Speaker 1: Already.
Speaker 2: So while we were on our Easter break, we missed
Speaker 2: some rather major world news when Prince Philip passed away.
Speaker 2: Oh Phil, can you believe it's been like a months now.
Speaker 3: Since he died?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that flew by.
Speaker 3: That really did poor bus. He was ninety nine. Just
Speaker 3: shive his behind.
Speaker 2: I know, I know that's a bit of a shame,
Speaker 2: but he's rough.
Speaker 4: But now that we're.
Speaker 2: Back, I was curious as to how some of the
Speaker 2: big news talkback radio stations covered the breaking news when
Speaker 2: Philip died. It was nine pm our time, and you
Speaker 2: know we like to keep an eye out all what's
Speaker 2: happening on top back radio, So I've gone and pulled
Speaker 2: the audio from that very night.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, this is a big thing in the UK,
Speaker 3: Like I've seen tiktoks and YouTube videos that are like
Speaker 3: this is exactly what happens when the Queen of England
Speaker 3: will die, And there's like code words and secret languages,
Speaker 3: and apparently a lot of the news stations have packages
Speaker 3: already recorded. Amaze.
Speaker 2: One of my friends works for one of the TV
Speaker 2: news stations here in Sydney, and he told me ages
Speaker 2: ago that he'd pre prepared Prince.
Speaker 4: Philip's you what is it, oh, obituary?
Speaker 3: Obituary, Yes, obituary.
Speaker 2: He pre prepared the obituary, and so as soon as
Speaker 2: he carcked it, I met with my friend.
Speaker 4: It was like, Babe, I saw the obituary, loved it.
Speaker 3: It's so well news dot com, dot A. You released
Speaker 3: theirs and they clearly didn't prove reader because it said
Speaker 3: Prince Philip has died at the age of ninety nine
Speaker 3: of xxx, and they didn't fill it in. It just
Speaker 3: looked like he died of drinking a beer.
Speaker 2: I think that happened a few months ago when someone
Speaker 2: accidentally published their template.
Speaker 4: He hadn't died yet. They got Sidney Morning Herald.
Speaker 3: Oh like what they had like a skeleton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was filling the blanks. They accidentally published it
Speaker 2: before he died. But anyway, this is how talkback covered it.
Speaker 2: So it happened around nine pm. The press release came
Speaker 2: out and I'll kick off with ABC News.
Speaker 4: This is how they covered it nationally. You know how
Speaker 4: they've got the news.
Speaker 2: From the hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, ABC News with Glen Laughter, Federal Health Authority sergent.
Speaker 2: This would have been like the nine pm on the dot.
Speaker 2: The press release wouldn't have even come out yet. So
Speaker 2: credit to this news reader. He would have had to
Speaker 2: have read it live as it came up on his
Speaker 2: desktop because he wouldn't have gotten.
Speaker 4: The news yet.
Speaker 1: The fires of COVID nineteen vaccines now the preferred option
Speaker 1: for younger Australians after the astrodetting mail jab was linked
Speaker 1: to a small number of rare blood clotting cases around
Speaker 1: the world. In breaking news, Buckingham Palace has just announced
Speaker 1: that his Royal Highness, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh,
Speaker 1: died earlier today. The ninety nine year old had been
Speaker 1: married to Queen Elizabeth since nineteen forty seven and officially
Speaker 1: became her consort when she ascended the throne in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty two.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 2: We just kind of had to throw out all the
Speaker 2: other shit hed preprepared for that news bulletin that's heard.
Speaker 3: When you're doing live radio, you've got to be on it,
Speaker 3: you've got to be looking out for things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think they nailed it. Meanwhile, over at
Speaker 2: to GB.
Speaker 3: Oh, we love a bit of two GB.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the big news station in Sydney. I was quite
Speaker 2: surprised by their coverage.
Speaker 3: In the negatively or positively.
Speaker 2: Negatively, because they're meant to be like your news leader
Speaker 2: to gb Yeah, and obviously they didn't know that this
Speaker 2: was happening, so it was unfortunate that it came out
Speaker 2: during a football match that they were covering, and so
Speaker 2: the footy commentators had to break the news mid map.
Speaker 3: So not the newsreaders.
Speaker 4: They didn't even interrupted.
Speaker 2: They were just like, oh quick, you guys, ignore the
Speaker 2: game for a sec read this cheat out. I would
Speaker 2: have thought that the news room would conmet in we
Speaker 2: interrupted this program.
Speaker 3: They've cut it off.
Speaker 4: They just got the commentators to do it.
Speaker 3: Here we go. I think it's done very well that
Speaker 3: I was George Williams. I think the halfback's been pretty
Speaker 3: good for the Raiders. Boys.
Speaker 5: Raiders out on the field for the start of the
Speaker 5: second half. Sadly, I've got some breaking news that's coming
Speaker 5: in from the UK. Prince Philip has passed away at
Speaker 5: the age.
Speaker 3: Of ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Now. He was due to turn one hundred on June
Speaker 5: tenth this year, but a statement from the Royal family
Speaker 5: is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty for Queen has
Speaker 5: announced the death of her beloved husband. His Royal Highness
Speaker 5: the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. He's passed away this morning.
Speaker 5: It wins the castle, so that is a terrible story.
Speaker 5: He was a legend, Prince Philip. The second half coming
Speaker 5: up here the Raiders to kick off. Let's take you
Speaker 5: to the call team David Morrow, Dwell Browman and Mark
Speaker 5: Pete Riddell on the sideline.
Speaker 3: It's the people, the Raiders by twelve points. Yeah, skip
Speaker 3: a beat.
Speaker 2: I know they just kind of read the stab it
Speaker 2: and then go, I mean, what else do you say?
