
Speaker 3: one that starts within, and one that starts with oh.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're asking me?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: To finished off in. So now I'm going ask you, oh.
Speaker 3: For oscar, So a car that starts with oh, Oh, crikey,
Speaker 3: that is a tough one.
Speaker 10: Oh, to get rid of it?
Speaker 7: Do you do a pass?
Speaker 3: No, no, because I know there is a German one.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to think what it was. It's a
Speaker 3: an opal an open is a German car that starts
Speaker 3: with yeah.
Speaker 7: Now you've got that one.
Speaker 3: YEA, thank your problem with all?
Speaker 8: That's one point to you now, p.
Speaker 3: P hello, Yes, Thomas is good. Yep, that's a yes.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna skip you because it's a bit of a
Speaker 5: hard one. It's only because I want you to get
Speaker 5: your numbers up.
Speaker 11: Okay, next one, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Super h T Well I drive a Toyota, so I'll
Speaker 3: have to say Toyota, all right.
Speaker 12: It's t.
Speaker 13: You.
Speaker 5: Oh you. It's a bit of a hard one. I
Speaker 5: think you should skip that one.
Speaker 3: I could because I can't think of one for you.
Speaker 3: V would be Volkswagen.
Speaker 7: Yes it is. Actually it's called you are g O.
Speaker 7: But anyway, I'll.
Speaker 5: Give you that one. Yeah, no, l alpha lima.
Speaker 3: I think we go back to well, I thought we
Speaker 3: were up to we just did V. So isn't W next?
Speaker 3: Are we going back to We're going back to well?
Speaker 3: Or what do you want?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 5: No, sorry, it's my fault.
Speaker 15: J K l.
Speaker 7: H h ah ah.
Speaker 3: For Romeo, well, we've done that, I said Reno.
Speaker 5: Ah, okay, h.
Speaker 3: So we've done V. So if we're going through the alphabet,
Speaker 3: the next letter would b W.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, what do you well? Some am I allowed to? Well? Look,
Speaker 3: the only thing I can think of off the top
Speaker 3: of my head. My uncle had a Subaru w r X.
Speaker 3: So you're allowed to give like the model of a
Speaker 3: car as opposed to the brand.
Speaker 16: A w r X.
Speaker 5: Yep, you've got that one. What's the X one on
Speaker 5: the alphabet?
Speaker 13: H X?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I can't think of an X
Speaker 3: a car that starts with X.
Speaker 5: Well, didn't I just tell you? It's uh called Excalibur,
Speaker 5: and it's made boy, it's made boy.
Speaker 17: Oh heck.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's made by anyway. I'll think of it in
Speaker 5: a minute. What's the next one?
Speaker 18: Why?
Speaker 19: Why?
Speaker 3: Well, my car is a Toyota yaris so wife or yarris?
Speaker 8: Right now?
Speaker 5: Last one?
Speaker 14: Z Z?
Speaker 3: Was there anything ever called a Javago?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 3: That's the movie, isn't it, doctor Jvargo? H No, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna. I'm going to struggle with a Z. I can't.
Speaker 5: Okay you we shared on EXCaliber and that was by.
Speaker 7: Study Baker, I should.
Speaker 3: Have said X trail that this an X trail would
Speaker 3: have done for X, but too late I missed that
Speaker 3: fair enough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I'll end it up and next time we
Speaker 5: come to air, I think you might get a surprise.
Speaker 3: Oh beautiful. We're good on you, Vern. Thank you for that.
Speaker 3: That's Vern's rolling quiz, so always appreciated. All right, we
Speaker 3: better get a break out of the way, Jim, Chris
Speaker 3: and Adrian. Are there more calls coming through as well?
Speaker 3: One double three six nine three or one double three
Speaker 3: eight eighty two. All calls are welcome. Anything you want
Speaker 3: to chat about. That was really a productive sagment, won't it.
Speaker 3: Thank you for all the texts that people are sending
Speaker 3: through mentioning well car brands. Maggie said a Zephyr, so
Speaker 3: thank you for that, Maggie. That would have worked. And
Speaker 3: Agent eight to eight said Zetta was a car brand
Speaker 3: back in the sixties. Thank you Agent nine to five zero,
Speaker 3: who sent two messages Simon, this rubbish quiz with Vern
Speaker 3: is absolute rubbish. Sick of it. Please dump him, and
Speaker 3: then please please Simon stop Vern. This is stupid. Well
Speaker 3: I don't think it's stupid. It might not be to
Speaker 3: your taste. But we do quizzers with people all the time.
Speaker 3: I don't see why an audience member can't quiz us
Speaker 3: if we've got time to squeeze a calling. I thought
Speaker 3: I found that interesting to try and come up with
Speaker 3: all those car brands, but realize it's not to your taste.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the feedback, but no, I'm happy to
Speaker 3: run with it if Vern wishes to do so. Let's
Speaker 3: keep your calls going. Let's get to a Jim in
Speaker 3: Westwoods Gray, Hi, Jim.
Speaker 20: Morning, Simon and j Mos to hear you or overnightes again.
Speaker 20: If Tony is listening in bed. All the best to
Speaker 20: Tony if he's up listening. Also, I heard Jay saying
Speaker 20: it's his fifty first birthday.
Speaker 3: Next week next week.
Speaker 20: Yes, I'll say an early happy birthday, just in case
Speaker 20: I don't get to say it next week, but hopefully
Speaker 20: i'll get to ring him next week. Also a quick
Speaker 20: hello to joan In and Deva Hills and Nathan in Gippsland.
Speaker 20: And it Lenn Glenn, who's a regular caller from Melton.
Speaker 20: I'm not sure, but I think he I know he
Speaker 20: worked as an engineer in the airport, but the other
Speaker 20: night unless I'll start to sleep. And I was hearing things.
Speaker 20: I thought I heard him say he worked at fourth Weeks,
Speaker 20: because if he worked at Bourth Weeks, I might know
Speaker 20: Lend because I've worked the Bourth Weeks for three years,
Speaker 20: many years ago.
Speaker 3: So what was bour Weeks? I've not heard that name before.
Speaker 20: Both Wicks was the meat works, and years ago many
Speaker 20: meat works on some of our road, very far down
Speaker 20: some of our road. There's many, many of them together.
Speaker 20: Hardly any of them exists now, Simon. That's why you
Speaker 20: probably haven't heard of it. That was in the lay seven, yes,
Speaker 20: up to the early eighties. I think remember once, Remember
Speaker 20: once I said to you in Cape Bush's song Wuthering Heights,
Speaker 20: she never mentioned once. A lot of people seen that
Speaker 20: were the first time with the other title, would think
Speaker 20: it's called Kathy that song without seeing the name advertised
Speaker 20: on the bottom, because she she mostly sings I'm Kathy
Speaker 20: in it. Not Wuthering Heights is not mentioned once.
Speaker 3: But I thought it was. I thought she does say
Speaker 3: Weathering Heights in the song? Does she not say Weathering Heights?
Speaker 20: I have never heard it once, and I have video
Speaker 20: taped it. I've never heard that word mentioned once. Maybe
Speaker 20: I'm wrong and you can have a look. But also
Speaker 20: something else has been bothering me. You know, I heard
Speaker 20: you with Sandy Kay talking about Cas Stevens, who's used
Speaker 20: the Islam now and mentioning something clever about being cat.
Speaker 20: But on Cas Stephens song, he has two songs. One
Speaker 20: is called Father and Son. One is called So if
Speaker 20: you have a chance, have a listened to something which
Speaker 20: has been bothering me for years. I'm father and Son.
Speaker 20: He mentions he's supposed to be talking to his son.
Speaker 20: He says, yeah, you're so young, that's your fault. I
Speaker 20: think you're supposed to sing you're so young, that's not
Speaker 20: your fault and everything. And I think he just left
Speaker 20: her thinking people wouldn't notice that. I think when he's
Speaker 20: talking to someone so young saying that that's your fault,
Speaker 20: I really think it was supposed to be you're so young, that's.
Speaker 3: Not your fault. Yeah, yeah, because you can't blame someone
Speaker 3: for being young.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just googled the lyrics for Wuthering Heights because I
Speaker 3: was sure that she sings the word wuthering, wathering, wathering heights,
Speaker 3: and then into the chorus, Heathcliff blah blah blah.
Speaker 10: And so.
Speaker 3: Excuse me. So I just looked it up and yes,
Speaker 3: in the third verse, bad dreams in the night, they
Speaker 3: told me I was going to lose the fight. Leave
Speaker 3: behind my wothering wuthering wathering heights, Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Kathy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, she does actually sing wothering heights in there.
Speaker 20: Okay, I never heard it every time.
Speaker 3: Well, I always say about I always say about Kate
Speaker 3: Kate Bush, that it is hard to hear the lyrics
Speaker 3: because she sings in such an impossibly high range. I
Speaker 3: think only bat's can really understand what she's saying.
Speaker 20: Yeah, she does, but listen to Cas Stevens, father and
Speaker 20: some I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be that's not
Speaker 20: your fault, but not that that's your fault on father.
Speaker 3: And some no worries. All right, well we'll see if
Speaker 3: we can dig that out a little later. We've got
Speaker 3: a board for the call, so we won't play it now,
Speaker 3: but if we get time later, we'll play it. Never listen,
Speaker 3: good on your Jim. Always good to chat to you, mate,
Speaker 3: and chat again soon. Peter's in Port Melbourne. Peter, Yeah,
Speaker 3: not too bad.
Speaker 22: Yeah, just traffic report on the outbound on the mintion.
Speaker 22: I think it's just before the helf. Keep his fin
Speaker 22: off unless that bridge there.
Speaker 23: There's about four or five cars that I think they've
Speaker 23: p cut up.
Speaker 11: The funny thing is the two apart.
Speaker 22: There's a couple of cop cars there. One car is
Speaker 22: lot's front wheel on our hell and there's a couple
Speaker 22: of cops walking along the road. I'm on the emergency lane.
Speaker 22: So whoever's driving past to slow it down, there's a
Speaker 22: the life of showing forty k slow down, can pitch
Speaker 22: blacking between that as they like us?
Speaker 3: All right, So so that that's the Monash outbound heading
Speaker 3: towards the Southeastern suburbs with near the near the South
Speaker 3: gipps Land intersection. Is it the turn off? Yeah, And
Speaker 3: you say there's a there's a couple of cars involved,
Speaker 3: but there are a couple of hundred meters apart.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well there's I think it was four cars.
Speaker 14: One car.
Speaker 11: First car I saw the front, the front.
Speaker 22: That was and further up there's a car up there.
Speaker 22: Then yeah, that's Whatso walking from each car all.
Speaker 20: The way down.
Speaker 3: All right, get on your peed of the lines, just
Speaker 3: breaking up a little bit there, such as the joy
Speaker 3: of mobile phones in this day and age. We can
Speaker 3: search the world on the Internet on them, but to
Speaker 3: try and make a phone call on a mobile phone
Speaker 3: now hard work sometimes. But thank you Peter, we got
Speaker 3: we got the message outbound on the Melbourne listeners on
Speaker 3: the on the Monash Freeway just as heading toward the
Speaker 3: South Gippee the turn off there. Just slow it down
Speaker 3: people because it's not a good situation. Thanks Peter. I'll
Speaker 3: always appreciate it. Thank you Chris, Adrian, Justin and others
Speaker 3: with you all in a sick This is Australia overnight.
Speaker 3: I was about to do a time call then I
Speaker 3: remembered we're across three states. So let's see if I
Speaker 3: get this right. Twenty six to one if you're listening
Speaker 3: in Melbourne, it's four minutes after midnight, if you're listening
Speaker 3: in South Australia, and if you're listening in Perth it's
Speaker 3: twenty six to eleven. I'm pretty sure that we've covered
Speaker 3: everyone there. And if you're not in any of those locations,
Speaker 3: just look at your phone because that's where we that's
Speaker 3: where you get accurate time. Once upon a time, I
Speaker 3: used to love I don't know if you're the same
Speaker 3: jay as a kid. If you got a new watch
Speaker 3: or something, you would ring the double one nine to
Speaker 3: four number and set your watch to the absolute exact
Speaker 3: right time, so it would give you a notification. Yeah. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: so you'd ring that number, so you get the guy
Speaker 3: saying at the at the third stroke, yep, and then
Speaker 3: you'd start your watch at the right time, and so
Speaker 3: that it was so you knew that when a minute,
Speaker 3: you know, one minute was gone, two minutes was gone,
Speaker 3: it was exactly right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I think there was a weather one. Was
Speaker 4: there a weather one you could phone you can get
Speaker 4: quick on the weather.
Speaker 3: I think yeah, yeah, there were wonderful they're great service numbers.
Speaker 3: John Blackman had a joke of the day line that
Speaker 3: you could ring and hear hear a different joke every day. Nice.
Speaker 3: But those were the ones that started costing money. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it got a bit of money for the joke.
Speaker 24: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the time one was just a wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: But nowadays it's all just your phone just synchronizes your computers.
Speaker 3: Your phone all was just synchronized to the world, so
Speaker 3: we get exact times. Chris is in Brody, Hi, Chris,
Speaker 3: Well you're there, Chris, yep, gotcha.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 23: I was asking mate John, who was in media for
Speaker 23: five years. I said, where will free WBO if it's
Speaker 23: ratings and audience in fifteen to twenty years time. Because
Speaker 23: I've just backtracking a bit over the last five years.
Speaker 23: I've lost twenty two people and twelve people have passed
Speaker 23: away in the last two and forty years and I
Speaker 23: only feld that recent. And people say, when you get
Speaker 23: older I'm now sixty, people will more often pass away
Speaker 23: and there'll be more funerals year by year as you
Speaker 23: get older, because people do get older. And so I'd
Speaker 23: like to ask a soundingboard and Ford, it's quite okay
Speaker 23: to have that target audience of music and themes on
Speaker 23: the family orientate Bron, not those important, high profile daytime
Speaker 23: runs of the fifty sixties and seventies, But how do
Speaker 23: you cater for people that are at the age of
Speaker 23: forty to way age of sixty that come through the
Speaker 23: eighties and nineties and generations to come. If you maintain
Speaker 23: that target audience of music and people around the fifties,
Speaker 23: sixties and seventies, where will you be ratns wise? And
Speaker 23: do you do you flow on and encourage that generation
Speaker 23: that target, but also uncover the next generation of music
Speaker 23: and people and continue to have high rates and be
Speaker 23: basically number one for decades to come. You know, it's
Speaker 23: just a question that I can't answer myself.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I guess the key to talk radio is
Speaker 3: the evolution of it, in that as older hosts leave
Speaker 3: and newer hosts land the gigs, then naturally the you know,
Speaker 3: they will attract audiences closer to their own age. I
Speaker 3: worked with Bruce and Phil for all those years, and
Speaker 3: they're now both sadly gone, and they were enormously talented.
Speaker 3: But the fact is that a lot of the listeners
Speaker 3: who listened to Bruce and Phil back when I joined
Speaker 3: in the in the mid nineties, you know, a lot
Speaker 3: of those audience members have now passed on, but there
Speaker 3: are now I get messages from people who were my
Speaker 3: age who listened to myself and other people on the station,
Speaker 3: so it's sort of it's a replenishing thing. I've been
Speaker 3: with three a W as part of the network for
Speaker 3: thirty years, and the station is rating just as well
Speaker 3: now as it ever has, and in some instance is
Speaker 3: actually better than it has previously. So I do hear
Speaker 3: a lot of people saying, oh, your audience is all
Speaker 3: old and I'll die off and then you'll be in trouble. Well,
Speaker 3: it's been thirty years I've been here so far, and
Speaker 3: the audience is as big as it ever has been.
Speaker 3: So I think if we get the mix right then
Speaker 3: it will just continue.
Speaker 23: So just before months. But it's like Channel with the
Speaker 23: Golden new had a good problem for decades. I could
Speaker 23: promote everything about that Golden Era, you know, the tiny barbers,
Speaker 23: Bert Paddy Newton's, but I'm not saying not to entertain it. Now.
Speaker 23: A lot of them have sadly passed on. You know,
Speaker 23: there's still young Patricia An still with us in some capacity. Yes,
Speaker 23: you sort of encourage that, and it's historical that you
Speaker 23: can't really right history about the Golden Iro. But people
Speaker 23: of an age now that might be in their thirty
Speaker 23: or forty or so. So I've heard a bit about it,
Speaker 23: but I don't relate because I'm not familiar with it.
Speaker 23: Then it comes not a bad problem negative. I mean,
Speaker 23: it just means that you probably can't incorporate it as
Speaker 23: just a target audience of the gold because it's going
Speaker 23: to fish myself when I vote for the first time
Speaker 23: this year in the Gold Logan. I voted a lower
Speaker 23: end of the matia than anything else, I guess because
Speaker 23: I don't want the platforms and you know, all those things.
Speaker 23: But some people win the Gold logan and I have
Speaker 23: no idea who they are, what they do on TV,
Speaker 23: or never heard of them before. So that's my problem,
Speaker 23: not floting for the chance to watching other shows another TV.
Speaker 23: So but could that be a bit of frad W
Speaker 23: trying to you don't want to sell off rights to
Speaker 23: other TV, so you have people watching Channel seven when
Speaker 23: you want one Channel nine or you know, fred W.
Speaker 23: But we'd like this sort of case. We know when
Speaker 23: you have those average on ladies nine years all into
Speaker 23: it as one media. You're not Channel seven or Channel
Speaker 23: nine or you're all sort of one. But we don't
Speaker 23: get to feel that on for because if also so,
Speaker 23: I would only buy one day IV plus right now,
Speaker 23: would I have? And only have fre W on it?
Speaker 23: So I only can sort of field the product in
Speaker 23: listening and calls with what happens within fred W a
Speaker 23: little bit outside it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look thanks for the call, Chris. Look the television,
Speaker 3: Look all the all the traditional media are facing problems
Speaker 3: now with well basically with revenue, because you've got your
Speaker 3: facebooks and Instagrams and you know those social media platforms
Speaker 3: that have now taken away a great deal of the
Speaker 3: advertising revenue that used to go into TV and radio
Speaker 3: and the like. So and it's so it's not just
Speaker 3: three a W and the nine Radio network suffering. Arn
Speaker 3: who run Kiss and Gold, and you know those sorts
Speaker 3: of Stuf and Ostereo who run the Two Day Network
Speaker 3: or the Hit Network as it's called now, and Triple M.
Speaker 3: They're all suffering from lower revenue, and so there's always
Speaker 3: tightening of belts and so unfortunately changes have to happen.
Speaker 3: And it's the same in TV land as well. There's
Speaker 3: been the budgets certainly aren't what they once were. Gone
Speaker 3: are the days of having a kerry packet of fund
Speaker 3: everything and just throw money left right in the center.
Speaker 3: So yeah, consolidation is a thing that has happened, and yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll just write it out and see if we all survive.
Speaker 3: But whilst people are spending their money on Facebook ads
Speaker 3: and instead of traditional media ads, well it's going to
Speaker 3: make an impact, sadly. And I think radio has been
Speaker 3: pretty lucky audience growth is actually happening in radio. There
Speaker 3: are more people listening to radio now than there ever were,
Speaker 3: and that surprises me because when you've got so many
Speaker 3: other options now with podcasts, Spotify, why would you list
Speaker 3: and to an FM station when you can listen to
Speaker 3: your own playlist on Spotify. So I'm surprised that the
Speaker 3: FM stations are holding up as well as they are.
Speaker 3: But yeah, look it's a fascinating discussion. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 3: I'm going to keep moving now. Adrian's called him from
Speaker 3: nearmil Jura today. Adrian, Oh, hello, Simon.
Speaker 25: Nice to speak to you again after a long time.
Speaker 3: Thank you mate. Good to chat to you. How are you.
Speaker 25: I'm not too bad. I've got my chamship, but I'm
Speaker 25: getting through all of that at the moment, and if
Speaker 25: I leave another couple of months, I'll be happy.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 25: What I wanted to bring to you in remembrance that
Speaker 25: the great Philip Brady and the great Uh offside his
Speaker 25: sidekick Bruce apologize his name. It's a long time since
Speaker 25: you've been on radio, but what a wonderful couple those people.
Speaker 25: But remember, when here's something for you and your listeners.
Speaker 25: This is my Quiez coming up on Saturday night and
Speaker 25: we've been given the topic, ar't sheet, but we can
Speaker 25: I say, we can't sheat we can't look it up
Speaker 25: on our internet or phones. We need to get off
Speaker 25: the top of our heads. And this is the topic.
Speaker 25: Your listeners will know this great British detective shows on
Speaker 25: television in the nineteen seventies, eighties and nineteen nineties. It's
Speaker 25: got to be a British show that was fromy aired
Speaker 25: either through the seventies, eighties or nineties. There is a
Speaker 25: lot of them apparently. Now if I can get in
Speaker 25: there on Saturday night and bring in as many as
Speaker 25: I can, I might win a prize.
Speaker 3: All right, Well I reckon you grab a pin on
Speaker 3: paper eight and people will text or ring so they
Speaker 3: can ring one double three six nine three or one
Speaker 3: double three eight eighty two. Well they can text zero
Speaker 3: four double seven six nine three six nine three. English
Speaker 3: detective series from the seventies, eighties and nineties, is it yes.
Speaker 25: Either in the seventies, it's either. They could have been
Speaker 25: popular in the seventies. And I assume people here in
Speaker 25: Australia watched a lot of TV and you were just
Speaker 25: talking about all the TV shows of years gone by.
Speaker 25: I'll tell you why we don't get all of these people,
Speaker 25: because now on the television simon, you had noticed all
Speaker 25: the main mainstream television networks has just got reality shows. Yeah,
Speaker 25: one of the things they used to. It's all part
Speaker 25: of the reality. They make the most money, the reality show.
Speaker 3: I I don't know why you grew up.
Speaker 25: We were watching variety shows. We were watching quiz shows.
Speaker 25: So of a century temptation it was our Philip was
Speaker 25: on TV down Lane was on all those wonderful shows.
Speaker 25: So it's all been replaced by reality shows. But I
Speaker 25: want to give you some remembering all we're remembering from seventies,
Speaker 25: eighties and nineties, your listeners, I'm sure we will remember some.
Speaker 25: It has to be British witches detective shows in the
Speaker 25: seventies or eighties or nineties. I'll probably fall asleep in
Speaker 25: the next ninety minutes or half of three calls an
Speaker 25: hour and hour. So you can go as long as
Speaker 25: you can and I'll get on to the show. Do
Speaker 25: you can we get on and listen to your show
Speaker 25: if it gets put on thee Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the show is podcast. So if you if
Speaker 3: you just look for Australia overnight in a podcast feed
Speaker 3: it will come up. So yeah, that'll be an easy
Speaker 3: way to listen back. So we'll see how we go.
Speaker 3: Good on you, Adrian. We'll get a breakout of the
Speaker 3: way and see what calls we get and what take
Speaker 3: message as we get. So thank you for that. But Clark, justin,
Speaker 3: Nathan and James hang On will be with you after.
Speaker 3: Janet says vern enjoys his quiz. I enjoy listening to him.
Speaker 3: Why do we always have to have a nasty, mean
Speaker 3: person as in the case of the person who was
Speaker 3: rubbishing him. Thank you, Janet Lovely to have your support
Speaker 3: there for Verne. Yeah. Look, everything we do on this
Speaker 3: show and on this network, some people will love it
Speaker 3: and some people will hate it. And that's the joy
Speaker 3: of it all. And I always say, if we could
Speaker 3: please everybody by doing the absolute perfect show, we wouldn't
Speaker 3: be here on Middawn, we'd be on we'd be in
Speaker 3: the mainstream time slots earning more money than Kyle Sandy
Speaker 3: Lands if we could produce the perfect show. So you
Speaker 3: can't please everyone, so don't try. Just to just do
Speaker 3: what we do and hopefully people enjoy it, but thank
Speaker 3: you for that text. I've got more to read out,
Speaker 3: but we've got people who've been hanging on, so we'll
Speaker 3: get to them first. Clark has called him from Adelaide.
Speaker 3: Hey Clark from perthte go from Perth. Sorry that's cool,
Speaker 3: or have you been on hold that long that you
Speaker 3: you were that late?
Speaker 26: I was heading home in a taxi and we went
Speaker 26: past Canning Highway and Stirring Highway on the corner and
Speaker 26: one of the big.
Speaker 11: Trucks with.
Speaker 26: Containers on here that we think it'd our cyclist and no,
Speaker 26: a motorcyclist. Oh yeah, and he's on the and they're
Speaker 26: blocked off a whole intersection. Looks really dodgy when I went.
Speaker 11: Past, looked really sad.
Speaker 26: So I don't know if the police had been caught
Speaker 26: or not, but it looked really bad.
Speaker 3: Oh so, there were no emergency services there at.
Speaker 26: The time or no just main roads turned up and
Speaker 26: they had some uh cones around them stuff, but they
Speaker 26: were in any police in the ambulance there, so and
Speaker 26: you looked like he wasn't traveling.
Speaker 25: He was on the floor.
Speaker 26: The motorcyclist didn't look too good when we went past.
Speaker 3: Oh poor bugger. There is nothing worse. My nephew just
Speaker 3: got a motorbike and so our families gone into melt
Speaker 3: the about. You know, the boy in his twenties get
Speaker 3: some motorbike. It's just a terrifying thing for family members. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's hope for it. Yeah, thank you, thanks Clark. So
Speaker 3: it's the Canning Highway and Stern Highway. It's the intersection there.
Speaker 26: Yeah, steing haway yeah, nWay.
Speaker 3: Yep, no worries. Well, thanks for letting us know that
Speaker 3: anybody in the area please stay away or slow right
Speaker 3: down when you get in there. Appreciate the call, Clark,
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 16: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks, take care of yours. Justin's in Frankston.
Speaker 14: Hi, Justin, good Simon, long time no here, how have
Speaker 14: you been? Yeah, Ben all right, just got that's some
Speaker 14: interesting facts here to tell you. So I've got this
Speaker 14: world Atlas and the top broadband economies since two thousand
Speaker 14: and eight have got Australia listed as number eighteen in
Speaker 14: the world.
Speaker 3: When you say broadband economies, what do you mean, like
Speaker 3: as in actual internet connections or is that just a term?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, that's internet. So we're rare to number eighteenth
Speaker 12: in the world.
Speaker 3: I thought we'd be further down than that, because frankly,
Speaker 3: our internet's pretty lousy in Australia.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so it goes Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland,
Speaker 12: South Korea, Finland, Luxembourg, and Canada. That's your top ten, right, yeah,
Speaker 12: and then France, UK, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, China, you
Speaker 12: were say, Macau, China, and then Australia is eighteenth.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, well I would have thought we would have been
Speaker 3: further down. And I don't mean that as a stab
Speaker 3: at the NBN or anything. I just simply think because
Speaker 3: of the massive land that we need to cover for
Speaker 3: internet services such a small population, it would be harder
Speaker 3: to have to fund having high quality, high speed internet exactly.
Speaker 12: And I've just got one clue because question for what
Speaker 12: year was the sput Neck launched?
Speaker 3: Sputneck. Okay, I'm going to stab in the dark. I'm
Speaker 3: going to I'm going to randomly say nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 12: I have no idea it was launched in nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Fifty seven, okay, so I was only nineteen years.
Speaker 24: Out, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no.
Speaker 12: Apart from that, I'm going good I'm actually, as you said,
Speaker 12: I'm in Frankston. I'm no longer in Melting anymore. No
Speaker 12: of a change of scenery, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair enough. But what caused the move? Just
Speaker 3: you just wanted to change or.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: Because well I actually live with disability in that and
Speaker 12: my agency that I was before had terminated, so I
Speaker 12: was a diner company.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, And so they've moved you.
Speaker 11: How was how Bankston?
Speaker 3: How was the move nice and easy or was it
Speaker 3: a lot of hard work?
Speaker 12: It was very sudden. I had to move within one day.
Speaker 3: Oh craky, okay, that is tough.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but all in oil, it was okay. It took
Speaker 12: me two hours to.
Speaker 20: Get up here.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, and you're settled in nicely. How long have
Speaker 3: you been there?
Speaker 12: Well, tomorrow makes three weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're all settled in okay.
Speaker 12: Oh definitely. And the other thing too, was I'm not
Speaker 12: too happy with the Queensland state of origin.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, New South Wales one last night? Did they
Speaker 3: I haven't paid it any attention.
Speaker 12: Yeah, eighteen points to six.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah exactly. All right. Well, now justin we're
Speaker 3: coming out. We've got to squeeze another break in before news.
Speaker 3: So good to hear your voice. Thanks for calling in
Speaker 3: and glad the move went smoothly. Justin now in Frankston,
Speaker 3: back in a moment, two to eleven in Perth, twenty
Speaker 3: eight after midnight in Adelaide, and two minutes to one
Speaker 3: in Melbourne. Hi Simon, last collar brought back a memory
Speaker 3: for me. I worked for a short time for Borthwick's
Speaker 3: Meat Wholesalers in their premises in Light Square in the
Speaker 3: Adelaide CBD, doing fairly basic clerical duties weighing and hanging
Speaker 3: lamb carcasses in the cold room and associated paperwork and invoicing.
Speaker 3: It was such a mundane job with good people there.
Speaker 3: I was only there for nine months during the early
Speaker 3: seventies when I heard they were soon leaving Adelaide to
Speaker 3: move back to their main office in Queensland. So there
Speaker 3: you go, Thank you, Agent two ninety five. That's lovely
Speaker 3: another memory of Bothwick's Meat Wholesalers. Get I mate to
Speaker 3: answer that fellow's question. It's the joys of evolution. People
Speaker 3: move on, music changes and even telling the time nobody
Speaker 3: rang up the sundial or that's a great line. The
Speaker 3: most important thing in life is to live in the moment,
Speaker 3: says Ben from Mayrie Good on your Ben after the
Speaker 3: news more of your calls.
Speaker 2: His Australia Overnight with Simon Owen's.
Speaker 3: Hello, they're welcome back. I've just changed headphones to try
Speaker 3: something and it is shocking. I'm just hearing myself all distorted.
Speaker 3: It's terrible and to say something to.
Speaker 4: Me, J so I can I'm not coming through in
Speaker 4: a different language, am I English?
Speaker 3: I can barely hear you. So I've got to unplug
Speaker 3: things a little bit and change that back because that's
Speaker 3: just woeful.
Speaker 27: There is.
Speaker 3: So much for that little experiment. I'll try the other
Speaker 3: ones in the next break. Hello, welcome back to our
Speaker 3: number two of Australia Overnight. Oh that was hideous. And
Speaker 3: these are good little a kg headphone that I've had,
Speaker 3: but they've been sitting in my draw unused for about
Speaker 3: four years, so maybe something's died in them. Anyway, there
Speaker 3: goes that stupid idea. One double three six nine three.
Speaker 3: We've got callers hanging on from the last hour. Anything
Speaker 3: you want to chat about, you more than welcome to
Speaker 3: give us a call. Let's get straight to your calls.
Speaker 3: After a couple of quick text messages just while we
Speaker 3: build up delay, which we are of course obligated to do. Sorry, Simeon,
Speaker 3: in my text was a bit too long. Memories of
Speaker 3: Borthwick's was from Stephen Inarberfoyle Park in Adelaide, So thank
Speaker 3: you Stephen. Yes, the text was so long it scrolled
Speaker 3: off the bottom of my screen and I couldn't actually
Speaker 3: read it, So thank you for that. Burgerrak, The Professionals, Heartbeat.
Speaker 3: These are all English detective series to add to that list. Burgerrak,
Speaker 3: The Professionals, Heartbeat, The Saint, The Sweeney Cracker, Inspect Dimorse,
Speaker 3: Midsummer Murders, says Rob, Thank you Rob, They're fantastic. That's
Speaker 3: very kind. Maggie also writes great to hear you again, Simon.
Speaker 3: I realized that your station is affiliated with the nine network. However,
Speaker 3: how flexible are you in referencing those other non affiliated
Speaker 3: shows we have? Thank you, Maggie. It's a good question
Speaker 3: because people do talk about the you know, the ninerification
Speaker 3: of our network and how it's changed ever since nine
Speaker 3: took over. Nine don't exercise any influence, any real influence
Speaker 3: over any of the hosts of shows on this network.
Speaker 3: Not once of management ever given me any direction as
Speaker 3: to what I can and can't say on air. They
Speaker 3: don't even push, as it were, that we should use
Speaker 3: nine related people instead of you know, seven related people
Speaker 3: or people from the ABC. They know there is I
Speaker 3: guess an implied pressure that some hosts might feel is,
Speaker 3: but it's never as I say, I've never been told
Speaker 3: anything by management. But I do know that some producers,
Speaker 3: you know, young producers, they don't want to annoy the bosses,
Speaker 3: so they probably think, oh, we should probably use nine
Speaker 3: people if we're getting a journalist on, but we have
Speaker 3: we have employees here. So our radio network is owned
Speaker 3: by nine for the moment, because there are rumors of
Speaker 3: a sale, so we're owned by nine at the moment.
Speaker 3: So is the formerly the Fairfax newspapers are also now
Speaker 3: owned by Channel nine as well. But here at three
Speaker 3: AW for example, we've got journalists from the Herald Sun
Speaker 3: appear on all of our programs, and we've got people
Speaker 3: who appear on Channel seven who appear on our programs
Speaker 3: as well, So there's no We're actually free to do
Speaker 3: whatever because what the priority is as a radio station,
Speaker 3: So whether it's six PR five double A who aren't
Speaker 3: actually part of the nine network, but they take the programs,
Speaker 3: whether at six PR, four BC, two GB or three
Speaker 3: A W Our priority is to do the best programming
Speaker 3: we can do for our stations, our network, So we
Speaker 3: will do whatever we can do to do the right
Speaker 3: thing by our audience, and if that involves using people
Speaker 3: from seven or the ABC or ten or you know,
Speaker 3: Foxtel or whatever, then we'll do it because that's the
Speaker 3: best content we can do. So we're not bound to
Speaker 3: run things. No one's ringing up nine management and saying
Speaker 3: can we have permission to use this person's And it's
Speaker 3: the same. You know, there's a very big editorial independence
Speaker 3: in the newspaper as well, where they say, you know,
Speaker 3: if they think that something's really crappy on Channel nine,
Speaker 3: they're free to write about it. We're quite free to
Speaker 3: criticize nine as well. On here. If there's a television
Speaker 3: show we don't like, we're free to say what we like.
Speaker 3: So thank you, Maggie. It's a good question, and I
Speaker 3: hope that answer is satisf actual. Nathan's called from Dallaston.
Speaker 10: Good I Nathan Simon, how are you yeah here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you were talking about Phil Phil Brady and
Speaker 6: all that. I used to listen to them when for
Speaker 6: years when I listened to Phil and you're talking on
Speaker 6: the radio, Yes, yeah, like when Phil's on and you
Speaker 6: cheased me up and I'll listened to him. Yeah with you,
Speaker 6: with you, with you two on every Sunday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make me yeah, thanks me up there, Philip Brady.
Speaker 3: For those listening through Perth and Adelaide, Philip Brady hosted
Speaker 3: nights on three a W for you know, the thirty
Speaker 3: odd years and then and continued on with remember when
Speaker 3: and sadly, of course passed away earlier this year. You'll
Speaker 3: probably remember him best for his TV quiz shows that
Speaker 3: he did back in the sixties and seventies. But yes,
Speaker 3: sadly passed away earlier this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so just down and a sort of salay Jimmy,
Speaker 6: he said hello to me, I was listening to you,
Speaker 6: listen to you. And also it was Tony on tonight,
Speaker 6: but it was you.
Speaker 24: I do you know who was on?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, No, Tony's partner has been a little
Speaker 3: unwell this week and it's and Tony's obviously caught the bug.
Speaker 3: So he's got the morning off, so I'm just done
Speaker 3: for the morning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't speed to be on It's
Speaker 6: not Sunday. It's not Saturday night yet, Yeah what I thought?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And also hello and yeah, bring up and sale to Yeah.
Speaker 3: I spoke to you for good to chat to you.
Speaker 3: I hope everything's well in your work.
Speaker 6: Who's hosting with you on Sunday Sunday Nights.
Speaker 3: Andrew McLaren is now the co host of Remember When?
Speaker 19: Ok?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he and I do it together.
Speaker 6: Okay, I might ring up one stage on Sunday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, feel free, yep, we take we take all after
Speaker 3: eleven and calls with Rick Milan doing antiques and collectibles
Speaker 3: at nine point thirty. So we can always room for
Speaker 3: a call here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, then say I'll sort of say hello to everyone.
Speaker 3: Who's listening as well, no worries. Good on you, Nathan,
Speaker 3: thanks for that. Always a pleasure to check to you.
Speaker 3: James is in Adelaide, Hi, James.
Speaker 28: Good morning, Simon.
Speaker 11: We all miss your mate.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. It's good to be back. It's been
Speaker 3: four months, but happy to be here. And that's right.
Speaker 11: It's been a while, isn't it it has?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 28: Anyway, anyway, there's a few famous birthdays so right, because
Speaker 28: as you know, I love music. Melb has it a
Speaker 28: males time fifty years old today.
Speaker 3: Melby's fifty today? Is she Jeepers?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 28: From the Spice Girls.
Speaker 26: Yeah.
Speaker 28: A couple of sisters of the late Marca Jackson, LaToya
Speaker 28: Jackson is fifty nine today. Yeah, and Rebby Jackson is
Speaker 28: seventy five. Who's seventy five?
Speaker 11: Is Rebbe on?
Speaker 28: It's Rebby or Rebe Jackson Jackson sisters right on the
Speaker 28: same day. The next one is one of my favorite
Speaker 28: groups going back many many years in the seventies.
Speaker 3: Francis Rossi, the erring a belt here guitarist with Status Quo.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 28: That's the one mate spot on the late Gary Brooker.
Speaker 28: He was from Praca A.
Speaker 3: Remember that song A White You White Pale, great song?
Speaker 28: Yeah, yeah, classic. And I'm trying to think there's another one.
Speaker 28: I'm pretty sure it's called two Fools in Love. That's
Speaker 28: another one of their songs that I liked. Yeah, yeah, Oh,
Speaker 28: there's a there's a lady called Carla DeVito. She's seventy
Speaker 28: two today. I never knew anything about her, but apparently
Speaker 28: she was a backup singer with mid Life on his
Speaker 28: back out of Hell tour.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, was an a singer, she was a
Speaker 3: what singer?
Speaker 28: And wasn't he a great singer?
Speaker 3: He was in his day he was fabulous meat Loaf years.
Speaker 28: Yeah, the Calves too. Today she's open up for a
Speaker 28: few famous people apart from Mad Life, Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't get bigger than the Boss, No, that's right.
Speaker 28: And the Being Sorrows. I've never heard of them, got
Speaker 28: no idea who they are. And also for all the notes,
Speaker 28: remember all the notes?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your biggest selling duo in the world.
Speaker 28: That's right. So she's having for a few and also
Speaker 28: for Australian singer remember Rix Springfield with Jesse's Jesse's girl.
Speaker 3: Rick Springfield from Zoot originally, But yeah, I had a
Speaker 3: couple of solo hits and went onto a great acting career.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 28: So yeah, I've never heard of that card of the Veto,
Speaker 28: but I have now and yeah it's so. And you know,
Speaker 28: out of a bit of useless trivia for you, out
Speaker 28: of the Jackson sisters, there's one of them that I
Speaker 28: never mentioned, right, and you know where she feed in
Speaker 28: in back in nineteen ninety four, no Playboy magazine.
Speaker 3: Oh did she must have missed that Janet Jackson.
Speaker 28: Janet Jackson mate in nineteen ninety four. I think she
Speaker 28: was about twenty mid twenties, about twenty eight at the time.
Speaker 3: Well, she is a big, gorgeous.
Speaker 28: Yeah, she's lovely girl mate. And another one a lot
Speaker 28: of people don't know is Nancy Sinatra on Playboy at
Speaker 28: the age of about fifty two or fifty three.
Speaker 3: Nancy Sinatra did did you?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 28: And when that is true, when frank'sin up of the
Speaker 28: late Frank Sinatra found out, he said, I hope you're
Speaker 28: charging them double. But I think I don't think it
Speaker 28: would have been too impressed with her appearing on Playboy.
Speaker 28: But that's what I've read, So whether it's true or not,
Speaker 28: who knows. I'd never Yeah, there's I mean, you know
Speaker 28: th google table magazine. There's so many females that a
Speaker 28: lot of people would say, no, did she?
Speaker 20: I said, yep?
Speaker 17: Well and one of them.
Speaker 3: Well, two things there. One, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 3: allowed to google Playboy magazine on a work computer, so
Speaker 3: so best that I don't do that here and now.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is if I did, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be paying much attention to the show. So two good
Speaker 3: reasons why I won't do.
Speaker 28: That right now, put some tape on the camera, mate.
Speaker 3: Get on your James. Thanks for the call. Take care
Speaker 3: of eight years Leanne's in Minneapoliane.
Speaker 18: I finally were come from week with the weekly session.
Speaker 18: I'd just like to say to that gentleman in Perth
Speaker 18: that witness that accident that if he is troubled by
Speaker 18: it mentally to go to a counselor because these things
Speaker 18: can be traumatic for the people that happen and go
Speaker 18: basket and also the same for the one in I
Speaker 18: was in Stare today and I was thinking why the
Speaker 18: police I was going to record his an ejection at
Speaker 18: the hospital so we didn't come across the accident because
Speaker 18: it was between barrow Rat and Stall. I was wondering
Speaker 18: why there's no immediate Now I know why. You know,
Speaker 18: So if anyone's traumatized by seeing accidents and that, please
Speaker 18: go get some counseling because it can play on your
Speaker 18: mind if you're not mentally capable of dealing with it.
Speaker 18: You know, I don't mean in the sense that people
Speaker 18: aren't mentally incas in.
Speaker 19: To do so I know at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you just never you never know what
Speaker 3: is going to trigger someone. For some people it's fine,
Speaker 3: and for others. Something that's fine for some people is
Speaker 3: very triggering for others, and vice versa. So you just
Speaker 3: you just never know. So if you if you do
Speaker 3: come across anything like that, and and and you are
Speaker 3: uneasy and uncomfortable and you know you have nightmares or
Speaker 3: just can't sleep or whatever, if it's constantly on your mind, yeah,
Speaker 3: counseling is really good. I went, I went and saw
Speaker 3: a psychiatrist psychologist, I should say. Once. I had some
Speaker 3: stuff going on in my life and most of the
Speaker 3: time I'm just a very easy, you know, whatever, whatever
Speaker 3: happens in life happens, and you just roll with the
Speaker 3: punchers type person. And I actually I went through a
Speaker 3: difficult time quite a few years ago now and I
Speaker 3: ended up going to see a psychologist. Best thing I
Speaker 3: could ever do. And I was one of those people
Speaker 3: who said, I don't really need I don't need that,
Speaker 3: that's just not for me. And I went and did it,
Speaker 3: and it was it was really good. It really really
Speaker 3: helped me. So yeah, strongly advised that people do if
Speaker 3: there's something that's just that you just can't let go
Speaker 3: of and you're really struggling with go see your psychologists.
Speaker 18: Yep, Simon, you spot on there because even if it
Speaker 18: travels you for a couple of nights. But anything like
Speaker 18: me being in rescue when I went to my first fatality,
Speaker 18: which I remember very well, names and everything, what happened,
Speaker 18: it took me two weeks to stop thinking about her
Speaker 18: and getting on. I wasn't totally stressed about it, but
Speaker 18: she was on my mind for two weeks and that
Speaker 18: was normal as a rescue operator because she was only
Speaker 18: debone beautiful looking girl. Yeah, it was quite you know,
Speaker 18: grateful how it happened. I'm not going to go into
Speaker 18: it because I don't know who's listening and I can't
Speaker 18: mention names, but yeah, it can be very distressing and
Speaker 18: they can play on your mind for some time and
Speaker 18: these days going to see someone about it. It's not shameful.
Speaker 18: Guys and ladies, ladies and gentlemen out there, if you
Speaker 18: have any depressing thoughts about anything that you used to
Speaker 18: be doing, family, want, you know, anything, go see someone.
Speaker 18: That's what they're for and it's moved my life too.
Speaker 18: Have been there, done that long before rescue.
Speaker 3: Well, it's great advice, Leanne.
Speaker 29: Thank you.
Speaker 18: You're talking about music, not music, you're talking about tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, I haven't actually brought up a topic yet. It's
Speaker 3: We're an hour and twenty two minutes into the program
Speaker 3: and I haven't actually raised anything yet. We've just been
Speaker 3: taking calls as they come.
Speaker 18: Give me a quiz question, mate, give me a quizy
Speaker 18: a quiz question.
Speaker 3: Okay. Who was the musician who composed the soundtracks to
Speaker 3: things like Weird Science, Beetlejuice, Batman, Men in Black and
Speaker 3: also the theme music for the Simpsons And you'd either
Speaker 3: know or you don't. He was also a member of
Speaker 3: the band Oingo Boingo.
Speaker 21: Longoo.
Speaker 18: I don't think that you've got me.
Speaker 3: Yep, Danny Elfman, of course, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 18: No, I see the name on the screen of the Simpsons.
Speaker 21: So well done.
Speaker 3: Sign No thanks Leanne. Cheers will break. We'll come back
Speaker 3: more if he calls a welcome one double three six
Speaker 3: nine three or one double three eight eighty two. Anything
Speaker 3: you want to chat about, but just on you know
Speaker 3: what Leanne said there about you know, and what I've
Speaker 3: just said about going to see a shrink. There a
Speaker 3: lot of people, and I used to be like that,
Speaker 3: would would say, no, it's it's a sign of weakness.
Speaker 3: It's a sign of strength if you don't go. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm tough. I can survive without going to sea a shrink.
Speaker 3: It's not strength to not go. I think you're displaying
Speaker 3: strength if you swallow what I would call foolish pride
Speaker 3: and actually admit, you know what, there's something that's on
Speaker 3: my mind and I'd like it to not be on
Speaker 3: my mind so much, so just go and talk to someone.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what those people do. And in the
Speaker 3: instance I went to I won't name the psychologist because
Speaker 3: I don't know if she would appreciate me giving her name.