Speaker 4: Move on?
Speaker 3: It's almost as if no one was even acknowledging what
Speaker 3: he was saying. No one gave them any banter.
Speaker 4: I know, it was very weird, but bag moment. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they do.
Speaker 2: Obviously didn't have an obituary to play.
Speaker 4: Well, there's the news, you got it, move on.
Speaker 3: That's so funny.
Speaker 4: The Raiders interesting.
Speaker 2: And then obviously I had to check in on our
Speaker 2: favorite station to Sam and our mate Graham Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Oh we love Graham Gilbert, do we? Yeah? Graham Gilbert
Speaker 3: does the game that I play the I'm still trying
Speaker 3: to get the fridge magnet.
Speaker 4: No, that's not him, that's on ABC, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I can't even keep up.
Speaker 4: Graham.
Speaker 2: Gilbert is the one. Remember back in episode fifteen, you
Speaker 2: prank called him.
Speaker 4: Oh of course live O Laric.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, that's I'm getting confused.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Graham the one that we don't I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't have anything against him, but god, we'd like to
Speaker 2: mock him on this show, that's for sure. And so
Speaker 2: he was on air at night and I did keep
Speaker 2: tabs on the actual time codes. ABC News at nine
Speaker 2: oh two, got the news TWGB at nine oh four,
Speaker 2: and then ten minutes later two SM didn't even break
Speaker 2: the news. One of Graham's callers had to tell him.
Speaker 2: So he's not the most reliable news source. He has
Speaker 2: to get his listeners to fill him in.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: So this is what happened on two SM.
Speaker 3: Talk Tonight on thirteen, twelve sixty nine. Michael Good Evening.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, Graham, I just saw some very sad news.
Speaker 3: And Philip died. Who has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I met the gentleman.
Speaker 1: Quite a few times.
Speaker 2: I neber telling you on YEP.
Speaker 1: So it came out a news flash on the television.
Speaker 3: That is dreadful news.
Speaker 2: I'd like to let you.
Speaker 1: Know I didn't know if you already knew.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm glad you told us, Michael, and God bless you. Oh,
Speaker 3: thank you mate, thank you good God bless you, Michael,
Speaker 3: and please emails your resume. We need a new newsreader.
Speaker 3: Quite clearly, I was just like, whoa, how.
Speaker 4: Did you not get on top of that? You had
Speaker 4: ten minutes?
Speaker 2: Presumably as a talk back station, you'd be kind of
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on the sights.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could you hear like the vintage baker light phone
Speaker 3: ringing in the background? I just had like a bat
Speaker 3: phone going off the hook, no idea.
Speaker 2: He also didn't sound that face, did he. He's like,
Speaker 2: who died Prince Philip? Ah, Oh, that's a shame.
Speaker 3: It's like when a great uncle dies that you don't
Speaker 3: really know. No, that's that's awful. Is and he was
Speaker 3: sick that he lived a good life.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When did I last see him? When I was four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a shame.
Speaker 3: He was at my christening? Oh, the poor son. I
Speaker 3: hope he wasn't in pain.
Speaker 4: Doctor Night Graham covers all of his breaking news.
Speaker 2: He waits for the listener to tell him and then
Speaker 2: feign some sort of pity. Graham, you wouldn't believe a
Speaker 2: plane has just crashed into one of the World trade sentence. Ah, dear,
Speaker 2: oh dear, thanks for your call, Richard.
Speaker 3: Ten minutes later, Graham, another one's hit. It was so beautiful,
Speaker 3: Oh Graham, Yes, this is Dotty. What is he like
Speaker 3: to say, dot just this is Graham.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, dot you're on the air.
Speaker 2: Say that.
Speaker 3: There's a car crash on them. One three are dead.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I knew the pity. I knew them very well,
Speaker 3: all too well. Course it of.
Speaker 4: Course, thanks for letting you know. That's horrific, Am, it's fortunia.
Speaker 2: Steve Owen's been stabbed in the heart by a sting ray.
Speaker 3: Oh dear, hoping he really would make it through that
Speaker 3: ocean swim? What can you do?
Speaker 4: Talk tonight?
Speaker 3: Tonight. I don't know what I would have done if
Speaker 3: that news was given to me on my show. Where
Speaker 3: was I was off their I don't think I was.
Speaker 3: I was on holidays.
Speaker 4: I woke from a nap, yeah, like ten pm, and
Speaker 4: I was like, no, that's a shame.
Speaker 3: You really hoping you would have made it to one
Speaker 3: hundred dog tonight? Oh the memes were very harsh, though,
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 4: Was too same, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: It were tiktoks and I made one and I got
Speaker 3: hate for it and then I deleted it.
Speaker 4: What did you make? What was your meme?
Speaker 3: I spent three dollars on it. I bought it. I
Speaker 3: bought an app to make it.
Speaker 4: Why did you need an app to make.
Speaker 3: The idea of.
Speaker 4: Mats has been brought on that holiday?
Speaker 3: No, because it was late at night, or we were
Speaker 3: in an uber on the way to a restaurant or
Speaker 3: a bar something. And I bought a fake Tinder profile
Speaker 3: making app because I can't photoshop shit and I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I made it, Liz, I think I still have it.
Speaker 3: I'll find it for you. I made all right. Single
Speaker 3: interest of walking my corkies and governing the commonwealth was
Speaker 3: that you.
Speaker 4: I swear, I saw that memes put.
Speaker 3: It up and then fuffy octopus legs. You're listening to
Speaker 3: this podcast? Oh god, people are quick and so cruel.
Speaker 3: This is disgusting or something like that.
Speaker 4: I delete realized that you made it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, as Helen Keller once said, this podcast
Speaker 5: is fucking type you're listening to.
Speaker 3: Is it just me