Speaker 3: But she didn't actually do a great deal of talking,
Speaker 3: but me talking to her and telling her everything that
Speaker 3: was on my mind helped me to deal with all
Speaker 3: the crap that was going on in my head. So
Speaker 3: it wasn't it's not like you go there and they say, oh, yes,
Speaker 3: do this, do that and you'll be fine. It's not
Speaker 3: actually about that. It's for me. It was just really
Speaker 3: cathartic to be able to talk to a complete stranger
Speaker 3: about the issues I was dealing with and She was sympathetic,
Speaker 3: and she asked me how I felt about these things,
Speaker 3: and I felt like a clarity when I was telling her,
Speaker 3: because hearing myself saying all this stuff just really helped me.
Speaker 3: And that's one thing that I'm really proud of there,
Speaker 3: is that I actually admitted that I wasn't coping and
Speaker 3: went to seek help. And I don't think that was
Speaker 3: a moment of weakness for me. I think that was
Speaker 3: the strongest moment I've had, so highly recommend it if
Speaker 3: you're struggling people. Anyway, we'll break back with more stuff. Well,
Speaker 3: we should throw in a topic Jay after the break.
Speaker 3: We'll see how we go with that to back in
Speaker 3: a sec. Thank you, doctor John for the text. I
Speaker 3: deserve a slap hard across the face because I made
Speaker 3: a mistake. I mentioned Danny Elfman and said that he
Speaker 3: did the soundtracks for Weird Science, Beetlejuice, Men in Black
Speaker 3: and all of that. He didn't do the soundtrack for
Speaker 3: Weird Science. You are right, doctor John. Ira Newborn did
Speaker 3: the soundtrack for Weird Science. Danny Elfman with Oingo Boingo
Speaker 3: had a song called Weird Science. That's my mistake. That's
Speaker 3: on me and you are absolutely spot on. Thank you
Speaker 3: for the correction, because I hate it when I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: which frankly happens too often. Simon's in colic. I Simon, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 30: I mean.
Speaker 11: Car Z was a was it yep?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 29: Oh man, yeah, and I know I am oh, yeah,
Speaker 29: I saw. I have an experience when I was at
Speaker 29: my boy at school, but a little boy just start school. Yeah,
Speaker 29: and then started, yeah, I'm go ahead. Good to see
Speaker 29: that he's got his sister go off the bus. I
Speaker 29: was thinking, went around the back of the bus. He
Speaker 29: jumped off the bus and went around the front the
Speaker 29: bus wanted to off and when are we? Oh cracky
Speaker 29: and yeah and yeah I'll go out. That was the
Speaker 29: non at school and mom and dad at home. Yeah,
Speaker 29: I just thought, yeah, I don't have that lady was
Speaker 29: talking about that, and we had that man and then
Speaker 29: then that boy from my boat.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Simon, it's really it's a quite a muffled phone
Speaker 3: line this morning, so I'm having a bit of trouble.
Speaker 29: Hearing, but just probably in my voice to someone.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's that's good. Be clear now.
Speaker 29: Yeah, I was saying, just brought back to me that
Speaker 29: little boy, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sad and.
Speaker 29: Anyway, Yeah, I got to go to the dentist this
Speaker 29: week and the malogue not coming the right way, it's
Speaker 29: coming side wise mouth.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, that's a bit weird, bit uncomfortable.
Speaker 13: Is it.
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 29: About the third big bottom two pulled out in the
Speaker 29: male of Greg out from coming sidewise.
Speaker 3: My daughter went to the dentist today or yesterday, i
Speaker 3: should say now for Melbourne listeners. Still today in Perth
Speaker 3: my daughter went to the dentist four hundred bucks for
Speaker 3: an hour in the chair.
Speaker 26: Good money, Well, we love it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's I don't think it would be a great
Speaker 3: job really, because you're dealing with people's mouths, which aren't
Speaker 3: the most pleasant things to begin with, and generally you're
Speaker 3: dealing with people's mouths when they're at their worst. So
Speaker 3: it'd be a pretty gruesome job, I would think. And
Speaker 3: and the technology behind it, I don't think dentistry seems
Speaker 3: to have come that come along as well as other
Speaker 3: parts of medicine. You know, it's all They still to
Speaker 3: take a tooth out, They still grab it with pliers
Speaker 3: and just try and rip it out of your head.
Speaker 3: It's not it doesn't seem like that, surely, there's a
Speaker 3: better way now.
Speaker 29: But when when one first, that old dentist doing it
Speaker 29: just crunched and he left him half the words in
Speaker 29: the in the gum for six months or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dentistry is not fun.
Speaker 29: He didn't put me by yeah I'm going one noodle
Speaker 29: and he just went yank.
Speaker 25: Well, brick.
Speaker 3: Well. I had a crown put on a tooth. And
Speaker 3: when they've done that thing where they take it off,
Speaker 3: they do the mold and then they send away and
Speaker 3: the crown gets made by some other company or something,
Speaker 3: and then it comes back and they put it in.
Speaker 3: And when the dentist has put it in, it's not
Speaker 3: gone on perfectly straight. So it's in the right spot,
Speaker 3: but it's just not quite aligned. And so there's a
Speaker 3: bit of a gap that anytime I eat chicken, I
Speaker 3: then have to floss immediately after chicken or meat or anything,
Speaker 3: because there's one part of where the food just gets
Speaker 3: stuck every time. And if I don't floss straight away,
Speaker 3: I sit there with You know how your tongue gets
Speaker 3: drawn to places in your mouth, like if you chip
Speaker 3: a tooth and you can feel it sharp. You just
Speaker 3: spend your whole life with your tongue going right where
Speaker 3: it is, so I feel these little bits of meat
Speaker 3: stuck between the tooth and the you know, the tooth
Speaker 3: next to it. So my tongue's just always there. So
Speaker 3: I can't eat meat unless I've got a toothpick handy,
Speaker 3: So I have four toothpicks. And oh in your wallet. Oh,
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's hygienic. Is it keeping a
Speaker 3: toothpick in your wallet? That's you've got money. You've got
Speaker 3: money that everyone else has fingered. You've got to that's
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 20: I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair enough. All right, good on your simon,
Speaker 3: good to chat. Thanks mate, take care. Twenty five to
Speaker 3: two already twenty five to midnight in Perth, and five
Speaker 3: after one in Adelaide. Maggie's in Adelaide. We'll chat chat
Speaker 3: to you after the break, Maggie. And after that the
Speaker 3: board's empty. So let's throw something in now to see
Speaker 3: if we can encourage you to call what we used
Speaker 3: to put coins in? Actually there's a bit of a
Speaker 3: setup to that topic, but that's the line, the pitch line,
Speaker 3: what did we used to put coins in? I'll tell
Speaker 3: you my story and we'll take your calls after this,
Speaker 3: and we're taking your calls one double three six nine
Speaker 3: three now just before we do get back to your call, though,
Speaker 3: what did we used to put coins in?
Speaker 23: Now?
Speaker 3: The reason this came up was I love perusing auction sites,
Speaker 3: and a week or so ago, Jay or two weeks ago,
Speaker 3: I think it was now, one of the auction sites
Speaker 3: I looked at had those vending not a vending machine
Speaker 3: in the classical term, but you know the giant bubble
Speaker 3: gum balls that you used to get out of the
Speaker 3: machines that were outside Supermarke. So it's this thing. It
Speaker 3: comes up to about your chest, and it's a big
Speaker 3: circular thing, and there's the little thing where you'd put
Speaker 3: your twenty cents in and your twist the thing and
Speaker 3: then a gum ball would drop out, run down a
Speaker 3: spiral to the little door at the bottom, and then
Speaker 3: you'd reach in and get your gumball. Well, one of
Speaker 3: those came up at the auction side, yeah, yeah, full
Speaker 3: of gumballs, and next to it or the next item,
Speaker 3: so obviously being sold by the same person. The next
Speaker 3: item was a chopper chup one. So it's a cylindrical
Speaker 3: one and it's full of chopper chups and I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't quite know how that one works where you
Speaker 3: whether you get to choose your flavor or not. But
Speaker 3: the same thing, it's got the little the little coin mechanism.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to buy it. And Taylor, the producer
Speaker 3: for the Dennis Walter program on three OW, which precedes
Speaker 3: this one, she was saying, Oh, you've got to buy it.
Speaker 3: You've got to buy it. And I said, what am
Speaker 3: I going to do with all those gumballs? They'll go off?
Speaker 3: And where can I put it? I've got nowhere at
Speaker 3: home to put these things? Did the gumballs?
Speaker 4: Remember they had there was one a couple of items
Speaker 4: in them that were covered in plastic. Were those gumbles
Speaker 4: or were they little toy Yeah?
Speaker 3: So you could also get little toys in balls. Yeah yeah, No,
Speaker 3: this this one was proper gumballah yeah, running around. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so this was This was the big one. So it's
Speaker 3: not the little ones. You used to see those machines
Speaker 3: where there'd be four of them or six of them
Speaker 3: all in a little stand, and they were smaller ones.
Speaker 3: It wasn't those. This was the one that you know,
Speaker 3: the chopper chup one. And this gumball one came up
Speaker 3: to your chest. They were big items, and I love
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I would love that in my house
Speaker 3: if I had a big house. That's why I would
Speaker 3: have stuff like that in there. For no reason other
Speaker 3: than I think it looks really cool.
Speaker 4: And as you're walking past on your way to the shower,
Speaker 4: on the toilet or something, Yeah you want.
Speaker 3: A chopper chop? Yeah? Have your friends come over for
Speaker 3: dinner whilst I'm cooking the roast, would you like a
Speaker 3: chopper chop? It's only twenty cents? And then play the atari?
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. So anyway, so I saw those and I
Speaker 3: actually did think because when Taylor was saying, oh, you
Speaker 3: should get them, you should get them, because she's i think,
Speaker 3: also impulsive like me in that way. I said, well,
Speaker 3: I've got nowhere to put them, and she said put
Speaker 3: them here. They would actually be really good just in
Speaker 3: the foyer here, and then the staff could have a
Speaker 3: gumball whenever they want it. But again, the thing is
Speaker 3: who carries a twenty cent piece nowadays to put in
Speaker 3: a gumball machine? No one. So so I didn't end
Speaker 3: up doing it as much as I would love to.
Speaker 4: We sometimes you see those machines with the you know
Speaker 4: you can put your card on.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just takes away the authenticityity, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, they you can pay with the cards. Cars
Speaker 3: for the kids, Yeah yeah, the little firem and sam
Speaker 3: and that where the little kid sits and it goes
Speaker 3: around in a circle. Yeah, tapping tapping going on those
Speaker 3: just isn't the same. It used to be so much
Speaker 3: fun as a kid to put the coins in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: here it go, yep, yeah exactly. There was a physical
Speaker 3: reaction to it was so much better. So I didn't
Speaker 3: get it, but it did get me thinking about things
Speaker 3: we used to put coins in. Because I've now got
Speaker 3: in the dashboard in the center console of my car,
Speaker 3: I've got about six bucks worth of coins that are
Speaker 3: just sitting there that I don't use because you don't
Speaker 3: use coins in parking meters anymore, you don't, you know,
Speaker 3: I have no reason to have cash, So somehow I've
Speaker 3: got change over the journey, and I never do anything
Speaker 3: with it. I can't do anything with my change. Well,
Speaker 3: if you get one and put it here, we know
Speaker 3: you'll be I'll be putting of my own money in
Speaker 3: my own machines. But anyway, So you got me thinking,
Speaker 3: what did we used to put coins in? As a
Speaker 3: talkback topic? One double three eight eighty two or one
Speaker 3: double three six nine three? What did we used to
Speaker 3: put coins in? Do you have any suggestions? We've got
Speaker 3: calls coming through. Let's get back to them. Mark is
Speaker 3: in Hampton East, could I Mark?
Speaker 29: I'll get it there.
Speaker 31: How are you going?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Good, thanks, that's good.
Speaker 31: I'm just thinking about a coin situation. I think I'm
Speaker 31: putting coins to get or toys out of the little
Speaker 31: plastic container with a little piece of paper and it
Speaker 31: back in the day when I was thirteen years old.
Speaker 25: Yes, I just had to bring that up.
Speaker 31: They used to have a little dinosaurs in them, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Little Tony dinosaurs and stuff. Yeah, and others would have
Speaker 3: rings in them, and you get the occasional super well
Speaker 3: and yeah, that's right.
Speaker 32: Yeah.
Speaker 31: We used to become a part of the community just buying.
Speaker 31: It was a very social thing to buy.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if there was a bunch of your kids walking
Speaker 3: home after school and you walk past the shops and
Speaker 3: you had coins, you'd know you'd have a look and
Speaker 3: see what each other got. It was a good little thing.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 31: I always used to think they were bad luck, but
Speaker 31: then I found down they're actually not bad luck, not
Speaker 31: good luck, but there was something to buy to put
Speaker 31: on a key ring. When you get home at the
Speaker 31: end of the day, you get a little dinosaur, perhaps
Speaker 31: hypathetically speaking on a key ring, pushing a good mood
Speaker 31: to go inside and perhaps looking at refrigerator and have
Speaker 31: an idea or something to buy it for the refrigerator.
Speaker 3: For example, Yeah, what we get fridge magnets or something
Speaker 3: in them? Did you?
Speaker 31: Or if a dinosaur came in a little container the
Speaker 31: coin goes in the machine. I find it, ironically somewhat
Speaker 31: into chemistry.
Speaker 29: And I find that.
Speaker 31: Not only is it a dinosaur, I'm not going to
Speaker 31: go buy a dinosaur, but in my head would give
Speaker 31: me an idea to go. And goodness, it's almost a holocaust.
Speaker 31: Seemed to say, why don't you, Why don't I go
Speaker 31: buy a bit of lettuce? And what I bought a
Speaker 31: little dinosaur and a bit of a container for putting
Speaker 31: a bit of coin in the machine. Because the mass
Speaker 31: in a coin you put in a machine goes in
Speaker 31: the head with a dinosaur. Put the mass in the
Speaker 31: coin with a dinosaur. Give an idea for me to
Speaker 31: put something in the fridge.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's mathematics. It's a unique reaction. I can't
Speaker 3: say it would have stirred the same thing in me.
Speaker 3: But we're all different, aren't we.
Speaker 31: Well, yeah you had the same idea.
Speaker 3: No, no, I had that idea. I must a been.
Speaker 11: Yes, okay, all right, get on your mark.
Speaker 3: Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 12: Thank you you too far.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, take care of cheers. Maggie's in Adelaide, Hi, Maggie.
Speaker 33: Oh dear Simon, Yeah, lovely, ju back on in this
Speaker 33: time and so thank you.
Speaker 3: That's very good.
Speaker 33: You may not like this, lost, but take you.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I love doing this. I enjoy feeling in
Speaker 3: for Tony when I get the chance.
Speaker 17: Mm hmmm hmm.
Speaker 33: Okay, so I can after listening our bipath excuse me,
Speaker 33: psych psychologist, communications, dentistry, dentures, coffeing and all that and
Speaker 33: vending machines before I get to the recent main reason
Speaker 33: for en in the coin slot one, what about the
Speaker 33: old piggy bait that we used to have?
Speaker 8: You do you really are? You don't know how you're
Speaker 8: younger than me.
Speaker 3: I'm fifty three.
Speaker 33: Yeah, but did you know about the piggy banks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, I had a Commonwealth Bank piggy bank. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so not a piggy bank in the official sense of
Speaker 3: the word, but a money box. I did have a
Speaker 3: piggy bank as a kid, like a literally a pig
Speaker 3: shaped money box. But yeah, the main one I had
Speaker 3: was the Commonwealth Bank tin one.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 33: Yeah, well the piggy bait was a tin one too.
Speaker 33: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's from my recollection.
Speaker 15: But I'm a lot older than you.
Speaker 33: Yes, this much more I could say about any of
Speaker 33: those topics. But let me get back to.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 33: I'm a elderly I'm not tech savvy.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 33: In recent weeks, I've been getting from like my I've
Speaker 33: got two phones.
Speaker 20: If this phone.
Speaker 33: Is my smart phone, Google, your androids is infected with
Speaker 33: viruses critical virus alert seven one one the others as
Speaker 33: to remove.
Speaker 19: Now what do I do?
Speaker 33: How can I get rid of that? And how can
Speaker 33: I shut it down?
Speaker 18: What do I do?
Speaker 33: From an old lady who lives alone, who's not tax set.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look what you basically need to do, Maggie. I
Speaker 3: don't have an Android phone, so I don't get those.
Speaker 3: I've got an Apple phone and I get text messages occasionally,
Speaker 3: and I can just get a button that says report
Speaker 3: this is spam and block the sender. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've got the same functionality on an Android phone.
Speaker 3: The advice I basically give in this circumstance, Maggie is
Speaker 3: find a teenage kid in your neighborhood and they'll be
Speaker 3: able to They'll be able to clear it all up
Speaker 3: for you and hopefully show you how to do it
Speaker 3: in a couple of easy steps. That's probably probably the
Speaker 3: best way. But if anyone has any advice for Meggie,
Speaker 3: feel free to give us a buzz one double three
Speaker 3: six hine three or one double three eighty two. Got
Speaker 3: a break back soon and Arthur has called in from
Speaker 3: west Footscraga.
Speaker 19: Arthur, good morning, Simon and Jaye. Nice to have you
Speaker 19: on the program again. Do you still have your vending machines?
Speaker 3: Yes, I've still got my Pepsi vending machine.
Speaker 19: Yes, yes, Wiiamstown can have an option of paying parking
Speaker 19: meders by card or coins. They've still gone there. But
Speaker 19: the one that comes to my mind always is the
Speaker 19: the big boxes that you used to put coins in
Speaker 19: the for the gas and the electricity between sixties and seventies.
Speaker 3: Really, I wondered if anyone would bring about those. It's
Speaker 3: before my time or I've never experienced them, but I
Speaker 3: knew they were a thing.
Speaker 19: Yeah, And as I mentioned before, like I had a
Speaker 19: friend in rock Bank caravan. I don't know there's still
Speaker 19: there now, but it was mid sorry twenty ten or something,
Speaker 19: and they've still gone in the caravan. Perhad them, I
Speaker 19: should say, so, I don't know this still there in
Speaker 19: the caravan Rock Bank. I was surprised for the gas
Speaker 19: and electricity. I got a shock that doesn't even exist.
Speaker 3: And I understand there were also in the early days
Speaker 3: you could have pay coin operated televisions as well.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 19: I didn't see the coin operator once. But funny thing
Speaker 19: with the machines. If you had the gas and you
Speaker 19: hadn't had the coins, and they would go right down
Speaker 19: and you'll put the pennies or shillings or twenty cents
Speaker 19: whenever everyone they would go back up when you put
Speaker 19: the coins in. It would go right down or even
Speaker 19: turn off sometimes until you put the coins in the
Speaker 19: machine in the box.
Speaker 3: I should say, isn't it interesting? I wonder what they
Speaker 3: did the switch over from decimal to decimal currency from
Speaker 3: imperial currency. If everything was coin operated, then how did
Speaker 3: they manage that? I wonder that that switchover.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I know it was. It's yeah, it was you
Speaker 19: could kids are kids my pay card to break it.
Speaker 19: It was unbreakable. It was trying to get the coins out. Yeah,
Speaker 19: so funny. It was just unbreakable, like a you know,
Speaker 19: like a solid solid bullet or something. They were just
Speaker 19: unbreaka all those things you wanted to get, the money
Speaker 19: to get fish and chips or whatever you wanted to get.
Speaker 19: It was so funny. He's got up to mischief. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I remember as a kid the local phone booth was
Speaker 3: usually vandalized as well from people trying to break in
Speaker 3: with a screwdriver to get the coins out. Yeah.
Speaker 19: Well they wouldn't get much of that now because Telsa
Speaker 19: phone public phones are all free as you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is good, it's yeah, but most of them
Speaker 3: have been turned into free Wi Fi things too, so
Speaker 3: you can connect.
Speaker 19: The phone boxes have got to be in certain areas
Speaker 19: by law for the disadvantage like somehowder that may not
Speaker 19: be able to use the pay plane or can't afford it,
Speaker 19: or just people that have inconvenience. So I know they've
Speaker 19: got to be. They can't get rid of all often.
Speaker 19: They've got to be certain ones in a certain vicinity
Speaker 19: of certain areas, for mainly for the elderly people. Just
Speaker 19: in case, there you go.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. I didn't know that was that
Speaker 3: was the case. All right, I've got to get another breakaway, Arthur.
Speaker 3: But lovely, excuse me, lovely to chat as always. It's
Speaker 3: coming up to five to two. Thank you Janet for
Speaker 3: the text, Simon. The best way to fix the problem
Speaker 3: the meat in between your teeth. Chew a piece of
Speaker 3: gum until it goes soft. Press it against the two
Speaker 3: teeth where the meat is lodged. The soft chewing gum
Speaker 3: pushes the meat out the other side. No discomfort like
Speaker 3: you can get from using toothpicks. Thank you, Janet. But
Speaker 3: we talked earlier about things that trigger people. Chewing gum
Speaker 3: makes me want to heave my guts out. I can't
Speaker 3: cope with chewing gum. And when I'm standing there having
Speaker 3: a chat with someone who's going just chewing away and
Speaker 3: a piece of chewing gum, I want to barf all
Speaker 3: over their shoes. It really is something that I've struggled
Speaker 3: with my whole life. If someone gets in my car
Speaker 3: and their chewing gum, I have to put the window
Speaker 3: down because the smell does my head in ugh. I
Speaker 3: just can't cope with chewing gum. Just one of those
Speaker 3: little quirks in life. I did say, everyone's different. It's
Speaker 3: coming up to two o'clock. That's midnight and half past
Speaker 3: one in other places.
Speaker 1: Go leave me bradless.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 2: This is Australia Urban Eyed with Simon.
Speaker 3: Owen's and it's seven after two in Melbourne, seven after
Speaker 3: midnight in Perth and twenty three to two in South Australia.
Speaker 3: Good to have you on board this morning, if you've
Speaker 3: just woken up, if you've just joined us, or if
Speaker 3: you're just hopping into bed at this time of the morning.
Speaker 3: Tony McManus is off this morning. His partner's been a
Speaker 3: little unwell during the week and it seems the bug
Speaker 3: ha's crossed over to him. So Tony's off this morning.
Speaker 3: He should be back tomorrow, but if he's not, he'll
Speaker 3: be back on Monday for sure. So in the meantime
Speaker 3: you've got me. Jay is here as well. We're taking
Speaker 3: new calls. Three eight eighty two or one double three
Speaker 3: six nine three. They're the two numbers you can call
Speaker 3: us on. Some people, JAY are very alert and very aware,
Speaker 3: and we forget just how closely some people pay attention.
Speaker 3: A text from Agent five eight zero Simon hates two
Speaker 3: thousand and one A Space Odyssey and chewing gum. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's absolutely true. I have often spoken about my loathing
Speaker 3: of the movie two thousand and one A Space Odyssey.
Speaker 4: Was there any chewing of gum in the movie?
Speaker 3: Not that, not that I recall, thank god, because then
Speaker 3: I'd have to hate it even more.
Speaker 4: It was a few tense moments, Yeah, yeah, there were
Speaker 4: it would call for a chewing gum.
Speaker 3: I yess but exactly?
Speaker 14: But is that?
Speaker 3: Have you watched that movie? Do you like that movie?
Speaker 4: I think, to be honest, I haven't actually seen it.
Speaker 4: I've seen bits and pieces of it.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 4: You know what's the red light called again?
Speaker 3: How thou the computer thing? Spaceship? Yeah, but that's about it.
Speaker 4: That's my knowledge of Spado Space Odyssey.
Speaker 3: Well, you're not missing anything. It was a drag.
Speaker 4: It was an absolute drag of a movie. I found
Speaker 4: it was a bit like Aliens. You know that silence,
Speaker 4: that quite spacey sound. I know there was a few
Speaker 4: scenes like that.
Speaker 3: It was very quiet. Yeah, it was. Well, it starts
Speaker 3: with I think monkey's breaking a rock or something I
Speaker 3: can't really early even remember, and I think there's there's
Speaker 3: there's some theme that goes through it, going from stone
Speaker 3: age man to cave men days to the future where
Speaker 3: computers will kill us or elon mask and all that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it may even have been in it, but I just
Speaker 3: I just found it really boring. The other movie it
Speaker 3: was the other one that did my head in was
Speaker 3: the original Star Trek movie. Because I'm a Star Trek fan.
Speaker 3: I love a bit of Star Trek. But the movie
Speaker 3: the Special Effect X were so new and exciting with
Speaker 3: you know, spaceships and stuff. There's like a twenty minute
Speaker 3: sequence where the Enterprise or some spaceship is docking and
Speaker 3: it shows it moving into place and clamps coming out,
Speaker 3: and I just just parked the bloody thing and got
Speaker 3: on with the plot. Will you press a few buttons? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was just did my head in. So yeah, so
Speaker 3: there you go. But somebody has remembered I can't remember
Speaker 3: the last time I brought up two thousand and one
Speaker 3: of Space Odyssey. But because I've just mentioned before the
Speaker 3: news that I hate chewing gum, somebody has agent five
Speaker 3: eight zero who's pointed that out. So good on you,
Speaker 3: thank you for that. Chris of Broadmeadows has also texted
Speaker 3: three that he worked at the Two Way Cafe making
Speaker 3: pizza slices and tables had jukeboxes that you used to
Speaker 3: put twenty cents in to play top ten hit music. Yes,
Speaker 3: the little jukebox. There was two different things. As Chris
Speaker 3: points out, the tables had little mini one where you
Speaker 3: could select songs. I reckon, that's pretty cool. I'd love
Speaker 3: to have one of those at home, just sitting on
Speaker 3: a table. Yeah, just a little mini jukebox thing. But
Speaker 3: I remember because my grandparents on my dad's side were
Speaker 3: shock and alcoholics and they lived at Philip Island just
Speaker 3: over the bridge. I've forgotten the name of the suburb there,
Speaker 3: just over the bridge on Philip Island, But we would
Speaker 3: walk across the bridge with them to go to the
Speaker 3: local pub in San Remo and they'd sit there at
Speaker 3: the bar getting absolutely wasted whilst they were babysitting my
Speaker 3: sister and myself, and they give us money to go
Speaker 3: and put in the jukebox just to keep us entertained.
Speaker 3: So I had a great time growing up with the
Speaker 3: occasional visits to the grandparents because I got cash to
Speaker 3: play with the jukebox. I also remember there was a
Speaker 3: cigarette vending machine in the pub as well, which I
Speaker 3: don't think you see them around anymore. They're probably illegal,
Speaker 3: I would guess, given you'd be able to buy cigarettes
Speaker 3: without without having an ID check. If there were vending machines.
Speaker 4: For cigarettes and no ID checks back in the old days.
Speaker 3: N that'd be a good collective we'll to have too,
Speaker 3: wouldn't it. A vending machine for cigarettes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the different brands on there, Yeah, brands sitting
Speaker 4: on the Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the good old days where advertising was allowed. We
Speaker 3: could advertise different ways to kill ourselves. All right, let's
Speaker 3: get back to your calls. One double three six nine
Speaker 3: three one double three eight eighty two and keep the
Speaker 3: text coming on zero four double seven six nine three
Speaker 3: six nine three. Jim's in West Foot's great.
Speaker 20: Hey, Jim, Hi, Simon and Jay first or all. I
Speaker 20: have to correct myself about earlier when I told you
Speaker 20: when I worked at both WICKSLS on Somerville Road, there
Speaker 20: was quite a few meat works because I was a
Speaker 20: bit tired. It was in Brooklyn, both Wicks, not Somerville Road,
Speaker 20: where a lot of people from those years would remember it.
Speaker 20: But also about boxes. When I was younger, I had
Speaker 20: the same Commonwealth ones you had, the steel ones, and
Speaker 20: I still have two here and now I have one
Speaker 20: designed like a house and one with a large Scottish
Speaker 20: black terrier. Put coins in when I call them up.
Speaker 20: I'm with the Commonwealth Bank, so when I call them up,
Speaker 20: I take them and put them in a machine. Accounts
Speaker 20: how much you got in coins gives you a slip
Speaker 20: to the can you put into your account. But vending
Speaker 20: machines you and Jay would probably still remember Flinderstree and
Speaker 20: Spencer Street will before Southern Cross and nearly every station
Speaker 20: every platform had vending machines where you could buy cigarettes,
Speaker 20: or they had vending machines where you could buy hot coffees,
Speaker 20: hot chocolates, twist His Chips chocolates and another vending machine
Speaker 20: which you might remember, Simon. I saw only very few
Speaker 20: people win on it. There was a machine in a
Speaker 20: lot of amusement centers, and I think even in when
Speaker 20: you used to going before going into a cinema. They
Speaker 20: might have had it a machine with a like a
Speaker 20: hook hand that you'd have to get the prizes with.
Speaker 20: Only saw very few people. If you'd get it, it
Speaker 20: would come out the slide and you'd win it. But
Speaker 20: as I said, I saw very very very very hard.
Speaker 20: I forgot the name of the machine, but you probably
Speaker 20: know what I'm talking about, like a hook hand that
Speaker 20: you're apt to get the prize you were after and
Speaker 20: it would come out. I saw that in quite a
Speaker 20: few places too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they were good. I did, all right. There
Speaker 3: was one of those machines that must have been calibrated
Speaker 3: fairly well in favor of the of the person playing
Speaker 3: the game, because most of them, when that claw drops down,
Speaker 3: it lifts the claw up before the claw closes properly,
Speaker 3: so that most of the prizes just fall through. But
Speaker 3: there was one where I got a heap of stuffed
Speaker 3: toys from my kids because it always seemed to grab something.
Speaker 3: I can't remember where that was. I think just at
Speaker 3: a shopping center somewhere, but I love those old claw toys.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well you had better luck than I did, Simon,
Speaker 20: But nearly everyone I saw a player couldn't get it.
Speaker 20: But if I think even you and Jaild remember Flinders Street,
Speaker 20: every platform had vending machines everywhere. Yeah, cigarette machines, and
Speaker 20: you could get your coffees. You had chocolates, your twists,
Speaker 20: your chocolates, your potato chips. Nearly every platform had them,
Speaker 20: even North Melbourne and even Sunshine. All stations had the
Speaker 20: vending machines where you could get something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would assume, I would assume most still do.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't really travel by public transport
Speaker 3: much or by train anyway, so but I would imagine
Speaker 3: that most would, you know, at least the bigger ones would.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't know. People could tell us. I guess
Speaker 3: the best. I don't drink coffee. But there was a
Speaker 3: place where my daughter trained for a year while she
Speaker 3: was playing basketball. Teams rotate and change every season, but
Speaker 3: she was allocated to a court for her team to
Speaker 3: train on, and it was in a venue that we
Speaker 3: didn't normally go too much, And in the foyer of
Speaker 3: that was just this dumpy, little coffee machine. It didn't
Speaker 3: look like much, but it made hot chocolate as well
Speaker 3: as coffee, and so I bought a hot chocolate there
Speaker 3: for two dollars once and it was a freezing cold day.
Speaker 3: I had a bit of a yuck taste in my mouth,
Speaker 3: and I thought, I'll get a hot chocolate to drink
Speaker 3: in the car on the way to work after I
Speaker 3: dropped my daughter off at her basketball train and it
Speaker 3: was the greatest hot chocolate I have ever had in
Speaker 3: my whole life. So every week after that, when I
Speaker 3: dropped her off a basketball training, I would get a
Speaker 3: hot chocolate. And there were days where I didn't know
Speaker 3: it was out of my way, but I would drive
Speaker 3: there to get a hot chocolate on the way to
Speaker 3: work anyway, even when my daughter didn't have basketball training,
Speaker 3: because it was just so delicious. And then one day
Speaker 3: I turned up and the machine was gone and replaced
Speaker 3: with another bigger, better machine and the hot chocolate and
Speaker 3: that was appalling. So I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3: I don't know who made the machine. I don't know
Speaker 3: where the hot chocolate came from, but oh I miss
Speaker 3: it to this day.
Speaker 20: Another question I want to ask you, Simon, which I've
Speaker 20: never asked you, because you knew Philip for those years,
Speaker 20: and I heard Phillips say many times his father was
Speaker 20: a psychiatrist. Did you ever get to meet Philip's father
Speaker 20: when he was alife.
Speaker 3: No, Phil's father died in nineteen seventy something. So I
Speaker 3: was a child when Phil's ah dad passed away.
Speaker 20: Sadly, Okay, I didn't know what what he passed away in.
Speaker 20: But yeah, but I heard him. Did I? Did hear
Speaker 20: when I Philip did say his father was a psychiatrist
Speaker 20: many times, didn't I?
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah he did, Yes, Yes he was here. Wilfred Brady.
Speaker 20: All right, okay, thank you, thank you, good on your Jim.
Speaker 3: Thanks for that. Hi Simon talking about the topic from
Speaker 3: last hour. Things we put things we used to put
Speaker 3: coins in. Hi, Mike says Hi Simon. Has anyone mentioned
Speaker 3: condom machines in pubs and clubs? No, they haven't until
Speaker 3: you have Mike. There you go. Thank you for that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've got nothing to add.
Speaker 14: On, so.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Thank you, thank you for that. Mike. All right,
Speaker 3: break Sandra, David and Bob will be up on the
Speaker 3: other side of the break. More calls are welcome one
Speaker 3: double three six nine three or one double three eight
Speaker 3: eighty to open the podbear door as well.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Speaker 3: That's true, Tiffy center text through saying, speaking of chopper chups,
Speaker 3: when I was eating them as a kid, I used
Speaker 3: to play with the sticks as toys because I didn't
Speaker 3: have toys growing up. Really, I loved them. That's a
Speaker 3: bit sad, isn't it, using chopper chopsticks as toys. I
Speaker 3: found that a bit touching, Tiffy. But thank you for
Speaker 3: the text. Sandra's in Frankston. Hi, Sandra, Well, good.
Speaker 34: Morning, Simon.
Speaker 12: How are you are.
Speaker 29: I'm good, that's good.
Speaker 8: I had.
Speaker 34: One of those machines, you know, you put your gumbles.
Speaker 3: The gumball machine. Yeah, when my.
Speaker 34: Kids were little, but we never put gumballs, and we
Speaker 34: put little smarties or chopper balls, you know. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 34: I left the colored paper in it because if they
Speaker 34: made them, it's just paper, little and.
Speaker 19: We never put in it.
Speaker 34: Jeff got from work and he put ten little Smarties
Speaker 34: in it, so they had a turn and turning the
Speaker 34: wheel each and they had five smarties each, not every day.
Speaker 34: It was a treat for him, but they loved it.
Speaker 14: It is.
Speaker 3: It's such a cute. They're such cute.
Speaker 34: Nice in the kitchen too, you know.
Speaker 7: So that was what I got it.
Speaker 3: That's that's what I reckon. They just look great. I
Speaker 3: love stuff like that. Another thing I was looking at. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I was going to keep.
Speaker 34: It from My son turned fifty yesterday and I thought
Speaker 34: there'd been a nice pens.
Speaker 3: For Yeah, no it is. It's a great it's a
Speaker 3: great one everything.
Speaker 34: Yeah, and all your family.
Speaker 12: Wealth on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all very good, thank you. Yeah, Yeah, everyone's
Speaker 3: very happy. Xavier is the youngest of my two grandkids,
Speaker 3: Archie and Xavier.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Wow, yeah, how how.
Speaker 3: Xavier turns to in about three or four months and
Speaker 3: an Archie's Archie's turning four or so. Yeah, they're growing
Speaker 3: up way too quickly.
Speaker 34: My nephew's little daughter, Coca, she's beautiful, the kids named. Yeah,
Speaker 34: she's nine months old.
Speaker 3: And she's walking walking at nine.
Speaker 34: Months, holding onto the couch walking.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, so not not walking independently.
Speaker 34: Yet yet, but she stands up and she rocks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's very impressive at nine months. Normally it's
Speaker 3: it's around about the first birthday that they're brave enough
Speaker 3: to take a step or two. So she sounds pretty
Speaker 3: advanced there.
Speaker 34: She's just a little girl.
Speaker 35: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, we had when our when our first was born.
Speaker 3: It's always harder with your first because you you're worried
Speaker 3: all the time that your kid might not be normal.
Speaker 3: So my wife and a friend of hers who used
Speaker 3: to work with her, had our first children on the
Speaker 3: exact same day at the same hospital. So my wife
Speaker 3: we had Shannon, and my wife's friend, Lizzie had a
Speaker 3: bub as well. And I can't remember Lizzie's bub's name,
Speaker 3: but about nine months later after we had them, Shannon
Speaker 3: never crawled. Shannon would lie there on her stomach winge
Speaker 3: and roll over onto her back, but she never crawled.
Speaker 3: So she started walking at the age of one, but
Speaker 3: she just never crawled. She'd just lie there and she
Speaker 3: would roll around a room, but she'd never crawl. At
Speaker 3: eight months, Lizzie bought her daughter over for afternoon tea
Speaker 3: or whatever, and her child could walk at eight months.
Speaker 3: So they've put the two kids on the floor. She
Speaker 3: didn't tell us, but we've put the two kids on
Speaker 3: the floor opposite each other, looking at each other. My
Speaker 3: daughter's lying there like a little lump of nothing, not
Speaker 3: moving at all, just staring at this other baby, and
Speaker 3: this other baby just pulls itself up on to its knees,
Speaker 3: pushes its hands on the floor and stands up, and
Speaker 3: we're looking at her, going, oh my god, our daughter
Speaker 3: is an idiot. We were so paranoid that I what
Speaker 3: have we done? What aren't we doing properly? We must
Speaker 3: be bad parents. But no, she turned out all right.
Speaker 34: I'll make this a laugh. My dad with Coco being born,
Speaker 34: that was his one hundredth grand great grandchild.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a plague.
Speaker 34: Yeah, tell me I've got two.
Speaker 32: Two grand kids.
Speaker 34: Yeah, I only had the two boys grandchildren, and they've
Speaker 34: had boys, both of them. And there's one hundred love. Wow,
Speaker 34: that's explained children and one hundred great grandchildren.
Speaker 3: Forty six grandkids and one hundred great grandkids. That is amazing.
Speaker 34: And we'd like to put that in the middle of
Speaker 34: the magazine.
Speaker 3: Oh, just try and remember their names.
Speaker 34: It's just it's And my dad was going to put
Speaker 34: one of those things on the back of the window
Speaker 34: of the car with a many kids, you gotten dogs
Speaker 34: and everything is said, there be too many.
Speaker 3: That's wonderful. Lead a bus just to put the stickers
Speaker 3: on the sand I spent.
Speaker 34: Did I haven't spoken to you since I come out
Speaker 34: of hospital, have I?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 13: No.
Speaker 8: I was into three weeks.
Speaker 34: In for instant hospital, five weeks at Rehebs, and then
Speaker 34: I went to what they called the transition because they
Speaker 34: wouldn't let me come home on my own. I was
Speaker 34: in the back brace for eight months. Next Sord where
Speaker 34: I lived, I picked a glass up off my sink
Speaker 34: to put in the capboards and I turned and I
Speaker 34: couldn't move, and I eventually got to my car and
Speaker 34: went down. The doctors in tears sent me for X
Speaker 34: rays and I said I can't walk that though. I said,
Speaker 34: go up there and see what's with your back. And
Speaker 34: I had to ring him back on the Saturday morning
Speaker 34: and he said, nothing wrong with your back. I said, well,
Speaker 34: I have come around straightener. I can't move off my
Speaker 34: bed anyway. I rang an ambulance and they took me
Speaker 34: up to Frankston and they gave me those green whistles
Speaker 34: on the way up there, and then they had four
Speaker 34: doctors come in and they're all holding me up here.
Speaker 34: I fractured the T twelve for two eleven, the T
Speaker 34: nine and the T seven.
Speaker 3: Just by turning yeah.
Speaker 34: And then I did the C two and C three
Speaker 34: at the top of my spine right, so I spent
Speaker 34: literally a year in hospital.
Speaker 3: Wow that ended your breakdancing career obviously.
Speaker 34: Oh yes, I had helped coming three days a week now. Yeah,
Speaker 34: because I'm not glad to lip or sweep and it
Speaker 34: annoys me because they don't do my house out like that.
Speaker 34: Oh yeah, yeah, I's did not swept around, you know,
Speaker 34: and things.
Speaker 19: Can I do?
Speaker 34: Just watch them now?
Speaker 33: I'm good.
Speaker 32: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's lovely to hear from you. It's it's great
Speaker 3: to catch up. And yeah, well what a rough truck
Speaker 3: you've had, but you're home at least.
Speaker 34: Have you got now? Did you have good funeral?
Speaker 3: Have I got hair? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Did you grow here?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: I can't grow here? Well I can, but it's on my.
Speaker 34: Back because I watched the funeral TV you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no I had my head well I took
Speaker 3: my head off in the church. But yeah no, no
Speaker 3: no hair on me. Yeah, no worries. Get on your Sandra,
Speaker 3: see later. Lovely to catch up, take care cheers after
Speaker 3: the break back to your calls, and we'll also check
Speaker 3: in with Craig Gabriel and see how things are going
Speaker 3: at Roland Garross back in a second jay setting the
Speaker 3: scene very nice as we cross to the French Open,
Speaker 3: where Craig Gabriel has the greatest job in the world
Speaker 3: reporting in on the tennis from Roland Garross gut I, Craig,
Speaker 3: I love that song. It is a wonderful piece by
Speaker 3: Edith Pf.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely. Did you ever see the film Love Enn Rose?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 10: I haven't, No, it is an standing film. At one
Speaker 10: Marianne courtilard the Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Prf.
Speaker 3: Oh, I might have to add that to my list
Speaker 3: of movies that I have to watch, which is quite
Speaker 3: a long list. But I recom that sounds good.
Speaker 10: Well yeah, and then and then ci Dion's version for
Speaker 10: the other Edith Pf song at the Olympics, that was
Speaker 10: just outstandingly brilliant.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't go wrong Celine Dion either, ken you.
Speaker 3: She's just just magnificent herself. So yeah, well you're not
Speaker 3: just the tennis man. You're quite cultured here, Craig.
Speaker 10: Yeah, cultured with a k.
Speaker 3: Now. So well, let's get down to Tintex. The French
Speaker 3: Open is on, of course, in the second round. I
Speaker 3: think we're du now, yeah, and.
Speaker 10: We've had quite a few results through already today we've
Speaker 10: had a couple of Australians on court one up, one down.
Speaker 10: On the two that played Ala tom Lanovitch unfortunately lost.
Speaker 10: That was on court sleep Shelf, which is the center
Speaker 10: court over here, and she lost to Justine Paldini, who
Speaker 10: was the finest here last year and is in pretty
Speaker 10: good form. Here's six three sixty three. And then on
Speaker 10: the positive side, Alexie Popprin, who's the twenty fifth seed,
Speaker 10: has reached the third round of the French Open for
Speaker 10: the first time and he did Alejandro Tabilo of Chile
Speaker 10: seven five, six, three, six fours. That's it for the
Speaker 10: Australians today. But there's been a lot of other big
Speaker 10: names on court, Carlos Alcaraz winning in four sets, and
Speaker 10: then soon after that, Eager schrion Tek defeating Emma Radicano
Speaker 10: six one, six two. It's a bit of a better
Speaker 10: performance than Radicano had against srion Tek at the Australian
Speaker 10: Open this year. But you know, shrian Tek has just
Speaker 10: proven too good when she comes up against Radakanu and the.
Speaker 3: You know is what's his name, alex demanoir, Yeah, he's playing.
Speaker 3: He hasn't played yet, has he today? Is he tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Now he's on tomorrow. That a very French way of
Speaker 10: pronouncing his name. And why not, Well, I contended that
Speaker 10: we've got about three Australians on tomorrow because I've already
Speaker 10: got tomorrow's order of play, and alex Dimenov is on
Speaker 10: court to play. Alexander Public of Kazakhstan used to be
Speaker 10: a Russian, but the Kazakhs brought him and he's now
Speaker 10: a Kazakh and Demonor goes into that with a three
Speaker 10: no record against Public, and Public is like, look, I'm
Speaker 10: saying this in a polite way. No phone calls. He
Speaker 10: is a nutcase on the court. You do not know
Speaker 10: what you will get from Alexander Public and the other
Speaker 10: two Australians on tomorrow. My time, I'm talking Adam Walton
Speaker 10: from Brisbane up against another one. You don't know what
Speaker 10: to expect from Andre Rubelev and one woman tomorrow, Daria Cassakina,
Speaker 10: who's going to be settling in Melbourne. She has gained
Speaker 10: Australian citizenship formerly Russian and it's all happened in the
Speaker 10: last couple of months. But she will be playing Liol
Speaker 10: Jean Jean. Does that sound French or.
Speaker 3: Does it, Liver, I don't think you get more French
Speaker 3: than that. Yeah, exactly, that's marvelous. The what was I
Speaker 3: going to ask? The weather? So how's the weather over
Speaker 3: there at the moment.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been a bit iffy. If you get one
Speaker 10: of those unbelievably beautiful days of springtime in Paris, you
Speaker 10: cannot better it. And we've had one morning like that,
Speaker 10: but otherwise it's been a little bit of a cast.
Speaker 10: It's been Conditions have been a bit heavy, bit damp.
Speaker 10: There's been one or two interruptions for drizzle, so that's
Speaker 10: sort of exciting. But the forecasters are suggesting the next
Speaker 10: three four days things will start to get a bit warmer.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's all right. That's uh, that's looking looking
Speaker 3: good for the French Open. Then, Craig, what do you
Speaker 3: do to relax because your job's so good when you
Speaker 3: break away from tennis, Like do you go and watch
Speaker 3: a bit of hockey or something or no no, no.
Speaker 11: No, no no.
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 10: Look what I if I'm if I get a bit
Speaker 10: of time at it during a tournament and when it
Speaker 10: comes to an event like the French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon,
Speaker 10: et cetera. There's there is no time in this role.
Speaker 10: The stuff happening all the time. You cannot you can't
Speaker 10: break away. But my interests are antiques. I have a
Speaker 10: collection of Asian art and antiques. So I will, you know,
Speaker 10: if I'm in London, I'll try and make it a
Speaker 10: point of going to one of the auction.
Speaker 20: Houses just to look.
Speaker 10: It's free to get in. And this is a serious
Speaker 10: tip for anybody. You know, you can go to Southbasa
Speaker 10: and go to Christie's. You can go to Phillips or
Speaker 10: Bonhams or wherever and you can wander through their galleries
Speaker 10: and you're up close and personal some of the most
Speaker 10: amazing art, you know. So I'll I'll go through there
Speaker 10: and have a look. Or I love walking down New
Speaker 10: Bond Street. It's a great street. So that's the sort
Speaker 10: of thing I like to try and get a way
Speaker 10: to do. And you know, the theater in London is
Speaker 10: just wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, It's not quite at the level that you
Speaker 3: do Craig, obviously because you go to those auction houses
Speaker 3: with the high end stuff. But I love trawling auction sites.
Speaker 10: Online and absolutely the same.
Speaker 3: And I was I was talking earlier about the fact
Speaker 3: that I came very close to buying a gumball machine,
Speaker 3: a chest high old fashioned gumball machine and a chopper
Speaker 3: chup machine because I just love odd bits and pieces
Speaker 3: like that. So not not so much art for me,
Speaker 3: but but just going to auction houses and stuff is
Speaker 3: a great hobby.
Speaker 35: It really is.
Speaker 10: I mean for me, I grew up in Asia, and
Speaker 10: you know, so I'm totally comfortable in Asia, and that
Speaker 10: developed my appreciation and love of Asian art and and
Speaker 10: you know, porcelain and Chinese blue and white, it's et cetera.
Speaker 10: So you know that that's what got me going on
Speaker 10: on the whole thing. And my parents were were collectors
Speaker 10: as well.
Speaker 20: So just filtered down.
Speaker 3: Have you got anything sitting at home in the laundroom
Speaker 3: on a pedestal that is the centerpiece of your collection?
Speaker 10: No, I wouldn't, not necessarily in that way, but there
Speaker 10: are I could say a few pieces that I'm extremely
Speaker 10: fond of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice, Nice. Is there something that's on your list
Speaker 3: that you're you're looking for?
Speaker 28: No?
Speaker 10: I I don't normally go in with that frame of mind.
Speaker 10: If I'm if I go, it's something that will just
Speaker 10: catch my eye because again, you don't know. You know,
Speaker 10: as I'm saying about Alexander Publick, you don't know what
Speaker 10: you're going to come across or what you're going to get.
Speaker 10: So I'm just going with an open mind and you know,
Speaker 10: maybe get lucky. I mean, it's like I was in
Speaker 10: I was in Iran a few years ago, and I
Speaker 10: had a guide there, as you should do if you
Speaker 10: ever go there, because it's it's the best way to
Speaker 10: do things, And he took me to a few of
Speaker 10: the markets and I ended up buying three carpets. It
Speaker 10: just it's just that way. Clocks are another thing, you know,
Speaker 10: some amazing clocks you see, and sometimes I have found
Speaker 10: it very hard to resist.
Speaker 3: Oh that sounds lovely. And I go to auction houses
Speaker 3: and have a look at stuff, but I go there
Speaker 3: with an open mind and an empty wallet, so I
Speaker 3: don't tell.
Speaker 10: It was Yeah, that's what I should. I should definitely
Speaker 10: be leaving the credit cards behind.
Speaker 3: It's the safest way. Yeah, you just never know when
Speaker 3: that impulse purchase happens. It's always a dangerous thing. Craig.
Speaker 3: We've better leave you to it, but thank you for
Speaker 3: the update and interesting chat too about the other side.
Speaker 3: Of Craig Gabriel. Always a pleasure to.
Speaker 10: Chat likewise, and I can tell you there's a bit
Speaker 10: of dappled sun trying to get out at the moment.
Speaker 3: Okay, well we'll let you get back to enjoying the
Speaker 3: fabulous job you do.
Speaker 10: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: Good on your Craig, Craig Gabriel there at the tennis
Speaker 3: at Roland Garris. Your calls one double three six nine three.
Speaker 3: David's in Israel.
Speaker 17: Hi David, I'm in superstar.
Speaker 11: How are you good?
Speaker 3: Thank you yourself.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm very pleased with you're on and to listen
Speaker 17: to you. But I wish tonally realized that he gets
Speaker 17: better soon. Not very pleasant, No.
Speaker 3: No, poor bugger. He'll be right though. He's tough as
Speaker 3: an ox.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I wish him well. I definitely wish him well.
Speaker 17: I'm really glad to hear you on So two thousand
Speaker 17: and one A space obviously.
Speaker 11: Hell, do you know what hell was?
Speaker 3: Well? A computer, wasn't he?
Speaker 17: Yes, you know what it's called?
Speaker 28: Hell?
Speaker 3: Oh, I should know this trivia question.
Speaker 17: What was the biggest computed in the in the world
Speaker 17: in those days?
Speaker 1: Or that?
Speaker 3: I don't know? I b M yeah, I minus when
Speaker 3: you get h H A L is one letter earlier
Speaker 3: in each case than I B M.
Speaker 17: Well that's what they played it on. It was like
Speaker 17: a play on on I B M and A hat
Speaker 17: computers taking over the world and with AI and everything.
Speaker 17: Maybe they weren't so wrong.
Speaker 3: They're off. They're off. They're basing it on I B
Speaker 3: M because they know what a basket case IBM ended
Speaker 3: up being in in the sense that they they owned computers.
Speaker 3: The computers was their thing, and they were untouchable, and
Speaker 3: they just lit it all get away from them.
Speaker 17: But it's not anymore.
Speaker 13: No.
Speaker 17: Actually, we've been watching a really good series on Netflix's
Speaker 17: quite funny with Ted Danson rightly sort of appreciated, but
Speaker 17: he plays his pension in a series called Man on
Speaker 17: the Inside, where this young five detective hires this whole
Speaker 17: tension to go into a retirement home and find out
Speaker 17: who's been stealing expensive things. It's actually quite funny. It's
Speaker 17: worth watching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen the trailer for it. It looks pretty good,
Speaker 3: but as always I'm way behind in my TV viewing,
Speaker 3: so it's something I will watch one day.
Speaker 17: Eight episodes in the first series, I don't have to
Speaker 17: set the second series and in that yet and each
Speaker 17: episode is about twenty five thirty minutes, so you can
Speaker 17: have a little gig good. You can watch it, you
Speaker 17: know you and you feel satisfied and it's not sort
Speaker 17: of taxing and just going on and on and on.
Speaker 17: So you can you can watch a couple of episodes
Speaker 17: at once, so you can space it over a few
Speaker 17: nights or whatever. It's actually quite funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'll have to give it a crack when
Speaker 3: I get time. I'm busy at the moment. I'm watching House.
Speaker 3: So that's how which is quite modern for me. It's
Speaker 3: something in the two thousands with mobile phones in it.
Speaker 3: That's that's something I'm not used to in TV shows
Speaker 3: I watch.
Speaker 12: Well do you do?
Speaker 17: He's an iPhone quite well, so, I mean, you know
Speaker 17: it makes sense to you to watch something like that.
Speaker 3: No, I love it because I love him as an actor.
Speaker 10: A doctor.
Speaker 17: He's like he's starts strange, he finds his strength, diagnoses
Speaker 17: or something. That is that the one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's what's he what's his name? Who plays House?
Speaker 3: I've forgotten his name. I should Steve hugh Laurie. Hugh Laurie, Sorry,
Speaker 3: I had it took me a while to get there.
Speaker 3: Hugh Laurie plays him, and he's a cranky he hates
Speaker 3: everyone and everything. He's in constant pain because of a
Speaker 3: leg injury. But his ability as a diagnostician is amplified
Speaker 3: by his lack of empathy for any patients. It's just
Speaker 3: all about finding the cure. He doesn't care about the patient.
Speaker 3: He just finds about he cares about solving the puzzle.
Speaker 3: And he's just he's just an amazing actor. I find
Speaker 3: so is a really really loving the series.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's good. It's lasting to find a series which
Speaker 17: is which is palatable and it draws an audience. Another
Speaker 17: one we watched on I think it was on Disney
Speaker 17: Class the name Just Escaped Me. He's a It's set
Speaker 17: in Atlanta, Georgia, and he never he always solves cases.
Speaker 17: He had a very bad childhood and that kind and
Speaker 17: it's claimed by somebody Rodrigus the just Escape Me now
Speaker 17: stupid of me?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 17: That is worth watching a lot of fun, very clever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to know that.
Speaker 12: Together.
Speaker 17: And the acting is also very good too. And the
Speaker 17: star and it is this hihaha called Betty absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 17: three my wife, we should get a chawaur, but I
Speaker 17: haven't managed to convince it.
Speaker 3: Well, good luck with that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I don't worry.
Speaker 3: Accept the fate before you even have the argument. That's
Speaker 3: the right way, all right, Good on your David lovely
Speaker 3: to chat. We'll chat again, no doubt. Thanks, Thanks mate,
Speaker 3: take care a break back with you, Bob. Bob's the
Speaker 3: only one on hold there now. So one double three
Speaker 3: six nine three or one double three eight eighty two
Speaker 3: if you want to squeeze a call in before the
Speaker 3: upcoming news, which will be along in about twelve minutes time,
Speaker 3: we'd love to take your calls back in a second.
Speaker 3: Thank you Steve from Sydney who sent through the exact
Speaker 3: same information that David just gave us. Hi Simon a
Speaker 3: bit of trivia about two thousand and one as Space Odyssey.
Speaker 3: When the movie was released, the biggest computer company in
Speaker 3: the world at the time was IBM. The computer in
Speaker 3: the movie was how and if you add one letter
Speaker 3: to each of the letters h al, you get IBM.
Speaker 3: So thank you for sending it through. He sent that
Speaker 3: through it about twenty minutes ago. So before I spoke
Speaker 3: to David, but I didn't see the text until just now.
Speaker 3: So thank you Steve, and thank you David. Bob's in cooleroo,
Speaker 3: you get a Bob.
Speaker 16: Good a Simon. I'm not going to ask you how
Speaker 16: you're doing, because everybody asks that question.
Speaker 3: And I'm still favyous.
Speaker 16: Do you feel little bit lonesome? Without your normal Saturday
Speaker 16: Night's cast of Tha thousands?
Speaker 3: It's a very different show, And I was saying to Jay,
Speaker 3: I love what I do on a Saturday night. For
Speaker 3: those listening through five, double A and six PM, my
Speaker 3: Saturday night show is sort of wall to wall segment.
Speaker 3: You go from segment to segment because it's a weekly
Speaker 3: show and that's sort of necessary there. But to do
Speaker 3: midnight to dawn is a very different, diferent style of
Speaker 3: show where I just get to freewheel. I come in,
Speaker 3: I've got a list in front of me of things
Speaker 3: that I want to bring up, but if I don't
Speaker 3: bring them up because we've got calls, I just like
Speaker 3: free wheeling with the callers. So I really love the
Speaker 3: openness of this show. And so I've said to Jay,
Speaker 3: it's been four months since I've done it, and I've
Speaker 3: really missed just the free wheeling nature of this.
Speaker 16: Now you're asking about strange things that we used to
Speaker 16: put money into. Yes, in the mid fifties, my parents
Speaker 16: decided to get teas and of course they rolled back
Speaker 16: and white in those days, and we came across this
Speaker 16: thing called a webray TV, which it made it very
Speaker 16: easy for people to pay off because they've had a
Speaker 16: coin in the slot arrangement. Yeah, you'd be you'd be
Speaker 16: watching a good show and it'd get to an exciting
Speaker 16: bit and the next minute TV would turn itself foth
Speaker 16: and there'd be a mad scramble around to find some
Speaker 16: coin to shove into the back of it. Well, fortunately
Speaker 16: for us, after a while, the mechanism packed up, so
Speaker 16: the people who used to just come to get the
Speaker 16: coins out of the back of the machine just came
Speaker 16: round and collected ordinary money office. And that's how we
Speaker 16: paid our first TV set.
Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing? So you could you could actually get
Speaker 3: a television set, but it was coin operated and that's
Speaker 3: how you paid it off. That's it was a great concept,
Speaker 3: wasn't it.
Speaker 24: That was?
Speaker 16: And I don't know whether this is true, but I
Speaker 16: was told at one stage that the web rays were
Speaker 16: a Hinds TV in other words, they'd bits and pieces
Speaker 16: of every other band inside them.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 16: They were around for a while. I think my favorite
Speaker 16: thing was they remember of it was that when they
Speaker 16: came out to demonstrate it, they had a screwdriver in
Speaker 16: one hand and a hammer in the other and tried
Speaker 16: to bash the screen and of course it didn't crack.
Speaker 3: No, the big demonstration. How tough it was.
Speaker 16: Yes, and I think really things in the old those
Speaker 16: were possibly more reliable than what they are now.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 16: Household fridge that went for about thirty years before I
Speaker 16: replaced it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Look, there's good and bad in what we
Speaker 3: have now. TV is now so much cheaper, so much better,
Speaker 3: and so much cheaper to run because LEDs don't cost
Speaker 3: anything near you know, they don't use anywhere near the
Speaker 3: electricity that the old cathode ray tubes used, So TV's
Speaker 3: are much better now for that. But it also makes
Speaker 3: them disposable. When something goes wrong with your teally, you
Speaker 3: don't fix it, you just get another one, which is
Speaker 3: something I don't like. And that's the that's the bad
Speaker 3: part of society now is the disposableness of everything.
Speaker 16: I've got a plasma and the plasma's about eighteen years old. Yeah,
Speaker 16: it still runs perfectly. I've had to put a set
Speaker 16: top box on it to get all the other channels. Yes,
Speaker 16: but I touch word. I haven't had anything go wrong.
Speaker 24: With it in the eighteen years.
Speaker 3: Well, now that you've now that you've said, that bound
Speaker 3: to happen, So look forward to hearing the update. Thank you, Bob.
Speaker 3: I've got to break, We've got to get another one
Speaker 3: in before news, but thanks for the call. Well are
Speaker 3: we coming up to news time? That would make it
Speaker 3: a minute to one in Perth, almost half past two
Speaker 3: in Adelaide and almost three o'clock in Melbourne and anywhere
Speaker 3: else wherever you are. Yeah, check your own phone and
Speaker 3: I out what time it is for you. Gabriel Hodson's
Speaker 3: in the newsroom. She's going to bring us to the
Speaker 3: bulletin and then she's got a story she wants to
Speaker 3: expand on. On the other side of that, we've also
Speaker 3: got chicken man I think coming up in the next
Speaker 3: hour the cereal as well, and more of your calls.
Speaker 3: Keep them coming, won double three six nine three are
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Speaker 2: Now this is Australia Urban Eyed with Simon Owens.
Speaker 3: It's a seven after one in Perth, it's twenty three
Speaker 3: to three in Adelaide, and in Melbourne it's a seven
Speaker 3: after three. We'll get back to your call shortly, Steven Meredith.
Speaker 3: If you'll hang on, we will get to you very soon.
Speaker 3: Chicken Man also coming up in this next quarter hour.
Speaker 3: But first, Gabriel Hodson has joined us from the newsroom.
Speaker 3: Hey Gabe, how are you look?
Speaker 13: Some stories you just can't make up?
Speaker 3: No, what have you got for?
Speaker 13: Okay, a wind turbine the court fire and has self extinguished. Wonderful,
Speaker 13: But but there's a there's a catch. It's fled up again.
Speaker 13: Firefighters I think this scratching their heads wondering how do
Speaker 13: you put this thing out? It hasn't burnt any grass
Speaker 13: of vegetation, I must add. It's at the Bulgana wind farm,
Speaker 13: which is our rout area. Yeah, great Western that that
Speaker 13: sort of area. Now at first fled up around nine
Speaker 13: last night, you know, it blew out flared up again
Speaker 13: around two. So I believe there's about three fire units
Speaker 13: out there at the moment. The wind out there at
Speaker 13: the moment is about forty to fifty k's an.
Speaker 4: Hour, is that strong, strong issue.
Speaker 32: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's enough to fan the mine light.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: But I'll tell you what I'd see this.
Speaker 3: I've never actually seen a wind turbine in real life.
Speaker 13: Are you serious?
Speaker 3: Serious?
Speaker 4: Just drive up the west.
Speaker 3: There's none in Balwin where I live, so I wouldn't
Speaker 3: see one. There's none between the eastern suburbs of Melbourne
Speaker 3: and the city.
Speaker 13: Do you own a telescope or really good set of glasses,
Speaker 13: like a binoculars. Go down to Frankston, stand on the
Speaker 13: beach aim at across the bay. You will see the
Speaker 13: you Low South wind Farm, which is sort of in
Speaker 13: the Brisbane Ranges. It's beyond backus Marsh, but you can
Speaker 13: see it from Frankston. It is incredible. That's probably the
Speaker 13: closest to Melbourne, I'd say, but they're everywhere.
Speaker 3: Now, Well, I wonder what the I wonder what the
Speaker 3: height is of these things.
Speaker 13: It just depends. The newer ones are enormous. We're talking mcg.
Speaker 3: Light light tower.
Speaker 13: Yeah it was over fifty I think. Don't quote me.
Speaker 3: On that, but how did like there's a motor in
Speaker 3: them obviously that when the wind turns it it's it's
Speaker 3: got a little motor that generates the electricity.
Speaker 13: I guess there's all different terminology, you know, words for
Speaker 13: the different parts. The turbine is actually kind of the engine.
Speaker 13: You've got the blade, you've got to think called the nassel.
Speaker 13: You've got the tower itself. But how the heck do
Speaker 13: you get up there to ask? Is it like, is
Speaker 13: the there's a ladder in the middle or something.
Speaker 3: Do you do you scale the outside of it? Or
Speaker 3: is there a little door at the bottom and it's
Speaker 3: like a lighthouse. You've got the windy stairs going all
Speaker 3: the way out.
Speaker 13: I reckon. I reckon the biggest, the biggest aerial fire appliance,
Speaker 13: you know, with the stretchy ladders. Extendable ladders is the
Speaker 13: word I'm looking for.
Speaker 15: That.
Speaker 13: They would never reach the height of this, So I
Speaker 13: think all you can do is just let it burn
Speaker 13: out anyway. Look, I hope no one gets heard.
Speaker 3: There's a fire fifty meters above the earth and it's
Speaker 3: just a wind. It's just up there in a tower.
Speaker 3: Tort Yeah, exactly. There's no point trying to hose it down.
Speaker 13: Oh gee, you wouldn't even reach, would you. You've just
Speaker 13: got to pray for rain.
Speaker 3: Rain, Yeah, that's what we need. Yeah, God can deal
Speaker 3: with it. That's I think.
Speaker 13: So it's kind of it's on a massive scale. It's
Speaker 13: on that sort of scale. Now I'm just looking at
Speaker 13: something that's come up on the computer.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 13: Average hub height these days is about one hundred and
Speaker 13: fifty meters. One hundred and fifty fifty meters. Blades are
Speaker 13: forty to ninety meters long. Ninety meters. That doesn't forty meters.
Speaker 29: I believe.
Speaker 13: I saw one in a paddock the other day on
Speaker 13: the ground. They were building one down near rocod But yeah,
Speaker 13: they're just enormous. So you need to do yourself a favor.
Speaker 13: Just go down South Kippsland Western Highway any of those
Speaker 13: binoculars and you won't need binoculars. They're pretty close to
Speaker 13: the road.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just I'm staggered. So I don't know anything
Speaker 3: I have. I'm not into the whole coal versus natural
Speaker 3: things and wind farms and solar and I don't care
Speaker 3: what they do as long as as long as we
Speaker 3: have electricity. And I assume people are always studying these
Speaker 3: things so that the best decisions can be made, And
Speaker 3: so I don't care about all those debates. I'd never
Speaker 3: get involved in those. But I am curious in the
Speaker 3: thought that how much electricity can be generated by something
Speaker 3: like that as opposed to the cost of building something
Speaker 3: that huge anchoring it to the ground, Like how much
Speaker 3: concrete would it take to root one of those firmly
Speaker 3: in the ground so that a light breeze doesn't just
Speaker 3: blow it over a lot?
Speaker 14: So is it?
Speaker 3: And I'm not doing Please don't anyone ever think that
Speaker 3: I'm doing this to be in any way political, because
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even know which parties in favor and which
Speaker 3: parties against it. I don't know, don't care. But is it?
Speaker 3: Is it that good an idea? If we have to
Speaker 3: use that much concrete, that much material, is it worth it?
Speaker 3: I guess it must be. If countries all over the
Speaker 3: world are doing it, well, it.
Speaker 13: Gets a lot of government funding support that sort of thing.
Speaker 13: They are popping up everywhere. I guess one thing that's
Speaker 13: not fact it is the damage to the roads. You're
Speaker 13: dealing with things that are hundreds of tons to get
Speaker 13: it down a little very fragile bitumen country road. It's
Speaker 13: going to destroy it. It's not a thick lit it's
Speaker 13: not a free ways of tark. Yeah, yeah, it absolutely
Speaker 13: destroys these roads and some of the other infrastructure too,
Speaker 13: so you know you've got to fix up that damage
Speaker 13: in its way. So that's an added cost. And a
Speaker 13: lot of communities they say, look, you're sticking this thing
Speaker 13: in our backyard. It's killing all the birds. What benfit
Speaker 13: is in it for us? We won't get cheaper electricity?
Speaker 3: Can birds not see it coming?
Speaker 14: Like?
Speaker 13: It kills a lot of birds?
Speaker 3: Trust me?
Speaker 13: Yeah it does, it does. But you know, is there
Speaker 13: a who's standing up for the birds? Also another thing
Speaker 13: with wind farms is the I know all this because
Speaker 13: I live near a few, but the company has to
Speaker 13: keep bird strike statistics. But you think about it. A
Speaker 13: bird's hit by a turbine, falls to the ground, a
Speaker 13: fox will get it. Well, it's still warm. So if
Speaker 13: people are going around once a fortnight, once a month
Speaker 13: looking for dead birds, they would them all yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13: So you just notice a natural decline in things like
Speaker 13: wedge tailed eagles.
Speaker 3: Oh that's sad. Eagles are beautiful, Oh.
Speaker 13: They are they are your Like South Wind Farm that
Speaker 13: I just noticed was one of the best places in
Speaker 13: Victoria to see wedgetailed eagle. You could go up there
Speaker 13: and if you look carefully, you could probably see five
Speaker 13: or six within fifteen minutes, but that's not the case now.
Speaker 13: So how it's very difficult to get the statistics out
Speaker 13: of these companies. They don't have to release it, and
Speaker 13: I can see why they wouldn't, but.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 13: I feel a bit funny when people say, oh, they're
Speaker 13: majestic and they're beautiful, that these wind farms, I'm not
Speaker 13: so sure. There's two sides to it. You know, it's renewableandergy,
Speaker 13: that's great, but there's another side to it too.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's all interesting.
Speaker 13: Yeah, this self extinguishing fire. Let's hope it self extinguishers again,
Speaker 13: and these poor firefighters can go home and have a
Speaker 13: good sleep, well earned rest.
Speaker 3: And I wonder if that tower would then have to
Speaker 3: be taken down or whether they can just pop the
Speaker 3: old engine out and wack a new one in turbine
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 13: I think they would wait for it to burn out
Speaker 13: and then look, I don't know, I don't know is
Speaker 13: it fixable. You know, if it's on fire, there's obviously
Speaker 13: a serious problem. I believe they've got pretty good technology
Speaker 13: to turn themselves off if there's a problem, like super
Speaker 13: strong wind or any issues like this. But I can't
Speaker 13: confirm if it has stopped whirling around you, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might still be spinning from the wind. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: turning the blades. But yeah, there you go, fire at
Speaker 3: a wind farm fifty meters off the ground at least
Speaker 3: something like that. Yeah, and what the hell do we
Speaker 3: do there? Yeah? Fascinating.
Speaker 13: You can't make it up, honestly.
Speaker 3: How's everything else going. You're enjoying doing the overnight shift?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I've been doing it for it's almost eighteen
Speaker 13: months now, I think. Yeah, it's interesting you you feel
Speaker 13: like you're the only journo on deck anywhere in Ali.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure what the ABC does much. Yeah, there's
Speaker 13: some pretty good breaking news stories some so yeah, it's
Speaker 13: it's an honor to be covering them.
Speaker 3: I guess I've always wondered, do we have a hotline
Speaker 3: that people ring like they if they ring us? That's
Speaker 3: one thing, and we talk about normally.
Speaker 13: Normally we get tips through the talkback line. Yeah, so
Speaker 13: you know there'll be a bit of communication, Hey Gabe,
Speaker 13: did you hear about this? And we'll chase it up.
Speaker 13: And yeah, not every service is around it, you know.
Speaker 13: One two three in the morning. But you do what
Speaker 13: you can while you can, so yeah, but yeah, it's good,
Speaker 13: it's good, it's it's it's good to have a small
Speaker 13: team too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you get to know each other a bit better
Speaker 13: and yeah, loving it's nice.
Speaker 3: All right. Well, good to see you you too, thanks
Speaker 3: for popping in. Thank you, and yeah, keep it, keep
Speaker 3: us up to date as you do as you do
Speaker 3: so well, it's Gabriel Hodson from the news room. Chicken
Speaker 3: Man now ahead of the break and then it's back
Speaker 3: to your court. And Steve has called from Canning Vale. Hey, Steve, Hey,
Speaker 3: you go, mate.
Speaker 24: I'm just calling through about the black Cockatoo's mate, the
Speaker 24: black cocky mate a bit to do with the Canning
Speaker 24: River mate sort of ranging a bit worried about him
Speaker 24: at the moment. The carnabies, the bodines and the red
Speaker 24: tails sort of had a bit of a crossis at
Speaker 24: the moment.
Speaker 10: Mate.
Speaker 24: A lot of the habitat has been destroyed and up
Speaker 24: in the Darling Ranges we've got a lot of the
Speaker 24: box sipe mines taking over. So there's yeah, there's not
Speaker 24: a lot of habitat left. They've got a lot of
Speaker 24: you know, native trees that have been just mowed down,
Speaker 24: and if you look at the native sites where they
Speaker 24: have been roosting in the last fifty years, it's just
Speaker 24: gone down significantly, significantly, and there's just there's.
Speaker 11: No more room for them.
Speaker 24: The bodines at the moment, I've got about fifteen thousand
Speaker 24: or less, the red towels probably about twenty thousand. I
Speaker 24: think the carnobies are about one hundred thousand, and yeah,
Speaker 24: it's becoming a problem. The Nangareth Forest was once a
Speaker 24: massive roosting zoned for them, but several years have gone
Speaker 24: by and I think the one of the state governments
Speaker 24: put through a proposal where the where the Nangareth State
Speaker 24: Forest because the carnobies and all the red tails and
Speaker 24: stuff were eating all the pine cones, so that's what
Speaker 24: they were roosting there. And because the actual pine forest
Speaker 24: was dropping the water table around the area, so they've
Speaker 24: they're no longer replanting them, so that's that's going to
Speaker 24: be no longer a place for them to roost. So yeah,
Speaker 24: I'm just worried. What do you think those.
Speaker 3: Black cockatoos and things are just the most gorgeous animals.
Speaker 3: I think they're fabulous and if the populations are in decline,
Speaker 3: surely you know the Department of Environment Sustainability or that.
Speaker 3: I just don't get why these things can happen where
Speaker 3: their habitat gets butchered. When you know, we hear about
Speaker 3: a freeway not being built because of a frog or something.
Speaker 3: So there are people who stand up for things and
Speaker 3: processes in place to protect you endangered species, and that
Speaker 3: works quite well, but not obviously all the time. Some things,
Speaker 3: somehow just just to slip, slip under the radar, as
Speaker 3: it were. I just don't understand why when.
Speaker 24: That sound of the black cocky does go, you know,
Speaker 24: that iconic sound, you know, and it's only of the
Speaker 24: south east of Waw. You hear that, and it's iconic.
Speaker 24: And until that's gone, I think people are aren't going
Speaker 24: to realize, you know, until that sound is gone and
Speaker 24: it just.
Speaker 29: Reminds you of home.
Speaker 24: But I just you know, if people just plant something
Speaker 24: as little as a macedonium plant, do you know how
Speaker 24: much protein that is for a black cock or two?
Speaker 24: Is as much of as about three three hundred of
Speaker 24: those banks your seeds?
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 24: And that's a native that is dead?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 11: Mate?
Speaker 24: Just planting one Macedonia plant. It may take whatever hundred
Speaker 24: you know, one hundred years ago, but that's going to
Speaker 24: help us. And I just want to put the message
Speaker 24: out there to everyone just planting naty plants, and please
Speaker 24: a lot of the blackhopple do there. They really are there,
Speaker 24: under spressed them.
Speaker 3: Well, and they shouldn't be. That's a great call, Steve,
Speaker 3: and good on you for ringing in and drawing attention
Speaker 3: to it. If that results in just a handful of
Speaker 3: people going out and planting some native Australian trees, then
Speaker 3: it's at least it's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call, Thank you, Steve. And yet black cockatoos,
Speaker 3: I just I just love them. They're just stunning animals
Speaker 3: and eagles and things as well. Just I just love
Speaker 3: I love birds. I should be a bird watcher, a
Speaker 3: twitter I think there is what they're called. That's a hobby.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll get into that now that I'm getting old.
Speaker 3: Could be the way forward. Thanks for the call. Meredith's
Speaker 3: in Adelaide home. Meredith, so a long time.
Speaker 32: I'm going to talk to you on the other side.
Speaker 3: Yes, how have you been?
Speaker 32: Not too bad?
Speaker 28: Too bad?
Speaker 32: I live on the road, and nothing like works at
Speaker 32: the front.
Speaker 3: I'm with you on roadwork. So they're working on the
Speaker 3: freeway that's just near my place at twenty four hours
Speaker 3: a day, and there's a guy who drives an excavator
Speaker 3: who honks the horn all the bloody time.
Speaker 29: Coh, just don't need for that.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 3: I think he has to honk when he's reversing. So
Speaker 3: every like three or four minutes, beep deep and it's
Speaker 3: twenty four hours a day they're running that machine.
Speaker 17: You've got to.
Speaker 28: No.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm pretty good. I'm lucky. I can just tune
Speaker 3: out at any time. But I had a friend over
Speaker 3: for dinner the other day and it really drove him
Speaker 3: nuts because they're not used to it.
Speaker 32: Yeah, I can understand it. We'll stop there for it
Speaker 32: really a set minute.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's the way it happens.
Speaker 32: Oh, well, they've gotta do it something wrong, because when
Speaker 32: you're live on the main road, the road sometimes.
Speaker 3: Well that's exactly right, because if not, if they didn't
Speaker 3: do it, we'd be here winging about the state of
Speaker 3: the roads.
Speaker 32: That's going to do it somehow.
Speaker 3: That's that's my job as a talkback host and your
Speaker 3: job as a talkback caller. We have to find something
Speaker 3: to complain about.
Speaker 32: Yeah, well, my son just thronged me. He's found a
Speaker 32: new job and he started at six o'clock last night.
Speaker 3: This morning, long day and long night.
Speaker 32: Yes, and when he waked me just then because he
Speaker 32: and the flood jump they can't go because we don't.
Speaker 32: So he said, my daughter will take instead.
Speaker 3: As long as it gets as long as the job
Speaker 3: gets done. That's important.
Speaker 32: Because I read last time I didn't feel it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 32: I said, what are you going to do it? So
Speaker 32: I've just done it.
Speaker 19: Really.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're the best needles, aren't they? The ones where
Speaker 3: the mosquito like you don't notice until after.
Speaker 32: Oh, I didn't have one this summer.
Speaker 3: Just go on mosquitoes.
Speaker 32: No, because where I'm living now, I used to live
Speaker 32: in the city and then like movie, Ye, I won't
Speaker 32: say where I'm living and I go where I lived
Speaker 32: in the city.
Speaker 29: I got a ride of our cockroaches.
Speaker 32: And oh the fathers, Bob of Fridge the Dead were
Speaker 32: first flight tour when turtles didn't take notice.
Speaker 29: There's a couple more than more.
Speaker 32: I'm not running along with the fridge.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 32: Letting about getting in my drawers.
Speaker 19: Oh terrible.
Speaker 32: Yeah, yeah, where I am now? I had a friendly
Speaker 32: little little with a little child. Little How am I
Speaker 32: going to get I don't believe in killing.
Speaker 3: Well, it's unfortunately. I think you need to sometimes all
Speaker 3: God's creatures. But cockroaches, sorry, they don't deserve to live.
Speaker 3: And I say that because I drank one once, So
Speaker 3: that's that's where it comes from from my perspective. Meredith.
Speaker 3: I've got to go. We've got to get a break
Speaker 3: in because we've got the cereal coming up soon. We've
Speaker 3: got to get another two breaks in before that. Shane,
Speaker 3: Bob and Aaron with you in a minute. Shane has
Speaker 3: called in from Rye. How are you doing, Shane?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're saying the.
Speaker 3: Well mate, good, thank you?
Speaker 20: Yeah, the big one with the birds.
Speaker 9: Look, you know, you know my We know the work
Speaker 9: I do for about twenty eight years now and I've
Speaker 9: been very blessed in this country to be able to
Speaker 9: do the work, but very it's very responsible work. And
Speaker 9: you know about many years ago, I was always going
Speaker 9: to behavior because I was growing I grew up in
Speaker 9: a very dynamic social system that was changed dramatic from
Speaker 9: a and my field is behavioral sciences. So I have
Speaker 9: been looking at progressive social psychological conditioning for many years now,
Speaker 9: Simon about twenty eight years. You a little one Horse
Speaker 9: charity is federally registered, believe it or not, Thank God
Speaker 9: to the federal government allowing that to happen. And I've
Speaker 9: been involved in men shared use, suicide programs, environmental programs,
Speaker 9: any programs that you can see in the society. I've been,
Speaker 9: We have been, there's a few of us, but I've
Speaker 9: been in the public officer in regards to really trying
Speaker 9: to make generations in a better environment than we see
Speaker 9: really evolving. And it's a progressive problem with civilizations. And
Speaker 9: I won't go too deep into the generational social psychological
Speaker 9: conditioning of our foreign corporatized system, but the byproduct of
Speaker 9: the social system we're in, which is now morphing into
Speaker 9: more of an oligarchic finn Satellite oligarchic system, the environment
Speaker 9: decays dramatically, and being the Mornington Peninsular for sixty six years,
Speaker 9: I was blessed enough. Even though you know, someone might
Speaker 9: be a ten year younger than me, they didn't see
Speaker 9: the significant changes that I was. You know, I saw,
Speaker 9: and even probably someone ten years older than me. If
Speaker 9: you can find someone who's pretty cognitive, they'd say the
Speaker 9: same thing. But it was quite dramatic. These stages that
Speaker 9: were dramatic for any civilization within a social system because
Speaker 9: of the modern technological vehicle we were on, you know,
Speaker 9: the machinery, the advancements in computerized technologies and the other
Speaker 9: aspects of human beings evolving within a social system. And
Speaker 9: the dramatic problem is we've got an incredible threat to
Speaker 9: the natural ecosystem that's going totally blinded by our political parties.
Speaker 9: I look at the Greens part and I go, my god,
Speaker 9: they've even got the cheek to have a you know,
Speaker 9: this is my observation to have this perception on some
Speaker 9: sort of respect for the environment, where when not seeing it.
Speaker 9: If you don't see the incredible loss of insects and
Speaker 9: the birds and the animals within this social system that
Speaker 9: we're in, then I would say for them to really
Speaker 9: pay attention for future generations well being. It's crucial for
Speaker 9: any civilization to have an ecological system it's reasonably sound
Speaker 9: and considered to be important for future generations. That is
Speaker 9: not happening in this country, and it is being blinded.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you Shane. Good point. I think well made,
Speaker 3: and keep up the great work you do. I appreciate
Speaker 3: the call. Good to hear from you. Bob's in Brisbane,
Speaker 3: Hi Bob, how are you? Yeah? Good?
Speaker 30: A couple of things I'd like to say A big
Speaker 30: oli to me best mate Neil. He's traveling from Sydney
Speaker 30: to Melbourne and I'm traveling out the Brisbane to Charleble
Speaker 30: so we keep in contact and I know I know
Speaker 30: he's listening because he'll ring me straight after this. The
Speaker 30: other thing is that he's my best mate and I
Speaker 30: love him. The other thing you're talking about wind turbines
Speaker 30: coming out of Brisbane. A couple of weeks ago there
Speaker 30: was one I just passed, three big loads. They sort
Speaker 30: of take up the whole highway out on the Warrigo
Speaker 30: out the west. And this morning, and a couple of
Speaker 30: weeks ago one got horn under the bridge on the
Speaker 30: main highway three days.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 36: Yeah, part of it was, yeah, they obviously they do
Speaker 36: it in parts, and this part. If we've got this
Speaker 36: truck go over, we've got to take the exit to
Speaker 36: go over the overpass and then back onto the freeway
Speaker 36: where he went straight under the bridge and it was
Speaker 36: stuck there for three days. The main highway to Tawomba
Speaker 36: out of Brisbane was blocked for three days. Everybody, everybody
Speaker 36: had to go around on a detour. Yeah, no, quite
Speaker 36: popular around here, oh everywhere.
Speaker 3: They are all over the place. Thank you, Bob. We've
Speaker 3: got to get to the cereal very shortly. But yeah,
Speaker 3: but my question, ultimately, I guess comes down to how
Speaker 3: much does it cost to build one and how long
Speaker 3: does it take to recoup that in energy savings? And yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess that's part of the question. Anyway, the fade
Speaker 3: up music is coming, So the Cereal is up on
Speaker 3: the other side of the break and we'll get back
Speaker 3: to your calls in about twenty five minutes time after
Speaker 3: the news after the cereal, right own news is coming
Speaker 3: up now as we approach two o'clock in Perth, half
Speaker 3: past three in South Australia. Why do I say? Why
Speaker 3: do I say Perth which is a capsity, and then
Speaker 3: South Australia rather than Adelaide, I should be I should
Speaker 3: be either giving the states or I should giving the towns.
Speaker 3: And I always do that. I always I always mix
Speaker 3: them up, very unprofessional. Anyway, it's coming up to two
Speaker 3: o'clock in the west, it's coming up to half past
Speaker 3: three in the south, and in the east in Victoria,
Speaker 3: it's about to hit four o'clock. After the news your calls,
Speaker 3: there's none on the board, often is the case after
Speaker 3: the cereal So now's a good time to call if
Speaker 3: you want to have a chat.
Speaker 2: Now this is a screen you're urban eyed with Simon Owens.
Speaker 3: Yes, good morning everyone. You heard that right. Tony McManus
Speaker 3: is off this morning, so it's me. Simon Owen's in
Speaker 3: the chair. Jay is here as well. And I just
Speaker 3: heard something Jay that Gabriel said in the weather there
Speaker 3: that caught me by surprise. Hmmm. And what was the surprise,
Speaker 3: sim It that the we are only too basically that
Speaker 3: we are two days away from winter. Oh, yes, the
Speaker 3: last days of autumn, she mentioned. That's true. It's just
Speaker 3: it's sort of snuck up on me, like it's been
Speaker 3: cold where we are this last week. But prior to that,
Speaker 3: you know, like I only put the electric blanket on
Speaker 3: my bed last week, Yeah, the hot blanket. Yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: Well I got no one to snuggle te so I
Speaker 3: need that. Used to be the great thing about working
Speaker 3: late nights was getting home to an already warm bed. Yes,
Speaker 3: but now so I'm going to have the electric blanket now.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I think when it comes to time and the
Speaker 4: year flying, I think it's a bit to do with
Speaker 4: the weather, because you know, this time of the season,
Speaker 4: we're usually really cold and we're just you know, obviously
Speaker 4: a couple of days away from winter, that's why it's
Speaker 4: so cold. But this year, very mild conditions, a couple.
Speaker 3: Of days in winter. That's just completely thrown me. I
Speaker 3: wasn't expecting that. We did say at the top of
Speaker 3: the show, which now four hours ago, that I was
Speaker 3: still getting used to the idea that it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: That's right, yes, and we're ever so close to June
Speaker 4: one now, so you know, because when you cross over
Speaker 4: to midnight here another day ahead. Yeah, yeah, one minute
Speaker 4: you yesterday, next minute today. Scary stuff.
Speaker 3: I was having a quick flick through the papers during
Speaker 3: the bullet and then and all the papers are carrying
Speaker 3: an article on all the news limited papers are carrying
Speaker 3: an article on Raygun. She's come out and said that,
Speaker 3: you know, she's battled basically demons mental health issues since
Speaker 3: the Olympic performance and I have to say I'm not
Speaker 3: surprised there's people were really really harsh. Like it was.
Speaker 3: It was an odd performance, it was not what anyone
Speaker 3: was expecting. But the vitriol that she faced off the
Speaker 3: back of it, I thought was horrendous. I thought it
Speaker 3: was fun. I thought it was funny. I thought it
Speaker 3: was different and odd, but I also thought it was
Speaker 3: wonderfully Australian. We used to have a culture where we
Speaker 3: sort of prided ourselves on our dagginess, as it were,
Speaker 3: on the fact that we didn't have to conform with
Speaker 3: the rest of the world. We could be Alaraken's assies,
Speaker 3: you know, we he'd have fun, a good time. We
Speaker 3: live in the lucky country, so nothing's ever really bothered us.
Speaker 3: And when her performance happened the pylon was horrendous, I thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just got to come back to that respect,
Speaker 4: don't we. For people, you know, understand that we're all
Speaker 4: different in some way, but we just need to respect.
Speaker 4: We need you know, we obviously have a go at
Speaker 4: each other because that's the Aussie way too, but to
Speaker 4: have that respect at the end of it as well,
Speaker 4: that's that's the main thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can have a go at someone and still
Speaker 3: have fun exactly without it being nasty. But there was
Speaker 3: a lot of there was a real pile on towards Raygun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I felt very sorry for her. So I will say, though,
Speaker 3: I think there's she's made a mistake in the article
Speaker 3: in ending that. The article ends with basically Raygun saying
Speaker 3: you've not seen the last of me, and I, no,
Speaker 3: you don't need to say that, because that's inviting another pileon. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know. I can't blame her. She
Speaker 3: didn't write the article. The journal did. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: just I read the article and I thought, that's it's
Speaker 3: all very nice, like she talks about the demon she's
Speaker 3: faced and what she's done to try and overcome that,
Speaker 3: and how life is slowly getting better for her. But
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden it ends with something that
Speaker 3: I thought, Oh, you're you're just leading leading them on
Speaker 3: to bring you to an attack again. Anyway, people can
Speaker 3: read that in the papers. We better get to some calls.
Speaker 3: We've got a few things to cover off in this
Speaker 3: hour as well. But your calls are welcome one double
Speaker 3: three six nine three one double three eight eighty two,
Speaker 3: and your text messages as well on zero four double seven,
Speaker 3: six nine three six niney three like this one, Simon.
Speaker 3: I remember playing lookout for my grandmother if she had
Speaker 3: forgotten to pay her TV license. We used to watch
Speaker 3: out for the scanner truck coming down the road. If
Speaker 3: we saw it, the tv'd be turned off and pretend
Speaker 3: we weren't home, says Mark has Scoresby. That's a great one.
Speaker 3: That's off the back of the topic. We did, excuse
Speaker 3: me earlier this morning. Things we used to put coins
Speaker 3: in and televisions were one of those things. Drove many
Speaker 3: times to Horsham just near arrow Out. There are many
Speaker 3: wind turbines, but hardly even saw them moving. Hundreds of
Speaker 3: birds are killed, also some cattle of being killed when
Speaker 3: blades break off, says Barb. Yes, thank you for that.
Speaker 3: That's we've heard that several times that sort of story too.
Speaker 3: Thank you Bob for that. Have a talk to the
Speaker 3: people who install these turbines. They're constantly repairing them as
Speaker 3: the blades are breaking off. It's a major problem that
Speaker 3: the companies aren't talking about, says Tony in Doncaster. Thank
Speaker 3: you Tony for that. Yes, that was off the back
Speaker 3: of a news item. Gabriel Hodson gave us earlier about
Speaker 3: a wind turbine that's on fire and the fire brigadeer.
Speaker 3: They're looking up at the fire going what do we
Speaker 3: do at three o'clock in the morning to try and
Speaker 3: put that out? Thank you for all those texts. Keep
Speaker 3: them coming on zero four double seven six nine three
Speaker 3: six nine three. Mark's installed. I mark.
Speaker 8: That windmill is dan Bowlgain wind farm. Just ran thorn
Speaker 8: from the page A went off, what tomorrow? What what
Speaker 8: people are trying to do is like, sure it doesn't
Speaker 8: spread on the ground, yes, and that's it. Nothing else
Speaker 8: you can do it. You don't go up climbing, you
Speaker 8: don't be superheroes, you don't do any.
Speaker 3: Of that makes makes perfect sense. It's a little bit
Speaker 3: high to be getting up to try and put out
Speaker 3: a fire. And if it's you know, it's not like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of there that can catch fire. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you gotta watch for the stuff hitting the ground, I.
Speaker 8: Guess, and all those carbon you know that those blades
Speaker 8: are made of carbon fire, but they just they just
Speaker 8: shred after a wall. And yeah, and you're talking about
Speaker 8: how much concrete does it take? Yeah, it takes four
Speaker 8: average size concrete trucks five days, twenty four hours a
Speaker 8: day to fill the foundation. And they's use a special
Speaker 8: mixed concrete.
Speaker 3: So that's a lot of concrete. You're telling me.
Speaker 8: Put it this way. A city, the suburban suburban house straight,
Speaker 8: if you just filled every every house up with concrete,
Speaker 8: that's out and it would be about that plus morning.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 8: Now I think the Western Highways open because I'm just
Speaker 8: hearing the trains go Pastball Place now, Yeah, doing pretty quiet,
Speaker 8: playing pretty quiet and not a slip.
Speaker 3: Well, oh that's well, that's good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I hear trucks making up and down the Western
Speaker 8: isihlay now because I'm right in the middle of them,
Speaker 8: two of them.
Speaker 3: But you say your slip, Well, but it's quarter past
Speaker 3: four in the morning. Install you.
Speaker 30: Know me?
Speaker 8: The trains wake me up with their constant railway crossing.
Speaker 3: Two horns okay, yeah, yeah, horns should be banned after
Speaker 3: a certain time. Ah.
Speaker 8: There's like an optional extra on a car now. It's
Speaker 8: it's like the indicators that you can go to Audo
Speaker 8: Prow and get a little container a blinker fluid and
Speaker 8: they'll start working again.
Speaker 3: Blinker fluid.
Speaker 8: Both sarcastic to joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, Okay, now I'm with you. I was yeah
Speaker 3: that that made no sense to me. Now it does
Speaker 3: my car horn, just as an aside, because we mentioned horns.
Speaker 3: My car we purchased in twenty twelve. In twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: the horn stopped working. And so I've been without a
Speaker 3: car horn for twelve years, which has probably been a
Speaker 3: good thing. Is it is unroadworthy?
Speaker 8: Okay, and I have you now getting there afraid?
Speaker 9: Have you?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: Look, I'm clearly flouting the law because it is unroadworthy.
Speaker 3: But the problem is to fix the Apparently it's a
Speaker 3: loose wire in the steering wheel, so in order to
Speaker 3: do that, they've got to pull out the air bag
Speaker 3: in order to fix the horn. Oh yeah, So it's
Speaker 3: just a little Toyota Yaris. But so I was told
Speaker 3: it was going to cost a couple of hundred bucks
Speaker 3: just to fix the horn. So I said, I don't
Speaker 3: worry about it. It's it's only an issue if I
Speaker 3: ever sold. If I ever sell the car, and it's not,
Speaker 3: it's not ever going to be worth selling. So I'll
Speaker 3: just go without a horn.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shock an accident on the Western air straight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, terrible news. That was terrible.
Speaker 8: You know, if if the government promised what they said
Speaker 8: they'll do ten years ago, it all beplicated, right right,
Speaker 8: past Orsham.
Speaker 3: Now, well that stuff needs to happen. But at the
Speaker 3: same time we broke. So that's that's the that's the
Speaker 3: juggling money.
Speaker 8: Into that black money hole. Whereas brace somewhere, Which one
Speaker 8: is that?
Speaker 3: Which money holds that?
Speaker 8: The black hole, the one that they lay The government
Speaker 8: keep going oh, no, no, no, we're going to make
Speaker 8: it the box hill.
Speaker 3: Oh the rail tunnel thing, Yeah, that's the one, the
Speaker 3: black hole. Look the thing about that though to die, well,
Speaker 3: well they're still working on it. Look the thing about
Speaker 3: the thing that intrigues me about this, because again I'm apolitical.
Speaker 3: I don't care. It doesn't bother me. The question I
Speaker 3: would have is if they've poured so much money into
Speaker 3: it already and they stop, then at some point in
Speaker 3: the future, be it ten twenty years from now, someone's
Speaker 3: going to say, okay, well now it's time to do
Speaker 3: that thing, and then we need another lot of studies
Speaker 3: and another lot of stuff done. So is it not
Speaker 3: better to just struggle through the pain and get the
Speaker 3: bloody thing finished? Even if it isn't the be all
Speaker 3: and end all that it was promised rather than actually
Speaker 3: stop a project halfway through and complete.
Speaker 8: What about that stupid worst worst tunnel cross out and
Speaker 8: the tunnel thing to maiden it's freeze right now?
Speaker 3: Well have you ever known a government project to run
Speaker 3: on time for either party?
Speaker 25: Wow?
Speaker 8: But the Libs were, the Libs were weren't nowhere near
Speaker 8: as bad as what they are now. Like I heard
Speaker 8: someone saying earlier this morning, but how to get time
Speaker 8: off work was just jam jam torlet paper down the toilet,
Speaker 8: non flashable.
Speaker 21: Off we go.
Speaker 3: We block the toilet so you can't say the office
Speaker 3: isn't inhabitable.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I think it was all Denniss. Someone's program
Speaker 8: might have been Jackiees. I said, yeah, we just jam
Speaker 8: toilet rolls into the toilet, make them unworkable, and off
Speaker 8: site they go over four days part.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's pretty crappy. Literally Yeah, yeah, I didn't actually
Speaker 3: mean it that way, but yeah, there you go. I'm witty.
Speaker 3: I'm witty and I didn't realize it anyway. Good on
Speaker 3: your market's good to hear your voice, mate, Take care, Cheers,
Speaker 3: Wilmat Julian Julian of Armadale. I was Jay and I
Speaker 3: were talking about you off earlier, So look forward to
Speaker 3: chatting to Wilmot, to Julian, to Michelle, Aaron others. Keep
Speaker 3: them coming and we will be with you after these.
Speaker 3: I love Meg's text. I wonder if large pipes can
Speaker 3: be incorporated into the stands of wind turbines and a
Speaker 3: huge showerhead on top, and then the fires can pump water,
Speaker 3: fieries can pump water up there and the water flows down.
Speaker 3: It's a very clever idea, Meg, you should be an engineer,
Speaker 3: no doubt. There's probably a massive reason why it can't
Speaker 3: be done, and people who are involved in wind turbines
Speaker 3: are going that's ludicrous. But I like the idea. But
Speaker 3: I have no expert, so I can't say whether it's
Speaker 3: a good idea or not. But I like it. Thank you, Meg.
Speaker 3: Wilma's in lands for Hi Wilma.
Speaker 35: They're going so let me have him starting to you
Speaker 35: for a long time forever. Have you watched Carva name
Speaker 35: with pride yet?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: I haven't. No, it is in my list.
Speaker 35: Well, yeah, we better put her on top of the list.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I've got okay, so I've got I've got
Speaker 3: China Beach Chaplain Harvey, starring James Stewart student Prince Carva,
Speaker 3: name with Pride, Guess who's coming to dinner? Elephant man. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it goes on. So it's it's in the list
Speaker 3: fair enough.
Speaker 35: Yeah, we don't live serious from Actually we're going to
Speaker 35: Stall for morrow because Asia is only forty six caves
Speaker 35: from Stall. And I know my husband that were very
Speaker 35: interested in this because, uh, with' the turb on, I
Speaker 35: hold a hicck of a lot of oil and that's
Speaker 35: why would be very very difficult to put out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well yeah, if the oil in there catches fire, absolutely.
Speaker 35: Yes, yeah, that's that's what would have catched on fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it could be some sort of lubricant that
Speaker 3: makes the the other thing that allows them to spin
Speaker 3: freely or oh.
Speaker 35: Yes, because they've got a big bullbarians in them too,
Speaker 35: what makes them? Yeah, go, But anyway, it's very interesting,
Speaker 35: but probably I don't know exactly. We'reously. We're terribly dry
Speaker 35: up here at the moment.
Speaker 13: And.
Speaker 35: I'd say, yeah, some some of them arenald fairly good
Speaker 35: in farmland not so, I'd say the fires watching there
Speaker 35: pretty closing for a few days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was, I was talking to Marty Fields
Speaker 3: earlier of the well known comedian the Son of Murray
Speaker 3: and Vell Gila, who's organizing a fundraiser and a comic
Speaker 3: relief type thing for farmers who are affected by the drought.
Speaker 3: The drought is apparently really really horrific, but we in
Speaker 3: the city don't realize it because we're in this little
Speaker 3: spot where we have had rain. But just on the
Speaker 3: other side of Geelong. This is for Victorians, of course,
Speaker 3: just on the other side of Geelong. It's there's a
Speaker 3: whole region that's just it's the worst route they've had
Speaker 3: in years, years upon years. We've got flooding in New
Speaker 3: South Wales. It's just a bizarre country. This isn't it?
Speaker 35: Sure is? Well, we're retired to farming, but our some
Speaker 35: has taken the farm and yeah he's the farm water
Speaker 35: proof by putting balls down and run by you know.
Speaker 35: The soul panis which is which is great, but foodings.
Speaker 7: Are a problems.
Speaker 35: Got he said to buy, so he did. He's got
Speaker 35: pretty high which is good. But we just hope. But
Speaker 35: we've got a good riding. Good if it goes through
Speaker 35: through sort of we're going to get much running around
Speaker 35: some next Mark and be horistic, Solomon. But anyway, we
Speaker 35: just don't know.
Speaker 3: Well we can do is hope. I guess that's yeah,
Speaker 3: there's not a lot we can Yeah, there's nothing new
Speaker 3: and I can do, is there?
Speaker 35: No, No, No, there's nothing Allan. I always said, it's
Speaker 35: just as well we can't change the weather, otherwise we'd
Speaker 35: be fighting all the time, Soloman. No, We've I've got
Speaker 35: gradation or Dan Launville area and they have said, you know,
Speaker 35: they've never never ever seen it so dry around that
Speaker 35: area for lawn might look like around there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's it's quite bizarre. We just wouldn't have
Speaker 3: known about it in the city if people didn't speak
Speaker 3: up about it.
Speaker 35: That's the sure. Yeah, and any I I'll be pleased
Speaker 35: to hear from really because I've been learning for a
Speaker 35: while and.
Speaker 32: We need to forget.
Speaker 35: Uh you know. It brings memories back to me.
Speaker 3: He's a nostalgia person's dream, Julie.
Speaker 13: It is.
Speaker 35: That is the true. So I'm enough, all the best
Speaker 35: and it's good to hear from you again.
Speaker 3: Good on your thanks, Wilma, lovely Carl, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. We'll get to Julian shortly, but Michelle's in
Speaker 3: Portland First High Michelle Oh.
Speaker 37: Hi, good morning and hi to everyone. So I'm not
Speaker 37: normally up at this time, but couldn't because I'm worried
Speaker 37: about the food security for Australia. A lot of people,
Speaker 37: I think a lot of people would be thinking this
Speaker 37: tax that the Labor government are going to put on
Speaker 37: the Australian people with the council of three million dollars zero,
Speaker 37: not thinking at the average person, not thinking about the
Speaker 37: farmers who have got their super innovation tied up in
Speaker 37: their properties. And this is going to what will actually
Speaker 37: happen if you'll have them calling into the Taxation Department
Speaker 37: saying I can't pay this bill, so they'll actually go
Speaker 37: into debt with the with the Taxation Department.
Speaker 12: So the other thing is.
Speaker 26: With the drought the farmers are having it.
Speaker 10: It's really really dry, it's really dry.
Speaker 37: And the thing is, listening to your last caller, a
Speaker 37: lot of the balls when they go down into the ground,
Speaker 37: the water level then drops off, so you can't really
Speaker 37: put a whole. If you have a whole lot of
Speaker 37: people pumping balls, the water pressure is going to go
Speaker 37: down and you'll have massive issues. So the thing is
Speaker 37: I'm calling on the Australian Farmers Federation to organize a
Speaker 37: right across Australia everyone and all the farmers go to
Speaker 37: Canberra and march on them, and also march on a
Speaker 37: Victorian state government who has given and also the federal
Speaker 37: government's given five thousand dollars to students, but what about
Speaker 37: the farmer's That five thousand dollars could have gone to
Speaker 37: the farmers that are.
Speaker 26: Doing it tough.
Speaker 37: So we've had two years of dryness, not much rain,
Speaker 37: and I really feel as.
Speaker 8: Though that.
Speaker 37: We need to do something radical like march on Canberra
Speaker 37: because Australia only thirty three percent of Australians did vote
Speaker 37: this labor government in, only thirty three percent, and no
Speaker 37: one has gone to the.
Speaker 26: To the government.
Speaker 37: They didn't really bring this up at their last federal election.
Speaker 37: And what I'm saying that this has happened six years
Speaker 37: in a row. Now we've got a labor government. It's
Speaker 37: like a wrecking ball for the country and they're putting
Speaker 37: a national security at risk and they're putting our.
Speaker 7: Food security at risk.
Speaker 37: So it's getting pretty dire and a lot of people
Speaker 37: have got to start waking up.
Speaker 3: Well, Look, the fact is we've got a liberal party
Speaker 3: that's just pretty much nonexistent, and people put their preferences
Speaker 3: to the Labor Party, so the public have spoken. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, you can say only thirty three percent
Speaker 3: of people voted him in. No, the population vote them in.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the country is in a mess. The country
Speaker 3: is in an absolute mess, and Victoria in particular is
Speaker 3: in a mess, and so stuff does need to happen,
Speaker 3: and as long as people keep putting the pressure on,
Speaker 3: stuff will eventually happen. But if people aren't happy with
Speaker 3: the government, vote them out. We've got every three or
Speaker 3: four years, depending on what it is, we have the
Speaker 3: chance to do exactly that. But we need an opposition
Speaker 3: that can actually get their act together to present something
Speaker 3: worth voting for. I am not political. I don't really
Speaker 3: look at the election until the day comes to actually vote.
Speaker 3: And I looked at all the paraphernalia and I spent
Speaker 3: I'd always spend the night before the election looking at
Speaker 3: all the members who are in my electorate, and there
Speaker 3: was just nothing there interested me. The policies that were
Speaker 3: put up and everything I found was just nothing. Nothing
Speaker 3: interested me. I think the country is in a mess
Speaker 3: because we've got idiots advising the government, the political advisors.
Speaker 3: I think a large part of the problems. It's just
Speaker 3: disgraceful on both sides of politics. Anyway, that's my little
Speaker 3: rant for someone who doesn't care. That's pretty much all
Speaker 3: I've got to say. But thank you for your call, Michelle.
Speaker 3: I hope you've got your point across and point well made.
Speaker 3: Well done. Thank you. It's a twenty eight to five
Speaker 3: in Victoria, twenty eight to three in Western Australia and
Speaker 3: in South Australia. It's just after four. More of your
Speaker 3: calls after this. Julian calls from Armadale.
Speaker 11: How are you, Julian, Good morning, sir, How are you today?
Speaker 3: Excellent? Thank you and all the better for hearing from you.
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, just as we're talking about Warnable, they had
Speaker 11: a big fire in two thousand and nine which virtually
Speaker 11: destroyed most of the historic Kepler Street Capital Theater in Warnamore,
Speaker 11: the only cinema left in Warnamore. Magnificent job. I went
Speaker 11: for the opening in twenty ten with some doubts as
Speaker 11: to whether they could restore the theater. The fire started
Speaker 11: in Cinema three and they were very lucky that they
Speaker 11: could evacuate some of the people working in there at
Speaker 11: in the early hours of the morning and a woman
Speaker 11: next door who was sleeping in a house and next door.
Speaker 11: So it's a great theater at the Capitol Theater. Have
Speaker 11: you ever been there?
Speaker 3: No? I haven't known. But they managed to restore it,
Speaker 3: did they And it's all looking good.
Speaker 11: Twelve months reopened it. It's just the bid of cinema.
Speaker 11: Cinema one is the one with a fire start and
Speaker 11: two cinema two and three down below one stage. Warner
Speaker 11: More had three cinemas and a drive into you know,
Speaker 11: is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: And according to the Kolak Herald about a month ago,
Speaker 11: they're restoring the Region Theater in Murray Street, coal Ak,
Speaker 11: which was it still is an RSL club. Have you
Speaker 11: been in there?
Speaker 3: No, haven't been there either. I don't get out much, sadly,
Speaker 3: but yeah, that's good that they're restoring it. That's good.
Speaker 3: There's there's there's a theater in my neck of the woods,
Speaker 3: which is which was a bit sort of run down
Speaker 3: and on the outside it looks quite run down, but
Speaker 3: inside it's quite beautiful. They've restored it with dignity.
Speaker 11: As you know. Last year the Palace Chain took over
Speaker 11: the regency of the Ballor You knew that, did you?
Speaker 11: It's now called the Palace, is that right?
Speaker 3: Is that the one that? What was the one that
Speaker 3: Mike Walsh bought? What was his first theater that was
Speaker 3: in Ballarat?
Speaker 11: He bought some in Sydney, had the Hayden Chain in
Speaker 11: Sydney her Matchency's Theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I thought his first one was a country
Speaker 3: one in Country Victoria somewhere.
Speaker 11: I'm not quite sure about that. Could you find out
Speaker 11: which one it was?
Speaker 3: I could ask him, but I don't think he returns
Speaker 3: on my calls.
Speaker 25: It.
Speaker 3: It lives in flits between England and Melbourne, so yeah,
Speaker 3: he lives in both cities.
Speaker 11: We had a date unfortunately that did not work out
Speaker 11: at the old Holtz New mal Than on Glen Furry
Speaker 11: Road and then that theater they used to have, one
Speaker 11: of the last theaters of Howts Chain. They said foot
Speaker 11: warm worst to remember them.
Speaker 3: Oh footwarm was how lovely. Yes, the hot water parks
Speaker 3: that went through under the seats.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's why they also Lover's chair that was had
Speaker 11: no it had no harm rest.
Speaker 3: Now I've just googled Mike Walsh first theater, and it
Speaker 3: says Mike Walsh's first Foray inter live theater ownership began
Speaker 3: with the purchase of Richmond's Regent Theater in nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: seven in Sydney. Well, it said Richmond.
Speaker 11: So Sydney Regent, not the Melbourne one, right, Okay, yep,
Speaker 11: I remember the old the old Hoyz chain and the Quartiously,
Speaker 11: the date that I had did not work out. She
Speaker 11: married someone else and they got the worse.
Speaker 3: Oh is that right?
Speaker 11: That's right now. I used to know an usher who
Speaker 11: was a veteran usher of Melbourne cinemas, and he recalls
Speaker 11: he used to be a gentleman who used to come
Speaker 11: in on a very cold day and sleep at the
Speaker 11: cinema all day. And in the summer who used to
Speaker 11: come to the same cinema and used to sleep all
Speaker 11: day because it was too hot.
Speaker 3: Amps Yeah, I've always said that people like to when
Speaker 3: it hits forty degrees, people say, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 3: the beach and I go, You're insane. You're going to
Speaker 3: burn your feet on the sand. The water will feel
Speaker 3: freezing in comparison to the heat in the air. You're
Speaker 3: going to get a bad sunburn. Because you always miss
Speaker 3: a spot when you put the lotion on. Why would
Speaker 3: you go to the beach when it's forty degrees That's
Speaker 3: when you go to a cinema.
Speaker 11: That's right, red.
Speaker 3: Lines breaking in there.
Speaker 11: I was su speaking to an usher red in London
Speaker 11: when they had the Elephant Man there, and she said,
Speaker 11: we have people in the London cold weather. You know
Speaker 11: how cold it gets in Underdog you Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a little on the chili side. Yeahs a
Speaker 3: bit colder than it does in Australia most of the places.
Speaker 11: May I tell you an old story from the Courier
Speaker 11: Mail back in nineteen seventy eight when they destroyed the
Speaker 11: Regent Theater in Brisbane. There was a lot of controversy
Speaker 11: about that they had a green band on her and
Speaker 11: they pulled the green band at five o'clock and version
Speaker 11: destroyed most of the old Regent in Brisbane. And there
Speaker 11: was a man who worked in a projection room and
Speaker 11: he looked out the window one night and guess what
Speaker 11: he saw his girlfriend dating another man.
Speaker 3: Oh really, that's right.
Speaker 11: He wasn't really happy about. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3: About it, eh, No, Well better to find out, I guess.
Speaker 11: And then there was a story of a lady he
Speaker 11: used to work projection Williamson. And you know most of
Speaker 11: some of those old Melbourne theaters still have posts.
Speaker 3: Sorry say again, some of the.
Speaker 11: Old Melbourne theaters have posts behind the seats, in front.
Speaker 3: Of the seats, posts as in like columns of that
Speaker 3: support the roof.
Speaker 11: And they used to sell them the old days, she said,
Speaker 11: those seats that had obscured view of the stage with
Speaker 11: a post half priced right.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and they still do. There are some there
Speaker 3: you can still. I can't remember which theaters, but there
Speaker 3: are I know obstructed view seats. I think a lot
Speaker 3: of them might be from overhanging balconies or something. If
Speaker 3: you're sitting right up the back, the overhanging balcony can
Speaker 3: block part of the view of the stage if the
Speaker 3: show has a high set.
Speaker 11: And she told the story of how a lady came
Speaker 11: and said, I can't see the stage because of the post,
Speaker 11: and she said, don't worry, madam. When the curtain goes up,
Speaker 11: the post goes up with the curtains.
Speaker 3: Of course, that's wonderful. Now, Julian, I must move on,
Speaker 3: but it's lovely to hear your voice. It's been quite
Speaker 3: some time since we've spoken. So I'm glad to hear you. Okay,
Speaker 3: nice to hear from you, sir, No worries. Good on you, Julian.
Speaker 3: There's Julian from Armadale. Peter's in Adelaide.
Speaker 21: Gooda Peter morning, Simon.
Speaker 20: How are you?
Speaker 23: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not too bad? What have you got for us?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 21: I do a regular with Tony the SA NFL sand Full.
Speaker 21: Do you follow footy?
Speaker 3: I don't, but many people listening do, so yeah, go
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 21: Now we've got a big round coming up round eight Saturday,
Speaker 21: maybe thirty first, the last day of autumn, the one
Speaker 21: hundred and fifty first day of the year. Now Tony
Speaker 21: is a mad Norwood supporter. Last year Nord played Glenelg
Speaker 21: in the Grand Final. Currently Glenelg are in the third
Speaker 21: or fourth position five wins, two losses. Nor With are
Speaker 21: on equal bottom one win.
Speaker 15: Six losses.
Speaker 21: Go figure it out, how about that? Anyway? I'll quickly
Speaker 21: go through them from I know you've got other callers
Speaker 21: that want to get on. First of all, the first
Speaker 21: game is it's a Richmond IV will just round the
Speaker 21: corner from where I live, hysin Stadium one ten Saturday,
Speaker 21: West Satellade versus the Mighty Red Legs Now Nord will
Speaker 21: have to win to have any hope of competing in
Speaker 21: the finals. West was smashed at Blene by the Bays
Speaker 21: last week. I'm tipping Nord. I set a line of
Speaker 21: nineteen point five points Nord to win over that line.
Speaker 21: Second game where my side's involved in the TV game
Speaker 21: in Adelaide, the game of the round first versus second
Speaker 21: Central District the Bulldogs versus third the Double Blues who
Speaker 21: are currently on top seven wins, zero losses, Central in
Speaker 21: second position six wins, one loss. The match will start
Speaker 21: at two ten. Now did you hear about the mini
Speaker 21: draft last night?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 21: Well, six Abstrain players were chosen, which is remarkable and
Speaker 21: they'll be playing in the ABSOL system soon. Central unfortunately lost.
Speaker 21: I've got to think of his name, the midfield of
Speaker 21: Manny Livy. I think it is who's previously played at Sturt.
Speaker 21: If he's not allowed to play for Centrals, Sturt will
Speaker 21: win easily. If he is, could be a very very
Speaker 21: close match. My heart bleeds double Blue Sturt below the
Speaker 21: line of nineteen and a half.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the game that matters because first versus second
Speaker 3: and Yeah, stt just one game up on the Central
Speaker 3: and Simon.
Speaker 21: In nineteen seventy one when I was a teenager, Central
Speaker 21: District ended Sturt's five premierships in a row, beat us
Speaker 21: in the first semi final at the Adelaide Oval by
Speaker 21: about five goals and I cried for a week that
Speaker 21: I was yeah anyway. And the third game is at
Speaker 21: Prospect Over North Adelaide. North Adelaide versus Woodball West Torrence.
Speaker 21: North have been very disappointing. They sacked their coach Jacob
Speaker 21: Surgeon a week and a half two weeks ago. Woodbell
Speaker 21: West Torrants Eagles are flying. I'm kipping Woodvielle West Torrance
Speaker 21: over the line. But North Adelaide beware the wounded rooster
Speaker 21: and the last game because Adelaide and Port have got
Speaker 21: the buy. This week. South Adelaide Panthers, who haven't won
Speaker 21: a premiership in sixty one years, are playing Glenelg at
Speaker 21: make and Stadium nor Longer, which is on the coastline.
Speaker 21: No Longer was destroyed on Monday by Titanic waves and winds.
Speaker 21: Galinelg will win, but I hope South are competitive. Glaneg
Speaker 21: go over the line, and I'm going to thank you
Speaker 21: for letting me on.
Speaker 3: No, no, always a pleasure, that's not a problem. Good
Speaker 3: to keep everyone across all the codes of football and
Speaker 3: the different league. So good on you. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Thanks Peter. We will knock off a break, Aaron, Bob
Speaker 3: and Rob with you soon. No, he won't because Bob's
Speaker 3: just dropped out, but we've got Aaron and Rob will
Speaker 3: be with you in a minute. Aaron's in w a morning.
Speaker 38: Aaron, Good morning, Simon. How are you?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Good, thank you.
Speaker 38: Yeah, I'll be very brief this issue regarding anti bullying
Speaker 38: within the state school system. I mean, you know, people
Speaker 38: do what they can to put a stop to a Simon,
Speaker 38: but at the same time, you know you can't stop
Speaker 38: these kids from bullying one another. I mean it's an
Speaker 38: ongoing issue that can be very hard to resolve. You
Speaker 38: understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Oh, look, kids are kids. Unfortunately that means that they
Speaker 3: can be immature and bullying. Yeah, bullying will happen, absolutely.
Speaker 38: Yeahs terrible as it is the only thing that can
Speaker 38: be introduced really that to resolve the issue, Simon, because
Speaker 38: I mean, you know, you know it can't be stopped
Speaker 38: so reasonably. I mean, you know, see just the start
Speaker 38: at the schools that these schools, you know, they can't
Speaker 38: really they enforce that little bit. At the same time,
Speaker 38: you know, that's not the bullying silent, because I mean
Speaker 38: it is persistence that you know, it carries on. I mean,
Speaker 38: sadly some kids to leave the schooler, it gets expelled,
Speaker 38: I mean so sad to say unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Look, it is terrible. I think the larger part of
Speaker 3: the problem with bullying is the parenting because there's only
Speaker 3: so much a school can do. You know, in schools,
Speaker 3: you know, if there's a ratio of one teacher to
Speaker 3: every twenty odd kids, they simply can't be everywhere to
Speaker 3: make sure that kids aren't bullying each other as much
Speaker 3: as we would like them to be able to be.
Speaker 3: There's too much pressure on teachers in the school system
Speaker 3: as it is.
Speaker 38: The worst thing about it is simon, nobody can stop it.
Speaker 38: Nobody can put a stop to it.
Speaker 23: No, it's very very sad, you know, it is.
Speaker 3: It is awful.
Speaker 38: What really can anybody do? What can the education department do?
Speaker 38: You make it twitdally thumbs and not do anything about it,
Speaker 38: because that's what's what's going on? Which is usually the case.
Speaker 38: I mean, these kids get bullied to buggery when when
Speaker 38: they're atiliated, I mean somebody or some gets very badly
Speaker 38: heard or injury, it will be.
Speaker 29: In the school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think that the thing about it is
Speaker 3: aaron that the schools do do everything they can. They
Speaker 3: they teach about bullying and the and the problems that
Speaker 3: bullying causes, and there's educational films and things that they
Speaker 3: show at schools, and you know, it is a big
Speaker 3: part of the of the the what's what's it called
Speaker 3: the school curriculum as it were, to make sure health
Speaker 3: and wellness for all kids. Unfortunately, as my dad once said,
Speaker 3: and it's just something that's stuck in my mind years ago,
Speaker 3: you can't legislate for stupidity. There are kids you can
Speaker 3: tell people don't bully, it's bad, and there are people
Speaker 3: who go, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, and then they bully
Speaker 3: and they don't even think that they're really bullying. They're
Speaker 3: just having a bit of fun at that loser kid,
Speaker 3: and they don't realize that they're actually bullying. And when
Speaker 3: you point it out, they get defensive and they feel
Speaker 3: that you're bullying them. There is just kids can be
Speaker 3: really immature, and so at school bullying will always happen,
Speaker 3: and it's really up to the parents to know. If
Speaker 3: the school contacts you and says your child is bullying
Speaker 3: another child, it's really up to the parents to really
Speaker 3: just knock that crap out of the kid and say
Speaker 3: it's just not good enough and threaten that kid that
Speaker 3: you're going to move them to another school unless they
Speaker 3: change their behavior. So I really think parenting has more
Speaker 3: to do with stoppings bullying at schools than schools can
Speaker 3: actually do themselves. But as I say, kids are kids.
Speaker 3: It's never going to be extinguished. We've just got to
Speaker 3: be able to do the best we can. That's all
Speaker 3: we can do in any walk of life. But thanks
Speaker 3: for the call, Rob. I appreciate that quick break back
Speaker 3: in them. And we've got Rob calling in from Melbourne.
Speaker 3: How are you rob.
Speaker 21: Yourself?
Speaker 26: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Pretty good.
Speaker 39: With that fire and that winterbine, maybe they can try,
Speaker 39: obviously too late to save the one that's on fire now,
Speaker 39: but they can retrofute them and put nozzles in and
Speaker 39: pup c O two into them. At least that way
Speaker 39: it will help cool the heat. Sauce and start the
Speaker 39: fire up the box.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you need the oxygen to burn for
Speaker 3: the fuel to burn, so yeah, pipe up co two.
Speaker 39: Yeah, because they putting wire water on the fire like that.
Speaker 39: The other caller suggested, what the shower.
Speaker 1: Yeah you don't.
Speaker 39: You don't put water on an electrical fire.
Speaker 3: No, very good point. Well, thank god, I'm not in charge.
Speaker 39: A not all good mate. But yeah, they're finding theory
Speaker 39: of these wind farm things. But oh well, what do
Speaker 39: you do if they produce power? Bonus?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, I don't know whether they're worthwhile having or not.
Speaker 3: I don't have any knowledge to to have an opinion
Speaker 3: on it. But yeah, it's the fire in the thing
Speaker 3: and the fire he is sitting around just watching it
Speaker 3: burn because there's not much they can do. I just
Speaker 3: find an interesting story.
Speaker 39: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I wouldn't want to be up there.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think. I don't think those ladders on
Speaker 3: the back of the trucks go that high.
Speaker 39: I ll just bys a cable tie on length of
Speaker 39: them and make your way up there.
Speaker 3: Well, do do what the treeloppers do and have that
Speaker 3: sort of belt around their back and shimmy up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be doing all that. I'd sit
Speaker 3: sit a safe distance away and watch it. And yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's about it, all right, get on your rob
Speaker 3: Thanks for that, appreciate it and thank you six P
Speaker 3: are good to have you on board this morning. Tony.
Speaker 3: You'll probably be back tomorrow and so or later tonight,
Speaker 3: I should say. If he is, he'll see you. If not,
Speaker 3: it might be me again. So it's been great to
Speaker 3: have you on board this morning. Thank you to well
Speaker 3: five Double A are still with us for the remaining
Speaker 3: half hour of the program, I understand. So we've got
Speaker 3: Shane A. Bassett coming up for those who are sticking
Speaker 3: around to talk movies and entertainment on the other side
Speaker 3: of the news.
Speaker 2: Now, this is Australia Urbanized with Simon Owen's.
Speaker 3: Yes you heard that right. Tony McManus is away this morning.
Speaker 3: Oh what are we opening with here? Jay? This one's
Speaker 3: the good old Bruce Springsteen Boss the Boss. It's a
Speaker 3: human touch. Yeah, oh yeah, now I recognize it. I
Speaker 3: think it was a good song ninety ninety two, ninety two,
Speaker 3: so that's thirty three years ago, which it's bloody scary,
Speaker 3: isn't it When you say that it is because if
Speaker 3: you then go back thirty three years from nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 3: you get nineteen fifty nine. You know, pre Beatles. It's
Speaker 3: finished year twelve. Yeah, ye Eltham high yet twelve? Are
Speaker 3: you an Elpham boy? Tomerenci. That means a lot to
Speaker 3: people listening, Glen Eld But I love the boss Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3: What a legend.
Speaker 40: Service from ahead of the stats, little body John word
Speaker 40: in this.
Speaker 14: It's just.
Speaker 25: Silly out here.
Speaker 4: Do you think what I'll ask.
Speaker 3: You too much?
Speaker 35: I just wow?
Speaker 17: Something too long out.
Speaker 40: Little little That new birth turner, just that new birth turner.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite clips on YouTube is a Bruce
Speaker 3: Springsteen clip. And I've probably bored you sideways with this
Speaker 3: story about a dozen times, but I'll tell it again.
Speaker 3: There's a clip of Bruce Springsteen live in concert in
Speaker 3: like a stadium, so it's not just some small concert
Speaker 3: hall or something. It's a stadium. There are tens of
Speaker 3: thousands of people watching him, and he's got a thing
Speaker 3: going where because he's been performing for so long. People
Speaker 3: write the names of songs on something and hold it
Speaker 3: up hoping that he'll sing that song. And somebody wrote
Speaker 3: on there You Never Can Tell, which was a hit
Speaker 3: for Chuck Berry years and years ago, and so Bruce
Speaker 3: Springsteen reads it, sees it down there, and he says, oh,
Speaker 3: that's fantastic. I haven't played that song in thirty years
Speaker 3: or something like that. And then he realizes the band
Speaker 3: won't know the song. So, in front of a crowd
Speaker 3: of tens of thousands of people live on stage, he
Speaker 3: teaches the band the song. He says, oh, what key
Speaker 3: will I do it in? And he just drums a
Speaker 3: bit on the guitar and practices, No, that's too high,
Speaker 3: try a different key. Well, yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 3: Then he turns to the horn section and says, I
Speaker 3: need you guys to do it. The sort of hums
Speaker 3: what he needs the horn section to do. Then he
Speaker 3: gets gets the rhythm going, and gets the drummer going,
Speaker 3: and gets gets a bit of a rhythm going, and
Speaker 3: and runs through the chord changes, then puts a capo
Speaker 3: on his guitar. I think it's called a capo, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3: The thing changes the key, does that and finally gets
Speaker 3: it gets it going, gets it going, and then he's
Speaker 3: then he says one, two, three, four, and bang they
Speaker 3: launch into it and you would swear they've been rehearsing
Speaker 3: it for years. They absolutely nailed the performance. And in
Speaker 3: that time, obviously whoever runs the auto cures managed to
Speaker 3: get the lyrics up on the on the thing so
Speaker 3: he can remember the lyrics on the screen for him,
Speaker 3: and then he just nails it, absolutely nails the song.
Speaker 3: So it is, and it just shows a skill of
Speaker 3: one hymn but also to the skill of those musos
Speaker 3: that he too with It's incredible. So if you're bored
Speaker 3: today people and you've got I think the video runs
Speaker 3: about eight or nine minutes, because it's five minutes teaching
Speaker 3: him to play the song and then they actually play it.
Speaker 3: But Bruce Springsteen, you never can tell. It's just fabulous.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: I think there was a band that I admired a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago and they got someone from the
Speaker 4: crowd up and started to play the guitar section of
Speaker 4: the song Yeah, and it was from you to it,
Speaker 4: I figured, And he just went through the notes of
Speaker 4: the song with her and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: she just picked it up and away she wins.
Speaker 3: Isn't that fabulous with them? I was at a Billy
Speaker 3: Joel concert years ago, might have been the storm Front tour,
Speaker 3: I think it was. And a guy threw up a
Speaker 3: poster on stage. I rolled up and Billy Joels picked
Speaker 3: up the poster and unrolled it. And the guy who
Speaker 3: threw it up there does a Billy Joel tribute show,
Speaker 3: and I think he's I've only ever found one reference
Speaker 3: to it on the internet.
Speaker 1: But the.
Speaker 3: Name of the act, the tribute act was really Joel,
Speaker 3: so r E A W L y Really Joel. And
Speaker 3: so Billy said, oh you do me?
Speaker 32: Do you all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get up here. Let's let's see your stuff.
Speaker 3: So he got up there and asked him what song
Speaker 3: he wanted to do, and I think he did. It
Speaker 3: was only the Good Guy Young, which is a pretty
Speaker 3: you know, rocky up there song. So Billy Joel's just
Speaker 3: playing the piano. He's given this guy the microphone in
Speaker 3: front of him, and the guy's dressed like Billy Joel,
Speaker 3: and he's got the same hair at that stage and
Speaker 3: like and he had the It was where Billy Joel
Speaker 3: was wearing the Ray Band Sonnies at the time. Yes,
Speaker 3: so maybe it was the glass No, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4: On the start of the fire here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, so so he gets the guy gets up there,
Speaker 3: Billy Joel's playing away with the band, and this guy
Speaker 3: absolutely nailed it. You could have sworn it was. There
Speaker 3: were two Billy Joels on stage, a young one which
Speaker 3: was this tribute guy, and the older Fata one at
Speaker 3: the piano.
Speaker 4: Be weird if you were the artists. Yeah, looking into
Speaker 4: a mirror sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, watching watching a younger version of yourself on Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, wonderful stuff. The stuff that happens at live
Speaker 3: concerts is marvelous. I was a I wasn't a fan
Speaker 3: particularly of Pink, but my wife wanted to go and
Speaker 3: see Pinking concerts. So I was the reluctant plus one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I reluctantly went along to a Pink concert. And Pink's
Speaker 3: interaction with the audience was just marvelous. Like the show
Speaker 3: was beautifully choreographed, and she was a she was a
Speaker 3: brilliant performer, but in between the songs when she had
Speaker 3: interact with members of the audience, she just she just
Speaker 3: had a fabulous energy about her. And somebody admitted her
Speaker 3: she just had a baby, or you know, she had
Speaker 3: like a toddler and somebody had knitted her a little
Speaker 3: jacket or something, and so she was really excited and
Speaker 3: got the person up so she could give him a
Speaker 3: hug and all that stuff. I love the stuff that
Speaker 3: goes on in concert between the songs a lot of
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 4: And it's very easy for her to have a chat
Speaker 4: to someone in the audience because of the aerobatics, because
Speaker 4: she can sort of flip over to someone.
Speaker 3: Because she's she's surrounded by wires, she can go anywhere
Speaker 3: in the stadium. Have you seen her in concert or I.
Speaker 4: Haven't actually seen her in concert, but I've seen her
Speaker 4: video clips and things with her how she does at
Speaker 4: a stage performance. But yeah, incredible and fit, so fit,
Speaker 4: and yeah and energetic. It's incredible.
Speaker 3: One double three, it's already caughtter past five. We haven't
Speaker 3: even We've just been talking about concerts one double three,
Speaker 3: six nine three for the remaining fifteen minutes of the show.
Speaker 3: Greatest thing you've ever seen at a concert. Love your
Speaker 3: calls on that. If we just want to throw that in,
Speaker 3: we'll throw out everything else we were thinking you're doing
Speaker 3: at this time. We're supposed to be doing Shane A Bassett,
Speaker 3: but he's not available. At the moment, so we'll maybe
Speaker 3: he'll be on tomorrow. We'll see, we'll reschedule that. But
Speaker 3: one double three six nine three. We've got to take
Speaker 3: a break. But if you've got a great moment at
Speaker 3: a concert, we'd love your call. Also, you can text us.
Speaker 3: If you're not in a position you can call. We'd
Speaker 3: love your text as well. So zero four double seven
Speaker 3: six nine three six nine three if you want a text.
Speaker 3: If you do want to call one double three six
Speaker 3: nine three, eighteen after five in Victoria in South Australia,
Speaker 3: it's twelve minutes two five your calls one double three
Speaker 3: six nine three. Mark has called in from Slovakia.
Speaker 20: Good a Mark, Hey, good afternoon. I'm in great to
Speaker 20: who you want?
Speaker 3: Break tom thank you, thank you mate. Very, I'm very
Speaker 3: happy to be here. It's been four or so months
Speaker 3: since i've done this shift.
Speaker 27: Yes, hey, I'm at a Prince concert June seven, twenty
Speaker 27: fourteen in Vienna.
Speaker 10: Prince is not one that's going to.
Speaker 27: Stop and have a little chat to a show. The
Speaker 27: show just kept going and going. But on this particular night,
Speaker 27: June seventh, that's his birthday, and there was a pause
Speaker 27: in the show and the whole audience saying happy birthday
Speaker 27: to him. That band stopped and let Yeah, the band
Speaker 27: stopped and let us go. It was great, What an event.
Speaker 27: Prince didn't acknowledge birthdays, but yeah he had to in
Speaker 27: this case. The whole audio was thinking to him, that's.
Speaker 3: Fantastic, that's wonderful. How did it sort of happen though?
Speaker 3: Did someone just start and everyone joined in and the
Speaker 3: band just shut up? Did they?
Speaker 18: I think so?
Speaker 10: I think people.
Speaker 27: I mean I was down the front that just sort
Speaker 27: of it originated somewhere and off it went. I'm sure
Speaker 27: it's going to be on YouTube somewhere.
Speaker 10: I've never actually looked for.
Speaker 27: It, but you reminded me of that event when you know,
Speaker 27: you were asking about things that happened at concert, and
Speaker 27: you know, I have to do a little bit of
Speaker 27: research on that one, because it was quite quite an
Speaker 27: event last time I saw him.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like by all means have a look
Speaker 3: and people might be looking for it now, but my
Speaker 3: understanding with YouTube, I haven't looked for a lot of
Speaker 3: Prince material, but I know that Prince used to have
Speaker 3: it all taken down. You couldn't get his stuff on
Speaker 3: YouTube at some point but given he's not here anymore,
Speaker 3: I don't know whether the estate and still.
Speaker 27: Looks unfortunately since he passes, are free for all pretty
Speaker 27: much that is, is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: In Spotify and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 27: Yeah, the Prince estate seems to be just money hungry,
Speaker 27: so they're doing innothing. They canvas or milk, milk the legacy.
Speaker 15: But that's the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happens, definitely.
Speaker 10: That's my little thing.
Speaker 3: Beautiful. Now that's a that's a great one. How are
Speaker 3: you going, Mark, all well in your world?
Speaker 11: Yeah? I guess it's okay.
Speaker 32: Yeah, we're rolling along, still waiting for summer over here
Speaker 32: in Europe.
Speaker 10: It's still really cold here.
Speaker 3: You'll be. You don't start seasons at the start of
Speaker 3: the month, do you, it's the twenty somethings.
Speaker 27: No, it's twenty second I think of June. But you
Speaker 27: know we're obviously at the end of May and still
Speaker 27: with electric blanket on her mat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've just put ours on some gold everywhere.
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's sharing got no where, it's warm.
Speaker 3: Somewhere somewhere in between.
Speaker 17: All right, good to talk to you, Mark, Thank you,
Speaker 17: great sho.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, I appreciate it. Cheers. Ralph is in Melbourne, Hi, Ralph,
Speaker 3: thank you mate.
Speaker 15: In Adelaide, Bruce Springstein was playing, and I don't know
Speaker 15: if you know John Peverton. He's one of the Pember
Speaker 15: one of the great voices of radio, and he retired
Speaker 15: in Adelaide and he always had his Pember radio show band.
Speaker 15: Huge Springsteen fan, so he and his brother in their
Speaker 15: respective ladies, dressed up as the Honeymooners and Springsteing is
Speaker 15: a huge Honeymooners fan, Jackie Gleisa fan, and so Pember
Speaker 15: had a sign that said, hey boss, let a Ralph
Speaker 15: come on stage and sing brown Eyed Girl and the
Speaker 15: key at b So Bruce looked at at the little
Speaker 15: Stevie Dan events and should leave him yep. So they
Speaker 15: jumped up on stage and Pembo's brother knocked the professor
Speaker 15: off the piano and they broke into Brown Eyed Girl,
Speaker 15: and Springsteen was wearing a coonskin cap, which is what
Speaker 15: Ralph Cramson used to wear at the Lodge meetings, and
Speaker 15: they tore the house down with Brown Eyed Girl. And
Speaker 15: Bruce has since put out an album of sixteen of
Speaker 15: the best intruders that have come up on stage with
Speaker 15: him and Pembo made the cut so absolutely brought the
Speaker 15: house down in mad later and we do have some
Speaker 15: pictures of Bruce with the coonskin cap and away they went.
Speaker 15: It was a fabulous, fabulous knight.
Speaker 3: That is just magnificent. I love him even more now.
Speaker 3: That's what a great story that is.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so you never know who's gonna who's gonna let
Speaker 15: pop up on stage and it's just, you know, one
Speaker 15: of those magic moments. He doesn't look for them, but
Speaker 15: when they're there, he certainly certainly does them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is beautiful. Good on your Ralph, appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: What a ripper story that is. Twenty three after five,
Speaker 3: seven to five in South Australia, twenty three after five
Speaker 3: in Melbourne. Before we go, Rory and.
Speaker 41: I'd like to leave you with a little something to
Speaker 41: think about, a little philosophy exactly. So I'm going to
Speaker 41: read you something from the Book of Wisdom. It says
Speaker 41: here a wise man once said he that lives not
Speaker 41: well one year sorrows seven after or whatever that means.
Speaker 3: I know exactly what's he talking about. He's an idiot, exactly.
Speaker 3: Please for spect me in the morning. Am I reading
Speaker 3: from the book of Idiots? I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 42: Don't talk about me. I'm gone joining if you like again,
Speaker 42: you know the things you say will be turned against
Speaker 42: yourself something.
Speaker 2: Don't talk about me when I'm gone.
Speaker 21: Goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 3: Now I'm on my way.
Speaker 42: And I don't care what you say here.
Speaker 19: I'm going home, so.
Speaker 3: Respect me. Ye, Joe discuss me here.
Speaker 24: It's not nice.
Speaker 21: Chris so I hate something down there.
Speaker 28: Joe talk.
Speaker 21: Where I'm gone.
Speaker 3: Well, that's it for me. Tony McManus will hopefully be
Speaker 3: back at midnight tonight Melbourne time, ten pm, per Time,
Speaker 3: twelve thirty Adelaide Time. Thank you Jay for all you
Speaker 3: have done tonight in the program. I look forward to
Speaker 3: doing it next time we meet. Stand by for your
Speaker 3: breakfast shows. They'll be coming up on the other side
Speaker 3: of the news.